The Wingham Advance, 1907-03-14, Page 3YANKEE SHOPS IN LONDON.
No Aim of American Invasion, Simply
a 'Quest of Trade.
(Loodoin Telegraph.)
Just to the west of Duke street and
on the north Aside of Oxford street eon*
htfildings are being pullea down and, oth-
ers sre in a etate of deereptitude which
heralde speedy disappearame. It is evi-
dent that something new must teke their
place, and a representative of the Tele-
graph, who has been visiting various
sitee that lieve changes). their aspect
lately, made inquiries yeatereay morning
at the new builciings with evnieh Memo
Warring & Gillow have beautified, 0o -
ford street, Ire was referred direct to
Mr. Selfridge, whose temporary offices
4 aro just opposite No. 404, so that he can
keels: his eye on the mite that will short-
ly be changed out of all knowledge by
the enormoue scheme which he is begin-
ning to develop.
When it is understood that Mr, leelf-
ridge is the man who Oa so mucli to cre-
ate Marshall Field's huge store in Chi-
cago it will be realized, that Ite knows
his business. Our representative dis-
covered that he was quite Able to explain
it, too, so far as it was advisable at pre-
sent for the public to get mime idea of
the future as he plans it.
"You must understand, to begin With,"
said Mr, Selfridge. "that I do not wait
to pose 413 all 'American invasion.' Un-
der no circumstances has the thought
occurred to me of teachiug you any.
thing. That would be impossible. 1
hese come here because 1 am attraeted,
as many another American has been be-
fore me, by the opportunity afforded
for a large and dignified business in your
great and. 'wealthy raetropolis, a business
that will not interfere with existing Eng-
*, lish concerns, but that is inteoded. to in-
troduce something new.
"I propose to learn all I Can before we
start in order to begin.on lines that will
not only be prosperous but up to date
and lively. The motto of Messrs. Sell -
ridge & Warring's otore will be integ-
rity of business principles, the highest
quality of merchandise and accuracy in
all our statements. We shell stock only
the best. A purchaser emembers the
quality of goods long after he forgets
their price."
On the table was a pile of architect's
drawings in white lines on blue paper.
They showed a fine building, 250x200
feet, etretthing back from Oxforci street
to Somerset street and with a. third open
aide on Duke street. The front is to be
deoorated with graceful Corinthian pi-
lasters and the whole effect is likely to
add to the imposing appearanfie of this
most important thoroughfare. The
eonstruction will be of Portland stone
and, steel throughout and as fireproof as
modern ingenuity can make a building
en which the brighteet energies of both
English and American architects .have
been concentrated.
As was explained in the Telegraph,
the inventiveness of the American gen-
ius has already been displayed In the
proposal that the new store should be
directly connected with the Bond street
station of the Tube railway, so that
passengers could. pass from the train
'Pt through an underground. passage into
the ahop without having to go •out of
doors at all. 'Whether the local auth-
orities will adeait a principle so novel
In underground raetropolitan traffic is
yet to be seen, but E. G. Wells would
have little doubt about its benefits and
it might be well that a subway which
would serve other public uses as well as
that ot brieging customers to o parti-
cular shop would obtain careful consid-
eration.
Whether this detail in the scheme goes
through or not, it is typical of the en-
ergetics spirit that animates the whole
of this new undertaking, but our-repre-
:
sentative did not touch upon, it yester-
' day and only asked for more informa-
tion concerning the big store that was
• ehortly to be set up.
"Shopping in London," said Mr. Self-
: ridge, "presents a problem that will be
interesting to solve. I confess it fee -
1 einates me. I had practically retired e-
1 ter the Marshall Field store had beeu set
going On a successful basis, but the busi-
ness hotels me still. The direction of a
large uneeber of men and. women toward
one honorable end of legitimate success,
; in which all harraoniously co-operate,
:seems to me an ambition that is worth
while.
"Ie a big store in London is run on
lines that are elastic and adaptable; if
it starts without any oldeworld, preju-
dices and methods except the essential
virtues of hard work and honesty; if
It deliberately tries to please the women,
first, last and all the time; if it is nev-
er afraid of a new development merely
because it is a change; if it realizes that
woraan's shopping can be made more
pleasurable to her than ever was the
the case before —then I venture to think
a real want will have been supplied. It
is not only London ladies who would
patronize an organization of this kind.
Country wives will be even more ap-
preciative of its possibilities. They will
get all that any household needs under
the same roof. They will see the best of
eveteething and they will see it under
the best possible oonditiona
"I believe we shall have methods of
showing off ladies' dresses and details
of eostume of every kind which wiiI be
both novel and Attractive. If we do not
appeal to every kind of taste that asks
for the best things it will not be for
t Want of trying every way we know, Give
us a suggestion and we'll thank you for
It, and we'll carry out anything that's st
practicable.°
Our repreantative Went away full of re
serioua thoughts. Ifo knew what the
big An:orient, stores could do and he had
been wondering how long it would be
before London would wake up to their
advantages, There bas, of course, been
a great change in a few •conspicuous
and well-knewn instances. But even the
beet of thoee is very different from such
places as Marshall Field's. Ilowever po
tipely Mr. teeldrolge may phrase his ate!
tittle° to London, the meaning of hia
earning is vety clear. It ie •a definite I
ohallenge., It envolves a very deliberate
eompetheon. It will, no doubt, toads Ivo
a dream lesson.
/or years the English producer and
vender has had the best article on the ,
market in many trades. But he will zoo?...
er take the trouble to change his meth -
oda of Ole or to alter Ida pattern to
suit any of his eustomers. If they don't •
like what he offers them they can go
to—well, as a matter of fact they have
gone to Germany, not for the best arta
cle, which England still poses, but for
the artiele they want, which Englancl
will not sell them. Not content with toe-
ing the markets of the world, England's
merchants are now to see the statuel
trade of London itself thallengsgt before
their very eyes. What are we going to
do about it?
There was a, time when we were able
to impose our own conditions on buyers
who ould not get their goods, elsewhere.
But our poaition is totally different
now. We safeguard trade upon the ocean,
but we no longer domivate trade every-
where. -
The reports of consuls general in ev-
ery quarter of the world pour in from
week to week to prove bow much ground
we have lost that is now past recovery.
It will apparently be necessary. to lose
yet more before we even awake to the
em.portance of weighing and measuring
in symbols which are eonvenieet to the
customers we want. Nothing short of
beggary seems likely to convince the
English trider of the commercial mos-
sity of the metrie system. nether than
wie it he deliberately prefera to disgust
450,000,000 possible foreign oustomers
every year.
Abroad his punishment is earning up-
on him with more and more severity ev-
ery month, At home a siniilar vengeance
will follow hard on hidebound conven-
tions which refuse to recognize that a
buyer is a human being. It has been
more slow in coming because the Lon-
don trader has been dealing with men
and women of his own race. But eueh
a new development in the immediate fu-
ture as Selfridge & Waring's big store
In Oxford street is a symbol of what we
may expect.
The writing has long been upon the
wall and few who ran have read. These
few nave profited accordingly. But the
majority who will lose their trade be-
cause they will not change their old hab-
ite, will suffer, and it will serve them
right. But his words were uttered to
ears already sealed in stertorious slum-
ber. Now it is the sleeper's pockets that
will suffer and the appeal may prove
rime intelligible. The efoinpeelleon le
close at home; the gage of battle Is
thrown down on his front doorstep,
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AN HEIRLOOM FOR CANADA.
(Halifax Record.)
A clergyman of this city on Friday
night last visited a Scotch faintly of six
who arrived by the Corinthian and were
on their way bo Toronto. During the con-
versotion the mother showed hire a era
die, 160 years old, which she was bring-
ing ta this country. It was either mae
hogany or walnut, but the reverend gen-
tlemen not being well posted on the
snbject of cradles, nverreth not what it
was.
But what a tale could not that cradle
tell were it gifted with the power of
speech? How ninny lullaby& have been
ming over it? How many of Scotlana's
sturdy sons and gifted daughters have
been rocked to eleep in the good old. -
fashioned way, that mothers of the
Twentieth Century do not practice. The
holds that carved that mottle hove :long
ceased their labors, yet tote what chang-
es have taken place since then.
The eradee was constructed two years
before Halifax was fouritled and sixteen
years before the sovereignty a Great
Britain was acknowledged on this hemis-
phere. While the cradle rooked, Wolfe
won the Plaine of Abralfeen and Olive
added the Indian domainto the Britith
vay. The Geoeges rifled. in the British
es and passed away, and during the
ign of the 0117,1 George we iost the
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continent. George Washington rose to
found a great nation,
Prussia. *erne from a small kingdom to
be a mighty empire, while revolution af-
ter revolution shook the power of the
French kingdom and republicanism came
out victorious, So in all the European
countries mighty upheavals took place.
And over Canada, has come in that time
a great change.
From being scattered, disconnected vil-
lages, we are now a nation of provinces,
knit together in a confederacy that is
nuked by bands of steel; from being a
country of fur traders we have developed
into a land where beautiful ami fruitful
fame, abound, one of the greatest wheat
producing countries of the world, a, land
scratched. All this has been brought.
scratched. Al 'this has been brought
about while the little cradle has done its
noble duty in the hills of old Scotland.
And when we begin to think that some
of the erten who have helped to make
Canada great, as MacKenzie, Stratheona,
and the rest, have been rocked in Scot-
land's bills, one cannot but hope that the
candle now elating eta: way to ets
country may have placed within it many
a lad and lassie who shall add to Cene
ada's moral, intelleetual and material
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BAD VISION CAUSES CRIME.
Expert Oculist Gives Result of Studies
in a Reformatory.
Four hundred inmates of the Elmira,
N. Y., State reformatory have been.
found by the ophthalmologist of that In-
stitution to possess some defective vis-
ion. Only the most glaring detects were
brought out under the conditions im-
posed by the state and such errors as a
difference in the vision of both °yea
were ignored. In a recent issue of the
Buffalo Medical Journal Dr. George M.
Gould of Philadelphia. points out the
handicap under which these young erim-
ins.'s are laboring when they attempt
almost any work of civilization, and con-
tends that, instead of punishing them,
they should be given accurate and scion -
Wee glasses to enable them to enake
their living.
"The state in its infinite stupidity,
doubly punishes them both by imprison-
ment and by improper glasses. Such is
governmental wisdom. Put upon 108 out
of any 400 moral and well -raised boys of
12 years of age spectacles which correct
the ametropia (abnormal refraction of
the eye) of any one of these 108 boys
of the reformatory and they will either
get into. the reformatory, a hospital or
their graves within a few years."
Dr. Gould asserts emphatically that if
legislators or officers of the government
were treated in a similar manner "there
would be different laws enacted at the
next legielative session and the adminis-
trators would see that they were execute
ed." He charges the state with "amazing
blundering" and says that the state will
not only not pay the oculist but it will
not let him do eda work scientifically, it
will not buy the glasses and it will not
take care to have the glasses fitted by
an coped optican.
The author asserts that it would be a
moneymaking business if a private oc-
ulist and optician would take the job of
reducing the state appropriations for
criminal inetitutions 50 or 75 per cent.
and insists that this could be tasily
done by preventing the ocular diseases
and reflexes which direetly cause crime
in the young.
What the state does, or rather neg-
lects to do, was brought out by an In-
quiry which Dr. Case, ophthalmologist of
the Elmira. reformatory, directed to 123
penal institutions. Dr. Coe asked. if
visual acuteness was tested when the
boy or prisoner was received; what the
results were; whether glasses were pre-
ecribed; the effect on conduct, etc.; whe-
ther oculists were employed; whether
appropriations were made for such work
and so on.
Sixty-three institutions Jailed to ans-
wer; of those who did reply 02 per
cent. had no oculists and only 5 per cent,
even had an optician. Moreover, it came
out that only 16 per tent, had an/ ap-
propriation for such evork whietsover.
n some of these institutions, Dr. Case
avers, baskets of all kinds of knees are
placed before the boys and they nee
ordered to hoose any pair they please.
"The 'entire offair,".saya Dr, Gould, "is
a farce, an absurd bit of opera, bouffe
at beet, that should be laughed a,nd bur-
ied out of lite sight of seIf-respecting
or of busineolike people."
Wherever there Was any attenipt to
go at the suWeet in even an inadequate
way the results on demeanor, conduct,
ached or handwork promptly showed
great improvement, the pereentegee of
such improvement ranging from 15 to 54
and averging about t40. In conclusion
the author says:
"twat under theee ruinous conleiens
nature responds a, little and. there ie a
degree of betterment gained, What would
be the gain if accurate and thorough-
going work were permitted if it were de -
mended? At the (same time the govern-
ment prides itself on being a democracer,
the oie.dical profeesion prides Rolf upon
beirg ecientfiee and `the people pride
themselves on knowing how to oust:let
an 'entermriee in a busisteeilike manner,"
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No Brightness at Breakfast.
altiests should never be bright at
breakfast ...tne. Brightness belongs to
diamonds and dinner thee, It is quite
out of place with omelets ittsd bacon.
A few fleshes ten,y be allowed at lunch-
eon'but at breakfast never. One pities
thehoettiss who has to play up to break -
Wit brightness. She does it, peer thing,
trith **bitty inalle.—The Lady.
ILSES' (Kr
CROP LILIES.
NARCISSIIS FARMERS Or SCILLY
NOW IN HARVEST OF FLOWERS.
Bulbs Developed in Hothouses In Order
to Escape Violent Storms—Benedic-
tine Menke Perhaps Responsible for
Iutroducing the Blooms.
(vaulty miles southwest et Land's Ved the
narclosUs farmers et LYenehse are buy ever
the January produce of their floral harveat.
Many a hothouse is all aglaw with white and
wee and lima steamers are beeleniag to
hear their growing consign:meets et fragrant
boxes east the porno of :the Well° and the
Rundlestone to the Great Weetern rallWaY
terminus and Etarting point at Penzance. But
beautifill Ss le this horticultural industry an
gnsciosung• se it is also in assocfatien with
storra-swept little islands, runged armted in
the boom of heavy gales with a girdle ef
foam from the black °rage of Penmeis to tee
towerlua rear mass of Minevawr, the story
of ite origin and growth is rnore dm:tannic
stile
Ineeed, that microcosm of the Soilly isles
hate had vicissitudes of fortune in the last
revolutionary and Napoleonic wars It did wen
as a port, squadrons of warships and fleets
of meneliant veseele beieg frequent visitors
to its Island -encircled rondatead. Tire email
farmers found ali abundant market for their
vegetables and ether produce not only with
the vessels detained in harbor -by easterly
winds but with the fleets always eruising off
Brevet and "the Gib," ae the rock fortress
at the mouth of tire Mediterranean was fa-
railittrie known to them.
Than came the peacetina a commercial eel -
tepee, pertly redeemed from disaster by tit
inauguration of a kelp industry. Theta th:
demand for kelp tallee and again thee: was
distress. Still in the days of ealling ships an
east wind always filled the pretty little roads
and undeunted enterprise also made Scilly ti
1140p-OWL04g end ship -building ,port. Besides,
the cultivation of early potatoes for the Lou-
don market brought a new affluence to the
farmer, who lerereeted their eavings in island.
owned ships. Then the development of steam
destroyed the ehip-ownieg and ship-iduld-
lag industry and a spirit of finanical gloom
settled down oe LYanosse.
All tire while, however, unknown to most
of its inhabitants, the makings 01 it Pao -
iglus lay disregarded in many an Bland nook
orcherd and garden. And this brings th;
story to it date about thirty-seven yeargs ago,
when it was known that In the Isles of Scilly
there were 'eight varieties of narcissus quite
apart from any that might be growing in
the Abbey gardens, the ,beautiful pleasaunce
of Mr. Dorrien-Sraith at Treece. A reNY
of these were to be found growing wild,
others in the gardens of the farmers.
How these flowers came into the islands
la, so Mr. Dorrin-Smith, the popular "king
of Sicily," says, a matter of some obsourity,
.filxty-three years ago, however, it Is known
that the captain of a French vessel which
had taken shelter la the roads presented two
bulbs of Campernelll to Mr, Gluyas. It le tot
unlikely that some of the varieties of nar-
°issue mentioned may have been introduced
by Benedictine monks, wile through long
generation,: oecupied the priory of St. Nick -
elate
Certain it is that seventy-two years ago
the late Augustus Smith, the uncle of the
present "king," 'breught in several eorts of
nacisous. To him must also be ascribed the
credit of discerning the commercial possi-
bilities of the bulbs. As he sauntered about
his dominions his aesthetic eye was observant
of the narcissus, noticed how early and lux-
uriantly they bloomed, and came to the con-
clusion that as an teepert they might he pro-
litAtblie
Angth he himself wooed Covent garden
with a small consignment of lilies and was
rewarded by receiving a cheque ror a sover-
eign. As occasion offered he mentioned the
matter to certain of his tenants, •but they
were intineneed by a natural conservative
inetinot and did not at firat not oa his hints.
A few of them, however, imitated their
"king" in a modest way and eontributed
their mite to the Supply ot the London flower
m
a
r
ek
et
,
111r
e'c total area is 3,600 acres, of which
rather lest! than 2,000 are euseeptible Of Pro -
Mehl° oultivation. Consequently the spare
land, apart front the occupied farms, wee
more limited in quantity than it is in Man-
itoba. There was a great run on It and in a
short time every available acre adapted to
narcissus culture began to be taken up. The
output increased by leaps and bounds, the
weight of the cut tlowers running tato hun-
dreds of tone. A..9 lilies are not Individually
very heavy, the total haryeet of blossoms
reached a prodigious figure. One of the most
etriking sights to be eeen et Scilly are the
little boats laden with their fragile and fra-
grant flowens which struggle from the small-
er "off istantio" some dark and stormy wint-
ry morning against surge and blast to reach
the steamer at St. Mary's pier,
One consequence of the esravrth of the nar-
°Jesus industry in Scale has been the die-
coVery by tete farmers of the value of glass
housee and the islanders of thirty years ago
would have been greatly aetonished If they
had been told how large an arehlpelago area
the mere lapse of a :generation would suite's
to shelter in this fashion. For mild as the
Seillonian winter is—the rare apparition of
lee in'a pond being a subject tor excited got: -
alp -'-the remarkable earotesus can not eatelv
be grown entirely out of doors. eland from
the shore beachee, fierce spray from the
mountain breakens, penetrate every nook of
the !Elands during a heavy gale and play
havoc, 'with the delleate petals of es. fully
openedethebeautifulnarsissue'flowers—now quite multi -
tedious in their variety as compared with the
original eight kinds—are picked while the
tender bud 18 Mill protected by the green
sheath, at any rate long before they are open
and brought into the leithousee, where,
placed in bovv/e and 'vases, they develop 4
size and beauty in damp temperature of 70
degrees Fahrenheit winch wouki be else im-
possible. So after two years' growth in the
open the pineapples of the Azores have glass
rta in over on rails that the third year of
perfect devolopraent may be :unmarred ati.
that they may acqueire that seemliness and
those dimensions which now command the
biggest peices from the west end fruiterers.
Now at this anement the workers throng
the lily fields gathering the unopened lilies
and the crisp stalks are being laid in the
wicker baskets for conveyance to the sate
shelter and even warm temperatureof the
gime houses. When fully open they are made
up in bundles of a dozen and laid neatly side
ey side is the regulation boxes, And in oart
or 111 boat they bave been brotight down te
one of the little steamere whiech ply to Pen-
zance. and then, their forty -mile journey
ever, are token possession of by the (treat
Wester): Railway, which conveys them mere
or teas swiftly to Paddington and early !morn-
ing sees the Covent Garden salesman pro-
claiming their ineeits to e matter-of-fact
throtg of buyers. One morning they are 10
their oassiteridean home, innocent Of the
ways of eitiees the nett flees them in the heart
ef "the busy hum oof..men."
His Name Was Waite,
There is a Certain small boy Who release
in the !Mine of Waite Pearsall. ele cern-
teenced to attend school a aleart time age,
and the teacher had quite 4111 eXperienee in
!hiding out his name, says the Home Maga-
Zine.
"Wbet is your name?" elio asked, as
Waite took bis seat
"Waite," Mid the boy prompter.
'The teacher looked rather surprised, but
said Melling for it low mtemeets, thinking,
porhape, he was frigthened, tileti she asked
again:
"What's your nettle?"
"Waite," said the pawnor of the azure.
After another few minutes' -silence the
teacher, beet:ening impatient, excleinsed:
"Well, I have waited plenty long enough
now. Please tell me vier name."
That made the boys laugh, and finalist
tee leeches. endeeetood.
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RS USING PROORICSSIVE MED
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The Hermit Pbyeielan is Anxious to Cure
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Idedieines.
Tbe discueseion of the bill now before
the Isorlieznent for the ete•
spliatiou 01 tlie manufacture and sale
of pateut or proprietary enctlieluoi io
Otto of the uonost insportanee, and is
omeiving a grot deal of attention, not
oleo by the proprietary nuelleine enemy
fiteturers, but oleo by the retell and
wholoale druggists. Every mentifax-
turer oi reliame end, high elope re-
medies micomes the bili as a, step in
the right direction. The dioussion has
brought out the fact that the best phy-
sicians in Canada and on the continent
approve of and preseribe Pseviiiee in
casee of the allot difficult character,
itt a recent instance of very serious
throat and log trouble the patient had
been using Psyehine. Two leaning United
States specialists were consulted, in
addition to two eminent Canadilan phy-
sicians. 'Upon, teeming what the patieat
was using, a sample of Peyehine was
taken and anelyzed, with the result that
the physiciens advisee ite continuance.
They prescribed no other medicine but
Iesochine, with the result that the pa-
tient has fully recovered and is fe
eplendid Walking ond telltale; mixer-
tisement for the wonderful etuotive
power of a remedy that will "good
up" before the keenest peofeasional
criticism and analysis. AS a. builder
up of the syetem and restoring all
wasted ;conditions, Peychine has Oa
:sigma and the best and most earnest
physicana recognize this lack "At
the Age of 20 my lungs were in a
terrible state. I had Is. grippe the
year before; it settled on my lungs
and I kept steadily growing worse
till I got down so low 1 was in bed
for aix weeks. I had a consultation
of doctors, and they said they could
do nothing more for me. Then I start-
ed to use Psychine. I took the medicine
for more than o year. It certainly did
wonders for me, I am now as strong
as I was before my sickness.
"MRS. H. HOPE,
"Morpeth, Ont."
Psychine, pronounced Si -keen, is the
greatest of tonics, building up the sys-
tem, increasing the appetite, purify-
ing the blood, aids digestion, and sects
directly upon the throat and lungs,
giving tone and vigor to the entire
system. At all druggists, 60c and $1,
or Dr. T. A. Slocum, Limited, 179 King
street west, Toronto.
CUT HANDLES OF SHOVELS. ;
Workmen in Maine Woods Where Ash
Abounds Well Paid,
When the anow gets deep and the cold
bites hard one class of wood operators
familiar to the sportsmen seeking game
pick up their traps and start for civilize -
tion. They are the crews of shovel han-
dle makers, whose camps are pitched
wherever ash saplings grow in profus-
ion and this is almost invariably where
other forest workers are not to be found.
The ash usually springs up where pine
has been out off, and hence the tracts
where it grows are generally deserted
except by the men who shape up the
handles. Usually from four to eight
work in each camp, in the pay and un-
der the direction of a contractor. Tbe
men are necessarily industrious because
their working hours are limited to only
seven as the days shorten and snow flur-
ries become COM111011, but they make bet-
ter pay than the woodehoppers or river
idtrs.
i
vers, although their work is more
laborious and confined to narrower lim-
The contractor receives 130 cents a doz-
en for his shovel handles on board the
cars. Usually he pays 12 cents a dozen
to the land owners for the right to cut
them and. 10 cents to teamsters for the
freighting of them to the snipping points,
leaving $8 cents a dozen for himself, out
of which he must pay his men and pro-
vide them with board and lodging.
If anything the life is wilder than that
of woodchoppers. Tete men sleep in tents
or leantos, because they move about too
much to establish comfortable log camps,
and the cooking is, done -one of the
t
party, who takes some e from his
work of making the hand Os to prepare
Oi
the food. Occasionally it woman is to
be found with a camp, out she is gener-
ally the wife of the contractor or of one
of his men, Few of thegentler sex can
stand the hard life of this class of work-
ers living in it tent with the men and
allowed only the privacy whieh is estab-
lished by a cloth partition. Yet it is
a sort of existence which cures all ordin-
ary human ills and the handle makers
are chattily if nothing more,
Aix expert handler can manage to
shape up twelve dozen lengths a. clay, but
men of his ability are few and far be-
tween, The average workers can get
from eight to ten dozen of the lengths
in readiness from the market, ten dozen
a day t oa man being regarded as ohigh
average. The anitractor usually. goes
ahead of the workmen and cuts down the
trees. Then the followers strip, square
and cut the trees into the desire:3 lengths
leaving the shaping until it number of
pieces are erady. The- handles are not
smoothed down or precisely trine:led;
they simply tette on a general idea of
the shape; are cut to the ;right length
and thunied with a sort a it block at
the end where the steel seoop is to be
fastened. The careful finishing is done
at the factories where the shovels are
oorapleted, Each man will average from
$3 to $3.75 a day for the eontrattor af-
ter the latter has cut the material and
the pay averages about $2 a day to a
man besides his board. The season lasts
until lite snow gets too deep for alteping
the sticks on the ground, an& a willing
worker, having praetically no expenses
to meet, generally goes be& to coviliza-
tion with from $200 to $300 ill his pock-
etsooNew York Tribune,
• 4 4 •
Elephants Carry Grudge.
A Hindu mahout was mnployed with it
working elephant in Bangkok, Siam, and
frequently ised A steel goad in defianee
of all warning. The result Was: that hie
elephant made frequent ettempte to kill
situ and finally the mail was diseharged.
Nearly four years afterward, by a most
remarkable coineitlence, both elephant
and mahout met again in Maultnain.
Burma, and no sooner was the big tusk.
or out of sight of tho sawmill andligh 11
into the Meese than he curled his titiroc
up baekward, seized his old pew:moor
by the neck, hurled him to the ground
and in on indent a Mighty forefoot
had trashed out his life.
Hubby /nnocent for Once.
dock thee other night waiting for her ti
A Bethany women sat up till 1 o'. m
-husband to corm home, At bust, 'weary 1 in
and ivorn out with vigil, *lie went lip -
stairs to retire, only to find her hus-
band in bed fast asleep. inattmd ,of go-
ing downtown he had stolen umtairs- and
erawled into bed which made his wile
eo mad she didn't, speak to hint for hti
The Swedish Stote railway, netioe.
al enterprise, have ordered. for delivery
in 1908 thirty koomotives, worth *020,-
0001' sixty peseenger coselses, worth.
$306,0(TO, and 'TOO freight wagon* to
cost $836,000; in all, *1,036,000 worth of
rolling *tack. Passenger traffie therms.
od eonsiderubly last year, t4he
freiglit traOie exceedea still more that
of previous years in consequence of the
rapid development ef.lielustriel activity,
ea tetaeltholen correspendent of the
Looden Times.
The question of water power in Swed-
en is very intereeting. Fully competent
engineers say that there is aveilable at
the present time 2,000,000 horse...power,
and that by regulating the lakes and
waterways this WM ceuveniently be in-
creased to 3,800,000 horse -powers without
including !ittialler rivers and falls, which
offer Imolai difficultles in their °depts..
tion or which are inneeessible from the
lines of communication, Ile fells are
not generally very high, averaging less
thou fifty feet, but the trotumes Of Wile
ter are fairly great and very constant.
Last spring the sum of $1,376,000 WAG
placed at the disposal of the State
raul-
way adminietration by the Rigadag for
the purehese of waterfalls, whose 250—
horeespower will be devoted to drivingthe trains by eleetricity. Previously, m
the winter of 1005.00, several prominent
Swedish railway engineens visited Senen-
eetetly, Pittsburg and other Aznerion
-centres for rnantifacturieg electric and
railway machinery.
In the early slays of State railroading
hi Sweden all the locomotives were made
in Mandester, England; later on sozne
were made in Berlin, and, six years ago
twenty were ordered front%almond,
Va.
Even when hydro -electric power is de-
veloped in Sweden teat country will still
impert coal front England to supply the
increased dexnand for coal for shipping
and other purposes for which electricity
cannot be oenveniently med.
It has been estanat,ed that in the near
future Sweden will use the following
amount of eiectrie power:
Horse -power.
Replaving coal or railroade, ete. 400.000
Producing manuring substances 500,000
Iron and ateel smelting . 200,000
Wood pulp and paper manufae-
ture 200,000
Chemical industries (carbide,
Sundry purposes 150,000
etc.) „ ...... 50,000
Total use of eleetrric power 1,500,000
This great volume, equal to 1,800,000
horse -power on the turbine shafts, eould
thus be /net by the water power now
available, and after regulating the water
courses.there would still be left for use
2,000,000 horse -power. Tempted by this
great supply or cheap power, foreigners
may establith large /odorless in Sweden.
The establishment of central electric
stations for lighting, and for power is so
general that, including stations now
ready or for which capital is already
provided, ase well as stations projected
and considered praetical, theae 11; not a
single spot on the slopes east or west
which is not within or near to the
spheres of activity of the various power
stations.
The State institutions for agrieultural
instruction and research in the south of
Sweden, at Alnarp, near the Danish
Sound, has proved that edetricity can
be made practically available for ape -
cultural punposes by putting up an elec-
trical station provided with windmills,
Which give the power required for steam
peeving, for reaping and threshing ma-
chines, for dairies and for ge-neral pur-
poses. When there is wind- at the tune
the power is required, the eleetric power
is used directly; when the wind is estrong
while no power is required, the current
is stored by aceunneators. If wind and
nocumulators both fail, the institution
falls bask upon the wires of the nearest
centre:1 power etation.
Evidently Sweden is not losing her
energy and progressiveness, but, on, the
contrary, is increasing bath, since she
was divorced from Norway.
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WEAK AND WORN OUT.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Give New
Strength to Overworked Women.
The life of a domestic is a hard one.
She toils from early morning until late
at night; her work is never done. Often
she is too busy to get out of doors for
a breath of fresh air, Unless her Wood
is kept rich and pure this close con-
finement wore on her health. Her
strength will fail; she may lose her ap-
petite, become pale and dyspeptic. In
fact she is in, danger of a general break-
down. Such was the condition of Miss
Marie Ami Fleury, of Ste. Anne de le,
Perade, Que., before she used Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills. She says: "For a num-
ber of years I have been a servant. Up
to a year ago I had always eojoyed tho
best of health, but suddenly I was seized
with veins in my side, my appetite left
me, I became dyspeptic and lost all
strength. I consulted a doctor, who told
me I was suffering from general debility.
eves forced to stop work and for three
inonths I followed the dodoes treatment,
but without benefit. I was advised to
try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and as I
had often heard of the cases they cured,
t decided to do so. I only took eight
boxes before I was aimed, and to -day I
am stronger than I ever was. lily diges-
tion is good, and can now go about my
work without fatigue. I owe a debt of
gratitude to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
what they have done for me, and I
strongly advise other wok, sickly girls
to give them a trial."
Alias Pleury's case is one of many that
Do Williams' Pink Pills have cured after
doctors' help had failed. The smeess of
these pills lies in the fact that they
strike right at the yew of the trouble--
the blood. Other in:: !kinds simply act
on the symptoms of the trouble—ma
may relieve, but do not cure. Dr. Wil -
name' Pink Pills make new del biood
that is why they cure dyspepsia, rheus
fruition, anaemia, heart et palpitation, head-
eehe, baekache ane the ills of women;
all these are eansed by bad blood. For
mks at druggists' or by ntaiat 50 cents
a box or six boxes for $2.50, from The
Dr, Williama Medieine Co., Droekville,
Ont.
"44 4 •
Economy That Did Not Pay. 0
(Philadelphia Record.)
"Yes," said the publisher of art eata.
lopes and artistie a.dvertis,ing.deeets in
Vitiladelphia. "I -.tote done welt testopeat
Vent, and expect to do better in the
future. Sometinies I make a mistake,
)(mover, that makes Inc 1 eel o little
tired. Not long ego our firtn wished t
eeo
proauce in. eataimme and eard fornt
e painting that tip eared in one of the
agazines. I calle on the Arad to buy
le delft. She wanted $400. 75 Wee
ore than I was willing to pay, so I
I offered her a royalty instead. tihe at-
eepteaend we wo hese already lied to pay
her *18,000, with the delnand for the
Picture inereesing every hour. An ex.
like that keeps' a man. fairly
:able regarding the ihfallibility of his
Irealt.—Itannur City Journal,
iliiiiese judgment"
MOTHER'S GRATITUDE
TO ZAM.RUK
OVIUSD Mtit DOT P
OORIL
1444444,14•441.
Nothing fie more unpleasant to tlso eye
and MOr0 painful to 4. *atom, Qum
boil# and Weer.. At this period the
year many adults suffer seutely from
these painful mitbreeke. Whan
ulcers, etc, moor on ohildron it Is pitiful
to see the littlo one. suites.,
Mrs. E. lloluise, of V GOAN street,
Hamilton, is grateful foe what rotwiluk
did for her little boy when in thie piti•
ful plight She says; "I wish to expreee
my gratitude for the benefit my child
received from your famotie Zam-Bilk
Balm. Ile suffered from. spring eruptions
and then boils broke ;int on his neck.
I tried blood purifying remedies, ettivee
and ointments of all kinde, but nothing
seeme4 to do him the desired good. The
hails got worse and becorrie ses loathsome
and unslightly that I could not eisuri him
to echool, as some of the boils and
ulcera could. not conveniently be covered.
About this thne a *ample box of Zatil•
Buk was given to bim, and we tried it,
The small sample did him a little good,
so I bought a 60 eent box. The result
was really amazing. Inside a wosk'e
time the boils had begun to dry up, and
in a very short time indeed every one
of there was holed."
Zam-Buk is a sure cure also for eczema,
scalp sores, ringworm, poisoned wounds,
chronie ulcers, chapped hands, eruptions
and pustules due to blood poison, etc.
It stops bleeding, and °urea, pile*, fis-
tula, etc. Is antiseptic; an excellent
"first aid." Every home and farmstead
thould have its box of Zara -Bute. All
druggists and stores at 50 cents a box,
or from Zain-Buk Co., Toronto, for price;
0 boxes for $2.50. Semi le stamp for
triol box.
• •
HURRY FUNERALS.
Instructions That Sometimes Surprise a
City Undertaker.
"Life and death both are strenuous in
New Yoek," aid an undertaker. "We get
Orders soraetimes that shock us.
"Not long ago we had a call from It
fasnily who asked 110 50 make a hurry up
job for the reason that they had. a,rrang-
ed to oil for Europe two daya later and
they didn't want to postpone the voy-
age.
"What would you think of a woman
who asked to have her husbaed butod
as quickly as possible on the ground that
a few days before his death they had
agreed, to it separation and that she
would like to put away the deceased he
fore the newspapers heard of their mar-
ital troubles? That is exactly, what hap-
pened.
"Then there was this case. An elderly
aunt, who had been an invalid more than
a year, passed away. We were asked to
arrange for the funeral on the day of
her death, and when we demurred unless
there was some important reasou we
were informed by a nephew that they
were anxious to know what wits in ber
will, as the matrimonial chances of a
niece depended upon what she was to
get.
"Only yesterday a man carne into our
office and said that his mother-in-law
had just died. and that he would like to
send her body South as soon as possible
because his wife wanted to attend some
sort of function three days later.
"In the good old days in some parts of
the country it used to be the custom for
fdends of the family in which a death
occurred to sit up with the corpse. In
a case given to us a few months ago we
were asked to send a touple of genteel
appearing employees to the house to keep
the vigil. We dM it, but I confeas to you
it seemed to me rather heartless."
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BICYCLE POLICE,
Development et the bicycle polio idea hae
been steadily growing in maty of the big
cities of the world, turd Ameriean cities have
not been behindhand in Making use of tire
wheel as a help to their police departments,
But the city of Brussels has an organixatien.
perfected within the past five years. which,
in some features at leost, and which in WM*
respects is unique.
The bicycle police of Brtuwels ride chain -
less wheels, carry neither evrorda nor clubs
and are armed only with revelvems, withalt
they are not summed to use except in ex -
trews emergency, yet their service Is Dorn -
Potent and effeettve. They ride the boule-
vards and greater thoroughfares always in
Pairs and traffic of all kinde is absolutely
under their control. Motorists and oyeliste
have a wholesome mopeot for them, for they
(eery speed indicatora in their wheels, and
whett an offender against epeed limit regule-
tions appears, they have only to follow
short distance to secure certain proof of
his offence. Arrest, immediate or subse-
quent, is sure to follow and tittles Petah:"
Is exacted. The men are earefully selected
tor their task upon the streets, are experts
in handling blockade!: and other greet
troubles and are under a system of telephone
reports and cells whieli makes them quickly
available at any point, The statement is
made by observers of their work that ten
mounted men are worth 200 foot men. The),
are alto used ELS mesioaneers 18 aU aorta of
ponce duty.
During the Met 10 years the Belgian army
has made use of the bicycle also for mummy:
a force of riflemen. They Use a folding Wheel
and are armed with the regulation service
rttle. Beteg picked men arid crack abuts.
they give excellent service as &aerie, for
they can cross all torts of country, riding
when possible and catryinug their folded,
wheels when out. In their sober, dark green
uniforms, with yellow triMtning and cloth
Saps, they aro neat t 1 t tat gaudy, and are
a very useful body to the aervicso-Teolutleal
World Magazine.
Adaptability in Fashions.
There is a new keynote in the opting
fashions this year which every womeee
who makes her OW'n clothes will be glad
to know about. It is adaptability. This
new adaptable feature is perhaps best
illustrated in the jumper of gesimpe
dresses whith am to be se -ve• faehtons
able throughout the -spring and atunneer.
The jumper waists will be son in pan -
an*, voile and eilk, and also in thet
cotton fabric', such as piala and check
gingham and silky mercerized madras.
It is this style :of dross that will be, worn
in pleee of the shirt -Waist suite There
is no &relit that it has many good poiuts
in its favor.
Take, for example, the jumper track
for 0, young girl, and let usi book heto it. .
possibilities for lieefisintee. The pitterrt
consists of three garments— the skirt, i
the waist and the bib jumper. In maks •
ing up the gown it Wottla be Wise to
have at least Ow* vitiate to 'wear with It, I
and two or more juniper bib*. Oto of
the woists might match the &irk dood !
the other taigh be oi eheere India lain
01' all-over litee. 'When this waist that
matehts+ the !skirt is worn, then the bib
jumper may be of tome other matetial
For instauee, if the waist Watt the akirt
are made of dark blue cotton voile, the
bib jumper would look attrattive in al*.
over lace; and then again, if an entirely
different tort of a, dress was want,
the ;skirt, and the bib jtunpee °midi be
made of plaid mercerized Matirtift, intl
the waist be of Clever embroidery or
linen. The jumper in thist frock is
slipped on ever the heed, and hi made
with tabs et, the be& and front *Usti
button onto the belt. —Orme Ifitiveret
Gould in Woman's Home Cfeurpallien. for
March.
1110 optimist rejoiees that ferety 24
hours britigib him a dey /tearer *p
but the pessimist growls beoanse tt
bring* Idni just that musk nearer ant
*inter,