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j at 62 in bed with rheumatism at 65 working again vhv worry about rheumatism this od fellow had it almost as bad it ould be but he jut found world wheat as the- now cuedy htuck to it and viorklng again at c5 years college senior what would you idvise me to read after graduation professor the help wanted column nowadays one cannot trust any body the grocer gave me a bad coin this morning let me see it i canno i paid the milkman with it a lady walked up to a flower sell er in london and asked for a shil lings worth of blossoms after the purchase the lady inquired will you be here next wednesday as i shall want some flowers for my daughter shes coming out on that day she shall have the best in the market maam the woman answer ed what is she in for he of te let him tell you til about it for two yars and a hair he writes 1 have suffered from rheumatism for eighteen mouths i eoum not turn over in bed nor help myself in any way mv legs and feet were swollen and i could not sleep or get rest until i started taking krucben salts after taking one bottle 1 went about on two canes i kept on taking it as i found the pains were leaving me 1 have taken six bottles and now have started to work again i am 65 years o age and everybody lhit knows me says 1 am a wonder to get on after what i was jb do you realize wdat causes rheu matism nothing but sharpedged uric acid crystals which form as the result of sluggish eliminating organs krusehen salts can always he count ed upon to clear those painful cryst als from the system winter killing of crops a young lady was held up by the traffic signal and of course when it was time to go she could not get her car to start at all there was a good string of cars behind waiting and still the signal kept on stop go at last a po liceman went up to her and said well miss havent you found colour to suit you yet the butcherboy was delivering at a house where a disagreeable dog was kept the dog had the hoy cornered and he was afraid either to advance or retreat at the win dow the dogs owner was laughing and enjoying the fun now then mister said the boy getting disgusted lair warning call off your dog or ill give im your suet i dont see charlie half as much as i used to you should have married him when you had the chance i did the club bore was telling for the twentieth time about his trip to jndia and what he saw there you can believe what you like he said but i can tell you some of those fakirs can throw a rope into the air then climb up it themselves and completely disappear after a short silence a member inquired with a yawn can you by any chance do the trick yourself one unfavorable factor of the past season declares the picton gazette was the winter killing of wheat and clover both suffered badly much of the wheat had to be reseeded and many fields of clover will have to be plowed up and sown to spring rain or planted what makes this the more serious is the fact that the meadows were badly winter killed year ago last winter this resulted in a severe hay shortage last year with a few old meadows and severe winter killing of new seeding the hay crop will again be light winter killing of meadows is a severe loss to the farmer grass and clover seed is expensive it costs a lot of money to seed a meadow winter killing destroys this invest ment and adds to the acreage to be sown or planted in the spring at the same time it destroys the plffi of crop rotation adopted by the best farmers and the soil loses the re newed fertility furnished by growing of clover the with canada dependent in no small way on wheat for general prosperity both in the cast and the west it is interesting at this time of the year to watch crop reports even if it is a bit early and so to get some grasp on the possibilities of the future an official report from ottawa states that crop news during the past month has been of a variable nature timely rains have been received in many parts of can ada and the united states but the winter wheat crop in the united states has been irreparably damag ed the united states department of agriculture reports that 312 per cent of the sown acreage has been or will be abandoned and production is estimated at less than 432 million bushels as compared with 405 mil lion harvested in 1934 and as com pared with an average production of 618 million from 1928 to 1932 europe reports a slight increase in wheat acreage for 1935 and ex cessive winter damage has been con fined to relatively small areas ke- ports arc favourable from most areas in centra and southern eur ope with the exception that drought has caused considerable damage in spain and iatly unfavourable re ports have also been received from north africa and substantial re duction in production is indicated from this area the canadian trade commission er at melbourne australia has cabled that the weather continues too dry for the seeding of the new- crop throughout the australian wheat belt with the exception of the state of new south wales where prospects are generally favourable- the combined map and poster should be of the utmost value in dealing with the impending outbreak the poster will be distributed chiefly through the office of the field crops commissioner of the department of agriculture of saskatchewan and in addition to being on view at all municipal offices and centres of agriculture assembly wiil be dis played in railway stations and post offices throughout the infested part of the province lady haig to attend memorial unveiling ottawa- that lady haig will be prerent at canadas unveiling of the war memorial at vimy next july- has been announced by brigadier general alex boss dominion presi dent of the canadian legion i am so grateful to you for jour kind letter which has reached me re garding the canadian pilgrimage in 193g wrote lady ifalg it will be a wonderful gathering to unveil that beautiful memorial and i shall feel much honoured that the members have allowed me to accompany them- canadas peaco army registration to date now over a thousand and expected to reach twenty times that figure will attend the unveiling of canadas war memorial at vimy ridge in july of next year in the presence of representative- of the british and european as well as canadian and united states govern ments large package romantic history of the eel is told brazilian income again shows gain control campaign against destructive grasshopper has been inaugurated x the wife of the proprietor of the george and dragon had eloped what be e goin to do cargo now the missus avc left e ask ed one of his friends nowt replied the publican i be just goin to change fold sign to the garge johnny said his mother severe ly someone has taken a big piece of ginger cake out of the pantry johnny blushing guiltily oh johnny she exclaimed i did not think it was in you it aint all replied johnny part of its in elsie lecturer in rearing children the igolden rule should be applied voice in audience i used a plain wooden one on mine and it works just as well feed mixture for live stock have been carefully tested at agricul tural colleges and experimental farms across canada with the re sult that many new facts have come to light on the food needs of animals for their various productions com mercial feed manufacturing com panies have been keeping step with their findings trying at all times to offer to farmers products which con tained the proper amounts of the essential feed substances at a justi fied cost ginger exports from jamaica increase 44 pc an edition of 5000 mapposters in regard to the grasshopper situ ation in the province of saskatche wan has just been issued and dis tributed by the entomologist branch of the dominion department of agri culture as part of the cooperation with the province of saskatchewan in the grasshopper control campaign for 1935 the poster presents a map in colors forecasting the distribution of the probable grasshopper out break in the areas likely to be in volved in three categories and also indicates an outbreak of pale west ern cutworm the map is supple mented by text cutlining the gen eral grasshopper control practices to be followed throughout the province toronto brazilian traction light and power co ltd reported another monthly increase in gross and net earnings continuing the run of gains that have been reported since last fall gross earnings from operations in april were 2452156 compared with 2392s50 in the same month of 1934 an increase of 559306 operating expenses declined 50180 from l19t3s9 to 1141209 and net earnings for the month before de preciation and amortization were 1307947 compared with 119s401 an increase of 1094sg aggregate gross earnings or the first four months of 1935 were 10- 030220 compared with 9313273 an increaso of 710947 and aggregate net earnings for the same period were 5340446 compared with 4- 645642 a gain of 694s04 fined for shout for shouting up the itehels in belfast northern ireland on sunday afternoon young joseru nell has been arrested and fined by major john w hills mp in the london spectator unprepossessing in appearance often looked on with disgust eels have a history of romance they had crossed the atlantic from europe to the bermudas and back for untold ages before colum bus was born there is not one single eel in the thame3 or the severn in the po or the elbe in the danube even in the nile which was not bred thousands of miles off in the west atlantic so let me give their history and let this history start at some pond in a quiet english meadow on an autumn evening warm still and dewy ginger has long been associated with jamaica an island in the brit ish west indies forming a part of the greater antilles in the well- known commodity jamaica ginger which was so much used medicinally in the days of our grandparents ex ports of ginger from jamaica curing 1934 increased nearly 44 per cent over the previous year which would indicate that there is an increasing demand for it approximately 2394- 700 lbs were exported in 1934 rats have been taught to dip their paws in ink and spell out dot and dash messages in- the morse code by josef novotny of hovazadovice southern bohemia he was once a liontamer diner to conductor of orches tra do you ever play anything by leanest conductor with pleasure sir diner would you mind playing dominoes while i have my dinner city newspnper men say it is about time to plant oats we farm ers do no plant oats we sow them we do not pay much heed to articles about planting them because we know they were written by men who would not know which end of a plow is for tho man and which is for the horse paris mo appeal jones your office sent me a cook last week employment office manager yes thats right jones well it will give me the greatest pleasure if you will dine with me tonight the class had been told to write an essay on any subject a little boy chose the subject of soap he wrote soap is a kind of stuff made in cakes not bad to emcll but horrid to taste it tastes worst of all when it gets into your eyes i wish there was no soap johns hopkins university an nounces that skimmed milk and bananas make the ideal reducing diet and one of the advantages of living in a free country is you can stay fat if you want to j 1 igif here r there everywhere a brother to every other scout without regard to race or creed gilt crosses for life saving were presented to troop leader donat thauvctte and patrol second bruno poirier by mgr couturier bishop of alexandria at a largely attended entertainment of the 1st alexandria troop ont addressing the gather ing in french and english bishop couturier strongly cndoiscd scout ing and stated that it was his great desire to see more scouts every where a special matinee of the scout show was witnessed by some 500 school children the nelson bc- scouts were given a special demonstration at the city fire hall in the handling of ap paratus by fire chief maloncy the charting and marking of pre viously uncharted reefs in nearby waters was the very useful project l carried out by the 1st fort frances baptist sea scouts working from the ice before the spring breakup material is being prepared for the building of a small lighthouse at sunny cove the troops campsite prizes for the making of bird houses by the cubs and scouts of swift current sask were given by the lumbermens association of that district each house was to be made of old lumber such as packing cases and the first prize was 250 for the highly successful cy- clorama of the scout groups of the parkdale district toronto park- dale assembly hall basement was filled with cub and scout handicraft of every description while upstairs scouts engaged in competitions in ropo spinning knotting signalling etc the town council of blairmore alta made sure that all of their scouts saw lord badenpowell by voting 2500 to help defray their i first troop expenses to the calgary rally i scouts scout news column clippings from all parts of canada tell of a great number of parents nights held dur ing the spring months the pro grammes are well worked out and usually are aimed to show just what is done at scout meetings this is an excellent practice and should be on the spring programme of every scout troop an international boy scout troop of canadian and american boys has been organized in the twin border towns of coutts alta and sweet grass montana the troop is under the sponsorship of the border lions club scouts of the 1st lucknow out troop has been operating a check room in connection with entertain ments at the town hall the small charge going to the credit of their camping fund during the next school year prin cipals who were former scouts will head the public schools of kentville and aylesford ns and will act as viceprincipals at annapolis royal windsor and wolfville wolf cubs of the 1st smiths falls st johns group sold garden and flower seeds to raise funds for the purchase of n pack flag stirling ont cubs and scouts were guests at an evening entertain ment of tho mens club of st johns church and contributed a number of scout work programme numbers for some time before an eel in that pond has been changing from being yellow it has become silver its eyes bigger its snout sharper its movements more restless it has ceased to feed on this night the moment has come it pushes out of the poivi through the dewy grass until it reaches a ditch wriggles clown this till it comes to a stream then to a river then to the sea there it will find other eels from morocco from spain from egypt from italy and from sweden all start to cross the sea to their distant breeding ground how long they take over the journey we know not all we know- is that they leave in autumn and that their eggs hatch in spring and that males who may enter the sea at five years old do not breed until they are in their eighth to tenth year the females are always older they breed at a depth of about 400 meters in water of fairly high tem perature probably guided to it be cause its saltness suits some chem ical necessity of their being anyway they all go to the same spot southeast of the bermudas after breeding the parents die the eggs float and hatch near the sur face and here the young begin to feed fast and to grow rapidly and now their real romance starts at once they begin to cross an ocean which they have never traversed to reach homes which they have never seen most of them travel northeast with the gulf stream floating at a depth of about 100 fathoms in water of about 08 degrees temperature they grow in size by their sec ond summer they are in the mid- atlantic they are then about one and threequarters of an inch long after two and a half years fully grown and three inches long trans parent flat and leafshaped they reach the west coasts of europe and africa there they undergo a change their bodies shrink in breadth they lose half an inch in length they become cylindrical or eel shaped they are now called elvers or glass eels and in their fourth spring in thousands they push up these rivers up tributaries up ditches some even to ponds in fresh water they feed voraciously the males liv ing usually five years the females staying longer and growing much bigger then one autumn night they in their turn get restless and repeat their parents journey from which they never return the most remarkable part of this remarkable story is what guides eels to certain rivers shoals ar rive in the east atlantic some have to go to the channel some to the adriatic some to the baltic some to the mediterranean what directs them they have never seen these seas nor the rivers running into them there can be no memory and instinct is only a name yet the fact remains that eelbearing rivers always have eels the elvers never seem to miss them what guides an individual elver to the nile instead of to the severn it is strange and stranger still ponds if once they hold eels al ways seem to do so why docs an eel which enters the homely and muddy thames not stay in its lower reaches but push on many miles in order to cross an uncomfortable field to reach a pond in oxfordshire have the elvers who do this been hatched from eggs of parents who lived in that pond it is incredible that they should that so much jeanne baptiste boulangcr young editor of n successful french jour nal le petit jour published in emonton since 1931 is secrctaryl knowledge and geography should be and a patrol leader of albertas inherited from the egg yet how is it of french canadian that all waters are regularly rcpcopl- td the only explanation if it is an explanation and not merely words is that instinct is not something which inheres in the individual but something which is the possession of the race it is as though mind was a reality but held as it were in solution- not informing any unit but a guidance to all whatever you call it this force must exist the young eels get there there must be some motive which steers their small and delicate bodies across many thousand miles of ocean and delivers them to a goal which seem to be predeter mined of course the eel is not the only living thing which does acts neces sary for its survival of which it has had no experience insect life shows many examples of what looks to us to be reason and inherited knowledge but the eel performs on a bigger stage against a mightier back ground in working out its destiny it does not turn to a continent which lies close at hand but travels for years to reach another in which its ancestors lived this piece of natural history was discovered only 30 years ago it had for long been known that elvers ascended the rivers in spring and that fullgrown eels went down to the sea in autumn but it was be lieved that they bred there in deep water not far from the coast tht- immature eel was also well known but it was classified as a separate fish and given a latin name then in 1890 an italian naturalist grassi discovered that it was the young of our eel still its breeding place was not discovered for an other 10 years a danish naturalist johannes schmidt found one of these creatures west of the faroes he followed the trail backwards across the north atlantic end with infinite patience traced them to their breeding ground thus a mystery which had defied the world for centuries was dis pelled many curious tales have been believed about the breeding of the eel the great izaak walton thosgbr tllat the wcre bred from horsehair others solemnly stated that they originated from corrup tion or maydew but it was left to a writor of last century to start the most fantastic fable of all he cairncross was his name solemn ly wrote and published a book the silver eeel to prove that eels pro ceed from a certain beetle and the book contained an engraving pre sumably from life of such a beetle with its carapace split open and a small eel emerging natural history has always been infested by writers of legends but surely no more egregious one has ever been propagated finally there is affinity between migration of mature eels and mi gration of birds those birds which seek a warmer climate in winter return north to breed the chiff- chaffs and willowwrens now flit tering and singing on our copses have wintered in persia and cape colony probably our northern country was their original habitat and so it may be with the eel undoubtedly he started as a sea- fish that we know and possibly he lived then south of the bermudas and this is why he returns there to breed but though a seafish by origin he like the brown trout has become a freshwater one by adopt ion thus the eel is the opposite of the salmon the salmon is a senfish breeding in fresh water the eel a freshwater fish breeding in the sea prior to that there was the old dandy horse that consisted of two wooden wheels connected with a sort of flat board the rider lay across the board and propelled him self along by kicking the ground al ternately with his feet then came a device with pedals 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