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AN OTTAWA MASON AGAIN AT WORK. Dl'. Pltcher’s Backachc Kid- ney Tablets completely cure him of serious attack of Kid- ney Trouble and Bacawchc. st'nwmu-ll r"“'-" ' . . ‘- follows. In a I‘W'CHL l. fltonmmuuu. benefit I rm-eivcd from Lune bark or be disamnointcd if Dr. Pitcher’ s Backache F are the "10% efl'ectuul run Scicm-c fur promptly relievi sen-nee tor prom? nently curing I back, swelling 0 ing “1' in'rimtiun brick Just, 40fo specka muting: h head. torpid 'liw Olrltehmlwrnti orms of Heine “'M. 81'. U 1'20]: at. :1” dz" “FM 01‘ by Miner (30., latent». Hanovqr Conveyancer 3 The First Chance to Buy: SPRING IS COMING! The PLOWS~5 HABROWS~ 100 Acres in Bentinck, Money to Loan Debts Collected, no charge mulwy made. CULTIVATORS--W_ith ALL KINDS of business deals uegoti ated quietly and carefully. SEED DRILLS~* Luck Drawer '28. he Malcolm Cameron ‘100 MASSEY-HARRIS SHOW BOOKS “'09! of )liddaugh House Stables The Agent. a! r T. 0. Stewart Farm, lot 16, mm. :3. \V. H. IL. Beutim'k, 100 acre» wztln about 30 cleared, frame house and other buildings. fiaid to have 4 Int nt hue hardwwd mnber. OFFERS FOR NOTHING 'ears experience. never neghgent ab The hFlHY')’ f tam hum-h cl: he farm. 'ears and Call and see our Spring Lines all set up ready to work at the And More Farm Im- plements Wantnd. 'Sâ€"Single. Two Farrow and Riding Plows. IOWS‘AH kinds: Diamond, Ossolating. Spring Tooth, and Disc Barrows. [VATORSâ€"W ith or wit hout Seeding attachments for two or three horses. DRILLSâ€"Our New No. 4 is the most complete Seedling; Machine ever invented. Thi~ Drill is securely covered _b3 Canadian Patents which are controlled by Massey-Harri.- Co., Toronto JflHN UVINESWN .Miller . . . LH. MILLER :olm Cameron 100 acres Durham on Garafraxa Road. IK‘ ultivntinu, gnod buildings es, gmul soil. schoul and neat hand. Post office 011 Owner getting up in bound to sell. Inhalation of fine dust, heavy lifts, ex- posure to chilling winds-these nre mum: of the things which make masons general- ly subject. to utmwks of kidney trouble and backur-he. M r. Wm.St.( Ever-QM. who“. home is‘ 651 ('.:mberla.nd St rcet, Ottawa, Ont, is a a, and was IO Unfortu- x'il Em of kidney (un- I; of his (3380 he gives 'I‘IIE _ â€" Durh.m.0nt. very low rates HANOVER, (’).\"l‘ Always prompt, in excellent ml 1 1H Tu'hlvts mmm- we: lk I H) lM M no “Bakers have a curious way of tell- ing just what the temperature of the! oven is,” said a baker who has been in' 1 the business for more than a quartet of a century, “and they can tell, too. with almost marvelous accuracy. Yout take a man who is an eXpert in the! business. and he can tell what the tem- ? perature of the oven is by simply touching the handle of the oven door. 1 In nine cases out of ten he will not . miss it to the fraction of a degree. ‘ Bakers have other ways, of course, of testing the heat of the oven. For in- stance. when baking bread they some- times throw a piece of white paper in- to the oven, and if it turns brown the oven is at the proper temperature, or, when baking other things, they will throw a little cornmeal flour into the oven in order to test the heat. But the baker‘s fingers are the best gauge, and when you come to think of the dif- ferent temperatures required in bak- ing different things it is no small achievement to even approximate the heat of the oven by touching the han- die of the oven door. “Bakers figure that during the rising time of a loaf of bread, after it has been placed in the oven, it ought to be in a temperature of 75 degrees F. Dur- ing the baking process, in order to cook the starch, expand the carbonic acid gas, air and steam and drive off the al- cohol, the inside of the loaf must reg- ister at least 220 degrees. In baking rolls, buns, scones, tea biscuits, drop cakes, fancy cakes, New York cakes, muffins, putt cakes and things of that sort the oven must show a heat of 450 degrees or higher. When the oven is at 400 degrees, it is fit for cream puffs, sugar cakes, queen cakes, rock cakes, juniblcs, lady fingers, rough and ready . and jelly rolls. At 350 degrees wine cakes, cup cakes, ginger nuts and snaps, pies, gingerbread. spice cakes, such as raisin, eurrant, eitron, pound, ' bride and so on. may be baked. It ‘ requires a still lower temperature to ! bake wedding' cakes, kisses, anise drops and things in this class. But, What- eVer temperature the old baker wants, ’ he can tell when he has it by simply tom-hing the handle of the oven door.” To boil cream the day before en- hmwos the rivlmoss of the coffee into \leile it is pourvd. 'l‘lm rmmmnt of stvwod or preserved fruit 10ft from ton will improve a tap- i0m pudding the next day. To cool; carrots «*luickly add a small piece of smlu t0 the Wutvr in which tlwy :u'c boiled. This will improve the flavor 01' the vogvtnble. To prevent gravies from becoming lumpy remove the pan frum the fire while the thivkmxing is bring stirred in, after which set the pun back on the fire and cook thoroughly. Several green coffee beans left to soak in the unbeaten white of an egg will color cake icing a delicate green. The beans should be removed and the egg whipped and used for the lclng. It bread has been baked too brown or if the crust has been blackened in an oven made too hot. do not attempt to cut off the black with a knife. As soon as the leaves are cold go over them with a coarse grater. Divorce In Japan. A traveler recently returned from Japan tells of some of the queer laws in that country concerning divorce: “A divorce on the part of the husband is easily obtained. One of the legal causes of divorce is ‘if the husband iind the wife too loquacious.’ Yet in all my long experience in Japan I have met only one man who discarded his wife, and i never met with a family where dissensiun existed. nor have 1 ever heard of a husband treating his wife with severity. although the same cannot he said of some parents-in-law, who ennsider their son's wife a mere chattel. .\s a general rule. the appear- ance of girls and women testifies of n i lightness of heart not always found in other clitzles where their sisters have ’ more abundant means of happiness.” 'l'lue \Vc-lg‘lu 0! a Trifle. In tho journal of [he ('vltrlil‘utt‘d Elig- Iish prmlclior, l’rt'tlcl'it'k liolwrtsou. oc- curs the following singular passngoz “It I had not known a certain person. I nevvr should have given up soldior- ing to become a minister; if I had not [not a certain lady. I never should have known that person; if my (108 had not disturbed that lady's invalid child at night, I never should have met her. It is true. then. that if my dog had not barked on that particular night I should now be in the dragoons or fertilizing the soil of India.” Fashion In the Garden. _ It is the passion for fashionable nov- eltiesâ€"a passion of modern existenceâ€" which prevents us from enjoying our gardens as our grandparents used to enjoy theirs. We allow our hired gar- deners to drive thence all the simple old flowers that our fathers loved and called by pet names which were famil- iar to us all in nursery daysâ€"London Garden. HEAT IN THE OVEN. Feminine Felicity. Eustaciaâ€"How pleased Eleanor looks tonight! vvvvâ€" EdmonIaâ€"Yes: she’ 3 either had a pro- posal or some man has sent her a box of candy. np with him.”- - V. vâ€"v there are wa hundred that will “and aversiveâ€"Carlyle. . Bin Reverses. “Funny thing that. Ever notice it?" “What ’tis?” _ “Why. when a man’s down It’s all For; one man who can staid pggspgrlty THE COOKBOOK. HARD FIGHTING FOR RAILROAD MEN IN THE ROCKIES. hoary Snowplow- and um man Who Bun Themâ€"Bucking Through the monster Drlttl That Pack the Hannah Pun-en. Every western railroad is equipped with a large force of snow fighters. Rotary snowplows and men who know how to run them can cut their way through drifts that in the early days of western railroading would have resulted in complete blockades. The rotary snowplow is one of the mar- yels of the railroad of today. and it is a liberal education in the art of snow fighting to see one of them eating its .way through a white drift that threat- the east and the west. There are sev- eral passes in the Rocky mountains which for six months in the year or more form a constant menace to train crews. These passes are situated at the top of the Great Divide, where the elements have full sway. Boreas pass, in Colorado, is a fair example. The snow begins falling at Boreas late in August or early in September, and it does not cease until well into May and sometimes June. There will be inter- mittent snowstorms in the midsummer ‘ months, but these are trifling stairs and are not to be mentioned in the same breath with the tremendous snowfalls of January and February. Few men make their homes at Boreas. It is nothing for them to get up in the morning and find themselves complete- ly buried in snow. The one store is usually at the end of a tunnel cut through an immense snowdrift. The population of Boreas during these snowy months consists, for the most part, of the railroad men who are en- gaged in the strenuous work of fight- ing constantly changing drifts. Snow at Boreas does not fall; it rages. It is , blown about in swirls and eddies and Is forever forming new drifts as treach- erously as a river that is constanzly shifting the sand banks of its month. These drifts are not little affairs that will barely cover a "stake. and rider" fence. They are piled ten, twenty and thirty feet high, and they spring up in a night. w -_â€"fie To the “tenderfoot” it would seem I Impossible to plow a way through these drifts at Boreas. but when a huge ro- tary snowplow comes whirling up the track with three or four engines DL‘ sh- tng vigorously behind it the “tender- foot" rmerves his decision. lie is still inclined to favor the snowdrit‘t. ‘ but he prefers to await developments : before committing himself. With a rush and a plunge the big rotary is hurled into the white mass of snow. Black smoke pours from the engines. and the huge blades of the snowplow eat relentlessly into the drift. The snow shoots out of the orifice at the side of the plow, forming a huge, white semicircle constantly moving forward. One can keep track of the progress of the plow by following the advance- ment of this rainbow of snow. Foot by foot the rotary eats its way forward, and finally it and the engines are buried in a huge trench of white. Only the stacks of the engines can be seen, belching their blackness on the virgin garb about them. llut the great white semicircle never fails to go forward until tinally the “temlwfoot” knows mm the drift is being conquered. uUIU lULuIJ tion. To get a rotary plow to the blockaded train takes time. and in the meantime the drifts are accumulating on the unused road, and each hour brings new menaces to railroad men and passengers alike. Sometimes even the rotary plow has been known to be canght in a snow qu Pilfin\.aaav-_ v._, Sometimes even the rotary plow has been known to be caught in a snow blockade. One instance occurred in Wyoming. An engineer who had a ro- tary plow on ahead and who was mak- ing good progress during a fierce snow- storm was compelled to run back a few miles for water. instead of taking the the snow gathered so fast over the tracks that he was unable to fight his way back to the plow. Such instances are rare. however. and are only owing to the oversight of some trainman, for a rotary snowplow with sufficient pow- er behind it can eat its way through almost anything in the shape of drifts. Bow She Felt. Mrs. Black‘Sam Johnson done left his wife ’bout six mont’s ago. Mr. Blackâ€"Do she t’lnk be am neb- bah comin’ back? “Waal. she jest beglnum’ to‘ D“ New York Tribune. ,"â€"Smart Set. and the