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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-12-05, Page 6IP'- - 44011iiic) The Eteraal GOOtlileSS- I bow my.toreheaa to the dust, „ 1 Veil Mille eyets trom Alone, And urge, in trembling helfelletruet, A prayer without a Oahu. I see the wrong that rowel me lies, I feel. the guilt within. I hear, 'mid groans and tramil cries, The world tontines lie sin; Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To oue fixed trust my spirit clinge, J. know that Cod is good. I know thin: where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. And Thou, Lord, by Whom are seen Thy creatures us they be, Forgive me if too elose I lean My human heart on Thee. --John U. Whittier. Prayer. Holy sea merciful God, who didst make man that he might glorify Thee, and in Thy service find his truest joy, have pity upon those who, by their sin. have separated themselves from Thee and are seeking happiness in these paths of folly which lead at last to despair. Let Thy Spirit strive with them that they may turn and live, raise.up those among their brethren who will seek and. help them, defeat the forces of evil which waa against their souls, visit them with Thy salvation. And grant to all who bear the ammo of Christ, the mind that was their Lord, that they may seek, not their own good merely, but the good of otTiers, and as they obtain strength from Thee may they use that strength, not to please themselves, but to bear the infirmities of the weak. This we ask in Jens' name. Amen. Fantasies of the Night. A child of earth is indulging in along reverie, giving rein to his imagination, and, in a flight of fancy, casting eft the gyves and trammels of mortality and soaring. through the universes, Gradually smking Into the waters oi Lethe, his reveries have now iiiesumed tangible form and shape, and,- tie feels that he is no longer subject eh the fet- tering thraldom of earth. Wulting up- wards into the ether, in tho' flash of a thought he alights upon t cold, dead world, without air, with t water, with- out life. Hanging three linty overhead is a stupendous and gigantic orb shin- ing brilliantly in le starless heavens and lighting up t ie rugged scenery with a flood of re acted light which froin the configur; tion of the markings On the surfa _ he recognizee to be his mt.- ' --...Agft, ear 1.; and he realizes that he is upon • er eatellite. After exploring the wonders of those huge volcanic eraters-Copernieus, with its mighty upreared walls, Tycho and Ptolemy, soaring up to the skies, or Shiekard, MOTO Wondt011$ thein all, its crater about four hundred miles in circumference, and of a capacity suffi- cient to contain perhaps every volcano on eerth-depressed at the 'dismal and melancholy aspect of this dead, cold world, he hies off to visit 'that other • side of the moon whieh is for ever invis- ible to us, and of the aspect of which we know absolutely ifothing. Leaving this arid and lifeless wilder- ness he speeds away, past our next neighbor Mars, unravelling. the mystery of the great canals, past mtghty Jupiter. dous and majestic Saturn. lanetary won - and' past other o ders of the midnight skies, -to the dazzling glory of the sun itself; the mighty surging tornadoes of fire, and the infuriate whirlwinds of flaming g.ases ever wildly raging with convul- sive energy on its surface transfixing ilim with awe •and wonder. Then, hurt- led into the abyss of space, midst rush- ing lummaries careering each with their planitary train on their long orbit round the great central pivot of all the universes of God, midst blazing, eoruscan- ing sune in the zenith of their effulgent lustre, and midst lightless, lifelese orbs Whose fires have in the long course of the aeons faded away into eternal dark- -Fess, startled at the overpowering glory of it all, he awakes -and behold it io a dream. But although all this is fancy, yet for those who have not spurned and eon. demned the commands of their God, but have with His never refused help lived the life of the righteous, and whose sins; inherited and committed, have been ex- punged from the record through the great expiation made on the cross by the Redeemer of mankind, for these a time will come when they on angel wing will surely be accorded periniesillm to --nrisiteall tease 'Wonders 'of creation and to roam through all this vast and glor- ious universe. -By A Banker. The Value of Pain, Looked o.t from one standpoint, pain is but a meaningless blot nion God's creation, a reality from which We cannot, -escape, and yet one which perhaps more than any other suggests doubts as to eternal goodness and wisdom. It is a mystery, that for all time Mu; perplexed the children of men. If it were simply a scorpion whip to sting men into right- eoustesst if it were simply but the fiery punitbment of wilful and shameless wrong -doing; then we might understand it better. But when its awful coils, lit dreadful, unrelaxing, grip lay hold upon the spotless and the true, and its poi- soned fangs strike deep into the soft white flesh of helpless child and lily - hearted woman, we gaze upon its 'work with horror and dismay. It is not ours to solve the riddle; but as faith gazes upon the work of 'pain mai fails to read the reason, we ask, 'It there then, no gain in this?" "Is pain elear loss to man?" And to these fates - HMI we ean answer truly, "There is a gain to man, even in this work of pain." Pain softens hearts and widens Qin- pathy. Pain draws the mother nearer to he! child. Pain wars on selfishness, and makes men think. Pain smites min's pride and teaches hint humility. Ottr Gethsemanes are not curses, lint Messier. They smite us sorely, until we sweat the bloody sweat of pain; but from the darkened garden we go forth to a fuller, sweeter, nobler life; and the hours of agony bear fruit in 'years of unselfish toil and lifetimes of unfettered :sympathy. Pain is the rod that snities water: of healing out hf granite hearts. Pain is the eletriot of fire by whieb tnen often rise to other worlds. All me welcome is its tondo yet not noblest; by divinest wisdom, even pain is yoked to the great chariot of humanity and helae to drag it forward. Tide, of course, doee not sweep the full eivele of its orbit, but this surely one seetimt of that eir- ele, and one that 00 vall Heti. .1.11V10114- -What 1104 worn your weeldirtee ring so thin? Mria .7awback -- Frieti with the lireann handlee-CIeve- EiZSIZSMOZMIZIZDZMUMMEIZ)Z9ZSOMZX • n- he True False and • • ANIMISEIGENZENNZEZMUSNMEN26262E1614 Meanwhile. what wee the great titates- ,11:111 01401111 '1 nen. is tomally nothing that att.:me:I= popular idol so inaee as a mold at reamioa in "popular" seati- , meut, and II &011ie in "popular" favor. Not eu Daniel Hunter. Ile always knew that just eitelt reaetion would. solo:, time or other eneue, :ma for awhile pre- vail- Out the idolatry of the people wiedd b., fellowed by the detestation of the l'eorie, as surely as a shrfeit is fol- lowed by sickness', a hetet by a fast, :1,ty by night, tn. antiumt by winter; only ho did nil exptet it just now -just as, after an absenee of seven years, he set his foot nom hie native snore. There- fore, alter the filet moment of surpriee, and alamei, of inmedulity, he turned his wife, hanging upon his arm, and said: "The hour has eoitte --aomewhat sud- denly --somewhat inopportunely, lovel- but the hour has vow; the tido of popu- lar favor is turning, and we must hear it as we znay. Be calm!" He had ;iced to say to her, "Be calm," for there ...he stood like an outraged em- press, her imperial form dra.wo up to hi haughtiest height, mory limb and fea- ture instinct with pride and 'mom; her chest expanded; her fine head throwa back; her delicate lip and nostril quiver- ing; her full eyes Maxine, blaziag: One. burning word. burst ht °bitterness from her. indignant bosom --"Ingrates!" and then the woman remembered herself, and her cheek erimsoned. Daniol Hunter led her to the carriar waiting to receive them, plated her in, directed the young lady and gentleman of their party to follow her, closed the door, and ordered the cow:Moan to drive of, while he himself remaiaed to face the storm. It raged furiously now! Hoots and howls, yells and curses and brickbats and cudgels fell like hailstonee! Daniel Hunter cast his eyes aronnd for a favorable point from which to com- mand the multitude. His glance fell upon 6: heaped-up pile of merchandise in boxes. Steppiag from point to point, lie reached the top, and stood with his feet at the levelof their heads. lie folded his arms and stood perfectly still, a terget for all eyes and missiles, waiting calmly to take advantage of the first transieut lull to adaress them. And then vole? rang its clarion notes over the multi- tude, commanding silence. And all eyes were turned on him, and as at the presence and voice of a demi- god., the infuriated mob became the lis- tening audience. Yee! - The fiery young Falconer O'Leary could, by fierce elo- quence of paseien, at any time excite the mob, but only Dauiel Hunter, coming down upon them with his massive powen of mind,. could quell one. They listened -Ms friends with deep respect for hie words, his enemies "out of curiosity," they afterwards explained, to hear what the d ---d renegude had to say for him- self." At all events, they listened be - tannin& while he spoke to them for :Imre than half a 11 hour, at the end of whieh time he dispersed. his enemies, and, ahat was much more difficult, bit violate, quietly to their homes. And then he called a hackney coach, eatered it, and directed to lie driven. to ais hotel. Thore he found another crowd :waiting bit when but, coming as he did, he passed- unknown among them, And entered- the house, every passage, hall, parlor reading room and dining loom of wItieh was filled with people waiting to greet the great stateaman. Muffled in his cloak, with his travelling eap drawn down over his eyes, he passed through these aiso, and gained his pri- :ate apartineuts, where Mrs. Hunter, Mises llonoria, Sir Henry PeTeht11, and several ehosen friends remained to re- ceive him. :their welcome, indeed, w itordia/ and neart-strengthening. Supper Wd$ placed upon the table in ita adjoining parlor, and he sat down with his family and ionic half dozen intimate friends. And the meat was diseuseed in cheerful ete loyment. until the crowd outside, who had learned. in. some -manner, probably from the hackney -coachman thet brought him thither, dhat Daniel Hunter was in the house, became vociferous. And the landlord entered the perIor and bestught Mr. Hunter to come out and show him- self opon the front balcony, and speak to the people, that they might`separate and go home. Daniel [Imam. arose troin the table, ancl, attended by hie young Englieh yelativc, Sir Henry Percival, and several political and pereonal frieeae, went forth upon the balcony, before which, in the crowded etreet below, were assembled several thousand persons, the one-half of whom received him with shouts of welcome, mut W.: other half with hisses. And here was enacted a repatition of the seene on the pier, and furious antagonism and rival. party yells of "Daniel Hunter and Dema- cracyl" "Falconer O'Leary and. Free- men's Rights!" raged for mime mintites. before even the mighty presenea of.the great statesmamcould enforce the silence and order necessary -to make himseli heard. Then he' addretesed them in a speech of some twenty minutes' length. and dismissed them to their homed Lastly, he retired to his own apartmente, where his more intimate persotal friends, perceiving his fatigue, considerately bath. him good -night, and left him to bit muela needed repose. Repose? No! For scarcely had the door closed bohind the latest departing visitor before it opened again, and one of the hotel waiters ea- tered, and Ida caid upon tha table before him. He took it up with a wearied air, and read: "Dr. James Roes, resident physician to the Al----- Institute for the Insaue, pre. ;seas his.respectful regards to Mr, Hun- ter and retitle:its' the honor of an ;Mine - (Bale interview, upon business of the greatest nuportame, that will not admit of delay." Conquerihg impatience, he went to meet his vuator. "Mr, Minter," said Dr. Ross "I have been for the last month waiting for your, return with the :Mist. feverish anxiety, I should most certainly live written to you, bad there been a possibility bf my letter reaching you,, or hurrying your arrival." Daniel Hunter listened with, surprise and attention, "Yet now that sit before emit, sir " continued the phyeiciata" "I scarcely know how to open my busniess--it is so htrangeoso unftecountabie-so 11110X0111,;. pled in veal life." v. "Pray proceed, sir." "It is really Isti astonishinge-so in etedilde -that I hardly knoiv hew th 011 10 thia ease; it really makes'ame feel like being taken fiir an iffipostor." "ralo. ammage. duetor! It is not like: iy that I shall euppoeft you to bte one? *ad Daniel Minter, smiling. "I know. But really, tide case -how. ever, it is best to plunge into it at onve, I believe, air. Hunter, do you remember the lityae est O'Leary ?" Daniel Minetr ehanged colBregtetehtinte' Mg: • "O'Leary! What of Min?" And. Weil teem erne; himself, tie with another 10$8 paintel reeolleetion, he said, gayly: "Ohl you allude to the young mob -orator, ealeon tnketo.y, whose name vertahily 'found its way to 01e through the papers, even across the ocean? les, certainly, his name is not new to me! What of lam?' "Nothing of him. • I know little, and, with deference, eare less about, that yeung away orator. But you remember during your fh•st administration as gov- ernor ot Al.- -, sone sIxteen years ago, muu of the uame of William O'Leary, who was convietral of the murder of Burke, and for wnom great exertions were made to procure his pardon?" "And which I refused to grant -yes, I remeinher that," said Daniel Hunter, with the same dark, troubled look com- ing into hie face. "Well, sir, it was one of those inevit- able errors for which imperfect laws are alone accountable. We all undenstand that -the 1111111 died a. victim to dream- etantial evidence. ,Too late his guilt- lessness was made manifest. But, sir, you may also remember that the poor fellow had a mother -a woman of strong paesions, high spirit, and violent tem- per ?" "Yes, i remember her perketly, and her interview with myself distinctly." en ou doulatlees, them recollect that when you disregarded her tears and prayers, and refused to grant the pardon of her son, she called down upon the head of you and yours a dreadful curse, and bound her soul by a vow of venge- ance 1" "No, I do not remember that. If she did such a thing, probably I disregarded it as the mere raving of a poor, mad old woman." "She remembered it, however," raid the doctor, solemnly. "I do nut understand you, sir." "1 say that that wretched woman re- membered her vow, and accomplished it." Daniel Hunter fixed his eye.s in stern inquiry upon the face of his visitor, who continued: "Some months succeeding the execu- tion of her son, you lost your only child, as it were, by a sharp and sudden stroke of fate." "Our child was lost -drowned In the Severn. You do not mean to tell me that that wretched maniac destroyed beyPt asked. Daniel Hunter, in a toneof almost supernatural steadiness and coen- posit re. "No, sir! Heaven forbid! I do not mean to say that she destroyed the child, or that it was destroyed at all. Mr. Hunter, your infant daughter was aut. drowned, but stolen!" All self-restraint, all composure, was gone now! Daniel Hunter started up ancl seized both hands of the doctor, and gazed in his face in a very a.gony .of speechlees inquiry. And when he found hit voice, he asked, huskily: "Stolen? Where is she now? Does elle live? and how? where? Oh, Augus; tal oh, my wife! Doctor, why don't you answer me?" Hunter, my dear sir, I do rot know if your daughter be alive now; let us hope she is, and that she may be discovered," Daniel Hunter threw himself into his ebair, and, having completely mastered Ins emotion. said: hog yon, so*, to inform me bow you came by the knowledge of the facts you have just imparted to me, that I may he the better able to jedge ot them." "Asuredly, sir. This woman„ Nomh O'Leary, has been an inmate of the asy- lum 'under my charge for the last fifteen years, At intervate she has returns of reason, hut never for a eefficient length of time to warrent her discharge. I always imagined that there was remorse, ae well as sorrow, at the foundation of her malady, for she would often rave of a edam. committed, and of a sweet and noble lady whom she had bereaved, and of a stolen child;.but in her luciiPinter- Vele, if this was alluded to by me, for the hake of anteing out the truth, she would laugh in meet matio"nalit, den - ant„ triumphant manner, Within the last six months, however, her bodily health has failed very rapidly; and, as is often. the case in similar eireuinstanees, as her physical strength declined. her mina recovered its tone, cleared and set- tleed, From time to time she has drop- ped words that, put together, have re- vealed to me the fact of her theft of the Bet she. refuses to give me afey connected. amount of the erinie, and inquii.es piteously for Aire, Minter, / am convinced that from some idiosyn- cramy or other, she finds herself unable. to confess to any but Mrs. Hunter. Within the last month she has failed so rapidly as to make it certain her death is near. I dreaded it would take place before your arelval. To -night, one of my youngistudente, happeeing to lie walking with me in the lobby near the door, chanced to speak of your urrival, and of the crowd that had gathered to receive you. She heard the news, and became so excited that 1-wittp obliged to admin- ister InTWO11111 sedatives. She .prayed that Mrs. Hunter might be Mowed, to her. And, sir, it is for that purpos.e that left her to come to you, late as it aml closed the door behind him. is, fatigued ea you eye; .fht, ilo 'not "(do with him, doctor. You are a well-meaning old gentlemtn. nnly eilly think the wretched mvalia has many I out of the line of your profession. Are home to live," Daniel Dunter graspea the doetoy's Valetta with the lady,h - -*you going? fell voo; I }vont to be hand in Went emotion, and arose .With the purpese of going to break this, to oamm got up. beekomid tile nurse, met The phyidelan, with bpreentory - his wife, lint the connecting door ppened, and Mrs. Hunter entered, pale ite ivory, 7rollowed by her, Stumped out of the and holding out her hands like one blind room, Ieft alone, the dying woman ' and in danger of falling, until she met tuned her burning gaze upon Augusta, and threw hereelf epon her hueband's The lady thougbt best not to open to converSation, eontentra. herself with laving her lurid upen the darkened forehead, and looking kindly in the harassed eyes of the sufferer. Noralt was too far gone, too exhaueted, too eoefused to attempt ithything like a 4,011- 14001041 narrative; her epeeeh would have been ineobere»t to 000 nOt poems - ed of the clew; her emotions ,and ex, preseions were often enntradiatory and ineonsisteet. She fixea lier fiery eyes upon the lady. and drhve their Piercing &wee deep into 'Tier 'very seul; but reading there nothing bet Pity, loire mid =sorrow, sin* dropped her lids. eheathing their burring gore and said, calmly: (To be eoritintted.) stairefea•s au upper hall, flanked on Onth sidee ity rows .0E tens. An wits very quiet in this department • the hat, inmates of the cells seemed. to aeleep, and the ehaded lamp that leata from ilia veiling ehed a cheerful aun igekoned some one out. A hospital nurse appeared at bis Hum- e • "Uwe: is your patient?" "In one of her deathlike sleeps." "How long has it lasted'?" "Ulm d of two hours." "She will awake before long," mid the doetor, and then, turning to Mr. and limiter. he =said: "We cell velar." "But should sh.• suddenly awake and find ne by her side, mig_ht not the shock Jea...xflaon,gift•lit•iodultel."; taw has been led to ex - meg you; besidee, you neea not appear The physician held open the door and idlowed limiter to pess in, amd then ft -Dewed with Mr. Hunter. At was 0 fair-sizedenom•fouteble apart - chamber than cell, The doetor placed Letter deserving' the name of ehaim at the foot of the bedstead, and 'eilv motioned hie companions te be eeatfii, while he himself took his station near the head. Daniel Hunter and his wife haikett upon the patient extended beS141117 Italyie-nsLirretelied. out at full length upon her baek, with tt white quilt spread firer her, like one dead. Her head was bare, and her grey hair cut close for coolneas, though the night Was so sold. Mra. limiter gazed upon the body with slitidthe of horror, of incredulity, that t thing still breathing should be such laeonceivalde wreck, should look worse than an Egyptian mummy, As she lay, all her joints were prominent, al- most pointed. beneath the COVVI'llq, thuht! of a s%eleton might have been, end her suulten eyes, and the dark, livid. skin clinging closely. i•ound the hones of her forehead and jaws, made dark, cavernous hollows of her cheeks and eythsoekels, Mrs. Dante). turned, s:ekened, away. "She Ited a powerful, a wonderful con- etitution. The disease has fed upon and consumed almost every atom of flesh. add yvt, you see, her braiu nets, her lungs etili breathe, her heart still beats --it is stupendous," said the doctor, in a low voiee, "But husb-11-300 wakes - turn a little further aside, dear madam, if you please. I will speak to her," he. •edded. 1301)..b1t)te(iit. was too late, Sorah had seen and recognized the lady at the foot of "Aloh-hl you have come at lastI" she murmured, in a hollow tone, and her sviotiteve4a011.1(luied like a far-off moan from a Augusta turned again, and met her fiery eyes fixed upon her, and glowing like two live coals in a skull, Yes, all the life left in the body burned in those tc-rrible eyes! 'Ihe lady shaded here with a 'shudder. A hollow, dying laugh followed the movement, and lhorah said: "Oh, you. needet shrink how! The time has passed! the arrow has been aped! it transfixed its victim Meg ago! Come to nie. 1 can dra.w it out; it was never meant' for you," She held op her skeleton arms to the lady, and then, prostrated, dropped them. Hunter came around to the dde of her bed, The doetor made way for her and retired. The lady bent' over the' dying woman, But the poor wretch looked up at her with an expression in which diabolical malice still struggled with remorse and fear and (impassion, until the eountenanee grew frensied, The lady laid her calming band, and fixed her p.itying eyes upon the patient, and said, in her eweet, gentle voice: "Sorel', if yOU have anything to say to me, say it now. You o•ill have peaca ,vhcn you have said it." "Hal ha! hal Ain't you glad tile spirit will make me tell? Ain't you glad it maddened me? It killed me?" "God knoweth that I am not Norah. I am profoundly sorry for you. I shall be happy if, by penitence, you can ob- tain neace," "Penitence!" cried the dying woman, with kindling eyes. "Penitence for the only thing in whielt 1 rejaiee! Yes, re- joice! ha! lia! ha! Penitence! and with that mao in the room! Take him out! Take him oot! If I were on the thresh- old of heaven, and I saw that man go- ing on before me, le should turn hack and go to-- -" "Hush-sh-sh YOu mustret• say that. my poor woman!" interposed the -doctor. "You mustn't say such dreadful things that,I You must forgive your ene- mies, you know!" "Forgive! Ha! ba! ha! Oh, you fool- ish ohl man! That anybody should live sixty or seventy years in this. world, and get lint -white hair on theh• beads, to talk such arrant nonsense! There's a man who knows better! Ask him .if now my heart ean be changed, and I can fotgive, forsooth. Ho! ha! hal" "Bot, my dear soot, lent must forgive! You. nnow that unless we forgive men their frespassee, neither 11;ill our heaven - lar Father forgiVe us ours," sine the phy- sician, "Forgive! • Forgive him! tell you, old man, that if Goa never forgives me until I forgive him I shall go straight to everlasting fire, anti—' "Sit -sit -A -AI My «ear ledy. you must not :my such shoeking things! t"ipitisstgenue;psalive.t. you mako ones hair lut! ha! I toll yen there's a man who knows cannot forgive! Ask him if my heart can change at Ms hour! Aud take him out! I tell you he stifles me! I tell you I cannot breathe the air he 'breathes!" Wit ha look of deepest eomroiseratiou, Daniel Minter had stood near the foet of the bed. Now he turned to lel4VO the room. "Do not mind her, sir; she raves," mid the physician. , But Damel Minter 01117 replied by an inclination of the lima. as he rhtired , bosom, exclaiming : ' 'Oh, Mr. Hunter! we have heard it all! , Ob, don't you keow who it is? It is Syl- ' via! It is Sylvia! always felt it. but never knew it? why, was it we never knew our angel child Of , Daniel Hunter premed her to hie boetan in unnttereble emotion, and set her down hi a loungine, phalr. Then, tuning, he rang the and ordered a earflap. And ten minutes after. Ielm Re , was, Ifr.• nod Mrs, Hunter and the ioloettle .entered the vehicle, and were. driven tu the iteylmn. • CHAPTER XXIII. A rapid drive of nwenty minutiae !- brought them to the lunatie assylmd they alighted !mid euteted its gloomy pottale, and, led by the doctor, paesed ' up i S long paseagee and dimly-light:41 A earth enrried to a depth of 2f/0 feet below the stiff:tee of the sett not rise again owing to the great pressure of water. ••••• • • ••rr••••••••••• Shaving Mirror, 110.00 =OR the man who shavie no gift .1 would liring quite as much pleasure thie Triple Shaving Mirror. as it Is very much superior in every way to the ordinary style. IT has attachments so that it can be A either secured to the wall or stood up On a table. =OR travelling it is veryconvenlent es I it can be folded up to occupy only a small place. Tim Price in 86.00 Our handsomely Illustrated Catalogue Is yours for the askIng ItymE Buos., Limited 134.138 Youlle St, TORONTO 7.1441 •••/V.' 11 lfeTv Russo-Japanese Commercial Treaty, • The ehin Trade Journal for October says that what purports to be a semi- official statement of the differences be- tween the new and old Russo-Japaneee treaties ilea been publiahed in Japan, in substance as follows: The aew treaty gives Beath country the right of burying or cremating ha dead in places duly as- signed for the purpose; the subjects of each power are placed on the most fav- ored nation footing with regard to agriculture and the ownership of pro- perty; freedom of manufacture is given to the subjects of each in the country of the: other whereas the old treaty covered only freedom of commerce; each power pledges itself to conclude a convention for the mutual recognition of laws relat- ing to shipping; most favored nation treatment is extended to the commis of eacli state and their functions in the territories of the other; all newepamers or booke .publiehed in the Russian lan- gua6 by linseian subjects within Japan are to be subject to Russian jurisdiction, the Japanese having similar jurisdiction within Russia's dominions; trade marks, designs and patents of each to be pro- tected in the other country. These pro- visions are all addition* to the old treaty. BETTER THAN SPANKING, Spanking does not cure children of bed- wettiog. There is a constitutional cause for nil. trouble. Mrs, M. Summers, Box w. 8, Wile:leer, Olt., win send free to any mother tele suacessful bonie treatment, With tali instructions. Send up inenoy but write mg to-eay if your childree trouble yea In title way, Pon't Mame the ohm!, the Omens ere it aan't help It. This treatment alsp mos adults and aged people troublee with wine difficulties hy day or night. He Tried It A yoeng foeeigner one day visited e, physioian and described ft bemmon mal. ady that had befallen him. "The thing for you to do," the physician said, "is to drink hot water an hour before break- fast every morning." "Write it down, doctor, so I won't forget it," said the patient. Accordingly the physieian wrote the directions down, namely, that the young man was to drink hot water be- fore breakfast every morning. The pat- ient took his leave and in a week he re. turned. "Well, how are you feeling?" the physician asked. "Worse, doctor, worse, if anything," was the reply. cfAheml Bid you follow my advice arid drink hot water an hour before break- fast 1" frf did my best, sir," said the young man, "but I couldn't keep it up mere than teu minutes at a stretelo ITC HI Mange. Prairie Swatches and every forma et contagious Itch on human or animals cured In SO minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotkin. It sever fails. Spid by druggists. 4 6 Thieving Barber's Trick. "There a queer and nasty lain.d of erbrinal that we call the barber thief," sell the detective. "He is a journeyman barber who lifts your see.rfpin while shaving you, "These rascals have learned somehow or ether to shave and haircut fairly well. They go everywhere in the rush setion-California or.Floricia in the win- ter, Atlantic City •in the eunamer, an4 so on -end there the overworked boss barber .vrIth hands scarce, is Only tOo glad te; take them on, and to take them on without references. "It doesn't take a clever barber thief loeg to make a good haul. In a day in Saratoga one of these men lifted out of cute sporte'' neckties dia- monds and pearls to the value of $4.000.° -Minneapolis journal. -.-..._.... - ••••••••••••11••••• •••••••••••••* THE RISE OF EMPORIA, EAN. How It Got to be a County Seat in the Early Days. 'rho early settlers of Kansas remember naany exciting times occasioned by cott1047 seat tights. Many of 'these tights resulted In „the killing of some of the participants. But when Emporia wanted to get the county seat away from Americus it sot Its trams to work and took it without ratAng a ills • tutbance. Americus was unaware et the triek that was being played. When Emporia conceived the idea of be- coming the capital of the county the Heath line of Breckenridge county, now Lyon county, Was a short distance south of the town. Lts c111$010 elrettlated a petition mis- file the 1401$10.4ure 40 (111 a strip off from the north end of tho county and to anti a like strip to the south end, thus makitg Emporia eloso to the centre of the euuniy. Americus liontll Of the proposed ehaage end got out a TeMOrtarallee, 10 received tes teeny or more signatures man paltien. At that time the State capital was Tocump- ton anti the only way to get there was oa horseback. Each town prepared to present its side of the ease to the Legislature and the Illmoria man Warted with hie petition for Lecompton. On his way, however, be was stricken with favor and ague and was de- tained on nesount of the illness. The /Merl - ens man with the remonstrance overtook him. Just what kind Of a deal was made is not known to tho entitle, but tte remototranea never got to the Lem:II:mire end when tho netition was pruented the timber et .silgare lute greatly inereased eineo It had tett Ben tete:. The Ameriens man 14110110,11t 011110 into possession of $400 and the title to sovevaii Awn Iota, it is tete. Owing* fo tfio 'poor faellitiee of earninu»101- nee in those der; the people ot Amerieu did net tind nut hew they had been duped wit!! it Was too late. Nobody opposeft (lump In tbo Legislature, the Detition sslo grantee end Unlparift gat the county em without much trouble.—Prom the Hamun 'My limo. Toeonto bank; are t arging higher die- emints on Sfi (es elieeinee, 1 CNE'THINQ AND ANOTHER. )nterenting Facto Set Forth Without ; Waste of Words. 'The largest wagon iu the wiped has Feen ahipped to Nome, Aleelco, for tho Pioneer Mining Company. It is over 20 !set long and 7 feet bigh from the axle. Fitelli dethw.heels are 10 feet in diemaeer, and t•pre fit ed with Irma tires We feet in ; Taximeters are a success in London, 'Paris, Hamburg end every eity where ' hey have been adopted, They have snake matchers tunic: out 40,000 "eplints," proved. that lionesty--even enforced, hon- esty -is ehe best policy. The machine whieli cuts ap WO 201. to .p,e they are called, hi 0 single mitt:rte. ' A publication reeently issee4 by the :Central Esperantist Office in Paris shows ithet there are 039 Eeperauto societies ;throughout the world, and 38 journals ftre published specially devoted to the . ropagation of the !entrap. [ ng House show that 1,000 parcels a day In Belgium breeders are obliged to eep a record of all cattle raised ley hem, and meth animal has a registered rade number, white), is engraved on tee ng fastened to its ear. Returns of the British Railway Clear - c.1 rehother in any one of the four fun - re lost on the railways of the United ngdom, , Two l000raotive engines eould pass els of the Mauretania. The export of Chinese crackers from "mutant, wee 45,197 himdred-weight last ear, as compared with 45,104 hundred - eight in 1905, and 22,003 hundred - eight, the average for the previous live oars. Doctors Thought Baby Was Consumptive A letter to anxious mothers is writ- ten by • Mrs. F. W. Kettle, of Kirkdale, P. Q., who says: "My little 4 -year-old boy suffered since he was 18 months old from a bad leg. I tried meny salves and had doctors attend him, but none did him any good. The doctors told me it was in the blood, and he was in con- sumption. I only wish now I had had more faith in. Zaan-Buk, for it immediate. ly healed the boy's leg, He is now near- ly 4 years old, and looks far from being consumptive, Ile is DOW a strong, healthy boy, thanks to Zam-Buk. I hope this letter will help a good many anx- ions mothers." Mothers, take heart. Don't be dis- oouraged because everything has failed to heal your child until you have tried Zam-Bitk is nature's healing halm, aed quickly overcomes and re- moves all skin diseases. It is equally' good for young end old. For all skin dismses Zam-Buk is without equal. It cures ulcers, fester- ing sores, ringworm, outs, bruises, chapped hands, boils, eczema., etc., etc. All stores and druggists sell Zam-Buk at 50 cents a box, or post paid from the Zion-Buk Co,. Toronto, 3 boxes, $1.25. An Effective Denial. (Boston Record.) Three tired citizens -a lavryer, a doc- tor, and a newspaper man-Sab 111 a back room recently in the cold gray light of the ..early dawn, Ou the table were many empty bottles and a couple of reeka of cards. As they stet in sil- ence a rat scurried across the hearth into the darkness beyond. The three men Shifted their feet and looked at ea& other uneasily. After a long pause the lawyer spoke. "I know what you fellows aro think- ing," he said, "you thiek I saw a rat, •-•dt," • I was cured of terrible lumbago by MINARD'S LINIMENT. REV. WAL BROWN, I was cured of a bail ease of earache by MINARD'S LINIMENT. WIS. S. KAM:BACK. woe cured of sensitive lungs by MIN- ARD'S LINIMENT:m.Rs. s. amsnas. Oln.m.•••••••••••••••••• • Natural History Jots. Lions and tigers are too weak in lung power to run more than half a mile. An orange tree in full beering has been known to prod.= 15,000 oranges. .4 man respires -that is, draws in breath -sixteen to twenty times a min- ute, or twenty thousand times a day. Rabbits, says a naturalist, have white tails, sp that the young may be able to distinguish their mother in case of pur- suit. The color of a rabbit Is so like that of the ground that this would oth- erwiae be difficult, if not impossible, A Strange Mistake, e My daddy says that once he was .A elutplike So why he sttys the things he does I really cennot see. He says he cannot underetand Why so dote on noise,. Aud like to play that I'm a band, Deserting quiet toys. He says he can't imagine why I *and upon my head, a Instead of on my dignity, Like boys who're better bred. He says lie cannot comprehend The reason why can't, When Up the stairs I mounts pretend That I'm a human ant. Instead of stamping on the stair, 'Were nothing but a lively pair As though thought that I . Of hippopotami. r4.01 all of which I greatlY fear ( 4aye beyond recall Iltvdear old daddy, it is clear, as not like me at all. tut like some other little chap, Whose name I never heard, Who likes to sit on sonie011e'S lap And never says a word. .--john Kendrick Bangs, in St. Nich- idits. Nelson's Signalman. It was in the winter of 1848 that Nolle sigrialman-the man Who holete the famous "England (*- pacts,' ete.,--was disuovered by one who had served as surgeon on board the Tennant at Trafalgar, The sig. rielmart, John Itoome, was telling watercress and red herrings in Molt. friars. Ito had deserted from the navy after the battle, and this had disqualified him for a pension, but represents,tions were made to Ca t. Paseo, Lieulenant on the °- tory at Trafalgar, who used his in- fluence on tho old mates behalf. Capt. Paseo was at first unsuccessful; be Was informed by the authoritide that &hero were =any more de:set-sang eon. didates for Greenwich. Shortly after. -^ LEARN DRESS.MAKING BY MAIL ISSUE NO, 49, 1907 in your spare thee at holm>, or Talte a Personal Course at School. wiruntro WATCR. To enable all to learn we teach On Cash or instelment plan. We also teach a personal class at 800001 once a month, Class zommeneing bast Tuesday of cull month. These lessons teaches how to eta, fit end put together any garment from the plainest shirt waist stet, to the most etcher.. ate dress, The whole family can learn front onescourse. We have taught over seven thousand dress -making, and guarantee to give live hundred dollars to any one that cannot learn between the age of 14 and ece YUJI cannot learn dress -making, as thorough as this course teaches if you ' worla in shope for years. Beware of imita- tions wi wo employ no oho outside the school. This 191110 only experienced Dress Cutting. Schoce in Canada and exeelleci none in ;toy other country. %Ville at once for particulars, cis we have cut our rate one- third die a short titne. Address t - SANDERS' ORM-CUTTING SCHOOL, 81 Erie Se, Stratford, Ont,, Canada.. WANTED AT ONCE -We harif decided to instruct and employ a number of smart young ladies to teach our course in dress- making, having nne teacher for the six nearest towns whero they live—ago 20 to SS. Those who have worked at dressmaking, or like drawing preferred, Please do not ttpDlY uniese you can doyote your whole time. Ad- dress-- THE SOHOOL. ,M101101.111, Tribe of Fighting Indians. "I sojourned for more than a year in Central America, mostly in Honduras, where went to make a study of the native Indian tribes," said Charles 0.• Lesseuer, of Now Orleans. "These aborigines are mostly ot war- like mould and as brave fighters aa any of the human race. I was especially im- pressed with tho inhabitants of the Cop- an and Gracias districts. They are the best fightieg stock in all Latin America. Three or four hundred of them will often' defeat an army of thrice their size. They are ever eager for battle, and reek nothing of heavy adverse odds. They aro supposed to be Christians, but frora,what I saw and learned from others I came to the belief that they practise heathen rites and ceremonies. They are excel- leut friends, but terrible enemies, and if defeated in battle are apt to visit their wrath on their unfortunate officers, "These Indians Wing to their primitive customs and do moat of their hunting with bows and arrows. The way they use the bow is rather unique. They sight their game, calculate the dista,no, and then shoot their arrows into the air, whereupon the weapon fells upon the mark, whether bird of beast, seven times out of ten, with fatal effect. The country they inhabit Is quite °old, and often in the morning I have seen. a thin coat of ice over the jar of water placed on my table. Again, when shivering un- der two or three blankets, I have looked with envy at my meszo *noun) who, stripped to the skin, and wrapped only in a thin cotton itheet, slept as comfort- ably as though in a steam heated apart- ment. --Baltimore American. ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT RemoveS all hard, soft and calloused lumps and blemishes from horses, blood spavin, curbs, splints, ?inhere°, Sweeney, stifles, sprains, sore and swollen throat, coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by drug- gists. • Oklahoma: Forty -Sixth State. Uncle Sam's list of Territories has boon seriously depleted within the mem- ory of people now approaching middle age, who used laboriously to eon a list of ten or twelve as a part of their geo- graphyreleapoos000lhafeadmission of tho new State of Oklahoma (comprising the former Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory), on November 10th, reduces the npmber of Territories to threes -Alas. ka, Arizona ancl New Mexico -end brings the roll of States up to forty-six. Here are some of the figures that in- dicate the importance of the new State in the most concrete and convincing form: Area in square miles, 70,230; pop- ulation, 1,500,000; taxable property, $800.000,000; estimated annual value of mineral products, $200,000,000; annual crop of wheat, 40,000,000 bushels; corn, 72.000,000 bushels; cotton, 000,000 bales; value of domestic animals, $08,000,000; bank deposits, $40,000,000; railroad mile- age, 5,000. -Leslie's Weekly, Cures Spavins The world wide success of KendalPsSpavin Cure has been won because Ma remedy enn••••and does —cure Bog and Bone Spaviu, Curb, Splint, nInetene, Bony Growths, Swellings and La unness. MEAFORD, ONT., May 44. "I used net dall's Spavin Cure on a nog Spavin, which cured it compietely," A. G. MASON. Price $t-6 for $5. Accept no substitute. The great book—"Treatine on the Horse" —free from dealers or 84 Dr. B. 1. KEtIDAIL CO., Enosburg Fells, %mud, ILS.S. two .11MOMM•111•1•111•1•MIll A Bargain. Two Highlanders were on the Oban steamer. One carried and used Detente- tionsly a large red handkerchief. His friend in course of the voyage produced an orange and procerded to suck it. He of the handkerchief loeked curiouslY at it for a feW moments mid then exclaim- ed, "Here; Saudy, man, gie us a suck o' your orange and gie ye a blaw o' nia bookie." 4 e Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtherial, — • THE IMPORTANT POINT. The lenk, young maulook. ed drearaingly at the charming girt on whom he was endeavoring to make a favorable impression. "Did you ever long for death?" he ask- ed, 111 Iow and moving tone. "Whose?" inquired the charming but pradieel young person,--Totith's Com- panion. T'llE PEDLAR ItVortin atiriralt oilMrdatt Steel Side -Walls for Modern Homes Waarii ask', or pante itibettuty-•• truitenespearcur any attsenarrie—any taint *Aetna— entices the moms REALLY sanitary—gives protect4 against fite thsee INT karat *idle seasons why idOLIR !mot —svhsf any modern buildinessywhoreshou hive PEDLAik. A" SrE't SiteK WA1,14-, Cott little—fad Let tend yea the %Arils WO in wild and pieturew. The book In free. sal ?ha PZEILAR People TO dagurn Ottswa Ibrontfr Loriann %Wong •••••••••S •Reasens Why It is Better DOM in the Morning Rather Than at Night. "You wouldn't think," said 41 watch - !Maker, "that it woeld make any differ- ' enee whether a watch is wound up in the morning or at night, but it does make leonsiderable difference. , "When a watch is wound up at night. !coining out of a warm pocket, and laid down or hung up in a cool place, ties maleepring will contract by the cooling off of the metals. Being wound up tight- ly all chance of contracting has been feint off and the epring is hound to break. If, however, the watch is around up in the moming, having partly run clown through the night,Lthere la room enough left in the barrel to eontract. Another reason why it should be wound up in the morning is that the spring will then have more power and. thus will be in a better oondition to resist the disturbing 1110101 - 'meats of the bearer during the daytime. "Being generally in a horizontal posi- tion during tho night and running with leas power, the horizontal position, in 'which the balance runs more freely, will 'operate to make the length of the swing of the balance wheel during the night as nearly as poesible the same ea in the daytime." .4•=111••••••••••• Shiloh's rosretahrlst Cure Cures Coughs and Colds QUICKLY thesharpest cough -try it on aguars antee of your money back if it doesn't actually CURE quicker than anything you ever tried. Safe to take, -nothing in it to hurt even a. baby. 34 years of success commend Shiloh's Cure - 25c., 50c., $1. 316 MAKING A NOISE IN THE WORLD But You Can't Always Tell by the Sound Just What There is Back of It. "Lincoln," said Mr. MaeGilkamby, "told a story about a little steambolft running on the Wabash River with a whistle so big that when the captain blew it he haul to tie up to the ba,nk for an hour or two to get up stea,m eaough to go on. He had only a little boat, but he wanted to make as muoli, noise as. anybody on the river. "And isn't it so, by the way, with our friends the automobilists? If you don't aee it you can't tell by the sound of the horn whether the machine coming ia a veritable battleship of a car with a limousine body and with fouteen extra tires clamped tO it, and with hampers end baskets stra.pped to it all over, and with seven trunks on the roof, a regular house on wheels driven by a hundred horse -power engine; or a rickety little second hand two horse -power runabout, for the floppy little runabout is alto.. gether likely to cerry a bigger and: louder horn than the majestic touring; ear. • "And still, are steamboat men anal automobilists the only people that like to put up a big front? Don't we all of us, big and little, like to make all the noise we can in the world?" Minard's Liniment Cures Garget Cows, Nue Winder. An old woman from the country paid her first visit to Edinburgh the other day, and was taken over the sights, in- cluding Holyrood. On reaching the spot where Queen Afg_ry'es faithful servitor was put to death, she gave a bad atutne Ole. "Here Rizzi° felle' remarked the: guide, "I dinna winder at it," she repliel, "I nearly fell mysele" ward, however, room was found at Greenwich Hospital for old John. Had ho lived in. our time he would probably have received a princely ary for repeating the signal nightly at musio halls. -From the London. Chronicle. • _ & Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. si'! • 4 81, THE WORLD'S CITIES. Tokio has 8,000 public bathe, Budapest and St. Louis have the deep- est water wells in the world. London consumes over 9,000,000 tons, of coal every year. Paris possesses the largest public gar, dens and the largest hospital. In Bilboa there is a law prohibiting the ringing of church bells even on Sun- day. • In Tokio, workmen Wear upon their jackets the name of their trade and the name of their employer. St, Peter's, Rome, has a floor area of 921,000 square feet, the greatest of any cathedral in tho world, A London firm of eleetro-plate makers has in its service eighteen workers who have been with it for over fifty years. In Vienna Museum there is a colleettem • of wins numbering 125,000, It is Midi to be the finest in the world. Of all the boy -workers in Londort, newsboys are the healthieet, barbere boys the moat unhealthy -a tribute to the open-air life. Mniard'e Liniment Cures Distemper. ,ef • _ 4' t A Queen's Hobbies. .1tz Queens are invariably exernit from the mystery that veils the age ef women. and they ean never abate a day from the cold calculation of the calendar. Qoeen of, the Low Counteies, was twentyteven the ether day, and has reigned for nearly seventeen years, the first eight of Wall was under the guid- ance of her Mother, a ?Amos of Wala deck Pyrniont, and sister of the Dueheest of Albany. Per six and a half years the: Queen of Holland hes been wife to Henry,. Duke of Mecklenburg, "Prince des Pays; Bag,» as he was formally styled on thee oeension of his marriage. Queen 'Wit- helineintje," as she is known to her sutra iota, has many hobbies; her dairy at Het Loo one of them. Her Majesty. Is a pritetieal dairymaid, who can milk eow, ehurn the butter and make it into, the deftest pats. The dairy began by being a hobby, but so suecesafttl dkt become that it is not run as a paying business, The Queen is very fond of music, and has organized a series of "slum concerts" to brighten the lives of her poorer subjects. During the winter in The Hague, these eoneerts, which aro given in large halls by excellent singereek, and intstrumentalists, engaged at their' roam! expense, are open to the inhabit- n ants of the poorer quartere only, Queen Wilhohnina is• also an eepert needlewoe - man and is interested in the Indestriat School of Amsterdam, where some won - &Wu) »eedlework is done, which he eagerly bought by the best people. atti being exceptionally eitell .11:1444.-1)aulden Advartisee.