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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1908-04-30, Page 3rbalataaaaasirsamOrtaasaistaadaaaa44444Caaage 4•71, Etest Recipes Old Chicago. Families. Used Generation After Generation. (Chicago Tribute) alvery hemeholdh Oligo ime a WO - ed reetpe Which hats been headed down from mother to theugater through gen vtati011e. IV* the 00 that mother used to Make or the clan chowder tat Aunt Mary made, or grandmas' favorite recipe ler cluarolate cake or cookiee or graham rola) or even buckwheat cakes. aour home there iii Somewhere— pasted into the oha cookhook or laid carefully between the leave& of the dic- tionary or fatally Bible or perhape glued into your serap book—a, smal piece ef mite paper, yellow with age, with your grandmotheras hendwriting feeling Sas-NOY away. Oa this elip of paper is e recipe for cake of Mlle kind or cookies that you remember when you were a child and that your children will always e. member after they have grown. eo maw hood or womanhood. There Is a good (teal Of Sentiment at- tar/lied to. those old recipes, end there are housewives in Maw to -day who wuolci part with their diamond brooches before they Nvould give up their inothera or the grandmotter's favorite recipe. In the old dole te Chicago the home - wives, who gave more of their personal attention to the running of the berne than the modern housewivee of these days do, used to exchange recipes, and hi a number of the old Chicago homes, tucked away in the scrap books or past- ed into the time worn, dogeared eook bocacs, are recipes Nvritten by many of the best known women of Chicago ii those days—recipes which your mother eroded with my mother in the days that you and I used to trade postage stamps and marbles. In a hundred homee the recipes of the mother or tae grandmother ef men and women of prominence to -day still are given to the cook every now and then, just as they used to be long ago, and some of these have been so much used that they have been copied and recopied as time has fadedtheink in which they were oragnally written. In these homes the old recipe a are cherished more than whole cook books filled with new ones. They have stood the test of time, and, like the novel that has lived twenty years, they promise to endure forever. In one collection of recipes which hara been, carefully saved by a good housewife is afro Orson Smith's recipe for griddle cakes, which was famous in the deys that recipes were traded. Mrs. Orson Smith is the wife of the President of the lefewohante' Loan & Trust Company, wed below is the prized recipe for griddle cakes—the kind that Banker Smith gets served to him at breakfast during the griddle cake season: I . GRIDDLE OAKES. Airs, Orson Smith. Two quarts warm water, one teaspoon salt, one cup flour, one cup torn meal, one-half teacup yeast, two eggs well beaten and added the last; raise over night. Following is a recipe for the kind -of morn starch cake that Municipal Judge Fre d Fake used to love when he was a boy—and still loves. It is his mother's recipe: CORN STARCH CAKE. Lucy D. Fake. One cup white sugar and one-half cup batter beaten together, one-half cup. starch, the whites of three egs beaten to e stiff froth, one cup milk, one cup flour, one teaspoon cream tartar, one- half of aorta. Flavor with lemon. 'When John C. King asks for the kind of election cake that mother- esed to ,malse this is what he gets: INEW ENGLAND ELECTION CAKE. Mrs. John King, Take three pounds sifted flour, lea,ving out a pint to put ia with fruit and mix warm milk till it is a stiff batter; weigh one and a half pounds of sugar, one pound better; mix them to a cream, then mix one-half this with the batter of milk and flour, and one-half pint good home made yeast: beat thoroughly toge- ther; when light, which will take several holm in winter, better to mix at night ud stand in a, warm place till next morning; adthi the remainder of butter and sugar with six eggs and one pound raisins,. one glass brandy, cinnamon, mace, or nutmeg, as the taste and a lit- tle soda; if in season of scarcity' of eggs, it is good without any; should rise the second time before putting in pans for baking. The more such cake is beaten the finer and lighter it will be. Mrs. Joseph. B. Leake's Yerksaire pud- ding has been famous for years. Here is &he recipe for it: a. YORKSHIRE PUDDING. Mrs. Joseph B. Leake. To be eaten with roast beef, instead of a vegetable. Three tablespoons flour, mixed with one pint of milk, threa eggs, and a little salt. Pour into a shallow tin baking tin; put into oven, an hour before dinner, for tea minutes; then put . it under the roasting beef and leave it until you take up the beef; leave it *bout five minutes after you take up the beef; then pour off the fat end send it to the table. James L. Houghteling's mother used do make a famous veal pie. The recipe ;for It has been treasured for years in the lloughteling family. Veal pie a la droughteling is made as follows: VEAL PIE. ; Mrs. William D. Houghteling. Three pounds of lean veal; two slices or salt pork, cho.popd fine, one coffee cup of bread crumbs, two egga, salt, pep- per, and herbs to taste; nsix thoroughly and 'bake; use alai as a relish. Mrs. A. A. Carreeter, mother of Miss Nellie Carpenter and A. A. Carpenter, jun., had a famous reeipe for clam soup. Here it is just as it appears pasted be- AWeeli the leaves of an old cook booa; CLAM SOL r. • ?era. A. A. Carpenter. Olt salt pork in small squares and fry tight bream; add one large or two small etithOns, cut fine and cook about tee minute; add two quarte of water rind one quart of raW potatoes raked; let it boil, Then add one can of chime. idix Atone tablespoaful of flour with water, put it With one pint of milk and pour into the soup end let it boil about five miutites. Butter, pepper, stela Woreee- terehire sauce to taste, afro Henry W. King's cucumber +aided Was famous on the aorta side during the yeara folloteing the flee, and almost every member of Fourth Preebyteriari March in those days Used to put up a quitatity of Mrs. Meg's ceeihnbet Wad when &Milberg were in season, and Mre. Xing alWaye used to put up a lot of Jere for the &era taits, Caarless Gar- field Xing, Mrs. Herbert haste, Mrs, .Arehabel eWell, and all the other teems bers of tbe Rush street family Of Xing taiteinber Mee. tenr7 W. 1Iags &cum - lair. Wad. CUCUMBER 'SALAD. Mrs. Henry W. Xing. Take a doten ripe white spine eilentia here; Washpare and cut into strips, takirig mit the eet;t1s; cut into pieees like entail aka; to ea& dozen &ma'am akke 'Wale* large 'White &WU, .6liapped; six large geeea peppere, alai &tamed; one-quarter pound each blaek and white Meeterd, seeds and, a grill of celery Seed; mix ell well together; add a tarioalt of salt, and hang up in a cotton bag to arem for twenty-four hours. The add enough Clear, cOldvinegar to cover it pat into :stone jars and keit& nearly airtight, In six weeke it will be fit for use. The following recipe for Mrs. aVilliain Penn Nixon's cora soup is in nearly ev- ery collection on the mirth eide: CORN SCUP. elm William Penn Ntxon. One small beef bone, two quarts of wa- ter, four tonaatoes, eight ears ef coral let the meat boil ashort time in the wa- ter; cut the corn from the cob *ted put lit tbe cebs with the cut coru and tomes toes; let it boil about half an hour; re- move the cabal just before serving rata milk, which allow to boil for a few min- utes only; season with salt- arid pepper. 'late late judge Harvey la Hurd: al- ways liked his wife's lemon. cake better than any cake sever baked. Here it is recipe for it: LEMON CAM Sera11, 1, Muni, Five cups flour, am cup butter, three cups sugar, one cup cream, five eggs, one teaspoon saleratrus, and the peel a,nd juice of two "lemons. Mee. Arnold, the wife of Testae N, Ale noali Ana the grandmother of William M. Scudder and Arnold Scudder, was posseasor of a famous turtle bean soup and no collection of old eceipes is eon tridered, complete without this. one: TURTLE BEAN SOUP, airs. 1. . Arnold. Take a quart of Nark beans wash them and put them into a, exit with three quarts of water; boll until thor- oughly soft, rub the pulp through a col- ander and returnit to the pot; add some thyme in a clean cloth and let it boil elew minutes to flavor; Oleo some hard boiled eggs and drop them into the sump; add a little butter, pepper and salt. Before Mrs. Janes S. Gibbs, widow of the viee-president of the Minot, Trust and Savings bank, moved. to Paris to live with her daughter'Maxie. Brocage, she left a "Force Meat Bane recipe, which is highly prized In. a number of north eride home*. FORCE MEAT BALLS. Mrs, Jabes S. Gibbs. Mix with one pound of chopped veal or other meat one egg, a little butter or raw pork chopped fine, one oup or less of bread crumbs; the whole well moistened with waren water, or what is better, the water front stewed meat; season with emit and pepper; make in small balls and fry them brown. Mrs. A. L. Ohetlan, wife of Gen. Chetlain. had a famous reap for boll - ed tingue and tomato Sauce wilich she used- to trade with her friends for oth- er recipes. Mrs. Clhetlain was the step- mother of Judge Ohetlain, and the jur- ist still talks, about that tongue and tomato sauce he used to get at the -old home. Here is the reebee for it: BOILED TONGUE AND TOMATO. - SAUCE.. Mrs. „A.. L. Chetlain, Boa a pickled tongue till well done, then peel. For the sauce one eau of to- matoes, boil half down, then strain; .rub together one tablespo-on of butter, one teasrpoon of flour, and -a little salt, put' int:* the tomatoes and let it oome to a boll; then pour over the tougue and serve. In a large number of older Chicago homes ales. J. Y. Seammon'e famous re- cipe for chicken croquets is stilt being followed: CHICKEN CROQUETTES. J. Y. Scammon, The proportions that eve give below are for half a good sized chicken. After boiling, ehop the meat fine, fry it with one ounce of butter- then add one-half teaspoon of flour; Air for half aanetn- ute, adding the choppel meat and a. lit- tle broth. Salt, pepper, and a pin& of nutaneg; stir for fire minutest, then take it from the fire 'and mix the yolks of two eggs with it; put on the fire again for one minute, stirring the while. Lastly; you may or may not add four mushrooms chapped, or two truffles, or both, acoordine, to taste. Turn the mix- ture Into a dish and set it away to cool; when perfectly tool mix it well, as the upper part is dryer than the rest; put it in ports on the pasteboard, a tablespoon for each part. Have bread erunebe on the pastboard, then make them into any form requir- ed. Dip each croquette in beaten egg; roll in bread crumbs agaia and fry in hot fat. Garnieh each croquette with a eprig of parsley. To the collection of old recipes, of the north side housewives Mrs. Horace F. Waite, the mother of Tatty Waite, of Hull house, nailed a eseposition cake which is dearly treasured not only bY her children but by many an old friend of the Waite family: . COM POS M ON CAKE. Jars. lierace P. Yvette. Five eggs, for cups sifted flour, two and one-half of auger, ope of butter, one of milk, two thaepoons cream tar- tar, ona of rsokt. t eat auger, butter, yolks of eggs a long time, then add milk and part of the flour; with the rest of the flour add the whitee, beat light; raisins or citron, if desired. Mns, Fre& B. Orr's recipe for flatcar - eel with °eaters is another prized one. MARQARONI WITH OYSTERS, Mrs. B. ear, Boil macaroni in salt water, after which drain through a eolander; take a deep earthen dish or tin, put in alter- nate layers of macaroni and oysters; sprinkle the layers of macaroni with gritte4 eheeee; bake until brown. Delia - lone as a side rtieli at dinner. In one north side home is A dearly val- ued. reeipe will& bears the aollowing inscription: "Roots* for Pigeon Pie, by Mrs, Abraham Lineoli0 Here it is: piotoN PIE. Sirs. Abrahani Lincoln. MAO a fine puff paste; lay a border of it nround a large dish and cover the bottom with a rCal catlet, -or a tender eterele free from fat or bone; etas& e�1t, cayenne pepper, and mace. Prepare Toany pigeons Ms tan be put in one layer in the digit; put into eiteh *toe Nniall lump of butter, and sateen with pepper and salt; lay tittle in the disli breaet downwards and cut in slkeee. half +ikon of bollea eggs, •Alltd. lay in with tbe birds; put in. more butter, eoine veal broth, reed tovet the Whole with met; alike -slowly for 511 fume and a In nearly every home in Chicago there pelted reeipea and Suet as theSe re - cities ore treasured POW in yeers to thine the oldleiren end grandehildeen of the lioueoWitee of to -day will have other hertahad teeipee, and perhaps- tbeir great-great-grauareotlier's favorite ones, toe. Ritail the playwright may writs, a play Invite. MU -NA IN THE 110 .. ars s %.•"{ r'siw e ; re%iesee RESIPENCE AND PHOTO Of' J. E. CARSON, TORONTO, CAN. wa?a3aWaa?ar:WaaWrgraM:!RaaMaWiraa Mr. J. E. Carson, 218 St, Clarens Ave., Toronto, Canada, Inspee- tor Lendou Life Insurance Co,, London, Canada, writes; "I have used. the popular remedy known as Pe,rn-na, and 1 can testify .as to its merits, 1 regard it as one of the best tonics now on the market." • . ......„,,......... .... .„,........,....................„,...............„..„ - Toronto is one of the most aeautiful cities In the world. It is a city of homes and cOurches, a cifar of intelligence and good government, amity of healthful climate- and beautifl scatery, Among the many bee,utifiel twines which make up the city of Toronto, is the home of J. E, Carson, 218 St. Cheraw avenue, In this home Yoram., le rel. aeaed as a family medicine. • Peruna eau boast of being a fixture in over amillion of such happy homes on this continent, where it is used for the petty aihnents that afflict the family. Coughs and eolde, catarrh of the head and throat, sore throat inven1 ous ) ' forms, disturbances of digestion, catarrh of the stomach, and other internal t organs. These ailments, petty in themselves, are often the begimling of very . serious diseases. 4, doe or two of Peruna taken in the beginning may quickly Avert tali - bus if not fatal illness, . ••••••• ••••••••w.. ••• • SIN4W•••••••,./..01,""•••••W"/".0.0,e‘ow•~4,••••1"•WW ••••••••••••••••••? I"••• Head Stopped Up Mr. Cr, W. Martin, Hartford, Ontario, ohoir leader at 5t. Paul's Episcopal Church, writes: "I have been troubled with catarrh for a great many years, and always try- ing something for it, but was able only to secure temporary relief until I used Palma. Only five bottles rid my system of all tra,ces Of catarrh, and I have not noticed the slightest trouble for eeveral months. My head Was stopped up, my breath offensive, and it is &relief to be able to breathe freely once more." Lungs and Bronchial Tubes Mr, J, O. Hervus Pelletier, Dept. de P Agricultute, Ottawa, Out., writes: "The Peruna is particularly efficacious In the cure of catarrhal affections of the lungs.arid bronchial tubes. "ix bottles cured me this winter of 'bronchitis. I am completely restored and I owe thanks to the Penna. "I have recommended this remedy to a large number of my friends afflicted with the same trouble, and they have verified my good opinion of this valu- able resnedy.' THE UNDECIPHERABLE CIPHER. A Fortune Waiting for: the Man Who Will Fit One to Wireless. --- Would you like to earn a fortune? 4. niee, large, comfortable fortune— not one of the swollen kind, like these Rockefeller or the heir of Monte Carlo or a common copper kingaso em- barrasing in the way oe publicity, but just a fortune of the satisfactory variety, such as one imagines 'ought to be enough for hini when he is build- ing air castles at the age of 30, before the secrand baby 'has arrived. .About $50,000 or $100,000. Well, invent an undecipherable cipher, for the wireless telegraph. Then collect the .money—from any government on earth, but especially from Frans*, Ger- many, Great Britain, and the United States.o No, 14 islet im.possible. Edgar ar Allan Poe said it was said after he had the whole country and some important fragments of Europe guessing over 1 his eryptogrearimatic "Gold Bug," that no human intelli- gence weld devise a cipher wad& hu- man intelligence could not decipher and he hinted rather emphatically that the human intelligence he was talking about as the party of -the second part belong- ed to a, certain highly intelligent gen- tleman of his acqu-aintance whose ini- tials were E. A. P. Before his time a good many people— Kinas and Dukes and statesmen, as well as oommon ordinary people —aad tiled, their kende at cipher making, and bad made pretty good fists at it. But when the forerunner Of Conan Doyle and 'the creator of the prototype of Sherlock Holmes declared the cipher to be eternally deeipherable, all the puzzle makers in the universe seemed to quit and resign themselves- to work- in for their living. It was a mistake not so much be- cause the prespeetrive discoverers of pirates' boards and. the general riff- raff -of loyalties and nobilities were suddenly back on their jobs, but be- cause a fundamental passion of human nature was baffled, and when you baf- fle a fundamental passion, it ae, liable to strike in and do damage, like the measles or the mumps. Puzzles, erytograms, ethers tal be- long to what WIlde Collins designated the deteetive instinct that is born hi us. .As it is, there must be some mil- lions of experts in the United States, their appetites whetted by prizes rang- ing from 50 eents to $5, who are are - pared to pit themselves agaitist the see. ret, tortuous ways and means of the chaneellaries of Europe, for the pro - *action of the Marconi -wireless mes- sages of diplomacy and war. There is the great opportunity for the cipher &Meer; there is the waia. ing fortune, When Marconi demonstrated the main fact that he weld transmit mes- sages through bare else& industry saw iii his discovery one of ahe triumphs of the age and scieuce oriebiathe won- ders of the era. 33u4 the government discerned tOe ture victories of war. Science proved correct, and industry was only par- tiaIly But govetninerit —well, here a+ what happened th gov- ernment: "Paris, November --The Freach min- istry has reeeiveil strildeg proof of the possibility of ititereepting Wireless mes- sages. Yesterday copies of all mete sages exchanged by the War Office and Gen. Drucle at Casa Blanca were re- ceived from -.Verdun, a military station aerie the German frontier. "They had all been recorded at the Government statioa ,at Verdun. The fact that -official messages can thirs be intercepted during a campaign has given the military authorities much un- easiness." . One need -go back only halt a cen- tury to see precisely the same thing happening in the infancy of regular telegraphy. Lord Clarendon, British ambassador to France in 1850, wee dining tete-a- -tete with the Emperor. A servant en- tered; and handed a letter to his host. . The Emperor read it -and tossed it across the table: "There, rny friend, is something that ought to interest you." Lord Clarendon read it. The paper VMS the translation of a clesaateh from the Foreign Office in Downing Street to the Baltielh ambassador at a distant court, intercepted 'on the wiree as it passed through Paris. And it had been sent in the secret British cipher, which the French offi- cials had tranelated simply as part of their daily routine. Unless some undecipherable cipher is devised, the wireless telegrapfh stands to be as. useles for government pur- poses as it promised to ,prove useful, for messages which can be picked up -anywhere are even lose private than are those that can be enbooked only from a line of wire than the opposition must get bold of. But 11 14 can be devised, there is not a- powerof the first clas-s whieh would net give a. fortune for exelosive posses- sion of it. There is in existence quite a litera taro of ciphers -.-enough, at least, to set on the right path the creative genius destined to work out the problem the world of human governanent has sought, from the stratagem of Iris- tiaeus of Miletus, in eirissie Greece, to -the roe -aerobes of Lord -Bacon, who de- fined the three essentials of the effec- tive cipher. "First," said Bacon, "it must be easy to write tend read; second, difficult of deteetion, and, third, void of suspicion that it contains anye secret messege." To -day all governments rely upon cer- tain caphere, which, they declare, are undecipherable, But every ono bf thorn, sinee the time of Lord Clarendon, has endured under the uneasy sensation that its' own, pendia-, private, -alesolutely un- decipherable cipher is, to ibs, astute ri- vals, as eaay to figure out as tante of the. puzzle advettisements of proprie- tary articles:. a Now, who can help Marconi and win a fortune by doing se—Philadelphia North .American. - • Our Own Minstrels.' Timbre—Mist:eh Weikel), kin ye' tell me do diffaince 'ten de late Lyddy E. Pinkum an' a couple of ice pitchahs iu a hospital? Interlocutor—No, Sans; I shall have ta pass that Up. What is the difference between the le,te Lydia E, Pinkluan and a couple of ice pitchers in a hospital? Tambo -e -De one am yours for health et' de uddah an ewers for sickness. Interlocutor—Ladies and gentlemen, while the usher is gathering up the re - Mies of the ilafated man who got that off, the renowned balladist, Mr, Hinick GaLimburg, will fever you with his role - breed song, "I Loved Her Fondly; But She Minded Me a Loaded Cigar." Cost of a 'Possum Dirther. A touriet in Georgia stopped over night at the Palare Hotel, in a little village, and expreesed a desire to taste Georgia 'parasitin, according to the Atlanta Con- etitution. A Whole 'pulite cooked in plewatine Georgia style, with traces on the tilde, was Dittoed before him. "'taro dollars eXtra for the 'possum," said the landlord, wade the ghost, ell110 to settle. "It's Ali outrage," said the guest. "Ws "(arable( to the wily you look at it, ettanger," terld tins landlord, "104 14 took me six nights' ewainst witclird 10 lot& that 'posautn, wben T kotelied hila I kotehed the rheumatism with MM." VAST ARMY SCHEME OF 01:11NA, Frenchman Hears She May Enroll 40,000,00Q Men, A Erenelimen, wire ha.a been Sindeina a study of the Chinese army, warns lat- rope that it is uot inconeeivable that within tell years China thay be 8,1)10 to oppose to the white nations of the world a thoroughly (Wiled and equippet force of 40,000,000 of Soldiers. It is quite certain, lie thinks, that it would. Ware the biggest army in the world—at least .0,000,000 men ready. to mobilize, at short notice, and equal ill Courage'drill tend equipment to any European troops. This 0.000,000 mininumi is providea tor hy present plane, The inCrease to the -maximum figure ineane nothing but a little mare effort—a draft, on the wealth of population which is triviel when spreadeout thin oven so vast an e»ipire. The writer fears that, stimaleted by their own remarkable performances . 10 army Disking up to dole, the Cilium rulers may malse a change in their plans at any time and may do it without taking Europe into their confidence. The new Chaim army had its incep- tion reknit 1889, when the late Mariam] Ma issued an order abolishing the red umbrellas* which the Meese soldiera used to take into the sfield with them. are wee an able organizer, and the sort of soldiers that wereproduce4 under his uumagement were revereledto Occidentals in 1000, what the eapture or the Tu,ku forts took place. ' Fighting Chinese soldiers arevious to that encounter had been little bettor than massaeres; but the defenders of the Taku forts and those of Tientsip and of Chain Hai Kean, armed with modernriflos and lieving Armstrong end Krupp stamen, fought not only wita desperate bravery, but with diseipline. They gave. pretty nearly As good an account of themselves as an equal num, ber of. European troops would have done. When China caught her breath in 1900 she realized thet these were the only sort of troops worth having. Rejecting the plan submitted .by her British adviser, Sir Robert Hat, for the creation of a miniature army of four divisions to be developed in the course, of ten years, the Lien Ping Pu, or council of war, boldly adopted a' scheme of evolution vetrhyi.ch evould seem. stArtling in any wan - It contemplated the creatioa of twenty army corps of two divisions each, each division comprising two brigades of in- fantry. a .regiment of artillery and one of cavalry, a battalion of engineers and a battalion of supply train. Each bri- gade was to be composed of four regi- meoras of three battalions of 300 men eah. A scheme of local. recruiting , was adopted, with a period of active service, of Mire years, to be followed by seven years of reserve with a month's drill each year. The creation of twenty-five sahoels of cadets with a capacity to fur- nish 4,000 officers in the first three years and an annual contingents of 1,600 thereafter was also decreed, and a pri- mary levy of 500,000 men was made. The viceroys of the various provinces were father ordered to include in their budgets. a sufficient tax for the support of this force. No exact estimate of the revenue needed waa to be made, hew - ever, until the Government had 800,000 men in active service and 4,000,000 re- serves. It used to be the way that things ended with talk indahina, but times ap- pear to be changed. There are actually at the present time, according to the French authority, 420,000 , men, armea and drilled in modern style, organized into fifteen army corps with capable officers. • There are no more red umbrellas and no mere banners inscribed with threats before which the enemy is supposed to run away. Every soldieterhas for the time being A Ma.user rifle and plenty of ammunition, which he is taught to burn to good effect. But the Chinese have detised a magazine rifle of their own which they consider Much better than any now in use in Europe, and which is besides the only rifle in the world the mechanism' of, which is an- absolute secret. Six arsenals have been estab- lished. with proper machinery for making this arm. They -are working night and day, and it' is said that they can turn out 3,000 guns re week. A very important detail is that tho new army is regularly paid. A service- able uniform has been adopted for the troops. Zouave trousers are tacked into half boots. Tile soldier on parade wears a neattunic with a bolt, but ori active service he is clad in a flannel shirt, over which he wears cross belts to carry his knapsack and cartridge case. The men are of tine ahysiques and the health in the army is said to be oval - lent. They are as easily fed as the Japanese. They are completely disci- plined, and with the Chinese indifference to death, which has been diepla.yed under the most disastrous conditions, it seems an if they might man for roan prove equal to the best European troops, There is a fair supply of field and mountain artillery, and the supply of Krupp siege .guns is steadily increasing. There are 7,000 eadets at present in the military sehools, and NO pupil officers, as they are called, am receiving higher ihstruction in ordnence, strategy and tactics at four superior schools, A mili- tary academy Nvitich is to occapy some- what the position of our own war col- lege, is being organized at Pekin. The Frenchman estimates that the expense of an army on the beefs of a million active and say= million reserve soldier's will not involve an increased burden Of more than five cents a head on the population of Chinas Evenao poor a people, he thinks, can stand this, and. the Government and people have grown so proud of the army that he sees no hope of any slacking in its develop- ment, "This is the real yelloW peril" is the 0o -inclusion that he thaw% Forgetful Sis. Sieter's Lenten resolutions Every one lute gone to smash; Every ate of her denials Now has turabled with a crash. Days ago oa choeolate eandy Sister munehed to- her -eontent; Later Sister made eonfession She'fargot that it was Lent. Next uhto -a geld party Sister went, dressed in her best; Then another vow was shattered, Sister couldn't steed the teat, For they served such lovely lees • Aed her -plate for inore she senta Later on, Wes told her pastor She forgot that it was Lent. One. of Sister's voWS Was durieg Lent she'd give up &owing gun, But we found beneath the mantel Something ptessed by Sister's thumb, Something sister had been thewleg That hail cost a single cent, When we questioned her, elm told 1.14 She forgot that it was Lent, Wh.y I itecammend Dr.Williarn.'s Pink Pil15" ••••/•• The Particulars of a Remarkable Core Told by Presbyterian Clergy man --The Sufferer Brought Bak From Death's Door. St Andrew's Manse, Cardigan, l E. L., jam, 1908. Though 1 bare meet- been sick my- self,. and Jim not had oceesion to use Dr. Williams' Pink Pins, I thought you ought to kuow of the reputritable cure they have whought in Mr. Olding's ease, - During a„ visit to my home 111 Meri- gomish, N. S., some years ago, 1 was grieved to Dna our next door neighbor and friend, Micheal Olding, very low. "fro a; not expected to live," my moth- er lido:au-ad me, "aud you must go over and see him:, as he is liable to pass away at any moment," "Not ex- Pected to live," that was the opinion. not only of the doctor who atteuded him, but or his wire and family as well. Upon visiting hint myself I Mend. abunaant evidence to confirm their opinion, Olding liad for years been af- flicted with asthmaand bronebitia, but pow a compile:aloe of diseases was ravishing his -system. He had. been confined te his bed for months and .was redueed to a skeleton, Thoegh evidently glad to see me, he convers- ed with the greatest diffieulty, and seemed to realize that it was the beginning of the end. He was daily growing weaker; his feet were swollen to twice their natural size, and the cold haud of death wait upon his brow. "It, is no use," be said feebly, "the doe - ton's medicine is not 'wiping me and tun going down rapidly." 1 prayed with him as for a man -soon to pees in- to eternity, and when I took his hand in parting it was the last time I expect- ed to see him in the flesh. Three years later, while en another visit to my mothers, Michael Olding was seemingly in better health than had ever 80011 Min, fur, as 1 said, be hied always been ailing, In sheer dal- peratiou he lied waked hie wife to get him Dr. Williams' Pink Pine. They soon: began to help him. Ifie eppetite and strength began to improve, and to the astonishment of his Leerily and friends he rapidly leg:ailed hie lieelthe Now, though the Darden of well nigh four score years is upon ldm, e is able to do a fair divas work, and is in the enjoyment of good health, eveu the astluna, has ceased to trouble hira as in former yeara. 'Mr. Olding himself, as well as his neighbors and the writer of We letter, confidently believe that his rescue from the very jaws of death—seeming- ly ep miraculous—le duo under the laming of God to the timely and con- ti»uoue use of Dr, Willienis' Pink Pills. REV. EDWIN SMITH, M. A. Mr. Olding himself writes: "1 ant glad Rev. Mr. Smith lies written you about my wonaerful cure, for 1 coal- dently believe that if it had not been for 1)r. William.s' Pink Pills I would hove been dead long ago. It would be impossible to exaggerate the desperate condition I was in when I began to use the Pills. No one thought I could get better. I scarcely dared hope my- self that Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills would bring me through, but they did and I have ever :since enjoyed good health. Though I am seventy-nine yeas Old, people are always remaking on how young I look—and I feel young. I can do A fair day's work and 1 ani better in every way than 1 had:been for .years. I cannot say too inueli in prarse of Dr. William' Pink Pills and .1 take every opportunity I can to recominend them to friends who are aline 99iaaarrearearseasaaaeasaraea999999991 k Alfalfa Grown in Combination I With Grasses and Clovers Five distinct tests home been made at the College in comparing twenty-one different mixturee in grass and clovers for hay production. One test was start- ed in 1897, one in 1-898, two in 1909, and one in 1906. Evmh of these testa ,have been, completed with the exception of the last one mentioned, \via& will be finished in 1008, Crops of green. fodder and of hay were obtained from the four teats in each of two years, Alfalfa was included in seven of the mixtures. Of the twenty-one different combinations the six highest yielders of hay contained alfalfa—the greatest yield. being produc- ed by the mixture of alfalfa and tall, oat grass. The details of the entire experi- ment will not be presented until after the results+ of 1908 have been secured. The followtng table, however, gives the average annual yield in tons of green ofoodnvdieiretaendof hay per acre of four of the mixtures in the four tests already Mixtures. GeeFodder. Alfalfa and tall aot grass 16.17 olleHay.74 1 Alfalfa and timothy 13.80 4.00 Common red clover aud ' tall oat grass .. 10.77 3,39 Coramon red clover and timothy..........10.99 3.20 Although alfalfa and tall oat grass gave an average yield of 1.2 tons of hay per aere more than common red clover and timothy, itais doubtful if even this mixture will equal alfalfa alone for hay production. Permanent pastures have never oceu- pied as prominent a piste° in the'atgricul- ture of Ontario as they have in the agri- culture of Great Britain. The seareity of labor and the great development of our live stock industry are factors which 'are causing some of our most thought- ful farmers to consider the advisability of securing a first-class permanent pas- ture instead of relying so much on tim- othy for pasture purposes. Fields which are • located long distances from the .farm buildings or which are difficult to work en account' of the presence of steep hill -side, crooked rivulets, low spots, eters, might be. converted into permanent pas- tures and thus prove of great economic value. This arrangement would. not in- terfere materially with the regular crop rotation of the farm. From more than twenty years' work in testing different varieties of grasses and clovers, both singly and in combination, I would sug- gest the following mixture for perman- ent pasture on an average soil in On- tario: Alfalfa, 5 lbsa alsike clover, 2 lbs.; white clover, 2 'lbs.; meadow fes- cue, 4 lbs.; orehard grass, 4 lbs.; tall oat grass, 3 lbs.; meadow foxtail, 2 lbs.; &ha timothy, 2 lbs.; thus making a total of 24 pounds of seed per ecre, These varieties are all very hardy. Some of those used ih Great Britain are not permanent in this country. None .of the smaller growing varieties, such as the blue grasses arid the bent greases, are mentioned as there is scarcely a farm In Ontario in which the Canadian blue, grass, the Kentucka blue grass or the red top will not gray neturally. The varieties here recominended are strong, vigorous growers.'Someef them produce pasture very early in the spring and others later in the season, Most of the varieties are superior to timothy in producing a growth during the hot, -deer weather which occasionally °emirs in the months of Stilly and August The seed can be sown in the eerier spring tither alone or with 11 light sorties of spring wheat or barley. Such a mixture as this when well established ori suitable Land ahould futhish a pasture, abundant in growth, excellent in quality, and per - insolent itt &erecter, Alfalfa. ehoulcl be very carefully test - ad on malty farm throagliout Ordeal°. Its Tarp yields of nutritious feed for farm Wick, itsperennial tharaetse of, growth, end its- beneficial influence on the toil, are all features \via& emnmend it very highly for those farms on whioh it can be grown successfully. There are different ways of laying down a plot or a field to alfalfa-, and we would suggest the following method as one which is likely to give very excellent results. Select land having a elate, inel- low, fertile surface soil overlying a deep- ly -drained subsoil having no aciaity. Use largo, plump seed, free from anpurities and strong in germinating power. In- oculate the seed with the proper kind of bacteria, providing alfalfa has not been grown successfully on the land ia receat years. As early in the sprnig as the land is dry enough end warm enough to be worked to good advanteee, ranee a suitable seed -bed and huinerliately sow about twenty pounds of alfalfa seed per acre from the grass seed box placed in front of the grain drill, and about one bushel of spring wheat or aarley per acre from the tubes of- the drill. Smooth the land. with a light harrow or with a weeder, and 11 14 is vett? loose and rather dry, also roll it and again go over it with the fiarrow or the weeder. As soon as ripe, cut the grain, and avoid leav- ing it on threland longer than neriesseery. Give the alfalfa plants, every opportun- ity to get a good start in the -autumn in preparation for the winter. If for hay, out each crop of alfalfa in the fol- lowing year as soon as it starts to bloons. In curing, try and retain as many of the leaves on 'the stems as possible, and to proteot the crop, from rain. Never mire or pasture alfalfa sufficiently blase to the ground to remove the orowns of th.e roots, and thus injure or possibly kill the plants. If these directions -aresfol- lowed, the alfalfa may be expected to produce large end valuable crops for a number of year, without re -seeding.—• From Ontario 'Government Bulletin ea Alfalfa or Lucerne. • 4 • TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Tako LAXATIVE BROM° Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money it it fails to euro, E. W. GROVE'S signature Is on ktaoli box. 26o. 4 • • CLEARING THE MESS ROOK •••,..a.mr Some of the Unwritten La' ; of the British Navy. In the gunroom mess itself the mid- shipmen are ruled with an iron hand, as probably they need to be, says a writer in the Grand Magazine, in telling the customs or pranks played by the junior offieers on those who have the niisfor- tune to be junior to them in point of standing in the British navy. Those over eighteen—the senior—how- ever, are allowed more privileges than the juniors, among them being, strange to say, the right to smoke. The juniors do as they are told without question or remonstrance. An instance of this is afforded in one of the most curious of all the old cus- toms. At any thne that pleases his fancy it is the cherished prerogative of the president of the mess to jab an or- dinary tablefork into one of the beams above his head. Instantly every junior midshipman or cadet in the room rushes for the door as fast as his legs can carry him, while the progress of the lag- gards is assisted by vigorous whacks from their elders. Those on the wrong side of the table olimb over it in their haste to take their obnoxious presence elsewhere, Even the wardroom hes its pectiliar ways. Refreshments all aroand are ex- acted. from a than who is indiscreet enough tomention a lady's name at din- ner or to make a bet before the King's health has been druhk. Curiously enough tbe unwritten law prohibits an officer from drawing his sword in the mese- room. This must be a relic el the days of sudden and violent brawls, but to -day the only purpose served by the regula- tiou ie to enable the alert to trap the less wary into momentary forgetfulness and the censequeet penalty. aers. Had One Placed, Host -a -Well, Tenuity, what do yeti want? Visiting 13o7—X want some of the tut. key first, but I—I haven't got my other wants claseified yet, 0000404010040.0010441•000000.00 - Almost as 000d. "Have you a college diplomat* "No, but 'ewe several mining eteek certificates that 1 might fraille and hang up as evitlettee flint '1 have been through the school of experiente,a-hWaahingtett Star, Scoit's Emaision strengthens enfeebled mining mothers by increasing their flesh and nerve force. • It provides baby with the necessary fat ti-nd mintral foot' for healthy growth. ALL ONUOGISTat 1160, AND *1.00., 164046401401440901040401404.404.44 (From tize Springville Breeze.) We're &met to gate that Mr. Wren And wife are ba(1; and at tile The ItobiOl occupy -again Tie ir slimmer home ea Maple Leave% rho 'Garden reetaerant reeorte A Utah supply of lingiMotin-l. Iarne--thet falarito of rceorts- 11,18 boughe to rent 00 easy tortes. We learn that Mrs, Early Bee Is tail1 pate lame with froited wing% „. Ye Editor tbanas Cherry Tree For sundry floral offerings. DO Wit cistCru-way a waterapoat Has been a sauce of' active floods, We hoer of rumor owl:ilea-oat Of lame ot Springville's ehoicest buds. en ewe you run across Green LAMM. Don't Neonate- whylie looks so queer. 'Tie may that he's umlergone . His fleet short bairscut of the year, . L. S. Unkind Dedreation. INfm's. Benham—I'm going to give a big party on my birthday, Benham—Whe lbe- invited? Mrs, Benham—Just frientle; Benham—I thought you said that you were going to give a big party.—New York Press. Grammatical Hint, Squaggs—Say„ Squigga, will& le right, orter pay up," or "1 should pay up?" Sgaigge—Why, shortie]. Ray up," of course. Squaggs—That's what I though. How'd it do to -apply it to that five let yon take three weeks ago? -According to Her Observation. Lit—Doesn't it cost a good deal to do as imich roller alcating •at, the rink as you do.? Jena -Newt More cheap skates there than any place 1 know of. Uncle Henry, "Uncle Henry, ewhat is a sociologist?" "A sociologist, iny boy, is a person who can inspect a, garbage can and find enough material in It for a long lecture on the needs of society." Far From It. Upgardson—You smoke all the time; don't.you? Atom—No; half the time I don't smoke at all. 1 seldom touch A cigar between 0 p. mn, and 9 a. ma Masculine Exaggeration, - Mrs. Quhnby—Archibald, do you know anything about these people who are moving in next door? Mr, Quimby—All I know about them is that they are people of some conse- quence, Two men have just carried in the madam's spring hat Rewards of Scholarships. " "He took a full claseleal course at col- lege, did he? Did it ever get him any- thing?" "Well, lie has made several hundred dollars, that I know of, inventing Latin and Greek names for patent medicines," - Had a Monopoly. Hostess (at evening party) --ala \Veer- ius seems to be enjoying himself better than anybody does.' Host—Natutally. Nobody else is en- joying him at all. No Room for Anything Else. ., "Laura," growled the husband, "what heve you taken -all my clothes- out of this closet for?" "Now, there's no use in your narking any flISS about it, George," said his wife, with a note of defiance in her voice. "I just had to have some place where I could hang my new spring hat." Defined "Paw, whet is a philosopher?" "Ile's a man, my son, who can eat sawdust and make himself think it's ice cream." Willing to Give it a Trial-. Sympathizing friend—You suffer from general debility somethues, do you/ Did you even try massage?" Mrs, Skinurierhorn—No; how moon does it cost a bottle?' - Getting Acquainted. - "My dad kb kiele your dad," said the dirty faced boy. "1 don't know whether he kin or flea!' said the new boy on the other side of the back yard fence, "but Ial bet my ma kin outtalk a_ourai." Doesn't Fuze Him. "That new preacher you have is a pretty wideawake young man, isn't he?" • "Yap. Keeps right on preaehin' when everybody else ie asleep," — Cleveland Leader, -------. Three Are a CroWd. "Surely Doolittle doesn't heed two stenographers in his business. Why does lie have them?" 'His wife insists on it, I believe, Just a little precaution."—Puck. •••••••••,.* tAtist.... • A Mixup. Knicker—Did Jones get excuses eon - fused? t • Boeker—Yes; told hie boss that. he had been detained at the offiee, and his wife that he had been up with the baby. Not So Bad. Mr. Subbs (after engaging cook) — Tere's one other thingI suppose you shoula know, Miss Flannigan—my wife is e chronic invalid, confined to her 100111. i3 s lannigan—That's finel 1 wor afeerd she might be wan iv thim cluonie kickers that itr-re confined 4' th' kitchen, begobie—Pnek. • P•wur..1.113..ir Hopeless Oaso. Dill—I lost my silk umbrelle yester- day nt the club. Plekles---Ton 1041 tilt you'll get it baek, won't you? Aren't your initinls alt it? Dill—Well, tome to think of it, there itre grime initiate on it, but they ain't 101110. Somerville Mistral, SNOOPS Now. '1 notitea' rib:served the spotting oda tor, "Bishop Vallows sees the peelmista+ threeseote- and ten yeaia and gots Min fifty better. Well, the world has Wisea up and got a good deal niftier Meth Doe itlaa time—but I'M still Wahl on rat.