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CRICKET, HO-S.CTS FIXTURES. S«lMa i inm Al 3itii3. 'VA1 IDF filfYD "A" v ASYLUM. 7h» natsl^ jihyt& as the Vale of Clvryd jprcBs^ as ). .J, rosaited in an easy Tietarj hn }u .ta]h:m. Scoie .as ram. W "W Sti^rrX t JJtbj-ik b Jonae. 10 Walann b 3ones 0 D G R-own t JbmHt h Lirermore 65 0 WJOiaiar ma s-se 33 9 -Boglmw r L7%nd b Jonea 4 WJ&Oaariai^gglL. 2 Ib&taa 5 Ic-wfcietsl declared closed. W Xdwwdv, X Baylis, B T H;trdy' T P M ICaaJej did Dot bat. tSOJL 3J' CTiWYD. 3> B June* E ZPaj^es^ Williams 11 e'M«^ £ T)b-HvaA9 2 It W 1ADs a t am& 1, 2 DXB Botorta%Wi&iazas b Bvaos 0 D JDtevn* 2 C c t Herbert 17 I>H BTsg3te»>Bfe 17 o & ^ItaraVy Ðrtit b Mapley "0 h Jjemm«Ex%it» 0 T A h 3 £ **jyj 4 I' A »i XAmii&t b Herberts 0 ibauB 1 "fcteJ 56 RmmKGRaMR SCHOOL t Denbigh .ASXL"UM. !T!>i» match -«sa» jlay.ei at Denbigh on June l&b. bowe: rrrHis e&AVMASf, school. E S»»row» «b Mauley 26 JEl P Edwfcjds "1» Majv)«7 23 G !Ev«oib £ TfTiD j&aia b Sugbea 11 C K ssufc 18 F G Mtobs l>lhag]M» 1 6En^jtwlstt 16 main* 4 *104 y S Wif »sv> y W Pa?k8s, M S^ainaon, G Fpid«7vm j 1 Wjmmv Junes did not bat. asTLrm Dr Be- 7:&JIM 20 B T 3 b A Evans 0 t G xmm* >>( 0 O Willkuaw-wis so» 0 W Kdwuv iia«- 5^3 it? b A Evans 1 T P Wlk a 0 E M jjif* juk it-a* Q ad Vbrnim b W MaDrraid n&i 'jr#> A Anwjl b S^w tar»wr> BFrttWilHlMos- sate 1 41- Sse^iea' aloeed. LILARYCH,&N T. R^T0IN TOWN. nis maleh wag piijad at Llanychan last SetBrdaj. lhm. IXVIS'm 73WW. I YuJZ Second Innfngg. JRaaeae h>«ar3ni«i_ 1 JDifwes Ibw hMott 0 3E9awell b Ivfrr Jbut 3 not out 0 S • W C Ciees liivor Jones" 6 JnBih* u ssaaaS > Ivor Jaaaa S»zeS)b Moti 0 B', raoaaas a fSM» > Mmimai „ 7 eaadbWlSte 0 K Brass>>Tra»Aa>g» ? IbwfcWaiie 10 H* OnstofcJwiiataaa 5 eSeaMH h'Jiwr Jones 0 Mm Jktaw » ttaid 3, I 3-mr Jmmm ran emit 0 It A Aaw wwoft S A K Ifauw -sua anar lifl » Extras ..4 Tcta^far 8 wkts) 37 aiUAOTCBAN. C CuS^a^Lai, Seccn4>lutings. n- fl:) Thomas- 15 J TJfBKISBMt e TJ 'Whsto'.snbwae' Dt Cthtrt t» i«» „ S-2iiA B Thomaav 14 BBhanB Mfam W 1^teMM?atnr*S>X>< A Saaiiaww fci'TJawii-* arf 1 W t; Aata c<CataJhS. 31 M: ThomM 2 J JaaasiMKtMEi „ SlhthskXaiMaa (I aohaat 2 Waa- n Eitxas 3 3hM _36 Total (fov& wkts) 37

CRICKET AND CRICKETERS. THE CMim CHAMPIONSHIP. Bar BL BENJJiISON. ?TXUSOtATSD BY JACK DODWORTH If "aS-ttifi 'tivxe of writing are Erst in tiw CWDnpicnohip, finish the sea- son JIll champinxis, fbøa is suaa to be much said, about tiin -urnsteeu varna the leadership. No owe wiC prwSand that the team at Lord's is more tinm .axu • ao*> r- it neverr i»- .• u n t'L iaen like Bcaanquet, and Wells come iiilo &&zi.tbe, surprise to anyone who J»at« ifwreiifcam jiayvia> -^bat they have not }>ocn dufaealxjcZ -m smj ,i; iHn seven games in whkih fiwy ^icw T.KUWcl:. Kent, Lancashire, Surrey, Y<MiLsMr», .«.^itlSusi«s at the moment can mk,.Tl say -iW tbe-Te a" Ímmeasurably better than -Mid"mw,, posirion to a wiy large oxterit is flap, t-lb iiie Evat that their programme of M&trb" It is impcrsmakft, hks hare tho- counties IT'roz,. playing just as TtMtBy games ra a season as they feel d»paeed, -lu indca which is the best side of the team; aa^Arf.rVwp aL&re: ia roona-fajr ono to Everybody knows 3)it a ABxm m-ij ■draw, all its matches a ri;l yet finish wtifc ±b^ bi^best .rjessible marks. No e! .j.;Jr,. tournament tan be ar. vowrku fnets eacfl other, and for iters ira»»n ti {xekic/n, at present occupibd by isas nat in-Jiaative of,, their, ;;t.ùe. ■ftrtiKijptij.. FiJvrl. Tjilkirt^ <sbtM6t ibsw^.irv All Y<irk^hiro ro- vjiMft-'St tj. \Vilfred Rhodes against livi"twmtdz:i,r- -it is- AiSo old imes to see him ccKUfitatai? ibe ba^i»)an, theugh it is ■ tjravto «w\h«5 -4.0$ay -fraople Ye often \íü,d1d u:kl!- over altojrotUer. losfe tiis {•*)wfsr.«t ■iwwriwjg; vwrfi arKLv«fl'ectiw.\lT. The dif- (e:F.1a.11C' 1-A'l'f1'I';[:'><JItl.¡:,S'¡¡;: f«iv/ -wars ago and of some oi kis cu. bat issui. .KiiiI »icetn |».ira tivoiy ?j riiaca. ci-A t1>;?<v-ii,r¡..n .'Jon fer supposing that be "*31 Jtewr 'tiigiBtn the ftewler he v/as. Jt rUD" ii* tfwfc so v well last »n««k, jjml .t55»sl«»a«p stncl 3S»arley, Wcause he waas -t ,Ds hvarg leIi,¡,Ù cf tho Test match zd l.ouX:s, IVjssfit'ald afiirtiftniy hare preferred Li«n' io ^sim *!Mrr>hall aJwllvs think it mrs ..t¡.fû" 1.w!l it v. as an too .1

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—♦ CLEAN & PAINLESS HEALIilO. I Zam-Buk. N Ideal for Cuts & Bruises. ¡ One reason why Zam-Buk is always kept in millions of hotneo is that it is n pamltrss healer. When,a dressing of this unique herbal t>a.!m is applied to a cut, bruise, or bcritl), that slinging, snuirtint semtitimi is irnme.iititey en^ed, and after the wound been punlrca and rendered germ-proof by Zam-Buk's antiseptic action, the knitting and healing of the broken flesh proceeds m.a quick, and p>ainiess manner. Mu. Hiam, 6.2. I Hull bueet, Stratford-on- Avon, writes -z-Vhilst plapng in the street, my little boy, nged tllcee, J-b and injured his A.n.a:e. It did not seem anything more than an ordinary cut* but soon after lie knocked the same 1 again. The wound then bccaine inflamed and festered all round the knee. Ordinary salves S and ointments were unable to ease the boy's pain or check the feeding. I heatd Zam-Buk highly praised by a neigh- bour, so I got a box of the balm. Where oint- ments failed Zam-Buk was a great success. It healed ap the festered wounds splendidly, and made my little boy's knee sound and strong again. Zam-Buk's healing was painless, too, 1 and my boy looked forward to the Zam-Buk dressings because they soothed as well as healed his sores. I would not be without Zan;-Buk. Zam-Buk is prepared only by tt'e proprietors at their private laboratory, and sold for them by chemists ill boxes, sealed with the Government stamp, at Ifli. 9, or 4,16. Direct at the same psices Irom The alll-Buk Co., 45. Cow Cross ikneet, London, E.C. AXLE'S RECORD RUN. Reporting on the derailment of an express train nerr Crawford, on the Caledonian Rail- way, when ten passengers were slightly in- jured, Lieutenant-Colonel II. A. Yorke states that it wAs due to the breaking of a crank axle in the engine. The ttxle had run 145,380 miles up to the date of the accident, and the fracture, says the inspector, had probably been growing far,some time.

) FATHER'S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. Seeing a body floating down the rier at Staines, Thoma's McKinney recovered it and fovind it to be that of his son, who frequently dived fro:n Stainej Bridge for wagers, and had often be^n rescued almost lifeless.,

_4_n_- ROBWJ IN CHURCH. During sej-yicfe» -It the Sardinia-street Roman Catholic Church in Kingsway, one of I the. worshippers, Mrs. Lilian Lintilhac, wife j cif i. nilk merchant of Bow-gtrect, was robbed I of ü. )<urse and F,2, A thirtcen-vear-old girl I of u )<urse and £ 2ik- A thirtcen-vear-old girl | sained Margaret Earber, daughter of a j market porter, who occupied the new immedi- | ately behind, was charged at Bow-street j Police-court on Monday w itli the theft, and was remanded.

RURAL LIFR BY A SON OF THE SOIL. I A GARDEN PBST. Who is there that keeps a gaixim vrha kaa mot felt a fierce wrath when h. has found one of Jtv pet plants covered by the frothy autakar-oo wkiow conceals a gru b 7 It is not commonly known thai the froth with which they tmrround thamaeive* is nothing less than tho sap of the plant, eJe. tracted and fcocretod with a view to form a pro- tective covering that thoy may bo freo from a; tack, and so, aa it wera, unobserved to oarry out their nefarious habit of withdrawing- for their own sustenanco tho valuable juice* oon- izied witlun the pLant. Such robbery of the (1) Tie Bag. (2) Tho Spit. (3) Tlw) Perfect I IlJftOOt. TUK CUCKOO SPIT. plant's vital ingredients causes physical deterio- i ration. From the grub ,'tltg-e tho insect pa&wi to another which goes by tho name of Froghopner. and afterwards becomes a perfect insect. Tha poiit is best destroyed in the froth stago by hand. A VEGETABLE SOCIKTY. Only a short while ago I was complaining in this column about the ger.oral ignoranco of vegetables as a means of dainty food. At least in that respect we can learn something from the Continent. At a !!e-eting held in London a week or two ago it was agreed that a National Vege- table Socioty should be t* ^blishod. a commie toe of ten being nominated to form rules and to ar- range for the holding o £ a further meeting. There is no doubt'that a case of a kind c-au be made out as to the need of such a socioty. It is said that we cflr.ld with advantage grow many vegetables in England which aro now imported, and that if a dozen or so societies each devoted to a, single flower can be ma.de a success, surrly vegetable*, the most important thing in tho gar- den, thouid liarc- a society de-voted to them. It k suggested that trials should be made on differ- ent soils all over the country, that shows should bo held, and a good book on vegetable cookery produced. But even at the meeting held to e^tabiieh & society a note of doubt weli in evi- dence. It was stated that vegotablo shows do net interest the public, and it seemed to be agreed that a society could not be a success without the support of the trade. The lack of an active society open to all ciasses for tho pro- motion of fruit growing is much more surprising-. A GOOD AIX-rotjtd BREKD. When tho, Langshan was introduced from China by Major Croad the "fancy" worked itself up to a state of rare antagonistic excite- ment over the breed. But that is a story of the past, an<l now the Langshan holds a bigh placo which its utility qualities have won it. Perhaps t.he chief of all good poirui is i table excelienoe. A. CEOVM* BATGSHAX COCK. I The meat is a fine white. and tho birds fatten well. Af layern the Lancshans yield a well- coloured. fair-fizedi egg. and are most useful pro- ducers in winter. The breed is very hardy, and need not be confined like other birds to special eoils. It is claimed' for them that they make goodl6itters and mothers, and submit as well ae most birds to confinement. My sketch is of a Ty.pical cock bird, a Croad, named after its intro- ducer, to distinguish it from other Langshans which shew. a departure: from tho type aa origin- ally known. Itt differs from thom in the length of the legs and! back, the carriage of tho tail, the quality of feathers, and the weight, and only one- variety, the black, is recognised. A AtTiiro FOUNTAIN. "Oversale writes to ask me if I can r mend hire a small self-acting fountain for his aviary. If I am scvopulously honest I shall! 3ay there is only, on.o kind I can recommend besides one fed by the: street mains, and that i. a (Dun- trun; £ e<ii from a tank placed high above it. But some weeks ago the subject received some dis- cussion in ('a(lf: Birds, and several diagrams were supplied. I give a drawing made from one. and Ov#rdaIe and those of my readers who care can make a trial test. It is necessary that th arrangement should bo closely fobowed, and that both jars be made airtight. The upper jar is filied with water, the lower kit empty. SELF-ACTING FOUNTAIN FOR AVIARTLS. When the bowl is filled, water attempts to flow down to the lower jar, and in so domg_ drives air and water into the upper one, so forcing out a jet from the fountain. Gradually the upper jar empties and the lower jar liils, because of the natural attraction of gravity. ButJhc foun- tain is said to iasi; a good while. j THE Culture OF Mushrooms. This esculent, as fome gardener-3 call it, is not grown nearly so much ns it ought to be, and I am glad to take advantage of an inquiry by J. L." and give some hints on the subject. Where there are Cucumber or Melon beds, spawn may be sot, and good crops will generally rcfult—of course, without danger to the plants. But it may be more satisfactory to prepare a special bed. particularly when it is intended to g-row the fungus in quantity._ A go<;d supply of fresh stable manure is essential. Shake out the long straw and make a heap of the rest under cover. This must be turned over two or three times during a fortnight. Then about a fourth -•f sun-warmed loamy soil is ade'ed, and the ..lateriai is packed into the place where it is in- tended the crop shallmature, treading it down or beat ir.r it tirrrdv. a dav or t.o-

CAST-OFF or NEW CLOTHING j«v(o'!«ry. Prn;- H■ nrIt»t nny -n nf f ,H. J •; i il' il fuM'tiiit ami ,t il

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BROTHER'S HEROISM. As tho St. Helens train was entering Pease- ley Croas Station, the driver saw a young girl jump off the platform in front of the eripaie. When he succeeded in stopping tho train he heard some.vone say: Ease off my foot." On making an examination he found Thomas Smart, the girl's brother, lying under one of the coaches, suffering from injuries to both his legs, while the dead body of Lois Smart (who was only fourteen) was found under another coach. The brother, who had accom- panied the girl to the station, lost sight of her when the train was approaching. It is assumed that he endeavoured to save his aiapcr.

plain that lie bad not recovered from the injury to his knee. The fact that Rhodes can still bowl well waa a point in his favour when one comes to think of the traTeaty of an English side, and his batting was a recommendation. Jessop and Brearley. One does not envy tha taek of onr team- builders in the selection of a side for the .next Test at Leeds. Many people have thought that Jessop for personal raaeons declinod to play at Lord'e, but it is a fact that neithar he nor Brear- 10y was invited. It is almost incredible to believe that this m so, and vet it is a facs. I hope that both BroarI<jy and ^cssop, for the xake of English cricket, will not allow the omission of thoir names from the team defeated at Lord's to induce them to refuoe to play at Leeds should they be asked, as I truly hope they will be. If ever there waa a big xuatch-playur it is Je.sop. It doee not matter whether he ia just a* likely to fail as soma novioe. He is worth playing for his fielding alone, but it is c« a bats mi: n—« match-winning shall always think of him. His T'JCY presence inspires confidence. Half an hour of Jeseop, and a match can be won. But the amazing part of hi* being left out at Lord's is that he lias been in form ever since the eeaeon WM opened. He proved against Hampshire, by his wonderful innings of 161 and 129, that he its M good we. ever he wa*. If a vote wore taken of the cricketing public, ,1cs/-op would easily be the firet choice for the next Test at Leeds. And Lrcarlsy, who had a gloricr" time at the expense of Kent at Tonbridge, would be a good second. It has been a tremendous mistake in doing without a fast bowler. Brear- lov began thia campaign bv getting any number of wickets. No man hfus bowled so well or f-O consistently as Bre-arley, and on all softe of wickets. I would have been in favour of Brear- lcy plnying in all the Tests. Many lcarf have gone by since w bad such a bowler. Everybody is agreed that this in iO except the Selection Committee. A« I said in a previous article, no ore will blame the makers of England's team if they go out to encourage young men; but iurely there are- not two men eo essentially International players as JesAop and Brearley. We have had one great surprise; I wonder what the selectors will do at Leeds. Why Hirst Failed. Let; mo say that Albert Rolf was the one- great bowler at Lord's. No one ever juetified the hon- our conferred upon him as did the hard-working Sussex professional. The wonder was that he did so. well. Someone declared at Lord's that George Hirst is not the bowler he was; but surely no one will attempt to judge him by what he did at Lord'g. Hirst, like Relf, knew that the osrly man hili dared to expect any real assist- anco from was Haigh. and it is a. fact that Haigh- was quite unsuoceasful. The explanation of whatever shortcoming* Hirst showed was that be was terribly upset with the way the team I was built. He was always bowling 'Rith the cer- tain knowledge that if he did not come off there waa no. one else for his captain to fall back upon. A Side to be Respected. One is desirous of paying- ilie, high compli- ment to the Australians, but it cannot be for- gotten that they were opposed to a team that I was unrepresentative of English cricket. I sHould not be surprised, however,, if our visitors, en- couragod as they must be by their triumph in the second Test match, did. not atone for their previous poor performances. The batting, I am quite convinced, i8 vastly bettor than we have been led to believe in the two representative games, and so long ti6 Armstrong can bowl as he did at Sf. John'6 Wood the bowling will no longer be the poor stuff it has often been made out to- be. Noble h" proved that ho can Tie to the occasion, and when. Whitty comes back iia, the team again the Australian attack might easily givo much tr.4uahlwwithout elver Ileing great..

neav pr^sfrawMl oo" not or,-ad,, the thermometer hither than 70deg., if maT" be spawned. After 3pawlaing, about a eoupli crTinches of nice loamy k" been warmed, and in which some cow duug has been mixed, may be laid cn the top and beaten down gently to make an even surface, and a sliprht sprinkling of warm water wift Uf t9 lI:p the euriaea diunpi. In a month or six weeiss MHshrooms-siiouki' make their ap- prirwrt in tize form of a web-like covering, wkiafc obwm that the spawn is creeping through tlw wwiinrt Refusa hay is the best covering to go over beds out of doors, but straw will do with maM as in extra protection against overdoses of rain. Wlaea the oaks of spawn looks very dry, it is an advantage to dip it in water warmed up to ?Cdeg. for ten minutes before planting. Gammhrmrs AXB FIHLD TRIALS. feMMthaa formed for. th«, purpose of organising field fecials at which gun doge cam compete are likeiy to beeo*w» vr-y numerous. Probably otecy •»«*ty wlierft gairbe preservation is at ell —'y oarritd out will «v«ntually have its fi"-twial elub. artd if they are encouraged game- keeper# will provide « large proportion of the raeasbefellip tu each. It is tfUggMted that the beet m««.m of enoourajfinj;: gamekeepers to com- pete who kave hitherto 1.01 taken part in trials wotdd be to arrange Twry low ontrance fees for thoae mmemf giern who havs never won a prize 8t *"aim a MMting. A writer in the Gamekeeper thinks it a pity that the Kennel dub should have oontinuad to hold its trials oh one ertato eeaeon after &e>ason, that is not the best way to oraate a wklor inrereet and increase the anasktiT &1 aupport^N and cOLmpetitor^. Tlio triak, if expected to play the part they ought, AmI4, km wiak-s. be held i» a fresh district each eeaeon. Plenty of suitable ground sufficiently stocked with game would be forthcoming, and the (xlucational influence of the trials would be vastly increased., After., all ha* boon said, a suffi- ciency of w«ll-trained doge al)oolu"y depends upon the keeper, as fow shootinj men have cither time, inclination, e--r the neeeseary know- i.d ylaainfmally to cwlucate their gun-dogs.. But all would willingly land financial support to a SKXiiety which lays iteolf out to educate and en- courage the gamokeeper in thin important part of his duties, for the expenditure which euch support, involves would; yield its certain re- turn, imd better, working, dogs, would be found 4jsi every eetate. PoUI.TBY AXD SOILS. fsdkb 8IQ iùtluonced by soils Tery much more than is commonly understood. Table varieties are best kept on light soils and' good layers on those that are heavy;. Acocrding to, a oorre- rtpsnJssit ti the Affrieuftural GaeeHt, chickens are seedy for the, market eight weeks, earlier on lig'at soil' riiau 0:1 beavv. To keep on farms with iM«vy •oil the following aro some of the best broeds: I/Sjhoma aro cne of the hardiiest breeds. They will thrive almost anywhere, and will bear an exposed position. Thoro aro eight varieties d tho Leghorn family, all good Iriyem of fair- sized eggs. Wyandottes are splendid winter layer*. No othor fowls can beat them in this re- spnet. T^iey are ver.yv hardy, and will bear re- ••rieWoa well should they be kapt in. a pen and set allowed to roam about at will. Plymouth Rooks are very similar to the Wyandottes. but perhaps svea more hardy. They, will thrive al- lDt a where. Anconas are very hardy, and ar>e good layers, b«tlar9 absolutely no use at all for the table. They are not- a very desirable breed to keep. on account of. their exceedingly restless habits. Orpingtons are fairly hardy and pood winter layers; they have alsoi moderately good table qualities. TW following are some of the beet breoda. for light or medium, lioil Dorkings are a very old breed, and excellent for fcbe table. Minorcas are rather delicate, and will not bear an ex-posed poeition. They lay a good number of large, white-shelled: eg.s. The chief good quality of the FaveroUes is its rapid growth in the earlier stages. They are ready for killing long before other varieties. Sussex are very like the Dorkings in many ways. They quickly ceme to maturity, and are very good table birds. They are not very good layers, but are bettor than most varieties which excel for the table.