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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-07-08, Page 6NOTHING ELSE AVAIABLE, There Was a youug man in Biloxi 'Who thought he was clever and foxy,. One hoe Sabblith day He SWAM bt the bay, And they fined him for heterodoxy. STARTLING REVERS'AIrOITTalr Nan—I never eaw Nit as plump as ehe le nowadays, Fan—Plump? Huh! She Used to have a dimple in her chin. it' e a mole now! BEN DAVIS' FISH. "Catching any fish, hub?" "NeWl Nothlid but carp." FOR EXAMPLE. Our slangy appellations Sometimes are out of place; Per oft you see a summer girl Who has A wintry face. - UP IN THE Mrs. Jagsby (welcoming Mr. Jagsby at daybreak)—Up all night again, eh? Mrs. Jagsby—Yes m' dear, thesis juslt Went up with 'Wisher Wright in his airshas lash evenin' an' he (Mihail% get it down!—Puck. WELL EQUIPPED. She—Whet a nose for news that Mrs. Gawleigh has. and what a chin for tell- ing it. • — Stranger—Kind o' dull here, isn't it? Mountaineer—Dull, mister, this is the best place in the hull country fur shoot - hi' at balloons! INTUITION. "The wont has happened, John!" panted Mrs. Jipes, sinking feebly into a chair. "Well, we'll have to advertise for an- other one; that's all," moodily answered Mr. zlipes. For he knew, without being told, that the cook had left. - MAGNA CUM LAUDE. "Did your son graduate with honors?" "I should say so. He had two frac- tured ribs, a broken arm and numerous broken tendons." --From the July Bohe- mian, HE HAD „ANOTHER GUESS. "I see you with Miss Giddigirl a good deal." "Yes; it's just a little harmless flir- tation." "Is it? She asked. inc to be a brides- maid."—Louisville Courier -Journal. CONFIDENCE OF GENIUS. (From the Washington Star.) "You say your dirigible balloon is a success?" "Yes," answered the inventor. "But it came down to the earth with a terrible bump." "True. But it hit very spot I was aiming at." close to the A MERE,TRIFLE. Sappheddi—You saved me from being killed by that auto. I owe my life to you; how shall I ever repay you? • Stouten—Young man, don't let trifling • debts like that worry youl—Life. . TIME WASTED'. Boston Lady—Did you learn anything at the woman's club? New York Lady—Absolutely nothing. Wish I hadn't gone. I had seen all the gowns before.—Life. A MEAN INSINUATION. Sillicus—Yes, she has threatened to make things unpleasant for him. Cynicus—Is that so? When are they going to be married•?—Philadelphia Re- cord. •••••••• -.4810 WILL COME YET. "Well, I'm glad to be at home again. You got that letter I mailed you the day before yesterday, didn't -you, John?" "No." "But I put a special delivery stamp on. it," "That was careless of you, Maria. But it will be along in a day or two, let us hope."—Chicago Tribune. Get Another Chance. Profeesor of Sociology—If this alarm- ing increase in the divorce rate contin- ues, twenty years from now the institu- tion of the home will no longer exist in America. Practical Student—How is that, pro- fessor? They all marry again, don't 'they ?—Puck. Quite So. "Some of these Balkan kings are purty reckless." "They are that. Steer the ship of state like it was a racing auto."—Louis- ville Courier -Journal. • • In a Fix, The Lady—You'ee £1, healthy, strong looking man. Why don't you work for a living? The Hobo—De doctor told me not to do no work on an empty stommick, an' I'm starvine An' he tor me I mustn't eat jest before I went ter work, Wothn I goine ter do?—Cleevland Leader. Ignored. "Choily, did the fair Iinogeee return your greeting" "Return it, deah by? She didn't even accept it!" LEADS THEM ALL. (Front the Chicago Tribune.) Teacher --Who is the greatest inven- tor? Shaggy -haired pupil—Pat Pending, guess. I see Isis name on more inven- tions than I do any other man's. NO INCENTIVE. "Why don't you %tart, for the pole?" "Because my lecture manager has tompleted hie bookings. I couldn't fill another date next winter if I discovered 10 poles."—Louiseille Courier Journal. Survival of the Unfit. "Profeetote what do you suppose is the oeigirt of that tiresome slang phrase, '0, you " "It sounds as if it might be a contrae- tion of the even more tiresome O. $1 The men exchanged amused glances, and the head groom led the way into the Stables, where the marquis kept hue elioice horses. He no longer rode, hint - self, but it Was a matteNof pride with him to keep the best of stock. And the Stables were kept like a lady's parlor. "Why, you have some pea horses, and keep 'them well, don't you?" ejacu- lated „Erna, approvingly. "We do our best," said the gratified groom. Erna stopped suddenly behind a noble - looking aininal—a bright bay, who stood, even in the stable, SA if Qn parade. "There's a beauty!" she cried, and started to go in by his side in the atall. "I beg your pardon, miss!" exelainted the man, in alarm, "but it might be dan- gerous. That horse is strange, and I don't know his ways." Erne smiled, As one will who has no fear of horses, and pushed hint aside while she boldly went into the stall, The horse worked his ears and showed the whites of his eyes, much to the terror of the groom; but Ernewent calmly to his head and began to pat hint on his glossy neck. Then suddenly she stopped and stantinized the •enimal closely, Then she stood erect, and with a pale feed turned to the groom and cried out: "Where did this horse come from? It is Selbu." "Lord Aubrey's herse, miss," "What is he doing here?" "Sent by his lordship, for his use." "But Lord Aubrey is not here." "'leggin' your ,pordon, 'miss, he came last night, late.' ' Erna turned her hoe away and com- menced patting the Isorse, which seemed to recognize her now, and to enjoy beaeg petted by her. She was silent so long that the groom ventured to say: "He's a good horse, they do say." "The best I ever saw," she faid. "I rode him only once, but it was a most glorious ride.' "You rode him, miss!" exclaimed the man. "Then you must be a good one, beggin' your pardon for the liberty! Pm teed he' e a hardoneto manage." "Yes," she said, and her faze flushed, "but he and I got along very well to- gether. Ahl if you only had such an- other for me this morning!" "Dandy's as good, if I do say it," the groom declared, with quick pride. "Let me see Dandy!" . He led her to a glossy chestnut, who certainly looked as lordly as Selisn; but he betrayed none of the mischief of that "Ahl he is a, beauty!" she joyously de- clared. "Let me have him! There is no reason why I should not ride him, is there? The marquis would not object?" "You were to have whatever you wanted, miss," said the groom. .. Erna flushed, noting the words and manner of the man as indicating that she was more than a. mere guest in the castle. She said nothing, however, but waited for Dandy to be saddled and taken out, when she mounted him and reassured the groom of her ability to manage him, if he had been in any doubt, by the quiet way she controlled him. She knew she must have a groom to go with ,her, and she made no protest against it; though it would have suited her mood. better to have gone alone SO that she might gallop some calm into her soul. A sudden thought made her turn as she was riding out of the court. "Are there any oth,er guests that cense last night?" she asked of the groom. "Lord and. Lady Moreham and Lady Gertrude, I believe, miss," was the en- swer. Erna wheeled Dandy about and touea- ed him sharply with the wbinso that he leaped high and started off at a sharp pace past the castle, the noise of his clattering hoofs felling on the ears of more than one 'dozing guest. Down throng's a noble avenue of trees, out into the park and so on out to the main road Erna dashed, letting Dandy have pretty nearly his own way, and leaving the groom well in the rear. Then it occurred to her that while it might be very pleasant for her to be dashing at this rate, it was anything but good for Dandy to be breathed right from the stable. So she checked hint by a slight pres- sure, feeling better already, and let him dance along in his own way, much to the relief of the groom, who did not relish being left so far in the rear. There was a sense of freedom in this lonely ride in the fresh morning air that she had not felt since the days when she was happy at Aubrey, before the earl, with his hateful ways, had .come to make her miserable. Yes, she realised it fully; she had been perfect- ly happy until Ise came, and she had been miserable most of the time., since. She leaned over and patted Dandy's arched neck. "Good boy-" she murmured, caress- ingly. "Ah, I might have you formy own if I would say the word! Ugh! don't let me think of it! Sell myself to that old man! And yet it is expected of me. As if I did not know why I was invited here! As if I did not know everything is being done for my pleas- ure! And Lady Gertrude will, have Ulm!" Ah Which T Wash to remark, And I say it, will pain, That for ways- that aro dark. And for tricks that are vain, The blond haired boss is peculiar, Whi:1 the same I don't need to explain. fer for it, and her too, But I will mAke the jump if it kills nie,"- She knew it was a welch% thing to do, but he was se furious witA the earl 1 : And still more furious, with herself,, that she would net have been dissuaded by any argument that mild have been ad- duced, But she did not wish to fail if she could help it. So. when she reached the jump on her return, She rode up to it itid examined it. It was a terrible' jump, with death or broken bones lurk- ing on the other side, But Erna'swas a. temper so furious that the danger Wan. an added attraction, "That's the envy of the country,. miss," said the groom, touching his cep. "Why,'"' she may 40Mo:tided, "It looks tempting, but nobody flares try it." “Ali," ejaculated Erna, closing her white teeth. "Surely, iniss---" began the groom, "Heaven's mercy! she'll be killed!" He eoula isot move to overtake her. Besides, it would have been useless, and he could only sit there and stare in horror at the footharile attempt. Erna had. brought the wInp down on Dandy's flank, and. he had sprung for- ward as if projected ,from a gen. He knew what, he Was expected -to do as well as if he had understooa what had been said, For a moment he seemed disposed to shirk it; but, as thegroom noted with horror-stricken admiration, Etna, steadied him'slowed bini p, trifle, and got him into his stride, It was an ugly wall, with it bad take- off and, a worse landing,But Erna, had studied all that and had stunningly picked. out the best spot to snake the at- tempt On. flew Dandy, steady now, and determined to do hosier te the courage of his mad rider. "Ili!" sho cried, and lifted her whip, Dandy planted his feet fairly on the take -off selected, and with a mighty ef- fort, rose in the air, his magnificent muscles standing out in his -thighs like ridges of iron. lie had been regarding her. She turned with flashing eyes. "You do not iseea to apologize," she torted. "I said distinctly that I could not force my liking," "Yes, you did say so. I did not men to misquote you. I Was thinking Moro of my hopes titan of what you did ac- tually say, Won't .you be friends? I have done everything you demanded, and I will do anything more to win your kind regard. Why are you so cold to me?" "Why should I be anything else?" she demanded. "For no 'reason excepting that I ask very earnestly for your good -will. I know that I have offended you, and that I acted like a self-sufficient fellow when we first met. Won't you accept my apology?" She turned and looked into his eyes, her face betraying more emotion then he had suspected. "Why should it matter to you "whetle or I am friendly or not?" she asked, her voice quavering a little. "I don't know," he replied, "It does not mattes', I keep wondering all the time how I can convince you that I value your good -will. I often. think of the day on the cliff when you offered me your hearty good -will and fellowship, and I am aghast at myself for acting as I did. Won't you believe that I thought I was doing what was best for you?" "I suppose," said Erna reflectively, "that you thought yourself a very su- perior being." He smiled gravely. "That is one way of stating it," lie said; "I think was at that time al- most dead to all human emotion. If you only knew what I had gone through you might find it easier to forgive me." "I forgive you, she said, suddenly, putting her hand out in her old frank way. He took the little baud. eagerly, think- ing within himself that she Certainly had a charming way of coming around. "It is very good of you," he paid, gratefully. "No it is not," she replied. "I want to be 'friends, or I would not be." She laughei joyously, feeling happier than she would have liked to own; and he thought he had never seen any- thing as beeutiful as she looked at that moment. "I am glad I followed you," he said, in- cautiously. "Followed inc I" she repeated. He looked dismayed for a moment, and then laughed, and said, fraiskly: "It is the truth. I heard, you gallop by may window. I jumped up to see who it was, fearing it might be Lady Ger- trude, who had 'begged me to bring Set- im here for her to try. When I saw it was you, I hurried down and came in pursuit. You are not offended?" "Oh, no," she answered, with a cold- ness in 'marked contrast with her previ- ous joyousness. "Why should I be of- fended? I ought to be proud that you would take so much trouble. There is a very pretty wall, with water the other side. They said at the stable that this horse was as good as Seliin. Here is a. chance to make a test; I know what Selim can do." • She gathered up the reins, to put Dan- dy at the wall; but Aubrey, after a hasty glance at the jump, put his hand out and caught her bridle. "It would be madness! It is an irn.pos- Bible jump. It is worse than the wall." "Let go," she said, leer face pale and set. "I am going to try." "I cannot permit it," he replied, his blue eyes fived on her with determina- tion written in them. "It seems to me," she said, in that fierce tone of hers, which betrayed such a war of passion within her, "that you are assuming a great deae. By what right do you dare to tell me what you will or will not permit?" "The right of one human being ta pre- yent an act of criminal recklessness in another. Please, Erna, be reasonable!" "Release the rein!" she cried, in a stifled voice. "I will not until you promise not to make the mad atteinpt. Even to keep your friendship, which so value, I will not do it." She laughed with bitter scorn. tier brown eyes were black with anger. "Release the rein!" she panted. She raised her riding whip threaten- ingly. "I will strike you!" she cried, furi- ously. CHAPTER XXIU. There were pain and distress in the steady blueeyes that 'looked into the furious brown ones, but not an eyelash quivered under the expected blow from the uplifted whip. For a moment they remained thus, the darkness deepening in Erna's eyes, and then fading out. The whip slowly sank, and Erna's bosom rose and fell like a stormy see. Then the spoke in a strangl- ed voice. "Which Way do you go?" she demand- ed. "You are angry with me," lie said, re- gretfully. "I hate you!" she cried. "I cause out to be alone, and you thrust yourself up- on me. The least you can do is to leave me. 'You cannot expect to remain here forever holding my rein. Do you find something heroic in your attitude? To me it is ridiculous! Therel the groom is corning. I shall appeal to him." The restive harses had kept moving uneasily on all the while, and were now in such a piece that to make the jump Erna would have been obliged to turn around, which would have enabled the earl to intercept her. He released the rein saying, its a troubled tone: "Why is it my fortune to anger you?" "I do not care to guess your riddles," she angrily retorted. "I wish to eontinue my ride. Will you be good enough • to choose your way, and let me go mite?" l/ri bowed low, his face pale and trou- bled, and without a word. turned Sellin toward the direction of the Castle and rode away. Erna, with heed erect and eyes burning, touched Dandy with her whip and darted forward at a swift NAO. On and on she went for a mile end more; then she checked fleetly and put him at A IOW fence. Then she tried a water jump, and after that it Wall. Het fate WM pale And set,' and her 'gee were dark and flashing, She had turned back when the groom envie up with her. Ite dropped behind her, won - tiering At her blazing eyes, but setting them down to the exhilaration of "I'll do it if I break my neck," the Muttered. 'Then she rode Oil, tWisting The thought stung her. She had been going leisurely along for fleetly half an hour, and Dandy was prancing with a desire to stretch his sinewy limbs. She flapped the reins on his neck and he shook his head and leaped into a long, free galloj Behind her sounded the beat of another horse's beefs. "The groom is doing better," she -thought. "Why, he is coming up to me., Go on, Dandy.". Dandy understood. Besides, lie, too, heard the hoof -beats behind him, and he was unwilling to be caught. He stretched his neck arid flew swiftly on. But the clattering behind came nearer, and Erne turned her head with sense in- dignation, as well as with some surprise that the horse the groom rode should be able to overtake Dandy. aler face paled and flushed. "Lord Aubrey I" she muttered. "/ beg your pardon," he said, urging Sam to her side, "for taking. this lib- erty, They told me at the stables that you had gone out, and when I Saw you ahead of me, I knew who it was." "You do no Wed to apologize," Abe answered coldly. "You are surely at libe'rty to ride where you will." "I apologize for intruding on you," he said. "That need not teotible you," she isaid brusquely. "I then return to the castle In a few minutes," "I hope you will not let use drive you home," he said, "I let no one drive mei she answered. "Von paid you would be Mende with Over he flew, his. nostrils distended, his large eyes standing out of his gal- lant head, and. seeming to almost buoy himself in the :air. The wall and water stretched beneath him, Erna sat him as if it part with him, now leaning forward, now swaying backward, There was a dread instant of once!. tainty, and then the noble animal was safe on the other side. Over! she had de. fied Lord Aubrey; she had suede the jump in spite of him; and she would go hems triumphant. Dandy quivered in ev- ery muscle, but he took' the smaller jump lower down in gallant style and seemed to delight in the praise of Ws rider. The groom was dumb with astonish- ment and admiaation. Thenceforward the model of womankind, in his eyes, would be Miss March; and at, that moment the worst he wished her was that she eyelid marry the marquis, his sedate; and that he would die within A month of the wedding. None of the guests were yet stirring when Erna, returned to the castle, and she shut herself in her els-mamas and remained there until late in the morning, when. Violet came toeeek her; crying out the moment she was admitted, "Why, Erna! what have you been do- ing?" "Well, what have I been doing?" quired Erna, quietly, "Why, everybody is talking abeut you. They say you went out this morning to ride, and took a jump nobody his ever dared to take before." "They are snaking e. great fuss over very little," said Erna. "That sounds well from you, my dear, but nobody else would say it, But what do you think?—who do you think is here?" "Lord. Aubrey and the Morehouse," said Erna, composedly. "Oh, you knew it, Well, to come and. show yourself. They are all crazy to see you. I wonder Why the marquis asked' the earl and. Lady Gertrude here. Ile must have known you were not amid friends," "You are mistaken," replied Erne; "we are the best of friends. The earl was out eidinq with ins this morning, part of the time." Violet shrugged her shoulders, like one who feels that she may be treading on. unsafe ground, "Well, do come down," she said. "Ger- trude is eiTet green with envy at your performance of this morning; but I don't believe she intends trying it,. too," About the same time Lady Romig was talking privately wibh the marquis. "Well, it's too late now," said the marchioness. "All we can do is to watch and wait. Erna, may treat hint horribly. She did the last time they met, and may again. For your sake, my dear marquis, I hope she will." The marquis was in despair. "But," he protested, "Aubrey is as good as engaged to Lady Gertrude, they say." "They say!" repeated Lady Romley, scornfully. "Wait until it is announced. I wish lie were engaged to her. But to think of bringing them here! Mar- quis I would as lief have thrown a match into a pawder magazine," Lord Aubrey, in the meantime, Wie having a very wretched time of it. He was well aware of the fact that he ought to utterly condemn any' young woman who would fly into suqh a pate "What evil Spirit possessed yOtt to'in- vete the Earl of Aubrey here?" she de - mended, with considerable asperity. "Why—why--" stammered the mar- quis, taken aback by the tone, "isn't' he a kinsnean of Erna?" "Isn't be a fascinating Inane retorted the marchioness, inwardly thinking mon the stupidest of creation. "Think of his reputetionl think of his good. hooks, hle wealth, his youth! I thought you knew he was the very man of men you should not have here. You certainly seemed to speak that way when you conferred with use at Itornley." "Aubrey!" cried the marquis. "Did you Meat. AlIbrey?I thought you re- ferred to Captain Merriwether.' Mon as Erna had that morning. But, hi fact, the snore he thought of Ira, the more he dwelt on the astonishing beauty she had aiispleyed in her fury. e "What a termagant!" he said; and then he thought: "Where is the 'alum girl who -would have dared to do that juvp1" "What I can't comprehend," he it - fleeted, "is why she should. so suddenly become angry with me,just at the very moment when I was rejoicing in the friendship I had been longing for. For a few moments there I was as happy as it boy, She is a strangely fascinating creature. I suppose now elle will not look at •me again." When Erna came down she was our. rounded, according to eitetonetind was soon busy- aliswering questions, and laughingly protested that she would never have taken the 'jump if she had Immo no ninth fame was -to be AcqUired by it. Then, when she sew the opporieni- and bending the pliable reins in her ity, she exelaimed: nervous Heger% "Ire brought Selim he "Is not that Lady Gertrude I see over for her. 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CORNS ,, CURED hard, soft or bleeding, LY APPIINyin2g41HMQUYal:18's You can painlessly nem) any cornSe tiler corn itztraeter, it never Immo, leaves no Mr, eOntainS 110 neitta IS harreleee because compoeea only or healing guins and balms. Vlay years in use. Cure guaranteed. Sold by all druggists 250, betties, liefuse substitutes, puTNAws PAINLESS CORN EXTRACTOR HOW IT WORKS, Some Details of the Wright Brothers' Wonderful Air Machine. . Almost every boy knowthe name of the Americans, Wilbur and. Orville Wright, and their aeroplane which has astonished the world. It consists of two surfaces of cloths, Stretched on wooden frames and held, apart by struts, it horizontal rudder in front, a vertical one behind and an en- gine drivingtwo propellers; there ,in nothing particularly startling about this. The meat of the invention liese.in the shape of the surfaces and. the fact that thie shape can be altered in the air. Both, ends of both planes—that is, the frames on which the cloth is stretched— arc movable'not upon hinges, but by bending the frames themselves—that bending under pressure, just as a rattan cane bends. A simple system of chains and wires and a lever controls this bend- ing or 'warping" of the planes, so that the two right-hand planes will move as one and so that the two left-hand ones will move as one, When the right-hand ends are bent or warped, toward the earth the left-hand ends of the planes arc bent or warped away from the earth. Both ends of both planes, of course, warp in either direction at will, but the ends warp always together, By a seeped lever the rear, or vertical, rud- der -planes are turned very much as a rudder IS turned in the water, Still a third lever operates the front or hori- zontal rudder -planes, which steer the airship toward or away from the ground.—Froin C. B. Clandy's "Two Am- erican Conquerors of the Air" in ;July St, Nicholas. 444 Newfoundland's Agricultural Pos- sibilities, Newfoundland is it big , country, A third larger 'than Ireland, and twenty- one times the thee of Prince Edward Is- land, and when oue considers the smallneas of the population—only ab9ut 225,- 000, and nearly all fishermen—the re- turns from agriculture are coesiderable. Over a million -and -a -half (Whim' worth of farm produce is raised annually on a fraction of cultivated land, which bears no appreciable relation whatever to its tributary soil uncultivated as yet, but which can and will be cultivated in the years to come, Instead of importing $000,000 worth of Mem produce. each year from Canada, Newfoundland ought to ains at raising' it at home, and the present depression will not be without some benefit if it helps the people to see more clearly the logic and the win. dons of the Governor's motto, "back to the land." During an extended visit to the colony last atmuner, the writer saw enough to convince him that, although New- •fousidland does not compere with Eng- land or Manitoba as an agricultural country, it has nevertheless,large erects , of the very finest farming lands, in its many river valleys and by the margins of its innimenerable lakes. In the Hum- ber Valley there is an interval twelve miles long and six miles wide, with a deep fertile soil, capable of miffing large crops of hay, vegetables and grabs, and which he still waiting tlyi lia.sel of the husbandman. It is the Annapolis Val- lee over again, only hi scenery richer And more luxuriant, Ana what is true of the Humber is true to a greeter extent of the Codroy, Exploit% Trrts, Nova, Gander and many smaller rivers.—Ed- win Smith, writing on Newfoundland in in the July Catailian nigazine. . 4 • THE'LESSON. re ft certain Sunday school it teacher tom her pupils the tragic story of Sam- son and Delilah. Then she tweed to a little boy. "What do you learn, Joe," she said, "from the Samson story?" "It don't never pay," piped. Joe, "to have a woman cut A feller'e haft"— IIarper's Weekly. tove Ineighe at incicsmiths, but the (Aber tradespeopIl are not such a joke. A WINDSOR LADY'S APPEAL To AU Women: I will send free with full Instructions, my home treatment which postively cures Leucorrhoea, Ulceration, Displacements, Falling of the Womb, Pain- ful or Irregular periods, Uterine and 'Ovar- ian Tumors or Growths, also Hot Flushes, Nervousness, Melancholy, Pains in the Head, tack or Bowels, Kidney and Bladder troubles, where caused by weakness peculiar to our sex. You can continue treatment at borne at a cost of only 12 cents a week, My book, "Woman's Own Medical Adviser," also sent free on request. Write to -day. Address, Mrs. Si. Summers, Box H. 8, Windsor, Omit. • • PAY-AS-YOU-ENVER. "Really," said the lady with the bee- hive hat, "I insist." "No, dear," protested her companion, whose hat was nearly as great in dia- meter as a turn -table at a round -house, "you mustn't. Please let me. I have the change right here. Let me see, I won- der--' "But you paid for me last time. I have the money all ready. Conductor, can you change a $10 bill?" "Now, I shall not permit, you to have that •broken. I have some change all ready, if I can only find it. Dear me, I wonder what I—" "it's all right; I want to get this bill changed. anyway. I wonder , where I put—" "No, no, really you mustn't. I thought I had the change all reedy. I must have lost a nickel of it somehow. But I have a $5 bill that—" "Did you say you had a nickel!" "Yes. "Well, I have one, too, so Pll pay for you next time." "No, you shan't do so. I shall insist." Then each banded out her nickel, say- ing to herself: "The idea of her pretending to have a bill. She never had more than twenty cents at one time in. lies' life!"--Ohicago Record -Herald. Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. The Antiquity of Man. 'In his recent lecture in 'Washington, Professor Peach said that it has been known for quite it long time that in western Europe man existed during the glacial epochs. We now know that the great ice age consisted of different gla- cial times separate by interglacial times. In glacial times the snow -line dropped 3,000 or 4,000 feet below its present level in the Alps, whereas in in- terglatial times separated by interglacial times, than at present. Thus the tem- perature seems to have been higher in Use interglacial periods than it is now. There is abundant evidence, says Profes- sor Pend:, that man existed during the beginning of the last glacial epoch. There is some reason for thinking that at least 20,000 years have elapsed since the last glaciation, and that the man !whose jaw -bone was recently found near Heidelberg lived 200,000 years ago. ' If allowed to roam over your house those few innocent -looking house flies may cause a real trag- edy any day, as they are lmown to be the principal agents for the spread of those deadly diseases, typhoid fever, diphtheria and smallpox. No other fly killer compares with Wilson's Ply Pads. • . • CRIME. She—I can't hind myself until I'm sure. Give 'me time to decide, and if, six months hence, I feel as I do now, I will be yours, Ardent Adorer—I can never wait that long, darling. Besides, the court have derided that dealing in futures, without the actual delivery of the goods, is gam- bling pure and sinzle,;—Puck. Retribution. "A curse on the man that invented bald spots!" he exclaimed. But the curse came home to roost, and Meted. With the result that his head is AS bald now as an eggplant. ISSUE I% 27, UM AGENTS WANTED.. A QJSNTeN' '110 WORK VP „ea. tea route; finery or eeMMisalon. For nartteUlarS Writs quickly to MOO WWI Leaden, OM, HELP WANTED, VW" N 11" CO, A good general servant who oando cooking. $mall Family, HIGHEST WAGES .11/1R$. JOHN M. 'EASTWOOD, Hamilton, Ont. Wright Machine, The Wrights have designed types of aeroplanes for use in France AA well as the United States. The American de- sign was accepted by the United States Government for military purposes after it had made an aerial voyage lasting over an hour' and, at an elevation at times of 250 feetabove the earth, In September, 1908, Orville Wright performed this suc- cessful feat with Lieut. Prank P. Lain% the aerial expert, as a passenger, This aeroplane, which is the most practical design which has yet been built in Amerlea, is forty feet in length, Its weight without passengers is 850 pounds, including a gasolene motor having the power of forty horses, which has driven it through the air at the rate of thirty- nine miles an hour—the speed of a fast railway train.—From Day Allen \Vinare "Airships" in July St. Nicholas. • • * Minard's Liniment Cures Garget In Cows. THE LAST THREE DAYS, Senator Tillman was condemning the divorce laws of the North. "Your Southerner has just one girl," he said, "and when he gets rich he sticks to her. He lets her share in her old days in the fortune that she helped to pile up. That, it seems to me, is more equable than the Northern idea of discarding the faded wife, when success is attained, for a beautiful chor- us bile. of 18 or 19 summers," Senator Tillman frowned. "The ii?ay Northern marriages so -oft- en end," he said, "you'd think matri- mony was a dreadful thing. You'd be inclined to look at it as a little boy in Boston did, "Pa,' he said one June day, us hear Uncle Joe is going to be married on the 5th." "Yes,' said the father. 'Uncle Joe aas only three days more.' "The little boy sighed." "'The last three days,' he said, 'they, give them eevrything to eat they ask for, don't they, pa?'"—St. Louis Globe - Democrat, ADVANTAGES OF THE HIGH -WHEELED AUTO. A new type of automobile, that is rapidly gaining fever In Canada and the United States, Is the high -wheel Motor Carriage Model. It follows closely the lines of the almost universally used buggy, and has all the easy -riding, long -wearing qualities of that popular vehicle. Its high (wheels pass over obstructions far more smoothly than do the low automobile wheels, and give about dou- ble the road clearance—a matter of great Im- portance on rough country roads. High wheels and full elliptical springs make It possible to use solid rdbber tires instead of pneumatic, without sacrificing the easy - riding qualities. This means, of course, a very substantial reduction in the first cost of the machine, and an even more Important reduction in the cost of upkeep. When you figure that pneumatic tires on the ordinary auto cost on an average at least 5 cents a mile. while the solid rubber ones cost prac- tically nothing, • you kill realise how import- ant the saving is. The Tudhope-MeIntyre Co., of Orillia, who are turning out splendid wheel autos, to sell at from pea to $1,000, claim that the entire cost of running one of their machines, is less than 2 cents per mile. This Includes gasoline, soil and repairs of all kinds. A Tudhope- McIntyre automobile is thus within the reach of a man of moderate income. • .4. A Turkish Lawyer. Things are moving in Turkey, and it seems as if the advocate will no longer be looked upon as one possessing no calling nor even profession. The Young Turks have accomplished a veritable re- volution. Henceforth the advocate will be permitted to have his note paper "headed," bearing his name, profession, address and even the number of his tele- phone. The advocate, it is true, is not yet permitted to place on the paper the hours at which he can be consulted, nor can he have a tariff of honorariums.— London Globe. C c N• IL new discovery. Has more • rejuvenating, -.(italizing "' force than has ever before been offered Sufferers from lack of vigor and vital weakness which sap the pleasures of life should take C. N. One box will show wonder- ful results. Sent by mail in plain package only on receipt of this advertisement end one dollar. Add recs. The Nervine Co.. Windsor, Out. FREE$1 Box. To quickly introduce and make known, will with first order mail two boxes for one dollar and five 2 cent stamps. Order at once as this offer is for a short time only. Man is Often Not Much Better. Animals do not reason. If any one truths has come out of all the critical study of the animal mind that has been going on since this century came in, this is it. Animals do not reason; they never have reasoned; they never by any possibility can reason. The wisest of them do, indeed, get into the borderland that separates reasoning from other mental processes; but no living creature, except man, ever gets unequivocally across the line.—E. T. Brewster in Mc - Chute's. Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. C.. Railroad Mileage. At the close of the fiscal year 1008 the railroad mileage of the United States was 280,000, as compared with 136,883 in 1888 and 184,048 in 1898, The net capitalization is $13,000,007,- 012, an inerease of 39.8 per cent, over the figures of 1898. A Careful Driver. First Chauffeur—Do you find out who you hive run over? Second Chauffeur—Of course, I al - Ways read the papers. THE BEST WOODEN PAIL Can't Help But Lose its Hoops and Fall to Piece.s. You Want Some; thing Better Don't You? Then Ask for Pails and Tubs Made of EDDY'S FIBREWARE tech One Solid, Hardened, LlestIrit Maai Eddala matches without 1100pOr Stahl Mt1111A Gmeed al I 0 a