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Isecor gives the followlee aceount or
the recent raid on I ola:
The eery latese war -time enamel
le the eletrie a: ea ianit" as usee by
the Italians in a, l.tett Laval istal on
Pole, Auerria's famous uaval bast:.
Prom the information available on
this lathet hybrid among war -time
offensive detacee. It is learner' that
the sea tanke ineaeure about atl feet
in lenath and six feet in width, and
that they are propelled by electrieity.
leurther, these sea Onto art* provid-
ed with an endlees rotary chain, run-
uing leapeltwiee around 11ie. ve.ssel,
these rapidly moving ehaine beina
fitted with elaarp steel Wise or anives
whie1i can cut their way theough
nets and other •obstaciee juat 111
their prototypes, the land teaks, first
used so effectively by the Ilritish.
This under -water demon is provided
with eeveral torpedo ttibee at the
bow, and from till hermunts it seems
that the device was erewless, and
operated by means of electrical eons
trot curreuts cent through a tlexib:e
insulated cable eonneetieg \tali a
war -vessel, which latter neetd its
way up to within a, feess miles of the
, facet nets guarding the harber of
Pole.
The Recount of the attack on Feb
by the Italian sea tanks statee that
they bored their way thaangh the
heavy steel .nets Epe,uning the nevita
able approachee to the port, walla
which there lay at anchor Austria's
fighting fleet, and that a mighty Aus-
trian. battleship of the, Minus lanais'
type of about 20,000 tensdisplace-
Inept was torpeaoed.
Steel bolts carrying net -cutting
knives or barbs are driven by ;ewer-
ful electric motore, which obtain eur-
rent from a storage battery carried
In the under -sea craft,' or from
eleetric energy supplied through the
cable connected with it. Tacit en-
able the -.matt to penetrate protective
sea barriers.
The electrical control cable b such
devices as thisand where it is of
any oonelderable length, is invariably
coiled up and stored in the tai k Cr
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1 "Ali Goon no bave," reiterated the
Chinnmen, edging aWay front tiree ex-
cited Villiers.
"Cline your rro have." Ire eatel tierce-
ly; "why, I've only lead twouty pountle
Irfoorintuytoitut,y2aind those diamonds were
Diamonds! Naball pricked Up his
care at this, lie ware winning after
all. Kitty did not -stoat Aer jewele,
but this was the thief., or perhaps tea
accomplice,.
"Give mo more money," cried Vil-
liers, lurebing forward, and woulal
nave late his Weal on the elms:elder of
the Orbiting Chinaman, when Naball
stepped out of his corner.
"What's the matter?" ha asked, in
his silky voice.
Villiers turned to the. new -comer
with a maiden taut, and etared. sus•
piciously at ItiM; but the detective
being muffled up in a newly ulster,
with his nut pulled over his eyes, Ito
did not recognize aim.
"What' 40 you want?" he Said, un-
grketo71an
2lY.
elg," replied. Naball, quickly.
"I'm only strolling rouna the Chinese
quarter out et curiosity and heard
you rowing Ws poor devil,"
"Poor devil!" sneered Villiers, with
a glance of fury at Alt Goon, eato had
complacently resumeti his occupation
of preparing an opium plpe; "he's The cocoanuts of the Malay Penin-
rieante eometlines produce pearls that
r'llnedile°eudg.''saia the detective,. care- are highly prized by the nativele, The
lessly-"to lend money?" stones are not unlike the pearls of
a "What's that to you?" growled Via the molluece, and are similar in cone -
tiers, Iv/the-snarl. "I s'pose I can Dor- position •to the oyeter pearls, having -
row matey if I like." calcium carbonate and a, little or -
"Certainly, if you've got good Seoul'genic matter. . The mollusc pearl is'
!tit to give." said to come into existence be the
Villiers glerea, angrily at the young efforto of the oyster pearl to dispose
man. . • of irritating particles that have en -
"Don't know what you're tactile, fere& the shell; but the cocoanut
about," he said, sulkily, eoUld have no cause foe peoducing
"Security," explained Naball, smooth- these concretions, which, while they
ly; "moans borrowing motley on land, have great similarity to the pearl,
clothes, or -or diamonds." . . are not pearls, These concretions
. Villiere gave a sudden start, and woe form Just beneath the stem, and a
about to reply, when the door opened pare wane pearl brings a high price,
violently, and bold, haridsonle woman, as it is suPPOsed by the .natives to
dressed in a bright green silk, dashed Poasess some kind of a charm. Cases
inhGoon.,
onrm ooand swoOped down on have been known evh.ere the cocoanut
A
Pearl has been sold as a mollusc
"Well, my dear," she said, effusively, -Family
Herald,tibutsuch instances are rare.,
"'eao I am; bin to the theatre, and F
'ere you are preparing that pisin of
"He!" laughed Ezra scornfully; ' Mined to go on the trail, of Villiers,
find out what he was doing,
"neld as soon part with his blood. and
Mr. Villiers bad of late been ender
Why, 1 milted him to give Inc some the espiona.ge of the police, owing to
Money so that I could marry, and he some shady transactions with which
refused. What he wouldn't do for his he was connetted, so Naball knew ex.
-
son where to find him, and, Putting
son he certainly would not do for u,
on an overcoat, he sallied forth in
etranger." the direction of the slums in Little
"It's vorY queer," observed Keith Bourke Street, with the intention of
reedltatively. "It Met, be Caprice?" calling on a Chinaman named Alt
"Not likely; she neeas all her Mon- Goon, who kept an opium den in that
ey herself," said Ezra. "fiesidee, 1 unsavoury locality.
hear she's been rather hardup of late- To hie drinking habits Viliters now
I suppoae Fenton 'will soon go broke, added that a being a confirmed
and teen. Le roi est mort, vivo le roi.:' epiem smoker, and was on `ems of
"What a pity she goes& on wee that, " babies& with Alt Gooa, in whose
raid Keith, regretfully, "I like her so don he was accustomed to palls lits
mutt." evening,. Naha.11 therefore intended
"Yee, and slie likes you," retortea to watch for Villiers, and fincl out, it
Ezra pointedly. "Don't you get 011- possible, when, owing to drink and
tangled in the nets, or you'll forget all °Pilau combined, he was -not master
about the girl at Sandhurst. Does she of himself, what he had done on tae
know you're engaged?" night of the robbery after leaving Ca -
"Noe price, .
et wouldn't telt her if I were you," lie soon entered Little Bourlte
said the Jew significantly, "or ehe'll street, and Immediately plunged into
withdraw the light of her counten-
ance, and thou it will be all up with knew throughly. It was a clear, star -
the labyriuth of slums, wialcb. be
our burlesque." ry night, but the cool, fresh air was
"Pooh, nonsense," replied Stewart, tainted in this locality by the foul
with an nneasy laugh. "t wonder miasma which pervaded the neighbor -
wheal be 1Peaton's auceessor?" hood, and even the detective, acces-
"Yourtseir." toured as he was to the place, felt die -
"Not I. I'm not far enough vile gusted with the sickly odors that Ni-
ter that, Besides, I've no money," meated the atmosphere. .'
"True, except your anonyinclus live Alt Goon's house was in a narrow
hundred, whica would be nothing to
-- right-of-way off one of the larger al -
Caprice, So, as she wants moneY, 1 leys, and there was a faint candle
caved it will be old "eleddlechip." burning in the wIndew to attract cus-
"But he's Married."
"True, 0.Sir Galehad," retorted Ezra. tomers. Passing at the door a nie-
u_aint, Neaball listened to hear -f ti
los any European within. ..1 iere
sarcastically; "but he's an unholy old
The nion•
man for all that -she'll ensnare him,
otortous chant of a Chinese ' beggar
and we'll see how long it will take
could be heard coming down the et-
her. to break the ricaest man in the
Colonies." ... ley, and every now and then the
screams of two ;women fighting, while
"Oh, the deuce take Kitty alarchuret ,
and her affairs," said Keith, impatis ; occasionally a number of noisy larri-
ently. "I want to know Who sent ir.: is.ns would come tramping heavily
this "money?" . v.. ong, forming a strong contrast to
"Better not -ask," murmured Ezra. the silent, soft -footed Orientale.
"Curiosity is a vice. Remember Adam Pusbing open the door, Naball en -
and Eve Blueheard's wife, etcetera. tered the den, a small, low-ceilinged
torpedo, at otherwise the device .
Take the goods the, gods bestow, mitt roonewhich was tilled with dull, smoky
i don't try to find out -where they cone: atmosphere. At the end was a gaudy -
would have to be extremely power- 1
1ul in ardor to pull the constantly in- ' from; but now you are rich, you'll be looking shrine, all yellow, red; anti
creasing length of cable through the i giving up the shop." green, with tinsel flowers, and long
water it it were stored in a magazine I "No; I'll stay on for a, time till I red bills with fantastic -Chinese let -
on the tender ship. , , find that the flee .hundred is reallY ters ou them in long rows. Candles
It is entirely feasible for a device , and truly mine. Who knows, eoaie were burning in frout of this, and cast
of this kind' to be controlled by a 1 -day it may take to itself wings ant: a feeble light around -on ..a pile of
bamboo canes and bhskets heaped up
warshlp of the destroyer class at a nye,
young against the 'wall; on strange -looking
diatance of seven miles., cr even "It certainly would some.
eight or 10 miles or more. With in- men,' said Ezra; "but I dont think Chineee stools of cane -work; op biza.r-
genuity and the proper design of the you are that sort': re ivory carvings set on shelves; and
. device of the type here under discus- "You are right. I want to save up on a• low raised platform at the ead of
sion, and also in consIderation of the all my money for Eugenio." • „„ the room whereon the opium -smokers
undoubted and aroved clev.erness of "Ah! you are going to„marry her. reclined. Above' this ground -noel.'
Italian, engineers, there, is no doubt "When I get rich. Yes. wore two or three other broad, shallow
but what such a device could be sent "You won't marry her if Caprice can shelves, in each of which a Chinainan
•out Med steered so as to be cubmerg- help it." . was lying, sunk deep in an opium
ed when it neared the steel nele and "Why?" disbelievingly. slumber; there was also a keresene
to bore its way thedugh them, and "Because she's fallen in love with lanip on the lower floor, beside whice.
you, and her love like the gifts of the ith Goon was reclining, and deftly pro.
then to rise again; also at this June-
Danaes. is -fatal. . paring a pipe of opium for a
cure the observation officer on the
"Rubbish. I'm not a chilcl. CapriCe stolid -looking Chinaman, who watched
war vessel looking through his night
will never take my heart from Eu- the process with: silent apathy,
glasses •cculd press the proper electric
Ah Goon looked up as the detective
coetret 'button and cause one or more geatie• , e
Hercules, remarked Ezra, musing- entered, and a Wand smile spread over
teapedoes to be discharged •at an en- ly, "was a strong man; yet he became his face as he nodded to him, and went
emy war vessel in the manner de- the slave of a woman. Solomon was
,. on preparing his pipe, while Naball
seabed Ir. an repert from Rome, and
a wise man -same result. My friend, sililch row forms a part ef Hansa , stood watching the- cmere operation,
you are neither Hercules nor Solomon, There was an oil lamp with a clear
naval history. therefore—" flame in front of Ali Goon, who- was
It le meet probable, hovsever, that
Keith departed hurriedly. • en a ' holding a kind of darning -needle;
Me Italian Oa tank as now use' is
- CHAPTER Ye. DIPPIng this into a thick brown, stick-.
fitted with powerful propellers, the
eame as the Submarine, and also When Kislip undertook to educate looking substance, contained in a
chat it has a suitable rudder for the Nebelt in the businees of a detective, Brutal' pot, he twirled the needle rapid-
purpozet of atering it. To prevent ! he gave hint an epigrammatical piece ly; spinning round the glettineas mass
the cable from becoming fouled in I of tidal= "Cultivate curiosity." This like treacle. Then he placed it tn-the
the propeller blades, the latter are golden rule Naball constantly followed, flame of the larap, and turned it slow -
encased in substantial steel cages. 1 and found it of infinite service to him_ ly, round and round for a short time
The pilot light or lights ate preVid- , In his difficult professien, He was until it was ready; then, having placed
ed with shields at the front, co as always on the lookout for queerecases, it in the smell hole of the opium pipe,
to throw intermittent signal flashers and when he discovered one that which he held ready in his ether heed,
sternward, aud by areanging this on piqued his curioeity, he never rested he gave it to his countrymen, who ree
a teleseope mast the officer in charge until he found out all abouteit. The ceived it With a grunt Of satisfaction,
and, lying back, took the long stem be
can by simply preesing. the proper Red Indian follows the, trait of his
button cause them to rise 10 to 15 enenay ay noting the most trivial signs, • tween his lips and inhaled the *moats
feet above the back of the sco. tank which to others with a less highly with long, steady breaths. When hie
while it is progressing thrcugh the cultivated instinct would appear worth- Pipe Was done, which was accomplish -
water near its obJectiyo, When the less. And Naball was' a facial Red eteein three, or four whiffs, he devoted It is said that "Couhsel comes in
himself to preearing Another, while
tank leas progressed sufficiently near Indian, following ual the trail of a '
the ilet or other obstruction it is to mystery by a conetant attention to Ah Goon erose to his feet to speak to the silence of the night," so not
morning Mr. Naball, ha4ing been
Naball.
burrovi through the proper ejeetrical surrounding events. A casual observe- , thinking deeply about his curious dis-
He was a tall man, w a thin, yea.
control cable whica starte up the eon, a fleeting expression, a scrap of e covery, decided upon his plan of ac-
watereballast tank motor, and -bY paper -these were the sign -posts which i re' tion. It was evideetly no good to go
IoW-skinnish emaciated f ,
filling the tanks the craft is caused led him to a satiefactory conclusion, • oblong eyes, and flattish nose, 1.1*" straight to Caprice and show her the
to submerge. It is a simple matter and no never neglected any opportune's), pigtail, of course -black hair craftily diamond crescent, as, judging from
lengthened by thiek twisted sillt-was
and one which has been used here- of exerelaing bis faculties. By this . coned
on' top of his head; . and bie her general conduct with regard to
tofore. to provide a. suitable electrical constant practice he sharpened his the robbery, she would deny that the
dress, consistifig of a dull blue bionse,
poeition indlcatilig aerrangetnent, senses in a wonderful degree, and cu:-
eyheteby it becomes possible to know tivated to the highest extent -the ein- , wide trousers of the same color, anel Jewel belonged to her.
Tae detecttve therefore determined
thick, white -soled Chinese slippers, bY t a
at alter instatit the direction and 'sea- errieg Instinct which he possessed in o ascertain from some Independent
tion of the sea tank while it Is sub- dlee6vering crimes. • no means added to his personal
rnerged. By means of a censitive b St d b f . ler b 11 with lore ,n whether the jewel was really
microPhone installed in the vessel,
, it wetild be possible to ascertain
whoa the tank had chewed its way
through the enemy nets, and it could
then be caused to approach. the sur-
face' again if so desired. It is not,
however, imperative that the yessel
be made to come to the stirfate so
as to show the signal light, for by
means of the position -indicating ap-
paratue just described its exact posi-
tion at any monient eould be known
and torpedoes discharged from it at
guy enemy war vessel swinging at
anchor within the netted area.
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yours. Oh, I entist 'axe one pipe to, e -
night, just One, and— Who the
ound trst Diamond.
' blazes are you?" catching sight of the
. two strangers, The firs -diamond cliscovered in
' "Shut up," said Villiers, and made a Griqueland, South Africa, was found
step towards her, for fest on the bosom by the children .of a Dutch farmer, who
of her dress sparkled a entail crescent for a tinae used it as a plaything. The
.01 dianaonds set in silver. The WO- stone was later sent to Cape Town,
man's eyes caught his covetous glance, where its true nature was recognized,
, and silo put her hand over the calla- and it was subsequently forwarded to
ment.
"No, you don't," elle said, scowling.
"Lay a hand on me and 111 -ah!"
She ended with a stifled cry, for
without Warning Villiers had sprung
on her, and his hands were round her
throat. Ah (loon and another China-
man junnee,d up and threw theimselves
on. the two, trying to separate them.
Tho woman got Villiers' hands oft her,
and started. to sing out freely, so
Naball began to think of retreating,
as the noise would bring all the nude.
sirable bullies of the, neighborhood into
the uneavory den.
While thus hesitating, the woman
flung the diamond ornament away
from her with an oath, and it fell at
Naball's feet, In a moment tho detec-
tive had picked it up and slipped it
into' his pocket. '
--Villiers, seeing the ornament was
gone, flung the woman from him with
a howl of fury, and turned to look for
It when the door Was burst violently
open, and a crowd of Chinese, all chat-
tering in iheir high shrill voices like
magpies, surged into • the room..
Alt Goon, aOth many • gepticula-
tions, began to explain, Villiers to
swear, and the woman to sbriek, so
in the midst of this pandemonium
Naball slipped away, and was soon
walking swiftly dawn Little Bourke
Street, with the diamond ornament
safe in his pocket. •
"I believe this is one of the stolen
jewels," he muttered exultingly, "and
Verniers was the thief after all. Hum-
ph! I in not so sure of that. Well.
P11 find out the truth when I see
how she looks on being shown this
little bit of evidence."
CHAPTER XI,
Scientific Odds and Ends. •
Abyssinia is the original home of the
coffee tree, and in the southern, and
western highlands of that ceuntry
there are still tremens° forests of it
that has never beet touched.
A layer of cellulose on the surface ot
any fabric will render It Waterproor.
The mixture is prepared with pyroxe-
line, \vitiate is obtained I; Y. treating
cellulose, either paper or rags, with a
mixture of sulphuric aeid and nitric
acid.
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The finest variety of ashestee le
known amianthus, anti the most
beautiful sou:lams of this Game from
1 arantaise, in Savory. Henee the
fabrie woven from asbestos la some-
times known as aminittleine
Front the porket fishIamp opeeated
by two or three Cry VI'S 01 minute
size the battery searchlight hal been
steadily Impreved until to -day remark-
able results aro obtained, A battery
searchlight has been introdueed with
a range of 2,000 feet up to half a mile,
Consequently, "%Olen lie found
the property c, Caprice, and after
ile on his face .4'd his
there was no legal authority to be an unctuous sra
some considei ation came to the con -
Icing, slender hands elapsed in. • front
given him in unravelling the mys- chtelort that Fenton would be the most
of him, Ah Goon waited for the dee.
terY of the diamorta robbery, he de- likely individual to supply the neces-
tective to speak.
termined to investigate it on his own
N b 11 I 1 eery information.
a a g mem rapidly round the . •
account, In order to satisfy his cur -
amity. To a casual spectater, it Elia-. apartment, aed not seeing Villiers, ad- "He's her lover," argued Nebel' to
dressed himself to the stolid Celestial bar:melt as he walked along the street,
,,
who was looking slyly at hint. . "80 he Might to know what jewellery
.
nen Goon, where le the White mini she's 'got. I dare • say he gave her
who comes here every night?" • a lot himself; but, hang it," he went
- "Plenty he come allee melee° night on disconsolately, "1 don't know why
I'm bothering about this affair; no-
-me no have seen," repliee .Ah. Goon,
thing will come of it; for some rea.-
blinking his black eyes,
' "Yes, I know that," retor•ted Naball Bon best known to herself, Caprice,
quickly; "but this is shore -black hair weal let me follow up the case. I
end whiskers-smoices opium -drinks 08.11.1 make it out; either she stele
alled Villiers."
lot -is
the jewels nerself, or Villiers
a c
did, and she won't prosecute
'Whether Ah Goon recognized the
gentleman, thus elegantly described him. Ah! women aro runt
was doubtful; at all weenie, Ile Ina an trielgbrigetsfau'icosnigch.tlth
ded the detective wit. ev
a stolid air.
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no sabee," answered. Ito had bY this tbne arrived at The
Naball held out a half -a -brown, upon Never -say -die Insurance Office, and ore
which Ab, Goon fixed his eyes leeringly, entering the doer found himself iit a
. "Where is he?" large, lofty apartment, with a long
The Money was too much for Ah shiny Counter at one ead, tied a long
Oily clerk behind it. Thee individe
(loon's cupidity so he gave ill,
"IBM alaYee fan -tan -aye -hi" he ane ual, who looked as if he were rubbed
swered, in a sing -voice, %Bee same." all oVer With bresh butter, so glisten. -
the diamonds?ing was his skin, received him eilth a
A-IIndoubtedly. He was peer, end echlo,
Mr, Naball did :. ot waete any words, eterotyped Millie, and asking, 'in a
wanted money, proved by his caning but throw the half-crown to the ex- soft oily vole, what he was pleased to
on Caprice and asking for soMe. He Indent Alt Goon, and turned toward
said he would be revenged because the door. ' Just ars he reached it there "Teke my card up to Mr. rentoli,"
she did not rive him raore than a was a noise of harried footsteps out- said Naball, producing his pasteboarel
sovereign, and there would be no ;Ado and Villiers' voice, husky and from an elegant cardea.se, "and tell
' tweeter revenge than to steal her savao ' was heard_ ' him 1 want to see hitn for a few mite-
, tdelannatiointditIzinaisselitto wotild punish Ler and "Alt Coon, you yellow devil, where' utes,"
are you!" Deed eirere came a heavy kick The Oleaginous clerk disaPPeared,
Q -Bid he know the room where
the diamonds were kept? at the door, • and eoverea other clerks 'coked up
A ---Yet. Caprice said lter bedromet, In a inomenteNaball drew back into from their writing at 'the deteetive
and as Villiers bad been several time a ahedow corner, and plecee hie fin- with idle curiosity. Naball glaneed
to the houae before, he knew where ger on hie lips to ensure silence, a pau- sharply et their faces, and sinned
it was. tomlne which the intelligent Ah Goon: blandly to himself as he recognized
Q ---)1d Caprice know =fere had underetcod at onee. . .• several Whore he had seen in vety
Wien her jewels? Villiere Oared tile door and lurched', equivoeal places. Little did the delta
' noisly Into the morn, stopping ror a, know thee. this apparently idolent
peered to be a mere, vulgar turglary,
in whieh the thieves had get off with
their plunder, and until his interview
with 'Caprice the deteetive had sup-
posed it to be so. But when he went
over, in his .own mind the emitter
cirettmstanees .01 that. interview', he
saw there Was a, complicated criminal
ease to be investigated, no he set
himself to Work to unravel the neye
tery, and gratify his inquiring mind.
In the first place, he thew up a
statement of the case pure and sim-
ple and then, deducing different them
-
les from the circumstances, he tried
to get a point front whence to start.
He placed his Ideas in the form of
questions and answers, as follows;
Q -Was Villiers outside on the vete
andah when Caprice mentioned vifrere
her dientonds were kept?
A -To all appearances he was.
Q-41aa he any inducemeent to steal
Paris. where it was exhibited and soli
for $2,500, The valuable discovery
soon led to other researches, and dia-
monds were unearthed in various
places in Griqvala.nd West, with the
result that, 46 years ago, the country
of the Griquas, a mixed race sprung
from Dutch settlers end native women,
was annexed by Great Britain.
Diamond hunting was at first con-
fined to the banks of the Vaal river,
but in the year of the British occupa-
tion mines were opened in the locality
known as "dry diggers," which has
since recehted the name of Kimberly.
In 1872 the world •was startled by the
discovery of the Stewart diamond of
20 8-8 carats. The daily output of the
coesolidated mines at Kimberly Just
Prior to the outbreak of the war was
valued at $220,000.
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single day. for we get a new bottle be-
fore the other is all used. I can. recom-
mend it highly to anyone.
JOHN WA.L.KFIELD.
La Have Wand, Lunenburg Co., N. S.
Hovrthe Salmon Leaps.
tra.ordinary- stories a the wonderful
leaps whereby salmon ascend water-
falls. One investigator, who has studied
•the salmon of southeastern Alaska, as-
serts that there fish do not select a
particuler point of attack in endeavor..
ing to surmount a fall.
They 'show a remarkable lack of
accuracy as well as of definiteness, in
their movement. While trying to
ascend a 18.11 their sail through the
air, with the body rigid and the fins
spread and held tense, and at the in-
stant when the momentum of the
jump is lost they impart a rapid and
powerful -vibration to the tail. Thie
, Should the fish reach water at the
lengthwise,'
top of the fall 'this motion insures the
enure wheaher the jump is silecessfu4
or not.
maintenance of its positiou. In open
Water they jump sidewise instead of
and there is no movement
. of the tall,
Minard's Liniment Curto Dandruff.
Persian and African Donkeys.
• Two species of the Ca:leaden. don-
key hail, tae one front Persia, the oth-
er feom Africa, says a nature student.
Persia: is also responsible fpr -the
pactud mountaineers' fondnels for
.chicken: our European ancesters got
their 'rooSters Sonle time during the
historic period. Finally the famouq
Caucasus sheep took one day their
deearture from the broad plains sit-
uated between Persia and the Ces-
plan sea.
onerated On six vette. Equippe.a witi le y p , .
es a/0 was the minute en the threabold dazed by the YOUng Matt. knew a good deal about
a 7 1-42-Inth adjustable recite, Outdo refusal to prosecute,
ahell reflector, on a recent phetonieter husband of Madame Mitiao, whom s'ao Yellow, emoky glare. ' their private lives, and was anticipate
teat one cf theee searetligbte gave had treated so basely, The refuse!. to 'Item you Alt Goon," he tried, Ing (mining into contact with stletei
moo candle-power. The eemainas prosecute Villlera might be, in ca. Pittolking siglit of the Chinatimn, II , of VIM in a Profesaitabal behhilor,
ilea of a nitragen-filled tungsten lame pricees opinion, an act of expiation. went 1301110 111.011QP-mera money." f!to be continued,)
and a correctly deeigned reflector ha; When he had got thus far, Naftali "Alt Goon no have," murmured that ,
worked Wondcre for the Lettere weer. Patinell. Alter all, this Wee pure individtiel clutching his half-erowne --"I noticed that you can't buy' a
theory. Ile heel not a single WI "I'VO 10St all I had on that Infernai five -cent cigar any More." "Oh, yell,
/tied seareblight. truthentleatee firei; to go On, but all fait -ten of yours," shrieked Villers, no; . you tan, If you pay eight eents for
.............44,----
1ren the fellow who spouta het alr the circumstances et the ease scent- heeding him; "lout my luck IOWA it"ee-eluffalo Exprest. .
tuts to hity ccal, juist the eitine. Si to point to Villiers, so be deter- change -give me another fiver." r.titrutil
Wood Oil in Commerce,
wood ou Ina many uses. It is
used ,As a.ei illuminant, an ingredient
in_concrete, an adulterant in the man-
ufacture of lacquer varnish, and when
mixed with linie and bamboo shav-
ings it is used by the Chinese in
calking their boats. Chinese or In-
dian ink is made from the soot re-
sulting from the burning of the oll or
t•ho fault huelts. The product is also
used. a$ a dressing for leather, in the
manufacture of soap, and as a varnish.
for fine furniture. In foreign coun-
tries wood nil is chiefly used for
the manufacture of varnish from
cheap gains. Other oils require a
higher and more expensive quality
of gum in order that the resulting
varnish las of equal grade. This
feature, together with the rapidity
with which wood oil varnish dries,
has caused the demand for the -pro-
duct to increase steadily.
r
1
as the coffee trace centre of the world.
New York has Jumped into first :place
Technical 17.10 of News.
demand for coffee.
The war has ca.u_sed a greatly Increased
Government airplane engines are tester!
in a concrete building where the atmos
pherie conditions ef a height or 20,000
feet ard exactly Unheated.
A western salesman drives around the
country with a farm tractor loaded on a
truck and he gives demonstrations of
both and takes orders for either. .
NEW WAY TO RLMOVE
SORE, ACiliNG CORNS
Corn plasters be hanged, they al-
ways were troublesome and unsatis-
factory. Try the now method! Shrivel
up .the corn first, get its roots sepal,
feted from the toe. This you can do
mighty quick by painting on Putuasn's
Corn Extractor. It ware does- bring
relief -takes away the sting, lifts out
the whole corn in a day or two. Put-
nam's will res.11y, surely cure the
toughest of corns. Costs but a quarter
in any drug etore. Get it to -day.
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Plant Nomenclature,
You remember, maybe, the story
about the two dear old ladies who
were discussing aninial nomenclature.
The first one said that God must have
had a hard time thinking up names for
all the animals, to which the second
one replied, "excepting, ot. course, the
pig, for any one wenld know what
its name was by looking at It."
But who named the weeds and com-
mon wild flowers? Some names sug-
gest themselves-Dutchman'e breech-
es, tear thumb, andlau pipe, stick
seed, and thimble keed, blue-eyed
Mary, innocents, black-eyed Susan,
forget-me-nots, Queen Anne's lace
and butter and eggs were all named
by ladies -or lovers. Practical man,
as he went abotft his farm and en-
countered the weeds or old wild
growths, named them appropriately,
though not always esthetically -blind -
Weed, shepherd's purse, sheep poison,
pepner root, stinkweed, ink berry or
hobble bush. But where some of the
'names came from ista mystery. Who
named and why the viper's burgloss?
Or why the larkspor or puccoon? And
why, oh why, Jack -by -the -hedge and
sauce, alone ?-Ohio State Journal.
Minard's Linimentforsale everywhere
1 I
Has a House Sent Home.
e
".1.91410"4"01410aValafalliallaN0.10110101
Profit in Pine 'rms.
Twenty-one per cent, of the kingdom
of Norway le covered with foretee-
that is, about seventeen naillion Wes.
Pt that, about fifteen milli= acres to
productive forteet. The Government
owns about two million acres. The
coramereial forest under 0(P/em-
inent Oupervision coM0eiee about One
million acres. The rest, or about twelve
million item of productive torest, its
private' property. Seventeefive per
Cont. of the timber' is spruce (aim
ienxeaebisatniti aenquttal Pqinueantifilensi.laaessilwve6elltrial
aome oak, ash, elm and basswood,
Birch Is found everywhere, The an-
nual forest growth or increment per,
acre in about 21. cubic feet. Nearly
all the cut timber es hauled on
sleighs ta the river in the winter and
floated to the coat in the spring.
The felling le now nearly all done by
apiegereealtvooruke,00vrieehtelt has proved to be
The value of forest products ex-
ported is about $30,000,000 annually.
Untie recently the, export consistea
'chiefly of logs and stave% but pulp,
Planite, boards, doors and windows,
eto., have now come into prominence,
Talatehpouelxpproarptrveriunet: about 50 per cent,
The people have awakened to the
importance of improved and conserva-
tive methods, and planting in the
eoast disteicts has ailso been, enticour-
aged,. Most of it is done by school
children. Douglas fir, imported as
seed frora the. Pacific coast and raised
nureeries, is being planted quite ex-
tensively in some parts of Norway.
Forestry is taught in all public
schoole and instructors give lectures
la the eountry clistricts.-Canadian
Forestry Journal. •
t.
BUSINESS CHANCES
CHILDHOOD 'AILMENTS von, SALE -FOUNDRY AND MA.
F° chine shop; low price foe iminediato
purchase. Apply to the Tlllsoiiburg Dolm-
an' & Machine Co., Limited, TI114-onburg,
Ont.
The aihnents of childhood -constipa-
tion, indigestion, colic, colds, etc, -
can be quickly banished through the
use, of Baby's Own Tablets. They are
a mild but thorough laxative, which
instantly regulate the bowels and
(sweeten the stomach. They are guar-
anteed to contain no harmtul drugs
and can be given to the youngest baby
with perfect safety. Concerning them
Mrs. Alcide Lepage, Ste. Beatrix, Que.,
writes: "Baby's Own Tablets were of
great help no my baby. They regulated
her bowels and stomach and made
her plump and well," The Tablets
are sold by medicine dealers or by
mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr.
Williams Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont.
;
"Here Passed the Hun."
The lerench have placed upon the
tubs 81 the Cathedral of Rheims a
tabletinscribed thue:-"Here Passed the
Hun.', --News Item.
•
Here passed the Hun, and here behold
The impress of • his vandal hand
The blight of Prussian •Trightfulness"
EpOn a fair and peaceful land.
Where Rheims Cathedral protullY stood,
As cycling years their courses run,
A ruined pile alone remains
To testify: -"Here passed the Hatt"
The tale of ruthlessness thus told,
A.n outrage world may not forget,
E'en when the sun of centuries
As yet unborn shall rise and net;
And ever, when the earth is shocked
By deeds that even Hell would shun,
The Teuton's crimes shall be recalled,
And men will say, "Here passed the
Hun!"
Dark lowers the cloud of war to -clay ---
A sable pall o'er land and sea -
But still God's star of justice shine
And lights the way to victofyl
And on the final battle field,'
As alrike for aye the Prussian sun,
This epitaph shall written be,
In lines of blood: -"Here passed the
Run!"
-Daniel Slauson in N. Y. Herald.
Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, Etc.
- A New Use for Soap Suds,
Soap midi are preservative.
Try them on your cut flowers.
Sprinkle the flowers first with fresh
cold water.
Then make some strong soap suds
and place the stems in thenl.
The soap suds take the place Alf
roots, and the flowers should be placed
loosely in the receptacle.
Each morning take the flowers out
of the suds, clip the stems very slight-
ly and lay the flowers down sidewise
In cool water. •
Let the posies soak for a few mo-
ments, sprinkle with fresh water,
shake them and return them to the
suds in which they had been.
It is necessary to change the suds
but once in three days, and to follow
the plan regularly, the surprising re-
sult being that the flowers in many
When Timothy Loughlin, a coal cases will last a month or more.
- I
dealer of Greenwich, Conn., bought the
28 -room house of John A. Topping in .
Belle Haven, L. I., he could not slitive
n s an take it home with
concernea there was the size limit, ny case of Catarrh that cannot be
, But Mr. Loughlin did not lose any for a
by
ywed 13y Hall's Catarrh Medicine.
Hall's Catarrh AIedicine has been taken
him. And so far as the parcel post le
sleep about it. He just gave Welcome 11v:carers, rseeiulflardbelrilitte;efti,obitvittel efpoilacanteoiltvtlillir•ityls-.
a contract to ship the house to his Hall's Catarrh Meclicine acts through
Steinmetz, an architeet of Greenwich,
address. And Mr. Steiranitz ie now al? Blood on the Mucous surfaces, ex -
pe ling the Poison from the Blood and
busy shipping it, After you have taken Hall's Catarrh
healing the diseased portions..
c111‘41err-
ing to his way of looking at It, is 'ttittt S en.ljt Xii,liiirgnita s 1 A
1SinIcedici.nte tfor ratt) short thci youwillsee a
All Me. Steinmitz has. to do, accord -
mo f e rceolayi tboartgoesse thatt lihouseal,eobne.ena icaosuhpel(ei 'eine at once and get rld of catarrh.
Greenwich Bay, a, neck of Long Island send for testimonials, free.
Lt.b?Ilalegugsistisgo, .,10Ioledo, 0111o,
- together, then tow it four miles across
Ur. Loughlin plan, will be his fro et- 1 :-
Selma, and then roll it off onto what
door yard. -New York World. Condensed Good Humor.
Even. the Meer who spouts hot air "I have long meditated," said Mr.
' has to buy coal, just the same. Buliningitoittoolth,
e'll'atv ills el asatofrIril gcgaonoildinhgti' tit: :rt.,
e • i.
high spirits, eheerfultiess.
"We say of some chap we know that
he fairly bubbles over with good
humor. In ract I find myself as a
rule in that happy conditiote Just to
be alive is a joy to me. I ant likely
most any time to filia Inyself humming
a tune or whistling softly, just over-
flowing with cheerfulness good spirits,
good huMor, So With ine as a ruler
but—
"There are times even with ma
when I don't feel that way at all;
when things look far from rosy; in-
deed I fancy there are very few pet).
pie, however eheerful they be cons%
tutionally, who do not feel down occte
sionally; and 'what I would like to do
would be to be able in some way to
Marc up some of my excess cheerful-
iress so that I could keep a stock of
it by me, and thus be able 'when I
needed it to open up a can or bottle
of same to Uplift me and tide me
over to my more commonly aeons-
tomed state of natural cheerfulness.
"We could me it not only to help
ourselves over periods of depression
but we could use it. also to help other
people.
"You take the grouchy man in the
office who makes everybody around
him uncomfortable. Now suppose
that 'When he came into the office in
MO Morning and began to spread his
it I hipocket d
HOW'S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
rammommumememm
TORONTO
FAT
STOCK
snow
UNION STOCK YARDS
December 5th and 6th
The Show that pro-
duces the good
butcher stock 'and
breaks the sale
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ISSUE NO, 46, 1018
WANTED,
ereeenewanensoseeaasaseassenseeweeeee.
WANTED -GENERAL, ELACKaMITH.
Reid Bros., Bothwell, and,
HELP wANTep-mm,..a
IRST-OLAC.413 CARPENTERS WANT'
e en for Mettle and outside Work; Woo
shop work; winter's work for competent
meebanice. Alley W. J. Iiisteey, etenerel
contrator, Wei and. .1,
—
WANTED -PLUMBER WI -10 CAN
II work et tinbmithing, steady job.
• UoCinlig Co., Trenton, Ont.
MISCELLANEOUS,
IIEN 011.1)ERING GOODS BY MA.fri
IN bend a Dominion Money Order.
r0I1 SA.14E CORN SCREENINGS IN.
▪ car tuts. Selling cheap. Apply Thep.
Myles' Sons, 1iamtlLou, VW,
FARMS FOR SALE.
112 ACUS - MORE on LESS -LOT
goad stone house, up.to. date bank barn;
d pa1,000 s itscgi geb%e1 erie'Sfirt :evflaetsnit4:ni;ule‘n:rQaynt,e2rti si:negee ler:parsneelIptilisetna, aeve:141;
fitili
I'erIi gneigles,v 01 1,4 .lTl ntlmi, good orchard'
ina:04:gteocitivau::il
e1, l1 uiteredfifive milfrom
Lind ten frnLlulphtsehoo1-ou50
:lo11I)euelsoui.Atcn
prenile8mom,i
,
odtt.No.3.on
VILOCE or LAND, 928 ACRES. 2
e n Farms of 10 acres each. All' in the
Province of Ontario. 1 Farm of 160 acres
la Manitoba, 0 Private Dwellings in
North Bay, Ont., will be sold cheap fur
cash.
LOANS WANTED on North Bay Pro-
perties gilt edge, one of $7000, and one
$000. Particulars will be furnished on
application. Apply to William Martin, le
Son, North Bay, Ont. 130x $20. Phone 42.
• •
MACHINERY FOR SALE
• •-","^""aaa.a."."",,,,es•"......^.
C. OR SALE 22 ILI'. CIA SnLINE
gine. Muir Bros. Dry Dock Co. Port
Dalhousie, Ont.
. . . . .
AGENTS WANTED.
ta• ANTED -1,000 AGWATS ANYwzrentei
v* In Canada to sell the wonderful
Clibson Funnel Dampers; positively saves
rrom one-quarter to one-half the fuel, and
gives more heat for stoves, furnaces, hot
water or steam boilers. Apply to pat-
entee, A. Gibson, 391 ronge street, To-
ronto.
IVANTED - ONE SALESMAN IN
every town and city in Ontario as
our solo representative; new idea; good
pay. Soap Conservation Club, 93 Church
Street, Toronto.
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FOR SALE.
ewe.
feOR SALE -CHOICE WINTER AP-
ples-Baldwins, Ureenings, American
Golden Russet. Wallace Tufts & Son,
Mount Pleasant Fruit Farm, R. R. No.
4, 'Welland.
'nL' OR SALE -BUSH LOT 814 -LOT s
J.- concession 10, Tecumseh; 100 acres
near Beaton. Apply -John McCoy, 40 King
Street Oast, Hamiltoh.
sea 1
An E1 aavs ey
gloom -just sappose I could pull out,
a drawer in my desk and reach in and
uncork a bottle and liberate a spirit
that would permeate tbe air, that
would charge the atmosphere with ad
cheerfulness so potent that it woul
fairly change the grouchy mat into a
man of good humor! _ .
"My goodness! When I think of
the benefit that that use of it would
be to the world at large I feel 1 must
not fail to find a way. In fact I now
think I can safely promise that 131in-
sbton's Condensed Good • Humor,
either in can or in bottle form, will
be found in the market in the not
far distant future."
e- -e
Shaving Cup Protector.
To insure the owner of a private
shaving cup kept in a barber shop that
he is its only user there has been in-
vented a paper cup to cover. it which
canibt be removed without breaking
a 1.
1 - -
Pill to Take. -Some per-
sons repugnance to pills be-
cause if their nauseating taste. Par-
malee's Vegetable Pills are so pre-
pared as to make them agreeable to
ths most fastidious. The .most delicate
can take them without feeling ehe re-
vulgion -that foibles the taking of or-
dinary pills. This is one reason for the
popularity of these celebrated pills.
but the main reason is their high
tonical quality as a medicine for the
stomach.
BIG TITHES FOR ai3H0P.
A champion pluraelet was Bishop
Luxinare of St. Asaph. To his own
use he eontrivea tati intpotina the
tithes of some two doeen pariehes,
which gave him an enamel income of
'nearly £20,000. A atanneh believer
was the worthy bisbop in the maxim
that blood is Welter than warter. For
his eldest ton, whota he made cleta of
St. Asaph, he obtained other eccles-
iastical appointments whicit brought
him in over $8,000 yearly, A seeped
son had preferments to the Imre; of
a mere $2,000, while a n.ophew lord to
rt:Itggonareltr tpit rs
bane
ole 1,000.t Ittvl‘t..11.asa tho
four Luxmorea, who flourishee et, tai,3
early years of last century-, ereee
from their =flitch) appointee...sleet tee
sum of about e125,000
don Times.
h
Good Defense.
There was once a elute formest of eery
men. aquae were in:aided ea theme
who ever forgot then:se:Yea eer as
to do anything ia haste. Ne riey
several members naw an ele eloetor
' who was renoWned for leis lezintias
drive past the eItat at a. ferkets rate,
and loudly they (buckled at the
thought of Mira Itini, But. Or 94 -
ming him on the grouad of hie ileV-
sinlogwlbyeenreplinietTieli ,,eNob.,Loiryvatisineitsialsintoar
hurry, but my mare evantea te go tat,
and 1 was too bey to atap ber."
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