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TRINIDAD'S ASPHALT
LAM
Brighton, Trinidad,--To-day we view
llad latch Lake, one of the natural woi •
dere of the world, but rarely vted and 1
little kitOWIL its ioeatioa and ourrotuna!
/Op ere not such ite to recemuneva it to 1
the tourist, although Brigbton tie the;
crow 1ie i nt twenty-five miles front
Port of Spain, one of tito most Meal
live ports o the West Indies.
This Trinidad ialcc of pItch and the ;
rormacz lake in Venezuela, supply the 1
balk of the asphalt of commeree, anl!
since the recent nullification of the'
Bermudez concession by President Cafe I
me Court, the Brighton lake has tale-
tro, baeked up by the arenezuchot Sup-
reI
ea on added importance.
Brighton has no claim of existence !
aside from the bituminous pitch that
nature here sends bubbling up frum the !
bowele Ile the earth. The lake le taxmt
A.finerter of a mile from the steamsbip I ; 1. •
P'', . Nearby are quarters for two hen. s
deed native workmen, a refining plant, 1 s-,4+-9-+ 444+
offices and quieten for the half dozen /
Americans rivesenting the company ;1 Timely Pointers. to
peel sun eternally beating down and •
the sherke Nast play in the aarlion
But as a Batmen curiosity and me a
commercial enterprise the lake le of ab,
LIVE AND DIE
Without ever drinking
TEA is to die without knowing the fit)! joy of
Jiving. Why miss the satisfaction of supping a
hot cup of this fragrant, refreshing drink?
TRY THE no LABEL
or the °tiler tends; to cause a diciest, disease until the praeelie ceases. It is
troths flow of piteh to that side, entirely unneceesary. Pe yea eyer Reg
The Trinided manager of the asphalt women sittiu n the winter of a am
eolnpriny ana Use •vierke in the offices, conetaxstly exile:caw t; ing bi one ep, en
all American's, live in comfortable quart. the Mar until a dliagreatale paddle has
ere down en the pier, where cooling accamulateitY if I:, 1., net neeeesary with
breezee skive away the Mosquitoesi and women it is not necessery with men. It
ntitie,ate the beat, is neeless for a, Irian to say: "1 hems not
eonaumption and am net, therefore, a
menette to my meglibor. The reeesaches
of the pumunonia commision eliew that
fully 70 per cent, of certain, elasse.s of
people have the germs of pneumonia in
their mouth. Already the commission on
e.erebro-spinal meningitis fina that the
contagion is from the nose awl throat of
the people. So it is not only tubercu-
losis to be feared from prorammous ex-
peetorratIon, but other dread diseases,
partieularly pnetunonia, the deaths from
willeit in 1004 amounted to 19 1-2 per
cent, of the total death rate, So 'that
almost every man 19 a menace to his
ueighbor if he expectorates in public.
True, sunlight in a few hours kills the
germs, but how many, many places fire
there where there is no sunlight, where
the sunlight never reaches, and where
may not the chest be carried to in the
atruoopheree—Dr. Thomas Darlington,
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FiowU Lovers
lambing interest. Imagine a hue° asphalt sew* assawaseasoesesee-e-ea-sawa•-•-4"4-4en
plaza of more than a hundred acres, manoon Advertiser,)
softened by the sun, overgrown in spole
with weeds, eoVered after a rain with The time for planting tulips and other
pools of water, and you have the famous bulbs is now at band ,and a few hints
pitch lake—a big black semi-solid pond
of asphalt, with D. surface fairly firm
by Park auperintendent Pearce to the
and apparently placid, but in reality citizens ou the growing of these, the
• treacherous and eternally in motion. loveliest of spring flowers; will not be
Around the edgeruns a, tramway arni84'
with an endless cable Mulling the load- Time tu Plant—Now ett for the next
ed care to therefinery and bring the' three weeks, but would not adviee later,
empty ones ea& no,ain, men this line, I han
ave known good. resulte when plted
where the pitch is 'hardest, all the min- in N ovember, but the results are en-
ing of the product is done—the black certain, ,
workmen digging it out with pick and .presezring Beds—If you want flee,
Most likely not aeother brain In the state,
shovel, men vreorelle bloom you must traVe
s .e, possibly not In the world, hes verbally me -
it is necessary to shift the scene of i g"cl rich 8011. NearlY all bUibg like quired so much Scripture in so Abort a time
operations only along the line, raver I •
toward the centre, as in two days time ;
the slowly moving viscous mass of 1
pitch continually flowing from the cen- i
tre has refilled. the excavations and, s
made thent ready for the workmen I
again. Every day the rails of the little ;
tramway are lifted ana the slowly sink- 1
Ing ties moved ts few inches one way or '
the Other in order that tho railway may :
not entirely disappear in the bottomless !
ooze. 1
i
Bottomless it may well be called, for '
soundings hove been made 'until with no '
bottom at 140 feet the pipes and sound- 1
ing apparatus have been crushed and '
wallowed up, to be disgorged months
later. The minims of the product is
lowering the level of the lake at the rate
of about six inches a year.
The center of this huge volcanic at- /
Committed to Memory 12,236 Verses,
(Biblical Record,)
rich food It properly apalled, and t eis as has been doee receneiy by a young development, size, luxuriance and Mel- man in Buncombe tounty,
Honey clepend very largely on the ina- ..AbBout the Sirst of Mrmeb 1305, Farstor J.
A. rendell, hoping to etleaulate memory
terial the roots can draw from the soil, work in the Dig Ivy Baptist Sunday School
If your soil. is net good enougli, get a at Bernardsville Forst Oflice, offered two
load of rich. clay loam. lai not dig mil (Bibles), the first o the pupil over
2 n the other to the one under 12, who
manure into your bulb beds. 11 manure
egUld during this interval commit to mem-
is applied, put it below the bulbs, or ory and recite the largest number of verses
put your manure •on the top of the ued. of _somata°. A committee was appointed
after planting. Die your beds' up them to hoar the conteretants for the prizes aim
register the number of verses memorized. i
mighty and. well to the depth of oue On the day of the award it was found that
foot or more and make soil as fine and among tho older competitors the winner was
loose as possible. When beds are nut Mise Leste May Williatoo, a YelPg tri>mall
in. good condition, the better way to years of age. Within theme ninety days,
during which ishe had an attack of =eagle*,
prepare your bed will pay well for the she eommItted to memory and recited to the
extra trouble, and. it is easily wool - committee, 12,236 versesof Scripture, cover -
Ne (evce tin two
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Of. L. Hutt, p, s. .00
Al soon ea Me leave* are ott 14 the aut.
mum much of Me pruning ot vines and bash
fruits may be done t3 better advantage than
leaving It till next ,eprin. Atteb, ot course,
dopiness upon tbe locallte. In emiteero lain
tame, where no stainer Preteens:se of Yeas
eatl Inishes is needed, the pruning may be
ein Mt sorsa eouvenient time tiering tbe
early spring, but In northern eeettees, weero
grape ylnee east berry bushes solve to be ,...
earl down in the fall and covered 'with 1 :.
earth or Other covering before Winter stets in, I -
IL is adyleeble to do the pruning liefore emelt i s
covering te neeessary.
Currant east gooseberry blushes are so
baray that they need no winter protection, !,
evee in the north, Beal they leaf out so early i _
la the sprint Mat it Is welt to !WO tthVIA 1 r
g111111121 gStIll talraint alltOWisliabg"stbiOutgRagalt egel '
, to the bush. and as the best trait, Is borne i
/ on wood, not more than three yestre ine, it (.1(
Iis well to adopt a renewal mestese ot prune 1
lag. whereby otsealaire of the lase
eewed eaoh year. This zee be done by cut-
, Unit out two of the oldest genes each. year.
and allowing two ot the new canes to take
their places. in this way the whole bush
is renewed In three years. The ends at the
taw growth :should be shortened enough to
keep the bush symmetrioal.
Raspberries and blaeitherriea have peren-
nial roots, but biennial canes; that is, the ,
roots live through a number of years, but $
the second season. Scene muds have more cr 1
the canes me atter fruiting at the end of
less ot an minim) fruiting season. With smelt 1
tretatligello'utth:littit!telaicarietsinViternlai= I
borne fruit, The new canes also should be
thinned out so as to leave onh, sin or eight
of the hest canes to each bash; or if the
bushes are grown In the hedge row, Mstead
tot the hill zyetern, the thinning should leave
the cello six or eight Inches apart in the
row.
As to whether tbe tops et raspberry v
blackberry bushes should lie headed back in
the tall depends largely upon the locality.
In actions where the canes do not kill
back in the winter, they may be headed hack
in the fail; but where the Danes have to be
laid down teed covered, or where they kill
bffek 'mere or loss during the winter, it is
best tp leave the heading bee& till spring,
when they can be cut back to eound wood.
The laeight to which sound canes should bo
ent back varies from three to five Reef,
dependlag upon the vigor of the bush.
There are almost as many systems of
1 training the grape vine tie there are kinds
of grapes, but tor northera sections one et
the low arm renewal systems is best, as thie
/ facilitates the /eying down, and covering of
the vines where that Is ,neeesseary. In
louthern sections the Kniffen or one of the
6Vor Pl en El
high at): ty_steotit is more convenient. What -
Ming may be adopted,
the maln object of the annual pruning is to
remove all superfluous wood and reduce the
vine to Just what is sufficient to bear a full
crop of fruit. Thirty or forty bude is use -
ally all that Is. necessary, and these should
be evenly distributed over the vine.
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SCOTLAND !LED METHODS.
plisbed. Take off six inches of the top
ingtheiltireof TestamentJwesusin /ire? chgapter
tail laying to one side. Then apply the genealogiesof Matthew, and the third chapter of muse),
manure and dig in thotoughly, nutking and including liberelas lectlone from Genesis,
this bottom part of the bed one-third teelees, Ecclesiastes and other parts of the
id Testament.
to a half manure; level all and put The winner of the second prize was the
back about one inch of soil. On this youngest sister of the winner of the first
prize. Little Miss Ella Jay Williams Is only
11 years of ago, yet in this competition there
were to her credit 715 verses ot Scripture.
The paetor reports that during the entire
conteet there were more than 19,000 verses
memorized.
er is the source of supply. Here we see Plant your bulbs and cover with balance
the pitch boiling up in almost a purely of soil removed. in this way the route
liquid state, spreading out over the lake
in dozens of streams, gradually harasses -
of tbe bulbs will go down aud. feed ou
the inanUre as they want it.
mg and. imperceptibly Wowing. toward Planting—Do not plarst in straggling
the boundariee in an attempt to find a Mae, rum eve here and there. leave
level. Except for a space at the centre, some definite plan or pattern in your
mind. Plant for effect. The best and
winch. you might cover with a, mackhn
most striking restate are attained by
tosh, ono may safely walk over the en.
wading. Many of the bulb catalogues
tire surface of the lake; and even at have mut or more designs, which will
the center, as the superintendent dem-
onstrated to ill, you may if you eare give you an idea of how to arrange
for that sort of thing, run forwarca• di , your lade. lf eon have 100 bulbs to
out with your fingers handful of the plant, it is better to put in two effect
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warm pitch for a souvenir and retire in lee _clumps than ten smell ones. Bulhs
look well in a border bed along a walls
great haste without sinking More
ankle deep in the muck. roan or driveway. :tulips should. be planted
It is horrible to contemplate the an(1 set some Jistance aPalt• swn° "11"
thought of being might by this awful thoritieg say hix inches apart, but 1
black quicksand and relentlessly en- : would not plant over five inches; hyta
tombed in its depths. Not long ago a chins, six to seven inches deep, and
negro workman heroically offered 1 hit- the same distnce apart, If you plant
self for an experiment designed to as- a bed of hyacinths, plant all one vari-
certain how long it would take for a ety in your bed, with a border of some
nian to become engulfed in the pitch. ' other colpr, Mixed hyacinths do not
For more than an hour he slowly slow • look well. To make sure your bulbs
until only the upper part of his bale- 1 are all set the same depth (this ie very
. i important), use a dibble ebout an iach
remained in sight, and then his coin
panions, in a burst of cruel humor, nude ! and a quarter in diameter. Drive a nail
as if to leave him to IliS Wylie. His maw. ; through this about five inches tam the
erous appeals for mercy melted their ' end; then shove this into the ground
hearts. Planks Were thrown out over tbe • to the depth of the nail, Withdraw and
pitch, as they are used in resetting 0, ' take bulb between the thumb and two
skater who has broken through the ice, ; front fingers, and push into the soil the
and after an hour's hard. work the victim same depth as the aibble went, Be sure
was once more free and happy. end put in right side up. If the soil
The output of the lake last year wee ' should be stiff and hard, remove four
about 140,000 tons. Most of the product to five halms, from the top of the bed
is shipped north in a crude state. Tag and level nicely, and then put your
. cars of pitch are picked up from the bulbs on this. In. that way your bulbs
cable way as they come from the lake will be all exactly the same depth, which
by an overhead trolley line, run to the is very important. Censer your bed up
water front and dumped into the holds with a light dressing of well -rotted Mem-
01 chartered stemners. ; ure, and let stand till the ground freez-
The asphalt hardens in the hold and • es three to four inches deep. Then put
on three o
has to be dug out with picks when the r four inches of good. manure,
cargo is discharged. A small amount 0,1,1,t1.1,,yftour beds will be all right till the
of the product is refined on the t.nOt; by in the spring, as soon as, or
a, steam protests and shipped to South . I.W.f.•o...r''ti., this bulbs show, rake off 51113
American ports, ready for use in, pavin manure, or the greater part of it. When
The refined product represents a loss ol
": the baths are coming up, or during the
28 per cent. .of the crude, principally ' flowering time, should the weather he
; dry, water freely.
water, I Varieties to Plant—I found to my
The lake is a valuable source of men- • surprise aisle spring Ott very few 'mo-
ue to the island government. An export s ple were aware that tIt ere were two
duty of $1.25 a ton and a royalty of ' varieties of 'soups — early and late
40 rig a ton, by the terms of the con- 1blooming—knowitig only the early sort.
cession, put nearly a quarter of a million ; 01 the two, the late are probably the
dollars a year into the island treasury. I finest, Another important featuee is
The entire concession is about 2,000 1 that they remain in bloom much lotig.
acres, and aephalt is found throughout ; er, than the early varieties. 13y all meare
the whole locality, The land is fertile I plant a few' of the late blooming and
and some of it is now being used with i you will he pleased. I knOW some who
alleCOSS for the cultivation of fruit. t only plant the late varieties. Those
The New Trinidad Asphalt Company
' : who saw the 13imm
ads and Bableas in
an American concern, controls both this1 Vitoria Park last sprieg can testify
concession an(1 the recently abrogated ! as to their great beauty and beatitifut
13erroudez concession in Venezuela, The 1 tnarkings.
Trinidad property has several distinctI The following are sonic ef the best
advantages over the 33erittudez Lake. , The
Early single—Artus, Chrys-
The possibility of exhaustion of the ; olora, Cottage Maid, Weiserkroon, La
former seems more remote—the Veeezu- : Heine, Pottebaker, white and yellow,
elan lake., although ten times tbe. area, I Von Gomm
is but „thirty feet deep. Its surface is ' Late or May flowering—Bizard, By-
submergea in water, rendering the ex- ,blooms (these are beautifully marked),
traction of the proditet more (1ifficelt, ' Gesneriana, Scarlet and white, Parrot
and a forty mile haul to the seacoest or Dragon (petals of-thesss are curious.
adds to the cost of placing it on the ly fringcl and cut), Derwin (a new mug-
roarket. ety that has attraeted much attention
Per the preparetion of paving mat at the boeticultural shows in Holland.
'roofing materiels the Trinidad 'variety dsrence. and. Engin:ad),
has been fottna the better adapted, but Another little bulb that elated be
She puter Venezuelan artiele 18 Used More generally planted is the eroeue,
lergely it the preperation of varitish. Phut 511050 10 3'0112 learn in 80111e eors
not ltsti than four to five inchee swop.
aesogee attends the slapping of tee wee. nor or id e of lawn. Do not plant
xnudez pitch in bulk in the holds of the in rows; seater thesis on the ground In
steamers, as the slightest list to erie side net irreguler manner, as if they risme
up of their own accord. then inake
• (abate, Inane a hole, atta drop in, or
raise tz, corner of sod with a ;spade and
drop in.
Nitreisitie or Daffediln Spastielt twist
English Dan are .also very beautiful.
THE SPITTING IsiU/SANCE,
Above all, the eanitary ituthoritiee
ihould etutet laws owl otiose'st regale -
Hoeg prohilating :mating. If all tit !sno-
titnt from nit eotrittniptiVeg Wag eared for. •
the ravagese at tbe sliessasse wattle even
cease, Mile Leing the else, wb»t oil";
the Amerieen peek rea.sie that feel y
and elengerone habit of spitting? Wiwi
will publie opinion rpm tiw sobjest Igo
come so strong that the preetice ef
peetomtiug in am, Itelliveye of tette-
meat, phiees of emiteemett ant open
sildasealles beeeille a thing Cif the pit?
Wit tan never hope to ei pe with tint
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When Buying Meat.
In large markets, where every scrap
lias a value, you often see hamburg
steak of a good red 00101' piled up in a
neat dish and marked "19 cents a
pound." 11 people only stopped to
think of it they must know that no
market can buy good meat aeent toss
htan 30 cents a pound, skin, bone and
all, so that meat which sells for that
money has something wrong with it.
• And, as a matter of fact, that meat is
the very worst leavings, chopped up
with old fat, and with it an mad is
mixed which will keep it from. spoiling
or becoming discolored for two or three
days. Of course, no honest market does
• that, but the women go where things
the cheapest, and they feea their hus-
• bands and children on such stuff. The
• acid, of course, i's just as effective to
keep the meat from digesting as it is
to do the rest, and so the family gat
no good from it, even if it doesn't
actually poison them,— Good House-
keeping.
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Failing to Make Sure of Title.
• (St. Louis Olobe-Democrat.)
Another American girl has married a bogus
count. Funny thing. In buying a piece of
realty even an American heiress would look
up the oue, but in buying a husband, she
is less cameo.
A THIRY IDEAL WIFE
HER HUSBAND'S BEST HELPER
Vigorous Efealth Its the Great Source of
the Power to ',aspire and Encourage
—All Warasen Should Seek It.
One of the most noted, successful and
richest men of this century, in a recent
article, has said, "Whatever 1 am and
whatever success I have attained in
this world I owe all to my wife. Frills]
the day 1 first knew her she has been
an inspiration, and the greatest help-
mate of my life."
To be snob a successful wife, to re.
rain the love and admiration of her
husband, to inspire him to make the
most of hirn.self, should be a eveneesn'e
constant study.
If a woman finds that her energies
are flagging, that she geta easily tired,
dark shadows appear under her eyes,
she iitte backache, headaches, bearing.
down pains, nervousness, whites, irreg-
ularities or the blues, she should start
nt onee to build up her system by a
tonic with speeific powers, such as
Lydia. E, Pinta:ma's Vegetable Gem-
pouhd,
Following we publish by request a
letter front ti young wire :
Dem. Ilire, ?Michela:
" Ever since my child was tarn 7 Imre suf.
ferol, as I hope few women ever have, with lie
amentation, female weaktieee, beartegelown
Ntinls letekatelul and wretehed headaches. It
etTeeted tee stoinach so I could hot enjoy rny
mete and half my time was spent in bed.
"Lydia le. Pitzkletnes Vegetable Compendia
merle mete will women, and r feel so grittefuT
tbat 1 AM
"01 to Write hld tell
eyou
of
irllTI(leitl.It I t1t I
eifetrnv ity.a—amahisbmeey,
hit Routh 10th Steeds Titcbroal Wash,
ViThat Lydia. le. Pirdehein 4 Vegetable
rompound did for Mrs. Ainsley it will
do Wu* every sick and ailing woman.
If yon have symptoms you don't Un-
derstand write to Mrs. Pinlehttni, at
tyatto Mass. Her adViee is free and
slwisys helpful.
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Almost Impossible for a Criminal to
Escape London's System.
Direetly a big, mysterious crinie occurs
in London &mend Yard throws over
the znetropolis a strong but invisible net,
from which only the very lucky or the
very clever criminal can escape, says
the London Mail. When you consider
that the London over which Scotland
Yard has power has a radius of fifteen
miles from Charing Cross you will under-
stand. the wonderful nature of the police
organization. Within a few hours of the
discovery of a sensational crime the au-
thor of which has escaped, the 6,000,000
of people la Loudon are more or less tin-
der surveillance.
Imagine it terrible murder such as that
at Deptford a few days ago. The local
police immediately communicated with
Scotland Yard eeivIng the fact—stating,
for example that three people testae been
murdered in a house, and that a fair.
haired man of 40, wearing a long grey
overcoat, had been seen to leave the
house.
From Scotland Yard there radiate to
the twenty-one metropolitan police diva
along, from the "A" or Whitebalr dis-
trict to the "Y" or Highgate district,
such facts as the authorities in the great
central building on the embankment
think it necessary should be known. It
is then only a matter of a few hours be-
fore the policemen en the streets are
keeping them eyes open for a fair-haired and happiness of evety woman depende
man of 40 wearing a long grey overcoat.I upon her blood, its richness and its regu-
13ut this is only the beginning of the "7 ea
work. One of the chief detectives of ; stasr. If her blood 38 poor and watery
weak and langtod, pale and nerv-
Scotland Yard is on the scene of the ous. If bee blood is irremilar she suffers
crime as quickly as it is possible for him
to get there, and possibly the assistant
untold torture from headache?, trek -
;aches ana sideacbes, and other unspealc-
' eommissioner himself rushes down on his
1 able diseases which only' women know.
motor car. The chiefs, with the assist- '
ants, make a thorough examination of
tShoinal eau fefveot ima egn a ht ftry:gulgarroxislanteitNo74xpaeacat
the place and take photographs.
A piece of glass bearing the marks of bear it in hopeless silence, But they
two fingers is sent off at once to Scot- would escape the greater part of it if
land Yard. It has been decided that the they took a box or two of Dr. Williams'
criminal is a casual laborer and there is Pink Pills each time to twin them over
a detective quietly watching every coin- the critical period. Dr. Williams' Pink
mon lodging -house within a radius of Pills actually make iww blood. They
miles. Meanwhile one of the senior de- help a woman just wisest) nature mikes
teetivee at the yard, with a memory the greatest demand upon her bleed stip-
storecl with the names of meth of the des-
. y They have done this fee 1 honettnee
of women throughout Cemnele, ev.by
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FEEDING
The average horse, withthe
usual flow of saliva, eat one
quart of oats in about fifteen
minutes ; with this flow
partially stopped I t takes
thirty minutes.
This shows how important
it 13 to have the proper quantity
of saliva and digestive Juices.
Clydesdale
Stock Food
increases the ealivaand digestive
juices because the fee(' being
made "tazty" it makes the
animals "mouth water," the
:same as our own when we add
butter or jam to our soda lase
cult; it makes it more enjoyable
to eat. The horse, therefor;
eats its feed up clean.
The increased digestion and
assimilation tnakes the blood
circulate better, loosening the
hide and making the coat glossy.
Nothing injurious in It and can
stop feeding it without harm-
ful effects.
Our Heave Cure, Tar Mot
Remedy, Colic Cure, Embro-
cation Liniment, Gall Cure,
Balsam Pine Healing Oil, and
Worm Powders are equally as
good in their own way,
Money cheerfully refunded
by the ctealer if any Clydesdale
Prepermions do not give satis-
faction.
Try Hercules Poultry Food.
Clydesdale Stock Food Co., Limited
Toronto, Ont,
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Bowen' Plu
p Work.
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I Recent beaay rains whicli did harm
to the dews erected by the beavers in
• the beaver volley of the Zoological Gar-
dens in Bronx Park eausea the little
111111111013 141/54 WOrie to save their limes,
Isaye the New York Sun. At the
same time the beavers gave a lesson
that might be beneficial to the city when,
- another break occars in any of the
e water mains,
in the beaver valley in. the park the
a beavers beve their excluelve beanie in
, what Is known as the beaver darn.
Thete their cunning 10 building is an
all the year mine source of euriosity,
As o rule floods do not bother them,
for they guard carefully against that,
end protect their walls and homes as
surely as .any big builder might.
The other itny, while the rain Wee
coming down in torrente and. it seem-
ed to the keepers that too muclt water
was being dratted into the valley, one
of the keepers made an openieg in the
breatsworie of the little dam, which
bolas the teeter of what it; really
Small lake. It was the idea of the
keeper that it would be better to let
pa0leillit0tyo fthetag
algaasafrneasinw
it ragewr aosf feaeh
invini180
In.
The water had hardly started to mesh
-
from the opening before the little bea-
ver, at the present time the only caeas
pant of the lake, mile out from bie
tislusielcapiomat:ibetilniatyalaetWhieavillaisienegedebiliat battleoty
home. Be at up in the water, ponder.
ing his future section.
Theu he went right to work and Was
soon much busier than an emergenev
crew ealled out for hurried action. Firet
he seam to the upper end of the seine
and gathered in his grip a bundle 05
straw and weeds almost as large as him-
eelf, swimming back in on almost w>.
night position and holding his burden
wear from the water.
; The bundle he hurled into tbe break
and. then Sat up to watelt the result.
That was not ell that was desirea, for "
the swiftly running water carried the
weeds right along with it.
Again the beaver went through, the
same procedure, only this time coming
back with a bigger load of weeds. These
too, went away quickly, like the rest,
Then the wise little animal surveyed the
hole and decided oa another plan of
woArk,
gainwhitek tswwoamlargaewbaaryl
but soon re-
turnedches of a tree
which he had cut off with his sharp
teeth. One of these he allowed to float
crosswise to the hole in the dam, being
certain that it was big enough not to
float through while in that position.
The other he calmly took and pushed
deep into the mud at one side of the
wall. When that had been sent to its
proper position, •ho took the other from
the centre of the break and did the
sante thing at the other side, allowing
the ends to lap over, but being aesured
that the end in the mud had been made
secure enougb not to be washed. away
by the water.
Tian another limb of a tree was float-
ed down by the wise little aeimal and
this was stuck deeply into the botom
of the lake so as to at as a brace for
tile centre of the repair work. ln this
way the beaver made a foundation for
further operation,
Never once did he tire of his wok,
but occasionally would sit -upright tend I
survey what he had done with evident!
satisfaction. Wheel the crosawork had;
all been formed with the pieces of 'wood,.
the animal then began to cane, loads .
• of mud and deposit it in front of the
new breastwork:. At least n dozen trips ;
of this kind had to be made before the 1
flow of water had been stopped to any 1
great extent.
; When the water bad been partially I
shut off he again started to bring straw ;
and weeds-, which were carefully stuele;
into small openings and cracks. When ;
supply of mud eves carried up, another ;
supply of mud was carried down and
plastered all over the newly made wale!
and thus, alter about two hours of the;
hardest kind of work, the dam had been i
once moreanade safe, and the home of '
the beaver was no more in danger.
The clever work of this little animal
Was Watched with more thau ordinary
interest by a (Towel of :spectators. As
a rtile flick beavers in the park wilt not
do any bendiest when eny spectators are
about, but this reamed elearly to be a
hurry up job. and the little workez
never once pai(1 any attention to nit
rub' 'thhe.
en twork had 1-een finally com-
pleted to the satisfaetion 01 1110 builder
clieappeared frant view.
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ONE APPLE $4,00o.
Tat the Smithsonian Institution May
Buy It at That Price.
Louis Lowry, mining engineer, of Den-
ver, is asking $4,000 for what he says
is a petrified apple, the only one known
to be in existence, and the Smithson-
ian Institution at Washington, D. O.,
may pay the price he asks.
The apple was discovered by an Aus-
tralian miner near Guadalajara, Mexico,
and was turned over to Mr. Lowry. The
miner found the apple 16 feet below the
surface of the ground.
"I have been offered $1500 for the ap-
ple," said Mr. Lowry, "but I would not
sell it for that. I have placed. its rat-
tle at $4000. There were seven apples
found, but this is the only one in tlie
'United States."
The apple is as hard as a rock, and
has a glossy brown skin like that of the
jacket of a russet. It is heavier than
a fresh apple of the same size would be.
A WOMAN'S HEALTH
Depends Upon the Richness and
Regularity of Her Blood.
A woman needs a blood medicine reg-
ularly just because she is a woman,
From maturity to middle life the health
filecrely to conimit such a crime, has set sliouldn't •they do that. mesh for yen s
on foot a search for each of these men, Mrs. James Canay, 25 Edith avenue.
7balicoks,ernovemeots will be traead for days Toronto, sa, • "I the D ht. '
Pink Pills a medicine that shotile
That business -looking commercial tra. taken regularly by every woman in Um
yeler who lounges round the bookstall or land. suffered greatly from those ail -
near the booking office of one or zuore ments that only a W01000knowe. I 10(1of the great railivay stations is also b
I 1 1 1
bearing down pain. I wae very irregular,
methods vary according to circumstances.,
•
probably a man from the yard. The acme es and mama- we, and a weiry
but in every direction there are the and. 'Was often forced, to go to bsd f°1'
two or three days at a time. I trial
staring, unseen meshes; of the police het.
many meaicines, hut got nothing to help
'Up at Scotland Yard. the finger prints on
me until I began taking Dr. Willieme'
'the piece of glass are being carefully
cothatired wfah scene of tae finger prints Pink Pills, and they have given me new
of known erimirtals. For years finger health and relief from pale, and made
prints have been stored; and there are me regular. I cannot say how thankful
now on register zu.ore than 60,000 sets. 1 am for what the znedieine has done for
Prisoners have had to slightly ink their me, and 1 woula urge all women wen
fingers all around on *prepared slab and suffer as I did to try Dr. Williams' Piek
Shen place them on a piece of specialty Pills."
prepared peper, tutting them slowly Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the grest-
round by the direction of an official un- est cure in all the wide world for all ti‘e
tit an impression of the skin markings weakness, and. backaches of anaenlit, all
bas been left on the paper. Fatally the the heaviness and distress of indigesii ,n,
sets of finger prints are bidexed and all the sharp stabbing pine of teural-
Aorta away until wanted for compara gilt, rheumatism, lumbago and. scealica,
son, either with finger prints substall. at all the other Me that come from
tially takete or with accidented mooks poor, Week, watery bloats De. Williams,'
made by escaping erimituals, such as Pink Pills make new Wool with every
those left ott the piece of glass. Pedlar dose, and thus Strikes right at tee too!
the fihger marks on the glass conic! e of nearly. wee eneese thee amine
with those of a crimanal who has not Ittnnanity. TIM *remember Vett the "Piss.
been seeh or heard of for many months.' a, goo „waking:4o that ensre drupseiels
Ats independent sear& is at Orice made -
offer never cured enemies or tmt,illirg
for him, and possibly sente of Isis old 0.0- upon the gentelle pilla With 'Ow
quaintatees are enlisted in the quest. Ile 1 Insi''t
gf aagi„, 1. full name Dr, Wiliam': Pink Pals for
may have been et frequenetr 111)
; Pale People on tbe wrapper arouotl
of low dens. Be sure that in every
of those there i$ art official or unofficial aaerY lats. If doubt eerd to the De.
; Williams' aleslidue Co., Ilreweville, (*int •
representative of Sco•tland Yartle—Lon•
and the Mlle will be sent be mail at e0
don Gateivey.
Miss ft LOX or elis boeve Selese
School teens..
(Chicago (Threttlele.)
More Rays Frain the Brain.
• stories tell by 1)3'. Meeeninera in the
Cottle, all ye ehIldree, get y012 books,
le&totemtetrea, 811 M—el? .11 tablet/ell
Aeel slates, ard penele, too. A toed Iteazatt.A eisert time tel
e / wog
Porzekthe tirade, the streets, the becek, takine a 30113011,51 on the 0,5 of the hyptiea.
The heildays aro through. Ii.se lee, written re number el' exeretaces un the
ae tina your leeeoes, need tbe rule, II...ilium& the first el wht wee "bi
To-doe, thy dears, you Vlart, to vehool, tome" 1 aulte.1 the boys to give a teassm
tsr putting the bl plien haween -hint" Old
Po get up early erg be euhet, -, &see." Atter a tli'o‘t silence. on3 boy,
kid wash your necks Ana eate, Nebo el 00.1591 tbe 12111,0.;.held. Un ids toed
And find your old arithinetie— rt,d !.uid, "It LI fe.. the him to noech co,
The book that Always Ocoee . sir."
Aets1 Whets yea Meet your little thume, Marty. Market Previe—liere le it Verbatim
Why, yee May start to 8e1o3 sums. VW y of a mate reeelved Ott 2Ist November
, Met: "Teta 13 111(titt te vette t." Fvit,A yee
For ktuneledge you MIRA soot to yearn it. lir. lilieht Mid 7 have le tell yea ets
aud ea your lessons von. . thee Stave latianaaatioa in the meows. eosin
Peek' at tome, for Toe mum learn, bd iteerye
To read mid vette an4 teen;
Atte die Is else up, to you.— No, Maude, dear, don't go to the ice
Te loon to love your toacbcr, toe. an for frosted voLe.,: go to the taker.
nsuMption
5e51,( 51
q There is AO specific for
consumption. Fresh *it, sw
ercise, nourishing feed and
Scott's Emulsion will come
pretty near curing it, if there
is anything to build on. Mil.
lions of people throughout the
world are living and in good
health on one lung.
lJ From tim,e immemorial the
doctors prescribed cod liver
oil for consumption. Of
course the patient could not
take it in its old form, hence
it did very little good. They
can take
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
and tolerate it for a long
time. There is no oil, not
excepting butter, so easily
digested and absorbed by the
system, As cod liver oil in the
form of Scott's Emulsion,
.and that is the reason it is so
helpful in consumption where
its use must be continuous.
411 We will sena you it
sample free.
J Be sure that this
picture in the farm of
a label is on the wrap-
per of every bade of
Emulsion you bay,
Scott 8t Bowne
Chemists
Toronto, Ont.
smiled 51; all drug: Ws
with tea solaces the midnight, and with
tea welcomes the morning.", 15 is en
amazing confession, but we are bound to
remember that this intemperate tea
bibber lived to the age of 75.
Johnson's record was equelled by
Bishop Gilbert Burnet, the author of the
well-known History of My Own Times,
who is reported to have disposed of
twenty-five cups in e morning.
Another man of letters of a very dif-
ferent type, Nathaniel Hawthorne who
might bave equalled the doctor, curbed
his tea -drinking propensities early
When he was a very young tnan Haw.
therm was in the habit of visiting at a
house where the hostess made excellent
'tea, and one evening, when the visitor's
cup was passed to be refilled she said:
"Now, 31r. Hawthorne, I am going to
play :efts. Thrale to your ,Tohnson, I
know you are a slave to my teas" The
young 2)15511 25151(10 no reply,. but he had
no Inelmation to play the role assigned
to him, and for five years from that
night Hawthorne did not touch a cup
of tea—a protest which seems as ex.
eesSiVe in its way as the inclination
which his hostess had attributed te
There have been other heroes of the
teapot not is few, Bartley Coleridge
tnay fairly claim a place among ten,
topers. Someone is saiki to have asked,
liim once how Teeny cups he many
drank and to have received the scornfut
reply: "Cupst I don't eount by cups,
/ count by pots:" Then there have been
others whom it would be hardly fair to
rank as tea topers, but who have shows
marked devotion to the teapot. In re•
cent days Mr. Gladstone and Dean Stan.
ley evonlil appenr in this class, but, in -i
deed, any list of enthusiastic lovers in
recent times of what Walled called the
"best of herbs" would be of most !nor.
(boate. length.
i• SOME NOTABLE TEA TOPERS.
Famous Ilden Wise Drink Stimulating
Brow to Excess.
t The meet liaraenea tea drinker may
1 Admit that tea -drinking may be, and
! often is, overslones end yet the best
known tea topers do not appear to have
suffered in coesequence of their exees-
' sive indulgeece in the cheering cup.
De Quineey was a notable toper. In
his picture of a -winter evening in las
' cottage among the tnimberland bills he
' 'mentions; the tea equipage upori is table
beside tbe fire, and behind iho fire a
fair tea:maker, whose duty it Wag to
, fill an almost molless protessien of cups.
De Quincey declares thet he drank tea
from 8 o'clock at night till 4 in the
' morning, end elaiinis the infusion is "the
; favorite beverage of the intellectitel."
si nailer tea toper was Ilitelitt, the es.
• sayist, who was not only very fond of
• the beverage, bid scents to linve drunk
it of extraordinary strength. We ere
told on excellent authority that lie used
, two ounces; for his brettisfest and two
ter his tea, with ermine and that for
thie tea--tbe fineet Staielimig—he paid
itt. first 34 ebillinge and afterward 12
shilliege per pound. Perliera this extrft.
Net:tames arid eeesessive consumption of
tee way Immure, for some of the ream-
ist's quarrelsomeness. Cowper itigircei.
OM to the 2)1;1 the charm !+f the flag-
, Imes Lief, lint there is hardly suffiPient
mitletwe to slew? that he wets malty of
11101510 indulgene.e,
• 'rile most, famous ten. toper -was Dr.
larolsnson, whoee feats with tee cup wit!ch
5i.,4 'Virile filled so as,ilitionsly Itte
• too tvell known 10 need ettlargiter upon.
reteird appears; to have been twenty-
five rime, wbiell lse. drank at n
bat in nithtitiva af aagnient it "amulet
1. remenit,,5 e,`. that in ell probability
the eitjte AvvIV 11111(41 5:11(.11101' than 110'
fille11118 111 11,,t, ITt ho preeesnit time. Sill, •
Jolizoon told ease Hee-notes in playful
I (.111V:
T11,81 vela1 mit maim the tett so fest
As•1 0;111 !.$1 11 11 it down.
And lie titneelf ite a "beta -
0110 (11111(1 eassinelesse tee dienker, who lies.
for many gears! ailutea 1118 111081" 251111
()1ay t114. 111f1Ig;(11t of ibis fascinating'
plant, whose kettle tete Seftreelv time+ 10
e.101, who with tea fusitiges the evening.
eastelleessaareaseees
PRUDENT MOTHERS.
The prudent mother will never give
her child a sleeping draught, :moth-
ing medicine or opiate of any kind
except by order of a competent doc-
tor who has seen the child. All
soothing medicines and sleeping draughts
contain deadly poison, and they never
do good, as they eery stupefy and do
not euro. Sleeplessness in little ones
comes from teething troubles or deraege-
ments of the stomach or bowels, that
earl be speedily cured by Baby's Own
Tablets. And the mother should remem-
ber that this is the only medicine foe
children that gives a solemn paten-
tee that there is not a particle of
epiate or harmful drug in itscom-
position. Mrs. A. Seott, Pattaware
dine, Man., says: "I have used
Baby's Own Tablets for diarrhoea,
teething troubles end. constipations
(Ind find them just. the thing to make
little ones well and keep them well,"
Sold by all druggists or by mil at
25 eents hy writing to Dr. Williams;
Medieihe Co., Brockville, Ont.
1/10,ST DEADLY OF POISONS.
"The more dreadful poisies," said a
eheteiet, aare only kitown to a few mete
afereury mehhide, for instance, the itilude
alien of whose fulness prodttees ineuraNe
Llioey, can be manufaotured by two Ttal.-
iane, and by to one -else in the world.
Illuttoora is a poison used in Melia, It,
too, producee ineurable itlioey. A Brits
10)3 army offieer told ate 'of a sad eIsae
a ease of two mean tailors, one of whetn
gave the otntsr a small eleee of ditatoota.
The victim eif the drug remaitied an idiot
all the re-st •of Ids life. Ife eat oast moved
hie ormty hands as though ae were eaten
lie was 0 fortniaable rival no
longer.
'ealereoptan produces a melanetholy eto
event es to terminate tautly always lit
enietle. No government, would permit
tee manufacture and sale ef this palette
"lehattenn, inereney inethidee Meroala
tan and some twenty other pOiSotia are
neither made nor Rohl in any publio
way.They are only experimented wita.
Seat reeigoes esentla bee formidable we:is
pone in uneertipttkitie Deiveleg
their vietime to Rehab or to iheauity,
tlsey le i'Ve 11011111a ta10111 nalting mein -
Chine 4:2 untoward, alio giver of thaws
preemie ti seem, from any feat of putt.
1l 0)1'I.
it le •tuz wonder,. ie it, Vett the
learmel men wim know lanai li15l10ttll4
lessep tater knowleage to thenteelvea? ft
illettliera. for ,instalwe, were obtainable
think lvow *our opera sincere, our paint!
ere, our dreseemileere and our matey'
leirtge might fill the lunette asylutnot with
that rivals,"