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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1909-11-04, Page 2TFil•; WINGIIAM TIMES, NOVEMBER 4, 1909 ' '°rou led With Backache For Years 4 NOW Com, pletely Cured By The Use Of DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS. Mrs. SV. C. Doerr. 13 Brighton St., London, Ont., writes: ---"It is with ple tsui'e tdt,^,t I thank you for the good v o:tr Down's Kidney fills have done me.. 11:3Ve t, t:a tt tided with backache for years. Nothing helped me until a friend bra me a lox of your Kidney Pills. I beg tit to take the.0 and took four boxes, - an i :s n ;:ltd to say that I am cured en- tire!-. and can do l'1I my own work and feel as C, n i a. I used to before taken sick. 1 an ttositive Doan's Kidney Tills are • till yeti claim then to be, and I advise all kidney sufferers to give them a fair trial." Let Doan's Kidney Pills do for you what they have done for thousands of others. They cure all forms of kidney trou':de and they cure to stay cured. Price, 50 cents per box or 3 boxes for $1.25 at all de tiers er mailed direct on receipt of pwee 1)31 Tl,e '1. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. When ordering specify "Doan's." TO ADVERTISERS Notice of changes must be left at this office not later than Saturday noon, The copy for changes must be left not later than Monday evening. Casual advertisements accepted up to. noon Wednesday of eaoh week, ESTABLISHED 1872 THE WINfrl A1I TIMES. d. B.RLTdOTT. PUBLIaHER ANDPROPRIETO1 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 4, 1909. NOTES AND COMMENTS There is no gneation of more import- ance in Canada to -day than land drain- age. The numbers of thousands of acres of good farm lands that are almost useless because of the lack of proper drainage is a severe handicap to Cana- dian agriculture. Far too many people are ignorant of the necessity of drains. while too few farmers understand how to lay tile drains or opeu ditches so they will do the work required. It is true that some skill is needed to map ont tile drains, and to decide on the size of tile required, but the knowledge may be reoeived by consulting with the experts of the Agrienitural Colleges, or by pay- ing the county or township engineer to visit your farm and give yon necessary instruction. When the run of the drains and the size of the tile have been de- cided, jt will pay to get a reliable man to do the work, for many drains are spoil- ed by improper laying. Tiles that run up hill and down will not oarry off the Sow of water, Levels cannot be ascer- tained by guessing et them, The work is so important that it pays to secure the best skill available and lay the tile in- telligently. On the subject of the public debt it is interesting to note that on September 30, 1909, the net debt of the Dominion was $320,698,464, or $3,231815 less than it was on the 31st of March, 1909. The Mail and Empire should study the financial statement of the Dominion for the first half of the present fiscal year. The following are extracts from it; "The revenue for the first six monthe of the present fiscal year shows an in- orease of $6,526,297, as oompared with the first six months of 1908 09. For the month of September alone the inorease in revenue was $1 570 709, as com- pared with the same month last year, and the total expenditure decreased, as compared wish September of last year, 2.584,275. Revenue for six months ending 30th September, 1909, $.47.353,- 819 Expenditure on consolidated fund account for same period, $31,563,393. Expenditure on capital account for same period $13 213,063 " There is nothing blue in theee figures to give the Mail sod Empire cause of worry. What will it have to say when the close of this year shows the highest revenue in the history of the Dominion? Blood Was Bad. 1'ro:n impure blood comes Pimples, ails, Ulcers, Tumors, Abscesses, Fester- ing Sores, hashes, Constipation, Head - Mt hes. etc. (let pure blood and keep it pure by roving every trace of impure morbid Iter from the system by using BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS. Mrs. Fred. Biggs, Kingston, Ont., rites:•---" I was completely run down, y blood was out of order, and I used to so weak I would be compelled to stay bed for weeks at a time. I could not WAS pale and thin; e very one tboun • l.t was going into consumption. I tried rythinq and different doctors until a d advised Inc to use Burdock Blood tters. I did not have one bottle when my appetite began to improve.. weed six bottles. I gained ten pounds v () t4,^ek.:a. Vi'Iiea 1 began to take it Ty weighed ninety -throe pound.. It are ped to pull PAC Ire the g,rave as I (.pecten to be strop again. 1 tett r••.et) 'snn'i-_er of your wondeeiatl irme," l'nr sr le i ' ell dealers. -«tftnturttl to -:• h' The 'T. Milburn Li :,ire 1. Torontce O.,t. THE SIMPLE LIFE. Those who hanker after the simple life will be interested to rending Dr. Cook's account of the aoolal orndition8 found among Eskitncs, Without law, without literature and without tradi- tions that are very binding they seem, tr get along very well, aecordiug to the testimony of the explorer. The man takes as many wives as hie fancy directs pr his means permit. During the hn'rting eees)n if he dads himself with too many wives and too few dogs, he mallet a trade with somebody who has t :o many doge and too few women. Men trade wives as in other countries they trade horses and eo vary the mon- otony of life. But the men, apparently, have not all the say, "In other cases," says Dr. Cook, describing a partionlar settlement, "wornen had chosen other partners and the changes were made to the advantage of all, for no regrets were expressed." Happy psople, without churches or preachers, judges or lawyers, doctors or druggists, books or newspapers, pink teas or bridge parties, bath rooms or barber shops, tyrannical oastoms or an- noying conventions! And yet, appar- ently, they are not without instincts of civilization, This was shown by their eagerness to do business with the sailors, and the character of the business done. A woman exohanged her fur pants - Cook calls them fnr pants and he ought to know -worth $100, fora red pocket handkerchief with which to decorate her head. A man exchanged two ivory horns worth $90 for two bright tin caps, worth, perhaps, five Dents, and went away delighted with the bargain. Ia not the love of ornament the beginning of oivilizatton? According to a recent compilation it Coate the women of the 'United States nearly $400,000,000 a year in the way of dress and bodily ornament. IMPROVED HABITS. • Stratford Beacon. Despite the idea of some people that the world is growing worse, it is in many respects becoming better, and in none is the change more no- ticeable in the last twenty-five or thirty years than in regard to the treating habit. Iu the early settle- ment of Ontaril it was considered an almost indispensable adjanot of a bee or raising to have a supply of intoxicating liquors on, hand and the "grog" boas was almost as much in evidence as the corner man or the captain. Later than tli4st it was con- sidered necessary for commeroial tra- veIlers to treat their customers in order to secure sales, but this has passed out to a very great extent. The change in this respect has been very general. The New York Journal of Commerce remarks that it "used to be the customs of some large houses to give star salesmen weekly cheques ranging from $50 to $100 to be need in expenses a house did not pare to charge or enter in detail on its books. It was understood that the money was to be spent in furthering sales in other than strictly moral ways. Some members of firms never cared to hear of what had been done." Nowadays a cigar is usually the ex- tent of the commercial man's mater- ial blandishments; the business is mostly done on its merits, and rare- ly is the persuasion of intoxicants used, Even in New York, the paper referred 10 says, the big merchants frown upon visite to saloons during business hours, and "the men of long experience in the market say so lit- tle drinking is done nowadays as compared with ten or even five years ago that the trade may fairly be said to be carrying the blue flag during bnsinese hours," So different are things today that "it is doubtful if a single hoose of good standing in the trade will now consent to pay 'up town' expenses incurred by a sales- man or firm member who feels it incumbent to entertain some visiting buyer. Whenever such expenses are inoarred they are paid from funds other than those controlled by the house." This change goes to show that drinkir g is no longer fashionable, or at all events much less fashionable than it was a few years ago. Even r men who drink themselves show a preference for abstainers in trusted positions on their staffs. One great New York merchant puts it this way: "The successful men in Commerce to- day are united in the belief that it does not pay to keep hard drinkers on their sales forces, Many' of them hesitate to hire oven the beet sales- man if they know that he drinks in- toxicants at all. The abatalnor has the preference always." There is no doubt quite tie marked a tendency in this direction in Can- ada as in the 'United States. Many Canadian merchants know that to endeavor to influence oaatomers by treating them would be reeent:ed, and they do not attempt it. The change is a wholesome one, good for the ewe tomer and good for the salesman. It marks a distinct improvement in the moral tone of the community, and in a feet years more treating in cone neotion with btteinesa deals will be as exceptional, as it was onde com- inon. c __ x �....._;.�F.. One reason why the Mason and Risch piano remains longe L in tune. Ordinary piano with plate covering pin -6 ock. Note long leverage from A to B. ONE cause for a piano get- ting out of tune is the bend ing of the pins under the great strain of the strings. This happens oftenest in the pianos which have the strings attached high up on the pin giv- ing the string a great leverage on the pin. In most makes of pianos the strings must be attached high on the pin because the pin -block is covered by the iron plate which neither the strings nor pins must touch. Mason and Risch The piano with a soul Now the iron plate does not cover the pin -block of the Mason and Risch piano as the strings are attached to the pins close down to the pin -block where it is solid as a rock and will not bend. To this system of con- struction is due in part perfect standing in tune the instrument. W e would like to tell you mor e about the Mason and Risch piano. S end us this coupon to -day and we'll mail you. / our book "Inside Information; " it tells the whole story. Mason and. Risch construction showing very short leverage on in (C to D). Note that pin -block Payers reach to bottom of pin. The Mason and Risch Piano Co., Limited, 32 West King St., Toronto. 752 the of r / MASON and RISCH PIANO CO. Limited, TORONTO. Send me your illus. trated booklet explain- ing the reasons why I should own a Mason and Risch piano. This in no way obligates me to purchase. Name Street City Province.... tea m _ -- .s ate• - International Newspaper Bible Study Course. Salient Points in the Lesson for Sunday, Given in a Series of Questions by Bev. Dr. Linseott. Nov. 7, (Rseistorad in accordance with the Copyright Act.) PAUL A PRISONER -THE SHIPWRECK• Acts xxvii:27 to xxviii:10. Golden Text. -The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants; and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. Pe. xxxiv:22 Verses 27-29. - Why doss God permit storms and stress to come into most lives and sometimes per- mits them to continue until all human hopes are abandoned? (This question must be answered in writ- ing by members of the club.) What is the Christian's anohor which never Toile him no matter what danger his ship may be in? (See Heb. vl:19 ) Verses 30 32 -Are all God's promises of help or deltverance conditional, or are come of them absolute and unoon• ditioned? If these men had forsaken the ship, as they planned, how would that affect the saving of the rest of them? Here is a case of casting away a boat to save a ship, what principle does that suggest in human lite? Verses 33-38 -There are two things, at least, possible no matter how great the distress; one is to wring your hands and bemoan your fate, and give up hope; the other is to be cheerful, and see how best to save the ship; which is the better, and how can it be accom- plished? Why is it that the conrage and good cheer of one man Dau save an entire crew from despondency and defeat? May praying and fasting. when you onght to be eating and working, bo as great a practical prime as s'uttling the ship? Why does God generally need our help when he would save ns from any impending calamity? (v. 38 ) Verses 39.44 -To a true man is it always so, that after night comes the day, after sorrow comes joy, and after so•called defeat comes victory? Does God, in these days, ever save a family, a business, a community, or a nation, for the sake of one man, as he saved the passengers and Drew of this ship for the sake of Paul? Tnlins prevented the killing of the prisoners for the sake of Paul; is there any analogy between that and the sav- ing of sinners for the sake of Jesus? God told Paul that all hands should be saved, and the ship lost, and thieia what happened; speaking from your own ex- perience are all God's promises equally dependable, whether of a general char - eater as in the Bible or given to the individual soul? Chap. xxviii:1-Where is the island of Melita where this wreck occurred? Verse 2, -Are uncivilized people be- fore they have had experience with white men, generally kind to stran. gers? Verses 3 4. ---When an accident, or sickness, or other natural calamity Domes to a man, is it any true sign that he is a sinner? Verses 6 6. - If a poisonous viper should fasten on a good man's hand to -day, God. would probably not pre- vent the poison from taking effect; is that a fact to be regretted or other- wise? Versos 7.10. -Is there always "a silver lining to every dark cloud"? Are there any oiroumstancea in which a good man cannot help his fellows? Leeson for o Sunday, Nov. 14111, 1909. Paul a Prisoner in Rome. Acte xxviii: 11.31, CURES CATARRH, ASTHMA, Bronchitis, Crotty; Coughs and Colds, or money back. Sold and gsarailtttd by WALTON MoKI1311ON, In Kansas the other day, two small boys pounced upon a third in his own dooryard and demanded, "Are you for Cook or Peary?" He was for Crook, so they set to converting him by practioal atgumenta. One shot hint with an air - nn, tho other pelted him with atones and rolled him in the dirt. "I don't see," he sobbingly told his mother, "why I hadn't as mnoh right to be for Cook as they had 10 be for Peary!" TOWN DIRECTORY. BAPTIST Canaan -Sabbath servioea at 11 a m and 7 p m. Sunday Sohool et 2:30 p m. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. W. L. Steeves, pastor. B. Y. P. U. meets Monday evenings 8 p.m. W.D Pringle, S.S. Superintendent. METHODIST CHURCH -Sabbath services at 11 a m and 7.p m, Sunday Sohool at 2:30 p m. Epworth League every Mon- day evening. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev, W. L Rutledge, D,D , pastor. F. Buchan- , S.S. Superintendent. PRESBYTsoRIAN CHURCH -Sabbath eer- vioes at 1.1 a m and 7 p m. Sunday School at 2:30 p m. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. D. Berrie, pastor. Dr. A. J. Irvin, S.S. Superintendent. ST. PAUL'S OHURCH, EPISCOPAL -Sab- bath services at 11 a m and 7 p m. Sunday Sob ool at 2:30p m. Rev. 0. E. Jeakrns, B. A., B. D., Reotor ; Ed. Nash, S. S. Superintendent ; Thos. E. Robinson, assistant Superintendent. SALVATION ARMY -Service at 7 and 11 a m and 8 and 7 p m on Sunday, and every evening during the week at 8 o'olook at the barraoks. Pose Orrloa-Qffioe hours from 8a m to 6:30 p m. Open to box holders from 7 a m. to 9 p m. P. Fisher, postmaster. PUBLIC LIBRARY -Library and free reading room in the Town Hall, will be open every afternoon from 2 to 5:30 o'olook, and every evening from 7 to 9:30 o'clock, Miss Ethel Elliott, librarian. TowN OoUNOIL-Thomas Gregory, Mayor; Dr. A. J. Irwin, Reeve ; Geo. Spotton, J, W. McKibbon, H. B. Elliott, William Bette, Dr. Robert C. Redmond, and, V. R. Vannorman. Ooanoillors; J. B. Ferguson, Clerk and Treasurer; .Anson Dulmage, Assessor. Board meets first Monday evening in each month at 8 o'olook. HIGH SCHOOL BOARD.- W. F. Van - Stone (chairman), J. A. Morton, John Wilson, 0. P. Smith, W. J. Howson, John A. McLean, Frank Baohanan, Dudley Holmes, secretary, A. Oosens, treasurer, Board meets second Monday evening in eaoh month. PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD. -Alex. R388, (chairman), G. O. Manners, S.E. Isard, A. E. Lloyd, W. D Pringle, Wm. Moore, Theo. Hall, 0. N. Griffin, Secretary, John F. Groves; Treasurer, J. B. Ferguson. Meetinge second Tuesday evening in eaoh month. HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS -J. A. Tay- lor, B.A., principal; J. 0. Smith, B.A., classical master; J. G. Workman, B.A., mathematical master ; Miss Helena Dadeon, B.A., teaoher of English and Moderns; Miss Anderson, fifth teacher PUBLIC SCHOOL TBAOH>tRs.-Joseph Stalker, Prinoipal. Miss Brook, MissReynolds, Miss Farquharson, Miss Wilson, Miss Cummings, and Miss Fraser. BOARD of HEALTH --Thos. Gregory!, (chairman), O. J. Reading, Abner Casein, Wm. Feasant. J. B. Ferguson Secretary; Dr. J. R Macdonald, Medical Health Officer. STEADY EMPLOYMENT for a reliable Local Salesman repre- senting "Canada's Oldest and Greatest Nurseries" in Wingham and adjoining country. You will find these is a good demand for' nursery Stook on account of the high prices that growers have realized on their fruit this season. Oar salesmen are turning in big busi- ness to ns this year. Be one of them and earn good wages through the winter months. Territory reserved. Pay weekly. Free sample outfit, etc. Write for particulars. STONE & WELLINGTON Fonthill Nurseries (850). TORONTO, CANADA. FARMERS and anyone having live stook or other erttoles they wish to dispose of, should adver- tise the same for sale in the Tans. Our large circulation tells and it will be strange indeed if you do not get a onetamer. We can't guarantee that you will sell because yon may ask more for the artiole or stock than it is worth. Send your advertisement to the TIMss and try this plan of disposing of your stook and other arttales OUTSIDE ADVERTISING Orders for the insertion of advertisements each as teachers wanted, business chances, mechanics wanted, articles for sale, or in fact any kind of an advt. in any of the Toronto or other city papers, may be left at the Twee office. This work will receive prompt attention and will neve people the trouble of remitting for and forwarding advertisements. Lowest rates will be quoted on application. Leave or send:your next work of this kind to the TIMES OIl'F f1E. Wingham . '60 YEARS' ' EXPERIENCE ATENTS TRA Dg MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &c. Anyone sending a sestet and description may gntckly ascertain our opinion free 'another an inventlen to probably patentable, mmunion. none strictly confidential. Itpry0800 enPatente sent free. omen agency for securinglustents. 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CONTRACT RATES -The following table shows our rates for the insertion of pdvertisemente for speoified periode:- BPAON. 1 YR. 8 HO. 8 Mo. IMO. OneOolumn $70.00 140.00 822.60 18.00 Half Column........ -. 40,00 25.00 15.00 6.00 QuarterOolumn20.00 12.50 7.50 3,00 One Inch -. ... .... 5.00 3.00 2.00 1.26 Advertisements without specific direotions will bo inserted till forbid and charged accord- ingly. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. TRB JOE DSPARTMnNT 1s stooked with an extensive assortment of all requisites for print- ing, affording f oSlides not equalled in the oonntyfor turning out first class work. Large type and appropriate outs for all styles of Post- ero, Hand Bills, etc., and the latest styles of choice fanoy type for the finer classes of print ing. H. B. ELLIOTT, Proprietor and Publisher T P KENNEDY, M. D., M.O.P. S. 0 efl • Member of the British Medical Aasooia- tion. Gold Medallist in Medioine. Special attention paid to diseases of Women and Child. ren. Office hours -1 to 4 p. m.; 7 to 0 p. m, DR. MACDONALD, Centre Street Wingham, Ontario. DR. AGNEW, Physician, Surgeon, oto. Office -Macdonald Block, over W.Moliibbon's Drag Store. Night palls answered at the office. DR. ROBT.C.REDMOND, M. R.O.S. (Eng) L. R. C. P. London, PHYSICLaN and SURGEON. Office, with Dr. Chisholm. DR. MARGARET C. CALDER Honor Graduate of Toronto University, Licentiate of Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Devotes special attention to diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Eyes thoroughly tested. Glasse$ properly fitted. Oriiog-With Dr. Kennedy. Office Hours -3 to 6, 7 to 8 p.m. VANSTONB, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, BTO Private and Company funds to loan at lowest rate of interest. Mortgagee, town and farm property bought and sold, Office, Beaver Blook, Wingham JA. MORTON, • BARRISTER, &p. Wingham, Ont, E. L. DICKINSON DUDLEY HOLME9 DICKINSON & HOMES BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, Eto, MONZY TO LOAN. cruor': Meyer Block, Wingham. ARTHUR J. IR,WIN, D. D. S., L. D.13. Doctor of DentalSnrgery of the Pennsylvania Dental College and Licentiate of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Office in Macdonald Brook, Wingham. W. J. PRICE, B. S. A., L. D. S., D. D. S. Licentiate of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, and Graduate of Uni- versity of Toronto. Office ; Beaver Biock. TAKE NOTICE. That J. S, Jerome, Dentist is making beautiful sets of teeth for eight dollars, and inserting the Patent Airchamber. All work guaranteed. Office in Chisholm Blook, Wingham. Wingham General Hospital (Under Government inspeotion) Pleasantly situated. Beautifully fur- nished. Open to all regularly lioensed physicians, RATES FOR PATIENTS - (which include board and nursing), $3.50 to $15.00 per week according to location of- room. For farther Information, address Miss J. E. WELSH, Superintendent, Box 228, Wingham Ont. r RAILWAY TIME TABLES. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. TRAINS LEAVE TOR London 8.40 a.m-_ 8.80p,m, Toronto &East 11.08 a.m8.45 a.m...- 2.40p.m. Kinoardine..11.57 a.m... 2.08 p -m-.,, 9.15p.m, ARRIVE ERO:'d Kincardine -.6.40 a.m 11.00 a.m.. -. 2.40 p.m. London........ ........ 11.54 a.m...- 7.85 p.m. Palmerston.............. 10.80 a.m. Toronto & East 2.08 p.m.... 9.15 p.m. W. HENRY, Agent, Wingham. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. TRAINS LEAVE TOR Toronto and Eget.. W .... 6.37 a,m, 8.16 p.m. Teeswater 1,00 p.m... --10.24 p.m, ARRIvii r'ROM Teeswater... ..........6.87 a.m...., 8.16 p.m. Toronto and East :. ...LOC p.m -..10.24 p,m. .2, H. DEBMER. Agent,Wingham. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy 1S UNEQUALED FOR Coughs, Colds and Croup. • LUMBER CUT OF 1909.E Reduction Shown by Reports From More Than 30,000 Sawmills. Every farmer in the United States must be interested in the lumber pro- duced. During the year 1908 31,231 sawmills in the United States manu- factured anntactured 33,289,369,000 feet of lumber, according to a preliminary report is- sued by the bureau of the census. These mills also cut 12,100,483,000 shingles and 2,980,684,000 lath. Lum- ber manufacturing, like every other Industry, felt the effects of the busi- ness depression tvbieh began in Oc- tober. 1907. Consequently the produc-1 tion in 1908 was below that for the previous year. In 1907 the cut of 28,850 sawmills was 40,250,154,000feet, the highest production ever recorded.' Noth withstanding, therefore, that in 1908 reports were received from 8 per cent more mills than in 1907, the de- crease in lurnber cut reported by them was slightly over 17 per cent. Washington, as for several years, still ranks first among the states in lumber production, its cut in 1908 be- ing 2,915,928,000 feet -a decrease of 22.8 Mer cent over the cut In 1907.. Nearly all the lumber manufactured In Washingtou is Douglas fir, the mar- ket for which was seriously affected by the panic. Louisiana ranks second, with 2,722,421,000 fret, a decrease of 250,000,000 feet, or 8.4 per cent, from the cut in 1907. Louisiana is first in clic production of both yellow pine and cypress. Mississippi was the Iltirtl state in lumber production in 1005 with a total of 1,801,010,000 feet --a decrease of 11 per cent from the cut in 1007. Arkansas ranked fourth with 1,650,- 091,000 feet, a decrease of nearly 17 per cent from the previous year's out- put, utput, and Wisconsin fifth with 1,613,- 315,000 feet against 2,003,279,000 feet in 1907. In Texas, where the lumber Industry is confined almost exclusively to yellow pine, the falling off was very, heavy. The total cut of the state in 1908 was 1,524,008,000 feet, a decrease of 31.6 per cent from the cut in 1907. Eight other states manufactured more than one billion feet each of lumber last year. In the order of im- portance they were: Michigan, Oregon, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Al- abama, North Carolina and West Vir- ginia. California, Maine and other states which reported more than one billion feet each in 1907 went just be- low that figure in 1908. While there are many very large sawmills in the United States, the small mills far outnumber the large ones. Many of these small mills are in the states which are not now of first rank in lumber production. The statistics for New York were collected by the forest, fish and game commis- sion of that state, which secured re- ports from 2,291 mills. In Pennsyl- vania 2,224 mills reported to the cen- sus, and in Virginia 1,937 mills. Yellow pine, Douglas fir, white pine, oak, hemlock and spruce, in the order named, were the woods cut into lum- ber in the largest quantity. Sixteen Melons In Two Layers. • The basket shown in the accompany- ing illustration is of the half bushel climax type. It bolds sixteen melons, packed in two layers. The bottom of the basket is smaller than the top and 0 HALF BUSInEL OF CASTA_LOUPE . must have smaller melons. The top layer must come one and a half inches a0ove the basket edge to permit proper covering. The packer must see that every melon is placed firmly in posi- tion, and the basket must present a neat and attractive appearance. How Men Differ. The difference in men is often aston- ishing. The corn growers near Des Moines, Ia., have been satisfied with a crop bringing $12 an acre, and yet the son of a stonemason recently came among them and made as high as $400 an acre out of tomatoes. In the last seven years this young man has made $18,000 worth of im- provements on a little farm of only thirty-two acres. He uses very little manure, but a great deal of water. ITe makes $2,500 a year on lettuce alone. Other men find farming a slow business, while this young man makes a fortune out of it with all ease. The difference is certainly strange. Remedy For Sick Calves. A stockman claims that when calves three or four days old become sick and dip with scours it Is due to indi- gestion, apparently, and yields to treatment with pepsin if taken in time. A teaspoonful twice a day giv- en in a little Warm milk after feeding will cure it and if given when the calf [ is born An d continued for a few will prevent It. The pepsin is the common kind sold in drug stores and can be purchased by the pound. Good Hay, Good hay can only be made by cut- ting the grass as soon as it heads out aid clover as soon ne the heads are in full bloom, It Is d mistake to wait until the heeds turn brown. There le nothing in the theory that stinsliine alone makes hay. Air is as much a factor as sunshine. Curing mainly 181 the windrows and haycocks Is now practiced by many of our beat hay;