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Ee pe Dr TE a AE nse Wr ad ERE Bt a nits TOT Te EL coma at ae scene which nothing on possesses. If you go in bathing the andeur Bicones a reality. 1 i ry is some fun when about two hun- 3 dred of us are bathing and the waves | send us rolling out on the beach, with ; the breakers tumbling over us. . The great Government lighthouse is on 5 this island and can be seen twenty- | five miles out at sea. I went tothe top defend them. of it, but could not see Port Perry,'s0 ame down again.: There is a Marconi' wireless. station on this Island with its tangle of wires bing several hundred feet into the ¢ It is quite a curiosity. ~~ . - To come back to St. Augustine, it Toma 3 oh. It as -- is the ol io aed Me bas. some | ury St., by extending my arms I could touch the buildings on either side. St. hich more business 15 ny city, is only the width of twenty-four bricks laid end to end. The buildings are old and quaint--the wonder of tourists. There is a sea wall "along the bay | front to keep the Naigrs back at high 'tide. 1t is made solid blocks of | coquinna rocks, four ft. long, three ft. wide and two and one-half ft. thick laid in cement mortar. It makes a | Line promenade for level headed :peo- "| pie; but when the tide is high and a "| storm is on itis not so fine. There is " lasplendid cement walk which runs .; | parallel with the sea wall. It is shad- ed by a row of palmetto palm trees, : | which make it very beautiful This walk leads right up to Fort Marion. le fort covers about four aces built of coquinna rock, The : eof coq feet thick, and are ounded by a moat spanned by a awbridge, There is also an outside wall, - The fort seems almost impreg- ible, but would not stand the bom- rdment of modern artillery for five It took 191 years to build is immense structure, and cost the It requires one hundred cannon So thousand men to de- fend it. It was beseiged and bom- wrded by the British fleet commanded hy Sir Frances 1 Drake in 1586. Ogle Shorpe in: 1740 also laid seige to it: were abandoned, as they were thought land fll the boats with the oysters. They 'are marvels of} 1 turak beauty, solidity and spa- ss. - They would each. cover ordinary city blocks. : old slave market is still in ex- where the slaves were soldat ton like cattle. One can even see coops where the slaves werel "before they were brought un- e auctioneer"s hammer, It is} t in a state of good repair, and lated in the plaza or park--a place in the hot days of winter National Cemetery is kept by ronment. ~ Here the United Idiers are interred. There are pytamids in which one hundred and seven men are buried. They were massacred by the Indians. The whole TORONTO [iss two SEE is called a "joint account." We shal be to fumish plied par- we POK i JrERy wlANGC oH nd si prez Si Motel Ei we, Handy Potato Cutter were killed--men_ and -offi- only two escaping. These men + dead. When the bodies of the any were found they had been! cked to skeletons by the buzzards, 50 they just gathered up the bones 'and put them into two heaps over which the pyramids were formed. The cemetery is welltkept. On the outskirts of the city, the gates are still standing, St. Augustine having at one time been a walled city. 'The walls are nearly all dispersed, but the gates remain and the cannon to Another feature of interest is the Fountain of Youth, of which if you drink, it is said, you will renew your youth. A museum has teen built at the same place in which are kept many relics of ancient times. 4 princess of the ancient house of is the keeper of this museum. rs the signet ring of the royal family to which she belongs. "The second best golf grounds in America adjoin the old fort. These links were formerly the parade grounds for the army. ~ Now there is an army of golf players putting golf balls in-|+ stead of cannon balls, which is just as good for all purposes. There are good churches which are well filled, by orderly congregations. This is true of every city I visited in Florida. $ The Presbyterian church in St, Augustine was built and donated by Mr. Flagler, tbe railway magnate of Florida, at a cost of over a million dollars. "It is a cement structure, and all the weodwork is solid mahogany. There is an organ in the church with one hundred and fifty-two pipes, cost- ing $75,000. It is the best that mon- ey could buy. In spite of the great power of this organ, the church is so built that there does not seem to be too great a volume of sound. The oldest cathedral in America still stands, and i is in a good state of repair. St. Augustine is famous for its oyster beds. There are hundreds of miles of road macadamized with oyster shells and they make good roads when mix: ed with clay. = It is interesting to see the colored men shelling oysters it would make you smile. They can shell a quart of oysters while a man is filling his. pipe. They are a jolly lot and will tell you anything you wish to know about the oyster trade. = Oysters are so thick in the Matanzas River that at low tide they can just shove their boats up to the shore and wait till the tide out. Then they take a six tined fork such as a manure fork When the comes in again the boats are floated down to the fish market where they are unloaded. The variety at d quantity of fish to be seen on this arket is very great-- they run Clommission of Conservation more evenly divided, if the easily with the knife held in the hand. Time and Labor May be Saved and Work will be Better Done Twice the amount can be cut in a given time and the sets will be made potato-cutter depicted in the drawing shown herewith, is used instead of the old method of cutting All that is required is to fasten a one-inch board, six inches wide; planed on the upper side, to the top of a barrel or box, holding it om tightly by two deep cleats. A long, shaip, thin table-knife is fixed® through the board in a slanting position, as shown in the illustration. To cut, take the potato in both hands and push it lengthwise over the knife, dropping the sets into the barrel or box. Should the sets be too large, the juice of the potato' will cause the two parts to stick to- gether and they can then be cut either lengthwise or crosswise as desivedl. --]J. F.,, in Conservation. Reach Council Council met in the township hall on Monday, April 13th, at 11 a.m, pursuant to adjournment. All members present The reeve in the chair. Minutes of last meeting read and confirmed. Messrs. Turner and Hartry appeared before the council with a document sign- ed by 49 persons as a protest against the sale of the unopened road allowances between the 3rd and 4th and 4th and 6th concessions, to the Scugog Game Pre- serve Co Mr. Elijah Beare also protest- ed against the sale of same, while Mr. W, H. Harris appéared on behalf of the Game Preserve Co., with legal opinions showing that the said Game Preserve Co. have legal rights to prohibit poaching on the unopened road allowances oppo- site their property, and they were there- fore of no value whatever to any other person. The council decided to lay the matter over for further consideration until next meetin The Reeve po Clerk were appointed a committee to meet a committee of Scott Council to arrange a settlement as to the amount each municipality should expend on the boundary line, the old agreement [58 having expired. Mr, Mark, seconded by Mr. Weir, in- troduced and carried through a by-law appointing pathmasters for the several road divisions, and poundkeepers, for the year ending the 1st day of May, | 1906. POUNDKEEPERS he Div. No. 'Div. 'No. 1 PA Parrot. 10 Rabt Palmer 5 Thos. Kipauick 13 Rich Ciney i i ich Crag; 4 G K Robertsol . 13 Wm 'Pollock 6 Mer. Cheistie. 1 Neil Wilkinson $A Sak 1M Quy ohn ohn - 9 Bhai Dy 1 oun a 19 John Hy hue ~ PATHMASTERS | Div. No. © Div. Ne 23 Rich Harper 69 Ed Acton 26 Thos Boynton 60 Stewart McKaw 26 Wm Midgley 61 Sam Perrin 27 A Savage 62 James Baird 28 F Bailey 63 Stan McLeod 29 Isaac Vernon 64 E Brabazon 30 Thos Beare 66 Thos Love 31 E Kendail 66 J] Holdershaw 32.34 G Howsam 67 T Clarkson 33 Jas Mitchell 69 Wm Phoenix 36 E Pollard 70 Silas Reynolds - 36 Wm Rusnell 71 J H Leask 37 Sol Wilson 72 Nor Midgley 38 J Ferguson 78 Wallace Bruce 40 A E Claughton 74 Alex Boe 42 W P Watson 76 Isaac Clements. 438 Silas Page 76 Albert Stone 44 Alex Gall 77 Jas Leask 46 Ben Flewell 78 Jas Blair, jr. 46 C Armstrong 79 Wm Bowlus 47 S W Croxall 80 Wm Thomas" 48 Alex McGregor 81 Norman Lyle 49 John Bailey 82 Frank Watsomes. 650 F Howsam 83 Chas Mark 651 F Rusnell 86 Ed Lyle 52 Benj Forsyth 86 Chas Honey: 653 Leslie Beare 87 Chas Wells 64 Dan McDonald 88 A Williams b6 John Warren 89 Allan Goode 56 Robt Swanick 89ajos Peel u John Malyon 90 S McConnell J J Murta 91 Rich Rynards 92 Chas Taylor ACCOUTS PASSED Howard Dobson $68, bonus 232 rods, . W. F., lot 12, con. b. Thos: Gibson $6.16, opening roads, 3 i ond $11.40, oad iam opening r ~ Whitby townline. ns James McTaggart $1.50, opening sends. Brock townline. Geo. Stone $6, two cords wood! for bali' Jos. Baird $20.70, repairs for grades. Luke Day $13, opening roads, Div. IT. Thos. Harris $14.50, op.. voads, Div. 6. Wm. Christie $10.40, " 'I A Ross §3 60, o ening roads, Div. 3 Geo, Smith $9. he _Thos. Love $3.15, "ough Theo. Fitchett $2, temporary aid. . Council adjourned to' meet -agam' ome) the Hh Say of May next at 11 a.m: . Oder Your Sheet: Music at. the STA