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I knew \ of her efforts to make her
husband right the wrong to which he
bad been a party. I knew of Vinal's
departure and where he was going.
Tho vessel in which he sailed from
San Francisco was a tramp steamer,
but she was a very fast boat, and she
was going direct. I knew when she
was due, and as the day approached I
became very nervous.
"Then came that plan of Henry's
friends to search for him. I could not
let them waste their money and their
time. I could not tell them why.
Thence resulted all my conduct. I had
some little foolish reputation ,for mys-
terious powers, and I played upon it
That day in the restaurant while the
'search for Henry was being discussed
I saw in the paper a report of the ves-
sel that had carried Vinal. I guessed
that he must be almost at that very
hour in my brother's house, and of
course I knew what he would do there.
"That was a harmless and pardona-
ble fraud, Mr. Harrington," he con-
tinued, "compared to the one which I
practiced upon you, I had the excuse
sof shielding the name of a good woman
;whose conduct might be misunder-
stood. But with you it was sheer self
interest and reckless impulse. I was
desperate with my circumstances. You
:would take me as a psychic, and you
wouldn't take me any other way. Let
me rush over this. When T. pretended
to 'feel' Dr. Whiting behind me, I
heard his voice in the hall. and when
I turned around after playing my trick
.and didn't see him I thought that I
was lost. But fate saved me.
"As for my knowledge of what was
in your mind, Mr. Harrington, the ex-
periment in heredity, I was informed
by Whiting."
"But I never told him!" I cried.
Donaldson smiled sadly.
"How simple these things are," he
said. "Certainly you never told him,
but you loaned him your diary that he
might study the records of your tests,
and in turning it over he came upon.
your notes about the possibility of
mating two psychics. 'Look out for a
psychic girl,' he wrote in the letter in
which he warned me of your visit. 'I
think they've got one and will try to
make a match.' Dear little Dorothy!
To think that I never suspected her of
being the wonder worker! But many
a time since then I have felt her power
guiding me, for she still has it, though
she will not say so. Indeed, I cannot
believe that our son lacks some inher-
itance of this mysterious force from
his mother"-
- "Oh, deacon, how delicious!" ex-
claimed Dorothy, who bad stood like It
statue, with clasped hands, during all
this recital. "have you really believed
in me? But why not? I have always
believed in you, and my on.y doubt of
Don was based upon the knowledge
that I myself was the thinnest of vain
delusions. Donald, dearest, I never
dared to tell you.
"Dear old Uncle John, uncle in gener-
al to all of us and best of benefactors,
can you ever forgive me? I can't tell
you all; I can't speak ill of my aunt,
and indeed she was driven to it; but
when I first began to help her with
those mysteries I thought her a most
wonderful psychic and that the only
deception was in making the revela-
tions through me. Why, she had cor-
respondents all over the country. I did
not know it till after her death. There
was a perfect network of fraud. These
people wrote to each other. They gath-
ered the complete family history of
ev-
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TRYING
TIMES iN
A WOMAN'S LIFE
There are three periods of a woman's life
when she is in need of the heart strength-
ening, nervo toning, blood enriching
action of
MILBUR 'S HEART
AND NERVE PILLS
The first of these is when the young girl
is entering the portals of womanhood. At
this time she is very ofton pale, weak and
nervous, and unless her health is built up
:and her system strengthened she may fall
a prey to consumption or bee weak woman
for life.
The eecond period is motherhood. The
drain on tho system is great and the ex-
hausted nerve force and depleted blood
require replenishing. Milburn's Heart and
Nerve Pills supply the elements needed to
do this.
The third period is "change of life" and
• this is the period when she is moat liable
to heart and nerve troubles.
A tremendous ohango is taking place in
the system, and it is at this time many
:chrome disoases manifest themselves.
Fortify the heart and nerve system by the
neo of Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills and
thus tide over this dangerous period. Mrs.
James King, Cornwall, Ont., writee a "X
have been troubled very Much With heart
trouble --the cause being to a great extent
s,
have boon
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of life. I h
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Ate to elan taking
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Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pins for some
time, and mean to continuo doing no, for 1
can truthfully lay they are the best remedy
11 have ever used for building upthe system.
e
You are at liberty to neo the statement
ffor'the benefit of other sufferers."
Price 50 cents per bolt, three boxes for
51.26, all dealers, or The !i'. Milburn Uel►,
L"nmited, Toronto, Ont.
ery investigator and—and crank. You'd
be amazed at the tbings that my aunt
knew—things that were all done in an
orderly record among her papers.
"I did not know this till after her
death, and of course I bad no suspi-
cion that she was taking money for
her exhibitions, that she lived upon
them. It was among her letters that I
found your name and Mr. Hackett's
and the fact that you were trying to
find a Mr. Donald Donaldson, whose
name you had not yet learned. That
letter carne after my aunt's death.
"And I was desperate, Mr. Harring-
ton. I did not know which way to
turn. When you mentioned a teacher's
work to me, I was insane with fear
that you would not choose me, and so—
and so I played that awful trick"—
The tears were streaming down the
dear face that I have loved so tenderly
for so many years. She is the child of
my soul. I took her into my arms and
kissed her upon the brow.
"The facts seem to be," said Donald-
son, looking very queer, "that your
experiment in heredity has succeeded
beyond the wildest dreams. You have
brought together two persons having a
Peculiar and wretched gift of decep-
tion, though one of them is the most
honest, open hearted woman in the
world and the other a man who has
done no great harm. Each of them, in
a crisis which seemed all important,
yielded to a certain temptation—the
very same in each instance. To them
was born a son who was brought to
face a similar situation, with a result
that must be called inevitable. But at
heart," he added, "the boy is pure gold,
as his mother is, and I ata proud of
him."
Ile looked around defiantly, as if
there had been some one to deny the
justice of his claim.
"He's the finest boy that ever lived,"
said I. And thou, with an old man's
persistence in a long cherished opinion:
"And, moreover, there's a tremendous
lot in this matter that none of you
has explained. I believe, upon my
soul, that you aro psychics, all Of you!"
TIIE END.
Wanted a Dog.
Fair Customer—I live in the suburbs,
and I want a good house dog. Dealer—
Yes, mum. "But of course I don't want
one that will keep us awake alI night
barking at nothing." "No, mum." "He
must be big and strong and fierce, you
know." "Yes, mum." "Yet as gentle
as a lamb with us, you know." "Yes,
mum." "And he must pounce on every
tramp that comes along and drive him
off." "Yes, mum." "But he mustn't
interfere with any poor but honest man
looking for work." "No, mum." "If
a burglar comes prowling about at
night the dog should make mincemeat
of him in an instant" "Yes, mum."
"And of coursfi he mustn't molest peo-
ple who come hurrying in at all hours
of the night to call my husband. He's
a doctor, you know." "No, mum. I
see what you want. You want a thought
reader dog." "Yes, I suppose so. Can you
send me one?" "Very sorry, mum, but ;
I'm just out of that kind."—Scottish
American.
Not Unreasonable,
There lives in a Massachusetts town
a young woman whose courtesy never
deserts her, even in the most trying
moments. Not long ago she stood
swaying back and forth, holding to a
u acrowded electric caron '
strap i ec c a
rainy day.
A young man who stood next her had
a dripping umbrella, with which he
emphasized his 1:'emarks to a friend.
As he pounded it down on the floor of
the car an expression of anxiety gradu-
ally deepened on the young woman's
face, and at last when the umbrella
had become quiet for a moment she
spoke.
"I beg your pardon," she said In a
clear, calm tone. "I am sorry to trou-
ble you. but could you kindly change
your umbrella to my other foot for a
moment so that I may empty the water
out of my rubber shoe fn which the
umbrella Is now fastened?"
TEA BUGS AND TEA MITES.
They Are the Plastics of the Assam
Tea Gardens.
Every animal and plant has its para-
site, and from this general law, it
seems, the ten plant b not exempt.
Two insects are described as spending
their lives in tea drinking. They are
the plague of the Assam tea gardens
and are known as the tea bug and tea
mite.
The mites spend their entire lives on
the tea plant and aro never known to
attack any other leaf. They live in
families and sootetiea on the upper
Side of the full grown leaf and spin a
delicate web for a shelter. They then
puncture the leaves and pump out the
liquid In the plant veinal.
They scent to become very dainty in
their tastes, for a sprinkling of Mud-
dy water over their fluor and tea tftble
is the only remedy known to check
their ravages. Even this is not al-
ways cfeetudl.
The tea bug Is still more destructive
and is evidently possessed Of an ap-
preciation of the best kinds of tea,
sinceit always
athletes t
logo of a
mild and delicate haver. Such as of
ford harsh and rasping liquors are ttli
most entirely free front Its attache.
London Chronicle.
• HE W['vITIAM TIMES MARCH 21. 1907.
A NATURAL BAROMETER.
The Iiattler'aa Skin Sweats Wbelt P
Storni I$ tirylp,roachtn ,
"It is going to. roti within six hours, "
said the man, with provoking delibera-
tion. Lie sun was shining brightly,
and only a few floating clones broke
the clear blue of the broad sky. "gamut":
said the other derisively. "And out of
that sky? You're a pessimist. You al-•
ways carry an umbrella."
"I'll bet you a good dinner that it win
rain within sit hours," the first speaker;
replied with imperturbable good nature
and gravity. The bet was made, and
the bet was paid for by the man Who
doubted. It rained in less than four
hours.
"Now, if you will come around to any
room I will show you how I knew it
was going to rain," said' the prophet,
who was without honor in his own
country, So there they went. Now the
prophet was an original sort of a chap
and has fastened on the walls of his
room many strange things of the sea
and forest and field. On the floor were
flung skins of bear and deer and moun-
tain lion, and on the wall near a win-
dow stretched from the top of the high
wainscoting to within half a foot of the
floor was the grewsome skin of a giant
diamond back rattlesnake. The prophet
pointed to it and said, "There's my se-
cret."
The skin was dripping wet. The
sweat, so to speak, stood out upon its
scaly back in huge drops, which would
swell and swell and silently run to-
gether is little strenmlets, which in
turn would rush down in an avalanche
of other drops and reach the floor with
a splash like a great tear. Everything
else in the room was as dry as the
humid atmosphere of a city after a
thunderstorm would allow.
"That's my barometer," said the
prophet. "I killed the snake myself in
Florida and had it stripped. The skin
is not tanned, but just preserved, like
rawhide. I had noticed in some of
the coasting boats along the gulf shore
little strips of snakeskin hung up in
the cabhl. The captains lead told me
they could always tell when a squall
was coming by watching this skin. I
have had that for three years now, and
it has been far wore accurate that the
weather observer. No matter when
the first indications of a storm snake
themselves felt in the atmosphere,
whether it be night or day, summer or
winter, the faithful skin shows it by
beginning to sweat. 'lf the storm
passes off, the drops dry up and the
skin crisps and shrivels until it is more
like sandpaper than anything else. In
the winter of course the sweat is not
so profuse, because the air is drier than
in summer.
"Why the snakeskin should be so
sensitive to changes In atmospheric
conditions I do not know. I have asked
expert snake handlers and students of
reptile life, but they were as much at a
loss as I was. 1 do not know, either,
whether any skin but that of tire• rat-
tler will yield to humidity or not. 1
know that the Florida boatmen use the
rattler's skin exelnt(ively for their enb-
In barometers. There's something grew -
some and mysterious about it. I'll ad-
mit, but it tells the truth as nccar::toly
as the most expensive glass that was
ever constructed. and all it cross nue
was a bullet from a rifle."—New York
Tribune.
TechnferaI, Also.
"You see," said the young man who
was explaining the mimic war, "the at-
tack is carried on the same as in ac-
tual warfare, except that the missiles
are only technical. Now, suppose that
I am commanding a brigade and I
should be charged by a regiment of
the enemy"—
"Technically?" asked the young wo-
man.
' "Certainly. And suppose they fired
upon us"—
"Technically?" repeated the young
woman.
"Yes, yes. And I should be encour-
aging my men to make a last stand"—
"Technically?"
echitica11?,
Y
"Of course. And I should get In
range of the enemy's fire and should
be shot through the brain"— •
"011." interrupted the fair damsel,
"I know that would have to be tech-
nically too!"—Baltimore American.
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To proveunquestionably, and beyond anydoubi
that Catarrh.of the nose and throat can be cured.
I am furnishing patients through druggists. small
free Trial Boxes of Dr. Shoop's Catarrh Cure.
I do this because I am so certain. that Dr. Shoop's
Catarrh Cure will bring actual substantial help.
Nothing certainly, is so convincing as a physical
test of any article of real, genuine merit. But that
article must possess true merit, else the test will
condemn rather than advanOo it. Dr. Shoop's
Catarrh dura is a snow white, healing antiseptic
balm, put up in beautiful ni akel capped gross jars
nt SJc. Such soothing age.,ts as oil Iiucalyptus,
Thymol, Menthol, ete., are incorporr.ted into a
velvety, cream like Petrolatum, imported by Dr.
Shoop front Europe. If Catarrh of the nose and
throat has extended to the stomach, then by all
matins alsouse internally, Dr. Shcop's lto+torative..
Stomach distress, a leek of general strength,
bloating, belching, biliousness, bad taste, etc.
surely call for Dr. Shoop's R.•storefive.
For uncomplicated catarrh Only of the noacnod
throat nothing else, however, need he usel but
Ur.t
op's
atarrh CI
1r,
WALLEY'S DRUG STORE.
Dr. SIoeu l's Great Tonle
and Disease Destroyer
(PRONOUNCED 1t-ttaete)
'Used in Th®,1asazrs.ds
of 1.. o es in Canada
THOSE WHO don't know what Peyehiae
is and what it does are asking about it,
T1{OSE WIIO do know what Psychino
is and what it does are using it.. They
regard it as their best physician and
friend.
THIOSE WHO use it are being quickly
and permanently cured of all forms of
throat, chest, 'lung and stomach
troubles. It is a scientific prepara,
tion, destroying all disease germs in the
blood and system. It is a wonderful
tonic and system building remedy, and
is a certain cure for
COUGHS, Bronchial Coughs,
LA G13IPPI6, Chills and Fever,
Colds, Difficult Breathing,
Pneumonia, General Weakness
Bronchitis, Female Troubles,
Catarrh, Fickle 4.ppetite,
Weall Voice, Hemorrhages,
Sleeplessness, Night Sweats,
I.Nervousness, Consumption,
Malaria, Catarrh of the
Anaemia, Stomach.
All these diseases are serious in theme
solves, and if not promptly- cured in the
early stages are the certain foreruuners of
Consumption in its most terrible forms.
Psychine conquers and cures Consump-
tion, but it is much easier and safer to
prevent its development by using Psy-
chine. Here is a sample of thousands of
voluntary and unsolicited statements from
all over Canada :
Dr. T. A, Slocum, Limited:
Gentlemen,—I feel 1t my duty to advise you
of the remarkable cure affected by your Psychine
and Oxomulsion, which have come under my
personal observation. Three men, well known to
me. Albert Townsend, Hnzo1 Ilipson and John
McKay, all of Shelburne County, were pro-
nounced by the best medienl men to have
consumption, and to be incurable and beyond the
reach of medical aid. They used Psychine and
Oxomnlsion and they are now in goord'health.
I feel it a duty 1 own to suffering humanity to
state these facts for the benefit of ether sufferers
from this terrible disease.
Yours very truly.
LEANDER McTENZlE, J.P..
Green Harbor, N.S.
Psychine, pronounced Si -keen, is for
sale at all up-to-date dealers. If your
druggist or general store cannot supply
vou, write Dr. T. A. Slocum, Limited, 179
King Street West, Toronto.
OVER THE BANISTER.
(Buffalo News ]
Over the banister leans a face,
Tenderly sweet and hemline,
While below her. with tender grace,
He watches the picture smiting.
The light burns drat in hall below,
Nobody ares them standing,
Saying good -night again soft and low,
Half -way up co the 1 nding.
Nobody, only those eyes of brown,
'reader and full of meaning,
Gaze on the loveliest taco in town,
Over the banister lea.ting.
Timid and tired with downcast eyes,
I wonder why she lingers,
After all the good•nlghte are said
Somebo'iy holds her augers!
Hold, her fingers, and draws her down,
Suddenly growing bol ler, til, her
Lovely hair lets its masses down,
Like a mantle over her shoulder;
Aquestion is asked, a swift caress,
She hae tied like a bird from the stair -
But over stair-
way,
banister comes a "Yes,"
That brightens the world for him
always.
ENJOY EATING.
Good Digestion Can be Readily
Gained with Mi-o-na Stomach
Tablet.
It is torment to look upon a tempting
dinner and realiz that to eat freely
means distress and suffering.
last tie tollyon how w on can n'
y enjoy
eating, so that the heartiest meals
will set well and cause no pain, distress
or uncomfortable feeling of fellness
If yon cannot eat and enjoy three
good, hearty satisfying meats a day
without any feeling of discomfort, your
stomach as weak and needs the strength
which Mi•o•na stomach tablets will give
it. You cannot afford to delay treat-
ment, for the longer yon allow the di-
gestive organs to be weak, the harder
it will be get help.
The remarkable curative and strong -
Ghosting power of Mi -o na is attested by
the guarantee, whioh Walton MoKib-
bon gives with every 50e box. "I re-
turn the money if Mi•o•nafails to cure."
I, you find that Dating well -cooped
and properly chewed food is followed by
heaviness and load on the stomach, by
bloating, by gulping of acids and wind,
by distress, nervousness, headache,
trouble to sleep, or by any other symp-
tlome of disordered or weak stomach,
you should begin the NUM of Mi•o•na at
once. Itis guaranteed by one of the beat
known druggists in Windham to cure
all disorders of the stomaoh, or coats
nothing. A guarantee like this means a
good deal.
Mardis-andBattles.- -
Shaggy locks and patriarchal beards
have proved highly inconvenient things
on the battlefield. Does not history
record that Alexander ordered the
Macedonians to be shaved lest their
beards should give et handle to their
enetnles? Peter the Great was also a
friend of the barbers, for he not only
ordered all ranks to be shaven, but
caused officers to go about ter cut off
the beards of offenders by force.
IIia Second
She -1 mustt sayy don't believe
in
"warmed over" love. Ile—Well, there's
one thing sure— a 'widower's second
love Is always worth more than his
first. She—The Idea! Ile—T mean his
second ladylove is always worth more
money than his first.
THE INDISPENSABLE MAN
A Mild but Needed and. Timely Lay
Sermon.
(From The Detroit Free I'reas)
Let no man tall into the dear delusion
that he is an indispensable part of this
world's Machinery. No matter bow
emelt he may oversetimt}te his import -
awe, itis yet probable, at least possible.
that be has a defiaire, if °Wale, wine;
but let him drop out of the whirl, having
still breath enough to last him while he
surveys the situation, and he will find
that the wheels will go right on turning
is the old familiar way.
You have been planning, twisting,
turning and playing; the game from every
angle In order to got away on that fort-
night's vacation without the leaden oou-
seiousaesa that th i ship in whioh you
may be supercargo mnet go to the bob
tom unless yon are on board, Yau have
surveyed all the possibilities of disaster
because of your absence from your post
and made provision against them, so far
as human foratgbt eau avail, Arrange-
mepts for keeping in momentary touch
with your business, are oempleted and
you finally get off.
The days go by. Yon are is fearsome
expeotanoy every minute. The sweet•
do-nothing yon had planned resolves it-
self into active worry lest the Awful
Thing you feared hae actually come to
pass, and the dismayed associates at
home have not been able to summon
courage enough to inform you of it.
Those hours in the shade, on beds of
asphodel—the rest, al, perfumed, restor-
ing hours on which your imagination
had fed during all the years of your
continuous grind on the remorseless
machine—somehow fail to materialize.
The long nights of unbroken sleep that
you had planned; the iueiatent breakfast
appetite of whioh you had dreamed; the
renewing of aognaintauce with the
brook and the pond of your boyhood;
the recementing of the dear ties of
youth, long severed and forever remem-
bered; the visits to spot, endeared by
early assooiation and made yet more
precious by long and fond dwelling on
them, all failed to fit into the places you
bad made for them because of your fettirs
that the business at home was going
awry.
At rho appointed time you return to
the grind, As you approach the place
of it your heart stands still with a name-
less fear of desolation, or at least, mis-
hap. But ni—the roof is still in its ac-
customed place. The smoke pours out
of the chimney in as big and black a
volume as ever. The workers yon left
behiud are as basy as ants in their hill
and your ceniidontlal man, when yon
get up spunk to ask him about the busi-
ness, proudly gives you assuranoe that
all is well.
You are surprised, of course. Until
that moment it had not seemed to you
poseibls that the whirring of the mach-
inery could continue in your absence;
but time and the hour have taken your
measure, and laid before your embarras-
sed consciousness the humiliating feet
of your non -indispensability. fiat be
Comforted with the assaradce that wo
are all in the same leaky bent:
The same surprise awaits us all
Who runs this little sphere.
Bowed down with grave and heavy care
Of bossing far and near.
There's nothing that will jolt us so
Upon the further shore
As fladtng out the world we left
Is running as before.
YOUR. OWN FACE.
Would You Recognize It If Ton Saw
It on Another?
"How curious it is," said the philos-
opher, "that the person for whom you
care most on earth, the one you see
oftenest and who receives your most
constant attention, is the one whose
countenance is least familiar to you."
"Who is that?" asked the visitor.
"Yourself," said the philosopher. "It
is a fact that if people could be dupli-
cated and could meet themselves in the
street very few would recognize them-
selves. We look at ourselves many
tunes :luring the 30v days of the year.
We say our eyes are blue or brown or
whatever other color they may be, our
hair black, our chin peaked, our fore-
head high. We know every lineament
of our face from eonstnnt study and
attention, yet when we turn away
from the mirror we cannot conjure up
a picture of ourselves.
"We know just how orr friends and
even acquaintances look. In fancy \:-e
can see theist sitting so or standing so.
and their varying expressions under
different cireuntstanl'es are clear to us
even though we may not have seen
them for years, Mit when it comes to
ourselves we cannot n!1 In even the
outlines et the picture, ti'e may laugh,
we may civ, we may frown, but we do
not know how :we Intik while we are
doing it. Photogrnphs (do not drel;> us.
We have never nese ourselves in the
flesh.ltirrc>t:s and p!etm'es are- poor
aids when we ret down and try to see
Ourselves :with the mlinl's eye.
"That is why p,'ople are .so deerl,w
interested in anybody :who is said to
resemble thein. .lust say to a item,
'I know snnlebOdy w:lo is the dead im-
nge of you; and .he Will never rest tin
he sees that person. .c.Then '
P
the like-
ness Cs i, really true he will r.\vii that
tIp ti) that tillte he hod haul no concep-
tion of how be really looked."
The visitor
smiledlC wanly.
"1 wish you wouldn't talk late that,"
she mild. "It tripes ale feel positively
uncanny."
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WEDDING PRESENTS.
(London Punch.)
As soon as May had named the day
She issued invitations
To all the crew oar mothers knew
(including poor relations,)
We were aware they all would swear
In language far from pleasant,
"Confound it! I shall have to buy
The blessed pair a present "
Then boy and man in oar: and van
Aud motor car name driving,
With gifts galore. and more and more,
And still they kept arriving;
And housemaids flew, and postmen, too,
Ti 1 all the tirrace wondered.
And night and day they rant taway—
Lard! huw the knocker thundered!
We worked in shifts upon the gifte,
And when we had unstrung them.
We'd twenty score of -forks and more,
But not a knife among them;
And as we two had scarce a son
There seemed to be a oaret
When hilly mugs gave claret jugs
But not a drop of claret.
We'S1 Pndies gongs and sugar tongs
Of every shape aud fashion,
AM if sweet tea was hound to be
Henceforth our rating passion.
We'd saobets, too of pink and blue
With stokiy perfum-s scented,
And oh, the show of art nonvean
With which we were presented 1
An'i 11ow we'e sot the little lot
We're nuder obligation
To every guest we most detest,
Aud every poor relation;
And by the time the ahnroh belle chime
And Hymen ties the true knot,
We find- too late—we've all we hate,
And nothtug that wo do not.
ar.
Womanly.
"What," she asked, "is your idea of a
womanly woman?"
"One," he replied, "who takes the
comb out of her back hair every 11ttIe
while and gives it two or three upward
scrapes and then jabs it in again."
Mica when reduced to a powder form
is used as a lubricant for a high speed
machinery. It keeps the bearings free
from dust and resists cold and damp- )
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Strange Mistake.
Old Mrs. Jones entered, the drawing'
room uflespectedly and spoiled a very%
pretty tableau.
"I was jtist \whispering a secret he
Cousin Jeunie's ear," explained Char-
lie.
"I'm sorry," said the old lady grave-
ly, "that ;your eyesight has become sou
bad that you mistake Tennie's mouth.
for her ear."—London Tit-Bits-
IIorLinc.
"Now our enok has gone away X
don't know what we shall do."
"1 thought you told me your wife
was such a good cook?"
"Not a bit of. it. I told you my wife
was an expert In broils, roasts and
Liver Tr 4Ethics
Mr. John Wilson, carpenter, Welland,
Ont., writes:—"Some years ago I was
attacked with kidney trouble, and I be-
came so run down and emaciated that ,
my entire appearance was suggestive of :
physical decline. As time went on the
complaint grew worse and became com-
plicated with liver trouble. I had bad
pains across the back and up the spinal
column, had bad spells with my heart,
pain under the right shoulder, bilious
headache about half the time, indiges- '
tion, fever, and restlessness at night, and.
depression of spirits. t
aI spent about one hundred dollars in
medicines, with no perceivable results.
Doctors' advice proved likewise of no avail.
"Finally, on the advice of a friend, I ,
began taking Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver
iver
Pills, and in a short time the bad symp- t
toms began to gradually disappear, and
by the time I had used five or six boxes
I was enjoying better health than I had
in many years, all of which is due to the
virtues of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver
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