. Christian herald and signs of our times. etaken more comfort with it than any I ever have ha-3. The 1stday I pot it I pot it on and mowed ^rasaall day and I never no-ticed that I had it on me. Ale*. Bkows Tnns. X. C . July . 1W5About 3 years apo I bought one of your trusses. I wore it about6 months and it has made a final cure. Was badlv mntured. Iwould hare written to you about this before bat wanted to seeif my cure was permanent. O. G 11*000 forfeited to yoa if every testimonial usedbv us is not genuine. Address t H. EGG LEST ON 4 1201 MAS0I1C TEMPLE, CHICAGO. Stamped Steel


. Christian herald and signs of our times. etaken more comfort with it than any I ever have ha-3. The 1stday I pot it I pot it on and mowed ^rasaall day and I never no-ticed that I had it on me. Ale*. Bkows Tnns. X. C . July . 1W5About 3 years apo I bought one of your trusses. I wore it about6 months and it has made a final cure. Was badlv mntured. Iwould hare written to you about this before bat wanted to seeif my cure was permanent. O. G 11*000 forfeited to yoa if every testimonial usedbv us is not genuine. Address t H. EGG LEST ON 4 1201 MAS0I1C TEMPLE, CHICAGO. Stamped Steel Ceilings Decorative, Durable and Best For Church Ceilings of any shape, old or for Catalogue b. H. S. NORTHROP, 33 Cherry St., New & HEAD NOISES CURED hv niv nfYISlftU Tn -iar Cushions. Have Ctlp6C DE AFvv~: ^ore ,„ ^,,0,] lirining than all other da-vfcee combined. Whisper. nCArid Help ears as gjaaaeado eyes. F. Himoi, X33 B dwaj, K. T. Boot ol proob »B£C i36 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. Feb. 12. Among tne Head-Hunters.* HEAD-HUNTING may be traced backto the petty village and tribal wars:and as life has no sacredness in theeyes of the savage, and an enemy has norights, it became simply a question of modeas to how their enemies should be put todeath and some wrongs atoned for. Thebringing back of the head was regarded assatisfactory evidence—a kind of medicalcertificate—that the sentence of the tribehad been carried out. When hostilities be-came fixed, and certain tribes or races wereregarded as unforgivable enemies, a pre-mium was put upon their heads, and thebrave who showed most skill was countedworthy of greatest honor and made headman of his village or chief of his tribe. Soit may have come about—at all events ithas come about—that the hill savage ofFormosa looks upon the enemy of theirtribes as a mark for their spears, and hishead as specially designed to ornamenttheir huts. Everv head-hunter has the spear, knife,and bag. Som


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