"Sees and ingenuity of-the ex- ~ ""T hated to-do is," said ban dweller, tor' the birds place in the serving greatly to brighten things up during the sombre season, bub "I had ether to make away with "othemor tet'them make away with my horse. .. ~'fAlong one side of the ficld that stretches away from the rear of my: place is a thick growth of bush- es. Various kinds of birds find that thicket favorable for their nesting places. The field itself is - let as a pasture, and in the spring and early summer the cattle and horses pasturing there vary their diet by browsing on the sweet and tender young foliage of the thicket. Among the three or four horses in the field along in May was my horse, an unpretending and kindly old fellow and almost one of the family. "One day I was working in my "garden 'when I heard bluejays down in the thicket along the field fence making more noise than is usual even with those birds of harsh and strident voice. Looking down that way, I saw four bluejays engaged in fierce and persistent @ssault on my horse. "They were darting at him from a}] sides, pecking at his face, strik- ing him in the neck and nipping his ears. The poor old nag ran first ene way ond then another to es- cape the assaults of the excited and SHRIEKING BIRDS, but he was headed off by them whichever way he turned. "As there might be danger of the horse being blinded by sono well aimed stroke of a bluejay's sharp bill, I hurried down to lend him my aid in sseaping from the vicious birds. Even after I arriv- ed on the scare and took the horse by the mane and led him away from the spot the infuriated jays hover- -ed abovt and followed us, making frequent beld dashes on the boreo and inflictiug jabs that made him jump. "to the thicket, where - lar spot and see.ned to be in gread tritulatien. It was evident thas my horse had offeaded the blue- over to the thicket. At the spot *hkere the clamor of the jays was ooncentraied I found on the ground the bodies of three newly tched : : ys. 'The four old birds circled abou' me with noise ana fury for a while! , as if inclined to hold me respon- sible in somo way for the tragedy. Then they dashed away across the ficld toward where my horse had resumed his quiet feeding and ar- _.riving there angrily renewed their attack upoo him. "T hurried thither and again rescued him from ThE FURIOUS BIRDS. and they flew yelling back to the thicket. As often as the horse was left to himself in the pasiure the jays attacked him as fiercely as never: down, two miles... _\Wo damage was. done rxent for those jays stand by and see my had their nest and tumb t known."' os ABRAHAM LINCOLN ; A Have Protection. re Eaicd:--""When we ! foreigner lw en we b | get back money."' gets the money; and This sound philosophy President's famous homilies: turer," the president ; upset.' tinues the historian er with bread. meat fruit. fodder for horses, etc. the ironmaker supplied the farmer with all] the iren, iren implements, . which he needed. Assuming is made from Eurone than from his neigh- bor, assuming that he sells a suf- ficient quantity of flour in Europe to enable him chase of the iron. He ultimately to the coast, transportation by sea on arrival, does not enable him to ever, and I was vonpelled to re- meve him from the field. Tha; birds made no attack on any other | ef the horses, although twu of them wero feeding near the spot where the birds were clamoring in the' bushes. H "The jays became quiet after % while oad presumably went about! their business. Believing that the | unfortunate incident was closed 4} turned my old horee into the pas- | ture again, but he had no soones | begun to crop the grass than t jays emerged from the thicket | again and renewed the assault on) hira with all the eld fury. I rescued him-once more and teok him home | and skut kim in the barn. "A road passes along the ficld on the other side of the thicket and is much travelled by teams. Two or three days after the affair be- tiscen the bluejays and my horse § hooked the horse to my buggy for a A Triumph Of Cookery---- Post Toasties Many delicious dishes hava been meade from - Yndian Corn by the skill _ _pest-cook. . 1. ~ But none of these crea- = Sipe enosle: Past Feast: "im tempticg the i avle to sell his fruit odder, meat. horses, ete., to his ncighbor, the ironmaker. as he has labor as he formerly did when sel- ling his flour to his neighbor, the ironmaker. He therefore, deter- mines to sell his flour as before to his neighbor. But meantime the farmer discovers that while he has been purchasing his iron imple- ments from Europe his neighbor, the ironmaker, has been compelled to stop his works and dismiss his employees not baving sufficient work for them. The farmer, there- fore, now finds that he has more twheat than he knows what to do 'with; also, that he is no longer vegetables, gone out of business. In fact, he finds that through buying abroad in the cheapest market he has de- own products and thrown a num- cof employment.'"' ----_--_ _--- ----_-- A BALLAD OF VEGETABLES. A potato went on a mash And sought an onion bed; 'That's pie for me!" observed the squash, ~ And all the beets turned red. "Go 'way!' the onion, weeping, cried; 'Your love I cannot be; The pumpkin be your lawfal bride, You cantaloup with me." But onward still the tuber came, And lay down at-her feet, "You cauliflower by any name And it will smell as wheat; And-I, too, am an early rose,- And you I've come to see ; So don't turnip your lovely nose -- But spinnachat with me." "I do not carrot-at all to wed, i splease !** So go; sir, fE-you: , modest onion to my temper if to nothing else, I gun. ; "T hated to do if, but 1 coulda't oree con- stantly in jeopardy, and I didn't want to sell him. At tho same time I suppose the jays had some excuse for their ermity against the horse, for there is no doubt that while he was browsing along the edge of the thicket he had pulled down a limb on which a family of -- it to the ground. simply wreaking vengeance on the despoiler of the ND THE TARIFF. Mannfacturor and Farmer Should It was Abraham Lincoln who gave popularity to the Protectioa- ist side of the tariff question when buy goods abroad we get the goods and the but s at home we the characterizes another of the late "The farmer and the manufac- once said, "IT led the horse to the far side with his chaacteristio shrewdness, of the field and the birds returned) 'tare both in the same boai and I ; they held] reckon ther've got to learn to na- Noisy consultation at one particu-|vigate the craft together or they'll "He compared the case 'of a Penusylvania farmer,' con- r t € in question, jays in some way, and to discover| 'and a Pennsylvania iron imple- if possible in what wey I walked) ment maker whose properties ad- joined. Under a protective policy the farmer sunnlied the ironmak- vegetables, and farmer then discovers that he can buy his iron implements cheaper to effect the -ur- discovers that the cost of carriage to England, insurance and cartage receive such a good reward for his strored the home market for his ber of his fellow-countrymen out That was denasine neglect 50 that when I got home, returning can reasonably. expect appetite. and get Pink Pills. helps to make and this new blood through the in case of to fail in health, was nurse. The first case I too my work. me, and acting on my Williams' Pink Pills. prised at the result. came back te my tues. work as a nurse. feeling for Dr. Williams' | Piils." : Ont. --_--_--__ _____-- -_ SAW LIFE'S SPARK DEPART. Man's Body. That the spark of life has been Paik SO Desnel, made by Dr. atrick 8. of -Chicago, an X-ray experty.who has:been fol- lowing. up experiments made by Dr. . J. Kilner, of London, England. Some time ago, using a chemical- 3. Dr. O'Donnell'gave a demonstration to twenty phys- icians of the aura or "electrical radiation" of living bodies, young women being u as sub- jects. The aura develo as a strong ray of light surrounding the entire form of the subject. 'Last night," said Dr. O'Don- nel, "in the presence of several a drag ing in Mercy Hospital, I 1 x man. i sinking. Suddenly the attendmg physician announced that the man was dead. The aura began to spread from the body and presently disappeared. Further observation of the corpse revealed no sign of the aura. "Wo do not claim that the light is the soul or spirit, in fact no one seems to know what it is. In my opinion, however, it is some sort of raulo activity made visible by the use of the chemicali film. My experiments, however, seem to prove that it is the animating power or current of life of haman beings."' ----__ Pr A SPOON SHAKER. Straight From Coffeedom. Coffee can marshall a good squadron of enemies and some very hard ones to overcome. A lady in Florida writes: . "T have always been very fond of good coffee, anu for years drank it at least three times-a day. At last, however, I found that it was injuring me. "I became bilious, subject to frequent and yiolent headaches, and so very nervous, that I cou not lift a spoon to my mouth without spilling a part of its con- tents. "My heart got 'rickety' and beat so fast and so hard that I could scarcely breathe, while my skin got thick and dingy, with yellow blotches on my face, cau by the condition of my liver and blood. "T made up my mind that all these afflictions came from the cof- fee, and I determined to experi- ment and see. © : '"*So I quit coffee and got a pack- age of Postum which furnished my hot. morning beverage. After a little time' Iwas rewarded by complete rest: ' a Ith color, to have lost that tired, breathless feeling, to have a good nourish- ment from your food. Now the only quick and _ always effective way to get a supply of new, rich, red blood is to take Dr. Williams' ose coursing veins, brings health and strength to every organ and every part of the. body, making week, ailing people bright; active heland strong. This has been proved thousands of cases of which the Mrs. George Clark, Ab- bottsford, B.C., is a fair sample. Mrs. Clark says: "After spending two years and six months in a hos- pitai training for a nurse, I began very pale and the least exertion would leave' me out of breath. After graduat- ing 1 came to British Columbia to take up my profession as a private k found I was not able to go on with Doctors' tonics failed own judg- ment, I purchased a supply of Dr. i Before I had finished them I was really sur- The color I gained in strength and by the time I had used nine boxes I was back at my I have since married, but still have my friendly Pink Sold hy all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box. or six boxes for $2.50, from The Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Ce., Brockville, Savanos Saw Corrent of Life Leave seen to leave its "tenement of 4 ized film sealed between two thin strips of glass. : four E | time before s young lady of the vil- ing missives being under tHe of the birds. Happily time brought: ies concerned, ai the usual methods of corfespondence were used, . Such a happy ending was certainly deserved by so constant a pair of lovers. - LUCKY EGG SHELLS. have been put to various peculiar uses at different times-- litical meetings have found them in evidence on Occasion--but it is not so often that they have been used for the purpose of amatory However, such rate, for pencilled 'the hands of a lonely widower on the other side of the Atlantic; fur- ther correspondence ensued there- from, and it led to a happy unien of the two parties concerned. A loving couple in Newcastle-on- 'Tyne were forbidden by their par- ents to correspond with each other, but love eproverbially laughs at locksmiths, and is suposed to be able to overcome every difficulty. Certainly this was the case with this couple. These two managed to correspond, in spite of the parental injunction, through the medium of 'a friend,.who was quite guiltless in the affair, They exchanged books, | but it was not the story which was visible to everybody which interest- ed this ingenious couple, but acer- tain well connected discourse which could be pieced together by fol- lowing certain lead-pencil mark- ings, and which made a very stir- ring little tale of love. In order to avoid detection, even if the var- ious marks in the books were dis- covered, these indications were made to read from end to begin- ning of the book, Chinese fashion. It is satisfactory to know that these two young lovers no longer need to go to this trouble to communi- cate with each other, as they have been married for sume years. WOOED BY APPLES. Fruit has often been used as a& means of amatory correspondence.- When » lady receives a basket of apples of péars 7h wigaioe es "unknown"? fried, "there need not be aiy suspicion attaching to such an imnocent-looking present... But when the largest apple in the bas- ket is known -by her.to- contain at its heart a long and passionate love-letter written upon foreign notepaper, all ingeniously conceal- ed, it must be confessed that there. may be more even in a rosy-cheek- ed apple than meets the eye--or the' palate. . took place in Western America a few years ago, as & result of a very peculiar cvorrespondente. "Some lage had-thrown a botthe contain- ing. a note into the river, and this d and was ultimately icked up by 8 Poulsison, He answered the let- ter, & peers Tamra ensued, and final ing; but it should mentioned that the lovers never met until two days before that cere- mony. -------- BLACKBIRD MUSICLAXS. One That Accompanied a Band, Another Gave Cavalry Call. One April while eg bird voices in @ wood near a breezy up- land village in Banffshire Scot- land, I was startled by a whistler, who produced again and again part of the opening phrases (six note of the fine English song He Upbraid," says the Scotsman. No professional clarmet player sould have rendered the phrase with closer attention to quality of tone and to exactness of ti and pitch. At first I thought that it had been whistled by a ploughman who was working in a neighboring field. Other blackbirds in the same wood whistled the phrase, but no one performed it so well as the bird I first heard. | | The performers were the band of ublicaine : ret correspo ee was successf, : carried on by a help,' the ally: about a reconciliation of the part- the A somewhat romantic marriage i 8) Should P lations: your -mer t preacher in Paris, for his notes. are a battle call to the strong and a sursum co: ift up your hearts)-to the despairing." acc ao "John," she said gently, "you ments, are you not!' I am," be answered. "Well, sup- pore you go and make a few of them at the pump-handle. I want a p2il of water at once." ; . Pills for Nervous Troubles. -- The stomach is the ceutre of the nervous system, and when the sto- mach suspends healthy action the result is manifest in disturbances of the nerves. If allowed to per- sist, nervous debility, a dangerous ailment, may ensue. The first coa- sideration is to restore the stomach to proner action. and there is no rreadier remedy for this than Par- melee's Vegetable Pills. Thousands can attest the virtue of these pills in curing nervous disorders. A Medical Need supplied.-- When "Do you think it is becoming!' she asks, appearing in her newest gown. "Don't bother about that*" gushes the friend. "it is perfect! It is s:mply delicious. My dear, it makes you lvok absolutely help- less."' Worms feed upon the vitality of children and endanger their lives. A simple and effective cure is Mo- ther Graves' Worm Extermina- tor. Missionary (explaining to visi- tors)}--Our situation was so remoie that for a whole vear my wife never saw a white face but my own. Sympathetic Young Woman -- Oh, the poor thing!" Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, Ete. tentment has been defined the josophy of life and the prin- cipal ingredient in the cup of hap- piness; a commodity that is un- dervalued in consequence of obtained. _ REST AND HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILD. ¢ - Mus. Wixstow's SooTwixo SYRUP has bern wed for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS. of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, PER UCCESS. It . SOFTENS the GU ALLAYS cll PAIN ; CURES WIND COLIC, is the best remedy for DIARRHEA. Mt is solutety Be sure and ask for "Mra. Winslow's Seothing Syrup," and take mo other kind. Twents-five cemtsa bottle. An Irishman and an Englishman were arguing as to which of their tespective countries possessed of rse, that his did. "For,"' said he, "more steame both screw and le, arrive at Liverpool in one day than any Iris stance. Thousands of screws enter it daily." a medicine is found that not only acts upon the stomach, but is 50 composed that certain ingredients of it pass unaltered through the stomach, but is so composed chat certain ingredients of it pass un- altered through the stomach <o in the bowels, then they have been in use thev have es- tablished themselves as no other pill has dune. - - ¢ "What ix the greatest get-rich- quick scheme you know of?' asked the flimsy financier of his partuer. "Taking the menex away from other people who want to get rich quick."' Minard"s Liniment Cures Diphtheria ed a concert in uxembou £ : hich. may 'conside: en while I am at work, in order to sberemrtenl point ofthe Latin | catch the expression of delight on Quartier of Paris. * » | their faces! ---- eee yery_low price at which it can be |i greatest seaport. The Englishman f young platite¥ of | Iowa nrices of swine vary little from those already quoted. In western Canada from $12 to $13. prices is from $10 to $13 and in western Canada. from $1 2to $13. The highest American price is $11.- 80a head in Wisconsin. as against the highest Canadian price of 13 a 'head, which is quoted for Quebec, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. -----4-----_--_ EXPLAINED. The milkman stood before her sternly, "you ay at last?' "\. | madam. You sent for me, I believe," he replied. "J wished to tell you that I found a minow in the milk yester- day morning." "I am sorry, madam; but if the cows will drink from the brook in- stead of from the trough, I can- not help it." Oe The female house fly lays from 120 to 150 eggs at a time. and these mature in two weeks. Under fav- orable conditions tue descendants of a single pair will avmber mil- lions in three: months. Therefore, all housekeepers should nervously twirling his bat in his ha~'?- s MISCELLANEOUS -- . H': and FARM SCALES. Wilson's Scale Works, 9 Esplanade, Toronto. for usiness titon. Bargain five Hundred Walter Hayward, UMBER, interior trim, doors, Sooring, L sash. Price quoted at er statiog. ll or large orders. P. W. T. Boss, Toronto. es Ct YOUR GLASS AT HOME--Our * Devil" Glass Cutter cuts window & Co, Benoit-8t., Montrea a*tan MACHINERY, Porta > heavy, Mills, Sh Bevjecs "it deecttrine Co? an Street. Ilia, Ontario. ANCER, TUMORS, LUMPS, ote. i> Wilson's Toronto. ternal and extern: cured withous treatment. Write us fore too late. Dr. Bellman, Colling wood, Jnt. 6 Scale Works, 9 Esplanade, for our ¢ 4 v are mo makers. Ap ply BG. L co. Lid, raed Albert St. in by our home TON SCALE GUARANTEED. RITE us toda hoice lst Ww of Agents' Hupplies. No outlay ecess: uy e A Ottawa, Ont ~PECIALISTS ADVICE FREB. Qoasals Ss tus in regard to any disease. west Rca aed "Ehime send menage masl wae, Glaeees Gated Oy ng iis ft < ruil te Dr Bellman. Collingwood. using Wilson's Fly Pads early in the season, and thus cut off a large proportion of the summer crop. Farmer: "Do yon want a job digging potatoes!' ~ _-- Tired Tim: "Yes, I do, if it's dig- ging them out of the gravy you mean."" There is no poisonous ingredient in Hollowavy's Corn Cure, and it can be used yithout danger cf in- jury. : "Couldn't you get the open?' . What's the window to do with ii it wo ' "Well, the right pitch would have fat." ~~ been through t Your Overcoats faded Suits would book better dred- Uf pe acrat of tod (opour tows, write direct to Mratrea!, Bex 158 Gritish Amenroan Dyeing Co. a caters seed insist on having an "OTTO HIGEL" Piano Action $1 a box ODINOL c's." The most highly efficient application action of Sw. - PILES ofall kinds,in any and all stages, quickly relieved and itively cured, ure your ae live Goiati. "Common Sense" for Piles will da_it. $1 a box, $5 for 6 bexes. Mailed on receipt of price. EpIcinE ~ LYLE SES'!2© TORONTO 713 WEST QUEEN STRIET "What're ye comin' home with your milk-pail empty for?' de- manded the farmer. "Didn't the ld cow give anything? "Yes," replied the boy; "nine quarts and one kick."' w@ TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY, for Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes andGranulated Eyelids. Murine Doesn't Smart--Sooth fell Murine Eye Remedy, Liquid, 25c, Bc, $1.00. zd =) "How do you find things, my "Very dull, I'm glad to say. "Glad! Why?' "I'm a knife-grinder."' @inard's Lintment Cures Carget in Cows. Mr. Brown: "Is that dog of yours smart ?"' r. Ridge proudly : "Smart? Well, I mgs think so. I going out with him yester- pies, I stopped said: 'Tow- ser, we've forgotten something,' And bothered if he didn't sit down and scratch his head to see if he could think what it was."' " Oil for-Toothaches.--There is no fain so acute and distressing as toothache. When you have so up- welcome a visitor apply Dr. Tho- mas' Eclectric Oi] according-to di- vou will find jmmedi- Fi and looked gravely down at the in- valid. fact that you are very ill,"' he said. a see?' "Yes," t sufferer, faintly. "Who is it?' ** Another doctor." P American and Canadian scien- tists tell us that the common bouse fy is the caure of more disease aad death than any other agency- Wilson's Fly Pads kill all the ilies and the 'seas: germs too. The dinner was over. and the last man to leave the cloak-room saw Pat, the custodian of the coats, looking vtry miserable. "Well Pat,'"' he said, '"'what's the matter! © Haven't they paid you very well for looking after the things?' "Sure, sor," replied the dejected one, "'1t isn't that they haven't paid me, but, begorra, they've taken the bob I put in the plate as a decoy v ~Some persons have perivdical at- tacks of Canadian cholera, dysen- tery or diarrhoca, and have tu use great precautions to avoid the dis- ease. Change of water, cook:ag, and green fruit, is ure to bring on the attacks. To such persons we would recommend Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Dysentery Cordial as being the best medicine in the mar- ket for all summer complaints. If a few drops are taken in water" when the symptoms are noticed no © future trouble wili be expericuced. O t. The Hostess (at informai dinner): "Dr, Graves, won't you carve!" Dr. Graves (absently): "Where's the patient and the chloroform red Minard's Lintment Cures Distemper. --_-- oo { any people owe their *"\ great e owe th docwor," said Rickliag- lives to tha rr lever physician ?"" "Ts a clever physician et tea't that, I referred to. He is never in when you want him." - SUNBURN.