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DEMON SHIPS.
Vessels That Seemed to Be Moved by
the Spirit of Destruction,
There Is an old Cornish legend of a
phantom ship which is seen in or off
Porthcurno harbor and which, unlike
most ghosts, has a terrifying habit
sac pursuing any vessel which it sights..
If it catches its victim there is a
.collision, but no roarof inrushing
water. At the moment of contact the
ghost ship vanishes into thin air, and
the puzzled crew of the other vessel
arab their eyes in terrified amazement
To any one who knows the legend
'die vessel that saw the phantom ship
is, however, doomed. Before the next
New Year's day she win be sunk in
collision with another vessel or a rock.
One wonders whether the original of
this phantom at all resembled that
notable and; appropriately named yacht
Satanita. The Satanita was a fine and
very powerful cutter, which originally
belonged to. Mr. C. D. Clarke and after.
ii.rd to Sir Maurice Fitzgerald.
The Satanita was a hard weather
•craft; but let the breeze be the least
e;ieavier'than she liked and she would
he seized with what seemed more like
, demoniacal possession than anything
e•ise, and even with four men hanging
.on her helm she would sometimes take
charge-` and rush right up into the
wind.'
She was the cause of several serious
accidents, the worst of /which .hap-
rlened at the Mudhook cl`ub's regatta
€u. 1894. On that occasion she was be.
/having in themost perfect fashionwhen
suddenly and without the slightest:
'warning she Sung all control, and, just
as a race horse will sometimes "savage"
.an opponent, she dashed in a . mad
fury at Valkyrie II. and sank her like.
a stone. Well was the Satanita called
the 'demon" yacht.
But it is not only sailing ships that
.act st times in a strange and unac-
1 countable fashion. Some, years ago the
'British warships Pique, Mntine, Ro-
salie and Britomart entered Klukiang
.harbor and,,dropped anchor in single
ffle Presently a steamer which had
been discharging her targe. unan-
chored and began to steam out. ' I
She was just abreast of the war-
es/Aria when she suddenly made
straight for the Pique. The war-
ship's officers' and men saw the man
at the steamer's wheel doing all he
knew to keep her off, but she flatly
refused to answer her helm and went
crashing into the Pique, splashing her
boats and davits.
After clearing her she went for the
leautine, but luckily did not strike her
ful.l. However, she carried the : Mu -
tine's bowsprit clear away. Not yet
aatiefied, she trade a rush at the Ro-
sario, but by superhuman' efforts on
both ships the madsteamer was pre-
vented front doing more than graze
the third warship.
Something of the same kind was.
steinin the Thames a few years ago
,vhen the British steamship Poplar,
trietrnin.g to enter her dock, was struck
atd'cut doWu to the water line by the
„'renen vessel cordilleras. ane at
once, began to fill, and the captain or-
dered full speed ahead for the purpose
of beaching her.
Instead of making for the beach the
Poplar made a sodden rush in a great
circle out into the river,, smashing Into
everything she came across. Then, as
if filled with a spirit of revenge, she
made for the vessel which had so ter-
ribly damaged her.
The Cordilleras tried in vain to get
out of the way, but the Poplar smash-
ed into her, damaging her so severely
that she, too, had to be beached.—
Pearson's Weekly.
Styles In Teeth.
Pearly teeth are not the fashion
everywhere. One firm of artificial
teeth manufacturers have to keep in
stock molars of every shade of color
from white to black. There is a
steady demand for black teeth for
Siam, Java, Batavia and Burma,
where the natives chew the betel nut,
which blackens the teeth. For Persia
the teeth mast be absolutely milk
white. Recently an order was received
from Bhavnagar, in India, for some
bright red and blue artificial teeth.
Smokers' teeth are regularly supplied
to dentists in shades to match those
which have been discolored by nico-
tine.—Argonaut. '
CONSTIPATION
Soon FoHows If The Liver
Is Not Active.
Constipation is one of the, most fre-
quent, and at the same time, one of the
most serious of the minor ailments to
which mankind is subject, and Should
never be allowed to continue.
A free motion of the bowels daily
should be the rule of every one who
aspires to perfect health.
Keep the bowels properly regulated
by the use of M1LBTJRN'S I.nxA-LIVER
PILLS, and you will: enjoy the very best
of health.
MR. 0. J. Prxuiy, Medicine Hat, Alta.,
writes: "I have been troubled with
Constipation for the last couple of years
until just lately. I tried a great many
remedies without any success, but at
last I heard of MILBURN'S I,AxA-LIVER
;PILLS, so I gave .them a trial, and began
getting better right away, and now :I
really believe I am cured, and can
heartily recommend them to any one."
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25 cents per vial, or 5 vials fora dollar,.
at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt
of price by the proprietors, The T. Mil-
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"Do you, prefer beauty or brains?"
"Does not the fact that I have pro-
posed to you' repeatedly prove that 1
prefer both?—Houston-Post.
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FOR FLETCHER'S
iCASTORIA
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THE FLY 0THE PANE
4i
it Will Crawl, to the Top, but Will Fly
Back to the Bottom.
A fly on a window pane will crawl
to the top, fly back to the bottom and
crawl up again. This order is seldom
reversed—why no one knows. It, is
on record that a fly crawled, Up a win-
dow pane thirty-two times, returning
each time a -wing.
Hens scratch for food with the sun
behind item, the reason being that the
rays reflect on the minute particles. A
blind hen will pick grain and not miss
a kernel.
Cats seldom lie with their feet to the
Ore. Usually they lie ou the left side.
Dogs lie with their fore paws fo the
fire.
A mouse will ignore a food supply
sufficient for a meal and rim great,
risks to nibble at a wholesale supply.
It will hide at the source of food sup-
ply
up ply and not depart therefrom until ae
tually disturbed. It isn't true that a
mouse runs to its hole at the first
alarm,
Find a harmless little snake the
length of a lead pencil and provide a
box for it in the house, visit It daily
and at the end of three mouths it will
crawl to you for food,
Goldfish usually swim around a globe
to the right. They can be taught to
take a fly out of the hand In six weeks'
time. The presence of other fish in
the globe is generally ignored by gold-
fish. Drop apiece of chip on the sur-
face of the water and it will frighten
a fish.
Sheep spend more time grazing than
do cattle and horses. Sheep will eat
for twelve hours out of twenty-four.—
New York World.
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ter ..when food is scarce. After :thus
- -- baiting the sparrows they .may be
1' Qi.r°, ABfIIT'1 cr.N'DA tratrap>ped'ol shot. Ts alone are inadequate to exter-
minate sparrows, but a reduction o1'
FIGHTING NATURE.
Thursday, August 21st,•1913.'
Tho Presbyterian Church inCan-
ads fists s,vee 12 ;llogieal' colleges
With 220 students; eight syustods
and seventy Presbyteries I
In .addition to the quanity suitable
for pulpwood it is estimated that
Canada has from five h'a tdretd to I
seven hundred billion feet of tim-
ber suitable for lumber at present
stlandiing.
The trade of Canada increased
13.6 portent last year ,and dlouhted
in tem years.
1 Western Calnada"s elevator cap-
acity 85,000,000 bushels viz. Mani-
tobo, 21,813,8000; ISaskatehowan
26,465,000; Alberta, 8,764,5000. I
Out Af the world's total wheat crop
for 1912 3,437,439,000 bushels Can-
ada produced 199 236,000 [bushella
nearly six percent.
:point stock charters for 658 con-
cerned were issued by the Can.
ashen Government last year.
Canada imported 7,821,663,41
cigarettes in 1911.1912, =increase
of 196 millions in year.
Tho C.P.R. lana its Subsidar,y
lines include over seventeen thous-
and' mites bf rail.
Canada willhave' the t, -world's
longest bridge eplaln at Quebec. 1
Mighty 'percent .ofthepeople of
Prince Edward lelainds are engaged.
in . agricultural pursuits; 85 Des-
cent ,of the isilalnd";s area `isoccu-
pied
l\Tumber trained" in Military
eaanps last 'year, 40,568; '1 •"' 35:
823; regular florce 2,862; cadets,
etc., 7,913.
force,i 2,862; cadets 7,93.
iCanadiain canal, traffic expanded
400 percent in ten :years 'and .p now
1, over forty million tone annually
tLlentraL Alberta has am area :of
50,000 square miles,
• Latitudes • Edmontnn,is near the
Latitude. of Dublin; Winnipeg Bligh-
ty north of Pilule and south of Lon-
don; 'Victor.:a same as Vienna.
What One Man's Patient Effort Wrung
From a Desert In France.
In the southwest of France, between
the rivers Adour and Garonne, are
long stretches sae pine woods, green
and cool
Where these pines now stand was a
barren waste in the middle of the last
century. Sun and wind vied with each
other in making the land drier and
dustier. Over the stormy bay of His.
cay came winds that set up great
buried
msometimes
sandstorms and
whole villages. The whole region was
one of hopelessness and despair. Late
was against it.
But finally there came a man who
acknowledged fate only as something
to be overcome. This man, one Bre- 1
montier, 'was an inspector of roads.
He began fencing in the desert. He
built a fence and behind it planted
broom seeds. Behindthe broom seeds
he put seeds of the pine. The fence
protected the broom seeds, and the
broom grew. Then the broom In its
turn afforded shelter to the delicate
pine 'shoots.
Soon the pines spread, and their
tough roots bound the sandy soil to-
gether. The irst step' was accomplish-
ed. Then canals were made to drain
the wet parts and carry water to the
dry.
Thus did one man by patient effort
turn n dreary desert into a home for
nn industrious and healthy population,
It NI as an instance of triumph over
fate.—New York 'Tribune.
The Easier Way.
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ENGLISH SPARROW PEST.
Uncle Sam Tells How to Gtt i1id of the
Multitudinous Gormand.
The department of agriculture has,
just Issued a bulletin by Ned Dear-
born, assistant in tin, biuio !cal survey,
which tells farmers hues they my• rid
their premises of the English sparrow,
which has been inspected and con-
demned as a nuisance, though some
good points, notably that of destruct -
tion of obnoxious insects, are admitted
in its favor.
Mr. Dearborn says the sparrow's nnt-
uisi diet consists of seeds, though it
eats a great variety of other foods.
The English sparrow seems to be the
champion bird gormand and thief. It
even steals houses mode for the gond
birdies. 1t destroys small fruits, such
as cherries, grapes, pears anti peaches.
It nips off tender garden vegetables as
they appear above ground. "The evi-
dence against the English sparrow is
nverwhelndmg," continues air Dear-
born, who offers these suggestions,
among others. for its exierml I1,•lfl0tl:
The most effective method of pre-
venting the increase of sparrows in a.
locality is to destroy their nests at In-
tervals or ten or twelve days through-
out the breeding season, 11y n erne
cooed anti continued movement to de-
stroy eti•ery nest after the eggs are laid
Engiish sl'atrrows fu any loenlit:e may
be gradually reduced without resorting
to shot or poison.
Preliminary to the following rlv.
struetive measures sparrows should
be baited until they are attached In
the spot selected for their eseeutiou.
Seeds, grain or waste from the table,
it supplied regularly, will soon estals
lish a feeding piece. Lf a 5700011 cam.
•p11ign is to be undertakeu ,enough sorb
feeding plaices should he maintained
to laterntt to thu,n nre'(1Csily
ENGitsn syAhltOws STEA7:tt10}IOUSP,
1 umber's eau be effected by using h
shallow _box est less than four feet
square, open GOf one side and covered
with wut'en giro on the other. One
side of this trap tests en .the grouud,
white the opposite side is supported
by a stiek eighteen inches long. Near
the upper end of this stick is attached
a lou; cord, and between the top of
it and the edge of the trap isplaced
a ('hilt. ' By setting the trap over brut.
and pulling the oord from a sheltered
point or observation when a flock of
sparrows is beneath it numbers of
Bien: may be caught. Instead ofthe
box des/ ribc'i1 above, by which the
birds are taken alive, an old door or
sit.uh'r deuce may be employed as a
deadfall.
Spairrows are accustomed to feed in
close flocks, and when thus assembled
a huge number can be killed by :n
charge of No. 10 shot.
31:uvs persons will be surprised to
learn that the Eugllsh sparrow is good
to eat. fir. Dearborn says the bird
has been eaten for centuries in Eu-
rope. In America it Is served often
under the disguise of the reed bird.
Farmers who shoot or trap large num-
bers of the birds will find them 'very
palatable food.
Plowing by Motor.
The gasoline 'motor plow of the Ons
Motor works of Deutz, near Cologne,
is designed to take the place of the
steam plow and is claimed' to be tau
important ativauce in agrieultui'ai ma-
cititacry. Though gasoline is more cost-
ly than coal. the fuel 0515e195e fur plow-
ing by the new method proves to be
about the same as by the old, Steam
piows aro drawn bade and forth by a
strong rope betweeu two heavy loco-
motives, but the singly gasoline ioeo-
motive travels to and fro nei'oss the
field. pullinn our of its two multiple
blade plows at ench trip. tieing rever-
sible, with nn equal pull In each direc-
tion. the locomotive avoids the trouble
of filming around, n slight turn 01 the
wheels giving the Shift through the
plowing width. From twelve to twen-
ty-two neves can be plowed in twelve
hour's, and the driver does this witb
only occasional assistance from anoth-
er man. while the steam plow requires
the constant services of five men.
ll1vin'e Only a fifth of the weight of
the steam plow. the new machine
-mit 22,'p tial permit for traveling
n ordlite v roads anti bridges.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
Their Effect In the First Theaters In
Which They Were Used.
The first theater in the worid to use
hicauldescent lamps was the academy.
of Music, on klrlatend street, Chicago,
.the plant being installed by the West-
ern Edison Light company.' The the-
ater was wired Coy 150 sixteen candle
power lamps. The lighting was con-
fined to the auditorium. No electric
lights were used on the sttlge, as dim-
mers had not peso thought of et that
"time. On the opening uigbt, after the
nee., lights were 1tstelled, the nettles
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Prince Paul, sonlof the lateKingPeter of 5ervia, is receiving
important Balkan war documents from L'ldy Curzon on a
London street. The packet is thought to have contained
the first copy of the treaty which ended the war,
struck, claiming that 1t was tintle :m.1
to make up by gaslight and play toils
parts under the glare of the oittetrie
lights. It was with difficulty that they
were pets -untied to proceed with the
second act.
Tile first theater to be completely
lighted with incandescent damps was
the old klaverly theater, then located
on Monroe street, where the later
Ocean building now stands fhis
plant consisted of two dynamo:+ with
a capacity of 637 lamps. On the open.
fug flight only sufficient lights wort,
started at first to enable the ushers to
seat the audience. When the curtain
rose every light was turned on. (mus-
ing a. tremendous sensation among the
audience and eliciting nppla»se that
continued for fifteen minutes. The In-
novation was so successful that 31c-
Vicker's theater and the. Chicago Operas
House immediately installed similar
plants,—W. 0. Jenkins In National
Magazine.
P. Single Exception..
"Do you think a memory for dates
helps a many"
"Sometimes," replied Farmer Corn-
tassel: "Rut not when be is selling
spring chieens."—Washington Star.
Another Difference.
"I don't see any difference between
you and a trained nurse except the
uniform,' said her sick husband.
"And the salary," she added thought-
fnlly.-Harper's Bazar.
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ride was a distance of eighty miles, yet at the
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