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11A,KINGTR1 TRAWIIERRY PVJfl
Isancl well enriehea with fresh *testae
manure the previous spring -will melee
an ideal patch for petting out etraw•
berry Plante irt August or eerly Septent-
ben
Some pretty gromid layer plente with
a Tti. ground sticking to the rote if
peasible,leaseewe 2 lat to 3 feet apart;
plants IS to 20 iffelii4411. thdaows-
DISFIGURED WITH
ERUPTIONS ON FACE
Body Covered With Bunning Sores,
Could Not Sleep from Itching and
Pain, Cross and Fretful, Tried
Fifty Remedies Without Result,
Cured in Nine Days by CifJeura
Soap and Ointment,
130 Champagne St. eiontreal, Quebec.—
A little chicken manure atararaoaes „ have a Eve -year-old boy wbo was suffer.
bons worlsed around the plant when ataaa fang...ea:at the doctor field was "la
growing, and all runners cut as feet ais grereatea liody was ail
they epepar, will help to make large covered wim running soma
plants, It le neeeissary to cultivate rout The trouble started with
hoe frequently. In late fall, when the pimples and opened up Into
groond freeze, cover the plante With ores. Of course scratching
coarse straw stable nioartre, end throw made it worse. The ertua
hay or straw over thes when heavy tions appeared on hie face
freezing weather arrives, and disfigured him awfully.
The boy could not sleep at
In spring when danger of heavy
aaesec,b
freezing is over, loosen and take a little • . . night from the itching and
of the over away from the taants so as Pain; and I 4I1 not know: what to do with
to give them air an a eitance to grow hen. It mule him cross And fretful. If I
through the cover. Allow nough of have tried one. I bave tried fifty remedies
e
without result. At last I got samples of
the latter to remain to hoop the gamma
Cuticula, Soap and Ointment, and after
well thaded front hat sun and drying
winds, as large berries need plenty of wing them two days 1 nodeed a change.
then bought a full-sized cake of Cutleura
:moisture io the ground and a dry coy. bop and one box of Outieura Ointment and
er to lie on. Pull out the weeds by I used to give the boy a hot bath daily
hand in the spring, as they appear. using Cutleura Soap freely, and then applied
it le doubtful if a soil can be found the Outicura Ointment. He had suffered
Ma will be egnally well fitted to all three months with the horrible (Beam be.
varieties. A deep, rich, sendY loam fore I started to tete the °talcum Soap and
lets been mere geuertaly recommended Ointment, and nine days after the boy was
than any other, and is, all thimps con- cured and has not been troubled since.'
siaered, mobably the lest. Still, with (Signed) E. Cioutier, Dec, 12, 1911.
a very little expense, a light mai or a Caticura Soap and Outleura Ointment are
heavy elar may be bream:lit into a on sold by druggists and dealers everyiviiere.
dition to vow abundant crops a fine A single set is often sufficient. Liberal
fruit. sample of each mailed free, with 32-p. Skill
Some varieties of etrawberries yield Book. Address post card Potter Drug az
hese on a soil in whieh clay prodomin- Chem. Corp., Dept, 40D, Boston, 11, 0, A,
atcs, saul others, deumnd a light rich
Rand. A deep soil, Whether naturally
light or heavy. is one of the regaisites
demanded by the strawberry. Where
1 he soil is Paturally very wet, it may
be mem ary to underarain it. But smelt
easee ere not oft e lamina. As a gen-
eral thine deers libellee- will render
suitable the soil on n11 nearly all farms.
The very fomulation of suceess 15
thorough preparation of the soil. Such
a slovenly svetem es epee plowing and
harrowing will HOW Bello a successful
bed. it is not only necessary to plow
the geetind but it must aleo be crow
plowed, flea wheelit ie not natitrally
Sleep anti frieble, it eberial be sin:son-
e deo the depth of at hetet 1(1 inches. •
Andrew S. Fuller, one of the best, etc -
time authorities, mi' e wad: "I do not
believe that there is one aere of strew -
"berries in a tlinneana cultivated in this
country that Yields over cme-half that
it woula if the ground were property
prepared before planting." This ahowe
ethe in portance of doing the work well.
lt is better to have less acres and a
better system than four times the acre-
age and the work done in the usual
menner.
The i trawberry boil should be so situ-
ated that it will be open and airy. In
suele locations there is less danger of
' the tete spring frosts injuring the bl OS -
cone.
ily plenting the very earliest varie-
ties in a warm situation, ail the latest
e cool one, the season may be eonsid-
erably lengthened
Tt is important in many seetions of
the country to protect the pleas dur-
ing wilder. To a greet extent; the
emcees of /natty of the large growers
is due to the proteetion they give their
beds during the winter.
The embryo fruit buds are fortned
within the crolvn of the plant- in auts
amn, so oily sudden change frortt heat
to cold will greatly weaken, if not en-
tirely destroy. these buds. In _such
eections of the country where the
ground is covered the entire winter
with snow no other protection is re-
quired . It is the continued freezing
and thawing that does the damage.
The lace of coveting the plants is
not to keep them from freezing, but
merely to prevent their being affected
by every little change of weather. For
this purpose it covering of straw, hay.
leaves, or any similar material to the
depth of an ipch or two, may be all
that is needed.
Frozot plants -Diet thaw out in the
elude ere less iniered by frost than
those *exposed to the light. It is claim-
ed by some thet protection retards
the bloceelleg • of tele iante, making
crop later hi ripening. This, to a cer-
tain extent, no doubt is true. But the
fact remains that protected plante come
forward more rapidly, -when they do
start, than unprotected ones, and white
the lost time may not be fully made
up, there will be but a very slight dif-
ference.
. FARM NEWS AND VIEWS.
If summer pruning a the peach is
practiced at all it must be done with*.
the utmost care. About all that it is
advisable to do is to thin out surplus
shoots on young trees anti head back
vigorous leaders. which lend to make
trees unsymmetrical. Limbe that are
cut during the growing season start
growth from several bude, thus forming
bushy tops. Sometimes the error is
made of trying to thin out the top by
summer running, and the result is a
thick, bushy top. much )ess desirable '
than the original top.
Clover crops encourage the deep root- An Englishman in travelling through
lug. Of trees: they make the fall and Ceylon was the guest of a dockyard of-
- tteaAing operations in the orchard. more ficial at Trincomalee.
eMaavlaittee, and the improve the Op
"The :dinner was excellent," he, says,
steal conattiott oil, "but when it was about tall over I was
One acre of corn well grown and put
startled by hearing the wife of my host
In the silo will furnish more feed for
the cews than can be abtainea by any tell the native servant to place a bowl
of mak on a deer -skin near her chair.
other manner of handling the soil.
When cut in the"Althoult she epoke as calmly as if
milk and eurcd, oat giving an ordinary order, knew at onee
land pea hay is moat palatable. and nu- there %las a snake somewhere in the
tritious. room, or they prefer milk to anything
All the growth and thrift that can be
eneouraged and maintained during the else. As a hasty movement might have
f
inetant certale death, we all set like irst year of the colt's life insure a'
etronger and better horse, statues; but, for ell that, my eyes were
A tow should boom free :maces to all inspecting every took and corner, with
peep under the table. However, it was
the fresh water she craves. and this is
Ant until the milk was placed on the
espeeially true from the hours of 4 to
aeeteskitt that the snake appeared. And
7 in the efternoon, for if she has her
t .n to our amazement a large cobra
own way she will drink a very large
ed
itself from my hostess' ankle
proportion of the amount she needs dur-
tote lidea towara the bowl, when, of
, Ing those hours. •
course. it was immediately killed,
11 it is necessery to work the mare
"Ilut, just fancy the nerve of the
that is nursing a colt, she shonlit not
woman, though she fainted when the
be worked too hard. It is well to ve-
thing lay dead on the floor. How =say
!ember that she is not, as atroug as if
could have remained motionless in such
she bad uot to furnish nourishment for
the foal. Give her the light work and eireumstaneesl"
mufficient time to do it.
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MILK PRODUC I Anaemic Mothers
Here is Relief !
Book Any One Can Have
for the Asking, You Quo EurichYour Worn.out Blood
end Quickly Renew Your Health
With Dr, Hamilton's Pills,
A Vel y comprehensive Balletin water
the above title has just been lamed
from the probe and. forms No, 72 of the
regular series of bulleties of the Experi-
mental Fouts.
Us author. IL IL Griedale, direetor ef
Dominion Experimental Farms, het: made
milk production a subject of special
etndy ane experiment for many years
- and has embodied in this bulletin the
most valuable of the information ob-
tained.
A.s suggested by the aubtitie (Crop
Rotetions, Dairy Barns, 13reeding EairY:
Cattle, Feeding Care and Management of
Milk (ow) the eubject of Milk Prothro -
tion is net as simple as might iippeer at
first glance. A. maximum output of
milk is- dependent upon many factors',
Ana the author'a endeavor boa been to
treat of these ae fully, clearly and sin- Sufferer of Twenty Years States Dr.
• ply as possible, so that the bulletin Hamilton's Pills are a Real Cure
I e.aa'it remember any time during
may be of value to the general farming
- community, both in aidieg them to make the past twenty Years when my heart
a start along correct lines and also.as , wasn't eating. If I bent over, dark
problems which occur front time to ep s would come before my eyes,
and it seemed as if all the blood in
, Ihne.
The subject of Milk Produetiou is nee 'body wanted to meet to my head."
: treated, under the following heads: Thus opens the letter of Mrs. Enoch
a Spry, of Putnam P. a, and .CO0.
! 1. The farm chosen. the rotatione fol- tinuing her intereeting stateanent she
: 2. The breed of cattle selected. and nays "Work or exertion made my
s lowed and the crops groWn,
heeat beat terrible, and going upstairs
, the breeding methods followed. caused such shortness of breath that
' 3. Stables and care and management It fairly frightened sue. I tell you how
- 4. Milking and. eare of milk. -what a .great cure Dr. Hamilton's
I feel toeday and you can underetand
. of the herd.
6. Feeding methods and. rations. Pild have .made. I feel strong
; -Cutler No. 1 are discussed queetions enough now to work like a man, as
of prime importance, which arise before for going upstairs on the run, it does
the would-be dairyman takes up the not bother me at all. I eat and sleep
, problems of dairying proper. The loca- as any well -person ought, and as for
tion and area of a farm best auited to dizziness which used to frighten me
This calculation has been made count- his purpose, the nature of its soll, the so much, It has entirely ellsappeareel,
ing three heads, containing 100 seeds to twist suitable crops to grow and rota- Dr. Hamilton's Pills are a wonderful
it head, allowing for two crops a year tions to follow are treated of, Suitable medicine. They helped me, and I
a work of reference an those dairying edit
and assuming that every seed grows.
lf the cows are to do their best, It
is important that they do not lack feed
at any time during the year. the flow
of milk is permitted to decrease mater-
ially, it is very difficult to bring it
back to the point it would have reached
had an abUndanee of feed been au,pplied.
The effeets of meagre feeding last for
some time after liberal feeding has been
restored. Cows poorly wintered will not
do as well the following year. When
the cows fall off in thetr milk flow be-
cause of lack of pasture feed no amount
of feeding will bring them back to
where they were before.
Many farmers lose one-tenth of their
oat eroPseach year without realizing it,
for that amount of damage may easily
be done in a field of oats without at-
fecting the appearance of the field to
ally marked extent. Yet this can be
easily prevented, either by hot water
-treatment of the seed. or by soaking in
or sprinkling with formalin. This Is a
non-poisonous substance, a solution of
gas in water, like ammottia. It is also
knoWn as formaldehyde, and is sold by
most ' druggists or may be procured
through them. Add one-luelf pound of
formalin to 30 gallons, of water and im-
merse the seed for two hours, or
sprinkle thoroughly and let the oats
stand. in it covered pile for the sante
*hue and the -oat crop will not suffer
from smut. Potatoes ale° can be freed
from scab if the ground is not infected,
by soaking the potatoes for planting in
a solution twice o.s Strong as for oats.
Prominent specialists claim that spho
• ach is the most precious of vegetables,
on account of its medkal and strength-
ening properties. It is excellent for the
liver, and AS a consequence freshens the
to twenty-five inches of mercury, We
Whieh the individual exhales. A auetion
meek for eitting over the nolo and
=mat cOnneetS by rutilem Wine alth
the vacuum and the water.
Latta one ha* attetuptee to derive his
air supply from thie apparatus, he lig
unable to appreeiate how eimple(10
affair is the natural :mutter of air get-
ting. In the Bret place, it ie eetremely
easy to fill the luuga with air when no
obetacle intervenes, but when one inuet
pull against etx inehes of water the
• breathiug is truly labored. Exhaling by
machinery le no less complicated, though
a great deal easier, Lor one breathes
int.) half-inch tubas having a vaettunt
pull equal to twenty to tweuty-five
inches of mercury, which insures rapid
and complete emptying of the lungs.
For people with lung eapaeity,
equelly with easel baying weak lunge,
the deviee is said. to he invaluable, for
its eontinued use in dosses of fifteea to
tweuty minutes twiee a day incieesee
to
it remarkable degree the eapaelty 01
theee oi•gaus. it also is of great value
for persons whese work keeps them
. bent over e desk all day, serving to eor.
reet the evil effecte upon the lungs of
sedentary labor.
ratatione are given tor all parts of Can- know every woman that mos them
ada and a diagram is given showing will have comfort and good health.
aerangemente of fields under o. three and Refuse anything (altered you instead
four-year rotation. The diagram also of Dr. Hamilton'a Pills •of Mandrake
shows a good arrangement of the farm and Buititerniet, 26e per box at delig-
buildinget, rune and padaocks. gists and storaeepers, or the
2. The breed of cattle chosen will be Ciutarrhozone Co., Buffalo, N. Y., and
readily admitted to be an essential fee- Kingsltion Canada. -
-1
tor to success. The author is convinced,
MOUNTAIN AIR, .- .
however, from his- experience, that there -,, •
is 00 "best" breed and says, "Generally ,
speaking, the best breed is the breed the —
British Invention Supplies Its El.
man likes best." Several breeds are men-
tioned which would, be likely toprove foots to Invalids.
suitable where the milk is shipped to a Get your mountains by machineryt
cheese factory or to it city, and others
given where butter is to be untoufactur- That is, if you cannot travel hut diode
ed. The character of the farm aud the of miles to get them and their wonder -
abundance of forage will also affect the ful effects. for it is not the quality of
breed chosen.
A brief account of ale various breeds air at 3,000 feet, scientiets say, that
benefits people with lung troubles, but
known to Canadian farmers follows: the quantity, the rareness of the: atinos
The herd having been established, the There requiring strenuoue effort on the
method of keeping it in a high state of part of the lungs to keep the systen
efficieney no.turally suggeats itself. This eupplied, and the exercise involved
is discussed from o.11 points of view; strengthening them jusit ae boxing
Pure-breds vs. grades, the bull, the ilairY ekes lor big biceps.
calf and the heifer, with notes on the The English device in question eon
feeding and care of each. Judging the sists essentially of two parts -0. closet
dairy cow is also treatea at some reservoir through whieh the indiviatut
length. •breathee, inhaling against the weight 0
Under (3) Stables and. Care and Man- four to six inehes of water, mid a
agement of 'the Herd, the construction vacuum or suction equivalent to twenty
nd • til ti f ti v t bl is tak-
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NEW FALL FA.SHIONS.
Autumn Styles Are Exceedingly
Picturesque.
( By Maybelle Mortimer.)
The autumn styles are exceedingly
picturesque, but they do not show
many startling changes from the sum-
mer modes,
Gowns are caught up either in front
or back so that they will accentuate
the so-called natural figure which Is
flat in the back and slightly rounded
from below the bust to knees in front.
All the velvety pile clothes will be
worn much and the wool velvets are
particularly beautiful. The French
call them "peau de peehe" and in truth
they, are as velvety as the "skin of a
pea° .
Tailored gowns will be worn more
this winter than last but instead of the
conventional shirt waist the Russian
blouse effect in plaids and bright
•
colors •
or brown skirts.
Black promises to be the most popu-
lar of all colors for tailored frocks with
brown and dark blue comiug next.
Young women will wear plaids but
they must be worn with great discre-
tion to give it chic effect.
Fur will be worn more titan ever;
evening gowns as well as street dress-
es being profusely trimmed with it.
All kinds of fur will be used and as
. the higher grades are so expensive as
to be almost prohibitive the cheaper
grades will be very popular even with
the best dressers.
Hats will ba.larger and turned back
from the face—a rather trying fashion.
The "slash" will still remain with
us. All tailored skirts will be slash-
ed somewhere about the hem. Shoes
and stockings will match the gowns
except when black is worn, they one
may expect to see fancy hose with
1 black low shoes.
Fancy waistcoats will be worn much
with dark coats and skirt and belts,
Sashes will be seen on almost all
• g°T1liTeis.fellow :who knows it all doesn't
s
1 always get along. Many a man is sure
he is right, and then goee ahead and
a len a on o le cot s e
en up and certain principles of building
indicated. The necessity of abundance
of air and sunlight are shown and meth -
ode of obtaining these essentials indicat-
ed. nether on in the bulletin, a special -
section on the Ventilatiou of Dairy
Barns embodies in full the author's find-
ings on the subject.
In Milking and. Care of Milk will be
found advice on the economical and
complexion. A well known chemist has'
cleanly handling of that produet, intend -
proved that spinach and yolk of egg aro
ing care of utenelle, milking machines, -
proportionately richer in digestible and
brushing washing and clipping of cattle,
assimilable iron than all t ie most re-
nowned ferruginous remedies. Its great ale.,
Lnder Feeding Methods and Rations,
value and growing importance are shown
the whole subject of feeding the milk
in the feet that spinach le already an
cow is taken up, what, when and luny
active ingredient in several new and
to feed being fully discuesed. Following
; this is a. section entitled "The Philos-
- ophy of Feeding," in. which the question
in gone into in more aetail and in a
more scientific way, although so treated.
as to be readily understood by Vara
' Tiltee*Ik" ous "Feeding Standards" that is, the
amounts of protein, carbohydrates and
aagaTe at'
itor . fats required for maximum production
and the amount of each in various feeds
CeelalaY YOV IlakT are given along with inn:rut:dons on the
S-31 1 making up of rations from feeds on
hand which will conform with these
standards.
Its "Some Notes on Feeds" those most
commonly used by dairy farmers are
taken up as to their palatability.
Stable Hygiene and the treatment of
some of the more common troubles to
which dairy cattle are subject is dealt
with in part 0. A list of remedeis likely
to be required is given and. also brief
notes on some diseases.
The results of twenty years' experi-
mental work with dairy cattle at the
Central Farm follows. - These will be
found to illustrate and justify the eons
elusions drawn in former sections.
The publication is profusely illustrat-
ed with diagrams and plates, and is pro-
vided with a very complete index.
It is now being issued to the Experi-
mental Farms mailing list. Those not _
on this list, who desire a copy, may ob-
tain it by addressing the Publications
Btarlavraie.11, Depertment of Agriculture, Ot-
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Here's the Latest Ours for Your
Trouble.
The latest rentedy for obesity has
been set forth by Dr. Galish, it German
physicien. lie claims one of the main
causes for an increase of weight is the
late dinner hour. Food taken in the
evening and then followed by the repose
of the night is the best thing in the
world for the forming of adipoee tissue,
and those who lament their increasing
weight eliould stop that particular fornt
of pleasure the first thing.
His treatment in a dietary is as fol-
lows: 111 the morning the patient must
take a cup of tea with butterea toast,
and if he is too hungry to wait for
luncheon he may take en egg and some
bread and butter at 10 saclock, Aet 1
o'eloele the meal tonsists of meat, vege-
tablas, salad and a little eempote. In
the afternoon some coffee with a little
white bread. and. butter. And in the
evening there is only a small piece of
For the first two or three tleythe
cows of it low grade is become calves A Lookseller In New Yorkpurchase,' breo.d and butter.
in their ealfhood are not properly near- a lot of books at a sele. Finding see- patient Will feel extremely hungry iu
e
islied aria otherwise cared for. Give e dat seteaof Chaska Dickerra' works in the evening, but this soon passes off end
heifer a bad start and it is quite certain this ethers be sheltie& to make a special he stets into the habit of eating more
that she will never recover from it, mho on them. so he Isis all of them in at the lint two meals, this being eoun-
Conetipation in pigs does much darn- the large show window '4:101 the follow -
age by preventing the usual .gain for ing legit in very large letters:
the feed 00030010(1. A )ittle Imseed oil "Charlet Dieketts' Works Au Week for
0:001 with shorts will eounteract tins. Font' Dollars.'
Feed plenty of salt and ashes. .Ait Italian who had drifted down that "MY Maid," said V011y, holding out
Some out who lute gotten right aown way walked up 'to this window. Read. that exquisite member, "iti a good
to figures says that elle dandelion seed, ing The sign, lie said: "Dese counteee deal smaller than. yours." "Yeti," Aid
lit 60 yelimi will produce enteigh seed to allee wrong. Americana bo work ze Mabel. "I an see that at a &tee.
fill a etfing bf freight tees so 101Ift that week, zee MX: otte, two, tree, fa, five, 'Mat flag HaatOald goval Y611,11141 kis
It will teach around the wotict 40 Unice zist—aist days Lo for aoil" wayl toe tight for fileat-41,1data
does •the oroug thing.
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- severence you ctn probably make out s or 6 of them. To 040 person who con make out the Wrest number we win
give the BUM of One Hundred Dollars. es the Person making out thp sesoutt Lngest number the sum of bitty
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' fourth largest number the sum ot Twenty 1)0 0)0, hhould two persons send answers equally correct, the hist two
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Stst three prizes will have to be divined, (each receiving S000m. Should four persons send equally correut answers,
the whole sum of Poo.00 wilt be equally divided (eash reselving $.50.0O). and so on In like proportions, provided
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Mdrest. CANADIAN hiRDECINE Dept 21, srozerant, Wk.
This Canine Hawkshaw Can . .
Sure Jump Some When He's
Hot on a
teraeted by ex:stelae in the efternoon.
It is claimed for Dr. Galish that las
patients loise one or two pounds a week.
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TOADSTOOL TESTS,
Knowledge of Fungi Best Protec-
tion Against Poison.
Every year many poisoning cases from
muehrooma are recorded and. most of
them are traced, to the eating of -mine
of the umbrella -shaped fungi which have
been purchased front persons who do
not know the poisonous varieties from
the ones which are edible. In many
eases email boys anxious to make a,.few
-pennies have gone out into the fieble
and gathered the peculiar fungous 'Amite
and carried them to the street corners
in the nearest cities to sell them for the
beat price, they could obtain.
Among meet people the name toad-
stool is rettrieted to the poise:lona
species of fungi, ana that of mushroom
to the edible kind. alas is knowq to
be very unsatisfactory, because it is im-
possible to tell except by trial whetheh-
A particular mushroom or toadstool is
1)018000423 or not. A few toadstools are
extremely poisonous, a considerable num-
. her are slightly poisonous and the ma-
jority are what the scieutiste call iuno-
cent, that is, riot poisonous. bonie of
the innocent species are edible.
"How can I tell an edible from it
poisonous toadstool?" This question ia
often asked officials in the 'United
States department of agriculture. Scient-
ists oily there is only one way to tell;
*1451 18 by studying toadstools ana be-
coming o.s fanilliar with the various
kinds ma ono is with the ordinary plants'
of the hill and- theforest garden. The
various tests which are familiar to the
people of some seetiona of the country
are generally unreliable. One of the
most common of these tests is the so-
called silver test, which consists of the
placing of a silver spoon or coin with
the mailroom while cooking in the be:
lief that the blackening or the failure
to blacken will determine -whether the
fungi are safe to eat or not. It bas
been found out, however. that both pois-
onoue and innocent epecies of mush-
- rooms will act alike on silver. and Hutt,
therefore, the test is of no value. Some
people think that if the outer skin of
the top of the toadstool peels off read-
ily the species is edible.
This test is also unsafe, because some
poisonous speciea also will peel. Test-
ing by tasting, a dangerous method, is
els° common in scene parts of the coun-
try, the belief being that poisonous.
species are bitter or peppery stud dis-
agreeable o.s regards flavor of the raw
flesh, and consequently the taste test
(Mos no certain way to distinguish the
poisonous from the innotieut or edible
toadstools. The presence or lack of a
milky juice uhen the toadstools are
broken is thought by mime to determine
their non-poisonous poisonous char-
acter, and the present of inseets on the
fungus is also used by some. people tts
indieation. Tbese and other tests,
however, are known to be equally use-
less, according to pathologists in the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
The only -certain method to test toad-
stools is by eating them, and this pre
-
cess le tedious and is not recommended,
especially to beginners. The best meth-
od, hetet' Lists say. is to learn by the
F experience of others and whenever the
opportunity offers to study the fungous
growths 111 the field.
Housewives who are fond of inutile
Criminal s Trail • • f • .•
100111d P.ts food At essnues OT condiments
are advised by Vuele Sam's experts to
purchase them whenever possible front
men who have cultivated the fungus.
The cultivation of tondstools is now an
established •intinstry in met parts of
the country: when mushrooms are
purchased from re7tular denims who
handle only the ctiltivated produet A
careful honsewife tot only sure of
getting the edible kind. but usually may .
proeare mashroom which is of more
delieate texture and of more. agreeable
flavor than the kind purchased at hap-
hazard straornt unknown dealers.—Wash-
. 03,—Aribvewaeuosottwoop-7---7-'
ul'AtHA VON HOCHWACHT," A GE RMAN SHEPHERD 1300, OWNED
BY BENJAMIN H. THROOP, OF SCRANTON, PA., MAKING A NINE
FOOT FENCE WHILE TRAILING A CULPRIT.
of a <Roue he had for twenty-five years
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The
Housekeeper
OTTAWA MYSTERY
Police Have New Theory
in Trurlk Murder.
Did Victim Meet Death in
Card Quarrel?
(wawa. Sept. 21,- •• Following up a new
theory that Abe Itubeuetein, the book-
maker's sheet writer, whose deaa body
wee finuta beside a trunk in the cellar
.if A vaeant Tam'e here two weeks t go,
wee slain. during a row at a poker
mime, met that the trunk was the pro-
perty of one of the players, the police
now have begun to treat the owner of
the trunk back to the place wheetee
met bave etarted for Ottawa, The
trtutk 161 ono made in the United States,
anti it bears a new Canadian meta=
'label, showing that It wee brought
through the port of Windsor as per -
1;01(111 baggage.
The first theory entertained by the
pence, that Rubenstein WOS murdered
atter a fight over a eirl among a crowd
of uegro race track Ts:Rowena wee com-
pletely thrown overboard when the half
Amen or more men and womenwho.
were -arreeted on suspicion or as mater-
ial witneeses were released from cuetody.
lee police are said to have mph
evidence in eupport of their latest hypo -
dusk. Their reconstruction ne the
mime is about like this: Itabenstein and
others arranged a game of poker. One
of the party volunteered the use of his
munt, eithei• at a hotel or boarding -
hon -e, for the game, ana thither they
repaired and played amicably for some
time. Rubenstein's winnings, however,
were steady and considerable, and some
silence remark by one of the pla.yere
ieems to 'have stirred suspielon esstinst
him Which led *0 a (mama. and tlen to
A general row, dining which lathenetein
was strnek on the head and knoeked
down. Thinking he was dead, they
tbruet his body into the trunk belonging
to the 1111.11 occup,yin,,a the room, where
icatit from strangulation reoulted. A
' key to the vacant store was seettred,
and wizen tlte opportunity arose the
trunk woe removed, plaeed in the store
eller and the body taken out, evidently
with the islea of taking the taint: away
egain. Something, hnwever, frightened
the travellere away before they hed
eompletea their task, eo they Imrried
beek to the lintel and to bed.
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TO LAY OUT CAPITAL
Some nice sandwich fillings may be
made out of peanue butter with ripe
pimenta; sardines made into a paste,
white lemon, juice: and jelly mareit with
stoned and ohoppee raisins.
To make caudle, beat up an egg with
winegiaaeful of eberry, and add to it
a pint of fine hot gruel, Flavor with
sugar, ntitmeg and lemon peel.
Use round corset lacing for patlaing
scallop embroidery. No extra stitching
or basting is eeeded. Fasten the lacing
to the ntaterial where you begin but'
tonholing.
Hard water steins can be removed
from, the bathtub by felting equal parts
of soft' soap and whiting, Apply with
a soft rag, wash with warm water and
polish :with chamois, The tub will look
like new.
When baking pies requiring a atttle
thickening for the juice, mix the needed
amount of flour with the same quan-
tity of sugar and sprinkle overtly over
the contents of the pie before putting
on the upper crust.
A cooling lotion for sunburn and
freckles is made with six ounces of
rose water and two drams of tincture
of benzoin.
To remove tea and coffee stains from
linen rub glyeerine well in them and
then wash out in the ordinary e ay.
To overcome the odor of stale eigar
smoke in a room. born coffee grounds in
the centre of the room.
In winter time, drop a tablespoonful
of Balt down the waste pipe of the kit -
Oxen before retiring at night. The sale
prevents freezing and often saves a
plumber's bill.
Hard work will not spoil the 'hands if
this semple rule Is followed: After
washing, rinse the hands in clear water
and rub them over with (1 piece of lem-
on, rinse again and rub over with glycer-
ine and rose water.
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A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY
An eminent scientist, the other day,
gave Ida opinion'that the most won-
derful discovery of -reeent -yeare was
the discovery of Zam-Buk. Just think!
4.4 soon tie a eiugle thin layer of Zeta-
Buk 1 npplied to it wound. or a, sore,
sueh injury le insurea against blood
poison! Not one specie*: of microbe has
been found that Zam-Buk does not
kill! •
Then again. As soon as Zam-Buk
is applied to a sore, or a cut, or to
skin disease, it stops the smarting.
That is why childreu are eech friends
of Zam-Buk, They care nothing for
the eeience of the tbing. All they know
is that Zam-Buk stops their pain. Moth-
ers should never forget tide.
Again. As soon as Zam-Buk is ap-
plied to a wound or to a diseased part.
the -cells beneath the skin's surface are
o stimulated that new healthy tissue
i3 ()Highly formed. This forming of fresh
healthy tissue from below is. Zant-Buk's
eceret of healing. The tissue thue form -
e(1 is worked up to the eurface and lit-
erally casts eft the disseased teem above
it. Title is why Zam-Buk cures are perm-
anent.
Only the other day .afr. 'Marsh, of
101 Delorintier eve., affontreal, called,
upon the Zam-Buk Co., and told them
that for over twenty-five years be had
been a martyr to eezema. His hands
were let one time so covered with sena
that he had to fileep in gloves. Four
years ago Zam-Buk was introduced to
him, told in a few months it cured hint.
To-day—over Uwe year's after his cure
Natural Figure Frock
Design for Fall Wear.
Paul Poiret, who is perhaps the man
••••••••••••ont. ••••••••••
Government CommissiOn for
Ottawa District.
Ottawa, Sept. 20—It is stated to -day
that the commission to be appointed
by the Dominion Government to draw
up a plan for the sytematic develop-
ment of the capital district will probe
ably be composed as follows: II. S.
- Holt, Montreal, president of the Royal
Bank of Canada; R. Home Smith, Tor -
most responsible for the present rash- onto, general manager of :the Nation.1
ion. of large waists and "natural" flg- al Trust Company; Frank Darling,
urea. is sending out some typical Pole- Toronto, architect; Mermisdas Lap-
orte, Mayor of Montreal from 1904 to
et ideas in his fall designs.
• 1906; the Mayor of Ottawa; the :lay -
The young woman who likes in- . or of Hull.
dividual things can follow this clever ' These gentlemen, it is known, havo
Frenchman's Ideas with the sure : been invited to join the commission,
knowledge that she -will be clothed ar- ; and the coming week will reveal whe-
tistically, arid if she can carry out ; they they have accepted. They are
the individual ideas of this dar- I. all men accustomed to big undertak-
ing designer she will have gowns , lege, and several of them have given
that will look well at least a year I
i special attention to city planning.
from the time they are made. i t - t ,
- THE. SAGE ESTATE
7
At Van Courtlandt Park, N. 1".,
'Where the exhibition of police dogs
took plate, a man was presumably
knocked senseless with a brick hurl.
ed by another. "Pasha" was sent out
on the trail. Taking tip the scent front
this briok which he discovered, the
dog got the trail and aeon caught the
fegItisha
The nine -feet fitness which the dog
,
leaped while on the trail WM the --he ie still cured, and has had no trace
highest obStael0 placed In the way of of any geturp of theeezema!
the dogs, and '.'alta" alone ueeeed-
All druggists; eel' Zam-Buir at 60e
e
box or we will sena free trial best it
ed itt clearing it. Considering that fun '
yon send this advertisement and a lc.
ly ten thougand people were present stamp (to pay return poetage). Address;
at the exhibition and that theyZant.Buk Co., Toronto.
cress -
the trail left by the supposed culprit, Take r>gnizanee of the various move -
ed. and recrossed tho field over 'which ---- - V : / --
led, the deg Performed reauirkable ments Of the earth, a person taking a
feats and stateunded the visiting petite thrtiee:mile stroll hes travelled 86,263
officials from othermil
cities. ....
s,
The illustration Films a frock of
white silk with blame. dots and rich
hand embroidery with Russian blouse
of ohampagne che,rmeuse with a loose
velvet belt,
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Seaweed Maes Stylish. Suits.
•
According to late scientific reportss
the time ie not long distant when sea-
weed well be offered by fashionable
dressmakers as a Naluable substitute
for velvet, sake, linens and muslins.
Already in Australia a cloth is being
made from the same weed, which dia
fers, however, a little from our so-
-called seaweed, It is extracted from
the bottom of seas, lakes, and flyers,
and is thought to have undergone for
long periods of time a certain chemical
action in the depth of the sea.
Again this has been used in English
factories—eXperimentally, of course—
to see if a substitute cannot be estab-
lished for our present manufactured
goods, and it is thought as soon as the
materials is passed through a whiten-
ing solution it Will bo made really
Wearable.
It is known it takea eertain of the
deep, rich dyes well, arid'great Miff-
denee is placed in its future useful -
• netts.
, In Labrador and many of the cold
countries it serves a double purpohft
a clothing and food. ,
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New York Financier Left
$64,411,218.
New York, Sept, 22.—The first c.fficial
figures that show the amount of. the
estate left by Russell Sage, the finan-
cier, who died on July 23, 1000, are con-
tained, it developed this, morning, in
Paper's on file in the county clerk's office
in the suit brought by the State of Nev
York against the Mercantile Safe. De-
posit Company, in whose vault Mr. Safe
had deposited many million dollars'
worth of seettrities.
Mr. Sage is shown by the papers to
have a gross personal estate valued at
$04,411,218. Ills real estate ia appraised
at $1,045,800. Mrs. Margaret Olivia.
Sage, the Widow, received $032503,800, on
whielt the estate placed a tax. of $835, -
AK The reet of the estate went to
twenty-eight nephews, niecee, grand-
ntpliews ana grandnieces of afr. Sage,
each. receiving $25,000.
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AVIATOR BEAT 'PHONE NEWS.
Paris, Sept. 21.—Aviator Gilbert
flew front Paris te Reims, a distance
of 100 miles on Saturday, In 66 min-
utes. He arrived at Reims before the
news of his departure could be tele-
phoned from Paris, as will be easily
believed by those who are acquainted
with the French telephone serviee,
Henry Farman struck the ground
heavily while flying with letme. Dorty
as a passenger at Eta,mpes to -day. The
machine came down in a bad way, and
Farman had his. leg broken.
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PRINCESS SOPHIA'S FUNERAL. •
liodieberg, Germany, Sept. 21.—Only a
smau number of persons, °Mealy tbo
representatives of princely houses, were
present at the funeral yesterday afternoott
of Princess Sophia, the ony daughter of
Donee William of Saxe -Weimer -Eisen -
eel,. Hans Von Dlelehroeder, foe hope-
,ess Inv° of whonl the princess killed her-
self, did not attend the services. it is
understood that be was asked not to at-
tend, and he left Heidelberg after a three
le tars' soy.
The tined father of the PrIneees repeat-
ealy threw himself items.% the casket.
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BAKERS' CONVENTION.
Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 22.—The Na-
tional Association of Master takers
cpetted its 16th annual convention to.
day, with an attendance of nearly
2,000 delegates front ell parts of the
United Staten and Canada. The con-
vention will be brought to a close Fri-
day, with the installation of officers
and a trip to Niagara Fans.
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REDMOND'S CONGRATULATIONS.
thiblin, Sept, e2. --In a letter eon -
e
I•5ratttlating Miehttet J. Jordan, the new
seeretary of the rnited high League of
America, John 11. ltedmona, leader of
the Irish parliamentary party, writes
that he regard.; the 11 111/0111tIllel1t a.; "ft
Pe tItt the IONAlltilhle 03Ak4t8110e
we have eceeivea from America, in the
east will net 'fail 08 antil the errewn is
put upon the work ttf the Irian party
by the passale of the 'Minh 'Ride bill
tut o lin.