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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Advocate, 1901-6-20, Page 6ABOUT KEROSENE. Kerosene ,might well be Celled.. the houseiceeper'S friende for if it is used intelligently it is .0, great labor lightenee, and mey be 'used to good adverita e. hi the house, kitelion or • lauedry, le is better than seep, arm- naorda or alcohol. for Washing mir- rors and winelew glass, Adda few drops to a Pine of clear hot water and: wash the glass without using soap. Then .wipe Wien one dry cloth end polish • with anether, and the glees Will be clear end bright. Kero- sene is excellent for cleaning iron sinks, or zinc lined bath tube. Fiest dip It cloth in the oil, rub thorough- ly over the eurface, then scrub with hot suds. It le also good for clean- ing oil cloth; dip a cloth in the oil and use the same as if using water. By this method of cleaning, the oil cloth will last longer and the colors are preserved. • But where it helps most of all is in the laundry, as it 'Whitens the clothes and, saves rubbing if used in , the right way. The best results are obtained when the clothes are put to 'seek over night. It lessens the amount of rubbing that must be done the next day if the clothes are put to soak over night in luke warm water to which has been ad- ded a small quantity of household ammonia or of some trustworthy washing powder. Clothes washed in the following manner are beautifully white end clean, and there is not the slightest odor of kerosene about them, as it poon evaporates in the open air. If the clothes have been put to soak over night the next morning put on a boiler of ram water and for every pailful used add one tablespoonful of kerosene and one of some soap powder. Stir well so the ingredients will be thoroughly Mixed, and let the water boil before using the suds. Put the nice white clothes in the boiler without rubbing, and let boil 15 minutes, then take out, rinse in clear water, then in blueing water end they are ready to be starched. Rub the most soiled spots from table linen and clothing before put- ting in the boiler, using some of the hot suds for washing. The suds is excellent for washing the most soil- ed colored garments, but nice color- ed garments should, always have ed. If much soiled, the flannel gar- hients should be well phaken and brushed before belug washed. SUGGESTIONS FOR CHERRY DE- SERTS. •Cherry Puffs: Two eggs, 1 cup milk, .4- cup butter, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup sugar, 1i- cups stoned cherries, Mix the butter, sugar and flour well to- gether. Put the baking powder into the milk and add to butter, sugar and flour. Then add the eggs well - beaten, laet the therries, having first rubbed them with flour. Mix all well together. Steam one-half hour in jelly tumblers. ' Serve with sugar and butter sauce. , Cherry (:end Currant. Diunplings: Stone one pint of cherries and stem the same amount of currants. For the crust use I. pt flour, 1e tea- speons baking powder, 2 table- spoons. sugar, e tablespoon salt, 1 tablespoon each butter and lard, 1 pt sweet milk mixed with one egg well beaten. Wet the flour with this and mix to a soft dough. Rub the cherries and currants well with the flour, then divide the dough for the dumplings, and fold the fruit in, sugaring well. Butter well the tin, and bake in moderate oven. Serve with sauce same as for puffs. i HOUSEHOLD HINTS. An attra.ctivn dish for a. luncheon table may be mede of lemon and any cardinal :colored jellies :cirt into blocks, and piled rock -Work feslitori on a flat plate, the ainber and pink. blocks alternating in the mound. This may be garnished with aspar- agus fern studded with carnations. Potato is the vegetable to serve with fish; also cucumber, celery or lettuce. Cheese sticks to serve with a select or with a meat jelly may be made quickly from bread. Trim off the crust and cut into finger lengths pieces an inch and a half thick. Toast over the fire and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Salted almonds, olives, pickles, &c,, are placed in little nishes about the table and remain through the meal. HOW THE RAINFALL IS MEASURED Great Number of Persons in Great Bri- tain Who Make It a Study. It is not generally known that clean suds prepared especially for scattered over the United Kingdom them, and it is best to wash them there are no fewer than 3,700 per - separately from _the regular weekly sons who studiously study and re- washing. cord the fall of ram. indeed, it would seen): to bequite a fascinating GREEN PEAS. pastime, for the British Rainfall As- sociation receive so many enquiries Ramekins of Green Peas: Cook the that they issue printed pamphlets peas till tender, and season. Place giving' many valuable hints for the a layer of rolled cracker into each guidance of those who wish to make ramekin, bits of butter and a tea- spoon of the peas liquor, then add " layer of the cooked peas and bits of measurer many things have to be butter, continuing, till they are full, I, observed. Quite a number of in - and ending with the cracker crumbs struments are employed .which have Garnish b -y placing upon the top of to lee carefully watched while rain each dish three stuffed olives, just is falling. At Camden Square, the before serving. Serve hot. headquarters of the British Rainfall Creamed Green Peas: First cook Association, there is a most won - the peas and season to taste. Into derful collection of rain -measuring a frying pan put 1 teaspoon butter, instrunients. The self -registering - and whea hot add 1 teaspoon flour. Mix till perfectly smooth. Be care- ful it does not brown. Add 1 cup cream gradually, let it come to a boil, then add the peas, cover and heat thoroughly, serve hot. Green Peas Salad with Pickled Dotter Beans: Cook the beans till tender, and pickle, adding a little a study of the subject. • But to become an expert rain - gauge is one of the most interesting. The rain is caught in a metal funnel at the top, and passes through into a cup which works. on a see -saw principle. This cup is divided into two, and when one side is filled the water causes it to tilt and empty itself into a receptacle below. This action works on an index needle, sugar to the vinegar. Cut into which makes a mark on a printed small pieces, and mix with well- form seasoned cooked peas. A pint of beans to, a pint of peas makes a good dish. Blend thoroughly with the following dressing: Beat 2 eggs well, add 1 teaspoon sugar, .1- tea- spoon salt, the stone of mustard, the top, melted , by. means of hot and 8, teaspoons vinegar and 1 water being poured into a chamber tablespoon butter (melted). Stir all around it, and passes into a vese constantly while on fire. Cook till sel below. It is afterward measured by an interesting process. Then there is a tank for measuring sur- face evaporation, But the most re- markable instrument used in connec- tion with the measuring of the rain- fall is the "Brontometer." It is the only one of its kind, in existence, and is the property of the Royal Society. It is a most elaborate contrivance, WOUND ROUND A CYLINDER .Another interesting- contrivance is the snow -gauge. The snow .is caught in a wide, open receptacle at creamy. If too thick, add cream to thin to desired consistency. Garnish with whole butter beans placed in points around the edge of salad disk. 'Escalloped Green Peas with Egg G-arnish: Prepare a cream dressing thus: One tablespoonful flour, 6 of melted butter, 1 cup milk, salt and pepper to taste. First mix the flour with a little cold milk, till smooth. and took years to perfect. coine to a boil. While warm, stir m.ent, there is a long cylinder cover - Then add remainder of milk. Let At the top of this unique hestru- into this dressing 1 qt. cooked peas, ed with a sheet of paper, along adding butter the size of hen's egg,l which are a num.ber of index -needles. Place all into baking dish and bake The first registers hail, with the as - 20 minutes in oven, Boil six eggs! sistance of an operator. Directly hard, When cold, cut into rings and the storin begins the operator pros -- place on top of escalloped peas be- ses his finger ori a button which sets fore serving. . 1 the hail -needle in motion. Another Cream of Peas Puree: Cook the , needle registers thunder, another peas withecelery till both are tender. ',lightning, wind, ram, and time. Remove celery and peas from the The 3,000 odd persons who are en - water and add a cream dressing as gaged in recording the rainfall re - given for escalloped peas. Put the ceive blank forms on the 31st of De - peas through strainer and add to ember, which they fill up and return the same. Serve very hot, with to the association at head -quarters. These reports are embodied in a yearly blue -book, called "British WASHING SUMMER GOWNS. •Rainfall:" From this work it is possible to know the character of So many pretty light flannels and the rainfall in any part of the Unit - thin woolen fabrics are now offered ed Kingdom. during any week, month, for sale in stores that, all women, and during the whole of the year. possess one or more gowns of these and naothers find them very useful wafers. throughout the summer for chil- dren's wear, The only objection, to them is the difficulty in getting them washed witheut drawing up and fading, which is the fate of sueli are' :tides entrusted to the ordinary laundress. These garments may be • easily washed in the home laundry' under the direction of an iptelligent housekeeper; hence it is well to un- derstand how the work should be done. Flannels should be washed in warm sons to which a little powder- ed borax is added. Soap should nevee be rubbed on them, nor should they be rubbed on the wash- board, nor between the hands, and dipped up and down until they are clean. The suds should be Squeezed out, and each piece immediately rinsed in water of the Same tempera- ture as the &stet -hen wring again and hang in the shade,' They should be remoVed when partly dry and ironed while damp, on the wrong side. If both colored and white flannels are to be washed, separate waters should be USed, raS that in which the mitite atea Washed 'will lhit. the cohere THE HAYFIELD. Oti, the fragrant misty hayfiel& Of those- Mornings fresh and sweet, When the dew- knee-deep was lying 'Buell.. and cool to boYieh feet ; When the bobolink, a -`winging ' Trilled his joyous way alnng, And the meadow -lark in rapture Piped his mellow matin song. Oh the noontide'sof the hayfield, the reeptte, had been won; With the lands steeped all in slum- ber, 'Neath the burning summer sun. When the bumble -bee, a loafer, Searce suete.ined his drowsy drone, And the locuete, nevelt ceasing, Soraped in lazy monotone. , Then the elm tree need not farther Beckon to tie thanklessly, And its Shade, by heat encircled Formed a grateful (hoetelrie Where the beeket'e homely contents We diecuesed 'mid. jest: and quip, Arad the water -jug, erabeacled, Pampa around from lip to lip. Oh, the eveningin the hayfield, When the !shadows lengthened fast And in weary, bliSsful silence, , We homeward go at last; With the tad etra,w, hat' of boyhood, Flapping in the rising breeze, And the isaticlide th,eir chorus . Chanting frcim the apple tre.es. • Edwin L Sabin. Mme. Modjeske, • the famous act- ress, is above all things tender- hearted and generous, and a some- what amusing instance of it was given the last time she was in Eng- land, when she went to see the Der- by run at Epsom.. Directly after her carriage had taken up a position on the course it was surrounded by a crowd ofhungry-looking beggars, and so .overconae was Modjeska by the sight of such wretchedness in contrast to the gaily -dressed feast- ing, that she opened the luncheon basket and. distributed its contents amongst them, to the great conster- nation of the count, her husband and his guests, who were thus com- pelled to endure an obligatory fast. Western Anetralia has in York a well-known pastoral district which bears a peculiarly appropriate nein° in association with theeyisit to Aus- tralia of the Duke and 'Threhess of Cornwall and York. It, was first peopled by immigrants inainI3r from ,Yoi. helm et MAINTAINING SOIL FERTILITY. A correspondent writes as follows: The firet thing in keeping up fertil- ity ia the saving and proper appli- cation of manure. Thousands of far - mere are letting the mauaure waste in their barnyardS, and are using com- mercial fertilizer. Fertility can be kept up in thiS way, but a lack of humus will soon follow. Soil defici- ent isa huraua will dry out in dry weather, and a seeding of clover will be next to impoesible. Do not flat- ter yourselvee with the idea. that you can keep up your fertility, on com- mercial manures alone. You must save and uae all your farm manure. Spread the manure on the thigher portions of the field. Save everything. Do not let a thing go to waste, but put it on the land. It tnakee little difference when you put it on, only see that it goes ken. ' Plow under all thei clover 'you can. Rye will do ti plow under very well. Any green crop will e.n.swer. Do not Int the ground lie bare during fall and winter. Sow your corn stubble to rye. Thie can be done at the last cultivation. It kvill not only save, fere ditty by the roots' taking up fer- tility and etaring it in the plant, so aS to be available for the next crop to follow, but it will make. excellent pasture for Your sheep and hogs during the fall and, far into the win - Do not hesitate to (draw the raanure as fast as •read& .cluring, the, winter and-epread as feat as drawn. If your land is too hilly thie may not be the best plan provided, you have a good way to eave theemanure at the barn. But ate the manure is usually kept around barna, the lees from washing down the •hills will be tie) greater' than the. lose around the barns. Man- 1.1Te (drawn out in winter, eaves. that much froon the spring's work. Often in the spring the ground is soft, and I have Seen ground injured as much by the. trampling aird cutting up by the -wheelas the manure did good. wise rotation of crops is also ne- ceesagy ioa keeping up fertility. No rotation ehould be longer than four years. Three years wihl be better. But a four-year rotation will do very well provided cover is given an im- portant place. THE ORCHARD. Do your pears crack? The, 'remedy is to spray with Bordeaux mixture. Do it now. Spray the grafts juet put in; often they do not etart off well on account of fungi, which Bordeaux mixture will cure. Borers may now be hunted for. Gum exuding at the root of peach trees is a sure sign of their presence. Dig th'e,m out with a knife, or kill them with a piece of wire. :Tune is a good I:no/1th' to prune all orchard trees. The cots will heal over better than when the pruning is done at any other tiene of the year, So if you didnot trim last winter or early spring, do it now. 'After a soaking rain hoe around the newly -set tree and mulch with traw • manure. Should haw been done in May, but not too late yet. This will prevent the roots' from drying out during the summer, and give the tree , a fine- !start the first year. ,This is important. The beet way to renovate an old orchard Le to may& it over to the oth- er side ter the farm, and eet out thrif-, ty young tir.eers. Grub out, and burn , up the, old ireeis, clean up .the old I eiie and uae it for a garden, field or pasture. •Prepareeto lant beane (or sorae oth- er hoed crape among the Young trees. This will ensure good raanuring and Olean cultivation. " Peaa or buckwheat may be ginewn in old orchards, the aeon to be plosveld under or "hogged" down. Plenty of potash makesi firm and awee1t, fruit. That is' why the experi- enced trecontimend the liberal uee Of wood ashes, and of German potash edits in orchards, vineyards and email fruit patche-e. Our fertilizer manufac- turers alere recognize the usefulnese of potash for •Sugh purposes. SEWER PIPE FOR SLUICES. Glazed sewer Pipe te extensively used for highway Sluices and, to take the place of Onsall bridges. More care should be exercieled in placing them isa poteition than is usually done. In a lerZt Urid;gei , kite outlet abollici be MAJ OR -G EN. O'GRADY HALY General Officer Commanding the Canadian Forces. at leaet 4 iiri. lower than the inlet. Thi e insures a ready discharge of all weter entering the pipe. Be eareful that after the water leaves the pipe, it will readily rtm off, and not, when running to ite full capacity, back up in the pipe. This precaution Should be particue laxly exercised in sections liable to deep feeezing. Not only ahould the bed, in which the, pipe is laid be firm, but the. eaeth should be very cloee- ly packed about the pipe its entire length. In no case place stone or .wood isa tontace with ite Far sluices 1 ft. az more in diameter, 2 ft. of the inlet end ahould be surrounded with raaeonry laid in water lime. This pre- ventdamage from washing during feeehete, when the pressure of wa- ter often waehee a channel between the. pipe and surrounding earth. At least 1 ft. of earth ehould cover the pipe, even if you are obliged to grade • up the highway on- each side of it. THE :VALUE OF ENSILAGE. Pasefeeeor Phelps Makes an elabor- ate computation on the fair market value of ensilage, from which he de - aides' that it ie 'worth iabeut one-third to one-fourth the price per ton of a good etook hay free from clover. Ile figures it in this way: There are about 480 pounds of water -free or dry enatter in a ton of eneilage, and 1,740 pounds in a ton of hay, but vvhen the digestibility is calculated there are 330 peundie of food elemente digest- ible in the ton of silage, and about 1,000 pounds in the ton of hay, being oaear enough to call it one-third of the food value. We do not alwaye compute the value to the dairerman by the nutritive value. The more succulent and easily digested silage, when given as apart of the food ration, will produce more milk than one. -third of Ile weight in hay.. Those who have tried it gay that thirty pounds of ensilage a day with' ten pounds of hay will give !get- ter re,sults than tweiat,y pounds of hay. As those who have grown it for years tiay the cost when in the silo is from $2,50 per ton, with the best machinery, up to $3.50 when much hand labor is used, it is pro- fitable f Or the farmer to put up. en- silage. , POULTRY YARD. Surplus roosters are unprofitable summer boardere. The old fat hens ehould be sent where they will not be liable to sun- stroke. The surplus layers shouldk be start- ed( on the way to matrket. Tbe chicks will aooin need raw° room. Dwarf Eeeex rape will furnish green food for young and old birds. Sow noesor any ticme up to September. A heavy threasing of lime on poultry runs will purify thence and insure the flocks against /diseases that breed in Dry, sifted coal ashes on the floors of coope and frequent cleaning will help to keep young birds ha a healthy state. Dir,y earth is equally good. By all means use water fountains, or at leaet some form of water ves- sel that the flock eau not 'befoul with their feet or otherwise. Sat in shady places and fill daily with fresh wa- ter. Will it pay to keep a two -pound chick that will not bring tvveney cente per pound, until he weigha four pounds and eell hien for forty cents? Thetre are poultry keepers who seem to think it will. - " IRON FROM QUEBEC SANDS. Deposits on ,on the Shores of the St. Law- rence Will Soon Be Wokked. A report just issued by the Quebec Department of Cines contains Snnae Letereeting inSonnettIon regarding the ro,ineral development of the prov- ince. The gross vaeue of the miner- als during the past year was $2,516,- 000 with 5,400 . hands eimpleyed, to whore th,a companies paid in wages a.bonit $1,500,000. The Most exten- sive operation„s have been in asbestos, Copper, mica, chrome and iron, arid there has lee.en a decided Increase in the output. The report draws attention to the niagnetic iron sands on the shores of the lower St. Lawrenee. These Fiends, which aro of inemen.se extent and lite practically on the Surface, are about 70 per cent.. pure iron, bot the presence of tits -Meta has rendered re- duction very difficult. On the north shore of. the Gulf of St. Lawrence the magnetic sands have been fuel:her in- vestigated and proapscted, brut noth- ing has yet been done, with them. It is probable that these deposits will be workted in the near future. One itna.portant etep will shortly be taken by the eptablishenent of e Can- adian refinery, This will be the, out- come of the Canadian (GoVernrnent'le decision to grant bountke on Cana- dian lead made from Canadian ores, smelted in Canadian ,smel Lora and de- silverizecl and refined in the Domin- ion. The bounty will begin in 1902. It is not to amount to more lhin $ 00,- 000 a year and is to. be paid he yoae- by art the rate of 95 a ton for the first year, decre,a,eing $i every yetir 'maw its extinotien. There • are at 0.y. two smell nnaelterS isa ()anode s • PRISONS WITHOUT WALLS. ODD EXPERIMENTS AND priAvricEs IN CONVICT HOTELS. ro3sIbxe to nest; cenvieei 3191111011t "id Bolt, — Strangest Prison Ilk the Vrorld--Tert,en for first-ciaSs mastic- ineanants Only. When a F,:011v ic t bolted from: one of the old-fachionecl ,convict eettle- ments in Australia or (Tasmania, all he could do seas to take to the bush where he probably etarved., or died a lingering death of thiret. But the "Inviot Who Managesto escape front an English prison, like Soar and King the other day from( Bersta.t, may get to. London, and Possibly N E(V,ER DE. CAUGIEIT AGAIN. Se strong Wells and locked doo re s,eene, at first sight, to be absoluteiy neelessa.ry to k:eep prisoners safe in Yiete, and net an escape was at - For all that, it has hteen,..found per- fectly feeelible.. to keep convicts in mere ,shods and huts, eametianee even without bars and boIt,s, and. to treat them. very much Ifike an ordinary gang of navvies, When Dental Prison wae hull', all the work was done by convict la.boiter. Parties of convicts were sent from: Chatham, a (distance, of four millets,isa ope,n vans. They (ettere underr eselert, of course, hut ware un- chained. Temporary hate (were put tip, and it was sixteen weeks before the building% of the nem prion were far enough asivanced to accommodate he worker,s.. Every bit of the work —froni making the bricks to digging the forunrlatiens(--yeas done by con- victs, and not as escape was at- terapbech • The prison at Chattenden, near Upnor, on the Medway, was built in similar fashion, and a number of large ambruniition magazines built by the •Saltla gaTIP\SI, Who were at the work for abouten years. Althougb thla tramway on. which these MCP traVielled up and clOwn from Chat- ham pa,sised through thick woods, WITH HEAVY UNDERGROWTH, there were no attempts at eseape. Since thee works have been fini- shed, the convicts lodged in Borst(31 have been employed npon a fort at Luton, mine from the prison, and the workers have been taken up and down a little narrow-gauge rail- way. The signals which have (been put Me to /Warn .the wardene of at- tempted eeca.pe are actually worked by good-candnet Prisoners, evhe are entrusted with fieldeglateses, One Of the strangest poisons in the werlid` is the Anetralian convict -pri- son at Fremantle; It has' wells, the biggest perrhape Of any prison in the world. They -are, g-ranite, and seven feet thsough.* But they are no long- er needed for .guarding the few tot- tering' remnants a2 the once immense convict population ?•Wilalich inhabited the place.. When, the- Duke, of Edin- burgh visited Fremantle, the warders who went down( to the wharf to.meet him did not trouble to lock the (gates behiLul thezrni, aw a teJw, nit the old convicts walked dOwn) atter them, a ncl then returned There have been n'ot new dieneates of the Etre- mantle Gaol for many years and the did ones atde sill "Lifers," Who have been therre ss long that they know no other home. They potter about, and CITLTIVATE THEIR GARDENS. and have altogether a much easier time titan the average workhouse in- nalaitra.• ly ' lately tried the experimen,t Of settling about a thousand Ane ar,chtiste and Other undesirables upon tihe Island Of Treinale,te La the Medi- terranean, The euttemast was a ghastly failure. Quarrels began, and throwing all their beautiful theories of hum-ea:Ay to the winds. 'the whcee number entered upon a ravage battle, whioh ended in the death of four, and '(th sleTie°Irliss. injury to a large nunibcr of e Extreme experiments in prison re- form axe to be, foun.d in France. At a, place- called Jomraelieres a kind of prisosa eiolony /was started some years ago. The CM2ViCtS lived lan nice little houses. Bach had his or her own garden. They kept poultry and pigeontsi, sold eggs, and (anyone visiting the place could hardly have distin,guished' it from any -other vil- lage. And yet' it (was Ifound that abuses crept in,. Liquor Was sold on the sly. An official inquiry was held, and one fine day up drove a dozen • prison -vans, and the (whole colony returned to a securer prison; bele tables, surmounted with mir- rors, and piled with papers and ma - g aqiine,e, a conversation -room, a bath- room, • a beautiful .garden planted with shrubs—all. these,souncl • • A HANDS,OMIE CLLTBI-IOUSE. farm; td a couple of hundred acres'. No prisoner ever runs away from the( LUXUItIO.I.PS CoNVICT HOlgiblk But it is, after all, to the United tSt'ates that he Who velishee to see how Inc Prison refeldn ca:T1 be onrried shriuld go. isa Sing -Sing, tile Dart- moor of Amieriera cake's., Sweets, and fruit may be. sent in from outride; ale -.,01°.evnsInP3rS• There is an exce:lent prison library provided, with e I t rie light. Carpets inay be breru.ght for the colla,. .1110., though letters are read by the anthotrities, there is no lintit 1 correlation/ate/lee on the Part of the. prisoners. But the world's record for luxury belongs to the Reformatory Prison at Concord, La the State, of Newt Hemp- wbere the prisoners Ineve bean allowed by the authorities to •forret' a, club. Adanliseion to this is by, bal- see.; bot, and members can be expelled by a -general meeting. The club gives, evening -pasties, which the prison au- theritiee attend only by invitation. Tiae pristoners wear 'correct evening- drese, wiuito tice, and flowers in their buttonholes. There is a capital piano, and songs and Music co.ritinue till eleven o'clock. . rather • than anything else- . They, and other luxuries, are, however, to be 'found, in the new Parisian Sante peis.en, in the Pont noya.1 boule- vard. The GOvernatent is even go- ing to ,supply a hand:clueing the, neer months. • The Sante Prison is a sort of glorified Holloway, and,need- leSs to say, is only for firet-class re:leder/Icarian 1s. 'the inmates of the Finnish prison at I -fel sin gfors are provided with what iis practically a eheap and pleas- ant tioarding-leeners. if hey may furnish th.eir rooms as they like, buy what they like, go out when they like. The only restrietion on their liberty is that they mast sleep in prison, a.ncl that when they do move abroad they tous.t be' accompanied by a warder. tf,he tette!) hoevever, dress- es, always in plein (clothes, so -the pesseners' social status does not suf.- Carnes, besides' work, are 'provided by the authorities of the juvenile Peieloin, ad. Harnbutg. ma theme tine hinguages, ncl eymnas- tios age taught. The !wardens are practically'1F-Seleco1niesters, .Who with CIO youn' 'conVict,, and (share, theig efcrts mund se,ork. ThCre, are tlW,,.!ritiefive- holy. es, standing in nrirld'ett of a been tif. u 11 y-e-uLige ted DON'T WAIT TOO 'LONG. when You Get Hold of a Good Ides, Push It Along. Don't be too careful Thousands of fortunes are forfeited every year through excessive caution. "Nothing gets nothingIwho waits aisitsthieoola \Ivo long When in the autumn of 1899; the Boer commandoes esvarmed into Na- tal and Cabe Colony, they might have "swept the English into the sea." The few thousand British sol- diers then in South Africa could not Possibly have withstood their over- whelming numbers. But the Book is a cautious man. I -le waited to weigh his chances. Whilst he weighed they went. Bul- ler, Roberts, and thousands of Bri- tish soldiers poured into the defence- less country, and brother 13oer hiad to make strategical movements Pre- toriawards. Ills overcarefulness ins strained hisn from dealing that early blow which might have changed the whole conduct of the .war. Contrast Lord Roberts' action after the convoy disaster at Serina's Post when he founi himself suet. denly stranded with only a feev his- cuits per Man. Heat, hunger and ao, then enemy lay ahead of him, but a comparatively safe line of retreat was oPen in his rear. Nine commanders out of ten would have flunked it a,nd retreated, " Bobs" thought otherwise. To hay( retreated would hare evorked demor- alization throughout his ranks, and imperilled the Army of Natal. ' He took the risk, fearful though it Was, and triumphed. The battle of life is continually re- peating these lessons on a snahller scale with each one of Us, Despite copy book maxims to the contrary, it is not the careful, man who soores best. The prizes go to the dashing, • GO-AHEAD FELLOW who flings old-fashioned convention alities to -the winds ; who acts upon his ideas as soon as they mature, and before they get stale and out of s date. Do ,not confuse • this with slap- dash. It is better to be overcareful than a "slasher." The first man can generally make a competency, al- though he will never set the world yonitunfii.e. The “slasher" usually ends in the workhouse or the lunatic as - The great thing is to get right liela7arSlyPgawini°smh prtollve• erb,liotainodtisem u it is tion: al will do." That is a nation- al descriptive of the characteris- tics which have placed proud Spain where she lies to -day. :Learn to re- cognise your chance on s'..ght ; and, having recognised it, lose no time.;• Do not ''sleep upon it." That! may have been a good plan 'for' the early Victorians, but it won't -do now. To-d.ay the telegraph ancl ele- phone can forestall your idea he a few seconds, Therefore, having got your idea, start right away, and push it along. "Ah But suppose it is.a, mistak- en idea, and I lose nione3r over it.," says the careful man. That sir, is. where your carefulness must come in... Learn to be careful quickly. Treat your business puzzles not as mathe- matical problems to be pondered over for clays, but as real. things. With a little practice you will be surprised. ae • the rapidity with which itis possible to, weigh the prbs and cons of all but the very deepest. questions. • 'Of' course you will have to take risks. Every man has to do. One Of the most successful 'nen of his gen-.• eration, the"late Prince Bismarck, held the most pronounced views on this Matter. No one ever taxed the Iron Chancellor with rashness, yet he summed the whole philosophy of his -life in those words : "With dutiful trust in God, dig in the spurs and let Life like a wild horse,, take you flying over hedge end ditch, resele-ecl to `•break your neck, and yet fearless, inasmuch as you 'meet at ,soine time part from all that is ,dear to you oh eartbee. ' though not Sorcerer." _ KEEPING BUTTER. The ,d:elleithe aeorna of the 'S"irell made, new butter is not a lasting pro - party. We c,ontend, therefore, • that too onuch credit is given, for this vol- atile property that today you have and to -morrow is gone, while com- paratively too little is laid on those conditions whic,h caused the product to stand eight up to its merit through the time needed to treacle the consum- er. Keeping quality,. ie certainly a high raelrit in butter, and we know of Ino good :reason why it, should not receive credit in scoring. i The King of Portugal s an ex* ceedinely clever artist, and lies beer rtwerded medals at- exhibitions fot his pictures, • As at rule lie svorlrs in pestel, end much of his leisure time is occupied with slectehing nt ervor, ite spots along the costae.,