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e JEé / Verdun Has. been the world's objective objective for several^ weeks and may continue to be for some time to come. Now that our Canadian soldiers have been in action and several more have paid the supreme price, we are taking taking a much keener interest and watch the daily casualty list with almost bated breath. We read, too, the re- tiie interest of mankind. Thé man without hope. is poorly equipped for the service of God or humanity. A person niay be prompted to do many £ bub if hope is not behind the a quality thing else would ^nean an unthinkable world in Whic^^liye. Sonie predict^ p7o'Stibgs "be - , too, that thejvorld will see yet most m | ss i n g vitally essential to successful ! tremendous -spectacles; will witness an unheard .of carnage, before the cesses. quote Professor W. cent. scholars attending rural Chambers : "The greater the number j schools ever attend high schools, so end comes. If the Alliés continue to service. What is a life without hope worth ? hang together and if they are united : must' mean continual despair. Hope by a single thought and purpose, they must win out if it takes five -'years ports of the versatile war corre- > Only, as the ,Pope says, European civ^ spondents with a sincere zest. How interestedly, too, do we peruse the talks of the experts who write of the "big drives" along the whole western front, of battles in the air, of attacljs by the German fleet, which is to come out in the open, any day now, of invasions invasions of England, and so forth.-They tell us that there is* to be a deeper, intensity, the fighting is to be forced; Germany for the sake of public opinion, opinion, for the sake of dynastic consideration, consideration, is to put forth her every effort to win a victory over her enemies. The Allies are still very confident, and when we think of the final issue, however however long delayed that may be, we see victory in the future, for any- ilization is being destroyed. .* Meats Of Quality Wè Guarantee The quality- as well as the weight of your meat purchàsès. We have succeeded m developing developing a thriving business ..by.pay-. in^close attention to the needs and wants of the particular housewife. She half discovered that we sell only the highest character of' meatables at consistent price. a If you are not a regu lar customer of ours become become one to-day. We serve you best. C. M. Cawker & Son Phone 64. Bowmanville. Advice to young men is always;; a fruitful theme for writers and speakers. speakers. Great, too, is the number of books written especially for boys; and. young men. Dr. Orison Swettf Mar- den has written a series of volumes of a very practical character along helpful helpful lines for men of all ages. Rev. Byron H. : Stauffer is a Canadian lecturer lecturer and writer who has given us some- splendid Suggestions for the consideration and guidance of young men. Here is a very meaty^paragraph in the line of advice to a country'boy : going into the city to find employment: employment: Resolve to be * neat. Cleanliness Cleanliness will add to your income. , Next to saying your prayers, blacking your boots and whitening your teeth; are essential morning tasks.. Likewise a clothes-brush . and a hair-brush; are necessary tools for a young man's room. A daily shave, too, will soon be demanded. Many a man puts the balance between success and failure on thé right side by calling neatness to his aid. It doesn't cost much to be well groomed. .On the other, hand, a fourteen days' growth on your chin and-a four days' dust on your shoes, a soiled collar chafing your neck and a brown-lined pair of cuffs rubbing your wrists"will make you fëel as if you were whipped before the battle of the day is really begun. never déspairs but ever looks at the mysteries of life with' a confident look^and anticipates that even disasters' disasters' will work out for the ultimate goodr -Hope faileth - not, is not jeasily discouraged or dismayed even when misfortunes come. Only to-day a lady told us of great disappointment that came to her one Easter Day and how she decided after a few minutes of consideration of the unexpected conditions, that it was all for the best, for Hope told her that "Whatever is is best." That is right. Keep Hope ever in the. ascendant for it expects thé morning to follow the midnight, the calm : the storm, the Spring 'the Winter, the sunshine the rain. Yes, Hope sees :the cloucKbig with mercy and knows it will break with blessing on our heads. Have you had trouble ? Hope standeth firmly by you in time of greatest trouble. Trust her and she will help y oh ' to meet the darkest sorrow with complacency and finally to see the very best in every circumstance circumstance which encompasses the human life. * * .* * Advocates of music in schools have not made very great headway on the powers that be for some unstated reason. Faddists in other subjects have succeeded to -a less or greater degree, and we should rejoice greatly to see music added to the curriculum --we mean, a real course in real mu- of tones distinguishable by the human ear an individual is responsivq to,. the greater ate. the probabilities, of his correctly perceiving and interpreting the world in which he lives." This alone would be sufficient reason for advocating: the teaching of music to dll children^Und for beginning their musical" education in the first years of life, when habits and interests are most readily formed. * * * * Sir George E. Foster has issued a call to all" and sundry, asking 'thenr to carefully save rags and waste paper. Thousands of tons of this waste have heretofore been consigned to the dust j effective arid turnirig àway frorn thërii n n t- n v~\ rnwih n/v ^ J i.1. * - J -- -- -- n i. n 1 -* • ■* m -- _ heap, the furnace and the incinerator. Every pound of this waste has real value and is needed to replace in the paper manufacturing establishments new raw material, a scarcity of which exists. This saving, therefore, takes on two aspects. It is so much real wealth-producing material saved from useless destruction and thereby conserves conserves new raw material and supplies the lack of the • same under present conditions. At the same time it represents represents a fair return to the saver of the waste for his time and trouble and perhaps something over. Some difficulty is encountered in making connection between the individual saver, of the waste and the ultimate donsumer. The medium of communication communication has y generally been the ragman and junk dealer in sparsely settled communities and the dealers in such waste in towns and cities. The Red Cross Societies are now taking up the matter of collection, and whilst they are^. instrumental in saving waste material, material, reap something for their own funds in the ultimate disposal of the same. The Industrial Branch of the that a farmer's son should be able to be obtain his home school sufficient education*, to fit him ; for farm; life. What has the much vaunted public school system yet done towards this end or is it likely to dô.'feb long as the country schools, are taught by-young girls ; who know little beyond wha£ they learn in prescribed , text books ? It is a huge farce perpetrated, upon the youth;of this land and iri spite of the yearly conventions of the Ontario Educational Association-^ in Toronto to "consider"all phases of this Province's Province's schools the ordinary rural, school goes on as weak, inefficient, in- Is Your Automobile Insured If not, why not ? . Special rates to Ford and Chevrolet owners. Now is the time to insure insure your auto against fire, accident, accident, and liability. I only carry the best companies. Get particulars to-day. , I INSURE EVERYTHING In Fire, Life and Casualty Insurance, I have some of the •best companies in the world. I have something of special interest to pârties who do not carry insurance. Harry Cann, Phone 50. Bowmanville. Few young men, we fancy, ever think of one suggestion Mr. Stauffer made, but it would be money well spent--better well invested. It is so novel and sensible that we give another another excerpt from his article: Resolve on high ideals. Next to mingling with great men in the flesh, it is advantageous advantageous to mingle with great men in their books. Surround yourself with a few great books, and put a few pic- 1 tures of great men on the , walls of your third-story, dollar-a-week hall- room, and you will have the best of company every evening. Put Gladstone Gladstone where you can see him every time you enter the room. I can't see how you can be mean with the Grand Old Man looking down upon you. Put John B. Gough on the opposite wall and remember that his last words were, "Young man, make your record record clean." Abraham Lincoln and Wendell Phillips and David Livingstone Livingstone w^puld add interest to the group. Live among these ideals, and resolve to act as though they areally were watching you. He might have added the advice to read again the story of the life of each of these great men of the last century. A young man will sic. The few crude rudiments that Salvation Army is doing the same se^' are taught school teachers-in-training at the Normal schools will not qualify these candidates for teaching music that will be of real practical use. A mari who knew 1 what music is recently said in an article that parent and teachers give little thought to the civilizing civilizing influence of music. Most of us, for that matter, fail to appreciate that music not only helps to civilize men, but also helps to give" them improved improved health and greater power. _As a healing agent music has long been made use of by wise physicians. It is especially potent in nervous and mental diseases. In hospitals for the insane music is to-day a recognized aid in treatment. Many and remarkable remarkable are the accounts. of its remedial influence. And it has great preventive as well as curative value. Even if he cannot play or sing himself, the lover of music has only to invest a comparatively small sum in a mechanical mechanical player in order to be assured of an unfailing means of easing the tension of modern life. find greater inspiration in such biographies biographies a thousand times than in the most popular modern novel even though it does point . a wholesome moral. - * * * * Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Hope awakens courage. Hope is the best part of our riches. Hope is a pleasant acquaintance. Hope is the mainspring of human action. Hu- Wherever introduced and thoroughly thoroughly taught in city schools where a qualified teacher of music has been employed, the result has been most gratifying and successful. It has been found that at least four, out of five children can sing. And even a greater percentage can learn to play some sort of instrument. There is no room for discussions • about the advantages advantages of learning music either for the benefits, are so quickly apparent. Compare the young men who come to these provinces from the British Isle3* with our own Canadian youth, and it will be found that Canada is away behind in musical .acquirement. The person who cannot enjoy music must vice in localities where it is organized. organized. If paper mills and large dealers interested in the purchase of waste rags and paper will send in their names and addresses to the Department Department of Trade and Commerce, the Department will be glad to put collectors collectors of waste in communication with them. Repeated inquiries are made by newspaper and business houses as to where they can dispose of this waste when saved. * * * * That was excellent advice to farmers: farmers: "Take your sons into partnership with you," given recently in a farm journal which very truly adds; The farmer's son does not care to be merely merely a laborer, and no one can blame him. If he is to be induced to take the interest which he would like to boys and girls when they are at the very best ages to make the best use of good educational- opportunities. For this reason we welcome the Short Course for farmers to "cover the deficiency deficiency of the country schools to some ' extent at \ least. When the young farmer returns to his farm home for one of those courses he is sure to shed an influence and secure a following if Ihe is able to show other men what he has learned to -do is giving giving him bigger crops'* and higher returns returns than they are getting from'their haphazard, work-a-day methods, and his hundred acres well worked may be really a little modél farm for the l'est of the surrounding country. This is why. short courses in agriculture and school fairs should be encouraged. * * * * The - girl problem engaged attention of the Ontario Educational Association Association last week in Toronto, and an effort effort was made, let us hope that it will be successful, ,to introduce Domestic Science more generally into the education education of girls and how best to accomplish accomplish the desired end was well considered considered at that. gathering. The News says that one particularly 'interesting 'interesting address in the Home Science Department Department was given by Dr. F. W. Merchant, Director of. Technical and Industrial Education for Toronto. He spoke of the splendid work already done by the Macdonald Institute in Guelph, as well as the new Technical School in Toronto. The interest taken taken in Household Science is evidenced by the fact that in 31 centres in Ontario Ontario 3,836 women are enrolled for evening classes in these branches. The ordinary Household Science classes do not 1 , however, the speaker said, cover fully the interests of women in the home. Women who are to-earn their living should have equal oppor- j tunities with the men to fit them- j selves for the occupations into which j they will go. But why should the get in his father's occupation, he must j girl whose sphere is to be the home feel that he is responsible for some take up the same course as boys who part or department of the manage ment and operation of the farm. The minute he gets this chance to show what he can do his ideas of farming change ; he is not so anxious to hurry 1 are to go into business ? Dr. Merchant Merchant referred to the small per cent, of girls who make use of their school studies afterwards, and urged the need of more suitable subjects for the away to the city; he il able to plan, ! sake of the girls who go directly from ,"8 man life has not a greater friendship | b e abnormal in some respect. Our Cook's Cotton Root Compound Jf eafe, reliable regulating medicine. Bold in three de^ greea of -strength---No. 1, $1; No. 2, S3; No. 3, $5 per box. Sold by all druggists, or sent prepaid on receipt of price. Free . pamphlet. £ Address : THE COOK MÉDICINE CO„ TORONTO. ONT. (Fsrwtdy Wisdw.) than Hope. A strong mind always hopes and has always cause to hope. True hope is based on thé energy of character. Never give up, it is wiser and better always to hope than once to despair. We are saved by hope-- Rom. 8:24. Hearing a minister on Easter Sunday use the expression "Eastertide Hope" and later "the hope of the Gospel" we began thinking what a wonderful quality Hope is and how our whole life is regulated or controlled by it. ' It seems from the authors quoted above that Hope is a great quality for effectual service in Every Tuesday, March to "All Rail'» Every Wednesday During Season Navigation ■ " Great Lakes Routed ' out bn tiîeprairies whbrc last year Canada'a Greatest • Wheat Crop was produced there is. a home waiting for you.- «The Will-take you there, give you all the information aboqt ", the béat: - places,-andhe Ip you to success. . :: :• :: ".. - et " ,v Particulars from any Canadian Pacific Ticket Agent, or , write W. B. Howard,- " Agent, Toronto. District" Passenger C. B. KENT, Post Office; -T-dw'n Agërit, musical director full of enthusiasm over the inspiring effects of genuine music said that listening to Wagner, to Beethoven, to Chopin,, to Mozart, or any of the world's great masters of music, he forgets his cares and worries in the sublimity of the emotions emotions their music calls forth. It is in this emotional appeal that music is of unsurpassed value as a civilizing, power-developing agency. If only for its influence on the emotions, every child should be taught early in life -j to know and love music. As President G. Stanley Hall, addressing the National National Education Association, once pointed out: "The prime. education in the grades is to train the sentiments, to make children feel nature, religion, country, home, duty and all the rest, to guarantee sanity of)the heart." And President Hall added : "I would have a mechanical player in every highr school and college, with a few scores of well-chosen selections." * * * * The tendency with the masses is to give too much prominence to ragtime music because ; the airs are so catchy, but we question., the. propriety of allowing allowing young children to learn or to sing the common trash miscalled music. music. An -authority on music for the masses referring to this question of i what music should; be sung in schools, remarked that "every tune introduced should' have a moral and. aesthetic justification,. and should be admitted to the schoolroom only after careful deliberation and for good and sufficient sufficient reasons." Refining the sensi- bilitiës and reinforcing the virtues, music further has a broadening effect on the ; mind. It increases a man's .capacity to understand and sympathize sympathize with his fellow men, thereby -'makihg_jit~ easier for hfin to get along with otiber people. "It increases his i efficiency in his own vocation, through exercising a stimulating effect on" his- brain and bodily, organs * generally, -this - stimulation coming from the pleasure he experiences in listening to it.- Arid, further still? love and knowledge of music have a direct upbuilding upbuilding effect on the ; mental pro practice, reap the benefit if he is sue cessful in the particular part of the farm operations entrusted to his care. Give the farm boy a free hand in some branch of the work, riiàke him wholly responsible for. it and allow nim returns returns on it commensurate with the work and ability shown in operation and you have made your son of vastly greater value to the farm, to himself to you as his father, and to the farming farming community at? large. Not to place the boy in such position is one of the .most vital mistakes a farmer can make. * * * :* We attended the banquet given at the finish of a short course given in connection with the high school under direction of the District Representative Representative in Agriculture, and the. idea uppermost uppermost in our mind afterwards was the influence every young farmer who took that course would have in his community. This is in our opinion a very strong point in favor of these short courses in agriculture. In the journal" to which référence- is made we find our idea splen'didly expressed in these words: If the : District Representative Representative can interest a few farmers between 16 and 40 years in becoming live wires in their community, he has accomplished the greatest good which he can. do. .Once a young man becomes becomes . enthusiastic arid goes back -to his farm- deterriiined 'to make." it a better farm and so reap larger crops therefrom, he is bôur|d to do unconsciously, unconsciously, friore . good in his. community than could a.thousand prea_chers of ag.- riculture who are riot iwilling to .prac-r tice what, they preach'. The practical farmer who is makihjg .gopd- on his land, who is sowing 'better seed, is practicing more thorough.. cultivation, is rotating his crops, is testing . his cows, is breeding live stock, is a pjow;er for good in his community. The influence of such a progressive, intelligent intelligent -leader is beyond computàtion and- so he becomes a very yaluable asset asset in- his district, ; - * * * It is a charge against rural schools, that they do not turn out men fitted for .leaders. Only from 5 to 10 per the school into the home and its work. Surely the Education Department Department will give hee'd to these timely and practical arguments and make provision in the public and high school course of studies for introducing introducing Domestic ^Science. & Ei ChoiceLgrades of Bread and Pastry Flour, Try our flour and be convinced that we have the .best on the market. Corn. Cereals and Mill-Feed always on hand. ^ Phone 129 r Q Your Food will cost you less ! The great problem of every housewife--today, more than ever--is "How caii I economize ? " No doubt this is your problem, too. Let us help you. Our aim is to make it possible for you to buy good, fresh, wholesome groceries at the lowest cost. 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