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The Exeter Times, 1892-6-23, Page 7"Like fla ic 33 effect prodeeed by Ayer's Cherry I Pectoral. Colds, Cough5, Croup,1 •and Swe Throat are, in most cases, im- mediately relieved •s; by the use of this • wonderful remedy, It strengthens the IP"4v? vocal organs, allays ' irritation, and pe - \,'0.1 vents the inroads of Consumption; in every stage of that dread disease, Ayer's Cherry Fec- al h rA total relieves cough - 71 lug and in cl, nc es vefreshiiag rest. "I have used Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in my family for thirty years and have always found it the best remedy for croup, to which complaint my children have been subject,"—Capt. U. Carley, Brooklyn, N. Y. "From an experience of over thirty ' years in the sale of proprietary medi- cines, I feel justified in reconunending Ayer's Cheery Pectoral. One of the best recommendations/ of the Pectoral is the enduring qualitaabf its popularity, it being raore saint& now than it was twenty-ilve years ago, when its great success was considered marvelous."— R. S. Drake, M. D., Beliot, Rana. "My little sister, four years of age, was SO ill from bronchitis that we had almost given up hope of her recovery. Our family physician, a skilful man and, ig large experience, pronounced it use- less to give her any more medicine; saying that he had done all it was pose sable to do; and we must prepare for the Work. AS a last resort, we determined to try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and I can truly say, with the most happy results. After taking a few doses she seemed to breathe easier, and, within a week, was out of danger.' We continued giving the Pectoral until satisfied she was entirely •well. This has given me unbounded faith in the preparation, and T recommend. it vonfidently to my customers."—C. 0. Lepper, Druggist, Fort Wayne, Ind, For Colds and Coughs, take Ayer's Cherry Pectora, murex -an BY Dr. J. C. Ayer 84 Co., Lowell, Masse ikrice$1 ; elx bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bottle. CENTRAL .Drug Store ANSON'S BLOCK. ali stook of all kinds of Dye -stuffs and package Dyes, constantly on hand. Winan's Condition • Powd- •thi3 best in eae mark- et and always *tesla. Family recip- oes carefully prepared at Cenral Drug Store Exete LUTIZ • CONSUMPTION. I have 'positive remedy for the above disease; by its use thousands of eases of the worst kind and of long standing have been cured. Indeed so strong Is my faith In its eilleacyL that I will send TWO MOTTLES FREE, with a VALUABLE TREATISE on this disease to any sufferer who will send me their EXPRESS and P.O. address, T. A. Saocusa, M. C.' 186 ADELAIDE T., WEST, TORONTO, ONT. TEE OF MYEXETER TIMES 14 . big. • iCARTEKS ITTL IVER PILLS: CURE Sick Headache and rereve all the troubles inci. dent to a bilious state of the system, such as Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Distress after eating, Pain in the Side, 8m. While their most remarkable success has been shown in curing SICK • Headache, yet CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PELLE; are equallyvaMuble in Constipation, curing and preventing this annoying complaint, while ,A they also correct all disorders of the stomach, Stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels. Even if they only cured HEA Ache they would be almost priceiese to those who suffer from this distressing complaint; ;but fortunately their goodness does not end here, and those who once try them will find " these little pills valuable in so many ways that they will not be willing to do without them. But after all sick head • ACHE ..•,.iithe bane of So many lives that here is where et, ' • 1 • we make our great boast. Our pills cure it •, while' others do not. ..., , CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER Plats are very small • •gnlovseery 'rally. toatraelotAriZe voergteaobklinasnrhut '110/..gripe OP purge, but by their gentle action • please all who use them.' ' In vials at 25 cents; • , five for $1. Sold everywhere, or sent by maiL •i PART111 MEDICINE CO., Now York. ' 11 rill De:e Small Price , • a TIIE MATIIRMATIOS OF WAR. T'WELVZ HUNDRED MILLION BE- INGS HAVE BEEN KILLED. The st an Sacrifice fu Thirty Centuries— As Great as the reputation. of the Earth New. Can human, folly, regarded from some special point of view, be considered a sub- ject for soil:a:tide observation? We do net hesitate to answer in the affirmative, al- though up to the present time it has never been classified, and although it ferins a whole too vast aud too complex to belong to any special genus or determined category. Its magnitude and universality have doubt- less kept it outside of positive studies, prop- erly so called. Even now we do not pre- tend to treat the immense subject in its full extenb, but simply wish to examine ono of its /nest interesting and serious phases, the military system of the fourteen hundred. million human beings who people this planet. How many men are destroyed by war in a century? Official reports and documents enable us to calculate the number of sol- diers who have been killed or have died during modern wars. We know that dur- ing the unaceouutable Franco-German war Of 1870-71, 250,000 men were slain on the two sides,• that during the useless Crimean war of 1854-55, 785,)0O were slain; that during the short Italian war of 1859, 63,000 men fell on the field of battle or died in hoepitals; that the game of chess between Prussia and Austria in 1866 deprived 46,000 individuals of life; that in the Unit- ed States the strife between the North and South caused the death of 450,000 men in 1860-64; we know also that the ware of TUE FIRST Bunn poured out the blood of five million Euro - peens, and that France has taken up arms twenty times since 1815. On adding the number of victims of war during the last century a total of 19,840,900 is reached in the civilized countries of Europe and in the United Stetes. Commencing with the Trojan war, the case has been the same in all ages of history. Certain remarkable battles, fought hand to hand with knife or club, have had the room. orable honor of leaving as many as two hundred thousand men dead on the field; an examples we cite the defeat of the Cina- brians and Tuetons by Marius, and the at exploits of _Attila, Itighteen to twenty mil- lion inen are killed every century in Europe by the enlightened institution of war. If these men, averaging thirty yeare of age, should join hands they would form s line 4,500 leagues long, crossing all Europe and, Asia. The nations ot the extreme Orient (the Chinese and their neighbors) form a second human consolidation, and shod about the same quantity of blood. Gengis Khan and Tamerlane marked their routes with pyra- mids of severed heads. Barbarous nations also are engaged in combats, seldom killing fewer than four to five million beings in a century, The total number destroyed every century in political, religious or iuternation- al wars is at least forty millions. General statistics prove that, since the Trojan war 3,000 years ago, not a single year has elapsed in which some war has not killed its proportionate number. During the thirty centuries which have elapsed since the beginning of Asiatic and European history, a loss of 40,000,000a century makes the total number destroyed by war to be 1,200,000,0110. a number very nearly rep- resenting the total population of the globe at the present day. Twelve hundred millions 1 It is day, and the sun sheds its light and hear upon the whole world. The country is green, the cities full of life, and the vil- lages surrounded with leborers. Millions of inen are living, acting, and producing. Life unfolds its joyous and divine radiance on the surface of the globe. But behold tho aun, gone to rest I Be- hold, black night and melancholy silence ! Funereal Death decends from sombre heights, holding in his hand a scythe of steel, He peens liko a bird of night whose flight MAKES MTH SDUDDER., extends his hand to the four cerdinai points, traverses shadowy space and disappears in the deptha ; this gesture has arrested humanity in its course ; this passage of the necrophore has sent all human beings to their last sleep; to -morrow morning none of us will waken ,• the sun will shine upon a laud of the dead. Not a single human being remains to look -upon the scene. Paris, London, New York, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, and Rome are suddenly ex- tinguished. Streets are deserted, dwelliegs filled with the dead ; cities and villages are eemeteries. Silence, seated on the ruins of the globe, sleeps in the midst of the vast field of the dead, in the midst of this prostrated army of 1,200,000,000 corpses. The immense cemetery of all mankind, seen at one view, is the real measure of the victims destroyed by war from the histori- cal beginning of nations down to the year of grace in which we live. The sword is ceaselessly drawing blood from hutnan veins. Eighteen million cubic meters have been shed. In summer at Paris the Seine delivers to two parts of the bridge Pont -Neuf about a hundred cubie meters of water every sec- ond, moving with a force of 3,500 horse power. Every hour 360,030 cubic meters of water pass under the arches of the bridge, or 8,640,000 cubic meters in a day. Imagine the river to be human blood instead of water, for if the blood shed in all wars was put intothe basin between the quays it would form such a river, and we would have to remain standing on the parapet fitty hours to see it flow away. That quantity of blood weighs 18,900,- 000,000 kilograms. It is an unfailing stream, which every hour since history began has unceasingly poured 680 litres of blood to dye the royal purple worn by the occupants of imperial thrones. If the 1,200,000,000 skeletons should rise and climb one upon another the ladder thus formed would reach the moon, coil about that body and, continuing onward, would mount infinite space four times as far again, that is, 500,700 leagaes in height. The corpses, if thrown into the channel at Calais, 'would form a bridge betvv.een France and England and separate the mean from the North Sea by a weir. If only the heads of the Men slaughtered in war• were taken and placed side by side, a band would be formed reaching six times around the world. War is, not only an unnecessary scourge, but is more injurious than all others, for it never comes alone; sickness, ruin, and famine always follow in its path. . A great amount of money is necessary in order to kill in proper manner, tor each man slain costs about 57,000. The increasing and multiplying texes of all nations are never sufficient to pay for the butchery of liuman troops. Every year Europe Spends more than a billion, two hundred million dollars in shedding laza Ontennett'e BLOOD t and France speuds four hundred thousend dollarevery day. The war in America did, not cost lese than six teen billion dollars, From the Crimean war down to that of 1870-71, the civilized nations of Europe and America spent in destroying one euother$10,000,000,- 000 of the ordinary budget and more than 511,000,000,000 raised expressly for the purpose, making a total of $21,000,000,000, The wars of the last hundred years have coat 5140,000,000,000, without counting the sorrow, the loss of men, and other results. For a part only of this bibulous sum all the children might letve been brought up and educated gratuitously; all lines of rail- ways might have been built; provision might have been made for the attempts to realizS aerial navigation ; cestoms, town dues, mud all obstacles to freedom of trade might have been suppressed; all destitution might have been removed except that caused by idleness and infirmity. Can the armies of the world be abolished? It is impossible. A mechanic has calculated the cost of making wooden soldiers of natural size and good condition. As, after all, the victims of to -day are only an affair of number, money, and stratagem, he has decided that all the armies could be reproduced for 6,- 000,000 francs, or 51,200,000,000 a year (soldiers in fir, under officers in oak, officers in rosewood, captains in mahogany, colonels in cedar, and generals in ivory), and they could be drilled by steam power, the artil- lery being included in the calculation. The leaders of the two nations at war and their staff officers would aoudad the strategy at their risk and peril. The victory would bos long, as heretofore, to him who by his atilt should succeed in checkmating his adversary and in destroying the greatest ntunber of comi combatants. That mprovement on ordinary armies would litive the advantage of leaving the husbancinian to Ms field, the workman in his factory, and the atudent to studies, and would promote public prosperity and happiness. That may answer as advice to future ministers of war when men, having finally reached the ago of reason, shall refuse to fight. Bet for centuries Ministers and Generals can rest upon their laurels. Thoughts of Brides. "For instance, what were you all think- ing of when you were being married?" Every one laughed and said in a breath, "Why, being married, of course 1" " Nonaense, ' said the newspaper woman, "that idea was in your mind, no doubt, but it was the undercurrent of thought. You were thinking really of something else. Con- fess, now." "Well," said one of the liateners, thought- " perhaps that is true. Now that I stop to consider it, I was thinking of some- thing else, You see, I was married at home and in the evening. Just as the minister commenced the service a lamp -shade on a smell table near me cracked. I turned involuntarily to my sister, who Was standing near me, and was about to whisper her to turn the lamp down, when it suddenly occurred to me that I was the cynosure of all eyes—that it was really my own wedding. 01 course I reframed from speech, but it was with difficulty that I re- frained from laughter at the blunder I came so near making.' " Well, I remember distinctly what I was thinking about," amiit the intellectual wo- man on tho sofa. "1 had t, now pale of eye- glasses on, and the apring hurt my noso. I was wishing the minister would hurry up so I could go up stairs and change them.' " And. I," put in the third, " was con- gratulating myself all through the ceremony on my wonderful composure. I knew that he was frightened to death, and I was thinking what larks it would be to tease him about it all the rest of his life, when suddenly, as I hold out my hand for the ring, I happened to glance at it and found that it was trembling like a leaf. " That sight 'phased' me so that all else is a blank, save my own desire to hide my hands, I had a mad impulse to conceal them in the folds of my veil, but I don't think I did. "At least, no ono ever told me so. I my- self would hate to take my oath that I did nob," rt,,t was a sermon of Sam Small's that was diverting my mind at my wedding," said the woman in the corner. "1 don't know that anything could have been more incongruous at such a time than ono of Sam Small's sermons, but I had heard him preach a month or so before, and just as I was coming down stairs something, I shall never know what, put me in mind of one of Ms grotesque illustrations. "He compared the gospel to a spring board. Just where he found the resem- blance I can't remember. That was what troubled me then. I couldn't remember, and I was trying to figure it out all through tho service. I nearly missed one of the re- sponses, I was so intent upon the idea. "Everybody accounted for,' said the newspaper woman, "save myself, who am not married, and Mrs. Blank. What were you thinking of, Mrs. B. ? The little woman blushed furiously, hes- itated, and finally said : "11 you promise never to tell, I'll tell you. You see, I was married in the days when people were enor- mous bustles. Well, in the confusion and hurly-burly of dressing, my bustle got lost, and couldn't be found. It was growhig late, and what was to be done? No one knew. I could not wear my dress without it, for it looked dreadfully. "Finally one of my bridesmaids a girl of expedients, graboed up a handful of bath towels, tied a ribbon around them, and fastened that around my waist. I didn't thirk very much about it unt'l I was stand- ing at the altar, and then the horrible thought flashed across me, what if I should lose some of those Manchester bath towels, best -quality, in the aisle. " I eearly fainted. away, and I assure you. every step of that solemn procession down from the altar was solemn indeed, to me. I proceeded' very gingerly. Please don't tell, though, for people will tease me." And they all promised, but the newspaper woman told. Thus Science Moves On. Patent Medicine Manufacturer—" Doc- tor, don't you think you could discover a new disease ?" Doctor—" Discover a new disease What on earth should I do that for ?" P. M. M.—"Because I have a new patent medicine which is the very thing for it." A Considerate Husband. Husband—I never rebuke my wife except in two cases. Friend—What are they? "In the first place, I aux rude to her when she reproaches me." "And under what othe.e circumstances are you rude to her ?" " Well, when she doesn't reproach me." Presidents without policy would be po- tatoes without salt. 3hildren Cry for Pitcher's Castoriii seha, MEN WHO 'CAMP OT1T., A, Method or Talking ik vacation, mot Is , loved for Its Freedom. To a civilized Man there is only oae pleasure which is greater than his first night in camp, and that is his first night out of it, when he has a bath and a good bed with fresh sheets. This is enough to establish the fact that it is only by coetra.sts that the salient points of things axe developed. If a man has a good home and a good bed, and a furnace to keep the house at a proper temperature at all times, he ought to be happy. Add to that a good cook and it happy family, and he should desire tu stay in that place and enjoy it. Even if he wants a change and a rest, he could find places equally comfortable anal easy of twos ; but there are mon who get up from the break- fast table and say to their wives: "Now, I can't stand this sort of thing any longer." and the good little woman knows that the spell is on him. He goes off upstairs and gete out a trunk, and then Irons the depths of a far-off closet he hauls down some dis- reputable old clothes and lugs out a gun add a lot of rods and fly cases and ammunition and lays them tenderly in the bottom of the trunk. He gets "a shocking bad hat" and a. pipe which madam will not allow in the settled part of the house and strange Cases made of canvas which carry the charms and fetiehes of the sportsmae. These he places in the trunk. He then overhauls his "kit," He sticks fly hooks" up in rows bathe pillow -shams if Madam is not looking. He puts tallow -covered cartridges on the lace bed cover and then carefully lays a heavy pair of very greasy and dirty cowhide shoos on his wife's meet choice piece of upholstered furniture, In the midst of this in walks the lady of the house, the partner of his joys and sorrows. In this case the joya and sorrows do not mix. Madam says "Now, Jack—I think it is awful for you to -put those nasty old things on my bed—you have no consideration, etc,, eta.," and poor Jack transfers them all to the floor, while off flouncee the lady to tell the maid that she moat "go through that room, thoroughly, as Mr. B --has been packing his nasty old traps and has neerly ruined everything." Jack is ready and is driven off to the station, where he bids Madam "good-bye" and is rolled away, happy in the knowledge thatt in a few days he will be sleeping on it bush -heap with rude men and surrounded by mosquitoes and smoke, with tough, soapy bread and bleck coffee for food, Madam explains to a lady friend that "Mr, B. is such a curious man—he goes oir up there and lives like a wild beast—I do not understand it." To develop your real sportsman the en- vironment must be favorable at a very early age. If he is favorably situated he becomes possessed of an unbounded enthus- iasm and more tools of the sporting craft than has a dentist in his. A great many people are now growing up whose tendencies are an illegitimate cross between an English battue and an American aunimer hotel— they are a sort of " arrested development" between true hunter e and fishermen and people who are not financially able to buy it country place. All such are spurious and not to be considered seriously. The genuine lover of the woods did not gather his theories of how to be happy from " shoot- ing on his estate," or proceeding against tigers with the entire organized population of an eastern principality, or from dilettau- te literature on how to do the thing so that "it will stand wash." He first passed his boyhood in it country where the squirrels were pretty thick and the trout would bite and the old gentlemen wore never ceasing in telling how they killed "the biggest buck I over sot my eyes onto." He then tried the southern arms of the big lakes until they became infested with women and summer hotels, Then he tried Muskoka, but Muskoka got filled up with persons who wore two peaks on their hats and ato their dinner on a table, and the guides became servants instead of woodsmen. Than he discovered Quebec, the Northwest and the Rocky Mountains, and awny in the heart of their wilderness you will find his "bark -lean-to" where the timber grows the highest over the little spring, and where the "dude has ceased from troubling and the cigarette's at rest." This sportsmau has got a moral mortgage on a little pond somewhere away off up somewhere, and he won't tell you where it is because he don't wart you to find out. You may not recognize this matt of the woods in Toronto or Montreal because he has trained himself to be as much like the rest of humanity as possible in order that he may make EiJittle erlimy, so that he can go hunting once or tw ea. year and be his own natural self for a space. When the buds open and the grass shoots, and the sunlight thaws out his mind, he will mani- fest uneasiness and become unsettled. You mu begin to detect him then. He won't care about the frost and the peach crop, or the candidates, or the anarchists, but will be morbid and go on incoherently about brown-hackels, No. 8 shot, and improved Greener models, and other profitless sub- jects. Late in the season he gets down his double-barrel and his rifle and begins to oil them up. He takes out his pea -jacket and his oil -fanned moccasins and his jaegers. He is constantly writing letters to "Sam Busheraf a Mountain Pine, Assinaboia, N. W. T., or to "Pierre Antoine, Temiscam- ingue," and receiving replies in brown or yel- low envelopes signedwith his (x) mark. Why he becomes so interested in these half savage men in the waste places only he can uuder- stand. This curious person does not want to go with Madam to Cacouna or down by the sea, begs off and goes up to conspire with his friend, Dr. Swellkill, who is a henter and old comrade. They go into the doctor's private room and lock the door. Madam, the doctor, becomes concerned and goes over to see her friend, the wife of the first man' and says "Your husband has been withthe doctor a great deal of late, and I am afraid that he will entice him away this summer or fall, a.nd I did so want him to go with me to Old Orchard Beach. Well, you know I have no influence with Mr. B. He insists on going off to these strange places—he always has and I sigh to think that he probably always will,',con- doles the little woman. ' "1 am sure, then, that I can do nothing with the doctor—he, too, will go—it is so unfortunate to have such tastes." From that time on the doctor's health begips to fail. A brother physician recom- mends the " woods," and while it is so un- fortunate to be compelled to leave his pa- tients, yet his health demands it, and one fine morning the man and his friend, the doetor, are missed front the haunts of men. In a few days tbe trim, well groomed city men are no longer recognizable. They sit in the forward snd of the cenoes with a stump beard and a bull -dog pipe dressed in dirty, gr easy clothes, while behind the pans, blankets, packs, and guns sits a strange, dark-skinned, beetle-browed half- breed, with scraggy hair and a bristling beard. The canoes cleave the mirrored waters while the yellow reflections mix with the Vandyck shadows of the over - banging forest in the lake, They are happy., 11 they are not here then they are.= little scraggy ponies herding other scraggy ponies bearing packs and all following an uncoath and piratical man who is just ahead Urging his own horse over logs and up the stony bed ot a dry stream. Ae though not satisfied with traveling bynight and by day for a week away from their cosy homes in town they are now making desperate !unite to go up a bleak mountain range as though of the jumping off place of e It would be interesting to understand this man so prone to these lapses of savagery. We readily comprehend one who at times becomes awfully drunk for days et a time and calls it a nervous die - ease and gives it a scientific name which clears it of mystery. We know why the man leaves his native city ha the heighta of the businese and social seas= and deports himself to the West Indies or Florida,,—his brouchial tubes are on strike. We of course see that another talies himself off to Eutope but he goes tO cultivate his raind and to be lazy and dissolute, but here is this man whose business and social life called for his attendance, whose health is offensively rugged, and he does this strange thing. He eats the worst imaginable food, all cooked in a disgusting fashion, ha sleeps itt a sort of kennel like a farmer's dog —lying on brush and with the smoke blowing all through and around him. Be freezes nearly to perishing every morning—he goes to bed wet to the hide,aud paddles up stiff currents or toils under a sixty -pound pack all day, and his only remon seems to be it desire to stay. You doubtless all know one of this sort of men—ask him why? In all probability he will fold himself in his robe of superiority and simply pity your varnished ignorance and will not deign to reply. Ile will consider you hopeless, weak—laeking character and eentiment—but if you would know why he does it go with him when the spell is on him and fled outs If you do not like it you will at least know why.—F. For Over Fifty Years. AIIRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTRING SYRUP has been used by millions of mothers for their children while teething. If disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying with pain of cutting teeth send at once and get a bottle of "5,irs, winslow's Soothing Syrup" for ebildren teething. It will relieve the poor little sufferer inamediatelY. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake aboutit, It cures Diarboea, regulates tho Stomach and Bowels, cures Wind Colic- softens the gums, reduces Inflammation. aud gives tone and energy to the whole system. `airs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for children 4 eeth- ing is pleasant to the taste and is the prescrip- tion ot one of the oldest and befit female hysioians anduurses in tbe Uuited States rice, O., cents a bottle. Sold by all druggists, throughout the world Be sure and ask for Mas. WI:rates. .. ‘iclornroto SYRUP," Old Memories. Old memories with hallowed glees, You echo in your melodies, Your songs aro of the other years, Of other joys and other cheers, ln other chorus and harmonies, Of children on thograssied leas, Of daisy blooms and humming bees, Of shadowed mounds bedewed with tears Old memories. And through the gathered mysteries, That hang like veiling mists of seas. You bring xis where the bound'ry nears The world in which our dead appears, But only touch tlx minor keys — Old memories. DIAny F. 13. HAusmr. CONSUMPTION* CURED. An old physician retired front practice, hav mg had placed in his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure for Consumption, Bronchitis. Catarrh, Asthma and. all throat and lung affections, also it positive and radical cure for nervous debility and all nervous complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of casen has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering follows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send freo of ehargo,_to all who desire it, the recipe in Dorman, French or English with fill directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this pave r, W. A. NOYES, 820 Power's Mock 14 chester, N.Y. *we= r* A coat of paint hag no buttons on it. Patience is it virtue—in other people. "Why comes not my love to nee?' screams a poetess. Don't be hoggish. This is his other girl's night. I• Dast at 13ea. The &Utah ship Berean, which rteseetly made the voyage from Tesinanie around. Cape Horn to Beglancl, enceantereti a ro. markable but not unusual phenontanon at ea vis,, to i f dust After crossing tho equator she fell into the northeast trade winds, and when about , 600 miles west of Cape de Verdeislands, • the nearest land, "the Berean's sa$1$ and , rigging were thinly coated with a veey fine powdery dust of a dark yellow or seffron color, scarcely discernible on or near the deck, but profuse on the highest parts of the rigging," so that the sails annexed "tanned." Fine dust falling on vessels in the Atlan- tic near the Cape de Verde archipelago has often been reported, but it has so often been of a reddish hue that it is known among sailors as "red fog," and has been generally supposed to come front South America,. The observation on board the Beretta op - pears to overthrow this conclusion, and to determine the African origin both of the Atlantic dust and the so-called "blood rains" of Southern Europe. Admiral Smyth many years ago reported, during his stay in Sicily, March 14, 1814, a "blood rain," which fell "in large, muddy drops, and deposited a very minute sand of a yellow -red color"—quite similar to that now reported by the Berean. He then regarded it as "sirocco dust' , from the African desert, "crowning the beautiful theory of atmospheric circula- tion." Both on the Atlantic ocean and, in Europe these rains of dust have almost in- variably fallen between January and April — a period of the year in whieh the Sahara is most arid. Terrible Disaster on the Caspian Sea. Particulars have only just reached St Petersburg of a terrible disaster, involving eat loss of life, which occurred on the aspen Sea at the end of March. As early as the 4th ult. a report was current at Baku, and Was telegraphed abroad, that a steanter had been wrecked while on a goyage to that port, but in the absence of further advices the rumour remained unconfirmed. No doubt is now entertained, however, that the vessel referred to was the steamer Alex- ander Wolkow, which left one of the Per- sian ports on the southern side of the Cas- pian, with goods and passengers for Baku at the end of March, and, has never since been heard of. It is now practically certain that she foundered with all on board during a terrible storm which raged on march 29„ The precise number of lives loat has not been ascertained, but 14 18 knosvu that some two hundred Peraiaus had taken passage for Baku, and all these were drowned, be- sides the crew. The Alexander Wolkow was formerly used as a river steamer, and is stated to have been quite unsuitable for traffic in etormy weather, being totally un- provided with lifeboats. 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