THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 70, 28 July 1913, Page 7

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

o A madman, scantily attired and holding a BiMe in one hand and a fancy table-cloth in the other, startled a, Burton-on-Treht railway signalman on duty. Asked why he was there the intruder said he had been to a reception held by the Chinese Emperor and other microbes. Neither too light or too heavy, MILD DERBY is the smoker’s happy medium lin tobacco. Try a tin or a plug. It is cool, fragrant and satisfying. x “How am I to know if I am a true Christian?” a, lady once asked Mr Moody at the close of a revival moat--1 ing. Mr Moody is said to have ro'plied, “Ask your servants, rnadame, I they are sure to know.” MILD DERBY—a blond of aromatic and full strength leaves makes an ad- | mirablo tobacco for a medium smoker. lln tins or plug. Try it. x | The owners of various auctioneering i yards in Christchurch, where poultry sales are conducted on Saturdays, conj aider that the Saturday early closing has done them a lot of good. They fmd that nearly the double the number of buyers attend the sales, and the added competition has had a decidedly hardening effect upon the marjket. “Saturday half-day is all light,” (remarked one auctioneer, “we find it | suits us down to the ground, and livens up business wonderfully. | That sense of luxurious freedom from care come to the man who smokes MILD DERBY PLUG or CUT—-the tobacco with a fragrance all its own. Try it. x j The story is that a Manaia school .teacher a day or two ago was engaged with a class discussing the exploits of Sir Francis Drake. After the famo of the old Elizabethan freebooter had bean sufficiently enlarged on, the class was asked: “Now what would you call Sir Francis Drake’s wife ” A pause, and then a youngster’s hand shot out: “Please, you’d cal! her Lady Duck.” The man who likes medium strength tobacco should try a pipe or two of MILD DERBY. It’s tip top. In tins or plug. There’s nothing to equal it. • x Massaging a man’s heart is a risky expedient, but it saved a man’s life the other day. An appendicitis patient was being operated on in tha Melbourne Hospital, and while under the aiiiaesthetic he collapsed. The doctors resorted to the usual methods for the restoration of animation, but they were unsuccessful, and it jgeoiried r.s if nothing could he doije. Ono surgeon, more daring than his oolloag ics, decided upon a bold course. He opened the man’s chest, and, inserting his finger, gently massaged the heart until its pulse became stronger. The wound was #titch»d up, and except for. .the effects of-the shock the patient is doing well. A “Warner s'■'hi trie niosUedrtnoWtcal Corset a woman can weftr-—it can be kept tweet 1 AtM fresh by" tf&sKM'g. We guarantee Warners to -wear wed and not rust, break, or tear; local drapers, x In the Waihou district, writes the T« Aroha correspondent. ,of the Auok land Star, there is something in the way of an epidemic among the dairy cows, I quit® a number having*' calved -prematurely, wlyje in, each pas?, tljie calves have been still-born. ,Qn® owner ha# recorded 35 such cases, while lots of 10 and 1$ are frequent. No reason has yet been adduced Tor the losses, which are considered to bo serious. No homo should be without the famous lloslyn Writing Pad,, 100, sheets. Only 6d and Is each from all dealers. Ask for it. * ' ';, x A recent theft case in Auckland, in which the offender made a clean’breast of his offences, has drawn the attention of the police to < laxities on the part of some of the second-hand dealers in the city. As a result the license of one of the dealers was cancelled by Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M., for purchasing goods without making a note of th» purchase and recording the came and address of the person who sold the goods. A ojase is pending against another person for dealing in secondhand goods without being licensed so to do. . Bo fair to your corns—order “Anticor,” tlie perfect safety corn shaver, from your local dealer to-day. Only 2s Cel Immediate comfort guaranteed or your money back. x