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BULLETIN ON
TYPHOID FEVER
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Cleanliness and Care Are Essentials
in the Home,
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House Ely is a Menace and Should
Be Excluded,
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How to Avoid Catching Disease When
in Its Neighborhood,
Any ease of typhoid contracted from,
the first ease in the same home showe
that, there las been carelessness some-
where about the place. One should re-
member that there are apt to be germs
on anything about the patient, and that
sonsequeutly nothing should be touched
cnnecessarily. After doing any service
f.ir the patient or Omit the sick roosts
the hands should be carefully disinfect-
ed. This is accomplished by having a
basin of bichloride of mercury solution
(1 in 1,000) or dilute carbolic acid solu-
tion (1 in 40), and before leaving the
room and going anywhere else to dip
the hands in the disinfectant solution
and rinse this off in clear water. This
should be done without fail before put-
ting anything into the mouth. Nothing
should be put into the mouth of a. well
person while in the room wit's a typhoid
patient, and nothing should be eaten
which has came from the sick room.
The sick room, if possible, should be
large, well and easily ventilated. .A. free
circulation of fresh air should be had
both day an night. Pure air is a good
aisinfeetant. Carpets, curtains and all
articles not absolutely needed should be
removed from the room.
Brooms and dusters should not be
used in a sick room, but rather use
moist cloths for cleaning floor, walls and
furniture.
Flies are now looked upon as among
the greatest earriere of typhoid. If • it
is the season when flies are about, the
windows of the sick room should be
screened. It is well for the windows and
doors of all houses to be screened dur-
ing the fly season. Flies; should be rig-
idly excluded from the sick room. If
any get into -the room they should be
killed or caught on fly paper and burned.
• The table utensils, such as plates.
cups, spoons, etc., used by the patient
should be kept for his use alone, and
not mixed with similar utensils used by
others until they have been washed in
boiling water.
Remnant e of food left by the patient
Should not be carried to the kitchen, but
should be put into paper bags and burn-
ed by the attendant.
All bed clothing, sheets, towels etc.,
used about the patient or bedroom,
should be put into a disinfectant solu-
tion, which should be kept in a tub or
other vessel. Among the ,good disinfect-
ant solutions for this purpose is chlor-
inated lime, one quarter of a pound to
four gallons of water, others are car-
bolic acid (1 to 40) or bichloride of
mercury (1 in 1,000). After soaking not
less than one hour, the clothes may be
laundered as usual.
The most important feature in the
prevention of typhoid is the disinfection
of the discharges from the bowels and
kidneys. This is neither easy nor pleas-
ant, but it is not nearly so hard as the.
nursing of a second case in the same
house. The best disinfectant for this
purpose is good fresh milk of lime, or
what is commonly known as wbitewash.
This is -made by putting several pieces
of good quick lime in water,.letting it
slack well, then stirring the whole up
together and using the thick, milig
limed which results. Instead of the
milk of lane or "whitewash," a solution
of chlorinated lime may be used (8 ounc-
es to the gallon). These disinfectants
should be allowed to remain in contact
with the dejecta for at least one hour
after having been well mixed.
Never throw the discharges on the
surface.
HOW TO AVOID TAKING TYPHOID
Do not go into the patient's room un-
less it is necessary. Do not eat or drink
tnything that has been in the slightest
way connected with a. typhoid patient.
See that your own, windows and doors
are protected by fly screens, particle,
larly your kitchen and dining room.
If you have reason to think your wa-
ter supply suspicious, boil any used for
arinking purposes and keep it in bet-
tles.
If you have reason to believe that
your neighbor who has typhoid at his
home is not taking the proper precau-
tions, notify the health officer, because
his neglect is not only a menace to his
own home but to those about him.
Give the health authorities any ins
formation that will enable (them to
watch and guard those conditions beyond
the reach of an individual such as the
water supply, silk and food supply, and
to see that proper measures are taken
In connection with other eases in the
community
The Short and Simple Annals.
"Me gotte da geed job," said Pietro,
hs h VA'S the monkey a little more line
after grinding out on his organ a selec-
tion from "Santa Lucia." "Getta forty
dollar da month and eate, myself; thirty
da month if da boss este me."—Every-
body's Magazine.
PLAVVIVIE Eirouna
THE LAZY VIOLET.
The sunshine fairies and raindrop
elves had been down at work in the
ground, calling the flower to wake
and grow. It was spring. The birds
were all singing and Surely it Was
Unto for the flowers to be putting
forth their delieate green leaves.
All the plants, even to the tiniest
violets, hurried to appear. That is,
all but one sleepy, young, lazy violet
that just curled herself up and snug-
gled deeper, saying to herself: "I am
tired; I don't want to get up yet."
So, while all the other flowers and
violets were getting their new dresses
on and peeping up through the
ground to Bay: "Ho do you dor' to
their old friend, the sun, this lazy
violet .slept. When the gardener came
to look et his garden, he saw all the
flowers up and nodding in the breeze,
except this violet plant.
"'tong past time for that violet to be
up," he muttered: "Guess,it isn't go-
ing to grow. I'll take it up and plant'
something else that will grow right
away in its place." And with that
he pulled the lazy violet up, roots
and all, throwing it out on the ash
heap.
Then how the poor violet cried to
think she had been so lazy, and was
now thrown out to wither without
a chance of bloom. She told a ',Tin -
pathetic robin her sad story, telling
him to be sure to tell it to all lazy
flowers that they might profit.
AN ORGAN FOR 25 CENTS
A WEEK
We have on hand thirey-five organs,
taken in exchange on Heintztuan St Co.
pianos, which we must sell regardless of
toss, to make room in our store. Every
Instrument has peen thoroughly over-
hauled, and is guaranteed for five years,
and full amount will be allow ed on ex-
change. The prices run from $10 to $35,
for such well-known makes as Thomas,
Dominion, learn, Uxbridge, Goderieh am.
Bell. This is your chance to save money.
Aspost card will bring full particulars.—
Heintzman & Co., 71 King street east,
Rant -Linn.
Earthquake Catching.
Earthquakes are recorded by means
of the horizontal -pendulum, seismo-
graph. The best example of hori-
zontal pendulum in everyday use is a
common hinged door. The earthquake
instrument is a heavy weight pivoted
delicately on a frame, which is swung
at an upright hinge -line, so that the
faintest movement in the post will be
communicated to the frame. A light
lever with a. pen at the outer end of
the weighted frame, makes on a paper
moved by clockwork a magnified rec-
ord of the movements of the earth's
crust. The pen is a mastic, and the
the record is a scratch. The weight
tends to stand still as the earth
waves move the post, and the pen
writes an autograph of the =ve-
lment, which takes place about the
weight as a centre. .Every second an
electric ticker connected with a clock
scratches a mark on the side of the
moving paper, so that the exact time
of any earthquake autograph may be
calculated.
Let us stop El, moment to watch
what happens when an earthquake
wave passes through the earth. The
weight is still its pen is lightly in
contact with the paper, and as the
latter moves by clockwork there is
left written a straight line. Slowly,
as we watch, the Writing finger moves
sidewise, and begins to make little
Wayemarks. This lasts several min-
utes. Then the pen begins to creep
out until it is very slowly scratching
long, sweeping zigzags. in the course
of nalf an hour this slowly dimin-
ishes. Not a single tremor has been
felt. The waves passing through the
ground were too broad and slow for
sensation, but they have come thou-
sands of miles from a place where
walls were falling and people were
rushing frantically into the streets.
When we consider that every strong
earthquake may be recorded all over
the globe, and that one occurs some-
where every week or two, the sport
of earthquake -catching becomes fair-
ly exciting. the interest attaching
to seismology were better known there
would be nainy amateurs. An Omori
eeismograph may be uought for about
one hundred dollars, and any cellar,
on any sort of ground, will catch the
passing earthquakes.—From Prof, Jag -
gar, Jr.'"Studying Earthquakes" in
August Century.
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A DAY Ole TROUBLE.
(Chicago Tribune.)
Knieker—As a boy 1 hated Monday
because it was wash daY-
Docker—And now it ie the day the
Supreme Conet hands down decisions.
SOMETHING AILED HIM, SURELY.
Kobby—I beg pardon, old top, b ut are you. reading Punch?
Job -by -Th; I haven't aeon it.
Nobby—Then msy 1 ask what makas you look so dspresaed!
FOR THE FARMERS.
A Veterinary Not Always Necessary..
Cleanliness' and Disinfectants
Essential,
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(By Dr, H. G. 'Reed, Georgetown, Ont.,
in Canadian Farm -I
While an animal that has sustained a
severe woend ought always to receive.
competent veterinary treatment, yet in
many cases of minor wounds home treat-
ment can be adopted with success, pro.
sitied the OWEIW: nas a feir knowledge
of the vitro necessary in suck cosies.
Wounds; are divided into four claesee,
uuzie1y' Lnoised, punetured, lacerated
and ountused. A inciecel Wound is
Made With a clean cutting instillment,
the tissues are divided evenly and
• smoothly without any tearing or bruis-
ing of the parts. Such wounds are tesual-
ly very .easy of treatment and unless the
ineision is very deep, need only to be
kept perfectly clean with an applieation,
twice daily, of a four per cent, solution
of carbolic acid or creolin or other dis-
infectant when the healing process will
take place readily and quickly.
PUNCTURED WOUNDS.
Punctured wounds are made with a
more or less blunt instrument and are
often of a serious nature, snore especial-
ly if the puecture is comparatively deep
and likely to have injured some of the
deep mated structures such as the ar-
teries, nerves, veins or any of the inter-
nal organs. A wound of this nature will
never heal without the formation of
pus, and it is always of the utmost im-
portance to eee that the pus has a free
chance to escape, if such care is not tak-
en and, the pus allowed to gather in a
sae or pocket of the wound a -vast'
amount of local inflammation will be set
up and serious conditions result.
Lacerated wounds are those hi which
the tissues are torn asunder in a rough
and, uneven manner. The treatment is
much the same as in the ease of pune-
tured wounds. See that the pus (which
is sure to form) has a free avenue of
escape, being 'careful also to remove any
splinters or dirt or other foreign bodies
which are quite likely to be found in
such wounds. A contused 'wound is one
in which the tissues are bruised and in-
jured without any breaking of the skin.
If the contusion is only slight the appli.
cation of a warm poultice or bathing
the parts in warm water will soon over-
come the inflammation, but if the con-
tusion is severe an abscess is likely to
form in which case an incision has to be
raede ter allow the pus to escape. In the
case even of a trivial wound where no
disinfectant is used, serious complica-
tions suck as erysipelas or tetanus
(lockjaw) are liable to set in, but where
a good nisinfeetant such has been noted
above is used, the worst eases are likely
to heal without any untoward results.
A CAULK WOUND.
A caulk wound or the wound made on
a foot by a cut from the shoe of another
foot is one of the most ordinary wounds
in farm life. In such eases care should
always be taken to see that any of the
hairs which may ha.ve been pushed
downwards inside the top of the hoof are
removed. Intense lamness and. great
onffering often follow if this is not
done. The hairs or other dirt set upnri
inflammation inside the hoof, the pus
cannot escape and an *mai is often
laid off work ler weeks because of a
little carelessness an the part of the at-
tendant in not properly cleaning the
wound when it happened. Also III the
case of a horse treading on a nail and
puncturing the sele of the foot, it is not
sufficient to eherely pull out the nail,
but the hold left in the sole by the nail
should be rimmed out to a considexiable
size to allow the pus to escape and the
foot be kept in a \MEM poultice every
night for a few days to allay the inflam-
mation. A pleget of tow soaket?t in tar
might be put in the hole during the da,y
when the animal is at work in order to
keep out any dirt.
The sole of a horse's foegrows quick-
ly (much more so than the outside
walls), and such a hole will grow- up
again in a -week or two, and the animal
be all right again, whereas if the pre-
caution lust mentioned is neglected seri.
ous consequences often eeeult.
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SKIN BEAUTY PROMOTED.
In the treatment of affections of the
skin and scalp which tortere, disfigure,
itch, burn, scale and destroy the hair;
as well as for preserving, purifying and
beautifying the complexion, hands end
hair, Calomel Soap and Cuticura Oint-
ment are well -night infallible. Millions
of women throughout the world rely 011
these pure, sweet and gentle emoillients
for all purposes of the toilet,bath and
nursery, and for the sanative, antiseptic
cleansing of ulcerated, inflamed mucous
surfaces. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp.,
Boston, U. S. A., sole proprietors of the
Cutieura Remedies, will mail free, on
request, their latest 32 page Cuticula
Book onsthe skin and hair.
As Ed. Howe Sees Life.
(Atchison Globe.)
You may have noticed that the preach-
er who is opposed to circuses will risk a
look at the street parade.
• On a rainy day you have a genuinely
sunny disposition if you don't think
once of an overturned headstone and a
sunken grave.
An Atchison woman has so many bol-
sters, and shams, and flounces on her
bed that it takes as long to undress it
at night as it takes to undress all five
of her children.
Most people have maudlin sentiment
"nixed with what they call their sense of
justiee and right.
When we hear any one say, "I would-
n't lie to save ray own life,' we begin
to doubt their other statements, tiso.
Many fools die without eves finding
out that they are fools.
"If I should buy an automobile," said
an unlucky Atehison man to -day, "what
a lot of fun my hoodoo would have with
me
When the paper announces that a man
has bought at automobile; every one in-
voluntarily checks off what neighbors
will get a chime to ride in it.
When a boy climbs to the roof of the
house and his mother comes out in the
yard and threatens what she will do if
he doesn't COMO right down, it shouldn't
he a funny sight, but it is.
A man must not only attend all the
family reunions but after his wife is
dead he feud lira up all her stray
dead kin and bury them in the eased, lot
with her, so that her family reunion
may be perpetual, if he wants to be en-
tirely eatisfactory.
Any Testa is a health resort, if you
will take care of yourself.
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AN ADDP.,D ATTRACTION.
•
"You say the church attendance is foe
proving?" •
"Yes; a fashioneble milliner ban open.
ea neat doors 'With a fine window die
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AFTERNOON FROCK.
Transparent cottons, figured or
Plain, become more and more the ac-
cepted material as summer waxes.
They are usually made in the quaint-
est fashion possible, and, frequently
tax the ingenuity of the designer.
The one illustrated was in a won-
derful tone of faded rose and trimmed
with simple bands of embroidery. en -
bow length mandarin sleeves are used
and the neck of the bodice is cut out
in the most approved fashion.
TBE HEAD OF IKE ROBE.
(Farmers' Advocate.)
Much emphasis is properly laid, upon
the head of a lime, no matter of what
breed he is. Besides entering largely in-
to the weole sum of a horse's .beauty,
from a practical standpoint, the head
has a great deal of signifieance regard-
ing the breediness, the disposition, the
stamina, and vitality of its bearer.
A neat, trine, proportionate head is
desired, if beauty is io be attained. A•
large head is ungainly, and in 'icative
Of underbreeding or mongrel breeding.
This is especially true in the lighter
breeds. Yet, a large head is preferable to
an unduly small one, it being pretty
largely aeceptea that a horse with so
smell a head lacks in vigor. In heavy'
'draft horses the head is preferred to be
always quite large, yet in proportion
to the scale of the entire animal.
It is especially desirable to have the
forehead broad, and the eyes prominent,
clear, placid and fearless. - 'Width
between the eyes denotes courage, and
bespeaks the intelligence of the, animal.
Much is to be learned from the eyes. A
smalls sunken eye usually accompanies
a. vicious, sullen, unreliable disposition.
The cheerful, free, generous horse shows
ictitainbliseybess.
ight,. lively, yet not ex -
The full front view of the horse's head
should show the gieatest thickness at
the jaws, with the head taperuig to-
wards the muzzle. The profile should
show full between the eyes, but not
bulging, and straight erom.the eyes to
the nose. A dish -face is not attractive,
if at all pronounced, though a slight
dish is often seen in the lighter breeds,
and is not a serious objection. Inc light
breeds, a Roman nose is not liked, al-
though it is usual in the Shires, com-
mon in the Clydesdales, and frequent
in other heavy _breeds. It is usually
believed to be associated with a rather
wilful and enduring disposition. Iu light
breeds it is associated with a lack of
refinement, which is associated withthe
straight or slightly -dished face.
The lips should be strong and neatly
carried; the nostrils large, dilating and
fine. The ears lend much to make or
mar the beauty of the horse. They must
not be too far apart, and, -while car -
seed slightly forward, must chiefly be
erect. It is very desirable to have thezn.
nicely pointed.
The attachment of the head to the
neck is very important. Throatiness or
thickness at the Juncture of these mem-
bers is not desirable. The jaws should
, be wide apart at the angle, and curve
well upward at the rear. A coarse set-
ting of the head results in an awkward
carriage, resulting in a plain- appearing
horse;
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
(The Delineator for August.)
Charles' father was trying to think of
the coachman's last name. '!Charles, do
you reniember Al's other name?" he
asked.
"Yes," answered Charles. "Alfonso."
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It's no use singing about rising in the
ems of faith so long as you forget that
faith bas feet, too.,
LINEN WALKING DRESS.
rn Paris they're called frocks "de
trattaur"--here we call them street or
walking dream
Gray 'linen IA the fabric of which
this dress is made, and it is trim-
med with gray pearl buttons, and
heavy lace banding set in the skirt
,ared bodice.
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1BROMN RAUH
.BRIN65 WRINKLtS
How Alt Wolin C411 Preserve
Good 'Health and Gool Looks.
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Too many women and girls look
ola long before they should. la nine
eases out of teu le is a matter of
health, Work, worry, confinement in -
desire
and lack of exercies calve the
hadth to 11111 down, Then facets become
thin and pale; line anil wrinklesi fele
pear 411ti a OOUStatit feeling of thedneee.
'Women and girlwho feel well look
• well. Therefore improve our health
ana you will look better. It is a
feet that thousande of Canadian women
nad girls owe the rebust health they en-
joy to Dr. Williams' Pink Pile!. They
fell well and eiljoy life as only a healthy
person eau.
The simple masses for this 19 that
Dr. Williams!' Pink Pilist 1nako new,
OA, red blood, which strengthens all
the vital organ% brings brightness; to
the eye, a glow of health to the cheek,
end bracing strength to every part of
the body, Mrs. Warren Wright, Tint,
Reek., Pays: "I feel Hot I owe a debt
eratitude to Dr. Willianne Pink Pi1l9
Chet nothing I can say in their fever will
fully repay, I was so reducea in heelth
end strenethethet T IVIS hardly able to
walk at all. and ceuhl de no work what-
ever. My blood Wag so thin and watery
that Inv lips and finer tips resembled
time° of a corpee, T had almost con-
stant benslitehe9, and, the Bendiest exer-
tion would set my heart nelpitating vio-
lently, and often 1 would drop in
faint. Nothing I did seemed to help
me in the least, and 1 feI.t so far gene
that 1 never expected to mover cier
health. I was in this eritical eondition
when I read in a newspaper of a cure
in a ease like mine through the use of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pille arid' I decided
to try them, 1 get a half dozen boxas
and before I used them all there ems
a great change in my condition. My
appetite returned, the color began to
come back to my lips and face, and
my strength was increaeing, I con-
-Lineal the use of the Pills for some
time longer and they restored me to
tee pink of perfect health. While
using the pills • 1 gained twenty
eounds in weight. leiv cure was made
in the summer of HMO, and I am now
enjoying better health than eller be-
ft'lg: Williams' Pink Pills will do for
other weak and worn women just
wbat they did for Mrs. Wriabt. if
they are given a fair trial. Sold by
al medicine dealers; or bv mail at 50
cents a box, or six boxes; for $2.50. from
vTihnee.Dorn.te.Villiains' Medicine Co., Brock -
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CHI LE.AN PRESMF:NT....
PEDRO MONTT,
President Pedro Montt, of Chile is
on the ocean enroute to New York
city, where he will stop on his Way
to Europe for his health. President
Montt probably will call on President,
Taft before continuing his journey.
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The destruction of the house fly
is a public duty. Almost all
boards of health are now carry-
ing on a crusade against it. A
bulletin recently issued by the
Dominion Government states that
no house fly is free from disease
germs. Use Wilson's Fly Pads
freely and persistently, and do
your share towards exterminat,
ing this menace to ,the public
health.
Liabilities of Conduct.
Bankers are students of human nat-
ure. With them two and two snake ex-
actly four. In deciding whether or nort
a customer shall be trusted for a
loan, they base their answer, not so
much on his personal honesty or his
willingness to pay, as upon the vari-
ous causespersonal or otherwise, which
may interfere with his ability to do
so.
A man may have a flourishing busi-
ness and all may be going well, and, then
after continued prosperity he may adopt
habits 6f living which in the end may
interfere with the accumulation of as-
sets. The banker feels that sum bit of
extravagance begets another, and sets
down—upon his cod system the facts es
they Come tO 'him one by one. In the
course of time the man applies for a
loan and as security he offers what he
eonsiders to be his aesets and against
these he mentions a number of liabili-
ties which seem to him to be so little
worthy of consideration that the bank-
er cannot help but consider the loan a
good one. But the man fails to mentioe
those other liabilitiee arising out of hie
over -expensive habits which the benker
has set down Signing his tredit in the
eard system. And so he may be eurpria-
ed to meet with a refusal of his pro-
position, --Phe Christian Herald,
Popular Fiction.
"1'm so glad to se youl"
"Oh; what a beautiful ilew gown you
h eve 1"
"My friends, it gives me great pleasere
to addrets this magnificent endienee,"
"1 assure you it will net be the slieeit.
est inconvenienc.0
"Aahough you havo defeated me,
sineerely congratulate -Sem on your
election."
"Why, you don't lank a lay older than
you did .410 years ago."
shalt be delightet t.fl hlve you cell."
"I do sio enjoy !oaring you sing."
"ely Attention hes been eilled."--(14
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CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME STORIES.
(By George, Jacob Spinner.) •
Tousel Head's papa. said, "Son. Wring out Clouds to make it rain,
And Silk Worms make fluffy quilts,
While Mosquitoes walk on stilts,
As I stood and watched the fun,
Two big Snails a race did run;
Then the queen came down the street.
Dressed so very clean and neat,
And from out a crooked lane,
Crowds of Bugs came with her
train—
Crickets, Roaches and some Gnats,
Wearing big and funny hats;
Then she stopped and said to me,
"All these Bugs are good,you see;
Only children who will mind,
This dear Dreaniland ever find;
Naughty boys and girls, you see,
Cannot come to visit me."
That's a strange tale you'vs begun,
But I like such dreams so well,
That each one you must now toll."
And the lad said, "Daddy, dear,
What I've told may Seem no queer,
But you know in, Dreamland they
Do things in a difPrent way.
On great lawns the children run,
Having loads and loads of fun!
There they play games strange and
queer—
Nothing like we play down here—
And they never cry nor fight,
'Cause they know it isn't right;
There they ride on big Tune Bugs.,
• Down wide streets all paved with
rugs;
There the men, with might and main,
KING OF 0000S ISLAND.
Romance of an Indian Ocean Utopia
—Scotsman Despot:.
The death occurred at Ventnor re-
cently of the King of the Cocos' Keel-
ing islands—Mr. eieorge Cluniqs Ross,
who had come to. England from his coral
island domain in the South Indian leseen
in search of health.
The connection of the Ross family
with these remote islands, which are
under British protection and are sit-
uated about 700 miles from Java, forms
a romance of adventure which .inight
have been taken from a, chapter by Stev-
enson. It was in the Caces Islands that
Darwin studied the formation of coral
reefs, and at the time of the great nat-
uralist's visit in 1827 the first of the
Ross dynasty—June Clunies Ross, a
Scotsivan and a British. naval officer—
had made his home there. The second of
the house, his son, took up the rule
in 1854, and. was succeeded by George
Clunies Ross (who died yesterday), at
the age of thirty, in 1871.
Mr. George Clunies Ross was a man
pre-eminent in courage, capacity, and
tenderness, and his island home, of
which he was the proprietor, as well
as the chief, is a veritable Utopia. Coin-
ed money is unknown there, for the
parchment notes of George Ross are the
sole medium of exchange; crime hardly
exists and, without police or military,
perfeet order prevails.
BENEVOLENT DESPOT.
air. Ross was the most 'benevolent of
despots, with the power of life med.
death over six hundred or seven hun-
dred subjects. His domain was an en-
chanted land, where the rats climb
trees and nibble the coco-nuts, where
the giant land crab scuttles to and fro
brandishing claws of such formidable
character that it can "nip through wire
netting as easily as can a man with cut-
ting pliers, can tear up tin with ease,
and, break with its • great pincers the
wooden bars of a cage that would serve
to imprison a large wild animal.
As to the rats—therehy hangs a
story. Until as few years ago not a rat
was seen in Cocoa. But a ship was
wrecked .off the islands and the rats
swam ashore. They increased at such a
rate that they became a nuisance and
caused a tremendous loss by spoiling the
buds of the coconut, which are ex-
tremely tender, ana are spoiled itnmed-
lately anything touches them. The King
of the 03C05: Islands, therefore, sndess-
vored to exterminate the rodents, and
at last he imported cats. But the eets
did not do their work at all. The trouble
of catching the rats was apparently i co
much for them, and finding a delicious
shell -fish on the shores evhich they liked
much better, they within a short time
became large and wild, and, in fact, a
tremendous nuisance, so much lo +net
now the islanders have not only the
trouble of rats, but also of cats.
SHARK -INFESTED COAST.
One of the most interesting facts
about the Cocos Islands is that at their
highest point they are only 8 feet abos c
the sea level. The prineipal island, tak-
ing its name from the proprietors, is
known as Ross Island, and contains Ma-
lay villages. The waters suerounding
the islands abound in sharks 6 feet
to 12 feet in length. The principal ex-
port of the islands is copra, the dried
kernel of the coco-nut, and it is from.
this product. that the Ross family have
amassed their great wealth.
As a young man Mr. George Clunies
Rose studied engineering at Glasgow,
returning te the islands in 1804. He had
a large family, of whom several sons
and daughters were at his bedside when
he died. Mr. Ross' grandmother was an
Englishwoman, and, his mother was a
Malay. He himself married a Eurasian.
There are no white women in the is-
lands,
• The eldest son of Mr. George Clunies
Ross will succeed his father as King
of the Cocos Keeling Islands. .
The body of the late Mr. Clunies Roas
will be conveyed to his island domain
and there interred in the vault where
He the remains of his father and his
grandfather who reigned before him.
ACCOMMOdatirlg.
Night was approaching and the rain
was corning down faster and faster. The
traveller dismounted from his horse and
rapped at the door of the one farmhouse
he had struck in a five -mile stretch of
travelling. No one came to the door.
As he stood on the doorstep the water
from the eaves trickled down, his collar.
He rapped- again. Still no answer. He
could feel the stream of water coursing
down his back. Another spell of pound-
ing, and finally the red head of a ka of
12 was stuck out of the second. storey.
"Watcher want?" it asked,
"1 want to know if I can stay here
over night," the traveller answered test-
ily,
The red headed lad watched the man
for a minute or two before answering.
"Ye kin fer all of me," he finally an-
swered, and then closed the windove.—
From Lippincott's,
THE HERO.
(Washington Stars)
Who's the hero of this drama?" said
the manager at a first rehearsal.
"e am," shouted a mat from an ob-
scure corner of the theatre. "I'm the
fellow who is putting up the money for
the production."
The course of true love runs smooth
when there are banks on both Endo.
AXLE GREASE
Is the turning -point to economy
in wear and tear of wagons. Try
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A REBUKE port "SOUND REASONS.
(it .arf do lawrn." 121I0wed tho
caretaker to Miele Jededialt in the
city. "No tre.mosing allowed."
."Gosh, I didn't know 1 wuz mak-
in' any noise," apal)gizeil rnek Zed,
tiptoeing off the pzentLes.
ROD'S CONSTANT CARE,
(From the tierMansi
lemma thou at the s thy Father
Mali forgot?
-Moog% the eleints aronnil thee gather,
iroubt film not,
Ablere hath the daylight broken,
Always bath the eomfort spoken,
Better ha th lie bee» for years
Than thy fears.'
L1eset-ore whatisse'er betideth,
Night or day,
Know His love, for He provideth„
Good alway,
Crown of sorows gladly take;
Grateful, wear it for His sake,
Sweetly bending to leis will,
Lying still,
To His own thy Saviour giveth
Daily streugth;
To eaeh troubled soul that livetb,
Peace at leugth.
Weakest lambs have largest share
Of the tender Shepherelei care;
Ask Him not, then, "When" or "liows"
Only bow.
PRAYER.
Our Fetleer, mored by the mereles. of
God, we would present our bodies living
sacrifices, and bring •ourseives to Thee,
tend surrender ell that we hvae and an
that we are, and all that we do unto
Thyself, sifelp us that these be not
words, but the deepest resolve of our.
fixed hearts, and give us .grace, we pray
Thee, to live according as we profess be.
fore Thee. Hear es now in our prayer,.
in Thy mercy accept anti bless us, for
our Saviour Christ's sake. Amen.
FIRST-HAND,
_ In surveying the chambers of the or-
iginals we walk alone, and yet are
oppressed with. conmauy, like glowers of,
meteors on a September night, they
dart and. fly in 'bewildering confusion.
And yet there is order, beauty and
power, we are in touch with the past, and
tile future is preguant with blessing.
We tremble as we discover the edaring
power—do they call it intuition or
inspiration?—as these germs come up
from the primeval mine? What helps; us
to discover the true nature of a mean-
ing or a motive, We are eonseious of
a conception—clear, definite and strong,
lofty, original, uplifting. No prompttr
is nigh enough to help sie to receive; we
drink of a cup we do not see, eat angels'
bread from invisible bands.
Come away from cups and. company
into this great love -land, and see the
wilderness blossom and bear fruit.
"Cease from men"; open the gates of
your soul to God; be silent before Him,
and a new music shall make you glad.
Who shall hold the light while we reach
the standard of real values; who shall
enlarge our horizon of life, our own life;
who shall -augment our outline of spir-
itual realities, so near, so available, so
warm.
Men who heve won shall be our lead-
ers; men of inner experience, of nest as-
pirations; men who have .ventured and
who have arrived. Men who have wen
well, because they have planned well;
men who have found their standards in
and by themselves, not their neighbor's
truth, but their own. Sail in craft we
have built ourselves; shape our
course, rig our own sails; keep our own
watch, let.go our own anchor. All this
is the loneliness of the lovely sea. 0,
beneficent isolation!
"1 went into Arabia," says Paul.
Welcome the silence of the sandy plain,
Thrice welcome elelm envirorunent of
God!
Here let me rest beside the desert
stream.
Too short my sounding line to reach
the depths
Of knowledge, power, and mercy in-
finite,
Too deep; yet I may drink and be re-
freshed,
And with e vision. purified decay
Freels beauties in the future's glittering
dawn.
Ile tells us of his life. "I neither re-
ceived, it of men, neither am I taught
it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."
The world's great need is not second-
hand men, but first-hand men. "Here
I stand," said Luther, "1 can do no other,
may Gold help me."
,"Thrice blest is he whom is given •
The instinct that can tell
Tbat God is on the field( when He
Is most invisible."
Says William Penn of his time; "It
is a sad reflection that many men have
hardly any religion at all, and most
men have none of their 'own. In that
'which is a religion of their education,
and not of their judgment is the religion
of another and not theirs."
We must light our candle at the furn-
ace doors of eternal fires; original, pro-
found, inspiring. A reflected light will
fail us in, the final hour, our light must
be inherent, it must transfigure, identity
and attract, in dignity and beauty, and
so adorn the permanent personality of
a first-hand, man.
—IL T. Miller.
A13OUT PRAYER.
That which renders prayer so diffi-
cult a subjeet to it thoughtful man is
the utter selfishness with which it
used even by good people. Mon pray
for themselves, their children, their
friends, their bitsiness coreerns, and in
sueli prayers touch the horizon of as-
piration. 111 other words, they attempt
to secure for themselves certain favors
whieh are not granted to others. tiOW
15 it that such persons have never con-
sidered the elauses of the Lord's prayer?
This is admittedly the model prayer.
Christ, who had beeu addressing his dis-
feiples on this very subjeet of Wrong
ideas of prayer, gave them this prayer
as the pattern of what all prayer ought
to be. Yet what are ite themee? It
consists of four parts. The first four
{douses are pure aspiration. They ex -
prose the ardent desire of all pure and
exalted spirits to see (lode; kingdom
prosper and its righteous law fulfilled.
One clause only touehee the temporal
life of man, It is the most modest of
requeste•-the prayer for daily breed.
The next three elausee express spiritual
need. They speak of forgiveness, temp-
tation and atliveranee from evil. The
last three dames are triumphant as.
'eription, emresponding with the open-
ing note of aspiration. Thus vie find
that prayer is the flowing out of the soul
to ood itt obedienee and inspiriatieti. The
man who prays is not im much a stip*
pliant to God, as a sympathimer vith
bitn. ITe does not beg at the gate: be
adores at the throne.—lev. W, J. Daw.
son.