Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-05-19, Page 3e IIINT TO TEACHERS I SIR EDWIN ARNOLD ON THE "STUPID PUPIL." J4' ipt ovvvvvvyvVVIAM.NAAWAMANNAAWA.NovvsneolkoiAmowAi4 1u an iletkile publiehott in the a year afterivaaele, in the new and. Dirtily Telegraph, of LOrld011, Eng. wonderful region which extends be., land, a Nee yOre agol, the tote tween :Vancouver and Winnipeo, we come upon a "junction." If all Eng - Ste Wolin. Arligid told of MN fol. liehmen and Iriolimen And SOotc11- lowing Invident In laa career when men comprehend itoliot a magnifie (peopled as progeesor hi the 1Cluer„ cent Imperial estate. they ow,n in Edward 'VI. Grammar echool, of Dire that splendid conntry, on hotil sides a the Rooklee, 1 think they mingham, England, whiled' he called , tvounl not st.ity at home so doggedlY "Tlie Two Bridges." I to grow wheat at the value of It Ono afternoon there came to the cleaned etrow, and to poke nout for gate Of my ,garden In Edgbaaton the n, miserable living in the moors of the boy I otereekleried the most 'derail North and the bog,: of Clare and Don - and liceirelese in all iv etaeoes, Ho egal. If capital has its great re - ware tall ona ungainly, although go. d source iii trimpension of loot*, labor • woe:lug; very Rity and ellent ; doe- Imo Itsbest refuge In ornigratIoneeirt Ile and respeetful enough, but alwileas it Is mainly the foollett blind ellug. behlutiliene wlitli Benne neneee Me leg to one spot of the globe, together %Stoke, and consequently for ever With the apathy of governments and at the bottehn of Me form ; the .ort . colonial admiiiistrat ion, whicil hoe of Intl no inter troubles himself created the Irish Home Rule Mill - 'Omit. 1 'must confess I Mal given catty, and widen chokes the labor up all Oleo of mok.ing anything out market to an unprofitable point. of Iiine, at- any rote no regartlea However, all •th.le is •politics one eco - certain inept4rtant loaecens—a help- nomies, with which theeo columns irliS, (111111, unwilling, profitless dunce ' have nothing. to elo.• Wilat I would —iso I imagined ; and so 1 hatl re. I say is that we came through the 1a:taut1y come tel treat lam. With superb ocenery of the Rocky efoun- ; him came luto my garden a pretty. 1 tains, past the glories of the Glacier girl, a ,year younger, who!• explain- ' Station and Donff, and down tho ed that "Trotter" wanted badly tc" . foot -bills to Regina and the pratriee, to see me, but did not dare to e•ers- right upon a very Important cern- ture alone, and SO, being hie friend mony which was impending at a anti living with hi e mother, she had large prairie town. It WaS to cote- elecomparited him. Poissibey I liat 1 brato tbe opening of a most remark - made me more indulgent to 'tbe bulk,. I able bridge, built over a most lut- ing, etupiti, silent .Youth; for there petuous and unreetrainahle river,and !were great, bright :team in the ghis connectIng in a momentous manner blue eyes, And idle held the big ner- . for commerce ana intercourse the sis- oyeets fellow Tby the edge 011 his tor State e of a great Province. We coat, as if she reared ho weelid run lied to stay overnight at the eta, - away from eliame and fright, And tion, and decided to be present at , then she eerily related 'trey; good the inaueuration of the now. bridire a box he woe to, hie mother, and Tim it - • - •-• -- S Wahthat, having received a holw hard In worked to learn. his very polite invitation to attend. echool taske, and how, iniserablene • t epaired to he residence of the imp- -; became at like repeated falluree, and r erintending engineer of the district, lila perpetual ignominy at the bot- -i ; in order te obtain some purticulare tom tet the form ; and howt all-im- , of time and place. The house Wk1.61 -1 portant it was that he s.holuld pass one of those eommodioue, whole.; a forthcoming examination on which some, • lee Future 'bread and meat would clean -looking abodes Of wood depend; and that elle had accord- j which they raise so quickly and paint prettily in that land of timber, and ;that who and his mother thought' nquiring at the door 1 was told ; he couba not be really etupid, bee ,. straight to me, and non desired etand that "Trotter" etos burning Kith (lesire to win !my good opintons very ardently to nrake me anderel ingly pommeled ;him to come e° Eden, and a long peat and rail in front to tie up "any man's horses." that tho weth all the prairie for its back gar - Superintendent Engineer canoe there were other leesons, out - gide geometry and what not, which ;he alwaye did well, and be had on'oreover, Invented two or three re- emarkable improvements for a. steel ;rolling ftuotOry, $o 1 n.ade the poor lad 'speak for hitniself, and then be ' suefully explained how he had nev- er, for oho fleetIng moment, Understood any Atom or Euclid, nor why it weir ever written and taught at all, with other spacial dif- ficulties in his course; certain sub- jects being all the time,. as I myself well knew, easy enough to him. The truth wia.s he was no meta stupid than the other average "leruremagen" boss. Ile wets a proud, silent, well- meaning lad, who had been vilely :taught at the beginning; for tea.oli- Ing le a fine art, and very few, really moderstand it Iris humility and ear- nestness melted um, as well as the iteare in the blue eyes of his little -friend. I sent her home and made bine stop to tett; and that afternoon MD tore up Euclid by the roots; we divested ourselves of all the fable 'terror inspired in young minds by that ancient name; we went behind ,the old Alexandrian geometer, and ,found him out In his plan, hie pur- poseshis ibeginningseils fallaclesand hLs merite. I told Trotter not to be n.elte,nied at any little personal dif- flOulties, ohm Xing Ptolemy had boggled like himself atthe foot of the 'Asses" Ba•idge," and, had asked Euclid one day, in Alexandria, if he could not make it all a bit easier, to which the ancient mathernatician replied "that there was no royal road . to learning." "But there is, Trotter," I said, "a Very broad and good XingS3 ;Highway, by means of which nothing Os difficult, nothing abstruse. It is just as easy to learn the binomirml theorem, or Persian, or Sanskrit. or ;Euclid, or navigation, or chemistry, fas it le to monv, grass or shear a. 'sheep. •The secret Is to • be rightly 'taught, or to 'flake yourself right ftoni the beginning, making sure of ,every step taken, and bearing in mind that most (teeming ie very simple, ei.nd 'that most school books do their every best to render it obscure and sonseless." Well, with that, We built sip Eficlid ler Ourselves. 4 Trotter ca.= 'Co no privately. day ,Isal day, and we attacked thot fatal fifth proposition of the Firet Book air Napoleon did hie enemies at the Bridge of Arcola. We eerveyed it, we Arad° colored sections of it, so that ,!Ite ended by! knowing all its intri- cate triangles.; we mopped out and marked it& anglee and lines, so that we came to be able to peeve the etbeorent of colors, or numbers?, just ,as well ste letters; we worked out de- ductions and corollariee froia it, un- it:II, like a kind of geometrical Clap - dam Junction, or the big railway; ;bridges one over the other at Dir. ,minghain, we had all torte of supple- ,stientary; proponitione built over and under It. And as he grasped the rat- olon d'etro of 'Euclid hie terrors changed to pleasure. The lad became ethe Iineet demonetrator in the 'chow, always at the to for gem - &Pet, Ilie diagranta charmingly drawn for him noe tho girl with tile blue' eye, were the envy nett won- der of the form, and front the dee- pendent victim of conventional and rootlet' instruction, he developed b,y. getting lian of Itio fine reason into ;what he wait meant for -ea Attlee - Witt ed inventor, with an eye every bit as keen nu IStielid's for proportion, relation and the subtle feeling of form. "A fine thing," I used to etta to nim, "If a 'bald old Greek gentle - amen of tho time of Ptolemy; le to eet pezelee In squares and eirele.e arid triangles that an Ungliell boy, In Ilirmingloon can't underetand. Got to the heart Of ; don't •grant Illm anything ; don't be quite sure thot the throe angles of every; tri- angle ore equal to two right angitte; and don't at All allow, until you are yourself fairly convineed, that parallel straight Mee produeed 'will ;never Meet. Euclid could not have Orman a keel pen or electroplated' a bras3 enp, and eon must !ergot the leninerable learning by rote forced ape fon sin by Impostere who omit them - Oleo," terteltere, and begin where Emend began. Aa I have eald, thn . dian became confillentjoyhtte, euccees- fol. ItIe pawed with elatitie step over the "Bridge of AneeFt," leek prize af- tor Prise, Anti when I lett Binning. ham Woe nn the fair road to be head .0f his ttivi1oil In t The Iteettif or Klion..8.4. ttelI, that Wets one 'bridge. Ale rali Gaming Canada Many and Mar weer for the moment out, tuti h's wife, whose namp. not catch, would seta me. Looking around the walls of motel' board in a oasual manner, I spied, to rny astonishment, among pictures of various kinds, a photo- graphic view of Xing Edward's Saloon Birmingham, and .close be - Aide it the ritth Proposition of the First Book of Euclid, with the an- gles and triangle,' done In"diver•s colors, and underneath it written, "My First PAridge." Near at hand was a truly superb picture of the new Canadian bridge, in all ite glory of iron and timber, with the rushing forest -born river Innocuous- ly witeling iceestabe and slags he- nea,th Its wale arches, while in the corner, 1 read the words very neatly Inscribed. "His Second Bridge." duet the the eoor oecned, rind tie a) came In the nicest, brightest, most open- faced matro teat can imagined, leading a nom -biome boy of ten or tweite yearn; lty the hand. In an instant, after all thew years, we had recogrOzed each other. She was the Ter.,' Name girl with the Wee eyes who bad brought Trotter up to me In his deep woe about Euclid and Trotter, none other tliam the mel- ancholy Trotter, was i the great rend glad mechanical hero of the oc- casion, the triumphant engineer who had spanned the Beel River with Ills world -admired bridge, oelis Sec- ond Bridge!" she had proudly writ- ten it herself upon the plan, to go beside that diagram of the "Bridge of Asses" ; although, indeed, my ced omit had done lots of other wonder- fnl work before erecting that Pons Asn • rum over the great Canadian stream. Ho had mad? a fur - tune, in fact; was one of the biggest mon in his province, and we did not part before we had renewed old Bir- mingham memories in some very good Californian wi n 0, and had pledged a cup .of kindness to the good luck and firm foundations of the second of the "Two Bridges." YANKEES IN 'CANADA, A Vast Army of Americans in the Great Northwest Territory. The 'energetic forces that the Ynnkee is contributing to the development of Canada's great west is the marvel of this section of the British possessions. The boom diva of lemmas and Okla- homa are belle; repeated here. Trains from the South are crowded night aud day with Americans, and the tremend- ous tide mets a turbulent European population from, the East as the surg- ingstreamh s converge at the Winireg Union Depot. Just what good purpose this virile population from the Western States hope to serve by passing theough North Dakota's free land belt and set- tling down just over the border in a section where the agricultural coudi- Hens are entirely similar is one of tbe puzzles the present invasion presents. Brit the movement is bringing in n quality of Yankee folk exceedingly pas. ing to the Canadian authorities. There the foreigner collies with scarcely a dollar and works the first year for other farmers, biding bis time to secure a $10 homestead, the American brings consid- erable cash, homestead property, farm, implements end a family inured to agri- mama We, Even .seetious of small sheet iron houses are brought in by the enterprising Americans. The authorities ale Ilan -tiling at Win- nipeg an- average of 3,000 settlers a day. Twothirds of these are from the - States. 'Afore than 300,000 Americana alone .entne into title part of British America It yteir ago. The tide this year is expected to reach even greater Pre" portions. It is due in no small degree to the faeilities offered the western man from the Stetee by the Comedian authorities that so ninny desirable emigrants eme rushing in. The officials sent vents di- i•eet to different parts of the Stares, distribute literature, converse' with pro- spective settlers. get the customs exec - time removed in this and that ease, and look after all urgent details, Then, when au American settler reaches Win- nipeg, be is given somethieg akin to an oration. In a day he has selected his homeeteatl And is en route to Al - bode, Aseinaboin er Sasketehenem, The European flood, however, lingers a full week, and fit then spread out over the eountry, seeking railway ronstruetion, work ta• employment on farms. Yankee capital 14 everywbere. Greet town site rompattita are forming from Si. Paul, Duluth, .aed 1,11.11 ne far east es Pittsburg to some s Share of Ude getlerotis wealth With the. vast areas grantedto the different rafiroade the desirable free lands lmtst compete. The American promoter has brought all the arts he used with so much suc- cess in the oh' days of the Kansas end Nebraska rush. His enuring propos!- ' tions catch many of the new settlers. A Duluth firm has jnet purchased some 2,000. town sites in Manitoba and, New </aerie, A big advantage to the repub- lican spirit of the American settler is that while he must take the British oath of allegiamee if be gets a home - dead free, he may buy without ques- great transcontinental railroad has btieoAelnl, charterecl to begin wort: this sum- mer. Tho Government is undertaking to spend and guarantee interest on more than a $11:10,000,000 capitalization. From Halifax to Port Simpson the line will be eonstructed—a military highway for tl g's ti'oops' vout ef 8 Will .111 W111011 the attitude of the States- may be unfriendly—some entliusiastie Amer- icans 1.ike to term it—bid in any event a mighty project, requiring ten years to coniplete and connecting The oceans. Already the manufacturers of rolling stock of the United States nerd England are beteg searched for equipment for tide System, for the Canadians, taking les- sons from Americans, will be prepared to operate each division of the great system as rapidly as is completed. But even thisgigantic experiment is small in comparison with the project of connecting the Hudson's Bay, with the "grainery of the British empire." as en- thusiastic subjeets of the Ring term this part of America. It is a great double-tiaele grain highway froni Win- uipeg or Edmonton to Fort Churchill, on Hudson's Bay. As tbe crow flies, it is 500 mike from Winnipeg and SOO from Edmonton. In conjunction with this I scheme is one to keep the Hudson Bay open to traffic the year 'round by means i of gigantic ice -breakers. With something less titan 7.000,000 acres of wheat land uncler cultivation, Canada last year produced 100,000,000 bushels of No. 1 berd wheat. The available 'wheat-gtowing land of the Tee- ritories and Manitobit is conservatively estimatal at 700,000,000 twee. The united States to -day has under culti- vation 40,000,000, and the limit is rap- idly approaching.—Winuipeg, Man., cor- -Philadelphia Record. • • veos+444-:+:44-8.1p4.00+444.047.: k TO STAMP OUT I CONSUriPTION. • ee.00.ageeeseerreeeolepeledaaateeeee.e.e.i. Department of Agriculture, Commissioner'e Wench, Arany 'of the most thoughtful and public! epirited 311 011 of the Detail - Ion are numbered nniopie tile of - Mere and members oe the lan Aentritetion for the Prerention of Vousumption and other forme of Tubercidepli4, which held iLs Worth annual eneeting in Ottawa on April .anti 121. It is ealoulated eliat In Canada at the preaent moment be- tween 8e000 antl 40,000 pereone are !suffering from ir„vei ft 13 un. doubt edav Uiireveatable tileettue, and one that is curable in ite earlier etages,Aa 1110 prOaident, 4104. Sen- ator ledevards, pc -tatted out, liter- ature- stolt Itn t110 115430niatiVil tilt: - tributes statued he in -every beene, co Oat, *the peeple udglit be taught tho simple meant' by wide!& tile et:mime new be avoided. 'While eau- atteria were helpful 10 the case of •therie who had the disease, he be- lieved that the great means of He prevention wile in 0111.6,0110,11, Infections front animals. phase ot the queetton in which earmers are more portioularty interestea was (gemmed by Dr. Ilavonal, an pminent Crated Sta tee au t I ire r I 1v, who le assistant meilleal direet(le of the Henry Phipate Institute at Pitiladelphin, in nn ntitireee on " Su- imal Nieberculosis In Their Bela - t ion to gun -nut Dealt h." The lecturer vigorousie combatted the opinion of Keeth and othere that there ie an essentini differenee between !W- WII, and bovine tulbeeculceris, anti !toted a large member or experimente in eupportt C thie view; •that these were practically . identleal. While admitting that the majoeity Of easPu coneumption were due to infec- tion by Inhalation, he claimed that a conekierable percentage ceinki 1213 definitely teamed to iniectiou tlircettgli the digestive tt eact of food, oar Lieu.- iNN •1 Canatilam lehocee- • The saleentan, ao well as the exporter le to Warne for sending thtei Immature clime% and tile patrene of factories eliould insist, that their .cliecee should he haltl le the curing room' until It Is te suoje a eondition tot win give bat- lefaetioe to the coneumer. 'Coal Curi• ; of CeeeteeeThe differ- ence in the quality of cheese bold in the Government cool eurielg rooms woe very volieeable, not only In • 41111113Y bet in general appearaties. Tbis improvement 10 due to cool cure ing and "waxing" the cheese, which also lin the advantage of prevent - of elerInkage. During %be fie:teen of , 1002, when "Waxed" ebeese firet ins a 4. oasiderable percentage p:ared on the 'British market, some of the (irceers'• Aseociations ob- jected, and even wont eo far as to eentand an allowance) In weights, but It Wag cove proved that there was letet Shrinkage, winch added to the Improved qualityand appear- ane'of tlio cheese, quielde ereatetit a brisk demand for eiteeie corning front tho Clovernment, curing sta. tiona /11. an whence In price com- pared to -.cheer-a coming from the Or- dinary; factories?. Boxing aheear..— Bile percentage of. broken boxee watt riot so high dur- ing 1003, although 11 still VP0,Y: high, ranging trent IS to 25 per cent. The fallino off in breakage hi due to: 1 a. Damp eeason, *Well mikes the boxes len brittle. O. Mere care on the part of the ehipping companion In loading, etow- ing and dIscharging cargoes, Ude work being elesely watched by the Inepectore °team (leper Lmenee 3. The 11Se et boxes of better quid - Tho hat er point was very aotiee. able In clie.eee coming from the Gov- ernment curing Latlois, the boxee being rnado 'heavier niaterial ; the percentage of broken boxes did not above two per cent. which proves that it Is false economy' to buy cheap boxes, Care (should be taken not to um green, uresearioned boxes, as the cheese, particularly the top and bot- tom, may be damaged In quality from this cattle: alone. Skin Brand on Cheese — Leading British importers of Canadian elleeee are in favor of branding cheese indel- DESPONDENT WOMEN Find New Health in the Use of Dr • Williams' Pink Pills. At few years ago 'Mrs. jalnas 111. attliArt, of Thorold, Ont., ;wee) is well krunve±0 5110St, ter the reeilents of that town, found eter health' severe- ly shattered UR the resuilt of an attack of enamel., itie told praee tleally in her/ own weeds, 'Mrs. retulart isa,ys; "My telocet wets till:erred Ginnest to ;titter 7 I cerfacood from nerve. reeking heartaches, and the leiast exertion tooteld Louise pay newt to palpitate so violently an to ren- der foe almost flereatillees. I wristed tamps in flesh a,nd often woe, eel eviertk (that I could ne(t walk about. ,wals under! the care of a gotel /lee:tote, but me I wile not getting better, I grew( tmelancholy and de- t1Pondent, and felt I ,wies becelming al hopetess invalid, at this stage I Nvi1.9 advised to tato Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and I fb.egan taking theno thinking it evtimith be a. Leant/chi if they tover helped ante To my great gratification: when I hod been using the /LOUR 10SR than a Month 1 faiend MY health improoing. 1 oeed; ablaut midozen boom in all and fo'und inly- *tell enjoying Once more the bless- ing bf good health. I 1lietl been re - dueled 'to almese a skeleton in ap- peitranco, and Wile taking the p'l'a gained over &wantst peptide in Weight. I gratefully, reeopeniend teo vino to other allieg mornlen." Dr. OVillianee" Pink' Pnis are the greatest blocei builder awl nerve tonic knOWil 10 11104110.1 selence, ThrOuglr their age; pale cheeks aro prole rosy, doll eyea made bright, anti this wasted figures made plemp. Ifevery (lase neakere new, rich red Mom 'that erieee ont (Usenet() and ptrengthenn every organ in the belay. 'Yoh can get them pills frone any (tenter iii medielne, or 'by mail 1444APa1l, at tee clentn 0 boe or MX boxes 'for $2.e0 by Writing the Dr, (Williams' idedicine Vet., Brotkville„ Ont A Tragedy Avetted. "Why are You co told 1" he more Mitred brokenly. • Ills Wife opportunely arrivol 311, the office door, lietentel intently on the outeitle. "Yetir coldness will he the death of me," he Continued. :With a shriek elm threW open the door. "f hetet tileeotetred yott at leatel ;me eeeleimetl, with flashing eyeu. 'Then Hite looked around tlio room in enrileit.e. His rentarke had eimPlY Wien ad.: dreesed to the radiator l—NoW, Or. leang 'Illalee-Dentioerat. • \es _ s ---'..----f•-;-> , --- ''%,,t z..."..... „...7f. ,:.., ) do , IQ -.,_.4. rs e_. . _ ---... ---,—.1.........., „ . . .,) ' -----;------'---__,,, ..., SWEEPING THEM BACK. tarty milk and meat. The fewl fig- uree available Beamed to indicate that about 25 per cent. oe child- ren's eases vv,ere due to tito latter armee. Fresh Air, Light and Sunshine. — The keynote of the convention was; i "Live as much es peesible in the open air." Living- in overcrowded, fil- 1 ventilated, dark, dirty rooms; insuf- ' fielent or had food; diesipation, or I anything which enfeebles the consti- ' tureen, and thus impairs its power • of resistance, is likely to facilitate : the invosion of the system by the germs. These are found In vast numbers in the dust ;particles of the dried spit of the consumptive, and in the minute droplets sprayed into the atmosphere by the consumptive In coughirg, cousequently spitting,. about the streets or in buildings (Marmites, school, !theatres, rail- way stationa, is a dangerous as , well ae a filthy habit. The ideal place for treeing incipi- ent cages of tubercular disease is in the municipal fresh air senator - him, where the patients may enjoy the best of care, without being alto- gether removed from the watchful- ness or their friends and family phy- sicians. ;Every patient who is cured in the sanatorium becomes an apostle of tho gospel of fresh air, hence these lostitutIons eerve as object lessone of the greatest value. It is for title' reason mainly that the 'Nova Scotia, Oevernment 'aa just erected a san- atorium at Kentville, with a ea- pacity for 18 paelenta THE CHEESE TRADE. O.* Some Suggestions for Makers and At • lee • • r Department of Agi teultnre," C °monk s oeur I•ran ti Lie rota. t r. g "aline th tli eee trade of 11,01, Ole, A. W. Orli:Way, agent of the Deportment ef Agr:e thee in Great Er.ta it, maker teem edgeee.10 le that nt ri. tit att nth 41 Of Makers and exporte.s 11.. says : ueceeetiti 0,10; there was a "The elicese eatson of 11)02 Watt a Inost sI large I crease in the quantity and the steady Iterro,ement qual- ity 1V 41) 60 great teat in spite of terY Leavy eupelies the pricer+ re - 111 at . 1 tIU' W1101) w('re 5311181110- torY. Tie mild, 'meet, 1 fl 1.- 1 Or, aft diS1111g118110 1 trom the he tt- tel 44111 lOting character so notice- able In former years, hue erented a large consumptivo deman 3, wi1Ii will wive a tendency to de teway I with the del rOper.lo 1 in 111111 he • I tween Vannetian aril English Chid- i dar. 4 Mee ;reel o' Teppina* 101 11 04 'Igeeen" 0 •neot Ti' toe eumen 1- ea7ly titIrelemn 'II, to it nO. ont s, o I ; the ettle but hurts the reputation • ible• with the month in which they made. Some years ago "September" cheese became the favorites, but OW - Ing to the improvement in the quai- 1 ity. of cheese made 'during July and August, brought about by the sys- tem of "cool miring" Introduced by the Department of Agriculture, the makes of other months have proved , to be nearly as good in quality as feeptember'a I It Is claimed that unscrupulous I , dealers in Canada as 1111311 as Great Britain, quote "September's" at such lowpricea that th, supposition Is, that thery are tho Utak() of other months, and an inferiority in goal- Ity is not discovered until after de- livery is taken. If the month of make was branded on the cheese they would be sold on their merits, end speculators, who bought cheap lines of July, Augnst, October or Novem- ber makes would be debarred from quoting them by cable or otherwise a.s "September's." Yours very truly, J. A. Clemente , PubicatIon Clerk. ROSY, HEARIY CHILDREN If you want to keep yoar little ones rosy, hearty and full of life, 1 give thema,by'er Own Tablets the montent -they show slgrai of being out of order in any way Allis -medi- cine eures all forms of elomach and bowel tronbles, break); up wide, pre -1 Vente croup, (leotroys worms, al- , lays teething irritation and gives the , little 04108 8)3111(1, natural sleep. No 1 child objects to taking the tablets I and the mother has ( teeturantee that they Content to op ate or ham- I fel drug. No other ruedicice for little ones geese this gunrnntee. MI'S. (len. C11.10Pb011r Killarney, Man., who hae , had much en:evince says; "I fin•I' Deby'er Own leiblete •a, fine metli- eine for ebilteon. '1 'icy .are prellipt in relieving little ills, anel gentle In their action." All medicine dealers sell these tablets, or ,you ean get teem by mail at 23 eente 0 bo X by Writing the Dr. Williente Medicine. t Co., Brockville, Ont. . . 184 4.0 1114 — 444.144.1.441.4.4.4.1.44.144441444.4+111,41"1,4, Wonder of All Ceylon. ROCK FORTRESS OF &GM RISES 600 FEET ASOVE THE PLAIN', 41.41.4.4.11+++++444444.414+44+++444144444444.4444++44+44+" Kandy, Inland of Ceylon, -0 The rock fortress of Sigiri 141 tbe most unique tiling in Ceylon and esieeln for the Tneeeeallan "monasterlee In the Air," anti oue otiee-enehanted urea In the tie tei'rltory, ptialerreeittirteh thinge that quite cOm- . • 4 1 One eeed the Altar of red reek fro Dambool's Cave temple apprOaehee toweritig above 10 mile* ef level unbroken green jungle: Even from that nistance it would veene IMPue- eible to aseend It. The bare red rock rifling 900 feet from the plain is un- dercut, Ivrea an overlia,ng on all sides, and ono studies vainly, through field glaeees to make oat how, he could over find foothold on that dizzy' wall. • , One heare thrilling tales of Iron ladderand foothold& cut in the rock; of teuriete wire, would be clim- bers, but eat down and wept hensteri, eally Instead witen the tittle had come to climb by foot and hand, toeth and nail; and plain, Hat.arenaeology on the level. at Anuradhapura was tame, compared to the sensational ruins of aigiri, wItere the Govern- inent'e arobacelogy in the air beer borne moat satisfactory. remelts. Ono leaves the Anuradhapura road two inflow from Dambool and follows Use Trincemelle road for three miles before turning off into the jangle path for six miles, aud, except in these two midsummer months of the dry eeavon, title jengle path is a deeP moraee where it passee the sites of old tanks and rice beide. We were warned beforehand nett W0 hould have to give up our light trap and fleet ponies and crawl through the jungle in a deliberate bullock hack - /Ty, because of this dreadful road— "not metaled at all, you know. Just two wheel tracks, where it is sandy and deep rutwbere 11 has been muddy." eaid tlie reeident English, who, never having even roads in China, or in.the United eItates, do not know what carriage wheeler -can do or epringe endure, or how. bad a road can be. Trincomalle road, lo the *tzars mists and clear white light of the earliest morning, was the most beau- tiful bit of highwaythen een. Tho hard, white road between the bands of green turf wae arched over with jungle tram and in that first hour of daylight wild life was in evidence. Beautifullyyj feathered jungle fowl, an- cestors of all our farmyard flocks, loitered in the road, and only ran In among the underbrush when we drew near. Squirrels darted and mon- goose ran ahead of ow down the path, and a huge eagle owl went ahead in eweepe and flights from tree to tree for a quarter of a mile through the forest beside us, We went. beside and by a, dyke across the arm of one laroicen tank, INIsc'er1:04:. trees etood. elundated and wn.- ter lilies and wild rashes grew. by "There nre many an!reals In this tank. And ey tegirt they come out and lio in the road, and sometimes they bite. They are the crocodile," said the driver, tina ;we watched anxiously to see some arparent log rise and crawl away to the still wa- tare. In the midst of the jungle path cni?ChWingby along, to'n a the biaolc driver pereited L011 the pole, pelting his bullocks and twist- ing their tails in :the vain effort to make speed. Ana then the heels of the two recumbent lady tour - lets showed at the far end of the prairie schooner; obedient women folk, not Americans, who had be- lieved the tale of the inmassable road, bad left their /phaeton and POnies at Dambool, and Lad crawled for five tours the day before io accomplish the eleven miles distance, and were tlatn crewing back again alottsh.e. heels of• the meditative hut- ek. Men Sigiri loomed beyond a clearing of rice fieltia and the little government rest -house s dwarfed to a toy at the eclremmi of the green grove surrounding the base or the strong tower. It is a little rest bouse of two bed-romns only, the peojecting portions par- tially wailed to a ;height !of four feet to make a dining room. Mee keeper, ktiowing the ways and wants of visitors, presented a cup of tea in two minutes. We took some banatins and drove to the foot of tire fort, anxious to begin climbing before 9 o'clock and make the most of the cool shade of the morning, on the galleried rock, A wall of cyclopean masonry and foundations Mid with boulders that equal the rock work at Myeenae anti Tuns mark the first Hee of de- fence. The viceroy's caner, with a causeway across the old 'lank to further isolate the Ampregnalee fortress. A line of eocaies, men and women, met 4114 tts came down picturesque paths and boulder steps in elle cool emove, 'bringing debris from the terrace and gal- leries above, and covey ing amek iron rods, Waster rind cement. At the foot of Sigirt rock there in conftueon of great boulders that wore railed oil by the bed lees of the palace fort, and each one shows the mark or the remnants of its for- mer use. One boulder has its top hollowed ont to make a natural tank or bathing pool; another had a tingoba on top; and yet another was a thor»e, where the Icing sat In state, In the earliest bout's of of the day, when this west side rock was in sbatiow. Other gigantic., bouldere are grooved with lines cut to give tene port to the brick staircases . and etructures, parapets end walls Lime in this woy availed of elre natural rocks for se many uses. There are eaves and hermit boles past eounting and all througli the grove signs of the great religione es- tablishment time gathered around Ole royal citadel of the tittii eon. tririt.ii. Te king of that time having mule &red hie Miller and ttheated and driven off hie brother in order. in gein the throne nue the royal treasure, found himself with 110 11110318y head Ind n Ind vonecience, rind was, driven to building 41 reflects—a strong hoe of sato dcpasit on top of Sigel roek, ttul Ininging 11 city to Its letea Tete IN A "DULL SEASON." 'aces tif pret•ipitotot height W4‘1.4? 111: ±131' 14100 of the rock at the tor ilia 1•44t 4114110 1.0 join a projection, there tt guartl-house %AN ('E11411). The manager of Mu, of the chains of shoe Mores tecently told 811 advertising • petiodital this: "Nre shall make a hir- merease 111 our le•wspepee atiVertiPing this year beettuse of the pea fruit of ottr last year's investment. 1 04311 Say this for newspaper advertising—that ia 11 6011S011 generalle, eoneeded 4 shop dem- r rrs: to bo dou., it Inought a eubstential i3101'0880 4)1 trade to every one of 'our t Mores." !N1-80 terrace -et of barraek rooms/ Vere reitelted by staietoteee at the einthweet 'tide, leading to a gallery ett in the roek and eoneralett from without by a Tampa nine feet high, Phis rattiest 3111,8 of Nieto hold In leep grootes in the rock and tont. el with Malang olninem, ie intato in Dug etretchee .etill; In places there the roek hail failen away, allery and all, Iron brackethave -.. It Allont :Seena) erktamt t.ineloyed in 1 Um budding tredve Imeet been reit- 1 1100041 idle an the result of etrikee "i ordered by Philadelpida unions, ! Ef ... been sot into tile rook mid a narrow' ' iron fooletvalk continued to flights Of deep atone steps. leading up to the guard -house terrtieee The foundation walls aml the etone etalreadies of the gimlet bouse and tend the. Mails and staireattes a the barrack,' thot occupied the lowee terreces remain to eheee the slae and scale ot the great eete,bilehment; all of Wein .exotevetea eleen to the foun- dation Stolle; all the tangle of veg- etation and the debris of doli, brick, rubbiall and crumbled wood cast far away by the arebaeologiste. From . the guard house platform there is a euperb viem out over the green jungle 'plohl. Demihool's black rock ethoineing ton miles away and tbe next height 17 miles In the air line aOrosa the 'trackless wilder - peso. The northeast wend blew fresh and cool up there, and after the steep titaiewayf climbed to reach that b&1 -way plate) 1± iYaS a haven of rest rind breathing space. There the rock rose etraight be- fore and above ono and the einnirilt loaned out, overhung like a mush- room'," 31111. The eye traveled up& first long flight of ihneatone stepe and then to skeleton ladders stuck flat against thee rook, awl next to ladders, tipped eldewaye, held by etanobione and brackets driven into rock itself. Above that only hand rails •svere visibin, amtl climbing Sig- iri seerned a feat for acrobe.te and Reese Alpine gnides only. The performances ot Steeple Jack, the human fly, tviro thrilled all \Vase- ington, in fascinated el'OnNtifi. WNW he took down the vire of St. elet- thew's Chureit were commonplace proceedings compared to this exploit of Sigiri, welch Is attempted every week by all terrta of tourists, wItile the enthusittatio young archaeologist In charge. in rope sealed shoes and spotless dnek clothee, goes up and down a dozen timers on the run a. day. t Eliza. It. Seldmore. Nature Revolts Against Nigh Living and it hes set Rs seal .to It by add. Ing to nian's allmen te the seo urge of dinbetes. Eminent mettle/11 men untll recently pro. eI dined it a "no cure disease, but South American Eidney (lire had it,nocked down their pet fallacy and It Its proved itself niastet 01 kidney diseases in all Its forms. Eclief in hours. -11.0 LONG RUNS OF PLAYS IN LONDON. To -night A Chinese Honeymoon reach- es its 1,000th performance at the Strand —the longest run in London of any 1111314031 play,the previous best being LII e. lint of Deruller, which \rag perform- ed 031 times.. Including tbe provinces. the .provinees, however; The Honey - Moon luta a long loneeey to go before it catches up to Another musical play that is still ou the ronti—Mr. Van Blene's A Broken :Melody, of which the 3,015t1( rerformante will be reached on Friday. Prohnbly the Van Mete play holde the •world's loeg-run record for any theatrical productiene After A Broken afelody, taking siege works .generally, 001110r1 Charley's Aunt. It. is un.possibit to tell how many time thie piece hat 13003 played eonsmitively by a singh company. both in and out of London but it. must run into Sereral thonsanda and into many thousands'including the performances of the numerous cone paniee which have played It contempor aneously abroad and at home. From this point of view Charlefe Aunt hold, worle's record of its own. Only four plays have run in Londe,: forit thmeand performances and over, viz.: Charley's Aunt, 1,460; Our Boy% 1.062; The Private Secretary. over 1,0004 A Chinese honeymoon, 1,000; the rut. ners-up being Dorothy, 931; ,an Too ever e00; La Poupee, 778; The Geisha, 760, and A Country Girl, Street Leven; der and Patience, each about 700. Charley'e Aunt record London rue commence11 at the Royalty on Dec. 21 1892, and ended at the Globe on Feb, 24, 1897. Our Boys started at the Vaudeville on Jan. 26, 1875, and Ma there unceasingly for more than four years until April 18. 1870. A Chineet honeymoon has behl the Strand Thea- tre boards since Oet. 4, 1901. . • 111 ourogreat-great-grandfather's daye a run of thirty-five nights—such u thnt achieved, for example, by Addison'e Cato at Drury Lane in 1713—Was re- garcled with astonishment, while the siva -two performances of The Beggar' (Awe. in 1727 Wag a theatrical nine days' wonder. ---St. James' Gazette. Mts. Weisslitz, Buffalo, N. Y., cured of kidney trouble byLydiaE.• Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound. Of all the diseases Iceown with ',obi& the female orgarrism is afflicted, kidney disease is the most fatal. In feet, tine less prompt and correct treatment is ap- plied, the weary patien t sel dora survives. Being fully aware of this, Mrs. Pink ham, early iu her earcer, gave careful study to the subject. and i.11 producing, her great remedy for woman's ills— Lydia E. Plnithant's Vegetable Compound-- made sure that it cone Vaned the correct combination of, herbs which was certain to centred. that dreaded disease, W01/1411'S kidney troubles. Read What Mrs, Weiss11t3 Soo. 1.1)1:An :Una Prmurmiti —For two years my life was simply a burden,X; aaffered so with female trouble, muL pains across In back and lotus. The doctor told me that I had kidney troubles and prescribed for me. Vor three months I took his medicine, hnt grew steadily worse. Mi husband the advised me to try ty la E. Phitko, hant's 'Vegetable Compoundi and brought home a bottle. It is the great- est Messier; ever brought to our 1tot/3(k. *Within three retina's I was a 140111413. My pain had disappeareddity tomplexion became clear, my eye)/ bright, and my entire, aveteter shape:ft—Ma. PAuf.A IV/Metter., 17 Seneca St., Buffalo, N.Y. -- rtetee Wool OW loWls.