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THE LAND OF NIGHTMARE
LN EXPLORER TELLS OF HIS
THRILLING JOURNEY.
Party Lost Power of Speech and
Food Consisted of a Monkey
a Day.
Dr. Hamilton Ri'
ce the American
surgeon and traveller, gives a
thrilling account of his recent ex-
periences M South-east Colombia
and North-west Brazil.
The doctor, who has returned to
London after a journey of 21
months, states that he traversed
about 100,00e square miles of almost
unknown territory. He says he has
collected valuable scientific data,
has oleared up the geography of the
Amazon and Orinoco systems, and
prepared maps of great areas
hitherto uncharted.
Acoompaeied by Lieutenant
Bauer, an Austrian officer, he left
London in December, 1911, and
after reaching Bogota, started on
the journey into the interior. He
twee
"Insects and diseaze were the
worst features of the expedition.
Mosquitoes made life almost un-
bearable, and the swarms of large
grass-outting ants which appeared
at sunset ate our clothing, made
our mosquito nets useless, and evert
devoured our ropes. Disease, too,
was a very grave consideration, and
during a certain portion of our
journey our food supply gave out,
and we were reduced to eating
monkey flesh, and very little of
that.
"While travelling to the sources
of the Apaporis, our food was ex-
hausted, and my companions were
so weakened by two months' con-
tinuous hard labor and disease that
it was impossible for all to proceed,
and I had to go on with only twelve
men. These had got out of hand,
and some refused to go on. This
was perbape not to be wondered at,
as only the previous year the Carl-
jou& Indians, who were ahead of
us, had attacked a party of 12 can-
eberos and Huitoto Indians, and
had slaughtered 30 of their number,
being still in possession of their
rifles and ammeeition.
'rive Miles a Day.
"Eventually, having sent the die.
contented men back, I advanced
with only six follower.% and in a
few days reached the south branch
of the Apaporis. Our progress was
extremely difficult and painful, and
only worked out at 2 to 3 miles a
day. Every foot of the trail bad to
be cut with machetes and axes, dile
man going ahead with the oompass,
"Hundreds of canes, or small
streams, ran across our path, and
these were simply alive with ra.r-
jabs, a dangerous swordfish of a
vindictive nature which inflected an
ugly septic wound, attended with
nitwit pain."
This resulted a month later in
Dr. Hamilton Rice being himself
attacked with poisonous ulcers, and
compelled to operate by candle-
light by injecting cocaine and cut-
ting hie leg to the bone. The oper-
ation took two hours, and although
thie occurred nine months ago, the
wounds are still unhealed.
"All of us," continued the ex-
plorer, "were practically starving,
and the only course was to retreat
in the hope of meeting some relief
parties. These did not, however,
turn up, and we•were reduced to
one meal of monkey per day.
"O'ontinuene thunderstorms, with
great trees being struck by light-
ning all around us, made our re-
- treat a perfect nightmare. Soon
we had to abandon everything ex-
cept our harnmecks. Presently the
rain stopped, and myritxis of ants,
beert, and mosquitoes came out and
further tortured us. Our condition
Was desperate.
Lost Power of Speeek.
"Every day the eyes of my peo-
ple assumed a more curious and
glassy appearance, our faces be-
eame sunken, and an ashy yellow,
and we were so depressed that we
rarely exchanged a word. One of
the meta lost all power of speech,
and •could only whine like an ani-
mal. It was under such poisonous
conditions as these that a number
of operations were performed.
"One day early in the journey the
wife of the chief Indian guide ap-
peared, having been practically eat
in half by a, maohete, and I also had
to operate on her for internal abs-
cess. My terrified followers erected
a, rough operating table in the vir-
gin forest, and I had to administer
the chloroform and ese the knife as
well. It was not surprising that the
patient died, and there in the prim-
aeval jungle the practically dying
Indians erected a cross ten feet
high.
"The majority of the operations,
of which there were over a hun-
dred, were successful. One note-
bIe case was of a men suffering
from anthrax, His temperature
was 107 for six days, and I had to
operate three times, reducing his
temperature by means of sheets
soaked in a stream. He made a
complete recovery, and hundreds of
cases subsequently came to me for
treatment.
"At the end of eleven days' re-
treat we reached the Macaya River,
where we had some food stored.
There we found eight of our origi-
nal party, and after a rest proceed-
ed on our journey.
"On Christmas Day last we
reached San Jose, on the Guaviari.
The track was in a horrible condi-
tion, and we were all suffering from
fever and covered with sores. From
this point I started on the second
part of na,y -expe,dition with two
canoes, each laden with a ton of
stores. Our party contested of
Bauer and myself, with four half"
castes and a Colombian Indian boy.
Among Whirlpools.
"Our purpose was to explore the
rivers with a view to establishing
the relations between the Orbit:too
and Amazon systems. For six days
we went down stream through a
barricade of fallen trees and rush-
ing tvhirlpools. We got through all
right, however, and by especially
bad luck, lost one of our canoes
when we got to open water.
"It became necessary now to
make a store for our supplies, and
to stow away a, month's provisions
in our remaining canoe, We then
began the ascent of the Yinirida
River, and found that the further
we progressed the harder became
the work. After a ereek'a naviga-
tion we disoovered a magnifieent
waterfall over a hundred feet in
height, wheel took us three days to
get round. After a, further week's
difficult progress, we found navi-
gation became impossible.
"One day a man came up in a
canoe. He had been wounded and
had a spear in his kidney, which
had been bleeding for two days.
His little craft was half fell of
blood. I operated on him, and he
eventually recovered. We now re -
treed our way for fifty days, and
first encountered Indiana at the
point where we had stored our
food,
"These people, who had never
Men a white man before, were quite
friendly. They did not speak the
Tupi Guarani language, but one or
two knew a few words of Spanish.
,Later we came across a colony
composed entirely of male Indians.
"At a subsequent stage of the
journey we traversed a snake in-
fested 'swamp on the Upper Emir -
(de. There was no sign of human
life, but tapirs, jaguars and mon-
keys abounded. They were as tame
as domestic animals. The tapirs
swam round the canoe, while the
jaguars sniffed round our neta ab
night, and had to be driven off like
doge
"In .August we reached civiliza-
tion at Manaos, and first hatted of
the Balkan war and of the Scott
disaster in the Antaretio."
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Women Tax -Resisters Led by the Nobility.
Her Grace of Bedford let the British Government seize this valu-
able piece of her silver rather than pay her taxes, arguing from the
slogan, "No vote, no tax."
THE WORLD IN REVIEW
Tragedies of Disobedience.
One frequently reade distressing no
counts of accidents to cliPdren, accidents
which aeon unnecessary and ereveutable.
There was an item just the other day con.
ceruing a little four.year-old, who climbed
up to a high cupboard, secured a bottle of
of poison and drank it. We call such oe.
currences accidents, and no doubt many
of them are, But many others, St ie oar -
t010, are merely the natural result of a
very general and regrettable cause. And
this cause is the laxness of modern Par.
ental discipline.
The laziness of parents who will not
take the time and trouble to enforce obe.
diene from their children almost belongs
in the class of criminal negligence. Strict,
diseipline, not indulgenee, le what neelree
for the real happiness of childrunl arid
also it, is the best menne of aecuring their
safety. Dangerous objerts cannot always
be kept from their reach, but children
can bo taught not to meddle with'the pro.
perty of others, and they can be taught to
obey abeolutely. There is very little of
this absolute obedience seen lately. One
of the new plays of the full deals with
that very enkleat, the domination of mod-
ern children over their parents, Unfortit.
nately it is a weak play, not adequate to
the Mettle. But what a subject that is for
a playwright of the day, NE of tragic as
well as comic possibilities,
A 200400t Flagpole.
The erection of a flagpole in front of
the Provincial Court House at Vaneouver,
B.O., hag presented unusual features be.
cause of the desire to use a long. single
stiek, representative of the thither re.
50111•008 of the Province, and to so place
it that its base would be secure from de-
cay. A suitable timber was ant and de.
livered in the rough at the Court lionee
la the fall 05 1911. It was left fur a year
to season, when there would bo no Melt.
hood of Its carving when drying. in Bel).
tember. 1913, it was moved on rollers to its
final location. The flagpole is 208 feet
long, 36 lichee in diameter at the base
and 10 inches at the top, and when reedy
for ercetion weighed about ten tons. Sur.
mounting the polo te a four -foot globe end
a twenty -foot weather vane in the shape
of an arrow.
Extension of Suffrage In Europe.
Evidences abound of the steady onward
march of democracy in Europe through
the enlargement of the euffrage, IteeQ
than a century ago the suffrage 01110'
first poked his nose into the government
tent. To.day both hie front feet aro in-
side everywhere except in. Bungle and the
Balkans.
Italy has just, granted what, is praeti-
cally manhood suffrage, without oropertY
qualification.. Even illiterates will be al.
lowed to vote in the approaehing elec.
tione. And now in Denmark the struggle
that began 50 earnest forty rums ago for
a more liberal voting franchise bids fair
to be vietorious.
The Danes have been fighting for a re.
duction of the voting ago limit to twenty.
Bye years, for the extension of the suf.
(rage to women on the same heels as that
of males, for the removal of propertY
qualifications for voting and tor the Pona.
larization of the upper house of the Dan-
ish Parliament.
III these measures will go into effect
provided they are indorsed 119 a majority
of the electors in the forthcoming appeal
to the country, and of that, there le said
not to he the slightest doubt. The on.
wining wave or popular rule has waehed
the shores of Denmark and te likely to
'wet the Met 05 standpat Dante.
Racial Butt of Rudeness.
Ali recce ars earicatured upon the stage.
The comic Englishman is quite as much
food for laughter us the comle Jew or the
comic German. None of it le a very high
form of 'wit; and cone of it is any form
of art at all. A more refined tiiste on the
part of the andiencee *would sweep the
whole "slap -stick' businees into the duet -
heap. but when many people find them-
eelves 'wounded by thie sort of thing,
then ive cannot wait for the elevation of
taste- we 011181 aot more directly end
quiekly, To permit the playhouse to be
made 0 605110 of discomfort for any oon-
siderable section of the community is not
only poor latuuness—it is a low grade of
Roads Will Be Numbered and Named.
In France 0 11017 BYeltal of road deals•
nation for the convenience of tourists hue
been adopted. Every road in the country
will be given a name and a number and
these designation will be painted upon
direction posM at the road crossings and
tho 100.rneter DOBle /11011g the route. The
highways of France are classified as na.
tional roads department reedit, and eo OIL
The roads in cash case will be numbered,
Tho direction post will state the elase_of
highway and the number of the road. The
tourist starting on a journey will teed
only a strip of figures, and he will be
able to iintl his way anywhere.
capitanzod An imia.
Thomas A, Sperry, the inventor of Wad.
loc stamps, diod reeently, leaving au
estate venue et 00,010,000. Young Mon
who are discouraged heeause they lack
capital to oetablish great enterprises
Sperry and take heart, Ua capitalized an
&JIDDA idea and made it worth sloe
he,, ablest) of honer and dtz.
tinction for mon who cam think, who can
lift their minds out of the endless airele
or aimless thinking and give definite (gr.
cotton to their thoUghi4t,
Thomas Sperry observed the custom of
Settue inerchente is, gye their easterners
What the Pronch call niappe" and the
Hoarded* dell 111 conceived the
Idea of ilYetstertatiting 5019 practic5 and
making it a magnet to draw trade. The
trading stomp wee the result and for-
ttme smiled on him.
Progress le but the result of the noel!.
cation of new Ideas to old ways of doing
things. A man's mind is his best capital.
It, es a bank account that increases as it
is drawn upon.
In this land of opportunity 110 Mae is
poor who has an unclouded mind and
the energy to work to translate his plane
into deeds.
Britain's Navy Is growing.
It in reported unofacially that the new
battleship Queen iIary made a record
speed of 307 knots on her trials. It Is
tempettcrietVg6n4'°es gwliVo tltls
eideration the huge alae of the vessel.
The vessel was built at Jarrow and Is
;Vol wnitale irruno"teL.ulge"is ItElet,rtnaantiviTti.
mght 13.5 -inch guns, unless these have
bean changed to 14 -inch as was suggest-
ed. In appearance she is much the same
as the battle cruiser New Zealand, only
she Is 105 feet longer and has nine feet
more beam. Her indicated horsepower le
75,200. Fie compared to the New Zealand's
46,894. But even the Queen Mary will have
to play second Addis to the Tiger, a bottle
cruins ser of 28,000 toto the Queen
3Iary e 27,000. The Tiger has 26,000
more indicated horsepower than the
Queen Mary, and although her contract,
speed is only 28 knots, it will be interest.
Ins to watch her trials. Besides these
bwo superb vessele, Great Britain will
5000 be putting into the first line the bat.
tleships Qaeon Eliesbeth, Warepito and
Valiant, each of 27,500 tons dlepleeement.
As a squadron .theee batt'eships and bat.
tle cruisers would be distinctly danger.
ous. Their speed alone would make them
implement customers to any fleet the
tenet bit slower and their hitting power
being to terrific, they possibly would be
better to avoid than engage. The trouble
is that, it would he extremis difitoul5 to
avoid them.
COOKING WITHOUT STOVES.
How Meals Were Prepared in Eng.
land Thousands of Yeays Ago,
One of the ways in which men of
science hey got information about'
the way that people lived in Eng-
land thousands oi years ago, is by
finding and examining their oarnp-
ing-places. Sometimes they find
these places accidentally, but often
a low mound by a spring, or a dis-
colored patch in a plowed field, will
catch, the eye of the experienced
relic -hunter, If he digs, down a betv
inches or feet, he will uncover a
circle or layer of stones that show
the marks of fire; usually there will
be bits of charcoal among them, for
charcoal is one of the most inde-
structible of, substances.
Here was the cooking-pleee, the
home hearth of a family of small,
dark-akinned wild men and women,
who lived there thousands of years
ago, long before the Phenioians
visited Britain to gather grains of
tin from the river -beds of Cornwall.
They had no tools or.weapons of
metal, for they did not know how
to emelt ores of iron or copper,
much leas how eo forge these met-
als into species or knives or spears.
They made their implements and
tools of wood or stone, bone or
shell; they caught their game and
fish in pitfalls or by nets and traps,
and they defended themselves with
flint -pointed spears. They lived in
caves, or under the shelter of ledges
of rock, or they built brush We
beside the streams and springs on
whose banks we end these rude
hearths to -day.
How, then, die they cook, with-
out pots and kettles, or even diehes
and crocks that would stand fire 7
—for they made no pottery. We can
guess by what we know of the al.
most equally primitive folk who live
in wild parts of the world to -day,
or of whom early explorers have
told us. Probably they roasted or
broiled ehunks of meat and large
fishes over s bed of erals. Some
Australian blacks cook meat by lay-
ing it an hot stones- or on a rough
grill of green sticks laid aeross the
?lowing Webers, Woodsmen have
maimed from the savages to cover
a bird or fish with Wet clay, and
/Veyjb lender a ere, ,After p<time
they dig it out, and wheri they pull
off the half -burned ditty, the feath-
ers or steles and the skin come
away with it, and leave 8 clean
and vvell-eooked meal,
As for the difacift of boiling
without pots, a good many tribes,
tti
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The Standard Lue
Canada. Has mang
inagtAtion5 but no equal
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among them our own Asainiboins'
boil their food by putting red-ho
stones in "pots" made of rawhide
or of bark, The Indians of the Pa
tine coast use their water -tight bae
kets for this purpose, and have
loug-handled spoon -like implements
for lifting the heated boulders ou
of the fire,
In the tropics, where bamboos
grow, the natives take a, hollow sec
tion of bamboo, pa in 'Water and
the food M be cooked, plug up the
ends of the tuba, and set it near the
fire until the water gets steaming
iheotth.ereWeei mthaey teuepeposesgee 0 ek
ourforeed
their meat anti roots in such ways
as these, as they gathered hungrily
round these rude fireplaces in the
evenings so long ago; and we fee]1
the more sure of it, because beside
some hearths we have found he
t
romaiits of wooden troughs, in
which they may have boiled water
with the aid of heateel stones.
Historic Street.
Friday Street, which has just
undergone a notable widening, is
one of the moat interesting and
ancient of the thoroughfares of
London, As long ago 415 1305 a ref-
erence to it appears in the eity re-
cords, .and even then it was proba-
bly old. Close by it stood the
Nag's Heed Tavern, whieh is fam-
ous in history a.s the "pretended"
scene of the consecration of Mat-
thew Parker, Archbishop or Can-
terbury, in the reign of Queen Eliz-
abeth,
Routh Ovor tho Evos ?
ship lived in his curious prison. He
t ate as sparingly as possible,and
drank seta -water, which appeared to
- have no ill effect upon him, He
- spent most, of hie time in hammer-
ing on the steel bottom of the ship
to attraet the attention of passing
t veseels, He knew when it was day,
for a dim light then penetrated
the water.
On the •twelfth day, the Nor-
wegian steamer Aurora sighted the
wreolc, and trent a boat to take it in
tow. Captain Engellandt had fallen
asleep, but hearing footsteps over
his head, he began to knock with
his hammer, and to shout for hely,
The Aurora's men returned to their
ship for tools, with which they bor-
ed a hole through the bottom of the
Entries. When they drew out their
drill, a man's finger appeared
through the hole. Engellandt told
them that he had Mod for four days
more, and wished to be towed to
land, for it was impossible to re-
lease hire in the open sea.
The Aurora towed the wreck to
safety to Neufahrwasser, where
with considerable difficulty the
shipwrights took off one of the
plates of the bull, and released the
imprisoned shipmaster. He was
perfectly conscious, and even able
to walk alone. His mew of three
men were, of course, all drowned
when the vessel capsized,
Loot For Nasal Catarrh
Catarrh Never Stops In One Place
—
It Spreads Rapidly—Often Ruins
Health Completely.
In this changeable climate it le the
little colds that drift into Catarrh.
Unless the inflammation is checked it
passes rapidly from the throat or eose
to the bronchial tubes and then to the
lungs. You can't make new lungs any
more than you can make new fingers
or toes, but you can cure Catarrh,
The surest cure consists of breathing Ltm tho healing balsamic) essences of
CA.TARRHOZONE, which is simply
a medicated vapor so full of rich cur-
ative properties that every trace of
Catarrh. vanishes before it.
"The soothing piney vapor of Ca-
tarrhozone Is the most powerful mech.
eine T ever used," writes Mrs, Edmond
J. Christine, of Saskatoon, Bvery
breath drawn through the Inhaler
sends a grateful feeling through the
air passages of the nose and throat.
Catarrhozone eared me of frightful
headaches over the eyes, relieved me
of a stuffy foeling in the nose, and an
irritable hacking cough that had been
the bane of my life for a year. My
general health Is greatly improved,
my appetite and digestion are consid.
erably bettor than before. Catarrh. •
ozone has been the means or giving
me such health as I always desired,
but never possessed."
Even though catarrh has a flrm
hold on you, and affects your throat;
nose or sere, you can thoroughly cure
it with Catarrhozone. Large size,
guaranteed, costs $1.00; smaller size '
50c.; sample size, 25o. .11.11 storekeep-
ers and druggists, or The eatarreo-
zone Co., Buffalo, N.Y., and Kingston,
Canada.
• A CURIOUS PRISON.
Imprisoned For Twelve Days in, a
Ship's Cabin.
An almost incredible adventure
at see was told under oath in a
maritime court of Danzig, Ger-
many, some years ago, by Captain
Engellandb of the sailing vessel
Errelte. Nothing that jeles Verne,
Clark Russell or Joseph Conrad
ever imagined could surpass the
story that Captain Engellandt
The Erecite sailed from Memel
with a cargo of planks for Wil-
helmshaven. The captain stood ab
the wheel during a gale that ovee-
took the vessel the very next night.
At four in the morning he went to
his cabin. Le change his wet clothes,
He had pieb gob into dry under-
clothing when the vessel capsized,
and ho found himself standing on
the roof of his cabin, the door of
which the sea had forme shut,
13y loosening the boards of what
was once the floor, but was now the
roof, he got into the hold, in 'which
there rani little except loose sails
alis! rigging. Fortunaeely some
shelves of e high cupboard remain -
Eel intact, and from them he collect-
ed name cans of condensed milk,
some prunes, rite, eugar, acid 11, lit-
Lle sausage, lie also found a ham-
mer,
Eor twelve days the master of ihrt
GLOBES OF LIGHT IN SKY.
Rare "Ball Lightning" Recently
Seen by People of France.
A singular instance of what seems
to hey& been globular or "ball"
lightning was recently reported in
the French scientific pepers. The
lightning was seen in a pletee where
there was no storm at the time, al-
though storm clouds were visible in
the neighborhood.
The appearance was that of two
luminous, orange -colored globes,
000 above the other, and connected
by a slender cord or chain, which
emitted a feebler light anti seemed
granular in constitution. The bye
globes moved together horizontally
teward the north-east, although at
the place where. the observers were
the wind was from the north.
The upper globe, which \Vita the
larger, kept on its way steadily,
while tho other dropped slowly to-
ward
the ground, The connecting
cord then disappeared and the
globes moved on slowly, remaining
visible for two minutes and finitely
disappearing silently. This pheno-
menon differs sensibly from the
typical forms of globular lightning
described recently by Prof. W. M.
Thornton, of Armstrong College.
According to this author, globu-
lar lightning descends slowly from
a cloud, generally after a violent
clap of thunder, in the form of a
brilliant bluish ball. It bounds
from the earth when it touches, and
then -moves off a few yards, hori-
zontally. Thews balls readily fol-
low an electric conductor, a gas
pipe, for instance, and burst when
they touch water, or sometimes in
the open air. The ball then disap-
pears instantaneously with a vio-
lent explosion which may do dam-
age antwhiph produces a strong
smell of'Welie.
Prof. Thornton believes with rea-
son that globular lightning is nude
up principally of a mass of ozone;
this hypothesis explains why the
color of the ball is usually bluish,
why the luminous mass descends
slowly through the air, ozone being
of a density about 1.7 times that of
air, and finally why the instantan-
eous disappearance of the ball is
accompanied byan explosion, for
the transformation of ozone, into
oxygen liberates a great quantity
of energy.
1,000,009 PUO ANNUALLY
VALUE OF RAW FURS TO TIM
FARMER'S BOT.
Preliminary Work for a Seecessful
Season Should Be Done
Over one million (81,000,000)
dollen is paid to the fencer
boys of Canada each year for
raw Mrs, and many of these boys
erten their first real money by set-
ting out a lino of traps and °spear-
ing the valuable fur -bearing ani-
mal:1n
1:' beery to the popular impres-
sion, it is not necessary to go into
the wilda in order le trap, as musk-
rats, mink, likunk, raocoon, ermine
or white weasel and other valuable
fur - bearing animals abound
throughout the 1 terming coramuni-
' ties of the Dominion, and it only
remains for the observant, active
trapper to capture the same and
burn their pelts into the big money
'that they bring on the market to-
day,
" Skill Against Instinet.
Not only does the following of the
trap line well repay the boy for the
time and energy expended, but it
leads him to enjoy the healthful life
in the open, and to become a lover
of nature. It causes him to become
observant and sharpens his wits
when he attempts to meta hie skill
against the natural inztinot and.
wariness of the wild animals, and
offers an innocent safety valve to
the enteral exuberance inherent in
everyboy having good red blood
coursing through his veins.
It is not advisable or necessary to
wait until •hlts trapping season
opens before locating pieces to set
the traps, as a great deal of the
preliminary work for 10. successful
trapping season should be done
now. Cabbies should be built, log
runways e,onstrueted in places fre-
quented by fur -bearing. animals,
and bait placed in the sa,me, so that
the animals will beoome a,ccus-
tomed to their presence and feed in
the seine before attempts are made
to trap them. In passing through
the woods and along the creeks and
sand bars look for tracks and signs
of the animals, note where they
pass in their Search for food, exa-
mine holes in tlm ground, and see
if tracks do not Mad into them with
hair on the side of the hole, show-
ing that you have found the home
of tho skunk, a fur that shows in-
creasing Yahoo and popularity on
amount of Me black glossy appear-
ance and good wearing qualities.
habits of the Mink.
As mink have e. natural aversion
to crossing travelled roads and pre-
fer to pass under a. bridge or eel -
verb, all places of this descriptlen
should bo located and an old log
or piece of plank placed on an an-
gle against the side of the abut.,
mento under the bridge, forming a
tunnel or passageway, and every
nink that Teems that way will go
through the tunnel you have made.
Notice where a log lies across a
stream, as the land and even water
animals will use it es a bridge in
place of going through the water,
and a trap properly placed there
often brings good results.
All these signs tell their tales to
the experienced trapper, and if the
boy is to make a success of trap-
ping, he must learn to read these
signs, which show him where to set
his traps to make meccas assured.
Good traps in good working con-
dition are very essential for a ewe
cessful season's trapping, as it is
usually the best mink that escapeo
froze a, defective trap, so that be-
fore the season opens you should
go over your traps carefully to see
that the springs axe in good oondi-
tion, and that they work properly.
The traps should then be boiled in
water with pine, spruce, hemlock,
balsam boughs or with walnut
hulls, and hung up to dry, as ;this
will give the traps a, dark coating,
remove the oil, anti keep them
from rusting. Never put kerosene
0your traps, as the odor remains
for a long time and will warn the
a
nimal of the presence of the traps
l114 cause them to avoid being
'tilight.
Tefarm dog is a valuable axe -
real in his place, but he should not
be taken along when you go over
your trap line, as mink and some
,the v animals can tweet a .dog for
several days afterward and will
avoid the locality where their na-
tural enemy has Passed.
A. Few Don'ts."
Don't take a Crowd with yott
when looking over the ground, to
make your sets, nor When you are
going over your trap line. Trap-
ping is best done alone, or at Most
with one companion. Don't tell
(Ahem where yea have set your
traps, o someone with a perverted
sense of honesty may re01ove you);
catch from the trap, even if he <toes
goed meesure,
not take t...*Iie.iirapLouLtvit10 him for
Nothing is eesier than , feel iLiind-
ng Ne taisnh, 1113 Iteltsiellial, no
cherector is required to sot up in
this businese.
This Company invites you to
open a
Savings Account
with it on which it will pay you
bitterest et the rete of OUR
PER CENT. a year, Compound.
ed QUARTERLY,
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