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Ee ---- THE OBSERVER. DRYDEN. ONTARIO. THE BEAT OF THE PULSE. | fit Varies Greatly In Different Per- sons and Conditions. The pulse of women generally beats at a slightly faster rate than that of men. It may be said that when a per- son is at rest his pulse, that of any adult, may be from seventy-five to eighty times a minute. Great variation exists in different individuals in re- spect of the number of beats. After exercise the pulse quickens because of the stimulation of the heart, and the same result applies to the effects of taking food. A dose of alcohol will also stimulate the pulse somewhat, just as the use of tobacco, especially in excess, will tend to have an opposite effect-- namely, that of lowering the rate of the pulse, because of the depression of the heart which results. In fevers and inflammatory diseases the pulse rate tends to be very much increased and also in respect of its character. Instead of beating quietly the blood vessel in such cases exhibits a very full and bounding movement. On the other band, where depression exists and the temperature of the body falls, the pulse may be unnaturally slow and its. character weak. Physicians are aecus- | tomed to distinguish other characteris- tics in the pulse, such as become valu- able hints in the discovery and deter- mination of disease. The practical les- son we learn here is that where. the pulse continues for any length of time to have its beats quickened to an un- natural degree and where especially a rise of the temperature or heat of the body accompanies these symptoms we ought to suspect some kind of feverish condition or other to be represented. The pulse alone forms a valuable enough guide to this state of the body, but its value is very much Increased if to the information given us by the pulse we add that which the use of the thermometer supplies. ! NAMES OF DAYS. The Latin and Saxon Terms From Which They, Are Derived. Our names for each day are derived from the Saxons, who probably bor- rowed the week from some eastern people, substituting names of their own divinities for those of the clas- sical gods, as Is easily seen when the names are tabulated: Saxon. Latin, English. Dies Solis.... ...Sun's day...... Sunday. Dies Lunae..... Moon's day....Monday. Dies Martis.....Tiw's day..... Tuesday. Dies Mercurii.. Woden's day.. Wednesday. Dies Jovis...... Thor's day.... Thursday. Dies Veneris... Friga's day... Friday. Dies Saturni....Seterne's day. Saturday. * Among the ancients the belief in the influence of the planets upon the life )of men was so strong that many in se- 'lecting their daily ornaments would i wear only the gem associated with the planet of the day. 'ouly yellow gems and gold should adorn the fingers. Pearls and white :Stones, excepting diamonds, belonged "to the Moon day. Tuesday, day of Mars, claimed rubies and all stones of fiery 'duster. Thursday, Thor's day, demand- ed amethysts and deep colored stones of sanguine tint, while Friday, dom- inated by Venus, reigned over the em- ., erald, color of jealousy, which is love's shadow. Saturday, dedicated to Sat- urn, oldest of the gods, had for its distinctive talisman the most splendid of all gems, the diamond. 1 His Time For Drinking. In the days of river driving on the Kennebec river in Maine old Uncle Jim Gilbert 'was a well known character. He was hale and hearty and had an enormous appetite. The men used to come down the river with a drive of | fogs and get a meal at a tavern in | 1D @ Poor sort of house at Sevres, and { his effects are set down at three cows, 'Augusta. One morning, arriving late ele Jim sat down with the first set of men and ate diligently during the time these men made a meal. A new set of men came and still Uncle Joe ate steadily. A third set came, and the tavern keeper, becoming alarmed, tried to hurry up the protracted meal by saying, "Better drink your coffee, un- cle, and have another cup!" "No," sald the old man. "I never drink till I'm half through!" Return of the Prodigal. "I do play in tough luck sometimes," declared' the impecunious girl. "Last aight, you remember how it rained. I happened to be in the neighborhood of some friends of mine whom I had hot seen since the last hard rain. I concluded to call. Before they asked ime in they grabbed the umbrella I carried, hurried across the room with it, placed it in a closet there and lock- ed the door on it. ' " 'Thank heaven! they cried. 'At fast! Our long lost umbrella! Delightful Impudence. ; " Melba admires the independence o her fellow Australians, but on one oc- casion she had rather a pronounced experience with what she calls their ""delightful 'impudence."" She had waited a long time for dinner at her hotel in a large mining town and finally made sharp complaint to the waiter. "Well, ma'am,"" said he cool- ly, "you might sing us a song to pass the time." This to a vocalist who one evening received $5,000 from William Waldorf Astor. for singing four songs 'n his London mansion! *world of difference in her, and so I Thus on Sunday | cine Co., Brockville, Ont, and with appetite sharpened, old Un- | FW Digs, dozen hams, an old coach, "a stud," I consisting of an old donkey, and furni- | ture | poor. i breaks his highness 1s-said to bear with | almost Christian fortitude. t killed with her own hands three of her GIRLS ENTERING WIMANRODD FIND BILEANS A ECON. Mothers who have daughters just on the critical porderland over which the girl passes into the fuller lite of womanhood, will find Bileans a great boor. They make rich, red bloed, and strengthen and invigor- ate the internal organs involved in the great change. Mrs. T. Beadle, of Home Place, Toronto, says: "My daughter, Elsie (13), was feeling far from well this winter. She com plained of frequent headache, ana was always weakly, tired and drowsy. She seemed altogether without energy or strength. Each morning her tongue was coated and her appetite failed. She was some. | times so dizzy that on stooping she almost fell, and she was also trou- bled a great deal with constipation. One single box of Bileans made a continued to give her this remedy. Within a few weeks they built her up wonderfully and they are keep- ing her in the best of health." _Bileans also cure anaemia, green sickness, debility, sick headache constipation, piles, rheumatism, sci- atica, and all liver and kidney ailments. They tone up the system and enable it to throw off colds, chills, ete. All druggists and stores sell Bileans at 50¢. a box, or obtain-, able from the Bilean Co., Toronto, for price. 6 boxes sent for $2.50. Lo is possible for a man to avoid attending his own wedding, but he can't get out of enacting the star role at his own funeral. bd BABY'S BEST FRIEND. Baby's Own Tablets have saved many a previous little life. There is no other medicine to equal them for stomach and bowel troubles, bles. They are good for children of 'all ages--from the new born babe to the well grown child. And the mo- ther has the guarantee of a govern- ment- analyst that they do not con- tain opiates or harmful drugs. Mrs. John C. Gildart, Prosser Brook, N. B., says: "I have proved that Baby's Own Tablets are a great help to. mothers, and are baby's best friend. They act almost like magic and I will always keep them in the house."" The Tablets are sold by colds, simple fevers or teething trou-| druggists or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medi- The market reports announce Tat money is steady. kspecially in its goes right to the seat of the trouble and removes the cause. Many so-called cures but deaden pain temporarily only to have it return again with doubled. violence. Not so with this great remedy. It eradicates from the system the last vestige of the disease and its cures are permanent.--74. ¢ Almost 7 per cent of the cost of operating a railway is for coal. Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. Tne Butcher of the Terror, outgo. of from 146 to 186 pounds a square . ; inch, but after soaking overnight RY Sacoumb 0 SOUR! | reaking under stresses of 80 to 116 The world only knows Danton as the embodiment of brutal ferocity, or, as he liked to call it, "audacity." There has, however, just been published for the first time the inventory of the sale 'of his household effects after his execu- tion, which throws some of the better light of simplicity upon the character of the butcher of the Terror. Whatever: else he may have been, Danton appears to have been no money making revolu- tionist. He lived with his father-in-law twenty fowls, twenty-one palrs of pigeons, some bacon, half a that the sale price showed to be Not much to lose a head for.-- London Globe. "other. A Short Way With Rivals. The ameer of Afghanistan, who will witness a military demonstration in which 25,000 troops will take part when he visits India during the winter, was married, while he was still little more than a boy, to seven wives, each the daughter of a powerful chief. He now has four wives, the eldest of whom is a shrew whose fierce out- slaves whom she caught flirting with 'her august lord, and she disfigures those whose physical attractions might appeal to him. In appearance the ameer 4s a broad, rather clumsily built man, with a tendency to stoutness.--Ony looker. A Royal Collection. According to the Figaro, King Haak- on and Queen Maud of Norway. are | making a novel collection, consisting of newspaper cuttings, divided into two albums--true and false. In tha | latter category are all the comments and stories which have sprung from the imagination of journalists. These are inscribed. "Things we have neither said nor done." It would be interesting to learn in which album they have gasiag up the Sl cutting re- erring this collection,--London She has | Tribune. The Poet and the Beauty. One of the finest houses in southern England is Penhurst Place, the birth- place of Sir Philip Sidney. Under the trees of its park Edmund Waller paid his addresses to the haughty Lady Dorothea, whom he celebrated as Sach- arissa. But the heart of Lady Dorothea Sidney--who was the most beautiful woman of her time--was untouched by Waller's amatory verses, and she re- jected the poet in favor of the Earl of Sunderland. Many years afterward the countess met Waller and, reminding him sentimentally of the old days at Penhurst, asked him when he would again write verses about her. "When, madam," said the poet rudely, "you are ag young and as handsome as you wer then." : Properties of Chlorine. Chlorine is a greenish yellow gas with a disagreeable smell. It is solun- ble in cold water, only slightly soluble in hot water. It destroys color in wet fabrics and is also a strong disinfect: ant. Both of these properties are said to be due to its power of decomposing hydrogen compounds, such as water, combining with the hydrogen and liber- ating oxygen, which in a nascent state oxidizes coloring matter, rendering it colorless. As a disinfectant it oxidizes the germs of disease and is in conse- quence largely used for this purpose. Strange Mistake. Old Mrs. Jones entered the drawing room unexpectedly and spoiled a very pretty tableau. "I was just whispering a secret in Cousin Jennie's ear," explained Char- lie. 2 "I'm sorry," said the old lady grave- ly. "that your eyesight has become so bad that you mistake Jennie's mouth for her ear."'--London Tit-Bits. : i _Fairville, Sept. 30, 1902. d's Liniment Co., Limited. ar Sirs.--We wish to inform you that we: consider your MINARD'S LINIMENT a very superior article, and we use it 'as'a sure relief for sore throat and, chest. When I tell you T would not be without it if the price was one: dollar a bottle, I mean it. ! Yours truly, : CHAS. F. TILTON. Grindstones Wet nnd Dry. The strength of a grindstone appears from tests to vary widely with the de- 'gree of Its wetness or dryness, stones that are dry showing tensile strengths pounds a square inch. That's What. "A great deal depends upon the dress- | ing," observed the thoughtful thinker. "Speaking of what?' queried his friend. ! "Women and salads," answered the T. T.--Exchange. 20 Years of Vile Catarrh.--Chas. O. Brown, journalist, of Duluth, Minn, writes: "I 'have been a sufferer from Throat and Nasal Catarrh for over 20 ears, during which time my head has Yom MRE up and my. condition truly miserable. Within 15 minutes after us- ing Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder 1 obtained relief. Three bottles had al- most, if not entirely, cured me." 50c.--T73 Luxury of the Ancients. Twenty - seven hundredweight, or nearly one. and a half tons, of gold plate was often placed on the tabies of ancient Roman epicures. § -- Cooked Foods. ! Uooked foods should be eaten mod- erately warm, not hot. The high 'tem. perature injures the muccus lining of the whole digestive apparatus and by increasing the flow of perspiration ren- ders the skin more susceptible to chills and colds. The habit of eating hot food also increases a desire for liquids, and thus ene bad habit leads to an- For Strains --of Back --of Shoulder --of Stifle --of Hough --of Whirlebone --of Knee --of Fetlock --of Coffin Joint ~--of Pastern ss, : Fellows' Leeming's Essence Two or three teaspoon- fuls in a little Rum or Brandy, cures Sprains, Bruises and Lameness in 24 hours--takes out all the soreness--and puts horses 'on their feet again.' joc. a bottle, If your drug. gist does not have it, send to National Drug & Chemical Co. J Limited, Montreal. 17 4B 'which show that the working of ..e . Minard's 'Liniment Cures Diphtheria. collegiate institute. kinds of corns and warts, root and © in, bid $500. : i 'a -shipping clerk's error, and I'd have BRONCHITIS IS 'COLD ON THE CHEST' And the Most Prompt and Satisfactory Treatment is Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine Acute bronchitis is none other than what is commonly known as "cold on the chest" and is marked by difficult breathing and tightness or soreness of the chest. As a preventative Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine will, if taken in time, positively prevent: the symptoms of bronchitis or cold in the chest. As a cure it will entirely owver- come even the long-standing cases of chronic bronchitis, and it should not be forgotten that, when neglect- ed, bronchitis usually returns time and time again until the: victim is worn out by its debilitating effects. Tt is largely the extraordinary suec- cess of Dr. Chase's Syrup of Lin- seed and Turpentine as a cure for bronchitis that has made this treat- ment so popular. People quite right- ly reason that what will cure bron- chitis will make short work of croup and ordinary coughs and colds. Mrs. Richmond Withrow, Shuben- acadie, Hants Co, N.S., writes: "I have used Dr. Chase's Syrup of Lin- seed and Turpentine with good sue- cess. My second daughter was trou- bled with bronchitis from the age of three weeks. Oftentimes I thought she would choke to death. The sev- eral remedies we got did not seem to be of much use, but the first dose of Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine brought relief, and further treatment made a thorough cure. This trouble used to come back from time to time, but the cure is now permanent. Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine has saved us many doctor bills, and I would not be without it in the house for many times its cost." Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine, 25 cents a bottle, at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., Toronto. To protect you against imitations, the portrait and signa- ture of Dr. A. W. Chase, the famous receipt book author, are on every bottle. : The shah of Persia has agreed to grant tue popular demands and ree- ognize constitutional government. Much distress and sickness in children is caused by worms. Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator | gives relief by removing the cause. Give it a trial and be convinced. The government of New South Wales will in future contribute £6 toward the passage money of every agriculturist or domestic servant wno goes to the colony with the agent- general's approval. / Itch, Mange, Prairia Scratches and every form of contagious Itch on hu- man or animals cured in 30 minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotion. - Official figures have been issued British Aliens Act is ineffective and extravagant. Brandon has uecided to erect anew ~The estimated. cost is $65.000. Holloway's. Corn Cure destroys all branch. Who, then, would endure them with such a cheap and effec- tual remedy within reach ? Keats' Epitaph, Shortly before his death Keats left strict injunctions that his 'headstone should bear thes: words: Here lies one whose name was writ in Ey ai water. ' "For nearly forty years a simple gravestone bearing these words mark- ed the spot where Keats lay--the grave- yard of the English church in Rome-- but in 1859 Joseph Severn, whose hand Keats held when he died, wrote to Mr. Dilke, father of the present Sir Charles Dilke, suggesting the following epi- taph, which was subsequently adopted: This grave contains the mortal remains of 1 John Keats, . A Young English Poet, who died at Rome, Feb. 20, 1820, aged ; 28 years. 1 His shert life was so embittered by discouragement and sickness that he desired these words to mark his grave: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." - Time ak having reversed' this sentences, his friends and admirers now inscribe his name $i) in Marble. ) 9. 2h Odd Auction Incident. "A Pittsburg 'millionaire once saved me from the commission of a dreadful error," said an Atlantic City auc- tioneer. "We put up a lot of second- | agreeable hand art books, books with colored plates, one rainy day, and among the lot was a set of Audubon's 'Birds of America." I knew little about books-- | the useful arts are my line--and I was '| quite ready to let this set go for $25 when 'my Pittsburg friend, happening "Of course the books went to him, but after the sale he told me he didn't want them. WE gk 5 '"'Take them back, he said, 'and ship them to New York. You can get $1,600 for this set. It is a first edi- tion.' : Tih "Sure enough, the set brought $1,- 700 in New York two months later. It had been forwarded to me through let it go for nothing had it not been for the knowledge and kindness of this Pittsburg millionaire." Id Her Line. "Now our cook has gone away I don't know what we shall do." \ "I thought you told me your wife was such a good cook?" : "Not a bit of it. I told you my wife was an expert im broils, roasts and sawa" w--- ~ At a meeting of the Charlton Board of Guardians, it was stated that re- ports from Canada are so excellent that a majority of the board were more than ever in favor of emigra- tion. The man who al- ways 1s pitiable. pities himself Sure Regulators -- Mandrake and Dandelion are known to exert a powerful influence on the liver and kidneys, restoring them to health- ful action, inducing a regular flow of the secretions ana imparting to the organs complete power to per- form their functions. These valu- able ingredients enter into the com- position of Parmelee's Vegetable Pills, and serve to render them the and salutary medicine they are. There are few pills so ef- fective as they in their action. At the opening of .e Netherlands parliament the ministers had tender- ed their resignation to the queen ow- ing to the rejection of the army es- timates: FIER 2 Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. An infernal machine, timed to ex= plode after the family had retireu, is reported to have been discovered in a chimney 'of the house occupied by Count Witte, the Russian premier. . At a farewell audience of King Kd- ward and Queen Alexandra, Ambas- sador James Bryce "kissed hands" on his appointment to the British embassy at Washington. Another Triumph of Art. A young New York artist says that he was in Vermont on a sketching trip one summer. One day while strolling along a pretty lane he overtook a par- ticularly picturesque little fellow who was sauntering along with a fishing pole on his shoulder and a string of small fish in his hand. He looked so much the part of the small country boy of poetry and fiction that the artist de- cided he would like to make a sketch of him, and after considerable negotia- tion this was arranged for, the lad, in accordance with directions, perching 'himself on a rail fence. As the artist worked away at his sketch an old coun- tryman came down the lane and stood Inoking over his shoulder. "By gum! Thet certainly beats all bemlock!" the old fellow presently ex- claimed admiringly. "Like the picture, do you?" the artist: asked, with a pleased flush. "Oh, 'tain't thet, though it ain't so bad. What I meant was the way you manage to keep thet boy quiet" so long." E A EM To Tell a Fashionable Restaurant." "When. I was young," said an old: bachelor, "at all the fashionable res- taurants yon wrote your order. That was the way to distinguish the really. fashionable restaurant. You wrote your - order there, whereas in the common one you gave it to the waiter orally. Ordering is a difficult matter. It is a thing, especially when one has guests, that one is likely to get flustered over; hence I always liked to write my or- i der. It kept me cool. But a waiter, standing over me, suggesting: dishes I didn't want, hurrying me, had the power to rattle me completely. But fashionable restaurants no longer are to be distinguished by this writing business. Writing has disappeared from them. They are to be distin- guished now by their French menus-- bothersome things that call a sweet- bread a ris de veau, a potpie a vol au vent and a leg of mutton a gigot.'-- PLiladelphia Bulletin. y ; W. N. U. No. 625