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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-11-02, Page 3+++44+++44+++++4-4+4•44+4. • 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, - 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 4 ++++++++44+++*tifrft*tt4e** 4 4 • Fall Priming of floes and Bush Fruits. 4 eseasse-a++++4-44-+++++4+/-44-4-4•4•+. 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. e _ e 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 - 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 • r • • ,3 AN1 1 t 4? "oi 4 ,tUetJ 67i4d.4,1'i6 1Y 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. - 6 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. ; 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 .4, 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, .1. I a Bowen' Plu p Work. 44+444.11+1144444414+4144+444 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. 1 1 ,41 • - V- 1. • - • - 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,"