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iQuaint Ideas for the Hostess
* To Use at the Hallowe en Party *
if one is giving A, Hallowe'en peaty and
(Imam something lam in the way of in-
Vitation, cut from yellow eardboard tiny
purupkins, and with water color pallets
indicete their eeripes and stem. On outs
Ride letter the hivitation mid on the,
other e grinniug jaek o' lenterieface.
.Anethee quaint Mee is to use cends of
the mini size, with a little blaek witea
thrOugli the air an a broomstick
stenelied in one corner, while in the
lower oppesite corner the witth's bleck
cat erehee his lack mud Waves hie tail.
These little figura eirould be In solid
bliusk.
One (*lever. hostess sent Oat littre
booklet% on the cover of which stooa
gayly painted witch. Allan her was
lettered:
"Worthiest know thy future V
and beneath her were the words;
"Look within."
And iitside was found a litele invita-
tion, whir* certadolo might be construed
ae a part of future good, times.
For a Hailoweesin merd pa.rey the tat.
lies and sore s should be deeoratea with
little pietures (if witeliee and witch meta
The feret prize might be A pack of for-
tune telling curds, and the ocinecilation
brooth in silver gilt of st witch rid-
ing a broomstick. There are numbers
a little silver no-veltios nuude with the
the with for motif,. so the hostess who
telehes to give prizes has her way
smoothed for her.
DECORATIONSTOR THE DINNER.
Fos: e Hallowe'en dinner the centre-
piece should lee of brilliant autumn
leave% with hero e,nd there among them
parched a little owl mule of grey tiesue
paper an staffed with a little cotton,
with two shoe buttons set on small cir-
cles of yellow eaedboarel for eyes.,
At each place there should be a hob-
goblin filled with candy, which may be
bought at almost any candy ehop. The
candle similes should be'of yellow tissue
paper, shaped to resemble 'Leek o' len-
terns, and a grioning jack olantern
head, -cut from a real purapldn, with, a
canal° to light it, should be set upon the
mantelpiece tend banked with autumn
leaves.
The place cards should be in the shape
of litttle brooms out out of eierdboa.rd,
and if the names ate written ba,ckwited
it,will add to the fun.
With the taloa servo fateful cheese
strews. To make them, out long etrips,
of cream colored paper about eight.
Inohee long by ono -half loan wide. On
earth strip write it fumy fortune—sorne
verse of poetry taken from a book of
quotations if you have not the ability
to write an' -using jingles. Roll up the
strips of paper into round spikes, and.
sprinkle each with a feiv dots of red
water cohn paint to simulate red pep -
pec. Lay them on plates and serve,
as if they were real cheese straws.
Instead of having sraa11 •calm with
the ioos, bring in a big oake and let
melt eel aelice. There should be baked
In it p, silver coin for wealth, a sneer
thimble for the spinetor or bachelor,,
and a ring for the next one to wed. The
ices should be served in ioe cups made
to represent red. Apples.
TO ENTERTAIN LESS FORMALLY.
Those who do not wish to entertain so
forinally mity give a Hallowe'en- /1".tY
devoted to the games and chacrin.s o long
• ago. If there is no fear of the spoiling
of clothes, let bobbing for apples be the
game for the men, while for the girls
try this: Hide a sing in a six-ineh heap
of flour on the pastrv board. The gift
1571h0 own bring out ta ring in her lips is
the next 0110 ;to be married:
If this seems too undignified e sport
for modern de..ys tie apples by Tong
strings to the por4ere pole and let each
man end girl try to eat an apple thus
suepanded. Be sure that the apples are
big ones and briglibly polislie.d, as this
makes them much harder to bite.
While this is going on arrange a bean
rue in etnotEer room. Give ezch pair of
• players a .dozen small beanie to be me-
ned on the blade of an ordinary table
knife from one side of the room to the
other and -dropped into a slender, long
necked. V1143. Time each couple, and to
the (maple who does the feat in the
shortest time give a prize--per'haps
box of emends beans.
elk
"Fishing for Fortune's" is another geed
game. To prepare for tide you thould
have a nutubm• of tiny souvenirs, with a,
line of ryhme, it possible, and each sewed
in a little cheese cloth bag, more or less
hell shaped according to yo.ur skill and
with a little brass ring sewed to the
back of oath fish. Many little fevers
will be found in toy shops and among
doll trinkets, There 8.1)611141 be one ool-
ored fieh for the girls and another for
the teen. Let the guests fish ivith long
lines te prolong the fun. Here are some
suggestions for the fever:
geey, all sizes, worth 85c, Satur-
For the men:
.A. doll's mitten, with the lines m
Alas, poor chap, as harodeems as a kit-
ten,
What did yam over do to always get the
mitten?
With a bottion, neeale and thread:
Pea amid you ere too fussy, you will
never /Ina a wife --
But you are now prepared to oew your
buttons on for life.
With a wee automobile:
Here's to the man who owns it tar;
The maidens all adore lain,
It's only the chap with the flying ma -
thine
Who can ;et there before him.
For the girls!
With a couple of bright new penoies:
know that you banker
TO marry a banker.
„AL Willi a. toy soldier:
Here's a (lathing Soh of Mara
&re of oome twenty wars—
fie% be erae.y over you,
.arel I know you'll Wye him true.
With a tiny teapot:
You'll never marry, but don't yeti eare;
You'll have a good tane, and some to
spare,
So pet your pus' eat anti .drink your
CU p of tea,
As emanfortable a splinter as one would
city) to eee,
NEW BETTER THAN THE OLD.
A game of this siert takes the place of
the older pouring of indeed lewd etto
water, or walking bliudfold, to choose
among the three Setueers. The ,firet
these wits eawaysclifficult to prepere and
dangereus, too, for someone was euro
to be blunt, but the latter may still' be
played U aeitrell.
Te choose parteets or supper, (liaise 4
thiek eartent between thedoorway of
two rooins, Mut let the girls in tune each
extend. beer "eft hand through the door,
first taking elf her riuge, The iutni
choose the hand they Mee best. Or tire
game may be reversed and the girls se-
lect their esoorts tosapper by'clurosing
hands.
For the eupper, if the guest e are. not
'too Many in number, a ehafing disa feast
is delightial. Rave awo chafing dishes at
'met, and prepare caleken, ermined With
green peppers, what the restaurants enli
thicken a in king—Ito be served with
Waldorf salad, olive ee and sandwiches
of different sorts—neeking sure that
there are plenty of plan bread and nut-
ter ones. After this, ices, cake, and
bonbons may be served', Chocolate or
eoffee will he acceptable with Me mnenu.
A MAINSTAY
FOR ALL MEN
All Breadwinners Who find Uealth
Declining Should Take Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills.
Thousands of men throughout Canada
are suffering to -day from a deplorable
failure of strength withoot knowing that
they are the victims of -nervous exhales -
don. The signs are plain. The sufferer
cannot keep his mind on work, passes
restless nights, turtle against food and
cannot digest it, feels, exhausted after
exertion, while headaches and fits of
dieziness often adds to his misery. These
symptoms denote thatethe nervous sys-
tem is weakened and insufficiently nour-
ished. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills will
promptly cure because they enrieh the
impure weak blood and thus give nedr
strength and. one to the exhausted
nerves. No 'other medicile can do this
so promptly and so surely.
Mr. W. H. Hipson East Pubnico, N.
S., says: "For a number of . years I was
troubled with violent headaches. When
these spells mime on the pain was so
severe that ,I feared I woula, lose My
selves, At the outset these headaches.
would come on about ,onee a week: I
doctored for the .trouble and. did every-
thing possible to get relief, but without
avail, and as time went on the attacks
grew both infrequency and. severity.
The pain was terrible and with each at-
tack seemed to grow worse. The only
relief I could. get WAS from a hot mus-
tard foot bath and the application of
hot water and ammonia to my head; I
would then have to be led to bed, where
I had to remain until the RUA& passed
away. At this time Dr. William' Pink
Pills were brought to my notice, and
while I scarcely Doped they would eure
me, I decided to try them. Alter taking
a few boxes .I found that the attacks
were not so severe, and I joyfully con-
tinued taking the Pills until I had used
ten boxes when every symptom of the
trouble passed away, and I was in bet-
ter health than I had ever enjoyed be-
fore. It is sevecal years since my cure
was effected, and as 1 have not had a
headache since I feel thee the cure is
permanent. Tills is a plain statement of
my case, but no -words can tell what my
sufferings really were and believe that
but for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I would
have been in my gra.ve, for 'I could not
have stood the pain much longer and
doctors did not do me any good."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by
all medicine dealers •or may be had. by
mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for
$2.50 from the Dr. Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
SMASHED • THE PHONE.
just as he was, sleeping along 'about
40 miles an hour, and never stewing up
for crossings, lit, C. E. Battles was
aroused by somelhody firing a' salute on
the telephone at them head of his bed.
The little clock on tate dresser recorded
1 a. nI. "This is the 'municipal lighting
plant," said a yoke. "Woeld you mind
looking out of the wtaidow to see if the
street lights are hurtling there on your
Corner'?" Anybody but a doctor weuld
have slammed the receiver into place
without waiting to hear another word.
But, being used to getting out of bed
at all hours of the night, the doctor
event nver to the wihdoer and. looked
out. Tim lights eec.ted tem be sticking
to lersiness sante as ustiel.. Having
alagnosed the ease of the lights as
practically nornial, the doctor pit -a -
patted back to the tolephiene to make
Ms report. "They're all right,". tumid he,
lust that tersely. "Voty well, then,"
came back the voice, suppose yeti
blew 'eni out!"
The next day- the telephone malt came
around. and pritthed op the phone so
'that it leas' just as good es Cleveland Plain Dealer.
-
A plai* duty is like a plain person.
It it edemas the least attractive.
AloimasAimAti
MAllit IN CANADA
Put-se—Whole SOMe•-,ZCOttOrttiCal /II
It it wed by all the halo Bakers and Caterers, as
well at by the best home bakers and cooks. Food pro- -
ducts that are produced in dean Factories are best.
E. W. Ifilit:AXIIV 004,114TD*
70110xtre. Ortle
"WAS FADING AWAY"
A Young Wonian—Soarcely
Tbirty—,Semed to be Dy.
jug on lieFeet,
OR. 'HAMILTON'S PILLS CHUM
"I think it Should be tlie duty .of the
schools to teach children liow to keep
well," writes Mise Namile J. Neyden,
a well kuown and bighly esteemed reel -
dent of Bristol. "Ignorauce of the laws
of health awl the use of improper rem -
cake destroyed my vtgor and lett ine to
the verge of invelidiene I, was as a girl.
ruddy and drag. Nothing seemed tO
affect nie uutil I was about thirty.
Then gas began to form in the stomach,
suffered with bloating and a general
failure in strength eet in. If 1Welet
upstairo my breath hurt. My system
was very irregular, and until I grew
pretty bud 1 didn't pay much lieeit to
iny condition. Then 1 got blue, worried
all the time, wakened in the night and
couldn't get to :deep again. None of
the medieine I took helped nie. One day
I Was reading of a very interesting ease
like mine cored by Dr. Hemilton'ts Pills.
X Wok the same treatment. It was
just right—didn't physic me to death,
but took hold of the weak, sick, puts
Of my system and set things right. It
Seems as if Dr. Hamilton e Pills liave
made me young again and edi my color,
spirits, vigor and heelth of former days
have retureed to stay."
Every girl and woman should use Dr,
Hamilton's Pills regularly. They help a
woman in many ways. Beware of the
dealer who asks you to take an interiQr
pill on which his profit is larger then
on Dr. Hamilton's, Sold in yellow boxes,
25e per box, all dealers, or the,Catarrho-
zone Co, Kingston, Ont,
• -so
THE CODE IN KANSAS,
How to Get Liquor In a Dry
Town.
(Topeka Correspondence New 'York
World.)
"Can I get a gless of 'beer or a little
schnapps?" asked an eastern man re-
cently of a friend, just aftet he arrived
in a certain Kansas town.
"Sure," was the reply. "Sure, if 'the
signs are right."
To get a drink or a cigarette in Kan-
sas during these parious times you have
to know the proper sign of distress and
signal it to "someone who knows."
'Here are a list of the mut commonly
used signs.
Two fingers up with hand turned in,
a bottle of beer,
Left arm extended, thumb down, fin-
gers straight out, drink of whiskey.
Two thumbs up, fingers closed, half=
pint whiskey.
Twirling thumbs with fingers folded,
two bottles of beer. .
Finger in the ear, highball,
Pulling the lobe of the right ear, gin
dicky.
Hand over the heart, whiskey and
lemon.
Crossing of leg above knee, standing,
royal gin fizz.
Crossing leg below the knee, silver gin
fizz.
Both arms extended, Patsy Connor.
Finger touching tip of the nose, Man-
hattan cocktail.
Hands clasped behind back, . Dutch
soda.
Shaking hands with yourself, cham-
pagne.
Whirling fingers around temples, or
making a motion like hammering, sigar-
ettes or coffinnails.
Some funny incidents have happened
since this sign language came into com-
mon use.
Here is a story the truth of which is
somewhat doubtful, but it is told that a
certain official in Kansas who has a lot
to do with the law's enforceerant stop-
ped in a drug store in a Kansas town
some time ago. His ear itched, and,
naturally, he poked a finger into the
tantalizing auricle.
In about two minutes he got a high-
ball—and in that way learned that there
Is a sign language in Kansas.
• Educating the Family.
Go you to bed, now, Olga, and get you a good
• night's rest;
Needed -we'll be to -morrow, and both multi
do our host.
Summer is will near ever—the days will soo!I
rix rabeuactoowue aow
the children, and start
them of to wheel.
Dorothy. she'll,be going a part of every ear,
Out to the kindergarten to teach her how to
May:
Never need to worry at all to choose her
fun—
Even a at of the playing is by the teseher
done,
TorMny. he is in sixth grade; you hardly
would suppose
Children could over learn half the little rascal
knueaorw.si
Thirteen separate studies he had, or very.
And I am told the number will be increased
tees ewer.
M the grammar school; the attar
Mug little sage!
Knows some several times more than I did
at her age;
Knows who the's going tti marry and leaves
It tete to learm
Acts and talks like really it was none of my
A. concern.
Johnny Is la the high School. It's living life
anew
When that brilliant darliug gtyec Inc an hi-
tervlew:
AA he comes In to dinner, his airs are all
so fined
Seems as if We'd invited some duke or Mine°
to dins.
Lioners off to college—he's one of ..their
smartest smart; •
Re has been studying football, and knows
It all by heart;
Also the Greek and Latin, which no one need
condemn.
But which, if he did not study, 'twetzld be
the Ivories for them.
Samuel, he's a graduate—learned all thOY
have to ten— •
Now again he is with me and not so Very
welt.
Do not forget, my tell* it Yeti
amen—
Haim his breakfast ready, in case that be
wakes at ten.
As for their father and niother--weave had
mune years ago
Ail the 61a -fashioned loonies oa things We
peed te knew;
But we are bound that aro Chtidken, Whet -
ever their haute fate,
blest dhalito*.enn cducatien and have a Up to
--1V111 Carleton, in eeptember EVetywhere.
Bell Ringer for 70 Years.
Mr. joho, Skituter, Aged 86, esoiated in
'the ringing of twie4seals on Ittoadclyat
bells last Week hi eelebrittlen 6f his
birthday. He has rung at all the prin-
cipal events of the period at Eseetor Ca-
thedral for OpWard of setae -sty yearti, in -
eluding Queen Vietorist's cormattiori itt
1838, her wedding in 1880, both her jilbi-
lees sued Xing Edwarcl'o bitiali and coron-
ation. /fie is believed to lie the oldeet
ringer in the eotiOtry.—Londen Stend.
Ord.
• Up t� Arthur,
" 'Mt' is long, end time is ileetingl"
.I Murmured the spinster. prialt
"If Ile cleash't pop next -time we're,
Meeting
ill drop him and take /int lu ' "•
C01111$112,RED
Yog ma Painlessly retileve ally cern, e ter
hard, soft or blotting, 14 applying l'uttsam'e
r- JH°
Cern Extractor. It never Puma ienVeli no
containe no reeds ; Is h areal eat because comma)
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Me. Cure gueranteed. Sold Dy all eruggists
Welt Of healing gime tom, balms. Fifty !mare in
Ree, bottles. Iteiuse substitutes.
PUTNAM'S PAINLESS
COIRN EXTRACTOR '
Hale, the welaknown melt expert,
says the white-fleeleed peach is coining
to be in greet demand wiimover quality
le sought for, and, RS it" is more haeile
than the yellow-fieshea, it is better ler
the grower in a cold climate. lie farther
says the Greensboro is the earliest goorl
peach; Waddell requires rich feeding and
severe thinning; Outsupieo, the ntost do.
Belem -flavored path we have, requires
fievero 0341011g; Belle of Georgie, good
ugality, handeetile; Ellieelete handsome,
eir inferior quality, but the best seller
and a sum money-maker; Crosby, yea
low-fleelied, but hardy, eau get goothelaed
1,11dt by Web feeding, and exoes,sive
taltudug, has extra, small pit, fine -fla-
vored flesh; Hill's Chili, late, bat a fine
keeper, neeae excessive feeding end vied
thinning.
Some fruit growers believe that the
most appropriate time to plant an apple
terthard is in the fall, from about the
lest of Cleteher till the middle of Novem-
ber, when the ground is loose teed moist
enough ot week well, but not wet and
sticky. At that time the growingteaeon
is over and the trees will hardly .be dn.
jured at ail by the change from nursery
to orchard, The roots* that have been
out in digging and, preparing for teed -
ting will callous over, and the ground
will Settle firmly about the roots, and in
the spring the true are ready to awaken
into new life without a check to their
growth. .
A. packer declares tilde the cost of
pieking a barrel of apples onyery large,
high trees Is 20 cents per barrel, while
on lowheeded tree,s the cost does not
exceed 7 cute.
Judge Fred Wellitouse, of Topeka,
Kan, 'holds the title of "Apple Xing of
the United States.". He owns over 1,000
acres devotee( to apple trees, and hog
inede apple growing a life study,
The latest estimate is that the Oape
Cod eranaserrY crop will amount to 200,e,
000 barrels this year. Suceeessful boge
In the Cape Ood vicinity are valued. at
$1,000 per are, although made from lard'
which in its natural condition waa near-
ly werthlees. It was conunon swamp
lend, covered with growth of wood and
bushes,
Eggs are used for other purposes than
food, Cracked eggs are generally sold to
bakers, confectioners and cheap res-
taurants. Niko printers buy from
5,000,000 to 8,000,000 dozen eggs a amir
In the United States, mostly bought in
New England markets. It is claimed that
one biscuit firm in New York buys 4,000
dozen eggs a week, or snore than 200,000
dozen a year. Coffee roasters, manufac.
tuners of photograph supplies, cracker
and biscuit limiters and the chemical
trade are estimated to use in the Unit-
ed States 80,000,000 dozens a year. The
makers of patent food preparations, tan-
ners, liquor refiners and dye manufac-
turers need a great many eggs ia their
business.
A Maine dairyman has found the
keeping of hogs and cooverting them
into sausage a profitable side line. He
hu erected a sanitary slaughter house,
with all the up-to-date conveniences,
and with an aniple supply ,,of both hot
and cold, water. The piggery is also
constructed onplans which insure the
highest degree of sanitatien, and the
pigs are kept clean And- healthy. The
sausages are pecked in oiled paper in
oue-pound boxes ant in bags and find a
ready sale to city customers at 'very
attractive prices.
• -
The best plan for ridding the fields
and pastures of modems weeds is to eut
all of them out this month, before they
go to seed. If no seeds are ,allowed to
forria, the crop will at least be reduced
next year. Many of the weed pests are
biennials, blossoming and -seeding the
second year, hence by keeping them
from going to seed the second year they
will die and that will be the last of
them. The Canada thistle belongs to
thir class.
Hardwood trees in the forest are at-
tacked by many enemies. The mistletoe,
the "witches' broom," add the southern
mosses are all parasites that weaken
and even destroy the trees. But by far
the greater number of diseases of trees
are causea by fungus growth. Some
fungi destroy the leaves, some ret the
roots and some girdle the bark. Chest, -
nut orchards have been destroyed in
many places in the east by a kind of
fungus which girdles the bark and kills
the tree. Then there are many kinds
of-TfIngi which rot the wood of standing
trees, with no outward sign until after
the value of the tree has been. destroyed.
The whitealeart rot is the most dan-
gerous of these. It attacke the oak,
walnut, hickory, beech, maples and many
othet trees. The heart wood of the
tree is changed by the action of the
fungus into a light-colored, flaky sort
of substance which, has no strength and
can no longer be called wood. Such a
tree may /tee for many years, even
though badly diseased, but it has no
value for timber,
The great secret of the driermous
yields 3mide by the French farmers lies
In the high state of oerfection to which
they have brought their top soils. • The
top soil can be enriched and built up
until its possibilities of production are
many thnes what they may be at the
time improvement is begun. •The capac-
ity of the soil is limited only by the
ability of Man to enrich and cultivate it.
To retain° the greatest retern in
text spring's crop of asparagus roots,
remove the seed berries while they are
yet green. This will take time. The
foliage must not be seriously interfered
'with. The usual way, hOwever, is to
cut time stalks, heat the ground after
they have ripened, remove them from
the ground, menure with eompose ntaa-
iire dig into the earth lightly 111
the spring.
WINTER LATERS.
Itt selecting hens and pullets to be
kept over for -winter layers, be careful
to get an even, regular lot, well proper -
timed, strong and vigorteue Pullets
that have laid well the lad year should
Motinue to lay -wet the coming wietet,
if they have bah -carefully eared for,
The notion that only pullete in their
first year will be profitable has been
largely set tondo ae the, result of ex-
perience,
But little profit MI Mlle from hens
that have passed the second year of
laying. It seldom, if ever, pals to
keep them over the third winter. They
will seldom lay eggs enough to pay
their keep, and they will • never lee
worth more as nuirket peultey than they
Will be this fall,
Hens freeruently hide their tests
away to escape insect vermin of the
poultry hoose. This occurs More fre-
quently At this sewn than any other
Ilene, Late broods of this kind can
be succesefully grown if they are sep-
arated amid kept apart from the older
fowels. If conipelled to fight for an
existence under foot of older fowls and
chicks they -will fare but badly, and
will ad grow as they should.
POULTRY R.A.ISING PATS. •
How many /mad of poultry should
be kept on the average hundred-aere
farm, and what thoulet be the groat
reveilue?
Oe 'aundred laying hens are not
too many, and they should produce a
gross yearly evenue of $800.
The hundred hens should lay 800
dozen eggs in the year. Fifty dozen
eggs tveuld be required to produce 300
chickens eath spring, From the chick-
ens 60 of the best pullets would be kept
to replace 50 hens each fall, and 60
hen would be killed off each year. The
neck woulel therefore consist of 50 pul-
lets and 60 year olds. The former would
be the winter layers, and from the
lat-
ter would Ise taken eggs for hatching in
the song. The yearly receipts would be
filmic tip approximately of the follow-
ing items:
no dozen eggs at 20c a dozen,
$150,
50 one -year-old hens at 60e, $25,
26 breeding cockerels at $1,00, $25.
225 fat chickens at 500 each, $112,
Total $312.
Counting the chickens before they are
hatthed? No this is counting the money
after it is earned.
POULTRY HINTS.
The ground under the roosts is a
good place to dump ashes through
the summer, for mites cannot live in
ashes or dust,
When hens learn to drink skiramilk
they will consume a 'large quantity ev-
ery day and convert it into eggs.
Keep bran in which some bone meal
and meet is mixed wilere•the poultry
may have access to it at all times. If
they are not getting "bugs" enough
they will balance up with the bran mix-
ture.
Don't let the supply of (eater shell
and grit run short now. Many bowel
troubles begin from indigestion ceased
by lad of sharp grit. If no other
is available, pound op old dishes for
grit.
Never Id, a fowl that has any sick-
ness run at large. The ailment may
not be contagious, but it doesn't pay
to take any chances.
If fowls must be shut up at night,
see to it that they have plenty of air,
and let them out at peep of day so
that they may do their foraging early
while the bugs and worms as well as
the early birds are astir.
DOUBLE THE INCOME- PER COW.
Don:anion Department of Agriculture,
branch of the Dairy and Cold Storage
Commissioner.
Several instances are on record. in
Ontario and Quebec where members of
cow testing associations, who are sys-
texuatically weighing and sampling the
milk from cult individual COW 111 the
herd, have been enabled to inereaae the
yield of milk per cow tremendously.
Mere weighing and sampling, of course,
has not increased the yield, but it has
been the most important factor in the
general improvement; it has shown that
,lots of cows were not worth keeping; it
has shown that others could profitably
consume more good feed; it has Shown
the owners that they must study each
cow to make her do her. best; it Inas
ehown that inost cows will respond
readily to better eare and attention, and
will earn more money if given the op-
portunity. It means good money in
any farmer's pocket if he will bays a
little patience and act on the informa-
tion gained from the records. Gee man
is now getting from his twenty coma
an income of $480 per year more than he
wag three years ago. .A. smaller herd. in
1904 brought in -only $23.80 per cowfabut
jut year the owner received nearly $58
per tow, in other words he is now get-
ting more than double the previous M -
come per cow. C. F. W.
• o m *
WANTED NO LAND ATTACK.
(Cleveland Leader.)
John W. Titcornb, of the United States
bureau of fisheries, Said recently of a
fishing excursion:
"I once niade a fishingexcursion to a
stream that flowed behind a lunatic
asylum. As 1 sae Mid smoked on the
bank, evatehing my cork, I notieed a
Strange object floating dewo toward me
With the current. 1 UM that it was a
man. Be had all his clothes on, and he
was swirruning in the strangest may.
I verily believe every part of Mot Was
submerged but one 110Strilt
'1111' 1'bolted, "-whet tire yott doing
there?' '
"Ile lifted his head from beneath the
• Mutate, and, then, before drawing it
%leder again, he eitapped:
submarine l" --Cleveland Leader,
iSh--sh! Doit't interfere! I'm a
What's a Gontreirian?
eXact definition of a gentleman
has been tried many times, never per-
haps with entirely satisfactory results.
Little Sadie had never heard of any ef
the definitioin, but elle managed to
throw it gleam of light on the
albeit one -touched with unconemouts
cyniciam. The word was in the spoiling
lesson, arid I said:
"Sadie, what is a gentlenianr
"Pieftee, MOM," the answered, "a,
gehtlernen's a tram yott dorat know very
Aallohit* er.e*
-skiei hie wit. niakee
hie money go a long way. 81.)5118,—VeS,
1" underetand 1ia le planning trip
ensued the world.
The study of Vitili thiera is laborious
Idleness.-- German.
A D?iNGEROUS THING
Drunken men houli Avoli fhe
Railway Tracks,
(Technical World Magazine.)
A short time ago a newspaper de-
spatch Mated that a eitizea of Portia ma
Ore-, being in mi bibulous condition at 1
a. no, and therefore "afraid to go home
in the dark," went not and reelined 011
a spur traek at the yardsof one of the
railways. Ire had. jut got comfortably
asleep on his hard bed, waen it switch
engine "Itiekeil" some boe (mot on the
elm he had chosen ma lodging, and he
was killed.
It is somethieg out of tite ordinary
for people to choose the tracks or yards
of railways es lodgings. And yet the
incident was not so Ivry exception'.
For nothing is more emumon in this
country than for people to trespase 011
reilway property in diverse ways mid
to be killed while doing so. The other
day the president of a vailway mul
leading merchant were huichiug together
at a club in Chicago. Various railway
matters were being talked about,
"After all," said the merthent, "the
worst indictment against railways of
the United States is contained in the an-
nual statistics of accidents. There is
hardly martian so daegerous as ttevel-
Beg on an American railway," -
"Oh, yes, there is,' nnsweerd the rail-
way president, "There is something a.
great deal more dangerous. That is ties-'
Passing ou a railway's property, If I
remember correctly over to; pea* are
killed while trespassing on the property
of American railways to one that is kill-
ed while, riding on the. trains."
• The merchant thought this could not
be correct. The oewspapers, he remark-
ed, constantly were filled with barrow -
Ing oteries of wrecks in which numerous
travellers lost their lives. The railway
president replied that in order to enable
the mercgant to substitute exact infer -
motion for vague impressions, he wduld
send aim a table shearing the numbers
of persons killed on railways while trav-
elling and while trespassing for five
years. The table wlach he sent was as
follows:
Passengers Trespassers
Killed,
Year ended June 30, 1903 355 ,6,000
Year eucled June 30, 1904 441 '6,105
Year ended June 30, 1005 537 4,865
Year ended June 30, 1906 359 5,381
Year ended June 30, 1007 610 5.612
Total for five years . 2,302 25,963
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POISON HINT.
• To prevent accidents with bottles con-
taining poison buy a dozeh tiny bells
and every thne a bottle of poison is
brought into the house tie a bell to the
took of the bottle. Even in the (lark the
bell will tinkle its warning.
CURE FOR CROUP.
One teaspoonful of vaseline given in-
ternally about twice a day.
1111.181.aA1UD PLASTER.
Trim the crust from a thiit slice of
light bread, then sprinkle it thickly with
ground mustard. Spread a thin cloth
over the mustard and dampen with vine-
gar or water. Your plaster is all ready,
with nothing to clean up after malting
it, and mach better than the old sticky
batter plaster. A piece of bread well
dampened is better as a poultice than
either flaxseed or slippery elm, end will
neither dry out nor sour so quickly,
FOR SLEEPLESSNESS.
To those ho stiffer from sleeplessness
Repeat the first two verses of psalm
127: Except the Lord build the house,
they labor in vain that build. it; except
the Lord keep the city, the watchman
waketh but in vain. It is vide for you
to else up early, to sit up late, to eat
the bread of oorrows; for so he giveth
his beloved sleep. Repeat slowly and
thoughtfully,
HEALTH HINTS.
A bag of hot salt relieves neuralgia.
It rests you, in sewing, to dotage yout
positiou fregetintly.
For dela, in the head, nothing is better
thati powdeted borax, sniffed tip the nos.
That a testsponful of ground mustard
in st dutifut of wenn water is it prompt
and teliable emetic aud should be re-
sorted to in ease of poisoning.
WASHING MADE EAST.
Seep white elotli well and put iti
eold Water over uight to soak. Tide will
Tooleu all dirt and requires no rubbing,
1feet boiler. of soap ands early next
Morning, Rinse elaboo, put in water,
mid boil about twenty minutes: Remove
from boiler, rine well, bine, starch, and
hang out. Tour clothes Will be nice mut
White with ont one-third the usual lab.
or.
BABY FOOD.
Make it thin piste with two table.
apoonful Of Boer and boil it in a quart
of water fee fifteen minutes Irma paste
In water while it 'le boilieg). Then skint
half pint of cream off of it quart of,milk.
To tble Proem add one and onalialt plats
of the Above gruel end two tabk'spnon-
Iu1 01 stigma if istilk suer
Ravages of toosumptioe
ALL siert RELATIVES HAD
DIED OF CONSUMPTION
In the year 1890.18 yens ego, Mrs, C.
$,Cosner. of Belle We, N5,ws, in anod
coming:4 All her relatives had cted of
consulnplionssedume was every indicatIon
that she was going the wee way.
Attila ;Welber b mbar() svprested to try
Psychine. The dotter -alio etterdeel said.
PsYeldno was worthlers; but it effected a
wonderful cure. Eighteen yeas After Inc
letter beaming eine August 14, 1908, Mrs,
Caw says, "1 em better dugs I have been
for years. My lunes hem not troubled me
sincel took your treatment. Fly physiolee
told me I could cot take a bettor tonic tbsin
PSTCHINE, and I recommend 11 10 all who
are suffering from Lung Trouble and Gen.
mal Debility."
For aale by ell Drarattis See, & St per liettlr•
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LIMITED,
TORONTO
PSYCH INIt
PRONOUNCED SI -KEEN
...1A•Ao
can be obtained scestittite four table-
spoonfuls of it in the piece of the gran.
Witted. Tuts amount is for twenty-four
hours, one-quarter of a pint to be given
every two and onelialf hours as a feed.
If the baby wou't retain the Milk, feed
it the plain greel mixed with the sugar.
This is an old muses recipe and has
stood the test of time, bringing little
ones beck to strength end health when
all other food e have failed.
FOR INVALIDS,
Beef joice--Take lean round steak.
Heat it slightly in a pan over the fire,
then squeeze In, a wenn lemon squeezer.
Season with a, little salt, Serve in a
colored. claret glass, as invalids often
object to beef juice on account of the
color,
Baked Milk—Put the milk in a jar,
covering the °peeing with white paper,
and bake in a moderate oven until thick
as cream. May be taken by the most
delicate stomath.
Glyeerine and Lemon Juice—Half and
half on a piece of absorbent cotton it
the. bese thing to moisten the lips and
tongue of a fever parched patient.
0111011 Gruel—Boil a few sliced onions
in it pint of fresh milk, stirring in a lit-
tle oatmeal and a pinch of salt; bell un.
til the onions become tender and take
at once.
SPRINKLING CLOTHES,
If for any reason aou have not sprink-
led your clothes- the night before you
wish to iron them, try sprinkling them
with boiling liot water. Use a clean
whisk broom, as it sprinkfes them much
finer and evoner than by dipping the
water al your hand.
As soon as your clothes are sprinkled,
and tightly rolled up, put on your irons
to heat. By the time they are hot your
clothes will be ready to iron as nicely
as if they had laid over night. Always
iron the linens last, as they require
more dampness.
PERSPIRATION. STAINS.
After taking off a garment wet with
Perspiration, drop it in cold water. Let
it soak a while, then rinse it well and
dry. Perspiration turns white goods yel-
low, discolors colored clothes, makes
them tender end causes the goods to
split.
Putting away damp clothes makes
mildew.
GLOSSY EFFECT.
it is advisable when washing, to put
a. little gum arable in the starch. Dis-
solve half a teaspoonful of the gum ar-
able In boiling water, and -when cool
add to the starch. Linen, when starched
with this mixture, will have A beautiful
gloss. It is the only. method by which
the same exquisite finish can Ise ob-
tained on linen goods as when first dis-
played for sale in the store window.
REMOVING CLOTHES:
When washing, to avoid scalding tinge
ers in catching the clothes up over the
clothes stick in removing the elethea
from the boiler use a pinching clothes.
pin. Catch clothes with this and throvi
up over the stick.
TO KEEP OLIVES.
, It is readily noticed that when a large
bottle of olives is opened and the con-
tents only partly used the remainder,
though left in the brine, become com-
paratively tasteless. If half an inch
of olive oil is poured ori the top ahd
the bottle well corked the olives will
keep their flavor. • •
e ---
AFTER
DOCTOR S
FA
ED
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
ble Compound Cured Her.
Toronto, Canada.—"I shall endeavor
to describe to you how X felt before I
began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's 'Veg-
etable Compound. X scarcely knew
whet it was to be well. I had awful
bearing-dovrapains
and usually before
myreonthlyperiods
I suftered terribly
and had to go to
bed. I was not able
to walk across' the
floor the pain was
so bad. X doctored
for a long tirne, but
the doctor's treat-
ment did not do me
any good. I gave up
all hopes of atter
being well again
until one day myhusband saw the Com-
pound advertised in the paper. Ile
decided to get Dle a bottle, and X am
.thankful he did. X tad net taken one
bottle before I began to feel better,
and X kept on taking it until now I 411I
a different W0111411. It also helped me
during maternity and childbirth. I
ean thoroughly reeoramend your 'Veg-
etable Compound to any woman who
ill afflicted with female troubles."—
Mrs. I. M. TiVion)ATA, 188 Nassau
Toronto, Canada,
The sueeess of Lydia E. Pinkbam's
Vogotabte, Compound, made from roots
and herbs, is unparalleled. It may be
used with perIett eOlifidenee by women
who suffer from displaeements,
thflain-
mation, ulceration, fibroid tumors,
Ir-
t'cgnlanittes, periodic pains, backache,
bearing-doern feeling, flatulency, indi..
trosttil, Cm, dizziness, or nervous prostra.
VAItENVI31,1,. „„
(By the Bev. IL T. Miller.)
My freqeent speech with God dis-
persed nay care,
I knelt so close to litm, with reverent
p 1 per,
awole.;
The iewerd glowing glorified tbe hour
0 dwelling place of hidden spirit -
1 preirssietniade: band of death and Paaa
riglmt on,
Iust as I press the liana of posing
Over the door -step and under Porte&
.Tfreoftwein;
Welcome the greetings which Will
never end.
The height of noblenees within my
The Mir of grand procession urge ma
Expasno,,apowers outstrip my feeble
Profoundest music drowns my infant
Beamwsng'
ille, Ont..
...14..••••.••••••••
PRAYER.
Our Heavenly Father, we thank
Thee for this wonderful message of
Thy love to the children. of men. We
think of a, world that has everywhere
been blighted and xnarred by sin and
yet the object of Thy redeeming love.
We think tit Thy great unspeakable
gift of eternal life to men dead in
trespasses and sins through Jews
Christ. Enable each one of us to lay
hold of Thine offered gift and to
realize more fully the greatness at
Thy rich mercy and the fulness of
Thy graee. Help us all to walk
worthy of our -high vocation 48 Thy
dear children and partakers of the
divine nature. May the divine life
in us be nourished aria strengthened
so that more and more we may grow
in the likeriees and spirit of Him
who is our Life. .stmen,
THE EASE OF DUTY DOING.
Only those really know the ease of
living who never try to dodge the
hard things in life. POT the _easiest
time to do a hard thing is wlien it
first makes its appearance. If we
would double its difficulty we need
only postpone it once; if we would
make, it four time as hard, a second
postponement will insure this. And
if we would have the drag and the
nightmare of shirked duty always
with us, so that life itself becomes a
chronic burden we must simply make
our postponement of our hardest dut-
ies permanent., Tribulation lies ahead
for any one who will not grapple his
hard tasks promptly. Joy and
strength and exhildration of ever-in-
creasing power are assured to one who
seeks the ease of instant duty -doing.
We are hardest on ourselves when •
stvheipt.ty to save ourselves from hard -
441.1•11••••••••••••••
•
DOUBTING- CASTLE,
(Alexander WhytetD. D.)
Every schoolboy lias Giant Despair by
heart. The ronglt i•oaa alter the niea-
dow of lima, the stile into By -Path.
Mearloive the night coming on, the thun-
der and the lightning and the waters
rising amain, cilatit Despair's apprehen-
sion of Chiestien end Hopeful, thole
dreadful beel in his dungeon from Wed-
nesday morning till Saturday night, bow
they were famished with hunger and
beaten with a grievous crab -tree cudgel
till they were not abie to turn, with
many other sufferings too many and
too terrible to be told which they en•
dured till Saturday about midnight,
when they began to pray, and contiuued
in prayer till almost break of
Jobs' Bunyan is surely the best story.
teller in all the world.
"All hope abandon," MIS the writing
that Dante read over the door of heil.
And the two prisoners all but Abandoned
all hope when they found themselves in
Giant Despeir's dungeon. 'Only, Clhri$-
tien, the elder man, had the mod
tress because their being where they
now were lay mostly at his door. All
this part of bhe history is written in
Bunyan's very heart's blood. al found
it hard work," he tells us of himself,
"to pray to God bemuse deepair was
swallowing me up. 1 thought I was
as with a tempest driven away from
God. About this time I did light on
that dreadful story of that miserable
mortal, Francis Soira, a bock that Wag
to my troubled spirit ail salt when rub-
bed into a fresh wound; every groan of
that man with all the rest of his adieu
in his dolours, as his tears, his prayers,
his gnashing of teeth, his miming of
hands, was as knives and daggers in
my soul, eepeeially that sentence of hie
was frightfla to me: `Man knowe the
beginning 61 sin, but who bounds tlie
issues thereof" We hever read any..
thing like aoara's experience and Grace
Abounding and Giant Despaer's dungeon
ju the books of our day. And why not,
do yea thiyik? Is there lees sin among
us modern men, or did such writers ne
John Bunyen overdraw and exaggerate
the sinfulness of ainet Were they wrong
hi holding so fast as they did hold that
death and hell are the sure wages of sin?
Has divine justice become lese feartul
that it used to be to thou who rush
againet it, or is it that we are tee much
better men? Is our faith stronger and
more victorious over doubt and fear?
Is it that our hope is better anehored?
Whatever the reason is, there can be 110
duestion but that we walk in a leberty
that our &there did not always walk in.
Whether ot no our liberty is sot reek-
ink:Intro 41ViinaistiliteeTtok)rttollert sivsootd"bethl'et;
better sign of no if we Were better ac.
queinted with doubt nod dejection and
diffidence, end even despair, is a ques,
HMI it WOUld only do us gooa to get to
oureelves. When we properly ettend to
the.se nuetters we shall find out that,
the holier a man is, the more liable he
ia to the assaults of doubt tied feee and
even despair. We have whole pulite of
despair, so deep wes Devidfs emu of
sin, so high te-ere his views of God's hos-
e1044 and joetiee, ana so full of diffi.
dew was his wounded heart. Aria
David's Son, Om -our sio wee laid liven
Him, felt, the muse and the horror ei
iiie state se nineh that Hie sweat WIN
itt 4T011S Or blood, and Itis cry in the
dareuess wee that Ilie (rod bed forsaken
Aeil wimen our spirits are %roundel
with our ghee ae tlie spirits; of all GAl14
great sainte have always been wounded,
ea tnm ahall fee' ourseives more at
home with Davia mei with Asepit, witt
Spira eve% crud with 13unvan. Deeptir
ie lot gooa, but it is infinitely better
thsu indifference. It is 5. e mina eiy.
nit." ears ',111111. "and :in olitervation
livinity, tag t where doepair has
1.11,111,A0S, 1)0A11/111MOI) 11:1.4 slit 114
tali n1011,01)49. T111% 114T,Ol1iev4 of the roi•
Her are huleed more terrible. but 1 be
securities f the latter are far moos