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AFTER YELLOW METAL THE FINDS DUII\(i 400 YEARS ON AMERICAN TERRITORY. Gold of (lio Wolorn Hornispliere nnil Hit Sinre Spain Ruliltcil Mrxicnn Tenip.es. E. L. Kaitenbach, in St. Louis Republic. In view of the tireless search for sold, which the Spaniards instituted in their American possessions, and the numerous expeditions undertaken during the lirst century of the new world's history for the avowed objec t of finding the precious metal, it is a remarkable fact that gold was not discovered within the boundaries of the present United States, nor even anywhere north of the Rio Grande, until :*) years after Columbus’s travels. The lust for gold—the same gold fever which reigns among us—drove hundreds of adventurers across the Atlantic to brave the dangers of the unknown wilds in their attempts to find the land of gold, the Eldorado of which the Indians had told and of which the most romantic tales were being circulated in Europe. The adventurers wore of all the seafaring nations of the civilized world. The Spaniards, on tlio whole, were the most fortunate in finding gold. They massacred the savages and plundered their temples and palaces, securing vast masses of the precious metal. The English, on the other hand, wore unsuccessful throughout. Sir Walter Raleigh's expeditions were dismal failures, lie suffered with his life for his ill-fortune. The Eldorado which had been sought in Soutn America had not been found. The attention of adventurers was now turned to the opposite direction and the imaginary land of gold was placed in the north of America. This Idea became bo strong that, in 3576, Martin Frobisher set out from England for the Northwest, seeking a passage to India north of Hudson’s strait. He came to an island which he named Meta Incognita, and on his return took with him a stone which the English refiners declared to contain gold. London was greatly excited. But when a second expedition returned and brought with it a lot of valueless dirt, the disappointment sot the populace wild with rage. Hut the public was ready to bo imposed upon again. As early as 1605 Captain John Smith heard from the Indians reports of rich gold mines in Virginia. The same statements were repeated by other explorers after him, ana soon adventurers Hocked to the new settlements on the Virginia coast. The second lot of emigrants to Jamestown consistea chiefly of vagabond gentlemen and goldsmiths, who, in spite of the remonstrances of Smith, believed they i.ad discovered grains of gold in the glittering earth. There was now nothing done but digging for gold, washing gold, refining gold. Newport, the commander, believed himself immeasurably rich as he embarked for England with a freight of worthless earth. Gradually the hope of ever finding Eldorado vanished, und for 200 years the golden phantom did not appear. Not till this century were the gold treasures of North America taken from the bosom of the earth. They were found primarily, as the result of accident, not of mad, thoughtless quest. THE NORTH CAROLINA FIND. It W'as in the second year of this century, when the report spread as rapidly as was possible in those early days, through the Eastern States, that gold, real gold, had been discovered in North Carolina. At first people shook their heads and doubted the news. Had not the discoverers of the country ransacked ©very nook and corner for the precious metal and not found as much as an ounefe? But the report was soon verified and, before long, nuggets of bright gold reached th'e larger towns and were seen* wondered at, by the curious people. With the gold came the story of the discovery, and the wiseacres nodded their heads and said: “How simple.” And when it became known that the owner of the gold mine was one of those Hessians who had fought against the patriots the gossipmongers remarked, with a sneer of disgust: “The ignorant Dutchman-” This is the story which was soon told all over the land: John Reed, one of the unfortunates whom the elector of Hesse had pressed into service to fight for the English in America, had, after the war, settled on a farm in Cabarrus county, North Carolina, where the German element predominated. He was said to be grossly ignorant, having been but a poor peasant boy when forcibly transported to America. One sunny summer day, in the year 1790. Conrad Reed, John’s twelve-year-old son, accompanied by a sister and a younger brother, went to a small stream called Meadow creek, for the purpose of shooting fish with bow and arrow, as the Indians were wont to do. While beuding over the w r ater’s Drink, Conrad spied a yellow substance glistening in the creek. He waded into the water, picked it up and found it to be some kind of metal. Though unconscious of its nature and value, but with the curiosity of a child, the youngster carried his find home and showed it to his father, who had just returned from church. The parent examined the piece of metal, but was as ignorant as to its character as the boy. The next time lie brought vegetable's to market at Concord, he took the yellow stone, which was about the size of a small smoothing iron, with him to town and showed it to William Atkinson, a silversmith. This worthy, whose experience seems to have been sadly limited, knew not what to call it. So Reed, who unknowingly seems to have suspected the value of his son’s find, carried the piece of metal home again. For three years it luy on the floor of the farm house, used for the purpose of keeping tho door from shutting. In the year 1802, the old farmer had oeciision to go to market at Fayetteville. He took the piece of metal witn him and showed it to a jeweler. The latter immediately recognized it as gold and asked Reed to leave it with him, saying that he would flux it. FIRST AMERICAN GOLD BRICK. The old farmer did accordingly. On his next visit to town the jeweler showed him a large bar of gold, six or eight inches long, and asked him at what price he would let him have it, Reed, not knowing the value of gold, but still desirous of profiting as much as possible by his son’s find, named what ha thought a “big price,” namely, $3.50. The jeweler paid him the price named and chuckled over his bargain. After returning home, Reed looked over the ground where the gold had been, picked up and found nuggets of the precious metal all along the brink of the creek. He associated with himself three of his neighbors, also Germans, Frederick Kisor (Kaiser), James Ix>ve (Loew) and Martin Phifer (Pfeifer), and in the year 1803 they found a piece of gold that weighed twentv-eight pounds. Numerous lurg-e nuggets of the metal were found thereafter, oi various sizes and values. The whole surface of the ground along the creek’s bank for nearly a mile was rien In gold. In 1831 quartz veins were discovered which yielded large quantities of gold. From 1803 to 1835 115 pounds of gold were found on one spot. In 1840 the output of the gold mines in Cabarrus county, North Carolina, was estimated at s3,:*Ht Reed profited by his discoveries and died auout the year IMB a wealthy man. As might have been expected, the discovery of gold excited o much attention that exploration was begun extensively. The gold was traced southward as far as the borders of the Cherokee territory in Northern Georgia. In Rowan county, North Carolina, mining operations were commenced at Gold Hill in September, 1842. Some very rich veins wore opened. From January, 1843, to July, 1851, gold to the v*lue of saoi - Wif> was found at this spot. For awhile, us has always been the case during the prevalence of gold fever, gold was discovered everywhere. Reports of rich finds came from South Carolina, Georgia Virginia, -Mar ylund, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York. Massachusetts, Vermont Lower Canada and other parts of the continent. In Georgia, especially, great excitement prevailed for some time. The richest finds were reported from the Cherokee Reservation. Prospector* began to encroach on the domain of the red men. Protests naturally followed. ar:d Georgia sent a large police force to keep back the invaders, but St was of little avail. Reckless, dissipated men from all quarters of the. country Hooked in, prowled about the woods, set up log huts and shanty groceries on all the streams, and tven the federal troops were powerless to keep ,the lawless hordes west of the Chestutee. These days are known as the period of "the Intrusion”—one of the two dates from Which the mountaineers reckon all < veins, the other being “the lure war.” Finding thut no protection of the Indians by police measures was feasible, the ttlate in 1830 adopted th© Indiana, reserva-

tlon and nil, and constituted the region a county. Then the mineral lands were divided up into forty-acre lots, and put up at lottery by the State. It soon came to be found here, as elsewhere, that gold was not to be picked up in lumps every day. The worthless, lazy and dissolute majority of the early horde of Invaders gradually drifted away, while only the small minority of newcomers remained. The population, like the dirt, was slowly panned out, and the current of events carried the dross away. DISCOVERED IN GEORGIA. In Habersham county, Georgia, gold was discovered In 1831 by a man named Wllpero, who, observing the resemblance of the surface and of the foliage and the streams of the region with the gold section of North Carolina, dug for the precious metal and found it in considerable quantities. In Virginia •gold was mined for many years. The largest masses of the metal were found in or near rivulets or runs of water. On a brook at the Whitehall mine gold of the value of SIO,OOO was found in the course of a few days in a space of about twenty feet square. The gold fever in the South had almost died cut, when from the farthest quarter of tho United States, the recently acquired California, came the news of gold finds far more remarkable and productive 4han those heretofore made. Not that gold was new to California. For three centuries there had been wild talk about fabulous mineral wealth in the region of the Sierras. In the ’2i)'s and Mu's of this century small nuggets of gold had been repeatedly obtained from tho Indians. One day a laborer in the employ of tho Russian-American Company in California came to tire commandant with tho story that he had seen gold in the bed of a stream and advised that a party be sent to examine it. Tho man was told to mind his own business. Although such rumors of the existence of gold in California had occasionally been heard, still they had never been verified or traced to any reliable source and they were regarded as we now regard the fabulous stories of the golden sands of Gold lake or those of Silver Planches, which aro said to exist in the inaccessible deserts of Arizona. But when, towards the summer of 1848. bags and bottles full of gold were displayed at San Francisco, at Sonoma and Monterey, tho people realized the fact that California was rich of gold; that the precious metal wuis not difficult to obtain and that gold mining, under all conditions, must be profitable. Tho news spread, gold fever broke out anew, and from t.h" East, North and South bands of gold hunters headed towards the newly discovered El Dorado. The first Californian gold was found at Ooloma, near tho site of the present city of Sacramento: its discovery was by accident; its discoverer was James W. Marshall: the man on whose lands it was found, John Augustus Sutter. The lives of these two men are so remarkable that it may be of interest to present a brief biographical account.

SUTTER'S GOLD LANDS. John Augustus Sutter was born in Kandern, in the Granduchy of Baden, Germany, on Feb. 15, 1803, of Swiss parentage. Having graduated at the military college at Berne, he entered the French service as an officer of the Swiss Guard, and served in 1823-24 through the Spanish campaign. In 1834 he emigrated to this country and settied in St. Louis, remaining here for several years. Afterward he carried on a profitable trade with ti e Indians and trappers of the Vest, w'hose accounts of California induced him in 1838 to cross the Rocky mountains. He went first to Oregon, descended Columbia river to Fort Vancouver, syid thence sailed to the Hawaiian islands, where he purchased a vessel and set out for Alaska, then a Russian settlement. After disposing of his cargo to advantage there, he sailed along the Pacific coast, and on July 2, 1539, was stranded in the Bay of Yerba Buena, now San Francisco. He obtained a considerable grunt of land near the present site of Sacramento from the Mexican government. founcV t the earliest white settlement in those pun.s and built a fort, which he called New Helvetia. The Mexican government appointed him Governor of the northern frontier country, but, as he favored, the annexation of California to the United States the Mexicans regarded him with suspicion. When Captain Charles Wilkes's exploring expedition reached San Francisco Sutter gave him aid and information, and extended a similar welcome to John C. Fremont and his party. In 1844 he took into his employ James W. Marshall, a native of New Jersey, w'ho had just come to California. Marshall served in the Bear Flag war, and after his return entered the lumber business with Ids former employer at Coloma, El Dorado county. On the afternoon oi Jan. 18, 1848, while superintending tho c.0./truction of a mill race at Coloma, he 7-' ’b ' nugget of gold, and, collecting s* veral o sos the ore, took the specimens to t m.-n, saying: “Boy*. I believe I have f • cold mine.” The remark produced no n.ai'K and effect upon his hearers, and Marshall wa k 'd off to his house. Next moron g, > came again w’ith several nuggets cf the. f-o! 1, which he had picked from the nuXace of the mill race. Led by Marshall, the laborers all hastened down to the mill race and soon were arsoi bed in picking from the streams and crevices of the rook the precious yellow metal. On the evening of Feb. 2, 1843, Marshall rode into the fort, his horse foaming and spattered with m id. Taking Sutter aside he showed him about half a thimbleful of yellow' grains of metal. Sutter applied aquafortis and established the fact that the metal v<as solid gold. DIED A POOR MAN. Although Sutter tried to keep the discovery of gold a secret until he could get in his harvest, it was impossible, and, as Parton says, “Sutter’s harvest was never gathered. His oxen, hogs and sheep were stolen by hungry men and devoured. No hands could be procured to run the mills. His lands were squatted on and dug over, and he wasted his remaining substance in fruitless litigation to recover them. To carry on the legal warfare, he was compelled to sacrifice or mortgage the parts of his estate not seized by tho gold diggers, until, little by little, his magnificent property melted away, leaving him all but destitute. For one item, he paid, in ten years, for counsel fees and legal expenses, $125,000.” The Legislature of California granted him a pension of $250 a month. In 1804 his homestead was burned, and in 1873 lie removed to Litz, Pa. Ho died in Washington, D. C., June 17, 1880, a poor man. Marshall, the discoverer of gold, did not fare more prosperously. His property and stock were seized, his land was divided into town lots, and he became reduced to extreme poverty. His discovery, which in one year aione resulted in a product of $66,000,000 and for seventeen years brought on an annual average of $25,000,000, netted him neither fame nor profit. . The State of California during the times of gold is best described In Bret Harte's works. Every one was affected by the gold fever. Lots in San Francisco were said to bo worth gold coin enough to carpet them. Speculation ran w ild. AH forms of gambling were recognized as legitimate business, while adventurers and criminals flocked in. Society became chaotic, and at length selfpreservation required the organization of the celebrated “vigilance committees” to enforce order. . In Vlaska gold was first discovered in the vicinity of Sitka, at Silver bay. ten miles northeast of the town, by Frank Mahoney, prospector; Edward Doyle, a discharged soldier, and William Punlays. While prospecting for placers these men found, in June, 1575, a gold-bearing quartz vein and took samples of the ore to Sitka. One of tho men to whom they showed the samples was Nicholas Haley, at that time a private in the Unit'd States service. Through his untiring efforts a company was formed at Portland. Ore., for the purpose of developing the vein, and in 1879 a steam and water power mill was built. The mine and mill were worked a few months, but failing lo make expenses the .company suspended in the spring of USD. Since then, very little has been done to work the mines of that section. ~ , . , Far to the north anew gold land has now been discover, and and gold fever has broken out anew. WAYS OF KEEPING COOL. Ingenious Scheme* That Are Not Submitted to the Patent Olllce. New York Evening Post. One man who has a genius for invention has made an elaborate and successful attempt to keep his sleeping room and office cool. His family is away in the country and he is forced to remain in the city throughout the entire term of hot weather. Karl v * in the Season he purchased ->oo feet of one-inch lawn-sprinkling host, and carted it up to ids bedroom. Then with a few nails and hooks lie proceeded to decorate the walls and ceilings with lines of this hose, running them parallel with the wainscoting. beginning at the ceiling and ending mar the floor. Om- end of this long piece of hose was attached to the faucet in an adjoining dressing room, while the outlet emptied into the bath tub. Before retiring at night the water was turned on, and all night long it trickles through the 600 fnt of hose, cooling the room so thut its temperature registers several degrees lower than the rest of the house. Now that tho scheme has proved so successful the man has applied it to Ids office, but on account of the trouble thut he might experience with, the water department if the

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inspectors should discover his scheme he wishes to have his and address kept secret. In the second class of inventions for keeping cool in the daytime there are many novel schemes in use. Electric fans, cooling drinks, cold sea baths in one’s own office, and artificial refrigeration of the air are among the fost common means of keeping down temperature during these August days. Besides these there are scores of private schemes by ingenious individuals, who are not anxious to make a fortune in securing a valuable patent, but simply desirous of modifying the conditions that nature and an artificial life have imposed upon them. The inventions of science have done much to make the modern office building a cool and pleasant place oven in midsummer; but ail men are not located in such airy rooms and handsome buildings, and so they have to do for others as an allurment for paying a little high’er rent. One man has had a box attached to the bottom of his cane chair, which he fills with ice. The box is lined inside with zinc, and the outside air can reach it only through small perforations in the top. Through these holes the cool air of the tee box continually rises. Another genius who saw this contrivance elaborated the idea, and made what he considers a decided improvement upon it. fie had a large ice chest moved into his office. Then he rigged up a small electric fan inside of the box, and bored holes through the chest to permit the air to escape. When the electric fan revolves draughts of cotd air come sweeping out of the holes in the ice chest, and refresh any one within ten feet of the blast. The chest can be moved to any part of the office, and the air currents directed to suit the owner. As the distance can be regulated also. the scheme seems to xiroduce pretty fair results. FATAL 4108QI ITO BITES. The Insect Beginning to be Regarded tm u Menace to Life. New York Herald. Tho dangerous illness of Miss Dorothy Dodworth, of No. 108 East One-hundred-and-twenty-fifth street, due to the bite of a mosquito, as described in yesterday’s Herald, has directed renewed attention to a danger which has been treated hitherto as imaginative. That this little pest, which has been regarded merely as one of summer’s inconveniences, can inflict a wound which may result in disablement or death is now well proven. It was feared for a time that Miss Dodworth would die as the result of her wound, but her sister, who has returned from Elmhurst, L. 1., W’here the afflicted girl is visiting, brings word that she has passed the danger point and is now convalescent. Deaths from mosquito bites have been reported as far back as 1889. In March of that year John J. Collins, an insane patient, escaped from the asylum at Snake Hill, N. J., and wandered for several days in the Hackensack meadows. When found lie had been terribly bitten by mosquitoes and he died in spite of medical care. Charles Mingard, of Hoboken, N. J., died from a similar cause in September, 1889. A more recent case was that of Carl Heaad, of St Ixiuis, who died in September last from the effects of a single bite. J. R. Flynn, a private in the Thirteenth Infantry, stationed at Governor’s island, was bitten on the neck on July 24, as was told in the Herald, and only prompt medical attendance prevented serious complications. The insect punctured an arterial vein and Flynn lost a great amount of blood. Two cases besides Miss Dodworth’s have been reported within a few days. Richard Wolff, of No. 1234 Second avenue, was bitten on tho arm on Wednesday. Within a few hours the arm was swollen to nearly twice its ordinary size, and a doctor was called to relieve the man’s intense suffering. The patient is still in a serious condition. Thomas McGrath, an inspector in the custom house, was bitten on the right hand several days ago. He thought the wound trivial, but symptoms of blood poisoning developed, and on Friday he asked to be relieved from duty. A doctor is attending him. Cases less serious than these are reported every day. and there are unnumbered instances in which temporary disfigurement, accompanied by great pain, has been caused by tho bite of this insect. This record, fragmentary as it is, convicts the mosquito of being a. menace to life and health. Physicians so regard it. Dr. Frank L. Miller, of No. 68 West Thirty-seventh street, said yesterday: “The mosquito undoubtedly is capable of inflicting a fatal wound. The insect is bred and fostered in decayed matter, and it is the transfer of the germs of this fetid substance to the blood of the victim that causes the complications. The poison is injected into the blood and then circulated throughout the system. The most fatal spot to be attacked is just behind the ear. A person bitten on one of the veins there by a mosquito inoculated with the poison of putrid matter would be in imminent danger of death, for tho poison would reach the heart and brain within a few minutes. The puncture of a large rein also would be highly dangerous. "The constitution of the victim has much to do with the effect of the bite. A person whose blood was thin or diseased would be much more liable to serious injury than one who was strong and healthy. A patient came to me recently within an hour after he had been bitten, yet already his arm was swollen to almost thrice its natural size. He had been bitten over a largo blood vessel The extraordinary danger from mosquito bites just now is due to the humidity of the season, which has iwoduced large quantities of decayed matter, upon which the insects thrive, and from which they derive the fatal poison.” An interesting, though not a comforting, fact concerning the mosquito is that it can communicate the disease known as anthrax, believed to be identical with the plague of olden times. James T. Whittaker, in the American Text Book of Medicine, is authority for this statement. Anthrax is the direct result of inoculation from diseased animal matter. The symptoms will be recognized by those ivho have suffered from mosquito bites. The period of inoculation varies from one to several days. The symptoms may show themselves within an hour of inoculation; they may be delayed as late as four days. A slight itching, prickling sensation is first perceived at the site of inoculation. Very soon there appears a central v’esicle, the rupture of which discharges bloody contents, to be converted into a dark, redbrown or black crust, the anthrax. Innumerable remedies have been put forth for relief from the bite of the mosquito. The application of oil of pennyroyal is recommended by many physicians as the most efficacious. The use of alkalies, such as liquid ammonia or a solution of bicarbonate of soda or of potash, is also of benefit. Lint soaked in chloroform and laid on the bite gives great relief, and ipeeacuana apiplied externally is suid to be beneficial. When serious results aro threatened the patient should be stimulated with brandy, ammonia or ether, to counteract the symptoms of syncope or coma, such as appeared in the case of Miss Dodworth. To rid u district of a plague of mosquitoes the liberal use of crude petroleum has been recommended. An experiment made on Friday at Staten island seemed to show the efficacy of the scheme. The company controlling Midland Beach, a summer resort, took extraordinary measures to combat a plague of mosquitoes. A large salt marsh near the place, which had been a prolific breeding ground for the insects, wa.s the scene of operations. A large area of the ground was saturated with crude petrolVum, sprayed from force pumps with ball nozzle attachments. The experiment was a success, for on Friday night the plague had almost disappeared, and since then has been hardly noticeable.

The Night Air. Washington Post. I wonder who first realized that inasmuch as there is no air after dark but night air nature must have intended us to broathe that same night air. Time was when every luckless infant in town, midsummer or midwinter, went to bed with the chickens. Night air was the terror of all careful mothers. But nowadays on every warm night, you may see babies in tho parks .and on the street cars till the oars stop running. They sleep in their mothers' arms, they are cool, they are comfortable, and night air apparently does them no harm. Indeed, a physician here in town, who makes children his especial study and has two rosy little mites of his own, tells me that his perfectly healthy youngsters have never been out of the District of Columbia, even in the hottest weather, for every hot night when they are ready for bed tne family carriage is Drought around, the babies are bundled into it, and they are driven about in the suburbs till the town cools off. The tendency of modern science is to make life more comfortable for little people, and the babies ought to give a vote of thanks to the man who discovered the harmiessness of night air. Cute I'te Loads Iji on Vanilla Extract. Stanley Stokes, in Denver Republican. Indians are readily infatuated with the taste of “eunapah,” or firewater, to such a degree that they will drink anything containing alcohol or stimulant. They will drink Jamaica ginger or any kind of a mixture and every precaution has to be provided to guard them from intoxication, for they will take any and every advantage. The trader carried in stock essences for use in the mess, and while he would not sell a bottle to an Indian, he had to keep it hidden to prevent them from stealing it. One time Augustine took advantage of the new trader and sounded him for a bottle of vanilla extract. He got it and feeling his way carefully, kept buying another bottle and another until he had a dozen bottles stored In hie blanket, the trader congratulating himself on the good trade that he was driving at seventy-five cents a bottle. Half an hour later'the vanilla was cutting up some queer antics with two or three Indians, who were as full a* the proverbial goat. They drank it for the effect of the alcohol it contained.

THE BUSINESS OF A SAINT ♦ VARIOUS DEMANDS ON THE CANADIAN FAVORITE, SAINT ANNE. Ffenrli-Cnnndiaiis Dosing Their Faith hut the Irish Are Loyal—Many Miracles Said to Be Wrought. * Letter from St. Anne de Beauprc In New York Post. This shrine has been as crowded as a fair for a month past with pilgrims from the United States and the province of Ontario. In hard times a good many come to seek temporal, or, to speak plainly, worldly favors—situations, the recovery of debts, capital to carry on. some enterprise in which they would like to embark, and the like. Many, who, perhaps, cannot afford to come, send their request in a sealed letter, along with a small offering in cash. These letters are placed in a receptacle on the right of the altar, and prayers are said for the “intentions” of the writers, A Michigan man, for instance, writes to ask the saint to provide him with $15,000; if she is good enough to do so he promises to devote $5,000 to her honor and glory, but he needs SIO,OOO to start a tannery. This, I suppose, is a fair specimen of the petitions of what may be called the suppliants for revenue. There is another class whose wants may be judged from the cards of thanks which they print in the monthly Annales de la Bonne Ste. Anne: I was obliged to sell some property and thought it w r ould be a difficult job, but, after a promise to the saint, chance offered. My husband has found work. He promised the saint to have two masses said in her honor, and to publish the good news in the Annales. I am more prosperous than I was three years ago. Blessed forever be the saint. I have obtaint and other faveurs temporelles and graces temporelles through her assistant^. Thanks to the saint for saving my son from a marriage which would have been an unfortunate one. Last fall we had to rebuild our church, and promised if we raised over SI,OOO to make it known in the Annales; w r e hope the saint will find the money to finish the work. (This is from Escanaba, Mich.) I have won a lawsuit of which I had despaired, and write to thank St. Anne. Site has been good to me and my family, and we beg her to keep us under her protection. A third class of clients consists of students and donvent girls, who ask the saint to help them in their examinations, to determine their vocation, etc.; a fourth, of women asking her to save their husbands or sons from drink. Os late years I find in the Annales cards asking the prayers of subscribers for husbands, sons and brothers who are growing weak in the faith. In former times there was no weakening, none, at Feast, among French-Canadians. every one was a true Breton par l’energie de sa fol. Os course, the great majority of the cards printed in the Annales, and of the letdeposited in the receptacle within th’e church relate to bodily aiiments and alleged cures. PROTECTS FROM FIRES. The saint is becoming famous for the protection she extends to clients and their property during fires. The July number describes how the habitants of the parish of St. Damien, being menaced by bush fires, went in procession to the chapel of Ste. Anne des Montagues, and lo! rain fell in torrents and saved the settlement. “Le cure promet ala Bonne Salnte-Anne de faire publier le fait si on obtient de la pluie pour faire cesser le ileau.” On the other hand, the cures wrought at the shrine are not nearly as wonderful as they used to be. Two hundred years ago she used to cure cancer, paralysis, and blindness, though she never restored a limb; but nowadays she confines herself to complaints like neuralgia and eifilexisy, and in the generality of these cases the patients are not cured outright, but merely obtain, or fancy they obtain, some relief. . , This summer most of the foreign pilgrims have been Irish Catholics from the United States. A local paper says, rather irreverently, that the saint is “becoming Irish. What the Rouge editor means is that the French-Canadians are ceasing to take an interest in the shrine, and leaving it more and more to Irish-American and IrishCanadian visitors. The recent political troubles between the hierarchy and the Liberal party, led by Sir Wilfred Laurier, v.'hich Mgr. Del Val, the Papal legate, was sent her to settle, have had the effect of estranging Liberals from the church; many no longer go to mass, and all have become more or less lukewarm. Then the “New England spirit,” of which the Ultraniontanes sx>eak so bitterly, is slowly permeating the whole Fronch-Canadian race. They begin by declaring that the x>riest has no right to order the x>eople how to vote, under pain of hell-fire, in fact, that he should keep out of politics. Next day they sav he has no business to bar newspapers or prohibit books, that tithes and fabrique taxes should be abolished, and the vast estates of the church and the religious orders confiscated and applied to educational rrurposes. The next step in the laeile descent is to deny the right of the church to control the primary schools, w’hioh are supported by the provincial treasury; and “then it is easy, and indeed inevitable, observes the Semaine Religieuse, of which Abbe Gosselln is editor, “to say that one religion is as good as another, that man ought to be allowed to go wrong rather than be restricted in His religious or intellectual freedom, that the universe is regulated by cast-iron laws, that Christianity Is merely the latest form of superstition, that miracles are played out. or indeed never occurred, except in a barbarous age among ignorant people. T bis is the spirit which the French-Canadians are said by the clergy to he imbibing. Ihe emigration of so many to New England is blamed for it, and no doubt is responsible in part. FALLING OFF IN FAITH. Whatever the explanation may be, there is a decided falling off In the number of French-Canadian ifilgrims. One of them, an intelligent professional man from Beauce, a county adjoining the United States boundary, said to me to-day: “My wife has asthma. We have tried the doctors and the patent-medicine men—in short, as our farmers say, toutes les herbes de la Saint-Jean —and have come here to St. Anne on the sailor s principle of Recours a Dieu l’ancre est rompue. I, for one, would as lief go to Old Orchard Beach or Caeouna. The quarrel with Laurier, the attempt to dragoon us after the manner of Bishop Laval and Bishop St. Valier two centuries ago, has been an unfortunate business for tho church. We had been growing dissatisfied; the influences of the modern world, and, more directly, our brethren in New Eng!..ml, had been educating us to a higher standard of intelligence, and the collision with the Liberals served to explode the discontent. I love the old religion, we all love iC but it is on the wane. St. Anne is ns good as dead. But we shall always cherish her as a gracious being whom we loved as children. Tho Irish are more steadfast. Perhaps it is because their clergy have more .sense than ours, and did not'seek to treat them as babes when they had grown to he men." The, Annales have evidently a good many Irish-American subscribers, for an edition in English Is now published for the United States and Ontario. At the end of the book prayers aro requested for the triumph of the Catholic Church and of Pope Leo, for the well-being of the church in Quebec, and “for the canonization of the saints cf Ireland and the sjx > dy restoration of her rights.” There are now several Irish priests among the Redemptorist fathers who have charge of the shrine. A cyclorama of tho Holy Land has recently been erected on the marsh between the new church and the St. Lawrence, and new fountains have been built. The old church on the side of the hill, which dates from 1660, though it has been rebuilt since, attracts crowds all day long. Yesterday it was 115 degrees in the sun, yet several thousand women and children, who had come on excursions, walked in procession along the Way of the Cross and round the Seal a Sancta, then round the old church, and down to the big square in front of the new one. Last year there were 120.000 pilgrims, this year there will be more. They come from places as far distant as St. Louis, Cincinnati and Neve Orleans, but New England supplies most of the American ones. Water from a spring on the hill is bottled and sold at $5 a gallon; bouquets of wild flowers fetch from a dollar to ten, and ruses from the convent garden near by 50 cents. There is a repository for the sale of beads, crucifixes, statuettes, etc., in the rear of the new church, and several peddlers vend similar articles on the outside. Cards entitling the purchaser or any friend living or dead he may name to share in the spiritual benefits of a daily mass are *aiia for Jo cents. The only visible sign of

hard times is that instead of remaining in the hotels and boarding houses for a few days the pilgrims eoine in the morning and return in the afternoon to save expense. THE SAINT’S ADHERENTS. The natives of the place do their best to maintain its reputation for miracles. If a sufferer complains that he has spent his money without finding relief they fall back on the old saying, "Quand Dicu ne veut, le saint ne peut," or tell him he must come next year, as St. Anne loves those who persevere. If he grumbles at having to pay smartly at his hotel or for souvenirs of the shrine, they shrug their shoulders with the remark, “A petit saint, petit offrande; a grand saint, grande offrande,” and if he undestands French he feels rebuked. Modern science has just set up a temple hard by at the famous Montmorency tails, whose power is employed to supply electric iigiu and run the trolley ears in Quebec, ten miles away, which, after all, is a greater miracle than any recorded in the Annales. Given their saints, it would not be difficult to write a tolerably accurate sketch of the social life and manners of a people. It is not so easy, however, to account tor the rise and fall "of particular saints in popular esteem. In the early days of French Canada St. John the Baptist and St. Joseph were greatly venerated; their names were given to most of the male children. St. Peter and St. Paul were also popular, especially in the Island of Orleans, where relics of them were kept. After a while St. Francois Xavier and St. Alphonse de Llgouri loomed up, while still later, though he was no saint. Napoleon's became the "favorite name" at the font. Peter and Paul are seldom heard of now, St. Joseph is passing off the stage, and John the Baptist, though still the national saint, is not as important a personage as he was. The fashionable saint, so to speak, at present is St. Anthony of Padua. In many churches there are two boxes inscribed with his name. If you desire a special grace or to recover some lost or mislaid article, you write your request to the saint and drop it imo one of the boxes; it contains a promise, In case your prayer is answered, to place a sum ot money in the other trunk tor the benefit ot the poor. If the prayer be answered, the letter is withdrawn from trunk No. 1 and you deposit the money in No. 2. This cult is known as "l’aeuvre du pain de SaintAntoine.” Joan of Arc Is certain to be a popular saint; she appeals to the partlcularist or national sentiment which plays so large a part in French Canadian polities. They are selling statuettes of her already with an inscription proclaiming her "The fairest lily on the shield of Frmce, With heart of virgin gold.” St. Anne has held her own so far partly because her cult was brought from Brittany by the first settlers and partly owing to the "energy w ith which the so-called miracles at lieaupre have been advertised tar and near by the Redemptorists, who have had charge of the shrine for the last twenty years. The relic, a piece of the finger-bone, brought from Brittany in Laval's time, is still exhibited; It is enclosed m a cryscal case emln dd and in a bronze arm w hicn stav s on the left of the grand altar. Other relies have since been procured from the same place, the Church of Sainte-Anne and Auruy. The saint appeared there in 1021 to a peasant named Yves Nicolazlc. 'Je suis Anne, mere de Marie,” she said, aed she told him that 024 years before a chapel had been erected -in her honor on a plot of ground close by, and she desired to see it rebuilt She had never appeared at Beaupre, though some suspect she was the woman in w mte who, according to tradition, encouraged the French-Canadians at the battle of Tieonderoga. She has no great love tor the British. This seems to bo recognized on alt hands, for when they harried the north shore of the St ,Lawrence from Beaupre to Cape Tourmonto, in I<o9, they tried three times to set fire to her chapel at Beaupre, but she miraculously extinguished trie flames. .—— \ gong of the Forgotten. (The cry of an insect drowned in a illy bell.) 1 am forgotten quite There in the morning's blaze; None miss my wayward flight In the. sweet sunset rays. As I He drowning here In the lily's golden blaze. O fatal lily urn! Wherefore should I from thee Seek once again to turn To life’s inconstancy? And yet 1 loved my wings, My wings so frail and free. The poet loves his wings, His wings so frail and free; Aloft in dreams he swings And hunls contentedly; I also loved my wings And song as well as he; But now in vicious sweets Bound by wings I lie, No more with love's conceits To soar the morning sky. Thus, bound In fatal sweets, Oft doth the poet die. New Castle, Ind. —Benjamin S. Parker.

SIMJAI AT MARGATE. The Solemnity Os an English Seaside Resort. Julian Ralph, in London Mail. The Margate influence extended about two miles into the country, in the form of lovestricken couples on benches beside the roads. Here a couple, there a couple—always a couple to a bench. She a little younger thaii she ought to have been, sitting bolt upright, listening with sparkling eyes and parted lips, radiantly happy. He talking bent over, looking at the dirt, which ho scratched with his stick. Here a couple, there a couple, until the solid brick town and the cramped streets forbade any more. The town was intensely dull and ciulet, and nothing in it suggested that it was a watering place. Suddenly the houses ended in a series of jogs at the promenade, and there lay the sea, sparkling in the sun beyond a quiht beach that was edged with sail boats evidently on shore leave, between tides, for they reeled this way and that like drunken things. Behind them a myriad rowing boats, resembling riuge brown rats arrested in full tlight. Behind these still were the ranks of white bathing machines, which, in their turn, because each had a pair of shafts upraised like claws, suggested a regiment of giant shell fishes. Leading to all these things were steps, beside which I read, “Bathing ground for ladies and gentlemen, Od each, or 5s per dozen,” whicli seemed to me suggestive of the sale of radishes at so much a bunch. All along the sea wall were the people in a variegated swarm. A gale was blowing—one well worth the fare down from London, it made the summer skirts mold themselves to their wearers’ front and whip and snap, like flags, behind; it knocked off straw hats, bellied out all unbuttoned coats, and blew the cries of irritable babies back into their throats, it hurled along heavy sand like* hall, and snapped off thq heads of the waves at sea, a million every minute. , _ Just where I joined the crowd there was a. public performance, but it was different from anything i ever saw at a gay resort, it was by a mission band, with a house organ and a repertory of exhortation and hymn singing. The thousands who bad lushed to the seaside to have a change and rest from serious things contributed a handful to this entertainment. When the preaching began the handful thinned out, but as the hymns were set to light ar.d music-hallish tunes the crowds joined in them, and they were carried up and down the walk till the wind blew them out. Fancying that the sober-gaited crowd must have some frivolous purpose in view, I hurried ahead. The crowd was made up of couples, in the London streets you absorb the idea that each individual Lnglishman stands (or rushes about) alone, but at Margate everybody had chosen someone else to tie to. There were sweethfearting couples chumming couples of both sexes, husbands and wives and fathers and sons—with now and then a baby to jar the arrangement. Only the policemen were solitary. The crowd came to an iron pier and turned in till it reached a turnstile and a tax of 2d. Here, 1 thought, I shall at last see the fat woman, tho four-headed cult, the roundabouts, the band and the dancing platform. But once again there was only the crowd to see, and it had only itselt to enjoy. I think now that perhaps some of the people paid that 2d. to see the others off on the steamers that were forever loading up and splashing away. If so, I missed this most exciting sport of the dav, for 1 paid no heed to the crowds that were escapins. _ , On tho pior were kioks for the sale ot photographs, sweets and fruits, and one in which surgical appliances were advertised —but they were all closed. Os all the queer fads and tastes I have seen developed at watering places this for surgical appliances is - the queerest, it could not be that the merchant kept these implements on the slender chance of having to set and bandage up a broken day of rest, for never was the dav more safe than at Margate, where the praying band made the onty departure from the general calm and decorum. I left what I had expected to describe ns tho frivolous crowd on the pier, and joined what I had supposed would be the merry throng on the promenade. At the circus, the dance nail, the theater and the switchback railway I asked, "is the place open?" and always got the same reply, "No.' The restaurants, fruit shops, cigar shops and the “pubs.”—with their signs out. "Open fur travelers only"—were the only things, except the fresh air, that were doing business. though a policeman said that the corporal ion band would succumb to the contagion of suppressed hilarity at 8 o’clock, and would play saerec* music in the park for an hour. At one place there was a great broadening of the sands, and here

children were sprawling about, digging, and the usual little girls, with spectral legs and their clothes dene up in a bag at their middles, splashed in the edge of the sea, and were not content until they were soaked. This was one of the touches that makes the whole world kin. and another was the row of umhrcllas close by the chalk cliff. Those umbrellas were all held out straight, and each one showed two pairs of boots—-a heavy and a line pair—sticking out under the lower rim. I have never seen the seaside umbrella anywhere, at its universal effort to conceal its business, that I did not se>o boots of assorted sexes peeping out in this same way. Unlike the ostrich which hides its head and leaves its body out, when trying to conceal itself, this other bird, the seaside umbrella, hides its body and exposes its feet. I went into a cigar shop off the main street, where two girls In white were tas attendants, but each was so busy talking to a young man that I stepped out again, unobserved, and went, to the next shop round the corner. Here were two other girls all in black, but the dresses made no difference, for each, of these, also, was monopolized by a young man. “I beg pardon.” said I; "I hate to interrupt, but I really need a very mild ” “Oh. It's no trouble at all, I'm sure," said the girl nearest the door, and sold me a cigar. I am gratified at being able to say that 1 got out without disturbing the other couple in the least. Returning to the pier I sat down to assist the crowd in its grave sport of enjoying itself. It was a typically quiet English crowd. If it was saying good-bye to the people on the steamers tilts was done without a call, or a shout, or any of that double-expansion repartee which obtains in other lands—that saying clever things to one fellow for all the rest to hear. Even the men with their arms around girls' waists, in view of everybody, deserve it said that they hugged with solemnity. One man. whom no one looked at, was fishing; six parties were being ill in small boats, and 1.500 persons were sitting down and thinking. The seaside touch that most girls gave themselves was a pair of white canvas shoes. All wore them —even with black dresses. What was the holiday touch for the men T eould not discover, unless it was leaving their waistcoats at home. I looked southwest and shut my eyes, and saw Coney island at the mouth of New York harbor on that same Sunday. At its cheap end was a. crowded wooden village, all in a hubbub, with brass bands, dance platforms, water toboggans, roundabouts, swings, music halls, pistol galleries, fat women shows, dance du ventre shows, switchback roads, its games of test-your-strength, ring a cane and take one. hit the nigger with a ball and you get a cigar, its restaurants, beer gardens—its myriad places l’or amusement and refreshment. And on the same island was Manhattan Beach—there thought to he very sober. I saw its huge hotel and crowded restaurant, its handstand with Sousa, leading and thousands listening. Its grass and flowers to the water’s lip. and there a vast dressing house for the bathers, merrily sporting—men and women together—in the surf. And night fell, and there were fireworks, blended with a theatrical spectacle. Then I opened my eyes, and saw the same sea but at sober Margate, where no masses of foreigners have imported a continental Sunday, and where the wicked Frenchmen say the people take their pleasures sadly. TWO CHINESE WOMEN M. D.’S. They Grail ante from Ann Arbor Medical College With Honors. New York Herald. Ida Kahn and Meiyli Shie are distinguished as being the. only Chinese girls who have taken a college course. They graduated from Ann Arbor University, Michigan, and have returned to their native land to practice medicine, having taken their degree of doctor of medicine. Meiyil Shie anglicised her name, and was known as Mary Stone while at the university. Both girls were great favorites with their mates, and Ida Kahn was made secretary of her class. They dressed in American style, except upon high days and holidays, at commencement and when they took their degrees, when they donned the pretty garb of their own nation. These enterprising young women have already begun practice among some of the influential Chinese families, and are rendering most valuable service, so writes their friend. Miss Gertrude Howe. They live in Ktukiang. Miss Howe is a missionary, connected with the Methodist Mission at Kiukiang, and it was she who became interested in these girls and brought them to this country about six years ago to be educated. So thorough had been their instruction in English and other studies, obtained in missionary schools established in China, that when they entered the university at Ann Arbor they passed successfully the examinations necessary for entrance to the class of medicine and surgery, from which they finally were graduated with honors. This examination required an essay written in English, correct in spelling, capital letters and paragraphing, Latin, physics, zoology, algebra, geometry and history. They speak English admirably, with just a suggestion of accent, and they write charming letters, expressed perfectly and written in a neat, legible hand. The four years' course In the medical department required hard and incessant work. The course, of Instruction for women is in all respects the same as that for men. Nothing daunted these brave almond-eyed damsels. They took up every study in its turn and went 1n for bacteriology, electrotherapeutics and all the other brain-wear-ing studies. They took charge of patients in the hospital, where they performed operations, dressed wounds, made diagnoses and wrote prescriptions, shirking no duty, however disagreeable. That they will prove very popular with their patients in far-off China is beyond doubt, for to their skill they add patience, kindness and gentleness. When they were little girls they went to school to learn to read and write, as they belonged to the better class. Asa rule, girls in China never go to school, unless they have rich parents. The first day of the school year each scholar brings a little money, about thirty cents each, and a feast is prepared, to which the parents are Invited .and the idol is set up. This idol is a long and narrow piece of red paper, upon which tho teacher puts the name of the wise man who is to be worshipped during the year, and hangs the paper on the wall. One of the rules of a Chinese school Is that the scholars must come to school before daylight in the morning, study aloud for two hours, and then recite their lessons. After this they go home to breakfast, but if any ode has failed to recite the lesson no breakfast can be had until it is learned. Having had their breakfast, they study again until it is time for dinner, after which they return again to the school and study the lessons for the following day. By this time it is night. This goes on seven days of the week, as there is no Saturday holiday, and, of course, no Sunday. At night, before leaving school, each pupil walks up to the idol which hangs on the wall and hows clown to it. On the last day of school before summer vacation a cake, made ot sugar cane, is offered to the idol, which is then taken down and burned, because the next year they will have anew one.

MAD DOG STORIES ARE FAKES. Ao Authenticated fuse on Record Out of Many Alleged. New York Press. “These are the ‘dog days’ and tho public generally is ready for mad dog stories, consequently such tales are likely to appear in the papers and be read widely. Dona believe them. The chances are 1,000 to 1 against their truth." John P. Haines, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was talking earnestly. He continued: "All tiie mad dog stories I ever saw say that the animal frothed at the mouth. If it did froth it did not have hydrophobia, or rabies, which is the correct medical term. If the dog barked viciously or in any other way it did not have rabies, and if it was afraid of water, as the word hydrophobia would indicate, it did not have rabies. Mad dogs do not bark, they do not froth at the mouth, and instead of being afraid of water they would thrust their heads into it up to th‘dr eyes. A dog with the rabies has a dark brown, gummy slime along the edges of his mouth, which he tries to rid himself of by scratching at it with his paws. It sticks fast, however, so that at the first pool he reaches he will push in his head and try to soak the gum off and to wash it away. This disease of rallies is not more likely to appear in hot weather than in cold. “There is no more reason to muzzle a dog in July than in December. We have got rid of muzzling ordinances in New York city, but they still are in effect in small towns during the hot weather. Some physicians do not believe there is such a disease as hydrophobia or rallies. Whether they are right or wrong, it is certain that in Constantinople, where outcast dogs abound—dogs that should supply a complete category of canine ailments-rabies is unknown. Tri Corea and in Japan, too, where tin re are multitudes of dogs, varying in temperament from the sloppy little chin to the man-eating wolf, one has yet to hear of the disease. _ __ _ . "In the thirty years since the S. P. C. A. came into existence there has not been one established case of hydrophobia in New Y rk city. Dr. Landon Carter Gray said at the New York Academy of Medicine that not a neurologist in New York city had seen a case in his practice.’ Dr. H. P. Loomis said that ‘of 20.000 post mortem examinations at Bellevue Hospital eight alleged eases of hydrophobia showed no pathological lesion. "Dt Churlcs W. Dulles, of the University of Pennsylvania, examined seventy-eight cases and found nothing definitely showing hydrophobia, while nearly all the alleged eases were spurious. Money rewards have been offered bv several kennel clubs for an authentic case of hydrophobia in either man or beast. Os the eight thousand stray dogs captured in London in one year there

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Ail our neighbors know we had lost hope, and they also know of her recovery. 1 do not hesitate to recommend Munyon's Remedies, and to say that my statement made above is absolutely true.” Mrs. Schue, No. 23S Dougherty street, Indianapolis, Ind., says; "Some time ago a very severe cold settled In my throat and chest. My voice left me so that I could not speak loud enough for any one to hear or understand me, even though they stood tier-. Hearing so much of Munyon’s wond ul cures, I decided to consult his docto.-. After using Munyon's Remedies for a week the cough was checked and I could speak and breathe freely. My friends and neighbors noted the wonderful, rapid improvement. I also had catarrh for twentyseven years and the Munyon Remedies are tl v thing that ever gave me any perr. relief.” uyon's Remedies—a separate cure for each disease —are sold by all druggists, mostly 25 cents a vial. Munyon's doctors are at your service free from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m.; Sundays, 10 to 12. Majestic Building, Pennsylvania and Maryland streets. Bargains.... Second-Hand Bicycles A few 1897 Models H. T. CONDE IMPLEMENT CO. Popular prices .. . On the Largest Line of Fine Carriages Iu the State. h. t. coNDElmplement co, Shop-Worn . . . l^icycles At Almost Your Own Price—THlS WEEK. H, T. CONDE IMPLEMENT CO. Studebaker... Wagons Vehicles Sole State Agents. H. TANARUS, CONDE IMPLEMENT CO. was not a single instance of hydrophobia. Dr. Birdsal, of New dork city, says he never saw a genuine case, but he saw all the outward, symptoms produced by fright caused by the scratch of a dog. Dr. Woods believes that hydrophobia in human beings is a mimetic disease, caused by expectant dread, and not by inoculation with tha virus of a rabid animal. Dr. Dulles say® that after sixteen years’ investigation ne has not found a case of the kind that can be proved conclusively to be the result oC a mte of a dog. "Dr. Hearne. of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, says: ‘I am of the opinion that the bite of a dog is not more dangerous than the scratch or a pin or the puncture of an infectious nail, but because of the exaggerated printed and oral accounts the picture of hydrophobia is so firmly stamped upon the public mind that the thought of It, after being bitten by a, dog, throws imaginative people into such panics of nervous excitement that they unconsciously reproduce its supposed symptoms.” “From these opinion?} and from my own experience, I say that, while there is such a disease In animals as rabies, it is extremely rare, the rarest disease of any that they are known to have, and, furthermore, the cases where human beings have had hydrophobia because they have been inoculated bv the bite of a rabid dog are so doubtful as to be of little moment Still, as a man who has been bitten does not wish to take chances of dying of hydrophobia, even when the chance is one in a million, I can assure him that if ho will take three or four vapor baths as hot as he can endure he will sweat any possible virus out of him.” HATCHING CANARIES. Milwaukee Now Supplier Thl® Country With Most of the Warbler®. Milwaukee Sentinel. Milwaukee supplies the United States with the bulk of the Hartz mountain canarifß. and thpre iw no grpat crimo in t.he dpeeption, for the Milwaukee bird is really an improvement on the imported article, having Just as fine a voice and being much hardier. , _ . .. . . . Experience has shown that the imported Singer loses the power of transmitting hi® voice to the young after passing through an American winter. This is tho case, also. It is said, with the Tyrolean singers who come to this country, their voices losing the peculiar yodllng quality when they have been here a year. The native canary is hardier than the imported ones, and, with proper training, Is every bit as good a singer. Before they are mated the hen birds ara kept in separate cages in the music room, carefully ft and and made to listen to the music of the singers and the machine used iu training their voices. In this way the hen Is enabled to transmit the beat musical quality to its offspring. The music room i® a large one with a south exi>osure, and is kept with the same scrupulous neatness a® the breeding room. In the corner of this room is the bird organ, and with it the iibtle birds are given their vocal draining. When the machine Is started the not< s emitted are wonderfully like the song of tha untutored canary. These notes are known to bird trainers by the term pfeiffen. Gradually the whistle strikes on to a different line. It is an improvement over the pfeiffen. and is called klingel rolle. A higher step still is called the klingel. and a still higher step hohl klingel. lastly comes what is called hohl rollen, and a bird wlufco voice has bi en developed up to that point is worth SSO in the market any day. siilfrr* When 1 eay I care I do not moan merely to ato® them fora time and then have ttism totura again. I mean a radical cure- 1 have made the deeae of KITS. 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