Daily British Whig (1850), 25 Jan 1916, p. 11

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It distresses you as much as hep! Why continue 10 treat it by dosing the stomaeh (which is not ailing) with cough mixtures, syrups, tonics, and the like? You will never cure lung troubles by dosing the stomach. The Peps way Is en. tirely different. Peps are tablets made up of Pine extracts and medi. ¢inal essences, which when put into the mouth turn into healing vapors, These are breathed down direct to the lungs, throat and bronehial tubes not swallowed down to the stomach--which is not alling. Peps contain no morphia, lauda- num, nor any of the poisons which ure found in many of the old-fash- foned ryrups. Peps are, therefore, best for aged people and for young children. Peps do not disorder the stomach; they sweeten the breath, are pleasant to take, and are the latest amd best that science can uffer for the treatinent of coughs, colds, bronchitis and allied lung troubles. Soe. all druggists and slores, or for price from Peps Co, Toronto. Remember the name -- eps Coal The kind yon are looking for is the kind we sell. . Scranton Coal - Is good Coal and we guarantee prompt delivery. BOOTH & CO., Foot of West St. PRL I THERAPION Nat. No2. N.3, Used in French PESTS OF THE TROPICS. Insects Whose Bite Is Like the Touch * of Redhot Iron. . The pestiferous Insects that infest the region tributary to the headwaters Of the Amazon make life miserable for: any one who may venture futo the region. Commander H. A. Edwards of the Bolivia-Brazil boundary com. mission declares that there Is no es- caping them and that you are always Scratching or slapping your body, ex- cept when you are under your mos- quite net--and even then if you are not asleep, In camp ants. are a continoal nut. sance. They eat your clothes, gnaw the softer parts of your boots rav- age the food. Many kinds bite sav- agely. One kind, which the natives call itashi, lives in palosantos or holy Posts--trees that they hollow out theme selves. Their bite is like the touch of a redbot from, and if any one inad- vertently leans against a palosanto the little red demons swarm out upon bim instantly, and so bite him that for an hour afterward his life 1s al most unbearable. Most dreaded of all are the tucan- deras--Dblick ants with bodies one and 4 halt inches long that live in the forks of trees, bug that often invade your teat. They bite very hard and Into their victims, for the part bitten Swells and pains excruciatingly. The sauba or leaf carrying ants, black ants that make broad, straight roads of their own and move about In armies with scouts and flanking parties; gray ants that live in' mounds of red earth six feet high, yellow ants that dwell in rotten wood---all make the traveler unwelcome, Selther by his belongings or by inflicting pain on his person, . Mosquitoes, the bite of which is not only painful and Urritating, but im- parts malaria and yellow fexer; v phiebotomous flies that inject the germs: of what is called three day fever: wasps of all kinds; bees of all sizes; hornets as large as the smaller humming birds; the matoueha and the tabana, a sort of mangrove fly with a taste for bloédsucking--each and every ome of them does its share toward making Hospitals with Brea suCCens, CURESCHRONIC WEAR NE Di KIDNEY, BLADDER, URINARY DISEASES, PILES. EITHER No. DRUGGISTS or MAIL $1. POUGERA Co, 90, RERX WRITE PO) Boo "| MED. Co, HAVERSTOCK RD, HAMPSTEAD, LONDOS . ENG. RY NEW DRAGEEATASTELESS) FORMOF EASY TO TAKE | SAFE AND ¢ LASTING CURE, SER THAT TRADE MARKED WORD "THERAPION® 1s ON BRIT. GOVT. STAMP APFIXED TO ALL GENUINE PAC rete. ------ ~------ the life of the explorer in those re- gions almost unbearable. There are flies that lay their eggs in your flesh or in your clothes. Where there is any sort of grass you i guard against the attack of the quim, a microscopic tick whose sojourn on your body causes a most tantalizing itch that you can alleviate Farm for Sale 100 acres, 12 miles from city; good buildings, plenty of water, some wood, $4,750, easy terms. Farm 300 acres, log house and barn, on shore Of a beautiful lake; good fish ing and hunting, $450. W.H. GODWIN & SON. Phone 424. 39 Brock St y Telephone 201 |! : Auto Livery Bibby Gar age) Agents for Dodge Bros. 4 mms.) Montgomery Dye Works 'For the Best In French Dry Cleaning, Dyeing and Pressing. J. B.. HARRIS, Prop, 225 Princess St. me 1114. ~-- SOWARDS Keeps Coal and Coal Keeps SOWARDS. D PA CLUB HOUSE OLIVE om, D. COUPER. ; Phone 76. 841.8 Princess 8¢. Prompt Delivery. Enon, d Major-Ge neral Sir visited Peterboro, delivering a vigor OWS recruiting addreks in the Armou o- Sam Hughes} only by sponging your body night and morning with alcohol. And in many Dlaces the plum, a small black fly that looks like a speck of dust, drives you half crazy by its bite. Although those regions are a paradise for the ento- mologist. the ordinary 'traveler will hardly regard them in that lighs. --------ei. Both Are Good. We are asked, "What is the best conundrum and answer you ever gz { That which was answered by a min- ister who was asked by a vain we. { fnan which band he regarded as the most beautiful. And he replied, "Ask the poor, and they will tell you that wost beautiful hand is the hand that gives." Next to It is the reply of a banker who was asked, "Why is a promissory uote like a rosebud?' He answered, "Because it matures on falling dew." -- Not Settled Yet. "Is the head of the house at home? asked the agent as the mister of the family answered the doorbell. Making no effort to answer the question, the mister person said, "I don't. know what line of goods you are introducing or whether they would fit in our estab- lishment or not, that phase of the mat- ter being neither here nor there, but let me tell you something--if you cau establish once for all just who is to be recognized as the head of this house I'll buy a gross of whatever you've got and pay the catalogue price." EE visisme-- 4 An Aristocratic Grain. Could plants lay claim to arfstocratie position, as representing an old family, rice might safely claim to be of the most ancient pedigree. It is the earliest cereal known. Originally a native of India, it has crossed the ocean and made a home for itself where beat and moist soil could be found. It grows in all warm portions of the globe and fur. uishes the principal food of nearly one- third of the human race, -------------- 7" Couldn't See Why She Was "Was I rude this afternoon girl asked her mother, "I hope not, my dear," sajq the moth. er. Little Girl--=Well, our teacher was examiniug us in poetry--"Casablanca" ~and she asked why did the boy stand 'on the burning deck. and 1 said because it was too hot for him to sit down, and she made me stand in the corner. Wrong. a little -------- . A Good Actor, "Hamfat is out of a job. You remem- ber that fellow who used to play the part of a butler so well?" "1 remember him. He was remarks bly good 1 should think he could get a Job as a real butler." -- Precocious In Spots. Bobby--Do I have to go to school, 4 mother? Mother--Of 0 course, 5; Bobby~Why, mother, I heard you tell father last night that too mach 1 knew entirely --_-- Like strength is felt from aod ries, probably inject some sort of poison WONDERS OF THE ALPS. Changes Nature Wrought to Uplift £ Their Towering Peaks. Nothing in the world's history is more Impressive than the story of the Alps, Ten or twelve million years ago, pos ibly Tar more, a long unseen line of weakness. a crack of fissure in the earth's crust, stretched away from France eastward hundreds of miles. On this line followed huge voleanic out bursts, i Next ensued a vast slow subsidence, which went on through geologic epochs antil where Mont Blanc now rears its summit 15,780 feet was a sea fringing 80 old continent, Large rivers emptied Into it. Deposits of mud, sand, gravel were laid one on another as the sink- ing went on until the layers became 0,000 feet, nearly ten miles, thick." Then at last commenced a great up- lifting: the struggling subterranean forces raised a huge load. For ages this went on until the rocks, crumbled, crushed, contorted, rose above the wa- ters and continued to rise, forming lines of mountain chains and making Swit zerland a tableland. Every hour since then rain apd Snow, river, glacier and avalanche have been sculpturiug into peaks and carving into lakes and valleys that vast platform with its recent sedimentary covering and primeval granite coge. The result Is a land of unequaled grandeur.--London, Telegraph. ternational Questions. International questions constitute one of the greatest known boons of the human race. International ques- tions are so broad that they do not re- Quire any close reasoning in order to express opinions about them. That is their great beauty. One can strike in almost anywhere without any great danger of hitting bottom, and one can say almost anything about an'interna- tional question without being called to a®OWEt except by some one who is equally unretable, Local questions are quite different in that respect. Local questions are much more prosaic and less romantic. One must be surer of his data and more consistent in his conclusion. In explaining local ques- tions there is always danger that the man you are explaining to knows more about the matter than you de yourself, If you must make ignorant statements do it In the way that best conceals your ignorance: ---- When the World Was New. 'The world is biggest when we are young enough to conceive of the pas- ture as an empire and the city block as a republic. Time is longest when we are young enough to see a day as an' epoch. a week-as an ery. a summer va. cation Ly seaside or luke shore as eter- nity itself. As we grow older the world 'grows smaller, and so does time Space und time are uothing for boy or man save us he bLalds measures for them in baud or in wemory. The hoy understands ten feet because that is three long strides. and ten years be cause lie lias just lived them. Now we have lived another ten and yet another, but the first ten were the longest and are the (ruest measure, for the more years we ure granred the more scorn- ful of the gift we grow, though the more lusistent, toa, ta our demand for more. ---- Cape of Good Hope. The Cape of Good Hope lies at a con- siderable distance from the end of South Africa and is, fu fact, rhe middle of the three promontories, severally in- consplcuous, which jointly terminate a slender peninsula some twenty miles in length forming the barrier between False bay and the Atlantic ocean on the west. These three headlands, Tying near together and commonly undivided on a map of moderate scale, are locally designated Cape Point. It was here that Bartholomew Diaz first encoun- tered in full foree the/prevglent south- easterly gales and denounced the rug- 'ged Thireatenin g. threefold promontory under the sounding appellation of the Cape of Storms, to be afterward re- christened by pious, trustful hearts the Cape of Good Hope. Rs ------------ Pairing In Legislatures, The custom of pairing in the house of commons originated jn Cromwell's time. "Pair off" ,is the phrase used to signify that two members of a legis: lative body of opposite political opin- fons agree to abseht themselves from voting for a certain period. By "pair- ing" in this way they neutralize each other's absence. The whips-'of the house generally mauage to tind "pairs" when, for any reason. members desire to be absent temporarily. An Odd Epitaph. The following epitaph is to be found in a cemetery within seven miles of New York's city hall: Reader, pass on; don't waste your time O'er bad biography and bitter rime, For what I am this crumbling clay in- sures, . And what I was is no affair of yours @ Family Treasures. \ "What's the trouble in hol¥ "Mother "gave away all of father's old clothes. And he retaliated." "How? - "By throwing away all her old medi. cine bottles." . is Thrifty. : "I fear cousin is going to marry g very stingy man." "Why so? 2 "Slie suggested a morning wedding, but lie said to make it after lunch on the ground that she would get' one more meal at tome." the' house Do not allow 1dieness to deceive you, for while you give him today ne stems tomorrow from you--Oid Saying: Some General Information for Busy People Trapping a Coyote, The coyote is one of the siiest and hardest of all fur bearing animals 10 trap. He delights in digging up traps springing thew, eating the boit sua otherwise disturbing the set without getting caught. His sense of. suiel! is very acute. The best wiy to trap hin is to build a bonfire over the set after the traps have been properly placed Throw into the embers some bacon rinds, chicken bones or, better yet. bones of sage hen or grouse, The coyote habitually searches about campfires for stray bits of meat and is therefore less wary. The fire obilterates the traces of the set, eliminates the tracks and smell of a human being, and the odor of the burned meat will attract him from a long distance. He is more likely to walk into the trap thus dis. guised with the remnants of a camp- fire than any other unless you have a carcass literally surrounded with traps with a severe winter on and no other carcasses within miles. --W. F. Wilcox in Farm and Fireside. J ---- Meeting Mrs. Spider, In "Insect Biographies With Pen and Camera" the author pictures the plight of the unlucky ly who has en- tered Mrs. Spider's parior: It is struggling to escape from the unexpected net which in some ys terious manner has suddenly envelop- ed it when a creature of terrible as- pect hastily rushes out upon it. Eight bead-like eyés glare wildly upon the terrified fly. A large, bairy and bristly finger-like palpus on each side of this appalling face waves and flourishes with angry menace in the air, appar- ently quivering™with malignant glee. Then one of-those combed and claw- ed feet is stretched toward the hap- less prisoner, and the threads that hold the fly are suddenly tightened up as the monster pulls them together. Then the spinnerets eject a shower of silken strands over the fly, and it is spun round and round on the threads that hold it until at last it is securely enveloped, still alive, in silken bonds. SO ------------ Artistic Temperambnt Cured. It will be news to many of her myri- ads of admirers to hear that that nobie artist Titlens "used to suffer from a bad temper, and in these outbursts she felt a strong desire to smash any- thing that came handy." How Titiens was ultimately cured of the habit Mr. Ganz relates in' his reminiscences: "8he was sitting at supper after a con- cert in a provincial town when the manager made some remark which an- noyed her. As usual, she took the first kthing that came to band, a soda' water bottle, and flung it at him. The man- ager was sitting at the table with his back to the window. The bottle miss- ed him, smashed through the window and nearly killed a casual passerby. This, sald Titiens, gave her sueh a shock that she was completely . cured of her failing."--Pall Mall Gazette. -------- Clear Seeing Massenet. Critics have mot yet assigned the late M. Massenet his permanent niche- in the temple of fame, but most of them agree that he was a charming, although not a great, composer He bad one quality of character, how- ever, which 1s not the invariable ac- companiment of genius, musical and other--he could appreciate genius in others. An anecdote taken from the Paris Figaro attests it: ; A critic >was indulging in extrava- gant praise of Massenet to his face and wound up his flattery: "Wagner! What was he? His tal- ent is most absurdly exaggerated. 1 have to pick and choose among a lot | of rubbish in Wagner" "Is that so?" commented Massenet suavely. "I should be quite happy with what you leave." -- Birds. The first "birds" were not much like those of (he present time. The pter odactyl, a sed to be the pioneer of bird life, was a great feather winged monster, with great spears on the binges of the wings and a mouth full of sharkilke teeth. The pterodactyl did not sing, and could we have seen him we would not have felt like sing- ing ourselves. True birds, and especial ly the warblers, are very late in geo- logic time. There was no bird melody in the carboniferous jungles. The singers, in all probability. did not greatly, antedate the human race.-- New_York American. ---- Where Sentiment Stops. : Mary Jobnson in ber book "Hagar" bas Mrs. Green, one of the characters. reply to the heroine's wish that she could make money by saying: "It ain't 80 easy for women to make money. There's more ways they can't than they can. It's what they call 'senti- ment' fights them. Sentiment don't mind thelr being industrious, but it draws the line at their' getting money tor it." A White Hope. - "T have a mind to give you a good whipping!" exclaimed the impatient fa- ther. " "Well," replied the athletic youth, "maybe you can, but if yon sncceed it will be some item for the sport page"-- Washington Star. Ee ---------- Not Whisky. Ma--You've been drinking! 1 smell it 'in your breath. Pa--Not a drop. P've been eating frogs' legs. What you smell is the bop.~Harvard Lampoon. Covailyin-Dif the ghost walk? 0: It was an srviation core the ghost flew after the Ort week -- uge. : a ---------- It Is the uplifted face that feels the CRUSHED THE CRITIC. An Aanscdote of Verdi and a Bother. some Parisian Joyrnalist, The first production of Verdf's opera "Othello" took place at Milan, aud all the prominent musical erities of Bu- ropé foregathered In the Cathedral City iu Bonor of the occasion. Among them was a Parisian journalist of wide reputation and admitted authority in the musical world. His first care on his arrival in Milan was to seek out Verdi and ask to be allowed to be | present at one of the final rehearsals, The composer received the critic with extreme politeness, but replied that he could not possibly grant his request, 4s he had decided, that the rehearsals were to be absolutely private, and he could not make an exception in the favor of any one Journalist, however distinguished. The Paris critic, far from pleased at this answer, protested that in these circumstances bis account of the opera might not be all he should like it to be. "Yon see," he explained to the composer, who affected not quite to understand, "I shall have to telegraph my article the same evening. It will Decessarily be hastily written, and the impression in Paris the next day may suffer in consequence." But Verdi was more than equal to the occasion. "My dear sir" he made answer, "I do not write for 'the next day." The critic bowed himself out. ---- USE A LOOSE REIN. Do Not Be "Bossy" and Domineering In the Home Circle. * I find that I can write all day with- out pain in my fingers it I hold the pen loosely. If I should grasp it tightly it would be only a few hours before the strain made writing almost impossible, Do We not often hold too tight a rein oR ourselves and our families for com- fort? Habit has made us bossy and domineering. When a member of the family goes we want to know where he is going and how long he intends to be gone; we keep a string on him and are ready to drag him home that We may feel that all are sheltered and under our watchful eyes. This is selfish care. It fences the in- dividual in. It hampers him and makes his field of pleasure and activity cramp- ed and rasping. : When one knows that another is trustworthy, why hold so tight a rein? Some of us have got into the habit of repressing and suppressing ourselves for the sake of peace and the absence of anxiety. Freedom is necessary for the development of individuality and ; the best that is in esich one of us. The caged bird never sings 80 joyously as the bird in the fiéld or forest.--Shirley in Farm Life. ---------- Sdlt Water Cathracts. There are a good many salt water cataracts in existence. They may be found in Norway, southern Chile and British Columbia, where narrow flords, or arms of the sea, are obstructed by barriers of rock. The rising tide flows over and filters through such reefs into the great natural reservoirg beyond, but the water is held back at the ebb until it breaks over the obstruction in an irresistible torrent. Most curious of all'is the materfall at Canoe Pas- sage, where the island of Vancouver approdches the British Columbia main- land. Here the flood tide from the gulf of Georgia to the southward Is held back at a narrow cleft between two islands until it pours over in a boiling cascade eighteen feet high, with perhaps double the volume of the Rhine. At the turn of the tide, hiow- ever, the waters from the north rush back into the guif, producing a cascade of equal height and volume. The wa- terfall actually flows both ways. His Criticism. One of the wittiest of clergymen, ad- vocating the habit of preaching extem pore sermons instead of reading writ- ten ones, said he had heard of a Scot- tish minister who always relied upon his manuscript. At last his sorrowful congregation sent a deputation to com- plain that he did not speak, but always read, his sermons. "Ah, my good friends," said he, "1 have a bad memory. | should forget what 1 had to say." "Weel, »minister," was the scathing answer, "if ye canna remember your ain discoorses ye canna blame us if we forget them."--London Answers. Fascination of Golf. " "I've 'eard of Nero a-playing on "is ' fiddle, sir, when 'is 'ome was a-burn ing," said the landlady, putting down the local paper, "but this *ere game of golf must be the most faskinating 'obby in the world. I've been reading about the fire up at the goff ground last Friday, and it says, The fire brigades promptly responded to the call. and when darkness closed in they were still playing upon the ruins of the club. house." " . La Mascotte. The mascot came to us from the French. The word is French slang and was popularized by Audran's comic opera, "La Mascotte," in 1880, though before that its use had long been com- mon among French gamblers, And, as in England, the mascot could be any- fling from a dog to a_doughnut.--Lon. don Standard. -------- Badly Expressed. A London restaurant has this notice displayed 'in various parts of its din ing room: "Any incivility or inxtten- tion on the part of any of the employ- ®es of this establishment will be con Ted a favor if reported promptly to the proprietor." ------ Your unused learning is an uniit ta: per;.a buok, tight shut, 1s but a bipek of paper. ON BABY is causing you anxiety! Baby is°* fretful, cannot sleep. Appetite is gone! No wonder you are worried. But worrying won't do any good. Zam-Buk will! = You have tried the ordinary rem- edies. These are tog coarse and harsh for baby's delicate skin. They either do not penetrate --re- main uselessly on the surface, or penetrate and make matters worse. Zam-Buk is different Nis mild yet powerful in action. It is suited 10 delicate skins. Its pure, rich lierbal essences bathe and sgpothe the tender, burning, irritated skin, stop the pain and itching: and get to the very root of the trouble! 7am-Buk kills the cause of skin disease and quickly forms new, healthy skin Not only for baby's s} in troubles but for adults, Zam Buk fis un- equalled. It cures piles, eczema, ulcers, cuts, burns, bruises chap- ped 'hands, cold sores and all skin diseases and injuries, All druggists and stores, S0c box, 8 for $1.25, Refuse imitatidhs, A A er Am AM rn n ~---- RAILWAY LRT: Local Branch Time Table, IN EFFECT MAY SoTH, Trains will leave avd arrive at Clty Depot, foot of Johnston street. WwW No. No. Believine eville G 18--Mail . 16--Fast Exp, .. . $8--Local to Brockville . _ &-~Mall . 14--Intl. Led, 9 joni to srockville 668 pm. 7.87 .m, Nos. 1, 8, 7, 18, 14, 1¢€, 1%, 19 run ally. other trains dally except Sunday, po Direct route to Toronto, «<'eterboro, Hamilton, London, Detrodt, Chicago, Bay City, Saginaw, Moutreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Portland, St. John, i Halifax; Boston 'and New York. For ull particulars apply J. P. HAN. LEY, Raliroad and Steamship Agent, cor. Johnson and Ontario streets A er ng E88 FEY 3 BEEEp THE TRANSCONTINENTAL New Route Wes t TORON Via North Bay, Colult and Cou Lv. TOR( Tuesday Ar. WIN Thurs Connecting at Winnipeg 0.00 p.m: daily aud intermediate Poin . Yar The "RIDEAU" to Ottawa Popular Afterndon Train n . Lake Ontario Shore Leaves Kingston 5.40 p.m. for Perth, Smith's Falls, ville: Merrickville, Kempt Arrives OTTAWA 10 p.m OENTRAL STATION Sparks Street, at THE «Yy Leaves Ottawa 1.15 Arrives Kingston (8.45 p.m. lay, § Chateau Laurier. ORK" ATTRACTIVE WINTER TOURS ern Canada TO-- WINNIPEG hrane INTO 10.45 p.m. Phursday and Satu lay NIPEG 3.50 p-m. aturd with GT.P. train leaving for Re wkatoon, Fdmanton na, is ta Prince Géorge Prince Rupert,., Aluska, Vancouver, V eloria, Seattle and San Franeisco, Splendid roadbed and the b. Timetables and at] information from Trunk, Con. Govt. Rys., ar 1. & N. ©, Railway Agent tof v |The "TRANSCANADA" | From TORONTO Daily 6.40 PM, PORT ARTHUR FORT WILLIAM WINNIPEG VANCOUVER Through Equipment | Eleetrie Lighted Compartment Ob '[wervation Car, Standard sod Tour- ist Sleepers, Dining Car, Firnt-clan | Conches, [The Frequent CPR. Service pasn- fing through the Business ( entre of each City is an asset to the I ravel- ter." To CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, ETC.' Limited Trains connect at Detroit with connection via Buffalo, service vin CPR. through Particulars from §¥ Improved serviee ( and Wellington The Kind You Have Always in use for over 30 yeais, and 2. sonal supervision since its lo 4 Allow no on All Counterfeits, Imitations and ol onway, CPA 7 through Sleepers to Florkdn; nino t Washington and Cindinnstl, and MCR, to Chicago connects with nll hicago to California. « Clty Ticket Office, corner Princess streeis, Phone 1197, Bought, and which has been has borne the signature of has been made under his pere infancy, Io deceive you in this, ust-as-good ** are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children--Experience against Experiwent, What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Soothing Syrups. goric, Drops and contains neither Opium, substance. Its age is its and allays Feverishness. bas been in constant use Flatulency, Wind Colic, Diarrhoea. assimilates the Food, givi The Children's Panacea-- guarantee. Castor Oil, Pare. It is pleasant, It Morphine nor other Narcotic It destroys Worms For more than thirty years it © for the relief of Constipatio ' all Teething Troubles -- ? It regulates the Stomach and wel ng healthy and nama et, | The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALways Bears the Signature of - Ld In Use For ~ The Ki ire Over 30 Years nd You Have Always Bought

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