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TIIIRTY YEARS IN
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A JUNGLE
Marked with the sears of many 'The captain was wild witheratee ,and
wounds inflicted upon him by the wiek- threatened vengeance on the man who
eci, knives of the hush negroes, with the ' would have put the good. health of hie
vivid memories of wreeks at sea, of fev- wife and child. in such jeopardy. But
ers where be bas had to crawl for miles Mr, Abbott eueceedea in quieting hun
on his stomach through the jungle, of and he sailed away.
battles with behoons and enakes, of A little later another ship came into
contact with lepers, John IL Abbott, of port and took the two ehildren aboard
Boston is still bent upon returning to and brought them to Boston. In SOIDO
the wilderness lured on by whet he is way the eaptain of the firet ship heard
confident is the. greatest dIseovery of of it and at once notified the offiviele.
diamonds in the century. The ehip wits instantly quarantiaea and
For the best part of thiry rare he the children sent back . It was a narrow
has spent bia life in Dutch Gillum as a escape for the children of Boston, for
mining engineer and gold prospector. had they Caine ashore they would have
During this time -he hes taken out hen- lived on for years with no suspicion of
diode of thousands of dollars' worth the curse that was upon them.
of gold for American and English syndi- As far tee Boston was concerned the
(=Les, working under the most severe incident was closed. But not for Mr.
and primitive conditions. Ile has seen Abbott. It happened that he was making
mart after man associated with him die at just this time one of hie annual
in the awful agony of ehe jungle fever When he returned to Paramaribo he
or the painless but fatal beri-beri and came as into a ettange Nobody
yet he has not only eurvived but has lost upon the street spoke to him and when
rfoilhieg of his youthful courage. To- be went to his elide he found ,himaelf
day he is as enthusiastic over this rich shunned as though he had committed
but deadly region as when as a young some great crime.
man he went down there to supervise A few inquiries brought to light the
the erection of a cargo of tenting maehin- fact that he had ibeen accused of notity-
ing the local authorities and so doing a
That for this long period be Jets sur- great injury to the influential Pernard.
rived the many dangers met with by The latter bad. morn to drive hien from
white men in this country is little short Dutch auburn and. even threatened Ins
of a miracle. For hero nature, as though life. His business was practieally tuinea,
jealous of the lichee concealed in the for no one would have anything te do
earth, has fsurrounded them with about ,with him. It was a strange position to
every form of danger knowet to man. be in. He went about fearing for his life
The heat is intense and breeds every at every step, living the life of an ca-
sed of malignant disease, including lep- cast among those with whom he lied
rosy; the jungle is more impentrable been ,friendly for twente yeare.
than that of darkest Africa and is in- He went to the American Consul, who
feeted with a larger number of venom- could only say: "I don't know what you
oue reptiles. But the gold is there and can do. Pernard is againet you and has
the diamonds are there end that is en- frightexbed everyone into being your en-
ough for the hardy yankee. In a few emy."
weeks he is going back. "But," replied Mr. Abbott, "it happens
"I am not so young as I once was, that I did not do it. It was the captain
but I shall reture and attempt to work of the other ship."
the diamond discovery I made last year" "Then write to him and ask him to
he said. 'I believe that within twent'y write to Pernard and the others in the
years better mines will he found there colony."
than ere now being worked at Kimber- This Mr. Abbott did, but it is a long
ley. The soil is perfect and already many time between mails and during this per -
finds have been made. These have not iod lie lived upon his nerves. He was
been at the source, but were merely forced to be idle and could do nothing
stones that were washed down. but guard against a possible attack up -
"Last year I made up my mind to find on his life. Months passe,d before the
out where they came from. I went for mails came but when they did he was
ntiles until I came to the old bed of a vindicated and allowed to continue his
creek and later discovered a filled in business -
gully. Digging in this I came upon the The peculiar thing about it all wae
blue clay and after washing out several that everybody looked upon the natur-
pans of dt discovered stones. I did n9t al aet as a breach of faith. Having be -
dare allow the natives to see what I come so used to the disease, they lose,
had found and so came away. But the much of their horror of it and so could
'diamonds are there; there is no doubt see no reason why the children should
. about it. have been refused admission into Bos -
"At present the region is almost in- ton.
accessible, but the Holland government Although Mr. Abbott made his head -
is buildihg a railway that will open one quarters at the port most of his time
of the richest regions in the world. The was spent prospecting in the jungle it -
great difficulty now is that no matter self. Although the bush negroes are as
how energetic you may be you can not a rule a peaceable folk, there is always
carry enough food up into these regions danger from them, as several cuts upon
to make it possible to work any length his wrist and a dagger scar in his back
of time. A native can carry about give evidence. The jungle itself he deto
fifty pounds and when that is gone cribes as being worse than that in Af-
you have to come back again. The re-
sult is it is possible to penetrate only
some 100 miles. But gold is everywhere
about there. The Vanderbilt& are inter-
ested in several mines and there are sev-
eral of the natives who have made mil-
lionaires of themselves. It is a won-
derful country."
So it may be, but after some of tile
tales told by Mr. Abbott the average
would prefer to get along with less gold
and live peace and safety. The one
detail of the presence of leprosy would
be enough to make n man satisfied. with
a small salary and clear surroundings.
But not to the man with the spirit of
wandering in his blood, not to the man
who preferes the zest that comes ftom
danger and the piquancy which conies
from dealing with the god of chance.
It may be that Mr. Abbott could have
amassed quite as much money by re-
maining at home, but the life would
have lacked the excitement which comes
with the knowledge that you are sur-
rounded with treasure just waiting to be
discovered, that the next shovelful of
dirt taken from a hillside may reveal
a fortune of millions.
"Did you have no fear at all of catch-
ing leprosy?" he was asked.
"No; somehow you get used to it, al-
though it, is criininal the way those peo-
ple are neglected down there by the gov-
ernment. The ,only cheek put upon them
is that th,ey shall not come out during
,the da.ytime. Right opposite the hotel
where I lived there was a whole house
Atli of them and they could be seen at
the windows. They were horrible eights
--absolutely beyond description,. I have
been walking down the street after dark
and been introduced to 'a man. When
I held out any hand to. shake I have felt
tho curled ttp, stiffened fingers and knew
that I was shaking hands with a leper.
Kt gives you a start, although there is
really not much danger. The mosquitoes
carry the disease and it is conveyed
through eggs. I never dared to eat an
egg there unless I knesv it tame from
ono of the plantations where none of
these folks were about."
In connection with this disease Mr.
Abbott had an adventure which bade
lair at one time to cost him his busi-
ness, if not hie life. Indirectly he was
also the means of saving Boston from
contact rwith children, who had inherited
this dread disease.
.At Paasmaribo, the capital of Dutch
Guiana, where Mr. Abbott made his
ottdquarters, there was. a very wealthy
Dutelunan named: Pernard who had con-
tracted leprosy. He married a native
wife and had two children. When the
latter were grown up he wished. them to
receive a good education; and deteetnined
to demi them to Boston. Both
had inherited the diseaae.
Pernard coarfteted with .the captain
of a vessel hound for Boston to take the
children. The captain, knowilig nothing
of their Condition, agreed. But just be-
fore he was to sail a friend of the cap-
tain, knowing that the Inter had on
boxed his eirifo tad 'child, went to him.
"I hear you Are going to take back
the Pernard children svith you," said
the friend.
erect)
"Well, e.hettild advise you not te de
fax"
"Why notr asked the astonished cop-
tain.
But Pernard 'WM Wealthy and influen-
tial and the friend &red not divulge
the seeret, and so would no no more
than repeat has veiled Warnieg.
captain, becoming suspicious, went to
Mr. Abbott.
"What is the ttOuble with the Pernstrd
ehildrent" deniancled.
"1 etineot tell yOu but / etirteinly
warn you not to tail* them Ott board
tour ship."
"But wiry not? As a friend you ought
to tell Isnit."
Asd thin lb. Abbott irldepeted the
ISOM.
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rica. It is a veritable tangle and alive
with brilliant colored birds, with all
sorts of animals, including the deer, jag.
uars and baboons. The latter make the
night hideous with their cries.
"They are not dangerous," said Mr.
Abbott, "but they are noisy. They never
come down upon the ground until night.
in size they are about as large as a
boy of 10 years."
Of snakes thete are all kinds. A snake
wits killed upon the urinam river which
measured forty-three feet loug iand
which was as thick as a large man.
But it is not this boa-constrietor which
is dangerous. There is a small green
snake, scarcely lauer than a worm, .
which hides upon te foliage and whose
bite is deadly. The natives prepare an
antidote of herbs and this everybody
takes about once a week as a safeguard
ferniest the bite.
bIf you escape- inspite of the bushmen
and attacks of wild animals and the in-
fection of leprosy there are still several
other dangers. The principal one is the
disease of beri-benl. What this is doc-
tors have not discovered. A man will be
apparently well, except for a slight dis-
coloration of his lips, when sudcre.nly he
will drop,down dead. There is absolutely
no main connected with it, but it is as
fatal as a bullet.
Then, of course, there are the more
common, but none the less dangerous
fe,vers. The same eoil which yieldi the
precious yellow dust exhales deadly mi-
asmic vapors. Although Mr. Abbott has
escaped the two worst forms of disease,
he has been twice stricken down with the
others.
"Once," he said, " I was eut with a
friend and we wore both taken with the
fever. We started for the settleeesnt,
for it meant death to remain where wo
were. We finally got so weak that he
bad to crawl on our hands and knees.
My partner would drag me along for a
few yards and then I would drag him.
Finally he died and I had to crawl alone.
I went five miles this way—how, I don't
know, because I lost consciousness, and
awoke in a hospital at Paramaribo.
"Another time I was far ap the Sw-
im river prospecting when I got the
fever. The men put me in a dugout and
we started down the falls. I lay there
in the bottom of the boat beneath the
scorching sun, unable to make the na-
tives understand that I wished my face
shaded. A few palm leaves dipped in
water would have Saved me untold suf-
fering. Hour after hour passed and in
addition to the fever I broiled beneath
this sun. Once again I lost conscious-
ness and awoke in the hospital. I was hor-
ribly burned, but I eame out of it all
right."
"Yes, there is gold in Dutch Guiano.,
millions of dollars' worth. A man with
a capital of $5,000 has a good chance to
make $500,000 more says Mr. Abbott.
"But considering all 'things, it is Scarce-
ly probable that there will be the seine
ruell for it there was a feW years ago
to the Icloudike. Cold is bad enough, but
there ire seine things worse.
amount of money that these tallionalres pOs.
ANC in tad, UW7 tbigagelY90 40 not Wive.
The tete Dania Hirsch mice staid of Alfred
Deft: "I dare say there are people Who could
serape together a I/ they trled—latt
a man like Mr. lien, he hes e Minton to
epend whenever lie wants it."
lloW de thee° vaatly rich peopple epend
thole wealth? The majority eeetn to delight
iu allowing 15 to accumulate. gtr, emcee.
feller. for instance, glyee occasioual mil-
lion pomade to edueetion, and spends about
getteter of a million a year on religio4
and charity, but his personal expenditure la
all direction*: is vastly esnaller than WS la-
ceme.
Mr. 13eit Wet racehorses and bought old
masters and alwgys 'rave to deserving calms,
but was never able to keep pace with his rev-
llo hes probably iment a quarter of a nall-
ion eteriing per annum in beuefactione dur.
ing the Met six or seven years.
Some of his more recent gift*: are:—
Frankonwaid estate of 3,000 Acres, val.
ued at £800,000, presented to the Trans -
veal Government for educational pule
poses.
Land valued at 4260,000, for a park '114
jobanneebuiat.
Endowment of a Chair of Colonial bile -
tory at Oxford.
Donation of R25,090 to the Institute of
Medical Sciences Valid a the University
of London.
R4,000 to Guy'o Hospital.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie rains free libraries
on the just and unjust,- but his capital seeing
inexhauellble.
King Leopold speculates in tho Congo rub-
ber apd other undertakings, Some successful,
whoa not.
It is curious to °beery° that those who
acquire fortunea rapidly seem liable to dle
at an early ago. Those who aceumelate slow-
ly are much more long-lived,
The average ago of persona leaving es-
tates In England valued for probate at moro
than X150,000 each ha': usuelly been front
seventy -olio to sevonty-three years, and the
number of those exceeding eighty yeara has
been remarkable. On the other hand, strik-
ing instances of the uncertain tenure of
quickly -mitered wealth are those of Mr, .1
Barney Barnet°, who died In 1897, leaving
X1299,000, at the age of forty-seven; his
nephew, Mr. Woolt Joel who died in the
fpliewIng year, at thirty-four, and whoae
eatate was valued at R1,228,000; Mr, Herbert
Ernest Matthew Davies, a director of mining
companies, who died in 1809, aged torty-
three, and left R734,000; and Colonel John
Thomas North, In the nitrate trade, who died
aged fifty-four, leaving R453,000. His frlend '
and framer partner, Mr. Thomas Rudd,
whose estate' was valued at only R227,000, was
seventy-one years of ago when he died.
MEN OF MILLIONS.
ast.sae•
World's Dozen Richest Men Own £738,-
000,000 Among Them.
The death of Mr. Alfred Belt draws at-
tention to the fact that ho was the second
richest man in the world, meld was eompute:1
to be worth no lege than ono hundred million
pounds.
The following le a list, including Mr, Belt,
of the world's rIchoet Men, showing by what
mewls they acquired their Wealth:-
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1.. Ttoekefeller... ..... 250 .... 011
2. A, Dolt ... ..... 100 .... Iblitteends
2../. Itobinsen 80 Oold Mines
Tbe Tear .•. .* 81 . I.. Inherited
6. A, Carnegie .•, ... 60 ..•. Steel
I. Welded Atter .... 40 .... Land
7. Prince Demideff ,. 40 .... leherited
8. Emperor Of Aallstela 37 .... Inherited
0. William Vanderbilt 20 .... Railways
10. rteekefeller 20 011
II. Wing Leopold .• .. 20 .... Inherited
le. Shale ot Persia .... Inherited
It IS Istgentetble to compote atiotle the
OPERATION AVOIDED
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EXPERIENCE OF MISS MIMI'
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She Was Told That an Operation Wart
Inevitable. How She flawed it.
When a physicien tells a woman suf-
fering with serious feminine trouble that,
an operation is neceeeary, the wry
thought of the knife and the operating
table strikes terror to :ler heart, awl
our hospitals are full of women coming
fOr just such operations.
illailleappetifferhley
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There are eases where an operation
is the only resource, but when one con -
eiders the great number of cases of
menacing female troubles cured by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound after physicians have advised
operations, no woman should submit to
one without first trying the Vegetable
Compound and writing Mrs. Pinkham,
I Lynn, Mass., for advice, which is free.
i Miss Margret Merkley, of 276 Third
Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes :
. Dear Mrs. Pinkham;
"Loss of strength, extreme nervousness,
shooting pains through the pelvic organs,
bearing -down pains and cramps compelled
me to seek medical advice. The doctor,
after making an examination said I had
a female trouble and ulceration and advised
an operation, To this I strongly objected
and decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Ve-
getable Compound. The ulceration quickly
healed, all the bad symptoms disappeared
And I am once more strong, vigorous and
well."
Female troubles are steadily on the
increase among women. If the monthly
periods are very painful, or too frequent
and excessive—if you have pain or
swelling low down in the left side,
bearing -down pains, don't neglect your-
self : try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
FARMING WITH LESS
RAIN.
Finely Pulverized Surfaye Enables Soil
to Store Up Moisture.
We are just beginning to learn that
if the soil is cultivated carefully and in-
tensively it can be made to hold water
within itself and carry a storags reser-
voir underneath the growing crop. Finely
pulverizing and packing the seed bed
makes it capable of retaining the great-
est possible percentage of the moisture
that falls, just as a fine sponge of a cer-
tain size will hold many times as much
water as a coarse sponge of the same
size or as a tumbler full of birdshot will
retain many times the amount of water
that a tumbler full of buckshot will. It
is a well-known fact that water moves in
the soil as it does in a lamp wick, by
capillary attraction.
The more deeply and. the more densely
the soil is saturated with moisture the
more easily the water moves upward in
the soil, just as the oil "climbs up" a
wet wick faster than it does a dry
one.
The problem of evaporation is the
mightiest one before the agriculturiat of
the semi -arid west. Even if the acme
amount of rain fellin E
as falls in Iowa, it does
as much moisture would
plant life in the former
state. Eastern Colorado
the sea. and has a clear
astern Colorado
not follow that
be available for
as in the latter
is a mile above
atmosph ire end
intense sunshine. Its atmosoliere is,
therefore, very dry and quickly drinks
up the moisture from the soil out iss we .
take Measures to prevent it This we
do by means of a soil "blanket" tolled
a "mulch."
This nicely pulverized surface a in es
a two -fold purpose—it prevents the
moisture from below, in large »tonsure,
from evaporating and at the sane time
keeps the surface in such condition that
it readily absorbs whatever sudden slbow-
ers may fall.
One can illustrate the effect of this
fine soil "mulch," so far as preventng
evaporation is concerned, by 01
some powdered sugar on the sitetem of
a lump of loaf sugar and holding the
latter in tumbler of water. He will
observe that the powdered sugar will
remain dry even when the lump has be-
come so thoroughly saturated that it
crumbles to pieces in his hands.—World,
To -day.
SUETY FOR CHILDREN.
Liquid medicine advertised to cure
stomach and bowel disorders and sum-
mer complaints contain opiates and are
dangerous. When a mother gives Baby's
Own Tablets to her little ones she has
the guarantee of a Government analyst
that this medicine does got contain one
particle of opiate or harmful drug, The
prudent mother will appreciate that in
Baby's Own Tablets there is absolute
safety. An occasional dose to the well
child will keep it well,—and they prompt-
ly cure the minor ailments of childhood
when they come unexpectedly. Mrs. G.
Hamlin, St. Adolphe, Que., says: "I have
used Baby's Own Tablets for colic and
bowel troubles, and find 'them safe and
speedy in their cure." Sold by medicine
dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from
the Dr. Williams' 'Medicine Co., Brock-
ville, Ont., Keep the Tablets in the
house.
4 • 1
Jefferson's Ten Rules.
Nem put off until to -morrow what
you can do to -day.
Never trouble another for what you
can (10 yourself. ,
Never spend money before you have
earned it.
Never buy what you don't want be-
cause it is cheap.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst
and cold.
We seldom repent of having eaten too
little.
Nothing is troublesome that we do
willingly.
Ilow much pain the evils have cost us
that have never happened.
Take things always hy the smooth
handle.
When angry, count ten before you
speak; if very angry, count a hundred.
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Plea for the AlligatOr.
(Springfield Republican.)
It ie a 11 hem that Met noble animal. the
American alligatot, is being extermlnated.
Of couree, our old friend, "pocket greed."
is responsible. The demand for alligator
leather can be mot entirely by the menu-
facturore of tho beetle article and the resttit
la that 280,009 real alligator hides how dia-
aopeftr annually in the great Maw of tom -
Mete°. The nembee of alligator(' in Louis-
iana is 20 per cent. less than twenty-five
Years use. Unless the anteaters form a MIMI
and regulate the output they are doomed.
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Live Within Your Meamt,
(New Bedford standard.)
The quiet, holiest citizen who Ilvett Well
withia hie indite°, having What he needs
in the Way of comforhable living'. edequate
feeding, testeful dressing, with some re -
1 lexatione and pletteures, all in theft Pro-
portion tic him means justify, atande woe
at his neighber who earns no More but *Ito
Make!' ft dee! Of thew with What he has %
end What he dOes heti doUbte his °We 'GAMY I
the menage. Did the difference ft not sO
Mich apparently In ability to make a elven
sum of Money go ite taw letigth hs Of
IrillIngases te Meat tlObt and ter get it.
WRY CYPRESS WOOD SINKS.
Scientists From Washington Make a
Most Singular Discovery.
Southern lumbermen take great delight
in a story of certain scientific gentlemen
who were sent by the government at
Washington to study the growth and
&es of the bald cypress at a time when
cypress lumber was comparatively new
to the market. They went direct to a
large camp, presented credentials to the
superintendent and watched with minute
care the processes of cutting the timber
and floating it down stream.
Cypress is a light, spongy wood that
grows in swamps and absorbs wa-
ter readily. The scientific gentlemen re-
quested the. superintendent to throw
some ogs
the main rafts and followed. their pro-
gress down stream in a boat. After
floating south for some distance the logs
with one accord sank. Much surprised,
the scientific gentlemen returned and. f ol-
lowed another consignment. The phen-
omenon was repeated; at a certain dis-
tance from the camp all the logs sank.
The gentlemen from Washington, being
very scientific, did not think to question
the unlettered superintendent about the
power of cypress to become waterlogged,
hut after numerous observations and.
much comparing of notes reported to the
department the startling discovery that
cypress floated north of a certain paral-
lel of latitude and south of it invariably
eank. Of the cause they were not yet
certain, but hazarded the suggestion
that it might lie in the rotary motion
of the earth, increasing in speed as the
logs approached the equator until it
was powerful enough to draw them un-
der.—American Magazine. •
CHARM OP FREAK FISHING.
Difficulty and Danger Attend the Pur-
suit of Sharks in the Gulf.
For many amateurs freak fishing has
the greatest charm—to pursue devil fish
with sail or motor boat or bait sharks
and gaff them is much sport To say the
least, sudh freak work varies the mon-
otony of tarpon or kingfish angling, af-
fords great danger and excitement and
occasionally leads up to that champion
of sea demons, a fourteen -foot sawfish,
which will wreck a boat if he can. Some
of the carnivorous fish weigh up to 5,-
000 pounds, or more than two tons, at
least.
So says Edward Vom Hofe of New
York, an expert in such pursuits. Mr.
Vom Hofe captures devil fish at Punta
Rossa and southward, his largest weigh-
ing over 1,000 pounds. He says lie finds
them in groups of from three to ten,
floating on the surface with the tide,
feeding on fish, for which they seem to
fly under water with a vampirelike mo-
tion of their huge wings.
Mr. Vom Hofe's views on, the hammer-
head shark would indicate that it is a
mammal like the whale, rather than a
fish. A female which weighed upward of
1,500 pounds, he says, when eut open
was found to have twenty-five young
sharks within, weighing from three to
four pounds each.
The hannnerhends are found on the
bottom. They are baited for with fish
heads, the hooks and lines being east
overboard in a churn of blood. Mr. Vom
Hofe uses a small stout rope for his fish.
line when angling for all kinds of
sharks. Attached is a brake, made of
rounded wood, split in twain, which pre-
vents the rapid running of the rope
from burning the hands. Tho rope is
coiled on the bottom of the boat. When
the hatemerheaded is booked the boat
is ,beached as soon as possible and the
shark worked toward shore. As soon as
the hammerhead approaches within dis-
tance he is gaffed and dispatched.
There is no finer sport than to angle
for small sharke with rad and reel and
hank speeimeng weighing under 3G0
pounds. One is fairly safe in handling
small sharks if armed with good stout
fish knife having six Indies of blade, or
loam a strong gaff. The main thing is to
get knife or gaff home through the
throat the vital epot, before taking the
fieh into a boat or on a wharf, otherwise
they will fiercely attack the angler and
may snap off a band or foot.
Fish bites are somewhat poli•telynut
and a Slink bite dangerously so. A flail
in snapping the hand will often leave a
toothpoint under the skin, reusing a
Seri011i sore. Immediate Cauterization is
neeessary for such wounds. No person
shoula go fishing for shark without a
stick of eaustic (nitrate of silver) in his
pooket.
In fishing for large shark the harpoon
beeomes man's good friend and must be
hurled with deadly aecuraey More the
great fief! is taken abroad. In Florida
the rope is passed ashnre if poseible and
tho shark dragged to the beach, where
there is room to kill him or let hint
die naturally, At sea the tackle is rigged
to the boom and the shark hauled up to
it, where his throat 18 cut. The wise
angler who hoole a big shark from a
rowboat, with no weapon but oars, dis-
creetly cuts the line if he een not get
his tackle ashore. A large shark will,
when maddened, attack a rowboat and
smash it.
Such a shark, weighing- over 1,000 lbs.
would readily make kindling wood of
a rowboat with his tail and jaws.— New
York Tribune.
DISCOVER SECRET TUNNEL.
Effort Made in London to Unearth Port-
land Mystery,
London possesses, on the whele, a fair
share of gloomy houses. Some of these
are very large. In fact, the larger tlie
house the gloomier very often its appear-
ance, But "gloomy" would be a mild.
word to apply to what was Harcourt
house, the town residence aforetime of
the dukes of Portland, in Cavendish
square. Its aspect from the outside
was absolutely forbidding. But Harcourt
house has ceased to be, or, to be precise.
it will have ceased to be before many
days have passed-, For the housebreak-
ers are at work upon it with pickax,
spade and shovel and the west side of
Cavendish square is a mass partly of
uneightly ruins.
Now, housebreaking in the ordinary
way would not be considered an ideal
occupation. It appears too dangerous
—and far too dusty. But it has an oc-
casional excitements all the same. One
of them has just arisen in the process
of demolishing the two -century -old Har-
court house. Hence it happens that 0110
housebreaker in London at all events is
to -day a proud man. For he has been --
or claims to have been—"interviewed"
in the course of a few hours by nearly
every reporter in London. And. why?
Because he has discovered under the
carriage drive in front of Harcourt
house what may or may not be part of
a "mysterious"tunnel. For the mo-
ment, be it explained ,the tunnel in ques-
tion must remain a "mystery" and it
will continue so until a brick wall which
seals up one end of it has been broken
down.
It seems almost a pity to spoil the pub-
lic excitement that must attend the
breaking down of this wall by reveal-
ing beforehand what will be found be-
hind it. But already the show has been
given away.' The discovery, it is said,
of part of a tunnel points to the proba-
bility of there bing a subterranean pass-
age leading from Harcourt house to the
Baker street bazaar. Further, that in
this case another step will have been
taken toward establishing the Dritee
claim to the dukedom of Portland. The
chief ground for these deductions would.
seem to be that in Harcourt house livea
the fifth duke of Portland and that this
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A Flying Trip to %Ion
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By IL A. notary. Rerine, Sask.; Formerly of Knox
Church, Hamilton.
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Forty miles north of Winnipeg yoiz
come to the stamping ground of 5,000
ft:Omens or more. No one knows exaet-
ly how many there are. Five thoneand
c.anie, but they marry young, dieappear
In the woods, and even the eensue man
lies a job in locating them all,
. The chief ways of aceess are vitt the
deulon branch ef the C. P. R., soon to be
extended. still further north into the
woods, or via Lake Winnipeg to Obeli
and. other small feelaudie hamlets., thence
oveyland by pathways which by courtsy
we may call roads.
T,here are a ember of good graded
toads over which the tourist is usually
conducted. There are others that defy
description and, require the appreciation
of experience.
Nor is the Whole land Galician and
bush. Same of it is open with as beau-
tiful a landscape as can be found in
Ontario. There, are found the farms of
English-speaking settlers, with splendid
buildings, rich land and all the elements
of agricultural prosperity.
The day the writer was there he had
the opportunity of dinineat a wayside
Church of England picnic, in a churc.h
grove, where the whole situation re-
called old days in the east with the com-
forts and pestimes of rural districts.
Then within a short distance you
strike the timber, Which is chiefly pop-
lar, with, some scrub oak. Here the Gali-
cians are encamped, scattered for miles
in the woods, which are rapidly clearing
and turning into fertile fields. In peak -
roofed log buildings, straw -thatched and
plastered, they live, some clean, some
dirty, some filled with not only foreign
human population, but with what Dr.
Robertson used the call "the pestilence
that walketh in darkness."
The recent movement of the "Inde-
pendent Greek Church" has produced a
few local priests, who are really presby-
ters, and who hold services which are
well attended in the frame, cross -mount-
ed church by the roadside.
The present policy is for the English
dootor and missionary to keep in touch
with these foreign leaders and through
advice to help keep .before these people
the religious and also the Anglo-Saxon
idea of life.
Among those who are thus seeking to
teach the swarming hordes of Galicians,
Swedes, Germans and Jesy is our own
medical missionary at Teuton, Rev. Dr.
nter, and his assistants in the
C. P. R. track, and is for the present
half mile around the corner of the cou.n-
try roads are the grounds of the nus-
sioTne.ulon is a bamlet strewn along the
the nortern terminue of the road, and
Considerable bas already been done in
the way of equipment, partly through
church donations, and partly through the
personal offerings of Dr. Hunter and his
mother, who superintends his house,
A hospital has been erected capable
of comfortably accommodating twelve
patients, and, in a pinch, twenty-three
uncomfortably. With its wide verandahs
it presents a very pretty site from the
road. Near by Dr. Hunter and his
mother have erected at their own ex-
pense a eemmoclious house as a mission
home.
From this centre the doctor is the
pinaocdpicea.1 adviser and friend of 10,000
1 It is no easy job, for it often
Ile built a wonderful example at Wel- 1
particular duke had a fancy for tunnels. .........+++++,_++++++++++++.4......
beck and the famous underground ball-
room at the abbey was his creation.
It is also argued. that it is no great
distance from Cavendish square to Bakcr 0....÷.......4_04++++,......+4.4.44.....+4 ,
to light is no more than about thirty- Revolutions and earthquakes are tho chief,
tanee, in fact, is about half a mile. Tint
five feet. Tide, at any rate, is what a If not •the on13:),0 lealvvbatrt.s ti°01vressider °inn
tehaerthroapue
so far the length of tbe "tunnel" brought
representative gathered in eonvereation scene: r bsnog richly blessed. in tho nint>atter of
with the now famous housebreaker. climate, of potential prIdguerucetalvkieesness .and of
liettee mentioned also that the paseTaiglee curable ivaofflieotrion48 buotartb
beauty. Its political Instability is a
was found under a coal chute contain- forever liatti
1?)reetrienttle f
I: stsl toul,vtinodnosr evottoludwbobesupapregsrseeadt
zorlittisfewItl
eAl a certain quantity of coal dust end countrr.
coal cellar the dimensions quoted are a 1 he distinction of being
trifle large. But the passage has yet tithes. silittimelirieleitleoe"tidie tLattn American repub-
is about four feet wide. Certainly for a
to be proved half a mile long. And no- little less than that of tho State of New
area is 7,225 square miles, or a
thing short of that will substantiate the tittitseerty.ialIenrpluvalaatiolocvea a fnensudsonZitys
The discovered voult, it appears, is of of settlement It has only one rival fu all
brick, like the grim outer wall of the Latin America, and that fs Hayti. No
other of those countries has more than one -
Baker street theory.
mansion itself, and the wall behind whieli emit le)totpyulataionn ActalvtahLrseuialares
lies the solution of the mystery is on Ana. about
outkiititorterT nese loaorli
a population ' of about 00,000, and santa
the south side of the carriage drive, new fifty miles northwest of the
stone, fragments of windows, gravel and run
2)Itt.l. thoasthea sPoTgwiaetsi°t,n lut°t 2206070; San
Tghe Central American Corgdilleras, which
a. inektlichOly mass of broken timber,
debris. There seems no particular 1 ea through Guatetnala on the north and
son why the agony should be prolonged.
. through Honduras on tin. east, Ile wholly
It Was suggested to the much -interview- aoutossvidelytihn,,e craustn,:..lis oloafin,Swaloctlhorv.ariellsoflirtotmld
should at once proceed to break dotvii
ed housebreaker yesterday that he to a plateau of a general elevation of not
tfnaen to twenty miles in width, the land rises
the mural barrier and set the recitV
mind at rest. But be seemed to be of i It'erfr:17 erg trits- pIllattZlYtheig:
those contemplative toilers who hold
Public canicviee..aks,o some active and some Inetinet.
:that it is idle to do to -day that which They add greatly to the picturesqueness
of the landscape, hut tho activity of some
can be put off till to -morrow. London eyeann e ein tothothieiashtihitahunstea ooft
occupied -n -the center of the west t h e eel )orrul an'
tinct, are in the immediate vicinity of tha
tbrayan.nnbso 0 in 0 0 0
Harcourt house occupies—or rather
. ooefeasth
them happily en -
must wait.
of Cavendish square. Erected in 1
side egrritligonst , , oof r mit i e. y ein
oaeitta city. The counatiliy Ifi.s also an , 41115-
"11 ttsle hgells." Thewsge are open --
by Lord Bingley, it was purchased after sulphurous vapors. Serious seismic dls-
Ilia death hy the earl of Harcourt, who
7.22 lags from which escape smoke, steam and
oily° w esvixer, oorf ceignetaragysetiryoorttitvroe
had previously built a mansion on the shakeups have happened in more than thrao
toucrobtiarnanceroaree)
whom Harcourt honse passed into the p°
hundred years, and it is claimed that in
sdumargood
opposite side of the square and from
possession of the duke of Portland. It 87e,ve of
_ lintadootr loislisloofnleitfuonftir t ol oil): optebratri
has been deecribed as "One of the most From tho crest of the coast plateau tho
her neighbors.
LoaelniorpottotrioveLwIriciertoulefsulora llogr3U100 tei:icg
totyn" and as resembling a convent rath-
singular pieces of architecture about the land Mopes downward to thoodva
means long (hives with no anobnit pare -
was, but jaunty excurgions ever IX
and, etump etrewn trail* and thalcm
north wind Gude out every unproteetsd
isItavrat».ip and busk where MOialidtoec And
keep one aweke the Warta air, or
the ienutnerable varietiea of summer flies
where the keen breath of the winter
Through the mission Dr. Hunt& stral
the nurses are seeking to gain the sym-
pathy of the Europeans in behalf of
this work. The church has been moder-
lately generous, but the writer feels that
if the field and the facts were known,
the members of the ellereh would be eta
more liberal.
The cost of the hospital to the
amount of About $0,000 has been met by
the church, but almost all the other ex-
penditure equally necessary has come
out of the private funda of Dr. Hunter
and his mother.
Our chureh should know as much as
possible about this 'work and lend it all
the practical sympathy it can at the
present time, which is the eritical and
strategic period in its history.
Some time ago the doctor contracted
blood poisoning in the performance of
duty. It cest bim three ntonths in Win-
nipeg hospital where for a time his life
was despaired of. Although the Winni-
peg doctors were very kind it meant A
large outlay for hospital fees and forty
dollars a month for a medical substitute
in Teuton. Dr. Hunter is unobstrusive
and would not publish all he Should, but
as a visitor, the writer found out a few
facts Haut he wishes the church should
know, and his observations made him
feel that there are present needs that
are pressing if effeetive work is to be
doAnem. ong
them are the following: $1,000
cash for im,mediate use; assistance in
procuring more land for the hospital and
mission; larger grants for the supply
of drugs, instruments and medical
bokiq an isolation ward and an operat-
ing robm.
At preesnt, as the doctor put it, they
operate "any old where."
A nurses' home would be a conveni-
ence only to be appreciated by those on
the ground. 'There is much need of a
room where the dying could be placed
apart from other patients, and a mor-
tuary chamber is a real and pressing ne-
ecsIsnitYihe near future enormous good
would be accomplished by a school where
promising boys and girls could be
brought under direct Christian influence
and sent back among their people as ev-
angelizing, Canadianizing factors. There
are children now in the village school,
boarding at the mission, who are a cre-
dit to any community. If fully trained
in a mission home what a force they
would be among their own people!
The writer who saw the conditions
would heartily commend this work to
all interested in what is both Foreign
and Home work.
If it is to be a real aggreisive enter-
, prise it must be more adequately en-
dowed, and made capable of reaching out
in larger and more aggressive lines of
1
work. And it is of vast importance that
some such agency should be there, for
; we in the West feel very keenly the
fore° of the oft -repeated statement that
if these people are not Christaindeed and
! nationalized the surrounding digtiticts
will be paganized and denationalized and
the Canadian tone be correspondingly
lowered.
amOy•••••00/.
Salvador
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street. That is undniable. The dis
er than the residence of "a man of qual- iso in its °length-
ity." Another authority. describta the in width from twenty to thtryt miles. In
house as "dull, beav,v and. drowsy -look- form northwest to southwest and varying
etnittt toTeAfaten
ing," a enitieism which \Vas certainly i ilac:dsofthgeb
justified. The last occupier of Thereourt rsnailvesadferrom a 11 oe Le a s
this valley, 5 at a dist:,
b tiful and pictures:rue spot.
and the property is owned by Lord. How- tthartedugoitlietuotn the convenial plan
Latin America. Its
house Was the (marquis of Breadftlbane sToll°00ernittnYont8
building is being pulled down. strectsinornrolftt Jig, 07golensiy aonndo islorhooyuai3isi
ritir4ht and built around an ample patio.
nrd De Walden, by whose orders the old
The Six Best Sellers. , safety from falling walls in case of an
Tho patio and the street are the zones of
4-ao,
The eity boarder wits attracted by ft unusietity 'violent earthquake shock. The
sign on the only store in the village. It the conventional manner. 'Beside them
city has it eonventIonal parks, laid out in
read: "The Six Beet Sellers Within." stand the public and ofttelal buildinga. In
"H'm murmured the city boardee, ttileteopit:rvercoettt tnoafdeth, egniflt.erthoolo Ploantaigue Central,
woshtialbenohtTi
"ire.re 10 it eleinee to buy some current etiutest band plays in the evening
literature. Guess, I'll go in." ont of Buell. cities, About three miles
Entering, he found the old storekeeper north of the city o cone seemed mountain
sitting oet ft herring keg puffing a corn- rises abruptly from the plain to a height of
cob. Intabouttro83,00heav'efeteaOncetetii atleirneetelymeaavym:ettanros.
"Where are yoitir books?" asked the net the people have quite lost their fear of
city boarder. . it, and Ps lower slopes aro note cevered with
"What books, stranger?" drawled. the coffee Mantatione.
coeinnuitrya eiesasutnflotrtitouneaxteeepbortihieavninagy noof
"Why, the 'six beat sellere.'" haTrbbogr
Foneeca, at ite southern end. Landinga
storekeeper,
"Ha, ba I Them ain't books, mister." . aro inado at La Libertad for San Salvador
"Not books ?" and at Aehjutla for S.allta Ant and Sae
"No, sir. My 'six boat eellers' are soap, :Weeder, but they are made fom the open
sugar, enspenelers, salt, socks and shoes. roadstead, end in times of a hottVy surf
,es Is Always uncomforteble end
What ean I wrap you tip of each P.--
Ohieago News.
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The, average automobile is tamest as tanway. which, runtime throngh
AtUbbOril as a ntule *III *toss the liarroW litinthert1 grip Of
sonieninee imposeible. Probably befern many
years, peril:to* within the next deeade, a
rallWay will {reverts(' the etatatey front end
to cud, oenneeting tlt the northern border
with a litte from Guatemala City. Thle will
font It part of the proneted rAtt.Arneriettn
auras near the Bay of Fonseca, and via
Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama make
connection with the Colombian frontMr mith
the South American section of the proposed
system. Such a line mould mean ag mat
deal to Salvador. The greater part of her
most groductive area lies from twenty to
forty miles nom the coast, and the cost
of trasformation now adds too much to the
value of the 'product. With the railway in
operation her merchandise could go out by
the way of Fonseca, where there is a good
harbor. The present railway system comeisla
of a line from Acajutla to San Salvador, a
distance of some forty miles, and another
from the same port to Santa Ana, about
twenty miles. A lino Is being built from
Le. Union, on the Bay of Fonsoca, to San
Miguel. This will some day be extended te.
San Salvador.
With tho railway development which will
come in the early future Salvador will have
a choice of outlets on the A.tiantic side.
Ono of these will be a raft route via Tegu-
cigalpa, in Honduras, and the other, also
fl rail croute, via Guatemala City to Puerto
Barrios. She will also be within eaeY
reaching distance of both the Panama Cartel
and Mexico's important interoceanlo route,
the Tehuantepec line. With these various
outlets open to her ,producers her mer-
chandise could be placed in the consuming
markets on much more favorable terms
than it now is, while there would also be
a notable saving on the bald down oast of
her importations. A it Is at present she
is somewhat ha.ndicapped by her compara-
tive isolation In her competition with her
more favorably located neighbors.
Tho mire:nal resources of Salvador are of
some importance, although they are not
regarded as exteasive and the gedgra,phical
couditions do not indicate the prazence
any remarkable depesits. There are a few
gold and silver mines of sonie value, and
some of them have been worked for many
years. Most of tho mineral district Me
near are Honduras border, although silver
in corabination with the galena is found not
far from the Day of Pommes, and there are
deposits of hen In the vicinity of Banta
Ana. Coal is also found in some abundance.
In apito of the lack of adequate transpor-
tation and shipping the country
has a very crodtable export teade. The
principal item is coffee. Like Guatemala,
Costa Rica, Ecquador and Porto Rioo,
vador claims to be the 'producer of "the
finest coffee in the world." It is certalnle
an excellent berry, although DA abeolate
superiority over the coffee of all other count-
ries Is poesibly a matter of doubt. Cacao Is
grown for local consumption and might de
produced In export ouantities. A email quan-
tiy of eugar is exported, and the Indulden
ot the country along the Pacific border
might be considerably' extended. A aectt
known as the Daltram Coast. This to the
woe(' of Supply for a product called Per-
evian basam. This aubstahco btu' been kisotrn
and gathered for export for many yew.
It has both chemical and medielnal ustbe,
and if we may believe Don Domingo Amman*,
an ecelesittatic who wrote blatory of Central
Amoebae a hundred yeare or so aro, it 1t
a sovereign remedy for almost al/ disorders.
from fever to freckles, Ho declares that It
"dissolves viecous humors, facilitates the
circulation and aide digeetion." It MIRY
brings the Salvadorlens few hundred that -
band dollars a yettr.
Tho finance ot the country are In Veey
good elume. Saleador'e notional debt Is In-
considereble. Iler revenues etre sufficient Mr
hor needs, and the rate of talration per
capita Is light. Her commerce ahows a large
balance in her fever, and her export trade
shows good increase. although the total Vol.
ume le not largo. Exports are reported for
reeent years ais between 02,000,000 end $7,000,-
000, with Imports somewhat lees than that.
Tho thief article of export it coffee, which.
renresents little more than three.euertets
or the total. Very much the larger part of
thie goes to EvIgiaild Ana the Continent.
Other 'shipments are Indigo, auger, bidets and
rubber. The Intl:torts inelede the netted mit-
colleneous essortment of article* beeht by
non-manufacturtng tropield cinintr1414,
iteally an Aerial Affair,
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