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to have died from 3 1M the victim of criminal abor- . "Another woman was it was supposed from natural but when the nun who e corpse the following ni 1 und dead in the morning, a little investigation showed that both Province of Ontario women had Jied of carb xide jsti d "The necessity for completely strip- whole was ing and examining trated by cases ; wounds of the throat were concea 'by scarfs around the. * ors describe the case of a hel young shepherd of twenty. tified as dying from natu Yet the autopsy showed a ve! "museum of - skull, three ribs, matic hemorrhages in liver, and the kid dead from natural slon exteriorly, there was fracture of an end to t the skull with a large cerebral hemor- been few complaints since that time. neck. The auth- to justice. After the Storm CALM EVENING ON THE CHANNEL ture taken where calm -reigned on 'the English south coast after storms that raged for a few weeks. Leviathan Robbery led Again Woman Seeking Re- ¢ Gives Clue That' lear Up $500,000 * AMAZING PLOT Berlin.--A revengeful woman, aban- d by her lover, recently told police i! i that they believed would lead of the $500,000 mail rob- ACTION PROMISED toad. Premier Forecasts Effort to Put E nd to Communism The disclosures at Sudbury have in- ght spired Premier Ferguson to forecast an organized effort on the part of the to put down com- |" prop Fergu- {son declared that the province as a &eply interested in the bodies is il- outcome of the Sudbury case and in which razor would take every means possible to led see that the offenders were brought He intimated that he wes busy a the present time collecting cer tain information, and that when this ral causes. was available action would be taken. ritable' The Premier recalled the incident f the last Summer when the Royal Cana- and a clavicle; tua-|dian Mounted Police were called upon the brain, the|to deal with the circulation of com- In another body | munistic literature in the travelling causes,' with no le- | car schools. . Ringer, police say, bought a public house for sailors in Antwerp with 70,000 francs, part of the proceeds of the robbery, and apparently intended | to retire to a life of ease. 'Before could be taken into custody he disap- peared. Police here said Antwerp |den. ; get away on a authorities let. |technicality. The investigation was like an inter- _ |national detective romance. Berlin life and postal authorities co-oper- Heed with United States postal. nuthor- ities and Cap ? Cunningham of the Levi o work. De voyages and carried on secret lic heard nothing, Trade With the Tropics a ---_----_a Now pen on tropical "PRINCESS MAUD AT A RELIEF DEPOT IN LONDON ( Sele of | planks as a pier, made a sort As we sailed out from the woods, a cool air fanned us across the water, now in shadow: although the sun still gilded the tops of the woods. At the head of a fresh little breeze we ran up to the village of Noddebo in half an hour. The Lake of Esrom is about the same size as Ullswater, and ex- tremely deep; our boatman gravely assured us that it has no bottom, Arriving on the other side, we de- sired a little girl to direct us through the cornfields to the village, which is invisible from the lake. She told us she could read, but when I showed her a page of a Danish guide-book, she chook her head and replied, "Oh! but I never saw that book before!" All the little memories of this last after- noon, how trifling they are, how in- delible! The nun-like woman who opened the cold and mouldy church The following short article, written by a successful Southern farmer carries the principle which if - properly applied cannot help but be profitable to Canadian farmers: 1 have found that keeping a strict cost account of all my farming opera- tions, helps me to farm at a profit It would by har dto make a living on my farm if 1 did not keep bodks. [ do not keep an elaborate set of books. for I do not know how. But I keep ap ac- , + count of what it costs to. make a crop. How much the crop produced aud what my profit was {f any was made. Ong year we made a profit of sixty dollars a month on our small herd of dairy cows. a very hard winter and no homa grown feed. If I hadn't kept accounts you could not have made me believe that those cows ate as much as they did. But by referring to my books, I soon realized that if I wanted to make a profit every year on cows, I But the next year we hud Thev had sneedily put he pract'~a and there had an on her 1 a continual investigation of which the pub- York Times: America's de dence products contin- nes to he ignored by many who per Prince Urges Aid for Needy Miners Relief for Women and Chil dren in British Coal Fields Held Imperative London.--The Prince of Wales, who has become patron of the Lord May- or's fund for relief of distress in the coal fields, makes the following appeal | on behalf of the women and children as his first public act after his hur- ried return from South Africa: "On my return I have been pain- fully impressed by the suffering which exists in the distressed mining areas, and T desire to make a direct personal appeal on their behalf. We must all join in one combined effort to help the women and children of these areas. The Lord Mayor's fund, sup- ported by the Lord Mayor and Lords Lieutenant of the country, and assist- "At the Lord Mayor's invitation, I have accepted the position of patron of this fund, and I ask everyone to spirit of the war. when we recognized as a new call to individual self-sacri- fice. "The Government has its duties, vidual duty of showing in practical suffering and rekindle hope ours." Aperrmrrie Joyous Preparations Winter is the supreme season of re- conciliation... . brown hills with the russet fields, and the white houses are merged and lost. (all but five, in fact), and into our lines. bookcases filled with a careful selec across the hall. joyous on my part. es © as National Duty ed by the Central Coal Fields Distress | Fund's organization, offers us the op- 'portunity of doing this. contribute to it generously according to his means. Let us recapture.the every effort made by the Government but each one of us has also the indi- ways our determination to alleviate among | these distressed fellow-countrymen of . The naked trees are reconciled with the gray skies, the when the snow falls, as today, even In our old house we have shut off all the rooms we do not actually need living-rom we have moved a great deal more furniture than current stan- dards of good taste approve. The re-! sult is surprisingly gratifying. Last' Along with this transportation of pl the centre | table, flanked by big chairs, holds a natural to any country has arisen an double lamp, piles of books, and some nes. . . . On the window-sills are bowls of bulbs in various stages he|of development, also some blussoming wall-flowers, salvaged from the gar- ¢ Against one of the walls stands! tion of books brought from the library | thing of This selection was the only act of preparation for win- tor which was not whole-heartedly Books are such! The princess opened the Church Army Married Men's Relief depot at Star road, West Kensington, the wood-cutters at work. : At right: Prebendary Carlile, founder of the Church army. EE living creatures to me, such vital hu- man presences. that I disliked to leave any of them in the dusty chill of a closed room. But we have too many books, as we have too many rooms, neckties, pairs of shoes, clocks, tables, t00 many everything. It is refreshing Ito eliminate, if only temporarily. When the sun shines it pours in at the south windows of the living-room and {lies upon' the warm red and brown and blue rug in two golden pools. Into the adjacent dining reom and kitchen iit also streams. The front windows {look out across the valley to the east- ern range of hills. By one of them ' stands an old-fashioned rocker where {1 like to sit and read and watch and meditate, listening for the auspicious slamming of the studio door. . But it is in the evening that the living-room is at itebest. Then, with the lamp and the fire lighted, Chris- topher in one big chair--Tommy on his knees, I in another which I share with Grizel, the daily paper disposed of, books . . . the winter wind with- out, the woll-flowers smelling very sweet--then the utter quintessence of home seems distilled for our beautifi- cation.-- Zephine Humphrey: in "Win- terwise." ee fee 'Bugs That Bite 'em' Strange Economic Facts of Parasites of -Parasittes Disclosed by Study The assemblage of men into com- munities "has produced most of the problems with which modern hygiene has been concerned, we fre assured by a writer in The Lancet (Londen). Hosts and parasites have generally come to some sort of balance, with 'Jive and let live' as its motto. Of this we should know more, he says, if we understood the "parasitology of wild animals better. -We read: "When vegetable ¢rops are grown over wide area in mor® or less pure culture, special troubles with para- sites generally arise. This is par- ticularly apt. to happen when the plant itself has been moved from its i naturdl home; coffee for example, and rubber and bananas and oranges are now grown all over the world where climatic conditions are appropriate. summer the living-room was dignified : hosts there has been a dispersion of and formal; now it glows with friend- Before the fir: and out of the troubles that | parasites, from upsetting the balance {have come | extraordinarily interesting chapter of | biology. The parasites of a plant are, it seems, normally controlled and { kept within bounds by a second series of parasites, and these again some- times by a-third, In the moth. "Py- rausia nubilalis," for instance, some- Europe, and a serious injury in the United States since its introduction in 1910, eighteen parasites (mostly insects) have been found to make : Snow Drifts Can't Worry This Mail Train a pest to corn in Southern. and watched their living on the larva. one on the egg, and two on the chrysalis." i If a parasite gains access to a new country without its own parasites, it is in a very advantageous position, of | which it may make full use, and sim- ilarly the multiplication of a host on: an unprecedented asites a chance to controlling powers parasites. The remedy is to encour-. parasite, and this plan has been put! into operation at success. To quote further: "An Australian ladybird, for in- stance, has proved a perfect remedy for the cushion scale of oranges an lemons in Galifornia, Portugal, South Africa, Egypt and elsewhere. A chal- cid wasp from South Africa s controls the black scale insect in Cali- fornia, an the [Italian silk industry has been saved from ruin by import- ing a parasite of the scale insect which destroys the mulberry trees. Plants which grow too profusely have in the same way been brought within bounds by importing insects which feed on the seeds. The problems in- volved are very complex, and Dr. W. R. Thompson, who works at the labor- atory maintained at Hyeres for the purpose by the United States Govern- ment, contributes a thoughtful sur- vey of the ramifications of interrela- tionships which are involved to the last number of parasitology: "The general principles discussed are applicable to many problems of hu- man hygiene, and the details have of course, a very intimate bearing on the control of the insects 'which carry dis- ease and of human parasitic worms. Some years ago an ingenuous sugges-| tion was made by Dr. B. 8. Elgood and] Maj. T. Cherry that bilharziasis in| for us; her infant son, who followed us, incredibly fat, inexhaustibly curi- ous, but who fled for his mother's skirts with resounding sabots when the Dean exorcised him in a loud line from "Hamlet"; the terrible old maid from Copenhagen, who popped up in the village street, and who smacked my venerable companion with her par- 'msol; the long saunter through the corn in the ever-deepening colored scale may give par-| twilight of the North; while round us increase beyond the on every side, undulating. invading, of the secondary darkening with the decline of evening, rolled the triumphant, the universal age or introduce the parasites of the beechwoods. times with signal quay at Copenhagen with streaming! handkerchiefs and a melancholy sound of 'steeple tower by tower, the Danish city 4 sank into the sea, and we stood due north for Norway.--From."Two Vis- (its to Denmark, 1872, 1874," by Ed-! imilarly mund Gosse. must raise most of my feed at home. I found it to be the same way with chickens. If I fed bought mash my eggs cost me fifteen cents a dozen, but if I mixed my mash at home, they cost me only ten cents a dozen. By feeding home mixed mash, I rcutld sell eggs at twenty cents a Gozen and make a profit. This was another thing I learned from keeping books. I knew when a buyer makes me an offer for any- thing I have to sell whether I can take his price or not. And another thing, if you know that you are do- ing something at a loss you are very likely to stop doing it or find a bet ter way to do fit. My main money crops are cotton and corn. And in these as well as my side lines, I have learned from my account books. I have learned that by most profitable cotton is that plant ed on lespedeza land, that it pays me wel to keep my crops rotated so that 1 have some land in lespedeza every year. I get more feed stuff on poor land when it {s planted in soy-beans or hay than to try to ralse cora om poor land. I have learned what fer. tilizer to use on my different crops. One year my fertilizer for corn cost me $3.46 per acre and my profit was $23.00. The next time I used a better grade of fertilizer and a little more of it and it cost me $6.40 per acre, But my profit was $36.25. : My cost-accounting has proved its worth have done. I have found, for 1In- stance, that early and late vegetables to sell, pay well. But that it does not pay to try to sell vegetables during the summer months when everyone has products from the home garden. Old Man Sunshine First Old Man Sunshine took =a short cut across the deep, deep lake, Next day I was waved off from the "Farvel! farvel!" Steeple by - WITHOUT THOSE CURLS | It is the same Mary Pickford, but Egypt might be controlled by encour- the curls wil} be missed by most of ang was at the swamp while you could aging the native population in the vil- her millions of admirers all over the lages to keep ducks. The suggestion world. arose from the observation that the | snail, which is the intermediate host | of the bilharzia, is obsent from those | ponds and lakes to which ducks have free access, whereas they are abund- ant elsewhere. It would be.interest- ing to learn whether this scheme was ever tried out. D'Herelle would have, us believe that bacteria may be curbed by encouraging his 'bacterium-eater'; | it may be so. But it is certain that; African sleeping sickness will ulti- mately be controlled only by finding! out how the tsetse-fly lives and moves | and has its being; by discovering its! parasites and other difficulties, and i increasing them; and by ascertaining its favorite food and the conditions of | life which it likes, and by destroying them." Enthusiasm is the leaping of light ning, not to be measured by the horse power of the understanding. --R. W. Emerson. pe President Coolidge wants more peace and more ships to enforce it. {have met with powerful opposition, and are facing considerable danger in , | measures throughout their kingdom. | the bay count one, two, three. He found the pretty yellow cowslip flower at once, and the little blue R Fairy swaying back and forth in the center of ft. | Gentle breezes were\rocking her to {ond fro lovingly, and she was laugh- ing and clapping her hands at them, Old Man Bunshine watched from a cedar bough for a long time, and then being perfectly satisfied that she was exactly where she wanted to be, he decided to look about for another lit. tle blue sky Fairy. i He traveled for several miles along The Afghan Revolt King Amanullah and his Consort their efforts to introduce progressive It is not the people of the cities, but the fanatical tribesmen, who are in revolt, led by' their priests, who resent! such Western measures as the unveil. the shore searching in every nook and ing of women's faces in public as in. °OTner. At last he came to a plece of sults to their beliefs, Moreover, the l0W ground stretching up from the native priests have seized this occa-| lake. His sharp eye caught a glimpse sion to raise the question of Aman. |O°f blue in the distance. ullah's right to the throne, and a cer.| 1 remember that one of these Iit- tain proportion of the regular army, tle blue sky Fairies chose o dress that disaffected because they have received Olof." he reflected, "but this looks no pay for months, have joined the LIke 8 huge carpet covering a whole insurgents. So far the loyal forces at meadow. I wonder." Kabul appear to be holding their own, ~ Af the huge carpet of deep blue though the exact whereabouts of the Cime more clearly into view, Old Man King and Queen is not definitely Sunshine almost gasped for breath. known. Fighting has reached the sub- For there almost in the middle of a urbs of the capital, but the foreign | cloud of beautiful violets, looking as population does not appear to be in| If it bad just dropped from the sky, a ol j Stucd one of the little blue sky "Sympathy will be general with King! es, Amanullah and Queen. for their! But a thrilling surprise was yet sincerity has been made manifest in Store for him. Seating himself on a hundred ways. They are desirous! Foil fence to be able to get & of benefitting their people, and they view of the little blue sky have adopted such Western ways and the violet, he opened his eyes customs as seem to them most likely wonder. Every blue violet In to bring about such benefits. It was huge carpet had started dancing inevitable that they should meet with most beautiful dance hed ver Old Man Sunshine sat and looked on as if charmed. --Laura Everett. Joranti but if Hie King wins, it will seem top a great day for the Orient, as {t| The young journalist In search of will signalize 'the triumph of a move-! copy. thought the old man fn the po ment which is destined to sread far tato fleld looked the last word in russ ther and farther as time goes on. ticity. "Good morning" he sald, "a While in many things East and West lovely day "Aye," answered the may perhaps never meet, there are aged one, resting on his hoe, "but also many grounds upon which they tht there's thunder comin' along can have common place to thelr mu- Delighted, the journalist drew out his tual advantage. King Amanullah notebook. "How do you know thatt® 'early recognized this, and he will have he asked. "Red sky at morning-- Ippo! of all progressive shepherd's. "Dunne ors in his efforts to give his nothin' about "the reply, lo the benefits of Western clvil- "but it was on the ~Montreal Star, and in all the pap Are "still, a man is thinkers he Va To En a Ce ST PANE. in some market-gardening I . !