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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-10-24, Page 3FROM OVER THE OCEAN. Some of the Many Wonderful Happenings in the British Isles. LUCK'NOW DAY. In the whirl Rea rash moaern. life Men have, it le to be feared, little time to imare ler the. recollection and com- memoration of great anniverseries. Yet 410 Englishman worth the nettle should forget the event. which, occurred fifty nem* ago on Wednesday in lndia, when at last Ilevelockaa, force of "glorioust xighlandors" fought their way against ormpowering oddla into beleaguered Lueknow, and by the most desperate ef- forts aa.ved the gellant garrison and the evonieu and ehildren in the Residency front tho terrible fate which befell tee British at Cawnpore. It has been well said by the histor- ian of this splendid athievement that Havelock accomplithea the impossible. He had to make hie way with a mere handful of men through the narrow streets of a great eastern city, to fight for every inch of the ground, and to car- ry with him every wounded men that fell. Be had broken loose from all sup- port a,nd plunged into the midet of the enemy. If he failed to go forward, we •utterable disaster awaited him and those to edunn he sought to brireg assistamea. But he knew the men he led, and they in their turn rose se a height of heroism and devotion rarely equalled end never eurpassed by any soldiery. On Septem- ber 23, 1857, the little British column was within eight of the domes and min- arets of Lacknow, That same day the hard-pressed nritish garrison in the Re- sideney of the city heard the far-off issound of Havelock's guns. It was the first definite sign that help was at, hand, but not for some hours did they dare to 'do inore than faintly hope. On the 24th the British gained no ground. But on the following day the roar of firing rapidly 'approached, and, as the after- noon wore on, the head of Havelock's column came into sight, driving its way through the mutiners with irrestible de- termination. How the whole garrison broke forth into jubilant cheers, how even the sick hurried forth from the hospital and with the women and children poured about the troops, "blessing the whole- some white faces of Havelock's good fus- iliers," has been told by Tennyson in his ballad ef the "Defence of Lucknow." If the true purpose of history be to hold up before mankind the example of great 'deeds and noble lives, then this inspiring passage should find a place in all our se.hoolbooks, One and all, the men con- nected. with it were palculine of patrio- tism and knightly devotion. The natioia which produced Havelock, Henry Law- rence, Neill, and Outram has good cause to glory in its past and to look with hope and confidence to the future. „For India wae saved not by a individual man, nor by any foresight and intelligece of the Government. It was saved because 'every Englishman in the Beet refused to despair and in the hour of danger and lemergen,ey put forth all the hero's strength and courage. serene u3 $ctu frrryc monde HonBo AMAZING SWIM. A passenger in a steamer in the Bristol Channel met with an extraordinary ad- yenture het Saturday evening. The steamer Gwalia was proceeding np channel to Barry from Ilfracombe, and when near the Foreland east of Lyn - mouth a passenger belonging to Barry ssimped overboard in the dareness. N boat, was lowered, and search was aeinale for over half an hour, but as the 'num could not be feund and a heavy sea was running the steamer continued on her course and reported the incident at Barry. Th.e man, however, swam nearly a mile to the shore and attempted to climb the ;Foreland. His cries were heard by the Foreland lighthouse -keeper, who telephoned to the coastguard at Lynmouth. A boat was manned and a rescue effected -with dif- ficulty, the man being taken into Lyn - mouth. PLAGUE OF CATS. Redhill railway goods station present- ed a strange spectacle on Wednesday. It was littered with packages and recepta- cles of eevry inutginable kind containing cats, They had arrived, in answer to the following advertisement in a Surrey paper: 1,000 CATE WANTED. -An applica- tion has been received from a laxge Col- onial fernier for 1,000 costs, to blot out a plague of mice. We are prepared to pay £1 for each cat (in sound, health) presented to our representative at the ;S. E. and C. Railway Goods Yard, Red - bill, on Wednesday next, the 27th inst., between 2.30 and 4.30 p. Stern & Co. 94 Commercial road, London E. Ciats arrived in boxes, baskets, bags, perambulators and wagons, until it might have been concluded that every availeble feline within twenty miles was on the spot. The arrivals began early. At 10 o clock Station, Superintendent Swann heard a knock at his door, "Are ,you the man who payinfor the eats?" wild a boy. "Here's a basket with two of "Cats!" exclaimed Mr. Swann, in amazement. He was soon to be further besvildered. This is how the arrivals went on: 10.00 a. in. -2 eats brought in a basket by boys. 10.20 a. m.-7 cats arrive in boxes. 10.45 a. m.-12 cats brought by lady, who drove up in a carriage. 10.50 a. m.-20 eats arrive by train from Reigate, Beighten, and other points. By noon -40 cats brought in owners' arms (owners badly scratched about hands and face). 12.46 p. ni.-75 cats arrive in bote boxes and wrapped up in newspee- ere. 1.30 p. in. -25 eats in a wagon. 2.00 p. m.-3 cats tied together in a bag. 2.30 p. rn.-Totol nuMber of cats, over 200. 3,00 p. m. -More eate arriving. 3.30 p. m. -About 300 eats on preme ses; scores get loose and scat- ter through the town. 4.00 p, In. -Panic in several households ineaded by strange eats. Many eets were let loose by boys. These went scurrying through Real!' in all direetions, many of them pursued by dogs. The excitement, reached its elf - max when half a dozen terrified eats, fob, lowed by a pack of miscellaneous dogs, rale through the prineipal streets, knotk- ing over greeere' boxes, frightening childs ren, and alarming horses. Meanwhile wessrages fere sent along Ile road that the eat supply had been greeter than the demand, and e elerk hung out this notice: No more eats wetted, A epeedy re - Aeration of the erste already* here to their proper homes will greatly oblige the authorities and the residerite of Red- hill. The real joke, it was pointed out, is thee them Walt no "Marie:sat% the tith inst.," as given in the edvertiseomut, Wednesday being the 250. 01,•••••••••••PAI WOULD-BE BRIDES - Letters continue to pour into the offices of the Guilaford Board of Guard - lane at an alarming rate. They are front marriageable maidens, who aek that they eball be sent to Mr. Harry Newbury, a British Columbian, who appealed, to the guardians a week ago to assist him in finding a wife. e Letter y.11,VP come from all parte of the comacy, from John o' Groats to Land's End, and while some have been very carefully sealed, others have been received open. Photographs have been enclosed, and. many of the writers, evidently intent on business, nave begun with the words, "With reference to your udvertisement in the --" One lady enclosed not only her por- trait, but a salmi of a feather. She noticed, she wrote, that 00 lonely bachelor 414 not want au angel, but she had sent him a piece clipped: from her wing to show that she had ong LONDON'S OLDEST TOWN. London's oldest clown, Johnny Hanson, has died at the age of sixty-four. Starting life at the old Adelphe Thea- tre when little more than a boy, he rose in his profession until he became a "star turn." When Dan Leno was yet undiscovered, Johnny Hanson was alrea:dy famous. Some of his greatest successes were aehieved in pantomime. Ile was associated with Miss Katie Vaughan, and on one occasion at Drury Lane he saw that actress faint as she was about to go on the stage. "Johnny" made his entrance, and in silence awaited development, for before he could speak Miss 'Vaughan had to give him his cue. His presence of mina didn't desert him, however, for he produeol three pieces of sugar from his pocket and challenged the other comedians to find 'the double six. He figured in Dnuer Lane pantomimes for five successive years. ROMANTIC WILL SEQUEL. Romance is suggested by the brief an- nouncement in the Times of the mar- riage of Mary Pauline, daughter of the late Thomas Bevan, J. P., D. L., of Stone Park, Kent, , and Rev. Ernest Watkin Grubb. Mr. Bevan, who died on March 1 last, at the age of 73, left a will in which he said: I should regard with the gravest mis- giving were my daughter or either of my granddaughters to marry a clergy- man, believing, as I do, that in the near future there will be much distress, un- easiness and trouble in store for right- minded men of that calling, and be- queath to each of them my devout, honest and earnest hope that they will never do so. Mr. Bevan was some time Liberal M. P. for Gravesend, sheriff of Londou in 1878-9, and formerly a member of the Society of Friends. Leaving estate of the gross' value of Xe83,191,. with net personalty £376,862, he bequeathed £5,000 to his valet, £7,000 to the manager of the Northfleet cement works, and £40,000 of stock in trust for his daughter. 194,000 EMIGRANTS FROM BRI- TAIN. The British Islands are- too small for the people, ana the people have found it out. Such is the story told. by a Board of Trade return just issued. Last year was therefore pne of the re - tor& in the matter if emigration. The number of emigrants (which does not include those passengers going on plea- sure or buisness trips and ieturning) was 327,672 British and foreign -a total only once exceeded, in the year 1882. The total number of British' and Irish passengers was 104,671. • The biggest emigration years were flocked. out of the country wholesale. Ire- land helped considerably in putting up the gross totala. ••••••••••• RAILWAY HERO.. In a little house at 43 Dendy street, Balham, a widow and five children are mourning the death of a hero of the railway line -Thomas Smith, a foreman platelayer, employed' on. the Wandsworth section of the London, Brigaton and South Coast Railway. Smith was engaged with his gang as- sisting the Bantam and Chtpham Junc- tion gangs in removing c,ay from the line at Balham and replacing it with ballast. Suddenly the ionic -out man blew his whistle to warn the twenty-four men of the approach of an up local train. Unaware of the approach of a train in the other direction, many of the men stepped between the metals of the down locel line, and simultaneously the two trains rushed upon the gangs. Smith, a tall. strong man, could have saved hitnself, as others did, by throw- ing himself flat between the metals and allowing the train to pass over him. But there were several of his gang who 'hesi- tated. Regardless of his own danger, he threw two or more of these into the six. foot way. Ile had just saved in this way the life of a, man named Parrott, wheh he stumbled svith his exertion, was dravrn under the train, and literelly cut in half • "They tell me," said his widow, "th:at my man saved seven or eight. He was a fine man and a good father.' ill••••••*111.• TROUBLE IN, NIGERIA.. Mr. William Wallace, Deputy High - Commissioner for Northern Nigeria, who recently visited the Emir of Sokoto, has made a statement regaxding the renbwed rumors of aloslem unrest, "It is a matter of eoranton knowledge " said Mr. Wallace, "that the French arid German colonies 'bordering on the Oen. tral Sudan and to the north of the Gold Coast come more closely into contact with tbe danger zone than we de, and that the Colonial Offices of Paris and Berlin have received recently news of Moslem unrest along the international frontier. "On more than ono 'Occasion of late Mehdist or Senussist emissaries have been might red-handed, and either eve euted or deported. "Tliese incidents have oreurred in that portion of Nigeria bordering on the Preece -German frontier. "Recent careful inentiriee in the pro- vinces most likely to be affected Allow that the exittenee Mid reality of the danger are fully reeognized.' TRAPPED IN A QUICKSAND. Thr fearful death of farm laborer Mimed John Riehardson was the subjett of an inquest at Rtakepool, near Gar, gang, Laticashire, on Thursday. r Rieliardsen eats employed at Paling Vicarage, and it in assumed. that while walking on the sands he sank to the waist in the quicksande about half a mile from Broadfleet Bridge, Pilling. Un- , able to extrieate himself, and being so far from. human habitation that his cries, mutt not be 'heard, he watched the tide slewly approach and engulf and was slowly drowned, A verdict of "found drowned" was re- turned. SIXTY MILLION. OYSTERS. The civic opening of the Colchester oyster fishery took place on Thursday with the customary quaant ceremonial, The Mayor and corporation proceeded in a steam dredger to the limits fo the fishery off Brightaingsea, where they commuted, gin and gingerbreed, according to custom, while the town clerk read in quaint, archaic plueneology the proclam- ation eatich declared that ihe fiebery hail been the pre:leerier of the corporation "from time beyond which the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.' The town sergeant then shouted, "God save the King," and cheers were given, after which the Meyor hoisted 'up the first dredge of oysters, which proved of admirable quality. An oyster banquet wes subsequeetly held, at which the chairman ot the fishery' company ans nouneed that they had in the river near- ly sixty million oysters. HALE AT 102. Theer is no room for ;scepticism in the case of Miss Hannah. Hearn, of Mill Farm, Mapledurharn, Oxon, who has just attained her 102nd birthday. Her age is attested beyond disputes by the parish register. Mies Hearn's greatest treasure ie a framed letter from the King addressed to a friend in reply to one sent to his Majesty on her attaining her 100th birth- day, The letter is as follows: Balmoral, Oct. 1, 1905. My Dear Madam, -I have laid your letter before the King, and I am com- manded by his Majesty to ask you to be so good as to express his congratulations to Miss Hannah Hearn on the attain- ment, of her 100th birthday, and to say it affords him much pleasure to hear that she is in the enjoyment of such good liealth. I ani well ecquainted with Mapledurham, as in the old days I used often to go there from Blounts . Court. Believe me yours truly, Knollys. Miss Hearn's hearing and eyesight are still good. She sits in her chair all day and speaks little. She eats feirly well, but only light food. FAIR "MANNIKINS." A new employment has been found for the English and American girl -the wear- ing of pretty clothes proving a fairly re - numerative occupation. The "mannikins" of Paris are now nearly all English or Asneriean. The model is not always pretty, but she possesses a perfectly fashionable figure, and is so well groomed that ehe often outshines the women who come to buy the dresses Gee is wearing. The dress worn by the living model will be copied thousands of times, wnere- as it might pass unnoticed on a dummy figure, Ben this work, the "mannikin" re- ceives only a small salary, but s'he has not to clothe herself at her own ex- pense. No stage beauty could take more care of her appearance, and there is keen rivalry among the dressmakers as to those who employ the meet beautiful models. • MAKING SURE OF DEATH. In order to obviate the risk of prema- ture burial, the late Mr. eamuel Yellen - tine, of Brixton who left £22,000 to charities decreed:in his will that "George Russell 'Beardmore, M. R. C. S., of Is- lington, shall sever my carotid artery or puncture my heart . . . but if any cause or circumstance shall occar to prevent the Carrying out thereof, I direct that my body shall be inenterred tor a period of fifteen days following my presumed death, unless deeolaposition 'ellen set in before thet time." Dr. Beardmore, who performed the op- eration of puncturing Mr. Vellentine's' heart, explained to an. "overeeas Moll" represeneative that it was no uncom- mon thfng foe .persoes to take a similar precaution agamat premature burial, In the case mentioned, however, if there was any life left it would immediately leave the belly if the heart was pierced. LINKS WITH DICKENS. To the lover of Dickene the news' of the sale, which has just taken place, the famous Bull Hotel at Rochester, at which the famous Pickwiolc party "put up" on their drive from London to the country, recalls a host of aseoeiations, for it was here that Mr. Jingle "applied himself with great interest to the port wihe and dessert"; where jingle, too, in- sulted Dr. Slammer; where Tracy Tup- man and the widow, Mrs. Budger, trip- ped the light fentastic toe; and where Charles Dickens himself slept in Bed- room No. 17 on several occasions, The anruouneement for sale of Barn- ard's Inn, in Holborn, noals still further associations with Dickens. narnard's Inn is the Red Tavern, at which Pip, of "Groat Expectations," lodged; it is men- tioned both in "Barnaby Rudge" and in "Pielesvick;" and Dickens had his lodg- ing in the inn. for some time. The hall at the back, the smallest of all the halls of the London Jive- will be sewed. se! OUNAFID CAPTAIN'S SKILL. For his -humanity and skill" in rescuing a French sailor from death in the Atlantic, Captain R. C. Warr, of the Cunard steamship Carniania, has reecived a gold medal ftoin the Life Saviag Bene- volent Association of New York, On the morning of June 10 the Car - mania sighted a small dory with one men in it. Captain Warr manoeuvred Jiro largo turbine vessel in a rough sea so as to place her alongside the little bona and one of his men then junieed into it, and put a rope about the helpless atalor, wao was taken a board the liner. Under careful treatment, the man, who Was half-franished, revived, and relatel that he, Louis Vollet, and his mates, fishermen of St. Melo, had been swept out of the dory by & big wave on. May 27. Ile swam back to the boat, but the others were drowned. The provisions lasted for six days, after which Vollet suffered terribly, GREAT MOTOR -WAYS SOH ENI E. A projeet for establishing main motor - reeds for the south of !anemia win be brought before ?rnliarnent neet session. Briefly the promoters hope to be able be get power to 'construct special motor - reads front London to Brighton, remaon to Dover, and London to Southampton and Portsmouth, Over these reeds only motor vehieleb will be allowed to pase-for consideras tion -and they will be able to travel uninterruptedly over the track, switch. ing off the main road wherever they want to, The whole SChenle Will met 41,600,000, and the money late alreedy been gear - Masted in Paris. •-•V ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE CHURCH AT LARGE. 14++++4++++++++++++++++++1 Twelve millions, of the 23,000,000 chit - area in the United. States are growing up with no religioua training! The Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends slaws' a net loss for the yeaa• of 75, there being now 20,208 members. Of the $00,000 required for the Beptist forward movement in Rochester, N. Y., over $33,000 has so fax been subscribed. The New Hampshire Chastities. Enasa- vor Association feta :283 societies with 5,485 active, 1,020 associate Mai 1,120 lemoraxy members. There ere 100 Baptist churches in Pennsylvania that eave no paatora be- cause the congregations are too smell to raise the necessary 'salary. Ablest $4,400 Was given by the Wont- an'e Missionary Seeiety of Trinity Cattle- aral at Cleveland, as ite dimes= offering watch- is made ever; third year, It is expected that most of the coun- ties in the Panbenale of Texas will be made intwes new presbytery, it being a section rah in possibilities for home mission work. The new Methodist Hospital in Indian- apolis, started. seven years ago, is now nearly ready for occupancy, $196,000 heving been apent so far, and there is $70,000 on hand for completing the work. The Atnerieau Mission Board closed its year with a deficit of about oomo, while the ',Episcopaa Board of Missions fell sheet $04,000, making its total debt now $138,400, as it entered the year with a deficit. 'A split ht the Primitive 13aptist Clunah of Georgia is threatened over the ques- tion of having organs in the churches and paying the ministers n staled salary, the more proareesive 'element favoring these The 75 pieces of statutsry for the Ca- thedral of St. John, tho Divine, in New York, over which there was such a con- troversy last spring, are to• be taken down and recarved aecording to the ori- ginal models of Sculptor Gutzon Bor- glum. When the Central Ohio Methodist Episcopal Conference was formed, in 1856 it had 182 churches with 14,083 members, while now it has 408 churches and 55,530 members, who give ten times as much for inissiona as they did fifty years ago. The four -district superintendents of the, tehristian Endeavor movement in Tennessee are arranging conferences and rallies M each of the 90 counties of the State to work up a great attendance be. fore the 1908 convention at Knoxville. In connection with the becontennial of the founding of the Philadelphia Baptista Association, which has just been celebrat- ed, n fund of $100,000 was raised, of which $50,000 went to and poor churches and $40,000 for a, Baptist settlement house. The Baptist Home of Northern Ohio, et Cleveland, will be opened in a few weeke with four aged women residents has on hand $15,000 of the $25,000 needed for its purchase, $5,000 of the amount having just been given by John D. Rockefeller. Nine suits have ben tried in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia and Texas to determine the legality of the union of the Cumberland with' the Presbyterian Phurch of the United States, and in every case the action has been declared valid. The new Tabernacle enterprise at At- lanta, which will be a great Baptist in- stitutional church, will be started with a three-storey dormitory for young wom- en after which will come a nurses' home an:sl then the large auditorium for the church work proper. The Associated Executive Committee on Indian Affairs of the Society of Friends is to have deeded to it 157 iteree tho Shawnee reservatiom 160 acres of the Kiekapoo reaervation and 40 acres of the Otoe and Missouri reservation, all of which are to be devoted to missionary "Lilco* 2,287 societies, representing 57,467 members, of the Northwestern Branch of the Woman's Fereign alissioniu•y Society of the Methodist Church, will meet at Afilwaukee from Oct. 8 to 11, Indiana, Illinois, Michingan and Wisconsin belies the territory covered by the organiza- tion. The scarcity ol curates in the Church of England is eausing aconsiderable feel- ing of anxiety. The Bishop of St. Esaph, England, in one day recently consecrated four bury- ing grounds in various parts of his dim 0090Christianity, though its cradle was in the East, has worked into the great cen- tres of India as the religion of the Westt The last Sunday that the late 13ishop of Chichester spent in his parisle wee passed iit a country parish in order that the hard -worked rector might take a brief rest. The East London Primitive Methodist Mission has given 33,144 breakfasts to hungry children, besides taking care of 0,310 homeless and destitute men and seamen. St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Col- lege, at Mill Hill, Middlesex, England, founded by the late Cardinal Vaughan, has just sent out its annual quota to the mission fields of Asia and Africa. This is the centenary year of the Oen- gregational Union of Laneathire, end to meek the occasion the Congregational Unitas of England and Wades will send there about 2,000 delegates between Oc- tober 13 and 18. The parishioners of Wool, a village in East Dorset, England, sent their thumb bells, dated IBM 1059 and 1738, to the founders to be tuned and new ones added to the peal, and their returh was made a general holiday, The Government withdrew its aia from the schools at Marston St, Lawrence in Northamptonshire, England, and ordered them closed, but the vicar, Rev. 0. E. Cleneowe, has determined to carry thein on at his own risk aor & year, Fifty fragments of the finest early English carving in polished Purbeck max- ble, supposed to be portions of the shrine of St. Swithin, were brought to light teeently dent% the restoration of certaia parts of larinehester Cathedral. The restoration of York Minster has readied the parapet of the great central tower and the covering of the eplendid stainedsglasa windows le being removea to give a better idea of their megnife once, espeelally of the celebratea Five Sisters' Window. A number of conferences of clergymen have been held in London looking to concerted aetion in regard to the recent change in the marriage laws of Englend, an intended public demonstration having been abandoned until the laisbope have suede their anountements Although the pettish church at High Wycombe, Englalid, is very ancient, the first time that it was used for An ordi- nation sereice was when recently Rev. W. A. Newman Hall, who Itas been a Congregationalist for many years, took holy orders in the Oxford diocesse. Applications for relief by the English clergy under the new income tee regula- tions in England have to be made before Oct. I, to save paying the tax of nine hi the pound an the total in- come the tax being impesed now onty on what is "earned." The hopes of a hell century have fail- ed of realization among the upper classes oa India, the Oxford and Cambridge mise stone not having a single convert in sev- eral years, while the college at Madras, the finest missionary institution in that country, has gathered only a mere hand- ful. SCIATICA CURED. Mrs. Chas. E. Haley Restored by Dr. Williams Pink Pills. "I waseetterly helpless with sciatica. I could not move in bed without aid. Doctors treated me, but I did not ine 'neve. I used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and to -day am a well woman." This tribute to the merits of Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills is made by Mrs. Ohas. F. Haley, of Yarmouth, N. S. Two years ago she suffered most severely from an attack of viatica, and for a number of months was an invalid confined to her bed. She further states: "It is impos- sible for me to deseribe the pain from. which I suffered. I endeavored to con- tinue my profession as a music teacher, but w,as forced to give it up. The doctor said the trouble was sciatica, but his treatment did' not help me. I could scarcely take a step without the mast acute pain shooting through my back and down the limb. Filially I took to my bed and lay there perfectly helpless, and could not move without aid. The pain was never absent. I consulted an- other doctor, but with no better results, and I began to think I would always be a sufferer. One day a friend who was in to see nie asked why I did not take Dr. Williams; Pink Pills, and on her advice 1 decided to do so. The result was be- yond my most hopeful expectations. All the praxis and aches disappeared, and I have never since been troubled with sciatica, I have no hesitation in ream- menlding Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pilla for the trouble from which r suffered." When the blood is poor the nerves are starved; then comes the agony of sciat- ica, neuralgia, or perhaps partial par- alysis. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills actually make new, rich, red blood, which feeds the starved eerves, drivee out pain and restores, health. It isilsecause these pills actually make new blood that they oure such common ailments as rheuma- tism, anaemia, backaches and head- aches, heart palpitation, indigestion and the painful irregularities or growina girls and women. You can get Dr. Willioms' Pink Pills from any inedioine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2,50 from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. • FOR INSOMNIA. Simple Remedies Recommended by Those Who Have Tried Them. One woman advances the theory that by laying a silk handkerchief lightly across the eyes on retiring sleep will be induced. The nerves of the eyes, she avers, are the lest in the body to quiet down, and the bandage has the effect of hastening the process. Others have found that the inability to sleep may be traced to the habit of having the head too high. When the per- son' lies flat without any elevation at the head, says the American Home Monthly, the muck needed repose has been obtained. One of the most efficient remedies for sleeplessness is to lie perfectly still in bed, close the yes, or the lids, and then, with the lids still closed, raise the eyes to as high a point as possible. Retain them in this position as long as possible. At first there may be consequent straining of the muscles, and when this is noted it would be weIrto desist for that eight. But a repetition of the prac- tice will undoubtedly bring about the desired result. A good rubbing down with a coarse Turkith towel will often induce sleep and soothe unquiet nerves when one has tossed about for hours trying to woo nature's sweet restorer. Onion* are known to have soporific effect on the nerves, and it is said an onion soup taken at dinner will have the desired effect. •-•••••••--*•44 Greed. mom the Milwaukee Sentinel.) You envy the man who climbs to fame And title you care tor use man eho lost - You dream of a great and glowing name And little you care what shall be the coat. You straggle and strive in hall mid mart, Forgetting the weakened souls you visaed - b10 thought have you of a longing heart So long as you reach your goal at last. Law to the ehrine of the great god gold IV bend and worship its glitter and clink-, Little you caro what the fetes unfold Bo long as you're safe from the dong'rous brink Of adversity. And you only care To roan the fruits where your seeds wore Cold caan2di-grim on the road you fare, With thoughts of naught but the goal el Littleit:otu. heed to the outstretched hand That asks for a crumb or a friendly lift - And It's little you know or underets.nd The value of etinshine through the rift When the clouds are low, and a heart -in 13eats for tho hope and the dream bone rest. Yen Donal; strive for the soon and gain-- neetibaso of all but the goal at last t t Vegetable With an Ancient tineage. Asparagus is the atistoerat of the food plants, None other has so &ease guiehed a lineage, for its recorde teach back rehnost to the beginning of peahen - tie history. Tt is ntentioned by the conile poet Cratimis, who died about 425 13.0. The Romans bold aparagnis iii the high- est esteem, the older Cato treating ist length, in his "De re Itustica," still ex- tant, of the virtues and correet cult -ace titre of the plant. Pliny, veritiug about 60 A.D., has 0., great deal to Bay of A.S. paragus. Ito ettyst "Of all the products of your garden your chief atre ',Should be asparagus." A man' Cold attati er-_.-4,......„--.remttrks may be When his tongue is coated. The ronsumption of cheMpagele Iffsolend is decreasing raeidlY. 'OLD WAYS OF • FIRE -MAKING Looking around upon the civilized races of mankind toetay, 'one's imagine - tion is. sorely taxed to picture a time when the ready ineauseof aril:rug is light was not evailable, yet it is certain that leech a time must have beeneefar back in the dim ages, whorl utan roamed the wilde and dwelt in holers end caves ef the earth, scarcely more advaneed his aomestic arratigements than the beaets of the field, writes Percy Collins: in the Scientific) Americau. In what man- ner the value of fire as a servant first daWilcd %Am tile mine. 01 man must ever remain myeteriouss but at all tinies there must have been fires and great conflags rations kindled by mature). means end entirely without the aid of man, Thus, the effect of the lightning stroke, of frietion caused by falling rocks or the chafing of limbs soul sterna in the dense forests, or the volcanic overflow of the smouldering furnaces within the globe would from time to time display the properties of fire before the wondering eyes of primitive mankind. Probably man first feared fire, then began to worship it as a god, terrible and oenzipotent to destroy. Then, his fear departing from him, he began to employ fire to benefit himself and Ms trilse, using it for cooking end warmth. Notice that les did not at first melte fire. He took it from Neture's hand, so to speak, just as he gathered fruit from the forest boughs. There is direct evi- dence of this in the tradiionol history of many races. For example, the T'lisngit family of Indians in southeastern Alas- ka sey that the raven gave them fire and have an elaborate folklore de,scrip- tive of the bird end its flight through inky darkness bearing the divine spark in a box. The fire -was religiously pre- ees•ved and fed; and inembers of the tribe took of it for their domestic heaathe These and similar fables of the preservation of fire in a box and its be- ing borne from tribe to tribe or family questionable fact that man knew and employed fire long before be hed discov- ered the means of making it for him- stoelff.amily, are reminiscent of the un- - Proba,bly the first essays of man as a fire maker were confined to the fric- tion of sticks. There are just three ways in whiett one piece of wood may be rub- bed upon enother, namely by moving with the grain, or "ploughing"; by moving across the grain or "sawing," and by twirling a pointed stiek within a wooden socket, or "drilling." All these methods have been used by early man. Neither the first nor the second method, however, was brought to a high state of perfection -or, to be more precise, they bdth reached perfection in rudimentary form. The fire blow, which was widely Used among the Indo-Pacitie races and sporadically in America, consists of two parts, first, a etout piece of thoroughly dried wood perhaps 3 feet long and 2 inches in diameter, whieh forms the hearth or stationary part; second, a snaaller stick of the same kind of wood about a foot long, cut wedge shape at its lower end, the edge forming a very ob- tuse angle. This constitutes the working part, or plough. It was rubbed violently baokwax•d and forward on the stationary piece, cutting a grove running with the grain for a distence of some 4 inches. Minute shavings were thus detached, and in the hands of a skilful manipulator these were soon heated above the point of ignition. Fire making by sawing was Malay device and has never perhaps been suc- cessfully employed save in oountries where the 'bamboo flourishes, the reason being that bamboo is the only really suitable wood. Two piecea are taken, one with a sharp edge, the other with £1, notch cut in it nearly but not quite Severing (the :substance, After sawing for a time the floor of the notch is completely pierc- ed and the heated particles fall below and ignite. But the „most important method of primitive fire making is that of dril- ling. In its most simple form a stick of dry wood is twirled vertically between the hands upon a very dry and partially decayed lower platform. It is extremely difficult to obtain fire in this way, as modern experimenters may prove for themselves. Yet there is a certain knack about the operation and this once being masterea smouldering wood dust may be created with 'comparatively little labor. It is clear, however, that the fire drill could be made more effective and rapid in action in several ways, One such way calls for the cooperation of two indivi- duals,.one of whom supports the verti- cal spindle by means of a socketed rod, while the othar wraps. a cord aaout the spindle and pulls it backward and for- ward as rapidly as possible. A. further complication of the fire drill Ives the application of the bowstring - similar to the drilling appliance used by the jeweler. The socketed. rest for the vertical shaft was then held by one hand, while the thong was alternately pulled and • slackened with the other, Thus a sating of labor was attained. Ths forerunners of the comparatively modern flint and steel as a means of striking a light were flint and pyrites, or two pieces of pyrites. These were struck together and the sparks thug generated were eaught among the dry moss. The Esquimaux from Smith Sound to Behr- ing Strait use this method. A very cone pieta strike-celight set, including flint, pyrites, tinder in dainty little bags and a leather pad to guard the fingers, comes fr)n Cape Bathurst. Evans points also to Fuegia and the F,uropean ereletteologe cal sites for the antiquity of this method. Modern forms of the ...nt and steel are well known to Most people from exam- ples preserved in museums. There is the very old type of wooden box, perhaps the earliest strike a light set made by civilized mankind, With this are certain small angular pieees of stout paper, the tips of whieh arc dipped in sulphur. These are the most primitive kind of match known. They were used for gen- erating a flame, by application to the smouldering tinder. Cleituine specimens of these matches are uow extremely rare, though "faked". ones are often ots. curios f.ercia for sole by dishonest. dealers in Another and more compact type of tinder box is of metal. In the bottom is seen the old dry rag, used as tinder, und upen this the flint and :steel reposed when the box was not in use. Still snore interesting is the ingenious strike a light made in the form of tt. pistol. The flint is worked by the trigger and strikes upon an upright plate of steel, throwing the sparks through an opening upon the tindie contalned in a uarrow box which takea the place of what would be the berrel in the ease of a pistol. This con- trivence le a relic of the old stage coach days. By means of it a light could be strock in a high wind. The matches svere then used were stripe of thin pate. wood, the ends being dipped sul- phur. One other tinder box may be men - tiered, namely, the "chamitis"-still in its) emong the Himalayan tribes). It is a little leathern pouch containing flint and tinder, while the steel is a strip of metal riveted along one side of the pouce. It is of small size, suitable to be carried about the person. In conclusion we may dwell briefly up- oa the developments of the match pro- por as perfected by civilized man. Phos- phorus was discovered by Brandt in the seventeenth century, and. Wes used as a mettns of obtaining fire shortly after- ward But its costliness, together with the. danger attending its use, militated against its popularity. But in the year 1805 the isansian Chancel introduced the so-called oxymuriate match. It was a Bile of wood tipped with a mixture of chlerate of potash, sugar and gum. To ignite it the match was thrust into a bottle containing a piece of asbestos saturated with. eulphurie acid -an awk- warl ararngement, especially in the dark. Then came the "Promethean" matches, whose caxeer was short lived, They were a kind of paper cigarette, dipped in a mil tare 61 sugar and thlorate of potash. Rolled within the paper was a tiny glass bulb filled with sulphuric acid, To strike theta matches the tip was compressed between the teeth or pliers. By thie meant the bulb was broken, the acid meted and subsequent chemical action caused ignition of the paper. The first really practical lucifer match, however, was invented by John Walker, of Stockton-on-Tees in 1827, and by 1 im named after Sir Congreve, of rocket fame. It consiated of a splint of wood, first tipped with sulphur and then with a chlorate mixture. These matches wese drawn rapidly through a piece of folded send paper to ignite them. It is curious to note that a tin box contain- ing seven dozen of them, together with the necessary bit of sandpaper, cost one shilling. Finally, after endless experimenting, inspired by handsome prizes offered by America, England and other enlightened countries, the non -phosphorus safety match was brought into being, putting the top stone, as it were, upon man's in.onemental struggle with the problem of striking a light. It is a curious commentary on tl e old world's slowness of inventive genies tbat the first practical match should have n made less than a century ago. • 'rt. BABY'S HEALTH Baby's health and happiness de- pends upon its little stomach and bowels performing their work regu- larly. If these are out of order Baby's Own Tablets will cure the trouble quieler than any other medi- cine, and the mother has the guaran- tee of a government analyst that this medicine is perfectly safe. Mrs. Frank Neill, IVIarksville, Ont., says: "I have used Baby's Own Tablets for stomach and bowel troubles, bre:* ing up colds and destroying weims. and always with the best success." Sold by all medicine deardrs or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Tonsorial Consolation. Frank Schwin is a corainerOial travel- er, and in his wanderings goes through Michigan towns, Ho was in need. of a shave one day, says the Chicago Inter- Oeean. s He svelked about the main thorough- fare of the little town awhile when his eye met the original legend: "Raise 10 ets. or Whiskers!" There was but one tonsorial chair and it was occupied by a stalwart fellow, evidently a blacksmith. The barber made a lather, paced ttll over the countenance of the recumbent blacksmith, stropped the razor vigorous- ly mid smiled into his work. After he had stru,ggled long and dan- gerously over his patron he felt eon - strained to say: "Ain't hut -tin' you?" "No," answered the Plutonian gentle- man. "I seem to be workin' hard without gettin' there," commented the village barber further. "Oh, just go on,' encoureged the black. smith. "You're dein' all right, for them you afn't euttin' off you're cripplin' so much I guess they'll never grow again!" se* - "Society Women" Work In a Factory. The canning eonmany buts mushy acres of tomatoes contracted for, but the crop is late this year. So many persons here are interested in the success of the can- ning factory that the society women go each afternoon and work. Last year the Dorcas Club, the aid eociety of the Friends Church, wont to the grove in whieh the factory is situated in a body each afternoon and worked, giving tbeir wages to the club treasury.-Ainboy correspondence Indianapolis NeWs. • see HOW TO FAUN A LIMO rer Onnste. Senator Morgan once throw dowtt a mag- azine with a sneer, says the Argonaut. "Another nature fake!" he augaimed. "why, these things are as absurd cie-als absurd as -" And then 116 laughed aiad said that re- minded him of an address that he once heard an absent -Minded ruissiOnary make. "'In Chins dear friends.' 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Winnipeg is inovbsg to rattles. the standard weiglit of n loaf of bread 2 lies. instead of Ws lb., es at present. , safe The ,Tamestown Exposition la in fin- ancial deep water, Ana the leeeon should not be lost on and/Moue show towne The revivalists: Torrey and Alexander ore to aelotritte: grave doctrinal 1.1coav, metibilitice being said to be the. resumn. Dr. Torrey's dogmatism seams to be too much for his more liberal colleague, It appeara that only about 750 Japan- ese all told arrived in British Cobriases from Japan, and these had regular passes poi•ts, Threesantrthe of all who came, eatimated at 3,000, were from Honolulu, or were destined for the Unite atatets. Wirelese telegrephy is wonderful enough, but even its eapacities are not it with the fertility of resouree of the imaginative fakir who picks up Philip- pines messages of the arrival of a WA ship that is rusting and rotting in re United Stites nevy yard, ea.* Japan is legislating against the emi- gration of her people and trying te ai- vett the outflow to Corea That la promising fOr a solution of the Braes!, • Columbia Japanese question, es. New York's, Public Service Cornmiseion is moving to prevent street ear ovar* crowding, an order for 20 per qoat. bar orease of accommodation at busy periods oeing made. Prof. Mountsberg elaims to have lie vented a device which cen be applied. to. the human body, and which will infal- lably detest falsehood, But what's th use2 Fishermen and peliticians cannot be induced to wear it. 4- -* ra New York is pursuing & campaign against cocaine victims. Thee is all very well, because its victims are unfit to be at large, ba they are utterly irreapon- sible. But what about those who fla- n/Ai them with the drug? The remedy weteld seem to be to severely regulate the :sale of it. Canedians returning from • Scotlaud arouglik doleful tidings of the state of the croph backward weather areventing le 'and ripening. Now, bow - that magnificent weather there during Septette a bad harvest have ed. their gerne eVer, we lean was experiene ber, and the fears been well-nigh dispe The story is sent out ton that documentary evidei prove that at the May Verna of Fairfeac, Va., Court, roo, George Washington was publicly "presented" by the Grand Jury for swearing to a false list of his taxable property. What about that hatebet story of the school books? Who wents to tarnish George's lado at thie late date? om Washing - e exists Announcement has been made that gold has been found in Argyllshire, Scot- land. .The spot is situated on the shores of Loan teem, where tile favorite nerring come from, ois the Stronachullin estate of Mr. ,Rober Cam bell, three a rake r, rrg rialmig. It has en alefinitely decided to eink a shaft shortly and begin gold mining operations. Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, Ex-Seeretery of the I7. S. Treasury, and President of the Carnegie Trust Company, declares that in no sense are the United States pre- pared for war, and that tbe sending of the IL S. fleet to the Pacific is war- ranted neither by the demands of eom- inerce nor the preservation of peaceeEx- cept as a political move to gain dela' gates for a Presidential eandidate, the mobilization of their warships in the Nei& has no apparent significance in his opinion. Mr. Shaw is not alone in this view. 4 • • Of 257 samples of maple sugar eXaM- ined this year by the Department of In- land Revenue, only 185 were genuine, Five wore found to be a mixture; 57 were adulterateaa cuat, 10 were doubtful. The analyse notes that with thennethode in . use Makers might dilute the maple pro'-'N'ea' duct with pure cane sugar to some slight extent without more than awakening doubts as to the purity of the article, as the analyst must give them the benefit of the doubt, Glucose, however, is more easily detected. Uncle Sam's pensioners of the War of the Rebellion are rapielly Answering the last roll call, During the year from June 30th, 1905, to June 30th, 1006, there was a decrease of almeet $6,000,000 in the amount of pensions, the total amount distributed during that fiscal year being $139,000,288. While this is about16,000,000 less than this amount dis- tributed in the previous year, it ie near- ly $10,000,000 less than the amount in 1898, and is more than $22,000,000 less than in 1893. The ebb tide has set in strongly and comparatively few of the real actors in the war amnia, svill Answer to their names in fifty years from the surrender .at Appomatox. trncle 141/1 treated them goonrously. The Hague conferences has by a vote of 30 to 0 approved of the prineiple of ob- ligatery arbitration. That is very pretty, but will the delegetes agree to apply the principle to their own eountries. Or does each cello Hosea, Biglowas wets "I'm willin 'a. man ehoula go tollehly strong. 'GAM wrong in the abstract, ler that kin' sa wrong tillers unpoplar, an' Inever gets. pitied, lieeause its o. wrong no one tsar cone wetted. But he mustait be hard on 'articular eine, 'Caine then he'd be klekin' hie people's own shins."