HERE AND THERE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 23 August 1907, Page 3

HERE AND THERE

The Catholic Truth Society of Ireland recently issued among their penny pamphlets a scries entitled "Popular

and Patriotic l'oetry." In the second I nmnhci appeared a fine spirited poem written by the late Protestant Archbi>lmu of Dublin rebuking Irishmen who are ashamed of their name and 'country. As tho verses had not apI pcared in any permanent poem before this their timely publication by the Society rescued tiicm from unmerited ol>-

livinn. Acknowledging a copy of ihc little book, Lord Plunkct, Governor of \cw Zealand, writes as follows to Mr R. J. Kelly, editor of llie compilation: "I desire to thank you for your courtesy of sending me ;i copy of Tart IT. of vonr 'Popular and Patriotic Pootvv, and' am pleased to see tliat my father's [verses. 'A Patriot's Rebuke,' are included. Tlianking you for remembering this exile of Krin."

Multitudes of sparrows have comol into Tiuiaru fur the winter (saysalocal| paper), owing, of course, to the short-| lioss of feed ill tjie country. They arei frequenting the railway sidings and: wharf, where spilled grain furnishes food for them. It has already been published that the sparrows have lcarn-

cd how to bore holes in sacks to cna'i them to extract grain, a kernel ;it time, and iliat it has been found neccsary to cover trucks of grain with t:u paulins to iirevcnt snob, pilfering. 'l'll manager of the Belford mill, seeing f] ( sp-irrows thick about the Belford m\> siding, determined to try the effect o poison on them. After feeding the sp-u rows with seconds for three days, h mixed an ounce of strychnine with 121 of wheat moistened with fresh milk la sweetened with 2U> of sugar, and spreai this over the feeding ground. This wa done on Saturday morning, and during the day hoys came about and picked nj) :U0 dead sparrows, and others were picked up on Sunday and Monday.

A HANDY SEPARATOR. The Baltic Household Cream Separator lias caught on. Since its introduction a few months ago, the sales have I exceeded all expectations. As an exImiple, one user stales that formerly he four pounds of butter per week from his single cow, and now, with the separator, he makes seven pounds of butter fr onithe same quantity of milk. The Household Separator does away with all the labor and inconvenience of setting milk in pans, and nnkes nearly twice as much butler into the bargain. Price f-3 »* each, from all leading ironmongers, or MacEwans (Ltd-), Egmont 'street, New Plymouth,'"