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The Wingham Times, 1904-10-20, Page 30 • *vow I /$ILBURNS\ HEART \PIERVi ND PIL!. S/ eStrong. eke eek H arts Make Shaky Nerves Firm. They ere a Sura Cure for Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Loss of Energy, Brain Fag, After Ef- fects of La Grippe Palpitation of the Heart, Anaemia, General De- bility and all troubles arising from a rundown system. They regulate the heart's actiop and invigorate the nerves. This is what they have done for • •others l They will do the same for you. • RAT RELIEF. 1 have taken Milburn's Hot and .Nerve Pills for palpitation of the hearb and shattered nerves, and for both troubles • have foundgreatrelieL—Mrs. W. Ackert, Ingersoll, Ont. FEELS SPLENDID NOW. Before taking Milburn's Hears and • Nerve Pills I was all run down, could nob sleep at night and was terribly troubled with my heart. Since taking them I feel 'splendid. I sleep well at night and my heart does not trouble me at all. They have done me a world of good. --Jas. D. Ille.Leod, Hartsville, P.E.L A Family Problem. 'easier was explaining the meaning of the word recuperate. "Now. Willie," she said, "If your father worked hard all day he would be tired and all worn out, wouldn't hey, "Yes'mY "Then when night comes and his work is over for the day, what does he do?" "That's what ma wnnts to know." ABSOLUTE SECURITY, Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. liiluGt Bear 5ii nuturoo of See Pae-Sicnie Wrapper Below. Yen smmla and as easy, to take a3 augur. FOR HEADACHE„ FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. TOR CONSTIPATION, FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THECOMPLEXION ei8>R)1!!f!r YYSraMva MwruM �nraty Vegetable. CARTEJ8 ITTL't IVER PILLS. CURE SICK HEADACHE. tO YEARS' EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion freo whether ar Invention is probably patentable. Communion time strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn fi C. receive special notice, without charge, 'litho Sdenftf a American. ccs at oda ofeanyle scientific journal. Terms. t$3 ant year• four months, $1. Sold by nil nowsdoalers. MUP J & Co.36113roadway, few York nranch office -.•625 N 8t . Wuahin-tun. D. 0. • IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE TIMES ` A W1FE'C ALLOWANCE. The Mosey quertlon Dilaouised Prolog Vwrloaa Pointe 01 View. Isiitdsble that e ire t wvs wives should en- joytw a fixed monetary allowance for their own disposal for dress and such personal expenses as are continually arising? The question is put forward in the pages of a leading: authorijty on matters of feminine interest and is an• ewered from various points of view. Thus a business woman urges that a man should not give his wife, unlimited credit at shops and then be indignant it her expenditure Is large. On the other hand, says d, this 1y. allow- ance an allo ance spurs on a woman to live within her means and teaches her the value of money. A lawyer lays down the maxim that a man owes it to the girl he marries to keep her free from financial wor- ries. There are those husbands who. admit that they are only glad to band over the larger part, if not the whole, indeed, of their income to careful and managing wives, leaving them to ar- range the scale of household outlay and taking what they regard as neces• sary for their own and the childrep's dress.—London Telegraph. BATH ACCESSORIES. How to Make Milk of /taxes and hose Comtsiesion Cream. There, is a milk of roses which is charming as a bath accessory. Take the petals of a dozen dried roses and put them in a bottle. Cover them with water and let stand twenty-four hours. Strain and add enough benzoin to make the bottle very milky. Shake well and add a few teaspoonfuls to the bath. This will give a very soft, fragrant bath. To make a 'rose cream for the com- plexion is not a difficult matter, but here one might as well use the per- fume instead of the ripe roses. Take of pure oil of sweet almonds as much as will 1111 a small coffee cup. To this add a lump of white wax half the size of an egg. heat together and'while it is heating stir in half a teaspoonful of powdered borax and about three drops of benzoin. Take oft', beat with an egg beater and when it is almost cool add two drips of attar of rose or its imita- tion. You will have a very nice soft cream for the complexion. It will keep indefinitely. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. It is well to remember that an ounce of liquid is two tablespoonfuls and a pint of liquid weighs sixteen ounces. When it is necessary to pour boiling water into a tumbler or glass cup, put In a teaspoonful first and there will be no danger of the glass cracking. Cheesecloth strips a yard wide sewed over the edge of the blanket and changed with, the bed linen insure cleanliness to the user and the blanket. Alum water will restore most faded colors. Brush the faded article thor- oughly free from dust, cover it with a layer of castile soap, rinse in clear water, then in alum water. If flour is immediately put on oil spilled where not wanted, in a few hours, if sufficient flour has been used, there will be no trace of it save in the oil soaked flour, which burns well. Pictures In the Nursery. Inasmuch as the nursery is one of the most important rooms in the house too much care cannot be expended on Re arrangement. As the child's senses are first educated and his tastes are first cultivated in his nursery days his surroundings should be considered of great importance. A decoration of the walls should be given particular attention, and nothing is more attrac- tive or educational for the purpose than photographs used as a frieze on a plain background, low enough for the children to see them. •The pictures should, of course, be selected with thought and care from the masters and the artists who have spent their lives in perfecting their ability to paint for little folks.—Harper's Bazar. Have You a Punching Bag? A homemade punching bag is a cap- ital apital substitute for the expensive pig- skin article that is sold in the athletic shops, and it develops the chest, arms and shoulders just as effectively. It can be made by taking a piece of denim twenty inches square, sewing it up into a rough bag and filling it with sawdust. A stout thong or rope must be fasten- ed through the bag, or at least to the top, so securely that no blow, however vigorous, will sever the bag from its moorings. By this rope or thong sus- pend the bag from the lintel of a door. This, too, needs to be done with great thoroughness. Antieoraet League. About sixty ladies and many gentle- men have.joined the Anticorset league at Leeds, England, which is an off- shoot of the Leeds Society of Physical Culture. The males have vowed never to marry "corset wrecks." Ladies are exhorted at the peril of excommunica- tion from the society to abandon the use of corsets entirely, and there is a hard and fast rule .that every woman member shall have no restriction of bands or other tight clothing round the waist, but shall endeavor to have all garments suspended from the shoal• ders.—Browii Book. TO Clean White Silk. To clean white silk, spread Upon a Smooth white cloth and cleanse with A wixtinre composed of three-fourths of starch to one-fourth of fine salt. Rab this in on both sides with n Olean soft brush; shake gently and cover with pure powdered starch also rubbed in. Cover to exclude dust and leave for twenty -tour hours, when you can shake And brush out,the powder. and And a spotless garment. r.", anima ,.err .*hamarr..— TUE W1NGHAM' TINES, OCTOBER 20, 1904 lityleellt. Skylarks are rattler prolific birds, baying twc broods in the year, and often laying aa many a. s five eggs, . though four is the usual number The treat is so difficult to And that it is practically never discovered except by accident, as when, for instance, the hayfields are mown, or what is being hoed, The bird very seldom nests near the margin of a field, where it Wright be put off its nest by passersby, On the shores of the North sea skylarks Will nest in the "bents" and "nsarram" close to the edge of the band hills, though they have to fetch food to their young from a considerable distance. There is always something very pleas- ing in the sight of a lark's nest, It is usually sunk in a hollow, and, unlike the nests of many ground building birds,, is most carefully made, the cup being deep and perrectly circular,- and lined with very fine grasses, though the outer part is made of rough, dead bents, and often of a most irregular shape in order to f111 up the hole in which it is mode,—London Spectator. Nigtrt iiloasotriii, Many flowers, natives most of then et realties where tbe day Is intensely , hot, expand their blossoms at night. Notable among them is the Victoria Regla, "which opens its splendid calyx heist the Aniaz1ii at nightfall and doses it at dawn. The gli.rtit tri the night blooms for bile night only, and has its home on the islands of the Caribbean sea. The triangular cactus, whose flowers are a foot in length and width, follows the same habit. From Virginia comes the biennial oenothera, or "night light," which was brought to England in 1014 because its twisted red root could , be eaten as salad. Among British night flowers are the rocket, or night violet, the evening primrose and the campion. The white or yellow color and the fragrance of these flowers of nocturnal habit attract roving moths, which carry the pollen and so fertilize the plants.—London Standard. The Bloody Hand. 'rhe noted English family of the Holtes has for its badge a bloody hand, and this sinister badge commemorates a wager that ended in a crime. Sir Thomas IIolte, one day in 1012,' was hunting. IIe invited his comrades home with him to dinner, and as he rode along he made a heavy bet on his cook's punctuality. But the cook fail- ed him for once; when he got home din- ner was not ready. The jeers of his companions at this failure, together with his huge loss in the matter of the wager, enraged him so that he ran into seized a cleaver and split the kitchen, 1 the cook's head open with it. After- ward his family, to keep this crime alive, adopted for its crest the bloody hand of the cook killer. Two Missouri Towns. When the presidential struggle be- tween Clay and Jackson was at its height it is related that a band of emi- grants from Kentucky and the then other western states commenced to set- tle on the north side of the Missouri river and called their county Clay and the county seat Liberty. At the same tune another lot of emi- grants from Virginia and other south- ern states pitched their tents on the south side of the Big Muddy and called their county Jackson and : the capital Independence. And so it remains to this day, Clay stood for liberty and Jackson for independence. The Daisy. In French the daisy is called la Mar- guerite. It was the device of Margue- rite of Anjou, and also of Marguerite of Valois, a much more appropriate emblem • of the latter princess, who withdrew from the glitter of courts to become a recluse, than of the ambitious Lancastrian queen of England. The daisy is the national flower of Italy, chosen in honor of Queen Marguerite. In the language of flowers it signifies innocence, peace, hope. In the age of chivalry it was the emblem of fidelity and worn by knights at,tournaments in honor of their ladyloves. • The First Newspaper. The Acta Diurna of ancient Rome is the earliest approach to the newspaper of which we have any authentic record. The Acta appeared daily until the downfall of the empire, A. -D. 470. It was published under the auspices of the government and posted in some public place, the contents consisting of a digest of public dockets, a summary of daily occurrences and all news of a general character. An Extenuating Circumstance. Itector—Ah, my dear Mr. Cumming, glad to see you—glad to see youl But why are you so rare a worshiper with us? Cumming—Well, there's one thing I can honestly say, doctor—yours is the only church I ever go to. CHURCHES AND OUTLAWS.. Steeliest /awe That Gave Shelter and Protection to Criminals. Iii early flume, when life and prop- erty were accounted cheap unless de- fended sword in hand, the church of- fered Whetter and sauetuary to those who had occasion to fear the Arm of the law. In the middle ages whoever crossed the threshold of a church was considered under divine protection and could not be arrested, while several churches, and cathedrals still preserve the ,knockers used by those who had fled thither for abetter and claimed ad- mittance. In some buildings the fugi- tive i- tive from justice sat upon a chair or stool, and the register of a church in Durham, England, covering a period extending from the year 1464 to the year 1524;• included, besides other crimes, 195 murders and homicides, in which 283 persons seeking protection were concerned. To attempt to violate sanctuary by force was in those days a very serious matter, and when the outlaw decided to save his life by leav- ing the realm he did so in the follow- ing manner; "When a robber, murderer or other evil doer shall fly unto any church upoir his confession of felony, the coroner shall cause the abjuration to fie made thus: Let the felon be brought to the church door and there be assigned unto him a port, near or far off, and a time appointed to him to go out of the realm, so that in going toward that port he carry a cross in bis hand, and that he go not out of the king's highway, neither on the right hand nor on the left, but that he keep it always until he shall be gone out of the land, and that he shall not return without special grace of our lord the king." PERSONAL NOMENCLATURE. Ancient Names and the Modern Sys- tem. of Surnames. Neither Hefbrews, Egyptians, Assyr- ians, Babylonians, Persians nor Greeks had surnames, and in the earliest peri- od of their history the same may be said of the Romans. In course of time, however, every Roman citizen had three names—the praenomen, or per- sonal name; the nomen, or name of the gens or clan, and the cognomen, or fancily name, as Publius Cornelius Scip- io. Conquerors were occasionally corn- pliincnted by the addition of a fourth name, or agnomen, commemorative of their conquest, as Publius Cornelius Scipio Afrft:anus. j It is impossible to state with any de- gree of certainty when the modern ,system of personal nomenclature be- . came general. It has been stated that ;the practice of surnames began in Nor- ; nundy and extended to England after the Norman conquest, but a document in the Cottontail MSS. quoted in Tur- ner's "Histol'y of the- Anglo-Saxons" contains reference to Hwita Matte, a keeper of bees in } athfelda; to Tate Hatte, his daughter, mother of Wul- sige the Shooter, and Lulle IIatte, sis- ter of Wulsige. The date of these rec- ords of the Haittes is not to be ascer- tained, but they were certainly written before the year 1006. So far as anti- quarians have been• able to discover, Hatte is the first surname whose exist- ence can be traced in England. It is not improbable that the founder of the Hatte family was so called because of some unusual or noticeable Headgear that he was in the habit of wearing. He's Probably Alive. "I don't know whether I killed Cholly or not." "What do you mean?" "Ho proposed to me a little while ago and said he couldn't live without me— and I refused him." MIS Chance Coming. Young Mother—Barry, dear, you mustn't go near the baby. Young Father—AYayn`t I just look at him a minute? "Young Mother—No, dear; he's asleep. I'll lot on take him when he wakes up in the night. allude Ssisletime,,. "Do yenthink," ,raid Willie, "that it actually hurts a Man to be hit With one of Cupid's arrears?'" "No," replied Bell, "Asn to rade, he ,mereIv beeemea seeeless for tins" Ancient Ventriloquism. Ventriloquism was undoubtedly known both to the Jews and to the Egyptians. It was used by many per- sons for purposes of deception. The wizards who employed it declared that their "familiar spirit" resided in the abdomen, whence the voice was sup- posed to proceed. The Old Testament Scriptures abound with denunciations both of 'persons who had these fa- miliar spirits and of those who went to seek their, advice and assistance.' They were treated as though they were in familiar intercourse .. with the evil one and according to Jewish law re- ceived no mercy. Instances, however, are very frequent in much later his- tory of deception being successfully practiced by persons having this pecul- iar gift. Carlyle's Picture of Rogers. Carlyle gives this striking picture of Samuel Rogers, the poet: "I saw Rog- ers awhile ago at dinner with Taylor, a half frozen, old, sardonic Whig gen- tleman; no hair at all, but one of the whitest bare scalps; blue eyes, shrewd, sad and cruel; toothless, horseshoe mouth drawn up to the very nose; slew, croaking, sarcastic insight, per- fect breeding ---staterooms where you are welcomed even with flummery; in- ternally a Bluebeard's chamber, where none but the proprietor enters!"' Still One. "Hello, Bill, old man! Well, well! I haven't seen you since the old days, when we used to run around together!" "No, Jack. Ah, those old days! What a fool I used to be then!" "I tell you, I'm glad to see you. You haven't changed a bit, old man." Lone; Walt. Tommy—Oh, but all great men have smoked. Daisy -My dear boy, If you will only wait until you are great be- fore .you smoke I shall not complain. Not Ho* Role. Edith—Why did you refuse him? Ethel—IIe has a past, Edith—But he tan blot It out. Ethel—Perhaps, but he can't use mo for a blotter. The coati who nukes hays while the sun shines is in a postilion lend in6ney to the fellow 'who writer poetry 1 itx I'bil ,lfil,3M 1,tCS4 Caw', Cuttlag. Before the discovery, of onyx as the material tipeeially adupted for cameo cutting the ancients cut them on soft stones,eggshells and other antedate. The Greco-Roman, and especially the Augustan, period was rich in cameo& and almost every great atonsan wished to have his portrait cut in onyx. One of these, an exquisite portrait of Emperor Augustus Caesar himself, is perhaps the finest existing cameo. Such por- trait cameos were practically indestruc- tibie, except by accident. Some large cameos—the "Triumph of Bacchus" at the Vatican, the. "Agate de Tibere" at .. „ Part andh Gemma. Augesten" the Aug sten at Vienna—are splendid; `works of art. There was a change from the classi- cal and mythological designs of Greco- Roman times to Christian themes in the fourth century, when Constantine the Great became a Christian. At the renaissance classical art re- covered its lost position. Renaissance cameo cutters were very skilled work- men, but in spite of their general high level they dill not succeed in making any very important cameo, although the "hymeneal Procession of Eros and Psyche" realized a high price. Faet and Poetry. An English fox hunter of celebrity had been asked by a publisher for a book of reminiscences. "But I've never written a word for publication," be said deprecatingly. "Of course, I've had adventures in the field in plenty, but"— "Have you never had any connection with literature?" asked the publisher. The master of the (runt shook his head. "By Jove, yes, I have!" he exclaimed, his face lighting up. "Years ago Whyte -Melville came to me with a hunting poem he had written. For my criticism, he said. I read it through, and told him it was good, only there was one place where he was a little off. 'Hounds have broth, not soup,' said I." "Well?" said the publisher hopefully. The master of hounds looked grav'e again. "I don't think that counts," he said reluctantly. "The next line ended in 'whoop,' and Whyte -Melville reject- ed my suggestion." A Drop In Values. An odd,, story of Emerson was told the other day by a Cambridge man. "A New York woman," he said, "call- ed on Emerson one morning. The phi- losopher was reading in his study, and near him on a plate there lay a little heap of cherry stones. The visitor slipped one of the cherry stones into her glove. Some months later she met Emerson at a reception in Boston. She recalled her visit to hhn, and then she pointed to the brooch she wore—a brooch of gold and brilliants with the cherry stone set in the center. • 'I took this stone from the plate at your elbow on the morning of my call,' she said. "'Ali!' said Emerson, 'I'll tell my amanuensis of that. Ile will be pleas- ed. The young roan loves cherries, but I never touch them myself.' " A Pioneer Patentee. It is rather remarkable that the first patent taken out in America should have been secured by an Englishman. It was in the middle of the seventeenth century that an Englishman named Jenk secured a monopoly in America for the sale of n hand machine for ex- tiuguishiug fires which he Lad invent- ed in England some years previously, but clid not test its practical working until lie migrated to America. The mo- nopoly only lasted for fourteen years, but Jenk made a very ample fortune out of his sales of the apparatus. A Costly Ton of Coal. On Jan. 10, 17S0, thirteen men brought a wagon with a ton of coal from Loughborough, in Leicestershire, to London as a present to the then Prince of Wales. When the coal was emptied into the cellar the clerk of the cellars gave then 4 guineas, and as soon as the prince was informed of it his highness sent them 20 guineas and ordered them a.pot of beer each man. They performed their jour- ney, which is 111 miles, in eleven days and drew the coal all the way without any relief.—London Tit -Bits. Infinitesimal Webs. Mexico, the land of Montezuma, prickly pears, sand, volcanoes, etc., has many subtropical wonders both is vegetable and animal life. Among these latter is a species of spider so minute that its legs cannot be seen without a glass. This little araneida weaves n web so wonderfully minute that it takes 400 of them to equal a common hair in magnitude. Keeping Score. Mrs. Honeymoon (to husband, in rail- way train)—Do you love me? Old Party (confidentially from other seat to bridegroom)—She's asked you forty- seven times already. I get out here, but I'll leave the score with this gen- tleman by the window. An Early Answer. Mistress—Why don't you put off your letter writing until after breakfast? Maid—Please, ma'am, whin mo cousin wrote to me he said he wanted me to wroito him an answer as early as pes- sible, Euphony. "Why aid you ever name your daugh- ter Clytemnestra?" "Oh, I dunno, except that nay ,wife seemed to think it would go well with Sniggs." Pointed Paragraphs. U'rom the Chicago news.) Matrimopy i6 fin optioal institute for theind bl , The funniest thing about many astage comedian is his face, It takes a noisy preaoher to keep a small boy awake iu church. A man who is pound-foolish isn't neoe- sarily penny-wise.. There's nothing in a name—unless you are a candidate for oftioe. In union there is strength—so a meek and lowly man with a strenuoas wife says. says. Ans indulgent husband is all right if his indulgence is limited to one small glass. One way to improve the memory is to assume for a moment that you have everything you want, It is permissible for a barber to scrape au acquaintance, but he should draw the line at bleeding him. Soon after the college commencement the world begins to take the conceit out of the wise graduate. A nroacl Statement, This announcement is made without any qualifications. Hem-Roid is the one preparation in the world that guarantees it, Dr. Leonhardt's Hem.Roid will cure any case of Piles. It is in the form of a tablet. It is the only Pile remedy used intern- ally, It is impossible to cure an established case of Piles with ointments, suppositor. ies, injections, or outward appliances. A guarantee is issued with every pack- age of Dr. Leonhardt'sHem-Roid, which contains a month's treatment. Go and talk to your druggist about it. The Wilson-Fyle Co., Limited, Ni. agara Falls, Out. Telephone Shocks. She—Is it possible to receive a shock through the telephone? lie---Stu'e. But the shock usually depends upon *the ,is at the Other end of the iitjd,-•-Glucan+ ngtl try ulrgta..,...,. ....., _.._. .:...,J Memory of Sleepwalkers. The memory of sleepwalkers is ex- traordinary, not to say phenomenal, especially when under the peculiar im- pulse of the disease which prompts their movements. Moritz gives an in- stance of a poor basket maker who was unable to either read or write, yet, strange as it may appear, when in one of bis somnambulistic vigils he would preach fluent' sermons, some of which were recognized as having formed parts of discourses which he was ac- customed to hear }\•hen he was a child attending his parish church forty years before. How Do. You Know? How do you• judge crackers ? By their crackling crispness—their snowy light• nese—their appetising delici- ousness ? That's the way to judge Mooney's Perfection Cream Sodas Measure them by quality's standard and they score 100 per cent. If you haven't tried MOONEY'S. you've trussed a treat in crackers. Reflections of a Bachelor. It is easier to get engaged than di- vorced, and the expense is about a stand- off. A man stands a very good chance with a girl if he can get all her family to op- pose tbe match. A girl is so deceitful she can act as if openwork stockings kept her feet warmer) than any other. Family history is recorded on the olothes-line. ! The trouble with a fat woman is she is it in every direction. 1 A married man is all sympathy whenF he goes to a friend's wedding. After a man has run for office, being mangled by an express train does not sem at all brutal to him. e Generally a woman is built to her own satisfaction when she has no notions about wearing eommovasenas clothes.— New York Press. 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It has been used in thousands of hordes in Canada for nearly sixty years and ' has always :given satisfaction. Every home should have a bottle so as to be ready in case of emergency. 9