f fe Pi + +"; BUBTERRANEAN LAKES OF al 2 New York Hospital Gives Juice of - gilver values. 'OIL IN MEXICO, Mines Fabulously Rich in Geld and ae Ae Alvarado's Enor- mous. Fortune. Y "Mexico ie the land of ot big stakes. on ee for ite -revolu- A man whohas-epent years of «hie ind on 'the south of the Rio Grande, was and this was the batelen of his ¥ He told of a supterranean lake of oil, known to be 200 miles long and from 15 to 20 miles wide, with a "gusher" that flowed more than 300,000 barrels in 24-hours before it was "capped" and regulated; of valleys filled with oil in that 24 hours; of vegetation drenched for miles - around. il--crude oil--is -- roughly $1 a barrel. at the w He told of ore' that assayed $86,- 000 to the ton, and hundreds of tons of it in sight. "Under. Spanish rule," said the nian from Mexico, "the mines of Guanajuato alone produced over *$1,000,000,000 worth of silver. The FIGHTING CONSUMPTION. Garlic to Patients. There's w tregtment out for ie. "Te is = forth- by an C. Minchin, | = de gr late: , "the Siete charge of the tuberculosis wards ; have been experimenting with the treatment for two years. As their experiments are still in progress, they are not yet prepared to pro nounce any definite opinion on its value, beyond what Dr: Marshal] W.: McDuffie stated in an article published in the Interstate Medical Journal for March, 1914. "In our treatment-study of this Net Chin! American soldiers doing. rough Snow, Bet Up the Side of a Sand Dune. my auth cand dunes in the vicinity of E) Trejor, Mexico. disease during the past two years,"' wrote Dr. McDufiie, "observations haye been made with fifty-six treat- ments in over one thousand and eighty-two cases, mostly in Ward Q of the Metropolitan Hospital, De- partment <6f Public Charity. Of FROM ERIN'S = GREY (SE NEWS .BY "MAIL FROM JF owners made millions : so mine quickly that. one of the Spanish | as regards anything like specific ac- | tion upon' the tubercle bacillus and 'yiceroys was forced to issue an. or- 'der forbidding them from scattering handfuls of silver on the streets be- cause it increased the number of Also, it was a public nui- sance. : . "Well, it isn't very different in the year 1914. For instance, there's strongly antigeptic, and it eeems Pedro Alvarado, "the owner of the Palmillo mine. He is an ignorant Indian who has no idea how much money he has, nor any idca of his 'wealth. In the last few years he has built 50 churches, at least 100 schools, and has given away several fortunes. Christmas, 1910, Pedro Alvarado gave away $2;000,000 to the poor, 'for the loye of Ged,' he said. Dresses Like a Peon. these treatments buttwo stand out LAND'S SHORES. -. Happenings in the Enierald iste ; Interest to Irish. .. mco. ae t They are garlic fro the vegetable kingdom and mercur' from the mineral. "Garlic contains a volatile oil called ally] sulphide, and its medi- cal properties depend on',this oil, The ey Government Board I sanctioned a loan of $30. to Skibbereen District Goutell fob! ie purpose of erecting cottages and.re- pairing existing ones. The death has just taken place ab Magherafelt Workhouge of an in- have remarkable power of inhibit- ing the growth of the tubercle bacil- lus; it is eliminated by the lungs, skin, kidneys, and liver, and oxi- dizes into sulphurous acid in the system. Applied locally, it is free- ly absorbed by the skin and pene- trates the deeper tissues. "Garlic gave us our best results, and would seem equally*efficacious, ne matter what part of the body is affected, whether skin, bones, glands, lungs or special parts. might be termed the last of "othe Irish giants. He was seven feet in height. At Turloughmore, county Gal- way, the house of a man nam Higgins was riddled with 'revolve! and rifle shots. Pictures Pedro dresses like a peon, but has a beautiful home in which there | ia the finest furniture, several pi-! anos, and 20 talking machines. Be-' fore Porfirio Diaz abdicated, Pedro} offered to pay off the.national debt | ,of Mexico. When his request was 'refused he asked ta be allowed to y off a. piece of it, an, anyway When ed-to equ wal ane a cae the aatona! debt for five-years. Fact! "There's a mine 'in the State of Sonora, not far from Arizpe, which is probably the richest mine in the northern half of the Republic. This | property has high gold-as well as An engineer from Cananea was allowed to visit the| mine and the Mexican owner asked | him to sample and assay a ship-! ment of 36 mat ore that was go- ing to the smelter. The owner said | he didn't think the smelter was giv- ing him full value. He didn't care | for the money, but he wasn't going | to be robbed by anybody. "The engineer \assayed the ore. Then, thinking he had made a mis- take, he had two other assayers check his results. All three assays checked within a few dollars. That ore was worth more than 886,000 a ton. The shipments had been going on regularly for quite a while. The owner used the mine as a bank. Whenever he n money he would send a few men inta it and take out a small fortune. I know that, because I was the engineer. An Abandoned There is another property in the same district and this is how it was discovered : There had been a tra- dition in that region about a won- derful rich mine, which had been worked by the Spaniards. The | Mine was suppo to be in a cer- tain direction from a mission, now ruined, and could be seen from a corner of the main building. An Mine. American prospector' followed the! of ee He was sure he was close to it t, but he couldn't locate 'the old workings. "At last be, took @ trip to Spain fifteenth century arch- there. what he did in Spain, b turned and went straight to the dietrict-in which the mine was said to be and walked right on the pro- 80) icate, which was do- ing very well whea the wars broke out, when it sugénded operations. "The old v4:rkings of the mine had been carefully .covered over when. the. American discovered | it, and the remains of forty-odd In- diane were found walled up. in the tunnel. By; eis up the roger miners, you" Bee Spaniards sure"that the .location of 'the roperty would not be betrayed. They thought they were coming to Mexico some oid and in- d eWhy, there are Brome of creeks or streams, apes in 'Sonora, where a man can | small onion plant. ' sible, since moet of the Sahara lies! smashed and considerable dam was done. A committee has been appoint by Newry Urban Council to ms ' arrangements for the forthcomim All-Ireland Industrial Confe to be held at Newry this y Porne thu Dosage used internally, one drachm of the expressed juice or two drops of the essential oil three times a day; externally, poultices or crushed bulbs, one part with three parts of lard, or unguentum | garlic (50 per cent. juice-in vase- hne) applied daily."' ~ Tul reulosis ' _is uncommon. cians in New York say it is ae ingly prevalent among the children of Italians in America, children who OL not a peice largely be-! § 'ounty. Cork, and the move- cause their school fellows and o rer!) ment of hay and straw within an associates ridicule them for smell- | area of five "milés has beet prohibi- Colions killing a man pany Wich él Eg Foot and mouth disease hash out in three separate forms. in Ta) ing of it. r od. Garlic is a plant of the onion} ' family. It is to the onion what the! While on his way to business re- tiger is to the cat, or the wolf to the dog. Growing. it looks like a es, Creamery, Its bulbs, whieh | suddenly may be seen dried and hanging in. before medica} aid could be jedi i Oned | festoons in most grocery stores, are | , | composite, that is, they are formed | A painfyl occurrence took place of many smaller bulbs or "cloves" | 4t the Great. Munster Fair at Lim- lloosely bound together with skin. jerick in the sudden death of MrT. Cools who know their business use | MeC arthy, a county Limerick far- it as they use salt, almost univer-|™er from Holycross, Kilmallock. sally, but with great discretion. A| For extra services rendered dur- great French epicure called garlic | ing the recent strike, the authori- the "soul of cookery.' ties have decided to give the mem- e lbers of the Dublin was tak cen | SAHARA WARMS EUROPE. one month's extra pay Dublin corporation approved 'a | Proposal to name new 'O'Brien Street, of Atlantic | Beaches. Once Formed Part Ocean--Cliffs and There is good reason for consider- ing that the desert of Sahara once, name-another street after Mr. Bo-| formed a part of the Atlantic | har Law becauee he is not Irish. Ocean. Cliffs, ancient sea beaches| Enquiries ave been held by the and the presence of sea fich in the; Local Government Board into the inland lakes bear out this belief.| applications for loans of $333,750 Occasionally the project is revived | and $165,415, respectively, from the to turn the ocean once more into | North and South Dublin Rural the sandy waste by means of a ca- | Councils for the erection of labor- nal. Of course to do this is impos-| ers' dwellings. Subject to_the sanction of the lo- cal governrfent board, the Gorey Guardians have agreed to lease a rtion of the workhouse grounds to the County Tuberculosis Committee for the erection of @ dispensary for the treatment of consumptives ; While Dr. W. K.- Law, brother of above sea level, but it-is interest- ing to contemplate what the effect of a large body of water in place It is evident would have a great influence on the climate of Europe, says Lord Ave- bury. Hot, dry winds from Mr. Bonar Law, M.P.,-was driving rectly d sndirecth ee OU a spirited horse in Coleraine, the th ye ana ' 707 me animal bolted, the wheel of the he Sahara seer the wid in rougham getting badly entangled sh stead of. being burnin m the iron screen poles of » bop. which stripe the snow The animal lashed out with off the: the Alpe feet, but Mr. Law managed to es- b by melting and evaporation, would be a damp, moist wind, and | *P¢~ - when. it: "d mountains ee would produce dense .clouds and Hotel 400 Years Old. thick' fogs, which would prevent; Very shortly the George Hotel, the sun's rays from warming the| Reading, England, more than 400 earth and melting the glaciers. 80 years 'old, will be old by auction that tothe barren desert of Sahara,| The George 'was doing business in the days Sark the Ab }ing was One of the great men in the land, and it stands in dignified re- pose ina busy street, not far from the gaunt ruins of the great abbey. High over its arched entrance, on a little shield, is the date of its foundation, 1506. eading was then 4 villags 6 a! Pe 000 inhabitants. Teacher--W i oe t you waish | face before vou 'comes to + Anvone could sée you have had ¢ 'eg fér breakfast this qgorning. "'TcAwny~-- Please. no, mam j the | . 6B which many book 'upon as a useless waste, Europe is, in reality, in debted for its fertility and warm! temperature:--Kanses City Star. Well Arranged. Maid--Mrs. -"Navbor -- returned much saeceee i Selles that- she bor- rowed, m Mintcoes-_Well, Mary, put it ina jar by itself and lend it to her when she sends over again. Pe ces When -a bride begins t6 realize dhat her husband is much like her "so from $5 0. re re 0.@ day wash- Z mate named George Heyburn,. what! of icently, Mr. Donaldson, manager oak He 1 ty Metropolitan! ge | Police Force a special allowance of | grease. streets | 4 Redmond Street. ,and Carson Street, but refused tos} \has informed the Budget Commit- KICO'S GREAT VITALITY. of War Fereign Commerce ~~ Largest in History. is interesting to note, as proof vitality of Mexico; that in of the disturbance in normal ditions, the foreign commerce of e country has been to no appre- ble extent affected, and that in "from: the. figures of ' Mexico's iigeal-year, ending June 30, 1913, Wer the year 1912-1913), its foreign gs gemmerce was the largest in its stor "Details, as just furnished by Di- rector-General Barrett, of the Pan- erican Union can now be given to eubstantiate this statement. For example, the entire foreign trade Mexico, both exports and im- 1912-1813 to (nete that all figures 'ere given in the U.S. gold dollar), while in the corresponding period vi the previous year it amounted to 40,325,719. "If the exports are a) sidered separately it will be Bnd that there is an encouraging ease in that movement, the to- quantity: exported being $150, - and Che 's uy wack figure ey studying the be of os imported to sup- lly the neé@s of the people of Mex- For example, in leather goods, hich' includes shoes and such man- factured articles, the country re- quired almost $3,500,000 worth of Hoods; in textile fabrics, of cotton, od and sitk, the big total of close 13,000,000 was reached; of ma- ciel and tools there was an im- tation of over "$12,000,000. In 1@-matter-of the sotrce of thece mportations, it can be stated that is usual the United States furnish- eH relatively the largest amount, 48 goods sent to Mexico, over $48,- 010,000, being more than equal to the sum sent by Great Britain, Ger- pany, France and Spain, in fact in. 3a pave, put together. Ar in South America, has in- its trade with Mexico de- edly, uring the past year, send- Ee. that country its food pro- just as it has begun to send em to the United States. In the matter of exports, it is re- le that, according to 'the ; bles from which the Pan Ameri- Union gives this information, y in genéral kept on. with but: small influence against it dur- ing the period in question. Ths ymount of gold exported fell from ,000,000 to . $19,000,000. On the ; Ww uy : r Coffee and rubber dropped t chiole (chewing gum ingredi- 5 hides, and henequen df. ile these variations can be marked the totdl_exports advanced Gatisiactorily. The countries tak- ing tics an an of Mexico occu- ¢ same relative tions. The Som States oil sage ily~first,. ior it received 8116,017,000, nearly quarters of the total expor- ee but Great Britain, Germany and France follow with quantities jent to preserve a comfortable balance of trade. -----4- -_-- ' Huge Cost of Armament. The Russian Minister of Finance tee of the Duma that Russia within the next five years must spend 83,- 760,000,000 far the army and navy. The Budget for the current year for the army and navy amounts to nearly $500,000,000. Excluding the eost of strategic railways the Em- has spent $2,580,000,000 in the pix years, and Rots aly prone! NEWS OF THE MIDDLE WEST BETWEEN ONTARIO AND BRI- , TISH COLUMBIA. -- (tems From Provinecs Where Many . Ontario Boys and Girls Are "'Making Good."' The membership of the Edmonton Property Owners? Association has very largely increased. Labor troubles are being experi- enced in Edmonton. The other day several workers "knocked-off". to join the 1.W.W. parade. After fighting fire in Winnipeg for over forty years, William Code, assistant chief of the Fire "Depart. ment, has tendered his resignation. The Cadet camp at Edmonton this year is expected to "| the big- gest in the Province, and it is an- ticipated that 1,348 schoo] boys will the property of Frank E. Hatch; of Grand Point, Man., about 11 miles south of Win- nipeg, were "rustled," and so far there is no trace of them A party of geologists and topo- graphical. surveyors has left . Ed- monton ° the" 'north country for icting a ged "The amount disbursed ~ gives f for the erection of duplex houses been mooted with the- object of reducing rents for the workingmen of Winnipeg, thus making them from $16 to $25 per month, The establishment of. a market- day in Red Deer has not yet proven a success, The trouble is that while plenty of buyers were on hand the last day,- the amount of ---- offered by farmérs was a The Winnipeg Swimming Club' 8 new home on the Red River is be- ing erected so that the members will be able to take up their quer- ters there in early June. It is an- ticipated that 1914 will be a ban- ner year for the natatorial artists. Winnipeg waiters are preparing a petition to send to the Dominion Government protesting against the Anti-Tipping Bill. They say they cannot live on their wages, and that tips are essential to their exis- tence as matters stand at present. Government officials and depart- ments are taking a great interest in the Calgary exhibition, which will open June 29, and this year's fair will not only be attended by members of the Cabinet, but there will be exhibits from the Depart- ment of Agriculture. Brandon, proposes to give a loan of $15,000 at 5 per cent. to the Young Men's Christian Association of the city. The debentures issued wa and sold will be payable in twenty years from July ist. A vote on t Kqueetion is necessary and will be ae ta June 6th. committee of the Calgary Board of Trade have made a report on monetary nditions in the Weet, as follows: "Statements have been le to press representatives by leading financiers recently, aniccak that. the money market had a good~ supply as proven by the de-|? creasing rate of interest. However, this has not been productive in a general reduction in the rate of in- terest on loans by banks to their patrons, and we believe that it is advisable that some action should be taken by the Board to secure from the local bankers a general reduction in the rate 0 interest charged for the purpose.' A constitution and by-laws have been drafted for the ent of an Edmonton Manufacturers' Association, to be affiliated with the Canadian Manufacturers' Agso- ciation, -------4 ~ The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of man' than the discovery of a2 star.-Brillat- brother her air castles collapse. was yesterday morning. -~ Sava rine : < Be holds aloof, pelmet 2. on.ite pay- nice the teacher who undertakes 'a) 'school in a Ruthenian settlement:a! | new life opens, one not without' ite hardships and loneliness. As a' irae he or ye has to live alone in, httle shack built in. the school pa: for the ed homes of the 'Ruthenian people have no rooms for. e accommodation of boarders.' *The home provided for the teacher - ris never elaborate. It is usually a _ one-roomed shack, and is erected at 'a cost of from one hundred and) twenty- -five to two hundred dollars | It is provided with a bed and a covk stove. This one-roomed abode the teach- er-usually divides by curiains into two apartments, and when she hat! decorated it with pictures and nick- natke and books and tried her hand at conetructing some rustic furni-' ture, and has scattered abont it some comfy cushions, she has made for herself a nest strong with th: home sense. The children linger : | the dcor to get. a peep at its.spler dors, and the parents who cal! <« the teacher carry away & vision «' home comfort such as has never, been theirs before. Who can tell) what influence. these little homes! may have in correcting the interior} of the cheerless four walls within) which the Ruthenian lives? But it is round the echool,houses! that the chief interest of both the Ruthenian people and the teachers! centres. They are frazhe structures,! neat, commpdious, and well lighted. There is a keen rivalry amongst the' different districts as to who shall! have the best school-house, and' they are quite generous in regard to furnishings and equipment. Up to' date more than fifty such schools have been built in the Ruthenian district. And truly this end of the task of moulding the young Ruthe- nians into Canadians is far frem fruitless, for the children show con- siderable aptitude in learning and pick up English quickly. - Nor does the teacher forget that "all work and a lay makes Jack' a dull boy.' niike the Anglo-| on child, dic meni Ruthenian not seem to | naturally to! play. On his first arrivafat © the children. - - (3 # . SOURCE OF FUTURE ENER6Y. Many Secrets of Power of Sun Man Has Yet to Find, For millions -and~ millions ot years has the sun burned in the heavens. It will burn for millions and millions of years to come. It will whirl in the heavens when the very name of our civilization has been lost in the hundreds of civj- lizations yet to come, says Bart Kennedy, in T. P.'s Weekly. Limigless, glorious-orb of trans- cendefice!. We are of you, we are your children. We die'and we pass out to you to be even back again! Man comes-from the sun and he goes back to the sun. From dust to dust is but an idle phrase. . Life is the sun, and the-sun i: life. In the grape is the light-o' the sun transmitted into a soft gentle flame in which live dreams. e flower is a beautiful realizing of a dream of sunlight. The mighty oak is a sunchi!d even as we are. The beings that walk on the earth, the beings that crawl, the beings that lurk in the dim ocean depths, the eagles that hang io the far blue, are a!) children of warmth--chil- dren of the sun. The countless life forms that surround us live but by the dictum of this glorious, ever- shining god. Even the great cun- ning oe ges coming from* jhe hand of man, are evoked by She directing of the fire of the sun. wn in the blackness of the earth, down, chained amid incalov- lable thicknesses of tiving:. rock,' down even here in blackness, slespe the light of the sun. And man by cunning agencies, brings it up to the earth surface, and he sets free the rays of the sun er ee in -- world hundreds poate ago.: Coal is rualight ape volcan slaep. here are secrets of using the power of the sun, the keys of which man has yet to find. Man will dis- cover ways of controlling and hoarding the sun fire as it pours in- to the world from the heavens. We can learn the secret of locking the sun-fire to sleep, 60 that he may, awaken it at will. And he will !sarn to use this fire as it comé@& inte the world in ite:in- finite plenitude. Coal is here -but or a short, swift-passing span in the life of man, for man is destined to live in the world for millions of oe to come. He must fear not. He must learn to chain and com = jitrol the heat 6f the sun. ee. Se A man whe is pleased with no we is more unhappy ~than one.--De Sai. -