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upon Lue ismg pulis Sn the air have ever My 3. fusi- gunners or n iuced. Sigion, :11- anu men anoeuv're domuabic [night on. her Palm- re devoted marched, ueath, so to die sa- lty, step- tyâ€"gipry 8 river and the Boer: 003'. men, and e northern I asked an jyarfare at if his Own 'is, and he Luveuous, k of the e enemy h barbed h the bed was laid the Lub- pnd Con- ’ the ford idammed In sonie 1 tee: of 311:. knee re cross- wihhis .ccoutre- 3 a des- a. The ining, if his 9:. mo 1 lad but L. Tao king no (If! env tteries tntvers finesn cannon 15 soldiers .‘itbin 4J0 ts. 'l‘hcn, the fire, other death were ' Irishv across mbling S ad driv- 111 Lb. )3 {Oped 1 be- oung the I; had 1‘ and 3 had iI'OL to aim felL battle. unca Dn- ROUGH HANDLING;_; g: Careless and rough handling oglayâ€" ing hens cause many breaks lmegg Occasions are conStantlyTEhris- ing in the poultry yard "when one needs to exercise all his powers of amt to keep from "doing ashamed. Hens can be Var) aggra- vating, and cannot be coerced with gentle force or mildly corrected as most domestic animals are. A threat- engng movement, though carried no further, Wm often put evéry hen- in a wildfire tram pen to pen. A disturb- ance 01' any knd measurany af-ects dd _. Th0 poultry keeper who 5 mesuu mgement that will now quite an novice Knows that a dog or other 1111â€" amount of water, and have a place { fawnia‘u‘ animal, of a Levy 0‘1 Visitors, four inches wide all around the ledge is Very onjacubnabn nar the quarters from wh.ch fowls may drink without Not all poultry keep- having a chance to get into. the of laying hens. . ers know that they themsetves often trough. It is better than fountains uowingly cause Lad disturbances. which bee They see the disturbance, but are un- the water ireezes. M abLe to account for it._To abruptly en- ter a. pen, to run past it, to go intoit DON’T HURRY HEAVY HORSES. wearing clothes different from those- It is bad policy to move‘ a team out usuali' worn, or carryin an untami- . - ‘ ,, . ' . liar object, wiil otteng send panic of its natural gait, espemally With a througn a whole flork. Load. It is far better to put on a 0113;1ng . the quarters Of. laying full lotd, and even a little more, and' hens isa thing to be avoided, if .pOSb‘l- give the horses theh‘ own time dior ble, unless it can be done W'lthOlltt . .. h t ,, two loads making a disturbance. The best way ‘ t t an o mane to move hens short distances is . ‘ driving. 11' this is done carefully, .egg production may not be affected at all. culiar to each horse, and it If the hens must be carried’ the . , , J - should be vcyy carefully 1121116163: pressed beyond the Linn. fatiguefoiâ€" moved only a; night° not caught‘ 01’. iows qumkiy, while within! tnlsTluntlt carried by the feet. Makng short dis- , ' . ‘ is POSSLbie. . to 1; tances ihey can be c ‘11.in in the Lustrate the paint, 18L arnan at enip , i " ?z a .-._ to move his arms as ra‘piuly' as a bird -k,‘ M... z-.. “-n Hnn a Uuuvv-I, w...» J hands, one at a time.;’or a_under the arms, two at a time. VVnen. this mode of handling is too tedious, the trans- fer should be made in coops. With 'genfl-e. bundling the had eszectsof mov- :né are diminished. During the na- tuml laying seasun laying hens are Leas influenced by disturbances than at other times. GROWING ORCHARDS. The practice of planting quick or early bearing varieties of apple trees among those which are later in com- ing into hearing, has something to commend it. For this purpose it; is well to use for “fillers" such varieties as bear young and heavily like! the Ben Davis, Missouri Pipin, \Vealthy and Yellow Transparvm. These. “fill..- ers" can be removiad when they begin to crowd the other trees. This praCLice, however, has not 501 much to commend i: as man)“ beljwe,‘ (or the reason that the ground: be- tween the trees can be used! for other ‘ purposes in growing crops which wm pay nearly if not Quito so well! a; up- pLes. Besides, when such c'zois as corn.a.nd pot axoes are grown between the trees there is no: so much mgury done to the apple trees as.s__wi:en Other “min trees. or pom-h trees, are p135, Besxdes, \\ corn.a_nd W1 3.1033 the trees thare is done to the apple apple trees, 01' ngVVD- grow u. It may seem a lon'r time to wait for ° ! Lord Lawrence, returns from an apple. orchard when trees are planted 33 to 4;: feet. apart, a. blunt man oi . but it cheap land is 11.590 and such contradiction, an' crops grown as will succeed on the Mann. Yet, like soil, the expense of rowin an agpie ‘ _ orchard is no! so grim. as 8may seem; gneat, he h‘Ld a on the wholjc‘ it is genarally morc‘.:zatâ€" wmmun’s The isfacco-ry to stzlrl wiLh the intentiian of started from L01 making the apples the main crquand he gathered all h grow corn and potatoes betweemi‘ the . l- trees as long as that: can be» sudess- mg room am 111 ‘ favorite hymn fully grown, and than give. thq tire a. land up f0 theses. Then when the son, 10 years olc proper time.» c-omestho orchard. 3' he er’s arms. Budd seeded to grass and pastured twith burst into, Lears sheep or hogs, or the grass aft be- .. . twéen the rows and thrown around I Shall neVeI triees as a mulch. The grass my be tie a Child 323“i cut and thrown around the trq'es in It was not of. June or July and the. orchard gstur- him, or of his 0 ed duung the latter part of ”DE 5011- but of the fact MANURE 11 ASTED IN THE BARN 1 YARD 1 ‘ I have estimated that theme is plan- are enough wasted in the av rage harm ard every year to keep fro one to three acres of ground in fine fer- ti it} several years, and farmers 'ith whom 1 have talked aglee whh‘me, writes John C: 9.1111 erl 1m Thi ot a mantra of saving izbor ei1her skint is a great waste of iabor. The n- ape should go to Lhe £11 1d as ias as it is made. B) this system iL s 1es .L barnyard eve to three acrz tiiity several Vp'hUHl I hav at Least one handling waste by evawrationq work is by this meth< when there isno rmh “LU gu-râ€"w , w it is mad-3. . .. . . x .i on:- nandnng and doesnot ‘ held it. . . ‘ ‘ u T - 2) ,. ion or heatihggThw “hi d9 you, my lord asked. . ‘1: -q b' ‘hk meth ,1 mostl' ionwmf the relieved passengers, surpn “01 1. 3 _' u - C‘ _ 3 Z ‘gto see the governor-generaltof II when there is no I‘m-h of: Other \‘Dl'k. { playing nurse in a crying baby, "‘ When the tune come;. that we. can i do you take such notice of t mus-Le: couragd £0 rebudd 0111' stafiles, child i" , to tell you the truth,” they will be put all in a single fine, “ Because ‘ 'acent and {the swered Lord Lawrence, With a mi with a feeding floor 303 stable floor mu be of cememt, having } twinkle in his eye, “that child is a gentle slope to ,a watewtight- cart only being in the ship who I can that can be backed under the. fact; [quite sure does not want to get 2 This is the only way to save all the thing out {of me." . manure and do it at minimum rust. ' â€"â€"â€"--o-â€"â€"â€"-- ‘l'he difficulty with us at present“ is , . that it is a hardship to tear down and IGNORANCE 1,5 314155- rebuild stables that are as good as the! New “,3ka wish to get some -dd style calis for. It would pay to‘do (Ce-1‘, 91m. ht away. Let him w’30 Dealerâ€"Roll butter, ma'am? ‘ Navy Wifeâ€"No! We wish to can at least panic runs like pen. A disturb- .asm'ady af-ects r' who is mom a hesitatian. “As dirty as a barnyard’ the phrase _is a fery _ is} one, but it A..- rn_ does its Wings, u; we “a- as rapidly as a little buy, : qu7ckly Ive wiJ become eutb wiil convince him of the tempting to make his heav ses. step with the rapidity or fast trottex. _ The la‘ is that heavy bodies move It does not pay to make any false ii motions in hoeing, especilly if killing a weeds is the object Above all do not either out off the leaves of a weed s or allow Others to do :20 before ‘0 rooting it if you Watnt to kill it.!n who 1 h persisted in spite of all we could‘g tell bun in striking twice WiUI( his 8 hoe to» destroy a weed, just a: tne sur- C iace of the ground, cutting 011 air the t top. Then he struck deeper and turn- 1 :ed up the rent. invariably if a rain 5 011‘ cloudy weather came, that weed 3 grew. It was simply tranSpIanted un- 1 iuer the best conditions for growing, 1 Emuch root. and little top. \Ve lett the men go alter a few days? trial to re~ form him, but without effect. He was too stupid to know how to ’handle a .hoe, says an exchange, .\ n lm contradiction, and thoroughly self-re- iiant. Yet, iike many of the truly 1 great, he had a heart as tender as a 3 Wuirnrm’s. The night: on which he 1 started from London Lo govern India he gathered all his family in the draw- ing room and made each child repeat in. favorite hymn to him. His youngest 'son, 10 years old. nestled in ‘his fath- er’s armsn Suddenly the strong man burst into tears. “ I shall never," he cried, “see Ber- tie a. child again!” not of. the hardships before him, or of his own death he thought, but of the fact that Bertie would not be a child to him on his return. On board the steamer with the' ing day an. complained in lang . ‘ than polite. .. _ “ Steward, Ln- board!" was pe sleepless berths ,c. “ GREAT MAN’S u. herless, by its took it on his knee. For hours he would hold it, showing it his watch and anything that would amuse it. The child took to the great, strong man and was always quiet when he held it. .1 a) 9! halved one own mother, it. The cnua EUUA w man and was alwaj held it. “ Why do you, my of the relieved pass to see the governor child ?" IGNOBANCE I_S BLISS. New Wifeâ€"I wish to get some but- ter; please. Dealerâ€"Roll butter. ma’am? New Wifeâ€"No! We wxsh to earn an biscuits. Harm of Lord Lawrence's ago to hulls. KILLIN G WE EDS 11L?» . ' . 'ard, throw that baby over- was petulantly shouted from i do you, my lord” asked one relieved passengers, surprised the. governor-general: of India nurse in a crying baby, "why g take such notice of that .‘V-v V .1 Lawrence, with a merry 5 eye, “ that child is the , the. ship th I mn' feel - L â€"..__ Apple Puddingâ€"Pare and core half doz good-sized tart apples, or slice them if. preferred. Take 2 cups good sour milk, two spoons butter or lard, or cream may be used if desired, one level teaspoon soda, one teaspoon salt. Stir in sifted flour enough to make a good stiff batter; and lastly, stir in‘ » the apples if sliced. If quartered, put in a well-buttered basin, first a por- tion of batter, then a layer of apples, and repeat until both are used, put- ting a layer of batter last. Steam three hours. ”V “A". A Good Sauce for Pudding: Take 4 tablespoons sugar and one tablespoon flour, stirred w 11 together into which and add a generous lump of butter and any flavoring which is liked best: salt to taste. Molasses may be used if wanted but a larger quantity must , be used. - . \ Oatmeal Breadâ€"An excellent recipe a for oatmeal bread is as follows: Scald C one cup sweet milk, add one cup boilâ€" l ing water, and pour over one cup of : oatmeal, stir for a moment, then al- 1 low it, to become lukewarm. Add half : teaspoon salt, and half a yeast vsolved in tWO tablespoons warm ’ a cake dis water, stir in sufficient flour, whole wheat flour is best, to make a batter. and set in a warml d a half hours, tuen ‘then put into pant, ' -. doubled its bulk, and is light, bake about 43 minutes. This amount makes two small loaves or one very large loaf. Beef Loaf or Cheap Roastâ€"Take two ‘lbs lean beef, the tougher parts will ' do. Put in a chopping bowl and chop fline, or run through a sausage mill. : An eighth of a pound of fat pork also - chopped fine, one quart rolled crack- I . er: work all together in a bowl, season a 3 With salt, pepper, sage and onion. Bind â€"â€"A‘-A :n+n any- Wi'tn Salt, prcx , case out.“ u..-.,__, together with two eggs, make into loaves and bake, basting often. This W311 be found an excellent substitute for roasts and is much cheaper, and them is no waste. It is very good cold. ‘ Jam Cakeâ€"Cream together one cupl sugar and one cup butter, add three beaten eggs, three tablespoons sour milk in each one teaspoon soda has been dissolved, half teaspoon each of ground cloves, ground cinnamon! ground allspice and grated nutmeg,cne1 3 cup any kind jam. and two cups flour, to be baked in a loaf. Raisins chopped may be substituted for the jam if de- q. E i l Grahamsâ€"Two cups buttermilk, one! i teaspoon soda, level full, salt, equal‘ pens flour, sifted. and graham to make‘ a very stiff dough. Drop into oiled’ tins. If less flour is used, making them of thinner batter, shorten with two tablespoon lard, and bake in patty pans in hot oven. Dewey Candy.â€"-\Vhile one egg, one spoon water, stir in confectioner‘s su- gar till thick enough to handle, flavor to suit the taste with lemon or vanilla, I take a small spoonful roll into flat- , tened ball and put half an English wal-1 E nut meat each side. Salmon Croquettes.â€"â€"0ne can. of sal- mon, as much cold mashed potato, as ave salmon, season with onion. '1 salt, pepper, mix with a little cream ; or raw egg, form into little cakes and fry a nice brown. Nice for lunch. you h 51 Salmon Croquette: mon, as much cold you have salmon, 5 salt, pepper, mix w SUGGESTIONS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. nous“- Another dangerous custom is to A good outfit for thi: :?:n:qi1::u82f shut 011' the gas at the. main service ‘. ‘ .. or at the gas meter during thetnlgnt, f P‘HOW 511”» and numerous accidents, some of tuem .towels, four bath fatal, have resulted from it. it is all. towels, Turkish, three tablecloths and most equally bad to turn off the gas napkins to match, and a dozen fruit at the meter during the day..- napkins. This is a good beginning, but Notwithstanding the, universal inzrm! i of such things one can never have too auction 01 gas lighting, there are stilli many. i many persons who would be benefited! ‘by- receiving {p ‘ keeper’s linen closet, The man ordering his day’s supplies _ lem instructions on! of groceries by telephone, inquired. the “33.01: gas “1 the lifmseio‘di 1G“ “ Got any eggs 3n The answer must of companies would bone H. t. emse'ves and} the public by paying more atten- course be Inferred from the reply tion totnis matter. Among available 3' be? found. numerous in- W'hiCh {OllowedI u Oh, “.611, they’re statistics ma good enough for cooking, ain‘t ,, ' ' ' " w ,or accidents due to and then, “Send up a dozen. ' menagemellt 0f 83$ Among as a matter of fact, there sh uld i 7. n . . i . . . 0 w 0 finds the followxng mentioned. a; squash: 1, Luva wwwww tch, and a dozen fruit 3 a good beginning, but one can never have too from the stove lump of butter ich is liked best; 3 may be used if teen a fine, granular By all means steam ma ;. When a squash has ~2mned on the vine the An English surgeon calls attention to the great discomfort, or actual ins jury, caused by ill-fitting garments worn by a growing child. Clothing for young children is usually made in large quantities at a time. All the garments of the lot are out after a fixed pattern, the different parts being pieced together rapidly and stitched by machine, all at the least possible cost. a . . _ ___--..n.. nroflnr‘ no- PU§DLUIO Uvuy. The cIOLhes are usually graded ac- cording ‘to age instead of by size, and so a child who is large or smaller than the average for his years gets a mks- fit. But even those whose size and age agree are often no better off. 1', _ LL-; #1”. "kill! ‘1 bu the child's anatomy ox<’ Bred, nature having in ltb chest. should bulge ( room for the lungs. whi get Dem; straight. Straxgiu. . If the fault is not remedied early, especially in the case (if a girl who is nor. inclined to be a romp and 3. tom- boy” and we may wish for their own physical good that all growing girls were tomboys, the deformed posmon prdfier breathing becomes imp‘ogsihle, and consequently the hea-tlh IS not so good as it. should be ‘1 n‘uI'n‘L‘ hf) SO gooa as n. suuulu m. A body garment should a much fuller in front than in the. back. In: the case of a young child this will prevent the slightest traction‘ on the tender and easily molded s ' in. the case of an older child, gims to care how h ‘ will force the wearer t erect, with shoulders b suffer the mortification o wretchedly fitting clothes. 0 stanul and sit rick, or else to f wearing Numerous accidents occur annually iin the use of gas for lighting, 'cook- img or heating, through either care- |lessness or ignorance. The largest ‘num'be-r of accidents, probably, occur ‘. from ignorant persons either blowing 3 out the gas or turning it offl and. sub- l . I. sequently turning the cock on suffi- xciantly for thegas to escape'unnot- iced, says Crassler’s Magazine. C BILDREN ’S CLOTHES. 0'] without ventilation, there is great‘ danger of ‘Lsp-hyxiation, particularly so! if water gas is used. Much can be (home to avert this danger by a pro- per arrangement of the gas piping in houses. _ Another dangerous custom is to shut off the gas at the main service or at me gas meter dsuri-ng the._mgnt, _.r.._\.\:\ 1“ +.‘Iam by receiving yin-out “W- ,i 7 the: use oi gas in t " " " Gas companies won and) the public by paying more atten- tion 10: this matter. Among available! statistics may bc‘ found. numerous in- cidents 02' death .or accidents due to faulty management of gas. Among the more remote. causes the; writer finds the following mentioned: In‘ one of two adjoining rooms. supplied “ 138 from one soâ€"called prepay-' With 3'- as meter, :3. man retired for thei ! ment 3. inight when the gas supply from the ‘mete-r was exhausted, but forgot to close his gas. burner. The occupant of the adjoining room came. home late at- the slot of night, dropped a coin in ‘ eter and got a fresh; supâ€" . ich meanwhile also as- caped 1n the adjoining room; killing the. occupant. ‘ Escape of gas and explosions have - . .u - “-4 A; nonmnnk- feiffig scolded 'for Lng stoves, where boiling water, run- ning over the vessel, extinguished the flame. It has already been men- tioned that the so-called independent'i gas connect ions with lead to accidents 'by the wrong ing turned in mistake. ‘Wh‘ere the gas in the cellar freezes in winter time; it. is dangerous to attempt to thaw out the gas meter or service. ' ; flame. A gas meter should never be examined with a burning light, nor should any tools he used near a (gas meter known to be leaky, on account at the danger of flying sparks. ILLU MINATING GAS not. Sitting UP BBATISH ARMY UNIFORMS A FAMILIAR SIGHT IN EVERY PART ‘ OF THE WORLD. But â€"â€"â€"â€" V'â€" Guanisâ€"bt'ess of the Smart. Ulcers. The military uniform of Great Bri- tain, like the martial music of England encircles the globe. It is a familial sight in almost every part of thl world. But tradition has outlasted \the reo- coat, at least as a. service uniform, it being found that it offers too good a target to Boer riflemen. “ Tommy At- kins” wears one style of unifrom, gaudy and effeminate in its display of color and fancy trappings, in his home quarters, and .quite a different when he faces the Afrikander :gurb sharpshooters. In South Afriga he snarIBDOOIeI'B. Lu DUMB“ u..- _. _ , gets into dust colored khaki, and even daubs a dull red paint over his leather belt so as to look as muioh as possible . But " Tommy” exults in his gaudy ' s, and almost each unit of the eat Britain has ' Asiatic battlefields, that they will not be discarded, no matter how. ridiculous they may appear in ,a __.:J.L. um anmbreness of mod how. ridiculous they may appear in contrast with the sombreness of mod: ern costumes. . This is true of .the rather finicky uniform of the various Highlandersâ€"- Argyll and Sutherland and the fam- s Gordons and the Seaforth.‘ The IT IS HISTORIC. ' of Rome, and One of the most tam .' diers in the British army is the Cold- si.ream Guards. It is an old Crom- I the Dust Coloured Khaki Is Used In South Africaâ€"[Inflows of the Famous Highlandvrsâ€"‘l‘he Crack Coldstrezzll A -__.‘-_E the trapp n8 1 belt, stockings full (11.83 they lowing‘fhe na trousers and feathe The Fifth Lancers and green plqmes. . ’ RETAINED \VITH Ulr'r 1L up; 1 . ‘Bigby started for Europe full of a big business scheme. Did it succeed? “7e11, yes; but he says that for one spell going over he thought he should have to throw the whole thing up. Sgturday, sai or, I’ll be forever indebted to you. If. that’s your game. replied the tail- or. the clothes w’dI not be donerat all O years THEN SILENCE RF. {GNED TWO MUCH TIME WANTED SAVED BY DISCRETION . er, indeed, groaned the thin continuing his efforts to dis. the steak. “RTE DIFFICULTY. us bodies of sol- my is the Coldâ€" an old Crom- and is remem- of InfantI‘YPn’ remalked the 13 ad- from the morning have you tried all 1 {fiends prescribed acious. no! It 1 had sad and buried five