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that perhaps you could de, sir. I
have a little brother out of employ-
ment; a situ -
ment;. if you could ,got hien a
A,
i sir--- z
Iv 11,.
said Air. Auberly x
with.
z
#k
emotion "Send hint to me on
'.1'izursday forenoon.. Ile will' And
me living next door to my—to my
late home. I shall stay with a
friend there some time. Goon -
nights' 'I
ood-night,'"
"Men of King street engine get
up," cried . Dale.
"Stay+ --i what is your name?" egad
M. Atuberly, turning round. '
But Fronk was gone. 3e had
leaped to his place on the engine
and was off at rattling pace through
the now silent and deserted streets
of the sleeping city.
On reaching the fire station they.
leaped to the ground, and all went
quickly and silently to their neigh-
boring homes and beds, except tho
two men on duty.
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CHAPTER.
T'revious to the arrival of the aro
engines, however, a scene had been
enacted which :Willie Wiliders had
not witnessed. A. .fire -escape. was
first to reach the: burning house.
This was then, and still is, usually
the case, owing to tiro fact that es-
capes are far more numerous in
London than engines, so that the
former, being most always close at
hand, often accomplish their great
work of saving life before the en-
gines make their alrpearance.
When Forest reached the field of
action, Mr. James Auberly was seen
at an upper window in a state of
und.ignifiecl dishabille, shouting for
help and half suffocated with einoke,
with Mrs. Rose hanging round his At that moment he heard a loud nificeet display of fire -works and
neok on one side and Matty Merry- shout from the crowd, which was heroism.
on at the other. Poor A.uberiv, followed by a crash. Dashing once Willie had a brother who was a
having tried the staircase on the more across the passage, he saw fireman, and he wished earnestly
first alarm, was driven hack by ,that a lurid flame was piercing the that he might 'recognize him, if pre -
smoke, and rushed wildly to the. smoke in the other room, 'The that
but he knew that, being at -
window, where the two domestics, staircase he 1 new was impassable, tached to the southern district of
descending in terror from their attic. pi biably gone by that time; but he the city, lief was not likely to alio
there, and even if ho were, the men
were all so much alike in their uni-
form, that it was impoesiblo at a
ing on this supposition, and tat#ng
for granted that the room they were
about to enter was Mr.,A,ltberly's
bedroom, the tall Dram= dashed at
once through the smoke, and turn -
bled over the prostrate form of
yo,tuig Auberly,
"Look after him, Banceore," hegasped, as he seized the lamp from
his comrade's ' hand, and darted
across the room and out into `the
passage, where he went crash
against a door and burst it open.
Here the smoke was not so dense,
so that he could breathe, though
with difficulty,
One glance showed him where the
bed was. Ile felt it. A female
form was lying on it;
CHAPTER V.
During the progress of the fire,.
small Willie Winders was in a state
of the wildest, we •might almost
say hilarious, • excitement. He re-
garded not the loss of property; the
fire never struck • him in that light.
His little body and big spirit re-
joiced in the whole affair as a mag -
clung to him and rendered him pow_ hart uo time to think, so ho drew
erless,•the blanket over the girls head, and
Forest at onto "pitched" his es bounded toward the window. There
cape -- which was just a huge soien was a feeling at softness under his distance to distinguish ono frons
ti8cally constructed ladder, set an foot, .• us if the finer was made of another. True it is that his broth=
a1ieels. 'Ile head of it reached to Pasie1'oai'd• Ii'o felt it sinking bo- er was uncommonly tall, and very
jrhe• windows of the second fioori Bystrong; but asLondon firemen.
the remen
. uea:ii himii. 1?own it. went just
pulling a rope, attached to a lever, he laid hold of the head of the were all picked mon, many of them
he raised a second ladder of smaller' fireezetsape. from which he hung sus -
were very tall, and all of thein were
Matt -which was fitted to the head of romiled in the midst of the smoke strong.
.the largo ane. The top of this set•- ales, sparks that rose from 'the- fall- Not until the• last engine left the
ontl Ladder was nearly sixty net Inn r;a ground, did Willie Winders think
from the ground, and it reached the i "'-=+tn,; i t?le voamng fireman it advisable to tear himself away,
avindow at which Mr. Auberly was was, ez r'e izid nee ra,ssee himself by midi hasten to his home in Notting-
still shouting. Forest at once o .a ;i :r, w::'e tan other was twin- hill, where he fountd his mother sit
-
sprang .#iia Li a .tu"v �. At that
sparang up. tale moment, Biome -re .,� carried
ting up for him in a state of con -
Leave me; save rl e sveim:e siderable anxiety. •
gasped Auberly, as tae man enter- ;neonate Au:+ nuc s safety,
ed the room; but the denser e>k neat=assossE. - 3 :,pl'�:,rete a''' When Willie appeared next m,orn-
overpowered him as heSpoke. :.nal. '--� we:Inn :,vr. Fal' a%Ir.itc3 e saran: by ing—or rather, the sante morning,
ehefor it was nearly four o'clock when
he fell forward. The. teeergeot also an:, lands
he went to berl --he found his mother
sank to the grossed. Y < • - rx ' •zwr""'« ''fit h t ie , sitting. by the fire knritting a sock.
Forest instantly seized r.e. :nese _ 'Prove -•
in his powerful seri: c, u -r .: ,, `i' st 4: ""== �'-rin3 Willie?"'you were
d the Widow.
last night,
down the ladder;se :I-_ : f -t'•. ,: zw.. -..; far'. ,. • Fw tihr'-,4-C.,-NVi
escape put 1.3 r i
trough or sack we _ tee _ ee I,, 'N/;r^• �.t.Eus l'elinr:ae., strung
below the ladder a:'_� .:? ,z, e' :.h s.1,, s. « asp -
this she slid so w k_. = ee c.:i'., • .'es; ndzd to when Sam Forest the firo-escape pian
safely to the g•, o:::;-'. wane e ^es s'ae =n where he was ret by is there. You know ,Forest, mo-
safely
res a, Matter, T._r 'ss'i , wh.o had recovered flier, the mien that we've heard so
ran up again
the seine se y. .Mr. .
:i -a e. b -s state ee partial suffoca-� much of? Ah, it was sitch fun!
more di•mlicult to marines, :seeer
e. s and rate seized his child and E You've no notion! It would have
heavy man; and his rer uer1 ..,s al- b :rd *with her into a neighboring madeyou split your sides win
Most overpowered by the thick. Lose. 'hither he was followed byl leer-ghixi' if you'd seen Sam come out
smoke in the midst of which •this 3!rs. Bcse and htatty, who had also o' the smoke carryin' the master o'
was done. He succeeded, however, ; recovered, the house on his shoulder in his
but fainted on reaching the ground. "Get sip to the windows now; use shirt and drawers, with only one
It was at this point that the first the escape," said Nr. Braidwood; ;sock on, an his night-cap tied so
engine arrived, and only a few min -a and as he said this he passed' tight ander his chin that they had
utes elapsed when the second made ; through the doorway of the burn -Ito cut it offs -whim in a swound too,
its appearance, followed by the cab
_ ing house. hangin, as limp as a dead eel on
from which the young roan leapt', "Avast pumpin', number two!" Sam's shoulder, with his head dozen
with the exclamation of surprise and shouted Baxmoro from the midst of one side an' his legs down the other.
O•h, it was a lark!" •
"Wes Frank there?" inquired the
widow, when the fit subsided.
"Yes I was," replied the boy.
"No lives lost, I hope, Willie?"
"No; there ain't often lives lost,
alarm that had astonished Willie clouds of smoke that were bursting
Winders. ' out from the window.
Pushing his way to the place where i Number two engine was stopped.
'stir. Auberly and the others lay, t Its branch was pulled up and point- "not that I know of, mother; I
he youth fell on.his Drees. "My l ed inside straight at the fire; the' looked hard for him, but didn't see
father!" he exclaimed wildly. j signal given, Down with number; him. There was lots o' men big
'•It's all right, lad," said Mr. • two!" and a hiss was followed by: enough to be him; but I couldn't get
Braidwoo'cd, coming up at that mo- l volumes of steam. near enough to see for the bobbies.
anent, and laying his hand kindly on The attack had now become gen- I wonder what them bobbies were
the youth's shoulder "he'sonly
• eral. The firemen swarmed in at the made for!" continued Willie, with a
choked with smoke, and will be bet- doors and windows the moment that; look of indignation, as he seated
ter in a minute. Any more in the it was possible for a human being' hineself at the table, and began . to
house?" he added quickly. to breathe the smoke and live. `cat a hearty breakfast; "the long
Young uberly leaped up with a . In ten minutes after this the fire i lamp posts! that are always in the
ehout. . was effectually subdued, the lower; way when nobody wants 'em. I do
"My sister! is she not saved? Are floor having been saved, although • believe they was invented for noth-
all here?" its contents were severely damaged in' else than to aggravate small
He waited not for a reply, but in by water. boys and snub their inquiring
another moment was on the fire -es- The King street engine was the minds,"
cape. first to quit the scene of battle. "Where was the fire, Willie?"
"After him, two of you," said While the men were getting ready, "Irl Beverly Square—I say, moth-
Braidwood, turning to his mon. hir. Auberly, muffled in a long cloak, er, if that there butcher don't send
Two at once obeyed. He was stepped from the crowd and touoh- us better stuff than this hero bacon
first up the ladder. ed Frank, the tall fireman, on the in future, I'1l-2'11 have to give him
Nothingbut spoke had reached shoulder.
the roointo which young Auberly "Sir," he said in a low voice, up."
can't afflord to got better,
entered, so that ho instantly found "you saved my child. I would dear," said the 'widow meekly.
himself in impenetrable darkness, show my sense of gratitude. :Will "I know that mother; but ho
and was almost choked as well as you accept of this purse?" could afford to give better. Dewey -
Frank shook his head, and a smile er, it's down now, so it don't neueh
"Have a care, Frank; the floor played on his smoke -begrimed coun- matter."
trust be about gone by this time," tenance as he said- "Did you hear whose house was
said Baxmore, as he ran after his "No, Mr. Auberly. I am obliged burned, Willie?"
!tall comrade. to you, but I cannot accept of it. "Ay; a Mr. Oberly, or sometbin'
The man whom he called Frank I do not want it, and besides, the like that."
knew this. He also knew that it men of the brigade are not allowed "Auberly!-' exclaimed the widow,
was not likely any one bad been left to take money." with a start.
in the room from which the master "But you will let me do some- "Well, p'raps it is Auberly; but
of the house had been rescued, and thing for you?" urged ]Stir. Auberly. whichever it is, he's got a pretty
he thought it probable that his "Is there nothing that I can do?' kettle o' fish to look after this
daughter would occupy a room on "Nothing, sir," said Frank. He mornin'. You seem to have heard
.the same floor with her father. Act- paused for a moment, and then re-
...• ...... .......... k . .. M..•_ _., aBenne ,.:sen.,,,l of him before, mother?"
,.
"Yes, Willie I I know him a—
nt least I have mot with him often.
You see I was better off once, and
used to' mingle with—but I -need not
trouble you with that. On the
strength of our former acquaintance,
I thought I would write and ask
him to get you a situation in an
office, and I have got a letter from
him, just before you came down to
breakfast, saying that he will do
what he can, and bidding mo send
you to him between eleven and
twelve to -morrow,"
"Whew!" whistled. Willie, "an' he
burnt out o' house an' home, with-
out a cost to his back or a shoe to
his foot. It strikes me I'll have to
try to get him a situation,"
"alb won't be found at the house,
now, I dare say, my son, so we'll
have to wait a little; but the burn-
ing of his house and furniture won't
affect him much, for he is rich."
"Humph! p'raps not," said Wil-
lie; "but the burnin' of his little
girl might have—"
"You said that no lives were
lost," cried Mrs. Wiliders, turning.
pale.
"No niore there was, mother; but
if it hadn't been for one 0' the Am-
mon that jumped in at a blazin
winder an' brought her out through
fire an' smoke, she'd have been a
cinder by this time, an' money
wouldn't have bought the r•ieh . man
another daughter, 1 know."
"'True, my son;" observed Mrs.
Willalers, resting her forehead on her
hand; then, as if ouddenly. rcoo1feet-
ing something, she looked up and
DIZZY SPELLS AND
tbv WEAKNESS
Tell of a Run-down System and Exhausted Nel•ues—Strength
Cashes With the Use of Dr. Chase's Ionia Food.
To many people peculiar spells of
dizziness and weakness are a source
of almost daily annoyance and dis-
tress. Some see flashes of light be-
fore them, and become blind and
dazzled ; others experience - severe
attacks of headache. The cause is
exhaustion of the nervous system
and deficiency in the quality and
quantity of blood. In all such cases
97r. Chase's Nerve Food is the most
certain as well ia,s the most thorough
cure obtainable.
Mrs. Symons, 42 St. Clair street,
Belleville, Ont., states : "Some
weeks ago I began a course of treat-
ment With i)r. Chase's Nerve. Food,
and found it a very satisfactory
medicine. I was formerly troubled
with nervous exhaustion and a weak,
fluttering heart. 'Whenever my heprt
bothered me I Would have spells of
weakness and dizziness, which were
;very distressing. By means of this
,treatment nay nerves have become
strong, and the action of my heart
seems to be regular. I can recom-
friend Dr. Chase's Nerve Food as an
medicine."
"
excellent a
i'dfrf3. Jannoe Clancy, 714 Water
ntreet. Peetelleeneugla, Ont., states
"I have used four boxes of Dr.
Chase's. Nerve Food, and found
them an excellent medicine. I was
troubled more or less for nineteen
years with severe headaches, which
made me useless as far as accom-
plishing my work was concerned.
"The Nerve Food seemed to build
me up generally, and so made a
thorough cure of my old trouble. I
would not think of being without
Dr. Chase's Nerve Food in the
house, and would strongly recom-
mend anyone suffering as I did to
give it a trial It succeeded in my
case after a great many remedies
had failed,"
To the thousands of women who
ars victims of nervous headache
this letter should prove of inestim-
able value. If they Will but follow
the advice of Xis, Clancy they can
be certain of great and lasting
benefit.
Dr. Chasing Nerve rood, 50 cents a
box, at all dealers; or Fehranson,
Bates & Po., Toronto; To protoot
you against imitations, the portrait
Chase,
o Dr. 'A, W. C e
'signature f ,
and
the frenone receipt book author. are
on every box.
Bonn to the city with these soots to
!Frank. This 3s hie birtatday, and I
sat late last eight on purpose to
get thorn finished. His station isa
l
long. way off, 1 I:naw, bat
"t tt ve
,
n thi 1 so-•- ..
o n e s to do
v
"N'0tliin" else to do, nibtherl" ex-
claimed W41lie, with an offended
look. "Haven't I got to converse
in a friendly way with all the coos -
sin' -sweepers an' shoo -blacks an'
stall -women as I go along, an' chafff
the cabbies, au' look in at all the.
shop -windows, and insult the bob-
bies? I always insult the bobbies.
It does mo good. I luurt 'oni., men-
tally, as match se I can, axe' I'd hurt
'en, bodily if I could, But every
dog has his day. When I grow up
won't I pitch, into 'one!"
Ela
struck the table with his fest,,
and shaking back his curly hair, lift-
ed his blue oyes to his mother's face
with e, stern expression, which grafl-
pally relaxed into a simile.
"Ah, you needn't grin, mother, an'
tell inti that the `policemen' are a
fine set of mon, and quite as bravo
and useful in their way as tho fire -
Men. I know all you respectable
sort o' people think that, but I
don't. They're natural enemies, and
I hate 'ern,. - Como, mother, . give me
the socks and let me be otl."
Soon the vigorous urchin was on
his way to the City, whistling, ,as
usual, with all his might. As he
passed, the corner of the British M'uu-
seura a hand touched him on the
shoulder, and its owner said
"How nu1ich are yo paid a 'week,
lad, for kinking up such a row?"
Willie looked round, and his eyes
encountered the brass buckle of the
waist -belt of a tall strapping fel-
low in a blue uniform. Glancing
upward,he beheld the handsome
countenance of his brother Frank,
looking down at hum with a quiet
smile.
"El►allo, Blazes/ is that you?"
cried the boy.
"Just so, Willie; goin' down • to
Watling street to attend drill?"
Willie (who had styled his brother
"BIazes" ever since he joined the
Are brigade) observed that he hap-
pened to be going in the same di-
rection to deliver a message from
his. mother to a relation, which he
would not speak about, however,
just then, as he wished to tell him
of a fire he had been at last night.
"A fire, lad; was it a big one?"
"Ay, that -it was; a case o' burn -
in' out almost; and there were lives
saved," said the boy, with a look of
triumph; "and that's more than y,ou
can say you've sten, though you are
a trenran."
"Well, you know I have not been
long in the brigade, Willie, and as
the escapes often do their work be-
fore the engines come up, I've not
nvaoh chance yet of seeing lives Bay-
ed.
ayed. ITow, was it done?"
. (With glowing eyes and flushed
cheeks Willie at ones launched out
into a vivid description of the scene
he had so recently witnessed, and
dwelt particularly on the bravo
deeds of conductor Forest and the
tall fireman. Suddenly he looked
up at his brother.
"Why, what are you cliucklin' at,
Blazes?"
"Nothing, lad. Was the fireman
very tall?"
"That he certainly was — uncom-
mon tall."
"Something like me?" said Frank.
A gleam of intelligence shot across
the boy's face as he stopped • and
caught his brother by the sleeve,
saying earnestly.—
"It wasn't you, Frank, was it?"
"It was, Willie, and right glad
am I to have been in such good
luck as to save Miss Auberly."
"You're a brick, Blazes," said he,
"and this is your birthday, an' I
wish you luck an' long life, my boy.
You'll do me credit yet, if you go
on as you've begun. Now, I'll go
right away back an' tell mother.
Won't she be fit to bu'st?" •
"But what about your message to
the relation in the City?" inquired
Frank.
"That relation is yourself, and
here's the m.esoage, in the shape of
a pair o' socks from. mother, knitted'
with her own hands; and, by the'I
way, that reminds mid—how came
you to be at the fire last night. It's
a long way from your station."
"I've been changed recently," said
Frank; • "poor -Grove was badly hurt
:about the loins at a fire in New
Bond street last week, and I have
been sent -to take his place; 'so I'm
at the King street station now. But
I have something more to tell .. you
before you go, lad, so walk with
me a bit further."
Willie consented, and Frank relat-
ed to him his conversation with Mir,
A,uberly in reference to himself.
"1 thought of caking leave and
running out this afternoon to toll
you, so it's as well we have ni;ot, as
it will Willy, what are you chuck-
ling at, Willie?" -
Never mind, Blazes. I haven't
time to tell you just now. I'll tell
you some other time. So old An-
berly wants to see me to -morrow
forenoon?"
"That's what ho said to me, re-
turned Frank.
"Very good; I'll go. Atdoo,
Blazes --farewell."
So saying, Willie Winders evened
round and went oft at a run, check-
ling
heckling violently.
(To Be Continued),;
"i
t FOR FARMERS
aeasofl ble acid Profitable
` R #tints for the i3usy
athe Soil.
I
fo1
.
KEFPCCO UNT S
A .
There is scarcely anyone who hes
not heard it said that "farming
dons not pay," and if loo take the
average farmer On the averagefarm,
we shall And it a fact that his Pro-
fits' are the minimum and his oxer-
tions the Maximum. In almost ev-
ery case this condition is due to a
lack of business methods. It has.
often been said that no man fn busi-
nesscould run his affairs without
keeping accurate accounts. and the
report conies back. "That applies
to business," and not to farming;
but sat is the difference? Book-
keeping and other business methods
are simple schemes to determine
What a particular branch of an in-
dustry contrib'utos towax^d the gain
or loss account. Farmers aro in-
-variably in the dark on this point,
and if by good fortune or inanage-
reent the branches that pay are -fol-
lowed, success awaits; but on the
other hand, one may bo pursuing
apparently as good a course, but be
losing money continually. The ex-
act reason for such conditions is sel-
dom known, and no remedy can be
introduced.
It is frequently claimed for ftu• t
ers that they have fewer failures
than business men with all their
business principle. This fact sug-
gests two thoughts, namely: If,
with a lack of business methods,
•farming proves profitable, what
might not be done if good business
principles were followed, and if far-
ming is not a paying business, but
merely a means of subsistence, in
winch no one can fail to live, why
not try and bring it to a more cre-
ditable position by adopting modern
business methods?
In looking over our industrial de-
velopment we see wealth accumtulat-
ing where capital is invested; where
brain power is operating (business
methods), and where labor is utiliz-
ed. The farm represents capital in-
vested,
nvested, and them is always labor
expended tinder it. The profit, then,
if there is to be any, must come
from the capable management of the
affairs of the farm, which inicludes
keeping of careful accounts.
A good place to begin business
principles is with the stock. Deter-
mine whether each cow returns a
profit, or whether she is merely
keeping alive, or living at the • ex-
peose of the rust of the herd. Make
sure that the breeding sows are
yielding large, growthy litters. Util-
ize every foot of land on the farm.
Do everything that intelligence sug-
gests to increase the revenue from
the stock and the productiveness of
the farm from operations now being
carried on rather than ,,rush wildly
into something new.
to thea.;zamreml,t, and if not .enou,gh to
cover it new brine. is boiled and=
added, The ham and s)houldera are
put in oro cask and the • thin pieces,
in another.'
We formerly let t1harm remain.
weeks,but fined that folio
Pox sixfo r
weeks is long enough and two weeks
for the rest. They are then taken
out and hung heats dawn to drip,
When dry we awoke thoroughly with
hickory wood or corncobs fear th
o-
ed
with
green cedar
brueh t
hin
smoked well,
the meat is taken down
and black molasses is m'•ade thick
with black popper and the mixture is
paintbd all over the meat, It' is
then wrapped In paper and put in
cotton sacks and hung in a totally
dark smokehouse, and the hairs will
be in their prime in a yoo".."
DEATH FOR DRUNKARDS.;
That's the Fate of linen in .Al-
-
bans Who Get Drunk.
Hero is a graduation of penalties
for a "plain drunk," which seems to
indicate that higher civilization is
zuoro tolerant of intoxication than
benighted communities—or communi-
ties so considered :
In this country --$2 and costs.
In Persia—eighty lashes on the
soles of the feet.
In Turkey—the bastinado to a
more severe extent,
In Albania—death.
In•the three latter instances the
extreme penalty is .given above, Be-
fore the officials give a man upas
confirmed in his cups they lecture
him. In Persia they put hint on the
blacklist first and forbid- hips the
bazaars except in certain hours and
then under police supervision, and
also places of amusement, and wor-
ship.
In Turkey the offender receives an
admonition and is fined for the first
offense, and the bastinado is applied
afterwards if the crime be repeated.
Among the mountaineers of Al-
bania and Montenegro drunkenness
is regarded as a political offense and
for that reason is considered more
serious than if it were a moral one.
Among the mountaineers fighting
and drinking are not considered to
go together, and to bo able to fight
is the first duty of a citizen. There-
fore the drunkard is harshly dealt
with. At first they try moral
suasion with the festive tippler, but
when that fails and he persists in
making the mountain peaks ring _ to
his Montenegrin sunstitute for "We
don't go home till morning" he is
declared to be a danger and a dis-
grace to his tribe and - his country,
and is quietly assassinated by order
of tho local chief,
CURING HAMS_
Our •excellent contemporary, the
Practical Pannier, on the subject of
hairs, sew up the matter thus:
"We prefer a well -cured ham that
has been allowed to simmer half
the morning, and is then taken out
arid skinned, and the fat coated over
with white sugar and then placed in
a pan and put in the oven and well
baked. A well -cured ham, not loss
than a year old, cooked in this way,
is a dish for an epicure.
But no matter what the curing, a
ham is never at its best till a year
old. Just at present the celebrat-
ed hams made in southwest Vir-
ginia aro selling at twenty-five to
thirty cents 'a pound, while at the
Best store the product of the pack-
ers is selling for sixteen cents. The
difference is mainly that the one
was properly cured, not embalmed,
and has gotten age enough to be
firm.
Tho packet's' hams are not smoked,
though they look like it, but are
dipped in a tank of creosote mix-
ture. Some people have gotten a
notion that smoking is not needed
in the making of ham, but that cur-
ing anddrying are all that is ,neces-
sary; but to our taste a ham is not
a ham till well smoked.
Our practice is to make a brine
strong enough to pop an egg, and
to it add one ounce of saltpeter for
100 pounds of meat, and also a pint
of black molasses. The meat stays
111 this brine four days, and .it is
then poured off and boiled; all that
s ,> DE. A. We CHASES t
CATARRH CURE
k4\.
5t.
co
Ls sent direct to the dfssatted
parts by the Improved Slower.
Heals the ulcers, clears the air
pa:sagee, stops droppi..s in the
throat and permanently aures
Catarrh and Hay room•. Blower
free. All dealers, or Dr. A,'W. Chas
. Medicine Co.. Toronto and Buffalo„
NIAGARA'S POWER
T:
SIX MORE GIANT . M' 'Al Oft
R•EA.DY T'Q?Li. WOItE:,
BRITAIN'S NATIONAL DEBT.
On March 31 last, the national
debt of Great Britain was £800,-
4.43,336, as compared with £636,-
040,965 on March 31, 1899., From
this it can be seen that the Boer
war added in round numbers £165,-
000,000 to the debt. The total
debt to -day is higher than it has
been since 1865, when it was C804,-
456,000,
804;458,000, and Great Britain now
owes only £5,000,000 less than it
did at the outbreak of the Crimean
war in 1854. When Queen Victoria
aacendod the throne the debt was
£858,000,000. Since then up to the
outbreak of the South African war
in consequence of the Crimean war,
the terrible Irish famine of 1847,
the purchase of the telegraphs in
1868-9, the purchase of the Suez
Canal shares in 1876, and sundry
and various small wars, a total of
£177,000,000 was added to the
debt. Allowing for the r,165,000,-
000 added to the debt by the South
African war, there has been a net
reduction since 1837 of £53,000,-
000, Which does not include the Suez
Canal shares, valued at £28,000,-
000, which were purchased for £4,-
000,000. Moreover, a lowering in
the rate of interest has lightened
the annual charges of the debt by
£4,000,000 since 1869.
Qontract.f'or the Canadian Plant
to Excel That of the
United States,. .
The second great power house of
the Niagara Palls, N. 'Y., Power,,
Co n
zips y, is about conatploted and
six of the now generators have been
installed. It is of stone, and in
general a!?pearance is very znu
similar to power house :Mo. 1. The
long stretch of reef is, however,
broken by gables at the center and
ends, adding materially to the , ape
pearanco of the stznzcturo.
Power ` house No. 2 is 560 feet
long and 70 feet wide. It stands
over wheel -pit No, 2, whioh is 463 ft.
8 inches long, 18a feet wide and
178* feet deep. The turbines in the
wheel -pit discharge into the tunnel,
which was .extended for this pur-
pose, making its total length 7,436f
feet.
Tho tail -race facilities offered by
the tunnel allow of a development
of more than 100,000 horse -power,
and its capacity will be taken up by;
the ten turbines in wheel -pit. No. 1
and the eleven turbines which are to
have place in wheel -pit No. 2. Eacli
unit is of 5,000 horse -power, so.
that in the two wheel -pits and pow-
er houses the Niagara Falls Power
Company will have a total develop-
ment of 106,000 horse -power, mak-
ing it the greatest hydro -electric
stailation in the world.
to gles have been noticed flying at
a height of 6,000 feet, and storks
and buezards at 2,000 feet. A lark
will rise to the same height, and so
will crows: . As a rule, however,
comps to the surface is skinned off, birds do not fly at a greater height
and when it is cold it is returned than 1,000 feet.
4
THINGS NICE .GIRLS NEVER DO.
Do not turn their heads to look
after impertinent men.
Nice girls do not either - ask or an-
swer impertinent questions.
Do not get into the habit of
speaking familiarly to all men they
know.
Do not write silly letters to young
men or permit them to write such
let: tors.
Do not direct their conversation to
one person when several visitors are
present.
Do not imagine that every man
wlio is pleasant no them has fallen
ili love with them..
The nice girl does not talk and
laugh loudly when traveling or in any public place where elle may at-
tract .attention.
An inch of rain means that 100
ions of wirier leave fallen upon o
ve
ti
sad,
I want you to go acro of soil.
Jim Dumps' young wife while yet
a bride
Some biscuits made with greatest pride.
Jim looked with fear upon the food,
But to a bride one can't be rude.,
"Let's eat ' Force' first, dear, 'tis my
whim,"
It saved the life of " Sunny Jan."
66
99
A11 "6t*Jima" Noaw
"In onr" housoholfnnyl `il'orce' s as t '
Millar and welcome ad ' dueny Jhnz ais
that s saying a geed deal, for we sire a
knatay 41131s IlOw4 14, f3x6rin"
�i'FCEEL-PIT
is on the opposite sideNO. o2f the inlet
canal from wheel -pit No, 1, andwelos»
er to the river. Between the two
pita there extends a tunnel about
810 feet long and at a depth of 130,
feet below the surface. - This tunnel
is for the convenience of the com-
pany's .employes in passing from pit :
face.
to pit without ascending to the sur -
On the canal side of power house ,
No. 2 a forebay house 40 feet wide'.
and about 460 feet long has been •
built. Water from tho inlet canal • •I
enters the forebay through twenty- ,
four arches, the tops- of which are ,
below the normal level of the water, •
and this source of supply is expect-
ed to give relief from floating ice.
The water :supply flows through the
arches straight, up to the racks,
which are under cover in the fore -
bay structure. Power house No, 11
has no forebay house.
The new generators are. of the ex-
ternal Bold type, with the nickel
steel revolving magnet ring, and are .
similar in outline to the generators
in power houpe No. 1. They . are
each of 5,000 horse -power, - wound
for 2,300 volts, two-phase, 25 cy-
cles at 250 revolutions per minute.
Thus the company secures an exact
interchangeability of current with
power house No. .1. -
Tho tunnel of the Canadian Ni-
n has een ex-.•
Ni-
agara ester Coma b
age a.P p y �..
coveted, and the .wheel -pit has been #ti
broken through into the tunnel head-
ing. The tunnel is now being lined,
and this work will occupy the great-
er part of the present year. Tho
debris of the tunnel portal is
BEING CLEARED AWAY. -
The Toronto and Niagara Bower
Company has awarded the contract
for the construction of its tunnel
tail -race to Anthon C. Douglass, the
contractor who built the Canadian
Niagara Power Company's - tunnel.
This tunnel will be 2,100 feet long
and about 25 feet high and 20 feet
wide.
The construction of the tunnel will
necessarily proceed on somewhat dif-
ferent lines from the two tuuanols •
previously built at Niagara. In run-
ning from the wheel -pit to the low -
or .river or gorge, it will take a
route that will lead it right underr
the river as it approaches the.
horseshoe Falls. ^ The portals of the
tunnel will be behind the sheet of
water.
In building other tunnels at Ni-
agara the custom has • been . to sink
a shaft at the middle directly over
the main tunnel and from the base
of the shaft drive headings toward
the pit and portal. The route of
the Toronto and Niagara Power
Company's tunnel being under the
river, it will be impossible for Con-
tractor Douglas to adopt this plan,
but-. instead he will sink a shaft 8
by 16 feet near the shore to a depth
of 180 feet. -
From the base of this shaft ho will
drive a lateral tunnel 10 by 14 feet
to a distance of 700 feet out under
the river, where he will meet the line
of the new teennel. - From this point.
he will drive headings up and down -
stream, the excavated material - to
be taken up the shaft.
It will require over two years to
drive the tunnel. As compared with
the other Niagara Power tunnels it
will bo the shortest but its section
will be slightly larger, tho company
expecting to develop about -125,00,0
horse -power. -
4
GOOD WHITEWASH.
An old barn or shed not worth
clapboaz'ds or paint can be given a
new lease of life with a coat of
whitewash. Slake e. bushel of lime,
strain, add half a bushel of salt dis-
solved in water, a pound of ground
whiting and two pounds of dissolv-
ed glue.. This is a very; close, dur-
able whites' iSh, a coat of it will
make old bo,'i weather-proof for -
many years. A. little lamp -black
will make the color effect less glar-
ing, giving a quiet, gray tone. FROM A SMALL 13FGJNNING.
"Leonidas," exclaimed Mrs. aeon.
tori, suddenly hnterrupting herself,
"do you remember how this aro.-
anent started?" -
"Yes, Henrietta, You said that I
always insisted on arguing a point,
and I said that you did, and then
the conversation gradually develop-
ed.".
eveloped." y ---e. •
The dangers of sweeping 3
judged by the fact that in a school-
room whore the air contained 000
bacteria
ria to t'knpublic
yard 'before
re
'sweeping, after this oporatton thorn
Were 18,000 in the yearn Vann