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The Huron Expositor, 1903-02-06, Page 36 1903 cdto buy spring heavy clothing to Whether it be d pieces of cloth. get thtm. Call OS The quantity cra any quantity d benefit. at goods, S. T. 110Imer t _South Africa. Ucers„ Feions, Skirt uises, Piles-, Cuts, C E. of the r'9 &Me orrr- RV 5th. acknowledged Ind Shorthand 'LIS meth- Ita facilities ld its courses vie. Are you. :hand? We Gregg system. 4ervelt, PRINCIPAL. Come. iving every tew store rop. leterminatl to ev.,:fiare 1 and by Belling good to secur.i the lion's ,:t•oods and comports= d will do. our best to .% our tattteq in every and quick returns. ri is our motto. Ali . n:nv.ricul cf what U TH I I_ L. , - s.., Type- pany. and Blick- . mete for eale ox one, et e.` -,-and all P, 8Penna hand, .. OND, Agent- [ ONTARIO. 1628 ef Mertin Mc l'sborne, in lectased k.et to the revised that at creditore tt..e eltate of the -. or about the ; tirod on or be- tt ad by post • Cr the village of •s2.eltor for the zeit.eLt of tha said Ine..9, addresses of their claims, t the 713.ture of . And notice ie ',title -tied date the ..,ute the assets ot .-t titlel thereto, f which they ohall .id executors will ov part thereof notice ghat' '; the time of such Sr :.citor for ex- . PIETt med. 18324 Farm sion 8, 1). Hill, Staffa. and Ulydesdafe fillies for Bale. iNItore, on arPli- _,:t nsAll or Soafortlx 18284 1 FEBRUARY 6,1903 SLAVES OF FURNITURE. anise Result of Women seeing- Afraid of Beetles send mice. If man is the slave of a dog, woman is the slave of furniture. If women only knew how much more graceful - and the only way is to appeal to their vanity—they would be reclining on–the floor, they would never it up on chairs or round a table. That this is funda- mentally true is proved by the fact that they are never so happy as at a picnic, where there are no chairs and tables. I really believe that the craze for putting everything on something above the floor -by which I mean ta- bles, sideboards etc. -grew from the eitstom of sleeping in ugly, cumber- some and dirt collecting beds instead a on the floor. Of course the reason why women do not sleep on the floor is be- muse they are afraid of beetles and mice and other harmless things. Wom- en, therefore, having Invented the bed, invented the table to stand by it, and thus spread the habit of putting every- thing above the level of the floor. Woman's original sin of being afraid of black beetles and mice costs man more than all the royalty, armies, na- vies, pension lists, prisons, poverty, schooling, national debts and wars of Europe. I am sure I am not putting It too high when I say that the average cost of fur- niture per house is $1,000, and if the world would only agree not to cumber its rooms with beds and tables, side- boards cabinets and chairs our ground rents would be about half what they are, and the overerowding of our cities would come down proportionately. "Domestic Blunders ef Women." +0 The Conduntorei Honest Raketnr. A. conductor of a Sixth avenue car, during a lull in the ringing Of: fares, stood passing coins from one hand to the other, turning UD the date of each coin as he did so. "There are more ways of making money than by 'knock- ing down' fares," he remarked, noting the inquiring look on a passenger's face. "Any greenhorn can pocket a dozen nickels in collecting 120 fares In a car built for forty-eight passengers, but a man has got to know t something to spot a coin that has a premium val- -ue. surprising how many more or less rare coins pass current witheut falling into the hands of some one who knows their value. This was suggest- ed to me one day, and 1 took to study- ing the catalogue of dealers in rare coins and memorizing the, dates of those that are worth more than the prices stamped on them. Since then I have picked out of the money I have taken in fares several hundret edillS With a premium value ranging from a few cents to $5 and have redeemed them with my own money and sold them to dealers in coins." "Blegrovh7 et a snowflake." Under this title Mr. Arthur EL Bell In Knowledge describes the life history of the aerial frost flowers of winter. In order t� have a fair start in life a snowflake should be built up ye a par- ticle of dust. Then, if it has the good fortune to begin its career at the top, of a cloud many miles above the earth and to pass through may atmospheric strata, differing in their temperature and the amount of moisture they con- tain, our snowflake is very likely to become a notable individual among its kind. In a stratum of warmer air the little flake catches moisture on its tiny spleulen and when it enters a colder stratum below the moisture is frozen, and so the flake grews. In a thawing air many flakes sometimes cohere, forming disks from an inch to two or three inches across. Ragged Islaad. Ragged island, alias Crie Haven, on the coast of Maine, Is certainly happy, above most islands. It has neither mice nor magistrates, though its in- habitants number nearly fifty. The eontary doctor comes over when want- ed from the mainland. There Is not the solace of a church, but there is also not the distraction of a lawyer. There are a few cows and horses, but neither dogs nor cats, nor is insect life, If pres- ent at all, a nuisaltee'even in the hot- test season. The natives catch lobsters and eat all that they cannot sell. Plante That Hate Each Other, Fancy two plants being so unfriendly, that the mere neighborhood of one Is death to the other! Yet that is the case with. two well known British plants. These are the thistle and the rape. If the field is infested with thistles, whieli come up year after year and ruin the crops, all you have to do is to sow it with rape. The thistle will be absolute- ly annihilated. A Monster Bird. Freddie -Ma, the bat is the biggest bird that flies, ain't it? Ma -By no means, Freddie. Freddie -Well, anyway some of 'em must be mighty big, 'cause I heard fa- ther say he was out on one last night. Juvenile Logic. Mother -To think that my little Ethel should have spoken Bo impatiently to papa today at dinner! She never hears me talk- in that way to him. Ethel (stoutip-Well, but you choosed Lim, and I didn't. Ambiguous. "Dear Father -We are all well and happy. The baby has grown ever so much and has a great deal more sense than he used to have. Hoping the same of you, I remain your daughter, Mol- lie." Conservative. She -Why don't you go out occasion- ally,- dearest, and enjoy yourself, say at the club? Ile -But I don't want to get Into the Ambit of having a good time.-Ltfe. . -Mr- R M Balla) yno has been elened preeident of the Pro net. Merchants' Asso- ciation of hlorartal Mt Ballantyne was formerly poeident (v. the Western Dairy- rnen's A sieiseion for t we terms, and has been a retietiet of Motel real only two yeare. Mr. BAllan• yee le a on of Ron. Thomas Ballantyne, of Stratiord, ex -Speaker of the Ontario fergielat ri re. By pepsia„ Boils, PI pies, He daehes, Coiistlpation, Lois of Appetite, sa4t Rheum, Erysipelas, Se ofula, • , an all troubles ar sing from the St mach, Liver, Bowels or Blood rs. A. • Lathan -nee of Ballyduff, Ont., wr tes: "I believe I wo ld hove been in roY •grave long It nob been for Bu ock Blood Bite t.r. I wets run down to such an extent that I could scare ly move about the house. -I was subject to seetre_re headaches, backaohes end dizzi; nem ; my appetite was gone and 1 was unable to do my houseyeork. After using two bottles of B. B. B. 1 found my health fully restore 1 warmlyreeommend it to all tired and worn oUt women." IMINiRTANT NOTICES. KW FEED STORE AT BLAKE. -We will keep , on hand a supply of Flour and Mid Feed. Flour exchanged for wheat. °lye ue a trial JOHN THIRSK. 1786 tf TORE TO RENT. -To rent in Seaforth one of the best business *tends in the town. Ilas been uted for a ntuubee c;d years for millinery for which there Is albeit elese opening. Also Yonne to rent over store, newly fitted Up and in first clam con- dition. Apply to MRS. JAMES GILLESPIE. ' 1823 -ti CORN FOR SALE.-Lote of the beet American yellow cern always on heed for sale -cash or time, ati arranged. Drive right to warehouse, oppo- site railway passenger station. W. G. PERRIN., Clint, 1831x4 TXTOOD WANTED.-Tendere will be reeeived eine t 1 Monday, February 16th, 1903, ler 12 cords of first•cl an beech and maple wood, 22 inches, de- livered at No. 8 Sehoel,Tuckeranith, before April lot next. Tenders to be addressed to the undersigned at Brncefield P. 0. E. PAPPLE, Secretary. 1831x1 TEAMED WANTED. -Teacher holding certifi- cate of qualification for the NorthWeet Tare.trriesawantd at once. New arid up-to-date sohool, pleaeant and well settled community. Probably nine or ten months school in the year. State exPerienoe, class of certificate, wages and whether 1 sdy or gentle- man. Addrees WM. THIRSK, rat skawio, Alberta, N. W. T. Mere SALE NOTES. -The undersigned eeives notice to 101 parties Interested that hie, sale notes come dee on February let and he desires that they les paid as prcmptly as ponsible. Mr. Campbell will be at his nedenoe, Lot 8, Concession 17, Grey, and parties desiring to pay the money can have their notes by calling en him there. DAVID CAMPBELL, Walton P. 0. 1833x2 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. F&Rif FOR SALE. -A beautiful home in the; Township of Ileborne, containing 100 acres, in a geed etate of cultivation, good buildings, Well w.ter. ed. first class orshird. convenient to sehool and churches and poet office, four mile, from Exeter ; must he sold to (dose an estate. Apply to THOS. CAMERON, Farquhar. 188Ix4 'DARR FOR SALE. -The undersigned offers his X MO acre farm for sale, being Lot 6, Coneeesion 13,Grey There is a good bank lisrn, a brick honeys never failing ,reek, a good hardwood bush an ten antes of fall wheat. The plass is eoneersiently sit- uated, being only three miles from lituseele and one mile from school. The proprietor wffl ell on easy terms as he is giving up farasieg. For forther putieulars apply to the prrprietor, PATRICK BLAKE, Bressele. 1832-tf ' DARR FOR SALE -For sale, West half of Lot 12 U and east halt of Lot 13, on the Ilth eonceseioni of McKillop, oontalaing 76 scree in good state of cultivation, well fenced and uederdrained. There is a leg house, first class bank barn with stone stab7 bling, a good beefing orchard and - a never falling spring. It is within 9 miles of ! Seaforth and front venient to school and other eenvenieneee. Thi farm will be sold cheap in enter to wind up th estate, Apply to ARCHIE MENZIES, Winthrop o AUGH GORDON, Seaforth. 1828 -if TIOUSE FOR SALE. -For salathe residence en North Main Street, Se') forth, owned and *el templed by Mr. N. Latimer. The heave is a eonithe teble frame one, in good repair, with stone founda-; thin under the kitchen. The house contains three liedreonur, parlor, dining room, large kitchen and a summer kitchen, pantry, wash, room and cheete. Hard and soft water in the house. There le an acre and a heti of land well planted with all kinds of fruit. Tbere is a large stable, goed hen house an pie house. This pleasantly situated property, know am the Lee property, will lei sold on reasonable terries Apply to EDWARD LA MER, Seaforth, 1.38x4tf VARA! FOR SALE. -For sale E half of Let 4, Conceeseen 1 perty of the late Lancelot Tao aeres. all cleared except &bent good hardwood bush. The lend is well drained and well tensed grass with the exception of 30 a the premises a la e frame house 40x60 feet, with stone stablin inane sheep and • g house, unde are three wares of ood orchard there being a go.d well at the creek running ao 048 the °entre e of a mile from &Weak, where store, post office, and blacker:el free) Blyth and 10 miles from Se excellent farm eit • er for grazin sold on reaeonabl term. If not Pcraession ean be had at any tim tionlars apply to the executors, Leadbury ; JOHN hieGAVIN, 8 TABER% Clinton I,Atu31:tt, thpro.dir ea ll11 er, eentainiog 221 : /6 acres, which hi is of the very beet and is all seeded to ref. There is on and tyro good berme under one, and a the other. There nd pleety of water, ouse end a spring! of the farm. 11 i there le a school, shop ; 13 7 miles forth. This le an or grain. Will be sold will be rented. . • For farther par - JOHN MoGAVIN, forth; RICHARD 1682-tf • They Postdate the action of the heart and invigorate4he build nerve*. They bud up the r 1111 down eye-. tem as no Sher remedy will do. I They our, Nervonen Sleeploesn Brain Fag, P1p1tI.tton or tie. He After Effents 01 La Grippe, Faint or Dizzy Spells, An ntia, General Debility and all tro blest caused by tho toys - tem being un down. They 1ave Guyed others. They-witl ems, you. 60e. per box or 3for $1.25. , All dealers to The T. Milburn Co. Limited, Totontoi Out Special At co Horseshoe General Jo Goderich aft ntion g and Robert Devereux OLACKSMITH sod CARRIAGE opp. MAKER 2:41, 111.1•••••1•1101•0•116 • 4$ • Seaforth Any sum from $1,000 to $7,000 minion Bank MONEY TOi LOAN both private end company funds, at LOWEST current • rates of interest, and easy oterms of payment. Apply - to R. S. HAS, the Do - lock, Seaforth. 1831-13 I IWIL ANIMAL FIGHTS. no ou rhenicoe Force Expended et esee Fierce Pornbatri.`, In the itched battles which some- timetak : place between the I grea carnivore and the largest a.nd I mos powerful k the ox tribe the forees 0 animal co rage, desperation and bodil strength zist be 'exhibited on a seal never els here seen, Says a w*er 1 Leslie's Wekly. Such combats do oc cur, but a ve seldom been witnessed and etill 1�s frequently described. Tw or three none sometimes combine in such an attack, but from the Mark seen On buffalo It is probable tha somethnethere is a single combet, fo III it can' har ly be supposed that the buf- falo couldi escape from more than one /lion. , The nunliber of foot pounds a flerigy put into s ch a struggle must be !some- thing e ordinary.The effort* of • lion, whi h can_strike a mania ar from the phoulder and leave Wining Mg by a ,istrip of skin or which ca carry a cotv over a high stockade, en deavoring Unsuccessfully in dose grip to drag down or disable a buffalo bull must :be on a gigantic scale, mid th strength which can shake him off and it is believed, occasionally crush th lion afterward must: be even , mor amazing. A buffalo bull bas been cred -Red with engaging three lions le mor tal cOmbat and making a good figh before he was disabled by one of th lions hamstringing him by biting hi legs from behind. Errors of Diet. • An insurance than of my aequain ance ate hearty breakfasts, with me3 t and coffee, a hurried lunch at noo but also with meat, and a heavy dinn r at night He took no exercise, alwa s rode between house and. office, beca «e fat and bloated, and his blood beca ti e so overloaded that he readily SUCCUID ed to disease at forty-five. The wo der was that he lived so long. lie w s a type of -the average well to do oitize Like him, most of us eat too muc says a writer in Good Housekeepin Diet should depend upon tempereme and vocation. At hard work out doors one requires. more nutriment th at sedentary labor indoors. A gradu 1 reduction in diet, even an occasion 1 fast, will cure many ordinary ills. Ai d deep breathing, fresh air, belly buil Ing exercises, plenty ,of sunshine, -Wa- ter inside and out, and it Is astonis ing how much better one feels., 11 Friees For Sermons. ' Much has been Said of the practi e of buying and selling sermons, a pra tice, by the way, of no very sped 1 novelty.- Just before Topladyi w a about to be ordained Osborne, the boo seller, the friend of Johnsen, offer d to supply him with a stock of megin 1 sound sermons for a trifle. "I Would sooner buy secondhand clothes," w: the the tart reply. "Don't be offended, said Osborne. "I have sold many to bishop." , The price of sermons, as 11 all else, has varied with the time. I 1540 a bishop of Llandaff received!fro the churchwardens of St. Margaret' Westminster, for a sermon on the a nunciation a pike, price 2s. 4d.ete ga Ion of wine, eightpence, and boat hir in all Ss. 4d. In the seventeenth ce tury sermons seem to have been value at about'5 shillings each. i - Making. It Clear. , Religid smxamination papers are a encient 4nd unfailing source of• jo . The latet one to be put in evidenc comes fr m an English church tradnin college. Oandldate8 for admission ar required toive in writing some a : count of the religious instruction thed have reev e , and a recent answer t the first two formal questions min a follows: Question: What instruction have yo had in:religious knowledge? Ansiver: None. Question: By whom was it given? Answer: By the vicar. The thing Might have been expresse more lo ically, but not much Imoie clearly. A Guest's Mot. Greville dees not tell the following story In [his famous "Memoirs." ut it Is a fitting return for his own r th r naalicioue wit: On one occasion, vh n Lord Alvanley was his guest, t114 di ing, reom ha1 been newly and sh wi y fernished, Whereas the dinner wals b t a very meager one. While many Of t e nuestrt were complimenting their h t on hi S taste and magnitiCence Lord vanley interrupted them with, "For part, s ould prefer more carving i d less gil g." Changing the Diet. °finial al Ohief-Wasn't that last m s- sionary ou sent us a writer of boeks Agent Yes. Cannibal Chief -And the one befo e was formerly an editor? Ageet-That is correct. Canntbal Chief -Well, I wish yo 'd send ni2 a football player next. T s e medicine teen says we're havin t o much' brain food. Genuine One., A roan drOPped his wig in the str and a, bey Who was following close e - hind the loser picked it up and hand d it to him. "Thank!, ny boy," said the owher f the Wig'tYou are the first genui e hair estore I bave ever seen." 1 t, Hroirel. Father -Well, my son, did you s ceed tn :breaking in the new horees that they would stand the noise steaui? Son -No, father, but I broke the c rlage,, In the the Lover/re Eye. All's fair in love, especially the girl a fellow is in love with.-Philadelp la Record.. MAR IAGE , LIOENS S ISSUEAT , THE, HURON EXPOSITOI IIFFI E )3*A.FORTH, ONTARIO. NO WITNESSE REQUIR Di osrron* F RANC11 Of the 'German pieeSS WOR *Rung i in his- face, but France was saved. De Blowitz was a man who could be absolutely trusted. His desire to TZ, ' AM BAS secure exclusive news was never per - N TIMES." mitted to conquer his private honor. That was why the &ignore of the Treaty of Berlin gave him a copy of SKETCH OF DE BLOVVI SADOR OF THE LOND A Great Journalist ard a • tesn-One Whose Priv tic, Keen That Ryon a Paper Would 'Not -None to Follow. 'allant Gentle - to Honor Was s V, form i al Tempted Him Death has removed he most fee- m011s newspaper col respondent of out time in the person Of 11enrye George Stephane Adolphe Op* de Blowitz, for • thirty Years Paris 'representative of The leondon Tiines4 1n M. .rd. Blowitz was seen the jlournalist ex- ercising the 4ljg-hest fuiections of hp calling. • He was the friend Of kings- the intimate of Prime Minis- ters, the advisers of stktesmen, the savior of his country.,1, Few men in the ,past quarter 61 al century, be they Premiers, soldiers', or writer, have left a plainer ,mak on the hie - tory of the time ,that de Blowite. He was a man whose personaliter • could not be obeciired,: by his, coe- mention with such a great journal as • The Times, and was one of those geniuses who would have attained ame whatever his emc tion. It was by chance that he .becajine a journal:- istg.relatt Nmvn as character hat made him a Cast in Lot -.1 lth Itr.-ance. De Blowitz was an .Ainetrian pro- feesor residing in Mars illes when the Franco-Prussian war 7olte out. He immediately _becanie n atu ral i zed French citizen and e listed in the National Guard 'Jlc important services which he was lable to ren- der the country of his doption dur- ing the Communist i4urrection in • Marseilles we:c recogelieed by the Government and he *as made a knight of the Lettion o Honor. When, all .other coinniunjoaticjn with the outside World Was but IofT, and Mar- seilles was in the handa of the corn- niuni te, a secret legiaph wire kent lnewitz informed of ',all that wa$ happening. niehicts,npeace was restored, M. Th who took .a .w rm interest in the young Austrian, wilsh�d to melee him Consul -General at ttiga. While ne illOwitz was in Pans waiting for the ,details to be settled, he was ac- ciclentally introduced 4o Mr. Lawe renee Oliphant, then Pairis correspon- dent of The. Tinns.! 0 iphant asked de Blowitz to intelvienfr Thiers for his journal; and he wa so successful lin this commission tha Oliphant in - (Weed him to become mem.ber of The Times' •Paris staff., Olip-hant re- signed a year after, mid Mr. John .Delanee editor of the p per, appoint- ed do Blowitz as his s iccessor. °awe of His Great Work's. in the -thirty years of his work, at least a dozen great eve its stand out in clear relief. Three. illlitS, it JO said, cle• 131owita'a :let ers to The Times saved France fro invasion by Germany. The clong conference, which led to the jcroa ion of the Feee State,. under _ leing of Bel- gium's protection:, was largely due to his influence. Ile predicted lluesia's march to Herat. Fin 'lly, in his last year,. M. de Blowi z threw ell his weight- on the sice of Spain the treaty • whiei settled the war with the 'United S ates was -be- ing debated in Paris. ',Leven ,as, every great s idler is re- membered for -one Viet° y above all others, •and as every ioted author has a .magnum opals, so will M. 'db. DI.owitz's naine he fo ever linked with the proposed Ger an invasion of France in 1875. Whn Germa,ny's plans were almost -toed de -Blowitz exposed them by a 1etber in The Times on May 4. h•e uc de Brog- lie says of the le ter: "The effect was deep and instantan ous; it was like a flash of lightningl tearing the "clouds asunder." The s ory of that famous affair was told n Ludy. twenty years afterwards by de lowitz him- s-ef After the Preissian IWar. Though beaten • to -tbe earth by Ge,rmany in 1e70, Prairie° had re- gained her feet in four 4hort years, and once more stood ,erect among the great nations Of th earth. Ger- many shared the antonis ment of the other powers at the m rvelous re- cuperation, and 1.,1--oba11ily felt an instinctive dread: that i Some day' Franco would wipe thEj blood and rest of Sedan from he fleur-do-ifs. When Marshal MacMahpi was made President,- all Europe e pected that the strengthening of the army would be his life work. Backed by popular opinion he decided to cr a.to a fourth bri gad e, and Germany thought she saw her chance. it would be a grave injustice to the country to convey the impression that Ge!ema.n public sentiment would have. endorsed en attac.k on vanquished France. it was the German military party, headed by Count Moltke, was endea- voring to force the Geitman Emper- or's hared. Jealous ofid Bismarck, warned by the Kaieer nt to meddle could only t sonaething in affairs of the army, look on and hope ' th mig-ht eccur to cl-efeat til.e movement for he alone, perhaps, of Geri:leen statesmen foresaw what; -terrible re- sults might follow Germany attei Prince Gortohakoff isia„ would take of ted to sound on tfie view Rus - such ' an invasion, but was unsuccessful. 1-1then, at Big- marck's secret com_mand, the German Ambassador to St. Peitersburg !re- vealed to the FrenchMinister, at Berlin the details of the whole pia. Decazes and Blowitz. Where France before had but fears, she had now a real and terrible fact to confront. The French Minister of Foreign ; Affairs, the Duc Decaaes, summoned -de Blowitz, and laid • be- fore hien document; whilch proved be- yond peradventure Moltke's designs. An exposure of Ger any in The Times, he said, would so -stir bp uhlie opinion all ov r the world hat the Clear of Russi41, would be reed to repudiate 14e imputation 1 being a passive" accoimplice in the mpending devaStation bf a friendly ountree and without a4t understand - ng with Alexander 11., Germany ould- not- dare to act in a word, e Blowite could alive the nation. ould he act? He did act, and the the famous document twenty-four hours before any ether corres-pondent could secure it: They also presented him and his wife with; a handsome fan,- on each stick of which one of the 'delegates had signed his name. King Edward, when Prince of Wales, frequently dined with M. de Blowitz at Paris, as did King Leopold and - the late King Alfonso of Spain, who was his warm personal friend, Could 23ot lie litought. A man of private wealth, and' De- ceiving $10,000 a year and. all ex- penses frena The Times, be was in a position, to laugh at the attempts to bribe him, even had his character been other than it was. The name he bore in Pari -The Ambassador of The Times" -is a title won by a great journalist and : a gallant gentleman. It will -be worn by none who. follow him. .14••• Native Wireless Telegraphy. The Londdn Spectator is giving in- stances of the raysterious conveyance of information by South African na- tives by a species of "wireless teleg- • raphy" with wnich the white man has not yet bOcome fa.milliar. 11. Rid. er Haggai:a, in the issue of Decem- ber 27th, contributes the- following instance: 'About twenty hours before men, • riding as fast as horses could carry • them, brought the news of the disas- ter at Ieandhlwana to, Pretoria, an fold Hoteentot, my washerwoman, in- ' formed me of what had' happened as • an item of interesting news • while delivering the clean clothes. She said that Ceteway.o had gained a great ,victory, and that - the rool-batjes , (red coats) lay upon the field of bat- ' tle `like winter •leaves beneath a •1 tree,' 1 remember I was so impress- ed with her manner that 1 went down to the Government offices to repeat to my superiors what she had said. If I recollect right, she stated that the defeat had taken place on the previous day (January 22, 1879), but my late friend, Sir Melmoth (then Mr.) Osborn pointed out to me that it was impossible that Such tidings could have traveled two hun- dred miles or so in about twelve - hours. Nevertheless, it proved per- fectly correct. Ais to the method of. its conveyance I hazard no opinion. , The theory that intelligence is con- veyed with eectraordinary rapidiity , among the Bantu peoples by men calling it • from - height to height would, however, appear to be falsifi- i ed by the fact that in this instance it .must have come across the great plain of the high veldt." Vitality of Human Skin. Bits of skin rern.oved from the 'body do not die at once, but live a considerable teme-that is, they show ,the same characteristic reactions as when atta,ched to the body. One of Ithese signs is the reaction obtained in healthy. skin to strong electric 'shocks, and this has been observed I,as long as ten days after removal_ from the body. The reaction al- ways takes place when the skin is tested within forty-eight hours af- ter _removal. ,Observatiens on skin: transplantation in surgery show that ekin may be kept alive, with proper precautions, for as long a period as twenty-one days, when • it may be grafted successfully. The -Lancet ev- en tells of a case where from skin Parings preserved for six months in eterile. fluid, sixteen out of •twenty- two transplantations were successful. This is a striking examele of the fact, familiar. to physiologists, that the local death of a part and the general death of the whole orgaelsra nay occur independeatly, so that a mrt may die while the body lives, end on the other hand a part may live for som.e time ,after the body -has - died. Late Primate's Hatred of Verbosity. I Dr. Temple's hatred of verbosity was intense, according to the Eng- lish papeis. On one occasion a Clirgyrnan SO 1) his Otace's per - Mission to add a second living to the one he already held. "What is the, distance between the two itaces?" asked, the archbishop. "On- ly fourteen miles as the crow flies, tny lord," was the eager reply. "You at en't a crow; you can't fly; you Shan't have it!" snapped Dr. Tem- ple. Another time his chaplain was Surprised to eeceive a telegram from the arch!, lishop consisting 41 only the rDeids; "Third John, 13, and 11," tystified, the chaplain turned up his e and read. -'I had many things to write, krut I will not with ink and pen write unto thee. But I trust I shall shortly see thee and we shall peak face to face. Peace be to thee, Our friends salute here. Greet thy friends by name." - ......13••••••••=1:1•1110 John lEnoxes House. Theground floor of John Knox's house, in High street., Edinburgh, has been tra.nsionned into a 'quaint haunt of old books. It has been in. turn a hairdresser's, public house, greengrocer's, restaurant, and to- bacconist's. "Ye house of John Knox," whieh is one of the most picturesque of Edinburgh' relics, was Istanding in 1490. Surviving many vicissitudes till 1559, it was then 'rented by the Town Council of Ediri- iburgh for the "lodging" of John Knox, when they called him to be minister of St. Giles, in 1559. Frona tho west window he frequent0 preached, and here, i,n November, 1572, he died. To seek the South Pole. William, S. Bruce, head of the Scotch south polar expedition, which recently sailed from Troon, has had no little experience in arctic and an 'arctic exploring. Ile sailed as na uralist with an antarctic expeditio which went from Dundee in 1892. also accompanied the Jacksone Harmsworth polar expedition and t Prince of Monaco's expedition Spitzbergen. Altogether four voy- ages have been made to the arctic re- gions by him since 1896. • 0 Well •Macaw. Pure flour and pure yeast o not ecessarily m . ean good brea It ay be spoiled in the ma.king. 1 Just s : material is not ever thing. rot W. Hodgson Ellis, 4Mflcial alyst to the Dominion G vern- ent, after a number of analyses, re- orts that "Sunlight Soap is a pure d well -made soap." "Well made" eans more than you think. Try 8 ight Soap-Oetagon. Bare -next ash day, and you will enjoy e benefits of a " welI-made " s ap,.and will see that Prof, Ellis is ght. No one should know better a he. ' 214 A. EORCE STEWRT FLORIST GpDERICH, ONT. I 104 'PHONE Filoses, Carnations, Valley Violets, etc. Wedding Bunches and Floral Designs a Specialty. Leave your orders with Mr. Charles Aber - h rt, druggist, Seaforth, or send direct to G Stewart, Goderioh. All orders will receive the beet of atten- ti n. Order funeral work early. 182543 A WARNING TO BACKACHE SUFFERERS. Backache may strike you at any time. Comes when you least ex - pct it. Comes as a warning from flie kidneys. A sudden twitch, a sudden Pain. The Kidneys cause it all. If you don't, heed the warning, sefrious Kidney Trpubleeare sure to follow. Cure your Backache by taking DOAN'S KIDNEY PIUS. fr re re There is not a Kidney Ti m Backache to Bright's 1)i at Doan's Kidney Pills wil ieve promptly and cure ickly than any other ki edy. uble, ease, not ore ney c. per box or 3 for $1.25. All d lere or THE DOAN iielDNET PILL Co., Toronto, 0 h otice to Oredit4s. X tice is hereby given, pureuant to the e atute in Abet behalf, that all creditors and othereI hiving ftflal s against the estate of Ma geret Ca nooban, late of the village of Feemondvilleem the o onty of Hwjes, widow, deceased, are Acquired on r before the lSth day of February. 1908, to send ored liver to Rev Nell /item, Egmondville P. 0., Ontario, jor John V n sborough, Seaferth P. 0., executor* of ut will of e4td declassed, full partloularsof their e1ah and of the ace rity (if any) held by them, duly ve tiled by 'RI mit. After the said date the exeoutors ill pro- cti distribute the mete of the estate a sag the parties °retitled therSto, having toped onl to the elai e of whioh they shill then have reoven notice, and after such distribution the executors wi I not be accountable for any part of the estate to &fl1 person of whose claim they shall not have reeeivedl notice. J. L. KILLORAIN, Solicitor, SesIorth. Dated January 14th, 1908. 1882-8 BRITISH „.0 TROOP 01 LINIMENT iron rains, Strains, Cuts, Wounds, Oicers, Sores, Bruises, Stiff Joints, Bites and go of Insects, Coughs, Colds, Contracted s, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Quinseys Whooping h and all Painful SiVentrigfe A LARGE BOTTLE" 23en Have your Clothes • RENEWED. No necessity of getting new Spring elothee, if you wil send your last year's suit to the e AFORTH DYE WORKS el an an do In un tw to thi Or I, t Id clothes made to look like new. Dyeing and ing of ladies' and gentlemen's clothes a Specialty. satisfaction guaranteed-. All wool goods gnat'. to give geed satisfaction on shortest notice. wlseetutaine, eto., at moderate prices. P ot fail to give me a call. Butter and eggs V&ken xchange for work. • HENRY NICHOLi Opposite th Laundry, North /lain Street. RE NOTICE. -That my wife left ber home without any ju.et cause and went off with her le in the United States, who %gaited her about months .ngo. He coaxed ber away ienknown e. She went away visiting with him until e were planned- and then he went as far as nd Rapids and waited there on her arrivai, which ought was golng to visit her daughter in Romeo. 0/dA8 GILL, 1833x4 3 PARI 4 PAWNSHOPS. I.vb.7 They .41. re rotor Places to Ger • Loans ert St-Cten. Watches. Of wateheet alone there are received :eere need at the -twenty-two branch of - ices from a ;thoneand to twelve hun- dred a day, about 350,000 in a year, the average loan on a Watch being 30 or 40 francs. The ofgelal assured me that in this great number of watches scarce- ly one in a tbousand has been stolen, the fact- being that people who have come dishorieStly by watches or other property Dght shy of the mord de piete. Thereason. o this was presently made plain as we Watched the formalities of Decord, and 1 realized how difficult it would be for any one to de business here under a concealed identity.- Everyt client receiving a ;owl greater than 15 francs must tkroduCe some official doeu- ment-an inSuranee policy, a citizen's voting card, a perinit to carry arms or a rent receipt bearing his eignature and throwing light upon his station in life. For loans under 15 francs the client is simply required tet show an envelope through the roans to his address. All these facts, with various others, are duly inscribed upon, huge record sheets, so that whoever deals with the inont de piete expOses hiraself to the scru- tiny that must be ungrateful to folks of shady antecedents, indeed, certain persons make this a grievance again the inont de ioiete and declare the Paris systera an Impertinent infrusion upon te client's prinetcy, Which would seem a point badly taken if the client Is an honest •man. -Cleveland Moffett on Paris Pawnshops in Centarys Cardn Dinelose the Man. "I wish I had not played bridge with Mr. X.," said a girl recently. 41 thought him so nice before, and now my liking for him has quite gone- He was so keen about trifles, Insisted upon ever forfeit, questioned the score and seem- ed so annoyed when he lost, and yet the stakes were very small, and he was only (nit a few dollars; so, of course, it was not the money. It must have been the disposition of the man coining mit under provocation, and the test did not show 111333 up to advantage. Now, Mr. Z., the ether man at the ta- ble, was so good natured and such a gentlenaan In his play that I quite like him, although I never thought him at- tractive before." ' All games of competition may be said to assay certain characteristics, but the most crucial, test seems to be card playing, and bridge -is responsible for many a coolness !resulting feom self betrayal at the .green table. The Badger es a Fireman. A badger Which bad made ith hone among the granite cliffs dealt with the fire god with sagatity and skill, says Nature. A friend, while painting a sea piece, discovered a badger's lair and -thought to play tho animal a praetleal joke. Gathering together a bundle of grass and weeds, he placed it Inside the mouth of the hole and, igniting it with a match, Waited for the ignominiotts flight of the estonished householder. But Master 'Badger was a resourceful animal and not disposed to be made a butt of pradtical jokers. He came up from the depths of his hole as soon as the peuetrating srooke told him that there was a fire on the premises and deliberately scratched earth on- the burning grass with Inc strong claws until all danger :woe past No human being could have grasped the situation more quickly- or ;displayed greater sIdil in dealing With an unfamiliar event • The Rad of as Tree. Among the curiouS things discovered by the students of plant life Is the fact that a bud taken from one tree and grafted on another itarries the age of the original Itree With it. It has al- ways been. believed tbat tbe bud BO transferred began wholly new life, but this new theory it may, after all, be more theory than: fact as yet -shows the matter in an entirely different light For example, if a ,bud be taken from a tree that is;twenty-five years old with a natural life of fifty years and grafted on another eree it Will not live as long as its parent tree is ,entftled to live, the full ilfty years, but only for tbe period of life then left to the tree, twenty-five years. Extraempanty "There was a young Man In Michi- gan," said a United States senator, "who was deeply enemored of ft beauti- ful young lady in My town. He lived in Detroit and one day decided that the only thing for him to do was to pro- pose. So he went ne the telegraph of- fice and sent this message: 'Will you marry me? Twenty word answer paid ford "An hour later be received this reply: " ‘You •are extravagant. Why pay for nineteen words too many? No.'" A Respect Peer Figures. "What do you consider tbe most im- portant branch of education?" "Arithmetic," answered Mr. Cumrox. "Give a boy plenty of arithmetic. What blights the careers of so many young men is thei failure to realize that you can't subtract a $5,000 expense account from a $1,040 income." Helps "Yes, be, always' announces himself as a patron of art." "In what way?" "He manufactures picture cord." 1 A Clear Course. "She saYs that he Is a man after In own_ hear li" "Then 11 suppose he will get it,"' It's usually easier rfor one fatber to support tan small children than it is for ten grOwnup cnildren to support one father. •