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ii ! the more this gay rover loves its safety, and a run that to the deer would mean death is to him only a "breather" that warms him up to the charming of all things that run, and his passing has left a great void that nothing can fil. The few that are left, the effect produced ou a lover of tho | open by one of the great bands of the | days that were, strung out in a film ! almost like vapor with distance and speed, and vanishing as if in air over the land's outlying verge.--T. S. Van Dyke in Recreation, THE NUMBER SEVEN. | It Rarely Occurs In the Science of | Weights and Measures. How would you define "seven?" The Standard Dictionary says it is "one more than six." Webster's calls it "one more than six or one less than eight." The abridged Webster says it is "five and two," and the Century's definition runs "one more than six; the sum of three and four." In metrology--that is, the science of weights and measures--seven is com- paratively rare. The seven days of | the week form a striking example of { its use, however. Egyptian cubit contained seven hand- breadths. "Cubit" is from the Latin "cubitum," the elbow, or the distance from the elbow to the end of the mid- dle finger. The Roman cubit was one and a half Roman feet or 17.4 English inches, but the royal Egyptian cubit, used in the building of the pyramids of Gizeh, perhaps 3500 B. C., has been learned from measuring sticks found in the tombs to have been 20.64 Eng- lsh inches. The ordinary cubit was divided into six palms or handbreaths, and the use of seven in the Egyptian to a probable custom of placing the ing along walls with the forearm and leaving it on the wall until the arm was laid down again. It should be added that there are many other cubits of widely different values, both ancient and modern.--Rochester Democrat and Rough on the Architect. "When I got the order to design a big wholesale house for a firm that has stores in five cities besides New York naturally I was elated," sald an architect. " TIl plan a building that 48 bound to be satisfactory,' 1 said to myself, 'and then they will give me the commission for those new stores they 'expect to put up in those other five cities.' body in the wholesale trade. My pa- trons were pleased, too, but instead of | giving me an order for those other buildings they simply used the same plans over and over again and built all their houses alike. That's what I call playing a low down trick on a fel- Jow."--| Perfectly Reckless. The members of the church voted that thelr dearly beloved and devoted i pastor should have a vacation, and so 2 he decided that he would visit a broth- er worker in the neighboring village. | *Why so long?" "Well, you see, I waited until I could bis way clear financially --Lippin- | protected as they are. give no idea of | Scholars have found, too, that the | cubit is ascribed by some investigators | hand behind the cibow when measur- | owners of large breeding es- ments of recing stock are fully the upon foot development. Place 'two foals at birth under quite opposite "conditions, each having good feet. Tie READY FOR THE SHOR. one on wet meadows, where its feet are seldom or never on firm ground; the other upon {ry uplands. From 'the meadows you have soft, flat, weak feet, while upon the uplands they have LE 1s simple 'cleanliness and occasional dressing 'with good ofl. In fact, treat the horses' feet in the same way you would your | 'best harness. If a young horse with sound feet be taken from a dry pasture he will be fit for shoeing at once, so far as the fect are concerned, but a colt should have his first training lessons in the stables and not in the shoeing forge and when quiet to handle should be { shod. 1 am sure that certain kinds of bed- | ding are a cause of unsoundness in | the feet of horses. I have not yet met | with anything so good as wheat straw The damp portions of litter should be removed daily and the animal exer- cised on hard ground. Each morning the litter should be carefully looked over and the dry portion removed to the sides of the box and every par- ticle picked out of the feet. Sawdust from the fir or pine order, I believe, has a damaging effect on the hoof, but that from woods such as elm, ash or oak is a fairly good sub- stitute for straw. Working the Brood Mare. A knowledge of just what is right and safe to do with a working brood mare will prevent some little mistake which perhaps may have serious con- sequences and will enable one to mnke the best possible use of her time. | While a mare may safely be worked hard and steadily from the day she is bred until the day she drops her foal, she should be kept clear of excessively hard pulls and strains, such as are apt to occur in hauling grain on the road in a hilly country, working with smoath shoes or nofe at all when the roads are jcy and hauling feed and manure through mufldy fields and feed lots in the early spring. Careful hauling on the road and steady work in the field, putting in crops and tending them are very safe for the mare. I have used mares at spring plowing up to the day their foals were dropped, says a horseman. Dairy Wisdom. Winter butter sells at a fancy. price; but not when the milk and cream are allowed to collect kitchen and cellar odors. Too much cream for the calf is about as bad as too much money for the boy. Milk cows should be groomed not more than one hour before milking. A stiff brush should be used to re- move dry matter and places soiled with fresh manure cleaned by wash- ing. 'Take the milk to the house directly "Well, I did turn out a splendid store | after you are through milking. You --a store that was admired by every- | cannot afford to run the risk of losing or getting filth into the food you have received from your cows. = Mangers Too High and Deep. If horses could speak there would be a general outcry against the mangers in use, says the Farm Journal. Most of them are set too high and are too deap, besides being tight on the bot- tom instead of slatted to let the dust and hay seed through. Dust is one of the horse's worst enemies and often injures his breathing apparatus, caus- ing him misery for life. Every man- | ger should have a hayrack in front of it, and this should have a slatted bot- tom. The horse that gets his hay in this manner, pullidg 't through a rack fevel with the manger, will not breathe 'dust and will not have dust in his stall "CLEAN OATS FOR HORSES. Homemade Device That Will Extract Dust From the Feed. Very few horsemen realize that they feed at least one bushel -of dirt, dust, etc., along with every load of oats they feed. The above statement is true, even with the so called recleaned oats sold by feed dealers. Some time ago 1 decided to stop feeding the dust, dirt, etc, and did so by building the dust extractor shown in the illustra- tion, says a writ- and TET #5 18 covered on the step shape por- tions elther with tin or thin boards, 'The top sides of A are covered with screen wire and the lower sides cov- | ered with tin or boards. These pieces, "A and B, should be cut from 1 by 6 inch boards and should be about Bix inches wide at the widest points and about two inches at the narrowest place. This will leave about two inches behind A for the dust, etc., to pass down and out at C. The oats are fed in at the top throngh the spout F' by moving the lever E, which controls the slide in spout F. The step shaped projections of A and ! »B toss the cats back and forth over the screen wire, and they finally come out at Ni cleaned, while the dust and dirt fall to the ground or in a box, as shown in the right hand figure. The cleaner may be made almost any elze, from eight to eighteen inches OATS CLEANER IN OPERATION. square, and tlie arrangement for feed- ing the oats Into the cleaner may be built to suit your fancy. The top is nailed tight, but the front should be Lung on binges and fastened in front with two hoc It will surprise you the amount of dirt aud dust that you will get cut of your « The device has beeu used for sey iting the fine meal from corn chops when it was nec- essary to feed the same to small chick- ens. DIPPING SHEEP. Etec! Vats Best, Says a Breeder--De- stroying Ticks on Lambs. Where sheen swim ten or fifteen feet "through a solution I find it quite satis- factory, says a breeder. When sheep | swim through the dip it scems to work into the wool better than if they were simply held in it and then taken out. Several yea ago 1 built on my farm a wooden tank twenty-five fect long, twenty inches wide at the top, four | feot deep and six inches wide at the Mottom. I made it out of plank, tongued | and grooved and painted well. It gave | me good faction, but the trouble with the wooden vat fs that it soon rots where the ground touches it Since I have been using my steel vat 1 would not think of making another wooden one, as the steel vat is much more durs ond therefore causes much less trouble. 1 have used many kinds standard di ' have Le instructions were 3 y where tha wrried out. the fall before they are to drop lambs in order to have them free from any parasites, so that the young lambs will Totbe bothered with thew. But in ¢ase the lambs do need dipping I think they should not be dipped too young. However, I do not hesitate | about dipping nine when they are five or six weeks old. On the shearing of the ewes the ticks will pass to the lambs. Then by dip- ping the lambs the ticks are effectively destroyed. Grading the Flock. The grading of the flock is even more necessary in winter in northern areas than in those farther south. By grad- ing fs meant separating the shearlings from the ev that are older and also separating any ewes {rom the others that require special care. This is nec- essary because of the different kinds i of food that are best suited to the | needs of each class of sheep. After the ewes have produced lambs they, of course, call for a different kind of food from that given to the other ¢i- visions of the flock.--Proufessor Thomas Shaw. THE MIRAGE. Conditions That Make Possiblé This Beautiful illusion. About that natural phenomenon, the mirage, much mystery clung in days of old, but science explains it as read- lly as the rainbow. The fata morgana of the strait of Messina and the specter of the Brock- en were nothing more in sober reality than mere mirage. A mirage may occur at any place where the denser stratum of air is placed above the lighter stratum, thus refracting the rays of light, the com- men surface of the two stratums act- ing as a mirror. In looming mirages distant objects show an extravagant increase in ver tical height without alteration ih breadth. Distant hummocks of ice are thus magnified into immense towers and pinnacles, and a ship is sometimes abnormally drawn out until it appears twelve or thirteen times as high as f any wonder, that the dlans regard the Bg i H : 1 g : il tf at the sight of lake, only to be ers way of § : g tives ks work of evil and tantalising Lake Ontario. is: famous ful and F i | which the opposité shore of the lake is plainly visible from either side.-- Pearson's. 3 » Dwarfs. Court Until about little more than a cem- | tury ago ty war tly kepd as court toys. ; of them might' be multiplied almost indefinitely, Bebe, the dwarf of Stanislaus, king of Poland, lived to be ninety years of" age, dying fn Paris in 1858, and is vas riously deseribed #8 having measured thirty-five inches and - fn height, and |Henrietta Maria had two whose enteen po in England Coppernin, who be: | Jonged to the Ppl I always give my ewes a dipping in | qutlived all t] who were meanwhile relatively unhealthy b back and waiting for Moreover, fo became con of fun, most. ow Fox that a membes: of the read thus: been pk a new commisd no better than upply all line. These properties will be old at a and on advantageous terms. Further particulars on application to the pro prietor, 2 Port Perry, Aug 6, 1907. 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MERRIAM CO., ¢ Publishers, Springfield, Mass. { The mails are despatched from the Post Going North-- 9.30 a. m. Going South--11.20 a. m. Going North-- 5.15 p. m. Going South--10 p.m. 'Grand Trunk Railway. TIME TABLE. Port PERRY. GOING BOUTH. GOING NORTH. 7.25 a.m, 9.51 a.m. 11.45 a.m. 5.40 p.m. 3.40 p.m. 7.33 pm. J. 2. R. Time Table. MYRTLE STATION. 5 Going East Going Wist 10 09 a.m 6.82 a.m. "630 pm 9.10 a.m 11.23 p.m. 6 00 p.m, A. J. DAVIS, Town Agen METHODIST CEURCH' | REV. MR. LEITCH, Pastor. Babba'h Services, 11 sud 7. Week Evening Service, Thursday 7.30. Strangers welcome and conducted Lo seats. 8ST. JOHN'S CHURCH. (PRESEYTERIAN.) REV. R. MCINNES, B.A., Pastor | Sabbath Services, 11.00 nd 7 Week Evonin | Service, Thursday 7.30. | | | BAPTIST OHURCH. REV. MR MEGAN, PAstok. { Sabbath Seryices, 10.30 and 7.00, | OHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, (ANGLICAN) MR. N. H. NOBLE Lay Reader--in ehargs. Sunday--Matins, 10.30 a.m. Evensong, 7 p.m, Sunday! 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EARTILY thanking the public for the: H liberal patronage reccived during the many years { have kept a Livery Establish , ment in Port Perry, 1 have much pleasure in' announcing that I have removed MY LIVERY! to my foriner place of business Water Street' which Iam abeut to largely extend ind; crease facilities go that the public may be: better accommodated with safe and desir- able RIGS AT MODERATE CHARGES R. VANSICKLER! Port Perry, Jane 21, 1900. Agricultural Machmes: -- --AND---- IMPLEMENTS --AT-- SUNDERLAND ae undersigned keeps on fd sales the following Agricu nes and Implements manufacture B WIR EANLOE CT OF PETERBORO