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This Japanese question is a kite with
many tails. One authority assures me
that the Jape are so crooked they can't
lie straight in bed, while another affirms
with equal emphasis that they aro just
itga, aching to do right and be good. If one
turns to books the contradictions mul-
tiply. One writer is positive that Japan-
ese ambition is a menace to Yankee in-
terests in the Orient, while another le
equally certain that their one aim in life
is to preserve friondsbip with the .Am-
ericans. There seems to be a wire crossed
somewhere.
Inasmuch as. I have just arrived in
Japan, and this is my first. tune here,
I shall carefully reconnoitre before I
join the multitude which is so freely de-
livering itself of opinions and prophe-
cies. Japan's exact status as a power,
the scope of its future influence and
the significance of the whole situation,
deserve more than passing consideration.
Leaving these points for future discus-
sion, let's take a day off and look
around, concerning ourselves merely
with surface indications,
The Fast Express of Japan.
The jiurikisl►a is the fast express of
Japan. Of course you know that a jin-
rikisha is a funny little two -wheeled
cart which is pulled by a man. It seems
like a dirty trick for a man to beat
a horse out of leis job, but there is ni)
scruple about that sort of thing Here.
How can a self-respecting horse hope
to earn an honest living in a country
where a coolie will work all day for the
price of a peck of oats?
The jinrikisha man places the shafts
on the ground and you climb in. His
bare legs aro knotted with muscles and
he can run mile after mile with mechani-
cal ease. Ile always runs. If you want
hint to walk he demands more pay, His
wage by the hour is ten cents, No wonder
the poor horse can't snake/its feed!
While the jinrikisha mon seem to
easily stand their exertion, the strain
upon them is great, and their average
life, after they begin work, is said to be
seven years. It is not unusual for one of
the door souls to run until he falls dead
in his tracks. You can see something of
the spirit that took Port Arthur in the
jinfikisha man who will die rather than
quit the task he has undertaken.
Under the Cherry , Blossoms.
The cheery blossoms o are out,so we
will go to the park and have a look at
the flowering trees, whose fame has
spread to every land. The appearance of
the delicate blossoms is such an extent
that the newspapers issue bulletins and
all classes eagerly await their opening.
The cherry blossom season is a festival
period in Japan. The people are ardent
lovers of flowers. They inherit their pas-
sion for color from generations of ances-
tors who worshipped trees and plants.
The beggar in his tatters and the Prince
in his silks are equally susceptible to
the charm of the wide -spreading cherry
when it unfolds its mass of brilliant
bloom.
Old men croon under its shadow and
write odes to its loveliness. The kimono
girl—the same coy, slant -eyed creature
you have always known in book and
picture—is never so happy and pistur-
esque as when she takes her tea under
its leafy bower, or clanks along on her
wooden clogs beneath the awning made
by the entwining of its branches. The
omnipresent Jap baby, fat, toddling and
good-natured, is: ever ready for his romp
in the cherry grove. It is here that he
shows off to the best advantage with
his gay finery and his shaven crown.
The babies are almost as numerous as
the blossoms and they go well together.
The flaming lanes of the park fairly
swarm with happy people. It is a pretty
spectacle to see youth and old age en-
joying together their myth and rapture
undetr the canopy. of the cherry boughs,
Ono writer aptly says that Czars and
Kaisers may well envy this oriental ruler
whose subjects gather by thousands, not
to throw bombs and riot for bread, or
clamor for the division of property, but
to fall in love with flowers and write
poems in their praise.
At the Temple Shrine.
Rising above the clouds of pink blas-
sonrs is the outline of an oil temple.
The stone steps leading to it resound
with the clatter of ivany elogs as the
pilgrims ascend to offer their devotions.
The mellow tones of a monster bell is
booming its summons for the faithful
to come to prayer. Although wo aro
heretics wo will follow the worshipers
.and see what it is they do to appease
the wrath of their gods and how they
petition them, for favor.
What a motley crowd it is that passes
around us. In it the gentlefolks and
commoners, maids and merchants, tooth -
lose hags and toddling babes. On its
fringes the artful fakir plies voca-
tion, and the begging leper exhibits his
ugly ulcers in a disgusting plea for alms.
Inasmuch as each worshipper tosses a
coin in the cash box, it is evident that
all is expected to pay their way. The
cash box hes slits across the top, and
although the bottom is out of sight, the,
constant jinggle of falling money indi-
cates that business is good. Sometimes
$1,000 is collected in one of these boxes
in a day.
After he has made his donation the
worshipper claps his hands to attract the
attention of the particular god he wants
to petition, then bows his head as he
murmurs his supplication. Some pray
briefly, and others at great length. I
suppose the time it takes to ask depends
altogether upon what one wants. One
fellow merely ducks his head and makes
off at once—he got his money's worth in
a hurry; while another settles down to
it in earnest and wrestles with the spirit
in a trate fashion. If he gets all he
asks for it will take the god the most oft
the afternoon to fill his order. All the
worshippers seem to be devout. Both
the barefooted coolie and the gentleman
in frock cont and high hat go at it like
they thought there was something in it.
There is a whole lot in having faith in
anything no matter whother it amounts
to much or not.
It would take a book as big as the Bible
to record the names of ail the queer
articles that can be bought for a few
cents each, A glass .bowl containing two
gold fish is offered for 3 cents; here is a
dwarf tree in a pot so tiny that it will
go into your Yes to k t d tl
pee ,- an ►el'e are
wooden chop -sticks that you may be se
have never been used because they are
still joined together at the end like n
clothespin.. That's a point to remember
whenever you buy chopsticks. No mat-
ter if you purchase only two articles. at
4 cents each the merchant invariably
uses his sliding buttons to fix the sum
total.
Like the Chinaman, the Japan
takes no ahances on mental ariticmet
in solving even the smallest sum. '11
characters of the Japanese language a
the same as the Chinese, but they a
pronounced differently, consequently ti
Jat> and the Ohink can write to oac
other and get along all right, but they
[Fan never ,have the satisfaction of talk
ing things over in an understanding way.
DId you ever see so many babies in
all your life? I thought all the toddlers
in Yokohama were at the cherry grove.
We left acres and acres of solemn tots
playing there in the gravel, but the
streets fairly teem with them. Each
one is a counterpart of his mother in
his tiny kimono and miniature clogs.
They are all very much alike, even to
the universal cold in the head. An offi-
cial nose -wiper would be the busiiist
person in Japan at this time of the year.
The reason that colds are so general is
because there are no stoves in the
houses. Babies not old enough to walk
are carried on their mothers' backs in
the same faabion the Indian squaws car-
ry their Pappooses, with the exception
that they are never strapped to boards.
Some Pointers on Dress,
There are a few points about the Jap-
anese women's ;tress which aro well to
know so that one may distinguish them
in the streets. A woman wearing a red
petticoat under her kimono is singl3,
and one displaying a white undergar-
ment is married. Occasionally you meet
one whose teeth aro painted black. Thai
means that she is happily married and
desires to disfigure herself so that other
men will not be attracted to her. It is
an old custom and is not practised to
a great extent now. A woman with her
hair out short is a widow who is so
grieved at the loss of her companion
hat she has resolved never to marry
again, and her abbreviated tsesses is an
advertisement of .that fact.
Here comes, a Japanese couple who
are just home from America, Look at
their clothes! The woman is stiff and
unnatural. She will soon forsake this
foreign finery and return to her graceful
kimono. Theyall want tot European
dress, but the most of therm eventually
abandon it for their native attire, which
is really more suited to them. The man
is a crass between a pug and a .dude.
His trousers need pressing so badly that,
there appears to be a growth of knots
on his legs. • Ile ought to have a colar
and a haircut, and even at that be would
be only a fair imitation of a cheap sport.
An Extravagance of Energy.
There are so many distinct types on
every hand that when I attempt to see'
them all I feel like the fellow in the
Gibson .picture who became a blur from
trying to look at tyro girls at the same
time. A Japanes newsboy is an ani-
mated - jumping -jack. In .our country
small boys carry large papers, but here
the rule is reversed, and big ones make
heavy work of delivering ho.nd-bills. One
of these bare -legged carriers is weighted
down with sleigh -bells to proclaim his
coming, and- he prances like a circus
horse. He is a good example of perpetuai
motion as he bounds from one side of
the street to the other, bobbing and
jumping as he pauses before each door
to tuck his bulletin between the shut-
ters.
He ;wastes almost as much energy as
the coolies who push burdens on carts.
These brethren to the oxen cheat dis-
maly as the strain at their work. The
ones who pull gurut a monotonous cho-
rus every time they step, and the ones
who push answer them in unison. They
waste a lot of precious breath in this
manner, but have become so accustomed
to it that they think they cannot make
.in effort unless they voice their exer-
tion.
It ho,s been explained that this chant-
ing is an expression of sympathy be -
.•ween the toilers, but it may be with
risk When
them like it is with the I W u
c
r?at resorts to this system it is to make
sure that Mike is not shirking, but is do-
ing his best to earn his salary. `
The strength of these men who do the
work of beasts of burden is almost in-
,;redible. They carry blocks of building
stone that one of our laborers wouldn't
even attempt to turn over. The loads
are generally balanced on poles in Ohl -
nese fashion, and as one of them comes
toward you with his peculiar shuffle you
recognise at once that lie is a good road-
ster, but to save your life you can't tell
whether he is a pacer or a trotter.
"Good Night in Fair Japan."
BABILS Will BURNING SKIN.
Mothers rind Zam-Buk a Boon.
When a belly is constantly crying
because of skin trouble, which creeds
re most pity .-- child or mother? Many a
mother is worn out with nursing, and
many a child suffers agony which could
be avoided by application of a little
gam-Ituk, Iter eczema, eruptions, chafed
shin anti the many "outbreaks" to
, wliich children aro liable, Zeal -Buts is
unequalled. Mrs. Rlliff of St. John's
West Weiland County, says:
eso ,,, ,
./a -Ilri e .
m k ei nl claim
tai does all o e a m
•) d u
ie l for it. My baby had a kind of rash• ---
re rquite a lot of small spots and pimples
r'0 on the bead. I applied 'Gama lluk and
ie
was delighted with the meat. It healed
h the sores and in a short time removed
all trace of the eruption. I have recom-
mended it to several neighbors, who are
much pleased with it,
lam-Bulc is suitable alike for adults'
and for the delicate sldns of young
infants. It is pure —there's the point. -
Contnins no animal fat, no mineral
coloring matter, but is made from
vegetable essences.
Zam-Buk cures also ringworm, ulcers,
abscesses, barber's rash, eealp sores,
piles, chapped hands, cold sores, chil-
blains, cuts, burns and bruises. All.
druggists at 50e a box, or post free
from the Zam-Buk Company, Toronto,
upon receipt of price.
Flirting With the Gods.
The Japanese manner of offering
prayer resembles a game of chance. One
way to test your strength with the god
is to buy prayer paper, chew it into a
wad, then throw it against the wire
screen. If the wad sticks you have
made good with the deity, but if it falls
off you are to consider yourself refused.
Another way to get a forcast on your
prospects is to pitch a pebble onto a
table. If it rolls off there is nothing do-
ing, but if it remains the god will think
it over and let you know later, The an-
cients used to count much on what they
called a pitching game. They had a
platform in one place where jealous hus-
bands used to throw their wives over a
precipice onto the rocks. All those who
survived the ordeal were considered
above suspicion, while those who por-
ter of trial finally become unpopular be-
cause the supply of wives threatened to
give out.
The Japanes lover has an odd way of
securing a tip on the stability of hie
sweetheart's affection. When the Orien-
tal swain decides to test the sincerity of
his lady love, he buys a prayer book and
then attempts• to tie it into a knot, using
only the thumb and little finger of his
right hand. If ho succeeds he has a
fighting chance to win her, but if he fails
by touching the sacred paper with his
palm or fingers, it is hopeless with him
and he might as well look elsewhere for
steady company. This plan will "not do
for doubtful beaux in America because
we do not happen to have the sort of
god that makes a specialty of such nat-
ters.
Caught on the Fly.
We will leave the temple and go for a
ride through the streets. It is a holiday
and bazaars line the way on either side.
ST
9
EN!
AND CONSIDER THE
ALL-IMPORTANT
FACT
That in addressing Mrs. Pinkham yon
are confiding your private ills to a woman
—a woman whose experience with wo-
men's diseases covers twenty -flue years.
The present Mrs. Pinkham is the
daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, and
for many years under her direction, and since
her decease, her advice has been freely given
to sick women,
Many womensuffer
in esfte
neo and drift along from
bad to worse, knowing full well that they ought to
have immediate assistance, but a natural modesty
impels them to shrink from exposing themselves to the
questions and probably examinations of oven their
family physician. It is unnecessary. Without money
or price you can consult a woman whose knowledge
from actual experience is great.
Mrs. Pinlcham's Standing Invitation:
Women suffering from any form of female weak•
nese are invited to promptly communicate with
Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. All letters are
received, opened, read and answered by women
only. A woman can freely talk of her private
illness to a woman ; thus has been established
the eternal eonfldence between Mrs. Pinkham
and the women of America which has never
been broken. Out of the vast volume of
experience which she has to draw from,
it is more than possible that she bas
gained the very knowledge that will help
your case. She asks nothing in return
except your good -will, and, her advice has
relieved thousands. Surely any woman,
rich or poor, is very foolish if she does my testimonial, that others nayknow their
not take advantage of this generous offer value and what you have done for mc.
of assistance. ---Lydia E. Pinkham Medi-
cine Co., Lynn, Mass.
Following we publish two letters
front a woman who accepted this
invitation. Note the result.
First letter.
]Gear Mrs. Pinkham :- -
"For eight years I bayou something
terrible every month. The pains are ex -
eructating and I can hardly stand them.
My doctor says I have a severe female
trouble and I must go through an oper-
ation if' want to get well. I d0 not want
to submit to it it I can possibly help it.
Please tell me what to do. I hope you can
relieve me."---IMfii..afery Minnick 59th
and E. Capitol Sea, 'Washington, P. C.
Second letter
Dear Mrs. Pinkli,Marn. c—
"Afterfoolloealee enrefnlly your advfee,
Ind `utnnaoqxot0if etnPori,XsnrMioua o Mad 31
"As you know, I wrote you that my
doctor said I must havo an operation or I
could not live, I then wrote you, telling
you my ailments. I followed your advice
and am entirely well. 1 can walk miles
without an ache or a pain and I owe guy
life to you and to Lydia E. pains
Veg-
etable Compound. I wish every suffering
woman world read this testimonial an
realise the value of writing to you and
your remedy," ---Mrs. Nary .Dinnmick, 59th
and E. Capitol Streets, Washington, D.C.
When a medicine has been successful
in restoring to health so many. women
whose testimonyis so unquestionable,
you cane
of well say,without � e tout trying it,
"I do not believe it will help me." If
you are ill, don't hesitate to get a bottle
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
Lpound at once, and write Mrd. Pinkham,
ynn Mast, for special advice—it is fres
and itiUraye helpful.
The jinrikisha gives you the backache
if you are not used to it. The proper
thing to Jo is to lie back and ►hake your-
self at home, but the amateur doesn't
feel like getting to familiar with it on
short acquaintance. He feels like the
old lady who took her first ride in a
sleeper she )roped there would be no ac-
cident, but she felt that it was said to
sit up and be ready in case anythitg
did happen..
The rikisha man is dripping wet with
tweet. It seems like cruelty to animate
ale
to keep him going longer, and,
besides,
it is getting late. The lofty cone of olcl
Fuji is fading into mist. The sampan
sails flap idly as the boatmen cal to
each other across the water. Lights
flare out along the bund and begin to
sparkle on the gray waste of roofs in
the lower town. Tho air rings with the
eternal clatter of wooden clogs. At in-
tervals the deep muffled sound waves
from the temple bell roll ni upon your
senses, You )near the blind massage
man's shrill whistle and' the metallic
clank of the fire watchman's stick. The
servant bows low as he brings your
candle, and with regret you say your
first good -night in fair Japan, i rederic
J. Haskin.
MOP View of Things.
In their efforts to teach children, par -
nets aro often surprised by the original
views which the youngsters take and by
their presentation of views which, while
they'
correct and discriminating so far as
they gomay. be but partial, are at least
It occurred to a father who noticed a
Carpenter hammering upon the roof of
a distant house that he would give hie
little son (8 years old) a lesson in phys-
ics by calling attention to the fact that
the blows of the hammer could be seen
before the sound made by them could
bo heard, and explaining that the differ-
ence in time between the seeing of the
blows and the hearing of the noise was
due to the fact that light travels mueh
faster than sound.
Ire sought to introduce the subject by
asking the_ boy if he Understood why,
it was that he could see the. hammer
fall before he could hear the noise of
tho stroke. Ile was astounded to re=
eeive the reply:
"Yes; it is because my eyes aro nearer
to the hammer than my ears."— St.
Nicholas.
the upper air currents in the trade wind
region of the North Atlantic the re-
sults of their observations were await-
ed with groat interest. The trade winds
are the most important of what may bo
called the "permanent" winds of the i
globe. 'thus in the North Atlantic the
northeast trades are in summer found
in full force about the Canary Islands,
and serve until within about 12 degrees
of the equator. In winter the belt tshifts
DOROTHY DIX
•
Commiserates With Disappointed and
Henpecked Husbands.
rather further south but at U. ` p
must be wormwood and gall, and bitter-
ness unspeakable.
Cer i
to nl e
th u
brdenaft
y he unhappy
marriage is heavier on tba man than kba
woman for the woman, amidst her die -
appointments,
generally, gets support out
of it„ while the man gets. nothing --put
l the privilege of paying for his mistakes.
And it is curiously ordered in ills
world that we pay higber for our tmfa-
takes than we do for our crines.
Dorothy DM
to stay and make the best of it and in +" e
time we get acclimated and accustomed i 1TAf,lAA WEI.Lh,
to prevailing oonditiona and finally to
feel that the move was a good one and
one that ultimately redounds to our
prosperity and well being.
But there is no denying that not one
man or woman in ten thousand realizes
the ideal in matrimony.
Few, few are the. brides that materi-
alize into the kind of wives that a gran
had visions of through the haze of his
after dinner cigars.
Few, few are the husbands who come
up to the dream of the god -like being
with whom a girl has pictured herself
walking through life,
l'ew, few are the marriages that
bring to either husband or wife the hap-
piness and the comfort and peace that
they expected. .
On which one of the pair does this dis-
alusionment fall heavier. Who suffers
more disappointment in finding out that
the jewel is paste the gold brick brass,
` and that the marriage tie, instead of be-
ing a rose -hung garland, is a yoke that
galls at every step?
It is the custom to say that under
sueh conditions the woman is the vic-
tim. There's no denying a woman suffers
more in her emotions than a man does,
because she has more time to sit with
her finger on her pulse, counting her
heart throbs.
She also says more about her suffer-
ings,
hence she gets the bulk of the sym-
It does not follow, though, that the
man who makes a mistake in choosing a
wife does not have his life just as
much blighted as does any woman who
picks out a misfit husband.
Between the drunkard's wife and the
husband of a nagger there is small choice
in misery—with the advantage, if any,
in the lady's favor; for it is a physi-
cal impossibility for a man to be ineb-
riated all the time while the shrewish
tongue is the one example of perpetual
motion in the world.
When a woman marries she expects
the man who has taken her away from
home and cut her off from a career to
make good by making her happy. She
expects him,naturally, to exhibit all the
elementary virtues of fidelity and sob-
riety and industry and in addition she
looks forward to his surrounding her
with a halo of delicate attentions and
never-ending love making and flattery.
When he doesn't do this she beats up-
on her breast and wails out that she is
the most miserable of her sex, and that
marriage is a failure and there is no
doubt it is to a degree.
It's hard to have anticipated living in
a fairy dale of bliss whore one did noth-
ing but feed on sugar plums and read
poetry among the roses, in a Paris neg-
ligee that cost $250, and to find out that
real married life means getting up in
the morning and getting a man's break-
fast and patching his trousers, and have
him knock your faults and be as silent
as the sphinx about your good qualities.
Oh, it's hard. Nobody can deny it.
The majority of wives spend their lives
in working for a man who, so far as
they can see, ceased to love them on
their wedding day, and who never even
says "thank you" for any ffort that
they make.
That they get their board and clothes
doesn't suffice. Any able-bodied woman
can support herself in these days, and
you can's blame the wife who gets noth-
ingbut
the hard
facts and
'
iisrb' -
it
P
itis
s of matrimony without any of the
tenderness that would gild them so she
wouldn't see them for thinking that she
has the heavy end of the load.
But how about her husband. Or some
other woman's husband?
All the disappointmnet is not femin-
ine. Men have their ideals, too, and per-
haps women fail to make good on men's
expectations of the perfect wife just as
often as men fall short of the feminine
ideal of the perfect husband.
A man looks forward to matrimony as
a calm haven into, wliich he can put for
rest and shelter from the storms of
business and politics. He dreams of be-
ing a king, over one heart at least and
being looked up to, petted and adored
and quoted and admired.
His ideal of a home is a place where !
his word is law, where good dinners ap-
pear upon the table as by magic and
where a neat, cheerful, smiling wife is al-
ways waiting at the door to give hien a
kiss of welcome.
How many nnen get wives like that?
How many men slip a pass -key into a
door that opens on that sort of an earth-
ly paradise?
About one in a thousand; and don't
you suppose that the other 900 men
who come to ill -kept houses and solvently,
complaining, fretting wives, feel that the
man who has brought this burden of
misery on himself needs a keeper?
The most abjectly pitiful sight on
earth is a henpecked man, and yet his
name is Legion.
We all know hint and we know the
man who has to go outside of his house
for all his amusement, and who would
not dare to play cards, or bring a bottle
of beer home, or speak to a pretty girl,
if there was tho slightest danger of his
wife finding it out.
Probably no one, except the man who
has been through it, knows the misery
of the husband whose wife flouts his
opinion and treats hint as if he were
about four years old, and not bright fur
his age, at that.
How sore his vanity must be, how hurt
his self-esteem, how humiliated he is in
his own sight.
And the realization that he !must spend
his days toiling and slaving to support
i a sea- getting married le very much like em -
sons a wind from the northeast is steady Waling to a strange,new country. Most
and strong from at least 2,, d tl t,Y
the tyrant whose foot is nom his mock
agrees nor i
latitude for fully 1,000 rnfles eouthwuu•d, of ris when we first arrive find so many
the expedition o
0
f Rte 'c•
P hand de Bort
t
appears to have differed in its methods
from that of the Prince of ]Monaco in
the mere general use of "balloons son-
des," which rose to great heights, and by
their line of drift indicated the direc-
tion of the atmospheric eurrent at dif-
ferent altitudes. Rites also were used,
but in the trade wiud region no great
height can be reacbed by their agency.
The northwesterly current was found
to be drier and more rapid than the
main northeasterly current and there
was always a quick rise of temperature
as soon as the level of the anti -trade
was reached. This phenomenon of "tem-
perature inversion" is one of the most
ntereating to be met with in atmoi-
plmrie exploration. To give a single ex-
ample. On one occasion, with a temper-
ature of 70 degrees just above the sea,
the air, at an elevation of 3,500 feet,
was found to have a temperature as
sigh as 80 degrees F. For our knowledge
of the upper currents outside the region
explored by Retch and de Bort we are
still chiefly indebted to the studies of
d the direction of movement of the sir us
clouds. For example, the Island of Maur-
itius, in the Southern Indian Ocean, lice
right in the track of the southeast
trades, That island has long been the
scene of great scientific activity, and
there observations of the upper clouds
show, as we should expect, the existence
of a steady upper current from the
northwest. Our terrestrial atmosphere is
never at rest, and the problem of the
general atmospheric circulation is a
complex one, and one that has been the
object of much acute theoretical analy-
sis.—The Edinburgh Scotsman.
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HIGH ABOVE LEVEL OF SEA.
Second Highest Point in World is Attaine
by Colorado Railroad.
The completion and opening for traffic
of a railroad 14,000 feet above the sea
level is an event of moment in that kind
of building and the one first finished
leading from the Colorado and Southern
lino to the summit of Mount McClennan
an Gray's Peak, is the second in the
world to reacr that altitude. The other
is in Peru, leading through the passes
of the Andes. Both lines carry the
locomotive, with its proud and conquer-
ing plume and its piercing note of tri-
umph, half as high as the ,highest peaks
in -the world with something to spare
No longer need it be said that "mount-
ains interposed make enemies of na-
tions," though it may havo been true en-
ough when the poet wrote it. Cured Through
'There are high mountain passes yet the Rich, Red Blood
left in the world for the railway to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Actual) i
cleave through, though it may be doubt-
ed
Y
ed if many of them will ever much ex-
ceed those named in altitude. The Him-
alayas, their peaks upholding the roof of
the world, are yet to be gridironed. So
are the Tilton Shan ranges and in gen-
eral the whole mountain system of
China; our intercontinental lines, going
ion apace and soon to join their links,
sometime will in the nature of things
have some pretty high places to cover,
but if they climb anywhere so lofty as
the one just finished and its Peruvian
predecessor it will be time to fire off
cannon and hold celebrations of exulta-
tion over the performance.
It is only the rail which has permitted
the wonders of the world to be reaehed
and we have only begin to penetrate in-
to their walled -in dominions. The train
which spins over the torrent of Zambesi's
fall across its high and slender steel arch
reveals one of the most majestic views
ever presented to mankind, but there
are many more yet to be found and link-
ed into the chain binding the accessible
together which is reticulated with mesh-
es growing atelier and smaller all over
the world. It will indeed be like braid-
ing a new world into the pattern of the
old, to the enrichment of its embroidery
beyond all the dreams which fancy can
feign or the most glowing imagination
picture.—New York Times.
BLOOD TROUBLES
difficulties ad objections and drawbacks
for which wo were not prepared, that we
world gladly turn and flee back to the
state of single blessedness if we could.
"Glory tickets," as our colored friends
call marriage licenses, aro not sold with
a return trip attachment, however.
We aro there, and there we have go
SECRETS IN THE AIR.
"Fascinating" Movements of Our Ter-
restrial Atmosphere.
Among the most fascinating and elu-
sive of scientific studies is that of the
movement of our terrestrial atmosphere.
Ever since men began to go down to the
sea in ships the needs of the navigator
must have led him to note for his own
future guidance and for the benefit of
other
adventures, the
general direction of
the wind at various seasons in different
t
seas. Gr•aduaIly as the world widened the
prevailing winds of the glebe became ac-
curately known, and the common' know-
ledge systematized, so that now for pro-
bably every part of the ocean outside
the polar circles there are official and
published records of the winds that may
be looked for at any season of the year.
Then, too, the etudent of physical geo-
graphy has noted how large a part the
prevailing winds of any region play in
determining the climatic oharacteriatios
of different countries. Thus, in the Bri-
tish Isles by far the most frequent winds
are from a southwestern quarter, and
these, blowing from off the warm waters
of the Atlantic, give to our islands a
temperate climate out of all proportion
to their latitude. In recent years, how-
ever, science has not been content with
studying only what are, after all, move-
ments merely in the lower serata of the
great ocean of air on the floor of which
we live and. move, but has sought to
penetrate the mysteries of the upper
air and to find out its secrets.
Both Rotch and de Bort have devoted
considerable private resources and tal-
ents of no mean order to meterorologi-
cal research, and when in the summer
of 1905 these two scientists united in a
joint expedition for the exploration of
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-Bret Badger.
He bathes.
He loves to dig. ' -•
He is of value to the farmer.
In northern winters he is semi -torpid.
His burrowing benefits the soil.
He eats field mice and ground squir-
rels.
The dug -out of the pioneer may have
been patterned after that of the badger.
Wisconsin is the Badger State.
Itis home is in the open fields and
prairies.
Except at night, he spends most of his
time underground.
His large, short, strong feet, legs and
claws make him a powerful digger.
If birds elude him, he contents himself
with eating their eggs; also toads, snakes
and lizards.
His color is indicated by the old say-
ing, "As gray as a badger." He's tawny
also.
As a fur -bearer he ranks between the
skunk and the beaver.
This squat, compact animal is about
two feet in length, very small minded,
and has a tooth for smaller animals.
He takes his name from the badge -like
marking of sharply contrasting stripes of
white and dark brown on his face.
So many residences does he dig and
then abandon that the fox, ferret, coyote
and other often take possession of them.
At the Zoological Garden these little
animals don't attract as much attention
as the more showy of the animal king-
dom.
Conundrums.
Why is a man walking against the
wind like a dressmaker finishing a
skirt?
Both are "facing" it.
'When is a lady's jacket like a China -
mamas, queue?
When braided.
When is a door lake girl's hair?
When banged
When is a dollar like the holy days?
When lent.
When are navy beans like drunkards?
When soaked.
What is it that never freezes?
Boiling water.
Itow many straws go to make a
goose's neat?
Not one, for ataaws, not having feet,
cannot go anywhere.
Who killed the fourth part of all the
people in the world?
Cain, when he killed Abel,
any should a housekeeper never put
the letter M into lier refrigerator?
Bceauaae it will chane ice into mice.
Whyisbread like 1 1 c the stun?
Decase it rises from the yeast.
Weiat is the cheapest feature of the
face?
Nostrils, two for a cent (emit).
Whet is the smallest room in the
worid?
Muiiibsootn.
Their Beautiful and Artistic Berms lir
Venice and Tuscany.
TheItalian ofthe d
It 1 an Middle Agee was
not content with an elementary bole
in the ground fenced about with rough
i Atone. On the contrary, the some sense
of artistic fitness which caused the Eris-
•tocrat to employ great sculptors of the
epoch to design the wrought iron and.
'bronze standard bearers and lanterns on
his palace prevailed even in civic taste,
and the fifteenth and sixteenth century
wells existing in out of the way .corn-
ers of Italy are marvels of grace and
good workmanship. In the ducal palace
courtyard in Venice there are two
bronze well curbs quite worthy of the
I great edifice which surrounds them. Pon-
derous, massive, yet delicately chiselled
and inodelled, their dark gleaming sides
form a striking contrast to the ,sunlit
Giant's Staircase and the marble arches
near by. Nor do they exist to delight the
• eye only. Great dents in the copper lin-
ing show where countless kettles have
been lowered into the cool green depths,
and ropes have scored half a hundred
smooth channels in the solid metal,
The square of San Giovanni e Paolo
contains a scarred marble well head
carved with tiny boys struggling under
the weight of huge garlands of fruit and
flowers. Nearly 400 years the iron grat-
ing has resisted alike incautious baby
fingers and prowling eats apd the key
has been handed down for generations in
a nearbyfaintly. nm y. Not twenty yards away
flows a canal of sluggish sea water, yet
I the well water, although brackish and
flat istill used sed for cooking and wash-
ing.
Ono of the best examples of private
wells in Venice is that standing a step
beyond the archway leading from the
Grand Canal in the Ca' d'Oro—the Gol-
1 den House. The sloping sides and the
sculpture in heavy relief give it the
ap-pearance of a capital of some immense
i column. The curiously twisted beading
around the edge is characteristic of the
architecture of the period.
The most striking point of difference
between the wells of Veneto and Tus-
cany consists in the upright columns and
cross beam, from which a wheel is sus-
pended in the latter. The Venetian drew
his water by force of bent back and of
straining muscles, while the lazier Tus-
can resorted to mechanical aids, at the
same time beautifying his well archi-
tecturally.
A contrast to the simple utilitarian
curb •is the fantastic fountain in the
Bevilacqua palace in Bologna. High up
on a slender marble shaft sits a quaint, a
sedate lion, gazing steadfastly into the
pool below him,. A stream of water fore.
ed through his jaws falls accurately back
into the depths from which it came. A
special significance is attached to this
fountain on account of the family name
which is equivalent to the English
"Drinkwater."
Griffins, lions, dragons and curious
mythological creatures were often called
upon to do menial duties in heraldic ar-
chitecture, like the patient, hopeless dra-
gon in the castle of Vincigilata near
Florence which grips the great iron wheel
in its claws, considerably • aided, be it
said in parenthesis, in this task, by a
stout bar.
In tineiron gardens of the monastic orders,
also, we find some n
fh
telov'
loveliest ex-
amples of wells; some austerely simple
and elegant in form; others surcharged
with rococo ornamentation softened by
clinging green moss and smoothed by the
hand of time into a gentle charm of
line and form which perhaps it did not
possess when fresh from the •chisel of
its maker. Did not the great Michael An-
gelo willingly condescend to design, the
well of the Florentine Certosa, with its
formal approach of closely clipped box
hedges, where the white robed friars ga-
ther around it to this day?
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Preferred It as God Made It.
Andrew Carnegie once delivered a lit-
tle homily to the pupils of a public
school in Washington, says Harper's
Weekly, wherein he endeavored to de-
monstrate that the judgment of men is
apt to be warped by sentiment and feel.
ing.
"In Scotland," asserted Mr. Carnegie,
"the people abominated hymns simply be.
cause the Episcopalians used them. The
Presbyterians sang only the Psalms
of David. The Episcopalians used stain-
edI
g ass in their church windows, and
for that reason the Scotch looked upon
stained glass as something of unholy ori-
gin."
Continuing, Mr, Carnegie told a story
of a Presbyterian minister who had been
bold enough to introduce this hated in,
novation . He was showing it in tri•
umph to one of his parishioners, and ask-
ed her how she liked it.
"Ay, it is handsome," said she, sadly,
`nut I prefer the gless jist as God made
it!"
•r0.
Railroad Man's Prayer.
The following is the text of a railroad
man's prayer pasted on the fireman's
side of the switch engine in Spokane:
":pow that I have flagged Thee, lift
up ny feet from the rough road of life
and plant them safely on the deck of
the train of salvation. Let me use
the safetly lamp of prudence, make all
the couplings With the link of ;love,
and let my hand lamp be the Bible,
to keep all the switches closed which Lead
off the main line into the sidings
with blind ends. have every sema-
phore block along the line show the .
white light of hope, that I may make
the Wu x•fl J,ife wjthont stopping,
(live ire the Ten Commandments as
a working card, and when I have fin.
!shed the run on scheduled time and
pulled into the terminal, may Thou,
Superintendent of tre Universe, say:
'Well, done, good and faithful servant;
carne into the general office to sign the
pay -roll and receive your cheque for eter•
nal happiness: "—Milwaukee Sentinel.
So Ile Bang Off.
(October Smart Set.)
Nml you didn't propose to herr*
"Why?".
"I was leading up to it, but sadd�so�ly
noted that her voice hada bort of p`,,
ous•engagement ring."