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THE EXETER ADVOCATE,.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1896. '
The Week's Commercial Summary.
The stocks of wheat at Toronto are only
27,400 bushels as against 62,600 bushels a
Year ago.
The earnings of Canadian Pacific for
the second week of February were $307,-
000, an increase of $88,000.
There is very, little change in the money
marl:ets. At Montreal and Toronto call
loans rule at 5i -to 6 per cent., and at New
York at 3l- to 4 per cent.
Owing to small receipts of poultry,
there has been an advance in prices in
Toronto. Potatoes remain as low as ever,
18 to 20c. per bag in car lots.
The gold in the United States Treasury
is now over $90,000,000. It is stated that
the Morgan syndicate has paid in full for
the $33,U0J,000 allotted them.
Exports of pulpwood have jumped up
from $8},000 in 1890 to $400,000 in 1894
and the year 1895 will show a correspond-
ing increase. A large part of this has
been taken from the forests of Algoma:
It is said that the cause of the decline of
both Canadian and American lake ship-
ping is found in the fact that some delay
has occurred in the completion of the en-
larging of the St. Lawrence Canals. Un-
til these waterways are made of uniform
depth with the Welland Canal no new
boats are likely to be built.
The wheat markets are weaker, owing
in shipments from the Argentine and the
continued heavy receipts in West. The
visible supply in the United States and
Canada decreased only 198,000 bushels
last week and the total is 65,926,00 as
against 80,783,000 bushels a year ago.
The amount on passage to Europe in-
e}'eased 800.000 during -the week, and the
total is 26,240,000 bushels as compared
with 84,08J,000 bushels a year ago.
Out of Sorts.—Symptoms, headache,
loss of appetite, furred, tongue, and gaze-
eral indisposition. These symptoms, if
neglected, develop into acute disease. It
is a trite saying that "an ounce of pre-
vention is worth a pound. of cure," and a
little attention at this point may save
months of sickness and large doctor's bills. .
For this complaint take from two to three
of Parmelee's Vegetable Pills on going to
'bed, and one or two for three nights in
in succession, and a cure will be effected.
Here and There.
Starch manufacturers have formed an-
other trust. This probably will stiffen
prices again.
The fact that Birdie Sutherland got
$25,000 from Lord Tweedmouth . for
breach of promise to marry, warrants the
suspicion that she is no callow fledgling.
A man and woman in Middletown,
Conn., have just married after thirty-two
years of steady courtship. This looks
like an instance of "linked sweetness
long drawn out."
The Philadelphia Inquirer says that
"divorce is constantly growing easier."
If it grows much more so the courts will
have to throw in at least two divorces
with each marriage.
There is a baby in Jenkintown, Pa.,
that weighed a little less than two pounds
at its birth, which occurred about three
'weeks ago. It weighs more than four
pounds now and is generally thriving.
If it keeps on doubling its weight every
three weeks it is going to be a whopper.
A Japanese laundry has produced the
following advertisement : "Contrary to
the opposite company we will most
cleanly and carefully wash our customer
a with possible cheap prices as follows :
Ladies, 2 dols. per 100; gentlemen, 1 1-2
dols. per 100."
A contributor writes to the San Fran-
cisco Argonaut frt,m Lower California
that he has just been down on the gulf
coast. where he went in a Chinese junk
commanded by a Dutch captain to ex-
amine a Mexican mine for an English
company, and that on the trip his Irish
cook drank up all the Scotch whiskey.
A society of deaf mutes in New York
held its annual ball the other night. The
ball was practically the same as any
other, with the exception that the music
was somewhat louder than usual, causing
greater vibrations, for it is by those
'vibrations alone that the deaf mutes are
enabled to keep time with the music,
Agitation in the world of homeopathic
medicine has been its very soul of pro-
gress, 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 it
improvement, has, from the first discovery
of the. great virtues of Quinine as a medi-
;:al 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 tothe pub-
lic comes into the market purged of all
the defects which skilfull observation and
scientific opinion has pointed out in the
less perfect preparations of the past. All
druggists sellit.
Very Shocking.
Emerson—Mrs. Dunnigan was' very
much shocked at dinner to -day:
Osbourn'—What was the cause of it?
Emerson—She learned that the, beef
she was eating was killed by electricity.
Needed His Business,
Actor (at a penny gaff, to manager)---
Sir, might l ask you . for an advance of
twenty pfennigs (live cents) ?
Manager -What do you want the
money for ? •
Actor ---'I am playing the king to -day,
and the conscious possession of a sum of
money adds, greatly to the sense of one's
importance.
TOPICS. OF A WEEK.
The important Events in •a Few Words For
leusv Readers.
CANADIAx.
Woodstock lost but $22,000 by fires last
year. .
Blyth, Ont., has organized a Board of
Trade:
Brantford has bad 45 deaths since Jan-
uary 1.
Indians in the Brantford reserve now
number 8, 629.
Mrs., Bergey. who was recently found
dead in Hespeler lived in the same house
for 61 years:
Mr. Laurier has again been nominated
for the Commons by the Liberals of
Saskatchewan. .
Muskoka and Parry Sound Conserva-
tives have nominated George McCormick,
of Orillia, for the ,Commons.
Last year's receipts of the Western Fair,
according to the annual report, were
$25,870, the expenditures $4,695 less.
Nova Scotia has been asked to assist
cold. storage by guaranteeing 4 per cent.
interest on $100,000 debentures for live
years.
Claims to the amount of $22,625 have
been made for damages to property by
the construction of the Hunter street
tunnel,
Mr. Foster has given notice in the
House of a resolution authorizing a loan
of $8,000,000 to put the defences of the
country in shape.
The rumor that Mr. McKeen, formerly
member for Cape Breton, is about to be
elevated to the Senate, is regarded in Ot-
tawa political circles as highly probable.
Knox church, Palmerston, Ont., which
VMS erected only a year ago at a cost of
ten thousand dollars, was burned down
early Sunday morning. The manse ad-
joining was saved.
The receipts of the Richelieu & On-
tario Navigation Company, according to
the annual report presented at its meet-
ing, amount to $589,168 and the expendi-
ture to $682,730.
The cathode photo of Madame Albani's
hand, taken at Kingston by Capt.
Cochrane, shows that the "X" rays will
penetrate diamonds. This may afford a
certain method of testing diamonds.
The Dominion Minister of Justice has
decided not to Interfere in the case of
Mrs. Raynor, of Oakville, sentenced by
Police Magistrate Denison, of Toronto,
to thirty days in jail for shop -lifting.
The city of Hamilton will seek legisla-
tion at the present session of the Ontario
Legislature to repeal the clause in the
charter of the Hamilton Gas Light Com-
pany granting a franchise in perpetuity.
In the event of Speaker Ross, of the
Dominion Senate, being compelled
through indisposition to relinquish the
discharge of his duties for a time, it is
probable that a Deputy Speaker will be
appointed.
Prof. Robertson gave important in-
formation before the House Committee
on Agriculture regarding the export of
food products to Britain. He'says beef
is more profitable to export than live
cattle.
The city of Brantford has brought an
action against the Grand Trunk railway
to restrain them from moving the oar
shobs to London, and to recover the
bonus of. $32, 500 granted to the railway by
the city.
Mr. Hart A. Massey, head of the agri-
cultural firm of Massey -Harris Agricul-
tural Manufacturing- Company, died
Thursday night in Tofonto. He was born
in Haldimand, Northumberland county,
in April, 1828.
At a meeting of the Winnipeg Board
of Trade a resolution was passed deprecat-
ing the change of the legal rate of interest
from six to four per cant. A copy of the
resolution will be forwarded to the Minis-
ter of Finance.
At the meeting of the Senate of Toron-
to University, held on Friday evening,
the examiners in arts and pharmacy for
the examinations to be held in the spring
were appointed. It was decided to accept
the proposed affiliation in the arts course
with Cambridge University.
By a series of resolutions, moved by
several prominent men of all shades of
polities, an immense mass meeting in
Massey hall on Saturday night pledged
itself as opposed to the principle of the
reimposing Separate schools upon the
province of Manitoba.
The funeral of Mr. H. A. Massey took
place on Saturday to Mount Pleasant
-cemetery, in Toronto. The services were
held in the Metropolitan Methodist
church, and were very largely attended.
Among those present were Sir Mackenzie
Bowell and Sir Frank Smith.
Lieut. MacInnes, of Hamilton, who
was serving with the exeedition to
Ashanti, contracted an illness which
necessitated his immediate removal to
the coast and embarkation on a troopship
returning to England. He is now at
Malta. His illness is not regarded as
serious. .
Principal Grant, of Queen's University,
Kingston, in a debate on the single tax
theory, at a meeting of the Queen's
Alumni Conference on Wednesday night.
gave it as his conviction, based on years
of study, that single tax was founded
on a false statement of facts, and a false.
philosophy of life.
Mr. James Scott, one of Toronto's
leading retail dry goods merchants, com-
mitted suicide on Saturday by leaping
from one of the Rosedale bridges, a fall
of more than 120 feet, while suffering, it
is believed, from a fit of insanity. The
deceased was in easy circumstances, but
had been in ill health for a considerable
time.
Mr. Mills, of Bothwell, stated in the
Dominion House of Commons that the
parliamentary library contained several
maps of South American countries,
which bore out by their markings Eng-
land's contentions in the Venezuelan con-
troversy. The Imperial authorities will
be communicated with and asked if they
desire copies of the maps.
The Ancient Order of United .Work-
men, concluded its session Thursday in
Toronto. They debated the question of
separation from the Grand Lodge of
Americas The motion in favor of this
move failed to -obtain the required two-
thirds majority, so the present relations
remain undisturbed for at least a year.
J. 'Mini, aged sixty-five, who owns
a 200 -acre farm near Sparta, 'Ont,, , and
his . hired man, J: Durcile, aged. 61, were
placed- in ..,jail charged with the,, illicit
manufacture of whisky: The Inland
Revenue officers found a still and worm,
and about eight gallons of new -made
whisky in Miner's house:
The residence of Mrs. Bier, near
•
Oshawa, was destroyed by fire, and her
ten -year-old' daughter was burned ` to
death., Mrs. Bier and a boarder named
.Harris escaped in their night clothes but
were - severely burned, Mrs. Bier made
heroic efforts to save her child: Harris
ran half a mile in his bare feet to obtaii
help, anis then fainted from exhaustion
and his injuries. The thermometer was
below zero at the time.
It may be only a trifling cold, but
neglect it and it will fasten its fangs in
your lungs, and you will soon be carried
to an urhaimely grave. In this country
we have sudden changes and must expect
to have coughs and colds. We cannot
avoid them, but we can effect a cure by
using Bickle's Anti -Consumptive Syrup,
the medicine that has never been known
to fail in curing coughs, colds, bronchitis,
and all affections of the throat, lungs and
chest. -
UNITED STATES.
Montgomery. W. Va.,has a colored resi-
dent 118 years old.
A needle factory is being erected in
Chicago, the first in America,
New stock yards are proposed for East
Buffalo, at a cost of a million. ,
Fresh troops to re-inforce the Spanish
army in Cuba have embarked at Balboa.
A Baptist preacher in Georgia refuses
to -baptize converts except in running
water.
Pensions to the amount of 81.542,85
were distributed by the Buffalo office in
January.
Thera is a water famine in Buffalo,and
there is practically no water for house-
hold purposes.
A woman of Bowling Green, Ky., with
a family of twenty-one children, is suing
her husband for divorce.
Congressman William A. Smith, of
Michigan, began his career as a newsboy
and street popcorn seller.
The Union Traction Company,'rate of
Philadelphia, is charging the same ra
on night oars as on day cars, •
Two tramps layd down to sleep on the
warm cinders of a Chatanooga, Tenn.,
rolling mill, and were, cremated.
Mr, Nye, the humorist, known under
the pen name of 13111 Nye died on Satur-
day. He was forty-six years of age,
A large meeting was held in Philadel-
phia on Saturday, which declared itself in
favor of international arbitration.
' Rich gold deposits, in which an Amen,
can firm is interested, have been discover-
ed near Mendoza, Argentine Republic.
Three burglars held up the cashier of
the Market most bank in San Francisco
were given what he had and escaped.
While a mob were hanging a man ac-
cused of arson at Somerset, Ky., an
accomplice, also doomed,inade his escape.
It is reported In Caracas that Great
Britain will accept the de,ision of the
U.S. Commission as to the boundary line,
Thirty thousand strikers in the men's
clothing trade in Berlin have been suc-
cessful in effecting a settlement with
their employers.
The police census of Washington just
completed gives that city a population of
270,519, an increase of 12,088 in three
years.
Recent statistics show that the increase
of divorces exceeds in percentage thein -
crease of population in nearly all of the
United States.
Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg mil.
Bonaire, has been refused, honorary
membership in the Cleveland Chamber of
Comm arca.
Several fishermen at L'Anse, Mioh.,
were carried out into Lake Superior on
floating ice Monday night and perished'
in the severe storm.
The Madrid police have arrested several
persons on suspicion of exploding a
petard on Wednesday night in the square
in front of the Royal palace.
Deposits In the New York Savings
Banks amount to $691,764,500. Some
$210,000,000 was deposited last year and
$187,300,000 was withdrawn.
Kentucky is in debt over a million dol-
lars for salaries, interest and minor Im-
provements, and no supplies can be voted
until the choice of a Senator is made.
E. C. Benedict, a close personal friend
of President Cleveland, said: "Mr. Cleve-
land will answer the third term question
very distinctly at a no distant day."
A vein of salt 800 feet thick, the richest
in the world, has been discovered under
the town of Little River, Rice county,
Has. The vein is 500 feet down.
It is reported that the health of Prince
George, the Czarewitch, is much less
hopeless than has bean so often declared. I
With care he may live from ten to twenty ,
years.
Two farmers of Sharpsburg, Ky.,
bought $20 worth of law apiece last week
in trying to settle in court a disputed
debt of twenty cents. Then they took
the matter out of court and compromised.
M. ,Lalow, proprietor of La France,
and M. Aubey, its editor, were each
sentenced at Paris to one month's im-
prisonment aeel.to pay a fine of $400 for
having file ed 14 members of the
Chamber of a„ puties.
In his Vegetable Pills, Dr. Parmelee has
given to the world the fruits of long scien-
tific research in the whole realm of medi-
cal science, combined with new and valu-
able discoveries never before known to
man. For Delicate and Debilitated Con-
stitutions Parmelee's Pills act like a
charm. Taken in small doses, the effect
is both a tonic and a stimulant, mildly
exciting the secretions of the body, giving
tone and vigor.
FOREIGN
During the recent storms in the Black
Sea seven steamer? and eighteen sailing
vessels foundered and one hundred lives
were lost.
It is expected that the engagement will
shortly be announced of Mr. William,
Waldorf Astor to Lady Randolph
Churchill.
The Princess of Wales, on behalf of
the Queen, will hold two drawing -rooms
at Buckingham palace, one on March 1st,
and the other on April the 21st. '
The Emperor Menelek, of Abyssinia,
has written to the Queen of England and
the Czar of Russia asking them to inter-
vene and compel Italy to make peace.
Most of the Paris papers regard the con-
flict between the French Ministry and
the Chamber' of ' Deputies, on the one
hand, and the Senate, on the other, as
ended. •
-
The British Admiralty haft ordered that
the new fast steamer Gladiator be fitted
for the consumption of petroleum as fuel.
This is the first experimentef the kind in
the British navy,
The etttike ,of the German tailors and
seamstresses -still 'continues, they having
repudiated the compromise made on'their'
behalf. Itis said that the female workers
only get two dollars and a half a week
for a day of eighteen hours.
WELL YESTERDAY -DEAD TO -DAY.
Su,ldell'Taking Ow by Heart pisease.
That Iletin in the side, that sense of
srnotherlug; thah pal pilatfon of the heart,
that restiveness, rendering it impossible
for one to remain long in any one posi-
tion—these are symptoms of heart dis-
ease that should be immediately heeded.
And practical heed will be -given by
securing a bottle of Dr. Agnew's Cure
for the Heart, the most wonderful heart
specific that has even been given to the I
world. As has been shown' frequently!
in these 'columns, some of the most des-
perate cases of heart trouble have been
cured by its' use. -
One dose will relieve in 30 minutes.
The remedy is harmless as milk, as it is
entirely vegetable.
Willie's Reason.
Teacher—Willie, I want you to name
the four seasons of the year.
Willie—There ain't any use of me
naming 'em.
Teacher— Why not ?
Willie — Because they are already
named.
CATARRHAL DEAFNESS OF
TWELVE YEARS' STANDING.
Cured by Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder --
An Extraordinary Experience.
Catarrh nearly always leaves its mark
after it. These are frequently revealed
In deafness of the victim. A cast in
point is that of Capt. Ben Connor, of 1891
Berkeley street, Toronto, who was deaf'
for twelve years from catarrh. No mode.,
eine or treatment aid him any good,
until he procured bottle of Dr. Agnew's
Catarrhal Powder, which gave immedi-
ate relief, and continuing to use it, in a
short time the deafness was entirely'
removed. Mr. Connor's friends, who;
knew the extremity of the malady, are
loud in their praises of this medicine;
and Capt. Connor himself will be only.
too glad to answer all enquiries concern -i
fug his oase'and remarkable cure.
One short puff of the breath through
the Blower, supplied with each bottle of
Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder, diffuses
this powder over the surface of the
nasal passages. Painless and delightful
to use, it relieves instantly, and per-
manently cures Catarrh, Hay Fever,
Colds, Headache, Sore Throat, Tonsilitis
and Deafness.
Wrong Diagnosis.
" What you need is exercise," said Dr.
Morbus, after an • examination of Mrs.
Bellefield, who had called him up by
telephone.
" Doctor," replied the good woman,
"being'an unmarried man, you do not
know that bargain days and remnant
sales have been going on in the dry goods
stores for about a month."
" Oh, or, in that case, what you need
is perfect rest. . I think I shall have to
order you to the Bermudas for six or eight
weeks."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telograph.
Growing Prevalence of Bright's Disease.
Bright's disease shoivs itself usually
in depression of spirits. Life loses its
zest. Efforts bring au early fatigue.
There is loss of appetite; listlessness;
sleep fails to refresh. There may, or
may not be pain in the region of the
kidneys, It is not only astonishing, but
alarming, the extent to which this dis-
ease is seizing the ablest men of the
country. The deceptive nature of the
trouble is almost akin to' that of con-
sumption. Our dearest friends are car-
ried off with it before we are aware of'
the nature of their disease. The one
salvation is to rid the system of the
trouble at its inception. This is being
most successfully accomplished by South
American Kidney Cure, a medicine that
will cure any case of Bright's disease'
that has not already signed the death
warrant of its victim. It is a medicine
that most completely rids the system If
of those olements.that go to constitute
this disease, working distinctly on the
kidneys.
Quite Easily.
Mourner—Can you keep books?
Borrower—I was never known to return
one.
Rheumatism is Still Being Cored in From
One to Three Days by South American
Rheumatic Cure--arore Testimony.
Mr. Z. A. Van Luven, Governor of thea
County Goal, of Napanee, Ont., writes:
"My wife has been a great sufferer from
rheumatism for some time pass. The dis-
ease attacked the limbs and was draw-
ing then[ out of Shape. The pain was
most excruciating. She could not get
anything to cure her. Mr. Huffman,
druggist, of this town, recommended
South American Rheumatic Cute. The
first few closes gave my wife perfect re-
lief. To -day, after taking four bottles of
the remedy, she is certain that the dis-
ease is entirely eradicated from her sys-
tem and blesses the day she first heard of
this remedy. "
Those With Thin Shanks.
Scorchleigh—When your tire shrinks
you can blow it up so that it gets full
and round again.
Mrs. Tulliety—Be jabers. It do- be a
pity some av thim wheelmin ean't do
thot same -mvid their legs.
A Grand Record.
It is now nearly four years since Lake -
hunt Institute, Oakville, opened its doors
for the treatment by the Double Chloride
of Gold System of inebriety, morphine,
tobacco and cocaine addiction. During
this time, there have been received for
treatment, in addition to the many hun-
dreds of average cases, scores who had
been virtually given up by their friends
and sent to Oakville with the expectation
that they would not live long enough to
complete the course of. treatment. The
results have been a pleasant surprise.
Restored in health, no appetite for liquor
. or drugs ; these have left us at the end of
four or five' weeks feeling as they never
expected to feel again. An old patient,
three years through, recently remarked
that the results of the Oakville Double
Chloride of gold treatment were as great
a source of wcndor to -day as the day he
left' the institute cured.. No one is disap-
pointed or sorry. Everyone pleased. It
must continue to be so, Toronto office 28
Batik of Commerce Building.
Not Afraid of Her.
Mrs, Shopton (adjusting her bonnet in
front of the mirror) -Say, dear, is my
headgear all right? -
Mr. Shopton—Yes; the wheels appear
to be running about the same as usual.
Why
Ile Didn't.
Mrs. Tankleigh—You ought to be
ashamed of yourself ! Yeti have come
home drunk every night this week except
'Thursday.
Mr. Tankleigh (apologetically) -- I
know'it—hie !—my dear. I was—bio !--
sick Thursday.
NORTH AMERICAN
LIFE ASSURANCE CQMPANY.
The annual statement for 1895 of this
solid and progressive Company has just
been- published, the oiiioie! returns to the
Dominion Government having been
promptly made on the 31st of December
last, at the- close of its year's business.
The report shows' that substantial and
solid additions have been made to the in-
surance in force, assets, net surplus, the
movements of which items from year to
year indicate progress or the reverse of a
company.
There are four items in a life insurance
company's statement from which a very
good idea can be obtained of Its progress
or retrogression. If these items are care-
fully compared at the end of certain
years, the companyts record and standing
can be ascertained. The items referred
to are cash Income, assets, net surplus,
and insurance in force, and at the end
of the last three quinquennial periods of
the North American were as follows:'
Cash
Income.
1885—;i58,401
1890— 354,001
1805— 581,478
Assets.
$ 347,746
1,' 39,325
2,300,518
Insurance
in Force.
R 4,849,287
10,070,554
15,442,444
Net
Surplus
$ 56.01
17,149
405,218
During the last quinquennium it' will
be observed that the cash income has in-
creased by 64 per cent., the assets by 122,
the insurance by 58, and the net surplus
by 219.
The operations for 1895 were more
successful than In an any past year.
Policies issued exceeded $$,000,000, the
cash income reached $581,478, while the
sum of $67,000 was added to the net sur-
plus, now amounting to over $406,000,
after setting aside $25,000 out of the
year's earnings as an additional conting-
ency reserve fund to anticipate a change
in the basis of valuation The solid
character of the Compete a assets is
vouched' for by the oofnperatively small
amount of interest due and the failure to
find among them any trace of such
undesirable items • as "commuted com-
missions," agents balances or advance's,"
bills receivable." The North American
claims a lrigher•ratio of assets to liabili-
ties than any other Canadian company,
and compares most favorably in this re-
spect with the very best of the American
companies.
It is well know that mere size does not
always guarantee strength or ability to
make satisfactory profit returns to policy
holders, and this is practically borne
out in the record of the North American
Life, for not only is it relatively about
the strongest life company in the field, if
we gauge strength by a comparison of
assets to liabilities, but it has for several
years past been paying handsome returns
under its investment policies, which has
tended to make the Company one of the
most popular in the Domnion, and a
favorite with its agency staff. As an
evidence of this, it may be mentioned
that several policy holders have just re-
ceived from this company a return under
fifteen -year Investment policies, which
have given them insurance for the term
named, and then returned the whole of the
premiums paid with compound interest
thereon, at the rate of about five per cent,
per annum. Certainly such a result as
this should satisfy any policy -holder, and
no doubt will attract the attention of in-
tending insurers to the special form of In-
vestment policies issued by the North
American.
The success of the Co pany and the
high standing it has attained owing to its,
splendid financial positior, mist be ex•
ceedingly gratifying to all [pose interest-
ed in the Company, and also to those
who watch the progress of our Canadian
institutions. It has I n excellent staff of
officers, and the mention of the name of
the President, Mr. John L. Blaikie, is
sufficient to inspire confidence and give
assurance of caution and skill in every-
thing connected with the investments of
the company, while the name of the
Managing Director, Mr. William Mc.
Cabe, r'. I. A., is sufficient evidence that
all that experience and actuarial skill, so
essential to the success of a life company,
is being exercised in the management of
the North American. In the efforts made
by Mr. McCabe to push forward and pro-
mote the interests of the company, he has
always been ably assisted by Mr. L.Gold-
man, A. I. A., the Company's Secretary
since its inception.
Twentieth Century Warfare.
The aide-de-camp rushed unceremoni-
ously into the tent of the commanding
generaless, started to salute, but wound
up in her excitement by feeling to find if
her cap was on straight.
"The' enemy are advancing in force,"
she said. tt
The generaless looked up calmly.
" Tell them I am not at home," said
she.
Sore Feet.—Mrs. E. J. Neill, New Ar-
magh, P.Q., writes : "For nearly six
months I was troubled with burning aches
and- pains in my feet to such an extent
that I could not sleep at night, and as ney
fent were badly swollen I could not west
my boots for weeks. At lastI got a bottle
of Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil and resolved
to try it, and to my astonishment I got al-
most instant relief, and the one bottle ac-
complished a perfect cure.
Shoving Rim How.
A fellow selling magnolias and other
flowers in a sleepy manner at the hotel
was jeered at by a young guest, who told
him to expand his lungs and cry his wares
so that people .would notice him. The
countryman looked at the boy in a dazed
sort of manner and modestly held his
tongue. He was apparently airaid either
to cry his wares or talk back. Several
other boys guyed him and explained how
the flowers should be sold. One of them
took the countryman's basket and ran
down the verandah shouting Fresh
magnolias," and in a little while sold all
the Sowers and handed the countryman
the money. He took off his haat, "bowed
and shambled away. As he reached his
ox cart he said to his wife : " That's a
smart little. feller. He must 'a' come
from Pocomohe. "—Ocean City -Letter,
Overdone.
Gothamite—I tell you, there is no place
like New York, where one can get a large
variety of everything on short notice.
Bostonian—Yes; I -have en,oyed, as
many as tour. kinds of climate in one day
since I came here.
•
By the will of the late Ezekiel J. Don-
nell, the New York cotton merchant,, his
estate of $600,000 will, is the event of the
death of his wife and daughter, be used to
establish a- free circulating library in
New York.
A fearful scene was witnessed at the
hanging of James - Fitzgerald in St.
Louis. , The - rope broke,- and the con-
demned man was able to walk a few
steps. • He had to wait nearly an hour in
intense pain until a new rope was ad-
justed.
A Shocking Infant.
He is a charming little fellow of four,
pretty in his ways, good .to look at, but
as naughty as they are made. He sat on
the bottom step, kicking his fat little lege.
and refusing utterly to obey his father,
who had told him several times to go up-
stairs in increasing degrees of severity,
After a few minutes of this clashing of
wills, his exasperated young parent picked
him up somewhat suddenly, carried him
up and set him. down very firmly on a
chair in his room, went out and shut the
door, Silence reigned. Not a sound -
from him for at least half an hour. Then
the door was opened, and a little voice
called out : "Father, have you got over
your tantrum yet, for I should dike to.
come down ?"—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Dow's T1\is ?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
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Ball's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.
we, the undersigned, have known F. J.
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per'ec•tty honorable in all business transactions,
and financially able to carry out any obltge.
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Ore of Life
Found at Last
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THE NEW YEAR, 1896
We wish to thank our thousands of customer
for the liberal support they have given us ity.
the year just closed,and solicit a continuance
of their orders for te year 1898. Your interest
is our first object, and to supply you w:tb
goods, better in quality and lower in price thaw
you can purchase elsewhere. If you have not
our price list, mail us a postal card and receive,:
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