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nical equipment--a effort which has met with especial success nduring the Iatter half of the nineteenth century. A machine gun can now deliver abcut the same amount of fire as eighty men. In the place of the old-fashioned solid 'cannon ball, which could kill only those whom ft happened to hit, we 'hive shells and shrapnel, which burst into hundreds of fragments flying in all directions. In naval warfare, a slugte torpedo can destroy a whole Now, in addition to_gll this, comes gas, and a method o rfare where- by two men, dropping gas and explo- sives from a flying machine can'de- stroy thousands, And there is also in prospect "the wireless control of torpedoes, after they have been start- _ed on their way, and of aircraft while in flight,"--loaded, of ccurse, either 7 with gas or with explosive bombs. If there are still people who to-day are foolish enough to judge military technology by what it was in the World War, or who are emulating the ostrich so far as post-War dé- velopments are concerned, in order to console themselves and others, the ¢ following may have the effect of an eye-opener; which all that literary men imagined will be childs That miracle avill ot be any ineftec- tive "renunciation of gas warfare," which would never be seriously. re 'garded in time of actual war. Editor's Note: --The average peace: loving citizen whose life is geared to the machinery of a stable world, may be justified in discrediting the more horrible implications of the 'foregoing article, But he may not safely discount the threat of future war as merely the aftermath of a bad dream. We hve brought to gether this rticle on gas warfare and the extracts following from a book about the last war--both out of Ger- many---so that one interpretation of the dream itself, and one of the after- math, may be assayed for their fuller values.--From Das Tagebuch (Berlin Weekly Review). Never Scratch a Mosquito Bite New York---After offering his arms, neck and ankles to the fiercest mos- quitoes he could attract to the ald of --unless| at the last moment a miracle occurs.) 3 AFRICAN DENIZENS WARMLY WELCOME TOURISTS Monkeys, which quickly gather around visitcrs to be petted and fed, near Durban, Natal, Africa, are here seen t gathering around a tourist's car, anxious for a new thrill. i A Morning Thought Let me to-day do something that shall tak e A little sadness from the world's vast store, Of joy's too scanty sum a little more. Let me to-night look back across the span "Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say-- Because of some good act to beast or man "The world is bettet that I lived to- day." --Ella Wheeler Wilcox. -- Freedom of Speech! Vita Nuova in the Spectator (Lon- don): I think that there is more Inde- pendent expression of opinion in Eng- land than in Italy, but we need not Boats at Anchor Soybean in Ontario {fourths of the earth's surface is cov- ) fabled isles of wealth modified fulfillment as the the flying upon boat, with the glant Dornier air liner Wren needs as its most challenging exponent, is: v oth increasingly utilized. : When it is remembered that three- ered by oceans and séas, and that many centers of activity on the con- long-billed "marsh, fact tinental areas are located along rivers twenty-eight species and sub-spe and lakes, the plane that can swim | 4 roughout the country and some as well as fly looms as a versatile fad | ya at least, may be found in almo tor in the air future. any part of the country, . John Cabot's cocklesholl barks open-| mye bird is small, somewhat the, ed the way for the Bremen in making |. jor of a mouse i and as sho @itg the Atlantic a connecting link between | ;you 14 the bushes and hedges, rer northern Europe and America, rather | i qq one somewhat of the mo ; than a divider of the continents. Ad-|gp. is goldom seen in the open coun vancing beyond the oceangoing vessel, | tro or no long flights are taken, but the airplane 'has risen into the rarer|. 's cove. eto the bushes. If one element, where speed 1s increased |, quiet he may observe this {ittle four times. Now the flying boat pro-|yiq a4 ghe moves about and may be mises to give the seas a new role; that | 15 15 come very close without Inter' of 'a landing fleld, present all along going with the home life. the air course. The wren is a great singer and pros Rivers also assume a new slgnific:| jg sag some very loud songs for a creas ance as clearly marked lanes for airy, .. «0 small. When the nest is made rafic. Free of high obstructions | yyy pps, Wren is busily engaged in above the water level, they offer at, nation, Mr. Wren sits outside, the same time clear air highways, aud | gjo50 by, and with his head thrown landing flelds on which fiylng boats iy. gings until it seems he will split may come to rest in the heart of cltles | jin sei¢ with song, his little body shak-" They lle upon the bosom of the bay, Gleaming through thin mist vells in morning light, Dirping and rising with the moving grow in Ontario? = Will they meet some need that no other crop does or have they a place among the crops e, now being grown? These and other Like white birds come to resting [questions the Ontario Agricultural after flight. | ' far as a season like the present is con- cerned, by a series of demonstrations now being carried on in Western On- tario. The Soybean, native of Eastern Asia, has been grown extensively for centuries in China and Japan, where it furnishes food for man and beast. Its cultivhtion has extended ta other countries and there is now a very large acreage grown in the United States. The green crop is used for hay, silage, pasture and green manure, Through summer Jays, like birds ad- venturing, They range wide waters, but with fading light {Return to furl their sails, as birds | fold wings, rest in this safe harbor through the night. ~Blanche A. Sawyer. And The Shannon Scheme College hopes to answer at least in so! like New York, New Orleans and St. Are Soybeans a dependable crop to Louis, When New York is projecting | expensive landing fields on the tops of buildings, in order to bring planes closer to the city's center than is pos- sible with the present airports, all dis- i tant more than an hour's drive, the value of a flying ship that can land at many points in the Hudson or East River is obvious. Anrplanes that depend upon earth landing fields become, under present | circumstances, unprofitable as car- riers beyond a certain increase in size, aviation engineers have pointed out, since the necessity for rapid climbing to clear obstructions around their landing areas causes the struc: tural weights to increase in greater ratio than the carrying capacity. Fly- ing all over with vibration. The male is dark brown in sclor, barred somewhat with black. The fe- male is practically the same in color and markings but is a little smaller in size, It is the female that makes the: selection of the home and attends to all the domestic details. So far as she is concerned Mf, Wren may go, never to return, for she will soon pick another mate, . In food habits the wren is entirely beneficial, for the food is almost en. tirely animal, Of a great number of stomachs examined, 98 per cent. of | the contents was made up of insects jor their allies and only two per cent, | was vegetable food. This included | bits of grass which had evidently been The Dublin Weekly Irish Times: It is {taken while capturing insects | hi ing boats, with practically: unlimited | oon, ch contents contained grasshop- while the mature Soybeans provide room to take off and land, can be in- pers, beetles, caterpillars, bugs, and "All' war-machines, tractcrs, can- mon, aircraft gases; tanks, and the lexaggerate its importance. We are 'quite certain that the Shannon scheme 'been 80 much improved in LC meal and oil. The meal is used for Cin gem gL TERA }iiust stand-on-its own legs from the' | creased in size to a greater degree, science, H: B. Maurer; exeCutlve secre-| " " breakfast dishes, diabetic foods, In: que fo their more gradual climbing | spiders. The bird is a great hunter the years since the war that one can © state without exaggeration that the application of technology to* war, as it 'was known in tho years from 1914 to 1918, was merely a modest begin- ning compared with what is now pos- sible!" : Immense "progress" has been made . in the development of poison gases gince the war, and hand to hand with this has gone an advance in aircraft: "A plane loaded with gas has far more "deadly power than when loaded with bombs. Every passenger plane can immediately be adapted to war pur- poses. The radius of action of a plane lightly loaded with gas is far greater than that of -a plane loaded with heavy bombs. Raids upon very distant cities are thus made possible." Such assertions are .all .the more convicing b the pr dists for gas warfare persist in maintain ing the precise opposite, Against their rous efforts to gloss over the facts, Major Endres sets the fear- ful 'truth. And that truth is that the world is moving toward a war which will affect whole civil populations; tary of the Anti-Mosquito Association of Long Island, announced recently that he had discovered a method to foil their bites. "I find it best just to let them bite," sald Maurer. "Then I reach into the sewing basket, find a needle and stick it into, the swelling. I squeeze out a drop of blood--and with it comes the poison. That's all, except, remember never scratch a mosquito bite." mot mm Sing, Lad, While You May Sing, lad, while you may Under the sun; Soon cometh end of day And night begun. ----Ask-not of gay or sad; They weép who must, Till aching hearts, lad; = Are blowing dust; And fragrance of the May, Or sound of laughter The wind has borne away, Come not hereafter. to + |spent on inducing the public to buy end which is now being carefully pre- pared In adv The American, Magor Sherman Miles, bluntly declares that this is butchery, rather than} War. as we have hitherto understood} it. And Lieutenant-Colonel Siegert. 1 tor of the Air Ocrps states the lessons of the English air| manoeuvres clearly and definitely, thus: "We canmot overlook the fact that a mere handful of filers are able to lay the metropolis cf a great Powerin ashes." That result is to Out of the heart-break, And the strife, Sing--lest your dust ache With frustrate Tite. be achieved With explosive bombs and phosphorus bombs, among other thigged the cellars. + Then will follow a sec- 'ond attack, carried out by the same air fleet, but this time using light welght gas bombs. These will distri: bute, a combination of gases--first "a even In the smallest quantities, which will penetrate 'all known gas-masks; and then a powerful poiscnous gas, wiifch will kfil all the people: as' they 'are driven out' of their cellars re fuges by the irritant. © gch double ' two or three-hour intervals, the icks will recur at planes {from one 'everything 15 a sea |ms ar poisonous. gases where 'Tours Whoever is not killed by will take 'refuge in pressed m bellef that the oppor- tunities for British capital in India are as great as ever they were. We hold them to be far greater, but capl- tal will come to no country where it is not assured 'of absolutely fair treat- ment nor to a land that is torn my political - dissension. If an account were struck at the present time it would be hing to discover how much in hard cash India is paying, and 'how much more she will be com: pelled to pay in the future, for the luxury of unrest. The higher price that has to be paid for new loans is the mind of the capitalist as to the (future and that higher price is met side to|vearly by the Indian taxpayer. India's need is money for development, largely a reflex of the uncertainty in "money can be obtained only in from internal resources. can say what we like about Govern- ments and about everything else in theory, but not in practice. Suppos. ing, for instance, some writer were to wish to attack the national adver- tigers on whom the daily newspapers depend for their support; is it likely that any contributor, however dis- tinguished, would be free to develop the theory that too much money is drugs, alcohol and cigarettes? Big business, as long as #6 remains suc- cessful and treats its workers fairly, is generally immune from criticism, because; after all, the people want the things big business supplies, In Italy the same principle is applied to Gov- ernment. The country needs a strong oxecutive; as long as it retains the support of the bulk of the population no one is allowed to discuss the com- petence of Signor Mussolini and his Ministers. niente tl "Freedom of the Seas" Louisville Courler-Journal: "Free- dom of the seas" has been a fighting watchword of this country in more than one war, and it is a principle that this country has violated with impunity in more than one war when it stood in the way of victory. The history of the world is replete with regulations for the protection of neut- ral commerce adopted after a war and interpreted to suit their convenience by belligerents in the next. There is no similarity between a war and a prizefight, governed by the Marquis of Q ry rules, b there is no referee in war unles the neutrals combine to restrict hostilities, and op- position to that fs a point of contact between isolationists and Big Navy advocates. mmr gl ere. Knowledge Knowledge is a treasure at once priceless and imperishable. start. The consumer must pay not 'only the upkeep charges, but also the sinking fund and interest on the capi 'tal cost of the scheme. For that rea ison the creation of an enhanced de- 'mand for current is essential. We hope sincerely that Mr. Cosgrave's {rosy forecast will be justified by re- 'sults, and that the date of the further | development of the Shannon will not ibe postponed for many years. The lscheme is a colossal enterprise, and fant foods, etc, and the flour is made into bread, cakes, muflins, and bis. cuits. Oil from the Soybean is used ways. On account of the large amount of oil in Soybeans they should not be fed to hogs as they will make soft pork. In Canada this crop has been grown in a small way for many years, but in order to gain more definite infor- {terms of mere money. If the Govern- | ment's hopes are realized, a complete: ranged with seventeen farmers along y new orientation will be given to the main highways in Western On- the economy of the Free State, which tario to each grow two acres this sea- will take its place among the most | gon, one acre of the 0.A.C. No. 211 | gradient. { Rxploration of , becomes simpler wilderness regions through the flying in the making of paints, explosives,' poat, which can land on mountain' waterproof goods and in many other 1aices that could not be reached other- |, iah1e | wise without extensive pioneering. | Landing fields await the flying boat wherever a sheet of water gleams and the amphibian, equipped with wheels, ican also utilize any area available for | ordinary - landings. Alrplanes that swim open possibilities which wait {its success cannot be measured In mation with Soybeans on a fleld scale, | only for attention to the details, such | | the Ontario Agricaltural College ar-| |as discovery of light metals which will stand up under contact with salt water, for a fuller realization. 2 BE JUST and searches diligently about bara. decaying trees, posts, vines, and spaces in walls for insects, The nest is made up of sticks, grass string, moss, and almost any material Often a great quantity of sticks is taken into a box, carried out again and once more the work of car- | rylng them back begins, Often sever- {al nests will be built in the vicinity and, it has been thought by many, that | these were practice nests built by the young of the previous year; others {say it is a pecullarity; of the bird that it tries several nests before making a { final decision. { The wren is not particular as to the | place of building but will take up its abode in boxes, tin cans, or creyices. progressive countries of the world, It is far too soon, however, to count the | Shannon chickens. The whole prob-! lem is gverned by the facto rof price, | and, until that is known, rejoicings or lamentations will be premature, rem Anglo-American Under- - standing ; "Amicus" in the Fortnightly Re- view (London): An BEnglish-speak- ing union may at present be beyond our hapes; but a complete English- speaking understanding based on friendliness and not fear is an chjec- tive that is certainly possible of at- tainment. Canada has practically no army or navy, but Canada and the United States understad each other, and no guns or armaments are neces- sary on their border. Friendship counts for more than force. Canada's three thousand miles of international border could not be protected by the English Navy. But friendship makes Canada secure and can do- the same for the whole British Empire. MANNERS A man's worth is estimated In this, world according to his conduct.--La variety and one acre of the Manchu variety. Each acre plot is divided, one-half being in rows inches apart for seed production and the other half drilled in for hay. metry Women in Politics Kim in the Bystander (London): Women are bad polificiaas, because as individuals they are limited in vi- sion. If her Lusband drinks, the wom- an elector will probably demand pro- hibition for all. If she thinks war cruel and wicked (as it is, and so is nature), she is quite likely to insist on disarmament, thus leaving the nation powerless in any emergency. A na- tion governed by its womenfolk is in a decadent condition. Thou are not the more holy for be- ing praised, nor the more worthless for being dispraised. What thou are, that thou art; neither by words canst thou be made greater than what thou art in the sight of God.--Thomas A Kempis. ie ferme Hubby--Den"t bring me any more bills; I can't face them, Wife--You needn't, darling. I only want you to foot them. * * A Social Spread" 2 twenty-eight! As the children in the schools of Ope family built in the body of a Greece were trained in the knowledge jawic which had been nailed to a barn {of learning and liberal arts, the child-|qoor; another built i nthe skull of a ren of the Persians attended their caf; still another built in a nold mit- school sfor the sake of learning Jus-iten, 'No matter where the bird takes tice. In order to accomplish this ob-|o450ssiom, it pours out its thanks in ject the more quickly it was thought sweet song, The house is kept clean insufficient to accustom only their ang tidy and free from vermin. ears to instruction in justice, but they | six to eight oggs are laid. They were taught to give just opinions on are of a creamy color and so -thickly all matters which came up among them, and to fix upon the proper punishment for every error. Thus the teachers, as public instructors in jus- tice, devoted a large part of the day to hearing and correcting these opini- ons of the children,--Xenophon. > A PROGRAM How can a man who lives without a program ever expect to arrive any- where but In chaoes, confusion? A clear-cut purpose has a powerful in- | spotted with brown that the whole egg appears tinged.--Dumb Animals. -- Arctic Expedition At Pangnirtung Ottawa--A wireless: message réceiv- ed Thursday morning at the North. west Territories and Yukon branch of the Department of Interior from fluence upon the life, It unifies our Gecrge P. Mackenzie, officer in charge efforts and gives direction to our work ' of the Canadian Arctic expedition, so that every blow counts. | stated that the 8.8. Beothic arrived He cannot sit and | perland Sound at 4 p.m. on Aug. 13, take it easy every time he has the op-| The voyage from Pond Inlet down portunity; he cannot lie abed until he! the east coast of Baffin Island, with a feels like getting up in the morning call at Clyde River settlemet, was un- and work only when he is in the eventful. There was much ice in mood, and yet amount to anything, | sight, but Captain Falk, master of the He must learn to master his moods Becthie, found a sale passageway bes and to force himself to work no mat- | | tween the shore ice nd the middle ter how he feels.--0.8.M. th master to himself. | pack, which moved about in Baffin | Bay at this season. WORTH At Pangnirtung all were well and A man passes for what he is worth. the work of unloading supplies was What he is engraves itself on his face, proceeding when the message was des- on his form, on his features, in letters patched. Dr. L. D. Livingstone, who of Hght. Concealment avails him} has been the - resident physician on nothing; boasting nothing. Men know | Bafiin Island since last August will not why they do not trust him. If you embark on the Beothic, and his place would not be known to do anything, for the coming year will be taken by 'never do it. A man may play the fool Dr. H. A. Stuart, who will leave the in the drifts of the desert, but every|ship at Pangnirtung, as he will also Every man should be a stern school | safely at Pangnirtung Post on Cume grain of sand shall seem to see. He may be a solitary eater, but he can not keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion, a swinish look, ungenerus acts, and the want of due knowledge-- all blab.--Emerson. ef CHILDREN Children are more influenced: than one thinks by the invisible effects of ideas; they never laugh at a person truly imposing; veritable grace touch- es them and beauty attracts them, be- cause they are beautiful, and there exist mysterious bonds between the things of the same nature. ? The laziest man so far heard from is a Hariltonisin who rides a Model T Ford so he won't have the ashes from his | in 'to knoe make his headquarters at this point. The next port of call will be Lake | Harbour, on the south coast of Bafiin /Island in Hudson Strait, Here J. Dewey Soper, who has spent twelve mcnths in making a survey of wild life for the Department of the Interior 'will embark the i he has collected. The Beothle will 2 cross Hudson Bay to Chesterfield Ine let, where Dr. Livingstone will super ; vise the unloading of supplies for the building and equipping of the new medical .station which he will cceupy this autumn after bis return to Ob