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Evergreens as grown for specimens at Andorra Nurscries 
PLANT FOR IMMEDIATE EFFECT 
Not for Future Generations 
Start with the largest stock that can be secured! It takes over twenty years to 
grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 
We do the long waiting—thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that give 
an immediate effect. Spring Price List gives complete information. 
ANDORRA NURSERIES ® spent 
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WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor 
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about the house. While it is a difficult matter to make a first class 
Vacuum Cleaner (the Victor is an absolutely first class machine, not 
equaled by any in the world), it is an easy matter to install the 
machine after it is made. 
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if the house is already built. 
The Victor can be set up in a fewhourstime. It works perfectly 
noiseless. It is a real ““Wacuum Cleaner,” not an ‘air machine.” 
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to do your lawn the most good, paying for two or three hundred pounds of useless metal—and freight 
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“ANYWEIGHT” WATER BALLAST LAWN ROLLER 
A difference of 50 pounds may mean success or ruin to your lawn— a half ton machine will spoil it in 
early spring, while a 200-lb. roller is absolutely useless later in the season. If you desire a fine, soft, 
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April, 1912 
A ONE-STREET VILLAGE 
CCORDING to a writer in The Fruit 
Magazine there are many small villages 
in the world that have only one street, 
but Lerwick, in Shetland, besides having 
only a single street, possesses only one tree, 
and it is not a very tall one, either. There 
are no land birds there, not even a sparrow, 
but the seagulls are plentiful. The inhabi- 
tants of Shetland are very proud of their 
tree and very kind to the gulls, of whom 
the children make pets. Children who are 
brought for the first time to see the wonders 
of one-streeted Lerwick are always shown 
as a great curiosity “the only tree in Shet- 
land.” 
The seagulls are the sparrows of Lerwick, 
and as such they have a greater share in 
the town’s life than the sparrows of Lon- 
don. In the morning you will note that a 
seagull sits on every chimney top. Sea- 
gulls swoop and hover over every roof in 
town. The air is full of their strange, high, 
plaintive, haunting cries. Every house has 
its own familiar seagulls and every area 
its own band of them. But they never mix. 
The children in each house have a pet name 
for their own particular gulls, and, hav- 
ing called them by those names, they feed 
them every day. 
Each seagull knows what is meant for 
him. No bird attached to one house ever 
seeks to eat the food scattered from the 
house next door. He does not dare to do 
so. So, all day long, the seagulls hover and 
call over the roofs of Lerwick. The people 
of the town, if they come across a little 
pile of rice laid upon the roadway, step 
over it with care. They know that it has 
been placed there for some seagull. And 
at night the seagulls leave their appointed 
chimney pots and fly gracefully away to 
their resting places on the rocks of the Isle 
of Noss. 
MINING IN THE STONE AGE 
T is known, says a writer in Harper's 
Weekly, that many of the mines now 
worked were worked by the Romans, and 
that the Roman miners did nothing but 
continue the work begun by the Gauls, who 
were habituated to the use of metals. 
The first mining was done in the stone 
age. The mines of cobaltiferous copper, in 
Spain, date from a prehistoric time. These 
mines are distinguished by a singular ar- 
rangement of the ways of access. Instead of 
horizontal galleries along the sides of the 
mine, there are vertical chimneys, like wells, 
metres deep, ending in metal strata. The 
arrangement of these primitive shafts may 
have been planned to make it easy for the 
overseers of the mines to watch the slaves 
as they worked, and also to prevent the en- 
trance of wild beasts. That the mines were 
worked in prehistoric times was demon- 
strated by the discovery of fifteen skeletons 
of men, who, presumably, were killed by a 
cave-in. Some of them lay under rocks. In 
their hands were heavy tools, hatchets made 
of stone, and picks carved from the bones 
of animals, The skeletons were of great 
height and of powerful structure; the 
thumbs of the enormous hands were twice 
the length of the thumb of the modern 
workman. But though so tall, the men were 
of excessively narrow build, as was shown 
by the width of the places in which they 
worked. The veins of clay were removed by 
the hand, as is shown by innumerable fin- 
ger marks. 
