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The Wingham Times, 1909-12-09, Page 15THk1 WtNGrIL ht TIME$, DECEMBER la 191,14 VkkViaking Money On the Farm X. — Poultry douses and Equipment By G. V. GREGORY, Author of "Home Course In Modern Agriculture" Copyright, 1909. by American Press Association. OR the money invested ann work applied poultry is ono of the most profitable side lines on the farm. Indeed, many farms are run at a profit with poultry alone. If poultry is profitable on a place where all the feed must be bought it should be doubly so on the general farm, where much of its feed is made up of waste products. Too often the work of caring for the poultry is left to the women and chil- dren. Much of `it is light work that they can do all right, but the man of the place should not consider it pe- meatb his dignity to lend a helping band when it is needed. If poultry is to be let at a profit 'some kind of shelter other than the machine shed, the' apple trees or the ,cow stable will have to be provided. A good, warm poultry house is abso- lutely necessary if winter eggs are to .be secured. At 30 to 50 cents a dozen winter eggs will soon pay the cost of 'building a house of this kind, to say ,nothing of the superior health of the flock. The theory that poultry does best when left to its own resources is about 'exploded in enlightened communities. It has been demonstrated over and over again that no form of domestic creature kept for profit responds more readily to good treatment than this same barnyard fowl. That It has al- ways more than paid its way even when neglected shamefully is but an Indication of what it would do under better treatment. Locating the Poultry House, The Poultry house should be located near the other buildings. The chick- ens will go to the barnyard to scratch ,anyway, and if the poultry house Is • - • —"teen;-',.., Yili�`��h��/r, • ."hiV•••' - ria. mIx—SMALL POIILTEY HORSE. 'too far away they will roost in the :barns and sheds rather than return to 'It. The poultry house should not be .too far from the dwelling either, in 'order that it may not be too incou- ,venient to care for the poultry. The 'ground where it is placed should be fairly high and naturally well drained. A damp poultry house fosters all sorts •of diseases. The size of the poultry house de- , ,ends upon the number of fowls kept. It is estimated that about five square /feet of floor space should be allowed per fowl. If they can be out of doors most :of the time they can get along with ;considerably less. The best kind of !house to build is the scratching shed type, built with a shed roof. The high :side should be to the south. About ,half of this house should be parti- tioned off for a scratching shed. The ..south side of this shed part is to be ;left open, covered only with wire net - ,ting to keep the fowls in. If the back ,and sides of this room are tight and the bottom boarded up a foot or two there will be little draft and the fowls will be comfortable even in the Oldest weather. The floor .of this shed part may be of dirt and should be kept covered with several inches of straw. The remainder of the house should have a floor, preferably of cement. A cement floor Is easily kept clean and is little more expensive than a wooden one. The chief advantage is that it keeps out rats and other vermin better than any other kind of floor. Neither does it furnish any crevices in which lice and fnites can hide. These pests are the worst enemies to poultry cul- ture, and care should be taken in build- ing a house to leave as few cracks Were they can hide as possible. Value of a Curtain Front, There should be several windows in the south side of the house to supply light. Light is one of the best disin- ffectants. It does much to keep the yfowls free from disease and happy and ,contented. To provide for ventilation ..there is nothing equal to the "curtain front" This is a large square of mus- lin fitted into a frame the same as a window. This allows a gradual ad- mission of fresh air without drafts. The exchange of air takes place slowly enough, so that It does not lower the temperature of the house too much. Considerable light comes through the curtain also, and less heat eseapes through it at night than through glass Windows. The curtain has the further ut aritage of being cheap. No poultry house shduld be put up without one. Whether built of lumber or of some ether material, the poultry house hould be tight. Drop siding is good t aterial for the ride Wells. A. single Wall is the cheapest and answers the purpose 'very" Well. It eoste only a lit- tle extra, however, to lath and plaster the inlside,and such it house is More \ 5n.. Iesirable in reegions where the winters are extremely cold. It does not pay to paper the inside of the house, as the mites will find a congenial home be- tween the paper and the wall. Roosts and Nest Boxes. Part of the main part of the house should be given over to roosts and the rest used for nest boxes. It is better to have the roosts along the north side. A. muslin curtain arranged on a roller, so that it can be let down in front of the fowls on cold nights, does much to keep thein comfortable. The roosting space to be allowed to each, fowl Is six to twelve inches, according to size. Two by fours set edgewise, with the sharp corners rounded off, make good roosts. They should be set in notches, so that they can be easily removed to be cleaned and disinfected. 'fife drop- pings should be removed every week or two and not left for a year, as is so often done, If plenty of straw Is used on the cement under the roosts it is but a short job to throw the excrement out of a hole back of the roosts and put in fresh bedding. It is labor that will be well repaid, for a clean, sweet smelling house is essential to egg pro- duction. A little slaked lime thrown around under the roosts helps to keep down bad odors. Sprinkling the house with coal tar dip and whitewashing the roosts and walls once in awhile are also good practices. The nest boxes should be provided with a cover and so arranged as to be dark and secluded inside, as the hens prefer to lay in this kind of place. Where a specialty is made of poultry it pays to use trap nests. These are so arranged that the hen is caught when she goes in to lay and cannot get out until the attendant comes along and releases her. By having the hens numbered with leg bands a record can be kept of the eggs laid by each one. Thus those that never lay can be culled out and sent to the butcher and the eggs of the highest producing ones kept for raising pul- lets to increase the flock. In this way the average egg yield can be increased considerably. It is important in this connection to make especial note of , those hens which do most of their Laying in the winter months, as they are of considerably more value than the ones that lay in the summer, when eggs are cheap. Yards and Fences. On the farm there is little need for many yards about the poultry house. The chief need for fences Is to "keep the poultry away from the garden and house. For this purpose woven wire fence, with hexagonal meshes is best. The meshes should be small enough at the bottom to keep out the small chick- ens. The wire should not be smaller than eighteen or nineteen gauge. An important point to look to is the gal- vanizing. This galvanizing is a layer of zinc that is coated over the wire to keep it from rusting. There are two methods of galvanizing, !mown as "aft- er" and "before." The former is ap- plied to fencing galvanized after it is woven and the latter to that galvanized before. The "after" galvanized fenc- ing can be told from the fact that the joints where the cross wires are twist- ed together are filled with zinc. When the wire is galvanized before weaving the zinc is cracked more or less in the weaving process and rust readily gets a foothold. The "after" galvanized wire sometimes costs a little more, but it lasts about five times as long. Coops. The chief equipment, aside from houses and fences, is coops. It Is more economical to make these fairly large, so as to hold a hundred chickens or so. A. coop sixteen feet long, two feet wide and about two feet high in front, With the roof sloping toward the back, is convenient and cheap. It can be di- vided into eight or ten compartments and will do for as many hens and their broods. The partitions should be about six feet long and a foot high. This will allow them to project in front about four feet. Laths are nailed along the front and over the tops of these parti- tion boards, making a little runway In front of each coop. One of the laths should be removable to let the hen in and out as soon as the chicks are big enough to follow her about. While such coops are cheap, they have one serious fault, and that is that they are not big enough for the .Thickens after they get to be two or FIG. XX—SELF rannlNo HOPPED. three months old. "There is no place like home" to chickens, and it is a great deal of trouble to teach them to forsake their coops and go into the poultry house nights. This trouble can be avoided by building a number of smell colony houses. A convenient Size for these houses is 8 by 10 feet. Such it house will bold a hundred chicks until they are nearly full grown. It may be built on the saline plan as the main poultry house without the scratching shed part. It should be hunt on runners, so that it can be hauled about from one place to An- other, as is most convenient. These colony houses are preetteally incitspen- :table when poultry raising Is conducted :n n large scale. In such case it Is hest to build these houses in a aubstan- sea1 fashion, so that they may be used many seasons. As touch attention uhouid Also be given to keeping thein in good sanitary ronditien as is due the twain poultry house. Only Medicine That Did Any Good After Suffering Tortures For Years, This Lady Found Happy Relief In "Fruit -a. tives". Ftrankville, Ont., June nth, IgoS. "I have received most wonderful benefit from taking "Fruit-a-tives," I Suffered for years from headaches and pain in the back, and I consulted doctors and took every remedy obtainable without any relief. Then I began taking "Fruit- a-tives" and this was the only medicine that ever did me any real good. I took several boxes altogether, and now I am entirely well of all my dreadful head- aches and backaches. MRS FRANK EATON I take " Fruit-a-tives " occasionally still, but I am quite cured of a trouble that was said to be incurable. I give this testimony voluntarily, in order that others who suffer as I suffered may try this wonderful medicine and be cured." (Signed) MRS. FRANK EATON. "Fruit -a -Lives" are sold by all dealers at 500 a box, 6 for $2.5o or trial box, 25C —or sent post-paid on receipt of price by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, What Troubled Him. The impecunious poet had long worshipped the editor's daughter, and now—oh, joy !—his dream of bliss had come true, for she had said that she would be His, with a capital H. Still, in the first throes of his rapture he seemed strangely ill at ease. She was quick to notice it, and a shadow chased the sunshine from her fair face. "Are you not happy?" she whisper- ed. "Yes -es," he faltered. "But something troubles you," she insisted. "What is it, darling?" "Nun -nothing, dearest," he stam- mered. "Tell me," she demanded. "There should be no secrets between us now that you have been accepted." "Does your -does your father pay on acceptance or—or—publication?" faltered the impecunious poet. The glad light died from the eyes of the editor's daughter, and for the rest of the evening they talked about the weather. Drumming of the Snipe. One of the most remarkable of bird. sounds is the so-ea"iled drumming of the snipe. The noise is difficult to describe and is often compared to bleating. The snipe, in fact, has been called the bleater. Tennyson used the word hum, speaking of "the swamp where hums the snipe." It is now generally agreed that the noise is made by the vibration of the tail fea- thers. A writer, however, carefully watching the snipe during the flights in which it makes this remarkable noise, is convinced that the wings assist in its production. This seems exceedingly probable, since the wings are seen to be in actual vibration dur- ing its emission.—Country Life. Had a Bard Cough FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. WAS ,AFRAID IT WOULD TURN INTO Consumption. Too much stress cannot be laid on the fact that when a person catches cold it must be attended to immediately or serious results may follow. Thousands have filled a consumptive grave through neglect. Never Neglect a Cough or Cold, it can have but one result. It leaves the throat or lungs, or both, affected. 4-+¢-+-¢-+-+-4-4.• Mrs. A. E. Brown, ± Ottawa, Ont., • Afraid ♦ writes.----" I have of + bad a very bad Consumption.cough every winter d• $ for a number of +•+-•++±+4-++ years which X was afraid would turn. into consasmption. I tried a great many remedies but only received temporary re- lief until I got a bottle of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup and after taking two bottles my cough was cured. I ani never without ., bottle of Norway Pine Syrup." Dr, Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is the medicine you need. It strikes at the foundation of all throat and lung eom- plaints, relieving or Curing all Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Croup, Sore Throat, etc., and preventing Pneumonia and Consumption. So great has been the success of this wonderful remedy, it is only natural that numerous persons have tried to imitate it. Don't he imposed upon btaking anything but "Dr. Wood's," Put up in a yellow wrapper; three pine trees the trade mark; price 25 write. Manufactured only by The T. Milburn! Co., Limited, Toronto,Ont. TiPS ON SANDWICHES. How to Make Them Appetizing With Little Trouble. The housewife who learns the art of malting sandwiches is always well fortified against problems when serv- ing an informal luncheon to guests. Close grained bread should be used, for coarse bread will crumble. And bread baked in round tins is prefer- able to that cut into slices and cut with a biscuit cutter, since the baked edges preserve the shape. Moist fill- ings should be laid between lettuce leaves, and by buttering the bread the moisture cannot penetrate it, making it soggy. Melted butter can be used if it is not soft enough to spread.. A salmon sandwich is a tempting article of food and should be half mixed with chopped boiled egg and very thin slices of olives and pickles. The wise hostess will make two different kind of sandwiches, some with the mixture moistened with vinegar or lemon juice, others without, for many persons cannot take acids. Practically all meat sandwiches are extremely rich, and strong condiments are noticeable in the filling, especially mustard and catchup. While white meat makes a delicate sandwich, yet the darker meats, mixed with mayonnaise and other relishes, are more appetizing in every way. When hot sandwiches aro Scerved a,t a noonday luncheon at }route the contents of the sandwiches are placed between the layers of bread and fried, or the bread is toasted and covered with a cooked meat filling, then covered with buttered toast and served hot. Peanuts mixed with mayonnaise and sliced egg make a good sandwich. They make a fruit sandwich which is well liked by those who are fond of fruit and bread. The filling consists of chopped dates, figs, lemon juice and ground nuts, lightly mixed with tart jelly. The bread is buttered for this. Candied fruits are often used, but often the sand- wich is a breacl cake, more of the angel food cake variety, filled with fruits and moistened with cherry juice or the liquor from preserved . pine- apple or peaches. Magnet vs. Dreadnought. Naval Constructor Hollman, of the German navy, has taken out a pa- tent for a device to destroy battle- ships of the Dreadnought class. Com• puked with tin newest engine of war Geppeli:i dirigi bie airsnip, whicn aims, aiiiong other things, to drop ex- pioSlveS on an enemy's ships and towns, seems harmless. Holtman s device is an enormous dynamo-meg- uet capable of. being charged up to eS,000 volts. With such a magnet, he says, he can attract by. a magnetic power any battleship within a radius of seven tulles. Ile believes that a magnet can be made powerful enough to attract a whole fleet of warships and draw them into shallow water, where they will run aground and be at the mercy of heavy artillery ashore. Hollman declares most ser - musty that the amount of metal in the battleships of to -day will only in- tensify the force of his magnets. An- chors and the ships' engines will be powerless, he says, against the mag- net's attractive force. The magnet, or a battery of them, should be estab- lished, according to the Ideas of Nav- al Constructor Holtman, at the mouth of a river or in some favorable sub- merged position along the coast where the enemy could not readily detect it. The rest is easy. Along comes a hos- tile fleet to blockade a port or bom- bard a town or even steam up the river. The moment the ships get within magnet -range the operator in charge of the station turns on • the power and the ships are drawn to the shore, to be captured or demolished. There are dynamo -magnets in sev- eral of the German shipyards capable of lifting a dead weight of 50,000 pounds. The Holtman magnet is de- signed to lift a battleship. Your Canary. Don't forget to give your canary the best of water and seed every day. See that he has a good fish bone. Clean his cage every day. Keephim out of the hot sun and the glre 01 night lights and yet let him have sun- shine. Talk to him—talk to him with a kind voice. Let him out of the cage occasionally. We give crumbs of bread soaked 'n mill:, lettuce, chick- weed, a little pince of egg, sometimes a little fruit, a "rut and lots of good things and let him eat or reject, as he pleases. Remember he is a pris- oner in confinement, `dependent on you every day for health and life, and constantly strive to make him happy. A little ten cent looking glass will aid greatly to his happiness. Take core that nether Sun eor other light, reflected shall dazzle him. The Patient Mule. The kind-hearted woman was very solicitous about a certain mule be- longing to Erectus Pinkley. The mule lead a sod and heavy appearance and nr ver looked more dejected than when its propri"tor brought it up with a fleurtsh at the front gate, says a writ - Tie Wnshint:tou Star. Do yon ever abuse that mule of yams?" she inquired one day. "Lan' sakes, miss," returned Mr. latestns, "I should say not! Dat mule has hod me on de defensive fob de la:,' six years." Devilfish. Devilfish weighing up to 200 pounds are sometimes caught in Japen. These fish aro amnphibio,ls. They are erten seen w:tbblina on their tentacles like gi;mt spiders its search of p'tehes If sweet potatoes. The natives hill then with clubs. In the water they are caught in jars lowered to the boar torn, which the octopus enters, think- ine them a good retreat from which to eateh 'its food. Opening the Jar. "Rave yon heard from Old Boons - prang singe she went 1idnae?" asked ?ilr. Tucker, putting his feet on the' table, "I want you to stop calling mamma Ole, Boomerang," said :qrs. Tucker. "What makes you .eall her that?' "Why, I was just wondering when she was eonting back, that's all," itti- swered Mr. Tucker. "You needn't get ;lora`, About it." EEL" 204 Largest Wanner of any Pacer on Gran Circuit, 'o$ Make Each Animal Worth 2514 Quer Its Cost —•�--.9.9•10-.—,.9.,.. 4M1•11010111.9111,11.4.0.1. On 34 of a Cent a Day Nobody ever heard of"stock food" curing the bots or colic, making hens lay in winter, increasing the yield of milk five pounds per cowa day, or restoring run-down animals to plumpness and vigor. When you feed "stock food" to your cow, horse, Swine or poultry. you are merely feeding them what you are growing on your own farm. Your animals do need not mare feed, but something to help their bodies get all the good out of the feed you give them so they can get fat and stay fat all year round; also to prevent disease, cure disease and keep them up to the best possible�condition. No "stock food" can do all these things. ROYAL. PIMPLE STOCK SPECIFIC can and does. It is Not a "Stock Food" But a "Conditioner" ROYAL PURPLE STOCK SPECI FIC contains no grain, nor farm products. It increases yield of milk from three to five pounds per cow per day before the Specific has been used two weeks. It makes the milk richer and adds flesh faster than any other preparation known. Young calves fed with ROYAL PURPLE are as large at six weeks old as they would be when fed with ordinary materials at ten weeks. ROYAL PURPLE STOCK SPECIFIC builds up rundown animals and restores them to plumpness almost magically. Cures bots, colic, worms, stein diseases and debility erma nent ly.Dan McEvan the horseman, says: Ihave usedROYAL PURPLE ST Gi� SPECIFIC persistently in the feeding of 'The Pel; 2.02x;, largest winner of any pacer on Grand Circuit in 1908, and 'Henry Winters,' 2,00, brother of Allen Winters.' winner of $35,000 in trotting stakes in 1903. These horses have never been off their feed since 1 commenced using Royal Purple Specific almost a year ago, and 1 will always have it in my stables." 1 Pur1e STOCK AHHD POULTRY SPECIFICS One 55c. package of ROYAL PURPLE STOCK SPECIFIC will last one animal seventy days, which is a little over two.thirds of a cent a day. Most stock foods in fifty cent packages last but fifty days and are given three times a day. ROYAL PURPLE STOCK SPECIFIC is given but once a day, and lasts half again as Iong. A 81.50 nail containing four times the amount of the fifty cent package will last 280days. ROYAL PURPLE will increase the value of your stocic 25F. It is an astonishingly quick fattener, stimulating the appetite and the relish for food, assisting nature to digest and turn feed into flesh. As a hog fattener it is a leader. It will save many times its cost in veterinary bills. ROYAL PURPLE POULTRY SPECI- PIC is our other Specific for poultry, not for stock. One 50 cent package will last twenty.five hens 70 days, or a pail costing $1.50 will last twenty-five hens 280 days, which is four times more material for only three times the cost. It makes a "laying machine "out of your hens summer and winter, prevents fowls lasingflesh at moulting time, and cures poultry diseases• Every package of ROYAL PURPLE TOCK SPECIFIC or POULTRY SPECIFIC is guaranteed. Just use ROYAL PURPLE on one of your animals and any other preparation on another animal in the same condition: after comparing results you will sayROYAL PURPLE has them all beat to death, or else backcomes your money. FREE—Ask your merchant or write us for our valuable 32 -page booklet on cattle and poultry diseases, containing also cooking receives and full particulars about ROYAi. PURPLE STOCK and POUL- TRY SPECIFICS. ff you cannot get Royal Purple Specifics front merchants or agents, we will supply you direct, express prepaid, on receipt of 51.50 a pail for either Poultry or Stock Specifics. Make money arcing as our agent in your district. Write for terms. I For sale by alt up•to-date merchants. W. A. Jenkins Mfg. Co,, London, Can. Royal Purple Stook and Poultry hpeeifles and free booklets are kept in stock by J. Walton McKibben and T. A. Mills. Mathematics and Launching. The launching of a vessel is prima- rily a matter of mathematics. In a ship of immense size it calls for a vast amount of calculation before the first step is taken in the actual work. In the first place, the specific gravity of the vessel must be figured out so 'as to allow for the various strains to which the hull is subjected on its slanting journey into the water, with its sudden plunge as the bow drops from the ways. An enormous amount of data must be collected to fix this centre of gravity. The weight of all the material that has gone into the vessel up to the time of the launch- ing, the distribution. of this weight, the weight of chains and anchors and other material placed on board pre- paratory to the launch must all be considered. When the centre of grav- ity is fixed the successful shipbuilder knows just how to build his launching ways and just where to strengthen them. He knows then by a little cal- culation how long each part of the vessel will be subjected to certain strains and how best to prepare for them. He can figure almost to the second how long the ship will be in sliding into the water. A Cruel Joke. A Chicago girl recently played a cruel joke on her mother, and this is how it happened: She accidentally found a love letter that her father had written to her mother .in the halcyon days of their courtship. She read the letter to her mother, substi- tuting her own name and that of her lover. The mother raved with anger and stamped her foot in disgust, for- bidding her daughter to have any- thing to do with a man who would write such nonsensical stuff to a girl. The girl then gave the letter to her mother to read, and . the house be: came so suddenly sieve that sue collo hear the cat winking in the back- yard. Planting a Vine. Remember when you plant a vine that you are planting for time, ant: make a good provision for its growth. Don't dig a hole just large enough for the plant and thrust it in, leav- ing it to "sink or suint, survive at perish," as best it may. Rather do you give it a fair show for its life. Choose a place in good sunlight. Dig a hole two feet deep and a foot and a half square. Cert away the earth and fill the hole with well -rotted com- post, putting good garden soil on top in which •to set the plant. You have thus suppli"d it with something to grow on, and the plant will reward you accordingly. The Prussian Versailles. Potsdam is the Prussian Versailles and contains four palaces. It was founded by the greate elector of Brae denburg, but awes most of its spier, dor to Frederick the Great, whoss apartments, which are shown to visa tors, remain almost exactly as they were when he was alive. Among the moat interesting treasures is a copy of Frederick's works annotated in the handwriting of Voltaire.. Domesday Books. The new Domesday Book, which Mr. Herbert Gladstone says it will be necessary to prepare in connec- tion with land taxation, will not be the first since William the Conquer- or's great book, remarks The London Chronicle. What is frequently known as the Modern Domesday appeared in 1874 as a Parliamentary paper, under the title of "A Return of Own- ers of Land." 1010 A Newspaper Not An "Organ" The man who wants an open-minded discussion of politics, the steady support of right, justice, and decency, without cant or bitterness, and an unpre- judiced, common-sense treatment of public affairs, will thoroughly enjoy the Toi:'io wily Star The Star is not tied to any party or any "interest." It has definite opinions of its own on political, social, and moral questions—but it recogniz- the right of others to hold exactly opposite opinions without necessarily being scoundrels or fit subjects for abuse. The Star's editorials are broad-minded, honest, as keen and clever as some of the best writers in Canada can make thelia, and always Fair. The Star is published foz fair-minded, intelligent people who take an active interest in Canada and the world. Consequently It I -las More Readers Than Any Other Paper Ili Ontario. $1.50 A Year This paper and the 7ORONtO DAILY STAR together for ono year, $2.20. Guaranteed Founfain Pen given for 504 added le above subsoription prices. Would You Provide for The Care of Canada's Needy Consumptives ? THE'S BEND YOUR CONTRISUTiot;S Te T>1 MUSKOKA FREE HOSPITAL FOR CONSLJMPTWY .Siilr�I �I MUSKOKA FREE HOSPITAL FOR CONSUaiPTivss,. 7241,IN SOLL11INO FUR i'AT:LNTS. .A. national institution that accepts patients from all parts of Canada. Here is one of hundreds of letters: being received daily :— John D. McNau ;htcn, New Lisa keard, Ont.: A young plan not be- longing here, and suffering Ironer it is elieved, constunption, is being kept by one of the l:otcs• here. He has no means and haa been refused aclrulesion to oar hospital. The conclit.ions Where he is offer him no chance. Could. he be admitted to your Free Mets- pital for Consumptives? If note could you inform the where he e;an: be sent, and what steps are neees- sary to secure prompt admittance P HOT A SIHCLE PATIENT HAS EYLIt smut REFUSED ASCRISSION TO THE it1115::0A..sl FREE HOSPITAL BECAUSE Ole RIS ear KEii INABILITY TO PAY, Since the hospital was opened in April, 1902, ono thousand five hundred and twenty-four patients have been treated in this oneint:ti- tution, representing people idem: every province in the Dominion. For the week ending November 20th,1909, one hundred and twent five patients were in. residence. Ninety-six of these are not paying a copper for their maintenance—Osseo* free. The other twenty-nine paid from $2.00 to $1.90 a week. Not one pays more than $$1.90. Suitable cases are admitted promptly on completion of appli- cation papers. A GRATEFUL PATIENT Norah P. Canham : Enclosed you will find receipt for my ticket from Gravenhurst, hoping that you will be able to oblige me with the fare. I was at your Sanatorium ten months, and: I was sent away fr•t'nt there as an apparent cure. I am now working in the city, and I am feeling fine. I was most thankful for the cure I got fr•orn the doctors and staff, and I must say that I spent the time of my life while I was there. TAKING THE CURE IN WINTER AT MUSKOKA, FREE HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTIVES. The Muskoka Free Hospital for Consumptives is dependent on the good -will and gifts of the Canadian public. Money is ,urgently needed at the present time to make it possible to care for the large and increasing number of patients that are entering the institution. Will you help ? Where greaser urgency ? Truly, Canada's greatest charity. Contributions may be sent to W. J. Gage, Esq., 84 Spadini Ave., or J. S. Robertson, Secy-Treas. San anitatiitnt Associa tion, 847 King St. W., Toronto, Canada. The Assassin's Day. Almost everywhere within the range of Christendom Friday is a day of proverbial ill luck. The following list of assassinations tends to confirm this superstition: iof Orange, 10,1 4 a William ! July5$ , Friday; Henry III: of France, Aug. 1, 1589, a Friday; Henry IV. of France, May 14, 1610, a Friday; Gus- tavus III. of Sweden, March 16, 179Z. a Friday; Lincoln of the 'United States, April 14, 1865, a Irriday; Me- Kinley of the united States, Sept. 6, 1901, a Friday. Copyrights. Copyrights are granted for twenty- eight years, with a renewal of four- teen years additional, making in all forty-two years. To seeure a r•opy- right it is necessary to send to the librarian of Congress a printed copy of the title before publication, the fee being $1. Two copies of the article mast be deposited in the Congres- sional library at 'Washington. After a long period of Buffering from a variety of ilia, Mrs. Barton Butcher, one of the old residents of Tees Water, pawed away on Monday matting, Deo. tt h. She was in her seventy-ninth year, and besides a grown up family of sons and daughters he Ieaves sat aged husband whoab health unfortailrwteIy suffered +w serious break aMr mks ago.