The Seaforth News, 1933-03-09, Page 7441
t1iH'IJIZSDAYi MARCH 9, 1933.
THE SEAFORTH NEWS,'
PAGE SEVEN.
STACHELENGRO
;Like a statue, unmoved in a bar-
rage, the hedgehog was found aurid
the 'barleing 'af doge, After one child
e had claimed $,t for .having !ssen it hest,
and the other 'for having picked it tap,
it was 'declared a "natural :pet" to still
the strife, and admitted to the 'fam-
ily of animals which Jives confusedly
in and ,between two epntiguous
houses of the 'chil'dren,
Hating 'been .pus on the floor of ,the
roursery of one house, where +within 'a
few minutes of its arrival it 'had eaten
a saucer of bread .and milk, ignored
a cat, andrefusedto unroll in any
hands +but those of the child who had
carried tt 'home,: it was 'let loose in
the kitchen of the oehee house under
the inquisitive 'wetch'nulness of the
united 'family Of anim'als, even the
rabbit 'having been :brought to share.
the spectacle. It 'overate itself and
was carried dormant upstairs to the
drawing ,roam, 'for fear that the ani-
mals, in bhe absence of their masters,
might violate the Pax 'Britannica
which rules over dogs, eats, rabbits,
guinea -pigs, 'tortoises, lizards and
snakes and h'artu the newcomer.
short time afterwards a visitor
would have been astonished to see s
hedgehog calmly lying full length in
front of ;the afire, as if .he had been a
cat long established in the home,
'!We 'coul'd now begin observations,
and the first thing we noticed was
that, as there are hard 'bricks on the
hearth, the hedgehog lay on his stom-
ach, since no doubt his prickles
would have interested: with any other
position, ,with 'lois legs stretched 'fore
and aft, leaving all . the while with
his breathing, and looking, 'but for
this movement, like some dead ani-
mci spreadeagled, or e skin 'made into
a mat.
'Alter .sleeping some time he awoke
to carry out some explorations, but
these not 'being allowed. he showed
no objection to lying on my lap while
I examined his strange structure and
tickled his stomach.
Having spent the night in a •place
of 'safety, he was restored early in
the morning to the kitchen, where the
children, on corning dawn, were
much astonished to see four cats and
a hedgehog quietly eating pieces of
cold muttom from the same plate as
if they had, forever been companions.
The meat (finished, however, fun be-
gan. ILooking
egan.'Looking like some huge bug, the
hedgehog explored every inch of the
kitchen, +followed by the came each of
whom having in turn pricked either a
paw or a .none soon decided to keep a
safe distance, The "bull -terrier, long
accustomed to attend grazing parades
of rabbits and guinea pige on the
lawn, -when he has the habit of lick-
ing the piglets, tried licking the
hedgehog, to remain as much aston-
ished as disgusted.
A cry now arose that the neve beast
Must have a name, 'But, as I have
never found any name deliberately
given to stick to any of our animals,
I was content to suggest '"stachel-
engro," which, I have read is the
gypsy word. The gypsies, it is said;
sat hed'geho'gs and cook them by
wrapping Chem in »elay, which, hard-
ening in the -fire, comes away with the
prickles: 'The name "stachelengro"
has not stuck, of course, but the •first
Part, is obviously of :German and not
gypsy origin. To 't'stachel" is to roll
up instantly, spiky and resistant to all
arguments, exposition •of facts or any
blandishments whatsoever, and stand
most offensively on the defensive
from the first outset of any discus-
sion Or approach of discussion. eSta-
cheling" is certainly 'quite common
among humans wise are aggrieved
Piles Go Quick
Itching, 'bleeding or ,protruding
piles go quickly and don't come back,
if you ,really remove the eause• Bad'
blood circulation in the lower bowel
and hemorrhoidal veins 'causes piles
by making the affected parts 'weak,;
gabby, 'almost dead. Salves and sup-
positories fail 'because ,only an in-
ternal medicine that stimulates the
circulation and drives out the impure
'blood can actually correct the cause of
piles. Dr, j. S. Leonhard' discovered
a real internal Pile remedy. :Anter
prescribing it for 1,000 patients with
success in over 900 cases, -he named
it ,HIEM-RiOtIiD, Chs. Alberlhart and
druggists everyisehere sell HEM -
MILD Tablets with guarantee they
will end your Pile misery or money
back.
turned'up, for he .is slightly rolled,
he lies in his-well.fittin'g bed quietly
sleeping for many hours, When left
to find a sleeping place of hes own ac-
cord, he .thrusts his way between the
fold,s of .a 'blanket laid down for the
cats, who consider his behaviour that
of a practical :joker. If the cats are
on the blanket already, he will go
round and round them until he can
find an entry for his nose—the diet
edge o'f a spiny wedge.
'Brut he does not only sleep. He
grows cheekier and cheekier every
day. We had herrings and put a plate
of leavings on the `floor, 'Stachelengro
marched off with a herring bone as
long as himself into a corner, but,
having eaten the tail. and finding the
backbone unmeaty, he returned to the
plate at which She cats were new
busy, His methodofgetting h o fair»
share—and a bit more — vvas quite
simple. He marched into the middle
of the plate and covered as much food
as he could with his hair -fringed
spiny body, while four bewildered
cats stood round puzzled. I have sel-
dom seen a 'better argument ler dis-
armament,
AIRPLANES DROP BOMBS
ON SHIP"
The Dutch 'battleMee Lie Zeretr
Provincien was surra" . el alt.. Air-
planes, bombed the eh.p. Tee ae.th
roll was 22, four of tee w eende 1 hav-
ing died.
The air qua' -'n tete
nta.i.,eers six ,'.mc 't s ger. .» be-
fore dropping tea Mane.. ., this 'had
not had the ::wired Mime, all the '
h -:nibs carried, .amounting to over a
tot on explosives, would have been
dropped, and if the mutineers had still
held out torpedoes ;would have been
used and the battleship sunk. 'The one
bon:b, however, killed or mortally
wounded all the mutineers' leaders, in-
cluding the ringleader, a pian named
Basic.
The story of what happened on
board Se Zeven Proeincieti from the
moment the .mutiny broke out until
the bomb was dropped is .given by
one of 'the officers on board the ship
who Was slightly wounded by ,the
bomb. According to his account, `this
officer was patrolling the deck on
the day of the. mutiny .when he saw
a IDu'tch engineer with some natives
busy hauling in the main ganway.'Phe
officer 'seized his reviewer and asked
for an eatplanetiore The men said it
was a anistake and returned to their
normal duties. The o'ffic'er then went
to bed, but !shortly afterw'ands some
alt the men came in and ordered him
to get up, and he was brought before
a council df mutineers. •Believing "re-
sistance useless, the 'obficers, number-
ing in' all 16, handed over their re-
volvers, with the exceptten of the 'of-
ficer in charge, who jumped aver -
and determined not to be convinced, board and swaam to the shore ,a risky
but 'S'tachelengro himself has almost attempt in a se's infested with sharks.
1os't the habit n•ow. It is wonderful to
find how smoothly his thorniness lies
down when he is pleasant and ac-
commodating, and 'how he can be
stroked like the softest animals, Even.
when 'busy about his rushing explor-
ations, if caught (told of, he only
snorts and tries to pull away, ' stach-
eling" only when the children put
hind in one of my shoes, into which
he would not fit, if unrolled,
The first sign of incipient rotund-
ity is a snubbing of the nose, 'follow-
ed by the closing of the eyes, the
lifting of the hair and prickles (they
are the same—they 'blend into one
another•) over the 'brows, followed'
then by quick progresstowards the.
final spiny sphere. The spikes then
no longer 'lie all smooth and parallel,
but, like the iron filings 'whose ar-
rangement in a magnebic .field has
suddenly been disturbed, .point away
at all angles.
Stachclengro has now learnt not -ta
upset a saucer of milk by standing
an the edge. He knows w'hbere the
warmest corners are, and in these he
sleeps -but not rolled up. 'He spends
his time between sleeping and violent
ep'loration.
'When the children are at 'l tome he
is carried' up to the nursery and put
to 'bed ,in a doll's' cot cowered w'itih'
blanket scsi equipped with pillow.
Gently heaving, with his little hands
deselect together, and hisarose a
This officer afterwards had a nerv-
ous breakdown, and is now in hospi-
tai in the north of Sumatra.
The officers: 'mere well treated and
one of Chem even had: an opportunity
to sit in the wireles's room, where he
tried unsuccesstfllly to call for help
Iirom Java. (Later on. he was removed
from the room. A plan of counter-
action wee drawn uip, but a warning
buiilet on one occasion brought the of-
firers to a r alizatien that it wee rise -
less to attempt anything.
Rrihen ,the pursuing squadron came
in sight the mutineers expressed coo-.
lidenre in their strength behind the
oovverael guns of the 'hateset e, The
fact that the Alcteharate which had
followed bhent for ttliree°days, on their
,first warning to'rema{u at a greater
distance had obeyed their order, had
encouraged theme and they made light
of the seap'l'anes.
!Strangled with Asthma is the only
expression that seems to 'convey what
is endured .from -an attack o!i- this
trouble. 'The relief front De. J. D. I(el-
logg's As'th'ma Remedy .is beyond
measure. Where all was suffering
there conies com»lort ani1 rest. Breath-
ing becomes normal and Phe bronch-
ial
ial tubes completely cured. This ' un-
equalled remedy is w-ortfi many times
its price to ton wleo use it.
'Want and For Sole Ads, 3 time's 50c.
1
Sam had his first taste of print, and
he Iiked it.
His Early Manhood.
ire June, ;$853, Sam (Clemens decid-
ed to go out into the world, fele was
novo* in his eighteenth year and hay-
ing.mastered his trade,he , grew est-
less in unrewarded service. He told
his mother he was going ,ta St., Louis
to see :Pannela, 'His intention Ova's to
go much farther than 1St. !Louis—
'NewSiam's
even York, but he dared not tell
her. "Qn his :departure she =made him
swear,' while hwdddng one end �of a
little Testament as she held the
other, that he would neither throw
a card nor drink a drop df liquor while
gone.
Sam wotked in St. Louis just' long
enough to earn money to carry him
to New York, 'where' he remained
some months wdrkin in a . rintin
, g printing
establishment, and '"tong sometimes
as 'much es fifty 'cents per wee'k to
lay away. But Sam did more than
work here. From his letters home we
learn what the sights 'all the city, in-
Budin+g the ,Crysba'! .Palace, meant to
'hint, and we +find the boy .who detested
school, revelling ,evenings in a library
of four thousand volumes, 'We leave
somehow rhe feeling that' he had all
at once stepped from boyhood to
manhood and that, the separation. was
marked by a very 'definite line.
(Atter, he :had satislfied himself with
+the wonders .of New York he went
over to Philadelphia, "subbing"' on a
daily paper, and acquit{ng .an educe-
tion by visiting historic' sites, art gal-
•teries, and libraries. He ,liked Phila-
delphia, and earned enough to send
•,Some something •to his another' now and
t Bane half a
hen. When he 'h'ad 'been
year he felt his "first attack of home-
longing, but he weathered it out and
stayed away ' for nine months more.
HisWanderjahr- had him self-
reliance and •educational advantages.
He sat up three days and rights in a
;moking car to make the return jour-
•ney to Si, •Louis, where he stopped a
few hours to see 'Pamela. Then: worn
out, he took the tI�eokuk packet ,for
the rest of the journey, and flinging
himself on his berth, slept the clock - 'surpassed
three times around, scarcely _ waking
' up or turning over, "For a long time
:hat missing day confused .his calms-
•lations.
Orion mus established in Keokuk
now and 15am went to work for him
again. He, with others, slept .in the
office. It was already his practice to
smoke iri bed, and he made for him"-
self an Oriental pipe, which would
hold more than the regular variety,
One "night, young Brownell, another
employee, was •passing upstairs to Lie
room, when •he heard Sant ,Clemens
call: "I wait ,somebody to light my
pipe„
'Why don't you get up and light it
z
yourself." Bro.vc'neil^asked.
I would only I 'knew you'd be
alorng'in a few minutes and do it far
me,,
Brownell scratched the necessary
match, stooped down and applied it.
'What are you reading, semi" he
asked
"Oh, nothing 'much -a so-called
funny book; 'one df these days I'll
write a funnier book than that my-
sottp,'i
IBraw^hell laughed. 'No you 4von't;
Sam." he said. "You are too lazy ever
to write a book." Little did he dream
that years later .the "tame "'Mark
Twain" would 'stand for American hu -
mor.
While in Keokuk at a printers' baht-
quer, iS'am delivered 'his 'first atter-
dinner speech. It was hilarious and
crude, its humor of a primitive kind,
but -the speaker had entered a field of
entertainment in Which he would one
day have no rival,
Sam now became infatuated with
the 'idea of going to isAmerica,
and started on a voyage that lasted
tour years, but did not take him be-
y'ond the ilf'ississi i,
PP
Horace Bixby, pilot of the Paul
Jones, vvas, standing at the wheel
when he heard a slow,. pleasant voice
say: Good -morning.' did not
tiko visitors in the pilot house, and
.w,`hen :asked by ;the sttan'ger if he did
stat want a aotiag mien .to learn the re-
ver 'he replied that h.e did no't, 15am;
h'owever, was not discouraged, and
eoiitimced 'to talk {n +his easy deliber-
ate wQy; 'Bixby. became interested;
and said "What makes you peed your
words that ,we "
You'll (lave to ask my mother"
gam. replied, ..more slowly than ever.
"She. pulls hers, too."
Bixb. woke tip and. laughed. Then
Y
the asked Sam ill he had ever done any
gearin:g.'Sam replied that he had
steered about everything on the :river
exoept a steamboat.. et turned out
that in a short time he was steering
that, too. Bixby took hi,m as "cub" for
^1•a0 d'aw•n and x100 •mare when he
' .. urn it an • ;Sari' set'' about
o ;dd e d
(corning the river. The little notebook
containing the result of : his first trip,
ati.d,rfairly •br.is�tling ayith- the towns.
points, islands, bend's, etc., on the ri"v-
er, still exists: It would take the aver-
age aii+i'nd days 'to remember even a
single page ob such statist:ics,` and
;Sam's heart .ached when he remem-
thered •that this was only half the jour•
•ney, far the watches were four hours
on and four off, The only way 10 ac -
the
for the fact that this .dpeamy,
unpractical lad ever persisted hi this
:pursuit lies in the fact that he loved
the riper in its every mood, and th
'freedom Of the pi'lot's life appealed to
him.
got passed on' from Bixby to a
pilot named' 'Brown, wale was fault -
tending, ignorant and,fiutgar. 'Henry,
younger brother, also was
working on the boat and he and Sam
spent many a happy' hour together,
'until one fatal day, when (Brown abus-
ed Henry, calling him a ajar. Sam was
instantly -upon Brown, and. laid him
on the Roos, with the result that Sam
ha l to leave the 'vessel and take pas-
sage up the ,river on another boat. His
' g
last instructions: to . Henry were tfo'r
•coura'ge and self -forgetfulness. 0'n
the trip up the river the boat on'vvhich'
were Henry and Brown was blown
up and Henry was fearfully scalded
in his efforts to help others. Sam stay -
ed by `Henry in 'an improvised hospi-I
tal,•,helping nurse him, and on the
sixth night, the' doctor reported em -
pravement, 'but suggested that:5 the
'Patient Were restless during the night
:the medical student -in charge might
give h'im• ane -eighth of . a grain of
morphine. .Henry was very', -restless,
and grew worse and worse. The stu-
dent hesitated giving the morphine,
as he had no means olf measuring it,
but Sam urged him and at last he
measured it out in the, point of a knife
Henry 'took it, and died 'before
'morning. Sam never overcame this
tragedy, and always counted himself
responsible, although Henry's .chances
of life were fn:fin testiinal and death
not necessarily due to the drug. 'Grey
hairs came to +Sam. At 23 he looked
like 30, at 30 nearer 40, and later he
wasregarded in vigor and tem -
peramen't,' but never in looks.
He returned to the river eine ob-
Coined a lull license as' pilot. In eight -
ten mouths he had packed 'away in
his head all that multitude of volatile
statistics, and now at 23 years of age,
he had acquired a profession which
all others ifar absolute sov-
ereignty, and yielded an income equal
to that then earned by the Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, He was a
remarkably successful and, we must
say,,lucky pilot, for be never had an
and as the boys of ,Hannibal
y
bad gathered around when Sam iClc-
mens began to speak, 'so now the pi -
lots in the '"rooms" at ,St. Louis or
New Orleans gathered round to listen
to his yarns er observations.
just here it is well to relate the •or{-
gin of his pseudonym. Isaiah "Sellers
was a sort of "oldest inhabitant" of
the river, and used to •contribute par-
agraphs of general information to the
newspapers, signed "Mark 'Twain:"
He was regarded'as lair game by the'
young pilots, and one day Sam wrote
a burlesque imitation of a perfectly
impossible voyage, which was printed
by his friends, biti'n'g a masterpiece of
its 'kind, and completely. broke Captain
Sellers' literary heart. Sam .deeply re-
gretted the inatter, and after the old
pian had died, he took the name•
"Mark Twain" as his own pen -name
'Back of this is the story of how gel-
lets got the name from hearing the
men heaving the lead at the bow of a
river -'boat and singing out: "By the
mark three; by the mark twain."
.sesasea,_„„
„_„r,.
shaving from a cooper shop .across
the way blew upto his deet, He :pick=
ed it up .and carried it in; 'meekly
handing it to Miss "Harr, "with . thecount
result that a bigger boy was sant (for
another; s•vvitcdt, •(which Was used on
moor 'little Sam 'so that he immediate-
l�t, received, a permanent hatred of
,school, He told his 'mother at noon
that he,�had• no dewire to be a learned
man, he preferred to be a pirate or
'an rind{an anal scalp such ;people as
Kiss -Harr. '
Dislikes School:
lHe returned to school, bat each; day
with •more and more reluctance and'a
growing 'loathin:g of it. He learned to
read somehow, and was 'always a
good speller, +but 'this seas a natural
eat, as . were most oe his attainments
throughout life. :Geography • rather
interested him^ but nt'at ern a tie mere
a l 1 Vert
his bane a 'nd he refused' really to
study any'thing. IHis real •education was
acquired out-of-doors,with the river
as supreme .attraotion. rLts charm was
permanent. tele, would venture out on
it in a surreptitiously=borrowed boat
when ;barely strong enough to lift an-
Qac, and',•by the time he had reached
'the mature age' of eight the sight of
the steamboats passingupand dmrni,
and +himself with never a chance to
neake the trip, was unbearable, so he
slipped aboard one day, and, hidden
beneath one of the ;boats, reached .the
next stopping -place, where he was die-
covered ,and put on shore to be ship-
ped back home.
` "blade.
For the pelt few years Sam Was.
the leader di 'a gang of boys whose
chief pastimes were fishing, swim
rnhlg- and general •m'araud'ing,
of their expeditions were innocent
p
enough, while others were not, one
of the latter ty¢e being the . Sunday
employment of climbing a very steep
hill and rollingdown big stones togivenyoung
frighten the people who were going
to church. =After they had .tried this
lark with' a rock about the size ai an
omnibus it 'became safer for them to
resort to other 'pastimes. On the
whole these boys nvere an unpromis-
ung lot, but they all turned out pros-
pereus and respectable citizen's. In
these days they were a rietious, 'fun-
loving band, with little respect for
order.
One' incident further of Sam's
school days is surely worth repeating.
His master was a +lir, Cross, whoseaccident,
name, it was said, must have` been
handed. down by angels. it fitted him
so well. One day Sam Clemens wrote
on his slate:
Cross .by name and cross by •pat- o
lure—
'Cross jumped over an 'Irish
potato," •
rias was considered such a stroke
cif genius that one di the other boys
urged Sam to write it on the black-
g
board at noon, but'the poet's ambition
did not go so far, and he remarked
„ I dare you to do rt:' ,,_Thedeed was
done; the handwriting 'was cocoa
sized, and the be paid the penalty,
while :Sam sat trembiing for 'the
author ho be relied 'upon, but for
once he. escaped pun•is'liment•
'Before Sam was twelve years old
his father died, and ''then `came a
change in that remarkable life, .Re=
ntorse •laid a heavy hand on hint, astd
by the bedside of 'his stead parent his
mother tried to comfort him, and
added; "I want you to premise ate
„ I will promise anything," 'he
sobbed, "it you occult make me go
to school-anyt•hing!" and his mother
anewered: " V'o, (Sammy, you need
not go to school. Only +promise to be
better boy. 'Promise not to break
m• 'heart." ',And `Sant always held a
Y —
promise :sacred,
B-iS:o. Saar -was apprenticed to a print-
er for his board and' .clothes—"Snore
board than. clothes, and n'ot aniich of
either:" Alger he 'tad learned' the
i
ways clf' the orifice he usually finished
his task by 3 p.nn., and was then a
the river or his favorite cave with
the boys, or for a walk with 'Laura
'alawkins, for ,Siam had become quite
a favorite among the girls, and 'at-
tended parties where they p'layed ,for-
{tits, ring -around -rosy, dusty miller'
etc.
u to this time !Sa•tn had no liter-
ary'ambition, b'it just node• •ca'm:e an
incident, 'tiicial in itself; ipso which
his whole'career, depended. 0me day
he chanced to pick uip e leaf torsi from
a book -all prcgtted platter now had a
itrofessio'nat interest Ifor him—and ,he
read. -for• the first •time part of the
stars/ of jo an of 'Arc. He craved to
learn marc about her, and dowdy
from that time on he began to reed
history and to enter a larger »field of,
rY"Literally,
life.
Orion, Sam's eldest -brother, now
boo ht out .a printing establishment,
g
and Sam entered.his employment.
was away Sant
while Orion Y
wrote and g'ru'nted a.rb:urlesque on.a
rival editor, and also a poem ad'dres's-
ed "To Mary' In 'Hannibal,' ;but ,the
title was too long to b.e set in one
c(neon, so he,left all tilt letters mn
IHamtibad, except'the first and last
end supplied their place with a dash,
',nth;a startling result.
p
D. H. II�C�iI�GS
McInnes
�r,qili'Ojh'1'ACLOI'
Qf Winghant, will be at the
Cdinmorciul Hotel, Seaforth
Monday, Wednesday and
Friday AfternoonsSam
•
l?lienees in all eared.ds success,-
folly treated.
Elecaricity used.
MARK TWAIN
ISam4tel 'Langhorne
t t;horne 'Clemens, known
fu literature 'by the attractive :and -cur-
Mee Inouye od :Meek Twain, `w'a's ibari,
to a 'sltn'a,ll village, IFIo'rida, Missouri,
an November '1833.,
v then 20, The; house an
which e,'he 'was born 'was 5 'one-story
lestructure,
n-to kitche two n was oe aiuth
lean -to •,kit,ehen. Sam was the,•fifth
child, and as his itlat!her lhad tried in
several. towns ,anal .villages 'to earn a
living by his'profession as a lalwyer
it in the iegre is busin'esss but with
siveg degrees of +success, »the a,r-
rival of Sam was not deemed' nieces-
nary. In •cluildlhoad and youth -he
showed 'no 'sign's of meriting 'the title
:hlat is mew 'clai'msd :for him—"the
foi+om'ast telearatteri urn author:ylAl the
anon, most rlharacteristically tnd action
n every rlotught end word and action
if his life. Yet he always seemed
;o 'be 'tike • some great 'beingfrom
•another planet never .quite of this
otion Mind."
"His was'a curious childhood, full
of weird, fantastic impressions and
.
;ontcad+iotoiy influences." His father
'ovate : almost no timeto his chi(-
heated ,
frssv, and his mother, attliough a
io4vertul -influence en 'his 111e was'al-
ways busy with'the younger children.
ys were his ren.
Baas early comthe
hens and sisters and tater,when the bro-
1 • moved to Hannibal, ltiss:ouri
ami } cry 3
Ile group of boys whose wild aspic-
ttions and aciusvements furnished
tem with material for 'much 'of his
viit ngs, and are known to us as
Huckleberry !Finn, "tom Sawyer, etc,
tbn lHerry ! l .the author's boyhood
as spent. It was a slave 'town, and
1 s greatlyim-
the slave trade away
dressed Samuel's imaginative brain
Ele remembers this place of resid-
cure 'as the white town drowsing in
he sunshine of :a summer morning—
.
the great Mississippi, the magnificent
elississi'ppi, rolling its 'mile -wide tide
along -the dense '.forest away on the
othsr side." c
Nine Escapes From Drowning.
Sam was the least promisingof all
the Clemens children. He was delicate
in healti<i, and developed little beyond.
a tendency to pranks. •Es vvas a queer,
fanciful, un•commicative child, that de-
tested indoors; and would run: away
if not watched—always‘in the direr-
tion of the river. He walked in his
sleep, and the doctor was-stvmcn'oned
olftener than was good' for the
family purse, er for +him, 'too, per-
haps, if ,we may ,credit the story of
heavy dosing cif those stern allopathic
days," (The ailments sent' him by na
ture were not 'enough, havvever, to
• v and on learn-
satisfy ISam, aged .fi e,
ing that a little playmate had the
flack measles, he stole into the fn-
Feeted-house and.into bed with :the
patient. Naturally,. Gam got his desire,
and a few days later' the family gabh-
cred about to see little ;Sam die; but
read
•hie was presently up again and y
for that 4von'denEuT even" in the life o'f,
every child—to be sent to sch,b 1 -..a
and indeed at proved to be an even:
` email Sam, His 'mother declared,
with
"He drives me crazy ,with his elects
when he is in the house, and when he
is out of it I am sx'pecting-every min
ate that someone will bring hien home
half .dead " During lifetime he .had
nine narrow escapes fnom drowning•
The first 'of ,these was at this'tame"to
when `five years old, After he 'had re
covered' this mother .rem'arked: IBibby
nit much dattger. Pao-
guess there Iwai safe iri
pie born to be hanged are sa,•
water."
Jane 'Clemens was'a 'Presbyteri'an,
and 'tried to'instruct her children with
regard to'religion by orthodox means,
b'ut'ISare would not say his prayers
unless coaxed by 'his sister "Pamela,
and 'then he would sit up :in bed and
tell' astonishing tales 'df adventure.
'Neighbors 'would say to Mrs. !Clem-
ens: "You don't believe anything bisat
child says, I hope,"' to which she
voile' replg•. "Oh; yes, I 'know 'his
aveta,^,e, 3 discount him 90 per cent
The rest is pure gold." .
So Sam was sent to school to'H'iss
»J-Ioer, Iwho taught 'from the Primer
ta the Tlvird 12eadar, erne received 25c
a week for'eaoh pupil: After "listening
conduct ;Sant decided
to the rules forOnce
'to see 'how'fax he,'co'ul'd go; but alter
.two ofEeuees 'Ise was very dirucIi sur-
prised aC!bei-ng tod'd to gp ottt u'nd
brim in a"st{cic, Now, 'Sour "hied the
g:c'ho'ose
whale'forest of i\'Iissouri to
from, 'bet somehow •everything - aR
geared ,too bulky: ;;IIe was standing
meditating on the matter, ,when al
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PAGE SEVEN.
STACHELENGRO
;Like a statue, unmoved in a bar-
rage, the hedgehog was found aurid
the 'barleing 'af doge, After one child
e had claimed $,t for .having !ssen it hest,
and the other 'for having picked it tap,
it was 'declared a "natural :pet" to still
the strife, and admitted to the 'fam-
ily of animals which Jives confusedly
in and ,between two epntiguous
houses of the 'chil'dren,
Hating 'been .pus on the floor of ,the
roursery of one house, where +within 'a
few minutes of its arrival it 'had eaten
a saucer of bread .and milk, ignored
a cat, andrefusedto unroll in any
hands +but those of the child who had
carried tt 'home,: it was 'let loose in
the kitchen of the oehee house under
the inquisitive 'wetch'nulness of the
united 'family Of anim'als, even the
rabbit 'having been :brought to share.
the spectacle. It 'overate itself and
was carried dormant upstairs to the
drawing ,roam, 'for fear that the ani-
mals, in bhe absence of their masters,
might violate the Pax 'Britannica
which rules over dogs, eats, rabbits,
guinea -pigs, 'tortoises, lizards and
snakes and h'artu the newcomer.
short time afterwards a visitor
would have been astonished to see s
hedgehog calmly lying full length in
front of ;the afire, as if .he had been a
cat long established in the home,
'!We 'coul'd now begin observations,
and the first thing we noticed was
that, as there are hard 'bricks on the
hearth, the hedgehog lay on his stom-
ach, since no doubt his prickles
would have interested: with any other
position, ,with 'lois legs stretched 'fore
and aft, leaving all . the while with
his breathing, and looking, 'but for
this movement, like some dead ani-
mci spreadeagled, or e skin 'made into
a mat.
'Alter .sleeping some time he awoke
to carry out some explorations, but
these not 'being allowed. he showed
no objection to lying on my lap while
I examined his strange structure and
tickled his stomach.
Having spent the night in a •place
of 'safety, he was restored early in
the morning to the kitchen, where the
children, on corning dawn, were
much astonished to see four cats and
a hedgehog quietly eating pieces of
cold muttom from the same plate as
if they had, forever been companions.
The meat (finished, however, fun be-
gan. ILooking
egan.'Looking like some huge bug, the
hedgehog explored every inch of the
kitchen, +followed by the came each of
whom having in turn pricked either a
paw or a .none soon decided to keep a
safe distance, The "bull -terrier, long
accustomed to attend grazing parades
of rabbits and guinea pige on the
lawn, -when he has the habit of lick-
ing the piglets, tried licking the
hedgehog, to remain as much aston-
ished as disgusted.
A cry now arose that the neve beast
Must have a name, 'But, as I have
never found any name deliberately
given to stick to any of our animals,
I was content to suggest '"stachel-
engro," which, I have read is the
gypsy word. The gypsies, it is said;
sat hed'geho'gs and cook them by
wrapping Chem in »elay, which, hard-
ening in the -fire, comes away with the
prickles: 'The name "stachelengro"
has not stuck, of course, but the •first
Part, is obviously of :German and not
gypsy origin. To 't'stachel" is to roll
up instantly, spiky and resistant to all
arguments, exposition •of facts or any
blandishments whatsoever, and stand
most offensively on the defensive
from the first outset of any discus-
sion Or approach of discussion. eSta-
cheling" is certainly 'quite common
among humans wise are aggrieved
Piles Go Quick
Itching, 'bleeding or ,protruding
piles go quickly and don't come back,
if you ,really remove the eause• Bad'
blood circulation in the lower bowel
and hemorrhoidal veins 'causes piles
by making the affected parts 'weak,;
gabby, 'almost dead. Salves and sup-
positories fail 'because ,only an in-
ternal medicine that stimulates the
circulation and drives out the impure
'blood can actually correct the cause of
piles. Dr, j. S. Leonhard' discovered
a real internal Pile remedy. :Anter
prescribing it for 1,000 patients with
success in over 900 cases, -he named
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will end your Pile misery or money
back.
turned'up, for he .is slightly rolled,
he lies in his-well.fittin'g bed quietly
sleeping for many hours, When left
to find a sleeping place of hes own ac-
cord, he .thrusts his way between the
fold,s of .a 'blanket laid down for the
cats, who consider his behaviour that
of a practical :joker. If the cats are
on the blanket already, he will go
round and round them until he can
find an entry for his nose—the diet
edge o'f a spiny wedge.
'Brut he does not only sleep. He
grows cheekier and cheekier every
day. We had herrings and put a plate
of leavings on the `floor, 'Stachelengro
marched off with a herring bone as
long as himself into a corner, but,
having eaten the tail. and finding the
backbone unmeaty, he returned to the
plate at which She cats were new
busy, His methodofgetting h o fair»
share—and a bit more — vvas quite
simple. He marched into the middle
of the plate and covered as much food
as he could with his hair -fringed
spiny body, while four bewildered
cats stood round puzzled. I have sel-
dom seen a 'better argument ler dis-
armament,
AIRPLANES DROP BOMBS
ON SHIP"
The Dutch 'battleMee Lie Zeretr
Provincien was surra" . el alt.. Air-
planes, bombed the eh.p. Tee ae.th
roll was 22, four of tee w eende 1 hav-
ing died.
The air qua' -'n tete
nta.i.,eers six ,'.mc 't s ger. .» be-
fore dropping tea Mane.. ., this 'had
not had the ::wired Mime, all the '
h -:nibs carried, .amounting to over a
tot on explosives, would have been
dropped, and if the mutineers had still
held out torpedoes ;would have been
used and the battleship sunk. 'The one
bon:b, however, killed or mortally
wounded all the mutineers' leaders, in-
cluding the ringleader, a pian named
Basic.
The story of what happened on
board Se Zeven Proeincieti from the
moment the .mutiny broke out until
the bomb was dropped is .given by
one of 'the officers on board the ship
who Was slightly wounded by ,the
bomb. According to his account, `this
officer was patrolling the deck on
the day of the. mutiny .when he saw
a IDu'tch engineer with some natives
busy hauling in the main ganway.'Phe
officer 'seized his reviewer and asked
for an eatplanetiore The men said it
was a anistake and returned to their
normal duties. The o'ffic'er then went
to bed, but !shortly afterw'ands some
alt the men came in and ordered him
to get up, and he was brought before
a council df mutineers. •Believing "re-
sistance useless, the 'obficers, number-
ing in' all 16, handed over their re-
volvers, with the exceptten of the 'of-
ficer in charge, who jumped aver -
and determined not to be convinced, board and swaam to the shore ,a risky
but 'S'tachelengro himself has almost attempt in a se's infested with sharks.
1os't the habit n•ow. It is wonderful to
find how smoothly his thorniness lies
down when he is pleasant and ac-
commodating, and 'how he can be
stroked like the softest animals, Even.
when 'busy about his rushing explor-
ations, if caught (told of, he only
snorts and tries to pull away, ' stach-
eling" only when the children put
hind in one of my shoes, into which
he would not fit, if unrolled,
The first sign of incipient rotund-
ity is a snubbing of the nose, 'follow-
ed by the closing of the eyes, the
lifting of the hair and prickles (they
are the same—they 'blend into one
another•) over the 'brows, followed'
then by quick progresstowards the.
final spiny sphere. The spikes then
no longer 'lie all smooth and parallel,
but, like the iron filings 'whose ar-
rangement in a magnebic .field has
suddenly been disturbed, .point away
at all angles.
Stachclengro has now learnt not -ta
upset a saucer of milk by standing
an the edge. He knows w'hbere the
warmest corners are, and in these he
sleeps -but not rolled up. 'He spends
his time between sleeping and violent
ep'loration.
'When the children are at 'l tome he
is carried' up to the nursery and put
to 'bed ,in a doll's' cot cowered w'itih'
blanket scsi equipped with pillow.
Gently heaving, with his little hands
deselect together, and hisarose a
This officer afterwards had a nerv-
ous breakdown, and is now in hospi-
tai in the north of Sumatra.
The officers: 'mere well treated and
one of Chem even had: an opportunity
to sit in the wireles's room, where he
tried unsuccesstfllly to call for help
Iirom Java. (Later on. he was removed
from the room. A plan of counter-
action wee drawn uip, but a warning
buiilet on one occasion brought the of-
firers to a r alizatien that it wee rise -
less to attempt anything.
Rrihen ,the pursuing squadron came
in sight the mutineers expressed coo-.
lidenre in their strength behind the
oovverael guns of the 'hateset e, The
fact that the Alcteharate which had
followed bhent for ttliree°days, on their
,first warning to'rema{u at a greater
distance had obeyed their order, had
encouraged theme and they made light
of the seap'l'anes.
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