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WHEN YOU ARE NERVOUS you have the first symptom of a run-down system, and nervous people too^often con- pain: THE HAILSTORM ceal their aches and pains and suffer in silence, while, if neglected, this condition often foreruns - more serious, trouble. If those so afflicted would stop taking medicine containing alcohol or drugs 1th, which Menace the foundations of heal' and just take the purè, strengthening nourishment in Scott's Emulsion, it would create new blood to pulsate through the organs, refresh their bodies and build up the whole nervous system. _ It is rich, sustaining nourishment, free from wines, alcohols or drugs. Shun substitutes. The largest hailstones that e ^. r fell in this country would look diminutive' diminutive' indeed when compared o a block of ice "as large as an elephant' elephant' ' that is said to have fallen near Seringapatam m souther a India, during the reign of Tippoo - -- -- - L ' 1 --*unr6c In- PROMPTLY SECURED! In all countries. 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Narrators say that days passed before the fierce dian sun could melt it. block of ice twenty feet in its largest largest diameter, is reported to have Mien at Dharwar in 1838 ;and the French missionary Hue telis of a storm in Mongolia during which a piece of ice "larger -than a mil - stone" fell near his house, during during the reign of Charlemagne, nail stones that were fifteen feet long are said to have fallen. That in all those cases masses of ice of the dimensions reported were actually found after a (hailstorm (hailstorm is not incredible but they certainly did not "fall. They evi dently resulted from the coalescence coalescence of a great number of smaller hailstones lying closely packed together together on the ground and illustrate the same process that is involvec in the production of snowballs anc glaciers. The maximum possible size of . i single hailstone cannot be positive ly stated, but stones larger than a* and weighing over a Today he can eat three square meals and sometimes one "extra" because Chamberlain's Tablets cured Stomach Troubles and gave him a good digestion. You try them. 25c. a bottle. All Druggists and Dealers or by Mail. 3 Qiskrliia Medidee Ce., Toreste CHAMBERLAINS . TABLETS . BEST Was Csfcalblidtiéd in "France before he Revolution. . In recent times this custom of hail-^hooting, ' as it is sometimes called, has enjoyed a remarkable revival. In* 1896 a new type of cannon, cannon, specially dèsigned for bombarding bombarding the clouds, was introduced by Burgomaster Albert Stig0r .in the vine-growings district fpf^Wïn- disdh-Feistrifcz, Htyria, ■ a region that had suffered enormous losses, from hail. It consisted of a small mortar, set on a tripod about three feet in height, to the muzzle of which was fitted a sheet-iron funnel. funnel. The opening at the mouth of the funnel was about twenty-eight and a half inches wide ; the gun nose about six feet six inches above the tripod.' At its base was a forged forged breech that held a forged iron block. In the centre of the block was an aperture six inches long, in which was to be placed a metallic cartridge containing eighty grams of blasting powder wadded - with cork and tamped like an ordinary miner's blast. It was discharged by a needle on a lever attached to the base of the forged iron holder. The detonation was very loud. As soon as the lanyard was pulled, flame was visible at the mouth of the gun followed immediately by a shrill whistling sound. When fired, this cannon sent aloft a curious whirling whirling ring of smoke and gas, ener getic enough to splinter sticks and kill small birds at a distance of several several hundred feet. Several of these cannon were in- man's fist, nound have several times been re- . ported on good authority. During stalled on hilltops and a vigorous a hailstorm in Natal, on April 17, campaign against the elements was 1874, stones fell that weighed a inaugurated. It was claimed pound and a half, and passed the explosions caused through a corrugated iron roof as commotion m the atmosphere to if it had been made of paper. Hail- scatter the clouds, or at least, in stones fourteen inches in circumfer- some unexplained way, to prevent ence fell in New South Wales in The Formation of Hailstones. February, 1847. At Cazorla, Spain, Favorable reports of Stiger's exon exon June 15, 1829, houses were crush- periments spread 1 like wildfire, and ed under blocks of ice, some ^ of | a f ew years his methods were in K/e8 OVER 68 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Patents Trade Marks Designs Copyrights Ac. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly "ascertain our opinion tree whether an Invention la probably patentable. Communications Communications strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patenta sent free. Oldest agency tor aecurtngpatents. Patents taken through Munn A Co. epecial notice, without charge, In the which are said to have weighed four and a half pounds. In October, October, 1844, a hailstorm at Cette, France, wrecked houses and sank vessels. In "the state of Bhot, India, India, October 5, 1893, hail covered the ground to a depth. of 4 to 6 general use over 'the greater part of southern and central Europe, especially for the protection of vineyards. By 1909, about 10,000 cannon had been installed in Italy, and 2,000 in Austria-Hungary. Meanwhile, many cultivators had wasted thé crops, and knocked over many of the paragreles, whereupon the popularity - of the "haik rods' came to a sudden end. A modified form of the paragrele has been the subject of numerous experiments in Fiance since about l'899.'i'/TÉ3s is' simply a very large copper lightning rod, which is said by'its promoters to draw off.: - the electric charge- of the storm clouds in a veritable torrent ; whence the device has been named the 'electric Niagara.'.' In the year 1.911 the French government was induced to - undertake plans for the construction construction of Niagaras throughout the country, and one of them - was installed by the municipality of Paris on the Eiffel Tower. Although there .are no scientific grounds for believing that a lightning lightning rod, whatever its size can have the slightest effect upon hailstorms, hailstorms, extravagant assertions have been made in behalf of the new device. Some observers declare declare that the storm clouds are visibly visibly deflected by it and that when hailstones actually fall in its. vicinity vicinity they are of so soft a consistency as to be harmless. On the . other hand, the Niagaras have signally failed in many instances. . Severe hailstorms occurred in Paris shortly shortly after the city had been" "protected" "protected" by the rod on the Eiffel Tower, and in one case (June 19, 1912) the ground was covered with hail at the foot of the tower itself. The only certain means of mitigating mitigating the losses due to hail is insurance. insurance. Although rather uncommon uncommon m the United States, hailstorm hailstorm insurance is a familiar institution institution in the Old World. In Germany Germany alone, the amount of such insurance insurance carried by agriculturists «is nearly $800,000,000. In one of the German states, Bavaria, hailstorm insurance is conducted by the gov- irnment, and such also is the prac- ice in the province of Alberta.-- Youth's Companion. Children Cry for feet ; 6 persons were buried beneath k egun t0 UlSe rockets or bombs in it, and perished, and 835 head of preference to cannon, in the belief cattle were killed. In the Morada- ^lurt the force of the explosion bad district of India, May 1, 1888, thus (be concentrated at the about . level where it would be most effect- 250 People Were Killed by Hail. ive. , . . -, . , 1V I Scientific objections to these de- The velocity attainable by falling vicetg were ignored It made no hailstones is perhaps most strix- | d ^ erence to the owners of vine- their ingly shown by the fact that, even i dg ^hat probably none of when falling obliquely, they have | , ^ >0im( ] C)ardmen t s actually reached the receive Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation circulation of any scientific Journal. Terms for Canada, $3.75 » year, postage "prepaid. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN 8 Co.«3Broaiw=,. New York Branch Office, 626 F St-, Washington, D. C. been known to pierce a pane of glass with a, clear round hole like a bullet, leaving the rest of the pane intact. Hailstones have also been found embedded in the soil of a meadow to a depth of a foot and a half. The most destructive hailstorm altitude of which hail forms in summer summer thunderstorms or that, even if this level could be attained, there was no reason to suppose that any concussion, however violent, could dissipate clouds or affect the formation formation of hail. The Austrian and Italian govern on record is one that occurred July men ^, s appointed scientific commis- 13, 1788. Beginning in the centre siong to ma k e a thorough test of of France in the -early morning, it proposed methods of hail passed northward in two. parallel ghooting. The results were nega- however, was the fact demonstrated demonstrated by two German writers, Baer- mann and Hahn, that even if hailshooting hailshooting were effective, it would, in the long run, cost more-than it was worth. Probably the great ex pense of the process, rather than a Not An Even Break. Bex and Tommy bad been inat-1 bands, about 12 miles apart, cross- I tive _ Perhaps the most powerful t-entive the whole morning, and the ed Belgium, and finally died outin argumeni fc against this practice teacher said that each must write Holland m the afternoon. Jhe > - - ^ J his name 200 'times as a punish- western band was abo . resentlv, when the rest of wide and 420 miles long, th the class had gone -home, Tommy ern, 5 miles wide and nearly 500 was found crying bitterly. miles long. Profound dar ness pro ■'It's not fair," he sobbed. "Rex ceded the passage of tiie-storm. No has only got to write Rex Dun 200 less than 1,039 communes in France r __ _ -- times, but my name is Thomas suffered from this visitation, an recognition of its inutility, explains O'Shaughnessy." the total loss was nearly $5,000,000. w ^ y ^he popularity, of hail-shooting The distress occasioned by it ^ as rai pi<Ry declined in the past among the peasantry is said to have £ ew year s. hastened the 'outbreak of the Another supposed safeguard French Revolution. On July 5, aga i ns t hail was the paragrele, in- 1905, hailstorms in Prussia entail- troduce d in France toward the end ed losses amounting to $4,250,000. eighteenth century. This The total damage wrought annu- was a crude imitation of the then ally throughout the world by hail- recently invented lightning rod storms is thought to average at and consisted of a tall pole with a least $200,000,000. This estimate is me tal tip that was connected with based on the fairly definite statis- the ground by a card or wire. It tics that have been gathered in re- was believed that this device would cent years concerning hailstorm draw off the electricity from the losses in particular countries of overhanging cloudis, and that with Europe. The average (annual dam- out electricity no hail would, form. Canadian women are continually writ-1 age resulting from this cause in By the year 1827, no less than ing us such letters as the two following, Germany is $20,000,000 ; in France, I 1,000,000 of These Rods which are heartfelt expressions of grati- | $20,000,000 ; in Italy, $12,000,000 ; in uge i n various parts of Eu- and in Austria, $6,000,000. Nearly ] shortly after that date, sev- SUFFERED EVERYTHING For Y cars, RestoredTo Health by Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Vegetable Compound. HE'S EVERYBODY'S FRIEND EXCEPT HIS OWN. My heart grows soft and mellow when I think of one dear fellow, Among the mia-ny fellows I have . known, His presence brings me gladness, and chaises tears and sadness ; He is everybody's friend except his own. Tonsilitis. Tonsilitis is an acute inflammation inflammation of the tonsils, accompanied by pain, chills, fever and headache. It is so contagious that it is not unusual unusual for several members of the Same family to be ill with it at the saine time. It ie sometimes an early early sympto-m of scarlet fever, diphtheria, diphtheria, or septic sore throat, and it is the first stage in . an attack of quinsy. ' . ' . In some persons, the tonsils are chronically infected, and acute attacks attacks are sure to follow unusual exposure or any other ' cause that lowers the normal power of resistance.- resistance.- Those who are in that condition condition of chronic infection are always always below par, and they are more likely to take other diseases to which they are exposed than people people who - are. entirely healthy. Repeated attacks of tonsilitis make it advisable to remove the tonsils, since rheumatism often follows follows tonsilitis, and there are a good many cases of heart disease that can be traced to a severe tonsilitis tonsilitis or to the rheumatism that followed it. All cases of sore throat should be isolated, for they may be caused by scarlet fever, diphtheria, or some other serious infectious disease. For the same reasons, a physician should be called at once, so that he can determine the source of the trouble, and, if necessary, begin the early treatment that is so -important -important in diphtheria. Report all cases of tonsilitis to the local health, officer with information information concerning the source of the milk supply of the family. That is of importance, 'because numerous epidemics of diphtheria, scarlet fever and septic sore throat have been spread through milk that has been infected in the dairy. Youth's Companion. Th© Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 ycais, has borne the signature of and has been made under his personal personal supervision* since its infancy. ^ ^ Allow no: One to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Jiist-as-good " are hut Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children--Experience against Experiment. 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They may not iall be true, but they grow out Fashion Hints girls and women indulge is that, as of ^ situation, arid^show the tem- they care very little about their i of people. it cannot have 1 . • , He is clever and amusing and is never heard abusing A man in an uncharitable tone, But he ever' tries to teach you that his sympathy can reach you ; He is everybody's friend except his own. food, so tiie lack of it cannot nave i *■ ^ person in authority is quoted much effect on them. They rather l £ saying H on. Mr. Churchill despise men for being careful to wanted ito str . ike the German fleet have regular meals, whether, busi- . q m - befor€ war had been dene dene ss presses or not, and are mclm-1 , , v -rr. __.-j a., n„k4r, Q + . Then he never makes a holler if you ask him for a dollar To help another chap, though quite unknown, And he' s liable to make it a couple if you'll take it. He is everybody's friend except his own. ed to vaunt their own superiority in such respects. But if this disregard disregard of the natural instincts of hunger leads us to be humiliated, by -hypersensitiveness' in love affairs, how pre-eminently does male com- monsense stand out in the matter ! It is positively .funny how he throws away his money, And afterwards he wonders where it's flown, And he says, amid his laughter, 'twill be all the same herqjg/fter. He is everybody's friend except his own. Oh, his faults are very many--and he never saves a penny ; And his sinful deeds oft make the paous groan, But although he wastes his money, yet his smile is bright and sunny He is everybody's friend except his own. tude for restored health. i - - > T V ' , I rope, onorwy airet \uuau u*w, ^. Glanford Station, Ont.-- "I have ta- the whole of these Josses are borne ergd particularly severe hailstorms ken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- | by agriculturists.. Certain crops, I such as grapes, olives, tobacco, and And still he keeps on living--toiling, trusting, giving, And ever, drawing nearer to the ' throne ; I wonder if in heaven' he'll be scold ed or forgiven, Being everybody's friend except his own ? 1 --P.H.P., Otihawa, July, 21, 1914 Ho nesty alw ay s often slow. pays--but it's dared. He said to the Cabinet : "Strike now. "I hold the German navy in the hollow of my hand. War is inevitable. inevitable. Germany waits for no declaration declaration of war. Why should we 1 The main naval force of Germany is Women are notoriously careless in the North Sea; almost under the about their own food. One could guns of our fleet Let me give the wish that those who neglect their orders and by the week end the duty of properly and efficiently German navy will have ceased to nourishing their own bodies would exist. study the statistics of insanity and But other considerations prevail- its increase among us. The old ed, and by 11 to 8 the Cabinet re- Latin proverb tells us that our aim fused. On all but naval grounds it should be to keep a sound mind in was, no doubt, a wise decision, a sound body. We often, exalt our There is another Churchill anec- weakness into something to be dote from an official in a position to proud of. And if we go without I fcn-ow. The First Lord strolled into our luncheon one day an avenging the Cabinet meeting on a certain headache swoops down and makes m <>rning, still some days before war us irritable. Surely that is nothing been declared, remarking : to be proud of I. Or, if the men of mobilized the fleet last night, the family are dining out, the wo- That is a measure of .précaution, men have tea and toast and n<> ^ ^j. But if you disapprove, scrambled eggs, and next morning ^ can be demobilized." wonder why they feel so limp, and That is the temper which prevails, as if everything to be done^ were I rp be Cabinet assented. And that is dreadfully troublesome and îm- 1 temper to which was due the possible.--Madge in The Gentlewoman Gentlewoman . The Money For One. appearance of Drake on that Tuesday Tuesday afternoon before the declaration, declaration, 600 miles out on the Atlantic, ohepherding first -the Mauretania "Sam, I understand there's »|«»d Carm®nia. " Tb'a* alfo schism in your church," said the «as a. measure of precaution. It jocular man to his colored man-of- may be said that since Lord Bar- all-work. 1 h»™- who T repared t fiam, who prepared the way for Kadnt be, 'less'n somebody done I Trafalgar, England- has had no First made us a present of it, 'cause we Lord more apt to take advantage of done spent all ou ah money foh a | occasion new organ." Miss Bianeka Philippsberg is master furrier at Lubow, Russia. ABSOLUTE pound and never _ found any medicine hops, are much more susceptible to to compare with it. damage by hail than others, and I had ulcers and fall- certain regions are particularly no- ing of womb and toridus for the frequency of their, doctors did me no hailstorms. good. I suffered go dreadful is this scourge of hail dreadfully for years fchafc unkind has sought, from the until I began taking times, to devise means of your medicine. I al- wat< jing off its effects. Among prim- so recommend it for peoples it was a common eus- nervousness and^m-1 P ^ arr0 V s or hurl darts Hbnkt Clark, ôkl I $ Chesterville, Ont. -- " I heard your recoras that at Cleonae, in Greece, medicines highly praised, and a year ago special functionaries were employ- I began taking them for falling of womb e d by the state to keep a lookout and ovarian trouble. | f or bail clouds. When those watch- " My left side pained me all the time and just before my periods which were irregular and painful it would be worse. To sit down caused me pain and suffering suffering and I would be so nervous sometimes sometimes that I could not bear to see any one or hear any one speak. Little specks er.s gave the alarm the people hastened hastened to offer sacrifices in order to appease the supposed Wrath of the Heavens. In the Middle Ages "tempest- arii," or weather wizards were would float before my eyes and I was e7n pl 0 ÿ e d to conjure a way the hail always constipated. clouds ; and for many centuries "Icaunct say toomuch for Lydia E d ^ recent tirae3 there-was a Pmkham s Vegetable Oanpomri «d ^keptead fctiief 'tiiat taU «otiÜl bé Liver Pills, for there are no medicines 1 . t ^ " .T I like them. I have taken them and I averted by ringing bells. Almost ' recommend them to all women. You may publish this testimonial." -- Mrs. Stephen Stephen J. 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Black velvet ribbon is banded on ruffles in the same. Merry Widow Styles. When the Merry Widow styles were here a few years ago everybody everybody liked them--which is some- ^ thing that cannot be said about the > styles of to-day. So any suggestion that Merry Widow styles are returning returning is welcome. The Merry Widow hat is really here again a big cartwheel hat in black velvet, with almost no trimming to detract from its simple but becoming shape. Chiffon for Trimming. Chiffon flowers are much used on hats and to catch the drapery on gowns. Small chiffou fruits, too. are used. Many of them are made of several layers of chiffon of various various shades--red over purple,, for instance, and then silver blue over that. The results are very interesting. interesting. Satin Pansies. Satin and velvet pansies in splendid splendid purples and yellows, four times the natural size that grows in our gardens, are used on hats. They are also used in the front of the bodice just above the deep girdle. Shirtwaist Novelties. Shirtwaists w^ite organdie, to which are attached men's waistcoats waistcoats of white pique, with pockets at the waist line and flat silver buttons, buttons, are a novelty that deserves attention. Counterfeiting in Vogue. There has been a great deal of experimenting on the part of, the big designers of gowns and hats 'a Paris t-o stop the reproduction of their models by the wholesale in the shops. They think now that fabric hats will protect them to some extent. For' they make hats of taffeta or other fabrics in ths:v own workrooms, to the measure o: their customers' heads, and hence these hats are not seen until they are worn by their owner. The habit has always 'been to have straw hats made up ^nd on exhibition, but the fabric hats, matching the gown with which they are worn in material, material, are made to order. New Tunic is Circular. A tunic is circular, made of fine dark bl\iè serge, worn over a narrow foundation of black satin. The tunic is cut in. true circular style, in one place with a seam, at the back, apd it fits smoothly over the hips, H i§ 'bound at the 'bottom -with antipgb"wide band of black satin. The noticeable thing about tiie tunic Is Imat it is creased from' waistline to lower edge in six or eight Creases. These break . the breadth which the plain, circular cut of the skirt would otherwise give. {* V Elsie---Mamma/ I don't feel well. Mother--That's too bad, dear. Where do you feel worst 1 Elsie--- In school, mamma. mi