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Through n. Sand. Bank,
rth, tioneO to loan e eolony of bank swallows taught ft
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up-staira over
store, Main, etreati
PatiliEBTIMX, •
Atarrister, Solicitor, Cogyeyanese sea
ram* fon Sale. Office, in Scott's ,blocia
WI* street, Sewall,
VIEW ° 0 I it I & =LORA*
notary Ptak. 'Elolleitor for the then -
1& Uenk of Commerce. Money to lean,
illarrintsrit Solleitorte Notaries'
$tet Mosey to lend I* ilsaforthAnt Mon.
by of *soh week., Office in ladd'block.
L, Tarellanratlit.
sad*/ VK V4 14,
lbw irradust ot Oat:Arlo Veterin-
Oellege. AR disease* of posses&
-treated. Calls prOreptly-attand.
not dards* moderate. Veterinary
sitatietry n specialty. Office end mi.
lk*, Leiadarich street, one dooreast
ileatVik Attics, fiesforth.
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A.V1.1114.
SUBBORSI,
itradusite of (Wade Vitoria-
. and honorary member of
Aseedation of the Ontario
College. Treat& dimities of
Dalimette4tmIr by tbe most mod.
principles. Dentistry aud lrev4
Mae aPposite Thcks
Mein atreet, .111oeforth. All or-
bit lett s the hotel will rtediageoept
calls received. at -the
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KAHN, bs.-D.C.m
aa- Ittelinmed street, London, Ont.
Specialist e Surgery and Genito-Urin-
&Ty Diee ee a men and women.
F.. J. BURROWS,
41Ifflet pad resideacs-Goderich street,.
vast ot Lisa Methodist church, getforth.
*bone No. JO, Coroner for the County
Illittnett
MA SCOTT & MACW, ,
1. G. tts iraduate od Victiain and
Anew) o Phyalcians and Su4eons.
Ann and member on ithe 'Ontario
Crooner r .the f3ountY of Huron.
Et, mackay,..benor wadnate atTrinlity
tiniversity, and gold medallist otTeeine
ttY Medical College; member (Atha Cols
iege of Phirsicians and Surgeons,Ontacio
• IIIKAH ROM.
Gr&dua.t of -university at Toronto.
Vacuity of lliodlcine, member • ot Co
lege of PhOlcians- and Burgeons et 0134
graduate vourses, In Chicago
of..abicago; Roya1 Op*
liaspital„ Loadok . • Knits_
College Hospital, Liondoa,
k ot tbsDinniniOri
0..rth.- Phone. Mo. S. Might
red treat residence, Victoria
Orth.
' litileTIONDERS.•
010MAS BROWN. ,
tasenossi anctioneer for .the counties
At MIMI and Perth . Carreependence
giadmisatt for este dates cep be made
ley mills; op Phone ft, nesforth, or
topoidtor office. Merges moder-
n* and satlafection Iruarteateed.
JOHNABWOLD,,
Licensed auctioneer for the counties
ot Huron eaul Perth. Arran.geraents for
mate dates can be made by canton, up
Phone 41, Setsforth, or The Expositor
Office. Cltergee medetate- and, saftsfitc-
tion_ guarenteed,
ift PHILLIP&
Licensed hue-tip/leer for the counties
of Huron and Perth. Being a practical
fartier ana thorotriy underatandfug
the value Of farres 'oak and Implements
,macee we In a better position to re-
-Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. Ail
adze good, prices. Charges moderate.'
o'rtiers Left in Exeter will he promptly
fraartii answered. Immediate ar-
attended to.
,C P. R. Time Table
Gaetiph and GOderiCh Branch
TO TORONTO
7,05 am 2.00 p ir
7.30 " 2.25 "
7.40 " 2.85 '
7.52 " 2,47 '
8.20 "
8.15 ' 3.40 "
4.00 "
933 " - 4.83 "
10.15 " 6,05 "
.,...,1„, .. Ar. 1020 " 6.45 -,
VSO'S" To RONTO
Tomato_ . ... . ....else 7.2.0 a. m. ' 4.30'
eueiph ..ct...1.. .. Ar 9.40 " 1.10 "
Guelph + ' 10.20 ' " 6.5C
Ehmra " 10.59 " /.2.2 "
, Limitood Set . . " 11.2a e 7.43 "
failverton" 11.4?, ''s 6.02
Walton. , 1, ." 12.16 8.86 "
Myth...-. .! - ' 12.98 " 3.48 '
'4oderiell...1.1. . . .... ' [0)p. m.
ConnectiOns at Linwood for Listowel„ Con
- eotions at Guelv.h Jct. with main line tor Galt
t Voodsiock, ',mail, De :rof 'id Chicago au al
uternictliate lines. .
Goderich
Auburn..............-.
Birth aiwra.„
WatAWir..ereoirfar.”
MaVertOn„ r •
LIAWOOd iretE
Guelph.
Guelph Jct..
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Grand
rimk Railway
System
flatly/ay Time Table.
Trains leave Seafortii as follows:
10.45 ra For Clinton Goderich Winghanisnd
• Kincardine.
For Clinton and Of:Alert:Ai
For Clinton, "gingham and Hines
dine.
For Clinton and Goderich.
For Stratford.. Guelph, ToxontOE
Orilliax North Bay and Points wet
Belleville and Peterboro and, points ,
, east,
For Stratfoza, Guelph, Toronto', Mon.
treat and points east.
nor Stratford Guelph and Toronto
1.%) p ni
6 1.8 pm
11.13 p m
7 61 a la
p
32 pm
- 'toeing but observtng engineen,how to
otilld a tunnel that his more learned,.
superiors bad refused to undertake.
el North - of Barlingten, V t, Ilea •
read eand,plain,bigh above the !wed
f Lake nilianepIrdn, throttglt which the
Centut rallrottd was to be carred by
a. ttnnel. 'The eande'destitnte.'of moist.
are, wottld not cohere, but eruinbled
ltWO tte teen as an excavation was
made. After several -cc:fatly -trials the
engineers decidedthat the tunnel. WilS
impracticable. .
A -young man in the ettglrieer's office
esaid be could tunnel tile Sandl)ank at
sesmall east, He said heeeould build
the tunnelafon so many dollara ran;
ning toot, but that he coindn't expect
the -railway people. to net Open: WS
Onlnittn when so many. American and
European engLieers had declared- the
project Impracticable.
1 The managers, however, gave him a
contract to build fifty.feet.of the bat-
ter On the face of the nand bank -he
marked the line of an areh larger than
the proposed tun -nett and on this dine
drove sharpened timbers into the bank:
Then he removed six feet of the sand
and drove in another arch of twelve
foot timbers. removing' six Net more
of sand. This process be repeated un-
til he had space enongh to begin the
masonry. As fast as the- masonry was
completed the .space above it was
filled, leaving the timbersi In place.
Eta pierced the -bank with the cheap-
est tunnel ever built, • which now
stands as firm as on the day it was
finished. -
He was asked" whether .there was
any suggestion of the structure adopt-
ed by him to be foetid inihe hooks on
se
'engineering. "
"No," he said, "It came to ,me in this
way: I was driving by the place
•wbere the attempts. were made and.
saw that a colony of swallows -had
made their homes in the bank. - It odt
eurred to me that these lIttle engineers
had disproved the assertion that tbe
sand had D.Q. eithesien. As every swan=
low's hcane is a self sustaining tunnel
without masonry. I thought that by
extending their method I could) con-
struct a larger termer The bank itwal-
low is the inventor; 'I am simplit. his
imitator." -Boston Post.
,Imem/Mirmamioft...•
"SWIFT, • FLiING. 'STARS;
- V'astness of the Universe Indicated by
Their Long Travels. t
The almost incredible distances' of
the heavenly,bodies are well illustrated
by- Camille Flamtnarlotas comments
to the Societe Adronontque de Prance
on the stedy by V. M. Slipher of the
Lowell observatory on the speed of the
nebula in Andromeda, which is 300 ki-
lometers a second. Flamm:11'1°n re-
-marks that if this •speed has been
maintained since the days of Hipper-
chus, fiventy centuries ago, the nebula
bas traveled In that time 19,000,000, -
Po° kilometers Hipparchus made a
catalogue of thevisible stars, and this
nebula is net foend in his list, although
it can now be seen with the naked eye.
Had it been as brilliant 2,000, year§
Lego as It is today, HIpparcItus, living
_ under the clear sky of Alexandria,
could not well have overlooked it.
-"Must we then concIutleal asks Plant -
merlon, "that its twenty centuries of
approach to us have been enorigh to•
increase its. btilllancy? The parallax
of the nebula . is 0.17 second, Which
corresponds to a distence of 181,000,-
000,000,000 kilometers. It takes light
nineteen years to travel that distance
So in 2,000 years its distance Would
have diminished by abont one-tenth."
But then, no one knows that it has
maintained this terrific speed through-
out the centuries. It -may have moved
more slowly or more rapidly at any
time. All is conjecture except the.
actual, figures for Its present speed and
distance.
The fact that bodies moving at such
'steeds are not seen to mete brings
borne to us the vastness a the uni-
verses -New York World.
LONDON HILAZON O. BRUCE!.
NOPassenger
BTA .r...r.
London, deParc.............. 8 42 .4 50
Centralia, .. ... ... . ..... i • . 0 . 9 33 6 43
Eeeter. ........... 9 44 5 54
Henn% ...4-..... ... . . ... . 9 55 6 05.
nippers , to tn. 611
Bracefield, ...... .. .. . ..-:10 09 6 19
011uton ., . - . . . .. 10 25 6 35
Londeaboro.' 11 18 .
Blyth, 11 -7 7 05
...... . .. .. 11 40 7 18
Wingharii, wive. . 11 50 ' 7 25
.
801.1311 •Passengsr-
Wingham, depart 6 38 5 38
Beigmve. .. i. 6 60 3 44
BlVtb. .'. .... ... . ... 7 04 3 56
LOndesborO7,:.. ... . . ..- .-7 13 4 0-1
Clinton, ...4. ... .......;'7 29 18
Brucedeld, ....:828 A 89
Kippen, ...... -... .. . . 8 56 'I 47
Henson. 8 41 4 52
Ereter,„ ..... ..:,...,-_8 54 500 -
Centralia, . .. . . .;,.... - ... .... 0 04. 5 15
tondos, arrive-....,0 52 6 00
Time Alone Would Tell.
Mrs. Ross had a daughter who was
of the opinion -Abet her voice was her
fortune. The mother sent her to a
well known vocal teacher for lessens
and. after a short time called on the
teacher to ascertain his opinion.
"Do you think," she asked the pro-
fessor, "that my daughter wM ever
become a noted singer?"
"I gent zay," replied the professor.
"She may. She dell me she-gome of a
long lived family." -National Monthly.
Th. Lest Hole, Indeed.
The story IS told of an andent Scotch
golfer whose companion died and was
about to be 'buried. The Scotchmen
struggled out to the cemetery to be
present at the interment, and arriving
there did not know where the grave
we& He summoned a boy with a
whistle.
• "Whist, Ia.d," he ,sald. "Ws a new
course. Wiutur'ti the hoIe?"--New York
Post.
'Some German Taxes.
• Anicmg the curious taxes imposed in
Germany on various objects are those
on baby carriages, where the amount
is 40 cents eacli, and $1.50 tax on caged
nightingales, of which there have. not
been any for many years, and tourists,
for whom the hotel keeper Is taxed° 2-14
cents, which'is, added to the bill,
• Notice From the Cook. • ,
"Don't take any notice of tbe cook,
dear." ..
"But, John, I have to take it when
she gives it to me:IF-Baltimore Amerl-
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THREE: NOTCH. ROADS.,
Thi Curiae,IlI Comes FP0171 the
Name of 'George111.
in MIssottri and some' other nentral
western states there are taids that are
caned "three notch roads." -They are
public highways, as distinguished'. riven
the roads -that, lead to a sawthill, a
schoolhouse. a -church or - an isolated
farmhouse. A three 'noteb road. "goei
oineeebere." Proeecling along such
oad,, the traveler is bound, 111 time, to
react) a tOwn.
There nett behind- the curious title an
• interesting story. It appears that
Inleg Geotge III. decreed that all Eng-
lish public roads, hs king's highways,
should be. marked With WS_ name. In.
the colonies it was often impossible to
mark the roads _with the care and
--thoroughness *thatwere fleet' in Eng -
land, and in the wilderness it wa
enougli • to -cut three • vetches on the
largest trees'along the roads.
After the. Revolution. of emirse, the
name Of -Ring George 'was 'omitted.
but the three notgnes.Proved useful as
a means of Marking public. roads.
Virginia colenists, at Is said, carried
the practice into Tennessee, Kentneky
and Indiana, and their children, In
turn, tarried it into. Mtssouri.
o Originally Missouri bad no counties.
Later, when they were, tormed,_ the
state decided that if -tbe task were left
- to the counties there would be little
road building. Accordingly, the state
construeted the rotas, and marked
them With three notches.. Later,
when the counties undertook to build
roads,. they were designated. in the
timber tountry by .two notches. Prior ,
to and during the war between, the
states the distinction was preservo
ed, and three notch roads were al-
ways' "through roads" that led from
one town, of importance to -another.
Two notch roads were less important
highways,' and roads net notched at
ail were either -Jell roads or plank
- roads, A rail 'road was a road leading
to a camp. sybere men .eplit rails, and
a plank r ad 'led to a sawmill. --
Youth's Cothpanion.
NOT CERTAIN,, BUT HOPEFUL.
Willie Clearly Diagnosed .the Case- In
His Letter to His Aunt
Dear Auntey-I did not rite to you
for a long time now witch Is not credi
bul to me becatva Bentley Begg told
me he Yoostoo have an aunt very
mutch like you and he did not rite to
„her for a long time nnd one day his
muther came in very sad and said to
Rennry your aunt dide yesterday and
when he thought .of bow she dide
without getteft an ansur to her last let.
ter it almost broak his hart and for a
Jong time he could not eat the rest of
his dinner. * *
The trubble. IS that When we are
young and beltbyt we do not think of
how our rellitives*are oicl and aptoo
any time ateall and so wet do not rite
as oftenas we ()Ito and are sorry after
wurd when it is too late.
Henury, Begg WrIS tellen ine about
ins aunt yesterday and ladw she yods
too send him presulas and suultit es
n3unuey whenethere was a serkus
men which the merest one now Is tWo
weeks fromWensdAy.
This makes it all the sedder for Elen-
nry. Th price of tiekets to a serkus
Is a Imo ter for boys the sighs of us
and Hen redsaunt • yoostoo always
send him fifty sense for two tickets If
be shout wawa take . anuther boy
with lain as theY often do. .
The se kus witelt is eommen here
two week from Wensday is Simmons
& Sapp's orld's greatest nickul plated
three tin s ne phis ulter peerless .ae-
real tratre 1 equine sennsation and zoo-
logicle agergation with the world fa-
tuous iloamin Hipperdroaen and sele-
brated artusts in the sublimest spec-
ticles, ever staged for the eddifficatIon
of Man witch t copied from the bills as
warty as possibul, and It looks as if it
was goen to be a pretty good show.
1 gess alt the boye are goen exsept
EletintPand me withh are not surten
but Itbapful. Two weeks from Wens-
day.-eSaturday Evening Post
MATCHMAKING IN INDIA..-„
One Sitheme That Gave a Missionary
the Surprise of His Life. ,
- Almost every tete. who litte feleilds in
mission work in India knows that one
very important function of the mis-
sionary is to play the part of maten-
ma ker tit his flock. But few, if , any
have heard of the conditions beink re-
versed and the fled{ turning Meta, -
maker der their missionary. That doee
occur, however, as the letter writteu
by a missionary .who lives at Turn
corn], sonth India, tells:
On New Year's day, 1911, as I was
seated in ray little mud cottage at
Tuticcnin a number -of people entered
the veranda and cerenioniously came
into My room, bearing trays of' dow-
el's, fruits, raisin's and 'sugar, which ,
they placed at my feet like suppliants
who desire to gain the hearing .of a
petition. After all due ceremonial eti-
- quette had -been observed- and I had
indicated ray willingness to hear their
petition l3rotber Gnana Draviana. • a
prominent ia•,wyer in Tuticotin, began
1 reading in Tamil- an address to .tvbich
. tbe others gave -strict 'attentionit
ran like this: e:
"Reverend :Sir -You have now for
nearly two years bestowed great care
and labor upon us; ministering to our
spiritual welfare and striving for the
health of our souls to nuch an extent
that you have greatly Impaired your
own physical health, end we feel that
you need some one to care for yon,
since you do 'net care.- for yourself. !
We fear lest your zeal in our behalf
may deprive us at once of your lifel;
and servIce&. Therefore, with Jiro -
found humility and sincere respect, we
venture to request you to marry a
good vrontan, Who will both care -for
you and help us." ,
• This was naturally a confusing thing
C-hiVdren Cry
• FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
0 MOrSeshe
•WO, Et.004 Pills
are ivthe teat nwrIkin., for the
thil rem t hey ate t. ?mitt t ed
-when their didneye pie out of -order
-when evereindulet nee in some
favorite ;cod gh-ee them indigestion
-D Morse's jedien Root Pills will
quicldy and surely.put them right,
Purely vegetable, they neither sicken,
wealtenor gripe, likeharshpurkatives.
Guard yeur 'children's health is
always keeping a box m Dr, Morse
Indian Root Pills in the house, , They
Keep the Children %Veil
no nappeu, pun 1 was Puma to re- 1,
spontl tefluch an eloquent appeal, and i
whmethe applause died away 1 rose I
ond answered with considerable effort: 1.
"Youn affectioetiteregard for my
welfare is so overwhelming that I have ,
no words in width to express my ap-.
predation." and sat down, quite faint
from the exertien. But the novelty of
the situation *overcame my fatigue,
nd, tinting to one of the • elders,
asked if they had any particular per-
son In Mind as one who would be will-
ing to become my helpmeet and be
equal to all the responsibilities they
• tied outlined. Immediately...Miss W.'s
najne was mentiotted. "Bet" said 1,
"I don't believe she would -bare me."
This eeented to me like tnatchmaking
wtth a -vengennee What a high banded
net, to betsuret, To order their pastor
to marry, and theta to, choose 'the girl •
besides! But the worst was. -still to
eome. "We hare already seen her and
told her she must have yeti," said'
Brother Rajappan. -
So it wa$ settled., I may add that
my wife and I have reason to approve
highly of the kndian method of match-
making, but It should be eombined
with .the western method Mt courting,
as in our case, to secure the -hest re-
sults. -Exchange
Average American's Taxes. •
Somewhere In the United States in a -
small' city lives the ayerage American.
Ile bas a faintly of fourincluding-him-
self, and earns $51d -a year. Some one
else in -Ms family, perhaps a.stenogra-
pher 'daughter, contributes $330 to -the
farally fund, making the -total incotne
of $847. He feels that be pays noth-
ing, or next to nothing, for the privi-
lege on living, in a free, country, with
warships on the sea and street lights
In front of his house, with a policeman
on his corner,a public service commis-
sion looking after his interests aUdea
copyof the Congressional Record tent-
ing to hlta regularly. The truth is that
:"of his $847,a year he pays $140 toward
6 the upkeep of his government-WOrld's
Work.
e Circulation of the Blood.
The idea of some sort of movement
of the blood in man and the lower ant4
mals was possessed by. Arifitotle and
other Greeks and by tbe physicians of
the Alexandrian school as well as hy
the doctors and surgeons'of the middle
ages. In fact, even the village barbers
knew of such moyentent But no one,
not even the -Wisest of men, had any
conceptio%of a continuous stream re-
turning to its source -a circulation in
the true sense of the werd-or of the
functions of the heart as tbe motor
power of tbe movement of the blood
until it waslOemonstrated by Harvey
1n1628.
Pilgrims at Bemires.
'Senores, an Indian holy city, is the
victim of pilgrimages. -Many of the
pilgrims are' in the last Stage of illness
and find their way to the city to have
their:remains cremated on the banks
or the Ganges. A large number of
hospitals have to be -provided for the
reception of the sick, and the distinc-
tion of being a holy magnet. Is not
greatly appredated by the residents of
the city. -Exchange.
Brox-11'Jan Vessels. -
All 13razillan vessels engaged in the -
coasting trade and carryingpassingers,
either casually or regularly, and mak-
ing voyages of more than seventy-two
hours between the place of debarture
and port of destination, must have on
board a Brazilian doctor nominated by
the minister of the interior.
•
. That's All.
"1 did not think you would associate
with such a man."
"I shUn't associate with him much.
I am Merely going to. marry Wm." -
Houston Post.
A.n Injury done to charaeNr is 50
great that it cannot pattilily be esti-
f/Pate4 .
The First skyscraper.
• The first skyscraper watt planned (but
ntit built) by a Parisian architect in the
year 1601. it was to be m re' than
300 feet high and provide r onis for
500 persons.
A Good Example..
Father-eWhy did you ru away,
Pratte? Franz -Because znn4inu»ns
so unkind. Father --That Is n reason.,
Do I run away? ,
Good manners are the blo SOWS of
good sense and good feeling-
' Consistent.
"The people who say that women
.are inconstant and inconsistent," de
. dares tbs. philosopher of , folly, "are
.dead wropg. A few years ago a glri
told, metihetwas Jest -tteenti:tffe sad
she sticks to the same figures
Cleveland Leader.
e A Man's Income.
"At what period In life ebould a
man's income be largest?" •
""It is usually reported to he largest
at the period of his life In which his
wife tries to shove the court how much
, alimony he could pay." -fat Louis
Post -Dispatch.
IN IGNORA
that
Wander- the Shade of $ir leasse
Newton Was Disgutted.
ingustine 1iri ell tuthtw and states.
map, at a newepaper men's dinner 'told
a ilniquieglioat story. -
"I have been haunted ever sine
was &moat a boy," he, eftids ''hY the
constant repetition of pile and the
same dream. It comes let° me again
and again. It is this: I dream 1. am
walking about somewhere , in some
plain or desert, and I suddenly encouu-
ter the agitated ghost. of-, Sir - Isaac
Inewton. He approaches Me, his eyes
'almost starting, out of hishead; he tells
'me who he is and how ignorant he Is
of all that had happened in the world
of science sine be left.
"'Now,' be Say& Want yet to tell
Me in a few words, for I have only a
quarter of an hour -left, all tilt has
happenedto the ,race-tbe progress.
Hone Is it? I knoif what It was when
left it Whitt IS it 130W r My beart
'sinks, ead, covered with contusion, I.
stumble, I stutter, I stammer, I bee`
come ntore and More involved, my Ig-
norance benomes more and more ape
parent, and at last the unhappy ghost,:
throwing-qp his hands leaves me with
dismay.
"That dream constantly cornett to we
The only difference. Is that the Moment
the unhappy Sir Isaac Newton semi me
now he says, 'Oh, that old ignoramus!'
and departs." -Pall Mall Gazette,
FORCE OF VIBRATION.
A Musical Chord, That Shattered a
Hugs Glass Bowl..
Discussing the proposition that ,a•
wineglass can be broken or shattered
to 'pieces by a musical chord. Edgar
-Lucien Larkin in the New York Amer-
ican'safs:. '
"I had a huge glass bowl one foot in
diameter resting on Its glass stand.
The flint glass was from one-quarter to
three-quarters of an loch thick.- I ros-
ined a violin bow, drew it across the
edge, and the entire bemiephere of
solid glass disintegrated Into bundreds
of small pieces. The sound of break-
ing into fragments was entirely- un-
known, to me, a crackling or grinding.
and the bits of glass flew far apart
"I had used thiel same bowl before
classes for several years,. With violin
bows But on this particular day the
stUdents as well as I were surprised at
the breaking and unearthly noise.
"The fact Is I happened to vibrate
the bowl- with its key note-tbat is, set
harmonic rate, which weans the pre-
cise rate with which it was able to vi-
brate to send forth that note, for notes
are rates of , vibration, and they alt
obey, rigid and beautiful harntonic
mathematical laws, and these agree
with other set and fixed tette."
RINGS OF AIR..
How to Blow Out a Lighted Candle
- Twelve Feet Away.
Theidistance fret') which an. average ,
man an blow out a candle rarely ex-
ceeds ;three feet If he Is an adept at
blowing smoke rings, however, ti 'can-
dle may be -extinguished at twelve feet
Of course. the smoke Isn't necessary.
An ordinary air ring will do and has
the added advantagemf being inivisible.-
Sirtmlipucker the mouth as you would
to blow a smoke,ringmnd expel air In
a quick, sharp number. It takes a
good deal of practice to do it ,
A.n easier way to show the effect If
one is doubtful is to place a sheet of
cloth or canvas over the open side of
a box otherwise closed, making a
small, round bole In eanother side.
Then tap In a sharp manner On the
canvas and invisible air rings will be -
produced. If the hole is pointed at a
person's face and the rings are made
he will .feel themas they strike his
face. Only a few trials are necessary -
to eitinguish a candle at twelve feet
To render the rings visible a smudge
'may be burned in tbe box, or a small
dish of ammonia may be placed side
by side 'with a small dish of hydro-
chloric acid, the combined fumes of
thee() liquids making a dense smoke.
The explanation why one can put out
the "candle at twelve feet is that the
energy of expulsion is -conserved and
practically all retained in the smoke
ring, while a simple blowing bas to
set In motion a whole stream of air
and is therefore wasteful. -Chicago
Becord-Heraid.
BOTH SIGNED THE NOTE.
A Financial Formality That Puzzled
Both clay and Webster. b'
- The men fn official Washington seem
to have less 01' a halo ablint them than
in the good old dais, when the tower-
ing tform of Webster or Henry Clay
would attract more attention on Penn-
sylvania avenue than a brass band or
a tango dancer in 1914: In a bank tbe
Other day I saw a note indorsed joint-
ly by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
The story is told that Clay asked Web- -
der to indorse a note with him for
$500.
."All right," said the studious and
thoughtful Webster, "I'll do so, Clay,
if you'll make it $1,000 and give me
half." Clay _ agreed to the compact
and the two set out for Banker Riggs,
signed the nate with due solemnity and
securedthe proceeds As they swung
across the threshold out again on the
avenue and divided the rnoney Web-
ster In his 'ponderous voice remarked
to Clay, ."Henry, why do you suppose
Mr, Riggs wanted our names on that
note?"
"It baffles nue, Daniel," responded
- Clay. "Perhaps he desired some me-
mento to hand down to posterity, for
cannot at this momentIcenceive how
It is going to be paid for the present
generation:"
The canceled note is today a
souvenir, worth worth -many times its face, •
because of tbe illustrious signers -Joe
Mitchell Chapple in National Maga-
zine. .`
Tvvain's Rate.
Mark Twain Went to tufa one auto-
mobile show In his life. lie went
' There nothing useless tom man of with a petroit friend. After lie had
sense; clever people -turn everything to °
1).q.cannt n'oatainebeen shown the cars and othem aighta
.
The: people are the bestjudges
of merit in the long tun,that's.•
-why Comfort Soap cciutselis
itkriva'S. -
P SIT1VELY THE LARGEST SALE IN- CANADA
the friend 'said: "Coxne on over liere,
The greatest salesman in the automo-
bile business is working, and I. Want
you to hear him." •
They went- to a pia& where the
salesman was talking to a possible
customer about the merits - of &Is car.
He was rattling outward so fast' that
Twain gasped. s.
"-Sakes alive," said Twain In 'his
slowest drawl, "If nty publishers ever
heard me talk as fast as -that man
doee they wouldn't pay me 80 cents a
wordeor even 2 cents. - They'd make
me produce words about a hundred for
• nickel." -Saturday Wining Post
COWED THECHINESE
The "Foreign Die}iile Used a College
' ° • Voiles a• Battle Cry.
On board a launchion which I Was
Flailing up tbe Yapt2 e- river - Were
shout thirty Chinese' ()idlers of suet' a
ragamuffin a ppearanc6 se to.excite my
Suspiciens,' tint fortunately without
• their rifles. • As evening of theefirst day
Cam* on they crowded around the
=small deck bonse and demaoded of the
native agent. to know what the "for-
eign devil" was doing here. Now, 'I
and been cleaning and oiling the mud -
one parts of my simple machine gen
dining the day. .
Before nightfall I drew the blinds of
the deckhouse and, luickly.assembling
the gun, slipped in a loeded belt. I
now- told the agent, • who Wati :white
with fearto tell these felloWithat this
loreign devil" "belong crazy" and -also ,
-bun leld" tvery 'fierce) and as a sort of •
minting to "keep off tbe grass" I open-
ed the door and let off a string of
about fifty shots into .the airat the
tante time giving the l'ale.college yell,
what') was the handiest warcry I could
think of at the moment.
• Whether It was the information ite
patted by the agent, Chen, the shots or
the Vale cheer I cannot say, but all
hands crowded to the other end of the
-launch and remained at a respectful
distitnce until Nanchang was reached,
to the great annisement of the Chinese -
captain and engineer, who, however,
had deemed it good policy to allow
the passengersto settle their , own
disputes without Interference. This
ineident is pleasant to remember, but
- at the timed was badly scared. -From
"Drununing Revolutionary China." by
Riartlett G, Yung. in World's Work,
ORIGIN OF BANK CHECKS.
Dense London Fogs, it Is Said, Forced
Their introductioi.
It Is claimed that the butiness world
owes the idea ,of the bank check to
nothing else than London's, fogs .
These fogs i are sometimes of such a
density that the pedestrian can see but
a few feet ahead of bim, Something
over a hundred .years ago, it is said,
the attacks of tbieves and highway-
men in the British capital -upon bank
messengers and tradesmen going
through tbe streets to settle their bills
became so frequent in times of heavy
fog as seriously to interfere with the
conduct of London's business.
It vat erely for the ma to ambush
his victim; alub him into insensibility,
rob him itati then disappear into the
murky atmosphere, with little likeli-
hood a apprebension or identification
or that paasersby would witness the
011111118111011 of the crime or be of any
ttssistance in tbe cbase.
In these circumstances bankers,
tradesmen and others set their wits to
working, with the result that the bank
dwelt. was 'devised for the paymeirt of
debts Soon the highwaymen found
tbat a few pieces of paper were all the
booty they were likely td get from a
-holdup" of even a , wealthy trades-
man. Accordingly the activities of the
daylight robbers soon came -to an end,
but the convenience of the bank check
proved so great that It survived not
only in London, but was adopted
-thtougbout the elviliked world. -Wash-
ington star.
Raw Sponges.
To persons who know sponges only
as they appear ready for sale and use
the animal is It tomes from the -sea
would be unrecognizable. It IS a solid
looking, rather elitny, fleshy body, va-
rying be eolor from light grayish yel-
low through at range of browns to
black and in form it is cup shaped,
spheroidal or cake shaped, according
to the species, its age or the envitton-
ment in which it grew. In general, in
appearance and consistency and the
mariner in *bleb It cuts with u knife,
a Being Oder s wool Sponge is not un-
like a pleee of beef liver 'perforated
with holes and canals. The eponge of
the enatkets is -merely the skeleton, the
supporting framework' which gives
strength and form to the solt gelati-
nods tissue of the living Unmet.
Imaginary -Whys of Celibacy.
Curious how when a man remains a
bachelor people will speculate concern-
ing his celibate state:
'Well, he has bad an unfortunate af-
fair some time -or other, Woenanlas at-
tractive as he has gone tills -long with-
out a tender. memory to accompany
him."
Of a woman: .
"Funny she never mended. Now,
-
you'd tbink she'd he attractive to the
men, wouldn't you?" -New York Sun,
Dogs From Canada.
The dogs which Sir Ernest Shoo(
kleton will take with him on WI
Antarctic expedition are a cross be-
tween -a wolf and a Scot& stag
hound, and have been bred in North-
ern Canada. The lightest a then'
'will turn the scales at SO poundei
whereas the heaviest dog with tit('
last 'Shackleton expedition weighed
45 pounds. They have been selected
by the experts of the Hudson Bays
Company, and will be under the
charge of one' of the most experienet.
ed drivers from Canada, 1.110 wad
chosen by the tonaraissioners of tlid
Northwest Mounted Police.
-
The latest appointments to the ex-
peditionary staff _are air Philip Let)
rockieburst, who was With Shackle
ten in 1907 and 1009 and who made
the first ascent of Mount Erebus i and
his brother, Lieutenant CorattneY
Brocklehurst, of the llth Hussars;
Hemdreds of applications for posit
tions with the expedition have been
received.
pirsi Explorer of Yukon.
Mr. Thomas Martindale- in lis re-
cent book, "Hunting in the 17PItee
Yukon/' just published, remarks: e
"It will surprise Most people to
know that the 'fret prospector ta'
cross from the coast to the head4
waters of the Yukon river was One
George Holt -according to the-reporf
of George M. 'Dawson, C.M.G., LL 11
P.R.S.-bY all odds the most ryfamoul
sueyor, geologist, and naturilis
among Canadian soientists.
'‘Holt's Interney was made in 1878,
so that at tht3 present time the short
'space ad thirty-five yearsi only divide
this new well known territory front
the oblivion -1n Which it was involved
prior. to that year.
"The intrepid George Holt wee
afterwards murdered by Indians at
Cook's Inlet, Alaska,, in 1885, seven
years after ids successful journey,
from ocean to rivet." :
Ontario Playground.
nit year seven additional town)
ships have been added by the One
tai io Governraetat to the area of Ale
gongein National Park, making the
total- acreage of this great pleasure
resort over two and a half million
-acres.
}log -raising In I3. C.
Hog -raising is being extensively
taken up in British Columbia.
. Good News.For Papa.
"When 1 promise to marry bum do
youwanthim to edrare and ask Your
"No, not my 'consent' but I would -
like to have him OA in and ieil me ale
good hews. 1 sort of feel like I needed
zheerIng up." Houston Post.
, Suddenly Tired,.
"Good gracious, what a' sight you
are! What have tent been doing-'
"The barber bad plat lathered me
wben some one came in dole told hint
that he had -won the hug prizeAtt a
lottery antl 'be retired at enee."---iflie.
gend Matter.
Hard Leek
Hard luck is when a 11111t1 3V130 dileS
not like oysterseats upe for politent.ss.
discovers a $100 pearl and abet' keeps
on eating them indelinitely to find an-
othert-Chicago News. t
, Brief illness RetiefielaL
There are same who confess that
they never really read. Or appretiated
their_ daily paper until they had' to
stay In bed to read It and siaddenlY dis-
covered it was rather good reading,
And I know men who rent pleasant
houses - in delightful auttuabs, Yet
scarcebe ever see them until a blessed
pain oceure aud they stay at hotne for
a few days -In bed. A few days' "bed-
ding out" migbt do.many human 'plants -
a lot of good. -London Chronicle.
Napoleon's Generals.
Many of Napoleon's generals resefrem
the ranks. Bernadotte, the grandee')
of a blacksmith; ,Murat, the son Of
tanner; Lannes, the son of It small
farther; Neer, the son of a poor Alsa-
tian cooper; Suchits the son of a silk
, weaver; Jourdan, the son pf a country
leech; Mortier, a brewer's boy; Oudinot,
a .farnier lad; MacDonald, grandson of
a Ultit crofters and Lefebvre, a barraek
room brat.
Proud Recollection.
"Yon teem rather elated this morns
Ing."
"I am," replied sir, Meekton. "Last
. night illy wife mistook inc for a bur-
glar. It's the only time in my life that
'Henrietta Was actually afraid of melt
-Washington Star.
Domestic Jar. • '
She -My poor Mother begged me not
to marry yon. He -Thief Tbat's the
only time she seemed/Interested in tna
welfarel-Judge.
, Sound, CW1111011 sense without eio-
tmence is better than folly with a due
-doer of language,
ildren
FLETCHEWS
CASORIA
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