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CONSCRIPTION. i
(Boston Record)
Knit land Is close to conscription, and
we believe that the sooner that nation
comes to that expedient, the sooner
the strength and hope of the allies in ^
the held will be made manifest. It is
apparent that Oreat Britain has nut
ben contributing men to the battle line
in sufficient number to meet the situa
tion. Those who have gone have been
brave and efficient. The great paper
army of Kitchener promises much but
has produced little. The war is com
ing to be a question of men, and in
unsweriug that question Britain must
speak up.
What of conscription, anyway '.' Most . .
persons gauge it mistakenly us tne
antithesis of voluntary service. Vol- i
unlary service? Oh, thui's well enough; |
let those go who want to. But con- \
scription. What, force men against |
their will to go?
Let's consider it a moment. Just I
what is "voluntary service?" Whom |
uoes it get? Not the slacked. Not tne I
incompetent. Not the worthless. Not '
the careless one. It gets the best—the
men who can least easily be spare.*;.
It gels the man with a conscience, a
realisation of nis country's need, the
man witn a regard tor the opinion of 1
society, for the opinion of his neighbor,
of his family and of his friends, it
gets the man who takes his respon- >
sioilities seriously. Vounlury service is
forced service—forced by conscience
and conscientiousness. its gets the
best.
Conscription gets the men who are
not thus impelled. In such an emer
gency as confronts Britain it is toe
tallest way, and the only way.
AIR THE FIRST NECESSITY.
(Moberly 1M0.) Monitor.)
Man, we learn, was tirst formed out
iof the dust of the earth, and God
breathed into liis nostrils the bream
ot lifa
There is both a reason and a result
flowing from tne tact tnat man first
got inspiration through his nose. Vol
umes have been written on this feature
of tne face, but we have not room to
owed upon it and therefore wipe it
from consideration.
The central tnuught is that the breath
was the breath of life. When the
corpus delicti had been made ready for
iiie the machinery of man was not
started by pouring in gasoline or
whisky. Neither did the creator push
down his gullet a dozen raw and an
oyster slaw. He gave him not food or
urmk, but stand back, gentlemen and
let nim have air.” Fresh air is abso
lutely necessary.
Heaven is only sixteen breaths and
eighty-four heart beats away. We can
do without water for thirty days. We
can go without food for sixty days, but
we must breathe in four minutes or
we are gone goslings. We need whole
some food. We noed pure water to put
the flames of health In the face and
light the spark of animation in the
eye. Hacking fresh air, the sickly
shades of sallow cheeks and broken
tints of green and yellow at the cor
ners of the mouth show that life’s art
ist is out of madder and Vermillion.
Air is free and there is no reason
why we should not use it. The Hritish
embargo does not cover air nor is tho
war tax laid upon it Remember.it
costs you abolutely nothing and this
fact alono should causo a general rush
for fresh air. Many peoplo aro fitted
by nature to give ‘‘a grand opening”
for fresh air, but neglect it every day.
No person was ever known to take I
consumption when Jiving in the open
air. Many are cured of this deadly
malady by fresh air. Fresh air is now
coming in with early vegetables from
tho south and is the cheaper of the
two.
Throw up the windows and let the
luxury in.
MEN WANTED.
(Minneapolis Journal.)
Gentlemen, the crying need of the
hour is manhood; not legislation, not
organization, not agitutlon, but men—
men who cun truthfully say, "The
place 1 occupy does not need reform
ing." Men who are ready and willing
to begin the reformation of the world
in their ow n hearts. Men who do right,
not because tne law says they must,
out because it right.
I would lik< o ..rite over the door
.1 every work op and business house
.n Lhis laud, ' *i; Wanted.’’ 1 would
place on the wa.. oi every school room,
college, court of justice and legislative
aali, "Men Wanted." 1 wuuid wreuihe
.n ivy and gold over every Urepiuco,
altar and pulpit in the ’laud, "Men
Wanted." 1 would engrave it uu ihe
.i.ouufuin side, have It reflected in every
shimmering wave and watt it oil the
oieezus of heaven. "Men Wanted.” i
(Vould teach the brooklets to sing it,
rile lakes to chant it, i would seize me
linger of lightning and write in letters
f living lire across our darkened sky,
Men Wanted." i would gather the
aieraeL'a roar, the thunder's roll and
.he cannon s boom and echo from ocean
.o ocean, Men Wanted.'
i would unite the voices of men auu
the pleadings of women with ull tile
forces ot nature to send one sublime
cal to heaven: "Ureat and in
.inite Uod, at the drawn of this twoii
icth century give us men, clean nu n,
pule men, courageous men, uicu woo
..re to do right because it is rigul.'
NEWS IS SCARCE.
tCyrus (Miiini.; Citizen.)
I Une of Uie hardest duties in tile
I .voriu is to lili the news columns ol a
.ocal paper with interesting items
i alien there is really no items to write,
anu mat is about the size of matters
ins week, it is tar more icxing anu
perplexing than a person w uo lias never
..ad any experience m newspaper worn
.au imagine. i ne paper must come
aUf anu me reauiug unutei nas to he
uppueu irum some source. Wnell the
juicoi s supply ot information becomco
exhausted auu ins taunt ui scissors
uuii, is it, uo you imagine any minus
,.iay ior niiii lo prone tne gas bags ol
,us imagination and bring forth a col
umn or more of original wind thai
xih both cuify, dengue and instruct j
.ns readers?
CHEAPER TO EAT CHEESE.
(Ohio State Journal.)
Eat cheese ami reduce the cost ol
living.”
buch is tile advice ol' Prof. Robert li.
otoltz, of the dairying department 01
me college of agriculture, Ohio State
university. Prof. Stoitz strongly urges
a campaign of education throughout
the United States with the purpose in
view of teaching the coming genera
tion to eat cheese and substitute it for
meat.
■ I know how hard it is,' said Prof.
Stoitz, ”for grownup people to discare
their bad habits and start good ones
It is quite possible the present genera
tion in this country cannot give up its j
habits of eating meat, but it ought to ■
oe a comparatively easy matter to
..each the new generation to abstain
from expensive meat eating and sub- ,
stituto inexpensive cheese eating.”
Economy in the substitution of cheese
for meat, Mr. Stoitz pointed out, is oi
more than one sort, for it goes cleai
back to a comparison of the cost of
maintaining beef and dairy cattle.
Keeping cows for milking purposes, he
said, is a vastly less expensive propo
sition than breeding and feeding beei
cattle. A beef is of temporary value j
! in its production only, while a milk
producing cow is an almost continuous
producer for eight or ten years.
WOMAN’S CHIEF TRADE.
(Pittsburg Dispatch.)
Yes, of course, it is homemaking
Everybody knows that, but the figures
for it, compiled by the United States
board of education statisticians, are
worth noting. Of the 31,000,000 females
over 10 years of ago in the Wnltod
States 24,000,000 are engaged in homo
making. Girls may bo'entering more
and more iuu> a trier trades, but in the
last analysis they generally fall back
or auvance to the rank ot humcmak- |
ts.
Hence, says the federal educational :
board, the Importance of giving special |
attention to scientific cooking in the I
‘b'lial schools. Tne girlish nope'
i being able to one a cook is apt to !
be disappointed as frequently as the |
nope of keeping one when she is hired.
unn of ihe oddest things in life
hat cooking, the preparation of the
;cod that sustains life, the art that can
•aste or economize in the chief item
f family expenditures is so largely left
o be picked op as best it may be
vithuut serious consideration or train- ]
ng. if the woeful waste resulting from
mateur cookery could be computed in \
iktrs and cents it would rival the I
,var bills of Europe. If the Indigestion, j
lyspepsia and kindred physical dls
ulbances caused by the Incapable !
ooks could be tabulated they would j
warf the last of killed, missing and j
vounded.
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