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Mankind's Big
Debt to Fire
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Otte of Menht earlieet rind mut im-
portant discoveriee NU fire. The
itory of the finding of fire, the gene
Mg of knowledge about it, and tbe
Preeervatien ot that blueing ti 'hown
by remarkable collection of oblects
and implementaseembled and ex -
relined by the National nntseture earl
now on diaplay M the Smithsonian ex.
hiblt et the Panama -Pacific expose
tion. in Sao Pranclaco.
To appreciate the true value of fire '
ID the world, it le necessarY to Imagine
an exieteace witbotit tire, and lights
and heat, its aecoMpanying feature,
as Weil aa the Indestries, ate and sci-
ences dependent thereon,
We Would at Onee droP• back to th
stone age in dully occepations an
social lite; houtiee would.. be unlighte
at eight, food uncooked, eoutmunic
than with the reet of the worl4. weal
be broken, and only by Mot or on tb
hack ,et domesticated ahltaals coul
we Merney. Not only tais, but w
woald be Milne to row our meetly
Mock of tools, appmettus, eumnies an
u in the Cup
gni
has no equal for quality and flavour.
Ryon have not tried Saa.dat send us a post card for a
free sample, stating the price VOtil now pay and it VOU
use Black* Green or iVilzed, Tea* Address wads' iroront42
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twommutii-uunumunimmuumuomuomuumn
everything made or taehloned with tit
asaistanee of beat. We would be ca
ried bat* to the early 'days ot tet
world by the toes of tire alone. '
No one really knows Just how print
Mat man came to tilsceiyer fire, an
UtIlize IL; but at some far diatan
Period, he certalnlyeound that fire ex
atted In natureaderivede from the vo
cano, lightning, or friction, though h
neeins to have Made no use of it fo
a, long time. ; Re may have come t
know that it teOuld be traettported o
transferred, having e0on red-hot vol
canto rock lesitaedry grass, 'leaves, 0
wood, or possibly tar having semi th
lightteng strIkeaand setfireto trees
tie may evear limit) obtabied a light
tie it were frerearinetaia, theeeesourees
and carefully' peesereed it for Tears
by keeping something conU. stan' burn
log. It became -Invaluable Willie, be
emus° it cooked:a/els Nod awl eept Inn
warm, as welt, as gave him light a
ettit.
night, , nt a e..• ..,-
„. . .
But it was at ast a long titaa be-
fore he realized at pe could-W.11%01f
ovate or =eke /ire, by ,rebbing twO
dry sticks together. Qiice discovered
thie procese. Wee- used for centuries',
before it watileenind that by knocking
flint and pyrifeeseoeether, sparks care
.:, able of ignitingaltutaleanight be struck.Somewhat laten 'M the"Iron Ate, flint
anl. itteel wernailltheletuteda a common
method employeti. ••iii tire maltleg until
late in the seveategath egaitury. A
little later there dade chemical Inven-
tions gave way t� Mathes.
, .:
a The use of fire aleo Marks tae be-
ginning of artifietal' illumination, de-
velopedlittccestslyereethrough the bon-
fire, torch, lannIk anel...cendles, to the
gas and. electric, eighte of to -day. To
fire as well, thae7betinnings of metal-
' lurga. .cerannee, Mier other 'arts which
have attainetak highalegree of perfec-
tion in Ude ceetory;*owe'eheir origin,
: Spemmens ealitlatecl by the United
, States National entesenni show tee im-
plements used in reeking fire by tee
friction of weed. Percussion of min-
erals, compression of air, focusing the
aun'a rays. and 'through • ceemistry,
end tertmnate .Wittt tae electric light-
er. The seems setseIC is preceded by
three tirawlegseeTaCtirtst Illustrating
volcanic actin, the 'hot lava setting
. fire to a forest: ;the second shows a
forest fire ignitee by the lightning:
the third illustrates. this :primitive
°amp -fire and the teethed -of coavey-
beg fire from "On 'Camp to another.
The first two arapresumptive. natural
emcee from aihich Men may • have
obtained fire before hesknew,a manner
' for kindling it himself. . • ... a .
ye - .
- - The progreseive -stem of mans, tie-
amaintance• withaelre are three: The
lotowiedge of firsn' the means of lititiz
big It, ,and thereatentietit el'ettereltig it.
The last step is !fully Illustrated' by
the series of different apparatus and
,
!' materials. efahe improvements have
se . lollowed the fine steps In man's prog-
ress, and each method hasbeensub- ,
sub -
.bat to various modifications.. by
dif-
ferent peoples,' What • was probably
tbe first methode.thet of rubbing two
*Mks together ,With the hands, was
improved by reeiProcatitte motion ef-
fects; the twirling of One stick held
vertically between the palms and rest -
lug on a second lying horlzoetally on
the ground; then :by the additioe of a
bow and socket, . followed by the
weighted stick, au In the pump drill,
and, finally, the- 'enitchine 'with cog-
wheels and craok es employed in
Sudan. The Wiens of the two Amen
"ma mem neonate,. Kaffirs, ire&
dabs, and Australians, were generally •
exponents of the sitapletwostick
method. The four -piece apparatus
was used by the Eskimo, Ifindus, and
Dy,aks, and the 'Weighted Orel was em-
ployed by the Iroquois and the Chuk-
ehitt. • ,., ,
The second •Metbod is that Of sew-
ing, and the apparatus comprised a
thin strip of bamboo which was drawn
edgewise acrosteer /section of the- envie
wood in which.a:Orrespoeding groove
had been mit germs the grain, the
sparkit created Inning through the
groove upon sem inflaiernable gob..
',dance lying beneath the large section.
This was also eceomplished by draw-
ing -a thong ot tattan across a stick
In which a .longitedinal slot had been
cut partway through, the sparks le -
eating item tieder placed in the slot.
Theo methods were used by the Ma-
lays and Burmese, as well as some
other rates.
Fire was also Made by ploughing,
that it, a thin piece of wood was forced
along a harrow 'slot cut lengthwise in
A larger plede until the friction ig-
nited the tinder. This system Was
,evolved by the Polyneelatts, the Attie
trellang. and the Paputtus.
Atoteer, . anti more advanced aye -
tem, of ettekiog` fire was by peretts-
Mon, Ora etnplOYed through the use
of flint and irorenYrites or stone con-
taining ireet, by the Peskin* and North.
eta Indiatte, and later superseded by
flint and steel, a customwhielt became
eirite general and rernained pepular
for many years. •
Other apparatus intiludes what wee
known In Germany In 1824 as a hydro-
gen lamp, the hydrogen, being derived
from the Rotten Of Old en tine, was
made to pito on littotigY platiuuM, thee,
ettusing It to glow; a Match -light box
of about lava. from Vienna, Onsistitig
of a bottle .ot rielphurie acid into
tvhich eplints tiPaed with chloride ef
poteett and sugar were dipped, and
matches Of sulphur and phosphorus,
le well as an elentrie gee lighter. 'Pk
latter exhibits bring the series up-tte
date, end toyer in a general Way the
development of fire -Making from the
'earliest days to modern tiM*0.-NOW
Vatic Verdes Pest.
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A liar isn't always Carillon. NolVer-
thelees there Is a , type of Man who
villa drop a hint avithoat breaking WE
word.
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I-• "I could love hint Immensely,'" she
O said, stretching out her arms. "Oh, he
✓ could have such a Uwe from me if he
• wanted it; Lut as it is, I don't see
• much. use In my staying watt him. I
•feel I'd like to go back to my old Me
• and forget I ever married him."
• "Oh, riu must not do that," said
Talbot, startled out of his usual ulna
, and Oxing his eyes on her; "pray
• don't think of such things."
• "Do you think he would eare'?" she
• sale, opening her eyes in her turn.
ilIan sure ae would," Talbot answer-
-
ed, with no much emphasis and dole,
t ion that the girl eat silent and im-
pressed foes some seconds.
"Why is he not more amiable, then?"
slue netted.
"It's menet Way," returned Talbot,
not knowing exactly whet to say, and
accidentally hitting the truth com-
pletely.
"They're fools," replied Katrine,
wearily, ‘.hile the .ot tears fell thickly
to her lap. • e k
Stephen ea,me in at the moment ad
though Itatrine made no attempt to
conceal the fact that she was crying,
Ile took no Otto of her, but began
talking to Talbat aboet the wood.
"We shall have to take the sleigh
to -morrow -td go it, the gulch and
get eome more wood somehow. If we
can, There's only a few bandies left,"
be said, blowing out the candle and
dragging some heavy logs over to the
fire.
°Can I come with you?" asked Kat -
rine, looking at hisn with her oft pa -
Mello eyes still brim -tuft with tears.
!'Why -yes -I szeposeeso," returned
Stephen, slowing opening the stove and
looking in.
at shall enjoy it so much," answered
Katrlue, her face beginning to sparkle
with its accustomersmiles. "We have
,
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not bad a sleMh-Mde together once,
z,bare-wel like to go with yen bat -
•ter than anything. Yen% like RI too,
won't you?" '
"1 elotat knoW. It's a confoundee
taasance .having to leave the claims
whole afternoon,* I think." -
• Katrina got us sudeenly from where
:she was sitting and walked into the
next room without a word. Iler tears
were dried. her smiles killed,
The 10110Wing day was clear and
bright, and e. cold, pinky -looking win-
ter sunlight filled the air. KatrIne
and Stephen started early, and Talbot
di4 not expect thent back till dark.
Be was out on the claims all morning,
and came ihto his eunchlate and did
not go out again framediateiy. It Was
a day fo a half -holiday, and all his
men left early; the claims were desert-
ed, and Talbot found himself In soli-
tary nossesslon of the gulch. Ile tett
restless and unsettled, and 'walk-
ed about his little bare room
In an aimless way quite unusual to
hint, and the early part of the after-
noon had passed away before he real-
ized it.
In one of hie walks he went up to
the window and stood looking out.
•rne•
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safe, retiaVe regulating
medicine, seta in three de-
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Sold by all drumlin'. or leal
Drgelup=pfii:t1P' at prico.
THE COOK INCOlcINE
7020370, ONT. (how* Mdlgesta
The gulch always impressed him. It
had a soleran, melancholy majesty
and desolate grandeur that is ,majesty
easy
to define in words -an icy splendor
by moonlight, and a horrible gloomy
beauty toward the fall of the day. It
was at this tide that Talbot stood
looking out at its tugged edges and
the snow-dritte turning gray as the
sunlight left them, and listening with
a sort ot mechanical tension to , feei
unbroken and Impressive stillness
round him, when his eye caught sight
of a man's figure moving slowly to-
ward the house. It had appeared so
suddenly where for hours there had
reigned unbroken silence and toilet!.
nets, that Talbot started a little with
sheer surprise, and then another op -
peered, and another. They -were
coming, one behind the other, singly,
round the corner of the how*, and as
they emerged into View on the level
platfonn in front of it, Talbot lOoked
them .ovcr tient saw at a glance to
what order they belonged.
"As tough 8 crowd claint.juenn
era as 1 have seen," he murmured te
himself as he watched their move.
mote. They did not seem very de.
cided or certain, nor well agreed
among themselves. They were six
in all, and they advanced toward the
house in a loitering way, peening once
or twice to talk with each other, and
glanting over the cabin. They were
fill &loud alike, in large slouch hats,
ick boots end high leggin', and
bert ilarits With a bolt, round the
Met
waist, from which dePenclea. their en.
ormous sireehooters. Aa they final-
ly in their loitering fashion neared
the door, Talbot walked to it, threw
it wide open, anti asked them what
they wanted. They hung back ftont
the door a little and looked at each
other, And then me sald he had a
lease on the claims from Generel Mar-
shall.
al' am the only person who has pow.
er or authority to stye a lease on
these claims," returned Talbot, la a
short, hard voice,
The men hesitated. Talbot looked
Pretty •tough himselt as he stood
there facing teem, clothed in buckekin
from head to foot, Ins head nearly
touching the lintel of the door -way
above him" his revolver In his side,
and behindhim looming the tunnel, a
gaping mouth of blackness.
The men shuffled their feet on. the
satOPMCOILIGES
snow and grinned at each other un-
easily. It did not seem they could
work the game of bluff here that they
had thought out in the town, •
"Well, that's your .opinion," return-
ed the leader, In is bantering , lone,
while the others closed in nearer the
threshold tn u Jeering circle; "but a
lease from General Marshall Is ,aood
enough for us, and I guess -we're earn-
• ing in."
"You'd better try it, returued Tale
bet, and he slammed the heaty door
in their -faces, and fastened it on the
id
ms e.
He expected them to force if, and
he hastily dragged together some
sacks of rich dirt that were lying in
the tunnel and plied them up, eormiug•
• Mate a respectable barricade, Behind
• these he twit his. stand, his revolver
in his haffl. With six against one
he felt tnee mast win itt the end, but
he thought he could put a bullet
through half of their number as they
advanced, and sell his delve and
ins life dearly.
Be waited eiorcie moments, but noth-
ing happeeed. There was silence out -
gide, an ettfter a second or two ee
stepped back to his sittingstoorn and
looked out of the winnow. A °Mimi' •
of war was taking place seembegly.
The men had withdrawn to a little
distance, where there was some. tin.
• Piping. They had seated therniselves
on this, ana were now in eaviest -con-
versation. Talbot stood at the win-
dow and watched them with a'. dry
smile.. He could tell their talk almost
from their expressions and. their ges
tures. It was one thing to come up
and/ bluff a man out of his property,
and walk in and -take It as he walked
out, and another to force a narrow
tunnel against the straight, steadyfire
of a fearless devil like thiere *They
could overpower him in the end, there
was no doubt of that; but then *heft
they walked in it, would be Ore' his
dead body, that was clear, and several
others beside him, for he was known
to be the quickest, straight** shift in
the district, tied could certhinle get
away with wee of them. It a Was
this part thee did not likee'for each
man felt he might be the tele to be
Picked off and stretched stiff in. -the
tunnel. So there was considerate
parleying and hesitation among them,
and Talbot deed motionlese at the
window watchitig them, as they sat
there, and noting the length. of their
six-shooters that dangled down, the
sides of their lege' At last
there was a concertee Move-
ment atnorig them -they got up with
one accord, and without another
glance at the cabin walked slowly
away Across the plateau in, front of
the hours and round the eorner of it
toward the town trail, the way they
had tem. Talbot watched them dis-
alVenr in the gray light of the gulch
With smells% and then drew it deep
breath. He hardly knew -whether he
felt relieved or dizapeointed. His
blood WO up then, and ate would Pave
liked to tend a bullet through a few
of them. Ile mauled about eestleselY
for sorde time, and went to the 'back
of the how to ti fittle square window,
and trent there watehed the last of
them Mount the trail and delappear .
from the uIeh, Theo all wee silence
and solitude again in the evelftly fall -
lug esrkame. He turned into his elt-
ting-room, and itirred ties Ore late a
Melo and lighted up the larepe-hie
lamps &wive burned well and bright -
13', being kept scientifically clean and
trimead Witn hie owzz hende-then tie
thing titimeelf into a chair and sat
there gazing luto the flames. hie re-
ve/ver beeide lam on the table. He
holt expected the men to return, and
hie OMNI remained ettchittve to the
sieeeteet, sound witbopt. But there
W ee notbing.'abeolute stillness reign,.
ed all roundintn; not a craelele of the
frosted *snow nor the fail of 3 lea• f
broke the grays -like eilenee*
When the other two came In, he
told hie afternooe's adventure Itt the
quietest, simplest war' Possible, and
the feweet words. The girl listened
with Cushing cheek& and eparlaing
eyes.
"What tun!" she mad at last when
be had :Welted, and alcielng off her
anow-laden tote as he sat be the
etove, "Ane you held oat six men
by the 'power Of your eye'? What
a convenient eye that la! I (Met
eee you've any need to carry a six-
ehoeter! I whet they'd -come back to-
night; We'd give them aamething of a
reception."
Talbot laughed, and it:felted pleased
at ,the praise from ber briglit young
Ups. Stephen only looked anxioue.
That night they sat up rather later
than usual. and Katrine wee quite in
a, plleaeecl taste of expectation, No
visitore made their appearance, how-
ever, 0,nd atelast Tatbot left to go to
his own cabin.
"Now, IL they come in the night,"
remarked laatrine, laughing, as she
sai4 god-uight, "don't slay them all,
with Tour eye, tined, but glye we a
chance."
'Talbot promieed to nee bis 0Y0
mercifully, and Katrine and Stephen
Put their ligete out anti went to (bed.
It evened to Katrine she had been
asleep some time, when she aWnIce
811(14(1111Y an put her band Im her hus-
band's arm.
"Steve, I hear etepst"
"Nome tee," murmured Stephen,
drowsily. "It'e your faney. Go to
But Katrimes ears were those of a
wiId animal, quick and not te be de-
eeived,
"Go to Weep youreelf, et you can,'"
She retorted; and sprung up in. the
de:Limes, found her day olotnee, and
hustled thew. on. There wee silence
now outside, but Katrine berried all
elm could and then with one revolver
in her belt and one in her hand went
into the other room. Suddenly, and
Without ` the slightest warning, there
ewe eacrash, a sound of tearing and
splitting wood, and the door was
cruebed inward, letting in a blot of
lee air. There WitiS pitch darknese
wItbtetland• withnut. Katrine answer-
ed immediately by two shots tired in
enceektion: there wae a heavy groan,
a muttered curse, and some abuffling
of feet outside. Katrine. standing flat
against the wall to aYaid offering a
mark tor wandering shots, chilekled
inwardly and waited. A second later
a ehot mine in return, but the bullet
went, high: Kittens* Ismail it whiz
reo tee wood somewhere 'between the
wall and the root.
She !stood motiohlese, Ustenittg,
Tut itt relent of her, en the other tilde
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ROBINSON OKUSOB'S GUN.
London museums are full ot tae
weapons of kings, generals and lemons
men, but Robinson Crusoe's gun, is still
an private bands. It has Just returnee
to lentdon to the custody of its own-
er, Mr. Berens, after a tour of the
of the museums (*the BrItish Lees,
14 18 true that Robinsou Crusoe is a
fiction clartracter, and that Defoe in-
vented hitn, but may schoolrooms in
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HI Frail et. NW Toren*** Canada.
the kluidom can tell you in one
breathless phrase that Crusoe is found-
ed on, fact and really was a living per.
son, The original Robinson Cresoe
was Alexander Selkirk, and this is the
gun with which he was put ashore ott
the desert island or Ivan.Fernandez,
400 miles from the Chili cease
Life st sea in the clays of William
of OreSege and Good Queen Anne was
no smoother than it Inflow. .Alexander
Selkirk behaved as bedly to his ship's
captain as he did to his. father, and
was put ashore on the desert island
as a reward for wickedness. He was
lauded with a bag of bullets, a pound
at powder, and a flint -lock masket.
hir. Randolph Berens has his mus-
ket to -day. Ile came•by it by pure col-
lector's luck. He vies visiting Oxford
and the Ashmolean IVIuseum In 1882.
The porter of tee ranseum showed him
around. Mr, Berens remarked that
• mere were tew antiques to be bought
Oxford then, and the porter agreed,
but mentioned that he had been offer-
ed an old 'Matlock gun which Was sttll
seeeeee in his lodge.
I • Mr. Berens examined the Piece, aud
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• voincereve 8. attention juetitte Lunt.
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oZ the room, was the strife, a.nd In
thii there still glowed an. unexttn-
guished portioft of log, making coae
small spot of blood red in the our-
round!sig darkness. Katrina fixed
her eye on this glowing spot. To en-
ter further into the cabin the men
meet pass between it and her, She
raised one of her revolvers hit* a
line with it. When that spot was
obliterated, she would known, how-
ever latently tbey Moved, the ettenlY
lattd advanced, and in that second she
Meant to tire; the stove was high,
and a nein miming in treeit, of it
would have that red epet in a line
with bis heart.
With her neart beating fast with
exultation, and tot, a traitor in her
steady fingers, elle waited motionlese
an a statue against the well. She Was
net a girl of a cruel stature, but her
husband lay bebind that allra parti.
tea on het right, and unarmed, for
Stephen would never carry a pie-
toi, and she would lutve shot unhesi-
tatingly each man in suecession that
tried to ease her to him. There seent-
ed to be some talking outside and a
trampling of feet on the broken weed
of the deer, and then euddenlY the
soft red fire spot was eclipeed in the
total darkness around, and on the Ina
tant Katrine's finger nad pulled the
trigger, There elate no' groan this
tinie after she shot, only a heavy thud
Eta a mesh as a heavy body struck
sonic firearma by the stove. The red
spot glowed out of the darkness again
and stared Katrina cheerfully in the
eyee, There was a eonfusion of volees
outside,' Itatritte could hear the thick
Meanie and OM man apparently tee.
Seining another to come out of there
and have done With the businese. Ka -
trine stalled as she heard. She guess.
ed that the man addreesed Was the One
that lay now bettieen her and the Stove
Mal his ears were forever dosed. it
the same nal:Anent She beard the inter
door open, and for an instant Stephen
appeared, pale, and in leis night clothes,
end with Ix flatatue candle itt hie hand.
With et spring like a leopard, Itiserine
had rebelled hint ansi put her hand over
the flame of the candle, crushing it out
beneath her palm. The darkuess, she,
kite*, was their only shield. By their
voices attd their footsteps ,she Wald
tell the men whined numbered not lent
than four or five. once let a light re*
veal to thent that the house was held
by a. setgle girl, they tould overpower
ter in a few seeonds. It was only that
terrible pitehy darkrieee out of Willett
thole deadly slung came ringing wita
*nett precielon and, promptness that
MINI, them with the ides that the eab.
in was proteeted by a body ofdesperate
and stralget•shooting Illivierb. 14 39.14
the teats of the bessiegers gent Mutely
tbat was protecting the beeleged.
(...To.04.0„......1* coati:med.)
hi !herd% 1..inititittt sari every*, nil
chip carved on the stock was the name
A. Selkirk, and in smaller letters,
Largo, N.B. On the othet side was
the date Anna R. 1101. According to
Our history books of to -day this date
in wrong, but according to the old
Calender it is correet..
On tee, wooaen heel of the butt Is
the legend: "
"'With thee dram e powther* three
ounce. itaiie,
Rame me well andenYtee me;
To kill I will not tail," •
Mr. Beretta bought the gun for 25e,,,
and did niv'lbeet to trace its history.
lie fount, at the piece came from
near Melt ma, and it is known that
AleXander Selkirk owned a tavern
there, but died at sea, aged 47, as Hee-
, tenant aboard his Majesty's ship,Wey-
xnouth itt 1723.
The weapon has been exhibited at
the city of Bristol and other exhibi-
tions, and is insured for no less than
£2,000.
Millard's Liniment For Dandrtifia
BRIGHT LAD.
(Boston. Transcrinte
A tire company in Indianapolis was
giving away toy balloots to childreb,
and one little fellow asked if he might
have two.
"Sorry," said the man in. charge,
"bet we only give one balloon to each
boy, Have you a brother at home?"
"Nor" replied the truthful young-
eter, "but my eister has, and I want
• It fin' him '
•
A
Trouble
Stratford,Ont.:-"I do think Dr. Pierce's
FaVotite Prencziption one of the beet medi-
eines I have over
known for the
ments of *emcee I
b. had for (elite along
time been having
-
woman's trouble
which caused me to
become all run.
deem, weak and
nervous. 1 dook
toted but nothing
seemed give mne
relief until began
taking 'Favorite
Prescription.* This
medicine gave inb
ouch 'Wonderful relief that 1 ant ghat to rec-
ommend it to others." ---MRS. A. GOD.
80 Brut St.
NERVOUS AND RUN-DOWN
Brampton, Ont.: -"A fere rens NO X
Vraa in a nervous and run-down oorelitiou
and felt greatly in need of le tatter. •A friend
who was Nene helped by 1)s. Ficree'S
Golden efedioal-Distovery Advised rat to
try it, too. It helped me :rem the very inert
Inglititiegsirrirt nirrettliselltqtltid"els;
Medical Discovery' voty highly end take
pleasure in recommending it to those
who ara at all nervous, woak rron.dowia."..
-MRS. ESTHER Pied.TSON.
Dr. Piereee thedieinee net made of yoga.
WA growths tionis nature an:rely intended
for backache, headache, pains, irregulaxitate,
aud tot, the maby dinordeie commas to
women in all toe of life. De. Piercers
Favorite Preeorlptlen is mode of lades
slipper root, Week oolimsh root, iusleorri
toot, blue colsont root, Oregon gape toot
and Viburnum. Women who take this
standard remedy knew Met in Dr. ?festal
lextvette Preecription they are gettieg *
was veotatnl toole no good Outt drnagisfe
everywhere fell it in liquid or tablets. It 11
without alcohol.
Chats.ivith
the Doctor
armee
Over And over agele 4 reeeive letters
from readers eating that they Wive
been out of sorta for Many months,
often tor many yeare, and that illUU133.
arable reneerlies have been tried to n
purpoee. The trouble remains, Hence
' that recurring little prescription I have
already mentidnerl* whose Masao yret
Must know by heert and are probably
little tveary. ot It is a 00(adeAlleil
form of mucla that I have eitpriesad
e4 greater length in the column iteela
"Ile advisee walking!" you may ay
a little impatiently In reply, "Preen
air, regular. exereise, wasbuing, Wen -
time to Dowels, and 40 OW" Mad YOU
may go on to Say that you have tried
these *Inge, too, and are Wale the
better for theta; er that advice of that
• kind isn't what you want. In the tna-
jorlty ot cases that Itiad ot ObJection
is frankly untrue. If I were to tell
You to do aOttlething more difticult or
anutatal, tit swallow nauseous
tures, abstain from toed, repeat some
Mechanical anti nonsensical charm,
have you heads slutved Or be tlaYed,
such, advice would etand a better
4
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UZZP worm
OtS141.11;11 1411.44 W.ANTIO-e
we bay. Novenae go owning* l'es4
experienced and es -experienced mei* and
tems:4 het . We require edrie ger weave
lslg w ag. Every assistance a 'V*
- logs torYoteady Several rood
?emeictireee
en
t°4 re. telgi:v"ell Pigt trio
esti% wa‘gelr, ran' enrol awe:*
In demand, Only a couple of weoloe time
tioh *bourn to tensity of worker/ IterMs
ehence ot being takea seriously. But , HOMISTO TUES PAPER.
beeause the advice ie so simple, so
lacking itt mystery, it defeats its own
ands, what most people who are out
of condition need is not a magical
remelt, but ordinary, eonlinonsensa
' coaditions of life,
CULTIVATE HEALTH.
My Protessien does not let me tor.
get for very long together that there
Is a•great deal of real siekness in the
world; anti my experience AS a eloce
tor has taught me that a good deal of
is due to a situple cause, namely,
wrong habits "of life, People simply
will not give themselves a chance
to be well and to keep well. Instead
of cultivating habits at beanie they
cultivate the reverse, Persons who,
ia most other respects, are sensible,
prudent ruld logleat, abate= all ellen
desirable ebare,cteristics where their
bodies are col:teemed., A. man whose
hobby is the study of natural history
knows that if, for exempla, he keeps
Vela they need water and a sultable
enviroutraerzt. The man who breeds
any kind of prize, animal IDIOWS that
his stock wilt deteriorate unless he
Pays .pairtieular, attentioa to the con-
ditions in which it is reared. Yet, of-
ten enough, thwestne Man falls to ap-
ply the same principle to himself. He
thinks that some drug or 'other will
lett right anything that is Wrong, Such
a man Who expects to Purchase health
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at the chemist's Stands a . reasonable
a chance et havingeltis hopes' realised
as does a and who' Cries for the moon
Row, Call a perison -who seldom ex-
ercised aid cannot function pr.?perly
without.it; who has lungs made for
breathing fresh air; whose blood needs
oxygen if it is to remain blood and
not become stagnarit sewage, Whose
• wiaole being, in short, neede simple but
definite conditions; ho* ,can Shah a
persog expect to substneact a pill or a
Potion for the very necessities of life?
It is like trying to drive a locomotive
veldt a match, or to keep a fisIt by
damping its gills with a' sponge. The
thing is unreasonable, '
Dees It not also deed for reason
that bad habits. of life* cannot be
changed en a dayel No doubt.many of
you do put into practice far a 'white
the simple rules of life I have s6 often
advocated,. Yoe de Want a, mile or so
every ,day fOr ti week or, May be, a
tnorttn. But chin too often this com-
monsense treatment is regarded as a
"'ore rather than a habit. These
things must bicortie habite. The body
needs eetteating. and discouraged by
halfhearted measures or allowed to tee
Vert because of the lack of tleteentin-
ation and the faith to petsevere. -
There are cases, I know, where age,
ittfirmity or serious disease not only
Prevent the adoption of a hygienic
regimen but would be proof against it.
It is hot- of sueh easels that, I ant Of Interest to Childless
thinking. 'Portonately, tretelft 1 the
4
trouble I eat refeiring to is re able, Women.
but it will yield' only to the, ight
treatment. Tbeebody Will notetuace
teen -wholesomely; -unless it Is Ono a
wholesome than*, thereforebathe
deeply ati Meek ffeelt ales as eso1ib1e,
eat sensible toed end medicate it; ell;
take regular exereise and restj and,
above all. do Itot ilegleet the hedsea
master, the tale&
Intereiting Discovery *aide by
' Preach
• 1
T• hat a hOrnet iS botit,a, malter!Of
paper and an able Intildee was Inimen
Veen before tweet science wase-sys.
• tematited. But the processes' by
which the paper le made and the
elaborately plenned . nest Is built'
,vrere ahrouded in mystery until they
were studied by Charles Janet, a
French num, whose investigation a
insect life has attracted mee.ls etten-
Urns.
Pea Janet found that a hornet's
eaper-making methoes will bear.c0)31.
ParlSOn with those of ordinary paper
epllis. The hornet seeks some rot-
ting tree, removes a piece of, weed
:witted aitilaj.4740.111saiting
Rya*. 101;01,11;4/fob,
•
%moor Burn, U Sore,
iuU arftranaulted'ated,' bilusearaMeduribepr
Offeh. goat Refreshes. Safe for Infant
or, Adult. Area' Druggistearid Opticians.
, Wdei fot Poe Eye Doek. Nodal PlatliCs., Oltos
,la,dd chews it till he produces a ball
ut
,pulO about a quarter of an inch.
In 'diameter. Laden with this he flies
to the: neet. The search tor', a. suit-
able piece of detayed wood end the
chewing of it nave contem6d not
more than six minutes, and*Perhaps
only tWo. Clinging to the •eomb With
his aniddle and' bine feet, the workef
juttglerethe ball of pule with his fore.
feet, elaewing it continuously to make
It mare plastic and adhesive. Aftei
riuffidrent chewing ee disposes of the
bali Inerepairing or in building addl.
tionse Seleoting a suitable part of the
Vesta he attaches the ball and then
drags it, leaving beheld 'a narrow
tri• fealpbapelr.of pulp.ls unreeled it la'
shhed by the Insect's laws, and bt.
iticessant tamping along the Joint it
Is -glued to the sheet to which 1t1
;to form a part. When the ribbon baa
reached a length that varies from,.
;leaf an, Inch' to an 'rich and a hat/
tact horaet returns nearly, but not
Alilter:to the point of beginning and
depohits 'a second, strip. soon after
„that e third and so on to eompletion.
After 8 certain stage in this singu-
lar work. of Construction firs been
'leached. Ales queen ot the eive
emerges Orem her royal Oechision ,and
performs a most astonishian peer-
itUon, Carrying et WI ot pulp, of her,
'ovra Otte spins .aroutf& one beg as a
• means and deposits a circeier rIbbote
of pateneeaLess agile thaui the work-
• er% -who eoteplete their tabors in tee)
or:three MinitteS, the queell require&
at least five minetes tor her spin.
• Instead of building annexes to the
live, the hornet natty use half the
ball of pulp in cell building, although
Whole balls of very fine , pulp are
• gathered for this special purpose. Itt
prinetple, cell building is exactly like
the piteess described, but the paper
used Is ,finer and the work 1E; curled
on witis greater care. Like ae good
artisan, the Worker retouchede the
moist cell after completien, smooths
ing down inequalities and finishing
the walls 'with exquisite attention sto
Mintirdni Liniment Relieves Neuralgia.
doted!.
SIGNS OP EXPERIENCE.
(Cleveland News.) •
BObbie---My father must have been
up to all 'ler* of mischief when ha.
was a boy.
Johnny-WhyS
,Bobbie -'Coo he knows erectly what
tinesticnis to ask me when -he wants to
know what I've been doing.
ONE WOMAN'S
EXPERIENCE
)•,....41*••••
LIKED HER moTilmft.
nix -year -Old Matgitret often played
with Nellie, a neighbor's little girl.
One rainy dab, the two Were jest
starting actees tile clean kitchen floor
at MargareVe IMMO when the late
Mee mother, seeing their Muddy
shoes, headed theta oft and sent
them out'io pay On the porch. After
a moment Nellie reMerked:
"My mother' don't eat* hoW much
run over the kitchen floor."
There was quite a long interral of
silence. Thee Margaret aid:
"I wish I had et Wee, dirty mother
like you've got, Nettie."
11/1111Arteil Lhtbrn.M ror Write, Ito.
Strie. Dibbs-1".l,•ry the I raise My
hand my hesbend elves me an awful
beating. Mrs. Dabble -Heavens! Why
don't you cell the police Mrs. Dibbe
What do they know about bridget.m•
Itiratah.
Termite, Ontarice-"la :Suffered for
long tithe from a female weakness, in-
flammation, and a terrible backache ,
- Caused by that conditon. One day one'
bf your booklets was 101t my door, and
read how other women with troubles
like mine had been rnade well, so I got a
bottle of Lydia E. lainkham'sVegetable
Compound and a package of .Sanative
Wash, and it helped me wonderfully,
and I now have the fineet little baby boy
that any mother could want. X Want to
recommend Lydia E. Pinktram'e Veto. -
table Compound to any woman who has
female troubles." - Mrs. JOS11111 LA
BELLA,,778 Shale Street, Toronto, On-
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The expert° of Motherhood is a
trying one to most women end marks
distinctly an epoeh in their live*. Not
one woman in a hundred is prepared or
understands how * properly care for
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should rely upott Lydia E. Pinichein's
Vegetable Compound, a most Veltiable 1
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Upon regimen. 'Writeus, The 01ingelse
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Whoewishto enter the nursing profthlut'
A.hish school edueatioh Is ee.
quirea. Th15 coutee adulltS young women, •
to one of the matty positiette dentand*-
ing the traihed nurse et to -day. For
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tikyliplst OUDErtING GOODS av mut.
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• *;RAISING outwit&
Some Conditions Needed to NB*
It Pay Here.
• Is
6•66••••••66..i1.....•
•••a
On tele continent, the rearing of'
rabbits is mostly in the hands
fanciers and people who keep theln
metely as pet;. In Europe, howetere
rr' aits form an important item et the
food sepply, In Norte America, •ovve
Ing to prejudice, dressed rabbit only
brings about half the price of chicken.,
Rabbit fur is also low in price. Ale
teeugh certain breeds of rabbits, e.g.a
the so-called Siberian hare, produce a,
fur 'which is quite handsome, only very
low prices are obtainable as compaxed
with the price.peid tor the ter of tha.
muskrat, etc, ". .
Ia New Zealend and Australia, wild '
rabbits, which:A were formerly a pest,
ate now 8 source of profit. At presoak
prices a huhtet Und trapper, with a,
good dog, can make troth ;20 to $40 a
day -.In 1010, New Zealand alone ex-
ported 14,153,982 rabbit stens, Vailled
at $3„734,289, as etingpaYed With 7,854,ft
162 ekinee valued at $1,468,80 in Inc
Most ef, the skins were shipped to the
United States. In addition. 1412,869
frozeit rabbits were exported to Ettele
peon •countries . for toed, valued at
$235,370. Seine landowners find, that
„rabbits are mdre profitable than sheet).
Winter skins Wee rend as high as ;2.16
a pound. Canadians who raise rabliite
in eaptivity, thus have to face cOMpe.
Won' from Australia, and NOW Zea-
land.
Rabbit -rearing in this country ina.y
detelep: (1) By seeplYing ehoice fresh
teeat'and skins of extra fine quality;
(2Y by nterele raising eneugh for doe
mesa° Ube and disposing of the skin*
for what they will bring. They can
be raked in the backyards with lees
trOnble Ma expense tnan ere required
by eltickens.
Rabbits taut bawl only clean food..
They thrive best on tiover, alfalfa, date,
dollen, oat. and wheat straw, carrot"
and hay. They may Also be sleets
euelt weeds ea celtsfoot, totich erase,
abepherd's purse, vetehee and Plantain.
Fresit water should be avail/010 itt at
times. lit Winter they may be 1041
mashessef oatMeal, barlee Meal, ettes
with MIlk, fed warm, and potato Debit
infra, boiled Ott. Young rabbits, ever
der tete Weeks old, sbould be kept troili
green food, grain or roots.
Hutches are !simply well-titting
bozo, closed tetp awed bottom, botb
en's and back, and betting two deOre
n front. One of these Will be a wira.
covered 400!, the other of wood, the
atter opening' into the sleeping am.
4 1.14 invigorator of the Wm%
organistrie
In many homes WO "obildleilt1 theft
are now children beeetwee of e fact t
that Lydick E. Pinkhattil Vegetable
Compound makee women nor mat,•t
healthy and earwig, mad this good old s
thebioded root and herb remedy no* r
204 ne nereotioi berneal
ber, Whieh aheuld be partitioned oft.
from the other portion. A emooth
round hole in the partition will %now
be rabbits ingress and egress, The
diinenelons of the hutch will wary with
he MIS and number of rabbits, but
hould have Aot lees then 12 moult
est of fleet space and a heleht of
drugs.
A r