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The Herald, 1908-08-28, Page 6BATHING AN INDIAN GOD. Curious Ceremony Attended by Thous- ands of Pilgrims. Thousande of pilgrims from the var- ious outlying villages and other parts of the I1o:.tghly distric'c poured in from an -early Isour in the morning to the temples oI 3 at xuath. The image of the god is placed on a conspieuaus part of the temple, so that it can be viewed at an advantage by the immense crowd of pilgrims, and 'there at a certain fixed hour the bathing cere- mony commences, The most curious part of the festival is that water is not poured on the image of the god until a certain shall bird is found sitting on the topmeet banner of the temple. There is a popular belief that 'the bird comes from Pura, the fam- ous place of Hindu pilgrimage, to Ma- hesh, an the day of this festival, and his very presence is an indication that the ceremony should commence. Immediate- ly after the bath is over the bird disap- pears.—From the Calcutta Statesman. 49 r• The most cooling of hot weather bev- erages is iced "Salads" Tea. It is most delicious. Made Money by It. A little quick lunch place on. Broad- way has a sign that reads, "Combina- tion Brelcfast." "Yep," said the proprietor, "I know there ought to be an `a' in it, but it brings a lot of smart Alecs in to tell me how to spell and they usually stop to have a sandwich. What will you have, ham, chicken or cheese?" ss Ten cents' worth of Wilson FIy Pads will kill more house flies than three hundred sheets of sticky paper. Ban on Jokes and Courtin' Items. We are anxious to secure some good correspondents in each locality in the county. Correspondents wno will give us the real news; no jokes or courting items needed, but we want "scribs ' who will send in good, wholesome news; for such we are willing to pay; so weite to us, and let's see what you can do. Send us a letter or so and sign your name, so we may know you.—From the- Smith Groves Times. Told in Detail. •She was too late to buy a ticket at the station Saturday morning, so she pet 'aboaretthe car just as it was leav- ing. 'As the conductor approached she opened a satchel and took out a purse, gave 50 cents tothe conductor, closed the purse, opened the satchel, put the purse back, olid closed the satchel. The conductor gave her. back the change and she opened the satchel, took out the purse, closed the satchel, opened the purse, put in the change, closed .the..purse, opened the satchel,: dropped the puree in, and closed the :satchel.—Akron ;(N .Y.) ,Herald. If there is any one thing that a woman dreads more than another it is a surgical operation. We can state without fear of a contradiction that there are hun- dreds, yes,thousands, of operations performeupon women in our hos- pitals 'which are entirely unneces- sary and many have been avoided by LY 1 E. INKEI PIPS VEGETABLE ©'® WOUN i.. For proof of this statement read the .following letter. Mrs. Letitia • Blair, Cannifton, Ont., writes to Mrs. Pinkham : "I was sick for five years. One doc- tor told me it was ulceration, and an- other told me it was a fibroid tumor, and advised an operation. No one knows what I suffered, and the bear- ing down pains were terrible. "I wrote to my sister about it, and she advised rare to take Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound. "It has cured me of all my troubles, and I did not have to have the opera- tion after all. The Compound also helped me to pass safely through Change of Life." 'ACT'S F ,Ir SOCK "F`'OMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills and has positively cured, thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, uleera� tion,, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains and backache. Mrs. Pinkhani invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guiders thousands to 11ietl1th, Address, Lynn, masa. "Ithought I must go on suffering from piles until 1 died: but Zam-Buis cured me,"says Mrs. E. Reed, of Steenburg, Ont., and adds:—" 1 WAS so weakened that I could hardly move about, and a little work caused me great agony. Then 1 heard of this grand balm, and I ant thankful to say that it has cured tae," Zam-Buk also cures cuts, burns, bruises, stiffness, eczema, ulcers, chafed places, sore feet, rough red skin patches, and nil skis injuries and diseases. Druggists and stores at sec, a box, or Zam.Buk Cc., Toronto. 3 bos for $x.23, Were Old Schoolmates of His. A conductor sent a, new brakeman to put some tramps off the train; they were riding in a box car. The brakeman dropped into the oar and said: "Where are you fellows going?" "To Atchison." "Well, you can't go to Atchison on this train, so get off." • "You get," came the reply, and as the new brakeman was looking into the business end of a gun he took the advice given him and "got," Ile went back to the caboose and the conductor asked him if he had put the fellows off. "No," he answered, "1 did not have the heart to put them off. They want to go to Atchison, and be- sides they are old schoolmates of mine." The conductor used some strong lan- guage and then said he would put them off himself. • He went over to the car and met with the same experience as the brakeman. When he got back to the caboose the brakeman said, "Well, did, you put them off?" "Naw, they're schoolmates of mine, too." Wellington, Kan., News. A WINDSOR LADY'S APPEAL, To All Women: I will send free withfull instructions, my home treatment which costively cures Leucorrhoea, Ulceration, Displacements, Falling of the Womb, Pain- ful or Irregular periods, Uterine and Ovar- ian Tumors or Growths, •also Hot Flushes, Nervousness, Melancholy, Pains in the Head, Back or Bowels, Kidney and Bladder troubles, where caused by' weakness peculiar to our sex, You can continue treatment at home at a cost of only 12 Dents a week. My book, "Woman's Own Medical Adviser," also sent free oa request. Write to -day. Address, Mrs. M. •Summers, Box H. 8, Windsor, Ont. 0.4 THE WAYS OF BUTTERFLIES. Entomologist Says They Are Best Actors in the World. • . Paul Cochelet, a professional ornitho- logist and entomoligist of Paris, France, arrived in New York a few days ago on his way. to Brazil on a butterfly hunting expedition. Re is a. short, thick -set man of 38, and keeps a large butterfly and bird store ,in Paris, which is patronized by collectors from all parts of the world. M. Cochelet is accompanied by an as- sistant. "1 expect to remain in Brazil about four months," Mr. Cochlet said in speak- ing of his trip to a New York Press re- porter, "I have hunted in Brazil many times, before, as the country affords no less than 700 specimens different species of the butterfly, which is nearly twice as many as can be secured in all Europe, "Nearly all butetrflies fly uphill," he said. "I do not know just why they do Oat, but they do, and where there is a track or pathway up the hill they fly along the track. When they get to the summit and there is no more path to follow, they seem to feel lost and cir- cle round. and round, often for hours, and then suddenly disappear. I have nev- er been able to find where they go nor why they act like that." Mr. Cochelet holds that butterflies and moths are the beat actors in the world. "Birds," said he, "are, of course, the butterfly's chief enemies, but some but- terflies do not agree with birds' diges- tions, and the non-poisonous varietiee imitate those the birds don't eat in 'a most wonderful way. The result of such mimicry is that birds, not being experts, leave both kinds alone, and the same thing occurs among caterpillars, beetles and all kinds of insects. There is a moth, for instance, which rests on the ground. It is a large moth, and, as it rests among dead leaves its wing tips quiver con- stantly. Now, the bird's great enemy is the snake, and this moth knows it. Each of its wing tips form a perfect imitation of a small snake's head and the birds never go near it. "Butterflies, too, are very inquisitive, and a frequent way to catch otherwise uncatehable speciinens is to shoot one of them and pin it down. Hundreds of its kind attracted by the smell will come to see what has happened and then the net comes into play." @.o Corncob Houses. In some parts of Europe corncobs are used for building purposes. The cobs are collected and taken to a factory where heavy compresses crush and mold them into blocks of various sizes, just as bricks are variously molded. These blocks are then bound with wire, so as to make them hold together. They are then soaked in tar to make 'them water -tight, and are ready for use after this treat- ment. Of course, they are much lighter than bricks, are always -dry, and make good houses. This is but one of the very many ways in which Europe shows a greater economy than America does.-- Philadelphia oes.Philadelphia Record. An Apt Answer. "What do you expect to be when, you come of 'age, my little man?" asked the visitor. "Twenty-one, ma'am," was the tiny boy's reply. • WONDERFUL CAVERN, Subterranean Chamber Near Triete Largest in the World. What is said to be the largest and most wonderful subterranean chamber in the world has just been opened up to visitors, It is situated in the !Karst Mountains near Trieste and was dis- covered and first surveyed by G. A. Per- ko in 1800. Tlais great cavern is reach- ed from Opehina, in Istria, first by a flight of steps hewn out of the mama tainside, then by two almost perpendic alar descents of 30 and 70 feet and fin- ally by half an hour's walk down a jre- cipitous winding pathway which leads to an immense,' stalactite and stalafmitte cave of great. beauty with a dome -like roof 460 feet wide and 800 feet long. The .peculiar stalagmite formations. here are considered to be among the most wonderful in the world; the pattTe winds along through what seems an in- terminable forest of petrified trees. DR. HUNT'S BUST DEVELOPER Will develop your bust from two to three inches is a very short time. ABSOLUTELY HARJIILESS. Pries $1.60. express prepaid. The 'Edward's Medicine Company, 611 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ont According to History. (Harper's Weekly.) A woman in a western city who be- longs to a community called the "Sisters of St. John the Baptist," not long ago spent a month in a backwoods district. Shortly after her arrival she went to the local post office and inquired if any letters had come for Sister Bernardine. The rural postmaster looked bewildered. "Sister who?" he asked, incredulously. "Sister Bernardine," repeated the lady, "a sister of St. John the Baptist." "I think not," he answered, dubiously. Then, after some reflection, he added: "Say, ain't he been dead pretty near a hundred years now 1" Caterhall, NfId. Minard's Liniment Co.,. Limited. Dear Sirs,—While in the country last summer I was badly bitten by mosqui- toes, so badly that I thought I would be disfigured for a couple of weeks. I was advised to try your Liniment to allay the irritation, and did so. The effect wan mors -than I- enpeoted, a few appli- cations completely curing the irritation, and preventing the bites from becoming sore. MINARD'S LINIMENT -is also a good article to keep off the mosquitoes. Yours truly, W. A. V. R. Pisasure Trip to the South Pole. A proposal is on foot in Sydney, .says the British' Australasian, to organize a midsummer pleasure expedition to the Antarctic Circle at the end of Decem- ber next. The excursion would occupy about a month, and would all re five or six days within the Antarctic Circle. A guarantee has been given of 40 pas- sengers at $125 per head, but SO to 100 would - be necessary to make the trip remunerative. Minard's. Liniment for sale everywhere. s.. Trials of a Chaperon. Mies Mayme (on vacation) -0, auntie, it's such a luxury to have nothing to do but just loll in a hammock with my precious Shelley or even "The Vicar of Wakefield." Elderly Relative -Child, if I hear of any more such scandalous doings I shall write to your mother! Wilson's Fly Pads kill them all. a Properly Named. Lady Visitor (who is being entertained by Tommy) ---And who are you named after, my little man?; ' Tommy Dunne. Lady Visitor—After your papa, 1 sup- pose. What is his name, near? Tommy—Duuno. Lady Visitor --Nonsense 1 What does your mamma Can him? Tommy (promptly) Donkey. a • s Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, etc. More Microbic .e' angers. Spontaneous combustion is well known to be the act of micro-organ- isms. The firing of a haystack is nearly always the work of a bacterial incendiary. Barns, granaries and spinning works have thus been de- stroyed by fire owing to the active oxidizing powers of micro-organisms, The carefully gathered crop of cotton or hops may fall to the same destruc- tive agencies. The category may be extended, according to recent work on the subject. Even lampblack char- coal, coal Etna peat are found to be readily oxidized by a common organ- ism of the soil, a fact which may ul- timately establish that after all- the micro-organism may account for the spontaneous heating of coal, for the awful disaster of the coal mine. In human history there have been several appalling dist,sters arising out of great conflagrations the origin of which has remained undiscovered. It is thins possible that the tiny, minute organ- ism has been guilty of unlocking vast pent up forces.—Froin the lancet. S CURED IN 24 HOUFIS. You can painlessly remove any corn, either hard, soft or bleeding, by applying Putnam's Corn Iixtractor. It never burns, leaves no soar, contains no acids ; is harmless because composed only of healing gums and balms. Fifty years in use. Cure guaranteed. Sold by all druggists 26e. bottles. Refuse substitutes. PUTNAM'S PAINLESS CO s'1' N EXTRACTOR GOLF ON A HOUSETOP. Putting Green in a Billiard Room— Driving Against Nets. Aerial observers may see on the leads pf a large house looking over Regent's Park a sort of huge cricket net and, rugs of cocoanut matting. In another large house in the neighorbhood the owner, who is a member of the House of Lords, has turned oiat his billiard table, stretched matting over the floor and per. forated five round holes. Both these strange spectacles tete indi- cation of the still increasing prevalence of the golf habit. The net on the leads is for practice at driving; the billiard room is converted into a putting green. A new and strikingexample of the habit was exhibited in the Royal Bo- tanic Gardens yesterday, when the School of Golf opened its term. One of the first pupils was a famous Harley street physician, a Scotsman, who put himself down for a lesson at 7.15 each morning. The chief apparatus of the school con- sists of nets and putting greens. The beginners, under the personal instruc- tion of professionals, are almost com- pletely encircled by netting, but they strike a free ball and can tell whether it is sliced or pulled. For the advanced golfer forty foot nets, stretched on telegraph wires and gigantic telegraph posts, are provided, and it is calculated that a good player can safely drive at the net from a dis- tance of forty to fifty yards. No regu- lar links are provided, but there is plen- ty of room for short approaches.—Lon- don Daily Mail. ♦., Dr. Jackson, former Health Officer of New York City, says in his report to Governor Hughes, that house flies are the cause of five thousand deaths an- nually in that city from typhoid fever and other intestinal diseases. Wilson's Fly Pads kill all the flies and the dis- ease germs too. mom Novel Effect in Landscape Gardening. "I shall introduce this year," said a landscape gardener, "two novelties on the grounds of a Newport millionaire— a floral clock and a roVolving flower bed.. "The clock is to be a circle twenty feet in diameter. The face will be of grass. The hands will be of white car- nations. The numbers will be red roses, pansies, heliotrope and so on. This clock will work electrically, and, of course, the mechanism will be concealed. Will it keep good time? - Oh, the best. I made an experimental one last week that only' varies eighteen seconds a day. "The revolving beds will be a feature of a sunken garden. There will be four of them, each 12 feet square, and they will revolve electrically at a revolution a minute. "These novelties will be the first mo- tion pieces ever introduced into Ameri- Bulletin. DEMONSTRATIONS IN DAIRYING Competitions in butter -making will be held in the amphitheatre of the Dairy Building of the Canadian National Ex- hibition, Toronto, at 10.30 a. in. and 2 p. an. each day from Sept. 3 to 11, in- clusive, excepting the 9th. A Farmers' Institute Convention will be held in the amphitheatre of the Dairy Building on that date. All persons, interested in agricultural educationalwork will be made welcome to this convention. There will be on exhibition throughout the whole two weeks of the fair models illustrating methods of cooling and taking care of milk on tem farm. Demon- strations in milk testing will also be given each day. Farmers and farmers' wives are cordially invited to ask ques- tions regarding the demonstrations. r-• WANTED VARIETY. Mr. New—I want to get a couple of canaries. Dealer—You want songsters, I sup- pose!' Mr. New—Oh, yes, I want one that sings classical music, and one that sings popular airs. m.s Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia. Up Against a Hard One, The great delver into the secrets of nature had accumulated a fortune and retired from active business in order- to be able to give his whole time to study and experiment, was observed to be cogitating profoundly. "What are you giving your mind to now?" inquired one of his laboratory as- sistants. "1 am merely wondering," he answer- ed. "wbat beenmes of all the corks.' ISSUE NO. 35, 1908 FARMS' FOR SAL1 . 1 ARIVPS IN ¥YIA,NSTOBA, SASK ATCHIr,- wan and Alberta; improved and wild, Get our list, it's free. Write us. 1], S. Mil- ler, Limited, No, 217 McIntyre Block, Win- nipeg, Mao. AGOOD INVESTMl6'NT — OKA.NAGAN fruit land is a money maker. Beautiful scenery, productive orchards, ideal climate. Por illustrated literature write to hlutrie Mutrle, real estate, Vernon, B4O. Where He Got It. (Montreal Herald.) "Gentlemen,' said the political candi- date, "you have asked me where I got it. The question is. impertinent, but I am going to answer it. (Cries of "AhI") "I am not going to beat around the bush about this natter. If it 1s a crime to have money, I am going to stand before you a self-confessed eriminaL" (Shouts of "Bar the doors!" "Don't let him es- eapel") • "Where did I get it? 1 will tell you where I got it." (A brief pause and evidences of suppressed excitement.) "Gentlemen, I got it by betting that Longboat would never get a look -in in the Marathon." Then his opponents faded away. 11-1410018.7.1 Send your name and address and you will receive a free sample of SLOCUM'S COM- POUND PENNYROYAL TEA. i5+`very mother and lady Should use it. Used successfully by thousands of ladies. A powerful but harmless vegetable medicine for sickness pe- culiar to women, and all diseases arising therefrom. 26c size for sale by all druggists. DR. T. A. SLOCUM, Limited. 170 King Street west, Toronto. o SCIENCE BREVITIES Of a million girl babies born, 871,266 are alive at twelve months. Of the boys, 30,000 fewer live through the first year. Great Britain is rich in mosses. There are 290 varieties found on the British Islands. The county of London covers 75,442 acres, but the London police area is 443,- 421 acres. The Abyssinian army has 200,000 men and its equipment ineludes 50 modern guns. When the chimneys of the Royal Mint at Berlin are cleaned about $1,000 worth of gold is taken from the soot. Fifty fine vessels are constantly em- ployed in laying and rrptiring the sub- marine cables of the world. esseeteal.,a. v;t-,i els P `.,e'ir:lceSe4 • Men should look for this Tag on Chewing Tobacco. It guarantees the high quality of Blacks aft The Big Black Plug. 2272 A "or -'kw. ,.:;tr..•4 , ,';iP..rS`•1Mhuf}',".`els^.. ^d;•r' Hunter's Tussle With a Deer. James Snook, of this city, had an ex- citing experience with a buck deer at Occidental, in Marin county, yesterday. Snook was out hunting alone, and, sight- ing the animal, fired two shots. The deer fell, and, thinking that it was dead, Snook ran up to his prize. To his sur- prise the apparently dead animal jump- ed up and rushed at him viciously. Before he could protect himself Snook was knocked down and trampled into in- sensibility. He finallyy.� recovered, and upon staggering to hie feet discovered the deer lying dead not more than two hundred yards away. Snook sustained a fracture of two bibs by being struck by the deer's horns when he was first thrown to the ground. In addition he was considerably bruised by the animal's hoofs.—From the San Fran- cisco. Chronicle. 4.e Take no substitutes for Wilson's Fly Pads. No other fly killer compares with them. s,s They're Popular Now. "How shall I tell your father of our engagement?" "He is interested in polities," suggested the girl. "You'd better go as a notifica- tion committee and pass it off in that way." Minard's Liniment Cures -Dandruff, Hard Lines. Tess—Mad at him? Why, he wrote. •a lovely poem to her. 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