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The Wingham Advance, 1916-08-17, Page 3-$ WEEDS. To keep a place Clear of weede Means coAtineal warfare. But this will be useless unless the neiglebore agree to put the same aluOuat o lebor on their owe, place, There are two rules 'watch will hold good in the prevention and deetrtiotien of weeds: -The fieittefrom the ,Wellsknown fact 'atlio..,t Ito -age -et eau firtit grew without ,etartinghfrom .a seed, indicates the general ceittion to, destroy all weede isefore theyecan ripea their need, and tC, boW for:awl:a nothing but perfectly clean seed.", If weeds have .alreadY gone to aeed, they ;Mould be 'cerebella removed andsleatried. Sonie o the Most peanietolla intruders leavebeen widely spread though bay dr grass wed of pacaing goods—no Caretul man will allow such packing material to be scattered over his land either in es:peewee �r otherwiee. The seemed rule is founded on the principle that no plant can live any considerable length et time without bre athIng through its lungs, the leaves, Hence, all perennial -rooted plants that creep and extend beneath the surface, like the Canada thistle and milk -weed, and thus_form formidable patches, may be -destroyed completely paid totally, if the leaves are never allowed to appear above ground. Annual and biennial weeds mostly increase by seeds, and inclusle wjld mustard, shepherd's purse, false flax, cockle, chickweed, purslane, rag weed or bitter weed, cockle -bur 111a.rigo1d, etielttight or Spanish needles, 111aY- weed, wild ceamobile, thistle, mul- lein, red root, tory weed or hound' tongue, Jamestown weed or stink weed, lamb's huarter, goosefoot or pig weed, green amaranth, wild teasel, chess, cheat or broom grass, and foxtail grass. The simple perennial weeds are tall crowfoot or buttercup, John's wart, plantain, pokeweed, water hemlock, python hemleck, oxeye daisy, Mallow, scur dock, sorrel, garlicanettle, sweet flag or calamus and cat-tael flags The creeping perenuial weeds are Canada thistle, toad flax or swans- gon, horse nettle, :milkweed and quack grass. The shrubs are poison eumach, poison vine, wtia blackberry, elder - bush and alder. SHOES Cher tita n Leaf r- and Deer fo;saimmer IRROU SHOE DEALERS Worn by E.veryMernber rof the-ramitY It Is the man who works on it well- derbied plan who makes good these days. 1' • aq Deee your harness rest in the stable? If so, look to your ventila- tion. MACHINE PLANalaa 10,000 TREES DAILY. A machine which plants from 10,000 to 15,000 forest tree seedlings a day Is now being used at the Letchworth Park Pant andiAboretum, in Wyom- ing county, N. Y., according to offi- dais of the Forest Service, 'United States Department of Agriculture, who aro acting as advisers in the work. Previously the planate* Imo been done by band at lite rate of 1,200 ;to .1,500 trees each day per man. The,maohie.e was designed to set out cabbage and temato plants, but works equally well witla trees. Itis about •the size of an ordidery mowihg Machine and is oper- ated by 'three men and two norses. One man drives the team, while the atheetwo handle the seedling's. The machine makes a farrow, inawhieh the trees are set at any desired Meta:nee, and an automatic device indicates where they should be dropped. Two metal -tired wheels push and roll the dirt firmly 'down around the roots. This Is a "very desirable feature, it is said, because the trees are apt to die& this is not well donee Tee* at - tat calaaealtea Taake tt. alleeable....acto.Plage .einter and fertilizer at the roots of eoach seedling. A,nother attachment. :leasers the line on which the next row aot trees is to be "I:tented. No cost 5:Itgures are available yet, but officials ay• that the cost will be much less than when the planting is done bY hand. It -as stated that the machine •ban be used on any land which bas sbeen cleared and is not too rough :to plow and harrowe NOTES. Investigations at the Missouri Ex- periment Station E:1101V conclusively that cattle can be wintered economic- ally on a ration made up largely of silage. In one experiment, a ration of corn silage and clover hay without grain, fed to yearling cattle for 100 days, resulted in a gain of 200 pewees for the feeding period of 150 days, at a total cost of $11.60 or a cost of 5.5 cents a pound gain, as compared with sa total cost of $15.75 and 7.5 cents a ;pound, when a "similar lot of cattle ;were fed on six pound e ot 'shelled cora per head per day and clover hay. Thesee.results have been confirmed in other expeirments, which all point to tae conclusion that when silage Con- htitutes the major portion of the ra- tion fed to wintering or stock cattle the coat of wintering Is much rd- dueed. , For the very driest lands that are at all suitable for pasture, a mixture of 10 pounds of red top and four pounds of red clover to the acre is good. A mixture ot 10 pounds. of or- chard grass and five pounds' of red clover is cheaper, and perhaps next best. ".".•••••••A •-• The silo slaould be smooth on the 'Aside, and perpendicular from top to bottom. 'Uneven walls prevent the silage from settling evenly, all air is not excluded and spoiled silage is cer- tain. —eagle:1J To -morrow. He was going to be all that a mortal ehouldbe, Tomorrow; No one ehould be kinder or braver than he Tomorrow. A friend who was troubled, and weary he knew, "Who'd be glad oe a lift and who need- ed it, too; On him he woad call and see what he could do Tomorrow. Each morning he stacked up the let- ters he'd write Tomorrow. , And thought of the folks he would f111 with :delight TOMOrroW. It was too bad, indeed, he was busy to -day, And hadn't a minute to stop on his Way; More time I will have to give others, head say, Tomorrow. Giving the seed bed a thorough pre-, paretic& and the sowing poor seed because iaas low in. price is not econ- omy; ft i foolish extravagance. The fall bearing strawberry in the space of two or three years has devel- oped from a home garden novelty to an extensive commercial proposition. These berries are being grown. in large quantifies for the U. 8, market and bring prices which afford, the gfowers a fair artirgin of profit. .••••••••••••• The yield of a 'Corn crop some years le measured by the start it gets earl' in _the season. thee year with an - Other it will pay tho corn grower to use quickly available fertilizers that will hasten the early growth of the corn plant, giving them a good root system before the dry weather or early summer. •••••41,••••••••ml• • The greatest of workers would have been Tomorreav. The world would helve known. him had he ever seen Tcimorrow. But the fact is he died and he faded from view, And all'that he left here when living was through Was a mountain of things he intended to do Tomorrow. —Edward A. Guest in Detroit Free Prees. 1 this man Irritable Nuns Restored and Health Regained in a Simple Way .****,...40+0114. Tile• POULTRY WORLD 4.4•11•01,04444.1144141••••••119 THE RAISING OF TURKEYS. Few Writer' develep to atediseta.ble size in less than sIX les:Mats . Provide them With ideal environment alld it Ina ybe done. -Ceatain phases <it the weather, sucbas long droughta or re- eeated drown -out east storms, dtrectly hinder the young bird's growth. The earlier the eggs eim be batched after May 16 the longer the period of growth before the first holiday des mond A. marked difference itt size ex- ists between turkeys whose ages vary but by two weeks, nor does the dis- crepancy over seem to be overcome. Eggs .should not be kept too long. Their vitality deprecietn rapidly. 'ate little tura issuing from the egg get as soon. a.s laid is noticably sturdy, I!, in addition, the eggs are the product of hens two Years old or more, the yoiug h. avo a double heritage of In recognition of tale fp,ct meet growers set eurplus turkey eggs under ordinary hens. AS soon as the turkey hen shows a decided intention of aeep- ingther nest she should be given her eggs. Incubatois can be used, but one runs less risk 'of taraperine• with the vitality of, the unhatched bled by en, trusting it to a hen or turkey, Whence Is uncovered one secret of the suceess- ful raiser—a sturdy hatching. Why are -turkeys generally consider- ed difficult to raise? Chiefly because those who embark in the venture aro hampered by their knowledge of the habits of chickens. The similarity of young fowls to turkeys is merely superficial, On vital points they dif- fer radically. Turkeys are VoraeioUS, without a chicken's ability to assimi- late great quantities. They require a certain amount of exercise as an aid to digestion yet UM inuck runuiog wear- ies them to the point of ealmustion. Little ones confined lack sufficient roughage (melted by green food, such as clover, alfalaa, rape, etc.) with sad coesequenees, unless generous provis- ion is made in each meal. Their rapid feather diallis their vitality heavily. Witness the dragging wings of weak, eight-day turkeys. Already they are lagging in the race. Ventilation is a vital necessity, but draughts on tux'keys court trouble. Soured food -which a chicken might eat4awith impunity works , havoc with their digestion. In short, to rear them with a raeasere of Success one must studiously avoid offending their hab- Its with whicla by observation we MaY easily become acquainted. Failure with turkeys, aside from mishaps, springs from the attempt to force them to ceziferm to an unnatural regi - teen. There are diets a -plenty, The chief difficult); is in selecting,a diet easily and cheaply prepared, dnd beset waited to their needs. The list is diverse and lerigthy: Meal and bran mash. Meal and middlings mash. Chieltfeed. Curd. Boiled wheat. Boiled rice. Baked cornbread. Rolled oats. ' • Bread crumbs seated in milk. Whatever is used in •the way of a cereal, ehopped gre,en food, such as onions, garlic; (wild enione), lettuce or ,fennel, should predominate. This lessens danger of digestive disturbance. Head boiled eggs is the factor common to all diets. Mashes are excellent, but .require the exercise of good judgment in the'quentity given. • If the last par- ticle.is not eaten at night, it is apt to sour by morning, and trouble ensues. The best ale tOund feed .for young ones after the first week is a good chick - feed with cheep& onion tops, hard-' boiled egg and curd if available. Chick_ feed canna fermet unless it.becomes wee:- Black pepper is a good stinn- laet given occasionally to' counteract any tendency to diarrhoea. • Every farm presents its own prob- lem as to the proper place for tile turkey coop,. A well -drained spot In a wbea,t field or pasture is ideal. The growing wheat affords a rich pastur- age for the young turkeys. They May even lade thero from the wily hawk. When it is cut the scattered grain reinforces their diet. At all times it shelters a plentiful supply of insect food. Best of all, the ground is newly turned and lest apt to harbor lisease germs. If the farm woman must count her fcotsteps she may set her coops near ae, band on ground lately plowed, yet separate from ehickens. A small patch of rape may be pleated :where the litteo opes raay run. Tear are particularly fend of this, which will supply a por- tion of their green food. Nothing affects turkey health mere subtly or fatally than parasites. When the tittle ones droop Or sicken without visible cause, search for vermin. Be satisfied only with closest scruttey. After 'some years ef 'experienee with turkeys, I find that these are respon- sible for my greatest losses; Mae they come from is the enigma. From bad alisoelations, from neighboring fowls, from birds or from sparrowe who steal their food—some lefty de- spite care, they often become infeeted. Eternal vigilance is the watchword. For alive that infest the head, anoint- ing with oneshalf cupful milt grease mixed with one teaspoonful kerosene is excellent. For others a plentiful use et insect powder is sufficient. If turkeys are allowed loeg to be infested they rapidly deteriorate; Some die lingeriegly, as if It were from Beene The raan or woman who is run- down, not feeling up to the mark, perhaps irritable, nervous or sleep- less can well affora to learn about the wonderful reeults the newly dis- coveredblood-food is giving the teaks thet use it. There is wonderful power in this new blood -food, and eaery weak, pal- lid person can be quickly nourished back to health that uses it as di- rected. After each meal, with a sip or two Of water, you simply take two little chocolate -coated tablets, sold in all drug stores under the name of "FER- ROZONE." Theeffect is noticeable at once. You feel happier, brighter, more contented. That old-time feeling of weariness departs — you forget your "nerves" and no longer get irritable or cross over trifling annoyances. There is a. reason for this change and that reason consists of the fact that Ferrozone contains blood -mak- ing materials you can get in no Other way. Ferrozone makes the blood tingle and sing with new vitality. This en sures lots of nourishment and strength being eupplied to every part of the body. No wonder the eyes brighten and the cheeks radiate color and happi nen? With abundance of strength a keen. appetite, good digestion and plenty of sound sleep—all the resula of Iserrozone—you quickly feel as 1'! 11! held new charms and pleasures. s The farm papers- and progressive fruit growers can preach Standardized (sacking and a standardized pack from tow until the end of time, but there aro seine men w'ho will pack culls In thee's:addle -ot the barrel Jest as Ion; as the law 'glows them to do so, even if theylosemoney by the traneectiot. When teyo,, 'horses pull unevenly on Idada whicaehorad Carriessthe Weser parteof the •burclans the one that le .a little ahead hie tire. one that Is esottes achats otperte„ of _fits tileaceota Agrietettleal. College 'have pVet 0 comtnori ,beatet by pr.oving, ahatelt-le the alforao that laga•laealade The etperlinefille elasesved the:Oat:eh& Jon st Is a ton, „the juseae that,' keeee- ate end °a the eve.ner .. eight. alheltee PI est d the' other • end t peas Oak' :038 Oetnittg,,VIlereas' Ithaasieware aborso atilt* 1,012 pottede. •-• •• ' POWER FOR HYDRO. Niagara Company's Offer Now Reported Satisfactory. ••••••.0.4* Toronto, July 24.—Mr. V. A. Gaby, Chief ,Ilingincer of the PrOVIncial Hydro Com- mission, and Ur. Bartell, General Man- ager of the Canadian Niagara Power Oompany, were in conference on Satur- day regarding ‘the details oe tho agree- ment by which the company will supply U1) to 52,000 hore&power li retitured by the end of the year to the Hydro Commission at $12 per. horee-pewer, Mr. Gaby will revert te the Conurtieslon at their meet- ing on Tuesday what. transpired at the conference. Though no offieial infertile. (len is available, it Is understood that the details w1/1 be satisfactorily worked out, and..that i. temperary additional sup - .ply will be used by the` Hydro almost right aWay. Aceording to a. letter reeved by the Hydro •Commiselon froth Mr. Monte %tier, X. C., the Canadian Niagara. Cant - Deny is prepared to. supplY 50,000 horse - newer_ at VI poi4 horse -power, the -13111), lily to..be•arraitged'as4feguir,ed and tog. ,urated agreeably: te,bah parties. "in ,arleaixtit.the eniergencratlilelt has arleets" stoys the ;letter% "an—immediate sullY 12,500 4torg,eulteW•gr..ivIll be prov'l ed witout prejUdlee•to the agreement wiltielt wii provide 1;i' (1.11 srd • u?. ltoward Ferguson, !tone atiOlit SUPOIY After the end of the. present Oar, teplied: • "If ye need more power atja.wilt teak felt arid' got it." The Min- fe 'Isar nd' 1/411e. dam' Beek had' put up good. fightild 4.1',1t; had remalabd with the tioyeriunentto tette the Measures 'eeeetiary :to brinss.about iitt, agreement. - - -•10.,1•41: • ••••..-•. The littnetin heart Iiilds aro/here. .111.6 fernier Who *etaltp terfteet Is ;shelter • but 'in :humankind. -'-George Pat'. heeseeattrile the Ode who aticeeedee • ••• • wasting disease, and are (Iona, poor things, accordileglY, When their Om need ia ineect powder. Health disdalus mediclue. So with tutkeye, avoid dosing tile a 'Mears° appears. .alwaYs Isolate the Seldom it la exbusaale even to disin- fect their delnithig Water unless. dis- ease° is present„Continued use of ;Melt is detri'mentel to thriftiness. Erren the old outdone Of eramlniug Peppercorn down tae throat of the newly hatched turkey, while eppar- (may harmless,, lea better discarded. Dosing turkeys exeept with the sills. - Pier remedies is at best an unsatisfac- tory perfornianee for the unacientific raised, One should aim to have their surrounaings present uo temptations • to partake of anything but Whet is good for theme Especially is tiles true with regard to their drinking, water. Turkeys manifest a fetidness for drinking out of muclholes. Such babit once formed Is cured with difficulty. One of the contributiexis toward terkey health is an airy coop. Mari- ous types are in Use, each with its recomfaendation. Those with wire fronts are admirable. Other models have Ventiletore at the top. The best coops have no floors and are .moved frequently, In locations where drain- age is not of the best or the ground is uneven careh may be shovelled against the tittles. This prevents water run- ningunderneath during flooding rains. Whatever its style, the coop ;should have two specifications: Ample ven- tilation aid room' for the growing tiads. In reviewing these requirements for the euccessful rearing of a neck I mato one omission, namely, patience or. the part of the raiser. In all one's aesociations with one's flock one Should be gentle and tolerant. The turkeys wtli repay with full confi- dence.. Violence and roughness estrange them and sometimes account for a loss estimated in dollars and ec.nts. With reasonable respect for a tur- key's taste In food and habits the dis- eouraged raiser ehould ba able to reviee his opinion, lf nothing, al we are told, succeeds like success, what speaks more fortibly than a flock of handsome turkees?—M. L Longfield, in N. Y. Sun. • RAILWAY MEN AT THE FRONT Low *pirlte, discouragement, the blues Insanity result from a tired brain end Alienated nervous system. Start the uphuliding Process to-dar by beginning the est, of the greefebt of nerve restoratives, Of the twenty clerks in the C. P. R. ()Moos in Calgary, 16 enlisted when tho War broke out. Some of them have got promotion; some have been wounded; but the•epirit they display- edhas been notioed in the western press. Indeed, the railway men of the country have done nobly in respond. leg to the call. In. England over 200- 000 railway men are at tele front; in Canada, possibly 6,000 in all have gone forward—a splenald record emitter - big our railways and general psopula- thin. The result cif such depletion is found in the greater number eternal() clerks employed in'the Dole -Mum. We do not see, as they see without sur- prise in the Mother Land, thousands of women doing the outeide work on the railways—droned in overalls, many of there, cleaning engines, clean- ing stations, acting as porters and wheeling boxers, acting as ticket agents and telegraph operators, We -will hardly oome to that but the value of women in the clerical domain has gone up very appreciably indeed. It 5s urged in England that the women wear men's attire for greater conveni- ence in many of the arceslions they pursue. Many have not waited for tbe discussion in the Press anent the,mat- ter, but have voluntarily parted with external femininity. The situation is not so aeute with us, but the call, in all ?pricel departments is for female clerks, B.A.SQUIRi or THE PYRENZEiti. Lumbago's Misery Ceases, mosp On tale Spanish Slopes Are the rure Aborigines of Europe. Tavern Heroes. The Marquis of Granby bears a title that swings fron1 many a tavern sign -board an England over. London alone has some half a dozen. Yet thie mauler soldier, who ecanmanded England's troops in Germany during the Seven Years' War, was the target of some of "Junius" most bitter in- vective. The secret ot his popularity lay in the fact that Granby was al- ways a soldiers! generel who not only led them well in the fight, but also cared for their comfort in the camp. The first inn to bear the marquis' head as a sign is said to have been Opened by one of his own guardsmen at Hounslow. Apart from Welling- ton and Nelson, the marquis comes easily first among England's ta,vere heroes.—London. Chronicle. THE GARDEN •OP EDEN. ••••••••46.. ....,••••••••1,01 You are in the habit of thinking of the inhabitantof Frame as "French" and the inkabitants of Stalin as "Span - Did you balMen to • read a learned dieguleitioa on the shape of the eleulls of people living at the twe elopee of the Pyrenees, together wItit th araeounceelent that, contrary to the belief of aelenttsts, the Baequea Are not all of the same origin? And thee aid you ask, "Who are the Baequee?" Prilnarily theY are the Peo- ple wise gave to the rest of the world a ceflous Mast of garmw,A for wemete but they are for More hiteresting to the student of anthropeloga and the hietorical development of language than they are to the designers of wo- men's clothes. There was a time before.the present generation of 'scientists got work on the problem waen the Basquee, both in Spain and in France, were recog- nized as the last remnant of the orig. Ina' occupantof Europe, tbe people who were driven into this backwetee of civilization by the ourueh of the! Celts. The Celts were in their turn driven westward and Into sueh out of the way cornere as they could hold, so that they are pow represented by cer- tain strains in Spain, by the Bretons in. France, the Irhh, Scotch, Weleh, Cornish and Manx in the British isles and by a substratum of the Bohemians and the Galician% Those who preceded them and who manage(' to cling to Use mountain etrotegholds of the Pyrenees are remotely related to the Finns in another remote backwater, The ones on the Spanish slopes are the pure aborigine's of Europe, It is Said to Have the Most Trying Climate in the World. The chief peculiarity about Klima le that the natives believe the place where they live is the exatt site of the garden of Eden. The climate of Kurna is acknowl- edged to be the most trying in ail the World, The heat is terrific in the sum - tiler time. It is claimed that the Brit- ish government has a record of 159 degrees in the shade upoa the bridge of a boat (Inhered in the river at Busreh, a MU° to the ;south. The Micsionailes at Buereh tell of nights whett the thermometer regis- ters not len than 125 degrees. British sailors booed or the Persian gulf in the summer time usually desert if they eon. Perkaps itt Arizona the thermom- eta? seen nearly as high, but there is the dry airawhile In the Persian gulf it le exceedingly Moist. The Eurdpeans at March must pass the days In underground ehambers, or terdeetbs, While a native boy pulls a huge fah, or punkah, suepeeded from the ceiling to keep the air 111 eircu4a- tion, The nights are spent on the roof, for it is impossible tel eleep be- low. In the Winter time the air see= ex- eeedingly eOld, for the Marshes aro filled With salt, and as the wind ' Sweeps °vet tho plain the moist air le peculiarly penetrating. Prequehtly the Ara% beillimbed by the colaefalls from hie horse. "Is yottr boy Josh burning midnight oil?" "No," replied Fanner Oerriton- eel, "but he keel's the gasoline gain' about 18 hour d day."---WashIngtoll star, DRUGGISTS FLOURISH, How the Business is Run in the South American Repub1100. Latin Americans are great aellevere in medicines and, due to the scarcity of Physicians, are obliged to "doctor" themselves. Pharmacy is consequent- ly profitable. With the exception of modern Europe, Canada and the talk- ed States pharmacy is practiced in other lands of the world much as it was in the United Slates seventy-five or a hundred years ago, and thie is particularly true of the republics te the south of ae. The individual druggist makes his own pills, extracts, tinetures, infusions and pulverizes his own crude drugs. Soda water fountains are few. The meal rubber goods, toilet articles, sone, perfumes, Instruments and nun- driee are cai•ried. Each druggist makes a line of his own specialties, which he pushes. In addition ti the standard drugs and meilielnes, he also carries remedies and Medicaments known only in his immediate vicinity. They are maatlY of Indian orlain, compounded from roots, herbs or other ingrediente, pro- duced only in the country where he liyes. Thep find a ready sale among ail classes. Superstitious ideas are prevalent, and these are frequently taken advan- tage of by the unscrupulous. One pharmaesist made a fortune selling In- dians, half casts, and whites, for that matter, too, "pink love powders" and "white love powders." The white love pawder was pulverized sugar, while the pink loye powder was made of the same material colored. Indians would walk hundreds of railer' to buy this precious powder. • IF SUBJECT TO COLDS HERE IS GOOD ADVICE Don't load your stomachs with cough syrups. Send healing medication through the nostril—send it into the passages that are subject to colds and catarrh. Easy to do this with Catarrh - ozone, which cures a cold in ten min- utes. Even to the lungs goes the healing vapor of Catarrhozone—all through the bronchial tubes, nostrils and air passages—everywhere a trace of disease remains will Catarrhozone follow. You'll not 'lave colds, nor will you suffer from Iseiffles, bronchitis or throat trouble if Catarrhozone is used. Get it to -day, but beware of danger- ous substitutes meant to deceive you for genuine Catarrhozone. Large size, two months' treatment, costs $1; small size, 50c; eample size, 25c, Every Aching Muscie oured JUST FIUS ON OLP — TIIVIE "NERVILINE." Net necesary to drug inaidet That awful stiffness that makes you yelp worse theta g kicked deg 'wilt be cured—eured for a certainty, and quickly, tog, if you just rub on Nervi - 11111 -Lb Nerilline right into the sore spot, rub lots of it over thosn tortured muscles, do this and the Pain will go. You see Nerviline is thin, not oily, Therefore it sinks in, it penetrates threugh the tieslICO, It gets right to those stiff, sore muscles and irritated nerves that make you donee with pain, Yeti% get almoist inetant relief from muscle =ellen, etiffuees, • aching Joints, lanieneee or theurnatisin by rubbing with aTervillnevIt's a eiootlie ing liniment, and at ean't blisters, donna burn or even stain the akin. We the Most harmless cure In the 'world for Lumbago, Back Strain or oSnciceeticaan.a Ietadtsaltyeos urawmalyeertyhequateeltilleY." Now quit complaining—don't suffer another day — Nerviline, that good, soothing old -thee liniment will limber You up mighty Via, Get busy to- day, the large 50c faintly size bottle is the moat economical, of course , the trial size costs but 25c, Any dealer anywhere cen supply Nerviline. John Travers Cornwall. Bare your heads, menI The soul of John Travers Cornwall is passing. Dip your colors, king and kaiser, czar and sultan, emperor and prese The Difference. Caee and Comment says—that at a recent Meeting in Ilamptali one of. the epeakers told of a °cleared witness who wao rebuked by the:judge for the con- etant repetition of 'The phrase, "also, and likewise." "Now, judge," replied the witness, "there's a difference be- tween those words. Ps giving to splain. Yo' father was an atteny and a great axe, wasn't he?" The rudge assented, somewhat placated. "Well, judge, yo's an attu'ny Coo, but not likewise. See, judge?" . THIS PLANT IS A THIEF. Dodder Steals All the Digested Food of Its Clover Neighbors. Possibly he's too lazy to feed hiin- telt or it may be that he came from a family of criminals and ean't over- eome his heredity. At any rate he's ta, robber,'• a thief and a plunderer. None of these names is too eevere, and if You doubt it ask the farmer who knows him for the . damage he does every year tie the clover and al- falfa ,crops. The plant is the dod- der. Perhaps we can forgive the dodder for not preparing for his own feed, for he bas nothing to prepare it with. Nearly all plants have chlorophyll, the silbstance whieli makes plants green and digeste the food watch they take from the ground and the ale. Tile dodder has no. chleropayll. So it has to turn robber to lase, After the teed springs front the ground the dodder -vine reaches out until it touches some other plaut, 'clover, for 'eica,mples It attaches it- self to the Clover stein by its oily rootiete and beginto eat the food which the clover has take1t and di- gested. After awhile the root withers read dies, and the vine keeps reaching out for Mere victims, binding them to- gether with Its tiny threads. You probably lieve 'Steen the Mall, pale, bell-shaped flowers elimbing over n field of eloVer. Once dodder gets a hold in a eloVer field the triremes Only escape Is to eut clever and dodder alike and been tho crop. And stile fanner 'believed thie death none to horrible for flea little robber „ . ' • 't LONDON SCARES Men, it has been viell Pau, tilinxitt herds. 11 will be mart tuat they go madiii herds, for innumerable in. stances can be given of a wbolo pea. Pie suddenly taking "oft the tramniela of reason and running wild under the aelusion of Wine Impending calamity. A. Panic tenor of the end of tbe world spread over London in 1735 by the prophecy of the famous Whiston, who predicted that the world would be destroyed on Oct. 13 in that year. Crowds of People went out, on the ap- pointed day to Islington, Highgate, Hampstead and the intervening fields to witness the destruction of Lendon, which was to be the "beginning of the end." Again in the year MI. the Mtizens of London were plunged into excite' ment by two earthquake Elamite, anti the prophecy of a third—whtich was to destroy them altogether. The Mat of these skunks was on Feb. 8. Public notice was directed to the fact that there wee exactly a morith'e interval between the two shocks, and a caaaa brained feliew named Bell Waft So 1731- PreSSed 'with the idea that there would be a third in the forthcoming month that he completely lost As . senses and ran about the streets pre- dicttng 'the destruction of London on April 5. .. As the awful day approached the excitement beeame intense and. great numbers of credulous peel& resorted to all the- villages within a circuit ot twenty miles, there to await the doom of Lendon. Hampstead and 'Harrow were crowded with panic-stricken fugitives, who paid exorbitant prices for accommodation in those secure re- treats. Such as could not afford to pay for lodgings at these places en- camped In the surrounding fields. dent, It is John Travers Cornwall'a limo, not yours, You men in the trenehes—Saxon, Teuton, Celt, Serb, Cossack—if your guns must speak, let them ;speak tri- bute to him—a child—who looked, Death square in the *ice an.c1 died for Duty. You men in a million harvest field —stay your .sickles and give lieea! You men at the wheels and forge— pause and listen! You khaki -clad boys who have an- swered the call to your eolers—halt and hearken! From somewhere out of the void joins Travers Cornwall, dead, is call - lug a message that nene should lose Stand at attention—men, women and children of the wide world! Face the eleg of humanity 'and thank yeur Gc4 —for John Travers Connwall living and for John Travers Cornwall dead; for John Travers Cornwall, aged 16, soldier, patriot, martyr to duty.' "The fortitude ot the wounded was admirable," wrote Vice -Admiral ]avid Beatty, in his report of the beaavior of the British naval forces in battle with the Germans In the North Sea. "A boy of the first-class, John Travers Cornwall, of the Chester, was mortally wcunded early in the action. He never- theless remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders unlit the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead or wounded all around aim. His age was under 161k, years. I regret that he has since died. a recommena his case for special recognition, in justice to his memoryj and aelcnowledgMent of the high eel: ample set by him."—itTinneapolis Tri- bune. DEATHWATCH BEETLES. Their Uncanny Ticking and Their Trick of Playing Dead. You've probably heard the death- watch beetle oftener than you've seen him. He hides away in furniture or interior wood -work and keeps up a continual "tick -tick -tick" like a watch. Day or night you'll hear him pounding away. He's eternally persistent ttbout it and ghostlike and uncanny, hence his name. He makes the little ticking noise svith, his head, pounding it on the wood. It's the way he nee of calling hie, mate, and his mate answers him itt turn. lt you pound on the wood where he is hiding he'll answer you just like he does his mate. You may wonder how he finds his way insiele a piece of furniture, He get,s there when he's in the grub or larva state, boring .his way through wood; paper, or anything the grub can eat. The larva whieh eats its way through the Leaves of a book is a cousin. The deathwatch beetle has another trick besides that one of calling his mate by pounding his head on wood. When you. touch 'one of the little creatures he folds his legs up be- neath his betty and makes believe he Is dead. He will keep on playing possum even if you put him close en- ough to a fire to roast hine—Phila- delphia North American. -4 * INSTANT Reif fr Paint on Putnam's Corn Extractor to- night, and corns feel better in the morn- ing. Magical, the way " Putnam's " eases the pain, destroys the roots, kills a corn for all time. No pain. Cure guaranteed. Get a 250 bottle of "Putnam's" Extradtor to -day. • 4** • His Little Lot. There wore sound interesting tea sodas le the life of Sir Charles Mien - Smith, Onee in the Market place of an Afghanistan town he was fired at by a native. He lodged a coinpIaint with the atneer, who appeared to take no notice of the imident, merely remarking "That's all right." Sir Marin complained again and met with the same reply. Ile still thought that the tuner was treating t serious inatter with less consideration than it deserved, but thought it advisable to etlY no Moro on tile subjeet, About a -week afterward, he was invited by tho ameer to ride with hitn. They rode for some distance outside the town, and they passed gibbet after gibbet. At length Sir Charles said: "Your Highness has been busy of late." "Oh, no," replied the ameer; "they nre your little lot, He heel seized all the mem- bers of the would-be assassin's family and hanged every one or them. NO—SADLY PREJUOYGED. (London Free Preee) The Detroit Free Press, reviewing the War, says: "Finally, eingieluas navy apparently Wee defeated by the Gellman high eerie fleet In the battle of Horn ReW, Jutland." Which dhows our eon. temporary to be an exeeptionally bestir Informed rieWerrucr. Corns Drop ut ae e • As Is usual in panics, the fear be- came contagious, and hundreds wits: had laughed at the prediction a week before packed up their goods wed chattels when they saw others doing so and hastened away. The river was thought to be a place of great se- curity, and accordingly all the avail- able inerche,nt vessels and barges were peeked with peopae, who passed the night between the 4th and 6th on board, expecting every moment to see St. Paul's totter and the towers of Westminster Abbey rock and fall amid a cloud of dust. But on the following day the greater part of the fugitives returned, convinced that the prophecy was a falsa one, A few months efterWard Bell aws cosigned in a lunatic asylum, where he died. Great consternatioe was caused in London fn 1524 by a prediction that on the lst day of February the wat- ers of the Thames would overflow tho whole city of London and wash away 10,000 houses. The prophecy was im- plicitly believed, and `many feel:Wee packed up their mats and 'removed into -Kept and Essex. , As the time drew near the numbers of these lea- migmnte increased. Ie January droves of workmen imght bes seen, followed by their wives end children, trildging on foot to the villages with- in fifteen or twenty miles to aWait the catastrophe. People of a higaer class were also to be seen in vehicles bound on a shutter errand. By the middle of January at least 20,000 persons had quitted the doom- ed city, leaving nothing but the bare walls of their homes to be swept away by tho impending floods. Many of the Wealthier class tools up their abode oil the aeiglats of Hampstead, Highgate and Blackheath, and some - erected tents as far away as Weethatn. abbey on the north and Croydon on the south of the Thames. On the fateful morning the wonder- ing crowds were astir at an early hour to watch the rising of the waters. It vv•as predicted that the inundation Would be gradual, not sudden, so that they expected to heve plenty of time •to escape os soon as they saw the wa- ters rise beyond the usual mark. The day grew older, and the Thames flew on quietly as of yore. The tide ebbed at its usual hour, flow- ed to its usual height and then ebbed again, just as if twenty astrologers had not pledged their word to the contrary. Blank were their faces as evening approached, and as blank grew the faces of the citizens to think that they had made such fools of them- selves. Night set in, and the obsti- nate river would not lift its waters to sweep away even one home out of the 10,000. Still, hosvever, the people were afraid to go to sleep. Many hun- dreds remained up till dawn of the next day, lest the deluge should come upon them like a thief in the night. On the morrow it was seriously dis- cused whether it would not be advis- able to duck the false prophets in the river, Luckily for thein they thought of an, expedieot which allayed the popular fury. They aeserted that by en eitor they had fixed the date of this awful inundation a century too early. The present generation of cockneys were safe and London wotild be washed away, not in 1524, but In I624.—London Family Herald. •ee • Postman in Faroff Days. Postmen have a very respectable mitirmity. They were known, the Sunday at Homo points out, in the far-off days of King Hezeiciah 's reign, some 700 years befofe Christ. In the thirtieth chapter of the second book of Chronicles we read that "the posts went with the letters throughout all Israel and Judah," and, further. that "the pests passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, The postman ot cad was et swift runner, who receleed the tette!' from the sender's hand and castried it direct to. the person to whom it Was addressed. LITERAL DESCRIPTION. (Baltimore American) "Were yeu. interestel In that discussion of tramp Ilfe?" "No; it was a bum agument." HIS PREFERENCE. (Puneit 13owl) Youog Lady (with hopes)—What do yon think le the fashionable color for a bride? Male Floor Waiker—Tastee differ, hut Bhould prefer a white one/ egrWeEN (Kansas City Journal) "Sho says she wishes she could see herself as others see her." ."That's just an excuse for 'vomitus; a. "lot of time in front of a mirror." THE RETORT COURTEOUS (Bultimore ,iimerica) Mrs, wypish—I can assure you there is a great deal hanging on my family tree. alles Pert—Some ancestors, for In- etance? WORTH I T. (Puce). Husband—Forty dollars a month for a cook/ Isn't that a .good deal? Wife --Yes, but dear, she says she can cook. HEIGHT. (Washington Star) "Is that young woman tiressed In the ' height of fashion? "Judging from the distance between enkle and skirts, she must be." • UNFORTUNATELY WORDED. (New York Times) Artist (pointing to his very successful Picture, "A Donkey")—What do you real- ly think of it, anyway? Enthusiastic Lady—Lovely: And you have put so much of yourself into it, too. '•••••••••,....11.0 THE MORAL. (Baltimore American) "I had too much time on my hands laon I was arrested, lady," "That proves, my poor manhow lazi- ness Is at the root of an Orifne. EfAt, cotdd you find nothing useful to do? Hew came you to have so much time on your hands?" "I was :taking watches out of a jew- eler's case when the eop nabbed me." ITS SORT. (Baltimore American) "Did you see where in the storm the other night the jail was struck?" "Well, 'That better place for a lightn- ing bolt?' . , . 101 ON FeARLE--1 (London Sketch) First Tommy—'Ere, mister, this 'am is 'igh Comprenny—'igh 'am: Second Tommy—Let ine do it, 'Erbert; I know the lingo. 'Ere, gasson1 je suls! NATURAL HISTORY. (Washington Star) • "How do you keep moths out of cloth- ing?" asked the girl with a needle and thread. "Why," replied the 'girl with a story book, "I didn't know they. wore ahy." THE SERGEANT'S GUESS. (14ondon. Opinion) "There -will be ladles coming as well, sergeant; how many du you think 1,ve can 13 eat?" "Four hundred, air, easy—sitting fa- miliar!" THRI F TY SANDY. (Tit -Bits) Scot (at the baths)—What's the price of a bath? A.ttentlant—One shilling Scot—Heeh, man, that's a lot. Can ye no say sixpenSe and put in less water? HIS PROPER SPHERE. (Baltimore American) "What will they do with that eldest son of theirs? I heard his father say he had neither judgment nor foresight," "Then why don't they make him a weather sharp?" A BIT SLOW. (Ladies' Home Journal) "How aro the incubators getting along?" asked a friend of his neighbor who had recently bought some, "Why, all right, I suppose; but al- though I have had them for two weeks now, not one of the four has laid an egg yet" ••• • TRIVIAL WORRIES. (Kansas City )ournal) "What's the matter with you?" "My business has slumped." "Bah! You look so gloomy I thought It might have been the home team." • DANGER FOR SOMEONE. (Punch) First Stoker (weary)—I'd like to find the merchant 'oo invented boilers. Second Stoker (also weary)--Bollers be blowed! I'm looking for the blighter 'oo found out that coal would burn. GETTING TURNED DOWN. (Baltimore American) "1 am going to marry a rich woman." "Congratulations, my boy. Who is she?" ' "I am trying to find that out myself by process of elimination." 4-0 GONE. (Buffalo News) He—Y.ou used to say there was some- thing about mo you liked. She—Yes; but you've spent it all new. PREPARED. (Detroit Free Press) "Preparedness is a fad with her," "That so?" "Yes; she even sets the breakfast table the night before." -4 • * TRUE TO LIFE (New York World) "Did you read Seribler's novel of sub- urban life?" "Yes; I found it extremely realistic." "You surprise me. I thought It was as dull as diteh 'water." "Won, in) is suburban life." IN PRECARIOUS POSITION. (Battlt)ore American) "Roumania. is the bravest of the na- tions." "How do you Inalto that out wheri it has never been in the fighting?" "No but it's been sitting the whole time on a barbed wire fence." Derby's Market Stone. rn Derby, England, there is a cur- ous relic of the great plague of 1665. It stands le the arboretum gardens and is commonly called "the market stone." To evoid infection the coun- try Polk ffoin the Surrounding vil- lages would leeve their ordere for anything they Might want with the watchman, who used to go into the town, make the necessary purchases and deposit them on "the market stone," The WOrd The word "calico" has a queer ori- gin. Many centuries ago the first mon- arch of the Province of Malabar, in Hindustan, gave to one of las chiefs as a reward for distieguished services bic iiword Mid all the land 'within the limit ef which a cock troWing at a eer- tain teMple Mold be heard. Frees tble circumstances the little town Wallet grew up in the centre of this territory was called Valicoda, or "the emit erowing."• Afterward It was ealled 'MUM, and from this plate the gest cetton geodeevere 1111porteel into Eng. land bearing the wad rake:). • • • . 40 V -