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Our ‘modern life is 'to o cluttered
We are everlastingly doing things.
W e chatter and work and play, and if
we have an hour of leisure we fill it
with the rattle of a paper. We are
prone and helpless when we haven’t
any story to read or person to talk to
or thing, to. do. We do not understand
the lost art of doing nothing. We
earthot, we dare not, just sit down
and think.
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EiE TROUBLES
Limit of Trouble.
Three times on the run between
Worthing and Shoreham the beautiful
prima donna’s nearly new car had
broken down. Ultimately coaxing it
to enter Brighton,- the fair lady-' re­
ceived in the hotel porch the solici­
tude of a sister ^artiste who had pass­
ed her ten -the road. “Much trouble
with my car, dear?” she echoed, bit­
terly. ‘Why, I couldn’t have more trou­
ble if I- wjls . marrj;edv tQ, the blessed
machine!”—Sriortirg Times;
Thousands.,of Consumptives-: die .every
rear. Consumption r e s u l t - from a neg-
ected cold on the lung-:. Hamlins Wiz rd
Oil will cure these colds. Just rub it into
the chest and draw out the inflammation.
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The Nursery Window.
If the nursery window is not pro
tected by outside bars', hammer a
large screw or nail intd- the groove of
the lower sash, so that the, window
cannot be raised more man six inches/
If the top sash is drawn down,' this is
quite enough for ventilation,’/and no
matter how ingenious or venturesome
the little ones may be they cannot
wriggle through the small lower open­
ing.
RHEUMATISM
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iERE is • a romantic flavor
about the! word badger that be­
longs fo no other of the names
of animalk found in Britain. I
suppose , it is because, this is
their only large carnivorous, genuine­
M n r iy o n ’ s • R h e u m a tis m - R e m e d y r e lie v e s
ly'wild animal? the fox, the only other
p a in s in t h e l e g s , a r m s , b a c k , s t iff o r
s w o lle n ’ jo in ts ;
C o n t a in s n o m o r p h in e ,
wild beast of anyi size, is in many,
o p iu m , c o c a i n e o f d r u g s t o d e a d e n th e
perhaps I ought to say most, districts,
p a in .
I t n e u t r a liz e s t h e a c i d a n d d r iv e s
o u t a ll, r h e u m a t ic p o i s o n s f r o m t h e s y s ­
so carefully preserved that it owes
te m .
W r it e P r o f . M u r iy o n , 53 d a n d J e f f­
its existence to man/' instead of; like
e r s o n S ts., P h ila ., P a ., f o r m e d ic a l a d ­
v ic e . a b s o lu t e ly fr e e .
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1 the badger, existing -in spite of man;
Then, too.^/the brock" is hardly ever
seen alive ahd free, but comes and
Quite So,.
! “Why'IsJthe public always bullish in goes mysteriously inthededd of night,
leaving but few traces behind it un­
the marktet?”
“That’sjnatjtral enough. It is hard less somebody notices j i teirge do^-
¿¡like track JnAvfce i
a
nuTtf
pown in pV^ce. ' wasps’ aesj^rnas been dl% out, for it
revels in the daifity meaT of - wasp
grubs. Many a time have I tracked
one s from the scene of its night’s
work through muddy gateways, and
down damp woodland rides, noting
how the heavy creature had slipped
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H lC
To grow the fln-
■T", H H M ^ m 'e s t flowers and
afrd slid, and-’the spots where it had
mam U S w
war m o s t luscious'’
turned aside to scratch and root
Mgy vegetables, plant t h e b e s t
■ r seeds. Perry's Seeds are best
among the moss and dead leaves, then
W because they never fail i n yield i
W or quality. The best gardens A
on. to the streamside—the badgers al­
l ets and farmers' everywhere A
ways ford the little brook l am speak­
1 know Ferry’s seeds to be the JR
highest standard of quality
ing of at the same place—and through
yet attained.
For sale
Mam
everywhere.
MpnA
hedgesTtntL across fifelds/ once more to
FERRY’ S 1911 Seed Annual
plunge into big woodlands, in the heart
U;.
Fjtee on request
of which is the great |earth whe/rein,
L i . m . ferry 8 co.,
many generations have been bred. In
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these particular holes the badgers are
fairly safe. The tunnels are bored in
a layer of sand lying between strata
of clay and rock, and run in every di­
rection for hundreds of feet. There
are only two visible entrances, which
SWEEPING COMPOUND are Inconspicuous holes, without even
a heap of soil to distinguish them
Cleans and b rig h te n s C ar­
from
surrounding rabbit burrows; for
pets. R ugs, L in oleu m s and
being situated at the top of one of
Floors. A bsorbs the g e rm ­
laden dust. S aves d u stin g
the sides of § vei;y steep apd deep val­
and bea tin g carpets.
ley, or dingle, as they are locally
P er bbl., 200 lb s ... $5.00
called, the soil all rolls down to the
P er bbl., 150 lb s ... 4.00
stream below, where it is washed
75-lb. m etal drum^ 2.50
away. In fact, the sole intimations of
’ O rder by mail o r through
badgers are the pathways formed by
,your g rocer.
their always taking the same road in
their, nightly wanderings, and which
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FERRY3
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NO DUST
CRESCENT CHEMICAL CO.
lead, up to the^ttvo entrances. , Some
two or three years ago, a fox, hard
pressed by hounds,? took refuge in this
earth, and the master and whip, not
kpowing the place, sent fo r spades
and terriers and commenced opera­
tions to get him out.
To cut a long story short, they dug
till late at night, and finally’ hounds
Were' taken home; *buL orders had
been left with mefi of the district to
finish the job next day. These men
dug steadily for three days; they re­
moved many tons of soil, but the
further they got into the cliff the more
tunnels there were. In some holes
they! found nejtt beds oL grriss
Viern{ it b.AGT^ be given up.^or theV
work was Herculean; it would have
required weeks to reach the extremi­
ties of the various holes. A short
time ago I visited the'place, and ap­
parently the badgers are still there;
for It shows all the signs of being
used.
In the part of Shropshire hunted by
the Wheatland hounds badgers are
really quite plentiful, though perhaps
not so much so as in bygpne times;
that is to say, if the tales one hears
are to be trusted. Perhaps a better
indication is that there , are places
named Brock holes and similar names
where no badgers are found today.
Yellow or sable badgers with pink
eyes have occurred in this part, and
some years ago ah old female thus
colored, together with her two babies,
came into my possession. The young
ones were the ordinary gray and
white, but charming little creatures,
utterly unlike their savage mother,
who sulkily resented captivity. As
soon as they were weaned they were
givten bread and milk to eat; occasion­
ally hits of dog biscuit an d. other/
scraps were added. In the end we
parted with them, as the “higher .au­
thorities” thought they Were not safe-
pets. They may not have been; but I
tried their temper in every way, ta­
king the two for walks dragged along
by;; a collar and chain, and carried
them anout, one under each arm, that
is to say. until they got too big and
heavy, but they never seemed to mind.5
Another pet badger was fhalf grown
when I acquired it; thé poor thing
ha'd been caught in a trap, and its leg:
was rather badly hurt/3rA keeper/
brought it to me, |knowing that T was
always willing to give a home to any
stray animal; so I took it, fed it well
—I have never had jany animal that
could eat so much-r-and did the best I
could for it. Grumbles, for so it was
christened, had to pose before the
camera; but many hours were spent
and many plates wasted before I ob:
tained any characteristic pictures, for
the badger took no interest in the art
of photography. It was not like my
tame owl, Old Hooter, w h o,! at the
sight of the camera, will fly to it and
dance a jig on the bellows.. In the
end the badgerJwas released, I let it
go one evening inxthe woods. It Trot­
ted off in,//a deliberate way, and . I
thought I should never, see him again ;$
but about.*- threej/months la.ter some
neighbors coirtplained -‘ of the mysteri­
ous .way their bulbs planted in the
turf were being scratched up and eat­
en. It appeared they were planting
a large number of crocuses in their
garden, which was done by removing.
With a patent instrument, a sod of
grass in shape like a cork, dropping
in a bulb and replacing the “ stopper.”
The next morning every cork had
been “ drawrn” and all the bulbs had
disappeared. A badger was eventual­
ly blamed and the culprit located in
a dry drain. It was dug out, put in a
s’ack and sent off to me. It gladly gave
It a home and hre! i f , turned into a
kennel. , Two
iaf^r the owner
of the : crô'w^r-s* optne up to seé the
badger. A ir an went into the place
and brought ■brock” out by his tail—
this is the orlv part of its body you
can hold a b?direr by^-thén I saw the
bad *feg,i healed now, th%t my poor
Grumbles had ¿suffered from. It was
Grumbles home again! I shall have
to keep him now. My hope is that by
and by I shall be able to obtain a
mate fo^him.
One of the most mysterious and
alarming sounds I know is the cry of
a badger heard in the stillness of the
night. . I have only heard it once, and
then I am sure it was a mother and
cubs, for it instantly recalled the
cries of the two captive! ones, whose
ordinary noises were of the grunting
description, but who could, on occà-
DOCKSTADER
Life Without Food.
H<rw long is" it possible to live with­
out food? We have all read of a case
not many years since, where some
French miners were entombed for
twenty-one days, and rescued alive
iong’ after everyone thought they
must be dead; of course they were
In a very weakened Condition, and re­
quired the utmost care before they
were out of danger. This, however,
Is by no means the longest time that
a human being is known to have ex­
isted without food, and in a recent te
sue of the British Medical Journal,
there Is. the record of. a woman suf­
fering from cancer, | who could take
neither food nor drink of any kind,
yet she existed in that condition for
fifty-six days, and was, i moreover,
quite conscious till her death. In In­
dia the fakirb include among theii
wonderful performances
abstention
from food for a very long period, but
when they do this they put them-
Belves into a condition closely resem­
bling sleep, ' and, of course, during
that time the body is called on to
perform none of Its usual functions,
and wasting of tissue is reduced to a
minimum.
Negro Minstrel’s Good Story of Joke
on His Manager, Jean Havez, and
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Himself.
President Taft, ’who admires all hu­
morists and laugh producers, was con­
gratulating Lew Dockstader, the ne­
gro minstrel, on his genius and fame.
Then Lew told Mr. Taft a story. Jean
Havez was once Dockstader’s press
agent and general manager. One eve­
ning, as the two alighted from a
train in a middle-sized town in the
west, Dockstader reproached Havez
with this; ", “Jean, I’d; like to know
what you have ever done for me. Here
I am paying you a princely salary,
and you don’t give me any returns for
it.” “Why, Lew,” objected Havez,
greatly grieved, “ how can you say that,
after all I’ve done for you?”' “ All you
have done,’ said Dockstader, “has been
to write a good song for me occasion­
ally, or give me a little advertising in
the newspapers, or dig me up a more
or less bum joke.- That isn’t enough.”
‘*Why, Lew,” said Havez, “ I’ve made
you the most famous man in the coun­
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“ GrumbleS.”
sion, cry like a baby. As I said be­
fore, the badgers of my acquaintance
confined their “ conversation” mainly
to a sort of grumbling grunt, which
sometimes, when annoyed, they turned
into a loud snort of anger.
F R A N C IS P IT T .
London, England.
Suspicious.
“I notice,” remarked the observant
boarder, taking his seat at the table,
“ that the conversation stopped as soon
as I came in. I hope nobody was say­
ing anything to my discredit”
Then they all hastened to assure
him that they had bfeen talking about
the weather.
Waste of ’Money.
Gyer—Young Featherly is awfully
extravagant.
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Myer—That so? \. & ,
Gyer—Yes. He spent $3 last week
advertising for a lost umbrella.
y Robinson;
“ Don Quixote,” “Aladdin of the Woi
der Lamp,” “ Ali Babai” “ Old Moth*
Hubbard”—all these i are strange:
compared to the English detectiv
This is not an expresflpn of opinioi
but a statement of fa « § If you dout
it, try an experiment, i f we have don
with half a dozen urclftns in the stret
and see if you can fim one to who:
the name of Sherloc k Holmes doe
not bring an expres sion of instar
recognition.—The Bodkman.
Both Wronged.
“You have deceive!! me,” she com­
plained. “You gave me to understand
that you were rich.” /
“Well, you deceived me, too,” he re­
plied. “ You caused tne to believe that
you would be brave* and cheerful if it
ever became necessary for us to get
along on a small income.”—Judge.
Much
B etter.
“ Has our new congressman managed
to catch the speaker’s eye?”
“Not yet, bi^t I understand h«
caught the eyes hf a stunning blonde in
the gallery,” </ -„. »•
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Best-Known Fiction Character.
We wonder how many of our read­
ers have paused to think that despite
certain undeniable literary shortcom­
ings, the present age has produced
the, most widely known character in
all fiction. It is now a little over twenty
years since the name of Sherlock
Holmes was first introduced through
the medium of “ The Study In Scar­
let,” and today it is a byword to mil­
lions who have never read any of
Conan Doyle’s books and who have
not the slightest intérest in the
science of deduction. “ Robinson Cru­
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