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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-12-28, Page 3I II, Ip19I I „ +44444404++++++4+04+4++++41144,444.14+.440144444.+ O U R H 0 N $ T BELIEF ELL F Panarna Canal Zone is that we have brought Vast Opportunities for Enterprising Men W+++...+ dr4++•+++++++ r++4.34I'f*+4'+++'i'+$+ir A despatch says: The Litlunus of Pan- ficee are a marvel of luxury, with high sena, which offers the opportunity to windows, marble stairs and valuable , connect two large oeeana, is a godsend paintings, to the natives of Panama. The Pana- The theatre of Panama was built in man iner'chants made large fortunes off 1865, during the high title of the French the old French company and are doing regime, The first celebrity who per - likewise with the Americans. Their formed there was Sarah Bernhardt, and Tea as near perfection as modern methods and materials will permit. Blue Ribbon Tea has a distinct that lifts it above the line _._ _ of comparison with other brands. TRY IT priees are at least 100 per cent, higher the theatre bears her name. ' mairie (mansion house). Every person than in the States, rents are exorbitant, W the population of Panama 72 perand some little coastwise trading, Earn- NEW YORK 'TAN HEARS I who fulfils the votin. qualifications is 1 the average nine to twelve room part- cent. is black and 10 per cent, Indian, the Thee it the means for a livelihood, but 1 tA3Ktf . 3t3 it 1 nicipal Elections in Franco The municipal cleetions in France are everywhere conducted on precisely the same plan. Paris deo not differ front the smallest provincial commune in this particular. The system is simplicity it- self. A. month before the elections are to take place the event is publicly an- nounced by means of white posters, and ' a list of electors is opened at the local meats, over stores, without improve- remainder being white, Two up-to-date fico co go to the Metric, and, having in the interior since the stoppage of Canadian Scheme to Dig Canal From Produced evidence of his identity, he is ments, costing from $10O to $150 per English and Spanish nto pexs convey the canal work there has been praeti- Georgian Bayto Lake Ontario, duly inscribed on the voting lists and af- It month, the news is the world to the Pullmans. f call nothing to which the inhabitant ter the lapse of a few days he either erimwill take a torah time for tli'S Am- I Panama girded in by three sides of Y ate. n - The Canadian Canals Corporation, of fetches his elector's card or it is brought i cue u sins form a substantial mild turn his hand. Iguanas; e hhe T. W, Hugo, M Duluth, is nttmof toms d s to0 climate inuredtopsy-turvy. A, b back -ground. 1 At low tideyou may wally �"o rated species of the lizard, provide asworae of the incorporators, will seek to haste t0 111m at hie residence by ono of the s n 1 c ofOi a g , Y them with meat; pigs thrive in spite of s btu enacted by the Canadian, Parliament 'Mayor's employees. most peculiar fact in Panama (,pity is a half mite into the bay. The flood that the sun rises and sets in the Pacific rises twenty-four feet in a few 'hours, the fleas and the mango and they eke t sinter, a thorizi g the route fctionnhllof i In the case of Paris the card is coffee Ocean. Pedestrians turn to the left in- The Bay of Panama is studded with out an existence which would ]till a white across Canadian territory from Georgian Bay colored, about four inches long and threw stead of the right, and it is almost int• beautiful islands., among them Pearl man in a month's time, but under which to Lake Ontario. Tho bill was to have been broad, and is berm d by a blue and red possible to avoid a collision in passing, Island and Taboga Island. The latter is they seem to take on flesh and to be acted on lasts inter,kness of but FIwas C. pale- drewn stripe, the colors of the city of Paris. It as the sidewalks are only three feet nine miles south of Panama and is cov- able to utterly refute any and all Bug tag, of New York, who Is at the head of bears on one side, in addition to the num - wide. of the voter's inscription on the vot- wide, The tide, which rises twenty-two ered with beautiful gardens, tropical gestions of "race suicide?' feet eighteen inches, allows the tramp vegetation abounding. Its springs of Marriages Come High. steamers and sailboats to land without pure water are known all along the PaOntarioh ft been ' e ontorprise• Tho proposition to build a canal or ship- mg sheet-, the number Of the electoral railway across country between Georgian. section of the municipal constituency to The institution f matrimony this Bar arae Lake ros often, which he the place where the These vessels weigh anchor in the bay ,being the coaling stations of the Pacific expenses of a wedding ceremony are so adian Canals Corporation propose. , sheets, one by one, come in contact Matt this and bring Prescott and og- datA of 1 is b' th his rof s 'on and ad- RAW MATERIAL COMES FROM with these wheels, they are ruled on FARROWING TIME Is as critical a time es any iii hob ,raising. The litter eating of many sows is largely dee to bad feeding, causing a constipate and irritable condition. The sows digestive organs should be kept free an4 open, to prevent this fevered and litter eating condition by feeding Clydesdale Stock Food Besides making of ilk owin to the hotter blood circus tion, a g e better flow m g a This means more and better pigs, as a healthy apple tree gives more and better fruit than a diseased tree, For young pigs it makes snore bone and muscle on which to put flesh, and nothing better for starting and keeping Runts growing. Its ingredients are absolutely harmless and are, and if you are not satisfied with results your money cheerfully re tded by the dealer. CARBOLINE ANTISEPTIC MAKES Tu'tl /�� TRY HERCULES "4;1e CLYDESDALE ,STOeit FOOD ozo ft OS AND PENS GLEAN. ,FOOD. Ten, Toronto, Ont. „if 6llidielli,alea,i idtS ,Mi IY�..,�11Ih�r,���pil �iy,pW„1 id11iiiha.1 11,Iu.If,I6IY,l MAKING PAPER, docks, bringing in vegetables and trop- . cific coast. A number of other islands ie ms r u ono mar moray m 1 broached, the transportation mon expect• belongs, l ical fruits front the neighboring islands, are in the vicinity, Uericos and Naos land is controlled by the church and the to see it accomplished some day. The Can- voting will be held, the signature of the - to ac- voter, his Christian and surnames the little wheels, the fine edges, of which act as pens in marking the lines. As the and soon are left on dry land with the 'Steam Navigation Company. 'Chess is- far beyond the reach of the average na- de guars sore miles nearer Duluth by boat. i birth, profession si , both sides, another set of circular pent/ outgoing tido, lands are now a part of the zone, Live that the people seldom bother about The route would cut out Lake Erle, Lake dress, and the signature of the Mayor BACK WOODS OR GUTTER, Most of the excavating is being dorso La. Boca, the Pacific end of the great marrying. The home life of the ninety St. Clair, the Detroit River and part of the date and the stamp of the Maitre. from beneath worl>iig in unison with at Culebra. It is at this point on tinecanal, has an immense iron wharf, 085 and nine is, therefore, a system of cone Lake Huron. Boats destined tar Lake On the reverse side are the words: Re- those on top. isthmus the old French company did 1 feet long and fifty-four feet wide, built cubinage and a close view of that sys- Ontario roS.n iLawake sue Riveripoi Huron Publique Francaise, �Liberte, �Egalite, et !ll Pulp From Rags or From Wood.—Spruce Wheree double sheets, it. e mast of its work. South American mat- 1 by the French Canal Company. The wet- tem leads to the conclusion that it is or Lake Dttchigan would cut out Lako Fraternite, Carte Eleeteur. The eat° and Poplar the tYdcads Most Used, goes to still another machine, which ers are employed to do the blasting and 1 er there at low tide is forty-five feet coneubinage in its worst form. Erie and the Welland Canal. If the plans and hour at which the election is to take ooms Jamaica negroee for the heavy labor. 1 deep and vessels 500 feet long with a Inexcusable as this system of cornea- of the Canadianpro—Canal Corporation work place are given, and the voter is inform- But Both Are Becoming Scarce in mnkes❑rttbe y. creases a d folds sinnuith great The negroes are of the laziest variety' draught of eighteen feet can now be binage is on general principles, it has boats at thetweet class on the lakes willth aried Part of the a er and refuse to work when it rams. 11 I docked. here a phase which makes it especially be enabled to use the new route to good Panama is not so tact as persona who hideous 'incl that in the indiscriminate advantage. r new route It is 250 takes about four of thein to do the work of an average American laborer. They , are not familiar with the climate thnnlc, relations subsisting between the races. By the p opiate are contract laborers and are imported miles shorter from Duluth to New York P The thermometer degrees seldom registers more Absolutely no social lines or class dis- than the lake and rail route via jBuftalo. afrom Jamaica. Immediately upon their than 88 degrees at noon. The custom of tinction are drawn among this mass of The distance them Duluth to Prescott arrival upon heek nvithtia numberonon it are as old residents to remain quiet indoors the population. A negress lives with a by marc ththe an aooroute m eel is that' LY which from 11 to 2 is well for strangers and Chinaman; a depraved white lives with BSr•te and the Welland Canal. means of identification. At the expire.- visitors to follow. a mulatto; there will be in one house It is estimated that the time occupied in tion of each fifteen nays they present Indian d s1 t d I s the check to the disbursing officer in Panama, and receive their pay of $1 per day in American money, or $2 ef the Panaman money. All buildings throughout the isthmus are fumigated regularly with pyrethrum and it is a common sight in the streets of Panama to see the fumigation gang, composed of all nationalities, climbing up ladders to paste the cracks and crev- ices of houses with old newspapers, thus making ready for the fumigation. After the work has been done a strip of paper is pasted on all the houses showing the last date of fumigation, All civil service men are issued canopy mosquito nets to sleep under immediate- ly upon their arrival on the isthmus, and it is imperative that they use them for a protection against the mosquitoes. The Panama republic is now in its period of reconstruction. Parks have been constructed and an institute of music created, a costly palace of govern- ment and a national theatre have been provided for, monuments of distinguish- ed citizens are to be .erected, but the question of penitentiaries remains where it was three years ago, •when the civil war in Colombia avas ended. Rich in Natural Resources. The land here is rich in mahogany, lignum vitae and numerous other hard woods, rubber, cocoa, tropical fruits, minerals, such es gold and copper; sul- phur has also been found. Not many miles from Panama are to be found holes dug in the solid rock which served as gold crushers for to Spanish hun- dreds of years ago and were abandoned north sea wall, a guard of soldiers patrol_ on account of the hostility of the In- ling the entrance constantly. diems. At present the country is almost The houses of Panama are built of undeveloped except the strip of land five stone. Very picturesque architecture Has Mixed Population. an n fan an a an -eye negress iv traversing the new route from Georgian p ingacs man and wife while perhaps a Bay to Lake Ontario will not be so great Most of the people of Panama, in fact, ' P P as to offset .the advantage of shorter dis- somo 88 per cent. are devout Catholics. smallpox -marked its inroads a n whom lance, A boat starting from Lake Huron P ' leprosy is making its inroads and whose O1 west of Gearglan Bay, ought, it is said, Seven Catholic churches, one white hair has become so sparse that to reach Prescott or Ogdensburg by the Episcopal- ians and a Wesleyan mission administer P new route in about the time it would.reach their rites. The Salvation .Army also there is not enough of it to twist into Buffalo or the Welland Canal by the prec• does good work among the natives, a queue, will share the house with. ent route, and if boats can discharge Thold cathedral is one of the old - chocolate as the father or grandfather of the otoa6a s aigian cot aro Montreal,e est churches in America. Many holes chocolate colored "female,” for among haul by rats will be saved, If boats can in its walls testify to the countless revo- this native population ,there is just en- dischargo freight into cars at Ogdensburg talions during the last fifty Yeats. ough respect for decency to cause them miles of haul , tnstl ilo6e t Budetalo, 11I Whenever a party has been hard press- to drop the word wife when speaking The works proposed for the new route ed it has taken refuge in the church of their women and use the designation consist of thirty-nine miles of artificial and always found the altar a haven of "my female." waterway, one g,ortage ftve ai ha of a To this ninetyand nine modern coin- mile io length, and two portages each a security. mile long. Ships will be .transported over Tho military band plays every Sun- forts, -conveniences and facilities are the portagea by power water, and it Is day evening at 8 o'clock in Central whooly unknown. The scarcity of water estimated that the time occupied in pass - Park (a new name given by Americans), in Panama—all that is to be had is ei- occmshwipsil osmonallyl hall 4hathsowuhpiessy Santa Ana Park has concerts every thee. caught in rain barrels or purchased nage in passing the. Welland Canal. Tuesday evening at, 8 o'clock. On Sun- from the regular venders, who ,draw it The first division of the new route will be day afternoon a volunteer band plays the from wells reeking with filth and ped- eleven roues in length. It will extend from latest compositions, even during the time die it about the cityin barrel carts — Matchedash Bay, an eastern arm of Geer- ef the revolution theyplayed. re tail e nn Bay, to 02 r Couchchiching, a north - of P Y Y, makes laundering a matter of much dif- ern extension of Lake stmcoe. e1Ley player having his gun alongside ficulty and is the common excuse for the This division can easily bo constructed. in case of emergency. It will Include a portage of one-sixth of a g Y• scant personal use made of water. mile. This will be overcome by means of The governments both of Panama and Clothes are seldom or never washed in a marine ship railway, on which boats Colon are directed by governors. The the city of Panama itself, except during may be raised or lowered by water power present governor of Panama is Dr. the height of the rainy season. At all one hundred and thirty feet. This is the Gerardo Ortega a man of ver democrat- difference between the level of bay and Y other times a procession of barefooted lake. Thence the route will be through is habits. Everywhere he goes the peo- woman, clad only in their chemisettes, Lakes Couchchiching and Simcoe for thirty pie flock to him, shaking hands, He in - and with each puffing away at a pipe or miles to the Holland River, which flows quires into their conditions, here pat- a black cigarette, wends its way along deepening le sand stratsh# straightening Lake river and ting a little baby in its mother's lap, tb.e railroad track in the direction of its east branch the route reaches Oak Chore advisinghp ea young man about his Corozal, about three miles out from Ridge the divide between Lakes Simcoe and work. The residential palace is the Ontario, most magnificent building in Panama. the city. There a tributary of the Rio That is the only serious obstacle in the Few houses on Fifth avenue can rival Grande river nuns for ,a short distance path of .the canal. Mr. Spalding, however, it in architectural beauty, furnishings over gravel and is free from aligatorsthemcostpothcuttingvlsed h tatodsswiilwber by eland equipment. It faces the sea for the and the poisonous water snakes that doted a halt. abound in rivers and lagoons hereabouts. The entire length of Rho southern dtvi- In the pool, at this point, well -shaded sten, including canal and river, will be and comparatively cool the women about thirty-one miles, making a total P Y length of the artificial waterways of about plunge with their "wash," after doffing forty-two miles. Only twelve miles of the few clothes they wear. the whole distance will have to be cut Standing in the water unblushing in frThe tsoluthernh.diviston bas two one -mile their nakedness, even when a photogra- portages, in the descent from Lake Simcoe per is about, these women.,moisten the and Lake Ontario. Each of these will have clothes and rub them with a root which aumiid taint about s236thfeeethrTheiftsimen oohne miles wide across the isthmus that is known as the canal zone. Americans are coming to the isthmus, not only on ac- count of the canal, but to cultivate the natural resources and produce treasures as he has in Havana Panama will be - only to be bad with tine aid of modern come a regular winter resort. It is more progress,pmachinery and business meth- picturesque and quaint than many other r points visited by tourists. Soon Panama will be as popular for To the eastward of Nombre De Dios, tourists as is Havana to -day. Already stretching away for many miles toward the occupaition of the United States Gov- the Darien Gulf are the haunts of the eminent has caused the hotels to im- San Blas Indians, a race of stockily built, strove. Tho elimnate, besides, offers many bullet -headed, shocky -haired• aborigines, attractions. The canal building, the dominated by peculiar ideas and marked headquarters of the Isthmian Canal Com- by most peculiar traits. The one great mission, was originally built for a hotel, aim of their existence is to keep their blood untainted. To attain this end they have a hard and fast rule under which their women are never permitted com- imposing structure in Panama. • The of- =ideation with white men and to save a their blood from pollution white men are absolutely excluded from their coast prevails. The streets are narrow and just now fumigating brigades are busy ridding Panama, like Havana, of yellow fever. Should Dr. Gorges succeed here then sold to the French company, who later transferred it to Uncle Sam. Next to the Presidents' palace it is the most CRISIS OF GIRLHOOD at nightfall and so rigidly is the rule A TIME OF PAIN AND PERIL Mies Emma Cole Says that Lydia Il! Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has Saved Her Life and Made Her Well How many lives of beautiful young girls have been sacrificed just as they were ripening into womanhood 1 How many irregularities or displacements have been developed at this important period, resulting in years of suffering 1 Wis( Finrna Coley '1 Girls' modesty and oversensitiveness often puzzle their mothers and baffle physicians, because they withhold their confidence at this critical period, ' A mother should come to her child's aid and remember that Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound will at this time prepare the system for the coming change and start the menstrual period in a young girl's life without pain or irregularities. Miss EmmaColeb!Tullahoma, Teen., writes t Dear Mrs. Pinkhatn: - "Iwant to tell you that I am`enjoyin bet- ter health than I have for years, and I owe itail to Lydia E. Pinlibam's Vegetable Com - hen fourteen years of age I suffered til- most constant pain, and for two or three years I had eoreness sad pain in any side headaches and was dizzy and nervous, and doetors ,ill failed to help mo. "Lydia E. I'in@hsm's Vegetable Compound wee r�•,A torided, and after taking it mg' health began to imroverapidly,andI think it saved my life. I wince c'ly hope my experi- ence will bo atulp toothor girls who aro pass= ing erten girlhood to womanhood far f know yourCompoiina will do mnnueh womanhood, fel* If you know of any young girl who la ilfeae and needs .,motherly advioe ask her to write Mire, Pinkhatn, Lynn, Mass., and ale will ,reeeive fate •advice which r o t. pill pother l L the enforced thate-no white man has ever slept a night on the land belonging to the San Blas Indians. Raise Boys for Servitude. This race recognizes no dominion save its own, acknowledges no sovereignty except that of its own tribe, yet strange as are their ways and careful as they are to preserve their blood from admix- ture with that of whites, they realize and 'appreciate the benefits of Angle - grows freely and which takes the place route will bo less than is consumed In get - of soap. The clothes well ,saturated and ting through locks, commonly used ,n ship soaped the laundress goes to the river's ;canape. It is assortd that the economy of bank. There,laying the wet rrdents u 1 rho portages will be far greater than rho Y {a` P expense and wear and tear Incident to lock - on the stone, she belabors them ,with a ages of ships. It is further said that the board until all the dirt is supposed to saving in construction of the Spalding be loosened, when they are carried beck plans will Uo a❑ormous when compard to the stream to be rinsed, after which with the cost of locks. Mr. Spalding's plan of elevating, lower they are hung about on the bushes and Ing and transporting cargo -laden ships is trees to dry. patented. It Is so arranged that a rigid Equally primitive methods are employ burden, such as a ship, will maintain a q Y P P y level position while ascending and descend- ed fn other branches of the domestic lab- Ino the marine railway. The ship rests on ors. Meals aro usually prepared over a Dlahtformenmotio, whicn ish moves Wimpar upon trucks. e small charcoal stoves; hammocks and ,ted to pt eveliaby , supporting the vessel It is kept level by palmleaf cots take the place of beds, I the operation of plungers and cylinders con - chairs are a luxury, the floor being,the taming water. place most frequented for rest and re- Bristly, the system cnnsLste of a rigid platform and trucks, cyttnders arrauged pose. longitudinally of the platform and _ _ ..-__ fluid contained In the cylinders supted by to trucks and supporting the platform by ONE VIEW OF MILWAUKEE. fluid contained in the cylinders, and a pipe _ connecting the fluid smaces of the cylinders Peculiar Questions a Real Estate Man through the series longitudinally of the Q platform. The column of water becomes Proposed to Ask. j longer or shorter according to the burden. • At the time Mr. Spalding's plans were "Ever been in Milwaukee ?" asked a conceived the largest boats on the lakes as - man down on the Real Estate Exchange. were 650 0 feet In length. Next year wlli see "It's g sortedsthto hetomethods hdescribed Imay be Its famous for other things besides applied to boats of any size. beer. The names of the incorporators of the Saxon association. Their method of se- curing that association is, however, most ' "M ybe you don't know it, but there dg Spaiding, oft Newo Corporations JohnnI. David David - peculiar. From the days of their in- are some things that the Milwaukee man son, Peleg Howland, Richard C. Steele and of Toronto; Trevan- fancy the youths of this tribe are taught thinks were left out of the declaration of tAndrew Hugoro Drs d, and Tedford Burn - that some day or other a white man will Independence by mistake, and among ham, of Chicago. Headquarters of the cor- OOmC to take them away and make ser- porntion is Toronto. Tho capttolization 1s vents of them. This idea is drilled into these are his appetite for friend onions to be ;76,000,000, rand .swat of the directors these youngsters until they come to ac- and amateur piano recitals. They go ` wui be British subjects. intended destinations and chased to telco fore t c in ro uc non o ore t it as a matter of course and it ac- I The bill to be introduced In Parliament °method the fibre as it came from, tine with the beer and cheese which are to wet provide a waterway not less than Lo refuge in hotels or the houses of hospit- , tually works out. Some, time or other be found in the home of every native. feet deep. Tho widh will be not fess than able strangers. Curious incidents had beating machine, was laid out into a the white man will note the disappear. "Nell, sir, this was all right until feet at ttre bottom: New York herald. occurred and odd stories were told by sheet upon a wire sieve which acted as ante of the servant—the boy will have some of your aristocratic easteners went those who had felt themselves obliged a mold at the same time allowing the gone to his destiny with his tribe, for out there and embarked in business and A Necessity of Life, by circrimStl aces to go out into the baf- water to drain off. The pulp, thus in they are taught that when they reach began to kick about the odors, and the fling gloom.Ile guessed that some. the form ef a wet sheet, was turned out the age of about 18 years they aro toIn the case of a man whose wages were P upon a felt and n essed out into the de - noise of next door houses. funny how thing of a like nature lead fallen a on sired. thicltnessesl It is said that thee do invariably.return to Upon theinative st return theis y pa- youthings at hone and aise a rumeeee pus about Kan.,ver such shasddec decided that, Judge llarnewsp newspaper , of islandings and i.i the town n thegmelahe ncholyhall burs -light On in• 'Per which Benjamin Franklin used or are made minor chiefs or become teach- P rintm purposes was mad in this man- ers. So common has this practice been the same things as soon as you get out necessity of doily life, and that it is eel feebly—so feebly that one got but Printing g P P been for many decades among the Cori of sight of the Hudson river. a vague view of the rickety hat -stand "These people who went out to Mil- almost as essential as food. The daily and rho shabby overcoats and head -gear The calenders are equipped with pe. d' bl t 't d t it It was well for hila eulfariy adapted afetal rolls arranged, ed at home, must be of white hue, and " must contain no exterior marks beyond i The raw material for our modern i is put up in boxes. Part is placed in the name written or printed of the can lvriting paper comes from one of two ! packages table beside a smthe all gas fireacker in didate for whom he wishes to vote. Any !widely different places—the depths of a whit:,, at intervals, he holds a stick of addition in writing nullifies the vote. dreary forest or the back streets of a sealing wax before applying it to the Along the left edge of the elector's ; crowded city. In other words, the cover of the package. The larger pack - card is a counterfoil, divided diagonally raw material is either rags or wood. ages are book paper which requires a by a red line, the triangular sections • loss and finish much the same as writ - being marked ."A" and "B." As soon as Tho city rag nicker, pays one rate for in. paper. the lists in each section aro closed theyall the rags he bus but,after he gets g P P The mongram which often appears on a recotmnunicated to the Prefecture othem to his headquarters, they are sort- writing paper, or perhaps a coat of arms, tho Seine, and a careful comparison is ed. into numerous bins or boxes. The cot- aro produced by means of dies or plates. made between. them, wnieh prevents any ton ones go to the makers of paper and The making and care of the dies end the iescitizen a e then sent rto the variousvote. sections, , kinds of- other kinds clothing. the Afterre of bein certain pres presents an indacing of them ustry in on itself.stationery re- they are baled by machinery. _ _ _ The polling takes place from 8 o'clock jn the morning until six o'clock in the evening. Outside the polling stations, which are, as a rule, the local mairie, or the schoolroom , electioneering newts are stationed, who distribute voting bulletins, printed with the names of the candidates titles from Canada where in tho die - den er pair uv wings. whom they represent. Inside is a table filets of Algoma ft ie plentiful. De happy, cheerful heart is too busy covered with green baize on which is an in at the paper factory, to singin' ter be all de time tellin' er tale uv The wood which goes into pulp for paper is chiefly spruce and poplar. This UNCLE EPH'S MUSINGS. is becoming scarce both in the United I don't want ter be an angel yit. Pd States and in Europe, and the paper er heap rather have er good appytite mills in this country bring large quun• - oblong box, also covered with green cloth. wood nn the form of logs, is piled up woe• and with a slit in tee centre of the lid. over a wide area. it is not unusual to This is officially called the "urn." Tee ! find 75 to 100 acres of pulp wood end Dar's er whole lot uv dudes dat parts sole function of the slice in a French factory buildings in connection with one dey hair in de middle ter keep fain walk - election is to preserve order in Poli. are nearly 800 paper and pulp er mill. In the United a mills, and tes there mDeepman dwid de mos money ain't al- ing station.The first electors the value of the products which they ways de happies'. Er centerpede s got re rive constitute the "bureau." Thus all produce is more than $127,000,000. The hunderd feet, but he cain't fly lak er official interference with the proceed- use of wood pulp dates back only about , bird wid jes two wings. ings is avoided. Three volunteers take a half century, but it has now come to I ain't no pessymis', but ef yrr 'epeet possession of the "urn" and of the list take tha place of rags to a very great er man ter do somethin' he oughtn't, of voters in the particular section, and extent. The high price of rags about yer'll not miss it nigh so (Alen es ter they compare his card with the list the time of the civil war assisted great- would ef yer wuz bettin' dat he'd do and cut off from the edge of it one of the ly in the introduction of wood as a sub- somethin! good. triangular divisions. The division marked stitute. It has sine e bee n fou nd that Never could understand why it was "B" is retained in view of a possible sec- , wood fibre contains all the essential elle- dot it ain't jest ez easy fer er man ter and ballot. The voting paper, or bulletin, meats of nearly all kinds of paper. be good ez it is fer 'lin ter be bad, but as it is called, is taken by the "assessor" ( In making paper fr -n rags, the rags somehow 'nether it ain't, in the right hand, and then transferred ! are first sorted and the dust is elimiu- I guess erbout de only reason some to his left stand to be dropped into the ated from them. Girls do this work by niggers laks po'try is 'eaze it soun's so urn. It is thus visible to all present that the aid of wire screens, through which much lak poultry. only one vote at a time is registered. I the dust sifts. They also sort the rags I knowed er nigger wunst dat thought At 6 o'clock volunteers are called for into different colors and cut. off the but-er norhypine wuz er hang 'raze his name theform votesnThiis othe electors eration takes to placent cut upn into pieces two ter the rags inches long, they , bergins wid "pork." P P 3 public, and is performed by the public. go into a washing tub, where they are All posibility of cheating is thus avoid- stirred by means of revolving machinery, ed. It is said that in the South of France, care being taken that no dirt shall be in the exubrant "Midi" of Tartarin, urns ' ground into the fibre. The pulp in this with false bottoms have sometimes been form may then be bleached by a bieaeh- used for the purpose of falsifying re. ing powder which, irrespective of its 1 , aints de town. sults, but this is hardly credible. The former color, brings to a creamy pis ise ern bout de time uv year French law punishes electoral fraud. with .white. Next the pulp goes into the great severity, the penalty varying be- beating machine where it is thoroughly Pi'e's glad we am er-livin'— tween three months and two years' im cut up and mixed by mechanical knives. _ Got n'returo samfer for rismus da prisonment. As son as the count has been Hero the coloring and sizing are put in P made the urn is sealed up and dispatch- before it is ready for the wonderful pe- ed to the local Prefecture, where a tom- Per -making machines. Had Shown Poor Judgment. t t f the and if Where •the pulp is made from wood, 1t s er heap sight easier ter run up er bill den it is ter run up er hill, Dere's er whole lot uv men dat teases de women 'bout stan'in' befo' er lookia' glass an' paintin' dere faces. But dere's some men dat Stan's befo' other glasses mission sits o verify count, the logs are brought from the acres necessary to rectify it. The correction of log piles about the factory and sawed rarely makes a difference of more than into short lengths and, by an ingenious two or three in the total. The election device, the bark is stripped from each always takes place on Sunday and it one. Next the lengths of wood are is only on the following Friday that the official results are declared. After this ground into mere chips, after which the oto the digesters—huge tanks -- the figures cannot be challenged except where they are dissolved by cooking by an appeal to the Council of State, a with sulphorous acid. One of the di - body which is practically equivalent to gesters will thus handle 10 or 12 tons the Supreme Court in the United States, in a day. Next, as in the case of the and this is a very onerous and expensive rags, the pulp is bleached and washed process.—Paris Cor. N. Y. Tribune, and carried into the midst of the revolving knives of the beaters LOST IN A LONDON FOG. and the coloring and sizing added. The - As he went down the narrow stair- tints and colors of the finished product case, covered with its dingy and thread- depend upon its treatment here. The bare carpet, he found the house so full sizing which is put into it at this point of dirty yellow haze that he realized keeps the finished product from absorb- - that the fog must be of the extraordin- _ ing the ink which we apply in writing ary ones which are remembered in af- i letters tor, if book e 1peaper, the printing in pulp ter -years as abnormal specimens of their upon is kind. He recalled that there had been Placed in what are known at "stuff ono of the sort three years before, and chests" and is kept agitated until it that traffic and business had been al. comes time to pump it into the paper most entirely stopped by it, that acci• machine. dents had happened in tho streets, and From this point the early making of that people baying lost their way had , the paper proper by hand, ns easily un- that about turning corners until derstood and the modern automatic they found themselves far from their method is even more, interesting. Bc- h t d t' f the automoth Suitor—Now that I've invested my fortune in your insurance company, I wish to speak to you on the subject of your daughter. Magnate—You can't have her. You're too careless about money matters.— Cleveland Leader. Bas Indians that to -day the tribe un- aukeo went to the Real Estate Board t piper is m rspensa e o its res ere rio hanging upon • to several tires ; derstands and speaks the English Ian- w guise freely and is always glad to wet - if threatened to throw up their leases come and entertain an English-speaking if the natives didn't quit frying onions man during the day and to trade freely and banging pianos. One member of the board—I think he must have lived in with him. New York at One time—promulgated a Conditions Most Depraved. series of questions to the submitted to The mass of the population is thor- every member to be satisfactorily anc- on. lily mongrel. For the women there is veered before a lease would be made ent. no fate better than monotonous days I have a copy of the questions which I passed,in lounging about, clad in the will read to you. thinnest apparel,- smoking black cigar- Thereupon he produced the followings ettes, leering at passers-by and mindnng Are you now or have you ever been the children, who come literally in addicted to the use of fried *Mona, lira- swarms and clad only in their naked- burger cheese, cabbage or garlic? nese. Dia you ever hold a dance nn an %t- in the interior, between Colon and Per flat? Panama, and in those parts well away Have you a talking machine or a music from the railroad, domestic and social hext conditions are as bad as at Colon. The Does any member of your family Arae- tnco the piano, and, if so, has she yet meanest negro in the most benighted mastered the scales? section of our cava south would not Do yolf believe in the inalienable right spend a day amid such surroundings. of each family to do as they please with- in Panama conditions are no better, out comment on the part of neighbors? Here, as in Colons, the passerby encoun- Did you ever fail to find the keyhole bets indetenwy garbed women, naked ba- on coming home at night? bite, dense clouds of bugs„whole flocks Does your wife elude you at unseemly of insinuating turkey buzzards and, in- hours of the night in a strident voice? ovitably the mangy monkey, the ehat- i o you snore? tering birds toad the flea-bitten pigs. Can you pay your rentt If so, will /tow this population lives is e nnystery. you? ' In Colon it draws its su. tenanco through "I don't know whether the Board ad- the railroad. In Panama the railroad, opted these questions or net. I left with its allied steamship interests, a de- town while they were under diseu1elon.» aultory interest in the fishing industry* .-»N'ew York Sun, only because it informs them of the that he had but it corner or so to turn one above anotltel, before he reached the pawn shop in through these the paper passes under world's doings, but because it posts them window he had seen the pistol he Pressure. The paper comes from the whose machines in webs sometimes as great as as to where they may obtain other Hetes- intended to buy sites of life at the lowest cost. It is as When he opened the street door he -1G0 inches in width and often ata speed valuable to the bu ei as market reports saw that the fog was, upon the whole of 300 feet per minute. The wide rolls y P 1e. even heavier and more obscur- are P ' next split into narrow ones and re - are to the farmer who wishes to disposes r i if s possible, than the one so well re. wound. The fine grades of paper, of of his products to the best advantage; membered. Ile could not see anythiu; coarse, require a very high finish, and and in proportion as it is esteemed by three feet before hiin, he coul•t not see this extra smoothness is given by means the buyers its columns are potential in with distinctness anything two feet in of superealenders, one of which is shown promoting the interests of those who front. The sensation of stepping for. in an accompanying photograph. In the sell. Subscribe for the Times. ward wuncerta- auperenlender ouglr toas be almostin appandalling.mysterious A roanenly of iron and compressed paper. the rollers are alternate - not snffieiently cautious might have The machines which cut the rolls of fallen into any open stole in the path. paper into sheets can be set for the very Antony Dart kept as closely as possible !many different sizes desired. The sheets to the sides of the horses. Tt world as cut aro delivered by a system of have been easy to walk off the pave - tapes onto tables which stand about merit into the nn}delle of the street but two amt a half feet Ideal. A girl at for the edges of the curb and the stelleeach one o fthese tables scrutinizes each downward from its level. 'traffic had sheet and her trained eye meekly dig - almost absolutely ceased, though in the covers a defect or spot no nnatter how ; more important streets link -boys were rapidly the mach}nes are running. 130011 snaking efforts to guide men or four• defective street is thrown into a large wheelers slowly along. The blind feel• b°`t to the left of the girt. x the paper which is to be ruled now ingof the thingwas .ether atvfptt.-- 1 P From "The 'Dawn of it To•Mlorrow,” by goes in the various Sizes to an auto- b"raslces ]'Hodgson Burnett, its the De- .lnati0 maelline equipped with fingers - lc7nber (Christmas) 5eribner'd, which are little short of being human in their tctivitiee.'l'he Streets are placed in at pile , at one -end of the teteeilee 'o Clean lialtTreys. 1 within reach of the ntechauical fingers Mall the keys of at piano with tit c10 h which pick up one sheet at a time with trout ttbd with alcohol. groat. rapidity And aend it on. ail way t IME 2e experienced farmer has learned that some grains require far differ- ent soil than others ; some crops need differ- enthandling than others. He knows that a great deal depends upon right planting at the right time, and that the soil must be kept enriched. No use of complaining in summer about a mis- take made in the spring. Decide before the seed is planted. e best time to reme- dy wasting conditions in the human body is be- fore the evil is too deep rooted. At the first evi- dence of loss of flesh Scott's Emulsion should be taken imme- diately. There is noth- ing that will repair wasted tissue more quickly or replace lost flesh more abundantly than Scott's Emulsion. It nourishes and builds up the body when ordi- nary foods absolutely fail. `PA st ttt sendyde a ssmpte tree. Be sure that thls of ap label is on the b the of Smulsiae you buy, I'. SCOTT B OWN E Cl31sM16"ra Toronto, fait. Gott. sad $T9 all dtieggleta i