The Clinton News Record, 1912-07-11, Page 7FARM,_...
, Useful Hints for the Tiller of the Son
SEEDTNG THE GRASS LANDS. differepec ton for ton when it was
being fed to a herd of dairy cows,
TOO much importance can not be and for feeding horses and all kinds
° given to thc selection of Pure gra,s,s of young stock 1 have found it
seed, for those iS '1° greater il- greatly superior. The time of cut -
'44 d' • i •
ure or isappom ment in farm man• ting and curing will make more real
agement than to fail to eeture a
good stand if grass or clover. difference than the variety.
Alsike elover is not considered by
Every Year 1 am heemaing more soil experts to be as good a soil im-
and more favorable imPFessed with proving crop as common red clover
the value of alsike clover, although for the
of reason that it lacks the
we have used it for a nurebee
branching root systern of the yed
veers in all of ourgress- and seed, clover, but it is a legume (nitrogen
mixtures, writes a correspondent., gatherer) ancl hence on, maey soils
We have repeatedly failed to se' where the red variety eannot be
eure a favorable stand of common tiger' as a nitrogen gatherer.
reel clover, and to our surprise the It is my honest opinion that there
alsike would come along and make are many &killers who have given
a good stand and we would be en- up growing .clover who could make
able(' to harveet a very profitable Do you know that Camada, shows'
a succese of growing alsike clever
grass crop. Many thnesred clover instead 01 experimenting with red greater increase of percentage in
will not thrive for the reason thee ,
-clover. . e population for the decade. vizi, 39
. the soil has become somewhat acid, I have founper cent, than any :sham:Increase
found in act
'ual practice
hilt the alsike will make a very good that it is a better business in the'United States; viz.., 24 per
proposi-
. crop notwithstanding the acid con -Cent.
' dition of the biol.) to sow a mixture of grass seed
• c ef that will make a certain stand un- That urban population inereasees
Another valuable characteristi
der the usaal conditions than to 69 per cent.; rural, 16fper cent.
spend large amounts •of hard-earned That the next Perliathent ovill
etay in the soil several years, and
. if permitted lb will reseed itself. Ill-
„ money to experiment with a crop have 11 additional members. -On-
tario losing 4, New Brunsevick 2,
sike clover grows but little after so uncertain as red clover, on any
'Aids where it is not peacticaIly Nova Scotia 2, .P.E.I. 1.; 4 western
, mowing and no second crop an be sure to make good steed
provinces gain 5 each.
expected from it, Both in this re- a g.
That the percentage growths of
spect, as well as the longer time it some Canadian cities in 10 years
requires to mature its 'maximum HELPS FOR SWINE BREEDER. are: Calgary, 975; Hamilton, 55;
ds
erop, alsike clover stanafter red Halifax, 12; London, 22; Montreal,
clover. ' Scientists now say„ that the use of 74; Ottawa, 44; Quebec, 16; Be-
lts great and undeniable advant_ virus on pigs from a sow that has gine 1,400; St. John, 5; Toronto,
age, on the other hand, lies in the been treated for cholera by the use 660; Vancouver, 270; Victoria, 48;
fact that ±8 11 more hardy then the of virus is seldom affected by the Winnipeg, 178.
common red clover and can be sue- disease. They thrive better thin That Ca,nada, has 3,000,000 French-
limb;- eessfully cultivated on moist soils other pigs if they are treated with
Canadians.
and land that ie flooded at certain the virus and in that case are sel-
That Canada has 103,601 Indians.
times during the year on which red dom attacked. That Canada has received 1,886, -
clover will not grow. The pig made pot-bellied he feed- 538 immigrants from 1896 to 1911
If alsike clover seed is mixed with ing on straw or running on pasture (including 351,595 in 1911), and that
pasture grass anixtures, it yields without any o'rain is an easy victim 15 per cent. of the total arrivals
rich and certain grazing craps, ansi. of disease, because it is lacking in were English speaking and 25 per
when cultivated on arable land red imitrition• cent. foreign.
clover seed should be sowed with Dollar for dollar, middlings and
the mixture with which the field is corn, milk .and corn or corn and
seeded, alfalfa or clover is a far cheaper
In this way a great advantage is feed than the corn -alone.
• gained in the fact that the first year Young pigs suffer from indigestion
• after sowing the fodder may be har- through overfeeding or from feed -
vested chiefly consisting of•red cloy- ing on one ration alone, just the
er and in the following years after same as young children do.
the red clover begins to deteriorate Pigs, and, in fact, all hogs, (should
the alsike comes in, in its place, and have ready access at all tittles to salt
yields rich and certain crops, with and ashes. Charred corn cobs are
the timothy and other grass seeds always excellent,
with which the meadow is seeded,. The reason why hogs so eagerly
' On our farm we follow the same devour coal ashes, rotten wood and
• general methods of culture that \ye such material, is because they do
practice in growing red elover, with not have. while in close confine -
the addition of the following: As ment the material their flystem de -
the alsike has a tendency to lodge mends. At large • they root such
when it is in full vegetation, we find material from the ground.
that it is advisable to sow it with The farmer who grows a liberal
ether grass seed, by preference with supply of roots for his hogs seldom
timothy and red clover. The crops has =eh trouble from thwordinary
by this means are very rich and the diseases to which swine are subject.
'timothy supports the clover, so that A sow eats her pigs because she
it does not fall to the ground and has been improperly fed during
pregnancy. We never knew of a
While alsike does not yield as eow having this habit if she had been
earge crops to the acre as common allowed to run in the pasture, or
red clover of equal stand. yet it is whose rations had been varied and
very profitable, and in actual feed- which contained plenty of green and
ing value I have found but little succulent feed, ,
liOWCANADA IS GROWING .(ififith$:0195,37,2161,06,0000,0. Ontario leading
• That Canada has nearly 003,000
farmere. -
FOREIGN TRADE DOUBLED IN That Canada -sold, in 1911, $143,-
112,950 of agricultural and animal
A. DECIDE. products, which is only .16 per cent.
of the total grown.
• That Canada has 2,000 elevators,
Increase hi Revenue and Field with a grain capacity of 105,000,000
Crops Year by Year --Compiled bushels.
That Canada sold nearly 50,000, -
by Frank Yeigh. 000 bushelof wheat .tea Great Bri-
tain and over 3,000,000 barrels of
Do you know hew many inhabi
tants there are in Canada flour.
That Canada has enough flour
Population of Canada by Provinces mills to supply a population five
times that of Canada.
1911. L.10cYree,at'sr:'. That Canada has nearly 15,000,000
,
,
374663 301641 head of live
A lberta stock, and that Can --
British Columbia, ada's dairy industry yields over
392,480 213,823
ManitobNew Brunswick : 351,889 20,709 8100,000,000 a year. ••
a . . . . . 455,011 200,403
Nova Scotia . . , 492,338 32,764
Ontario . . . . . 2,523,208 340,261
Pr. Ed. Island 93,278 *9,531
Quebec 2,002,712 353,814
Saskatchewan 492.439 401,153
Yukon 8,512 *18,707
N. W. Ter. . . 16,951 453,178
Totals . . . . . 7,204,527 1,833,e12
*Decrectse.
•
FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS By MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HIS PrOPLE.
CANADA'S TRADE.
That during the last census de-
cade, 1e01-1911, Canada's trade .has
doubled, fi.eld crops value nearly
trebled, ,savings more than doubled,
railway mileage per head highest ie
the world, and third among eations
in ratio of trade to population 7
That Canada's total vote, general
election September 21s8, 1911, was
1,367,484, viz.: Conservative, 669,-
577; Liberal, 625,396. Conservative
popular majority, 44,461, or about
3!4•2 per cent. Labor votes, 1,742;
Independents, 7,177; Socialist,
3,912?
That Canada is developing a big
whaling industry? That one char-
tered company alone caught 700
whales in 1911 in Patine waters?
That thousands of barrels of oil are
being shipped to Europe, and thou-
sands of tons of fertilizers to Cali-
fornia?
Do you know Canada by her prov-
inces 7
Canada's four provinces at Con-
federation have grown to, nine.
Canada's nine provinces, great in
size as they are,
take up only half
of Canada's total arca; there is,
therefore, room Inc nine more.
ket last year amounted to 194,477 Alberta's area of 253,540 square
tons, of which 120,905 tons arrived miles is double the size of Great
by land and 73,572 by water. In Britain, and as large as France.
1910 the total quantity was 198,934 British Coltunbia is Canada's lar -
tons. 'gest p*rovince, 395.000 square miles,
"If I could employ Engli,shmen or 10 per cent. of Canada's total
instead of Poles," says one of the area, and ;has a population of 390, -
largest employers of labor in War- 229. It is equal to 24 Switzerlands,
saw, "I should only need half the with 200,000 square miles of moun-
Occurrences in 1 The Land That niimher of workers I have at pre- tains (Switzerland 16,000), and has
Reigns Supreme in the Com -sent." 1,000 miles of coast line.
inert:lel World. In addition to the City of London Manitoba's arta is 73,73'2 square
with its Lord Mayor a,nd powerful miles; if, and when extended, it will
There are in London alone 50 Corporation there are in the Metro- be 252,211,
theatres and 48 musie-halls, polis 28 separate boroughs, each Ontario's area is 960.863 square Lord Haldane, who has been Secretary of State for War since
le is estimated that 5,000,000 wo- with its mayor a,nd councillors. nlilea, and is as large as two Eng- 1905, has succeeded Lord Loreburn on the WOolsaek, and this fact
men are earning wages in the Bri- There is also the London County lands and little less than France leads the London Sphere to remark that the appointment meets uni-
tish Isles. Council. and Germany. It comprises 7 per versal approval. Readers of Campbell's "Lives of the Lord Chancel-
Reeords kept for 25 years show Dr. F. W. Forbes Ross of the cent. of Canada's ascii., anel 34 per • lei's" will know that learned and distinguished men have held that of -
that the fogginess of London is de- Royal College of Surgeons, Lon- cent. of population. 140,000 square ffice, but we doubt if since the days of Francis Bacon, Lord Vendee'',
creasing, don, believes he has found in urea miles will be added under the pro- there has been any Lord Chancellor with so splendid an intellectual
, Over thirty ships are kept in eon- hydrochloride a local anaesthetic posed boundary extension. equipment as Lord Haldane. Readers of his essays, particularly those
skint use laying and repairing ocean which will speedily abolish any he„ Marithne, Provinces area of 51,597 in "The Pathway to Realty," will know something of one side of his
low
. Empire is computed at 12 million "How long would you like to be 13run,swick and Prince Edward Is-
land) is two-thirds the size of Mani -
square miles (Nova Scotia, New work. A great ancl versatile reader as well as a good lawyer; Lord
Haldane is at 'home with every aspect of philosophy and of literature,
• eeeks. man pain consequent upon an in-
- The superficial area of the British iorY or oPeration• .
. and he is equally at home with the best literary philosophical achieve-
"' • square miles. , in prison7" Mr. Justice Bray, at the ments in the German and the English languages. His father was a
, There are 104,712 nersons in re- Suffolk Assizes, asked a man who Quebec, the second largest prov. Writer to the Siena's, He was born in 1856 an<I edueated at the uni-
ince has 351,873 square miles, anti
ceipt of relief in London, an in- pleaded guilty to stack -firing. "I ' versities of Edinburgh and Gottingen. Ile was called te the Chan -
crease Of 1,720 over last year. wouldn't mind if I neyer'eame out is nearly three times as large as the eery Bar in 1879, and made a Q.C. in 1690. He first entered Parlia-
• It is ,saicl that the Welsh miners again'," said the man. Ile was sen- aBdrditeidsh Isles. When Ungava is
with 480,000 square miles, inent le 1885 as M. P. for Haddingtonshire.
. will walk fiVO miles -to hear a ser- fenced to five years' penal servi- Quebec will be by far Canada's .
mon, seven miles to see a fight, and tette. largest province, represented one-fourth, -or $138,- merit of fops, the most expensive,
ten miles to hear a good 'SC.Ilkg• Field -Marshal Lord Wolseley, the 567,000. , ' hest-clres,sed and worst-moraled in
is
The North 'London magistrate senior field-marshal of the Beitish
CANADA'S FINANCES
Estimated area sown in the West, the British army
,thinks politics in a public -house ,
Army. was 79 on the 4th inst. He Do youknow these facts about 1912, 12,000,000, acre.s. A walk i3rurnmel chanced to take
-,• very much like taking a light into entered
the army 60 years ago, and our national finances? - Watch' Canada's wheat standing on the terrace of Windsor was a
a roorn.where there is gunpowder.
has taken part in ten . campaigns That the, budget speech of Mardi elimb from fifth place to nearer the lucky circumstance for him. The
whole world. The re -
e
:Englitnel still sets •the feshion'in and commanded eve. From 1895 to 14th, 1912, showed the biggest sur- first, '. - ,prince -colonel observed him, asked
Clothes to th
1900 he waS Conimander-in-Chief of plus on record of $39,000,0007 •WORLD-WIDE TRADE, who that exceedingly well-dressed.
' .semblance of the Modes of 1812 a»d the at, y . .
1912 has been the theme of corn- 1910-11 wa:s person was, • and the Beau wa.s in -
Metal poisoning frona handling That revenue for
$117,780,400; expenditure, $87 774 - Do you -know that Canada's for-
) Y troduced. , An acquaintance was
' Whet is known as the City of copper coins was the cause for 198; surplus, $30,000,000. . eign trede for 1910-11 was $769,443,.
followed 1.33".nri intimacy which later
: Londbn proper has an area of a death recently assigned' at We,st That -the estimated, revenue for 9,9,54,0a0110d,ont_h that ±8 it' increased 1100°Y the "coxcomb clevel•oped into tin-
' little more than a square mile, Hem.. The deceased, aged 27, lied 181I-12 is $136,000,000; experediture `'"`' u ' 19114" bounded impudence,
been employed to collect coins from. (estima,ted), , on revenue eccount, Do 'you know how Canada's for -
By. this step his reputation was
while the county of London has 117 peirmyen_the_elot gas meters and
•' square miles. *97,000.000; , •stirplUS (eSbilllated); ei,gn trade ghams.gic'o.leia,.cicalot.cilboleisngbitiliBio made, which he kept up for some
his physician testified that the $39,000,000.decade? T1 t
•, Formerly, said Sir John Gray Hill nesr, among, 87 cZnitries, ranking yew's, He had an immense fund of
in Liverpool the other day, the rich coins were often green with vercii- That the total expenditure for ' good, but not wiety seeing's. His
Jews went to Jerusalem to die, new tor's hands, a,nd 1911-12. is estimated at $175,000,000. third
gris, whieh remained on the collee-, among nations per capita?
was absorbed That the net debt of the Dom That Canada's Empire trade has friends Ill'cum"need l'im a charming
•' the poor Jews weet there to live, companion, he entereel the highest
•' The coal strike in South Wales through his habit •of curling his ion increased by $3,173,505, deuhled in 14 :5`'ears' heilig now '37 circles of England and his rise in
moustaehe with his fingers. That the net debt of Canada to Per cent' of the whole 1
d'asiag 1911' cc" l'the Seath Wale's A public test was recently carried 31st Meech, 1931, was 8340,042,059. That Canadit's trade with the his regiment was rapid. /n three
Miners' Feclera,tion 6210,042. The years he was at the head of the
Federation of Great Britaie contri- out in the Thames of a new life -say- Tha,t other eaPital and 'special. ex- TJ...,n_itieeell States is 61 per cent..of the troop, to
the disgust Of the older
ing jacket. During the dernonstra- penditures will reach 8134,862,714. "
buteil £77,000. _.,.,
•,Next to the coal and metal work- tion this apparatus was used by a That.the, total estimated expendi- That Canada's trade is inereesini °meers• • '
mme.1 • sold his corn -
woman and three • met. The oar- tnre wilrbe $282,785,248. 25 ties as fest with the' United In 1798 Bru
ing indnstries of England' comes the mission. His reetion for it was rte-
.' cotton spinning and weaving indus- States as with Great Britiin /
merit consists of a. loose sack, about That the total estimated inc,reased ver thoroughly explained, but the
jacket, having a ribbing fitted with ' That Canada's foreign, trade,. unsettled state of Europe at that
the length of an oediaary lounge debt on railway from 1904 to March
rY. On these the very existence of
a substance of greater buoyancy That Canada's: trade has doubled the United States $40 ?--=Teront.o
lino -a, was $107 per head; that or
time rendered it highly probable
' the laation depends. . ' 31s., 1912, is $77,285,063. • ,
• e Lord Haldane was swern le as that his regiment might be, seet in=
,
than cork. It is'so constructed that since 19001 •
the heads of the usere are complete- News. •to active •service and he preferred a
e, •Lerd ' Chancellor on the Ilth inst.
ly.out, of the writer, this perroitting• . FARM WEALTH. g.--:
• drawing -room to a battlefield. ,
feat fee Royal., Courts, ,of. Justice.
'There • was a large attendance of SHE COUNTED SHEEP.
PRINCE OF 13•EAUX, -
them to, take food while in the wa- Do you know how rieh. Canada is "Well, and how did your mother .
' judges and members of the Bar.
agrimilturaIly, ancl whet it means toi sleep last night? Did she follow He then commenced the profes-
The moat, dangerous part of the • ----e----*---. a COUlltry to havO millions of acres iny advice and begin counting sfOn Of a beau, and became known
• 'British coast is between. Flamloor- . of fertile moil, undee varying clime- sheep? as the Prince of Beaux, while his
ough Head and the North Foteland, '' "What are you going to name the tie conclitions,7 • ' •. "Yes, slieniounted eighteen thou- .patron was called the beau •ef
' Next comerothat between. Anglesey baby?" "We thought of calling Do you know: esand." . princes, At this time he wasper-
and the Mull of Kintyre; her 'Scandal'!" "Put why ?'"'We That Canada's field' crops' value ,"And than fell asleep?" i
Fish tteriving et Billingsgete•Mar- Can't hush' her up !" , rettched the record figures feet in point of figure, with' an in -
Fish 1011 . "Ne ; then it was time to get up." tellig,ent hut not a handsome ..f ace,
CANADA AS A WHEAT LAND.
Do you know how rich Canada is
in wheat? - Bruminel first came to notice at
Do you know that Canada raises Eton, as a student, twelve years
the best wheat on the continent, per old, where he was called Buck
award of grand' prizeat NeW York Brummel. There he distinguishe•cl
Land Show, November, .1911, to a himself, not at cricket -playing,
Saskatoon settler 0 or fighting, but as the introducer of
Canada's western area (estimated a gold buckle for the white stock,
by some at 233,000,000 acres, a,nd by by never being -flogged, end by his
Prof, Saunders at 171,000,000 acres), ability at testing cheese. Theh
if cultivated, could supply almost Brununel went to Oriel College,
half t,he world's present wheat' where he made his mark by e stud-
consimintiore. •ied 'indifference to discipline, a, ells-
' It 'should not be forgotten that like of study, and an aversion to
wheat is the basis of "all civilized steel forks, long before silver ones
existence. The world's wheat eat- were common at the tables of the
ere numbered in 1871, 375 millions; middle classes to which his perents
to -day, 517 millions. ' • . belonged.
According.to Prof. Thomas Shaw, • He became one of the competitors
the wheat belt has :shifted in the for 'aeprize to be given for the best
United States. The centre of pro- poem. He failed, and in disgust
duction in North America, is how in he left college at the age of seven -
the Canadian North-West, and this teen, haying been there less than a
may he shifted yet farther north year. However, if he had little
with the opening up of the Peace learning, he had learned two things,
River country, how to gain celebrated friends, a,ncl.
Canada's wheat crop, 1900, 47,- how to eut any of his acquaintances
867,917 bushels; 1911, 215,000,000 who ceased to be of any benefit to
bushels. In the same period, bile.
United States wheat productioe was JOINED THE AR1VIY, -
nearly at a sta,neletill. In 1900,
Canada's wheat production was By the death of his father Beau
one -eleventh ,of that of ITeited Brummel receive(' £25,000, which he
Stat -es; in 1911, about one-third, spent in living, and when that was
Canada was 7th among...weed's gone he subsisted on what he ob-
wheat-growing countries in 1910, tabled by gambling, borrowing and
and 5t1 in 1911, beating Hungary; begging. He obtainer' a coventry
Italy a,nd Spain. in the Tenth Hussars, of which
Of Canada's total grain values of George, Prince Regent, afterwards
1911 of $565,711,000, wheat alone George IV., was colopel--a regi -
GEORGE
BRYAN BRUMMEL
ENGLISH LEADER OF FASHION
IN ISTII CENTURY.
Was Nicknamed "Beau Brummel"
•on Account of His Loud Dress-
ing and Foppishness.
Beau lirummel was tho nickname
given ,to George Bryan Brummel,
O man who was famous in his day
as the arbiter of fashion and for re-
presenting the perfection of taste in
the matte!' of dress. No anecdotes
of his very early years are known
except that he cried beca,use his
hivenile'stomach was not infinitely
distended so that he could eatmnore
of his aunt's delicious tarts.
BRITAIN'S NEW LORD CHANCELLOR.
Ile had light brown hair, a' noee
shaped hand. . Dress at that time
somewhat Roman, and a beautifully NO MAID IN 20-R00M HOUSE
became very untidy. Many of ehe
leading men of the 'cley affected
asudporrnorene.,otsnatneciniptth:omrodaelloofuatwgaernd EldneTRIciry HAS SOLVED
THE PROBLEM.
tlernan's dress had come to be as
slovenly as possible.
Brummel, who had been e°"sPie- Weinatt Urges lief! Sex to Forsake
uous from boyhood' for the neatness
of bis attire, now determined to be- the .01d Hard Labor
the best -dressed man in London. Methods.
He took care to display to the beet
arlyaetag,e, his fine figure in a per- • To care for and manage a 20-
fectly-fitting frock coat. But his room house, unaided by even ono
chief forte lay in his cravat, which servant, would seem to most women
before hie time was a piece of limp who understand the requirements
cambric loosely fastened around the to be an impossible task Yet this
throat. He took care to have it is accomplished easily by Mrs.
.
slightly starched. Standing before Frank Ambler Pattison of Colonel,
his glass with shirt collar erect and New Jersey, who has achieved what
of a prodigious height, he generally dm calls domestic independenee.
applied the eravat to the throat.' Nor is her housekeeping drudgery
At first it measured, a foot in width, to her. Sheeenjoys it and has time
Then bending down artistically to go largely into society, to attend
the eollar, followed by his, chin, 80 a large correspondence, and to
with slow and regular movements be a devoted mother to her two ehil-
and twelve incheS were reduced to then. •
four and the tying of the knot fol- Mrs, Pattison belie,ves that every
lowed, He never tried the Game other woman can manage 'a house,
cloth but once, and if he failed, off either large or small, by making
it came, was thrown aside and an- modern metheds do the work Which
other tried, has until now been done by a staff
FLATTERED BY KINGS. of serva,nts. She formerly kept
these servants herself, and knows
He may be excused for being vain, what ehe is talking about. She sub
for Ile was flattered by kings or about solving the servant question
their representatives, the prince and installed in her home an ire..
even spending hours in the morning provement which would seem to
in the Beau's room watching the 'help her plans.
progrees of his toilet. A duchess To begin with, there is an elem-
thought it necessary to warn her tree washing machine that will turn
daughter to be careful of her be- out in- two hours, rinsed and reedy
havior when the celebrated Beau for hanging on the line, a washing
Brummel was present, and a credi- that would take a good laundress
tor was satisfied with a bow from a all day to do. There is another ma...
clulthoese wind -w, and a Word from chine run by a motor, and this me -
hien would ruin a tailor. He saeri- to is really Mrs. Pattison's
fired his manners to his appearance,
for he would not remove 'his hat in BEST "HANDY MAN,"
the street, after it had been placed It is used for turning the ice cream
in a correct position, to bow to a freezer, Inc operating the vacuum
lady, , cleaner, the sewing machine, the
Beau Brurnmel had a famous col- meat grinder, the knife sharpener,
lection of snuff boxes and was cele- the coffee mill, the grater, the cake
brated for the care h,e took in open- mixer, the bread mixer, the egg
ing the lid of the box with the beater, the churn, and the silver
thumb of the hand that carried it cleaning machine. This eliminates
and delicately taking a pinch with a goodly 'proportion of the labor
the fingers of the other. He was, of housework,
in short, a well-dressed snob, but he Electric irons save steps from the
was flattered and invited every. ironing table to the stove and give
where to such a degree that lie uniform heat. A wonderful ice box
thought himself a great man. is so arranged that the iceman goes
He boasted that he had but to into the cellar to fill it. but when
beekod to the -Dukes ef Argyle and food is wanted from it, by stepping
Jersey and they would -come, and on a button, the box is made to rise
he held all but the peerage in dis- through the floor and pops up into
dein, It seems strange that a man the kitchen. The cooking and serv-
of his disposition should he' toler- ing of meals have been reduced to
atecl at a club, if any of the many a eeience. in Mrs. Pattison's experi-
aneedotee told about him are true. ment stations, She has learned to
The houses of the British liability use the fireless cooker, and has :W-
ho regarded as inns to be visited by eral different kinds installed in her
him with valet and portmanteau, home. The most wonderful one of
with or without invitation, and to all is a recently perfected electrical
be spoken of afterwards as "a house cooker. There is a clock on the
to 'spend one night in." front of it.
Ee boa.sted of the prince: "I "Suppose I decide to -day," said
made him what he is and can un- Mrs. Pattison, "that I want my
make him," just the sort of saying breakfast to begin cooking to -mor -
to irritate row morning at 7 o'clock, I set the
A BRAINLESS PRINCE. clock at that hour. Then I move
the pointer on this other dial to the
Drumm& -.dined with the prince, amount of temperature I want in
and, carrying his impudence a little my oven, 200 degrees or whatever it
too far, he requested the regent to may be. That's all,
ring the bell. He did so, and when
the servant came he ordered "Mr. I GO TO BED;
Brum.mel's carriage." It may have In the inorning at 7 o'•elock, without
been the remark made some time anyone's going near the .thing, the
before about the Beau having made -electricity is automatically turned
the regent, or it may have been the food 'starts to cook. 'When the tern -
sarcasm on the prince's corpuleney, perature rises to 200 the current is
hilt, at any rate'the bell was rung, automatically turned off. The
and it sounded the knell of Bruin- ovens being insulated by non -con -
mel, who, however, had a little re- ducting walls, they keep that tem-
venge. peraeure, and breakfast will he
The prince pricle•cl himself on his ready when wanted. If a woman
figure, and as 'he grew broad with Wishes to go to church or to a club
years and good living, resorted to meeting or a bridge party, or to
stays to preserve it. The Beau, lie down for a nap, she can prepare
meeting him in company with an- dinner ip advance, set the clock,
other gentleman, inquired very and not even give things an -other
coolly, but loud enough for the thought until serving time."
prince to hear : "Who is your fat There is an interesting garbage
friend?" The coolness, presump- consumer run by gas, a silver
tion and impertinence of the ques- cleaner which requires no rubbing
San, perhaps the very best thing of the articles to be cleaned, and a
the Beau ever said, cut the prince, dish washing machine. Mrs. Patti -
but gave him the nickname of Dan- son hopes that artistic paper dishes,
dy Killer. ' cheap enough eo be thrown a.way,
For a while Brummel patronized will be an invention of the near 80 -
the regent's heother, the Duke of ture. Meantime 'elle urges all house -
York, but he soon get deeper and keepers to etitely improved aad time -
deeper in debt. He struggled along, saving methods of- keeping house,
and often, with some success, to She believes that the cost of all the
keep his place among the dandies labor saving devices can be saved,
and wits, Creditors became trouble.- even in households where there is a.
some, he received the nickname of very 'small housekeeping allowance,
George the Less in contradistinction if women will learn to operate them
of the prince, who was called and will forsake the old hard labor
George the Great, and lie came to methods of housekeping.
the conclusion that it would be bet-
ter to 'arose the ehannel.
For the remainder of his life the "111:1 WHO PASSED."
Beau lived in France, part of -the
time in a government consulship The Romance of a Novel Restored
position, and the remainder of the a Lover.
time supported by his foemer
Not often is a book review the
friends. He finally sustained a
means of clearing ap a misunder.
paralytic shock, from which he ne-
sta,ncling between sundered lovers,
ver eccoyered. His creditors cleeed
around him and Ise was cast into b,,nt this joyful sequel followed upon
pri,en. He show,d sip, of inme_ ene publication of a review in a
duty; all care of his person went, London (England) paper of a novel
and from' carelessness and disease called "He Who Passed."
his habits became no loathsome that The story is by a woraan who de-
an attendam, could hardly he found scribes how and why she refused to
Inc him.. Admission was at last ob-
died oreMarch 30, 1840.
tained for. him 'into the esyluin of
the Bon Sal/Velll', Caen, where he
allowed him to pasS out 02 ber
life, end rether than confess it she
marry the man she loved, The ob-
stacle was an incident in her past
As the book bears the stamp of an
authentic experience, and is a.
Feldkirch, a Gotthrilling, human document, it sold
MADE HIS 01enter .41N COFFIN.
nest: tingen copy of the review, giving a syn-
wielely, and in course el' time
Era
feli
fhaaaniP fin'tgrisleet, °7744ai so nalwaErantshleipvsii,tnoofglo'ytitn, the tnrat°offPeticieltese. hd nbdy4'
illness., which came when he was what he read, and secured a copy of
sixty, 'suggested to him that: hal' the book at the earliest possible
ing no relatives. he should Provide, inieosincreilbite,citionflint/rpthmagtesheams,a)svetlhlearns atom
foe his buriite'llimeelf, 'and ,as soon c
as he recovered he Set to Work arse discover why Ms offer of nityrriage
'made hireSelf a coffin, which he had been declined. The sequel
placed conveniently beside his bed, comes off early in the fall when "Ile
After a number Of yeari bega,n Whov
o Ilpaure6auffi
eew,cden.smo teiabriit,ytilyle,frwoon;
to decay, and he was obliged to m
make another. The second. is now his passing.
in the same condition as the first,
end his friends are urging Feld-
kirch to discard it for a third. The EXPECTED TOO MUCH,
old man, who -is hale and hitppY as customer cut this
ever,inore,,daen'eelnitie.h5e31eenellimak°fle managed
iit decayitig he bothered if I can chew it." Waiter
° to ut this steak, but I'm
wilt give the business uP as a had -"Yes sire We guaraotee our
job.
knives, bat our tesponsibility does
not extend to our mastemerte
• Ice 18 lighter than water. teeth." •