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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-08-22, Page 3liars At Its a en Web, tine Wee ran‘ht, MAO N to eapture leer six moan* tab Wound earest• bgiwte4 .1)04 the eee, in ell *44444 ha a Wear head mal sviiioie was perhaps wee treated daily with ou antiesatic teen; it bee Once Nen empooil every other dee with ee autiseptio powdee; these Uwe. Iamb heinif elven wheel eh° poet le Mama What Experts Say Now of Planet s thtvtuatetrA .Altau with clear of water to be cleaowl cox! the son cow Pein when tbe treaterieue wee (melted, but now it taloa it very littellY. Twiou the bas Mooed and pee iormeet la it, 'doh time to be lanced end cheated raid the treat- ment reeuined. It miglit seem tbat it wo 14 difil or imposeible to keen a powder dm" within a vreund upon an animal that for so rail& Of the time remains submerged in water, but teas b acoomplithee oaafly. Tho Powelee le pillow in the wound on cotton, the orifice of the wound beine thee Mugged with ehe080- cootie, this making- a meg that proves pee- fectir efficient. When at the end of the 8ocoi4 (lay, as now, the +messing is renewed, dry powder is found on the dressieg re- moved. Grimm:41y tale wound in the sea cow was five and e beet *niches in death; but now it boa bealea to within about an Inch of the surface, and there °apnea no rtracon to doubt that it will in clue •time be healed onmpktoly. So this elea cow, which has now broken the record, is getting elong in every way very nicely; it is certainly As woU eared for mid as comfortable here as any sea cow multi be anywhere hi euptivity.—New York Sun. Inhabitants. There hi no difficulty to the observer, however untrained, in picking out the planet 'Viers at the prima time, It is I Only aeceasary to look south aboat disc, td Wight and fieat red, catches Ol aright Or a little earlier, and the plauct's eye et once, if the night be clear enoug for auy stars to be seen at all. Mare was in "opposition," that is, It Wes on the naericliari, at true Inidnign and was therefore visible throughout th entire night on Saturday, July e; he wa at his nearest upproach, to the earth Week later, on Saturday, July 13, whe he was distant from us less than 38,000 000 utiles. Ile is therefore specially wel placed for the marlcings on his Bathed aogry looking face to be watched an studied. 114 it must not be supposed, write Mrs. A. D, Maunder in the Londe Chronicle, that astronomers have beei evaiting for either of these dates to begh this season's work on the planet. Ob servers in England indeed are at a grea disadvantage this year, as Mars le un =rally loW down in the south, and it i almost hopelese for them to expeet to b favored with clear and steady views o hitn. It is therefore to astronomers tropica.1 or southern countries that w must chiefly look for fresh information respeethag our neighbor ttis year. The "opposition" of a planet is utterly uun unlike a total eclipse of the s; ther are lie magic moments elherein rose re flantee or silvery corona are sudOeniy unveiled, to be lost agA,in as soon. Ou only chance of learning more of our planetary comrades in the solar system is by the slow and long continued meth od of watching them night after night for successive months, through each re curring "opposition" and little by little gathering together facts, separately triv ial, until the sum total is sufficient to warrant definite conclusions. The pro cess is slow and unsemsational, but thot is the way of science. A planet cannot be boomed like a soap, a patent pill or a political cry. And the scientific method has taught us an amazingamount about Mars in the two centuries and a half that he has been subjected to telescopic scrutiny. Every part of its surface has been chart- ed; we know it more completely, though of course not nearly in such detail, than we know that of the moon; for Mars turns every side to us and keeps no I hemisphere in hiding as our satellite done We may even truly sey that we know the surface of Mars more com- pletely than we know that of our own world; for our telescopes easily find their way to both poles; neither his Antic nor his Antaractie regions have to be written down "unexplored." But though we know so much of the surface of Mars, can it be supposed for a moment that we have learned all that we xnay yet learn, all that there is to learn? This question is called forth by the controversy that has arisen about the "canals" of Mars, for the one astronomer —Mr. Lowell, of Arizona, U.S.A., who contends that these are really artificially made waterways—bases his argument on the assumption that his drawings of the planet are perfect and could not be ma- terially changed if in the future wo should be able to see the planet much better than we can at present. It is very hard for any one who has not made the planet a study to realize how difficult an object it is and to ap- preciate at their full value the skill and petience which have secured so rich a harvest of faets. Mars, even at its near- est, seen at its very best, is no larger than a four inch ball seen at a distance of half a mile. It would be no small feat to detect lines under one -thirtieth of an inch in breadth on such a globe even with the best of telescopes. Yet the "canals" of Mars would be no wider than tide on such a globe, and every marking of one-tenth of an inch in diameter would have to be drawn in form and plane before the little ball would have been as fully represented as Mars is now &sown to us in the maps of Schiaparelli, Lowell and others. The result is that we find in Mars some characteristics like those of our own world, /tome very different. Just as we find on the rnoon mountains, hUls and volcanoes reminding us—with differ- ences—of those of the earth, but fail to find oceans, seas or rivers, so we know -111 of Mars that his day is but little longer than ours, and the variations in his sea- sons almost exactly the same as with us though of course slower, since his year is almost twice the length of the terrestrial year, We also see that, un- like the moon he ban an atmosphere, that clouds form on it and snow falls. But with these the reseMbIance to our own world seems to end. Mars has no means, no great seas; some water there must be, but it is small in amount and is not gathered together in great basins. On the other hand Mars has a feature unknown to the earth; he has the "canalts." favored in their conditions than Mr. 1/3" well, have already deeeeted so much of detail alai of irregularity in their strum ture as to quite remove them from the idea of Artificiality. There is no reason for believing that Itiars Is inhabited ether than that de- rived from, the supposed artificial origin . • of the "eanals." Mars has a cold climate; ie receives less than half the light and e bent from the sun that tho Earth does; e And eve get none too much. But more o important even than the supply of heat n ts the mns eafor holdhig it in. This le r afforded us by our atmosphere; but the , is AO rare at it offers next to 110 hin- 1.1 very friot that the atmosphere of Mars th d draw° to our perceiving ...every detail of I the planet's eurface proves thot It must a be far less sufficienit for Rich a purpose. n ; Indeed, just as a house with windows =curtained and unglazed proclaims it- self to be empty, to it is with it planet, - I There is a certain modesty about an in- t! Imbibed planet as about an inhabited - I house, The very conditions of habitabil- s ity mean a certain accent veiling from , outeido acrutiny. An atmosphere such f ! as ours) dense enough for respiration, 1 moisture bearing, cloud supporting and e 1 dust laden, such an atmosphere, in a word, as is essential for life as we know it, would never permit such a display ; of its surface as "%fans freely offers to e us, and no doubt the earth appease to ti IV/ans as Venus appears to us, 11? bright but almost featureless ball of light. r I We may therefore confidently relegate to the realms of fairyland all talk about ' signals from our canal digging upon - Mars, or that its 'seasonal changes must be due to the existence of life— and -1. I not only life but Intelligent and singu- j laxly efficient life, or phantasies about - 1 the "Titanic works of it powerful and co-operative population." Mars is not , quite so entirely deprived of air and 1 water as our moon, and consequently is not quite so "dead" a world or so wholly removed from change. But when Its fitness for supporting life is consid- ered this avantage must be counterbid- ! anced by its much greater distance from the great source of light and heat, and therefore of life—the man. At least we have nothing on this earth that we can recognize as "canals," but that may well be beoause we are too ;tear to our own world and see its feu - time in too much detail —we "cannot eee the woo& for the trees"— but there can be little doubt that astronomer& on Venus—if there be any such—turn- ing their telescopes toward our earth might very well seo among our chief geo- graphical features lines as sharp and , straight and hard as any "canal" that 111... Mr. Lowell rules across his drawings of Mans.- II we gtant—what is, however, very improbable—that our atmosphere is transparent enough to allow our Oceans, seas and rivers to be diserimin- ate.d from tate solid land, then beyond a doubt the Ani.a.zon, the Nile, the Ails- fissippl, the St. Lawrenee and the great livens of Asia will appear to the obser- ver 1511 Venus much as the Martian "can- als" do to us, namely, as long, straight, nartow lines—all windings and branch - Inge will be effectively smoothed out bee/Luso all sueh irreguladitiee will be too am.al1 to produce any effect at that dis- t,ante. Our terrestrial geography would in- deed produce ehill avenger features, Over OM over again we should have the lend (running into king, straight bare. Thci tem would. smooth out the Irregularities In outline and bridge over the gaps, which were too minute for it to define; and though the chort of the Earth, as it appears to Venus, would probably tot leek quite so much like a spider's web as does Mr. Lemon's chart of Mars, it eertairily would contain many stiff teeth - 'near features that would suggeat an artificial origin and greatly puzzle the geographer here to identify. Ne` It is not a mere theory that the *Er/tightness and uniformity a. Mr. Lo well's "eanals," from which he arguee that they are of artifieial origin, are siMply due to imperfect; seeing. Several Observer., either more Mori WISE PARENTS Guard Their Children's Health by Giving Them Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. • The health of the growing boy or girl should be carefully guarded. During the growing time these is it danger of the blood becoming poisoned and the health seriously impaired. The blood should be kept pure and the child will grow strong, healthy and active. Dr.! Williams' Pink Pills are an ideal tonic I for the young. 'They never fail to bring color to the pale cheeks and strength to the growing body. To a reporter of L'Avenir du 'Nord, Mr. Jos. Provost, of St. Canute, Que., tells how these pills saved his daughter Marie from it life of misery. Be says: "A year ago my I daughter, a girl of thirteen, was very weak. She was so ill that I feared she was going into consmuption. Though I tried remedy after remedy she remained in this weak state for several months, and I began to think she never would get better. I read of the good Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills had been in a case of 1 anaemia, so got some for her. Soon she began to improve, her appetite returned; she grew strong; color came into her cheeks and to -day she is as healthy as any young girl could be. I firmly be- lieve Dr. Williams' Pink Tills saved her 111 Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are equally as successful in bringing those of =dim age back to health as they are in build- ' ing up the young. They make pure, red blocd—that is why they banish anaemia, rheumatism, St. Vitus dance, heart pal- pitation, indigestion and the secret ills of girlhood and womanhood. But you must get the genuine, bearing the full. name "Dr, Williams' Pink Pills for Pale; Teeple," on the wrapper around each box. All other so-called Pink Pills are imitations. If your medicine dealer does. not keep the genuine pills they will be sent at 60 cents it box or six boxes for $2.50 from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. e• AQUARIUM'S SEACOW. ...1.•••••••••16.41 .10*,..•••••• Mystery of a Phila- delphia Doctor's Laboratory. When I Was a young woman I was seamstress in the fluidly of Doctor B---, who WAS one of the most prominent and ablest doctors in Philadelphia; his home was it three-storey house in Walnut street, below Tenth, and was built, as were most of the houses at that tirae, with a back stairway which practically cut the house in two. On the eecond goer was a large bathroom, and adjoin- ing tide the doctor had a smaller room fitted up as a laboratory. There were three rooms on the upper floor, one mine, theother two occupietl by the cook and housemaid. Like most young girls I was intensely afraid. of the laboratory, and usually ran past it, holding my breath and keeping my eyes shut tight; the older women had told me tales of the grewsome con- tents of the bottles and jam on the shelves; of the skeleton of a men hanged in Moyamensing, of skulls of notorious criminals and the thousand and one things that only mean horror to a young girl. Only once did I look into this chamber of horrors, and that was on a clear winter's afternoon, when I had run upstairs for something forgotten. But all I saw then was a detached bathtub which stood near a door on the opposite side of the room. This door, I learned, opened on a narrow staircase which ran down the opposite wall of the house into the yard. When I reached my room at night I was usually too tired to worry much about what might be going on in the room below me. One night in the winter I was even more than usually tired. I locked my door as usual, fastened my one window, which looked into the yard, turned out the gas and got into bed. I had not slept long when I heard some one call, alary1 oh, Mary!" in such a troubled voice that I thought it must be the oodk or housemaid taken sudden- ly ill. I jumped out of lied and answer- ed, "Yes, Pm coming! What's wanted?" I opened my door and looked into the hall, but could see no one; nobody was about on my floor. I decided I had been dreaming, went into my room again, fastened my door and got into bed, determined to go to sleep at once. I lay with my face toward the wall when some insistent and irre- sistible force compelled me to turn to. ward mydoor. A light was alway ie burning n each hall of the house and there was sufficient coming through the transom over my door for me to see clearly all the familiar objects in my room. As I looked I saw distinctly a woman standing as though she had just come through the door, though I knew it was locked. She had on a white bed gown, quite short (for 1 could see her white stockings and black cloth low shoes), a black petticoat and it little gray shawl across her shoulders. Her hair was white and her face was the most pitiful I had ever ecen; it was pal- lid and wasted as though with a long sickness, end as .1 looked at her sh wrung her poor, thin hands and said.: "Mary, oh! Mary! don't let them"— and that was all. I jumped from my bed again, lighted the gas and turned to see what she wanted me to do, but she was gone. My door was fastened so was my window, and there was no other way to get in or out o/ my room. I again went into the hall, but it was silent and empty. There was no more sleep for me that night, and I determined to leave my place. Next morning I went dowit stairs about 6 o'clock, and as I passed it I no- ticed that the door of the laboratory vas open. Impelled by the same force videh drew my eyes toward my door the night before, 1 went to the tub and loote- d in. And there lay the woman I had een in iny room. Save that her eyes vere shut she was as I had seen her, dressed in the shortwhite gown, the vhite stockings and the low cut cloth hoes with the same pitiful tvhite faoe ramed in white hair. 1 ran screaming rom the room, and the cook had to call he (looter to attend me, for I went into violent fit of hysterics. • left my place that day, but I have lways wondered who that poor soul *as. The cook said she had died of a are disease and her body had been rought to the dodoes house /or dissee- ion. Was she dead when they brought er there and placed her in. the tub, nd did her soul have a tenderness for he body that had cradled it so long, nd have a horror of its being dissected? It Has Broken the Captivity Record and Hasn't Missed a Meal. The sea caw new at. tho Aquarium has N boon kept alive in captivity louge.r than tiby other animal of its .ales ever exhibited here. The previous record for sea cows was ten months and eleven days; this tvet taw nes s boon here now about eleven months, haviug been received on SepteMber 5, 15, and it Is still in excellent condition. It has never mewed a meal since the day if its arrival e50ept on two occasions when s fer brief periods food was dented it for its f own good. It oats about half a bushel of , green stuff dally,*applied ;to It in two meals, ' orioat9a.m.andtIloOtII0r81t2p.fli. t nee ernes is what is eats. principaliy, but a it ems also ulva, or bea lettuce, and the ardinery land lettuce and femme and car - a rot tope and celery to,. It mew eel grass best of all, but it is very fond of lettuee: give it ell the lettuce it would eat and it r woubd kill itself by overgenag, Just as a, land , eow might kill itself by overeating if it u got into a cahbago paten. 'rho various green things grow.a on the h land that a.re fed to It constitute um bulk „ of the eeit COWS food in winter when eel ", guess is =nameable on account a ice; eel t grass Is the staple ef its food in summer. a, It eaight seem that it would be rather ox - emblem to feed the sea cow In winter ou Wiorida lettuce aad Beaton lettuce grown .i. Vliy had she come to me, a stranger? at that seamen under glass, but as a matter t of fact it is not. The lettuee this ted is the trimmings, the ranker outside leaves Out away by the whet -teak ea produce dlt-ea to give the heads si a ghtlior eppearanoo for market whit% trimmings the Aquarium buys for fifty conte it bushel, 00 that to food the seli cow oft lettuee or 0eierY bi winter costs really any 25 cents a day. Tho marine farmer, who keeps the sea cow supplied with eel erase in summer, has this season so far mowed an area of fear acme in a elpot on tho teliores of Gravesend Ilay; likethe land terrace, he uses a teethe in his mowing, but unlike the land farmer he swinge his soythe under tho water, doing hie rnowing at low tide, when tbe depth of water oil tho grass Is least, The col grasa grows in a season to be four or five feet In length, the tops of it to be seed undulating, with the movement of the wester over it, when the tido is high; equelle tawnier is the sight of it AS it all lies low and all one way, arawn so by the receding tide, viten the tide le low; and it 18 0.t that etage of the tide that the marble termer esthete eo nmeh of the crop as may be required for the sea coiv's needs. Defoe° the preeent euttleg eel gram for the zee cow, it bee been cut down to die roots but this scasen in Mewing over a space, about four inches of the grass has been left etaeling. In the couroe of two or three weeles Abe (knees taus left standing aide five or tie Mem te 118 length by greeett, reel then this spaeo is cut over, down to the roots fee a second erop, this seeend ores) main being found better ad tenderer. When the see cow was fiat brimmed hero Iran the Itiorlda, more, in Vieth it wan taken, it Sled 10 the mew rnet 04 118 body juzt elear wound with an nin abo t Urea twat have never found an answer to any of hese questions. Thatched Roofs in London. • Every cabman knows that there is a Thatched House In St. James' street, al- though the name is a bare tradition of a long deperted roofing. Like wooden houses, thatched roofs are rare in Lon- don. There is a beautiful specimen in Cam- berwell Grove, not far from Camberwell Green. Standing back from the street, it Is imbedded in the richest foliage and clad in ivy. The thatching is of :Indent date, Tib good repair and evideatly the work of a highly skilled thatcher, At the beginning of tho grove is a very ohl inn called the Plotiw, which retains all the main features with which it was in- vested some 300 years ago.-- London Evening Standard. Can You Perriember eine first time you wore trousers? +-The first time you tried to smoke? —film first gal you were in love with? —The first time you Matted hat? —Who first pair of long pants eon tielret --Mho first dress suit you had one • --The first dollar you earned? —The first stiff hat you donned ...The first time you proposed to a stelt —The first time yeu were sent tor milk and drank nonte on the way Ileum? ....The last time your daddy tanned IOU, hider—Vhe North nettle:um!' Review. eleltieltal++11-1-.4-44-eletleeteteteeleiltelees The Cheerful Invalid A. ********************-*•+++ 11 there is one individeal more 131 understood than another he is probab the cheerful invalid. Ito is generally more or Jess popular with nurses he - cause he IS leas trouble than A growle The other patients naturally take him because lie, being so little troubl gives them an opportunity of being little extra troublesenie. Also as I becomes wt.11 they look to bini to do t numerone little jobs they ean think which is no light task, for an ordina invalid, ran think of a bit of things fo the cheerful inealid to de, The very term "eheerful invalid" ie misleading one. The filet is the appfiren cheerfulness ie a symptmu of itis eon plaint. The more sick Home people b eornh the more humorous they seem t got. I do myself. I remember once lyin In bed in a boarding house. The reaso I /ay there on this oceasion was b cause I was too sick to get up. At la I heard the welcome sound. of the boar( Ing mistress coming to see what was th matte'. Mentally I prepared an mu ate account of my sufferings. It w valueless, no sooner did I begin to r peat them than I found myself utterl unable to be solemn. The boarding mi tress talked for a while of eases lik mine which had ended fatally. Of emirs I began to think I was practically den and to feel like anyone would under th eireemstanees. The worse I felt th more funny were the jokes that poure through my mind. The boarding ral tress thought she was doing me goo and went over all the sicknesses sh know which at all resembled mine. A last she said she'd have to go, and Oa I was to be sure and come down fo dinner. She added that she thought must be starving. I was, but instead o saying so I made it most witty miner and had the satisfaction of seeing he hurry away laughing and knowing tha all chance of tea and toast was gone. I've often wondered how I got wel For two hours I lay in a state of wretch edness, unable to make up my min whether to order a doctor, surgeon o apticiau, or simply save the middlema and see the undertaker at once. I don' know that I should have decided o had I not by chance raised my hea from the pillow. Instead of violen shooting pains a.il n as peaceful. Thi gave me hope. I put one leg out of be and didn't feel a bit dizzy. Then I stuel the other out, and at that moment th boarding misses shouted up the stairs "Come along; dinner's almost ready." Spaday mouth .14.11,y Providence rowarit bon 4s otietnet bee --but hew we do with that Previdence would give hint to re for about two hours{ In our perusal of pictorial religiono works we have hong been pained by the ongels wearing hair o* faces, We preetune, however, it is be- 1414 obseuee of tt their nir _uNITED misH LEAGUE AND THE calve men have such it close shave to get 4. there, (!f777 rvi*rrsici ly Ireland's Thrting Parties. Wo have never said one wora against tit emotherdn-law, We live Inge hone(' • which contains t f ' Wo ern. Our office counnande elterful 'IOW of r' the Wan, cemetery, who:tee the departed to bill vollectors never return, e, 1 If sonic folks 'We know ever get to 10 huitches ana tlie other airection, heaven, all we'll ask for is a box of het A Jumping match- Was held in town t bait week to decide which was the great- „„ est poet, Byron or Tennyson. The num *e I ate espoueed the cause of Tennyson r I jumped 12 feet, even; but as the Byrell fellow got mad and licked him afterward, a I t the matter is in some doubt, rind will be submitted to a board of arbitration. iTagk'razitniieen.L. Stanton, in Uncle Henault' o -•1 SNAKES THAT BARK.. A I O What Does the Spec's Snake Edi- r - as tor Think of This One? 0. a - e writes to the New York Sun tho fot- o lowing remarkable snake ((tory, which d, I may be of intereet to nature etudente; e I have been studying it nature story a • at ohm quarters the last few days, and s- it is my advice that Mr. John Burroughs (SI and his distinguished friend go slow in positive denials of apparent impossibili- 31`. W. Shibley, Shurbot Lake, Ont., t tied. r ) John Antane, my Indian guide, who is 1 78 and looks 45, asked me the other f day while I was trolling for black bass k, if I had ever heard a snake bark like ✓ a dog. I looked at John, but Itis face bore t truth in every line. I replied that I nev- er had heard a snake bark, and. asked 1. John if he had had the good fortune - to hear a snake so perform. lie re- d plied quietly that he had, that a year ✓ or so ago he and several of n his friends were in the back - t woods trapping otter when they were n surprised by the barking of a dog across d • a swamp. John thought it was it beagle t hound at first, and his friends agreed s that a beagle hound was certainly giving d tongue across that walup. c But why should a beagle hound be e 0411)6$ 1110 swamp, John thought, for : them was no one within a hundred miles I of them John decided to investigate. got up at once, and opened the door "Mrs. leitzharris,” I called, "I'm feelin better; hil be down at once." Afte that Ilelt sure I was well again; perhap it was indigestion, but if I'd said any thing funny I'd got right back to bed, because experience has taught me that a joke is as significant in my case as a temperature of 104 degrees woulti be in anyone else's. I've seen the same thing in other people. Just so long as anyone is with them they are as cheerful as their visit- ors. Frequently more so, because people who come to see anyone who is rich try to be cheerful anti always fail. The cheer- ful invalid, no the other hand, tries to be serious and becomes at mum frivolous in everything he says. When the visitors are gone he lies in despair, wondering why he didn't ask them for half a dozen oranges, a plug of Chewing or a book, ac- cording to hie tastes. There's a friend of mine who never makes mistakes of this description, For- tunately for him, and very fortunately for everyone else, he is rarely rich. When he is, he seleits the most comfortable lounge, lies on it and groans aloud. it may only be a trifling haulhehe• it makes no difference. Tie groans and groans until the household outvies itself ' to do something., to relieve him. Having brought rein to Ode state he just enemas in gasping out directions to each of them and begins groaning worse than before. l'Ile result is the supper table is weighed down with in- valids' luxuries. Me usually first com- plains about 3 p. rn.h TTe is still groan- ing when they gather round him and coax him to it up to the table just for a e p of ten. Once up, his recovery is little short of reimetzlous. In an hour he has eaten all the delicacies, 'end, in fact, made a supper a web man might be exeused for boast- ing about. This( done he plumpa back exhausted. on the lounge and groans steadily until bedtime, generally blaming those who prepared the delicacies for having made him worse. Next morning invariably finds him well again, and at breakfast he frankly admits he's tired of lying groaning on the lounge and that that is why he is well again. Now, that's a sensible way of being sick. How different the care of the cheer- ful invalid. People either admire him or don't believe there is much the matter with him. Nobody feeds him or prepares invalids' dishes for him, as they do for the groaner. Yet I think the so-called cheerful invalid is the most wretched. The groaner must think it a great joke even if his head does ache a little—he must feel it is almost worth it to see the fun. He knows what the other man doesn't know—that a rich sick man can. not afford to smile when there is anyone 4n the room. More especially is this the case in a boarding-house. It would pay anyone to learn te groan in a heart-rending way. It woeld need practice, but it would be worth it when the works were out of order. Of mita, a person would have to keep a look -out that they didn't send for the ambulance. It's only right te mentioh that my friend watein bis own home, whieli might make a difference in these kinds of cases. BILLVILLE PHILOSOPHY. Whenever thne comes to count out troubles we forget all our arithmetic and holler "Thilleittial" It's our honest belief that women are angels, but they have worked the wings off in hat trimmings. While we were peacefully plowing in I our field on 'Wednesday last some inis- ; creant stole our shirt, IAA& was hong- Ing on a stump near by. That accounts for our absence from prayer meeting . Walking around the swamp to the other g side he crept down to the water and saw ✓ a snake floating on a s.aw log and try - s ing to swallow a big horn pout. The - snake was about eighteen feet long, as big around as a man's leg and ending stubby at the tail. It was so heavy that the saw log was almost eubmerged. One of the horns of the big fish had stuck in its throat and it was in trouble. About twenty feet from it on another log was a larger snake of the same breed, and this snake was barking in sympathy for its mate. I told ,John that no such snakes as hie described ever grew in Canada; that they were pythons if anything; that snakee do not bark and that he must , have been seeing things that day. John was positive that he had seen and heard , idm snakes and that his friends also hal heard and seen. I made up my mind that John wee lying, taking me for an easy , mark. The next day we were building, an addition to my boathouse and I had 1 Simon mei Rufus Madore to help. While , we were at woek John said to me quiet- ly: 'Simon and Rufus both paw the alleles and heard the big fellows bark." was coireborative evidence at close I quarters. I questioned Simon and Rufus and then cross-examined them. They told exactly the same story John had and eivore there mild not be the least doubt about it. If necessary I can secure the affidavits of John Antoine and Simon ;8 aud Rufus afadore to this snake story, and so 1 am inclined to question the ad- visability of saying liar before the proofs I are all in. 1 A Doblie cable: As regarde organ eateou the situation in Ireland aora what resembles Viet in Huseitt, Verio bodies working toward. the slime com .111011 ella are in. the field and one pul :against the other, to the detrimeut o reateal3userit.aiTnhealtatintill-vilioatie feeltuilesii:euredin that the divisions that have sprung up in the Nationalist :auks will largely re- lieve them. of the neeeeeity of fightiog against the dismemberment of the em- pire and they are satisfied that the Ohl dictum of "divide and conquer" still holds good. , learn how the United Irieh League actually stands Ana what its intentions are the writer 0014 upon Denis John- ston, who has charge of the hea,dquer- ters of the organization in Dublin. Mr. Johneton began by liunenting that the Sinn Fein party and the National Coun- ell had come into antagonisna with the league. The aline of both bodies were id- entically the seine until the action of the Parliamentary party mine into ra- tion, The Kinn Feiners wanted Me Irish Nationalists to withdraw from Perna- nient and to head the agitation in Ire- land, Many strong reasons might be urged against tilde course. In the flast place, the party must be in Parliament et least came Ili the twelve months and if they absented themealves the country would be put to the trouble eaid expense of a general eleetioe. If they did withdraw Ireland would be represented in the House by eighteen T,Inionists, who would do what they liked with the various Irish interests that are brought up for discussion, such as the amendment of the land act of 1903, the evicted tenants, the education question and the financial relations between the two countries. He might say that the countrv. was practically solidly against the witharawal ofthe members, Mr. Dolan, AL P., had expreesed his deter- mination be resign bis seat and go up for reelection on the Sinn • Fein ticket; but he had not resigned yet. He had held eeveral meetings, at each of which the people had in the most emphatic way shown him that they did not &Dace with his policy. He attempted to address a thoosand people tbe other day. The peo- ple turned their banke upon him and in Ilia end he had to seek refuge in a. police barraelc. Asked the strength of the Sinn Fein party Mr. Johnston saicl•it could not be given. The two leading men connected with it were John Sweetman, who was it grazier in the county Meath and a rancher in Minnesota, and P. T. Daly. Sweetman continued to be a grazier, although one of the aims of the Sinn Fein was to do away with the grazing eystem. It was imposeible to say what the strength of the Simi Fein party is, but it was a telling feet that while po- lice' note takers attended the meetings of the United Irish League they were never to be seen at the Sinn Fein meet- ings. It WAR hard to discover members of the new organization in the districts in whit+ branches were said to exist. Ed- ward Martyn, the recently retired leader ef the society, was tbe first president of The seetarian body known as the Ca- tholic .Association. and the prceent lead- er is Alderman Cole, who is to -day one of the chief opponents of the same as- eGelhi'akit417;eleard to the preeent position of the United Trish League, Mr. John- ston declared that Aim. the rejeetion by the country of the Birrell's bill it has became etroneer than ,ever, it has 1,000 branches in Treland a.nd 700 branch- es acmes the channel in Great Britain, while abroad., including America, there s a meet Auxiliary organizatime That the auxiliaries are mere ran smitimen- taI was proved last year by the .W.34,000 ent Ireland, mainly from the United Stitksed concerning the evicted tenants, le said that of the tenants who had been evicted on the plan of campaign estates, yhere the people submitted to eviction as a protest, about 98 per cent, had been reinstated on their holdings, and the re- maining 12 per cent., who were still out, ielonged to the Clanricarde and Lewis states in the County Galivay. The people were satisfied with the m- int of the cattle drives, and were confi- ent that next year the majority of the razing lands would be in their hands. During the drives not the slightest ruelty was ever practised on a single nimal. The stock were simply driven rom the grazing lands and delivered to he owner wherever they lived, and a •eceipt asked for, Outside Birr, when he drive was in progress when the ambs became tired the men carried hem on their shonlderst and he had even ecu fatigued sheep carried by the drivers, file anima's were never scattered or riven on to tho roads to wander. In ne ease, in which the owner lived about ight miles from the ranch, the people rove the stock to the police barracks, here they handed them over the the onstabulary, who gave a receipt. This roved two things—that the people had desire that the stock should be well reated and that they ware not afraid f the consequences of their actions. They presented themselves to the police, knowing that they would be identified. Concerning William O'Brien, Mr. John - ton said that the party had cordially nvited him to return when the 13irrell ill was rejected and the country had echered solidly that devolution was ead, and that nothing but a clear mem. ure of home rule would do. Before ejoining Mr. O'Brien would have to east evelution aside; but lie did not seem nelined to take this step. Hence his osition was one of difficulty. Devolu- ion was still dangled before the eyes of he people, and it was a strange fact bat here end there newspapers awned stensibly by Men Who had no money ael been started to further the policy. There the capital for the running of the eariliee87 came front was one of the mys- An exhaustive progmmtne has been repared for the fightiag in the eoming all nnd winter, when there would be, in - 12 was; a regrettable thing that the Shin e. losin party had sprung up te oppeile the United Irish Letigue and it Was nvere " nerticularly regrettable owing 'to the *: fact that the ends Of the two organize.- tiuns were identical. The Sinn Feiner:: told the loopier/4 that certain thinge should be done, bat did not say how they elneald be done. As for theinselvee, they were always de- nouncing the Boor war, and Circulated alithealistime pamphlets at night, yet they alloW s, memorial arch to be erected to soldiers who fought in the war without having uttered a single word of protest, ond none of them had ever gone to jail for kis anti -array feel- ings, The league recognized that it had a tough fight before it, but it wait pre- pare:1 kw it. At a league neeeting the other day in Meath he had lighted a fire that ha hoped would spread, He had suggested that when the Irish people could not get a home manufactured article they should !Wet on getting ft of American manufacture, and the euggee- tion had. caught on in the country. As America helped Ireland,. Ireland! should so far as poseible, although ehe wax not very big, help America, 4 • • 1 ELECTRIC SLEEP, Use of Current Produces Somnolence and Anaesthesia. Some months ago S. Leduc described how, with ten to thirty volts, and with currents interrupted 150 to ,200 times per second, the inhibition of the cere- bral hemispheres could. be brought about c in animals, thus producing sleep and a a general anaesthesia. The procedure had the disadvantage of producing at first 1 contraction and. convulsions, raising the pressure of the blood, provoking the evacuation of the bladder and the in- testine, and momentarily stopping res- piration, ' Those disadvantages are largely re - induced by introducing into the circuit an inductionless resistance allowing the operator to attain the necessary inten- s ty gradually in three to five minutes. This method requires a preliminary in- troduction of the maximum electromo- tive force, but this should be put as low 1 as possible. When the electromotive • lorce is then gradually raised to the ne- eesertry figure, the animal passes gently Iand graditally, without a movement of defense, or of light, without a cry, and without any change in the movements of respiration or heart action, from the ' wakening states Into a quiet and regu- lar sleep, with a,bsolute anaesthesia, The dog at first bows its head as if sleepy', sits down, lies down on its side eventu- ally goes to sleep without having given tho least sign of fear or pain. cl 4, • ire i Queen Mary's House for Sale, From tinie to time most interseting t historical relies come before the publio t through the medium of the auctioneer. t The latest exatnple of this is Queen o Mary's house itt Jedburgh and some old h tapestry which 11 has contained. Jedburgh, *cording to Mr. James p Tate, had a strong castle at the highest t part of the toWh, And some of the man- sions were in the form of beadle houses, P the defensive character being requisite as a proteetion against English invaders. Of these houses the most interesting spe- eimen now remaining is one in which Queen Mary lay sick for some time after her ride of fifty miles over moor and moss; to visit Bothwell et Hermitage Castle, where he had been weinitled by the banditti of Liddesdale. It is this house for whieh offers are being invited. The bed occupied by the Queen at the time of her illness is now at Abbotsford, having been presented to Sir Walter Scott. The tapestry 'which covered the wails of the room is seid to have been Worked by the Court WW1 while they Waited for the recovery of their Boyer- eign.—From the London Daily Neves. • 4it.* Biobbs—'1f the most termite(' fellow I know. He cells himself the Inevitable, Slobbe—The Inevitoblet Whyt Blobbe *eat thinks every girl must aocoVt wEionnle THE MAILS. I Done Every Pour Years as a Basis for Railroad Contrects, The railroads are paid for carrying the melte on the bask' of a contract running four years. Once during this period ad- ditional men are put on the mail care, whose duty is to weigh all, mail received and delivered at ettch station. The figures thus secured are asstuned to represent ati. average of the amount of until carried on that route, and be- come the basis of the contract. Four years later a new period of weighing is begun, a,nd the contract is revised in as- cordence with the new figures. The United Stittee is divided into four contract districts, says System, and the weighing is carried on simultaneously. hi all parts of a district. The following year some other district is weighed, and thus the circuit of the country is cov- ered in the four-year period Each district contains several weighing divisions. For example, in the district which conirpises the North Central States, weighings will be conducted sim- ultaneously in the divisions centring at Chicago., Cleveland and Cincinnati. It is m the tabulation and compilation of the reports sent in by these official weighers that the system devised by Carle C. Hungerford, of the railway mail service, is employed.. "The weighing of the mails for the purpose of awarding the contract is not a new departure," said Mr. Hungerford. "That was pert of the old system. The mail weighers have cards on which they record the weight of the mail taken on at each station on the route and also the weight put off. Another card records the weight on the return trip between the seine points, "Thie process of daily weighing is kept up for ninety daya, and the totals must be footed at the end of each week and tho end of the whole period. Formerly each day's report was entered by the clerks on a large tabulating shoot three feet long and two lent wide, and figured had to be totalled wertioally and hori- zontally. "The size of the joh osen be mean when I tell you that the report of just two trains on a long run /or the period ot ninety days took up thirteeri of these large sheets. "The work kept twe,nty•Liwe men busy in the Chicago headquarters during the time of the weighing, and for three months afterward. Then there was lia- bility of error in the footings. "So we developed the pie= of doing away with the tabulating sheet altoge- ther. We used the ad.ding inaehine and make its record strip the 'permanent re- cord of the weights. Massa el brat entering the figures on the herge sheet and then transferring them to the ma- chine, one man reads the amounts from the weighing report end another are- ates the naachine. "The figures for a week ere kept to- gether, and totals taken for eaeh town. At the end the totals are taken for tbe whole route. "The cipher in the middle of the col- umn marks the dividing line between the columns for mail put off the train and mail taken on. At the end of the weigh- ing period the totals for the various weeks are footed on the machine. "We can do the work with half the clerks that were formerly needed. It takes three montlet to finish. the reports after the weighing closes. Heretofore we had to keep twenty-five men at work tabulating and adding; number oan do the work." now half the • * Resignation. There is no flock, however, watched sad tended., But one dead lamb le tbarel 'There is no &aside. toweeerer defended, But has ono vacant chair! The air le full of farewells to the dying. " And raournmes tor the dead,' The heart at Umbel. Mr nor children =Ws, Will not be comforteal Let us bo petient. Thera (lever* affliCtionll Not from the ground arise,. But oftentimes *elect's-% benedictions ASSU/110 thlo dark disguise. WO see but dimly thruuch the sahibs and vatiorm Amid those earthly dames What own to be but gui, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant tempo, There is 110 deatht What seems ao Is trail. nig life of mortal breath Is but a vulnut of the life elyslan, Whose oortels we call death. —Lonsfelloit. 4 • Malicious liusibaud. She—Did my voice fill the salon, at) the musicale? lie—.Apparently—and the dining-rooni inalitiort to other things, nlOileter defile*. atniedIsatnlesolainrgom-reIoe: aMotto pter wevdeerryob.ody strations in all parts of the country in Sled there!—Trenelated for Transatlam furtherance of the home rule propaganda. 434414.040641,4043004:40.0400 Scott's Errtrarfora strengthens enfettlea nursing mothers by increasing their flesh and nerve force. 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