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Sing a Song o'sixpence, a pocket full of Rye;,
Four and twenty Blackbirds baked in a Pic;
When the Piewas opened the K.ingbeganto sing:
"Oh, Chef,1 say! Take this away-
,
�j Treat your family to this dish and yourself to sum-
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J Serve it in a dozen different ways. Frozen Pudding
-more toothsome and easier to make than ice cream.
Blain -Mange -flavored to suit or served with fruit is a
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(I A whole host or prize-winning recipes provide the sum-
mer-burdenedhousewife with an easy solution to the eternal
question; "What can we have tonight?"
BENSON'S PREPARED CORN '
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a thousand dozen packages.
tJ We'll send you a beautifully gotten up little book of
recipes, if you'll write for it.
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Makers of the Famous Edwardsburg Brands
MONTREAL CARDINAL .. BRANTFORD
Tri! fit i4Ti ,'W„ R TY a... A;ate:,
rE43,77. 17,74.
The Wedding Eve ;
Or, Married to a Fairy.
CIAI'TI0R 201.%, -(Continued).
"That sounds very charming, but it
would not prevent you from feeling
hurt and angry when your relatives
snubbed and ignored your wife. Think
howutlfalr to the girl such a. union
would be. I may be 0onslde'ed cynical.
buts am always inellme1 to the belief
that the peasant wife of the Lard of
TM:Weigh fallen away end d, not on
account' of the burden of an hung' into
which she was not born, but because
she really could not endure the snubs
Of her husbands ]sigh -born female re-
. natives. Why should spoor little Lilith,
Who is. really very happy and Contented)
as she is, have to subunit to a shnilar
ordedi?"
"Slut herself is the best judge of what
she pan or cannot endure, I said, "May
I see her?"
141rs. Morland rose with alacrity.
I will fetch her," site said. Rut you
1,001 . not be too much discouraged it.
she.x1Y Igo.' Site likes you very much
ns' a f'rie'nd, but the child has no
thoughts or marriage, nor will she: '1000
for years to 'come in all neutral:MB'.
Her temperament Isby no means 1as-
s101101e end' she is More childthanwo-
man stili;'
Site Was having the room when 1
sprang from inv seat and stopped her.
"May I :10, ! I said, 'that 01111111 one
be sent to fetch Lilith 1,e'e? _I want
to be' myself the first to tell her of my
wishes. r Will y0U lot :no ring for the
maid?" '
hAd MY
aid?"-
hfid'my hand on the bell as I spruce,
se that Site could not refuse me: but 7
could: see quite well that she did nal
relish the arrangement. 71111 sato aceed-
1 o•graceful and ladytike manner,
re n
the sery her seat' and relying orders, Mto
tge the servant 0110 entered, •), axil I4liss
Saxon to conic; 10 tato drawing -room.
My heart thumped faster apt faster
durJng the short Interval before TAHOE'S
stnnaal'anee,
•What tv0uld s'10.say? flow Would she
leek? 'Would she wear the white frock
' in Which I had last seen' her? •
SShe sao11' solved all donbt1•, entering
711@o a dream of youth and beau1Y.'in
.Parisian+looking lops° hlatise of .rose-
tolorod lawn rind -white fare insertion
O ver a'.1111•t of fawn-OulOrod 0111t,.a-rose.
eolored silk sash'1'oluid 1111' waist, and
Aar 10yel" co1,111' 1 '1111 the°its and bright-
t iess in h0 dancing eyes,'
It is stare h1W dregs olte•a'wo-
hie.n. With Seer' ti yeilOw 111,1r elegantly
dressed high on her Maw' and .1,ew down
on the nape of her neck, her little -feet
encased In silk stockings 111111 I'renc1
high -heeled slippers, and one gold hhn-
gle on her left wrist, Lilith looked no
longer the lovely artist's model I had
last seen, but a beautiful and refined
v s red in rags,
nun • lull Had he este u g ,
My hive and her beauty would have
Stood the test triumphantly; but. ns it
was, 1 told myself with pridethat she
would have been 41. fitting wife for a
prince, and Mot 11. prince might well
congratulate himself over winning such
a prize.
'1111th. b.
has come dr
A swift glance, the purport w1
11011,tnrl began ]tastily,
and in evident uta 1 r 1Sll1Re '\tr. Hervey
,1011 hero, ta. say something
to you -something which I think w111
surprise you
very 111(101,:'
Of which
I did not understand, was exchanged by
the 11Vo walnen, and 1.411111 grew sudden -
1y very pale.
I was .halting hands with herby this
time, and held her hand a long time
within my own. .
"You are not angry with me; are you?"
she said artlessly, loaldng'00 11110 my
face,
"So far frran being angry with Yell."
1 said, taking her two hands, and bottl-
ing them °,lose. "that I have come to,
clay to ask you to be my wife."
.She stared at me with dilated eyes,
and then looked awn and began to
laugh In a nervous, half -hysterical man-
ner.
"How absurd!" she exclaimed. ".11111,
of enuree, you are Joking. I am sure
Lady Margaret would he cross if she
1(00(11 you tout stink nonsense."
"Indy Margaret has nothing to do
With it,'I said, still retaining her hands
and trying to make her averted eyes
meet mine. "Weare nn longer engaged.
'\5'e never loved welt other, anti we have
found out our Mistake 770W. 1
have
ave'a
al-
ways loved you, 7411111, mai I want yeti
to h and love me."
"o, 'rule:! It's
impassible, von
inn t be 1n earnest, Yon must forget
aril this :at once, It's quite out of the
question!' panted' 1,111111 in c1dtement
'Which it Wns,pafnful to witness.
Then, suddenly Wrenching her hair's
from mine, she'W hst into a passion orf
tends,
Mrs. . Mnrlolhl ptit her Mine offeetinn'
1,t01y xannd _11e sobbing girl and tried
to soothe he', gland)* si6'nlfteently at
me over 1.1I1t,'s shoulder the White,
"Lilith is not strong, She 'said;, "Ond
the shock and surprise have been too
much for ter."
"If you will leave us alone for a few
minutes,' I suggested, "I will try and
reason with her until she gets used to
the idea."
She will never get used to the idea,"
Mrs.
dea "Mrs. Mnr10n1 returned emphatically.
"Lilith has a great dislike for the very
idea of'' marriage. I was just the same
at her age. Consider how very young
she is -
Will you allow me to speak to her
alone?" 1 repeated icily; and firs. Mor-
land, with a slight deprecatory shrug
of her shoulders and lifting of her eye-
brows, released Lilith fromher embrace
and rustled out of the roost.
the nephew Of an earl, and a genius -X
Itnow n11 that, told 1 have often been
told about It. But you must not mom'
nay one like me -0 111110 beggar g111
that (lanced about In theins for )ler
liclug. 11 Is quite, quite out of tato
question, And it's .only a madden nation
of yours, or why didn't you tell 1170
when you put rue here to school that you
1n0001. to mice ine, out and marry me at
the end or a year? 1 on sure I was
miserable enough then to weal some
con1Porthag.'
"1 was not free then, dear. or I would
gladly have done 00, 1 telegraphed to
I t•s. Morlatal yesterday within an hour
of having ant cngageml'fit dissolved by
I,,udy 81a1•garet Lorimer,"
"You thought of me directly?" she
said, looking at me for a" few secMule
Intently in silence, Then .she gave a
quirk little sigh "It is tea late," she
salt. "I have changed my mince ailo-
gether within the past year, 1 dolt
love you now at all. And I shall never
'harry any one."
The door Ind hardly closed upon her.
a. very evideet wish to esea.lpe at tete-a-
tete- intorllew with me, I intercepted
When Lilith male a spring town'¢' it, in
her, and, taking her hand in mine, .1 lett
1ler to a sent, I do not teeny that I felt
startled and pained by the manner in
which my tn•opesal had been received.
Had 1 been halt, or maimed, or Mind, in-
stead of a healthy and passable -looting
man of eight -and -twenty', my offer
could not apparently have inspired
greater repugnance and Omen.
Tell me, Lilith dear," 1 said. very
gently, seating myself on the sofa by
her side, "why should the ilea of rnar-
v'ying me seen so dreadful to you? I
thought you were fond of me and happy
with me. 71 did not seem so very long
ago that you wanted to be always with
me, Have .you already forgottell7" •
"1 was a child then," she faltered,
blushing cr!m(on,
"You are not much more than 0. child
now. Listen, bear. I oat net rich, and
van say you Etre extravagant; 13ut x
have' no doubt I stroll be able to make
quite aslnueh as ,you Will went to spend.
I have an allowaneb of athousand a
Year, and at ]resent 7. am making as
aimed by' my art--"
''Two
rt -
"rwo thousand a Year!" rhe exclaim-
ed, opening wide eyes "And . you saY
you are not 1•icll?•'.
"Well, annyhow, you will be able t0
have 11101117 of pretty frocks -its pretty
as the one you have ons"
"011 that isn't mine. Mrs, Morland
lent it me to make me look nice for
Your visit. I have never had such an
0Xpens!10 chess as this. Bet perhaps t
ought ;not In have 10111 yon," she added,
suddenly 1heeiting her now of eon-
Ildenoes. "Don't let her know."
Very well, dearest. 7 was going to
tell you that T am godson and, grand-
nephew to old Admiral 111sitlaton, who
nought 1n7 last large painting of a
Neapolitan lshlng•fteat for five' hundred
110111015, and that be always tanks of
leaving me something. ).fit it is better
10 trust to what 1 'shrill make myself;
and, with you to week for, You to inspire:
me, I am certain of wealth and 'fame,
7 only tell you these things, darling, be.
cause I know yoan erre fond of spending,
money, and I don't know what. else.
ton say in 1m111ce you to like me bet-
ter,"
'7 do like vont she said, Molting up
fit me, her blue syea streaming with
CHAPTI'lit XX.
I did not stay -al Bristol that night, as
I had intended doing.
Bog and baggage, I departed bade to
101r11, after a tete-a-tete. talk with b1ra
Morland had succeeded a tete-a-tete
talk with Lilith,
1 could not take no for an atswel'•
There was something odd and r'ese'ved
about Idlith's manner, and hei' lits of
friendly affection alternating with her
unaccountable aversion against the idea
of beeornieg my wire induced me not
unnaturally to believe that g!1'17sit cur
price wee at the bottom of her ref118111
of nn' offer,
911e had terminated our interview by
floodortears. tu'ing .71,481 from the
om site In had
owned that nobody had ever been so
good to her as I, antl that
nobody
but
I
had -ever loved her.
negatived 111y suggestion that sale had
another sweetheart, assuring me that
such was far from being the case.
I have never Inlet any men here, as
You know," she said, 'How should I?
I am sure no one could' be half so good
to 111e as You. But 1 can't marry you,
and you nlustll't ask me. Your gland
relatives would be always looking dowel
upon ate; wouldn't they now? And that
splendidly dressed cousin of yours.
whom you were going to marry. would
want. to kill me. No, you mustn't call
me changeable. I know I would have
Jumped at the thought of mat'1'3Ing you
in as year had you ,asked me at 1.ythinge.
But I'm ever so 1110e11 older' n0W, and I'
know that when a man marries beneath
hint, he Is always sorry, and slakes Ns
wife sorry, too. And 1'1n not really a
bit civilized. I hate things settled and
regular. I like piaknicldag bettor than
dining, and 1 feel uncomfortable wiles
servants staled about in the room (lu-
ing meals. rho you remember how [
wanted '.lir. 1\'renshalr; as I called
hint, to have his dinner with us? Well,
1'm. just a little better than that now.
I ktlow the names of things, and how to
pronounce them In ?;rend, and I eau
1,1010 out tunes with the lutes o11 the
piano, and I don't hake mistakes in
grammar and utter the common expres-
sions I used to. I've been too much
scolded far that! But at heart I nun
very much the little ginsy I used to be,
and I never look at the sea without
longing to take all my sloes anti stock-
ings and bound along with bare feet
at the edge of the waves. And I hate
women just as much as ever. Men I
like, and I love the smell of tobacco, and
do enjoy a putt at a cigarette now and
then. But 1001110n are so prim. I hate
the girls here, who all affectedly mimic
Mrs. Morland, and mimic. her so badly,
and are always trying to be thought fine
ladles and something much grander
than they really Etre.
Aute I never hear an organ in the
street without wanting to catch up my
skirts and dance to it, as I used to when
I was a little child. And -one thing
more I must tell you -when I've been
many weeks living in a civilized sort of
way, all of a sudden a great longing
comes to ale to be up and out of it all,
like in the old days when father and I
got un before daylight, and crept out
of some barn whore we'd stolen in to
rest, before 11'e were worried out of it
by the farnieh''s lads, 1 don't like houses
overmuch; they stifle . me, same1101S.
And I hate stopping in the sane place
long. I want to be Out under the blue
sky and in sound of the sea. Cab I'm. not
fit to be agentleman's wife, Mr. Hervey,
and if you'd seen a bit more of me dur-
ing thhe past fourteen months, you'd
know it."
There was a touch of sadness, almost
of bitterness, If bitterness were possible
in Lilith, ringing through her tones.
But, loving her as I did, every word she
u tered brought her nearer to ale.
"You will be an artist's wife" I said,.
"and you have the artist temperament.
I an no fonder of houses or affected,
stoop -up people than you are.. • -I Chafe
just es You do at the silly restrictions
-of society, and long for a fuller, a more
real, and, more ellen existence. And •I
cannot live long' away front the call of
the sea. So that we have all these
tastes, which you think are .against You,
entirely in coalmen,"
"But, Mr, Hervey-"
'"Won't you call me Adrian? And won't
you ta•y to feel a little fond of 111e?"
I will call you Adrian, if you like,
and I am very, very fond of your But
I edit never. ,,ever be your wife!"
And with that she had burst out cry-
ing and fled from the room.
.To her had eucceeded Mrs. Morland,
the sweet -voiced, comfortable, and min: -
forting. She strongly advised me -to
go baclt't0'town, and return in a few
days to see whether in the interval'Lr1-
Ith had grown used to the idea of mu:r-
rying me. it was Thursday; why not
come .again On Monday, to receive her
final answer?
When I hesitated, MMlrs. Morland has-
tened to assure. me that she herself
would d0 her utmost on my behalf,
Frankly, I"-'tlhink tittle 1.,111111 is too
unconventcnal and Bohemian, in spite
of all my teaching, to make a suitable
wife for a distinguished and popular
paieter in your brilliant position," she
said. "Perhaps she has not been quite
long enough with me yet to tone (town
her :tipsy instincts, Now, if You would
only let me onm,sel.y0u to go away for
a whole year -at the end of that time
Lilith would still be only eighteen, but
she. would be old enough, no doubt, to
appreciate the holo' you wish to confer
upon her, and would- veey'liktily be only
too glad to accent ynul' offer. • '
' It 1s she, 3101 1, -who would- be con-
letferring "and 7 should
ole an holier," 1 said,
net rlroam of vvaithlgtt year, l.f T had
my way, Lilith and 1 would be martial::
to -morrow,' -
hlrs, Marland 5110011 nor finger at ale
with indulgent p]'ty rOtnees.
"You young/ men are so 4,00 10 atuous
x 1 imed. "Any-
how,
Int! aoC C C a e
and impatient!"
holt, watt until_14tondnV and be assured
I Will do my very best to advante.y0ti1
ranee."
• I did not ill the least believe her. It
seemed to me Blather manner betrayed
a most potent ah'tiflelality, and that her
tones rang false, I had not seely her :for
so long a time, and 7 had therefore l'a1-
od.te note that the purring quallty of
her 00100 was ewer:monied by. a very
feline, look do iher.scintillating, almost
WhichWaydoYo BuySzgar'
Do you say decisively •
5•ib. Package of REDPATH Sugar",
or "A 20 -Ib. Bag of REDPATH", and
-get a definite quantity
--of well.knovm quelity,'Cenada's baht"
-clean and uncontaminated
-in the Original Package ?
Or do you say, thoughtlessl3r:
"A quarter's worth of Sugar", or
"A dollar's worth of Sugar", and get
--an unknown quantity
-of unknown quality
-scooped out of an open barrel
-into a paper bag ?
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entire afternoon, so that T night induce SUFIIIiER ``DON'TS."
her to speak without reserve.
n o radon on a:
The train steamed 1 t T o
foggy and depressing autumn evening.
Nothing, much was doing 1n tolvn yet,
and as I glanced at the posters an-
nouneing t110 contents Of the evening
papers exhibited along the sidewalk, the
f a
British admiral P'OII1t sunstroket in Vir-
ginia."
My great-uncle, Admiral Adrian
13laltlston, whom, as a child, I had only
once seen, had, so I i'eeolleCted, some
property near Richmond, Virginia, oral
I therefore expended a halfpenny, to die -
cover whether the paragraph referred to
Toronto's Health OBlcer Offers Ad-
vice for Summer Vaea{donists.
In the summer number of the
Health Bulletin, Dr. Hastings,
Medical Health Officer of Toronto,
offers 111fs advice for those on a
vacation ata summer hotel, board-
ing house or cottage:
Don't drink from, a• spring that is
him, Standing under a gas -lamp near coming from a rooky district, which
U is nob heavily overlaid with sand or'.
earth. Water contaminated' by hu-
man beings may flow for miles in
such country without being puri-
fied.
Don't drink water at a hotel un-
less you know personally where it
comes from.
Don't drink mill:, or at least do
not feed it to your children unless
you have assured yourself that it is
pure. You may get the surprise of
your life if you quietly find out
where your hotel mill: comes from,
and then investigate rho produeer's
dairy herd and premises.
Don't stay at a summer place
where hies abound. It is a direct
evidence that the surroundings are
unsanitary.
Don't scratch mosquito bites. 'If
mosquitoes bother' you very much
rub a little citronella oil on your
hands and face.
Don't fool with poison ivy. If
you get poisoned use the crushed
jewel weed to rub on the parts
affected.
. Don't enter a canoe if you can-
not swim. Don't take with you in
a canoe a companion who cannot
swim. There is no excuse nowadays
for not being able to swim.
Don't delay in case of drowning
in getting the body ashore and at-
tempting to save life. The Schafer
method is probably true easiest and
should bo persisted in for at least
two hours.
Don't go into cold water or for
long swims unless year eircnlation
is good. So-called cramps are fre-
quently 'heart failures which come
as a result of the strain on . the
Heart.
the entrance to the stn on, I scann0
the columns of the paler, and discover-
ed, with some slight shock, that it was
indeed niy distinguished relative, my
mother's uncle, a man of seventy-two,
whose death Was chronicled there.
Already he had been dead some days,
for his estate »vas situated In a coun-
try district, and the news hada apparent-
ly only -just reached Louden, In helm
I had lost an art patron, for he had re-
cently bought one of my pictures, and
had expressed himself as highly delight-
ed with it. Naturally I was sorry' for
the old gentleman, but a man of tl1Ctnty-
eight, veru much In love for the first
time cannot be expected to cherish any
very deep 'feeling for a distant connect'
tion or over three -score years nal ten,
whose very appearance is unfamiliar to
him.
I crushed the paper in my ponitet, to-
gether with another which I purchased
to glean further details, which last told
me that the late distinguished officer
was nearly related to the brilliant
youngg marine painter, Adrian Hervey,
A,R.A., Mr, 1Tervey's mother having
been the I3onorable Clara Blakiston, Ad-
miral Blaldston's niece."
At my studio I found WraY, who ex-
claimed:
Back again, Hervey! I thought You
Weren't expeoted unfit to -morrow?"
Then why In the world did you call?"
I asked testily, for I. bad no wish to
meet the. man at that moment.
'Ch, to plague Wrenshaw here, and
to try and borrow flue shillings of him,';
he answered imperturably, "But Wren:.
show tvas not to be touched. Now you've
come, it's all right. I'll conte in with
you."
I stood' on the door -sten In the worst
of tempers,
"Frankly, 'Wray, I am not in talking.
humor."
"Dior am T. But I'm in smoking hu-
mor, if you'll let me have a pinch of
tobaoo0, -Do, Hervey. 7 haven't .smok-
ed since yesterday, and I'm expiring for
a pine"
"Come up, then," I said, suppressing
a sigh, '-"but don't stop long, there's a
good fellow. 7 wouldn't be drawn Into
talkhhg to -night if a fortune depended
upon it."
"All right. I'll tatce the tobacco and
puniness. green -gray eyes.. I began to
41!slilc,' the woman w110111 I ah'e sly dis-
trusted. and I rose seinewllat' abruptly..
"I will conte again on Monday, as you
suggest," 1 said, "13at may 1. ask that
Lilith be here to see Eno, and not either.
With assistant 1eaCl,er4 at 111I'raconlbe,
or with schoolfellows et Wigton -supe»'-
Mute?"
The shot tsld bone, 'Mrs. ltfo'1anc1'4
clear skill 'grew evimson,;;Ind her pupils
seemed to contract as she glanced at me -
sideways.
"That is really utkind Of. You," she
murmured, in gentle remonstl'a.n04', T
Would never have let her leave my roof
felt half an hour had 1 guessed (hn.t you
disapproved of it."
I could' not even bid 14111hh farewell.
Site wt's 1oc1(0d h1 her own ream, so' 7
was told, and did not feel oqu0l. to Hee-
ing ma again, So, nuz0led, disnpp0hlt
ed, n11d profoundly 1hurt, yet by Ito means
hopeless, 1, left Worland House - and
dl'nee back to the station, 101)0,0 T had
left his, beg, having been ton mage' to
see 1.111th to drive first to a hotel, O
The mere C tb,tight n1,ont her con -
duet,
n
duet, tine. more timely f believed that
some pressure Wats being eaof,ased to
induce her to behave With mutat etr:rib
ro.plleo, 11Oubtess Mrs. Morland would
twofer to keep for aloihe'r year 0. pupil.
on whose behalf two 'hundred n. year,
was paid by torn), quarterly instal-
On n MancTrv, IrO vn er, I 'voted,
tears- "1 stn efiry 0Ontl of you, -int ret, molls. l
cart very grateful her'no'.' m7''nu tarn act 1 determined, hike 7,11)411 atv0Y from
very handsome and clever and kind, and the inductive of Morland tlotlse for tlnl
go."
(To be continued,)
Jack -"`Once more, Molly, will
you .marry me?" Molly -"Tor the
twelfth' time this hour I tell you
I will net." Jack (of the navy)-
"Well,
avy)
" htrell, twelve knots an hour is not
bad speed for a little craft like
you."
Ieyou don't want people to like
you, criticize what they do.
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What ('apses Hog Cholera.
Hog cholera is caused by a germ
that exists in the.bloorl, It is an
organism apparently so small that
the most powerful' microscopes do
not show it, 136wever, it is 01i0,y to
demonstrate its presence by illUeu-
latiug w smell part of the blood
from a sick iiog into a welj one,
which produces the hog cholera.
Hog cholera is a diseaoe 'which
seems to be stopped to 11 d •Free .by
the frosts of winters although frost
cannot 'be said to stop a ease after
it has taken hold of its victim. How-'
ever, it seems to prevent the rapid
spread of the disease. The result
is that in spring time the affection
is, as ,a, rule, at the lowest ebb, but
til f
fnet'easll,
es rapidly from that time un -
Hog cholera, does nob seem to af.
fect any particular breed of hogs
more than another, and while gen-
erally the careless farmer is more
apt to Have the disease among his
hogs than the careful one, the dis-
ease Sometimes occurs where the
conditions are sanitary: It is .hop-
ed that the work of exter'tninating
cholera may be extended gradually
until the disease is completely con-
trolled or eliminated. The feet
that hog cholera is carried not on-
ly by the hogs themselves, but 'by
birds, dogs,_ streams and even on
the feet of men going from one farm
to another shows how necessary it
is that the campaign now being car-
ried on in many parts of the coun-
try be thorough and that farmers
exert their best efforts to assist in
the work. •
Objects of Soil Tillage.
Speaking in a broad way, drain-,
age and any similar operation might
be included under soil tillage ; but,
in the usual acceptance of the term,
soil tillage refers only to the oper-
ations necessary to the preparation
of cultivable soil for the planting
of crops, and to the subsequent pre -
ceases necessary in bringing these
crops to maturity. The principal
reasons for all care and tillage of
the soil are : To provide a home or
growing place for the desired crop;
to liberate plant food; to conserve
soil moisture ; and to destroi weeds.
With proper tillage we are able to
overcome or modify adverse clima-
tic conditions, and by it we may
improve conditions already favor-
able.
Gootl Poultry Pa}'a,
After carefully looking over your
male birds if you do not notice any
predominatinfg points which will
tend toward the improvement of
,your flock it would pay you to buy
some good male birds of the same
breed with those points desired. If
your flock has been too closely in-
bred ib is also advisable 'to buy
males .Isom another flock. lairds
for show purposes, as the. first con-
sideration, require closer inbreed-
ing than those for utility purposes,
This is necessary to gain any note-
worthy headway and it is carried
on by most of the successful poul-
try fanciers of to -day. There is a
limit to such line breeding, and for
the best results it requires study
and careful selection of ,the mat-
ings.
Wide Wagon Tires.
'line use of wide tires on wagons
has made hauling easier and im-
proved and packed rattler than cub
ruts in the roads. The ,farmer who
still uses narrow tires for heavy
roadsis nob only wasting time and
'horse energy, but is guilty of cruel=
ty to animals and the destruction
of the public highways. The rela-
tion betwe,en weight of load and
width of tire and the maintenance
of roads in each section should be
easefully considered 'and fixed by
local regulations,
A Mindy (11111e.
The ordinary farm gate is too
heavy Lo slide easily. There is a
cast-iron roller made for this
p
ur-
pacwhich is sold in hardware,
stores. It is fastened to the posts.
so the gate slides hallway back. In
a long gate there is always a cen-
trepiece up and down with a diag-
onal brace running from the centre
to the front anti of idle gate, The
posts are mortised to let in a two-
inoh block, and the casting that
1101(15 the roller is let into this
block and an iron washer slipped
over the bolt so the casting will
turn easily.
Sounds Tolce It.
"Pa, what is mediocrity?"
"Something your mother males
slimmer caresses out of, I think."
Scott ---"What's' 11130 difference 'be-
tween a poor man and a mii'llion-
aiire7" Mott -Yes, T know,all about
it, One worries over his next meal
and the other over bio .last,"
Nol'a wile applying for It place as
nook, ,and when asked for a rota-
te-10efollowing-"To
'. >1 ..nuc the
race t seined •
wllultl iL may Colt0cln,--•'Phis is to
ria')' tl..l± N;,1•11 Foley lies worked
tot 1,r: ;i lrceid ;rut] We are salisried,"'