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Strange Experience off a Russian Sailor in the
Wilds oR Siberia,
*way up in tbs northeastern corner
of Siberia, on the bleak ;point facing the
the Bering stzait, live the Chukcltes.
They are peaceable, fur -trading .people,
wino lovecalico, ftaur and, strange to
say, rsoap. Tho latter' commodity, when
brought to them by the captains whose
ships occasionally brave the rigors of
the tuotic seas, is always sure to find
ready exchange for the fur of the sable-
fience it is a wisp captain who carries
many cakes of soap in Isis cargo when
be weeks the Chukches,
Captwin Ispatoff, of the Russian sail-
ing ahip Katarina, is a wise eaptain, Ile
has anade many cruises along the nortlt-
ern and eastern coast of Siberia, &ailing
from ports in the Wliite sea, and always
has lie conte back with, marry hundred
sable skins, to!'say nothing of oceasional
r bales of sealskin, even though it be a
contraband. It has cost him little
o alwa sn 1 e uch or h hasmo to ata c m £ey yselected the most highly perfumed soaps, •the brigi(test calicos and the coarsest
flour to barter for the furs.
But two years ago, in the summer of
1905, Captain Ispatoff made a ddseov-
'ery. Cn visiting the Chukcltes' country
lie found that he was not welcomed so
heartily ae heretofore, While tit•e us.
tivos wore glad enough to see him and
his ship they seemed less eager to trade
furs for the soaps, calicos and flour that
he offered. They declared that they
had no furs and would give no reason
for their failure to have them. Captain
Ispatoff began to suspect. Could it be
possible that some other captains, hav-
ing learned of his source of supply, lord
paid the Chukches a visit in his absence
=since his previous trip•and cornered the
fur market? He would investigate.
He sunnoned Ivan Tschurvin, t'he see- `,and mmute of the ISatarina, at smooth-
tongued sailor and ono versed in tthe cus-
-toms of the Chukches.
"Ivan-Tschurvin," said the captain, "I
Stave a mission for you. You aro to go
iashore among tine natives and remain
' until I come back with the Katarina. I
suspect that others than myself have
• been coning among them for furs and
that eve shall lose our exclusive hold up-
on them if we have not already. done so.
It is you that I delegate the taak of in-
., gratiating yourself with them, of etab-
lishing such close relations between them
and you—which is to say me—that no
-.other Russian shall ever be able to do
Any business with them. I will sail away
• but shall return in a few months and
take you back to Odessa.."
Ivan Tschurvin was too good a sailor
to argue wiht his captain. Ile accepted
the mission and was duly landed on the
coast with sufficient provisions to ,hake
his way inland to the chief city of the
Chukches. And the Katarinaaway.
Capt. Ispatoff touched at many ports.
Here and there he traded and got many
furs, but tb!ere was none ao beautiful
and so well cured as those that ire had
been wont to receive from the Chukcltes.
However,'he did not hurry back to that
land, for he wished to give Ivan Techur-
,trie plenty of time to solidify his rela-
tions with the natives. But after eight
months had passed the captain thought
that the time ,had come to look up dos
• second mate. so he set axil for thhe land
;{1, of the Ohukohes, which he reached in
the spring of 1900.
It was late in the afternoon whentehy
reached the Chukches' town. As the
vanguard of the Katarina's party ap-
proached it was •evident that they were
seen, for there was a scurrying among
the natives. Then, as Captain Ispatoff
marotted toward the nearest huts, he saw
something which made him ,pause and
wonder.
The opening of the principal hut— a
large structure in comparison with its
neighbors—brought into view two na-
tives, gayly caparisoned, bearing a sextan
chair. At least it was as much a sedan
chair as can be made from remnants of
broken planks such as the Chukches
can obtain on the coast. Two other rtst-
tives walked behind, bearing the rear
end of the vehicle and in it sat a strange
figure, the personification of dignity.
From head to foot ho was clothed in
sable, the most exquisite sable. The se-
d.an chair was lined with more sable, the
ends of the rugs trailing on the frozen
ground. Then from another but and from
many directions came priests, garbed all
in white and chanting a weird hymn. Be-
hind them walked little children, singing
�the sante music, the purport of wuteh
seemed to be that here wa.s a god, a. di-
vinity, and that the strangers should bow
down and do him homage. T'lsough Cap-
tain Ispatoff and his 'men understood
the words. they did not realize that it
was mean that they were actually to
bend the knee to the advancing figure in
tile. sedan chair until a priest eteppel up
to them and ordered them to maids a
genuflexion.
Then the god spoke and as he did so
he pushed back the sable hood that had
protected his features from the biting
cold and the god was Ivan Tschurvin.
Captain lapatoff and ]tis men gasped
at. the sight. They gasped still more as
Ivan—the exalted second mate---- spoke.
Said hes
"I know you, Captain Ispatoff, and
you know me, But conditions have ohang-
t ed. I am now a god among these good
people and for them I say that there
will be no more bartering of the preci-
ous furs for cheap calico and loud -smell-
ing soap. We want money—good Russian
money, with the imprint of the Czar on
•it. And if you want furs you rnust pay
ge money. If you think wo haven't any
taoro furs east our eyes on these, which
are only my working clothes. M Sun-
day -go -to -meeting rig has these beaten
even as real sealskin beats plush, What
about it?"
Captain Ispatoff was too dazed to
speak for a moment, Then he gathered:;:tie mind and said;
"Ivan'1'achurvin, you °heals find worde,
but they don't go. You may bo a godamong these people,'but you are sti11 uiy
second mate and I have the paper!; to
prove it, 1 order you to return to the
ship."
"If that is all you havo to aay," said
Ivan, "you may as well go away.have much to attend to, being scheduled
to lay the corner loeblock for a naw tem-
ple this morning and address the Young
People's Ilelping Hand society titin af-
teruoou. I ant very bus} ."
But that was nut all the captain had
to eay, What ho said next was to his
crew, and as a result of his rapidly whis-
pered directions they rcee en masse and
made so sudden an attack on the god in
th ao sed n chair that file priests and at-
tendants, who lead been listening to the
dialogue in ignorance of what was •being
said, had no time for action. The second
mate was seized; the chair with all its
furs, with him in it, was lifted from the
ground and the crew rushed away with
liitn, Ile protested, 'but they heard him
not. And it \vas not till they had put
a mile between them and the village that
they paused at all. Then they trade the
god alight, for he was rather heavy from
eight months' of feasting and idling. And
they talked to him rather unpleasantly.
But when they got back to the ship
and the captain had estimated tahat there
was something like 00,000 hublies' worth
of sables in the god's robes and the rugs
of the chair he was inclined to be lenient
with hie second mate, especially as Ivan
took it mildly,
Ivan Tschurvin is now in Odessa,
where the story has leaked out, and he
a is a hero. Ile will never visit the Chuk-
chesagain,eBays,not because •he did not
like them, but because his dignity has
been irreparably lowered among them .
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ZAM-DUK SAVES
A FARMER'S ARM.
SOME SENSATIONAL PROOFS OF
ITS HEALING POWER. ,
Every day brings interesting instances
to light of the wonderful healing power
of 'Gam-Buk, the herbal balm- 1VIr. Wm.
Snell, a Langeuburg, (Sack.), farmer,
says: "I saved my arm by using Zam-
Buk. I !tad a terrible scalding accidant
and the arm afteh the injury 'took the
wrong way.' When I started to use Zam-
Buk it was al: swollen up and discolored,
and I feared it would Isave to come off.
In a few d.ys• Zinn -Bak killed the poison, i
reduced the swelling, and finally healed
the arm completely.
ECZEMA CURED. 31i'. J. E. Cusick,
of 349 Wilson street, Hamilton, says:
"Every winter I used to have eczema
on the back of my hands. Last winter
I was especially bad— so bad that 1
had to be off work for three weeks.
While suffering acutely I was advised to i
try Zam-13uk and did so. I could not have
believed anything could have healed so 1
quickly. It just seemed to dry- up and'.
clear away the sores, and in a. wonder- f
I fully Short time my hands were quite )
cured."
i PILES CURED. Mr. Neil Devon
of Webbwood (On.), says: "For i
eight years I tried all kinds of things
for piles, but got nothing to do me any '
good until 1 struelc Zara -Bak! That
quickly worked a complete cure."
Zam-Buk heals all skin diseases,
cuts and bruises, eczema, scalp Bores,
ulcers, chappel placesspring pim-
ples, scrofulous ailments, poisoned
wounds, swollen glands, boils. Ae an
embrocation it euros rheumatism, sci-
atica, etc. All druggists and: stores
sell at 6
a 'cox, O1 from Zaan-Buk
Co., Toronto. 6 boxes for $2.50.
Send lc staznp for dainty trial box.
i POWER FROM THE PLANETS.
Stellar Influence Measuerd by Scientists
of the Naval Observatory.
•
Among the earliest ideas of mankind
concerning the stars was the popular be-
lief that they exercised sortie mysterious
power over the inhabitants of the earth.
Thai notion gave rice to astrology,
whose superstitious practices still find,
votaries even at this late day. The
advance of science long ago put. an end to
astrological fancies in the minds of well..
informed people, while in place, of the t
old notions about the influences of the
stars new conoeptione, not keg wonderful
in many respects, have been formed.
• We know, for instance, that if the law
of gravitation prevails, as we have a rea-
son to believe it does, among the stars
then every star in proportion to its mass
and its distance exereisce an attractive
influence upon the earth and, of course,
upon every inhabitant of the earth.
These attractions, however, are steoeesar-
ily so slight that we have as yet no
i means of detecting them.
In some other respects, however, the
influence of the stars can be measured.
The heat that conies from some of them
has been thought sufficient to effect de-
licate thermopiles exposed to their radia-
tion, although this is still open to some
question.
Of late years, experiments have been
conducted which, if they are to he trust-
ed, reveal a distinct electromotive power
exercised by the stars. 'Using a reflecting
telescope of two feet aperture to concen-
trate the stars' rays and a sensitive elec-
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Her system is called upon to supply
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Some form of nourishment that will
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able not onlyto defect ate readil
measure the electromotive force of both
stars and planets..
To Venus, for instanee, they ascribe a
force of about seventeen one hundredths
of a volt, and to Jarpiter it. force of at
least three one hundredths of a, volt. In
the ease of Jupiter only a part of the
planet's light fell upon the electrometer,
ae that the experimenters infer that its
entire electric influence must be mach
greater than that stated, Sirius, which
appears to tis as the brightest of the
fixed stars, showed a force amounting
to two one 'hundredths of a volt.
aye
PRISONERS_INGENIOUS.
Rival Monte Cristo in an Attempt to
Escape Priaon,
]our convicts of San Quentin prison,
California, recently planned for them-
selves a regular Monte Cristo escape by
means of diving suits constructed by
themselves. nut had it been Monte
Cristo he would have succeeded, Dumas
would never have been so careless as to
allow his hero's plans to be discovered
and frustrated. The attempt suggests
in patience and dogged perseverance the
thrilling tales told in the memoirs of Sil-
vio Pellico and Casanova or the daring
escapades of certain prisoners of war,
like Baran Trenek, or the union soldiers
who dug their way out of Libby prison,
The wonderful tale of the prisoners in
the Chateau d'If secretly digging their
way to freedom for fully a year with no
other tools but an improvised chisel, a
knife and a wooden lever and the mirac-
ulous escape of Edmond Dantes through
being pitched into the sea sewed up in
the winding sheet o$ his dead comrade
no longer appear far fetched when com-
pared with the recent jail -breaking at-
tempt at San Quentin.
The four convicts in question were
Rupert Downes, serving a nine-year sen-
tence for burglary; J. B. Blackwell and
Perry Hale, serving ten-year sentences
each for robbery, and William Brown,
with three years still to serve for bur-
glary. All four were "hard case" con-
victs recently transferred from Folsom
prison. Their plan was certainly an ori-
ginal one andante added another chapter
to a long series of thrilling escapades.
It really resembled certain other es-
capes famous in history in so far as it
required a wonderful combination of in-
genuity, patience and reckless daring.
Though it was on the verge of execu-
tion when it was frustrated, the chances
were from the start all against its suc-
cess. Its discovery was accidental, but it
was the sort of accident that might rea-
sonably have been expected.
One day Robert Jones, a sub -foreman
of a construction gang of convicts en-
gaged in levelling the cemetery hill which
runs down the bay at San Quentin, while
walking along the beach stumbled upon
a dirty yellow bundle under the exposed
roots of a tree. The bundle had appar-
ently been washed up by the waves.
'When Jones undid the bundle he found
it to be an improved submarine contriv-
ance for swimming under water, evident-
ly constructed by the ingenious hands of
prisoners. It was a swimming suit worn
somewath like the famous rubber suit
worn by Captain Boynton when he fast-
ened a harmless torpedo under a British
battleship in New York harbor, only it
was not made of rubber.
It was a canton flannel shirt, coated
on the outside with resin and wax and
provided with a headpiece of the same
material, with a small pane of glass
over the face and a breathing tube With
a spigot and plug. There were sleeves
ending in water -tight mittens and be$
guards at the waist, so that with tire
aid of a tourniquet the suit could be
made absolutely air tight.
The guard replaced the bundle and in-
formed the prison warden. Watches
were set on the convicts belonging to
the construction gang. A guard with a
powerful field glass was placed at Me-
Rae',s point, where, unseen by the con-
victs, he could keep this, strip of beach
under observation.
Two days later another diving suit,
almost identical with the first, appeared
in the same spot. Two days after that
another and finally a fourth. Four pris-
oners were observed hovering around in
the vicinity of the hidden suits,
HELPING MOTHERS.
"I always tell my neighbors who have
children how good I have found Baby's
Own Tablets," says Mrs. L. Revi`.h'. Ga.
was, nOt. Airs. Reville furth;ir ,saes: "1
would not be without the Tablets in
the house, for 1 know of no medicine
that can equal them in curing the ills
from which children so often suttee." It
is the enthusiastic praise of mothers wbo
have usd the Tablets that tntkcs theta
the moat popular childhood nse'tieine ut
Canada. Any mother using lishy'e Own
Tablets has the guarantee of a Govern-
ment analyst that this medicira does not
contain one particle of opiate or harmful
drug. Sold by medicine della e or by
mail at 25 cents a box front the Dr. Wil-
liams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
•-♦
The Ant's Toilet.
"Ants have fine and coarse combs,
sponges, hair brushes and soap. They are
remarkably clean.
The speaker was a nature student, Ho
bent over the artificial ants' nest, or
formicary, that stood on his table under
glass.
"Watch this lady making her toilet,"
hesaid. "She wont mind."
The lit.le black ant seems to be care-
fully tying and untying knobs in her-
self. The small black body twisted and
turned. The tough little blaok limbs dart-
ed through the air.
"That is her fine tooth comb she le
using now," explained the student, "It
is affixed to the tibia of the foreleg% It
bas a short handle, a stiff back and
sixty-five fine teeth.
Nothing can escape it.
"Now she is sponging her bark, Yes,
the tongue is her sponge, the flat surface
of the tongue. The tongue'e edges tie
her brush. They are equipped with hem-
is=pherical bosses—short, stiff, blunt kris.
tiers. See her brushing her left foreleg
wi.h it. Doesn't it work admirably?
"Nosvahe is combing the hairy under
part of her body with her coarse comb.
It is attached to lite tarsus and has
forty-five coarse teeth—an excellent itt-
sti-unncnt for rough work.
"She is giving her loge a good soap
bath now. She draws them, you see,
through her mandibles, or tipper jaws,
The mandibles are serrated and .hey se-
crete a fluid that is quite like soapsuds,
a superb toilet lotion which oleeuises the
skin and makes the hair brilliant and
'supple.
"Brushes, combs, toilet lotions, spr,ng-
cs and soap --nature :ells given them all
to the title blaok tint"
I Sll'ver Ear Drums.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Mail says that ear -drums
made of thin leaves of silver are 'being
used in the Russian military, hospitals
for diseases of the ear, to replace deteo-
tive organs.
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TELLING THE DRUG CLERIC.
fro like caged: hyenas in their dens at
a menagerie. .t°hell appearance is re-
volting.
Night and day, as far ae I remember,
both asleep and awake, this heavy Mir -
deet rested on their stent dell, though
how it was possible to sleep therein 1
was unable to understand. On the oth
er band, in a prison 1 visited a tete
weeks ago, 1 was reformed that the ean-
gue was removed at nights that the pri-
soners might sleep. A crowd in the pri.
son
quadrangle, with their unshaven
heade ,their Unwashed fares, their clank-
ing fetters, their hopeless looks, their
diseased bodies and their bebrllted souls
can never be forgotten.
1 But although under the recognized sys-
tem of punishment Chinese prisoners
!must live a lite which to us of the West
wouhi be unbearable, it would not be so
�to them if they were fairly treated and
were saved from the exeset:ions and• k1•il•-
barities to which they are exposed at
the hands of their rapacious keepers.
Vl'hen a prisoner first goes into the
.wards the wardens claim his clothes and
,his money and he is left with the barest
;rags to cover his nakedness, lie is role
`bed of all itis cash, as a matter of
,course, Those who are condemned are
.cont felled under ;t threatb
, of e
It whip,
p,
'to write begging lettere tie their tela-
tives, requesting them to forward inoncy,
•If the unfortunate man hesitates to
acede to this demand tete warders,as.
sisted by some of the oldest prisoners—
for it appears that inmates of more than
!twenty years residence have accorded
;them certain privileges—take the man
lin hand during the night, The hands of
the prisoner are fastened by tt rope, and
Ithe •other end of the rope is then passed
through a ring whieh hangs from the
roof of the ward.
The warders then hoist the unhappy
People Make Him the Repository pf wretch, who is Ieft hanging in mid air
1? p y by the hands. Should he attempt to cry
out his mouth and throat are filled with
"The familiar phrase of slang which ashes, When the breath has almost left
invitee you to ,ell your troubles to a his body and he is choking he is lower -
policeman, and which fits certain condi. ed, and under the terror of renewal of
trona of our everyday life so admirably,this torture he is eager to promise al -
might well be paraphrased into `Go tell most anything.
your troubles to a drug clerk,' for we Many die under this ordeal, But as
it is assumed among the mandarins that
mortality must be high, and as no offie.
ltd probing is ever dreamed of, a gen-
eral statement as to natural death is
sufficient.
Their Troubles.
certainly get all that is coming and go-
ing," Baia a clerk in a northwest drug
store to a Star man,
"I don't know why it is, hut the aver -
ago man and the average wonia•i is not
so very far behind within certain Limits
when it comes to spouting about one's
troubles, when he gets nest to a drug
clerk rings up a connection of sympathy
and shoots it off into our ear to t]to
limit. If he is a little under the wen•
ther we get it in double doses, and he
tells us all about it, and about himself
and his family and his neighbors and
pretty much everything else with a free -
dam which is astonishing.
"I have always considered this a eur-
ioue phase of life, and I account for it
mainly upon the hypothesis of the Inher-
ent desire for human sympathy which
plays such an import;aut part in our
sensibilities. hien wlio would not do
more than speak to an employee in ether
business unburden theinsel '.!s tt the
drug clerk. Perhaas it is because our
politeness and appecent itttel•estednes.,
is a part of our business, and perhaps
it is because he ;s grateful to us be-
cause we are the vehlinee that hand him
the possible means to alleviate his phy-
sical ailment and which relieves his mind
at the same time.
"Whatever may ba the ration for this
spontaneous confidence on the part of
acquaintance and etre:leer alike, the
drug clerk ranks with the policeman and
the barkeep in listen -1g to the other fel-
lowB' woes—sometimes it is their joys,
but as a rule it is their woes, rite next
time you are in a dreg store mak,, a
note of it; it will interest you as a lit-
tle study in the byplays of huinan na-
ture." --Washington Star.
CHINESE PRISONS.
Terrible State of Men and Women Con-
fined in Them.
The first thing which impresses the
European visitor to the Chinese prison
is the absolutely flimsy character of the
structure itself. if ono gets permission
to visit the prison in Canton --and shoals
of globe trotters do wend their way thi-
ther after they have seen the execution
ground—it will be found to bo a ram-
shackle building of no pretence whatso-
ever.
the question will be asked: "By what
means are tite prisoners held in safety
if the structures in which they are in-
carcerated are so fates} •0,d insecure?"
The answer, says the East of Asia Maga-
zine, is brief. \t it.,.,ut exception the
ptr,,,nert, at f: t roue ...any have chains
on the legs 0114. litese are the less dan-
gerous and have been guilty of the less
important crimes. Others, in addition,
have fetters on the arms, which make it
impossible for them to escape.
Lastly, a few prisoners were not only
manacled on the ankles but wore a chain
around their necks, at the dangling end
of which was attached a block of gran-
ite. The prisoner would walk from
place to place within the court yard,
but ere he could move beyond the length
of his chain he must stop and lift the
atone and, carrying it in his shackled
arms, drop it again where he wished
to stop.
Irl addition to the chains worn by day
all the male prisoners are further shack-
led at night. By means of two heavy
beams, in which -holes have been made
but efeetive method is discovered for
detaining the prisoners in absolute se-
curity.
The prisoners, who during the day have
been loafing in the court yard, are in the
evening driven into the wards and made
to lie side by side on a raised platform.
The upper of the two beams is then rais-
ed and each man is compelled to place
his ankle into the hole made to receive
it, whereupon the upper beam is replac-
ed, and the prisoners are held by the
feet in these rude stocks, There is no
possibility of escape. 'Tey are allowed
bricks for ,pillows, and in this uncomfort-
able position they pass the hours.
In addition to this, However, special
Cruelties are perpetrated on certain pri-
soners who, for sonic reason or other,
are exempted from capital punishment.
Prisoners there are whose appearance
becomes es wild as the beasts of the for.
est, who, with heavy cangues on their
shoulders, are inearcarated in a filthy
dungeon for the tern of their natural
life. I have seen them moving to and
SPRING ADVICE.
Do Not Dose With Purgatives and
Weakening Medicines --What People
Need at This Season is a Tonic.
Not exactly sick — but not feeling
quite well. That's the spring feeling,
You are easily ,tired, appetite vari-
able, sometimes, headaches and a
feeling of depression= Or perhaps
pimples and eruptions appear on tete
face, or you have twinges of rheuma-
tism or neuralgia, Any of these in-
dicate that the blood is out of or-
der, ttiitat the indoor 'life e8 wpnter
has left its mark upon you. and may
easily develop- into more serious
trouble, Don't dose yourself with
purgative medicines in the hope that
you can put your brood right. Pur-
gatives gallop through the system,
and weaken instead of giving
strength. What you need is a tonic
medicine that will make new, rich,
red blood, build up the weakened
nerves and t,lnts give you new health
and strength. And the one medicine
to do this speedily and surely is Dr.
Williams' Pink Pill's. Every dose of
medicine that melees new, rich blood
which makes weak, easily tired and
ailing men and women feel bright,
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An Age Contest.
Write the following questions on a
•progratume. The answers all end with
'`age." It is suitable for it. birthday
Railroad, has acted wisely and commend -
thing is needed to fill in part of the
time:
To what age will people arrive if they
live long enough? Dotage.
To what age do most people look for-
ward? Marriage.
For what does soldier sometimes
wish? Courage.
What age is required on the high seas?
Tonnage.
What are we forbidden to worship?
Image.
What age is neither more nor less?
Average.
Whet is the age people get "stuck
on?" Mucilage.
What is the age of profanity? Dam-
age.
At what age will vesels ride safely?
Anchorage.
What age is necessary for a clergy-
man? Parsonage.
What is the age of communication?
Postage.
What age is most important to travel-
leds? Mileage.
What is the most popular age for char-
ity? Coinage.
What age is shared by the doctor
and the thief? Pillage.
What age do we all wish for? Hom-
age.
Whitt is the age of elavery? Bond-
age.
What age is most enjoyed at the
morning meal? Sausage.
What is the most indigestible age?
Cabbage.
What age belongs to most travellers?
Luggage.
What age signifies the farmer? Till-
age.
What age indicates the rich farmer?
Acreage.
Wltat age is unfrayed and. smooth-
est? Selvage,
What ago do milliners delight in?
Plumage.
What age do a number of people en-
joy in common? village,
4..
Raising the Mile of Pennies,
(Philadelphia Record.)
The congregation of the rreebyterian
church ret Aayre, )lnacbtotd county, is try-
ing to eol4eet A Milo of pounits' ne a part
rn The nl
°tubo
rs
din fund. of the chw'•ch b building
of the congregation have nasiow strips of
paper, fast a foot la length. the length Js
divided in Inches and one side to covered
With glue. Thoee to tvi'etu the etrips of
bsmer aro prceented Are requested to molsten
the glue and cause etxdab pennies to adhere
to the etrins, loeeh foot will hold exactly 515-
teen 8,e+inies. Titus a mule of these *trio*
tOnlelotely tilled Sill add $344.84 to the bu11d-
haVe ittood the teat of enamor stir, for
years, tiChey- stand for acotlonay end
durability, will not crack blister or fail
away. They preserve your house and keep
it beautiful throughout the ltfetima of
pure paint. Being tirade right, they ata
easy to work. last longer, look better end
at just the right price, Ask your dealer.
Write ne for Boat Card series "C,"
showing how some houses are paitnte4.
A FOREST'S IIISTORY.
N1any Trees Start, But Few Survive ---The
Survival of the Fittest Well Illustrated.
In all forestry work it is very neces.
sary to bear in mind the history of a
typical forest. The way in whieh nature
starts a forest may sometimes be ob-
served on an area that has some years
before been visited by a fire which
burned all the trees, or by a severe wind.
storm, which blew then all down. Then
seed from near -by trees fell on this area;
some of this seed germinated, but only
a fraction of the seed that fell, for nature
is very lavish in this regard,
1
The First Years.
A year or two after the fire or wind.
storm, if the tract is visited, many little
seedling trees will be found. For a few
years every one of these little seedlings
will have a chance to grow as much as
it likes. It will have to meet many dan-
gers—front frost, for instance, or from
drought, or from too much moisture—and
naturally many of the little trees will
die from such causes. After overcoming
these, however, each little tree is free
to grow at its best rate for some time,
with all the soil, space and light it has
, any need for.
i Crowding Begins.
But after some years, as the trees be-
come taller and spread out more, a time
comes when the crowns of the trees be-
gin to touch one another= (Tho term
. "crown" is a general word, meaning the
branches and foliage of the trees.) This
tends, by shading the soil, to keep the
• Iight and heat away from it, and is bene-
ficial; the moisture is kept from evapor-
ating, and, moreover, the soil is made
richer now by the leaves and twigs
which fail from the trees, and, decaying,
form new leaf -mould or humus.
The effect on the trees is very notice-
able. They begin to grow in height much
more rapidly. Growth sidewise is, of
course, hindered, and the entire strength
of the tree is centred on growing up-
ward. Besides, the trees are forced to
grow upward in order to keep alive, and
the tree that can grow fastest in height
is the one that finally survives the rest.
The reason for this is that a tree, like
every other plant, absolutely needs
light for its healthy growth, for without
light it cannot make food for itself. It
is on no use for the tree to grow out
horizontally, in trying to get to the
light, for there it is cut off by its neigh-
bors. So it must grow upwards, and, if
it falls behind the other trees, these lat-
ter shade it, and so keep it back, and,
perhaps, kill it out altogether. The same
effect can be noticed on the lower
branches of any of the trees, from which
the light is cut off by the upper parts
of the tree. These, after a few years,
die, and are finally blown off by the
wind, knocked off by other branches, or
are broken off in some other way.
The Fastest Growers Survive.
As the fastest growing trees get the
most light, they have the best chance
for development, First they grow above
their neighbors, and so they get the
chance to spread out sideways at the
top. So they shade these neighbors and
keep them back—perhaps finally killing
them altogether. This process goes on
for years and years, and in the end oniy
a small proportion of the trees which or-
iginally started in the race will be alive.
Examples From Nature.
A good example of this is seen in the
case of the poplar in the Turtle Mount-
ain forest reserve in Manitoba. Study of
this tree by officers of the Dominion
Forestry Branch showed that, while, at
the age of ten years, the average number
of poplar trees per acre is four thousand
(4,000), at eighty years of age their
number has been rcdueed to three hurl.
Bred (300.1 At fnrty years of age there
!tad been 850 left, and at sixty years of
age 425 remained
The white pine in New England, was
studied similarly by the United States
forest service. They found: that wrere
there were twenty-two hundred (2,200)
trees per acre at. ten years of age, there
were only two hundred and sixty (260)
at silty years of age. At thirty years
of age abnost half had died out, the
number remaining being 1,090; at forty
years 000 had been left, and at fifty
years four hundred (400).
Close Planting.
Foresters, in planting tree, take a lees -
son from the foregoing facts. The trees
are planted very close together—five
feet apart each way, for insanes. In a
few years—six to eight. probably -the
crowns of these will meet and shade tire
ground. The great majority of these
trees die, of course; the foe -eater knew
they, would do so. But such close plant-
ing is far the eheapest way of preserv-
ing the moisture in the we and of fur
the renriching it through the formation
of new huutus. Besides, trees grown so
closely as this will be far taller and
straighter than if they had more space.
The Beginning of the End.
Trees that tower above their neigh-
bors are known as "dominant" trees,
while those which are killed out or badly
stunted are known as "suppressed" trees,
Those between these two extremes,
which manage to live on in pretty good
health, though they do not keep up to
the dominant trees, are known as sub-
dominant" trees.
Finally, however, growth in heit
ni
coes to an end; the chief reason for
this is that the tree is no longer able to
pump up water so as to give a proper
supply to the crowns. The tree cone
tinues to grow in diameter, however, for
some years after the main growth in
height ceases; and that, too, at a pretty
rapid rate. Sooner or later, however, this
rapid growth in diameter falls off,
though ,the tree continues to increase in
diameter (at a less rate, however) to
a very old age.
It is contrary to forestry principles
to allow the tree to grow too old. Very
old tree% when cut down, aro often
found to be, more or less rotten at the
stump, so that the best timber is ob-
tained by cutting down the tree before
it attains such an age.
Carelessness About Firearms.
A few days ago at Brockton Masa.,
a 0 -year-old child blew a man's head oft
with a shot -gun; at Bangor, Me.,asmall
boy killed his infant sister with a lord
of shot, and similar occurrences have re-
cently been reported from other places.
Ninety-nine percent. of gun accidents
might have been avoided by the exer-
cise of a small symptom of common
sense. The children referred to in tate
house is next to criminal carelessness.
To keep a loaded gun in the house where
there are children is idiotic.—Washing-
ton Star.
Civilization Needs a Muffler.
(Detroit Free Press.)
Until man got to work improving things en
earth there was no such thing as noise. 'rite
sound of the storm, of the flood and the
tide, the lowing of herde and the call of
beast to beast was music to the ear. But
civilization is a horror of oontrasted sounds.
Noise, noise: The man that makes the most
noise is the only ono hoard and the city
that stakes the most noise and diret has
Precedence among its fellows. What ever
does the ear the most violence seems to be
inose prized. The idea of the proteetias
1 nerves should be heeded, The man who oa
1 rising in the morning and going ion the
t street finds a noise and kills It should be
t richly rewarded. Civilisation Ls In great need
I of a muffler.
!o
Some men are ea versatile that they
never know which side they are on.
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