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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-10-12, Page 3II%?ft7I' eorier Selected Recipes. Lenton Cookies. -One egg, one cu of granulated sugar, an eighth of cup of shortening, a cup of sour mil an even teaspoonful of,6oda. Bea into milk until dissolved one and two thirds cups of flour and one teaspoon ful of lemon extract. Will be ati batter. Drop in gem pans and bak in hot oven, This rule makes abou ammonia and water. After this run p, hot and cold water alternately over a this part of the brush, shake it vigor- • ously and put it, bristles down, over a t rest of some sort to dry in the open - If the bristles of a brush have lost ff their stiffness or elasticity, treat them e to an ammonia and salt bath. First t wash the bristles in hot water to lU eases. Fried Oysters, -Use large oyster drain between cloth without pressur roll in seasoned bread crumbs, the in beaten eggs, diluted with one table spoonful of milk and again in th crumbs, and fry, a few at a time, i smokinghot deep fat. Drain a terve three or four, according to th size, on each plate, with a small cup shaped leaf of lettuce, in which plac a teaspoonful of tartare sauce. Oyster Patties. -Roll puff pastry about one-half inch thick; cub round with a small cutter for the pattie and murk a smaller round in the sen ter of each. Put the pastry on flat bin, glaze with egg, and bake in hot even oven. Remove the cente which ammonia has been added and 8, then dip directly into water to which e, salt has been added: Dry the brush,' n with bristles up, in the open air. Borax also cleans a brush well. Dis-, o solve the borax in hot water and dip n in the bristles. Rinse thoroughly, nd when clean, and dry, with bristles up, in open air. Combs can bo cleaned _ with borax or ammonia, but ammonia e sometimes discolors celluloid combs. Another admirable method for "cleaning brushes is bo use dry bran. s Naturally this method is easier on the s brushes. Rub the bran in thoroughly, as you would rub orris root into the; a hair. Then shake and rub it out. It a will take out all grease. Bran can be ✓ safely used with brushes having brie - piece with a sharp -pointed knife; take out the soft inside paste. Boil pirit.of good stewing oysters, Whe they are cooked add a small amoun of salt and butter. Fill the pattie with the oysters by taking out th soft inside paste. Serve hot on dish paper. Garnish with parsley. Fish Filets. -Fish should always bo fried like doughnuts, in deep fat. Bacon drippings are perhaps as good a material as any. Butter should not be used for frying fish. It should b cooked until well browned, and th removed and allowed to drain, but no grow cool, before serving, If th filets prepared as above are cub int individual portions before being cook ed, the housewife has no crumple masa of fish as the result of her lab ors, but firm, well -cooked squares a delicious fdod. Escalloped Oysters. -Take as ma oysters as desired -a quart enough for six people. Use a granite o crockery baking dish. Lay a laye of cracker crumbs in the bottom of th dish and two or three small pieces of butter on top of the crumbs. Put hi a layer of oysters, then another layer of the crumbs and butter, and so on Have the cracker crumbs form the top layer, and place butter on top Bake in a medium oven for from three quarters of an hour to an hour: Serve while hot, either plain or with chili sauce. Gluten Bread. -',Che following is a delicious bread made from buttermilk and gluten flour: Half pint fresh but- termilk, half level teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonful butter or olive oil, half pint gum gluten flour, one round- ed teaspoonful baking powder, two eggs, Mix well, put in eight -inch squares, well -greased pan and bake in moderate oven half an hour. Bran biscuits with gluten flour, for constip- ation, are made as follows: Half cupful wheat bran, half cupful gum gluten flour, one teaspoonful baking power, one teaspoonful melted butter, one teaspoonful salt. Sift dry ingre- dients, rub in butter and add milk to make a stiff dough. Roll out and bake in hot oven. Sunshine Cake,- Ingredients -Six fresh eggs; one cupful flour, pinch- of salt, one and one-fourth cups sugar (granulated), one-half teaspoon cream, of tartar, one-half teaspoon almond or vanilla extract. To make -First separate your eggs, putting the yolks in a small bowl and the whites in your mixing bowl; beat the yolks with a revolving beater un- f til light and add salt to the whites. i Whip with a wire whip until frothy,' then add the cream tartar, whip un- til stiff and dry. Meanwhile have the sugar with about three tablespoons of boiling water boiling slowly until it hairs from the spoon as it does when making boiled frosting; pour this on the beaten whites and beat well. When partly cool, add the yolks and boob until well mixed, Now add the flavoring and the cup of flour mea- sured with measuring cup after being' sifted five times. Place around the edge of bowl and fold in lightly to- ward the center, using the egg whip for mixing it hi; do not beat. Keep the mixture light and foamy; pour in a medium sized angel cake pan, un - greased. Start to bake in cool oven, turning i:he gas burner quite low un til the cake has raised to the top of the pan, then increase the heat slight- ly to finish baking. Will raise in from twenty-five to thirty minutes and will bake in front fifteen to twenty. When done, the cake will shrink slightly from the sides of the pan. Take from the oven and in-! vert cake until it is cold; remove from pan and ice with a boiled white frost. i Mg. • Keep lour Brushes Stiff. Ib is impossible to overestimate the, danger to the hair of unclean Combs « and brushes, Such toilet instruments 0 should be carefully cleansed and digin-' footed once a week, and there is a1 way to do it so as not to injure them. 11 The brush and ccanb trust first be o quickly wnsiled, then dipped in a tvat- ,er with boric lick' and then sunned y and aired, .An expensively backed brush nu ' be cleansed by dipping the 1 bristles t,lune in a strong solution of . 0 ties set in rubber, which cannot be a cleaned with water. ni -_- t; Things to Remember. e •Soak a hardened lemon in hot wa- a ter. Never move a cake in the oven un- til the centre is set. Sponge cakes baked in patty tins re- quire a very hot oven. Good soup stock is made with lean, e, juicy, uncooked beef. the Pickles should be kept in a dark, t, dry place in stone or glass jars, ej If whipped cream is to be flavored el it should be done before the cream _1 is whipped. d White enamel furniture can be _I cleaned with turpentine and it will re- ef, tain its gloss. Rubber bands are not expensive, and they are useful in so many ways in man the kitchen. Warmed-over meat loses its flavor, r therefore, the gravy should be well r seasoned. e Clear cold water and ammonia, aid- ed by a nail brush, cleans cut glass beautifully. Glass jars are used for storing dry materails, such as coffee, tea, spices, etc. Paste the label inside the jar. Garbage will not attract so many flies if it is crapped in newspaper be- fore it is put into the garbage pail. - By A. A. GILIMMORE, A.S.A.E. ICooked or melted cheese is a valu- able and nutritious food, and is more easily digested than when eaten raw. When a farmer decides to enact a. new barn, he naturally wants prices A soft cloth dipped in gasoline will on the different materials that will be used in the building. The local lumber - clean the cuffs of a blouse,.. Change men quote him a price of $25.00 per thousand on a pretty. good grade of lurn- the cloth when it begins to look soiled. bei. Then he goes to the hardware man or his builder, and wants to got When putting down cucumber pick- prices on metal roofing and possibly siding, and is quoted a price of $5.50 or les pub a green pepper in the jar. This $6.00 per square. Very likely the intention is to erect a frame of wood, pos- will improve the flovar of the pickles. slbly plank construction, and 'cover the roof with metal, and the sides as When• making teas, instead of the well, if the cost is not too high, but Mr. Farmer considers these prices un- usual spoonful for the tea pot, add a lump of sugar. The tea will be just as strong. If the layer cake insists on sliding gambrel roof, and campare them, We will consider the frame to be built when you are putting it together put of plank construction in both cases, one barn to be covered completely with ugh the layers to lumber, and the other covered on the walls and root with metal. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON OCTOBER 16. Lesson III -The Appeal to Ctesa Acts 25. Golden Text, - Matt. 10, 25. Verse 1. Perdue Festus was a great improvement on Felix, but he died after two years. Tho province -Loosely so called, for Judaea was only a department of the province Syria. After three days -Here and in verse 0 we have the. impression of a conscientious administrator, accus- tomed to act promptly. 3, Asking a favor -Compare verses 11 and 16, which similarly lay stress on the fact that to change the venue of the trial of Roman citizen was a considerable concession. Festus was not unnaturally wishful to grand It. To a new governor it was reasonably enough a consideration bo conciliate the men he had come to govern. But his inflexible sense of justice made that depend entirely on the prison- er's consent, 4. Festus describes in verses 16, 16 his view of the Jewa' request , It appears that informed (verse 2) in- cluded an audacious request that Fes- tus would pronounce sentence; they would urge that Felix would not have left him in custody without grave rea- son. Probably the request to have him tried in Jerusalem -where evid- ence would be more easily secured - was the Jews' alternative request, after the first had been refused. But the audacity of the former demand had put Festus on his guard. 5. Them that are of power -Men of position whom the rest would intrust with their case. Anything amiss - The word used in the crusifled brig- and's declaration about Jesus (Luke 28. 41). In earlier Greek it meanb "strange, out of place," but it was now ordinary vernacular for "Wrong." 7 Charge -The nature of which may be inferred from verse 8, which is a list of headings in Paul's speech in his own defense. 9. To gain -Literally, "to deposit," as one does in a bank; the same state- ment is made of Felix in Acts 24. 27. Before me -Naturally implying "`in my court." But verse 20 distinctly suggests that Festus meant the ex - pole to conduct the trial in his pres euro, so that it would virtually mean trial by the Sanhedrin, Festus thought that by leaving it in their hands he would be betbsr able to find out whether anything in Paul's conduct had brought him within the range of Roman criminal law. He was not yet prepared to acquit him, since he saw the strength and unanimity of Jewish feeling against him. _He was bound ter sift this, if only because it was evid- ently a danger to the public peace, however innocent Paul might be. 10, Paul knew the dangers of the road, and knew that the serious mat- ter than Festus suspected. But his determination to complete the emanci- pation of the Faith from Jewish con- trol. The civil court will give him - even with Nero presiding -a fairer trial than the Sanhedrin, and ho wants his liberty, if God will, so that he may go on with his preaching. One who can write as he does in Rom. 18 of the government, who acknowledge no more the right of the Jewish rulers to a voice in matters of religion which the Romans had always excluded from their courts, he determined to take the great issus to the highest court of all; it, would give him the supreme op- portunity of his life, even if he were I condemned. It should be added that he was now clearly a money man - presumably by the death of his father; and he had determined to use his money for this visit to Rome, so of- ten eagerly anticipated; without money the appeal, in theory allowed bo every citizen, was impossible. All this, of course, was determined by the vision of the Lord himself in Acts 28. 11. Very well knowest-The word used is not that which implies inform- ation -it is to the clear-sightedness of Festus he appeals. 11, I refuse not -See the para- phrase adapting the formula an Eng- lish judge uses when a prisoner has been found guilty of murder. "Re- fuse" in our modern use is incon- gruous. Grant me by favor (mar-' gin) -See note on verse 3, and the paraphrase. 12. Council -His personal retinue (cohors in Latin) who acted as asses -1 sora. Festus might perhaps have of -I fered Paul an acquittal at once, and his difficulty was that which he ex- presses in verse 27. On his assessors' advice, he decides to accept the shift- ing of responsiblity. After definite- ly allowing the appeal a sound in law, he would no longer pronounce a ver- dict of acpuittal (Acts 26. 82). The Storage Battery, The average owner of a car looks upon a storage battery with fear and trembling, not because there is any- thing imposing about it, but rather because the dark, heavy receptacle seems to be filled with. mystery. There is just one thing to remember about any storage bttery, that is to care for it constantly and tenderly: When you see that it is not holding up, you should take immediate action as any delay is extremely dangerous and in- convenient. A number of situations can arise which will affect the effici- ency of the battery. Sometimes cars are shipped from the factory and re- main in transit for many days, and upon their arrival at their 3estina- tion the dealer or owner does not im- mediately recharge them. Some- times, too, new machines are allowed to remain on the showroom floor and are constantly tampered with by pros- e pective customers, so that the battery 1 runs down before it is given any at- tention, Of course, it is possible for the generator to be out of order, and it is also very easy for bra eak or ground in the circuit to prevent a sur- plus current from recharging the bat- tery. Perhaps, also, neglect has more to do in the development of a weak battery than any other cause. Physic- ians, veterinary surgeons and other professional men who do a great deal of night driving, must realize that a battery is called upon for tremendous ! energy to keep the lights, the igni- tion and starter in constant running order. We know of many farmers i who have purchased a car in the busy season, and, after working all day in the fields, have taken it out for long rides at night. The extra energy re- quired for the lights is a constant drag upon the battery, and if the' agri- culturist does not speed his car up at frequent intervals, and continues to run it only after dark, he will find the battery losing its "pep" slowly and surely. Neglect also contribubes to a weakening condition when the owner fails to refill the battery on the first and fifteenth of each month with dis- tilled water. In most care you will find a plate upon which is engraved complete instructions, and a warning 0 forgetthatthe battery needs stills A LUMBER OR METAL CLAD BARN -WHICH A Helpful Discussion of a Very Important Subject. nob t di d water. When you find that your battery is not giving maximum service, do not take it to an inexperienced individual for tampering purposes, but rather have some expert charge it, The lat- ter will revivify it gradually, so that the heat will never be above 100 de- grees Fahrenheit. A hydrometer syringe is called into use, and as long es the gravity keeps rising the electri city must be allowed to go into the battery in order that its highest pow- er may be attained. A quick charge slips away quickly; a long, low charge' passes out the way it enters. Per- ` haps we have gone too far in this article without explaining that a bat - fully all the way home, and finally comes to the conclusion that the lumber figures out about 235e. per foot, and the metal 535 or 6c. per foot, or more than twice as much as the wood. It certainly looks like it, but - Lot us take two barns, size 36' wide, 56' long, side wall 16' high, having : hold them together, Milk or milk foods will not scorch in the cooking if stewpan is rinsed in cold water and rubbed with a little fresh butter or lard. When beating eggs with a dover . egg beater try holding the beater at Ian angle in the' bowl. The work will be accomplished much quicker. If you wish to have mashed pota- toes in n hurry, cut the potatoes in small pieces before boiling them. They will cools much more quickly. By cleaning one room thoroughly each month the house will be kept in good shape and that terrible task of house-cleaning twice a year avoided. Before using cabbage, cauliflower or lettuce the heads should be turned down in salted water. This will cause any form of animal life to crawl out. The lumber in the frame in either case will cost $500.00, and the following is a short list of the materials required,iu a metal clad barn: Frame, Including floors, etc. $ 500.00 3737 s. 1. 28 ga. Galt' Corr. Iron, walls @ $5.50 per square $ 205.63 3619 6. 5. 28 ga. Galt.. Corr. Iron, roof, n $6.00 per square 217.14 58 lin, ft, Ridge, @ .13 8.44 116 " Hip, @ .12 13.92 116 " Eave Starter, @ .07 8.12 116 " Gable Cornice, r0) .11 12.76 112 " End Cornice, @ .15 15.68 60 lbs. lib" Galv. Nails, @ 09 4.50 54 lbs. 1%" Galv. Nails, @ .09 4.86 18 lbs. Lead Washers @ .15 2.70 , 2 Barn Vents @ $5.55 11.10 2 Gable Windows @ $4.00 8.00 1 Roof Window 8.00 Lightning Conductors 8.00 Total Metal work Hardware for doors, etc. Nails for frame and floors Erection of wood and metal work $526.75 526.75 30.00 30,00 108.00 Groin cheese mixed with chopped Total $1282.75 celery and olives, formed into balls, The above are actual figures used by contractors when tendering on rolled in chopped nuts and served on farm barns, and while the prices of metal may have advanced a little since lettuce leaves with French dressing,this estimate was made, the difference is not great in a barn of this elze. Following is fist of material required for complete lumber clad barn is a very good salad, Frame and floors q p $ 500,00 Very frequently when separating 8,600 s, f. wall covering 0 $25.00 per 1l $ 90,00 the whites from the yolks of eggs the hoof Sheeting (required in addition to the 1x6 yolk becomes broken and falls into strips on 2" centres on which the coir, iron. the white. Dip a cloth in warm twat- is secured) 2,400 a. 5. @ $25.00 per M. 60.00 er, wring it dry and touch the yolk 27,000 Wood Shingles @ $4,00 with a corner of it and the yolk will adhere to the cloth and may easily be removed. Before using tea, spread it on a Nails tor complete barn • sheet ofebrown paper and place in 'a Hardware for Doors, etc. warm -riot hot -oven for tett or fif- teen minutes. , The tea will go much farther and the flavor will be improv- ed. By, this method there is u say- ing of a quarter of a pound on every Recording to the Valuators Tables of .the Insurance Oonrpanioa the de - pound of tea. predation on a metal clad building is never greater than 15'% per annum, • If beds received more attention while on a wooden building it is not less than 2%ek. The total cost of the there would be less of that "tired feel- metal clad barn ie $1,282.76, which at ii/s% amounts to $18.08 per year. . It ng in the morning. The bed ought would be eighty years before the complete 0051 was expended In repairs, to be the most h Now look at the wooden clad barn. Vile price is $1,127.00 and the do - predation piano o£ fnirni. preefation 1s 2.1f�,, ye, so that the it and tear would amount to 28.20 per tune in the house. It should be well year. This building will last almost forty ears before the$ aired and never dressed immediately y completb cost hats y been emended in repairs, It has only half ti io lifetime of rile nnetal clad after the occupant leaves it, And bunding, yet the total difference between the two, completely erected, is Shen it is being aired the windows only 8155.75. It is apparent that the cost of repairs on a wooden. building hould be wide open. Regardless of would offset in a few years the extra initial cost of O. metal clad barn, and the Condition of ,your couch, however,, when the fire and lightning -proof qualities, the better appearance and low In - if you sleep in a stuffy room you aro sm•airee rate on the latter Is considered the choice should bo an easy one for sound to pay the penalty. When you Mr, Farmer, pen the windows wide and sleets in an "- hygionic and properly equipped bed Our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, after ed can depend upon nature to oto her the 'marriage ceremony, used to crown I in assisting upon nature to do the bridal couple with garlands of ier pact in assisting you to rammer- flowers kept for that purpose in the to and gain strength, i church. 1 Dormer Window on roof 2 Gable -end Windows @ $2.00 2 Wooden Yeats @ 87.00 Lightning connections, with points, etc, Erection 108.00 10.00 4.00 14.00 25.00 86.00 80.00 250.00 627.00 Odd. debt About If you think a bit This paradox you'll find, The faster you rust into it The more you get behind. OULTRY tery is not a mechanical proposition, but an electro -chemical one. Electro lyte is the substance used, and this name is a trade term, meaning n more nor less than an acid solution When you place your hydrometer syringe in the cells, it should read be tween 1,275 to 1,800 in each one, an when the indicator shows 1,250 or less it is high time to become concerned. When you are handling a set of gears, you can keep thein so well oil- ed that their life is prolonged inde- finitely. You cannot lubricate a battery, however, because, as we have already stated, it is electro chemical, Nothing can be done towards drawing out its life that is normally done where steel and iron are concerned. Hence, a battery's life is shorter than that of a mineral mechanism. We make this point clear. because when you battery fails you are rendered helpless on the road. You may be able to travel an enormous mileage and never do much to the battery, but some day it will stop suddenly, just as an overworked horse drops dead, and you will find that a large expendi- ture is required where a small one, paid out at the proper time, would have saved many dollars and much trouble. The company's guarantee that goes with the battery is not a whit differ- ent from a warranty of any other kind. Abuse is not included. There are cases where batteries have been turned out with defects and have proved inefficient, and in such in- stances the makers have never failed to provide proper replacements. In most cases, however, the trouble has been entirely due to neglect, and so the owner has had no recourse from the manufacturer, You must regard your battery in just the same light as you consider a tire. When the lat-I ter is pounded over the road, under inflated, loft out in the hot sun, or skidded, damage is bound to result, and an adjustment from the rubber company cannot be demanded reason- ably. So it is with a battery. If you fail to constantly provide distilled water, leave your ignition switch open a long time before the starting pedal is pushed down, allow visitors to put the Lights on and off, leave the car sbanging for m e:1y hours with lights burning and the motor running slowly, you will take out of the life of the bat- tery the force that sooner or later you will require in an emergency. Do you make the excuse that there is any- thing difficult about a battery. A child can provide ib with all the care it requires, and do not say that you cannot get distilled water, for all druggists keep it in stock constantly, and should you find it impossible to, procure a supply at any point, alll that it is necessary to do is bo leave some sort of earthen vessel out in the open air where it can gather rain wat- er that is free from any metallic con- tamination. -Auto in Farmer's Advo- cate. FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. What Is Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia, o Lunacy satatistics for Scotland in 1916 chow degrease. Inspeetor Livie of the Glasgow Po. - lice Force has retired after forty' -two d years' service, The Grand Duke Michael of Russia and Countess Torly, and suite, have arrived at North Berwick. ' The Glasgow Magistratek have de- clined to accede to the request of the publicans to employ barmaids. I The constables connected with the Sblrlingshlre Police Force have been granted a war bonus of 84 cents per week, On the ground of economy, Sunday opening of the National Gallery of Scotland has been suspended during the war. Since the outbreak of war the total number of Dundee men who have been killed in action or died of wounds is 1,142. Very few Scottish hotels or restau- rants are now including grouse on their menu on account of the high prices of the birds. Gunners Allan B. Wilson, Trench Mortar Battery, whose home is at Rothesay, is the first Rothesay sol- ' dier to win the Military Medal. 1 A new lifeboat, presented by the ' Royal National Lifeboat Institution, was recently launched at Stonehaven in the presence of a large gathering. The Glasgow railway men, after a speech by Mr. Bellamy, president of the National Union, have endorsed the demand for a war bonus of $2.40. Mrs. MacLeod, 80 years of age, was burned to death at Lintran, near ' Inverness. The flames spread to three other dwellings and all were destroyed. A disastrous fire occurred at Inver- ness as a result of which the bakery and confectionery premises belonging to Mr, Melvin, Castle street, were completely gutted. Mr. William Harper, F.E.LS., for 52 years parochial schoolmaster of Cluny, Aberdeenshire, has died at Ruby Cottage, Woodside, where he retired four years ago. Tain Town Council have sold the standing timber on their estate at Culpleaeant for $10,000. The Council have begun to pay off the burgh debt with the first instalment. Rothesay members of the National Reserve may now resume the wear- ing of their badges, which was pro- hibited for a time by the Army Coun- cil instruction which has just been withdrawn. At a garden fete and sale held at Abercairny, near Crieff, by Capt. and the Hon. Mrs. Drummond Moray, over $1,500 was raised in aid of British prisoners of war in Germany and for Red Cross work. The Scottish Miners' Union is cir- cularizing all the coal workers throughout Scotland, urging them to agree to a six days' working week to nieet the immediate need for increas- ed supplies of coal. ifrom farms upon which it is the cus- tom to have large flocks. At night I(these birds are crowded on the roosts and they become heated. The next _ _ I morning they fly from their roosts and go out to face a temperature many tai Idegrees colder than they experienced during the night. The result is in - Small vs. Large Flocks. It is false economy to have large flocks, as has been proved time and again. The mosb successful poultry -I men are of this opinion. The argu- ments used by advocates of keeping large flocks -fifty or more in one pen' -are that it saves expense in build- ing; it saves labor in feeding and wat ening, and it saves time. Grant that there will be less build -I ing required, and that time and labot m will be saved, there are still any 1 arguments in favor of small flocks of not more than twenty-five head in a1 pen. Some of these are: There will be no crowding and fighting on the roost at night; more exercise will bo taken than when the fowls are corn. palled to remain indoors; fewer vices, such as feather -pulling, egg -eating, and bleeding the male bird's comb,: will develop; more eggs of better far tility will be secured, and there will be better general health throughout the! flock. Are not such considerations ' worth more than the expense of extra lumber, extra labor, extra time? If there is anything wrong with the hens, or an accident, it will be more ! readily noticed in a small flock than! in a large ono. In small flocks there is a better chance to see that all the' fowls get a proper share of tate feed.1 There are fewer "bullies" to drive away the more timid hens. Overcrowded flocks are not the ac- tive, energetic ones that are needed to make profitable egg production. Besides, there cannot bo the proper fertility on farms where there are lar e, common flocks and two or more files allowed it 1n are a withhe hens at the aurae time. Even if these malas do not quarrel, they are always in- terfering with one another's atten- Ilion to the females. This is not only interfering with fertility, but is in- jurious to the ens, But the greatest,copsidoratian is that a t . ofi he 1 h, 11 is h n toWo'stll' fact that rho hulk of 104 tri g rio s that oonto to us requesting remedies to roup, cholera, mut other atliaento coup@ jured health, with the development of the diseases mentioned. For success- ful work, more than twenty-five fowls should never be allowed in one flock, and the nearer the number is kept to fifteen the better will be the returns. -Michael K. Boyer in Farm and Dairy. WOUNDS AND INFECTION. Germs Numerous In Long Cultivated Soil. The professional healer, like the pro- fessional fighter, Inas found that many of the things he learnt in South Africa he has had to unlearn in Flanders. Wounds seldom preyed troublesome in the Boer War, because the South Af- rican veldt was almost virgin 1 but is Belgium and France, where the land has been cultivated for centurdee, the! gentle germ is always ready to enters the smallest wound and bring about tetanus and other diseases, At first' the surgeons were in despair, fearing that our nrucs.vamuted antiseptics were of no avail. It requires long sesreli and expert-, meat before nrethnds of overcoming new difficulties could be discovered. Then, owing to the lavish use of high explosive shells, wounds are Moro complicated and more difficult to keep glean, while the pointed bullet works more harm 1hau the blunt one of the "good old days." Plenty of fresb air' is found to work marvels, so there is' at least ane hospital where tile, patients live practically la the open.' It has also been found that wounds re- main clean if wager continually flows over them, so the clever ourgeon bas construoted little bathe which fit over! the wound, a supply of warm water impregnated with oxygen continually flowing through. All Ile Can Attend To. Uncle -Arid what (loos your young matt do for a living. Niece -Why, uncle, you can't ex- pect Jaoli to do anything for a living While We're engaged. gemstimes a 'man avoids a lot of 1v6ixy iy having 4 poor memory: • AIR RAIDERS CAUTIOUS. No Longer Take Chances in Raids Over England. The naval correspondent of the Liverpool Post says the men on Brit- ish naval patrol service say that the crews of Zeppelins act as if they were stricken into panic. A trawler was firing up and emit- ting thick, black smoke, when a Zep- pelin came along. The trawler never fired a shot, but the Zeppelin, taking fright at the heavy smoke from the funnel, threw out all its bombs, and then the airship turned east and hur- ried back home. Zeppelins coming from Germany al- ways fly very low, not more than 800 or 400 feet up until they see some patrol; then they rise. They fly low in order to make out the nature of the boats they sight for. When an relit) gets 1,000 feet up, not only s it assume to observers below the proportions of a cigar, but a patrol boat looks no bigger to it than a match. THE BRITISH MIRACLE. Raising of the Great Armies in Such a Short Time. Paul D. Cravath, attorney, who re- turned to New York on the Iiroon- land from a six weeks' visit to France and England, said that during August official figures showed the Germans lost 120 aeroplanes, as against sixty lost by the French. Mr. Cravath believes Americans have hoard so much of England's mistakes and shortcomings that they have lost sight of her great achieve- ments. "By common consent among the allies," he added, the creation of England's volunteer army, with the mobilization of the industries of the nation, is regarded as the greatest achievement -always excepting the victory of the allies on the Marne, which still remains the miracle of the war. England has done in two years bu,.tlte voluntary action of her people what it has taken Germany and France two generations to accomplish With the most drastic measures of conscription,"