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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1913-10-16, Page 29 THE MOAN AN TIMES, OCTOBER 16 1913 TO ADVERTISERS Notice of changes must be left at this office net later than saturday noon. The copy for changes must be left not later than Monday evening. Casual advertisements accepted up to noon Wednesday of each week. ihTA13L1t3iint •!tiny THE WINGKAM TIMES. H. 13 M.i.Ltt) r1' PUBLISHER AND PROPIETOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1913 ENORMOUS WOOD WASTE. In the m tnufncture of chemical wood- pulp by rhe s ilphite process, one-half of eveoy cent so treated is eiseolved by the ligeor io which the wood is boiled, and is discharged, into the adjacent rivers as waste liquor. According to the lust bulletin on Pulpwood, issued by the Forestry Branch, Ottawa, the amount of pulpwood subjected to this chemical treatrn n in W12 was almost two hundred and ninety thousand cords. One half of this amount has absolute waste. The average price of a cord of pulpwood is six dollars, so that this waste, reduced to its money equiva'ent, represents a loss to Canada of over eight hundred thousand dollars. Nor is this the only loss, for by this process J40 pounds of suli•her are rt- quired to dissolve the waste materials out of each cord of wood. Some of the gases generated in the process are re- covered, but most of pe sulphur passes off in the waste liquor, and no method has yet been found to recover it for use a second time, Sulphur costs twenty-five dollars a ton, and the loss in this particular is equivalent to a money loss of over half a million dol- lars on the total amount wasted. In view of that fact that each' yea more and more pulp -wood is being ma:•ufactured into pulp by this process in Canada, the utilization of this waste l.quor btcimes an important problem. Even the most practicable method so far devised dues not recover enough valuable products to make it pay. '1h; waste liquor contains many mat trials, such as oxalic acid, tannin ext-actq, dyestuffs and alcohol consti- tuents which, if they could be easily recovered, would make the liquor of great commercial value; but in spite of the tremendous amount of work which has been done on the subject, especially in Europe, the problem still remains for the most part unsolved. As the liquor also contains carbohydrates, it should be possible to obtain turpentine, srd eventually it may be rossible to obtain rubber from it. In furthering the solution of such proble:ns and in eliminating other forms of wood waste, the new Forest Products Laboratories being established by the Dominion Government at McGill University will doubtless ptay an important part. One use of the waste liquor mentioned above, that bas been tried at Grand Mere, Quebec, where the Laurentide Company has large pulp and paper mills, consists in its utilization for street -watering. Experience has shown it to be as efficacious in keeping down duet as oil is, while the objection- able odor of oil is quite absent. ................ f �s j7 Gpo . 4Frk„ -040,• or, A t - ,EASY TO USE / 000D FOR THE_SHOES WINGHAM TWENTY YEARS AGO (From the TiMEs of Oct. I3, 1493) Mr. T. A. Mills is advertising an ex- tensive clearing sale of drygoods, groc- LOCAL NEWS eries, crockery, glassware, boots and Work on the new :mile 1 on Victoria shoes. etc., in order to reduce his street was commenced on Monda,• 1 st, large stock, so as to enable him to and the walk will likely be finished this make extensive alterations in his store. week. ; He intends adding the millinery and The machinists are at work putting' mantle departments to his business, in the machinery in the Wingham and going out of groceries, crockery, Electric Light power house in Lower ( glassware. boots and shoes. Bargains Wi'igham. It will not be long before will b given in all departments. the lights will be supplied from the new works. Miss Hattie A. Reid, teacher of the school in Scnoolsection No. 1, Turn - berry, has been re-engaged for another year. The trustees were highly pleas- ed with the progress the school has made during the year. Dr. Macdonald, M. P , and Mayor Gordon, accompanied by Mrs. Macdon- ald and Miss Gordon, leave for the World's Fair to -day. They will return on the 25th instant. Houses are very scarce in town just now. Fvery building that is at all habitable is being filled, and still the cry is more houses. Several familier moved into town this week. LUMI- is t PRODUCTS, 1912. There was ten rer cent. le -s lumber cut in Canada during 1912 than in the preceedirg year, the total quantity fruit. Mr. J. A. Ruddick, Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner, in giving evidence on this question pointed out that about $1.75 per barrel was receiv- ed in the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie Districts by the members of co -operas tive associations while independent growers received about $1.00 per bar- rel. The Commissioner in referring to the discrepancy between the first and final prices of apples estimated that the unavoidable expenses amounted to about $2.23 per barrel made up as fol- lows: -barrel, 45c.; picking 17e.; man- agement expenses or commission to a local buyer, 19c.; freight to Winnipeg. 80e.; broker's commission, 12e.; and re- tailer's profit 50e. per barrel. The question of marketing was but one of many dealt with by the special Committee who had as witnesses be- sides the Dairy and Cold Storage Com- missioner, Messrs. Daniel Johnson, Forest, Ont., S. B. Chute, Berwick, N.S., W. S. Foggo, Vernon, B.C., and James Hardwell, Ottawa. As evidence of the value to the grower of co-operation Mr. Johnson instanced the case of a woman who was offered, by a local buyer, $125 for her crop for which she received through a c i -operative association $1,035. L'ir. Chute who represented 1,500 farmers, as manager of the United Fruit Companies of Nova Scotia, ex- plained that through his organization 5,000 tens of fertilizer had been bought from the manufacturers for the mem- bers who had benefited to the extent of about $15,000 on purchases of fertilizers, spraying machines and materials, farm implements, seeds and other require- ments. Equally interesting evidence was given by the other witnesses all of which appears in a pamphlet of 116 pages that has been printed for public distribution by the Publications Branch of the Department of Agriculture at OrtaWa. A copy of the first number of the Ripley Enquirer, the new paper just started in Ripley by Mr. H. P. Chap- man, has been received. It is a tastily gotten up and well printed four-page sheet, BORN. McCormick -In Turnberry on the 9th inst., the wife of Mr. D. McCor- mick, a daughter. DIED. Rintoul-In East Wawanosh on Oct. 6th, Alexander Rintoul, aged 57 years. Brown -In Wingham. on Monday, Oct. 9th, William James Brown, aged 62 years. 4.11111111 amounting to 4,389,723,000 feet, board measure, valued at $69,475,781 The shingle and lath production amounted to $5,239,941 and square timber netted $1,825,154, making the total value of Inmber and allied products in 1912 equal to $76,541,879. Spruce is Canada's most important conifer, or "softwood", for it made up over one-third the amount of lumber THE COUNTRY BOY'S' CREED. "I believe that the country which God made is more beautiful than the city which man made; that life out of doors and in touch with the earth is the natural life of man. I believe that work is work wherever I find it; but that work with Nature is more inspir- ing than work with the most intricate and lath cut in 1912 and also coastitut- , machinery, I believe that the dignity ed over three. -quarters of the pulpwood I of labor depends not on what you do, but production for the same year. Suc-on how you do it; that opportunity comes seeding it on the list are white pine, i to a boy on the farm as often as to the Douglas fir, hemlock, cedar and birch. boy in the city; that life is larger and Birch is Canada's most important and freer and happier on the farm than hardwood, and takes precedence over in the town; that my success depends many conifers, or "softwoods", ae i not upon my place, but upon myself - well. It was sawn in over 2000 mills, not upon my dreams, but upon what. I and formed 28. per cent. of the square actually do; not upon luck but upon timber cut in Canada To this large . pluck. I believe in working when you percentage of birch was due in some work and playing when you play, and measure phenomenal increase of 89.9 , in giving and demanding a square deal per cent. in the cut of square timber ; in every act of life," -From Wallace's during 1912, this being the first increase .,Farmer." since 1877. Other "hardwoods"increasiugly used are maple and basswood, both of which are also common in the farmer's wood - lot. Although the "hardwoods" con- stituted only 7.1 per cent. of the total lumber cut, the supply of trees is by no means exhausted for, unlike the conifers, there was an increase in the amount of such woods cut in 1912 over that of 1911, Further information can be obtained from the Forestry Branch, Ottawa. PROBLEMS OF THE FRUIT GROWER. During a sitting of the Select Stand- ing Committee of the House of Com- mons on Agricultural and Colonization a few months ago it came out in evi- dence that many apple growers were last year unable to secure more than from 75c. to $1.00 per barrel on the tree and in some districts hundreds of bar- rels of good fruit were allowed to fall They Stake Ton Feel 44.rod. to the ground and:rot because no profit - The pleasant purgative effect produc- ed by Chamberlain's Tablets and the healthy condition of body and mind which they create make one feel joyful. For sale by all dealers. abie.market could be found for it. It came out also that in the western pro- vinces consumers were required to pay from $6.00 to $5.50 per barrel for good ).'k..:�..'i1i�•i�J%i. "��+llt�.?ira`•],'.:..., "•' «J"^'S M•. vrc�•�. ;., Y,1,.,.,�; �� �t...:•C:.w.'.,�P:.2t�'il:'�t.�'ti.>,w.r.�'r• .F•v'.. Look for this label on every bag PORTLAND UNLES.5 you It&re facilities for *Wog ctitroliotht, you swot depe act upon th t nanttflricttbul`eelr k r Clikelet tient is reli,i�l3tc --- Every car Okra& mit 'ilii herr ft j gird, and unless it peteirttt eyed kiiit it Ana* Deaf to lease' the ihpiL Yeti telt Blears rel' larch! Cane& Cotte alt. e surf you get it. Cowie, Cseasest CNs s p' Litralteml, li�etattltlrlrllil 't"!t•r4t i1 lit e,ivi e.4 i».aree:t tier 175 Sur IE F400A 'tom alit hew hies, irk top tie W Shifa ti. Itt't rut on. boo*** Atka** a ***MON* te+.E "Arihi air 11n1ilttavr Ca* $1r ;!!ruff Ceeltitk." TO A' N DIRECTORY. • BAPTIST CHURCH -Sabbath services at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m, Sunday School at 2.30 p. in. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. G. Vic- tor Collins, pastor. B. Y. P. U. meets Monday evenings 8 p. rn. W. D. Pringle, S. S. Superintendent. METHODIST CHURCH -Sabbath ser- vices at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday School at 2:30 p, m. Epworth League every Monday evening. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. J. W. Hibbert, pastor. F. Buchanan, S. S. Superintendent. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -Sabbath ser- vices at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday School at 2:30 p. m. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. D. Perris, pastor. Dr. A. .1. Irwin, S. S. Superintendent. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, EPISCOPAL -Sab- bath services at 11 a. m. and 7. p. m. Sunday School at 2:30 p, m. Rev. E. H. Croly, B, A., Rector. Alex. Al- deron, S. S. Superintendent. SALVATION ARMY CITADBL.--Service at 11 a.m., 3 .m, and 7 p.m. on Sunday. At 8 o'clock on Thursday evening. There will be special music provided in the Sunday evening service from 7 to 7.15 POST OFFICE -Office hours from 8a, m. to 6:30 p. m, Open to box holders from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. P. Fisher, postmast- er. PUBLIC LIBRARY -Library and free reading room in the Town Hall, will be open every afternoon fr an2 to 5:30 o'clock, and every evening from 7 to 9:30 o'clock, Miss R. Brown, lib- rarian. TOWN COUNCIL =-C. G, VanStone, Mayor; J. W. McKibbon, Reeve; J. A Mills, George Spotton, Wm. Isbister, W. J. Boyce, A. Young and D. Bell, Councillors; John F. Groves, Clerk and Treasurer. Board meets first Monday evening in each month at 8 o'clock. Chronic Dyspepsia. The following unsolicited testimonial should certainly be sufficient to give hope and courage to persons afflicted with chronic dyspepsia: I have been a dyspeptic for years, and of all the medicine I have taken, Chamberlain's Tablets have done me more good than anything else." says W. G. Mattison, No. 7 Sherman St., Hornellsville, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. INCREASING THE PROFITS OF DAIRYING. By following a system of intelligent breeding, selection, care and feeding, many farmers in Canada have increased the annual production of their milking herds by at least 2,000 lbs. of milk per cow. If this were accomplished in all dairy herds in Canada the yearly revenue from them would be increased by about $30,000,000 without adding to the size of the herds. Even with greately im- proved feeding this desirable result could not be obtaihed unless a well organized system of cow testing is followed. Such an improvement is based on a study of. the individual cow in the herd, the retention of only the good animals and the following of a system of generous feeding of economi- cally produced foods. While it is practicable for individual farmers to test their own cows it is infinitely easier and cheaper for them if some form of co-operation is -adopted. This is clearly brought out in bulletin No. 33 of the Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner's Branch entitled, "Cow Testing with Some Notes on the Sampling and Testing of Milk." This work, which is published for free dis- tribution by the Publications Branch of the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, explains clearly how cow testing associations are formed and worked as well as the benefits these are to those who take advantage of them. at ti 01 ea in 1 Pt oe w e4 el ft 0 Q 0 HIGH SCHOOL BOARD -Frank Buchan- an, (Chairman), R. Vanstone, Theo. Hall, C. P. Smith, W. J. Howson, John A. McLean, W. F. VanStone. Dudley Holities, Secretary. A. Cosens, treasurer. Board meets second Mon- day in each month. PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD.- A. Tipling, (Chairman), Alex Ross, J. L. Awde, Dr. A, J. Irwin, Robt. Allen, Wm. Moore.H.E.Isard,Dudley Holmes Secretary-Treas.,John F. Groves;Meet- ings second Tesday evening in each month. HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS -Harry E. Ricker, Principal; G. R Smith, B. A., Specialist in Mathematics; Mr. Ewing, Specialist in Classics; Miss White, Specialist in Moderns and History; Miss B E. Anderson, First Form. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS. -A. L. Posliff, Principal, Miss Brock, Miss Reynolds,, Miss Farquharson, Miss Ans- ey, Mise Barber and Miss Bentley. Eczema on the Bead. Mr. Peterson, South Bay, Ont., writes: "For years 1 suffered a sort of eczema on the head. I tried four different doctors, giving each a fair trial, but the.disease grew , worse Lind spread to my arm. I got Dr. Chase'n Ointment, and it has entirely cured me. I give you my name because I want other sufferers to know about this splendid Ointment." • ' BOARD OF HEAI:TH.-C.G VanStone, (chairman), Wm.Fessant, Alex Porter, John F. Groves,Secretary; Dr. R. C. Redmond, Medical Health officer. Money Savecl, Money gonna. During the month of August the Grain Growers' Grain Co. of Winnipeg mailed to all its shareholders a ten per cent. dividend upon the par value of their stock. The total of this large dividend amounted to $62,819. This sum of money all went back to the shareholders of the farmer's company upon their farms throughout the three provinces. It was to them just that much money saved by their own efforts in co operation. If the Grain Gtowere Grain Company had not been in the field thls money would simply have gene into the pockets' of the private grain Magnates. This divieend was not earned by the farmers' company because of any special privilege enjoy- ed by them; not because of any laws passed specialty in their behalf; but in the face of the keenest and often un- scrupulous rivalry of many large and powerful interests. The Grain Gtowert►' Grain Company and its success is a monument to the ability of the Western fetrmers to stand together for their common Welfare. FARM ERS • ti c 1; • e and anyone having. Ste stook or other articles they wish to dispose of, should adver- tlse the same ton pale In the Testae. Oar large circulation tells and it will bs atran,' indeed If tan do not etaoustomer. W. ain't guarantee hat on will sell because you may ask mote for bite artioie or Hook than it is worth. Send your advertisement to the Tuna and try this plan of disposing of your .tack and other articles. OUTSIDE ADVERTISING Orders for the insertion of advertt.•m.nn such as teachers wanted, business chanties. mechanics wanted, articles for sale, or In fad any kind of an advt. In any of the Toronto or other oity papers, may lett at the Tanis ofEee. This week will receive prompt attention and will save -people the trouble of ramitling for and forwarding advertisements. Lowest raise will be gaoled on application. Leave er send your next work of lite kind lo the TIMES OFFICE. WIngbtars OVER AS YEARS' EXPERIENCE ATENTS /t Te1111DR MAIMS Orator.* COPYRIGHTS AC. anyone sen ding a sketch and etoecrfptlon may 'Inlcl•1 n.e934ia t, eyialon 4rea whether an aoentinn 1. proh.t•1♦patentabl ummnnlc•. ane Mtricttrrnneaet.th,t. IIAU0500K on Pitenti t. tree. Ut •^at areney for eerurtna ante. Tetanic t,.k.•n t:,romth Munn & �r.ceive on ea twee, ...it *mot Cb n. tic, iu t he Scienitlf lc Jimerican. A handeomety CAW rated weekly. Largest err. r -Hatton of any r.:enHee j',t:rnal. Terme tot t ntl.k, U,3 a year. ye".a,te prepaid. 8014 by 1 nee adeatere. DlIN & ru:9rbfi1Croadaa7, Ta au'New York UK tr.:a'e. at's Rt.. wu'hinatnet. 0. u. Our registration again exceeds that of any previous year. The boy or girl who has not received our free catalogue does' not knot the great opportunities of commercial life. We have three departments - Commercial. Shlorthe..n d and Telegraphy and we offer you advantages not offered elsewhere in Ontario. You may enter at any tine. 'Write for our free catalogue at once. H. A. MCLACHLAN PRINCIPAL. Et3TABLI810D 1871. TIE WIN611AX Tis. Th 18 PUBLISH= I 1/ERY THURSDAY M0RNiNG tis -AT- on The Times Office Stone 111oek. tot WINGHAIL. ONTARIO, on CQ ref Ha11Column w111 agcy. Dr. --�-- fo 1111(6 or 8nlsaaIPTI0II--�1.U0 per annum In G1 vane. 51.5011 not so paid, No paper dlaoon• H, sued tiii an arrears are paid, axoept at fife tion oil f rho pnbliahor. Pe AnvuTI.I1a Ba:cas. -pL.pi and other BI .naladyeellsementaiQoperNonp.rieliln•for pe tnwrtton, lto par fin. ler Melt anba.qus $ portion. Adrert1a.niente in lood oohune. are oharg•d m tr line for..,aah ubseqor ueaint Insertion. 5 e.nis bl Advertisements of Strayed, ?arms for Bale di 'toRenl and Smiler, 31,00 for first three et saki!, and 35 Dents for each nabaegne*t in- st Align. OorTa&OT SATI6-The following table !theta CC urates for the ingertlon of advertisements ' tr.peoifed period.:- „f 1PA01. 1 Z'1, a 1(O. 5 1(0, 11(0 tt 8e0o18mn 810.00 140.00 863.50 38.00 of 40.00 36.00 16.00 8.x1 uarterOolamn....- 10.00 13,60 1.60 8.00 fc ne inch 5.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 N Advertisements without specific directions be inserted illi forbid and charged accord- 18 Tranei.nt advertisement" must be paid pt or inad►an•e.• II Tug 301 DII'A8T1(111T is stocked with an rtensive assortment of all requisite" for print. K, affording faoillties not equalled in the 81 enatytor turning out first claw work. Largo k U • 1Ja, .10 , andate for allPosi- ts, Ltif dyke of w holes toner type for the liner *Lover of print • g, tg. Ili, B. ILLICIT go Pronrletor and Publisher a a DRS. KENNEDY & CALDER C trrr018--Oorner Patrick and Centre Sta. PHONIe: Mires ss Residence, Dr. Kennedy 1443 Residence, Dr. Calder 151 Dr. Kennedy epeoialise.ln Surgery. Calder devotes special attention to Dia- nna of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. t Eyes thorough! toiled. Glasses properly fitted. t DR. ROBT. C. RRDIfOND, 3t. 8.0.8. (Eng) L. S. C. P. Loudon, a PHYSICIAN acid SURGEON, t Otfio•`with Dr. Ohirhohn. 1 DR. H. J. ADAMS Late Member Nouse Staff Toronto General Hospital. Post Graduate London and Dublin, Successor to Dr. T. H. Agne e. Office Macdonald Block. 1 W. R. Hambly, B.80., M.D., O.M. Wingham, Ontario. Special attention paid to diseases of women and children, having taken post graduate work in Surgery, Bartoriology and kit:loonflc Medicine. Office in the. Kerr residence: betiS'een the Queen's hotel and the Baptist Church. All business given careful attention. Phone 54. P. 0. Box 1I8. Dr. J. R. Macdonald Wingham, Ont. Office -Stone Block, over the TIMES office. • RR VANSTONII, BABRISTAR, c0LiolTur, 11T0 Pefrabaab Comping tuaas to loan at lowest rata of intern,. Mortgagee, town Ind farm property Beaver Blast W1a,bsM JA.IMOB'x0N, • t3ABRItTiflk, no. Wiaahaa, oat. DUDLEY HOLCCES Barrister, Solicitor, Etc.. Office : Meyer Block, Wingham. ARTHUR J. IaWIN, D. D. S., L. D S. Doefor of Dental5argery or the Pennsylvania s .. sal College and Wonting of the Royal s . : • of Dental Sur was of Ontario, Omen . onald Bleak. Wingham. • .'ae closed every Wednesday afternoon from 1�+I 1st to Oot. let. a H. ROSS, D. D. S., L. D. B. H•mor seriduate of the Royal College of Dental titre��p ne of Ontario and Honor grads• ate of the Usiwersity of Toronto, Faculty. of Dentistry, Mae over H. E. Isard & 00'.., store, Wing - ham Ont. Othce closed every Wednesday afternoon from May 1st to Oat. 1st. ---- Wingham General Hospital (Under Government Inspection) Pleasantly situated. Beautifully fur- nished. Open to ailg�ilarly licensed physieians. RAIU s FOR PATIENTS --Which mctudeboard••and nursing), $4.90 to$15. per week seconding to location of room. For further information, ad- dress Mies L. Matthews. Superintendent Bog 223, Wingham Ont. RA N WAY TII$IY'� TAillAg. !_RANO •s$UNKRAILWAY ISTItT1M �7f Taligi t1811 vol London .. ,.385 .a.. _ litAt fn. Tdroaffi /last 11.00 eon.. 5 65 .ai - 11.1100ii.r*. 8ineardins4.11,104.aa,., 41.8.1 p m. - .f,15 p.m. Arakva Pam shill►rdl*i.._e.80K.tr.,1Le0f,a.- I.'S1 Oa*. Loudon...... ......11.54 sin... R.af nerd. Palmelratott.... 11.24..x. 'Toronto 1F1.saBtURGMAN` Agent, ginghamm CANADIAN 3'AOl1 0 SA1L31At. T1Aise *1411' P011 Torontto,and Ileet�.......- SAO Lalt..W 8,05 ti.zt. TerlitaMr ..... r .6....... 12.30 retic. _t ,82 y,ti*. A1I11511 1x01( iireesaYatilr... 1.16 a.ita ,, r. 11.00 p,ti. .Taranto aid East ,_,12 10 rex _fa.22 se6_ 3.18.11113111 ar Ate* firlIuIli *. BUS "ANTIQUES," ere le a Very Simple Way to Outwit the "Art Fakers." !every little while some victim of or - tic ewindlera collies into court ask- ; damages. The "nutique" bookcase which he paid $4,000 proves to be o made week before last, an exact py of those offered at annual sales $74.65. The "original" picture by Buse or Corot or George Inness or Omer Martin turns out to be a fake rpetrated by some "artist" who is ltd to draw a regular salary of $50 r week for helping gull the public. In such cases the courts recover at aeb of the victim's money as poesi- e His loss in time, mortification, sgust and disappointment .must be larged to experience. And for every Ieh caste which sees the light of a turtroom pores are kept concealed. ere is a simple way to outwit these Irt fakers." If you are buying rural - Ire, buy for beauty and utility', not for 3e If you are buying pictures buy 1r art's sake, not for a name's sake. amee can be forged, age can be Minu- ted, but beauty and usefulness are oesemitone In themselves, no matter om whose band you get them. True, this rule requires the buyer to lady pictures and furniture until he Wows something about them. But lthont such knowledge the owner eta little satisfaction out of the pox. aesions. U people bought only those rticles which they understand and pprove, we should have a saner stand - of living In this good country. - bingo Journal. ATHENS AND THE SEASON. Not Comfort, but the Dati, Govern* the Summer Outing*. The modern Athenians are not very and of hard exerclee, and except in We height of summer, when many of 4em go to Bepbisia and Phaiergm and others to the islands or to the baths near Corinth for a "cure," they tem well content to remain within heir city. They are governed, it seems by Cashion, like those who dwell in ass favored lands. When 1 was In Athena the weather I usually magnificent and often verj tint Yet Phaleruin. perhaps half an hour by train from Constitution square, was deserted. In the vast be- tel there _I found only two or three children; in the baths half a dozen ewimmere. The pleasure boats lay tile by the pier. l asked the reason of thia-why at evening dusty Athens wad cr*mined with strollers and ti I were black with people Ing coffee and ices, while delightful, Pbalerum, with its cooler ale and its I waters, held no one but an Eng- lisb' traveler? "Tho season le over," was the only reply I; received, delivered with a grare air of anality. 1 tried to argue the matter and euggested that anxiety about the war had aometbing to do with 1t Ilut 1 was intorined tbat the "eenson" closed on a certain day and tbat after that day the Athenians gave up plug to Phaleruw.-Eobert Hicl4- ens in Century Magazine. ` To Clean Valuable Glass. One can never be careful enough le cleaning valuable objects d'art of all kinds, 'snyb the Pall Mall t ailette. Many eigiiisite pieces bare been ea- tirely ,spoiled through cleaning belnE accomplished unintelligently. Old glees counts among the most precious of possessions, and for its cleaning chem- icals must never be used, becanee they remove that dnil bluish glass which le always a characterlbtic tat nations• specimens and Is a point highly primed by connoisseurs. it cleaning really becotni!`s neeiiisary bob 06wde1.0 egg- shells. Thebe must be ground very ane, with ho `gritty plecee'remalntng to scratch the glass. bila with tepid wa- ter into a thln paste and with this rub the glaitsf, Hine with clear water after- ward and dry with a soft leather. Thiel is the only really reliable tray of clean- ing valuable glass and is a Method carefully followed by eollectora. Official Rat Catcher'. ' One of the earliest of official rat catchers appears to have been a wom- an. An English warrant dated 1(372 announces that, "Whereas, Elisabeth Wickley is employed in killing of reties and other vermins, 10 and altout Ilia Me'le'e Stores and flounce in ye Tower (1f Landon, I have• therefore.thought !fit to allow her ye tutu of eight pounds ($40 per annum." During the next century 'the OfficeI'iiii lntested 't ith great dignity, andtb6 ilentleman's Magazine for 1741 recorded the ap• Ointment of Mr. dower es, rat .killer to his majeery, ae place o1r' 1150 ($1500) 1 year, an honorable ogles" Freddy'. :; They pass a plate of Bakes to lite& that descent Re puts out his hand, "eeitdtes, then dMivs 111 8J Ck and batik fluff to cfy. "What are yo0 bi'yfag !Uri!" Oho hit moth*. " $cantle fon Ah go1bg to lithid rat *hen 1 choose the Dlfgted Call Money. Beir*rwtl;aPt1' t i>t' lidhtieyf leu! z ¥law it'll what ebe fellows spend en delete and d'art**, ta* , boll y�ti {hely Mine wit11 theria.4- Saltlnlca Aidlalietel3L A Captain el lailinel'1i'. 117113* -Powe Wbat le a eaten o rk 1nap0/7 Pena -.Any 11.1ar1e¢ itian wDf sl.n the Within his thelia > !hilt."^ Ctuclnnet1 Engttlrea. ,Are lAtlasanhr *'aa Delfeni$-=Mlatbee lWio 1, t4h Matt, alk! Iltasageoh-ThIV spool'; honetet. Ito puttee Win Itty7,