The Wingham Advance, 1917-07-19, Page 3(EXperilitental Faran Notea.)
While a maxlmten nreeluction 0C hOney
Is ot proaeing importance la this War.togd
year, get Increasing the bees tor next
mean meet not be neelected.
TtouPlY 'Peaking, the beset that are In
the hives at the Coramencernent of the
lioney.flow gather the crop, while the
areeil bullde up tne colony for next
Year, unless thine 14 to be another im-
portant honey -flow. Ws brood is 'very
tamable for toasting nraclel, becautse
these, started early with the laying
queen. or ripe queericell, will build 141)
Into strong colonies during the honey
flew Is the basin principle Upon Whi411,
an apiary can be quickly built up 'while
et the tame Vine an almost full honey -
crop is secured.
111 newly-fornied niiclei containing breed
in ell stages there Is always more or les4
desertion af b tea and consequent death
et the young brood and sometimes chill-
ing and derail of the older brood evert
when the nuclei are ekillfully mades by an
experienced a,piarist. Further, queens
may not be obtainable, or they may be
lost In introduction. Robbing of the new,
ly-forrued nuclei bas aloe to be guarded
aLeeinst, but duriug the height of the
honey -flow only carlessness will gram
this; towards its end, however, the dans
ger or robbing growa so great that it is
difficult to maintain neney.formed nuclei
asen lehen strong. Desertion may be
checked by stopping the entranee with
areas; the bees will make their way out
-when the grass dries and shrinks in
about two days, but care mat be taken
to avoid overcrowding the confined bees,
which 'would lead to stifling, especially
In hot weather. .A. good way to over-
come the loss of young brood te to place
the brood over a queen excluder a week
before Its removal from the parent hive.
This may be done in, the ordinary course
of relieving eongeetion in the brood
chamber tui a means to discourage
swarming, a frame or two of empty
comb or of foundation being placed in
the brood chamber when the brood is
rebeil. •
All ot these risks may be greatly mini -
Mired as follows: -
Have all the queens' wings clime:id (this
I s not essential), and when a colony of
a strain that it is (leered to propagate
swarms, metre the parent hive to a new
the etrenUottri life of the Wagerer, gather'.
era of pollen and nectar.
(food drainage is en important teethe
In Selecting muck 8011 tor profitable
onion growing
Tame- cannot be applied with profit ex-
cept to the trete muck 50114.
HOLD THE SEA IN WIXOM
T••••••••••araa,...1.1.1..t
Franco Built Dunes Along a 300.
,Mileout Lino,
Taa...a,a-aa^.•
1-.10w France oululeed ber shifting
Seed duneg ot a piece with Hot
lantre conquering the tem, A hundred
years ago France awoke to the hideous
threat contained in the sands of the
Bay ot Blecay, ceevering a coast line
of 800 miles. To auch au extent were
the gentle heing blown inland that the
most fertile portion of the country
eves threatened. Finally, yeara later,
came the idea, of a great lateral dune
along the entire coast 144 it means et
checking the eueneaching destroyer.
So France aet to work in earnest, and
after fairly starting, found a willing
helper lunature, Whieh completed the
task. The entire coast line was fringed
bY a fenep consisting of pasts driven
Into the ground at close Intervals. and
the spaces between them were inter-
woven with willow breeches and
brush. Soon tho strong winds blowing
he from the ocean panned a great wall
against this fence, and eventually it
was entirely covered with sand. Then
a second line of fence was erected on
the small lateral dune tali created. In
time this Sence was covered by the
sand wIlleli banked up against it. This
operation Was repeated Many times,
and then other means qt inerensing
the size of the dune were used.
Native grasses that thrive la sandy
soil were planted along tbe top of
the dune; this served to keep its
height as uniform as possible by pre.
venting the wind from carving iiiilenta-
dons in. the Mee of the pile. Pine
trees were planted along the top.
stand, and place the swarm iu an empty These served to cheek the wind-blown
hive on the old stand, the queen having
been plotted oft the ground and , laced sand as the fences had done in part
in the empty hive. Tire swarm will res
turn. to the new hive at the -old stand.
The field bees will now join the swarm,
and the super ehould be transferred from
the parent hive to the swarm which will
produce the crop of honey. The colony,
now depleted of bees but rich in brood,
Is divided a week later into three to six
nuclei, each nucleus consieting of two
or three triunes containing brood and
honey carrying two or three queen -cella
containing queens soon to emerge with
the edhering bees.
This method has the great advantage
that it not only controls and aatisfies
the troublesome ewarraing instinct but it
bees to seeure the deaired end e by ne-
ural mane. The honey gatherers are
segregated into a strong force, and the
brood, being mostly caPped, is not likely
to get ehilled; the bees desert neither
it nor the queen -cells readily, and all
trouble in raisipg and introducing queens
la avoided. The bee e in the newly forrn-
ed nuclei are in the post -swarming stage,:,
when their instinct is to spread them-
eelves over and ineubete as much breed
as possible, and espeolatly the queen -
cells.
The beginner. should Ise learned not to
deride the parent colony into too many
weak nuclei, but this fault may be recti-
fied in the autumn by uniting The ideal
conditions for building up nuclei are a
/dove honey -flow throughout August and
early September. Fortunately these are
stunted in most Canadian localities by
goldenrods, asters and buckwheat.
: Mismated queens should be replaced
any time up to the Drat or second week
• in October, preferably not during the
robbing season.
PEACH TREE BORER.
Borers are 0 source of great trouble to
trete. owners, ruining many fruit and or.
narnental trees every year.
The moth of the peace tree borer is
thin winged and of a bluish color. It
Jays its eggs at the base of the trunk
of tbe- tree just below tho surface of
the ground on the ba.rk of the tree.
Around most trees there is a space be-
tween the tree and the soil made by
the sWaying of the tree or the earth
drying up, and it is alere that the moth
&Mesas its eggs in the early summer.
The eggs latch early in August and
the litter white gruese so small they
can• scarcely be seen, begirt eating their
way into the bark of the tree.
in young trees the bark is pierced in
a few days, but it tatses them longer
te get through tho Walt of old tree.a.
Their presence: can be detected by the
YelIcevish brown ,povnler exuded and the
yellow gum formed by the sae of the
tree.
An old fruit grower suggests banking
up 'the earth around the base of The trees
early in May and removing the earth in
August. 'rhe eggs will be laid on the ele-
vated soll, which will fail to hatch If the
eon Is removed et the right time, and if
left until the eggs are hatched the borers
are easily feunn and -destroyed before
they get into the tree.
'the trees should be gone over every
iwo 'weeks and see that the soil is pack-
ed demi to the trees to preveat the meth
from depositing the eggs far below the
top of the little mound,
or eight inches nigh is sufficient for
taa -*minds amend young trees,- buts
with large treet eight to ten inches Is
Delp teo high.
NOTES.
years, and day by day the dune grew
in height and widened out. As it in-
creased in size more pine trees were
'planted. To -day a great forest, 2.600.-
000 acres in extent, fringes the coast
line as the result ot this initial expert,
ment. It represents France's greatest
MIMIC house of turpentine and lum-
ber. The country lying itt land from
11 18 rich apd fertile. The sand menace
has disappeared and it cannot return.
-Argonaut.
Extreme hot or cold weather Is not a
geese -time for pigs to be born.
It it a good plan to start a hog on
rnilk, teed it on gra.ss, and finieh It off
on grain.
ntells around the pis' trough will pre.
vent:the stronger animals from plowing
away the weaker.
(Ienerally a Well -matured sow does hot
coat as much for keeping as a young
and growing one.
If you 'want your horses to be sleek,
tat and strong. feed -them molasses -the
otd.feshioned New Orleans black article.
Mix it with chopped hay, a pint to a
peak, aed the horse will do the rest.
When the owner of a good mare
beeeda her to a stallion interior either
in breeding or individuality to herself,
he has taken a step backwards. A mare
ehould be bred to her equal always, and
to her superior if such a horse can be
found.
Tanithig small squares of tarred pa-
per over leaka in a, roof will prove an in-
expeterive method of thecking them. The
nePer edge should be nicked under the
abinglete
A. wet or two of 'varnish will elf ec-
i.lvely stop small leaks in oil or gasoline Abused. Superlatives.
can .Apply on tba outsida
The etul, of an iris handle that sticka It In hard to make people uhderstana
tight may easily be removed by boring a that the adjective almost invariably
number of email holes close together with weakens the noun and that the word
a. small bit and their Jr:ening them with a "very," for instance, does not stren th-
PUT UP PLENTY OF
PRESERVES
INCREASED COSI, OF SUGAR IS
SURPRISINGLY LOW.
Women Now Realize What a Foolish
Extravadanee it Was to Do Without
Homemade Preserves.
There is nothing quite so effective
as facts and. figures to demolish a
fallacy.
Last year, when sugar went up a
few cents in price, some people
decided that they would not keep up
their regular supply ofhome-made
preserves. They Ceuld only see the
2 -cent or 3 -cent increase in the price
of sugar. They could not see how
much more it would cost them to
replace preserves with anything else.
They did not stop to figure how this
increase in the cost of sugar was
going to affect tne cost of presersIng.
Others did, however, and proved
that the oost of preserving, due to
the increased cost of sugar, had been
greatly exaggereted.
Here is •the way these clever
women proved it. Before the war,
we know that sugar was 61/2 cents a
pound. Because of ,war conditioes,
the price of sugar fluctuates, but the
retail price for the best granulated
sugar averages 8ei cents a pound.
This is an average inorease of only
3 cents a pound.
Every good housekeeper knows
that a quart jar of preserved berries
or fruit requires only half a pound of
sugar, so that the increased cost of
preserving, due to the increased cost
ot sugar'is only 1V2 cents a polite'.
This Is why a jar Of home-made
strawberries, raspberries, cherries,
plums, peaches or pears is about the
Miest inexpensive evieet, or elethert
that can be put on the table.
Besides the economy of putting up
a goodly supply of home-made pre-
serves, there is another reason, We
must conserve our food supply. We
must save our fruit crops. Last year,
because of the mistaken idea of
economy, hundreds of thousands of
dollars' worth of berries and fruit
were wasted. Now that the women
realize that tho cost of preserving
was greatly exaggerated last year,
they are determined to do more
preserving, and. also to enjoy an.
abundance of delicious home-made
lame, jellies and preserves this
winter.
eltisel. The pleeea can then be driven
(gitstett. farmer may stamp all his tools end
machinery* by tracing his name on the
Metal part of them in sulphuric acid. A
nickel's Worth at the dreg ewe will do
the job. Apply with a piece of wood.
.As an aasiete.nce is preventing lice
from overrunning the colts some of the
different coal -tar dlp preparations apray•
ee tine the coat frequently will de a lot
of good. It Is mete dangerous to use a
wash preparation in cold weather, and
apraying will be found Much More eat.
I/factory than dusting with powder.
A cheek in the growth of a Colt mean*
semething off his valtie When he be.
coMes a horse.
A fitiesappriarIng horse -with 0 prior an.
ctstry is a Very uncertain kind of breed
tem and should be avoided If a evell.bree
forte can be scoured.
GiVen all other to:wishes, the perfec-
tion or bodily Veen* and ability to Per-
fotin depend lergely mien the feed, its
Character and amount.
In neglected orcharrur the bark becomels
dull and litelese. A limb Cut or broken
off leaves a dead Athena Many little
Suckers cover this body of the trees and
thereafter such trees *will not Prodtice
'Wean or tull-sized fruit. Many motor
ere the threet effect of neglect, either
front rant of knowledge or attention.
Oreirerdel in title condition Miry be re-
vived and made productive by the use
ef the pruning knife and ecra.per, and tho
practice Of seraYing, brelakilag Up the Sod
ground underneath the trees and Matte.
eating it.
A egOed etirrneant !Influent fof um in
Ib. Ogee is Made ot tWo Millets each of
eleebol. Oil of turpentine end lamer etti.
tnerats fertier, 'With 'Witter td Melte A pint.
This liniMent ti etrorer or Week In Prete
te the emount of 'meter 'deed.
Have your beer in tond1tiort that the
slightest Mare Of teethe tare be gathered
and etered. lettnernber It takes 21 days
Vera the time the egg is laid by the
sitteen until the baby bete tornmence te
(limb Out et the (ell, be ftet Sul ranee
and *twirl itervitlite Weide the hiVel
'thin ct, few daete Mere eater* thee' enter
has sweetened half a century with the same crystal purity
that makes it the favorite to -clay. Buy it in original packages
and be sure of the genuine.
"Let Redpath Sweeten it," si
2 and 5 lb. Cartons- Made in one grade only—the highest!
10, 20, 50 and 100 lb. Bags,
MAJOR -GEN. EBERT,
Man Commanding First U, 8,
Camp in France.
With the first news of the American
regulars' arrival in ,France came the
brief announcement that the command-
er at the camp of the military van-
guard was Major General William L.
Sibert.
When Major-General John J. Per-
shing was a "yearling" at West Point,
one of the honor mei ot the first class
of that year, 1884, was Sibort, of Ala-
bama. Since those days Pershing and
Sibert have remained close friends. So
it was no surprise to those who kuow
te.e two famous soldiers that Sibert,
the builder of the Gatun dam, the engi-
neer who solved the flood problem of
East China, and the officer who put
the Manila railways on the map, was
in France with Pershing, and that to
him had been allotted the task of
camping the American army.
Until then no one outside of the in-
ner circles of the war department knew
that Major-General Sibert had crossed
the Atlantic.. That he is the man for
the job uot an officer le the army
doubts.
He was born in the little city of
Gadsden, /41a, October 12, 1860, which
means that he still has more than
seven years of active service ahead of
him Wore he reaches the age Bunt set
for our army officers by Congress.
.In 1fe2, eight years after his gradua-
tion ft= West Point, the army re-
cords show that Sibert, thee a first
lieutenant of engineers, was one of the
executive engineers in charge of the
great Sault Ste. Marie Canal improve-
Ments, and when the Spanish war
broke out, in 1898, Sibert, who had
gained the rank ol captain ,was named
by President McKinley as chief en-
gineer of the Eignth A,rmy Corps, a po-
sition. ho retained for only a few
months, when he was transferred to
the Philippines and made chief engi-
neer of the Manila Dagnpan railway, as
well as the general manager of the sys-
tem. Old Philippine veterans ell] tell
the story of how Sibert modernized
that little jerkwater line in the Far
East.
Returning to the United States is
1900, Sibert, still a ceptain, was as-
signed to various river impeovements
and within. a few years came to be.
recognized as the most efficient river
and harbor englimer in the country.
There is hardly a navjgable river east
of the Rockies with the development
of which in one way or another he
has not been identified.
It was not until 1907 that his coun-
trymen began to hear of him. Presi-
dent Roosevelt had startled the coun-
try by his appointment of a than un-
known maJor of engineers --George W.
Goethals-as met engineer of the
Panama Canal and president 'of the
Isthmian Canal Commission. Shortly
afterward he -named three engineers
as Goethal's chief assistants, Sibert,
Ganged and Harry F. Hodges,
To Gaillard was given the great
task of solving the problem of Culele
ra Cut, which cost him his lite. To
Sibert was assigned the job of build-
ing the Oaten locks and dam, the suc-
cessful accomplishment of evhich is
now numbered among the engineering
marvels of the age.
A story is told or General Goethals
which credits him with this remark iu
taking over the Panama Canal Com-
mission, "I recognize here two ene-
mies, one of them Culebra cut and
the other the locks and dams. of Gat.
Goethals made the Gattin part of
the cahal .a military department and
placed Sibert in command. Quietly,
modestly, without fuss er feathers,
Sibert went to work. He was a
great saver ef men and money, and he
soon foued a way to make one dollar
go where it took two dollars to go be-
fore.
President Wilson, on March 4, 1915,
named Mort brigadier -general of
the line as an expression of the na-
tion's gratitude to hint for the work
he had done at Panama. General Si-
bert was then ordered to the Pacifie
coast as commander ot the coast des
fences. • He immediately started in
to bring those defences up to date,
and the present effecient condition of
the Pacific fortifications is another of
his achievemente. He also planned
the first officers' training canal) at
the Preeidlo of liontereY.
In 1914 the American Red Cross de-
cided to finance a $20,000,00e project
to reclaim East China•frette the flood
peril. It was Mort who wee elected
to go to China as the chief engineer:
The work now gob* on is the result
Of his plans. •
On June 8th last President Wilsolt
tient the *name of Sibert to the Senate
as a major -general. -- New York
ea a statement, but qualifiee it. But
the use ot the superlative is even more
alarmed. We talk of the "uninapeachs
able" honesty of sornebody or other,
knowing perfectly well that anybody'a
honesty may be Impeached. Whet seems
to he required is a readjustment of our
habits of thought and better teaching
of the value of winds and even of the
usefulness itt grammar. A superlative
necessarily ineolves an axiom. It cone.
mita you, like saying that the stint of
the angles of any triangle ts equal to
two right angle. Your dilemma arises
when you try to prove it. "Impregnas
bility" slid "Invulnerability" and all
other superlatives in general utie are
posing as externs when they are mostly
fallacies. -Wall Street Journal.
YOU oan kill time, but that won't
prevent to -Morrow from bobbing up,
swommYmenammimmoim*Wourg*milloarammininimmaaara*Noamarm**
Times, July and.
Taking Him Down,
A muster with a lining for billiards lied
occasion reermtly to visit a Small town
In the went of stecOtlend, 1Vbile there,
Wilting to pass the thne, he found a new
and excelleat billiard table, 'Upon in-
guirleg if Owe was anybody about who
could play the landlord referred lem to
one of the natives. They played sever-
al garners, brit the result was againet the
lawyer, 'Cry as he Might, the country -
Mau won °etre' game.
"Mr. ---,- tne ls.wyer romenceo,"I've
emits a reputation at benne They con..
eider me a gotel billiard player, but I'M
not in your claAS. May I Inquire how
long you have played?"
"Oh, for awhile back,",
repliee the na-
tive. "nut, I say, I Mut want to hurt
yer feellnet, but Veu're the firat tellow I
ever beat!' -London Tit -Bits.
"Spirt."
SeetiOnal Mitt.
PetallOped peplums.
Pendant ekiri
NstrrOW fontidetiont for tunics.
"Dose your Wife listen to your ad.
Agar "Listen? Of cattle elm does.
My wife. Is very polleo.",‘--aoston
Tralletrip t.
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the West Front
WEARING THE BOCHE DOWN-
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"We're killing the Boches at a great
rate," said a wounded sergeant from
a home country regiment; "but that's
not all of it -we're wearing them
down in a variety of ways, Now, here's
it tiny example. Where I was wo all
knew the Bache had made up his Mind
to win back at any price at all the bit
of Hindenburg line we bold.
"Ho tried different dodges, as 1 dare-
s/1.y you've heard. Opposite my lot he
put in a regiment of the Prussian
Grenadier Guards, after special train-
ing behind the lines -the very cream
of his troops, you know. Well, they
came in with a h- of a, hurroosh, no
doubt. I've not seen anything to beat
their bombing attacks. I don't mind
admitting that we learned a thing or
two oureelves from them -about
bombing attacks, I mean -some quite
useful tips. And wo thought we'd
learned the job pretty well, too, since
last July. But we got an extra wrin-
kle or two from these Prussian Grena-
diers. Well, we were tired, and they
Caine in full of beans, or sauerkraut,
or whatnot, and they fairly bombed
as out of several bits of line. They
overpowered us several times by sheer
weight of numbers and -ginger.
"But here's my point. They lasted
tour days: on the first day they beat
us out of bits of trenches; on the
third and fourth -days they came on
again, but on the third day they got
far more than they gave. The fourth
day there wasn't a trace of the fire
they showed on the first day. There
was no snap left in 'em. By the
night of the fourth tiny we'd got back
all the bits of ground we'd lost, and
we were pounding 11- out of these
Grenadiers at their own game. Then
the remnants of 'ern were withdrawn.
They were done to the world -fin-
ished. We were just beginning to
enjoy ourselves, and doing neech bettor
than they did on their first day.
"Wel), we're only an average IC.
army lot, you know, and they were the
Prussian Grenadiers. I tell you we are
wearing down the Roches we don't
kill. By the time the American mil-
lions are ready next spring, I'm think-
ing Master Boche will be hard put to
It to offer them a decent show at all."
GOOD SAMARITANS.
"Our barrages now," said an Irish-
man in a, north country regiment,
"they're just as good as they were at
the first of this shove forward. Of
course, the pushes come at little bits
of thn line, here and there, and these's
not st) much weight in the barrage.
On Easter you could see nothin' but
a curtain of fire for miles, with the
turf flyin' and the smoke rishe in wan
long line. But you'll understate that
now, with us drivine in little bits here
and there, you can only see them
places where the guns are poundine
the dust out av them,
'Iee curious the way sve go forward
behind the !barrage and there's some
of us that aro too impatient to be tak-
in' the quiet etroll behind it that we
ought to. This last attack where I
got what puts MO in bed like this, our
lade were ,gettin' under our own fire
because they were roo eager. An of-
ficer ran forward at the risk of his
own skin, and etopped .the lads from
gein' too quick. The poor lee wee kill-
ed just as he checked the men,
"1 got it in both lege !before we
reached the German linen but, Glory
be to God, I fell into a shell -hole, and
lay doWn as fnug on you Please in it
clever place. I lay there for hours, and
I heard a great rotten' noise comin'
near me, 1 know it was a :tank, and
I prayed it would not come over me,
me bele.' hid in the shell -hole. But
heard It go roarin' past quite near,
and then it got stuck, and 1 could hear
it. fighting and struggle:1' to get clear.
never saw it.
"Later in the day, a lad I knew
came by, slightly wounded. "Hullo,
Peter," saps, he, when he saw me ir
the hole. 'For God'a sake !have you a
water -bottle with you?' ease 1, 'me
1.1 both broke and I ean't move
to get a grill of mine.' He threw me
down his water -bottle, and it bein'
full of rum and water, it kept me
gain'. Then it began to rain, and
another lad, pasein' by, eaw me and
threw me down a water -proof aheet.
Late at night the stretcher-bearers
got me. So they were all Good Sam-
aritans, the way they helped, them
that saw me lyite by the wayside."
THE COOL SHAVE..
"The coolest thing I've seen out
there," said a private of the Argyll
and Sutheriands, "was after the ad-
1....i..-deeeleedes se norea e
You can keep the fine natural color
in Raspberry Preserves
.11' von MAU TnEet WITn
antic
"Pure and Uncolored' •
Lon eookint- :ides raspberries. You can avoid this by using ,
L S114Aft which dissolvos instantly on account of its .
"FINE" granulation. LANTIG is the best sugar to use for
all preservinff on aeeount of its purity and !iigL sweetening
power. LAgtIC is it pure cane sugar oqixally good for the
table, for general cooking and for preserving.
-10, 20 and 100.1b4 sacks; 2 and 5..1b. cartorp.
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froin a bag Or carton and we will tld yen a book of .
teady gimoned printed labels,
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Power Montreal
vanve had broken into open, floliting4
fiemetimep it happena itt open -fight-
ing, that yon hold, not a trench, but
just a line of ehelkheles. This time
our eliell.holes were next to & battal•
ion of the (lordonn that Mostly came
from Morayollire, my country, and as
things were..quiet except for a .bit Of
aliening, I just dropped, into a abefl-
ili
where the Gord.ctus were. _
MAGIC
RE AP:H
:
"Them was a sertreant.inalor in this
hole, (shaving as calmly se if therep
wouLTRy
ere no feth cthInge aa shells flying.
around. said to him, "Alen, Serjoant-
'n)a1Or," I eald, "ye arenao feet?"
Maya he, 'I left my fear 12/ the rdde
o' the reasetel, That's the ever that
Elgin etanclie On. And we bad hit 01
a crack then. He told me he had beeit
an athlete in hie day, and viten be
told me 'his name, 1 knew him for a
man famoue ent the cycle -track. We
were talking away about Ulgin and
Pluecarden and Ivieeetowie, and about
people thereabout, when euddenly tt
Boehe -turned up at the crater up.
How he got there. Beane)) only knows,
but eve were a hit nxixed up with the
Germans round is near and far. This
Voche had an ugly look as if he meont
mistehlef, but it didnae disturb the
Seeletentenajor =Mlle He just laid
down his razor and picked Arp hie rifle
and bayonet, end :sauntered out with
noon 'down ,one side of his face.
"The Bache had a bomb in hie hand,
but he dropped it !without drawing the
safety pin, entl lm up with hands.
The Sergeant -major rounded him, up
into the shell -holo, dropping•hira itt
by the scruff of ble neck. He .made
the German hold us) the allirr(fr till he
finished his eleave.
"1 had to laugh -at, that, The Ser-
jeantemajor looked as if it, was the
meet ordinary oecurrence la the dare
'work. I had to get beck to my lot
then, and I don't know !what happen,
ed to the Serieant-major and hie pri-
soner. I hope he came through all
right. The (Wafts .went over the top
soon after, and I hear they made an
awful mesa 'of the Germans. If they
aleraosta.1"1.
jeantemajor, I don't wonder In the
ot the same breed as the Ser
HOW 13 YOUR APPETITE?
Loss of appetite during the sum-
mer months is a common . trouble,
and indicates that the digestive sys-
tem Is out of order. Lacking a
healthy appetite, many • people -ea.
pecially women -go too long with-
eut food, or eat .sparingly because
food seems to distress them, and it
is no wonder that they complain that
they are constantly tired and unable
to stand the hot weather. This sim-
ply means thee tbo digestive system
ie not doing its proper work, and
that the nutriment that should come
from the food is not being distribut-
ed to the various organs of the body.
In other words, the blood is growina
thin and 'watery.
You need a summer tonic, and in
all the realm of medicine there is no
tonic can equal Dr. 'Williams' Pink
Pills. Take a short treatment with
these pills now and notice how
promptly your appetite returns and
Your power to digest food improves.
Your food will then do you good,
your strength will return and you
win no longer Complain that the hot
ocather tires you out.
Tho best time to begin taking Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills is the moment
you feel the least bit out of sorts.
The sooner you do so the sooner yen
eill regain your old etime energy.
You can get these pills through any
medicine dealer or by mail at 50
cents a box or six boxes for
from The Dr. Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
STRATAGRIVIS or WAR.
Pricks by Which Two 'Chilean
Warships Were Sunk.
WORLD
rouurnx IN BACH x.ann,
prom twelve to twenty-five Ilene are
aafficient to provide the ordinary fam-
ily 'with enough eggs and meat to rens
der tho keeping of the birds worth while,
The amount of outdoor space the flock
will require may be estimated at about
25 square feet far each bird. There
are instancea in which chickens have
thrivea with much lesa than this, but
unless, the soil is especially favorable
caro,tglir00,41411rttidge irse icieklevier juonupsruoaylelyunpgrsioot2
gable
Poultry specialists 40 not reeommemi,
however, that every one with the re.
(visite space at his disposal should go
in tor chicken miming. Unless there
is a natural interest in poultry or 4
determination to make the Beek 0
source of real economy, even if it does
take time and troubre, Inc venture Is
not likely to prove successful. Lack nf
care ais.y result in disease that will
are cep off the entire noels, and it J4 al-
most certain to cause a, reduction in
egg production that will make the birds
a burden inatead of a help. In some
localities whore municipal on-Unarm:Er
may prohibit the keeping of poultry with-
in certatu limits care should be taken
that the poultry yard Is riot 10 a pro-
scribed area.
SPACE F011. A rx.00m
'While it Is possible to get along with
twenty-five sentare feet per bird, a large
space affording more green and insect
food is very desirable. For ono thing,
-the ordinary poultry keeper wishes to
perpetuate his flockand the raising of
young chiakens requires as much land as
the keeping of mature hem Aftee site
Is 2 years old the best laying do's of
the average hen arra over„ and it usual-
ly pays to get rid of her. This means
that 'half the flock must be renewed each
Year. Since as many cockerele as pul-
lets will be hatched and a certain per-
esutage are certain to die It is custom-
ary to hatch each year a few more
chickens thau there are hens In the flock.
With a flock of 25, for example, about ill
chickens should be raised. The sante
space Mita be allowed for these as
for the laying hens. The cockerels are
consumed through tile season, being
used either as broilers when they are
arobaosutterse. months eta, as fry05ers, or a
It Is also most desirable as a pre-
caution against disease to divide the
available area into tWO harts. On one
of these the chickens are 0.110Wra to
range while it green crop -wheat or oat.
for example -is being grown for them on
the other. The preliminary turning lus-
tier of the oil, the green orop, aed free-
dom from chickens for a period serve to
prevent the land from becoming con-
taminated.
Additional range, with the advantage
of a large supply or insect feed for the
birds, may sometimes be ootatned where
a vegetable garden in maintained. At
different times ln the growing season
there eye areaa in the garden Which are
either Idle or occupied only by crops
that the hen will not touch. The tartar.
confined to these with the aid oe a per.
ttehbelvegfeentaceb,lesbenefit without Injury te.
SOME HOUSING. REQUIRED..
Between the years 1879 and 1884 the
republie of Peru and Chile were at
war, wed, although the Peruvians were
eventually discomfited, they displayed
great adroitness in naval to.atters. On
one occasion they succeeded in sinking
two Chilean warships, their clever
strategy being thus described by Ste-
phen Coleridge in his memoirs:
"Soon after the -Chilean fleet had
settled down to the blockade of Callan
there appeared in the bay one morning
a large barge of fruit that had obvious -
1Y gone adrift from the shore. The
Peruvians put out in boats and steam
pinnaces to bring Inc Parge back, and
the Chileans, seeing What was happen-
ing, also sent out ,plunaces and boats
to intercept and capture the drifting
barge. A fierce fusillade between the
hostile boats followed, and several men
were killed or wounded. At length the
Peruvians drew off and left the barge
in the hands of the triumphant Chile-
ans, whotowed it off amid the eheere
of their shipseerews. Who had watched
the fight with keen interest.
"They brougbt the barge alongside
one of Ilia big men -of -War and quickly
sent the cargo of luscious fresh fruit
tip the side In baskets. When about
half the -cargo hacl been taken on board
a terrific explosion shook the bay, and
art enormous hole appeared in the side
of the great ship which sank- instantly
with all hands. By an arrangement of
springs and ba'auce a huge charge of
dynamite in the bottom of the barge
was ignited when a certain amount of
the weight of the mg) was removed.
Although the Peruvians had waged the
fight for the :possession of the barge
with fierce persigtence, they had never
intended to be. successful.
"A few weeks later a large man -of
war was sent up the coast to capture
anything worth having at litlanhe. On
the appearanee of' Me 'vessel the in-
habitants drew their boate far Inlaid
and, takieg all their valueble, fled into
the interior. One boat, a new mit
larger than the others, they hauled
some little way up the .beaelt and then
abandonedp
i,naging tho
plate the Chile
tom tweed atthe boat, which was en
tlrely empty. The Peruvians had re
Moved oars, salls, utast and even the
roWlOcIts. • The Chilectes.looked It efiel
to be sure that there. waseno dyne -Mite
le It and then 'towed It hevey lo theii
vessel. The .captain had the' dilitsnein
outand ropee'epue ubnd theetteeiVa
the beW and .the,Sterce•
!tired )his Men tohaul away.
"It was the last order he ever gave
tor the Inoment. the ropes tighteeed
the Olio was blown t� pitees and Ma
apPeartS1 in,seventy fatlidnis Of water
A. NAM bottom • had toncealed a ire
mendous thargo of lynatnite -that
OrrallgOtI ttl ignite when .any upWarc
!emir wee omelet to an r.0 the veate
"The lalleintente rif the ilia», *alio
lied A -Mated their efrilieffetil dee:erne
a great manor. war Avithettt the sinall
est . -risk to theinstliede.neturned hihiri
essiy to their songs and
datiecg."" .
The lot- ebuntryls more powerful
then reasoil Itself.
An important item to be considered
by those thinking of maintaining a
home flock is the cost of the house.
For seine pint of the year at least,
chikens requite the shelter of a tiglit, dry
building. In planning the house ap-
groximately four or five feet of floor
space should be allowed for each bird.
The height may be determined. by the
convenience of the operator, for the
birds themselves need only two or three
feet, ettch low houses, however, are
very difficult to clean, and in consequent
are likely to be neglected. It Is better
to build them so high teat a man may
work in them without discomfort.
A not uncommon device Is to use a
plano box tor a thicken house. By com-
bining two piano boxes a very satis-
factory shelter for a small flock can be
made at little expense, 'Where lumber
must be purchased, it bus been esthnitted
that the materials for a - substantial
chicken house may cost anywhere from
50 cents to IL per bird, and it Is not tin -
likely that with the, present prices of
commodities of all kinds these figures
will be somewhat tow. Portable chick-
ees houses are also on the market at
mate .varyleg greatly. The majority,
'however, will probably 'cost the owner
from *150 to e2 for each bird eheltered by
them.. In any event, It is ceobable that
unless there is plenty of space lumber
available and the prospective poultryman
'happens to be a. good carpenter the cost
or.the chicken housenvill not be met IV
the value et the products over the cost
of feed for the flock for a year or two.
Thie. amise should fast, however, for a
number' of years: especially 1? painted
anti welt cared for. Substauteal vrofile
from the investment ehould be made
thereafter.
In many cases, also, where the sur-
roundings are such that the chickens
cantiot be allowed to range at will, the
cost of fencing must be considered. Tine
obviously will vary greatly with the
size of the area to 'be enclosed and the
kind of fencing. aelected. Ordinarily
chickens wire is not expensive.
POETRY..
(Pack)
To her Outer. teacher
put this queetion; "How many eine*
pu
eetire thew?"
mrbree, replied one p11p1 quickly,
"What are they?"
"byte:, dramatic, 1014 epidemic,"
HIS GARDEN.
(letliTale Express)
"What did you raise In your Peden
Piet veer?"
"Nothing. Some itide hi the nelehber.
hood raisea Cain in it."
GOOD-NATURED MISS. BROWN.
(Detroit Frees Vress)
"Uhl you ask bliss I3rown to slug?"
"Yes, and she refused,
"Good. She seenita to be getting mere
obliging every day."
COST OF JUMPING CHICKENS.
Tbe actual ecouumy secured by the
keeping of. a small flock of chickens de-
pends primarily upon their egg production
and this In turn is largely le muter of
care. lender favorable conditions, how-
ever, it is estimated that 150 eggs the
first year and 120 the second is a fair
return from the ordinary hen. On the
other hand at least feom 25 to 50 coati
a year must te expended for grain and
other feede, the exact amount appending
upon the quantity of table scraps and
greeh and insect food available. 'Where
all the feed • must be purchased, from
$1 to $1.25 is ellowectEven in the most
thrifty houSehold, 'hoe/ever, there 13
always a large quantity of table-scraoe,
vegetables parings and other "left °yore"
Inc the bens, so that a considerable por-
tion of their feed conelsts of what oth-
erwise would be carried off the place
1*.Althhoeuggaho
rbeflsi
eganmp.ortance Um the
eggs, the supply of poultry for the table
furtelsbed by the home node is en item
that cannot be overlooked. As nits been
pointed out, In a flock of tweety-five
which the owner is perpetuating there
will be approximately twelve or tlitrteen
cockerels, almost all of which on be
used best fog food. Half of the helm
must go each year else, ao that allowing
for losses and for Miele reserved for
breeding there 51111 wilt be enpugh ape
preciably to 0ftost the
* t,
3 bill.
A 'Rainless Coast.
Antofagasta (West Coast of Soute
America) contains sent° of the great-
est nitrate fields in the world, The -
:country leeks like a vast trot of
slag,. rock and cinders, ahlmwering
and indescent in the blazing heat.
Rain fang -.so teIciont that Oh
0110 Occasion a titan who was
careying a furled umbrella was
mobbed lit the street by a mock-
ing crowd, and there le a valley near
where, according to tradition, it has
never tallied since the world began.
Owihg to the barren nature or the
^OttntrY, every serail of fresh meat,
every green veketable, end every Mem
*1 fresh water hfe to. he brought hen -
fired?! of Miles til) the neat steente
er. There are, or were Iwo 00Ws ft
Antofagasta. One .Waf) ownen by the
British hospital, and ite milk jeatoneTy
reserved for the patients: the other
belonged to the wife of the manager
of thecoennerclal house.-"NVide
World btegazine,"
.
'Asada.
u'ro her rt
etYial cannotorti1 lltIymelyruiraion mn nt:}ut,11, too,
Tney may be ians rehire
White beads figure on a ityk
t ,
bade adorn a simple affair In
These beads look like those used in
Ildilltenteni
wotrl;:e.t be md ily Jeenottgb. o
Tf
this sort .of trimming.
R E PROOF.
(Begtort, Transcript)
Ife-oh, yes, I write verses occasional
but I always tear them up.
Sha -Ani I knew you were clever.
PRECISE MR, SMITH.
(Baltimore American)
"Tell lila Smith I want to sect lain al
tbe telephone."
"I told Mr Smith, she ant lie wants
to know if you bave a per/no/Ai at
ytur end."
DFF TO THE FRONT.
(naltheore A.merIcan)
'*1 heard the boys San Sara, that you
%ere braving to them about going to
the front.
'Yea, sir, I've just got a job ae a hotel
bellboy.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
(Boston Tramseript)
She -Jack is paying Miss Bolden mark-
ed attention. He hasn't auy money, has
he?
t1a-No,but be has great expectutioue.
She --From whom?
A FOOD SPECULATOR.
(Buffalo Expres)
"Beas
it food speculator."-
"1301 he looks half starved."
"That's it -he's always speculating as
to whether he'll get all the food he needs
at the next meal."
DI SU,N !TEO REFORMERS.
(Washington Star)
"What has become of the movement
fee spelling reform?"
"Had to give it up in our town. Pee-
ple couldn't settle on any htyle of spell-
ing that suited everybody."
THESE DEAR DAYS.
(Washington Star)
"How do you cook pork ana beans?"
"That isn't the question, now do you
get 'cm?"
AN OLD
( Baltimore
el hear Billings's
will."
"That's nothing.
do it as soon as site
HAND.
American)
widow aree, hie
She started in to
was his wife."
ON GUARD.
(Buffalo Express)
"What're you golie to do this summer?"
"011, lel be busy guarding plants,"
"Munitions plants?"
"No, potato plants."
• • •
EXPLAINED.
(Lite)
Profees..or-Life is the superficial phe-
nomena of srreeted radiation, upon the
outer crust of s cooling uebula.
Young Lady-Gra.clous: No wonder
riving is so expensive.
STRANGE TURNS.
(Boston Transcript.)
Mr. (ndun-Lite is full of strange
turns.
Jack Young -1 ItIlOW it. I turned up
at a girro house to -night, got turned
down and turned out, and now I'm
going home to turn in.
HALF WAY.
(Judge.)
"1 don't know what I'm going to do.
Nfy cook won't stay unless 1 raise her
wave."
"Can't you manage to raise .part of
them'?"
REAL ACQUAINTANCE.
(Puck.)
"When did you first bevy= ac-
quainteei witli your hueband?"
"The firat time I asked hint for
money after we were married."
"COMIC" OPERA.
OPERA.
Life.
"1 hear Adele has gone into comic
opera."
"There wile alwaye something sup-
remely sad about that girl."
TRUE PATRIOTISM.
(Detroit Free Press)
''They're very ;patriotic."
"Very. They re even going to plant
potatoes in their window -boxes tine
seting Instead of geraniums. •
• • •
FOOLED THE BORROWER.
(Life) '
tettburbanIte (Lo inveterate berrowere-
Same! Glad to Iend you lay lawn mow-
er, Smythe, but you'll have to use it
lure, as I never let it les,Ve the place.
THE LIMIT.
(Guffaw Exprese)
Cautious Cunsumer-lIow much are
eggs?
Grasping Grocer -How much haver 3,01.1
gut?
SATI S.FACTI 0 N.
(Boston Transeelpt)
"Jenkins clalined that I Insulted him."
"Did you give him any satisfaction?"
"1 guess so. He pounded no until he
was tired."
••
NOT NEEDED THERE,
(Lilo)
"1-te belongs to two .golt clubs, doesn't
Ite? And only one uhureh?"
"Bat you don't need as much variety
or practice in religion es you do In golf."
ONE SIGN.
(Judge)
Slim -Even in his school dare, I want
my boy to be an Ameidean, throMilt and
t inmate,
The Professors -Well, madam, Dew of
. my elites are more thoroughly unprepar-
ed,
SAVES TROUBLE.
(Washington Star)
"poise your. family have anY trouble
m lie ts
"No," roplled Mr. Crosslote; "I don't
heie ve city of them etay around the
plate lowe enough to become really
troubleignue."
MUSICAL WAR.
(rilueleal Courier)
What mint the English penetration of
the Wotan line and the piercing by the
French to. it part of the Siegfried line, It
ts to be treeumed that ties tierinatie now
011. teV011011V 1 eintoccing Parsifal,
Trietan and Lolienerlit lineo,
lietia the cluticcet 'cloud the nun
iti leen ter," melted the Wires Nile.
1 .2111 111 a 1- !Wisely eletire e.eate.
el., • teemed the enmple Mlle,
In o• !en- ore 11 014.(`. •!.
Ptah lute Leen elloueO. $3 a %keel( tie a
meitnenseee Tann.: et -c. Atter &leg
02 toe lore upen ell a 1st* during
tml itar of the tat' silt tan go into
.1 tide, sileW and tapitalize her -recent
entee 111 courier