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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-3-18, Page 3r OUR OTTAWA LETTER HON. RICHARD DOBELL MARKED FOR DECAPITATION. Received lits Merrell -Anxious Days for the Administration -Troublesomo Mem- ber Sent Away -The Postmaster -General --Poor jamas Conmee. [From Our Own Corespondent.] Ottawa, March g. --A desire to be a roan of eminence in the country. coupled with the possession of a large bank ac- count, impelled Hon. Richard Dobell to abandon his Conservative leanings last July, and to become a Liberal. As a re- ward he was made a Minister without portfolio in /dr. Laurier's cabinet. Hero in Ottawa old • line Liberals were not much pleased when they hoard the news. David Mills, James McMullen, 3. F. Lister, all sturdy fighters in the dark. days of opposition. they pointed out, had been passed over to make a place for Do - bell, whose only recommendation was his money bags. Of course, Israel Tarte was responsible for the Premier's action. Tarte esteemed Dobell to be colorless, weak and harmless; the victim of ambi- tion and by no means dangerous. For once the dictator was wrong. It must be remembered by everybody who read the reports of last session's debates that Dobell was the subject of an important discussion. He had promised the people of the city of Quebec that the fast steam- ship line would have its terminus at the Ancient Capital, then he denied on the floor of the House that he had ever made .any such statement, and finally, when incontestable proof was given the House, that he had telegraphed stating that the line would have its terminus at Quebec, he acknowledged that in . making the denial ho had not spoken exactly by the book. I hear that both Tarte and the Prime Minister are raging at Dobell. They have let him know that he was given a seat at the Council table princi- pally on account of his proclaimed will- ingness to be the social star of the Cab- inet, His duty was to be in the lino of entertaining, of giving dinners and dances. In place of this, the lumberman of Quebec has taken upon himself to draft policies for the Government and to assrune the functions of a Government leader. The industrious Tarte has Dobell marked for decapitation. Not only on the luckless civil servants, it seems, is the .axe to be used. Dobell is to go and his place is to be taken by Geoffrion, an en- thusiastic Rouge who is a close friend of Torte's. Dobell would like to become High Commissioner, but Sir Donald Smith scums to have a secure hold. on til post. .At present, as we all know, the C.P.R. lion and tho Government lamb have laid down together. Any friend. of the C.P.R. is the Government's friend, .and for that reason the Administration will think twice before asking Sir Don- ald to relinquish his post in London. Canadians who have lately visited the Empire's capital assure me that Sir Don- ald is proving a very efficient representa- tive at London. He is in touch with most of the great flnanceers and commercial men of the city and has been able to render material service to very many Canadians, who have visited the United. Kingdom. Received iris Reward. For many years one Alf. Jury, 'a tailor of Toronto, has been one of the Liberals' most industrious workers. In campaigns in which the Liberals had no candidates the invaluable Jury proceeded to bring .out a labor man, and to enlist Liberal voters and workers in his behalf. Jury has virtually lived on politics for anany years, and has never lost his hatred for the Conservatives or his love for the Lib- erals. Of course, his labor affiliations were useful in that they enabled him to talk Liberal doctrine to the members of many unions and K. of L. assemblies. Having made a life work of aiding the Liberals Jury made a demand for reward when the new Government assumed power. Ho had the Postmaster -General on his side, and now he has been paid his fee. John Dyke, who has been Dom- inion Government emigration agent at Liverpool for many years, and who has been most successful in the discharge of his duties, has been dismissed. The post has been given to the'ranting demagogue Jury, a man who knows no more of Can- ada than he does of New York state. .Jury has never been in the Northwest; he has never been east of Montreal since he cane to Canada twenty -odd years ago. He hal never made a study of the coun- try's *sources; in place of that, he has been an eager searcher after her draw- backs. In the days of Conservative Gov- ernment he was one of those who had the -smallest faith in Canada's future. His love for the United States is equalled only by John Charlton's affection for the same country. And this is the man who is expected to convince the people of the Old Lands that this is the country for them to come to I In John Dyke Canada had an able and enthusiastic servant. Not even Clifford Sifton, who is, respon- sible for Dyke's dismissal, can assert that the agent at Liverpool was guilty of partisanship. He has not been in Canada ,jamfor three years. But the post was re- quired for Jury, the demagogue, and Dyke, the efficient officer, has to go to make place for him. Sifton was late in arriving on the scene of slaughter,bnt his bright and shining axe has been .incarna- dined with Conservative gore ever since he took office here at Ottawa Last week it was Hayter Reed and W. E. Burgess. This week Dyke and Thomas Graham, the emigration agent at Carlisle, Eng- land, have been the victims. As a civil servant said to me the other day: "It can't go on much longer, for soon there won't be anybody left to dismiss." Anxious Days for the Administration. Anxious and nervous are the members of the Administration. They have spent many meetings of Council in drafting the programme for the coning session of Parliament, and as yet have made no great progress. Tho revised tariff bill is not ready, the l±±"rent" are up in arms on account of the School settlement. Thomas Greenway has absolutely refused to male. any further concessions to the Roman ••.Ca-y Catholics of Manitoba; althouh- Laurier t 1 b . implored him to help the Federal ,,l`as 1 P •government out of the holo, anti, finally, !lair and MVlulook insist that the Govern- * vont shall liuilcl the Crow's Nest pasta railway. Israel Tarte and Sir William Van Horne have become bosom friends, with the result that Tarte is valiantly fighting for the C. P. R. The other mem- bers of the Government, with the excep- tion of the two mentioned, are inclined towards the railway's side of the case, but are anxious that nothing should be done until after the coining session. In. the ensuing recess, they say, the conces- sion may safely be made to the C. P. R. and the popular indignation that is sure to arise will have time to die out. Whether they reason well or not I do not pretend to say. But, what most of us would like to know is: What is there in it for Israel Tarte? Of oourse, there is nothing iu it for the country; there may be defeat in it for the Government. What is there in it for the Ministers who are the body servants of the C. P. R. They must expect something. What can these upright patriots be looking for? Troublesome Member Sent Away. ' Another Liberal who has come in for a reward is Charles R. Devlin, the member for the county of Wright, which lies op- posite Ottawa, and extends for hundreds of miles to the northward. Devlin is an ultra Roman Catholic, always ready to take offence and always looking for trouble. In April last he bolted from the Liberals on the occasion of the vote on the second reading of the Remedial bill. Laurier has never forgiven Devlin for this, and, since the settlement with Greenway, the Premier has anticipated further trouble with the member for Wright. Devlin, had he remained in the House of Commons, would have been sure to vote against the Government's settlement of the question,and most prob- ably would have made a fiery speech that would have had a bad effect on the coun- try. And so, because he is a dangerous man, Mr. Devlin is appointed immigra- tion commissioner to Ireland, at the com- fortable salary e sa cry of $1,800 a year and ex- penses. The late Government dispensed with the services of the Irish emigration agent, because experience showed that it was almost impossible to obtain ianmi- grants of a suitable class. Devlin's leader now proceeds to recreate the office merely to get an insubordinate follower out of the way. Since the gentleman from Wright has been given the post the Lib- erals of the riding have held a meeting, characterized by some very serious dis- agreements over the selection of a candi- date. At present writing a split seems imminent. The Postmaster -General. Mr. Mulook continues his endeavors to show that lie is an industrious and sav- ing administrator. He is now puzzling his massive intellect over the problem of getting the postmaster of Montreal out of his job. Dauseran is a Conservative and therefore is a marked man. His head must go off at the earliest opportunity. The Conservatives suffered Mr. Lairier's brother to remain postmaster of St. Lin for many years. They had no use for such picayune business as that of discharging a man merely because he happened to be a poitical opponent. Mulock, when he is not clipping coupons in his Toronto law office, spends his time in devising pre- texts whereby he may be able to aid his followers and supporters. Poor James Conmee. James Conine, the would-be land - grabber of Algoma, has at last been brought to book. A year ago Conmee was cllunoring to be made. Minister of Mines in liowat's cabinet, but wily old Sir Oliver would not see things in the same light as Conmee did. The bold James felt bad. when he was not given the post, not because he had missed the honor, but because he had on file appli- cations for 108 mining locations. If Sir Oliver had given .him the job that he was looking for, the able Mr. Conmee, with- out any unnecessary ostentation, could have granted to himself these 108 loca- tions. But Conmee overreached himself, and the Government, fearful of exposure, declined to give h -un the mining lands. The Opposition compelled the ministry to aoknowiedge the other day that Con- mee had and has twenty-one square miles of pulp -wood, while his friends have fifty-six square miles more. Everybody anust sympathize with Conmee in his bitter disappointment. What must have been his feelings to find that in place of these hundred and eight -mining loca- tions, he is put off with a beggarly twenty-one square miles of pulp -wood. Most of us have neither mining locations or pulp -wood lands, or if we have them, we have paid the full market price for them. Gentlemanly hogs like James Con- mee seem to think that the' country ex- ists for their special behoof, and they resent any interference with what they consider to be their vested right to get something for nothing. Last week Con- anee vouchsafed to the press a statement concerning his alleged resignation at the time of the last Dominion elections, when he contested Nipissing with Mr. Klock, the successful Conservative. It may be remembered that at that time Conmee stated that he had sent in his resignation as a member of the Local Legislature. Later he stated that he had forgotten to do so, and now he says that the Govern- ment declined to accept his resignation. The Government has nothing to do with any member's resignation. He has simply to send notice to the Speaker, or to any two members, that he desires to resign, and he steps down and out. According to Conmee the administration of Ontario connived at his action in holding his seat by sharp practice. I do not quite credit this, for Conmee is no friend of some of the most prominent Ministers. At the time of the last provincial election he declined to "chip in" to the general fund, and since then he has been not quite popular with the gentlemen who rule in Queen's Park, Toronto. Dangers of the Diet Fad. There is not much danger ordinarily of our children being starved': But an idea has lately been borrowed from Eng- land which we should be sorry to have extend itself in this country -that of keeping children on a spare diet to pre- vent their becoming plump. It is natural and right that young creatures should be plump, and the best medical authorities agree that just before the great ohange from childhood to youth begins, at the age of 12, a store of fat ought to be laid up as a safeguard against the unusual demands about to be made upon the strength. It is certainly a mistake to do prive young children of wholesome, nu- tritious fooct to prevent the accumulation of flesh _-Woman's Horne Companion. A Loose Talker. Mr. Bellefield --I don't like Spins. He has wheels in his head. Bloomfield -Don't you think that is en expression to be condemned? "Indoecl, I don't. I know that Spins has wheels inhis head.,' e'H.ow do you.know?" "73y the spokes which collie out of his mouth. "-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. TWICE WOOED AND WON. A Man Who Had SP' rgotten Everything, Even His Sweetheart. As the finale to an exceedingly singu- lar and at the same time a romantic case,. information has been received that Wil- liam E. Biggins, of Sandusky, and Mies', Edith Marohus, of 263 Forest street, Cleveland, were married in that city some time ago, thus joining two young people who were separated for months by unprecedented ciroulnstances. Several months ago the medical author- ities were non-plussed by the peculiar malady whioh afflicted Mr. Higgins, and to this day there has been no satisfa ctory explanation of it made. The young man is about 22 years of age, and up to the summer of, 1895 lived with his parents in Sandusky. He went to Elyria, where he obtained a situation with the Johnson Eleotrio Railway Co., and one day in August of that year, while at work as a lineman an insulator fell from a cross -top and struck him on the forehead.' At the time he complained of a peculiar sensa- tion about the head, and as time passed he daily became more confused in his thoughts. Fearing that he would be ill he returned homeand was prostrated When four weeks. he had recovered his health apparently he returned to Elyria and re-entered the employ of the railway company. One. Saturday evening he announced to his landlady that he was going home to spend Sunday, and she became alarmed' when the young man did not return. Mr. Higgins, the father, went to Elyria in search of his son, That was the first in- timation that any one had that a misfor- tune had befallen the young man. It was thought for a time that the young man bad been murdered for his money. This idea was exploded when his bank book and a sum of money were found in ., his valise. the father returned home thinking he would never see his son again. He conammunicated with the au- thorities of various cities, asking for in- formation regarding his son. Reports came of strange young men in various sections, and the father traveled hund- reds of miles to identify his son. So many disappointments awaited him that for a time it seemed hope was vain. One day a friend of the family told the father that he thought he had seen Will in St. Louis. Mr. Higgins at once left for that city and found his son working with a gang of linemen in the employ of the Missouri Electric Co. The father was overjoyed at the recon- ery of his son, and threw his arms around the neck of the young man. The consternation and horror of the father can hardly be imagined when the son said: "Excuse nae, but I do not know you." Then the terrible truth flashed across the mind of the father, and he realized that his son had lost bis mem- ory. The father worked with the young man for hours trying to recall to him scenes of his home and mother, but all to no avail. The young man said he re- membered nothing antedating his living in a boarding house in St. Louis. Where he came from, he said, he did not know. He said, however, he was desirous of solving the mystery of his past, and ao- cepted his father's invitation to return home with him in the hope that his memory might be awakened. It was supposed that when young Hig- gins would arrive home and see his mother he would +.gain be himself in every respect. But he did not know her, although she wept on his shoulder and repeated to him all those fond names she used in addressing him when he was an infant and a growing child. He could not recall anything of his past. A delicate surprise was arranged for him, which, it was hoped, as a last resort, would awaken his memory. Miss Edith Marohus, of 263 Forest street, this city, whom Mr. Higgins had been engaged to marry in October, 1895, was sent tor. She arrived, and was muoh moved by the presence of her lover whom she bad mourned as dead for so many months. The young man treated her with respect, but his demeanor plainly indicated that Miss Marchus, whom he would have married but for his misfortune, was as a stranger to him. Miss Marohus had formerly lived in Sandusky, and having moved to Cleveland, she was prevailed gpon to remain at the Higgins home for several days, in the hope that constant association would rekindle young Hig- gin's memory. All efforts failed, however, but Mr.. Higgins developed a strong attachment for Miss Marohus, which ripened into love, and they were finally married in this city. -Cleveland Leader. Japanese Singers. Japanese music is crude; there are no written notes to go by in playing, nor has the singer any "Do, Re, Mi" to play by observation, imitation, and practice. Instrumental and vocal music are always taught together, and by the same in- structor, who is either a lady or a blind man, who has received a musical degree. The singular method of practicing by a young lady intent upon cultivating her voice is thus described: - During the winter the girl in training clothes herself comfortably, takes a samisen -a banjo with a square body, played with a plectrum of ivory -and ascends every cold night the scaffold erected on the roof of the house for dry- ing purposes. There she sits for hours, sitting and banging away, until she can endure it no longer. Upon coming down she is so hoarse as to be unable to utter a word. This training is p related in until ber natural voice has left her and a new clear voice has been acquired, which can be heard in a storm. The girl screams her worthless voice out and away. Why He Died. In 1827 Mr. Zea, Colombian minister In England, died suddenly. He was in- sured in . various offices, and rumor said he had shot himself. A meeting of one of the insuranceboards was held,and. the directors were talking the matter over, when Dr. M- appeared, who was the company's medical referee as well as Mr. Zen's own physician. "`Ah I now you can tell us the true cause of Zen's death." "Certainly I can," said the doctor, solemnly, "because I attended him."' Here, he paused, and was surbrised to find that his merely preliminary remark< washilariousy received as a solution of the whole question. -London Household Words.. The Boy's Reply. "My boy," said old Drywater, "in all creation you won't find any animal ex- cept roan who makes a habit of > smok- ing. "Yes, sir. But neither do I know of any other animal that cooks his meals." -Loudon Tit -Bits. No. 47. -charade. In dewy fields on summer morns 'The farmer's mon go to and fro About their work, and they my reRem With steady ,notion, strong and aloes, Far off above the tossing waves My sworn circles in the air, Or, weary, sinks upon the sea To $oat and rest in safety there. My WHOM is but a memory now, But in the days that are no more His word was law, in India great, From mount to sea, from shore to shore, No. 48. -Illustrated Rebuses. t• la 1$146IIIIsame 0 3 -Country Gentleman. �Ilill No. 49. -Ridden Proverb. It is great fun to skate. The weasel is known by its white breast. Tom is never late for his dinner. That house is too large for us to live in. It is getting late, so we had better get home quick. Can we go to the zoo next week? Please will you amend my Noah's ark fol me? Select ono word from each of the fore• going, to form a proverb. No. 60. Maltese Cross. • 0 0 0 • • 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 • • • • 0 0 c 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • • 0 0 0 • The upper horizontal of five, a great high priest. The upper right slant of four, a city where a youtg man was raised from the dead. The next slant, a land for cattle. The right vertical of five, a land for gold. The slant of four, a famous daughter -in law. The next slant, him whose children witnessed the transfer -of the field of Ephron to Abraham. The lower horizontal of five, a king of Tyre. The lower left slant of four David smote. The next slant, a soothsay. er. The left vertical of five, a damsel whc hearkened at a gate. The upper slant of four, a wicked king of Israel. The next slant, a valley. No. 81.-Metagram. 1. A word of four letters naming an island between England and France. Change the first letter and have: 2. Deprived of light. 8. An inclosed piece of ground. 4. Listen! 5. Part of a tree; the cry of an animal. 6. A visible line or impression; a coin. 7. A bird famed for its beautiful note. No. 52. -Anagrams. (In the dining room.) 1. Sparking inn. 2. E- skates book. 8. Crude as sun caps. 4. P. sold no horse. 5. Boys' rag vat. 6. Sit rude fish. 7. Sink pan. 8. Top season. 9. 0 pure sunset! 10. I march, I sing, or nod. Remarks of the Young Folks. "Tommy, who was Joan of Aro?" asked the teaoher. "Noah's wife," said Tommy, who is considered great at guessing. Old Mrs. Chaffie-Johnny, how many times have I told you to stop that noise] Johnny (reflectively) -Seven. "What would you do if mamma should die?" asked a fond moth/reef her little boy. "I dent know," he replied. "I suppose I'd have to spank myself." Angry Father -Jack, can't you bridle your tongue? Jack -Not a bit. Key to the Puzzler. N4. 89. -Arithmetical Puzzles: L -a 1. 8+8+8-8=8. y 8 -8=8. 8X$X8�. 1. 987654.321-45 128456789=45 864197582=45 No. 40.-Historloal: French revolution. No. 41. -Pictorial Final Acrostic: 1. Vutlae-S.' 2. Locus -T. 8. Zeb-U. 4. Um• brell-A. 5. Gnita-R. 6. Epaule-T. Fi- nals-STUART. No. 42. -Square and. Diamond: CH A S ME D G R EBOTNE F L Y d R. T I 8 T s B 0 ILUBE MISUSER E N. T RE, A T D EO ER TS . GRATE GLA. SGOW BAGGY L O. T w No. 43. -Changed Words: 1. Carp, care, core, sore, Bole. 2. Lose, lone, line, fine, find. 8. One,, son, sun, six. 4. Cook, coot, coat, moat, meat. No. 44. -Hidden Proverbs: "Good things are done up In small parcels:". "Half a loaf is better than no bread," No. 45. -Buried Cities: 1. Dover.. 2. Bombay. 8. Quebec, 4. Frankfort. 5, Geneva. 6. Texas. 7. Troy. No. 46.-4, nagrams-Noted> People; 1, Dred Scott. 2. Carl Sahara. 8, 13onjamin .Franklin. 4.',John ',Hd''ard Pep)°, A, Clement C. Moore. 6, Joseph Retlmau ``iD;ake. CIVIL DEATH. A Question That May Cowie Up. In the Case of Life Prisoners.. The fact that in this oityra woman wise was Married a few yearsago reeently,con- tracted a second legal marriage though the fir:it husband was alive and the ties of matrimony had not been severed by a ju- dicial cleyi'ee of divorce called public atten- tion to anot generally known peculiarity of the law: Tho statutes of New York provide that the penalty of life imprisonment shall in volvo civil death for the felon sentenced to it. This means that he shall be deprived of his civil rights, particularly property rights and the rights resulting from fam- ily relations, as if he were actually dead. Civil death takes from the person upon whom this punishment has been inflicted all that he owned and transfers it to those who would have received it if be had died before his conviction. It affects his con- tract rights in the same manner as physical death. He cannot, in this legal condition, become an heir or obtain property by be - guest. The law deprives him of the legal rights of .a parent. If he has a wife, she may consider her marriage legally dis- solved, as if .he wore dead, and contract another anarrlage. Civil death" was known to the Roman law, and this term, according to Black- stone, was applied to pertain legal condi- tions in England. It is also known to the French law and to the statutes of a num- ber of our states, But there are some doubts about the exact scope and legal ef- fects of the penalty. A life convict may be pardoned. That would certainly not dis- turb or in any way affect property rights or new marriage relations that bad been established as a consequence of the civil death. But could not the wife of a par- doned life convict, in case she had not con- tracted another marriage, claim the legal rights connected with the marriage rola. tion? It is believed that this question must be answered in the affirmative, and it would therefore appear that the ex -con- vict, though be was civilly dead during the term of his imprisonment, is still bound by his former relations if he has not been released therefrom by an act not of his own doing. It would seem that the law in a case like the onoto which reference was made ought to require a judicial dissolution of the for- mer marriage before it authorizes the wife or the husband of a person sentenced to life imprisonment to contract a new mar- riage. -Buffalo Courier. THE GREAT GRAY WOLF. It Is Not Very Large, but Is All Muscle, and Fears Nothing but Fire. The great gray wolf of the north is a most powerful beast and pursues men with hungry eagerness when snow prevents it from finding its usual food. It is not a large creature, but it is all muscle. "The gray wolf," says Forest and Stream, "is not much taller than a setter dog. Ho is longer and heavier, a sort of combination of wire and rawhide, which never tires and can Dover ground with great rapidity. A man not long ago start- ed two wolf hounds after six hungry'. wolves of this type. The dogs overtook the wolves with unexpected ease, and then the wolves ate the dogs, evidently thankful that a supply train had followed them. "A year ago a man who believes in poi- soning wolves dragged afresh beef hide 81 miles, throwing out bait of poisoned meat. Next day,on bis return over the line, he found 28 wolves and coyotes dead, while others no doubt had wandered away sick to sense bole or other and died. "A. very effective trap is made of a gang of fishhooks baited with meat. The hooks are hung on wires and fastened to branches. The animals Dome along, smell the bait and, getting on their bind legs, succeed in reaching it. The bending of the branch prevents the hooks from being torn out. It makes it decidedly interesting when a panther gets bold of a hook instead of a wolf. "The gray wolf in a pack of its own kind seems to fear nothing but fire. It will at- tack a man who is shooting at it and its comrades. It will aid in pulling down a wounded buffalo bull, and a buck deer at bay is attacked in spite of horns and hoofs. But fire keeps it ata distance. A lone man may sleep if his fire burns brightly, even if the wolves sit about just outside the line of light, their eyes showing in a circle sur- rounding the man, but as the fire dies down the circle draws closer, and it be- hooves the man to stir it up again." Prince Bismarck at Home. It is impossible ever to have been within the Bismarck family circle without seeing proufs that the Iron Chancellor is not all of iron. I have seen him with his own children -now all men and women -and with other children. His affection for bis own needs no testimony. He has always shown it. His affection and pride in his eldest son and successor, Count Herbert, are alike part of his nature. I have seen Prince Bismarck also with troops of chil- dren who came to Friedrichsrub to visit him. His manner to them was charming, his outstretched hand upon the heads of those nearest to himthe kindly caress, the sympathetic greeting -these are all so many traits of personal character and of a true gentleness of nature which the out- side world,. thinking only of bis life of storm and stress, might not expect to find. But there they are. -George W. Smalley in Ladies' Home Journal. Early Rising. One of the most eminent specialists in insanity in the world hes been declaring that early rising is the most prolific cause of insanity: ".A peremptory command to get up when one's sleep leas yet unfinished is a command which grinds the sou], cur- dles the blood, swells the spleen, destroys all good intentions and disturbs for the en- tire day the mental activities of a boy, just as the tornado disturbs and levels with ad- vancing ruin a forest of mighty pines. To the habit .of too early rising on the part of young men, we may," he adds, "juttly ascribe many cases of early insan- ity, of melancholia and of abjectdementia. The early morning hours, when everything. is still, are peouliarly fitted for sleep, and it is a gross violation of all the laws of na- ture to tear human brains out of the sound rest they enjoy at this time." Not Repeated. "When you stepped on that,gentieman'a foot, Tommie, I hope you apologized?" "Oh, yes, indeed I did," said Tommie, "and he gave me 10 cents for being such a good boy," "Did he? And what did you, do then?" "Stepped on the other and apologized again. But it didn't work."-Harper's Round Table, The next step in advance afterthe .stock- ade, was the erection of walls of masonry, and from the time of the foundation of Nineveh and l3abylon, or from 8000 B C., thil mode of defense has bon the favorite !ll all parts of the world. AN IMPORTANT LETTER. SIIOWINGc HOW A SUFFERLR FR 03E SCIATICA WAS CURED. L Correspondent of theGrails News. Letter With Permission From the Author Makes the Letter Public ---It Will be Gladly' 4tead by 0 they Sufferers From This Pain- ful Malady. From the Orillia News -Letter, The following letter has been forward- ed us by the Coldwater, Ont„ corres- pondent of the News -Letter, which we have great pleasure in publishing: - Coldwater, Sept. 25th, 1896. A few weeks ago I became very unwell from an attack of sciatica, and remem- bering that a while ago a well known friend of mine, Mr. C. T. Hopson, of Fesserton, a few miles from here, had been a great sufferer from this painful complaint, I thought it would be well to consult that gentleman as to the medi- cine he gives credit to for his relief and cure, as I was aware that he was now well and hearty and had ever since been in steady work among lumber -his regu- lar business. He gave me the informa- tion required, and wrote out the follow- ing testimonial whioh he desires to have published in any way I think proper, hoping that it will meet the eye of many sufferers like myself who are anxious to get relief. I therefore forward it to you. to publish:- Fesserton, Sent. 18th, 1896. ' "It is with the greatest pleasure that I testify to the marvellous benefit and cure that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills effected in my case. In the year 1892 I was taken very bad with sciatica. I was treated at different times by two doctors, but dis- pensed with their services as I found I was not getting the hoped for relief. I then tried different remedies advertised as a cure for sciatica, but with no better result. Then I tried strongly recommend- ed electrical appliances, but still to no purpose. I did not improve any and the pain was excruciating, and I began to lose all hope of ever getting better. I could not sit down er move about with- out suffering intense pain, and the only relief I could get was when I lay down with my legs stretched straight out and then the pain was somewhat less. I was in this position one day when I pioked up a newspaper lying by my side and there I read of a man cured of sciatica by taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Always having but little faith in proprietary medicines, and in view of the experience I already had, I would not have tried them but for the fact that my wife in- sisted on going at once and procuring some. She got a box and persuaded me to take them. By the time I had finished the box I believe I felt better, so I kept on taking the pills and by the time I had taken six boxes I was entirely cured. I had been laid up for four months be- fore taking the Pink Pills, and I shall continuo to take them occasionally as I know them to be an excellent medicine. shall never cease recommending them. Yours truly, "CHARLES T. HOPSON." Qur correspondent adds that this letter is from a much respected resident of Fesserton, whose word is generally con- sidered as good as his bond. Literary Note From, the Century Co. A first prize of $500 and a number of smaller pries have been offered by The Century Co., publishers of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, for the best answers to a hundred and fifty questions covering a broad range of information. 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