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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-9-11, Page 7ightling a, Food I. Shortage fr Cold weather came before my boav er neighbors had laid in their food supplies for the winter, says a na- turalist. A. forest lire drove them out of their old"4ioite, and they selected a new site on a stream not far from My cabin. Alone; the stream was a agged growth of quaking aspens. The beavers built a hotu,e of sticks, sod and mud, and were working on a dans when a tral'uer came into the region. Re broke the clam three or four times. •When he finally left, autumn was half gc.3lfe, the darn that was to make the pond deep enou,'lr to prevent the water from freezing to the bottom was unliniebed, and no £ood had been stored. Late in October I visited the new wilderness hosed. One crew of log- gers were cutting aspens, They had .cleared a trailway to drag the wood through to the pond. The beavers had not finished their harvesting when a heavy fall of siloiv carne, and they were compelled to turn their at- tention to a patch of aspens' that was only about sixty feet from the pond but was separated from it by a thick belt of 'fines and a confusion of fallen spruce logs. '.Cracks in the snow showed that during- one night five beavers heli wallowed out to the aspens and hacl • felled and dragged several trees to the pond; but wolves had pounced on one of them while.he was at work, anis had overtaken and killed another in the deep snow, The wolves seemed to realize the distress of the bcavel•:,, and lurked about to sere the hunger - driven animals. At that point iu the struggle the beavers decided to build a tunnel. Beginning at the bottom of the pond near the shore, they dug outward toward the aspen grove. For fifteen feet that subway, ran about two feet under the surface, then it in- clined upward, and came out under a pine tree close to the aspens. They built a dragway from the end of the , tunnel to the aspens and felled a'num- ber and worked them through the tunnel to the pond. At last cold, ice, snow and fear of enemies completely stopped the beavers' harvest. Their food supply, ..10,s seen through the clear ice, was :,Jess than one half the normal quantity and they began to burrow in the ponce for roots and bulbs. Again the cold prevented their work, for the low water froze to the bottom and shut them off. They were not beaten, how- ever. They dug a canal from their house to the heart of the root area, and kept it open. When the roots gave out, they had to leave the pond or starve. They tried to gnaw up through the ice; and nearly succeed- ed; but they discovered unfrozen earth under the dam and tunneled out to the channel of the stream. Tracks of six muddy -footed beavers on the snow at the outer end of the completed tunnel told the number that survived that cold winter. They lived in holes along the bank of the stream until waren weather, when they drifted away. Late the next autumn six heavers carne back to the pond and put it in shape for winter. DEEP SEA FISHERMEN ARE VERY SUPERSTITIOUS All seafaring men are credited with being superstitious, but none is so completely under this influence as the old deep-sea fisherman. He believes in "signs" and omens of all kinds. Nothing would induce a skipper of the old school to sail on a Friday. Rumor has it, says a writer in the "Railway and Travel Monthly," that one intrepid unbeliever who dared to leave the docks at Grimsby on a Good Friday was hooted through the lock -gates by the scandalized populace. If a man's hat blew overboard while leaving a port, many skippers would turn back and delay sailing until the next day. It was an omen pat one of the crew would be lost during the trip. This sign, however, became discredited, as wily deck hands, desirous of another day ashore with their wives and fami- lies, contracted the habit of going aloft and assisting the wind to foretell disaster. A Pagan Fashion. The fashion of keeping little dogs as objects of luxury is not at all modern. Both Greek and Roman wo- ven used to have small pet dogs, over which they made as much to do as does a fashionable lady of to -day over her poodle. Even men,'usually foreigners, were not ashamed to stroll about the Ro- man streets carrying dogs in their arms. It is said that Julius Caesar, once seeing some men thus occupied, sarcastically inquired of them if the women of their country had no child- ren. War Savings Stamps not 'only save money but earn it. A new crutch has a spring concealed in the lower end to take up the shock as s it strikes ther u g o nd. If sore folks would use their threshing niach,ines earlier, the boys would not •have a""e 1tiony wild oats to harvest later on. "Il:e only is advancng in life whose heart is getting softer, whose h1,1e j Warmer, whose !bl air quicker, whose spirit 1", entering into living peace." --dohn Rusk,'.11, The same jealousies, rivalries, un - kindnesses, imputations of motives between nations ---a11 these are at work again. The war has not killed them, --Viscount Grey. e r The Most of Detectivee It has been pointed out that the de- tective story is as old as the hills and that certain of the "Arabian Nights" foreeast "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "A. Study in Scarier by a. thousand years or more. No better' proof of the antiquity of the detec- tive story can. be found than that of- fered by feudal Japan, which pro- duced the tale of the arrest of the stone god Ti:so, In this folk story of ancient Yedo the hero detective rnovee with all the seeming indirection of Lecoq and Du - pin and Sherlock Holmes'his marvels to perforin. O-oka was he, Mayor of Yedo • under the eighth Shogun and holder of the high justice and the law over merchants of Tokugawa,s capital. . One day a servant employed by the proprietor of a big shop near Japan Bridge in Yedo was sent with a heavy pack to a dyer in Honjo distict. When the store's messenger reached Yoko- gawa street he was ready to seek rest. What more sate invention could have offered than the little grove of trees set about the stone statue of the god Jizo, the patron saint of travelers and defenceless women and childrein? The somnolent porter awoke from a nap to find that his employer's cot- ton had disappeared. In great dis- tress he vyent to the storekeeper and confessed that he had slept and that a robber had made off with the goods during his slumber. The master Would not believe his story, saying that it would have been impossible for a robber to make off with so, large a bundle in broad daylight. Unless the porter should pay for the lost seeds ire would have to t o to arise i said the master. In despair the per- ter took counsel of Mayor O-oka. "You are certainly to blame for hay- ing fallen asleep," said the Mayor, I "but Jizo is equally to blame, for he jis a god bound to protect everyone who trusts him and this time he has betrayed you. Even though Jizo is a Buddha, I cannot pardon hint for his neglect of duty. I will have hint ar- rested and brought before me for trial." • So 0-oka gave immediate orders to his court officers to go and arrest Jizo. of Yokogawa Street, and faring him before the Mayor's seat for trial. Three of the officers departed on their mission. They first bound the arms of the stone god. with coils of rope; then they tried to lift him from his firm pedestal into a cart. A great crowd assembled before the Jizo, at- tracted by the unusual behavior of !the court officers.. When they were "told that Jizo must go before the Mayor for trial, the citizens of Yoko- gawa Street And the neighborhood of Honjo marveled. The task of unseating the god was too much for the three officers, and they sought aid of those standing about. They promised that in return for assistance they would admit all volunteer workers into the courtroom to witness the extraordinary trial, Hundreds were spurred by curiosity I to lend a hand, and when the stone god went through the streets strapped to a cart like any offender the crowd grew. It filled the great hall of justice when Jizo was lifted in wnd propped up before the platform upon which sat the Mayer. 0-oka addressed the :god in stern tern's : --•- "You are a negligent tool, 0 Jizo!" he exclaimed in a yoke loud enough for all to hear. "You are supposes' to protect everyone who believes in you and who renders tribute, yet this trusting porter here Made a prayer to you, then fell asleep atUyour very feet, and he was robbed while he slept. You stand accused of being an ac- compilce in this robbery. Have you anything to say for yourself before I pass sentence?" Mayor 0-oka waited for a few mo- ments as if expecting the stony lips of Jizo to open in reply, but when no answer was returned by the god he passed sentence immediately, "Since you do not defend yourself I consider that you are guilty," said His Honor, "and I shall imprison ybu." At this remarkable spectacle of a Mayor passing sentence upon a stone god there was a titter of laughter. O•oka thundered in a voice of brass:— "Who are all,these people standing .about here?" he inquired of his court officers. "Are they accomplices .of Jizo or only plain thieves? They 'think this court is a penny show and they laugh at the court's orders. Shut all the gates at once," The frightened attendants hastened to shut the gates of the court -room. Then Mayor O-oka adjudged every pian in the great crowd in contempt of court and fined each of them otic tan (a kimono length) of cotton cloth. The hundreds thus suddenly found in contempt were happy that their pun- ishment hacl been so light at least, and under bonds they hurried to their hones to bring back the cloth fine. Before the day was clone 700 pieces of cotton cloth had been presented be- fore the Mayor's court, the name of each culprit being set down upon the tan of cotton cloth which he'present- ed. Before he would allow the 700 to go, however, O-oka retired with the por- ter who had been robbed to an inner chamber and he asked the porter to look over the 700 pieces of cloth and see if he could identify any of them as having been once in the pack,he had carried. Since every manufac- turer of cotton cloth in Yedo—always marked the selvage of each strip with a little red trade -mark stamp the por- ter searched the edges of many stripes of cloth for a stamp similar to that borne upon the cloth of which he had been robbed. He found that two of the pieces of clothabrought to pay the Mayor's fine bore the stamp of his plundered pack. Instantly Mayor 0-oka, ordered the arrest of the two men who had brought this cloth; they confessed to the robbery, and all the cloth they had taken from the sleep- ing porter's pack was restored to hint. All the other pieces of cloth, taken in toll by the Mayor„ were restored to their owners, and all but the .two guilty members of the crowd which. had attended the trial of Jizo were re- leased. Then Jizo, the stone god, was put on a cart, wreathed with the ever- green pine and the bamboo, symbols of long life and prosperity, and he was carried hack to his pedestal in Yoko- gawa Street at the head of a triumph- al procession. Jizo had vindicated himself, and Mayor 0-oka the wise sat more firmly than, ever in his seat of power. WHERE THE ICEBERGS ARE HATCHED. If one looks at an ordinary map, one is surprised to find that Greenland is considerably bigger than South Ameri- ca. Which illustrates the distortion of the Mercator projection, inaftueh as South America is actually about six times the "size of Greenland. All the same, Greenland is the big- gest island in the world, and once up- on a time It roust have been a pleasant_ place to live in. Plant fossils found there prove that anciently it had a tropical climate. But it must have been a very long time ago, for to -day nearly the whole of Greenland is covered by an ice sheet with an average thickness of 1,000 feet. From a mountain range two miles high most of the great is- land slopes downward and, westward toward Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, and so the ice sheet is continually moving in,that direction. Off the west coast are numerous is- lands and, as the ice sheet forces its way between them, it is ripped to pieces. Huge fragments drop off, forming what we call icebergs, and are set afloat in the sea. What happens to an individual ice- berg after that depends upon accident- al circumstances. It may run ashore on Baffin Island (the west side of Davis Strait) or on the coast of Lab- rador, further south. If it escapes this fate, its passage southward through the strait will be very slow, because it must plow its way through field ice many feet thick. The lucky iceberg is one that man- ages to keep in the main channel and is carried southward by the Labrador current into' the north Atlantic. Once. arrived in that region of open sea it may drift abeut for many months be- fore going to 'pieces. Large bergs have on ooeasions got as far as the Azores, A sizeable berg may have nearly vertical walls 100 feet high, with pin- nacles towering to twice that eleva- tion. Often these floating mountains of ice have very fantastic shapes. It is not all safe for a ship to go near one, for huge fragments sometimes fall off, and it is no uncommon thing for an iceberg suddenly to &turn up- side down. The period of danger from icebergs is April, May and June. Inste d of Tea or C.ffee buy a tin of the healthful table beverage PF`SUM The quality is e011Stant and the rich, even flavor pleases. ise ilenVIZZIOLAID .:1 ✓-....'..+IJ.4.b...,.w• rice A MOTHER'S TRIALS Care of Home and Children Of. ten Causes it Breakdown, The woman at home, deep in house- hold duties, and the cares of mother - hoed, needs occasional help to keep her in good health. The demands up- on a mailer's health are many and severe, Her own health trials and her children's welfare exact heavy toils, while Hurried meals, broken rest and much indoor living tend to weak- en' her constitution. No wonder that tire woman at home is often indisposed through weakness, ,headaches, back- aches and nervousness. Too many women have grown to accept these visitations as a part of the lot of motherhood. But many and varied as her health troubles are, the cause is' simple and the cure at hand. When well, it is the woman's good blood that keeps her well; when i11 ,she- must make her blood rich to renew her health. The nursing mother more than any other woman in the world needs rich blood and plenty of it. There is one always unfailing way to get this good blood so necessary to perfect healthy and that is through the use of Dr, Williams' Pink Pills. These pills snake new blood abundantly, and through their use thousands of weak, ailing wives and mothers hawse- been made bright,':cheerful and strong. If you are ailing, easily tired, or depress- ed, it is a duty you owe yourself and your family to give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair trial. What this medicine has done for others it will surely do for you. WE ARE IN LUCK THAT AIR IS FREE:' When the Steel Trust was organized Andrew Carnegie remarked that the common stocfi''was not even water; it was,"just air." This sante "air" has become worth something since then. "' If you want any of it, you must pay for it at the rate of $113 a share. Ordinary air, thank goodness! has not gone up in price. It is about the only thing that has not done so. Even the automobile garages advertise "free air." This is really very fortunate, be- cause we need air not only to breathe, but also for fuel. We keep the house warm in winter, and the. range going, by burning air. You thought it was coal? Well, that is necessary alsu, but the coal would be of no use as fuel unless you had air to burn with it. You can't burn one thing. Burning, in kitchen range or furnace, means the pining together of the oxygen of the air- and the carbon of the coal. They effect a chemical combination. The air is just as necessary to the process of combustion as the coal. Our attenton is fixed upon coal as the fuel for lie mile reason that we have to :pay for -it. If coal were free and air cost money, we should look at the matter from an opposite point of view. Everything else is taxed nowadays. Suppose the government were to take a notion to put a tax on air, placing an air -meter in each dwelling. Would not that be horrible? There has long been a tax on fresh air in Germany. It is called a "win- dow tax," being assessed according to the number of windows with which a house is provided. The result is that people economize on windows, reduc- ing the number to a minimum, and their allowance of fresh air is there- by cut down. Air is much heavier stuff than is commonly imagined. Thirteen cubic feet of it weigh a pound. But it is lucky we are not obliged to store it, like coal, for it would take up a lot ea roam. One ton (2,000 pounds) of air will fill a bin thirty feet long, thirty feet wide and thirty feet high. An Ode to Health. Health in itself makes life a per- petual joy. Nothing daunts, nothing over -awes, nothing discourages, and nothing over- powers the man and" woman possessed of health. Health means not only vigor and energy of the body, but also clarity acid strength of mind, purity of body and of soul. The healthy person dominates life, instead of allowing life to dominate frim. He scarcely thinks of his body as consisting of parts, or as performing separate functions. To him the body is but one harmonious whole. He is a unit, a being, h man; com- plete, vigorous, perfect. To such a man work is joy. He re- gards obstacles as but opportunities for testing his strength,,, He hardly knows what weakness is. He never experiences exhaustion. Merely to grasp his hand is a pleasure. To gaze into his eyes is a joy. To hear his voice is to feel a thril pass over one. To peer into his mind serves as a stimulus to higher, achievements. Health supplies the courage, the aggressiveness in life. Without health one Is bankrupt, regardless of what his financial capacity may be. He becomes a cipher in the world of real men and women. If you have health, then, friends, cherish it, guard it and treasure it as you treasure life, for out of it are the issues of life. A university scholarship is awarded to the most Successful student at the Battleford, Saskatchewan, High School by the ladies of the I, 0. D. L,, in memory of Battiefords fallen sol- diers. SNAKE KILLERS 0FFRANCE., Obtain F'•ive Cents' Apiece For the Reptiles They Destroy, In Frante there le a profession un- recogrziiod in our own Country. It is that .of the snake killer. Franco Is much infested by two species of dangerous serpents --vipers and adders. It is these that are es- peolally sought by the snake ''Miters. 'He wears leather leggings for pro- tection against 'rites, and the instru- meets of his craft are of the simf4lest. The latter consist most importantly of two sticks, one of which is forked. Rooks warmed up by the sun, sandy. places in wooded micas, muddy bank of ponds ---such are the places most likely to be haunted by the reptilian game. Descrying his prey, the hunter ap- proaches noiselessly, When within range, he strikes the snake with the stick he holds in his right hand, In- stantly thereupon he pins it down with the other stick, which is forked. Quickness is the prime essential to success in this kind of chase. Vipers and adders are swift of movement and ready to take alarm. But once pinned to the ground the creature is readily decapitated with a sharp knife. The snake hunters are called "vi- percides.' They get five cents apiece for the snakes they kill, delivering the heads. The most famous Frenchman engaged professionally in this pursuit is known as Jean Serpent, though his real name is Michael Vergne. Up to date he has slain 36,000 adders. Doctor Calmette, of France, has pro- duced a serum called "antiviperine„” which is a sure remedy for viper bites and adder bites. It has already saved many lives. The method of its utiliza- tion is by hypodermic injection near the wound made by the snake's tooth. SUMMER COMPLAI TS KILL LITTLE ONES At the first sign of illness during the hot weather give the little ones Baby's Own Tablets or in a few hours he may be beyond aid. These Tablets will prevent summer complaints if given occasionally to the well child and will promptly relieve these trou- bles if they come on suddenly. Baby's Own Tablets should always be kept in every home wherethere are young children. - There is no other medicine as good and the mother has the guar- antee of a government analyist that they are perfectly safe. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. God Bless the Prince of Wales. Among our ancient mountains And from our lovely vales 0 let the prayer re-echo, "God bless the Prince of Wales!" With heartened voice awaken Those minstrel strains of yore Till Britain's name and glory Resound from shore to shore. Among our ancient mountains And from our lovely vales, O let the prayer re-echo, "God bless the Prince of Wales!" Should hostile bands or danger E'er threaten our fair isle, May God's strong arm protect us, May Heaven still on us smile. Above the throne of England May Fortune's star long shine, Aud round its ancient bulwarks The olive branches twine. Among our ancient, etc. A Welsh translation of the words of the Prince's Anthem, which were written by George Linsey, were made by Cei1 og Hughes: The music of the anthem is by Brinley Richards. MONEY ORDERS. Send a Dominion Express Money Order. They are payable everywhere. Never Needs Winding. Long before watches were invented, people fount' ways of telling the time, and one was by means of flowers. You can grow a flower clock quite easily in your own garden, and you will find it both useful and ornament- al. Make a circle, marking out the edge with small stones. At equal distances round the edge mark the figures of the clock, from one to twelve. Draw lines from the centre of the circle to the edge, dissecting the whole surface in- to twelve equal parts, and arranging matters so that one of the numbers on the outside edge falls opposite to each section. Then put in the following plants: In section No. 1 plant Single Carna- tions; No. 2, White Pyrethrum; No. 8, Hawksbeard; No. 4, Lady of the Night; No. 6, Catchfly; No, 6, Hawk- weed; No. 7, Marigold; No. 8, Venus' Looking -glass; No. 9, Corn Marigold; No. 10, Clovewort; No. 11, Mountain Dandelion; No, 12, Fig Mayigold. Starting at 6 a,m, the Hawkweed will open, At 7 a.m., the Marigold will follow stilt. And so on rightht round the clock. - Of course, the clock will only "go" during summer months, and for only twelve hours out of the twenty- four. . But it proves wonderfully accurate, and never needs winding! Australia's new daylight saving lace provides that all clocks be put forward an hour at the end of September and back again at the end of March in each year. 1lrinard's xinintent Cures erne etc. Same Speed, "Mamma," complained a little girl recently, "teacher won't let me; sing any 'more, and I'm the fastest singer in the school, too." Affection. Friend—"I suppose the baby is fond of you?" Papa—"Pond of ane? Why he sleeps all day when I'm not at 'tome, and stays up all night just to enjoy my society." A Degenerate. "Father, can I go to the circus to- night?" asked the farmer's son. - Father—"No. 'Taint more''' a month since yer went t' top ce the hill to see the eclipse of the moon. 'Pears to nasi yew're getting dissipated and reckless." A Chance. "Boss, the weather's pretty hot, I'd like a couple of weeks off. A change would do me good," said the depart- ment store salesman. "We're short-handed," complained the boss. "What are you in now?" "Blankets." "Well, I can give you a seasonable change. I'll put you among the bath- ing suits." Doing Her Best. "Yes, grandma," said the fair young thing, "I am to be married during the bright and gladsome month of July." ' "But, my dear," said the old lady, earnestly, "you are very young. Do you feel that you are fitted for mar- ried life?" "1 .- in being fitted now, grandma," exp ined the prospective bride, swy. "Seventeen gowns and three costumes." Prune Roses. Summer thinning of climbing roses is desirable, after flowering, where the plants are large and crowded, Cut out the oldest stems which are beginning to lose vitality. Cut these down within a foot of the ground or to one or two buds of their base, from which young shoots will start next year. This gets the useless wood out of the way, so the young growth will have more room, light and air to de- velop in. A Life Boy.,, They were crossing to France and the ship pitched and tossed about in an. unusually bad storm. Most of the passengers had sought refuge below, but little Miss Sturges, an elderly spinster, was braving the terrors on deck. As the gale increased in fury, a chivalrous physician ham the lady's home town came to her. "Pardon me, Miss Sturges, but it seemed to me you might be in some trouble. Can I help you? Have you chosen your life preserver?" "Oh, doctor," cried the maiden lady, with a gurgle of jay, as she tumbled into his arms, "how sweetly and ro- mantically you have expressed it!" GIRLS! WHITEN YOUR SKIN WITH LEMON JUICE Make a beauty lotion for a few cents to remove tan, freckles, sallowness. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply you with three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Squeeze the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle, then put in the orchard white and shake well. This makes a quarter pint of the very best lemon skin whitener and complexion beautifier known. Massage this fragrant creamy lotion daily into the face, neck, arms and hands and just see how freckles, tan, sallowness, redness and roughness disappear and how smooth, soft and clear the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless, and the beautiful results will surprise you. HOW YOU CAN TELL GENUINE ASPIRIN ONLY TABLETS MARKED WITH "BAYER CROSS" ARE ASPIRIN, if You Don't See the "Bayer Cross" on the Tablets, Refuse Them—They Are Not Aspirin At All. There is only one Aspirin, that marked with the "Bayer Cross"—all other tab- lets are only acid imitations. Look for the "Bayer Cross"! Then it is real Aspirin, for which there is no substitute. Aspirin is not German but is made in Canada by Canadians, and is owned by a Canadian Company, Genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" have been proved safe by millions for Pain, Ileadache, Neuralgia, Colds, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets, ---also larger "Bayer" packages, -•-can be had at any drug store, Aspirin is the trade mark, register- ed in Canada, of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylic - acid. tWSrAPttti, WfilliKi,y' IN i31iUC Couety Splendid opeortunity, Write hox T. Wilson 1'0/llairing Co., 1,4 eked,, td AAelalde St. W.. Toronto. �1[T :L.T. 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Write spa Isetere too late. t)r. intilman Mediosi Co.. Limited, Unillnzwood, Ont Entirely Free. "You sign this deed of your own free will, do you, madam?" asked the law- yer. *' "What do you mean by that?" de- manded the large, florid -faced woman, looking threateningly upon the law- yer, "I mean there has been no.compul- sion on the part of your husband. Has there ?" "Him?" she ejaculated, turning to. look at the little, meek man sitting be- hind her: "Frederick? . I'd like to see him compuise me." St. Isidore, F.Q., Aug. 18, 1894. Minard's Liniment Co., • Limited. Gcuitlernen,—I have frequently used MINARD'S LINIMENT and also pre- scribe it for my patients, always with the most gratifying results, and'I con- sider it the best all-round Liniment extant. Yours truly, DR. JOS. AUG. SIR015. Friend of the Family—"Where's everybody, Bennet?" The. 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You apply just a few drops on the tender, aching corn and instantly the soreness is relieved, and soon the corn Is so shriveled that it lifts out with- out pain. It is a sticky substance which dries when applied and never inflames or even irritates the adjoin- ing tissue. This discovery will prevent thou- sands of deaths annually from lock- jaw and infection heretofore resulting from the suicidal habit of cutting corns. SINCE ti 1870 Ladies A y''ord i Ton boutkbout our Skin C1 HY not make Cuti- cura Soap your every . day toilet soap, assisted by Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Tal- cum, now and then asneeded,and1rave in Most MO a clear fresh complexion, a clean scalp free from dandruff and irritation, good hair,I soft white hands and a wholesome skin free from blemish, without resort- ing to tiresome, expensive "beauty" fads? Cuticura costs little and does much, Sample each free by tean of "Cutteurn, Dept. N, Boston, i1. E A." Sold by dealers throughout the world. I"' Cuticura Talcum Powder Do not fail to test the fascinating fra- grance of this exquisitely acentedlface, baby, dusting and skin perfuming pow. der, delicate, delightful, distinguc, it imparts to the person a chane income Parable and peculiar to itself. ISSUE No. 86—»'19.