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The Wingham Advance, 1905-10-26, Page 34144.4444.44.444+04":"14+14 4"1441:014 Hele-1,441:+intnIt 114 A roArinAmio TEA pit raikelovineincy I The Stranger at Captain Barrett's What does that mean? The Standard says fra, eheetaseelekeleteee egeetee+*-e-***Ieeeleseelet•el• Pro!. ise ofe++44.44.1nreigHniefsentolgletelefe4efon Mel 4+14++ W4 41"1":4"1"344"1"1"14"144 When I asked Captain Barrett le elpena ot tho stareoard bow. "rbat's elle the any with me at a tarn/ I uwaed la one ot 'mu,' 1 said. Over went the wheel, nee of the euburbe of New York, I had Ise pre- the Plover's head polittea away. but camel Sentiment that I Was to beeonle eciinaintea no eooner •turnea When the feet officer Ken with an epieode that Markee what might a long black eteamer lying abeam on Me be called. the turning Meat in laid life. Ihe port eide, awl Ise passed the Word tO the grant means "Having a pleasant odor, agree, San Marcials able to the nerves of smell, hence refreshing,', It's the fragrance of diecloeure aboUt ISecatlfie of my clesIce ekipper. We knew right thee that we Iva; el.. el . . My house. When lie left the train and effw skipper wee a cool band. Ile didn't got TEA that women find so soothing and refresh- te drive f rout the ralkoita etet lea to in tlao needle of the Federal fleet, but the Iny home and buses', ne shook hie head werried. f • doubtfullY, and socu " 'Hard a. port,' be whiepers; 'eteaey,' ing. Only one hest tea, Blue Ribbon s rt. "You'll exeueo me, Mr, but I'd rooner steady it woe. The Plover ewung as hanii- Walk. I don't beem nothiug to do whit some ne yaeht, and wo was Just thinielna lioaeas." that we wouldn't be seen, when a plcaetaft GERMAN WORKINGWOMEN, "Title ie a very eentle one," explainel, puff of wind come along. It seemed. a cool, 5 M S • "Gentle or ellittithe I don't balm eothina eephyr, the skipper tatting it Into 11:4 tO tlo With 'om," he replied. lungs. 'We're getting in pretty close,' sayi "It's a sleety mile awl clearter to the I, while that breeze naturally drifted Mous, house," Bala I, la tones designed to,peranade, the desk. I was thinking how they'n like to "and the sl.111 ha." have 46 Ilttle of It in the hot engine room, "I'd prefer to Walk an Gm setae," 'Wee ble when suddenly hat hose Snorted. I'cl cleat dogget1 rejoinder. forgotten ell about him, anti I don't knew As •ft rule, outliers like nothing better whet was 1110 matter, but the altilrlYer, Who thinkin that he iht be nervous "and harmiees little breeze es it etre* our facee, l'ai a eereful driver,' full et green. leaves and eram-a, regular eland than to arive imbind a horse, and I knew, therefore, that Cuptain Barrett, being aa exception, must have some geed 'enema tor his idoisyncreey. So without another seem I walked my animal elowly aloug while the alcipper rolled and bobbled aloug beside the buggY. I say tbat he roiled and hobbled because he had a gait pecultarly Ws awn, ami th1.i was due to 4 pair of peinfully bowed legs that upheld tyke die:111111y a bread, thick- set body. I know that Captain Barrett wee eensitive about his lege, tor at the sailor's naisaion one day I bad seen hen strike an impudent young seamaa Iseeituee the latter Joeularly remarkea that the Skipper's leg% ,../ Were bunt like a pair ot Meter hooks, wheel =mut that they .were nearly doubleil be- ."' neath bine If this aescription Wes unseem- ly, tio one eould deny that Captala Barrett Was topbeavy, Atter we had traveled half the dietance he was obliged to call a halt. to recovue his breath, he explateed, though I knew lite means ot locomotion had given out. I tiel the *wee to a, nearby tree ,and sat on a bank at the roadside with the skipper, Iie took a nip from my whiskey flaak, aufl phook his head when I suggeoted that he traet the horse for the rest of the Journey. "No," he eaicl, decidedly, "1'11 walk. I'd be a different man to -day it It hadtet been for a hoes. I ain't Wald ot 'em, but-" He paused, and I knew by lits intonation that I had unwittingly • uprooted an old memory. "You may.not believe it," was the way be opened, "but I wtta once 0 handsome Young feller lite yourself, Look at tee now!" Perlaaps the unexpected compilment dis- concerted me, but it was fully thirty sec- onds before I realized that I had beea gazing straight into Captain Barrett's f aee. And wbut did I see? An atielent mariner with rather sharp features, a grisly white beard aad bright little eyes set so deep beneath bushy brows that they were nearly hidden by the brim o his rusty, black slouch hat, His loosely -hung clothes wore f pilot blue, and the coat sleeves were 4 ...urnad half way back At the eibiws - a 'abit not uncommon among satiormeet. De wasn't a bed looking old man, if you for- got his legt, and he might very well have been a clean-cut, powerful young chap, I 'was thinking, whets he brought me to My proper senses by mopping his face wite a gorgeous bandana aterchiet, I fancy I must have colored at • my unintentional zudeness, and Captain, Barrett did no.t add to my comfort whoa he remarked: "Yes, you can see I ain't much to look at now, and It's all because of a blamel brae." I was at the point of nettling hint that there Ives nothing odd about his appearance, but tbo opportunity was lost before I could "In the civil war days," he saki, hastily, "I used to run the blockade between Nae- sau and 'Wilmington, and I ain't too proml frame the words. Captain Barrett paused to cut some ta- ximeter in the buelnees than yours truly. I bad money in the bank, a pretty gel ashore, and everything was lovely uutil I joined the Polver. She was a haraluck vosel from the time veto came out from Liv- erpool, and while she never got captured, there was alwaye seeiething happening to her." -eefsenb amatiras u emcee were etre. eters ce haco and light Ids pipe. He always smoked a short clay nose -warmer, black and nee t *wonderfully strong, ad ho had the supreme factulty of being able to talk without remov- ing it frem his lips. , 1 "I ain't ageing to tell you about all the accidents that ship haa," he said, while the smoke curled around his bead; "I'm , only going to tell the facts of one veya,ge. pee left Name' loaded so deep you could touch the water by teaming over the rail, and what we didn't have aboard ain't worth mentioning. It was a likely cargo, Bahl the skipper, and I would have agree.. with him if it hadn't bin for a hoes we had on deck. I had a feeling that ho would make trouble, and I told the skipper so be- fore they hoisted the animal aboard. " 'I don't want to carry him,' says the skialter, 'but he's Se present from my owners for the commandersin-chief, General Lee, awl I've got to obey orders, .Tohntrars' be salso, 'you /eed and tthe care of bine and I'll see that you get a bonus. for the job.' "All right,' I replies, not wautiug to let any opportunity go by, 'but I ain't a- geing to be responsible if he kicks up.' "They said that hos was am Arab charg- er, worth twice his weight in cotton, so I -treated bim as kind ea I knew, though ,I wasn't cut oet for a stable boy. We had •him in a Wedded stall abaft the fo'c'sle, and there was plenay of straw for him to istand on. He got hay and oats three times a day, and he wasn't. seasick a bit, though at first he didn't know how to climb upon the dock when the roll came. It any hose got good care, that one did, but—" Here Captatm Barrebt broke ofr to ask it horses weee .grateful animals, and I tell him that I thought some of them were watch more grateful than a good nanny lai- man beings. It I read his expression cot - redly, be dal not accept • my view, but hex continued without offering itny comment. "Well," he said, "the Plover got to with- in seventy-five miles et Wilmington about ,a, II o'cIock arse afternoon, and the skipper ..,...ectid he'd wait until nightfall before trYing eito run throtigh the Federate. I ain't likely tto forget that evening. It was about 6 - when. eve got uhder way, and by 8 we Mel logged a good twenty-five • miles. We couldn't have struck a better night for the run in. It was black as a tar bucket over- feed, and there was just enough slap to the sea to muffle the sound of the paddle Wheels. "Yott couldn't have seen the Plover if you'd bin within twenty feet of her. We did•net have a light burning -not even a cigar. The onglile-room betchway was cote ared with tarpaulins, the sidelights were &used, and tve luul a curtain around the binnacle." " It was evident at the. motnent that Captain Barrett wats living the ren of the Plover aver again, and he instinctively drew tbe fire from his pipe and creueb'ed low at the ekle at the bank. He might have itherened 'himself dothled up behind the bulwarke for an I know, and I didn't disterb his reverie. After muttering to himsetra while be went an: "WO crept along nicely for another hour, and then I heard. the skipper cell for a coet of the lead. The Never came to a dena halt, while / crept beta the foreehains to sound. It 'wag pretty dangerofte work stops eoing her, for she hrui le full heed et steam , and might bay() blown oft; that Would have ,,..esiisliven the evbele game away. But she didn't 0 it, ned the skipper Bald wo were too foe tO the south, after he Inokee at th e san I that canto up on the lead. So he changed her course teed peints, and reit Meng feat gee thirte Minutee or to. Then I cent affair. end this thee the skipper says: ,Nven heed for eltoree "I 'wee on the bridge, straining' my eyes and it Watilltt lotig before r eeeti a gliniteer , was used to hosees, Joitee me In the ribs aed says: 'He's smelling the land; stop blm, and be queik about it.' " 'Stop him-hotu?' I asks, all fuddled in tho beacl, "The skipper give me another dig, 'You and mechanical resources failing him, the witgon suddenly swung to the left, The Highest Grades of Wages Paid in Berlin, and the Lowest. A. recent writer on tee subjeet summer - Mee the resuite ot inquiry into the peg of WOMen and girls, other then domeetics, earning their living in Berlin. The figures o or E0 000 individuals, greeting from bok- kveepere: stenogrephers awl saleswomen down. The higheet grades et wages, he saye, were trom le to 17 maxim a week, about !ne,Actit,o .11.25;i2 troll otrattheeroer8agotow49, about 10 to 11 marled, of e2.00 to 12.75, belly fool,' be knitters ne 'he's smelltog the land; don't '-'`el as b° 41°1434; 1 011t of 'this tbe eerners had as a rule to what that means? He's going in Isolate 1 1, poen Lee 001110 observer says women yw know I pay from 12 to 12.25 for board and iodgiug. e 'rilmira, wa04argathuglintoovhelme ,libitth.zda:t aluettlii:nim i voter: ranerakrnlpnegr dfraoymo teectiletv onto ht0hurresewahroteuroe make if racket. We'll hare the whole fleet I sewing, In almost every case the wage My finheal was calmly awitching his tail ' Paid to women mad eerie was alraost exactly flying at us.'" While he munched the gras at his feet, anl . fsaftiltsf 0 awfowdiet men received for exectly the Captain Barrett wateeed him with reflective . Tee wages paid In Berlin rule much eyee. ; higber than those of smaller places. Aver - "I 'nearly fell to the fleck; I come down e fl tires for the empire are decidediy that lefider so mita," he seid presently; stall another little breeze come elates, and lower. The reason is the enormous compe- tition for all work there is to do. Thal "but I wan too late. Just az I reachea the before I couia get a tarpaulin that hose laid competition is one cit the reasons for the back his ear and opened hls mouth. The , appearance at women in such bizarre occu- and it woke up every gunboat within five "I" he made Was 1 Ike a fiteam callioaa, It is one of the reasons why a large ele- „, patients as sweeping the streets of Munich. mllee et us. Overhead the elcamee wns meat of women ere to be found in all the boss in three languages. i The German woman met live. If elle essentially male occupations, e tamping his feet and cureing mo and the ' ” 'Olt into the stall,' he yelle, and whon i has no husband and no eassion she must he men me hesitate, he picks up a musket, 1 -- - - --- s live by her own lamer, If the has co trade 'Ott in,' be yells Again, end I was 130 ex- ! or can find no opening in a female craft eitod that instead of climbing over the stall te he must take what she can get, even tt at the hese' head I opens the door at his ,i, la etreet sWeeping, Those who reach heels. 'You'd have thought after all 1 ofia this lowest stage are, of course, ae a rule for that been be might Irave been a little bit the victims of peculiar eniefortuue or their graceful; but no, he didn't even let me In wu misoonduct. They are aged widows, the stall. Ile Just lifted hls lege and I ?eft late in ine without natural supporters, didn't stop going until 1 bit the etancliton colrgrotity1 blies:, ,v,t,o)1 0 thceansneomt i-gyeatgrraenstp,easteanbtlie- en, the other side of the deck." z I bad not tho heart to tell Captain Barrett "DtifYtrenret. is no sack of precedent for have been the real cause of the animal's the more masculinity of the employment. that moms of joy and not ingratitude might behavior, and I listened to him tell how women work in the German mines and guns homed time flashed and shots whietted around the Plover, and bow be clid not lose conselousnees until the batteries at Fort riskier drove otf the Federate end allow:LI the ship to run into eatety. "When I woke up 'again," he said, "I was in the hoapital, with both legs broke in two places. The doctors pulley -hauled on 'em for weeks. but they couldn't get 'em atraight, and that was the end of my career as a lively sailor man. I'll say it for the skipper that he treated me white, even if he dld nearly lose bis ship, and he fixed it with ' the company so that I got enough money keep me to the end of my clays. "After a time I mune back to New York to see my gal and I thought at first that she was going back 031 me. " 'Johnny,' she says, 'what be' you btu doing to yourself? 'What's the matter with your legs? They're nearly bent double?' " 'T had 'em broken by a hone said I. " 'Why, I ain't know you worked in a livery stable,' she seys, 'I thought you was a sailor.' "So I am,' I replies, but before I could explain, she breaks in; " 'Go, on, you've been decelvin' me, you landlubber, and you'd better get out of my eight at once.' "I didn't quite know whether she was in earnest or not, but I thought I saw a twinkle in her eyee, and so I waited, and presently she eome over and put her arms around my nn'c'ir'.johnny,' she says, 'tell me all about le' mid when I told her she said she'd marry me it Iwouldn't haye nothing more to do with haeaes. " 'If yeu've got to be kicked about,' was the way she put It, 'I'd sooner do it myself,' and we made a bargalu right there." Captain Barrett rem and looked at his watch. i "It's pretty near time I was walking,". 1 he remarked. "I 'wouldn't mind taking a jchance behind that boss of yourn, but Min.- , Me, that's my wife, ain't seen fit to kick me I about yet, and I ain't going back on my 1 word till she does." -New York Elvening Post. quandary. There was even a look of des - CHINA HAS MANY PARTIES. i pair in his eyes as he turned round to gaze on the impatient passengers. The - . : on the German railways. They are in shipping, building and metal work and of course they toil on the farms, doing in many cases, especially in South Germany, Pretty much the same work as the men. Tbe women are officially stated to amount to thirty-four per cent. of au the persans engaged in faroe work. -N. Y. sun. TAKING IT EASY. It happened during the rush hours of the morning. The scene was on the street car tracks, where incidents of the kind are frequent, but in a less aggra- vated. form. A wagon jogging along slowly got in the way of a street car heavily laden with passengers. The driver in charge of it was intently look- ing before him, and, save that he was smoking a pipe, seemed to have been lost in a reverie. The motorman vig- orously asserted his right of way. The obstruction swerved not and appeared to have slackened rather than increased its speed. Nearer and louder than before the ringing again resounded. Then a vociferous shout -was heard, but not by the driver. Were he stone deaf he could not look niore unconcerned as his wagon jogged along. Gong! gong! and another ebullition, but of no avail. Some of the passengers who were at- tracted. by the repeated ringing and the furore in. front were considerably amused. Others, being in more hurry, sympathized with the motorman. Wag the driver's destination the Battery? It was suggested that a miesile of some kind be obtained to rouse him from his slumbers. The motorman was 111 a Iobstruction continued to block his way for half a mile or more: Just as the The driver as he vanished out of sight, still smokithg his pipe, was apparently in blissful ignorant: of the threatening storm that had been. gathered behind, hini,New York, Herald. VALUE OF A DIET OF EGGS. 'Vogue of the "Yolk Cure" in Treatutent of the TJuderfed. One of the important factors of diets, based on surfeit feeding, is the relative assimilability of the products making up the dietary. It is essential that the foods partaken of shall be- digested readily by the stomaeh. This accounts for the vogue of the "yolk cure" in the treatment of underfed invalids. It has been found, according to the Medi- cal Record, of New York, that raw or half -raw egg yolks are very readily digested. In a healthy subject they entirely dis- appear from the stomach in from 70 to 100 minutes, even when four are taken at a time. When a smaller number, say two, are taken in a cup of hot cof- fee with sonic sugar and milk, they dis- appear from the stomatth in about an hour. The high digestibility of the egg yolk, which is valuable for the compara- tively large proportion of fat which it contains, is ascribed. to the low melting point of such fat and its fluidity at or- dinary temperature. That the fat is assimilated has been proved conclusively, an analyses show that less than three per cent. escapes through the digestive system, For in- , valids the phosphorized fats of the egg yolk known as lecithin are particularly valuable, and there is no doubt that it is to their presence in a large measure that the yolk cure has attained its pres- ent prominence. -....-.••••••••••••••-• SMILING BABIES. —.- • The well baby is never a cross baby. When baby cries or is fretful, it is tak- ing the only way it can to let mother know that there is something wrong That something is probably some de- rangement of the stomach or bowels, or perhaps the pain of teething. These troubles are speedily removed and cured by Baby's Own Tablets, and baby smiles again -in fact, there's a smile in every dose. Mrs. Mary E. Adams, Lake George, N.B., says: "I have found Baby's Own Tablets so good ior the ills of little ones that I would not like to be 'without them." That is the experi- ence of all mothers who have tried the tablets; and they know this medicine is safe, for it is guaranteed to contain no opiate or poisonous soothing stuff. Equally good for the child just born or well advanced in years. Sold by all druggists or mailed at 26 cents a box by writing the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. "Bold Advertisement." "Yet cloth he give us bold advertise- ment," writes Shakespeare in King Henry IV. This expression might well be used as a motto by some wideawake merchant. Bold advertising is effective advertising - if there be no humbug about it. Humbum, like graft, is fast getting under the ban. Straight business At Least Seven Prominent Political Or- ' ganizations iu the Country. Motorman was waving his hand in the is the kind of business that pays in the Doutnless the majority of people con- sider niat there is only one dominating opinion in China -that is, hatred of the foreigner. And yet it seems from a re- cent investigation made by the Japanese paper Shimkoron that China is not lack- ing. in variety of views. The Sbimkoren notes no less than seven different par- ties, all of which have a largo member- ship. First, there are the extreme can servatives represented by the Pekin count and the ruajority of the officials. To live from day to day; to move with every wind, be it toward Russia or to- ward. England; not to tobch the worm- eaten state edifice except for the moat necessary repairs; to make no plans with reference to the future and to move with the tide of events; these are the dominant traits. The next party is the one in favor of a Chino -Japanese ulli- ! slice. This party in nowise desires to ' overthrow the imperial government, but wishes resolutely to take up the ques tion of reforms. The Japanese., bre- , tilers of the Chinese in race and tra- ditions, are clearly the ones to bring boll' the educational and military re - forms to a successful issue. The next party is the republican party ! which dreams of remodeling China into a republic similar tO the United States. , The programme of this party is: China ; for the Chinese, away with the foreign - ere, teeny with the Manchus. The eon- • stitutional party represents peaceful evolution which would disturb the cowl- , try and furnis foi eigneis with a pre- text, to get a foothold in China; de- sires to keep ett the head of the empire the Manchu dynasty, but also demands that delegates, elected by the people, shall have a voice in the affairs of tlie empire. Another party, the party of , the "great man," thinks that only some great man can save China from her pre- sent predicament and they are daily ex - pectins. the appearance of this delivery. This idea, it appears, has a much lar- ger following than one might suppose. 'The dismemberment party, which is the • 'most remarkable of all? demands that in the seine way the eity of Shangeei was divided between the French and Eng- ; lish Chita itself tibtrald be divided into , deneessiolis to the diffetent nations. Time Shantung should be given Germany, Yun- nan should be given France, and so on. V tide be done, the partisans of the nievement contend, the people will live happily, and in a. short thne all necee- sates reforms will be granted. The lest, party is the tatientional petty. Thie camp thinks that before considering lie - forma the people mast be edticated, for nothing eall be done with an ignorant people. The Shimkoron ebeerves that the Inter party like the one 10 favor of a Clitho-Jaintnese alliance, represents the intellectual elite of China, NOthing Strange. tIstew Orleans Titues-Denmerat.) "I'lley any that many ot the Old llindeo idols luul inanimate in their twee." "Thane not Inerealble. My niri bee diamond in her eye stow, end, hang it, I'm afraid I'll have to buy it." Sueeeces shoulinIe**er begr;Isee. the sal- fialf Of its %irate agent, direction of a policeman, all other vocal long run. Two Grateful Letters from Women Who Avoided 4/Serious Operations.—Many Women Suffering from Like Conditions Will Be Interested. ATMS VOI When a physician tells a woman, suf- fering from ovaria,n or womb trouble, that an operation is necessary it, of cotirse, frightens her, The very thought of the operating table, and the knife strikes terror to her heart. As one woman expressed, it, when told by her physician tha,t she must undergo an operation, she felt that her death knell had sounded. Our hospitals Are full of women who are there for ovarian Or Womb • Operations! an examinatioa said that Thad ovarian trou- may reach a stage evil ere an operation as my only hope. 'To this 'strongly objected is the oray resource, but seteh cases ar,a -and I derided as A last resort to try Lydia E. lattlehain'e Vegetable Compelled. serech rarer than is generally suppOsed, " To my surprise the ulceration healed, all because a great Many even:den have the bad syniptons disappeared, and I :unmet() been awed by Lydia E, Pinklartm's nitre strong, vigorous and well; and I can - Vegetable Compound after the dottors stot °ones my thanks for what it has dono had said all operation must be per- feel:age formed. In beet, up to the point svhere Overian and womb troubles are the knife Must be used to scour° hasten t steadily on. the inereaso atnong women relief, this medicine is certain to belP, -and before submitting to an opera - The strotigest and most gratefnl then every woman should try Lydia E. statements possible to make eome from Pinkitam's Vegetable Compound, tend evomen who, by taking Lydia n. Pinks write Mrs. Pinkhates nt Lyutt, Mass. Isam'S Vegetable CoMpound, have for AdViee. escaped Seriotle OperatiOne, For thirty yeetes Lydia II. Pinlehateie Mn. Robert, Glenn of 434 Marie St, Vegetable Compound has been curing Ottawa, Ont., writes: the worst forms of female coro.olaints, all ovarian troubles, inilamnuttion, ule Dear Pinlehatin- "Lydia 11, Pinkham'S Vegetable Conn, eeratiOn, cilia displacement ol pound ik kb well and widely knowte that it the womb, leueorrhoea, irregularities, does riot aced iny recommendation, but ant enalgee Oa and nervous impetration. ploseel to field it to the many which,?on have Arty Woman who conld read the many ite favor. have eulfered tinted agonies !reale-1/41 letters on file in Mr(3, Pink- frotn ovarien troubles for nearly three years, and ihe doctors told that I must undergo ham s °Mee V"`6111(1 00 eatrehleeaM the effielency of her tedvitie aud Lydia E. an operation, but as was tniwillitig to do 1 thie I tried your Vegetable Compound, and Pinithatit's Vegetable Conspound. Ask Mrs. Plakhaat's Adrift—A !foam 'got thalerstaatla a W00% Ills. I am only too pleased that I did so, for it restored me to perfect health, saving mo the prize of an operation and the immense bills attending the same, Pray accept my hearty thimks and best wishes." Miss Margret Merkley of 275 3d Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes: pear Mrs. Pinlcbant:- " Loss of strength, extreme nervousness, gevere sheeting pains through the pelvic organs, cramps, bearing down pains, and an irntable dieposition compelled me to seek modierd advice. The doctor, after making It is quite Irtie that these tronbles hie mid ulcerateon and advised an o oration 8sa Martial Wee at la leci t. grout ote spareele wised eurroundlog couutry cewe Mae aue ranoicre -teeny with their wlYee and children -had been /straggling 111 blur° eletellget. Now et noon the ;street wee all se with tisuro.i. Lough% la front of Ilarcient three samona in evenly numbered groups were awn thirty ranehers esti varsumeti-snitee, Mexleane eta Indiatie. Nearly as twiny home were tetheree Bee ecrub oaks at the side of the road. etranser in San etarcial walked thouglattaly up the etreet etopeed moment before the saloon tbat looltee most uromisiers. Teen grieving, his Bawl -lei wanted in. Tne 'done WOO crow:led with uoloY, demonstrative meow, Sem I were drinking at the bar, others were I ing carde al the baek of the rime, the I rest nem etanelne around the leg barret. I neped stove. As the stranger eaterea there I wan a elementary heels which be could Xs 1 busit'hewiltelhaetigers gaped et him. sized him un critlealle, and looked aunieell. The bar- tender indulged ia finale, that was blana, almoet luipereeptible. Those et the ; bar rested their glefefes fur a short stare. itTihwealesedraudauitollbyieetelieor eiturteonrgeozet, ub euctaufn emulous; be was scarcely noticed. Reading tim signs arieht, the stranger • walked up to the bar, and putting, down 0 dime, quietly ofelered a whiskey. He oval- ; lower the fiery stuff with a Bligift, grimace, ' and was about to leave wben ho heard some words at ble elbow which mewed him to keep his Mime. Teo talk at les elbow went on. send as he listened the iinea ot his good-natured mouth relaxea broadly anti the bright little eyes twtueled. He whirled about, left the saloon and wanted rapidly uutii he came to his restiug placio of the Want before. Piecing hie satchel carefuiy upon the ground be operced it and took out e elfamole-coveted package, Uatying the buckskin etrings ho unwoutal ! the ceamois-skin wrapping until tour su- perb pletois beeame vleible. They were of the finest workmanehip, the Nimbi long and slender. 'Taking the guns up Wootton- ately the stranger scrutinized every past, lie tested the trigger, the cylinder and tae eight. Then apparently eatiefied, be reload- ed each chamber eurefully and put •the pis• tots back In their wrapplug. Holdine, out both hands, with the palm? downward, he regarded tbem critically. "Steady as a ruck!" he muttered to ;tele and the little eyes Whittled merray from under their half-closed lids. At 2 o'clock an ocasional steaggier might have been seen. entering the vacant lot be- hind Shield's saloon, By 3 o'clock a crowd of two hundred men had gathered there At the far end of the lot wore two old army targets, freshly painted white, upon whbee the great Shields himself, chalk in hand, was et this moment piecing a number of concentrte circles. A large, crudely let- tered placard placed midway between the two targets announced that the great Pis- tol -shot contest tor the championship 01 San Marcia' county and a prize of one hun- Bdbraedzw.dollars in gold war to begin at 3.e0 - The placard caned it a contest, But as a matter of fact everybody in San elarcial felt pretty certain that there would be only one contestant. Pitted against a goodly number of men -all more or less noted for their prowess with the pistol -Tim Whits • sett had twice given conclusive proot of his superiority. For the last two years he haa carried off the prize -badly defeating the best of his competitors. As defeat seemecl certain, and there was only one prize, no one else now cared to enter the lists. But then San Menial considered Whitseit's shooting alone worth the seeing. The judge of the contest was no other than Bob EVROS, sheriff of the countee Mounting the box which had been set up ' asigla,min.s.t: the back of, the saloon to eerve as the Judge's stand, he raised his hand for "Fellow eitizens, the following contest is to be for the championship of San Marcial county and a prize of $100 gold. et is open to all comers. The rules aro as fol- lows: Bach man must empty four six- shooters, which aro to be drawn from tho ' holsters and Mod. Two holsters are to be worn at the belt and one under each arm- , pit -and each brace of pistols is to be put , back in its holsters before the second brace , is fired. In deciding the points, the num- ber of shots in the target, and the time t • t , ed. I am now ready to recelve entries." i A. burly, red-faced rancher slouched out of tho crowd, and, stepping up to the sher- , sa 00M0 ng o m. 1 "First entry - Tim Whitsett!" shouted tbe sheriff. The crowa cheered taintly. Whitest was a bully and bad few Montle. There was a pause, Then there arose a general snicker, which gradually swelled to a great roar of laughter. A. hundred fingers were pointed nt the queer, insignificant figure that was new seen approaching the judge's stand. 'Then they began to hoot him. It was the stranger. With his loose f, coat removed, his thinness and dwarf-Ilicif ; stature Vero ludicrously accentuated. Paus- ing a moment, he drew from his pocket a large pair of glaeses, wiped them carefully and lesed tl em u on hi A h , move the redbilities ot the crowd burst out anew -and the stranger was saluied CALVES AND BABY BEEF Baby beef is the highly finished product that sells far the highest figure because the 'muscles, tensions and tissues are nee hatdoned by av • and use, It is tender and juicy, like a sappy, young tree. It costs, on the Average, about se to make lb. of gain at one year, and about ye. at two years, and so on, because the digestive powers are more enere.etic in younger than in older stock, There should be no let up in feeding the 365 days of the year. I II .41 Elia. dia. IA 1.111 Clydesdale Stock Food can be fed with the greatest benefa to calves, esneciallywith Seawater Milk. as it takes the place of the extracted butter fats, It prevents "scours," therefore, there is no "let up" in growth. It has the bone and muscle producing ingredients that helps to build a frame ort which to put the tender flesh quickly, and, at profit. Nothing injurious in it, and can stop feeding it without harmful effects. Human beings can take it with libnefit. We take it every day. Your money cheerfully refunded by the dealer if any Clydesdale Preparations do not give satisfaction, Try Hereulee Potatry Food. Cavegsnerate STOMa Veop CO. Vistaed, Tel -Onto LII,14.111,PN ki 1.1 wibed.ailialtt w thanks, bowed low to the crime and re - Paired at mice to the saloon where, sue- rounaed by an admiring grottp of citizene, cleanea and poliehed his pistols mini the blue, damaskeened barrels fairly retarget- ed. This done. he replaced them earefullg in their wrappine. "Good day, gonna" be said, evenly, and left the saloon. with cries of "Grandpa!" "Humpy:" Ap- parently oblivious of the aolsy ridicule that hle appearance had provoked, he spoke a few words to the sheriff. Then tbe latter, struggling, vainly with his countenance. announced with gusto: "Sec- ond entry -Henry Jason, or San Francisco." Whitsett was laughing immoderately. As • soon as he suceedea iu reducing his milt!' to a very broad smile, he took his place on the mark, his hands hanging at his sides. "Ready!" called the sheriff, watch in hand. "Firer' Whltsett's hands swept swiftly, almost mechanically, to the belt holsters. The red -sleeved arms came to an incredibly quick level and stiffened. Six double re- ports sounded- and a sprink/ing of black spats showed on the white surface of the target. Still smoking, the empty pistols were flashed into their holsters. Then both hands flew upward, touched for an instant the shouldera and shot out again. There was a bright gleam of steel -and again came six rapid double reports. Whitsett shoved the pistols quickly into the snoulder holsters and swaggered into the back- ground, The sheriff ran down to the target, count- , ed the shots and made a note of the result. j Then he returned and mounted the box, I "Score of Titn Whitsett! Time: Thirteen I seconds. Target score: FOUr in the bull's - Ieye, niue in the first ring, six In tho second, five in the third. This breaks the time re- cord and target record made by Mr. Whitsett last year." The crowd responded but faintly. It hated to see Whitsett win. Jason's face was stern and Immovable as be took his position. The laugh that hae . Started among the crowd died away invol- untarlly. Whitsett's face alone wore na j expansive smile of contempt, After all the crowd had begun to think that there was 1„ something inscrutably col aud businees- , like about this little, mls-shapen tender- , fee* Jason's eyes were fixed. alertly upon the ' target. At the word "Fire!" the blue, dam- askeened pistols leaped so swiftly in to Ins skinny fingers that the spectators could not follow the movement with their eyea. They saw only a flashing double crescent of steel. Then, before anyone had eomprehenaca What was happening, both pistols were whirled high In the Mr. San Marcial item its breath. In a moment the pistols bat rapidly that they reemed to blend Into eie. , rapidly that they seined to blond hito elx. With a quick vstist the womlerful laths stran- ger vent the gun$ into their holsters. Again, almost before the thoroughly amazea crowd knew what was taking puee, a new pletei glistened in We Jeson't hands. 'ride time only ono pietol flew into the air -and me it whirled I tithe sunlieet the magielan discharged tho ether twice in lightning -like euecession. Timm deftly catching tho cleseoliaing piste], lie enipliel both guns with incredible rapidity mil seemingly without aim. Returaing the leo- Ms to their holsteis with tho same quick- ness, be leaned coolly against the judges:: box, his face as ineerutatie ns ever. Then San Mainfal wont -wild. They did net Wait for the scere-they knew Vol steaming when they saw it. They liked a man, moreover, ana arereelatea one-eeee it lie did happen to be a tenderfoot. Whit - Pete •witlf a remit or rage 00 big eloatel face, ehinit into the crowd. tle 'knew that l'e was beaten -knew that San Itiareial re - Jolt ea hi hie ileinat. . Tito elierift hurrlea armee the 1, t nal egret:teed the target. Ae 011, 111t•Pe • teneeted his bee the diem e wee pre- ' semen , "avert% et Henry erneen, Pan Prime ---s. Tal e: Mee es aatl 021041111r 'LA - 3.01 Seat': lemma la tee leill'e-fees; twfle• •11 The rite t rino. five in the WI!: 't breaks all reemnsi" The slieritf drew Sitio tel to en fun heisht. and P. ::00It MO MOON 3031 0.00031 of the from: ILO Stain1010.1, 'went vit: "Aa sibmet: t eenety, :tea ia senalf of my 1%,11”.0 T want to anolsgiae, See .Le 131!:411tY way ve• treetel eeft. Ae 1 Is'.• to eeneratulas • eau, .$r. .1. ;,,;1 (AI 0.• fineet of Imeallne et el, -tee; le eye.' easel .krieseee• Tee. 1;,, JaF:en Rhistiv:t tweetree. Jamie euileitea teens eith ittUttillt 01 Tbat alight Henry Jason, lately ot the Royal Amueemut Compagy, but better known to e few seekers after curious infer. matien as the champion trick Mewl shot of the world, lay back contentedly in the nig. padded seat of the south -bound An- tonia and Wort stanton stage, His right hand rested lightly upen the handle of a greasy, battered little satthel, His left head was hidden, but from the ample toicle oe his gray overcoat CO.1110 the taint yet iiii- mietakable Oink of double eaglea.-The Ae- zonaut. BLOOD DISEASES Can All be Cured by the Use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. More than half the disease in the world is caused by ball bloo.l.-weak blood, blood poisoned by impurities. Bad blood is the one cause of all the head- aches tend backaches, the lumbago and rheumatism, the neuralgia and sciatica, the debility and biliousnes,s and indiges- tion, the palenese and pimples and all the disfiguring skin disease like eczema, that show how impure the blood actually is. It is no use trying a different medi- cine for each disease, because they tell spring from the one cause -bad blood, To cure disease you ,must get right down to the root of the trouble• in the blood. That is what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills do. They make new, rich blood,. Cone mon medicines only touch the se- teptoins of disease. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills root out the cause, That is why these pine cure when doctors and common medicines fail. Here is positive proof: "I suffered agony from indigestion," says Mr. Fred. Fillis, of Grand Desert, N. B. "I had no appetite for my meals and no energy for my work; my stomach caused me constant distrees, and everything I ate lay like lead on my chest. At times I felt my life a burden. 1 was alwaye doctoring, hut it did me no good. Then alittle book came into my hands, and I read that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills wonlel cure indigestion. I got them and began i taking them, and I soon found they were 1 helping' me. My appetite began to inn prove, and my food to -digest better, 1 , used the pills for a couple of months and ; I was well. Now 1 ant always reedy for my meals, and I can eat emything, coul all the credit ie due to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I keep the pine in the house ! all the time, and I ,occazionaly take a i few as a preeauticm. I call honestly ad - 141410.00.1 4 04.4 4.4 +4-4**4.4k.1.4.1.41•40+4-4444.• +*-4, POTATO ROT +este+++ op oefeeerTgoeleeel.+4.44 I*** The November, 1900, crop ,bulickin of the ()Marie Here= of Industrie& stated that 000. ramble rot had appeared on peitateel. espeulany where the crop was grown me heavy eons or on low lying land. The ex- tent at the loss was variously estImetee at from 20 to 60 per cent. Thia "soft" or "wet" rot is quite aistinet from the so - caned "blight," At first eight most pi the potatoes appear to be sound, but on exam - illation, the skin over certain areas is round to be discolored, and on pressure the part beneath is soft. On breaking the ekin a turbid liquid can be meetly pressed out. Thie ileum raay contain gas bubbles ancl turns black en exposure to air. The Oda from affeeted parts easily peals away and the nowly exposed flesh is watery ana white but soon discolors in the Mr, aecoming I almost black. Later the flesh eoftene to a white, watery pulp, and becomes highly of- fensive, with a putrefactive ardor, Finally, the potato become s 1110.4 of black soft pulp. The stem of the potato may or may not be affected. la tbe former ease the base of the Steins becomes colored and black, then the leaves above wilt, and the entire stem falls over. If a piece of diseased stem is cut open the fibrous strands in it (the fibrovaseelae bundles) will be found brown to black lu coier. The cause of the "blight," wbich particu- larly affects the leaves, is a tun,gus, ana the Bordeaux mixture, properly made and applied, will bold this disease in check, but the wet or soft rot cannot be managed be spraying with this mixture, because the disease is present in the roots and tubers and hence cannet be got at. The cause of the "rot" disease is a badterium, a minute rod about 1-20.000 of an inch long, which grows with great rapidity in ttie tissue of the potato and seeretes a substance which has a dissolving action in the cell wants which hold the starch walls and other con- tents of the cell la place, when these cell wells are aeierzynit the potato becomes watery aud eoft, putrefaction sets tu and the tuber is destroyed. The Bacteriological Department of the On- tario Agrieultural College, witich bas been stpdying the disease for the last year, woula like to ascertain if the disease in various parts of Ontario is similar to the one with which it has been 'working, and which caueed so much damage last year, and hem,* would like farmers troubled with this Ma - case to mail an affected potato and state et the same time if they were troubled with the soft or wet rot Met year, and to what extent tbe rot is present in the present sea- sen't crop. HIGH SPEED TO HZ REALIZED, vise all dyspeptics to use this medicine, as I am sure it will cure them as it did me.° Give Dr. Williame' Pink Pills a 'Air trial and they will cure yon, simply because they make that rich, strong blood that disease cannot resiet. See that you get the genuine pills, with the full name "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People," on the avapper around every box. You can eet them from your umelieine dealer or b.y Mail at 60 cents a box ,or eke boxes for $2.50 by writing the Dr. Williams linelicine Co., Brockville, Ont. all,••••••• 4.•••••• • fISEFUL HINTS. Needlework should be ironed on the wrong side on a piece of flannel, and it should be kept lung enough mule/ the iron to thoroughly dry it. A frying pan should never be scraped. Insteal, fill it cold water, to which a little Rode has been added, and let it stand for several hours. When the burners of lamps become clogged with char put them in strong soupsuda, and. boil awhile to elven MOM. Lenten juice mixed 'very thick wit': sugar will relieve that tickling cough that is so annoying. Scraps of old, worn chamois skin it strung on twine, bead fashion and theu tied into a "eh:email ball," will last for years. .ate1 polish. glass es nothing else IviAll 1(101;g -handled. weighted brush brings oat a fine polish on a waxed floor. Kerosene will clean a 'white enameled sink. Every pen of dish water Contains grease, whieb coagulates on the cold piyes. Result. evil deposits on thee:: pipes: (wenn:illy re plumber. A. pint of boiling hot eolution of ensiling soda poured (town the sink every day die - solves ned earries away 1.110 grease. Ordinary popcorn, ground fine in a -meek grinder or a eoffee grinder. end ilien served With vielt ererun. 08 Pahl to 1:e rt. populer brealrfe et food in Iowa. It win be ground the night before in order to save time the meet menthe:. The oTonnd popenrn can eleo be browned a little aver the fire for n Outage beftin sere -thee When mivine flour foe Wel:ening anel pirieli -et nit to 11,0 Thom tefere 11110- ine with enter, end it 'mime smielt noire smoothly withent lumps. The Universities.. rail the %ladle fd the nineteenth eentiny, Feglantl had 1 nly three univer- eiliesenteford, Caiebridge wed Durham- litit ilw tlii.e is soon eonting . when (4ery latii,e vity 1,11 ;Jelin Bull's Island. Ni.ill want a ullis erAity of its own. Lon - ,:cit airoady has one, on.1 -a; 1MS Iiii.- . 1.1.11*,:11110, 1.41 ruy nothing lif tli!,.u, la I 2 1.:ihili',1 er Ulla Litt.lpa(.1. 1...etli llas Ij4•hied 11,1' .1:111(V, C11.1 13,4.-si of all 4.1111t..4 l7;la Iflelti, Wlii:,11 1.1a-litst il.c 1111iVvraity . 1:toi..1 niy. Tim new laiildinge have tent I - a milli,11 4.011:11,4. .1 tiC,,:q• 11:SW illgifill- Ili,illS 3- -6111 13311113a to iip-lune a nit -et deemeeraile vie. No 1...,:,,,oe is IllthaSity 1 (11d:1.611 1 11 h pht ., 14 111:711 !,111011' Nrit..ro ,It'y a li-a iiP.11 yolil.:1 14eallenlen i. -it ti!...Ift.,,A1 iii...1 t ..10.a.e!: s c 4.t1 ltiO.Cit it. Hamburg -Berlin Line Proposals Call fel Enormous Expenditures. An aftermath of the historic Berlin. ZOSSC11 high speed electric traction ex- periments now several years old, it the publication of the recent bids of the tWO great 'electric companies of Ger- many for a high speed electric line be- tween Berlin and .1 lamburg. This is a dietance of about 155 miles, as the crow flies, the country being generally level and well ada Jted she construction of 1 a high speed line. The expenditure re- ; quired, however, is r normous, and al - I most out of reach if the road were to be made profitable, unless the cutting down of the time of travel one -halt should have a renearlee.ble stimulating I effect on travel so that the increased traffic wonld offset the greater e/cpenses I One of the propositions calls for a dou- ble -track lthe with speeds of 100 miles an hour, whieh would enable the trip to I be made in an hour and a half, at an - expenditute of nearly. 830,000,000, and if the speed should be increased to 125 miles an hour, the road and equipment would cost $35,700,000. A single track road, with turn -outs at a middle station, according to one proposa, could he built for $16,60000. The normal traffic at the present time is only about 438,000 passengers per annum, which at preaent rate of fare would not be sufficient to remnant the expenditure. There is, however, another phase of the question which Consul Mason, in a recent report on tbe subject, strongly emplutsizes,and that 'is the virile national spirit of the Germans, which has done so lunch to keep them in the foretront of indus- itial progress. There is a popular feel- ing that no treater nhat the cost, Ger- m:my ;inlet 'be the first to put into ;weenie:11 realization the knowledge and infermatien obtained from the Zossen experiments whielt demonstra.ted the feasibility of operating trains at a speed ef 120 miles an hioar7_, Broadway the Longest. Since the 13oulevard was added to . Broadway, es it properly Omelet be, Broadway is now the longest, street eon- tained in city limits and actually poino lakel. Halsted street, in Chinago, is theoretically longer than our fourteen 13roadway, ba tbe street both he - gins and ends in the farming district within the Chicago city limits, evhile there are houses on 13roadway to the eity line. ,No street abroad compares in length with Broadway. The London streets, "although the rnetropeditan die triet" corere much. more territory, set, (loin retein their name for any length some of them being known by as litany as three or four titles. Preaching Dangermsa Dearth% (N the YOrk. Evening Post.) 90 the thureh does not speak out for ighteonsness," said Mr. Chew in his tees mon yesterday, "of what use is the ; ehurelt ?" This is dangerous doctrine, even in NeWburg; it is fatal in N.eut it smacks of prinutiVe Lenity, a grotesque anarchonisin in 1905. It Mae- be too late to enlighten Mr. Huntington. Who, though well meatineg. be helplusely old fashioned, but 13iehop Potter should talee Melts to supprees the ti tither -eau tone entient may offend imbsteen eel Nit . . • elergymen. Otherwise some tiel sapporters by actually passing ob. jet iionable ruelutions. Att Antondment to tile Golden Mac (motto Pharisee eutleal Jouraall Bretlisely love end elta,eity (10 not mishit vo malt In what yeti env.: ee fele little( rat tabs luta sour fetvAr