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8 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1931 The Garden in August A Woman in Manchester Crossword No. 182 A Struggle in Bermuda cnrvDgprT for wheRE BARGAINS ARE Sty summer sale Bf I NOW ON LAWN HOWARTH ljfrAll 2, ST. MARY'S PARSONAGE jk Through DeansSatc Arcade, MANCHESTER Cjg Actual Makers of tjmMMmam Bedroom Suites, Bedsteads, Sideboards, c. BUOYANT UPHOLSTERY Honest Vauue AT Astoundino Prices WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE 1 I2 I3 I4 Is I6 I7 I8 I j9 I10 I12 I'3 IT FT16 Ft is 1 19 30 31 r332 35 H036 IH 49 50 rjsi 52 Name Address TOURS GIBRALTAR (Return Ticket) 18 For SOUTHERN SPAIN NORTHERN AFRICA. MARSEILLES (Return Ticket) 22 For SOUTH OF FRANCE RIVIERA.

COMBINED CRUISE AND MOTOR TOURS. FIRST-CLASS PASSENGERS ONLY. AUTUMN FLOWERS Feiday Night. August i3 here and August is nearer to autumn than to summer. It is a dreadful thought, but it looks as though we shall have to face the possibility of having literally no real summer at all, and hope for the consolation of a decent autumn.

Whether we shall get even that remains to be seen. One sight which made autumn appreciably nearer was the chrysanthemums on a city flower stall and in the shops. They were not just a few warning interlopers Jike the tulips that one sees at Christmas time, but great sheaves, lovely but, in the circumstances, rather chilling. One hopes that they have been grown under glass that would make their authentic advent 6eem more cheerfully remote; but even in the suburban gardens and the city parks the chrysanthemums are in plentiful bud and here and there is flower. The cottage gardens of Cheshire are rarely more beautiful than when the chrysanthemums are in flower.

It is a bloom that attracts the passer by, for the chrysanthemum lasts in water, and the cottagers, knowing its popularity, cultivate it more and more and display the bunches on their garden walls. Great wealth of the flower can be had for a shilling. It is all very charming as the culmination of a summer that has behaved itself, but one looks forward to it regretfully when summer has missed us altogether. The dahlias, too, autumnal as the chrysanthemums, are already forbiddingly flourishing. Music, Books, and Bassinets A benefactor has recently presented the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital with a gramophone.

Now an appeal is 3 SEASONABLE HINTS When regular attention can be given to gardens a great deal more profit is obtained than when the work is done intermittently. The periods for sowing and planting the different crops and plants are generally well denned and understood, but the quality and extent ot the yield is determined to a large extent by constant and regular attention to their needs. For example, flowering plants, and certain vegetables, such as beans, marrows, cucumbers, and peas, when allowed to develop their fruits or seed pods without restriction, soon stop growing. Notable instances among Bowers ate sweet peas, roses, and many border flowers, such as scabious, lupin, pyrethrum. delphinium, oriental poppy, anchusa, snapdragon, columbine, campanula, galega, doromcum, and erigeron.

All these plants will yield a second crop of blooms when the first flowers are removed or their seed vessels are picked off before they ripen. When the first late spring and early summer flowers are over, the gardener should thoroughly overhaul the plants and not be afraid of cutting away the old flower spikes. Secondary growths will then follow, and flowers of good quality will be obtained in the late summer and autumn. liesujve the pods of vunner beans two or rhree times weekly during the period of bf-iring, whether the pods are required for use or not. When the first crop of culinury peas is closely picked, and befoie "the leaves begin to turn yellow, so-ik (he mots with water in dry weather, and uive liquid manure.

A second crop of sl'oots will then form, and further supplies of pods will be obtained. Ciu-umbers, whether growing in frames or in the open air, are typical of. what can be done to obtain additional yields. When the fruits which form eaTiy are permitted to remain on the plant until full crown, the growth of the plant is severely checked" but when the cucumbers are picked regularly, in young condition i.e., befoiethe seeds swell within the fruit, the strength of the plant is thrown into new, vigorous growth, and further supplies of cucumbers follow. It is admitted that even without midsummer pruning, bedding roses will yield i second crop of blooms in the autumn.

ut the size and quality of these are not be compared with "the blooms from rees systematically pruned immediately first glut of flowers is over. The infusion of the blood of different species of roses has resulted in an extraordinary peipetual habit of flowering in latter-day ro.e. Regular attention to cutting off shoots to about half their length of the pieent season's growth after flowering induces vigorous now secondary shoots which bear a supply of fine blooms dining August and September. Always remove the seed vessels of rhododendrons and az'ens as soon as possible after flowering, but be careful, G. HARDY CO.

MOUNT STREET Furniture Supplied for 24 MONTHLY PAYMENTS FURNISH OUT OF INCOME WITH A CASH FIRM ON A COMPETITIVE CASH PRICE BASIS All Saints Open Saturdays until 6 p.m. Mount Street Open Wednesdays until 8 p.m. CLUES HILJ ACROSS 1. See 20 across. 5.

Construct. S. This la certainly essential. 14 A French measure. 15.

A clinging plant. 16. A much canvassed subsidy. 17. A jar.

18. Incline. 19. A thoroughly bad lad. 20.

Might be a 1 across or but a pole. 22. Exchanged. 23. Brace.

21. Vseil by thf cook. 26. and quite fit to this. 7.

Softened completely. 30. Spell. 32. Stains.

33. Newt. 35. Rodents. 33.

Malta up for. 37. Perhaps an equinoctial one. 3B. Shakespearean trouble, 39.

For catching things. 40. Grant. 41. Concern the gas inspector.

43. Anger. 45. Unmixed. 46.

Bob. 49. Possession of the volcano. 51. Tndispensnhle to the factory in the interests of health.

53. Washed. 54. Mineral salt. 5.

To this the heathen in his blindness bous. 56. Across. -57. Found in the band.

58. A geometrical term. Concise. CO. Trial.

61. The untutored referred to horses as these. DOWN 1. TTsed in certain embroiderv. 2.

Cheery tune. 3. rueful to the student of pLv es. 4. These condescend perhaps or convev.

6. Ward off. 7. Port. 8.

Finish. 10. Form in fancv. 11. Narrated.

The Bermuda Women's Suffrage Society, continuing its agitation for enfranchisement, has sent one of its most active members to England to arouse interest in the question ou this side of the ocean. A ''Manchester Guardian" representative, meeting Mrs. Morrell at the House oi Commons, was inclined to think that if she represents the type as well as the wishes of the British woman in Bermuda, the obstinacy of the male electorate in that old-established colouy is a greater mystery than ever. Mrs. Morrell is remarkably well informed, aleit, and business-like.

Educated at Holloway College, she is a graduate of London University, and a one-time organiser here for the National Union oi Women's Suffrage Societies, a job she resigned when she went back to Bermuda shcrtly before the outbreak of war. She returned to England to offer her services, and helped in various capacities till the end of the war. Then she went to Bermuda again. As by that time Englishwomen had the vote, there was some idea in Bermuda," she said, that we were likely tq get the vote at once. Wc very neaily did, for the Assembly by a large majority appointed a committee to go into the question and draft a bill.

But nothing had been done when that Parliament came to an end in 1923. After that we formed our society, and employed a lawyer to draft a bill, and we have been fighting for it ever since. Fifteen Hundred Voters The position in Beimuda is very curious. The franchise is so limited the qualilication is possession of a freehold worth sixty pounds that the whole electorate numbers only fifteen hundred. That includes coloured men of property, but the British women have no sort of votf, municipal or legislative.

About eight hundred possess the qualification that would entitle them to votes if they were men. Perhaps the smallness of the electorate explains th'O intensity with which the fifteen hundred electois cling to the rxclusiveness of their privilege. The majoritv do not seem in the least perturbed by the fact that they lag behind nearly the whole Empire in this respect. The Imperial Parliament can hardly be expected tn intervene except in a matter of high Impenal urgency, and the ques- liuii oi votes lor women noes not come in that category Questions have been asked in the House about it. iinrl the Under Secretary for tho Colonies has pointea out tnat iierimioa is in a special position, and that nothing can Iib Hone in this matter without an Act of Parlia ment.

Some time ago Lord Passfield wrote to the Governor of Bermuda saving it had been brought to his notice tliat the proportion of registered electors in Bermuda to the total population was less than 6 per cent, which must be recardod as an abnormally low figure. He pointed out mas uie irancniso jiacl now been very generally granted to women in the British Empire at ages ranging from 121 to 30 yeais, and added that in that respect also the position in Bermuda would seem to call for some review. He would be gratified, he said, if the Bermuda Legislature could see its way clear in the near future to consider the advisability of such an extension of the local franchise as to bring it into closer conformity with contemporarv British institutions elsewhere. This message was passed on to the Assembly, and in the debate that followed one of the supporters of women's suffrage asked leave to introduce a bill. But the proud House of Assembly respectfully informed the Governor that it was not at present disposed to make any change with respect to the franchise.

Tax-Resistance "It is a mystery to us why they are not so disposed," Mrs. Morrell said. The only organised demand for extension of the franchise comes from the women, and that is why the question narrows itself down to votes for women. I was asked to organise a deputation here, and to ask Lord Passfield to receive it. He has refused to do so just now, but hopes to receive one in the autumn.

I am afraid I shall not be here then. I must go back to my little child and my husband." The only publicity we have had on a large scale," sh-. said, was during last autumn when we began tax-resisting. When I refused to pay my taxes the vestry, instea1' of levying on mv property, proceeued under the Debtors' Act, by which I could bo sent to prison for six weeks. The Suffrage Society organised demonstrations, ard the press was very friendly.

When the morning came for my arrest, press photographers were on my doorstep waiting to photograph the arrrt. But at the last moment the vestry sent a representative to the court to withdraw their prosecution under the Debtors' Act and to ask instead for a levy on my goods. They took away some of my furniture, which was sold by auction at the police station, and bought by friends. I will not pay my taxes this year." Well, everyone knows that the la-st resort of reformers in this country is to educate public opinion. It looks as though the educative process in Bermuda is going on very well.

E. I. step has been taken. Another very encouraging fact is that this year no fewer than 1S2 candidates for the ministry were sent forward by the quarterly meeting of the Church the largest number tor many years 89 were finally accepted, and in due course will begin their college training. In this connection it is worth noting that after union no candidate will be received who does not obtain a 75 oer cent maioritv of those present and voting.

This very wise provision should go far to make impossible a recurrence of occasional unseemly incidents in the past, when a canaiaate, wnom the July committee with its fuller knowledee had refused to recommend, has yet been carried by tne plausible advocacy of a clever conference speaker. Not only has Wesleyan Methodism an abundant supply of candidates for its ministry, it has now greatly improved means for training them. Two or three years ago a special Ministerial Training Fund was inaugurated to raise 250,000 for the endowment and reconditioning of the colleges. The able to report at Birmingham that-it had so far succeeded that it had raised a total sum of 203,000, that eleven out of the sixteen chairs of the colleges have now an endowment of 10,000 each, and that a further 2,000 per annum has been added to the ordinary income of the fund. The whole Church is 'under a deep debt of obligation to the Bev.

Dr. J. H. Eitson and Mr. E.

S. Lamplough, whb in a day of such great cumcuity have achieved so splendid a success. Next Year's President It would not be quite fair to say of the Conference, as Joseph Parker once said of the meeting of the Congregational Union, that the usual speakers made the usual speeches but I do not know that any new reputations were Two prizes of one guinea each are offered 'to the senders of the first two correct solutions opened of the crossword printed above. Answers should reach this office not later than by the first post on Thursday, August 6, and should be addressed Crossword No. 182, The Manchester Guardian," 3, Cross Street, Manchester.

The solution and names of the prize-winners will bo published on Saturday August IS. Solution to Crossword No. 176 These are bitter fruits. Polonius said not to do this. Tightly drawn.

Irritates. Weight. Material. River of Europe. A fish.

Frequented here in the second half of August. Timber. Savoury if Irish. Stuff. Particle.

Opposite of 8 down. What rivers do. Xearby. Gathering corn, for instance. Horse.

Superficies. Penetrates. Part of a programme. Beseech. Theso 40's are ripe for clearance.

Shelf. Legendary homes of the blest. Semi-solid lump. Affirm. This is one of all these.

The actor's, surely. This is longer than life. SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 181 EHT I DtOT A OH(lUB OiRiDlS gl SGjlHS IgRSHcE kVEreyTB DB ORTe tear WW NlETMsolifl SfeHSTAIRl EHFlY A SHI SMAICmQIPHsirj ElDISIErtTlglRlsiFtrWgLlrJcl County Cork, Irish Free State, who died April 24 last, left property in England of the gross value of 39.202, with net personalty 3S.6c4. In addition to bequests 1.250 for charity and education, he the residue the propertv in trust for his iiler' Avisla 5Iaria Beamish, for life and UIGU Osj-half equally belwa St.

Dur.JUn'f Boc-e- lor aai ia Bmua Homo tor lockraelet, One-hill to Bsckmibaru Heats School. Incer- Tfca Pnjtutant Onotn SoctetT. Cork. Tif fTvf Eat. T-.

17 i. i. The Proiestiat Sasu Icr IacurabCa. Military Boad. Th Arj-iam for tie Icdostrioiat Blind.

IaSrtnarr The Citjr and Conatr ol Cork IVrcr Horpital aad Mr. Thomas Wallis. of 59. Rvtr -Roi4 Brixton Hill, London, S.W.. retired licensed victualler, who died on May 8 last, aged 70 vears." at Smrilv' lishrnent, Matlock.

left eitate of the cross avcu.iwu, wjiu net personalty iBi.aa, He left to. tae BoUatbroka HctpitaJ. BolinibrolDt Crora. aadiworth. 555 10 Battenea Ceseral HctpiUl.

1.000 to tie Weir Hotpiul. Sot Bead, 1.000 to the South "London HcsplUI Women. Sam xi ice. Conrccv. n.

tziWMJ to the Boral Hospital and noma Jor iDourablet, Putney, in oars case lor the endowment oi a bed. Other ataallcr beonet to charity aad tvo-fifths oi the residue cl hit ntaM bettea Bftliarbrcao HniDttal. Battenaa General HoeptUI, the South lonojn Hospital tor Women. BeitraT Hospital 'or Childrea. tha Kojsl Hosnital tor lnonrahlea.

ts SalTacioa Army tn Evsntlda Hem, the weir BeapitaL xsd th Canroh Araj Labour Heme. Act Lane, BrixMo, London, S.W, ia 13. 18. 19. 21.

22. 25. 27.. 28. 29.

30. 31. 32. 34. 36.

37. 39. 40. 42. 43.

44. 46. 47. 48. 49.

50. 51. 52. 54. THE HERD INSTINCT Likes and Dislikes Somebody accused me recently of not iiking dogs, basing her indictment on my lack of enthusiasm for her Pom.

I resented the accusation hotly. Afterwards I wondered why. I protest that I do like dogs. At the same time, I do not like them all in the same degree, preferring ix terrier to a Pom and an intelligent mongrel to a dull aristocrat. But suppose 1 really had not liked dogs.

Need I have been stricken with shame on that account? Why was I so anxious to defend my claim to bo a dog lover? I finally concluded that it was merely the herd instinct and the instinct of snob bery combined. To be accused of not iiking dogs is to have one's taste, as well as one's qualities cf heart, called into question. -Mr. Robert Lynd has confessed in writing that he hates dogs, but he is an essayist with an essayist's privileges of perversity. The rest of us fear the opinion of our neighbours.

For some reason which I have never been able to fathom, people are far less shy about confessing that they have no liking for children. Similar inconsistencies of confession puzzle me. Few people who are bored by opera care to admit it. On the other hand, who ever heard of anyone blushing because he did not enjoy Shakespeare? I can only admire mountains from considerable distance. To see them towering immediately above me gives me subsequent nightmare.

Yet if admu this to other alleged mountain lovers 1 am looked at with scandalised eyes. It is the more exasperating, bec.u;,c 1 know many women feel the same way, but are afraid to admit it. Why, again, are many of us loath to confess that we do not hke ovsters, caviare, champagne, or the books of Mr. Galsworthy? I am not. too timid to admit that I do not enjoy these and many other generally accepted things.

But such is the strength of the herd instinct, I am at the same time haunted by the feeling that I must have exceedingly poor taste. e. V. D. To Lengthen a Tweed Coat Last season's twencl coats are, unfortu-natr-ly.

too bhoit to be fashionable this season, but quite an original and effective way of lenRthenins them and brineinp them up to date is to attach leather or suede hands. A fairly wide band should be put on the bottom to lenRthen the coat, and a corresponding width on the bottom of the sleeves. The collar should be faced with the leather or eufede. and a belt made to match. An odd length of or leather could be picked up in the sales for this purpose, and the tweed coat would look extremely smart and up to date for morning wear at little expenditure.

The best fastening for an inside pocket, either on a long or short coat, is a zipp. Sot only does it keep the whole of the contents of the pocket from falling out but it lie3 flat and does not drag the lining as press-studs are apt to do. made at 'Birmingham. On the other hand, there were a few items of a ner sonal character which deserve to be chronicled. By an unexpectedly deci sive vote the Rev.

Dr. H. Maldwyn Hughes, of Wesley (Jollege, Cambridge, was elected next year's president. Thus, for the fifth time in succession, a 1 Ml AT 1 principal win air in tne cnair 01 John Wesley. Among the elections to the Legal Hundred none was more popular or better deserved than that of the Rev.

A. E. ReBtarick, who is about to return to missionary work in Ceylon, where already he has spent nearly forty years. The Conference was delighted to do honour to its octogenarians the Revs. Dr.

W. T. Davison and John Hornabrook, among the ministers, and Sir Robert Perks and Sir Thomas Rowbotham, among the laymen. The jubilee of Revs. F.

L. Wiseman and Dr. J. A. Sharp was also the occasion of a pleasant little interlude in the Pastoral Session.

Among the newly elected chairmen of districts reference may be made to the Rev. W. Humphrey, who succeeds the Rev. J. W.

Colwell in the chair of the Manchester district, and the Rev. G. F. btanlev. Atkinson, who becomes the Methodist "Bishop" of Scotland.

Everybody was nleased- to know -that. the temporary differences of the Rev. Henrv Carter with some members of his Temperance and Social Welfare Committee had been comnosed. and that. there was no need to fear the loss of his services to the Church in that difficult and important sphere.

The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Barnes, who was present at the tiublic reception, at a meeting in the Town Hall, and in the Conference itself. -onld not fail to note the evident warmth and ptnceritv of th welcome which was accorded him. Manchester Methodists will learn with satisfaction that the next and last Wesleyan Conference will assemble in their own city next July. i The names of the senders of the first two correct solutions were Mrs.

FERREIRA, 21, Portman Moss Side, Manchester. Mrs. J. PALTON, 109, Wentworth London, N.W. 11 One guinea will be sent to each of these readers.

THERE IS NOT ONE DAY IN THE CALENDAR which not the anniversary of an hsrola rescue. LIFE-BOAT SERVICES OP THE PAST. On July 29th, 1921, the SL Ives (Cornwall Life-boat rescued 40 lives from ten English and French fishing boats in a strong gale with a heavy swell. THIS WORK HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR 107 VEARS. Over 62,500 lives reioueti.

11 LIVES EVERY WEEK YOU CAN HELP by sending your 5- TO-DAY and by remembering the Life-boats in your WilL THE WHOLE SERVICE IS SUPPORTED EHTIRELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS, The Exbl or flARitowBT. Er.ssrarr Treunrcr. Sin GronaE Suez, Secretary. LEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS: ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Life-boat House, 42, Crosvenor Gardens, London, S.W. 1.

YDUB CANARY WOL SING IF FED ON C4PERN'SBIRD SEED fire adrict on BirdMlmtnh F. CAPEHN LEWlN'8 MEAD 'bribtoL A Few Puddings With raspberries and red corning in, summer pudding must not be forgotten. While everybody knows how to make this delectable dish, with its layers of plain, thin, bread and the raspberries and currants poured into it, the whole beinx pressed down by an iron for twenty-four hours, the season often passes without remembrance of this agTeeable addition, to the pudding series. Another quick and useful pudding consists of an ice-brick or two over which raspberries or loganberries rare poured. Tho ice-brick may be of superlative quality, but even if it is not the thick syrup of the loganberry compensates for any deficiencies.

At the end of a longish dinner, where only a light sweet is wanted, orances in caramel may be remembered. Tho oranges are very carefully peeled aad all traces of skin removed. Caramel is then them and allowed to set. Another ice dish is served with the fruit which takes precedence over other insredientu at thi fim of year. Into a small glass bowl preserved atrswDerries are poured.

On the top of thiB is placed ice. and on th inn nt the ice real strawberries. Vanilla ico is treated the same way with marmalade. Jelly ia pleasine at this ti especially when It is free from gelatine. jeiiy is put, mto custard glasses in three layers of colour.

On the tOD of thiawhiniwi cream is poured, to be mixed up with the jelly below. One more dish is cream caramel, upon the Burface of which ohopped-up barley-sucar and almonH hav been sprinkled. ROYAL ACADEMY OF. MUSIC Award of Prizes The Royal Academy of Music, London, announce the award of the following prizes: nSrSn" Moidra i (VIolin)Erai Bins Frederick TMlor, tbi cnmouM, fcUhly MmatBded Dorothy suntea Cm! G.11 ntiT ol Bedford) Wilttr MKlartea Prize (FemiSe jmire oj lIn4dr3M). TiS" rr7 Crwt Prize (fSS PUnlrttt-EilMO niKDjy commended.

KwrotorU Arir. Baud? Piizzax SMfcriiiC Atausdro Ttzzm PrG SorU ni being made for records. Gramophones play quite an important part in the routine of the hospital. At the outdoor dispensary in Gartside Street, there is often music in the air as part of the remedial exercises prescribed for little patients suffering from lung trouble and other maladies for which bottles of medicine are of little avail, but which yield to a steady course of muscular exercise. We all know that exercise is much more beneficial when pleasure is combined with discipline, and music has been found an invaluable aid in inducing both the thoroughness and the rhythm which are necessary if these exercises are to achieve their highest potential value.

Nor can there be little doubt that the mental stimulus of the music is of definite thera peutic value to these children whose lives, in many cases, are 6tarved of much ol the visual and aural beauty that more fortunate children take as a matter ot course. At the hospital at Pendlebury, too, there is a gramophone in each ward. There is, therefore, a regular demand tor records. Householders who are tired ol some of their supply will be rendering a definite service by passing on a few ot them to the hospital. There is also need for more picture and story books for the hospital's convalescent home at St Annes, and bassinets lor the hospital at Pendlebury, to enable babies to be wheeled on to the balconies for a course of fresh air treatment.

Qoing to Town This week has brought the children back from their boarding schools, and already the city shops have begun, to turn their attention to the needs of young clients. There are two large invasions during the summer holidays. The first has bathing suits, shady hats, and cotton frocks as its objectives. The second comes early in September and is the sterner business of buying school outfits and stoutly built trunks. In each case the ardours of shopping end in a visit to the picture-house and tea at a cafe.

People to whom the city's noisy streets, buildings, and shop windows are too familiar to be exciting can still feel a sympathetic interest in these returned exiles in their school caps or hatbands. "Going to town." when ihat "coino-" is only occasional, is always something of an adventure to the young mind. Well-spasoiied Mancunians in tbo parU- thir ties can remember expeditions which oegan a lumbering horse-drawn 'bus until the tramlines were reached somewhere in the Hulnn; neighbourhood. There were no kinemas then, but sugared cakes eaten in ih? splendours of a restaurant, with an unneeded chair piled with parcels, seemod glamour enoueh in those mild days. "A Woman in Manchester" will be discontinued for the nevt few weeks.

there is nothing for it but to await the judgment of the United Church at some future date. On the foreign field, the opportunities of advance are greater than ever, but though the Missionary Society is at the moment happily free from debt, there is an ominous note of warning in its report that "the income received from the home Church through the ordinary channels is not sufficient to meet the financial needs of the work abroad," and that "unless an increase in the home income be speedily secured, reduction of the missionary staff and abandonment of work are inevitable." At home," notwithstanding that during the last "thirty-five years Wesleyan Methodism has spent and raised no less than 12,000,000 for church buildings, the recent rapid shifting of our population to new areas one-fifth of the Deople of England, one speaker declared, has been "on trek" during the last few years has suddenly confronted -us with a problem which is too big for our grasp. A Settled Issue At the same time, the Birmingham Conference did not break up in a Bpirit of despondency in some directions very real progress was made. Methodist Union is now at last a settled issue. In the representative session only fourteen hands were held up against it, in the pastoral session only twenty-one.

If the votes of the representative session be added to those cast in the other tiro Methodist conferences, the final voting shows 1,056 in favour of union, and 21 against- Next year the three conferences will meet in separation for the' last time. This does not mean that all difficulties are now overcome ia one sense we are but at the beginning of them; but they will be immensely reduced by the practical unanimity with which the final decisive wnen breaking out the tutt of seed pods not. to injure the shoot below the seed- poct staiK wnere trie young buds are situated The safest plan is to -use a pair of pointed cisors and snip off the stems of the dead blooms when these fade. Green Manuring Ry the end of July or in early August, there will he a eond number of vacant patches of giound in the vegetable garden, due tn the removal of ciops such as pnas. broad beans, early potatoes, and so on.

These may be occupied immediately with various crops due for sowing or planting in mid-summer, such as turnips, kales, broccoli. liUe-sown canots, and spinach. But it is not alwavs wise to utilise ground to this extent, "for a great deal depends upon the demand for these additional vegetables and the uses to which they may be put. It is not necessarily uneconomical to have vacant patches of soil in the kitchen garden, even in the summer and early autumn. Uncropped ground in summer affords an excellent opportunity for improving the condition of the soil and for cleansing it of weeds.

One of the oldest amongst the practices of good husbandry was to fallow land that is. leave it uncropped and turned up during the summer. By this means indifferent soils can be made more amenable to cultivation and their fertility increased. These vacant patches give an opportunity to the town gardener to intioduee preen manure, a cheap and excellent substitute for yard dung. This is done by sowing seed of mustard or ape thickly broadcast, and later digging in the crop.

Tor example, after potatoes have been due, level the soil and sow mustard broadcast, raking the seeds in surface. The result will be that in i few weeks a thick mass of green hoibnee will cover the ground, and this, dug in before frost, introduces a vast a'siount of valuable vegetable humu3 to the soil. Xot only will this improve the foil and provide humus, which is so difficult to obtain nowadavs. hut. tho plants while they grow will assimilate much of the soluble manure left behind oy the previous crop, which is thus saved for a future crop.

Allotment holders and others who are troubled with superficial scab on potatoes or wnose sou is thin, or lacking in organic matter, will find in ereen manuring a cheap and effective solution of their problem. a. THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE A Retrospect (From a Correspondent.) The closing sessions of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference were held in Birmingham this week. The magnificent Central Hall in -which the Conference met, while admirably adapted for the purpose for which it was built, is too spacious for conference hall, and during the first day or two there were many complaints ot the difficulty of hearing. But the installation of amplifiers, and, still more, the quiet, firm ruling or the president, who put a bit in the mouth-of the restless spirits that wander to and fro, and maintained admirable order throughout, wrought a speedy amendment; and if the difficulty was not wholly overcome, who can wonder in.

an assembly most of whom are trained by their calling to be more apt to speak than to hear? The circumstance's of the hour the imminence of Methodist Union, and the deep and obstinate depression in the world of business have of necessity slowed down the-rate of progress in several departments of the' Church's activity. The question oi women and tie 'ministry, for example," remains still pretty much where it was. Opponents, while ready enough to admit that there is no function of the ordained ministry for which a woman is in principle disqualified merely on' the ground of Her sex," nevertheless maintain that in an itinerant ministry like that of Methodism the practical difficulties are insuperable, and as they seem to represent about one-half of the Conference Competition 30. 31 The Manchester Guardian oSers twe prises one of two guineas and one of one gulnea-for the best letter, in not more than 150 words, courteously refusing a neighbour's request to borrow a lawn mower and hinting that a gift of his currants would be well received. Entries, which should arrive not later than Saturday August 8 should be addressed Competition No.

31, The "Manchester Guardian," Cross street, Manchester. The result of the competition will be published on Wednesday. August 12. RECENT WILLS Manufacturer's Fortune for Charities Mr. James Briggs-Bury, of The Cottage, Breck Road, Poulton-le-Fylde.

mtton manufacturer, director of Messrs. Bury and of C. Whittaker and who died at St. Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, London, N.W., November 14 last, aged 52 years, left estate of the gross value of with net personalis 154,472. He left C1.000 to the Vltorl Hospital.

Aoerinttoa. 500 th Blackpool Vkiorn ilMuiul UOO to the Tlcar lor the time baler ot St. Sfirtin-t-in-tie-Fltlill. Ujadan, fcr lio reairml but-pece oi that chaxvh. iC50 to ta Aorrincton Jfnriinr Arsoctiticrj S1.000 to William Porn LinEiuBe, auBpaav ucrttarr, of Whlj Bead.

Accrtafitea. All other his property he left upon trust for his wife for life, and subject to her interest Far recb chantabls pnrpost or IniUtutiom in Xcffland as hit trustees ia tiieir abaotute aad ua-ooacrolltd discTMtaa mar think St, but expressing the with aad desire, but without matinf any truit in lae niatter. trier irul si such iara or cunts ava thfr my think St to th Accrinfton Police Fund aad the lAncaahtro County Pciico Food. Large Charitable Bequests Oolonel Jamej Mayfcury WATr)ih1 A. M.S.

(retired), of Jjaharia House. Mmolesgno,.