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ion.Parliament has declined.to legalize
the hiring of carriages to bring voters
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done so, because the practise will be
persisted in any Way, and it is not de-
sirab:e to put a premier on hypocrisy,
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—OF THE -
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hasisecured the;agency,for the sale of
Doherty Pianos and Organs
and islour only,;,authorized, agent in
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instruments, and we will thank our
numerous friends and customers'to
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Oash paid :for Hides, Skins
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TEL CLINTON NEW EEA my , i6t. it nom
"FRUIT-A-TIYES"
These Wonderful Fruit Juice 'Tablets Are Now Used and
Praised in Every Section of the Dominion
A 25c, TRIAL SIZE HAS JUST BEEN PUT OUT SO
THAT EVERY FAMILY IN THE LAND MAY
GIVE THEM A TRIAL
'Fruit-astivesf' have been a wonder-
ful success because they have proved
thelr value in every case, Whether it
was, Constipation or Biliousness—
Headaches or Neuralgia—Rheumatism
or' Sciatica -indigestion or Dyspepsia
Sallow Complexlon or Eruptions on
the skin—Pain in the bads or other in-
dications•of Kidney Trouble—"Fruit-a-
tiven" have never failed to give the.
promised relief: People tell about their
eures and write to the company about,
them. Thus, the good news has spread
that here was a medicine that actually
Cured—that did, more than was claimed
for it, And more people tried "Fruit
a-tives" To -day, "Pruit-a-tives" are
the acknowledged success in the medi-
cal world and are Known from ocean
to ocean. Some wholesale druggists
order 100 gross (14,400 boxes) at a
time. Practically every druggist and
general store in Canada sells them.
The new trial box at 25c will make
"Fruit-a-tives" more popular than ever
because it gives everybody the chance
to try then. •
If you only know "Frult-a-tives" by
reputation, the 25o trial size enables
you to teat them at a very small cost.
Write direct to Frult-a-tives Limited,
Ottawa,Ont„ if your dealer does not
have both the 25c and 600•boxes.
GRIDLEY'S LEAVE.
Teaching Scene When the Brave Cap-
tain Left the Olympia.
On th$ morning of the battle of Ma-
nila Bay Captain : Gridley was so ill
that the little commodore offered to
excuse himfroin duty, but -gallantly,
as is characteristic of the man, he re-
plied, "Thank. you, Commodore Dewej,.
��Ti■ L� p �? ' r' bent she feline ship; and 'I will •Sght
j LL''11 tip 11 i` ytl; her Aad fie did, slab h, tl
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' For Manitoulin Island. Soo and Mackinac
Steamers leave Collingwood 1.90 p.m.. Owen '
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For Parry Sound, Eclat au Barll and ,
Killarney—Leave Oollingwood Monday and ;
Friday, 10.30 p.m, '
For Sans Sanei Etc, and Parry Sound
Leave Penetang week days, at 3.20 e.m.
SUMMER HATES NOW IN EFFECT,
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AlcMATH & OVERBURY
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the age of the mineral that is • i_
mined in Cornwall. It is to be h • ti
that in thisway it will be possi ' : comf
nywhere
to form an exact' estimate of the date ' a
R. Fitzsimons & Son. ;;ch man t appeared n the, w
earth.
dug . ve,.
1y -speaking, he was a dead manfore
he went on the bridge, and days had
strung themselves into but few weeks
when he was ordered home on sick
leave. He' came up out of his cabin
dressed in civilian clothes and was met
by the rear admiral, who extended him
a most cordial •hand. .A look of trou-
bled disappointment; flitted across the
tin's brow,but vanished when he
stepped to the head of the gangway
and, looking over, saw, not the launch,
but a twelve oared cutter manned en-
titety b'y oi$cers of the Olympia, There
were men in that boat who had not
pulled s stroke for a quarter of a cen-
tury, The stars and stripes.. were at
the stern and a captain's silken coach
whip at the bow, and when Captain
Gridley, beloved alike . by ofllerm and
men,' entered the boat it was "Up
serer and all •that, just as though they
Were common sailors that were to row
Nis over to the Zaire. When be sat
deem upon the handsome' boat cloth
that was spread for him he bowed his
bead, andhis hands 'hid his, face as
First Lieutenant 'Reese, acting cock -
01'. ar avr'•
IN AFRICAN FORESTS,
Tales of Their Gloomy Darkness and
Silence Denied by Modern Writer's.
The travelers who first penetrated
the vaat egnatorial forest of Africa
fixed the world's attention with word -
pictures that are now believed' to be
partly fantastic. Bone of them told
how they wandered menthe without
seeing the sun. They lived at noon
(lay.. in semi -darkness. The under•
growth almost prevented progress, no
fresh breezes could penetrate the area
8f gloom, and even the animals were
silent, like every other phase of na-
ture existingthere.
To -day wrters seem to take an en-
tirely different view of the :tropical
• forest, so that one is lorded to the con-
clusion that either the old-time writ. .
era "or else those of modern days re-
gard the public as a collection of
stupid) ready to swallow anything so:,
long as • it is • thrilling or unusual,
Maurice Delafoese, one of the leading
colonial officials of • 'France, : contra -
diets many statements of earlier ekes. • He says that. ,nowhere has he
found . the African forest darker . than
any other' dense woodland. The vege-
tation in it is certainly. more luxuriant
and more crowded together than in a
European forest, but it is an exaggera-
tion to say they are covered with im-
penetrable vegetation.' Wherever • the
natives live, well worn footpaths lead
in all directions. Traveling is hard
on' some of then, but many of the
paths are very useful highways. De-
lafosse had none of the experience of
travelers who assert that their gar-
ments. have practically been stripped
off them by the derise and thorn
=undergrowth—lie: lived—for ni"ntlia
in forest without greater damage to
his clothing than in any other parts
of Africa except that when traveling
rapidly on a .hunting path his sleeves
have became unduly worn at the el-
bows. ".
As 'for .darkness in the forests, • he
often tool: his compass bearings with-
out artificial light when pitching
camp' at nightfall. The forest. traveler
has this. advantage, that he is'always
n shadow, • and on' the hottest days
he can pursue his- journey the whole
fternoon, which would' be impossible
ri the opee. country,
As for the. reputed feeling of dis-
omfort and oppression in the depths
f the forest` this is partly trim. Where
•
To Tell the Age the Earth. ' •
r
R. J. a . ratieh setenttst of
high standing, in the .comae of a lee -
tare at the Royal- Insiitutioai, Landon,
said that, thanks to ' .resent' invest gs' -
tions of radium, .it soon would be pas'
sible to estiutate the ease age of lais
Accepting the hypothesis that hell- r
um is constantly •: produced, . at - a de -i
nite speed from redline., Mi. Strutt •
proposed a 'quantitative mon of n
the radium and the helium present m i
various ininerals, as a meant of die 1.
teripjning- their relative ages. -Pte e
seeding on similar lines, when once o
7HE�LAREY STONE1
An Old Legend Tells How It
Found Its Way to Ireland.
THE MAGIC OF KISSING IT.
Origin of the Catmint $chef That It Im-
parts to the Lips That Touch. It the
Power to Utter Honored, Coaxing and
Delusive SPeeches.
The blarney stone, takes its name
Iron) the 'tillage of Blarney, in County'
Cork,, Ireland, near whlleh stand the
ruins of the famous Blarney castle,:
dating back to the fifteenth century,
and the groves of Blarney, which en-
joy an equally wide reputation. A riv-
ulet Sowing 'through them bears the
same name. The name Blarney Is
from the Irish ""blairne_" a little field,
the Gaelic form being "biair" or "War,"
a plain. The village Is four miles north.
tweet of Cork and has a few hundred
inhabitants. In the groves of Blarney
stands the ruined castle, in one tower
of which is the world famous atone,
the kissing of which Is reputed to
endow one with the gift of coaxing,
wheedling and .flattering.
The true stone is declared to be one
In the castle wall, a few feet below
the summit' of the' tower. To readh
and osculate tt it is necess&ry for one
to be held over the parapet by the
heels. But so many persons traveling
in the Emerald Isle - desire to report
that they have kissed the real blarney
stone that one in the top of the wall
Is 'held to be sufficiently near the real
--thing for'the fiction to be maintained
that it is. the true.atone with. all the
powers of the original. And even to
aged and infirm persons one near the e
For Diarrhoea, Dysentery,
Stomach Cramps, Colic,
Summer Complaint, Choi.
era • Morbus, Cholera in-
fantum, and all Loosen
of the Dowels
There: is n6 Medicine Like
minewerwiteet
are.
It has been a household. remedy. for, o
years. • You can. always rely on it in tune
of need to do just what we claim for it.
Do not allow an unprincipaled druggeat.
to palm off ,e cheap substitute on you.
The genuine "Dr, Fowler's" is intnu-
factured by The T, Milburn Co., Limited,
Toronto, Ont. •
• THE ONLY. CURE FOR DIARRHOEA,
Mrs. Robt. Rahmr . Fowler's eExet.. De
$urketon, Ont., Wild Strawberry
writes:—. • for diarrhoea, and
I think there is not
a better remedy 'to be found, as 1 have a •
largo .family and all subject to it, I
would not be without it in the house as it
• is s quick pure, and "the only thing' that
will cure them." •
ng since uie ratter .parr or the ergnt-
enth century. Every Irishman south
e of the Litre Is lar1 su to
have kissed the blarney, stone, 'and .if, -
moreover, - he has had a dip in the
Shannon he is reputed to have the req.
visite `amount of impudence, or what
the natives . call "civil courage,"—New
y'arkt.Tribune. .
castle entrance is declared to be .th
original. • On the true stone, near the
• top of the tower a half ` effaced in-
scription reads; ""Cormack !McCarthy
Fortis Me Fieri Facit,'• A, D. 1446." •
Of the blarney stone Father Front,
the f'rish poet, declared that it was the
palladium of liberty for Erin.. He de-'
scribes the stone and relates a number
of legends regarding It, one that it
was brought to the 'island by• the
Phoenicians, who are reputed to 'have
eolonizei, the region, and that it' had
"long been in the. custody of the Cartha-
ginians, who from it gained the rep-
u•tatien. for insincerity which is trans-
mitted' in the 'phrase- "Puriie •faith,
and that before that it belonged to' th
• Syrians, who were credited 'wi
MOUNT ETNA. "
Its Wonders as . Revealed In Tales of
Travelers,
Mount Etna has furnished more ma-
terial : for travelers' ' .tales than any
other mountain . on the .earth. Aston-.
„ !shed Englishmen of a .century. ago
e who fell into the fashionable, habit of
th " climbing to Its highest peak—and some
speaking with double •tongues - after
kissing - it According to the story,
some. .Carthaginian adventurers ' be-
came enamored of .the stone and ap-
propriated•it. They set sail for Minor-
ca;
inor
ca,' but, being; overtaken by .a storm,
were driven'..into the barber of Cork'
and left the stotie in that vicinity un-
til it was made use of in the construc-
tion of the donjon tower of Blarne
castle.:
Y
As to the origin of the belief in re
gird to the qualities secured by kiss'•
ing the stone; Crofton Croker - say
that in 1602, when the Spaniards were
urging the Irish chieftains to harass
the English, the owner of the castle
Cormack MeDermod McCarthy, who
then occupied it, concluded an armis-
tice withthe lord president on condi-
tion . of, surrendering it to an English,
garrison: But.: he: put him .off from
day to day •with specious . statements,
fair; promises and false pretests Until
the lord president became the laugh-
ingstock of the ministers of Queen
Elizabeth, and the honeyed and dela
•sive speeches of the lord of the castle
became known is mere "blarney:'.
The word found its way,'into Mere -
tore in the last century. Ithe "Jour-
nal"• of Caroline Fox, 'which appeared
in 1836, there is this use of the word:
'Mme. de Steel was .regretting•to LordCastlereagh that there was no word in
the English .language- which, answered
to ' their "sentiment,' 'No,' he said,
'there is no :English • word, ' but the
Irish have one that corresponds exact-
ly—blarney.'" Samuel Lover` wrote
"The- blarney's -so great a deceiver" in
one of his Irish novels - President
ranies Buchanan wrote, "The genera
bas yet fa learn that my father's coun-
trymen (I- have ever felt proud of my.
the rate at which radii= is trans t
formed ,should have been estimated; e - mere
simply operation in arithmetic , would • then
solve the problem of the the age- of the. a discomfort
f excessive perspiration is manifest.
It must be • remembered, however,
hat if under such atmospheric 'con -
:tions - man .,
here is no. stir in the atmosphere it is
difficult tO breathe in the forest
in the opee, and as there is less •
hence for evaporation the
earth.
able to find that the age of ftinte pre& t
We are still in the But-
chering business, and are
in a position to fill all or-
ders for seasonable mePts,
invusted tc cu 'care
Our new business stand
is In the COmbe Block.
Mee 71 Clinton
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Something New
Now is the time to place your
order for a
NEW IRE PENCE
f/oiled Spring Wire used.
Also agent for the Celebrated
Frank W. Evans,
Agent lianadian Fence 00., •
Before placing your orders for
your season's supply of Deal, get
our prices. Thievery hest goode
carried in stock and gold at the
Orders may be left at Davls
& Remland's Hardware stare. Or
With
•
W. J. Stevensan"
at moth* Liget Tient.
onioniimmiumboomiimmemommolimodol
the open land he is at the same
me much hotter and so far more un-
ortable. When a breeze stirs
fe
11'he Chiltern Hills are a range oi de
Delafosse records that he hae had
w such delightful experiences in
frica as on his morning walks hi the
pths of the forest. Ite has never
Chiltern Hundreds. A
chalk eminences separating the come f
ties of 13edford and Hertford in a
land, and passitig through the mad w
Buckii to Henley, in Oxfordshire.
They were formerly much infested bs air
robbers, _and to protect the inhabe he
tants genie these marauders an °ill
cer of the crown was appointed under fo
the narne of "The Steward of thE
Chiltern 'Fhartclisels."
cund forest _travel as uncomfortabht
s marelneg over the savannahs
here the high grass is above his
head. It is then that a man without
would melt: ,
There are plenty of sounde. in the
rest to attract attention also, and
they help to keep ennui at a distance.
nomethine is neer on all the iime.
In addition to the ceaseless Mori
army of the streams there are the hum..
ming of insects, the song of biids, the
ABSOLUTE
did so, tothe amazement of the Sicil-
ians, even in the dead of winter—hate
lefton record in the exuberant tan,
guage of their day the emotions that
thrilled 'their soul. "The man who
treads . Mount Etna," wrote one of
these, "is a map • above the world.
/every river on the: island can be traced
from its month to its source.
"The characters," the same.. writer;
continues, "of all- the climates of the
earth can be detected, -the frigid close
aroand-one,-!-tie-temperate-with its belt
s 0 trees just 'underneath and the trop=
teal at the base of the mountain,with.
its vineyards and luxnriant groves.
The great ocean around, with the is-
; lands of Lipari, Panari, Alleudi, Strom -
boil ani volcano, with their smoking
summits; appears- under yourfeet, and
you- look down upon. the whole of
Sicily as upon a map." •
In addition to all the :climates, Etna
is reported to havetrees that rival the
• giants 0 California, lakes that never •
thaw, bottomless caverns and salable
snow that kept many an .ancient bishop
well supplied with tithes; • .
descent from . an Irishman), though
they themselves do blaniey others, are
yet hard to be blarneyed. themselves."
Washington Irving iri "The Traveler"
wrote, "So he blarneyed the landlord."
.lames Russell Lowell in "The Fable
For Critics" says:
The cast clothes ot SUrope your states,
manship tries,
And mumbles again qie old blarneys and
tic feats from breech to brands the ``)
chatter of the monkeys, their gyirt,nati-
occasional falling of dead branches
tree trunks, and at night tinei
wonderful harrOoniest end discords
Stnimate and inanimate. life that
*ken when darknese comes , end
,,, sleep again at stniri30.
I ; sacred Birds of --the Aztecs.
.......... . Imagine a bird the size of -a pigeon.
Its back, head, wings and breast
Centtine ' dazzling metallic green With gold.*
Carters over the b111:04. ferny, cUrred plumes.
lapping trier the wings, while two or
. three slender gfeen feathers a yard ot
Little LIVGPF'ills. ;.00.7,3 . .lge;21 atec:d ,oteti; and be.
• Stith is the Quetzal, or resplendent
and
the
INUat Saar Signature et
4, *Ain' Moan and us Warr
*take ea toga*
reit ormaciit
PON TORPID LIVEN,
SO CONSTIPATION
reit smovi SKIN.
PON THE COMPLEXION
CURE itilgit
Trogon, sacred bird Of the Montagu
teas, national emblem Of Guatemala
and the handsoinest and moist striking
Of all the gorgeotis trogon numb.. Al.
though found in nearly every repel:41e
of Centtal America, tbis superb crea-
ture is Confined entirely to the heavy
oak forests of the higher inonntstins.
In these localities' his shrill scream
may be heard at noir time yet It la *
Of hie brilliant form as he (lite from
tree to tree, and far More diffleult
the task of seenring spetimene. Ape
patently fully Etwate of their beettitY
and svaine, these royal birds aro ex.
cool:tingly shy Mid suspicious, keening
entitelY to the topmost brandies of
the tallest teeee, 101:mantle far reit of
ehtittern ether.
The name 0 the old time eastleand
•
wn has added a note, .a verb, an
adjective and a participle to the Ian-
guage. The most comprehensive defi-
nition of the noun "blarney" is "ex-
ceedingly complimentary language;
flattery; smooth, wheedlinglalk; pleas-
ing eaijoiery," Aa to the origin of the
word, one lexicOgrapher quotes Grote
as crediting the derivation of it from
the phrase "lickitig the blarney
stone," ."applied to incredible stories
told of.climbing to a stone very diftl-
cult of access in a castle' of that nlime
in the county or Cork, Irelahd." But
he _added that Dr. Xamieson derites it
from the French "balWerne," "a lie;
frivolous talk," and definee it "gross
flattery; unmeaning or vexatious dis-
course (LoW)," But the word seems
to have outgrown this reetricted MOM -
In certain sections of the country
there are much favored words whieh
are required to do duty with a -wide
variety of meanings. Such is the
word "smart" among Yankees and up
along the Labrador shore the word
"civil." The following' conversation
between two natives was overheard
by a traveler:
"We are goin' to have lots of dirtto-
day," said one, glancing at the sky.
"Naw. It'll be civil," replied his
companion. •
tairio"w did You get on with the cap -
"Oh, he -got civil to hunting deer by
and by. When he went out he didn't,
know nothing, but he got civilized,"
"Did Yon" go down the Ketchee?"
"Naw. It's too tivil for him. He
wanted lots of rapids, . so we went
down the Boomer.. Them's about ail
civil rapids as I want to see."—Youthl
Adhesive Eggs of Fishes.
Aniong the lishes which produce ad,
hesive eggs are the little black head
goldfish. The male blackhead deposite
the fecundated. eggs singly upon the
underside of leaves of water planti
and watches them unceaisingly until
hatched. The 'eggs of the goldflidi are
deposited shigly upon the weeds and •
mosses •In a slinilar manner by the'
mak3 fish. The eggs of the yellow perch
are held together In narrow stripe ou
ribbons of a gintintme character. 46
hesiVe eggs of other species, ° as 'the
black bast, litinfish, catfishes, etc, are
depoilted in masses In shallow nests or
depressions on the bottom, and still
other species deposit their spawn in
eariouely shaped. adhesive masses upon
water plants, roots and subtnerged 61).
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