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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-08-09, Page 37,' ) ) 1 7, 70 7) laitilOWEIOKIlitaaalMfaMaialeMailt HERO OF THE YEAR. atialaMalf$M€IfiallalfiCKIEUlarialtaX1M303110143130343130“311111437011aMea The boys at Bristol school looked a . that he was a poor ntan at the begin - 1°114'21; 1.1g Jack stared, at the freshMen with a lieW interest. "Are you the son of Richard Galion?" be asked. eyese, "You grow more interesting, my boy, But you can't resemble your father to any marlsed extent." "Not in figure anyway—and certainly not in brain. it used to worry lam to think I was stunted, but he's all over that now. Dad ad I are very good friends." There was a brief silence. Long Jack's regsatill.eiss eyes roamed about the room a "Well, bow about the hidden talent V' Sammie shook las head. "Still hidden." hessaid. "But I'm p- lug right ahead looking for it, And the search is doing me good. I never was so well and strong in all my life. MY little askance at one of the latest ad- ditions to the roll of that eminently res- pectable institution. Ife was a short lad and strongly inclined to roundness and a smile of enduring dimensions brighten- ed his ruddy face. It was the fashion to size up lieWeOlnelli at Bristol with a view to ascertaining their helpfulness; in upholding the athletic glory of the lichool. The seleappointea committee that looked Sammy Chapin over shook their heads doubtfully. "Play football, fresh?" "Baseball?" "Run, jump, hurdle?" aeree, "Anything you can do?" "I don't know. Never bad a chance be- fore to find out. You'll see that Pm very willing," ' And he smiled around at the little appetite is positively- fierce—and Pre group, cut down my weight by sixteen pounds. "Perhaps he cart debate," suggested Perhaps you weuldn't think it, but I was Jim Stebbins, given up as n hopeless consumptive once. The new boy shook bis head. That's right. They sent me out on a "No," he said, "I delta believe 1 1:an ranch in Arizona. I was fourteen then. debate. They told me I didn't look seri- Wasn't 1 homesick! If it hadn't been ous enough to be convincing." for dad I would bave died. Dad sent They all laughed at this. me something every day , and every "When you find out what you can do month he came way from New York to let us know," said Emory Brown. see rise. Nobody knows the sacrifices he "All right," laugbed Sammy. "I'll keep made to do it. 'Well, I got better, but my eyes open and let you know just as it was awful lonesome. There wasn't soon as I find out," , another child withiu a hundred miles of The investigators looked at one anoth- that forgotten spot. and the only thing er. There was a drawing down of the that interested me was a little band of mouths and a quick shrugging of shout- Indians that stuck up their tepees along dens. the great ravine that ran through the "Very Well," said Emory Brown, "We ravine. I learned how to ride their pon- will learn it in that way." les and picked up a lot of Indian ways, And the investigators filed across the I was there nearly a year and came away campus. as sound as a dollar." "Did you ever see such a jelly. fish," 'I see you lave some Indian sugges- • said Jim Stebbins. tions here," remarked Long Jack. "bi- "Can't get mad at him either," added duet eaddress, eh, and. moccasins, and Emory Brown. wampum, and a shield and a spear." Long Jack Olmstead held up his hand. "All souvenirs of Arizona," said Sam - "Bet you the cub has something up his my. ((you mustn't overlook the long sleeve," he drawled. "Any takers?" . bow. There, above the Mantle. I whit. There was a general laugh. tled that -out myself. It's the best sea - "Have it your way, Jack," said Ens- soned hickory, and I'm very proud of it." ory Brown. "But he doesn't look it. He took it from its hooks and 'showed "Looks don't count," drawled Jack. it to Olmsted. "Smartest all round chap that ever came "Can you use it?" the latter asked. into this school had a face like a wooden "Oh, yes. The Indian who put those pie plate." decorations on the bow taught me how "We admire your judgment too highly to use it. He was a great chap. They to bet with you, Jack," said Jim Steb, called him Wounded Heart." bins. "But get your protege to shake "I'd like to see you handle it," said his sleeve as soon as possible." Olmsted. They all laughed, except Jack. "Would you?" He looked around, "Grin away, you hyenas," he gross -led. "From the back wail of my bedroom to "My money talks for the cub." the wall here must be thirty-five feet," And he stalked away heavily. He was tightening the cord as he spoke. Two days later he met Sammie on the "Would you mind standing here in front board walk back of the laboratory. of the portiere with this small apple be - "How are they coming, fresh," he ask- tween your fingers? He picked up an ed. arrow and fitted it to the cord. "That's The smiling face lighted up. it, thank you. You needn't fear for your "Oh, it's Mr. Olmsted," be said. "Pret- siegerse, ty well, Mr. Olmsted. I can't complain." Olmsted laughed. Long Jack stepped with him. "I don't," he said. "Shaken out that hidden talent yet?". Sammy walked into the bedrooms "No, Mr. Olmsted." "Steady," came his voice. "Won't forget that it's expected of There was a slight twang and the ap- you," ple was shattered. "I keep it in mind, Mr. Olmsted." "Fine!" cried Olimseed. "Good enough "There's another thing. I've offered for vaudeville. How w,ould you and I to put up money on you. That is I've of- look doing the William Tell act?" And fered to bet that you have some sort he laughed merrily. of specialty that will do you credit and "I'm sorry it isn't an accomplishment the school credit. Don't forget it." that can be praetically made ese of," Sammie's smile faded. said Sammy, "But it certainly brought "I'm sorry you did that," he said, me a lot of enjoyment during some very "I know what I'm about," growled lonesome hours." . Long Jack. "And I'm not going to "By George!" cried Olmsted, "I wish hedge. If you can't find out what your aselery was a part ef the Big Four field talent is Pll have to find out for you. day programme." Where's your room?" "Pln sorry, too," said Sammy. "But "In Grace hall." . then you caa't tell—some other fellow "I'll drop in on you some time and might be a good deal cleverer at it than talk this thing over." me." -' Again Sammy's face clouded as Long "I doubt it," said Olmsted. "But 1 Jack stocked away. The confidence the must go. Pll see you again." latter placed in him was highly ember- "Glad you mune," murmured aammy. 'wising. What could he do to make And they shook hands. good?" th As Long Jack strode across e cane He started in at the gymnasium with pus he encountered Emory Brown. a renewed zest. But, really, there was "How's the protege?" called the lat- nothing to be gained by it. He was just ter. a fair athlete, nothing more. "He's all right," growled Jack, "And He played baseball with a hopeless that bet is still open." zest. He was only a scrub. He tried the But Emory .only laughed and hurried longer runs. He had the pluck and the along. wind, but lacked the speed. It avas a clear and sunny afternoon Occasionally he received a nod and an near the end of May. The campus and amused smile from the seniors who had the vine -grown old buildings, and the made him the memorable call. He grinned blue hills beyond, had never looked more , back at him and walked, away. beautiful He meant to show his willingness, even Suddenly tbe cry of "Fire!" rang eut. if nothing came of it. He entered the con- Th:e great laboratory building, the gift tests of the freshman class and in two of the chief patron of the oollege, was in events ran third. Ho was,so round and flames. plucky, and his face beamed with such a There was a confueed running to and surplus of good mature that he received fro, .the simple means of extinguishing a lively round of applause as ho trotted fires were sought, and then an alarm was on the track. But there was more laugh- telephoned into town. The flames spread ter than applause when he trotted Of. fast. They started in the basement and One day when he was digging into his swiftly roared; upward. The building Ovid there was a light rap at the dor was of stone substantially built, with and Long Jack lounged in. double Coors and heavy partitions tthat "Hullo." . were designed to make it as fireproof as "Hullo,. Mr. Olmsted." possible. But almost from the start the Sammie sprang up. flames seemed beyond control. "This your den?" The alarm belt could be heard from "Yes. Take the big chair." the town below. And then the fire supra The tall man stared about the room, rams began to clatter and rumble up "Mothers and sisters, eh?" the stop. With it came a patrol wagon "Yes. They have sent me a lot of filled with policemen ,and behin& trailed things: a hurrying crowd of townspeople. "Very good taste. Best lot of sofa pil- When the apparatus got into action lows I have seen. Must think a lot of the lower floor of the huge building was a. billowing sea ef flames, that seemed you." "I'm the only boy. There are four to defy tihe stream that was sent againet girls. Here are thew pictures." it. The great extension ladder was set He brougat the photographs from the up against the six -storeyed- structure mantel and spread them before the sen- and up this hurried the fire chief with ion. several hoseman with a line of hose. The "Fine looking, all of them. This one ladder just reached the heavy cornice especially" of the old-faslioned French roof. The "That's Flora. She's the youngest.Ethel ehlef meant to fight the flames from is generally considered the family been- above. es ty. Ethel is the one at the left. She's And then a terrible thing happened. to be married soon. Perhaps you've A sudden burst of flame directly against heard of the man, Arthur Carstairs?" the long ladder, a flame that was made "Eh! Carstairs? Son of the Carstairs more intense by the added heat of burn - in the eabinet? Fellow who did those Ing chemicals. Before the ladder could fine things in Abyssinia ?" be pushed away from the danger the "Yes. He's all right. We like him, al- mischief was done, and the upper see - though we hate to lose Ethel. The otle tion, almost completely burned off, top- er girls are coming down in Juno. I pled over and fell with a ruinous crash want you to meet them." - across the sod. At the same moment "Thank you. I'll be glad to. You're the Haines burst from a half dozen win - a lucky rat. I haven't any sisters --not dews on a still higher floor. The great any mother, either." crowd roped back by the police, uttered "Our mother is an invalid," said Sam- a sympathetic ery. The chief and his mie slowly. "She hasn't walked for six hosemen were in dire danger. They knew years." Ire paused it moment. "But it, too. Fifty feet away from them a nobody ever think!: of pitying her. Sho puff of white smoke suddenly shot up - ban such a lovely diaposition ana *tams ward, looks as if she enjoyed eveeything," The little group on tne cornice 'huddled Long Jack laughed lazily. together close to a huge chimney. The "I guese that's where you get your hose had been wrenched away when the own smiling countenance," he said. ladder le% The crowd murmured on syne "It's something very different from pathy. The strongest stream that the another's," Sammie returned. "I'm sup- biggest fire steamer could throw would posed at home to grin like a Cheshire not reach the unfortunates. eat." For a moment firemen ana spectators Long Jack looked Around again. were paralyzea. To leap from that height "Yon tertstuly levee nicely ftwnishell matt instant death. No ladder was et nest," he said. "They don't stint you hand to reach them. The smoke from the along the expense line." roof behind rapidly grew dense. They "Oh to," laughed Sammy. "DM ie seemed deemed. very generous. ITe eve money is merely Then ceene a strange &Yemen, A 'Omit- s& eireulating medium, ana the man who by figure mine darting *stress the cam- aersietently keeps it eirculating is the putt, the figure of an eager eyed student, beat of all eitigehe. Dad 1141VOr fOralets Whose face seemed aflame. eeiseeseeekeitesesesese leTaid,seyes brightened as be ataataal ab , "auk, Jack Olmsted," be sliceited, "Clear the - way for me—let me get through." Long —Ack whirled. about and ueder. stood. "Make room there!" he roared, and pushed and fought his way through the erovvd and under the rope—deopite the opposition of the policemen. And Sammy was close at his heels. "Have the ropes ready, Jack." "Yes, Sammy." The long bow WAS in the boy's hands and the end of a ball of twine Was fas- tened to the elender arrow, lie unrolled the ball by tossing it away from him. Then he carefully fitted the arrow ancl drew the string taut. The crowd comprehended and was very quiet. 'Fite men on the cornice compre- hended, too, and the chief drew a little away 'rein the clainney. Behind them a fountain of Mune suddenly shot through the roof. Twangl The arrow shot upward with its trailing leegth of string. It struck the sloping slate reef close to the chief, and that Oficial fell upon. it. Swiftly, yet carefully be drew up the stout twine and then a light cord, and lastly the beavy rope. And the men crouched low because of the heat of the glowing fur- nace behind them. The rope was passed about the chim- ney and the men let themselves down one by one, the chief coming last of all. Half way clown they came to the tail of the ladder that the men had waiting for them, and just as they reached the ground the roof fell in with a frightful crash. Long John Olmsted overtook Sammy Galpin half way across the campus. He threw his arms across the boy's shoulders. "They are all right," he cried half - hysterically, "I—I knew you had some- thing up your sleeve. You're the hero of the year, you little runt!" And he gave the lad an affectionate hug. "But what's the matter with you?" And he turned the boy around. aI cracked the bow," said Sammy rue- fully.—W. R. Rose in Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE TUSSOCK MOTH. A History of the Insect Pest by a Buf- falo Naturalist. In Thursday's Buffalo Commercial I eaw acommunication headed, "Save the eves," closing with the appeal to give some infor- mation and advice applicable to the situa- tion. In doing so, I wish•to give the his- tory of the tussock moth firet. The tussock moth is an insect of North America, not 4mported from Europe, like the glpsy moth. The only locality in the Unit- ed States not infested by It is California. The caterpillar attacks shade, fruit and or- namental trees. This insect passes the win- ter in the egg-state,that Is laid by the wing- less female moth in the month of August, in a white mass attached to the outside of the cocoon. On account a their cojor they can be easily aeon, and remain so until spring. Tho caterpillars, minute creatures, emerge from the egg -masses •in June. They oast or shed their skin three time, show- ing In their development different mark- ings each time. The young catenpiliars feed on the under side of the leaf, and thereby produce a skeletonized appearance, but finally devour all parte of the leaves, The young cater- pillars drop down, suspended by silken threads by the slightest jarring of the tree and are blown to considerable distances by the wind. They are great travellers, (mewl- ing down tbe trunk of the tree and serous wide spaces to ascend another tree. When full grown they go into larval state, form- ing tight greyish cocoons of silk mixed with their own hair. This state lasts about four weeks. As the hair of this caterpillar are barbed, their contact with the human skin produces quite an irritation. These cocoons are mostly on the trunks and larger branches, but aleo between the leaves. The very active male 1tas wings and tho female only rudiments of wings, so that they are prevented from flying. The female almost immediately begins to lay the egg -masses and In each cluster eau be found from 200 to SOO eggs. Then the mission of the female Is ended, she shrivels and dies. Shortly afterwards the young oaterpillare emerge and begin their destruc- tive work. This is their life and history and to counteract the work of any insect is A hard problem. So far the destruction of the larva in their present stage is the beat by killing a female now. But when they have passed the present stage the col- lection .of the egg -masses is the only safe ar The egg -masses are covered by a gelatin- ous coating, that protects them effectively from spraying, which is only of telling ef- fect on the young caterpillars. The collo - Von and destruction of the egg must bo thorough to bring .practical results. The great majority of the hibernating egg - masses are deposited low clown on the trunk of the tree or upon tho mealn limbs and can be easily reached. Those that have been scraped off should be collected and burned. A satisfactory liquid for-Apraying le creo- sote oil, towhich turpentine is added to keep itNlonsueidx.plicit directimm for mraying with arsenical poisons are needed. It is essen- tial that the caterpillars of the first gen- eration ought to be destroyed, thereby kill- ing the eecond and mare destructive brood We owe a great deal to our school child- ren, who under guidance of a few teachers have acelnplished much, and they could do reore, by also attending to residence streets like Delaware avenue and others. So much about the tussock moth. Now a few words about the destruction of our beautiful Web trees that at one time adorned our gardens and lawns, which is done by the malt agrtlue (undue. I re- ceived my first specimen in the year 1881 from Kansas. You can aow see its de- structive work down to the ehores of the Atlantic ocean. It belongs to the bupres- bidae, is not over it half-inch in length and of a dark ,bronze color. Those that in- terest themselves about this insect can see its work on the lawn between those two fine residence homes ot •Charles D. (Marshall and the children of our well-romembere6 Gerhard Lang, corner of Main and Tupper streets. In order to prevent the spreading of this handsome sms.11 budpresidae the infected trees must be cut down, es we at present know of no remedy. Our park superinten- dent ought to attend to this by weeding Out several leafless birch trees around the westerly part of the meadow, thereby say- ing a few of the nearby treas.—O. IL • * A Cold Water Wit. The late Mr. George Cavendish-Bantlet had been supporting the right of every man to drink as much as he pleased, and his oratorical nienner had been rather more incoherent than usual. Sir Wilfrid Lawson followed and began: "The right honorable gentian= who had juat spoken was evi- dently full of bis subject." Sir George Campbell, a furious bore, was quarreling with the Chancellor of the Exchequer about stamping the device of St. George and tho Dragoon on Scottith coing, which he con- tended ought to be eta:aped with St. An- drew. Sir Wilfrid Lawson suggested, as a compromise, that Scotch coins iniett be stamped with the device of St. George and the Dragon, When Mr. Harry Lawson (Lord Burnham' s son) first Caine to Parliament, Sir Wilfrid Lawson thus referred to him: "I do not know Muth of My honorable friend, except that he bears an honoree mune," a bit that was hugely relished by the bouse. Sir Wilfrid was very good at devising electioneering cries, and is the author of the saying that Tory principle Inenat Boor and Bible, At one of the elite - Bons the Unionists kept on repeating "The flowing tido is with tis," which Sir Wilfred Lawson parred with "Tho flowing bowl is with them." e • es Court Methods in Two COuntries, Mantas City Star.) In England, between 1890 and 1900, new trials were granted in less than 8% per cont. of all cases brought under review. In the United States It was eiscoveted in 18S1 that new trials were granted h1 46 per cent. of all cases, and that in 60 per OWL of these the appeal turned en ettestIone of Oleaditlg and eramice. The exolenation et the difference between tneilsti and Arnett - can conditIone, of course, lies in the Mer. geneo Of the adealtietration Of the lane. 30 England the question by the e.npellate court le: "Is the Judgment Just?" In Attlee:* It Is: "Is there error in the preeenlinee et Out trial etatet" Vali•;,11100f,.• SHATTERED NERVES Butif reelzeita r titnhilantaitlitrormed tdh:g wisol;‘, Made Strong and Steady by Dr. Wit. limns' Pink Pills. When, your nerves. are out of order hole health s on the vorce f your w a break -down. Sudden sounds etaStle svou; your muscled twitell and yuur hands tremble; your oelf control is shattered; your will power gone. Your head mho; your feet are often cold and your face fluolted. Your heart jumps and thumps at the least excite- , you are zenticsa at tired when you wake. Your iegmhptd er is irritable and you feel utterly down- hearted. .And the whole trouble is be- cause your blood is too thin and watery to keep the nerves strong. There is only one way to have strong, healthy nerves —Ieed them with the rich, recl blood only Dr, Williams' lank Pills can trete—and -do miaie lUr. F I Forth, 17 Sullivan street, Toronto, says: "I was a complete wreck with nervous prostration, but Pr, Wil' liam's Pink Pills have made a new man of me. I had been nervous for years; the least ' noise would startle me, And the least exertion would leave me utterly prostrated. I lost in weight, and physically 1 Was al- most a wreck I had not taken the pills long when I found they were helping me; my appetite improved, my nerves began to grow steady, and day by day I gained until I was again a well man, My weight in- creased twenty-five pounds while I was using the pills. To any who suffer as I did, 1 ean say :that if Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are given a fair trial, a cure will be sure to follow." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills restored Mr. Forth, simply because they made the rich, pure blood which propeTly nourishes the nerves and keeps them strong. They will cure all the dis- eases due to bad blood and shattered nerves, such as anaemia, indigestlions headaches and backaches, rheumatism, lumbago, St, Vitus dance, peralysis, general weakness and. the secret ailments of growing girls and women. But you must always insist on getting the gen- uine pills with the full name Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills for Pale People on the wrapper around each box. Sold by med- icine *dealers or sent direct by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing The Dr. Williams' Medicone Co., Brockville, Ont. STORIES OF THE "F. OF K." Lord Kitchener of Khartoum Generally Has His Own Way. A few months ago "K. of K."—as the British have nicknamed Lord Kitchener of Khartoum—found himself engaged. in a prolonged discussion With the com- menclant of a native corps in India who had applied for funds to fit his men out with brand-new uniforms. The application was refused, only to be put forward again more urgently than ever. After this had happened several times' says the Grand Magazine, "IC's." ! • patience became exhausted and he sent I word to say that he would come and in- spect the corps himself. 1 The colonel rubbed. his hands with de- light, and, on the appointed day carefully instructed his dusky warriors to don their oldest and most ragged garments, in arder to furnish a practical demon- stration of their sartorial dequirements. ;The commandant was reckoning with- out his host, however, for Lord Kitch- ener had no wiener run his critical eye down the ranks than he saw through the other's little device. A grim smile played about the corners of his mouth. "Ah, Colonel Jones," he exclaimed heartily, "I congratulate you ion the ap- pearance of your men. They're in the pink of condition—positively bursting through their unforms!" 1 When Lord Ktehener once makes up bis mind about anything it requires a very determined will, indeed, to turn him from his purpose. On :one occasion a difference of opinion has arisen as to the amount of money he might expend on the conveyance of stores to the front, He wanted a couple of thousand p'ounds ' for the purpose, but a niggardly pay de- partment at home protected that, the es- timate was much too high. I "Can't do it for leis was the laconic: response telegraphed to Pall Mall. I This, however, only evoked a reply that he would not be allowed meze than a quarter of the sum asked for. To To everybody's intense surprise, "K." wired back, "All right!" and proceeded to carry out the work he was engaged on. When the expedition was over, how- ever, the Treaeury officials were electri- fied to receive from its organizer a bill reading as follows: "1, To conveyance of military stores, as per estimate, £500. "2. To supplementary expenses, 600." RED DOG. A idighty Hunter in India and Mr. Kip- ling's Jungle Book. The red dog never reaches the size of a wolf, though it reaches that of a jack- al. Its shape is uneouth, its body nar- row and low in the forequarters, with loose limbs ending in large and awkward paws, the head and brush carried low. Tho head, remarkable for the large blunt furry ears, is intermediate between the domestic dog and fox, without the hon- est look of the one or the quick witted sharpness of the other. Against these disadvantages the bright chestnut hue of the wild dog's coat, shading into black at the end of the brush, does not avail for handsoineness. Over most of India it is to be found, .on mountains and in plains, in forest, where forest grows, and about the bare slopes where the hills have not vegeta- time East of India a very sintilar beast ranges even to Java, and another, paler and shaggier, haunts Siberia, and Saghalien, so that over most of Asia one for or other is to bo reckoned with. Nat- uraly the Indian species is the best known; yet it is not known at all inti- mately, for though so widely spread it is not a common animal and the natural- ists of India have little to say of it. imerna. Wilson' s FLY PADS THE ONLY THING THAT KILLS THEM ALL AVOlti POOR IMITATIONS. sold by all Druggistand General Store* and by mail. TEN CENY.S PERPACKEY mom ARCHDALE WILSON ivalwrat. ow* - and far superior to any other Eastern ! canine. Most of tbe wila relativee of our ; dogsare cowardly beasts, feeding on carrion and small animals, and only at - 1 tacking largo ones when bard pressed by hunger—such is the wolf's way, of life; while the jackal skulks around villages 444 ikeski f 4-tOetskefisleflietlisiskflist REMEDIES. OLD TIME and rometimes enters large tnwns in search of serape making night hideous +444444++++++++++w with hie howls, even in Calcutta. But The most highly esteemed prescriptiens the red deg is a true bunter, the deadla of the old-time apotheeary were those est fee to the game animitle that is which cost the most and whieh mast known in tlie East. He is not very needs, therefore, include powdered pre- swift—leas so than the jackal—nor is Ile eious stones. "Oascon's powder" was one adroit at the double or graeeful in ids of the most easily of theee eiedicautents, actions, but he follows the scent, mostly beteg prescribed by the great physicians in Coma with deadly persistenee, and for their more important patiente. It end, e iTnreytlideolr not t'ic. tgo on itnelitaltio.guet nfualtmnumbers-- nrtshe_ however long the trail may be, the pack cost forty &killings ($0.00) an *UM') and wan made in equal parts of claim' eyes, a dozen. would be a big pack—but what pearls, white amber, Oriente' beztar and they want in force is replaced h their the bleck tiles of crabs' claws. Their ordinary prey is the powerful ih3Precious stones, too, were thought to sand= deer and the beautiful spotted , ve much eificacy when worn an emu- cOurage and cunning strategy in attack, axis, corresponding to our red deer and lets. The ruby protected its wearer fallow doer; the various antelopes of the from plague and pestilence ;the amethyst ptilicteisnestalnecyl wboilidrygoincittsuorfntflioerladIfIse.w Altof ,Iksteonpliteaesesettilapenp9sedeytiehatediquanged; stohbeero;nyxblopsreele. then the terrified, beasts forsake that Illati°11; the topaz cured inflate. section of the jungle, and the red pack tbe opal strengthened weak MUst range far afield again, not to re- 14enygetartiliaentelintebre enrereld prevented fool- turre till long after, when the terror of i:01:,71se:nel aided ehe memory. (Soncerie Their tl d f attack• ' , "It takes away vain and fool. ald, an old writer further the extreme; some of their devices in- • terrible: folly and anger, end. causal). good con - el fears as ef devils and hobgoblins, thee. raul has subsided in the locality. lice it to say that their ordinary plan, ,ditione; if it do so woin about one, me whenever possible, is to disembowel the victim. I, sou will tell:aim that being beaten into powder and taken inwardly, it will du muca more." deed can hardly be mentionea here. Sul - Deer are not the only prey on waich The use of herbs and plants as meals these terrible creatures adventure; the .the mistake os considering the mas pos. biggest horns k eines, of course, agreee with modern gaurus came from one said to have been but the old paesiciare mule nown of the gaur Bos Praetiee; plied by wild dogs, of the Burmese race .seesing semi -magical properties. It wse en this case; and yet. the gaur, the larg- believed that they were the dwelleig est of all wild oxen, is too much for the Places °I good and toueevil spirits wheel. ordinary tiger. And the tiger often faile ISssa-eyrsk:ed their good and evil wills upon those who lied them. The old rhyme with the boar, the most gallant of all Trefoil, vervain, Jobns wort, dill him to his and. Their fellow carnivores and these four plants had extraordinary I wild animals, but the red pack will bring Hinders witches of their will. even are not safe; the black bear of the reputations in the Meddle Abes for oota Himilayas, although the fiercest of In- natural and supernatural power& rile dian beers. has been seen in his last trefoil is common in the United States struggle with the pack, with torn coat to -day ,especially to the South, ana lets and flesh in strips, fighting gamely still. certain legithnate medical properties. The vervain Is allied to our native ver - bane, and was anciently believed to be elective against all poisons and the ven- om of serpents, as well as against be - drinks and the like. It was Don't leave stones in the road. If witched your horse doesn't stumble over them ewe, eaea also effidacous for witchcraft. Anna Bo - may. When you denhain the celebrated witch of Salis- to send her pupils into the somebody else's horse to give a wheel a hard jolt or bring down fields to gather vervain end dill. The see in the beaten track a loose stone fit ;vervain when they approached their al- a stumbling horse, stop and throw it to 'sun worshippers of Persia, always carried one side. It may pay you to take that:neither sun nor moon ,and poured a ti- ters. They gathered it when there was trouble even on a strange road that you bolion of honey upon the earth in te- expect never to travel again. It is good paration for their robbery. St. john's for your character. It helps to justify wort was called "taiga demonium" in your claim to be a civilized man, living the old days because it routed evil spire in a civilized community. Every truly its: It was it common ingredient of ma - civilized community rests upon the gieal coneoctione, and is still gathered theory that the care of all is the duty of with much ceremony by the peasantry of each, and its civilization is high or low France and Germany when St. John's according to the preaalence or scarcity Day (June 24) comes around. of individual responsibility for theSolo mon's seal was another of the won. general welfare. der -working plants, said to be the herb There are two large classes of follsti which Solomon used to cure epilepsy by in the world, those who go through life placing it in it ring applied to the nos - leaving, messes behind them to be trils of the patient, from which dream - cleared up, and those who clear up the stance arose the popularity of the mag messes. If you clear up faithfully after kat ring or seal that figures in so many yourself, that is much, but it is not quite Eastern tales. Curious stories are told of the man - enough. You must expect also to con- drake, a scion of the potato family Ales tribute part of your time and strength fruit of which used to be called the "love to clearing up after the weak and the apple" (a name leter applied. to the so - shiftless. If everybody did his duty there knew, no doubt because to eat of it gen- would be little need of government) eerously produced temporary insanity. It The purpose of government is to defend was much used in love philters to awake the weak, to constrain the lazy, to re- len the tender passion, and the most ef- strain the greedy, and to make the best fieacious specimens were obtained from sense of the wisest people availagle for ithe vicinity of gibbets where evildoers the benefit of the general community. swung by the neck. There was Of but If we were all responsible and dutiful one way to gather the niandrake, under and picked out of the road the stones 'pain of death for mistake, sinee the Do. that we saw there, the work of govern- [lief was that it groaned aloud when pull- ment would be light. ed from the ground, and that whoever h Hard bargains, hard words, neglectedeard the sound fell dead on the spot. chances to give help where help was f The custom was to fasten a dog by the deeded, aansailre, ill-natured a a' !tail to the plant and beat him until in irf --)ssi-his struggles lie tore up the mandrake by misrepresentations—all such things are stones on the road. Don't leave them 1 the roots. The person superintending behind you, to plague you when the operation lied his ears stopped with y - (nt pitch, and so escaped, but the dog, for come that war again, or else to plague I y ken, heard the groan and died. which the same precaution was not ta- some other traveller. Clear up as you er's Seasons ng .A. 13. accomplished go along.—From The Farm . ,1 Extraordinary cures were acco by E. S. Martin, accompan Frost's paintings in color, in the Fiction by some familiar flowers in the olden Number of Scribner's. .•-1,-4,-- What He Wears. It is still the general style to crease the side seams of the sack coats: Vents in the side seems or a single long vent in the middle back seams are corredt. Trousers are cut moderately full and straight in line. A new evening tie has small tabs in front to fasten it to the collar button. In evening waistcoate there is a tend- ency away from the U-shaped opening to a more V-shaped cut. The newese evening waistcoat has but one button and no pockets at all. Belts of grey suede, with suede -cov- ered buckles, are shown at a smart hab- erdasher's. A good-looking shirt shows a pleated bosom with all-over flower designe in a delicate ebade of blue silk woven stuff. The best sack coats show military backs, fitted at the seams and slightly flaring at the bottom. Another idea, which is, n.ew this year, is the rounded -out or bulging cut of the front edges of the sack coat below the last button. —Saturday Review. 1 4 OF INTEREST TO FARMERS IN CITY / AND COUNTRY. • 1 • ENORMOUS TEA IMPORTATION. The total imports of tea. into Canada and the United States is about one hun- dred Red ten million pounds per nn - num. One out of every fourteen pounds, both in Canada and the United States Is "Salada"and this trade is growing very rapidly, and "Salado." is as easily obtained now in such cities as New York, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Pitts- burg, Buffalo, St. Louis, St. Paul, Min- neapolis, Duluth, Cleveland, Rochester, etc., eta, etc., as it is in Toronto, Mon- treal, and throughout the Dotninion. Paupers Among Immigrants. Pears that we are receiving the scum of Europe at our ports are sometimes heightened by reports of the misdoing of our foreign populace, who compose by far the greater munber of our criminals, but erime at lease indicates industry, while pauperism indicates ineompetenee. And reports from Washington show that whereas in 1880 every thousand of us eon tained 1.32 paupers and in 1800.1.17, the number has now fallen down to 1.01. The foreign born show a greater tend- ency toward pauperism than is shown by native Americans and this appears to be a consequence of that undeveloped intelligence which is especially noted among the Mediterranean timmtgraneg and prevents their engaging in tiny but callings which are already well supplied, —Brooklyn Eagle, ell—Maud and Jack :say they are always going to be the best of Meads. Belle---Grationsl Is that seal 3 thought they,were gohyg to be married. times. The anemone was thought by the ancients to be an einblem of disease; and Pliny says that physicians .recommended that the first anemone seen in the spring should be picked and concealed in a scar- let cloth until sickness came, requiring that it should be hung around the neck. The juice of the forget-me-not was cred- ited. with .the power of hardening steel until no metal could !resist it. The peony was used by Paeon the famous physician of ancient Greece, from whom it takes its name, to cure wounds. Demons were supposed always to flee front the spot where it grew. The elder tree also had some remark- able properties. An old writer declares that "if one travel with two little sticks of elder in his pocket, he shall not fret nor pant, let the horse go never so hard." A piece of an elder branch cut out be- tween two knots used to be worn ar- ound the neck to cure erysipelas; and in the Tyrol to -day elder buelies are planted un new graves in the form of e cross, it being believed that they will blossom in due time if the soul formes- ly inhabiting the body lying underneath has been received into Paradise.—N. 1. Tribune, 0 • 0 FACTS ABOUT METEORS, • ed, just es a brake *hewers *wee " a ter -wheel or a 1uella:4, tual4 the book, is sufficient to e nteteur. as if it were setalinly itatt is furnace heated to three or eau lion degrees. "Obviously, then, the smaller mete** are utterly commuted before tkov tj penetrated far into the atencapheele, which their fate hem shown to risi toess height of about 120 milm. Only a yams large meteor ean deseend to within miles of the earth (as one is Isaid to lerse done at Medrid scene 30 years/40) before bursting from the expels/den asie to heat and by the relistitnee of Uie "The fact that fragments do oessasiene ,nIly reach the earth is the beat PAINg • of the great size of some of the matte* that eve encounter. If it were not ION the air, the explosion of them all, with the accompanying ten•ible heat, weals( take plata in our midst, It is ,'ale tat say that such a state of thing; woutd render our townana cities uninhabit- able." Would Destroy Earth if Not for Protect- ing Atmosphere. According to a scientist of the Astro - Physical Observatory at; Washington, meteors woula, indeed, be the most dreaded of all the earth's physical an- tagonists were it not for the fact that nearly all of them are prevented from reaching the ground. by "our atmos- phere," which serves as is bullet-proof cuirass. The official in restion'explain- mg tho cause of our immunity from aerates, fire-ledls'shooting-stars, all traveling at speeds that average a tem - died times that of a rifle bullet, says: "When a meteor enters the atmos- phere the friction produced by its gigan- tic speed makes it flash up like the ar- row of Aeestes, only more so. The in- genious experiments of Lord Kelvin have shown that the heat thus .produe- THE ARABIAN HORSE, The Arabian horse is, say his enemige, a horse of it single trait—the gallop. in a :sense this is true, and naturally. itis maeters, the 13etIonine, abhor the trot; :noreover, the smooth, sandy reaches of the desert invite to the gallop. BO Arabs can he taught to trot, though not to be high steppers. Either walking or galloping, they are models of grace. .A. word now as to breeds, There to but one "noble" strain, the Kit -hat -len, almost innumerably eels -divided. There are, besides, the .Allerbi and Kadishi, ignoble drudges and baelcueys, but they are never classed as Arabs. Thougit maze varies individually, there are neitner pony nor big breeds. Palgravo, Upton, and Oir Wilfrid Blunt agree that the average height very nearly approaches: fourteen hands and two inches, falling under it oftener than over it. Persian homes, nearly allied to the Arab, ars taller—witness Lelee, who cost his last owner, Runjeet Singh, in the three wars waged to obtain thim, about 12,000 lives and sixty Ines of Tepees—that is, about $3,000,000. Lyle e stood all of fifteen kande, wore gold baugles below his knees, and bed housings of gold fringed cashmere shawls. lid for all that he was not a Ku -hal -Ian, so could not have held his head :high in the desert. A legend lurks in the- name. n is the corruption of Kohlani and like that means "the blackened." Unromantic personit derive it front the skin color, a dark, slaty, grayish blue, whatever ihe teat; but there is another derivation and one more befitting "the Daughters of the Stars." alahomet, says the le- gend, with 10,000 mounted aim, had fought imeeasingly throuele throe days and nights, the men never Leaving saddle, the snarea under them neither eating nor drinking. Victorious at last, the army came to a river bank, halted there, unsaddled ancl loosed the Mares, which rushed madly to bile water. Before they could drink the trumpets sounded the re- call. In the 10,000, five were found faith- ful—five who came back to the stand- ards, heedless of thirst. Mahomet him- self welcomed them, blessed them, and had them anointed with kohl ---whence Kahlani—as though they had been prin- ces,ses of the blood. Ever after they were ridden by the Prophet and his compan- ions, Ali, Omar,. Abebekr and Hassan, and from them descends all Arabia's noble blood . Since there were five of them, the breed grand divisions are known as "Al Khamisa," or "the five." But the romance of Arab pedigrees goes beyond the time of the Propheta: mares. They themselves were descended from the mares of Solomon the great— mares given aim by the Queen of Sheba along with gold, ivory, slaves and seices. Naturally such strains are carefully guarded. Few of the Bedouins can read or write, yet they make a point of asmg- ing inseribed pedigrees in little bags around the neeke of their most famous mares. They ride only mares, and have a proverb: "Three things are from Uod: a good wife, a good mare, a good *word." A true son of the desert will almost as readily think of panting with his wife as with his mare. Thus there is a pow- erful reinforcement to Me Sultan's M- arian forbidding their exportation.—Coun. try Life in America. TO AVOID SEA -SICKNESS. A German, Dr. Eugen Wolf, has found a cure for sea-siekness which will be welcomed by those who dread a voyage because they are not "good sailors." The cure is very simple as all the appliances necessary are it basin of bot water at eighty degrees and a couple of handker- chiefs. Whenever the traveller feels that he is becoming giddy he must lie flat on his back on the cabin sofa Or it deck chair. The clothes are unbuttoned se that there is nothing to hinder breathing. Then the handkerchiefs are wrung out in the hot water and bound round the forehead. This bandage must be made very tight, which can be done by us- ing a penholder, or something of the kind, as a lever when twisting it. Dur- ing the first minute or two the sensa- tion is not particularly pleasant, but those who bear it are completely cured which is surely sufficient reward for any temporary inconvenience. When the bandage begins to get cold another must be put on and the process continued each time with a hotter bandage, if pos- sible, until the patient is relieved of the squeamish feeling. This should be accomplished in about half an hour, In very obstinate eases it may take an hour. While under treatment the patient must not eat, drink or smoke. One of the eympthins of sea sickness is excessive thirst, which must be assuaged. If the patient has it eravin for food he may be given a little dry toast and possibly hot water, or weak tea without milk or sugar. Smelling salts and all the olds faslaonea "remedies" are to be strict- ly nvoidea. Two hours after the cure the patient need not fear a hearty meal„ smoking, or even drinking. Those who undergo this treatment at the beginning of a voyage are never troubled with seasickness, even when the sea runs high. Real Hall Mark of Aristocracy. (Emporia, ICan. Gazette.) Atchison may have her brewery, Hutch- inson may haVe her salt works, Topeka her woolen mills, Wichita her packing house, but Emporia is about to bave a garbage. We can't spell it and we can't pronounce it, but it Is it ltvory stable for autotneb1163 and Emporia is so proud that it Will take an ocean of arnica to t4tke out her :Meil- ing. A garbage or garrage, or witateme you eau it, is a great thing for a town. It indleates a rich, patrician simulation that nothing else can imitate. Plenty' of fans. Mee in Kansas keep two Steed girls and it man to mow the lawn; otente of fentilies in Ettrisas use finger beenbi when there isn't company and have the lee frozen In cubes and inake salad at the table. But that's nothing. The real Kanalis aristocracy is ths gasoline arateeracyeethat is the real titbit!. And as it Mgt of Dniperia. seclid 'grandeur— she le going to have one of them blamod garbages! Stopping a Proposal, (Cleveland Leader,) "Do you think your father would like 2110 as a son in law?" "Yes, / believe he vtould." "Oh, joyl I—" "Papa and 3 never agree out asp thing, you know." Those %We Ps Cent, /IOU 5