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The Clinton News-Record, 1910-01-13, Page 3January Ink 1910 TWO UGLY, ANIMALS Those eig Pigs, the Rhinooeros and the Hippopotamus. .44.4444444444444 THEY ARE HARD TO CAPTURE. Getting Away With One of the Golosiel Brutes Makes the Work of Trapping the Big Fennell Seem Like Centre' • Plae—Methode of the Hunters. Trappiug the blg felines is child'a play compared with the work of cop- e. turiug Mow eumberiug colossel aril - teals of the "big pig" Motile. the rbi- aoceros aud the bippopotatutts. Too stupid to tame or to break to a baiter and too heavy to tratisport through hundreds of miles ot wilder - It would take a man ball' * life- time to bring our of these five to six thousand pound creatures oilt ot a Jun - ale Into civilization. 'Therefore tee -expert's only chatiee ts to tied a cow with a calf and to capture the young one. Compare -0 with the alert, grim ex - teller of we relines. tbere le little in the appearance of a phlegmatic, pon- derous pig like a rhinoceros to indicate its real ferociousness. There is bard - 3y a wild animal ln existence which is Thore dangerous than this rarest ot. all our menagerie captives. Awkward aa the great creatnre appears when at. rest, once aroused it dashes through the densest thicket with -the irresisti- ble speed of an expresi trate. To catch a rhinoceros the trapper proceeds with preparations much as would an explorer bouud for n two or three year expedition In the interior of an unexplored continent,. for the difficulty confronting him is the three, fold one of first penetrating a thou- sand or more tittles into the interior; -second. of finding not only a rhinoce- ros, but a rhinoceros cow with a calf oid enough to capture, and. lastly, of transporting his prize across hills and tnountains aud plains, over rivers and ravines, across swamps and througn .forests to civilization. Skirting swamps and rivers. the men -are ever on the lookout for tbe deep, mind spoors, like a ple plate deice!) into the mud, for in this wet ground tile rtnuoceros loves to wallow. Fre- emently fire or six months elapse be- fore the tracks of a cow and a calf are picked up. Noiseless and fro rn well to leeward, the trapper and bis men gradually steal nearer until the cow and the .calf are luclosed in a circle. From ahead, out of the maze ofcane aud -creeper, sounds the uneasy stutnping .of the cow. With a half snort, Pelf arunt, in an Instant the rhinoceros is all attention. Head raised and nostrils stunning, sbe searches the air steadily. .At sight of one of the savages the cow -dashes with the speed of a race horse. at the man, cbarging the human decoy. • and at that instant the trapper's rifle is beard. and her furious charge is -over, provided the bullet reachesthe theart by striking just behind the left -foreleg—the only vulnerable point in the inch thick armor with winch the -beast is clad. Now and then it happens tbat the trapper fails to kill in time—his. gun may miss tire, intervening trees may interfere or the marksinau may miss Ms aim. Then tbe fife of the decoy depends upon his own agility. Torun to one side before the rhinoceros is al-. • tuost on top of bini would be fatal. for the swift brute would overtake him with a few bounds. His hilly hope is to wait until the deadly horn is atincist .at his feet and them with the swift- eae Of at mongoose dodging the aim of •a cobra, to leap to oue side while tbe ponderous creature. unable to turn short in time. dashes onward uuder its -own impetus. Twice. three tittles, a 'clever entire hunter will dodge in tbis way, giving the trapper ample tittle to bring down the rhinoceros.. Then comes the tracking of the frightened colt lois tied at the first sign of troutee, and soon) .it Is pushed, prodded and shoved up tt bridge of log skids into a ettge of the bullock cart. But even 11101T (11111gPl'011n is the trim - ping of thu. hippopotamus. for. /hough in itself •the "rhino" Is a more -P11 vage antagonist Mao the "river ltorse," the trapper hunts the former en land and brings down at a Fere dis- tance, whereas in tlie case of the hip- popotamus he must tight in the same primitive fashion that savages hare used for ages. Hand to maw, as It . were, he must engage this two ton enenster while standing in the bow of,' a frail canoe, for the hippopotamus. .as its name. the -river horse." means. is a land and water anietal and mast be hnrpooned ;Ind brought ashore be- fore It expires, otherwise it wouln sink at once to the bottom of the river. the -coveted calf escaping among the tit her bippopotainuses Instead of following -the stricken cow to shore. so that the youngster may he caught —A. W. Atolker to St. enchains. low • The Blue Danube. The Danube still retains its anelent *Menders. The !thine is the river of vine clad, gunny link; ruined castiee ,on rugged crags. niedinevai history and modern glory In war and it) penee. 41 river bright OP the warble of a bird in the wood. The Danube Mile carry immense. almost untouched, forests,' bather and grunder than the heights of -the Rhine. In the midst of Mix Heil. deep green verdure lonely while moon- eafris brenk in on the eye. There are many wayside chapels. too. On the banks. In ROIPinti. wesotno. majestle -.beauty the Danube far wets the abelery. pretty Rhine. and It wiled be <*elled n pity that eo few A MeriCah trnvelers mire a tour tm this werlhably superb river.—Omaha Bee. SHOE SIZES, How the Btendarci of Meatturernent ,Was Esteblisholl, It 1st most dlillette for matte personti to remember the sixes of their differ' etit urtieles Of W011ritig apparel. Ool- lers.sbirts niglgiOrPa are env enougle becutow to the .ctosto of these It is a` mutter ot tuella] invitee. But Me hat niet 5110e numbers tire what puzzle most people, to say trotting of the mystery why n Nu. 11 stoceing goes with a No. 8. slioe. Tine last pirezie is. hoWever, easily expleined. Sttiekings intee always twee measured by the loch from beet (1) toe, but the numliering of stews WIls fixed a knot tithe ago be at Freoele matt. The Frenebtrath permanently fixed the numbers of shoes for all Europe arid A me rime 11 e ttrhltrnrlly decided thet no butuan foot could possibly he smaller thanthree aud seveu-eightit inches. So. coiling Dile point zero, he nhlowed one-third Of WI inch to siZe and aceortlingly built up his seine, It follows teerefrom that a man cannot dud out the number et his own shoe unless be be sto expert arithmetician. Even then he Is likely to go wrong. because all the shoe experts atlow for the weIght of the Individual and the build of his foot before they try to determine what size shoe he ought to weer. As far as wornen's shoes ere con- cerned the problem is still more dint, cult, becauee many of the tpanufee- turers instead of keeping to the mem- tar scale have martied down their numbers one or twe stunt In order to capture easily flattered customers, For this rett'Son most deniers ask Mit 'of town customers to send an old shoe whit their orders,— The eeeteni et meastteing hats is much simpler. Any nem ran etsil what size he wears simply by acidieg the width and leugtb of lite inner • brim anti then dividlog by tWo. Orders can also be sent to the shopkeeper by staitIng the circumference of the bead. —Roston (Hobe. t • BURNED PAPER MONEY. Source of Great Profit to the Govern- ment and Banks. ' At the redemption windows of the treasury and of the subtreasuries of the country atly silVer vain that has not been mutilated and whieh still is veeognizable as from the mints of the United' States. will he redeemed at fates vstitte, this in spite of the feet that the.silver in the WOrlt coin may eta be worth Mei its face value. As to gold mite the government settuts only It S1111111 portion of tae lose :from abrasion; but. neeordingS to weight. theee worn gold coins'always. are re- deemable. • . In the ease of the plipar turreery two-fifths of a note must be Presented if it Shitil be redeemed tor te newnote issued. and. no. matter what- the evi- dence • may • be as to total deetreetion of this paper eurienicy, the government regardsit ne the holder's individual loss with which it Is no •further cote cerned, lire May.. melt $1.000 .worth ofesiirer coins end ft is wOrth its metal value. It May melt $1.000 in gold cOints and the •tutin will 'MO .$1.000 in new twenty dollar gold • pieeee for the mass. But the asbes of S1,000 in pa- per curreney is without Tattle. Iti the thousands of fires over the country -every .year Involving office bnilditig, factories, lei:tines:4 houses and fatuity teseiiient-es 01.1 Ileteld total of legal tender boles of all etude ate destroyed. Every pteee Of stall 'tepee lost is loss 10 tine.holder 111)0 gee) td the•goreetimeht ,or to it national liatet. It is a promissory note hopelessly .lost to the belder. It le even more.'•for in tnatty • eases all individual Man might redeem bis debt *obligation if 11P WPM assured by the itoklete of it that . 1 he piece of papereo• which lie had eigised ids eed been desiroyed by steel - d Nit and by no ,ebstiice. eould etire'ep again against .eineetehleago Tribune. . • Pope se "s. Witnets. . Pope, nee elerriek, -made but n,prier figure in the. wIttieste box. kits was cited to •nppent 111 defense :of Bishop A Iterlmry when eine prelate was tried for nigh treasoe Ilia beitee ot Pirtle In 1723. "I never vou10 speak in imb- ibe" he told Spent* attieivard, -and, I 'don't believe thet wet; ti set thlog 1 eould give an stecount ;ley story to twellve frietele -together, though I etred tell It to any •Iiintes of them witn a greet deal of -pleasure. Muse I was to appear for thesbishop .01 Iteellester In his 'tend, though I end but ten %vents to :WY and that on It plain point (how the bishop eneet -his tithe When 1 erne with hint at Ittattietwe I made tVU or three Wonders. in 1* ltd that uotwithetanding the tirst row of kinds twilieh watt all t cook] see) were most; ly of tity itegMticitaace." -- London Standard . . . The Lost 'Company. "Hungry. 1 suppoee'i" sttid the sharp fared woman as she epened tbe duos just a 'little bit. '- "W'y, no." Answered the ragged way - hirer. -rve cleain fagot now to be hungry. But l'iti out mid out lonely." el.ottely:" "I es. You see. 1.-latin't Mid nothing to eat, for so long that hee got too thin I can't cast no eleultler. *1 *1 you ain't ho idea what conunthy st tuan'a 81111d. der Is to 111111 while he is travellie along the rend," • Considerate. Mug -gifts Is iwt hinelsome, end ho knows It When hie thew baby Was born be naked. "noes It look like MeV Of Course they replied in the editerta. tive. said be, with a sighs "brenk It to my Wife gentle."—London Bits. 'SALT' 'ENCRUSTED 111111ASk' ,4,444.4 44,R Desert of Which Arabs Of Southern Tunis Stand In Terror. The most dreaded spot in Tunis is a salt marsh desert known as the Shutt Jerid. Arabs hold this place in horror as litany a caravan, straying away from the trail, has gone down to a terrible fate in the salt incrosted morass which in places is said to be 1,200 ieet deep. Recently this desert has been grossed by a worean—a French woman, needless to etate— Myriam Harry by name, who made the ghastly journey in a small auto- mobile. The following account of the feat appeared in. a French publication: Aeconapanied by a native and a camel carrying water and petrol, Mute. Harry set out from, Gabes, 90 miles west of which the salt desert begins. As far as eye can see it is a dead white plain of saltpetre and magnesium crystals, without a vestige of vegetation, The alleuce is appalling. No birds, no snakes, not even a fly or a mos- quito is to be seen. There is a nar- row pathWay through the marsh, and natives have rammed in wooden pests here and Mere as warnings against specially dangerous places. These stick out of the glittermg surface like masts of sunken wrecks. The salt mud is a moving mass whicli continuously throws up to the surface what it has swallowed up. Skeletons of men and beasts of bur- den, .bleached as white as snow by the action of the salts, lie strewn about. "The glittering salt 'Articles which soon covered us," Mine. Harry writes, "gave us the impression that we were traveling in polar lands, althpugh a wind that blew from the south scorch- ed us like the breath from a fiery fur- nace. Many mirages were observed. These, the Arabs say, are created by evil spirita to lure travelers to their doom. ' "We had covered 80 miles without mishap vhen a second's inattention 'caused the car to swerve and the wheels sank through the treaeberous salt crust. Fertunately we had been seen, and the car was lifted out ol the mud, camels' thigh bones serv- ing as levers, by some friendly na- tives who conducted us to the village of Kriz." Amelia Knew Her Business, Amelia was all sweet, nice and ner- wine, and she said to her sweetheart: "You have been so old a friend 1 'Avant to tell you something. I am," and she blushed, "I am going to be married!" , "Waal" he cried 'hoarsely. "Before you go further hear me. I must say it, theogh I have no right now, but I will have less right later. I love you. I adore you. I have loved you since we were children together. I do not see how I can live and see you the wife of another. But at least you will know that I have loved you alt these years, and when you hear the wind sigh over my distant grave—sof course that it nonsense" -- "Don't take on so, john Henry," she said softly. "I'm going to marry —your' • Then the strong man fainted, and as she bent oyer him a determined' lit- tle line showed about her mouth, and she muttered, "I had to do some- thing to bring him to it." Our System of Notation. • Some system of notation has been used since time out of memory. The first record we have of it ie of figures written with a stick on --a Mat surface covered with sand. Befgre that all calculations were made with pebbles, beans and the .like. Evbn now the -Chinese do their calculating with little stones or beads strung on' wires, in a frame. The Romans first used vertical lines—I, II, III, etc. —to express numbers, The. Arable figures, which we commonly thie at the present time, are of much earlier date. The, -Arabic aystenA is chiefly valuable on account of the great con- venience it affords by giving a figure a value according to the place It oc- eupies in the line. By this system 4:he most enormous sums can be ex- pressed by the ten little characters which. form the numerical alphabet. • Laporte, and the Voting King. . When Louis XIV. was only eight •ears .old his love tor wrestling and • other be ish sports gave many un easymoments to one Laporte,. his ett- fendant. On one such occasion he in- sistede despite all entreaties, in roll- ing about the .floor endeavoring to overiorne• his cousin, the .Count of Artois. Laporte calmly put on his hat and sat • dotan. Louie; jealous even at that age • of his kingly dignity, at once demanded • "How can you perthit yourself 'to . it and 'remain covered in the pres- ence of your king?" "Pardon me, sire," retorted Laporte, but I did notthink that a king was ig the room. - And Figures Don't Lie. Johnny came home the eother night vittiedbar glee, wearing the arithmetic "What is that for?" asked hie mother. "That's the prize for doing exam - pies," said johnny. "I did this One, `11 our new baby weighs eleven and a half pounds and gains an ounce etteh day'—'eauee you told Mrs. Smith she s 'lid yesterday — 'how • much will alit eweigh when she's twenty years old? And the answer Was 466 pounds. And the teacher said I earned the prize."—Christian Advocate, • Poetry and Prose. "What. a beautiful sight it is. Mrs. Bates, to, see your two little boys al, witys together!" the summer boardet explained in an ecetacy on the ap. protteli of Bobby and Tommy Bates heed in hand. "Such brotherly love is as rare as 11 is exquisite." Mrs. Bates nodded in assent, • "I tell Ezry," she said, "that they're as insep'r'ble as a pair o' pants," A Question to Be Considered. "Do you consider plagiarism permis- sible under any cireurnstaneesr "Well," answered Senator Sorghum. 'it's pretty hard when you find your. self compelled to make a ehoice el being interesting or original." .e Clietoo News -Record '-'1intriff-t-Hrtiffilidt:—. • Denies That All Women Are Liars and Cats. as Man Amiens, Some time ago a famous Italian philosopher wrote all essay on women m which he declared all members of the sex to be liars and eats. Herron.' The feet that the wreteh still lives. IS proof his rank assertions are taken at their true value end mostly treat- ed with the eontemptuous silence they deserve. Another statement 'made by Una wise philosopber la that every word which a woman wastes on another is a libel tbat would be actionable in a court of law, if such were not administered by men. Think of that, 0 yo angels of earth! Aa might be expected some stinging re- plies have been made to this velum- mator of Eve's daughters. When man accuses woman of being a liar, writes Dorothy Dig, she can at least retort, "you are another." Let it not be forgotten tbat Saphira is the wife of Ananias. Moreover, 11 women are given to telling tarradich dies, their dependence upoo men and the fact that they have to flatter and' cajole everything they get out of their lords and mastereegoes a long way towards excusing, if it does not justify, the feminine propensity to zig-zag from the straight line of yes- aeitY. Nomatter how much a man likes you, he cannot bring himself to abide the sight of sicknesa and sorrow. He is sorry for you, but he will walk 10 blocks rather than run the chance of meeting yon, and Boeing your tears, and. baying to lieten to your troubles, It is your woman friend that comes to you to your hour of grief, when you feel that you must die if some warm human hand does not blast) yours. It is your woznaa friend that lets you weep upon her breast the tears that heal and comfort. It is Ydur woman friend that listens with infinite patience while you go over, and over, the dreary litany of some - sorrow that, somehow, it takes the sting from just to tell to sympathetic and cernprehemling ears. • No mart would do filet' for a wo- man. No men would do that even for another' men; and this is the rea- son that when a nian gets into trouble he always goes to a woman. Turning from the individual woraan to the man, we have a thousand beautiful charities into which woman love for •woraan has flowered. In every eity, in every town, there am hospitale where poor women May be doctored•and ettrecl for while sick; there are homes where old women may end their days in peace; there are nurseries where the working wo- man may leave her babe in safety when she goes out to tabor. of a morn- ing; there are homes where the way- ward girl's feet may be set again in paths of rectitude. • It is wornan's hand that is held out always to the weak and unfortun- ate ,of her sex. If you ask the working girl who got her her first place nine times Mit el ten she Willi tell you that it was some woman. . If you ask the struggling genius who gave her her first uplift she will say that it was one of her own sex. . Surely, that alone ought to settle for all time the idiotic assertion that women are cats, and that the mere sight of another woman flits them : with envy, spite and all uncharitable- ness, and causes them to get out their hammers. • ' Woman's best friend is woman. Every woman knows it, and any man who thinks the contrary takes a eingtilarly superficial view of the situ- ation, or else he has been mighty un- lucky in the kind. of women that he has met. W Where She Differed From Paul. Ae•Scotch clergyman called upon a parishioner, an old woman who wee: not possessed with many virtues, -but who „possessed n very varied assort- ment of vices- He took the latter as atxtfra serenon and spoke t� het; at considerable length dpon the sub- ject, concluding with Some 'extracts from one of St. Paul's epistles which he felt to be apropos. . She didn't speak for several min- utes after he had finished, and .he thought that hehad made an impres- sion upon her et last. He was this: - taken, however, for she suddenly turn- ed round with' the remark: `Humph! •That'*just where Paul and I have dif- fered these ten years," , The argument was not continued. Death of the Sun, Matheolatitians differ as to the time of the extinction* of the sun's light, and heat. One of them declares, 'At all events, it seems that, radiating en- ergy at its present rate, the sun may hold out CM. 4,0003000 years or possibly for e,000,000 years, but not for 10,- 000,000 years." Tlus authority claims that the sun has already dissipated •about four-fifths of the energy with which it was originally endowed aoci that its span cannot possibly be run out beyond a number of million of years, which can certainly be counted. on the fingers of both hands, maybe on the fingers of one. A Chinese Gutenberg. There is pretty good evidence of a Chinese Gutenberg, one Pi Ching, who in 1041 carved cubes of porcelain paste with Chinese characters, after- ward batted them and "set" the por- celain :type by help of parallel wires on a plate of iron in a cement bed. It is certain that the at of printing was known in the Celestial empire for centuries before it came to light in Europe, Neighborly Consideratien. “I heard your 'baby crying nearly 811 night. What was the matter with it ?" - "I think she wanted me to get np and carry her around, but I was afraid if I did yousel be disturbed by hear- ing me tramping the floor over your bead." No 'thanks. Berber (to enstomer)--/tazor all right, sir? Customer—My dear mate if you bedn't mentioned it I'd never have known there wag a razor en my fac.e. Barber—Thankyou, 51*'. Cute tenter (continuing) --1 thought yea were using a ..file,—Pearson'. —CAVALRY OK 'Mt— MOM The Gait of Mounted Troops Is hiele ally a Walk. People unfamiliar with the march. ing of hoops frequently have the ban pression that mounted troops travel 1 at a treher gallop while on a march. ' In the cavalry, however, the gait is usu,ally a walk. There are reasona for ethie. The trooper is required to vary his three weapoust—rifle, pistol and saber --over 100 rounds of ball amnoinition, ' hie horseshoes and sundry other articles. all of which add considerable weight to his own. This weight 'is more or lees concentrated at a few points hi - stead of beinguniformly distributed over the horse's back, so that at a trot, ha spite of all that may be done to avoid it, the eoncussion at certain points is censiderable, and if kept up tends to develop blisterNd sores th tior,r_.li _I ott e horse's ba ohjell uex in- crease until the nimal is no longer fit to use.' . Constent vigilance is required on, the part of the eeptain while on a longmareh in order to keep his horses servieeable and prevent his troopers from becoming dismounted, This is aceonaplished in part by marching at a walk whenever the circumstances will admit it. By means of the walk we make four miles an hour, says Capt., W.. F. Flynn, 'U.S.A., in Forest and Stream, and as Sei miles is con- sidered a fair day's march it is thus made in about seven hours, consider- ing the necessary halts. The wagons oarryieg our supplies can go no fast- er than that, and there is rarely any advantage in reaching one's camping ground very much in advance of the wagons, . On the March each mounted man carries a lariat and picket pin attach, ed to his saddle, and as soon as he unsaddles he seeks a good grazing place for his horse and drives his pin in the ground, The horse thus .gets a limited area upon which to graze. The pins are changed once or twice during the evening, and as the horse stays all night on his rope he.gete a pretty fair chance at the graes. The men then put up their shelter tents, A shelter tent is a convenient little affair made in two halves to accom- modate nicely two soldiers. Each sol- dier carries his half and his polo with him on his blanket roll attached to his saddle, so as soon as he un - 'saddles he can geleet his "bunkie" and put up his tent. The officers' tents are wall tents, carried in the wagons. Details of men put up the officers' tents, get wood and water fort the cooks, and the lat- ter build their fire and at once 'set about getting supper, • On the march but two meals a day are eaten. After breakfast the cooks give each man a liberal sandwich of bacon and bread, This the man eneloses ize his meat clue and when he gets hungry eats it; this constitutes his Midday meal. Stipper over, a guard is posted to look out for the safety of the camp, and the other men usually collect fuel, build a rousing fire and amuse themselves by singing, telling Yarns and cracking•jokes upon each other till bedtime, which comes pretty early with men on the march. There are so many thieg to be done in order to get the cavalcade .fairly on the road that early rising is essential, The guard rouses the cooks long be- fore• daylight, and by the time the .horses are fed and brushed off the cook :Announces breakfast. After breakfast the tent a are taken down, wagons 'packed, the horses saddled and the celumn is once more on the march. ' . Bound to Be Ready. • The family were to leave town on the 'two o!clock train, so the mother said, as she was hurrying along the preparations: '"Now, cltildren, g'et:ready to go be.: fore luncheon. Don't leave anything* to be done at the very last minute." And the- ehildren said they would not. • Luncheon 'ended; they berried' into their 'wraps • and started, In the hall the .mother Said: . "Edward, you didn't brush your teeth." . "Yee, ma'am, I did," "But you couldn't," she said."You oidn't have time, Why, you fillet this minute got up from the table." "I know that," said eldwatd, "bet we were in such a hurry that 1 brushed em •before •I ate.' 'the Habitable Earth. The: entire habitable. %area of the earth. le given at •40,000,00Q square miles, .of which the extreme fertile limit niaY bis- put.at .37,000,000 square miles. With the generally aCcepted sustaining capacity of 200 persons to the square mile, this area could by systema -tic ttllage be made, to yield subststence to 7,400,000,000 -human be- ing:5.-. It has • been calculated that within 210 years the world's popula- tion will . be swelled to 7,440,000,000 souls. What will happen 300 years - hence, when the population of the earth will' be 16,000,000,000, is a problem. They Were For Sate:- "No or," said the .fussy old gentle - 'man, putting one of the biggest ber- ries itt his mouth and picking up an- other, 'what is the sense of having that sign read, 'Fresh 13erriee For Sale?' Don't you see that 'Fresh Ber- ries' would be enough? Don't you suppose - that everybody knows they are for solar . dunno," answered the fruiterer. "Some folks seent to think I'm giving' them away," • • AM4 the old gentleman hastily put the .berry haek in the box. Pet and Kettle.' "1 thought I should laugh right out," said Mrs,' Cashtort, "when at the circus recently Mrs, Smith called an animal a eeraph Of worse she meant a giraffe. But the fun of it was it waen't a giraffe. It was a camomile." —Christian Register. Misuodentood.. "I would like a straw with Ohs lemonade," said the lady at the Midi,- te the Avaiter who was eerying the beverage. "Hey?" ejaeulated the waiter, who was hard of hearing. "No; straw, I Mild." I subscription to The Neurs•iltecord for one year for one dollar. • Itigh Class -Suicide. In China *Weide bas been a fine art for several- eenturies, fr a mandarin la minty of miecooduet be is requested to put bineself out of the laud of the trhere is a distinctiou, too, In 'he manner 10 whiele the oriental' may 41e. 111)8 is of exulted rank and enti- tled to wear the peacock feather be Is privileged to ebolte tilmself to dean) with gold tear, This is regarded as a titeinguislitel manner of euding life. If the intiudartil 0. onty of the rank teit1 is entitled to wear tbe red betten • tut must be coutent wite strangliug Minster wite a Aitken core. Suet/ are the vistinctions et vaste. Fitiencial. Information. "So yon at last yielded to that tunn'e importunities ane gave him some tip* ou the marker(' "Yes," answered Mr. Dustin St**. "What' happened?" "Wen, they tented out so badly that -1"tu mighty sled 2 didn't invest any money ma 'em reeself."—Washiltgten Stele . • consoling- eTlito- WAS tough meat You fraVe nxa last night," tette the eustom.er, "Oh, run along!" saki the dealer, "You will forget it by the time you pay for IV—Buffalo Express. Fettle. Little Willie—What Is fame, pa? Fa—Fame, my son, is a ladder with grease on each rung.—L'ificago News. The Abyseiniatt w3f 1 the laestd Of the house. , • — WOMEN'S WOES Clinton Women are Finding Relief at Last, It does seem that wcirnen have tucaet than tt fair share of the aches and pa/ins that afflict humanity ; they maUt "keep Up," must attend to duties in spite of constantly 4014 backs, or headaches, ' dizzy spells, •bearingsdown pains; they must stoop over when to stoop meanstorture, Therraust walk and bend and work with racking 'pains and many- achee from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering' than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remodel for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and, is endorsed by people you know. Mrs, J. Cook of Joseph St., Clin- ton, Ont., says : "After suffering With a severe attack of la grippe, my back was eo, tender and weak that I could scarcely get around, A. con- tinual dull, bearing down pain had settled in the iegion of the kidneys and extended around my sides. alp head.would ache constantly and there was often a dizzy feeling and spots appearing before my eyes. I felt languid and poorly in my general health and although I knew tny sick- ness had weakened and disordered the kidneys'I found eothing to benetlt me. learned of Booth's 'Sidney Pills though an advertisement and procuring a box at Mn. Hohne's PharMaey, • commenced treatment. It was a comparatively short *time when 1 had been relieved of the headaches and dizziness." My eyes eeean to 'clear and were soon strong end well, The nein gradually left my back and sides and I strengthened. I am Very grateful to BoOttne Kidney Pills for the speedy relief 'given me and will gladly recommend them." Sold by dealers. Pritee DO cents.' The R. T. Booth Co., Ltd., Fort Erie, Ont., Sole Canadian. Agents. —. Repeat Cure will ways. Cure my Coughs and coli'." • Constipation is the root of many forms of sickness and of an endless amount of human misery. Dr. Morse's Indian lkoot Pills, ti thoroughly tested by - over fifty years of use, have been preyed safe and certain cure, for constipation and all kindred troubles. Try them. 25ca box, 000 s ELECTION SIGNS. Th. also. Ar. In Washington, the Elections Elsewhere, "Of course we don't !lave any eke:- tloue of eur own," said ennui f ro>nt Waithington, "but we nave election tue tlunttiens, If I may tail them (bate whlett can't be delineated aleywher* else In the couotry. • "You see, when we Washingtonians wttut to vote we've got to do it some - Where else, and as most of us have a. liugering fou(luese for the (ram:hese we are pretty likele to 'hang ou to a resideuee somewneee outside the Die - tact. "We 'espectelly like to do it because it 'nukes us feel as if' we had some • sort of weapon te tieurish before the. observieg eyes of the 1)01111e/ens who lusty 1111Vp something to say about our toed 91) our jobs. sled when elle time Comees to go homto vete .we visttelY oven with importanee. -Neturatly .a tuitional election is the one that catches us ail at mice, and it, is then that the intimatiOns I spoke or do most abutted. The papers are fell, of advertieetnents of totals for electiun expenses.Department. clerks tan tee accommodated witb SLIMS POVeritig. their • railway fare, pew clothes for the trip and a subetautial margin over and. above necessary items. - The inter- est is n bit high, but a clerk who is pining to' go tetck home to spturge a bit is willing to mortgage his sources ti' ft.w the piestsure. '"riesSe offers . of luaus till coltintes of tins, daily papers. Alongside of thent .are other advertieements, all turning - on the one theme, the election,. 'Buy .. yourself a new Suit to go home. end. vote in? The grammar is a bit off, btu the: prices are asserted to be alt . right. • • ., • . "in the shop Windows there are do. ens of election placards: 'Just the hat to wear when you go 'home to vote.'" -'Specials in suit eases for. the- election.* "rakeu souvenir hatpin to yourbest girl . when you go home tit vote,''Swett suit .for the,election, only di et week.' and In a. shoe store tivindow.i erratnp, tramp. tramp, the boys are intirehleg—home. to vote; weer shoes and you won't get sore teeth eerhe ralleviers offer special rates to. totem, and80it goes:. You won't filatie tinething like it in any other tewn."--. •New York Sun: : • • • . "Fie's veryPattrattieciuertatir:Ir ninn." "t es. If the doetor told hint that he was g9lOg 31) die he would want to telephone ehend for a good rootn."-- a1- N ew ork flees. NA) is at • We Now Make and Galvanize Our Own Wire For many years we have seen where the quatity of Wire could be improved.. So we have set a new standard for the Wire in Frost Fence. ,But, to get this better Wire, we must Make' and Galvanize it ourselves. Heretofore, we, like an other Pence. litakers, had to buy our Wire teadp-made and ready.ealvanized. The Wire fornteelyuged le the Frest Pence -was made under our own inst(uctions. 1 gave better satisfaction than motif Wire, bu we knew that we could makefar better, So now we have erected special Mills ht these Milts we have installed the'most modern Wire Drawing and Galvanizing equipment in ekistence. So we are now equipped to mike better Wire than has ever been used in Canada. And we are the only Fence -makers in this country Making and Galvanising Wire exclusively tor Fences, Nearly every 'Wire Pence is Galvanized too thinly for Canadian purpoies. That's why so many rust about twelve or fifteen. years sooner than they should. Frost scientific Calvanising is about Mt per cent, thicker and smoother than that on, any other Fence made in Canada. Yet it will not chip, scale and fall off. bio matter whets you look, Or how severe,. ly you test, you simply.cannot find another ' Fence built and Gatvantscd for permanency like the Frost. Send for free Booklet. The Prost Wire Fence Co., -Ltd., Hentitse, Ontario 13 Agents Wanted in Open ttiotticts POS. Fentife Stodgill, Varna; Stanley, Holmesville; Wm. Addison, Londesboro Port • (LONOON) Undoubtedly the beti brewed On the continent, Noved to be so by analysis of four chemists, and by awirds of the world's great Eichiet bitionst eepecially CHICAGO 1893, where it received 0;004e-s1x points out of a possible hundred, much higher than any miter Porter in the United Steles or Canada.