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OPEN LErrERSTOA FARMER Br lUr. M. V. K^ljr. CSJi. (Continued Crom Uit we«k> XIII. you ffo to Ui« fUr, m»T learn plumb- V«uth of Pleaaur*. Life of DIehenaaty. lot or aome otlMr trmda. AfUr tba Sucresi In any 8ptier» calla (or hard uanal periodi spent aa apprentice and work, patnataking oare and a wtlllnc- ^ as Journeymen, be will open a bust- Deaa to do a certain amount of druds- ' nesa ot bla own and look for contracts, •ry. There la no line of eadeaTor witl)- [ v^ry soon, he will probably Hnd tbeiw out Its dUarreeabld taaks. Every to- '. are no oontracts coming to him nnleat cation exercl»«a our patience. Did he It a member ot the combine. It h« you ever think how much the city- (•, there is the procedure be Is ex- tred boy la haudlc&ppod In this r»- ! pecteiT to Uke part In. Are you will- •peot? Ha is not brousht up to do lag that should happen? But would tr>lnK things : life with him Is rather there be any alternative unless the a matter of enjoyment; occupations aHernatlTe of deciding to (O out ot Uiat are Interesting, not too heavy nor buslnesa aMogether? too lone, are alright for a while until 1 Vuu hear regularly of city business they become too monotonous, and ^ men, contractors, «tc., becoming rich have to be gone through ptir^y as a ; rery quickly. You wonder how It can matter of duty. Usually, hpweror, be done. Mere brains and hard work nothing goes very wrong while he la will not account for all those fhous- atill a boy. A day comes, however, ands and tens of thousands of dollars when his re«ponslbllitles are greater, plied up In a short time. A man may lie needs coneiderahli* Income: be la be flevor enough to devise remarkable married, bis expenses are increasing, schemes and get away with them; he He has probably cultivated some ex- may charge exorbitant rates and sell pensive habits, too; he must be as goods at prices that will yield exces- good as others ; his wife must dreas give profits, but he is a thief Just the and attend social (unctions; appear- same, ancee must be kept up; si)orts had oc- cupied a great deal of his attention and continue to do f><>. Kveryone is going to the races and hetting; some are making trips to the ii«aslde; ho and his wife muRt do 90, too. An auto- (To be continued). -o â€" The Death of Gordon. (January 26th, 1885). Of all the saddest words are said mobllo must be had, whether tbere is ; And'fraught with bitter fate a home mortgage or not. For one or Are those that tell of Gordon's death, other or all of these rcaBons, he simply ' When the gucoour come "too late." muHt have money, aud a good deal of it ^ He might have left that city doomed all the time. Where la It to come | And safety sought in flight, from? He was not trained to apply But his duty couaselle<l him to stay. And honor, spotless bright. He faced the raging Moslem host With mien serene and calm; Death tor him no sorrows had. He (eared no earthly harm. He knew the Cod on high looked down, His fate would not fruitless be; for Utile effort. He plao9 and schemes ' And. like the blood that martyrs shed, â€" he takes more klndl/ to working out j Would yield peace and liberty, schemes than to close application in the details of ofllce or bu8lncs.<i. The , At Omdurman in after years himself as, he notices, some with good incomes are doing; he cannot bring himself to do it now. There Is his plight; his habits are not economical. He cannot and will not g«t down to steady persevering hard work. What Is to~be done? He look*) around (or opportunities offering u large return DR. AND MRS. WILFRED GRENFELL, OF LABRADOR The Automobile A LITTLE STUDY SAVES TIME. Most people who are looking for valve, it might b« in ths iatot valve. trouble have no difficulty In finding it. | In some types of engines iK* valvs i An outstanding exception to this gen- j head may break off and get into the I eral rule is seen in the motorist who cylinder and when the piston eomee undertakes to locate a trouble that up punch a hole in the piston head. may have developed in his engine. I A pctcock may be loose so that it '*111 Trouble will hide in a tiny piece of j«r open sufficiently to eflfect tbo com- rarbon lodged under a valve or be- pression and so cause the cylinder to tween spark plug polnU or in a wire niiss fire. These troubles are osually ; that has jarred loose, or in an inter- 1 confined to one cylinder and noV, ***•>• rupter point, a piston ring, a gas pipe whole engine. ^\_».«j or what not The motorist learns j The ga.soHne should be insp^l^Jf" early in the game that the most insig- next. Is there any gasoline in <t^* nificant things are tremendously im- bowl of the carbureter? Is there gs(^" portant at times. i line in the tank? Is the shut-off var* ' Yet most troubles incident to oper- ' in the line leading to the carburetor ating a car may really be located quite open? Does manifold leak? quickly if the driver goes after them Do not adjust the carburetor. If in a systematic fashion instead of the engine has been running, it is wandering aimlessly about tlie engine practically certain that the carburetor ] and other parts, as is often the custom Is not out of adjustment. Inspect th« of the amateur owner. The hardest intake pipe or manifold. Then pnt a thing a driver has to do when the en- tablespoonful of gasoline in eacb eyV fcine stops or cuts up is to eliminate Inder and crank over the engine. li '; the idea -that he knows positively what this runs the engine for a few revolu- ; the trouble is. Often he is sure he can tions the trouble is probably in the ' fix the trouble in just about one min- gasoline system and leaves but the ute and he putters around a long time spray nozzle, which may have dirt before he makes up his mind that pos- lodges in it, or the auxiliary air valve sib'.y after all his cock-sureness Is not stuck, as the remaining cause of well founded. trouble. HOW TO CONDUCT SEARCH. I The ignition should be inspected „, , . . J . , n_„ next. Test for a spark by taking the The best way to proceed m hunting ^,^ ^^ ^^^ p,^^ ^^^ ^^{^.^^ 5 J ^^, at Wembley, whore nr. Grentell will lecture on the work of the International Urenfell Association. schemes sucoeeJ ; the big money comes In. But it is not the (rult of honest toll: it belongs to someone else nr to several others. Like all profiteers, be has what he did not earn and what Is not his. He needs the m<'ney, however, and decides to follow thiH course of procedure (or the fu- ture. There is much dishonesty in busi- ness and even among professional men. Do not i>up|K>se these people were always so. The force o( circum- fitunces has gradually drawn them In- to it. Had they boon brought up to wcrk. as every farm boy must work; had their expense account been as limited; had they spent aa few Satur- day afternoons attending baseball miiii'hes, there would have been no need o( resorting to such means of gel ting suOlclent to keep things going. Your grandchildren, should they grow up in the city, may have these temp- tatlutuj to face. Conscience to the Wind. You will admit, of course, dear (arm- or (rlend, that if you move your (amily to the city, your children and grand- children will engage in the trades and business undertakings carried on there. Now, there are many lines of business altogether legitimate in The Stahdi's power was crushed; He met the (ate for Gordon planned When his strong defence was rushed. And Kbartciim saw the flags hal(-mast And heard the "Last Post" sound, While the troops stood Arm at the salute On that famed historic ground. â€" Henry A. Ashmead, I.S.M. Trees. In the Garden o( Kden. planted by God There were goodly trees In the spring- ing sod â€" Trees of beauty and height and grace. To stand in splentlcT before His face. .\pple and hickory, ash and pear. Oak and beech and the tulip rare. The trembling aspen, the noblo pine. The sweeping elm by the river lino; Trees (or the birds to build and sing, Coffee Ship's Long Range. The old Dutch sailing vessels o( days gone by were notoriously slow, blunt o( bow and clumsy Their slow- ness was considored an advantage by importers o( green coffee from the , _ i„k-i-»*«^ ^.-aiiji-Tawji ^ a , i for lubrication. Netherlands East Indies, to America, I , , ^ j since the effect o( the confinement of \ " ^he engine stops on the road and the coffee beneath closed hatches was Pressing the starter pedal fails to held greatly to improve Its flavor, start It or jf one or two cyhnders miss Such "sweated" coffee brought top , ^re, the first thing to do is to get the prices in the"^arket. During the world war one shipment o( Timor coffee is said to have taken three and a hal( years coining (rom Java to New York. It was aboard the "Novel" Diet. Some meals in books s>tand out in one's memory, particularly when one Is hungry. Who will ever (orget some o( the delectations in Dickens' books* ThSt slice o( beef and tankard o( ale young David Copperfleld had before setting out on his long journey to Prymouth, the succulent lunch on the coach-box with the Dingley-Dellites, (he glorious feast provided by Mrs. PIpchin for h-erself, of mufllns, hot and buttered. In "Dombey & Son." and so on? Every word of Dickens' books teems with food. Then there is the sausage Becky Sharp shared with an old-time admirer in her garret when her flne gay life was far behind her. One can never forget the pathos of that solitary sausage! Harrison Ainsworth tells of yawn- themselves, tarried on by methods no , ,„, game pies and barons ot beef in man with a conscience can take part | .-The Tower of London," while Sheila In. t\)llowlng from the Toronto press 1 Kaye Smith, in one of her novels, ac- records the public statement of the | tu^ny n,j,kes one (eel one Is eating the crown attorney: "Mr. explained ' „,gp letluce and slices o( clean house- And the lilac tree (or a joy In spring; German steamship Brisbane, And carpet the ground for the Lord's hor in Portuguese India, football: uBt'I Portugal joined the allies. Then Portuguese seized the vessel and Trees for fruitage and Are and shade, turned It over to the British, who Trees for the cunning builder's trade; jnoved it to Bombay. Here the cargo I was finally transhipped to the city of Wood for the bow, the spear and the Adelaide, reaching New York in Jauu- jall . I ary, 1918, three and a half years after The keel and the mast of the daring the co«ee left Batavla. sail; K He made them of every grain and girth. For the use of man in the Garden of j Earth. Then lest the soul should not lift her eyes From the QKt to the Giver of Paradise. On the crown o( a hill, for all to see, God planted a scarlet maplo tree. â€"Bliss Carman. revolution in the complete turns. Compression occurs only on the one at Montreal and Magglore and Milan. We lost the last o( them at Venlco. stroke of the piston in the four-stroke I ,,,„ „.. ,.. .,, ,, .... 1 -PLi-j 1.1JU41. J "8 "^''^s lh.eiT white collars, their im- cycle. Each cylinder should be tested „,„„„i„,„ k„„- .v \, , -r^ ' ' ' maculate baggage, the gound of Eng- lish words. in a similar manner, opening all pet- cocks except on the cylinder being tested. See if the compression is practically equal in all cylinders. If there are not petcocks to open, spark plugs will need to be removed instead. TBOUBLB IN EXHAUST VALVE. If one cylinder has very weak or The people who now fill the dining car are a dark-skinned, swarthy crew spoaklng wild and guttural tongues. The men have not shaved to-day, for there are no disgustingly critical Americana or Englishmen to notice and comment upon them. The Bul- "There Is no outer liberty apart from inner liberty; control of affairs' really can't say â€" my memory's a lit- , is first control of self, and ungovern-' tie ruety on that point." ed pasdions must forever mean ship- 1 l â€" -♦â-  I wreck of life, destruction, and death." Rusty on That Point. Mrs. Aristah Kratt"l understand: your husband's father made his money out of old iron, Mrs. Rioh." _ : tu i ui i ^ ^ > _j j^ , Mrs. Lowdoun Rich--wniy-ei--I ^ "• '[O'nprMsion. the trouble is apt to garlan diplomat who was so proper be in the exhaust valve. Examine and conventional yesterday when in the push rod to see If there is clear- broken French he diacuseed repara- ance between it and the valve when [lions with the English King's Messen- the valve is supposed to be closed. If ger has taken off his coat and collar there is, the valve must be lifted out^ and Vs sitting in pink-striped silk shirt Explained After an hour's impatient wait at the procedure when a man called for tenders In those days to have the plumbing done In a house. The tend- ers had to go before the Plumbers' AbKoclation. If a dealer could show that he had formerly done the work for that man, he was instructed to put In tlin lowest tender. All other plumb- ers put in bid« a little higher. After the board o( the Aiieociation had da- teniilnod what the price ot tba lowest tendtr should be, a percentage was Bdfled. which was for the Association. After this iiercentage was fixed, a cerialo amount was added for each ot the other men who made higher tend- ers. In one Instance, it worked out thai Koven other plumbers, who put in tenil-tfl, were each allowed $500 In the lowevt lender for a certain contract. The Pluuibprs' Aasoclatlon was afllll- ated with the Phinibers' Supply As- sociation, and the latter would not sup- ply :iny plumber who was not a mem- ber of the flnit-mentloned body. The PliHpiiprs' Supply Association was flue ! $0,000, and smaller lines o( (rom $2,!'>0n down to 1200 wore Imposed on Otb(>rs connected therewith." "Another combine wts the Tack C^mliinv. In one case, where a man had dared to bo Independent, they pr«^)i>e(l him until he Anally went to the wall, sad when he turned and ssk- ed if th«/ would buy him out a((er they had practically ruined his busl- nesK. he was told that he could "fry In hi* own fat." ".\gtf'ements signed by Mr. ra- quir<Kl deslers to make statutory de- clsrallons as to the price at which they would sell their goods. These prtr*w were fixed by the Asnoolatlon. In ime Instsnce, a flne o( 92,000 was Imposed (or cuttng prices." The Crown Attorney, who makes this statement, also tells us: "The plumbers' combination, at- thmigh they suffered perhaps the blunt of the punlshmf-nt that wan Inflicted, was not any worse than, If as bad. as Bsny of the other combinations In re- spect to which Investigations to a cer- tain extent took place and which were subsequently stopped." hold bread and creamy butter one of her characters enjoys. And those cups of tea In "Cranford." What wouldn't I give for one now!" idea, "I .shall succeed," always does succeed because he does what is neces- sary to bring about this result. If only one opportunity presents itself to him, and if this opportunity has, as it were, only one hair on its head, he seizes it by that one hair. Further, he often No windows in Persian houses are brings about, unconsciously or not, visible from the street. I propitious circumstanccs.-Emile Coue. Whoever starts off in life with the; the theatre he hurried to a telephone 1 and the valve and seat inspected forsloeres, rolling cigarettes and eating and called up his wife. "You're not . carbon. Sometimes a piece of carbon I with his fingers. He is getting home, here yet and it was fuMy an hour ago you phoned me you were just start- ing!" "The telephone girl shut me off be- fore I cnuld flnlsb the sentence, dear," she calmly explained. "What I meant then was that I was just starting to put on my hat!" will lodge on the valve seat and, due, back where he can do as he pleiasea to the hammering of the valve, will again, where he need not heed tb« become fastened to the valve or serit, absurd conventions of Western Eur For temporarj' repair it can generally [ ope- be scraped off with a knife, and the I The two women in compartment 16- valve can be ground in on reaching 18 have emerged to-day. They are the garage. If the trouble Is not in the exhaust Roumanians from BucJiarest â€" hand- some lithe creatures with heavily enamelled faces, henna hair, black beaded eyelashes, expensive slinky Paris frocks, the skirts ot which draj about the pointed toes o( their red- heeled shoes. They are drenched with a heavy perfume that hangs almost Tlalbly la the smoke-laden air of the stuffy car. All windows are closed o( conrso. Y'esterday they were kept open; tb« Americans and English Insisted on that. But to-day there are only two Americans, and they want to see theas Balkan people as they areâ€" and ths Balkan people are showing them. Men and women are dHnklng huge quantities of white wine, smoking end less cigarettes, chatting, laughing squabbling noisily in myriad tongues. Yes, yesterday all these people spoke French, fbr there w(M-e Europeans pro sent who must be impressed. But to- day they are getting home; the Ehiro- peans are gone; care again the brava Balkan barbarism 1.^ shutting in abcut them. Above are shown l^snadlans attend ing the (th International Labor Con- ference, which assembled In Oaneva DKLEQATBa FROM DOMINION, LABOR OFFICIALS AND CANADIAN NATIONAL MEN Omce, Geneva, and two prominent of- ficials of the Canadian National, at pre sent In Switzerland on the rallway'a business. All the Canadian dolrgate-i on June II, and held a lengthy session there. Inchided In this group are not i """l advisers served on various ccm only the delegates who went across mlttees. They are, fr.;m (oft to right, from Canada rzprasaly for the as front row: W. C. Noxim. nRciit g« neral Now, It Is sit-jgether In the course Reaably, but also the Canadian officials f"'' Ontario at I.>«mdpn. England (Cniia of things that on« of your family, when on the staff of the International Labor i <""> government adviser 1 ; 1 I Ottawa, (Canadian Labor adviser); Mr.*. M. P. White. Toronto: Hon. R. W. Craig, attorney-general o( Manitoba (Roveinmont advl.-^crl; Mrs. C. H. Thorhurn, Ottawa (govornmont dele- gnti-K Tom Mooro (Labor dcleeutct; .Mrs It. W Craig. M. P. White. Toron to (manufariurors' Uelegutci. Back \V. L. Hrst, row: P. W. Corbctt, legal section, In- A Fall in Oil. "Necessities are going up." "But wouldn't >ou say therp was ternatlonal l^bor office; .Mr. Manning. Canadian National Railways; W. A. RIddell, chle( of agricaUunil section.;'^" '» o"*" I.L.C; W. J. Black. Ktaropean emigra- j â- *• tion oommlssicnor, C.N.K.; U. A. 1 Krr.smus once said to Sapidu.'s. a Stevenson, intelligence officer, I.L.O.. j well-known •lorman sch»>olmaster. "To It. W. MacdoncU. Toronto (employers' ; he a schoolmaster is next to being a adviser) and C. H. Thorburn. Ottawa. ' king. In the opinion of foo's it is a or the Canadian delegates. V. A. Ac- ' humble task, but in fact it is tlM> land Is not present In the picture. r.obkst of occupations." ^ Photographed in England with a model of one o( the hospitals to be exhibited *o°"eived* ideas as to^hBt"the"tTOub^ ""'""' within %-inch of any metal ^ ...... . . „ . u- L I part of the engine, crank the engine may be and follow a system which is,P.^^ ^^^ switch on. The spark shTuld in reality a process of el.m nation. ^^^ ^^^ batteries run Remember that to start a gasoline en- ^^ J, ^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^ gine three things are necessary-gaso- ^_. ghort-circuited? Are spark plugs line compression and a ^Pa^k at the ^,^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^,^^^ one-fiftieth of right time. Remember also hat to ^^ ,^^j^ , ^^ interrupter points keep it running it is necessary to have ^j^^^ and adjusted right? Do brushes water for cooling unless It be an air- ^^^ J^^^^^^ f^ ^^^ distributor ^°°'f^._1"?!r.*: ^""^ '^ """'' ^"^^ "".force the rebels to currender without clean? Eastward With the Orient Express. crank out of the tool kit and crank! A curious, colorful, fascinating rids over the engine. If, with the gears in! Is that from Paris to Belgrade or Con- neutral, the engine cranks over hard,' Btantinople on the Orient Express. As it indicates a lack of lubricating oil, 'you P«ss eastward you see Western or a lack of water. Such a lack has Europe slipping away both within and which ! allowed the engine to reach a temper- 1 without the railway carriages. Mr. I cleared (rom Batavla, JulyZ 1914, and, I ature where the lubricant fails to per- ptis Peabody Swift, writing In Travel, Trees to turn at the frosty call | fearing capture, took refuge In a har- ' form its work. If the engine turns; J's bow ^e^^ange ^°-'^-'^» «« ' - where it lay over fairly easy, it is not necessary to '"^ train leaves itaiy ana passes into look for oil or water troubles. The next test should be for com- pression. If the driver is not experi- enced and is unable to tell simply by the resistance of the starting crank; whether each cylinder has compres- sion, he should open all the petcocks except on one cylinder and turn the , u • u ^ ^ ^^ , . , ,. .. .. ., everything has changed. Those tweed- crank two revolutions, noting if there' ... . ," ,. ^ , . . . ' ^. , clad .\merican and English touriats IS a resistance of one-quarter of aiv,. . ,. , ,„u j j - i..f;„„ :„ *!.„ r„T„f„ ,., „ I have disappeared. They dropped off Croatia: But as I write the train has left Zagrab and puffs on ,accroBs that great wide plain. Europe seems far awayâ€" ages and ages away. Is it weeks or years since we left the tumult of Paris, the super-clvUizatton of Swlss_ hotels? Even here In the dining car