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The Wingham Advance, 1906-09-13, Page 314444+444444++ 44+4 444444+++++++++4+444+44+++++++++44-4 Horses of the Montreal Fire Brigade +4+++++++4+++++++++++++4-4o4+++++++++++++++4+++++4 (Montreal Witness). ekl Some time iii the future electric mo. lora will whisk the fire brigade appal -Be lus to the scene of fires, no doubt. But or the pretsent norse le all important. The men may be the Bleariest on earth end the apparatua (ea is the eese in ev- :my city) may be euperior to antything on the continent, but it is upon the hors - et prisnerily that the real test of the efficiency of a fire brigade depends. Let the horses be out of condition, unintelli- gent, too heavy for tepeed, too light for artingth, or not pulling well together. tt makes all the differenen, rthelous inin- ;tee aro lost, and meanwhile a mall fire {nay have become a great blaze. It le Iles most hnportant, most critical period, Led every second lost &Wee that five nineties has to be dearly pale for after - weeds. Thet is why the power and the tuality of the -horses means so much to the efficiency of a brigade, That. is why In Montreal as in all largo cities, the well-being of the horaea is the firstecon- adoration, in the fire brigade. The 187 bones of the Montreal brigade eve like princes, Their fare ies of tho beet, rimy have a whole army of men to wait apon them—to wagh them, to comb their tails, to manicure their feet, to brush their coats till they rhino like burnisb- ed metal, and to go out with them while thoy take the air of a morning. ram - ied peta they are for the most tune, mut when real work comes to be done, ow they will work. And oven then the equine superiority to winch they have been elevated is evident, for all oth- er traffic, has to stop and give them a dear road. See them as they rusk out Df timer stalls in response to an alarm, in take their place under the hanging harnene, and watch them as an henget 41 later they dash away with the apparatus, straining every nerve for speed. No need to whip them. They know tho value of time. These breathless rushee hither and thither trough the crowded city at all aura of the cla..v and night make exact- ing work, but Cho horses soon get to love the importance and excitetnent of It, and their attachment to the work Often remains long after they have left the brigade. There was an old horse whom we will call eliranaye having for what his real name was. When he was retired from the brigade he was set to tho ignoble work of hauling a dust cart romsd about the city. Very dejected end Ashamed of it the old horse looked sometimes when he and his master were round the streets collecting the city's dirt. Ono day some months ago, he was standing near a fire station with the dint cart when an alarm was rung in. Well enough the old horse knew the miund of the gong, 1.1p went his head, kis ears were prickedforward, and his Old, limbs began to quiver with excite- ment. Two horses attached to a hose ettet dashed out of the station and Remy to the source of alarm. 'Jimmy' hesi- tated not a moment. Forgotten were the indignities of dust -gathering. The alarm was rung, and lie was wanted. So may he started with the dust cart at a gallop, his nostrils distended and his eyes blazing. Stop there, you trolley - ears, out of the way you lumbering team ears. Out of the way you lumbzerieg teams of dray horses, stand back you mere tradesmen's hacjes. Jimmy was king of the road once more and everything must make way. Following the fire wag- gon, he bad a clear passage through the streets. He pulled up in a. businesslike way arthe fire and stood there champ- ing his bit. Tho astoniished firemen wit° were early on the scene found that Timmy was there as soon as any ,of them. And what was, more to Jimmy was that lie had brough the dust cart with him to the fire. There it was if wanted, reedy for Immediate• use. One of the firemen who recognized him pat- ted him on the neele and praised him. Timmy milted no more, and when the be- grimmed and perspiring carter came to fetch hizu back to the dirt hauling busi- ness he went away as meek as a lamb. Th is astoniehing how proficient these horeee become in their snare ef the :work. The first stroke of the alarm sees thean quivering with eagerness and excitement; indeed, some of the fire- anen declare that the horses can feel an alarm coming. "I can't explain it," one of them said, 'but the fact remaine that often just a iew .seeonds befone an. alarm is rung in, 4 the horses will suddenly be on the qui vive, as though they bad already heard the first stroke:. Whether they ectu feel the current coining, or evhat it is, I don't knew, but we've ofen notieed it and talked aboet IL" The blatant they aro released. from their stalls the horses rush cede to this own place at the wagons, and the nen anent the collere aro snapped over their nooks they are off. Perhaps the most Intelligent horse in. the brigade in this respect is the fine bay called Doctor, at No. 7 station (corner of Notre Mane and Beaudry streets). Ile will work his way into the hamlets no leat- her in what position he finds it, and it is comtnonly believed that if the hate nese were lying on the ground when the alarm came in le would lie on the floor and roll himself into it. Many of the amses strike up fervent friend -shims with the firemen or with one another. Down at No, 1 station, In Youville Square, were two ehorses, Sullivan and Necl, who ran side by side in the wagon, and who hem coned (bear to be .out of sight of each other. Lf one was taken out of the stable to be /shod, the ether would be neighing. pawing the floor and pulling at his ;hal- ter in a state of nervous excitement un - ell his fried came back, and then the havo would rub noses amt. behave in the /most ridiculously atfectionate manner to. weird each other. They loyal each oth- er's eompany eo much that even at a dine. they had to be tied to the same posh, or else, sure as fate, one oe other Of these vtoula leak las Miter, Their eriendeete had a tragic: ending, for on ;VIttorie night,when the boys with their lire crackers, had given the brigade a number of stump rune, Ned dropped in iii% tharriesp on William Street and died :Palma it kick er ti, groan. It was a death net untemmon with the fire bri- Ode Items. His heart had given out under the terrific and oontinuous strain. Per a time Sullivan. Was limn:athlete) but, eontrary to went the firemen thought, he got over it, and now runs In double bantam with Mouton, appar- Sealy as happy AS ever. Mouton le a twelve-yeam-old, who has built up for binmelf a sinister %nut -Ac- tion. Ire has the pace that kills. Them is no horse in the brigads with the !speed and stamina that he poeeetsen, 614 one after another four of bie mates home dropped dead in the Pfreets tryieet to keep up with him. Sullivan 1* Me fifth mato, and Mouton looks at lum thoughtfully /sometime as thonet won- dering how long it rwill be Wore he hag not the least fear about himself, nor have any of the firemen who know hiin. As it starter there is. none to beat the brown norms at No. 7 station, facetious- ly called 'Lite Baany, This fine crepe- -tune is 1,800 pounds in weight, and is Ity far the, bigest horse in the brigade, besides being the strongest. Ife has the reputation of having snapped MOre whiffletre.es than any other two bolus put together, and all beeouse of his lin. pettunity. ilia enly thought after an Alarm has be.on rung, in is to get there, and instead of gradually working up to les full speed, he starts off at top speed with a inighly bound, twin& sometimes tareaten3 to carry him clear of the. harneste But be Is skillful with. this strength, and nate provea bie value on many tough runs, Another character in this way was "Citron," whose quarters used to be at No. 4 station (Chaboillez square)) but who was killed a short time ago in an Accident. One day when Oltroe came rushieg out of the stall to take his place in the hose cart, a chair happened to be in his way. Instead of stv.eeving to one side he jumped Mean over it, and the next minute 'was in his appointed place. The firemen, glad of any diver- sion to while away the hours of waiting, gave Citron an opportunity for devel- oping his talent for jumping, and fee eoine time before his death they would tow and then even lie on the floor while Citron jumped. over them, A horse which never has fallen down, and which, it is said, never could be thrown by the most reckless or care- less driver is "Joe Patcheni" (named after the famous American racer) at No. 5 station, 2,120 St. Catherine street. Ho will run with the hose cart at the most headlong speed on wet asphalt, greasy wood blocke, car tracks, down the eteepest hill, or, in fact, anywhere and never a fear is there that he will fall. His surefooteclness and dexterity in passing obstructions is the talk of the brigade. Very few of the horses in the brigade carry any of the marks of accident, for a serious accident usually means that the horse concerned is retired. But leloseow, the fine leader on the ladder at No. 19 station 540 Full= street, carries on his head' the reminder of an accident. He got run into by another horse, and the opposing saft made hole right through his jaw. Moscow made light of the accident, and so we kept an the brigade. The wound healed up quickly, leaving a big hole in the jaw, of which Moscow seems rather pround. Mum a horse has been turned out o the brigade for want of brains, but the other day one was sold for a new cause He had brains, but lacked enthusiasm His none was Jerry, and he belonged to No. 4 station. It was he, wito a month or two ago, ran out of the station when an alarm was rung, followed th Pawl Metter is at as enormously high tempinaturk rot =Or the tgemendoue at . 'um them at woric. 9cept tbree time more rigid Mae the uickel steal usee in the araeor ere battleghlp. Eli new method ean. be applied aloo to the Other plants. It tures out that the roodny of Venue Is tneater than nett of piatiuunt, and. most likely, aboUt identicel with that of wrought iron. The rigidity of Mare is about eqUel to that of .gold, while the right- HY of Mercury, the moon elm ether seta. lltleo, is 10016 equal to that et glaell. The IMMO gisidity of tho great planote, Jupiter. attune Uranus and IloptOne, iles between eighteen Orem and three timeo that . greatr g ity el Maio bodies is due to the :pressure acting tbrotede Mit Ouch large masses. In the case of the gun the result Is still raore extreme. The average rigidity of all the layero is raore than 2,000 times that of nickel steel. Hoeing oilmen by Ma:agouti calculation that these bodies are so rigid, Prot, see has gone ono step turther, aim inquired whot effect this rigidity will heve on the cur - route often oupposed to circulate withia those masses. Presoure directly increatet the fluia frletion of moving Mueente awl tends to bring them, to that. . Many geologists haye bold that liquid cur- rent:* exist In the earth; and astronomers have bon Renato:nod to ammo that fluid currents In the Hun doscena almost to ita centre. Prof. sea deniers the possibilitY of currents in the earth, and declares that cur- rents. in the sun end great Planote muat all be quite shallow end cannet descend to any great depth, because tho pressure and rig- MIty aro too great. In the caoe of tho earth he says we cermet well conceive of currants in matter more rigid than granite, and in the cam of the atm a rigidity of twepty-two times that of nickel Moot, mily one-tenth of the way to the centre, makes circulation ot curettes below that depth likewise Inconceivable. asanotteeteenettereetinelealeatteteetteeetere King Edward's Swords. 4444444.143444+4.1.444414. Few of the treasures of Buckingham Palace Possess one-half the romantic Interest of the little armory of swords and daggers—gifts to King Edward from on hundred of the princes and nobles of India. It Is difficult to separate truth from legend, says the Strand, but of the great antiquity of moat there can be no manner of doubt. Here is a little story which will illuetrate thin fact: A sword in the collection of the Mahara- jah of Jaipur was sold to an English noble- man, together with the scroll settinng forth its history: "This blade was the talisman In the family of Sadat Chandra Khan, des- cending from father to son for eighteen genorations, until the coming of Nadir Shah, who slew Sadat Chandra Khan and geve thla sword to bis vizier, who sold it at /imams." The Englishman on his return was one day showing his prise to a visitor, who, after scrutinizing the blade under a powerful mag- nifying glass, began to laugh, "I thing someone has been drawing a long bow as well as haedling a sharp blade," he eat& "There is tho maker's name here —',Tohan Smith, York." It seemed an awkward revelation, but there was a good deal naore to be revealed. "Johan Smith" was indeed the maker, but he lived and flourlshed in the thirteenth century, and made this particular sword—and perhapa one or two others In the present eo11otjon— for some crusading knight ,who, falling in a the Holy Land, loft his weapon to be handed on Ono infildels in the_Far Bast. B ouOs watering, aterd14,8daa msatisren eacixavrtalt eastcLaheous ains- and Inscriptions in Persian. At the back was Inscribed the makers' neane—Molitunmed Ibrahim. Tho hilt is damaskeened gold with the •Shiah inscription, "La fatta Mn Aly, la sat! Ma Zulficar ("There is no saint • but du, no sword but Zulficar"). I The history of this blade goes back to WO years, and to recount all the notabha and blood curdling deed of Zulticar would ro- • Hi • quire a ponderous velum?, Histories of mord Y parts of the East. In the Royal Library at Te- heran there is a manuscript of 200 Pages recounting the exploits of e Damascus blade, orobably far inferior in prowese to the one o just mentioned. other horses to the fire, and ca,me bad -witb them as far as the fire station taking care that no one should catch him Then he ran away, and nothing wa heard of Ithe until two days later, when man from St, ,Laurent brought him back. Be was given another chance, bu his thoughts kept wandering from his work, and he was sold. One of the veterans of the brigade is Jubilee, wbo is now located at No. 9 station, Point St. Merles. Jubilee got his name because he was one of the two horses which Chief 13enoit took over to England with him when he went to take part, as one of the representatives of Cant cla, in the Diamond. Jubilee celebra- tions. Jubilee is the only horse in the brigade who bas had tho distinction of baying travelled across the Atlantic twice. When ho was led out by Fore- men Mooney ft day or two ago to have his photograph taken lie took quite an intelligent interest in the proceedings, and he really seemed to understand what was being said when Foreman Mooney batted about the trip which he and Jubilee ead to the mother country on that never -to -be -forgotten occasion. Everywhere we come across tine Euro- pean sabres fixed in Indian handles. After • a time the deep grooves wore made deeper • and utilized in strange fashion, being filled • with loose pearls which ran to and fro when waved. These were called "tho tears of the en- emy." I A. curious sabre worn by successive Rajahs of Mandl is of Indian make and In the "' middle of the blade are cirmiar aperture!: containing small leaden shot, visible through 'six narrow slits on either side of the blade. :This shot ie said to have been extraote3 from the heart of a foe, and Ramchander Mose relates many instances of swords manu- factured especially to contain such fatal leaden pellets. Perhaps the raost fascinating of all in the collection is the sword ot the renowned Sivaji, founder of the Mahretta dominion In India. Several native pens have attempt- ed to write the history of this wonderful :blade, but it is doubtful if any could relate Itti,thrikoef mitseeadvenItleures.w e the Crusades by ayn a/gfrali ItctnigIbict), andre may perhaps be of English make. It is a straight, 0118 etilgegifrelle gveo groovesone.!thloi S." slde, stampevde thrice. lg Is said Lai Sivail claimed it to have been the sword of Godfrey de Boullon himself. When Papa Was a Boy. 4 • 4. When papa was a little boy you really couldn't find In all the country round about a elilld so quiok to mind. His mother never called but once, and he was alvtays there; He never made the baby cry or pulled his sister's hair; He never slid down the banisters or made the slightest noise, And never in his life was known to fight with other boys. He always rose at six o'clock and went to bed at eight, And never ley abed till noon; and never sat up late. He finished Latin, French and Greek When he was ten years old, And knew the Spanish alphabet as soon aa he was told. lie never, never thoUght of Iplay until hie work was He labored hard from break of day until tho set of sun. He never scraped his muddy shoes upon the parlor floor, And never answered back his sna, and never banged the door, "But truly I could hover see," mid little Dick MalloY, "How he could never do these things and malty be a boy,"—Exchange. _ 4* a TEETHING TIME Every mother dreads that period in her baby's life known as teething time. The little gums are swollen, inflamed and tender; the enild suffers greatly, and is so cross and irritable that the whole household is on edge. All this is changed in homes tvItere Bay's Own Tablets aro used. This medicine allays the inflam- mation, softens the swollen, tender gums, brings the teeth through painlessly. In proof Mrs. W. C. MeCom) Denbigh, Ont., says: "I have found Baby's Own Tablets a splendid medicine at teething time. My baby was very sick at that time, was oross, restless and had no appetite. After giving her the Tablets then was a. marked improvement, and in the course of a few days she was not like the same child. The Tablets are just the raedi- eine te help little ones over the trying teething time." You can get Baby's Own Tablets from any druggist or by mail at 25 cents it box by writing The Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., 13rockvilie, Ont. • • et EARTH HARD A,S NICXEL STEEL. The Sun. 2,000 Times as Solid--,Caleula- tions Made by Professor See. • In the Astro:lore:1mM:: Neehriehten for July, leek Prof, T. J. 3. See, United States Navy, g ives the reaulta of an investigation he haa been making of the rigidity of the earth and other heavenly bodies, by Mathernaticall pro- cesses depending wh011y oft tho theory of gravitatiort. This lino of investtigation was begun in 1863 by Lord Kelvin, who sought to deter- mine the rigidity of the earth from obserVa- Hone of tho tido of tho imitate. It was thought that if tho earth timed to be highly tho rcult would contradict the theory long held by geologista that the earth is a globe of molten matter enclosed in a thin crust like the shell of an ogg. Lord Kelvin reached tho theclusion that the earth as a whole is Certainly More rigid than glees, but perlittpe net quite act rigid as stool. About DEO Prof. George Darwin took up the investigation. Hy careful study of the fortnightly tidos tho found MO earth te be More rigid than steel. This was held to 'Mow that tho earth cotIld not be a ephore of liquid Covered by thin crust; and geo- logists had to change their theories so as to confornt to a globe as rigid ad steel. Prot. tlee's investigation la ourely mathre matical, and based on the pressure existing throughout tho earth. According to Lap- laco's law of (lenity the density at the cen- tre of tho earth Is (lend to that of iced. and the ore tenth equal 10 that exerted by a vertical column of quinicalivor as long WI from St Leith: to San Francisco, Hy Cerisidering the .pressure throughout the whom earth Prof. Sc. Hilda that oven if fluid tho globe Would bitVe a rigidity gratin, than that of wrought Irbil. He find that the average rigidity of the wheel Matt 18 nearly equal to the of nickel steel, euth 4ta is need In the nrinor Of a bete/imp. Dr. Seo moves that the vieldifsr of the :trees eruct Is about equal to thAt of granite. Inch is one-sixth that ef Steel; and that Owerd the eentre the risidity midi)* M- asai, At the IMO'S 0000 the 120 41.08 FIVIU derop by itho loyeld*. t ors Must Certainly Be Dead. McGinnis was it man of somewhat hasty temper. A long siege of sickness had made him exceedingly irritable, and taking care of and waiting on hint had proved a great trial on Mrs. McG., under which she had borne up with commenda- ble patienee and fortitude, riever com- plaining, no matter in -wliat form her ,husband's crankiness manifested itself, according to Harper's Weekly. One clay; when the doctor called as us- ual, he eheerily remarked: "Well, Mrs. McGinnis, how is our p0.. tient getting Along, this morning?" Sure, doctor, yo're too late," she moaned, dieconsolately. "It's alter bein' dead he is, rm thinkine" "Why, It eau% be possible your hus- band has dropped off like that!" exclaim- ed the doctor, in tones of surprise. "He WAS worth it dozen dead men when saw him. last. You terteinly must have Made a mistake, Mrs. areGinnier Are you posi- tive that Ile is really dead?" "Well, doctor," said afre. Mete, eleek- ing back her Bebe, "if the poor mon isn't dead he has all the symptoms of it. I whit into the room pet now, ate he didn't find fault rer t'rour annything at me." , • Scotch Bread. This sort of ;broad, or, more torreetly speakieg, cake, Is tithe and must be kept tieveral tle,ys tc. :week to be at Re best. Work 0110 8111) of 'butter Alva one -h.12 cup of sat light breavit ettgar together, then knead dr mix in one -hale pound of beeast flour, ethieh Will be abeut two cape. Set he the lee beet le ehiel and roll oneithird of en inch thielt, Cut in Ogletree, seatti5r NOM* caraway Made over the top an dpreme lightly. then bake In 6 wet oven. If preferred, the carafiyay seeds can he stuttered through the &mak, or City may be omitted, r Scotch 1/4e,gentheraw•hallgarslewojeatut"en tak' them 9 lot, :On, bet? Oh, I ken them; fine Co they're like that?" "trust the Knee thing Oust gars fole In their sense tak' pushon or eat sausages . .—doonright ignortence." "It wateue me that eala it, Mysie. i I "But it eanna be ignaranee in the ease Myele Vilopie on Men. "Oh, ay, I'm an auld maid, as ye say Was rs. ("meek. I didno, }sellers intserebr frien'is abint their evoke that gate. No* me." "Mote, Whet wad nee been the harm though ye baa geed it? We true—an It's true forbye that I'm better please behe an auld meld that 1 wad be tc he one o' te mist reek o' the wives see tree:vela& aboot. But a' the :tam I'm just AS glad tilt it wasna you, Mir ren; no' because cella' me an attld mali wad put auk the least abort, but become at /shows ill feelhe In the atm that ease It. Aye, it does that, atweel." "Wee], needna heed it. Mrs. Sou rock's tongue's nee scandal." "'Deed, it's non for <liana benne she could say. a guid word o' onybode though ehe triett it. Puir ceatur!--wha wi' that snuffy, sneevelin, bottle-sooke o' it man ot hers, an' yon cleckire o' Il deedie weans—what wPt a', elite hatint entekle to, craw aboot. My feth, it wad been better for her if the had been an, auld maid the day. Sire, aye!" "afaybe that's the way she's sae ill at amid mide—because she envies them." "1 wadna wonder; I wadna woncler a bit; for unless Pm clear wiling i' the whinthe auld maids hae the beet o't in mtur ways. time. ane. If they haenn, the man an' the weans, they haerta the dee- viltry an' the dirt. If they .haena a bus bijawn; a bruit on its hint legs to be feart to fuss an' fyke aboot, neither hae [hitt' went marriage means tor them a', talthet a.' <erre." "But surely a' men are no 'alike, Mysie 1" •-"There's dooms little difference amang them, ta,kin' ane wi' neither. Nee doubt there are baith guid men an' bad men; but the deevil o' the thine is that tint guid tome are a' deid. Ay, ye ma,y lanch but it's true. Ye're but twenty-three' yet, an' .ken emelt aboot it; bat I'm thretty-nine—tue could been a wife hamf a dizzen times, sae Inc as offers geed. But, heeven be thankit! I near was sae far left to myseP as to believe that a nan could tell the truth ill the lass hi was wantin' to marry." "Then what does he tell her?" "Lees, lassie; evendoon lees, eut oot o' had claith. Then never was a man, yet that got a, woman but on fause pre- tences, except' maybe Adam, aie even him rm doubtful aboot. Ile was the first busbare, an' what he did a' his kin' lute been daein' ever since—an' that's ma,kin' a bonnie job o't. The meeserttble deevil was keen much to fill his byte wi' the aipples his wife stole, withoot botherin' hie heldi as to whether it was richt or wrang—just like the husban's noo-a-days. But as sune as he saw there was gaun to be a babble, what did he aae, think ee? Put his wife at his back an' try to screen her, as my idea o' man wad lute dune? Dell fears o'ra. He started tbe greetin', an' put a' the wyte on her, like the puir, thowless Myth that he was. An' what he did is just what husban's hae dune, are &mine en' will dee sae lane. as their wives snool (loon to them the way they're &mine Guid- sake! snool :loon till it man! 1 think lays,ee Mysie Mippie at it, for ane. Hey, des that. Hehl I wonder they bae the cheek to expece or even alloo woman. to sae demean hereon, kennine as they ken well, that they're scarce guid eneuch for her to walk on, far less speak till. Hehl guid be wi's!". "I jalouse the men put on airs aw•ee because they ea' ehemsePs the 'Lords o' Creation." "Imph.m—ay. 'Lords o' -Creation,' 1st? Aweel, I wad rather tell the truth an' ca 'them the Lord's recreation, for it's me plain as big print that He matin hae made the nutlet feet o' them in fun." "Oh, elysie I" "I'm tellhe ye. If ye kinna. believe it just look aboot ye for a bittoek. Talc' ony men ye like—an' tak' thim first as it free man, neist as an engaged man, an? syne as it married man . If ye keep the stoure ooe'n your ems an' if ye tak' the crater to bits, puttin' the •guid on ae side an' the bad on the ither—weel, what'll ye line at the en'o't, think ye?" "1 dinna ken.' "Then I'll tell ye, Yeal be able to car- ry awe/ the guid in yiur thummle, bye you'll need a cairt to shift the ither 0' Widows getthe mivaled again 1" ,• "No; it' ignoranee thefe —Ws re- venge. A widow wha gets married again t 'has waist aye a craw to pielt wi' the hale ' -ette: „tee. !WING PicTUREt Ideas to Bear in Mind When for Dif. ferent Rooms. In teaelung the gale the artistic: wa man tribe, an s keen -to get a datum ce to hang pictures I not only interne payee af flu debt, An' frac wbat elle • bas learned by experience she's gen wool them in the Actual pliteing of prints o fit for the job. The man who, maerma an the .walls, but the height from ill ' ordinate widow haute hit sorrows to eeek, Door at which they show to hest ad d guid be thankit. Int has not." [ventage, in email as well as lar:5 .) "An' did yee-noo, dinna flee up la a 'room% how they should be plitetel 1 1 lowo? Did ye never think o' taareyee 'relation to the doom coal $0 arrange 0 yerseP ?" ii hat they make a nice "balanee," tha . "No' anee, ye see, there was a gull is, a huge picture hung in a wide, op' / whom eion, auld gre young, olloot the 'spaces eau be well -balanced by two o 0 Ina" wham! 1 was beemit up, am neat !throe small mei put in it grmtp (Jr ill 1 BIW 0 'their ongattus put me agaiest, 'horizontal pane!, stem a writee in tit mete it was .New York. Telegram. tlei hale elan. WP the rug . te veneer tue veceshionsnees, wi' the auld I Then there is the be:Mgr:And to b a? releettion an'. greed. No' ane 0' them I considered. and the light in the room • id', an' the only thing they had in cote- I at% well as tin' frames that am:mud th itlacets and ie choice of prises, etc e carol a doektut for onybody exeep' him - t mon was seifiAries. Even in that the 1 i hey shend have some Mil. relatio r married me» were waur than the ither i 1.0 each tither, to the surrounding% ant 1 amis. Tak' iv wird fora, Mirren, 3,,,, !to the wee of the room, for the wal t mayeeit's just poesible for ye to flame 1 deeorations wmuta 1)0 ae different it it bachelor, but the den himeer mulches ,stubjeet as thit various apartments it shame a mareied mart—there's nae shame house% Each should be so distineliv In him. Think o' marryine did ye say? tni-leant at lnii: Orla WOUld know inethotiveie pictures mthich was the librare My wird nut If it were possible for 11P it mina ea, Med which the living rooms, woman to marry anither, been bearable—the idea. o't, 1 mean-- 1 but as it is, me mt." first be eonsidered, for it either adde 1 To begin with, the brtekground ehoult "An' line ye never felt laneeomes bid- °r detraets from the pictures. TM plainer the well paper or paint tb in' a' by yersel'?" "Whites; but when sie file cane owre better the decorations will eltow. An ' nve 1 wad. just start readhe the polis re- invisible design is always to be pre. ports P the papers, to see hoo anony 711PM ferred to a large, bold one in loud weer up for batterite their wives, en' glaring colors and it should be re that put the clockbe aff one. Bet what's membered that in a sunny room e coo a' this speirhe an' questionin' for? Are color, such as a dui! green or a. grey you thiniche to' gettin' married 1" blue, makes the beat background, while "Ade—no—t least, no' the Imo; tha is in a dark apartment wane tones are „......,..)1 best. a yellow bitten or it light rose. "Imphm, imphm, impirm, Ameel, when With it satisfaetory groundwork for the decorations, the next step is in the selecting of fraxnes. These ahould be of a shape and color that correspond with the subject and that throw the details into teed relief, but never so conepicuous as in any way to detract from the painting or print. As far as possible the middle tone of tbe subject should be carried out in the frame and. the mat, if one surrounds it. Ian oil paintngs a simple gold frame is preferable, but it should. be of some shade that is used in the subjeet, so Mat it bears some actual relation in THE VANISHING FRONTLER. color. Pictures should be hung with wires Some Tart Bits of Wit and Sarcasm that are as invisible as possible so that • From the West. they will not in any way take the eye from the subject. 1 think that two vertical wires should be used instead of (Boston Herald.) one that is arranged in oblique lines, for the straight wires give a. feeling of rest, while the others cause action or motion. In a low room they should be hung near the ceiling and yet on a level with tbe eyes, so that there will be no effort to see the details by glanc- ing either up or down. In rooms with high ceilings they are of course, placed a foot or .sixteen inches below the moulding, if the latter is low. I try to impress tbe girls with the fact that a feW pictures well placed are in better taste than many so hung that they give tho walls a congested or confused appearance; that a little print, etc., on a large wall is lost; that when the space is big large pictures should be used or Entail ones arranged in groups that give a feeling of good bal- ance. When it comes to actually hang- ing pictures the light from the windows and doors is to be considered, and each subject should be hung where all the lights and shadows arc plainly seen, or tbo effeet of the decoration is lost. In a small space between a window and door or between. two win - y clews, a pitture of a Mae and ether e that is in harmony with the room and „ of dimensions that are in keeping with " the imam: should be ebatten. Foe in- ° stance, in au open plaoe nine Inenes el, four to six inches; woula have the 1 ' wide it picture eight Whets wattle be 0 entirely out of keeping while. one from 4.1. liropor relative proportion e to late t imam and should be narmonious. 11. Tile most diffieult problem for the r girls to master was In filling it large a spinet with one picture and several O Small ones so that they would show the teethe*, of balance. It was herd for e teem to realize at first; 'that small pie - 1 tures, unlets well grouped, calmed use- " wet and tenni:nom while they were '., to arrange them So tbat they would n have a quiet restful effete.. In a imace 1 , largo enough for one largo pietism 1 ; and a group of smaller ones I taught 1 them that enough apace should be left 1 • between the single print and the group e : to allow each one to make a elear and 1 definite impression before the eyes were ' I attracted to the other, In .geouping 1 three pictures, small (sues, of course, 1 in a straight line make it good balance, 0 *while a diamond group, with two at the , top ana /too lieneetle or one ett the O : top and two under is attractive as it hainnee to the large picture. i1 think that a strong, bold picture, ✓ , antes as it Rembrandt, should be hung -: high, just as one with a good Femme - 1 I We' while Om with a great deal of / detail should be placed. near the .level *f the eyes, particularly if they are / not very large. 1 In bedrooms the pictures used for , decorations should, in my opinion, be 1 quiet and restful. Such pictures as I Ilapbaere Alain:nines are in keeping 1 with the room and the general stir- ; rounding% Whistler's Mother, is .an- other appropriate subject, while peace- ful landscapes are always in good ; taste, The living room is the only ; apartment in which tnere is no hard 1 and fast laws governing the selection ' of the subjects, end there anything is I permissible, from e poster to tbe fam- ily portraits. But there Should be no confusion and the tone of the room should be restful rather than exciting, deapith the fact that many of the pic- tures will bear no relation either to each other or to their surroundings., In a library, pictures of poets, ar- tists, authors, their homes and archi- tectural prints are in good form. For the hall I personally like plaster casts, but one or two of these placed several feet apart on a broad . empty vane /gives the apartment an tappeassince ' that is entirely unsatisfactory and in- stead of decorating the walls 'they make them look unfinished. Plaster casts well grouped at about a level with the eyes or a trifle below it are moss appropriate. The dining room should not be ornamented with these long etchings of landscapes, flower* with bright colors, or Japanese prints may be fittingly substituted. Following the lessons in picture hanging every girl I have had in my vlasses has told nie how she rearrang- ed the pictures in the house so that they would be in accord with the plans we worked out in school. Several girls who roomed with their eistere could have only 0110 corner to put up their pictures as they wished, while others bad one side of the room they shared and made the most of it by hanging the prints in harmonious relation to each other and in keeping with the • surroundings as far as was possible. ITS MERIT IS PROVED RECORD OF A GREAT MEDICINE A Prominent Montreal Woman Tells How Lydia E. PInkbain's Vegetable Compound Completely Curo Her. The great good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Corapound is doing among the women of America, is attracting the attention of many leading scientists, and thinking people generally. The following letter is only ono of many thousands which are on tile in the Pinkham office and g� to prove beyond question that Lydia E. Pinkham.'s Veg- etable Cornpoond must be a remedy of great merit, otherwise it could not pre- uce such marvelous resulta among sick and ailing women.: Dear Aire. 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Just as the Senate was amending the joint statehood bill so as to admit Okla- homa and the Indian Territory under the first name and to cut out the Arizona - New Mexico section altogether, there came to hand a handsomely printed and illustrated monthly of 100 pages, Strum's Statehood Magazine, published at Tulsa, Indian Territory. It is devoted to the two territories now ou the way to ad- mission to the 'Onion, and has many interesting articles and pictures describ- ing and illustrating the life and the in- dustries of that region. In looking through so creditable a publication one can -well believe that "the frontier is van- ishine." Anneng the oontents there is a collec- tion of Indian proverbs, which show that the definition of those pregnant sayings as being "the wisdom of many and the wit of one" applies to the apotheosis of the "untutored Indian" as well as to the proverbs of the cultivated whites. Some of them are: The coward shoots with shut eyes. No Indian ever sold his daughter for O name. Before the paleface came there was no poison in the Belittles corn. There is no cure for the firewater's burn. Small things talk loud to the Indian's eye. When a fox walks lame old rabbit jumps. The paleface's arm is ,no longer than the word. A squaw's imp° runs faster than the wind's leas. - There is nothing so eloquent as a rat- tlesnake's tail. If the Indian would be like the pale - ,face lie would, rule the earth. I The Indian scalps his enemy; the pale- face skins his friends. The Indian takes his dog to heaven; the patentee sends his brother to hell. There will be hungry palefaces so long as there is any Indian land to swallow. When a man prays one day and steals six the Oreat ,Spiritthunders and the evil one laughs. A starving man will eat with the wolf. There are three things it takes a strong man to hold—ft young warrior, a wild horse and a handsome squaw. SOMP of these bit the "pale face" rather hard remember our `century of injustice' to the red man. A people that elm coin such proverbs may surely aa- pire to citizenship in the land that was once tbeirs. .seis When / Can Good as You. sp Dear Father; No more need no be ashamed of or displeased with me, and no more need you on me frown as of't you do when I fall dove; Not 'Dos I can't subtract or add, but just becauso my spelling's bad. Toll know, pa, when I took exams it's kawsed me hamar silent Kwams to think the high marks that I got in other studio/a went for riot. Illy reeding's good, ray riling's fare, can't beat my grammar anywhere. Arithmotie, geography, and iny deportment, you'll agree, Aro not no bad, but mite be wurse but it's my spelling's been my mrse. I get my verbs and primuns strate; I know how, too, punctuate, tho' I'm not making any excuse; if one can't spell, why, what's the tin? But, oh, deer dad, 1 heard to-nite tlytt soon all words will bo spelled rite, No more, when Yon see hole I awn, win you say things it hurts to tell, And you'll not be Inclined to say words that you ortn't enYwaY. Our Spelling, dad, you'll be surprised, la soon to be Xarneggylzed; then you'll be prowd, and I Will, too, Mr 1 win spell as good as you. So now, pa, that My letter's dun P11 man oneself Your loving sun, —Century Magazine. 4.4 Wits Of the Press. "Tied, man you aro engaged to is an awful spendthrift; are yen marrying him to reform. him?" "Nope; I'm marrying him to help him be a spendthrift."--liouston Post, "No parent Wants to be too hard on his ehildreate follies." "Then, air, if your daughter marries me, may I hope you will make Some ellowariee for her ?"—Baltimore Ameri- Oats "NOW this painting," said ilia dealer, "it weak $10,00." • "Whatt that little thing?" exelaimed N'uritch. "011, I see, the frame 'round it Is solid gold, ain't itt"--Clatholle Standard. 5 itchcraft in New York. • Thousands of people in New York city tvho do not believe in ghosts, witches, spooks anil superstitions fey be surprised to know that there are many thousands of others who do. Direotor Smith, of Central Park, called attention to one large body of the super- stitious a. few weeks ago, when he pro- tested in their behalf against the sale of the two donkeys in the zoo. He declar- ed that if at least one of the donkeys was not kept on hand mothers of babies with whooping cough or threatened with that complaint would be after him tooth and nail. And why Simply because if baby has whooping cough, mother or nurse sneaks off with him to Central Park and passes his wee body three times under and over the donkey's body in a circle. And, of course, tbe whoop- ing cough disappears. It inay take some time fur ethe cure to be effected—but that is not the donkey's fault. On the east side, and particularly am- ong the foreign quarters, there are whole colonies which believe firmly in witch- craft. They have been reared in that belief, mut have a surprising knowledge about evil eyes and other things akin to the supernatural. One woman, for instance, has slept un- der the bed instead of on it for over ten years; in fact, ever since she was told that some night a witch would come and cast a spell over her in her sleep. So she sleeps under her bed on the floor every night, so that the witch can not, find her Male. Ventaur, it Bohemian lady, has been working among this class of people for some time past in an effort to drive these foolish notions out of their heads. In her work she has encountered it great many strange cases. Men and women go to her imploring her to remove the spell cast on them by the "evil eye." In some instanees many Inonths' work is necessary before these people can be convinced that there is no such power in existence. For instance, the first case to come 111 hand was that of 0 woman whose unities were covered with an angry eruption. This is it case of three years standing and was ettriboted wholly to the casting on a spell on her. by a rival, who had professed affection for her husband. No amount, of arguing or reasoning could. bring this woman to see that such A state of affairs was unreasonable o*id impossible. I I) EY4-4" .111:trattgrtgsit i°fAilr:S+IES m 13/4 '•• u • 441114 ""1 I 4 ent.Sabi bet "You have been to a doctor?" question- ed nue. Ventaur. "No! no!" almost gasped the woman, turning pale. "If I go to a doctor I shall die, a doctor °Quid do nothing. No, no, I should die." "But bow do you know you wonld Ole?" "Because my sister, she had a sickness caused by it witch. She went to a. doc- tor and she died." "Sometimes even dodoes can not help us," said Mine. 'Ventaur, "but there is no such thing as a witch. Why do you come to me?" "I was told that you could make peo- ple well who have had the evil eye cast on them. You are one of us and you can remove the spell." Such a ease is generally hopeless, hs far as argument is concerned, and then Mme, Ventaur, without the consent of the patient, must home the doctor pre- seribe. The patient, hotvever, does not know that she is being treated by a doctor, but believethat Mme. Ventaur is only die- tating the recipe for a 'charm" that will make Iter proof against wotcheraft. This deception is neeessare; without it the people could not be made to take medicine. They even believe that the meths soap that is always added to the slip is a, necessary part of the 'charm." Such is the simplicity of the minds of hundreds of people in the city and some of the conditions of body and of home caused by an adherence to superstition are appalling. A eommon belief araong them is connectedwith the hair. A person holding a. grudge against an ther will apply to some person who has the reputation of being possessed with power to work great evil. This person will make known to the persecuted one that he has it message from the evil one, end that if he washes or combs his hair during a certain term of years, or sometimes during the entire life, he will instantly drop dead. Preposterous as it iria3r seem, them Ete', people who bol dimplicit belief in such 6 spell, One woman who went to Mine. Vette:11r to have this spell removed had not touched a eolith or water to her hair in over seven years. Two months of constant work were ne. eessary to bring about it change in the woinan's mind, First came a long series c.f reasoning talks. Then the thetfal Mine. Ventaur gave her a small bottle of water to rub on the hair ttt the lutists. ttleei tlie Mew woman Inel dotes this and found that she did not instantly ex- 1,,re, sot' triedi it iteitin. At last, after two months.' tonstant work, she content. ed to have the hair cut and the great, tangled mime was removed. Immediately after the hair was cut the women's head 1103 plunged into it basin of water. She s.iw then that she am not ale, ana to. day ,,elie eoniba her hair and swishes It iegularly. eltantling apart from this Mame width telieves firmly in Witcheraf 1, are thou. ewe& of other% mostly mother* and nurses, who have implicit faith in supeY Editions. Ntrs Bugging—Merely, I hear you hokrit married again, Mandy --Yeast's*. Iluggirte—Anti h your wend hu8batt4 equal to s.onr firet1 Mends **MA , equal, if not *Inane.