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FS SIAYER. Stat tes rt 0 AGANDA OT Tati10n, ‘I'(NPQI vell as as one n the °_ were o Canâ€" & from mMisgâ€" n Col eats by e Hands ; of Augâ€" Clock." Watâ€" »du«â€" Canâ€" unâ€" ipers ca. s to the r will n will »oting othi triak t was ‘orded 107 the Afâ€" ith her of V ylie) . and, ter, I rdina. 1 God Wil Tdic n of > 1M n n At h it. In AE: at Lr t The approval of the public is the final test of merit. This is the reason enceé Has Stood the Test her luggage, they had time to exenangt a few words. "Well, may be not," he returned, with a happy smile. "Now, if we leave by the oneâ€"twenty train for Kirktoun, we‘ll get to Craigdarroch by six o‘clock. My uncle agreed not to expect you before so you can come away to Mrs. Robertâ€" son‘s, where you can rest and have breakfast, though she will be half frighâ€" tened at so grand a young lady as you h ing me." He only laughed, and calling a cab, they drove away through dull _ streets as yet scarcely astir, to the modest manâ€" sion of a Free Kirk minister, who was already in his study, and came forth to welcome the stranger lassie with kindly warmth; then his wife appeared, as neat and well appointed in her cotton morning dross as if she had made an afternoon toilet; and lastly, Mary, blushing, with downcast eyes and a sweet smile flickâ€" ering on her lips. The first thing Mona noticed was the golden red tinge in her soft,. abundant hair. "If mine is half as pretty, I am conâ€" toilet downe ering notice soft. LT ing me." He only lav they drove aw as yet searcely sion of a Free already in his welcome the s tent," she thought as she offered hcr‘ hand and said kindlyâ€"â€" "I am very pleased to meet you." The â€" wordsâ€" the very _ tone _ in which â€" they were said â€"made Mary look up, and then the smile shone out in her honest, light blue eyes; these, and & redâ€"lipped mouth rarely quite elosed over very white teeth, redeemed her face from plainness, â€" Her complexion, though clear and good, was much freckled, and the cheek bones were somewhat high; still Mary Black was undoubtedly a "bonnie lassie," and pleasant to look at, as Kenâ€" neth evidently thought, as his face beamâ€" ed when his eyes fell upon her. "You‘ll be awful tired after so many hours in the train; here, Mary, take Miss Craig to tthe spare room. You‘ll maybe like to wash your hands and brush your hair a bit before you eat your breakâ€" sorely." _ _ "I am so very pleased to see you," said Mona, when she ard Mary had entered the sacred precinets of the spare room. "And so am 1 to meet you; Kenneth told me what a good friends you have heen to him: but you are not a like what tast "And so am 1 t« told me what a g been to him; but y I expected to see." The host appeared to be acquainted with Mr. Craig, and spoke of him with a touch of dry humor here and there which showed he was fully alive to the pecuâ€" liarities of his character. Mr. Robertson â€"â€"a _ pleasant, wellâ€"read _ man, quite abreast of the modern thought movement â€"seemed Â¥leased to converse with his n).ung English guest. Both his wife and ry Black evidently looked Tn‘him oung Enghan $UCt A natlamom hiwcls somare * & F i{ury Black evidently looked upon him | a square projecting windowâ€"also openâ€" as something quite too imlnoug clever | ing like a door. gl‘his had some bookâ€" to be addressed «ave with due considerâ€" | cases and a writin% table, and was digniâ€" ztion, and kenneth, to, regarded him as | fied by the title of the library. A good a superior being. As soon as he had beâ€" dining room with ordinary windowsâ€"for stowsed the final bless‘ng, the ministez the ground sloped steeply away from CEYLON TEA Has the enormous sale of over 14,000,000 packets annually. Lead packets only. 40¢, 50c and 60c per pound. HIGHEST AWARD ST. LOUIS, 1904. Thank vyou; I feel I 1 igh at what she considered _ his â€" dress." He assured her, however, t was his habitual costume when ; the hills, and that the only differâ€" e had made was to put on his best meeting kilt and plaid in her honâ€" Won at Last ind. Why, Kenneth, you are chaff altogether in 1e said, when iwe, they had 1 having time to my honor, Ken need ablution collected exchange acquainted bade Mona farewell as he was going out. Then Mary assisted Mrs. Robertson to clear away the breakfast things, and the latter said: "You three young folk will have a good deal to say to one another, so you can have it out here, while I am busy above and below, as soon as I have sent Aimie off to school." "I should think we had a good deal to say to each other," said Kenneth, as soon as they were alone. "Mary knows that the only bit of comfort I ever had in you big dreary town was when I could walk and talk with you, Mona, and that kind soul Madame Debrisay. _ Isn‘t it curiâ€" ous, when I wsed to be with you in Lonâ€" don, I thought I saw such a likeness beâ€" tween you and Mary, and now you are together, it has just vanished away ?" "Like Miss Craig*" cried Mary, blushâ€" ing and laughing. "Eh, Kenneth, but your eyes must have been all wrong!" Then a very confidential conversation ensued, and Mona promised to help the lovers in all ways. Indeed, her ’;\eart went out very warmly to the gentle, simple Highland lassie, and she privately concgratulated Kenneth on his choice. Having been taken to see the catheâ€" dral and some public bu:ildings, she was given luncheon and hurried away to the station. A splendid sunset was glorifying moor and mountain, the loch, and a distant glimpse of blue sea, when the travellers reached Kirktoun, where a very rusty old oneâ€"horse phacton driven by Uncle Sandy himself, awaited them. "Well, my dearie, the sight of you is good for sair een!" he cried, with unâ€" usual warmthb, reaching down a hand to assist his niece to the seat beside him; adding in the same breath, "and I am right glad you have seen the error of your ways. I am always ready to forâ€" give when I see ony one in their right mind." "Ay, it is just that! You‘ll grow strong and weel. Hoo‘s a‘ wi‘ ye, Kenâ€" neth? Did you see Mr. Macray, and get the papers? Eh, we canna carry the two big boxes. Can ye do without them till #oâ€"morrow, Mona, and T‘ll send the cart for them?" "Yes, uncle. I have my band portâ€" manteau, which is quite enough." Kenneth serambled in behind, and after one or two stoppages at shops of the "I am very glad to see you, uncle. What delightful air! It is like new life to breathe it." "weneral" order, they quitted the primiâ€" tive little townâ€"which is a convenient stopping and starting piace for tourists and sportsmenâ€"and proceeded â€" toward Craigdarroch, by a road which skirted the loch, traversed a pine wod, wound round the head of the water, and then ascended between pictuersque rocks crowned with heather and waving bracken, or wound through clumps of fir and oak trees which grew in sheltered hollows, or led round some projecting angle of the hill, from which could be seen a wide stretch of moorland and mountain, all rich and varied with autumnal green, brown, purâ€" ple, and gold, a dozen different tints melting into each other, while away west over the sea the sun was sinking in a flood of golden light. The old cartâ€"horse that with bent head and patient toil dragged the vehicle up the long ascent, evidently understood his task too well to heed Uncle Sandy‘s "geeâ€" ups‘ and occasional applications of the whip. When they came to a gentle deâ€" cline or a few level yards, he broke into a slow, heavy trotâ€"his great feet beatâ€" ing the road iike sledgeâ€"hammers; then at the very first upward tendency he deâ€" liberately checked his pace to a steady walk, from which nothing could move him. Yet Mona enjoyed the drive imâ€" mensely. The beautiful wild scenery; the soft, delicious, honeyâ€"sweet breeze, that from time to time touched her cheek like a caress; the restful silence, and perhaps, more than all, the unusually happy expression of Uncle Sandy‘s puckâ€" ered face, gave her profound pleasure. At length, after tollowing a low moss and grassâ€"grown wall for some way, they turned into a narrow road, at the diverâ€" gence of which a wooden gate, with one broken hinge, lay helplessly open. 4 "Noo," said Mr. Craig, with all the pride of proprietorship, "you are in the parks of Craigdarroch." .._ . _ _ _ "What a delightful country! What a pretty place!" he : l o * _ "Wait till you are up at the hoose. I think you‘ll say it is better than Westâ€" bourne Villas." The "hoose" was turned in a contraâ€" dictory manner with its face to the hill, and built of melancholy, halfâ€"mourning graystone. Within, a short wide ball lighted from above led to the public rooms, and from it a passage branched off to the sleeping chambers, and a narâ€" row crooked stair led to various apartâ€" ments aboveâ€"for most of the house was only oneâ€"storey high, The drawing room had a bay window, from the centre of which steps led down to a pleasure ground, conaistinf only of grass and groups of trees which {rew abundantly in the shelter of the hillâ€"but the view atoned for any deficient ornamentation. From this o‘)ened a pleasant room, to which the Glasgow occupier had added JY | that side of the houseâ€"and a long narâ€" row apartment containinfi some . glass cases of birds and butterflies, some fosâ€" sils, a rusty claymore or two, and the skeleton of a deer‘s head and antlers, which was termed "the Museum"â€"these constituted the reception room. haired "dour" looking womanâ€"the cook and general servantâ€"and behind, the "bit lassie" who helped her. _ ____ _ _ _ "Whaur‘s the boy?" asked Mr. Craigl;‘, descending with the Rhelp of his stic and Kenneth‘s arm. "He‘s gane awa‘ to the forge; the gray meer cast a shoe as she was drawing Ven the gravel for yon new walk." "Ah, and the gardener?" "Oh, he‘s awa‘ till his tea." "Then, Kenneth, ye must put up Brownie; and gievy him a good rub down, he‘s just steaming." W Mona thought that a woman, a girl, and a boy were a scanty staff for so large a house, and foresaw housekeepâ€" ing difficulties. "This is my niece, Miss Craig,” said Uncle Sandy to the "dour" lookmg woâ€" man; "ye‘ll just do a‘ she tells ye.‘ . -"T’Iéile’flvl-ivl:él; not know our w'a!s, and she frae the south," she returned, sulkâ€" _‘"Then you must teach me," said Mona, smiling so pleasantly on her that her face relaxed. "Folk learn so quick if they are so minded," she said, less harshly. _ " Then Uncle Sal’ldfntl’('(.ll‘.l.\;;l.xu;x. through the Museum, the dining room, the drawâ€" ing room, and the library. emoee oo 7 Cmm e e en t t uit ons i "You see it‘s no a Poor hoose," he said, with satisfaction. "Noo, come awa‘ to your ain bed chamber. You‘ll like it fine, 1 am thinking." Uncle Sandy stumped down the passage and introâ€" duced his niece to a pretty airy chamâ€" ber, the windows of which looked over the garden, with a side glinnpse of the loch. "My room is next you. I thought if I were sick, or bad with the rhumatics, it would be well to have you near me. 1 have had a bell put there, ye see, just over the head of your bed. I can reach the rope frae mine, and wake ye ony time I want ye." "A â€" delightful _ arrangement," said Mona, laughing. . "It is a charming room, and when I unpack I shall make it look quite pretty. The house has evidently been arranged by men, uncle; it seems awfully bare." _ "Aweel, women have their uses. If I had been able to marry the lassie I loved, I would be a different mon this day." Mona soon found that life at Craigâ€" darroch ,in spite of the beauty that surâ€" rounded her, was not a bed of roses. Mr. Craig viewed housekeeping . exâ€" penses through the small end of his menâ€" tal telescope,. and vried to keep them down to impossible limits, while at the bottom of his manly heant he feared Phemie the cook far too much to do more than grumble indefinitely. iss dabelliis in onl ~adhrinnds tralieni ces rupntels P ‘She is a wasteful deil," he whispered to his niece, the second day of her soâ€" journ at Craigdarroch, when he was solâ€" emnly handing hber the keys, and inâ€" structing her in the duties of her new position. *"You can look after her better than I can. She just drinks pounds o‘ tea; twa ounces ought to do her and the girlie for a week; and then the flesher‘s bill is just fearfu‘. They twa want good meat meals every day." "But, uncle, they must have meat every dayâ€"no one would serve without it." â€"_"Well, its‘ just a bad new fashion. Scotchmen grew to be what they are on good oatmeal." nstituted the re;egtion room. At the door stood a respectable grayâ€" "I shall do my best, uncle, but I am not. economical, I warn you. I know what it cost Madame Debrisay and myâ€" self to exist, and it will be a sort of guide. May I look at your books?" "Books. I never keepit ony. I just know the siller slin« away ower fast." A week of this new life passed rapidly. ‘ Mona found her hands full, nor was the work unpleasant. Her nature was essonâ€" } tially feminine. _ She loved order and delicate nicety in her home, and thought no trouable too much to secure it. Forâ€" tunately, she succeeded in winning the allegiance of the cook, who, having anâ€" ticipated that the stinginess of her masâ€" ter would be inetnsified by the minute inspection of a mistress, was relieved to find"a greatly increased degree of justice and liberality in the domestic governâ€" ment. The furniture, too, vexed her soul. It was excellent as regarded quality, but frightful in form and color. With much persuasion she induced Uncle Sandy to permit of her ordering pretty colored muslin curtains, a few â€" cheap Orienti® rugs, and some _ small etceteras, the choice of which Mona confided to Mary Black. These, with sundry baskets and pots of flowers disposed about the drawâ€" ing room, so transformed it that Uncle Sandy scarcely recognized the once stiff and dreary chamber. "You‘re a clever lassie," he cried. "You have made the place look grand at no great outlay. Noo, I‘m hoping you‘ll no ask mair siller for a long time." "We shall want some additions to our furniture and decorations, uncle, before winter," returned Mona, who had learned from experience that the less Uncle Sandy was asked for, the less he was inâ€" clined to give. "But I will tell you about them in good time, Now that you are going to reside here, you must have your house nice. I think you ought to be obliged to Miss Black for the trouble she has taken. “\\'c:l‘,"a.md who says I am not? She and her people are Kenneth‘s friends, hey ?" you OPERATION A EXPERIENCE OF MISS MERKLET She Was Told That an Operation Was Inevitable. How She Escaped It. When a physician tells a woman sufâ€" fering with serious feminine trouble that an ogeration is neceum;yl; the very thought of the knife and the operatin; table strikes terror to her heart, .ns our hospitals are full of women coming for just such operations. There are cases where an OperatiOn is the only resource, but when one conâ€" siders the ‘grelt number of cases of memi% emale troubles cured_ by Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegenble Comâ€" pound, after physicians have adviged operations, no woman should submit to one without first trying the Ve%::uble Compound and writing Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mase., for advice, which is free. Miss Margret Merkley, of 275 Third Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes : Dear Mrs. Pinkham : "Loss of strenirh. extreme nervyousness, shooting pains through the pelvic organs bearingâ€"down pains and cramps compelled me to seek medical advice. The doctor after makin% an examination said I had a female trouble and ulseration and advised an oxeration. To this I atr’oxml{l ob,’ecu*d, and decided to try Lyl(‘lis E. Pinkham‘s Veâ€" getable Cnm? wund. â€" The ulceration quickly healed, all the bad symptoms disappeared and I am once more strong, vigorous and come from?" "Cannot Kenneth find out?" "Aweel, we‘ll ask a bit at Mr. Melnâ€" tyre‘s" (the grocer and general dealer). "We are going into the toun after dinâ€" ner. I have to see the gentleman that has taken the moor about the fishing, or one of the gentlemen. There‘s a pair of them, and one has only just come down." getable Com?;\u healed, all the and I am once well." Female troubles are steadily on the increase among women. If the monthly periods are yery painful, or too frequent and excessiveâ€"if you have pain or swelling low down in the left side, bearingâ€"down paing, don‘t neglect yourâ€" self : try Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound. "Who are they ?" asked Mona, care lessly, as she sewed on the band while had come unstitched from her uncle‘s umbrella. "Oh! a Colonel Langton, and anither fresh from India, a grand mon, a Sir something Lisle." % "There‘s your umbrella, uncle. I think Phemie wants one or two things from MaciIntyre‘s; I will give Keneth a list." "FEh, it‘s just wantâ€"wantâ€"want from ae week‘s end to anither." "Of course, it is, uncle; are we not alâ€" ways consuming things ? and they must be replaced. â€" Then I may write to Missa Black ?" ~"Ay, she‘ll tell a‘ the folk in Glenâ€" corrie what a grand place Kenneth is "Yes, of course she will." Mr. Craig took his umbrella, and with a muttered complaint that his "puir back was awfu‘ bad the day," hobbled off with the accompanying knockâ€"knock of his supports on the floor, worry the garden: er. Mona took a book and sat down on the step outside the large window, gazing away over mountain, lake, and moorland, which lay stceped in the golden sunâ€" shine of a brilliant autumnal noon, & light, slowâ€"sailing cloud now and then casting a shadow upon the varied surâ€" face beneath it, a light breeze occasionâ€" ally rippling the face of the loch and sending up its gentle current to breathe the soft, briny freshness it had brought from the sea, against her cheek, and through the meshes of her redâ€"gold hair. (To be continued.) Liquid medicine advertised to cure . stomach and bowel disorders and sumâ€". mer complaints contain opiates and are dangerous. When a mother gives Baby‘s Own Tablets to her little ones she has the guarantee of a Government analyst that this medicine does not contain One particle of opiate or harmful drug. The prudent mother will appreciate that in Baby‘s Own Tablets there is absolute safety. An occasional dose to the well child will keep it well,â€"and they promptâ€" ly cure the minor ailments of childhood when they come unexpectedly. Mrs. G. Hamlin, St. Adolphe, Que., says: "I have used Baby‘s Own Tablets for eolic and bowel troubles, and fird them safe and speedy in their cure." Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from the Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockâ€" ville, Ont.,. Keep the Tablets in the Jefferson‘s Ten Rules, Never gut off until toâ€"morrow what you can do toâ€"day. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. house Never buy what you don‘t want beâ€" cause it is cheap. Nevor' spend money before you have earned it. _ Pride costs mare than hunger, thirst and cold. ‘p ~ We seldom repent of having eaten too little. Y o s m i Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. _ And whaurâ€"whaur is the tuner to How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened. Take things always by the smooth handle. When angry, count ten before ycou speak;if very angry, count a hundred. The average automobile is almost as stubborn as a mule. } j SAFETY FOR CHILDREN. where an operation ONTARIO ARCHIVEs TORONTO Forty miles north of Winnipeg you come to the stamping ground of 5,000 Galicians or more. No one knows exactâ€" ly_how many there are. Five thousand came, but they marry young, disappear in the woods, and even the census man has a job in locating them all. _______ The chief ways of access are via the Teulon branch of the C. P. R., soon to be extended still further north into _ the woods, or via Lake Winnipeg to Gimli and other small Icelandic hnmlets‘ thence overland by pathways which by courtsy we may call roads. 1 There are a number of good graded roads over which the tourist is usually conducted. There are others that defy description and require the appreciation of experience. Nor is the whole land Galician and bush. Some of it is open with as beauâ€" tiful a landscape as can be found in Ontario. There, are found the farms of Englishâ€"speaking settlers, with splendid buildings, rich land and all the elements of agricultural prosperity. A1. The day the writer was there he had the opportunity of dining at a wayside Church of England picnic, in a church grove, where the whole situation _ reâ€" called old days in the east with the comâ€" forts and pastimes of rural districts. Then within a short distance you strike the timber, which is chiefly popâ€" lar, with some scrub oak. Here the Galiâ€" cians are encamped, scattered for miles in the woods, which are rapidly clearing and turning into fertile fields. In peakâ€" roofed log buildings, strawâ€"thatched and plastered, they live, some clean, some dirty, some filled with not only foreign human population, but with what Dr. Robertson used the call "the pestilence that walketh in darkness." c PR TD ComF l e / d ES ters, and who hold services which are well attended in the frame, crossâ€"mountâ€" ed church by the roadside. The present policy is for the English doctor and missionary to keep in touchk with these foreign leaders and through advice to help keep before these people the religious and also the Anglo Saxon idea of life. 'I‘hero(:ent movement of the _ "Indeâ€" pendent Greek Church" has produced a few local priests, who are really presbyâ€" Among those who are thus seeking to teach the swarming hordes of Galicians, Swedes, Germans and Jews is our OWn medical missionary at Teulon, Rev. Dr. A. J. Hunter, and his assistants in the hospital. ‘ 8 & puv LE c alans +ha Teulon is a hamlet stre C. P. R. track, and is for the nortern terminue of t! half mile around the corner try roads sion. Considerable has already the way of equipment, pf church donations, and partl personal offerings of Dr. H mother, whh superintends | 1CTT. Considerable has already been done in the way of equipment, partly through church donations, and partly through the personal offerings of Dr. Hunter and his mother, whh superintends his house. A hospital has been erected capable of comfortably accommodating twelve patients, and, in a pinch, twentyâ€"three uncomfortably. With its wide verandahs it presents a very pretty site from the road. Near by Dr. Munter and his en OIP S oabait ‘aÂ¥ thelr OWn ext it vdniwentcecttedoditt. * t & road. Near by Dr. Munter and his mother have erected at their own exâ€" pense a commodious house as a mission home. ] P & aiocs onl ko n nOC, From this centre the doctor is the medical adviser and friend â€" of 10,000 people. It is no easy job, for it often means long drives with no asphalt paveâ€" ments, but jaunty excursions over log and stump strewn trails and _ through swamp and bush where mosquitoes and the innumerable varieties of summer flies keep one awake in the warm air, Of where the keen breath of the winter north wind finds out every unprotected part. L1 C ui . Mtchtan TÂ¥ Hhunter . and part. Through the mission PDr. Hunter and the nurses are seeking to gain the symâ€"« pathy of the Europeans in behalf _ of this work. The church has been moderâ€" ately generous, but the writer feels that if the field and the facts were known, the members of the church would be still more liberal. The cost of the hospital to the amount of about $6,000 has been met by the church, but almost all the other exâ€" penditure equally necessary has come * _‘ + tha nvivate funds of Dr. Hunter Pn PSR Om anics it Eoc out of the private funds and his mother. Our church should knc possible about this work 1 pecua epmmmeany‘ o onl wHQ MI§ MMSIROTCCC Our church should know as much as possible about this work and lend it all the practical sympathy it can at the present time, which is the critical and strategic period in its history. Some time ago the doctor contracted blood poisoning in the performance of duty. It cost him three months in Winâ€" nipeg hospital where for a time his life was despaired of. Although the Winniâ€" peg doctors were vyery kind it meant a large outlay for hospital fees and forty dollars a month for a medical substitute in Teulon. DPr. Hunter is unobstrusive and would not publish all he should, but as a visitor, the writer found out a few facts that he wishes the church should know, and his observations made â€" him feel that there are present needs that are pressing if effective work is to be done. P u{aw & As aaa MECIITCY Among them are the following: $1.000 cash for immediate use; assistance in procuring more land for the hospital and mission; larger grants for the supply of drugs, instruments _ and medical s a hamlet strewn along the rack, and is for the present i terminue of the road, and round the corner of the counâ€" are the grounds of the misâ€" \ At ';')r_e-esnt, as the doctor put it, they operate “nn;_old where." t A nurses‘ home would be a conveniâ€" ence only to be appreciated by those on the ground. There is much need of a room where the dying could be placed apart from other patients, and a morâ€" tuary chamber is a real and pressing neâ€" cessity.. ing room. In the near futuro cnormous good would be accomplished by a school where promising boys and girls could . be brought under direct Christian influence and sent back among their people as e¥» angelizing, Canadianizing factors. There are children now in the village echool, boarding at the mission, who are a creâ€" dit to any community. If fuily trained in a mission home what a force they would be among their own people! The writer who saw the conditions would heartily commend this work to all interested in what is both Foreign and Home work. If it is to be a real aggressive enterâ€" prise it must be more adequately _ enâ€" dowed, and made capable of reaching out in larger and more aggressive lines of work. And it is of vast importance that some such agency should be there, for we in the West feel very keenly the force of the oftâ€"repeated statement that if these people are not Christainized and nationalized the surrounding ditt»et« will be paganized and denationalized and the Canadian tone be correspondingly lowered. Scientists From Washington Make a Most Singular Discovery. Southern lumbermen take great delight in a story of certain scientific gentlemen who were sent by the government at Washington to study the growth and uses of the baid cypress at a time when eypress lumber was comparatively new to the market. They went direct to a large camp, presented credentials to the superintendent and watched with minute care the processes of cutting the timber . and floating it down stream, Cypress is a light, spongy wood that grows in _ s&swamps and absorbs waâ€" ter readily. The scientific gentlemen reâ€" quested the superintendent to throw some logs into the river separate from the main rafts and followed their proâ€" pgress down stream in a boat. After floating south for some distance the logs with one accord sank. Much surprised, the scientific gentlemen returned and folâ€" lowed another consignment. The phenâ€" omenon was repeated; at a certain dieâ€" tance from the camp all the logs sank. The gentlemen from Washington, being very scientific, did ncé think to question the unlettered superineqndent about the power of cypress to becoe waterlogged, but after numerous observations _ and much comparing of notes r\\orbed to the department the startling distavery that cypress floated north of a certamy paralâ€" lel of latitude and south of it invaxiably sank. Of the cause they were not yet certain, but hazarded _ the suggestion that it might lie in the rotary motion of the earth, increasing in speed as the logs approached the equator until it was powerful enough to draw them unâ€" der.â€"American Magazine. Finely Pulverized Surfave Enables Soil to Store Up Moisture. We are jast beginning to learn that if the soil is cultivated carefully and inâ€" tensively it can be made to hold water within itself and carry a storags reserâ€" voir underneath the growing crop. Finely pulverizing and packing the seed _ beg makes it capable of retaining the greatâ€" est possible percentage of the moisture that falis, just as a fine sponge of a cerâ€" tain size will hold many times as much water as a coarse sponge of the same size or as a tumbler full of birdshot will retain many times the amount of water that a tumbler full of buckshot will. It is a wellâ€"known fact that water moves in the soil as it does in a lamp wick, by capillary attraction. The more deeply and the more densely the soil is saturated with moisture the more easily the water moves upward im the soil, just as the oil "climbs up" a wet wick faster than it does a dry one The problem of evaporation is the : mightiest one hefore the agriculturist of . the semiâ€"arid west. Even if the »»me amount of rain fell in Eastern Colorado as falls in Jowa, it does not follow that as much moisture would be available for plant life in the former as in the latter state. Eastern Colorado is a mile above the sea, and has a clear atmosph»re erd intense sunshine. Its atmosuvhere is, therefore, very dry and quickly drinks up the moisture from the soil un! «s we take measures to prevent it. This we do by means of a soil "blanket" «alled a "mulch." This nicely pulverized surface sormes a twoâ€"fold purposeâ€"it _ prevents . the moisture from below, in large moasure, from evaporating and at the sam» time keeps the surface in such condition that it readily absorbs whatever suddon «l « wâ€" ers may fall. One can illustrate the effect of this fine soil "mulch," so far as prevent ng evaporation _ is concerned, by p‘sng some powdered sugar on the suctoce of a Jump of loaf sugar and bolding the latter in a tumbler of water. Me will observe that the powdered sugar will remain dry even when the lump has beâ€" _ eome so thoroughly saturated that it erumbles to pieces in his hands.â€"World | Toâ€"day. wWHY CYPRESS WOOD SINKS. Really an Awful Affair, (Judge.) Sheâ€"He married her for her money. Wasn‘t that nvful; get it! Heâ€"Did he t k FR Sheâ€"No. ut UV HAk FARMWING WITH LESS RAIN. surface sores prevents _ the large monasure, the sane time The United States Postal Department has just rounded up a gang of thrifty swindlers in Minneapolis, who have been doing a "land office business" in the United States and Canada, It was a $10 game, and a great many Canadians have been taken in by it. The «cheme was a very plausible one. The concern calling itself the North American Land Co. reached people all over the country, either through newspaper advertiseâ€" ments or by direct correspondence, 1t represented itself as dealing largely in farm land, business properties, and money lending. It wrote a very alluring letter to its prospective victim, pointing out that a representative was required in his district to show intending purchasâ€" ers various properties and to close transâ€" actions, All expenses were to be paid, there was to be a salary of $40 per month providing the agent sold 160 acres per month, and a commission of 50 cents per acre on the eale. There appeared to be no chance of loss to the man acting for it in that arrangement. But there is more to tell. The point of the arrangeâ€" ment was thus stated: Of course, we cannot trust you to sell prorties, which owners thave _ listed with us, until you carefully read over our course of instruction, and learn our methods. These instructions are in 12 lessons. They teach you how to #ell proâ€" perties and give you a thorough know!â€" edge of the real estate business, The applicant had to be taught, and the awindlers would teach him, the charge to be $20 for twelve lessons, or if the $20 could not be conveniently sparâ€" ed, the company would accept $10 down and the remaining $10 could be sent out of the agent‘s first month‘s salary etc. But it all looked to be on the «quars to the man seeking work, because didn‘ the company say: We only send our instructions who enter our employ and who . ing to pay us the small price which positively assures us t] actually mean business, as no ms pay out his money for this kn unless he intended to devote his our business, _ You cannot | course of instructions of us for without entering our employ. And so the $10 remittances . They came from all quarters an quantitics that the postal autho gan to have euspicions. From . they proceeded to investigation rests followed. Then it was discovered that the company di« business, or any other kind of except set traps for victims. ident of the company had f ographers engaged in sending on and the replies received ran far thousands. Me is now held for the fraud. should be very wary about se cash to secure employment of Thee are always plenty wolves who seek to prey upo lic, and they do not hesitat honest sheeps‘ clothing. Wh« offered something for nothi alluring chance to play «ha public, think of the chap who confiding fish a fat, juicy wo; the hook which it conceals. ant important as an indicatio danger that threatens the the ernment ary stroke,. Jhe exact eonc at the moment clear, but it that local tvranny over th part of t whi« militar taking troops tory. As it is, the fortress of Sveaborg is said to be in the hands of the mutinâ€" eers, The St. Petersburg authorities are reported to be greatly alarmed, and well they may be; if they cannot implicâ€" itly rely on the troops, they can hardly look on the prospect with much confiâ€" dence. A greater outbreak may come at th We hear little of the lightning rod agent these days, even if the present sumimer has been pronfic of lightmag storms. _ It is stated in Symons‘ Meteorâ€" ological Magazine that in the United Kingdom nearly four hundred "unptoâ€" tected" bmildings are damaged ly by lightning. _ From the .fi:.fi cORREN! COMMENT. | dence, A greater outbreak may and time and sweep them from of the earth. tected" bmidings are damaged anngalâ€" ly by lightning. _ From the British stu» tistics quoted by this journal it ap» pears that out of 125 cases of "protveetâ€" ed" buildings struck by lightning witlis three years there were only 24 cases 0‘ the failure of the lightning conduet»=â€" an average of less than eight fas>~s a year. _ Possibly those failures to »*" tect were owing to the hd* aot beâ€" ing properly protected, the es perâ€" haps not being properly »ded. «The figures, however, are t 10 show that the lightning rod is ble of proâ€" tecting property from tric storms, when it is properly put up, 1t would be interesting to know many of the barns "struck" this Me ed and how many were u & The moral of this ta The mutiny Ad garnis Gulf . f the ppears to have been entu one, the inhabitants of th no part in it. The fightin have been bloodv. and b ild 1 U n rnment at Mel city on Finland. 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