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' of the I Canadian Fertilizers Association I Room 14, Manning Arcade I Toronto - - Ont. h““““‘ .l“‘““‘-“ seventy years, at least twenty-nine known expeditions have visited this treasurestrewn locality; and more than one have returned with retrieved richnsa Fabulous Wealth Discovered on Cocos Island in Southern Pacific Ocean. HIDDEN TREASURES OF OLD BUCCANEERS. The Habit of Learning. 'l'te most important thing in school is Int the information you acquire but the habit of learning that you estab- lish. Here is a man with no education. He has never learned how to solve problems. Some trouble comes/up in his lifeâ€"it may be a comparatively simple matterâ€"but he is helpless. can't see any way out of his difficul- ties. The same situation confronts a man with an educationâ€"a trained mindâ€"and he begins to put things toâ€" gether, and figure and scheme and soon has a solution to the problem, because he has learned how to solve problems by going to school. Boys and girls, don't you think it would be a good idea to try to make mother’s lot a little more pleasant? Why not plant a few flOWers outside the kitchen windows so that their fragrance will refresh her during the hard wonk-a-day tasks? Nothing can THE REAL “MGNTE CRISTO’S” ISLAND ‘A stranger, tasting, smacks his lips just soâ€" ‘And then he murmurs, “Some grand . dough!” For it ain't the fillin’ that makes her cake, It’s the dough itself, the stuff you Her pastry sure is famous. boy! And when you eat, it gives you joy. Her lemon pie with thick meringue, And little cakes with spicy tangâ€" But when she asks, “What shall I bake?" I answer quick, “A chocolate cake!" Oh! when ma abs-ks, “What shall I bake?” answer quick, “A chocolate cake!" Ma's Chocolate Cake. My ma can do most anything, Bake, and sew, ‘and paint, and sing. But ohl her cookin‘ takes your eye, And people praise it to the sky. And when she aslés, “What shall I bake?" I answer quick, “A chocolate cake!” Pacific Phantoms. The island is to be investigated gain by a party made up, not of har- 1. At Seeding Time. Delay seeding to escape the Hessian Fly. Use fertilizers to catch up Wheat growth. 2. In Winter Produce good top to protect wheat, and good rooting to overcome spring heaving. Fertilizers produce top and roots. 3. At Heading and Filling Tlme Force early wheat growth by fertilizing at seeding tlme, and escape drought and heat injury. Order Fertlllzers Now for your Fall Seeding Soil and Crop Improvement Bureau Crfikxu Pefiods for FALL WHEAT Write for Free Bulletins make Mother. Real Treasure Island is no barren, sterile spot. Early last century it had a solitary settler, and before that tethers. What became of them neither history nor tradition hints, but if ghosts haunt any spot it ought to be this romantic island. Wild pigs and gcats, (loves, and other native fauna lane in abundance; and the shore wat- ers swarm with fish and sharks. uni-s‘carum treasureâ€"seekers or ama- teur diggers, but of ex-British and United States naval officers, assisted by others with an intimate knowledge of milling. Hitherto operations have been on primitive lines, or, at the best, Wth spades and explosives. This new party, with a substantial financial backing, proposes to make full use of up-todate scientific and mining engi- neering appliances, and to provide for a long stay. seven weeks. ' covered the well‘ are supposed to i “dump.” Before the V both of them were kille¢ fray, and all knowledg sure was lost. Plans and documents other great cache came session of two English years before the war, a sure hunt on the Com They who, two centuries or so ago, set up their palisades and brushwood huts, dug wells and made use of the island for obtaining fresh stores of water and food, were ,like others who followed them, keen judges ofahandy and comfortable rendezvous: Whether in the East or the West Indies, the northern Indian Ocean or the West Pacifis, the Black Flag pirates had the knack of choosing a pleasing base for drinking and murder. Since these bold bad men of the seventeenth century hid their valu- ables and specie. down to as late as 1835, many millions' worth of treasure have been hidden for safety on Cocos Island. Among the principal hoards is that of pirate Bonita. This Spaniard. traditions say, hid over $5,000,000 of gold and silver in coinage, ingots, jewels, and plate, ob- tained from rifled merchantmen and looted towns. Yellow Jack claimed him suddenly at Panama, and he, with his dying breath, divulged to his chief officers the whereabouts of the “dump.” Before the vessel set sail, Some of the “dumps” which have so long defied discovery may be brought to light. How surprised you would be if you could see inside the grasshopper. From each breathing hole runs a tube which branches off into hundreds of tiny tubes that are kept in shape by a stiff thread which winds round and round You will see the abdomen move up and down as it pumps air through the holes into the tubes. The chest is formed of three rings, each of which bears a pair of legs, and the two hinder ones two pairs of wings. The abdomen is also ringed, and on the side of each ring you Will see a dark spot. These spots are the breathing holes. So now you know the secret why Mr. Grasshopper can leap so quickly when he has slpied you with his big fixed eyes, which have hundreds of windows. If you do catch one, put him under a glass and examine him. You will see that his body is ringed, that his shoulders are covered by a shield, and that he has a large mouth, in which, could you see them, he has two pairs of strong jaws, one for holding and cutting his food, and the other for chewing it. He gives them plenty of work, for he eats all that comes his way. The Grasshopper. Have you ever tried to catch a grasshopper? If so you will know it is not easy. Just as you think you have him, you will find he is quite a distance away, chirping merrily, as if to say, “You are not nearly clever enough to catch a fellow who has six long legs, four wings, and a body as light as air.” equal flowers as emblems of love. Mother will appreciate their message quicker than anything else. Then, wouldn’t it be nice to keep the grass around the farmhouse neatly trimmed so that in the evenings, when mother comes out to her rocking-chair, she will find the surroundings good to look at. These little acts of love seem very small, but to mother they will appear very big indeed“ Your mother was your first love. Show that you love her still. '. and documents indicating an- :reat cache came into the posâ€" of two English women, two >etore the war, and their trea- mt on the Cocos lasted for , and several other but unfortunately tt Caches of Gold The expedition dis define cate the so the c ,n a drunken of the trea- ks which treasure- reek, the marks ct :9 face of. he, with .is chief of the The salmon can travel in the water at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. Stop a minute and say “Halloa,” As down Life’s Road you gq; For a kindly word and a cheery smile Will shorten the way by many a mile For some poor fellow who’s moving slow. Stop a minuteâ€"and say,"‘Halloa!" Janeâ€"“Please, ma’am, I’ve broken something.” Mistres‘sâ€"“VVeII, Jane, what is it 7“ Jane (orying)â€"“I’m very sorry. I couldn’t help it." Mistressâ€"“Don’t be surly, Jane; tell me what it is." Janeâ€"“Oh, ma'am, the cucumber was crooked, and seeing you had com- pany I tried to‘ bend it straight." Jamaica. ed for e Keating some of later by a Peruvian warship, the na- tional riches had disappeared. Three of the crew escaped being hanged at the yard-armâ€"two seamen, who pro- mised to reveal the cache, and another, Thomson, who had been seriously un- well at the time and in his bunk. Subsequently, the two seamen, on try- ing to prove that the treasure was hidden on one of the Galapagos, were shot as liars. - Th hozm Peruvians’ millions, hidden In 1855; and it is interesting to note that as late as 1913 the Panama authorities heard that a United States steamer had left the island with a large quan- tity of treasure-trove aboard. Later on, collectors in the United States were finding that golden pieces of the early Peruvian Republic were not so very rare. . barque Mary Dyer, Roads. Her hands, while the mate wa the skippevr’s sud death, slipped anch sea before the forts bris pedit thing Undoubtedly these coins c the 1855 cache, or from thn sum secreted on the Cocos earlier by the defaulting hi revolutionary junta in Peru whom met unknown deaths their vessel, the third being Valparaiso. th 13V 3J1 In 18 ' Cllil W the worst is yet to come on of treasure-bur to go on with, the g left enough e» 11 she Not Fit for Company. left them Ieir labors. ealthdest of all s, undoubtedly, m3 slid down 'ove tr( Lost Landmarks e was captured a Peruvian warsh till on b Dyer, I anoug] abors ldoubtedly, that of the “ions, hidden in 1855; sresting to note that as the Panama authorities , United States steamer sland with a large quan- llVi lying in xree night ashore m the con nard the 11d hold of tons of de- fore the cache 3 proposed ex- ters has some previous party idence of the i came from the smalled )s ten years heads of a mu, two of hs on board ng killed at ard pre the owin mouth allo: ater ssed He died in the year 862, and at his own wish» was buried in the church- yard, at the north side of Winchester I Cathedral, close to the wall and under {the eaves of the building. He desig- nated that place in order to break dorm a superstitious prejudice which had arisen against it, and which had made his parishioners unwilling to have any of their (lead laid in that I part of the grounds. {yard with an 'turb his repo ward impio-ué his remains There was a Swithiny or rather Swithunâ€"in Latin, Swithunus. He was not a ‘fdrunken” saint, but a lncst temperate and pious man. He was not a “saint” at all, never having been formally canonized. But he was a deacon under Bishop Elmstan, and then succeeded the latter as Bishop of Winchester, in which office he great- ly distinguished himself by his piety. continued for since whatev July 15 contir after. The recurrence of “St. Swithin’s Day" is a reminder of a superstition which is at once one of the most wide- spread and persistent of all, and one of the most falsely founded and 0b- viously most foolish. There are thous- ands of persons who have no fear of breaking a mirror, or spilling the salt, or walking under a ladder, but con- demn such superstitions as unworthy of intelligent persons, who yet seem to believe that there is something in the St. Swithin legend, and who every year, if the weather on July 16 is the same as it was on July 15, say, “See! It’s coming true!" Yet the facts are that in all the cen- turies since Swithin’s reburial there is no record of its ever having once come true, and that almost every de- tail of the legend upon which it is founded is notoriously untrue. The one really interesting feature of it, and the only one worthy of serious con- sideration, is the number of days in- volved. But that. as Kipling says, is another story. legend. The le a. “drunk The recurrence of Day" is a reminder of which is at once one of spread and persistent Now for tl‘ luthenticated atl all 1i THE SWITHIN MYTH cf the n the Hub i Ira], it Yen NH 1‘ fort itl l‘ E 1921 111 ai 11 1t EVE \‘unction n that when thur \V E that i \‘ : t1) tly in th while the c; th ha th anni which nu th tly Dr. Mc( whose name ‘ Dr. McCol An investigation is now going on before the Agricultural Committee of the House of Representatives at Washington as to the advisability of suppressing or regulating filled milk by law. A number of experts have been summoned to give evidence as to the results of their investigations and research in the matter of protective foods. The first witness called was foc var ada. Particularly is this the case when action is taken in the country to the south of us. There has lately been put on the market an article of food under var- ious trade names, but which is be- coming best known as “filled milk". Filled milk is a mixture of skim milk and some vegetables oil, which takes the place of the pure butter fat. An investigation is now going on The necessity for purity and cleam liness in food cannot be over-empha- sized. Any steps taken in any counâ€" try to further this desirable end are therefore of much importance to Canâ€" yarn which grows in the shuttle run- ning across the cloth to fill it up. The value of flax is primarily dependent on its strength. The colgr should be uniform, but spinners do not attach so much importance to color as they used to do, provided‘ that the substance has the required strength and quality. Silkiness and oiliness are essential to a high standard. The removal of all slime and dirt from the flax, especially at the root ends, is another necessity. weft, bony flax, afid the 3 this is used by weave‘ tudinal threads of the soft, more pliable flax so strong as warp anc yarn which grows in resear poses. Arran to carry on t] conditions so fibre may be order that th easily compar Of course, such a thing as either forty days of rain or forty days with- out rain, is quite unknown at that time of year; at least in Winchester, or in Toronto. To demonstrate the fallacy of the prediction, note was taken at the Greenwich Observatoa'y of the character of the weather on July 15 and the forty days following. during a ‘period of twenty years. In six of those years St. Swithin's Day was rainy, and in the forty days following there were‘respectively 13, 14, 16, 18, 23 and 26 rainy days, so that in most cases the majority of the forty days, all of which should have been rainy, were in fact, rainless. In the other fourteen years St. Sxyithin’s Day was rainless. and, of course. the forty fol- lowing days should all have been rain- less. But, in fact. in one year 12 of them we Swithin, and the whole splendid cere- monial went through without a bitch and with the apparent high favor of the elements. Now, as to the thun According to the piou: and other historians there was no steam a terruption of the work and beautiful day. a v: people was in attendm roader He awn. to 1C Th 191 if mg e worl Pure Milk Products. nce cienti ammoned to give evidence as to sults of their investigations and :h in the matter of protective The first witness called was V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins 'sity, Baltimore, a scientist name is well known in anada. McCollum testified that his V10 itlon convince upply the CuEtivation of F if nty thi u be used In the diet to in children, ‘dults, and t« senile decay -pport to E 0V6! 1y feast was hel‘ and the whole ,1 market da can v; :t that t} 'orms )I‘ regar towar 11K and 1' substitute i are those who are ilk and its product DE milk in th ms, t ebe .arves that 163 he prohibition of the 11n- in su ms testifie him th hE ) surficxent quanti- 0 promote normal , optimum well-be- to prevent the ad- 'tin eawee 1, in one 1: 1nd in the under storm Rory. ous monk Wolstan ns of that time, at all, and no In- rk. It was a clear vast. concourse of fiance. a greaf. out- held in honor of t‘hi the 1 for fibre pur- have been made g under suitable 3 quality of the epresentative in nt sorts can be re are two prin- fibre, warp and her divided ac- ’arp is generally tat ICE cloth. Weft is not necessarily is used for the p10 ‘p is generally and more ri-b- n spun from for the longi- oth. Weft is atc 1n untry rowth t number 13' period. I rainless of new at Ot- remain 320 lbs 1920, a Elf two afl’a C65 14 1X '16