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Vermin Proof Fences.
Protection is the prime requisite
for increasing the number of birds
In any area, and the results of pro-
tection are in direct proportion to
the amount given. Besides insuring
birds against every form of persecu-
tion by human kind, we must defend
them from various natural foes. The
most effectual single step is to sur-
round the proposed bird sanctuary
with a vermin -proof fence. Such a
fence should prevent entrance either
by digging or by climbing, but will
serve its greatest use if it can not be
climbed, and is, therefore, cat -proof.
If it is impracticable to build an im-
penetrable fence, the next best de-
vice is to put guards of sheet metal
on all nesting trees and on poles sup-
porting bird houses. This should be
done in any case where squirrels or
snakes are likely to intrude, as it is
usually impracticable to fence out
these animals. Tree guards should
be six feet or more above ground. At-
tacks by hawlcs, owls, crows, jays or
other enemies are best controlled by
eliminating the destructive individ-
uals.
Well Prepared Soil.
Soil well pulverized before the
crop is planted is much more pro-
ductive than cloddy land or any land
left with an uneven surface, because
the plantfood already in the land is
made more accessible and the little
root feeders which literally fill the
ground can better gather nourish-
ment from both earth and air. Land
thoroughly plowed and thoroughly
pulverized before planting is not
only rendered more fertile from a
natural viewpoint, but is in far bet-
ter condition to receive whatever arti-
ficial fertilizing one may wish to ap-
ply.
Put This in Your Scrapbook.
A breeder told his county institute
that he always found it profitable to
keep the following mixture in a dry
place, where his hogs could always
help themselves. One wagon load of
coal ashes, 100 pounds of salt, 50
pounds of sulphur, twenty pounds of
copperas, one barrel of lime. A little
charcoal and soft doal might help.
Making a Tree Comfortable.
In planting a tree to make it grow
--and there should be no other aim—
the tree should be made just as com-
fortable in its new environment as
possible. If the land is wet it should
be drained, for trees will never thrive
with wet feet. The best results are
obtained by preparing the land the
previous year for the setting of the
trees. Clover or cowpeas plowed un-
der in the fall will make humus the
following year and keep the soil about
the roots. Trees will often do well in
poor soils and unfavorable conditions
if good soil is placed about their roots,
so that they get a good start the first
year or so. Atter they once become
established they can do considerable
towards taking eare of themselves.
The Farmer's Friend.
The dietary of a toad contains 77
per cent. of insects and the remain-
der is composed of spiders, crustacea
and worms. Having an amazingly
active tongue, he captures much of his
food on the wing. There is every
reason why farmers and gardeners
should encourage and protect the
toad. European gardeners often pur-
chase toads, considering their vigil-
ance in hunting insects well worth
a trifling outlay. Toads become very
tame when treated with considera-
tion, and as they never do any harm,
beyond occasionally excavating a lit-
tle cave for midday retirement in a
favorite flower bed, while destroying
a vast amount of insect life, there is
every reason why they should be
welcome guests.
When School Closes.
It's an awful queer sensation, yet
one chuck full of joy, that circulates
this time of year in every healthy
boy. It makes him stand upon his
head, and do all sorts of freaks, to
know the lock's tight on the school
for nigh a dozen weeks. The man
who thought of such a thing as sum-
mer school vacation, is worthy of- a
monument and a silver tongued ora-
tion. So let us sing about the chap
in all our sweet refrains, and versify
the size and kind and color of his
brains. The chances are that he was
once a tiny boy at school, who learned
to figure and to spell beneath the
hickory rule. We never heard about
his name, nor the color of his skin,
but we'll bet our last red nickel that
he was white within. He took the
damper off of sport, and uncorked
lots of fun for we didn't have to
start at nine, and then again at one.
The wobbly creek with banks of clay
became a paradise; we swam with
frogs and leeches there, much 'gainst
our folks' advice. We played at in -
jun in the woods, with stain and
chicken feather, and we were nature's
children then most any kind 'of wea-
ther. The whole world seemed a
place to play, the ponds were big
as lakes, and rafts were strong as
battleships, with crews as brave as
Drake's. The forest was our grand
estate where we could monarchs be,
and hold dominion like a king with
castle in a tree. We knew most all
there was to know concerning birds
and things, where the meadow lark
had hid its nest and the blue jay
flashed its wings. We knew that old
black crows could talk when once
their trgues were split, and how to
wind a birch bark torch and hold it
when 'twas lit. We learned an awful
lot of things they never print in
books, when we lived upon the hill-
sides and camped beside the brooks.
We didn't seem to realize that those
days were our best, and they slipped
away like morning sun that sinks
down in the west. But they're woven
in our memories like silver threads or
gold—a storehouse vast for after
years of stories yet untold. Time
won't turn back in its mad flight, but
memory always will, and it makes us
children camped again 011 meadow-
land and hill.—By "Ark," in Guelph
Mercury.
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Or, The South African Millionaire.
CHAPTER XIX.—(Cont'd), And it had been somewhat of a re -
She was aware' this meriting that lief to Azuma to find that Judith did
the first note of antagonism had been not seem to hate her, that she did not
voiced loudenotogh to reach her ear,
in London. London, that bard market
for happiness, where the competition
Is so close, so raspingly keen, so al-
most impossible to govern or even anfears lest she would not be well
treated? Adolphe had not allowed
to hold one's own in. How many there
are who would be happier away from her to be treated like the servants, or
Its Middle Name.
Little Robert, says an exchange,. in time. When he dul that, there
rushed into the kitchen one day and: would only be one thing for Azuma to
asked his Mother what kind of pie' do, die; that was what Azure would
;
she was making, have to do.
"Lemon meringuepie," she s„ 1 And hi her quiet observations of
- -- —", the predicting thoughts which came
swTerkeecilittle fellow disappeared, but to her, there was something which
, troubled her in Judith's expression,
presently returned. 1 which troubled her because at might
"Mania," he said, "what did you bring trouble to him. And no one
say is the pie's middle name?" ; knew that alone in her room at night,
I the room A dolphe had had built for
send her away, a relief and a wonder
at once, for who can tell the strange
thoughts that flitted through her
mind during the long unoccUpted day,
London, the while they Imagine it the
Mecca of their dreams.
Away from London she had always
been the greatst peraonage,. every -
to do any work, It was a strange life
that she led and' she bated London,
yet for nothing on earth would she
have lived away from ,Adolphe.
Now and then, there had been little
where, moving about like a royal rifts in the lute. Azuma would not
princess, surrounded with every lux- obey ,Tudith whom she did not recog-
ury, travelling often in special nize as having any dominion over her.
trains, nearly always in private cars,At first Judith had grown angry, but
engaging the finest apartments in
afterwards she had laughed. There
the best hotels,
the best boxes at the was something so funny about
theatre, exceptat h'rankfort, where "Adolphe's black woman," as she
old Lieb had had his own, followed sometimes milled her. Nevertheless
by a suite of maids and valets and they had had one scene in their home
secretaries, unless as sometimes haps near Johannesburg over Azuma. It
pened, they evaded them all and was When Adolphe spoke of taking
slipped away to spend a couple of her back.
nights at little out of the way places "Oh, my dear Adolphe, you are not
unattended. Yes, thinking it all over, surely going to take her all the way
their journey had been almost like a back. It's all very well out here, but
pageant, while the governors and ern- in London really, you don't know all
bassms of every place had made mugh people said about it last year, and now
of them. really--"
Now in London, for all that her And Judith had not been prepared
wealth made everyone civil, for all for the calm firmness of his answer,
that everyone came to her parties and "This year they can say nothing since
dinners, she felt not only one of a you are my wife."
crowd, but distinctly and without il- His words sounded like a compli-
lusion the wife of Adolphe Lieb, the ment,. but she felt the first pitting of
South African, the Jew. his will against hers and a new arro-
,
And because human nature is
• like gull had come to her with her safe -
that, forgetful of the reasons for its ty of position, the arrogance of thinlc-
former acts when the hazard which ing that she had done him a favor in
prompted them has vanished, she be- marryingHe had seen signs_of
this iliemth and it had given
gan to ask herself how it was that now an en,
she was his wife instead of the wife him a peculiar feehng, for reasons of
s
of men like those her friends had hi, • '
Bes own o1pe ll
married, were marrying every day, . h d t see how
Ad_ pithg, it? you.
Englishmen of rank and antient line- Penuliaarhdpeoipl wi
age and position, forgetting, in the nd th s a ()Man, nobodybelieves
of that w 1 keepher as a
renewed security her husband's love courseyou on y
and wealth afforded her, that it would
sort a mascotte, nobody b really .e-
have been impossible. Heves in a mascotte, or in her advis-
Now she told herself that had she ing you on the Stock Exchange. Of
course you can't get them to believe
waited she might have married an-
other, if a different Sir Hubert or m "
"But you do." He spoke gravely.
George Danvers. Looking at herself It was their first dispute, and he did
in the glass, at her resplendent not intend it to spoil their lives by its
beauty which, if it had always been being the precursor of constant dis-
such that nothing could increase ita cussions and arguments, which would
at least seemed to insist more on be- intensify in bitterness each time.
ing fully appreciated, she told her- swell, of course I do now, but . ."
self that there was no reason at all she hesitated, "when you won't leave
why she should not have been a her behind, don't you know, of course
Duchess. it makes me feel as if thete was seine -
Yes, the note of discontent had en- thing in it, as if in a way she was
tered, and the discontent vented itself something to you. I wonder," she
on Adolphe the while she told herself added, "whether if she insisted on my
that the beginning and end of the dis- •
gem
g away,whether youwould let
comfort lay with Azuma. • me go or insist as you do about her."
Azuma had accompanied them on The note of jealousy was beginning
their travels, creating everywhere an to pierce.
interest which Lady Judith found a sTo think that, would be to say I
very piquant addition. to the glamor love her best," he answered, "the
which surrounded their progress. very suggestion is absurd."
In South Africa she had not seem- ,,I wonder, Adolphe, whether you
ed in the way, falling back into her really love me as much as you think."
position of confidential servant al- It was as if because she had had so
most, attending specially to Adolphe's many illusions that she couldn't be -
study, to the dusting. of his private lieve in his love, as if she had forced
papers, to finding out information for herself to believe that it was for her
him privately, through Kaffirs,S.b
-- position that he had married her, or
long talks with him on the verandah her beauty, or both.
in the.evening while Judith played the "Is it possible that you do not know
piano or read a novel, pretending how I love you?"
neither to observe nor to care wise- When he spoke like that he always
ther they talked or not. made something vibrate within her,
Marrying Judith had been the one
thing Adolphe Lieb had not consult- thrill, and yet as he drew near to kiss
her she recoiled a little. It was as
ed Azuma about.- could hardly if she would not let herself love this
have told what instinct had made him man, who was not of her world, who
not only avoid discussing it with her, for all his wealth never could be.
but when on the evening of the day But of the secret that lay between
he had told her he was going to be him and her, she never thought now,
married, she had wanted to tell him '
never. The danger was over, all the
what the pebbles said, he had laugh- many little things that might have
ingly refused to be enlightened. betrayed her had been passed by, and
For nothing on earth would he have the people who might have spoken
heard what Azuma had to tell him, had been silent, and the gratitude to
for if she predicted evil from the
match, and somehow he felt as if it
might bring evil, he still would marry
her, and if it were not, why all the
better; that too he would End out for
himself. And then there were other
reasons why he would not include his
love for Judith with the things he
iconsulted Azuma about. It would
have seemed almost like disloyalty.
Yet he had felt that she did not like
his marrying, that she foresaw with
some reason an end of their strange
alliance of friendship, an end of the
long evenings when he either told her
of his plans or asked her counsel, or
she had sat crouched on the hearth -
rug and listened to his playing or
seemed to dream from sheer silence
while he wrote. ,
Yes, Azuma hated his marrying al-
though she knew the Baas could
never, never have married her. It
the gods who had sent her love was
no burden, because they had sent her
love in the person of a low -born Ger-
man Jew, when she might have been
a duchess, or at least the wife of some
great ambassador or cabinet minister.
Her want of logic was extraordinary.
Yet when they came away from
South Africa she had ceased to mind
about Azuma, rather something ab-
normal in her temperament was ap-
pealed to by the strangeness of it.
She liked the idea of defying London,
of exciting its curiosity while she re-
fused to satisfy it.
And she was conscious to -day as
she wandered rather aimlessly
through the large and small rooms
which opened out into each other on
the same spacious floor, she had felt
different. The very moment they
had reached London, the first sight of
was the way he had treated her,
which had made her love him with a
deep love, which had something in it
of worship, of adoration. Where was
there another white man like him who
would have a woman beneath his roof
night and day from month to month,
and year to year, yet never take ad-
vantage of her dependence on him? If
he had, she would not have loved him
less. But now his marriage with this
beautiful white woman seemed to em-
phasize the different paths along
which each would travel, paths which
would diverge more and more as the,.
white woman grew to dare more, to
control his mind in time. Who could
tell, he would even send Azuma away
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Queen Alexandra is very fond of her with a terraeo, where at night she
Yorkshire pudding. could gaze at the stars and breathe
_ 1 the cooler an she asked the pebbles
white ,cir1 they told
When flying a Union Jack, remelt!" her about the things which to hander seemed ter-
ber that the broad, white stripe rible, and which she her
would have
should be on top in the tipper cor- her master know yet dared not to
ner next the flagstaff, tell hint.
Nature Makes The Flavour o
'LA
The cool, tempered breezes of the hill -top
gardens in Ceylon, produce a tea of delicate,
yet rich and flavoury quality. A careful
selection of the finest growths is blended to
make "SALADA". II 78
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the Houses of Parliament, grey and
grim and ominous -looking in the set-
ting crimson sun of April, it seemed
as if new moods had met her and
thrown a cloak over her, which held
in it the perfume of other days,
Yes, as the fast horses carried them
along the Embankment, and Pall Mall
into Piccadilly on, on to the house
where one year ago he had said with
so much earnestness, the unusual
words: "I want to show you my
heart," it seemed as if she had no-
thing to do with this man who sat
beside her, as if he ought to have re-
mained behind in Frankfort or in
South Africa, and that between her-
self and London there lay hidden se-
crets with which he had nothing to
do. She bad felt it, oh, so strongly
as they passed her father's house,
and she leaned forward to see if the
blinds were up. There, were the
windows of the room in which she had
slept every night when in town, since
she had left the floor above, which had
been her nursery. How often she had
looked into the Green Park from those
windows. From that room, she had
descended to meet Sir Hubert, and
there in the drawing -room she had
told him. '
The front door, she seemed to see
herself as if it were someone else
stepping into the carriage alongside
of her mother, to set forth on one of
those eternal rounds which sometimes
had brought pleasure, but oh, how
often humiliation, weariness, pain.
The memory was grueSome, and yet
it seemed to be part of her being,
part of herself as the daughter of an
English peer, in which this foreigner
beside her had no part. They were
all arraigned before her, the crowd
of men who had thought to love her,
whom she had thought to love, yet
who one by one had dropped away,
afraid, afraid. Then flashing across
her brain,vivid, realistic like light-
ning illumining a forest, then leaving
it blacker than before, she thought:
And this man if he knew would have
gone too, this man who was deceived,
duped, yet who was the only one
whom she had been able to cling to.
She started at the sound of his
voice, started and turned for a mo-
ment and stared at him dazed, as if
he were a stranger, as he said:
"Well, here we are at home. It is
good to be at home again."
"Home," was this then her home?
CHAPTER XX.
And he, Adolphe, recognized all
the signs of her restlessness, and this
morning, the morning of his wedding
day, the twenty-fifth of June, asked
himself too, whether he was sure that
he rejoiced, the while he refrained
from uttering the words which would
make her quiet and' yielding, and un-
resisting for evermore. He did not
want her to love him, not in that way,
not for those reasons, and for those
reasons he had kept silence, silence
even in the face of her occasional dis-
dain. He knew how it was with her
here in London. She noted the differ-
ence between her fate and that of
other women, noted the tiny and most
imperceptible difference with which
• for all her wealth she was treated by
the women of her world, how sensi-
tively she felt tiny humiliations
which had been heaped on him, and
which left no impression on him, but
which to her were galling beyond
power of speech
They had arrived in April and stay-
ed with her people, and he had become
at once aware of the difference in her.
It was as if the old haunts had
brought back memories which were
seared into her very soul, and which
had only been covered up during those
brief months when he could not help
but acknowledge that all his joyous
moments had come from unexpected
moods of Judith's rather than from
daily realization of anticipated de-
light. He had not minded the faint-
ly outlined condescension, the tone of
patronage of Lord Glaucourt and his
son, the ill -veiled, if well-bred inso-
lence of Lady Glaucourt, tempered by
occasional outbursts of confidential
intimacy. Be had smiled to himself
at the way they called him "Mr.
Lieb," and held him at arm's length,
the while they and their friends ask!
ed him for tips, and allowed him to
advise them about speculations, while
they in turn suggested his giving fab-
ulous sums for country houses of their
friends, as soon as it became known
that he was seeking a country -place.
All this he put up with for Judith's
sake), and because his inner sense of
superiority made him feel that the
very feet that they treated him in
this way, brought them down closer
to his level, or perhaps, who will say,
thrust them beneath it. For Judith's
sake, and because Inc was beginning
to understand their point of view.
But what he told himself he was not
going to put up with, was anything
but devotion on the part of Judith
herself.
• (To be continued.)
IN DEFENCE OF A BERRY.
By Peter McArthur.
There is an old saying, "Give a dog
a bad name, and kill him," which ap-
plies everywhere in life. No matter
how good a thing may be, if you give
it a bad name you may as well do
away with it. It is all very well for
Shakespeare to say that "A rose by
any other name would smell as
sweet," but if you called a new va-
riety of rose "The Skunk Cabbage
Rose" it would take a long while
winning favor.
I am moved to make these reflec-
tions because one of the best of our
tender fruits suffers from a bad
name, and I wish to proclaim the fact
that its bad name is due to a strange
mistake. The very name gooseberry
suggests something about which one
could not hope to be enthusiastic in
spite of the fact that gooseberry wine
figures in the Vicar of Wakefield,
that literary masterpiece in which
everything is dainty. And the chil-
dren who have not yet learned the
disfavor that goes with the name
"goose" will reach for gooseberry
tart before any other, but the name
"goose" puts all grown ups on their
guard. And now comes a great phil-
ogist who proves the name is a vulgar
and ignorant mistake. The berry is
one that should be known as the
Saintsberry—and the berry of the
most beloved of saints at that.
Mr. Fox Talbot gives the following
remarkable account of the origin of
the name "gooseberry"; Gooseberries
are called in German, Johannis-beer-
en, that is, "John's berries," because
they ripen about the feast of St. John.
St. John is called in Holland, St. Jan,
and the fruit is there called "Jens-
beeren." Now this word has been—
centuries ago—corrupted into "Gans-
beeren," of which our English word
Gooseberries is a literal translation;
Gans in German signifying a goose.
So you see that the only thing the
matter with the delicately flavored
St. John's berry is that it has suf-
fered from a touch of German Kultur
and has been called out of its name.
Give it its right name and saintly
character and you will never be with-
out jam from it for your tarts.
Superfluous Grit.
During a particularly nastly dust -
storm at one of the camps a recruit
ventured to seek shelter in the sacred
precincts of the cook's domain.
After a time he broke an awkward
silence by saying to the cook:
"If you put the lid on that camp
kettle you would not get so much of
the dust in your soup."
The irate cook glared at the intru-
der and then broke out:
"See here, my lad, your business is
to serve your country."
"Yes," interrupted the recruit, "but
not to eat it."
More lunatics are caused through
drink than through any other vice.
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skirts of lace or thin, sheer taffeta
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coin -spotted organdy, that is treated
with glue to give it body. Softer
materials will not do for this model,
since the side jabots of lace necessar-
ily are too heavy for a yielding fab-
ric.
The skirt is slightly scalloped of
hem, with a tiny edge of lace, giving
an even finish. The jabot is filled in
with bows of coral -colored satin rib-
bon, which also furnishes the material
for the very high girdle, whith clasps
with two roses of faded blue. The
frill below the girdle is Eve inches,
the same width as the bertha. The
upper portion of the bodice is made
of lace arranged surplice fashion. As
usual, there are no sleeves, but the
bertha supplies a little lambrequin for
the upper arm.
.1.
What a High Explosive Is.
The shell question for the British
army concerns the supply not of
shrapnel, but of shell containing high
explosive. These high -explosive
shells are strong steel cases with a
fuse, usually placed in the base. The
charge employed may be either lyd-
dite—which is a preparation of picric
acid—or tri-nitrotoluol.
The metal in the shell is fairly
thick. The explosion is very violent,
and has a thoroughly destructive ef-
fect upon anything near the point
where the shell explodes --concrete
walls, entanglements, steel shields
for the trenches, or for guns. The
French and Germans use these shells
to prepare the way for assaults on
hostile trenches, demolishing with
them all obstacles.
Shrapnel are quite different pro-
jectiles, and are serviceable ngAinst
infantry in the open or lightly en-
trenched. They are thin steel cases
containing a very small charge of
low or moderate power explosive,
Which opens the cases and liberates
a large number 'of bullets in them.
These cover an oval area as they
scatter and kill unprotected men.
Shrapnel are useless against, forti-
fied positions, atrongly-built houses,
or deep and well-planned entrench-
ments.
France's Legion of Honor Was in-
stituted by Napoleon Bonaparte,
Great Britain initiated submarine
telegraphy.
Many a good reputation has been
stabbed by a pointed tongue.
The homely girl's face is her
chaperon.
According to tradition, the seven
deadly sine aro: anger, ptide, glut-
tony, lust, avarice, envy, and sloth.
There are nearly four thousand
known languages, or dialects, in the
World.
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