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eae bead mis We have received a large shipment of. Patios Hyacinths, Crocus — and Daffodills for garden and house ‘culture—all colors, single and double. ~~ Beautify your lawn or garden by plant- ing Bulbs. Brighten your home dur- ing the winter months with a few pots of flowers. R. A. CLIMIE ? Phone 72 Wallace Street When You Think of Meat | , Think of No. 26 At the other end of the line is an establishment that stands for quality and service. Pa Pd If you want meat sattethation, get réathande of calling “two- six.” The choicest fresh axa cured meats, sausages, bologna, head cheese, lard, ete., always in stock. e ~ G. A. Kennedy J. STEVENSON. WALLACE ST. SUCCESSOR TO 8. | = A full supply of Fresh Meats will always greet your eyes at this store. We take pride in cutting meats to please our cus- s La . * s s * s & s * ® « e e s : * STRANGER OCCUPIED . A Series of Talks on Music ER OCCUPIED es ° By Prof. C. C. Laugher, Mus. Bac., Sarnia. F ae tee eee eo Re Hamilton, Oct. 24.—At the con- NO. 1—MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS A vocalist writes to a musi¢ rel wanting to know how long it is pos- sible for a man to hold a note. . The editor replies, we have one that_ we have held for six years and rather expect to hold it six years longer. It would be quite difficult to hold a musical note that long, particularly! if playing on a brass instrument. We are told’that an English phy- sician advises the playing of wind instruments, as a recent investigation has brought this summing up: That cornetist's life averages 69 years; clarenetist’s life.is 64 years, and be-: cause flutists do not require the ful]! exercise of’ their lungs ‘in playing, | their averagé is but 61 years. He: adds that to play some wind instru-| ments lengthens life, for the ‘pne| and moderate use. of the lungs some- what im excess of breathing is the cause. | We sometimes pause in consider-| img the drum as a musical instru- ment and we step up to the drummer d tomers. -You aré nét urged to takewhat sda te not wake” Should you ever buy of us meat not as represented, ‘pring it back and we will return the money. he Modern eat. 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These prices are for addreeses in Canada or Great Britain. If the publication you want is not in the above list let us know. We can supply any well-known Canadian or American” publication. These prices are strictly cash in. advance. » Send subscription by post office or express order to Banner Pub, Co, it-is all _right to try, try again; but it is better to make good the first The ostrich hides its:head in the sand on the same principle that in- spirés the fellow who is head over heels in debt to keep out of sight. | president of the tribunal, rm as nd.eay 4a him (after the band ha stopped playing), you don’tg make very good music with that Gere, ment. No, admitted the pounder of the drum, I know I don’t, but drown e heap of bad music. The Scotch have a proverb: ‘‘Where McGregor sits, there is the head of «the table.” This brings us to an in- cident in Sarah Bernhardt’s career when touring the.U.S.A, Herjgha ager failed to secure a proper theatre for her in a certain Texas, city. i which she had promised to appear. With great reluctance and expécting a contemptuous refusal, he suggest-, ed that he might secure a circug tent, but supposed that she ‘would ' only | act in a first-class theatre. “Go ahead,” she said, ‘‘wherever Sarah Bernhardt acts is a first-class — tre." rier i Speaking of singing, we realize | that the singer’s entials are voice?| ear and musital ellect. The voice} must pre-exist, it cannot be created, | but its errors can be corrected, Mere; bigness of voice makes no musical appeal. History-gives to us that the, record for a big voice belongs to Sten-! tor, a herald of the Greeks in the’ Trojan war, whose voice is said to be | as loud as that of fifty men shouting) together. A bass singer, whose name| is Chéron, of the Paris opera, who liv-| ed toward the end of the eighteenth century, who in early life had been a blacksmith, is said that, by blowing into a drinking glass could crack it, and by singing into it in his mighty upper “D" jcould burst it. The big- gest and noblest voice that this twen- tieth century has listened to was Edo- hard de Reszke’s. The musician of today is usually exceedingly versatile in their activi- ties, but in former times it wag only too common for them to be confined to an absurdly narrow and cne-sided outlook on life, and to take little in- terest in anything outside of their own particular specialty. An amusing example of this was with Poppo, an eccentric violinist, at one time fashionable teacher in’ Paris and London. Living in at the ‘time of the revolution, althottgh_per- fectly inoffensive, he was denounced as a suspect and brought before the tribunal for trial. The following dia- logue took place between him and the What is your name? Poppo, he answered. What do you do? I play.violin. What were your activities during the reign of the tyrant? I played the violin. And if the republic have need of you what will you do? I will play the violin. Puppo was acquitted. The impression or infiuence that| musicians leave behind them is little; Yealized by thentselves and we ¢er-. tainly do not know to what extent of, trouble, difficulty or short comings’ some of these musicians worked un-) ceaaeeiens ve | duced. clusion of a sermon on the subject of “Are there hypocrits in the Church and good people outside the Church?” Rev. Dr. J. E. Hughson, in First Meth- odist Church to-night, referred to a mattef which, he said, was a painful one to him. During the week he had received an unsigned letter in which the writer stated that two young Wo- men went to First Church last Sun- day. When leaving tht church, the letter stated, these young women were; approached by another woman, who is credited with saying to the stran- gers: ‘You occupied my seat.’’ She} was told that an usher had shown them to the seat, whereupon the in- dignant woman is alleged to have said: “Then it is the usher’s fault.’ “TJ don’t know who that lady is,’ continued Dr. Hyghson, and, what | more, I don’t wart to. But all I can PROF. C. C. LAUGHER of all musicians, yet he is regarded as the greatest song writer, producing the most beautiful melodic phrasing. t < oe "Clip W ings Of Old Doctor Stork London, Oct. 25.—‘'The German society for the international regula- on of the population” is on the trail of “old Doctor Stork,” and intends, if possible to clip the old bird’s wings. The society, which. has just been organized in Berlin, asserts that the only way to prevent future wars is to curtail the stork’s activities, thus pre- venting the manufacture of cannon fodder for those terrible governments which are now busily engaged in fos- téring and encouraging increases in the population. “There are too many people on earth. There number must be re- If future Wars are to be avoided the wings of the stork must be clipped and the birth rate reduced. The world war was nature’s way of reducing the number of humans who were burdening the earth.”’ Thus declares “‘Der Mensch Erde Bund” or “Mankind Barth League,” which has been organized and regis- tered in Berlin by Wilhelm Doms, ar- tist and sociological writer, together with others. Its official name is the “German Society for the Internation- al Regulation of Population.” The society is the answer of Doms and his associates in the league to- wards the housing problem, the world’s unemployment conditions, starvation and misery in general and in spite of the millions of lives, act- ual and potential, blighted by the great-war, it is declared that there are ‘still! too many people on earth.” The society declares that the only chance of salvation for the world lies in putting the stork in a cage and re- ducing his activity. The league calls the world war “a necessity of nature,’”’ caused by over- population of Europe, and insists that the nationalization of property comunism will not solve any pro lem; because there are too many par- ticipants. If everything were to equally divided none would have much and none would be contented. The league contends that govern- ments now encourage the incredsed population in order to have a contin- wal supply of cannon fodder, and that large families encourage war. It in- sists that humanitarianism helps | but t little and not for long the large mas- b ses of new human beings that brought into the world. The league allots two children ‘to are f mack family, but that is the limit. Any umber in excess of that makes for 1 taeaien, slums and barracks, and der. ‘Think of the beautiful music of! ‘U's the world into a prison.” Greig, much of it written while he had| the use of one lung only. Schubert, artistic career lasted but seven’ miserably Bdor. "sein: atl calkeins-ubvea wt ait ticenis Bart Sweets" ‘restaurant: — : at the “Diana be; ence” banquet, but the sporting heart say is this: such an attitude as that| will do more harm than I can undo in a year’s hard preaching. The true Church of Christ is open to all. If | strangers are not welcomeed in this church, then I am opposed to rented pews.’ “ala. APES OF GIBRALTAR. The Famous indeais Are Sentenced to Death. The famous monkeys. of Gibraltar, the Barbary apes of Gib, are doomed. According to the latest news from the fortress, Gen. Sir H. L. Smith- Dorrien has decree? their extinction or-banisl. ent. 4 they are the only isles ionkeys the sialoreaiaas of Euro How they are to be axtinantabed, or banished, the general’s order does | not state. Tradition had it that they came to Gibraitar from Morocco through a secret tumnel under the straits, a tunnel known only to the apes themselves. The more probable version of the story is that they were imported when the Moors ruled Spain, and have been suffered to re- main upon the fastnesses of the rocky mountain of Tarik ever since, partly them there and partly undoubtedly through design. Certainly they have been the ob- ject of gubernatorial decree before this. Some governors have solemnly warned them that they must not steal fruit; others have forbidden them the limits of the secret fortifications, and one governor, in 1853, {issued an order against any attempt on the monkeys’ lives. In 1853, however, the species was almost extinct, and Gen, Sir William Codrington sent to Africa for four young monkeys of the species to perpetuate the race. Another governor awarded them an Imperial subsistence allowance which works out at about £1 per monkey per annum. At present the monkeys, though wild, are fairly numerous on the higher reaches of the rock. How to end them is really a serfous problem. Shooting is not encouraged upon the high terraces honeycombed with cun- ningly~concealed defences and stores of ammunition. Hounds ‘are out of the question, for the monkeys drop glibly down hundred-foot precipices in with an al- holding tiny brush and ledges which a hound couldn’t see. It has been suggested that they be poisoned at a final ‘Imperial subsist- of Britain revolts at such a sugges- tion. Height of Public Men. Gladstone, whose height has been discussed in ‘‘Miscellany,'’’ was not the tallest of our premiers, says the Manchester Guardian. That distinc- tion probably belongs to Lord Salis- ury, who appears to have been a shade taller than his nephew and suc- cessor in the premiership. As most biographers cisdain to give antHre- pometrical details, it is impossible to class our bygone premiers with any exactitude according to height. wos ham, however, is ribed as because of the difficulty of catching¥ a never plentiful.” © * % BUILDING UP A DAIRY: — : * ‘HERD es + . CO ae a ae oe Me a ae a There are two fundamental points to bear in mind particularly in start- ing to build up a good, healthy, pro- dtctive dairy herd. First to see that the best females possible, of the par- ticular breed which you choose to work with, are procured for a founda- tion. They should have plenty of size, good, robust constitutions, ‘car- rying good dairy characteristics. They should be procured from good healthy herds which are under reg- ular inspection, and should be from dams and sires that have shown good results both as to the quality and quantity of milk produced. It is much preferable to have two or three really good individuals to start with than to start with a larger niamber not up to the standard. Thé sire to be used in building up a herd ig. @ very important factor also, as the sire ig always considered over 50 % sof the herd. As we said in regard to fe ' males, the sire should come from 4 good healthy herd with record of performance behind him, having suf- ficient size, and carrying. all. the strong characterist®s of the breed which he represents. Secondly, after having a founda- tion laid, the next'step is to see that proper quarters are provided for the housing of the herd, that is, a stablg having plenty of light and ventflation, Lhe herd should also be supplied wl the proper food to develop them @ to produce the largest amount of the best quality milk at the cheapes| price possible. Another important point is the. at tention given to the rearing of young calves. The following Ey npsdt hag proven very satisfactory! Remoyy the daizy calf at birth. Do not allow him to nurse. Give mother's milk a) the rate of 8 to 10 pounds, divided in to three feeds, for the first ten days then start replacing. with okie so that at the age of one month. tht calf will be receiving 10 pounds PS hee milk with the addition of 1: mall quantity of scalded éflax-seet mont At three weeks of age a smal quantity of oats, clover hay and som clean water should be kept before ii from this time on, and the skim-mill should be gradually increased so tha) by the time the calf is fifteen. weeki oldLit will be receivinv trom’ 15 to a pounds daily. Any person starting ont to * putt up a good, profitable dairy hetd can not do so and know what he is abou! without the use of the Babcock tes and scales. The dairy farmer shouk know just what amount of milk eacl cow gives throughout the year and thi number of pounds of butter fat th« milk contains. Anyone who has no followed this practice is bound to ge many surprises after following it fo! a year. The cow that may have bee considered one of the btst producer in the herd may be found to be not do ing more than paying her poard. Cov testing not only produces better cows but enables the dairyman to fee more intelligently. Get rid of thi poor cows, carefully feed the goo ones, breed them to a pure-bred sire and the result will certainly be 4 large-producing and profitable dait herd. J. A. McClary, Superintendent Ex perimental Station, Lennoxville, Que Sydney Smith in 1831. ‘The people along the road were much disappoint. ed at his smallness. I told. them he was much larger before the reform bill was thrown out, This. broughi tears inte their eyes.” Still Russell was tailer than some of his-contem, poraries among foreign statesmen, notably Thiers and Louis Blanc. Lud: wig Windthorst, leader of the Ger- man Ultramontanes. and many years Bismarck’s most formidable opponent in the Reichstag, was near: ly two feet shorter than the iron chancellor. There is at least one instance ol lack of inches being pleaded as az excuse for declining office. When Si Christopher Yelverton ected Speaker in 1597, he begged the House to allow him to decline th¢ onor. “Your speaker,” he - said “ought to be a man. big and comely, ewreiry and well spoken, hig voics t, his carriage majestical, his na sh haughty, and his purse plentiful, ut, contrarily, the stature of 1 body is small, myself not so wi spoken, my voice low, my Seesaue 9 on, 0 Ee Howereh: he» prevailed u ep ; seems ym shortest premier in our met John tt Bree vi vila comp: prayer..still said in. the pon ay, 8 itting.. ae