The Wingham Advance, 1919-07-24, Page 6o' ,:ernt
Surgery
So4ne Wonderful Acbievementsjn
the' Battle Zones.
1
:Modern surgery dates front the in-
troduatian oalteoetithetics. It is not
easY Ilowadaye to reallee the bonen'
CI hospital prectice, When every
naevenient of the suraeon'e knife gee-
ered the patient'e soul as well as las
body. Prof. tleorge Wilson, the second
Patient 011 whom tbe famous alyme
performed las operation of autpatation
at the (male -joint (first (=lea out in
1842), has left on reccael las mottoes
fearing the ordeal.
"Duriag the oPerattou," Wrote Wia
eon, "i watched all tbe mir1is dia
with a fascinated curio:qty. Of the
agony it occasioned t svill say nothing.
Sufferiag so great as 1 muter went van-
Uot be.e$preased iu worde, aria thus,
fortunetely, eannot be restated, The
particular pangs aro now forgotten;
but the black whiriWind of emotion,
the ltereOr ot! great daricuess, auud the
sense p desertion by God ahd man,
borderiug. cease on desintar, which
swept hrough lay mind and over-
whelmed my heart, Is aenneeer forget,
however gladly I egad do so."
Time was terture then. and the long,
deliberate Operations of to -any were
impragticable,.
Ir the .hospital was a torture cham-
ber tiesn, the battlefield was an
interim. The visitor to the scene of a
great :taloa (so we are told by one
who. Went over the stricken field of
Solferino) had an illusion of being on
the eeashere; the miserable cries of
the wounded .resembled the rhythmic
elan= of_ weves; there was a salt
tang in the 4417, .froln the 'Mood that
had been poured, out, The progress of
the surgeons) alwaye too few, was
merited by the breakiug out hete and
there of dismal wailing. War has been
purged, oil half ot its horrers by the
iuvention of 'angesthetics and of more
than 1t1f destructiveneas of life
by the aseptac teehilique which pre-
vents infecttonr.and has put an ena to
- the "hospitateliscesee" that so puzzled
re-Listerian practitioners -seine
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supper ready for him; and you bruelt
his clothes and his boots for hint. And
look sharp, so that he Is not kept
waiting, or you'll get that box en the
ears, after all."
"However tired he may be, however
hard set, he always has a good weeh
and ehangea his clothes," she.remara-
ed to Jarrow, as, with her own hands
she laid the supper for the treasure.
"He's g -real gentleman; that% what
he is, James."
"le he dead?" ehe asked
"The dog?"
"No; the man, stupid!"
"Oh, no," he said. "But," he add-
ed, almost to himself, "he won't 111 -
treat anything again. for a While." a
She loOked at him approvingly, and
yet with a woman's maternal pity for
the Matt whose goodness of heart is
certain •to lead him into trouble.
"Yes; you look the sort of man
who would stand by a dog for a help-
less woman in trouble, There! clrink
up your tea and have some fresh and
hot,•„Tames, give him the tobacco -jar
when he has finished." As she went
out of the room with a comfortable
weddle, her hueband„ mishit:1g the to-
bacco-jer across the teble. said:
"The missus has. Beata(' it, Douglas
-or Jack, if you prefer tt? We Want
a boundary-ruuner, and we'll take you
on, A pound a week will do, I eup-
pose; and yea won't object to giving
a hand to anything that may be going
on?"
"A pound a week will do very well,
Mr. Jarrow," sadi Jack; "and as you
say, I'll take a turn et anything." He
was silent for a moment or two, then
he added: "Perhaps you won't mind
giving me a month's advance."
Mr. Jarrow seemed rather taken
'eback and, scratching his head, not
unreasonably demanded:
'What for?"
Jack glanced up at the ceiling, to
the room where the girl was lying.
Mr. Jarrow laughed quietly.
"You take my advice and don't in-
terfere with what doesn.t concern
you. The missus has taken that of -
'fair in. hand, I can pleialy see; and
,she don't stand any interference from
you -or me."
It did . not take Mr. Jarrow rnanY
days to discover that in Jack Doug -
Of them aetetally proposed the periodi- las he. had gained a treasure. The
cal destractioa of hospital buildings young man was not only a magnifi-
a 'heroic remedy. cent rider, but understood all the work
as
To -day .tae esurgeon can carry out, of a station, and did it-evillingly and
the most comblicated example of "re- cheerfully, He was so strong and
constructive surgery" with the delib- active that he seemed incapable of
erate carefulness of a chesspIayer, and fatigue; , and, as he had said, he
he can be sure that the wounds will was perfectly willing to turn his
heal healtbtly without matter forming hand to „anything. It was to
to destroyehis artistic handiwork.,And 1 Jeck and Mrs. Jarrow when she want-
tbe present War leee.eo vastly laereaSed.i .0a atlything done that needed a strong
his opportunities and experleace that hand and a quick brain. Ile promptly
he ceanow .accomplish teats • of physi- made friends, not only with the ani -
cal reconstruetion that were utterly un- mals, but with his fellow human
dreamed of in peace time. Nobody even the, bpy of the farm, who was
who knows tlie progrege made by sur- calrek Teddy, because his name was
gery.on: every scientifie frent in the Algernon Sidney, and veho lid hither -
last our Years is lately to ehallenge to been the torment and the despair
the saying of a famous military sur- of everybody about him.
geon: "There is something to be said 1 Mr, Jack Douglas' method was sim-
for a great war, after all. A century • ple, quiet, but deadly effective. Vvben
• of peace-timeaerctice could hardly he wanted a thing done, he asked foa
have„teldaia ivaiset'sve new know-andit pleasantlY, and if it were done he
our new kncetvlailge„may in the end; femiledand nodded approvingly; if
• enable us tosaaare more lives than 1 he .were disobeyed, he repeated tho
1
coat tis," • request just as quietly, but in tone
theewerabsts
The transplaling• a skin, flesh and and with a, look in his hazel eyes,
bone-eoften eartiributed by otbers-is i which obtained prompt obedience.
. the new 'method* whielt most .ainazes With Tedd je he had a few preliminary
the lay mind. In one military hosultal words, onethe first misundertsanding
themes a paticrit'tvhoge leets lute•e between .thein, which 'brought that in.
been made pod. lyy bone borrowed genuous and trying youth to Jack's
;roes °three eopiradee. The repair of feet, and:made the boy his enthusias-
sbattered and sdebatinanized faees is tic adherent and devoted slave.
another craivd-conmelling aronder.1 For the airst few days Jack worked
but the malting; of new pints, the Tilton tae fatm so as to get his bear -
replacing and-re-ethication of nerves, lags, end ill those fete days made
and, above alt, the new Mee, of a, use- 1 every one 'feel that he had been there
ful stump, thenah lees easily explain- ' for years. The girl he had rescued
I was still vp-stairs;• but Mrs. Jarrow
ed, are evenenote wonderful. The last
is mainly due, told him that she was getting on as
to the Italian surgeense is nothing less • well as could be expected. They had
heeehild in .a Utile copse be -
Is
revolutiou.i.h. amPutation. It! trikrie,d
is na tonger queetion of preserving • hind the hense, and Jack had eead the
a raereo-stumP-everY bit of monocle ' geryige, Mr. Jarrow declaring that par -
and sinew which eau be kept is now 60n -work• WO "out of his line."
utilized as motives powers for the Mae7 Seo..ton was still Up -stairs
movable parts'of evenderfully designed when Jack 'eterted on his boundary-
As..a wounded soldier een, He was gone a little over a
week; and. 'it is much to hit credit
told me the other slay: "Why, I can
feel and think tioWn this new leg of that, everybody about the alttee had
•mine!"--IlltietratecleLondon News. jaissed him. especially Mrs. •Jarrove.
"He is the nicest malt we have ever
had, jarnes," she remarked. So will-
ing and so,elever. And it's a pleasure
to have him about the heuse, and to
look at him. 1 do like e, good-looking
tnan."
"Of course." said her husband.
"That% why you married me."
She -"Were
"Of course," retorted Mrs. Jarrow,
Ole British soldiers happy
when they came back front France?" with a laugh.. "It couldha have been
He --"Happy? They were M trans • for anything else."
ports." They wereall' glad when Jack re-
turned from his solitary ride ; and
SOFT. Teddy, Who hen suffered a - relapse
agom-And how
the tugboat? -Is do Work? you like your job on during the absence of his beart's idol -
it hared
Jerry -Not a bit; 'Os easy and comfor- otry, announced Jack's return with
since me first day on th' job, a grave .fme, and a manner that had
COULDN'T DO ST. I already undergone a change.
As.Jack drew up to the stables, a
e 4 • 0 --
"A thoroughbred gentleman puts on woman crossed the yard with some
his clothes and then forgets them." washed linen over her arnt. It was
"That's waat I tried to do, but my
tailor vvon't let 3ton Transcript. Mary Seaton. She was still pale, but
she looked a. very ditferent girl te
REPENTANCE: I the one he had found lying by the
a'rontaty," said the teacher, "can you roadaide; but her life's tragedy still
telt Me the meaning of 'repentant'?" lurked in her eyes and about tho
"Yes, ma'am; ansv.rered TommY. "It's corners of her mouth, and her face
how a fellow f
"Thank you for the infoemation,"
retorted Jarrow. "Even I can see that,
missus, by the way he works. I've al-
ways noticed that your real gentle-
man -I don't mean your scallywag,
Your 'remittance man" but a right
down real gentleman -always works
twice as hard, as a navvy, and thinks
nothing of It, and is always reliable.
I'd trust that yelling fellow with un-
told gold."
"So would I," said Mrs. Jarrow;
"but there's no need to bawl it -he's
coming down -stairs,"
Jack came in from his bath, -with
that well-groomed appearance which
was always so pleasant and flatter-
- ing in Xxs. 'arrow's eyes; and l the
made his report as ae ate his 'plenti-
ful sewer. Mrs. Jarrow had discov-
ered that there were one or two dish-
es which he favored, ash
nd e had
cooked them with her own bands to -
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"You have covered a lot of ground,"
aaid Mr, Jarrow, with an air of satis-
faction, "I couldn't have done it bet-
ter myself."
Mrs. Jarrow very impolitely laugh-
ed.
"Any news?" asked Jack. .
"N -o," replied Jarrow, as he let his
pipe and, with vicarious enjoyment,
watched Jack put away the -good
things. "A sundowner or two, One
of them said he was from Mintone.
A rough -looking fellow; we got ricl of
him early in the morning."
'Mary gSeaton's about again," re-
marked Mrs. farrow.
"So I see," said Jack, wiping hie
mouth -with the napkin with which
Mrs. Jarrow always supplied him.
"You've kept her on, then?"
Mrs, Jarrow nodded. "Of course,"
she said. "And very useful she is."
Jack looked thoughtfully across the
table. "You've not learned -she has
net told you—"
"No," said Mr, Jarrow, "Site hasn't pin'
4sked. It's no businesa of s. Plee
poor thing has evidently had a lot
of trouble, and I'm not one, to open
old wounds."
Jack nodded. "You're a good veta
man, Mrs. Jarrow," he said.
"Somebody' been telling you," she
retorted; but she looked pleased.
There was Some work on the farm,
and Tack set about it with his usual
promptitude and thoroughness. He
seemed to be all over the plaee at
Once, as Mrs. Jarrow remarked; and
the hands worked as if he used some
spell, some magic with them. One
day, while he was breaking a colt
which had successfully resisted the
blandishments of every man on the
station, Teddy came running to him,
his face aflame, his protuberant lane
eyes almost starting from his head
"Mr. Sack!" he gasped. "There's
a man -In the wood -Mary!"
As he paused for want of breath, a
woman's scream 'clove the still air.
Jack tossed the colt's halter to Teddy
and ran swiftly in the direction of
the sound. Mary Seaton was standing
with her back to a tree, struggling
-with a burly, rough -looking man,
whose countenance was not improved
by a bulging bruise on, his forehead.
She was as white aa death, and her
eyes were gleaming; but her screams
stopped at sight of Jack, and the man,
with an oath, turned to meet hira.
i _ tee
IN TRANSPORTS.
eels When he gets caught."
se- looked ,as if it bad been impossible
WHAT THIE TRQUEIL E WAS. I for s smile to have ever rested on it,
She ntopped as Jack dropped from his
In his later yeare Edward Everett wag horse, and 'Welted at hint; so might
greatly trealblea with deafness, A. friend, ,,,,,
who was aohdolin with him asked: idap dog; which Jack had rescued,
"What la the trouble -can it be wax?" have looked at him; but suddenly the
"No," Everett responded, whimsically, expressioti in her eyes changed to a
-4•4•1 questioning one, and her brows came
"wane."
TOUGH LUCK. together as if she were perplexed, as
if she were trying to rementber some -
moneyClett -4" °In't PII""are the $25 °n this thing; bat she did ncli speak, and
meter until yeu identified,
Man -That's tough: There's only one Jack, with a cheerful nod, said:
man In town who ean Identify Inc and I "Mad to See you out again. All
ewe him pe -Buffalo Commercial. right now, I hope?"
DIFFERENT THEN. I Her eyes, fixed on bis face, grew
----•eiseetboaghtful, absent, as if she were
"D. T. Barnum eald the public Iikea to listening intently, and there was al -
be burebugged.".
"Quite true." admitted the man whe Meet an embarrassing pause before
was doing sonic arinntietle. -But it elle replied, in a low voice, the tone-
eost so untelk less to be kUmbtitMea when less vette of a person benumbed by a
Darman Wee alive,"
. I** great grief;
IN THE CAR STRIKii. 1 "Yes; thanke to Mt, sir."
Jack looked rather surprised at the
"Itosv do You like wanting to work?" "sir," but made no comment and
"Ies not bad, bilt the thine that gets;
rIV gee, t is the published request of the turned t6 Teddy who, with ltero-wor-
eity administration that I ktep good -ea- ehip hi his cycS, was hovering about
tott,ci anti smile While doing it." -.'10- him..
lento Telegram. • "SO they haven't killed you yet,
----4.,.......—...- Teddy?" said Jack, in his pleasant
BELIEVED rr A LEESON. fashion. "No; I'll rub down the
A negre had been Wed ene found horse; you go and aelt Mrs, jarroW
guilty of murder, ite41 woe sentenced to for sortie brave and we'll give her --
be haeged. The tirne ter the executionSally not Mre. jarrow-a little gruel.
had arrived, and the condemned negro , •
tees led 10. the seaffotti. I
"MOW, " oaid the 41000, "hAVO You
anything to Pay before the eenteuee of
the law le!serried into exesetione 1
"No boox,' replied Ibe» Orimonor. I ain't
no speethifier, but 1 su,lOtily believe die
ittrt **Ina to be a lateen to ma,"
..— lieeele.- -- I
The Only Meg that keeps the '
egotist from eueeteding Is that he ean't ,
dote& jetst what Wend of eueee 8 he
Wente.
ebe said" quietly, but with a
tremor in her voloe. "It's prei te
lean on me this nate,
cviarrEn V
neeketit Carton scareely
&need
round him, but looked atraight ahead,
as he left the hall after Ins 'inter-
view with Clytie; he held Ms body
erect, and. his countenenee under cetn-
mend, as he paced slowly clown the
• Broad drive, for the liwo girls might
have been watching Mut from the
window; but the tensenese of his
figure relaxed as he got out of sight
of the house, his head drooped, and
an expression of lassitude and diteeP-
Peintneent settled on his faee. He
weet down by a narrow road to •the
Bit and entered the house which had
now become his.
It was a email and gloomy buildtng, close under the ehadow of the
great fectory which loomed above it
and to which it was connected bY
double doors leading to aleeketh's pri-
vate, room, or office. Hanging -his
hat up in the narrow passage -what
a contraet to the vaat hall he had
*et lefti-he went into the small sit-
ting-rooln-how shabby and mean it
wan compared with the ornagnifieent
one in which he had left those girle
Bittingl-lie sank into a chair, and,
letting bis head"faIl back, wiped the
perspiration from his brow-
He had been very ill, his nerves
were all unstrung; one does not at-
tempt to destroy a will, to steal a
large estate, a quarter of a million
of money -and bungle the businesa
-without undergoing a severe Men-
tal strain. And how he had bungled
it • In the whir of this machinery, the•
motions of which vibrated through
the small house, seemed . to mingle,
In e, ghastly fashion, the words, the
furious tones of the old man's voice.
Hesketh closed his eyes and saw
•the whole hidecnis scene. Yes, he had
bungled the affair, had failed irre-
trievable? He sat up and peered at
the opposite wall, his eyes narrowed
to tans, his lips drawn straight,
by the tenseness of his thoughts.
Was there no way out, no
wayof recovering_ all that he
had lost by an act of,' -what 'seemed to
him now, incredible stupidity? Wits he
to surrender the Hall and the ,..aarge
fortune that went with it, and be con-
tent to moll and toil all his days, Just
"Mr, Hesketh Carton, ot the Pits
Works?"
The fooliah, farcical will would
stand; there was no one to dispute it.
His Only chance lay in the possibility
of ,WilTred's refusal to marry Clytie,
and in -in her subsequent death. A
Poor chanee, indeed; for, of course,
Wilfred would not be such a fool as to
refuse; and if he were to do at), the
,girl was young, strong, and aggres-
sively healthy.
Why should Wilfred refuse? She
was a charming ,girl, a pretty girl;
quite lovely, in fact. He had never
seen a girl half so lovely. Why, it
he had destroyed the right will and
become master of Brantley, he himself
might have married her. e. Yes; that
would have been right enough; the
Braraleys, as represented • by her,
Would his.ve been rested to Brantley;
his position 40tiauld .hkft been', asstired.
As the owner of such an historic es-
tate, the husband of Clytte Braatley,
be would have had full •plat for his
ambitions, and might have sateen to
any heights. A brilliant political ca.-
reer, a baronetcy, a peerage floated
before him.
He rose and paced the room, looking
remarkably like a lean, but .respect-
able tiger, say, rather, a jackal; With
his thin hands, thinner by illness,
olasped and working behiact him, he'
was like the aforesaid.tiger, crammed
Lull of energy, panting for freedom
of action, and yet cribbed, caltined,
and confined by his insensate folly,
Suddenly he heard the second, the
outer, of the two doors leading to his
office open, and a knock come to the
inner door. He thrust away his
thoughts with a gesture and, opening
the door, met the manager of the
works -he had recently been raised to
that position -a man named Merril.
He started slightly a* he came upon
his master's pale, set face.
"I beg your pardon, air," he said.
"But you asked me to bring the re-
turns as soon. as they were fiaished,"
"Quite right, Merril," said alesketh.
He went into the office, closing the
doors behind him; and, taking the
papers, seated himself at his large
table, almost covered with account -
books, samples, and files, and ran
through the returns.
"Quito right," he said..
Merrell took them frena him, but
seemed to hesitate.
"Anything else, Merril?" asked Hes-
ekth.
"Well, sir," replied Merril, reluct-
antly. 'I think I ought to speak to
You about Stephen Rawdon."
Hesketh had drawn a sheee of paper
toward him and had begun to Write;
he arreeted the pen, and without ris-
ing his eyes, said coldly:
(To be continued.)
_i • •
PLENTY "OF WAR LEFT.
(Montreal Herald.)
The signing of the treaty between
Germany and the allied" and associated
powers has brought, peace to only one
part of the world. Here are some of
the conflicts still in progress:
The Peles are fighting the Russian
Bolshevik'.
The Ukrainians also are at Naar with
the Bolsheviki.
• The Germans are fighting the Lithu-
anians, who themselves are at war
with the Bolslaeviki.
The Finns are fighting the Bolshe-
vik'.
Civil war continues in Russia, where
the Bolehevilli are hard pressed by
their Russian enetniea On several
front,
The IPtingarian communists are
fightleg the Czecho-Slovaks and the
Roumanians.
The seizure of Smyrna by the allies
has led to fighting between the Turks
and the Greek forces of occupation.
You've had n. long day, my beauty,
haven't you?"
Teddy bounded to the Awe -room,
Where he was found by Mrs. ,arrow
helping hinteelf from the bran -tub.
She raised her huge hand to box his
oars; but it fen to her Mee as he
'squealed out:
"It's for Mr, Jack!" " of your life. Here, lean on me."
"Oh, all right," she Mad. "Yon tell He offered a wavering arm; bat 'She of wirelest ftervies all over the eentil-
Mr. leek fel latirty be, reel get hie drew it Within hers. try, ineluding a dervice to Met.
• Jack was on him like a knife, and
the two men were locked together in
a deadly emibrace. The man was
heavier than Jack, but •svhat there
was of Jack was muscle and sinew,
and very scion the ruffian went down
and Jack's lome was on his chest. But
as he fell, with outstretched arms, the
man's right hand struck a stone; his
fingers closed it, and dealt Jack a
blow on the temple.
Jack sate stars, the great trunks of
the trees .danced in. the eunligiat in an
iibsured and grotesque manner, his
grip of am man's throat relaxed, and
a deathly faintness assailed him and
he teg back full-length,
The Man sprang to his feet, bestow-
ed a kick on the prostrate form, swore
at Mary, tam sprang heavily toward
the sheltering trees and disappeared.
Mary Seaton bent ever Jack, het
face white as death, het' breath com-
ing and going painfully; but she re-
covered herself ih a moment or two,.
and tearing open the collar of his
shirt drew his head upon her knee:
Sack had not been badly stunned and
he came to almost immediately.
She drew a long breath as he open-
ed his eyes, and bendiug down, so
that her hair swept hie faee, and her
lips touched his ear, whispered:
-"Mr. Wilfred -Mr. Wilfred Carton!"
Jack etarted, an expression of re-
cognition and acknowledgment of the
name crossed his face and was *visible
in his eyes.
"Yes? Who -what?"
His eyes closed again, and she bent
over him with tightly compressed lips,
and nodded. She knew that he would
soon reeover again, and she held his
head against her and waited; and
presently she helped him to stagger to,
his feet.
"Are you hurt?" he aeked, as he
Wiped the bland from hie face.
She eitook her head. "NOF - you
came in time -again."
"That's all right," said Jack. with
satisfaction; then, With disappoint-
ment, as he looked. around: "The
scoundrel's got off, of eoursel It's
the man I licked for beating the dog,
at Mintona. It's a pity I didn't give
hint a little more." Then he gazed
before hint in a Confused, puzzled
faahlote "I seemed to have beeti
knocked out of time," he said. "teen
• kind of dreaming, Did you -say any-
thing just time -mention my name?"
"No," she said.
He frowned. "That'd etrange," he
said. "Only fancy, 1 suppoee. I must
have been clean off my head for a
minute or two. C01116 Oft to the
house. You must be frightened out
awl these may be rettefitir eietimated
at $10 per foot frontage or ;600 on
60 foot lot. It, thellefore, $400
tter ft ipt .60 feet wide, its reel
•eoet when ieseptieved for the pUrreet
of a reeideuce, will he $000. Thttli,
fully improved land at $18 0. tilOt
ontIs worth Ate much as ImirnierOved
land at $8 a foot Spent la ettee where
the local ireproVereents are Paid for
and are a reasonably high quality,
,A. purchaser ot a lot at 640
in 1919 -to use exact figpreeeeeetult
eetimate that the lot win coat 4101 la
1924 and $983,60 in 1029, allewing
compound interest at the rate of oven
Per cent end without AU/ allowance
•fO' texes, which should also be capi-
talized daring these periods, Negeti-
able bonds paying 63 to 6 Jeer cenk.
D.re as good or better thalt nione7
earning 7 per cent if tied up in real'
estate. •
4. When land is unbuilt uopn and
Is bele for speculative purposee, it in -
hires the person who wets to buy for
izumedlate uee, inasinuch as the price
• ie Increased to the latter by the com-
• petition of Peen who htly for specula.
•non. Any One who speculates- ehould
take into acconet the fact that he Is
evorkleg rigeinst the Intereets of Those
evil° wish to buy for,use.
Minard's Liniment Cures Garget I
Cowe.
44•
A Great Cataract.
What is set down as the greatest
cataract in the World is on the Iguazu
River, which partly separates Brazil
and Argentina. The precipice over
whieh the river plunges is 210 feet
hiah, that of Niagara being 167 feet.
The cataract is 13,123 feet ,wide, or
about two awl a half times as wide as
Niagara, It is estimated that 100,-
000,000 tons of water passes over Niag-
ara in an hour, A like eetimateg gives
the falls of Iguazu 14Q,e00,000 tons.
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That is why PIO" is so economical for farm
work in the summer.
The strong canvas uppers mid springy rubber soles.
make "WORKMAN" and "EVERY -DAY"
shoes easy, restful and cornfortable—and sturdy
enough to stand up to rough work.
As it is, 1- Shoes mean money in your pocket, for you
can have several pairs of row' for the price of one pair
of leather shoes.
Thete are .15SIIIr styles for men, women and children -
for work and phiy—for everyday and
Sunday wear.
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Ask your dealer for FOrgr Shoes.
The name is stamped on each pair.
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A CLEVER, GYMNAST.
Some Exploits of the Zebra
Spider -A Noted Hunter.
Most of us are acquainted with the
tiny red spider that careers about the
herbage with such amazing agility. -Ho
is a hunter par excellence, and quite
puts to the blush his long-legged cousin,
that wallabies over the dry moorland
floor, hid' legs always, as it were, in his
way, and ever aimlessly seeking for the
latid Of nowhere. Doubtless his oyes be-
ns fixed in the middle of his back ac-
counte for his ineptitude. He is also
more notitiee.ble for the fact that he 'lira -
nett is a veritable quarry, the hunter In
this instance being secure in his immob-
ility. The brilliant scarlet dots on him
are not part of his own autogeny; they
are six -legged parasites which oven his
itnnaense logs aro unable to brush eft
One. virtue accredited' to him deserves
mention. for more than one local weath-
er -prophet swears by the "ettercs.p."
And they are rarelY far out either.
My favorite of the spider tribe, how-
ever. Is ono that has 'given mo much
cogitation. Ho seems quite too clever,
for he apparently eludes the force of
gravitation. This is the zebra spider, a
famous jumper. His gymnaetic feats are'
-not limited to solid earth, bat take place
caught one the other day, I took the
on walls and ceilings or, Indeed, any-
where upside down or vertical. Having
. opportunity to find out if his wonderful
powers were understandable to us, so I
put him under a glass bell, and gave
him a fairly long fast. In the interval I
had a good look at him. Ho is "spotted
like a pard," the greyish markings re-
solving themselves under a lens to ag-
gregations of oblong scales on his black
body.
Over all he hag a "birsy" hairness that
is quite fearsome; and the manner in
On the northwestern frontier of
India and Afghans are fighting the
British.
China is again in the throes of a
civil war.
Carrenza it fighting Villa and other
rebel leaders for the coetrol of Mexico.
In Costa Mee the Tittoco Govern-
ment has driven the rebels over the
border into Nicaragua, and the latter
country fearing an invasion, has ap-
pealed to the United States for pro-
teetion.
Wireless in Chins. "
In China wireleee le receiving eon-
eiderable attentiore tpough, as A fule,
the eerviee givett le not very 11,atIgfac-
tory. Some twelve etations are °Perla-
ed le various Darts of Itwangtung and
Xwangel provIncee, and th4 Chinese
goverrtreeet bat planned exteneions
Lachute, Que., 25th Sept., 1908.
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited.
Gentlemen, -Ever since coming home
from the Boer war I have been bothered
with running fever sores on my legs. I
tried many salves and liniments,' also,
dootored continuously for the blood, but
got no, permanent relief, till last winter
when mother got me to try MINARD'S
LINIMENT, the effect of which was al-
most magical. Two betties completely
cured me and I have worked every work-
ing do.y sine.
)(ours uatefullY.
JOHN WALSH.
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:which ho c Mashes his pedipalps, or hands
togethee must prove verv annoying to
Itis enemies. Later he finds these ap-
pendages of great use, for after a meal
he continually touches up his whiskerd
with thorn. Indeed, they aro so flexible
and gristly and so weel furnished with
brushes that it migh well be supposed
that that is their printery purpose, for
they aro of no military use whatever,
however, fearsonte they may look. The
titne appearing propitious for my ex-
periment of spider versus gravitation, I
Placed a fly on the ceiling of the bell -jar.
Very soon he saw her; approaching near-
er and nearer with movements that viv-
idly recalled the stalking of a bird by a
cat. Both being upside down I was
quite sure he would never manage it.
However, I was so intent on watching
the attitude, of the hunter and hunted
that I omitted to observe a very impor-
tant happening, indeed, the very thing
that wetild explain what I wanted to
knew. In due time, doubtless when his
fixed focus oyes -he has fear by-tho-by
syriochronised with his leaping powers,
ho made his terrible leap. Instantly beth
were etruggling in the air, suspended by
it thread. This then, was the ES cora. Ho
Was.-atnit this wail what I did not nOtice-
anchoring himself safely with a 111 e1108
before the attaelt. This holding firm, all
the ;vat of the struggle took place In
mid-air, Then, with his fangs in the
fly`il neck, ho regained tho Pima feet.
hold,
It was only then that I saw how, every
few paces, the spinnerets attached the
invisible thread to the glass se that no
riske might be run. X could see the spin -
wets perform the action; the thread I
could not see, oven Under a powerful
lene, eo fine was it, yet so efficient, that
it bore the weight of the struggling com-
batants itnesediately it was Win. On a
horizontal surface this anchoring line
Would only be b. hinderance, to that he
must exercise it certain judgement he
his procedure, ineastiring, as it were, all
the risks involved in the audacious leap
into the air. He rarely misses once he
gets into etriking distance. This, how-
ever, Js always just his. difficulty. -The
Scotsman, -
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Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper.'
• Abflity of the Aged.
It has often been said that a man
cannot learn a new trade after he is
forty, but this statement has frequent-
ly beeh disproved, Peter S. Du Pon-
ceau was eight when he wrote his
valuable treatise on the Cochin Chi-
nese language, and had only then re-
cently taken up the study; and the late
John Bigelow was still an author turn-
ing out a book when he passed his
'ninety-fifth birthday.--Philadelp,hie
Public Ledger.
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BOYS FOR ADOPTION
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• A French Wonder.
Tee police foree of the Ninth Paris
oArrOndisseolent boasts a policeman`
named Costy, "whose powers of calm,
• lation are attracting the attention of
the scientific world, The moment he
• hears a spoken phrase he 19 able to
tell the 'number of letters it contains.
• He takes no time for refleetton and
says he does not even neeete think,
the calculations ;being automatic.
The Hamilton Shelter of. the -.Children's
-
Aid Sodiety has several rine little boys
from five to ten years of age, which it
desires to place in good homes for adop-
tion.
Among the number is a fine little col-
ored lad of twelve years,
' A letter to Inspector Wyllie, 67 Hugh -
son street soutR, Hamilton, or telephone
Regent 269, will bring full information.
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PUIRIOHABBIZS OF LAI?. .
Why Ine Should Buy for Use and'
Not for Speculation,
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Fads. •
Satoire increasingly popular.
Striped plush for coat collars and
cuffs.
'Velvet ribbone threaded through
aheer frocke.
Halt Sand Drifts With Grass
(T. A. In Conservation.)
It is human and natural that those
who have land to sell should desire
to obtain the best prices. Owning or
Selling land is not less legitimate than
deal in any other commodity. Cri-
((Warn of real estate owners and
operators is often unfair and many
men wha are engaged in land dealings
suffer from the odium drawn upon
their profession by unscrupulous ven-
Pe'ople, however, should blame'
• themselves when they are deluded by
impf*Oper speculative real estate.
operations.
It is in the interests of those who
own- land or those who represent the
hest type of real estate operator that
the public should be educated to un-
derstand what should be avoided in
dealings with land. During the past
ten years, millions of dollars have
been lost in rea'r estate speculation.
This has destroyed confidence in land
investment, has increased municipal
taxation and created ' incalculable
hardship to small purchasers.
• One of the Midas which receives
general acceptance is that there 'is no
distinction between the ownership of
property through. borrowed money altd
the renting of property. Ovenership
of houaes and land only possess the
merit that is claimed for It when it is
tree or comparatively free, of mort-
gage. Wheh property Is heavly mort-
gaged, the payment of interest is equi-
valent to paying rent and is often
• more burdensome and irksoate than
the payment of rent to a landlord.
The following facts should be con-
sidered by those contemplating the
purchase of land for building:
1. If land is purchased for im-
mediate use, a higher price -can be
paid for it than if purchased fr future
use. If held for future Use, the cost
of the lot will increase by reason Of
the taxes plus compound interest on
the ptirchase price.' To a purchaser
of a lot costing $400 and held for six
or seven years without being built on,
the real cost will be about $800, If
the purchaser proposeto hold land
kor six or seven years, he should only
pay halt the priee he thinks he can
afford to pay for a site for hie home.
2. In the final analysis, the cost
of land ehOtild be estimated to inclUde
the capital cost of local improvemellfs•
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s'es Agricultural College, Guelph; eta,
learn; batik hem, 2 silos, 2 4Watlialtat
other buildings;
one hundred and tWentrt
five per acre Also two hundred eerepsi,
'tame district; excellent 13Q11, afl tinder
cultivation, except twenty agree ba,ree
wood; bank earn seventy by
pone, seep pens; nine -roomed dw,titfl;
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ARGE NvietneeR IMPROVED WARMS
Mr about half cost of improvementat
$500 and up; grows in abundance 8111
lanes of vegetables; auto roads, flowing
ealloola churches, fieh, game./ hevfx
farmed here 31 years: never had evert
tenure, J. Locking, Ereo, Ont., RainY
River Valley.
• MURDERED.
Put eight out of business, a whole
family of terns by Putnam's Corn
Retractor, which cures corns and
warts• in one day. No pain or sore
1.1 "Putnam's" is used. Refuse sub-.
stitutes, 2fic per bottle at all dealers;
THE EARTH'S AGE.
MISCELLANEOUS
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AUTO OWNEIIS AND mxcxrAiircri.
— Don't lose your tools. stamp year,
name en every one and be insureq
against kiwi and theft; We will make ter
You a Stan* hand Cut from teed sl
it will last a life time; send 50e for saes
only' your initiate aro required send no.
los:ttearrioo.m
1 your nae end 10c poltage, t
Crewn Stamp Dle Works, Waterdowit. •
ExperiMents On Certain' Micas
Have Given a Clue.
Certain colored 'minerals, in particu-
lar certain micas, wnen examined mi-
croscopically, present dark stains in
the forte of a disa. At the centre of
each stain is a little crystal, usually
a crystal of zireon, which has been in-.
eluded at the moment of formatioh or
the mica. The explanation of those
dark stains is to be found in the fact
that the zircons are -strongly radio-
active. The radio -active crystals stain
• the mica in the same -Way as they cola
or glass, etc. But the X-rays emitted
by different radio -active substances
have not all the same penetrating pow-
er, and for that reason the mica stains
are usually darkest at the centre. If
they are old enough, says The Scienti-
fic American, the stain is uniformly
dark, as even the few rays which
reach the outer part have had time to
completely stain it.
Experiments .were made by Joly
• and Rutherford to determine experi-
mentally the number of X-rays re-
quired to produce a given stain in
• mica. Measurements were made on the
halos or stains so produced and they
were compared -with those produced
naturally by the zircon crystals. The
amount of uranium present in the cry-
stal was evaluated and the number of
x-rays necessary to produce the natur-
al stain permitted one to ascertain
the amount of uranium which must
have disiategrated since tho origin of
the mineral.
The theory of radio -active transfor-
mations then leads very simply to an
expression for the age of the halo.
The numbers obtained oscillated be-
tween 470,000,000 and 20,000,000 years,
*high is in fair agreement with the
• determinations of the age of rocks, al-
though they differ from the results
• which have been deduced from the
quantity of salt contained In the
oceans.
HOME Btniagas:
Write for Free Book of House Plainer
and inferreation telling how to save fromt
two to our hundred dollars on yoUe neW
home. Address, Halliday Company. 21
Jackson Street East, Haminton, Ontario
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.
TeOUSE• EVERY CONVEX-
*"•lence in village of Grimsby. • Steam
heated, ear stops at door. Would con-
sid,pr exchange for same or smaller place
between Stoney Crook and Brantford,
Apply, Box 366, Grimsby, Ont,
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SUMMER COMPLAINTS
RILL Wilt ONES
Huf3band Alleges Deception,
A California man testifieg in the
divorce court that when he,we.s court-
ing his wife she always Met him at the
front door With a kitchen apron on,
leading him to believe elwwas domes-
tic in her taste, and after he married
he learned to his diemaY that'she had
never even learned how to boil an egg, -
and that she gave him the alterriatiVe
of boarding or clearing out -Houston
Post,
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Will Grew Hotter.
Accordingto an English scientist's
theory, if the radium in the 'interior
of the earth equals in quantity that
grow hotter in time instead of colder.
in the surface rocks, the world will \411
At the first sign a illness during
the hot weather give the little one
Baby's Own Tablets or in a few hours
he may be beyond aid. These Tablets
Will prevent summer con4aints if
given occasionally to hte well child
and will promptly relieve these trou-
bles if they collie on sudderily. Baby's
Own Tablets should always be kept in
every home where there are young
children. There is no other medicine
as good and the mother has the guar-
antee of a government analyst thee
they are absolutely safe, The Tablets
are sold by medicine deitIere or by
mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr,
Williams Medicine Co„ 13rockVilie,
Ont.
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Cotrot Pio.
Scrape and boil the carrots 'until
very tender, then mash throughly
and to one cupful of carrot add one
Vint of milk, One-half teaepoonful
each of salt, elitnamon and ginger,
one Well -beaten egg, Auger to sweet -
to taste. Bake elolwy itt oe crust.,
like sallash n18,
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Birds and Aeroplanes.
Compared with a reeent heteplane
Went of 18,800 feet, the MI1111011
birds are mere gretuldlitige, fet •M-
orally they fly et no greater height
thee 200 feet. When migrating, how-
ever, they thonnt higher, though wren
then Cho wild pope (the loftiest of
there) seldom restheii 2,000 feet, The
higheet flier in the World is the great
condor, whieh sOriletitne4 rises fmileL
ive
England's Literary Officeholders.
Among living English literary men
who have taken the king's shilling are
Edmund Gosse; librarian of the house
of lords; W. W. Jacobs who wile in
the postofficet Sidney Webb, who was
in the colonial office; Austin Dobson,
who was at the board of trade, and
Sir Sidney Colvin, who was, and Lau-
rence Binyon, who is, an official at
the British museum.-eLondon Ex-,
prece.
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'Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Bo Cured
4,
Miner(' Llninient Cure' Celdit, Itte-
by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the,,ear..There Is
only one way to cure Catarrhal ilee5fne0s,
s.nd that is by a constitutional remedy.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE aets
through the Blood on the 'Vincent Sur-
faces of the System. Catarrhal Deafness
is caused by an inflamed conditiOn of
tho mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube is inflamed yeti have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed. Deafness
is the result, Unless the 'InflasurnatiOn
can be reduced and this tube restored to
its normal condition, hearing may tio'des-
troyed forever, Many cases of Deafneee
are Caused by Catarrh, which Is an in-
flamed condition of the Mucous Surfacee.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any
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Pajama Frivolity. .•
Gorgeous materials, some handpaint.
ed.
Revers ornamented with little green
froggies.
He himself wears a silken suit Wi'.h
brocaded hip sash.
Black and white newest note for
milady, who affects white satin, black
velvet striped trousers with plain
white coat.
Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
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The honeyINinCooOnNVNi
h'a8dSvrne-ri
Waned and the
young bride felt the difference.
"You used to love to hold my hand,
George," she said pathetically one even -
"I love to now," George answered
calmly, without looking up from his
newspaper, "but it would keep you from
your housework, dearr'-Answers, Lon-
don.
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GIRL AND JUDGE.
A venerable justice sat In the place of
honor at a reception. As a young lady
of dazzling charms walked past he ex.
claimed almost involuntarily:
• "What a beautiful girl:"
The young woman overheard the ills-
tice's compliment, turned and gave him
a radiant smile.
"What an excellent judge!" she said. .
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THE MAIN THING.
"My poor man," said the Sympathetic,
prison visitor. "Do let me send you emus
cake."
"Thank you, mum. Dat would suit me
fine."
"What kind woulid you prefer?".
"Any kind, mum," said the prisone,
lowering his voice to a whisper, "just so
It's got a filo in it."-13irminginam Age.
IIerald.
Exactly.
Tbe reason why more 'of us aren't
elotable may be seen by separatino
,that word between the third and
.fourth letters. -Boston Transcript.
• mormadoilkiellido —is.Lodenieemodomh