wssss v ngaf is packed by automatic machin ery in strong white cotton bags and cartons at the refinery tliu is far safer and more sanitary than suar packed by baud in a weak paper bag which breaks at a touch no band touches lantic sucar until you open it your self just cut off the corner of the carton and pour out the sugar as you need it 2 and 5lb cartons 10 and 20lb bags the allpurpose sugar a tenderfoots wooing by clive phillipps wolley author of gold gold in cariboo etc chapter xix contd well tie the horses here and wait 8 bit when wi can pretty nigh see our sights well begin our sneak theyre a blanked sight nearer than i thought they was as he spoke his words were justi fied aif the black belt of gloom which sur rounded the hollow in which they lay was suddenly starred in a dozen places by quick red jets of flame and the silence shattered by the ringing re ports of as many rifles after which the darkness came back again and the silence but for the screaming of a wounded horse guess they beat us on the sneak muttered old al coolly get into cover boys quick probably no white man but al could have led the ranch posse through thore woods at night as silently as he had done they hah stirred no heavy beast to precede them and carry a warning to their foec there had been no fluttering of disturbed wings in front of their advance except that once but a warning need not be printed in laige type for an indian to see it ever since dan broke that tree the stalkers had been stalked without suspecting it when the volley was fired dick rolt had had his eye on the exact spot in which one of th stars of light had burst hthmtkatu the bullet sing past him and for a fraction of a second had seen the prone figure of the man who fired the shot but he had not replied to it the brilliance of the momentary flash had accentuated the darkness for him anji taken away from him all idea of locality so that to have replied would only have been to waste a shot and betray his own hidingplace he was lying now behind the dead horse waiting to snap at the next star which should appear or to meet the rush which might have followed had the attacking party consisted of white men he had no notion how close his fel lows were he could not hear them nor see the outline even of the nearest bush it was still pitch dark on the ground suddenly a hand closed round his ankle and a voice whispered weve got to wriggle out of this dont lift your head but just slow- round on your belly and snake it after me theres no hurry ill go slow but the horses asked rolt yours is dead aint it if they want to shoot the others we cant stop em blank them come and rolt who by this time had his head- near old als heels saw these draw quietiy away from him imitating his companion rolt squir med on his belly through the bush which closed over him so that it was only with the utmost difficulty and half by instinct that he managed to follow al of whose tortuous pro gress he could see but little even when he was within arms length of him he knew that he was going down hill and that the ground under him was growing softer and softer until at last he might almost as well have been swimming but he could see no thing were all right now a stepped to whisper just when rolt was beginning to wonder whether he would net rath er be shot than go on any farther were in the crik bottom i could have guessed that al gave a low chuckle pretty blanked cold eh well well cure that weve got to move now like twoyearolis are you ready and he rose to a crouching position keep your head low till were in the timber now come and well beat them yet and stooping as he ran the old frontiersman led his companion along the creek bottom under the shelter of its banks into the heavy pine timber there they threw them selves on the ground soaked to the bone and panting heavily what now are we going to fight them here asked rolt at last stand ing up to let some of the water drain out of him fight injuns in timber not much were another five minutes before theyll miss us but the lights coming theyre getting impatient hear that that was another volley poured into the hollow haint missed us yet anyways are you good for another burst boss if its not too far rolfs running days were over and he was alieavy irnnn used to riding no it aint far and the old man began to run again as if he had been five and twenty toma and the other indian loping along as easily as wolves whilst dan the bigfooted sob- ibed wearily far behind i at last on the extreme edge of the pine belt al paused beyond the tim- berthe open country rolled down to wards the fraser and the dawn hajl come i its our only chance and a slim one its got to be that cherry patch als aid pointing out to the open i there aint another place in sight as j would give us a show and he set off running again at top speed for a little fourcorned patch of wild cherry bush about a thousand yards from the timber i it looked about as bad a place to jhold against an enemy as you could i imagine lying as it did in a hollow j and containing no timber big enough to serve as a shield against rifle bul- lets but there was nothing better in sight and it had just one thing in its j favor for seven or eight hundred yards at i least on one side and for seven or j eight miles on every other side there was no cover of any kind larger than the thin bushes of sage brush and the patches of bunch grass a coyote might have crawled through that un seen it seemed impossible that any thing else should realizing that at any moment their enemies might reach the edge of the timber rolt and his companions raced over the space intervening be tween the pines and the cherry bush at headlong sped when holt crash ed into the edge of the cherry patch he had not another yard of running power left in him with a feeling that he had not known since ho had won the quarter at rugby he dropped where he was and lay still euchred them bo far panted al cheerfully and now i guess well take some killing out with your jack knives boys and ill show you a trick as i learned of the creesand he began to hack down the boughs and young trees all round him build ing with them a kind of wieky up or small cirtular bothy such as in dians use for bath houses over the top of this he threw his blanket whjch he had carried strapped to his back until then and over that again he pil ed loose soil and soda keeping a nerv ous eye all the time on the edge of the timber chuck your coat over your sticks if you havent got a blauket he said to rolt and then fix it this way and he went down on his knees and began to scratch with his knife like a dog who is going tobuiy a bone all the earth he took out he pilql upon the blanket throwing with it moss and leaves and small boughs un til when he had finished with it it look ed like a great ant heap just suffi ciently within the cover of the brush to save it from detection then he lent rolt a hand with his mound ordering the boys to do the same at their respective corners and shove boys shove like hell if you ever want to eat bull beef any more they aint here yet but they cant be long now when men are working foivtheir lives it is marvellous how much can be done in a minute and these men knowing how much depended upon their speed had their shelters fin ished when a low hist from al sent them all into their holes like rabbits into their borrows there was no sign of indians that rolt could see but as al lay motion less he limitated him and for a full fifteen minutes almost held his breath in his burrow at the end of that time he heard a voice behind him and turning saw al lying at full length in the scrub calmly whittling a pipeful of tobacco they cant see me here ht said im too far back in the scrub he you got your bury good and deep keep a whittling of it out so as you can lie low arvi the bulletsll go over you savvy im agoin out now to take a passear and see if them forti- fiications look natural dont be such a fool command ed the boss i aint no fool boss no injun ever hit a man at a thousand yards aril ive got to know how our little show will strike the gallery like wise im anxious to know if we have a full house and so saying he struch a match and wandered out into the open in the most unconcerned way in the world the old fellow strolled along straight towards the timber smoking as he went and looking back oooea- sionally at his handiwork and for about three hundred yards he went unmolested then a shot was fired the dry earth was kickol up a hundred yards in front of him and his hat fell on the ground whilst his rifle went to his shoulder and his own shot was echoed by two more from the cherry patch under the cover of which tiny volley he rashed back to his lair all right he said as he crawled under his mound the seats is all took and the curtains up its just three hundred yards to where i drop ped my cap ari1 now im goin to put in time diggin if i was you id do the same its goin to be safer und erground than up a tree by and by and after that for a long time the boss saw no more of al it makes rough hands smooth there is no better remedy for chapped hands and lips than camphor ice keeps the stin smooth and soft cm in hxn ay rortal boxet and da tube cikcuui td zit nl mores ercrrwbcie refuse substitutes booklet on rc- queu chesebrough mfg co conialidited 1ss0 chabot ave montreal tice of the plants some are stockier antf bushier than others these are preferred- as we believe that such plants resist disease best and they can be cultivated longer alex lom- ont in farm and dairy stockers and feeders 1 best purchasers of stockers and feeders on all markets either refuse to purchase horned cattle or buy at 40 to 50 cents cwt less 2 feeders have better results from cattle without horns for the following reasons a dehorned cattle are more docile easier handled less wild or nervous b dehorns cattle are more thrifty and show better gains c dehorned cattle ship better and sell better when finished d dehorned cattle cannot gore and mutilate one another 3 young calves should have the benefit of caustic properly applied i this prevents growth of horns 4 horned cattle result in enormous losses in meat and hides a waste which canada must eliminate 5 horns on cattle are absolutely without use the day is past when oultry ico cresm com cut cf the freezer with a velvety smoothness sad a new deliciousness when it is im with bensons and it is pretty hard to ask for any thing trsre dslicotia than a ci ccclita eac miee cr cream cusqrq with fruit rrudecf bensons ccrn starch cur nsw recipe bocv desserts and candies tells how and how much to las vrltofcr a coy to our montreal ofllcead besjrototellyorcrocer to send bensons the standby in canada for more than laf a century th whadx starch co umiteq honthcal crantforp cardinal 216 fort wiiuau mmm3mmz poctor tells how to strengthen eyesight so per cent in one veeks time in many instances a frco rrcfcrlpilon 1ou can ilnvo pilled and use nt homo philadelphia pa do yon wear glasses arft you n victim of cy strpin or other eye bvenkursneg if so you will bo slad to ov- thru rccortlirip to if lewis there is yeil hope for 3 on many whoso eyca were fulllat say they have had their eyes re- ptoteil through tile prliielplo of tlilh won- dcrful froo prescription ono man ssya after trying it i vas almost blind could not c to read at all now i can read everything without any ghimea and my eyea do not water any more at night they would pnn dreadfully now they feel fino all the time it was like a miracle to me a lady who used it says the nt- nosphere seemed hczy with or without glrsv i hut after uftnc tits preserlptlon for fifteen dnyg cverylhlng seems clear i can eveiuread fine print without glasses it is believed that thousand who wear glasses can now- discard them in a reason able utco and multitudes more will bo able ii in sold in vol onto tho troublo and expense of over getting glasses eyo troubles of many descrip tions may bo wonderfully benefited by fob lowing tho simple rules here is tho pro scription go to any actlvo drug store and get a bottlo of bonopto tablets drop ono bonopto tablet in a fourth of it glfsj of water and allow to dissolve ytjth this liquid batho the eyos two to four limes dally you should notice your ye clear up perceptibly right from the start and til- llammatlon will quickly disappear u yojir eves nie bothering you even s little talco steps to savo them now before it u too late many hopelessly blind might bato been saved if they had cared for their oyes in time p6l another presiflcnt fnu to vtom n tb irttle wil csibrtetl att boooplo 1 a ruy irujfttha if cj hicoritfufftlagwjlrouijb tuaoa w c idil i tail wtirf prru fftd pr them th irtufmupttflniuwi wtuvaona t ealniit erej is est t jrrti snamtec it to lutrrua eljht it i rrktjnls irny inajutcncrrausats ficb7 it ta ts jjinltm new nr fv rtscx uxl u ci cl mr uv pweanrtn i l liiowpl bf vtgt n ktv xtaxtiil ik imtttvsfrtnuy jj by valmob drue co chapter xx the chinook wind which had been blowing before midnight had drop ped and in the last hours of dark ness had been succeiied by a crisp clear air with more than a suspicion of frost in it so that when the dawn came it spread through skies of such rare lucidity as are never seen except in high northern lands along the horizon the light grew gradually until in the east the heav ens were of a pale lemon color so clear so utterly fine and transparent that the glsom of the rigid barrier of pines hurt the eye with its contrast of stiff solidity even the pine belt itself was not quiteproof against the dawn the tops of it were touched with a pale glory and though the gloom of the black boughs swallowed up the light that struck them a bole here and there was caught by it and brightened with a wash of tenderest golden grey but the prairie welcomed the dawn which flooded its frosttouched sage brush so that it rolled in sheets of sparkling silver from the pines to the cherry patch and away beyond as far as tho eye could sec towards the still shadowy bed of the fraser the dawn had made all things plain had emphasized every outline tho peace of iwjalled attention to every least sound which might break the holy stillness of the wakng day and yet rolt listening in his burrow could not hear so much as the break ing of a twig or see a sign of life in the direction from which he had fled to be continued idle c3losity edward pa do you know every thing pa ye my son why do you nsk edward why i wanted to find out why the heavy end of a match is the light end high explosive shells were first ac tually employed in the boer war the farm the value of good stock eight years ago a certain dairyman had a herd of ten grade cows that averaged between six and seven thous and poinds of milk in a year this herd was considered to be the most profitable one in the district as it produced about a third more milk than other herds of the same sizet a purebred bull of a dairy breed was being used and the heifer calves from the mot promising cows were raised however the owner was not satisfied and as a good deal was being written about the milk yield of purebred cows it was decided to purchase a cow and a couple of heifers hie three animals cost 400 this was not a high price as prices for good animals run but it was considerei in that neighborhood to be an enormous fig ure to pay for a cow and two heifers when the average cow was selling around 75 this cow dropped a heifer which grew to be a bigframed sow that gave over 10000 pounds of milk testing four per cent fat hcv first year in milk one of the heifers purchased gave over 12000 pounds of milk in one year anri the other one 7500 pounds as a twoyearold and came up to 11000 pounds for 311 days as a fouryearold the in vestment turned out tobe at profit able one as thessihimals gave milk enough to pay for themselves in one year if it had been sold at the present market price besides this 50 was refused for the heifer calves the day they were dropped and the bull calves sold from 75 to 100 a piece when less than a year old the sire used in this herd is from highproducing hightesting cows and as a result many of the heifers have proven more profitable than their dams in eight years the purebred females have increased in number from three to nineteen the standard in this herd is set high and the cows not qualify ing are not allowed to rcma long not only is the present herd more profitable than the grade herd prev iously kept but it is much more in teresting working with stock that have som3 breeding behind them the expense of securing foundation stock is the reason given why many dairy men do not keep purebred animals however it is not necessary to pur chase a whole hei in order to go into the business one or two good females are sufficient for a start and cows that are giving a large flow of milk can be purchased for about one- half than the ordinary grade cow is selling for nt sales true many grade cows will give as much milk as purebreds but they are the excep tion not the rule it costs no more to keep purebreds than it does grades but they usually produce more milk and butter fat and their off spring commands a higher price than the ordinary calf good stock is within reach of every dairyman al though it costs a little more to se cure such animals than it does graces the extra cost is made up many times by the increased production farm ers advocate feeding young chicks a mistake that even a great many experience- poultrymen make is the feeding of the chicks too soon when the chick leaves the shell it comes into the world with a sufficient supply 1 of nourishment in the form of egg a yolk to last it for several lays 8 therefore what a chick requires at gj that stige of its existence is not feed fl but warmth and rest it is not wise s to be dogmatic about feeding an 63 given strong healthy chicks many p systems will prove successful but tha is following may be used as a guide t whan the chicks are removed to their jj brooding quartc there should be cl seme coarse sand or fine chick grit 4 scattered where they can have free flj access to it they should then be left until they show positive signs of hunger which would be between two and three days after hatching they may then be given some bread crumbs horns were a protection from one an other j true cost or the true selling price of that have been very slightly moisten- g the modern dehorning plant usei a farm product however the re- ed with milk this may be scattered at the union stock yards toronto i lation of any factor in farming to the on clean sand or chick grit if be- makes dehorning quick sure and hu mane the work is done free of charge bulletin no 7 union stock i yards toronto profits of the farm as a whole by the ing brooded by a hen she will see that study of a large group of farms can no food is allowed to lie around but be fairly accurately determined this relation of the individual enterprise to the profits of the whole is perhaps the best guide to succesul farming and to an understanding of the prin ciples upon which good farm organiza tion is based j s coates in can adian farm the value of salt the action of salt on all forms oi parasite life and the immunity en- joyed by sheep on salt narshes sug- gests useful results from topdressing the land with agricultural salt sheep j should also have access to lumps of rock salt this destroys many of i tho cercariao taken into the stonn j lad dccorntc as result achs before the young flukes migrate to the liver sheep getting trough unique adventure food should have salt say a quarter j if a machine gun was forced to of an ounce a day mixed with it where d the german army is recounted j young lettuce sprouto rain fluke is feared sheep ijadly affect- j in story of the heroism of a 1g- any ot tender succulent food machine gun deserted of if in a brooder feed which the ehieks do not pick up in a few minutjs should bcremoved as nothing in feed ing causes so much trouble as leav ing food of that nature around until it is sour the chicks should be fell five times a day the follow ing system may be adopted or altered to suit conditions first feed broad crumbs moistened with milk second finely cracked mixed grains third rolled oats fourth moistened bread crumbs fifth finely cracked mixed grains if too early to get the chicks out on to the grass at once green food should be supplied in the form of or any other tender succulent food that ed with fluke are best killed and bun- yer ita volunteer in the rus- j j acceptable after the chicks are ed as there is no likelihood o their armyconstanine zepolli ten davs to two weeks old coarser recovery and besides they are only j whose part as the leading figure in f may be allowed all changes further poisoning the pasture all the et earnec one of the two st should be made gradually the in the apparently nonaffected ones in a j georgc crosse he has won flock where fluke disease is present should be placed on fresh highlying pastures and fed generously on pulp- tyl turnips when available with a daily allowance of the following mix ture in the proportion per head of 1 lb crushed oats 4 oz crushed oilcake 4 cz barley meal to the above ration add one dessertspoonful of the following powder which ny chemist will make up sulphate of iron 8 oz chloride of sodium g lbs powdered calumba root 12 oz pow dered liquorice root 8 oz farming as a business overhearing his commander ex pressing a wish that some one would silence or capture a gun which was stationed at troublesome proximity to the russian trenches zapolli on his own initiative crawled on his stomach for a hundred yards located fertile eggs may be boiled and mix- with mash food and the bread and milk discontinued hoppers in which are placed cracked grains dry mash or rolled oats should be easily accessible to the chicks as soon as they become accustomed to the mash fixls and if the chicks arc- on the position of the gun returned range it- will be found that after a from the ianger zone and conferred time they will get careless about com- hisi trench fellows and crept forth ing when called it may then be drop- once more this lime dragging a coil ped and dependence placed entirely of stout rope reaching the gun he upon the hopper feeding place grit tied one end around it without being water also if possible a dish of sour discovered and again reached his own milk where the chicks will have free line with the free ond of the rope in access to it nothing provides ani- his clutch j m fock in better form than doe3 presently the germans were aston- milk tho chicks like it and thrive on it- f c e in canadian farm- farthest north railroad the principles which underlie pro finable farming are not unlike those ished to observe the gun disappearing which underlie the profitable contuct toward the russian trenches it was of any other business the difference successfully dragged from their pas- is merely in the application the ono session a number of germans being fundamental principle underlying all killed in an effort to prevent its de- sucossful business undertakings is parture that the cost must be les than the i selling price in the operation of this principle agriculture is no excop- her own handiwork tion farming however is such a wfe t think youre the complex business and the different en- j moanest man t ever was terprises making up the farm unit are hub thats hard on yourself rav war says a statement so intricately related that it is often dear according to your mother you wellnigh impossible to deteimme the have the making of me good digestion when your digestion is fculty weakness and pain crc ccrtala aid disease i invited mother sciicla syru rairc ond btimolatcs the digestive orpins end banishc the many rilmcnts which arise from indieition 1qyea8s tllestihdindp reptfeby ht si draflhhor direct oa receipt of orlec 50c and 100 tlkbrte bottle contia three time a much a the smaller a j white co limited crali street vl montreal how we grow potatoes our soil is a sandy loam the variety of potatoes that we grow is the dooley as a general rule we follow potatoes after fall wheat or clover we plow the wheat stubble after harvest and give lots of cul tivation we apply the manure dir ectly from the stalls 20 to 23 loads to the acre and work directly into the soil we harrow frequently during the spring and seed about may 24 we use good sound seed of med ium size and have each seed piece tho size of a hens egg our method of planting is to plow the ground and seed every third furrow running the furrows five inches deep we sprry with bordeaux mixture to control blight and expect extra bushels of yield for every extra cultivation we give the crop we regard seed selection as most important in kcoping up yields be fore the general digging wo go over the field and turn out the most likoly looking hills and select seed tubers from the best of theft we take no- ttxfarsskjsthhr knitters loopers pairers examiners good positions in our hosiery sweater and underwear departments steady work eight hours daily operators with experience guaranteed 900 and up wards weekly write us reliance knitting co ltd king and bathurst streets toronto contain no acid and thtu keep the leather soft protecting it against cracking they combino liquid and paste in a paste form and require only half tho effort for a brilliant lasting ahlne eay to use for all the family children and adults shino your hoe at homo and keep theta neat f f oallsy co of canada lid blackrwhitertan a keepy0ur shoes neatjl russia wim have a new outlet to tho ocean a railroad farthest north tapping the polar seas beyond archangel- its whole length running through a region of intense winter cold is one of the most important constructive results of this destructive world- prepared by the national geographic society at washington stimulated by an im perative war necessity for a port near er the west and the long battle lines than vladlvostock this new railway has been driven north with the same fierce energy as that called forth by the clash for enemy positions finns lapps russians alike have labored unremittingly to fasten a per manent way of steel between petro- grad and semenowa the latter city far beyond the arctic circle on tho northern shore of finland near nor wegian nord kap work upon tho new line began a few months after tho outbreak of the war and it ha3 been pushed feverishly as a merns of overreaching the blockade by land and sea that isolates russia in the west the undertaking required tho building of more than c50 miles of railroad through an unfavorable coun try in mnany places water soaked crossed by lowbanked rivers filled with countless lakes large and small and through a great part of the year frozen numb and burled under feet cf snow construction has gone forward from tho north and from the south but there still remains a considerable middle section to bo laid before tho completion of tho project semenowa may not be the warm water pert that the muscovite has been steadily demanding tbrrugh tho years of his empire but novertheess it is a port on lcefreo water naviga tion finds an open way usually arcmid nord kap for several score miles down tho northern coast tho building of this now port giv ing russia a city on open western water the construction of tho new railway into tho heart of the north and tho building of a naval station here beyond tho domination of any river power forms together by far llio most important effort of the whole war i ate shifting the blame i the trouble with you is the same astv wih mr brown said the doctor he was worrying himself to death about his grocers bill now he is cured but how dh you euro him asked the patient i told him to stop worrying and ho has re- plied tho doctor i know was tho sad reply i know he has but i am his grocer after a man gets about so full ho cvn make himself believe that othjr rirn think he is 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