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The Wingham Advance, 1908-03-19, Page 3REAL AND. NEAR. • RE 4IEWELS 1 -low raise- Ones Are Made and Real Ones Doetored. • . " WalthingtornnIn all this talk about. aetificial rubies and diamende the experts keep saying that a tome- etrueted or mientitie ruby can be de- tected at n glance, This May be true 'Of eRperts, but it scarcely appliee to the average pertiOn. It le a fact that meat of the anti- iticially produced rubies are off in haVing a brick red tone, Which 5hould betray them even to an or - (Unary observer, Ilia shine of them approach the teal steno so closely that if even the expert hiraself is p- ing to detect them at a glance he will have to do his glancing through a powerful lens, Not that the Color Will appear dif- brent, That le not the oaly way in 'which the made ruby betraye ,Th5 infallible test is the presence of eiroulete lines or markings in the in. terin't of the stone, if it is a poor specimen them ate easily 'seen. In the bot ones they can be detected only by close scrut- iny. When one knows how these stones nre made the markings aro readily %explained, The paseess described key Leopold Claremont, a London lapis elate, follews: 'A. small crystal of silicate of al- 'umina, colored by bichrornate of pot- ash, is rotated at a very high speed; being kept raeat1While at a tempera- ture of about 1,800 degrees centri- grade. It is then nursed with minute particles of natural ruby, which ad. here atid become melted on to the Omar° core, "'With care and patience a large 'bead can thus be bnilt up from which the rubv is afterward cat. Tim meter: lel is, however. very likely to break directly it is allowed to tool and also during the prime:se of cuttings"' Manufactured rubies are SO1C1 under different names, but the processes by Which they are made differ only %lightly from ono another. The usual teats for precious storm% those of hardness, specific gravity and refrac. Oen, are met entirely by these arti- ficial rubies. The color and the mark - Mg are the only indications of their real character. The rnarkinge are caused by min - tit° bubbles forming circular paral- lel lines and also by wayy circles as the etthatance while being stirred had dried suddenly. While deiders in gems do not eon- . 'side!. made rubies as precious stones they. frankly accept certain improved specimens rie the real thing. For in- stance, it is said that almost all the pink tdpazes now on the market have been pinked, as the trade terms it This pmking eir burning is a time -horn ored &vita dating from its acciden- tal elleitovery by a French jeweller in 11.756, The topaz, though it occurs in many 'colors, is rarely pink. Consequently ft was a happy chance for the French: man when he found that heat would change yelloer and brown specimens WO a delicate pink. One method of doing this is to wrap tho stone In German tinder bound tightly on with tin wire and then to burn the tinder. But the atone Is likely to be flawed if the operation it; not carefully performed, or to lose its color If the heat is too great. • Sometimes precious stories have dark spots, which are removed by burning hi sand end iron filings, but the peocess Is a delicate one as, in the ease of a sapphire, the color may be ohanged froin blue to grayish, or With an amethyst, from purple to mahogany .brown. Rubies are some- times Infected with white snots, which are removed by burning. Black spots adhering to the surface of diamonds meet be got rid of M the same way. The zircon is anether preeious stone which le improved by burning, being ehanged from brettm to a elssr brilliance width ena,bles it to pale ae n diamond, though not of the finest retelity. Auk brown cairngorm ia burned to make it lighter and therefore more salable. When it comes to agatee end carnel. lane and onyx there is no end to the trieks Ion play on nature. The Oriental carnelian owes its beautihil color en- tirely to burning, It is found in quartz sand in Madras and is etrt and burnell where it is found. But the greatest marvels 'with this oleo of stones are achieved by bleach- ing and dyeing them. Wiese enneriuni- ttea in Germany, from little children to old men and women, do nothing but this work. 'When onyx is to be dyed It is washed Wee in water, then dried and laid in honey and water, half a pound of hon- ey to sixteen or twenty ounces of wat- t& The dish, which meet be cbetnietelly viten, is placed in a warm oven. Care must be taken thet the water &CS not boil and that tee stone is cov- ered with the liquid. The treatment is eontinued for from fourteen...to twenty- one days. Then the stone is teken out of the honey and washed end teeked in an. Othet dish with sulphuric arid. This dish is Covered and put in het miles with burning eharecial on the eover. lit a few hours. in mot ;TAOS, the stone will be dyed, but some stenos re- quire s. longer time and genie will nee - et. take a color, The fine! part of the process is to take the etone from the Iota, wash It, dry it In the oven and lay it in oil lot a day.. By this time be- es.nee of the varying porosity of lay. ore of the stone it witli be colored in stripen gray, brown, black or red. The attempt hes often been made to get rid of the tint In off colored ilia. monde by treating them with stelae and with heat, but It is riot khettn that any one has tatecteeded, Some dealers have tried other waye of getting rid of the yellow effect of these stones. The Usual thiog is to paint the under side with violet ink or an aniline dye. This is easefully rubbed down, just enough being left to outralize the yel- low in the stone. Of course all that is neoessary to guard against this fraud la to wash the stone in alcohol, But It Is admitted that irregular dealers have undoubtedly enha,noecl the apparent val., ue of many stones by treating them in "this way, Quite distinct from the artificially produeed precioo stones and from the improved real ones. are various Malta. • tione. With tbe public rhinestone has become a sort of general name applied to the very cheapest of imitation dia. monde. But eriginally rhinestone, Corn- ish diamond and Brighton diamond were names applied to imitations made from rook crystal, goat imitation stones are simply made of glass. The cheapest ciTIOS, gen- orally spoken of as stage jewelry, are not cut end polished, but squeezed, es the technical term. goes. This is done with pincers' divided into - numerous moulds, each mould eompres. stng the semienolten glats into the forna of a mit stone, Mee these stones din takets from' the pineers they are con- nected by a thin film of the glass. They have only to be detached from one an- other to be ready ter setting, Paste or stress is a fliut glass moth stmerior to that used for making stage jewtsley. It is often cut and polished much as real atones 'are, though, of 1 course, the procese is Very short tiod eimple in corapaelsoie It is eleireed for French paste that its composition is made as nearly as pos- , Bible identical with the stonee to be im- 1 itated. But It is manufactureel only in f certain colors add it does not differ greatly any way in appearance from ordinory etrass, "All varieties of paste can be detect- ed," said a dealer in precious stones. 0 "They always contain bubbles and lines wholly unlike the marks in real gems. I "Makers of imitations even go to extent of puttine in—flaws and what 0 we call feathers.4'If ybu examine them you find they are not like the real 0 thing at all,. "Of course a jeweller need never be P clouted anyway, for he knows—or should P knotr—how to test for hardness, specific ° gravity and optical properties. For ordi- nary paste just try a file gently on the sharp edge of the stone." Of recent years a good ninny 'improve- t‘ ments have been made Mahe production t of the imitations known as doublets, Nowadays there are ,even triplets: The old form of doublet eonsiets of a , thin piece of a genuine but ihferior pre- cious stone cut to form a front, to which a a back of paste of the desired olor, is cemented. The result is an apparently 8 valuable gem. It really has one good trait, if it is to P_ be compared with out and out gless stones. The surface, being genuine will " not scratch or dull. But if it is sold ° the real thing the buyer is likely to be e sad when it falls to pieces some day. it That is what it will do at once is soaked in spirit or even in hot water. This will not happeu to those doublets, made recently, in. which the two pieces t are welded togethr. But the character of the stone can be seen by looking ° through it from the side. A triplet eonaiats of Vivo pieces of crys- d tal or poor quality gem stone, one part for the front and one for the back, with a thin piece of colored glass and even 11. simply colored pigment between them. In this way pale, worthless pieces of t nevertheless genuine sapphire are used with deep blue glass or pigment; but, of t course, while the stone may -look all right tv from the top it is easily identified as a 1 fake. When stones are set with a close back that is embedded in the inetal they are painted or neared with tinfoil to in- crease either the toter or the brilliance. This is done not only wieli imitations, but with genuine stones if they are of inferior quality. It used. to be the cus- tom always to set pins with a backing of gold, no matter whether the stones were good, bad or indifferent. Apropos of the intentional and the ac- cidental coloring of stones, it is well known thattortain gems have a way of doing the changink themselves. Chief among these is the turcrolse, with its im- plement habit of turnipg green. It hi said by. jewelers thst the use of perfume is ono responsible for this change, Also the wearer of turquoises muet guard them from corned with any and or with grease. According to super- e stition, when the color of a gift turquoise changes the giver is in danger, or if the ° giver is a lover he or she is fickle. One of the most pest:tier precious stones is the alexandrite, which, when of d fine minty, ie a beautiful pistachio w ef Olort but the tints are not btauti. ful. The aleaandrite xyl% named after Alex. ander 11. RUeela, It wits folinti in his own dominiette en the Very day, la 1830, when be (same Of age, and, ettriously enough, the colors it alieWfi, red mid green, are those a his flag. Villa oPeci- meno are both rare filid valuable. Sapphires. Soinetimee display tile same quality' of changing color, 1,n their catio it e, r ELPFUL is from hlue by clitylight to a decid purple by Artificial light, Some years ago a Jeweler made up crescent of eapphiree which in the da -Hine ranged from. bright blue at aim en to a beautiful plieri color at the othe At night, however, they all become uniform rieh purple, Curious changett con be brought ttbo in some opals. teheretle one venety Whic is not transparent like the Medea stones nor full of color like the prismat kindle Yet,, if it is given a drink --that I planed in water—it will develop elle an aome,times both of these qualities, Because of this trait it is called hydr phane, Some specimene, called each longe, are so greedy of moisture th — a Y. 1 t a ut h n • IQ ; • ' 0- a -- at they will stick to the tongue, Whi hydrophanes become brilliant when we many• Mexican opals are made colorlee by the same treatment,. Many of the too 'turn opaque and brown after bein worn a while. Almost all opals, in feet, are apt t b d 1 0,1 which is made the most of as an 11 onto by the :superstitious. The whole thin is very simple. Opals are among th softest of gems, If they are not treate with great care they become scratche and even ordinary wear destroys thei polish. If the stone le taken to a jewel° and repolished, the future at least see by the opal prophecy, will be as brigh as ever. The color of tho opsa is un questionably better when it is Wit= There are persons who., keowing. thi win hold one of the stones in the Imo or even in the mouth, before showing 1 Emeralds have their peouliarities, Jae as all gems have. The trouble. with th emerald is that it is inveciably flawed in some way. It Is old that an abso lutely flawless emerald of fine colter 1 more race than any other preelone fitone so that the phrase, "like an amoral without a flaw" hea some to be syn onymous with irleetion. There le a curioue belief in Burma, the land of rubiee; in regard to the oolor o that gem. The inhabitants Fay tha, rubies ripen in the earth, thet the stones are ea fleet coloriese, later boom. yel airsienretdb.en green, then blue, and laat o There Is 11. queer, sort of coincidence be- tween this Idea and the 'feet thet if a ruby is subjected to a high temperature t does in reality while cooling turn rota white to green end finally to red But heat, If it -is cerefully a.ppliell, wit not destroy or permanently °Image the olor, Every preeioes stone has whet may be ailed its normal color—red for rubies blue for sapphires, green for emeralds eud so on. But the same kiad of stone will be foued in all the various oluedes f its own noemal color. The one of hthese shades in which a tone is moot rarely found is ca.11ed perfection color or the gem coloe. The arfectien oolor of. the ruby is known as igeon blood, that of , the sapphire se ornflower or •royal blue, The color of the finest emeralds is called velvety, Diamonds should he blue White. With diamonds tho color is of los importance han the brillinace or the indefinable King w,hich jewelers call quality. • "There are stones, 'like men, whose qualities are all negative," says W. R Oattelle, the expert; "they have no strik- ng flews, even:. Avoid them. Others re faulty, but somehow^ one likes them "They have oharacter. Suoh atones ell, A crystallized dewdrop that holds he play of the 111111 will hove more lee- rs, though there is a black spot in the ant of it, than a dead stone which mealy winks at the light of high noon, ven if It is 'parted.' "The term quality refers ta that cone- ination of chanteteristies which gives to some diamonds an extraordinary fire and brilliancy. , Some off color stones ave a finer quality then white goods. "After brilliancy the next considerat ion is color. Of the bluish white, which rings the higheee pri,ces, there aro two. kinds, a fine, clean tint, arKI that is ark. Because the latter is more weeny die- erned many choose it as the more vela. ble. A decided tint -is desirable, but it must be free from any brackish admix- ure." • Among colored dia,monds the razest int is a ruby red. Some years ago it as said that only one soh diamond was mown to exist, and it still retains its eatery grandeur. It is known as the Helper'. red. dia- inond, weighs only one caant, and sold thirty years ago for 84,000. There are many red diamonds of other shades, but this ruby colored one is said to be urilque. Next In rarity aro the sapphire blue diamonde, of which, according to Street- er, there are only five specimen.s in tree rope and Americas The mot wonderful of these is the famous Ilope blue dia- mond, which now after severel oenteries of romance is in the posseesion of a New York jeweller. It weighs 44 1-2 oa.rate. The stone known as the Duke of Brunswick's blue drop diamond, of tsix or seven carats, it thought to Metro been out from the Hope diamond after it had been stolen from the lineneli crown jow- ls after the French revolution. tho remairting three blue stones one weighs nly 6 grains end one, of 4 1-2 carafe, is ather'paie eolor, The finest green specimen is the Drees en green diamond in the grune ge. ol,be, or greet vaults, of that city. It lo You wout tell your family d.octor t, the whole story about your private e illness-- you are too modest. You m need not be afraid to tell Mrs, Pink - g ham, at Lynn, the things you could not explain to the doctor, Your ° letter will. be held in the strictest con- fidence, From her vast correspond- ' ence with sick women during the go past thirty years she may have it gained the very -knowledge that will d, help your case. Such letters as the fol - ✓ lowing, from grateful women, es - ✓ tablitsh beyond a doubt the powerof 'It LYDIA E. rillitHAIVI'S . VEGETABLE COMPOUND 5, to conquer all female diseases. d, Mrs. Frank Ernsley, Lindsay, Olitario, writes to Mrs. Pinkham; • "When I wrote to yon some tinie • ago, X was a very sick woman suffering from female troubles. I had inilammas. - tion of the feminine orgaus and could • not etand or walk any distance. At , last I was conn.ned to my bed and the d. doctor said I would have to go through - an operation, but this I refused to ido. "A friend advised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After usingethree f bottles of it, I feel like a new- woman. t " moot heartily recommend Lydia IL Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to all women who suitor withfemale troubles." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of 1 women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, uleera- Herb fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, tb.at bear. , mg -down feeling, flatulency, indigos - tion, dizziness,ornervous pros tratioz NO STAGE KISS THIS, But on Public View, Nevertheless, for the Shade Was Up. (N, Y. Sun.) Whether it is that persons reeident in Harlem are not nove accustomed to kiss, on e sort of. analogy 'that the electrio car has replaced the bus, or whatever be the reason, the sight of two persons engaged in exercising the art of osculation attracted a great , crowd in a Harlem street about 7 o'clock last night. As the persona, male and female, are to be natnelesti, , so as well roight be. the name of the hotel and ite exact location, save to remark that it is on .125th street, and so also were the persons at the time of the kiss,. and afterward, on the third floor, two windows to the south from the avenue corner. It was a long kiss, this, although no official time was taken. The curtain of the window to this room was up when it began and that is how Han tern became aware that a kiss was in its midst. One by one, as crowds do, , a crowd gathered in a street below. Every variety of Harlon) wit was ven- tured as the size and proportions of - this kiss became momentarily more of record magnitude, Eventually after the croWd grew to about a hundred or so and the kiss was continuitg with no signs 'of losing strength some one bethought himself letting the hotel office know. An involved telephone message, with hints of the' Soul Kim,. Olga Nethergole and the like not inobvious remarks, puzzled the clerk, who did make out that something was toward on the third floor that was not as it should be. So up went a hallboy and down came the shade. Estimated time of kiss, abont eighteen minutes. Some time after the curtain had been 'riffled down a minister, as he said he was, called uti the hotel on the telephone to say that he had been passing at the time the curtain Was up and didn't think it at all a nice public exhibition on a Sunday, FASOINATIO_N OF STAMPS And the Hold They Take on a Man Once He Begins to Oolloct Thorn. green y daylight itnd a rich raspberry s red by artificial light. rnferior speei- 6 reeds of this stone gliow the same change velem about 40 carets, and cost, in '763, 0,000 thalers. It is not en emerald green, but nutch lighter in color, . . . Mot green diamonds show blaekloth 4:44104604,4stidoltOtgitstXptcatitzhooselttoo vette at the core, Black diemoreds are Rapid r:,hanges of temperature are hard on the toughest constitution. The conductor passing from the heated inside of a trolley car to the iey temperature of tb9 platform•—the canvasser spending an hour or so in a heated building and then walking against a biting wind—know the difficulty of avoiding cold. Sroti Ernatatott ntrengthens the body SO that it can better withstand the clanger of told from ehanges of temperature. It will help you to avoid taking cold. ALL, CflUGOISTS1 800. MO $1.00. • 0 40404.44.00.00001111416 mita in' Borneo, and are the hardest eubstances known. Onliaary dittentind duet has no effect on them, so they helve to be ground and polished tvith theft own duet, One of the fineeb orange colored dile. morideknown mid the lergest et any kiod ' t • T It is 'rem Senth Africa or Um Cape es all pwelete say, anti weighs 1:1151/4 -orates Yellow- diamonds lose their color by most artificial lighte, but eleetrie light, inteneillee it. Fine 'orange or eanary diaratmds are smote, Pink end violet diamonds ere eveu motn rere. The tomtit:snot of the entered disenonds ate the yellowith ones, whieh are hardly doop .enough torm to count SS mit than mere off colored white Mono. Mifflin) hteln, Young Mr, Sonley wet: inagleg a pee. trotted call upoe the bbject of his -Al- io:tient, Miet -Eintlie, who Wss a plaid:et of .corisiderabIst Six° had. jut completed 25 minutest el twill; in the hopo that he wailit got tired and go home. "Oh, Mk* tvaite," ho etelainied, ".1 could just die iiitening to your ,playingt" "Would you liko to heve plineeome moo, Ur. Smiley!" poked Mine Beal*, larieuiently.rYoutifti .companitnit e "The rich stamp collector as a rule la the very elosest buyer," said a stamp dealer, "This phase of cellocting, indeed., forms one of tho chief delights of the rich collector. "A, millionaire deflector of this city will roarn about the greater part of a da,y in order to get a dealred stamp at si bar- gain, and when he succeeds it gives him the greatest satisfaction. Apparently he feels amply compensated for all his t "But the hobby has its advantages, an it gives invaluable mental relaxation, When the man of business is occupied -With hie stamps all business problems and Werries fly to the winds, etre time ago a ors p yer in Chicago walked into the store of a stamp dealer in tha,t etty and said: 'X want to bee SOille of your stamps.' "The steel's dealer, who knew the lavr- yer, and was aware that he wan an ex. tremely busy and bard-Werke:I Matt, replied, 'Why, you are johing--you don't b p "Yes, I do,' said the lawyer. 'I have done too much work lately, and have haa sternething like a breakdOWIL My pivot- oitta suggests that X tette up tome kied of collecting pursuit that will furnish it degree of mental rot, so I thought of etamps, and the physieimi thinks that collecting them will answer the pttre0110 eicely,' "The ecilleetion of etarilpe posseseess curious fascination. Some yeare ago a ChIcagas.o. Watt appoihted Consid-Generat et Rio do Janeiro, Brazil, After he had been. stationed there for a while hie Alto, who lived in Chicago, wtote end asked if he would send her eotne Ian stamps, "The Oonsul-Oeneral told one of the attotehes of the office to tear off melee status from letteis whit+ came haiid in the &mese of ordinary 'business, end those Were forwarded to the Mileage girl, "Upan teed -ring the qtrtuips she wrote 4)4,114.04d her twat) for theta. lett 114 .4,111. mkg."--7.r.o--- — eteted thet the stamps, le ad sent w re not the kind tibe wantied,Ilino plenty got The Famous St Catharines ell the eeelalttlette and current varietiee were - • • • • amity obtainehle in Chicago, Whet ehe , wanted Waft the oid Brazilian. stamps, of the °boleti) issues, "The 'fathering of the letter stamps he found to be a task of censiderable fieialty, but be went to werk, visited the different local stamp dealers, Made in- quiries in varieue direetions for the Lampe, and in pie course of a few months had acquired an expert knewl- , edge el the numerous Brazilien issues, I "i3razil was the second country in the werkl to adopt the adhesive pOetage etleMet and from, the time of their first use, in 1843, down tie arid iltelinling 1900 there were no less than 431 straight varieties, not to Beetle of the numerouS trifliog varieties, "In trying to get additional ittforma. tion about these stamps. the collection of them finally .began te exorcise a fee. einntion for him, and the Bret thing he knew he was buying etamps for the Amerlean Cousul-General at 13ragil, and his niece had become a seeondary con- sideration. "He had inuch trouble in distinguish. . Ing the difference between the early issues, as, treat 1848 up to 1800 all the stamps showed just the figures from 10 to 000, without value or Inseription. and nearly all printed in black. But he per- severed. 'Often when ho desired a certain veriety of stamp to fill out a certain serice he bought the entire collection of some person and then put the rest of the stamps of the collection into a trunk. Once ho actually bought the entire stock of a Brazilian stamp dealer in order to gain .possession of a few Kara varieties, "And by the time he left Riit he not only had the most complete Collection of Brazilian stamps in the world, but he had the greateat number of them, the trunk being jammed to the top with the different issues, He also had become the leading authority • on the stamps of Brazil, After his return to the United Stato he disposed of his collection to a dealer, and the latter said, when he saw the number of Brazilian stampr the trunk contained, that he could scarcely believe there were ,so many stamps of this one country in existence." An Original Child. "The late Lord Kelvin," said a Har - yard scientist, "had wenderfully orig- inal mind from childhood. ".As little boy, as little Thom- son, they tell a quaint story about him in Glasgow'. "Ie peon that mice he suffered hor- ribly week with toothache. Finally he had the tooth out, After it was drawn, , he rose from the chair, held out his lit.' tie hand to tho surgeon, and said: "'Give it to me.' "The surgeon, with an accommodating smite, wrapped the tooth in paper and extended it to the lad. "'But what are you going to do with it, Willie?" he asked. "Pin going to take it home,' was the ready reply, 'and cram sugax in it, and see it ache,'" Modern conditions have to be met with modern methods, The pace of the average 'man of to.day brings in its train uerve exhaustion, frequently taking the form of rheumatism, sciatica, neurasthenia and kindred troubles. To pro. Ivsirdeeiva, place where tired ItunianitY =sr rest and at the same time enjoy tonfo influencee is the mission ef the management of the femous "St, Catharines At "The Welland," St, Catharines where these waters are dispensed, are found conditions which tend to give 'that rnuoh desired rot which tired'human- ity needs.. Here treatments of the St, Gathanines well water of a strong saline nature are accompanied with massage and electricity in varying forms. All treatments are given under direction of experienced attendants and nurses in charge of a phySielari. Sun Parlors, Roof Promenade Library, Musio Room, all contribute their quota to the comfort of the visitlir. The environment is raore like a largefamily hotel, and' the underlying principle is to furnish a place where people afflicted with tile ills of life will recuperate •under the most favorable conditions. Thie accoinnuelation, too, is nrovided at a pride within reach of the average man. For further information apply Is THE WELLAND " $T. QATHARINES, ONTARIO CANADA'S CALL TO HER OWN. The old saying that "a proehet hath no home in his own country," is .well matched hy a truth equelly novel which • may be expressed thus: "A greet coun- try is less appreciated by its native eon* then by strangers from afar." We are reminded. of this fact not infre- cfuently when we receive inquiries from C1anadiane who are anxious to know what their prospects of eueeens are in the United States. They are generall young men who have begun to , thin that their talents and energies axe being wasted, in the land of their birth, and that fortuue, or, at leeet, prosper- ity, aivaits them in this great Republic. They heve heard of the rapid rise to position and affluenee of other Cana- dians, *hese ambition and enthusiesm found their proper bent as soon as they' crossed the boundary line. The famine: Lions of new territory, new conditione and new iiesocietes aro strong upon theni, and, aa they think of the ohs -noes to be had for the taking in "the Statee"--`dietance lanai enehantment to the vic,.v," The little town in On- tario looks very teme compared. to -the metropolis of Illinois. The Canadian settler coining hers 'finds all the avenues of trade pretty well congested; competition -so fleece that mere bread -winning is often a struggle for existence, end everything —except the Golden Rule—overetooked and overdone. In time, if he is quick to adapt himself to a ln•eiekneck speed of living, he may make enough to pay big taxes on a house and lot he can call his own, hut, long before then, he will Mine dismissed his old dreams of getting ride and be seeisfied if he is enabled to keep out of debt, RHEUMATISM IN THE BLOOD Cures it by Enriching the 'Blood With Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. 'Ilhere is only one wey • by which rheumatism Carl .be cured. It must be treated eleroug.h the blood. Lini- ments and outward applicateons may give temporaa-y relief, but they can't possibly care tii•e trouble. And white you. are expelimenting with lini- menta, the trouble is every day be- coming more firinly rooted ,in tine system, and more difficult to cure. Mho 'poisonous acid thee causes rheu. rnatiem must be driven out of the blood, and you ean only do this by making new, rich, red blood through. the we of Dr. Williarne' Plak Pills. Mr. Oltsaies II. Lumley, of Bickfterd, Ont., jg GTho Gi the beet known fertn. era in Ltunbton County. About three snare ago, while Mr. Lumley vine en. gnged in threshing, he beceiene over- heated, and this woe folitoived by a severe chilli, that started tn.° ietelt- nletie pains. Mr. LItheley eels: "I did not think •anothing of it at. the thee, as Lavas accuetomed to being exposed to all kirele of weather. As a resuit I was untuble to go about next morning. I had severe pains In my arms an& legs, whieh treated art with the usual home reined:his. As these did net help nue and the trouble was growing WtGr,-)s, th.o tam. ily dotter wee serst for, bob he did not have any better guecees. He told me was suffering from a severe at- tack of rhemnatielin, and there can be no doubt aboitt it, as 1 was con- fined to my harm about four months 'before I was fortunately advised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pille. I sent far a sappier, and it was not long before I found they Were helping me; and by the time 1 hod inken a hell dozen boxes the trouble • had entirely dimaptpeaeed. ' in other respects, the pine also greally intproved my heallh, awl I never foil better in my life than I have rirsce taking theen, I therefore meet cheerfiddy radon:mend Dr. NVillia,n Pink Pilfe to other Mud - ler eufferent." Dr. Willi•asies' Pink Pint make some of this kind after :looters and oontroon nettliehtes fadT, IlSeallAS they netwally melte new blood. Th ,ev don't cure the mere eyniptorrn. They go right, to the root of the trouble in the blood. That is why this medi- cine curet; a.neenvia.. indigeetion, alsome pnilptee, ton of. the heart, and airs hea(1,10.-•44 reel beeksehes brought 0,11* by the allimente that fill the laves otf tie many wamen with Misery. Do not take any -pills without the „fun tensile, Dr. litellaatetts Pink Pille for Pete People." on the wrepter around the box, Seta by Ida medicine deal- oe by mail at SO eenta a box et barce for 82.60 front The Dr. 1Vil. Mettleino 0o., Brockville, Ont. t 1 Blg Maine Pine, There are evidently' scene big pine trees left up hi the northwesteen part of the State. ltere is a description of Ori of them sent by 0. W. Edgerly, of Old Town, Neater at the lumber camp Of Malden Chouniard, on the northwest branelx of the St. doho Meet. This pine had three brerichei and the tree was three feet ten inches through at the 'butt log. From the tree were telt- en but two butt logs, each 10 feet long, and four logs 14 feet long were taken from each of the branehen The tep log was 13 ieches through at the 'top. All of these logs Were sound white pine, Des Allem these logs One pieee 8 feet long at tho forks of the breeches wed left in Qs woods. Fourteen logs front one pine is certain- ly a good tobord shosee Ova all the nuariefths of the forest from which Melee takte iter nithie of the Pine Tree State are not gone yet.--Ilangor Commereial. • Many a nian'a sympathy get The further than the tellirig, This Wanderluet, likewise, seizes upon the man born under the Stars and Stripes, and he, too, goes to seek his fortune across the border. But what a different country he finds there, from the land he has leftl If his mind runs to "fanning, he is not forced to become a tenant and pay an exorbitant rent for, the privilege of cultlea.ting t•he soil. A homestead awaits him a.l. loot for the asking. If he has a genius for alining he is in the midst of a territory whose weelth is just begin- ning to, be roughly estimated, because half of it is unexplored and. undiscov- ered, If lts be a mechanic there are endiese openings hi manufacturing me- tres art are rich in natural resoure.es but in sore need of skilled workmen. In ghat, everything that insures success seems ready to his hand, and if he fails it will be bemuse he is, either mentally -or physiatilly, a cripple. Ontario—now called "the Garden of Cantada"--was a tenderness when Illi- nois was in her prime. The other day tetudents from the Onterio Agriculteittel 'College etiptuxed the Fold medals fot efficiency at a Chicago exhibition. Every week prospectors are digging tip freeh eviaencee of untold wealth in her mineral districts. The prairies of Mani- tobe, yield crops that stagger statisti- cians, end she is still only making a be- ginning. And then there is what is celled "the last West"—east -territor- ies of pregnant soil that will some day mirk& millions and fill to ,overflowing the granaries of the world. What of the h,undreds of thousands of our citizens from the British Isles who have never teen Canada and who have but vague notions of her stupen- dous seivtintageet Many of theee, who crossed the ocean to better themselves, found conditions in the Mated States tro More to their liking than those in the' old land, Life to them. is still a drudgery without rarieh of a future in sight. Ca,nade, offers to -clay more thn Awaited the newoomer Illinois thirty years ago. She offers to the moms what °My a few can secure 111 these eongrated States—homes of their own, healthy surroundings in whieh to raise their fainiliea ana the prospect of a comfortable old oge, To returit to the Canadian. emigre/It who turns his *batik On his netive Bide - metal III he any more foolish then the Caotitlian investor who passes by the tonne opaitunities end puts his caah Into .Arnerioall seoutities? The latter has been much in evidence during the remit panic, .1Itt comet to the front, eseeitteler• when receiverships are ap. pointed, and his wail is heard over the roetenness of finale Seen's business methods. Meanwhile shrewd Americans have control of eome of the biggest profit -bearing enterprises in the Do- minion, They were 'the pioneers WhO foresaw Canada's magnificent future when her own people were ignorant or indifferent about her wnoderful re- sources, They were starting power plants, stamping millet foundries and street railways while the natives were "waiting for something to turn up." Nothing seems more strange to -day to the man who has meets a careful survey of the western world than this: that Oanadia.n energy should waste itself in a land already oveedone in every kind of human endeavor; and thot Canadian capital should seek investment in the United States when its opportunities to be quadrupled are so mush greater right at home.--Ohicago ConadianeAmerican. e ILLS OF CHILDHOOD, HOW TO CURE THEM. %there is no m,edieine c:ten equal Baby's Own Tablote for the GUTS of Midi 111S as babyhood and childhood as constipation, Indigestion, direr - Ames, collo, simple fevez, worme and teething troubles. When you give Oils medicine to your little ones you have the guarantee of a government analyet that it is perfectly safe. Mrs. Mamas Dthei, Ont., sa.ye: "X ha.ve used Beby's Own Tablete for my little boy and find them just the medi- cine needed to keep babies healthy. They are easy to take and always do good." Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Co., Brockville, Outs - 1 SHAVED WHILE TRAIN WAITED. Hurry Oen From Traveller Who Did. n't Want His Card Game Stopped. Theodore A. Hoppenjon, the Union depot barber, keeps a Private mug tor Sonatof Clark, of Mootana, and various eastern railway offielale, He has been called out of bed at night to shave an eccentric patron, but he a:aid lace night that the domande made upon liira by le. T. Crane eaturday night were new and decidedly interesting. Crane is In the impleneent business and lives In Chicago. He travels about the country in a private oar. Saturday night the Crane oar was attached to the Santa re No. 9, in bound. As the train neared•Chilli- cothe, Ill., tho implement megnet discover- ed that he bad forgotten his safety razor when he paoked for his trip to ..Los Angeles, Crane had the concluder of his train tele- graph the Santa Fe agent bare to have a barber at the etepot for him. Tito train vrse late and it didn't stOP hers more than tett minutes when on time. Hop- i penjou was notified and was in readiness with his otttfit, the lather already made up. As tho train eatored the Union Depot at 9.2.5 the barber mune on the private ear and had .1als patron lathered before tho en- gine was gamed. Crane, sitting in the drawing mem of hia car, was eannene game of solitaire. Tbe cards were spreed about the table and the Implement king did not appear to notice the barber's presence. When the lather brush began to tickle hie mouth, Crane, without looking up, enquired: "Does the game interfere with you?" Whet Hoppenjon replied, "I'm here only to shave.' cone glued the next card cere- fully atd went on -with the game, The bar- ber finished in five minutes, was paid bi • setrotare and bowed out of the car, : TO DUNE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROM° Quinine Tab/eta. WE're•Iii(GginsOtaVg'itlansdignurturaele 1st ictolaikieaolit*bo°uPex. 25' a.. _ The Best Razor Strop. n "The best razor strop I over had was a piece of glass," said the club barbea "An old barber gave it to me, and I tell you it worked fine. Unfortmiately X let it fall and it broke, and X have never been able to get one like it, "There's some kink in the grindine which I cati't 000111 tO figure out. XII these days a good razor strop is a mighty hard thing to find, aud I would give a good deal if could only get thet piece of ground glao back egtein, It sure dia put a cutting edge on the razote"—Neve York Sun. t Mr. De Koven's Critique. A story abont Regineld De Xoven News told the other night at a, minden,' dinner la Islew York. "An ardent young adantirea. et De 1- ;Coven's° said the narrater, "IS spend.- ing •tho 'valor". with a rich taint in Mil- waukee. During hie vivit be had. not thos far, 'men idle. Last week he fins tatted a kyraphoty, which he sent to the maestro, along with a case of Mil- waukee beer. "De ROven wrote back immediately " Dear Bey, --Many thanks foe lent eirey lend tette the team' extol. "Vie aro what we feta MO quoted Mr. Iltboion. hying down his book. "And I era willing to say that the nuthor right. For eXample— "1 oni already ft believer," Mrs. /11xson interrupted, "Yon *ill insist on lieving litbster for *tipper always." Atel Meson, Mot - tined, grew very led. 'rown end COWS trie OVREP dNAKE. PONES. „Case Mexico and Another in 1 ndia, "There le a wideepread inllefdt teentrked eolleeter ot tatural Meteor oblects, "In of :Make SUMO, Yibleil ertlailv not Mono a all, bUt pleete: .oteherrell bone or ot chant ar same sows; po.‘ratmo saU- :jatuadneMbyall4a Welihrie't 1443", arti Our); WC."' tWollribl evil) ,the peloon. "Iiiertieaue are greet believees in the erne. ery of ter ,1 Monts. Mlle collective; M the. eretiors ot ,sonora tow yoarsi no; 040 0* My waive employee* elis bitten by a male.. .eanke. fellow countryman, who wee With the party owned. ens of MOO etonea and tie onee began las treatment, el the suffer. "Ile man bail been bitten that hare ind from the two email pitaetures nalarti. .eilivielona.se,reretoolopteeraetrennteppeitliieidie trueseidaloynocoletor aatto euacturee, to wince it actin:red fireeie hor two minutes. "A basin, ef water Wes pieced uneer the eae, eo that wile:I the Leone fell oft et Ite .:We accord it droimcd la ele: rocepMcle, At Nan removed from hero in a moment, Ana Mel' being carefully eriad le cloth wee asain implied to the weund. "This time it Adhered atout Mielite, As the operator made 00 move to apply It to the woette the thee: time I suggeeted that this be done, hut he said it would do ao etred oe it would trot Oben. Dente deeirous of ibe matter a tlierongt test, I Inaleteti. "Oa his complete& it turnel ottk ite he bed said, tee steno dreppIng oft esumet mimed - lately. The man woe then •wrapped up in powa hrbieulnah:haheeti name :ezor geplupdgt .1t0o tiro Ininorh;litsngtent1,14erriobure worse tor Ws experiences except fee a eliebt webeee stonee aro prepared In the follow, ing manor le elexicot A piece of hart'e . eDen• ot any convenient sleet 'and shape is take». Tbis is covered ale around with grass. or ee.y and enclosed in a thin Piece of sheet eopper wound 'round and 'round, then the, bwobutaleislasuiptliacecleientiyitichamebereal fire WI the "When celd the calcined horn is removed* from its envelope and is then ready for im- mediate use, In this state it le a sone bleok fibrous looking eubstance, "In India, where the morality from the . bit,es of vemonoue snakes, le very heavy. make etenes, ptimuce, eater', as the natives can them, are In grea•t demand. Ahoet •eeelliteefieoanrsofagolneilar ;nerndrgfeede itneeme.rticiatnagraai : tate:try museum, of notiame ! "One clay a fair was heel in the market elm el Mandalay. This drew the nil:ire from tbe adjacent regions, and among theee was a party of snake charmers. Alter they had given ft performance with their own co-, eras a native offered to sell them a snake he had captured in theeforest the day betore. "I was absolutely eure that there was no collusion between therm as the native had eaptured the cobre, near where I was celled - log birds and had offered te sell it to me. A. bargain was soon struck between the :re- eve and the head snake charmer, and the latter- lifted the flap of the •basket in which the cobra was confined and started to. tree- fer,,wIlitutoo ahttlsemovivtinnsbtuatokedto. this les attention was distracted for an instant and the snake Improved the opportunity to strike its fangs into one of Ms fingere. It struck eo harcl hat deapite the man's struggles it reteined ts hold for several seconds. "Immediately ,there was excitement galore. :lie blood flowed from the wounds Mid M- euse pain appeared to follow alineet ateiy. With all expedition a friend and fel- .erfirmer undid his waist cloth and toolc tom it two snake etones, each GE tlie sizq if a small almond, intensely black and bight), ,ousbed, though of an extremely light sub - lance. "Theee es applied one to each Wound in- :Iticentea.d by the Meth of the serpeet, to which Amy attached themselves closely. The blood hat oozed from the bites was rapidly ab- erbed by the podus texture et the male: "The stones adhered for three'or four min- ites, tbe operator in the meanwhile rub- Ang the sufferer's arm downward from the ibouleer to tbe -fingers. At length tee :make !tones dropped off of their own aocerd ,nd the sufferings of the man subsided rap- dly, and then fifteen minutes later he steod le tweeting his fingers till the joints crack - d went on bis way without concern. "Wbile this interesting thing .hod been go - 'ng oa another member of the party took 'ram his waist cloth a small piece of white ;void which resembled a root and passed t gently over the head of the cobra. The .‘nako immediately inclined hes head close o the ground and ,altowed the mat to take t In his hand and coil it in a circle in bo bottom of tbe basket, "The root is epecies of Aristolochiae known , in India as the make plant. e. .,liecies of this plant found in thie counirr is said to be an antidote for =eke bite. "Later I managed to secure several ef these snake stones, •one of which turned iver to a chemist for examination. He re- •orted that it appeared to be a piece of ,harred hone. "When heated elightly during' the tests dater rine frotn it and also a little ammonia, Ind on being heated &till more highly in che air carbon, was observed to burn away, und eventually only a bulky white aeb was left, the latter being almost entirely com- posed of phosphate of lime. "Tee snake charmers of India profess to :repare the snake atones for themselves and :reserve the composition as a secret. At.one Limo the manufacture of these stones was a lucrative trade with the monks of Manila, who •supplieci a good part of the East, "some were compoaed of °balk, while others were of vegetable origin. No chemist has ever been able to dtscoier anything these atones which would apparently ba of value in ouring snake's bite, but there le no questiou that soma of them at leriet do "Tbe Boers in South Africa hnport these enake stones' from Indla„especially Mala- bar, sometImes at very beavy expense for specially noted spechnens. One of the moat who, although poor peoele, once refused $2ZO rioa7lotu.s Is an heirloom in the possessien of a Dutch family of the name of De Lange, "As soon as a person living within reach- ing distance of the stone is bitteu hy a enake'the stone la sent for and applied to the wound, Usually one application is suf- ficient, but ecc.aslonally it is applied the second time. "The atone is convex on one side, black,. and so poroua that when thrown Into Wain` tt causes the bubbles to rise. It is ale° ap- plied to horses when bitten eabynesdnatIthees. "Tho -adder stone, also beae, adder's gem, or corpora. stone, Pi perforated :atone seund in Great nritain atei poi/Warily believed to cure the bite of the adder. It is also called Druid stone or Druid: Leal bead, from the auppositiou that the Oruitie wore tbern as charms. "Other stones usecl curing the biter oel serpents are probably' bezoae: stones, whioe are coucretions found in tbe stomachs 4: various animals, ruminants la . particuler, and which are also of great repute in the meet as the antidote for all poisons, tint. of serpent IncludedeThe bozoar stone from the apo is most prized in Egypt. "A short' ttme ago a druggist in San An- tonio, Tex., paid MO far a enake otono which was said to have boon found in the stoma:eh of 0. deer. "The negroes in the South aro firm be- -nevem In the efficace of contain 61„dhes the cure of e‘nake bites, and have charms made of these small stones, perforated and hung like beads, whioh they wear on the person and also place oe cattle hi order to !voted then]." e- -: e Hurtin' Sienese. "Don't you know .you're hurthd biz. . nese," said the reel fox to the Ovoid. "When, instead of sieepin' peiaeefue• you come aneopint eniffin"round? What's the good of all yoar barkiin? Ittleut's the nee of all tlii.ie leo? What were) -ehiekene ever made for if ' they Weren't made for vs?" "Oen% you eye you're latrtin' .biznessl" said the Soublt Sea savage chief To the fearlees mieetionary who wee sit. ting on the reef; -I have seven wbite mei, cepteired that I want to sell as meat; What were the white flake ever male for if they weven't made to mitt" "Don't you know you're hurein biz - went" tosid the rolitet in the jell, %Virile the stublend sheriff lietened to. his almost teerfid tale; • l'hoset site make •Int.l. sell the. jimmies, dna pat eye .are losivt" trade, NI !tile ;tett fee.igily eolifine ere where rio ;Ate:Wee-A ere litatiee" -iete't eeti me eene1e• iturtieg lee. ineeee' :•:11.:1 the: :lei il to the man '11 ha Wi 1 b et:evilly progreestieg on the !iv:Len 1.-1 et -1 i vie plan 3- - Yo it ere '1,-eeplie' Men !reel .felliti" who, 1.;', -teele ertesed, might fail; Why, if 11,:i on it done as you do 1 wouhi 141%1 1in job At al)," ts,............... ' - . '.1.46...4.6.......* NvIl Would you call her pretty 1 1 Belle, -Not ot ell. In bet, eta. is, poi- th ely lantern-jawed, Nell • s Aili , hu t. Yen should see her faro Ht. rip.