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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-04-13, Page 3' 'Irf„,. • SPRING TREE PLANTING, There ie a difference a opinion As to Choi( e of tiering or fall for planting trees. The argnment in favor Of fall planting is that the earth becomes tally Bottled around the trees, and the following spring finds thelli ready to Start and grow with vigor. The advo- eittesin oevur of wiring planting claim equally aa good. roeults from careful a met. Thu make -early purchases oe mem, deeming it absolutely neceesary for 1:violent1y unseruinilouti or carelees &alone do not hesitate to dig up trees irom the nureery even after buds have eommented their growth. Young trees should be planted, as they aro surer to grow, have more and better small fibrous mote, will adapt themeelvea quicker to the 8011 and location, aud with equal watching aud rare will grow so vigorously as to ex. cell older trees both in abundance of fruit, size, health and earituese of bearing, at is a mistake to choose etandard aPples, pear, plum or cherry trees that are more than two years old, and dwarf trees one year old, Too great care cannot be taken in chewing the soil, A soil that is sandy is leaelly, contains no moisture, and is liable to draught. A. very beavy, clay- ey soil is directly opposite—too wet, tough anti adhesive; tew or no fruit trees do well in it. A gravelly soil is Lucily more deeirable, But a deep, loamy, or alluvial soil may elways form a good choice. The land should be well drained, Trees should not be planted where there is the remotest chance for water to settle and stand near the shrface. Such land will surely ruin the tree and blight all hope for fruit. In starting large orchards two teams are generally used. The first team Plows to the depth of one foot a strip eix feet or more wide. The second team follows with the subsoil lifter and stirs to the depth of two feet. A. etrip of the same width is then crime - plowed in the saine manner. This done, holes are dug one foot or more deep, three feet in diameter, and the three is placed, at the same depth as when removect from its former place. The earth is then replaced, care being taken not to bend nor cram the rootlets of the trees, and abundance of lateral room is allowed for the growth of the roots, Many inexperienced per - eons lose their trees from too deep setting. No tree should be set lower In the earth than its original position. Where the ground has not been plowed and subsolled the planter must invariably dig his holes two feet deep and four or more wide. Before the earth is put back in the hole aud is placed around the roots of the tree the earth should be mixed with a good eompost of ashee, well - rotted etable manure and chip man- ure. Leafnaold, muck and lime may all form part of the compost. Let a large Portion of the compost be placed be- neath, but ant in contact with the roots of the tree, and the remainder on the surface of the ground, to act as a mulch. The.quantity will vary, accord- ing to the size of the tree, from a half - bushel upward. The effect will be most marked and the growth aetonishing. Shoulg any of the roots become mut- ilated or bruised they must be pared off with a sharp knife to prevent de- cay—cue back on the underside until the sound wood is reached. Nearly all trees that come from the nurseries have lost some of their roots and their branches must be shortened in the same proportion. At the time of planting all branches should be prun- ed back to three or four buds from the base of eaeh branch. All large trees require stakes, while young trees will not, if firmly set •Wliere stakes are used, they meet he Ifa.stened in the ground first and the tree planted by the side, and carefully !tied so they will not chafe. Mulching is almost indispensable. The earth should rise like a small mound toward the truuk of the tree, and over this should be a mulch two Inches deep of hay, half -composed manure, sawdust or tan bark. It not only saves the labor of cultivation, but prevents the moisture ,Of the soil from evaporation, renders the temperature more uniform, and prevents injurious effects from frost. The mulch should extend beyond the tips of the roots. The ground should be cultivated carefully, uever allowing grain crops nor root crops of an injurious nature to grow in the field. Neither should grass nor weeds be permitted. The cul- tivation and manuring incident upon the growing! of some kind of judi- cious crop between the rows, at pbta- toes or beets, or turnips, will always Prove beneficial. Where no crop is grown there must be frequent cultiva- tion, stirring the soil two or three inches in depth. A thorough mellow stirring of the soil is nearly equal to manure. When securing trees from a dis- tance, the trees are often dried. They may be restored by immersion for a day or two in water or thick mud, No water should be used in planting, as it tends to harden and bake the surface of the earth, and has always proved injurious. All the moisture necessary will be supplied by mulch- ing. When buying trees, obtain them from eome reliable nursery. Never pat- ronize traveling swindlers. Examine the branches and roots carefully and contirittally for insects, worms, or borers. This should be done several tintes during each groleing sea. son. FARM NEWS AND VIEWS. 13arnyard manure is highly desirable where the coil IS rattler thin or close. The manure supplies both humus and plant toed, and for that reason is ece- nomical. It is a Waste product at the 'barn, but valuable to the gardener. Preparedness for the orchardist and the gardener coneiets in having a spraying .outfit with poison e and other materials ready to attack at the first provocation, Tide will maintain the troy and be a means. of honorable peace. The garden not only saves living cest, but it affords a living worth while. With a good garden, a home orehard, meat and bread, ell of which may be raised on the farm, there- is little likeliimed that the farmer will rtarve. Every gardener and growor of man feline Shuhld. /MVO h. spraying outfit end be reaey for war in time of peace, is the kind of preparedness teat rays; it lo the preparedness that in- euree fruith and vegetablee. After in - :ea re oat a mart it is tooto spray. • VprOying ShOtad be done when the ler e inAttis are son and before they eerayer ishandy this may be done, reproduce their young. Wien the VAL, yfacAKEs WeittEii COMPRinni *NN4iTONT0,91.4:4,00, ti' ,„„, " MADf IN CANADA liat been Catuala's favorite yeast kin more than forty. you!, Enough for 5c, to produce O large loaVet Wholesome flour- Ming home made bread, Do not experiment, there is nothing just as good, EW,GILLETT CO. LTD TORONTO, oNT. WINNIPEG MONTREAL an- eereeag=-a,e- eilet gee eaaliteal "p but if one must wait several days till oue may be ordered it may be too late. Arm yourself and be prepared. Should there be no needf swaying, you will have your °atilt for future use. Montana wool growera made $1,000,- 000 more from their 1915 wool cane than from that of 1914, though the 1915 crop Was 4,000,000 .pounds less than. in 1014. • A writer in Inland Farming relates some strong facts about the horse and the way he sleeps. Even when not confined in stalls horses seldom lie ! down for more than an hour each Inight—that period being usually about midnight, The horse seems to prefer to rest standing up; stablemen have reported that some horses in their rare have never been seen to sleep lying down. One animal had never been seen to lie down for more than 15 years. It is said that the horse sleeps "with one eye open," and is con- stantly on guard. Ms ears are con- tinuallyturning and twisting so as to catch the slightest noise; not even an Indian in moccasins can approach a eieeping horse undetected. 4 LISTEN FOR THE BRONCHIAL WHEEZE WHEN YOU BREATHE BEERY It means that disease lvill soon at- tack the lungs. Wheezing is distress- ing to the sufferer and anuoying to his friends. Nothing half so certain in bronchitis and throat trouble as "Catarrhozone"; it gives instant,reller and cures even the worst Cases. Bron- chitis fairly flees 'under the magic in. fluence ot Cato.rrhozone, which cures so thoroughly the disease never re - tarns. Other remedies may relieve, but Catarrhozone cures bronchitis, ca- tarrh and throat trouble for all time to collie. Beware of dangerous substitutes meant to deceive you for genuine Ca- tarrhozone, which is sold everywhere. Large size, containing two months' treatment, costs $1.00; small size, 50c; sample size, 25e. 4r1F4.4-4-4-*4-4-4-4-4-4.4-0 •-• 4-4* IANTIQUES One of the best regarded objects, in an collection of antiques, is the clock, and it would be a fairly safe argument to give the "time -keeper" credit for baying started more antiquarian col- lections than any other of the articles Of absolute necessity in every house- hold. "Timekeepers" mark the subdivi- sione of a day, The ancient Persians divided the nay into 'twenty-four hours, with sunrise an the commence- ment of each day. The Athenian day began at sunset. Astronomers count the hours continuously from one to twenty-four, beginning at noon. Our day begins at midnight, and is divided into two equal periods of twelve hour3 each, A she -glow seems to have been the earliest form of time recording, but heat and water were early requis- Mooed for same purpose. "Water -clocks" of very remote an- tiquity :were known to the, Egyptians, Babylonians and Phoehicians, and were used threughout the ages even to as late a date as the seventeenth century. One form of water -clock was sim- plicity itself, just a bowl of water placed so that the water eould trickle' through a spout into a receiver mark- ed to show the time by the depth of the water receie-cd. Southern India had a "water -clock" worked in the opposite way; a thin copper bowl shaped like the half of an egg shell, with a small hole at the ex. tremity, was floated upon water, and could be aregulated by the size of the hole and the teraperature .01 the Water, to fill and sink at a given time. Sermons and :speeches seem to have been "clocked" by the sandglass in very early times, but the degree of ac- curaey.by this medium seems to have beetCdetermined by the manner of preparing the eand; one curious pres- cription for this involving the prepar- ation of ground black marble dust, which had been boiled hi wine, and af- ter being thoroughly dried the grind- ing to be repeated nine times, It is not known exaetly when Wheel actuated by *weights camo into use as -clocks. As early at 606 A. D. we hear of a command for "clock% and dials to be set up 131 churches to dietinguish the hours of the day," but possibly these were of the "sun -dial" order. As the word "clock' signifies a kind of bell a eneehanical contrivance of some kind must bleve superseded the "shadow" method When it Was coined. A thirteenth century coutrivanee de- ecribed as "resembling internally a celestial globe, in whieh figures of the sun, moon, and other planete„ toreled with the greatest skill, moved beitg impelled by weights and wheels,' is Auffielent proof that the clock Was In evideneo at that perfect( Contrivances for tellitg the -time by the striking of a belt seeto to have been in Ittie before the. NMI' made its appearance as part of a 'clock, but We hear of clock dials Carly lit the four- teenth century. Some of these forerunners of the "Wag o' the moil" and the "grand- fathers clocks," gave opportunities to artiste and erafthmen to -exercise their skill and ingenuity, but the-*antigtiee" just named very materially widened this read to greeter advantages for all. A PROJECTING PERSONALITY. "Cap, Weil bane to let tine reerult go.e 1 "Why?" window. If .we put him it the front "He weighs e,,10 palladia meetly bay Irank it kills the alignment. And if We stick him in the rear rank he's III the front rank too,"—Itansas City bur - nal. TE BES wAy To Olean a Lot of Things in tIs3 Ala Now. To clean ornament, die a piece of flannel la ammonia an I rub the article, To clean et paSementerie, reb 1-. with a cloth dipped in equal-1mM of alcohol and Water. Dry it inunedi- etely with a clean clothe To clean raincoats, eponge With A nilatere of alcohol awl ether,to which is addral a tenleepooltful of ammonia to a pint 01 the liquid. . --.. iTo clean 'white leather belts, rub ; them with a pieee Qf white flannel which los been diPpee in powderel ; borax. To freelon Peel, epolige it with eltiorofornt. 'To remove sticitY spots from earpet, rub them With salt and alcohol. 44 PILES CURED at HOME by New Absorption Method ...••••••••••,•••••00.0... If you suffer from pleading, itching, blind or protruding send me your address, and I will tell you how to cure yourself at home by the new absorption treatment; and will also send some of thie home treatment free tor trial, with referencefrom your own locality if requested. Iinruediate relief and permanent cure assured. Send no money, but tell others of this offer. Write to -day to Mrs. M. Summers, Box P. 8, Windsor, Ont,. SEEKING HAPPINESS. • Little Things That Make Living a Joy Not Always Appreciated. • We are told that happineee comes by pieces and that it is these email bits linked together that. make oar /Wes worth' while. Some of us are not content to take our happiness by de- grees or at intervaIs..We want it all the time in big pima, ate if we ean- not bave it that way We think that we aro deprived of our eatural rights mid look upon otu'se1ve. as human beluga, it is a rather singular expressionof human oature how happiness affects the individual. Willi some of as 11 makes us friendlier toward others and anxious that they :should experience like joys; with others 1 makes us too satiefied with ourselves to think very much of our neighbors. Perhaps those of as who know wbat the joy ot living means have experi- enced both of these attitudes at dif- ferent periods of our lives and are in position, therefore, to appreciate a varying viewpoint, but even so it is only after we lose eomething of that Joy of living and have found out for ourselves that there are shadows which 110 amount of sunlight can dieperso that we can readily appreciate the bieesing of whatever happiness may find its way into our lives. The little thing's that count so much in cur intercourse with each other are not always regarded to highly as they ellould be, and for this reason we.pass by Much. that would give us jov If we only knew how and where to fine it, MInard's Linment used by ph yslcians KEEP CHILDREN WELL To keep little ones well the beWole- muet be kept regular and the stem - met mot.. Nine -tenths of childhood ailments. are =sea by -derangements of these organs. liabyni Own Tablets never fail to regulate the stomach and bowels—tliat is why tholisands of mo- thers wattle give no other Medicine to their little (My& Concerning them Aire, Chao, A, Turner, Marie Joseph, N. ta, writes: "Wo have been using Baby's Own Tabletsoff and on for the past year anti a half, and love found nothing to equal them." The Tahlete aro sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25- cents a, box from The Dr. Williams' •Medicine Co., Broekville, Ont, A SETTER WORLD. Deevito the ruck e.t.a rein. 1110 ag011Y And tears. The curse of war anti battle, 'lite anguish awl tint rears; Domino Um tatter hatred Alia heMee made aesolnte, 4. better, granoer, tuture The coming clays await. Vrom out the seething cauldron, A brighter world snail riee, The thieatanier (.110t208 shun vanish rrom overhanging skies; The world NVill ,httve grown better Orem ordeals passeo through, wlIlootg;11.1h,00toidd brn beotInitioit'lLtte ow, A. gentle Welter broc.e.ng O'er fields where carnage reigns, Tho individual soldier His honesty retains; • 'the hate is 'along the leaders 13y mad ambitions fired, The rank and file have longed for - 4, peaeo so much desired, Evils shall be Uprooted Which through the years 'have grown, Bight in the end shall conqeer What's wrong be overthrown; False theories shall vanish And vain ambitions cease. Tne wide world reap the glory Of universal peace. Through throes of purIfyiny Humanity shall gain; The progress of the ages Was born of grlef.and Pain: The grander the achievement, More great is the sacrifice; But progress now as ever Must I:MY the bitter price. —Augustus Treadwell in the Brooklyn Timesi •-• o $11000 REWARD 1! ror a Case of Inantble Con- . stinati . .. To any person who cannot be ellted of Conatfpation by Dr. Hamilton' Pills, the above reward will he paid. No medicine gives each lasting sat- isfaction or effects such marvellous cures as Dr. Hamilton's Pills, Relief instantly follows the' use. That blinding headache goes forever, that feverish feeling in the skin IS soothed away, bilious fits and stomach clieor- tiers are stopped. Don't be nervous about twang Dr. Hamilton's Pills; they are mild enough for a child to use, yet certgen and effective in action, in ilia most chronic cases. Get a 25c box to -day; they bring and keep robust good health. Keep Minard's Liniment in the house Boiled Nettles, The countrymaii knows more about economy than t te townsman when it cones to a matter of vegetables correspondent reports a conversation overheard lin a vill res Er inn Hertford Vegetables were uellreleralisca°ssCiong, raacned: shire in th s p spinach *was mentioned. Not bad, ono gourmet admitted, "but give me net- tles," an inquiry has shown that the two .Considering how many keys a piano are not dissimilar In taste. Another for - has, it is curious how few of them are giotten "vogetalile" is the primrose. I rimrose pasties were once 5 popular kept locked. dee) itt Lancashlre.—London Sta»dard, The Kau 'With a Dream. He Islay be right or ha may be wrong', Ile may be tidse or lie may he truc • Thu JJ1111Wr is erten more than tito nn;, The idea niore than the man, perdue! But right or wron,g there':i in-- Full to the brim eticli glorious minute -- WWII the mon with the &rout gees Nab, to oce Witat the world and the man and the dream may bet And tho stop may ulna and the brave go down, And the wrong may triumph and know rio met— But one man inure may lieve won a crown Fur trying a little t0 do his best! And the AirealA Won't hurt, mei the seed, may WOW In a fertile heart that will come In time To help it sprout and hole it grow Itt tho sun and rain or a kindlier clime! It is so with dreams, and *with men that dream -- None even know what there is in store TlIl he followthe path. of the luring' leam. OrgWhether it leads to peace or war; leer without the dream there Is never a deed That is worth the hour it costs to de— And the man with the vision is this day's • need-- Wor man may be false. but the dream IS true? —Baltimore Bun. Mir:lard's Liniment Co., Limited: Dear Sirs,—Your MINARD'S LINI- MENT is our remedy for sore throat, colds and all orditary allmente. It never fats to relieve and cure Promptly, CHAS, WHOOTEN, Port Mulgrave, . • ,00/11010.11,01••••410.1•41.1101.11.41•0, Wanderings of, Minor Planets. Tlie "Mislaying" of the minor plan - Os is sometimes due to their actually failing to keep their appointments at die places where, According to calcula- tion, they ought to be. Azi instance is the case of No, 153, otherwise known as Hilda, Dr. Palisa discovered her in 1875 a,nd calculated her orbit. But attempts to find her again failed, and site was almost given up as lost until Dr. Palisa found her again in 1879--a long way, however, from where she had been expected. The discrepancy was caused by the effect upon Hilda of the attraction of .7upiter, of whom she is a comparatively near neighbor. For these little planets are scattered over a wide belt. eilida, gets within 33,000,000 nines of the rbit of Jupiter, and Aethra at times actually conies nearer to the sun than Mars ever does. —Laiedou Chronicle. • ee. Minerd's Liniment Lumberman's grand. • The Things That Come Hard, "I am happy became it is so carry for me to 'Write," said a beginner to one of the great musters of French Dross.. “Ge home and pray," said the mas- ter, 'that it may come hard." It is so of writing. So of thinking, so of life. The easy thing is barely worth doing. The bo.rd thing is worth do- ing, though the end be foilure. A goal, to make which one falrly tugs at life and yet miseee, is better than victory softly Won. SO Often the man who speaks eas-ilY tells no least, While the sparing worda one wrenches from a taciturn speaker are imbedded 'in theught. Shakeepeare eaid that Gratiano talked more than any other man in all Venice. Bet he compared his speeeh to a bushelof ehaff in which lay hidden a single grain of wheat and that not worth the finding. The food which is taken to nour- ish the body, and keep up vigor and strength becomes a poison to the sys- tem when digestion fails. You feel drowsy after meals, lose appetite, suffer from constipation, have pains in the bowels and through the body. Instead of being digested, the food ferments and gives rise to gas or wind on the stomach, which crowds about the heart, causing suffocating feel- ings and derangements of the heart's action. Resort to aids to digestion cannot afford more than temporary relief, for the trouble is caused by torpid, sluggish action of the liver and bowels. These organs must be awakened so that they, will filter the poisons from the blood and remove from th6 system the accumulating waste matter. Ilere lies the cause of indigestion and dyspepsia, and neglect only leads to chronic and complicated derangementd, which de- stroy- all comfort and shorten life. The ideal treatment for indigestion is Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, 'because they promptly and positively remove the - cause of trouble. Acting 4direetly and spe- cifieally on the liver, kidneys and bowels, they cleanse the system of all impurities, and their occasional use keeps these filter- ing and excretory organs regular and ac- tive, The blood is purified, pains and aches disappear, and. suck derangements as in- digestion, constipation, biliousness, back- ach and kidney derangements are cured. One pill a dose, 25 cents a bo:t, all dealers, or krimansott, Bates Ss Co,0 Limited, Toronto. Do not be talked into accepting a substitute. Imitations disappoint. * Dr. Chases ),Ice400 floo1r MOO i.dected reekoes, sent tree. 0 'on mention Me ************************ i THE 1 POULTRY WORLD ;......40...40444.••••••• vA.m..; imooDlat The main essential when the chicks are received ana placed under any hover is to have and maiuteln, especially for the firet ten days or two weeks, a uniform temperature of front 90 to WI degrees, and lmaatutily lowering thin as the ad,444 grow stronger and elder. taking' always tile Weather contiltione tutu considera- Loin. In the colt1 'weather uf early spring tho niche need and thrive better with time heat than later In the SPrIng when fe warmer. The beginner should bear ill 101110 00.1 a Melt brooder '/1ii1e 11 binot iratr ebt telorthoapil aolotge teraceritatoeulIa.. compelled, tu stay in a temperature from 100 to 110 or over for any length of time, nevertheless It is not es harmful as 11 the heat went down to 70 or 80 degrees, growth. frein which the ebleits ?lenient, If chilled chick; and it the resit ts are itot fatal they at least cause a cheek in the efuvreroulfttiweity, it,ehcoosNeln.c.onditions means In a, measure the chicks confined to the high temperature eat& get,awaY freln 11 Iiy eroweing to the edge of the Dover. %Ilia applies pray to the smolt hovers, for in the large hover, with a capacity of froxn 110 Welts up each eltlek can seek Its oen temperature and at the same time have ample ventilation, which is so essential to the welfare of brood- er eldelts. Where there is a lack of heat chicks must suffer, resulting in chilled peeps, und check. In growth If not a larg,e death rate. So the les- ser of the two evils is rather more heat hovertoo little. In operating the lerger bover$ plenty of heat is essential. A thing to guard against, however, Is lack ofnouyeon1t1ilautlinont.mtritTehtestototlaorngley glihrrocodtteitirl !latent heat, but warm the room in whleh they are 1114000 and one of the main es- sentials to thia combination is plenty of fresh air, Many of these brooders have been condemned because the operator niacin? them Itt a room or colony house that was much too small for the capacity of the stove. Again scone have Dad sue- cese In early spring when the .weather was cold, hut when April and May came, with warmer weather, difficulty was Lound in keeping the temperature down in the chick gearters and yet maintain- ing. the desired beat under tho hover. Thls can be avoided by the purchase of the right size brooder 45e0 placing it tri colony houses that have room and win- dows enough to. secure the Droner ventila- ti°11. A.vold crowding, the one evil that is in- dulged in by even poultry keepers of some experience and who should and In many eases do, know better, but each, year take a chance. When the first long poultry houses with their good ventilation came Into populerity, big units, especielly among the largo commercial Leghorn plants, were considered the prone!: thing. 11 cut down tbe operating- expense con- elderably, and In many cases the units were made too large and while tlie oner- ating expense was lowered, the profits also dwindled. So, with the brooder, es- pecially the newer coal gas 02' 011-bat'11221FE type. Tho rated cepacity was as a rule, plabed too- high, and the average poultry keeper has found by experience that one-half the rated capacity was the spurcopeeesrs number to be obtained the best Tnat brooder Improvement has made wonderful strides over the old death - trees of a few year past Is beyond dis- pute. and the beginner that selects, one of the high-grade brooders now on the mitiket will have success. Providing that ant!the Urge sefltiajs Itti?0,710tri. lev41111 ttlemperature, especially for the first in aVsthit tag i al _will s that 31(11 not subject the chicks to draughts. loyotrirksti tiftd etita of Ifje Tho poultry keeper wisbes the best in eggs for hatchlng, day-old chicks. or must expect to pay a fair priee. :von tr is graded in. the same manner as other lines of stock are graded, ae- (lording tc the breeder and what that. breeder's stock stands for In merit, Not 1.11 flocks are alike, and there is a big difference In the strains of one breed due wholly to the skillfulness of the breed- er. The beginner in poultry sbould plan for an early start. Winter eggs are loUlffertihPiincgektioilEtitnhoeilatrlynealinutsot haVe a fair egg yield during Vole winter months, nhen hen frett is at Its highest. For good fertility the breeders should not be forced for egg Production. A good dry mash should be fed with not over 19 per cent, of beef scraps, especially for the Iteagy breeds. E'xereise Is im- portant' Never allow the fowls to be- comes sluggish. Fertility is largely due to the manner In which the hens o.re handled. Many poultry keepers are afraid of fresh air for their poultry, For a num- ber of years the press haa put before the nubile the importance of good ventila- tion for poultry. yet in Spi-te of this, a large number of poultry keepers still cling to the old method of Closed poultry buildings. GHOSTS OP THE LIVING. A Case That Throws Light On the Problem of Apparitions. It is not at all -necessary to resort to the superaatural as the only sufficient explanation et apparitions. In truth, there is one insurnaeutta.ble obstacle to regarding them as supernatural manifestations,. am' that is the simple eircumstanee. that the ghosts wear clothes. It is quite conceivable that there really may be ghosts of persons, but nobody who gave the matter a sec- ond thought would contend for a mo- ment that there can be ghosts of clothes. Nevertheless apparitions are always -clothed and sometimein gar- nferite of such modern cut that they were unkaown at the time the person seen as a phantom lived on earth. Aside from this, there is the inter- esting and by no meats unimportant circumstance that houees aro some- times haunted by apparitions not of the dead, bet of tile living. I know of one case in which a gentleman en- tering a drawing room at 4 in the afternoon saw seated on the oda a Young lady with reddish gold hair, who appeared to be reading a book. There were twe other persons in the room, one seated beside her on the aofa, •and the 'visitor was surprisee to find that they did not offer to intro - dupe Ilan to the young lady— did not, in fact, seem to see her, Later a guest at a week end party saw the same ap- parition it the tome house, and it was seen ae third time by one of the serv- ante. No tight Was thrown on the strange affair until, a year afterward, the wife ef the son of the family arrived from Australia to pay a first visit to her husband's relatives and was iminedi. ately identified by the servant as the figure she had seen. The two vieltors who also had seen the aPperition sub - Sequently made the same identifica- tion. Since it is incredible to suppose that n. parson can be in two places at the same time—so that a lady can be both Atotralla and in a house thousands Of miles from Australial—it le a legiti- Mate inference that phantasms, wheth. er ef the living or of the dead, are de- void of objeetive reality, are, that le to say, 11,1NVIIY0 and only lialitteitatiOns,— nietropolitan Magazine, - •,. BOY ORIMINALS, wen Moines Capon The boys who are tOadaY committing erItnes are generallY doing it to obtain money 'With which to finnan° Weil pas. slim, Work IS the etletnY of OVI1 pas. SlAtintlI And beseball and all outdoor north, ant to preventives or crime, cow- ettleory military drill in the schools and collegeWenn? do the seine. Military drill beads uu 511110. and the nrcud youth generally undertakes to kerb good etnrmitriir. The respotisibility of parents Is great, and they err on the aide of too much love for their children. When a boy 18 with a number of other boys in stealing en t.utomobile, and the parente back the boy up in denying that he had anything to do With It whee they know he rild, that boy is rm the war tO rube 0.nd the tog.reata lira to blame in a great measura. ZAM-BOK CURED IN 2 MONTHS After 2.Year Useless Treatment The healing power of Zara-lluk is So much greater than that of other Watt - meats, that it has cured irt niany COMM when all other ointMente nave failed. One stich instance is that of Mr. Eerie na Gardiner, of Marquis, Sask., Who writes: -."Por two years r saffefeti with a bad attack of ealt-rheum on mY feet, During those two years I tried eVery knOWII relliedY, but •could find noth- ing that would cure Me disease. Then I heard Of Zam-Bult, and cemIlleaced using it, After the Met few applica- tions I notice ate improvement, and this encouraged me to ceatinue. Al- though I had eufferea for two yeare, after only two months` treatment with Zam-I3uk I ern completely cured." ZarroBuk is equally good for eczema, uleer8, abscesses,' blood poisouing, piles, cold sores, clopped hands, chil- Walrus, eruptions, etc. At all drug stores, 500 beX, Or from Zain-Bilic Toronto, • Science Short Ones, Japan lia,s fifty-eight goal mines. Sweden has 5,000 co -Operative eoeie- ties. hz Denmark there are 10,000 womea enioaists, The billboard is prohibited in Manila by legal enactment. The olive crop of Calitornia is worth $2,000,000 annually. The iron ore deposits of Sweden are estinaated at 1,300,000,000 tons. • All steel trolley cars are now run- ning between New York and Boston. Nea,rly 300,000 persone are employed on the electric roads of the United - States. •Sixty thoueand tons of iron Ore Were talon frone the soil of Ireland last year, It is claimed that there are more varieties of flowering plants in New South Wales than in all Europe, .Bicycling in India is interfered with by the hordes of mosquitoes, which not only attack the rider, but pierce the tires of the machine. The largest forest in the world is that in the Labrador-leurison Bay dis- trict, which covers an area about 1,000 by 1,700 miles. To get rid of a tree stump in Ger- many they bore a hole in the stump and pour into it equal parts of nitric and sulphuric acids. After a few weeks the largest stumps of hardwood are eaten by the acid and easiiy crumbled with a pick. Ask for Minard's and take no other. SPEED OF PROJECTILES. How the Velocity of Cannon Balls and Bullets is Measured. How fast does a bullet travel? The higbest velocity ever given to a can- non ball is 1,626 feet per second. This 10 equal to a mile in little more than three seconds, or nearly twenty mike a minute. • A rifle bullet does not travel so fast as a cannon bail, the average rate being 1,275 feet per second. This mat- ter of speed is tested in a very inter- esting way. A long wooden shed is weed, in winch a distance ot exaetly 100 feet ilea been carefully marked off, At each end of this space is a stand something like a target with a large circular opening where the bull's-eye should be. Across each opening is stretched a small electric wire,- connected w;th delicate instrument in another room. Tha rifle from Which the firing' is done is so aimed that the bullet which flies from it cuts both wires. Obviously the difference in time between the milting of the two wires marks the sPeccl of the bullet through that 100 feet. When the first wire is cut an elee- tric current is broken and a rod falls, inc-ring a pointer on a slide in its tiestent. The breaking of the second wire acts in the same maner on an- other sot of rods, slidand pointers, The difference in the marks made by the pointers on the elides taalcea it poesible to estimate the difference in their time tif falling, and from these calculations accarate figures as to speed are obtained,—London Answers, LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE. In one of the Southern States the negroos are great patrons of a metre menial agency. One negro, anxious to find a wife for his eon, went to this agent, who handed him his list Of lady clients, Running through this the man came upon his own wife's name, entered as desirous oe obtaining a nus band between the ages of twenty - dant and thirty-five. VI:netting about his son, the clarity hurried home to announee his discov- ery to his wife. She was not at all disturbed. "Yes," she sold, "I dote give hite Me tante, I puts it &len wheti you Wag so eick hi de winter and de doc- tor says we must prepare for de Worst' Tibetan Penal Code, The Tibetan penalty code is curl- ous. Murder is punished with a flee varyhig aecoteing to the itnportexce of the slain; theft by a fine of stoma 10 one Inquired times the value of the article Edelen. Here, again the flee depends On the social importance of the person from whom the theft has eemtaitted. The harborer of a thief is lOoked upon as a worse crixt- inal than the thief ititesele Ordeals by fire and by boiling water are still used as nr0Ofe Of intecence or guilt, exactly as Was the custom in Europe in the middle ages, And if the lamas never inflict death they are adepts at tortttre. *efiggie Went -to elturelt lest 8undnY end everyone Willi 'Melted bectatee he entered by the tido door.° "Porde of habit, Probably. Mee so 'Used V, those ZuticItty side -door You never eatt tell. The lightest literature may have the heaviest sale IN l‘INMORIAST. 'Twas Treth'i3 young soldier lay, in serest need. The Sadden call Joe come Witb, relvent. seed, "NOthing is left me now But ellent death. 1 must take leitee," he geld, Of body, breath. "Vela UP this half -Worn tent, Put it away Tender tile daisies, there, Against that day. "We Journey to ono and, To sleep aria wake; Tho Illgbt is thick with' akar% And day will break." And as ne spoke there fell rrora ont it place, The gold of heaven's full dawn tiPen- his faee, —Theodore Ile Rand. OUR FAIIX112.9. In many -Wm we all err. We try the bypatio, and the gleaming way, which seem to lead upward to the heights, seem to scale heaven bY a short and hazardous chinib. It is eome- thing if the thunder breaks and drives us down, or some tale ot the Waren, summit makes us wise ia time, so that" at any rate before death falls we fina eurselves withia the wicket - gate, on the right road, though far away. It is by failure more than by successes that God produces that re- sult, And therefore the true success, itt his eyes, is often what passes here as failure, NO MAN'S LAND It is an undiscovered country; it is not at the poles, not under the burp, mg equator not up the Nile or Area - eon, but nearer botrie; in the house, and nearer, in your own heart, "Wile can know it?" says the Book. Do you :mow? "Man, know thyself." The aardest task yet. No man los made a elart of this unknown sea his own eonscloustess. It is distina'from the body; it is in it, not of it; it is a ten- ant; gravitation bolds the body to the 3artb, but the ocean of coneciousness rolls past, a tidal wave, swelling, ris- ing; it tOttehes the betting of His chambers who dwelleth in light that Ne do not knew. It is a sem where all our thong -10e are drowned, says the poet, only the trouble is you cannot -drown thoughts; they are dressed in an insebmersible tunic, and like a cork they cannot sink Think of a sea crowded with fleets in- telligent and free, yet they touch ter- rific limitations of -space, on the one aand, and measure their time by the cloak; en the other hand, they move in a larger world, with absolutely no boundaries, where speed is apt meas- ured by miles, or success by money. The laingdom is within; there is a Kingdom and a King, and He is living, powerful and immediate. "He is over all and blessed for evermore." He is light; will you pursue your %tattles in its clay, or hang up a curtain and lwell in darkness? If you let down he sounding line, you will find no iottom, but exclaim with Paul, "Oh, ate dephths both of the wisdom and enowledge of God! How unsearchable ire Flie works, and His ways past haling out. 11 you take the wings )f the morning and dwell in the ut- termost parts, you will find that He :s there before you. The British navy can send a search- 'ight for mike and miles, He is the mat searcher of the heart; if you are wise you will pray, with another: 'Search me, 0 God, and know MY 'wart." Remember, this is very practical ovigation of these undiscovered seas. Tis not a watery wilderness, but °mi- ned and filled with intelligences, an - ;elle and human, who help no to dis- 'over. eould we but stand where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream nor depths con' flood Shall fright us from the shore. Intuition, indentation, whispers will .lome to the devout and trained ob- server and conclusions Will be arrived it which shall prove the personal ,roperty of every searcher. You can mid these precious treasurer against 11 comers, and laugh at all critics. ,'Hast thou faith? _Have it to thyself ofore God." Remember, there is a double person- tlity in every ease. He calls and we mswer. He gives and we receive. He ockons and we follow on to know the eord. The greater includes the less. 'Christ in you, the hope of glory." i'Te, like the mother bird, hides us un - 'ler the shadow of His wing. H. Tr. 'Miller, • •• Where is the Flag or tngland? The following spirited poem, ny an American writer, is a generous tribute to the British flag, and (1 pr»itzey of the =eh -desired moral alliance or the English-speaking- races: Moro is the flag or England? They ask On °Very hand. Some when a bitter hatred. Some with a loyal stand: Worshipped almost t..s a synitel, Then denounded am a rag. But somehow it still keeps wavhi.r en. Kissing the breeze till its work is done, That glorious English flag. Where Is tlie flag ef England? It waves the throne above Where a. good king reigns by the graee of 0:40d, Arid a people's boundless love; Of 411 the rulers earth now owes. However the world may brag, % ottreonbeedsobeyalEmngainadjuis,02 tfrlietieg.is seen, As George the Fifth the gracious Xing, Where is the flag of England? It floats on every sea, Borne by the hatids of the bravest men. And waving o'er the free: H. leads the way to *the battlefield, And the armies never lag, Foe soniehow or oilier they seem to loloW England has conquered every foe, .Led on by that wondrous flag, Where is the flag of Eng:zit? "fis floatiug o'er tbe free ,,reteeting every English Wherever he inaY het the greatoSt plater M1 earth may not The humblest sunieet drag tinjustly to a captive's fate, Jr it will feel the Dower irate Of England's Mighty flag. Where Is the flag et Englat,11 Not yet where yet 'twin be. Conjoined with "ottl glory" grand. The einblem nI the! free; poTrIlevrtongerresir.111114 tye,n aftid4 /lot te.):0a (11,:e1de'lvt:ter" ee( 'lel 1:18ete',0e7:eln7hiet11.1::40111n01:i t1,11. Stoll and_oblt.rs: tieLworid. — Rev. .7. 1e Hutchison. To keep white silk gloves from turn. log color, Wash in eniet Water with astIteeloap and tuld a little bitting to the rinsing water and dry in the