Loading...
The Exeter Advocate, 1894-11-15, Page 2vie everieet`i. WOO Mica not reeeivOewer. A. eptr. 1 reereolr wall, please oetitr as Qi t..we ea ertising rates an application. THE EXETER AJ)YOCATS. THURSDAY, NOV, 15, 1894, k Week's Conlnercial Sullimary, The number of 'failures in the Doxnin- iou the past week, in provinces, is as fol- low;: Until `io, 28; Quebec, 20; Nova Scuola, I. , 'Mani tuba, 1. ; total 50, The exports of wheat from the United State, and Canada last week were 8,353,- 000 bushels, as eompared with 3,192,000 bushels the previous week and 3,927,000 bushels the correspendingweek last year.. TI e net experts of gold at New York are tt o ht aviest in years. Since the first of th ' ye -u the net exports aggregate 263.27 b,ui 0, as compared with $12,751,- u0.i the Name period in 1893, 851.519,000 in 1893, and $52,367,000 in 1891. The . ight Ontario counties in which the larae;t amount isregistered in the form of chattel mortgages are : York, $1,553,000; Grey, 2518,000-; Simms, 8415, 000; Carleton, 8887 ,000 ; Algoma, 2358,- 000; Kent, $828,000; Prescott and Rus- sel, 8320,000; Wentworth the same. The county with the lowest iudehtedness in this form is. Haliburton with 213,000. Thunder Bay and Haldimand coming next with 226,000 and 255,000 respec- tively, The reason that Algoma figures so large is that there are several large chattel mortgages given by lumbering firms that aggregate seven -eights of the above amount. The judgment given the other day by Chan3ellor Boyd, in a case 1 oaring on the relations between landlord an i tier; nt. he held tha t a tenant under o..ovenant to keep the 1 reini-•es in good repair was bound to leave all the flxt'rre; that had been put up or added to premises during time of t ancy. He said hie interpreta- tion of the law seemed t.i bear har•I on thetenant. and snggestedthe advi•ahility of legislative considerate., n. It would 1 e well for tenants to look carefully into covenuite thio nature in tl e future, as the )resent rating extents to the shelv- ing, office fixtures, plettories, gas fix- tures, mirrors. brass window fixtures and outside awnings. The successful fleeting of i he Canadian 3 per e loan i; canes for crngret.ula- tion. Subsoil tioi s aggregate t liinre than five times the anneu:t asked for, and within a few days the hoards sold et 41-2 per c -et. premium. In an let 'r- viewin London, Finance Minister Foster said that "he was not surprised at the successful floating of this loan. No bor- rowing country has ever fnlfille d so scrnpulouely eta obligations towards the London market as Canada, and fe w coun- tries are more :;Avant." About $5,000,- 000 will be applied to public works. The unprecedontrd ainouut of idle nuincy in the banks and the current low rates of interest were, of course, favorable to the selling of these bonds. The reports this week are more encour- aging. Quite a n'imber of establish- ments have resumed work. ani though the stoppage in some Fall River a nd other mills, where strikes are in progress, les- sens the working force, there is. an the whole, some increase. The demand for producte appears somewhat better, par- ticularly for heavy woolens, dress goods, booti and shoes. In the iron industry there is more confidence in the east. though the demand is not yet large It is generally admittei that the retail trade does not yet meet expectations in some important branches, but has been im- proving with the approach of colder weather, and there is a somewhat general feeling that after the election excitement has passed it will materially enlarge. OUB MARKET REVIEW. The movement of wheat in. the north- west for the past week has been a little larger than for the corresponding week of last year, but not nearly so large as for the same week two years ago. As compared with previous seasons the de- liveries at Minneapolis and Duluth, which are undoubtedly the ruling wheat points of the west, have been consider- ably above the average. This is due no doubt to the fact that the harvest was considerably earlier this season, and the necessity of carrying the grain threshed in the fields at once to markets caused the heavy movement to set in a week or two sooner than usual. Those who ought to be best posted as to the situation have given their opinions to the public. and the consensus of these goes to show that, while in some sections not less than 60 per cent. of the crop has been marketed at other points, 'only about 15 per cent. has yet been taken out. In Minnesota good judges place the amount sold at from 40 to 46 per cent., and the general opinion seems to be that so far about 45 per cent. of the wheat crop is marketed, and if this be the case there is no very serious cause of alarm to those who have still the bele- of their crop to sell. Wheat at Ontario points is undergoing no change. There is a small business to millers at 49 to 50 cents for red and white. Stocks of spring wheat are un- usually small, the crop of 1894 being the smallest for a great many years, and holders consequently look for better prices. The decline in hogs has been followed by lower prices for cured meats. Mess pork is 50 cents to 81 lower than a weak ago. Visible Supply., Oct. 29, 1894, 78,190,000. Oct. 31, 1893, 89,327,000; Oct. 31, 1892, 61,694,000, showing an increase for the week of 1,531,000 bushels, which, under the cir- cumstances detailed above, although larger than we expected, is not at all alarming. Butter shows no material change from our last quotations, and the supply has been in excess of the demand. Peas were lower on the English market at the beginning of the week, but have again regained their place and closed at the same figure as Iast week, English markets are firm but very in- aetive,, and the demand has fallen off to a considerable extent. On the continent the demand was poor and sales were made at fractionally lower prices. Pork, although weaker in feeling than at the close of last week, still maintains a pretty firm grip on the prices, and the Chicago reports do not show any very alarming symptoms of an immediate break. Potatoes are still at good sellingpriees, and 48e was bid on the street, while they were selling out of store at from 55c to 60c. There is no doubt thatto those who have potatoes to sell this will afford an opportunity whieh we think is not to be lost. The world's .markets still swing upon the ()urn crop as a pivot, and the uncer- tainty which has prt;vailed with handlers. as to the exact effect of the Government report is responsible for the dullness and slowness of the markets generally. That report just issued containing a supple- mentary statement as to the meaning of the Government figures on corn, It an- nounced the crops as 1,115,000 000 bush- els, 32,000,000 less than in 1881, and the smallest crop since 1884. This to us is very ex:couragieg, as we feel that the vast grain surplus which has been hang- ing over the world's markets is in a fair way to be wiped Gut, Barley was the weakest thing in this week's markets, and in thisrespeotproved quite a disappointment, The report eomes from Oswego that a large quantity of , anadian barley is dirty and contains peas, tares and seeds. This has had a very bad effect upon the demand there, as the western barley is in fine condition and splendidly cleaned. That this should occur ap this time is most unfortunate for the Canadians who have barley to sell, as it has given their product a bad. name, a circumstance which the sellers of the "Yankee" product will not hesitate to take advantage of. It is quoted at from -14o to 440 on this market. Oats are dull and in poor demand. HERE AND THEE. The days will continue to grow shorter until Dec. 22. This gives opportunity to stretch. out the nights a little. xxx A wholesale watch dealer says the cpen-face watch is steadily growing in favor. The people like an open coun- tenance. XXX In a western village the church collec- tion is taken up in a bag at the end of a 1 ole, with a bell attached to arouse the sleepers, xxx A Kansas editor has made the discov- ery that one way to keep from bleeding t the nose is to keep your nose out of ther people's business. xxx A bat can digest three times the weight c f its own body in one night. Not only that, but it can double thesize of a man's lead the next morning. xxx A well known resident of Bowmanville was recently fined 82 and costs for ask- ing for a hotel drink on Sunday, and he did not get the drink either. xxx The Duke of Bedford recently import- ed from the United States 2,000 frogs to be placed in the ponds on bis estates and clear them of parasites, Why not eat 'em? xxx The following remark has been attrib- uted to Nicholas II: "I am a pious Chris- tian, but my belief in the Saviour does not entitle me to prosecute others on account of their faith." xxx In August, 1894, there were 5,735 steamers flying the British flag, 810 the german, 510 the Norwegian, 503 the French, 462 the Swedish, 430 the Ameri- can, 359 the Spanish. 213 the Italian and 1,382 the flags of other nations. xxx The Central Art Association of Chicago wants definitions of the terms "Idealism, realism and impression alism." Idealism paints things as they ought to be, realism as they are, and impressionalism as one sees them. xxx It is now said that the destination of the British fleet on the Pacific is Costa Rica, instead of Peru. It is reported that a serious state of affairs exists in Costa Rica, and that the British con- sulate at Punta Arenas, the seaport of San Jose, has been burned and looted, and the Consul carried a prisoner into the interior of the country. xxx The will of ex -Premier Mercier, which was read in the presence of the family on Saturday, practically bequeathes nothing, as the insurance of $22,000 was already made out in fa-vor of Madame Mercier and her children. The insur- ance, -with some lots in Labelle township and the family furniture, are stated to constitute all that the deceased left. xxx Judge. Dugas, Montreal's Police Magis trate, created a stir in the Montreal Police Court on Saturday by strongly denouncing from the bench the Ontario Magistrates , whom he charged with hav- ing blocked and hampered the wheels of justice. He said that some of the Onta- rio magistrates had acne all in their power to stop the course of the law, as administered by the Montreal au- thorities. x "My good woman," said the learned judge, 1'you must give an answer in the fewest possible words of which you are capable, to the plain and simple question whether, when you were crossing the street with the baby on your arm, and the omnibus was coming down on the right side and the;, cab on the left, and the brougham was trying to pass the om- nibuses, you saw the plaintiff between the brougham and the cab, or whether and when you saw him at all, and wheth- er or not near the brougha n, cab and omnibus, or either, or any two, and which of them respectively, or how it was." This is as clear as mud." xxx Chief Justice Armour made a statement at Kingston that should be brought to the attention of every man in the prov- ince who owns live stock. The statement was regarding the responsibility of such owners for damages caused by animals owned by them and was made in connec- tion with a case before the court. A man who had been thrown from a buggy as a result of a collision with a cow on a rural highway, brought action to recover dam- ages against the township. The plaintiff was non -suited, the judge holding that the municipality was not liable but the owner of the cow was, Then his Lord- ship referred to the feet that a freight train had been derailed and three men killed in Northumberland county owing to a stray cow getting on the track, and said that the owner of the animal in that 'case could be held answerable to the estates of the men killed: Farmers had better in view of this declaration, keep theiir eeattle at home. A stray animal maydt any time be the cause of a dam- age action that will take away the owner's farm. Freneh law makes it the duty of awife to aeeompany her husband Wherever he goes. NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS. TUE WEEPS HAPPENINGS. Interesting Items and Incidents,. Import- ant and Instructive, Gathered from the. `Various Provinces. Everett has a "singin skule." London has a ladies' golf club, Norwioh is having a new elevator, Blandford, Ont,, has a boom in lands. Oxalises free night schools has forty pupils, Stealing bee hives is reported atLover. ing. Clothes line thieves are operating at Orillia. Raccoons are plentiful in the vicinity of Edgar. There is talk of an Oddfellows' lodge in Mildway. A. prairie chicken was shot near Sarnia last week Coldwater is actively engaged in, build- ing operations. Four plum trees in a St. Thomas gar- den are in bloom, Forty Patron lodges have been orga- nized in Muskoka. Gananoque is to have a Children's Pro- tective Society. • A night school for girls is to be estab- lished in London. The Clarksburg woollen mills have closed indefinitely. A Brockville garden has a crab apple tree in full bloom. Ripe raspberries were picked near Brockville last week. Hamilton St. Andrew's Society has just held its sixtieth banquet. A. new gas field at Comber, Essex County, is to be explored. The harbor improvements at Port Dover are well under way. An Orkney and Shetland Society is to be organized in Winnipeg. The coal dealers of London, Ont., have put up the price from 25.80 to $6. Belleville is greatly interested in the formation of its athletic association. The costs in the Hartley murder trial at Brantford amount to over $5,000. Angus Macdonald, a ten-year convict, escaped from Kingston penitentiary. The Reform Club of Toronto is to be reorganized and the liabilities paid off. Wm. McTaggart, a notorious opium smuggler, has been captured in Detroit. The inland revenue returns for Hamil- ton for last month amounted to $51,781. The G.T.R. auditor has found Fred Filgiano's shortage to be nearly $20,000. The Sorby estate near Portage la Prai- rie has been sold at auction for $21,000. Mayor Girardot, of Sandwich, has so far manufactured 50,000 gallons of wine. Morrisburg has many young boys on its streets late at night tsmoking cigar- ettes. Mr. Wm. Lang, pumpmaker of Varna, was killed while fixing a pump in a well. Grace church, Winnipeg, had a nar- row escape from destruction by fire last week. The officers of Wentworth Conntyhave organized a county constables' associa- tion. The immediate construction of the Hudson Bay Railway is said to be as- sured. During last month 1,000 head of North- west cattle were shipped to the British markets. W. E. Hiscott has resigned the leader- ship of the band of the Seventh Fusiliers in London.. The urn containing the ashes of the actress, Annie Pixley, arrived from Eng- land last Saturday. Mr. Alex. Allison, of Dunbar,. Ont., is the owner of a one cent piece, date 787, over 1,107 years old. The Brockville Carriage Company have received an order for vehicles to be ship- ped to Santiago, Chili:. A movement is on foot to organize a citizens' 'protective association in the west end of Winnipeg. William Stewart, grain buyer, of Cookstown, sold 10,000 bushels of barley in one lot the other day. Mr. Frank Murphy, one of the oldest residents of Port Hope, accidentally shot himself with fatal results. The Fruit Growers' Association of On- tario will. hold its annual meeting at Orillia, December 4, 5 and 6. Mr. G. A.. Stimson has purchased Ot- tawa's new issue of 41-2 per cent. de- bentures at 102.40 and 104.40. Canadian vessels caught 95,048 seals in Behring Sea this season. This is said to be the largest catch on record. Messrs. Mullins & Wilson, of Toronto, shipped fourteen carloads of cattle from Winnipeg last week to France. Kent County produced. 486,000 bushels of beans last year, considerably over half the yield of the entire Province. Leading colored residents of London have organized for the purpose of holding a jubilee demonstration in August. The Ontario convention of Universa - lists has just closed its annual meeting at Bloomfield. The church is growing. The total value of farm lands, build- ings, stock and implements in the Prov. ince of Ontario, is nearly 2965,000,000. Hon. Mr, Mercier's funeral took place Friday, and was one of the most impos- ing that Montreal has ever witnessed. The Northwest is having its first cold snap of this season. At Prince Albert Saturday there were twenty degrees of frost. Coroner Joseph Jones of Montreal, who had held the office fifty-five years, died on Saturday. He had presided at 11,400 inquests. The ducks are coming from the north, and shooting on Couchiehing, Lake Sim- coe and the holland River marshes is improving. In Labrador winter has already set in and heavy snowstorms and gales are raging. Ice formations are on all ves- sels coming south to Canada. Severe colds are easily cured by the use of Bickle's Anti -Consumptive Syrup, a medicine of extraordinary penetrating and healing properties. It is acknowl- edged by those who have used it as being the best medieine sold for coughs, colds, inflammation of the lungs and all affee- tions of the throat and chest. , Its agree- ableriess to the taste makes it a favorite with ladies and children. Simcoe is the leading pea cpunty of the Province, its yield in 1898 having aggre- gated 528,000 bushels, Bruce carne next with 500,000, Ancestor is being asked for a bonus of $10,c00 towards the construction of the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway through that village. The number of chattel mortgages on record in Huron County on the lst of Jan- uary last was. 444, covering loans tc the amount of $178,109. The market value of all field crops in Kent in 1893 was 83,429,956, and, includ- ing wool, poultry and live stock, the farm produets were $4,107,617. Mayor Garland of Portage la Prairie announces that $8,000,000 hasbeen raised for the Hudson Bay railway, and con- struction will begin at once.. Peterboro' schools have entirely adopt- ed the new system of vertical writing, and the students aro said to lead the pro- vince in efficiency in the system. J. Fuller, of Thedford, holds the record for the biggest bag of duck ever shot on Lake Smith in one day. He brought down fifty birds to his 'own gun. The fishermen in Deseronto section are catching large numbers. of white fish Herring have arrived before white fish this season, something very unusual. In one day lately Victoria HarborLum- her Company's mill out 71,000 laths and tied them in bundles of fifty each. This beats the world's record in the lath line. The two jaw bones of a mastodon, with souls of the teeth in them, were found on the farm of Mr. Edward Bradley, on the Hutchinson road, Moulton, last week. The Moody revival was inaugurated in Toronto Sunday with meetings morning and afternoon in Massey Hall. Thou- sands of people were in attendance, and thousands more turned away. After a most exciting chase in the early morning hours the Hamilton police caught Joseph Robinson in the act of breaking into and robbing stores. He was sent to the penitentiary for three • years. Mrs. R. T. Hawn, widow of the late defaulting Dufferin County treasurer, who committed suicide in Buffalo some two years ago, will receive 27,000 out of the $19,000 life insurance carried by the deceased. Percy R. Neale, the Canadian embez- zler who was captured. in London, Eng., and brought back to Canada, has been sentenced by Judge Richardson of Re- gina to seven years in Stony Mountain penitentiary. The Ontario Women's Christian Tem- perance Union, in convention at Corn- wall, ornwall, adopted among other resolutions one expressing the opinion that the de- tails of prize fights, seductions, dastardly outrages, etc •, should not be published by the newspapers. At Friday's sessions of the W. C. T. U. at Cornwall a number of vigorously worded resolutions were passed, and some interesting recommendations made re- garding future work. Hamilton was selected as the place of meeting for next year. Mrs. Orr, an inmate of the House of Industry, Kingston, Ont., will be 110 years of age in a few weeks. She enjoys good health, her mind is clear, and she can tell stories of youthful days as earn- estly as she ever could. W. R. Elmenhorst, who committed suicide the other day in Montreal, was in receipt of an income of 270.000 a year from his sugar refinery, and he leaves an estate of over 21,000,000 to his widow, provided she does not marry again. Agitation in the world of homcspathic medicine has been its very soul of prog- ress, as in politics and religion—the diffi- culties of opinion and the individualities of men have been parent to the disagree- ments by which the standard of these bodies have been elevated. So with most of our famous preparations—foremost in illustration of which truth stands the world-famous remedy to general debility and langour" Quinine Wine," and which, when obtainable in its genuine strength, is a miraculous, creator of appetite, vital- ity and stimulant, to the general fertility of the system. Quinine Wine, and its improvement, has, from the first discovery of the great virtues of Quinine as a medi- cal agent, been one of the most thoroughly discussed remedies ever offered to the public. It is one of the great tonics and natural life-giving stimulants which the medical profession have been compelled to recognize and prescribe. Messrs. Northrop & Lyman of Toronto, have given to .the preparation of their pure Quinine Wine the great care due to their im- portance, and the standard excellence of the article which they offer to the pub- lic comes into the market purged of all the defects which skilful observation and seientifieopinion has pointed out in the less perfect preparations of the past. A.11 druggists sell it. A hiatus,' Surprise. They were sitting on the sofa in the first sweet rapture that follows the con- fession of a mutual and undying regard. Her head was on his shoulder. Her right hand lay tenderly clasped in his. His left arm encircled her waist and their lips met at frequent intervals. The breast of the maiden was filled with flutterinve of intPr.,‘ happiness; with the jty ti „u u,ul,iti 41 ,,ratified; of a goal attained. For had she not brought him to the point at last 2 Nevertheless, she said, shyly, while intermittent little blushes chased them- selves swiftly over her fair young face. Oh ! Charlie, this is such a surprise When you began to speak I hadn't the slightest idea that you were going to say —to sap that, you know." "No,' replied Charlie, with direct and unnecesseee frenkn,' q, "By ;rove ! Nei- ther did 1," In his VAGETABLn Prize, Dr. Parmelee has given to the world the fruits of long scientific research in the whole realm of medical science, combined with new and Valuable discoveries never before known to man. Por Delicate and Debilitated Constitutions Parmelee s Pills act like a charm. Taken in small dos es, the effect is both a tonic and a ,stimulant, mildly exciting the secretions of the body, giv- ing tone and vigor, ""It Is u Great Pubile ,$enefit." These significant words were used in relation to Dr. T'ir0MAS' Er "caro Orb, by a gentleman who had thoroughly tested its merits in his own case having been *cured by it of lameness of the knee of three or four years' standing. It never fails to remove sorensss as well as lame- ness, and is an incomparable pulmonic and corrective, --_W Many a ried scheme out -and -d ,. ahas tobel returned the piokie barrel, FROM THE UNITED STATES DOINGS AV OS$ THE LINE.. Bade panne Broad's Furnishuite a Feet email Items that are Wortlt a Oureful Reading. Over 500 towns in the United States have trolley cars. The deficit in the U, S. Treasury for October is $14,000,000, There were 249 business failures in the United States last week. Massachusetts now has a company that der insures against losses by burglars. William McTaggart a notorious opium smuggler, has been jai led at Detroi James 0. Dooley. aged sixtebn, washanged at Fort Madison, Iowa, for mur- . Consumptives are not admitted as guests to some o the hotels in the Aaron - decks. Stephen killer, of Murphy, N. C whose wife died last spring, amarried his mother-in-law. Four Hien held up.a street car in Chi- cago Friday night and robbed a passen- ger of a diamond pin. Last year Cuba bought 1,000,000 bar- rels of American flour, Now it is buy- ing its flour of Spain, Mrs. Thomas H. Wickes, wife of the 2nd viae -president of the Pullman Car Company is seeking a divorce. In Chicago 325,000 voters have regis- tered this year. The greatest registra- tion heretofore was 269,000 in 1892, Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, the noted Catholic priest celebrated the 57th an- niversary of his birth in New York. Twenty-nine vessels and 112 men of the Gloucester, Mass., fishing fleet have been lost during the year ending with October 1. Miss Lulu Pierce, a young lady only just merging from girlhood, has been ap- pointed business manager of the Atlanta, (Ga.,) Daily Press. Duncan H. Campbell, whose inventions have revolutionized shoe manufacturing in America, is dead at Pawtucket. He was born in Scotland in 1828. A carefully prepared estimate shows that a fair price for inserting a ten -line advertisement one time in every news- paper in the United States would be $12,- 150. A Calumet, Mich., despatch says a heavy snow storm prevailed through nearly the entire upper peninsular Fri- day, level. Snow is three inches deep on the Four or five members of the Vermont House of Representatives appeared on the floor of the House this session with- out neckties, and one had discarded a collar also. A Baltimorean thinks that chickens have a languarge, and he has fitted up a hen house with phonographs, so that he may. learn what they areconstantly chattering about. Col. L. C. Weir, the new president of the Adams Express Company, has been in the employ of the company twenty- eight years, advancing rapidly through all the lower grades. The five daughters of Levi P. Morton posed as living pictures in Rogers' Hall, Hyde Park, N.Y., at an entertainment for the benefit of St. James' Episcopal .church of that village. Thomas Hunt Talmage, cousin of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, is about to establish an ideal summer park on a tract of land, 1,000 acres, which he has purchased in Orange County, New York. The business section of Ashland, Wis., was recently invaded by a deer and a hound in close pursuit. The animal en- tered a dwelling through a window, climbed the stairs and was killed by jumping through a second story window.. Leroy Harris, who is serving a sentence in prison for forging a money order, sued Postmaster Inspector Stuart to recover 21,310, which he alleges Stuart took from him when he was arrested. The jury found for the defendant in the Chicago court. At Terrel, Tex., 100 persons were standing on a wooden awning to see the street parade of a circus, when the awinng fell. There were fully 200 persons under- neath, and the awning struck them with terriblejuredforce. In all there. were 125 in- . Prof. Todd, of Amherst College, who has for some years been an enthusiastic student of eclipses and the sun's corona, is perfecting plans for his expedition to Japan in 1896, when an important eclipse of the sun will be visible on August 9th of that year, The discovery of an ancient and well - made roadway six feet below the surface of the earth at Marseilles, Illinois, has altogether exploded the theory propound- ed by some people that the North Ameri- can Indian was alone the prehistoric in- habitants of that country, A. W. Ballew, a prominent lawyer of Atlanta, Ga., is under arrest, charged with swindling a colored woman, for whom he secured a pension. He charged her $1,887 for his services, and deducted that arnount from the check which was received for her from Washington. It is estimated that Florida's` crop of pineapples this year will aggregate 50,- 000 crates, or fully 2,300,000 pineapples. The growers have been doing so well financially that the acreage set to pines is increasing very rapidly, and it is ex- peeted that the crop of 1895 will amount to 100,000 crates. According to a recent computation, the United States has the most expensive Government in the world. The figures given show that 2352,000,000 is spent by the National Government, $78,000,000 by the State Governments; $114,000,000 by the County Governments, $233,000,000 by the City Governments and 2139,000,- 000 for the public schools. W. 11. Sheppard, twenty years ago a poor little yellow bay in the streets of Waynesboro'. Va,, is, at the age of thir- ty, perhaps the most distinguished col- ored man in the Southern Presbyterian church, and the only American negro that has ever been made a fellow of the Royal Geological Society, The great labor leader of Massachu- setts is ex -Senator "Bob " Howard, who for the past twenty years has been en- gagged in the effort to shorten the hours of la bog and raise the rate of pay. He was a mill operative for many years, is now a ruddy -faced, stout and lolly bath- elor of fifty, and is well fixed financially. M. Y. Chung is the diplomat of the Chinese legation in Washington, whose thorough knowledge of English makes r•; him themedium of communication be-. tween the legation algal the press and. public, .A 1r. Chung is a, Yale graduate and a member of the Delta Kappa Upsi.• Ion fraternity, He is one of the Brat of the Chinese officials able to speak English withoutati'aee of foreign acct nt, Frank L. Stanton, the Georgia poet, preserves a queer memory of Gtii. Slier, man. When the Union forces invaded Savannah the general placed a guard at. the boilso of the poet's atilt r, »ho as a No. tie ru roan, and afterwards isited him, While he was there the infantile poet came into the room, and Slit renan, taking him upon his knee, said;: "This is a fine fellow, but his head's too big."' Stanton became ii "devil" in a li•inting office and afterward a•oomprsittr kt•fore he le ganto produce the verses tliu t have - mad e him c.l-1rated in the Scuih. Mr. John Al tl. itt'iey, v. rites "I can unhesitatingly say that le%rthrop. & Lyman's Vegetable Discovt ry is the best medicine in the world. It cured me of Heartburn that troubled me ft.r over thirty years. During tbat time I tried a great many different medicines, but this wonderful medicine was the only one that took hold and rooted out the dis- ease." A SIMCOE CO. MIRACLE. THE STARTLING EXPERIENCE (?P MILS. ROBINSON, OF 1111DIUEST. Eleven Tears Sielun ss -Her Case Pro- nounced Positively Incurable -She Was. Givr.0 tip to Lie by Two Doe - tors --Now a Picture of Good Health and Strength, From the Barrie Examiner. Near the village oe edidhurst, about six miles from Larrie, otends the smithy of Mr. John Robinson, while within sound of the anvil is his house, where in the midst of a large and leafy orchard dwell the smith and his family. Mr. Robinson is a type of the proverbial blacksmith with °'the muscles of his, brawny arms as strong as iron bands," but with Mrs. Robinson it has been different. The wife and mother has for a lbng time been a victim to acute and painful dropsy of the kidneys. Shortly after the birth of her youngest child (now about 13 years) Mrs, Robinson be- gan to take fainting spells, accompanied by violent headaches. This continued through the years that have elapsed,, during which time she has obtained the best medical advice available. For aoout a year she was in constant terror of go- ing insane. Her dull heavy headache, beating pain in the back and weak swollen legs and body made her case something fearful. To a representative, of the Examiner Mrs. Robinson said: "It is some five or six years since I took worse, and since then we have spent hun- dreds of dollars in medicine and for med- ical advice. The symptoms of my case were heavy headache, pain in the back and kidneys and swollen legs. I rapidly grew worse, and last July was given up by two doctors to die, and all my friends and neighbors tell me that they never expected to see me out again. I could not raise myself up, could not dress my- self, and had to be assisted in every- thing. Now I am well and strong, and can put out a big washing without any over-exertion. I have also suffered from diarrhoea for a number of years, and when I spoke of it to my doctor he said if it were stopped worse results would follow. At the urgent request of my son, who was then living in Manitoba, and personally knew of wonderful mires wrought by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, I decided to give this remedy a trial. Since using the Pink Pills I have been completely cured and have felt none but beneficial effects. Only the week before Icommenced taking the Pink Pills I was told by the physician that he could not, cure me. and that I would likely get worse when spruce same. He analyzed my blood and said it was in a fearful state,and that my disease was dropsy of the kidneys, which positively could not be cured. This was about the middle of last January. After the third box of pills my backache left me and it has not since returned. I bays taken thirteen or fourteen boxes in all, and owe my re- covery to this wonderful medicine. "I can't praise Pink Pills too much, what- ever I say of them," said Mrs. Robinson. "I'rerommend them to everybody. T can't speak too highly of them. They saved. my life. and I feel it my duty to let others, who aro suffering as I was, know all about them." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills strike at the root of the disease, driving it from the system and restoring the patient to health and strength. In cases of para- lysis, locomotor ataxia, sciatica, rheu- matism, kidney and liver troubles, ery- ipelas, scrofulous troubles, etc., these pills are superior to all other treatment. They are also a specific for the troubles which make the lives of so many wo- men a burden. and speedily restore the rich glow of health to sallow cheeks. Men broken down by overwork, worry,, or excess, will find in Pink Pills a certain cure, Sold by all dealers, or sent by mail, post paid, at 50 cents a box, or six boxes .for $2.50, by addressing the Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Company, Brockville, Ont., or Schenectady, N.Y.' Beware of imitations and substitutes alleged to be "just as good." Consumptives, Cheer Up! You are not going to die if you will but exercise a little common sense, and spend a paltry sum. You may be very feeble now, sitting bolstered up in the big arm chair, but you may now throw up your hat or bonnet and shout for joy. Miller's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil will save you if you take it according to di- rection, What you need is good new blood and rebuilt tissues. If you take Miller's Emulsion you will gain from five to ten pounds of flesh with each bottle. There is no use wasting words. A hint should be enough to a consump- tive of the fact that Miller's preparation of Cod Liver Oil SAVES. In big bottles 50c and $1, at all drug stores. The Inflammable Celluloid. A possible solution of the mystery of some fires is furnished by the ex ersnce of a bartender at one of the bigphotels, He says that he and his fellows re com- pelled to securely lock up their white linen coats when. off duty, because the rats eat off the celluloid buttons. It may be that in thus nibbling the highly in- flammable substance the tats have started, blazes which cost many thousands of dol- lars, A few additional' dollars give printed mportance to any fool's movements,