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THE AYRSHIRE AND fHE IRON CAR How a Newfangled Invention Saved 200 Lives By C. H. CLAUDY. ; (Copyright, by Rldgway Co.) I EMORIES of a horror are usually more highly col ored than descriptions written at the time. One might discount the story of the storm of January 12, 1850, if it came from eye-witnesses, recalling at this far- | distant date the blinding snow and the ; mountainous waves, but when the so- ! ber encyclopedia and the local histo- ; ries both speak of this tremendous blizzard as of "unheard-of violence” j and "beyond the power of words,” it j is a fair inference that it really was remarkable as a storm, even an At lantic winter storm. The snow wae both thick and whirled in great clouds by a terrific gale. which parted the white flakes • one minute for a gaze far to sea, only to hide the waves themselves from those on shore the next. The cold was bitter, and the wind such that men had difficulty standing in it. To walk with a long coat or oilskins was impossible. The sea, according to de scription, was "such that no boat vould live, no matter what brave i.earts her crew might carry-” In this storm the British 6hip Ayr shire, carrying immigrants to this country, foundered and struck, two hundred yards from shore at Squan Beach. New Jersey. Government life saving service there was none at that time, such wrecking service as was done being managed by individuals and charitable organizations. The government had not yet awakened to the need of coast protection for its shipping, nor were life-6aving devices perfected then as they are now. Of self-baling, self-righting and buoyant life boats there were none. No one had ever heard of power life boats. But—luckily for the two hundred and one people on the Ayrshire—one James Francis, who invented corru gated iron, had made what he termed a "life car,” which was stored in a shed near the beach, waiting some such opportunity for demonstration The Ayrshire and the "Crazy” Car. The life car was not looked upon with favor by those stout hearts which had been accustomed to brave the sea in open dories, doing what rescue work they could with inefficient equip ment and depending on high courage and strong arms to snatch live bodies from wreck and sea: it was “new fangled;” It was a “foolish idea;” it was “not strong enough or big enough” to do the work. But on thiB twemn or January noi the stootest heart that ever beat conld take a dory through the breakers, nor any strength in human arms beat out to sea against such wind and waves. So that when John Maxon, “wreck master.” proposed using the iron car. there were willing if incredulous help ers in plenty to try the forlorn hope. The car was dragged from its shed, the mortar made ready—the Lyle gun had not then been invented—and the round hall with its slender line rammed home. And if those on the shaking hulk six hundred feet away caught glimpses of activities on the beach, it is donbtful if they had either tiope of rescue or comprehension of what was being done, for it needed no mariner to say this was no ordinary storm. The most ignorant of immi grants must have known that hi3 chance of reaching in safety that new country he had come so far to seek was small, though hut a short distance remained of the ayersea journey. As for knowing what they were about —no one had ever heard of a life car at that time. But they knew on shipboard what to do with the ball and line when it came aboard, which it barely did, after several trials. It seems a peculiar co incidence that the utmost strength of powder they conld exert was just so balanced by wind that the ball should fall directly on the deck of the Ayr shire and not short, or beyond; yet so it was. as after events proved. The light line yielded a heavier one. the heavier one hauled out a cab*e and a whip. LnckTlv the Ayrshire was stout and strong, and had struck too far in and with too much force to pound. She was safe enough for a short time, strongly built, and deep enough In the sand to form a firm sup port for the car and the ropes. One can imagine the joy of the tgno rant at having communication thus es tablished with the shore, and the r.dded horror to captain and crew, who knew well enough that neither breeches buoy nor boat conld live in that sea, cable or no cable. Nor would there be time for breeches-buoy work There were two hundred and one pas sengers and crew, many of them worn en and children, and the breeches buoy takes one at a time. An Aerial Bean Pot. But meanwhile the life car was bent into the whip and willing hands hauled it out. Nor was there hesita tion about opening or getting Into the queer contrivance—the little, flat topped, round-bellied, corrugated iron pot, that looks scarce big enough for one, yet in which seven grown people can be packed through the tiny hatch, to be shut in helpless, sardined against the iron walls, chilled to the marrow and all but suffocated with little air. Ye{ there, those who use the life car are safe from drowniug, for though air can get in, water—in quantities, cannot For this is the merit of the life car: suspended from a cable and hauled back and forth by hand, it rides either over the waves, on top of the waves, or through the waves, and at times all three, one after the other. The breeches buoy drowns a man who is dragged through too much water, killing while saving him To be safe over a bad sea, the breeches buoy must be hung high And here on the Ayrshire, with no masts left and a two-hundred-yard pull to shore, there was no way to hang the cable high. -o the little life car made its first trip under the water, invisible and smothered in foam. You can be very sure it was quickly opened when it came to the beach at last, and the cheer they gave for the seven who were hauled out, almost frozen, stiff and pale w-ith the pallor of too close an approach of death, has left an echo wherever the iron car 16 used. Two Hundred Saved. Not seven only, but over two hun dred, did this, the first, life car save that day. Twenty-nine trips it made through the impassable waves and the indescribable storm. For every trip John Maxon tallied seven lives saved, save once only. That was when some man—hero who gave his place to a woman or coward afraid to wait his turn, who can say now?—mounted the top of the car after the metal hatch was closed and left the Ayrshire clinging to the hatch. No one saw him go nor knew how long he clung, buffeted and beat en, on the perilous perch. The car dime In as before, with seven within. who told of the man who could not wait. The crowd on shore pulled and hauled on the ropes until their hands were blistered and sore: fast, fast, for the wreck was breaking up and the mass of immigrants seemed scarcely diminished on the low decks when a rift in the flying snow showed the Ayr shire’s white, shrouded form to those on shore. To drag a heavy car six hundred feet out, and then haul it home again, laden and low—no won der their hands got sore and their arms gave out! Then John Maxon brought his oxen into play and the two plodding beasts walked uncom plainingly back and forth, back and forth, all day long, until the car had made twenty-nine trips and every last man, woman and child on board, save the one who could not wait, wer9 pulled by main strength from a watery’ grave and set on shore, cold, shaken, frightened, but safe! A Record Rescue. The life-saving service has many brilliant rescues In its history and many a hero on its rolls. But never before or since this time have so many people been rescued from so bad a wreck in so terrific a storm. And this fact was recognized at the time: that here was a happening which was likely to stand unique for hundreds of years So the little life car, no longer new and shapely, but dented and buf feted by wave and sand and many heavy loads of human lives, was re tired from active service, its honors won in this one day’s work, and now rests, an object of curiosity and of veneration, in the United State* mu seum at Washington, for all to see who look. The sand buried the Ayrshire, as if the ocean, cheated of its human prey, would at least take what it could. Thirty years after, the tide—perhaps the ocean forgot its vengeance!—un covered the bones of the Ayrshire, and in them was found the ball which fell on deck, bringing the light line ! which spelled life for two hundred. | That ball, now suitably engraved, Is 1 one of the most, if not the most, cher . ished possessions of the life-saving ; service, which grew with the yeare I and necessity into its present huge i proportions. There are still life cars in the sta j tions of the service. For many years I after this demonstration they played ■ a big part in saving life, and probably I will again. Of late years improved ; life boats, better facilities for erecting ! and ueing the breeches buoy, and finer ; life-saving methods have made its use less common. But it is always ready, ; the last resort of the crews when all . else fails, and no matter what the con ; ditions or how bad the storm, there is always the memory of this story and the Ayrshire—which every surfman knows—to prove that, be conditions : what they may, while there Is life 10 save and the life car to save it with i there is still hope. i The Spirit sf | a Bunker Hill r ru [n d] I OSZ5HScSHScTE5H5a5SS25HSZ5ZSSHCl Sooner or later every stranger who visits Boston invariably announces: , “I must see Bunker Hill.” June 17 is tbe ideal day to gratify that wish; to correctly entertain my guests a supply of luscious chicken and ham sand wiches should be packed, with plenty : of pickles and a few pieces of pie. i for Charlestown—accent on the "town.” and pronounce it clearly, please—is’ within tbe “pie belt." We climb tbe -stately pile an Bunker Hill: attend tbe exercises held by some historical association; listen to the strains of that old ode sung at the dedication of the monument in 1843, J when Daniel Webster delivered his famous oration; behold the parade sweep in majesty about, the foot of the historic pile, and watch the sun flash in golden gleams on the renowned ' “Sword of Bunker Hill.” Like many ■ another historical landmark that oth erwise would have been obliterated. Bunker Hifl has been preserved to posterity by the devotion of women. Where today are well-kept turf, a stateiy monument and joyous sight seers. in 1775 a bare summit scarred hv cannon-shot, a raw, half-sodded fieldworks and low redoubt overlooked the burning churches and houses of Charlestown. Beyond from the Charles river, the British men-of-war joined the land batteries on tbe farther bank In the unceasing thunder of artillery, hurling death upon tbe men of Massa chusetts Bay. Vermont and Connect!- j cut. Due north to the very verge of the j Mystic ran a weak breastwmrk across pasture lands and meadows, with here ' and there an orchard abloom with the delicate pink and white of apple, pear, cherry and quince: fields of yellow hearted. white-petailed daisies swayed ; in the vortex of cannon shot and the | mad rush of furious charges. Anon the orchards were full of red coated, whitegaitered infantry; the snow-white daisies were marred by great splashes of life-blood, and the pastures strewn with patches of scar let. where soldiers in their gay uni forms had fallen to rise no more. To the left a h?.lf-seore of hrass howitz ers, posted amid brick-kilns and clay pits, sought to enfilade and sweep away the Baymen who kept the hill. Farmers, sailors, fishermen, trades men, clad in everyday garb, armed with their homely weapons of the chase, with scarcely a flag to fight un der, suffering hunger, thirst and weari ness under the broiling sun. coolly trained across the Bunker Hill breast work the long, rusty tubes which had already heaped windrows of dead and dying men upon the fields below, where the new-mown hay still lay dry ing. The British lines continued to charge. “Don't fire until you see tie whites of their eyes’” The word pass ed down the line of set faces, and levelled guns; a moment later hoarse cries, "Fire! Fire!” rang out; a crash of triple volleys and the rattle of dead ly file-firing followed. The powder failed, the provincials broke away pur sued by Pitcairn's marines—for the moment, our fathers” hope of victory was over. Yes, visit Bunker Hill; look upon a monument erected to cherish the memory of a defeat that brought suc cess, for Victory clowned the van quished that day. The day set apart to commemorate the battle of Bunker Hill is exclusively a Charlestown holi day, but far wider than Boston's “tri mountains" spreads the spirit of Bunker Hill throughout a great nation christened on that day in the red blood of American freeman.—Joe Mitchel Chappie, in the National Mag azine. Really Not Up to Her. A girl forced by her parents into a disagreeable match with an old man. whom she detested, when the clergy man came to that part of the service where the bride is asked if she con sents to take the bridegroom for her husband, said, with great simplicity: "Oh. dear. no. sir! But you are the first person who has asked my opinion about the matter.” KNEW EVERYTHING WAS SAFE! Tennessee Mountaineer Understood the Joke and Enlarged It With His Own Humor. Tom Jernigan. my driver, had been explaining to me how the eastern Ten nessee mountaineers hated revenue officers who were on the lookout for moonshine stills, and gave some local color to his story by pointing out places where at least two had been shot. Tom knew that l was what I pretended to be. a mining engineer looking for coal outcrop. But we came upon a "covite,'' who eyed me and my dog. which ran by the buggy, with a suspicious stare. "You-all aimin’ to git some birds?” he asked "There’s a flock of pa’t'idges in the bottom over yon. But you-all is goin’ the wrong way.” "Nope." answered Jernigan solemn ly. " This man’s a revenue officer. That dog’s a new dog. he is—a whisky dog. When we come to a creek that dog smells it. and if there’s a still far as Hve miles up, he’ll p int.” The mountaineer understood. But he showed by no twinkle of his eye that the humor had lodged in him. “That's right interestin’," he com mented. "But I was jest musin' whether he was an applejack p’inter or a sour-mash setter. Will you gen tlemen buy as much as a quart?" «--— Still Much Room in Brazil. Brazil can accommodate many mil lions of people without overcrowding. Oriental Traveling Courtesies. On the railway journey from Alex-! andria to Cairo we passed a constant stream of men, women and children, walking along the canal banks, or on donkeys—occasionally a whole family on a dcnkey! At the railway sta tions men and boys in great variety cf flowing robes of many colors and gaudy skullcaps or turbans came to the carriage windows with fruit, su-, gar-cane and cakes of all sorts. Eggs j were also popular. A man sitting oj»- j posile me bought two eggs and a lit-j tie salt. He offered me some salt, which I declined, and all the rest of the way to Cairo he kept glancing at me as if he thought me a very ill mannered person.—Christian Herald. House Cleaning Time. Wife (awakened by noise)—Oh. Tom. I hear a burglar downstairs. Hub—Well, don't bother about him. By the time he falls over the mops. | buckets and stepladders as 1 did when 1 came in he'll wish he was some where else. j Then Some One Prayed. A number of clergymen were die cussing the character of a venerable woman whom they esteemed to be wise in her generation, but a young man who was present said it struck him that she showed great lack of wisdom in one respect. “What is that, pray?” inquired an elderly gentleman. “Why." said the young man, "she always puts out her tubs to catch bo ft water when it is raining hard." And silence fell upon the assembly. HIS iRSE NATURE It Is Each Man’s Double and Be comes Harmless When Conquered. By ALTON EDWARDS. Nobody except the Governor knew that he had a double—not even the Governor's wife, who knew him, per haps, better than anybody else. The two men resembled each other so com pletely that it would have been impos sible for their most Intimate acquaint ances to distinguish them. If there was any distinction, it was that the expression of character and sincerity upon the face of the state's chief ex ecutive was replaced, upon the face of the other man, by a certain furtive cunning. From his earliest years Governor Haines had been engaged in a con stant fight against this man. He had intruded into his life, had placed him in invidious positions, had, in general, committed actions which had needed all the governor’s ability to nullify. And he had followed him even to the executive chamber, blackmailing him. offering compromises, threatening. The executive mansion was totally unguarded. In that sleepy litle capital town formalities had not come into favor. The double strolled quietly across the lawn, entered the mansion and made his way to the Governor's of fice. His secretary, nodding at his desk, bowed to him, unconscious that this could be anybody but the Governor Haines be knew. :nr. oearies uas leiepnuneu ma; ue will be here in half an hour, sir,” said the secretary. The double Dodded, passed into the executive chamber and sat down at his desk. That he had an intimate knowledge of all the Governor s business was evi dent, for he began scrutinizing papers and emptying pigeon holes and read ing memoranda. But he was await ing the arrival of Searles, the state boss, with ill-concealed impatience. He knew that the man was interested in the proposed street railroad fran chise, that he had been pestering Gov ernor Haines for weeks to sign the bill now awaiting his decision. And he had not omitted to threaten. It meant the Governor's political future, the de cision which was impending. The secretary looked in. "Mr. Searles is waiting to see you, sir,” he said. The state boss entered, He was evi dently ill at ease, for he held his hat tightly and sat down nervously in the ^ ' “I’ve Finished With You." chair which the double offered him. The double swung round in his own chair and faced his visitor. "You have called with regard to that railroad franchise bill?" he asked. Searles cleaned his throat and nod ded. Then, placing bis hat down on the Governor’s desk, he began: "Now, Governor Haines, we have , threshed this matter out. among otb ! ers. for a long time. I have tried to j ally you with the better interests of | the state, but I have failed. 1 have pointed out to you that—I may speak ; plainly?' "Surely,” answered the double, smil | ing, and something in the double’s ex j pression sent new hope into Searles' heart. Hitherto he had always been up against an impermeable barrier of character and rectitude. Now—this man seemed almost to cringe before him. Searles had not ruled men for thirty years for nothing. He knew that this was the moment to terrorize —to bully. These means would suc ceed where others had failed. “You got my letter, Governor?" he asked, his lips parting in a wolfish smile. “Well, it amounts to this. If *vu uuu t ludi uiii yuu null i Uc&vt* j the renomination next year. That, of course, goes without saying. But I’m going to do more than that. I’m going to drive you out of public life alto gether. Twenty-five years ago. when you were a young man, you were in volved in a scandal. You know what I mean. The people of this state won't stand for anything of that kind ir. their chief magistrate. Will you sign the bill or will you be exposed ?” "The man who was involved in that scandal was not I. It was a double of mine,” thought the double; but of course it was not to his interest to be tray himself. He merely looked at Searles with a faint smile. And Searles understood that smile. "Let us come to the point. Gover nor,” he said. “It’s no use shilly shallying or beating about the bush." He drew a paper from his pocket bear ing the Governor's signature. "This is your obligation for five thousand dol lars,” he said. “May I tear this into pieces and throwr them into your waste-basket?” It was strange, the extraordinary re vulsion that came over the double. He had his enemy at his mercy, this Governor Haines who had hated him since their boyhood, and on whom he could now take effective revenge. Sud denly he felt that his whole mental at-1 titude was changing. He thought of the man, bravely and silently fighting down the scandal of his past life, of j ; his uncompromising battle for purer ! j politics He stretched cut his hand ! impulsively and took his pen, and in I large letters wrote at the bottom of the bill ‘vetoed.’ He held it out to ward Searles. Searles seemed completely non plussed. For a whole minute he stared at the vetoed bill. Then he got up and stretched out his hand. "Governor Haines,” he said, "I think the world of you. You have won the fight and I'm man enough to recognize it. You’ll have the people on your side now—and 1 don’t kick against the pricks. You’ve bested me and you'll have the entire Searles organization with you when we offer you the nomi nation.” He shook Haines by the hand and walked slowly out of the office, shak ing his head. The double at the desk, however, was even more disconcerted than Searles. Why had he done this thing, he whose whole life had been dominated by hatred of his enemy? He must have dozed, for some min utes later, when he looked up, he saw his enemy before him. Governor Haines was looking steadily at him, but he evinced no surprise. “Let’s fight this thing out right now,” he said “I’ve finished with you. 1 shall never temporize with you again. 1 have compromised and feared you; henceforward it is war be tween us for ever.” “If you had toid me that twenty-five years ago I should never have troubled you at all,” answered the double, hum bly. rising. Governor Haines did rot answer him, but watched him leave the room. The sleepy secretary outside did not notice him pass. Nor would he have seen him even had he looked for him. Each man has his double, his worse nature. But when he has conquered him the double becomes a harmless wraith, transparent as a breath of, marsh air that is dispersed in the sun light. (Copyright, ISIS, by W. Q. Chapman.) LOVER OF GRACE DARLING Jimmy Giles of Ipswich, Eng.. Once Courted Famous Life-Saver—But She "Wouldn't Leave Daddy.” Jimmy Giles of. Ipswich, Eng,, who for nearly HO years was dock gate man and assistant engineer, is a link with (he past, inasmuch as he was the, sweetheart of Grace Darling. Listen to the following conversation with the old seaman and live over again the memories of that braive ex ploit near Longstone Lighthouse that I made immortal histoiy^, "When a young man I took a cargo | of salt from Ipswich to Sunderland, i While there I left my brig and was made coxswain of a coble that sup I plied Longstone Lighthouse with pro ; visions. "This was in 1839, and as Grace's j great deed took place the previous ; year I was anxious to meet the famous girl. On my first trip in the coble I saw her standing at the lighthouse door, tut, although I tried to drew her attention, she got behind the door. "The next time I visited the light house I took a silk handkerchief full of grapes and gave the lot to Grace v hen I saw- her. She thanked me, and we got cn well. “Grace was not handsome, but she was passable, with dark eyes and hair, and 8 face bronzed by the sea air. and conveying a sense of purity and Inno cence that I have never beheld in any other. “She wore very short skirts and a daTk blue Scotch cap. which suited ; her we?!. She was as good as any j sailor, and could set a sail or pull an car with the best of them. "Her father, an old man, nigh 70, was a very old-fashioned man. and al ways wore drab knee-breeches and 1 buckled shoes, with a sparrow-taii ! coat, big waistcoat, and a round skull | cap trimmed with fur. He didn't think i Torch of my carryings-on with her. "She showed me her presents, In ! eluding a gold slipped in a scarlet mo ; rocco case, which the Czar of Russia j wait her. She was often asked to go to London, but she wouldn't leave ' 'Daddy.' And. although 1 became her ! sweetheart, that was the reason she ' gave me for not marrying, and so we j drifted apart.”—Stray Stories. j No Damages for Uncaught Fish. A suit for damages for the loss of fish cme might have caught was before the 1 courts of Maine in an injunction ac tion against a canning company‘for ■ unlawfully dumping into Passema j qnoddy bay a lot of decayed sardines , in cans. They had been swept by the i tides into the plaintiff's weir and pre i vented fish from getting into it until the iefr.se matter was removed. The j s”preme court awarded him damages ■ for injury to his nets and for the ex j pense of hiring men to remove the j dead sardines to permit live fish to en ter the weir, but gave him nothing j for the fish he might have caught in I the meantime. I Carried Out Hunger Strike. Hunger strike records were broken seme years ago by a Frenchman named Franie, who was arrested for murder in circumstances which left no doubt as to his guilt. He deter mined to starve himself to death in order to escape the guillotine, and from the day of his arrest refused to eat in spite of every effort on the part cf the prison authorities, who first tried tempting him to eat by placing the mest dainty meals in his cell, and when that failed attempted forcible feeding. Granie held out for sixty three days, at the end of iwhich time he died. Heckler Heckled. The late Dr. W. R Thomas, who was Pierpont Morgan's rector at High land Falls, did not believe in Social ism. and in Socialist arguments be often exercised his trenchant wit to advantage. A Highland Falls man once interrupted Dr. Thomas In an address to shout: "If we all had equal opportunities-” But here Dr. Thomas, in his turn, interrupted, say ing quickly: "We should not all be equtl to them.” Bitkina’ Flop. “Here Is Bilkins, a Republican all his life, as his father and grandfather were before him, turns Democrat in the hope that he's going to get a post office apeintment.” "Yes; be has Eold his birthright for a mess of postage. ’—Buffalo Express. For That Picnic —to ensure complete success * The satisfying beverage—in field or forest; m ■ at home or in town. As pure and whole- m M some as it is temptingly good. K \ Delicious—Refreshing M send^^ Thirst-Quenching s 5L for Free^^^. Dem.nd the Genuine— Fountains Booklet. „_A ated in bottles. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, Atlanta, Ga. REFUSE TO MEET STRANGERS Peculiar Method of Trading Indulged in by New Guinea Tribe Who Keep to Themselves. No European has ever been able to meet in their own dwelling-place the Kukuhuhus, a shy, yet ferocious tribe of New Guinea. Other tribes of the country, while they have a great fear of the Kukuhuhus, manage to do a bartering trade with them. They bring j salt, earthenware, dried fish, etc., and deposit them in a certain indicated place. They then retire for a few hours, being notified to do so by a curious cry from the distance. The I mountain dwellers then descend to view the goods offered for sale. If they want them they put down other goods, such as skins, feathers, and other jungle produce, next to those articles wanted by them. Then they retire in turn, and when the way seems clear the coast dwellers ap proach again. If the latter are satis- j fied with what is offered in exchange, they take the goods put down by the i mountain people and go away; if not satisfied they retire again as before with — If you cannot afford 10c cigars, smoke LEWIS' Single Binder straight 5c—made of extra quality tobacco Adv. I know of no such thing as genius; genius is nothing but labor and dili gence.—Hogarth. I Hrs. Winslows Sootumg Syrup for Cblldrw ; teething, softeus tee gum;*, reduces inflamma* tion.alLays pain,cures wind co.Vc^c a bottleidr His Confession. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, of j Chicago, confesses that he once worked as an usher in a theater. State Lands Sold. Minnesota in 1912 has sold 2.200 acres of state lands at prices ranging from five to twenty-one dollars an j acre. Carry Flint. j The Norfolk peasants always regard | pointed flints as thunderbolts. So con i sistent are the simple folks that they \ will often assnre you that they picked them up red hot. They carry flints and ; stone arrow heads about with them in the belief that this custom will pre j vent them being struck bv lightning. Now They Are Making Cowless Milk. Cowless milk is being made in Lon don, where a factory with a capacity of 40,000 quarts a day was opened re cently. The '‘milk" is made from vegetables, principally soy beans. It is said to be scarcely distinguishable from the real article and has the ad vantage of keeping longer and being free from disease germs. It sells for six cents a quart. Saloon Closed for Cat. ‘‘Closed on account of the loss of Scotty's cat ‘Nigger.’ ” This sign on the door of Scotty's saloon at Ninth and Elm streets, Cin cinnati, caused much comment. Two days ago the cat disappeared. When the cat did not put in an ap pearance, Scotty hung out a sign draped in green tissue paper and bor dered by carnations to tell his custo mers that he had closed the saloon in mourning for his pet. I In Summer When the body needs but little food, that little l should be appetizing and nourishing. Then about the best and most convenient thing one can have handy is a 1 package of Post Toasties This food is fully cook- | I ed —crisp, delicious and | ready to serve direct from the package. Post Toasties with fresh I strawberries and cream are hard to beat. “The Memory Lingers” ; Sold by Grocers. Poetnm Cereal Company, Limited, Battle Creek, Mich., U. S. A. V---/ Not to His Taste. “Why did you put me at dinner be tween thase two women? They nearly talked me to death.” "Why, I thought you were so fond of tongue sandwiches." Poison Oak or Ivy Poisoning is quickly relieved by bathing the af fected parts in a solution of two tea spoonfuls of Tyree's Antiseptic Pow der to a pint of water. 25c. at all druggists or sample sent free by J. S. Tyree, Washington, D. C.—Adv. Wherever tne tree of benevolence takes root, it sends forth branches above the sky.—Saadi. Red Cross Bail Blue will wasli double as many clothes as any other blue. Don’t put your money into any other. Adv. The average man fears a storm al most as much as he fears his wife. THOSE RHEUMATIC TWINGES I Much of the rheu matic pain that comes in damp, changing weather is the work of uric acid crystals. Needles couldn't cut, tear or hurt any worse when the af fected muscle joint is \ised. If such attacks are marked with head ache, backache, diz ziness and disturb ances of the urine, it's time to help the weakened kidneys. Doan’s Kidney Fills quickly help sick kidneys, V •*Ew7 Plnorr T#ll» Sior?** An Oregon c»se n m John H. Matthews, ,17 East First St., The Dalles, Ore., says: “Mv back ached so 1 could hardly stoop or straighten. The kidney secie , tions became profuse, obliging me to arise 1 many times & mght and the passages were very painful. My kidneys became aodisordered that! thought l was done for. Doan’s Kidney Pi lit how ever. went right to t he seat of the trouble and fof over three years my cure has been permanent.** Get Doan’, at Any Store. 50c ■ Box DOAN’S VflV.T FOSTER-M1LBURN CO- BUFFALO. N. Y. ALBERTA THE PRICE fit BEEF IS HIGH AND SO IS THE PRICE OF CATTLE. For rears the Provi ace pf Alberta (Western t anada) was the Big Kanchi ngCountry.Man? of these ranches uduv _are Immense gram field’s ouu uk idi i ;r iu. v given place to the cultivation of wheat,oats barley and flax: the change* has made many thousands of Americans, settled on these plains, wealthy, but it has in creased the price of live stocc. There is splendid opportunity now to get a Free Homestead of 160 acres (and another as a pre emption) In the newer district;: and produce either catlleor grain. The crops are always good, tbo climate Is excellent, schools and churches are convenient, markets splendid. !n cither Manitoba, Sas katchewan or A lbena. 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