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Real Recreation 
En route between 
Detroit and Buffalo 
The D. & B. Line steamers leave Detroit week days 
at 5:00 p. m., Sundays at 4 p. m. (central time) and 
from Buffalo daily at 5:30 p. m. (eastern time) reach¬ 
ing their destination the next morning. Direct con¬ 
nections with early morning trains. Superior service 
and lowest rates between eastern and western states. 
Rail Tickets Available on Steamers 
All classes of tickets sold reading via Michigan 
Central, Wabash and Grand Trunk railways between 
Detroit and Buffalo in either direction will be accept¬ 
ed for transportation on D. & B. Line Steamers. 
Send two cent stamp for illustrated pamphlet and 
map of Great Lakes. Address, 
L. G. Lewis. G. P. A,, Detroit, Mich. 
Detroit & Buffalo Steamboat Co 
Philip H. McMillan, Vice-Pres. A. A. Schantz, Gen. Mgr. 
Ives Patent Window Stop Adjuster 
Prevents Drafts, Dust and Window Rattling. 
The only Stop Adjuster madefrom one piece of metal with solid 
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Haven. Conn., 1). S. A. ( Fifty-page Catalogue Mailed Free,) 
DON’T LOSE 
YOUR TREES 
Write for our free booklet telling 
how to improve and invigorate the 
young trees and how to save the old 
timers from the chopper. 
“THE CARE OF TREES” 
is useful to all who realize (i) the priceless worth 
of an old, familiar tree, (2) that a growing tree 
will become more healthy and vigorous if 
scientifically sprayed. 
We Do For Decaying Tree Trunks 
What Dental Surgeons Do 
For Decaying Teeth 
Our work includes 
PRUNING, FORESTRY, ENTOMOLOGY, 
SPRAYING, ARBORICULTURE, 
TREE SURGERY and FERTILIZATION 
The work is scientific in every respect. 
Our directors are graduates of the Massachu¬ 
setts Agricultural College. 
If your estate needs attention we can get 
to it quickly. Our booklet should be in the 
hands of every tree owner. Ask for particu¬ 
lars and references. 
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few belongings and summoned his host. 
“There,” he exclaimed, with a lordly 
wave of his hand towards the table, “is 
enough to settle my bill and more. 
Now kindly show the way to the door.” 
The innkeeper, with many smiles and 
bows, ushered his guest out and then 
hastened back to gather up his gold. 
His rage and consternation when he 
discovered the fraud knew no bounds, 
until a wealthy English traveler, recog¬ 
nizing the value of the art put in the 
work, gladly paid him T50 for the table. 
FOREST FIRES CAUSED BY LIGHTNING 
A CCORDING to Dr. Bell, in “The 
^ Scottish Geographical Magazine, ” 
the forest fires of Canada are generally 
caused by lightning. In the great forest 
between Alaska and the Straits of 
Bellisle the portions recently burned are 
easily recognized by the tenderer green 
of their foliage from the parts which 
have been longer spared. The fire 
rushes along with the speed of a gallop¬ 
ing horse. The branches and dead 
leaves on the ground burn like tinder, 
and the flames rise to nearly 200 feet. 
Resinous pine woods burn fastest. One 
of them extended 160 miles in ten hours. 
The traces of a fire remain for nearly 
a century. Birds and beasts are stifled 
or burned. Beavers and muskrats, 
which are amphibious, have a chance of 
saving their lives. After the fire a few 
trunks of the largest trees are left. 
Next spring roots begin to sprout and 
seeds to grow. In fifteen or twenty 
years the soil is covered with poplars, 
willows, etc., which shelter young firs 
and other trees. In fifty years the 
conifers are uppermost, and in one 
hundred the others are dying out be¬ 
neath the pine wood. A third of the 
forest region of Alaska has trees of fifty 
years old, another third, trees of fifty 
to one hundred years, and the rest, trees 
over one hundred years old. The fire 
seems to suit the Banksian pine, as it 
opens the cones and sets free the grains. 
Without fires this species would hardly 
reproduce itself. Such fires took place 
even in the Pleistocene epoch of geology. 
European bird cherry, Cerasus padns, 
forms a large, handsome tree, beautiful 
when in flower, and the delight of robins 
when in fruit. Those who wish to 
encourage birds, should plant a tree of 
this cherry.— Florists’ Exchange. 
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