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orpIIE harvesting of Ice for a city
II such as Montreal' Is no mean
proposition, even In the abstract,
but for a moment we will enter Into
figures and slid Just what it means.
There have been harvested In the
clty during the present winter some
thing like 1(50,000 tons of ice. Multiply
this by 2,000 and we arrive at . total
of 320,000,000 pounds Divide this
.Into the population of the city and
outlying districts, allow for the neces
sary waste, and it is found that every
man, woman and child consumes in the
neighborhood of 500 pounds during the
year. However, a great deal of this
consumption is indirect, as it were, for
In these figures come the restaurants,
butchers and other large consumers of
Ice. The calculation is a fair one, how
ever, for sooner or later the members
of the community lenefit thereby.
The ice upon which Montreal de
pends Is drawn from several sources:
for Instance, the Back Klver furnishes
some, the St. Lawrence below St.
THE SAW A5D BAB IX PLAY.
Mary's current furnishes more, while
the river opposite Nun's Island con
tributes by far the larger share. The
Ice In this latter locality is beautifully
clear and is now bolng harvested as
fast as men can cut and teams can
-draw.
The process proper of procuring Ice
begins with the removal of the snow,
this being accomplished with horses
bitched to scrapers. Next comes a ma
chine termed a marker, which Is a
1CK IIAKVESTKK9 AT WOUK.
perk's of teeth set ut given intervals.
The teeth are so adjusted that they cut
at intervals of forty inches and again
nt twenty Inches, the width and length
of an ordinary cake. A cutter, consist
ing of a series of big teeth, set one in
front of the other, Is then run over
these marks by means of horses, mak
ing the cuts some five Inches deep.
Next the saw comes Into piny. In
the old days each cake was sawn, but
experience hns proven that Ice, If prop
erly handled, can he broken very read
ily with a sharp iron bnr. thus saving A
HOI8T1SO ICE BY STEAM rOWfn.
great portion of the uocessarlly slower
method of sawing.
The City Ice Company's men In place
of sawing the lee Into comparatively
small cakes content themselves with
going through It with the toothed hi
strumeiu at Intervals of sixty-four
feet, cutting through only the short
way. This raft, sixteen enkes long
and four wide. Is then broken off the
main body by means of bars and with
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sharp lee hooks, set in long handles,
the men conduct it down toward the
skid, one end of which Is In the water
and the other ending in a long plat
form, set at a convenient height to load
the sleighs without any lifting to speak
of. At the foot of the skid the men
tackle the Ice raft with bars again.
breaking off the cakes which go flying
up the skid propelled by a team of
horses, hitched to a long rope. The
reM is ail easy, for the sleighs stand
there waiting for their loads to take
over to the houses.
The work of the ice harvester Is not
unlike that of the lumberman, and one
shares the dangers as well as the fas
cinations of the other. That It has its
fascinations is shown by the fact that
one hoary old gray-beard told that he
had been cutting ice every winter for
twenty-five years, and as he worked
the saw up and down through the
blocks of blue crystal he really ap
peared to enjoy It. and that too in
spite of the fact that the wind was
blowing keen and strong over the St.
Lawrence, making1 the footing any
thing but secure.
A cubic foot; of Ice weighs fifty-sev
en and one-half pounds. Cut that Into
quarters and the result is four very
small pieces, hardly sufficient to fill
an ordinary Derby hat four times over,
and still each will weigh upward of
fourteen pounds. Montreal Star.
PICKING OUT THEIR CAREERS.
Children Begin in These Days at Soon
aa They Talk.
A group of five Brooklyn children.
cousins, were playing In the nursery
a few mornings ago, the eldest perhaps
10 years of age and the youngest, the
only boy, nearly 5. Their mothers are
club women, alert and Intelligent and
these youngsters had heard much dis
cussion of "the new woman" and of
advanced" topics mentioned in ad
dresses before the clubs. They had
absorbed more of the information than
their parents realized, says the Brook
lyn Eagle.
On the morning In question the chil
dren were talking over what they had
heard and the oldest said: "Well, ev
erybody's got to be something now
adays. Mother says you can't be lust
humdrum nnd comfortable and sit
around home any more. Must have a
career. I shall be a musician. Peonlo
wil come to hear me play and will clap
and give me lots of 'plaws.' "
"I," said Jeannette, "shall be a sculn-
tress. I already make very nice things
in day modeling at school."
"Proudee!" yelled the others.
"No, I ain't. "I know my llmmut
tatlons,' as mother says when she
rends a paper. But I know what I can
do! So now"
Marie, thought she would be an act
ress or a teacher, she had not decided
which, only that she "would know a
lot" and wear a loug gold chain.
"I'll be n p'leesman," piped up little
brother. " 'Nen If you ain't good I'll
ketch you an you'll be sorry. 'N'afs
all."
Dear little Marjorle, 0 years old. who
had many dolls to care for, sat content
edly In her Utile chair rocking, hugging
tier iinuy doll nnd crooning a "bye-low"
to it. She had not spoken and was ask
ed to contribute her Idea of a career to
this symposium. She glanced up, a
puzzled look on her contented little
face. "Yes, I heard you all talkln'."
said ahe with a sigh. Then her usual
happy expression returned, she lifted
baby doll to her shoulder close under
her chin audi said: "I'm Just goin to
be a mother with a nice fambly o'
chU'ren"
A Cerebral Namlow.
Sharpe A Baltimore man Is busy or
ganizing all the Joke writers Into a
union; 1 wonder what kind of an oin
blem they will use.
Whealton-Why, a chestnut, of
course.
(And Immediately the Ice-pack was
replaced nlout his fevered brow.)
Philadelphia lteeord.
Death Unto or Hi. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg has the highest death
rate of any European capital.
When a toper stops drinking It may
be either to his credit or to his lack
of credit.
6HEABI.NO OUT THE STRIPS OF ICE.
Most of ' the men who own flying
machines are holding them for a rise.
Baltimore American.
Mrs. Henpecque Married men lire
longer than single men. Henpecque
Yes; and it serves them right--Detroit
Free Press.
"Mary," said the mother, sharply,
"you musn't say 'Well I never.' That
is slang." "Well I never slang mother
If I know It."
"I used to consider him one of the
most interesting talkers I ever heard."
"Yes; but that was before he began
telling the cute things his baby says."
Not one, but many: Mrs. Stubbs
They have captured the cleverest hotel
robber In the country, dear. Mr Stubbs
Indeed! Which hotel did he keep?
Tit-Bits.
Literal: Mistress What in the world
are you putting ashes on the floor for,
Bridget? Bridget Shure, ma'am, an'
didn't yez say to doost the parlor?
Town and Country.
The modern novel is bounded on the
east by blood, on the west by thunder,
on the north by gossip, on the south
by inanities, and is surrounded by ad
vertisements. Baltimore News.
"Doctor," said the wife, "do yon
think dyspepsia makes my husband Ir
ritable?" "I know it," replied the man
of medicine. "I'll try to get him well
so I can get my bill without a kick."
"John, dear.said the poet's wife, "I
wish you'd write a poem that'll buy
three pounds of beef; and we'll need a
sonnet forham, an ode for a sack of
flour, a lyric for lard, and a quatrain
for a box of matches. There! I believe
that's all this morning." Atlanta Con
stitution.
"In your vermiform appendix," the
surgeon told him after the operation
was over, "we found, strange to say,
a small brass tack." "That proves I
was right," feebly answered the sick
man, "when I said it was something I
had eaten In mince pie." Chicago
Tribune.
"Yes," said the meek-looking woman,
"I'm glad Mr. Barker isn't on jury
duty any more." "Did he find It irk
some?" "Very. Mr. Barker couldn't
express an opinion without appearing
to agree with some of the other men,
and it irritated him terribly."--Washington
Star.
Jeweler Diamond shirt studs? Yes,
sir; here's a set, neat little stones, for
$125. Customer Huh! Out home In
California I can get Jeweler Ah,
yes, pardon me,, here you are. Just look
at these big flashes. Three carats each!
Sell you that set for $3.50.--Philadel
phia Press.
Personal: Mrs. Clifton Yes, she
was furious about the way in which
that paper reported her manlage. Miss
Avondule Did it allude to her age?
Miss Clifton Indirectly. It stated that
"Miss Olde alid Mr. Yale were married,
the latter being a well-known collector
of antiques." Saxby's Maguzlne.
"Why don't you try to live down
your past?" asked the visitor at the
jail. "It's no use," answered the pris
oner. "Not If you're sincerely sorry."
"Bein' sorry don't do no good. When
dey've got your picture In de rogues'
gallery you've got to git out o' de busi
ness. It's worse dan beln up agin a
trust." Puck.
Washington officials say young worn
en haudle money more rapidly than
older ones, and there can be no doubt
about It. The amount of money that
can pass through the hands of a young
woman has frequently paralyzed a
young husband who thought he was
something of a spendthrift himself.
St. Louis Tost-Dlspatch.
Fiendish revenge: The burclnr soft.
ly opened the door of the suburbanite's
sleeping apartment, slipped inside, but
found nothing worth stealing. "Darn
him!" he soliloquized: "I'll get some
satisfaction out of him, anyway!"
Thereupon he set the alarm clock on
the bureau for the hour of three, and
softly departed. Chicago Tribune.
Could recommend them: "I would ad
vise you," he said to the friend he was
taking home to dinner, "to try some of
my wife's brand led peaches. Of course
I know you don't care for them ordin
arily, but these are worth trying." "Ex
tra good, are they?" "Well, I bought
the brandy myself and dumped an ex
tra bottle of It In when she wasn't
looking." Chicago Tost.
The baby's cries outclassed: Mrs.
Flnnegan-Shure, Mrs. Murphy, does
yez buby croy niuch wld cuttln' his
tathe? Mrs. Murphy Indade, Mrs.
Finnegan, be twists up his mouth a
bit, but whether its croyln' or laughln'
It's meself that don't know. Mrs. Fin
negan It's klddln' me, yez are, Mrs.
Murphy. Mrs. Murphy Invade OI'm
not, Mrs. Finnegan; It's a Tioller foun
dry that wc live next dure to. rhlla
, delphla Telegraph.
Spring Humors
Come to most people and cause many
troubles, pimples, boils and other
eruptions, besides loss of appetite,
that tired feeling, fits of biliousness,
indigestion and headache.
The sooner one gets rid of them the
better, and the way to get rid of them
and to build up the system that ha
suffered from them is to take
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Forming in combination the Spring
Medicine par excellence, of unequalled
strength in purifying the blood as
shown by unequalled, radical and per
manent cures of
Scrofula . Salt Rheum
Scald Head' Bolls, Pimple
All Kinds of Humor Psoriasis
Blood Poisoning Rheumatism
Catarrh Dyspepsia, Eto
v Accept no substitute, but be Buie to
get Hood's, and get it today.
A Different Species.
"I thought you said Brown was a
regular bibliomaniac."
"Not on vnnr lif. I said ha wan a
bibulous maniac." Baltimore News.
Since writing for th pri! Centsry
"The Evoloution of American Census
Taking," which gives interesting de
tails of the magnitude and intricacies
of the "decennial snap-shot of the na
tion," the Honorable W. R. Merriam
has resigned the office pf director of
the census, to become vied president of
the International mercantile agency.
Harmless Infatuation.
"Confound these literary clubs, I
say. My wife's crazy over Browning."
"So's mine. But I'm not raising
any objections. Browning's dead."
Washington Times.
Mother? will BhQ Mrs. (Vlnslow's Sooth,
tag Syrup the best remedy to use for their
Shilaren during the teething period. -
Same Old Complaint.
Old Emdee Well, how do you like
your profession?
Young Emdee Profession's O. K.
It's the practice I'm kicking about.
Iown and Country.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Coutaln Mercury,
As mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole bjts
tem when entering It through the mucous sur.
faces. Buch articles should never be used ex
cept on prescriptions from reputable physi
cians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to
the good you can possibly derive from them.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cbeney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury,
and is taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
In buying Hall's i'atarrh Cure be sure you get
the genuine. It is taken internally, and made
In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney i Co. Testi
monials free.
fold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Hall's Family Pills are the bttt.
Worse Than That.
"He wrote a girl a love-letter once.
and it's costing him a pretty penny
now.
"Ereach of promise suit"
"No, alimony." Philadelphia Press.
For forty year's Piso's Cure for Con
sumption has' cured coughs and colds. At
druggists. Price 25 cents.
Her Plan.
"I've been two weeks trying to get
my husband to give me $50 to buy a
new drees," complained Mrs. Gazzam
to Mrs. W idles.
"I never do that."
"What do you do?"
"I have my dress charged and leave
my husband to fight it out with the
collector." Harper's Bazaar.
1 ftAE?? iiIaF? 'wnys BoSh Has borae the signal
ture of Chas. II. Fletcher, and has been made under his
oupiuwiuu lor over years. Allow no nnn
io deceive you in this. Counterfeits, ImitatTons and
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil. Parr
froric, Drops nnd Soothintr Syrups. It Is Pleasant it
contains neither Opium, Slorphtno nor "the? Narcotio
I" njre is its guarantee. It destroys AVo?m .
nnd allays FeverishneRs. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
andChafe
?iL i u , ass,.milates the Food, regulates the
&hT11Mnd,B?,wcls Klvln hHUy nnd natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The MotlioVa iohh bvv
The Kind You Me Always Bought
.uoitxo uie
In Use For
The Appreciation.
The Author (after the first perform,
ance) Well, what do you think of m.
pjayi
Feminine Friend It was iust lovely!
Who' designed the heavenly dresses?
Brooklyn Life.
Fate's Injustice.
Nocash (disconsolately) The rich
are getting richer and the poor poorer
Friend What's wrong now?
Nocash Miss Fullpurse has refused
me and is going to marry Mr. Coupon
New York Weekly. '
' Will Smash Him Then.
"He has challenged you," said hia
friends. "Why don't you fight him?"
'It isn't the right time of the moon
yet," exclaimed the enraged man
grinding his teeth horribly. Chicago
Tribune.
Just Suited the Scorcher.
And the soul of the wicked one was
next condemned to fall through space
at the rate of a mile a minute for 10,.
000 years. 'Say," he shouted as he
passed the 10,000th ghostly mile post,
"this beats any riding I ever tried!"
Automobile Magazine.
Ton Can Get Allen's Foot Ease FREE,
Write Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y., for a
free sample of Allen's Foot Ease. It cures chil
blains, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet
It makes new or tight shoes easy. A certain
cure for Corns and Bunions. All druggists sell
it. 2oc. Don't accept any substitute.
' One Form of Argument.
A Denver justice comes to the sup
port of the New York crusade against
wheeling baby carriages on the side
walks by saying that if God meant
babies to go on wheels be would have
put wheels on them.
CITO Permanently Ouraa So flu or nerrotunssi
1 1 1 W after flnflay'. neof Dr. Klina'a Great NerU
Eestomr. Bond for FREE 8'J.OO trial bottle sod treat
tee. Da.ILH.KUNi.Ltd.WlArch3C.PhUadelphia,i
- Ocean Liners of 1880.
By the breaking up of the Servia and
the Alaska there disappeared two of
the three famous Atlantic liners whose
appearance twenty years ago was re
garded as the opening up of a new and
most important page in the history of
Atlantic steaming.
Somewhat of a Dampener.
Mrs. Simpson Just see what mother
has sent us a lovely big turkey for our
Christmas dinner 1 I i came by express
this morning.
Simpson (joyfully) Bless ber heart!
That's just like her.
Mrs. Simpson And she sent us a
note saying she would be here to help
us eat it.
Simpson (not quite so joyfully) The
dickensl That's just like her, tool
New York Times.
Our Aristocracy,
"She claims, I believe, to be de
scended from a king."'
" Yes. Beforeher grandfather struck
it rich he was known as the poker king
of White Hoss Flats."
The Ecclesiastical Tender.
Cashier In what denomination do
you want your monoy?
Uncle Rube Wa'al, I'm a Methodist
myself, so ye might as well make 'em
that. Princeton Tiger.
At the Horse Show.
McBrier Did yez ever see a horse
jump foive feet over a fence?
McSwatt Oi've seen 'em jump four
feet over. I didn't know that a horse
bad foive feet.
' Wisdom of Age.
Bess (sweet sixteen) Did you notice
what a knightly air Mr. Dashing has?
Aunt Mary Yes sort of an nr-ll.
! nightly air. as it were. Chicago News.
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