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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1914-07-02, Page 3Irni 12SrA'v, Jutx 2 194 Children Cry for Fletcher's t The amid ou Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over $G years, has borne the signature of and has been made underhis Per. sonal supervision since its infauey. e Allow no one to deceive you in this, All Counterteitls, itnitations and 4EJust-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTOR1A +Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor 011, Pare.. gorio, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms o'nd allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic, aU Teething Troubles and, Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought -.THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY; _111t1_ ll •�\�, ,11ylls Ii� - s'`';�: -.�) �:^�' �•-til.,;��j' � ,til Yui , a�Inll•tt. • Concrete walks ' need no repairs THEY are not only best at first but are cheaper in the end than any other kind of walk. They are clean, permanent and safe. There is no- thing to become loose nor are they slip- pery. They improve the general ap- pearance of a house and are a source of great satisfaction to every housewife be- cause they keep children out . of the mud, prevent colds from wet feet and prevent dirt from being "tracked in" on floors and carpets. Equally important is the fact that they never wear out and never need repairs. This free book "What the Farmer can do with Concrete" tells all about concrete walks and how to build them, and a score of other things needed on every farm. Write for it to -day. Farmer's Information Bureau Canada Cement Company Limited 521 Herald Building Montreal vAtairlmsommestaasRvimmor HANOVER PLACE, WINNIPEG (Itts:de the city limits, along the Sharp Boulev,ard and Avenues each side.) Study Your Investment. Because something is off wed you for little money dress not nt+ces'aari.ty mean that it int a good invtafittnyas. The value of an investment should be carefully figured on the return it will likely bring. If your Investrns nt is in 'town or City It -al D'ttate, there will he no profit tirade if the Town or city is not growing. If the Town or City is not growing or at a stand -still, property decreases, you lost?. If the Town or City is growing and likely to grog and your property is in the growing area it advances at double the per- centage of increase of population. Winnipeg's 'wilding permits amounted to $20,000,000 in 1312 and to $18,050,000 in 1'013. It kept right on growing during the hard times. The prospects for 191.1 are much brighter now than they were at this time last year., Winnipeg is bound to grows hard times Or easy times. Conditions demand a great City just where Winnipeg is situated. Don't shut your eyes to the Inveettntent Value of Hanover Plane as it is on the line of the best Developing Residential Dis- trict; now in Winnipeg. You may be offered lots elsewhere .for less money but study closely whether they are likely to increase in value, and what is the reason for such expected increase. Our prices aro $225.00 a lot Axed up according to location. Write to -day to— THE RELIANCE INVESTMENT & »EVELOPIiNCI CO. Ltd., DEAD OFFICIO--w-i•IANOVER, ONT. Local Agent William Corrie, VVingham. Wu: Ts the week e THE WINGILA'M ADVANCE GORO BEDS QF QLD epertiota-- ,.f BY REV. BYRON H. STAUFFER Pastor Bond Street Congregational t..hurG1i, Totem/! With MY TA1,! t NTS. ul$co��RE , D T BE '$And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him." --1 Sam. 17:$1, But what it no one had told the king? What if the men who heard David had neglected to go to the royal camp to say: "There is a young fel- low out there who at any rate has great faith in, himself; perhaps it would be worth while to send for him;' And what if the king had an- swered, "Oh well, there aro many such young dreamers!" Would we then have had no David? Or would his merits merely have found another path to recognition? In other words, is true worth irresist- ibis, like a river, or is it accidentally discovered, like a pearl of the sea? Suppose the king of Spain had re- fused .Columbus an audience? That seemed to be about his last chance. He had peddled his ideas about all the courts of Europe. Suppose lie had been rejected in Madrid also. But you say at once: "Keep Columbus down? The thing is inconceivable. His will was indomitable. Like the ancient hero, he would have found a way or made it." One thing is • certain, we must -first possess merit before it can be dis- covered, Otherwise our speculations regarding the question asked by the title of this sermon will be 'a waste of precious time. The important tiling is to have some one talent worth re- porting to the king. So do not be too impatient, my dear young man, to have somebody scurry off to the rop ll tent to recommend you. Give tne writer of your testimonial something definite to say about your capabilities, In what do you excel? Ralph Wald: Emerson said: "The man who can write a better book, preach a bets"'. s e rmon make a better m ou tr though he make his dwellingg7 ' woods, will some time have the world make a beaten path to his d' Is that strictly true? There 'e widespread suspicion that somet;i' will depend on how Emerson's m•. in the wood pushes the mousetrap in the market. Let us be frank in tlr matter. What part does the quaVty which quaint old Francis Bacon called "boldness," and which modern collo quialism calls "nerve" play in success? Some would advise to let merit ab'o- lutely take care of itself, That has been the view of the professional man, I use the past tense because in recent years the lawyer and the physician have felt the necessity of yielding something of their ethical code to the spirit of commercialism. At the other extreme are those who say that the secret of getting on in the world is entirely a modern audacity that re- flects somewhat upon modesty. That is often the apologetic wail of the man who himself has failed, Merit must be winged with self- assertion. It is self-conscious. It searches, not for 'position, but for op. portunity. All the Davids ask for is a chance. But they must ask. Some- times their spoken words make the request; more frequently their .actions plead for them. But it is not a crime to beard the employer in kis den and ask for the vacancy. The proprietor of a large jobbing house told me how he discovered his best salesman. 'He was working in the stock -room for $11 a week, He came to my office one day and said he would like to try his hand at selling to small deal- ers atter hours. The manager of our city trade had already declined the proposition, maintaining quite rightly that we weren't looking for that class of orders. But the request was so unique, and the young fellow's man- ner so earnest, that I overruled the objection and had a line of samples and prices prepared for him. He went among the little stores of the foreign districts and of the suburbs, and came back with his hands full of orders, some of them so small that they were hardly worth the trouble of filling them. In a month his commission amounted to more than his regular wages. The next vacancy on the road was given him. Now he draws $5,000 a year and expenses." The proprietor made one mistake in telling the story. He didn't "discover" the salesman. That man discovered himself! But quite often, genuine worth hangs out its advertisement in an ex. ploit that speaks louder than any ver• bal request for advancement. An old magazine., gives a splendid instance: John Doe was the good -enough name for a sewing -machine agent who made such a poor showing in the small town where he was Ideated that he was ordered to close up the store and deliver all the machines at a neighbor• ing large city, The goods were to be hauled 'by wagon, and, as there Were two loads, John arranged for one load to be driven by his younger brother, Robert, a budding stenographer who spent his unoccupied hours about the store. They started off "ne morning for their all -day drive, john leading the way, As Robert trailed behind, ft came to him that it was 'a. Stn to haul all those good sewing machines past as many prosperous farms where dome sewing machines were doubtless needed. Choosing a nionient when John was out of sight, around a turn In the road, Robert invaded a promis- ing -looking house. He told With ere thusiasnt and conviction the story he had so often heard John tell in a pea funetory and futile way, and he won, leaving a retying iiiachine and taking away with him .rr contract and a first instalment on the purchase price, When, at the close of the day, Sohn arrived at the city office he explained that Robert was on the way with the rest of the goods, and nobody was worried at the delay. But when next morning cam, with no Robert and no maehlno:t, there was wonderment which changed to anxiety as the day wore on. Late it the afternoon Sohn WAS standing at the door, looking down the street for his )misting broth - et. When be taw Robert In the disc tante he shouted the glad news to the manager, who came forward in time to mere the loiterer. The wagon was loaded with baskets of eggs and vegetables, atiles, barr 1s of )ea sacks of potatoes and crates of be- wildered hens, while a bleatiug calf was towed at the end of a rope, Robert's pockets bulged with copper and silver coin, a roll of banknotes and a wad of contracts written on miscellaneous slips of paper. He had taken anything and everything he could get along the road, but brought In not a single sewing machine. There was a council of war and a reversal of orders, The two wagons went hack next day loaded with sewing machines. This time Robert drove the first wagon and John trailed. The store was opened up again with John still there, as assistant to the new mana- ger. Robert, when he told the story, was a district manager. I think that story's chief .value is in ridding our minds of the illusion that merit and "nerve" need be opposing qualities. Quite to the cont_ary, they are usually found to be allies, But will all talents be discovered and fittingly rewarded on earth, ac- cording to grade? No. That, with our imperfect observations and Judgments, would be impossible. The principle of school-rcom tests, with exact per- centages and consequent rankings, cannot be carried into after -life with minuteness. We cannot hold a civil service examination to see precisely who Is best fitted to be the premier of Canada. And it is not said that because a member of a cabinet is ..conscious of his superiority over his chief, he must perpetually sulk over the fact that he is not appreciated. Something must be conceded to the accidents of opportunity and availability. As a general proposition, there is ' a perpetual process of testing, classi- fying and permanently grading the talents of men, but it is done in the rough, and not with mathematical ac- curacy. It is likef grading wheat out at Fort William. The quality of the kernels as a class determine whether the car shall bocl last,° 1,2 or 8. c Yet every kernel of the lowest gr d is not absolutely poor. Some are p, r- fect enough to adorn a bin of No. Hard. But time would not perm. picking them out and giving them the highest place. Besides if that were done, the grade from which they come would not be fit to use at all. They are the saving grace of their class. They bring up the average. Merit often misses position, but not therefore recognition. Office has elements of accident and influence; quality, of certainty and independence. While we must concede that chance plays some part in our temporary ranking, we need not seek far for ex- amples of the complete victory of true worth even over fortuitous circum- stances. True, a glance at the steps whereby a great man ascended the ladder appears to confirm the luck theory. A certain preacher, for in- stance, now holding the chief pulpit of his denomination, owes his present pre-eminence, it would seem, to the casual visit of a commercial traveler to the little church of which the clergyman was then pastor. Within a week a gentleman in another city met the traveling man to say: "We are looking for a preacher. You are on the road continually. Have you heard a good sermon lately?" Then the drum- mer sounded the praises of last Sun- day's preacher so enthusiastically that his hearer decided to go five hun- dred miles witn the other members of his committee, to hear that man, and they gave him a call to a church that is a sort of beacon light, attract- ing sermon -testers from the four points of the compass. Within four years he received a call to his present pastorate, Now how easy it is to say: "See there; luck brought out that man. Had the traveling pian not been directed to that particular church by the hotel clerk, that ministerial pearl would still be occupying the dark un- fathomed caves of obscurity." Wait a moment. The pearl must have been glowing, even In Its cave, else the hotel clerk would not have given Itis guest the direction. It must have been bright that morning, or the stranger would not have made his report. And it must have shone with lustre once more when the committee made their dive, So it wasn't all luck after all. Besides there -were other drummers and other pulpit committees in the land, Take Robertson t r son of ex- emplifying Brighton as x- emplifying the situation when the pearl divers make an error in judg- ment. Representatives Prom an in- fluential London congregation journey- ed to Brighton to hear him preach. Either they had a misconception of what constituted good preaching or the preacher was not at his best, for they returned to the metropolis with an adverse report. Robertson remain- ed in his fairly small chapel until his death. But that did not hinder his fame. If committees rejected him, publishers did not, and his printed; sermons have stood the test of half a century, and have gone through as Many editions as a popular novel. Will my talent be discovered? Yes. But the chief thing is to have talent, even if it is merely to know how to Whirl a sling. Air BrakesForAeroplanes. A highly -ingenious device is about to be embodied in a new British aero- plane now nearing completion. A difficult problem, which has always confronted the aeroplane designers, has been that of enabling machines to land ata reasonably slow speed and yet fly as fast as possible. The neeeseity for this Pprovision may be from thefact that Mod- ern gauged f m the aeroplane, with Be full load, weighs the better part of a ton; and that the usual flying speeda range from sixty to eighty miles an hour. Accordingly, 11 Kr. A. 'V•, Roe, the well- known designer, has adopted the ex- pedient of providing his latest bi- plane with what may be termed "air brakes," These contist of f3ap>i hing- ed to the rear of the Planets, capable of being turned at tight attests to the direction of flight, with the oh- iect of enabling the pilot to reduce hie speed materially preparatory to alighting, Farm ana Garden DESTROYING SMUT. Presence of the Disease In Grain Gauges Heavy Annual Loss, The presence of stint in grain, par ticulariy in the oat crop, causes the farmers of the corn belt a hetivy loss nntlLast a t nl y. year smirk was pudic• ularly bad in Some comtnnnitles, and the farmers of those communities ecru well afford to undergo the slight ex• pease involved iu treating their seed oats for smut, We have always liked the formalin method of treatment for the reuse') that, although formalin is a powerful disinfectant. It is nota poison in tbe 'same sense that bluestone, for instance, would be classed as a poison. F'ur- nnaxlrn'r wBEA'r EAU AND ONE ATTACZBD ny sal uT. • tbermore, it is inexpensive, and an ex- ceedingly fiflute solution or formalin will kill smut spores absolutely.- For treating griffin one should nse one pound of furmalln to forty gallons of water. The grain to be treated sbould be placed un a good. tight floor. after which the water formalin mixture should be added until the whole pile is thoroughly wet. Of course it should be stirred while the liquid is being poured on. There is nu need Of put- ting it on with a sprinkler, because a couslderable quantity of liquid is need- ed, and the essential thing is to use plenty of it and to put lots of muscle on the scoop shovel handle. The grain should be stirred and wet- ted until the water seeps away at the sides, after which it should be shoveled into a steep pile and covered with gun- ny sacks or horse blankets and left in - this condition for two or three hours. At the end of this time the shovel should again be started, Spread the grain out ns thinly as the floor space will allow and shovel it over as fre- quently as possible. In other words, Basten She drying so that the grain Will not ',Swell. (Generally speaking, if the treatment is begun early in the morning and if the atmosphere is rea- sonably dry most of the moisture can be got rid of the first day, et least a sufficient nmount of it so tbnt there is no danger of the grain spoiling. It may be necessary to shovel over the grain several times the second day. In any event it should not be sacked up iintii it is dry. Of course if treatment Is Left until the grain can be taken di- rectly to the field it is not so impor- tant that it be dried out completely, but ft is important, as said before, to have the grain dried before, putting it in sacks. We have known instances where the germinating power of grain was very greatly injured by passing through a sweating in the grain sacks after the smut treatment. it will do no harm and may accomplish some good to dip the grain sacks into the mixture in order to destroy the smut spores that are attached thereto. This Can be done in the very first instance and the sacks hung out to dry, so they will be ready when the grain is dry enough to sack up,—Better Farming. l High Priced Egg e. Hggs ta demand the highest mar- ket prices must be infertile, uniform and fresh. By keeping the hens and roosters separate, gathering the eggs Several times a day, storing them in a cool, dark place and marketing them before they are more than a few days old a commodity tan be delivered that will delight tbe palates of city custom. ers. In order to make assurance doubly :certain, producers of fancy eggs al- ways candle their products before phasing them union the market. Eggs bandied in this manner may be placed in cold Storage for any reasonable length of time and will come out wholesome and eatable without the bad reputation so characteristic of storage eggs,—Janies G. Heiple, Secre- tary Wisconsin Poultry Association. Spray Apples and Pears, Apples and pears should be sprayed with arsenate of lend Its soon as the petals fail from the blossoms, to check the codling moth and pear shag. As sown its the leaved appear nn pear trees they should be igirnyed with kerosene emulsion ur tobacco extrect. Heal Thrift In Derbyshire, An admirable thrift prevails at a Certain Sunday stimuli in Derbyshire, and ties is effectually demonstrated at the Annual tea party. The needless expense of printing new tickets for this festivity is avoided, says, the Man. Chester Guardian, by the simple ex- pedient of using the tame year after year. Those et present employed bear the inscription: queen Victoria: Diamond Jubilee. Adhiit one to tett, Probably the msjority of the young revelers had not been born when the tkikeli Traps to Whose Bulbous Depths Sleep Was Once Wooed.. PUTTING ONE UP WAS AGONY. Tho Job Required the Services of Two or Three Husky Men and Was an Athletic Feat Seside Which a Wrestling Match Was Child's Play. "1 came across a bed wrench at a second hand curiosity shop uptown the other day;" said an old tinier, "and it took me back to the boyhood days et one jump, "Don't know what a bed wrench is? Of course you don't Nobody burn of this generatiou does. Tina's because they never had to put up a cord bed- stead—had the privilege of sleeping in the bed it held. '.The cord bedstead was a joy. Next to putting up the stovepipe or putting down the carpet wltti the base of n flatiron for a hammer to pound the leather headed tucks in with, the as- sembling of the cord bedstead of our daddies was the job that called fur the Most peremptory giving of nil the Christian virtues a vacation until the job was done. "The cord bedstead was the favorit. bedstend of commerce in those days Briefly described, there were foul posts of any height or girth to suit .the person or his )locket. Anywhere fr'otn three to four feet from the Mem a hole was bored its two sides of each post facing each other when the footbunrd and headboard i"o:-ts were stood np to be couuected. 1 -he- holes were bore, with a thread to take the screw out 01, the ends of the ctint'ectbtg pieces at the sides and ends of the bedstead. "Tires° eouueeting pier•e- were round and on what was to be the top of theta when the bedstead was set up was n row of pegs shaped likeso many mush rooms. A hole ::bout au inch in diame- ter ran through eneh of the four con netting pieces. 'When the bedstead was assetubled by -the fitting of the con nectiug pieces into the holes in the posts and serewed up tight and In ;ince by menus of a stout stick thrust through the holes in the round pieces the bt'd was ready' to be corded nit. and thea the wren'•h en me into play. "The ht R' ,"• ,. .:� . i t 3 auethin" lilt"• a stout wooden :,l t le.. The • ord rope like a t•1+,the•-ties but of better Quality. was run -,rnumi the mushroom, like begs, Mite were n tow tarlte- otnirt, ;itl(1 leu.iihwt,e and rrossivis, frau eo: neetiug there to eonnectln:: Place, like a big meshed net. "But the cord couldn't he drawn taut enough with the hoods, and so daddy or big brother Rill, or perhaps the hired man, gniIiiwd the wrench, tan Bled it up somewhere in at part of the cord where the tautening up process was to begin and by persistent lever age around and about the bedstead at last wrenched the eoi'd to n conditiou of satisfactory tautness, and the tu- mult and the shouting died, "For don't go away with the Idea that the work of settlug up that cord bed- stead was accomplished with the ease and in the brief time that it takes to tell about it, It generally required two or three capable persons to tackle the job with nay hope of succeeding with it, for itt the way .of refractory disposi- tion and demoniacal perversity the cord bedstead of the daddies had the breeehy cow itt the garden skinned a male. 1 have known the good wife to take the children rind go down in the cellar while the old man and his aids •were dallying with the cord bedstead in an effort to set it up incl giving it their opinion of it as it wobbled and slid and careened and skidded at tense and critical stages of the getting of it together. "Then when it was all up geed and 'solid and the smell of sulphur got out of the room mother used to come in and put the straw tick on the web of bed cord—the tick with the big slit in it where we tilled it with fresh rye straw until it looked like balloon all ready to go up. Then she tumbled on to the tick the feather bed, two or three feet high, with its dwelling fluff of dive geese feathers and almost burying you out of sight when you stowed yourself away on it after surmounting the bed with a stepladder. "Then with the sheets and the blanket and the quilt and tbe comforter and the big, bulbous pillows the bed was ready to sleep in. "That's what a bed wrench is, and that's the cord bedstead it wrenched. And when I hear some reminiscent id n Into body harking back to the days of the bed wrench and the cord bedstead and declare that when it comes to going to bed at night sure of a sleep in ease and comfort and of getting up next morn- ing never so refreshed give him every time, b'gosh, the old cord bedstead with nothing between the ropes and hint but the strove tick and the feather bed Instead of the new fangted springs and hair mattresses, 1 greet hitt) with joy, grasp his hand warmly and gently but flrniiy tell him he's a liar." -=New York Sun, Prisoners" Fasts. Hunger strlices are evidently no mod- ern Iden, as evinced by the following entry in l:veivn's diary of July 8,1650: "I hid the euriosity to visit some Quak- ers here (ppewicin in prison. 'One of these tris said to have tasted twenty dtt.ye, but nnnther, endeavoring to do the like, perished on the tenth, when he would have esteu, but could not"— London Chronicle. Nobility doral net Ile hi the hell full of fnmtit• portrfll a dimmed by the hand of time.—Sutteca. "Bab" snd" "Colin in Money. Most people would le know what was p p meant by the term "bob" when speak- Ing of money. But would they be able to say offhand what a "cob" is or was in a similar connection? it was 'used in polite Orates itt the seventeenth cep- tt'ry, for it decors in a letter from tiie Earl of Essex_..."So my wife gttve her a eob, for width the seemed very thank• ful"--printed in the newrelutne of the "Camden" eerie°, the editor" of watch gives the infurmation that the eob was "a piece of, money the !Attie of which vhrlerl (roar 4 ehiliings to ea mach as 6 sshillittge ins 16 'i5.°s-Minden Cbrolnlcle, A lady's comment— 'Tastes om ent -'Tastes better ---goes farther' d a nis good team BURNS LIVES SIMPLY PRESIDENT OF BOARD OP TIiAJ)1 STARTED AT TBE BOTTOM. Member of Commons for Battersea Is the Son of a Washerwoman and Has Made His Own. Wey to the Top --Started In n, Candle Factory 'and Finally Became an Engineer —Did a Term In Jail. The announcement that the Labor party in Great Britain did not intend accepting the suggestion offered by Mr. Asquith for a closer working alli- ance between the Liberal and Labor parties calls attention again to the representative of the working classes who sits in Cabinet Cauneils, Mr. John Burns, He is the first working- man ever admitted to the inner Coun- cils of Downing Street. Of course, he has made no concealment of his lowly origin. "I ought to know something about laundries," he told the House of Commons, "for my Mo- ther was a washerwoman." She was, he testified, a good mother. A Scots- man by parentage, his father, Alex- ander Burns, being an Ayrshire man, and bis mother hailing from Aber- deen. John was born in London 56 years ago. His school education at Battersea was very brief. At the age of ten he was employed at P^ice's candle factory; two years later he became a page -boy; subsequently he found a place as a rivet -lad at Vaux- hall; and at fourteen he was appren- ticed as an engineer at Millbank. This trade e a e h folioe v d He worked at it in various parts of England, also on board ship, and or a year on the delta of the Niger. Before then,, at the age of twenty-two, he was mar- ried to the daughter of a shipwright. He was an ordinary mechanical engi- neer at Hoe's printing machine works when he became noted at a leader of the poor and the out -of -work, From his infancy, as he declared, he had been in contact with poverty of the worst possible description, and .he set himself to relieve it. As a Socialist, an agitator, an open- air orator, a champion of free speech and of the right of combination, a leader in civic reform and an enemy of corruption and private monopoly, the engineer won his place in the sun. A hardy frame, a powerful voice, a striking face, great natural powers cultivated by reading, and a glow of romance rendered him an ideal lead- er. He stood as a Socialist candidate in Nottingham in 1885, but had, be- fore reaching Parliament, to serve a public apprenticeship in London. The efforts which he began amcng the laborers of Battersea were gradually widened. His views resounded from the dock in 1886, when he was charg- ed with conspiracy and with uttering seditious and inflammatory lan- guage; next year he was imprisoned for leading a rush on Trafalgar Square on "Bloody Sunday"; in 1889 he was elected to the County Coun- cil, and the same year saw "the orator of Tower Hill" conducting the protracted and celebrated strike for the "docker's tanner," a strik- which resulted in the greatest victory ever won for unskilled labor. The Lon- don County Council gave Mr. Burns a practical opportunity for the em- ployment of his reforming zeal. By municipal enterprise he tried to realize this ideal, and at the same time he labored to beautify his be- loved London. In 1892 Mr. Burns was elected to Parliament as member for Battersea, the workingmen providing him with an income: small. but sufficient. He entered the House of Commons, he said, as a big Briton and a great Londoner( caring for the England "that Chaucer exalted in song, that Milton ennobled in vera and that Shakespeare glorified in monumental play." The member for Battersea dis- tinguished himself as a spokesman for the London Progressives, his speeches being marked • by literary allusiveness as well as by fluency and force, and although he took com- paratively little part in general de- 1 bate, he proved an eloquent assail- ant of Unionist Administration in the 1895-1905 regime, and was recOg- ntzed, moreover, as a doughty repre- sentative of Labor before there was a Labor party Thin name big admission to Sir Hen y 01-46erRannertn in's'CA net is President of the Local Govern- ment Board, a post which he held un- der Mr. Asquith until recently, when he was transferred to a position of equal rank at the Board of Trade. "Public service" ---as he wrote in his first election address as a Cabinet Minister ---"ought not to he an esker 'retreat for the ignorant upper glasses, nor office a dull yet deeorus interval for this giit.edged incompe- tent between 11 and 4 o'clock." He himself set a good example in diligence, and althp'igh untrained and unconventional,, he has proved strong-minded administrator. Gibe* were thrown at "the Right Honor- able Sohn" when as a Cabinet Minis- ter he refused to sanction some of the Socialist schemes of those who claim- ed him as a former comrade. He con- fessed without shame or fear that he found it not only politic, but wise, to revise some of the views which he .expressed in hie salad days. When his salary -as $10,000, and still more when it was raised ;.' $26,000, old friends taunted him on his old obiter dictum, that no man was worth more than $2,50Q. Thus the candle -maker and page- boy has risen to be a Minister of the crown, the head of a great departs ment of state, a dispenser of patron- age, a friend of some of the most celebrated men 11 the land, and him- self one of the best known figures in the Empire. And yet he retains his simple habits. He lives still at Bat- tersea; he is a teetotaller and a non- smoker; he wears a "bowler" in Whitehall; he is a familiar habitue of the National Liberal Club. Read- ing has been to Mr. Burns an ender• ing pleasure, ANCIENT MEDICAL HUMOR. Specimens From the Rome of Nearly Twenty,Centuries Ago.. That there was no lack of medical humor in the classic days of Rome is made sure by the ancient epigrams of Martial of nearly 2.000 years ago. The London Lancet shows that the poet bore a grudge against the specialists of his day. for'it seems they had this variety of prnctitioners then And pokes fun at the oculists and at the surgeons W110 indulged in clinical teaching. Ot the latter he has a patient complain to good Latin, and this complaint bas been made over into current Engiish: 1 ise 114 but soon Symmachus sought me With a class of a hundred young men, Whose hundred cold paws have brought me The fever I lacked till then. The journal of the American Medi- cal association calling attention to the medical ways of the ancient city notes that diseases due to ►uxorious habits had multiplied greatly in Rome. What was called gout that is, pains and aches in Mute and muscles told the vague ,•unditions that we now Call r•heutoatttstu had also greatly increas- ed Pliny, who was an older con- temporary of Slartial, says. "Gout used to be an extremely rare disease. not in the times of our fathers and grand- fathers only, but even within my own memory." Although the gouty were usually rich and of luxurious babitn. some of them evidently were nut good pay. An evidence of this la thus given: Diodorus, while he sues in court, On gouty feet can stand, But when the lawyer's bill is brought The gout sets fast his band. —� No Chance to !'lops. Girls in New Guinea bane little chance to run away. Their parents force them to sleep in a little house on the topmost branch of a tall tree. then the tuduer Is removed and the slumber of the parents Is not disturbed by fears of an elopement. Caught Enough. Mary—The doctor says this illness et mine is caused by a germ. Agnes— What did hecall it? Mary - --I don't re - member• I caught the disease, but not the name.—Judge. Sometime.. Tommy—Pop, a man and his ,lifts) are one, aren't they? Tommy's Pop-. Yes, my son; sometimes one too mangy. --Philadelphia Record. He Is not the best carpenter Who makes the most chips.—Old Saying. R H EUMATISM We don't a-lt you to take our word for the remarkable curative, power of SoI,AOR in cases of rheumatism, neural- gia, he'rtdxclyes or other Urie Acid troubles, or the word of inortt than ten thousand people SOLACE bas restored to health, or the word of eighty-one doctors wing SoLAcia e.clttsively in their practice. Just write 'us for a l"1 e BOX and testimonials from Doctors, Druggists and 111- dividualis. .Also S0LACE remedy for CONS'T'IPATION (A LAXATIVE AND TONIC CONBINED) Does the work surely but pleasantly --Nature's wiry. NO ilittt'e d —no gripeing--no lyidk stomac'b—too rr* akrning. The TWO l t- edies are all we snake, but they are the gr"sttreet known lie the tnii•tis'gl w virbi s.• rl ,,'fly.. ,.41 Tt 1oci',te, nr ts,,,v,f111 tlrrtu• i1' "tit , ,ti r.r ,t, t, tt • .,r ,. art+",h 10.5 ht, p.r ,n' To prove tit- wnurlrt f"il t•u, •at.•V.' pats* Pr of sowi.eB .0m -tit A lit, )tor FIRE! BOXES. State if pier or both ate wanted. SOLACE CO,, Battle Creed f Mich., U. Sit ho