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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-06-01, Page 3Ate. la *++4++++ 4+14444 4-44+44+ +-1-12P-+ f+4+++++++.44+++++++++++41 Tornado Kiln of Storms. Moat Praia:10Ra and Severe Durlag Months of May and June. 4+++4#+#f 4+44-1-4+++++++4 +1/ ++++++4+4+44++++++++++++++ May and June ere the tornado months. It is iu thie period that the Mug oe et orins Is most frequent and most sev- ere, due to eontraets in teMptuature, al- ways greater when spiing is elmaging U summer. Iris few winter visitatione are confined to the gulf states, but as the wea,eher growls. warm he etrates spore northward. Ife made his first ap. pearenco this season On April 57 io North Carolina, Twenty-five tronadoes per annum is our average, and this frequency is (Mite uniform front year to year. There are nbout three destructive tormuloce of great violence each year ,and there Seems to be no annual increase in such Rhein The Missisippi Ana Ohio valleys aro the regions of greatest tornado fre- quency. The Rocky Mountain plateau and slope are free from such convulsions but thence ettetward to the .Atlantic there are few statee, if any, not occasion- ally devastated. Nebraska, Sonth Da- kota, Iowa and Minnesota are the torna- do states par excellence. There is be- lieved to be some connection between tornadoes and sunspots, but our weather bureau has not yet worked this out to its satisfaction. The tornado is the most violent wind 4- disturbance known to man. Its vortex is only a few rods in diameter where it sweeps the earth, whereas that of the cyclone is perhaps 1,000 miles and that of the hurricane somewhat less—about 600 to 800 miles. Tornadoes are almost invariably referred to as 'cyclones" in the popular literature of the day, al- though the later phenomena are our gen- eral storms always present somewhere within our boundaries. The tornado cloud is a long slender funnel tapering from the sky toward the ground. In the inneemost part the wind is blowjng at a speed of 200 or more miles an hour. This force will exert against the wall of a building a pressure of 200 pounds or more per square foot, The danger zone is confined pretty closely to the path of the funnel. In the northern hemis- phere, for some undetermined reason, the violence of a tornado is always greatest on the southern side of this path; in the southern hemisphere the revers is the ease. The tornado path is usually but a few „en utiles long, its total area being gener- safa' ally less than a square mile. The darn - ton of such a storm is usually bet a few minutes, whereas a cyclone tr hurri- cane will remain within our boundeges for days at a time. The direction of the tornado is generally from the southwest to northeast. When you see a funnel cloud,therefore, in the aouthwest, the chances are that you are in clangor. All tornado funnels revolve in e dir- ection opposite to that of the hen k of s watch laid dell upward. This is the rule in the northern hemisphere, but be- low the equator all tornadoes re elve with the watch hands. The tornado fun nel is but a few hundred feet from Li p to bottom, whereas that of the cyclone is a mile or two deep. The cyclone hes the sameitule of revolution as the. tor- nado tuning clockwise in the southern and contraeclockwise in the northern hemisphere. The first signs of adl approe ';ng tor- nado are those of a thun eget:mu, tut much exaggerated. The funnel cloud np- preaches with a roar wham has been. compared with that of 101 railway trains approaching at high speed. Often the funnel cloud can not be seen, even at midday. Accompanying or followine It frequently come intense thureivr and !kg lightning, rain in torrents, or oven hail. fia'a• A waterspout is simply e torniela me- . curing at sea; a sandstorm, one step- ' fening in the desert. Soutane ss on tr lakes, or on land, tornado funnels form In the clear sky, but these "fair wea- ther whirlwinds" are usually small and of little severity. Sometimes a small, white funnel cloud passes over us, high up, in a dry atmosphere. These are po- pularly known as "white squalls." Small waterspouts are experienced at sea or along the seashore in very ealm weather. We often see in the clouds little whirls with a gyratory motion. These frequent- ly are newly born tornadoes. . The tornado is generally thrown off from the southeastern edge of some cy- clone. These tremendous cyclone funnels therefore are the parents of the much smaller but more active tornado vortices. Very often a large brood of baby tor- nadoes is hatched out in her aerial neat by the mother cyclone. As many as fif- teenatornado tubes or funnels have been observed descending from the same cy- clone cloud. A warm current of moist • air from the tropics and a cold, dry cur- rent from the northwest meet, forming a vortex—like that produced by meet- ang currents of water. This vortex may become a cyclone, a hurricane or a tor- nado, aecording to its size. The typical tornado is proaueed by a cool breeze from the sea, meeting a hot breeze from the interior of the country. The two winds meet and are drawn out into long ribbon-like bands, lorone these the vor- tex goes a -spinning, toplike, downward, to earth. Inside the tornado is form- ing a vacuum into which the outside air discharges itself. Up through the tube tushes the moisture -bearing air from the lower levels near the earth to the colder levels above, where this moisture is at once precipitated into rain. Here we have a, typical tornado. The funnel 180 a half nine high, 6,000 feet in diameter at the top, 100 feet in diameter at the bottom. It ttaeols alotig the ground at speed of fifteen to sixty miles an hour. The outer edge of the funnel top revolves at the rate of seven miles per hour, but the rim neer the bottom of the vortex is twisting at the terrific speed of 200 miles per hour. In the tube 41ka below is thus produced tremendous cen- trifugal force, hurling things outward front its centre. Also Within this tube is a partial vatuunis as suggested, whieli explodes and drills objects in its path. This Chill is ',hat =keg the fuenel vis- ible in the form of it deed. A. velocity as high as 600 nines per hour hi the lower tubes Of some tornadoes hits been eites - against such general stories as eyelones, nut there is eot a building in the world to -day which aline. stand against the Vineyard soupd waterspout or any otte er tallied° of its power. The great St. Louie tortutao of 1890 is estimated to have exerted egainst the deetroyed Auk bridge and upon. heavy buildings a prees- me of from sixty to ninety pounds per square foot. Caanon shots fired into their funnels from ehips have dispelled waterspouts at sea, This fact lea a meterorologist saute years ago to suggest that heavy artillery be mounted at Intervale along the torn- ado belt in the middle west. A state- ment was published suggesting that the weather bureau had indorsed suck re scheme, but Professor Willis L. Moore, its chief, issued a formal denial, stating that such a eche= would be futile, la the opinion of conservative meterolo- gists like Profeseor Moore, there is no practical means of warding off tornadoes where conditions are favorable to their development. "Cyclone cellars" excavated near habi- tations of the tornado regions of the middle west have, however, been the means of saving many lives, These are generally crowned by low mounds, and superstructures of light framework, like Diet of the wooden icehouse cellar of the old time. When a funnel cloud eeen approaching a community thus forti- fied the inhabitants retren t to the sub- terranean asylum and there wait until the wrath of the king of storms has been appeased. To escape a tornado, meteorologists have suggested, persons not fortified with "cyclone cellars," should run to the north or northwest of the approachiug funnel's evident path, or take refuge in an ordinary cellar, preferably that of a frame home, where falling walls of brick or stone can not crush them. Noticeably few deeths from tornadoes have occurred in cellars of wooden houses. The flight sbould be to the north of the funnel path because the destructive effects are more severe on the south, as before noted, where there are strong indraughts. But the flight should never be to the north- east, as the typical tornado travels in that direction. Hence to the northwest is 'a safe direction for flight. Our meteorologists are at work upon a system of forecasting tornadoes with greater accuracy. 1Vernmg sent ahead of the great St. Louis tornado of 1896 were, however, so well heeded that schools were dismissed before the funnel plough- ed through the city. None of nature's great destroyers is so eccentric in effects as this most dread- ed of storms. While it tornado will one minute lift a locomotive from the rails, carry it a goodly distance and replace it on the ground practically uninjured, it will the next grind a stately building to dust. At another stage of its pro- gress it will pick up straws or bits of card and shoot them uninjured through the bark of trees. Farther on, perbaps, it will carry away a house intact leaving sheltered. At Kirkville, Mo., during the with mere symptoms. They won't curo! the unsuspected occupants safe 'but una- tornado of 1899 a piano was taken from any disease that isn't caused by b.ed one house, carried 1,000 feet through blood. But then nearly all common dm - the air and dropped through the roof eases spring from that one cause -e -an - of another dwelling. aemie, indigestion, biliousness, head - In a period of fifteen years the wea- aches, sideaches, backaches, kidney trou- ther bureau recorded 830 days on which ble, lumbago, rheumatism, sciatica, neu- tornadoes occurred within the United ralgia, nervousness, general weakness, States. The -average loss, as nearly and the special secret ailments . that can be estimated, is about $2,500,000 per as growing girls and women do not like to year. talk about even to their doctors. But The banner year for frequency was 1884: In one single day sixty such con- vulsions devastated parts of Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennes- see, Virginia, and the Carolinas. Fully 800 people were killed, 2,600 injured and 10,000 buildings were destroyed on that date, which, strange to say, was in win- ter—Feb. 9. The most notable tornadoes of our his- tory have been that of Louisville in 1890 and St. Louis, in 1896, Louisville's afternoon papers of March 27, 1890, published a weather bureau warnieg that severe local storms and atmosphere troubles were approaching. Shortly after nightfall there came a heavy fall of rain, followed by a hailstorm and severe light. nun . Soon the wind commenced to blow nel cloud appearea about 8.30 P. me (Ma bad naseed in a few minutes. Dut In that brief interval a furrow 1,000 feat wide had been ploughed through Kee- tucky'e metropolle. destroying five churches, the union railroae depot, two public thvee ;wheels, 200 stores, 32 manufacturing establishments, 10 to- bacco. warehousee and 532 residences, Seventy-six people were killed, 200 were injured in Louisville alone, anti the pro - petty loss there was estimated at $'2,150,- 000. .And tine was Louisville's second , visitation of the kind. Aug. e7, 1854, a similar tornado tube had passed through tit° city, killing 24 people tine injuring 67. Five hundred people were killed and 1,500 maimed by the terrible tornado which devastated St. Louis Mass 27, 1896, The property loss was $14,348,350. New England's cooler climate has not sparea it from the ravages of the king of storm, A tornado destroyed 160 buildings and killed 34 people on Aug. 9, 1878, The property loss was $2,000,000, .4 path 200 feet wide was cut through South Lawrence, Mass., July 20, 1890, and had the tornado causing tbe Vine- yard sound waterspout of August, 1896, -passed over Boston, probably the worst storm fatality of our history would have resulted. 4 I • • • • • • WEAK LUNGS Made Sound and Strong by Dr. Williams Pink Pills. If your blood is weak, if it is poor and watery, a touch of cold and influ- enza will settle in your lungs and the apparently harmless cough of to -day will become the racking consumptive's cough of to -morrow. Weak blood is an open invitation for consumption to lay upon you the nand of death. The only way to avoid consumption and to strengthen and brace the whole system is by enriching your blood and strengthening your lungs with Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. They make new, rien, warm blood. They add resisting power to the lungs. They bave saved scores from a consumptive's grave—not after the lungs are 'hopelessly diseased, but where taken when the cough first attacks the enfeebled system. Here is positive proof. Mrs. Harry Stead, St. Catharines, Ont., says: "A few years ago I was attacked with lung trouble, and the doc- tor, after treating me for a time, thought I was going into consumption. I grew pale and emaciated, had no appetite, was troubled with a hacking cough, and I felt that I was fast going towards the grave. Neither the doctor's medicine nor other medicine that I took seemed to help me. Then a good friend urged me to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. By the time I had used four boxes it was plain that they were helping me. I began to recover my appettie, and in other ways felt better. I took six boxes more, and was as well as ever, and had gained in weight. I believe Dr. Williams' Pink Pills saved me from a consumptive's grave, and I feel very grateful." Now, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills build up the strength in just one way—they actually make new blood. That is all they do, but they do it well. They don't act on the bowels. They don't 'bother with a. mournful sound, which =leased to a "frightful shriek" as it swept over other insect. The extent of the loss to the doomed portion of the city. The fun- Ontario alone runs up every year into the In the spring the whiskered farmer hundreds of thousands of dollars, and drinks hard cider from a can, throw - LIVING TOO HASTILY into the millions in the United States, all because the remedies which have dis- covered by the entomologists, have not ing wads of burning language at the indolent hired num. In the spring CANADIAN WOMEN BREAK DOWN been applied by the apple -growers. cotash and corn, and the cinehbugs the grand old granger plants his sue- - - While there is but °tie brood of the , It i$ Full of Life, Sparkle and Vim 1 Ceylon, The Prince of Teas—Blaok, Mixed, Green Sold in sealed packets, HIGHEST AWARD, rel along with the Bordeaux. It is very' necessary that the agitator should work while pumping is going on so as to keep the Paris green well distributed through- out the mixture, Use it good spray pump and spray the trees carefully at the times mentioned above. The practice of handing trees is com- mendable, but everything taken into account, is more expensive than spray- ing, and is moreover, actually harmful unless the bands are examined. and the larvae destroyed every ten days or two weeks during the latter half of June and all of July. Every fruit grower should acknowledge the value of each. birds as the Chick- adee, Downy 'Woodpeeker, Nuthatch, Bluebird, Swallows, Wren and Song Spar- rows in checking the increase of the cod- ling moth and other injurious insects, for without them fruit could scarcely be grown. Encourage the birds, there- fore, to come about the orchards by keep- ing the gun at a distance, and by pun- ishing the robber of birds' nests. : 7 t INSECT SENSE. Protective Mimicry Aids Them Against Race Foes. "In the eyes of the naturalist the world Is a vast arena, an devery creature a gladi- ator engaged In it fierce combat with a my- riad of enemies," says wawa:ear n. Kaempffert in the May number of um nook - lovers Magazine, discussing tho marvelous adaptation of insects to their environment, "Darwin called this incessant warfare 'natural selection,' or 'the struggle for ex- istence'—terms that have taken their place In the vocabulary of everyday life. In the Insect world the most striking confirmation of the Darwinian theory is to be found, be- cause the hunter and the hunted have un- consciously contrived incredibly subtle arti- fiees for outwitting each other." Mr. Mr. Raempoert demonstrates the motives for which these tactics are employed. One method whereby the weak may escape the strong is in protective simulation of their surroundings. "So exact is the protective resemblance that even the professional col- lector is deceived. When once tbe Catocals. moth rests on a tree trunk it defies discov- ery, so accurately has naturo painted and spotted tho forewings to imitate the effect of rough bark. Additional examples of the fidelity with which insects have adapted themselves aro without number, including the 'walking sticks,' familiar to every coun- try lad." But protection is not anly achieved through similation, the writer asserts. "Every meadow on a summer day swarms with a winged host blatantly heralding its oxistenee by colors that seem inviting to enemies. After much fruitless speoulation It was ascertained that many of theso gallY tinted dentzeus of the air are horribly dis- tasteful to insect -eating epicureans." Hence they advertise themselves in flaring colors. Tho Immunity thus acquired has led other delicious -tasting insects to garb themselves In similarly brilliant cows, mimicking the markings, form of wings, and flight of the immuned. Many a defenceless insect resorts to the expediens of terrifying its enemies by its likeness to a dangerous animal or by sud- denly assuming a horrible aspect. The mot successful terror -inspiring mask- er is probably the "bickory-horned devil," a perfectly harmles caterpillar of the Royal Persimmon moth of our Southern States, but so fiercely threatening in appearance that it enjoys an enviable reputation for you must get the genuine with the full deadliness. Its green body, often half a foot name, "Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills for Pale in length, is capped by a vivid orange People," on the wrapper around each box. I is ominously shaken in a way that makes a crown, which on the approach of an enemy If in doubt, send the price -50 cents a 1 rattle -snake seem liimblike compirison. box or $2.60 for six boxes, to the Dr.; 'Phase wonderful species of insects it has Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.,' been stated, are all of them products of the and get the pills by mail postpaid. struggle for existence. Mr. Kaempffert con- cludes: "If all inserts were permitted to livo the world would be devastated by them. It happens, however, that their enemies likewise multiply in geometrical ratio, so that a proper balance le maintained. So numerous 'aro these enemies, and so pow- erful, that sometimes the quest of food is anything but successftil. The food of one beetle is consumed by another; rain and wind, cold and heat,' kill many butterflies; In it word, premature death fails upon a creature in it thousand and one ways. Al- though the offspring always outnumber their parents, yet the number of living in- sects, thanlcs to birds and boasts of prey, remains fairly constant." 4•44 4-44-41-41-4-•4444 . I ITHE CODLING '4011M I OF THE APPLE. By Prof. Loehheada The codling worm is the cause of grea- ter los sto the apple industry than any SPRING POEM. come and eat it, while he sleepeth irregularities and Female Derange. codling moth east and north of Toronto, I in the morn. In the sprint" the old merits Result —Cured by Lydia D. there are two broods west and south of • • f SONV wanders to some quiet fen or Pinichame Vegetable Compound. Owing to our mode and manner of living, and the nervous haste of every woman to ancomplish just so much each day, it is said that there is not Alt.rs Irene Aferpgood the same place. le i brake and returns with seven piglets g this insect pest should be familar to toddling cutely in her wake. In the the apple grower, for only with this spring the good dog Rover, hides be - knowledge can he apply his remedies ' hind the bushes damp, waiting al - intelligently. The life story may be stat- ! ways waiting, ever, for a clmnee to ed concisely as follows: The insect win- , nail a tramp. In the spying the bull ters over as it caterpillar in a cocoon in gentle, which has been a pet for some protected place, and in early June , sears, gores the poor confiding farm - when the blossoms are falling from the ' Y zits on him and eats his ears. In apple the adult winged moths appear. i °trio spring. tha youth and 'maidens The feniales depofsoitrintehdeifrrueigtg. eggs In b °till te ' go to picnics in the woods, packing ,The and newly with them in their baskets sand - ten days the caterpillars escape from , 1 wiches and other goods; and they fall the eggs and a few days later enter the into the river and the chiggers eat apples, usually at the calyx end. The ' them up, end they come back from evorm remains inside the apple about 20 , the picnic swollen like a poisoned pup. days, after which it comes out to spin a I I have hot pains in my larynx and cocoon within winch it lives until spring i liver's out of whack, there are if there is but one brood, but only about laY stontach, there are two weeks if there are two broods in a ' amahliogs in TnY i ereakings in my back. When I go to season. The second brood of moths ap- I bed at evening I can only roll and peer abont the end of July or the be- I groan, for my mouth tastes like a I•ginning of August; then eggs rue again • hen:s nest, and my head feels like a one woman in twenty-five but What I deposited, and the worms which hatch ' stone. And I read the daily papers ' suffers with some derangement of thefrom these eggs enter the developed I where they tell of Smelter's pills, as female organism, and this is the secret ' ang _ 'apples about the middle of Auguste leav.; them again in September to nuffse a sovereign specific for these kind of I Vernal ills. And I buy the pills and of so realty unhappy homes. 1 cocoons within which to spend the win- : I eat them, and I feel a whole lot, NO woman can 'be amiable, light. ter. there are times when I am hearted and happy, a joy to her has- With our knowledge of these facts, c war"; longing for a sleighride in a hearse. band and children, and perform the , we are able to state quite definitely, • And the ancient dames come to me, duties incumbent upon her, when she is ! the best times to apply remedies. The suffering witle backache, headache, I plan is to poison the wornts with Paris and they brew their magic tea, and tele/oneness, sleeplessness, bearing- ; Green or sotne other arsenic mixture be- they say if I will take it, I'll feel dawn pains, displacement of the worrib„1 fore they enter ' the fruit. The trees as happy as a flea. But their dismal, spinal weakness or ovarian troubles. I should be sprayed (1) a few days after dark, decoctions only make nue iihriele Ireitability and snappy retorts take ; the bloseoms fall; and (2) about the and wail, and I wish that all herb the plate of pleasantness, and all sun. ; middle of August, for the second brood doctors could be carted off to jail. shin IS driven out of the home, and of larvae. An additional spraying ten In the spring the wily stranger lives are wrecked by woman's great, comes to sell it patent oat, mut Ile days or two weeks after the first will, , gets the Mutes of Victims to a thous. enemy—womb trotible. I in most eases be productive of inueh estimated. Read this letter; caul dollar note. In the spring you : good. It is advisable, of course, to use make it garden full of things you The great waterspout which appeared , Deat Mrs. Pinkhann— • the areenie mixture alone with Bordeaux In Vieeyard sound, Messathusetts, Aug. i "I suffered for four vertts with Whitt the • ' " ' dodoes called inilammalion of the fallopian . to control the aye scab fungus at the 19, 1896 had it funnel extendieg 4,e00 feet freest the sea to the donde, It was , 0 i tubes which is A Most distres e. ' n'ttne time that t le codling moth le be- , _ . ., . astn„ female die. I ing• ' ,, ,' . — .. . . • .s. undermining the conetitutien and sap. , tnrea.tenea, For tne seat) two enure 3 400 feet in diameter at the top tend air:tithe life Emcee If you had seen nte a , tionel sprayings are neceesarv—one be - 2'50 at sea level. At the narroveeet part yeete ago when 1 hest begun taking Lydia It. ; feta bloSsoming and one in July. be- -250 one-third the distance from the Pinktamer Vegetable Comeound,- and Lau , 'I Le llordeaux-P5114 green mixture is re. I noticed the sunken eyes, sallow complexion ' sea --it was 170 feet thick. Its top wolved at the tate of fourteen mike per ' and (feral emaciatat condition, and eon).- ' prepared aecording to the following for- leXettna a prattle Of 330 pottralt to the ' doe that I feat thanithil't/Tioa and ou not won -1 ( :timer sulphate or blue stone ..4 lite. el er 0-060 vii.v v60 VI, • 40 gol. las end bealthitt Ilve mouths. rify friends I, i „ ;e Ian marvel at the change it has made in me, ', ''''"'•— It as beyond ratat's power. to build a grope ... . , . .... ..4 to 0 oz. istrtietare strong enough to withstand a ; The blue eine is diesoleed in 13 to , , out none Can mannesiate it bettee than 'I can ' Owned() ht full power, ecording to tne myselfeaeMisairene Mpg:toll, iffleSteudwich en gallone of water in it barrel, and in 'weather bureau authorities. If the Bt., Windsor, Ont. i another barrel the lime ia sleeked care- ettnetural strength of it building it such ; At the first indication of ill health, i fatly end 10 to 15 gellotei of water aro that it Will esist a pressure of fortY ench as painful or irregular rnenstrua. ; added to mike a milk of lime. Then the pounds to the (square foot, Applied later. eon. secure at once ti, bottle of Lydia 11 ; coutents of the two barrels are poured ally—like the foree of it batterilig ram— pinhha,m's Vegetable Compound and ' into illc $piay barrel through a strainer. It lvil stand against such extraordinay been ite am bouts This, etriking a ship, would :lave , reries,t1,neetrta6resgs°,',14tih ° t°alaY* "PI"' Your won. ,Presit lime Ovate foot, I fistful medieltie 'which teetotal me to new •we V V 4 lbs.. 111710.11y the Pelts green is made into esortni as hurricanes and Will be proof ' * paste with water and put hit° the hat, By all Groceis, T, LOUIS, like to eat, and the chickens come and scratch it all to thunder and re- peat. In the spring your lawn is pretty, and yon point to it with pride, till some cattle come and spoil it in the silent eventide. In the spring the groaning husband eats his vietuale in the barn, for his wife must clean the mansion, and she doesn't out. it darn; and the yard is full of carpets and the trees are full of sheets, and he has to live on sauer- kraut, Chit ern water and sliced beets, Oh, a woman's in her glory, when elle tears things all apart, piling beds and chairs and pillowe in a way to break your heart. And at night the groaning lumban(I has to sleep upon the porch, and. he feel.: so plum disgusted that be can't enjoy hie torch. When the blamed old cleaning's over, then the wife is tak- en ill, and it keeps her husbana busted buying dope and drug and pill; and the mansion ie no cleaner then it was when she began, but she'd slay him if he said so—and Ile le a prudent men.—Nebras- ka State Journal. : AN EASTER ANTHEM. Soprano—Behold my new hat. Quartet—Her new hat, her new hat, her new hat. Alto—it is a fright, a fright, a fright. Soprano—It is a joy unto the sight. Basso --You are a peach in your new hat. Tenor—I've 'got my own thought as to that. Alto -0 thank you, thank you, thank you. Soprano—It cost me more than any here. Alto—Thats very queer; that's very queer. Quartet -0 hear' 0 hear, 0 hear. Alto -1 priced itmyself. When it lay on the shelf, And 1 know, and 1 know That the price was quite low— Much lower than inine, indeed. Soprano—Indeed! INDEED! Alto—Yes, yes, indeed. Soprano—You hateful old thing. .Alto—It's the style of last spring. Basso—Hush, hush. Tenor—Tush tush, Soprano -0, very well then, I'll re- sign. If her hat is as nice as mine. Alto—Alas, 1 grieve to see you go— - But, my hat was the highest, though. Quartet—Now all is joy; now all is peace. Ring out ye bells and glad the air. Alto—Such hats as yours are five apiece. Soprano—Its no such thing, at all. So there. Basso—Hesh, hush. Tenor—Tush, tush. Quartet—And now let stillness soothe the air. 1,1"10,* 1+11,-0-4-41,-.410-11,4f 14+++.1-10-41-44 L ; lk-ilr-PAP*****101 Rattler Swift and Sure Its Venom One of the Dendlleat of All Known PoliODS. 4-0-4-•-•-4-11^.0-1.-4-++-P-11-4-444-++4-1P+41-4,*-4-+ fik+++4-.1.+444.4-4.40.. While the mere Lite of the rause- i many, yet lie is one Ot tilf) meet feitlt. snake is not :allays fatalthe venom is I aul ;titles of the farmer. No eat, no an one of the deadlieest poisons known. I was ever more prolifie in caterintinet. According to Leeman) anaipii the poi- 1 ing thole noo. redents whose aggregate eon of a rattleenake censiele if 93 per ' damage throughout the United btaktoa cent. of blood at -greying el 0111P13 and 5 ninonate into tlie millioue, Pea cents of nen e ileesroyieg el:multi.-- levery fifth day a bell rattlereteke da. faring of tbe vitatme of this reptile. ital.- whose descendants a fact whit+ exaleina Ilia araadfill aid' 'yours a devastating, gralleeatIng 11101101, within a angle year tlesnake poison note on the human veins would number something like forty. VAr, exactly rte does acid whim poured into a ery second day the moat foveae swallow* metal pipe. Like the acid, the poison attacks the waits of the reins, eating season would eat a listIf bushel of corn, a fall -sized rat, which alone during, a and gnawing throuftb. thent and deetroy- not counta,g what he destroys, ing the red corpitse,es of the blood, never • . ' are gnawed, bringing that organ tea Occasionally, it ia true, the rattler ecasing until the very walls of the heart may get thefarmer himself, but the Quick blood poisoning is the real cause miances of being bitten by a rattlesnake stuadetill. are, after all, extereinly slight. None of these vipers is looking for trouble. ' of title frightful death, for into the brief At the first sign of danger if they have space of two hours or less is crowded the .on but a chance they crawl away. More, excruciating pain of an ordinary case of weeks. The victim's body turns, purple none ;ever strike without giving fair and blood. poisoning extending over several est warning. And. none can etrike n and black, It swells to two or three unless approached within a radius of times its size. The men cries in agony two-tbirds of its length. In this under the torture of a burning inside as and for purposes of food s reptile if melted iron were coursine throuebh his kilbs never otherwise. When a rattlesnake kills his ,ganie he ar teries. holder never fargets. The great, strikes and poisons it, exactly as he does one a be The spectacle of a rattlesnake at bay is long body lies coiled. into e tense appal, in self-defense, by injecting venom. Ins stinet leads a rattleenake to his hunting telleive rayeArediment of wiekednese. Pols- ground exactly as a eat or terrier sniffs anir, white -bellied forebody is out the haunts of his game. Coiled and bent into a horizontal 13, ready , rigid as an iron to strike, the snake lies, patient bar. Raised from the middle of the as the (ley is long, in a dense tangle of spiral is the tail, quivering like a, thicket. twanged banjo string and emitting a As the rat or rabbit comes within dis- rattle like steam escaping from the pet- tance the rattle is struck, forth darts cock of it radiator or like the sound of a the widely extended mouts and with it mowing machine in a distant hayfield, squeal of fright the quarry darts away, Awe-inspiring, the dread, flat, triangular carrying the poison that will lay him head, eyes gleaming black ancl cold as low within a few minutes. Rarely the icy steel, is ready to strike, viper makes an effort to detain his vie - As the grewsome mouth opens wide tim. He knows he will not have far to and pink the long, thin poison fangs go and he uncoils leisurely and follows arise from it horizontal position and at a lazy pace. stand upright, like a pair of ;slender, Strange though it may seem of a crea- neectle-pointed shad bones, ready for ture so formidable, the rattlesnake has buainess. Like a flash, far too quick for his natural enemies, and undoubtedly the eye to follow, the snake strikes, send- the most dangerous of these is himself ing Iris fangs home an inch or two, arid it member of the reptile family—that in that same freetion of an instant he long, slender, beautiful -skinned constric- has squirted a tablespoonful, of canary- tor, appropriately named the king yellow, viscous fluid into the wound, and snake. lies coiled, ready for a second attack. If the movements of a rattlesnake are In title incomprehensibly swift attack 'like a flash out of a gun, those of the lies the answer why sometimes the bite king snake are chain lightning. Where of a rattler is not fatal. For, so wonder- the rattler's pace is no swifter than a fully swift is tshe attack ;that a bite swift as the fastest horse can gallop. may be imperfect, leaving only a pair of tiny man can walk, the king snake's is airs needle punctures, with just enough yen - 3' Imagine a. constrictor of bone and sinew om to make a victim seriously ill. Another reason why a rattlesnake's length, anand muscle measuring twelve feet in bite is not always fatal is that, temper- d no thicker around than a arily, the reptile may be without venom. broom bandle, built in every line for the attainment of tremendous speed, The snake anay have exhaueted its poi- and imagine this formidable antagonist son on it previous enemy, in. which ease it would have to wait several days be- immune to the rattlesnake's poison. Such is the king snake, black with yellow fore the deadly fluid had reacetunulated. stripes, bimself a harmless, friendly Or, again, the viper's fangs may have snake towards men, but harboring a suffered accident. They may have been broken off, and require some time for deadly grievance against every other in snake, new growth. In any case, certain it is The instant the yellow fighter sights that a rattlesnake's potion applied a rattlesnake the fight is on. There is the proper way will do its work, and no manoeuvring for position. Not the that. only the most expert and prompt ! assistance will save a vactim. fraction of a second is lost. Like a bul- let out of a gun the killer darts forward Despite the efforts of an army of sci- entists no graatice,ble antidote for ;the and coils within striking distance to grasp the viper by the neck. Pregnantly venom of a rattlesnake has been discov- even the marvellous eye of the diamond ered. in the snake -houses and reptile- havic fails him. He strikes, quick as houses of zoologieal gardens and parks lightning, but misses, and before he can and in the laboratories where these dan- strike a second time the killer has him gerous creatures are experimented with by the throat or by the back of the snake men inveriably keep on hand a supply of anti-toxin—the only reliable neck and is winding his coils about him to 'choke the very breath out of him. While silver bells in gladness remedy for checking the ravages of the . The rattle of the stricken snake sounds ! ring; poison. However, for general use anti - bravely. He squirms and twists in vain Our hearts ae free from hate or 1 toxin is valueless. It deteriorates quick- . , effort to double his neck and sink his care— ly, and is unobtainable in wild sections fangs into the enemy, but the coils only Soprano and Alto—I think you are a where it is apt to be most 'required. , tighten the more and within a few min - hateful thing. "Ilthiskey is the onl reliable antidote,, an may tell you. utes the fine head sinks and the sound Quer tet--- ( Crescendo ) old snake sharp As it was in the beginning, s of the rattle becomes weaker and weak - It is now and ever shell be, Vahiskey, applied iu heroic doses of World without end. sem it the ' has ' is extinct and the champion has met er, until at the end of five minutes life raetytelneetsluireiectigniu,arbt ' spirit does not pretend to grapple with • onesayedormtaNINIY° —Life bis conqueror. the poison. It simply counteracts its effects by stimulating the heart, which SAFETY FOR CHILDREN. , threatens to stop, and. if the stimulation can be kept up until the worst effects of the poison have been worn off, the patient has at least an even chance of recovery. Among the popular myths surrounding the rattlesnake is the one that. it rattle- snake commits suicide when hard pressed. As a meter of fact, as bas been proved again and again, the rattler is immune to his own poison, and to that of his own species. At bay, beside himself with rage, or in the heat of a fight, a rattle- snake may strike right and left, biting indiscriminately and accidentally he may sink his fangs into his ONVI1 NViCkg sides and thus kill himself. In no ease, however, is his death due to poison. In- variably, it will be found, the reptile has punctured his heart or another vital organ, and death is due purely to lacer- ation. Rattlesnakes come into the world like warm-blooded animals, and. in litters numbering from seven to twelve: Be- tween the middle of July and the mid- dle of August the babies appear. Lively, telt-reliant, dangerous little fellows they are, fourteen inches long, no thicker than a lead. pencil, marked like the adult snakes, and provided with a single but- ton at the end of the trill—the first link in the series of the rattles to be devel- oped ring by ring with eaeh shedding of the skin. - AMONG THE CHILDREN. "Please God, make Mamie Ross a good girl. Please make her it awful good little girl. An' if it ain't too much trouble, please make her so good that I can take her new doll, an' she'll think It's noble and self-sacrificin' never to ask for it back again. Amen."—Oleveland Leader. Little Adrian was sent into the room for his first view of the new little trip- lets which the stork had brought, to his family. He looked at the lot for a while; then he turned to his mother. "Say, ma," said he, "which of 'em are you going to keep?"—N. Y. Globe. This is the way little three-yealeold Gladys asked ber aunt to thread e needle for her: "Auntie, please hitch up a sew -pin for me and put a tangle in it." Teacher—Define gentleman. Pupil—A gentleman is a grown up boy who used to mind his mother.— Ram's Horn. Little Girl—Your papa has only got one leg, hasn't he? Veteran's Little Girl— Yes. Little Girl—Where's his other end. Veteran's Little Girl—It's in heaven 136by's father had given him a 10 - cent piece and a quarter of 8. dollar, telling him he might put one or the other on the contribution plate. "Which did you give, Bobby?" his father askea him when the boy came from church. "Well, father, I thought at. first I ought to put in the quarter," said Bob- by, "but, then, just i» time I remember- ed "The Lord loveth a cheer- ful giver,' and I knew I could give the 10 -cent pied° a. great deal more cheer- fully, so I put that in."—Youth's Com. panion. I J A South Sett Church Collection. A box has reached the British and Foreign Bible Society' s Bible House in London from tugottt) Solomon Islands, containing specimens of some of the items contributed by the natives to the collection made on Bible Sunday at the Melanesian Mission Church. The OM - tents include some strings of beetle, por- poise teeth mid armlets, which are re. eognized coin of the realm. (Inc string of red beads, measuring the length of the arms lit full stretch, equale two shillings; four similar letigthe of white beads ere emelt to one shilliegi ten per. poise teeth represent one shilling; while ench of the white tinge for wearing on the ;trine are of the value of it Among the other articles—which are nod for barter—are some pieces of tor- toise shell in the rough, it bamboo box mull as is wed to earry lime for betel ellewing, a flee strinss bag, and a piece of the waive (loth lit witieh the Bugotet women Wrap their babies to keep thent from the Mods. Similar articles in the collection were sold in the nearest mar- ket, and raised altogether 10s, whielt hes been duly remitted to the llibld Muse. London Globe. Motionless, eyes gleaming, the long mother lies extended across the back of a sand hummock beneath the fanleaf of a dwarf palmetto, glaring coldly at her active, squirming babies. For a. brief balf hour she tarries; then she drags herself away, for, from the first momett a young rattler enters the world he is independent end eminently able to shift for himself. Each young snake is it full fledged rattler, reedy to hunt and ready to defend, himself with the sting of death. A popular rattlesnake fallacy is that the reptile is of slow growth. Exactly the opposite is the awe. When a young rattler is 10 days old he sheds his first skin. On the eighth day he comes slug- gish and torpid and exhibits symptoms of `wooziness." His skin loses its lus- ter, his eyes are MS if ecreened by a. film and he lies in it tiny spiral, evidently too sick to mote. On the tenth day, however, he awakens an if out of a deep sleep; he crawls out of his skin readily as a hand is drawn out of it loose -fitting glove, end atepears in it bright, new glistening coat, a they eyed, daring youngster. Thereafter, the snake sheds las skin every three months, end with eaah shedding a ring is addea to the nettle, while the reptile itself grows like a, weed. At the ena of the Dint three months a toureeen inch rat- tler will grow ten inches and will inea. Mothers should never give their lit- tle ones a medicine that they do not know to be absolutely safe and harm- less. All so-called soothing medicines contain poisonous opiates that stupefy the helpless little one without curing its ailments. Baby's Own Tablets is the only medicine for infants and young children that gives the mother a posi- tive guarantee that it contains no opiate or harmful drug.. :Milton L. Hersey, M. Se., McGill Umversity, has analyzed these tablets and says: "I hereby cer- tify that I have made a careful analy- sis of Baby's Own Tablets, which I per- sonally purchased in a drugstore in Montreal, and the said, analysis has fail- ed to detect the presence of any opiate or narcotic in them." This means that mothers can give their little one a these Tablets with an assurance that they will do good—that they cannot possibly do harm. The Tablets cure indigestion, col- ic, constipation, diarrhoea, simple fever, teething -troubles and all minor ailments. Sold by druggists everywhere os sent by mail at 25 cents it box, by writing the Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. ; Automobiles as Cures. In England medical men are beginning to look upon the autoinobiles as an ex- eellent aid in the cure of consumption. This is due mainly to the fact that per- sons riding in motors must do so in the open air, the additional advantage be- ing the exhilaration which goes with it. .1ecording to English pbysicians, per- sons suffering from tuberculosis would benefit greatly by sittieg on the fronts seat of an. automobile and riding at least a hundred miles daily. High speed is not so essential, fifteen miles an hour being ample. In such it journey the tnouthfuls of fresh air inhaled by the sufferer would be very beneficial. Of estate, where the patient is weak, such a long journey elunild riot be under- taken, but the distattee travelled could he graattally bacreased as the patieet grows stronger. Sufferers frem en coneuitton are taking to this treatment with much alacrity and it is said that the benefits derived from these motor trips are soon Apparent. localities that suit the patient best should, ef course, be chosen, and beteeti- fel scenery shotild also be taken into eonsideration, ns it will help to take the patient's mind from brooding over his aihnent, and this alone, according to physicians, is itself half a cure. Washington's Rules of Conduct. sure as big an it middle finger. At tale L 'think betote you speak, (Philettelphie. neeerda ski% the first ring is added to the or. 1, Aiwaye epeak the truth. period, with the shedding of tbe seeona wtat.Ittilra Smitnalitainir errictithitutrAtieteht4t 1 to owottikika igiNttvithlebnut2tot:ertatrathoolatitittl adeitliuffitiornathe bfittr:Itc thee the vipet ean "stir" his tattle. 4. I etwer wish to 'promise ttlOrS thig 1 tot grant. reiteliee his inatthity end Measures five lime a moral eertainty ot ortertaing. feet. When 3 years old. the snake is f 4i, igatrti'ZI,tt.al,lAslibut1, `1' *"' full grW on, having attainea a length of t lir Athsreiettlr wrthufirii:11r8iil titeeed eett°171trrGlilt nearly tevert feet, or It trifle beyond. plays in nature tarty not he apparent to our. 'What practical value the rattlesnake rbeettiteersterabeYthswileowthekiltetotiotbstoiet ba ottstoia