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The Wingham Advance, 1907-03-21, Page 3LONO WAIT FOR A TIGER. The Thrilling Experience of a Hunter in An Indian Jungle. f.he Of stifibsg evening M in ay, writes a • moved. the body to Ulla epot without correeportdeut of the Pall Mall Gazette, leaving a mark, for the tiger, powerful wile comfortably crammed on along as he J n epringing, striking end drag - cane chair ou the veranda oe the Senate- ging, has rio power to lift a weight from • pur Forest Buglow, in the Kheri Pivi- the ground. edon of OutIle 1 bad returned late 'from Lege than 4 mile from the plocewnere forfeit inspection., and., feeling a bit done, the man was killed we came aereile the 'wee enjoying a weed and a peg. The becly, almost hidden by the grass, which ceaseless hum of myriads oi insecta filled the tiger always utilizoe to hide his kill the air, and the thermometer regietered if le• Wen& returning, and if grass We 94 degrees. The sharp bark of the eheet.. the careme is always placed out of sight J. or epotted deer, now and then aro under a busk or other thick cover, to sailed my ears, the bell of the eambher, hide it from other beasts of prey. None . the drtm. of the ltheltar, or barking deer, of the natives would touch the come. • the howl of the jackal, ana the harsh and 1 had to handle it. I fixed my "ma - scream of the pertcook warned all ton- cline at twelve fret from the ground, • carnal that either a panther or a tiger in front of a small open, spece, clear eves on the warpath. This time it was of the jungle, and having mounted Sham * a tiger. From two of the villages the IuJIi,got into my resting place, with inhabitants had deserted en mama, and my gun and rifle. 1 then dismissed all every device known to circumvent him hands, althought the laanbadar was had been tried, but to no purpose. One most anxious to sit up with Me, but as day he would kill a man or woman ie. I knew from experience that a sevre the vicinity of a village eat a portion, cough, from funk, always attacka and on on the next day or so kill again at lave when be sees a tiger, I declined the a village fifteen or twenty miles away% pleasure of his company. I had droped off into an easy doze, Beforemy elephant left 1 insteucted when I was awakened by a loud call the mehout to return to the epot on the from the punkah coolie, telling that my road where we turned into the juggle Fateh Khan, had arrived with and not to come to me lean he hoard news ef the man eater. At a village ten two blank 'cartridges fired M quick sue- 1 miles distaet from the bungalow a herd, cession. All was as still as the grave and 'when driving his cattle back from their as it was the heat of the day 1 kuew graziug ground along the forest road, that Strias would be laying up M some had been sprung upon by a tiger and cool lair, in deep shade, near water, of dragged into thick jungle, at a spot a which there was neither within a mile If You want hr.akN,t food that Will male* your mouth water anal** the earnertirrio prove motet hileidelsful and intetrItione Atilt yaw:newer for en.PURLtel0E2r RELIANCE DReellcreisr FOOD Now, Vaint,v,Delicious Jsnqjj Ay 4.4 yr__ Package iLe's ro"r. AMC kVA rflE FURFI4E VACKAGB There le 4 baking powder It will pety you to try because it cost* lose to you, glvoe bettor remelt% make* food healthful and le sold on a Cash Guarantee of Gatlefaatlon. Atik your grocer or ItZLIANCE DAKIPIG POWDER It you want a set ot Reliance Picture Post Carcis Igr-LY FREE-Ine Write ne at once naming your grocer and tide mien and we will send you set et four, lithographed in brilliant colors, free; postage prepaid by us. International Food Co. TORONTO, - CANADA 7 11 A ea Nations Preparing for Wale seeteoretwoodelient EXPLRIMENIS WITI1 PAR* CROPS A r E The members' of the Ontario Avietil- Ri NO IN NEED tura l and lenesu ere pleas - Lei to etate that for lath they are KU' pared to distribute into every townehip of Ontario materiel for experatnente witli fodder crops, mote, grains, grower eloY• ere, and tertilizers. About g,000 early- tlea of farm crops bave been tested in the experiumutal aepartineut ef the Qa- tari° Agricultural College,Guelph, for at leaet five yeara In euecieseion. Thaw ecat- C -re niTir sist of varietitie iron). nearly all parts ' of the world, :some of which. bave done exceeding! well in the careful' eon - When You HMOs a -Cough, Cold, Sore Throat, Croup, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma or Lung Troubles You Naturally Think of ducted experiments at the College and are now being distributed free ot therge for co-operatrve experimente throughout Ontario. The following ie. the net Of co-operative experimeata in agriculture for 1907: No, Experiments. Plots, 1 -Three varieties of oats .. 3 2e -Three varieties of six rowed. barley . . .. 3 21e-1:we varieties of two rowed barley . , . ..... 2 3 -Two varieties of ifullese bar - 2 ley OP OP OP44 4 4 • 44410 4 -Two varieties of see•ing, wheat 0 -Two varieties of buckwheat,. 2 0 -Two varieties of field peas.. 2 7-Emmer end Spelt . ,. 2 8-Tsvo varieties of nusking corn 3 10 -Three varieties of mangels ..... 3 11 -Two varieties of sugar beets for feeding purposes . ., 2 12 -Three varieties of Sweaish torn - 3 nips . . a 13 -Nola Rabi and two varieties of carrots „ 15 -Three varieties of fodder °ren- ege corn . 16 -Three varieties of znillet 17 -Three varieties of sorghum .. mile and a half from the village. .An- at least, and that he would not. return There Was a time when men talked of beat- 18 -Grass peas and twe varieties other youth was with the herd at the to his kill till suudown, I lit my pipe, les the swore into the piquant hook and time. who lost no time in bringing the which, in other circumstances, would melting cannon into plowshares ()sr usitraminee 19-Fieldveeatheteasge' O. V.a.11.41-. Mews, and all the villagers beside them- have been inadmiseible and for several of. the kind.. But they were mi g selves with fright, were implorin.g him Lours I sat without a sound to vary the von) had note understanding or the true sit• tiee of rape utation. War is to he prevented by 80 Mg- 20 -Three varieties of grasses .. to get me to go at once and kill the monotony. gardly subserirptien to demands for disarm.- 21 -Sainfoin, Lucerne and Burnet.. bearit. .4 ordered my mahout up and The moon had barely shown, herself meilit.thle71: told him, to his delight, to have the ele- clear of the treetops when the sharp II i' "P(bIfisilitld I: 2,40!taesne` latTaahnlYp 22 -Five varieties of field beans.. His eyes bark of a cheatul stag resounded M ray wpreeently and other later. The addition of 23 -Three vatieites of field beans ,4 phant ready et 3 a, en. Atari). 4 :a battleship four-fifths this slze made Eng- 24 -Three varieties of sweet corn "-glistened with the double prospect a rear, an a moment later a herd of the land preeminent for the minute. Then Japan 0... - , ... .., a day's sharer and the customary Gov- spotted bea.uties dashed awe in front built one and began others, The Unitee -e-Feltnizers with potatoes .. eminent reward for potting an eater of of me, shyleg at the dead body in their states adopted plans and specifications and '28-Feiii.itpilsiz, ore .wi:t.h..Sw.e.di.s.h ..tur: before the trials a the oreatiaought had (Men. I then dismissed him, with the headlong flight. The sound of their been menepleted England's preeminence was ae-ss...e....., when I heard at threat '27 -Sowing mangels on the level order to give Sham Kulli, the elephant. rush had barely ceased med. Germany wants the record. It a 'ef i too pounds extra of "goor" (sugar as it a distance, in the same direction, the un- 20.000 -ton battleship Inatie 511 others obsolete 'comes from the cane), and prepared for mistakable purring of a tiger. There a 25,000 twitter win do the same thing and and in. . de.d.11a.....:.:.......... :.. came a little later and once only, a ter- Ittereivealtrhite wea be progressive. We can not 28a -Two varieties of early peta- l/ trip. took a double barrelled .450 Henry rifie roar, and this in the solitude of a : 1. 28b -Two varieties a niediUm r 1. Express and a twelve bore eartidge fir- dense jungle, where the silence of the pening potatoes ... , ill gun by the amine maker, the cart- grave prevails, is of indescribable effect. A SPRING NEED, 28e -Two varieties of late pots- ri ges for the gun being loaded with Even the tree frogs ceased their mono- _ toes .. ,., three and it half ,drams of Curtis & Har- tenons humming. In a few minutes a 29 -Three amen mixtures for grain vey's No. 0 powder and. leleadeei shells stealthy tread. greeted my ears, and the Weak, Tired and Depressed People Ilea production ., .. ., .. .. • , charged with sulphate of antimony and purring was incessent-he was coming up a Tonic to Put the Blood Right, 30 --Three mixtures a grasses and chlorate of potash, a most deadly pro- right behind me. jectile, with which I bad killed all previ- ! I got my gun in position, covering the ous tigers and panthers. Next I looked kill, cocked both hemmers, and waited up my "machan," made of bamboos and motionless until he showed himself 'near string, f or fixing on the branches of a , his grewsome banquet. On and on he • 'tree in which to sit, and a rug and crone, so close that I could emelt his feitid waterproof to keep, off the heavy deW) breath. He was now within twelve feet (which falls like ram at night; a flask of me, and immediately under any "Ina - of whiskey, a pipe and tobacco cona- ehan," Here he paused for several min- pleted my impedimenta. At 3 a. m. I utes, evidently feeling that all was not got on my elephant and. started for ae- right. At last hunger overcome stisple- tion. "Ceows' dawn" was not far off, ion, and Ile walked in it leisurely way the eaat bad a tinge of orange and red, up to the body, looked about Min for a lend all along the forest road, on either bit, then lay down by the sib of the side, the jungle awakened with animal kill and began to eat. The moon's rays ,life. I gathered what news 1 cola of fell brightly on his, Meek skin, so, picking , the headman of the village, and it cost out the spot just behind the Shoulder I a long palaver, which I will spare you. pressed the trigger, and then heard the It was nearly 7 o'clock before it was welcome thud of the shell. finished, and the sun, blood. red, was well Almost at the instant there folloeved above the surrounding trees. I ordered the still more musical roar of the brute Jet the lambadar to bring with him a few in his death throes, Then all wee etill, men that he °cult' depend upon, also the but to make sure I gave hint theleft bar - lad. who was with the cattle when the rel. I then fired two blank cartridges other was carried off. Just as we were in quick ,suceession-the sigual to my starting theonother of the victim, an old mabout to bring up the elephant. On woman, came forward, tearing her hair, his arrival, with about fifty 'villagers, beating her breast, and bowling like a One would here thought - them all mad, fiend at the top of her voice. Her lungs, for directly they saw the deed man eater 1 may say, were in perfect order. I tried their yelling ana shouting was deafening. all I knew to pacify her, but in vain, and the abuse they shower on the tiger's female relatives was disgusting. I got telling her that 1 had come to avenge her son's death. On hearing this she down from my perch, stiff and tired, for howled louder than ever. All direct per. it was now marly 10 ,p. an., and I had uasion was useless, so 1 pieced thee ou. been in the "median' for more than s .pes in her hand, telling her the body twelve hours. ehould be brought back the next day The tiger was a beauty, full grown, with a finely marked, and well furred for burial. Her face brightened, and, akin. He measured 9 feet 10 1-2 inches, clutching the money, she disappeared like a rabbit around. it haystnek. and wasvery heavy, his forearms being peculiar/y massive. Both my shells had After proceeding along the forest road entered just behind the shoulder, an for about a mile and a half the lad. inch apart, had exploded and torn the 'pointed. out the spot •where the bruit heart, liver and lungs to shreds, but had sprang on his comrade. I tracked. for - not injured the skin a bit. His death ward a few yards, where the tiger had crossed the ry, sandy bed of a small must have been instantaneous. 1 had the d anti frem the 1 carcass put on the elephant behind the "nullah," or water -course, Ihoudah, and started for my bungalow, size of the footprints I saw that be was which I reached at midnight, had supper, boxy and full grown. It was jumpy a work, for the jungle consisted of very whiskey and soda, and a pipe, and . turned in, feeling that I had done a thick tiger grass, from in to fifteen good day's work feet high, over very bad. ground. I took) r my gun, loaded it with shell, and. went- 4 r carefully ahead, foot by foot, following • Valentine Day, , the track of the tiger and his kill, but by this time the sun was getting very (Buffalo Commercial) Charles Lamb, in one of Ms quaint essays, bot, and there wes no air. I kept my elephant taco in my roar, -f:icteiroesstn ebso FilioetskttlYwitn thwe 1.tieltilftitli: oiluset: and there were about a dozen villagers Valentine; "Hail to thy returnitez festival, with me who possessed everything in the old Bisbee Valenine, great ine..:,.tal go -be - way of pluck, but I was pretty certain go-be- tween! lou r b:rtatt1.7)huntta rinl"leef Vyin till that even the smell of it tiger would reetless erinelple, which impels poor humane seater them in all directions, so that, to scek perfection In union? Or went thou indeed a mortal prelate with thy tippet and after all, X had but my shilca,n and 7ny- dereent lawn a ikoves, n. II. V., n self to trust to. We had proceeded. e bout the New York Hvening Post erites: half a rnile, and. my elephant all the • like many other holy days, or holidays, St. Valentine's Day has it heathen ameetstor. while was allowing signs of uneasiness, The earrly Romans head each February tames whell we came acroes the vietim's "pug- called Luperoalia, in honor of Pan and garee," Whieh had caught on a knot of it eun.o, ett cense:metre° Juno was often called fallen ,Sal tree, over evhich the tiger had Februata or Februalls or Mebrulia. It win be remembered that JIM& In the old myth - dragged the body. .' told Here for a few moments my shilatri °logy wa.s the goddess of marriage tern's. The name of •st. Velem:tine was sub - and I were at fault, as the grass, which etiatted for theee of the beseb.aa gods, and had up to thie epot been pressed. down the day of the caintra d 41.11. February 14 by the passage of the tiger and kill, Zr(listlideacapedereumplZin emu" ihnesidaatoluftelee nittlite now showed no sign of it drag, so we ettet of February. ahead to right and left, tend at last truck the track again. To thia day, A 98-eent bargain la tither reduced 'though, I cannot tell hove the brute beel from a dollar or advanced from 95 marts, Spring blood ha. bad blood. Indoor clover, for hay , . .. .. .. .. The size of each plot M each of the life during the winter months is re - impure first twenty-seven experiments and in sponsible for weak, watery, blood. You need a tonic to build Nos. 29 and 30 is to be two rode long by up one rod evide, and in No. 28, one rod the blood in spring just as mueh as nesse re, the trees need, new sap to, give them ' vitality for the ummer. in the Each person in Ontario who wishes to s Join in the work may choose any one spring bad blood shows itself in many ways. in some it breeds pint- of the experiments for 1907, and ap.ply the same. The material will be frirmsh- ples and eruptions. In others it may, ,• ed in the order in which the applies - be through occasional headaches, none are received until the supply is ex - variable appetite, perlume twinges of hanged. It might be well for each ap- neuralgia or rheutnatism, or a lazy hcant to make a second. choice, for fear feeling in the morning and a desire P the first could not be granted. All ma - to avoid exertion. For these spring the terial will be furnished entirely free of ailments it is a tonic you need, the greatestblootienuking, health - charge to each applicant, and the produce giving tonic ithe world. is Dr. • will, of eouree, become the property of n Williams' Pink Pins. Every dose the person who eonducte the experiment. C. A. Zavite, Dire,ctor. helps to make new, rich, red health - giving blood, which rettelies every Ontario easgeieultural College, 3 3 3 3 a 3 3 EXPECTORANT Theisafe and never -failing remedy for all these ills, Perfectly harndees for the weakest stomach or most delicate elei/d. Children. love It. Adults enjoy it. it always cures, It is Dr. Sloeurins won- derful cough and throat remedy. It hoe aever been equalled, for quick, positive and satisfactory results. No household. should be withou.t it. "1 bave used your Coltstoote Expectorant and fiat it setieractory io woes ot croup, voids or eougas. I nave mod it ever eince I got a trial battle, an* have reemrunended It to everyone in need of it. You antler use zny name and eddreas for testimonial if you vtish. Hoping it will benefit others as It line done ray ehildrea. I remain, MRS. AGNES OOMBER., 1069 Frances Street. London, Ont. Every mother, every father who values the health and well-being of their chil- dren will always have Coltsfoote in the home as an every -ready physicien and " friend. All up-todate dealers, for 20e, will supply you. with right aligeng them; and if the boy peer people watched. and rebuked the idle poor people, 41 would he right r,mong them. : A. voice zero= the Penitentiary. The liumi were found some yearn ago, Pens Med ea a IlY leaf Of One of the booke pelonlatie to the iilarttrY of the Previaelel Pentitentiary at Iringstou, mat are guieneeed to Write been, writtea ey *eoarlet: I've watideereCI tar away, nionvor, For from my happy home, And left the laad that gave in birth* in other climes to ream; - And Time since thea ha* roiled hi* yens And merited It ea my brow, Yet etill I -think on Mtn, /rnetrier, Vui tbinking oar thee now. 'iVbeti by thy gentle side, Mother, Yen watehect My deeming yeuth, b•tle:aweyrodr or144013,4thers' Thee brightly was my soul lit up With thoughts of tuture foie While you bright fancy garleade wove, To deck your starling boy. I'm thinking on Oa day, mother 'Ween, with such anxieue care, You lined up your heart to hoveu, Your :hope, your trust, was there. Fond memory brines the parting glance, Whilst tears rolled down ner -Cheek. That last long loving look told more Than ever words could speak. I'm lonely and fersaken, mother, No ,friend Is near me now To soothe rile with a tender word, Or cool my burning brow. - Tim dearest ties arrectiou wove Are all now torn from me; They lett rue when my trouble calne, Tiber did not love like thee. COL ISFOOTE EXPECTORANT PYJAMAS. (By A. K, T.) I left my home five years ago and 3 I haven's been blues since. I left on ac - 3 count of business. Unfortunately it was s bustinese I'd already done, so it ietet' much use hoping to go baek. Last night 1 came home geeing in the etore windows. It's an old habit and 2 one which has caused softie trouble gm several occasions, I've seen humoroile 2 things in store windows, but to -night it was pathos. For the first time the 2 store window brought a, tear to my eye. It happened like this. As I passed 2 along my eye diteoted something unus- ual, something home -like. I stopped the 3 better to ascertain just what the fami- liar article was, and. then all at once understood, In, the centre of the window, artistically displayed, were six pairs of pyjamtue. How lonely they looked inthat window: You may have heard of tough old miners weeping on .hearing the words of "Home, Sweet Home." I guess those +pyjamas affected me in the same way. Ever since I left home they had been an understurbed memory, and to have it roused with such a jolt! To see what are, to rne, venerable old memories displyee- 8 --eeeeeeeeeeeseeee nerve and every organ in the body, e. . ...... , bringing health, strength and energy How Have You Decided, My Boy? to weak, despondent, ailing men and se a"you chosen the route you shall take women. Here is proof. Mrs. Geo. througb the year? Merritt, Sandy Cove, N. 6., says: it la time you deoided, my boy, "I was weak, feeling miserable and You may march with the proud or go Aloe - terribly ren down. The doctor whom Ing in fear, 5 You taitY find the world cold or be warme I consulted, said the trouble was by its cheer. anaemia ,but he did not help me. A You may wisely create or destroy; friend ' advised me to take Dr. Wil- You may dawdle along through the glor- Hams' Pink Pills and it is simply You may stray with the lazy in profitlese impossible for me to over-estimate ways, the good they have done me. I shall 1 Or bravely set forth to be worthy of pralee; How have you decided, my boy? ielevays retiammend them t»airing friends." AreIng But if you want new health lyru must must face without fear what ' you must get the genuine Dr, WilliamsHave YOU )10)Sted your banner, any boy? Pink Pills for Pale People,monufee-1 Have` you made up your mind to be worthy tured in Canada at Brockville, Ont. To sta'andtrufosrt, your rtghts and to dare to be Other so-called pink pills are fraudu- Just lent imitations&. The genuine Dr. Wil- In the ems and the strife Cind the Joy? e liams' Pink Pits are sold by all reput- Ibu 11'11irn ismay at the end of the . 1 year. . able medicine „dealers or sent by mail , You may feel thah the earth Is all barren ' by writing the Dr, William& 'Medicine Or theanwderdltdcamr'ay be fair and the skies mai . at 50 eents a box or six boxes for $'2.50 . Co. Brockville, Ont. How have you .deckled, my boyt clear! daysbus ed like that and being sold. htt, a bargain.' Do you wonder at my feelings? .As I pondered melaneholly on this an Englishman joined in°. He said nothing, but he gazed ea those pyjamas. A friend of is came up and stared too, at last he spoke: "Wot are they Bill?" jerking his thumb in the direction of the goods. ; "Why, "spose as they are something I1 fer wimen." "Not in this 'ere store." "alebbe there a new kind of clothes for these 'ere cooks, or inebbe they're , some eostoom." j "I dounno wot they are," said No, I, • musingly, and up comes No, 3. ' "'Ere," said No. 1, "you're a scholar. , Wot are them?" 'Them? Eh? Why them's perjamas, can't d?" "Wot are they for?" "Them's wot they use in the tropics." "Really. How do you call them?" I guess No. 3 became suspicious for he shut up like a clam. "None of yer kiddin' now. I told you once, didn't I?" "All right, mate. All right. I only asked. yer. Well I'm glad. seed them." And then the three went off and no doubt the pyjamas never troubled them since. ,As for me, I left with a heavy heart. Itis a, thing like that which goes home to you when you remember you wouldn't know what to do with them now. I'll bet if I had pyjamas to -night -B. E. Kiser. I aouldn t sleep in them. How Englishmen Waste Coal. That open grate Is a mere farce when the real cold comes. If you sit very close to It you may got each part of your body warm In succession, though the only real way to .comfort tvmdd be to hang yourself en a roasting lack and twirl. Even then the halls and passages, to say nothing of the other end of the room, are arctic. Wo waste hun- dreds of thomauds a year on coal which eops not warm as just because, with that a .oild English conservatism, we think the coal fire M the open grata so good to look at. It Is. For oerselves we would always like a coal fire to look at, to poke, to talk to. But not for the pumas° of warming a house. If we ere hungry it le not enough M look at a meal and If we are cold it is not enough to gaze in admiratiOn on a Bre that is only warming the chimney. Information Held Back, There had been a fatal railroad acci- dent and the reporter sought inform - tion. "See here,' said the official, testily, "you lellows must think we have mime dents for your benefit." "Perhaps you wouldn't mind telling me ' whose benefit yeti have them far?" re - i joined. the reporter. But even touching this point the offi- cial was reticent.-Plalatlelphia, Ledger. sae-, Your t Grandsons Will B e This Old Men Before "Oshawa" Roof Wears Out Roe your buildings with Oshawa " Galvanized Steel Shingles this year, and that will be a GOOD roof in 2007. We Will give you a written guarantee,. backed by $250,000, that such a roof,' properly put on, wiU need no repair° and no painting for at least' twority-five years. WICER.EVErd SH I NSLES make roofs wateretight, wind -proof, weather-proef, rust -proof, fire -proof for a eentury,-our plain guarantee keeps it so for, BB years tvitholit a cent of cost to the Man who buys. it.' Made in ONE QUALM ONLY,—of 23-guage: end -hardened S T Z t L double-dalvanIzed :,.• The Get the fade They lock on all FOUR sides—tho ONLY METAL shingle that need NO CLEATS. Easy to put on—a hart. mer and a snips (tinter& shears) are tools enough. Cost Feaulat, igger LESS and last longer than any other roof. Tell us the 1 a thingsurface, area of any roof on your place and we will 3 , gto 1ta of Oshawa tell you exactly what it will cost to roof it right. 014 ViTIMs%. eTsatt/ilti es. Atigitturtax Si 00 1g:4N la•Ytmilk ree BABY'S SMILE. Baby's smile indieates that he is well and happy. It is only the sick child. who is cross and restless. And the mother elm depend upon it that when her baby ales be is not crying simply to be ugly - that is not his nature -he is crying me - cause he is in pain-mest probably his little stomach is out of order. The rao- er willY' never failing cure for all the minor ail- ments of little ones. In the homes whore the Tablets are usea there ELT° no eross, crying babies -nothing but bright, happy and playful babies -the kind that are a joy to the home. Mrs. Jos. Legree, Clara- quet, N. B., says: "At the time r sent for Baby's Own Tablets my MM., one was weak and failing. He would ciy night and doy, and I did not *um able to ,get anything to help him. Meer giv- ing lam the Tablets there was e. peat ebange arid he has since thrived The Tablets are sold by druggists or by mail at 25 cants a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., BrockvIlle, et 1-1 Home Comforts of a Deaf and Dumb Inventor. W. E. Shaw, it deaf and dumb elec. trical worker end inventor,. has a most interesting home. His wife 3S also a deaf mute, and they really .have every cons venience that people enjoy who have all their tienees. Any one who calls at the Dorchester hoine presses an electric button, but iii- etead of ringing it bell, it simply drops a weight, which attracts the attention of the initiates by the vibration it catisea Then Shaw has a bort Of alarm clock that controls wires which move the pillow under his head, and another Which at an appointed time flashed a light in his eyes. The burglar alarm of the house pat - titularly ingenious. By preesing a button under his bed, Shaw could. give an in- truder who approttebed him as he lay in, bed an electric elioek which would, to say the leitst, surprille hine.-Boston Record. Dream of Strawberry Dol. orinnesoeus Journal.) :speaking of spring, 'what kind of stritive imrry shortcake do you prefer, that kind tondo out et take 'built into two etories with poweered sugar anted around? or--- 114yer voted you like a ateee ot strawberry shorteake mode bletnit cruet with Plea et ripe, rich, Juicy berrlee to a helping. some enrehed and tont& uncrushed, lavished Oh It. end hunke et Melted butter tate- Meetly leafing ableiti Waite*? aay a eiect of this shortcake with blecult cruet about the laze of a half loaf of breed. And 'St...aid- ing by the tide ot tt, a Intlf pint ist JereeY Cream, clotted Oaten, Just let Aunt Lee +skimmed it oft, real trefoil, friend of the tower reel rept etrewbettleis and the histult tient. rather het and trackr tad ail Sallaina Oat delioate striutberty pores* on tho 4•1104fat Sitel *Itelditgl / - SOME THOUGHTS FROM RUSKIN. The first of all English games is mak- ing money. A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness of fools. You do not learn that you may live -- you live that you may learn, Of all wastes, the greatest waste that you can commit is the waste of labor. It is useless to put your heads toga ther if you can't put your hearts toge- ther. All anarchy is the forerunner of pov- ' erty, and all prosperity begins with 1 would not have thee know, mother, Bow brightest hives decay; The tempter with his baneful cup Has dashed theta all away, And shame bas left velerm sting To rack with anguisn wild, Yet etill I would net have ebee know The sorrows of, thy child. I know you would rest chide, mother, You would mat gem me blame, But soome mb yeati a tender word. And bid wee hope again. , len lonely and forsaken now, Un.pitieci and unbleet, Yet 6011 I would nut have thee know, Hoe, sorely j'm aistressed. I've wandered tar away, mother, Since I deeerted thee, Aud iert thy trusting heart to break Bex.°11d the dem) blue seer Yet„ mother, stiu I love thee well, long to hear thee opeak, Aud feel again that healing breath Upon my <tame era cheek. But, eht there is a •thought, motirer, Pervades by beating breast, That thy freed eeirit my have flovrn To its eternal reet; AO as r wipe the tears away, Taere vrhlepere 111 mny ear A, yoke that speaks from Heaven, mother, And bids ane seek thee there. ? HAVE YOU A WEAK BACK? obe- faet is that the are idea poor and idle rich; and there are busy poor ee, and busy rich. Work faithfully, and you will put yourselves in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness. WilfUl error is limited by the will, but what limit is there to that of vehieh we are unconscious? If our right hand is not to know what our Ieft does, it must not be because It would be ashomed if it did. Nobody does anything well that, they cannot help doing; work is only done well when it is done with a will. All healthily-rainded people like mak- ing money -ought to like it, and to en - toy the sensation of winning it. What we like determines what we are, and. is the sign of what ere are; and to teaoh taste is inevitably to form char - rioter. Borrowers are nearly ahva.ers ers, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done, end all unnuit war protracted. No man who is truly ready to take part he a noble quarrel will ever stand Long in doubt by Whom, or in what cause, his aid hi needed. No teacher WI truly promote the calls° of edtmation. Until he knows the mode of life for which that odUcation Is to prepare hit pupil, Whet We think, or What we know, or What we believe in is in the end of lit - tie consequence. The only thing of cert. sequence is what we do. "Play" is an exertion. of body or min& Mao to please ourselves, and with no determined end; and Work is a thing done because it ought to be done, and who. a determined end. There must be work done by the mine or none of Us 00111d live. Them must be work done by the brains, or the life eve get -would not be worth having. And the same men comet do both. Warty a beggar is as leo ee if he had ten thousand a. year and Man!, a Man of large fortune is busier than his errand boy, and never would think of stopping In the street to play marbles, /1 the buby rich Peteple watched and re- buked the Idle this pc.0.1 tit 'would b• DOES RHEUMATISM OR U? Freese ea cream without sugar or eggs NEURALGIA TORTURE YOan _ d eat plentifully. Zam-Buk Will Give Speedy Relief. , Apply mush poultice to the stomach. , Use pineapple syrup or juice, ice , cream, jelly or any kind of preserved Vreasy's "Decisive Battles of the World," that fight in the pretient BilaeX 00U4ty, N. Y., uearly three centuries ago, de- serves a place on the roll. It wee It turd. ing point in human history. Charnplain'e defeat of the Mohawks started the 14004 feud between the Iropoie and the French, and in the Wars a the next cen- tury end s, belf thoee formidable war- riors, the fiercest fighter* of the West- ern Hemisphere, took the side of the suc- cessive owners of Now York, the DMA and the British in their eonflict* with the Freech invaders from above tbe St. Law. mime and the lakes. It WAS the Iroquois who saved Britain'feeble colon* la their early days from being cut 1» taro and overwhelmed by the French from Canada, preserved North America. for the Anglo-Sexon race, and thus prepared the Ivey for the younger and more progres- sive branch of the race to raise up si nation, the United States, in the fairest and best part of the continent -From Leslie's Weekly. CURES FOR THE HICCOUGHS. Sufferer Tries Some of the Sixteen Remo. dies Recommended. A Reading, Pre, despatch says: Tbe condition of Peter Buchanan, of ..loanna, this county, who is afflicted with hie - coughs, is greatly improved. He thinks the affliction was brought on by inhaliug dust while thrashing on the farm. The publicity given to his affliction brought to him scores of remedies and prescriptions or sure from all parts a )the state. Nearly all the letters ex- pressed sympathy and a daeire that no pay was wanted should they prove effec- tual. Some of the remedies suggested were as follows: Drink as mueh water in proportion to your weight as your neighbor's horse. ; fruit juice. Has the trying March weather Stand erect on the floor with both brought on your Rheumatism or Neural- arms extended above your head, with gia, or put an ache into that weak the forefinger of both hands separated, back of yours? If it has,. remember and let someone give you a glass of cold that Za,m-I3uk rubbed well in over the Water, which drink slowly, and the par - aching part will give you speedy re. oxsyms will stop. lief. Zam-Buk contains valuable Sit on a chair, throw your head. back herbal essencee so refined and con- and raise your right hand straight up so searchingamidgso power- and hang your left straight down. Open feteen.tratthaadts enables -‘ your mouth as wide as you can and sit italitiesemlesto, pneenr:etsraatendditseoadasoetIns.oill. hinatlaanalds foti,ahtalfsaamnahwouarteartian taini; 'ass and drink in limb or back means that the muscles • Slowly around the glass without breath - and nerves are needing help. nay fug. have "caught eold" (let someone to press a finger and --the nerves are "starved" -irritated, inflamed. Your thumb, one on either side of the winds aebodTayetiziasesa wOnneledleisfillanine eiaitehmekeyraniedationit. hpaiplae atnhderienufnrtoirthoef tshpeasemollsacreabsoer, and What proper lubriaation does for an Frequently drink hot water. overheated) machine bearing, Zam-Buk Eat a cracker moistened with lime will do for a joint or lever or mnisele water, a taert. which is infkimed, or heated, or or aching, because of cold, neuralgia, lick it slowly. If one does not stop it sca.e' takeanother. Mrs. tablespoonful of table salt and rimumatiem, etc. Mrs. John Sidstone, of Swan. Val- Boil prunes and drink their juice. ley, Man., sleet I aee provod Zam-Buk to be it sure cure for thou - maim« It gave nie Bitch relief that I would not be without it in the house." For Id ' the chest catarrh in the head, etc., Zarn-Buk rubbed well in to chest and. forehead gives quick relief. 'testate Ha uses as an embrocation, Zurn-Belk heels ehapped hands and cold 9eblao'dodP sores, eczema, poisoned wounds, gores, itch, barber's rash, poison, pimples, boils, spring erup- tions, etc. It also stops bleeding and, cures piles, fistula, ete. All druggists and stores' at 60e. a box, or from Zane- lseetrakt fCoor.,$T2e.510,7tsao, for price. Six boxes nd. le. stew for post- age of free trial box. 1 - TRI -CENTENNIAL OF GREAT EVENT. Arrangements are being mads o gos New York, Vermont and Canada. to un- ite in celebrating on July 4th, 1009, the 300th anniveniary of Samuel de Chap- lain's discovery of the lake which bears Ids mune, and whieh abuts on the terri- tory of each of these communities. b i min to colonize Can - f I d' • • f k Champlain, and England was startme 10 establish its thirteen American colonies along the Atlaatic •ceast. akettaplain. Was Governor of Canada. ;The events of which. the discovery of Lake Champlain was an incident had im- portant coneequences for the Auierican continent, Champlain was. persuaded by the Hurons and Algoentuns to accom- pany a war party of these tribes on a raid into the northeeu part of the pre- •. sent State of New York to help chastise their enemies, the Iroquois, or Five Na- tions -Mohawks, Onondagas, Senecas, Cayugas, and Oneidas. A little over three weeke after he got his firet gliamee of the lake be and his Indian allies encoun- tered a band of the Mohawks near the present Ticonderoga and defeated thein. That was on July 30th, 1009, six, weeks before Henry Ilud.son in his Half Moon sailed througr`the Narrows into New big river. Althoui not enumerated in reonumeat." ranee was eg g ada, at the time o t iscosely o e • Drink water M any shape or German beer instead of English or American beer. A ease of thirteen days' duration was cured by eating preserved plums. As soon as swallowed close your ears with your fingers and hold your breath ad long as possible. Smoke heavy brown paper, such as butchers use, and inhale the smoke. Take three grains of salt and. a swallow of water while holding your breath. Mr. Buchanan tried several of the re- medies suggested: and finds eating iee cream made of milk and cream only the most effective. t Why Farm.ers Grow Old Early. (Harper's Magazine.) Anyone who has lived on a farrn does get need to he told the reason, for he knows of the strain under which the America* farmer lives during the live months of , spring and summer. His workday is frees ' 4 or 5 in the morning until 8 or 9 et night. including chores-rafteen to seventeen hours of the hardest kind of physioal labor clad : every minute of it at high tension., sepias - !ally during harvest. When conies a period ot relaxation in the fall, the one tine le. OA year when he has just enough muscular ex- ercise to keep in health. Later, the winter eeason, aproaohing Attestation. in which hel takes° on flesb, gets "logy," aad then a furious debauch et hard labor through the aortae and summer again. No wonder that by 46 he has had sunstroke and "vent stand the heat" or has "a weak bort or his "heart givhs eta" or a chill "melees m r masa . . - York Bay and be an his ascent of the Publicity Might Help Some. In his suggestion that the atatnes of parties responsible for railway accidents be made Se pubic!, as possible Vice-Preeldeut Krutt-- chnitt of the Southern Paelfte hlts UpOn scbeane 'which would acoomplish ectuell more them It is Intended to. Withirt a fate years halt our population would be famous, 'tattle the other half would have become hypochon- driacs as a result of being reminded in every newspaper tuul every railway station et life's :brevity, One could boareely travel five miles by rail without encountering a granite ishaft Inscribed after this fashim: "At thla apot, on June II, 1916. Hank Smith forgot to tiag the south-boutid ft,eIght, thereby derailing the train and killing one brakesuan and seven tramps, In eommemoretion of this OM". sight a reminiscent, %dale hoe erected tele -4041104Volot0044400010.00000.34401400 Cripjeor Influenza, Whichever you like to call it, is one of the most weakening diseases known, 44cat's Erna/slots, Which is Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites in easily di. gested form, is the greatest strength -builder. known to medical science. It is so easily digested that it Ants into the system, making new blood and new fat, and strengthening nerves and muscles. the SCO tea ZrnaIJIcn after Influenza. Invadable tor Caught end Colds• AU tanUCIOISTS; BOO. AND S1.00, 40.4046414404144014440•44444