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WOOIderftel Pluek ef Injured Mart en
MetniteIneicie In Wetlees
ther the terrible meperienee ol
two nights on the side of a
the Suowdonien rane
with a bobsn lege it young Gering.
dootor Rahn. I*1 in a weak
*audition at Panygwryd Ilotel.
l Dr.. Hain, who heibt froin Berlin,
• left the Penygetryd Hotel, Llanberis,
en a recent, unday, aaYin he /*tend-
-ed to elimb one of the heghte in the
i
vicinity, but he did not nform any-
body as te the place he meant to
reach, nor did he engage a guide.
He did not return that night, and
his absence did •not attract a treat
deal of notice; line as be did, no wit
In an appearance on the following day
a search party was formed, and on
Tuesday morning the missing man
was found in a state of extreme eX-
haustion.
Dr. Hahn told a wonderful story of
Neck and resource. "e scaled the
mountati for a considerable die -
Aimee," he said, "when L lost my way
in a dense fog, and to make matters
worse an unlucky fall on the rugged
path fractured, my leg. 1 then became
unconscious --for haw long I do not
know -and I remained on the room,
tainsicle numb with cold, and blinded
by the mist.
"Some sheep drew around me cur.
Lonely/ and for two Weide and a del,
theY were my sole oompanions.
"T thought I; would make an at-
tempt somehoev te descend. I had a
:stout stick with me, and I broke it
tiP into three nieces. I used two of
them as emlints for my fractured leg,
and then I began my descent. But I
was like a dead weight, and was come
yea Won't tell Yourlatuily doctor
: the whole story about. Mar private
illness-- you on too Modest. You
Bead not bo afraid to tell Mrs. rMX-
ham,. at Lynn, Masa,i the things you
Could not explain td the doctor. Your
letter will be held in the strictest con-
fidence. Vr9111 her correspond-
ence with sick -Women during the
-past thirty years she may have
gained tbe veryknowledge that 'will
help yoUr case. Such letters as the fol -
• owing, from grateful women, es-
tablish beyond a doubt the powerof
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LYDIA E. PINKHAIVIS
• VEGETABLE COMPOUND pelled to' atop and rest elate to a huge
•. cheenn where one of 'the Marchers saw
to coliquer all female diSeeteee. me waving my handkerchief.
"I had only a few liars' of chocolate
to sustain me during my pilgrimage."
Altogether Herr Hahn must have
crawled ;over three miles.
NM Frank Emsley, Teindsay,
-Ontario, writes to•hirs. inkham
• " when wrote to, you some time
Age. I waa a very sick woman suffering
-tom female troubles. I had infiamma-
• • of the feminine, ergane, and could
a 'stand or WMk any distance. At
.hkiit I Wee confined to my bed and the
elector said I would hive to go through
•Ilie operation, but this I ‚refused to do.
Hat:lend advised Lydia, E. Pinkham's
OcunpiraidAfter using three
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most heartikerisoOnintend Lydia B.
111101tham'ses Oompound to all
•illielle/whosathiesnaletroubles.'"
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Stir tldrty yearn lifdia 'E. Pink,
• lam% Vegetablbmpound, Made
iktom roo gaud kerbs, has been
• .0 litlendard remedy for female
asdhas posthvelyomedthousazub!
womenwho havebeenlrOubledWith
dispineentents,hdisainnatIon, ulcera-
tion,
flbrid tam% irregulaities,:
Tming, backache, that bes*.
feelinaliattdncy,indigage
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For the fiscal year ending March 31
1908 there were consumed in .0anaela.
384,800,000 cigarettes. Ten pears ago
the inland revenue returns showed
only 80.000,00%000 cigarettes for the
year.
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utes if one of Dr Shoop's Pink Pain
Tablets is taken. Painanywhere. Re-
member! Pain always means conges-
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Headache is -blood pressure, toothache
is blood pressure on the sensitive nerve
Dr Shoop's Headache Ta,bletsealso
called Pink Pain Tehlets-quickly and
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Are You Reaching put?
,
The trade territory of a town
• is not all dependent upon the
distance to neighboring trading
points fh e, trade territory de-
pends upon the enterprise. of the
• merchants and residents of the
town. If a town does not reach
after the trade it will come ciente
as fast as it has to, .,and it we
grow as it is forced 'to. But if
the merchants go after the busi-
ness in the surrounding country,
advertising in every postible
way, and making good every
word of their advertising,
trade will come from an everen
creasing radius, the town will
• gain at reputation: for -being-
awake and it will Yorge to the
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front, It is the uteri in the town
and not altogether the men liv- •
ing within a certain number of
miles from it that melte the
town.
AosoyssivsAISAnAOWAiNAA'ANW•04.
We Want to Land
your fired order, because we know that
the satisfaction you will derive from
ehat will open your eyed tit the fact
that you cannot do better anywhere
0190, that you can with us. 'You will
find that we are not "all at sea" in our
business, but thoroughly "up. to . the
tninute"and watchful ef the intereate
of our customers, knowing that, by so
doing, we are really, acting for our
own ultimate benefit,
• HUNTING GULLS' EGGS.
EnglishWormin Thinks It • Fun to Be
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leoWitred Over High Cliffs.
A visitor at a seaside resort in Eng-
land recently 'espied on, the facie of a
feet --G
man. She' was •sated in a kind of
chiafr arrangement suspended by ropes.
'from above, and she carried a Pointe
ed pole to steer herself clear of the
jagged redo, while a 'Canvas bag was
slungincross • her back. The air was
fsdi, orguns, evidently Much disturb-
ed by her presence, and, every now
and then one of them would .swesig
down upen her and strike at her sav-
• agely with wing or ,beak.
The young woman turned out to be
a Miss Leslie, who lived in the neigh-
borhOod and thought it amusing to
have herself lowered over the edge of
precipitous -cliffs in order, that she
might collect gulls' eggs_for breakfast.
"She'll break her neck one of these
One days," the fishermen said, but
Miss Leslie. declared • that there was
no occasion for alarm. .. •
• "There .is very little. danger," she
said. "Provideeyou- keep' your head,
Apo/. but ,for dislodged falling stones
• and see that the ropes are strong and
• that Ahoy are not. cutifil sharp edges
• of rock. It is • deligh to feel ono•
self swinging Over some lofty .preci•-•
vice, to peep iiito the eaitining places
'in which the eggsare laid and to heir
the' gulls screaming around one." •
When bfass. Leslie has no one to help
her .in the egg hunts she histens the
ropes eto a stake or hushand lowers
here& over the cliff. 'She sometimes
• takes young birds from the nesta and
has found that they makieenterestidg
OrWriOr..7'."-•
Eitnit.thattle:•11;entiert te
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In •Stehigliegi • Ikatrasatirq. '
One ef. the Most .reMeirleable
eXhb-
iti at the Edinburgh Exhibition is
that Of. maronorni.ftl tiliecke• made by
a taleihrlt • stonemason, Mr. Xames.
BOAS, who .Oonstrueted the wonderful
Meithantem to help him in his atsid•-
•ierl in astronomy. S•-cott, it rolf-taught
astronomer and 'a mathematical
genius, for though his . clocks are
marvels of eccUracy he knewa.
nothing_ of the mathematics •of the
ec110.01o. The -first,. and: also; the big-
gest, of his three .attrononilcal 'clocks
occupled him for five Winters ere. •It
waseeompleted. • It was Made wholly
by Inmsele, and it goes with splendid
regula.rityc and works to. a fraction -of
a second in a year. One of the sec-
tions, which -shove the ..rising. and :tete
fewof the Moon, goes glow to the
extent of only a secant:1ln five years.
One wheel which regulates the move.
merit showing the suns eclipse takes
197Yeare to Oemplete ite reveletiere.
:This clock stands eight . feetehigh
and is five feet broad at the -lower
art. The under -part shows the 'mere-
eitionci of Mercury. Venue, the earth
and moon round the sun, and the
moon's revolutions round the earth,
with the exact, position of all these
bodies at .any moment, and also all
the stars of the Zodiac visible to the
naked eye. There is likewlee an indi-
cator which marks out the date from
day to clay. •Above- is the clock which
regulates all the nAovemente. In a
tower above the clock are shown the
rising and setting of the moon in all
its phases, also its daily altitude
above the earth's horizon. The tower
is crowned with a globe vihich sheens
the earth's daily revolution, and ex-
plains the cause of the unequal length
of day and night and. the chenges of
the SeaS011e. It also shows Greenwich
mean time an over the globe. On
the right side Of the clock le shown
when and where edipees are possible.
end' en the Ieft side 'another "dial"
show's the sidereal time.
Another clock made by Mr: Beet*
records the movements of Jupiter and
hie satellities as, seen through a tele -
scone, and a third, a solar clock,
shows the difference • betWeen solar
and Greenwich. mean time for eeery
y of elea_ernee_cmd_edsoLtimeaures
devieitione-in-irebt • escen-
sion, The construction or all three
clocks is a tribute to the znason-
astronomer4nventor's. genius, coupled
with as rare patience and persistence
in research and experhnent Mr.
Scott was born in Midlem, near Sel-
kirk, 59 years ago, and only after he
was 87 did he discover his bent for
astronomy The extraordinary meteor-
ic display that occurred in 1886 set
him thinking about the mysteries of
the heavens, and he pursued his stud-
ies PraCticallY unaided, His astrono-
mical "clocks are no leas remarkable
her their mechanical ingenuity than
,for their scientific value.
• Swindlers. In .Londen, •
Many Atnericari and continental de;•
• tectives have arrived in ' London to
watch the; gangs of • eesmenellitatt
thieves and swindlers who will exer-
cise. their skill and daring upon' the.
'great crowds of visitors from all over
the world . who are coming to the
pian -British Exhibition, These
gangs are for the most part compired
of the aristocrats • of • the criminal,
world, men and women dressed in the
• height of fashion able to 'sneak Eng-
lish), French, and German fluently, of
charming manners, and well supplied
with money. •T'hey will 'seep at the
best "hotels, and endeavor .. to ' prey
upontheir fellow gpeste or 'become
acquainted with wealthy strangers in
• the. _grounds. of the exhibition, and
11 reap -a rich harvest -by -theft or
some elaborate variation of the eonfi
dance- trick."Melly of the Members
of these.gings are well known to us,"
said a French detective who will re- •
main at Sliepheed's Bush entiLehe,
end of the exhibition to a neweppaer,
representatiVe: "They bye been.
known to us fnr, years, and we have,.
been certain. that they 'have been
guilty of extensive robberies, but we
•:haie not been able to convict the ma-
jority of their:. „ The reason is that.
with their' great cleverness, they
• choose people of noeition as their.- vic-
• tims; and the deluded ones are gen-
era113, unwilling to expose cree
.dulity and too often fatuity for the •
amusement of the public."
• The authorities' of Scotland 'Peed
have made at their -arrangements;,
and large number of officers wilebe
• on duty at the exhibition. Each de-
tective will play a part, one being a
guileless. old.couptry' gentleman, an.
ehernh_neestetant. at a stall, 'and so
if.-7-1Vhen a tinted (took is seen hie
rratiating himself with a stranrer a
etective in thii veinitywillbe keep-,
ng his ey• and ears 'ohm. .An in-
Siiiteeeland Leeds.
• Switeetland takes the lead in the
public. ownership of telegraph and
eelephone • service:s, haviinig 10,648
• mileo of combined wares eitending to
• all the. railway • stations and nearly
every town and village in the coun-
try. It also has More eelePhones in
• use in proportion, te the inhabitants
than any other country in Euroe..
,Great. Britain 'has one telephone to
• 118 peneinii; Germany. one to • 112;,
France one to 301; Russia one to
•.2„e28, andepviitzetland one to 48. The
• Government' is now going into; the
• business of manufacturing the inseru-
ments. The yearly charge for .a tele-
phone in office or resideace ie $13.45.
and the ides for .long-distance calls
are. far below similar calls in Canada.
eiverage of three long-distance
• calls a day, and the yearly charge of
$12,45 Would not bring the total for:
-hOili-sffiee -for-trear'above- $24,
eLoi_charges and profits rim .together,
as the laet earnings lest year were
$804,000 on grins receipts amowetitie
• to $3,000,000. It is instructive to note
that the United States had at the
close of 1901, 3',939,00q te
use, of nee for every wenty-two in -
•habitants. No less ati, /68,340 tele-
phones were add during 1907„ and
the number nearly doubled during
1906 and 190/ oyer that at the end of
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• • A Fielic of the Penal Days.
There are twit places Ireland
where it halt been teustomary for many
centuries to ring the curfew -the vil-
lage of Tynan in County Armagh and
• Derry, The Derry' diirle-w is a relic
of the days when etc. Roman Catholic
• was allowed to live inside the walls
of Derry, although the citizens • were
glad enough to ' have them , in the
• daytime as laborers and cuefmlefs.
• At eundown, however, the duffew
bell Was rung and every Roman
Catholic -who was then in town had to
• leave with all hatte,. even if it meant
sleephig in the ,open tho bleak hills
vihich aurrouted the city.
• Rabbits vs, Mutton Ire Australia.
• Tip to the beeinning of Decmber,
Kays a' writer in Australia, 918,000
crates of "rabbits, totalLng about 230
000 tons, had been received in Lon-
don during 1901, and the market for
mutton Wes never eo bad as it is
now,It is the fostering of the rabbit
industry which decimates the pas -
QA. DOWNS feral industry. Between these two
• there can be no eomproinise. It le
Merchant . cunt sheep or .rabbits,
Tailor,011,
ir •
Furniture and Carpets
These goods must be cleared our tegardless of &tet-.
Parlor Table_ofi Solid Oak, worth $300 fee
„__ ................,..412.00
r•64.1411••166.411 2.00 •
Oobler Seat Rockers, Solid Oak worth
Iron Bede, White lenettiel Werth $4.03 fo .. .. ....... 48.00
00 de. Scot& Linoleum 2 and 4 d . e tit'.. :46e; 450 and 500 4
45 &tett Square, sizes to fit your rooms, from $4.00 to ., ..$25.00 84r
• J.. It Cheliew, siyiti
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terestinir inhovation is the enage.
• ment of a large numberee lady thief -
catchers, whose specie duty if, will
be to keep e 'sharp watch on Ilion -
hers Iffether sex. • Tt is well
known that. many of the mote exnert
pocketpickers are women, and they
are also adepts at recognizing the
male detective, in 'spite of any- dis-
raise Which may be SeeillePd ; but
it is hoped that the female' Sherlock
Holmes will merge her identity more
•eixcessfully, •
The Lass For Him, .•
A Scotchman.. wishing to know his
fate at Once; telegtaphed a proposal
of marriage to the lady of his choice.
Aftet mending the entire day at the
telegraph office he woe finally reward-
ed late in the evening.by an affirms.
tive it answer. • .
"If r were you," stigitested. the op-
erator when. he delivered the mess:age,
"I'd, think twiee• before rd marry a
girl that kent me waiting all day for
my answer."
"Na. na" retorted' the Scot. "The
lass who waits fee the night rates is
the lase for re: .
Mati-of.War's Decks. •
' Seine retders will have noticed how
beautiftilly clean the decks of a man-
of-war always seem, Early in the
morning men turn out and serub them I
hard, and the deeks are •then dfied
with what is ealled a "Swab" Thui
"teeth" is made from disused rope,
stranded out. The tnethod of usfn
it is to flog the deck vigofouisly, whiCh,
Indeed, bkne witty task.
• Ai; the little country hoefie Of her
son, tear Bedford MillteLeecis County,
neves Came of,the death of Mrs, Peter
Brady, possthly thodidest resident of
Ontario, Mrs Brady's age is given as t
104. She was anative o Ireland, but
s .ebt Meat of her life in this Section,
0 old retained her mental facul- 1
ties to the last, and Was remarkably
Well kept tor one of her ears. •
hitaird's tiniment carte Diphtheria
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TE4C11 YOURSELFNOW
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•For our own, Iroil; Ohildiet; and
Your Friends Sake
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010e:teed parte Of the an' passages
oan best be reached by dry air, The
br:nchhil tubes and lunge oan only
. be reached by dry air. Hyorne; is a
dry air treatipent from which you get
the Balsamic effect of living in the
Pine and Eucalyptio Forreste where
catarrhal and bronchial troublea do
tayorari destroys the germsthat
cause disease. of the breathing organs,
you simply by the use of a rubber in-
haler, mix Hyomei air with your in-
ward breath as it remelts the diseased
parts where catarrhal bronchial,croup
or pneumonia germs are multiplying
by unitions there life is snuffed out,as
they are the disease, their exterminat-
ion meatus quick Improvement
W S 13 Holmes has the agency tor
;Hymnal and will furnish the complete
outfit for $100 under guarantee to
satisfy. - •
Reineving the .-7-4---thers Is - Not a
VOLD% -OSTRICH SUPPLY;
1
• PalnIuI Operation.
The world's total supply of ostriches
Is now said about .380,000 birds,
All but 20,000 of these are in Africa,
the native country of the biggest
birds.
•
The stock is not decreasing, for it
is one of the good fortunes of the
ostrich that to take his feathers does
not cause his death. :The feathere
• would drop off themselves if not re -
Moved, and there. is nothing painful
about the latter operation, though the
• vanity of the bird at being robbed of
its chief ornament makes him resent
the process. •
The ostrich he too valuable a bird
-to be ill-used, for on the &vestige they
are worth $800 per pair, iindiseach one.
• will produce some $60 worth of fea-
thers every year. ,lienee it will be
seen that the owner has the strongest
motive of •Self-interest to take care
of the birds. The feathers are never
plucked till they are ripe.
• But the beauty of a feather and its •
cost depend more on its 'width, On the
length 'and thickness of its flue Or
• strands than on the length_ of its
-;
To some extent every feather is
made, even the handsomest being tote
Wed with two additiontd feathen un-
derneath. making three layers. in all;
and five or six layers are sometimes
• needed to give the tip the very thick,.
luxuriant effect so .much admired.
A -single ostrich feather is very
scant and slim, indeed, and no woman
would look twine at one. ,Preparing
the feather is everything,
From first to last an ostrich feather
passes through nearly 100 different
hands before being delivered to the
retailers.
African merchants estimate that the
industry brings 'into Afrieza every year
some el5,000,000, hence it is hardly to
be wondered at that they oppose ship-
• Ping of the birds to the farms of the •
United States. In fact When the first
experiment was madefrobrvyinhaniseybEntrdshiglArii.sh-.
man in California, he had to pay aa
sena the development• ibindAlghus,ontgasry$thlissaaltlitairveans4 the °atrial
d prosperous.'
The average compare favorably with
those -shipped frOm Africa. The stock
Is. Prebably not as faney is some 91
• the special brotight out by the More
• experienced breeder' of South Africa,
but the size of not American bird is
increeashig and the 'health is au that
eleuld lie desired
Ostriches need a hot- dr e cliinate,
and. alfalfa is the best food, thieugh
the big fellow is not particular; and
will eat--mbstYtliing, ' Indied the
humorists say that he enjoys nothing.
better' than a hearty diet of atones.
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et , re. „ •
•one Prize runny.
• Miss- Gaddie -L• Ys; May Bosley id
just as mail at her father as she can
be. There was a little puppy ,with 'a
great pedigree that she wanted him te
buyfor hr,and he wouldn't do it.
Miss Ascdm-What was it, a Trebel'
count or a German barot?---batholic
Standard and Times. • •
AIEWAY MOUS
MLN ON THE LINO HAV mouiy.
QUER SUPERSTITIONS. •
Lucky and Unlucky Trains -Uncanny
Osemeltiee on Scotch ExpreseeeEn.
wins Said to Be Haunted-." Bad
Omens For Engialieras--dinieter In
fluence •f Human Skull -kindly
• Disposed Spooks Who Help.
' The recent extraordinary accident
on the Great Central Railway„ Bug.
land, in which a whole train was de.
railed, and several of the coaches
smashed to fragment:, without a stel-
gle passenger guttering any serious ni-
ju2r, probably will strengthen the
espread euperstition. among rail-
waymen as to them being both Incite'
and unlucky trains and locoinotrees-
An unesmny, sequence of egarnitiee
once befell the old established Scotch
express which starts from .Euston at
8 p. m, Between August, etrisand
Juy, 1896, this train - popularly
known aa the "tourist" was involved
'in four serious accidents. accompan-
ied by less of life, as well as in ee'v-
eral minor mishap,
tatiOertednam farenginemores sohathveaasinistminater ..,teNftoni
• so long ago the Northwestern Rail-
way had a goods loconnetive with the.
reputation of being bewitched. Dat -
In itemit history it earned a bad
name by being .contenually concerned
in slight mishaps, and by getting Its
driver and stoker into trouble for mye-
terions. breakdowns. Then, in 1895,
this engine met with an accident, in
which the• driver was killed. A year
later it had another smash, fortunate-
ly unaccoinpanied by loses of life.
When retrieved -from "this second
• "event" --which, like its` predecessor
was inexplicable -this haunted engint;
was, relegated to the serapheap;
otherwise it would have been impos-
sible to fled men to take charge of it
again.
Another corninon belief is that realm
, engines have an insatiable thirst Inc
Mood. Four yeses ago the Southweet-
eri had a shunting engine nick
it- Wye* •;" --it; -.rali--cifeieliiiii
sailors treePeessing on the line, and
on another Occasion. killed a' foreinan
-ell within the space Of a few Weeks.
A Great Western engine was notorious
Inc slaying station masters. It lolled
• two successive holders of the office in
shunting operations, • The third station'
master. knowing 'its evil reputation,
gave it a wide' berth, ' but ate last he
grew ashamed of his prejudice, and
.mth°rowangtedh thtbee yard, fell offdwasioranaride
killed. -
There :are: a• few well known super-
stitions pertaining to the railway: It
is unlucky to etart a new eugme out
• �f the shop on a Friay. It 'ts un-
lucky to step On to an: engine with
the right foot, apd -to go ,forward to
oil from the rigt-hand side: An 'en-
gine enuet, he turned on a turntable
"with the sun" -Le., in the same di- •
rection as the hands of* a elock Pi
argund. It is a very bad omen Inc it
clrilver, should he as
be SO unfertuna,te
• to run over a dog. •
NaV•vies have always possessed' the
repetatien. of being superstitiousolk.,
When the Northwestern C�; were con-
stricting a linfrom 'Whaley Bridge
• to Buxton, the :foundations of a parte.
• celai bridge constantly gave way, to
the perplexity of the engineers.' The
mischief was attributed to the sinister
influence exerted by a human skuli,
.i
keown as "Melee, Which. was pre-,
• m jested' served
Iterin, res •fetlerillillic,crusenianear byeliagers
o eo railwafte The: navvies 1.
1..:_ceeeethiel11:91kligneffiid the
'ffclied to re . the. blop:sipi
• aonie means could be 7iliden'egied of
•'appeasing "Danet Finally •ii Lan.
caeliire .poet expiietulated with'.
"Dickie" in rhynie, and tlie skull saw
the peereereof its ways. At any rate,'"
the -navies performed the task .over
. again. and tide time their work stood
However, it must not be dirpposed
that all railway superstitions are eon.
cerned with death or dieaster. There
are kindly disposed railleaY speoke, .
liet000 Chcinic
Rheumatic RN
are guaratited to cure Rhevinatism'and Neuralgia,
• The Electro Chemical Ring is not an ignorant
LI charm or faith cure, but a scientific medium for the
elimination of uric acid from the blciod. The secret,
PI the power the merit in this ring lies in the, com-
• bination of various metals of which the ring is
made, no matter what the trouble is, if it is caused
by excess of uric acid the Electro Chemical Ring
4.4 will effect a cure, looks just like any other ring,
O can be worn day and night. guarantee these
• Rings to do all we clam. Call and examine these
• 41 Rings,
cn
W. R..pOUNTg4
JEWELER,• CLINTON
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a.s ivell-aselead.--For example, a. cur--
• • , ' In Sore Straits.
"I tell.you I must have some mon.
eyl" roared the king of Maritanit: Who
.hwas 18 sore-finacial straits. "Some-
body will have to cough up." .•
"Atte," sighed the guardian of the
treasury, who Was fdrinerly court jesV:
er, "all ourcofferar emty-.Judg_
"Sane . people."; grumbled drencher,
"Make Ma sick." •
"I should think nearly everybody
would make you siek " replied Diggs.•'
."IndeedWhy?"
• "Reciprocity.' • you • know." - Catholic
Standard and Tithes.' •
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• , • More Genteel. •
Tourist (in western state) -I suppose
cattle rustling is now a thing of the
past? , •
Lariat Larsy-Sure thing! About all
our prominent bad men are !lithe
trifling business. -Puck.
R.deen,in trait. •
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"There was one good thing fibc•ut
Adam and Eye."
• "What was that?" ' • • •
•-"When they Were in Eden they didn't
send out any ,eouvenir potitals."Den-
lier NeWS-Tfines... • ,
His Favorite Compaler.
Miss Critieuefat the dperse7Are you
fond of Meyerbeee Mr, Poirttin.
Mr. Porkittn:To be peefectly candid,
Mee: tritee, 1 refer a mteg of good
ele.-lotieton Post..
Heal grostrates the nerves.' in the
summer one needs a tonic to off set the
mistolniery hot weather Nerve and
Strength depreesiOn. YOU will feel
better within 48 hours after beginning
to take • such a remedy as Dr Shoop's
Restorative.' Its prompt. notion in re-
storing the weakened nerves is sur-
prising, Of course, you won't get en-
tirely strong in a few days, but each
day you canactually feel the improVe-
merit. That tired, lifeleas spiritless
feeling will quickly depart when using
the Restorative. Dr Sboop'e &Store -
we will sharpen a failing appetite ;it
aide digestion ; it.4111 strengthen the
weakened JCidneys and Heart ,by sitca
ply rebtalcling the werrrout • nerves
that these organs depend upon. Test it
a few clays and be convineta.. Sold br
W 8 11; Holmes ana W4.
•
ions story is told Orrin aceiclent which
occurred outside Waterloo Station
some years ago. A passenger train
collided With e light engine, end a
very seriona srriash teas averted'm the
• nick of time by the trenely though
• mysterious •application Of the auto -
matte viten= brake. It is, a fact that
no one •could diseoveremer this' brake
was Fed. Se railway men-felbrie&
upon the hypothesis that there was a
• ghost co3 board the train.
The s
edivof Ep
e'sPrliyvate
• theKhedive t
pri-
vate railway from his palace at eRas•-•
el -Tin in Alexandria to his eiountry
place at Montazar, and when he goes,
from one place to the other he drives
the engine himself, The line is
• miles long, and he seems to ge keen.
pleasure out of • the excite ent of •
running an engine at full nieed: Due.,
ing 'his last visit to Tr Ace he rode
On the cab with the driver of the
express from C/alai to Amiene and
handled the lave hiinself, - •
• Other royal . • 1.,-; have sought
diversion . cares of state at -var-
ius times In engine driving.' The
•Eingpain is very expert and
fea01:8' as e locomot.ive engneer,. •
Bed his marriage he used to ride
on the footplate of the royal train
;Wih the driver and take lecoons in
yer
1-,
• We have secured the ex.
clusive agency of the fam-
• ous American VValk - Over
Shoe for Clinton and invite
our friends to can and see a
• full and complete line in the
• various shapes, sies and
widths. The
Walk -Over Shoe
because of its general
excellence, is sold in 44 •
countries, and is conceded.
--tb-e—herg-ht "of Abe
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goods
0,1 srgfedessct t fidoorrne dressers.
sboeuyr yourself.
s. theelf. .7orld's
0Wviseit PL71ainadllyisipnvecittethyeoscu
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TVVITCHELL Se SONS.
VICTORIA. BLOCK, • • CLINTON
Repairing Neatly and Promptly .4xectsted.
•
Having held the attention of the parcnasing public
during the past Year, by popular prces, we have slated
new goods, to begin the, second year and the prices will
it once suggest the advantages in cle'aling here
Lot 1—Iron Beds:
•40 Beds it:tithe let, ringing in prices as follows: 83, 24,04.50,
•' $1-75? $5. $5.75. $6 re ff.% va, $11, $18; f14,50? f.101
Lot 2-1Viiattresses.
• Guaranteed.. purelsanit,oryeSR, $3.50...and $6.1;32inthe,1ot
Our special at $4.00
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23 in the let,'which Means skidoo. Prices, Wile • Interest you.
• $4.50. 95,96, $7, 981 $11, 91150, S1850,-914; ,915 arid '• $20. Our
• special this epring is the 913.50nm:1-$8.09; ' • e.
-Other .Specials ; • .•
Springs,oany size, $2. 2.25, 2.50 mid 8.00.01ii• special is 8.00.11
. • ,
Rattan Chairs, 3.10 4.0 450 and 6.00. •
Dresseksand•Stands, ringing in price from 9.00,1:10,50, 12.001.
, 12.75and lie to 59.00. Our special' is 12.75.
Sewing Machines. • We are special reeresentatives for the
. St nclaed." Prices rang from $20.00 to$45.00.4e,:e,•
House Furnishings:- . .
L This dpartmenthas speeial ,sactiotist throng !the house
cleaning season. A few remnants m Llnoleurns, at special
• prices; also Oil Cloths. Reg. 00c Linoleum for 50a per sq yard.
000S DELIVERED PREZ.
Furniture Dealersand Undertakers, Clinton,
Phone or eon by or Night.
. . ,
amp'
managing the engine.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgitria is
another royal inch*, drivett Roce,nte
ly lie drove the express from Abbe-,
vine to Pavia under 'the superintend-
ence of the ener.
The Marquis of DoWnshife viems
with royalty in' following this 'pus -
&Mt. lie has a priyate railway at
Hillsborough and an engine white
he drives himself at a speed of tett,
miles an hour.
Ancient "Dogtongs."
• Preserved in the cathedral of Ban -
or, Wake, 13 II pair of old "deg.
tongs," Which were teed for ete.1.4
quarrelsome dogs from church dm.
Ing Berke, A similar pair is pre-
served at Llaytirtys. -Wales, and
boars numerous teeth -marks.
Cilada)s Cr neintiption of hard liquor
and tobsceo deolit ed clueing th3 pot
year, while the consum; Mott of bees
and %vibes showed a slight increase.
The eonsumntion of spirits durin g the
year Was 889 of a galIoti per heed Of
populate n against 047 the ye la pre.
vitta. The aVertige itinsuitt of tcb oto
consuined.wae 2.838 pounds per head
while tile year previOne it wag 2,05.3.
pounds,
mis G•REEN.
You want the best at the lowed price.
WE CAN SUPPLY YOU WITH BERGER'$, THE Mr
Best
English
ENGLISH MAKE, AT 40e PER LE.
1 E. HOVEY, •PATItg CLINTON.
SD.. CORN.
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Do youvvant Seed Corn We lutee White flap, Improved Learning
Early Iltittier and M. 8, Sweet. Mangold Seed : Yellow Leviathan, Giant
Yellovv intermediate, and Manaoth Long Red. ,Sugar Mangold; Steele -Briggs
Rennies and D. V. Perry's, also Turnip Seed, in paokages and loose, We could
supply some Red and Alsike ()lover and Titnothy Seed; German Milled, Rape
and Tares, •
YOUR. TRADE SOLICITED.
•
We will give more than the peddlers; and We stay all the year at
work; notjust a, few weeks, When the roads are good,
•
Emporium
Londesboro, May 12/08
R. ADAMS.
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