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The Clinton News-Record, 1907-07-04, Page 34** Isviivet• tv. it'Woli 'They 'had evidently been qtetrrefing bearer entering the Slitter etreet 'ear at -IttiaiterrY. • . Ilreuld thank you, *rot ..u. nof It* an by thel".she said "Oh, Lucy, -VII never go With her mgeln-never, never, denier Giradnally'the 'harsh tpti-ea 'Melted 6) endearlag• &Mega; Tbe tar 1314 Plveorae very crowded. It dapped, at "Van Ness. /he conductor, wedging among pas- -wagers midway °retie aisle, could not -nee the rear steps. With .11/a hand on etbe bell cord, he seddenlyeyelled: • "How is it back*there seer?". "It's an right. We've madeennagain," Impulsively responded the young man. "Oh, Willard, •be didn't ,mean • Enlarging Life, '1 am quite clear that one of our 'worst failures is at the point where, 'baying resolved like angels, we drop 'back into the old matter of fact life and do just what we did before, be- cause we have always done it and be- cause everybody does it and because our fathers and mothers did it, all of which may be the very reason why "we should not do it. There is no sta- lion of life and no place of one's 'home where, if he wants to enlarge 'tie We in caring for people outside 'Ilimself, he may not start on a career ei enlargement which shall extend indefinitely: And the man who ca- reers upon infinite purposes lives the Obafinite We. -Phillips Brooks. • How to Prevent Nightmare. Referring to the frequency with - 'Which unpleasant dreams, and more varticularly the classical' nightmare, -wean-Dr. Kehrer, the -Munich special- ist says: "Persons wbo are subject -disturbances of this sort should ail w three or four hours to elapse •betWeen 'the last meal and going to b0,)(should iriot let this last Meal be too' hearty tur -One -and should make it/ a point to ,axvold all indigestible diShes and alco- eholic 'drinks with the ,evening meal." • FOR, ALI, HUMOURS Eczema, WI Rheum. Pustules, etc. -no remedy Le-als more quickly than Mita Ointment. • ea relieves inflammation, soothes. pain, caus-s /ale) tissue to cover raw surfaces, and restores the ,akin to healthy smoothness. ' Afrf. J. Webb, zxf Dover.oxrt Shyer, raoanto," -4writes : "ft is a wonderful care." J. 7'remleft Waothion, says: highly reconmend your Mira a:Nutmeat for Eczensa,'• Mira Tablets and Blood Tonic help to a more '4heroteit cure. At druggists -or from The ,Chestiists. Co. of Canada, Limited. Hamilton- • 'Terento. insist on geeing TRADE MARK RGGISTEFIEO. ."-Flitharman's Luck. -peaking of fishing, "fishermen's nuck," "lucky fishermen," etc., what -does it all mean anyhow? To say a 'gnarl is a lucky fisherman is merely to •-admit his superiority as a fisherman -over other fishermen. The fish are in the water. We all have the same chance Ito get them, yet some "lucky fisher- men" alwavs come home with. their 'fish boxes full mill the other fellow .gets nothing. In the parlance of the •'fisherman, the word "luck" really means "knowledge." The "lucky fish- erman," you will find, knows the rock !holes where the grouper lurks; ,he knows the channels in and about the patches and passes where the amber; _jacks and barracuda live; he knows where and how to find and capture the -silver mullet for bait; he knows how to bait his hooks for different ftsh• as •occaslon may require; he knows the , ..st,vfe or hook to use for every kind of fish; he is a judge of what style of • fishing to do under certain conditions • of wind and weather, and, above all, •-he is nntiring Ap his efforts to use all •of Ws knowledge when he Is out for 'fish. An Early Riser. Lord Alverstone, the Lord Chief •Justice of England, who has a salary -of $40,000 a year, when at the bar used invariably to get up between 6 • and 6 in the morning, except when he had been late in Parliament. On -one oecasipn be e -anted to talk over •a certain point in a brief with one .of his juniors. He asked the young mat, to call in the morning. "At what time, Sir Richard?" asked the yotmg barrister. "At half -east six, at my house," was the reply. The yourig man arrived on the t roke of the mo - order to do it, however, he ,ent up all nig _ Great Britain's Foxhounds. There are about 170 pecks of fox- hounds, consisting of ' &bout 6,0e0 -couples, in England and Wales, and .as• the average number of 'days 'the !bounds are out is aboat three per week the cost of the packs alone is lit least £500.000 year. This is Inking no account of frelarrd'a stivene •ty-six packs, with about 1,100 dolt - pies, arid leotiandfs .eletren packs .of -390. couples,. Cures Spavins *tee world wide FttiCCe7a'of Curie has been won bee:lose this remedy con -and dots --cute Ude; mita none . • curb, spew, eingeene, noisy Ores -salts, smellier!, sea teniene, S. - Isfmn », Nz,,, "I used genii:ill's Care cat r •:‘• Sea ,, v.."14.1t cured it comple;e:$ ." 'A: CI., MASOE4 Price it --e f,,r '5. 'A tiO :411111fliqt, :Creri (IL- • • elitism mi the Itutle" -.free from cieSier4 04 4. sts"In t tO , Inteleterei!:,fttehar • •,-.110* TOE MUMMER'S MOST WEIRD IITORY FROM OCIRTACHIY ,CASTit.E.• Wicked Earl's Terrible ReVerlree- Fairtens Boy inelde Drime--Hurlid From Castle Waillia-Ghostly Prune fleats'NOW Heard Whenever Death Moire in Family -44d Vowed He /t-Nauld Haunt the Place. • More extraordinary than any ghost atory.in fiction and equally inexplic- able re the grim tale of the phantom drummer boy of Cortachy Cantle,. the Beat of the Airlie family. An ,authentio aceount appears in "Pearson's Maga-- eine.' The story runs as follows: "A. certain wicked'Earl of Airlie had a.guarrel .witb one of his friends, and his passionate temper and haughty Pride Mode him refuse to acknowledge himself in the Wrong, "The friend, who was an officer in the same regiment as' the Earl, sent an emissary to the latter in the shape . of a young drummer boy, who•fear- lesely,,carried a message of some kind to the castle, was conducted into the , presence of Airlie, and awaited the proud Earl's pleasure. Either the wording of the meesage or some in- discreet action. on the part of the lad himself angered the wicked laird, and he prepared to take a terrible re- venge. Having called on his retainers to seize the boy,he ordered him to be fastened inside his own drum, end then thrown from a high rampart on atower of thacastle, knowing that his body would be dashed to pieces on the hard stones below. Cursed Hes Captor, "The .helpless boy heard the fiend-. ish order given a-ncl-while-it was he- speed than any battleship afloat crown. For some years he was see- ing carried out be cursed his captor With her powerful armor, she Will be retary pf .the Fabian :Society, and bitterly, swearing that if his life a match for every battleship in exist- when this is mentiotied the color of his politics, runs no risk of being mis- should be taken he would haunt the Jaime, except perhaps oneeof our owe t k Airlie family forever, - /Dreadfionglits, The Clinton Pie i*Ateetird ° GIANT SOW LAIINCNEO. CENTENARIAN NAIIINEIL Christening Crirem„ony Performed by Lady lareaclalbarie. With the launch ,oi IL M. a. In. domitable at Glasgow, another mighty weapon or elestruetion has been added to the British navy. The Indeinitable to the largest and mast powerful endear in the world. She belongs to the lieW clase_whiche has been attracting the atteaucoa ol naval experte in every country. By the imperative orders of the Ad- miralty, absolute secrecy has been preserved about the detaile of her construction. Certain facts are known, however.. She has eight 12 -in. gane. Her 41,- 000 horse -power will give her speed An Ancient "Silt" Mee. After sin Ade VeriturOult Career. 13,0113 in Long, Acre May 28, 1800, Edviliad COMM, aged 100 years and 11 months, has died in the Rackhana *tree*. iniinnary. North Keneingten, fronelhe effects Of an filmy caused int a fan oxrthe dein, at WS lodgings in Marylebone. Collins eatne ef 4 family renowned for longevity, his father, a pawn- broker, living to the age 01 110 years, and his grandfather to 111 years. In his early dart his fancy for a seafar- ing life led him to join the Bora Navy, and during a career of over 30 years at me he had many adventures. One of the earliest of these was the search' for and these of pirates in the Indian Seas, He was one of the ex, peditien veldt* brought to England three pirates who were hanged in public at Newgate, and he often dilated on the excitement of chasing slave -traders, arresting their officers, and liberating the poor slaves. He served his country in the Crimea, and was at the storming of Sebastopol, .On giving up his seafaring life he e,ettled. dOlefa-as-is maker of futile and blinds, an occupeeion he was able to follow close up to the time of his death. Ten of his 11 children had pre- deceased him.. ' Up to the last Collins retained all his faculties. He had lived under five Sovereigns, and remembered the rejoicing after the Battle of Waterloo and the coronation of the late Queen Victoria. Governor of Jamaica. Sydney Oliver, who suceeeds Sir Alexander Swettenham as governor of janaaica, is a Radical of Radicals -in MOISTENING' TOE ,INDOMITABLE. tact, his 'views are more pronounced frankly avowed. than is ouptoria of 25 knots. This means diet she has and her ary with permanent servants of the greater n ower and a h= a en. . "No heed was taken of his- threats, Owing to the flood tide the cere- . No one can gainsay, however, that Mr.• Oliver is an exceptionally bril- and the unfortunate boy went to his mony of launching had to be perform - Rant meg. and as he is still on the fte7 doom. over the' steep wall of Cor- ed- hurriedly" by the Marchioness of sunny side of fifty his public career tachy; but some years af wards, Breadalbane, half -an -hour earlier yet have much in reserve. He just before' the death of the wicked than was expected. The titanic bulk - nlaY Earl, the faint rub -a -dub -dub of a, . of steel glided into the water before already knows Jamaica, having serv- drura awoke the eelmes round the most of the invited party had reach- ed for five years in that island as stately' 'castle, and Aver, since then, ed the launching 'stage. • At the lunch- Colonial Secretary, and later as. act - before the death .oVan Earl or Count- eon which subsequently took place, ing-governor ou three separate occa- ese of Airlie. sofeinuaio, accompanied Sir' William Pearce, chairman of the skins. Edueatioually he is a good ex - by the Sound ofdrumming, is distinct- Veit -field Co„ who built the great ship, ara.Ple of what Oxford and a German ly heard, often by -persons having no declared that she must remain a mys- umversi y can turn ont. and when he of the legend whatever, tory ' until her trials had taken place. firet entered the Colonial Office, a aes when least expected or The Indomitable is of .17,250 tons quarter of a centuty ago it was at ed for. displacement.. Her cost is approxi. the head of the open .competition. At or instance, in August, 1849, a' niately £1,744.000. During the. next present he is principal clerk of the young Englishman, a friend' of the fortnight our navy Will be further .West African department of the Cole eir of the Ogilvies, was invited to strengthened by the launch of her two ' °Mil Office, and in his time has sere- Tulchan for a week's shooting, and on sister cruisers, equal in speed and ed as Colonial Secretary' in British his way to the shooting lodge on the gun power. Honduras, auditor -general of the Lee - estate he rode a stout Highland pony. • I ward , Islands. and secretary to the oueted .on' a black donkey, and was aceompanied by a 011ie. • DODGING — -West. Indian -Royal -Commission, Some -King! .in A HOGUE ELEPHANT. years age is paying adoration. knowledg and al lie a KING'S NEW YACHT. Doecription of His Majesty's Turbine • Boat. A further demonstration -if atlY be 1100114. -of King Edward' love of the flea is !tarnished by the new turbine yacht, appropriately nanted Alexan- dra, which being 'built for His Ma- JeetY, and which will be launched from the yard of Mews. A. and J. Inglis dc CO. at Glasgow on April 3% The new regal yacht is a most ele- gantly appointed vessel, her fittings and handsome- deeoratiOns - making her, in ethiii respect, quite the first emit afloat, The Alexandra is in- tended be replace the Osborne, which is no longer •eonsidered to be fit for use. She is a vowel of 285 feet long by 40 feet broad and is 2,000 ft= ATOSS. Three Parsons turbine's will be the propelling .power, each of these tur- bines driving separate shafts. The yacht's speed capacity will be 17 knots, Shorter by 137 feet than the Vic- toria and Albert, and of lest; than half the tonnage of the former, the new vessel is intended only for. the private use of the Royal Family and their immediate attendants. She is meant primarily for abort cruises and for visitng harbors where the draught of water is limited, such as Flushing, Nice, and other Continental . Ports which his Majesty when on holiday frequents. The order for the construction of the new yacht was received by the Glasgow shipbuilding Arm in compe- tition with a number of other firms Who submitted designs, and it was given to them by an Admiralty Com- mittee, including Mr, Philip Watts„ Director of Naval Construction, who approved the designs. Tbe-Queen's-drawing-roora and the smoke -room are on the upper deck aft. The decorated work, furniture, etc., will, as far as possible, be made in Scotland.. insult to King William. More than two hundred' years ago Antonio Verrio a Painter, took revenge on William III. of England by panne, ing a clever caricature of him riding on a black donkey. The caricature was not discovered by the Ring; for it was concealed in the famous paint- ing' or "The King's Staircase," in Harapton Court, in London. The insult was discovered recently by . Charles Allem, artist -decorator for the Ring •of England. and the Prince of Wales. - Full extent of the insult has not been made clear, for there has also been found a sinister triple -faced Dia- na, probably modelled after the fea- tures of Borne court lady, possibly Mary,. William's Queen, to Wham a Cupid, wearing the features of the The Death. Warning. . he was sent to Washington He s upon a black donkey arid to assist in the recintocitV neeotiti- - - "As he neared his destinatiOn he wee • •"' • - - gazes upward at Diana in an atti- Indian-Official's 'Game of- Hide and tons on. behalf of the West 'Indian tude of Bandleader' and adoration. surprised to hear, stealing over the . , colonies, . end in recognition of his At a distance the Cupid appears of--- wild lonely Forfarshire moor. the ' Seek'. With a ig Beast/ work he was created a C. M G Mr the usual type, but when Mr. 'Allem 40000040.40400. Convalescents need a large amount of roirowish. went in easily digested foral. . ..ccoff,,r Erroal.rion is powerful nous. ment—bighly concentrated. • It makes bone, blood and muscle without putting any tax on the digestion. ALL, DRUGGISTS' 50o. AND $1,00. 4)4244400041.440014.0040404400400 0411,11.dianois, MS RULING' PASSION. ouplineos Proposition That Just Failed of Success, - There lived In Detroit a man Who was the cbanxplon letter writer to the newspapers and to the heads of all puttlic entererisee. One of hie fads was to Write every day. to President Led - yard of the Michigan Central railroad and tell Ledyard wherein he was fail- ing in the conduct of his road. Therer'svas a letter for LeciTard eYerY morning. Tbey annoyed him, and he sent for his general counsel one day and said: "Rusiell, I'm getting tired of these letters. I will give you ppo more a year if you will find that man • and stop him for twelve montlis.ne—e- Three thousand dollars niore a year appealed td Ruseell, and he went out ti, find tbe letter writer. He fund bim and made a business proposition. "Now, see hererbe said, "I want you to stop -writing letters to Mr. Ledyard. • If you wilt quit for a year you $1.500." . . The letter writer consented gladly. Things went along swimmingly fee eleven months. Ledyard wae happy, and Russell was happy. Then 'there, was a wreck on the road. The letter • writer could not resist 6i -opportunity, •and he wrote to Ledyard and told him what be -thought about the road and eta president and its management Ledyard sent the leiter to Russell with this indorsement: "This is where you lose $3,000." And it was. Absinth Foretold. 'A Paris paper publish& a letter from a correspondent who in the cause 'of temperance cites a great autboritY-St. Jelin the Evangelist. It is claimed that the Inspired writer proclaims absinth ..as a terrible scourge and foretells its ,baneful powers In the eighth chapter of the book of Revelation, where we read In verses 10 and /1: "The third angel sounded a trumpet, and_a big star bright as a lamp fell from the sky on to the third part of the rivers and foun- tains and water. This star 'Is called 'Wormwood, and the third part Of the waters were changed, and many wen ;died of thirst because they were bit- ter." Wormwood in the English au- • tborized version is rendered "absinth" in., the Freneh translation of the New • Testament. e• .• sound of faint music, accomp,grij,ed,h,„,,, S.• M. Fraser. chief commissioner of .Gliver was formerly private secretary the 'Itellosr• rub -o -dub -duh ter Ceram. Coorg and : resident in Mysore, met to Lord Selborne,whileat the Colonial: had examined it closely from a seat- Tulchan stood enite alone, the oaly with . an advenOffice. .in Coorg near the,. :fold he ,found the face was a per- Candra border. during his ' recent tont. .'. . . ' . feet caricature • Of William of Orange, holm for Many miles i-ound. and as ' darktieree had slready• fallen the led „ ?dr. Fraser, accompanied by Mr. ' A Reel Seaman. „ . .. whose bald bead with his wig remov- could not understand . the , weird Harris, assistant cOmmisaioner;• Mr. ! A ' short time age •a : writer in • ea, showing a fringe of sparse gray sonnds, and questioned his [tilde'. McCarthy and • Mr. Helier,. were rid- . -ep. T. Q,,, was talidas. with a sailor hair at the nape of the neck, is to "The .Hielilander muttered " some- • ing along -A narrow zigzag path • be seen quite clearly. at short range. thing inaudible and tipperired, greatly thrnugh •an almost Innienetrable ,pin- who liad served ender the commend This clearly intended insult is ac - perturbed, but presently the music gle, when, says The London Standard,' wott.s;tlesityarintchei'iofthWe Wales.prince "Wwe was going seen. att. wiseseenateehdeohnealcreeeseDeinant Dianais and the drumming ceased. ,end the ' he heard an elephant moving parallel of the -lodge. . ' the next bend to see if the coast wae. :to put up to command ea," he said, "we were a bit dubious, and. certainly' we had appears as a beautiful w,oniatee But riders drew rent before' tie) front, deer •with them. 'Mr. McCarthy rode to "Before dismounting the English- clear, At the inement. Mr, la eCarthy with ..e lot of cha,ff from lloorhoinkttedsi'leadt intently :it is discovered ofnaceeEkheeti.iesine man was told, that hie. host. young turned the ..-.• .beud a tusker came - the other. shins of , the fleet, who wthaersottle7ee' Lord -Ogilvie. had been hastily sum- out on the path : above him, and . Promptly '•christened our boat, Buck:. of her head,. with the ears formirig rnoned to London on a•ccenint of the without a . mornent's hesitation gave ingham Palace, And would step es in the noses. These features have sinie7. the:streetter expressions. delleerons illness of his father. the. the usual squeal and eharged. - and 'beg our lordships' par- . don, ninth Earl (who, alreadY lay op his Shouting "P1.. 1" Mr. McCarthy gal- but could we oblige them with .: , ,---,......... . . a cPhe prince. had not been • Ladies Wanted to Bet.. death6e4. and was aske o o • • ed -w41 -11 -this ----abroad long; however, before we found • , his ebsence: • flying start, passed Mr. Fraser. who. The aillie then solemnly related . had not got up much pace, not fully out that he was no ornamental sailor. The. dense in the New • Victorian but a real seaman down to his (Australia) Gaming Suppression Act, the family legend -to the new guest. realizing the danger. The test of the boots. And hestood no nonsense which prehibits the making of wag - and on the following dev the Earl party disappeared around the next either! He knew what he 'wanted, and ers on a racecourse between bocik- of Airlie died.' dins fulfilling the bend. Mr. Fraser turned into an open? he .saw that e he • got it. During the Makers and women, was .responsible drummer'e warning." ' • 'e inin the jungle, only to and' it a . 0 whole -cruise our ship as w a picture, - for some comical incidents at Flem- trap of impenetreble growth on all yards of the liftee's tall.and a better disciplined or happier ington Racecourse recently, when. the • g Mastering, a -Tiger. • In a cage near the .room in. Which 1 lived while' in Khiva," _says. Mr. Langdon Warner in ' Tho Century Magazine; "was. a tier from the Oxus swamps. Ile had taken , a dislike to Itie• and every time T passed his 'cage he got Up and Paced angrily towards me. snarling. Into the cage of this beast, at the commend of the prince; a • Turkoman stepped. armed with a short thick stick, as big round as his wrist. With thisstick he struck the tiger's hose .as he made for him. and then, with the palm out and'ey'es fixed he walked elevely up to the ' shrinking beast, and stroked his face I and flank. The 'tiger took •the man's e hand in • his open mouth. Keeping that hand perfectly with the ether the Turkmen tickled the thr- ees jowl abd • scratched his ear till, with a yawn and a pleased snarl, the big cat rolled over on his back. The man then sank to his knees, al- . ways keeping:. his hands in motion aver the glossy fur, and with his foot n drew towards . him a collar „ratached d to a chain. This he snapped round the beast's Peek, and teeing- to his e feet, laid hold,of the chain end dreg- C ged the tiger out. This waa only tbe second time find the .esee had been' T entered.. As soon as the tiger was 1 outside he egpied the watehing netts' t of phOlOgraphers and started for them. t but came up short on the caller. Tf f he had Chosen to Ilse his weieht end t strength ne fonr of them corde heee held Win. Bet. as it ti' s Terlro- 1 man found little clifileelty with 'him. t and held him, snarling, : until the e carnet% 'finished its work." „. • •-r- Britain Is Supreme. • Though the Admiralty policy for lu the inaintena,nee of British •naval superiority is based. on lin adherence to Ake two-pesver standard, the total e otr` put 61-11; Lennage-r-eckedie_ Y 11ES been overwhelmingly in exeese oi the presoribed requirements. The m Shipping construction put out ' by c 0-elit Britain last year amounted to c 2,10201 tons. The oorrespodding German output, amounted to .30,980 tone, that of Fret& to 85,348 tons, whilst the United States built .464,871 tons. The paat annual production of all foreign atioes amounted to 1,322,- 45etone. Thus Greatleritain leads the witY with an output of 880,117' tone over and above that produced by the entire world during the past year. As 'Lord Tweedmouth ended when diuuing With the Institution of Naval Archi- tects, this tremendous superiority of *British maritime eonstruction is en- tirely doe 'to the effieleney of our Mi- ned etchiteets end the superiority of 'our -civil entrineere. , . sides,' Thein a .felv - rogue ' • elephant was with- ' ' crew 'never Sailed. • The prince Nees a law ' had .to be .observed for the first , '. ' Without an . .great change. 'them :some., of thelisho-ut., time on a registered course. . Many instant's hesitation, . around a tree while ing' raving' captains •-i have served :WM:hen, who', are in . the habit Of ire, throwing an Attn Pt under. You • can . take. it from. Me." quenting. the betting -ring, and know aseine, he the horse gallop from . fell to • the, -ground on all added; the tar . in conclusion: "that .mote as `a rule about the proper price under him. all fours, flung' himself to one side .the 'Prince of Wales is. a' -jolly geed' o - f a• horse than • Of the doings . of the he ' Used ..........Gckneral—tie4 ettattente4-4.0etliakc Y-02- clear of the•eliarging elephant's path. . sallereeonly the adjective and then-, ,Springing to his feet, -took e • • .. . . . - . - Lem as usualrand siert! indignaiirwhefl wag net "Mtg.". • .' l• refuge behind. A, larger tree some paces •I • - , Premier and. Suffragettes, . . •the hoOkniakers declined to do beet- . i nese. 7 One feminine backerwho had ; - No seeper 'did the elepliant'•mise his . ,r,Ond D il N • that en •Frida ..,. evidently truldre•up.hernii.M.-that 'aye, away. . ' ' . ' . ' i • 311 is just. carte to light, says: The man than he pulled 'up turned aroundon Y'' evfe, . had'a Certainty le her posseesion, in- man ofor him. . • , , afternoon last Sir HenrieCampbelKe • • • .1.ijk , feted utoii•being laid Odds and threw and proceeded t' hunt h Mr. -.Fraser. in the meantime moved Eitnnerman was. Cleyerin •inteteriewed•,.• the money' into the bookin er e, bag;. ilentty around the tree; keeping • itt.: by. two of the .niest militant leaders, ,...:at; the saine:limeeleniandingleetieketp; )etween himself: mid, the e ep an- ,;, of the•suffragette erunpaigneeeTheepreeee ighite]:iisialirlatter;j4ipintic;041.1tee,tg;tti.• Idn:: Fortunetely after some' minutes the . ler -who was •on hie Way to Catmes; that t lephant moved. off . Mid disappeared. enntter'ed 'the dining -car of. the train. Ninth. women • _ .On s:racecoerses, sent her Mr. Fraser emerged from his place of or thepurpose Of taking tea;.and at eon. to put Atm_ money .. our, . but was concealment..not damaged in any way. down • at a ' table adjoiniag one 'at aain dieappointed, as the . son was The whole party was.unartned, • which 1,vere seated two ladies." Tie obviously under the age of twentye • : . i. latter promptly introdueed themselves oxie, and, according to the law,:eould •-•-• - • • as Miss Annie Kenney and Miss Mirynot make a be India and the Opium Treffie. . ' Gawthorpe, anct a friendly diectisaion A writer' in • The •Morning. Pest, of • ensued.. Sir Henry expregeed„approe- . Queen Aids Destitute • Dancer. Delhi, India, discusses the recent Chi-. at- Of• the educational work $f•the Wo' • A' delightftil. Story. of Queen Alex- ese edict on the opium .trtiffic'. He men's Social and•P_qiitkal TJnion, nut otibts the efficacy of the edict. • • ; went on to criticize its. methods, , He andra's self-secrifice. in the :cause of .. nindnese and mercy 14, t.01.4 in eon - 1 -le has', he tells lie; ..seers the evil gave no .luipe that. the •0-overnment nectioti with het' Majesty's recent stay fleets . of opium for . Many years in would being in n bill eefranchizing in Parte. • • .1 , •.••. • . •.... • bine. and Would be the last to adio- .! women this session and said he wish- It seems that a letter ' Was sent to site the continuanee of the present . ed.to dissuade.the ladies from mpg- . her Majesty,ealliug attention to .the ndittn.•trade in it„ should the evil ' ing in further demonstrations put-. . come .01„Loie Fuller, 'the famous dah- labit ever really be rot under con- . side the. House of Come -ions, consid-' Cer, who had fallen on evil times 0W- rol ; "but till undeniableevidence of. ering that such proceedings were not __isle to illness. The clancee was to make his is really, to hand, the only step,' likely, to produce good results; .: 'a reaPpearaneeat the .Hippodrome, or our Government to take is to at- • • ' . • . - -"-7•---, ' - . and it was suggested that the royal. m • of what is to. be done • with T . the ' - . oo Much Curiosity, . .• patronage would help her greatly. e . I Vinery moment of .the .Queen'stime ' ' empt to find a solution of the prob- • . and and the people' in whole ' dis- ' A. dangefrons,operation was being per- was already filled by prearranged eti• inete of . India, if --and' when -the day' formed upon a woman. Old Dr. A., a gagements, but tier Majesty cancelled. huld came when opiettesinoking in Ourtint Gentian, full of kindly Wit and - Several engagements arid -went to the hina is really almost 'a thing of the professional exithusiaem, bad several- Hippodrome. • set. . But this, bearnig In tinnd the -younger doctors with , hini: One of • • idle progresee that up-to-date Japan • them was administering the ether. - He Maeried .Upon Return. as. been able to effeet ainengst the hecarae. so Interested hi the Old doe- An atitusing story Of how young mall Chinese popelation of Formosa, eeptte, all her zentone ende.avore and ' tor's work that'll?' Withdrew the cone Irish obtain Anieriean wives flicient methods in the period of ten teem the patient s nostrite„ min she was related at the last sitting Of the ears, seems to the writer at the beat •0 to ' . 1 ti half roused an rose . a • e t ng pose Royal Commission on Congestion in Ireland. --E-Urfropitrasurrt-d-reantr-at,..theLtytitst a tura, looking with Wild eyed amaze- Mr. John Fitzgibbon, a Nationalist andarm atteropt to play a p-OTitidtri-enenteover the surrotifidinge. It was ' leader, of Castle re a, said that'. as an (infidel -lee trick on ei too innocent and a critieni-fieriede-and-Dere.A. did net experiment lie bogght a grazing tract,. onfiditig British Prime Minister." • went to be interrupted, eleiig- detelli ---ef• enearly--3O0eacres, and settled nine ' dere,' woman." be commanded gruffly. youngfaxmers upon it. - --• • "Therm men are all unmarried, ex- cept one," continued Mr. Fitzgibbon, "but they will probably get wives with from £150 to £200, girls ,. who have gone to America and returned to Ireland with a little money. • "The marrying nation is from jams - see - late meta Lent," he added,. , • . , .... Ceti of European • Arenas.' ' EttrOPft sPerit in • round munbers £200,000,000 on its army and 480,000V 000 on its navy .in 1906, as against 1ll46.000,000 and £60,000,000 respective- ly, in MS. That is to SOY, Euro ' anent& to -day X280,000,000 on itE, arm and naVY, tie against n206,000,000' in 008,- at row inerease of £74;000,000, or, say a per eent, SeVerify-foun Mill, Ilene - re year isernatattlent to 4 per tent', interest upon re capital sure of 41,860,000,000. That is th6 fine in which' the Grate ertimenes have Mulcted' their peoples. by their refusal to ace upon the stand. still proposition of the Cur in 1899. end to adopt tbe- peadernalring meth. ods teeommended by The Hague cone Vendome -Review of Revive'. • . AMMO LAMPS. , ...----...„ , I A Swiss Doctor's Invention and Wheel It AlmaraPIllitlul" ' • What did Argand do for the lampli Examine" an ordinary- letup in evidelel , Mil oil la burned, The chimney' proe ' teent-the flame frem sudden gusts ot! wind and also creates a draft of alr,,, just -as the fire chimney creates a draft,, Argandts lamp was the first to have nl chimney, Look below the ehlinney andi you will see open passages. through; Which air may pass upward and final • its way to the wick, Notice furtheri • diet as this draft of air passes upward . It Is so directed that when the lamp bel burning an extra quantity of air •plays directly upon the wick, Before Argand•' -1111-SVIck, received .no supply of air, Now notice -end this is very important, -that the wick of our modern lamp Is, fiat or circular, but thin. The air In; athindanee plays upon both Sides of thei thin Wick nd burns it without making, - smoke: •S oke is simply bait burned' paitieles (s�oti of a burning substance. Tbe partieles pass ofr half burned be- cause enougl air has not been sup: - plied. Now Argand, tly making the. iwick thia and by causing Vent' ef air to rush into the flame. thereby caused.', It to burn with a white flame. . • , After the invention of Argand the, art of lamp making.impreved by leaps: and by bounds. More progress was made in twenty years after 1783 than. had been made In twenty centuries be- fore. New burners were Invented, new and better oils were used and better wicks made, but all the new kin�t e ' lamps were patterned after the .0-- gand.-S. E. -Forman In St: Nicholas: 1 I Was Mistaken. • A. lively writer has said "'1 was mire - taken' are the three hardest words to . pronounce In the English language." Yet it seems but acknewledging that we are wiser' than we were before to see °or error and humbler than we • • • were before • to own it. But. so it I and Goldsiaith observes that Frederick-. the Great dc) himself more honor by his letter to his senate stating tbat he had just lost a great battle by his own • 'fault than by ail the -victories be had won, Perhaps our greatest perfection', •here is not to esCape inmerfections, but. to see and acknowledge and lame* and Correct them. ' • 10.0a. Pale: Prejudiced and unserupulous vendors may tilt:guest' others.: but compare it atm. . • • " • way vett will—per.ty 1 reedoni from agidity. Ualatabletiess"Labates Ate is surpass., • ed rionia, equalled by fenfr–at aboUldnilf the UtiCe oi imnorted brands. . • • . '• " „ - • - ".a....11.7wErwini!imr.!voimehmorwirrivimismaymoileriewoon......"...0.;raier.mpoi... • . • • • , . • • • . , • . Real Distinction. ,• Mr. 8eadds it man of ecientifie 1st' net Ion ?'' "Yee. Mcleod," tinswered Siles City - 1. Pone. "Ile bee so many college de. ll14,04 flirt t VC' IWO eends In bit eard PSI Plat Ili. sure whether it is hie leit»e or it prebiern in afgebra."-Lote tem Tleilits. • 'You bar More curiosity as a medical Kiss' the Post, student!" Billingsgate in past days wart fanie ous for its taverns, as well aa its fish and its langaage. ' The Result. on the fInst day. The story is told by Lawrenee that ' A nervous passenger he Once dined with Burke and others, of the outward•vOyege impottheed the at the Tun. At dinner Pearke wee cantuln to knon. What Wotild be the missed, and Was found at a fialtmon- result 'if tile Steamer Shenk? strike an ger's, the history of pickled iceberg %riffle' it f Waa throtigh salmon. • • the, fog. "The leeherg would niove The language of the place, adds The right aloe* readitro." the eantain Sheffield Telegraph, caused an oId plied courteously. 'lust OM If nothing • writer to daft it the Eseuline Gate Of. London, The derivation of the name lied Inippened." And old Mitt Weer u tiv tette edi Billingsgate is not. certain. One ex- -v-a - - v - planation ettmects it with an old image of BeIus or Belen, an early The Minister', Text; Xing of Britain, that BtOOCI on the A little girl eam$ home from chlinch spot, the other day and Wris•asked What the Tit former times the porte. ten minister's text was. "Don't' be afraid. on the passel-thy...saluting . •ain and " vim get. yon • gt. bedqufftti was post. If he refused he Wit:i .niped tee esteeesteng answer. against the post, but if ho kissed the • invosthrottiou .ttutt the eetitrat post and paid Gd the porters gave hint thought of the sermon itrid been. "Pear a name, and 011OSO one of 'thele*nutre not, and I AVM SOIld eottiferter." ite his godfather, -Technical World. • 11•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• . stvot pet ih lik ei eai .ng' s Pane. Collection. catures. and .model ships. His colleci• • • .1King • Edward is .a diligent collector of .walking stieltel; matchl.boxes,;;cariel . I lion of . carrot : numbers .nearly ,2,000;.: • ',.„..oalesod.thamtiosotps. o.f *Athsesti:k:li4velarr'repintizerAarka;if the Ring is one used" by Queen Vic- toria in her closing years. It is made from a portion of the oak in whose boughs. Charles I. concealed himself after his defeat by Cromwell at Worcester. - • A Tree That Smokes. . . ' In Japan there is a wonderful tree, Every evening after the sun has gone down smeke can be seen coming from the the brancbes of the tree, jest as if some one had set it on fire. It is..quite_.'.. a live tree, and no one knows a bit . .Von flrid Te -o -P I; ?-re-a- cl-y- enough to do the . Samaritan without the oil and strange. grilOke 'really ie, , Punch, , • :Intenked To ray. . The kindly old lady from the coun- try hadpurcheieda.peir giov:ekin!.sk: • departtnentatore:,.. • • "Cash' shouted the .salealadra,;:rTo. • -"My. lentt,"!'l exclaimedetheetildelerneel. •-• .fnaShig•trt...herflmaithefr,,,!#Bitetzelittcp,!,; • Srott '-justalpeourvaarLginfurinponketkloi”,..., ' book!" • "My boy, IH;21kCelynochu7danItci .1 Arent yen . to inarrY my daughter, but have you spoken to her mother about It?" "Tben, eineh it ter you, "No, sin". III. oppose tne match." A Troublesome_ Future. • Nurse -Bridget, come here and see a. French' baby born in Dublin. -Bridget --Poor little darlint! It's a great per-. Plexity you'll be to yourself, I'm hi t n tin , when you begin shpeekin aseestesse= mente=s=tessesszeutrevasars,4*. THE RECORD ADMIRAL FURNACE r: , @IS the,flemand for a Tur- Pace possessing the larga est amount of grate sur- face in proportion to the _ tlialneter of thoop of the'. fire pot. It possesses all the advantages of a re- turn flue construction. 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