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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-11-03, Page 3driftwood fire blitzed gloriously la the huge laud-aral-attek areplace of tae 'Old shelter hut, and the bunters louoged, =eking, feasted and cere-free, in ite OM. 1t ie geed to iitretelt oat before on open tire wilco one's legs have been doublell np in a duck -boat all day, and a fine dilate has Beaked one's face and hands for Ileum Supper had been a Rue - cm; liarithisel cooked tbe ducks, and. Burnhieel cookea for coiltiegie eake. The doctor had preecribed hot Scotch all amulet, and it weeantler discussion :tow, by all except the Judge; he pessed the bottle on untouched, wimu it went into circulation, His companions, old. crouies all, took his ancient custom, era a raatter of course, but 13arnhisel did not understand. He was a new member of the fraternity, junior of the other men by a dozen years, albeit their host— he owned the islana ni the San Joaquin, where they had foregathered. Now he held the bottle of Scotch in his right hand, Willie:1 to hospitality toward the Judge, his guest. "You are aura you won't reconsider?" he said, tentatively. The Judge smiled his negative. Be Iiked liarnhisol immensely; he could not senannlier when he had ever before taken such a liking for a younger man, but sot evert for him was the rule of his life so be broken. "You'll never get the Judge to recoil - Sider that motion, Baxithisel," laughed 3tackford, the city banker, who sat oif the floor, his back against an overturned hair, bbs Wool -clad feet toasting before the blaze. "If you did,". he added, "you would succeed where all his old. pals have "ailed these twenty-five years." Barnhisel looked apologetic arid passed 'Om bottle on to the Doctor. "I beg pardon," he said, with a frank ilance of liking toward • the Judge. "I :Ude% think of its being a matter of srinciple; I suppose, though, your posi- tion stud till---" He completed the sentence by a cora, preherisive gesture. The Judge shook his head; he was staring into the blaze with a curiously softened face, and when he spoke he ad- dressed the company at large. "No," he _said, "I don't know that it could be called a matter of principle. It's more a matter of experience—an ex - penance which I have never shared with any of my friends. It las been haunting me, though, ever sinee -we've' been on this trip, and to -night I am in it mood to risk telling it, since we are all tried friends. and trusted." I WAS It glerlotte MOM arid I 'Wanted to get ever this side befere the 4110k0 be- gan. to fly. ee "The 11147011 had gene down and the Morning star was beginning to look pale, when one of the little eld river 'itemisers came poking her wee AVQIIIId. a bend, Sbe ran Up a slough Net above me to make A landing and take on lionni votes, toes stacked up there. She let of * passenger, too. lie stood on the landing stage for a moment and then came along the bank to where I was poling abeaa among the Odes, keeping out of the moils of the stern -'wheeler. Ire etood looking at MO aial I saw he WAS A tellOW about my own age, with an overcoat under Itis a•rin, ana his trousere tucked Into high rubber boots. Ile wore mighty good. clothes, but he looked like e. per - Ocularly jolly sort of fa, boy, and I liked him the infante I RIM him. "lie shouted. 'Hullo I' and I answered back; then be wanton to know where I was going, . . " 'Duels bunting, o'er in the toles/ I said. 'Come along?'" "You bet I will,' be yelled, and he waded out to the punt and was aboard in a jiffy. Dick, the dog, began moiling iiim Over right away, wagging Ids - tail and making friends on the spot. "'You. build the boat?' he talked, straight off. "I told him my. brother and I had. hufit her, and he called her a 'bully good a. boata then he started in to tell nte we men bent over it, not offering to .touch It. The judge brought Ids own about a canoe he and his chum had made out again, his hand t rambling as he held of newspapers stretched over a wooden it forth in the firelight. After a rno- frame, left. after liyer, and each layer varmshed before the next was put on, The judge looked interested. "That makes n. first class canoe," be said. "I once built one myself—a boy friend and I." "Yes," Barnhisel (marled, and went on with :his story. ... "I lied never seen such a fellow as that bey, and I Was hugging myself for joy to think I had got him with me. Ile was new to the river—new to Califor- nia—he and his folks must have just come from back in the States—Iowa, I think be said. He told me he hag taken the steamer to go down to San Fran- eisco, because he had never seen salt, water. He got off 'at the bend. because he liked the looks of the place and thought he'd go on a tramp for the day. That wee what he said at tirst. Later he said he saw me in the punt and got off hoping that I'd ask him to go along with times miss hen even now. The judge s me. That was - just the sort of boy he seemed to be. 'He was the most companionable fel- low I ever saw. Even now I look back on that day as one of the happiest I ever spent. He was keen to see everything, and wild over the tules. He liked to get 'way in among them so they closed over our :heads. He liked the wilderness of it. 'He was a good shot, too. I lent himi .Doctor.' my gun and he brought down the only "It is one of those things I always ducks we got that day, a brace of mai- characterize as impossible, but true," he lards. It wasn't a good day for -ducks, said. "Your brain was evideritly on a but I got a laue crane, and the new fel- (vacation, .7/edges and that ehave for low showed me how to skin it—I'd never which you took a whim threw you off seen that done before, and I've got that the traek of your identity. You thought skin yet, stuffed and mounted, yourself a boy again, and freedom from "I had some tackle in the punt and your thought and. care made you look we caught a flounder that must have like ono. I shouldn't wonder if your. come up with the tide. You never saw forty-eight hours are acounted for. It's a fellow so seared. as that boy when the eunous, and I cannot explain it; but fish was pulled in and. he saw those two neither can I explain nine -tenths of the eyes on the same side of its head. He other curious things in this world. But nearly fell out of the boat. • man ! you are wise to abstain from "He. could hardly believo I had never the flowing bowl 1" seen snow, and he told me a lot ithout back in Iowa. But maybe all this isn't AN AID TO MOTHERS. the good times the boys bad in winter, interestine you—" Barnhisel interrupt - as the .Judge's story, nor BO serious in ea himself to look around. It doesn't help a sick baby to give it 'It is, it is," cried the doctor and "soothing" drugs. On the contrary, it its effects; but it may interest you Stackford, in a breath, and the doctor lessens baby's chance of recovery. If all" ' • "Let's have it," the Doctor said promptly, and Barnhisel began: "It was when I was a youngster, some fifteen years old or thereabouts. Father owned this island oven then; but it was not leveled up as itis now. They didn't understand that business so well then. There had been levees built, you know; but the water undermined them, anti a good deal of the island that is now in forty-eight WW1, in my adult life, Of which 1 can give no account whatever. Where I went, rediat I did, what said, svliat I bound or loosed, or made or un- made, in that time, I have no more idea engine. I never dared to enquire lest I open up a discussion which I eould not meet. "One gooa thing grow out of the adventure, howevers niy attention Was Aroused, anti I thoroughly sifted the business surrounding that bill, hop- ing in the process to clear up my ()WA movements. I got no. light on that last point, but I did uaearth AS pretty e complication of intended friatul upon innocent 'tartlets as yen. can well imagine, and I eet myself to enemas vent it. In fact, I think I MaY MY/ without undue self-importance, that I defeated the bill." There was silence for a space, svhile the me* in the shack considered, It was a hateful consciousness for it Mari to car- ry about the konwledge of two days and nights unaccounted for in a busy, active life. The possibilities were ugly to con- template. "Had you ,nothing *bent you to give you and clueaJudge?" Stackford asked, breaking the silence at last. "Something picked up, or eoutething missing; lied you spent any money, for instance?" "Something less than ten dollars, that could, discover," the narrator replied. "Of course, I settled at the hotel ana probably paid my faro to Sacramento; but that glom me no inkling. I did have nave it Yet." something unfamiliar, however, and I He produced, from the bottom of a aamoia-leather coin -bag, a twisted bit of tissue paper, -which he opened, hand,- ing the contents to Stackford. It was a split bullet, on the flat side of which the initials T. B. showed, roughly cut with a knife. Banthisel gave a little start as be ought sight of it. He seemed about to speak, but restrain- ed the impulse: The little object was passed around end commented upon. "Not much.of a clue there," the Doc- tor said, as be banded it back. "I don't envy you the experience, Judge. We hear of such cases; there are men whom thessmallest dose of alcohol affects that way—and you probably got queer enough stuff at your cross-roads hotel. Tough stuff for a hardened stomach to negotiate, let alone a man wholly un- used to such things. I wish I know how to soh•e your problem for you, though. A think like that haunts a man," l`lt does that tbe Judge assented es Barnhisel looked up at this, and the he—took beck the trinket. He wiped jaage nodded toward him. some beads of moisture from his f ore - "You 'seem like an old friend, young head as he continued: man," he said, half severely; at all "'Haunts' is 'exitetly the word for it. events you're trusted." I would give all I possess to clear up "Tell your story, by all MeallS, Judge," the mystery. There have been times on Stackford said. 'We've ahvays been the bench when_ I have felt that, for all sure you had one to tell, and I, for one, I can know to the contrary, I may be as tun eager to hear it." guilty as any crixidnal I ever sentenced. A murmur of assent went through the How do I know what I may have done group; pipes and glasses were filled and in those two days and nights that I can there was a general movement nearer never account for ?" the fire as the Judge began: A murmur went through the group, •-"Let me see.; it must have been a but no one spoke until Barnhisel arose matter of twenty -odd years ago. I was and put another log on the fire; then he a member of the State Legislature at turned to bis guests. • , the time, and I was on a committee that It r'emindi me of an experience of came down to this part of the State to my own," lm said, seating himself on look tip a swamp -land matter. There the floor twain. "It isn't so uncanny - was a bill under consideration, to re- deem sonamif this territory—parties in- terested claimed that it was State lands —and xnake it fit for railroad use. It was a Very pretty seeming bill, and there was big influence back of it." "I remember about that," Barnhisel said; "I was only a lad at the time, but my father came near to losing this very island we're camping on to-nigat." "Yes?" inquired. the Judge, and re - "We got down here on just about such rt day as this has been. We kept to the mainland," which; as I remember, was pretty latch all marsh, and we sozzled about all the forenoon with a survey- ing engineet who accompanied us. We wore rubber beets, of course; but it drizzled all day, and by noon we were wet and cold, and generally uncomfort- able when we got back to -the Junction for dinner at the hotel. • - "I was brought up in the Quaker faith, as you perhaps all know," the Judge continued in a tone of explanation, "and as it matter of fact, although I was then past thirty years old, I had never tasted any intoxicant, nor used tobacco. As I say, however, we -were all wet atid 'cola,' and before we Went in to diener we listed up at the bar and had hot whiskey and water. all round—myself included. "In the midst of the 'thnner bad a sudden chill, and one of the party sug- gested that I have the waiter bring Inc another glass of whiskey—they ;were drinking claret at dinner, but I took . none. For some raeson I was unwilling river toward Anhocb. I started about to have the whiskey. brought, but said half -past three in the morning; there I would go and get it myself; so I Went' out to the bar and had another whiskey • and water, hot." The Judge stared at the. fire- a •atill Minute before he weot on, and when he spoken again his voice was low and f alt of perplexity. "The next thing I remember," he said, slowly, "I was Sitting an the cab of a locomotive engine, and we were just pulling into the depot at Saosamento. As we. stopped, the engineer turned to, • me and said: "Well, you, gee I kept my word. You are here exactly on time, Senator!' "I was so bewildered that I dared? • not speak. I offered the man a gold piece, which he took with it hearty •"Thank you, sir," and I. elhnbed down. - I was afraid of committing myself be- fore I could learn what .it all meant, so I walked away. As I did so, I put up my hand, after it fashion bad when perplexed, to stroke my beara, iind nearly shouted with fright to find self smooth shaven. "I was sadly perturbed, and started for home. On my' Way up town I bought a paper and was horrified al observe the date. Consultiog watch / learned to my increasing alarm, that more than forty-eight hours had elapsed since the moment when I stood at the bar to drink that second- glass of wills - key.. in Popular Favor With Japan tea Drinkers CIEVIp.0141 l'ilATUIRAI,,C.R.E.E111, wine similar in flavor to Japan, lc much mere, healthful and economical In use, .49eauSe it la absolutely pure! It Is to the Japan tea drinker- what " BAL,ADA" black le to the black tea drinker. ,Sold only In -sealed lead packets,. and 40c per lb" By all grocers, 11 sillessPrificiples in Farming. One of the boas that rnWht be' read with profit by every tanner its John Williams Streeter's "The Fat of the Land." It tell* in every day langusge the story of a successful city doctor, evho WAS forced to give up his practice on ace count of failing health, and who retired,: to a suburban ferns to try interleave , farming, According to businese principle& I Ibis plan 'was to sell nothing from the: farm except finished products, such it0 butter, fruit, eggs, chickens and hop: to ran as he called it "a factor farm" y . The narrative of his euccess bristles with much impressed by the Met that our in. two or three in diameter. He could not wise sugggestions; it shows the value of Male Were the same, and that morning go into itarticulan: at that time, for, brain Work on the farm and the impor- before we left the :Mack I found te but- with. the instinct of the hunter, he frame- tame of intelligent cultivation, also the advantage of good seed, good Olth, good speeimens of well-bred stock, geed. food, and good care. For profitable butter production, as well AS to be sure of an abundance of skim milk for bis plias and liens, the doctor arise Holstein -cows for hia dairy, starting with twenty pure bred, two- year-old heifers and six of the best com- mon cows in a lot that Ile bought with the farm. His experience with his Hol- stehui is stunmed up in concise terms, near the end of the book. Ile says: "The cows purcluasea in 1895 were now five years old, and quite equal to tho. large demand which we made upon theni. They had grown to be enormous creatures, from. 1,300 to 1,400 pounds in weight, and they were proving their excellence as milk producers by yielding an average of forty pounds a day. We bad, and still have, one remarkable milker, watt thinks nothing of yielding 70 pound:: when fresh, and who doesn't fall below 25 pounds when we are forced to dry her plane, its body not being rigid like tnat off. I have no doubt she would be a sue - of the whale, but extremely flexible. Nine days later, sehen the Avalanche had on tion fi we put her to the test. For ten cessful candidate for advanced registras board the commander and eight officers months in each year these cows give such of the French Ship Bayard, another of quantities of milk as would sarprise a these monsters was encountered and purr Mail 'not acquainted with this noble sued for thirty-five minutes. This time Dutch family,. My common cows were the boat came close enough for the men good of their kind, but they were not to see, that the creature's head was like in the class with the Holsteins. They that of a seal, though very much larger were not "robber" cows, for they fully in dimensions When it came up after ' earned their food, but there was no diving, it blew water into the air as a great profit in them. To be sure they whale does, but this was in the form of did not eat more than two-thirds as a cloud of spray and not a single jet., moth as the Holsteins„ but that fact The officers of the Bayard had photo- ? did not stand to their credit, for the graphic apparatus with them, and when basic principle of factory farming is to they had recovered from their stuprise consume as much raw material as pos- /11.11 at once to get their cameras; but Bible and to turn out its equivalent in before they had secured any pictures the creature, with the slowness recorded as mated only two-thirds as much raw ma - finished product. The common cows con- , one of the invariable characteristics of terial as the Holsteins, and turned out the species, dived and was seen no more. rather less than two-thirds of their pro - An officer of the Bayard ruefully re- ntarked in a letter, "the apparatus was ,pf floor space, consequently they had duct while they occupied an equIll amount so small, the beast too far off, and its to give place to more competent machines, movements tpo unexpected." But he add- They were to be sold during the season. ed the obsereation that there was a sort 'Why dairymen can be found who will of a crest along the animal's back. The popular idea thoa there is but pay $50 apiece for cows like these I had one sea serpent, a solitary.monarch ,myindeedmemethod otronf reckoning oanvienrs: •the deep, is upset by the conclusion which f foogie• ilee b(ebyeotnt de r Racovitza draws from the story just values. Twice $50 will buy a young cow told. The Megophias, he thinks, is actu- bred for milk, and she would prove both aly abundant, in the region on the coast most cases. The question of food should bread and milk to the purchaser in of Tonkin, which bears the general name of the Bay of Along. It is very im- for the factory farmer. The more food settle itself for the dairyman as it does portant, therefore, that any one who consumed, the better for each, if the goes "to that region or to points on the ratio of milk be the same. let among fether's traps. We split it diately took a shot at them at a range and cut our initials, T. B., on the flat of OM metres, whereupon they Bank un - side of each—hie for Tully .Bingliam, der water anti did not appear again. On mine for Tons Begahisel. We swapped the lath of the following February, hew - pieces ana avowed we'd keep 'them al- ever, while again crossing the bay, be ways. Here's mine now.' saw a pair of the Bahia, creatures, pose!. The air ef the room was electric as bly the same individuals, and gave obese Lor an hour and a half, ilring at them from thne to time. Owe, he is sure, one of the creatures was bit, but the ball glanced off harmlessly. Racovitze is skeptical About his invulnerability, end suggests the more probable theory that the shot ricoebetted front the surface of the water, The ebase was given up, as the lieutenant quaintly pats it, because the sea serpent has greater endurance than the Avalanche. liut the observe - tions were made. The animal was gray in color, and it seemed to him that it had many flippers. Here, again, the sci- entist remarked tbat probably it had only four, but that they moved too rapidly to be counted. It swam with an undulatory movement in a vertical meat the Doctor took up the two bits ef lead and matchea them. They be- longed, and the Judge and Banaltisel stated at each other in the ruddy glow. "Impoeible t" the older man cried, answering the other's look. I was it man in my thirtiee then," "It. was it boy who spent that day and night with -me,' Barnhisel said, solemn- ly. Awe was in hie strong young face. "Tully Bingham,' the Judge continu- ed, "was my closest boy friend. He •svas such a boy as you describe. We built that boat together. We built the dou- ble -runner. I remember his getting off that very theory, once about total de- pravity. We Quakers were al taught to believe in total depravity—but man! Tully has been gone these forty years. His death was my first sorrow. I some - eyes glistened. "I have told all know," Barnhisel fetid. "I know I spent that day and night with a care -free boy; but, Judge, I have never seen you that that boy has not been vaguely in my mind. And where did you get that bullet ?" The Judge shook his head, ana sil- ence fell again, broken, at last, by the added. • 'your htttle ones show any signs of being "I don't know why it's so interesting, unwell promptly give them Baby's Own but it is so, go on.' ' r Tablets and see how Speedily they Will be The Judge said nothing. His eyes were bright, cheerful, well and -happy. -This very keen and bright, and he watched medicine is sold under it guarantee that Barnhisel intently, . nodding for him to go on. it contains no poisonous soothing stuff, ' or hurtful drug, and it cures all the who helped him to build the canoe built little ills of babyhood ana childhood. Mrs. W. 11. Austin,- Farmington, N. S., 'He told me how be and the same, chum what he called a double runner. He des- says: "Baby's Own Tablets are just what asparagus and potatoes was under seven cribed the thing to me. I remember that every mother needs -abet her little ones feet of water and the tules stood high 'partictilarly because of the scrape they are cutting their teeth. When my little everywhere. It was a greet place for got into with the double -runner. They one eries, 1 give him a Tablet and it ducks and lame herons; a. regular happy:were little fellows then and I said to helps him at once. Mothers who use the hunting ground for us boys We used :him, "What does make us get into such Tablets will have no trouble with their to go out in an old punt we had knocked? mischief when we're little? I never could babies." Baby's Own Tablets are sold by together ourselves, my brother and I; 1 tell what possessed me when I was a kid, all medicine dealers or can be had by 1 and spend days at a time among the to cut up as I did sometimes." mail at 25 cents a box by writing the tules. Many's the night I've spent in "'He had a theory to account for it. He ' Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, this very shack, after a. day of punting ;had theories about almost everything, but ,. (ma over ground where orchards are grow -1 this one was a corker:He asked me if I ing now. :believed in original sin; but I didn't even "The time I speak of, I was off alone. i know what it was, so he explained that BIG SEA -SERPENTS. My brother had been going with me,' it was the sin we all inherit from Adam. — I Wo all had it, he said, the full amount A Pair of Thtm Seen on the Coast of Ton - but at the last minute he bad a chance : of it, but babies .and kids felt it most, to go with a launch party up the Mok- elumme, with an uncle of ours. , There ;because they were small, and the pres- wasn't room in the launch for the two :sure, so to speak, was greater. I call that of us, so Hart went. IS dida t want to lose my. own sport, particularly as I had ingenious—" Barnhisel's laugh was echoed by his a degree of authority unusual in such permission to came for the night in the guests, all but the judge. He drew a deep narratives The French Zoological Soca shoals, so„ as I say, I put off alone, with breath, his eyes fixed upon the nan•a- ety, in a bulletin issued, appropiately the best dog that ever went into the tor's face—and said nothing. enough, from a building in the Rue Ser - water. s "We ate our luncheon from the kit pente gives to-tlre world a mates of in - "I took the punt and we poled up tbe 'I had brought," Barnhisel went on, "and : forma'tion regarding an animal a hal we spent the afternoon punting in and ' wits a few years ago denounced. as a out among the channels, looking for blue ture of • mytholo.gy ana the sum:ner re - cranes' nests. He was wild to see one, 1 sort reporter's imaginationa but is now but we didn't find any, and we :planned recognized as at least a possible ieallty for hint to come down in the spring, 1 and actually given the Latin ns me of when we'd have all sorts of good !times Megophias inagophias. As Emile fa Pag- on the river. . ovitza, assitant director of . the Arago ' "We came over to the island before laboratary, remerks in his paper lacing dark, and made camp in this very shack.' up to the new evidence now published, He cooked the supper, and Vve pondered very few naturalists go to sea, and that ever. since where that boy learned to is the reason why sailors' yarns nave cook. It was a revelation. I cantook some been the only foundation for such mien - myself, but I never ate anythieg to beat Olio enquiry as has been made thus far ' regarding the sea serpent. Making allow. kin, Chased, But Not Captured. Scientists in the government service are -very much interested in a sea -serpent story which comes by way if France with "When / reacheilatome niy wife was in it fright equal to my own. She bad Men one of my friends oa the cote- Mittee that day, ttnd lie had told her that on the evening of our da,v• in the nutialiem we lutd all gone to the Junc- tion together to take the train for home, I had put in the time after dmper going about with the eommittee, asking questions and informing myself on the matter in hand; but, arrived at the sta- tion bad announeed my intentiini of havieg a have before. took the train. They tried to perstuttle Sue not to do tbisabut nothing they said could elutke my neterteinittiort; eo they finally went on without me, supposing I would fol. low on the Overland, win& was due in an hour, "My wife \VAS lit- a state of mind, you may be sure, and lily Account of myself was not calculated to reassure ker. She was, hewer," the Judge inter- polated, with 0, grave emile, always de- clared, that she believed such a story art 1 wit!: able to "But the fact reulaina," lie eontimad, and the smile faded, "the fast tainaina that there is a. petlod of something over A • • Young women may avoid much, sickness and pain, says Miss Alma Pratt, if they will only have faith in the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Judging from the letters she Is receiving from so many young girls, Mrs. Pinkhant believes that out girls arS often pushed altogether too near the limit of their endurance now- adays in our public schools and semin- aries. Nothing is allowed to interfere with studies, the girl must be pushed to the front mia gradoetecl With honor ; often physical collapse follows, and it takes years to recover the lost vitality,— often it is never recovered. Mise Pratt says, — "Dein Mne. Pnatirem:—I feel it my duty to tell all young women how emelt tydia Pinkhain's won- derful 'vegetable Compound has done for me. X was completely ran - down, unable to attend sehool, and did not care for any kind of Society, but now X feel like a new person, and have gained seven pounds of flesh in three months. ot 'recommend it to all young women who suffer from female weak- IteSS.".•-•MTSS AtlifA Pitkre, MIA. —$6000 forfeit if original of MOW tette rieingitenulneoess cannot be ereriveed. that flounder baked ie. a hole in the groued, with 'hot stones. He wanted to build a fire outside, but didn't dere; for this island is pretty much all peat, and I was afraid of getting a fire started in the earth; so We heated the anchor -stone alma for inaccurate observation ana downright romancing, the ;stories put on record from time to time in the last 400 years have agreed on so many points that it has been possible to make a rough of the punt and two or three we used composite picture of the crea ur9 in for ballast here at the fireplaee. question. "After supper we lay on the floor and Now to the story. The French gunboat swapped yarns till we were dead sleepy. Avalanche was. in 1807, in the Bay of I couldn't come trp to his stories; but( Faitsi-long, on 'the coats of Tonkin. Her told him about the bill that was being coMmander, Lieut. Lageesille, declares 1-1. 1- ycar Ise sitW Clusters of short or medium length father was likely to lose the island, and in the waters of the bay two great swim- ostrich plumes are placed beside the high we both t mi ht hot over it and ming creatures, twenty metres long, and crown. made big vows of what we should do to legislatures and such When we were men. "Then we turned in on the piles of dried tales, and he recited poetry there in the dark urail I was put to it to keep from crying. I've liked poetry ever since. "There was ono funny thing happened. When the fire got low I Woke up feeling chilly, and when Tully felt tne stir he reached out said pulled hie overcoat over 111 "Tully?" it was the judes voice, low and eager, which interrupted. "Yes, Telly, I forgot to say that he told nut his tame was Tully Bingham. De was asleep but he roused up to pull the coat osier and he said Os me in it sort of sleepy wasr, 'Cald„ little son?' Then We both. dropped off asleep, and nett morning X suppose We both forgot it. I remembered it afterwards. 'In the morning Tully had to take the steamer on her up trip. to Steck- toe, nen when it WAS nearly time we punted over to the landing. We were promising ea& other endless good times together. I was to go up the river to z see and he would tome down again 1 the next Saturday. He shotttod that baek 1 incLo again as lie looked down at nae ' over the rail of the steamer; but he didn't tome again." "Did you never see him again?" The judge's voice was sharp as he totted. "That's jest the point, I may have seen him and not know him, but the bey never came back. We veer° very North Atlantic, another of As heents, should. heed the directions which this scientist gives as to what to do on see- ing a sea serpent. "It cannot be doubt- ed," he says, "that the capture of the great sea serpent would be an important ecientific exploit, but this, as we have seen, is almost impossible to hope for with a merchant rcesel or a warship with its ordinary armament. It will be much more useful and just as interest- ing for these sort of ships to approach the animal as near as possible and make photographs and sketches.' The very worst thing to do is to shoot it on sigbt, because it probably keeps on the surface only by swimming, and will sink like a I hump -backed whale When killed. Attack it, therefore, only in shallow water or with a harpoon gun. Supposing that the creature should venture into a shallow harbor, the proper tactics are to ap- proaCh it slowly in a concentric curve as quietly as possible, to a distance of a half mile or so, and then make the direct. attack cautiously in a small boat.— Washington Cor. New York Evening Post. 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Next it was heard of in New York, where the Hol- land Dutch who had brought nothing with them from the other side but the language they spoke, marvelled among themselves, saying, "Verily, this is a good thing to push along." And thus from town to towethe um- brella craze spread. • Tbe bicycle -mania of later years was nothing compared to and the "auto" craze is not worth mentioning in the same breath. Every- body serembled for an umbrella. Babies cried for them. They basame the fash- ion. They became inseparable from the , who could not think ex- cept they walked, and who could not ; walk unless they had their- umbrellas under their arms, or maybe over their heads. The umbrella became a badge of rank and dignity. And all because away back in 1772 a Ione man walked through Baltimore town earrying one, the first umbrella, seen in • this part of the world. Manly Strength and Woman ly Beauty depend on purity of the blood, and much of that purity depends on perfect kidney filtering. If these. organs are diseased and will not perform their func- tions, man will seek in vain for strength and woman for beauty. South American Kidney Cure drives out all impurities through the body's'Illterers"—repairs weak Spots. ---16 Counting Postal Cards. Two of the most interesting automata now working within the limits of the United States are those used by the Government for counting and tying pos- tal cards into small Itundles. These ma- chines are capable of counting 500,000 cards in ten hours and wrapping and tying the sante in packages of 25 each. In this operation the paper is pulled off a drum by two long "fingers," whieh h • THE UMBRELLA. I come up from below,. an not er finger dips in a vat of mucilage and. applies itself to the wrapper paper in exactlythe Made its First Appearance in America — right spot Other parts of the machine at Baltimore. twine the paper around the pack of cards ' and then a thumb presses over the epot How many persons, says the Baltimore where the mlicilage is and the package is Herald, know that Baltimore is the thrown upon a carriage belt ready for American home of the umbrella; that delivery. away back in 1772 the filet umbrella through Baltimore town, with a man 1 NEIJRAL G.10 PAINS ever seen in the United States marched * under It; that good old colonial dames ran for their lives at sight of it; that horses hopped fences and tore wildly from meeting -house posts; that bar- AttE THE CRY OF THE NERVES maids in ye good old tavern, with ye FOB BETTER BLOOD. doors and mallows Prr see the show, I Enrich the BloodandNeuralgia Will good old grAge,„44h.eig hands, ray to scam Head, Ectema, Barber's Itch, Ulcers, while ye star dipsomaniac shouted with i "much power and great vigor" that he Disappear—It is Only Those Wham Blotches, and all eruptions of the skin. It is hrteolIvielltoanneosthaetr i tar, drop; Vat Blood is Poor and Watery That Suffer. soothing and quieting and acts like magic in Asvinoauilid bnoyevseit• the euro of all baby humors. 35e.—17 the town was 1111111 uproar? 1 No part of the human, system is FOR CHAPEAUX. Yet such ia history. A book ih the more sensitive than the nerves. Many city library says it is so; hence it must of the most excruciating pains that Fur and feathets are combined. Crush .crowns are considered good. be so. In fact, there is not the slightest afflict mankind come from weak, doubt of it, for the night watch (who shaky, shattered nerves, and among the Shirred velvet bows are advisable. Striegs are recommended for Restora- was called night watch because he work- , thme nerve pains there is .perhaps ea in the day) sent in. a riot call and none &eases more intense suffering than tioznibieialitnse. borders a chapeau de style reinforcements were only prevented neuralgia which generally attacks the turning out because there was only one nerves of the face and head, sometimes felt. boat . shape has a very night watthman on the force in those causing swift, darting, agonizing pains— in Awnhitoeenfeei good but somewhat uncertain days. 1 at other times a dull, heavy aching high crown. Hollow cut jet balls are admirable on It is most remark:Ole that Right Hon. I feeling which snakes. life miserable. F. C. Latrobe, the ancient, has completely : There is only, one way to get rid of reseda, velyeet. Immense -floral buelsles dominate -some overlooked the umbrella. incident his neuralgia and. other nervous troubles many effusions on the city of Baltimore. and that is through the blood. Poor, beautiful examples. • Windmill bows echo Louis XVI as well • It certainly would have varied the watery bloods makes the nerves shaky • verbal menu if, after "coffee and cigars," : and invites disease. Rick Ted blood as Restoration times. Two-tone velours is shirred until it re- he had discussed "Baltimore as the honie snakes the nerves strong and banishes of the umbrella," rather than the home all nerve troubles. No medicine in the sembles an ostrich plume. Lovely hats to match dainty costumes : of the oyster, the crab, the tin -can in- 1 world ean equal Dr. Williams' Pin.k Pills are made of the fine and lustrous 1 dustry, pretty ghis, and, ineidentally, 1 as a blood builder and nerve tonic; silks. • Gen. F. C. Latrobe, who, according to his every dose helps to make rich, red blood Velours ombre, especialy in pervenche, own confession, has been Mayor of Bal. and every drop of this new blood feeds Is made into some enviable small hats, timore seven times. strengthens the nerves and ban - put through up at Sacrament's, and how that on one u Ity 4111•••••••••••11.0111011 The —41 'Spice of Life" for Cattle. What tonics are to man, Myers' Royal Cattle Spice ig to live stock. It Makes them eat—helps them to get all the ' enourishment possible cut of their food. It tones up the stomach—prevents colic— Aida digestion—tnakes cows give more milk—increases the Weight of cattle—helps horses to do more work— strengthens brood mares—improves the quality of beef, mutton and pork. Myers' Royal cede Spice pays.for self, over and over again—by keeping live stock in perfect condition—by making them stronger and more valuable in every waywrite for Circulars, etc. /MRS ROYAL SPIM CO. Haws rails bat mid N.Y. Sold everyvihere. But because Gen. Latrobe and other ishes all nerve aches and pains. Among municipal mouthpieces have failed to ! those who offer strong proof of this bring into the limelight "Baltimore and as Mr. John MeDermott, Bond Head, its relation to the umbrella," it does not . Ont., who says: "A few years ago while alter or detract from the faet that Bal. working as a carpenter in. Buffalo. I got tiniore town sported an umbrella long wet I neglected to change eiothes before any other city' Of •the now world. and next monting I awoke with cramps It is unfortunate that the particular and pains throughout my entire body. umbrella was never filed away in the I was unable to go work, so called in a archives of the city; stied that the name (looter. I followed his treatment. But of the man who had the hardihood 46 it (lid not help me. As I was unable to march through town accompanied by it w: a, 1 retarned to my home at Bond is log -to posterity. Suffice it to say, Head. Here I coesulted a doctor, who if he could be gotten hold of now he saki I was suffering from neuralgia; would be done in oil forthwith and hung but, though he treated me for acinie with other celebritiee in the eoutmil thne, he also failed to help me. I lied chambers. But he, with his Umbrella, often read. of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, bee been lost, rind only the historieal ao aedakcl to try them, I had not used fact remains that he atid his umbrella more than three boxes before I felt did exist in this every town. they 'were ate. From that on I It is to be regretted that the umbrella gained day by day, and after I had ? was not mode here. It was a foreigner, used. some 'ten boxes, 1 bad fully restits though it was brought by a Baltimorean • oiled any old tilts strength and lave on a Baltimore ship from India. 1 sittee been able to work at my trade Imagine the figure the gentleman must , witheut any trouble. The pains and have cut itt the eyes of the populate as aches no, longer terture me, and 1 have be meandered from the dock with the gained in weight. 1 think Dr. Williams' village gang at his heels and the village rink Pills WI invaluable auedieine, and slogs at his heels. There is eo record to / shall always bave a geati word to show whether he WaS ellaSed. outof gay for them." town on the quaint old charge Of being : Neuralgia, Matfett, Rheninatism, St. possessed by the devil or was taken 'Vitus Dame and the many other blood gently but firmly to the ducking pool And nerve troubles alt vanish when Dr, end dropped in. :But whatever happened 'Willi:one Pink Pills are usea—Init, you te him it is a very good bet that he must get the genuiee, bearing the full did not Wander around long without name, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for encountering' a trouble faeloty of some Pale People." on the wrapper around • kind. • rty box. Sold by areggisie or direst Yet if lie lived it was to laugh. Ile by mail a 5e sante a box.°??Ir nos, lived to see others adopt the lotted in- for $2.50, by writting the Dr. Willialite etruThent Welt at first tense so ratieli Medieine Brock% dle, Out.