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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-06-28, Page 3Combat Between Man and Gorilla. k "Yea may talk of your unusual eerie - bate, of beans fighting bulls, of cate go- ing the pace with terriers, sand tigers try- ing it on with elephants in the Indien jUngles, but I still incline to the belief that I Wee a witnees to what was, per. haps, one of the airiest extraordinary elivountere human eyes ever rested upon, anti if yen care to bear it l'lL you the Story," John Ferguson, 4 young Scotehman, ed us to get out. We follewed his in- k former yeare mideliipmart M the struetions, and oath of us giving the Britieh eavy, fell to story telliag and tall °hie* standing et the gate, termed with a inelosure at the end of the main etreet, and although We were the only white raen present and our bright blue uniforms and gold buttons were certeim- ly fine to look upon we attracted but ' eneelag Potiee. The mine)) of the people were too much taken up with the cone 4ng exhibition for them to spare us more than 4 glance or two. "The fat under deputy drove Lie bul- locks right up to the gate of the board- ed inclosure, and, halting his team, with a daneing master's bow he request. the little eircie at the table wee regaled with a tale that proved, meet intereet. fug, "I was on Her .Majesty's aliip Panther back in the early '90'se Mr, Ferguson took up his story, "and our ship was doing a bit of idle stemming up and down the East African ()oast, We hadn't much to do, and why we were kept in that fever-infeetee district tor so long I'm in no position to tell and all of us on board ship were heartily glad when we larclose iu shore for days; at a time, for the opportunity was afforded us to stretch our legs. "We made stops quite frequently and the old man was very lenient with his foree and alMwed usashore in num- bers to hunt or do anything else we eared to break the monotony of the whole business, and we profited by - every chance afforded us, We droppe1 far down the coast tete one summer and, entering the Mozambique Chan- nel, crossed over to the west side of that vita island, Madagescar, and !az- fly followed the land line toward Bar- row Point, where we were to join the vessels of the squadron then in thoed waters. 'We had lots of time and our skipper made no Iturry about his trip, but went for the most pant under half steam. "One day we arrived opposite a small place with a very large name, and, going close in shore, found moorings. The place was called Tsimandrofouzane, and was made up for the most part of native huts with thabchecl roofs, a few stores and a woe -begone looking French eustom house. In all the coast towne of Madagascar, you know, are French cuetom houses. The places aren't generally very prepossessing M appearance, but they serve all right to assert Johnny Crapatal's authority over the island. We got in late in the after- noon, but before our ship rode at rest the son all about us was .black with na- tive canoes and the dingy occupants were offering to sell us fruit, vegeta- 1)les and chickens for our table. The atives drove a good thole for a while, as our larder was rather down and sve were all anxious for something good to eat. "Well, natives and their wares haven't to do with my story, so I'd better let them run alone and get down to things in earnest. Tlie morning after our ar- rival a party of the Officers Went Ashore, and I was of the number. Of course, we first visited the custom house to pay our respects to a French official, bat we didn't find a white man, as we supposed would have been the ease, only a fat, greasy -looking black, dressed in blue coat and red trousers, barefooted and bareheaded., who told us in execrable French that he was the ender deputy of the district. The main Johnny was off eomewhere on business, and, as I learned afterward, he was a white man, but of no very great importance in, his ooun- try's colonial force. We went about that village of huts for "a little While, and, growing tired, started to return to the boats on the beach, when the frizzle - headed deputy came up to us, and, after snaking a very sweeping bow—he must have learned that bow from some Humpty-Dumpty showman -informed us that there was to be some fine sport that evening a few miles from town. 1Vtureerous.LOokbag Spear, • a silver shilling, which the queer fellow put into his mouth and bit, we passed through into the audience, the deputy coming behind us without paying, s our servitor, The inclosure was a space about 100 feet long by 50 wide and the center was occupied by a big, cage -like arrangement made of heavy ropes end closed in at the top, Tbe inclosure was crowded and the natives were jammed almeet to within a few feet of the cage. At a point just before theeage sat Ramantavaro, plumes in his black hair, bracelets on his copper.colored mats and wrists and kgs, and a fancy piece of cloth wrapped about his waist. He had a Short javelin in his hand, which stood for his sceptre or badge of chieftainship, and in front of him, seated on cushions, were twe fioc-looking brindle bull ter- riers, and all about lien were gathered his two.score wives, women of every shetle, from light yellow to black. The women were attired in seant drapery of some white Math, and several of them were buxom and really good-looking. "Ramantaryaro save us when we came in and accorded us a reception worthy of our rank. He signaled to a lot of tam - tam beaters to make all the noise they could on their snakeskin drums, and when these fellows had had an inning he set a gang of Hottentots to work on some horn -like instruments, which had the effect of nearly splitting our ear- drums. The chief next moved some of his wives out of the choice places and made room for us in the grandstand. "That old fellow was up to snuff, suee enough, and in gibberish English he talked to us Aleut racehorses, dog pits and cocking mains, and even showed a little knowledge of the prize ring heroes of that day, a knowledge he had picked up, I guess, from chance English 'visitors like ourselves. ' "He told us that his dwarf, Thiblet, was a wonder as a fighter and that the Zulu witch doctor who had made the long journey just to meth his gorilla against the Abbreviated Man was sure going to lose his pet. liftman- tarvaro was backing his champion for about $1,000, a big amount for such a poverty-stricken potentate, and would have pawned the crown jewels to secure money to wager had he possessed crown jewels. "We had quite a little wait, but final- ly the dwarf appeared, crossing the in - closure, and a hideous picture he pre- sented, believe me. As he drew nearer I saw that he was only about three feet and some inches high, but his shoulders were inassive and very strongly braced, His arms were of such abnormal length that they reached nearly to the ground, and as they were bared we could see the play of great musles beneath the brownish skin. His legs were very abort, but he moved with a quick, easy step, and, to show his agility, onee or twice took long leaps. It was the dwarf's head that was the most repulsive part about him and a glance at it caused ine to shudder with disgust that such a thing should be classed as human. The head was set on a short,thick, firm neck, and was of an awful size—in fact, twice the size of an ordinary individual's toppiete. It was very broad at the forehead, tapered almost to a ridge at "We asked him to be explieit and bethe top, and bulged out in the back like told us that Ramantarvaro— I tbink .cask. The face was a grotesque pie - that's the name he mid, at least it ture of nightmare ugliness. The black, sounded that way — petty chief of glaring eyes were set far apart over the interior, had gained permission a nose so flat that it had the appear - from the governor to have a combat ; ance of having been crushed in and hie In his fenced village. Ramantarvavo mouth was a great red rift, with task - was a keen sportsmen, owned afew i like teeth allowing behind bulging, fighting dogs, a lot of game cocks and swollen lips. The dwarf's jaw was several warlike goats, but the kingpin square and cruel, his ears were like mire of his galaxy of belligerents was, a shaped nap, „d while the top of his deformed dwarf of great breadth of head was covered with thick, mossy hair, shoulders and terrible strength. The a .seraggy beard fringed his chin. dWarf was called Triboulet, pronounced i iblt W Get 'Take by the niggers. Soine French- I Treas reed men who had seen Hugo'sgreat play, with wild yells of applause, and, after The King's Diversion derisively named making a low bow to Chief Ramantar- him, no doubt, the T;iboulet had fought v,aro, he entered the arena through it everything the island afforded in the rope door, and, squatting' on a stool, dumb brute line from swampbon to waited, his great arms folded across his rook snake and had come out victor too. ' broad chest, and his gleaming eyes All this the greasy under deputy told roaming restlessly about the inclosure. us and he finished off his account of Teiblet was more beast than human, Triboulet, by declaring that the dwarf and, as we afterwards heard, he de- em that afternoon to enter the arena voured chickens, sucking pigs, and even with a young gorilla, a fierce overgrown snakes alive. Simian brought by a Zulu witch doc. "Tribiet had been in the cage for tot. 'Would we like to see the fight? the about five ntinutes or more when st buzz deputy asked us and to a man—there of expectancy from the people anuoune- were seven in our party—we announced ed the coming of the other combatant. Outsolves as being more than anxious The Zulu witeh doctor, an old, shrivel - for such a treat. led up fellow, was leading his compan- "Our affable friend of the black skin ion by it small chain attached M it col - assured us that we could easily- make lar about the animal's neck when / turn - the journey to Ramantarvaro's citadel ed at the suggestion of Ramailltrvaro and be back to our ship in time for and bellowed with my eyes the direction supper; it was only five miles out in indicated by the chief's extended arm. the country over a, "The gorille, walked upright on his StraightEasy Road, bind legs and certainly looked a likely , opponeet for the murderotte dwarf. He he aeldeand ox carts could be hired itt stood about felts feet high, his arms a reasonable price, or forelegs were long, and knotted with "We hired our ox -cart from it nappy muscles and in one of his paws he green. headed boy who eame up and asked ed it inassive-elub made out of it piece ot tis if we wanted a conveyariee and oak. The gorilla was docile and obedi- judge of bur eurprise, when, upon the oxcart ahowmg few minutes e_nt enough, held by hls master, but his nice was not a plensant one to look up. later, we found the fat deputy in' his on Dad his hanging lips moved incessant - gay regimentale walking at thtitt head lv and armed two tOwil of fearful teeth. of the slow.rnovmg bu11neks Nobody shouted when the &In end his capacity of driver. He beamed upon eharge arrived; everybody in the en- , us With it nigger minstrel grin and closilre waa for the dwarf and the pees us to understand that he oper- ated a teatn at it little help to his strangers didn't even get e hand. "The gorilla, was put into the Mtge I means of 4 livelihood, his saiary its through dOor opposite to where nib- • under deputy not amounting to very let uneoneernedlsat and the Zulu still much more than about 26 cenyts a held the beast by the eliditewhich - month. wits nut through the rope network, An The blaekhi •bullooks 'were Amoy attendant toted, up openee the cage ; rtepperit, although they had at first age • door and handed Tididet a long, spiked peered any mg u p AO and Triblet, springing to the urged On by *becks of the driver's heavy otaff, they made the five mile Centre of the Arena, purney itt reinaricitbly quick time, ewubg the mighty implement about his "Itamantarvitro'e village svitsn't very head as though it had hem it broom. impressive, either in erehiteebure or stiek. defences. It eat in it little valley at "At a signal from the ehief the Zulu the end of it twisting toed which lay readied through the ropes with his through it thiek forest, and the seedy naked arum and unhooked the ehain Melting, thafehed, 00110-sieslied Mets holt the gorilla's Mier. Theis he drew Were lined off itt rows, forming streets, the animal's head figainst the network and were surrounded by thin saplings, ;whispered something into his ear and the ends thrived oft to a teedlelike released him. The gorilla was immedi- point. Meier transform'elr, and from a quiet, "We drove through the great OM- esell.heheeeg angina, he -Warne it levee *ay of the villege and found ell ex- Ing frothing fury. 'With a mighty leap elieitient e.round tis. Weeks, hien nrid hts Amite to the centre of the ring, and, ., I .MIIIN.111.11.111.111M111 1111111 ik WOO*, by the hundreds, all of them holding his club in botlt paws, made 6 halt atikes4, Weal hittelltig to* Warded " vitiette tieingat Triblat, Tr1bIqt dihee 111111111 r Ing atound on Ids bandy leg, eseme right an, the eweef of the weapon, but toned himeelf we the ground..allowed the ANA PHYSICKNS PRESCRIBE With, lightningli -e movemeet, he flat blow to go over hint end then, *Flush, up, swattedthe overgrown monkey sinesh in the rile; with his club tha siouneed like a drum all over the Melo sure, and caused the gorilla to stagger Ana eereant with pain. liad the lelosv landed fair, the fight would lieve been over then and there, and as it was th beast was groggy and bleeding freely frone the puncture nuede M his side by ' the spike points. TrIbletrushee in to finish hie enemy and caught the gorilla, 11 clotit on the right forearm that limp - ped the bone lihe plpestem. The elult fell from the Intiry creature's paws and I with a shrill cry he retreated :rem his fierce °Apeneitt and eireled th Arena, ; Several time. But Triblet we: after • him in short, Tepid leaps and the dwarf struck the retreating monkey repeated. le'. The crowd Was wild with joy over what seemed an easy victory for the village champion, but Just when the gor. ille seemed out of the fighting entirely a strange thing happened, "Tim beast, having completed a elle, ole of the arena, hes relentless enemy on hie trail, suddenly turned, and, leap- ing bigh into the air, eaught hold of the roped teenier with his good paw and drew his body up. Triblet saw the move- ment, but too late to turn in time, and just as the dwarf in his mall rush was lreneath his opponent, the gorilla Released Ws 11014 and dropped. Two great Miry legs clinched about the dwarf's body, a hairy arm went around Ms neck and with re- sistless power quickly shut off his wind and sharp teeth bit into hes face and crunched away through flesh and bone to a vital spot. Triblet exerted his strength and and tried to free himself of his enemy's embraee, but the animal was firmly ;placed and with a wheezy cry of pain the dwarf stag- gered back, tripped . and 'went to the, earth, his enemy still on top. "The gorilla, drawing his arm, from arounl Treblet's neck, dug his talonlike claws in to the .fiesh of the dwarf's throat and literally tore out handfuls of blood, skin and ligament. And all the while the gorilla's teeth were. crunching, the bone of the dwarre face, and the sielc9iing sound oould be heard distinctly where we sat, all shouting having meantime ceased. The Zulo witch doctor saw that the fight was over, and, giving a peculiar Whistle, went to the side of the arena Mid opened the door. The whistle imbed like magic, and the gorilla, springing froni hie victim, went to his master with the readiness of a dog and submitted to the chain being replaced. Ttiblet's bleeding and mangle& farm lay mo- tionless, and when the native medicine men, chanting a dirge -like song, en- tered the arena they found that the champion bad ceased to breathe. "We went back to the ship that even- inghorrified, you may well guess, and visionsof that grewsome combat haunt. ed our sleep for many a night. The Zulu and las gorilla passed Tsimandro- fouzane the day our ship left and went back -to the continent in a small sail. boat, The gorilla's broken arm was splintered and bandaged, awl one, to haye seen him then, would not have thought him the deeperate demon of the recent combat." DOCTOR BRIGHAM SAYS 0 I I KEEP CHILDREN WELL In thousands of homes throughout Canada there are bright, thriving chil- dren, who have been made well and are kept well by the use of Baby's Own Tablets. In ninny homes parents say this medicine saved a precious little life. Dr. A. Dames, L. D. S,, Itiviere du Loup, Que., says: "At the age of five months we thought our little girl dying. Nothing we did for her helped her until we gave her Baby's Own Tablets, and ()illy those who have seen her can realize what a change this medicine has wrought in our child. She IS now about eighteen months old, eats well, (deeps well, and is a lively, laughing child, and weighs 37 pounds, We always keep the Tablets in the house now, for we know their great value." If mothers wish to feel absolutely safe they should keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets in the house always. They cure ail the minor ail- ments of children and are absolutely safe. sold by medicine dealers or sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Ca, Brock- ville, Ont. _ SOME OF THE QUEER TRADES. Original Answers Which Came in Reply to News aper Appeal A request was recently sent out. lay an English paper for suggestions of novel ways of earning money. Some of the re- plies have novelty enough and to spare. Here ;are a few "profeesions" evhich were p p A professional flea catcher, a custodian for safety pins, a 'collector of dried Mee for hens' food, purveyor of fads to the leisure classes,,a lion -hunting agency for society's use, a motor car library to call nt out of the way plaecs with. the new- est books, a maker -up of minds, a grie- vance abater, e manners teacher. Evidently dried flies are in demand, for the suggestion of a dried fig mer- chant came from two quarters. As for the maker up of minds and an equiva- lent of the motor car library they exist in New York at tee present time. So also &ma the umbrella and water- proof exchaime recommended by another person. Among the queer oempations described as already followed M that of artistically painting with barmkse pig- ments fictitioas, if scanty, hair, on bald heads. "A nrait I know," says one ansever, "makes his living out of funerals and weddings. lee atMnde a funeral, gets a Bet of the Wreaths front the undertaker (on reeiprocal terms), talces a shorthand note of the minister's address, draws up it souvenir report of the whole thing and offals it to the eurvivors. • "Bereaved people are tan eitey prey. Not infrequently he receives encourage. trent also from the printer or typist if if he can persuade them to have it put in type. "His tactics are similar in regard to r weddings, but there, as he suffers soy- i meter front the competition of the news- I papers, hie great seem of profit is ad- I ing as agora for the loan ef weddiug presents. It it said that at the secOnd wedding of a well known politieian at Birmingham the presents were valued at te60,000 and two thirds of them evere hired. Cohn:1%14ot on X40,000 worth of bueinese is uot in be (lapin& "Another ens° is that of a busy for. miles wife in Australia who hitd the leis - fortune to have a paralytic aon Who Vine bedridden. She was 0, notable manager, and, ensidering the great east of the invalid and the loss of his eerviees on the farm, ate persuaded him to elks* elutehes of eggs to be plated velett pro- per preeautione in the bed, that the equal end continual warmth might hatch (hem. This was itceordingly done and the, paralyzed youth Was ais proud of the Motets tte porielble and thoroughly earned hie living, besides gaining in It. tomb in hi% life." Lydia E. Pinkhamis . Vegetable Compound s*,....1 The wonderful power of Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound over the &Mutes of womankind la uot because It is fl, etiroulant, not heemese it is a palliative„but elm* became it Is the most Wonderful tonie and reconstructor ever discovered to net directly upon the generative organs, poeitively curing diaeresis And reetering health And vigor. Marvelous cures are reported from all parte of the eceintry by women who have been cured, trained nursea who hAve witneseed cures and physicians who haste recognized the virtue of Lydia Fe Pinkliames Vegetable Conapound, and are fair enough, to give credit where it is due. If physicians tiered to be frank and open, hundreds of them would acknowl- edge that' they constantly prescribe Lydia E. Pinkhain Vegetable Compound in severe eases of female ills, as they know by experience it can be relied upon to effect a cure. The following letter proves it. Dr. S. C. Brighameof 4 Brigham Perk, Fitchburg, Mimi., writers: "It gives me great pleasure to eoy that I have found Lydia E. Pinkbanes Vegetable Compound very efficacious, and often pre- scribe it in my practice for female difficulties. "My oldest daughter found it very benefi- cial for female trouble some tinie ago, and my youngest daughter is now taking it for a female weakness, and is surely gaining in health and strength. "I freely advocate it es a most reliable specific in all diseases to which women are subiect, and give it honest endorsement," Women who are troubled with pain- ful or irregular periods, bloating (or flatulence,) weukneee of organs, displace- ments, inflammation or ulceration can be Metered to perfect health and strength by taking Lydia E. Pinkhaires Vegetable Compound. If advice is needed, write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. She is daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five years has been advir In sick women free of charge. No other living person has had the benefit of a wider experience in treating female ills. She has guided thousands to health. Every suffering woman should ask for and follow her advice if she wants to be strong and well. +414414++++++++++++44444444 I The Swine Industry of Ontario. ++441144+44.144444++++++++++ A bulletin upon this subject has been I prepared by the Ontario Department of Agriculture, which contains information of an instructive and suggestive charac- ter. The following questions were sent to several thousand carefully selected eor- respondents, and from the replies re- ceived, a report is given in detail by counties, together with a sunfmary for the Province as a whole: 1. Whet breeds, grades or crosses of hogs appear to be mast. popular ie your district 2. Has there been any general tendency to change from one breed or type or hog to another during the last tsvo or tr ee • years? 3. If there him been any change in the. kind of hogs, fed, please describe the ita.- tore of the change? tri4ot. ?Are grade sires used in year dis- ii. What is the general feeling among farmere in your section as to the beg production this year? Do they show a .disposition to increase their output and to what extent? 6. About how many breeding sows were kept by the average fermer of your sec- tion in 1904? How many in 1905? How many this season? 7. What is the average number of pigs to reach weaning age in spring litters tee ? H th • tag ' loes been greater than usual? 8. How will the delivery of hogs be- tween no wand September 1st camper° with that for market. (a) Summer feed- ing; (b) Winter feeding? Breeds—The Yorkehhe is the most popular breed. In 33 out of the 42 coun- ties reporting it gets first choice, and in 7 others it is a tie with some other breed for first (place. 13erkshires coine next in favor, eollowbd by Tamworths and Ches- ter Whites, in the order named, Duroe jerseys and Poland Chinas receive but little mention outside of the counties of Essex and Kent. Crosses—While many crosses are used, the most popular is that between the Yorkshire and the Berkshire. In the western portion of the Province there is a tendency Meuse the Berkshire more than formerly in crossing, evhile in the eastern half the trend is more toward the use of the Yorkshire. Sires—Pure-bred sires are used almoat ,entirely in, twenty-five .per cent, of tete countiea, while grade sine are used to a limited extent in about twenty per onto and to a still greater extent in fifty-five per cent. of the counties); while in a few motions graele sires are still used alanest entirely. The district tak- ing In the northwestern peninsula will be found to be freer from the use of grade sires than any other section of the Provinee, although there are individual counties elsewhere ftom whieh reports are just as favorable. 'Grade sires appear to be in suet use In the more eastern counties. Production — The general tendency throughout the Province is to increase production stighbly. In many of the eastern emetics it las been the eustom for (farmers to depend upon breeders in -iheir Meaty for their eepply of youtig =pigs for feeding, and it lune been noted thee the demait title spring considerably exeeede the simply, the breeders who - esually sell their pigs retaining them On actount of the good prices for hogs. Con. sidera.ble caution, hoevever, 15 observe'd among annuy lediyiduel breeder% and feeders, not to go into the business too Cxtensiyely, for fear that over.produn 01) DS 'Os\ •K I 0 k Y., 4, //I P1 ItS • cK U (I15 , h'ietnETES t' - . " uolfase., prices down to an tin Breeding owe -"The mintier of breed- ing mows, was decreesed coesiderably in PA/ over 1904, while 190a allow* an me email.° in the number vomapred with UM 190,1 and 1994. Vompering MOO with 1903, thirty-five countiee. report in- creases, .wliiie only two eountiee report decreases, and five counties no chanee in the number of sows. Reforts intimate (New York Tinaee.) 0:043/44300X1MA10033t3IVEMS .Y.1(711,kmq•Hr.:,'. pro a is eso n .• Royal Pawnshop in Berl An Profit' Aro Davoted to ,Charitobto Purpooth listiMICEICUICMseiWIPEicietiocvmsetoacEsue, le Pas eia tart o t lovince le relatively inercesing production much more rapidly than Is being done in weet- ern Ontario. In ail teals of the Provinee the demand for brood eowe appears to exceed the -supply. Utters—The percentage of loss of young pige) is greater than venal in a large proportion of the counties, which 'will have ite effeet upon the fall deliv- eri•es, The average number of pigs in spring litters reaching the weaning age is estimated as 7.01, as compared With a normal litter of 7.77 ,pigs at weamee time. Cost •of Feeding -no average coat of summer feeding is plmed at $1.51 per •cwt., and of winter feeding, 85.38 per esvt. In very, few eases, however, do correspondents state definitely that the figures given are the result of actual ex. gerbil -eats, but where these are reported it is almost, invariably noticed that the coat of both summer and winter feeding Is considerably below the figures eiready mentioned. A number of eorrespond- ents, especially in weetern Ontario, state that with comfortable quarters and roots the cost of feeding is no greater in winter than in summer, WHO WRITE THE LETTERS 7 _ Britons 13est Correspondents—Americans Next in Order. every 2,140; Italy, one tor every 3,791; Rol- ! the list, with one for every 4,761. Vice ls that of Russia, whose annual profits profits. The Russian Postoffice Department bourg, ono for every 2,671; Austria, one for ' 438,627. The second profitable postal ser- I regarded as a later writing country, and ; ing the number of postoffices with papule - Germany comes next, with a postoffIce for every 1,460; Portugal, with one for every every 1,859; Servia, one for every 2,121: from her postal system of any nation ou the globe. She lets annually about 622,, , are recorded. as V0,695,595. Russia. is not its printed •matter is restrained, and yet . under its peculiar system, it derives good , Many employs 263,617. Japan sons of Auglo-Sason blood correspond more ent of Europe that an Englishman will write to a friend fifteen ralnutes away from his sal verbally. Nor do the facilities for cor- land, one for every 3,931; employs 61,187 persons, while that of Ger- in the list. A commercial MMus or other frequently than do those of the Latin races.. 1,649; Roumania, with one ter every 1,815; Denmark, ono for every 2,586; Luxem- , every 3,981; and Prance, at the bottom of 1 nbted for the percentage of illiteracy are Well to the front The citizens of Austria and Denmark write more letters than do those of Prance, and Belgium ranks eleventh business development does not f igure, or distance and communicate what he has to responding serve to increase it, for, compar- and then follow Groat Britain, one for 67.6; New Zealand, 00.3; Switzerland, 62.7; Argentine Republic, 37.2; Luxenabourg, 24.6; prOaTeued,,263.12.;1;NBorewlgalyu,ra2,0.629..4; Sweden, development of instruction cannot be seen from the correspondence record of it nation. 1441348, Denmark and Norway, whore eeti- cation is compulsory, hold a medioere place in the bat, while other countries that are mining the figuree. It is said on the wenn- Eon, Switzerland stands first, with 4 post - than 20 for each inhabitant: Great Byitolu, Germany. 66.9; Denmark, 41.6; A.ustria, 28.2: higher position. It will be seen that per - home, but it Prenchman will walk that and post cards passing through the post - office for 1925, Of countries having More 78.3 a head of population; United States, office tor every 896 of her population. their importance, of the number et letters both ,France and Belgium would hold a Temperament may also figure in deter - Great Britain derives the greatest profit , It is evident from, these figures that the Nero la the arrangement, in the orde2rao;f employeBelgiuna'n° 611°,1.- g 1 430 persons, almost as many as Russia, but her annual profits aro only $747,103.-frri- ' bune. The Boreal; of Manufacturera of the Depeetmeht Of Commence and. Labor has obtained from several leading European cities ` statement o eoneeen- Ing the working of pawnelgps and their regulation An thew cities. A strict • ;supervision is maintained by the etate or municipalities, and in some inetariees the state itself raaintains pawnshipse Consul General 4.. M. Thackera, of Berlin, in speaking of the pawnbrok- ers of that eity, and also of other parts of Germany, says: There are no pawnshopsunder the management of the anuniciptil authori- Gee in Perlin, but there is a royal pawnshop office and numerous private pawnbrokers, who have to be licensed and are strictly regulated by law, The , Rayol Prussion pawn office Was es - I tabliehed in 1834, under the control of , the Royal Bank, All profits from i ; the business, or any surplus which res ; mains after charging a moderate rate of ' interest and deducting all costs of tati* [ministration, are devoted to charitable purposes. The institution leads from one-half up to two-thirds of their esti- ' mated value upon jewels, precious 1 !stones, gold, silver, copper, brass, tin, and similar metals, clothing end other , objects for the storage of which no !great spaee is required. •; Person» who want to borrow money 'from the pawnshops have to establish their identity. If the pledge is not redeemed it is sold, and if any greater amount is obtained for it than the ' amount loaned, the excess is returned eto the borrower. The rate of inter- est is 1 per cent. per month, or 12 per cent. per annum. Upon easily negotiat- ed city, state, or government bonds, 6 per cent, interest is charged. 1 The surplus in 1888 as $14,764, in 1889 It fell to $10,765, and in 1000, there I was a loss of $2,860. The profits in 1904 were $2,131. 1There are 174 private pawnshops in , Berlin, so much more conveniently 'situated that they take business away from the royal office. These private establishments are regulated very strictly. In none of the cities in Ger- many can the public pawn institutions !compete with the private pawnbroker, : notwithstanding that the public insti- tutions, on account of their official I character, afford greater security. A !private pawnbroker may charge inter- est of 2 per cent, per month, Consul -General eteason, of Paris, says that the municipal pawnshop system is a distinct bureau of the Municipal Government. There is a main office and twenty-one branch of - offices. It is organized and administered to fulfil a distinctly philanthropic pur- pose. In 1904, 1,449,168 loans on jewel- • lery, clothing, bicycles, etc., were made i of the average amount of $6.46 each and the total sum loaned was $9,361,025. Be- sides these there were made during the same year 3,610 loans of $200 or more each, the total sum of which Ives $1,709, 632. The rates of interest Amounted in all to 8 per cent. on jewellery, articles of clothing, household equipments, ete., and 6 1-4 per cent. on stock, bonds, and other securities. In 1904 the profit above expenses amounted to $09,417, which was turned over to the fund for the sup- port of municipal hospitals. . 1 This is an official monopoly. no oth- 1 er pawnbroker is allowed to exist or do business within the limits of the muni- cipality. But there is a class of out- side operators, whose traffie forms the one really sinister feature of tire whole system. These are the brokers or deal- ers in pawn tickets, who work more or less secretly. It frequently happens that a person who has pawned an arti- ele wants more motley than he has been able to obtain at the municipal pawn. I shop, which does not exceed one -theca ' of the real value of the article. He goes with this pawn ticket to the broker, who lends him 20 per cent, of the face value of the ticket, but at an extortionate in.. terest from 3 per cent to 7 per cent per month. If this interest ts not pale when due the broker redeems the arti- cle, which he sells and thereby reaps a large profit. The story is told of it wedding dress on which interest was paid for fifty years by a poor woman who could never command enough money at one time to redeem it. Various measures have been propos- ed to counteract this evil, Mt nothing satisfactory has yet been devised. Peo- • ple in good circumstances, who are leav- h, tjue city for ibe suinmcr, : quently take jewels and other valuables to the Monte de Piete, or pawnshop, bor- row a nominal sum on them, and thus 1 secure their safekeeping with little ex- pense. Consul -General Roosevelt, of Brus- sels, says that the Brussels Monte de Pieta was established in 1810, since which date it has exercised its functions with- out interruption. The legal rate of in- terest charged on loans is 6 per cent. per annum. It is tbe intention of the administration to apply for authoriza- tion to reduce this rate to 2 per cent. per annum for loans less than 51. The administration of the pawnshop system in 13russels is somewhat similar to that in Paris . During the year 1005, the establishment lettuce on 312,794 pledges 'was $1,258,173. The net profit for the eyar was $6,401. The Brussels pawnshop is under the management of three appraisers and other officers. It is obligatory that one of the three ap- praisers must be an expert gold and sil- rveetisreisolicitiohrng. s.reports that there are eixul-Gerieral Mueller, of St. institutions loaning money on chattels 1 7 Ancestral Memory. As 1 walk along a dark lonely road, my ears are on alert, I glance right and left, I look over my shoulder. Where did I learn this habit 7. May it not be the memory disk giving of fits record ? My savage ancestor learned by long years of experience to be specially on his guard in a lonely place, and in the dark. When my indignation le thoroughly roused, I find my hands eTeTre", there is it tightening of the lips, the teeth are more plainly visible, and the whole attitude is suggestive of inaking it spring. Here is it trait df iiftinan, who gathered himself together and then sprang upon les enemy to rend him with tooth and claw. have often jifiticed that when people use the word "offen- sive" it is accompanied by a quiver of the nostrils and an involuntary move- ment of the nose. The imagination is still haunted by that piece of. very of- fensive carrion which my primitive an- cestor with a prejudice for raw meat found too strong for Imre so strong that his nose rejected it at once. --Nineteenth Century. _ Maypop, a New Fruit. .A, netv fruit that seems likely to prove of considerable value has been developed by the cultivation of the common "maypop," a plant which is very farnil. far in the Southern States, quite orna- mental, easily grown frone seeds and affords it handsome cover for arbors and • Verandahs. It is known to botanists as pasiflora incranata. The fruit in it int - proved form is somewhat bigger than a ben's egg and decidedly palatable. It looks like a May apple. More important, however, is the re- cognition which the plant has recently obtained as the source of a, harmless drug which is otilized by physicians as. 4 sleep producer and nerve soother. Un- fortunately-, most nerve soothing and sleep producing drugs creat habits which are difficult to throw off, and in their after effects they are liable to be in- juriona But the fited extract of the mitypop, which is obtained from the leaves ana flowers, while wondetftilly effective as it soporific, lute uo Nemesis. The improved fruit of the maypop is available for use both fresh and 1)re-- served. Li all likelihood it will make its • appearance before long in our markets. The Po6r Man's Doctor-. It is only In sorioue einergermies that the family in average circumstances eate afford to send for a doctor. TM family newspaper, through its advertising Wi- lliam, takes the doctor's place, and hi - forms its readers of meritorieue at -ticks for the cure of common ailments. It as in this way, for eXample, that Casearets, Candy Cathartie,the welt known medicine for stomach and bowel troubles, were in- troduced into millions of families, and through newspaper advertising, built up a. gale of over a million boxes a month, Church Habit* In Oklahoma. While attending Martell et the eosin - try Reboot house Saturday eight we tie. tieed a Mail standing up in the center of the room (just before the eerviees be- gan) 'load' Ins pipe, take a few *whiffs and then walk timely out. Another gentleman earried n pitcher of water to the roetrune gallantly smoking a eig- arette, while a lady WAS adorned with it Wahl protruding from her mouth ditr- Iterviees. • Food Products Me economical is well at see& Yee sloa't pay for bower while when you buy them. Nodding sees lalo s Libee con but thee leen, weleosolitel siva that is amens em. Lig?* Pralects aro gine sad noble end 11eney.aiwets--.4ux1 appetite silinuletart. Libleitionelett Clition with Memel.* Dasher teliket gate*. med. yet as tklickiuo it ODOM, you ow att, It it an shislosse, zed irfl�od olickee-tneale whia avist. 11twhst setae lorded se here" rlooklee free, 'How eo Mote Getidllatiolo Eke WA° •- Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago •Lopoomisiosi., at a rate of interest atipelated by their by-14Iva, as folloWaz ',Che State Loan 011ie% Mantra - led by the Central Govern -meat. The rate of intereat is 8 per cent, OW an. num. Only gold, silver, preeime etorese, and valuable)) are Aceepted here, Stiek articles ere alms taken for eafekeepleg At it low nate of intereet for storage and ineurnace. (2e Society for p&wn- ing (3) St, Petetelnirg Com- pany, for storage and pawning chattel% and goods. (4) St. Petersburg Cite - Loan Offiee. (6) St. Petersburg Psi. vate Loan Offiee • (0) St. Petersburg Municipal Loan Office, organized In 1898, Paid -in capital, 2,000,000 ruhlee— about $1,000,000. In 1904 the Mane aggregated 31,758,* 550, of which sum $1,560,005 was repaid Goode unclaimed were 6014.1 at patine auction, The net profit on the tran. actions of 1904 was about $31,251. The interest charged is 0 pet cent. • se SUMMER MG. Dr. Williams* Pink Pilb the Best Tonic for Sommer. The long hot summer thins the blood, and leaves you weary, worn and wretch- ed. Nothing van cure that summer fag except Dr. Williains' Pink Pills—because they actually make new 13100d, alid thus strengthen every organ and erery tie - sue in the body. Every dose Alla you Nvith new strength, new energy, new life. Purgative pills only weaken you more. Common tonics only stimulate for the nmment. But Dr. Willianue Pink Pills actually make new blood., and nettling but good, pure rich red blood can brace you to stand the summer. Tbat is why you should take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills now, Mr. W. J. Norfolk, White Horse, Yukon Territory, says: "I ani thirty-nine years of age and have been an athlete who scarcely knew the mean- ing of illness. Last year, however, my health gave way. I became nervous, did uot sleep well and grew as sveak 40 4 kitten. _It seemed as though 1 was completely worn out. I tried several so. called tonics, but it was ouly a waste of ineney, for they did me no good'. lilto ally I began using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, end they put me on my feet again, and gave me new health and strength." Every eveale and easily tired inan and woman will find new health, new strength and new energy through a fair use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, They cure all blood, and nerve diseases like anaemia, nervous exhaustion, head- aches and backaches, indigestion, noun algia, rheumatism and the special ail - !milts that afflict most growing girls and women of mixture years. Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, from the Die Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. rD,7-4071 SKr= BITES. One day it happened that we killed two rattlesnaltes, which iltagt quite ex- traordinary so high in the mountains. The camp fire talk that evening centred on the reptiles. We swapped the usual yarns and experiences; indulged in the customary argument as to remedies, Wes tphl of the chicken svhieh was killed, split and tied fresh to the wound, clung there valiantly for two hours, and then, "black as your hat, sir," fell off of its own accord. Billy and I agreed that this was marvellous. Wes likewise gave as bis disillusioned opinion that whiskey Is not efficacious. Why? Well he knew of it man who, while very drunk, was bitten, and who forthwith died, And, of course, in this case, the whiskey had a head start on the poison. "Wes," said I, " did you ever knows in your experience, of a man dying frora snake -bite ?" "Oh, yes," said he. "Tell me about it." "Well," he began, "a friend of Ji Brown's, downin Tulare county, was bit and Jen told me--" And this is about the usual answer to such a question. During a fairly extend. ed experience in snake countries I have made it a yoint to proffer that inquiry. and up to date I have fowl& just three men in whose veracity I had confidence) who laim to have seen a nutn dead oe stake bite. Hundreds could prove eases by the next fellow; and I have no doubt that the publication of this will bring forth many scornful expostulants whc• have seen whole cohorts succumb. But stich have been the results of my own careful and extended interrogations.— Stewart Edward White in The Pass, I* the Outing Magazine for April. _ New York a Thirety Town. 'Phe .boroureet of Manhattan ann.uutly consumes about 100,000 barrels of white key, which cost the consumers $2,500,o00,, TO this item anust be added 30,000 bar- rels of other spirits, sold for $500,000; 200,000 eases -of champagne, for which $5,500,000 is peid; 4,000,000 gullets of other wines and brandies, costing $27,- 000,000, and litet but not least &Important 6,000,000 barrels of beer, selling for $1001000,000. This makes a total of 000,000—a sum sufficient to create an4 maintain forever a great university like Yale or Harvard, It is a feet rather in- teresting to consider that if all thin beer and liquor were put into a tank end were allowed to run through an: eirdine ar,v water tap nt the rate of a, gallon a menute the aneeptaele would eequirell ninety-nine years and thirty-six days to empty itself„—Pearisores Magazine. Prices of Wii-d Ariimals. A good Nubian lion is worth *1,000 a, Senegal specitneu little more than hall this sum. A fine tiger is also worth about $1,000. In Bengal, where the most be:ottani and largest tigers ate trapped, there is e government bounty paid o» eaeh, for the annual 1riorta11t7 in India through tigers and snakes chiefly cobras — is something appalling. The longhaired Chinese and Siberien tigers bring as much as $1,300, and oth- er very valuable varieties eorae from Persia find Persian Turkestate—Teelt- Meal World. DM you have attained stealth and WM* ewer The Fly In the Ointment, d.0413 it Been' OW A% (Milwaukee Sentinel.) "Senator, how "Well? replied Senator Badger with • faraway look in his eyes, "it's reliseelet ants of a lot of worry, but, Me' &Wag { mighty tiresome treieg to mkt 6 tot* take the place of a knife." 410440. Proof ef Good Judgmett, (Somervihls, Maes., In"iguhrtluty l.) einutiblet *come ieri4 elm? Wiolussediural She married /66: