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People called 11302 iour Wizeird • because his flour wes
so strong -the Bente stuck through the generations. Belton
now call me ' Flour Wizard' after they have used
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SOME 1910 SUGGESTIONS.
Resolved to be courageous rather than
kind. Many friends will reveal your
kindness, and it may be that numerous
enemies will prove your courage.
Resolved not to gossip. The best
defence against gossip is to fill your
mind with higher and better things,
to keep your brain and your hands busy
with useful and ennobling work.
Resolved to be sympathetic,. Sym-
pathy is often better than comfort. The
beat sympathy is often votheless-the
pressure of a hand, the tear -brimming
look that says, "1 oannot speak, but I
have heard."
Resolved not to be envious. The
envious man is in pain on all omissions
whioh ought to give him pleasure. The
relish of his life is averted; and the
objects which administer the highest
satisfaction to those who are exempt
from this passion give the quickest
pangs to persons who are subject to it.
All the perfeciions of their fellow -
creatures are odious. Youth, beauty,
valor and wisdom are provocations of
their displeasure. What a wretched
state is this -to be offended with excel-
lence and to hate a man because we
approve him!
Resolved to be honest of purpose.
.A man's greatness lies not in wealth
and station, as the vulgar believe, nor in
Ilia intellectual capacity, whioh is often
associated with the meanest moral char-
acter, the most object sarvility to those
in high placate and arrogance to the
poor and lowly; but a man's true great-
3letei lies in the consciousness of an hon.
est purpose in lire, founded on a jest
estimate of himself and his surround-
ings, on frequent self-examinations and
a steady obedience to the rules whioh he
knows to be right, without troubling
himself what others may think tar say or
whether they do or do not that whioh
he thinks and says and does •
The Pranks of a Pig,
Great 'amusement, and not a little
consternation was caused in the Llan-
gollen district of Wales by the perform-
ances of a sow sold at the recent Christ-
mas Fair. It was one of the largest ani-
mals ever seen in the town, being fully
as high as an ordinary calf. After the
sale the sow was placed in a cart, and
the purchaser set off for his home five
miles distant. When at Glyndfrdwy he
Given Up To Die
No. foo George St., Sorel, Quebec.
-"I suffered from womb disease for seven
years, with dreadful pains over the front
of the body, over the back and down
the legs. I had indigestion andahronic
constipation and the constipation was
so bad that I went sometimes for ten to
-fifteen days without any action of the
bowels. I was ill in bed for one whole
year. At one time I was so low that
everyone thought I was going to die,
and the last Rites of the Church were
administered to me. I was treated by
six different doctors without any benefit.
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Then t got a sample of "Fruit -a -fives,"
but I had no faith in them at all, and I
would not'have taken them only my
husband begged so hard for me to try
them. As soon es 1 began to take
"Pruit-a-tives" grew better, the
bloating was relieved, the sleeplessness
was cured, tny stomach acted, and the
bowels were moved, but above all the
fearful womb pains were made easier.
I have taken eighteen bores in all
Mid 1 am now perfectly well agaisi."
(Signed) MAnAleut JOSEPH pritzivrE,
beac-6 for $240 -or trial box 250.
-at deaters ar froth Pruitersetive3
/qiniited, Ottawa.
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halted to do business t$t the railway eta-
tion, tethering his horse outside. When
he returned he found the rope whioh
bound the sow gnawed through and the
animal flown. For several days the
animal terrorized the locality. It held
up pedestrians in country lanes, rushed
wildly through village streets, and made
we ird appearanoee in graveyards.
Tired out at last the flighty pig was
found slumbering peacefully in its old
sty at Garth, ten miles from where it
broke loose.
Two Kinds of People.
There are only two kinds of people in
the world -the people who live in the
shadow and gloom and those who live
on the sunny side of the street. These
shadowed ones are sometimes called
,pessimists; sometimes, people of melan-
choly temperament; sometimes they
are called disagreeable people; but,
wherever they go, their ,ohmstoteristio is
this -their shadow always travels on
before them. These people never bear
their own burden, but expose all their
wounds to others. They are all so busy
looking down for pitfalls and sharp
stones and thorns on which to step that
they do not even know that there are
stars in the sky. These folks live on
the wrong side of the street. And yet
it is only twenty feet aoross to the other
sidewalk, where sunshine always lies.
-Newell Dwight Hillis. .
What Yeomen Were.
Yeomen were formerly considered to
be by their title on a level with es-
quires, and they were called yeomen
because, in addition to the weapons
proper for close engagements, they
fought in the wars with arrows and a
bow which was made of yew; hence
the word. After thea conquest the
name of yeoman, in reference to the
original office in war, was changed to
that of -archer. The term, however,
was continued with additions -the yeo-
man of the crown, of the cliatiaber,
yeoman usher, etc. -and we find that
considerable grants were bestowed on
some of them. In the legal view a
yeoman is defined to be one that has
tee land of the value of 40 shillings a
year and is thereby qualified to• serve
on juries, to vote for knights of the
shire and to do any other act which
the maw may require. The yeomen al-
ways took a leading part in whatever
concerned the regulations or interests
ot the kingdom, and their renown as
warriors is fully established by their
numerous heroic acInevencents.-Lon-
don Globe.
Insects and Flowers.
Experiments on showy` flowers like
the poppy tend to show that insects
are not always attracted to flowers by
the brightly colored petals, but rather
by the perception -doubtless by means
of smell -that there is honey or pollen.
In these experiments the unopened
Hower bud is inclosed in a gauze net
so as to protect it from insects, and
when it eipands the petals are care-
fully removed without touching the re-
maining parts with the fingers (for
bees avoid a flower if tbe smell of hu-
man fingers is left on it), and the petal -
less flowers receive practically as
many insect visits as Untouched flow-
ers do.
Hee Complexion.
e once knew a woman who quar-
reled with her complexion. At one
time she touched it up so much that
it beennie touchy. At another time it
was beyond the pale. Occasionally it
broke out and became very tiery. But,
however much she quarreled with it,
she was always ready to make it up,
A Merger.
Regular Customer -There Used to be
two or three little bald spots on the
crown Of my hedd, away back. Are
they there yet'?
Garber -No, sir; It ain't so bad .as
all that Where those spots used to
be, sir, there's only one now.
A Hoed One.
"When," he demanded, "Will you PO
'his bill?"
Sinning, we Waved him toward our
eolettere.
"You inuet nek." tve said, "the nee-
zio edi ter."-Exe no.
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CREAKOWEST
IMPLOIVIACY.
A Vague Threat That Meant Nothing,
but Brought Quick Results.
The late Lunl Salisbury some years
ago sent a foreign Anse emissary to
make some (Jemmies of a South Amer-
ican republia Before setting out on
liis mioluu We emissary, to whom his
lordship had explained the exact na-
ture of the demailds, desired to be in-
formed as to the course to take if,
after he had said everything, there was
a refusal.
"Oh," answered Lord Salisbury, "this
ie not a matter in which we have the
least thought of fightiug! if the pres-
ident refuses, why, you will simply
have to come home again."
The emissary went and bad bis say
to the president ot the republic, who
lankly refused to give in, and the.
diplomat retired to think things over.
A f
ne wbours later he wrote to the pres-
d et:
"1 regret that your excellency does
not see your way to recognize the just-
ness of the claims which I have had
the honor to present. I have now to
say, on behalf of her Britannic majes-
ty's government, that unless your ex-
cellency yields on all points which I
have named it will be my painful duty
to act on the second half of my in-
structions:1
Under this vague and significant
threat the president yielded at once. -
London Telegraph.
HAUNTED. ALASKAN ISLAND.
Ghosts of Russian Exiles Who Died of
Starvation or Torture.
To the south and west of Kodiak,
distant about 100 miles and forming
one of the Semidi group, is' the island
of Chirikof, the haunted island of
Alaska.
Enshrouded for a great portion of
the time with almost impenetrable fog,
this lonely isle is an object of terror to
the natives, who claim it is haunted
by the ghosts of Russian exiles.
The natives will not go near the is-
land, saying It means certain death to
invade the canny confines, and there,
are few men in the far north who have
the temerity to test the truth of the
many and weird tales told of this for-
bidding and barren island.
Shipmasters and sailors passing the
place assert that the agonizing cries of
Russian exiles sent there to starve or
die by torture are sometimes heard
on quiet nights, while the clink of
chains and the sound of blows are tes-
tified to in an affidavit by a white man
who once attempted to remain there
for a 'week and who nearly lost his
reason. -Tanana Tribune.
The Noise Habit.
A personal experience first showed
the writer the possibility of a state of
affairs where the habit of noise could
become as fixed as the habit of a drug.
Waking one night in the• quiet of a
country house far from other habita-
tions, I suddenly beard the starting of
the hot air engine Which pumped -tbe
water -chug, chug, chug, chug. I lay
listening to its monotonous vibrations
and wondering at the unusual hour
for pumping; until I fell asleep. The
next night the sound was repeated.
On mentioning the matter to my host
he confessed that he could not sleep in
the quiet of the country; that the sud-
den change from the roar of a great
-city to the silence of the woods was so
great as to cause him real suffering.
As his only way to rest he would,leave
the house in the middle of the night,
start up the pump and, lying down in
a nearby hammock, find sleep brought
him by the lullaby ot the hot air en-
gine. That man recognized that he had
the noise habit and finally conquered
it-Efollis Godfrey in Atlantic,
Oddly Named.
A Mr, Hudson, who had made a
large fortune as 0 deetist, had built a
Very expensive country house near
Dublin, but of such an extraordinary
eonitruction as to bid defiance tO the
criticism of the architect.
One day after dinner at Curran's this
singular mansion became a subject of
Merriment for his guests. The question,
for their satirical inquiry was, "What
Was its order of architecture'?" One
said it certainly was Greelan, another
contended it was Saxon and a third
that It was oriental, when their host
thin interposed:
"Bzcuse me, gentlemen, you are all
wrong, It Is Tusk -un. Pratt the
ir-
regularities of the mansion and hienfl
its prOprietor being a dentist the Irish
call it Snaggletooth Hall:" -London An-
swers.
FOOTBALL TANGLES.
Queer Situations That HAW!Ostlai0P4id
OP the gridiron.
In the fall ot 1809 Young, the Cot.,
aeil quarterback, received a bad bump
the head during the first halt of
vae of the early games and VOW so
dazed, that he gave the signal for the
same play eight times in succession.
'Vbe rivet elevea, unable to coroprai
hend such generalship, or, rather, lack
of it, became just as bewildered as'
We injured qUerterbacie and in the ef-
rort to understand the unintelligible let
the ()omen backs through for a telliek
toucbdowe.
Tile calling out of numbers while the
0111)0Stog quarterback is trying to give
bis team the signal for the next play
has resulted in numerous tangles. In
one of the Army and Navy contests
the quarterback of the latter eleven be-
vaine tie confused in one instance when
the Army players were shouting out
.varlous numbers while he was trYIng
to direet the next play that he actual,
:y gave his men one of the series of
numbers the Army men were suggest-
ing, The incomprehensible signal and
tbe subsequent mixup may be better
imagined than explained.
On the Yale squad in 1905 there was
a wan who was not only a good play-
er, but au excellent comeclaan. It was
told of him tbat more than once he
put this gift to good account in a game.
,en amusing remark here, a bit of a
story there, then a touch of burlesque,
and his rival in the line would forget
tor. the moment that football is too se•
Mous a matter for laughter. It is un-
necessary to add that the omedian
was never so interested in his own
dramatic efforts as to fail to take ad-
vantage of their effect on the other
man. -Outing.
A LITERARY SIN.
The Fabrication of Quotations Is a
Censurable Practice.
Plagiarism is hardly so great a crime
as the fabrication of quotations - a
practice which bas caused many an
earnest student to waste hours in a
fruitless endeavor to trace the passage
cited. Among the guilty Samuel War-
ren deserves special mention. On one
occasion he took part in a debate dur-
ing which Roebuck boasted that he
was not a party man. whereupon War-
ren rose and said that "my learned
friend's boast reminds me painfully
of the words of Cicero, 'He who be-
longs to no party is presumably too vile
for any.' At the conclusion of the de-
bate Roebuck came over to compli-
ment his adversary on having made a
successful bit, adding, "1 am fairly
web up in Cicero, but 1 have no idea
where 1 can find the passage you quot-
ed." "Neither bave 1," said Warren.
"Good night."
That literary sin, the fabrication of
quotations, leaves its legacy of trouble
behind it long after it has been com-
mitted. Only the other day to a week-
ly journal's correspondence columa
came the venerable question as to
where in the Scriptures is to be found
a reference to "oil on the troubled
watersaalt quotation countless preaeb-
ers and writers bave used for cen-
turies, but neither Cruden's "Concord-
ance of the Bible" refers to it nor has
Notes and Queries or its industrious
correspondents ever been able to throw
a light upon its origin. -London Chron-
icle.
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Instructed the Queen.
Queen Victoria of England was once
pulled up short • by an old Scotchwo-
man. Her majesty had started out
one afternoon to sit on a hillside and
watch some of ber relatives tis ling in
the river below her, when slit found
that she cad no thimble in her pocket,
so could not work, as she Liao intend-
ed, at the sewing sbe was carrying.
Turning out of her way to Mrs. Sync -
owl's shop, she °ought the smallest
thimble there, which was, however,
many sizes too big for her. 'Pier()
was an old Scotcb Mune at the coun-
ter impatiently waiting to make ner
own purchases. Not recognizing the
queen, she broke into the conversation
with a "Hoots, but it's a rare fuss an'
faddle you're Makin'. Blow iatae it
wee' an' it'll stick." That pbease, the
tatter part of the sentence, amused her
majesty immensely and became quite
a proverb in the royal family.
Mind Over Matter.
"Much may be done," said the acute
observer, "by an authoritative voice.
Now, if a man says to a dog, 'Come
here!' with a note of absolute, authori-
ty in his yoke the dog comes Mime-
diately."
"Yes," said the traveler, "I've notic-
ed it. And it is especially marked in
oriental peoples. Why, when I was in
Khalisandjharo I heard a man say,
with that authoritative note in his
tone, '0 king, live forever,' and im-
mediately the king lived forever." -
Carolyn Wells in Success Magazine.
Disinterested Affection.
"I'm afraid, Edward,' you're Marry-
ing me only because Pve inherited
from my uncle 100,000 crowns."
"Why, Blanche, how can you think
that of me? Your uncle is nothing to
me. I would Marry you no matter
from whom you inherited the money."
-Der Viol
Suctessful.
"I started out on the theory that the
world had an opening for me, and I
went to find It."
"DAd you find It?"
"Oh, yes; I'm In a hole."-Baltinaore
American.
A Double Hold.
Miss Mooillite-Er-let mo bola the
reins, please. Mr, Bash putti-- Wein t
will 1 do then? Niles alomilite- arm
might bold the holder of the reitte,e-
Boston Ilerald.
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PLAYED WITH A LION.
A South African Child Who Ran to
Meet the Big "Doggie."
The infant son of one of the Dutch
settlers in South Africa bad strayed
away. After some time a search par-
ty discovered little footprints leading
in the direction of the bush. Follow-
ing up these, the search party Came
upon a -large open space, at the far-
ther side of which they discovered the
object of their search sitting hugging
a !Atte wooden doll and munching a
piece of bread and butter. Before
they could make their way through
tbe thick, tangled undergrowth a large
11021 sprang into the clearing. The lit-
tle boy, far from being frightened, ran
to meet the lion, holding up his bread
and butter and said; "Take a bite,
doggie."
The father stood powerless to move
or speak through fear, expecting each
instant to see the child arushed under
the lion's paw, but instead of doing
as he dreaded the lion turned himself
over and lay on histbackat the child's
feet, looking up in his face as a cat
would do at play. Watching his op-
portunity, the father raised his gun
and fired, hitting the lieu in the
Tbe animal Sprang up and, leaving the
child, rushed on the party, injuring
two 01 the number before it was final-
ly killed. From this circumstance the
cbild was immediately christened by
the settlers "Daniel." -London Family
Herald.
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WAITED FOR HEALY.
An Incident of the Land League Aga
tation In Ireland.
One morning during the Land league
agitation Mr. Parnell left Dublin by
the early mail train for Roscommon
to address a meeting. On arriving in
the townhe received a telegram from
Dublin whicb ran:
Missed mail train. Will get down at b
Postpone meeting till 1 arrive.
HEAL it.
Mr. Parnell was pleased to learn that
T. M. Healy, M. P., was coming dowu.
Delighted, too, were the local promo-
ters ot the demonstration, and the meet -
tug was gladly postponed for a few
hours.
At 3 O'clock the railway station and
its approaches were thronged with
people with bands and banners, and
the train grew Dublin steamed in
amid territial (Mewing for Thu Healy.
The train pulled up, a carriage door
opened, and tbe local reception com-
mittee rushed to it, when out stepped
"Healy," but it was not T. M. Healy,
M. P. It was W. Wallace Healy, a
well known reporter on the staff of
tbe Irish Times.
He bad been assigned to the Roscom-
mon. meeting, had missed the mail
train, and it was most important that
his paper should have a report of Mr.
Parnell's speech; hence the telegram.
-Pearson's Weekly.
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50 cents for postage, and where American publications are to be sent to*
American addresses a reduotion will be made in price,
We could extend this list. If the paper or magazine you want is not in
the list, call at this office, or drop a eard and we will give yott prices on ihe
paper you want. We club with all the leading newspapers and raagszines.
When premiums are gitten with any of above papers, subscribers
secure such premiums when ordering through us, flatile as ordering direct
from publishers.
These low rates mean a considerable saving to subscribers, and are
STRICTLY CASH IN ADVANCE. Send renlittiantiei by postal note, post
office or express money order, addressing
TIMES OPPICE,
WO/14)1AM, ONTARIO,
seesemi**40111.0111.110066016***1 0.1********