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.AT 62â€" IN BED WITH • RHEUMATISM ^ At 65 â€" ^Working Again Why worry uhout rhfeumat.sm T * This old fellow had it almost as bad < M it could be. But he jU'St (ound , the rigiht remedy, stuck to it, and ^ now he's wOTking again â€" at 65 years • of age. • Let him tell you all about It: â€" ,"Foi' two years and a half," he writes, '"I have Buffered from rheumatism. Tor eighteen months I could not turn .over in bed, nor help myself in any way. My legs and feet were swollen, "and I could not sleep or get rest .nntll I started taking Kruschea Salts. ^After taking one bottle, I went about *on two canes, I kept on taking it as I 'found the pains were leaving tile. 1 .have taken six bottles, and now have ^started to work again. I am 65 years of age, and everybody that knows me '•ays I am a wonder to get on, after • what I was." â€" JB. , Do you realize what causes rheu- matism? Nothing but isharp-edged *nric acid crystals which form as the • result of sluggish eliminating organs. .Kruschen Salts can always be count- ed upon to clear those painful cryst- "als from the system. ) SCOUTING Here ' There Everywhere A brother to every other Scout, without regara to race or creed Winter Killing Of Crops One unfavorable factor of the past 'season, declares the Picton Gazette, "was the winter killing of vvhoat 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 t more serious is the fact that the , meadows were badly winter killed a 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 invast- inent, and adds to the acreage to be lown or planted in the spring. .\t \he same time it destroys the plan Bf crop rotation adopted by the best farmers and the soil loses the re- newed fertility furnished by the growing of clover. : NEW MIXTURES Gilt Crosses for life saving were presented to Troop Leader Donat Thauvette 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 endotsed Scent- 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, B.C-. Scouts were given a special demonstration at the City Fire Hall in the handling of ap- paratus by Fire Chief Maloney. • • • The charting and marking of pre- viously uncharted reefs in nearby waters w'as the very useful project carried out by the 1st Fort Frant-es (Baptist) Sea Scouts, working from the ice before the spring break-up. Material is being prepared for the building of a small lighthouse at Sunny Cove, the troop's camp-site. • « • I'rizes for the making of bird houses by the Cubs and Scouts of Swift Current, Sa.sk., v^ere given by the Lumbermen's .Association of that district. Each hou:^e was to be made of old lumber, such as packing cases, and the first prize was $2.50. • * • 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 rope spinning, knotting, signalling. etc. • » • The Town Council of Blairmore. .A.lta., made sure that all of their Scouts saw Lord Baden-Powell by voting J25.00 to help defray their expenses to the Calgary rally. 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' I Club. I • • • • I Scouts of the 1st Lucknow, Ont., I Troop has been operating a check | room in connection with entertain- ments at the Town Hall, the smail . charge going to the credit of their , camping fund. â-  • • • [ During the next school year, prin- '. cipals who were former Scouts will head the public schools of Kentvillc and Aylesford, N.S., and will act as vice-principals at Annapolis Royal, Windsor and Wolfville. { . ♦ . I Wolf Cubs of tiie 1st Smith's' Falls (St. John's) Group i^old garden and flower seeds to raise funds for the purchase of a Pack flag. ! • 41 * I Stirling, Ont., Cubs and Scouts were gue.-ts at an evening entertain- , ment of the Men's Club of St. John's Church and contributed a number of Scout work programme numbers. • • * I Jeanne Baptiste Boulanger, young, editor of a successful French jour- 1 nal, "Le Petit Jour," published in' Emonton since 1931, is Secretary, and a Patrol Leader of Alberta's ; first troop of French - Canadian ^ Scouts. Romantic History Of the Eel is Told WORLD WHEAT Feed mixture for live stock have '"Ijeen carefully tested at agricul- . tural colleges an;l experimental! > farms across Canada with the re- , suit that many new facts have come to light on the food needs of animals ' for their various produL'tions. Com- â-  mercial feed manufacturing com- • panics have been keeping step with .their findings, trying at all times to , offer to farmers products which con- â- â-  tained the proper amounts of the â-  essential feed substances at a justi- fied cost. Ginger Exports From Jamaica Increase 44 P.C. 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- â-  known commodity "Jamaica ginger,'' which was so much used medicinally in the days of our grandparents. Ex- • ports of ginger from Jamaica during -1934 increased nearly 44 per cent, over the previous year, which would Uidicate that there is an increasing demand for it. Approximately 2,394.- 700 lbs. were exported in 1934. . Rats have been taught to dip their .paws in ink. and spell out dot and «ia.sh messages In the Morse code by '^osef Novotny, of Hovazadovice, ijouthera Bohemia. He was ouce » ;lon-tamer. With Canada dependent in no small way on wheat for general prosperity both in the east 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 grasj 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 31.2 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 i;>3-l, and as com- pared with an average production of 618 million from r.»28 to iy32. Europe reports a slight increase in wheat acreage for 1935 and ex- cessive winter damage has been con- fined to relatively small areas. Re- ports are favourable from most areas in central and southern Eur- ope with the exception that drought has caused considerable damage in Spain and latly. 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 »t 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- HGHTING 'HOPPERS IN WESTERN CANADA mentcd by text cutlining the gen- eral grasshopper control practices to be followed throughout the province, i 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 thi? field crops commissioner of the department of agriculture of Sa.ikatchewan, and in addition to being on view at all municipal offices and centres of agriculture assembly, will be dis- played in railway station:? and post offices throughout the infested part of the province. 1 Lady Haig to Attend Memorial Unveiling Control Campaign Against Destructive Grasshopper Has Been Inaugurated. An edition of 5,000 map-posters in regard to the grasshopper situ- ation in the province of Saskatchc- ^-WL JmS2 IHâ€" ^S^JL. igS"?^ aijd dis- tributed by" the entomologist branch of the Dominion department of agri- culture as part of the co-operation with the province of Saskatchewan in the giasshopper control campaign for 1935. The poster presents a map it) colors forficasUng ijie distribution Cf the probable grasshopper out- bi«ak ill the areas likely to be in- volved in ffiree categorieg, and also indicates an outbreak of pale west- ern cutworm. The map Is supple- Issue No. 23 â€" '35 '7 46 OTT.WVA,â€" That Uidy Haig wiil be preent at Canada's unveiling of the War Memorial at Vimy next July has been announced by Brigadier Genera! Alex Ross, Dominion Presi- dent of the Canadian Legion, "I am so grateful to. you tor your kind letter which Jias reached me re- garding the Canadian Pilgrimage in 1936," wrote Lady Haig. "It will be a woudertul gatherin.i; to unveil that beautiful memorial, and 1 shall feel much honoured that the members have allowed me to accompany them" Canada's Peace Army, registralion to date now over a thousand and expected to reach twenty times that figure, will attend the unveiling of Canada's War Memorial at VImy Kldge In July of ne.\t year In the presence of representativoj of the British and European a.s well as Canadian and United States Govern- ments. Brazilian Income Again Shows Gain TORONTO, â€" 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 elnce last fall. Gross eaiulngs from operations in April were $2,462,15« compared with $2,392,850 in the same montih of 1934, an Increase of 150.306. Operating expenses declined 160,180 from $1,1!M,3S9 to 11,144,209 and net earnings for the mouUi ^before de- preclation and amortization were 11,307,947 compared with |1,198,481, an Increase of |109,186. Aggregate gross earnings lor the first four mouths of 1935 were $10.- 030,220, conipai-ed with fS,.:,xS:iii, an Increase ot 1716,947, and aggregate ttet earniugs for the same paaiod were $6,340,446 compared with |4,- 648,642, a gaiu of |6;l4,S04. FINED FOR SHOUT. For shouting "Cp, the Rebels'' In Belfast, Northern Ireland, ou Sunday afternoon, young Josepiv^ Nell has been arrested aad fined. (By Major John W. Hills, M.P., 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 Thames or the Severn, in the Po or the Elbe, in the Danube, even in the Xile, which was r.ot 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. For some time before, an eel in that pond has heen 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 pond through the dewy grass, until it reaches a ditch, wriggles down this tiU 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 ieave 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 saltncss suits some chem- ical necessity of their being. Anyway, they all go to the same spot, southeast of the Bermudas. .â- \fter 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. .\nd now their real romance starts. .\t once the.v begin to cross an ocean which they have never traversed to reach homes which they tiave ver .-een. Most of them travel northeast with the Gulf Stream, floating at a depth of about 100 fathoms in water of about G8 degrees temperature. They grow in size. By their sec- ond Summer they are in the mid- Atlantic. They are then about one and three-quarters of an inch long. .â- Vfter two and a half years, fully grown and three inches long, trans- parent, flat and leaf-shaped, 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 female? 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 direct? 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 eel-bearing river; always have eels; the elvers never seem to miss them. What guides an individual elver to the Nile instead of to the Severn? fl is stTange"; and, stranger still, ponds, if once they hold eels, al- ways seem to do so. Why does 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 i» incredible that they should; that to much knowledge and geography should bo inherited from the egg. Yet how Is it that all waters are regularly repeopl- «4l 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 heW 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 ee! 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 full-grown 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. The immature eel was also well known, but it was classified as a separate fish and given a Latin name. - Then in ISOtJ 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. .\ 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 eei. The great Izaak Walton thuufent that they were bred from horsehair; others solemnly stated that they originated from corrup- tion or may-dew. But it was left to a writer of 'ast century to start thfc most fantastic fable of all. He Cairncioss was his name â€" so'emn- ly wrote and published a book, the Si':\er Eecl. to prove that eels pro- ceed from a certain beetle. And the book contained an engraving, pre- suma'oiy from life, of such a bectie. 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 willow-wrens 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 wc know. And possibly he lived then south of the Bermudas, and this is why he returns there to breed. But though a sea-fish by origin, he. like the brown trout, has become a fresh-water one by adopt- ion. Thus the eel is the opposite of the salmon: the salmon is a sea-ftsh. breeding in f;osh water; the eel a fresh-water 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 and a rear seat, the pedals orperating the rear wheel. Despite the dis- comfort of riding, it became very popular, yet there was a great deal of public hostility to it. Older peo- ple looked askance at the then mod- ern implement that sped along the roads at the probably terrible speed of 10 or 1- miles an hour. Cyclists were assaulted and bicycles were wrecked. In those days cyclists en- countered the sort of hostility that afterwards was visited upon the heads of the first motorists. In the sixties came tho "bone- shaker," which gave pnyulsion to die front wheel as well as the back, rubber wa<3 not yet thought of for tires. Around about the late seven- ties the solid rubber tire was intro- duced. Next was the 'liigh" bicycle with the huge wheel in front and the little one behind. Riders had to be constantly on the alert for ruts and stones which pitched them over the handlebars. It was for that reason perhaps that the next type, which m standard today, was known as the "safety." But the bicycle did not come "into its own until .ibout 1890 when an Irishman named Dunlop invented the pneumatic tire. From that date cycling boomed. . . Millions of boys and girls, now driving cars, remember the ti rills of owning their first bicycle- And some of the older riders may still rub the parts of their bodie. that used to ache on the old "bone- shaker" and the "high" bicycl. be- fore Dunlop revolutionized the busi- ness. â€" Stratford Beacon-Hcr:ild. Classified Advertising OI.D coins u F TO SC'i.'Ui li.vCH f.MU Ft.'U L'..-J. Iiuiian lioaJ cents. Wo bu.v all dates rigarilless of i-oniliv.on. L'l) to JI.UO e.icli i)iUd lor t-'f>. l-iuc'ln cents. L'P to $150. "O each f'T Canadian cms. We buv stump c»ll<,'.tluii<. Medal.-*, BuoUs, 'Old I'uper .M'jney. iJoKI. etc. Send iDc H.-oin) for larjjo illu.;;tral«a price list and insti-uctiuna. .Sal'slacijon guaranteed or :'5c relmi'l.-l. IILU c\iUN SliOr, 1511-23 From St.. Sariila, Ont. CHICKS 70B SAI-B MX BKb-EL^S CHICKS. •i;.M'S; 'pullets -6'--. Coniii!et« .m;.:: Ka,; ii'.ail- eJ t't. Agatlia UalcnefS. b:- .\S.ulia, 'jntart'*. 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