' of the whole sum." _ my ten-pound Whe eyed of the boy who was going So fee the Se "Fortunately, before it was too late, I woke up to the fact : ; that I was giving the live stock better shelter and more comforts - than my wife and children." ete ' oY By Donald Morton. : I am not like my Scotch neighbor ~ For instance, you enter the house by to the north. He tells me that when way of a cement-floor terrace or he was a young man he inherited ten porch, without roof, which extends ounds from a rich uncle. "Man," clear across the front and faces the e adds, "I was such a spendthrift and road. From this terrace you enter a a wastrel that by the end of seven covered porch, screened-in for sum- years there was not @ farthing left mer, glassed-in for winter. To the ee left as you enter is a big built-in I never inherited any great fortune,' closet for wraps, and encased in, the as did my Gaelic neighbor. I was'door of this closet is.a full-length never a wastrel or roysterer; I have plate-glass mirror which gives the worked hard all my life, far harder ladies a good chance to see themselves than any of my children will ever have as they take off or put on their wraps. to work, I hope and verily believe. | I've a theory that a few more good There were a good many years when mirrors in a farm-house would keep it was my ambition to have more land wrinkles and stoop shoulders from be- and more stock than any of my neigh- ing so common. Maybe not, but that's bors. That ambition died with my my theory. firstborn, for the doctor's bills were} Outside the kitchen, in the rear, is large and there was sadness in the oz additional room which we call the goodwife's eyes, and we had other kitchen-entry. In this room is a things than money to think of. Fol- built-in refrigerator. Off another lowed then the years when I turned to side of the house is a sun parlor, with public service for forgetfulness: town- glass windows and a radiator to keep ship reeve first, school trustee next, it warm for winter, and seréens for and so on, until there were several summer. Up-stairs there are three terms as county warden. --that's large bedrooms and a sleeping porch, about the sum and substance of all with every bedroom having a large the public serving I've done. closet and every closet door a full- 'I may never have had the ambition length mirror; none of those things to give my folks the most "homey", which distort the features and make home in our township, to rub the you look either like a roly-poly or a wrinkles, away from my wife's eyes,' bean pole, but a good, honest mirror to keep the brood of children around which shows the wrinkles in time to| us in a house as comfortable and well stop them, and enables a man to shave! furnished as any we could have. in| without leaving a cluster every here town, had it not been for a little talk| and thre, like a spotted cornfield. one night with my oldest Boy. I re-| There is a large bathroom, with both ;mortals do," said Mr. Gratebar, "is to INTERNATIONAL LESSON AUGUST 18. Lesson VII. "Working in the Church Acts 2 41-47; 6. 2-4. Golden Text, Psa. 100. 4. Acts 2. 41-47 Verse 41. Then they that received his word were baptized--His "word" was that they should repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus | unto the remission of their sins. They | not only heard the message but were: moved by it to immediate action. The baptism was the application of water as a symbol of spiritual purification. It was a sign of the new life which sep- arated them from their past and com- mitted them to the Christian profes- sion. About three thousand souls-- These were added to the one hundred and twenty of whom the church con- sisted when the day began. / 42. Continued stedfastly in the apos- tles' teaching and fellowship--Further : 4-2 'WHEN TEACHERS GONE THE FUN BEGINS WITH RUBBFR BANDS AND POINTED PINS BUT WHEN THE TEACHERS THERE , OW GEE OUR WILLS AS GOOD AS HE CAN BE -- | ter what business you're in, you have' some inspector coming round every day AL LIBERTY ae _ "The people are being governed too much," declared Joseph Hooper as he sat' among the group of friends who were accustomed to meet daily for their noontime luncheon. 'No mat- or two to see if you are carrying it on according to the latest laws and re- gulations. It is even getting.so that you can't be a free man in your own home." i ; "Who's been interfering with your liberty, Joe?" asked one of the men. "Well," said Joseph, "when I moved out to the suburbs I supposed that I could keep. a few chickens without asking anyone's leave. But now ALi have got notice that my rooster dis- turbs people, and that I must do away with the nuisance. If that isn't in Folks used to get along pretty well by 'minding their own business. I wish it were that way now." "That was. just old Sam _ Pitts's idea," said Henry Brock, with a chuckle. "Sam was-a character in the teaching was doubtless given to the newly baptized. Much of this must have been about the life of him whom they had accepted as their Lord and Christ. There was as yet no formula- tion of any body of "doctrine," but. all the teaching must have been of the |simplest character. They were thus pooh eee ne toe bound together in a brotherhood of Be Optimistic. mutual help and enecursaaments The # i hi breaking of bread and the prayers-- ee ee bi Thesay tient title of the communion was 6 Ff " make mountains out of molehills. ane ab eae Bp Sae pen eae "Half the worry and distress in the 'were accustomed to come together for member it was snowing outside; funny | shower and tub bath. who little, immaterial things stick inj The basement is my favorite, for our minds, as big, sometimes, as the it's here I can work on rainy days and , It extends under the: in winter. whole house. There is a good-sized vegetable room, a room for the wife to store canned goods, a coal and wood- room, a boiler and furance-room, a laundry-room, and a little workshop for me. Next to the laundry is a drying-roonf, where the clothes can be dried indoors when it is bad outside. _large, eventful ones. I was reading the county-town pa+ per, stopping now and then to throw another stick of wood on the fire and to cram the sofa pillow more firmly in the broken window pane which we had neglected to repair before the cold snap caught us. I had been reading the "patent insides" and must have world comes from this unfortunate , common meal, at which was com- habit. It breeds distrust, creates| memorated the death of the Lord. hard feeling, breaks up friendships, |""The prayers" suggests that there were makes discord in families, it makes) certain forms of prayer. These were misery all around, and all this is 999, partly new Christian prayers cases out of 1,000 for just nothing. partly, doubtless, Psalms and wonted "The commonest form of molehill is| Jewish prayers having reference es- the spoken word. Somebody says pecially to the Messiah and his king- something to us that we think is mean, | Se Fear came upon every soul . or that we think is suspicious, or lack-|) many wonders and signs--Fear, ing in appreciation, or twitting or, dread, which are wont to seize the sarcastic, and right away we begin to mind on a great and wonderful, entire- In the laundry I have a combination water heater and laundry stove, built- in tubs, and a chute where the clothes come tumbling down from up-stairs, vousness as much as the temperature,!so they won't have to be carried all I guess. through the house. Even with an "I'm going to quit you, Father," he, electric washer laundry work is no said, with determination written, large picnic, but there are no more "blue on his countenance. "None of the Mondays" at our place, believe me. other boys I know in town live like we! I made only one mistake, as I see it do, been nodding at the last, for the fire had died down and the room was chilly | when the lad came in. He hadn't said much until I was shivering; ner- I have to work harder and pay a big- heat it in winter. I had only a cheap ger price. I'm going; that's all there' second-hand cay when the architect) is to it." | drew up the plans--and what's anoth- I couldn't say anything for a mi- er burst radiator to such a car? Now nute. You see, there was a peculiar I've got a regular car, and I need a bond between the boy and me. He heated garage. If you're planning bore myname; he was the image of to build, don't overlook this; it is im-| me. After the first lad died I was portant. bitter. Many nights I lay awake,! A little while back I promised to tell thinking of the little mound out in the you the effect the new house had on graveyard. The tears would not come all our lives. I can't do it. Can though my eyeballs burned hot; it you tell the effect the sun has on your would have been better if they had life? Can you sit down and figure come. blinding my eyes as I plowed the corn,! of good, fresh air? Neither can I row after row, and saw no farther, compute the value of our changed way than the turning at the fence. 'of living. Then the other boy came, and when| I have seen it figured out that a I saw him I kneeled down and cried woman, without running water in the like a child and thanked God, and I kitchen, lifts a ton of water a day. It gave the boy my name--and there he goes something like this: The water was saying he was going to leave me is brought into the kitchen from the --me, who worshipped him down to pump, it is poured into a kettle, pour- his last fault. | ed from the kettle into a dishpan, and There's no need of making a long from the dishpan it is dumped out- story out of it. I built the new house doors. The water in this simple to keep him home with me. I told operation is handled six times. the goodwife it was for her, but there) A bucket containing two gallons of was something in the eyes of the | water will weigh 20 pounds. Handl- grown-up boy that night thet was ing it six times means a total weight like the look in the eyes of the little' of 120 pounds. The cooking of three one when he left me for the mound meals a day--on a meager allowance in the graveyard. I couldn't stand| of water, necessitating the use of to have another boy go. I built the buckets and pans--means lifting for house. f cooking alone 1,200 pounds a day. The first thing I did when'I decided, When to this we add the water for to build was to consult an architect.| bathing, scrubbing, and the weekly He charged me three per cent of the' wash we have the over-burdened farm cost of the house for drawing the| wife lifting a ton a day. I think too plans and writing specifications. Some much of the companion of my life 'to of my neighbors laugh at me and say! compel her to do this. I threw away that much money. I! Now, with running water, both hot often wonder if they think it is throw-| and cold, in Jaundry, kitchen, bath- wway money to pay a doctor for writ-| room, and small toilet on the first ing the prescription for the medicine: floor and basement, there is none of which cures them and their loved ones. | this burden-bearing. Can I figure The prescription itself doesn't do, this out in dollars? No. I can fig- the work--it's the medicine the drug-| ure it easier in wrinkles which are gist gives us; yet we go to a doctor.; missing, eyes which are sparkling, The plans and specifications do not hair which is still black, shoulders build a house--it takes masons, car-| which are still straight. penters, plumbers, and so on; yet we My children are all with me to-day, should go to an architect. That's the! save the little one under the sod in the way I figure it, anyway. graveyard. Had I built the house You know, when you come right) of gold and set the window panes in down to it, typhoid fever, dysentery, diamonds, they would have been worth and the like are common diseases | it all, and more. You can't argue among farmers. Why? Because we; these things; they're just so. I was do not know enough about sanitation, | figuring out last night how much more Therefore, when we build, why not go! the taxes were on this place than on to a sanitation expert and minimize! the old home. It looked a little bad the possibility of sickness? Iam ajon paper. Just then two soft hands farmer, not a plumber or a well digger went over my eyes and a sweet voice , ora chemist. How can I tell how far whispered in my ear: "You're the best away from the barn and outhouse I! daddy there ever was in the whole should put my well in order to avold| wide world, and I love you!" all seepage danger? What do I care for taxes! Why, I'd What do I know about the proper | even squander a ten-pound inheritance wiring of my house in order to prevent | in seven years and still consider my- fires? Would I ever have thought of| self the wealthiest man in all crea- ufting the bathroom over the kitchen! tion. ' nstead of the living-room or the din- | ing-room, so that, should a pipe burst | and the ceiling be spotted or seriously | 3 coe Ai ada injured, the damage would not show ' Here and oe ¢ cits: Mice 8°, or be so great My house cost me! Up and Comey 'sate 05 ad 8,000; the architect's fees were $240, | Sometimes rsd ibe | ith the visemes shall always believe it was money "ems darting far around. well spent. I went to the architect just as a sick man goeg to the doctor; I knew I need- ed something, but I didn't know what, I built a stucco house, rather a novl- ty in the country nowadays, but ce. mont is the building material of the fiture, I believe. ~Part of the place is purely ornamental, no earthly use so far ag shelter ig concerned. May- be I have been a wastrel and used up inheritance in seve years, ap my extravagant Seotelt helghbor did when he was young, But 'the ornamental work has brightened a The Swatlows' Game. | As I watch them skim and tip, | Upward rise and downward dip, I have wondered what they play Just before the close of day. Suddenly the answer came Ag I watch their evening. game. Tag's the game they play; now see If you don't with that agree. ~~ Listen as they fly around, High above and near the ground; You will hear them, ag they flit, Calling quickly, "It! it! it!" .2 Cryolit---a source of aluminum, girls who never threat- sed algo in making soda and glass-- 0 gd, bot whom I wonld have I'm going where I can have now, and that was in not having the. some of the comforts of life, even, if garage a part of the house, so I could ' Many days I found the tears out, in dollars and cents, the value! '| the but she produces one-third as much wheat ag brood over it, to .et it rankle in use, to ly unexepcted, occurrence The "won- ; magnify it, to make a mountain of it, ders and signs" no doubt refer to the | "Tt is at least an even chance that Prophecy quoted by Peter in verses He the little thing of that sort that dis- 2 of this chapter. | tresses us so was never meant that) At ROAD) Pieenoweted Were cto | : 'gether, and had all things common-- | way at all. But suppose it was meant There was one purse, and all posses- |to be sharp. What of it? We are sions were sold for the common good 'all human, and the best of us are "as every man had need." This cus- puable to make little slips at times and tom was not borrowed from the out- say little thoughtless things that we Side but arose naturally as a continu- jation and extension of the community ought not to. : ; : «" ; |of goods which subsisted in the case fae seg Pishe nes St i apt of Jesus himself and his disciples. ae ee ee ee ings that 46. Continuing stedfastly with one would have been forgotten the next', ocord in the temple--The first Chris- moment if we did not dwell on them, tians did not cease to be religious keep thinking of them and brood over Jews but continued to frequent the 'them until finally we magnified them' temple for the customary prayers and into great grievances? ,all the aobservances of the ancient | "I once knew a man who got rich, faith as far as consistent with allegi- very comfortably rich, by holding a gust Oe Breaking bread at good opinion of people. I think it : 'not altogether improbable that there Breseingi ont Heres. 755 pee se Dart were some people that he didn't al-| served at their own homes, the congre- | together fancy, but he never showed, it, and really he believed that most. | people, the very great majority of well and he treated now at another. With gladness and singleness of heart--The community | people, meant 2 | A {the morrow and had only one end in betes sotipget 8 . |view, that the faith of Christ should | lon't mean that he stood out in p, spread abroad as widely as possible. Bese middle of the road and let people; 47, Having favor with all the peo- |come up and kick him, but he never, ple--"Such a spirit and mode of life /did permit himself to be annoyed in | everywhere and always appeals to the lany degree whatever by any of the; Masses; and it is to the populace of "itl pieayune aggravating sayings or Jerusalem as a whole, ag ditinet from | eninge fat, 66 we. go throven. Ute; = | Scribes and leading Pharisees), that 'are liable to encounter. He wag UNI-'eference is made." The Lord ined |formly cheerful, good humored, hope- | to them day by day those that were 'ful; confident always of the good in! his brother men, and for all this his) day together such as were in the way) 'brother men liked him very much.! of salvation." This is the record of a They were drawn to him greatly and record of a great evangelistic move-| The first thing he did was to shake his; ment--constipation. | they made him rich. |ment and is sometimes alluded to as 'the ideal thier by consistently end: abeave re, church, which is filled with zeal for the fusing to make mountains out of mole- SeRE ee eu 3 | i d hills he gained peace, contentment, Vers. acsiie "of the dittveulty is happiness. the young church in Jerusalem arising ar PCE a from the fact that the widows of some Tangled Arithmetic. of the Greek proselytes had been ne- : glected in the daily help given to the If one boy, playing, -- needy and complaint "reached the Makes one bit of noise, apostles. This resulted in a called How many bits, think you, are made/ meeting of the entire church to con- By two little boys? sider the matter. Verse 2. It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables--The business of the apostles was to preach and not to look ,after the temporal matters of the church. The growing church required all their '| time. Now some organization was necessary in order to promote har- mony among all classes. 8. Look ye out . . . . seven men of good report . . . . whom we may ap- point over this business--They were to be "full of the Spirit and of wis- dom"--spiritually-minded and dis- ereet men; for it required much tact and fine temper to adust the difficul- ties likely to arise. _ They were to be approved by God and man. The num- ber seven was no, doubt fixed upon : : : because that was the number chosen It is a good thing to cultivate the! t> manage public business in Jewish least inclination or talent for music in} towns. E young people. There can hardly be | 4. We will continue stedfastly in too much pleasure in the average hu-, Prayer, and in the mimistry of the man life, and whatever will add to the, Word--The minister, whose sole busi- sum total is worth while, and music| ory he preach os eh MEAEARS, certainly does this. A person who|®" the spiritually-minded layman, ; z full of the Spirit and wisdom, to hold can play one instrument even fairly up the minister's hands and take care well, or who can sing, has something' of the temporalitles of the church-- to contribute to society, and is there-|this is the ideal New Testament ar- fore in demand. So it often happens| rangement. However, the minister is that young people who lack accom-| not to be a recluse in his cell but a ? : 'py.| man among men, that he may know plishments feel that they are unpopu how to preach the Word so as to reach lar, and pass many unhappy hours' $ aay Nae that might have been spared them. | tip Sanus co his eee: smaller instruments,--the violin, gut. | Chances For Patriotic Workers The piano must head the list, but the) The latest reports from the British tar, mandolin, etc., make excellent Ministry of Food indicates that there music, and for a person who sings the will be a shortage of jam in Britain guitar makes a good accompaniment, this year. Here is a chance for Ca- while a violin is always welcome in ;nadian women to help by using all ihe company. Young girls now play the' uit they cag and by making p:eser- violin as often as young men do. Ales of wild berries whenever they are flute, well played, makes charming! atte to securé them. The mors 7am music, and the bapio ts aoe r} put usgd the more butter and canned goods instrument which altfacts the wil! be Saved for export. | most attention to-day is the ukulele, Jam is on the soldter's ration let which comes to us by way of Hawaii,! inj he must not be deprived of this It will pay to make some sacrifice to| whatever happens. Besides providing obtain a musical accomplishment, but a sweet the sugar is extremely essen- whatever will make life happier for tial in his fare and adds to his energy ourselves and others is worth the cost! and all-round efficiency. ; of the time and labor. Ordinarily too iotiah sugar is used in the making of jam. A pound of sugar to a pound of fruit is the old- fashioned theory, and it is a wrong one. Threg-quarters of a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit makes bet- Where is the. answer? Not in any rule That your teacher made you learn When you went to school. Those rules are easy; All they'd have you do Would simply be to set down one Multiplied by two. But two boys, playing,-- Thus the sum is done,-- Make ten to twenty times the noise That is made by one. - en eee Encourage Musical Talent. am ; Canada has less than one-twelfth of the population of the United Statey, the United States ond leads at, pooner or tater, Kad 1} not beén| {fs srol kas r imported from Tvig- the ier house, Fam sttro, 1| tut, an Eskimno hamlet on tha southern worth all it cost: ¢ | const of Avaentand. x -the 'orld in the amount %f _ . [grown to the unis of populasion, gan : ne pound is suffic- and | Christian institution of Mrs. Pitts came dragging herself into _the service at the temple but was ob-! gations meeting now at one house,| was mutually protective from care for joined us. |saved--Or "the Lord added day by! condition of a Christian! barking at last. neighborhood where I was raised. He 'had a tannery, which I suppose would ,be considered a nuisance in some | places nowadays. But no one thotght , of objecting to that. What the | neighbors did complain of at one time | was a dog that was of no earthly use; | but at night he would bark louder land longer than any other dog that i ever listened to. It was impos- i sible for the neighbors to sleep when old Major was having his say; and 'finally some of them got up courage to go in a body to old Sam and re- | monstrate. Sam was a crotchety, | quick-tempered old fellow, and the de- 'legation was not well received. 'As for that dog,' says Sam, 'his barking doesn't trouble me or my wife, | and we're nearer to it than you are. | If anything, it kind of helps me to | gore off at night. If other people are silly enough to be Wisturbed by it, it's no concern of mine" | "Old Mrs. Pitts, by the way, was not 'only very lame but quite deaf, which | perhaps partly accounted for her toler- 'ance of the dog. terfering with my liberty, what is it? | T. H. Estabrooks Co. LIMITED St.John Toronto Winnipeg Calgary Canadian Food Contre! License No. 6-276 GOOD HEALTH QUESTION BOX By Andrew F. Currfer, M.D. Dr. Currier will answer all signed letters pretalning to Health. question is of general interest it will be answered through these columns}' if not, it will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope is en- closed. Dr. Currier will not prescribe for individual cases or make diagnosis, Address Dr. Andrew F. Currier, care of Wilson Publishing Co., 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Constipation. | Many people would deny that they | "My father tried to reason with Sam. , sure you want the good will of your neighbors--' | "But at that the old man blazed | right up. 'don't want to see one of you on my 'place again. This is my property, ; and me and my dog will make all the he we want to on it.' ! "Well, that night it seemed as if old | |Sam were trying to make his words) | good. It was bright moonlight. | Major's howls carried two miles, and now and then you could hear Sam, | apparently encouraging him. | "Along about eleven o'clock poor old 'For mercy's sake,' she ; called out, 'do come over and help | Samuel out of._an awful scrape!' | "We hurried over to the Pitts's 'place, where some of the neighbors Leaning against the roof of the tannery we saw a ladder, and 'about halfway up it there was old | Sam, held like a prisoner in the stocks. , "He'd been up fixing the roof by our yard. _down the ladder, back to One of the | rungs had given way, letting him 'partly through, but leaving him wedg- 'ed in like a half-open jackknife and | quite unable to help himself. He had | been suspended there for nearly two {hours when we released him, and he | was stiff and sore, and also hoarse. 'fist at the dog, which had _ stopped "'The critter kept up such a rack- et that-I couldn't make my wife hear me nohow,' said Sam. 'Louder I yelled, louder he barked. Finally | she missed me and came out of her /own accord, and then had to go for 'Ihelp; and in spite of what I said to- day I was mighty glad to see you on my place again.' "He made no further apologies; but after that night Major's voice was stilled forever, and Sam was at peace with his neighbors. I guess he had learned that sometimes a man's per- sonal liberty really depends on a lit- tle outside interference." SSE SES, Eee Keep the Flowers Growing. Oh, keep the flowers growing in our gardens; In No Man's Land there is no living green! Near all that grime, 'mid all the hate that hardens, In memory only blossoms may be seen. In dreams of home he sees our garden | flowers . And risks his life that peace may have its bloom; Can we do less than make our cottage bowers ' Rare visions that will help dispel his gloom? ; Write him that roses climbing 'round the doorways i Perfume the night, and how the pansies grow; Let hollyhocks distract him from his war ways; These are the little things he wants! to know. When he returns victorious we'll meet | him With garlands. and with petals at, his feet; And if, mayhap, we never more shall greet him Our flowers still shall keep. his memory sweet. Se EE NEST Snr) » _ Jewels. Sapphire days, sky so blue, Mountains, hills, waters, too; Emerald days, meadows green, Every little field between; Topaz days just at dawn, Rose-pearl days, sunset gone} Opal days of light and mist, Twilight hours of amethyst; Diamond days of ice aid gsnow-- Oh, the lovely days I know, Set together, fair and dear, Th the crown of one sweet year! Son deninenatal . \ Hypocrites confess the sing of otha) Now, Mr. Pitts,' he began, 'I'm. 'No, I don't,' says he, 'I) None of the ills to which human are constipated and yet they suffer beings are subject has more victims from auto-intoxication and are ase 7' | tonished at the great quantity of of- 'fensive matter they have been carry- everybody ought to look rather care-| ing about when their intestines are fully. | emptied by means of drastic purga+ The intestinal tract or tube is that, tives. : portion of the human machinery which! In order to be free from constipas , than constipation. It is therefore a matter into which If your starches and fats are digested and dis- solved, and digested foodstuff absorb- ed as it proceeds to nourish and sus- | tion and its bad effects it is therefor 'imperative that the intestines choukt /be emptied once or oftener every day, moonlight and had started to came: -| conduct while in possession of Chateau | | {at them lle In fragments before' them, tain the body, and it also is the sew-| the exceptions to this rule are few in er through which flows the current of number. The solid or indigestible waste matter. | residue of some foods is greater thah It is very important in any kind of others and the work of digestion of a sewer that this current should is more completely performed in somé move freely and without obstruction persons than in others, this being the and the human sewer is no exception explanation why there can be no fixe. to this rule. |ed standards as to the normal daily When obstruction occurs in the sew-, output for the intestines. er of your town you are well aware! ae that the consequence is an effusion of | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. foul gases into your house, overflow) of offensive material and injury and | located on the left side? I have a damage in a variety of ways. 'dragging pain, occasionally, in thig In the same manner when the hu-' part of the abdomen, and have had -- man sewer is obstructed, foul gases it during the last three or fout ;are generated, waste and poisonous months. material is absorbed and distributed) 2--Will vinegar ; over the body of the blood current, harm the hair? skin diseases break out, you are bent) Answer--1--It would be unusual} over with pain in your abdomen and for the appendix to tbe transpose the resisting power of your body to in- from the right side, where it belongs, fectious and other diseases is lowered. to the left side, although I believe {t Many diseases which have a fata] has occasionally been found there. It ending trace their beginning to this is more likely that you are suffering | common and so often neglected ail- from gas in the intestines, or from f | adhesions, than from a displaced ap- It is quite as important to keep pendix. the intestines free from poisonous ma-| 2---I do not think that either vine terial as it is to supply it with the gar or lemon juice would work either | food which is essential to life. | harm or benefit to the hair, but [ What is the situation--here is a would suggest that it would be better tube thirty feet long the last third of not to use either. it the large intestine, the reservoir for; A Reader--Will you kindly inform waste matter, two or three times the me whether a leaking valve is a seria caliber of the other two thirds, the ous heart trouble, or whether it can be small intestine. , cured and, if so, how? In ths large intestine also are valves, Answer--It is sometimes serioug and folds, greatly increasing its capa- and sometimes it is not very serious, city while the entire intestinal tube I would suggest that you send stamp is so elastic it can easily be made to ed and self-addressed envelope and an hold gallons of material. j article on Valvular Disease of the If this material is piisonous you Heart will be sent you, which will in» can guess at its possibility for harm. form you in regard to this disease, or lemon juice MORE HUN VANDALISM. =a | The fashion in which beds and rooms have have been defiled is difficult of Germans Wreak Vengeance in De- | description, It would seem the work of lunatics." 1 - Evidence accumulates that during} Except in cases of necessity, which their brief stay in the Marne salient are rare, let your friends learn un the Germans indulged in wholesale | pleasant truths from his enemies; they acts of vandalism. In a message sent are ready enough to tell them, from French army headquarters, the | ~ & struction at Chateau Thierry. Ss heed correspondent gives details of their | Thierry. | The Germans were in the town for | some time and apparently thought | they would remain there indefinitely. | When they found they would have to | give it up they apparently determined | to take the only vengeance jn their | power. The injuries which have been | inflicted on the town are such as| could not be the result of shelling, the | from using fertilizers by correspondent points out, as those | two British and three American houses Which suffered most were en-| Experiment Stations over periods tirely uninjured by shell, shrapnel or ranging froin § to 81 years' test, bullet. He says: averaged 11 bushels per acre, "These houses were magnificently F ope ie : ertilizing furnished, the walts hung with costly tapestries and admirable pictures. Fall Wheat Pays The furniture was of exceptional ele- dai and impressive mirrors and/| charming statuettes were numerous. Hleve: "To-day there is nothing that has real 25. neren of 'wheat igre not been destroyed. The tapestries heres 83.20 'pee buss), gabene have been hacked to pieces, the pic. rhe ettillzing at the rato of 8 tures slit from corner to corner, the yen tecscer ie Brohably cov. leather and other chair coverings Your rettiin from ike ingeree haye been ripped and all the delicate crease on 28 acres fertilized $417.00 re a the irreplacable ex. Send fom, oun Pree Pulelin No. & on amples of craftsmanship, of past, cen- Th 'at Whaat Productos, > turies have been smashed.The legs » Soil ans rOD have been torn off the tables and uged | I . Soil and Crop 198 a | improvement Bureau further work of dostruction, Thera of (he Qanadian Fectilizes Association € NOt @ Mirro# which hag not been Wd Temple Bldg. T broken and the glass and china fluhg euveeities hits ened Increase Wheat Profits _ by Increasing Wheat Yields The average increase in yield of wheat obtained \ "The coatly carpets have been soiled and rent in every possible way and inkpota oy the silken papers on the Walls, This vongeful fury has ood| tev Jam, while half w™ [donb where the fruit extra sweet, ers, and overlook *heix own, | \ Sgmash % boat aaiid $4 to the extent of, £ "nurseries and doll Shea _ E. M.--1--Can the appendix be --