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The Wingham Advance, 1917-05-03, Page 3fhe b( yOteSt in the world, Mekkes perfect bread, WGillErr 014137Att'Y 0,111.1;,,,orgS MADE CANADA IN EWOILLETT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO.ONT. IT MONTREAL ,14•111,1110141.1110.1•11111114$11“.11114111.1111••••1411101111M• rt• 1•111%1•11+0•111•11•1• AMIIIIIM+1+1••••••• El FARM AND GARDEN 0 11011•6•1 GARDENING AND PLANTING HINTS.. As the season rot planting garden stuff Is drawing near -and as this year More than ever, Owing to high mat of food, every available feet of land will be utilized for garden truck -et is well worth now to carefully study the con- ditions, soil, care, etc., needed to have good results. Beans require a soil of known fer- tility. All varieties of beans, except- ing the lima, can be set out as soon as the first danger of frost is passed. Lima beans need a warm soil, and must not be planted until there is set- tled warm weather. Wax beans should be thinned out to one foot apart; pole beans to three feet, Supports must be provided for the tall varieties. While cultivation must be shallow, at the same time it should be thorough. Beet. seed may be sown from early seeing to the middle of late summer. As with beans, the cultivation must be shallow. Thin to nine inches. Cabbage calls for plenty of moisture and organic' plant food. It may be set in the hot bed and transplanted in the open after the eon has become warm, Bet plans from one and a half to two feet apart. The cultivation of the cauliflower is the same as with cabbage. The outside leaves should be tied over the top, as soon as large enough, to blanch the heart. As soon as the ground can be work - eel carrot seed may be sown. A sandy •sol is best. Thin to nine inches. Cul- tieate shallow. Plant cucumbers on hills, six feet armee, during the latter part of May. They can be started under glass. Fere thine soil around the hill. A. rich, sandy soil is best for egg- plant. Start in hotbeds. Transplant clueing summer. Thin to two and a half or three feet. Cultivate as long 043 possible. Kohlrabi seed may be 'own in hot- bed or in the open. Frequent tillage is essential. Thin to about one foot. Lettuce may be forced under glass or planted in the open early in spring. Fertility and cultivation required for best results. Thin to eight inches. efushmelons do best in a light, rich son. Plant in open in warm weather. Plant in hills or drills, Thin to about six feet, Fertilize in hills, leaving two plants to. the hill. Continue cultiva- tion until the vines become injured. Onions need a rich soil, well supplied with humus. Grown from seed or sets, plented in open ground, or transplant- ed from -hotbeds about middle of April. Thin and cultivate freely. Sow parsley seed early in spring. Thin to six or eight inches. A most fertile soil is best. Sow parsnip seed early In spring, as one plant needs a whole season to mature. Light soils are best. Thin to about seven inches. For best results, sow pea seed early. A cool and moist soil, with plenty of humus, is required. A fall orop may be planted in August. Plant seed five of set inches deep; cover an inch or two at a time. Fall varieties have to be supported. ,Pepper seed need a soil that is warm, deep, moist and fertile. Do not plant before the weather is positively warm. •Grow plants about one and one-half feet apart. Rhubarb and rutabaga, same as kohlrabi. Spinach needs a sotl that is moist and fertile, with plenty of organic matter in it. Give constant cultIvaiton. Thin to six inches. Start squash under glass, or plant in open hills in warm weather . Thin to two or three plants to this hill. Cul- tivate as for cucurabers. Space hills six or seven feet apart. Sow sweet corn in drills. Thin to 30 or 12 inches. Cultivate as for field corn, • Tomatoes need warm weather. Start under glass, or indoors ,and set otu about June 1. This plant thrives on a variety of soils, Space at about three feet in row. Clean cultivation re- quiree. Turnips do best in a soil that is light, moist and fertile. Sow in early spring Or lee summer, Thin to five or six inches. Cultivate reasonably. Watermelons heed warm weather, and a soil that is sandy and well sup- .. plied with humus. Apply fertilizer to the hill. Cultivate same as for musk- melons. Space the hills at about six feet apart, . --- FARM NEWS AND VIEWS. It may be lime instead ot More fer- tilizer that your timothy needs. Test the soil. The Japanese plum tree ghoul(' be sbaped like the peach. Other plains, apple e and pears should be farmed as follows: If the tred is an unbrauched one -year-old. Wing a single whip, *limply shorten the Whip two and a 'half or three feet in height. If the tree is well branched, cut out its central leader above the branching system to glee an open centre, Shorten back the branehes which remain one- third to one-half their former length, An experienced horseman says that home should be watered preettlue to f oodles. There is a differenee of °1n - so far AS this praetiee Is celieeened but It stands to reastin that since water (bee not require digettion it e Weuld be Mach better to let them have :Odd drinking Water previette to feed- eng, and thus enable the digestive eye. -tem to Work Mere leitturely in pre- paring the graln and roughage for AesimiTatien. Cream which has the peeper fer- -allnit fti tine Meriting may IWO qulte another fleeter in the afterneon. MUT% when the• cream to ready. Aeide whiell prodnee fine flanOre are eltort lived, The maa who hes perfeet patienee With his boron to a rare specimen of humanity. Few of us littve patience enough but that we fOrget at theme, lose our temper and almee a poor, dumb brute. The young horse you May be trying to teach sometime neede to be shovvn, and it require* Much patience, The man Who gets hie temper up at once and goes at it rough will always eente out loser in the gam. ifthe niU s bitter when it comes from the cow, the trouble is generally With the feed, perhaps old drY weeds ot the winter pasture. Or it may be the cow is expected to be fresh soon, and made to be turned dry. However, if the milk turne bitter after it stands a day or two, winch is Usually the ease, it is caused by bacteria. Because It is So cold, the milk turns bitter in- stead of souring. The remedy is to clean up-ecald every milk Veesel and see that no dirt gets in the milk, If you don't nave a "starter" of bacteria In the railk it certainly will not turn bitter. For oats the Connecticut station advises the following: Apply before sowing one or two tons of ground limestone, according to the conditton of the soil, and 300 to 400 pounds of acid phosphate per acre. This applica- tion is for land that hat received an application ofmanure during the pre- vious season. On the setts that are not so good, make the following ap- plications; One to two tons of ground limestone, 250 pouuds of acid phoe- phate. As a top dressing for grass the fol- lowing is recomraended by the Connec- ticut experiment station: One hundred Pounds of nitrate of soea, 200 pounds of acid phosphate to the acre. If sod is nearly all timothy, more nitrate and less acid phosphate can be used. Curraut worms can be kept in check by a thorough spraying, as soon as they appear, with Bordeaux mixture containing from two to .three pounds of arsenate of lead to 50 gallons of the mixture. Good, unbleached hardwood ashes Contain from 4 to 5 per cent, of potash and 30 per cent. of lime; and are the only means the farmers have of ob- taining potash for the needn of their crops, since the war prevents importa- tions of potash salts from Germany. ••••••••••••••••• Farmers who burn wood in their stoves should carefully save all the ashes, protecting them from the weather, and secure from whatever source possible on the farm all the ashes that can be obtained. Brush heaps, stumps and all waste materials should be burned and the ashee tzed RAILROADS ARE MANUFACTURERS A recent issue 01 The Way -Bill, pub- lished by the Traffic Club, of Chicago, contains the following concise but pointed exposition of the Anierican transportation problem, which seems to apply equally well to .Canadian rail- ways: "Railroads are manufacturers. Jt is a commodity in which they spec- ialize. It is the only one they pro -- due. There are some who Insist that theirs ire a 'service' and not a com- modity. Whichever you choose to call it, it is made by the railway com- pany out of raw materials and labor. The raw- materials, which, through competent management and labor, are fashioned into transportation, are roadbeds, rails, ties, cars, iocomotIves, machinery, general supplies and ter- minal facilities. For fifteen years the cost of all these raw materials, as well as of labor, haa been steadily advancing, and it is still rising. For fifteen years the price at which rail- roads have been compelled to sell their transportation has remained practical- ly the same. There have been in- creases here and there, but, generally speaking, rates have not risen much above the level of fifteen years ago. A box ear ,fifteen years ago, cost about $500. To -day it costs, approximately. e2,000. The rate on grain carried in the box car from Chicago to New York has decreased. This illustration can be Multiplied by tens of thousands. In spite of the increased cost of produc- ing transportation, do we expect the railroads to furnish not only the same, but better quality, and more or it, at rates which have not beeu allowed to keep pace with business development? It can't be done." -Railway Age Ga- zette. Kiddie Koats, Pleats. Silk barrels. Long itites, eoo. Large collars. Hooded collar, Tasselled collate. Betts and sashes. Novelty and straight-away pockets. • • • Tired Being Pleasant. Virginia a debutante, came in from a month's visit to friends. Dropping into a chair she sighed in satisfaction and involuntarily exclaimed, "Oh, I am so glad to be at home." Her sister looked up inquiringly. "Didn't you have a good time, Gin?" "A. good time! Yes," she responded, "a glorious time, but I am so tired having to be pleasant." -Judge. NERVOUS DISEASES IN ME SPRING CURED BY TONING THE BLOOD AND STRENGTHENING THE NERVES. It is the opinion ot the best medleal authorities, after long observation, that nervous diaeaees are Illore cora- mon. end more serious in. the spring than at any other titne of the year, Vital changee in the system, after long winter months, may cause much More trouble titau the familiar spring weakness and weariness from •whien Most people suffer as the result of indoor life, in poorly ventilated and Often overheated builcliuge, Official records prove thet in April and May neuralgia, St. Vitua' dance,- epilepsy and other forms of nerve troubles are at their worst, and that then, more than any other time, a blood -making, nerve -restoring tonic is needed, The antiquated custom of taking purgatives in the spring is useless, for the systen1 really needs strength- ening, while purgatives only gallop through the bowels, leaving you weaker, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the best medicine, for they advt. ally make the new, rieh, red bloort that feeds the starved nerves, and thug cure the many forms of nervous disorders, They cure also suclf other forms of spring troubles as head- aches, poor appetite, weakness in the limbs, as well as remove unsightly Dimples and eruptions, .In fact they unfailingly bring new health and strength to weak, tired and depressed men, women and children. Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. BRITAIN'S EFFORT HISTORY'S MARVEL One of tlte most eloquent tritutes paid by a neutral writer to tb.e part Great Britain is playing in the war is contained in a recent issue of the Bea- ten New Bureau, which is reproduced in the Wall Street Journal. The writer says that all the wonders of the world, ancient or modern, fade when com- pared with what Britain is doing to- day. A commercial *nation of not 50,000,000 people suddeuly summoned to arms where uo arms existed has produced a bigger army than history ever before recorded. and a war machine in Europe that tor wealth ot shell, explosive and war po.ver is the amazement of the Germane. Britain has done in thirty months what Ger- many took thirty years to do, and she has done it more thoroughly and on a vaster scale. Withont an English tiero. plane engine capable of circling her own islands. elle has vanquished the boasted • Zeppelin and is the mistress of her own skies. With sabmarines by the hundred threatening her coast defences and her lood supply, she has swept all oceans, bottling the German fleet, with the exception of an odd raider like the Moewe and the vessel that is now preying upon merchant- men in the South Atlantic. She has made, the writer says, "the English Channel her multipleTtrack ocean rail, way to France, with no loss by Zep- pelin or submarine; fought in Africa, at the Canal, the Dardanelles; grap- pled with the Turk and the Bulger; changed generals and admirals in com- mand; changed Cabinets; fed the armies of France; maintained the armies' and the Governments of Bel- gium ani Serbia, and altogether ad- vanced three thousand millions of dial- lers, or three times the natienal debt of the United States, tto her war allies.." This is admittedly some consider- able achievement for the "ice-cold haberdashers of the Thames." 'While the United States has been trying to find out how to ntake military rifles in quantities and has unfilled orders for them amounting to hundreds of Jrjilljome of dollars, England has been making riflea by the million for her- self and her allies, cannon by the thou.. sand, boots and coats by the million for herself and her allies, and what seems to the News Bureau writer most wonderful of all, she has done all this, is doing it, and is prepared to go on doing it while her manufacturing, her trade relate:1ns and her overseas com- merce remain unimpaired. She has *grabbed, he says, the trade of the *world, so that her enemies are strug- gling on half ratione with food, rub- ber and metal supplies cut off from the outside world except as new terri- tory is taken. This combination of war and trade achievement by Great tertian' was never before dreamed of. Two years ago nobody imagined that the war cost to Great Britain would be more than five or six billions; to- day It is twice that amount, and Great Britain is preparing to double it again. Each achievement seems to be the supreme marvel until the next one is considered, but the greatest wealth of Britain alter • all was in her national spirit. The British lion was regarded as a mere money -bag of trade and a whelp of the seas before the war be- gan. The Prussians could calculate upon the wealth of Britain in gold, take toll of her guns and her men. Outside of her wealth and her navy she wag considered of no account. There was no way by whith they could calculate upon the soul of the nation. Speaking of that soul which lut,s been waked by the war, the News bureau OVA: "It is fighting Mad tted4Y 'end getting Madder every Minete. The alma aud ineulte to credit Etna now: from Washington only inereatte the nettle:0 Of lier people and their faith in the inelneibtlity of the rigniemta Cause. For this they are willing to pledge eeerything in sacrifice forjue• tie° upon the altar of their battle fires. To what martyred noun; runs back thie heritage of noble spirit' ouly the Ins - Wilma of the future May attetelpt answer." It le this epirit which le the deadlieet enemy that Germany has to reelton with te-day. But with the spirit and with the Wealth that has eta,ggered the world something Yet remains, if an explana- tlea of Britain's tremendoutt output et war munitione is to be given. Twenty-five years ago the umehiaerY ot England stamped out the coinage or Many nation e and made the eau - none for many others, Site wee the ordnance maker of the world. Theu Germany loomed as her rival, and by means of Government beunties,eheap- er labor and Engle* free trade she finally put many an 1111411011 industry out of IntSinees, and only In the manu- future of her great naval guns die England retaill her old supremacy. But the feundatione ,in metal workers and the old factories -in tine bilailiefie had not wholly disappeared when the war storm buret, and it was upon these almost forgotten foundations that Britian spirit and British wealth reared anew her old metal industries and transfornted them into munition plants. This is not, as the writer says , a fight between armies; it is a struggle between nations, and in Eng- land every man, woman and child is devoted to only one object, the win- ning of the war, The writer calls attentiou to the fact that this Is not merely a struggle between the finance, the metal and the soldiers of two rival groups. It ist aloe a struggle for economic exis- tenee in order that the fighting tome may be increased. Germany was the first or the belligerents to realize that war power might be increased by cut- ting out luxuries; but England has grasped the fact and she is prepared to go as far as Germany or even far- ther in denying hereelf any( hine Whew consumptiOn might delay the end of the war. The British people are organizing in clothing, food, drink, the discarding of unnecessary com- forts, increase in the energies and hears of labor and the mutual bur- . dens of all forms of taxation. And the nation will be better for it after the war. As Lloyd George said, the nation has been iu training. What- ever the war debt of the lempire is when the fight is over, it will be easily dealt with by people who have learned the lessons that the English people are learning and who will not forget the lessons; yet the writer quoted says that while the world is coming into a new civilization, the people in the United States appear to nave little eomprehension of the sues and the ecenomic results that must inevitably flow therefrom. -Mail and Empire. IN GALLOWAY. Trip Through Picturesque Moor- land Country of Scotland. Mile upon mile of moorlandbroken only by steep and stony bluffe down whose rugged eides pour rivulets gol- den brown from their Goitree among the peat nmeees. and ewelling irt times of spate to mining torrents - this is Galloway, in tbe distance the Kirktudbrightehire hills stand out in clear blue mettles, varying in tone from moment to moment with the chariging lights and shades. You can see the shadows of the clouds' elms- ing the sunlight along the -neither, changing its surface from clear amee thyst to deep purple, while here and there a clump of bracken already turning to gold, catches and beide the light. Catena of stones mark the higher points or the moor. which ie intersect- ed with looeely made mortarless wane. Villageo are rare, but tiny whitewashed bomestcads are dotted about here and there. In the air is an undefinable enent, eomething acritl. aud sharp, and you euddenly realize that this is the casence of the moors --bog-myrtle, and burning eeat, Some- thing faintly white is moving on the hillside. It le a flock of sheep, and if you make your way nearer, through the walst-deep heather you will see the shepherd's dog, email, eager and alert, rounding them up among the rocks. There id a reel' and a whirr, and a cock grouse gets up annoet wi- der your feet and lumbers heavily away crying, "Go-eitick, Go -back, Go- baele"t--•if he only knew it yen are quite aa much startled no he, at the encounter. Through it all rune, if you can ap- ply the word to sueh a progress, the railway. The train stops at numer- ous litile statione. Why not? Since there is plenty of time, and the guard enjoys a "bit crack" with the station- master: One is a market -town, and the station is crowded with farmers - bearded brown inea, with alert gray oyes looking curiously light in their bronzed faces, each with his sheep dog at his heele. The conversation ended, the train continues on its way, emerging at length beyond the mom into the cultivated lands, where white farmhousee stand sentinel over nunt- bers of small round haystack, and fields of corn are yellowing for the harvest. Here one gees villages, each with its broad mein street on which face neat cottage% with spot- less doorsteps, where the women stand knitting when the day's work is over. Flaming bannare of scarlet tripiolum clothe the regular outlines ot the tunnies, and the children play ia the wynds which opea out of the MAKES: HARNESS I ()PAC &TOUGH I 1 1 EUREKA HARNESS OIL makes heruese strong and tough, This mineral oil not only takes dirt off but keeps dirt out. It fills the pores of t he leather. Met is why a harness treat- ed with Eureka is tough, iable,shi ny and new looking. TliE IMPERIAL OIL COMPANY Llznited eat Branches Throughout Canada ao. ... NOP .111.010 main streets. But the true Galloway Country is the moorland with ite peat bogie and moss -hags,. its quiet loch e frequented be wild duelt and teal and its great stretches of heath- er where the plover and curlew call to oae another, and trickete ding for hours among the tuesocks of coerce grass. Then, as evening falls, the scent of the bogmyrtle steale more atrongly into the air -et good pure fragrance, not easily forgotten, the clear outlines of the hills are blurred by a soft blue baze, the {all of the birdo grows lower and lege freunent, and the moorland is quiet,--`tehris- tian Science Monitor." albil•MOMMERP941.1=111.10.11111.00110••••••••11.01 -.0001.111••••••••••••••• —THE- ---"="711 Poultry World 111 11111•••••••Mis111.........121•4 •PartaaVa• .11••••••••.•••••••••••• BRBEDING FALLA.CIES, (Robert Armstroag, in Buffalo News), 3n the inhale of many who. raise chickens and other fowls there is but one idea and one kind or breeding -that of mating 111RIE'S and females, regardleee of type, strain, \quiets*, prolifienees or relationehip. Needless to add, that such teatimes sooner or later -usually sooner - prove or little value to weir teener and are finally completely dissipated. It leit.nature's way of eihninating the uo- To be nreclo there ere the Meowing utetime•: "In -breeding," line -breeding." "out -breeding" and "(woes -breeding"; an ,1 -insgharlaIntil'eutila,23;-grteniisbinre.edieig at all, mean - HOW TO START. Primarily, it is not advleable te make it practice, of mating birds more eloaily telated than first eousine, and the more distant this eelationship can be drawn emit t, the better the ehances for sueeese. In nuaking o sttnt witit•l• of however, if ono wishes to preserve tho same strain of blood, or in creating a nee, breset. ts usually neeessary to brecd fairly close for a number of years. or tual certain quolifleations bettome in- tensified and Med. If this breeding 01 related. birds IS done intelligently, with the view to fixine superiteity(11 coley, shape, and so oe, it le celled eline-breeding". If the hreclittg of re- lated rtoek is clone indiecriminately, and brothers anti sisturs are bred together for generations tor No particular purpose, it is called "in-breetinig". Tu other wolds, "line-breedlng," or breeding in line, is keep'ng tn tne, ram, a net St 15.9111E. Withlira tIlo dIatt8t1'oua ..ffeets of "in-breath/2g." Lt is earefully .eymentatic breeding. "tnit-breeSing" is a term applied t, the practice of Introducing nee blood every year, but shell blood is of the same 'breed. "Cross-beeteling" le introdueing entirely new blood or a, dietieetly dif- ferent bred. Through fear of the noels degenerating many roultry raisers consider it abso- lutely necessary to bring in new males each year. Very often they make a prac- tice of -exchanging males with nearby tanns,which is the vogue among farm - ere, espeeially. This is inspired by the right•idea, hut it Is likely to be accom- panied by trouble, If it is desirable to introduce new blood, the rule, should be to do so -not just because it is now blood, but. also. beeause it is superior to youy own in vigor anti other ways. It is vet y diffieult to raise etandard bred birds if nee blood is added to the eaeh year. You may buy a purc. bred male to mate ‘vith you, pore -bred V,- malts, and later rind that the two strains railed to "nick" properly. That 15, the mating may throw off -spring with de- feetive cotnbs, disproportion or poor color, which will take several genera- tions of speeial bleeding to eliminate. In short, the advent or new blood is a epeculaelon. ninrinen WAY, 'rms. A better way to letroduce elm blood is to teke two years to do it, and. ex- periment with individuals. leurchase few In -ns of the desired strain anti mate them to your best males, or secure a couple of outside malts /nttte thom to your best females; then study their off- spring for n year, and if satiefactory, mate the new blood to the balance of the flock. There Is no evidence to prove that "line -breeding" initiates .:. degeneracy, providing seasonable care' is exercised each year in selecting only vigorous breeders, and there Is a large number of fowls rrom which to choose. The danger becomes even more remote 1? two divisions of the same blood are kept go- ing year after yeae. This consists of keeping twa distinct strains of 'flutings on farm, both of which have common' ancestry, but which grow farther apart every year. Lvery season the males of one line are mated to the temalee of the other line and vice versa, the lines having been started by mating the best male to the best female, and continuing the second generation by mating the ore iginal male to hls daughters, or the original hen to the son. Proceeding' in a similar mo.nner for the third genera- tion, the original hen to her grandson, which praetically elimitattea from each line Its original respective sire or dam. It Is difficult to explant this System of line -breeding In writing, but If you will make a chart of it and get down to actual figures, you wilt soon see that It 18votteietIysniernlili. 8the career of every poul, tryman there is the temptation to cross breeds with a view to hnproving one of their qualities. In most instances this erossing or two pure breeds le a mistake. 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The appealanee alone of a %leek Of Cremes hied fonts ulna colmured With the Mite tweeds lehoneo they o1igin5te4 ehould tentvince anyone that tide ie• bed teen elenietimee It ie profitable to "rad*' up" a flock of Inengrele, *twit as aro round oil many general farm% by In- troducing pure-bred nudes. Pure-bred make.) ot the Beene variety shoul4 be lised year after sew, however, and not the males from the offaming or the firet erose. Barn Yard fowls are bettor than none. of come°, but why keep mongrele when pure-bred births can be had for almost the priee or meat? in Meeting males for breeding PUL - pollee the first qualities to coneider ere thoee in plainest evidence -the general appearance. et the birdie only ouch eneelmens shodid be chosen as meet with the standard requirements or a partieular breed. If a bird lute a poor comb, 'wry tall, teSor defects, or If he Is too terse or too small, he should he discarded inedhttely. bn- A.t the same thne the males aro being judged for their appearance, their con- duct stiould bo cerettilly noted, for a, towl'e actions fuerish ono of the most re- liable guides to its breeding ability. The .Sesirahle breeding eockerel is always on the alert, aristom alio in manner, Com- netive-ea good figider, and one who be, lievea In crowing about. Crowing is an indlcatien of victor and vitality, and characterizeti masculinity, cowardly bird is totally unlit foe the breeding pen. Peat ane physical weakness usually to together. The male that runs at the ap- proarli of another is apt to be a degen- erc,te. „ A.fter selecting the mules for general appearance and conduct, final judgment is passed on their physical qualifications, In other word, their hape and build. The body, deep and blocky, as contrast- edwith-the leng, thin blender typo. .A. bird plumage is apt to be deceiving in this reepeet; consequently all candidates fur the breeding pen should be carefully handled. and inspected. The male should eeteeted for the :game requirements an the females. A commonplace inquiry IN: How many femalee kg place with each male? No fixed rule cart be given. The breed, size of the floek, living quarters and the general health and vigor a the stock are all determiniug factore. In general more ere required with the heavier breeds. Atel the larger the flock the fewer males are required because where a number' or males are In the Name pen there is lees favoritism, consequently greater fer- tility. Other Condi (bus being equal, a safe rule for mating is as followe: One male to six or eight females of the AM.- astic class; one male to about ten females of the American or general Wireese class; and one male to le females of the Mediterranean class. HISTORIC NAUPLIA. l'ixst Gapital of Grecian an Impregnable Seaportgrowth of cacti.", REMEMBER I, The ointmen t you put ott your child's skin gets into the system just as surely as food the child cats. Don't let impure fats and mineral coloring Matter (such as many of the cheap ointments contain) get into your child's blood! Zam- iiuk is purely herbal. No pois- onous coloring. Use it always. 50c. Box at All Druggists and Stores. the Greeks in the Trojan. war. From Nauplia also it is Only a short drive to Tiryns, reputed to be the birthplace of Hercules, son of Zeus and Alemene. .Heraeon, the place at winch the lead- ers .of the Greeks swore their allegi- ance to .Agamennion„and where Klee - bis and Biton lay clown, no their eternal sleep after having taken. the places of tardy • horses to draw the chariot of their priestess mother, is equally accessible, Only a shert distance from here, too, is the famous Heriou of Epitiauros, celebrated as the seat of the cult of Aesculapius, the god of healing, who nienhology says was born to Koronis and Apollo on a )(Learnt' mountain, To the temple of Herion was attached a great hospital in which the priests were physicians and which was sup- ported by the lavish gifts of patients who had been cured, The treasury of this hospital was looted ott one occa- sion by the Roman dictator Sulla, who used the money to pay nis soldiers; "The harbor-eastle of Nauplia, whose modera name is Itsh-Kaleh. occupies steep the eite of the ancient Acropolis. The thlope of e hill (280 Kingdom soathern s feet high) is covered with a dense "it Is an interesting coincidence," says a war geography bulletin recently issued by the United States National Geographical Society,."that one of the most important places in Greece where King Constantine's Catlin has been openly supported by the populace against the Venizelists in their revo- lutionary movement to force n declare - Lion of war on the side of the Entente Allies is Nauplia, the almost Impreg- nable seaport -situated at the "head of the Gun. of Neuplia, in Eastern Morea rtsh pe e (11.0113torni cute n in ancient times a "The coincidence lies in the fact that Naunlitt was the first capital of the modern kingdom or Greece; ei was here that the first Greek President, John ('apo destria, a native of the Island of Corfu, Was assassinated, and It was here that in 1861 a military piot was hatched which resulted in the dethronement of King Otho, thus of the Hennes and father of the second Son of King Ohriaean IX. of Denmark, who become George *J., King of the Hellenes and father of the present ruler, "Nattplia is a charmingly situated town of some 6,000 inhabitants, It has a salubrious climate, and guide boons, regardless of the offeuce which such praise may give to the rest of the nation, emphasizes as one of the eeeik- ing features of the municipality, 'the tin -Grecian cleanliness of its streets.' "Like the neighboring city of My- eeitae, Nauplia, reached its greatest importance in the era ot myth and legend. By the dawn of historical times it had waned in influence and population, and the historian Pau- eanitte, writing in 150 A. D., described it as a 'deserted city.' "It is probable that Nanette was founded not by colonists from Argos and Mycenae, the two huportant ad- jacent cities of the plain,: but by set- tlers who arrived by sea. The very name of the city woulcj seem to sug- gest thiseenauplois meaning seaman - while the lofty, fortified eminence which dominates the harbor takes its name, Palamidi, from the foreign Palamedes, a famous hero of the Troga.n war and the inventor, accord- ing to the ancients, of the lighthouse, alphabetical writing, the discus, back- gammon and dice. "Throughout the period in which Athens, Sparta, Corinth and Thebes were emblazoning their names on the' pages of ancient history, Nauplia's share In Peloponnesian politics was obscured by larger affairs. ln the tniddle ages, however, the seaport one more comes to the fore, and when the crusaders took Constantinople in 1204 the Byzantine governor, Leon Sgouros, attenipted to found a Greek monarchy, with his headquarters here, The effort met with failure, but the town re- mained in Greek hands for several years. It finally passed under the con- trol of the Franks and was made the capital of the duchy oe„Arges. During this period the feudal system was established in the elem. 'lit the closing years of the four- teenth century both Argos and Natio- lia were bought by the Venetians, and 150 years later the latter was given to the Turks,but retaken by the republic of St. Mark • in 1686. The Turks were again in control 30 years later. "Both the Turks and the Venetians labored to fortify the Palami di, which was eventually held to be a veritable Gibraltar, In their uprising in 1822 the Greeks amptured this Stronghold, an achievement which greatly encouraged theme Five years later, by the fanteue Victory of Admiral Cordifigton, in Wm - Mand of a United British, French mid Russian fleet, over the Turkish fleet at Navarino, Natiplia was relieved at it critical inomeat in a siege. "The tragic death of the first presi- dent, Capo d'Istria, by gensliet and dagger, at the portal of the Church of St, Spiridion, on Oet. 9, 1831, has been mentioned previously, With the re- moval of the Seat of government to Athene the year following the croft- ing af King Otho in 1833, and the wee' cess of the Military plot hatched here against this Monarch tweiety-ittne years later, Nauplitt once again dis. apPeared ea a date line for historic) events until a few days ago, When the King's party made an armed demon- stration against former President Veit- IzeIN°stuli apdhaserients "often visited by tourists not only for its own sake, but because It affords an exeellent Starting point for eXellr81011 to the ruins of lilyeentte, whieh legend tells utt was founded by Perseus; whose wells Were built by the Tinian Cyclopes, and which Wee the home of Agamemnon, fattens leader of • 44 + 4+1-* re -e-+ 4-4 4-4 4-•-+.4 44 4,4 1 MAKE WAR 1 • ON FLIES +444 4+ • 4+ + + ••++++++4• +4- 4+4+ • The circular issued by the Co-opera- tive Committee for the Extermination of the Fly, iu Philadelphia, is bordered by pictures snowing the progress of the fly from its breeding place, feeding on carrion, manure and refuse, thence flying straight to th.e baby's milk bot- tle, hovering over the family meal, pausing to take a drink from the milk pitcher and swarming in profusion about the dinner table, then picturing finally the typhoid fever patient, bed- ridden as a result of the contamina- tion carried by the fly, The circular is headed: "If You Don't Kill Me, I May Kill You," and reads as follows: "We all know that flies are a nuis- ance and a menace to health, We spend our time swatting them. But we all ought to realize that the best time to swat the fly is before It is bon.? Aounce of prevention Is worth a pound of mire. An hour spent in de- stroying the breeding places of flies around your home, store of stable will kill more flies than a week of swat- ting, "Flies breed in filthy, decomposing matter, in garbage that is improperly covered, in manure piles that are al- lowed to accumulate, in rubbish heaps where vegetable matter is decaying, in old tin cans on lots or ash pits. No decomposing matter, no flies. "A single fly will produce in a. sum- mer season 5,5a8,720,000 flies, according to Dr. L. 0. Howard, te, S. Govern- ment expert, If one fly has a pro- geny of five billiom and a half in a summer, how many flies is your gar- bage can turning out to pester you for monthse "Flies in the dining -room mean nurses in the sick -room. "A fly in the milk may mean a little child in the grave. "If flies were feared like bad water there would be less typhoid. HOW TO AVOID MTS. "Don't allow flies in your house - screens in the windows may prevent crepe on the door. "See that screen doors fit snugly and shut quickly. "Keep your garbage can covered tightly, See that manure is screened, a,teuit.hat it is removed at least once a week. "Don't eat where flies are tolerated, and tell the restaurant why. "Don't buy foodstuffs from a store infested with flies, and tell the mer- chant why you will not buy from him. "Go a step further and prevent breeding at all To do this, sprinkle all possible breeding places with any strong disinfectant ,or with a fly poi- son, made by dissolving one pound of laundry seep in one gallon er Water, to which add one-third gallon of coal oil. "Sprinkle a little in your garbage can every time you put garbage in it. Sprinkle it on manure piles, rubbieli heaps, in old tin cans -where there is decomposing matter. It wilt absolutely prevent flyolia__brepeedainug." 14otifs. Arorer m8Porsilitlg . yflat. Many are of jet. Others consist of mock jewels, Beaded motifs are plentiful and effeelit tiY; WW001 motifs embroidered in chenille are not searee, Wing -shaped motifs predominate end glints of gold erniven the major - Hy, HAIR GOODS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Mailed at lowest Deesible pekes, cattsistent with high-grade work. Our Natural Wavy 3 -Strand Switches ttt 55.00, 57.00 and $9.00 18 all thadee are leaders With 08. Just send on your sample, or write for anything in our line. ateNTLEMEN'S Toupnts at $15.00 and WM, thee defy detec- tion whet worn. MINTZ'S HAIR GOODS EMPORIUM 62 KING ST, W, HAMILTON, OK (Pornterly Udine, t. IMMO, WILL, POWER. Cfluaton Tranectipte "old Llanitea nieces and nephews doni't veto balk elm et the ellehteet thing." -1.10 meet have greet will power. - " Yoe het In /mei ile ran will tsis. Lee stet." •••••rrorrn•••••++.40. • -••••r or. NERVOUS, BUT THANKFUL. Waeitio gem star) "what wattle you do if it situation rerk:r• %ouch eompelled you to fire st mine" he nervous," confessed Mrlithe. r'es, "toul yet lel be exceedingly thank.. 1 ul 1 1, as t3e man Nsitii the pen .ind 1 or un. innocent Vat -antler." WHEN HE ..frusseo (Pack) , Sparke M.N. talking toe'erltins trip lettere tweet ineve to a Suburb, itnti• trill'Ing OW course ot his remarks, nut the tellowing inquiry: "Sparks, now that s mere living In the country, Meet you mies the early morning noise and hustle 01 the city?" "Yes," eeld Sparks, "It I miss the ate t rein." LITTLE TO SAY. (Judge) -rimy eey money talks." "It (lope; but It never says mere than two wortte to me, Und they are 'great- •• • NOT PREFERRED. Weston Teen/script) -rills world owes every one a living," "1•rue; but neither yeti nor 1 seeza to be prererred ereditore." HIS COMPLAINT. "Yam con(sit3fta:ohnitnsgtd°onn'Sttasre)ent to agree or,tnievic]ifteydousrenreamtoareltsS' Sorghum. whole lot of people never seem to pay the. slightest attention to anything 1 ssy exeqd when they disagree with it.' • MAY IMPROVE. (JAW Mrs. Parker -Our new couk has learned all my ways. Parker -Don't worry, She may im- f rove. USELESS CHOLLY. (Boston Transcript) Cholly-Will you marry me if I stop smoking cigarettes? Miss Bright -No, Mr. Sappy, I couldn't think of marrying a man who did noth- ing. A DRAWBACK, (Washington Star) "He speaks several languages fluent- ly.' "The aceompllehment must be a source of satisfaction.' it isn't He can't think in one Ian- eauge without getting suspicious of him- eslf In several or the others." WANTED TO KNOW., (Puck) Doctor (at IGO am,) -Say, what do you mean by beating at my door like that? What's the matter withyou, anyway? lbeturbei•-Can't say, doc, l'm sure, (Lest) what 1 wanna, find out. FAR-SIGHTED. 1 "Is (Detroit Free Press) he far-sighted?" 1 'I should say so. He can see a man whont he owes money four blocks away.'' - CHEAPER TIRES. (Buffalo EX:PTOSS) Bub -I bought it rubber plant yester- day. Wife ---Oh, good! Then we'll be able to t our tires cheaper, won't • we? • • GREAT EXPRESSION. (Puck) Slickton-They tell me your daughter Singe with great expression. Flickton-Greatest you ever saw. Why, her own mother Can't recognize her face ellen she's singing! THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE. (Life) • "The doctor says he will let me know in al week whether I am going to live or not." "And what does he expect you to do In the meantime?" "He told me to take a complete rest and above all not to worry about anything. AMBITION HIS RUIN, (Birielingham Age -Herald) ell you had any ambition you wooldn't be tramping about the country boning your food," said the hard -faced house - 1 1)11lietcd' me tattered caller. "It wuz am - "You do e an injustice, mum," re- zilifilltd,lehda7t,proved me ruin." "Yes, mum. I made up nie mind dat I would't accept a job dat paid me. less'n CAM a year, • WHY HE WAS TRUTHFUL. (Louisville Courier -Journal) "Washington was a truthful man." "rye got the habit myself .now. think it is the best plan, if you marry a widew." KEEPING HER AGE. (Yonkers Staternan) Petienee-Isn't it remarkable how she keepe her age? Patrice -Yes, she hasn't changed It In trn years, 44 A Z.YEAR START. (Louisville Courier -Journal "Why won't you marry me?" "Because I don't love you." "Why need that matter? We'd simply have a five-year start on half tho pee. ple in our set." INFLATION A DEFENSE. Easy for the Pttffer Fish to Balk Its Natural Enemies. Tho puffer fish affords a novel ex- ample to the • way nature emnetimes work e to protect her creatures. The many different species inhabit all tropical and other warm seas apd cep tain large elvers. Few of them reach a length of more than two feet. The peeilliar characteristic comtnon to all Of them is their Ability to in- flate themselves With air Or water un- (il they become almost spherical in shape. The air or water that fills the abdomen or the esophageal Bea is re Mined by a valve in the threat and can be discharged almost instantly. A few good-eized scup were plated le one Of the exhibitiOnelanks on the New Milt Zoological Soeiety with a dozen puffers about two Indies long. The hungry scup at once attacked the pen'. ers, but in an idstant every puffer in - flitted itself so completely with -water that it became aimed globular. Alt the gm) could do NOS to knock them about like top balloons, too big to be swallowed, toe smooth to afford tiny hold to the jaw. Puffers that become frightened near the surface of the sea and are inflated with air somethnes drift ashore, where they roll along the sands till they dio and ore dried by .the sun and wind, The Japanese make lantern; et their dried inflated bodies, for the stretehed skin is as transparent as oiled paper. voire)---See that, big 'fehiow ovet ther, he broke three roeordg last tvaek Sweet 'Voting ir et tint rim in in g_m .the plionomaillt.--Penn State loroth. ,Tohn Dull used to 'have the largest merehaat marine, but he hes now yielded that distinction to Davy Zones. -.Plutrkston Nene and Courier.