Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh

BASE FLORINS. A gang of utterers seems to be working the North Wales coast towns, and complaints have been made to the police of the large number of base 2s. pieces in circulation. In Rhyl one tradesman had five in one day. The coins are of good appearance and "ring" well, but the milling is bad.

TWWWTM^W1 ^WtvVW In Lighter Vein. <<Per;y, whom did you say your friend B married?" "Well,, he marrittl forty thousand pounds. I forget her other name." 0000 The 1)Iff.e.cè.-A woman gets mad if she sees anoth^T woman wearing a hat like hers. Z!1 A man wcttt wear a hat unless it is exactly like t'hat other men arc wearing. oooo A teacher asked a boy which is the highest dignitary of the Church. After looking up and looking down, the boy innocently replied, "The weathercock." dooo "Lood here, waiter," said an indignant diner who found a piece of wood in a sausage "I don't mind orting a bit of dog, but I'm hanged if I'm going to tackle the kennel." 0000 The statement made by an American authority that a married man lives longer than a bachelor brings from a cynical corre- spondent the observation that to a married man life always seems longer. oooo A famous divine, being asked whefher he intended that his daughters should be in- structed in the different languages, replied "No, one tongue is sufficient for a woman." oooo ONE FOR FATHER. Perhaps the father had been too keen on making his you Ig son progress ir, ariflimetic. Perhaps, like Mr. Pumblechook in "Great Expectations," he may have propounded arithmetical problems in and out of season. But he felt sternly reproved when a picture postcard arrived from the small boy away on holiday. It contained a weird collection of figures and the inscription: "A summ for you." oooo DISHONEST. The customer approached tihe market stall- holder. "I want six of the best tomatoes you have. Pick 'em carefully. They're for a prize at our show." "Did you want that bouquet you got last week to win a prize at a flower show?" in- quired the interested stall-holder. 11 Av, that was for a friend. He took first prize for cut-flowers, and believe me he rever stood me a drink for getting it for him. Some men is what I call aishonest." oooo DOCTORS' CONGRESS-AND EFFECT. Commenting on the Doctors' Congress and the absence of 7,000 physicians from their patients, a versifier in "Truth" asks:— Did it make a difference, great or small? Did the deatli-rate rise, or did it fall? Or was there' no pâlpàlile change at all, While from every part of this earthly ball, From Aberystwyth to far Nepal. Those Medicos came at Science's call, A thousand times seven, The Faculty's 'leaven, To their tilky-tilk at the Albert Hall? oooo THE RIGHT WAY. A nigger boy had been arrested fire times on a idiarge of stealing chickens, and the American judge, addressing the father, said: "Why don't you te&ch your sen how to ict?" Why don't you show him the right \Y!\y" "Say. jedge," replied tlie parent 'I hab shown dat boy do figlt way a dozen times but somehow he alius gits caught wid de chickens on him." oooo A CONSTITUENT. A journalist whose duties necessitated at. tendance at an ultra-smart garden party in the country tells an amusing story. A seedy local photographer, engaged to take a snapshot of a group of the guests, was so nervous that he seemed onable to get on with his performance. After the guests had been kept waiting ten minutes, one of them ejaculated, "Devilish long time." Overhearing him, the iiogtese, whose hus- band is a member of Parliament, and who had been gushing to the photographer, turn- ed to the impatient one appealingly, "Hush," she whispered, "he's a constituent." oooo REALISTIC. Two wags were diseuesmg with lamenra tions the decadence of art. "Look," one said, "at the great Italian school of painters. Look even at the old Greeks! Why, Zeuxis painted grapes to look so natural that birds came to peek at them." "He did, did he ?" said the other. "That's nothing. I've got a friend who paints a dog I so natural that he has to paint a muzzle on j him to keep him from biting." I

1—^———^ If jroa wisk DURING to keep your TTTTT? Dog alert and healthy- HOT WEATHER give him SPRATTS DOG CAKES or Puppy Biscuits They are composed of just the right ingredients to tone up a dog's frame and body, and, furthermore, they ensure that necessary reserve of vitality which so many dogs lack during the hot Summer months. Free samples of patwmt foods suitable for SPR LIMITED, your dog sent free LIMITED, U, on request, stating 24/25 Feaeharch St. breed kept. London, E.C.

Woman's Realm. A Column for Feminine Readers. RECOGNISED. Two womeif who had not seen each other for many years met unexpectedly in the street. "How do you do?" exclaimed one, effu- sively. "Now, this is delightful!" exclaimed the other, who was the elder. "You haven't seen me for eleven years, and yet you know me at ouee I cannot have changed so dreadfully in all that time. It flatters me "Oh, I recognised your hat!" said the first. — :o:— A WREATH OF GOLD. Madame Sarah Bernhardt, who at the mon^nt is rusticating, is to be presented in the autumn with a wreath of laurel, executed in fine acid, by admirers on the other side .)f the Atlantic. Prior to her leaving New York, Mada-ne Bernhardt was presented with a model of the wreath done in gilt. in order that she might have some idea of the style of the gift, which is really a very beau- tiful piece of workmanship. COUNTESS'S BEAUTIFUL LACE. The Countess of Antrim, who is a lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen, owns some beautiful lace. Notable among the pie-ees is a robe of gold lace which was found hidden in Danluee Castle, a picturesque ruin on the cliffs on the coast of County Antrim, and which is said to be haunted by the wraith of a woman. Lady Antrim had the gold em- broidery restored and remounted by Miss Emily BHrr.es, the lace expert, nnd wore the robe at the Coronation of King Edward The process of remounting was very intricate, and in renovatirg ihere was no less than 1,800 yards of gold thread used. -:0:- HOUSEHOLD HINTS. For Coughs.—A severe paroxysm of cough- ing may be often arrested by a tablespconful of glycerine in a wineglassful of hot milk. Kid Gloves.—Before putting on a pair of new kid gloves warm them by the fire. They will then be more elastic, and it will be easier to fit them on without risk of tearing them. -:0 ON GIRLS. Girls who ate always in the fashion make good book-keepers, as they are so used to altering their figures. A man goes into business for money, a woman for matrimony; he wants to get on, she wantoS to "get off." Many a man marries his typist because she is used to being dictated to. If a girl is always smiling it is a sign of good teeth. "Never ask a girl's age. If she says it's her birthday, tell her she doesn't look it." "A young man likes to see his girl's arms round—Tiis heck." —"Patterlogues" by George Arthurs. —«*»

Work in the Garden. Seasonable Hints. LAYERING CARNATIONS. Carnations may still be layered, but the sooner this work is completed the better. Make the soil quite firm round the layers, and keep it regularly moist in order to en- courage the production of roots. -:0:- FRUIT GARDEN. Gooseberry bushes are making a luxuriant growth, and in most cases it will be advis- able to commence thinning out the young shoots, where at all too numerous, at once. I his will admit more light and air among those that remain, and this will strengthen them considerably. It is much better to do this now than to leave it to the autumn or winter, and then find a mass of crowded shoots to deal with. -:0:- BLACK CURRANTS. These had better be attended to a little, cutting out the old wood that has fruited and thinning out the young ehoots if neces- sary, but do not cut back or stop them at all. All prunings are best burnt. Bushes that were badly affected with the mite (phytoptus) had better perhaps be grubbed up; but if the swollen buds are picked off, and the plants treated plentiful- ly with lime and sulphur in the spring, this pest can be generally got rid of. -:0:- VEGETABLE GARDEN. A fiii-Al sowing of turnips should be made now; even if the bulbs or tubers do not at- tain a. Very large size, they will stand severe weather better than the early sown full grown ones, and if not required in other ways will produce an early and valuable supply of turnip greens in the spring. — :o:— LIFTING POTATOES. Continue to lift potatoes as they become ripe, and put aside any intended for seed. The early kinds ought to be quite ripe now, and had better be all got up, while the se- cond early varieties are also fit for use, or nearly 6o. Seed should be saved from the finest and most productive roots only. Do not leave seed potatoes lying about in the open, even in fairly fine weather—they are liable to con- tract disease. -:0:- CELERY. Where duly supplied with water during the present dry period, celery is making good progress, and all but the latest batch ought to be ready for the first moulding. In moulding take care that the roots are well moistened first, and also to bold, or tie

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Profitable Poultry Culture. BY RALPH R. ALLEN, Lecturer to the Herta County Council; Editor, of Monthly Hints on Poultry," &c. (All rights re-terved.) Even as I write, which is naturally some time before publication, harvest is in full swing. It will be approaching completion er you read these notes. "Utilise the stubbles In these days of reaping-mach- ines and self-binders, there is but little left for the gleaners, but there is ample to pro- ,"icb- good subsistence fo: several weeks for a flock of hens. It has been suggested that they have access to too much food by this procedure, and that their greedy nature w ll cause them to overeat. No such thing! Any inclination in this direction is counter- acted by their increased activity. Farmers should certainly utilise their stubbles. ALs many farmers have no flock of fowls to put thereon, or, at all events, an inadequate number for their many fields. I am writing as a business man, not as a philanthropist: invite your neighbours who keep poultry to run theirs on your stubbles for a few weeks. The benefit to the land from the manorial point of view will fully compensate you, simultaneously you will be benefitting the pouitrv-keeper who does not possess your advantages. If you are successful in utilising stubbles at this period, let me warn you of two things. Don't neglect your water-supply. During the hot weather, which usually follows har- vest. the natural thirst of the,birds is at its maximum, whilst the egg-supply will cease entirely if water is not supplied regularly. Remember, about 11 per cent, of hens' eggs consist of shell, 32 per cent, of yolk, and 57 per cent, of white. The white and yolk are made up of 72 per cent. of water. This readily conveys to your mind the necessity of a regular supply of pure water if the best results are to be attained. My oft-repeated warnings that the water should not be ex- posed to the direct rays of the sun, should be borne in mind. Don't forget to "hut your fowh up at night while they are on the stubbles. Man is not the only connoisseur of table birds, Reynard looks upon them as a toothsome morsel, and if you suffer from his depredations it will be no use expecting adequate compensation from the hunt; experience shows us that it rarely follows. THE COMING WINTER. The experienced poultry-keeper has had the coming winter in his mind's eye ever since he mated his hens at the commence- ment of this year; he realises that winter eggs—like everything else—are merely cause and effect. Consequently h9 has endavour- ed to batch oat at the right time (March for the heavier breeds, April for the ligliter), a suffici ncy of pullets so that they will con- stitute up to 75 per cent. of his winter laying; hock. Remember right here, it is quite useless for you to keep on a lot of old hens and expect winter eggs. Practical tests have decided that the first laying season of a pullet is the most prolific I and profitable; that her next season, though inferior to the first, is still a source of profit, but the returns for her third season, except in individual cases, rarely repay her feed- bill. Get rid of the two-year hen, her car- case is more valuable then than at three, loss is thus avoided and increased profit from her carcase made. So that if you have not the stock yon re- quire it is high time to be looking round' for them. Yon will purchase such birds at » josser figure to-day than just when they are about to lay. Their owners sea an imme- diate profit from them then and charge ac- cordingly. I am going to dismiss this subject at the mo-nent by a few remarks concerning thoi hens which have completed their first laying season, and which yo i are retaining another year. They should now be well in mourt, some perhaps are congratulating therr-selvew that their birds are through. No matter what stage they a-f in, right from the time the moult commences you can 6tart away building them up for egg-production. The egg, you must bear in mind, is not made in a day; weeks elapse from the first growth of the yolk on the ovary, until the completed egg is extruded by the hen; so that feeding for egg production must be re- sorted to some considerable time before you anticipate results. Don't omit a fair m'eat ration in your dietary. It may be scraps from the house* a boiled liver minced up; cut green bone* or, better still, meat-meal; but it is as necessary as the addition of one teaspoonful of Colman's Poultry Mustard to every six hens. AlUn'f monp OWN, S/l, post mm. Baeb package makes as gaktana of medicine, ud is a a=mntwd cum for this dreaded &o- msa. It in tlao adminhle tonic if given am • weak. « Allan's Cholera Cure, 3/1, post paid. A poaiOiTO owe for Obotaa, Bowel Trouble, Iodireafaioa, Diarrhoea, Dy««tery, Ac. Allan's Chip* Cor*, 8/1, post pud. wiil mmiy rid yo«r birds of fchi« daajperoaa ddsease. Alton's Tonic Capsntos, 1/6 box, post paid. Every poolinr-keeper shotild keep them. One capsule, night aDd nnormn*. speedily toax an nalme bird. Alton's Tsrmln Dooftoyer, 1/3 tin, poai paid. Veradnow fowde oubact onve. Allan's llnr Fills, 8/1 box, past few. Alton's 1.88 Weakness rills, 9/1 box, past free. A Allan's Foul try Tonic, 1/3 tia, post paid. Alton's IHsinlsetant Vesteffc, 3/-dox., frsa, AL m. ar.T.mr, rovum urn*, uvauMswotTX, nan.

Tlie presentation of the inhabitants of Tal- sa.ii;>u and the tenants of Lord Harlech's est. to Mr. Ormsov-Gore, M.P., and Lady Beatile^ en the occasion of their marriage, which presentation was to take place on Monday at Talsarnau, Merioneth, was post- poned until an indefinite date, owing to the indisposition of Lady Beatrice, who is suffer- ing from a slight attack of influenza. The presentation includes a pair of silver candle- sticks and an oil painting of Glyn Hall, where Mr. Ormsby-Gore celebrated his first birthday.

Local Business Guide. .==- IvCOLid, *-=; 'j.jz.l; A. 'YO 'vr. r .V'I:7{.. -}.-z.!1-i\M,I'); "ti:i.fi" f FURNISH*"YOTO'^oS^TH^ 2 ECONOMY ANQ ^ASTE AT TJ^g & $BRAD3HAW & c* -*&w? shop, j| f PHAU&HAW & MoU Furnishing S' £ 1 FUKNITT— p08t office, 4 pT HIi?Am £ 0. UPHOLSTERING BY EXPEP^gjj sf ^TVfft&S nAMED. FUftSlTUKB BOUGHT A> <J0 r g ?tFo:Ht""2.;i4!-ii. 4t?'!t-1H:L(it'H. I +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++..+++ » THE ONLY GROCR IN MOLD And district who keeps a COMPLETE, sf&oujjfc ■$SEtigta*;t&3s 'G&OCERIES *>' and PROVISIONS; _as well as ^Wmes, 'Sjp'Mts, Beers an«d Stout, is & ± ISAAC ROBERTS, Cxleneoe House, MOLD. «> Tctephoffe$*&. +*+++++++++++++ ott.¡+*.H.t: t ESTABLISHED *357. & J. WYNNE WILLIAMS, M.P.S., | I (From Squire & Sons, London, Chemists to the King, etc.) ? Chemist and 'Druggist, 10, Wrexham Street, MOLD. + -it;*¥1.H!!Hîrt;1- jr. !S5&, < Wine and Spirit Merchant, -.x- 44, High Street, MOLID, i. Tfelephon 23. BASSS ALE AND GUINNESS'S STOUT. ❖ «j> ++)++++++++(++++++++)++++++++++++++++..+++ J'JII"'IIII r ,II" P RPI I V^ & TO The Prize Float & Carriage Bedlders, <&c.,$ J c' <* CHESTER STREET, MOLD. J 2^ Ralli Car#, Liverpool Gigs, Dog Carts, Governess Cars, Flotfts, &c. § 5T Every description of Vehicle built to order. Rubber Tvring on'€be premises. 2F Jc REPAIRS—Painting, Trimming & Leather Work of every description neatly executed jf £ at reasonable charges. Estimates tree. Motors Repaired anclTRe^pamted. £ I I'" I I I GET YOUR DAILY SUPPLIES OF t FISH, FRUIT AND VEGETABLES FROM JOHN RICH, 49, High St., MOLD. The Oldest Established Fish, Game, and Poultry Dealer Tn the Town. *§[ Telephone 200. Prompt Delivery of all Orders. V V .r.r.+'t-t'L.o1HS;Htrto:-t11-: | J. SATJM, wvrl^MAKE'R,' High St.. MOLD. | 4 Best selection of RINCS. Wedding and Engagement. j 4 Best selection of RINGS. Wedding and Engagement. j GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, SOUVENIRS AND TRINKETS. !H.f.ø-:H..tH?H!Ht+!HiHi::Hl- +++++++++++++++++.* NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE. ———————————— ♦ Take a Trip In a Motor-Car 'rom the £ -NATIONAL BARA8E, HI6H STREET, MOLD. S + + :¡"$-+t- I' ToLyT w. P. EDWARDS *T, £ £ srB' I X Thousands of Pairs of Boots and Shoes -in Stock. j? $SMARTLY DESIGNED. COMFORTABLE TO THE FEET.$ § HIGH £ 5 TIR, IS ZE3 T, MOLD.$ 5 £ Competent Staff of bespoke Hands and Repairers kept. It H'I'" House Painter WILLIAM MEREDITH, X0.r^47, High St., hold. | CHURCH AND CHAPEL DECORATOR. j £ "Workmen sent to all parts of Wales. Special Pattern Books sent out. «#» Contracts carried out equal to the best City firms. t West Cheshire Brewery Co., Ltd.1 I New Street, MOLD. & f BOTTLERS OF THE NOTED B.B.B. BEER. See Label on each Bottle, jr ¡r-r:H'{..)-tt")i{fHH" Footwear for Farm Wear, Town Wear and Everywhere, + f EVAN Oft VIES, Cambriao House, Higi Street, MOLD, + Stocks—the following Reliable Brands Gents :-Holdfast Csesar Globe + V Truefit and Zug. Ladies:—Foot-gloves, Cinderella, Signor'a «S> f Marie (in half-sizes) White Heather and Arcadian. 4» •{♦ •• •• RDIMH VmtD DBniinc I1""11" I BILIOUSNESS IS BANISHED | headache is dispersed—constipa- tion is cured—and other dyspeptic g disorders disappear after a short g B course of Beecham's Pills-the g B unfailing remedy for all irregu- g a larities of the digestive system. t BY | using this world-famed medicine B periodically, people whose digest- ive organs are at all sensitive may <! avoid the recurrence of attacks of indisposition which are often prostrating in their effects. For tg eliminating waste products from g} the system, improving the appetite, strengthening the stomach, puri- fying the blood and in other respects keeping the bodily health in a condition of soundness and and efficiency, there is no better general medicine to take than Beecham's pOt,. SoW nwywlaere la boxes. M N price l/li (51 yllb) tit (Igo pllM. I "-4_

Picked Paragraphs. I Items of Interest from I All Parts. f ELEVATED ON TEA. Aprofios the sad ca-sc of the man. b0 was druuk on be:e tea, has any reader tried <tfoc; 'ntoxica-ting effect of oixlinary tea? A '('Ot"- respondent writes us tinu UpCMt <o»e ocoasicfcl,1 drinking three cups (after -a pernod of ;t.wo: years' complete abstaacxtoe.^ lie became idi-3-! tinctly ""bright." This aft-i- a hard ifoi^tibail match, whoa every other member of .tllt!) team wtts trying, to get to sleep un itfhe titEain. v "I remember I weiit ithiough most of the! Gflbart and SniTiliviiii Qperns on the fou."| hours' jouriw* I-Y)-,vek '.to town," he writes. "but do not ii&dllecl a 'head' the morniiig: after." 0000 SAiyr i^ND SOBRIETY. A man who ,had been -overdoiif,it has a recipe for pulling hnnndlf together which is hardly "ikeJyUo 'become ipopumr. He entered a- jhop and called for a packet of table »dlt. !On beirg supplied, he swal- lowed a (otpleöf mouthfxilsy and then took a quantity after ithe f'ashion of snuff. Then he depafteid. "He often does'that," said the shopkeeper; "it's 'a^jiaHicl'iliing to ;c¡¡,br him 1" oooo .'MIGHT HAVE SHOT AN ANGEL. A^jwdge in a Western town had declared that he would stop the-carrying of firearms in the street. Before him appeared for trial .tough youth charged with getting drunk and firing his revolver in a crowded street. "Twenty dollars and costs," said the t magistrate. "But, your honour," interposed counsel i for the prisoner, "my client did not hit any- body." "Why, you admit he fired the gun?" "Yes, but he fired it into the air," explain- ed the lawyer. "Twenty dollars and costs, repeated the judge. "He might have shot an angel." oooo THE PROFESSOR S BURDEN. A well known university professor who has taken much interest in the woman's suffrage movement was persuaded to carry a banner in a: parade that was held in New York some months ago. His wife observed him marching with a dcjected air and carrying his banner 60 that it hung limply on its standard, and later she reproved him for not making a better ap- pearance. "Why didn't you march like somebody and let people see your banner?" she said. "My dear," meekly replied the professor, "did you see what was on the banner?" It reads, 'Any man can vote. Why can't I ?' oooo ROYALTIES AND GOLF. It has been announced that Queen Mary is to take up golf during the sojourn of the Royal family in Scotland this autumn. Her Majesty is not fond of walking, but with the added interest of the game she will probably indulge more in pedestrianism than former- ly. The Prince of Wales is a very fair golf- er, and has lately been playing some four- somes in Germany. He has been playing with Earl Granville and some others on the liriks of the Berlin Golf Club. oooo VERY MEAN! "It is remarkable," said Mr. Gruntler, "how mean some people are. I had with me or. a fishing trip two friends, who evidently were familiar with my reputation as an angler. "Before starting one of them made the fol- lowing suggestion: 'We will agree that the first one that catches a fish must treat the crowd." "I assented to this and we started. Now, don't you know, those tW) fellows both had a bite, and were too mean to pull them up." "I suppose you lost then remarked the friend. "Oh, no," replied Mr. Gruntler, "I didn't have any bait on my hook!" oooo SPEAKING MUSIC. The raising of the question of church ruisic and religious emotion reminds a cor- respondent of a teacher who would play a met Idf on the piaro, break off, and ask the children what idea was suggested to their minds. All the commoner air. yielded their secret at once, ships sailing, horses galloping, and so on. At length he broke into the Dead March in "Saul," leading his hearers through its sombre phrases to the soaring crescendo and the peacefully solemn close. "And what did you hear that piece of music vsayiag to you he queried. "Please, please, sir," eagerly burst out a grimy arab, "that there's another world coou A NEW EXPLOSIVE. An explosive, ten times more powerful than dynamite, has been discovered. The discoverer is Prof. Darsonville, of the Col- lege of France. Important results are ex pected from it. Prof. Darsonville has just made his discovery public at Leraure. The new explosive gets its force from the iiquefaetion of gaies. It probably will be called I)itt-sonvillite, and consists simply ol a mixture of lamp black and liquid gas. Many experiments have been made with it in quarries near Paris, and it is said to have been satisfactory in every way.

all the leaf stalks closely together, while fill- ing in the mould round them. -:0 SCARLET iilLNNERS. Pinch out the points of scarlet runners as soon as they reach the top of the sticks; the-ie plant3 are blooming very profusely, and there ought to be some excellent crops. — :0:— BROAD BEANS. These will be mostly over row, and had better be pulled up and burnt, especially if swarming with the black or dolphin fly. Prepare a bed for a sowing of onions to stand the winter early ncrt month in cold or late districts the seed may be sown almost at once. Plant, out plenty of cauliflowers, also one more batch of lettuces, for the autumn •sup- ply.