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The Brussels Post, 1908-8-13, Page 5.s,001111: +a® ¢ot dao-wearaosrgrs it OUB \ 1.Y FOLKS e:aer A GAME' OF TWO. While their mother was sick, Ted and Jimmy were spending two weeks in the country at Uncle Joe's, He was a fine uncle, they both thought; but much of the time be was busy with his writing, and then the hours hung heavy. Tne novelty of the little farm was worn oft; the'r'e was noplaee to fish; and the only horse on the place was Uncle Joe's own saddle -horse, too powerful forsmall boys to be trust- ed alone with. Uncle Joe knew all' this, and he was not cuprised or the third morning to be roused from work by Ted, who entered and sat down with a gloomy sigh. "What's the matter 1' he inquir- ed: "I want to play baseball, Uncle Joe." "Why don't you 1" "There's only Jimmy and me, two can't. There's—there's mo fun in places where there's a lot oys, don't you think, Uncle Joe Ted spoke delicately, for he did n • wish to 'hurt his uncle's feeling but Uncle Joe understood. He ways had a way of understands the boys. "You might play wa ball," he suggested. "What's that 1" inquired his n phew. "You need," said Uncle Joe, ball, not too hard, four barre staves, a shingle, and the back a wood -shed." Ted's eyes opened wide. "Soup like a funny game l" "You get the barrel -staves, an I'll oome out and show you," r plied his uncle. When the staves, the shingle, an Jimmy were collected, Uncle Jo sharpened one end of three of th staves, and stuck them in th ground edgewise in a row a fo apart about five feet out from th wood -shed. Then he laid the shingl . across their tops. The fourt stave he shaved down neatly for third of its length, and then wrap ped the cut part in cloth. "That's the bat," he explained "and the cloth is put on so that won't hurt your hands." "We've got a good bat, Uncl ,Toe," said Ted. But Uncle Jo laughed. "Not so good as this for wal ball," he said. Then he statione Ted, with the bat, a yard in fron of the three staves and the shingle "Now," he explained, "Jimm shall pitch to you; but he mus stand back of this line." He mark ed a line about forty feet from th shed. "If you miss the ball, an it knocks off the shingle, you ar outs and Jimmy bats. If you hi it, 1n any direction, you must run to that tree and back, and you count as many runs as you can make trips before Jimmy can either throw the ball so as to knock off the shingle, or can stand on the home base with the ball. But if he catches on the' fly, or reaches the home base with it, or knocks off the shingle while you are still running, you are out." "How about fouls 1" asked Ted. "A foul is as good as a fair ball in this game; only the wood -shed is on the pitcher's side, remember." "Sounds more like cricket than like baseball," objected Jimmy, who had read books on games and -was well posted, "but I think I'd like to try it." "You may call it wood -shed crick- et if you like," answered Uncle Joe, his eyes twinkling. Xe returned to his writing, and was interrupted no more that morning. But two hot and red-fac- ed nephews met him at luncheon. "How did it rot" he asked. "I'm ahead !" cried Jimmy. "Five runs l" "He's got sixty-two, and I've got only fifty-seven," said Ted, sober- ly. "But we're going to play all the afternoon, and I bet I beat him ! When is. the game over, Uncle Joel" "Not until the wood -shed is tired," said, Uncle Joe, again with the twinkle in his eyes. — Youth's Companion. WHEN ANIMALS "TALL" and re of 1' ' ot s; al - ng 11- 0- 1- of ds d 0- d e e ot e e h a it e e 1- d t y t e d e hi Silence it not absolutely necessary for the safety of wild animals, says a naturalist, who recently spent sometime, in African forests. Wild animals aro not so noisy and "talka- tive" as are those of domestic life; but, then, the wilder tribes of man- kind axe more taciturn that the civilized races. This is mainly due, in both oases, to the lack of social intimacy and nomadic habits. The carnivorous animals, the only na- tural cause of fear the other crea- tures have, depend mainly inion their sense of smell. They also hunt by night, seizing their prey while asleep. The chimpanzee frequently breaks the forest's silence by answering the cries of other an - finals, The gorilla also will, on oe- caaion, break out into a flood of. speech; while other monkeys .are persistent chatterers, and at almost any hour, too, At .night the trum- peting of the elephant and the bel- low of the hippopotamus are corn- mon. ormmon. The antelopes also ""cry" at night, when the leopard hunts them, the butte; and the chisel, Food i/ Products Libby's Swee Mixed Pickles That firm, crisp quality and delicious flavor is what you get when you insist on LibbY'S Mixed Sickles at your dealers. They are always the finest and never disappoint- It's the same with Libby'a Sweet Gherkins and Sweet Midgets. Ask for them. Libby's Olives The cultivation of centuries marks the olive groves of Spain as the world's best. Libby's Olives are imported from the oldest and most famous of these groves_ The result is a rare product, delightfully appetiz- ing. Try one bottle and you'll buy more and never be without them. Libby's Preserves Pure, ripe fruit and pure sugar in equal parts, cooked just right and timed to the second, in Libby's Great White Kitch- en, is the secret of the extreme superiority of Libby's Preserves. There's none as good at any price. Grocers and delicatessen stores carry all of Libby's Food Pro- ducts. They are ware ranted the best to both you and the dealer Write for free booklet—'•Flow to Alar coed Thmes to Bat." Insist on Libby's al your dealer's. Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago. LIBRARY BUREAU OF CANADA Have fitted up Libraries at Ottawa, Toronto, Belle- ville, Brampton, Ohatham and Sarnia, and are the only Canadian Company that can furnish full infor- mation in regard to Card Catalogs, Charging Sys- tems, Furniture and Book Stacks. Information sent free of charge on application. Library Bureau of Canada mortise, 79 BAY STREET, TORONTO, ONT. Oro packet has actually killed a buehol of flips. --- BOLD BV --- ORUOOISTS, 0500553 ARn GENERAL STORES 10c. per packet, or a packets for 280. Lamaraamsrowill last a whole, season. ociromoma LOGIC. "Look here, waiter, this pudding is wrongly named," grumbled a guest when brought the ice cream pudding she had ordered. "There ought to be ice cream served with it." "Cannot help it, mum," replied the waiter. "'We don't name the puddings. "Besides, you don't get a cottage with a cottage pudding, you know." Cupid used to aim his dart at a maiden's fragile heart. Now he aims, with cunning look, at her fath- er's pocket book. THERE ARE OTHERS. Teacher—"Johnny, can you tell me what great crime Nero was guilty of 1" Johnny—"Yes'rn, He played the fiddle. ISSt1Ii NO, 82—IIB,, EMERGENCY WAR -CHESTS, Money Does not Last Long 'When War Begins. The $30,000,000 in gold, which Germany keeps hoarded up in the Julius Tower at Spandau against the next great European war, and which certain clerical members of the Reichstag recently wanted to eouvert to other and more immedi- ate nods of the Empire, is not a great sum as Government war - chests go, In the event of hostilities breaking out with, say, France, it would probably be exhausted inside of a week: True, in the war of 1870-71, Bis- marck made the $26,000,000 he had on hand last over the first fortnight, But wars then were not nearly so costly as they have since become. Russia possessed a war -chest of $200,000,000 when hostilities broke out between her and Japan in 1904, Or, at all events, so she asserted. Yet she was borrowing money freely before the campaign was four weeks old. This, by the bye, was the biggest "kriegschatz" (emergency war- chest) ever got together by any na- tipn, although the United States once bid fair to equal it. This was after the civil war of 1861-66, when the Government at Washington was in such dire straits for money that is notes sank in vale until they would fetch something less than one- third their face value. One of the first things it did, con- sequently, when public credit was at length, fully restored, was to start a "kriegschatz" with an eye to future emergencies. Its war treas- ure, however, was not in gold, but in coined silver, and the weight of this presently broke down the walls of the treasury, the resultant ava- lanche of dollars killing, and tem porarily burying, several unhappy clerks. After this experience, the United States determined to rely, as does Britain, on her ordinary bank re- serve. SKILLED. "How did you acquire such skill 1" asked the inquisitive one of the clev- er juggler. "Why, I have a natural talent— hereditary, I might say. My fath- er used to eat peas with a knife." 1' MOTH E Sv Give the Children a Chance Spanking does not cure children ; of bed-wetting. There is a consti- tutional cause for this trouble, Mrs. M. Summers, Box 100, Wind- sor, Ont., will send free to any mother her successful home treat- ment, with full instructions. Send no money, but write her to -clay if ' your children trouble you in this J way. Don't blame the child, the chances are it can't help it. This treatment also cures adults and aged people troubled with urine calamities by day or night. Everything he wants will come to the man who waits until he doesn't want anything. They Cleanse the System Thor- oughly. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills clear the stomach and bow- els of bilious matter, cause the ex- cretory vessels to throw off impuri- ties from the blood into the bowels and expel the deleterious plass from the body. They do this with- out pain or inconvenience to the patient, who apeedily realizes their good offices as soon as they begin to take effect. They have strong recommendations from all kinds of people. They met in the street. "Do you remember mel" "Can't say that I do." "Well, just ten years ago to- night I asked you for a match at this corner. You gave it to me, I went home, Iit the match, accident- ally burnt the house_' down, and got a thousand dollars insurance. I am glad of an opportunity to reward you—" "With—" "Withan_ other match." egrosetualeesexio The final luxury of'tea-drinking, (he quality which distinguishes it as the world's best, is assured users of "Salads" Tea. Ask your grocer. DEAR OLD DAYS. "Why do you stick out the middle finger of your right hand so straight while you are eating i" asked the compassionate woman. "Was it broken7" "No, mum," answered the hobo, with a sniffle. "But during my halc- yon days I wore a diamond ring on that finger, and old habits are hard to break, mum." Lord Lewson—"Why, Pat, there need to be two windmills there," Pat ---"Throe for you, sir,"' Lord Leveson—"Why is there hub one now 1" Pat--"Bodad, they took ono down to lave more wind for t'oth- er." Do you happen to know a father who would want hie son to fellow in his footstepa1 CAANI`1, SUPERINTENDI'EN"T. On Allan Lino Docks at Liverpool, "Jack" Starts Day's Week. A retriever known as Jack has taken upon himself the duties of canine superintendent of the Allan Liue at The Canada dock, Liver- pool. Ae soon as one of the com- pany's steamers arrives he is the first up the plank, making ti'aoks for the galley, where the cook awaits him with a bone. At 7 o'clock every morning he ushers the dock laborers to their work, barking at the head of the procession. He accompanies them out to dinner, and leads them in again for the afternoon. Jack at 1 -o'clock then may go a mile away to board an Allan steamer in the graving dock, but he never makes the mistake of going on a wrong vessel. Sunday is jack's visiting day. How he found out various Allan officials' homes in Everton or Wal- ton, miles away, nobody knows, but he barks at the doors regularly and is taken in to dinner at house and to tea at another. At 11 o'clock at night he returns to the dock, where be barks until the watchman opens the gate for him. BABY'S GREAT DANGER DURING ROT WEITHER More little lives are lost during the hot weather than at any other time of the year, diarrhoea, dysen try, cholera, infanturn and stomach troubles come without warning, and when a medicine is not at hand to give promptly the short delay too frequently means that the child has passed beyond aid. During the hot weather months Baby's Own Tab- lets should be kept in every home where there are small children. An occasional dose of the Tablets will prevent stomach and bowel trou- bles. Or if the trouble comes un- awares the prompt use of this me- dicine will bring the child through safely. Mrs. J. Renard, New Glas- gow, Que., says :—"One of my chil- dren had a severe attack of diar- rhoea which Baby's Own Tablets promptly cured. I know of no me- dicine so good for stomach and bowel troubles." Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. RACE FOLLOWING. Wig—"Bjones follows the races, doesn't het" Wagg—"Yes, that is, I've never heard that he was ever ahead of them." The Crick in the Beek — "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," sings the poet. But what about the touch of rheumatism and lumbago, which is so common now 1 There is no poetry in that touch, for it renders life miserable. Yet how delighted is the sense of relief when an application. of Dr. Thomas' Eolectric Oil drives pain away. There is nothing equals it, "Why, Jimmie, is it trite that you gave little Bobbie a black eye 1" "Y—yessum." "What excuse have you for such a brutal set 1" "W— well, he provoked me." "How did ho provoke you 1" "He hit me back 1" Wook and Palo Women foolishly keep the way when by the use of "rorrovim, " the bes0l *on , they 05014 0 4 v very quickly recover thofrhealth7. Howson—"That man Scalper has a natural bent towards specula- tion." Hume—"Yes, and the, last time he bent too far and got broken." They Advertise Themselves,—Im- mediately they were offered to the public, Parmelee's' Vegetable Pills became popular because of the good report they made for themselves. That reputation has grown, and they now rank among the first me- dicines for use In attacks of dys- pepsia and biliousness, complaints of the liver and kidneys, rheuma- tism, fever and ague and the in- numerable complications to which these ailments give rise. a li a 0 to cc b to r ill y 00 th d li Sc w ch fo et 05 Ca ar di hes "Dat boy," said the negro sadly, s •lie • prepared to administer to ttle Ephraim Rastas his eighth panking in the last three days, "is mighty bad boy. He's de white heop of de fatally." • Regarded as one of the most po- nt compounds ever introduced ith which to combat all summer mplaints and inflammation of the owels, Dr. J. D. Kollog's D,ysen- ry Oordiebl has won for itself a eputation that no other cordial for e purpose can aspire to. Foe ,ung or old suffering from these mplaints it is the best medicine at can bo procured, An old woman of the name of Gor». en, in the North of Scotland, was. sterling to the account given in ripture of Solomon's glory, which as read to her by a little -grand- ild. When the little girl eame to ell of the thousand carnets which tined part of. the Jewish Sov- eign's live stock, "Eft,' lassie," led the old 'woman, "a thousand mpbclls, say yet The Oarapbolls e an Auld clan, euro eneuoh; but pm ye see the Gordons, tool" Looks now es though we ought tof at a good ice crop, ALL RUN" DOWN. 41,ls Dells Slroebe, who had Com- pSlelely LOST Bar ffeallh, ,Fonud Pelieffrom Pe-ru-na at Once. Read What She SSays. T(i ISS I)ISLI,A STBO10B17, 710 Rich- mond St., Appleton, Wis., writes: "Lor several years T ',vas in a Sun- down condition, and Icould find no re- lief from doctors and medicines. I could not enjoy my meals, and could not sloop at night. I bad heavy, dark circles about the oyes. "My friends were mnell alarmed. I was advised to give reruns, a trial, and to Iny joy I began to improve with the first bottle. After taking six bottles I felt completelyonrod• ' I cannot say too much for Peruna as a medicine for women in a run-down condition." Pe-ru-na Did. Wonders. Mrs. Judge J• 1?'. Boyer,4421 Sherman Ave.,, Evanston, Ill., says that silo be- came run down, could neither eat nor sleep well, andlostflesh and spirit. Po- runadid wonders for bor, and shothanks ,Peruna for new life and strength. 900 CUBIC FEET OF GOLD. All the gold mined during the year 1900, says Mr. T. F. Van Wagenen, could be packed into a room 10 feet square and -9 feet high The value of this gold is about $400, 000,000, and its weight is nearly 074 tons. Since the discovery of Amer- ica the world has mined altogether about 21,424 tons of gold. That part of the globe controlled by the Anglo- Saxon race has been the most pro- lific in gold, having produced five - sixths of the total amount mined in 1906. A CONTEST WORTH TERING. A Life Annuity of FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS is offered by the ORANGE MEAT people to the one sending in the largest number of bottoms of ORANGE MEAT pack- ages before May 31, 1909. This means that the winner will receive One Dollar EVERY WEEK, or FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS every year, as long as he or she lives or they can exchange it for a OASH PRIZE of SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. Besides the above there is a sec- ond Cash Prize of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, also other Cash Prizes as follows:— Ten Cash Prizes of TWENTY DOLLARS eaoh, Ten Cash Prizes of TEN DOL- LARS each. Twenty Cash Prizes of FIVE I)OLLARS each, and ONE HUN- DRED Cash Prizes of ONE DOL- LAR each. The only condition attached is that you out out the bottoms of the ORANGE MEAT packages and send them in to ORANGE MEAT, Kingston. The bottom of a Jumbo package counts equal to Three of the smaller size. You should be able to win one of the above prizes if you start immediately and get your friends to help you. Send your name and address to ORANGE MEAT, Kingston, TO- DAY, and state that you are en- tering the contest. It is surely worth trying for. "How did the wedding come oft to -day l" "Without a hitch." "Glad to hear it." "I said without a hitch. The bride backed out at the last minute." You cannot be happy while you have corns. Then do not delay in getting a bottle of Holloway's Corn Cure. It removes all kinds of corns without pain. Failure with it is unknown, Miss Dressington (to little boy who is sidling up to her)—"What do you want, dear—to give me a kiss?" Little Boy—"No, I wants my bread - 'n' -butter that you'se sittin' on!" Scratching is foolish• it only makes a bel .,mutter wora�.i wfaver'stperate allays teepaln, th and other. soros• 'I !e ea,,9 s a t e o orae Ions Why not buy a bottle tepdar 1 The Bank of England is empower- ed by its charter to sell any goods cr merchandise upon which it Inas advanced money, and which have not been redeemed. Help your children to grow strong and robust by counteract- ing anything that acuses ill -health. One great cause of disease in chil- dren is' worms, Remove thorn with Mother Graves' Worm Extermina- 'to1', It never fails, Third -Floor Tenant—"Seo here I I'm ono of a committee of men in Lille building, and I've ealied to ask you to sell your flute," Second- Floor Tenant "Delighted tosee you. S am ono of another colnmit- tee, and was about to come up and ask if you'd sell your, baby" Get acquainted with Slate Watch the big black plug chewing tobacco. A tremendous favorite everywhere, because of its richness and pleasing flavor. oot RECIPES FOR LONG LIFE. 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