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Lincoln in Pointed
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Don't thiuk beettuee Abraham Lincoln
is Penally remembered in connection with
Mato!, thot he Wa4Sa netivo a that
State. He was born in old leentucke,
a Hardin coliotes eabin, the date being
Feb. 12, 1000,
His grandfather, a4so Abraham Lin-
coln, entered a tract of our hundred
acres and built a 10g shack near Fort
Beargrass. That site hi 1101,/ oempled by
the eity of Louieville.
.Abraham Lincoln, the greaulfather,
met a violent death, being killed by an
Indian from an ambush.
Thomas Lincoln was the father of the
Preeldent, and wart considered the re-
verse of distinguished, Nancy HaUles
was his mother and won the poethumous
fame of having n seosationally fast ratio
mare 'mated after her.
There were two other children besides
Abraham—Saralo who died in middle
life, and Thomas, who lived only a short
time,
Naney Hanks Lincoln died when Abra-
ham was aisle years old, vas4 he was
brought up under a kiod-hearted step -
=other, his fether marrying Mr e Sally
Johnston a year following the death of
his first wife.
Yowler Lincoln read everything Hutt
crone his way—and that wasn't muoh,
for the Indiana frontier where his fa-
ther had removed wasn't exactly a lit-
eret7 eentre.
When he was nineteen he set out to
see the world, via the flatboat route,
floating eighteen, hundred miles down
the creeks and. rivers to New Orleans.
Before he was twenty-one he was six
feet four inches tall and as strong as a
grizzly.
He earned• six dollen a month as a
hired man, and varied his occupation
with that of hog slaughterer. At this he
was considered an expert, and was paid
the flattering wages of thirty-one cents
a day.
He was so strong that it was nothing
at all for him to rescue hogs from the
quagmires into which they had strayed.
The Lineolns wont to Illinois in 1830
and. set up housekeeping in a log cabin
neer Deeatur, a distriet where there was
an average of one fist and knife fight co
the minute.
The Lincoln garb usually consisted of
a scant pair of trousers hitched by a
single suspender over a cotton shirt, and
so short as to expose at the lower end.
six or seven inches of sharp, blue and.
narrow shinbone.
He became the champion rail splitter
of his district, and turned this skill to
lunch account, as is instanced in an
agreement nmee with Mrs. 'Nancy Mil-
ler to "split 400 mile for every yard of
brown jeans, dyea with white walnut
bark, that would be necessary to make
him a pair of trousers."
Be was a. good story teller, though his
reeitale were seldom of the sort consid-
&red appropriate to the parlor. •
He could make a good speech, too, and.
got a lot of *early practice among the
yokels wise made up the society of his
home.
In 183.4 he achielied an ambition and
became a member of the Legislature at
the -age of 25.
He reversed the usual order of things
in many cases. After his election to the
Legislature he met a man named Cole-
man Smoot. "Did you vote for me,
Smoot?" he asked, and Smoot replied
that he had done so. "Then • you must
lend me $200," said Lincoln. "I need
some clothes, and if I don't get soma
money I'll, have to walk to the oapital."
Smoot gave him the $200.
His first Rweetheart, Ann Rutledge,
is described as having been beautiful. Her
death threw Lincoln into apparently the
deepest of gloom. He got over it and
paid court to anothersysithin a year.
He and. Stephen A. Douglas, who later
became his political rival, courted the
esme girl, Mary Todd, and. though at
this time Douglas was a brilliant lawyer,
Miss Todd eefueed him, sayingehe want.
ed to marry a man who could gratify her
atabitioo to go to the White House, and
she tlaought Lincoln was that man.
The marriage was set for Jan. 1, 1841,
but It did't come of on the scheduled
date. The bride was ready, but they
couldn't find Abraham Lincoln. When
they did find him he was practically out
of his mind, and friends took him out of
the State to recuperate.
When he came back there was, natur-
ally, a lot of talk. Finally relations
were resumed, and the marriage actually
took place on Nov. 4, 1842.
There Were four children—Rot ere Todd.
torn Aug, 1, 1843; Edward Baker, born
March 10, 1846, and dying in infancy:
"Williom Wallace, born Dee. 21, 1850, and
who died during his father's first year in
the Presidency, and Thomas, born April
4, 1853, and who died when he 'was 19
:years old.
In 1848, when Stephen A. Douglas'
term in the Senate was drawing to a
close and. Illinois was interesting itself
In his successor, he and. Lincoln agreed
to make a joint canvass of the State.
Douglas on, but Lincoln gave him a
hard pull, and made many friends by
his anti -slavery speeches.
That Lincoln -Douglas campaign was
one of the meet famous in American
political history, and drew out utter -
nudes from Lincoln that will airfare live.
For example, on the subject of aectional-
ism Lincoln said: "Is it the case that it
Is slavery which is national an freedom
wedelt is sectionalle it a tine test of
soundness o a doetrine that in some
nieces people wouldtet let you proelaim
It?"
Wendell Phillips was among those who
sniffed at the nomination of Lincoln for
the Presidency. Mr. Phillips is on rgord
its remarking: "Who is this lotelciseer in
polities? Who is this ciountry court ad-
vocate?"
'ft was a four -handed campaign, that
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first battle of Lineeln for the Presidency.
The pro -slavery Democrats nomivated
John 0, Breckenridge, others named
Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell was
the Whig candidate. Lincoln got 180
electoral votes; Breekinridge, 72; Doug-
las, 12; Dell, 39. The popular vote stood
Lincoln 1,866,452; Breekinridge, 847,953; ,
Douglae, 1,375,157; 13e11, 500,61.11.
At the outset of his Presidential career
he said to a caller: "My course is as
/Actin as a turnpike road. It is merked
out by the constitution. I am in 80
doubt which way to go."
-The first inaugural addreos contained
this clear etatement of Lincoln's views:
"The union of these States Is perpetual.
No State upon its own mere motion eau
lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves
and, ordinances to that effect are legally
role."
There was' a certain grim humor even
in Lincoln's most serious moves. Thus,
when the Confederacy sent representa•
tives to Washington to treat with the
Government, just as if the Confedera,ey
had been a foreign power, Lincoln re-
fused to see them, but sent them a copy
of his inaugural address.
Rigid, justice was expressed in this ut-
terance: "The power confided to rne will
be used to hold, occupy and possess
places and property belonging to the
Governmene, and to collect duties and
imposts, but beyond. what is necessary
for these objects there will be no inva-
sion, no using of force against or among
the people anywhere."
It was Lincoln's dependence upon reli-
gion that caused him to issue on July
15, 1863, it thanksgiving Proclamation,
calling an the people to assemble on
Aug. 6 to "render the homage due to the
Divine Majesty for the wonderful things
He had done in the nation's behalf, and
invoke the influences of His Holy Spirit
and. to subdue the anger which has pro-
duced and so Tong sustained a needless
rebellion." October 3 Lincoln instituted
a permanent notional featival on the last
Thursda,y In November for the observ-
rum of thanks to God for all 'His mer-
cies.
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Mo. bottles, Meuse euestitutes.
MR. GNAGG EXPLAINING HOW
TO MAKE HASTE PUTNAM'S PAINLESS
e CORN 'EXTRACTOR
But at the Same Time Explaining
Gently the Wifely Duty of Prepar- mau lute got 'em by this time. Probably
ing All Things That the Man May you sent 'eat donn in the thimbwititee
Need Without Halting Her Own under the impression that they tvere
empty inilk 'bottles. Perhaps you do -
Preparation. • P its.ted, 'cm to Peery to ga to the North
JUST CURED HIM
' THAT WAS All
What Dodd's Kidney Pills Did
for Thomas Moon. •
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Mr, GlteeleU lAtreheeed th"L're they're-- What's that They're'right
ile1cet4, ieneeliis stee ao awe tentegg en here weere gettable, beneath
couch? Then why the illekopfs'edidlet
ge
sier efforts to et eeady:
w you say $3 0 in the first place/ D'ee call
Suppose we try to get to th eiko. thie getting reedy? D'ye—
Infore tile lime act ie over, eel Wo een Well, We a kind of a wonder tlett yott
do it, you know, if yen taco jkllit 080 " eave Flea these slum out to
two tucks in that dawdling habit, oi be polished, that' e l'iee got to say.
nJ,tueot eauermgoizree abut', ttpu,i:ht.hetilets
Get and, crime for a man to expeet his wife
Oe coarse I know that itee au oulrege
getting to the theatre when the ear- to en anything se melons end degrading
tain' s op on the eeeond actand s.prowlas to ask the elevator boy to take a
lug all over folks thet've settled -
of Jhoes down to the ;Moe imlishing
pair
, them-
theitaate-es mtonywachttneethiagtitat. guo.oinzneslooninfilittutolti: sneuTeg,rion, Asitimditg,yzgli.lithittoiliattzvoteitgiaels,ve
of viehni. I don't 'flig up two dollars little ellowatioes, te my way of --
ialposieze for theatre tickets for thee) nue' Now, see here, is that as far along RR
yoieve got—ejust beginning to ,put on
'tele:Lein ought to take you well tiVO your shoes? 'What time d'ye suppese
hours ewe e, half at the; stage of the this show begins, aeyltowl alideight?
genie to get 'ready for the theatre, e'on You might itlat AS wii unatetstand here
know,. That sort of wag may be en. and now, because I say it. flatly, that
right for--er--well, for young women; if we don't reach the thee ire tanight
women that've till goe their meaket to In time to see the beginning of tele show,
'make and oll that kind of business, 'Mit why, the present oceasionel be abone itil
there': uo sipeceig eseason teat I know of of the shosv attending flee fandly'll
why you :should spend all of (Weep hours indulge in during the remainder of the
primping and peeening owl fixing like seam of 1960. I've made an:earnest
tui -se rearing, raging, retyping, alleged and laborious effort to get you loyal
beauties that we gee the (pictures of in up to the -notion that the only way to
the nesvs,pagere, 1.'ou've nutde your sea a play understandingly is to see it
catch, you know, sueh al it IC I am fully from the begineing, one if Pee fallen
awore, cif vourse, that you- don't regard down in that attempt, why----
Huh! Look at these trousers! They
it as muck of a catch, and 5
cling to the fond convietion that you look as if they hadn't been pleased since
could have dome abouteighteen thou- the battle of New Orieens. What have
send per ceut. better, bat We Jet that you been doing to 'em, anyhow? lesing
pass. The point is that we want to 'ern for a bath mat or a duet rag? I'll
reach this Dhow to -night in time to see be a nice looking countryman going out
in a pair of dress trousers like these,
The way ta get ready se to get ready. won't !? Oh, well, there's no 11Re. Same
old thing year in and year out. • I've
been trying to Intimeto gently to you,
for more yeara than I are to think about,
that on the day after a man takes off his
evening clothes It's a pretty good thing
to send the evening clothes out to be
pressed so's they'll be in shape for him
to wear the next time, but I've got a
ehance to get away with anything
like that, haven't it
Look here, when are you going to Ira
gin to get some clothes on, anyhow?
D'ye know what time 16 is? Or maybe
you're --Oh, now I have it; Yotete purs
posely delitying so thae at the last min -
lite you think I'll conclude that the only
way we can reach the show in time is to
take a taxicab. Well, if that's your
idea, be good enough to forget it right
away quick.
Where's my white ties? Thili? No,
they're not in this drawer. If they were
in this drawer d'ye think I'd stand here
and—Ole they're under all the rest of
the riot of ties in the drawer, hey? Sure!
Certainly! Everything that I waut to
put inec hands on when I'm getting ready
to go anywhere is intentionally put under
something. It's a wonder you didn't
Put my dress ties under the dresser it-
self. It's a wonder you—
How do I think your hair ionise? Whv,
just about like all other hair, doesn't
it? Hair's hair, isn't it? You can't ex-
pect me to enthuse and turn handsprings)
and. somersaults and things over that
mass of kidney looking things that,
you've got welded onte the back of your
head, can you? Anyhow, wbat the deuce
difference does it make what I think of
your hair? did iny thinking about
your hair long years ago, and I can't
be expected to melt into poesy or to
burst into tears every time that you pile
about fourteen pounds of --
Huh! Just as I thought! This, drew)
vest looks as if it had been wont by a
hired MOM ill Lute= dining the thresh-
ing season. 1Vhat a fool I am to go on
bleating about these things. My bleat*
do a fine lot of good, I guess not.
Oli, say, who put all these wrinkleR in
this evening coat of mine, anyhow?
What've you 'been doing with it? What
the—
Oh, now you ev'ant me to button you
down the back, do you? Sure. It's jest
like you to wear some crazy thing that's
got to be buttotied down the back when
you've fizgiggedarouna until there's
only about a two minute margain left
for us to reaeh the theatre in timel
Now stand still for about a billionth
of a. eecond, won't you? How'zu I going
to get those dinged buttons— By the
way, why don't you use smaller Mittens
on the bock of your clothes, anyhow?'
These are too big. They're fully as large
as the head of a pin, and len dead sure
that is bad form. You ought to have
'em so that they could only be seen with
the aid of a mieroseope. Now, here, wait
a minute. Are you going to stand still
or aren't yon? Stop that wrigglingand
twisting and turning around. .
Gosh, how I lave this job es buttoning
people down the„baek anyhow. How
do women make` out that haven't got
aaybody aeound to button 'en) down the
back? They have to button themselves,:
donst they? They don't eall up police
headquarters or the fire departnient
and ask that somebody be sent up right
away on a dead gallop to baton sem
down the back', do they?
Oh, no, of course) I don't mind, it. Pm
crazy over it. I'M a perfect bug on the
subjeet of buttoning you down the back,
partionlarly when I know that the or -
(theatre is just about tuning up for tee
overtuto at the show I'm going to. Say
what date do with this bottom howgitg?
Ob, theta a hook and eye, is it? Well,
where's the eye?' 1, can binocular a look
all tight, but where in the confounded
blazes is the eye?
Oh, here it ie. Humph! That's the
hardest job Pee done for month o'
Sundays, and if you want to please Inc
you'll just toso away all those infetual
clethee that have to be buttoited down
the back.
Well, are yeti ready? Mild I :said, are
you ready? Como on, then! I said,
Como onl Never mind putting ou your
gloves. You eau put 'eat 08 111 the greet.
Pitt 'em on any old place. just eome on,
that's all. Here I've spoilt my whole
tittle, ever Mime I started in to get ready
myself, dressing you, and etill you're not
reedy. Now, lookotehere, are you going
to tome ott or aren't you? --New York
Earthquake -Proof Bedroom.
• • ei —
When residing, in Japan Professor
Milne bati a special earthquake bedroom
attathed to his house. This building
rested at wit of ite pillar -like founda-
tions upon a layer of re quarter of an
itith of eitetiron shot between two flat
Iron plates,
ILy moved rapidly to end fro.
at rest while the ground beneath it
this nteitis_..4.4....the building remained
A Strange Thing,
"There's Nome things( T ton't under-
atand," edid Mt "If get my feet Wet
I get cold. in mv haul. but eall Wet My
. .
Doctors Could Not Cure His Dropsy
but Dodd's Kidney Pills Cleared
It Out Completely.
Maidstone, ;Sask., Feb. 15.—(Special.)
—"Oured me completely. That's what
Dodd's Kidney PilLs did for me." Such
is the statement made by Thomas Moon,
welaknown resident of this place, who
for two yerers suffered with Dropsical
Swellings brought on by Diseased Ka -
neve.
"I had pains in the small tif iny bock,"
Mr. Moan. dontinues, and across the
loins. The ssvelling commenced fleet ht
my lege, and gradually got to my body,
I tried diffeeent, dockers, but kept getting
worse every day until was swollen. up
to an awful size,
"One doctor sent me to the hospital,
where I got a little benefit, but the
swelling soon all Sallie Leek.
"Then Ineed Dodd's Kidney Pills) rind
as saia before they eured me com-
pletely."
Dropsical swellings are caused by dis-
essed kidneys failing to take the surplus
water out of the blood. Cure the lekl-
neys 'with Doddee Kidney Pills stud the
Dec:nes neturally cures Melt
Any dentist will tell you that it's
like pulling teeth to get money out of
some peopig.
Landlady Why, Mr.
Mr. Boardett•-.Yeal
betto U. 10001C,
A CRUEL THRUST.
Bostrder, you are putting butter in your coffeei
have alwaya Won taught that the strong should
some of it.
You don't have to go gyraeing and ca-
vorthig around. to et; ready. Take it
easy, but be on the sob of getting ready
steadily rend persistently and you can
do it all right. Don't let anything else
interfere WAIL .701.1r businees ot getting
ready. That's my system, perhaps you
have perceived. I can, maybe you'Ve
noticed, go along coolly and resolutely
getting ready for any sort of an occa-
sion and extraet keen, contemplative
pleasure from the smoking of a cigar at
the Mlle tizne. It's all a matter of poise.
It's all a matter of---"
By the way, before depositing that
mujik 'otown of fictitious hemp called
a "rat" on your head you might sleek
the buttons in a dress shirt • for me.
That's one job I hate, etieldng buttons
in a dress shirtley the way, wh.y
couldn't you hare done that toolayl
You keine we were going to the theatre
this evenings • Couldn't you have taken
about two minutes of the hours and
hours of the day that you customarily
devote to sitting with your Mende in
your lap studying the wall paper pat-
tern—couldn't you have helped me a lit-
tle bit, of only out of a sense of duty, by
putting the buttons in a dress shirt for
me to -day? Oh, well, that's a vein ques-
tion I know. All of my questions bear-
ing on such topics are vain. They mnst
be beca,use they tuner do a particle of
good.
What shall you wear? Well, that's a
great question. How do I know? And if
I did know, and aavised you is there one
denote in nine million that you'd take
my advice? Nary chancel l'm
through With that sort of advising. You
'just ask me a question like that so that
when you get my answer you can cop-
per it, Coppering it means doing ex-
aetly the opposite tiring. Wear amy old
thing. It doesn't make any difference.
You're not going to the theataa, as I un-
derstand it, to make a, hit ond to com-
pete with the gilded butterflies of fash-
ion that you'll see there; but to evitnese
a show. Isn't that it? Very well. Wear
the first thing that you put your Ilan&
ou. all the sante. Pm not a cos-
tumer, anyhow, You hadn't ought to
.expect me to keep this petal a -going
and to serve as toilette adviser and
lady's maid and 'mini secretary and all
that sort of thing, too.
By the way, here you are asking me
what you should wear, when only a
couple of days ago you were telling me
that you didn't have a rag to your
back. How about that? 71 you haven't
a rag to your beak. how the dickens is
it that you're all in a stew and A flutter
to find out what you'd better put on to
go to a show? If you don't call that a
dead giveaway I'd like to know what
you do call it. Jest goes to prove the
contention that I've been making right
along, that you've got so blamed many
duds that you don't know where to put,
011.
Well, . well, please don't stand there
rubbing your chin about it, Have you
forgotten, by the way, that I requested
you a few memento ago to put the but -
tone in a shift for me? Very well. Then
why not get at that before worrying
yourself to death about What you're
going to wear out of your immense as-
soetineet of wearables? Be good etiough
to remember, however, hereafter that
you won't have any chance whatever
to get away with it in the fulette when
you try to spring that old. plaint of
yours about not having a rag to your
back. I think I'll jut jot clown a, mon-
orandum in my note book to the effect
that on such ane such a date --this date,
that is—you ,evened up. to it that you
had so Many clothes that you Most
know What to do with 'ern all. '
By the way, 1 believe there is a sort
of an .understanding between us, isn't
there, that we're going to the theatre
to -night? Then why the deuce don't
you get ready? D'ye call standing there
with your hair flying all over your
shoulders getting ready? ])'ye
tlmink—
How's that? Olt, you'ree looking for' a
drese shirt for me, are yen? very
well. Looking for one, eh? Do you have
to get out a. search' warrant and a writ
of replevin in order to find a dress shirt
for Me? Don't you know where they're
kept? Maybe they're up on the roof,
Perhaps,the janitor has 'em down in his
store room. Perhaps— Oh, you hot
the shirt but it'll the buttons you're
looking for, eh? Well, the buttons can't
be mere than tee thourand miles away,
,you know. t haven't made any tripe te
the east toast of Zanzibar wearing
dress -shirt that / know of, and so ---
Oh, you've found 'ern'have you? Greatl
You're the wonderful little finder all
right! Now suppose you gee a kind of
it wlgglc oe and make a start, anyhow,
toward getting xeady for the theatre.
Dea't get so Migrated about it eith-
er. Take it coolly. The trouble with
you is that when you're going anywhere
• you proceed to get yourself all worked
up about it and then your fingers be-
come all thumbs end—
Look a -here, where's rnv patent bath -
ore No, they're not, under the
bed. N'o, they're not in the elOset tither.
The 're nowhere that's where they are.
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Mrs. Belle De Rivera, whose specie:I
knowledge of New York public Esehool
life has made her famine, narrated at a
eeeent demos' a number of publio wheal
epleotive.
Olte- ootmerafol the small boy'/ 1vinter
batted for cold water.
"leis teacher," began 'elm. De Rivera,
"erthl one morning to a. little boy:
"`Jintrity, I'm ashamed of you. Your
cheek is all black and sticky. (lo to the
hY44l7,1,k. and wash it;
°Jimmy went " on.* to the hydrant,
moistened his wash rag and rubbed
Soap over IL 'Men, rag in bane, he re-
turned to the school room.
"Whielt sleek dial you say t' he in
quired."--Washingtou Star,
Philander C. Knox, the prospeetive
Secretary of State, talked at le recap-
tiou at Valley Forge of an impudent
politician.
"Tim luipedenee with wheel lie de -
monde ids favors," said .Mr. "re-
minds 010 of the impudence of young
John Gaines, a Brownsville boy.
One winter day in Brownsville the
skating was gocs3 and a game of hoekey
was proposed,
"John Unities, his skates over Ilia arm,
rang the bell of one of our oldest in-
habitants, an 1812 veteran, with a. wood -
e» leg.
"Exettse Ine, sir,' he said, 'but are
you going out to -day t'
"No, 1 believe not,' replied the vete-
ran, kiiidly. "Why do you ask, my sou?'
neeeaufie, if you are not,' said Jean
Gaines, 'IV like to borrow your wooden
leg to play hockey with.' "---Clueinnatii
Enuitirer,
"1 reckon you. have to watch your
poeketbook, °remold, an' wateli, ase'
so oo pretty doze, don't you?" a west-
erit visitor to New York asked a friend,
a, native of that metropolis, ea they were
starting out to view the city, and, de-
spite tbe eitizen's a:seer:thee that, en)
more then ordinary vigilance was re-
quired, the westerner proceeded "to keep
his eye skineavee." much to his frienda
!amusement,
Presently they entered a cafe for
luncheon. The New Yorker wits dis-
coursing gaily upon the greatnees of his
native city, when he observed that the
other had an expreseion on his face much
like that of a eat at a mousehole.
"What aro you watching so closely?"
he enquired.
"Just keepin' an eye on my overeoette'
the other replied,
/The New Yorker laughed.
"011, thei coated all right. I'm not
worrying about mine, you eve, and, they
are hanging together,"
"No, they ain't," the westerner
drawled. "Mine's still there, but yours
le gone—feller walked out with it 'bout
ten minutes or so ago."--Exehange.
In one of the •large. music publishers'
establishments on Broadway there is a
man wheat employment it is to become
acquainted with all the music of the
day, both claesie and "popular." 1Vben
prospeotive purchasers are unable to en-
lighten the other clerks of the place as
to what they want to buy, they are re-
ferred to him as a court of last appeal.
"I wish to get a piece that has been
running through my head ever since I
heard it," Eater- the distracted cue,
tomer, "hut the trouble le I don't know
the title or the compoeer'a name."
"How does it go?" inquired the spec-
ialist, sweetly.
"Something like this: 'rnm-tati, am-
-tate"
"Ale yes, you will get it at the second
cotniter to your right. Ask for the Pink
Waves waltz, by Straws."
And the remarkable thing aboht it is
that he has seldom, if ever, been known
to fail.—New York Evening Poet.
"Why don't you go over and play
with those other little girls, Ethelr
said the mother to her little girl,
whom she fouled all alone on the
street.
"1 ant palying with 'em, mamma,"
was the little one's reply, "We're
playin) housekeeper)! and I'm the girl
What's just left !"—Yonkers States-
man.
Mrs. J. Shields and daughter Bertha
spent Thanksgiving Day at Clinton.
A young daughter arrived at the home
of It. Shuter last Monday.
The choir has lost a valuable member,
Miss Brown, contralto, weie was tmitel M
marriage to Mr. D. C. lefatealfe, Walker-
ton, ex -cheese maker of this place.
A literary society has been formed in
this place, and will hold its meetings in
the basement of the claw& every Satur-
day evening. The first meeting will be
held on Saturday night of this Week.
All are welcome.
A few young ladies hese been added
te the choir, and will no doubt be a
great benefit to it.
• • a
t ey're anywhere in this rabill then head twice day anti never get Et cold
111 eat ,em, tilat's all, 1guess tha Wu to, my
•DYSPEPTIC
Food Does You No Good
iralf the time you're afraid to eatt
your tonne is coated, month tastes
bad, stomach is bloated. If you want
to get well, etop ming dyepepsia tee -
tete, and go to the source of the trete
lele before it is toe late. Strengthen
your stomach, east out the bile, regu-
late the bowels—do this, and dyspep-
sia will let no mere.
For your ("audition the beet preseripa
tion it; Dr, .Ramilton's Pills, which are
tuaile specially for the stomach, kid-
neys and liver. No better remedy will
be 'devised, for Dr, Hamilton's Pills are
perfect,
DR. HAMILTON'S PILLS
A SURE CURE
"No tine could, realize my sufferinge
from stomach trouble and. indigeetiou.
Fur five years I have .110t
Ines feod did me no good, beeatiee I
couldn't digest or emendate. My doc-
tor seld conetipation waft at the rooe of
my trouble, en got Dr. lionlittos's
Pins. .11y :Appetite improved, pain atter
eating eerised, and my food digested
quickly. 1 am delighted with the titor-
ough eure 1 derived from Da Handl-
tou's
"(Signed) MARTEN 1. WALKER,.
"Bridgewater,"
Quiek reselte ettend the use of Dr.
Hamilton's this medicine ages
all trouble in the stomach end (tiger!.
tive organ?: by removing tee meg,
A FOX AND A Vle(EN.
A Follower of the Hounds Tells a.
Strange Story of Animal, Devotion.
I had atiendeciethe meet, of the ;Surrey
Union Foxhounds at Burford Bridge
Hotel at 11 a, ne ton Boxing Day), aud
eller fonowing them. until 12.15 started
to cycle home fur Innele When eonie
two miles front Rannene (Ural 1 struck
a smell road leading toward Effingham
village, end at once decided to ride that
way in the hope of seeing hound: again.
This oarrow road, wines through a small
wood, upon entering which 1 heard view
halloos and hounds 111 full cry some dis-
tepee to windward. 1 determined to
wait here, as the elicit seemed a likely
one, and, propping my machine ageing
a tree, took careful clover.
After some few minutes a steelthy
movement in the leafy woodland drew
iny attention, a,nd within five yards of
me there passed a dog fox, evidently
hunted and dead tired. Ile paused in
the roadway some fifteen yells in front
of where 1 stood, when to my astonish-
men(pttietee as joined by a vixen, apparent-
l
yThey trotted on ib the pathway for
twenty yards side by side, looking for alt
the world as if they were holding a whts.
pered conversation, wheo to my surprise
the vixen turned, back deliberately in
their tracks for about fifteen yard%
crossing and recrossing, in order, I sup-
pose, to make the scent as strong as ems-
eible on her own line. She the returned
to where sheehad left her husband (I pre-
sume lie must have been her husbcoad,
as there seemed to be such a perfect un-
derstanding between them), and on reach-
ing that point made off in the oppashie
direction.
I eagerly waited for the hounds to
come up which they did in a few min-
utes. 'ihree of them seemed doubtful,
but after a. momentary pause appeared
convinced that the new trail was the
righ1 one, and all departed after the lady
with fresh zest and much music. I fancy
this must have been most satisfaotory
to poor, weary Reynard, who was etill
within eight, creeping stiffly down
the adjoining hedgerow . I wondered
what would be the fate of the devoted
vixen, and could not belp hoping tea'
she week]eseape, in which ease I would
have given much to see the reunion.—
H. H., in Country Life,
ECZEMA OF
THE SCALP
Zam-Buk Cures a Boy Who Suffered
For Three Years.
Now and again mothers find that sores or
ulcers on the *heads of ehildren refuse to
heal, despite au ordinary treatment. Thou
10 tho tiros 10 orovo Zars-Buk's healing
newer, nor three long years the son of
Grutemit‘ of 114 Morao street, Toronto,
had eczema af the scalp. She Issyst—"Iebroko
out behind his ears, and was so painful he
was unable to steep at night. I used almost
every ointment knOwn, and called in the doc-
tor. hat all ot 116 Sloan. A friend tecorametid-
ed n10 to try Zatn-Bult, and I procured a
comply. Atter using throe boxes, my little
boy was eompletely cured."
Auother ease which mothers will read with
Interebt ooeurred recently in Winnipeg. Mrs.
C. lieeP, 4f 602 Alexander Avenue, Winnipeg,
ears:—"A year ago My little girl contractw
ed eczema of the scalp, and nothwithstanding
all I did the sores Rpread mitre ehild's
talc *Oa Corolvletely covered, took bet
to hospital, but nbus of the lothins and Mot -
Monte applied had any effect on the disease.
11y degrees the child's hair came nut, mail
fails was sulte,bakf. We were at this Maga
strongly Advised to try Znit-811k, and did so.
From first connecting ',Mt this wondeful
belts the child got relief from th0 Robing
and path. The sores were quickly banieht11,
and in a remarkable short time the child was
cured. The halt' loon grew again, and is now
quite knut and In a heathy condition."
Alt who have tare of children thou141010W
that .eZern-13uk is partleuierly adapted, be-
comee of its purity, to the tender skin of
children. It cures Witit equal dispatch ring-
warmbiodd-soittming, uteere, cold -cracks,
cliewoed hands. frOst-bite, piles, bad leg, etc.
Med as all elabreeltilell It eases the pain of
!intent% and cures rheumatism, selatica Mid
'neuralgia. All druggists /tad stores sell at
fee a box: or vest free tea& Mani-Illik
Tererlie, for price,
"11 the shoe fits wear it," is a time:-
Wel% 'saying; but with a weinen if the
aline fits she takes it off beeause it's too
big.
_ --
WHERE PEOPLE LIVE LONO.
Mon of 70 Not Regarded. as Old—
Simple Life and Longevity.
In Norfolk there are in every villege
individuals of More thau 80 years of age
and. not infreqnently eue or two ,,.er
90, and those of 70 and upwiird are te-
garded, as not even old. May farin nee
ores of 70 are quite hale and, hearty,
working from ettrly morning up to 6 end
6 o'cloek in the eveniog, and b01310 ars
SO Vi001•011S ne to ma *4 full male*
wages.
And the women in the country (writes
correspondeut) are Ettore temicioue of
life perhaps than. are the men. ,Ie oar,
viIlagc pereonally lotown to me, contain-
ing about 300 people; within the pad six
mouths hay() died three women of more
than 90 years of age, the oldest of thole
being no lees than 96. In another Nor-
folk village with initabitanta to the
number of 400 there lives man of 95, a
woman oe 00, a woman of 89, a womau
of 87 and several of both sexes over 80.
In yet another village there is a black
smith aged 96 and the widow of a 00111-
1;4 medical practitioner whose years
amount hp to 92.
This longevity of the Norfolk peasant,
continents the Lancet, has tt very inter
-
eating pathologieal side -of it, The cuief
enemy of .the farm laborer of the Eaet.
ern counties from the standpoint of
health is rheumatism, Not many reach
even middle age without having been
tho victims of rheumatism, and a large
number are crippled in their old age
by this disease. But in spite of this the
average of lougevity seems to be very
high, although as well ;IR rheumatism he
has to contend with the lack of ade-
quate botteitig accommodation and want
of proper sanitary arrangements. That
to eat sparingly of plain wholesome
food, to be Much in 'the open air and to
work sufficiently to occupy the mind ;tad
to exercise the body will enable a man
to defy more or less the evils of en-
vironment would seem to be shown by
the toughness of the Norfolk laborer. —
From the London Daily News.
Just in Time.
She—John, dear, the doctor says I
need, a change of climate.
Hubby—All right, the weather man
says it will bo colder to -morrow.
Enlightening Him.
Albert Chevalier, the feanous costar -
singer, while recently peeforming in a
provincial English town, was much gra-
tified et what Ile considered the very
cordial reception he had received front
the audience.
"I'm delighted they liked the per.
formaatee," he remarked. to the manager
aftersvard. "I never heard such a bang-
ing of stioks and umbrellas on the floer
in my life."
The manager leaned back ad laughed.
"That wasn't applause, old chap," he
told him.; "the local postoffieo is on the
floor above us, and thab was stamping
letters for the mail."—Brooklyn Life.
• •
"What an admirable invention the
telegram is!" she exclaimed, "when you
come to consider that this nieseage has
eotne a distance of thousands of miles,
and the gum on the enevelope isn't dry
yet."—Tit-Bits.
imago* ••••••••••••mw
4.
THE TRUE CAUSE
OF RHEUMATISM
Caused by Uric Add in Blood and
Can Only be Cured Through
the Blood.
Not many years ago doetora thought
rheumatism wets only it local pain caus-
ed by exposure to cold and wet. Now
they know that rheumatism is eausfel
by the blood becoming tainted with
uric acid. This acid contracts the mus-
cles, etiffens the joints, and irritates
the nerves. Then the cold and wet
make tho joints and. muscles groan with
aehing rlieumatiem. You blame the
weather'but the real cause is acid in
the blood. If not promptly treatie<1 the
stiffness spreads and the pain grows
worse each year until you are a helpless
cripple, tortured day sod night, If the
disease t•ouclice the heart it means mid -
den death. You milt cure rheumatism
with liniments, plasters or hot cloths.
You must go to the root of the trouble
in the blood. The. one sure, seien.tifle
way to cure rheumatism is Dr. William&
Pink Pies, because they actually make
new blood. They sweep out the poison-
ous rich', loosen the joints and muscles
and bring eaee and freedom where be-
fore had been pain and misery.
Mrs. Fred Sabgau, Canada. Creek N.'
S., says: "Three years ago I was aken
with a severe pain in my right hip. It
grew gradually worse until it finally
settled in both my hips and legs. The
pain was really almost unbearable. At
first I tried foot drafts and liniments,
but this gave me only the most tem-
porary relief, and I felt as if 1 was to
go theough"the rest of my life ea a suf-
fering cripple. A neighbor, whose daugh-
ter had been cured of rheumatism by
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills advised me to
try this medicine, a•nd 1 purehased three
boxes. Before they were all gone I
was able to get my foot up on ray knee
Ond untie my shoe, something I had not
been able to do for two years, and 7 be-
gan to feel I had at last found a medi-
cine to euro the trouble. I kepb on tak-
ing the Pills until I liaa used, I think,
a. °dozen boxes, when I was completely
eueed, and I am as well and strong to-
day as ever I 1.1115 ill my life. I want
every sufferer to know that Dr. 'Wil-
liam& Pink Pills is a, sure cure for rheu-
matism, and that if they, will give this
medicine a fair trial, their pales and
aches will disappear as mine did."
Sold by all medicine dealers or by
mail et 00 cents a box or six boxes for
$2.50 front the Dr, Williams' Medicine
Co., Brockville, Ont.
13,panish Railroad Trains. •
1.00.41.1.
1 • • . •
Defined.
johlilly—ra, What 14 nit inflated eue-
tang?
Vather—The money you blow lit.
Front tho February Bohemian.
Deferent
"1 !eine; to the theatre again ? Hat
y011.V0 4E411 the piece."
"Ves, hut not 111 my new freak." ,
The Spanish train averages possibly
twenty miles an hour—to allow one to
make time exposures of the scenery,
perhaps, 14 makes frequent and long
waits. At every station the guards run
up and dosvn, ehouting the name of the
town, and the number of minutes for
each stop. At every station also the
two military guards, who accompany
each train,descend and walk around
the ears, looking to see that 110 robbers
are concealed. As there Is at least ono
stop an hour, these guards get some ex-
ercise, before the day is over. They say
this custom was adopted to drive away
any brigands who might be concealed in
or under the train, and that it ha,s been
successful. t These tnilitaty guards are
very fine-looking men, and wear an im-
pressive uniform. We saw more than
one black-eyed senorita, look approvingly
Eater them, as they passed by—From
"A Second -Class Trip Into Spain,' itt the
Outing Magazine for February.
The race is tiot always to the swift,
but that ie 210 reason Why a inan aliould
emulate the tottoise.
Police,
"Von hire a Ulan tit watch your prom-
ela for it dollar a. night, do you?" •
"Yes. and he's a prett,y gond dollar
weal, too, if anybody R110111(1. ttk you."'
Her Objection.
"1 wish my dentist wesn't so real-
istio," said Mee, ,Tenner Leo Ondego,
calls his dente" parlor his drawing
sist itt eoming over this way?'
Net Alto Marriage. ..,..
"The unlucky in love are aald to be
lucky et elude." .
eWlutt pea does it do 'em? :they
ain't get out night% to play."---1,outi-
villa •Courier Journal.
7d11177 inT17177
novel is nearly exhausted, Critic (who
hate just finished reading it)—So tun L
Satisfactory ncling.
"How was your speech reeeived at the
club?" asked one of Chumaiglee friend;
85 they walked along the lanedwiev at
Danunersmi 111,
"Why, they cougratulatee tee very
'heartily. In Met, one of the member.:
came to me and told me that when I sat
down he had Raid to himself it wan the
best thing 1 had ever cloiw."--Tit-Bits.
THE Time LIMIT,.
tieverton (who has hired a taximeter tab to propomt in), Say “yes."
darling! •
Miss Waitabit—Give roe time think.
'
Cloverton—ileavens! nut 1l0 horo! Consider the expenot11"2111
Only Spot in Sight.
"git-off, yo's Steppin' on my foe•tea:.
"flood lan',• niggah, ah's• got, to sten'
snmewheree."—Cornell Widow,
Some—h;st—Good.
When it metes wife laughs at his jokes
they are pretty good ---or else she is.—
i'lliVerRalist Leader,
Occasional Stammers.
He had appealed to the doctor for aid.
"Do .you stammer all the time?" asked
the man of science.
"Nen-n-neut," he sputtered. "I only
stset-st-st-et at stammer when I t -t -t -t.
.taIk.e—Cirele Magazine.
Geographical Note.
"Angus," said Clerk McClure to the
court house :potentate, "if we bored a
hole right through the earth, what would
we find on the other side?"
"I donu know, Mr," said Angus, wee
is a little shy on terogmatio, 'de odder
end of de hole, 1 'speet."—Campbell (0a.)
News.
In a Menagerie.
"Entertaining job that elate haft,"
"Mates entertaining about feeding
the Hone irt 8. zoot"
"They keep the table in a ron.r."—Dos.
ton Traneermt.
A Rare Compliment.
The 01(1 Geutleman—How ilia you ever
'mine to be named lido Johnson?
The Piekaninny—Why, old J edge Sala
de done thought so melt of me Sint he
named me atter his dog.---Everywhcre.
Just Between Lady Friona,
Sadie—Stly, li011egt, now, do yon liko
Maggie?
Pauline—Well—Rhea got a good beart
—an' she MMUe reel well, bet—
Sadie—Neither do 1.-1?11ek.
"A Safety Raiser."
The Victim's Consent.
Doctor (to patient)—Your case is n
very serious one, sir, and I think a eon-
sultation had lytter be held.
Petient (too sick to care for anythieg)
—Very well, doctor, have as many ac-
complices as you like.—Spare Moments.
Worn Out.
"What make you so nervous?"
."Liquor."
"1 didn't know you drank."
"I don't but I have a friend who has
been on the water -wagon for two weeks
and he tells me all his semptems."--
Clevelane Leader.
•
The Inference.
Pwruit—Pleaeo, sergeant, I've got a
splinter in my 'and.
Sergeant -instructor— Wet yet' been
&in'? Strain' yer 'ead?—Puneb. •
The Guest of Honor.
A chariteteristie story i told of an
et/maim when Lord Avebury lied to
undergo a eurgleal opmation. IIis friends
endeavored tb Dersttado him tO take
chlorororm. "No; thatitce," he replied, "1
would emelt rather be preeent at the
oP10ralion."--11. A. le
BravO Resolution
"What nre you going to give Up driv-
ing Lent?"
"Well, I've thought it' all over end. I've
decided tat g'nes up kiseing George."
"And o het alenit Neorgel"
"oh, he eneeint observe tont." -De-
troit rive eee,
Under Great Strain.
"1 teippoeu there, i4 8 great cleat of
nental mtrain involved in the coliduet imf
noneuee intereets. like eennel"
"'I slimed ely so," anetesreal Ilticat•
11 Stax. eh", mieltty hard to go on ill
eitnets stand anti 1 011101111811` ilto lisi or
tliinas your lewyer tole yam to forget."
Waeli !net nu Star.
•
Otie Wernari's 'Theory
The Wife it is the fluty itf evCry
nuirrivel mon if; male lee bum. 'bailey,
The Void Put supprie. ie enable
to do it
The 'Wife .0h. he tau do it, all right
.--esren if lie has to Kta,y amity from it—