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MiIlions of Eggs Eaten.
Furnishing of Colored Ones has Become Commercial ;industry.
There are more than twice as many meat balls and upon the majority of meat
eggs eaten in the United States now savories, whieh are served. upon toast,
than these were ten yearn ago. The They are the commonest excuse for the
count .of the year's laying for 190e use of anchovy butter, tetragon vinegar
shows 1,039,728,779 dozen. And. this is and aspic. '.lbcy are eternal in their
exclusive of eggs which are produced out- combination with cheese; they are some -
side the farms -a crop which is censer- times tried as a stuffing for baked po-
vatively estimated to be about 5 per tato, end they find them way into all
cent of the total number and which patties, canapes, vols au vent, and ris-
would bring the aggregate in dozens at soles. No pie of to -day is complete that
easily over 2,000,000,000. is not finished with a meringue. Cakes THE LASSO IN MEXICO.
The greatest factor in this increase in which eggs are �alrnost the only con-
stituent,Man-
has effi
as angers food and sunshine Row the Small Boys Down There eienc of cold storage. Applied in trans- cake, carry off the palm in popu]arity. ipulate Ropes.
ortation it has worked a great change For using eggs us a side dish there
p ' aro two doicn pretty and ingenious de
• dish
ins ions or co t g r h clothes-
only
lo e -
onl as a last resource. There was no Bel- nt es one book provides in just as soon as his tiny hands can
y their use ase re
ection ,with cold storage in view and rn over twenty recipes for omeletsandal- coil it..
ferior goods were often stored, bringing must as manysouffles. The ways m This serves duringhis babydays, but
the method under suspicion. Losses fol- which they cn be contrived into apee- soon he grows morambitios and tries
lowed and it was seen that the first con- ially attractive dishes are also legion. to lasso the cats, dogs, pigs, etc.
sideration of successful cold storage was ,,
1 er instance, there is the pretty art of To do this well requires a great deal
a judicious selection of products. When "whirling" them, there are nests of neo- of practice, but before long the little loan
There's a Logical Reason I
Ceylon Teas are in such Popular f3elrnan€.
They are i titter Than Others—That's Why.
Sold only in sealed lead packets, ) y all Grocers.
lfigllest Award, St. Louis, 5904.
• The most common plaything in Meld -
in business methods. In the early apply ' h - co is the lasso or sesta, The entail i►Iexi-
i rs of Coll storage e ' s ,were stored tees in the way of attractive
cat of g Rg b t f of in and serving For can begins ,with his mot ei s tli s
this was learned thoroughly cold stor-
age 'natio rapid bounds as a factor in
egg -raising.
The consumption of eggs at Easter
time is enormously increased eines the
furnishing of colored eggs has become
a commercial industry,
Though the color of eggs has an ef-
fect upon their market value, it doca
not indicate in any way a difference in
their food value. They are spoiled by
the entrance of a micro-organism through
the -porous shell which sets up fermen-
tation. The flavor may be influenced by
the food eaten by laying hens.
The North Carolina experiment sta-
tion, by feeding a quantity of chopped
wild onions to hens, obtained eggs so
pronounced in flavor that they could not
be eaten and this continued while the
wild onion was fed.
Eggs consist chiefly of nutriments-••
protein, or muscle -forming foods, and
fats which are utilized ies fat in the sys-
tem -in addition to water and a small
amount of mineral matter, consisting
of phosphorus and common salt, sulphur,
calcium, potassium and iron. The food
nutriments are similar to those in meat,
cheese, milk and other animal foods.
The frequently made statement that
eggs at 25 cents a dozen are cheaper
than meat is only true in that a smaller
outlay of expenditure answers for the
meal, providing two eggs for each
'.j vidual. The average hen's egg weighs
two ounces, and is suppesed to be equal
in nutriment to an ounce of meat. Its
average size is 2ee, inches long and 131
inches wide. Duck eggs, which are next
larger, are usually bluish white, in col-
or, those of geese are commonly white,
those of guinea fowls are usually light
brown, snore or less mottled with a dop-
er sbade, and those of turkeys are epee-
kled with a yellowish brown.
It is estimated that 4,000,000 eases,
each containing thirty dozen eggs, were
stored over last winter in the cold stor-
age warehouses of the United States.
The space for eggs was estimated at
over 375,000,000 cubic feet and was 750
per cent, greater than ten. years ago.
That these qualities are flooded upon the
market when the supply of fresh eggs
is cut off and in such amounts that the
price does not become exorbitant, is one
of the steps in the regulation of prices
in which the cold storage has lately prov-
ed the balance wheel. The other is that
its demands relieve the producer at a
time when he has the most trouble of
disposing of lois produce and consequent-
ly his prices are well sustained.
digs and spinach in which they are at- becomes sufficiently expert to cast noose
tractively buried. There are the little over any foot of any animal in full nio-
hard boiled yolks baked imbedded in the tion, and in time learns to do the same
foamed whites. That these ways are so , from the back of a horse in a hard gal-
abundent has already had the effect of lop.
making then the favorite choice for the Dogs, cats, donkeys and other animals
hot dish of the average home little in the streets, come in for their share
luncheon, especially the woman's lunch, of attention. Indeed the dogs particularly
where the appearance of the dish is have been' lassoed so often that they will
paramount. run for cover at the sight of a rope in
The effect of European ideas in cook- a boy's hand. Others, perversely inclin-
ing is also found in restaurants, where ed, will stand and watch the rope with
German and apple pancakes (another cool indifference and spoil the boy's fun
form of omelet) are two of the most by not running at all.
popular dishes. The endless variety of The rope is really very light and does
sandwiches let loose upon the market not hurt them at all. They learn to stop
in the last few years, none of which the moment the rope is fast around
omit eggs in some form or other, are thorn,
also responsible for their increased con- e - c
creased attention paid to Lenten and to POOR WATERY BLOOD.
fast day disbos by all public eating- ---
places
ating-
places which furnish a bill of fare with The Cause of Pimples and All Disfigur-
"Special Lenten dishes," in which eggs ing Eruptions -Dr. Williams' Pink
and fish vie with each other in vari-
ety. Another noticeable fact is that ' Pills the Only Cure.
in the majority of eating -places, when poor, watery blood -pale bloody -is the
an order for baked or boiled eggs is cause of every pale complexion. Bad
given, three is the number usually sup- blood -blood filled with poisonous im-
plied, where two were formerly given. purities --is the cause of every bad corn -
tothe United States little is taken in-lexion. Bad blood is res onsible for
to aeount except hens' eggs. The Eng• eruptions and pimples, and torturing,
lish habit of considering the plovers burning, itching eczema. These troubles
eggs a delicacy has never been adopted can only be cured through the blood, and
by Americana. In Virginia gulls' eggs the only medicine that actually makes
are commonly eaten and in Texas the new blood- rich, pure, health -giving
eggs"of terns and herons are gathered blood. -is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
along the coast. s' eggs are high- Pale People. The new blood. which these
ly prized in countries where they are ills make reaches every organ and part
abundant, and although once commonly . of the body. It clears the complexion,
oaten in America they are now seldom banishes pimples and eruptions, and
offered. The scarcity of goose and duck brings health, strength and happiness:
eggs 15 becoming more and more marked. Miss Lizzie Lobsinger, Carlsruhe, Ont,
The number of turkeys, ducks and geese says: "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills is the
reported from all parts of the country best medicine I know of for cleaning the
has decreased on an average of 30 per blood of impurities. My blood was in
cent. except in the west, where large a bad condition, and as a result I ewes
ranges are the rule. not only weak and run down, but was
The turkey, ,which retains navy of troubled with pimples and eruptions. 1
the characteristics of its wild ancestry, did t
sumption. Added to this is the in -
is particularly an aggravation to the
farmer. It needs a wide range, espe-
cially in nesting and breeding, and as
the population increases and the nests
become smaller the breeding is discontin-
etl. Gese cal be kept profita mommbb
tied. Geese can be kept profitably only
where there are green pastures, water
and a wide range, and this is often im-
possible for the farmer. So that even
if these egs are -more appreiated now
than they were a few years ago for
baking purposes the scarcity is greater
and except in a few of the western states
they are only sold for breeding.
As this has gradually become the Bit- Some unusual figures appear in the
nation the egg industry has been taken gains of egg production in localities. In
out of the hands of the wives and Oklahoma the gain in the last decade has
daughters of farmers and has become one been 1,286 per cent. Tennessee and Ken -
of the most important of the farm in- tuoky both show increase in the egg pro-
dustries. The business has become Bye- duction in proportion to the number of
tematized and organized so closely that fowls, indicating that more scientific
under favorable conditions enormous pro- steps aro being taken in the industry.
fits, amounting sometimes to 75 and 80 The western division of the country,
per cent., are realized. The eggs are bar- with its almost unparalleled advantages
gained for and picked up by wagons, in all lines of industry, has gained 112
which go around for the purpose; they per cent. in eggs. The reports from the
are tested and selected, thus reheveing negro farmers of bhe south sbow a much
the farmer of all difficulty, and, more- smaller proportion of eggs as compared
over the payments are made in cash.The with chickens than do the white farmers,
competition which arises also has the indicating unmistakably the fact that
effect of keeping up the summer prima the negro farmer produces chickens for
so that the farmer finds it worth while home consumption.
to pay closer attention to the breeds of It is only within comparatively recent
fowl which lay steadily, and is killing years that the production of poultry and
off the undesirable breeds. poultry products has assumed the pro -
That this attention to the scientific portions of a distinct industry. It was
side is becoming more general is shown and to a decreased extent is yet a sore
by the fact that the last census reported of collateral undertaking or mere incl•
the number of dozen eggs per chicken at dent in general farming unc'ter•takon by
a littlo more than five and one-half, bhe farmers wife. Clothes, pianos, col -
while ten years' ago the average United lege courses and many e. luxury have
States hon produced but a little over bean paid
for
rn egg money. With but
three dozen eggs annually. f ngiven to the welfare of
These conditions have also had results fowls the returns are often meager and.
in a more steady demand during the unsatisfactory, but when intelligently
brings to light another tea
year, which- conducted there is probably no branch of
son for increasing consumption. This is animal industry from which are secure"
then introductionnelf European cooking, such quick returns on money invested.
which is not only applied to the Ameri- , The fact that recent computations in
can cuisine in general, but is noticeably.,the Eastern States show the egg -raising
is im feature to average about 50 per cent. of
used upon eggs it particular. Also
eluded tho apparently irrelevant fact the value of the whole poultry raising in-
dustry is one,vhich is attracting partieu
a chief feature of dishes served upon lar attention to this branch of the poul-
American tables is more or leas ob. try business.
A new market has been obtained for
served. eggs in the egg powders which are used
It is not too much to say that the instead of the fresh articles in bakeries
person who has in any sense a varied There is also a dessicated egg iv'hieh can.
diet does not eat a men. in ,which eggs be converted into scrambled eggs and
do not appear in some form or other. A which is much in favor during long
decade or two ego they were known as marches in the Klondike. In the selec-
a breakfast dish only. Now they are tion of eggs. for cold storage onlyperfect
put forward as entrees, entremonts and
eggs taken, lcen, and those
cracked
piees deresistance, in wide)' form they transitrare sold to large baking estab•
appear at luncheon incl even for dine- lishments at prices below those of fret
ner. The growth of vegetarianism has ones, ncl thus taking the bakers out to
also raised the egg to a popular place a lame extent from the winter demand
as a dinner dish. and having a moderating effect upon
Cook books are now printed and are in rices
popular (lantana in ,which from 100 to 200 p In 1900 over 1,000 dozen eggs were
ways of cooking them are put forth. In- frozen in Kansas City alone, Those
numerable books are also printed in tonna to be tainted are used in dressing
which only egg recipes are given. In r1ee,ther for gloves and In book -binding,
these they appear riot only as the most which is largely carried on in the for-
impatent part of endless new breads, eign tenement districts of large cities.
takes, puddings, ices, popular drinks and A disinfectant is also made of the taint -
almost all meat sauces, but fashion also ed eggs, and they are extensively used
adds them to innumerable dishes in for the preparation of a shoe blacking,
`which they merely serve to double the The smells are used to make fertilizers.
proteid qualities. i Besides the culinary use millions are
They are added whole;p soaps, Vege- used for lune clarifyitrg, calico print
tables, nine -tenths of all salads, and are works and the preparation of photo -
laid carefully poached on the top of graphers' dry plates. They are also used
in the preparation of dyes.
A SO-CALLED VIRTUE.
Resignation is all right only when every
ether expedient has failed.
The woman who loses six •ehildren out of
t'evon end sits 10wn end weeps, sayle , "The
Lord gtveth, the Lord takelh away," Is gen-
erally the woman who dooen't know enoutei
to feel her infants rorre.•tly. She saga the
Lord took them away, when all the time 1:
was the cake, Bendy mid itie oho awe.)
them to set. To say "It to for the heat,"
and to fold hands, is sometimes a coward'•• ,
subterfuge; often a natter 0f indolence; in, '
many eases a heli of individuality Tint •
enough to think It is for the best when w•' '
rani it is truly inevitable. And the inevitable
things of t e world are mighty few. PhIl,r• ;
dolphin Telegraple
-ear fib+ ----e
There lusty be its good fish its the Best
as ever were eaught, but it requires it
stretch of the imagination to apply the
Mitzi. tittle to Books.
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NATIONAL RECORDS.
Ganddian National Live StoakAs•
socialion Organized.
++
The efforts made by the leading stock.
amen of Canada, with the encouragement
of the Dominion Minister of Agriculture,
for a national system of recording puce-
bred live stock were successfully cu]-
niinated at Ottawa last week, when lead-
ing stock breeders from througout Can-
ada, representing various breeds, signed
agreements with the Minister of Agri-
culture for the co-operation of his de-
partment and appointed a National Re-
cord Committee, to take the responsibil-
ity of managing 'natters of common in-
terest to the various record societies.
.As a result of the agreements, the Min-
ister undertakes that the seal of his
department shall be attached to all certi-
ficates of registration when approved by
an officer appointed by him.
The following ,were elected as the Te-
ecutive Committee: Chairman, R. Mil-
ler, Stouffville, Ont; Robert Beide Bow-
manville; Win. Smith, Columbus; A. W.
Smith, Maple Lode; J. E. Brethour.
Burford; John Dry -
i
en, Toronto, and R. ty of curing people bitten by mad dogs
Ness, Howick, Que. A, P. Westervelt, by successive injection of rabid virus,
Toronto, was appointed secretary. first of all very weak and then in in -
The Record Society representatives, ceasingly strong doses -that I started in
with delegates from the various pro. 1901 to vaccinate against cancer with
vines, met and adopted a constitution toxines and vaccines from cultures of
forming the Canadian `National Live inierococcus neoformans." The method
of the olarger exhibitions and a represen- of vaccination, Dr. Doyen claims, "be-
sentative of the different provinces and stows immunity slowly, and its effect
of the larger exhibitions and a provi tn- lasts for several years•-Booklovers
tativo Board of Directors is provided Magazine.
for, The following officers and directorse = t
were elected: President, John Dryden,
Toronto; Col. J. A. McGillivray, Toron-
to;• G. A. Gigault, Quebec; Arthur John-
ston, Greenwood; Secretary -Treasurer, "I was not a believer in advertised
A. P. Westervelt, Toronto. These, with
tors: W. W. Ballantyne, Stratford, medicines," says Mrs. Chas. VanTas
the following, form the Board of Direc- seed Digby, a S., "until I began us -
Ont.; Nap. LaChapelle, St. Paul filer- ing Baby's Own Tablets. When my
mite, Que.; Andrew Graham, Pomeroy, last baby was born we never hoped to
Man.; T. A. Peters, Fredericton, N. B.; raise her. She was weakly, did not
Prof. M. C. Cumming, Truro, N. S.; have any flesh on her bones, and a
F. L. Haszard, Charlottetown, P. E. I.; bluish color. The doctor ivho at -
A. G. Muteb, Lumsden, Asst.; P. Talbot, tended her told me she would not
M. P.; Strathcona, Alta.; J. R, Anderson,
Victoria, B. C.; and the secretaries of the
various provincial live stock associations.
A. P. Westervelt was appointed secre-
tary.
ready to put up with Buell discomfort *:. .,., eeere it 44 r ink**+s-*
for the sake of a mere niilg of beer. A
draught of the latter is all that la re-
quired by way of explanation.
The beer le truly royal, and in every
way worthy .of the aneient dynasty of
Wittelsbach whichproduces it. Nowhere
else in the world is it possible to obtain
such beer, the recipe for which was ob-
tained by the ducal founder of the brew- By W. R, Graham,
ery three centuries ago from the famous
brewer I)e;errberg, and has been kept
NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL
MUM AND .IRODDINO..
as a state secret by tlio sovereign house
of Bavaria ever since. -Modern Society. (Press. Bulletin from the Ontario Agri.
cultural College.y.
SERUM TO DESTROY CANCER, t g
While the artificial incubation of egos
Celebrated French Surgeon. Says Ke Bay i and the artificial rearing of ebickens arc
Discovered Remedy. now sit common practice, by far the
greater part of the poultry raised
The most debated question in European throughout the country' is hatched and
inadical circles to -day is the theory of reared by alio mother fowl, and we shall,
veneer advocated by 1)r. Doyen, the cele- therefore, give first, as briefly as may
brated French surgeon, Dr. Doyen claims be, a few directions for the management
to have discovered tliclr.spcciffc bacillus of clucking hens and yours oliicka, touch.
of cancer and to have compounded a spe- ingfurther down, on artificial methods
eific serum for its destruction, Whether of rearing.
Dr. Doyen's contentions prove sound or Setting hens should be removed from
not, his statements will command the the building or compartment in which
most interested and respectful attention. the laying stook is kept, in order to keep
The doctor's claims have been under the thein free from vermin and to secure
close scrutiny of a committee of vele- quietness and regularity during the per-
brated Frenelt surgeons, and their report iacl of incubation, The work of moving
has been favorable so far,them is best done after dark, as the hens
1)r. Doyen began his investigations 25 are not so . likelyto leave their new nests
years ago, "I had frequently tried inter- when shoved t that time. :Tire nest
stitial injections of solutions of laetue boxes should be from 15 to 18 inches
acid, chloride of zinc and various other square ,and six inciie deep, Fill the bot -
antiseptics, but unsuccessfully. This fail-
ure the and the results of my studies gener- u the corners so that the centre will be
ally led no in 1888 to try vaeclnatian slightly hollow, and cover the earth with
by a method similar to that used in peri- straw •
or chaff. Sometimes nest boxes
pneumonia, a method in which the virus arts lines. ,with tansey, as this plant
of afresh peripneumonic hung is intro- seems to be useful in keeping the nests
(awed at the root of the tail of healthy free from vermin, If valuable eggs are
animals. The patients upon whom I ex- being set, it is well to try the hen for a
peiiineuted had been attacked by cancer or so on eggs of no special value
for the third or fourth time -that is to. before putting the good ones under her.
were at least inoffensive.
sive. But I did.
not
say, were doomedmy experiinus Cluckers should be thoroughly dusted
with insect powder at the time of set -
theany result ,worthy of interest, for ting, then about ten daps later on, and
the fragments of tumors inserted under again about the eighteenth day of incu-
tlio skin were reabsorbed. bation. Test, the eggs for fertility be -
"It was in following up this idea of tween the 5th and 9th days. A handy
vaccination against recurrence of the div- testing lamp is made by tying a piece of
ease after operation ---in the same way black cloth around a lamp or lantern
as Pasteur when lie showed the possibil- chimney with a hole cut through the
cloth opposite the blaze. A fertile egg
help opposite the hole will appear dark or
cloudy, while an infertile egg will be
clear.
About 24 to 36 hours after hatching
the chicks should be removed from the
nest and placed with the hen In a small
coop. The style of coop most favored at
present is triangular in shape, like the
letter A, two feet square at the bottom
and 22 inches high at the peak, made
- of matched lumber so as to be water-
proof, and provided ,with a movaule
board bottom for use early in the season
when the ground is wet and cold. The
feeding of the chicks is the next point
SAVED THE BABY.
tried several medicines, but theyCoH
no F. W. odson,
help me. Then I was advised to take Live Stock Hods sion'er.
Dr, Williams' Pink Pills, and these soon
relieved me of all niy troubles. I can :=
recommend the pills to any one suffering BEER OP THE ROYAL BREW.
from bad blood." s
Bad blood is the cause of nearly every. Visitors
disease that afflicts humanity. It is be-
cause Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make new Tho royal family of Bavaria has from
rich red blood that they cure such trou- time immemorial been known to fame
bles as anaemia, heart palpitation, head- as the principal brewers of all Germany.
aches T
and backaches, rheumatism, nen,- ho faiitous Hofbrau house, or royal
might, indigestion, kidney and liver trou- brewery, was established in September,
hies, and ailments of girlhood and ,woe 1589, by Duke William of Bavaria, and
manhood. But you must get the genuin has become one of the national institu-
pills with the full name "Dr. Williams' tions of the country. No one who has
Pink Pills for Pale People," on the not been in Munich can form any ides of
wrapper around each box. Sold by meds- the grim, dingy tavern in which the royal
cine
cine dealers everywhere, or sent post- court beer has been sold at retail for
paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for the last 300ears, and ,vllich forms part
2.50 by writing the Dr. Williams' Medi -
.
of the ancient palace of the Dukeof
eine Co., Brockville, Ont. Bavaria
There are 110 waiters or waitresses,
Wealth of Timber in, Russia. everybody being expected to attend to
his own wants, and on the occasion of
The vast forest areas of Russia in Eur- the raiser's visite to Munich he, to-
ope, which cover nearly 500,000,000 acres, ether with the Bavarian princes who
or 36 per cent. of the entire area of the happea to be escorting him, take their
country, are aptly termed "wooden Rus- place in line and await their turn for a
sic." 'ew people who have not travelled atone mug, which, in accordance with
through this part of the country can the time-honored custom of the place,
form any idea of the country's boundless they themselves rinse in the tank be -
wealth in timber. Houses built of any fore again forming in line for the pur-
other material are entirely unknown out- , pose of having their mugs filled.
side of the great cities and wood consti- As soon as their mugs are filled Kaiser
tutes tlio principal fuel. The forest belt and princes sit down at the rough deal
in Siberia, called the "Taiga," stretches ' tables, which have done service from
in a direct line from the Ural mountains time immemorial, and purchase from
to the Pacific for 4,000 miles and is in the perambulating vendors slices of
many parts 500 mules broad. This is all wurat schwarzbrod. It may., surprise
the property of the czar. many that great personages should be
at Munish Must Help Them-
selves to the Nectar.
that calls for careful attention. :Co the
ordinary fanner there is, perhaps, no
food superior to 'bread soaked in milk
and squeezed dry enough to grumble
readily, with a little fine gravel or emu-
inercial chicken grit placed within easy
access. A mixture of the following
grains in the proportions given will also
be found a very satisfactory food; 16
poundscracked wheat, 10 pounds cracked
earn, 10 pounds pin -head oatmeal, and 6
pounds millet seed, and a rather expen-
sive feed, but one which forces chickens
along well, is Puritan Chick reed, an ex.
collent preventive of bowel trouble. For
a soft food, equal proportions of bran,
shorts, and corn meal, with half a mea"
sure of neat meal, moistened with milk
or water, makes an excellent mixture,
Hither milk or water may be given for
drink, but chickens will grow faster and
do better when they can have an abund-
ance of the fernier. Very yeung chick-
ens should be fed five times a day, but
when seven or eight weeks old the num-
ber of feeds can be reduced to three a
day, Feed as much at a time as the
chickens 'will clean up readily in five
minutes.
In artificial incubation the one essen-
tial point is a good machine: Judging
from our co-operative experiments in
running incubators, it does not matter
much where the machine is placed so
long as there is an abundance of fresh
air and no direct draughts. 1 would sug-
gest that operators follow the manufac-
turer's directions closely, at any rate
for the first two or three hatches. As
regards temperature, our• experiments
have shown that a larger proportion of
healthy chicks is hatched at a tempera-
ture of 101 to 103 degrees than at higher
temperatures. Chickens hatched in an
incubator are reared with a brooder or
with broody hens. They are taken from
the incubator in from 24 to 48 hours af-
ter hatching, and if they are to be raised
artificially are placed in a brooder at 95
degrees. This temperature should be
maintained for the first week, and after
that reduced five degrees each week, The
general care so far as feed and drink is
concerned is =eh the same as for
chickens raised with their natural moth-
era, but some special attention must be
given them for the first two or three
days, to teach the chickens where to go
to get warm after coming outside the
brooder.
rt pains trees. lighted candles and jeweled ioans
ROMANCE OF
CHRISTMAS ISLAND.
contribute to illuminate the gloom of the
place, while the walls are covered with
military trophies, standards, flags, keys of
raptured fortresses and the battle axes tak-
en from the Turks, the various tribes of
Central Asia and from all those other na-
tions with wbicb. Russia has waged war
live. After reading what other mothers •_ -_ .. c - _ ., during the last three centuries.
said about Baby's Own Tablets I de- 'e.."." s - e
cided to try them, and I must now Christmas Island is a speck of land, sbap- Had the Oranges on His Person.
honestly say I never had such a valu- ed like a dumbbell, rising steeply from the
able medicine in my home. It has Indian Ocean, 180 titles south of Java. No Senator Grady tells of the following
changed my poor, sickly, fleshless one is known ever to have landed on it incident with great delight, says 'the
revious to 1887 it was thought of only a.s New York limes:
baby, into a lovely child, now as fat a little rock, without good anchorage, not
as a butter ball. Words fail to ex -worth examining, wblle large regions were
pres my thanks for what the Tab- still white on, the map:+.
lets have done for my child, and I Ilut to -day sine tiny men are living on
Christmas Island, and naw and teen we see
can only urge that other mothers do a paragraph In the trade journals telling of
as I do now, keep the Tablets in the the increasing quantity of phosphate that it
house always." Baby's Own Tablets fs shipping. Last year, for example, as tto
positively euro all the minor ills of are told by one o1 these authorities, the
P Y island ,hipped 71,757 tons of phosphate, and
babyhood and childhood, and the new methods of loading vessels were intro
mother has a guarantee that they dueed, something like those by which iL;(11),!.
COntalri no opiate or harmful drug ore is poured into the holds of Lake "Why not?"
perior steamers. Tire phosphate is tipped "It's ,against the rules; but you Can
A boy was about to enter the Metro-
politan Museum of Art. carrying in his
hand a large bag apparently well filled.
"What hays you got in that bag?" said
the doorkeeper.
"Oranges; replied the boy. "A dozen
of 'em. \\-net one?"
"No; and you can't bring them in
Sold by all druggists or sent by mail from a high pier sato the ship. The last ves-
at 25 cents a box by writing the Dr. Bel to all Loaded in s.
a day with 1,080 ton
Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. About ten, years ago a British naval weasel
—_��¢�— started for the Indian Ocean to examine a
part of Its sea floor. Its main work was a
The Japanese Death Spirit. long distance from Christmas Island, but
Sir John Murray, the great Scottish ocean..
Within the human frame is a power that ographer, in mapping out the project, hap -
passes the understandings of boasted scien- pened to think of an area around Christmas
been
Mete of the twentieth century, and the sus Island where no Investigations haddi
prams Ideal of the Nlpton samurai, the ya frode, He suggested toed that the vessel and aol-
from its course make soundings eol-
mato damasht, is a spark that does often iect samples from the ocean bed In the
wake that power, mysterious, unknown, neighborhood of Christmas Island.
novertbeloss real. The Nippon soldier dies The work wsa thoroughly done, and to
when his life Is under the cloud of Ms- due time a list of soundings and specimens
honor, as he sees it. In your way of look- of the mud and bits of rock dredged from
Ing at things you might be superior en- the bottom were delivered at Sir John's la-
ough to say to him: Dear fellow, you are boratory near Ndinburgh. In the collection
mistaken; there 1s no dishonor In being was a fragment of rock wblch he could not
prisoners of war." And you might be right, identify on casual inspection and it excited
Permit me to remind you of one solid, his- his curiosity. Ile made au analysis of the
toric act -your genial and good-notured at- fragment and found that It was phosphate,
titude toward life has never yet produced There eculd be little doubt that it came
mea of whom, as the circular of the 80th from some Land mass; but where was
of April, in General Kurolri's camps has It, place of origin". It was far form any land
possible, sd the ertlo o t e sem of the im- of importori size, and Christmas Island was With hie wire and chtldren he usually isrMoreover, to the samurai to this life the only land anywhere,and near it. Could It verses In French or English to prevent, the
con -
country nothing; to the a duty to his own,+ n have been dropped from a passing vessel, or attendants from understanding them,
No
is and to the teto samurai theeverything. was it really a part of the reek that built
the dishonor
in greaterceomtlishing hiwork, in up Christmas Island? The problem was
the dlscharge of his duty toward his couu- worth investigating.
try. In the code of the samurai's honor It was not long before another vessel on
it is wrlttea that none would survive Ole- a scientific mission was cont to the Indian
honer.-Adachi Iifnnosuke, in Leslie's Ocean, and at the request of Sir John Mur -
Monthly for May. ray, she was ordered to stop at Christmas
Island and collect specimens illustrating its
geology for every twenty feet of latitude
from sea level to the summit of the island.
The specimens were to be sent to him for
his examination.
The results fulfilled the most sanguine ex-
pectations of the man of science. Tbere was
no longer any doubt of the existence of a
thick bed of phosphate on the Island. But
to ascertain all the conditions and the prli-
pects of mining with profit, Sir John made
a journey to it. Ile found that the mineiral1
offered a promising commercial posstb111ty;
that there was good anchorage on one side
of the island, and that by building a wharf
With a second storey on which trucks could
be run out, vessels might he loaded easily
and cheaply.
A company was organized with the neces-
sary capital, Parliament made a concession
giving the company the right to work the
ment was beguhate for n. It seriesof
ben years, most profit-
able
ro ilt-
able venture, and the best of it Is that It
ihas placed Sir John Murray, who, like
most scientific men, had no superfluity of
this world's goods, In very comfortable elr-
cumstauces for the rest of bis life. -N. Y.
Sun,
S=1
RUSSIA'S ROYAL TOMB.
The uprisings in Russia, with the many
desperate attempts on the lives of the royal
faintly, have attracted attention to the re-
markable tomb where Itussla•s royalty Is
buried. Tourists who are accustomed to the
magnificent monuments that adorn the torahs
at Western rulers of ancient and modern
times ,v111 be amazed to find that nothing
but a block of plain white marble marks
the spot beneath which lie an emperor or
an empress, a grand duke or a grand dutll-
089 of Russia.
The last resting glare et the reigning
hotiso of Russia le In the Cathedral of Ssl.
Peter and Paul, within the precincts of the
gloomy fortress of SS. Peter and Patti,
which commands the eetran,'•t to the Neve
River hid the City of $t. Petersburg. I1n
deed, those remains of the Illustrious deal
nr0 not 85 so many people suppose, tentatn-
ed in the blocks of nmarbie in eueatlon, nni
the latter are therefore faL•^ciy described
as sareopha;l, chive they aro not bullets,
hilt a sol.+I mast or al.'11e. The Imperial
tomb is in, each sate in the floor beneath
{ the marble blasts, end away down below
t. the tombs that are beneath 1t are damp
and terrible duns:eons, alraihat the fluter
Waite of whish b.'at the waters of the Neva,
while neaimt the Muer walls many a pris-
otter has, during the lest turn hundro'I years,
and sten within the last decad0, beaten out
brains In de -.pair.
est the sovereigns of Itus:ia since Peter
tee Meat, ,with the el1•ai,tieit of Peter It.,
as well as members of their temples, iso
aural Iherc, the tomb of Peter the GKrsot
heirs;; near the amst't door. On the marble
block above the tomb et the Grand Wire
on,tauttne, who wee Team hell, hent wee
was Unveil t0 ylel:l his right or successi..n
to els younger brother, \le1OTas Ie these
lie the hoes of the fortresses of Medllin and
of Sanies.•z, In Poland, whielt he eapturn,l.
War medals eonuaetnai•attng the .lapolainie
wars et the beginning of the reutury lie en
efo7 n erorbAlksant1hr the.A `number of places
vet and ellver gilt wreaths are deposited
tin the tenth's of the terendfatber and of the
tether at the 'present CMS +Ivhils the grave
et Grand Caorge will, for 80010 this to
cease, he adorned with treat flowers. Great
have them checked."
The boy stood thinking for a moment,
then slowly went outside. In about fif-
teen minutes he was back, minus the bag.
"Guess I can go in now, can't I?" he
asked.
"Hold on. Iiave you got those oranges
concealed about your person?"
"Yes, sir; all 'sept the skins. I throwed
those away."
The boy got in.
How the Czar Spends the Day.
(Chicago Chronicle.)
The Czar gots up at 7 o'clock and break-
fasts on tea and toast. After working two
hours he waits for an tour in his park. In
the afternoon he takes another walk and
then worlds hard till 11 o'clock at night,
except for the time devoted to his dinner.
HERD CARNAG1E TO THE 'RESCUE OF THE AGED PEDAGOGUES
4,11:2171 GIE (the hero): "IIACIC, VILLAIN, 1 WILL PROTECT THIESE H1 LPLESS PROPS"
—chimp Glrroltloia.
"IT SAVED MY LIFE"
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