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t. set adver- and every 0" #:4606390 DSAY j; LINDSAY we...» Iket. in price Wed on 0.9» It will be seen that a netessity to thorough cleaning is moveablc furni- .ture in the poultry house, or move- ?able nests and perches. Soap or icrackg; boxes hung to the wall by .stout nails driven part in and tip- lped up like picture nails, then pass- !ing through corresponding holes in those boxes, make nests easily tak- en down for cleaning, and also ad- justable to any size or height of fowls, since active breeds would bet- ter have nests out of reach of their prying mischief, and large breeds cannot, without injury, jump down from or fly to high nests. Perches must not be teeter-like, but‘ whether they pull out of grooves or from under leather straps, will answer if movable. Wide perches prevent crooked'breeat bones and are gener ally floated by, modern bevy tom pain-lactate; Mr. F. W. Hodson, commissioner of live stock, sends a synopsis of an address by Mrs. Tilson of West Salem, Wisconsin, who has been lecturing for the poultry institutes in Nova Scotia. Part of the synop- sis is as follows : If a mellow dust box is provided. or a fresh spot of, earth often spaded towls will clean and exercise them-- selves rather than exercise their owner. Wood ashes will discolor plumage and legs, a matter of con- sequence only to exhibitors. .With a coarse seive from the fanning mill» I sift any kind of ashes, throwing charcoal or clinkcrs one side, for the biddies to eat ; but rest assured that their bath of dust is .morepet- ronized when free from chunks; keep it in a sunny place, stir and renew often. A little sulphur or lime, not enough to cause sore eyes. I frequently add. If {owls are very infested, l hwve found I can clean 25 birds in 15 minutes. by a put! box or little believes of Persian insect? powder. I do not get personally acquainted with each individual parasite, but apply my powder to top of head, under beak, wings and oent. This is done in the evening when {owls are drowsy, or when I Mites hide in perchw. walls and nestâ€"boxes by day, coming forth to feast on blood at night, hence, our measures for destroying them must be directed to the house itself. These creatures are just visible to the nak- HOW TO HELP THE FOWLS IN THEIR Flflfll‘ W1"! LICE These Minute Enemies of Pantry are of Active Habits But Cam In Conquered set a hen, and several times during her inculiating. Sifted coal ashes will answer well. The Persian in- seCt powder is voltatile, and should be kept tightly covered when not us- ed, and is of no use in nestaboxes, unless mixed and held with dirt, tansey, wormwood and elder leaves. cddar springs and onion skins are good discouragers in nests. I also often use a sawdust filling. fll ed eye. They are more rudy when they have had a. good meal, and paler after fasting. A daytime ‘exâ€" amination freguently discloses them on sick or éitting 'fowls, the pests seeming to reading that the latter are not going to shake them off. Mites, when very sick, will be found between nests and walls. There is an important diflerence be- tween lice and mites. I have done considerable work with the micros~ cope: and am convinced that hen-lice do not breed on horses and cattle. The latter have their own kinds in- dependently. Hen-lice will run over horses and cattle, causing great an- noyance, but do not lay nits on tbem ; while mites are cosmopolitan. They will bite all alike, even unto thy man servant and thy maid ser- vant, and the canary or the baby within the doors. They do not bite the skin but puncture for blood. They multiply so fast, I have ac- tually known two henâ€"houses to be burned when cleaning was thought hopeless. But from two‘seiges with them, I know they can be conquered. Hot, thin whitewash, (the lime new- Lv slaked with hot water,) kerosene emulsion, turpentine (singly or in combination), brine, hot tar paints and even hot water, have all to my knowledge been succeSSfully used. The main thing is to repeat the ap- plication every day for about a week in order to catch every hatch, be- cause the eggs are. less susceptible to applications than are the adult crea- tum. On our farm, we found it necessary .to clean some of the car- riers, or cats and dogs with phenoâ€" chloro, etc- If you wish topnrchue [Int Quality Ehonygoode. thekind without a. blemish, you must pro cure them from Gregorie’e the Corner Drug Store. ‘ Our Mirrors British Plate Glass, bevelled edge and specially backed for this climate. The Ebony brushes we have arereelEbon notsteined cherry wood. The ’ ties are of Bus- sein boar and put in the brushes t2) stay there. E. GREGORY, WHERE 0M1 HEIGNS . LINDSAY, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25th. I902. Corner Drug Store. UNI“! so as in the more advanced rural districts in many counties in Cana- da. The townships are five miles squarev‘ intersected in both. directions by Central roads. Other roads run parallel to those every mile and a quarter in both directions. That marks the country into blocks each one and a quarter miles square. NINE SCHOOLS IN ONE Six years ago Gustavus township became the pioneer in that part of .- the United States in the consolida-l tion of the rural schools. There, were nine school districts in the township and as many small schools Then the districts were united into one, and the central school was erected at a cost of $3,000. It is a frame building, containing four well- lighted classroom, a small recita- tion mom and cloak rooms. In- stead of nine teachers in little isola- ed schools, there are now a principal at a salary of $65»per month, and {our assistant teachers‘at $32 or 830 per month in the united school. Nine nice-looking vans are used to convey the children from and to their homes. These waggons or school vans have comfortable seats running lengthwise of the vehicles; waterproof canvas covers and spring gearings. Before consolidation the average attendance at the schools in that township was 125. On the day of the visit by the three Canadians it was 143 out of an enrollment oil 162. The year before consolidation the cost of maintenance of the nine schools of the township was $2,900. Four years afterwards the cost of the~centralized sChools, including the conveying of the children, was 33,-.- 156- being an increase in expendi- ture by the towothip on its school system of 8256. However, the aver- age attendance at the central school was so much greater than at the single district schools that the cost of eduration was decreased $1.59 per pupil on the average attendance. Moreover, three years of high school work is carried on in the consolidat- ed school, and the total cost of that, is included in the $3,156. WAIT TWO MINUTES The contracts for conveying the children to and from the schools are] given to responsible persons. These J ;are under bond to provide comfort- ?able covered waggons, and to com- iply with the regulations of the school ‘authorities. The vans held from 15 up to OVer 25. The longest route traversed was about six miles. The! vans arrive at the school at from 10 ‘ 20 minutcs before 9 o'clock, the! hour at which the forenoon session: begins. The afternoon session closes ; at 3.30 o’clock. ' At Johnston‘ school, where the closing exercises} were observed. the children were in the vans starting for their homes in loss than five minutes afterwards. At K’Iinsman the eight vans are en- gaged at an average cost of $2.07 per scnool daY: at Gustavus the nine vans at an average of $1.25, Their destination was Trumbull county, Ohio, which lies about twen- ty miles south of Lake Erie. and adjoins the western border of the State of Penmlvania. This disp trict was chosen became the condi- tions of élimate, roads, distribution of population and character of school system are not materially different (tom those of the settled parts of Ontario. The country in that part of Ohio is comparatively level. Dairy farin- ing is the main occupation oi the people. The chief crops are Indian corn, other eel-eels, hay and grass. A little .tnll wheat is grown, but scarcely enough for the home use of the farmers. The orchuds end fences were {or the most part {rail souvenirs of the past. The farm houses, barns and fields we evidenc: that the people were fairly prosper- ous and well-to-do. but not so much It may be Wed thgt at a meeting of the Education Committee of the county council, not quite two years ago, Inspector Reazin present- eded . report in which the advan- tages of carrying children to school in vans was 'set forth at length. The idea is a live one in the prov- ince; in some parts' of the States it has been put into operation. One of these places was visited by Prof. Robertson and two or three other Canadian educationists a short time ago. Out of a despatch in the Globe of,the 15th inst, concerning what, these gentlemen saw, the fol- lowing paragraphs are taken : TO SCHOOL IN'AWAGON And Tells How It Workedâ€"Ill- creased Attendance and One School Instead of Nine When the Children of a Whore PRDF. ROBERTSON SEES IT Ovaâ€"hunky are Drawn One Central Country School to 1 Mr. W. H. Wood .of Gavan spent a :few days With frignda in this part. Mr. T.- H. Porter and son of 'l‘ren- ton are visiting friends in North lMunvers. REABORO On Tuesday of last week the annu- al meeting of the Rcaboro Chem and Butter Company was held. The man's businass was pronounced satisfactory. Maker R. G. Allan has returned to his duties after be- ing sick at his home in Petenboro for a week. Buttermaking has be- gun at the factory. IA' Christmas cantata entitled “The Growing of Christmas" will be given in the Baptist church W 'on the evening of Tuesday. the 23rd inst.- A choice program is being prepared ........ 'On Sunday afternoon the Rev. Mr. Hughson preached in this church on the recent referendum vote. In 113 man he severely criticized an editorial in The Watchman-Warder of last week on that question. a member of that club but is about to leave 101' North Dakota. A pleaâ€" sant time was spent. Hr. Robt. Henderson will move to Emily to live on Mr. Wm. Switzer's farm. which he has bought {or a handsome sum. Mrs. Henderson and her son Robt. and the rest of the family Garry with them the best. wishes of the neighbors. What will be mirth Mauve-s loss will be Emily’s gain. Ir. Jacob Hart has enacted a windmill, and no doubt will prove a great saving of work for Mr. Hart. A waek ago last Thursday “The Lucky Lodge Camping Club of this place met at the home of Mr. Wilâ€" liam Cunningham, Omemee, who is Hr. Samuel Stinson intends build- ing a brick house this coming sum- mer. Mr. Bushell will build a simiâ€" lar house on his new farm- Wood is coming down in price- No coal, but no one is suflering for want of wood or coal. MOUNT BORED Gamma-able changes have taken place here menuy. If. P. Newman of Emily has rentâ€" ed Ir. Wm. Ingrahun's farm. Ir J. Wilson of Ops has rented fir. James Bushell' a farm. Mr. Bushell will retire from farmlng and will have a. large sale of fine stock some time later on. Dr. Cornwall has confined to the house for some time with an attack of rheumatism in his arm, but is able to sit up. His many friends wish to soon see him out. again. OMEMEE Village quite lively since sleighing, notwitlmtanding the cold weather. The large class and large schools seemed to meet the social needs of the children better than the small, isolated schools. The older boys and girls, grown into young men and Women, had opportunities for gain on with a high school educa- tion without going away from home. There was said to be and then: seemâ€" ed to be a great development of a spirit of eo-operation and of mutual good-will and friendship from ‘lhe wider and closer acquaintance of the children of the locality, and from the new interests created and recogniZed as being common to all and {or the common good. Dr. Rogers, V. S.,is as well' as could be expected and his leg tans- ing no pain. He expects to be ar- ound again in three weeks. The report. which gained some cir- culation that some contagious disâ€" ease existed about one of our hotels is unfounded. Our village was never in a healthier state. Inspector Short paid a flying visit to our hotels last Saturday night, and found them complying with the law. COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE There will probably be some chan- ges in our township council. Thete will be opposition for the reeveship as .well as councillors, but our coun- cil has giveo fairly good satisfaction during the past year Home CHILDREN GO { Although the weather was rainy find the roads asbad as three inches 0! now mixed with mud could make them. the children jumped out of the wins at Kinsman school with dry ‘feet. Little boys and girls of six years came three and four miles in comfort. The .- teachers said they came regularly in all weathers. Un- du’ the small district system in the township of Kinsmw tw'o years he- lore the enrollment at the schools '3: 110; under the consolidated system it has risen to 146, without any appreciable diaerence in the total enumeratim: of children in the town- ship. The high percentage of young chiklren (six: to eight yeBrS) and the large proportion of older pupils (from fifteen to twenty years) were eloquent oi the gains in education during the first two and the later years of school life in a rural dis- trict. Chas. McCaflrey and Geome Mc- dee attended the county court at Lindsay last week.- Robt. Bryan: 85' 00., Lindsay, have ., large gang of men gt work on their timber limit, and are mak- ing good progress. Hr. Bryan: is justthokindofmnwelilnatoflee coming amongst us. maths 0! (act, it was rarely neces- W to wdt one minute, and that a, we where the children missed the van or were left from being late was very uncommon. The average at- t‘t;::(lam:¢3 at the schools confirmed all t. (Crowded out last wec‘k.) (Crowded out last week 75 Cents a Year in Advance; $1.00 i 10:0!de out not geeky). ' -President C. H. Hays of the 'Gmnd Trunk is in Detroit, conferring with railroad men. and it is believed that the Hichigan Central. Grand 'Trnnk, Wabash and Pere Marquette roads will combine (.9 build an inter- national bridge over the Detroit river. -â€"Mr. Neil McEachern of Elmore, treasurer of the Nottawasaga coun- cil, while drivitg home with $7,000 -â€"l[r. J. Smith of the C. A. R. and Mr. Oglivie of the mechanical department of the same campany, are said to have closed a, deal with the Clergue system by which they netti’d $25,000 on the new carâ€"coupling de- vice. in a satchel. and in company with Mr. J. L. Sinclair, was attacked by highWaymen. but after changing shots with the would-be robbers managed to escape them. â€"â€"Mr. Thomas Tait, manager of transPortationvvof the Canadian Paci- fic Railway. says that one of the difficulties in tranSportation in the west is the bad quality of the water which foams in the boiler and brings leakages. and alter every trip the engines have to be thoroughly clean- ed. Uâ€"‘flxe Ottawa city council and the Ottawa. board of trade will Send a deputation to Montreal to see Mr. th3 with reference to Ottawa being included on the direct route of the proposed Grand Trunk Pacific. â€"Mr. John White. dry goods merâ€" chant, Woodstock, has consented at the request of the trades and labor council to accept the nomination for the mayor-any. 41-. Gerald Gondman of Ottawa and his brather John of New York mt after a. separation 0f forty-seven years, during which they neither {saw heard of each other. â€"-Sir John Boyd, president of the Provincial High Court, has been re- quoted to nominate a, judge of the county court to investigate the al- leged charges of ballotâ€"box stuffing and impersonation which are said to have taken plus in Ottawa on De- cember 4, when the Liquor Act Was voted upon.- â€"The government report of Mr. G; Anderson of Toronto, on trade con- ditions in the Yukon shows that Canadian goods have ousted the American product. Impart': of the former by the White Pass Railway for the year ending J une 39 were $8,109,187, as compared with $1,19- 2,861 worth of American imports. --The new shaft of the Helen mine near Hichipicoten. has struck rich iron ore 300 leet below the original surface which will double its already large output. --'l'he Steamer London City left Halifax Tuesday morning {or St. John, but had to return to port Wednesday night, her pumps having been broken in the gale. â€"Fire destroyed the Grafton checse (actor-y. and the employees sleeping on the premises had to make their escape through a win- dow â€"At Maple Crwk, Alberta. on Wedn:sday. Henry A. Forsythe Was found guilty of receiving $1.700, which he knew to have been stolen. -Mr. T. 0. White, a prominent South Essex Conservative! died in St. Mary's hospital, Amherstbvrg, alter an operation â€"â€"James Weir, excise oflicer at the Royal Distillery. Hamilton, has been transferred to Goodcrham “ons’ distillery, Toronto. â€"The Nelson, 13. 0., electric hy- hw for $150,000 carried on Wed- nesday by a. vote of the ratepayers of 271 for and 81 against. -â€"The auction sale he‘d at Ottawa, on Wednesday for the purpose of dis- posing of the timber limits owned. by W. Hendrie on the. Upper Ottawa, about 260 miles in extent. proved obortiive. Mr. Peter Ryan manag- ed to recure a bid nf $130,000. but it did not approach the reserve price, and the limits were withdrawn. started there. â€"The'sChooner Baltic, with : of six men' is long overdue at lottetown, and it is feared th has founder-ed. -â€"Mr. A. M. Little was non for the vacant seat in the L ture Assembly by the Like: North Nap-folk. ~Ratepayers of Stratl'ord voted to guarantee the bonds of the new bisâ€" cuit and confectionery factory to be -â€"Hamilbon ministers have decided to abolish Santa Claus at Sunday school entertainments, to conscien- tious grounds. â€"William Thomas Lonsdale, 65 years of use. tanner, of Headingiy, Manitoba, died of heart, disease on Tuesday. ~C’011ector Henry W. Gill of Stur- gEOn Falls Was arrested on a charge 0! embezzling over $600 of municipal funds. -â€"F. R. Porter. soliciting agent of the G. T. R. at Hamilton, has been appointed assistant foreign freight agent. â€"The last shipment of Duchesa pears across the Atlantic has bean an unqualified success. They was bought from the fruiterers at thus shillings and sixpenoe a, case. and sold at an advance of two shillings â€"The inland revenue receipts for November aggregated $1,039,046, an increase of $21,100 over last year. 4A handsome residence has been oflered by the city of Hamilton as a. home for inwrables. â€"The authorities of the Albert College. Bellwille, will flit up a hospital isolated from the college. News of the “arid Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs 1m: ml'nus :r Baltic, with a crew so Paid t she