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IL DLATIH n England Opened oor For Russian. PAli Is Ersken. <ip + 4 TRIOT. ed Image ANNIBALS atoPD @reis> more. s for their i sexes pate for human te, but has the u:ifl' ormer ces in ’{; M lark si uht Miss being an n should ore and esterday Imperial le or n& isserted Papuan 1 by the d. They . forest. Nicholas an pat« i~ this for the » tribe, litional e w onk eleased #t four land to h@ Rusâ€" powers Metro 1 very bn in ind his scaped, ted at ldt at m the organ Loh ehind heas houl ike a roval. y iSe a the that "uted Missa her d by went they Care on i the tri my stra it ate ver ipon but P 1 by the med and the th the h t Iy Inc by Af all 1@ n Th westerner who returned to a prairie Â¥own afiter two years in New York. It memed incomprehensible that he should seave the excitement of lower Broadway « the monotony of the broad plains. "Neighbors!" was his response, "would gou waunt to spend your life where the people twenty feet av-Ldo not know yo‘.r name or care whether you live or «is? We were brought up with neighâ€" borsâ€"and when tho“‘nby died and not & person in the blessed town came near us, when we went alone to the cemetery, it was too much. We packed up and started for homeâ€"what‘s the use of livâ€" m‘ way t" neighborliness exist, like our old ro-utry problems, in inverse ratio to he square of the distance? Perhaps. One dni‘lut summer, away out in the western Kunsas wheat lands, where disâ€" tances are magnificent and the per Capita of population to the square mile is exâ€" z::mfll in decimal fractions, a sottler me ill. He had fifty acres of fine wheat already turning ycflow in the sun. He had no hired man, nor had he the means to engage harvesters. . He had counted on "changing work" with some one and thus getting his grain to marâ€" ket. Day after day he tossed in pain and worrled over the prospect. Nei%h- bors? â€" The nearest was three miles away, and the whole township had but seven families. s One morning three selfâ€"binders with full complement of helpers came rattling over the prairie. The drivers did not ask for Ierm'union, but went boldly into the fleld Round and round the machines hurried, reaping the ripe grain and leavâ€" ing shocks of gold dappling the level lands. The sick man heard the buzz of the reapers and tried to get to the winâ€" dowâ€"but his wife told fim what was happening, aleep. -'“y- It is no slight thing to give up a day in the midst of pressing harvest that & farmer miles away may save his crop, knt it is a nrettv good sort of sentiment but it is a &""y good sort of sentiment that gtomp the action. It may be that it will count for something sometime. "Would the “"‘f city street show an act such as marked a far frontier community in which I spent a night reâ€" «ently t" asked the former New sorkcr, then went on: "We had stopped at a little town of less than a dozen houses, and spent the evening listening to pioâ€" mneer stories in the dingy office of the only hotel. As we were preparing to go to bed, in came three men carrying & wiolin, a banjo and a guitar. They were ranchers from the Pawnese Valley, and | had been out twenty miles on the rlsim to enliven the evening for an old friend who was sick and nearly blind, with no ons to read to him and no music except "lur 2f the manscless winds. They did "Why did you come back!" I asked a only hotel. As we w to ‘bed, in came thr wiolin, a banjo and & ranchers from the 1 had been out twenty udn dhcat‘\ Some instances have even moTe 0" ""*" man interest, as newspaper men express it. One day a woman out on the plains followed to the windâ€"swept cemetery the husband with whom she had pioneered through long, weary y°Ars. She reâ€" turned to her little home and gathered around her the five children, hearteick and disheartened. . She had but one horse; the other had hbeen sold to secure money during the husband‘s illness. 1t T. CCC C "\ wing the coru ground. : Good Neighbours All was Um® 20" PPX CCOH 0 D How could she ges another . horse! Where could she hire men 10 do the work? She cried herself to sleep that night. F olsc Cfegs ce ontehint Enly the next nominfi daughter awoke her with, " see who‘s coming!" From the window of th farmâ€"house she discerned in « number of men who Y across the prairies with tea and parrows. To t.l}e east 2 n ns Th B o e t yEeRRRE PCO CCC so to the south and west. WD mean? All centred at the _ {@ without stopping to ask her pe went to work, turning over the furrows. The harrows follow the cornâ€"planters. Thirty tean Shart work of the sixty acres, ahort work moon half t ralns. "Now, Mis‘ Mason," said the leader, %uurd'y Farmer Hanson of the Four ds ranch, "if you‘ll give us some water to drink, we‘ll see if we can get dinner." 2 1 Lu% ko S smmem Hhik She did not need â€" t open her kitchen. The to 'buhlnti it‘ on 0cc mf.d eir food like ainner. . She did not need to do more than open her kitchen. The men were used to whti it‘ on occasion, and they _mnod eir food like veterans. They blwlih'. eatables for the meal, and the spread looked veryegc;oid to the chilâ€" dren who hungrily wat them. "Oome on, youngsters," called the loeadâ€" ar, choerily ; "have something with usâ€" ye‘re welcome." They were welcome indeed. The bounâ€" > o 9 % cuce Fecusvrortile 1 and he fell into a deep, sweet the land was s have even more of huâ€" ; newspaper men express voman out on the plains windâ€"swept cemetery the wshom she had pioneered weary years. She reâ€" ‘etla home and gathered discerned in the north en who were coming ies with teams, ploughs » the east were others, and west. What did it ed at the farm, and, ; to ask her perm{uion. irning over the chocolate harrows followed, then s. Thirty teams made he sixty acres, and by nd was ready for apring , in the Outâ€" the mbin-likfa 7 her eldest wook, mother, for the occasion and the supply was amâ€" pie for the children, hulf-fpmi-bed for a good meal as they were. . The afterâ€" noon was as busy as the morning, and long before sundown the field was ready for the spring rains. Nor was this all. So plentiful was the provieion from the farmers‘ kitchens that the little nome was provided with food for a week to oâ€"ine. All that summer the neighbors came time after time and cultivated the corn, and when autumn‘s harveot arrived there was a clean four hundred buskels that had not cost the widow a cent. Pretty g;:od kind of everyâ€"day Christianity, that! Curious, too. how news travels among these communities on the plains. In these modern days the rural mailâ€"carrier make a close relation between . the parts of more thickly settled counties. But take it out on the farther reaches of he prairies, where you are never outside a pasture and where some of the ranches are thirty miles from the railâ€" way, and you have almost wireless teleâ€" graphy in the di.«.semmat‘i?n”olf mi.\vs. y EOE ce Ci Pud sc ons Ti c "*om Benton is very sick," is the word | q that foes out over the shortâ€"grass coun | q try. It is passed from herder to hordâ€" | « er, from soddy to soddy (no one ever | ; says ‘sod house‘ in the shortâ€"grass coun: try), until it is soon common property | & for twenty miles around. Aud then the boys make it their business to se¢e | ,, that Tom is looked after, One by one | , they ride over to inquise how ho is; two by two they come to ‘sit up with himâ€" | , no need of tho lodge delegating nurses out here. Nothing too ‘F"d for Tom | when he is sick. And if Tom does not fizt wellâ€"no need to tell how the tenâ€"| , rmess of the plains then shows Itself. | No one ever leaves the west with the | , feeling that ‘nobod{ cared.‘ t The wzanciers have what they call "community of interests." The West % has just that in its everyâ€"day life, Someâ€" times it shows in peculiar and unexpectâ€" ed ways, combined Perhapn with an odd | ! _ mixture of oldâ€"fashioned Yankee thrift. | ! _ Down on the southern edge of Oklaâ€" | homa the cotonâ€"planters have a Felv 1 ‘lpetual struggle with the labor problem. | | in cotton picking season, owing to the | lack of negroes in the county, hundreds | | of meres of cotton are wasted. But one 1 good Baptist deacon, in the very thick || of the contest for the available workers, | | had an idea. He went to town and saw | the superintendent of his Sunday school. In halrun hour he had arranged for the | entire membership of the school to give | | a "cottonâ€"picking benefit" on his farm for the next two days. Before he left town he had given a two f:j's’ benefit to the Methodists, who wanted money for a new church; two days to the Prasbyâ€" terians, who wanted new furniture; two days to the Catholics, to replenish a mission fund; and closed & deal _ with |\ the â€" Woman‘s Christian . Temperance | Union and the Loyal Legion for three |\ days each, the proceeds to be used to | aid the temperance campaign in that | county. |\ The next morning fiftyâ€"six members | of the Baptist Sunday school, big and | little, old and young, donned pickâ€"sacks, | and were early in the field at the farm, \ They were paid the prevailing price | (seventyâ€"five cents per hundred pounds), and by night had gathered 3,644 pounds. \The proceeds woent & long way toward | buying the needed library for the Sunâ€" | day school. â€" Several additions to the | school joined the pickers the next day, and close to six thousand pounds were | picked. _ All denominations kept their | dates with the cottonâ€"planter, who proâ€" | vided liberal meals and sleeping accomâ€" â€"| modations for the entire parties. He | said that, taking into consideration the : | feeding and housing of the various deâ€" ‘| nominations, it cost him less than the ‘| usual epert negro pickers‘ work. . By | the time his contract with the temperâ€" «â€"| ance people expired, his cotton was safeâ€" *\ ly housed, while his neighbors were yet ¢ | scouring the country for help. t| _A similar experience was that of a central Kansas farmer, who said to the ‘ t | President of the City Library Associaâ€" +\ tion, "Why don‘t you women come out sud husk corn, if you want to earn some ¢ | money to buy books!" h | "What will you give us" was the ¢ | quick reply, 3 "Five cents a bushel.* 8 "We‘ll do it," answered the plucky t | woman, and the association was called 1: | into special session to consider the offer. »: | The cornâ€"field was close to town; the ® | autumn weather was perfect, as autumn " | usually is on the prairies; the women ¢ | were eager for a chance to «: )w their Y | husbands their courage and enthusiasm, a "cottonâ€"picking benefit" for the next two days. . town he had given a two d the Methodists, who want ‘long afternoon‘s struggle commenced. But only two or three of them gave up, and when the sunset came the party went laughing back to the town more than content. They had enfoyed a novel outing, had absorbed a sufficiency of the openâ€"air ozone, and when the Eroceeds were invested in new books they felt that they had been amply repaid for the difficulties of carrying out their conâ€" tract. It matters not that telephones and rural routes are many, it is not material that the roads are good and the farmers have good horses; the willingness of the neighbors to help in making the home brighter depends not on theseâ€"it was the same when the telephone was unâ€" known, when rural delivery had not been heard of, when the horses were of the common â€" farmâ€"implement variety and could not make a record of more than [ three miles an hour, and when they were |hiwh0d to a farm wagon instead of to a | rubberâ€"tired buggy. The spirit of the luttleu is the same. Nor are the women of the West less friendly toward their neighbors than are their husbands and brothers. In every batch of country correspondence that comes to the country paper is a report of a "quilting bee" or & "donation party," by which a group of farmers‘ wives seeks to bring happiness into some household where trouble has entered. One day there came back into the litâ€" tle prairie community where she had spent her girlhood a woman, bringing her children to her father‘s house after a bitter experience with a worthless husâ€" band. _ Trouble had set heavily upon her, and it seemed that she was doomed to a loveless and lonely life. In some communities this would have been so. But not with the warmâ€"hearted Western women, the wives of farmers and rczachâ€" men. They drew no line against herâ€" in fact, they went further than mere e was that of a , who said to the Library Associaâ€" women eome out The wanderer had had in her youth a pretty talent for art in its simpler forms, and one day she was called into a gathâ€" cring of neighbor women and asked: "Why don‘t you teach us some of the skill you have?" "I hardly know how to do it," was the surprised reply. ‘"The women at the county seat have clubs, why can‘t we?" asked the wife of a wealthy ranchman. 55 Oit "They live near each other, and it is easy," "What difference does that make? Can‘t we ride and drive?" They formed an art clubâ€"not a very pretentious affair. They have never disâ€" cussed the great painters of the Renaisâ€" sanceâ€"it is doubtful if they know who they are. They have never pondered grave problems of ethics nor reviewed Henry James‘ novels. This they have done: Oncea fortnight for three years they have held an afterâ€" noon meeting, each member entertaining in turn. Some of the women drive six miles to the meetings, but seldom has there been one absent. Under the guidâ€" ance of the invited leader they Tnve learned all the fancy methods of artistle needlework and laceâ€"making, competing in goodâ€"natnred rivalry with one another in their effort to surpass in the beauty of their workmanship. Lonf ago they found a personal joy in their meetings and a delight in their efforts toward supremacy in the gentle art of needleâ€" The art club now, with fifty members, has become the centre of the community‘s life; it has brought delight into the townâ€" ship. Last fall I visited a county fair, n.n(f in the pavilion was one whole room given up to the work of this club, every member a farmer‘s wife or daughterâ€"and all the effect of one outpouring of neighâ€" borliness. â€" None who saw it failed to praise; but the visitors would have praised more had they understood fully the sentiment that was behind the exâ€" hibition of _ embroidered â€" flowers and decorated lunch cloths. work Not until the town has grown rich and arrogant do the clique and the class appear. Before that all are neighbors. In the average western village this friendâ€" liness exists and the inhabitants do not need an introduction before they & eak. They have not yet outgrown the hugit of running in "the back way." It is always a sure sign of neighborliness when t{a back door is used instead of the formalâ€" ity of hardwoodâ€"floored hall. Of course, it is fine to live in a city, The country town, especially if it be "out west," doubtless looks very plebeian to the dweller on pavements and within hearing of a fire station. And doubtless the city has neighborliness, too; but does it reach so high an average (if an averâ€" age of neighborliness can be computed) as the country town? When things go right, it makes little difference; when they go wrong, neighbors count. The flowers that come to the sick room from friends up and down the street, the dainty dishes and inquiries from across the way, the sympathy and interest, the feeling that you are part of one great familyâ€"it all means something in makâ€" ing up the sum of happiness in this very short life of ours. "I do not know that hearts are kinder or that men and women are _ more thoughtful west than east," said the reâ€" turned westerner, reverting to the gubâ€" ject again. "But, somehow, people are not afraid of showing it oul here. Maybe they have less dignityâ€"or maybe they have more. Anyhow, while I live I am going to spend my time in ‘fllce where There are good neighborsaâ€" can‘t live without them." M Every mother, every father, s 3 _ every head of ovorgoloodmt ome, is now given an 0 &oflnnl téhfieafi;:zt hlousehold balm:;l 0 vorltx knows | aces, ecsema, ulcer& '“E sores, scalgs ct?ta, bruises, burns, face bl s‘hln sores due to bloodâ€"poisoningâ€"all are he BABY‘$ OWN TABLETS A BOON TO CHILDREN A medicine that will keep babies and young children plump and good natured, with & clear eye and rosy skin is a blessing not only to the little ones but to mothers as well. Baby‘s Own Tablets is just such a medictiae. TheÂ¥ cure all the minor ailments of children and make them eat well, sleep well and play well. 4 ._Awasivwaly in thous eat well, slee(f well &no They are use exclusivel ands of homes when & cine is needed. Mrs. G. kella, Man., says :â€"Baby lets are the most satista cine I have ever used for | children. They are 48 504 tor in the home." Bol dealers Of la' mail at 25¢ The Dr. illiams‘ Me Brockville, Ont. Rigidity ENe S "fo the average mind the conception of the atom, Of electron, as a sort oll whirlpool in the ether, renders it diffiâ€" cult to understand â€" how matter can be rigid. Rigidity is explained as due to the enormous velocity of these etherial vortices. It has been shown that water moving with sufficient velocity through a tube cannot be broken into by a violent blow from & sabre. "A layer of water a few centimetres thick," says M. le Bon, "animated by & sufficient velocity, would * " rrable to shells as the steel ‘ EeE CCE be as impenetrable to plates of an ironclad." o ausemce w ie M «J ‘lw.yg make it shut myself away t one hour every aft Mother of Ten." _" don‘t know how L "[ always make it a very good rule to shut myself away in my own room for one hour every afternoon," writes " A Mother of Ten." "1f 1 didn‘t, I really don‘t know how I should get on someâ€" times. I look on that quiet hour in the afternoon As An excellient investment, for I come down after it rested, and conâ€" .equently less worried, which is good for everybody in the houseâ€"bhusband, childâ€" ren and maids. If by chance 1 miss it, I find that everything goes wrong during the rest of the day, and I‘m dreadfully te«itahla and snappish."â€"Home Chat. for I come down after it re sequently leas worried, whi everybody in the houseâ€"b ren and maids. If by cha I find that everything goes the rest of the day, and 1 irritable and snappish."â€"B Many men think they are hugging a pretty girl when in truth it is only & delusion.â€"Jacksonville Timesâ€"Union. fo ANEWIBn : Areti s ie oo en ie. They cure all the minor its of children and make them ell, slee(f well and play well. are use exclusively in thousâ€" of homes when & child mediâ€" s needed. Mrs. (G. Collins, Hirâ€" Man., says :â€""Baby‘s Own Tabâ€" re the most satisfactory mediâ€" have ever used for ills of young en. They are AS good as a docâ€" . the home.‘‘ Bol by medicine B8 _ 0i at 25c a box from of Matter Due now that hearts are kinder en and women are more est than east," said the reâ€" rner, reverting to the subâ€" "But, somehow, people are showing it oul here, Maybe ss dignityâ€"or maybe they Anyhow, while I live I am T o o tiime in a place where A Quict Home. Medicine to Motion ( s ’ dRRAT SKINâ€"CURE The dog doctor was in a bad humor. It was hot and he had been kept pretty busy. He growled like one of his own unhappy patients. "What gets me," said he, "is the fact that people never seem to learn anyâ€" thing. Every summer, just as sure as shooting, about nine hundred and nineâ€" teen dog owners come scurrying around here with the same old question: "Now, doctor, I want you to tell me just what to do to keep my dog from going mad this summer!‘ "Great Scott! Won‘t folks ever learn that there‘s one thing _ and only one thing that makes a dog go mad? They‘ve -g(-);‘tokeep that thing from happening and they know how to do it as well as "Dogs can‘t go mad all by their lone selves .They‘ve got to be bitten by a rabid dog or some rabid animal first. You can do whatever you like best to keep your dog from bein% bitten, ‘Teach him to stay at home. mat‘s the best preventive of rabies 1 know. "There are very few authoritiee who allege that rabies sometimes . develops :?ontnneously, but the overwhelming eight of opinion is that it is always sommunicated by an animal which in its turn get it from some other animal, and so on and on and on." _ "But it must have begun somewhere," protested the visitor. OvEsVCO . h i 1 annameniney eper e on s _ "Bo did smalipox. _ No did measles. So did you and I! But I don‘t know when or how. That was before my day. Why, they s;fi there‘s an account of ra bies in the Hindu book of 10,000 years "Anyhow, it‘s practically certain now that a dog doesn‘t go mad unless he is bitten by another mad dog. ‘Keep your dog at home‘ is the best prescription 1 enn_ngl\'e against hydrophobia. "Then there‘s another thing. Why do yau suppose people wear out my front steps with their mad dog calls just as soon as summer gets fairly started? You‘d think rabil dogs never bit unless it was hot weather. "The only reason there‘s more danger in the summer is that your dog is out more then. Or rather he is out more in the spring, when the cold eases up and his instinct tempts him to hike out into the fields if he can get to them, and if he can‘t to go @around and make calls on dogs he hasn‘t seen for months. "Wandering around this way he runs d ds ie ca tds + Mc trans l t o ttiah Clacs o t c across the tramp dog with a developing case of rabies and perhaps gets a bite or scratch which he nurses himself, Perâ€" haps you don‘t even notice it. If you de you say: ““g:!llo! (Champ‘s been in a scrap.‘ "When Champ later goes mad you talk about the heat and vow he‘s not been bitten by a mad dog. As if you knew! Why, in parts of the country where the winters are mild and the dogs stick close to home, almost as many dogs go mad in January as do it in July. "Here‘s a record of 2,500 cases in such m locality," reaching for a pamphlet on his desk. "Of that number 621 were in summer, 608 in autumn, 587 in winter, and 704 in spring. I figure that when wpring comes dogs feel like folks do. They want to get out and lark around & bit. They run across a mad dog and the mischief is done. "Rables has got into every country in the world, except possibly Lapland, Ausâ€" tralia and some of the Pacific islands. T‘ve read that there are no authenticated cases there. In some sections it prevails all the time. "Virginia and Maryland are perfect hotbeds of the disease. They‘ve got it of course in the District of Columbia too, because that‘s practically a part of those two States. And so long as every darkey has a half wild dog that prowls for his food they‘ll keep on having it. "The older countries of Europe have more of it than we have, and tge older sections of this country have more of it than the newer sections. If dogs went mad from the heat you‘d find them doâ€" ing it in the desert towns of the southâ€" west, wouldn‘t you? Well, they have more rabies in New England in winter than they do in the hottest parts of the west. "There are queer things about rabies; thlnfi! I don‘t J)retend to understand. For instance, I don‘t see how a muzzling order can have much effect. I‘ve flgure ed it all out this way: Most of the dogs that spread the disease are either tramp dogs or have sneaked away from home after they had been bitten and when the disease has reached the stage at which they: run away from home for a period of two or three da!-. E ic EDC . . E. IEmer m s 4 %_ .41 .6 Eu0e C us t in 1k "This stage is not reached before they have given unmistakable signs of being sick, and it stands to reason that the owner is not going to permit the dog to run about at such a time. If the dog First it soothes the pain ; then its anti upficouenoukill;udinsugermson.vot it builds up new tissue. Mothers have pro for the delicate skin of babes. It is pure never goes rancid, never stains, is free from anim»l fats, and mineral poisons. It is used over! Why? Once you try it you will 1 stores and druggistc, 500. box or post free Co., ‘Toronto. â€" i1 0 TORONTO gets out it is without his master‘s knowledge and therefore without a muzâ€" zle. Consequently the only dangerous dogs will no order. RRC TCICCA "And yet listen to this: Enihnd had a good many cases in 1889; there were 812 reported; a couple of years of enâ€" forcing a muszzling order, and the numâ€" ber fell -bruitly in 1892 to only 38 cases. Berlin bad an ?Sdemic of rabies and 097 dogs were killed as rabid in one year. They issued a muuling order, and the next year one dog was killed as rabid. "I can‘t see why it should make such a difference, and yet there are the figâ€" ures. Of course, the disease goes in gclel any way. ‘The Department of Agâ€" culture got reports of the cases in one State between 1892 and 1897. Beginâ€" ning with 38 in 1892, they increased to 672 in 1895. Then they fell off to only 17 in 1898. disease germs on & wound. Then 10. â€" Mothers have proved it best of babes. It is purely herbal, ver stains, is free from the usual al poisons. It is used the world you try it you will know. All 5Oc. box or post free, Zamâ€"Buk "It seems to me that any intelligent person who pays even ordinary attenâ€" tion to the condition of his dog or other pet has no excuse for leiting an animal reach the dangerous stage of hydrophoâ€" bia without being properly u(efiuurded. The symptoms are unmistakable . and there is ample time after thO{ first apâ€" pear to put the dog where he can be under observation without risk to anyâ€" bodiv;. "Here is a pretty good description of the symptoms of a rabid dog: ‘At first he is dull and morose, but gentle and offectionate. He is restless and crawle into dark corners. He comes and goes, lies down and gets up, scratches with his forepaws, bites at the air as it he ow thinue ~ makes sudden> forward ;-w"{h’i;qia, _ makes rushes and howls. EATBRECE EBME CCC "‘His whole expression and disposiâ€" tion change, and yet he does not as yet change toward his master, He is obediâ€" ent, and he is not, as many think, afraid of water. He will drink it if he can. When he cannot he will sometimes rush into it, put his whole head into it, swim in it. Sometimes at first his appetite is so great that he will eat even more than usual. «‘When the desire to bite comes on him hbe will gnaw his kennel, the furniâ€" ture, the carpets, the straw of his kenâ€" nel; he will eat earth, picces of coal, stones, anything. He often rubs his throat with his paws because of the pain there. In dumb rabies the jaw is get, the mouth open and brownishâ€"red inside. The voice changes entirely, "‘At this stage he won‘t notice outâ€" gide pain, as from whipping. He is alâ€" ways violent at the wight of another dog. Finally he runs away from home if he isn‘t prevented and stays two . Of three days. When he comes back he dies of exhaustion. "Now, in the carly stages of the atâ€" tack the dog is not dangerous and can easily be placed in a safe . enclosure where he can be kept under observation. If rabies does develop he can be killed. If it proves to be another kind of sickâ€" ness he can be treated and perhaps the life of your dog can be saved. "Td lugfiest that people be more careâ€" ful in handling dogs even when they are to all appearances perfectly well, For â€" o n ns o 4 to all appearances perfectly well. For some time after a dog is bitten there is no indication of sickness,. This time of incubation varies and the saliva of the dog is capable of causing rables for at least several days before the disease shows itself. "It is not often that cases result from mere handling, _ but they are not unâ€" known, There is one instance of a woâ€" man sewing up a rent which had been torn in her dress by a rabid dog and biting off the thread with which she mended it. She developed hydrophobia, mere handling, but they are not unâ€" known., "In another case a boy cleaned _ a sword with which a mad dog had been killed, He scratched his hand with the blade and became rabid himself,. _ But "By the way, there is another way of such cases are not common. determining whether a dog is going mad. If he is other dogs will be afraid of him and will run from him like cowards, no matter how brave they may ordinarily be, Dogs are afraid too of a human beâ€" hé who has hydrophobia, even if it is some onc they have been very fond of. "According to the Pasteur Eoople, there would be little danger to human beings who are attacked by rabid dogs if the person bitten would lose no time in taking the treatment. The period of incubation in buman beings varies from less than a month to twelve months, but it is usually about six or seven weeks, The time to begin treatment is at onece, for the disease really begins with the en trance of the poison into the system. The Pasteur treatment requires twenty days and fifteen days more to establish itmunity. Those who die wait too long before {eglnning treatment or _ else have bad wounds, especially _ wounds mbout the head or face. "Out of 962 persons treated in the first seven years of the Pasteur Instiâ€" tute in New York only twelve died. Seven of these died within fifteen days, showing that they had waited too long before taking the treatment. For as the treatment requires twenty days atleast it is evident that when the patient had omly fifteen days to live he had waited too long. "As for the seriousness of different injuries, one Pasteur institute reports that in untreated cases the mortality from severe bites on the face and head was 88 per cent.; on the hands or arms 67 per cent.; and on the limbs, from 20 to 30 per cent. | hi h 3. o6 Wl i s . It is interesting to note too that 60 per cent. of the cases known are of men and boys, Of seven deaths in the Disâ€" trict of Columbia five were of men and boys. Perbaps this is because they are more on the street and more likely to be in the way of a mad dog. But it is also true that among animals the males Jon‘t wait for symptoms to appear DE CCC d uC C be without muzzles, order or are mare lable to the disease. There is a record of a boy and a girl being bitâ€" ten by the same dog, and whereas the bov died of hydrophobia the girl did not develop it m eE °C "Dogs are the greatest sufferers from rabies, but almost all animal« are liable to it. The Chicago Pasteur Institute gaâ€" thered statistics about the origin of 780 patients it treated. Of these 700 had been bitten by dogs, 29 by cats, 26 by horses, 7 by skunks, 5 by wolves, 2 by cows, 1 each by a calf, a rat, a mule and | a pig, and 3 by human beings. "Of these 780 men and women only three died. Yet 203 of the animals which had bitten them were proved to have had rabies, 358 were recognized as rabid by their symptoms and 161 were atrongâ€" ly suspected. "In 1898 the dean of the veterinary school of the University of Pennsylvanâ€" in got authontic reports of the deaths from rabies in P ailadelphia in that year. ‘There were 3 men, 1 boy, 55 dogs, 3 horses, 6 cattle, 4 plv. 1 goat and 10 sheep. In a public par of another city a good many of the sheep grazing there died of rabies." What Scientific Men Have Sald of the Simp 1e Habit of Prayer. Prof, James of Harvard says, with regard to prayers for the sick, that "4A any medical fact can be considered to stand firm, it is that in certain . enâ€" vironments prayer may contribute to recovery, and should be encouraged . as a therapeutic measure, . Mn prayer in general, he says: "T mwental religious point is that er, .piritufi energy, which would slumber, does becom and spiritual work of some k fecred really." Bir Oliver L declared his belief that "when declared his belief that "when our spiâ€" its are attuned to the Spirit of Rightâ€" eousness our hopes and aspirations exert an influence far beyond their consclous range and in a true sense bring us into ecmmunion with our Heavenly Father;" and he adds: "Provided we ask in a right spirit, it is not necessary to be specially careful concerning the kind of things asked for; nor need we in all cases attempt to decide how far their attainment is possible or not. In such matters we may admit our ignorance." More remarkable still is the declauration of Dr. Murray Hyslop. Dr. Hyslop is yhy|ici.n»lu}mlintendent of the Royal {ospitals o Bridewell and Bethlem, in Lons‘m, lecturer on peychological mediâ€" cine at 8t. Mary‘s lzn ital, and senior examiner of the Medfco-Plychololflial Association. Apart from his recognized o lost es a~ ashwalstan ‘to *"the uind London, lecturer on psyChO!O@!CA) 77"""" cine at Bt. Mary‘s l}:u ital, and senior examiner of the Mezfico-?nycbolo%iul Association. Apart from his recognized eminence as a physician to "the mind diseased," he is an enthusiastic artist. He has published a volume of poems, exâ€" hibited at the Royal Academy, and composed several orchestral works. It is comforting to know that such an allâ€" round genius is buman enough to play a good game of billiards. This man of medicine and man of the world is clearâ€" ly not one whose opinions the ordinary person can despise. Here is his stateâ€" ment : As an alienist and one whose whole life has been concerned with the sufâ€" ferings of the human mind. I would state that of all the hy?enie measures t7 counteract disturbed sleep, d‘epreulo‘n PSke EBRG OPmR NU q0 a ferings of the human mind. I would state that of all the hy‘hnie measures t» counteract disturbed sleep, depression o# spirits, and all the miserable sequels . of a distressed mind, I would undoubtedâ€" ly give the first Kl:o- to the simple habit of prayer. Let t child be taught to beâ€" leve in an nthroYomorphlo God the Father, or in an allâ€"pervading medium of guidance and control, or in the integâ€" rity of a cosmic whole, with its transâ€" mutations, evolutions and indestructibilâ€" ity, It matters little, for they all lead in the same direction. Let there but be a habit of nightly communion, not as a mendicant, nor repeater of words more adapted to the tongue of a sage, but as a humble individual who submerges or asserts his individuality as an integral slrt of a greater whole, Such a habit oes more to clean the spirit and strengâ€" then the soul tg, overcome more inciâ€" dental emotionalism than . any other therapeautic agent known to me.â€"Apâ€" pleton‘s. Repeat it :â€"*‘Shiloh‘s Cure will always cure my coughs and colds." Revival of A unique service was held at Belston, a mining village, yeuterda‘y lnernoon.l At one time Selston was airly rich in charities, but about 100 years ago they | were allowed to lnru. Some of the charities consisted in the distribution of bread to the poor on Lammas, of Loafmass day, and also on the talling of the church bells on Goose Fair eve.n'fhh distribution took place from a tombâ€" stone in the parish churchyard. In orâ€" der to revive this custom the rector held a similar service yesterday, when loaves presented by the parishioners were given away from the same tombâ€" stone, and in order to enhance their value and the interest attached a silver coin was baked in the loaves.â€"London Standard. wl ied ze Repeat it:â€"*" Shiloh‘s Oure will alâ€" ways cure my coughs and colds." Something that the United States Deâ€" partment of Agriculture Should Do. Farmers, and others, for that matâ€" ter, as well, must breed to type. They must know what kind of horses they wish to produce and strive to that end. To do this, they should know what kind of material is at hand, and how it cam be used. : Here is something that the United Btates Deâ€" gutmont of Agriculture should do. nd the War Department might also assist, for proper cavalry remounts are difficult to lecu?. In European countries, where great standing armies are maintained, there are not only PRAYER ANO HEALING vernmental breeding farms, but the f:rmou are encouraged to breed army horses by the giving of prizes, and by permitting govemmen'fownecf stalâ€" lions of proper breeding to stand to approved stock at merely nominal fees. In Austria I have seen a whole regiment of cavalry mounted on horses so true to type that it would take study and acquaintance to tell one horse from another. In Germamy the government has been breeding for the cavalry since the time of nfirodorick‘ the Great, and with most satisfactory results. In these continental counâ€" triee much enterprise is shown in securing the best blood that may be had in other countries, not omitting the Desert of Arabia, whence comes the best and purest equine blood in all the world. In this matter of horseâ€"breeding the Italians are not the least mufiruing, nor, by the way, are the Italians by m{‘ means inferâ€" lior in their horsemanship. The word diva is derived from the Italian and means a goddess, sweetâ€" heart, or mistress. In its English apâ€" plication it designates a prima donna, that is, a female operatic singer of celebrity. HORSE EREEDING TO TYPE Ancloht Harvest Festival The Word Diva. easure." And as to he says: "The funda poingt is that in prayâ€" rgy, which otherwise does become active, k of some kind is efâ€" has to A CURE FOR lhe iroube Yields to the Ricz, Red Blood Br. Williems‘ Fink Pilis Acivaily Make. Ask any doctor and he wil tell you that rheumatism is rooted in the blowd; that nothing can cure it that does not reach the blood: lt is #heor wasle of money ard time to try to cure rheuaaâ€" tism with liniments and lotions taat only go skin deep. _ You can speedily cure rheumatism _ with Dr, Williams Pink Pills, which enrich the blood, drive out the poisonous acid and loosen the stiffened, aching joints. Among the tirousands of rheumatic sulterers cured by Dr. Wiliiams‘ Pink Pills is Mr. W. A. Taylor, Newcastle, N. B., who says: "bor a number of years 1 was a great suffer er from rheumatism, which was seated in my shoulders and knee joints. I tried liniments and biistering, but with no effect. _ In fact, the trouble was goet effect. _ In fact, the trouble was gotâ€" ting worse, and my knee jo uts goes so stiff that they would enap if 1 stoop ed, and I could scarcely straighton up. Al‘fittlwr 1 was a terrible sutterer, and nothing 1 did or took gave me any reâ€" lief until I began the use of Dr. Mil liams‘ Pink Pills. 1 took the Pills steadâ€" ily for a couple of months and every ves tige of the trouble disappeared. _ That was two years ago, and as I have had no return of the trouble I feel safe in as suming that the cure is permanent." Nineâ€"tenths of the common _ ailments that afflict humanity are due to bad blood, and as Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills actually make new blood, that is the reason they cure _ so many different troubles, such as anaemia, indigestion, rheumatism, eczema, neuralgia, St, Vitus dance, paralysis and the _ ailments of girlboor and awomanhood with all their distressing headaches, backaches and irâ€" regularities. old by ail amedicine dealâ€" ers or by mail at 50¢. a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Wiliiams‘ Mediâ€" cine C€o., Brockwville, Ont. Nay, don‘t forget the old folks, boysâ€"they‘ve mot forgotion you; Though years have passed dinoe you were home, the old boaris wtill are true! Aune not a singie night c‘er passes by they haven‘t the desire To wee your faces once again, and rear your footstaps nighor, Bo write them now and theaâ€"‘twill bring fresh light unto thoir #yu6 Aad make the world glow bright awhile and Â¥ biuer .uu:“m: wicles ! ert Jb ou‘re young t or you Hape hoids her oumx‘d hands, And life epreads out a waveless we«, that laps but tropic strands; The world is all before your face, but let your thoughte oft turn To where fond hearis sull cherish you and loving bosoms yearn, And write the old folks now and thenâ€"‘twill glodden fading :{u, And make the world glow bright again and No matter what your dutics are, nor what your plece in life, There‘s never been a time they‘d not asâ€" sume your load of strife; And shrunken shoulders, trembling bands and forms racked by disonse, Would go down to the grave to bring to you the pear] of peace! So write them now and thenâ€"‘twill bring the light into their oyes, And make the world glow bright awhile and bluer gleam the &A-! â€"WiH! T. Hale in the Memphis Appeal Repeat it: â€"*"‘Shiloh‘s Cure will always cure my coughs and colds." How a Pennsylvanian Raised and Domesâ€" ticated a Flock of W1ld Ducks, Am: the odd things to be found wlthlloncllllng distance of Wago Manâ€" sion is a flock of mallard ducks â€"the real mallards, such as are plctured on posters and in game journalsâ€"at peace and conâ€" tentment among the other ducks beâ€" longing to J. l‘gunklin Trowbridge, of this place. f Strangers would at a cursory glance scarcely see unythin? unusua! in their appearance, but there is a vast difference between the mallards and the domestie variety. There is a difference in size, in color and in carriage. Several years ago Mr. Trowbridge seâ€" cured some wild duck eggs and had an old hen hatch them out, The egge were found along the T!linois River, where it is a common thing to raise mallards at home and use them as decoys for other wild ducks. â€" As stated, Mr. Trowbridge got them hatched, and now he has the third or fourth generation of mallard ducks. They wabble about the premises as seâ€" mallards appear to be thoroughly at home in the Trowbridge yard, and they seem content too. EFrom the first Mr. Trowbridge has Font tho!r wings .ufid and even at thai sometimes when a flock of wild ducks come up from the river the Trowbridge mallards hear the call of the wild quack and squeak and flutter and carry on at a great rate, eager to join the throng in the amir. Except for these occasions the domesticated malâ€" iu"d-; remain "pert" and act as any sane, good old York county ducks vo.d do.â€" Wago correspondence York Gazette, Great Thought. The Bridefoom~lhlio, what‘s this? All the bills for your trousseau! Why, I thought your father paid these. Brideâ€"It is customary, dear. But he thought you would rather pay Biem and not give him the humiliation of borrowâ€" bluer i;g zhg money from you MALLARDS IN A FARMYARD Forget oNt the Old Engraved with "his" moneâ€" gram, complete in suitable box the price is RYRIE BROS. 134â€"136â€"138 Yonge St RHEUMATIC)H® suitable gift to a man from " Ryne‘s." The one shown here is one heavy weight of solid 14k. gold, and will be found a most serâ€" $3.50 ‘TIE. PIN always