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The Wingham Advance, 1907-11-07, Page 37,` .44 -04++++++++4 -404++++++++0++,+4, -.4 -44 -0 -++44 -*+.4 -04 -4.44 -Wire 1 Oat PerfeetV wishing the eerth would swallow that Sikh, aud. trying to THE TIGER OF PANABARAS ea• sees.aasenseestee-www•-•-wanew-ta-egs Panabaras is a. sMell village etuek !eke,. 1 dozed off again. The night paesea right away in the jungle of tho Cons end eetlY the next morning my blab:aria returned, and 1 Was glad to &mend from tral Provinces, 100 miles as the erow ! the tree and get back to ramp and have flies from any line of rail and only bath. me ow bele. was removee and visited periodically by any white Ifresh ones tied ap, nia,n. The countr round about it is .Two days later there was another kill, on the other side ot the hill, so we beat it with 200 villagers. The tom - tome sounded, and a terrible hubbub was made. thought a noisy beat ad. vieable, if the tiger Wile ill oite of the caves he would take some dis- lodging; but the beat was blank. Dur- ,ing the next few days there were two all jungle, save or patches of cult'. vation around the small villages, and dotted here and there aro hills with fantaetic shaped rocks piled upon them. I had obtained two months leave not many hot weather agO, writes a correspondent, and after some long marches and indifferent sport I happened to meet the deputy •more kills, and two more beatss not commissioner on his annual trek. !only on the hills, but in the surround - He informed nie that in the cowl, nullahs; but no sign of the tiger. try around Fanabaras many com- !The next night he killed a village cow, plaints had reached him of some tig- 'end, never touched it after sucking its ere whieli had done a lot of damage .blood. He was an epicure; he ate little, there, both to men and cattle. Dur- Ibut he liked fresh meat. The tiger had 'ing the previous rains many men had now killed five cows; we knew hie been carried off while cutting wood in tracks as well as our own but none of the jungle. Three days afterward 1 us had seen him yet. 1 still persevered; found mgaelf at this small village ,cows were regularly tied up, but for near a dried up river bed, and there four days there was no kill, and his pugs I pitched my camp, ,had disappeared. Besidee my servants and two Sikhs The next day I determined t‘ shift front my regiment I had with rue two my camp, and in the early inorning very experienced shikaris—one a pen- •took a short stroll, when at my feet I sioner from the Indian cavalry, who , saw the well-known pugs of the 'demon' had been in at the death of scores a 'again. My shikaris now called him the tigers in the good old days when bags "shaitan." He had passed within 100 of twelve or more were common in yards of my bed that night, and had one hot Weather 'shoot. My othet probably been smiling at me. I called shikalds was a Mill called Kamagee, my men and followed up his tracks into a typical jungle man, who lived all the hills behind, where he must have his life in the jungle, and only 'lain up, but we never saw Lim Toro cafrie with the 'sahib log' on slither days later there was another kill near trips; he was beautifielly as the hill, aad I determined to :sit up for hard as nails and a wonderfully fine him again, as there was a moon. tracker after big game; in fact, he I was in my =chart by 5 o'clock. was one of tho finest ehikaris I have Darkness eazne on, and the moon got up, met. The next day wo obtained all but not ft sound disturbed the jungle, the available information from the except the calling of the nightjars and Villagers. the occasional noise of a tomtom from The tiger lived very often on a hill .soine distant village. At about 12 o'clock covered with rooks about one mile I was very drowsy, and perhaps I had and st half from the village. The vil- been asleep for a minute or two, when lagers never dared to go on this hill, suddenly I heard the lapping of water as he had killed two men there and' behind ma as if some big beast was sirinking, but not another sound. I could just zee the dim outline of the killed •hela on the ground; the moon was get- ting low. I dozed off again; it was sleepy work. When I woke again day- light was fast showing up everything around rue. I looked down, the hela was untouched. I thought my shikaris very late in arriving, when suddenly I saw Kamagee running lightly toward me, and on help- ing me down he said that about 6.30 they were coining toward my tree when they saw a large tiger walking along about two hundred yards behind my median; they thought he was coming straight toward me. They waited, and as they heard no shot they moved on, and then found a dead sambhur about four hundred yarda from where I was sitting which the tiger must have killed. I got down and found a little pool of water in the rock behind me, which the tiger must have drunk from that night, and then saw the sambhur lying on his back, with a small piece eaten out of his hindquarters; he was a fine full-grown stag, with a small head. My luck was, truly dead out; this was the irony of fate. The tiger must have been on his way to the kill when he met the samb- hur and killed him then and there. That evening I sat up over the sambhur till 9 o'clock. I saw nothing except flies, and the atmosphere was awful. I was dead beat and aw.fully sleepy, so I got out of my inechan and went back to camp. The tiger never returned to the sambhur, or the other kill, and I had not seen him yet. Ile again disappeared for three nights, and I moved my camp to a place eight miles off, where there had been a kill by the tigress and full grown cub. She also was as cunning as they make them. I was still tying up for the "demon," and he had now killed ten of my helas, and I was reduced to tying up cows in the last stage of existence, as holes had run out. Twice more did he kill, and twice more did, we beat, the second beating resulting in a bear, which insisted in sit- ting under my tree, but no tiger. I sat up once again, and as no traces could be found I determined to try a new dodge and sit up again. A fresh cow was tied up near his old kill, and a goat near it to make a noise and so attract the tiger. I got into my maehan as usual. My shikaris had de- parted. My first Nisitors were a couple of bears, who kept walking around the goat; they looked very comic, but I threw a stick at them and they depart- ed, snuffling noisily. Just as is was get- farward. He wee soon up a tree like ting dark a deep roar canto from the a Monkey and peering about. No kill. other side of a large rock. The "demon" • The bele was lootened and taken off to was abroad. Roar succeeded roar until have a drink, and on we went to the an the hills seemed to echo with the next. No. 2 was left untouched. noise. On approaching the third Kamagee kie was either in bad temper or very made a sign, and we knew there had hungiy. Had my chance at last ar- been a This was near the road, 'Tied? If only now the goat would sio we *knew the tiger was not likely to give a bleat! But both animals stood be near, The animal was entirely coin transfixed svithout nsoving, and pres- ared up with grase and leaves and only ently I saw the dim figure of a large a little of it eaten, Some tigers are in tiger ocfming out from behind a rock. the habit of doing this so as tei kee3 Ile passed within twenty yards of the the vultures off, and I invariably fin. cow and goat, aud vanished silently that when this has been done and. they enay. I could not shoot; the light are not disturbed, they return to the "" was too bad. 1 had at any rate at last kill the next night. We found the tiger's seen him. I sat up the whole night, tracks leading right away from the hill but he never returned. I went beck and determined to beat a small nullah to camp. I had sat up seven ing* htho about a mile off, where there was some he, lied killed twelve tfmes, and 1 had water. After sitting in a tree more than onsy set eyes on him once. an hour, boiled by the sun and tormented About three days after this my old by eye flies, the beat wee blank; no • shikari came into camp and said the signs of the tiger. I lay under a tree till "demon" had killed the thirteenth cow, five o'clock and sent for some food from and that he know he was ia the hill, as ray earnp and determined to sit up and he had seen him go there early in the je watch the whole night. from the kill. I collected 250 By Fix o'clock my retainers had van- morning yillagers, and everything Was got ished, the sun was getting low, and I ready for the beat. It was hard to was sitting on a charpoi in my tree with a cushion behind me, a theme. of decide which tree to sit in, but I took water hanging over a bough, a few bis- Karuagee's advice and sat in a tree mite in my pockets and my rifle by my about 200 yards from the foot of the side. The atmosphere was somewhat re. hill, where the jungle was thickest. 1 dolga of helm and the mosquitees were placed one of my sikhs in a tree on my beginning their attacks, when suddenly right about 100 yards off with my see- h.eard a step on the dried leaves behind ond rifle. The stops were carefully me. I held my breath aed clutched my placed and the beet began in the heat rifle; the sounds came nearer and near; of the day. Tomtoma were beaten, and * * * it was only a peacock. From shots fired as the beaters advanced; we the noise he made he might have been were determined to shift him. an elephant. Darkness fell over the jun. gle, and there was no moon, so I deter. seined to try to sleep. It was useless fir - big Jo the dark. if the tiger did come; coula not see the sights; but I might get a, shot in tne early morning. I dozed off in an uncomfortable sleep, the place was haunted. He had lived off and on in these parts for years and had killed many 'head of cattle, but 'very rarely returned to his kill. He was very often seen in company - with another tiger or tigress; but one had been shot the year before, and in a somewhat peculiar fashion. All natives in common in India have a wonderful knack of exaggerating things and seem to posses in a mark- ed degree 'the liar's love of detail,' which is apt to lead astray the un- initiated; but this story was corrob. orated afterward by the man who took part in it. During the rains the year before this local policemen had some work In this part of the jungle and found out that the road passing by the hill which I have mentioned before was not being used and on inquiry was told that two tigers, as soon as -they heard carts coming along the road, would hide by the roadside, and while one stopped the carts in front the other would spring on the nearest bullook and drag it away. The pol- iceman persuaded them to send a row of carts to be driven along the road again and followed behind the last cart with his orderly and rifle. They had no sooner got near the hill than 4iv the carts were stopped, the cartman y fled and the policeman, on running to the front, saw a large tiger about to spring on the nearest bullock. He howled it over, and the carts con - tinned their ourney. So one of the tigers had been killed and the other remained to me to try conclusions With. The next day we visited the hill where he was supposed to live and ex- plored the country around for water. This was very scathe, only very small holes remaining—in the nullahs. The hill was covered with big rocks and these formed in places commodious eaves in which were positive signs that the tiger was accustomed to lie up in some of them; in some were bones of all sizes, and in one a skeleton, whether of a monkey or man it is hard to say. Fam- ilies of bears must have visited the palm at times, as their marks were evident, everywhere; but when our friend was in reeidence they 'were probably commicu- out by their absence. That evening we tied up three hetes (young buffets) athund the hill and awaited develop- ments. The next morning, not tee early, we were on our way to the hill. On ar- riving at a querter of a mile from the lir first -helm we halted. Kamagee stripped himself of most of his clothes end crept I heard the monkeys beginning to chatter and make that peculiar noiss which they generally do when a dare gerous beast is oil the move, and at last I saw some of the beaters advance to the edge of the bill. Suddenly there was a roar, and I noticed some ani. a slight breeze got ep, when seddenly Imo ereephv along in the thick grass I heerd a noise like is locomotive let. towerds the tree in wheat the Sikh ting off etc . aze It mum cloxer and doter, was sitting, lt Wile It penther, and and finally stepped Fiorito. wily 'behind I there, fifty yards behind him, was the env tree. If ibot is our, friend he .111118t 1 old tiger, stalking eking in a quiet 14. Very short in the wind. Dead sileneo I sort of ,l‘g,y, tor five tilinutee—of courne ltrwanted. to looked. On looking toward the Sikh a ana a real big one he stieeze—then twe yery dittenct .sniffs 1 , saw, litin with the rifle raised taking gala teen abeolete allow. I, lye minutes, I lam ete tee panther. Ilene! bangl went or it teemed like an hour, afterwtird 4.„." lit twig °racked, end I knew the tiger I both berrele. Off galloped the penther untouched under my tree, 0.11d, Oafs! the tiger turned at a right engle end dislip- peered. My feelinge may be imagined. fefter so emelt toil nn11 dieappeintment te Wiese ene's hopee raised to the bightet %rem eitting In 011d pointion ee letrig. 1 etriefethed myeelf and lay baek again. pitch and then deeltea ta tes eseende. The greet Bear wits getting low in the WAS thie to be the end of It Wit A, had departed, never to return that night. Ile had got lay wind, Well, there was one eximpeneatIon; wild at lest Move. Was stiff all over philosophize, when suddenly I heard the clapping of heads and beating of etieks int my Jeft, end then 1 heare tralliall• dinie roar. So lie had not got out of the beat yet! Well, I die not care what he did; 1 had had enough tiger shooting. lie was turned by the *tope and came along quietly mom froat. Was about eighty yarde off. I raieed my rifle; halm!' He rearee up en his hind legs and lay writhing on the ground, mut in a few minutes was perfeetly The "demon's" career was over. got down awl went towards bim---a, mag- uificent tiger, old, but in splenaid core. aition, ten foot four invites as he ley. He had an old spherical bullet in his fore- leg end niftily scars on hie shoulders, 4 • 0•. SUFFERING WOMEN Made Well and Strong by Dr. WI hams' Pink Pills. Every dose of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills makes new blood . Every drop of pure blood brings the ill, dishearthned woman nearer to health and happiness. Dr. Williame' Pink Pills have brought the glow of health to thousands of sufferers who gladly bear testimony to that ef- fect. One of these is Mi:s. Elizabeth Wit- ham, of Welland, Ont., who say,s; "For more than a year I was greatly run down. had sickening headaches and my heart would palpitate so violently that at times I feared death was neat. 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There is not as nook or corner in Canada where you will not find some grateful person who has been cured by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. On the word of your neighbor we ask you to try this medicine if you are weak, ailing or run down. The pills are sold at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 at all medicine dealers, or front the Dr. Wit - llamas' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. HYPNOTIC POWER.'- - Experiments Disproving the Snake Charm Theory. It is a popular belief that serpents have the power of capturing their prey by casting a mysterious spell over the victims. Even scientists have eeriously considered this sup- posed mesmeric power over birds. Cuvier ascribed it to narcotic effluvia, Audubon to the self-sacrificing audacity of neat birds, /3onpland to the "instincts of curiosity and maternal devotian," Russell Wallace to optic influeuces akin to hypnotism." The latter theory is the most .generally accepted, and in the rural districts, both in Europe and North America, bird cbarming snakes are olae,sed with such indisputable phenomena as fish deluding anglers. Contemporaries of snore than average intelligeace will describe the glaring eyes of a rattlesnake that para- lyzed a youngster on his way to schoot and maintain that they sow a charm °awn a squirrel from the top of a walnut tree. An opportuisity was affoeded me last eum- mer of disproving the snake charm theory. The pharmacist of a medical college had procured a number of live serpents for ex- periments vrith oertain antidotes, and during tho summer vacation boarded his Pets in a suburb of Bennington, Vt. They arrIved In a moderate sized dry goods box, and with the owner's permission •my neighbor trans- ferred them to a roomy outhouse with a close fitting door and a wire screen front. Through a glass window their movements could be watched in spite of two dandles of straw and other aids to comfort. ()old weather lettargized them, but on warm afternoons four or five of ten rattlesnakes and six =- cassias were generally in motion. Were they trying to get out ? Their con- duct rather suggested a sanitary penchant for moderate exercise and sun baths, And there seemed no doubt that they had a mem- ory for meal times. General revivals; repeat- edly preceded the gong by a minute or two. The owner's signboard, "Dinner at 3 p. tn.," attracted rather a surplus of sightseers; and when it became known that our experiments promised to solve a problem of ages, cater- ing too, became superfluous; volunteer gifte of rats and blaekbirde arrived in excess of Mir needs. Before the summer was over our visitors had settled the snake charm contro- versy, Twenty-eight out of thirty intelligent tvitnesses agreed that there Is no hypnotism about it. Our first doubts were aroused by the com- placency 01 birds and small mammals and their abaolute indifference to •the presence of their formidable fellow captives, Within two feet of a coiled rattler a blackbird would alight on the rim of tho drinlang trough and adjust the defects of his fallet, aplashing water In the very face of the reptile that watched him with piercing eyes. Thera after repeated sips, he would condescend to notice the orawler that had latieolled by that time, .and would finally hop aside just far enough to avoid a dispute about oathing privileges, but still within easy reach. Nor had the restleasness ef rats anything to do with tee dread of immediate danger. They were trying to gnaw out, but in the intervaLs of suet; efforts were apt to run etraight into Use rendezvous of the serpeets. The snakes, indeed, were in no hurry to abuse that confidence, When they did get ready they scorned hypnotic artifices. A gradual elevation of the head, a noiseless ap- proach with a ehort halt in roach of the bird that was plcking crumbs in his feeding corner, then a slow contraction of coils, a snaplike dart add a leisurely retreat, as from a task accomplished. The bird had taken wins. thoroughly alarmed now, and fluttered about the wire screen in tho desperate hope of finding a loophole of escape, In less thaa thirty seconds the poison began to take ef- fect. The bird clutched at the screen, with hie head hangieg further and further batik, then relaxed Ilia grip, dangled by ono foot air a while end came flopping down on the floor It was not dead yet, but dazed, look- ing this way and that and flutteriug about et a strange aimless fasblon, and more than once. right toward tho destroyer, who at last began to manifest an interest in the antics. ()nee or twice the serpent, celled near the centre of the floor, seemed strongly tempt - ea to risk a conclusive spring, but drew beak again, fully aware, perhaps, that a better Chance would be only a question of a nio- inTetP. bird was atill on tho Coot, staggering to and fro, when a sidoward collapse marked the beginning of the end. Its foe watched It with lifted head. The chance had come. No risk of a rough and tumble fight now: the victim had ceased (6 flutter, and the old rattler quiekly dragged it off to the straw pile. A full hundred experiments repeated thia same iseqUence of manoeuVres in all es- "t1Thtlealspiasen Mita° of a make have he pro- per rents, but terminate in 4 Ants bag and are attached to the jaw by mearta of let:s- tems that make them movable to the exteat et erection and retrnetion. This arrange- ! Meat makes it difficult and rather suporflus out; for tho titmice to secure Ids victim et the first eltaing. 'rho fangs are Adapted onla' fot A /men bite, but their °Wrier Can afford to bide his The Vitals that has been kiataell 10 caterpOwer ittreng men IA half 011 hoar, lethargizeS birds' and tisellanids In half Is Minute. WhereVor etricken thee are apt to isollapile In sight, if not in direat reach of their astennets, whoee keen oyes detect the ellghteet toramotteh the nelghborteg reticle but rim %Muhl find It a very long Wise be. tweet Wald If they had to role Ori the hYtis Wale poret et thole eyett—Thoteas C. figs ton, In the Sclentlf#416 freritan. Sir Andrew Lusk, who is a native of Sedated, on the 18th tilt., celebrated his 07th Walley et his reeidence in reofeloil. Sir Andrew was five years old what the histtle Of Waterloo -Wee fought. +44+++++++++:444-4++++++++1 The Church Abroad. 4-4-4-4++-e++4-4-++++++++++++++; IN THE MISSION FIELD. The hop -picking semen). in England is over and the special Anvil) Miesion to the fields has returned. The Students' Missionary League of Georgia is to have its second annual con - femme at Macon earls' next month. The Women's. Baptist Home Mission Sodety ha$ 2,036 auxiliaries in the States, of which 2,460 are for adults, the headquarters being in Chicago. The immense miesionary exhibition be- ing planned for next june in London by the London Missionary Society will be opened by King Edward. The greatest difficulty of missionries in China is to find the teachers that aro so inueb needed, over 1,000 schools being now without inetructors of the right sogitile • piscopal Sistere of the Church, who Wive their centre at the Illissiouary Training Home at Upton Bark, Loudon, are te &copy a building that has been a public inn. Uganda is likely to be the mission field for all Africa, as there are 57,000 inern- bore of the Church of England there now, and they are supplying workers for the rest of the continent. Tiles East London church fund, in which the Bishop of London is especially interested, is trying to raise $60,00,0 be- fore the end of the year to keep tip its mk'istiectrItivoonrkiresbyterian Church of Den ver believes that the best mission work is done by having the edifice open at all tinies, and providing some entertainment thet will draw persons to the church, The American Board of Commissionere for foreign missions has just been noti- fied of a legacy of $100,000 from the es- tate of the late D. Willis James, the ammeenutrist. to be paid in three annual Metal. About $90,000 is needed to put the Wesleyan East End Mission of London on its feet, the buildings now in precess of erection timatening to be a crushing buiden despite the fact that they are urgently required. The New England branch of the Wo- men's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church received for its work last year $46,576, besides a be- quest of $37,700 for the erection of school buildings in the foreign field. "rein tabernacles," as many of the mis- sion stations in England constructed of corrugated iron are called, are hereafter to be practically a thing of the past, as small buildings of cement covered with terra cabs are to take their places. The British Church Missionary Society has just sent out two parties, about 175 in all, part going to Africa, Palestine, Northern and Western India, the rest to Turkish Arabia, Persia; Southern India, Punjab, Caina, Mauritius and Japan. Rev. J. E. Rattenbury has assumed charge of the West London mission founded 20 years ago by Rev. Hugh Price Hughes in what is called the wick- edest section of the metropolis, and the man who superinteeds it can be no weakling. GENERAL CHURCH NOTES. In less than five. yeath nearly $225,000 has been spent on churches in Canan- daigua, N. Y., a town of but a few thou- sand people. It has been decided that the next Eu- charistic Congress shall be held in West- minster Cathedral in England some time during the coming year. The rebuilding of the Clunpanile of St. Marks at Venice is progressing rapidly, but will probably require another two years for completion. The average attendance in the Sunday sthools of Massachusetts has dropped in a year from 177,467 to 168,031, the de- crease being laid to the shifting popula- tion.- Trinity Church, Halifax, has purchased the chapel which has been used by the Government garrison, it having been de- cided not to make any further appoint. merit to the chaplaincy. The Ladies' Ifmnane Society of the First Universalist Church of Providence, R. I., which has just started on its seventy-sixth year of work, has laid out during its existence nearly $31,000. Because of ,certain alterations in the musical part of the service made by Rev. J. G. Adderley at St. Saviour's Church, near Birmingham, England, the whole choir has gone on strike. With $155,000 already expended for the preservation.of 'Winchester Cathedral in England, it is found that at least $175,000 more will be need.ed, and until this is secured the work has been stopped. Catholics in China now number about 2,250,000, as compared with less than 500,000 in 1880; in Indo-China they have increaped in that time from 300,000 to 1,000,000, and in Japan 50,000 have been added to the four that there wore 26 yeers ago. Rev. Ditt;is 13rook, cif the new 'United Methodist Church of England, has been selected as president of the National Council of EVangelistie Free CloUnhes in ouccession to Rev. John Watson, better known as Maclaren, who died shortly after being elected to the position. DO YOU KNOW --,-- That all odd fellows do not belong to a lodge? That a widow who wouldn't flirt is unknown? That many girls would rather dle that be an old maid? That you can't meet a girl who will refuse an ice cream? That a faint heart is considered an easy mark for the modern girl? That even a blind man can find trouble without much difficulty? That if you kiss a pretty girl mice you'll feel hungry for more? Thee we sometimes write love letters we wish we'd never poated? That the girl that cannot sing and will sing ought to be muzzled? That nothing cogs more than things we try to get for nothing? That it's only the pretty svoinen at a show who will remove their hats? That eouttship ie a vessel! in which few single ladies object to embark? Thee you hardly ever me a policeman bother marine larger than himself? • fliat smiles cost lees than eleetrie lighte and they make the home bright. er ? Thee it's easier for eolue men to math love than it is to make a living? That a womau never weeps more bit. telly than when she weepe for spite? 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Ilia gives the fol- lowing interesting particulars of the diamond cutting and polishing as pursued in one of the big factories of Amsterdam. The tools ealiployed in diamond cutting are very similar in appoaeance to those employed in the tirst process, that of diamond eplit- ting. Ia. both cases dlatuonds are used as knives after baving been firmly waxed into the tip of pearshaped tools. The women held in the left hand the rough diamond they wish to eut, which has ale° been firmly waxed into a wooden frame. Little jets of gas aro always kept burning on the various tables, ready to be used at any moment when melting wax is necessary. The only real difference in tho two pro- ceasee of diamond splitting and diamond cut- ting lies in the fact that whereas the mon who split the diamonds use pressure on one spot enly (where the flaw occurs), the wo- men spend their energies in rounding the whole stone and carefully °titling off ail all- gles to bo seen on its surface by means of the sharp diamonds they hold In their right hands, Occasionally they have very largo diamonds to cut, which take a great deal of tims, but an ordinary stone w.elghing about ten carats; weuld take on an average of a whole day's work—a day of eight hours. When the diamond hits been eufticiently cut and rounded, 0 is then ready for the third and last process, that of polishing. Thie work requires a great deal -of time and skill, and is performed entirely by macliinerY, a hugs steam engine supplying the wative slower for all the iron disks. There are tdn large workrooms in which the 800 men work ,,v,ho are engaged in the difficult process of diamond polishing, their wages averaging about twenty guilders a week 08.04). The process coneists In giv- Lug to the rounded diatnonds what is term- ed in technical language their nec,essary "siciee." Ali diamonds are divided into two classes, "brilliants" and "roses," although the only real difference between them lies In tho number of "sides" they individually possess after having been polished in ono of tho many diamond facteries. "A "briliant" must possess fifty-eight "sides" (a few years ago the lowest num- ber was sixty-four, for there are fashions in diamond cutting), but a rose noed only pos- sess twenty-four "sides." Another, though slight, difference. between them is that "brilliant" is pointed at both ends, while a "rose" daamond has one end flattened and the other pointed. When the diamond is ready to be polished it has to be first sol- dered luto a pear-shaped frame made of zinc and then dipped into a preparation of oil and diamond dtist before being fastened ( with three others) into a strong frame piacad in chase proximity to an iron wheel. This little disk is then set in motion by coanect- ing it With the groat engine on tho ground noon and tho wheel immediately turns at the rate of 2,000 revolutions to the minute. Aa It revolves the four diamonds act in tbe adjacent frame are gradually pollshed on their surface by the particles of diamond duet etill adhering to the oil into which they had boen previously dipped. ieiny ono portion ot a diamond can -be pol- ished at once, and eonsequently when this Part has been dealt witli the stone lias• to be moldered, so that another portion of its surfaee may be subjected to the friction of the wheel, This process•of resolderlag takes place about twenty times in the oase of ev- ery brilliant before it can he considered to be thoroughly poliehed and to have acquIred all the necessary fifty-eight "sides." The "rose" diamond, with "Le smaller complement of twenty-four "sides", needs to be resold- ered only about six times. Many celebrated diamonds have been eat aad polished in tais factory, among them the "'Victoria," retailing SOO carats; the "mo- gul," ais carets, and the "Regent of Prance.' now In the Louvre. The great "Kobinoor" amitotic! wets recut bere and, althotiah it lost half Its welght In tbe proceas its value has been more than doabled. How Immigrants Aro Fed. (Harriet Quimby, in Leslie's Weekly.) Talk about the problem of feealag the la- borers at Panama ! Think of the difficulty a feeding ten thOusancl hungry foreigners on their arrival. Almost tho arst thing the immigrant at nees Island wishes to do after ho has passed tho examination department IS to bay aomething to eat and to carry en Ms JolirneY, for the majerity Of immi- grants Mayo New York as quickly aa they are "passed," Being utterly anfamiliar with A.Meriean Money end With oUr Aria*, they wouki be overcharged and given Interred change 'were protection not extended by tho geaternMent authorities. During a few min- utes at the food counter, where great piles of card -board bone of food wore piled up, we stopped to wateh the purebasere and tO hear the clerk behind the Muster exercise his skill in speaking the seven languages at his camomile.. A sign hanging over this counter attracted our oyes. It Wite print- ed in fleVeral different tongues, and read : "Square deal to all. Sixteen ounces to the pound. Correct caange. Criticism Invited. Barry talfe," Mao Mr, Bette hal; assure. ed the position of Commissary, the food sold to immigrants is pecked in pasteboard hetes carried by small handles, supplanting the former method of teasing the different arti- cles of food tato a paper bag, whiCh nine times out of ten In a few moinents after ite sale butet at the bottom. The boxes of food are seld for fifty cants fled Ono &flier, Re- cording to size. Their priced Ore marked to meverni lenguageS MI the Mida of the boxes. end the liqt of contents With corresponding prise of each article le pasted on the side, so that &on the most susplelouS purehtteer May know before he mats evith his Money what he ts to get. A box Was pleked froro Lho counter, and its coutente as listed were two Pounds of breed. eight cents; one ricaltall ter- volat sausage, twentzetwo cents; rive sand - *relies, twenty emits; four ples, twenty tents: two baxes of takes, tWenty conta; Oranges or anPlee. ten cents. There was suffletent 10 fast a faintly for a dny. The fitty,tetit 'WM eontained the same feeds in leas quantity. 4 8* After a watt been Married a :tear or so 55 is eurprised to findVist his wife'a gohlon iressee are, after all, just plain, erditiary red heir, ""4"1°"*. 444+444+4++44+++++++++++***4.01.04.**++.*** .4******4**** mANsELL's RETAINER. ......***•-+•+•*•*+++4.-....**t+++++++++++44114.44+++0111. "A telegram for you, she" Hastily 1 took it from my email boy clerk, not without noting the exeitemeitt in his us- tutlly calm demeanor, "Thank you, Pugsley," saki, with legal dignitv. "Teleerand Ceuld there be a brief in the wind? A wee at last, :titer all the long, muke-thift dinners and teas, and the horribly empty pre. tensee at prosperity. I, George Alansell, baxisturett.law, aged 28 (briefless alas —so far) 1 coulees my fingers trembled like a, girl's en I opened that little yet. low envelope. 'To George Mansell, Esq., Barristenat- Law, No. lige St. clement's inn, Lon- don, E. Ca "Calling to -day at 3 on important business, Mary Underhill, "The Laurels, Beeches-on-Sea,e Lnportant business! Mary Undeehill! Alt, could so easily recall the Christ - dance at "The Laurels, Beeches-maSea," last Clnistmas. HOW lovely she looked. And this was Julyagsultry, close, ener- vating, dreary, dull, soubdestreying dog dee s. She was coming, then, and to mer "Pugsley," I called, "dust this office and—let me aee--" "Yes; sir," said he, alertly. "Yes—here, run and buy me A collar —size sixteen—like this one (only elea,n, I ejaculated, mentally) and hurry. I. forgot to change it this morning." "Yes, sir," mid Beesley, and van- ished, counting over the six coppers carefully, "Pugsley," I said, as I put on the new collar he soon brought back, "when a lady mills show her in. Your beat main ners, mind." "Yes, sir," said Pugsley, and returned into the outer little box of a waiting - room. At 3 precisely she came. She! The lovely neaie, Underhill, heiress to fifty thousand. pounds. A vision of sum- mer beauty, she floated into that dim office with a fragrance of roses, a swish of eilk, and a shimmering of soft laces, Mary Underhill was a beauty. All the world knew that, And I—well, loved. her, and she knew it; although a good many others loved her, and the knew it, tool "Mr. Mansell," she said, excitedly, "ean you apare me an hour? Oh, do!" "Pray, sit down," I replied, holding her daintily gloved hand just one mo- ment longer than courtesy demands. "What min I do for you, Miss 'Under- bill'ram. lost unless you can help me, Lost, lost! Oh, the perfidy of Uncle Job! Read that, Mr. Mausell!" And she handed me a legal looking mis- sive, which I perused, while my heart throbed. wildly to think that beautiful 11f:try Underhill was so near, and so far; farther than ever now, bemuse of her sweet and daring propinquity. • Well, the gist of that document was that Mary Underhill's father left her sole heiress to fifty thousand pounds, provided she was married on or before her twenty-tliird birthday! To -morrow she would be twenty-three, and her raseally Uncle Job had contrived to conceal this information from his lovely niece, so that he might force her into a marriage with his son Luke (whom I knew the detested) at the eleventh hour, sooner than that, she should lose her fortunee—for it would all go out of the family to the building of a huge hospital if she remained unmarried after that date. Such was the will of her eccentric father, the late Silas Underhill, of the firm of Un- derhill & Underhill, ironmasters, of Shen tieNIVId.len I looked up Miss Underhill was looking at me with parted lips and wide open eyes. "What shall I do?" she cried. "How did yeu gain -this in•formation, may I ask?" I said to her. "Oh, you see, uncle inclosed the docu- ment by mistake to me, instead of to his own solicitor, and he has not found out yet, for I only got it to -day." a "Then," I said, "it amounts to this," nd I looked straight into her lovely eyes, "you must find a husband to -day and marry him to -morrow. I shall get the license and give the bride away my- sel"Youl" she said, catching her breath, "you give the bride away, Mr. Islanselll Oh, what shall I do? How catt I find a husband? Where are they?" she faltered, hopelessly, looking round the office as though a few.might be stored away in the bogus deed boxes. "There are eases on zacord," I replied, placing the tips of my fingers together, "where a woman was betrothed and married. on shorter notice." "Ale but someone found a husband for her. of course," said she. "Miss Underhill," I said, rising and approaching her. "I can find a husband for you, provided you promise to take him on my' recommendation and not to back out of it. But tell me the requisi. tions in the case first."— "Oh, well," she said, blushing furious- ly, "manly looking, vou know; he must- n't be an old frump or a freak or any- thing queer," and a look.. a coquetry stole into her .glance. "Rich?" I queried, ticking off on iny fingers the requieite qualifications. "Not necessarily." "Clever?" "Yes; oh, yes; awfully elever,'' with emphases. "Tall?" • "Very tall," and her eyes travelled up te the summit of my six feet. "Young or old?" "Young, certainly young, Mr. Mansell; about," she continued, sweetly lifting her blue eyes mischievously to mine, "alonit--let me see—about twenty-eight or so, and," she (matinees, shyly now, "dark, very dark," "lognorrow," 1 said, "meet me at the Church of St. Jude in the west, batw- ing with you a lady friend, aud be pre- pared to enter into the holy estate of matrineorty, Miss tinderhil." "Yes, Mr. altinsell, Good-bye 201 then," and she gave me her little hand agate "You will take this," laying .her well. filled purse on the table --"it is only a retainer, you know." I premed her hand again, and she was gone, Bugsley, with awed countenance, dos- ed the door on her loveliness. .After some reflection I wrote two tele. grams. Pensley took them at my bid- ding; one was asking a cousin to meet nie at the Church of St. Jude in the west at eleven next day, the other wee to a cousin requesting a loan of a frock coat and a silk last, to be sent to my ;Begins that night. Money, 1 had but little; to -morrow Mary Underhill's money would be mine, but no, perbih the thought! At once I proceeded to draw up a document which, when duly signed and attested, would render it im- possible for any person to lay a finger on her fifty thousand pounds except herself. Yes, I would part with the fain- ily heirloom—my grandmother's diamond bracelet, at last, no doubt about that! When Pugsley returned I went out and bought the license—a epecia one— with the money Miss Underhill had left me; also a ring, a small gold circlet, costing a guinea. "That's a retainer," I said to myself; "retainer with a ven- geance." • Precisely at 11.30 Miss Underhill, ac- corepaniecl by an elderly lady with snow white hair and smartly dressed, drove up in a hansozn to the Church of St. Jude. I stood outside with my cousin and boyhood's churn, another George Mansell and a baryister, but not a brief - les' one like myself. A. -mutual introduction, and we enter- ed the church. At the altar steps, where the young clergyman awaited us, Mrs. Hunter, Mary's hiendasaid to me in 'a whisper: "Which of you; I am in the dark still!" For an answer I turned to the lovely, trembling girl by her side, my own voice hoarse and shaking with suppreseed emotion. "Mary," I said, "which of us?" She simply put her tiny gloved hand into mine—and turned with me toward the wondering clergyman. Yee, We are safely married, and Uncle Job and his son Luke had to swallow the contents of those very unpalatable telegrams; N. sent them with as good a grace as possible. They had been out- witted in their plan of catching the poor girl at the eleventh hour for they had actually travelled down t:te The Laurels from Sheffield, buying a ntarriage license on the way in London. And so my sweet girl's retainer brought me good luck, many and weighty are the refreshers and retain- ers now; great the pressure of work, and wheu Pugeley, who is my chief and con- fidsntial clerk, says, with his quaint smile at times— "The client, sir, who is a lady of fash- ion and beauty, has left a substantial retainer on the ease." I fancy there is a romantic allusion underlying his words, something that harks back to a hot July day, a lovely girl in distress and a retainer. 'Cruelty to Animals in Hawaii. Afterward I WAS taken to Kawaihae, where I saw cattle loaded in a Moat cruel manner. It was a little after six o'clock when I landed on the beach among a lot of cowboys and half -naked natives. The cattle were corralled under the trees and whe'n one was ready to be taken ab;oard a rope was tied about ins horns. A cowboy on horseback then rode into the surf, dragging the frightened steer into the water. The rope was tossed to a half -naked native who was swim- ming, and he in turn carried it to the men waiting in a small boat. There men pulled the animal, which must now swim or drown, to the boat and tied. him by the horns to its side. After eight steera had been tied up in this manner the en. gine on the steamer was set to work and the boat pulled alongside by means of a rope. The cattle were then hoisted. on board. by the use of a belly -band. The method of handling these dumb animals is brutal, and while the men seem to use as much care as possible in moving them about, their piteoua bellowing caus- ed by fear made as pathetic a scene as I have ever witnessed. Thousands ath shipped every year, and it seems that some more 'human method of putting them aboard might be adopted. The Japanese sailor on these shipe is said to be the best for keeping the ship clean while the native excels in handling the t:oats, especially in rough water, The Hawaiian is a born swimmer, and. na- tive boys will follow these vessels for several hundred vards as they are leav- ing Honolulu, swimming alongsaide and diving for coins thrown overboard by the travelers. The pa.seage on these boats is 'always rough and on the Ewal- ani, as the shit) lay at anchor out in the channel, the nights were inteneely warixa Freighting in this way is necessarily ex- pensive but those in authority say that it is th'izi only way practical as no wharf could withstand the lashing of the waves caused by• the mad fury of the winds during winter. At that season it is of- ten impoesible to make landings alon the rockey coast of Molokai. —Mrs. . 11. Miller in Leslie's Weekly. 40444144041101004114140400,101•0404004Mpetp A Boston schoolboy was tall, weak and sickly. His arms were soft and flabby. He didn't have a strong muscht in his entire body. The physician who had attended the family for thirty years prescribed Scoit's Emulator:. NOW: To feel that boy's arrn you would think he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. ALL DRUGOISTSi 50o. PID $1.00. But the automobile ownere ate not yet sacrifieleg their nutehinee to bey balloone. Thaulzeg1ving terkeye, will be plentifel and. eltextp. to be tit:Anklet for. are tOld, New YOrk adopting' the Sallie le of steeet ear as Montreal, with out, door ior ingress and one for exit. It ie to avoid much coatision. 4 Wasn't it enough tbat butter and eggs and milk and such luxuries ehould rise in prices, without taxing us more on beer and whiskey aed such ileeecisaries? -2 Japan has just launched from Ite,gov- ernment slink the 14,620 -tea earthier:the Kurarna, the most poweiful vessel of ite class. Japan is determined to malotain her naval prestige. Afeyt'ir &Weitz, of San leranciseo, eon- vided of accepting bribes, loses hie light of appeal by an atterney's neglect, and meet don the etripes. Aml probably no suit better fits bis ease. The Pennsylvaa-Rl'ailwoy Co.mpany is 0 eleetrify RH entire aS'atela as rapidly tes the change can economically 'be made. The. Pittsburg terminals have Already been attacked and aboitt 14X3,000,000 spent en them in five yeare. A major paneiples of New taa Vork schoole favor the restoration of corpornl punishment in the schools. The reign a namby-pambyism may be pam. •-• The suspension of the great Knickeea bother Trust Co., of New York, ara the failure of another 40,000,000 institution ge to ShoW that business is carried on largely on confidence, and that those who would destroy that basis are cue- mie e of prosperity. Thlt Canadian Trade Retiew is of opin- ion t t the beeadstuffs market is too bullish; ,and that there is danger of the too ven eresome speculator being ant- ebhuosiltIledd.be e •ereised in building on'exemeg other words, it thinks care eive prices, believing them to be war- ranted by the "ego,4p; oand demand. The Hague confarence was not alto- gether a failure. The', rgstauarnt keep- ecs and caterere furniakel more than half a million dollars' wortissef food and Skink to the delegates. The fikists, also - del well. The telegraph and male com- panies received $1,125,360 for transmit- ting meseages from delegates to Govern- enent$ and vice versa. Wick business people profited in a lesser degree. 4 I • The New York State Department of Health has supplied teathere in all the incorporated villages of that State 'with . a complete set of forms and accompany. ing instructions to eecure a test of the eyes and ears of all children in the Pula lie Schools with a view to the estab• olifsh4tiaxenot eel/lie:be:um:4w of,rueliedy. Out Meta -et instance of the Vermont State Board of Education HMO pairs of eyes were found• defective. Ono ehila out of every three whom sight was test- ed stood in need of medica ettention. Similar stories some from almost every city where inspection has been made. - ePerbaps it is t w 11 that Corea ja4s•A•as ail a natiOn should pass. When a nation reaches the point Corea readied, as shown by its budget, it ie time for a change. Think of $1,103,350 for the int - penal privy purse and $424 for public works; $1,000,000 for the funeral of the crown. princess end $27,718 for all the public schools in the country outside tate.- capital; $5,000,000 for what was called the army, $450,604 for the annual ex- pense of keeping in commission one obi gunboat which .constituted the whole navy of the country, and an ex-pendithee of about $250,000 for the palace gtiard. • ftavii 1 lox: et tlaerattigonwtheapeoiptl era9..so.:474; Egypt over again. * • The Railway News and Commercial Traveller differs with Canon Welch as to the cause of the prevalence ot drinking in Canada. The Canon, ac- cording to our oonternporary, put the blame for the increaae in the drink. ing habits of the people on the immi- grants who came from the old coun- try. This, it declares, to be 'neon - then claiming that drinking' in Great Britain has steadily decreased for years. If this was not the case it asks, why is it that there is an an- nouneed surplus of 118 millions of Scotch evhiskey in Scotland, enough to stock the market for four years, and it is proposed that certain dis- tillers close down with the view of restricting produetion. It thinks that the Canadians drink their own share. Perhaps they do. An exee Fruits of ()mark, ed by the h1i;---.0.40.-----0= flat Ontario Department of Agriculture. It deals with ell the prineipal fruits which intei•est Ontario horticulturists, and Will prove ef =eh interest to growers. Not only will it help to the selection of good varieties to plant, but much information. is furnished as to the care eulttire of. 0v:herds, and detailed stetietics of the extent of the industry are given. It roily astonish many to lettrn that ()aerie orchardists luive no fewer than 14,039,150 Wen, 10,37e.800 of width ave bearing, producing 15,127,700 bueltels of fruit, valued. et $1,803.845, end that 266,015 aeres ore devoted to orchard ?Salute. There ham been au hiereese of nearly 4,000,006 in thr tininber of treee planted time 1901, ea. -es