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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-08-12, Page 2Use GNLY the SOFT, SLY, TOUGH W alltIPAOTQJRED BY feudist an being supplied with Gnu of the follow1 breeds:— In reedst-•Iv Roils—°` `.x.tandeird," "Hotel," "York," "Mammoth," &On In Shoots—" imperial." 0° Royal," "Regal,' '0 Orient," ice. MODELING IN CORK, New Fad to While Away the Long Winter Evenings. An interesting and extremely fascinat- ing occupation for the long winter even- ings is that of modeling in cork, and after a little practice the persevering ones will be surprised to find what clever and ingenious young architects they will become, while they will be greatly charmed as the crude designs grow be- neath their nimble fingers. Let us suppose that it is desired to manufacture a model of some old ruined castle, upon which the clinging ivy twines so tenderly, and around which hover many memories of bygone state and splendor. Workers must first supply themselves with the necssary materials and proper tools. Of the latter they will require some paint brushes, a hammer, a sharp penknife, a pencil and a pair of scissors. Having procured these, they must obtain a. quantity of cardboard cork sheets, a few old bottle corks, a little fine sand, paints, glue, wire and a small quantity of artificial moss and ivy. And now, having decided upon the building and procured the necessary materials, the next thing to be done is to draw a plan of the castle you intend to reproduce. This accomplished, you pray proceed to make a frame of light cardboard, cutting it carefully to the requisite size, and then securing upon the millboard framework a layer of the sheet cork to form the walls. This may be made to represent stonework by means of uneven pencil strokes, which should afterwards . be colored in With black or dark brown paint, in order to ;give the structure, a suitable appear - ..ace of age. The particular portion of the castle !which has fallen into absolute ruin and decay should have rough and •jagged edges. The walls slfould be darkened by means of a little brown paint. judicious- ly applied, and small, irregular pieces of small,, cork may be heapeagainst" the sides to represent fallen masonry. Broken colunms are quite easy to im- itate, and if an ordinary cork be roughly -carved with a sbarp pocketknife and then carefully painted and sprinkled with a small quantity of moss, which Should be rubbed between the fingers until a light powder is formed, it brill be found to serve the purpose most effectively. And now the artificial ivy (which. must be of a small .leaved variety) may be called into requisition and trained around the broken columns and upon the crumbling walls until a most realistic appearance is given .to the whole. The floor should be strewn with sand, with which a little powdered moss has pre- viously been mingled.—Memphis News. TIS BUTCHER IS ALL RIGHT Had Diabetes but was Cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills. Great Interest in the Case as People ,Realize what will Cure' Diabetes will Care any Kidney Disease. Toronto, Ont., Aug. 1.—(Special)—As the people learn to realize how much the general health depends on keeping the kidneys right, and how many diseases are the direct result of bad kidney ac- tion every verified cure of a severe kid- ney disease is received with interest. For that reason the case of A. W. Hol- man, the well known butcher, of 1933 Mutual street, this city, is well worthy of attention. Mr. Holman had diabetes. Now he is a well man., Dodd's Kidney "ills •cured it. Asked concerning his ease, Mr. Holman said "Yes, I had diabetes for six years. I tried all kinds of remedies but to no use. My attention was called to Dodd's Rid - ray Pills by an advertisement and I be- gan to use them. I only used six boxes when I was completely cured." As it is conceded that what will cure Diabetes will cure any Kidney Disease ft must be admitted that Dodd's Kidney Pills Mill eure and Yidney Disease. An Old Story. In the 'winter of 1868-0, I well remem- ber every young fellow was wishing for spring, that he might try his velocipede. There was a great furore on the sub- feet. And one of the best "April fool" l;okes ever pertletrated was connected with it. A notice appeared in the adver- tising columns of the Hamilton (Ont.) papers on Tuesday, Marchi 3b, 1860, saying that a cdrtain professor (naming him) of Buffalo, wanted to introduce a "gone -wheeled velocipede of his own iri- dention and would meet the young men of Hamilton at a certain hall on "Thurs- . day evening"—being careful not to say • April Ist) and would give an exhibition of his invention on Xing street (the principal business street) at 12' o'clock aeon. The whole ery was agag. Men with dinner pails hurried to King street; busi- er/am men loitered a little to ese it as they went to their lunch; the "gamins" Isere thee in full force, everybody look- ing both ways, to catch a sight of th "one -wheeled wonder.. Out of a hotel yard on James street and round the corner of King street carie a big "darkey," all fluttering with gay ribbons, trundling a wheelbarrow; and in this one -wheeled veloeipde" sat a little darkey, also bedecked with rib- bons, and scraping on a fiddle. A roar went up that might have been heard at Dundas, five miles off. The whole city was sold, and people remembered then that they might have thought of "Thursday being "All -fools' Day"—only they didn't.—William Wye Smith, St. Catharines, Ont., in N. Y. Scottish Am- rican. A Summer Co ag'h le the hardest kind to get rid of and the most dangerous kind to neglect. Wila the! fec r,yea strengthennd lungs ani make you well again. At all druggists, 25c, 60c and $1.00 a bottle. 9s .. onsumr tion TheLung; va'G Tonic 1� i • 40 l'PROVISIONING A STEAMER. Of much interest• to ocean travelers 1 is the department over' which ,the port I steward presides. His task is to pro- ! '.iision;the�'ship, and he- is• kept working almost night and day'preparing for the ('htindreds of passengers who will board the ship on her next sailing day. As soon as the amount of provisions ,needed for the next trip is estimated, the re- quisition sheet for the voyage is made : out, and the poor stewaml, withhis as- asistants, begins, the'marketing, • and the 1 purdhaser , run something like this : Thirty to forty thousand poutiils of fresh meat, 600 to S00 chickens and ducks,4000 to 6,000 pounds of ham;,and„baeon, 3,000 pounds of fresh fish, 2,000 quarts of fresh milk and cream, 5,000 pounds of butter, 1,500 quarts of ice-cream, 150 to 200 barrels of flour, 25 tons of pota- toes, several tons of sugar, and other things in proportion.—New York Even- ing Post•. • Minard's Linament Cures Distemper. CUNNING OF THE WEASEL. • "A weasel is a wizard as well as a fighter, and often wins ,his battles by strategy," said. Emmal. Wolfe, of Missis• sippi, in the Louisville Courier -Journal.. "I was recently in a fishing camp that was near a large stack of "timber. Tt seemed that a large number of .rats in- habited. the cool` crevices under'the i:mile' and one day a weasel put in an appear- ance. • .,We had the pleasure of seeing a battle royal every day for several days, and by and by the weasel had killed every rat in the colony except one, which was nearly as large as a cat. They fought several times a day, and the weasel always got the worst of it.. One day we noticed it industriously digging a hole under the woodpile and thought little of it. A little,,later we saw it challenge the rat to battle, and as soon as the fight began to, warm up the Wea- sel suddenly turned tail and sneaked to the hole like all possessed. The rat followed in hot pursuit and both :dis- appeared in the mouth of the weasel's Bole. It was only. a twinkling until the weasel' reappeared ,and flashed into the hole again. We watched a long time and neither animal appeared. Fin- ally we moved the wood and dug um• the weasel's hole. We found the rat— dead—and the weasel had dug itself out another way. The weasel had trapped the rat and ]tilled it at leisure, the hole being too small at one end for the rat to escape, which the weasel knew all the while." HER REVENGE. There is a story going the rounds in London of a cruel revenge wreaked by a woman on a rival whom she hated:, It was not a sense of financial ruin, but in its way it was quite as effective. She simply asked her victim to a' pretentious dinner and arranged a colored light so that it should fall full upon her and make her look ghastly. To add refine- ment to her vengeance she placed her enemy's particular admirers directly op- posite. Minard's Linament Cures Colds, etc , A Ga0D HABIT. There is one habit that Henry G. Da- vis ,the octogenarian candidate of the Democracy has contracted with which he will not even let the distractions of a campaigninterfere. He has a brother named .Tom, to whom he has all his life made it a practice to write a letter daily. They have never had a disagreement. No matter how many engagements he has With politicians, Mr. Davis goes to his room early, even while in Near fork, to write his daily letter to Tom. PLAGUE NOW ON THE WANE. Epidemic Believed to be Running Itself Qtilt in India. Nearly eight years ago -in Septem- ber, 1896—bubonic plague appeared for the first time in modern Indira on a widespread scale. Beginning in the rat - infested grain stores of Bombay and its inconceivably filthy lanes and tenements the pestilence was carried, by panic- stricken crowds all over western India. Every year since the mortality has spread, defying every attempt to check it, till the surviving Hindoos have be- come indifferent, after successfully re- sisting the humanitarian and scientific action of the government. Every mall brings its ghastly record of the mortal- ity, but the figures and the facts are passed by as normal or of no account. In the last week if May 28,219 deaths from plague were recorded in India, chiefly in the Punjab. But the same week gives the first streak of hope that the pestilence is burning itself out at last wherever sani- tary reforms on a sufficient scale have been effected. In Bombay the total mor- tality from all eases, including plague, fell steadily to 38 1-3 per 1,000. The mortality fell from 1,000 a week in February to only 578. The specific cause of plague and the life of the bacillus outside of the human body are not known. But this much Bombay has made plain—that the pestilence is a disease of Iocality, and that the re- medy is the clearing away of the sites which it haunted and the reconstruction of the quarters where it occurred year after year. PATTI'S FAN. A treasure which Mme. Patti ,values highly is a fan which bears the auto- graph of nearly all the European sov- ereigns of ber time. The late Queen Victoria has written: "If King Lear spoke the truth when he said that a sweet voice was the most precious gift a woman could possess, you, my dear Adelina, must be. the richest woman in the world." The Empress and. Emperor of Austria have simply; written their signatures, but the • Kaiser has added these words:' "Der Nachtigalle eller leiten." Czar Nicholas wrote: "Rien comme votre chant." The Queen Regent of Spain's words are: "L'Espagnole, •une reine qui la est fiere•de compter an nombre de ses sujets." The Queen of the Belgians' has written the first bar of 'the "Russwal- zer." - • • LAST NEW YORK EXCURSION OF SEASON. Everybody is going. It will be the great and grand. event of tie season, and what is more, will be the last chance.' to visit the great. American Metropplis at an excursion rate. The West Shore Railroad will run. a cheap • excursion' to New York on''Augusb 15, good 15 days for return, giving mit-liege of trip on Hudson River steamers between Albany and New York, 'without extra charge. Fare will be 99.00 return from Suspen- sion Bridge or Buffalo. In addition to regular trains, there will be' a special' leaving Buffalo at '10.16 p.m., arriving New York 10 a.tn., and making good con- nection at Albany" with Hudson River day boat for New Yonk. Positively last. of season. Write • L. Drago, 6956 Yonge street, Toronto. COSTLY PRAYER BOOKS. If one of the fishermen who early ac- cepted. the Christian faith and became one of the twelve apostles could come back to earth he would never guess that the elaborate prayer books so often seen nowadays were the manual of hill Iowly Master's "teachings. Possibly the fad for using such costly prayer books' became prevalent because of the expensive ones which were mode for brides to carry in place of the con- ventional bouquet. At any rate, the plain leather book is out of date, and seldom seen. Those of chased or etched silver or carved ivory are the quiet ones for elderly ladies. Others_ are much more gorgeous. The covers are of curi- ously uriously wrought gold,, set with precious and semi-precious stones. One of the favorite designs shows the Annuncia- tion, with the halo of the angel made of small diamonds and with lilies on the stalks of which are pearls. Your dress may be as soft and quiet in tone as. a "dim religious light," but fashion decress that the one spot of grandeur and gorgeousness, the . high note of your church costume, should be the covers of your prayer book. ORIGIN OF "HOBSON'S CHOICE." Tobias Hobson was• the first man in England that let out hackney horses. When a man came for a horse he was led into the stable, where there was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which' stood next to the stable door, so that every customer was alike well served according to his .chance, from which it became a nrovery when 'what ought to be your election was forced upon you to say "Hobson's choice." Minard's Linament Cures (target in Cows. AR E B ON SS BURDETT-COl7TTS. Baroness Burdett -Coutts, who is 96 years of age, is one of the best known' of English philanthropists. She abolish- ed. Nova Scotia Gardens, one of the worst slums in London, and built upon its site the model flats of Columbia. square and the stately and useful Col- umbia market. She built and endowed St. Stephen's, Westminster, and endow- ed the bishoprics of Adelaide and Colum- bia. Many other parts of the empire owe much to her benefactions. Rajah Broke dispenses charity for her in Sara- wak. She ,established in 1861 the East London Weavers' Aid association and earlier still started the shoebluck brigade upon Its useful career. M'nard's Linament Cures Diptheria. What shrunk your woolens Why did holes wear so soon ? You used' common soap. Ask for the Octagon Ear. 22! DARNL' EY'S ROMANCE. Quite as •romantic as any novel is the true story of how the Earl of Darnley met with his clever and charming wife. He was then Ivo Bligh, and while vis- iting Melbourne with the English crick- eters injured his hand at a cricket match. The wound was bound up for him by a lady who was present, who used her own handkerchief for the purpose, and when, later on, Mr. Bligh wanted to thank his good. Samaritan and return the handkerchief, he was introduced. to Miss Florence Brophy, daughter of a local magistrate, a charming young girl, with whom he fell instantly in love. The sequel reads like a story book, for they were married in 18S4. Sixteen years' later Mr. Bligh, by the death of his brother, became eighth Earl 'of Darn- ley., Wipes Carry Contagion i^ -ems'= Wilson's ly P ds hill the flies and diseasegerms too. rt b j .-- aXl� Engineer's Story of Why He Cried. :"Yes, indeed, we ,have some queer lit- tle incidents happen to us," said the fat engineer. "Queer things happened to zne about a year ago. You'd think it queer for a rough men like me to cry for ten minutes, and nobody hurt, either, would. you? Well I did, and I" can almost'ery every time I• think. of it. "I was running along one afternoon pretty lively when I approached a lit- tle villagd 'where the track cuts through the streets. I slacked -up a little, but was still making good speed, when suddenly about twenty rods ahead of me a little girl not more than three years old tod- dled onto the track. You can't even im- agine my feelings. There was no way to save her., It was impossible to stop or even' slack much at that distance, as the train ' vvas heavy and the • grade de- scending. In ten seconds it would have been all over, and after reversing and applying the • brake I shut my eyes. I didn't want to see any more. "As we slowed down my fireman stuck his head out of the cab Window to see. what I'd. stopped for, when he laughed and "shouted at me, "Jim, look here!' I looked, and there was a big black New- foundland dog holding the little girl in his mouth, leisurely walking toward the house where she evidently belonged. She was kicking and crying, so that I knew she wasn't hurt, and the dog had saved her. My fireman thought it funny, and kept laughing, but I cried like a woman. I just couldn't help it. I had. a little girl of my own at home." C. C. RICHARDS & CO. Dear Sirs—I have great faith in MIN- ARD'S LINIMENT, as last year I cured a horse of ring -bone, with five bottles. It blistered the horse, but in a month there was no ring -bone and no lame- ness. DANIEL MURCHISON. Four Falls, N. B. FOOTBALL FOR A HUSBAND. Until early, in the nineteenth century it was a very ancient custom practised at Inverness for the spinsters' to meet the matrons in an annual game of foot- ball. All the available women took part, and the men surrounded the players and urged on their sisters, wives and sweet- hearts in their struggle, directing thtir efforts by word of mouth and encourag- ing the exhausted to struggle on and se- suce the much coveted prize. The honors of these unusual Combats, strange to say, rested more often with the married than the single, for the men selected their wives from those who showed most prowess and endur- ance on the football field. Hence all the better players were mated, and fre- quently more than a match for the less tough and skilful maidens, though the latter fought like the knights of old for the lady of their choice and to the death. A strange reversal of positions, which doubtless had its compensating advan- tages when domestic differences arose between a tyrannical husband and his former footballing consort. Lever's Y� Z (Wise Head) Dislnfeetant Soap Powder dusted hs the bath, softens the water and disinfeeta. rh A num is seldom hungry enough to eat his own words. ISSUE .NO, 33 )1904, Omega Airs. Winslow's boothing Syrup should always be used for Children Teething. I. soothe the child softens the gums eureit wlnC colic and 1s the best remedy for Dlarrllcea. HOTEL PROPERTY IN FONTHILL, ONT., For Sale Cheap and on Easy Terms., Apply to JOHN MoCOY, Hamilton, Ont. Toronto and Montreal Line Steamers leave Toronto 3 p.m. daily tor Rochester, 1,000 Islands, Rapids St. Lawrence, Montreal, Quebec, Murray Rapids, Tadousac and Saguenay River. Hamilton, Toronto, -Montreal lino Steamers leave Hamilton 3. p.m„ Toronto 7.80 p.m., Bay of Quints ports, Montreal and Intermediate ports. Low rates on this line. Further information, apply to R. & O. agents, or write to H. FOSTER CHAFFLE, Western Passenger Agent,' Toronto. GOLDEN SALMON. What British Fishermen Pay for the Pleasure they Seek. "God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling," wrote Isaak Walton some 30c years ago. If the philosopher could come to life again int this twentieth centra y country of preserved waters he would propably hasten to add "expensive" to the list of adjectives. The sportsman whose thoughts run to trout streams ' or salmon pools and an infinite variety of "taking" flies will tell you that "angling" is still a "calm, quiet, innocent recreation," within the reach of the poor man's purse,'' but "angling" means to him the patient individual who may be seen on any of the quiet reaches of the Thames, sitting on a kitchen chair in the middle of a punt, with a rod, a • black bottle, a dog and a paper bag, listlessly watching a float. Or perhaps the quiet looking men who may be seen by their fifties and sixties sitting on sbap' boxes in the summer time on the, banks of the canals near London, watching each other's rods ap- parently ownerless lying on the banks. Tbis is the poor mans "fishing com- petition," and there are many worse ways of spending a holiday. "Fishing" to the same sportsman' means something infinitely more excit- ingand more difficult to obtain. A beat on a Scotch or Irish salmon river, or the right to fish a • small portion of a West Country. trout stream in. the brief dry -fly season—that . kind of fishing is fast becoming the monopoly of. the rich. "The silver salmon is a misnoimer.--The king of British fish should be at once re -christened the "golden salmon," for the man who' tikes a beat ,on a Scotch• river, nowadays may be well excused for.nuttering "that fish cost me exactly fifty •sovereigns" when he lands a 30- pou'n er, or even a grilse.—London Ex- press. NINE 'MULLION ACRES Coves-nriieint Lands for homesteaders. In western Nebraska near the Union Pacific Railroad in section lots of 640 acres' each, for almost nothing. The sal- ubrity of these lands is something re- markable. Distance from railroad is three to thirty miles. There will be a grand rush of homesteaders. This is the last distribution of free homes the Unit- ed States Government will ever make in Nebraska. Write for pamphlet telling how the lands car be acquired; when en- try should 'be made, and 'other informa- tion. Free on application to any Union Pacific agent. FIGHT WITH SNAKE UL' SCAFFOLD. Fred Moorehead had an encounter with a big black snake last Friday morning which he will remember for some time. Mr. Moorehead had taken the contract to paint the iron bridge which spans the Hocking river just south of Haydenviile and was engaged at his work when he encountered the reptile. He MIS painting the under side of the structure from a swinging scaffold, and. pushing, Ids brush filled with paint into a crevice where the under beams rest on the abutments he received an intro- duction to' the ophidian which was not tb his liking. When his snakeship was disturbed he quickly darted his head with wide open mouth and darting tongue to- ward the intruder. Having noweapon but a large putty knife, the painter gave battle, and in a short time the reptile's head was severed from , its body. The snake measured five feet in length.— Logan ength.Logan '(Cie) Journal -Gazette. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. Tberels only one way to cure deafness, and that Is by con- stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed. condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tubo is in- damed:you have•a rumbling sound or imper- fect hearing,and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is he result, and unless the inflam- mation ban betaken out and this tuborestor- ed to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten, are caused by. Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous' surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot he cured by Haire Catarrh Cure. Send for circulare,iree. F. J. CEENEY &,C0.,'roledo, O Sold byy Drugg late, 75e. Take Salla Family Pi11e for Constipation. KLEPTOMANIA FIGURES. A French physician places klepto- mania in the list of diseases under the name of `ntagasmitis," Eta newel l shoW that 80 per cent. of those afflicted are women, and that nine out of tarn are well-to-do or wealth.