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The Wingham Advance, 1912-06-27, Page 31 1 )0, In the Poultry World FlItELEtSS BROODERS AII1S The prineipal feature in all -fireless brooders is the conservation of the bod- ily heat ot the chicks ,so that when a Losffielent amber are put together eceh will contribute his /11..%e toward provid- ieg Warnlidl for all. The idea is by no means new, hut it teafi L11110 SaW 111 it vertain possibilities, bought a few quarts of printers' hilt to be used in connection with various periodieals, put 41 price on his "se-etc-tn." of $1 per, and his name and. fortune were made. The breedes is 18 inches wide, and 30 inches long ,inside measurement, with wall nine inches high at the rear and 12 inches high in front, and stands on legs six inches from the ground, This gives a place for the chielis to find shelter from 81111 and storm. The roof is not nailed on, but made in one piece, and ean be removed to clean the interior. It may be fastened in plac.e with hooks, but we merely put a stone on the top to prevent the wind from blowing it off. The hover consiets of a frame inches squire. to which a square of soft cloth is tacked to one side of the frame to drop to the floor. This hoov- er is placed in the back part of the brooder, with the dropcurtain in front, and meta on nails driven into the sides of the brooder just five inches from the floor. A nest of chaff, cut clover or alfalfa is made under the hover and built deep enough for the blanket to rest on the backs of the chicks. This is an im- portant feature, for if the blanket doet not come in contact with -the chicke they will -become chilled and pile on top of one another. For cold weather small quilts ebout le inehee square, are made of cloth and cotton batting to lay on top of the blanket. As the front half of the brooder is for an exercising and feeding room one or more small windows are put in this part, about four inches above the floor, so the chicks will not crowd in theit efforts to look out. If only one window is provided it is covered with wire fly screen, but if more than one the others are fitted with glass so there will be no draft. The roof is made of light 'boards cover- ed with roofing felt, with molding along the sides and ends 'to keep it from slid- ing off. The material for these brood- ers costs us about $1.25 each. When the chichs are taken from the incubator they are placed under the hover and a board put in front of it to keep them in. Until they are 48 hours old they are not molested, for what the newly hatched chick needs more than anything else is warmth and quiet. When they are two days old they are given their first feed, usually opmmer- clad chick feed, and as soon as possible are taught to scratch for it in the lit- ter in front port of the brooder. After each meal they are put back under the hover and fastened in. It takes several days for them to learn that they must go there to get warm, and great care must be taken, particularly when the weather is at all cool, to see that they do not stay out long enough to become When they become thoroughly at home in the brooder an outside run is provided for them, five feet long and two feet wide, with a slat or wire cover to keep other chickens out. At this time they should know enough to go un- der the hover to get warm, and the board which was used to confine them there is tacked to the front legs of the brooder to keep them from running un- der it, otherwise they will be likely to mistake this for their home. After a few dee- ihey will have learned to climb their littie stairway and the board can be taken away, giving them this much more room to rundt. The brooder is moved every two or three days to provide fresh range for the chicks, and when they are three or four week e old it is placed in a grassy yard about a rod square, where the chicks remain until they go into small colony coops. poloaram••••• re, , Specialist Did Skin Trouble No Good Very Itchy and Disfiguring. Got a Little Cuticura Soap and ()int - merit and Was Cured, "For two SUlut (E 1 lltroral with skin trouble on my arma and on my lege from inv toe ie fleone My Lome wore badly di3figtit tal, and 1 kteit them covered. It came like Om hives, and was very itelty. J ec neulted a epecialtit, who gavo me ne Lei at an 0111(11/011t, but semet./1 to fe, no good. It wan beginning P) anpeur ou iiW iftee, "I got a Melo Cutieura Ointment and aomo etitif1:r t Soot\ The itiee touch of Ointment ieennefl to relieve, and before the L.1:1: iire Ointment was tinitilied 1aile etire,i,1 have met the least bier' of trotinie. 1 tblek It would have spread ate r Lite- -whole body if Cutieura Soap and Ointment had not curd nie. 1. tun delighted with them, and do feel pleased to think 1 have some-, thing I have eolith:0 nee in. I tell all my friends about them, and 1 think Cutieura Ointment, is the best I ever eaw." (Signed) M. j. Bocldy 3 McCaul $t., Toronto, Dee, Cold -Sore Began to Heal With First Use of Cuticura Ointment. "Cuticura Ointment cured a very bad cold -sore that gave MO hours of severe pain and loss of sleep. I tried lots of other remedies but nothing did me any good till I tried Cutieura Oint- ment, and from the very first applica- 4ion it began to heal and now there is not even a sear left." (Signed) Mrs. W: Boyce, Mermaid Farm, P.E.I.,Jan.S.'11. For more than a generation Cuticula Soap and Cutieura Ointment have afforded the speediest, safest and most economical treatment for skin and scalp troubles, of young and old. Although they are sold by druggists and dealers every -where, a liberal sample of each maybe obtained free, from the Potter Drug Je Chem. Corp., sole props., 57 Columbus Ave., Boston, U. S, A. •• 256 egg strain (Sheppagds) has led me to believe that as winter layers they are without a peer. Owing to their plump bodies and yel- low or slightly mottled legs, they are suitable for "dressed" poultry market which is an important consideration. They can be recommended for stocking large egg farms where the other birds must be disposed of as "dressed," for after the third year all hens are des. tined to the slaughter room. THE REVENGE OF THE MICE. —From Luetige Blaetter. THEY LAY WHEN IT IS COLD. (By William Everhard.) It is indeed to be regretted that so many fine birds were frosted this win- ter. I attended many of the larger shows this season and I noticed that the birds of very few breeders escaped. I have been quite fortunate myself. Am winterieg over 200 Buff Leghorn pullets and four or five male birds and only one of these has shown the effects of cold weather. The temperature here for more than three weeks averaged a little over ten degrees below zero, ranging from eight degreees down to 20 degrees. birds are in a continuous house built on the Wood's plan, excepting that it is two-storey affair. It is located at the top of a piece of ground sloping to the south. The first story is con- crete with gravel floors. The second storey is built strongly ,vith house aid - Ing and I have used a heavy litter of straw on the floor. This house is large and. roomy. In order to keep the birds from suffering at night I have constructed a hood over each of the roosts, which are upstairs, The build- ing is lighted by eleetricity, and the eggs are gathered from a hallway in the rear. I find that giving the Leg - horns two floors to work on is a vast improvement over any other methode I hove tried. They are Constantly rim- ming from one to another, and the pro. duction of eggs OW winter has been marvelous. Pen No, 3 in this house showed the highest record of 1,11e winter Feb. 21st, 27 pullets laying 24 eggs dropping down on the 22n1 to 15. •••....•••••••••• ANCONAS A VALUABLE BREED. Anemias, a breed that is attracting a. great deal of attention at the shows this season, and though the exhibits are usually -small compared with other, owing perhaps to the fact that they ere new and scene in most every locality, they do not fail to draw crowds of ad- atitere and inquirers to their section at the shows. And they do eertainly pres- ent a striking appearance with their greenish -black spangled with white plume Age, red wattles and white ear lobes; their erect carriage and quick, alert moveitent tharaeterietie of the Medi- tereaneane. They take their name .froin Anemia ---- eetity in Italy - therefore, are not ley - bride, and pure etraine ave imported trent there every year. They are heavier in weight than Leg. horns, are hardy and prolifie layer; the pullets developing at five months, They give excellent satiefection in any perticularly in the south, where the elinlate le similar to that of Italy.. -111(7 three yeare" experience with it 1.1 WISE AND OTHERWISE. /k GAINED IN KIM NNW DIGESTION RtSTORED HEALTH UNWED HOY. It Happene That Help Are Salt Poisoned, it is an aocepted feet that pelt le poieun to pigs, and pretty deadly, too, if taken in any meterial quantity. But often deaths are Lye:feigned to other than the true eause in eases where ealt is the • agent, It will be eaid, Perhoeie that no or salt ht any form has bout dia. jed of from the house for a eonsider. able period before (Teethe may have tee cured., ana that any mortality may not be attributed to the poisem. It, haw - ever, often happens in this way; Salt is oteetsionelly earelesely put in tlie. hog tub or maybe brine with salty sediments. The slowly-solulde salt eettlat at the bottom of the tub, so that it le only then the dregs are taken out that the poisoning takes place. Some tubs and detente are not really emptied for meths, and this is the. time that salt poisoning may occur. - New York State is getting excited over the horee question. There were 500,000 horses on farms in that etate in 1910, which is a lose of 38,000 head in ten years. The trouble with horse raleing is that the colt doee not reach maturity in lest than five years; but a beef steer matures iu two years and a dairy cow will be giving milk and raising a calf in threa years. A horse raised on high- priced land ought to be worth $500 at maturity. Turnips are valuable food in a ration for dairy cows where no other eucculent food is obtainable. One muet be careful and not feed too many turnipe at first, or they will taiot the inilk, bat if fed in moderation at first and gradually in- creased, never feeding abnormal amounts, there will be no trouble. In Nebraska, under dry -land agricul- ture, investigations prove that eultiva- tion increases the absorptive power of the .soil; that evaporation from Snell cul- tivated soil extends buthlittle below one foot; that from 5tee, tget/ inches more of rainfall are stored in tilled, uneropped land than on Etienner land growing a crop; that thie water may be utilized by ceps from a depth of six feet; that deep - lying water is a. better protection against drought than moisture near the surface, and that at least half an inch of water must fall upon dry soil before any can. be conserved. The loss in the weight as well as the value of manure as it is handled on the average farm when piled in the barnyard find left until epring orlater is shown in an experiment which was made by the Maryland exneriment station. Eighty tone of barnyard manure were put in one pile and lest for one year. At the end of this time it was- found the pile had. lost In weeght 53 tone, or over CO per cent., while from the standpoint of fertilizer value it probably lost even more than thine. Horseradish le commonly grown from sets and not from seed. Some Leann -they luige beet success in growing it as a sec- ond erop after early cabbage, neets, etc. The crop is dug in the fall, the email roots removed and cut into seta four to six inches long. The top end is cut square and the bottom end slanting, so as to make no miistake in planting. These are tied in bundles and kept over Ninter itt sand. In spring, .after the cabbages nee set out, a row of boateradish is planted between the cabbage rows. Small holes are made with a light crowbar ar long etiok, and the sets dropped in end cov- ered two or three inches deep, so that they do not come up until July 1. The roots are dug very late in the fall. Any deep, rich, well -drained soil will answer for horseradish. Tom—That Mise Biggies is the poor- est convereationaliet that 1 ever met. His Hostess—Is that; 50? Tom—Yes. The only thing she said to me the whole evening was "No," and I had to propose to her to get her to say that. —Boston Transcript. Your mistake in life is that you do not look forward far enough.—Diekens. "I just saw Hunter, and he looks pretty bad. What's the matter with him, do you know?" "Compound frac- ture." "Whoa, sort of eompouud frac- ture?" "He's broke, and. Mise Richley discovering the faet, broke her engage - went to him."—Catholic Standard and Times. The intent and not the deed is in our power; And therefore who dares greatly does greatly. --Brown. Knicker--Mr. Hill says our etomaelis will force us back to the land. Docker— The vermiform appendix <thee it for a great many of us.—New York Sun. A Man ehould soll hie wares at the rates of the market.—Chinese. Mrs. Benham—What is the meanest thing a woman can say to a man? Ben- ham—"Yes"—when he is fool enough to Propose.—Town Topics, I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovere rather more than sea- men. --.13Yr011. err -s. ZAM-BUK AND OUTDOOR LIFE Every tennis or ball player, every swimmer, every canoeist, every man 00 woman who loves outdoor life and. exercise, should keep a box of e.ainebeee handy. Zaan-Buk is a purely herbal prepara- tion, which, as soon as applied to cots, bruises, burns, sprains, bliste ts, etc., gets up highly beneficial operations. First, its antieeptie operations render the wound free from all danger from blood poisoning. Next, its soothing properties relieve and ease the pain. Then its rich, herbal balms penetrate the tiseue, and set up the wonderful process of healing. Barbed wire scratches, inseet stings, skin diseases, emelt as eczema, heat rashes, ringworm, babies' heat sores, chafed places, sore feet—are an quiekly cured by Za,m.Buk. It also eases and cures piles. All drug- gists and stores. Use Zam-Buk Soap also; 25e. per tablet, 'The Stately Gwendoline—How could Penelope marry that bow-legged mean Patrician MageMv dear, we nmet be faehionable.at tiny cot. Ile matches her daeliehmulta-Satire. Bootee will epeak plant when enuneel- ors blanche- Lilly. "Joe, I've b gan to think mv &Pe Ind tell the truth," "Why A04 Bill?" "Wellshe threeteee every week to go hack to her innther, but, she atever dome"- -Roston neetird. LET HER DOWN EASY. (Vxeliange.) "Did you make thoee biscuits," my dear?" risked the young intabentl. "Yee, darling." "Wel), I'd rather you 'would nut make any more. eweethetirt." "Wily vot, my love?" "Beettutte, iny Angel, you are too light for ouch litaVY Werk." e ' $ "How could he die from a blow ministered by b.ilateelf%" "He blew out the gas." ......•••••••••4111 111, HERE IS MORE PROOF OF QUICK CURE FOR FOLKS THAT ARE WEAK, AILING, NERVOUS. Moro Praise for Dr. Hamilton's Pills. "Vol' a period, last Rummer the thought of food excited feelings of nausea," writes Mrs, C. A. Dodge, of Bloomsbugy. "Lite heat hacl made nes ' lietItss mid the distaste for food re- duced me to a condition of eemiestarvt. tion and brought me to the verge of nervous collapse. Tonics were lhice. less to restore an active desire for food., The doctors told me my liver and kidneys were both at fault, but the medicines they gave me were too severe and reduced my strength so that I had to abandon them. At the sug- gestion of a friend who had been cured of blood and skin trouble, 1 be- gan the use of Dr. Hamilton's Pills, The difference I first noticed was, that while they cleansed the system, in- stead of feeling weaker I felt better after taking them. Indeed their -ac- tivity was so mild it was easy to for- get I had taken them at all: they seemed to go right to the liver. and in a very brief time not only did all source of nausea disappear, but 1 be- gan to crave food, and I digested it reasonably well. Then I began to put on weight until within three menthe I was brought to a condition of good health. I urge Dr. Hamilton's Pills for all who ere in poor health." Get the best of all medicines to- day and refuse a substitute for Dr, Hamilton's Pills of Mandrake and Butternut; Sold by all druggists and storekeepers, 25c per bo -e or five for $1.00, Sent postpaid by The Catarrh°. zone Co., Buffalo, N. Y., and Kingston, Canada. ad - THE CIVIC ALPHABET. A—Aim to make Arbor Day annual "clean-up" day. I3—Banish the tin can district from your city. C—Clean up back yards arid alleys. 11-11dueate housewiVes to demand clean tnarkets. Ir—Fine every club member who does not work. G -Give free lecture upon civic improve- }T—Have campaign against unsightly billboards. I—Interest city authorities in "clean- up" day. ,T—Join all forces for the anti -dirt cru - Klee. --Kill sidewallc spitting or it Will kill you. --Let your slogan be; "Do it for in me.. liweet hole." at—Make reqUeets o re:lettere for "clean-up" torment:J. N. -Next to godliness Is cleanliness. 0—Organi9e the ehiteren lit civic leage rem P—Plant treae, and then pima trees, tote pieta mere trees. Q.-Queetion authorities about Ott- ex- pentlItures. et—tternember to plan parka and play - pounds now. te—Stuay city ordinanees mid work for teele enforcement. T—Try to make the school buildinee cebtece. Taatise .every effort to arouse eitIzene. aaalfattiquish the oppositionwith good nature. AV—Wnge tineeeeing 1.var upon all weetle. Mee end mosquitoes. Xe-X-ael Obedience to eity R‘tnitery new. Y—Yeer city lo YOtia-never forget that. ',—Zeal, outrage met paeletme W111 Olean lip Waultington.•-Spokene Deily "Little boy, you're awfully young to wear glasses." "Yep, but they were ray brother's an' he died and pa said it would be wasteful to throw 'em away." --- ARAB SUPERSTITIONS. Novel Way of Explaining Earthquakes —Green Eyed Devils, The Arabs of Morocco believe that the earth Is balanced on the horns of a bull, which itself rests on fish on the sur- face of the sea, the sea being borne up by the Divine Power. When the bull is tired he changes the earth from one horn to the other, with the result that there is an earthquake. Another Marathon belief is that during sleep the soul leaves the body and visits other souls. Consequently we ought nev- er to awaken a sleeper rudely, for if he happens to be dreaming at that moment hwitslisdolue. lmay not have time to return to Eli0 body and in consequence the man aluroceari wizards contend that ghosts eau only be devils, never the souls of dead people. They are human in appear - epee, with the exception of their eyes, which are directed downward, and their feet which are forked er shaped like the hoof of a camel. These ghosts speak, but they are intangible. They. are all colors—yellow, red, green, white and black—and their principal occupation conests in playing' tricks on human be- ingtAMarrakech, says a writer in the Vide World, there is a house In which the owners placed a bath; but they were unaware that the property belonged to the devils. A young woman came to have a. bath, but 110 sooner had she step- ped into the water than she disappeared. Hearing her cries for help the. neighbors rushed in, whereupon she appeared on the surface of the water. As soon as the people tried to seize her she disappeared,and so on for soxne time. There was nothing to be done, but to close the house, which thus fell into the y „Sammy, wh hands of the talebs, who had spread the you Story among the credulous population of and tease that kitten?" Moroccan witches always possess a ; "Ain't it maltese?" the town for their own end. supply of philtres and fantastic prepara- tions for their customers. "Lunar paste," ; composed of various substances and pre- pared in the light of the moon, is one of that'll. A little of this paste placed on the enemy—whatever you wish—of the person whose hand you shake. Jealous Wornen introduce a little into the food or drink of their rivals, and by wishing them ill trust to obtain revenge, .A. man who wishes to make the hair of a woman fall from her head, presumably a lover who has been jilted or deceived, procures a lock of her hair and daubs it with "lunar paste" and tar. At the same time he says; "What hides the moon? The clouds. What produces the clouds? The rain, Then just as the rain falls in torrents from the cloud, so do I desire the hair of that woman to fall." He then buries the tuft of hair, and in a few days It is believed, the hair o fhis victim will begin to come out, to her exceeding grief and rage. A pornewhat similar proecsa le eniployed for making the teeth of an enezny decay and fall from his inouth. a -es THE JUNE GRADUATES Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, See the sweet girl graduate, Shy and shrinking, nesitate Bre she takes the step that leads Outward to tho great world's Deeds. TO its duties, yet untried, She aPproaches, sanctified By her guileless innocence, fly her inexperietece— Trembling on tied verge, she waits Final judgment by the Fates. Standing With exultant feet Where the brook and river meet, See the young man graduate! Not znueli does hp hesitate m Tehe takes the stop that leads Outward to the greet world's needs To its duties, yet untried, He approachert with the stride Of conquering hero who 1‹.110WR exactly what he'll do. He has got the thing WOrketi uut, He is troubled by no (totem, He (An answer any van, He's the chap that Itnowe it all • Sassy, ou the verge, he vp ails To 8Wat WhOlS 110111 b111101 of Fates, ehrOnteled - A• COUNTRY LIFE (By joiteph Greenaway.) would rather be a tramp than live a 11411(140 -mouth existence in the eatit .4.1eof Lontioneor New York. Yes, 1 Mean 1. would. cheerfully foot the track under God's •sky through wind and rain any -day, before I'd put up with it, True, I should have to shoulder many liardsitive;. I should become roleth, e ad doily leokiug. But, believe. me, there ere far worse things in this world than -being down at the heele and grimy. Thee° are , S01110 thinge that soap and water eau never *meth out. Two months of last summer I epent out iu the opeu fielde of Ontario, and for tie: weeks I lived just off East 2titli etrect and 1st •avenue in New York. Whew !---what 11, C011 tra6t What pe.opie—eepecially working pee- ple--can see in big- towns 1 don't, koow. Yet New York tome thousands upon thousaanle each year from the cormtry. side. They flock in—boys and girls—all optimistic and full of strength and vigor. But not more than 25 per cent. of them are tameeesful, don't think I tun ex- aggerating this, taking into &meld - oration the cost of living. If there are four millions of people in New York, I know that there -are at least three zil- lions just paling along from day to day, And there are a good numleer out of this insufficiently clothed and fella It is best to be candid about this thing. Directiy a town becomes any size degen- eration ;sets in. There is not a town in the world to -day with a -population over a million that haen't a, alum But the ordinary passers-by don't gee this kind off thing. It is kept in the back- ground, naturally. They see the won. derful buildings—the sky serapers— the wealth and glamor of Fifth avenue. They ,stroll along Broadway and think how ibright and happy thine are. But it's a elsam--a, gigantic ham of merry making. (Moving picture •EllOWS and theatres and oda fountains a nd electric candles are not the only thiegs 111 life. Surely man Waa'made master of th euniveree for somm ething ore tl an that. Here waa I up in my little room on the top floor overlooking the river. 1 was employed during the day aft a clerk at $12 a week. After paying for my board and washing and clothee 1 1-La'cl very little left eaeh week. The house was full of 0.odgers. onee tried to count how many of no were really in the :effuse. Bra I had to give it up. We -were a mixed crowd; three young girls were typists-, two were .saleswomen, we had an Irishman who worked in a warehouse, and a young fellow from Boieto.1 wito was in the real Hittite business, and many others. But in one thing we were very much alike, we all pretended to be tieing better than we really were. I know candidly that 1. often had to cut down my dinner hill. I had to keep up a good appearance, eo them was nothing else to do lett run airing on two meals a day. Of eatteee, ace:mating Uptan Sinelair's faeting theory, that MIS for my benefit. but soniceaw f didn't Se0111 it, Perbape. I had been iteed 10 the three squire 1110018 en the farm up in Ontario, rather touge, but plain good stuff, and. the myetimeme mixtueee at the New York itottrallrg lionsee didn't agree with ma At any rate, I got tired of it, I soon found out that it did not ;mit me, so one .fine morn- iug I dropped all my high a mbitions— forgot all about \Vail etreet, Lind the millions of dollars floatiug ;Omit only waiting to be pieked up, aed boarded the first train for the country. Beek to the land where at least I emit 1 40.0, Claire ekv, and whereih 1 eould emelt e freeh- ness of the old brown earth. And the day will come when, big cities will be a. thing of the past. -People were never intended to be hoarded up in such a fashion. Factories will be built in the ,eountryeethey will be epretd out over the land, giving the work/tee* a chance to breathe. And when that day comes may peie haps get back illy ambition for money gra,bbing. 7, MADE IN CANADA, CONTAIN NO ALUM WRONG PORT Masten Traileeript.) Nouriteleo you beard from your sister. How did she enjoy the trip 64•1.088? Miss Young—Weil, she wrote that 11116 V1111$ very glad when they reaehed terra firma. Mrs. NeuritcheeTerra firma? Why, thought oho was to land At Liverpool. • BREWSTER'S MILLIONS WERE NOTHING TO THE LAIRD'S— IT'LL TAKE HIM 300 YEARS TO GIVE 'EM ALL AWAY. "THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME" The dames of Franco are fond and free, .And Flemish lips are willing, And *aft the maids of Italy, And Spanish eyes are thrilling, Still though I bask beneath their smite, Their arms all fail to find me. And my heart falls back to Erin's To the girl I left behind me. For she's as fair es Shannon's side, And purer than its water, But she refused to be my bride, Though many a year I sought her. Yet since to France I sailed away Her letters oft remind me That I promised never to gainsay The girl I left behind nte. She says: "My own dear love, come home, My friends are Hell and many, Or else abroad with you I'Il roam; A soldier stout as any; If you'll not come, nor let me go. I'll think you have resigned me." My heart nigh broke when I answered eM v, To the girl I left behind me. • But Maybe This Steel Trust Suit W ill Help Some—If It'Realty on .!he Level. WORKING HARD TO DIE POOR. Len't it terrible how our istralrew - Carnegie is getting to be? And what a heart breaking thing it mutt be to give away all your money before ewe dia. That' e what the ironmaster eiaid he would do. No doubt Carnegie is tickled to pieces about his steel teust snit, hop- ing it will permanently •depreeiate the value -orf his borrdig -no doub ts not ! Tet' s figure it up. For 10 yeers pot the Laird has been edging away an average of about $15,000,000 a year. Following are some of the larger items that go to make up the total: Libraxise, $51,000,000. Institute, Pittsburg, $16,000,000. GaTillegie fou nelation, $15.000,000. 1 ea ti e, We el ti etign , $ 10 ,00e 000,, Sco nth tut Ivo i thee $10 ,000 ,Q00 , Rego fund, $5,000,000. Peace fund. $10,00(1,000. Polyteclinie echoole, Pittsburg, $10,- 000,000. there are any: number of inie- • cellaneouis benefactions, organs, the 11811C0 temple, mid eo on, thet being - the total up to approximately $190,- 000,000, meetly given since the aale : of the (leem egio teel phi n t t the United Stetee Steel corporation. And all that time Andrew Carhegie has been drawing more than $30 a minute, $44,000 a day, $13,750,000 a year. The mere interest ,on the Londe he got for ItisSluire of the Carnegie Seel Co, has brought him in that time nearly •one hundced and forty million del 'ere . Poor ? WI y, A ied rew i•.4 least $150,000,000 richer than he w ae 12 years ago! 111 1890 Judge \V, IT. Moore and his brother, they of National Bitoult fame, offered Carnegie a million for a 90 -day option on hie plant. They were going to form a teel truet eight off. Carnegie eadd he would aeftent if the Moores could get hie partners, Frick and Phiopet, to join with them. They did and Carnegie fixed the sale price at $157,950,000, charging For never shell my true love bravo A life of war and M.)iling, And nover as a skulking slave I'll tread my native ,soll on; But were it free or to be freed, The battle close would find me To Ireland bound nor message need From the girl I left behind me. —Old song, LET THEM DO IT. (Montreal Herald.) A. farmer's wile who had no very ro. mantic ideas about the opposite seX, and who, hurrying from churn to sink, from sink to shed end back to the kitehen stove, was asked if she wanted to vote. "No, I certainly don't," she said. "I say if there's one little thing that the men folks ran do alone, for goodness' sake let 'on do it." IIPOINVINN• DON': NEED TO TOUCH IT. (Montreal (4azette.) The tun risee early these days and the daylight saving talk is being revived in many "laces, enthusiasts advocating the matinee forward of the clock so that bus - WO* may be begun at 7 a. m. instead or 8 as at promo. In reply it may be ask- ed why !he hauds of time Shuuld be In - tell -Arta with. Let the workers begin at '1 Alt they ueed to do, or earlier if they with. There is nothing in the way, seve the doeire to lay in bed, which Is ex tremely popular with a large eection of the publie. eer, WHAT STATE NAMES MEAN Maine takes its name from the Pro- vince of Maine, la France, and was so called as a complimeet to Hearietta, the Queen of Charlt,s L., who was its owner. New Iiampshirs.4 was originally called Laconia. Verment 18 Freneh—"Vert mont"— sig- nifying "green mountains." Massachusetts is an Indian word, signi- fying "country about the great hills. :Rhode island probably gets Rs name because or ite fancied resemblanee to the Island of Ithode-s, in the :Mediterran- ean Sea. The real name of Connecticut is "Quo- neh-ta-cut." It is a Mohican name, sig- nifying "long river." New York was so named as a compli- ment to the ?Joke of Yuri:, whose hrother, charies 11., g•ranted 111111 that territory. New Jersey was named for Sir George Carter, alio was at that time •the Gov- ernor of the Iele of Jersey, in the British channel, Pennsylvania, as is generally keown, takes its name. from William Penn, the "sylvanie," part of it meaning "woods." Literally, it is "Penn's woods. Delaware derives its name from Thomas West,, Lord de la Ware. Maryland was named Iti honor of Hen- rietta Maria, Queen of Charles T. Virginia got Its name from Queen Filizal beth, the 'Virgin Queen." :Kentucky is derived from the Indian word "Kain-tukee," signifying the "land of the head or the rive.r." Alabamo. eomes from a Greek word, and signifies. land of zest. Three of our Indian interpretations have been given to the word .Arkensas, tho best being that it signifies "sMoke waters " the French prefix "ark" mean- ing "bnw*" Louisiana was so named in honor of Louis XVL Mississippi is a Natehez wan d that means "father of waters." , geneeesee, according to some writers, Is from 'Aimee, an Indian chief, others have it that it means "river of the big bend." Ohie has several meanings fitted to it. Some say that it Is a ,Suwanee word, meaning "the beautiful river." Others re - ler to the Wyandotte word "Olnien," which signifies "something great." Indiana means "land of Indians," jlltnois Is supposed to be derived front an Indian word which a as intended to lefer to a superior class of men. Wieconsin is an Indian word, meaning "wild, rushing waters." I'.rick and Phipps $170.000 for their share in the .option. The deal fell through, and the irournaster kept the $1,170,000—be t your boots he ,did! Bit t alter, that—Suet watch. When, a little later, John Rocke- feller wanted to buy the Carnegie plant, the ratioe was $250,000,000. Gone up a coal $93,000,000, you see. Seven ,days after John D. refused to pay $250,000,000 for the plant, the ironineueter celfereci to cell out to his par tneTF, for $300,000,000. Fifty million more. And when after that offer had been declined will" thanks, and the Home- stead opoi tie ,of peace- had threaten- ed to devatetate the steel world with acaeli:•.eatifiel war of extermination, Car- negie_ finelly en-ild to itIorgan's vv.n•da- 04,000 ,00f) in 5 per rent. goad bonds. $98,277,120 in United States Steel pre' er red . $90,279,140 in Steel conernon. The Laird copped off the 5 per -cent. gold bonds—nearly a hundred aind fifty millions in pure velvet, over .and above his own e;elling price two years before. Now then—if Carnegie has $304,- 000,000 in gold bonds, paving about $14,000,000 a year, and he gives away $15,000,000 a year, how long will it he before he is pinched with poverty? Fourteen front 15 leaves one. A mil- lion &Hare ahort each year, and $34,- 000,000 principal to draw on 1 Figuate out the progression yourself. Figure for a day or two and you will find that it's going to take Andy about a lifetime to use net mereay the $147,000,000 "velvet." Then, it will take SCAMS decades more to setter the 'pitiful reninant—$157,000,000—before he finally goes on the county. Thes, calculation is based on the foolish asaumption that the $304,000,- 000 in gold bonds represents every- thing Carnegie hate. in. the world. If Ite- hes enottgh incidental peoperty laid away to yield him another mil- lion a year, it'e all off, 0.1.•••••••••••1 ......••••••••40,MAION0.10.10. :Michigan .is an Indian word, meaning "great lelte." The name of Kansas is based on the same as Arkansas. Iowa is named front an Indian tribe —the Kioyas, The }Cowan were so call- ed by. the Illinois Indians, because they were "across the river." The name of California is a matter of much dispute. Some writers say that it first appeared in a Spanish romance of 16.10; the heroine being an Amazonian named "California." Colorado is a Spanish word, applied to that portion of the Rocky Mountains on account of its many colored peaks. Nebraska means "shallow waters." 'aZevacla Is a Spanish word, signifying "snow covered mountains."—"Boy Life." 1 4 ROMAN CHURCH MJSIC (New York Sun.) The visit of the boy choir from Chicago seems to have given eapecial pleasure to Lis Holiness the Pope because the boys sang Gregorian music. The Pontiff ex- pressed deep satisfaction at their obedi- entle to the motu preprio concerning plain song in the sanctuary. This motu proprio was issued on the feast of St, Cecilia, November 22nd, 19(11, and it left no doubt as to the wishes of the Pope. It said: "Speeial efforts are to be made to re- store the Use of the Gregorian chant br the people. Whenever it Is desired to empoly the high voices of sopranos and contraltos these parts mast be taken by boys, acording to the most a.neient ueage of the Cbureh." OVERCROWDED (Exchange.) Nearly half a Million in New Yoe:. live In tenement houses and cellars. There is the story of an Inspector who found four families living In one room, chalk lines being drawn across in such a manner as to mark out a (meteor for each family, "How do you get along here?" Inquired the inspector. 'Very well, sir," was the reply, "only the man in the farthest rev- iler keeps boarders." • BABY'S OFFENCE laixehangen Mamma—Tommy, you are a velv naughty bey for slapping baby. 'Walt .id vet hit lem for? Tommyeg(1rying)—ile's drunk all the ink and be won't eat a piece of blotting paper: BONDS PAYING,.67 INTEREST 431 The First Mortgage Bonds of Price Eros. & Company at their present price pay 6 per c:mt interest. 'Ma security they offer is first mortgage on 6,0oci square miles of pulp and timber lands scattered throughout the Province of Quebec. The timber is insured with Lloyds of England against loss front fire. The earn - ins at present are sufficient to pay bond intereet twice over, and when the mill now in course of construction is in operation, earnings will be enormously increased. These bonds can be quickly converted into cash, as there is a ready market for them. ill From standpoints of interest remit and security, these Noels constittitei 1111 hive:A/ant of mete tionally high order. There i3 every reason to 'believe these bonds will considerably increase in Value. 1 We will be glad to seuti yen literature further describing these bonds. S C:;URITIES CORPORATION LIMITY,D BANK OF MONTREAL BUILDING YONGE AlfirD0AUNSIT STREETS R. M. WiliTa MONTARAL.OUESte-1-1ALIFAX.011AWA Manager LONDON UNGId 0 sotte*AINIAWAsirmims' kmosioimeenotio Captain „tepid, of the Californian, has one hie reeeet that will lag him all hie life. Z They have a list of three more knights over in England noweea dis- tinguished editor, au equally distinguish- ed, doctor, and another who it; well up iu archaeology, Paitile Waldstein and Bland -Sutton are three men well fitted to fdline anywhere, •+,,Mr/P1r41 The NeW Zealandloan of four and a ealf millions at 31/2 per eent bee for Iwo yeare proved a fiaseo, 85 per cent. of it being left on the underwriters' hatide, Why don't the Main lcrulem deal with borrowere in whom the world luxe efflIfidence—like those of Canada? +4-$. The hawsefly has been eonvieted of eapital erime. eie ie 1111 unbidden and unweloome emeet. Cleanlinees in the lispceal of geoixtge and care itt covering up of all rabble% heapa are to bik oh ierved in order to prevent the breeding of tine nuisance. During the last calendar year the alien arrivals in the States were 937,514, of whom 782,545 were immi- grants and 154,939 were non -immigrants. The alien departures were 611,473, of whom 352,323 were emigrants and 259,- 050 were nen-emigrants. Thus the total gain in population from this source wft only 326,041, compared to a gain of 764,- 018 in 1910 and 802,072 in 1900. According to the Grocery World, the groce.ry business is a sort of learned profession in England. it publishes the examination questions propounded by the institute of Certified Grocers to ap- prentices who wish diplomas as qualified grocere. The young men n1114 know a whole lot about bookkeeping and. busi- ness methods and meat be able to tell where tea comes from and how cofee is prepared and the process of refining sugar and the difference between Irish factory and creamery butter and to what uses various spices are put. The wealth of the world is not very evenly divided. The privately owned wealth of the 'rnited States, for in- stance, is valued at fifteen billion dol- lars. Of these, two families have half a billion each, four have two hun- dred million each, eight are rated. at one hundred 'millions, 28 at fifty millions, 05 at twenty-five millions, 285 at twelve millions, 770 at six millions, 1,925 at three millions, and 4,620 at on million and a half. That is to say, 7,737. families comprised in these groups own 24 per cent. of the nation's wealth, 189,237 faen- Hies own 54 per cent., 3,022,237 families own 87 per cent. In the aggregate this means enormous wealth, but it leaves much to be desired in the distribution thereof. itis figures such as these that make socialists and _ breed syndicalism. A eorreepondent of the New York Herald wants to know why most of the pictures of fashionable women and girls appearing in the newspapers show them (soine of them mothers of growing girls) with their legs crossed over just as far and as high as it is possible for a wo- man to cross one leg over the other, one foot swinging high in the air, the other leg showing an expense of hose that to her looks exeeelingly vulgar. Is it the style? Just observe the apparent- ly refined, well-dressed girl nowadays, the moment she takes a seat in it car over goee the leg, and as Soon as sho is sufficiently crossed to look of complete satisfaction spreads over her fee. I am .not very old, but my mother teaches Inc that to cross my legs in such 'a man- ner is unrefined Is my mother behind. the times? Pope Pius X. Was born in the village of Belie, near 'Venice, on June 2, 1835, and, until he was elected to the papacy an Augnet 4, 1903, had never moved far from his birthplace. Previous to hie election he was Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto, Patriarch of Venice. When he was only seven years old his mother journeyed with hint to Treviso and there made a novena that in him should be fulfilled the legend that every soldier of the Pope's army should give one child to holy orders. At the age of i3 he was ordained priest, and until his elevation bore out consistently the older idea of priestly ministrations. He was more or less of recluse and. was known for his piety ;ma seholarly attainments. When on the morning the Sacred. College had fin. ished. its deliberatious frier a successor to Pope Leo XIII. and his name was called the new Pope said sadly, "It is a cross that I receive from you." • 4 I • • • it is interesting to note the amount of water we absorb with our food. Our luscious strawberries are 81 per cent. water, per cent. sugar, 211/4 per cent. cellelose and Seeds. 11 is still more dis- cencerting to be told by a, writer in Popular Medi:tides that "when the thrifty housewife expends from 20 to 28 cents per pound for the best ents of beef about 60 per eeni. Of tite 811111 i8 being paid for water. Yet stunt is the ease, Omni-. 60 per emit. of the bulk of -uneoolted beef er mutton being water. The fle-h of pie:Pone ie about 70 ter vent. water I hot of fow1,4 and duels di ro, cent., while at rt,ally t.tt go's' oily have ts little as 38 per Nett, of water in it •; meopeoilien. The th cif to!, vetiee voneiderably in the goantity wai envi . ;wording to the kinds of fish. from ee to ent per vett" 'Hese figures ideee tiq ell mere 61* l0aq nu the water wagon.