x os ee Seon Homesite asst Sion «ae % 1 BAD Couch FOLLOWED GAIPPE, James Martin Tells How Vinol Stopped the Cough and Re- stored His Strength After an Attack of Grippe. Wapakoneta, Ohio. --"L. am a farmer by occupation and the grippe left me with a bad cough and in a nervous, weak run-down condition, and I could not seg) to get $ anything tn do me any good I decide: Vinal, and soon began to Fe and after taking one boty I feel like a new man. Vinol has built mé up, and my cough and nervousne are ail one, and I can truly say Vinol is all that is claimed for it."' --JaMEes MARTIN, Wapakoneta, Ohio. The many letters which we are con- tinually publishing from reliable people should ve to you that Virol is a reli- able builder and stren crestor; in fact we feel safq in saying that we have never sold in: our store a more dependable, upbuilding tonic 'for the convalescent, wei run-down than Vinol, our delicious cod liver and iron tonic without oil. Therefore if you need such a medicine, we ask ou to 4 bottle of Vinol, and if you don't think it it helps you, we will return your money. Vinol is a constitutional remedy for all weak, nervous and run-down con- ditions of men, women and children. Geo. W ston, [Ont Maliood, druggist, King- st smart Thetias Copley Telephone 987 Drop a card to 13 Pine street when wanting anything done inasthe carpea- ¢ry Hne, Estimates given wn all Kinda of repairs and new work; also hard- wood floors of all kinds. All orders will receive prompt atten'len. ¥Kiop 4 Quecn Street Brae A Wood's Thosphodizs, The @ Engl ond be J er ta the we pik 8 "Nervous old, Veins The ity, Montat and h oh di oh peril Paipitation Price §1 per fng0. an i will cut. "Bi Sol HE Bn EONAR oe "THE TALE OF A LADDER, _ NEIGHBORS wi HO ENGAGED ODD DEAL How the Division Was Made feetly Equal-- Some Trouble Making Settlement. "1 once bad a neighbor,' sgid th retired merchant, "the odds men of humanity I ever met been warned that this map Blink | will eall him was unréasonable und cantankerous. I certainly found him eccentric, but I am easy to get along with, and we lived side by gide nearly seven years without any serious trou ble. We each Had a few fruit irees and a small vegetable garden. "In the. fall after I first moved there Blagk proposed that we buy a ladder together, fruit pigking and be convenient for various other purposes. He could get a good seéond-hand thirty foot lad- der for $5, and I agreed to pay hall of it. The ladder proved to be a use- ful igor and we keot it on top of the picket fence that separated our gardens, where either owner could get it without trouble, "In the spring of my seventh year in the neighborhood Blank moved and tried to sell me his share in the ladder. He wanted $2.50, which I thought excessive. For six years the ladder had been out of doors, and it was showing signs of wear and tear, I oftered to pay him $1.50 or to take that sum for my own interest; but no, he would have fio use for a ladder in the flat to which Hé was moving, and 1 must buy it at his price, it wasn't worth it. He grew sulky, and so the matter rested. "The Blanks were to leave the 1st of May. Two days before that date I bad to go away on business, my wife went to vit her sister and we shut up the house for a week, When we returned the Blanks were gone and I found.in our letter box a curt note from " 'As you would wot tome to terms about the ladder, I have settled the matter by dividing jt equally. Have taken my half and left yours on the fence.' "Well, a thirty foot ladder is a lit tle cumbersome, and, although a fit- teen foot ladder is rather short, still I thought oft the whole I should be satisfied with that solution of the dif- ficulty. From the back doorway I looked over at my half of the ladder as it lay on top of the fence and was surprised to see how long it seemed to be; certainly it was more than fif- teen feet. I went out for a closer inspection and made a strange discoy- ery. Blank had fulfilled the meigh- bor's predictions and had 'broken out in an unexpected spot." With nice ac- curacy and an almost inconceivable display of malice, he had sawed every round apart through the middle. He had divided that ladder lengthwise from top to bottom!" * Bolling a Fish. In bolling any fish you should put enough" water in » large pot to en- able @ fish to swim in it if it were alive. _Add to this wate Self @& cup- ful of vinegar, a tablespoonful of salt, one whole onion, one dozen] whole black peppers, one blade of mace. Take any fish and sew it up in a new piece of cheesecloth fitted to the shape of the fish. Put in the water and heat slowly for thirty minutes; then let it boll hard and fast for about ten minutes. Unwarp and serve with drawn butter made from the liquor in which the fish was & lemon. Iceland Brides, . In Iceland, where various in t= ing and fantastic supe abound, there is an ancient 'clistom that every bride must invite all her friends to &' every article of food must he PrOpar- ed by the bride herself. If she suec- ceeds in pleasing her critical guests she achieves not only praise for her own skill, but she helps slong her own younger sisters, who are t assumed to be in the in and ay 'have of marriage more than doubled. A -------------------- warid oa them Kiowa were faite og | th "Ne Fou1 Tether be of Helionrnashus, sm i about ee: ---------- 4 ag If a motofear is ing forty miles an kb IN Per. in i had It would belp in) 1 saidt-- cooked and add to it the juice of half nner in her home, and' to "the great } ocean, and it was by their sailors jthat the first rough charts of way Da a aaa KISSED BY THE ICY BLASTS OF WINTER, Part of the British blockading fleet on duty in the North Sea, after a recent snow fall. Priscilla's Compaiy "Well, din"t it the beatenest," Priscilla Marden sald the herself as she notéd the date on the calendar and counfed only seven days before Thanksgiving. The holiday prom- ised to be a lonely one in the trim little cottage. Priscilla threw a scarf aver her head and walked out to the gate. Looking down -the bleak road to- ward .the village she remarked with a shake of her head: "Stevensville is the stoopedest place. Land, who'd ever belleve we, used to have such good times? Why, you can bardiy see the path that was worn smooth up to this "gate then." , And. ghe sighed just a little for those merty days, "The minister will eat his dinner with Deacon Brown's family M's Brown wouldn't think of iu: vitin' me a'long as Mele's single," and Priscilla Taughed as she recalled Melina Brown, who had been lookal upon as dn old mald almost befora she was out of her teens. "Poor thing, she never, learned How to en- joy herself." Priscilla mused as she started back' to the house. "It is 'not meant for man to Hve alone, and I know that means wo- men, 100 ° wise it does on Thanksgivia® aay," she thought. "There 'ain't wore'n a dozen famil ies livip" in Steveneville-- en they-re all so dried up "twouldn't be fio plea- sure eatin' with 'em even it they wasn't too stingy to ask anyone, Well--"tany rate there ain't no law ag'in my cookin' dinner en makin' believe {I'm 'spectin' company." And she ran into the house and began her preparations. She scoured and polished the al ready spotless house, and put fresh linens and curtains on the "spare rooms' and drove her biggest tur key in the coop to fatten. She didn't order her 'groceries in Stevensville, but rode to Hamilton to avoid the questioning and prying such, laviab prepartions would be sure fo hp In the general store fhe o Inte clerk was igo Mtentive and ik so engagingly about Thanksgiving necessities that Priscilla bought 2 number of delicacies hitherto up known to fier. She learned shat he expected to take dinner with his mo- thes-in-law, "who was 'a splendid cook," and that hé was to 'take them all to see "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the evening. The handbills, as he exhibited tHém, roused a great desire in Priscilla to break aM the bonds ---- jingle bells," she sang with the rost antil the bobsled hit a hidden root and snapped in two. Oh, how they laughed as they gathered themselves up and assured each other that no one was hurt. She walked home with her big cousin Sam, who ador- ed her, in spite of his red hair with temper to match, never got angry when she teased him. The dream took on a mere visionary tufa, and Priscilla was' horrified to see Sam jumping over the ice of Milton's creek, with Little Eva, dangling to his coat tails, while a huge turkey, fully dressed for serving, threatened to swoop down and devour them both In her anxiety for her cousin's safety she dashed into the icy water that rose to her- waist, and the dreamér awoke to find that it was morning. She had forgotten to put on her bed slippers, and her feet were stiff with cold. "Ain't it. the beatenest]" she said sleepily, as she drew the blanket closely around the chilled feet. Somehow the lonely feeling of the night before vanished with rising sun, and Priscilla found herself hut- rying to finish the dinner, "I would- n't be a mite surprised if I just did have some one drop.in | eat with me, she remarked, hurrying into her clothes. She ate her b t and "red up' before opening the big closet where the, diner waited the final touches: i ben many pices 1 I bet- dow to the gal ; Xe sa ER n'-- like as no! 's dota the vr turkey as she * browning in' oom, Sha) basted sides. ne drew Seauitiully dining room table out to its fon length and set it with the. blue ghina that had been her grandmother's for 15 people." "I hope some of 'em's children." she said wistfully as stirred the giblets into the gravy. 'Young ones do think such a sight of a good din- ner,' she added, sprinkling in the seasoning. She was just arran; fing the tur- key in the big: ather platter when a timid knock was heard at the door, and in a flutter of expectancy Priscilla removed her ajron. the regimeot might - still be in "May we come in and get warm a small voice asked almost Sore Priscilla could open the door, and two little girls tumbled over the steps. "We're the 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' folk-- company went broke in Ham- ilton; co we couldn't show----traliis all stalled in the storm--- so the heavy man, he always salted his ' salary, as taking. us. to the next Hi Shen t's Keep- in sw auto, en' it broke on the hill" "hit tle Eva" explained, and a very white Topsy added, 'We been trying to fix the car for an hour en we're awfully hungry, "Afn't it the beatenest?" Priséll- ia gurgled happily as she set the chairs up an listened to the 'fair hild." whose dally death moved undreds to tears, roar down toad, "Come on up. There's loads +t grub here. The las 4 "the nS, At iA wasn't more of the. But the "company" laughingly asstired her they were "used to doubling up.' Later, in her own .reom, hc caléulated how soon ghe could reach Omaha. "Those young ones nu need good cookin' she argued, "Twas real nice of Sammy to name one fer me. Like as not I'll give her my cameo brooch when she's old enough. 1"11 take old Robbin," she added sleepily. Then, just as she sank in- to happy dreams, she murmured: "Ain't it the beatenest?" Interesting Engagement. An interesting Seettish engage- ment is that of Lord Polwarth and Miss Katherine Grisell Baillie, a cur- ious coincidence in connection with whieh i§ that his youngest daughter by his first marriage bears his fu ture bride's names reversed--Grisell Katherine. Lord Polwarth is head of an aneient Border family and in fact, is senior to the Duke of Bue- clench 'as head of the great Scottigh house of Scott. The famous Mr Walter Scott was a scion of his fam- {ly. - His first wife was a sister of Lord Aberdeen and of Lady Balfour of Burleigh, and he has ten children by his first marriage. Hé owns one} place in Roxburghshire, and another in Haddingtonshire; and jin, former days had the historic Merton House in the former eouuty, wiich is. How] one of the homes of the:naw Lord and Lady Elesmere. -. It was thafe that Sir Walter Scott 'waele past o! "Marmion." rc---------------- . Making A Target Of Him. don Mirro wid ly ded "Frenchmau. in hospital in Besancon told this story of a com-| rade. "During the engagements in which I was incapacitated anothes man in' my regiment was hit in thej 49 leg, and he shouted out to.the Ger- mans: "Too Jow!" Then he bound up his wound and started firing again. A few moments later he was slightly wounded in the hand. 'Too high!' heé cried, laughingly. But a third ball traversed his shoulder as knocked him down. He lost so much blood that he was obliged iv retire. Before he was carried off the field, however, he rose to his feet and ghouted angrily: 'You're a con- demned pack of cowards! What do you want to always hit the same man for?" Faith In The Admiralty. Saturday Review We have ASectite } faith and trust in the British Admiralty, and this faith and trust is sharéd by the coun- try -at large. Not even those who dwell within the eye of Jerid, i wn (iNFmuT At Lhe | naval commanders, who sternly re- fused to be drawn by motives or ta- tural sentiment, anger, or pity and lured into taking risks which are not justified by our majn desire. Our main desire 18 to destroy the grand fleet of the enemy; and our disposi- tions will continue fo be taken with that sole end in view, An Arabian Fable. An Arab went to his neiglivor rand or ean ** said the Beighbor. y can't you 1 want to' nse the rope "hs wa t purpose?" the other £ ¢ BOXING IN ANTARCTIC. 3 3 Raymond Priestley Describes a Fistic Bout In Winter Quarters, A quaint description of boxing matches which used to takd place among the Bondar of Captaiz Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole is given by Mr, Raymond Priestley im his book, "Antarctic Adventure." Mr. fas in. the expedi ist ey ho Ho did met go forward Soret it Bhmselt, but remained at one of .the bases with other, members of the party, who accompaanied. the pacity of geolog amused themselves durin of the two winters by indulging iv boxifig bouts im the but in which they lived. "It must have been a queer sight to see two men stripped to their _singlets sparring in this old deserted hut by the light of two or three cad dle-ends, which were scattered about convenient prominences," say: Mr. Priestley. *The chief memory that it leaves with me is the sense of amazement and injury at the num: ber of corners that the hut.possessed. The temperature must have been well below . zero, and clouds. of vapour arose as our bodies became heated, so that at the end of a three-minutes' round neither of us could see the other. "We were then obliged to call time and lean against the edges of the bunks which lined the hut until the atmosphere wag clear enough to en. able us to have some chance of knowing what we going to hit. Op biore than one occasion I have seen what I thought to be Abbott's face looming through the fog, and, being glad to see it unguarded for once in a while, have hit out and made good my blow, to feel my fist fetch up agdinst the door, or against one of the supporting posts of the bunks, with a jar which was proof emough that I was taking my fnstructor's ad- yice and putting my weight behind the blow." Mr. Priestiéy also bears out the stories which have been told of how the = different stages of starvation, undergone by the members of the expedition, drought about at times|§ agonizing dreams of luxurious food and banquets. 'At first,' he says, "dreams of food. alfernated pretiy regularly with dreams of relief and catastrophe, but soon food dreams predominated over all others, and every night we sat at a banquet and saw . the provisions whisked away from before our eyes as we com- menced to eat, or we suddenly re- membered there was a shop round the corner where we could buy as wuch food, tobacco or matches as we PERHAPS IT'S HE KIDNEYS that are making you feel so badiy. I{ soy you can Sy teil, If your head eels dull sachy---if your back hurts nearly all the time----if your appetite is Jootly and your tongue is coate f the uring) buras, is highly colored and offen" sive in odor--if you notice a brick dust deposit or mucus in the urine after standing over night--then yon certainly have something the patie with your Kidneys, Get Giapifls uveur, Quebec For a long tho 1 had been the Kidneys and Pains in my Limbs. | have tried success. After using Gin Pills 1 Sued and hae ounely or i PAR cured, and due ea to { Mes. Ve. J. GUY. Gin Pills are {Made in Canada" and sold by all dealers at 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50. Sold in U.S. under the name *'GINO" Pills, Write us for {ree trial treatment." Nati 1 Drug 1 National Drag_ynd Chemigat Ca. el hoy ty wanted. Cursing ourselves for our stupidity, we would walk round to buy, only to find that it was early- closing day and that the shop was shut." Historical Diamonds. The largest known diamond is the Rajah, which once belonged to the Sultan of Matan, in the island of It is an egg-shaped stone, ed, a number of canmon, and a quantity of powder and shot; but this offer was refused, the rajah he- lieving that the fortunes of his fam- ily were connected with this geass The - most famo! diaménd, the Keoli-i-pobr, now in the possession of ing V., was once the 2 ide rough it weiglhied 800 carats, but now, ter various cuttings, it weighs but 123 carats. The Orloff diamond, once the eye of an Indian idol, and now the property of the Emperor of Rus- sia, is an egy Atone of great besuty, io 102 1-4 carats. Recruiting ni Napoleon's Time. Recruiting in the great war which ended in the fall of Napoleon was a vastly different matter from that which prevails to-day. Take the Mil tla Act of 1803, for imstance. each subdivision of 'a county a oe wai made of all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, classified into (a) those under thirty and with- out children; (b) over that age; (c¢) ten with no children under fourteen; (d) men with only ome child under fourteen; (e) all others. If the men required equalled the sumber in the first or second, or aay sét of consecutive 'classes, they were | fren $ in a bag and drawn until the requisite sumber waz obtained, Aay balloted man could purchase exemption for five years on paying a fine of $50. This Scot Was Thrifty. ' The | blunders in satus in- which George 9 of the Great Mogul. When in the ing for is tke kind w sell Scranvon Coal Is good Coal and .we guarantee prompt de-