ing the Ty and conditions favorahle against E5EEZER ig 1elf = mosqui away overy | which sunplics here there is a deep also favorable to and to, . the stegomyia uito the sanitary ir efforts to destroy- its places of pro- species can live only water, to drain stag. reoeptac so stupendous task Jive. Panama a thordugh may be gained from the statistics, which cover t from July 1st, 1901, to he Ay-: Fo Hos, There were 6,359,133" brush cut and cleared: swamps filled in amounted to 67,100 304,106 ane dug, 123,573 dip- cementod and lined, were thirty-seven low fever amon the canal commission: to an inspector, who visited each house onoe or {wice a week to seo that no mosquito laripe were breed- is supply of Panama and Colon, which compel the inhabitants to rely on water barrels, cisterns, and small and - stasnent tanks for | sufficient water for ordingry domestic of the "stecomyia brigade" for a while were confined to covering all water receptacles with wooden cov- | ors or wire nettine, in order to ex- | clude mosquitoes from the surface of | the water. { When the wains from the reservoir the city of Panama | with water were sificiently evtended | to permit the partial use of the {hydrants on the street corners. and Uiroe water was supplied to all who came. it became vossible to hoon the wholesale destroction of water harrols, ten's ang other household water con- tainers. and to fill "wp wills and other under-round | cisterns. All of theses recontagles and hreedine plates were destooved. The only "ves sels in which domestic water is now allowed to stend are the larce earth. onware jars. and coolers in use by the inhabitonts of the Tsthmus 2 To prevent the infection of mos toes and the 'cotigoationt srroad of ow' fover, it was necessary that all datients should he isoly nS SOON as A Be time k tory inks were debendent. far information of new oases ran voluntary declaration or [upon new "| the. vevorts 'of Inborers of the ston Necessity for this war impressed bv a slicht out! occurred later. It was sive nor as alarm had it and returned to 1 campaign was break of the: fever which not as exten. oyed . Many of them Unita] States. . then, w onsisting 4 RE amyia brigade." a : As a result of this imperfect ~ Stem, MOVEr, mally - fases. were hover | re ported and others "remained for sover- al davs onscreen before they were brought to the notice of the authori To_remedy this condition, eight local physicians were. appointed in Panama and five in Colon, to act as medical insnectors and fo make a daily | to-house 'canvass of: Yortiny all x thoritics. Ehtiats oH Isolated. » Hyery effort wis made to: persuade Fatients presenting avin - low. fever to allow themselves to be ham to a hospital. 1 4 putient re- fused, preferri remain: at home, a mosquito bar, room were screened a double vestibule attached to the door, which was looked and guard- an attendant instructed to ad- only 'the doctors, nurses snd limited: number of immune relatives or friends. Because . of this precaution there has not been 4 single casé of yellow fever contracted from sufferers In every- instance where was to the health the house where the patient staying was was the ies, ro: the au- and if t seemed probable that he became in- in any other house or building it went gation : . SCRE Co the anner an od Tn The Ninigation work; Col. Gorgas says: pos. In the this work was exceeding | Be ovine to the primitive | then {the time of through the process of fumi: | "Iron pots or brick supports con | taining pyrethrum powder of sulphur were in' each room! ignited, { and left to smoulder from two to four hours. The doors and windows were opened, and as soon as the smoke | had cleared sufficiently for the laborers | to remain in the house, the floors | were swept and the sweepings, con- | taining the dead and stunned mos- Iquitos; were taken into the street 'and burned. | "It became nt in June that the fumigation of only those houses {in which eases of fever had been found lor to whith they had been traced, I'would not be sufficient to check the epidemic. It was, therefore determined within the shortest possible space of | time, "Since twelve days must claps the stegomyin has bitten a fever pa- tient before it can transmit the dis- ease, it was desired #to complete the work within that period, but this proved impossible. The actual time | consumed was forty-four days, or from July 7th to August 19th. The entire Leity of Colon was, then fumigated in like manner. "The people of Panama, themselves Jimmung from yellow fever, have sub- mitted patiently and uncomplainingly to the annoyance and inconv ience of fumigation. The few complaints which have been made have related rather to fumigation than to. the fact of. the funiigation' itsoli, Few claims have been filed for compensa- tion for damages resulting from the fumigating work, and : almost overy one of them has had: some basis of merit," i The great object of he work, how- Lever, has been accomplished. Yelloy fever has been banished from Panama. land it is believed that the dread Scourge will never again secure a foot- hold there, : to fumigate the entire city of Panama -- Rheumatic Virus Expelled. In any established cise of rheuma- tism the action of the Kidneys and di- | gestive. organs. js perverted. Poisons are created und 'allowed to remain in the syStem when they 'should be ex- pelled: Any effective abeuvmatic cure must cause a goneral housecleaning of the system. The Proper functions of Oofgans must be restored .and they must be set to work, This 'is what Dr. Hall's Rheumatic. Cure dees. It completely cleanses and. rovitalizes the £ystem. It does this thoroughly and by co doing cures al} acute or clronic cases of rheumatism, : neural. ga, sciatica, ete.. Price . Ten days' treatment at Wades drug store. -------- i _- The Righteous Farmer. Some six months there can from England, in ansner to ry . ment an Englishman and his wife, and took employment with ao Frontenac fa#mer. The stipulation was v to buy his provi- sions from the farmer. The man was made work from sunrise to sunset, ant was housed 'with his wife in. a Sugar shanty, the month being March. At the end of the first month he found that his wages totalled quite a bit less than fifty cents. At the end of the second month he was in debt ty the farmer for provisions. His brave {wile, fesling that this coul tramped eight miles to thap, g tting Provisions there "on ek." Ry August ten dollars was sav- ed, and with that the eonnle came to this o'ty, whery the man bia s A nployient, © and. 18 at work of steadily. An example of a few farmers of this class would benefit generally. -------------- Ii there over wak-% 'specific one complaint, then Carters flava. ae a specific for, sick know this, Only one pill a dose, Try Tounsd shea $4,000,000 to Be Saved By Em- ploying Water Power. A colossal scheme of power develop- ment is said to be on the point of realization in France. It is proposed to utilize the River Rhone for the de- velopment -of electricity for the City of Paris. Light, heat and motive pow- er are promised at the cheapest rate in the world, Fhe originator of the idea is an en- if nanied Mahl. His plans. have endorsement of the National school of highways and bridges and of the Society of Electrotechnicians. The enterprise is sq assured that contracts for the deliv of current in Paris at an early day are already being nego- tiated, The water is to be drawn from the Rhone at Grezin, not far from the famous Porte du Rhone or Falls of Bellegarde, where the river, already of great volume, draining as it does Lake Geneva, plunges for 300 yards or thercabouts through a chasm which it has scored for itself in the solid rock. The water directed through a sluice- way will be impounded to the amount of 2,000,000 cubic metres, or about 2.- 06,000 cubic yards, on the level of Collcnoes and returned to the river through a double tunnel of 4.500 me tres, or ¢ yarns, with a fall | of sixt . This will furnish a flow, it is calculated, equivalent to 100,000 horse-power. » The eledtric current is to be develop- ed by forty-eight dynamos divided in- fa groups, each driven hy a turbine of 10.000 "horse-power. Tho lines to Paris arect as possible; the dis. tance is between 250 and 300 miles, but no special difficult os are pected. Some long lines of delivery in America and one in Sweden, supplying. Stack- 'ho!m from a distance of 600 kilome- | tres, or 360 milés, have been studied in the preparation of the 'plans, and {are quoted as showing that the enter. Prise is entirely possible, It is calculated that the delivery of the nst electric power from { works in Paris, as compared with the development of the Same smergy on the spot by coal consumption will effect a net annual economy of about 20,000,000 francs, or $4,000,000, pr -------------- The Rreezy West. Here's a sample of the descriptive powers of the editors of the breezy west, under the heading "Saskache- wan's - Arms," in the Estevan Mer: eury : RIVER TO LIGHT PARIS. The design has been published of the | coat of arms so graciously anted is majesty the king ranted by of Saskatchewan. It js beautiful and fo appropriately designed. On the top of the picture is a red lion, so de signed as to ook at first lance like a prairie fire. The twists in his tail are to resemble the Souris river, and his right paw out with claws extended like the great railway corporations. Our chief industry, grain growing, is reprosonfed on the lower part of the shidd by vor of grain tied. wi kins. to « i still in its ole picture is spattered oyer with imitation of typhoid fever germs. What the devil the thing as a whole stands for is hard to tell, but it i& intended to adorn the. top of 'government station- ery, and members of (he legislature will write 10 their relatives in Ontario an paper bearing the wonderful adorn- a rs these | STEADY IMPOVERISHMENT ~ The Foes That Are Busy With Attacks. Review of Reviews. Upon forests three foes are concen- tratine their attack. Kj is _ the ! small farmer, w from the | rich valleys © voring to hew for himself and his dependents a living out of the mountain side. To do this he clears a space, farms it in rude fashion and, in from five to twenty years, exhausts it; he now moves up the mountain side and repeats the process. Erosian follows his opéra- tions, and the land becomes a series j of worthless gutters. Next may be mentioned the professional wood-cut- ters, including tan-bark men, pulp men and Jumberers. The first seek only the bark, but, like the hunter of flaminzoes' tongues or buffalo hides, they leave behind them to rot,' after collecting their tribute, a hure but worthless residue. The pulp man cuts clean, good, bad, large, small, old znd young, thus making natural re- vroduction of the forest impossible, The lumberman takes what he wants, much. or little, but by methods that destrov almost as much as he takes, and practically insure fires, which complete the wark of denudation. The {corresponding final touch is given to the mountain Whilé the forests late the water, passing it ground circulation, throughout the year, a substantially oqual stream flow, greatly to advantage of agriculture, commerce, manufactures and all other interests ccncerned. But the forests gone, and | the very soil-a vegetable mold -- eaten awav by the flames, this con- servative influence no longer operates. Torrents rush. down the mountain id filling streams and harbors, pro- {ducing overflows, denuding farins of { their soils or buryin- them with sand, destrovin~ water Powers, and sweep- ing away railroads, bridges, factories, thouses. even villages. In this way, as iby the Pacolet disaster, property valued at four and a million dol- lare has been desttoyed(in a day, while. as in 1901-02, eighteen millions have been carried away in a year. The continuation of this process . in America means, as in vast areas in the old world, the rapid transforma tion of the region affected into a de ert. slopes . by the rains. remain, these reégu- run-off, holding back the into the under and insuring, the ------------ At The First Lneese. When you smesre, shivefior have the marks the beginning of a cold, taki Wade's Texatise Cold Cure 'Tablets at once and you will have'no cold. You will save a couple of weeks' discomfort as wall as the danger that actompanies all colds. . In Boxes, Me. Sold enly at Wade's Drug Store. Money nl if not satisfactory. @ - . From Sword To Plowshare. London, Dee. 8-The Burgess Hill Etoup a found] school SAR bens allowed to encour rifle shoot- ing among rthe boys: oid © seek the consent of the Fast Sussex ; Cducation authority to give instruc PP in gardening. Purity Tea, Purity Tea. Sold in tin boxes, at 30c., 400., 50c. is the finest favored tea grown. J. Crawiond, i 'Skates. pucks and fall kinds at Strachan ary sensation in the nostrils that usa- Ir ally i NEW RACE OF NOMADS Are Different From Their Tribes. Liverpool, Dec. 8.--A people has been discove Albert and, in the A I never previously seen white men, w lived under most primitive o and who were armed with copper knives and bows and arrows. The information was bro to British Columbia by the British revenue cutter Thetis, learned the .facts from the d of the people, Capt. Klinkenherg the steam whaler Olga. Last winter when the ve the ice near Prince Albert | Klinkenberg, accompanied by started inland on a hunting ¢ He went 250 miles in a nor direction - over the snow, finc of people, and finally ove or more of them. When they they came toward him, ar copper knives and bows and They held these above their he he pointed a rifle at them One advanced alone, and the « laid down his rifle, the mtiv down his weapons. They be ly, and by means of sign kenberg learned from one ol who came from Prince Willi that they had never seen Polar wnt | with a lining of skins, anc lin shape from those of other know tribes. They are nomadic. The « article seemingly brought from civ ation seen by Capt. Kli ! a piece of stoel--evidently | ship--which had been conver spearhead. Down At Zero. Portland, Dee, 4.--The ti has registered 2ero for th days. The shop windows a in beautiful Ghristmas Francis , Healy has sold his butch business to Edward McEwon, vort.. Mr. MeEwon inten to the village early in the sprin wish him every success. Mrs Kennv is cn the sick lis Consitt is able to he out a severe illness. His ®r recovery. . and) 'J ton, Crosby. were the guests of and Mrs. J. MeDonald, this week. The Conway and Toffey t has heen settled for $150. The re ting held in the Methodist church have come to a close. They ha ¥reat many converts. W has moved to his home o & flyine. trip day Miss dross: isses Welle Sam with friends in i from here attended the high rodneé" commencement in Athens on Wednss dav. to our town Estella Rose with Mrs. Gentlemen who wish to send x Conkey's or Hugler's hich class © out of Jove, for yea can, MCS 2 the - packed all ready for at Gihson's Reg Cross Drug Store See 's $1.50 "niocha gloves: press Carving Set $2.00 to § dozen; also from $1.00 t ea be p4 b Tri-use Cer careal cooke pans in one quality blue e BO0L0000000004004000000 FREEPORT Ree eee Dah BBALLEL LAS a EERE REY. N. T. PERRY In St. Catharines Stand A searchlight on a riverd startling thing. When its denly and unexpectedly strik the person on the bank it s a light which scarches him him try t6 be at his best. Th was: unimportant to him , w walked and talked in the now, becomes full of interest. ders how he looks in that li is the criticism from those him; In the blaze of that li knows that e and n blemish is clearly scen. He ened and inspired to appear act his best. So the t which the salmist speak known to the man until they in the radiance of the face of | The Scottish poet, Rober! once uttered a poetic prayer power to give us the gift to selves as others sins even as the) We often say that a man knows mind It is not always haps others know things . ab which are abeolute secrets to The general criticism which given often ends with a * too bad that he dc not s spot He does not. Truly a pecul harrowing experience might we could openly hear the ourselves as they are honest] by. ather people. There would things to startle us and we w our 'secret sins under searchlight. Such an exper harden us; it should humble man often knows than himseli. ter who visits own country and read the biography the lesson to oth own. If we study 2 which are a close fit for othe not for ourselves... If we liste: mons we find that they have for others, but none for us easy toro away unchastened touched, because our sins oe secrets to us. It is the indifferent, godless who does not see his secret si is 'like the animal that feed: sleeps and becomes contented his own fate. Such men say t as good as others and oe somewhat better thun some who everything ¢ place bef s own hon ane for a cleane ¥. and so they think are vel secrots to elves. It is a charitable thi make allowances for the =i others. 'but whim we 'begin to our own with a wash of palli igmorance, and to interpret in mere eccentricity, then we are in a fool's paradise, bound throttled by our seoret sins, T eamest imony we have ov about' the consciousness of