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The Wingham Times, 1906-01-11, Page 24 SUFFERING WOMEN who find life a burden, can have health and strength restored by the use of Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills. The present generation of women and girls have more than their share of misery. With some it is nervousness and palpitation, with others weak, dizzy and fainting spells, while with others there is a general collapse of the system. Iifilburn's Heart and Nerve Pills tone up the nerves, strengthen the heart and make it beat strong and regular, create new red blood cor- puscles, and impart that sense of buoyancy to the spirits that is the result of renewed mental and physical vigor. Mrs. D. O. Donoghue, Orillia, Ont., writes: " For over a year I was troubled with nervous- ness and heart trouble. I decided to give Mil - burn's Heart and Nerve Pills a trial, and after using five boxes I found I was completely cured. I always recommend them to my friends." Price 50 cents per box or three boxes for 81.25, all dealers or The T. Milburn Co., Limited Toronto, Ont. TO ADVERTISERS Canada. [ William W1lfred Oatspbell ] Thou laud for gods or those of old Whe men deemed gods, of loftier mold (Sons of the vast hills, the sea; Masters of earth's humanity ) I stand here where this autumn morn Autumnal garbs thy hills orlon); And all the woodlands flame with fire And glory of the world`s desire Far northward lie the purple hills; Far vests between, thy great stream fills. Ottawa, bis fleet tides isupearled, From deep to deep udown the world. O laud, by every gift to God, I Brane home of freedom, let thy sod, Sacred with blood of hero sires Spurn from its breast iguobler fires; Keep on these shores, where beauty t ei,cus Aid vaetuess folds from peak to plains, With room for all from hills to dee, Nu Shaoklell, helot tyranny; Spurn from thy breast the bigot lie, The emalleat not of earth or sky ; Breed all rhy sons brave, stalwart men. To meet the world as oue to ten; Breed all thy daughters mothers true, Magid of that glad j cy of you. Till liberties thy hills adorn As wzde as thy wide fields of corn. Let that brave s'iul of Britain's race That peopled all this vastuess, trace Its freedouis fought, ideals won, Strength built ott streuth, from sire to 800. Till from thy earth -wide hills and seas, Thy manlwo,t as the etreugtli of trees. Thy liberty alo..e compare With thy wide winnowed mountain air, And round earth's rim thine honor glows, Uasullitd as thy drifted snows. Notice of changes must be left at this office not later than Saturday noon. The copy for changes must be left not later than Monday evening. Casual advertisements accepted up to noon V1. eduesdav of each week. ESTABLISHED 1872 TIIE W INiIiAM TIMES. H. B. ELLIOTT. PUtSLISCER AND PROPRIETOI' THURSDAY, JAN, 11, 1.906. PULSE OF THE PRESS. A paying teller in a Winnipeg bank shot himself because he had been given notice of dismissal for Inarrying upon insufficient salary. FIs was 31 years of age, and the pssition of paying teller is one of the most responsible in the ser- vice, A man who cannot marry at that age and in that position, is an object of sympathy. The other day a paying teller in a Toronto hank, handled thous- ands of dollars every Flay, absconded. It was found that his salary was $650 a year and he was helping to support Ms parents to boot. -London Advertiser. Ontario is in the throes of a series of municipal campaigns through the holi- day season. People break off in the midst of wishing you the usual compli- ments to eek whom you are supporting for the mayor, ani why. Bad as is our date iu Montreal for the municipal elec- tions. (March,) this 18 worse. Why should not the civic year end with the harvest year; and lot our people get the aldermanic and outer muninipal agonies over while the weather is not too incle- ment and there is no season of "good will on earth" to be over -turned with strife? As it is, a Montreal municipal contest breeds pnenntonia, while that in Ontario makes Santa Claus look like au electiou agent. -Montreal Star. Time to Pray. A preacher at the conclusiou of one of his sermons said: "Let all in the house who are paying their debts stand up." Instantly every man, woman and child, with one exception, rose to their feet. The preacher seated them and said: "Now every man not paying his debts stand ap." The exception noted, a care- worn, hungry -looking individual, clothed in his last Summer's suit, slowly assumed a perpendicular position. "How is it, my friend," asked the minister, "that you. are the only man ot to meet his obligations?" "Iran a newspaper," he meekly an- swered; "and the brethern here who stood ui,re my subscribers, and-" "Let as pi'n ,"exclaimed the minister. -Joplin News -I eras d . The Weakness of Old Age AS the years go by the blood gets thin, watery and impure, and fails to supply the nourishment required to keep vitality at high water mark. Circulation gets bad, and the nervous system suffers. Besides the pains and aches, besides the weakness and dizziness, there are feelings of numbness which tell of the approach of paralysis and locomotor ataxia. Fudging from the experience of the thousands of old people who have tested Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, it seems to be exactly suited to overcome these conditions, cease quent on old age. Unlike ordinary medicines, lar. Chase's Nerve Food is entirely l`estorA.tive in action, and Cures by forming new, firm flesh and tissue, building up the system. 5() ..._ TO CATARRH SUFFERERS Hyomei Cures by Breathing Medi- cated Air. The popularity and increase in the sale of Hyoutei aro unique in the an- nals of medicine Such astonishing cures have been made by this remedy that its sale has been iucreesiug every year. Tee complete Hyomei outfit costs but $l 00 atter colssistd of an inhaler that Mau be carried in the vest pocket, a medieiue dropper, and a bottle of Hyomei The inhaler lasts a lifetime, and if one bottle dols not cure, au extra bottle 01 Hyomei can be obtained for 500. It is the most ecouomu;al of all remedies advertised for the cure 01 catarrh. and is the only one that tollows Nature iu her methods of treating diseases of the respiratory argues Breathe through. the inhaler tor few miuutes four butes a day, and your ca- tarrh is cured That's all. If you cannot obtain Hyomei of your dealer, it will be forwarded by mail, postage paid, on receipt of price Write to -day for cuueultatiou blank that will entitle you to services of our medical de- partment without charge. The R. T. Bootle Company, Hyom.ii Building, It- haca, N Y. Sold by Walton McKib- boli. Wingham. The Seven Ages. [Houston Post ] A little laugh, A little fun, A blossom bordered Way to run. A growing tall, And serious, too; And then the school To labor through. Then blossom bordered, Ways of love - Just two on earth, And stars above. Then to the alter, Then away To homely cares Or every day. Then joys unfold. Theu new delight! A hubs crying Iu the night. Then something more Then parent's glee - A grandchild Climbing on your knee. And then to sleep; Green sod above; But life's worth living For the love. THE WINGHAM TIMES JANUARY 11, 1906. TOWN DIRECTORY. TWENTY YERS AGO1 From TIDO WINGHAM TIMES Of (Friday, January 15th, 1880.) PERSONAL PARARGAPDIS. Mrs. Robt. Henderson, ot Goderieh, is ie town visiting her daughter, Mrs, Alex. Inglis. Miss Cruiokshanks and Miss Molndoo, of Peterboro, are visiting in town, and aro the guests of Mrs, Robt, Molndoo. John P Dopp, butcher, left for Berlin on Tuesday, where he bas bought out an old established butcher shop and where he will take up his future residence. Geo. McKay, of Toronto, a brother -in - la at of James Mo:xuire, American Ex- press agent, is in town and is being edu- cated into the express business by Mr. McGuire. W. R. Miller, of Goderieh, late public school inspector, was in town last Satur- day and made the TIMES a pleasant call Mr. Miller is now travelling agent for the North American Life Assurance Co., of Toronto. The friends of Thos. N. Sumner, late- ly employed in Dr. Towler's store, will be pleased to learn that he has success- fully passed the recent examination of the Ontario School of Pharmacy, To- ronto, and is now a full fledged druggist. The Capital. It 18 not generally known, says the Philadelphia Record, but it is a fact of history nevertheless that Bristol town- ship, lying on the east side of German- town, had a very narrow escape from being selected as the site of the capital of the United States. It was a very small matter that turned the choice to- ward Maryland and Virginia. So posi- tive were some members of congress that the capital was going to be located near Germantown that they purchased real estate there, not, of course, as a natter of speculation, but simply to be near at hand when the removal from Philadelphia to Bristol took place. When the vote of the eommissioners was taken there was a tie, four being for Bristol and four for the District of Columbia. Washington east the decid- ing vote, and Bristol township was left out in the cold. eevelsos Tngliali. The Swiss have not a perfect grasp of English grannnnr. Recently the fol- lowing advertisement appeared in an !English" guidebook published at Berne: "The ------ hotel is a very favorite resort of people fond of solitude and rest. Those who ere In search of lone - )(tem are in veritable fact constantly flocking, to the dm-- hotel from the fore quarters of this globe." "Strange gen- tiemelf will to please hat to dress for dinner, etc'., its this costume flutters the souls of the maid folk and no son k is resulted. Humble `u1., the entulunr'eluent jut f , the hod- rooms t' l- t'ooms of an inn In t manias. LOCAL NEWS. The Wingham Caledonian Society has completed arrangements for celebrating Burns' anniversary with a Brand haggis supper at the Diusley house on Tuesday evening, 26th inst., to be wound up with a dance. Tickets are being rapidly dis- posed of alid a guod time is auticipated. Alf. Williams has sold the fine team of roan ponies he recently purchased from Wm. Black to D. E. Oamerou, banker, of Lnoknow, the price paid we believe being something over $300. The annual meeting of the Wingham Horticultural Society was held in the Mechanics' Institute yesterday morning, when the following officers: Cromwell Willsou, President; D. McInnis, vice-president; J. J. Anderson, Wm. Clegg, H. W. 0 Meyer, J. A. Morton, Wm. Elliott, S, Youhill, 'Jas. A. Cline, Robt. Tennant and Walter Scott, direo- tors; E. R. Talbot and. John Noelands, auditors. The annual statement of the Bluevale Cheese and Butter Co. for the past year has just been issued, and it presents a most satisfactory state of atfairs. The year was commenced with a balance on hand of $900 06, and after paying the Local history of the early 80s.. Jtenls from The "Times" fyles patrons $10,728.51 in cash, besides salar- ies and Mining expanses, the sum cf $1,892 03 is o trried to theic credit. The annual meeting of the Turnberry Agriculture]. Society was held in the Central hotel yesterday afternoon, when the following officers were elected: - Charles Henderson, president; John Elston, vice-president; James Elliott, John Farrow, George Moffatt, William Robertson, William McClymout, Alex- ander Young, John Anderson, D. Venal- stine and John Hardy, directors. At a subsequent weetiug of the directors, John Anderson was appointed secretary and William Elliott, treasurer. The Seaforth Expositor thus unbur- dens itself: "Thera tire three former residents of Seaforth, viz., Thomas Bell, H. W. O. Meyer and Walter Scott, mem- bers of the Wingharn council this year. The oitizene of our northern neighbor are evidently quite well able to appre- ciate the services of good men. They want to get our old frieud Cline in the council now, and they will have a corn - pieta team not easily surpassed." On Monday eveniug the following offi- cers of Minerva Eocampmens, No. 47, I i0. O. F , were eustalled by D D. G. P. Oltver Gilchrist: - C. P., W. J. Youug, M. D.; H. P., John Sheffield; W., Geo. Russell; Scribe, J. H. His - cocks; J. W., 8, Merrifield; G., 0 Gil- christ; 1st W., John Hardy; 2nd W., Geo. Baker; 3rd W., A. Hardy; 4th W., J. Coohrane; J. G., W. F. Brookeushire; 1st G. of T., Nell McGregor; 2nd G. of T., John Elder. Oa Wednesday evening of last week James Dodds, of Flint VICI1., formerly of Wingham, was united in marriage to Miss Loaisa M. Nye, oae of Flint's moat accomplished young ladies. `TARRIED. Matell -- Cameron.- At the R. C. Ohurch, Wingham, on Tuesday, the 12th inst., by the Rev. Father West, Wendel Matell, the. Miss Catherine Cameron, of Kinloss. BAPTIST Cannon -Sabbath services at 11 a m and 7 p m. Sunday School at 2;30 p m. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev, J. N. Mo - Lean, B,A., pastor. Abner Oosens S.S. Superintendent. METHODIST OHUROH-Sabbath services at 11 a m and 7 p m. Sunday School at 2:30 p m. Epworth League every Mon- day evening, General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. J. R, Gandy, D.D., pastor. W. B. Towler, M,D., S. S. Superintendent. PRESBYTERIAN CHUROH-Sabbath ser- vices at 11 a m and 7 p m, Sunday School at '2:30 p m. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev. D. Perris, pastor. L. Harold, S S. Su- perintendent. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, EPISCOPAL -Sab- bath services at 11 a m and 7 p m. Sun- day School at 2:30 p m. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evening, Rev. H. S, Boyle, M. A., B. D. Rector and S. S. Superintendent. John Taylor and Ed. Nash, assistant Superintendents, SALVATION ARMY-SService at 7 and 11 a m and 3 and B p m on Sunday, and every evening during the week at 8 o'clock at the barracks. POST Orr'Ioz-In Macdonald Block. Office hours from 8 a m to 6:80 p m. Peter Fisher, postmaster, PuBLIo LIBRARY -Library and free reading room in the Town Hall, will be open every afternoon from 2 to 5:30 o'clock, and every evening from 7 to 9:30 o'clock. MISS Mand Robertson, librarian. Towle COUNCIL -Thos. Bell, Mayor; W. J. Greer, Thos. Armstrong, David Bell, J. G. Stewart, S. Bennett, W. 1i'. Vanstone, Councillors; J. B. Fer- guson, Clerk and Treasurer; Anson Dalmage, Assessor. Board meets first Monday evening in eaoh month at 8 o'olock. SCHOOL BOARD. -Dr. A. J. Irwin, (chairman), Thos. Abraham, J. D. Long, J. J. Homuth. H. Kerr, Wm. Moore, A. E. Lloyd, 0. N. Griffin. Secretary, John F. Groves; Treasurer, J. B. Ferguson. Meetings second Tnesday evening in eaoh month. PUBLIC) SCHOOL TRAOHERS.-A. H. Musgrove, Principal, Miss Brook, Miss Reynolds, Miss Farquharson, Miss Cornyn, Miss Matheson, Miss Wilson, Miss Cummings and Miss De La•Mater. BOARD OF HEALTII-Thos. Bell, (chairman), C. J. Reading, Thos Greg- ory, John Wilson, V.S., J. B. Ferguson, Secretary; Dr. J. R. Macdonald, Medical Health Officer BORN. Piper. --In Turnberry, on the 12th inst., Thomas Piper, aged, aged 66 years, 1 month and 27 days. Billingsley. -In Wingham, on the 13th inst., Amelia, wife of Thomas Billing- sley, aged 50 years. Brown. -At the hope, 10. con. East Wawanosh, on Friday, Sth fust., Sarah E., beloved wife of P. Brown, aged 31 years and 13 days. yes, e,�e., ,z HOME OF MERCHANTS • RUBBERS" Canadians aro not slow to recognize superior merit wherever it exists. !torch, 1904, production, 300 pairs per day. December, 1905, production, 3,400 pairs per day. These two lines tall graphically the wonderful growth in the production of Merchants Rubbers, and the demand still exceeds the supply. Tho people have recognized the superior merit of these Rubbers over all others. Honest materials and honest workmanship are combined to pro- duce an honest Rubber -Merchants Rubbers. If your Shoeman doesn't sell them, let us know. Branches et WINNIPEG, LON0014, TORONTO, OTTAWA, MONTREAL. BERLIN AMAVA • GEO. B. BOULTER. CHAS. A. DAVIES. Northern and Central Ontario Agents. Prompt attention given to Telegraph, Telephone and Mail Orders. BOULTER, DAVIES & COMPANY. Special jobbers in alt classes of High Grade Boots and Shoes. Telephone: Mail 5708; Main 117. 24 Front St. W., Toronto, Ont. VEGETABLE SICII.!AN LLS Hair Renews Why not stop this falling of your hair? At this rate you will soon be without any hair, Just remember that Hall's Hair Renewer stops falling hair, and makes hair grow, n�"i.r'1'rc treco`�" lyra • The Times Office ,for Job Pr .tin o = U kin WANTED --By Chicago manufacturing house, person of trustworthiness and somewhat fam- iliar with local territory as assistant in branch office. Salary 618 paid weekly. Permanent position No investment required. Previous experience not essential to engaging. Addres,+, Manager Branches, Como Block, Chicago, Ill. WANTED: By Chicago Wholesale house,special representative ( man or woman) for each prov- ince in Canada. Salary $20.00 and expenses paid weekly. Expense money advanced. Business successful: position permanent. No invest- ment required, Previous experience not es- sential to engaging. Address Manager, 132 Lake street, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A. RAILWAY TIME TABLES. ESTABLISHED 1872 THE WIN6110 TIMES. I8 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING -AT-- The AT-The Times Office, Beaver Block WINGHAM, ONTARIO, TERMS or SussoalrTioN-$l.00 per annum in advance $1.50 if not so paid. No paper discon- tinued till all arrears are paid, except at the option of the publisher. ADVERTISING RATES. - Legal and other casual advertisement; l0e per Nonpariel line for first tnaertiou, 8o per line for each, subsequent insertion. Advertisements in local columns are oharged 10 ots. per line for first insertion, and 5 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements of Strayed, Farms for Sale or to Rent and similar, $1.00 for first three weeks, and 25 cents for eaoh subsequent in- sertion. CONTRACT RATES -The f0110wing table shows our rates for the insertion of advertisements for specified periods: -- SPACE. 1 YR, a Mo. 8 Mo. bro. OneColumn $70.00 $40.00 $22.50 $800 Half Column 40.00 25.00 15.00 6.1)0 Quarteroolumn 20.00 12.60 7.50 3.00 One Inch 5.00 8,00 2.00 1.25 Advertisements without specific directions will be inserted till forbid and charged accord- ingly. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advanoe. Tun JOB DEPARTMENT is stocked with an extensive assortment of all requisites for print- ing, affording facilities not equalled in the county for turning out first plass work. Large type and appropriate outs for all styles of Post- ers, Hand Bills, eto., and the latest styles of choice fancy type for the finer classes of print ing. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. �Jf TRAINS LEAVE FOR London 6.40 a.m.... 3.30p.m. Toronto &East 10.40 a.m6.43 a.m.... 2.40p.m. Kincardine. -11.16 a.m... 2.08 p -m,.-. 9.15p.m. ARRIVE mom Kincardine ....6.40 a.m10.40 a.m.... 2.40 p.m. London 11.10 a.m...- 7.35 p.m. Palmerston 9.8.5 a.m. Toronto & East 2.08 p.m.... 9.15 p.m. L. HAROLD, Agent, Wingham. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. TRAINS LEAVE FOR Toronto and East 6.55 a.m .... 3.36 p.m. Teeswater 1.33 p.m....10.53 p.m. ARRIVE PROM Teeswater.- ..........6.55 a.m 3.86 p.m. Toronto ant East ......1,33 p.m10.53, p.m. J. H. DEEMER, Agent,Wingham. OUTSIDE !ADVERTISING H. B. ELLIOTT, Proprietor and Publisher JP KENNEDY, M. D.C. M..P. S. 0. • Member of the British Medical Associa- tion. Gold Medallist in Medicine. Speoial attention paidto diseases of Women and Child; ren. Office hours -1 to 4 p. m.; 7 to 0 p. m. Orders for the insertion of advertisements such as teachers wanted, business chances, mechanics wanted, articles for sale, or in fact any kind of an advt. in any of the Toronto or other city papers, may be left at the TIMES office. This work will receive prompt attention and will save people the trouble of remitting for and forwarding advertisements. Lowest rates will be quoted on application. Leave or send your next work of this kind to the TIMES OFFICE. iVingham. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN TIIE DR. MACDONALD, Centre Street Wingham, Ontario. DR. AGNEW, Physician, Surgeon, eto. Office-Maodonald Blook, over W.McKibbon's Drug Store. Night calls answered at the office. DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND, M. R.0. S. (Eng) L. R. C. P. (Lone.) PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office, with Dr. Chisholm. W. B, TOWLER, M.D., C. M. CORONER. Office at residence, Diagonal Street. R • VANSTONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Private and Company funds to loan at lowest rate of interest. No commission charged Mort- gages, town and farm property bought ught and sold. Office, Beaver Block WW JA. MORTON, • BARRISTER, &o. Wingham, Ont. E. L. DICKINSON DUDLEY HOLMES DICKINSON & HOLMES BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, Etc. DtoNeT TO LOAN. OFFICE: Meyer Block, Wingham. JOHN RITCHIE, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT, Wingham, Ont ARTHUR J. IRWIN, D. D. S., L. D. S. Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Pennsylvania Dental College and Licentiate of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Office over Post Office, Wingham. Txr Y� • T. HOLLOWAY, D.D.S., L.D.S. I' • DENTIST. Beaver BIock, Wingham D. D. S. -Toronto University. L. D. S. -Royal College of Dental Surgeons. w A. CURRIE, • WINGHAM'S AUCTIONEER Is now prepared to attend the wants of those requiring his services, at a reasonable price. No necessity of going out of town for an auc- tioneer. All orders left at the TIMES office will receive prompt attention. ALE%. KELLY, Wingham, Ont. LICENSED AUCIRONEER For the County of Huron. ,,-ales of all kinds conducted at reasonable rates. Orders left at the Trams office win receive prompt attention. JAS. HENDERSON, Wingham, Ont. LICENSED AUCTIONEER For the Counties of Huron and Bruce. Sales of Farm Stook and Implements a epeoialty. All orders left at the TIMES office promptly attended to. Terms reasonable. FARM ERS FRIVOLITY IN ENGLAND. A Claim That It Is What Ito4111, Keeps the Nation Sane. SVhtclt is worse --to be too aerlous or too frivolous? I have uo doubt about the !natter myself, so far as individuals are concerned, though all extremists are bores, Tho perpetually lively, feather brained, pleasure razed crea- ture is almost, if not quite, irritating as the deadly serious indiv ual. But, apropos of the ace ,US ti a recently y, lodged against us that els a nation we are becoming too frivolous, one cannot help saying that we are a great deal livelier than we were a few yenrs ago, and for this relief assuredly we have cause to be thankful. In consequence we are accused of having become too frivolous. It seems to me that we have just got matters nicely balanced. This is au age when we are prepared to be cranks on the slightest provocation. People crave for missions, they wallow in philanthropy, they pounce with avidity on new re- ligions, they will plunge into politics or write attacks on women, society, the degeneracy of the age, or anything else that gives them an opportunity of airing what they call their views. So surely, if desipere in loco were not oc- casionally to be permitted to us, it is fearful to think what we should be- come. Our frivolity is Yee antidote to the twentieth century disposition to- ward crankiness. it really keeps us sane, -London World. and anyone having live stock or other articles they wish to diepnae of, should adver- tise the same for sale in the Tom. Our large circulation tells and it will be strange indeed 1f you do not get a customer, We can't guarantee that you will sell because you may ask more for the article or stook than it is worth. Send your advertisement to the Turas and try this plan of disposing of your stook and other articles. BO YEARS' EXPERIENCE TRADE MARK* DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain car opinion her whether ,I invention is probably patentable. Contmnnlcs, stone strictly cenadentiat. Handbook on Patents sent free. oldest agency for seeming patentee C Patents taken through Mnnn ,. receive special notice, Without Chatge, In tete Scentifie �tmer ran. utation of aol 5otely x to ,t !old otted tat. Latest ca, THE HOODED COBRA. It Ica Venerated in India as the On* Sacred Serpent. Of all the snakes of India the nags, nag or hooded serpent, commonly known as the cobra, alone is sacred. It is called the good snake, and is con- sidered a protector and harbinger of success. The veneration of the cobra is intimately connected with the wor- ship of the sun, and is thus closely re- lated to the orthodox Ilindoo religion. According to the Mahabharata, the heaven over which India ruled was Mainly tenanted by Devas and Nagas, the former being deified heroes of the Aryas and the latter those of the Naga people on earth. Although wars continued for a long time to be frequent between rival chiefs of the invaders (Aryas) and the invaded (Magas), a gradual fusion be- tween the two peoples took place, and heaven was shared equally by Devas and Nagas. The serpent gods are wor- shiped uow, as they were then, not as dangerous reptiles, nor as mere sym- bols, but as the deified rulers of an ancient people, whose tribal, or, rather, perhaps, racial, emblem was the naga, or hooded serpent, and whose chief deity was the sun; hence the Naga temples are not dedicated to the ser- pent, but to the Nnga rajahs, the an- cient rulers of the race. SOCIAL SPONGING. The Extent to 'Which It Is Carried In London. There is probably no city in the world where there is so much social sponging done as in London. At their big functions hosts and hostesses have frequently not the remotest acquaint- ance with many of the people who at- tend them and whose cheek is only ex- ceeded by their voracity. "I have one particular case in memory," says a writer in the Boston Herald, "where a woman brought fifty of her friends. It was at the bouse of a millionaire, the Icon. Glin Vivian, in Eaton square. On the same occasion nearly every one else brought herself, her family and all her friends. It was a never to be forgotten gathering. Many people nev- er succeeded in getting beyond the hall door. An excellent supper bad been provided for about three or four hun- dred, but there must have been a thou- sand present. Abort 1 a. m. people were sitting about in the bedrooms eat- ing ating sandwiches and drinking claret or champagne -in fact, anything they could grab from the supper table -and the story went that they got so hungry and riotous that they invaded the wine cellar and the !.,Feer." French Origin of "Save the King." The British national anthem is of French origin. The Petite Republique asserts that the words of "God Save the King" are a literal translation of a hymn in honor of Louis XIV., chanted by the young girls in residence at the convent of St. Cyr. The French words of this hymn were: Grand Dieu, sauvez le rol! Grand Dieu, vengez le roil five to rot! Que, toujours glorieux, Louis victorieux, Vole ses ennemis. Toujours semis. The music of this chant was copied during his visit to France by Handel, who on his return to England dedicated it to George I. Tom Reed's Wit. Congressman Morse of Massachu- setts was a great admirer of Speaker Beed, to whom 1m said on one occa- sion, "Do you know, Mr. heed, the people are talking a great deal about you for president, and I would not be surprised if they elected you president some day?" "Well, Morse," was the dry comment of the speaker, "they could do worse and I have no doubt they will." In tae. Mamma (at breakfast table) --You should always use your napkin, Georgie. Georgie`--I am using it, mamma. I've got the dog tied to the leg of the table with it. Their Speeial iraeoritcs, She --I am so fond of trees) The side fa my favorite, it itl co strong, so noble! Rich do you like the best? lis air. l u.9i-''il'ew.-•a u4 . a