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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-02-01, Page 3In matters of doubt buy TEA. Doubt then changes to certainty, cer- tainty of quality. Only one best tea. Blue Rihbon Tea. Q'OiNi..#.NiNi i1.� .�N�N,1�N�N7fHr0✓,t.*..�Ny 1�N�.4M� .�1{,1+.R,i.��H` �N� ,�. ��.��wroO�.PJ'INi P.,.�N`o.�N�.1: 4N��.M Wil • ii.o Af A • 4'3 ., .44 .i. .t. I s. 'X.01.4.4")0441.44 4.4.44444 44 444.00 0 *104., 4.42440 4.44414 ***OS 4.140 ail "There are some pretty wild regions and then cautiously picked up my over in Louisiana," said Champ Lachette, gun. The boar eyed me fiercely, but of the Bayou Funny Louis country, "but did not move toward me. I sent a bul- none quite so wild as portions of Cata- let behind his ear as he stood there ltoula parish. Bears are plentiful, and champing. ugly in the dense thickets, into which "IIe raised his big head, turned as if it is difficult for a man to work his way. to rush upon me again, and fell dead in "Wildcats are common, and sometimes , his tracks. Covered with his bleed and aggressive. I heard the cry of a panther my own, and my clothing in tatters, I in the jungles about Lake Catahoula with- took the shortest way homeward, leav- in the past three weeks. But of all these ing the carcass to the buzzards. fierce creatures none is so fierce as the " I spoke of my dog not being a hog great hogs that run wild through the dog. If he had been one ho wouldn t have lumped at that boar. The hog dogs forests and hide and wallow in the al- most impenetrable areas of canebrake of,.Catahoula are unique. 1 They are of no particular breed, but and isolated bayou. they serve a valuable purpose to the "These hogs are the descendants of Catatilioula. wild dog killer. When the domestic swine that came into that re- native hog hunter goes out after pork gion with settlers when Louisiana was he constructs a roomy log corral in a yet under Spanish rule, and long intim- locality where signs of his game are un- acy with the wilds and the influence of xnistakable. their environment have transformed "The walls of the corral are of suffi- them into a pugnacious and untamable :' eient height to prevent a dog from seal - race of beasts. They run in droves, and ing them, but not beyond the capacity F with the exception of an occasional raid of the dog to surmount. In one end of on some wayback settler's cornfield or the enclosure is a gate or door, which is yam path they keep well in the depths left open when the hunt begins. of their haunts, where they find abund- The dog is sent into the woods to ant food. rout out the drove of wild hogs: 'He "High shouldered, big headed, long of knows well what he is to do, and never limb, a fierce rise of bristles, and a forgets his training. A Catahoula wild vicious eye when enraged, and equipped hog hates a dog above everything else. with long, sharp tusks of ivory white- When the hog dog scents his game ness, the Catahoula wild hog is by no he instantly begins to bark furiously. means a pleasant looking apparition to That brings the hogs at once toward rise before an unsuspecting hunter from him. When they see him and charge a bayou wallow at the tangled roots of upon him he turns tail and runs, head a cypress or emerge suddenlyfrau the ing straight for the open gate of the cor- a g rat no matter how far it may be Trom edge of a dark canebrake. That's the ' way it seemed to me, at least once in my life, at any rate. "I was hear hunting in the thicket along the west border of Lake Catahoula, get out of sight of his pursuers. He and the dogs had brought a big fellow never permits himself to do so, though, to bay twice, with the result that of • keeping the distance between him and Catah s u1 -r" the starting place. "In running away lie tucks his tail between his legs, and assumes the air of a badly frightened dog doing his best to the six dogs I had started out with I had but one left, and the boar was still at large. I kept on his trail, however, not yet having had a shot at him, and was in the depths of the thicket, when a wild boar, with a snort that brought me up all standing, rose from some hidden resting place of his, not ten feet away, and confronted me with bristles erect and his long tusks glistening on each the hog not more than twenty-five paces. "Should the hogs halt in the chase, satisfied that they have scared their hated enemy away, the dog returns and renews his barking, this time as if he were taunting the drove with its failure to overhaul him. This starts the hogs after the dog again fiercer than ever, and he uses the same tactics as be- fore. Bide of his snout. "In this way he lures the hog's on "My lone dog was not a hog dog, and until they follow him through the open with recollections, perhaps, of lugging gate into the corral. The dog keeps the ear of some lazy, tame, old sow at home, he sprang upon' the boar 'before 1 could give him a restraining word. The mad hog received him with one vicious lunge of his big head. "The next instant the dog was crash- ing through the brush, ripped open from his flank to his throat by the boar's tusk. lie gave a yelp, a gasp and a kick, and joined his five companions that had fallen before the boar. "The boar had not raised his heath from his thrust at the dog when I fired e,t him. He fell, but was up again in a second, and charged me on three legs, my bullet having had no other effect than to break one of his forelegs. "He carne with such speed that I could not fire again before he was upon me. I evaded the full force of his charge by a quick jump to one side..- One of the en- raged brute's long tusks was thrust through my trousers leg between the ankle and the knee, and with a quick upward jerk of his head the boar tore the cloth open nearly to my waist. I could feel the cold rush of the tusk all the way up my leg, but the thrust had, fortunately, not been deep enough to enter the flesh. "The scene of this. encounter with the boar was in a small opening in the thicket which had evidently been made by some one who had put up a brush shack there. In every direction outside of that spot the vines and bushes were dense and flight was impossible. "The boar had gone a pace or two be- yond me in. his rush, but turned and was coming at me again before I had recovered from the jar of his other as- sault. I fired, however, but the bullet Dilly scraped his hide, close as he was to me. `I had in my belt a long bladed, sharp knife which I used more in the way of cutting vines and tangled moss and the like to make a passage through the denser parts of the covers that charac- terize that region than as a weapon. Dropping my gun, which was of no ser- vice to me in those close quarters, I drew the knife, and, dancing about to escape the rushes of the hog,°I sank the knife blade into hire at every opportun- ity. "This was wearying work, for al- though the boar was soon covered with the blood that followed my knife thrusts and the froth that fell from his jaws was dyed with blood, he showed no signs of weakening, while I was rapidly ap- proaching exhaustion from the constant exertion the persistent fighting of the boar made necessary. I certainly could not have held out much longer if the Wild hog had kept up his assaults, but suddenly I noticed that he faltered, end it last he retired to one side of the opening, where with lowered head and Taring eyes ho champed his red frothed laws. "I paused a little while for breath, right on and jumps the fence at the farthest end of the pen and disappears, but soon reappears at the front of the corral, where his master, who has been in hiding near by, runs up and closes the gate as the last hog rushes through. "The swine are at the mercy of the hunter, who kills off at his leisure such hogs as suit him, and the unfit ones are turned loose to the woods again. A Cata- houla hog killing is usually followed by feasting and festivity in the neighbor- hood. Wild hog hunting is seasonable from the beginning of cold weather un- til the return of warm." A STREAKED INVENTION. How the Safety Razor is Hurting the Barber's Trade. Barbers are complaining that a cer- tain patented safety razor, recently put on the market and now very pop- ular, has damaged their business to an appreciable extent. One barber, not a particularly melancholy wight, who conducts a shop in a leading ho- tel, declares that the safety razor has taken away 20 per cent. of his trade. Some of his steadiest cus- tomers have caught the craze for shav- ing themselves, and he fears that the ancient and honorable profession .,of barbering is in its desuetude. The wonder is, all things considered, that there was a barber's trade, ex- cept for trimming hair and beards. It is so easy to shave oneself, and so economical of time and money, that only the indolent, the luxurious, the extravangant and the timid, it might be supposed, would wait their turn to sit in "the barber's chair, that is all," as Shakespeare's clown describes it. But as the majority of mankind have never followed the self-help pre- cepts of the worthy Samuel Smiles and his kind, and as the tradesmen that flourish most are those that deal in the necessaries of life, it is likely that the barber will thrive in spite of safety razors until the final day of wrath. Even the soical William Cob- bett's fiery invective agaiust men that • suffered a barber to sha-, a them did wrath. Even the stoical William Cob- bett, in deed, deemed it effeminate for a man in shaving himself to use warm water or a looking glass. Ho would have worked himself into a glorious rage had he lived to the present day, rigTamst the cowards that daire /not shave except with a safety razor. Scarcely any occupation is more an- cient than the barber's. The prophet Ezekiel mentions the barber's razor, and so does Homer. Tho Egyptians of antiquity shaved the head as well as the face, as the Chinese do, and they, therefore, employed barbers. During the middle ages the barber's trade ranked as a profession, and the barber was also a surgeon. A statute of henry VIII. enactedthat barbers should confine tbier surgical operations to blood-letting and pulling teeth. Some modern wielders of the razor are still addicted to blood-letting. In the reign of George II. the surgeons and the bar - bens were separately incorporated. From immemorial time the barber ]las been a gossip and his shop a lonnging place. It was so in Athens and Route and r'+ in medieval Lin- den. Of old it was the faellion for barbers to keep a lyre and other uuin ]- cal instruments in the shop with which patrons amused themselves while waiting for their turn. One can imagine the torture of being played at by a bad musician while squirming un- der a dull razor. • Women barber* are still a rarity, but Williaur. Heise, to whom the world is indebted for a precious collection of curious miscellaneous information,. tells that there were a le nurser of WOW barbers in London in the eighteenth century, and one of them wue a ne- greao. Bone also records the death at London in 1817 of John falconer, a well-known barber, who had reduced the price of shaving to ono penny. Ibis competitors in the trade reviled him for cheapening his service, but he kept coven chair's in his shop and died worth $15,000, a sum that was more in 1817 than it is in 1005, ]bow many barbers that get 15 cents or 25 cents for shaving a face expect to leave $15,- 000 to their heirs? FIRST TOLD ABOUT A GOD. Mexican Villagers of Pure Indian Stock Hear a Missionary. A village in Mexico of 1,000 souls, not one of whom had heard of a God—such is the story told by Rev. S. G. Inman, a minister of the Christian church at Mon- terey, Nestling in a deep Valley twenty- five miles from Saltillo and shut off from the rest of the world by high and impassable cliffs, the pure Indians have lived for generations still worshipping their stone and wooden images And ut- terly, unlearned in everythnig pertaining to a Supremo Being, according to Mr. Imran, who has written to friends in the city of Mexico concerning his strange find. Santo Domingo is what the town is called, though why and wherefore none of the elders of that village could tell. It has been called that for gen- erations and more, and they did not know the significance of the words. It was by accident that Mr. Inman stumbled on the quaint and curious vil- lage, hemmed in byprecipitous crags. He was riding overland toward Saltillo when he came to a deep cut in the moun- tanis which he followed, and which led to the town of Santo Domingo. White men had been there before, and the sight of the missionary was no novelty to the pure Indian descendants that thronged around his horse and offered their hos- pitality—poor, but the chest they had. After partaking of it and ascertaining through the guide who accompanied him that the Indians knew nothing of a God or a creator of all things., the minister deemed it best to hold some eort of meeting and give spiritual instruction. This could not be accomplished at the first trip, and Mr. Inman returned to Monterey, where arrangements are now being made to hold regular meetings there and instill some Christianity into the descendants of the aborigines. A native speaker will lecture in their own tongue, which is pure Indian without ad- mixture of Spanish words, and it is thought that they will soon be familiar with the religiou of Christianity as ex- pounded by the ministers of the Chris - tion church.—Mexican Herald. SiCK KIDNEYS, Mean Aching Backe and Sharp Stab- bing Pains That Make Life Almost Unendurable. An aching, breaking back, sharp stabs of pain—that is kidney trouble. The kidneys are really a spongy filter—a human filter to take poison from the blood. But sick, weak kidneys cannot filter the blood properly. The delicate human filters get clogged with impur- ities, and the poison is left in the sys- tem to cause backaches, headaches, rheu- matism, dropsy and fatal inflammation. Dr, Williams' Pink rills are bhe one sure cure for sick kidneys. They make new, rich blood, which flushes+ them clean and gives them strength for their work. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills set the kidneys richt, and make lame, aching backs strong and well. Mr. George Johnson, of the village of Ohio, N. S., says: "My son, now eighteen years old, suffered from kidney trouble and severe pains in the back, 'which caus- ed frim many a .sleepless night. We tried several medicines, but they did not help ,him, and he grew so weak that he could not do the work that falls to the lot of a young boy on a farm. We were advised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and; this was the first medicine that reached the cause of the trouble. He took the pills for a couple of months, when every symptom of the trouble was gone, and he was as healthy as any boy of his age. I am satisfied Dr. Williams' Pink Pills will cure kidney trouble in its most severe Sorin." Dr. Williams' Penk Pills actually make new, rich blood. In that way they strike at the root of anaemia., indigestion, kidney trouble, liver com- plaint, erysipelas, skin diseases, neural- gia, St. Vitus' dance, and the special ail- ments of growing girls and women whose health depends upon the aichness and regularity of their .blood. The .genuine pills have the full name, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People," on the wrapper around each box, and may be had from all dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box; or six boxes for $2.50, by 'writing The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. =-t FORM ARMY OF EDUCATION. Men Numbering 120,000 and 330,000 Wo- men Employed as Teachers. The army of education in the United States is made up of 450,000 teachers, of whom 120,000 are men, and 330,000 wo- men. The overwhelming majority of the teachers are natives of the United States, less than 30,000 having been born abroad —one in fifteen. Most of the men teachers are between the years of 25 and 35. The majority of the women teachers are between 15 ar.t 25. ( tit+: above picture of the man and fish is the trade- mark of Scott's Emulsion, and is the synonym for strength and purity. It is sold in almost all the civilized coun- tries of the globe. If the cod fish became extinct it would be a world-wide calam- ity, because the oil that comes From its liver surpasses all other fats in nourishing and life-giving properties. Thirty years ago the proprietors of Scott's Emul- sion found a way of preparing cod liver oil so that everyone can take it and get the full value of the oil without the objectionable taste. Scott's Emulsion is the best thing in the world for weak, backward children, thin, delicate people, and all conditions of wasting and lost strength. Bend for fres sainpls. scowl, & BOWPIE, CHEMISTS ToBONT°, ONT. i0o. and 61.00. 411 druggists. For the llousewife Excellent Recipes and House- hold Suggestions i. ti`lushing the pipes and drains once a week with copper as solution will re- move all odors and sediment. To make the leaves of the rubber plant glossy and bright sponge them with milk. For removing threads and hairs from all sorts or brushes there comes a small steel rake with long tines. Black ants dislike the odor of sassa- fras and red ants will disappear if sul- phur is sprinkled in the places they fre- quent. Bon -bon and fruit dishes in Watteau decoration and varied shapes represent some recent artistic productions in table ware. It is claimed that if silverware and especially knives, forks and spoons, aro packed in dry flour they will remain dry and untarnished. A mental stepladder, much more dur- able and stronger than the regulation wooden ladder, is a recent addition to the collection of household conveniences. A labor saving device though not es- pecially new, is the dustpan with long perpendicular handbe. Its use eaves many a crick in the muscles of the back. Wet tea leaves, trot or cold, are rec- ommended as a cheap and convenient remedy for burns. They should bo cov- ered with a strip of cotton or linen and kept on for one or two hours. Mahogany, ou s- Mahogiuty, has the preference among woods for drawing, reception, music and bed -room furniture. It divides honors with handsome quartered oak for librar- ies, and it is liked for dining -rooms when it can be obtained. Cheese may be kept from getting mouldy by 'wrapping it in a cloth that has been dipped n vinegar and wrung nearly dry. The cloth should have an outer covering of paper and the cheese kept in a cool place. Grease spots on matting may be re- moved if the grease is covered with French chalk and then sprinkled with benzine. After the benzine has evap- orated, brush off the chalk and the spot will have disappeared. A good chocolate filling is made as follows: Boil together half a cup of chocolate, half a cup of milk and a scant cup of sugar until very thick, and spread quickly between soft layers of cake. Danbury eggs are prepared as follows: To every well beaten egg add three tablespoonfuls of milk and a teaspoonful of sifted flour. Mix carefully and saute them in it hot pan, stirring them occa- sionally as you would scrambled' eggs. To take out iron rust dip the spot into a strong solution of tartaric acid and expose to the son. When dry wet the article with warm soapsuds; rub the stain with ripe tomato juice, expose to There are 2,300 men teachers over 05. the sun again, and when the stain is "I forgot to give the rat her dinner." listened w,t11 Uppercut Adel over the fire two parte of tallow and one j part of resin; warns the boots and apply the hot mixture, with a painter's brush till they will not absorb any more. If well polished before applying the waters - proofing they will take the polish after- ward. Far the famous Banbury tarts of old Engram], have on .]rand a good piece of puff paste. Cut it in email pieces six inches square and in the centre of each put a spoonful of raspberry, curent, strawberry or gooseberry jam. Place the corners together, fold in half and press the edges, sealing them tightly. Fry them in a kettle of deep fat. Sweet potato croquettes are delicious when made as follows: Mast. some boil- ed sweet potatoes, season them highly with salt and pepper and add to every pint of the vegetable one egg yolk and a very small piece of butter, Form into croquettes, roll each in egg and bread - crumbs and fry in deep fat, Some - tithes a little sherry is put in the mix- ture, but it adds little to the flavor. One of the women who know recom- mends glycerine for removing those tea stains that are such. enemies to fine table linen. But it must be rubbed in before boiling has set its seal on the stain, or it may not be efficacious. Af- ter the glycerine has been applide wash it all out in tepid water, and the dis- coloration will come out with it, so this authority says, An authority on fine laundering says that ]tot water should not be used in washing fine table linen or embroidered doilies. Cold water, white soap, and borax, if not borax soap, should bo used instead. Ono wonders if all stains could be removed with cold water, but the suggestion is worth passing on, Cer- tainly, every housekeeper has at times had difficulty in laundering table linen satisfactorily. All Sorts. Jealousy causes cancer. A kangaroo can leap seventy feet. The brightest opals come from Mexico. Bachelors commit more crimes than married men. No one can recognize his own voice in a phonograph. Mohammed's tomb is covered with jewels worth $12,500,000. At Fulbourn, England, the poor are paid sixpence apiece for regular church attendance. The manuscript of Swinburne's "First Book of Ballads" has been sold for $1,- 000. Prisoners in Morocco must pay the policeman for his work in taking them to jail. The government runs the pawnshops of Italy and no interest is required on loans. I i BABY'S TONGUE TELLS. Little tongues that cannot talk tell mothers just as plainly that their own- ers are not well. When baby's tongue is white, or coated, or yellow, especialry toward the root, it is a sign of stomach trouble, indigestion, cold or feverishncius. Baby's Own Tablet act like magic in cur- ing these and the other minor ills of babyhood and childhood. They are as THE success of pastry depends upon the flour, Bread and pastry must be more than mire- ly appetising; they must be wholesome, digestible, nourishing. The flour depends upon the wheat and the way it is milled. Royal Household Flour' is made from spring • wheat only. It is milled by the newest and best machinery, It is purified by electricity. Use It and you get bread not only light, crisp and appetising, but also wholesome,digestible and nourishing. You will better your baking by buying Ogil- • vie's Royal Household Flour from your grocer. • Ogilvie Flour Mflls Co.. Ltd. Montreal. "Ogilvie's ,Book for a Cook," contains 130 pages of excellent recipes some never published be- IOI fore. "Your grocer eau tell you how to get it 1�'REE. A REMINISCENCE. The Death Bed Scene of David Kennedy, the Great Scottish Singer, in Strat- ford, Recalled. (Windsor Record.) A reference to the late David Ken- nedy in the last number of the Scot- tish American recalls the somewhat sad and sudden death at Stratford, Ontario, in the summer of 1887, of that peerless interpreter of Scotland's classic balladry. Art that time the present editor of The Record was associated with the late Mr. Alex. Matheson in the publication of the Stratford Beacon, and to him fell the "melancholy pleasure" of writing the obituary of the incomparable maestro who had sung his way round the world several times, and whose mantle yet awaits an eligible claimant. Kennedy was making his farewell tour through Canada, and with his daugh- ters arrived in Stratford for a two nights' concerts, staving filled an en- gageemnt in Sarnia on the previous even- ing. He was ill and consulted a physician, Dr. Fraser, who ordered him to bed and later in the day forbade any attempt to good for the new born baby as for the 'fill that night's engagement this wee well -grown child. Absolutely safe and ab- a distressing trial to Mr. Kennedy, who solutely harmless. Mrs. 0. F. Kear, Elgin, Ont., says: "Baby's Own Tablets are the bast medicine I have ever used for sto- mach and bowel troubles and destroying worms. I could hardly feel safe with- out the Tablets in the house." Sold by all medicine dealers, or by mail, at 25 cents a box, by writing the Dr. Wil- liams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. tet Physiological Elimination. (Detroit Free Press.) Now it is the tonsil which has fallen under the ban of medical science and the surgeon's knife is already whetted for the fray which promises to separate mankind from another section of anat- omy with which a well-meaning but ap- parently misguided Creator endowed him. It is not so many years since mortal man was content to wander about ignorant of the fact that some- where within the innermost regions there reposed a veriform appendix cap- able of tying its possessor m a hard knot on the slightest provocation. Now all is changed and the possession of such an adjunct is considered bad form. Nor is the movement, to stop here if we are to accept this latest theory and. give it practical application. And if appendices and tonsils, why not other portions of the system? Surely the lim- it has not yet been reached. .s .s Paste Jewels. had never before in his whole shining career of a quarter of a century failed an audience, and his anxiety undoubted- ly aggravated an illness which in its nature was peculiarly responsive to men- tal moods. His daughters, Helen, Marjorie and Margaret, met the audience in the city hall that evening and sang their choicest repertoire in the endeavor to allay the keen public disappointment, but, to use a hackneyed simile, it was like the play of Hamlet without the ghost. The wizard of song, the magic of whose artless art could transmute the !plainest lyric•into the purest of melodic gold, and move to alternate tears and laughter, was wanting. The lassies rang with a forced spirit and enthusiasm. that were pathetic and doubled the pro- gramme, the public as usual exacting the last stiver of obligation. Next day Mr. Kennedy was unable to leave his bed, and the second concert was reluct- antly cancelled. His disease progressed rapidly, soon assuming a grave and, to the experi- enced eye of the physician, a fatal phase, although the fact was religiously hidden from the knowledge of his gentle and affectionate daughters. One night, nearly a week after his ar- rival, Kennedy lay passive and impo- tent, taking little note of outward oceur- ences, while at his bedside watched David Campbell, then a prosperous mer- chant of the city and a man of singular Many a fire of love is kindled with transparency and simplicity of character. ban]: notes, The love of Mr. Campbell for the singer Duty is happiness grown lutmdrum, was more tender than that of woman. There are still many vacant lots in and the attachment extended heels to Don't Worry street, a period when the Wren had met "avant How poor is he who hath only wealth! the sea."What time Mr. Campbell Stained-glass sermons don't make could spare from his business was pass - whole settled saints. ed at the bedside of Mr. Kennedy, and The only way for a man to got over on this night his face expressed the anxi- thhe illusions about his first love is to ety he felt for the issue of his illness. marry her. In the next room Miss Helen was Much devotion and respect may be as singing in subdued tones, while her counted for by the attractiveness of a sister Margaret accompanied. To the widow's weeds, man in the sick room the world was When experience comes in the door. fast receding. The singer was dy- youth flies out the window.—New Or- ing and his spirit _had entered and Sud - leans Picayune. was"far men the dark valley. Sud- s _ denly the player and singer touched, a Self -Help. favorite air and song of their frith- s ers and the effect was startling. The Ethel's mistress had spent a week in aspeet of the dying man was trans - London, and, having returned, she was mak- figured. Light dawned in the glaz- In in uirlcs parrot and the cat whllo I was away?" she the sunken and haggard cheek. y.rl.e said. - he "Oh, yes, mum," said Ethel. And the • withered and the effort ended in a mere rattle. The form of Kennedy, which had gained a feverish and fictitious strength from the passing vision, be- came limp and his head dropped on the shoulder of his friend. "Pit me doon, Davie,"'was all he said. A hemorrhage, superinduced prob- ably by the exertion, followed shortly afterwards, and in less than twenty- four hours Kennedy was dead, "Davie" also has crossed the bourne, and who shall say that a beautiful and unselfish friendship is not re- newed where the heather aye blooms and partings are no more? T. D. NIVEN. Note.—Mr. Niven will be pleascll to learn that Mr. David Campbell, the "Davie" of his sketch, is still alive and hearty, respected by all who know him. some necessary a ing eye and a hectic flesh suffused I ]rope you looked after the canaries, the h Y n to to show signs of interest. He she wept , "B—but ono d—day," she sobbed, -�"` , igl There are less than 1,500 women teachers nearly dry wash in more suds. This is a "well, well," said her mistress, dont struggled to his elbow. Whets 'that, over 65. Three times as many women but b tars 'creed 'ersof d i as men teachers are put down as "age unknown." There are 21,000 colored teachers in the United States, thus divided between the two sexes: 7,700 hien and 13,300 wo- men. There ate 500 Indian teachers in the Indian schools of the United States —240 men and 260 women. The average age of teachers in the United States is higher than in England and lower than in Germany. The pro- portion of very youthful teachers irr much greater in, the country than in the city districts. The largest proportion of men teachers is to be found in West Virginia, where they number 50 per cent, of the total. The largest proportion of women is to be found in Vermont, where they form 00 per cent. of the whole number. The standard of education is much higher in Vermont than it is in West Virginia. The number of teachers in the United years. In 1871 there were 125,000, in States has mereered greatly in recent 1880, 225,000; in 1800, 340,000, and it is at present 450,000. low they Love One Another. ((chime natty News.) "Vernon told mo this morning," related the blonde, "that he passed the tree where two years ago be carved /our initials andhis euro and encircled than with a heart. Ile said ,he telt so good he almost danced with joy." "Alt," Said: the tall brunette, anzioualy, ".he must still love Ins atter all. Did he Sar the telt se happy " "Yes, he said Wei mea were ousthis the tree doWit." good method. To prepare waterproofing for boots and shoes mix together in a saucepan cry. I don't suppose that did any harm." Davie?" he asked, the kindly Doric \o—o; u she wen MUD) " Ethel explained "She ate the parrot trecovering its breadth and musical and 'the canaries!" purity on the dying tongue. • FEEDFAOTS In ordinary feeding the deer cosnuraes about M of its ordinary feed; the balance is un- digested or wasted. This undigested balance can be made to give �� to 1 Ib. extra gain per day, and at a profit, byadding the "salt, pepper, and gravy" to its foul to make it "tasty." You like these on your own food ; ashy not the animal. Like ourselves the animal longs for a "tasty" meal., It starts the "mouth 'wetering" before eat- ing, and the stomach fills with digestive fluids to thoroughly dissolve the food. This extra amount of digestive fluid dis- solves an extra amount of food. This is where the extra gain comes in. Clydesdale Stock Food is the "salt, pepper and gravy" that makcsthe animal's "mouth water."It is equally good for Horses, Sheen end Hoge. Nothing injerious in it endear stop feeding it without harmful effects. Human beings can take it with benefit. We take it every day. We know its contents. It is made clean. It not satisfied your money will be cheerfully refunded by thea dealer. 'r1RV HERCULES PODULTSY Knob crj'rtiDUSDAz1t STOCK 1tOOb CO,, Zimltcd TOacinTO. - Greatest Irrigation Scheme. The Canadian Pacific Railway has is hand the greatest irrigation scheme in the world. By the end of the next three years 1,500,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Calgary, Alberta, hitherto arid, will be divided into 20,000 farms. watered from Bow river, This Irrigation plan when completed will be 60 per cent. larger than the next largest on the American continent, which is in the Pecos Valley, Arizona. The water utilized in this vast scheme will take two-thirds of the supply of the Bow River et Jew water. st The superintendent of the work ante," that when it was first started there were prao- tioaily no settlers in that particular section. but since then the ,flow of immigration, which has included many Amerlcaas, bus been rapid. - Out -of -Door Men. If there is one thing strikingly char- acteristic of this age, it is the number o fepople we know and the few friends we possess, says the London World. The thine that used to be consecrated to what Mr. Henry James would call the Altar of Friendship is now squandered on a hundred indifferent acquaintances. Young ladies whom we hardly know invite its to their weddings, and expect a showy present to place among the trophies of ' their marriage day, - Resumed His Search. "' •Its the lassies singing in the next room," was the reply. "Alb, Davie, man," he said, "I'm feared my voice is gave and I nuaun try it; will ye no help me up, Davie, • till I see?" The anxious friend reasoned and dilated on the danger attending the exertion of getting tip, but it was bootless. Tenderly ho lifted the wasted form to it sitting posture and, in his own wards, Kennedy put his feet "atower the lied" to the floor. In the next room the girls sang 'on, unconscious of the touching drama that was being enacted on the shad- owy borderland of the two worlds. Tho familiar "cant" hard brought a tumultuous rush of memories. Again in his nostrils was the breath of the purple heather on the bran end ofi the "milk -white" thorn and brier that in bit native land "scent the even- ing gales" In his dying ear was the thrilling anthem of the laverock far aloft in the "downy cloud," the ten- der hilt of the lintie, and the matin song of the rnavis. In imagination he gazed on the eked -capped.` nmen- tins of ids native Perth end spelled their rugged sides Clothed in heath red gowan and yellow broom. Ile shaped his legs to join in the lyric 'whose potent magic Iced trensportd1d ;hurl to the wears of his childhood, but, Mast the glorious voiee which had moved millions to eeetaay wit Diogenes was reposing in his tub. "Get out of that," said the maid, appear- ing with a bar of laundry soap. The philosopher arose grumbling. "Darn it," ho muttered, "I forgot this was washday." 'Then he took a lantern and began his famous quest.—Philadelpphia Ledger. STOP, WOMAN! AND CONSIDER TEE ALL. IMPORTANT PACT That in address- ing Mrs. Pink - ham you are eon- fidingyonr private ills to a woman -- a woman whose experi- ence with women's diseases covers a great many years. You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your private trou- bles to a man— besides a man does not under- stand—simply be- , cause he is a man Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, knowing full well that they ought to have immediate assist- ance, but a natural modesty impels them to shrink from exposing them- selves to the questions and probably examinations of even their family physician. Itis unnecessary. Without money or price you can consult a Wo- man whose knowledge from actual ex- perience is great. Mrs. Plnkharn's Standing Invitation, Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman; thus has been established the eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America whieh has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw frOm, it is more than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help your case. She Mks nothing in return except your good -will, and herr advice has relieved thousands. Surer any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage Of thin generous offer of asaletsnoe. If you are ill, don't hesitate to get t, bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham'eVegetabls Compound at ogee, and Write Mrs. Pink - hem, Lynn. Masa., for special advice. When a medicine has beNa arooeoeetul in restoring to health ea women, sou cannot we11 sa►�r, 1� gn "fa�xlo4b trrt*i4! , .. _.