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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-12-3, Page 3Not a Well Day
For Two Years
Kart and Nerves
Were So Bad
L. P. aonee, Kingsville, Ont.,
writeee—"I am writing: to day to tell
you about what Milburn 's Heart and
Nerve Pills have done for me.
I am nowetiventy-three years of age,
and, have had three children, mid I've
aardly seen a well day for the past-
'
two years. .
My heart hurt me so at times sthat
I felt I wasepeinamg for. this werIca
as I could eat sit down; to sew; ocould
not stand tee least noise, or the ail.
dren crying, in fact 1 .ould not do
anything that was steady, and after a
miserable day I would go to bed and
get e little rest, but could not sleep
much. .
s,
An Adventure in DarkeSt Africa
ee wo c 0 the bed. th
There ar 1064 4
By HARRY MARTIN. ; fifteen or taventy tripped corer them,
e many strange stories told Plana m a confused struggling mass,
in Oape Town by hunters who have But on they cama .
One in.to the unnev.pped forests, Most They were nearer to Umhlopegaaz
of them are regarded as fever dreams, than we ware, hat he might have ve-
er tales invented to enake the green- treated to OW: line, which was also
otn gripe. That ss the way I used 1, Lisa lag eforWal d"
to think of thene but my skepticism Instead, he stood there, brandishing
thing of Afraga. any a hie shit knife' ancl swinging the bio -
thing
been shaken. f can believe
_ head shaft of the assegai about his
Five years ago 1 was up north of
the Transvaal after ivory; I had a The first min to reach him was
geed season, but a lot of my blacks actually felled by a blow from the
died and most of the ethers got scared tough, narrow shaft squaae on the side
y. we had te cache ear of the neck. The second man received
and ran awa
blade of tha" knife jast over the
After I started to take Manisa treaeure, and I, vsith my seven faith- the
ful Raffirs, struelc into the Chinganza heart' '
Heart and Nerve Pills I seemed to
country to recruit I had 'hunted there BY that time we had 'reached him
have more ambition to work, and aiy
beatore and was on excellent terms with arid it became a fight t° rescue.16
heart and, nerves are a lot better in hero. ,
, . every way, so 1 will alaalyleeammend iliing, or chief. He. was happy as a
ales to eee me, twilled. his greasy TWO years before that, Umhlope-
them to all those who are suffering,
, buniaed,foreheads
arms about me and gaaz bad found me dying in the forest
as I did, from their heart or nerves .7 antil I wiggled ,out of his grasp. run away with
as my Kaffirs had ith
. all my 'very I had been wounded by
I thought he was a little overcordial a bull elephant, and. Uinhlopegaaz car
Put up only by The T. Milburn Co,
Rad wasn't a bit surprised to learn seed me
to hie village, where I was
rn
samited, Teronto, Ont.
that he was preparing for areas -with nursed back -to health. It was y
Does the Corn Borer Breed 6n His expedition 'was to start next with eit. tae _airy there was in me,
. Than Corn? -
•-- — --e---- . — as . the Avvemba, a t-ribe th the eastward.
. eb.ance to repay him, and I fought
Weeds or Other Plants marnieg, and he extended to me .a --,
rather pxessing invitatron to enast in 'rise fight was go ng our way, when
Umhlo h s" t to me,
his forces. - pegaa,a w o was nex
At,meetings and in private convex' There was noscourthous way to de-
cline this invitatioh. Etiquetteam the had pounced upon him. I sprang into
sation elle frequenely hears state-
mente to the effect that the. recent- forest is rather a subtle quantity, so their midst, using my empty pistol.as,
borer will not work because it breeds a knife in the other. I knocked down club in one hand and slashing with
mended methods for controlling the I promised the support of myself and
mem Besides, the Awemba am the
freely in weeds and other crops. Were terror et the ivory hunters • two. men before something hurtled
this statement true, central would be - against my legs and I went sprawling
fell. In a trice half a .dozen Aweiaha
The campaign started with the 0.e. m3, beets.
very difacult indeed, but fortunately
it is not true, so says Prof. Lawson usual feasting; and twala flowed like' There was a crash against niy-liead.
Caesar. Ever since the borer was water. When every one was properly I did not lose consciousness, but I felt
drunk the expedition took the trail, mysel, ill a sort of daze, being leash_
discovered the entomalogis‘ have had
...
this thought in mind arra so have been the native warriors in the Tan, I and ed along the ground from one Man tf
eXamining weeds and 'other Plants my blacks with firearms in the rear, another, underneath the mass o
s - to be sprung as a surprise on the! fighting men. -
besides corn to determine the 'effects. enemy.
Special attention has been given to to tIbesaFrya
this work this summer ana faa in the
men lay ' dovan aria slept themselvee of sttheI wfigahstdraangdgetdhe
After three hours of marching, the 1 Is At la
and -Kent, where the great nuMber of sober, a precess which consumed th—le Thguaatb,serarmsof Aanwedralbeagsb.ind.ing ihnha.°Pe-
very severely infested areas in Essex
remainder ef that night and all the
borers present might naturally be ex -
pretty steadily for ten days withoutl I was given the seine treatment,
following day. 1•After that we treked
pected to lead to their breeding on
sighting an Awemba topknot , borne off through the forest on the
and in short order we were -being
plants other than corn if they had
any inclination to do so. The results
about 200 all at once, arid before there
saw shoulders of a party of warriors. The
sound of conflict gresv dimmit and
When we did sight them, we
(show that while they did lay eggs and
bre** oats to some extent, yet the
was tinie for a single shot both par- dimmer, and vvith it vanished the hope
ripening of the oats long before the ties were so mixed up in a handtothat our friends- would rescue use.
borers are full grown results in their
for fear of doing most damage to our am a
We niust have gone a good three
- death, -so that oats are not a source hand combat that we didn't dare shoat
a danger RS breeding plaoes. In all alen. 1 s when our captors set us on the
ed th thongs which
ground, removed e
feet and we were
tired; and. it looked as though both more. At least this was better than
coensor close alongside of f it, and that sides would be killed off without either being carried willy-nillyaand the jolt -
where there was a field of weeds or
. winning the battle. . , , i•ng of the hurrying men had aggra-
any other land of crop, as for examp.e, , During a mutual suspension of hos- ,
vated my bruises aanost beyond en-
sager.- beets, any appreciable distance tilities, while all the warriors were ell -ranee' •
from the corn, there were no corn leaning on assegais trying to get Savages take violent death and even
borers present, though sometimes their breath, one of the Aweinba..
other Made of borers, which loolced braves climbed on to aa rock and in me it was different My friend, if he
torture as a matter of course, but with
like the corn borer were there. All
• • other cases it was found that weeds
g ng we were it pretty hampered our a ,
marched_ along, surrounded by war -
At the end ef two days of inter -
or other craps were only attacked mittent hti 11'
when they were growing among th •
very picturesque Awemba talk figured fest any anxiety, did not show it.
a:a-evidence skews that we never find out that if he could meet the whole I was filled with repugnance at the
berets in weeds or in other crops than! Chingartza army one man at a time fate I knew awaited us. Umhlopegaaz
corn or- eats except when they have it would take hien just about four had Plain:the son of a great chief, and
• been 'attracted te these by the close
proximity ef the cons itself. What
the borers vecaild do if there were no
corn is a matter -of conjecture, and
nsaed not cause any worry to farmers
at present. Clesining up the corn
plants and plovvinge the stubble dea
stroys, course, the borers present
in the weeds in the corn field as well,
us in the stable and debris.
The Largest aramal.
The bhie whale, evlach reeaches a
length of 87 feet, is the largest living
The purchase of eggs according to
quality- is meeting the approval of
_hours and forty-five minutes to con-. -was a wInte meal'
vert them all into food for vultures, That assured us both of the choicest
thnhlopegaaz, se, fine specimen of torture the Awemba could dispense
warrior who stood beside me mid I wished that I had managed to keep
whom I. called a friend, replied to the my pistol, so that I could have ended
Awembais taunt and offered to meet it all the instant my hands were ie
him in .single combat: leased. •
"Bayetel Baaetel Bayetel", thun- A man des not like to admit fear,
dered the Chinganza warriors, and but I felt something very much akin
the Aseemba thuncleeed back `Bayete!" ,to it during that long trek.
It was a ave -day rnarch to the kraal
of the Awerriba. On the third day a
runner passed us bearings news that
All of which is like the cheering be-
fore a footlrallgarrie. The sinking sun
glinted on the black, greased limbs of
the two men. ELS they circled each the Chinganza warriors had been
other. Everything was ting,ed with driven back and had fled the country.
red Even the gleaming bodies of the That killed our last hopes for rescue.
men seemed to carry a shade of it The village was in- turmoil when
From the forest all around us came we arrived. Word had gone. ahead
producers in, ad sections of the the groans and cries of wounded and that the man -who had slain tap young
eountryae An •Alberni, B.C., farmer, dying, a iornbre background to the chietbain and a white man stere being
centle , le- piercing yells of the combatants and brought in as captivaa
,
who keeps over six hundred hens •
stated to sar. wager& 'leggier, the cheers of the wai ma, waiimis. As we went through the village
Egg Impactor under the Dominion The _Aeremba. was a eon of the chief street, old women, who were squatting
Live Stock Branch, that he was fully and wore white osttich p',umes on his before their huts pounding Kaffir corn
convinced that the regulations give head, and a s,kirt of cow's Jails which in bowls, stopped Work and hurled the
the eroduaer an added five per cent, swished back* and forth was suspend- grinding stones atsais. Children pelt-
„ profit,
Bad lood
is• the cause of ”
liojlis and Pimples
whut, you yea wheel the blood, gets
out of order is a good tonic to tone
kua build up the system and put the
Mood into proper shape, and Wh.en flus
is eta you will have no more boils
calcium" of no remedy that. can
4.
..„ , 'pimples.
equal
I
;
Or tala purpoets, as uting the past ,
0 yeraselt lute been en ‘the market i
'to have received thousande of tdsil- i
,. .tict, lifAb 4roni iho,so who have „been di
atiasilisal be itesese, "
I
Put up only by The T., Milburn co„
*tect Tetelr.tot tollt.', '
ed from his waist Umbropegaae, was ed us with mud and with stones, and
nak•ed except for a girdle about his the young men Who had, been left to
loins. gizard the village growled and looked
The two men appeared to be danc- ferocious as we pessed.
ing, but suddenly theAwemba darted We were put under guard in a hut
low, near the ground. There and kept there for three days until
was a flash of stet.el and blood flowed the warriora returned .feom the field.
fromourinan's Gide. e On the first evening we were the ob-
He had- been -wounded by a .short ject of great c,uriosity, and among
spear made fa:an a hunter's- knife, those.. who came to the prisott hut to
hound vvith wood fibres to the end of look at us eves Melinda., a daughter
a stout tithe. of the chief, with four of her maidens.
"Bayete!" shrieked' the Aweinba 1VIalinda seemed much impressetl by
warriors but their shout of triumph the handsome figure and strength of
ended in a long di wail, for Urnhlopegaaze and spoke to her eatenUniglopegaaz had struck at his enemy dents hi a Manner whieh made me
with a short knife, and while the blow believe her curiosity might be turned
into something stronger,
Next morning she returned, and
when the guards were somevrhat
apart she spoke a few words to my
tellow captive. I did not understand
them, but tlinhlopeganz seemed to, and
when she had gone he explained to me
that he was as pretty as the little
e •C II b hind hi
was ieeing, parried, he.,. raised his asse-
gai and drove the rough head of it
clean through the young chieftain.'
The Shaft of the assegai broke off
short and Ilanhlopegaaz waved it
about his head triumphantly, tatintd
ing the enemy. The Awernba rushed
upon him. They did not utter a cry,
hat their feet sounded like the tramp-
ing of stampeded cattle on the plains,
As they charged and rny three te-
rnaining Xaffirs let them have the
coetenth of our fourebores. We stop-
ped a half-dozen of the enenty, who
vitae(' headloeg to the ground, and
evat las e s father's hut,
and as graeeful ae a hartebeest, which
I did not thielc gr c tf ul at all.
/ was in he .moocl to dote upon the
charms of Melinda, for they in to
wise mitigated the impleaserartees of
being put to death by her tether. But
V
e t
10anda free end liberated aty'own legs.
I heard tariblopepez stirring 4114
epee. ieferrned me that he, too, was
unbound, We haddied together arid
lay there in fear for one time,
As our eyes hecente somewhat ae-
ciestoreed to the weakness we were
able to eee the walls of the ceve, for e
asaa feet. They -were wet end sliener.
Feeling thein, We felled, there to be
rook, covered with daek segetable
greerths, in some plaees chipping with
filthy water'. Outaide the little circle
Children's Coughs
and. Colds
Can Be Milord, By
Dr. Wood's
Norway '
•Pino
LESSON
December 6. Peul's Veyage an a shipwreele, Acts 27; 144. Golden Text—
Be of geed cheer. it te 1; be not
afraid.—Mett, 14; 27,
ANALYSIS,
I. reurs's Feriae AND eamene SAGA'
CITY ,A oireaa 130-36,
IL wee seas N$CAPE TO LAND, 37-44..,,
INTRODOCTION—The earrative a
of light, aiffu.sed from the shaft -like Only the mother anowe hoer hard it the voyage of Paul to Peaesie is the
entrance to be cave, we could not see is to keep the children from eatehing most valuable eieettreeet regarding
at am..aut we groped or way along, eolds." They will rue out a &ors not anelent methods of navigation which
At ever,y step we knew we might Properly eled, or have on tooismuoh has come down to us from antineity.
we did net fear death se much as we heated an coal ail tee sudden17; get the exect aceannt of an eye-witneee
paunge down some unseen abyss, bet clothing; flaa too herd and get over- Thas excellenee it owes to its beteg- a
that night she returned alone with
food for us, end SaW her give to the
guard 'a strieg of beads, whereupon
he walked a little distance while Me-
linda talked with Urnhlopegaaz. In
the forest love springs into life full-
fledged, It does riot grow gradually,
and I began ta hope that this affec-
tion might brieg us some good.
On the second morning 1VIalinde re-
turned again -with food, but that night
she dideeot come, Umhlopegaaz was
depressed, and even with the shadow of
death over him seemed nothing mere
nor less than a sulky lover. 1 sulked
too, but for a grimmer reason,
• I did not sleep, and my friend walk-
edathe floor far into the night. Sud-
denly there was a gentle scratching
on the wall of the hut My heart
leaped with hope that it was libera-
tion and Umlaapegartz smiled content-
ment, for he thought his sweetheart
had come at last, e putear. close
to a small opening in the wall, and I
heard a voice whisper something to
him. From his look when the whis-
pering had ceased I judged Melinda
had returned and that we were about
to be liberated, but. he soon dashed my
hopes to the ground. It seems one ad
1VIalindars maidens had likewise fallen
a. vittim to the doubtful charms of the
warrior prisoner, and, being jealous,
ILA infornied the chief of Malinda's
visits. He had promptly put an end
to them, and it seemed that our hopes
of- being liberated were vain. This
Vidghltilf: we gtzhieptpocdh eacbehrotohterhoarbroourt.
mother can't prevent.
, wlsitilsieo hdavielgi leotteteeh.leild lallisme)eolufrnto ptaael
Youngsters take "Dr, Wood's?' apart, from this teehnieveel rill°, the
tthheat wirs:neforlelawteo wdeeraethd°thteerraotinheedr without any fuss, exta. Ito promptness narrative throws a nsost i three -a g
should not be leatealive to go mad in and effectiveness in loesening the li 1st n Praia asictioal winda rid
atliat den. — '' - regal and healing the lungs and his ability t ' ' t ' 'In. and
blaek srencheekedubs vefiosr:ucah that itihe troable leaderehip in a great material crisis',
o assume he funetioes e -
I weEtywfaslslelinagratoukreewpianyg'a?hnegodtihi: circle trouble dan. ' ibl l9rse °u8 lung When the safetY of
the 81 le t'ill'eset-
sae found that the subteeranean cave handles it; put up only by The T. . which the commander of the ship and
in e ern at eight, aed do a, hunaxed things this and having cl * al h
always
our
nearest
pose .develop. ened by storm and mutiny, e displays
of eomparativo light ruggiet or dealer' a remarkable presenee of mind before
was circular in shape, and, I juclated, Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont the miltary officere on board have
not more than a hundred feet in di- ee • , • •simp,y to ewe place. And this mass
. , .
"Be stills" he commanded, and 1 'tees!' of the situation he owes to ale
stood silent. .
! '
1 invineible faith M the power and
see it, but found that it was not quite the voice feem above ceased and my' In the present l
as big around as my body. eseoa we are deal-
odnese of God,
ameter. • -
• At one point my band felt the rim
of the hole in the wall. I could not
For some- seconds they spoke, then ge
friend explained what lied passed, lag with the , practical meastires ,
.
adapted to save a- ip than
Nevertheless, 1 pushed ma hand in Melinda had ba.da birn. wait patiently ' ea ng shwi Nellie ratherPau
until the following night'sought to save th e souls of men. Yet
That was sal we knew. We were religion has to do with the whole of
to wait all that night and the next life, and we see the po-wer of faith
beyond As far as I could feel, the raaaanTed
Again the hiss. „Cold sweat drenched tihmie effect it ha.d. on me. 1
hole did not increase. in size.
ing enough to explore the
. . .
dark l
2. crawled over my feet and ankles, but
Time was not It was one long, un-
ght have been ve of them for all
period of blaelcness and in the sermons which we have heard
forward by Paul at this moment than
I. PAWS E'AITI-1 AND PRACTICAL SAGA -
from him on so many occasions.
CITY IN A GREAT CRISIS, 30-36.
passage day. ' - Ina lees in the practical eouresels Put
etaSrutedrndllawiI nlidgeamrdy haapshdaprpartliyss.0
thought for inc. The repties la.ughed Vs -3.0,. The storm was now so high
me. I trembled. Something cold and and
cried and prayed, but how the and the ship so helplessly' adrift that
soft
ou
aetedm
yGhea!" Iychraiendd; and yanked mY hours passed I do not knowthe crew, despairing of her safety, re -
hand from the hole. Twisted about I remember that Umhlopegaaz shook sorted to the dastardly expedient of
t
my forearm was a snake In a frenzy i me into sensibility, and I realized that saving themselvein the ship's bot,
I tore it away and smashed it against; the circle of light had faded ancl that and had even lowered the boat on the
as far as it would go. I thought the
tunnel might grow larger, and. if SO,
we might be able to enlarge the open -
the rocky wall until it dangled like a it was again night. I did not know Pretext of laying out further anchors
thong in my fingers
Repugnance sickened me, and I drop -
from the ship's head. But Paul was
was hungry, yet 1 ximust bave aware of this cowardly purpose, and
been, for we had not eaten. lresolved to prevent il.
wasp erit. holdingThenIntl: uaghhoeudt. the
wloapeistgaalt ThTerheenwacsamaelitt waterer famndili a thud was to appeal to the centurion and
above. Vs. 31, 82, The only thing to do
cried, then laughed again, covering, Umharpegaaz put a leathern rope into the soldiers on board. Paul revealed
my face with my hands. Through it my hands and told me to hold it until 'thed tritocitcheincteenutduerid obi?'
that
wicreiewee, atnhde
all Umhlopegaaz was stoical, yet his he should climb to the surface of the sal
I
terror must have been greater thani, earth and lift me outsailors could be prevented from desert-
.
i ing ?eras no hope for the pas
encounterede. ws
mine, for he did not knowwhatI had I I swayed on my feet and to make '
; sure, he fastened the thong under my e soldiers acted promptly,
. I
When I was -myself again, I told, shouldersHe clambered upward, and thus allowing her to fall off.
him, and even that sturdy warrior! a few moments later I felt myself moment the boat would be engulfed
and cut the xopes of the lowered boat,
. In a
shook like a leaf. The noise and com- lifted.the swirling waves and swept to
'
Fresh air stung my nostrils as 1 i the bottom.
in
was lifted into the moonlight. Unah- Vs. 33, 34. Then Paul turned to the
lopegaaz was standing beside Melinda. easseegers. Day was about to break,
I staggered and they supported me and as he lookea on their wan and
uetil I was able to control my OWR terrified faces, he was reminded that
legs. Then we fled into the forestthey were aweak frionshltag stittrcvlastionci
hold I need not tell Day and night by°rttewbga'etat)eo trlegspeal7unaable to
Of the trip th the Chieganza strotig-
we traveled living on herb, and leer- rest or to snatch eray but the barest
put off their clothes for a night's
ries which we gathered, and at last moirthfuls of food. Paul earnestly
we staggered into the kraal. advised them n•ow to take a meal in
Umhlopegaaz is 4a chraf now, unless ' earnest; their • health required it;
he has been killed, and Melinda is his . moreover, they. need fear no danger
wife.
, For God had giveri humthe assurance
I have known many women, beauti-
that not a hair of their heads would
ful and talented, and I have cared for perish. Acts 27: 22-25.
some of them, but the one for whom I Vs. 35, 36. As a proof of his own
. confidence in what he said, Paul takes
would do most the one who seems, bread, and after thanking God in the
most beautiful of all, is the savage presence of all, he breaks the bread
Melinda as she steed in the moonlight and begins to eat His example proves
in the forest that night, at the mouth sufficient to rally the ceurage of the
of the Gave of Death.
did not seem to worry Urnhlopegaaz,
however, so long as he had received a
visit from Melinda, and knew that
she was faithful.
,
We aid not see her again before the
Awemba braves returned and we:
were led befoee the chief and ths!
tribe assembled. The trial" evessaid shoth
rt '
I wank into eir midst, using my
'Dog of: Chinganza,the
empty pistol as a club.
chief, pleasantly, "and cur of a white
man, you have been sentenced to the motion had roused all the reptile life
of the cave, and all about us we beard
a hissing •and the sliding of slimy
boidiNevse.uid h
v
Feeding Bees in the Winter.
stricken passengers, and they all take
some food. •
II. TEE SAFE ESCAPE TO LAND, 37-44.
V. 37. The total number of persons
If bees are to be 'wintered so as to on board is here given as 276. But
come out ready for work in the spring certain ancient manuscripts say 76,
• it is necessary that they go into win- and it is possible' that the smaller
ter quartarea with plenty of stores. num,ber is the right one:
Owing to the fact that the bees raised V. 88. The step is now taken of
considerable brood in the fall of 1923- lightening the shiP of part of the
24 at the Lennoxville, Que., D onnmon " eaksgo. A grain -ship, conveying wheat
relieved of part -of herburdif eh;
Experimental Station, more than the from tae East to Rom' e she had to be en
usual amount of feeding was required, ,was to right herself in these heal
This -was acoomplished by feeding waters. So, after the passengers had
three frames of clover honey per hive, eaten, all that remained of the wheat
and supplementing with a syrup made was thrown overboard.
of sugar two parts and water one V. 39. Morning had now broken, re -
part Common five and ten pound vealing a strip of west near by, on
honey paile were used as feeders with which the ship was drifting. Nobody
sity or severity small nail h,oles
knew what coast it was, but deserY-
x
punched in the (*vers. The pails were
filled and inverted• on top of the
frames of each colony. On November
25 fourteen colonies were put away he
ly dancing, chanting savages, men,
sensation le Welcomed the stinging ei would have raeant a cellar especially fixed for the paie
women and children, who laughed. and that the fange of one of the snakes iroee, and ,four were placed in the
taunted usall the time prancing and had darthd into my flesh, for no death quadruple wintering- case with dry
e
gesticulating in a weird sort of dance. lam poison could be so teinblplaner shavings as an insulatorEach
A quarter of a mile from the village
e as to e the
,
• perish from starvation among the ea
colonies to be wintered in the off ell°r°, and her bow sticks fast.
. • .
we stopped at the mouth of a cavern
, •
But the snakes were evidently not .
pounds without the cover while those e
the eat rpa,rt of the ship to pieces.
reptiles. cellar was fed to weigh up ao pea TVleantime, the brea,kers begin to patina
between two enormous rocks. The .
tribe Termed in a semi -circle and
poisonous, nor had they fangs to bite in :the wintering case were fed to Ve. 42, 43. In this crisis the sca-
six
with, for although they wriggled over weigh 80 pounds. • , diem
fearing for the escape of thair
of the warriors approached up with
ong rop s a g •
about six feet into the cavern, one a
them tossed the end of a rope down a
black hole about three thnes the size
of a man'e body, Then they led us to
the hole and made signs for us to de-
scend by means of the rope of thongs.
I did net know what awaited us at
the bottom of the black shaft, but I
knew that it was a death worse than
that to be met dr -the point of at
assegai, so I struggled in the hope
that one, of my captors would end it
But I Was simply bound rather loosaly,
the rope was drawn up and passed
under rny shoulders, then i was low -
Cave of Death." •
• "The Cave of Death! -shrieked the
members of the tribe.
We were led off amid a mob of veild-
ing it eree,lc with a sandy beach they
resolved, if possible, to run the ship
in there, and to take their chances of
&fay'.
Vs, 40, 41. The anchors are weigh-
ed, the sails hoisted, and the head of
the ship being got round, they make
with the wind for the beach. Unfor-
tunately, the ship strikes a low shoal
our feet and twisted about our ankles
they did not molest es.
thnhlopegaee groaned. Even he
was breaking down; but strengthened
by his weaknesa I rallied him. If we
were to die, it were better we should
die-"sarre, I had a terrible fear of
going mad before the end should come.
So that we might try to fight off
0*g
trisoners, plat to put them to death.
1 e an de of talon s Crawling ut tbe caw in command, wishing
otsr tormentors, we made our.way into
the circle ef dim light. It was fading
fast and we knew night mustbe ap-
proaching It seemed years later that
the circle clvvindled into nothing and
we were left in total btacknees.
. Then 1 cursed as I had never cureed
before. I tell you I am aeharned of
ered into the eave, •it, but I did. And I think I was mad,
' Umhlopegaae was treated likewiee, stark mad, I wonder thet my mind.
and in a few moments 'molded beside ever ieturned.
me1 judged we bad been dropped There was to sleeping. We dared
forty feet, and as I lay there on my not lie down to -have the reptiles drawl
back all I could see was a dim diffused
light above me, for, as I have said,
the shaft wits located about six feet
from the entrance to tho upper cavern
What awaited us in that pitchy
blackness I did not iceow, but I pre-
ferred to Meet death in any form with
my limbs unfettered, and as I had been
bound but loosely I soon twisted nay
oyee us, although the snakee, .apper-
ently heavy after their ineal, lied re- ,
turned to theheholes to lie in stupor.
do not know how long I had beet
raving when at last I awoke to the
realization that a voice was calling
from above. s
"It is Melinda," evisisperesi
kpeiaez,•
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M-ILBLIRN'S
• Constipatiot is oae of the most pre-
valent a oubles the human race it sub-
ject to, and is the greatest tense kif
many of our ailments, for if the boWels
fail to parterre their faneticras properly
all the other organs of the body
become cleratige
Keep our bowels workiag notivally
and gently by the ese of Milburn'e
Lexa-LiVer Piils, tala thug do away
with the danstipatiba, and all the other
• *roublesmised by it
Your neatest duggiet or dealer'
handles them; pet lip erae• by The
Milbura 0o. Lunited To2Onto Otte
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to save Paul, forces them to desist,
and issues the order Sauve qid peat.
Every one who can. seams is to take t,o
the sea and make for the shore. Tile
rest are to follow on rafts or eineck-
age,dee.
V. 44: •Aiad'Sa 1t comea'aa' Pass. 'All
escape either by swimming Or on float -
leg wreckage. Not a sinee life is lost.
From the above narrative we should
learn that the man of religious 'faith
will also be quick to put forward Isis
hand to help in any real erisie in life.
Religion does nat mean escape from
the storms of life, stilt less a narrow
and selfish regard for olio's own safes
tee It is an attitude of the whole of
life which abould inspire a Man to
more heroic courage andestedfastheas,
particularly in the matter et nerving
the weak and terrified spirite. Reli-
gion puts the whole of lite under the
omnipotent etre and love of God.
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Greit, la' bins ox evabei-bexes tan
be estimated ,ao f.,01.5r24;s: iquitipky to
g/ther ,the ieiigtli breadtli an4 deptb
'(M inches) of the,Plie ot gt0g,
diyida byalaa (theenuenber el
inehes In a latiehel). Tate gileal the
beehela 'of garde at ehelleta dont,