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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1905-06-29, Page 3Imitating Aniinal Sounds. Rensarkisbla Instances of 1.4e Of Rare Facelt7., -Alk- The art of dectaying wild animals by boitatioa et their, criea la a very .pritra- tivi °1 4 19.0.,.= 11,-,PX,„selategese 2u ell nountritapstnaies atisAFFe6Maing,.food. Many white melt excel in calling annnala and birds, notably the mole among the Wet auunale, but if inquiry could be carried far enough it would probably be found, writeLieut.-Col. Andrew gags gent in ;Forest and Stream, that the most skillful owe their aptitude in Oda resPeet to the teachings of untutored aavages, whoae lives depend upon the ex- ercise of this gift. .An exception to this origin of the art of calling may perhaps be found la tbe att of using the "Itere-pipe," white), Imi- tated the voice of the bare. This was em- ployed largely in England in medieval timea and was made e. penal offense in somewhat more modern day a when util- 2ed by poachers in the persuit of their nefarious occupation. A young lad lu the wilds of Northern. Manitoba was one of the most reniark- able imitators of animals whom I over met. My young friend had been instruct- ed from his earliest yeuth by a swaxopy Wien in the art, with the result that, at the age of fifteen, he meld call any tame or wild animal about the back woods settlement where he lived. His father, he and I used to drive together out into the prairie to amne rushy la- goons in search of ducks and geese, which abounded. The animals harnessed to the buckboard were mares, each of which bad a foal, and tbese foals used, as a rule, to follow the buckboard, cantering along behind. Never shall I forget my astonishment one evening when, after having driven a few hundred yards from the Hudson Bay Post his father suddenly stopped the mitres saying: "Rae, the foals have stopped behind; call therm" Instantly the lad commenced whinnying exactly hise a snare. He repeated the cry several times, ending up qn each occasion with two or three little natural snorts. The imitation 'was so exact that not only were the foals deceived, and came galloping up to join us but it was Almost impossible to believe that it was not one of the mares that- had called them. One evening when out shooting prairie chickens, night fell upon us before we ght back to the wagon, to the wheels of which we had failed to attach the mares properly. One of them we found close by, a. the other had escaped, and though it was airati wet, misty night, not a sign of her was ' to be seen anywhere. Then It was that the boy's accomplishment proved most useful, for while his father and I re- mained by the buckboard the youth sal- lied Ruth into the foggy darkness -mak- ing a sound to imitate the voice of a foal. He was absent for half an hour, but returned in triumph with the missing snare. The way that boy could also imitate 'ducks and geese was simply marvellous. Well do I remeinber a trick he played one evening in the reeds. He had joined me, unknown to 11;s father, who was standing about fifty yards away in the tall rushes waiting for the wildfoul which did not come. Crouching down by my side, so that be could watch bis parent, the mis- chievous youth several times imitated the cry of Wild geese. At first only the sound of geese at a distance, then he made them seem nearer, ufitil apparently overhead, The aid sportsman was in- stantly on the alert, craning his neck and peering in all directions for the fowl. .At least, frantic at not being able to see them, the old man, shouted out to me, wildly: "Where are the geese? N'trhere are they?" "Here, father," answered the boy, ris- ing from the reeds and bursting into it „ roar of laughter. It was lucky .for him that there was, upon that oceasson, a deep pool between 'him and hi S outraged parent, Which en - ...bled him to make tracks for home be- • fore the old boy could get. around.. ! It was once my lot to come across a illative in quite another part of the world -who possessed similar accomplishments. 3 cannot say that while he was with me alie put them to. any useful purpose al- though he certainly, afforded sweat:mai 'variety and amusement during a trying journey. I was travelling through the Abyssinian province of Logos, with ray Egyptian staff officer, an English ser- vant and it bodyguard of rapscallions, Who called themselves Bashi Bazouks. They were it timid. lot -Abyssinians, IN 'STRICT. CONFIDENCE Women Obtain Mrs. Pinkham's Advice and Help. she Ms Guided ThOusande Eferdth.-, Row Lydia n. riekbseee Vegetable Cert. ponsrd Cured Mrs. rred Soydol. It is a groat aa satisfaction for a, Woman to feel that She can 'write to a.notlier telling her the most private and confidential details about her illness, and know that her letter will be seen by a wo- man only, a wo- man full of sym- pathy for her sick slaters, and above ell, a 'woman who has had more experience in treatiag female ills then any living person. Over one hundred thousand cases of female diseases come before WS. Pink - ham every year, some personally, others by mail, and this has been go- ing on for twenty years, day after day. Surely Wortien are wise in seeking - advice freta a woman of such experi- mate, especially when it is absolutely .1416\ free. . hfra. Pinkham never violates the con- fidence of women, and every teStlidOe nial letter published is done so With the •written consent or request of the eiriter, in order that other sick women may be benefited as they have been, Mrs. Peed Seydel, of 412 North 54th Street, West Philadelphia, ',tritest Dear Mrs. Pinkhara:- " Over a year &gel *rote you aletter salting advice, as I hid female MO mid Could net can/ a child to .Maturity. / received your land kater of instradlons and followed your advice. ant not only Is well woman in tam- sequenes, but have a beautiful baby girl. I wisherery eulfating woman in theland would Writ* you for advieo, be you have done so litrachfor Me," ; Ault 46 surely tin Mit. Seydel was eared. *Al Lydia Ie. Pinkhron's Vegetable _Compound tura every itiotatin erittererinit from any form of female ills, ; No other Medicine in all the World' anols it record of ciireti Of female tretbles as has Lydia E. Pinkhattes Vetetable 6repound. Therefore no pendent Wonsan will tecept any substi• tau yphIdh ttdrttggist triay Offer. r tett aro sick, write Mre. *oat for s ittlidee. It le fletnalaid SAWS .. • Beni Amer Arabs, negroes and all sorts, And A merry, undisciplined crew they were, indeed. The matte that I refer to ; was an Abyseintan, and be was the principal wag, or bufon, -a the crowd. The country 1 was pneaing through Wt e of the wildest desetiption; it was, moreover, full of wild beasts of every kind. Apart from the troops of hideous grimacing, baboon* met with on the cliffs of the rocky passes, there were every- where traces of lions, hyenas, wolves and jackals, and these animals, some of which we SAW daily, used to make night hideous with their horrible howliirge, My retainer, the Abyssinian wag-, however, was not centent with letting us be dis- turbed by the real howlings of the actual wild. beasts, fot he would have his little joke, On several occesioes, 'when we least expected it and were marching along in fume narrow jtingle clad ravine, the whole cavalcade would be stopped by a terrible noise in the thorny bushes, which frightened the horses and camels, and, 'at times, evert the men, At one time it would be a wild dog barkieg _ furiously, at another a hyena howling of leopard snarling, and upon a third occasion a sound would be heard as of two jackals fighting over a carcass. But nothing could be seen. It was not until I had one day discharged both bar- rels of my rifle Into the thick scrub and nearly killed him that I learned the cause of these disturbances by my friend, the buffoon, roaring out to me in Arabic: "Don't shoot any snore, Beta" and then emerging with shouts of laughter, in which he was joined by all my savage following. Having discovered this man's wonderful talent fer mimicking anirnelfs I determined to employ him in a little joke of niyOwn, merely as an act of retributvj e ustce. • Upon one occasion, when we were lying on the sandy bcd of a ravine, a lion bad come roaring around my bivouac at night, when the conduct of my Egyp- tian staff office!, wbo always talked Very big about lions, had not been re. markably courageous.. Thera was net a man among my Bashi Bazouks who did not laugh at Major Mustaphe. Effendi Ite,mzie, but his boasting was incorrigible, I there- fore determined to give him a lesson that night when 'lying on the sand in the Khor Ansaba, width, as he well knew, was a famous place for lions. In fact, before dark, we bad seen their • tracks, old and new, in all directions. First, however, I warned the Turkish sanjak of myrascally bodygaurd te. see well to the picketing of the animals, for I did not wish to lose a horse or camel as the result of a joke. The sanjak, who hated the Egyptian, grinned from ear to ear and gave the necessary orders. After supper as we were sitting by the campfire -in the shade of an overhanging bush covered bank, I led the conversation to the sulaject of lions. The Kg,yptiau officer was boasting, as usual, whea suddenly my English servant who was in the plot, said, as if in alerm, while staring into the thicket: "What's that sound, Mustapha Effendi, Don't you hear something crackling in there? I hope it's not auother lion, for I am not so brave about them as you are." We all listened intently. Ine crackling was plainly heard -it was coming nearer; it did • Y • on might be approaching. We all made ready to rise, but Mus- tapha Effendi was already upon his feet whe.n from the distance of. only about threeyards, • thedarkness, terrifie and deafening roar burst upon the star- tled night, The roar was followed by a horrible gruff cotigh, several• thnes re- peated, which is still more terrible, as it usually precedes a kill. So lionlike was the sound, although expecting it, I was momentarily alarm- ed myself and grasped my revolver. Oth- ers seized their weapons also, for it seemed impossible that such a volume of sound could come from any throat hut that of the veritable. kb:1g of beasts. In the meantime where was the great lion slayer, Mustapha Effendi Itanazie? The sound' of flying net rattling over the gravelly bed of the Khor was all that was .left of him now. . So,:we sent the lion in pursuit, which was continued with roar after roar, the sound reverberating on the cliffs and dy- ing away in the darkest recesses of the ravine. Meanwhile every soul in• camp was convulsed :with laughter, as the men poured theie favorite- "tedge" down their throats and. dunk to the courage of Egyptian Staff off icer, But now comes the point of my story. This prac- tical joke eame Very near ending tragi- cally for either the pursuer or the pur- sued, for suddenly at- no great distance up the lion renowned Khor Allstate, was heard an answering roar, and thou an- other, nearer at band. A real lion had taken up the challenge, and it was now our turn to be *nisei. Seizing breads from the fire and firing off rifles as we went a party of us rushed up the rocky defile after the two men; the rest, by my order, rushed to guard the picketed animals, for there was no knowing how many of the braes might be about, and lions often roar on purpose to make the terrified animals break away and then seize them. The reports of the rifles, the shouts and above all the roaring of the read lion, had soon had their effect ii causing the flying staf f off leer to halt terror stricken between, as he imagined, two Iconic foes and the sham lion to come back faster then he went, with all the rear taken out of him. Fortunately by the time we reached poor Mu.stapa, to find him petrified with fear, the hubbub made by the relieving forte had driven tbe which had been all too suceessfully "called" back to tho. fast/leases of the bins. From that time forward the erestfal,. len staff officers never mentioned the word lion, but the Abyasinian wag, whosie imitative slcill had called something nitre tangible thee. spirits from the - Vasty deep, from the -dark reeesses of the mountains beraine the hero of the expedition. IP YOUR DOG GOBS MAD. Rabies, aeording to reports, has had all unusual prevalence this spring. Sonic twenty cases have given ma a Chance at observation in two or three dog hos. pita% and kennels. in view of prevalent beliefs, it is tut - ions that I can discover but on ease whieh resulted front a bite. Nearly all of the °there preceded from obseare or unknown enlists. One Boston terrier de. voloped the disease in a kennel of forty dogs, where she had been for a month. There had tweet broil a ease in the ken- nel via none of the other dogs have Manifested symptoms skied. The one symptom whieh seems to he universal is a complete change of eliar- tutor and it dispoAtion snap and bite at. the dog's best friends. I watelied an infected poodle for a Nig time one day, and eould not soil tht ho had any ConSelensziesa of what he was doing. A piece of straw !ay across bit 'eyeball without apparently him any sea. sation whatever. In the hospitals, the brains of some of theee dogs were examined after death, and the microscope disclosed a cellular degeneration which the medical profee, mon reptile as typical of rabic*. These recent casee still leave the celiac and character of rabies obscure. As I understood it, no biologist bag yet elated the microbe of "hydropbobie." or discovered a specific anti -toxin. Whether the Pasteur treatment is really a speci- fie I doubt. It may be a reliable' preven- tive, and at any rate, ought to be tak- en by every human being who has been bitten by a mad. dog, or exposed to cloee contact. If it dog becomes morose and abnormal in action, he should be completely leo- listed for observation; or, still better, at once killed. There is certainly enough of danger from this disease, or group of diseases, to justify bowie immures at the first alarm. --Joseph A. Graham/ in Juno Outing. WORK -WORN MEN Can Obtain NOW Health and, Strength Through Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mr. Edgard Martel, 08 St. Peter street, Quebec; is one of the thous, ands of workingmen throughout Can- ada who cheerfully admit that they age ! kept itt health and strbregth through the use cif Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. To the reporter who interviewed bin, Mr. Martel said: 'The present con- dition of my health contrasts strikingly with what it was nine months age. Thou I felt ODA I was almost at death's door, while now I am strong and well , This happy change is entirely due to Dr I Williams' Pink Pills. 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Louis, ze04. 1 ++4+++4+ ++4 +++++++++++i -e+ JILTED, Edith Melville-22-ablond, pretty and faecivating. Bobby Melville--5--ber small brother. Captain Roy Featherstone -43 *for- merly engaged to Miss Melville. Captain Featherstone, who is walking along the street, feeling very disconso- late, suddenly encountera Bobby Mel- ville svho is out with his nurse. Captain F.-1Iello 13olebyl How are you? Boblay-Oh, Captain Perverstonel ever so pleased, to aee you. I'm having sty to -day. - I Captin F.*Tliat's great, And am I go- , ingto be invited tobelp out the birthday • 1, cake? 1 Bobby (enthwilastreally)-Why, of course! Come along back wiv nowl Captain F. -tall ri Bobb 1 What's t Norse Seacraft. Some years ago I was approaching the rocky coast of Norway in a barque -rig- ged ship. As it was blowing a heavy gale and as the sea ran high the captain de- termined to take shelter in the inner fiords. But to slip between inumerable rocky islets and over others. only just 1 submerged, ealed for the knowledge of it t pilot, and for 4 pilot, accordingly, we signaled. I In about an hour's time an open boat , was seen approching, lifting and drop-. ping over the high running seas, and as I we soon saw, manned by two young Nor- wegians and. steered by the isnot . we sought. The boat was not more than , 'eighteen feet long and her low freeboard , seeined level with the wateis amidships. It was a marvel that such a beat could live in such a sea. But the greater mar- vel was how 'the pilot gout(' sboard us as we rolled heavily to larboard and. to• 1 starboard with our main yatds all aback. Still more surprised was I when I saw a rope reeved through a block at the yardarm and paid at and thrown to- ward the boat, which did not dare come toe near to us. After a few niinutes the, men s'eeured the rope, and quiekly mak- ing a bowline or loop at the end of it the pilot put it arounclable body, and, standing up in the tossing boat, prepared to jump. The next montent we rellea away to le'ewerd and our yardmen was fifty feet nearer the sky. looked again. The pilot hail jumped. He was coming fast toward es, suspended, high .4.1 mid-air. But be- fore he could be swung on deck our ship had reeovered herself and was now roll- ing toward him, and he fell with a hollow thud against her side, thence to fall the neat, moment into the boiling surf. A few seconds of suspense and then once more 'we rolled. to leeward, and this time with such a force and at such an angle that the &amass Norwegian eitme flying up ward through the air and high over our bulwarks, wher'e, after colliding with the rigging, he dropped down to an, expectant group of seldom who caught Ima In their arms. With a huge laugh he made his way up to the bridge: wiped away the blood that was ittreariung down his face, shouted a Scandinavian farewell to his eonirades in the tossing shallop, and then turned, to the captain and his business. - London Express,. Tee Buttereup. 1 Where is there purer gold? The Latin name is ranunctiins adrift. "Buttercup" is properly Wee Oro*, foot. tloldeups is one of its numerous' • names. Ringseups is one of Its very pretty Dames. The bulbous- buttercup is one of the earlier rarities. Agriculturists hate the gay buttercup as inbuell thp daisy. Cattle let the 'buttercup severely alone as much as the daisy. Childien should not put the sterna in their mouths, blisters being it probable =sal t. Children teet that fondness for but- tereiip.by holding the shining flower un- der their Creeping buttereutis forming in:kites in field% and roadsides arc found chiefly in our Eastern States. The swanip buttercup' is it entooth, spreading beauty that avrariget her gold- en satin in niarelies and meadows, Old-ccaintry beggars are Arad to hawk lipta the juke of the stem ri.ua leaVeS to prodnee soros on their tkin. sixty species of 'Ascots end more de - Mit sistinplug the buttercup's itWeetti, end unwittingly /Mist In spreading ite beau t iee. l'onnunittst of the early buttrreum Is tin titftOtt et/poi/ie. bleciMe all the way air Toots to Manitoba and -often comes out here m lovely "April fool." ethiloecoztetrehwi1th our Ya box of Bobby -b, thank you ever so much, Captain Fevaerstone. (The chocolates are duly purchased, and Bobby conies out of the shop hold. - ng *ea ierstone's bane.) i r ti Captain F. -And how are they all at home, Bobby? Bobby -Oh, the mater's all right, thank you, Captain Fevverstone, Captain P. (with elaborate careless- ness)s-Ahl And your aister? Is she all right? Bobby- Well, sister's been having headaches this morning; an' I fink her eyes looked rather cry-baby, too! Captain I?. (With sudden interest) - By Jove. I'm awfully sorry to hear that. 1 hope she's not ill? Bobby (cheerfully)- Oh no. She's math' to my birthday party this after- noon, any how; so you'll be able to ask her how she is. (While the tea party is in full swing, Captain Featherstone contrived to get Miss Melville, with whom he has only exchanged very chilly greetings, iato a secluded corner, where the following en- sues): Edith ( with dignity) -Really, Caps tain Featherstone, I am surprised to see you here after what occurred yester- day! Captain F. (weakly) -The fact is, Bobby dragged me here, and I couldn't arery well escape. Edith (sarcastically) -0f, course. Put all the blame on a child five years old. Captain O. (penitently) -Well, Pm aw- fully sorry if I've really done wrong in coming here to -day. Edith (scornfully) -If you've really done wrong, indeed. Didn't I tell you yesterday that I hoped never to set eyes on yoa again? Captain F. (sadly) -Yeas you certain- ly said so. • Edith -And yet you have the aud- acity to Come and force yourself upon me in this way? Captain F. (coldly) -Pardon me. I ac- cepted a very hearty levitation from your brother Bobby to come to tea with him. Edith (ironically) -Ohl Then it was solely a, desire for Rebby'e society that brought you here this afternoon? Captain F. (quietly) -Certainly. What des* did you Imagine? Edith (fiercely) -You know perfectly well that yoiz mme here simply bemuse you` thought your presence would be distasteful to me. Captain F. (with feigned astonish- ment) -My dear Miss Melanie, I assure you that nothing could be further from my intentions. 'When a man has been heartlessly jilted one day he does not generally spend the next longing for the society of the lady who has treated him so abominably. .... Edith (smiling in spite of berself)- No, perhaps not, but he seems to enjoy having an opportunity of saying rude things to her. Captain F. -Rudeness is proverbially catching; and he was exposed to it good deal of the contagion yesterday. Perhaps the microbes have developed already. Edith (bitterly) -1 think you are per- fectly borrid, Captain Iseltherstone. Captain 1. (ealnily)-You will find Miss Melville, aa you grow older, and have a little more experience, that being jilted very seldom tends to bring out inan's most fascinating qualities. Edith (peevishly) -That's the eecond time you have used that horrid word. Captain P. (innocently) -What, jilted? Well, isn't that the right one? , Edith (deeidedly)---No, certainly not. Captaie F. (composedly -Then, in that cast I am still engaged to yon? Edith (hastily). -Ort no account. We broke it off' by mutual consent. Captain F. (eagerly)-13itt I didn't do any consenting. Edith -Well, anyhow', you lost your tem. ain Ir..(ealmly).-011. theta mine another matter. However, if I really did, 1 ought, ot teturse to apologize tom- it. Edith (penitently) ---Well, if it come • .._ .8 to that, I was perfectly horrid, so we are about quits. Captain F. -Then we part on quite amicable terms? Edith tsweetly)-011 yes, it you, like, Captain F.-Antl, you will always be a sister to me? Ettith (sloubtfully)-Y-ayes, if you apurelylike. ett ptain F. -Then suppose you give incsisterly kis,just to Am that It is all right. Edith (firmly) ---Certainly not. Captain P. -Then I shall have to take it. Edith (feebly) -But people will see, Captain la (helping himself)- There, Editli (blushing). --Oh, Boy. - Captain F. (teat,ing)-Nnoiw,i ecornylensgs. that • • Edith --Nothing of the kind. (Vindic- tively). I suppose that little beast, Bob- by, bass been giving Inc (sway. Captain F, -Don't let us abuse Bob- by, dearest; he is a little brick, and has made a happy man of me !again. Edith -Wore you so very nuserable, • Roy, • Captain F. -Yes, dearest; you've no idea how pirfectly beastly it feels to be • jilted. (Curtain) -Modern Society. — HE When re Attacks Vessels : - +4 TeStW.7....OftRenDFIIC S Angered and Boats. when angered the swordfish owing to its great strength and terrible weapon, is able and anxious to inflict serious damage upon Its persecutors. Many instances have been reported where it has attacked vessels and boats. In 1871 the English ship aueene- 11;.erlerreytrztmeruck_ by.a awerdfieh, the sword Ing leak which made necessary the the- e a awn as thirty manes, cans- 'obarge oS the cargo. One of the Gloucea- ter fishing schooners, while on a trip to George's Ilanke in 1876, was attacked by fiwordfish in the nighttime, He assailed the VeSSOi great force,and succeeded in putting tie sword through one of the planks some two feet, and after making fearful struggles to extricate hinaselt, broke the sword off, leaving It hard and fast in the plank, and made a speedy departure. Even with the sword in the vessel leaked badly, requiring pretty live- ly pumping to keep her tree. The brig I'. M. Tinker In 1516 was struck by a swordfish. The sword penetrated the copper sheathing, a four -inch birch plank, and through the timbers about six inches. The crew had to pump steadily until port was reached. In September, 1903, the Gloucester fishing schooner Emily Cooney had an exciting en- counter with a swordfish. While going through the South Channel three -swordfish were spied, and the vessel ran down ateong them and one was harpooned. Immediately another monster fish appeared. At first he made off at a tangent from the craft, and then, as if angered, turned, aud with a ter- rific rush, made direct for the vessel, Ile first tried to reach the man in the "pulpit," but, being unable to do so, he charged at the vessel, and. diving about three feet be- low the surface, struck the craft with such force that the sword penetrated the two atul one-half inch plauk In tbe ceiling and a foot of the blade was broken off. The blow was felt all over the vessel. One of the crew below had just moved from where he was sitting, and a moment later the sword was driven directly through the spot where he sat. The veesel began to leak, aad the cap- tain decided to run for port. Whoa pet on the marine railways It was found that the plank pierced by the sword had been badly shattered. Boston is the chief market for swordfish, although New York is hennas more and more each year as the taste for the fish de- velops. It is cut up into steaks, which retail pound,smuee, atchceorfdliensgh the fsruppmply8. t°W2i0theeanlaood cellent, but without this It Is vary dry. The Marketmen claim that It is at Its best as an article of food when It has been on the ice at least two weeke..7-te; Y. Tribune. Automatic Flogging. The spanking machine has been used in farce comedy as a mirth provoker, but the flogging machine now adopted in the Russian army' is a more compli- cated and serious affair. The whipping has always been done by other soldiers under the command of an ofiefer and the punishment, has varied according to the feeling of the soldier toward his victim. The new machine is automatic in its action, and as soon as the culprit is fastened in position a spring is tighten- ed or loosened to gauge the exact force of the blow. A pointer is moved over a dial to the requisite number of' strokes and the mechanism is started, With perfect regularity the vietim's back is scouraged by the thongs, the handle of tbe Whip being moved by a screw device after each stroke so that the lash does not fall upon the same spot throughout the punshment. Each blow is of uniform severity and as soon as the required number have been given the machine conses to rest and the offender is released., with the assur- ance that the exact punishment ordered has boen meted out to him. Job 'Worth the Getting. The Speakership of the House of Ctreemone Rs a good job. with his salary of $23,000 year, it carries the nute 0? 5 magnificent residence i tithe Palace of westantester, over- lorldne the Tbeine-, and various allowances, PorqUisites and pr,rogatIves. And when the holder retires, or is retired, be drops into A comfortable pension of $30,000 a year for the remainder of his life and a peerage. William Gully. the Speaker who has just retlred--a grandson, by the way, of a boxing expert, boolunaker and Derby winner celebrated in his day -nose enters upon the enjoyment of these pleasant things. They treat their ex- etattismen more geuerouely over them than io ae ours. Let Libby Serve Your Soup hi'oreato, lullenne, Co/Isom/no, Chicken, 14111110taivrket, or Otkill will Please the moot lasfidious. They are meekly preeared-delicioua to eataalwayt eatisfactasy. Leihby's (rrtgz, Food Products Corned Beef Ho.sh itotieferk§ Chlokett Viatina Sialinage Ox TOnitttea Sattpla Hato Loaf Year Girocomiuts theta Li Irv, Monein & tabbvo Chiesfie 'TradeRevival in West +++++++++++-44++4,-+++++++4++4+1+++*4+-f+4++ (337 John Henderson.) evening, are the life and soul of the There are many signs that the finan- , course. It IA to pis their appleteet vial conditions of the Wanda are ira- that the black jockeys put all they.know preying, and that commercially the into their riding and to gain them *4 - West aldrieleehaares dtheeeitin we derr beagAnei tbsw- ingirtaattlioonnsthoatt rtlignhgl.baericceballeeokflauddoninctsweapn. abolition of the Blew) trade and the in- dPaunPdery loeiggtitee- cotorelrol rdeuriukisdulater4 troduction of free trade in sugar. Ind and timber and. tobacco, as well thing that one never sees itt Eogland. as sugar and A buudred other things, In this country it ie probable that he will bring back the, wealth and pOwer would be 04 object scorn and denten which, truth to tell, as be.en lost V/ I but Jamaica. be Is it very greet Fer- tile Caribbean group by he Inertia of Bout Indeed. Ile has no retleienee ived the planters and the want of eeterprise 'there is no modesty. in his demeanor, in the commercial men. The islands have 1 -le is publicly and immoderately proud, never lacked natural wealth end an and. hie ttut and swagger woulul do ere. abundance of raw material. Oilly the dit to a German cavalry subaltern. palm of trade lia.5 been lacking. Until Of course, the white man does Apt Infat very recently West radians chsplayed no with people suci as tide. Your dandy signs of being able to help themselves, can not afford the price of the grand. But. the influence of traders from more stand, besides, he prefers to be in the prosperous countriee, American as well es crowd among women of his own type British, has stirred the people out of and eolor_ their lethargy, and nowadays the Antil- Just as it was in the days of old, when mereial revival. lean islands show every sign of a coui- itvhiewiweeoatithErsgof4tnhde lanuddiesiaifaastchineattoedult It is curious that these beautiful West tions of the fortunes of famine., who Indian countries, postgaising as they do have long ceased to remember the origin a perfect elbuate mat a most abundant of their rielseS, mo it tvtil be again in the wealth, should basse so, long remained near future, when strong young men go commercially stagnant. English ema out to the west to find new Immesh wad grants have not considered the Indies in fteabeewo jowafiontiaolionsrdroofnwyeseswvitlweirebduaeltyaharnqweaesslhunawshAerue- their calculations as to the advantages ylenregambanY wthhoe lovoakrsi °aulssr abroad flioiresf oral ee find i ef thatodothivgm eearoirbethanbeanuisslarsoyinarge teerith world. with sugar and rum. In Jamaica and Trinidad and Barbados and the net pople will find a climate and a beauty indescribable. They will see all the glories and wonders of the tropics without the inconveniencee travelling in countries where life is cheap and laws upheld only at the re- volver mouth. In any of these Bran West Indiaii colonies life is as safe and peaceful as it is in it little village itt the Surrey hills. Yet all the places are tropical and all are filled with, that wild luxuriance of blossom and foliage width is only found in lands that are near the line which marks the centre of the world. thinks only of Africa, Australia, Canada or America and usually it is us one or other of these places that he elects to settle, though it is doubtiul whether the islands do not offer hina chances of prizes grecit'er than any to be found in the other coloniesa,It can be said of no country in the world s that it is more beautiful than Janatica'S it can be said of few, if any, that they are richer. True, there is no gold, no great mineral wealth, but there are the soil and the climate, the rich forests and richer v,alleys. There are the sugar pla.ntations, tbe fruit gar- dens, the tobaceo fields and the cattle pens, There are the cities also which, oven to -day, are not too well stacked with merchants. Alert men make money quickly in these islands; not so guiehly as those lucky adventurers who find po- tato -sized diamonds and rich gold "pock- ets," perhaps, but quickly enough, and hunger is a thing almost unknown even to the poorest West Indian negro. The fields and the hedges provide rich fruits -the banana, the orange and the mango, and in the towns fruit enough to last it man a whole day can be purchased for a copper coin. DANGEROUS DIARRHOEA Prevalent in Sommer Months— What a Mother Should Do. Children are mare likely to be attack - white Inan ' ihsedoublyd dill.rrit°63. Ione of the most dangerous symptoms of centre of a lovely garden which is always during the • summer In Jamaica the life of the /bile ar obaldheogrf any a • Is almost ideal. If he is a planter, he i nwotils 11080 talBut arr last than at any other season. It is imoea lives in a substantial house built in the aflame with the most brilliant flotvers in the world. He bas a saddle horse and. a le symptom, not a disease. Never try to of the decayed food -stuffs in them. Dial -- buggy, and he will find a club in the stop dieatrroher, beeaus :hi: t it easis anandeffgo:rttr% rhoea is bad -but things would be worse nearest town • (which -cannot be many i for the child if diarrhoea didn't eame. miles distant) and, all the English sports men, though he may Dever make money i at hand, Though lit may not be a rich I enough out of his plantation to return While a another should never try to stop to the old country or purchase a landed diarrhoea, she should stop the cause. estate, he will never want for comforts 1 Diaa.th°ea 12 a ETIMP,t0M of ialligeetion or ordinary luxuries. hexing set up decay in'time food that le I have heard it said, and I believe it to' , l's the bowelsand the way to cure it s be true, that in these islands a man with' t , o cleanse the little tender bowela with. a capital of 41,000 can, when he has I ., Baby's Own Ta.blets. It would aeem strange to trewt diarrhoea, with a laxa- gained a thorough knowledge of practical ' planting, make an income of £...500 or tive, if we didn't remember the muse cfl Xri00 a year. It has been well. said by it it..remelts of indigestion assuming diffor- Both diarrhoea and eonstipation are man of considerable experience: "Send to the rem Jamaica 1,000 strong Britons, each with ant forms, and both are cured by Baby's: il capital of £1,000, and in ten years the Own Tablets. But the Tablete are eters island will be numbered among the most thaa a mere laxative. They are abse- prosperous countries in the world." lately a specific for all the minor ills Indeed, Jamaica is a happy little place. that come to infanta and young ehil- The sun is always there and the thous- elven,. whether a new-born babe or a boy and rivers which dance along the moun- Or girl ten or twelve years. Here's it tain slopes and. flow swiftly through the bit of proof: Mrs. Geo. McGregor, thing he had diarrhoea, wee very valleys toward. the sea, always suggest Hamilton, Ont., says: "When •rog• baby pleasant music and healthfulness. The was tee cross and did not sleep well. I gave him negro workers are a merry people. They laugh at their work and on their way to Ba,by's Owh Tablets, and there was no laare trouble. 1 DOW alwaya give hint work; ;they laugh when they go home to bed and when they rise in the morn- the 'Tablets when heehas nylittle ail- , big. The men laugh and the children are anent, and be is soon better.' At this as merry as birds in summer time. It is a season no mother should, be without almost impossible to be unhappy in the Baby's Own Tablets in the house- You : place. ean get them from medicine dealers or Ae you walk along the country roads lay nlail at 25 eerits a box by wittng each bunch of natives stops and smiles the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Broek- ing, You see the market women swing - at you and returns your friendly greet- villa, Ont. WILLS EIS LAND TO SATAN. — t . ; ing along under the weight of their heavy head -burdens. They are the most graceful walkers in the world. Though to Citizen of Finland Leaves All His Pos- sessions to the Evil (Inc. a white man a Begro woman can never There is only one spot on the earth's no more graceful walker in the world than the common negro market woman - seem beautiful, it is a fact that there is surface that 1111E3 actually been willed, men folk. Alas! it must be admitted majesty. This spot lies four iniles and they are idlers compared with the Ivo- deeded and bequeathed to his sa.tanie The colored men pass you, too, but that. in the West Indies the women are . tew years ago Lara Huilarieue died iit a half south of Helingsfors, Finland. A. the willing workers; the men for the - most part prefer to loll under the shade leaving consider - es in the city rum -bars. II1 the eitlea above-named country, of the hedges or sit about on the bench, the little town of Pielisjarvi, in the e property in the shape of landed bl of West India you will find types of a est t How he had come. into possession of so an neg,ro. But most of all you will find a e' almost every rate and tribe of the Afrie. muck land no one seemed to know, but came originally from the country behina the blaek rnan whose father's father as he was a bad citizen it was generally the Gold. Coast or along the banks o.t admitted that he was in league with the Congo river. It may be that mos of them inherit all etc froliogs and weak. n wintalmnsu (Satan) and that they had many nesses of the Africasavage, but though business deals with each other. they are not too anxious to work at all, ahs somewhat startling opinion was per. a certified warranty deed was found 'verified when atuong oia Huilatiene's pa - they make good enough laborers if they which deeded to Satan all his earthl ate fereed to earn their daily bread. possessions. The will was to the same ton who might just AS easily be seen The West Indian white man Is a Bri- y ef fThcete family. has repeatedly tried to walking about the tea plantations in break the will, but so far has been toe distant Ceylon, His face is very browa succeseful. Thus the records show that or else e, deep mahogany red; in• the his snlphurie majesty bas e legal right eountry he wears a slouch hat and walks and title to some excellent ground in the only when it is impossible for him to near vicinity of Velsingfors. The Simple get his saddle horse or buggy. But in the cities lit is partieular about the cut of his coat and the condition of hit linen. people of the neighborhood have changed .As a rule he is a heavy. cigar smoker t d the collage ef the road which formerly and he is the mo3s,totihoesopmithe bal6eronissanhitskirted, the Itunarienhonieldead find e. the world. If i elare that they would not enter the pos. at his house you Will find it difficult to ts17a8tki.nlise °Aug- :et asnt States eCs ow. foonriactibl rtihrieg.money tear yourself away even though tbe man i1,..-...-_- s a stranger to you. if you go to etop with him for a day you will probably Good Advice Boiled Down. gilaryIand llaettsta find it impoasible to got away =der it fortnight. You will find that your host lillilicier'tilfrIttttigerit!, °11‘ is a pretty good hand at golf, pigebta ma toe, walk more. shooting, cricket, tennis or billiards, and metro less, bathe mom there will uever be any teasels for you :t1;:r1 Vs: work 1%16 7: to tompiain of dullness. Preach Issa, practice more. ' There Is no keener spertstaart in the as • • world than the West Indian planter. -Though the islands eau /tot boaat the , possession of any famous racing stork the horsee and ponies make it fair shoat at meetings held by the Royal Jamaican Turf elttla The btilliante of a West le- dian rilee Crew'', is extraordinary. Though the white erowd in and about the stand does not differ greatly from a similar crowd at Epsom, the colored people tvito line the rails which guard the ineiteured mile, make a scene which is not 'may to forget. The eostinnee of the black and the nearly black women are always brilliant, the pieture hats, the gaudy parasols and the -colored baudkerchiefe ' are things it ts impossible even for it mart to forget. These Women, staid and ptito on the morning of the tate day, ex- cited wed tontewhat disheveled in the, afternoon Lila frankly abandoned in the '