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wings relief. Put up in cape
ulcs, swallowed. Sold by
el.al le druggists for a dollar.:
k.elc. our agents or send card for
tYe ars to Templeton's, 142
St. W., Toronto. Agents,.
Toronto and Hamilton drug-
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THE DOMINION
SEAFORTH BRANCH, " = R. M. JONES, Manager.
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT.
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THE HURON EXPOSITOR
-DISTRICT MATTERS
BABY'S GREAT DANGER DURING
HOT WEATHER.
More Iittle ones die during the hot
weather than at any other time of the
year. Diarrhoea; dysentry, cholera
infantum and stomach troubles come
without warn*g, and when a. medicine
is not at hand to give promptly the
short delay too frequently ;means that
the child has passed beyond aid.
Baby's Own Tablets should always be
kept in the house where there are
young children. An occasional dose
`.of the Tablets will prevent stomach,
nd bowel troubles, or if the trouble
comes suddenly the prompt use of the
Tablets will relieve the baby. The
`Tablets are sold by medicine dealers
-or by mail at 25 cents 4 box from the
Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont.
A COMMON BORE
The colonel's negro orderly was
anissing., and inquiry developed that
he was confined to quarters as
the result of a fight. Solicitous as
to the welfare of his striker, the old
man .visited him personally in his
barrack, where he found him in a
dilapidatedcondition.
"How's this, Sam-?" he inquired..
"What's been happening to "you?"
"Well, suh, you. know Sat'dy was
pay-day, and after supper we gets
into a big crap game. Long come
'bout two o',clock in de a.m. and
Napoleon Sims gets- into a li'l friendly
,rgyrn,ent. Cunnel, befoh I knows it
he hits me in de mouf and he knocks
out fo' teef, and he hits me in- de
eyes and blacks dem, and he blame
near busts -mah nose and mah Jaw.
Den me gets ` me down on de 'ground
and stomps on me and cracks three'
ribs.
"Honest, Gunnel! Ah never got so
tiand of a man in all mah life."
SOMETHING ABOUT KANGAROOS
AND SPEED
Toronto has become the domicile
of a pair of interesting natives of
.Australia, the first of the kind io be
seen hereabouts. Should the ka i-
garoos thrive in this climate, thej
-Lune may yet come when an attempt
'Till he made to domesticate them on
a large scale for both their fur -.led
their importance as food. A -dis=
tinguished naturalist once expressed
the view that kangaroos - would
flourish in. England more comfort-.
ably than in Australia. the climate
beim' more suitable, The Canadian
old would not kill them off, and the
only problem would' be that of winter
forage. Probably they could live and
multiply .in conditions that would
permit horses and cattle to /stay out
of doors the winter through in Al-
berta and British Columbia. They
have also their value to sportsmen,
for in Australia they take the place
of foxes and stags and are hunted
by packs of specially -bred dogs.
They are not so fleet as a grey-
hound, but are capable of keeping
at top speed for hours at a time,
and are difficult to run down be-
cause. of the rough character of the
country, where they prefer to feed.
When cornered the male kangaroo
will stand with his back to a conven-
ient tree and with his- powerful hind.
legs, shod with long hard hoofs as
sharp as steel, can make it extreme-
ly dangerous for hounds to come
too close. One occasion the kangaroo
had been known to show" intelligence
of a high order, 'and hunters have
reported cases in which a kangaroo
held a dog under water with his
forepaws until it drowned. It is only
the male that is a fighter, though
the female before she has bred is
amazingly fast. The doe is much
smaller and lacks the power of the
male. But its instinct, too, is high -
17 developed as is shown when the
baby kangaroo is born. The mother
then uses her teeth to bite open the
curious marsupial pouch which de-
corates the breast off the animal and
into this combined cradle and nurs-
ery the infant is introduced.
inside - this cradle the infant rests
-and suckles. As it grows larger it
is encouraged to peer out and even
to crop the tender herbage - as the
mot.hor feeds. One day it leaves the
c';zy corner and hops about on its
own .account, to dart into the pouch
irietantl_y it is alarmed. The infant
kangaroo is carried by it.s mother
until it reaches the age of eight or
r,;n2 months, and after it is sup-
planted by a tiny brother or sister
and. is much too large to inhabit
the maternal wallet it will often
tI•v-isi. its Muzzle in for refreshment.
I.; has been previ'ously noised
,-1..road, the kangaroo is a wonderful
: roper, and indeed .its method of
4irrht is a series of jumps. It has a
large -powerful tail which assists" to
.r it through the air and upon
wIl rzrf. it braces itself when it wishes
l i -e to it -s full height and survey
the e'>untry. The - female kangaroo,
being not so swift as the male has
L,.,e strategy more often when
-:-ur: ued by huntsmen or dingoes. If
- l : hrnsh is heavy and concealment
possible,- the kangaroo. will some-
times stop and then give a tremend
ous - jump sideways, thus throwing
the dogs off the trail, and double on
its tracks to safety. •
If the kangaroo is not the -fastest
of - four footed creatures, what is?
Not the dog, the horse or .the ante-
lope, but the cheetah. Nobody has
ever timed the cheetah, and his
speed is a matter of speculation,
but it is known approximately how
fast an antelope can travel, and it
is known that the cheetah can over-
haul an antelope.. Some precise cal-
culations of an antelope's speed
were made by Dr. Roy Chapman
Andrews of the American Museum
of Natural History on the plains of
Mongolia. Dr. Chapman was in a'
motor car, and the plains in every
direction were as hard as ,a>phalt
and as smooth as a road. With
the speedometer it was possible to
tellexactly how fast the car was
travelling, and when an antelope
was pursued, its speed could be pre-
cisely calculated. For the better part
of a mile\ a minute speed-, and'
for an hour or more it averaged
thirty-five miles. Thirty miles - an
hour seemed to be just, an ordinary
lope. It is possible that - antelopes
can travel even faster when the
necessity arises," so • the speed of the
cheetah may` be left to the imagina-
tion.
When Man o' War ran a mile arid
three -eights not long ago in - two
minutes, fourteen and one-fifth sec-
onds, he travelled faster than ever a
horse travelled . the -distance before.
His speed would work out at the rate
of about thirty-six and four -fifth
miles an hour. An antelope' -would
have beaten him by half -a mile, but
::probably he would have beaten a
cheetah, for the latter do not race
more than three-quarters of a mile
as a rule. They -do not have to. The
greyhound is credited with a speed
of thirty-two milesan hour, and it
is said the Russian wolfhound can
travel five miles an hour faster, : a
statement we doubt. Dr. Andrews'
found a timber wolf that could travel
thirty-five miles an hour. Once 9 in
Kansas a train was travelling at the
rate of forty miles an hour. A jack
rabbit started up beside it to give the
train a race, and bounded side by side
with it for twenty miles, never losing
a foot. 0, why should the spirit of
mortal be proud.
HOWLERS PERPETRATED BY
PUPILS IN THE TORONTO
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
No dne has ever attempted to ex-
plain why school children perpetlte
howlers. But the explanation is far
from complex. -In -every° class there
is a certain number of pupil/s ;,s4
busily engaged in chewing gum,
munching candy, day -dreaming, or
surreptitiously reading banned liter-
ature that they catch only, fragment-
ary snatches of what is being taught.
As a result, when an examination
comes along, these laggards are all
at sea. They, in fact, are the authors
of the best. howlers, for they try to
assemble all the odds and ends of
knowl c ge, into something that sounds
plausible.
The pupils of the Toronto Public
Schools are by no means backward in
the production of howlers, as the fol-
lowing obtained! from various sources
will testify:
Floating ribs are ribs that are not
fastened to anything. They float in
the body. `
Oxygen is a poison that comes
from rotted food' in the stomach.
The Seven Years' War in America
was fought between the Indians and
the Rocky Mountains.
.The plural for dynamo is dynamite.
The only cure for nervous trouble
is calomel, a sleep, and then a setzler
powder to take the poison out of the
stomach:
Indigestion is food not soft and
small enough to pass through the
diaphragm.
The diaphragm is a piece of skin.
through which the food must pass in
order to be made into blood. ,
Canada's rational animal is the
hero Wolfe..
The Iroquois killed the Lachine
rabbits. '
Montreal is -where whiskey comes
from.
The knee has a ball and bat ar-
rangement.
Charles the First was killed by the
people; in other words, executed.
Mayor Church is the Premier of
Canada.
U. F. 0. means the great War _vet-
erans. -
Champlain fought three battles
with the Indians because he wanted
to' Christianize them. -
Frontenac was a good Governor be-
cause he had an iron hand.
The feminine of count is countless.
The chief product of Australia is
frozen mutton.
Julius Caesar conquered Britain be-
cause he had lots -of Gaul.
Carboraydrates mean chocolate bars.
A fraction is part of a hole.
The earth is round because teacher
says so.
The different things that affect
climate are : (1) I don't know. (2)
I don't know: (3) I don't. know-.
(4) I don't know.
`Tree Bark
as Clothing
g4 ULY, 1769, .fit Tahiti; I shall
now describe their way of
making cloth, which, in my
opinion, is the only -curious'
manufacture they have.""' So wrote
Lieut, (labor Commander) --James
Cook, in the diary he kept during '
his first voyage around ' the world
made 1768-71, in H. M. Bark "En-
deavor." He proceeded:. "All their
cloth is, I believe, made from the
bark of trees; the finest is made
from a plant which they cultivate
for no other purpose. Dr. colander
' thinks it is the same plant the bark
of which the .Chinese- make paper.
"They let this plant grow till it
is about six Or eight feet high, the
stem is then about as thick as one's
thumb or thicker; after this they cut
it down and lay it a certain time in
water. This make, the bark strip off
easy, the outside of which is scraped
off' with a rough shell. After this -is
done, it looks like long strips of rag-
ged linens" these they lay together,
by means of a fine paste made of
some sort of a root, to the breadth
of a yard More or less, and in lengths
six, eight or ten yards or more, ac-
cording to the use it is for. -
"After it is thus put - together it
is beat out to its proper breadth
and fineness,'' upon a large square .
piece of wood, with wooden beaters,
the cloth beingokej't wet .all the time.
The beaters are made of hard wood
with four square sides, ' are about
three or four inches broad and cut
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into grooves of different fineness;
this makes the cloth look at first sight
as if it was wove with thread, but I
believe the principal use `of the
grooves is to facilitate the beating it
out, in the doing of which they often
beat holes in it, or one place thinner
than another; but this is easily - re-
paired by pasting on small bits, and
this they do in such a manner that
the cloth is not the least injured. T,e
finest sort when bleached is very
white and comes, nearest to fine cot-
ton. Thick cloth, especially fine, is
made by pasting- two or more , thick-
nesses of thin cloth, made for that
purpose, together. Coarse thick cloth -
'and ordinary thin 'cloth is made of
the bark of bread fruit trees, and I
think I, have been told that it is
sometimes made from the. bark of
other trees. The making of cloth is
wholly the work of- the women,- in
which all ranks are employed. Their
common colors are red, brown and
yellow, with which they dye- some
pieces just as their'fancy leads them."
This bark cloth is known as "tapa."
In may localities throughout the
tropics of both hemispheres, crude
Civilizations, lacking both the knowl-
edge and means of weaving, have
fashioned cloth from the inner bark
of certain trees. The Micronesian,
Polynesian and Melanesian Islands,
and Africa were .all tapa-making
countries. The Maoris 'of New Zea-
land, too, knew the art. But with
them it was only briefly cultivated,
due to the scarcity of trees produc-
ing the sort of bark needed and the
severer climate whieh soon led to the -
use of the strong native flax for the
manufacture of cloth.
Within the last century tapa has
become a rarity in practically all the
regions where it was once so abun-
dant, save in Samoa, where an excel-
lent quality is still manufactured for
the sake of the tourist trade, and in
those parts of Africa to which the
textiles of ahigher culture have not
yet been introduced. But thanks to the
efforts of a few interested. people,
excellent collections of bark -cloth
have been brought together. In all
the regions mentioned, curious im-
plements
were used in the nianufac- -
ture of the cloth.
The implements include shells for
cutting the bark, peeling it from the
stems and scraping it; the wooden
slabs on which the bark was Iaid for
beating; and wallets, square or round.
according to the locality in which
they were used. These mallets are .
carved into grooves, square or other.
patterns of various sizes according to
the degree of coarseness or fineness
desired for the finished piece of tapa.
-The African beaters are made' of
pieces of tusk, fastened to bamboo
ha�i1}dles and wrappedi about with rat-
tan? Hawaiian ruling. pens, for mak-
ing lined designs on the tapa and
stamped bamboo stencils sometimes
In the form of a half -cylinder, testify
to the progress which the Hawaiians
had made in the technique of taps
decoration. They seem - also' to have
led in variety and beauty of design.
As to the cloth itself, the finer
varieties resemble fine cotton in soft-
ness, 'are frail and easily torn,. and
very cool. In Samoa and the Tonga
Islands the cloth was 'glazed with a
sort of varnish which rendered it
rainproof..
With the passing of the art of
tapa making, one of the most curious
characteristics of the tapa-making
islands has gone. This is the sound
of tapa beating, which especially in
the morning,' when the women gath-
ered together in numbers to pound
the bark, echoed across country re-
verberantly. Dr. William T. Brigham
declares that a code of signals, of
some such nature as our Morse alpha-
bet, was employed to carry on com-
munication between the groups of
tapa-making women. By this means
current gossip was rapidly passed
over considerable distances. Which
brings us back to the old truth that
human -nature is much the -same the
world over.
Odd.
A British firm bears the name of
"English and Irish." The funny
thing about it is, however, that Mr.
Irish is English and Mr. English is
Irish.
Its Ono Drawback.
"Yes," said it woman, "houseclean-
ing time will soon be here and I hate
it;.- it dirties everything up so."
Children Cry
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New. Summer Dress
Goods and Silks
When you come to buy
Dress Goods 'or silks you
will find • the new colorings
end patterns are here in far
greater variety and at lower
prices. - -
GABERDINES ° -- - Black ,
maroon , blu'e and sand. 42
inches wide.
PRICE $3.75 A YARD
GEORGETTE , CREPE Big
variety sof new colorings, 36
inches wide.
PRICE $2.25 to $3.00 A YD.
SILK CREPE DE CHENE
—All colors, 44 inches wide. -
PRICE $2.25 to $3.50 A YD.
SILK POPLIN—Tan, grey,
sand, black, white. 36 inches
wide.
PRICE $2.25 to $2.75 A YD.
The Prettiest of All
Wash Goods
GOODS
You will have no difficulty
in selecting Wash Goods
here. The big assortment
we carry is so varied and has
so many entirely new ideas
that you are charmedwith
their •beauty.
FANCY VOILES -- Plain
grounds,,, with colored floral
designs and stripes 27 inches
wide.
PRICE $1.25 to $2,00
CREPES—In plain grounds
with colored patterns, 27
inches wide. Price
PRICE 40c
New Repps, Piques and In-
dian Head for skirts, middys
and suitings. Price
PRICE 75c to $1.25
New Palm Beach Cloth for
Suits and Dresses, all colors
PRICE $1.00 A YARD
Advance Showing of Special Sale of Sport
omen's Suits & Coats . Skirts and Middys
For those- who are desirious of making an early pur-
chase of a New Fall Suit or Coat we have arranged
for an advance shipment of the very newest crea-
tions. These beautiful garments, are now on ex-
hibition in -our Ready -to -'Wear Department. Call
and see them.
Men's
Fine Shirts
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Every week brings
something in fine sum-
mer shirts. We have a
great gathering of extra
neat patterns to show
you. i n the regular
negligee, as well as the
outing and , sport shirts.
PRICE
1,75 to 4
Men's Black
Cotton Socks
25c
While they '. last 25
dozen cotton sox for
men, all sizes. - Good
weight.
Price 25c
Every Middy and White- Skirt` in our immense stock
will be cleared. These comprise the- season's best
garments, all the new ideas and materials in care-
fully made garments of surpassing beauty.
SPECIAL PRICE
;- 4 20 PER, CENT, OFF
FOR KNITTED SWEATERS
MONARCfl FLOSS
MQNARCH DOWN
ese
WE
HAVE
ALL
THE
NEWEST
SHADES
AT
35 CENTS
PER
BALL
Mos
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COOL UNDERWEAR
Light in Weight—
Strong in Texture
Perfect in Fit
Easy in Price
Every best make is rep-
resented here and nothing
but guaranteed branded un-
derwear. You are sure of
the greatest amount o f
value for your Underwear
money when lou come here.
PRICE,
75c to $2.00
:nys'
Knitted. Suits
.,a50.
Here is the very new-
est . in Knitted play
Suits. Made of strong
cotton threaV It con-
sists of Sweater waist
and knickers in navy or
brown. All sizes, Price
s
$1,50
Boys'
Stockings
Fast black cotton rib-
bed hose, size 7 to 10.
Price 0c
Heavy weight black
cotton .ribbed hose, col-
or guaranteed. Sizes
7 to 10.
Price 65c
Black Cashmere, fine
ribbed hose, good. qual-
ity. Size 7 to, 10. Price
Price Me
NEW. DRESS HATS
In Felts, and Straws; a Hat
to suit every face. The ad-
vantage. of buying your Hat
here was never so strongly .
emphasized as it is in our
present stock of Summer.
Hats. In the felts we have
all the new Fedora and flat
top shapes. While in the
straws we show the new'
high crown and snap front.
hats. Price
$2 to $4
This Store will close
1 Wednesday afternoon
at 12.30.
Stewart Bros.
Seaforth
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This Store wi ` close
Wednesday afternoon
at 12.30,