"Trust Not Appearances." That which seems hard to bear may be a great blessing. Let us take a lesson from the rough weather of Spring* It is doing good despite appear ances. Cleanse the system thoroughly; rout out all impurities from the blood with that greatest specific, Hood's Sarsavarilla. Instead of sleepless nights, with conse quent irritableness nud an undone, tired feeling, you will have a tonn and a bracing air that will enable you to enter into every day's work with pleasure. Ilemember, Hood's never disappoints. . Coltre— "G nitre was so expensive in med ical attendance that I let mine L'O. It made me a pertect wreck, until 1 took Hood's Sar saparllla, which entirely cured me." MBB. THOMAS JONES, 12J South St., Utica, N. V. "unnlng Sores— "Five years ago my affliction came, a running sore on my leg, causing me great anguish. Hond's Sarsapar illa healed the sore, which has never re turned." MRS. A. W. BAIUIETT, 30 Powell Street, Lowell, Mass. ctfoodA SaUajmiida Hood's Pilla cure liver ills, the non-irritating and the oniy'cathartli; to take with Hood'* Sarsaparilla. /Jig Goto your grocer to-claj' and gel a 15c. package of I Grain-0 Ir-? It takes the place of cof fee at £ the cost. Made from pure grains it is nourishing and health" ful. Insist tbat.yonr irrooer gives you GR AIN-O Your name on a po9tal card will get you Spalding's Handsomely Illustrated Catalogue of Sports 72 Pages, With Nearly 400 Illustrations. A. G. SPALDING & BROS., Nrw York. ('hlcngo. Denver. A Gorgeous Carriage. The most magnificent carriage in the Nice battle of flowers was in the form of a Russian sleigh, with the servants in Russian costume. The whole equipage was covered with pink and white camellias. In front of the sleigh was the head of a large polar bear and overhead hung a huge eagle ( perched on a snowy branch. Behind walked servants carrying silver axes. This sight carried one's mind back to the old stories of sleigh driving, pur sued by wolves, over the snowy plains of Russia, the ominous eagle of des tiny hovering overhead. Another competitor who favored the weird style of decoration was one whose car riage displayed a serpent made of pansies, with jaws wide open and red fangs flashing iu the sunlight. This ferocious reptila was coiled round a tree and its head stretched forward as 112 to strike.—Chicago Record. HEALTH and beauty are the glories of perfect woman* hood. Women who suffer constantly with weakness peculiar to their sex cannot retain their beauty. Preservation of pretty features and rounded form is a duty women owe to themselves. The mark of excessive monthly suf- THE enng is a familiar one in the faces of young American women. ... MARKS Don t wait, young women, until your good looks are gone past recall. Consult Mrs. Pinkham at the out- . ■tart. Write to her at Lynn, Mass. Miss EDNA ELLIS, Higginsport, Ohio, writes: "DEAR MRS. # PINKHAM—I am a school teacher and had suffered untold agony during my menstrual periods for ten years. My nervous sys tem was almost a wreck. I suffered with pain in my side and I had almost every ill human flesh if heir to. I had taken treatment from a number of physicians who gave mo rac, I must submit to /WJr (/ vAt. the advice given t /// j V during menses. BEganf I * \\ If anyone cares 1 / 1 \ about my case, I gj> \ \ / S will cheerfull y answer aU ™ J \ / " Miss KATE COOK, 16 Ad dison St., Mt. Jackson, Ind., writes: "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM — I am by occupation a school teacher, and for a long while suf fered with painful menstruation and nervousness. I have re ceived more benefit from Lydia E. Pinkham 's Vegetable Com pound than from all remedies that I have ever tried. Southern Rai'lwayi Now Train to the South. New York and Florida Express leaves New York via Pennsylvania H. R. 2.50 p. m. Leaves Washington (Southern Railway) 9.30 p. m. Arrive Savannah 2.56 n. m„ Bruns wick H 15 p. m.. Jacksonville 7.40 p. ra., with immediate connection. Express Train for Miami and all pointson East Coastof Florida. Tampa «.:*> a. m„ Aiken, S. C., 2.15 p. m., Au gusta 2.45 p. m. Pullman Drawing Room. Buffet Sleeping Cars, New York to Tampa and Aiken. First class Vestibuled Coaches, Washington to Jacksonville without change. Also handles Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars, New York to Now Orleans and Memphis via Washington, Lynchburg and Bristol. General East. Office, 271 B'way, N. Y. One-fourth of the coal used In the world is mined by American Industry. Beauty fa Blood Dee}, Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascaretb, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the bodv. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boiU, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. AH drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed. 10c. 25c, 50c. A line of street cars in Bt. Louis, Mo., Is to be run by compressed air. Coughs Lead tu Coiuumptlon^ Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Goto your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at onoe; delays are dan gerous. In three years the expense of running au Atlantic steamer exceeds the cost of con struction. Catarrh Cannot be Cured With local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure It you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure la 'token Internally, and acts di rectly on the blood and mucous surface. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular pre scription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredleuts is what produces such wonderful results in cur ing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENBY <& Co., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, price, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. There are in the Alps '230 glaciers said tD be over live miles in length. Don't Tobacro Spit and Smoke l'our Lire Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. AH druggists, 50c or 11. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedr Co., Chicago or New York The first law school in America opened in Philadelphia in 1790. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c.a bottle. The Germans are about to build a Ger man theatre at liiao-Chau, China. Found immediate relief in one bottle of Dr. Reth Arnold's Cough Killer— Mils. S. W. HATCH, Box 450,Wollaston. Mass..Aug. 17. 1898. Men make the beds and keep the rooms In order in the Mexican hotels. No-To-Use for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes wealc men strong, blood cure. SUc.M All druggists. Infant schools began at New Lanark, Scotland, in 1815. l.ane's Family .Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently j on the liver and kidneys. Cures slok head ache. Price 25 aad 50c. Tlie Marechal Kiel Hose. The Empress Eugenie gave the name "Marechal Niel" to the lovely j rose which is so called. When Gen- i eral Niel returned from the field of Solferino, where he had signally dis- | tiuguished himself, a poor man pre- i sented him with a basket of lovely | yellow roses. To perpetuate their ! beauty the General had a cutting struck from one of the blooms, and j wheu a rose tree had grown from this ! he presented it to the Empress Eu genie. She was delighted with the dainty gift, but was much surprised j to know that the roses was known bj ; no distinctive name. "Ah!" she said, j "I will give it a name; and it shall ! be the Marechal Neil." Thus the Empress achieved two ends—named the flower and acquainted the Genera! with the fact that he had been raised to the coveted office of Marshal oi ; France. MY MOCSEHEAD CANOE. (More men have been drowned in Moose head than in any other lake in New Eng land. ) Keenly purrs the wind past the spruce 9 of Soo-at-e-an. Swift ride the waves in the gloom of Kin neho; White flaunt the flags of the foam a-ilaahing giddily, —Fleeting off beyond me like the tafls of deer a-row. Dip 'town deep! beauty, you're a-leap, And I calmly front the danger ox tto take, my love with you. Wary, scary though you be, f>ee, 1 loose you wild and freo, lit tho welter of the waters for I trust you, my canoe. White are the bones in the waters tossing under me; Fallld are tlie skeletons of hunters sucked below, flear, from the waves bubble chokingly and gruesomely The bitter, bitter murmurlngs of those who eull you foe. Dare think I That you brought them hero todie? That you drowned them in your mallon when liiey rUsk:'4 their s nils with you? That you wantoned with the wave, —Fled and mocked, and would not save? Ah, 'tis false; I'll not boliove it, for 1 trust you, my canoe. Shriek, then," ye gale from the scrap of rugged Kiuneho. Nothing am I (taunted as I strike this j glossy side. Thin is the shell, and clamorous the buffet- j lug, | But bold is the breast of the gull ou which 1 ride. Staunch my blade! ltivenash! No knight arrayed In ths panoph' of conquest ever better j Weapons bore. Thrust and parry right and left! Lo, the vast gray ranks are cleft, i And we scatheless surge to heaven on the j far Tom-he-gan shore. —Holmau F. Day, in Lewiston Journal. I IA STAMP DEALER'S! | STORY. ;; ♦ <> ♦ I.Y RUDOLPH C. BACH. < | <>»♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦» Oua cold night in November, 1831, two men were seated in a small room in a building facing the mighty St. Lawrence liver. Montreal was a small city then. The principal linns had their otllces and warehouses at the river front, in some instances almost at the brink of the mud wall which protected the city from floods in the ! spriugtime, and this house was one of them. You could throw a stone from its window with case into what was then one of the deepest parts of the river in that vicinity for there was the wharf where the Quebec boat moored. The night our story opens,the river was covered with a thin sheet of ice. The men in the little room were hav ing a hot argument. On n small table stood an iron box, a small affair, the lid of which was open, showing it to be tilled with documents of various kinds. Beside this b:ix lay a large package with many seals, addressed and stamped. The stamp on it was the twelve peuce black. This package was evidently the bone of contention between the two men. They were strangely contrasted. One, an elderly man with a firm, resolute look, his hair streaked with gray, and the other a dissipated looking fellow of a'»out thirty or so. It was he who was walking angrily up and down, while the other was standing by the table, his hand resting ou the pack age. "No, Clement," he said, "1 cannot let you have any of this money. It does not belong to me. I was en trusted by Francois Rocliette of Quebec to collect his accounts here, which I have done. Tomorrow the money will be mailed to him. No man shall ever say that Charles Goodwill betrayed his trust." "But," here broke in Clement, "I must have money," and under his breath he added, "I will have it,too." "You are always wanting money Clement Hanson," retorted (too.lwin. "Ever siuce I helped you up,you have been drawing money out of me, and it has got to stop. When your father, who was my best friend, died, his l.ist words to me wore, 'Charles, take care of my boy.' 1 promised him to do so, and have done so. 1 £ave you C posi tion, gave you money whenever you I wantod it, and now, because I have no ! money on hand, you demand me to | vol) those who trust me." He had got excited while he spoke, and without knowing it, had taken his hand ofl' the package on the table. ! Clement saw this, with a sudden j spring he reached the table,seized the ! precious package. Quick as he was, j however, Goodwin was nearer to the door, and reached it first. He faced round and cried— "Thief, would you make me a ruiued man? I, who have done so much for you? Give me back that package, or I shall take it from you." "Ah!" laughed Hansom, "I have it now and I am going to keep it." Goodwin made a spring at him, grasping him by the neck, and wrenched the package from liiin. Struggling to and fro, they upset the lamp, which fell to the floor with a crash, the burning oil quickly setting tire to the wooden partitions. Good win, seeing the pla;'e on fire, released his hold on Hanson, and throwing the packake into the iron box,he slammed the cover, and grasping it in his arms, uiade for the window. Hanson who had reached the door suddenly pulled out a pistol, and levelling it, tired, and saw Goodwin fall. Then he turned and fled down the stairs,, for th<; tire was spreading rapidly, muttering to himsel*— "In the morning when they sear.-h the ruins, the box will bo uninjured and will pass into my possession." But Charles Goodwin was not, dead, althongh badly wounded. With a super-human effort he reached the window, and lifting the precious box, pat all his remaining strength into a last effort and threw it far out of thf. window iuto the river. It crashed throng 1 - the thin ica and immediately sank. In those days the Are department was different from what it now is. The company reaching the scene first re ceived a bonus from the insurance companies, consequently there was a great rivalry between the various sta tions. The man who brought th« alarm to the station received a shilling. When the first hose company arrived at the fire, the house was almost de stroyed, aud all that could be done was to save neighboring property. Next morning,the ruins were diligeut ly searched by Hanson and others,but although Goodwin's remains were found, no trace of the iron box was discovered. Goodwin's death was put down to accident. Hanson was killed soon after iu a drunken brawl. Now let us skip forty-one years. All this time the iron box had lain on the bottom of the St. Lawrence covered with nn ever-increasing layer of miul. In 1892 dredge Number Four of the Montreal harbor commissioners, was dredging the channel opposite Jacques Cartier square. The depth of the channel being increased from twenty to thirty-two feet. Suddenly one of the men on the mud sow o:i to which the oarth, et cetera, taken up by the dredge was dumped,noticed a rusty iron box. Nobody was look ing, so,securing it, he stowed it away inside the locker whe:e he kept his clothes. That night he took it hem" l , well wrapped up. There, the lox was opened, and on top lay the packag > with a stamp on it, such as ne iu I never seen before. This man was honest he was not going to keep the money aud papers if the heirs of the rightful owner could be found after these nia n y years. He went to his lawyer, who after a long search, found the heirs. In his grati tude at recovering the papers, which really were valuable title deeds, lie presented the man with the package on which was this rare twelve pence, and with a handsome cheque besides. Through his lawyer, the man sold the twelve pence t > a Montreal philatelist, for three hundred and fifty dollars, audit now rests as the gem "par ex cellence" in a superb B. N. A. collec tion. And its present owner has good reason to be proud of it, for few stamps have such a history.— Waverley Magazine. THE CAROLINES. Iftlanrifl That Do Spain No Oooil—flcrmnny l.lkely to Buy Them. If the Germans succeed the Span iards as possessors of the Caroline Islands, they will then control a new stretch of Pacific waters extending over 1500 miles,' from Yap in the west to Kusaie in the east, with 680 islets and islands sprinkled over the expanse. Most ot these little lands are low coral atolls, but some of them are islands whose abounding basalt shows their volcanic origin. The basalt islauds are inclosed by barrier reefs. It would not be difficult for a vessel to sail among these little islauds from one end of the 15 iO-mi!e stretch to the other without sighting land. Most of the islauds are sparsely inhabited, and probably not over 50,- 0)1 people, whom Mr. F. W. Chris tian calls an "odd medley of black, brown and yellow races," iuliabit them. The western islands have the darker peoples and they speak the more barbarous languages, though they are much nearer India aud the Malay archipelago than their eastern neighbors. The largest islaud is Ponape, near the eastern end of the Carolines. The next largest and the busiest is } ap, near the we tain end. The chief trade is in copra, the dried meat of the cocoanut, of which about 4,000,000 pounds ore produced an nually, Yap contributing nearly half of it. The other etports are beche de-nier, vegetable ivory, nuts, turtle shell and pearl shell. Spain may haggle a little over the price, bit the probability is that she really wishes to get rid of the islands. They have been a troublesome acqui sition. They have cost many Spanish lives during the native risings. They have made it necessary to maintain two expensive military establishments. Yap in the westand Ponape in the east, and Spain has really got nothing for it all except the empty honor of fly ing her Hag over these little groups. She has no t ade there aud has re ceived no revenue from the natives, and the taxes collected from the few German, American and Japanese trad ers, who are doiug very well,is a mere bagatelle in comparison with the cost of the Carolines to Spain.—New York Sun. Tim Kind He Wanted. "Everybody's been taking a fall out o' my chickens," he suid, "aud I want an injunction." "You do?" asked the lawyer, though! fully. "Yes, sir, I do," answered the caller. "tfeei troubling you for some time, eh?" asked the lawyer. "Pretty reg'lar for nigh onto a year," was the reply, "an' everybody seem to be able to stop everything with injunctions, so 1 thought I'd have to git one." "But I don't believe I deal in the kind you want," returned the law yer. "What kind do I want?'' asked the caller. "You want a double-barreled in junction loaded with bii dshot or salt," replied the lawyer. "You ought to be able to get it, at any gun store." "By gum! I guess you're right," returned the old man, as his face lighted up. "I've heard tell that these here injunctions were mighty effective weapons in the hands of men wbokuew how to handle them, but I didu'i quite get onto what they were before."—Chicago Post. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. There are said to be 230 glaciers in the Alps over five miles iu length. The highest point to which maD can ascend without his health being very seriously affected is 16,500 feet. The moon, according to the theoriei of astronomers, is not inhabited bj living organisms similar to those or the earth. Mr. H. Holswaldt has devised at improved mercury interrupter. I consists of a three-rayed star wliee' made of silver. The arms are narrow, and flattened so they enter and leave the mercury without noise. The most active volcano iu the worlc s Mount fc'augay, 17,190 feet high situated on the eastern chain of the Amies, South America. It has beet in constant eruption siuce 1728. French naturalists are trying t< preserve the beavers of the Bliom from extinction. It is not unlikelj that their efforts will produce an in crease of these animals, and the farm ing of them for the sake of the fui and castoreuni. The blonde type will have disap peared from Europe in two centuries, according to an English physician who declares that of 100 blondes 01113 55 marry, while of 100 bruuettes 7; marry. In Germany aud Scandin ivia also the blonde type is much less pre dominant than it used to be. At Cape Grisnez, ou the Frencl coast of the British channel, a ne\i lighthouse has been erected. Tin light is of 1,500,000 caudle power a' ordinary times, but of 3,000,000 can die power in thick weather, and car be seen forty-eight miles off ou a cleai night. It sends five successive whit< flashes instead of the three white fol lowed by a red of the old light. WHERE TURQUOISE IS FOUND. Tlio I>«'inaii<l Ih Much Larger 1 luiti tlx Supply. The demand for fine turquoise i; largely iu excess of the supply, owinj to the fact that only a few perfect specimens are at present producec where they were once abundant. Some of the best turquoise are found ir the Los Cerillos and Grant county mines in New Mexico, but the tinesf gems come from the Niskapur mine; in northern Persia. There are live 01 six of these mines, but the most pro ductive of all is the llush mine, whict is situated at the top of a mounta'.i that rises to an altitude of 5000 feet above the sea level. The turquoise are fouud at a depth of from 70 to 8(. feet below the surface, and the miners descend first by meaus of a diagona tunnel and then by ladders fastened to the side of the shaft. At the mouth of the mine, which is ou a precipitous hillside, half a dozet men stuud on a ledge and with small hammers break up the rock that i; wound up to them with a windlass. When a turquoise is discovered it if placed 011 one side in the rough state incased in stone aud sent to market at Yesked. There the precious stones are .separated from the fragments ol roc';, and the good specimens are sorted from the poor ones. Although inferior stones plentiful,turquoise of fair size and good color are seldom found. Many of them look excellent when taken from the mine, but the color soon fades, or a green tinge is developed, or white spots appear on them. Some of these white spots art so small that they can only be detected with the aid of a strong glass, and even then they appear as mere specks, but in time these specks increase aud maj spread right across the stone. Thes« defects spoil the stone for the Euro pean and American markets, aud thej are sold to Orieutals, who are loss par ticular about such flaws. Turquoise? are worth from $1 to SSO and sell ac cording to the size and quality of the stoue.—Washington Star. The Li»w of Appetite. A healthy appetite craves and di gests the food material which the sys tem requires. If we know that iu in fancy milk is essential to the human organism, because before the age ol six months, or thereabouts, the "phy siological machinery" is not prepared for the digestion of starchy foods; that in childhood sugar and starch and fat are required to supply the elements especially needed for growth; that in youth bread and meat in abundance are necessary to meet the increasing demands which development imposes on the constitution; that in mature life, when the brain is most exercised, ligestible phospliatic salts are needed to repair wasted tissue; that in old age •ess food is required, and bread, as the nonogenarian Sir Isaac 1 Holden asserted, renders the arteries "like furred boilers"—if we find, iu brief, that every period aud condition of life has certain exigencies in which reason must take instinct for her guide —we should listen to the voice of instinct, -ealiziug that the appetite is subject to a "law of its own." This law does not involve the fallacy that instinct is not to be trained or disciplined; it inly requires that the function of in stinct be given due recognition. 111 Jie words of Shakespeare we should let "good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both."—Harper's Ba sar. llirtl* Tliat Dance. There is 110 louger any doubt that birds are addicted to the dance. The bower-bird and the prairie fowl are idepts iu the art, while the American grouse is a veritable master of cere monies. It is the custom of these birds to prepare their ballroom by beating down the grass with tlioii wings, and then to dance something suspiciously like the lancers. By twos and fours they advance, bowing their heads aud drooping their wings; then they recede aud then advance again, and turn on their toes, swelling their feathers and clucking gently. BAD BREATH . miM J* ee ." rA * c ***T» and mm a mlia and effective laxative tliey are (Imply won derful. My daughter and I were bothered with •ICK stomach and our breath was very bad. After taking a lew doses of Cascarets we Lave Improved wooderfu.ly. They are a great help ID the family." WILHBLMINA GEL. Bitteohouse Cincinnati, Ohio. fS CATHARTIC pom W|>k T»*or MAMN WlaikTlMO Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Ta6te Good Do Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, 25c 60c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... BUrllwy H«t<y Cojpny. filing., Mratrnl. Sen York. 315 NO.TO.Rift s ! lld »nd jraaranteed by all dnm nU" I U'DAW Klsts to Ci;s£ Tobaoco Habit" TORPID LIVER DR. RADWAT: Dear Sir—l have been using your medi cines—that Is, your Pills and lteady Relief. These two medicines have done rae and my family more j?ood thau a whole drug store. lam 53 years old. I used about six boxes of your pills since last spring. I am as reg dlar now and feel like a healthy man of 20 years. Now, 1 want to Ilnd out about your RE solvent, to use in ense of a young lady (etc., etc.). Respectfully, AUGUST WITMER. 54'2 East i'34tb Street, New York. April Bth, IK9B. Dadway's n Pins Purely vegetable, mild and reliable. Cause Per fect Digestion, complere absorption and healthful •regularity, tor the cure of all disorders of the Stomach, Uowels, Kidneys, liladder. Nervous Dis eases, Piles, SICK HEADACHE and all Disorders of the Liver. Price, SJS ct*. pe- box. Sold by all druggists, 01 sent by mail on rei-eipt of price. RAD WAY & CO., 55 Eliu 81., New York. Be sure to get "Radway's." Sheridan KIIOWICM'H Memory, As Sheridan Knowles, t.he drama tist, was walking down the strand one day with a friend, he stopped to greel a gentleman, who, however, received aim very coldly. "Do you know," said he to Knowles, "that you owe me an apol ogy?" "An apology! What for?" asked the dramatist. "For not keeping that diuner en gagement you had with me last Thurs day. I bad a number of people to meet you, and you never came or even sent au explanation of your absence." "Oh, I'm so sorry!" exclaimed Knowles. "I've such a memory that £ forgot all about the afl'air; forgive me, and invite me to another dinner." It was then arranged that he should line with the gentleman on the fol lowing Wednesday, and, in order that che engagement might not again be forgotten, he then and there recorded it in his dairy. On rejoining his friend ae told him the story of his lapse of memory. "Who is the gentleman?" asked .he friend. "Well, I'm blest," cried Sheridan Knowles, "I have forgotteu his name!" "That's funny," said the friend; "but you can easily find out by refer ring to the Directory. You know his *ddress, of course." .1 "No—not even that!" roared the anhappy dramatist.—Waverley Maga zine. When Wellington Gave a Party. One day, when some small visitors happened to be in the nursery at Strathtieldsage, the Duke of Welling ton walked up to the top of the house and found the youngsters at tea. He gazed grimly around, as if the room were a field of battle, and noticed that there was no jam on the table. Without a word he rang the bell violently. A footman appeared and stood petrified. "Have the goodness to under stand," said the Duke, in a voice of thunder, "that when children are in vited to my house to tea they are to have jam!" Then he departed, and before he was out of earshot a shout went up that must have reminded him of Waterloo. The DUve'i l'ower ot Adaptation. The olive has au almost human gift of adaptation to environment. It flourishes in a temperature that falls to fourteen degrees above zero, and in the inland valleys of California, where the thermometer reaches 120 degrees, it grows irrigated only by natural rain fall. It Anils iu the California foot hill just such homelike surroundings as at its 4000-feet level in Algeria and itn Italian eievation of 3200 feet. It will prosper in any friable soil rich in lime and potash, as are all the virgin lauds of the coast. It also does well where its roots can penetrate easily a rocky, clay, sand, granite, or volcanic , formation, seeming to prefer an arid mountain soil, but not disdaining life iu the black adode near the coast. The A|je of Olive Trees. The age of the oldest olive trees in California runs back over ninety years. They are six in number, and stand about the San Gabriel Mission, still bearing fruit, and living monuments to the wisdom of the Fraucisian friars. The oldest olive tree in the country is that at the Capistrano Mission, thirty miles south of Los Angeles. Its seed came from Corsica iu 17t>9, and the purpose was to provide food from the irees for the monks, who came from >live-growing regions in the same lati tudes as Southern California, in Spain ind the south of France. The old monarch has been photographed hun dreds of times by tourists. It is fully | Sfty feet high and has a trunk fiv» j !eet in diameter.
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