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Many thousand, or, fay, inillissns -
yea* ego, 4119t low luau wt eine reany
irnows, and none but a geolnelet really '
coxes, thie earth wars ei..eored aids a
very dense growth of vegotation.A. zmIst
luxuriant, growth it nuiet have been, for
ut Great Britain alone we have found
the fossil remains: a more than five
hundred different speeies. Tho vegetation
was quite different from that we are ae-
euetomed to, its it eeneleted mainly of
flowerless Venni of gigantie sile, large :
reeds or horeetans, hugeferne and Pille
trees. In that ego there were no aininale
on. earth to trent le the veeetation dew
it down and consume t.eo it grew unhin-
dered G mer. ;Goa ef ter ter ern t ion
aprang up, lived its term mei 'died, and
the forest beearne denser and. more, tan-
glecl, the weaker plants being choked out
by the hardier one; building up a deep,
ewampy bed of decaying table mat- ,
ter. Thus the growth coutimune ap-
parently to no purpose, and evieutually
geological changes caused. the foreet to
ink and it was overwhelmed by the sea,
leoe only was it covered be: water, but
ut time it was completely buried under
great depths of sand and. mud. The
weight imposed upon it wits so great
that as a consequence it was turned into
a black atone.
Such is the early history of all our
coal beds, and now not only can we draw
on the vegetation of the present age, but
we eau reap the benefits of the vegetable
growth which took place in the early his-
tory of this earth.
At first coal was used only as a fuel
to take the place of wood and. charcoal..
Then some one found out that by baking
coal a gas would. he formed which would
burn with a bright light. Thus was illu-
minating gas first made. But after bak-
ing out all the gas a black tar is left,
and, as would be expected, this also has
its value. We get more than light and
heat from our preseut day vegetation—
species, perfumes, dyes and medicines in
bewildering variety are produced. The
garden is nature's chemical laboratory.
In some mysterious way, as yet unknown
to many a plant will select certain chem -
male from the ground and combine tbera s
to form an oil of great medicinal value.
Another plant will take out of the same
soil other chemicals which it will com-
bine to make a delicate perfume, while
still another plant, growing in the same
spot, will produce luscious fruit.
Similar chemical operations were car-
ried on in the huge gardens or forests
that formed our coal bed; and many
wonderful compounds were produced. It
is an extremely fortunate thing for as
that these primeval chemical laboratories
were buried in the bosom of the earth,
because in this way inanw most valu-
able compounds which the present day
vegetation is unable to produce have
been preserved for us.
We are just beginning to learn what
a wonderful fortune we haive fallen heir
to. Only the other day a body of scien-
tists assembled. in honor of William
Henry Perkin, evh-s, by his discovery of
mauve just fifty years ago, inaugurated
the dying industry, which was the first
of the great industries developed frozn
coal tar.
Long before Perkin made bis famous
discovery four different chemists. work-
ing independently at different times in
widely separated. places, with entirely'
different materiels and entirely differ-
ent processes produced a colorless aroma-
tic oil which had the property of pro-
ducing beautiful crystalline salts. Each
chemist thought his discovery an origin-
al one and gave it an original name. The
first man who produced the ••ubstance by
distilling the well known dye indigo
called le crystalline; the next man to
lapin the substance from coal tar call-
ed it kyanol; the third chemist, who al-
so worked with indigo, named his discov-
ery aniline, and the fourth an, who
derived the salts from benzineealled the
derivative benzidazi. But all these were
different names for the very same thing,
as was shown by the chemist Hoffman,
and this oil we now call aniline.
Under Professor Hoffman at the early
ago of fifteen, young Perkin began the
etudy of chemistry, A. very brilliant
and ambitious pupil he proved to be.
When only eighteen years old he as
struck with the idea of making quinine
artificially. The value of quinine as a
medicine was first realized. in 1820, ar cl
so useful did the drug become that the
demand for it soon exceeded the supply.
The only source was in theeliraiterl
cn-
ehona forests of South America. When
the value of the eincnona tree became
known, the forests were attaeked in a
most wanton and destructive manner.
Quinine is prepared from the bark of the
cinchona tree, but in collecting this bark
mo care or judgment was exercised and ,
under the reckless- and wasteful ravages I
of man large tracts were soon destroyed.1
In time the entire extinetion of the tree
was threatened. While Perkin was a
studebt under Hoffman affairs had
readied a most serious state. The future
ofl the chinehona tree was the burning
question of the time. Quinine sold for e20
an ounce, and the day was almost in
sight when it would be impossible to
buy the drug at any price.
It was at this critical moment that
Perkin was imbued with the bold idea.
of saving the day by producing quinine
artificially in the cheminal laboratory.
Ife had observed that aniline contained
many of the elements that are found in
quinine. His attempt was it rank failure,
so tfar as the production of the drug was
concerned, and his boldneee in making
the attempt will be appreciated when
Wo 'consider that with all our preeent
knewledge of chemistry and &elide re-
peated investigation we have only just
discovered the actual etructure of quin-
ine. Now it is too late to make the drug
artificially, for the Duteh nave suee.eed-
ed in raising cincliona so. abundantly on
the Viand a Java that the drug eart to-
day be bought in any quantity at sixteen
dente an ounce.
But Perkin's efforts IVOta not waeted,
for in the course of his experiments lw
Obtained it purple dye of it beautiful rien
shade the like of which had never before
neon seen. While he was yet in his teens
yonns: Peskin seertea reenenaetweing Pee
Ode 11 itarna:A,Ay lovente aR thd rano
and seen provel deli a none:eel sesecese
ilea weed twee vow ternee to ocal ttir •
wish a VZ,'W tO dt•Taoring, new teee-earee.
Perk inee own near:mood 11one:tato se as
ono of the first to pronrly hhe Peeire • /Innen.
exantple. lie niedwerea megenta, or -eon
Other diwovennee rapidly followed, thy,sfit
onalnie red. mei variefy of vielet idea
blue. Seellow. brown and watt:leek deee
were produsod in every itnagiredie ahade
and. tint.
The next most important dies -every ,
after diet of mauve WaA an ad lenge]. nual
thod et pt.:elute:or madeer 4re.. tor cm
threw the vote in ti,e mender plan
ser
to
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fiRe Cold
Stanfield's Underwear s the
• inctst erfect protection against
t
Canadian winters.
It is just the tight weight for
warmth—yet not too heavy for
easy comfort.
bad beeii used for preen:n:11g rich Oriental .
elder; red, re fele. Vince brdeen aluin
Week, but Irian in 180a two German chto dSee
muds discovered a method of pa:awing !
the dyes artificially from antbravene, a ed.
Foal tan product, the minaret of madder! *
immediately began to decline and eosiu!
ceased almost entriely. Antlinteene was
originally used es axle grease, but its
value nOW rs.i.e lit kiss than two years
from a few shillings to as muth as .$500
a. ton. 'Within revent years even indi-
go has yielded precedence to coal tar
and is now made largely from this sub
stance
In the manufacture of illuminating
gas from coal about 140 pounds of tar
are obtained from every ton oi ecral, In
the early history of gas making, man
ufaeturers were only too anxious to go
rid of the stuff. It possessed no marke
value and was literally given away to
anyone who was willing to pay the cart
age. Its only use was for coating fence
posts, tiles, -de, to protect thern horn
the weather. Some attempts were also
made to convert the tar into a patent
fuel by compressing it into briquettes
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Fickle Wooer Wasted Time.
For nearly a year Emma bad been
keeping company with a young man
, whose physical and sartorial attractions
But very little of it was used in this
way, and the manufacturem could rid
their works of the stuff only by burn
ing it, Thirty-five years before the dis
eovery of mauve coal tar was distilled
and several oils discovered. One of these
oils, namely benzene, was used by a
Seotehman named McIntosh, to dissolve
rubber, which he used in the =indite
ture of rain coats which still bear his
name. But it very limited quantity was
used in this way, and it was not until
Perkins showed m
its commercial possibili
ties in the manufacture of dyes that the
guff rose to a respectable valuation.
Anyone oan produce a sample of this
wonderful coal tar by the echotelboy ex-
perimest of distend; soft coal in a clay
pipe. Take an ordinary day tobacco
pipe and 1111 the bowl with some pow-
dered. soft coal. Be sure to use soft coal,
ae hard coal will not give the same re-
sults. Stop up the mouth of the bowl
with clay ,or rand and then bake the
pipe in the stove or in a gas flame. .As
tire coal is heated it will first give off a
black smoke, which nvill flow from the
pipe stera; nut this will soon cease. Now
hold a lighted match to the stem and
the eolorless gas issuing from it :will
burst into flame. You are now produc-
ing ordinary illluminating gas, not the
water gas which is commonly omde at
the present time, but the old fashioned,
coal gas. After the gas has burned off
a residue of black coal tar will be found
in. the bowl.
Now, it is not to be eupposed, that
this black, vile smelling stuff is merely
a mixture of all the wonderful things
which are called teal tar products and
PRODUcliOti OF IMPLOSIVES,
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Sou.o Chemicel Combinatio"seeCordite
end Nitroglycerin.
thIlseiA4o °dr grtuReeileirodehGe.xce‘elitrtLumilleree
sovelal coutlitimet. Ordinary bleek Pewtio,'
gives nut ati eel:wove cDroperty 2icscilit,a
by a PIMA or a spark. An exploslou retinae
beettuao black powder is an tutintate WO*
tIllaaleal mixture Of eorteiti conxbustibles
Willett barn with great taPidifY and Innellee
vuorlimucr pees:Airco
nut to amain tuit effect fona Mei oxide -
raises a, tleionater muot be man awl the
raPidity of explosion Of such eXPloalvoll le
Very much greater than that of gunpowder.
The basis of all high explosivea to a eueinteat
combo:at:on of sorteeiu satrogenoue subetan-
ces. Nitrogen Is an inert element, awl tbere-
fore doea not maintain a firm grip of the
eubatinteca with which it is united, and auelt
substances aro sold to be unstable,
In the production of tho higb explocives
the object is to .produce a substance which.
While reasonably otable under certaixi ordin-
ary conditions, can im put into a emulltiOn
of twat excessive Instability that it will de-
compose instuuttantsly, The instaneous do-
compoaltiou is explosion, and it is brougitt
about with high explosives by maneof a
email detonator charge that IS OXIA011od in
the mititlio of the, charge of Walt exploatves
and thereby glves such a %hock to the °neve-
lt:41 molecular structure of the blrb explos-
ive that the latent instability is tuvolved
explonon ensues.
A detonator for this purpose usually con-
sists of a, shall containing a compound
known as fulminate of II:weary, with which
15 sometimes mixed a chlorate, and a de-
tonator must be of sue]) size and Dower as
to be capable of bringing about ails condi,-
tion 04 molecular instability throughout the
whole et the charge to be fired, otherwitte
a Portion of the charge may not bo destroy.
mi anti may remain a subsequent danger in
a rains of elsewhere.
A, safe and characteristics high explosive
of the propulsive order a, the cordite which
Is uscd in firearms of all sizes. Cordite
consists of guacoton, nitroglycerine and
mineral jelly, suitably incorporated by aid
of a solvent ,acetone, 'whieh is dried out of
the mixture and loaves finished cordite as
a horuy, tough substance, resembling cel-
luloid in appearance.
Naturally in the production of an ex-
plosive the daugerous process must bo
minimized, o.nd oleanitness, aceuraoy and
and great care are required. The nitroglycer-
ine used in cordite Is a tubstance made bY
acting upon .glYeerIne which has been alWr-
ed to absorb a euanitty of N. G.; technioally
Is a dangerous liquid, but It can be made
sate by eertain admixture of other Mater-
ial%
Thus dynamite is merely Niesolguhr, or
diatomaceous earth, ealeined and clean,
which has been allowed to absorb a quan-
tity of I,. G. The quantity absorbed must
always be less than the capillaritY Of the
cellular diatoms enables them easily to re-
made him much sought after. Emma is tla woutIoaks airlaothout drip or overflow. Kiesolgugr.
a colored domestic in the employ of a
cigefd with N. G., so that the liquid
the compound Is as clan ero s
Geramotown woman, whose identity can
as the unabsorbed liquid,' b ecause g uwhen
. be effectually oncealed nder the name
fully charged there is no capacity. for inno-
cu
of Smith, and in her pride and joy at ?nucootimg:rompression •seie the full danger of an
having George single her out for his at-
tentions ehe girl forswore the society of
all the other colored men in the neigh-
• borhood.
I Several weeks ago Emma. and George
went with a party of their friends to
Washington Park, 20th street, and Al-
. iegheny avenue. During the festivities,
Lizzie, who is employed. by a neighbor
; of Mrs. Smith, succeeded in capturing
' George, who is not of the most stead-
fast nature and Emma was obliged to
go home alone.
The next day Lizzie called up Wire
Smith's house on tbe telephone and, in
1 it weak, small voice, asked for Emma.
; Her conscience was evidently troubling
; her. Mrs. Smith called her maid to the
• telephone and heard. the following:
1 "Yes, Ah am so mad."
"Ah am so mad. It was a low-down
trick."
; "No, Ah don' want nevah to speak to
yo' again."
1 "No, Ali don't. mant him back. He's a
tvuthless pusson anyhow; yo kin have
; him."
; on the hook and started to walk out of
1 With this Emma jammed the receiver and Family
found in Ingle:ma's "Efeunted Homes
Legends," second series, page
119. In the same volume, at page 58,
the room, head erect., when Mrs. Smith is a, notice of another haunted house,
called her back, curious to hear thet Burton Agnes Hall, near Birdlington.
trouble. The girl gave a graphic ac- Here the skull is that of a lady of the
. count of her misfortune and at the end,
Mrs. Smith asked meekly: Bownton family, who was attacked and
; But, Emma, heard you say you din
murdered by two ruffianly mendicants in
; tot want George back. What's the mat- the sixteenth century. Before she. ex -
ter. I thought you loved him V' pir d sl
ie s e implored her sisters to preserve
that the chemist needs only to separate
them in order to obtain a beautiful dye
or a perfume or tne like. It would be
as .sensible to believe that a eteer is
made of ex tail soup, beef etew and .
mince pie or any. 'caller dish in which
its meat plays an important part. Quite
the eontrary, it requires a. most earetui
series of mixings, washing, tailings, eta,
before the chemist can proluee a &Ingle
tlye. Take the production of mauve, tor r
'example. iTo etart with, coal tar is dig -
'Ilea
essiblo, unstable liquid may be de -
1 r v al cause.
In oordite, though solidity has beeu at-
tained, the dangerous instability has been
so far overcome •tbat milt, by Ignition can
it again be brought into action. We may
thus follow the manufacture of this artiole
as one of the safest and best known pro-
pellant explosives, for cordite Is used only
as an ammunition.—Prora °sealer's Maga-
s/lie.
TALES OF HORROR,
Stories of Uneasy Skulls of Murdered
Men and Women.
There' is a ekull. eaid to be that of a
lege murdered by his master, a Roman
aatholic priest, at Bettiscombe House,
near Bridport, Dorsetshire. Several
atterapts, it is said, have been made to
bury or otherwise dispose of this skull,
with the invariable results of dreadful
screams proceeding from the grave, unac-
countable disturbances about the house,
and other equally unpleasant occurrenc-
es..An account of the house and skull, on
the a.uthority of Dr. Richard Garnet will
Emma sniffed. her skull in the family mansion, which
!
"No," she replied, "Alt wasn't so much
wasthen being built. This was not done
in lub wiv him. He was mos 'too showy
at first, but finally the sisters were coin-
, '
p dbenzene (that, by the
way, must not be confused with benzine,
which is produced from petroleum). This ;
mat then be nitrated to form nitro- i
benzene. Nitrobenzene is now miXad
with acetic acid and eron filinee, and dis-
tilled at a high temperature to produee
aniline with which Peskin began. First
ie proawead a sulphate of aniline, then
he mixed this with potassic dichromate
amt let the mixture oettle. In a few
hours a muddy Wrack precipitates was
farmed in the nottom of the receptacle.
his black substance was now washed to
rid it of petassium sulpnate and. then
tres.ted with naphtha, After which, the
reeklue War; d'AS017ed in alcohol to pro-
uee the dye mauve. Similar proceases,
seine of them far more complicated,
must be gone through to produce .other
dyes.
To be sure, there 556 many substames
whirl ton be obtained elireet from coal
tar without mixing in other chemicals
and it number of theee substances are
used in the new state. They are procur-
ed by beating tar slowly, and. thus did
tilling the various condituento. First„
,there is a. light, watery liquor, next I
cemese a light oil, Then, as the tenipors.
tnr rows ligshet. carbolic: oil is Ob- ;
tained, followed by ereosote oil and fin. 1
ally enthrteene oil, leaving 5 residue of 1
piteli in the edit. From eargolie oil eve 1
derive carbolic ocid and nnplithalent, the I
latter being made up into moth bane to I
,proteet our carpets and rugs, one the.:
former being ea.miliar to everyone as
one ,of the most valuable antieepties we
poeweee. ended, the debt we owe to ear- 1
bolie tient is inestimable, and the won- '
&dui etrides vif modern surgery are
directly attributanle to it. A 'valuable
lest of dyes lute been, derived from ear.
belie add ard meny beautiful Teeter%
redo and grefine from naphthalene.
Aeide from carbolic, there are more than
one hundred different drugs deriverl front
coal tar—antipyrizie, for instance, and.
;homer:tine, arra thallium, the great yet -
low /ever medicine.
1 One of tbe moot remarkable derives
eivee of coal tar ie erie,tho.rine. it embed -
tut for. enaar, which 1.9 largdIedueria in
lama, Jews, Pte. breanee 11 does. net
' (ferment. Saw! mane Is more than three
hundred. Ewe eweeter than eane Ewrar,
it at eentaine, lie nutriment. It, is
v fry maul for flavoring the food ot
diabetie :patient.; who are nimble to UAO
r,zigar, In addition to MI other proper -
fir eaetharine it it very gored antigen:tie.
Se far we have dealt mainly with the
need and druas obtained from the 6051
tar. No meution lee been made- of the
eelicate perfnawe which coal tar pro-
vide:, This 44 all the nrIOTO remarkable
irccaine coal tor In it; raw state is poe-
ereerel of a vile dime ho diseovery 01
mirhav, tie firet of the oeml tar per.
fainee, even entaletro; imerve, though
,only littlo of it tsoe notmlfactural at
that time. 'Athlone has the perfume of
;fitter tehrone(1e awl 14 lirerly ueed in
cops aril soreppt lot. Flom Marking, and
'inert? other Neel: e of NYI1111101%
aebre,il of trete of the; fel aro eomituried
pe e o comp y with thus strange re-
but
fer uiste. AhguessessmeAlimmadwelitoshetehionfhikAmi;.• guest by the noises, resembling claps of
thunder, -which resounded through the
mought have been this far along wiv.
anothah fellah. house every night until the skull was
0 - - taken from the grave. Several attempts
Suter is it Poor Shot.• ,have been made to bury it, with the same
(Palmyra, Mo., S)ectator.)
lresults as at Bettinseombe. At page 257
is a rather unsatisfactory account of a
T. J. Suter discovered a W0D-001. gnawing on '
,
the neck of one of his chickens last Saturday skull, said to be that of a murdered heir -
morning and, slipping quietly into the house, .Oss ketatT t dF
procured a revolver and a po.ketful of cart-
'Che.pel-en-le-Prith, Derbyshire. ..
ridges and began a Went of rapid firing that I
reminded the neighborhool of the Fourth of "The Skull House" is the title of one
July celebration. At the first shot the a l7.,a. n sr.hun- of Ruby's "Traditioss ,of Lancashire."
den weasel glanced up, 6U! .21° crumstick. as sh°Qt-
ing and helped himseo. i The house referred. to is Worsley, or, as
, ,
Mr. Suter has by this time exhausted his It is sometimes caled, Wardley Hall, an
supply of cartridges and was going downtown ancientbuilding a,bout seven miles west
killed the vermint with a. broom.
for more when his wife same out and quietly fromManchester It was an old seat of
▪ tre Downes family, of which a member
A HEALITly 019 AGE • who lived in the seventeenth century ap-
pears to have been in the habit of first
getting more wino into his skull than
OFTEN THE REST PART OP LIFE was rod for him, and then brawling
Help for Women Passing Through London streets. In one of those ooctur-
Change of Life. nal rambles he was killed, and his head
!was sent to his sisters as an announce -
least seventy years in which to fulfill
ment of his fate. They in ram tried to
Providence has allotted u each t
with is brether sons of Belial in the
bury it, and were only able to secure re -
our mission in life, and it is generally
our own fault if we die prematurely. spite front the hauntings by placing it in
a niche on the staircase of the hall.
IThe peculiarly horrible disturbances at
Hinton Sunipner Manor House in 1770
have been narrated in more than one col-
lection of ghost stories. The fullest no
-
count is to be found in The Gentleman's
Magazine" for November and December,
1872. It is there mentioned that when
the house 'was being taken down (in
1707), "there was found by the workmen,
under the floor of one of the rooms, a
small skull, said to be that of a monkey;
but the matter was never brought for-
ward by any levier inquiry, or profes-
sional opinion resorted to as the real na-
ture of the skull."—Notee and Queries,
.4'ZciD1ih6ri,93.3
•
Nervous eobauetion invites disease,
This statement is the, positive truth.
When everything becomes a burden
and you cannot waPo a few blades with-
out eeeetsive fat:gue,.and you break out
into perspiration easily, and your face
flusheri, and you grow eocited and shaky
at thedeast provocation and you cannot
bear be Crowed in anything, .you are
in danger; your nerves have given, one;
you teed building up .at once 1 To build
1111 WOrriallig teervous eyetein and during
the period of change of he? we _know of no
Vetter medieine I
than Lydia E. 'mlehotn' a
VegptabIe Compound. 11cm is an illus-
trateora. M000Mary Dabbries, of 150
1iIam Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, writes:
ear MTS. I inTehlini s ---
"Lydia E. Pinkloona's Vegetable Come
pound• has been a reeeeing to me through
that delieate period knreen na the eliciugo
of life For nix wore it dieturbed my entire
eysteM. I had hot durthee, was extremely.
ie.:even.% beeame pale ansi debiliteted, very
irregular in the reozably flOW, atta
biliod fill EV,1314A t,) be in my load, e ban
fee:plea palpliailtint .fivolibilig of the
heart; in not, my whole teeiern wood ter
be in dieerike.
"I retie, 1 lio VIlic•fl front t1,1 5'17 ,i.
incideet to dee otelei men I ten: 1.y"iti.
Pinklemem V* t:. t estop:mu:I; ha
date rey r liefeirea tbt timer the ih,:t
grawieley inireswel, erefere tore:
her restart' aside:deo end Li ..V! 0401,. t:
w' :1 weeeen."
Moe ideelette, idativittf.Nirelaw
l'ensieen, ef 14114, Mar.A.s. la.
vitts nil t 7: feel olemet to wide
hr fer adei. r er, at I. ere:nen:es fe
it their met eleo, fire of tort,
His Father's Mark.
Dr, Edward Brooke, the noted teacher
and author, of Philadelphia, denoribed
at a dinnee the great strides that popue
!or education had made in the past fifty
year?).
"Smaller and smaller," be said, "be-
er:meg the percentage of the illiterate,
of Moos- who eannot read or write, It
won't be long before it thing beat once
humane& to nee in Sullivan county
IWill be quite ineposeible
"When 1 woo teaching •rechool ire may
youth in nullevan county, it ,boy, one
morning, undertook to go through the
alphabet.
"Int cetttribled .almig, and finally tonne
te.
it full stop before the leteet X.
"Dunne dial; une lie meld.
"Gb, yos, you do,' mid I, unhitik a
minute/
"Ire three:end Tluen Ito brigletened,
"'Why,' he Eaid, 'that's clades nonten "
Widows and Advertisemente.
G.T.P. WILL HAUL
WESTERN GRAIN
NEXT SEASON
Rapid Progress Being Made in the
Construction West of Winnipeg.
100 MILES NEARLY READY.
Mr, Collingwood Schreiber Vas Just
Completed Tour of Inspection
of Line from Winnipeg
West.
Ottawa despatch; "Canada will lave
omnarkable railway when the Grand
Trunk Pacific is built," is the state -
meat which was made tilde morning
by Mr. Conti:Tweed Sebreiber, thief
eeneulting engineer to the Canadian
Government.
"I have diet come from the west,
where I have been; inspecting the por-
tion of the line from Wilanipege to
4draOnitata,. I drove the 'entire distance
of the route from: Poetage in Prairie 'bo
Edmonton.
"The surveyors have found a splen-
did line. It le practically otanight, end,
the maximum gradeto the eaetwarrn is
four -tenths of owe per eent., end west-
ward five -tenths.
"As the Grand. Truok Pacific people
expect to do about as well through the
mountain:3 from Edmonton ha the Piton
fie, and as tbe national transcontinental,
surveyors have practicalty seemed these
grades all the way from Winnipeg to
the Atlantie, therefore no daunt the line
will be the best of all the traumatism-
tal lines, and capable of the moat eco -
meek ad,mineetration, and handling the
greatest amount of traffic at a minimum,
cost.
"By eutunne there will be over a
hundred, miles ef the line west of
Winnipeg relied, and there is little
sdoulet the road will participate hirthe
liabodine of the crop next year. Tire
e
settlers are gonig en with the road.
Their seethe are own dotting the
prairie for the ' whole distance from
Portage Is Prairie to Edmonton.
"The company has slicte•en, surveying
panties working to the west of Ede
moneon throueb. the , mountains. T,he
contractors are encountering, goitio din
ficuety in getting labor. However,
there is no doubt the rasa will be built
in a very short time. n
There will be a meeting of the Gov-
ernment on Monday. :Sir 1W1frid will
be present. Hon. Mr. Hyman returned
to Ottawa this morning. The Governor-
General also got back from Quebec,. ,
densee--
A TIMELY HeNT.
Unfermented Fruit Juices Easily Pre-
pared for Keeping.
The value of pure, unfermented fruit
juices for the sick and nealthy alike
is just beginning to be appreciated. By
the following method (for those who do
not use the excellent preparations which
can be bought) I have euccessfully kept
eider and grape juice sweet for a period
, of two years, and could doubtless have
'retained it in that condition indefinitely,'
says a writer in Good Housekeeping.
/
Take the juice immediately, as soon as
, it comes from the press (and it's better
Ito have it pressed as early in the morn-
ing as possible), and place it, one gallon
ab a time, in an agate -ware or porcelain -
lined kettle over a brisk fire. When the
duce in the kettle begins to steam, place
Ilike amount in wsecond kettle over the
fire. Skim off very carefully all the
,seum that arises. Have ready a, quan-
tity of clean pint and quart bottles with
; corks or it number of clean pine and
1 quart glass fruit cans. I use the latter.
;Just the moment before the juice eomes
ito a boil, remove it from the fire, pour
I it through a funnel in which a piece of
;flannel eloth has been placed, to strain
' out the possible impurities left in the
'juice in spite of skimming, and then cork
. tightly, if bottles are used, or screw the
.can tops dawn and seal, if fruit jars are
. employed. As a special precaution, when
'bottles are used, I take corks that can be
pushed well into the neck of the bottles,
• cover the cork (one-fourth of an inch)
1 with melted spermaceti or white wax. I
,also store the bottle on the cellar
!shelves, placing the mflat on their sides.
, Repeat the foregoing process until the
'required quantity is prep:nod. Be sure
to get juice from fruit of good qualitee
A MONSTER TELEPHONE POLE.
For fifteen years the Pacific States
Telephone •Clonneany has supported irbs
wires across the Mahe/lie, River in
Washington on 90 -foot poles on each
bank. One structure is on a bluff which
/rises 12,5 feet above the water about a
bale east of Aberdeen. Last fall the
necessity for su,pporting the wires at a
euffielent hoighe to enable the dengesh
ocean ships, Which go freely up cad down
the river, to pane beneath without stalk-
ing their masts led to the erection of a,
emu:A-leanly tall pole. This surpassed 4n,
height the former stick by tberty-six
feet, making the total neight, 126 feet.
The now exile is 18 inthes in alaaneter at
the butt and 8 limbos at the top. It was
mode irtali 4, fir tree, whioh (teas met on
the banIc.e of the river tWaltra 311$ieS ,ust
of Where the pole now atones, and it was
towed. down in the water by a tugboat
and mounted opposite where it is tow
placed.
As its wdglit is obout 6,000 pounds,
after it had been brought 40 the proper
point on the &tore by the tugboat Ite
s'ubseque'nt handling wee no light, elfair.
It was token front the avatar arta /raised
with a ten hors's -power hoisting engine,
six men being Demi:ire/1 to handle it.
For making attaehmente to the pole end
moving it a fivedightles inch need enide
wan employeil, run through ten -inch
eteel block*. The pole was get twelve
feet in the ground and guyea with four
0114-aiXteenth inch eteel stranded niece;
at the top, Alid also guyed about testy
feet front the to with four fineesid-
teentelt kelt strarided wire/. The gays
are fastenesl to dead meat rel ifs the
ground to a depth of eight feet. Theoe
dettd /nen are of ceder, 8 x 8 inches in
"An empty building and it dictionary ,section and 7 feet long.
don't make a eollege, and an inch of j The eteps on the new etas fere 'Axle
White pace and it jumble of worda len% .131411 galvallivog MAP' 01 the' =net drild.
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stn orlvertieing campaign." So rune ono letteple eupport fer the wiree le ear -
:If Irileitet'retre.“YAnngSant'ivitetintlisiitriti.,7 itiftenbIrraigiglint ,nitiiiiIii;itl, 4xb2yhetrhosme-ainriinsets toiforylfitiendioniolitilraer6yt
should be as well thoueht out and ns long. These *se Se/den:el with ono five-
earefully condueteil ne a militery earneighth inch ineeinne boil through the
perm or 'the eourtehip of a wary vi. centre ?of the Pole, ocle firve*eilettit inoh
dow. Pneli and pereietenee tire needed to bolt through the doulrlo ermo eight
Overcome the enemy; puel and persist. hiehee from thri polo on either mete, and
eneri lire deerable in tho wielow x wove one five -eighth inch double eent belt on
end push and pernietenee eonstitute the cach end of the double arme. The span
sitt rpm non in big tievertiting. Timex between the polereon the 'irpoisete eides of
advertieere have proved it. Are you et* tits tiler is non feete-Arnseleari Tele-
*, aserftt *hone trauma, r
ZAM-BUK CURES PIUS.
NOXIOUS WEEDS. 1 -----
A CASS OF 12 YEA118
STANDING 01.11i4D,
4aow•aes-aeweie...-49-ewswow4'ed...-..*
Toronto, Sept. fith, 1000.
Dear Sir,—In view of the numerous en-
quirlee which are being receiveil by the
Ontario Department of Agriculture, re-
specting the Act to Prevent the Spread
of Noxioue Weeds, 1 appeml herewith a
synopsis of the .Aet in oilier that its pro-
visious may be more clearly understood,
and should be glad if you would allow
the earn() to appear in your columus,
roure very truly,
NELSON MONTEITH,
Minister of Agriculture.
The Act to Prevent the Spread of Now,
Imo Weeds makes it incumbent an every
owner or occupier of land to out dowa
and destroy, when growing ou his laud,
the following weeds: Canada thistle,
exeiye daisy, mild oats, burdock, as
often as is necessary to prevent the rip.
ening of their seed, provided that the
destruetiou of growing grain crops ie
not involved thereby.
The operations of the Act may be eur-
tiler extended. by brlaw to any weed or
weeds, and to any disease of grain or
fruit trace (excepting Yellow end Black
Knot in fruit trees),
In order that the provisions of the
Act may be properly enforced, it is pro-
vided that the Council of any city, town,
township or incorporated village may,
and upon petition of fifty or snore rate -
mot's, shall, appoint at least 080 ins)ee-
tor for the purpose, The inspector is re-
quired to serve a notice in writing on
the owner or occupant of any land with-
in the municipality (or within his divi-
sion of the municipality, if there is more
than one inspector appointed), where
said. noxious weeds are growing, recline-
ing him to cause the same to be cut
down or destroyed within ten days of
the service of -the notice, In the event
of neglect to carry out these instructions,
the inspector shall enter upon the land
and cause salt weeds to be cut down or
destroyed (unless (be land be sown with
grain), the cost of doine°this work to
be °barged against the land with the
other taxes imposed by the municipality.
Where such noxious weeds are growing i
upon non-resident lands (by which s
meant "lands which are unoccupied, and
the owner of which is not resident with -
en the munieipeeity"), it is net necessary
that the inspector should give any notice
before proceeding to cut down or destroy
such weeds.
In the event of the land being railway
property, the notice shall be given to
any station master of the company resi-
dent in or nearest the municipality.
The owner or occupier of the land is
also required to destroy, at the proper
time to prevent the ripening of their
seeed, all noxious weeds growing on any
highway (not being a toll road) adjoin-
ing his lend, from the boundary of such
land to the centre line of the road. It is
the duty of the overseer or inspector of
highways in the municipality to see that
the Act, as it relates to the keeping of
highways clear of weeds, is properly en-
forced, and in case of neglect after notice
has been given to the owner or occupier,
the work may be performed by the numi-
cipality and the costs added to the taxes
against thesland. In the event of their
being no overseer or inspector of high-
ways, the enforcement of the Act in this
eegard falls upon the clerk of the muni-
cipality.
Every offence against the Act is
punishable by fine or summary °envie-
tion before any Justice of the Peace, the
fine to be paid to the treasurer for the
use of the municipality. Every inspec-
tor, overseer of highways or other officer
who refuses or neglects to discharge the
duties imposed upon hint by this Act is
liable, upon cotyledon, to a fine of not
less than $10 or more than $20.
BABY NEARLY DEAD.
Mrs. John Cuddy, leillaloe Station,
Ont., says: "Itly baby was no nearly
dead that I had to place my ear close
to his breast to know that he wasbreath-
ing. He was in this condition when, I
first gave him Baby's Own Tablets. and
I hardly dared hope that they would
save him. But they helped him almost
at once, and soon made hen a well child.
He is now two yeaes old and weighs, 45
pounds and bus never knowu a sick day
since I first gave him the Tablets."
Baby's Own Tablets cure constipation,
indigestion, diarrhoea, teething troubles,
break up colds, expel worms and give
little ones natural healthy sleep. And
the mother has a guarantee that this
medicine contains no opiate or poison-
ous soothing stuff. Sold by all medi-
cine dealers or sent by mail at 25c a box
by writing The Dr. William Medicine Co.
Brockville, Ont.
FRANCE HAS MONEY' TO INVEST.
American Securities Attracting Some of
Its Millions.
France, by reason of her thrift, her
moderate innustrial deoet ger no which
mimics a small ebsorptieu of calmer,
and her canoed 51161 0.18 o. investment,
which yield a eaame beanie, always has
a surplus to lend.
She is preeminently a 'creditor nation,
says Moodn's Magazine. She has nearly
$400,000,000 a year to place in good in-
eome beanin.g securities whieh her bank-
ers approve.
The Bank of France holds nearly $600,-
000,000 gold, the largest single amount
next to that of the 'United: States Tree -
nary.
Although the has already irivested in
stearin $15,000,000,000 off °reign,' oeeuro
ides and has token Russian bonds to
the amount of $4,000,000,000 (5100 per
capita), oho is constantly sounding new
markets and ereeking more avenues -
through which Ind uninvested funds may
flow.
The wealth of Pra.nee hoe been, Well
arevertieed hi the past year. hvery na-
tion and corporation 'looking for a bank-
er to float new loanshas heart some-
thing of it. leitrie lute become the mag-
net whith ettracbs those Who fort:only
went to London and Berlin for flannel:II
nen%
The nepular idea is that leratioe hes
more free capital than elle knows wbat
to de will, and. Viet all one needs is
proper eredmithile ante the door to the
vaults le opeted. Something of this
fooling has gained. ground hi New 'York
einee the reintsylvania ItitilropA floated
its $3,000;000 loan ivith Jolson& banks
and the isette eras officially listed on the
Paris Bourse.
While the abtorbing 'capacity af the
French ineeetor is largo, It is not until*
it(11, llelote he will ectusifter American
securities the ntimerotirs homes of for.
idiot governments mist be einseed on as
well as the Froth renteenernich are herd
at home to the amount of $6,000,080,000.
:French investors leave the work of se.
Motion and piirthaning of goieuritite to
their hank. Many of them know nothing
sI the peeperty into which they bit3r or
of the eharacter of the government MANI
to which they eubecrihe by peoXy. They
Ara °await to leave the maister With
their anwaelid a4ir1ver.
That painful ailment pilea is cured
by damelluk, buth speedily and per-
nutneutly. MIS, A. E. Cleaner, of
Catalina, writes: "For 12 years X
'have been troubled with blitol bleeding
and protruiling Oleo, and have been us.
ing various knels al ointnientre etc., hut
never came iterose anything to equal
ZeireDuk. Yeti aro et liberty to do'
what you will with these remarks. And
that they be tbe means. of helping some
of those who are euffering from( piles
to try Zionelluk is the wish of one who
has found great relief,"
For eczema, 111001$, riegworin, soree
on children's liertile, abscesses, etc., dam -
Buie is equally effective. ot differs
from other ointments and salves in be.
being purely of a vegetable composition
containing no trace of aulmal fet or
minerat coloriug matter. 11 is, at the
same time, both healiug, soothing and
antieeptie. It kills illecase genii; and
prevents wounds from. - festering, etc.
A doctor recently applied it to an ex-
treme case of eczema, on 'which oreinary
prescriptions bed entirely failed, "It
effected a complete cure and the doctor
—who •does not want hie ram to ap,
pear publicly, but has no objection to
it being stated in private — says: "1
it in future." Of all dbox, or direct front the Zarn.i3uk
8121a.5101),I.tave no hesitetion preeeribing
upon receipt of price. (0 boxes for
AUTOMOBILE DUST,
Experiments Made in England to Po
Away With the Nuisance.
It is a common experience 111 our ad-
vancing civilization teat One improve-
ment creates the necessity for others, We
no sooner begin to buile model railroads
at great cost than along oomes the auto -
wagon improvement or invention to undo
much of the other work and compel new
and costly methods of preserving it. We
have already • noted tne destructive ef-
fects of fast automobile driving on the
macadamized state highways, and' the
suggestion that these machines be addi-
tionally taxed to make good the damage.
The same pdoblein is under active agi-
tation in various parts of England. Not
only are public protests many within
and without the Englialli cities against
the dust nuisance in relation to antonio-
biles, which spreads disease and injures
merchants' stinks; but the effect in
wersejng away macadamized roads is
causing much (*morn. There as with us
it is proposed to tax the damage up
against meter -carriage owners; but ob-
viously no one will be satisfied with do-
ing this and nothing more. Methods
must be devised to lay the dust and pre-
serve the surfaces of our improved high-
ways; for periodical reconstruction even
at the expense of the autoists will not do
away with the disease -scattering dust
nuisance.
So the English are turning to oil and
similar devices for laying road dust. The
American consul at Liverpool reports
that various oil experiments are being
tried in and about that city. In the
order of giving the most lasting results
Texas crude petroleum stands°first in
the Iliverpool experiments, as far as
tried; while hot creosote oil comes next,
then a mixture of tide oil with rosin and.
tallow and then ordinary petroleum. The
difference in enduring quality appears
not to be great, and it is found that a
first sprinkling with any of them keeps
the surface in good. order for three weeks
and that a second sprinkling then will
do for five weeks longer—the cost vary-
ing from onwhalf to one cent per square
yard. Creosote gives out the more offen-
sive odor, but it is noted that flies are
driven away from adjoining houses. The
oil largely prevents the wearing upon
the surface by fast vehicles and the road
dries more quickly after a rain.
In Norwich, England, the distriet coun-
cil is experimenting with a sprinkling of
calcium chloride or solution of lime. A
hundredweight of this subitance, costing!
there $7.29 a ton'is dissoleed in 100 gal -1
ions of water. Three lengths of main
road experimented with were rendered,
practically dustloss, for Isom two to
three weeks at a cost of $4.44 in one
case againse 50.73 for daily water sprink-
ling; $8.89 in the seeond case cempand
with $20.33 for water, and $8:83 against
over $40 in the third case. It is said as
to the effect:
"The liquid appeared to change the
gravity of the dust particles, preventing
them from being blown Omit either' by
wind or motor cars. The roadway seem-
ed to be bound, and in dry weatlaer had
a good surface. The liquid absorbed the
moisture, and each night an amount of
moisture was gained, which prolonged
the effect of the treatment. This nolo-
ing influence was apparent for fully
three weeks after the expiration of the
treatment. During wet weather there
was a tendency for the surface to work
off in layers, but it qddekly dried and
set hard."
It is added that the experiments are
considered most satisfactory to the Nor-
wich authorities,
Our problem of good roads thus comes
to embrace the necessity of applying
sprinkling or other preservatives. There
arises from the automobilist the cheering
promise of having to buy oil tot only to
run his machine, but to preserve the
roads which it is wearing up to be blown
away.—Springfield Republican.
• +es.
Jewelers' Golden Year.
Never' in: the bietory' of the jewelry
trade has the fall 'season opened so tempi -
domed as has the preemie orne, It is Mali
times as these, when money is plentifte.
that most people think of buying jew-
elry, precious sfionee, watches', silverware
and similar arbkleise and the bulk of
sales in this trtude thts year will ereate
it. new recard. Learning from taped -
owe of the pale, mainefacturers airs
now working te their Ifalleeb ealtacitys
and .the retail jewellers Ind baying ear
lier them ever before, Tho fait emoon
hos already been meet active, and droM
noir fet the holidays there is every pea.
sari to believe that the demand eor wares
in the jeweley and kindred toute—s—wilt
fox vireo/A the supply.—Jewollens? etr.
outer Weekly.
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WrongDtgOOSIS.
"lsTow," said the doctor, "you'll have
to tteeustorn youreelf to one cigar after
Me"tt101iel."
,doctor," said the patient, "that's
pretty hard—"
"Tut, tut! After a time you'll find it
easy to give up even the agar after
meals."
"Ilut I'm sure Pli be giving tip the
meals after the cigars. I've never smok-
ed, you know."—Philaclelpilla Press.
etting Into the Swtm,
Tito *Petal climber in tendon must
(l
start equipped With it mansion in one of
the most fashionable west end squares,
a pines in the eountry, five motor ear*,
several horses and carriages, three tiaras
and ivy 01* skin, Wits' rle144