The Wingham Times, 1893-03-17, Page 7Cy
ETol ing the Trails.
"Madam, we s. the train at 13—,"
"But can't t i snake it, sir?" elle gasped;
'f'I 1possible; it leaves at three,
And we are, due a quarter past."
Ks . there no way ?Oh,. tell me, then,
Are you. a Christian?" ?" "l am not."
+f And, aro there NONE among the men
Who run the train ?" ' '‘No—I .•-.forgot
•4,y I. -think the fellow over here,
Oiling the engine, claims to be."
She threw upon the engineer
A. fair face white with agony,
"Arco you a Christian ?" "Yes, 1 atm."
"Tllen, 01 sir, won't you pray with me,
All the long way, that God will stay,
That God will stay the train at 13-1"
"Twill do no good ; it's due at three,
And—" "Yes, but God can hold the train;
My dying child is calling me,
And 1 must see her face again ;
Oh, won't you pray?" "1 will," a nod
Emphatic, as he takes his place.
-4 when Christians grasp the arm of God,.
They grasp the power that rules the rod.
Blit from the station swept the train
On tie ie,—swept past wood and lea;
The engineer, with cheeks afiame,
Prayed: "Ole, Lord,hold the train at B—"
'Then flung the throttle wide, and like
' i3omo giant monster of the plain,
With panting sides and mighty strides,
.FAO .hill and valley Swept the train.
A half, a minute, two are giuilhed ;
Along` those•burnishedliues of steel
His glances leap, each nerve is strained',
And still lie prays with fervent zeal ;
Heart, hand and brain, with one accord,
, Work,while his prayer ascends to heaven-
-- hold the traineight minutes, Lord,
Help us to make up the other seven." •
Witli rush and roar through meadow lands,
. Past cottage home, and green hill sides,
The panting thing obeys his hand
And speeds along with• giant strides,
They say an aeoident delayed
Tlie train a little while, but He
Who listened while His children preyed
Iii Answiin hold the train at B—.
She Said So,
It is one of the disadvantages of
it kings and queens that their loyal ■alt-
jeats do not consider it raper to tell
them the truth.
The Queen of Saxony, we are told,
w a is very
v
eiofltlo n but r
has no ehildr t ,
fend of other people's children, esp.
dally if they aro pretty, Some time
ago, while walking in the park in
Dresden, she met a nurse in charge of
two little children and stopped to ads
mire the rosy babies.
They are twins, are they not? said
the Queen. •
Yes, please your Majesty, ans.rered
the nureet
I suppose their papa is Very fond of
them'1
This little boy's papa is, but that
little ,bor.'s papa died a mouth age.
But 1 thought yon said they were
twins ?
Your hlajssty said they wore and I
didn't think it right to contradict the
(queen,
Of Course You Road
THE WI ` 1HAM TPMES, MARCH 17, 1893.
A TERRIBLE •NEW RIFLE
THAT POURS FORTH A HAILSTORM
OF BULLETS,
The F';amonb 1►Tanrallclier Gun—Fires Imo,
ItO a ds a ]llinut0-.•TJio maulrincry 8a1(1
to be Simplicity Itself—Hoot Ilael'ul Ice,
veiling Torpedo . tttpoks,
•
Herr von Mannlicher, of 'Vienna, hail
completed a new weapon whose "fire
results" are amazing. Some strictly
confidential trials of the new rifle were
made in August last by the musketry
experts of the Austrian army, but no
one else was permitted to test or even
examine it. The reports of the Aus-
trian experts are satisfactory in every
respect,
The length is. forty, inches. The
weight is sightly under that ofan or-
dinary repeating rifle.. Its bore is 6.5
millimetres in diameter, the same as
that of the latest Mannlicher pattern
adopted by the Roumanian and Italian
G-overnments. Compared with the
former Mannlicher's eight millimetres,
this is, indeed, a, considerable reduction
of bore. But, the inventor favors the
smaller size on account• pfthe increased
velocity obtained and the reduction id
the weight of the cartridges. The wea-
pon is' sighted up to 2,700 yards, point
blank to 500, with the "culminating
point" in the latter trajectory at five
feet from the ground. The breech ac-
tion is enclosed, and guided in a
cylindrical 'tube called the breech re-
ceiver of a similar diameter to the bar-
rel in its outside coverings. The trigger
mechanism is constructed that the shots
may be fired in the mast rapid succes-
sion or at any desired 'intervals. The
mechanism, therefore, is simplicity it-
self. We descended into a big; under-
ground vault and fired bullets, or rather
poured them, into sandbags. A torch
of the trigger of the automatic repeater
and the breech bolt flew back into its
closed position.. Then followed five
piercingly sharp explosions, and the
empty clip dropped ringing from the
magazine on the floor. The explosions
seemed instantaneous. With a stop
watch it 'vas found that they occupied
a single second. Barely' one and a half
seconds to come down from the "Pre-
sent" to the "ready" position, to insert
another clip, and five more shots banged
forth in the same limit of time. No
Cartridge jeans. The mechanism is too
sound and simple for that, . In the hands
of its inventor the rifle can discharge 120.
roundsper minute. The barrel becomes
hot, but not so hot as to render the rifle
useless 'for a time. Should the exceed-
ingly simple mechanism for automatic-
ally operating the breech bolt become
deranged the rifle can still be used as an
ordinary repeater.
It might be a risky experiment to
place in the hands of a soldier a rifle
that can easily expend in one minute 100
rounds out of the supply .of 150 that, he
carries in his cartridge boxes. On ship-
board, however, when, for instance, sail-
ors on an ironclad have to repel a tor-
pedo attack, the rifle is expected to prove
extremely serviceable. The men could,
with plenty of ammunition lying beside
them, pour out bullets like a hailstorm.
The testimonials frequently published in
t this paper relating to Hood's Sarsaparilla.
They are from reliable people, state simple
' facts, and show beyond a doubt that Hood's
Cures. Why don't you try this medicine'?
Be sure to get Hood's.
Constipation, and all troubles with the
ip digestive
Hood's Pills assliver, Unequalled asdinare er, pill.
Little Tommy --What is that man
cutting the trees for, papa.? Papa—kle
is pruning them. Tommy—How soon
will the prunes be ripe ?
Borrow marks the road to sorrow.
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BY SPECIAL ROYAL APPOINTMENT
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I tP.LIlgl~ CHEAP IMiTATIONS
Dr. Nausea's Polar Ship.
Dr. Nansen's polar ship has progress-
ed so fax in construction that one can
A GREAT MANY THINGS THAT INTER-
EST THE FAIR SEX, A FtSpi er itCvlive
vpcctks,
s r ii E Y ,..TRADB r .!6'.ti, 8Z
A chatty 'talkie on Drinking '.rock -The
Various Hinds of Tea« -Alpine Climbers
Must Have it Strong -A. Delicate .and
coining Infusion.. •
It is related of Lord. Lyndhurst that
when some one asked him . how he •
should succeed, in life, he said, "Give.
good ~vine." Tailoyrand, would have
said, "Give good "dinners," and Napo
leon I. would have said that is the rea-
son •ono tolerates Talleyrand: The great
emperor was "no • epicure, he did not
know the diferenee :between a good
dinner and a bad one, but he caw what
a profound influence, it bad over• the
majority of men, So' if you give tee;
give geed tea—English breakfast or In--
(lieu
n-(liau tea is the best; the latter has no,
headaches in it.
It is astonishing to see the Alpine=
climbers drink tea.a They cannot go up
the Matterhorn without this necessary
stimulant Ana In Russia how the sari-
over lights up,the dreariest • wastes . xn
a long journey across., those dreadfully
monotonous snow -fields the cup, of tea
keeps one alive.
It is no wonder .that with this 'siidden
apotheosis of tea that 'teapots have be-
come very valuable—nay, most•interest-
3ng—adjuncts to housekeeping. • 'T know
one lady, a collector in Boston; who.has
700. She would not allow you to make
tea in any of them. I .dare say a delft
is m. brought in from: kitchen for actu-
al service, although there are O.Ovely.
Queen Anne silver. ones .which tea will
not hurt
Some people prefer Russian tea,which
is made by simply floating a piece of
lemon in place of cream: This is very
refreshing, and •4ilivens the nerves. The
real expert of sdciety never.' takes any-
thing but a bit of thin bread and butter
with afternoon tea, but there are those,
especially in England, who eat eggs on
toast, muffins, sardines, ' Scotch scones
(a sort of shoat hot biscuit and butter);
at this informal gathering. Of these
last is the •Prince of Wales. •The royal
family have excollent'appetities, and as
they are always going somewhere to
dedicate buildings, open bridges. receive
deputations, hear speeches, and accept
bouquets, they need frequent.and hearty
food,
To those who get sleeplessness from
tea, let me recommend a most delicate
way of making' it. Fill, a perforated
silver ball with dry tea, and swing it
through a cup of boiling water. The
ball can remain long enough in the
}rater to produce a most delicious infu-
sion„but there will be none, or very
little; of the tannin, 'that astringent
elemthit of tea which is; so injurious,
Recent scientific inquiries into the qual-
ities of the peculiar power of tea, which
has tended to raise it so high in popular
esteem, claim for it a calm; placid, be-
nignant exhilaration, . neatly stimulat-
ing the stomach: but if it is allowed to
stoop long, it becomes a poison. For
ladies -who go much to afternoou teas, a
certain outer garment, which can be
thrown off and left in the hall, is most
necessary.
Why not call these gatherings kettle-
drums? It is a prettier, more suggestive
word than "teas.” They are noisy en -
now form some idea of its general out- ough and chatty enough,—Mrs. John
line, says the Folkebladet of Christiana. Sherwood, in Harper's Bazar.
Th 1 t' d Strike t 'k theeat
es la
s1
n g es s ro ye once.
Under the supposition that the vessel
will be "screwed" by the ice, care has
been taken that no projecting points or
flat surfaces exist. The peculiar design
is based on the anticipation that all ice,
when meeting the vessel, will be forced
down under it, allowing it to bo raised
so much out of the water. For the same
reason the bottom of the vessel is cover-
ed with hard and smooth wood—green-
heart, three to six inches thick. Inside
the vessel is provided with horizontal,
vertical and diagonal cross -beams, fas-
tened'by hundreds of iron andwooden
the impreSs of
sol-
joints,
rhe frame is mostly ofgreat old oak:'
Besides the outermost covering of
greenheart, there are two oak skins.
The vessel is provided with a steam en-
gine of 162 horse power. It is rigged as
a three -master schooner and will mainly
rely on its sails when in the ice. Its di-
mensions are: Keel, 31 meters; great-
est length of deck, 39 meters; greatest
width of deck, 11 meters; height from
keel to deck, 5.25 meters; when loaded,
4.75 meters; displacement, 800' tons.
The hull will be extremely heavy on
account of the heavy material used in
its construction, yet it is estimated that
she will bo able to carry 400 tons of coal
and provisions, etc. Besides the smal-
ler boats used for reconnoitering, etc.,
two large boats are being built able to
hold the whole crew of twelve men and
provisions for three months. If the
polarcurrents
are running as Nansenen
supposes, it becomes reasonable to ex-
pect that his expedition will meet with
success. His vessel is certainly a mar-
vel of solidity.
P'o One Lives to Himself Alone.
We may endeavor to close our eyes to
the truth of this statement, and with
the,iumate selfishness which prevails in
the human heart,: strive to envelop our-
selves.in all the absorbent folds of self-
love fiind_self-occupation, but this indis-
putable fact still remains unaltered, that
"no one lives to himself alone."
There is a silent influence for good or
evil that we exert over those with whom
we come in contact which still further
supports the truth of this statement. A
• person of bright. sanguine temperament
in constant companionship with one of
those morbid natures, which always see
the dark side of everything, will do far
more towards changing his disposition
than a dozen lectures on cheerfulness.
Thus, to the listless, indolent man, a
practical, business -like person will be a
continual example of the advantages to
be gained by industrious, methodical
habits. We are a dependent people at
ourbest; each in a measure leaning upon
one another for suppoi t, either physic-
ally. or .morally. The farmer, while
sowing his fields or reaping his grain,
• considers not the hundreds in the far-
.
Ahem!. Trees.
Tho Jews and the Arabs , place the
elate palm before all other trees, because
it was, they say, made of the same clay
as Adam, and prophesied through its
leaves. The rabbis accrocditecl'A.braham
With a knowledge of what was thus con-
veyed for his direction. In Persia the
inhabitants burn wax tapers, les at a
shrine, before the trees which they hold
sacred—the oriental piano and the cy-
press. They hope thus to obtain the
cure of their maladies and the a.econl-
llishinent of their'tvishes.--Gentleman's
Magazine.
'Fanning by k leotrIOity
A new process of tanning by elec-
tricity is stated to be used on the skins
of the stray doge gathered into the Pais
pound. The .skins are claimed to be
t1 •ttasformed intoo leather in a much
Aortae time 'by electricity than by the
ordinary tanner's method,
away, busy city was) will be nourished
by the fruits of his labor; he neither -,:;
SOWS' nor reaps for himself alone. The • '.
machinist, hammering away at his
daily toil, thinks not 'of the countless
numbers who would be benefitted by
his labor.—Helen Wilson, in Canada.
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In connection with my Leather Business J keep
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Trains arrive and depart to follows:
imm ixe seatq`1.101.
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2:00 p.m ISEpali
L:00 p, lel For ' eeswatcr 2:00 t
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11:SO e 41 04 .. 20'02 t•
050 p.111. " " Clinton, "
7:16 " ....., Palmerston, Mixed; 10.60a.1n,
0N0 a. in.......... London, .ko , ......11'CO "
350 pan. " '7:6011.an
11:20 aan l lnaardine,.,ke „ ,. , 0:36411%,
357 p.n , " 1l:0I) "
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Simon Atma, bal and 01 and lfezzonia Kip end Calf;.
also naivekip nd upper. ' Spanish and slaughter.
.
IVIR. C. C. t-IA4Js�i.
Tlio following ionlarkeble faotc aro fully
certified to as being undeniably correct in
everypartio41er. M:. ,ur1iswell known
in the vicinity, having resided there over
fifty years, and le highly •los peoted as a
•.mall• of the strictest honor, whose word 10
es good as hie bond. •
As will be, aeon from hie .totter, four
physicians had. attended bine, end it was
only after ho lied given 'up hope of euro
that ho decided, to try Burdock Blood
Bitters on the i.ecomn:endation of a
neighbor who had been cured of a similar
disease by 1t0 use. Mr. Haan writes as
Eshowe : -
Dn.zh Sins, -1. think 1 hcvo been one
cf itlo worst su orers- you have yet heard
of, having boon six years in the hands of
fors of our best doctors without -obtaining
p,armanent relief, but continually growing
v'/or-6, until almost beyond hope of re-
covery, I tried your Bitters and got relief
i.n a few days. livery organ of my body
a'as acs: ar:ged, the liver enlarged, hardened
r..r.d torpid, tho lseert and digestive organs
i;crioucly deranged, a largo abscess in my
'back, fo:lowed by paralysis .of the right
le;, in fact the lower half of my body was
r;itirely useless. • After using Burdock
snood Bitters for a few days the abscess
burst, discharging. fully five quarts of pug
i t bwo hotu.s. • I felt es if 1 had received a
lholk-from' a powerful battery. My re -
r, nvnry t,.ftor this was steady and the cure
1'er:ne;tiehlt, seeing that for the four. years
eenoo 1. have lied as good health as ever I
h.td. I still take an occasional bottle, not
that I need it but because 1 wish to keep
I iy system in - perfect working order. I
con think of no more remarkable ease.
gran .what I have 17iy3elf passed through,
unci no words can cypress my thanitfulness
eneh perfect recovery.
C. 0: Hem,
• Welland P.O.
in this connection the following' letter
roin T. Cumines, Esq., a. leading druggist
01 Welland, Ont., speaks for itself:
'Me ars. T. Milburn ez Co., Toronto.
Gzxrrzasuir,—1 have been personally -
acrivainted with Mr. C. C. Ilaun'for the
last 20 years, and have always found him
a very reliable man. You may place the
utmost confidence in anything ho • "says
with regard to your medicine. Ho has on
many occasions within the last four years
told me that it wan marvellous the way
the Rtirdock Blood Bitters had elated him,
and that he now felt as able to do a day's
work as he ever felt in his life. Although
quite well: he still takes some B. B. 13.
ee0,1„rsionaLv, re ho says, to keep him in
xter;:ect Leeet.1
,'n1S41 eruly,
Tncazos Cuarinrs,
Welland, Ont.
i lcreaeing eel() of B. B. B.,
the length 01 time it has been before the
people, and the fact that it curse to stay
cured, attest the sterling merit of this
monarch of medicines, the people's favorite
Blood purifier, tonic and regulator.
nsinging 8teply.
eminent iodise boud to say 1, is
me opunon, the very best thing ever said
by a witness to a counsel was the reply
given to Missing, the barrister, at the
tune leader of his circuit. :He was de-
fending a prisoner eharged withstoaling
a donkey. The prosecutor had left the
annual tied to a gate, and when he re-
turned it was gone. Missing was very
; severe in his examination of the witness.
” Do you mean to say, witness, that
the donkey was stolen from the gate ?"
" I mean to say, sir," returned the
witness, giving the judge and then the
jury a sly lock, at the Baine time point
ing oto the counsel, ""the ass was Miss-
inir.—Loslclon Tit -Bits.
• The 1't.lghts of Women,
This is a divine condition all through
higher aminal life—the admiration of
the world,
Mothers preter to suffer and die, if
' need be, rather than let harm come to
their offspring.
The natural place tor women is in the
hdnle, made happy by .just industrial
conditions and love,
"Backache
paeans 'the kid-
neys 6,/ s are in
trouble. Dodd's
Kidney Pills glue
prompt relief."
"75 per cent
of disease is
rst caused by
disordered kid-
1feyS.
Might as well
try to have a
healthy city
without sewer-
age, as good
health when the
kidneys are
clogged, they are
the scavengers
of the system.
"Delay t is
dangerous. Neg-
lected kidney
troubles result
in Bad Blood,
Dyspepsia, Liner
Complaint, and
the most dan-
gerous of all,
Brights Disease,
Diabetes and
Dropsy."
"The above
diseases cannot
exist where
Dodd's Kidney to
to
Pills are used.'
•
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r.
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Tanner and Leather Mei chant,
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