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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-11-26, Page 6I T, ltors, NItaries Public veyancers &C, &C, oney to Loan at Loweet Itaten of Interest. Me.IN - STREET, EXETER. rryTmr, DENTAL._ tu. INGRA.11I. DENTIST. zetsor to L. Billings. tInt Royal Cellege of Dental eeth inserted with or witImut oF Dabber. A sate Arcesthetic lasso extraction of titti.t.. Fillings as Re.cruired. Over 0,Neirs • Bank. ,DENTIST.14.D. ack,. main.st, Exeter. =mete Teeth without eenway at Itessat-eou nreley : Mei imeocenn fourth iTnesday: and en on the last nears. f ea eh month. _ • 0 Visit° ris. tJnivc ty: . Dent uon tatt. Quer far t a. Mace. 4pp.41*4 ,M.Q.J,S. ram D St. Hefner, Out. contly oectipted by P. uc-7, or Pbetielemi ant Piweleian.eerie, el mid .11eASIttnnkt Zinn. — SON, M. D eillege at eitynelatie ali • LOttlan RENSALL, R STA EBLE R, or TOttionm, it Physician. Srirdennetc lating erect the winter of l"-7 in Now 1.7,„oth, nail wmter af„ 11657-ni ch 1401Unt, Austria, * Omen CRLDITON. ONTARIO. e DR• WO ()T3R,L1rFF Diseases of the EYE, EAR, N052 ASO THROAT •hanksgiving Turkey. • .„. SANDI'S, IN omen. etricey is a wondrous toothsome eel. whether it be a choice bird from the ening vela or ono of those kings. of the fe.there min a grand wild fellow, slain perhape after a deal of toil and trouble in his native hauat —some Southern river bettam, Western scrub or lonely Canadian forest. But stunt binis as these are by no Imam.= easily proeuren, and only a favored few of the mitions of feasters. on Thanks - :wing Dem will sulk tooth alto genuine iwild ittrkey wean The price paid by the Mitre for !as wild bird would. donlitless . purehase provisions enoneh to feast e family of he hrea.neannang elatla on excellent fare for aa entire week, so the toilers must needs he content wish a less aristocratic fowl tnan -Veit aorn gene/men Year oy year the wild birds are steadily ileeteesieg in number, and the day is not far dietan; when turkey will exiet no longer in the wail state seen in a few favored per - tions of the Stoutit and Setithwest. Easily trapped and always valuable. either for the market or for home cansumptiou, it is hard- ly surpeising that the birds have been eager- ly soughz ani remorseleesiy slain wherever found, and were it not for their keen sight end swift anti enduring, laming petvers they woetti long ago have been exterminat- ed id.rain arcenieible forests, where a few yet tind a tionie. Lin while the turkey Is one of the ensiest birds te trap., lie is no foot i ranges. d :ta tofonew with title or gent ii hie forest Min anhe- to degree, keen i sighted, tenant mien man of foot and , arum; et veng when neens be he 13 also sharply aspieious of 4 loan on foot, and wane as tiiititinit to "stitiliont"sumess. fully as a deer. Generelly ranging in heavy forest, awl within ensv reach of tau - feint serail or other tattling et/enrol° Beeper does he sutpeet danger then his Ione legs beer hiin nwiftly to the densest growth he can find, through WIliell 4 Plan mey tinek him for haunt without either obtaining a shot or for ng him te take wing, and trequently the biod win not even be eeen. Tile prieciplee of good spertsmauship anutit ot the will turkey being taken by eeveral mettteds. One of these is shoot g the birds when roosting in tall timber et , night. All that b neeset'y is first to Imeate the " twat." then to steal upon the unmet- neetirne '..e n e and .,hoot . a many sa pdstnble ' ! reform the turkeys realire what ai going on . and leave the uffiteeltity neignbinhowL A , , secomi toed:el ie " calling,' or "yelpintr," The eporternen tures frequeutly a bane from a. Mtn di wing as a " ealert" anti by sunk- ztir through this bone in theproper innainti an melee imitation of the , • yelp" ! of die Wed ie prodtteeli. An ortlinary clay pipe altemakee an etzeillent " yeller. 'Dui ; reetizmi may he tiliewesi with tie:kite' effect either after a dee: has been seatteren or, as I is done in the nenth, senile the goliblersare In strattiegen in MIMI O4S0 4 gosnl imitgion . , Tit toe ..47 ...: 4101:00M hen will lure the ' teal-• to his ,leri ruction. Stiil another reenteil, the most nashing! l ani exciting spert of all, is couraing the Neale with greyhound's. This, of eaurse, dentantle iin open eountry, and is I terieve, I only a:temp:ell on the plain° of the far 1 :Muth Ma SalltitWelt, POT this .natot 4 31131t; men be a good bore:mem and be well 1 , umunted, aa the going in fast and free and 't the ground moaned frequently: tiangerone. ' The turheys are found feetling in the open ; the liege are dipped, and when the Innis Mho mug horse aielhaunde follow the se. leete.1 victim as fent as they eau lay foot ! on the grountl. The turkey Mee straight, , etel though ns first night may behalf a mile or more, it has not mute to reeover from the unusitztlexertion ere the fleet does:again com- pel it to take wing. It may rise two or three times, but its strength is soon :Tent, and unless it can melt heavy cover the dogs pull it down, the horseman meanwhile following the chase in the beat way that he can. Yet, another method, and thoroughly sportsmanlike one is tracking of "still hunt. ing." The best time for this is immediatele after a light fall of snow when all " sign " is freeh, and the contest simply becomes a fair test of hunter's craft against cunning and millimeter.. The still hunter will surely earn Ins bird, no matter whether he carry a dile and kill his game at long range, or a shot- gun and kill it flying, after he has fairly tramped it to a standetill, forced it from sheer wearinees to squat and hide and then flushed it from cover lw his close approach. Tracking turkeys in the kind of ground they ' usually favor is emphatically hard work, and the tracker will be led, perhaps for mile after mile through just the sort of cover that tempts one to halt and "talk the bark offa tree " now and then. I have many times Ifollowed turkeys—sometimes on e tracks, thsometimes by guesswork --for an entire day and never once had a chance at a bird, One fall, that now has many leaves upon its grave, I decided to take a run over the Canada Sonthern into Essex Woods and try for a good gobbler, though a plump hen would doubtless have also received attention It had rained hard for several days, then the cold came, and with it a slight fall of snow, though hardly sufficient for good tracking. It was an extremely sharp, clear, bracing morning when I left a comfortable farm house some miles west of Esser Centre and with Winchester on shoulder started for the great silent stretch of woods which ex- tended for miles in every direction. I knew that turkey were in these woods and was fully resolver' to have one before night, but no sooner was the timber fairly entered than the unpleasant fact became paintully appar- ent nun it wasn't a good day for turkey. Every hollow between the thick standing oaks, maples and elms had been filled to onrflowing by the rains, and now every pool was covered with an inch thick coat of ice—just thick enough not to bear 180 , pounds. Every twig and frozen leaf under foot, moreover, crushed like glass and under such conditions I was about as likely to get within shot of a turkey as I was to tree a Bengal tiger up one of the big elms. There was nothing for it but to acknow- ledge a balk, and I retreated to the railroad, the tracks being about the only place where dry walking was possible. After infinite difficulty, aided by a couple of rails from the snake fence, I managed to safely cross the deep ditch between the woods and the track, and so reached safe footing. Itwas an exasperating situation. Straight as arule, east anti west, stretched the narrow roadben, with its two shining rails; on either side were broad ditches containing water perhaps five feet deep, coated with treacherous ice, and I thns had a promenade over one hundred miles long, but only about fifteen feet wide. A tempting shooting ground, truly 1 A fellow might get " rad birds" an it or shoot off a few " lies" to fill ! in time, but it was not very exhilarating X confess. There was nothing to do until the evening train came along to take me home again. Nothing but e heavy frost, followed by snow, would make still hunting possible, and there were no indications of snow. For want of something better to do I strolled a couple of miles along the track, and by so hes and 9ncemeles furnishea for titi Distant Vision. vraFsat lionte.execnt on Prides's, NO, 185 gileent'S Avenue. London, Ont.:Wien ..7,!!!".._"•sf•ifociffef. AUCnIONEERS. 9;17. 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Buildings,`,, Merchandise. anufactortes and all other deseriptioos of Amble proPerty: Intending insurers have of insuring on the Premium Note or ast ten years this cdmpany has covering property to the ,872 08; and Paid in losses alone 176,100.00, consisting of Cash `trammel:it Deposit and the unasses- Notes on hand and in force. .D., President; AL TAYLOR stlTt,osss Inapeetor CHAS. Exeter arid vicinity' doing made a discovery which changeil the aspect of affairs considerably. A car laden with shelled. corn must have passed some days before and had a bole iu it, fore. long stream of yellow grant extended for some three hundred yerds beside the rails. Near •ity end of the eornwaimenivert crossing the tracn, through which,under ordinarycondi- dons cattle could readily pass. But it was now Mien to within a couple of feat a the top with water, like the ditches coated with ice. Everywhere withia a, short distance of this culvert I found "sign j of wild turkeys, and It was an easy task to read tee possi- bilities. The birds had discovered the trail of grain and had been feeding on it for two or three days at least. The ratite had drowned out their feeding grounds in the wootis and they would be sure to return to the corn day after day until the last grain was eitteu. It was simply a question of .tlose biniug, more or less of the ong agony of hope deferred, and then—and then A turkey wculd be mine ! I fairly minuet' over that layout. But where to hide. Not an available point °tiered ; the track was 33 bare as the ride barrel, and the roadbe1 was elevated so much above the level a the woods that it could not be properly commanded, except I climbed a tree, svidell would be altogether unsuitable. The culvert ! Yes, the culvert; but the ice will barely hal, thought I. However, a look at it would do no harm. 1 carefully tested it and found that owing to ite narrowness and the grip the timber wails etTorded the ice it svoutd just beer me. Hem thought; a, board of you mtte inoken in two and enslitoned with a letter of dry grass and sten' would mike a tioniforteldo resting placm, and spread its pressure on the ice sufficiently to mire all ;Ain The board was soon secured, placed in two halvee on the fee and petiden with handfuls of withered herbage, and I was all ready for business at the new stand. Sit- ting upon my Wards I couln just comfort- ably raise ray eyes abeve the track, and if I got upon my knees the edge of the culvert atTortled a dean rest for toy elbow, and I felt I couldn't miss a turkey at 150 yards if I tried. It wassoperb, aud I grinned some more. This was just the luckiest, Ivies% tieni certain Turkey shoot on record. For some time I sat there, closely watelt- ing the track and the womb upon either sine. It was %cajole', cold work enoueh, and in due time I grew weary and era:noel front the confined. position end, %Aden *dame by creeping out of my :shelter awl having a bit of a tlartee to etir sluggieh blood. duet as thought of agoin going to tiover a Meek ab jet moven in the womb, perlieps i1"0 earns away. No need, for a woad glance ; it could only be a turkey : and OM SVN.kii.b: nt petsible cravelen leek into the -alert, and with my head cline to the rail waitel for further development% Moments drag. gen elawly pet, and at last one birdappeer. en on the track, goon nOti yards oft t autl wee presently followeit by another, and another' awn yet inhere, until nine atately fowl wert in plain view. They seen turned in my direetion and movedelowly forward. It Was DOW a "regular cinch " and I hug. ged my heat' closer Into the rail and glared down the traek at those turkeys with a burning intentness that melted what little snow there was near my face. They were cotning—they were bound to feed eight op to my stand if I clune to let nen. I e ould plunk the big gobbler. 1 eould distinguish Morn where I lay and then teke chances for another, run or fly. No, I wouldn't either. I would be silent and wary as a lynx and let themcell gel, and close, al watt for the big f4low etre another to get elitioand straighten out a brave of them at the one shot. They came steedily on. They were now only- about fur hundrett yards away, and advancing in o. long line, Indian file. Nearer and nearer theyMlle, and I changed my i purpose. TWO n line were not enough for int& on opportunity. I would draw a dead dead on the big fellow and hold on him till three were in range. Yes, that weuld be better. Still they advanced, and only three hundred yards separate,' thein from their doom. Now they quickened their move- ments and advanced liapully for some die - tame°. They had reached the trail of corn and they crowded, close bunched over the tiret scattered erains. Once attain my re- solution wavered. Hang it all ! It was just as easy to get four in line— a ball at short range would stiffen four of them easy enough I must have four. Step by step, yard by yard, they came on, every moment drawing nearer and nearer to the certain death that waited to claim its four. Every once in a while they would all bunch together, and as they did this at a range of about two hundred yards my me. desty wavered again. Coin(' it not be possible to drive a ball through five of them in line 1 Such a rec- ord—such a shot to describe to the boys Five grand wild turkeys at one lick 1 I was just fairly entertaining the five notion, when an ominous click sounded along the rails. That mysterious click which an- nounces the coming of a train. "Click -tuck -click 1" There was no mis- take. It must be a freight, for no express was clue at that hour. "Click—tuck-lick—click !" The myster- ious message had reached the turkeys' ears, too, aud they lifted their heads on bigh and stood motionless. I breathed a few stanzas of vulgarized adjectIves at the infernal change of luck, and considered what I should do. I might try a long shot, but it would be doubtful. If I showed myself, good-bye to these. turkeys. My mind was almost made up to shoot at once, for the rails were now clicking merrily, wheu. like saving clause, the thouglit occurreil to me that they heard trains passing many times every day, and woulcl probably merely re- treat into the woods for a short distance and return when all became still. They had certainly been disturbed in this fashion more than once before. These reflections were rather comforting, mend I resolved to just lay low where I was tehd let the train thunder above my head. I was perfectly safe and could get my five birdj s ust as well as not when they came back. I took a peep eastward and there, sure enough, was my train coming along at a great rate. Looking again in the direc- tion of the turkeys I saw the last two or three trot slowly into cover. They un- doubtedly were not seriously alarmed and would most likely resume feeding in half en hour, • • There I lay close is possible and in a moment the train thundered overhead with a tremendous olatter. Though I knewI was perfectly secure I fairly shudd.ered as the first couple of pairs of wheels passed so close to my head. ' Heavens ! what a jar and row it made. Would it never draw its frightful length across that culvert? At last when I was almost deafened, a blessed pause in the uproar brought relief. A hol- low " plunk -plank "of the last pair of wheels annpunced :the complete passage of the con- ductor's red van, and I made it move to rise. There was a faint, squeaking, grinding noise, a squirt of icemold water, then a frightful crash and splash, and I gave an involuntary imitation of a young num fall- ingthrough a glass skylight and fetching i up n a well. The vibration of the train had loosened the ice from the walls of the cul- vert, rind the whole business broke into frag- ments, and I was in it I didn't wait to touch bottom, but pawed and sputtered and floundered round with the hits of board and the roots and the grass and the ice, and elembered out just as quick as the Lord would allow. Them I swore at the train, and the turkeys and the culvert aunthe Me, and the weer and the smart Aleck who plannetl the ambusitment, and the dile for tenet, in that zeroen fool trap yet ; then in spite of ehatteriug teeth and trembliniliann, I laughed -'--I liati to laugh. But the worst of it was that I had to go m again. and also clean under sva,ter for it horrible quarter minute to recover the rifle, after I had located it with my foot ;for no consideration woulti have minced me to leave it there. Then I clambered, out once more, and groaning, andshiveringand shed- ding water every jump, ran and walked and staggered the best way I could to the term house, where I bad a hot drink ana a sleep in thick blankets while my clothes were thoroughly dried. That was finally ac- complished late in the afternoon, but whether or no it is possible to drive a ball throughtfine turkeys In line—I just dilute ken ! A SOAR FATER Uue Young Lady Who 1145 4 Hentarnabee Menlo. should like ta pbee on re:mini the his- tory of the fallowing case Di it mania tor soap eating, Mitch I believe ileservee the coinage of the word sapessomania, or mania for eatmg soap. Mrs, egeti 20, of Danbury, Conn., eonsulte me in reference to an meltable stomacli of long standing. She gives the following details: ” When about 3 years of age she first enjoyed it mouthful of bar soap end so agreeable Was the Mete that she would eat it 4' whenever she could get it." S. hen Aged 5 years her mother found her, even in hand, eating soft soap with keen relish. As she grew in years so did her yearning for snap—ber playmates ate eaudy, hut she pre- ferred soap; ber father brought home to the other cbildren sweetmeats, out to equally satisfy her a, piece from common bar soap mum be given. Until site was 11 her sapes- aomenia continued. When awake she loved to handle it ann smell of it and eat of it. When asieep she dreamed of soap. Oltert to pacify her it piece of map was given to her to holti in her lienti to amine her to sleep when she continued in her imagination still to eat coap. At 11 her stoma& bit:neither BO that she stopped her habit, but stiil eon. tamed to love to handle and to think or eating the great delieeey. When 23, or twelve years after her last feast, an ativertising agent left at her door a a.rent bar of bath room soap, widen pleased her in much tbat eke ate it all in ettierosnoni bourn Since, then she has eaten none, though there is always the de. sire to do so, To -day, dill not her stomach forbid, the yearning to "cat, some more" would, be irresistible. Though she can no Longer mit it, she still loves to handle it, she loves to use pienty of it in her houeework and in her bathroom. The emelt of it is edit sweet to lier nostrils and the thiek ands she delights In remind her of the days gone by, never to return, Strange to eity, she cares only for the enema tar soap, fancy soaps she never uses. Personally 8110 is of nervous temperament, yet evidentlya woman ef much self-control. She menu that her manie is as strong to -day 43 *twos years ago, though she has tested:map but mem eignt- een yearn Despite her statements, however I believe she is still eating the little amount of soap which her irritable stomach will allow her, TAT1T1NSITY OF AUSTRALIA. Otte Phase or the Subject Which Ameri- cans Often Miss. Among the tacit misconceptions into which distant trities are most likely to fall anent antipodean affairs is that which is based upon ignorance of the enormous area and possibilities of the colonies. Especially is :Ins likely in the United States, where the assumption may be that, as the population of Australia is about the satne as that of the thirteen original seaboard colonies of Ameri- ca, the surface over which they are distri- buted is also approximately the same. As a matter of fact there is no suchproportion. New South Wales alone is a.s large as they were ; Tasmania, the Rhode Island of Aus- tralia, is as large as that state with New Jersey, New Hampshire and Massachusetts added ; Victoria, the smallest colony of the continent, is equal in size to Great Britain; Queensland surpasses the united areas of Australia, France and Germany; South Austria one-third greater than Queens. land, is nearly as large as Western Austra- lia, which of itself has nearly four times the extent of Texas while the two colonies to- gether are larger than the whole of Europe without Russia. The seven colonies between them occupy it territory greater than that of the United States, excluding Alaska. It is true that at present Australia has barely 4,000,000 inhabitants, but these immense areas represent it potential popu- lation to which itis impossible to set bounds. Nei part of the continent is so hot and so unhealthy as to forbid white settlement, and if the strip of low-lying coast lands in the north be ormnitted there is no part of it yet colonized in which Europeans can not work. Port Darwin, the country about the gulf of Carpentaria, and an indefinite belt toward the northwese lie within the tropics and are suitable for tropical productions; but the high plateau of northern Queensland, which runs close to the sea, is found thoroughly healthy for English miners and graziers tied enjoys a bracing winter. The back county, though waterless by compari- son with the Mississippi valley, is able to carry stock well in most seasons and with well teaks and dams may be made to do so in ail yeses. The desert country of Eastern Australia has yet to be found. Owning Up to It. Lawyer--" Now, Mr. Witness, I want you to tell the truth without any evasion. Had you or had you not had any altercation with the, prisoner before this event von s.pealt of ?' Witness---" Well, to own up, we did go into the bar and take something, but I didn't think that was the name of it." Preventing a Conflagration, " Pape," sant the tearful girl, "why did you send Charles away before I came down ?" "The insurance on the house expired' at noon to -day, and neglected to renew replied papa. "But why should that make you send Charles home?" " Under the circumstances I thought it was safer to put out the smirk." If any man think it, a small matter to bridle his tongue he is much miststkon. "Down to Sleep." November woods are bare and. still, November days emotion: and bright. Each noon burns up the morning's chill, ' The morning s snow is gone by night. Each day my sttp; grow slow, grow light, As through the woods 1 reverent creop,, 'Watching all things lio " dbwn tosleep. I never knew before what beds, Fragrant to smell and soft to touch. The forest sifts and shapes and spreads. I never knew btfore how mach Of human soul there is. such Low tones as through the forest sweep When all wild things lie " down to sleep."' Ruh day I find new condi& Tucked in and more sweet eyee shut, tight. Sometimes the viewless mother bids Ifer ferns kneel down fall in my sight. I hear her chorus of "pd latent,'o Anti half I smile and. half I weep, Listening while they lie "down to sleep.' November woods are bare and still, November days aro bright and good. Life's noon burns up life's morning chill. .. Life's night rests feet that long have stood. Some wenn soft bed in deli' or wood, The mother will not fail to keep Where we C33 " lay 113 clown to sleep." Huntnackson. These were Britishers. A correspondent front Niles, Alameda, County-, California writes: The reading of the several reports in the columns of your paper about the late unpleasantness between the United States sailors and a Chilean mob in Valparaiso has brought to mind an on. eurrence of a like nature that happeued there it short time before I was there in Mil —forty years ago. It took pleett between the crew of an &WW1 memod.war on one shle and die police, some soldiera and it mob on the other. Incensed at the brutal treatment of e senor at the hands of a policeman, some of the seller's comrades uudertook te interfere to protect him, but more police were called, end as the police and mob inereaeed the Sailors increased, and, there bring about 100 niters ashore on liberty, the row was no small affair. Rut the sailors, being unarm. ed, were ntetting hate -lien pretty roughly, resulting ni many broken hearla and soma" sailors being taken prisoners. The sailors, however, massed their form, and an order to retreat to the mole was passed among them, and before the mob was aware of it they were ball -way down the street to the mole. As soon an it was reaeln ed they seized all the waterments boats they could lay their bands on and atarted for their own vessel. It beingstunmer the rote were open, and through them they scrambled without ceremony, and made for the cutlass =Intend any other arm -s they could lay their hands on, Then all et the crew that the boats eouln carry joinad them end they reaelied the mole in quick time, and then the fun tiepin The peneemen and mob made an attempt to oppose them, but they might at; well have tried to stop 4 hurricene. Foot by foot they fought, their way uptown again. the English cheer answering the shouts of the mob It was no oneniden play then as before. Everything went down before their attack, anti in one hone they cleared the streets and had the etty at their mercy, until their &mantle for release of them eom- rasles were complied with; that done, they ntarched back to the mole, seized the boats and returned to their ship. The boardingof thew own vessel for wens and reinforcements n -es done so quietly and quickly that the officers were taken by =prise atel were powerless to prevent it. It taught the S al- parabo mob a lesson, ho never, which they did not forget very soon. At it was related to me I thought it was the quietest planned and best executed pieee of reti ibut ive justice I had ever heard of. Sinee reading of the late affair with the United. States sailors I have sometimes wished that it could have been tannin:sten in the same manner, but perhaps it is just as well as it is, for like this affair it was condemned by some of the best citizens. Sunsenteem PEARLS0± TRUTE, Let the best men—y; know be the mon you best know. Tears often prove the telescope by which men see Inc into Heaven. Religion is the best armor it man can have, but it is the worst cloak.--Ortunyan. You may gather a rich harvest by read- ing„ but thought is the winnowing machine. Lew when kept is nothing else but law, whereas law broken is both law end. exe- cutioner. You can form a pretty fair idea of any one's clutraeter by his method of describing other people's. Thee mains soul is not dear to himself to whom the souls of his brethren are not dear. --(8. T. Coleridge. No one is so blind to his own faults as a man who has the habit of detecting the faults of others. --(Faber. Miraleau said, in order to niake a good boy, he would. begin twenty years before he was born by educating his mother. As the Gulf Stream rushes on, warming our shores, so does every true soul isenct forth into life a warming influence in many a far distant place. Religion is not a label to tie round our neck with the naree of some party scrawled thereon. I can fill a bottle with vinegar and write on its label i• Syrup ot Sugar," but the taste of the contents when the bottle is opened will pretty quickly declare the truth: and so it is with men and women— the inner life is the real thing. A Peacock Throne. One frequently comes across the expres- sion "oriental magnificence," but it is not every one who fully appreciates the meaning of the phrase The force of the words is understood, however, in reading about the. famous Peacock Throne. The throne stood on a pavilion of marble at Delhi. It was six feet long and f mr feet broad, and. was composed of solid gold, in- laid with fair gems. It received. its name from the jewelled imemes of peacocks which adorned its canopy. This canopy was also of gold, supported on twelve golden pillars and hung all around with a fringe of pearls. On eanh side of the throne stood two umbrellas. These symbols of royalty were made of crimson velvet embroidered with gold thread and peaels, while to each was a solid gold handle, eight feet long, .studded with diamonds. The cost of the Peacock Throne was u00,000. It was the work of a, Frenchman named. Austin de Bordeaux, and was made for Emperor Shah jehan. • In a war that followed, the throne was carried' off into Persia, and afterward the gold was melted 0,11i tuned ipte money.. Contagious in Their Case. Mr. Nopoop-o" Doctor, is insomnia con- tagious ?" Dr. Paresis—" Certainly not, sir. Whet made you ask that ?" . • • Mr. Noopcip—ni Because I notice that when baby is troubled with insomnia my wife and I invariably catch it, too."—[Life. 6 yru 9, The majority of well-read phys- icians now believe that Consump- flan is a germ disease. In other words, instead of being in the con- stitution itself it is caused by iunu- merable small creatures living in the lungs having no business there and eating them away as caterpillars do the leaves of trees. A Germ The phlegm that is coughed up is those Disease. parts of the lungs which have been gnawed off and destroyed. These little bacilli, as the germs are called; are too small to be seen with the naked eye, but they are very much alive just the same, and enter the body in our food, in the air we breathe, and through the pores of the skin. Thence they get into the blood and finally arrive at the lungs where they fasten and increase with frightful rapidity. Then German Syrup comes 1111, loosens them, kills them, expells them, heals the places they ot leave, and so rtourish4/and soothe that, in asb.ort time consump. Oyes become germ -proof and well. 0 TR' EXETER MIES. 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