The Wingham Advance, 1911-02-16, Page 3$25,00 FOR
A LETTER
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stors,esp.nomp%
Eight Prizes to be Awarded in a
totter Writing Contest Open
to Every One in Ontario.
Dr., Williams' rink Fills for Palo Peo-
ple have been tied in Ontario for a gen.
eration. Huntirede of remarkable eures
have been reported timing that time and
there le ecarcely a family in which the
reuteily has not been tried with benefi-
cial results. Thi e furnieliee the material
tor the letter to be written in this con -
teat, There is no demand, ttpon the ion
aginetion; every letter mud deal with
facts and fade only.
• PRIZES:
The Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., of
Brockville, Ont., will award a prize of
$25.00 for the best letter reeeived on or
before the 20th by ot March, L011,from
residents ye the Province of Ontario, on
the subject, "Why I Recommend Dr, Wit.
lianfe Pink Pills," A prize of $10.00 will
be awarded for the second best received;
a prize of $5.00 for the third hest letter,
end five prizes of $2.00 each for the next
be.st five lettere,
CONDITION'S:
The mire or benefit from the use of
Dr, Williamed Phil; Pills described in the
letter iney ho in the writer's oorn, ease,
or ene that lute come under his or her
pereonal observation.
More than one cure may be described
in the letter, bat every stittment must
be literally and absolutely true,
The letter should be rot longer than is
:tummy to relate the benefit obtained
from the remedy in the case described.
Every letter most be signed by the
full mune and correet address of the per-
son sending it. If it describes the cure
a eoute person other than the writer
of the letter, it must also be signed by
the person whet.° cure is described as a
guarantee of the truth ot the statement
made,
The tvriter of eaeli letter must etate
the name and date of the paper in which
he or she saw this announcement.
Fine writing will not win the prize un-
less you have a good case to describe.
The strength of the recommendation and
not the style of the letter will be the
heels of the award.
It ismaderstood that the Dr, Williams'
Medicine Co. shalt have the eight to pub-
lish any letter entered in this contest
if they desire to do so whether it wins a
prize or not.
The contest will close on March 20bh,
1911, and the prizes will be awarded as
soon as possible thereafter. Do not de.
lay. If you know of a cure write your
letter NOW. Observe the above condi-
tions carefully or your letter may be
thrown out.
Address all letters as followe:
The Dr. William? Medicine Co., Brock-
ville, Ont.
Letter Contest Department.
4 ss
FAMINE'S WORK IN CHINA.
China's famine is spreading. The lat-
est cable adviees from Pekin state that
a thousand people aro dying daily of
starvation and. famine fever in the three
afflicted provinces. There ie every like-
lihood that conditions will beeoine woreso
during the next three months. The im-
perial government, although doing its
best to help the sufferere, finds itself,
as in the last famine, unable to halt the
migrating multitudes in the flooded sec-
tions from which Ouly are flocking to
the titles, leaving lines of read strewn
along the highways. Relief committees
at Shanghai and Chinkiang are doing
good work, but with very limited means,
—The Christian Herald.
Shiloh
muddy stops coudhs, cures colas. boats
the throat arid longs. 23 cents.
41,
POULTRY YARD,
Bantams and How to Keep
Them,
Mg 0. A. House in the Poultry World.)
PREDOMIN.ANVE OF THE SPANGLE
Why the Spangle should here obtained
tide pvedomnanc, i cannot ear; ltddih
ably it Is due to its pleasing variety of
valor, and the fact thee onled ane breed.
Ing pen is -required. by dee lover of the
00102'. In color the eoele and hen regent-
ble .each other in every reeeeet, the
plumage throttglieut being Meek cod eed,
or blue and red, evenly spauoled with
white, with the tail black and white etid
hlue and white. The chief and Prevail.
ing fault in Spangles of toelay 1$ a tend-
ency to lightneee of color, :tea tide fail-
ing ie more prevalent nSeotland than
in England, malty of the Miele tierces the
border, to use the term oi one of our
most succeessful Cumberland breeders,
are ;nolo, meal high. Now a light col.
ored, heavily spa»gleti bird is not nearly
so handsonie as one whieh is darker in
celor and has not so much spangle -
What is required to smelt a complete
blending of the three colore thet a bird
dote not look too dark or to lighe, but
presents a beautiful, harmonious whole
with neither of the three coleys ohtrud.
ing itself ton limit upou the eye of the
beeolder, ete 1. have said, the prevail-
ing fault is lightnese of color, but it is
one easily remedied. XI that is needed
is e season's breeding with a partridge
hen, and. then the cateful Ilse of the
pullets bred from her.
BREEDING FRCYM ONE- PE'N.
Wheo one is compelled to breed front
one pen It is .wIae to select birdthat
are of medium color an4 evenly span.
gled, bird e that are dark in color or too
heavily spangled do not make the best
of breeders from an exhibition point of
view, They are each inclined. to perpet-
loth) their defleiencies. On the other
hand, a sparsely spangled cook is a good
mato for pullets that are inclined to be
too heavily spangled, or carry too much
white in wings and tail. One thiug
inuet never be done; and that is to mate
cock or cockerel that 31 gaily spangled
to hens or pullets poseassing the same
failing. To do so would be to intepeify
the tendency to lightnete, and make the
progeny what I have heard them styled,
"regular meal bags." Occasionally a
black -red cock may be mated to spangie
hong or pullete to overcome this tend-
ency to mealutess. Another fault nbieh
is rather prevalent in some drains of
Spangles, and other ohms as wit, is
"white in lobe." In exhibition eoeke it
is not seen because the birds love been
dubbed, and the eat' -bb e removed, but it
can be seen in the he,. ti is a fetilt
that is somewhat (Billet:it to eradicate,
but it is one that should be stamped
out whenever it makss 112 appearane.e,
because it is a great daiwbaele to a bird,
and there is no companion between a
bird, with a rich, red lobe and one which
shows "white in lobe.
OTHER 007.011S.
Black -reds resemble in color their
namesakes in the Modern Game. Ban-
tams, lend in breeding them both Wheat.
en told Partridge Ilene may be used,
but it should be said that the'brigetest
and best colored birds are, generally
shookbla, bred. from Partridge hens, and
in Old English Game Bente= a deeper
tone of color seems to find favor with
the judges than in the moderns. Whilst
this is the fashion double meting tell
not be the necessity that it is with the
moderns. One thing must be *larded
against if only one pen ia kept, and that
is the breeding from a wheelen bred
cock; to keep the celor r:ght Olily pert.
ridge bred cocks. or ess.ketels must be
used. If slue has the convenience and
the time to attead to double mating
then the same lines may be followed in
breeding Old English Mack Reds as aro
WITH DLITOHY 'COILS O'ER EA OH PINK EAR,.
1)EAFI EXPEOT TO HEAR?
/t appears that to ltei in the mode nowadays we younger membere
of Our Set mutt wear oar hair a. la einnamon roil—onerot lover each
ear.
NO rate, feet eernhe, .and wry Tittle fah o hair—that's the programme
for 1011. .Tho natural eontour of the hcad must he ellown. But girls
Ineetid of their tiro Ly fdre will 1,e shy of thee stele,
Theo with *high toroliehtle to whom the parted liftirdreee is booming
usually wave the 'hair 144,1it1y on ..eash side and wear it how over the
temples.
The ,eliirtwaiet, shown iti the photograph Riegel us an idea of the
eornfort we're going to have the miming season. 'Vim Itutelt welt will
tnOre in esidene,s than it was !act (smuttier, .tanti sleeves will be eoni-
fortelsly.alsort.
.8 touch of hand eitebroitiery wili be seen on many of the waiste, and
She ktfla-pleat.ed gele frill for the filmy Will be in high favor.
HOW OAN THIS
Itching Scalp
falling flair
To prevent dry, thin. end, fellinta
hair, onnove dandrure, alley itehing
and !rritation of tho ecalo, and Pre,
motet 'due growth and beauty of the
hair, frequent i hampoce with Cott -
euro Hogg), assisted by oceasional
dreesinge with C'utieura Ointment,
suecessi 11'hon other inetleada fail.
Cutieura Soap nod Obstnwnt imvo
Inen squally effeoSivo in the :mat -
men', ot sorturing, disfiguring scalp
bsumsr. and tits alarming loss of hair
whish so :teen roulth 17'or exarrip.o,
read hs.se °est.:so 1.1. Jefferson, 101$
itsod it,, Philadelphia, tells of Ids
remark:We oftsca
"'Sty diseass assault with a little ;Mamie
on my head. 'filen :t began to Ulna. Ths
more I wsuld et:rata:14 1 Mt WOVFO it grew
untild 8orea.1 all ever any acad. So 1
went to tit, doctor. hut any bead grew
C4 raw as tt pb•ee of beef sad tny hair corn-
Meneed 9' mil out Jet bundles. So I
changed doctor:4. Sly head at this tbne
was so sore I could not touch it. Then
dodder)to go to the herpleal. They began
to treat it but :t imeroved very slowly.
For over three years I. was a sufferer front
this disease. 1 thought all hopes of a per-
manent cure were imporsible, A friend,
upon sceitig the condition of my head —
which wet, a nress or running corruption
—asked me if 1 had tried the Cutieure,
Benietileo. 1 told him nothing would do
Inc any good; but being very anxious to
be cured, 1 deeititd to try' Mem. The first
treatment brought immediate relief. MY
hair became alive and stopped failing out,
ale Ow scale left aud now I am perfectly
well and have a full head of bah. 1 can
truthfully say that It was entirely due to
the use of the etalcura Remedies."
(Signed) Csoson I, ,Taisrs.avosr,
cuUeura remedies ars Rohl by drusststs
everywhere. Potter Drug & Chest. Corp.. sow
*Topa, Breton, Masa Sand for tree mos no<,k.
followed in breeding the modern Game
Banearne.
131ile Reds are not very numerous,
and are mostly sports, although during
the past two years the color is one that
has received more Attention, and recent-
ly at number of breeders have turned
their attention to the breeding of the
Blue Red, In mating up a pen to pro-
duce exhibition Bine Retie, a Blue Red
coek or cockerel should be mated to Blue
or Blue Wheaten Pullets or hens. A
mating of Black Red coek and Blue
Wheaten or Blue pullets will also pro.
duce them. Duckwings, Birches and
Brown Reds should be bred upon the
lines advocated for breeding the modern
bid e of therm colors, and so far as color
points are C0110erlled the description is
the same as for the moderns. The Creles
are very handsome with their Cuckoo
markings. They vary nineh in their
ground color and also in the color of
the marking, some being very dark, al-
most blaek or blue reds, with only a sus-
picion of marking, and that most
steongly developed on the breast; -whilst
otbers show the Cuckoo marking more
or less all over the body, and so strong-
ly that they are almost lievoid of any
ground color owing to the happy blend-
ing of the Cuckoo coloring.
THE INTRICACIES OF BREEDING.
Pyles can be bred by matching a black
breasted red or a ginger cock to a white
hen, and (although the majority of the
first cross may come pure white, if the
white pullets are mated to a black
breasted red or ginger cook the result
from this second crossing will be Pyles,
although it is possible some of the pul-
lets may be Clays or Wheateos, and
some of the cockerels (or stags, as they
are called by the old school of breeders)
Clingers.
In breeding for exhibition it is necest
sary to breed birds as true to color aS
possible; but iu awarding prizes a coin- h
RAO DOLLS.
A Little Etlitertteil4' dfeer,
rsOuCON
r Little
n
Ms is a heart•todteart talk between
the editor and little girls, in Whieb. the
grownups at your house may take part
If they wish, and which they need not
listen to if they do not find. 119 interest-
tua,
le a private talk between the Writ.
er and the little girls who sometimes
wonder why they were placed on earth,
and why they Alone do the things they
ehould not do; wbo are ponied to final
a Useful outlet for their energies.
First of all, the editor has a good deal
of sympathy witlt little girls. What he
doesn't know about you would mato a
mighty intereeting book, but he lies
tried to understand yotte—and tiering
said that, be hopes that he has your
kind wishes. For tannot be said that
very inany people really try to see
things ae you see them.
The writer never kicked a Tag dolt,
nor threw one out of hie Ivey, for int
stance. He tries to see it as you see it;
that a rt.to doll bi make-1411mm baby,
and he is sure that a little girl who
loves rag dolls also loves pink babiee
that breathe and cry,
The love of little girls tor rag done
shows the mother love that is in them—
and this is why most little girls help
their mothers all 00,y can.
Mother, too. wile once a little girl who
loved rag dolls; but the very feet that
she lute passed. that age, and now has to
earn for little girls, should, make little
girls take good care of mother.
11 wotise both wane Mother helps
the little girl; the little girl helps moth-
er,
11. Should be, and generally is, a pleas-
ure for them to help eaele other. Many
little girls believe they should be allow-
ed to give parties—just the same as
mother. And 1215213' mothers believe that
little girls should do part of the work
preparing for these partles—just the
sante us mother.
And let us hope that; manymothers
understand that 11. 19 natural for little
girls to event to. play—juet the same as
mother. That 13, that the little girls
When they romp, and play with dolls,
and swing from a limb in the apple or-
chard, are enjoying life in just the same
Ineasure that rnother enjoys (with, per,
ham the (1151)09 still unwashed)a elmt
with a neighbor. Both are relaxing, ea*
ing up; the little girl frein her duties
and lessons, the mother from her duties
and worries.
Again, if little girls only. knew how
much pleasure they eoula give mother
on such occasions by quietly slipping
away and washing the dishes! Such
mothers and little girls grow even fond.
er of each other—if this were possidle.
It isn't pleasant for a person who is
friendly with all little people to find
fault evith theno so the editor acknowl.
edges with considerabie sadness that he
knew* girls who will let rag dolls actu-
ally fall to pieces rather than do a lit-
tle work sewing up. holes, fastening legs
and. arras, and seetng to it that some.
body's head does not fall off. Many
people bleme mother for this, claiming
that she has not set a good example.
But thna
at as it may, the fact remai
that little mothers who do 'not take
good care of rag babies, are not the
ones to be trusted too far with crying
pink babies.
Perhaps, of course, some little girls
were not Intended to sew up rs.g dolls—
and this is oo excuse for laziness—but
were intended to sing and laugh and
make mother happy in other ways than
by keeping rag dolls and other things
neat and well mended. 11. 18 a feet that
some girls who are quite careless about
such matters until they are almost
grown up, later turn out very well in-
deed, once they find their right place
and start in a path whichm
seems ade
especially for them.
You see, there is a road foe each of
us, if we can only find it.
Finally, little girls—rind now we are
very much in earnest, and this is stria-
ly between us—mother is your best
friend and adviser. She knowel
Mother used to be little girl. She
had rag dolls, and she knows best wheth-
er she should have sewed an lege and
arras, or whether her neglect was justi-
tied by future events, Mother went
through all your trials and troubles.
She had to go to school when she did
not want to go to school. She wanted
to give parties when she was not allow-
ed to do so. She wanted a blue dress
when her mother bought her a yellow
dress.
And. mother grew hp to womanhood,
and you see her every day, don't you,
working for you, and taking care of a
ouse—so that her little girls 12151' grow
petent judge 11111 lay more stress on the
handling, shape and carriage of a bird
Hann the markings, color of eyes and
color itf legs. Light or claw eyes are by
some judges considered a disqualifica-
tion, whilst others are indifferent as to
the coIor of a bird's eye, if the game
properties are good, but I admit that: a
large prominent red eye is xs great set-
off to any bird. .Among the black
-
breasted Reds, Pyles, Wheatenand
Whites will be found birds with bright
red eyes, while others have light or
al-
fllOSb white eyes; the latter are termed
dawaoyed on account of the color closely
resemblitig the eyes of a jackdaw,
VALUABLE PROPERTIES.
At the present day, shape, style and
feather are far more important en old
English game bantams than extreme
correctness of eater,. and breeders are
devoting more attention to these points
than they are to those of color, Beteind-
bye, when the breed has become more
firmly established, there is not hutch
doubt that wo shall find old English
game bantam breeders just as careful
lend particular regarding color poluts
as are the modern gitine bantam breed.
ers, but that timi
e s not yet.
In some parts of the country the judging of the old English game bettam 18
tar from satisfactory. Many of the
judges emu to overlook the fact that
the bird, is a game fowl, And that game
shape and style must take it foremost
Oahe, Many all-around judges seleet
senall, low, squatty birds for the prizete
"broad -set" they style thou, and if they
are wide in front end sheet on the leg
the important points of tentage, short -
tress of hawk, color and feather, received
t'cry secondary eonsideration. This Is
wrong; the old„ English game beam
ie a game fowl, and should be so Judged.
HIS tHARADTER.
(Lon(1on Answers).
Guesie was knockektieed, angular and
round shouldered. lie had a terrific
squint ana a mouth like a steam seller.
All the eame, Ite reekoned on malthig
something of a hit at the fancy dress
ball, and his eostrune wits es elegant as
hie figure wee untimely,
With hot beating bout he stepped
jauntily from Ms automobile outside
tho towo hall where the ball eves being
held. The hall porter stepped backward
at the unsightly apparation.
''Great Christopher 'Columbus," he
gasped as he regarded Gussio.
"So, Ile, my good man" eliirmel Gos-
sip, Ite he trIppell through the portal&
echamlee the Fleet. iny dear fellow—
Chawlee the Idiot."
liebies are thiliee brough by storks -
tobrighten iminee.
up bright and strong and happy. ,
So it is the wisest policy, after all. for
you to try to follow mother's advico—
and only heed the editor as a man who,
while he likes little girls, knows very
little about them as coinpare4 to what
your mother and grandmother know.
vasamasmowerattwitsmosmollo..14.0M.S1
OWES.'
HER
LIFE T
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Vienna, IV,. Va. -- "I feel that/ owe
the last ten years of my life to liydia
E. Pinklutra's Vege.
table Compoud.
Eleven years age I
was a walking
shadow. I had been
under the doctor's
carebutgotnoreliet
My husband per-
suaded me to try
Lydia E. Einkham's
Vegetable 'COM.
pound and itwerked
like a charm. It- re-
lieved ali my paint
and misery. I advise all suffering
Wotnen to take Lydia E. rinkhanes
Vegetable -Compound."—MnS.Estitit.
WirnATesr, 'Vienna,
Lydia E. Pinkhanee Vegetable Com.
pound, made from native roott and
herbs, contains no nu:rootlet or harm.
ful drugs, and to -day holds the record
for the largest number of actual curet
of female diseaSes of any -similar Medi.
eine in the emmtry, and thousands of
voluntary testbnonialS Are 011 file in
the rinitham laboratory at ',lints
Mass., from women who have been
cured front Almost every form of
female compIainit, inflittnnation,
eerationalisplacemontkilbrold tumors,
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
Indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every sueh tuffering wentan owes it to
herself to give Lydia E. Plukhata's
Vegetable Conspound a trial.
If yeti avetela lik peeinl advice
abotxt Yeter ease Write u confiders.,
Oat letter to ItrIts PlItUlloIno at
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Sind et,twayt hOLOtola •
I WORKED WONDERS
IN THIS GAS
El
Rhetnnatisin Ancl Weak Heart
Cured ay Docict's kidney
The Doctor Helped Mrs. Stephen Roy,
Rut There Was No Complete Ogre
Till She Tried Dodd's Kidney Pills,
Rock Mills, Grey Co., Ont., Feb, 11,—
(Speelal)—"I must say Dedd's Kidney
Pills worleed wonders in my case," says
Mrs. Stephen Rey, of this place. "I suf-
fered with Inflammatory ithetimatieta
in my right arm, and though I tried
several remedies- the sivelliPg increased
ancl was very painful, My hands and
limbs were also badly ewollen. •
"I got a doctor and he helped me, but
the swelliug never entirely lett. He said
it was becalm my heart was weak, Then
I decided to try. Dodd's Kidney Pills,
and, as I said before, they worked won.
ders."
aisltoixelineuttism of any kind. is caused by
d kidneys failing to strain thd
urio avid out of the blood. Dohd'e KM-
ney Pale cure it'bycuring the Idedrieys.
They also cure the weak heart by mak-
ing pure blood and lessening that or-
gan's work of propelling the blood
through the body.
Dodel's Kidney Pills ouly cure the Kid-
neys, but they alwaya do that. Ansi
with heeltity Kidneys you can't have
Rheumatism, Lumbago, Heart Didditse,
Dropsy or Bright's Ihseaee,
Notes From the World of Science,
An ordinaty gasjet cOnSli rues itS much
oxygen as five persons.
Groat Britain exports about one -quart
ter of the coal it mines.
About, 1,000 windmills nre iinported by
Argentina each month, maioleefroin the
United. States.
Germany now leads the world in the
number of electric furnaces for smeltielee
refining, ant easting,
• The government posts and telegraph
administration controls all wireless tele-
graph stations in France,
Ranking next to the sitir's rays In
stisnolating, and germieldal effecte
the rare from electeie lighte.
Ninety per cent, of the material from
which whisk brooms ore made in the
United States.is hrewn. in Kansne,
Coal Is so scarce in Siam that gas is
not used for illumination, and the only
eity using electricity 'Is Bangkok.
New Jersey maintaine it$ high sten-
dard of public sehools at an average cost
of about 20 cents a day per pupil.
It was about 1720, at Ainsterdam, that
Fahrenheit made his first thermometer,
which bas eerven as a model ever since.
Although. the London Radium Insti-
tute Is to be opened in Oeteber the mant
agement late been unable to obtain the
five anal one-quarter gramma of rad -
hurt whieli it needs for ite therapentie
work,
Ivory may be bleaehed in a bent of
unslaked lime, bran and water, after
which it should be rtibbed with dry hew-
du3t.
Ey the introduction of new presses the
government printing office 19 able to
tnrn out 3,000,000 postal eards a day.
The largest vesecieever hailt in Swit-
zerland, a steamboat 229 feet long, bas
bemi launched for use on 1.,ake Con.
stance.
nuesia has approprieteil nearly $1.,-
00,wo for a eomplete army aeroplane
equipmentethe largest sum expended for
the purpose by any government.
Alaska's gold output last year, accord-
ing to geologicae survey figures MI5
Worth $S0,403,000, the largest yield since
1900, the record year.
Recent tests have shown that enal in
hulk or as duct is not 12. gtood conductor
of electricity, wItlie coal (hits, mixed
into It paste With water, is.
A nen, system of elecerie signalling for
mime, to give as alarm in ease of fire
or Other mishap, operated by a hand
driven generator, has been perfected -
The Ereneh Government is considering
making Greenwich time the compulsory
standard for that nation Instead of the
loeal time of Paris, now generally used.
The army is experimenting with a new
shell designed to pierce a vessel or build-
ing and then seatter scores of bullets
earied behind its solid steel head,
ifoks ditCul!'
outckly stops coe's. cures colds hea s
dm throat and lands. . as cents,
• • so,
PLAYGROUND SONGS.
Air—"Nfarching Thro' Georgia."
Let the playground gate swing widely
now upon its hinge,
Let the children romP and play and
h never from you gringo;
ecou will be the wiser if you study all
our ways
AI we throught life pass before you.
Chorus.
tiutrah! Hurrah: the playgrounds now
hold sway;
leurrehl Hurraht this is the children's
day.
Dr, Stecher and his colleagues say all
happy We must be
As we go Marching through the play-
grounds.
2
Now our teacher comes to us with song
and fairy tales;
Don't we /eve to hear about the geblias
and their wails:
Then she tells all about the boat with
many sails,
.As we go marching to the sand -pile.
3
Ob. we hunt the sipper, and the squirrel
then we than;
As we dodge about We see many and
many O. Sae*
COM111g in to help 1111, and try to keep
the paee
As one by one they Join the new race.
4
Five sonorouS chimes now tell the com-
ing of the hour
When the gates swing baelt upon a
crowd whose foreheads letwer.
Loth tO leave the place they love, their
teachers in the tower,
And go marching home in the auntet,
Air—"Patter, Patter, Conies the Bain."
Futter, patter, come the feet, Omit the
Mist, eomtt the feet,
Tripping dawn oar city street, city
street;
"ris the children great and small, groat
and small, great and emelt,
tiONV released unttf the fall gringo bath
their hooka.
To the playgroundnew they wend, now
they wend, ell their way,
At %Ere together they "aill Stan they will
stay,
there to spend a happy day, liaPeY MeV,
happy day,
Shipping. Suniping climbing, hopping,
Whim and gay.
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%eh, the teachCl$,'ot)C aria all, One and
and all. ope their hearts,
'Ili their charges:, great and small, great
heal small, meat and mall;
Naomi titillt8 es'. whit% eitinna34e TOWS
titter May. love their man
dolt( ithedienee soon will smell*, when
the wav.
tilDN'T CONTRADICT HIM.
(Boston Transeript)
,Teek--Do. yon believe. that women al -
wave clemaml the 1414 word?
etometNet invariably. Last. night
ruy gill I waeuet worthy of hr
and: she retimined silent.
THE STUFFED DUCK
One bright summer's day (!hobel went
marketing with his father. They stop-
ped at a poulterer's,and while Isis father
was talking to the poultry man, Chobel
anti the poultry man's little hey made
themselves ver,t- busy with a duck that
was banning near the door of the shop.
Vitally, the father .of Umbel turned
arouml and seeing the duck hanging near
the door, examined: "What a fine eineki
Row many pounds does it way?"
The poniterer weighed. the (lack at
10 pounds and the father et cliehei
bought it and carried it bow.
The next day, when the mother el
Chobel began to dress the dnek for diu.
ner, she gave a little ery and called. to
Chohers father, whereupon the father of
Chobei wait into the kitehen, seized the,
duqk nnti f: role out of the house with
It. Chobei followed him,
In great wrath the father or Chnbel
threw down the (twee Were the poul-
terer tout mid:
"You have clouted me, Imnernwe
girl"
The poulterer gasped, eorsidered
himself ea honest marl, .
"When the duck MS opeued," puffed
'Chobei's father, "it was found to be
stuffed with sand."
"Stuffed with sand!" echoed the poult
teree. "You are either telling an un-
truth, honorable eir, or else you stuffed
the bird yourself."
lIa waa very angry, and the father of
Chobet Was even more so.
"Ohl obf oh!" pelmet Chobei.
Ohl oh/ oh I" mewed the poulterer's
little boy.
"Stopthat noise!" bade the father
of Oholeci.
"Stop that noise!" shouted the Penh
terer.
"But, lemorAble fethcr," saki Chobei,
"it was not the honorable poulterer man.
It was 1 who nide it fool of you and
stuffed the duck with sand."
"And, father," said the poulterer's
eon, "it WAS 1/0t your honorable custom-
er who made a thief of you, It 121119
who held the dueleat bill (men so OM
the sand might run down its threet and
fatten it,"
Chobeiei father and the poulterer
looked at one another, smiled anti lowed.
Then they turned to their sons and
said: "Next time the rattan,"
Useful Around the Farm,
'Enclosed please find one 'loiter for
which please send me two large 500, hot -
dee of Nerviline. It is e. reinedy that
do not core to be without. It is eepto
chilly good motni(1 the farrn for man or
beast. The worst neuralgia it eures 81
once. Ism: a eeld, sore Ovoid oiehest
affection, nothing is better than Nerd.
line.'
(Signed) Rieliard Hamlyn.
lerenell Elva, Out.
Get Nerviline Loslay. SOW hy an deal -
era. iti 251 aud 50e hot t1 ts.
ECONOMY TIP.
Heve you a f rl rigs les 8152r
The lack is easily made geed.
The triek is done with a 5trip of car-
pet,
friAngney;ld Piece of In uesehe will do.
It is well to take it the sangth to he
After it is washed and dried. out off
owiluTv.
ese I ve. .
Then rateed
vel, ravel, and ravel the
Only the warp is worth saving, the
celored woolly pile being '1 1)0 use
The woof forme ihmther Arbil b
may be eleily sewed to a rag.
But the warp, which._ Lae teen (etre-
Nile- raveled eta, i knotteo in.
OR I TI OS.
"Only competent critics can give corm
potent criticisms," said A.dmiral Mahan,
at the Immortals' recent remotion in
New York, "The ignobler the critie, the
ignobler the eritieism—even of the very
finest things—that he will pronounce.
"A man in a bar was praising a fam-
ous Ainerican jeurnalist, a justly tam -
clue journalist, 0 journitliet who gets
out a really fine paper.
• "'Yes,' the bartender agreed, ads
paper is a gooal one. It picked two
.winners last week.'"
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.B—uTninte, heart howed down by weight of
woe to weakest hope will cling.-- Alfred
Children's Scalp Sores are
:Healed by Zana.Buk.
Mothers are well aware liow Ire -
()newly ehildren roamer sealp O'J1'09
.ringworin. este., at school. Some little
sufferer is sent to sawn' with a sore
of this nature. At play, the 1'1111(111v
change rapA, and right there the ft-
feetion is spread —the damapv done.
'Some children ere partieutarly 12,
able to scalp sores, et('.. and often these
break out with annoying frequency.
kbteli a case was that or thP danghter
of Mrs. Albert (4ae4ike, of 481 Am-
herst street, Montreal, Mrs, IMedike
eayst "My little three year old daugh-
ter suffered frequently from sealp dis-
ease, and try es we would, we cotdd
not rid the little one 11( 11)18, We tried
everything we eould think of. but failed
to effect a cure, nail we were advised
to try Zeta -link, This batm seemed en.
tirely different to anything we had ever
tried before, end from first applying it
there wee a marked improvement. rilw
sores beiante levs inflamed and less
ritabl. After a few days, they ceased
to trouble the ehild; and in 19e5 than a
fortnight :from first wean:mein with
'Am -Belk, they were eompletely healed,
in view of Mee faete feel It ruY (WY
to let inothere know how beneficial
ZarieBult
There Is 110 doubt Olt for scalp
sores, ringworm Ware, abeceeeee, cold
eracke, chapped halide, frost lute and
similar solve, Zamaik it .absolutely
without equal. It is just as good for
piles, vari(2ose soree, 1)0190804 wounde,
eats, barns and Scalds. Rubbed well in
ever the affected part, it mires theme.
tism, sciestiea, etc., ete., and rubbed into
the chest It relieves the tightness and
feeling of weight duo to contraeting a
bad Cold, All druggists and. fames sell
at 50e, box, or post free from Zane -Bute
Co., Termite, for price. 'Refuse !mita.
Von%
NEW STAR FOR NEW YEAR,
Pe
Discovery of Oxford Man Raises an
Astronomical Question.
A new star for the new year 15 discovt
ered thie week by Me. leepin, an Oxford
wan, 80 Professor Tumor notss with a
toueh of. pride, says the London Satin -
(lay Review, All the ventilation is
again raised. Astronomere me generally
agreed that thew ."new" stnrs are due
to the collision of aetral bedies•' the dis-
pute is an to theirh
caracter andthe way
of their meeting.
d 1" Certainlytivi ibytthlete blinaizeihtiginutpereis,rnighelentteewr
star iz that of Professor Tuner. In
1001, it seems, light was caught in the
net of traveling! In 1901 a new star shot
suddenly up in Perseus to hist magni-
tude and then died away. But after the
"flash" a nebulous. appeatenee 22183 de -
team' around the star; wiiieh was ob.
served to be spreading outward. This
V3 s flue "flash" traveling outward, to
"(11010 and more distant peat; of a, vast
diffuse body," In fact, hoe was a light
reverberating through that clouds like a
peel of thunder. .Tlie speed of the jour-
ney alone proved that thutraveler 11111
light and none other; for no other veto-
eity was comparable.
The crowning proof that the haze of
light observed to he moving in this !way
was the refteetion of the "flash," and
not independent of it, 21119 that the spec.
trutu of the "flash" mud the spectrum of
the Mbielolli haze were
HOW HE SALTED THE COWS.
(Barnesville (O.), W.b.etstonee
Arthur Mannix, a farmer living near
ITanimond, Ind., was astounded :11onday
at the sight of his herd of core being,
madly pursued by four of his horses. As
a cow dropped from exhaustion the far-
mer ran to the rescue, expeeting to see
her trampled. Instead, the horses eager-
ly began lieking her hide. levestigation
die:closed that a chore boy from Chicago,
recently employed, when told to "salt
the cows," had carefully rubbed the salt
all over the animals, working it into the
11811, and the horses were "Stilt hungry."
THE WORLD'S BEST HORSES.
Our hunters, harnesi hol•ses end other
teiltes of lightdegged hersee were never
better than they are now. There may bs,
ftwer of them, but the standard of qual-
ity is being fully maintained, English
and Insh-bred horses by common consent
still rank as the best in the world,—Lon-
don Estate Magazioe.
PENSIVE BEAUTY BEREAVEMENT.
THE
DrCHEnetii1 MA FROli A NEW l'ItoTOGII t.PII,
The beanie', yeutle and widowhood of this American r130:10,9a mkt
sentimental Paris. whore she has resided since her marriage than
two yeare up. The blond hair of 1 he girlish einelws sirdeingly con.
Wets trial het. i.ortihre garb of mourning when Elle thilV nbread in the
city, vitt her eaee, touched with the melancholy a bnetivOnlent, mikes
. particular appeal to the seutpuen 101 Ph1181:111P. Sne woo, boAro
martiAgo. Theodora shonto, .datighto c of the financier, railroad magneto
,and Penenta
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FOR THE AFFLICTED.
Utra0 a ;plaint old eornercil cupboard
My friend unlocked one day,
Where the .clia!‘.'est bits of adze
Vere safely laid awayl
And I 'wondered such thing.) of beauty
Wore hidden thus from sight,
Thiugs that were eurely made
11FC and our delight.
rott she kaidi "They are all too preeb
oils,
Too fragile for daily 11i0 --
Too fragile for rareless touches,
Too frail for the least abuse;
We eau keep thein here in safety,
Shut in from dust and dirt,
Shut in from niedilleeome fingers,
From aught that can harm or hurt.
Tint when nn some festal day
We bring out the brightest and best,
Theo we carefull,y take them away
And place thou among the testi
And their heaute... Aims "he bright
It certainly does atone.,
For all of the many days
They are shut in here, alone."
Then I thought of the darkened rooms
Where SO many ere .ehut away
From the pleasures and joys of earth,
And the eheerful light of tlay.
The Master may think them too precious
For the eroWded walks of life,
So Ile keeps them safely hidden
From its troubles and its strife..
But .when at thefeaPt to come
Ile gathers His jewels bright,
place them honored of all,
Where they'll :thine in His glorious
light,
Their names Ile will proudly own,
For they've grewn to Ilia Iteert so
dear.
It is surely not proof of His love,
His keeping them "shut in" beret
Matt. 0:0, Rom. 8:28. James aile.
A PRAYER.
(Edward Arlikur Wicher),
0 God, our heavenly Fatfierdewhohast,
taught us by the word and example Of —
Thy blessed Son not to be cumbered
with desires for worldly gain and ad, •
vantage,. and hest promised to us all
good things of which we have need, we
acknowledge and confess to Theo thot
We are ever prone to allow our proper
foresight in temporal. affairs to beet:112e
degraded to a vain anxiety about the
concerns of this world ansi a sinful covet
tousness for riches. We beseech Thee,
for the sake of Christ, to pardon us our
grevious fault, (ma more and more to
wean our affection from the lust of
money and the pride.of power, the love
of comfort and the fear 'Of hardship;
and help us to fix th,etateponpurity and
integrity of body and soul, singleness of
eye and fulness of light, and the life that
is hidden with Christ in God. And
vouchsafe Thine aid that, beyond all
earthly preferment, We may desire
these things for ourselves and our chil-
dren, tutto all generatibna, through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
'THE KINGDOM. .
Prayer is a plank in the platform of
the kingdom of Gad. Every plank is re-
lated, fitted, in compactness and. beau-
ty. The kingdom is onegrand whole;
it is washed by the waters of time,
basks in the Relit of the suet and on an-
other shore there shines another light
which would break the back of .a die
tionary to describe. Time is on one
side'eternity is on the other, and yet
the kingdom is connected, held together
not by cheins of iron or of gold, a king-
dom not of this world.
Ile'hat do we know of its genius, its
laws, ite administration, its-colonies'its
glory, its deetiny? The subjects of this
kingdom live a double life; they bend
ina,gnificent laws; they are thrilled
vibrations of far-reaching wires; the
bosom throbs with a dual life; there is
the life of the flesh; there is the lite of
the spirit, andyet this life is one. The
life is held, enjoyed and, given. Held In
God, enjoyed 'unto God, .sacrificed tb
God. Self ever absorbs, unself empties
out all, gives the best, the highest, tb.e
most,
Sacrifiee of thanksgiving, worship,
adoration, .freely laid% on the altar of
incense, already sprinkled with blood by
priestly hands, This is prayer; receiv-
ing, enjoying, giving. The order ot. sae'
rifice is the elided, the purest and most
lasting. Ile who is a memberof this
-
order, who walks in this procession, is
heading for the kingdom of God.
Prayer is a. brebth, a bloom, a beauty;
prayer is a fragrance, a flower, a fruit,
It is not occasional, emotional, erratic;
it is simple., natural Ana strong to the
heaven born and heaven bound. Itis a
spell, a garment, a mystery; it cannot
answer questions, and .asks but few.
It is beautiful as a summer cloud, motet
ed by the wind. of heaven; it moves te
music, rests in peace, dissolves in team
of greatest joy. It does not seek, it
finds, it gives, The smoke of its sami-
fiee gives joy to the inhabitants of heave
en, and brings down blessings on earth.
The Ohristian'il prayer is supernatueal
talk and supernatural work; it is not
alone, never unettendedotever without
a pilot. Prayer is the voice of one who
is free, and yet the, bond -slave of the
Highest Master. Prayer is spirit acting
on spirit; it gives, it waits, t pleads, it
weeps.
Prayer De a law of the kingdom; it is
my breath, my bounty, mg blist, tho
hand by which 1 iinia another hand, the
eye by which I see, and by which my
Father sees me. My law, my life, my
m
grace, y glory. Prai
yer s the instinct
of a redeemed. soul.
"What litonble halide unbar those gates
of morn,
Through which the splendoes of the new
day buret."
THE PENSION ABUSE.
Just pensions strehgthen the nation,
but public liergessee debilitate it.
To Ada now 45 or 50 milliens to the
annual charges of the pension roll Is
to loot the treasury, and put honed
soldiers to shame.
That tile line between liberality and
lergese has already been passed 18
dent from the feet that the further we .
get front the great war of the sixties
the linger groves the roll of its pension-
ers And the greater the volute° Of Dublin
expenditure on that account.
In 1870 there were 198,08d pensioners,
In 1800 the Member WAS 437,044, and lit
1010 there were 021,083.
In 1870 the total 0810111111 paid for pen -
810113 \1'(t9 $20.451,188. Twenty years
tater it ‚was $1011,093,1330, And forty years
later alt30,974,thee.
It le as if pen -done Were living thiuge,
that phew by what they fed ont
ditettm idle the hunter( of publie. tax*
1031) hae beemine neatly unbearable.
Congresses Itat.e given
Way to the tweatillionaloliar flougresses,
ruon eNtortionate tariff all sortA
of 'taxes, tilted and indireet, are isiled.
sweepiteg torperation tax, has been
lee ied, atel an Weenie tex is imperatively
required.
Thi« ie the ;Lie, for more cent:Amy and
te4si Mention.- ddew 'York American.