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The Wingham Advance, 1912-08-22, Page 34$4111101,060,0011/10 ." _______ FARM AND GARDEN 01111110/6000•610011111AMANIMMOSSISS TUE 1 NOE OF FE hi la The home of the preeent day its not the reedit of seleidion alone. Improved conditions of feeding, Sheltering, han- dling and caring foe the breeding eteek met have tecerted an influence upon the horse during the pa -et eenturiee.. 11 the highly -organized, well-fed, warmy-stabled beauty ,of the preeene day, no matter whether he be bettvyairafter, earrittiee or Taos -horse type, .1Ye forced into conditions of ocanty feed, poor etre, and poor or no eheitor whatever, thOW qui.k will a ehange toward the primitive types be noticed. Weight, smoothneee, ueeful- nese and beauty, demanded and admired in the teventietlacentury horse, are the reeult of good breeding coming from careful Selection, accompanied by abund- ant feeding from the time the celt is foaled unlit it has reaehed maturity. Good feeding ha then, juiet a& eeeeutial as good breeding. The one time when good feeding its neceasary is when the home is young. 9fhe colt inherits a prediepositien to great weight, to speed, or to high-step- ping qualities, as the eaee may he, but thee cannot be developed without feed- ing and good care, eapeeially while the emit is growing. Seeking to economize, many men think that the cold, not hav- ing to do any considerable amount of work, and none at all during the firet two winters, require e nothing more- than exam or poor quality bay for feed, and no other shelter than the straw etack, often situated in an expoeed barnyard. Colts under such conditions, while eome- timee appearing to thrive well, cannot poesibly do as well as they would if well houeed and well fed, and the resule oj the poor feeding and .eare must assert itself eome time, which it usually doee before the horse reaches maturity, in a under -sized animal, not fitted to command the top price on the market. They may be fattened up and made to appear larger than they really axe. but such fat is easily worked. off them and is not so permanent eie that which he put on when the colt is sucking his dam and is gradually added to after he iis weaned, up to the time he is ready to mature and goes to work. Fat and weight built up M this manner are last- ing. Present-day colts otumot "rough it" at a profit to their ownere. They must be fed well at all times. Poor feeding meanst faihere; good feeding, suc- ceee. At present prices, eolts pay well for the feed consumed, and a little grain mid good. hay, with a comforta,ble stable and plenty of bedding, should not be de- nie,d the colt. —Farmer's Advocate. MILK TEST FOR SHORTHORNS. Whether milking Shorthorns are im- ported itno this country or not. Short- horn breeders in Canada should not for- get that it may be possible tor deielop milking types from those already in the country. Since Canadian Farm began ite carapaign in the interest of more live- stock, xnilking Shorthorns have come to the light in many /places and in enemy old -established herds and from what scene of our correspondents say, individ- ual cows are to be found that will give forty and fifty pounds. of mine a day and at he same time produce calve that ean be converted into firet-class heel. Types of this kind are just what are required ;by the man engaged. in mixed farming. The trouble is there are xiot enough to go around. We :bolierve their number can be greatly increased If there ere some inducement to breed- ers to keep records of milk performance. It may be possible for individual Short- horn breeders to enter the record of per- formance tests now earried on by the Dominion Government if they so desire, yet some action by the Dominion. Short - born Breed.ens' Association in taking up this work would give the movement .a send-off and induce many breeders who have good milking COWs to. enter for the teat. If we mistake not, the eegulations governing record of performanee tests requires the association representing the breed to take action in this way. But whether it is necessary or not, the Shorthorn Association, ebould take action and lend ite weight and influence to- wards furthering a good cause.--Canae &Ian Farmer. THINNING PEACHEa. F. M. Clement; II. S. A., now District Representative of the Department of Agriculture for Elgin County, Ontario, made extensive investigations into the peach industry of theNiagara, District during his final year as a student at the Ontario Agriculttzral College. From these investigations he gives the follow- ing on thinning the crop: "As yet, very few farmers have the courage to thin the fruit. They ciumot bear to Bee largo quantities of fruit pulled of and. thrown into the ground, end consequently, as yet, few of the growers are thinning systematically. A , large number practice it a little, but it cannot be said that it is a, regular fea- ture of orchard practice; but, to my mind, it is just as important as cultiva- tion and manuring. because we lose the value of the past labor by not continu- ing the good work a little longer'and removing some of the fruit that is tend- ing to break down the tree. In a thin- ning experiment conducted in the °rat ard of Mr. Haynes, of St. Catharines, ,the trees thinned from three to five inches produced 530 pounds of fruit, while those that were unthinned po- duoed 555 pounds; but in the latter case there .were six thousand peaches, and in the former only a little over three thousand; or. in other words, the peaches were ahnost twice the size. From the trees that were thinned from five to seven inches we obtained • 444 pounds of fruit. but they were all excep- timidly large and of an excellent qual. ity, No sac distance to thin ean be recommended, but in no case slionld two peaches be allowed to touch eaelheother, unless they ere on opposite sidee of a fairly large twig. They color and inn- ture much better if they do not tonch each other at all. A inan must use his own judgment, and if in doubt wheth- er the fruit should be taken off or net, take it off, because in nearly every case when the trees appear with only half a crop in the early season, when large and more developed littee all that they an bear."—Farmers' Advocate. WISDOM IN COMPROMISE. tIrritlf) ik*"1 and Gentle Appli- cations of Cuti- cura Oint- ment L Warm Datils Wi cura • ot, 0., gag ; SOaP 'ffte en•Nri's 'deg pa. e ::,..;,,:lef...i5.,1,1v,tewt t;11,.:,..04&:".•;4:e,).1.4 14t7ww, 1OI - ••.-4 ' il s 1 e ; „.;7.'111.e.'*?Ttl‘f? k , , -.... 4,1.,..q 1 ,..., .. lyi%,\ 1,1&ii -4/!41'.....'"•47 ' 4t, )t•%41,r. , r:101;I:. "Compromise," Nays a prominent Bun Weise politician, "is usually objeetion- able, but is sOmetimet a good thine. For instance: "One Of My constituents, a young man mho 'Was married about a. year ago, was vonetantly arguing with his wife about whether they /Mould buy an .ftutornobile or a power boat. When. I met hLni tile other day he Said: "Wall, my wife arkl I have wrare1ril for niOnths, but thank geodnees, we've eeenireten/nd at last." 'illtat have you compromised one' asked. " Carriage" he anontered.prouil, Although Cutieura Soap and Ointment aro sold by druggists and Cealers everywhere, a liberal Sample of each, with 82 -page booklet on the care and treatment of the Skin, will be sent post-free, on application to "eutieurre" Dept. tat, Boston, U.S.A. -_-_-_-_-_-_-__ Fat Is Not Strength BY A PHYSICIAN. Don't load the body down with. fat. Eat according to your needs; not according to your likes. Out- side of "looks" which are sometimes in and sometimes out of fashion, obesity is a hindrance to the enjoy- ment and comfort of life. When a person grows fat, each organ gets its portion. ' The conse- quence is often serious if these fatty deposits grow so large as to inter- fere with the normal action of the organs. Shortness of breath, realriltationr bronchitis and other unplea.stent and unnecessary difficulties are occa- sioned. The two great causes of obesity are too much food and too little ex- ercise. It is very easy to overeat and underexercise in hot weather. Strong able-bodied uersons with a moderate amount of time should make it a duty to take enough ex- ercise in the open air to regulate their weight. Persons who are obliged to sit or stand all day should endeavor to eat strengthening foods,—but not fat - producing foods. It is particularly necessary that persons who are disabled should take great care in choosing their diet. Fat is not strength. 4 +-IS A RASH PROMISE aa -n fare Mrs. Nagger—You promised to love meats long as I lived. Mr. Nagger—But 'how was 1 to know that you would hang On this way. For Biliousness BY A PHYSICIAN. The Juice of a lemon will cure biliousness. It is far cheaper and simpler than the quinine or calomel route. And there is the great ad- vantage that it does not injure the system, nor leave any 111 effects in any of the organs of the body. Many people know that it is wise to take the Juice of a lemon in half l a glass of water before breakfast. I Many do not know that the effect is much better it the treatment is repeated Just before retiring at night. The plain lemon, eaten, may be strong in acid for some people. But diluted in water it is not likely to be harmful in. any way. The lemon Juice acts as a general corrective to the system and is a direct aid to the proper activity of t.he liver. . • WENT UP AHEAD. One of the girls at an examination in grammar In Msynooth School, when mak- ed why the noun "bachelor" was singu- lar, blushingly answered; "Because it is very singular they don't get married." She went Up to the head of the class. There are no dead flies lying about when 11 are used as directed. All Druggists, Gro- cers and General Deal- ers sell them. lia011140NIF POULTRY 1 NOTES T ball' ER' lit IST.A.K I believe that the average turkey. - raiser makes a serious mistake in dispos- ing of his breeding steelt every year and 11.111,4l114. his floek from young and of- ten 'mutat Ure birds. l'oung turkeys do not make number one breeders. While 11 Is very true that a yearling hen will lay MOro eggs lu a ingle season than one three or four years old, still, front practical eeperitenee I have become con- vinced that the latter will Produce a greater percentaaai of strong poults. My turkeya last year varied in age front yt,arlings to six and seven -year-olds, says Farm and Fireside, As each ben laul a leg -band It was little or no trouble to tilleb them aecurately. After a close observation I was well satisfied that the oldest bees paid the best, Th•ey Myatt - ably proved to be the best InOthern. A greater ))Cl cent, of their eggs we.e fer- tile, and tho outfits. batched seemed to possess greater N itality. One of my oldest hens, during the fore Part of May, mado ler neat and brought off IS fine, strong poults, but owing to an. accident, for which she was not entirely to blame, every one of the youngsters wrished. Later, she made two unsuccessful at- tempts to bring off another brood, but failed In both instances. In the first in- stance, crows destroyed the nest, The eeeond time a mowing machine wheel put an end to her holies. One of the most striking instances illustrating the hardi- hood of old heus is the experienee of a friend of mineat few years ago, who euc- ceeded in keening one hen i years, While she was not as prolific as her earlier years, yet, in the aggregate, she reared as many poults toward the last tut dur- ing her more youthful years, Good authorities on turkey -raising agree that breedig stock can be kept with profit as long as they live. While I would not put it quite so. strongly I feel confident that breeding turkeys ean be kept with profit longer than they usually are. In my earlier .experiences with tur- keys I was a victim of the vigoroue- young-stock craze, but I am getting far- ther and farther away from that craze, as I see the errors of aueh a course. The fact that a domestic pullet will lay more eggs than a two ur three-year-old domes- tic hen, and hence, IS the more profit- able, but does not argue that the yottrig turkey hen will be better than. an older one. A domestic hen and a turkey hen are two entirely different creatures and are bred and raised for two entirely dif- ferent purposes, generally. There is an- other advantage in keeping old stock. By so doing, the expense of every YearaPro- curing a tom to a.vold inlineeding la greatly lessened. If the breeder doesn't wish to go to an extreme with the old stook, he will have no trouble in keeping stock three, four or even five years with- out change. From actual experinece, I feel perfectly safe in sayins that a breeds er can keen turkeys until five years of age and still have them vigorous.—A. Vandervort, in Fenn and Fireside. SOME ILLTLES. A. great source of contagion Is in the drinking troughs. Remember, If roup should make Its ap- pearance in your poultry house. In place of "tonics" drop a nail into the drinking trough and allow it to re- main there. It will supply all the "tine- ture of iron" required. If you feed Whole corn plaee 11 in the oven and parch It occasionally and feed smoking hot. The fowls appreciate it in frosty weather. A. little linseea or oil meal given once a. week in the soft feed will promote lay- ing. This will riot eume under ene -head- ing of "dosing the fowls with medicine." Do not throw your table scrape into the swill barrel, but give then to the chickens. One of the (most important points in the keeping of ducks is to give them clean, dry quarters at night. They aro very prone to leg weakness in cold, damp quarters. Feed your fowls just what they will eat up clean. FaX hens or pullets are not good layers, The latter is just what you want when the eggs are 28 cents or more per &wen. Fowls over three years old are not as a rule good breeders. alhe males are un- able to properly fertilize the eggs for hatching while the stack is usually weak, Four year is generally a ripe old age for a fowl. EaohhenxifopfLor,earr.lykept will lay frorn 200tozoeg Liver and intestines are an excellent toga to make hens lay. M,p an abundant supply of lime where the hens can easily get at It if you desire your hens to lay well. Always clean the nest well and put in fresh straw before the hens begin to sit. —E. EXPERIMENTS -vcraTH DUCKS. Different broods of ducks were fed re- spectively with fish, meat and plant pro - &rots in the experiments reported' by Me.grearn to the French Academy of Sci- ences. The tisheaters laid earliest, the meat -eaters eight days later, and the vogetarieara two and a half months later, at the age of ten months. Between December 17th and May alth the first brood laid fifty-four eggs, the second forty-five. and the third nineteen. The eggs of the meat -eating ducks were heav- iest, however, and those of the vegetar- ians ime,setre next, the fish -eaters laying the mial -4••• A BURNS RELIC. The discovery of a hitherto unknown poem or Burns is an. event of great inter- est fl anore than Literary cireLes, tor the poet was trie most remarkable sieser oe the people, the elosest to me popular beart that ever appeared in any country or among any race. The oceasion or the poem was this: A. nobleman, irititrlecli ith 'weureosity le see teas extra.ordn peasant, Invited him tu nis house, and at dinner time sent mm to. the servants' quarters to dine. burns had no objec- tion to this eume>aby tor uiruier, but when the Lord sent tor aim to or= up te ins drawing-ruom to amuse Inmsell Wed his titled eueets, tire bard telt justly oglended. lie sat down, wrote the poem, tooi ir. upsuur» to Ills Luruenip, turned on his aye!and walked otf wituut a "word, airs. John etotiatt, of St. An- drew's, has gieen Inc poem to the puo- lie, it having been eupidd from the orig- inal by her graadtaener, etr. .Eldward Saunderson, 0. 10.1,124xrCti Year,e ago. Such Is the history given. Here are tne verses: "My lord, I would not fill your chair, Tho' ye be proudest noble's heir, .earile this night to juin your teast As equal of the best at least; "ris true that cash with Me Is scant, And titles, trifles that i waat. The king has never made me kneel To stamp my manhood with his seal. But what. of that? The King un Lttgh W110 took less pains witn you than 1, Has filled my bosom and my mind With eoinethinn better in its l,ina Than vodr broad acres, something which 1 011111101 wed translate to epeeele But by its impulse 1 can know 'Tis deeds, not birth, that make men low. YOur rank, my lord, is but a. loan: But mine, thank heaven, is all my own: peasant, 'tis my pride to be; Look round and round your hall, and see Who boasts a, higher pedigree? I was not fit, it seems, to dine With those fox-hunting heroes fine; But only come to bendy Jests Aniong your lordship's hopertil guests, There must be here some sad mistake - 1 would not play for such a stake, 13e a buffoon for drink and meat, And a poor earl's taxpaid seat; No, die my heart, ere such a shame Deseenda on Robert Burns' name. The lines nertainly have a Burnsian vigor and biting directness, but it was the poet's usual habit when In a bitter humor to write in his awn "braid Scotch," not in English as the above. QUAKER GRAY. We like it. It will not down. Gay eolors are offered. Pint gray quite holds its own. Perhaps there 'has been too much gay color. At any rate gray appears in every smart aeserublage. 'rile new silver buttons are lovely on coettunee In gray tones. A lovely gray taffeta shows a. knte- length thane of gray marquisette. Gray is 'lovely, too, in seot silica, sliwsv- leg ilettutifully with blue, rose, goat, mauve and green. . GETTING ON. tqlow's your SIM getting On 111col- lege"‘" "Great. They put him in as a pineh • hitter the other day and he cleared the bates with a three -bagger." ---Detroit rm. Press. WEARY TIREDNESS CHANGED TO VIGOR THAT PLAYED -OUT FEELING WAS QUICKLY REMEDIED AND HEALTH RESTORED, Story of a Merchant Who Almost Lost His Business and His Health Through Neglecting Early Symp., .toms of Disease. Onrm.••••••orr...1.111) "My life for years boa been .of eeden- tary &meter," writes T. 13. Titchfield, head of a well-known firm in Bucking - harm "Nine boure every day 1 spent at office work, and took exereLee only ou Sunday. I disregarded the symptorne of ill -health, which -were all too apparent to my family, 1 grew thin, .then pale, and .before long I -MIS jatindiced-Teyes and skin were yellow, my &trenth and nerve encegy were laweeed, and I eras quite unfitted for inteinesein the morning a lightneeelit ilia head, par - tenderly when I bout over, made nie very worried about my health. Most of the laxative medieines I found weak- ening, and knowing that I had to be et business every day ateglentett inseelf rather than risk further weakness. Of course I grew worse, bat by a lutp.py chance I began to uee Dr. ilamiltonts Pills. I was forcibly etruek by the fact the..t they neither Ca.:11SCA griping nor nausea, and it 'seemed incredible that pillscould tone, cleanse and regulate the syetern without causing any impleaeant after effects, Dr. Ha.milton'e Pills. acted. with ene just as gently as nature—they gave new life tee any liver, etrengtheued my stomach, and W011 Inc hack to per- fect good health. My akin it3 clear, diz- zineas has disappeared and my appetite, etneregeh, spirits aro perfect," Refuse anuthing offered you instead of Dr. Hamilton's Pilis, which are Sure to cure. Sold in inle boxes., five for at all druggiets and storekeepers, OT peetpaid from The Chttarrhozone Coe, Buffalo, N. Y., and Kingston, Canada. PERUVIAN FESTIVAL. Beaittifully Decorated Floats In a Religious Procession. Semana Santa, or Holy Week, is a week of preparation. Booths dedicated to different saints are erected and arch- es built at intervals from the church to the foot of the Calle de las Palrems, or Street of Palms. On Saturday the areh- es are decorated with fruit, vegetables, live fowls, kide, eta, and everything is got in readiness for the great day, Palm 1Stindiy. ESunday morning the few re- maining things are added to the arches and the procession leaves the church, taking its way to the booth at the foot of the street, where they remain fur the faithful to make their 'offerings until between 5 and 0 at night. when the pro- cession again. forme at this booth and is accompanied by soldiers, the band and a crowd of people. • After they form there is a song by the musical professor or singer of the 1' tr • lo,..7..norsie ehureh, nod& by the betel and they start /lowly, 811 earrying pinme (yopef,t branches of sugar cane; in their hands and waving them. All the mesh. play- ed .during this time was dirgrs. On Friday night WaS the great event of the week, the greet proeeeelon, be- ginning at 10 o'clock and helded by teree mem one of them carrying the crown of thorns; the sceend, the nails which mtiled the Lord to the eros, the third, the mete that crew. This was followed by a float beantifully trimmed and lighted, containing the imaue of our Lord so wanted that Motel apoearee to 110 on the forehead end faee. Very real- isticit looked in the semielerloiefe. 'Next wee a float enetainine the Vir- gin Mary bearttifilllY ilreeecil in purple Tel Vet, trimmed with prieeltae laee end ;jewels, ber lone train held no by arlirok, A. tile Streets were dark. only for the 1ii.r111A t110 floats end fondle.; /err - vied by the erowd, who were all dreame in Meek, and the proceesion moved 40 appearing to merle time end swayine from side to side, they were more than two hours goine around two 1)1 ocks. On reachine the elutreh the floats were out within to remain IP' the re- surreetion et 9,20 &Wet. Sett/telly morning. No train whietled. nn hens rrielinyter.szyterinnenntel. were in the etreet .from EVen f hrs wore tell tint to 1-9 11r. for "roe Senor (tordl is dead, "till n.30 o'clech `49 ter - der, when the imege ie rest,,rea to its niche in the cloyed' end the lf,ord is e'en en,--Cfliristian Herald. .0.-4 Summer Gottago Rules. The stuntner cottage ilayn are here, the at:tattiest days Qf 14,11 tile YPar, One° more we Wtel;•-eitti our friends off yonder by the lake, If Ave would stay with them ILA/vane, and ,still deserve a pleasant smile, A rule or two we must be very careful not to break. It is not wise to crltdcio the flies that swarm about her pies, Nor mention the anosqtritoes that are drilting into iour cheek. For in that cool and shady spot she vows mosquitoes there are not, ,Ancl she will doubt your word of of streit things you dare to speak., It's quite an art to be a guest In places where folks go to rest, Rule One, of cottage etiquette, in al- ways "make you're bed" you would be considered nice, trudge halt' a mile to get the ice, And row the famil yround the lake un- til you're nearly dead. If you are known as May or Bess, don't ways wear your Sunday dress, Uncomfortable, if you do, your hostess :surely feels. Don't sit around the, ace and ehirk, roll up our sleeve's a4014 go to veerit, And always ber- the J,, When she Is getting mea And when You Vas at 1 ve day 'be euro to rave^40bout You slept, Wet:tough yi have tossed all ntivilt long %vide : For slimmer roles -bake pilasure. 7 In, bragging how they eat end To say the flies disturbed your ret 15 truly a mistake. The summer cottage time is here, when It pays to be Insincere, When summer ehttelae to pltra•Slee are fav orably compared, And if you're made 01 prepe•r stuff you won't attempt to call the bluff, You'll wait mail you got bizek eorne be- fore your views are aired. Don't lose sight of the fact that the road to ElleeeSS is paved with other men's failures. A New Evening Wrap Just Being Shown In the World's Fashion Capital Is Descrthed by Maybelle MorHmer (By Mb10 Mortinver.) raris.---Ilven the evening coats Show the absenee of the straight, ef- fects of last year. We aro entering Into a season of shirrings, frills and furbelows. The pletnre of the model which I am sending you is one of the cleverest evening coats I have , seen and comes .free% the house of Deehon, who ttlftt a. speeialty of outdoor garments. This mat hangs $..traight front the , shoulder to the knee, where it is ,gathered into a kind of circular l'Uffele Of tb.e goods. This is cut a.Way in ;vont. Tile heavy cord whieh forms the only trimming of this coat Is made of the same material, The sleeves are sewn into the armholes which aro very large. About all that Is left of the kimono eleeye, is the long shoulder lino an dthe big arm- hole. This coat would be very stunning made of heavy y;col satin and it 'would lessen the expense that the brocaded velvet ttavo to the model. Diction iu using eoral pink very much this year for his evening wraps, the model of which I send the illustra- tion is of coral pink brocaded Volvot. 4 1M. crturniaraviriwai-ca, ""mwf•iiine.),e ConiSrins* to tlie I., 7' /MO. tsiandara CliNiflo goods. Useful kir J403'. .Ii r esfee• C, 41,-* itCst:Ottg; r • • '14' 1“. 4. AO% PreePT...1. ') • r. • Don't You Wish You Wuz a Friend ) , Melon Satet,i Use the fully ripe fruit. Cut in cubes and serve alone or with peach- es or bananas. Mayonnaiso plain or whippe cream will add to the rich- neSe of the dish.. Two Way3 to Serve Wazermelon The watermelon is less used than any other fruit in the culinary pro- cess. Raw, it is one of the choicest as well as most popular desserts of the summer season. Here are two simple ways to serve it: 1—Thoroughly lee the melon. Slice across about an inch thick. Re- move the rind and cut the solid red pulp into cubes; diamonds., hearts or other shapes as desired. Place in salad bowl or individual dishes, dust with fine sugar and serve at once. 2—Cut across in inch sliees. Re- move rind and serve the heart (each large slice) of the red pulp in rounpd or oval form; sprinkle with sugar. If cut into ernall rounds or ovate (inch length) sprinkle with sugar or sauce and serve as cherriee or plums. Half Frozein Melon Break the ripe pulp of the melon into fine bite .with a silver fork and place it in freezer without dasher. Let stand two hours packed in salt and ice and serve in eherbet glasses or the half shell of the melon, chill- ed and garnished at base with vines. VACANT LOTS. --- Kansas Town's Solution .of High Cost c. Livinj. (New York Sun.) Two thousand itcrets of land within the limits of rizineas (IV, Kam, 16 under cultivation. It i estimatat by the eity officials that if all the garden plute iu that city were tea up and di v hitt! among the difternt iamilies that there 'Nebula be 000 square feet uf ellitiVated gurden ior every home lit the city. Thue the )neteepuhe oi Ifeannae has out-Pingreed Detroit and out Johnsuned (ley eland, rieuri ug Ull tit0 population basis hansMi, Kan.dends the eitieS of the World in tile utilization tor gar- dening purpuses of its Nacant The largest garden in the city, says the Kausue City Star, is at Quindaro. It contains thirty-three awes, all under cultivation. It is said to be the largest farm within Lilly city 1.1i lue,600 populu- tion in tide eountry. it is owned by Mrs. Rosamondeel ugg.s and the land ie valued by her at is3tik00. Un this land is every ‘ariety tru,..x. USUally groUll in gardens. Along the right of ways of the differ- erent rallaays iti Kansas City. liana 504 acres of land ie under cultivation. Na rent is paid for this land. Some one living near by eimply spadee it up and plants a garden and the railway e0111 11111111'&3 do not interfere. At Seventh street and near New Jer- sey a.venue is a sunkea traet that hay been a wet swamp 1/1 other yeare, but Ma spring a man drain«t it and pluuga- ed it and planted it with potatoes that are six niches AtirtAe ereund now and very thrifty. It is entitle:dad that in the Croatian dietrict :thole there ere 3ce) gardens in front .11.11/1 bad: Tivis•s. foreigners learned the art of gardeningin a eoun- try where everfeot etetivable laml IS utilized and they follow eta that plan here. Every equare inot of available space is planted. Many of these little gardens are on steep terraces. EyteriSiYe famine: is. meeting with she- ceesful expo:it/eons ell over the city, one of the finct4 to:autples ot this 1)eing on the fec,t ;W. Of lilt, 1'itillIg6, of doy ldiasiou. The idet. Evan W.-lIoviald, the pastor t1 cre. besides, being a win- ister of the gf.g;,,d and a 110111f. 11164) 14 a fit le !earned famine, in Indiana. 011 a lot t‘Vetit, • fic e h> pixty feet the Men 'tin lioreard lute been supply- ing about ei my late in hie distriet with their lettuce, onions, 114 t11iir S and 10414- tard geeen. Amateure would do 'wen t...1 examiee the Tiiiinge of ,loy Nliss:on bark yard garden, on that mall plot ground the mini*,zer has already ridged 111 abundanee •spring vegetablee his radishes :nal oniOnS toJW being in Watermelon Pickles 1-13o11 10 pounds of watermelon rind in pure water until tender. Drain the water off and inake a syrup cif 2 pounds of white sugar, 1 quart of vinegar, 1, ounce of cloves and 1 (mace of elanauton. Pour the syrup over the rind, boiling hot, 3 days in su3eei•;1.iod. Bettie arid seal. 2—Pare off the green part of the rind. Cut the white part. into strips of desired size and cover with boil- ing water in which, a pinch of alum has been dissolved, Let stand over night in this, then soak several hours In fresh cold rain water. Place in preserving kettle and cook 111 fresh hot water till teuder. Have ready a syrup made of equal parts of vinegar and sugar. Cook in this a stick of cinnamon. several sliced lemons (without seeds) and a little ginger - root. When thick and well flavored place the drained melon in this and cook till it is clear. Take out the melon, place in jars. Boil down the syrup till thick. Pour over the hinds and seal. Watermelon Honey TJse the red portion of the melon only. Crush and strain it or .cook down (with seeds) till very soft and then strain, cooking again till thick. Three quarts of red pulp will make only about one-fifth pint of "honey." This requires time and patience. Cool the honey, then proceefd as with. grape juice in bottling. It is best without sugar. But a little sugar and lemon juice may be added, the "honey" alone not keping so well. ...we oat their third crop. .1n addition to these he has lettuce and mustard, pumpkins (with the vines climbing over the back porchl„ cucumbers, pie plant, beets, beallS and tOMEttOeS. On a lot about twenty-five feet square is the Tidinge of Joy poultry depart- ment. The nussioner started with five hens and a rooster. He lies about two dozen hens now and four hens are "set - tint" Ho.w many he'll have in a week or two the minister won't say, for he never counts his chickens before they are hatehed. But it's not the poultry that engages attention in the poultry yard. The first attraction is a seven foot triangle in evhich Mr. Howard already has produced enough green oats to start his ehickeile, and in another fenced plot, about ten by ten, is probably the small- est alfalfa "pasture" on the face of the earth. The alfalfa is coming up and it wilt go to the, ehickena and the Home .Nfissiores department of transportation, which is John Wesley, the Dome Mis- sion's energetic and ind.ustrious horse. A student of home gardening: says that Kansas City. Kan., ean offer a bet- ter objeet lession for the home garden- ing plan than most other eitie.s. It is cesentially a workingman's town. It is eeeentialle a community where high prices on -necessary food products hit the hardest, The great number of home gardens this year will go far to solve the prob- lem of the high cost of living. The amateur gardeners already have been eating lettueeonions, radishes and mus- tard greens gathered from their own eardene. The green grocer,/ have no- ticed it and they eee a still further de- erease in demands for veeetables. Do Your Eyes Fool You? Two illusionin one: The long lines appear farther apart. at one end than the other, yet they are ex- actly parallel. 'Cite email diagonal lines which, cross them appear to jog alte,ad as they cress, but they do not, The illusion is VnllEed by slightly filling up the acute angles made by iiio intersections. LOSES ORIT. 'Istrt that feihm voitv to pro. "1 400-.. not; 1i i1,e all 1,6:Iv-glass." *.illow`:, that?" .1"111.1 tuore time 11,,, lots. T1I. 14158 sand he ias." •;...q. Paul Ph 31 r Pt% bS. - _ Don't put your I•leaslIki your business unless ,yott wan,. to :owl " .11J—L11 ,.'11,11K2V14**11101.4}1 K 14341 it hp t Prat g 0111 dip glaceful aet Wet% Vane (that la S and Kitig.,!ths (,1 With a view to hasten the stani)ing ont of the white plague the Ontario Board of lfealth has issued a SN'tei.i Ot regulations for both tim,e tiuffering from the disease, and for dov- tor.: in dealing with the 4,0.s04. • 4 AiI t'sVaPe 01 gas in a recently-con- strueted main in Toronto is said to be lespousible for the destruction of seven- teen fine trees to the value of $740, and five very line ielass, valued at $500 melt, have also been killed. lit $060 places in this City on the fine of the natural gas pipes it is found imposAible to make grass grow, and it is supposed that gas leakages are the cause of this, as 11-0Met,i are extremely nervous animals. But. it is not often we hear of actions of damages for injury to their nerves. A case is now before the Vaneouver courts Where flarnagee are claimed for injury to the nervous .syetem of a home mused by a, collision, It wee a temple of weeks after the. accident that the animal showed signs of nervoue prostra- tion or whatever the nature of the com- plaint was. Are women more moral and law abid- ing than men? iteeent.ty published etatisties of tlie British eensue appear ehow that they are. In the prieone k ifieglinet and Wales Oil aft day the eeneue of 81101 inetitutions was taken there Were unly 139 women to eaell. 1,000 men and in certified reformatory indus- trial schools 278 women to each 1,000 men. it tends to emphasize thiaeliowing of the relative standing of the aexein their relation to erimes. major and minor, that in a population of Z10,070,000 in England and Wan% there are 1,175,270 more females than males. 'Cremation, as of disposing of the dead, tively slow progress. Sw take the lead ig e whose sole object s 'funeral cus- toms, has enrolled over 800 members in a year, and boasts of a memberehip of 3,541. Tide is in St. Gall, a city with less than 40,000 of a population. The yearly dues are 40 cente, while the entire cost of cremation is eomewhat less than $22, including coffiu, flowers, urn and care of the ashes for twenty years. Were proper facilities supplied for thus dis- posing of dead bodies the practice might become quite common. It hashe v. e;stalenai.dvantages over the present burial s "Is there a .hell't" is a question that has. been aeked recently, andhas been receiving... Sonic attention in the press and pulpit. The International Bible Class raised the question when it de- clared againet the belief of eternal pun- ishment by fire for those who died un- repentent of their' sins. Several old coun- try divines endorsed the position taken by the Bible Class, and. seemed to be in- clined to pity, those on this side of the .water who till holti to the old-fashioned doctrine.•Toronto clergymen have also subscribed publicly to the "no hell" idea,. All this have had more. or less ef- fect on that large class of people who hope there is no such punishment in store for them, yet fear that there may be, andthey are still not satisfied that there is no danger ahead. It has been stated that the preachers in general do not now believe in "hell," and that if they were free to speak out they would gladly do so. Still there is no sign that the churches, as such, have given up. this doctrine. Their articlesof belief and confessien of faith still tette& eternal punishment for the wicked. In this con- neetion it is interesting to note that the circular issued by the Presbyterian Church to its members, entitled, "Do- euments approved by the General As- sembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, as a basis of union with the Methodiet and Congregational Church- es and ordered to be sent down to session and congregiutions" eontaiu the two following articles: Article V.—Of the Sin of Man.—We believe that our first parents, being tempted, chose evil, and so fell away from God and came under the power of sin, the penalty of which is eternal death, and that, by reasom of this sinful nature, that we have broken God's law and. that no man can be saved except by His grace. Article XVIII.—Of the Resurrection, the Last Judgment and the Future Life We believe that there shall be a re- surrection of the dead, both of the ink, and of the unjust, through the pow- er of the Son of God, who shall come to judge the living and the dead, that the finally impenitent shall go away into eternal punishment, and the righteOlia into 11 10 eternal. We have here two statements as to the nature of the feture state of the einful. -"eternal death" and. "eternal punieliment." Are, theee terme syn- onymous Does death mean punish- ment and punishment mean death? This document rnay not have the authority or prestige of the N.40Qtntinster 1eS. siert of Faith, lmt it has no mean int- portanee as the baeie n f union 01 thtee largo, influential and intelligent aerie - thin Churehee of 4 etioula, end when the imilin eoeettninattal a ill fornt the rale of faith 01141 guideee e fur the majority f pro 'heel ne Chid -ale ne in the DornittiOti. btliting that tip, itmil41wit.nt. is eternal, hell fire is not 14p,ei110.1 or sicated upon as Ili(' pottion 61 the wiel..• ed. L'Ai4lentl• the Ila -is of Union (We nnt ansWer t1i question at the head of