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Exeter Times, 1908-03-05, Page 3---•.+rte-- f CURE si k Bead rho and r• ' leve all the troubles Inci- dent to a L1i1Vne 'uteri the system. such as Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Listreui after .eating. Pain to the Ride. be. While their moat Ter aak&WW succeed has Igen shown in cuuu,g leleessesset SICK Ifeada-) et. yet Carter's Iittle Liver Pills are equany valnatleinConatii nt:ou,curing and pre- venting erventing nits aunoy 1❑ ccragtalut.wbile tbuy alba correct all dtae.rele.a tboa tot.acbstirnulatethe liver and regulate the bawds. Even if they only c ural HEA Ache they wenbd be almost prtceleas to those who suffer trent this el►ttressiug complaint; but forht- i:ataly tbe►rgnodnesa drys noteud bere,and tbora who once try there will n o d these little pills valu- able iusomany ways that they will not be wil- lin;, to do iv About them. But after all sick head ACHE Is the bane of so many lives that here is where wemakaourgreat Wait. slurpine curettwhile others do not. Cartsr's Little Liver Pills aro very small and very easy t, take. One or two villa make a dose. They are strictly t'c4 'able end do nut gripe or purge. but by their gentle action please all who use thew. Ceit?If<a 111:L:: ^.; S CO-, li<rw TOIL bail Il ha Dote Small ?rim SAFETY OF ANAESTHETICS. Less Danigeous Than C:rossinO a 'l'hur.ntbhtare. "It is really sttfcr for a patient to be placed under anaesthetics than it is kr an ordinary- i erson to utteunpt to cross one of our crowded lticrn,ughfares." '1'h:s statement was made by a high official ef the London (England) Hospi- tal while d'scussiug some observations made ty the city Coroner in reference to n death under anaesthetics tit Guys Hospital. The Coior-er said such cases were extremely important to the pub- lic. During the past six and a hal! years he held inquests on thirty-six per- sons, who had died in Guy's llospilal while undo r anaesthetics. "Tho public probnbiy have no idea with what safety anaesthetics are now nci►ninistered. "here, en an average, fifty patients are pineal under stnaeS- thetics every day. In 1904 there ware 15,142 cases, and of that .number twenty - Iwo died during the period -,f enae thp- sia, but only four of the 15,142 died from the effects of the anaesthetic. "The tetm 'death under anaesthetics' susceptible of many meanings. Here we adopt the strictest interpretation. For instance, a man may be brought in who has had bath his kgs cut off as a result of a railway accident. He may be at the point of death when he en- ters our doors. and. in fact, die direct- ly he is put on the operating table and the anacs'helic bug adjusted. We should regard that as a death under anaesthetics, although the anaesthetics had nothing whatever to du with his depth. "Lest year 17.256 patients in this in- stitution were placed under anaesttie- tirs and the results were as favorable ai the figures 1 hate given for 1901." r.l r-ri.r:A r T1\iE. ler-D.d yeti k 1 your tallier, dar- ling? She -1 told him 1 was engaged. dear, but not to whom. Ile is not well, and 1 thought i would break it to hint gra- dually. A noted politician has a fracitity f(:r• repartee that he fometlimes turns to good acc'tunt. Ile was addressing a meeting on one occasion, when n portly individual In the audience, a large em- ployer of later, interrupted him, charg- ing him with "fattening on the sweat e.f the people." The orater, slim and dapper. waited until perfect quiet r•e- p'tie d the comtmotien which this re. mark had made. Then he eebserved, calmly: -"I leave those present to de- cide which ( f Ls the nacre exposed t ; that charge." ONLY A Common Cold RUT IT BECOMES A SERIOUS MATTER. IF NEGLECTED. PNEUMONIA, IBRONCHITiS, ASTHMA, CATARRH or CON- SUMPTION IS TI1t RESULT. Get rad of it nt ono() by laking Dr. Wood's Norway Fine Syrup Obstinate coughs yield to Its grateful s.)otbing action, and• in the racking, put'. sistunt coygh, often prreent in Coasutnptie e globes, it givea rricupt anti sura relief. In A.thma and Br• ur,hitis it is a successful remedy, rerrler►ng breathing ran andnatural, (•nthling the sufferer to enjoy re- freshinn sleep, sled often effecting a per- maueute, titre. We de not claire that it will cure Con- sumption in tbn a'lvanccd stages: hut if taken in time it tsi 1 prevent fi, reaching that stage, and will give the greatest relief to the jeer sufferer from this terrible malady. Be careful when lenrchaain;7 to pe' that you get the armee 1)r. Wesire N,rway Fine Syrup. Fut up in a yellow wrapper, three iodic trees the trade stark. Mr. %Ven. 0. Jenkins, ci rint[ ?eget+, Alta , R ret•oA ; " 1 hail a very te:•l cont settles on my It;n,:'. I bought t bottles 4.4 1►r. \V .e..j'rt Nsra•Ay Pine Syrup but it e••lv rreluir,'l one to cure nee. I have Lover rept with net -1 if inn at good.* Yr.•e Ys >'k:, at all dealers. The Great Change clow Wonderft:lly the Grave Binds the Living Together. "1f a pian A11 the di.ys I wait 1111 xiv., 14. We often sigh for a present immor- tality, a life w.tl.out Ind in thgs world, s..lh •ut thinking how weary and empty s •;:h a life would be, how learrcn ex- i- efce would seem if it held no reys- te, y, if it eve: a all spread cut before us and a thousand tears hence known as well as to -day. Supt osing we knew absolutely that! existence tied nothieg I►:gher for us and that frm this l.fe of our present l,rnitations there was no escape, how dark would be our despair, how hope- less e.ur lot. The world would he our ler:vein and freedeont from deata our galling bondage. Whin we curse death, when we cry cut against the pain and p:.rting wo forget flow that mysterietes door beyond which lone of us has k,oke'i has yet orened out to use another w•,rld. The fact that each life has limits has Fel Ir, our hearts the illimitable life; our mortality has endowed us with the spirit of glad immortality. 'This world would he its a rootn wI'h- olut doors or windows but for these mysterious exits. Thrceugh them pass our friends, not their forms or faces, but the real leen and women, that die, shall he live again? of my ap, sainted time w:'1 toy change come,"-Jelwt which we have rcen behind form amt face, the being, the person, the friend. They are not visible with us and yet sse know that sotnewhere they must be, that without our wa'Ls THERE IS LIFE AND LOVE. So death that seems to limit cur lives has but served to enlarge them. It has broken up with its sharp blows the soil cf our hearts and caused imagination 10 sow her seeds and nurture her hones until all the fair heritage of our w's ons (1 paradise, our asp:rations after the larger and higher life have blossomed within. The pictures we have painted where- with to adorn our h(arts left desolate ty the passing of loved ones, the thoughts of their possible felicitu.les have had real and practical effects. An Ideal life before us leads us to strain after its ideals now; the passibility of a spiritual existence emphasizes the iru- pc rtance of the spiritual to -Jay. One does not have to dream of a hea- ven of sensuous bliss, one dors net lave to postpone the; realitaten of ideal C(ndit )l1 to Wile future city in order to catch the real values of the thought' or a fur.her, higher stag*e of being. The child mind may find pleasure in harps end robes and crowns; our ee0►1 is the sense of the reality of this extension of i l fe. There are none living 111 any full Sens,, o: life and thought wt:o have not pr+n- dered on this life that Ices beyond the wails and windows of our world; at times we all have seined to hear veicea that carte from that beyond, while in our hearts we cherish friendships and think of the friends as waiting seine where. !low many a family breach, hew many a broken friendship has been heated by some hand that, JUST REMOVED TO TIIE BEYOND, s;cemed to roach out from it and bring severed ones together again. !low wonderfully has death made us tenter k the living. Ever that spirit world presses about ti penple:c with dire, shadowy forms, sten catty by th0 spirit, yet wonderfu 'a► shaping our everyday lives. Ever that choir invisible sings to the souls of men. The good and weal of long ago or c► cur own hearthsides, being dead, spells lower than coulee the lips of the Wag. IIle set has set those voices free an 1 now they speak to us of the g~re'.t t lehanue that shall set the divine water: !us free and shall shake off the I:npris- ening dust. And so men go on to the grave, not stocally determined to bear the blow )f the gods, but highly r: - relved to discover and live the larger life beyond the change. These are not t e dreams with which we soothe and delude ourselves when ocnfronted with the blankness (,f depth; these are Iho convictions deep graven • in humanity universally. This sense of the larger life in which the Foul goes on to full fruition makes the present seeding, budding, pruning its wintry Ielasts and summer's heat all worth wtliie because thee are not for a day . and death but for the life that is for - lever. HENRY F. COPE. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERN:ITION.al, LESSON, 'IAR. 8. Lesson X. .Jesus the Drend of Life. Golden Text, John 6. 35. THE LESSON \\'Ol11) STUDIES. hissed on the text of the Revic^:.1 Version.) tin the Morrow. --These swords with which our longer lesson passage begins roust be linked directly with tate open- ing clause of verse 24, the remaining portion of verse 22, as well as all or verse 23, being partstthelical. This parenthetical portion is sonleehat alm- b:guous. The actual sequence of events will appear from a careful reading of the entire narrative to have been ns follows: When Jesus, after having fed the multitude, "withdrew again into the mountain himself alone." the multitude tarried near the seashore, hoping, up- pnrer►tly, that he would again appear, even the departure of the disciples at r.tghtfall not deterring them from their purpose to wait for his return from the MO11nteIn solitude. A great many • f them, therefore, remained in the im- mediate vicinity all night. But when on the following morning there stns skit no trace of Jesus, (hose who had remained all night decided to avail themselves et the opportunity 10 cross Ole lake in sonic of the boats that had put in near the shore for the night, ap- parently' p- ►aa tl ' en account of the sevent • g r n y � of the storm (coinp. Malt. 14. 24). Arr1v- it1g at Cnpernatrm, and knowing thnt Jesus heti not departed from the other side with his dLsciples, and also Ihnt there had leen no ether Cents there except these in which they themselves bad returned, Ihough apparently not greatly surprised nt finding him already aI Capernnum. They were curious to know how and ss he n he hnd returned. Ir replying to their direct inquiry on thio point Jesus dors not satisfy their curiosity. but addresses hinmself to their conscience, pointing cut to them that their rent motive fe.r seeking him Wo pc rsistently wog riot an intereat in the higher spiritual aspect of his miracle?. I'u! Only n sordid craving for the ma- terial leenefits which these miracles tees stewed upon there. Alluding to Ile+ recent mirncles through elk!) iTieey had especially benefited, he exhorts Them to seek not merely food ffer the body. but for . spirituel nourishment, which has in it no elements of decay nntl sus.tn'ns life eternal. This food. he asserts, he it able and wtiling to be - flew upon them. tet he has already (k.ne with feel for the tody. it being kir this (xgrresa purpose thnt he fins Nen ce•mntic. t(ned ley the Father. Verse 26. Because ye saw signs - The miracle of reeling the multitude was de unless not 1111 first of the miracles • ' Jesus which these people had «'ii- nes,ed. 27. Sun c f mcn-This tit's. which is uco I ceniy by Jails in spcai,ing of him- stJf. denet(•s nn res est c! his teing which had litl'e in eemnxen with the •intionnl cxp(etatic.ns of Ito JewQ, lit -ugh In perfect harmony ss'.th the teaching w fifth he was Aleut hi Oise• c- neerning himself as the bread of life. geatel -- Divinely authenti'ating hist n,it.tun by miraculous signs and au- li:.,ritat,ve lcachir`, 28, 29. Work the works of God -The nu''stio'l ns put to Jesus by the Jews in this verse reflects the notion which they had concerning the merit of good works in attaining Gods favor. Jesus seeks le correct this false notion. and points out that their duly to God Ls to be thought of not as works, but as a single, dominating life principle, namely, that of faith in himself as the Son of God. Hence the answer, This is the woik of Cod, hall) 30. The high in referring to himself ns God's ant- letssador, but they decline to a^_cmpt the miracle which be tins so lately ler- termed as a sufficient profit of this claim, and ask for a more convincing sign. 31. 'rhe rnannn in the wilder•ness- Cornpare Exec!. 16. 21; Num. 11. 8. 95. 1 am the bread of life -This i., the theme of the entire di.Scours(± of Jesus k which he has Leen gradually lead- by the people of til,' tittle villages ing; up, and which tie rerertts again r,.und Dij((n. situated en the outskirts rend again in slightly varying form e -f the forest ►arlds. icemg►are verses 48. 51. 58). Every night ret sunset the !nhab:tants 37. All thnt which the Father givelh turn out with toiChes, lanterns, and me shall come unto nre -Jesus has the picks for rt t altle. During 1h-' last few utmost confidence in 11.e ultimate fill- days the starving woolvt s have ben fllntent of the Father's purpose 111 send- ieav:ng the feere'gi and attacking the %r- ing him into the world. even though many may reject hien and refuse to that ye believe on hint whore he sent. What then docst thou for a sign - people understand perfectly the claim which Jesus has just made M R . H II .LTO I' S's COLD. 1l Was Pretty Hail tar About 1 Days. but Ile's Gtsi inti Better Now. "Mrs. 1lilltops says," said M. 11., "that when Fin sick I fall down and break up and collapse and go to pieces gen- erally. She doesn't say this unkindly, you know, or anything like that, but e he says that when 1'111 sick 1ni u LL.by, and 1 guess it's se. "New for the last four days I've hats A cold, a bad cold; lame and sore all ogee, and so weak that it's hard work for me to drag around. And yet haven't been so dreadfully uncoustor- table, in fact 1 find sitting around 1n easy chairs rather pleusanl than other wise. "And Mrs. I3illtops smiles and says she guesses I'm not so dreadfully sick; anti when 1 tell her utout all my pains and tell her how miserable I feel gen• entity she says, '\Vlty that's just a cold. Ezra; you've got a hard cold, that's all,' and then site smiles some more and goes on about her work -she never lets up on that -and 1 sit back red make myself as near comfortable ►i^ 1 can. thinking that, well perhaps that's all that Ls the hatter with me, hut wishing that whatever it is 1 inigtit, seen get over it. "But the worst thing about it all Is that I've .still gest wine appetite. Yod wouldn't think that anybody feeling the way I've been feeeling the last four days could eat a thing, but 1 have eaten fairly well, and Mrs. 11. singes over that a little too and says that anybody that can eat can't be so very sick, but she doesn't say that to slake fun of me -far from itr-she says that to encour- age me and stake me get well quicker. "And as a !natter of fact I am begin- ning to mend some. (corning home last night I founts myself whistling as 1 came along the street, which is some- thing I never do unless I feel well. 1 had just spontaneously, without know- ing it, started whistling. And that \aS a pleasant surprise to ►ne, but 1 stee- ped it right away, knowing that I was not qs well as ! might be; 1 had got to nu'►ae my il'ne-'s a little yet; but 1 hadn't gone morn ten rods further be- fore I found myself humming a ttln apparently my body was feeling so much better that it was bound to ex- press Itself emehow even if 1 did try to choke it off; and when 1 got into the house anti ;firs. Billk•ps had taken a look at me: "'Ezra,' she says, cheerfully, '1 think you are feeling better to -night,' and 1 I said: "'Y -es, 1 think f am feeling a lithe better; and before the evening was over 1 found myself laughing at something; and this morning I am really feeling quite considerable better, and I think that by a couple of days more i shell be back to normal. "Which is my usual condition. 1 ani very rarely ailing at an; almost in- variably i endo;' excellent good health and keen good spirits' )nd 1 urn always a little inclined to wonder shut people should let themselves be cast down as they are just because they are a little off. \\-hats the use of telling the whole world you can't stand a little bit of pain anvil suffering? "So it strikes me when i'►n feeling, ne i almost invariably do. fit as n fid- dle nn.1 looking at eserythingt with the l-rightesl poss e s els. it o you know, i find it makes all the difference Iin the world about this whether it's the ether fellow that's sick or you. 'Yes. sir. When I'm well 1 wonder why the ailing man doesn't look cheer- ful, anyway; but when I'm sick 1 feel right awe) the need of sympathy." WOLF 1117NT-IN Fit %Nile %lilallers About iMon Ortganl/ln{g for Protection. :! great wolf hunt is lister conducted believe, 39. 1 seismal lose nothing -Jesus again expresses his confidence in the ultimate triumph of the Father's plans for sav- ing the world. 41. The J. t,-_ J hn.favorite expres- sion sion In referring to the Jewish author! lies, she almost without exception were lv stile to Jestie. and who were m11 - shrilly seeking to dies t cr In his words and deeds cause for nscusatio11 against hint. 42. Jesus the sun of Joseph --As such, loges. Three days age a lean was at- tacked nt night on the high mud by what at first he look to b.: a dog. Ile had no light, but shouted at the beast and kicked him with his heavy hob-nat'- et: bots. driving hint off. The sante eight the farmyards were raldeJ. Rea' nt.ly a little girl very nearly tell et victim. She was attacked by n great wolf within it hundred yard= of her father's house. The futtter heard her P ' dashed cal.' for help. and do h i a Irtrtl rn which he carried. full in the face of the trate, which hv,ltod. The authorities have sent criers round or course, he was generally and fleece t they villages warning the inhabitants not early regarded. The mystery of his tc' gn out svithout lights after dark. So olivine incarnation would not have been L(!d have the animals become. that even understood or believe.l eve►1 if it had 10 1) gin itself --a town of 68000 in- t cern underel cid or believed even If it habitants. rind some distend., from the had been genet•aily known. In lite light f rest lands --there is a considerable cl this Net it sons lout natural that the nnx ety, dews should question the claim to di- vinity which Jesus Thus openly made, though the parity of his life. the an- ettority with which he Wight. and the miracles which he performed should have earls ;need his hearers sutTicienlly lo gain for him a respectful constdera- licen gal his c!aims and his teachings. 44. Except they Father draw hint -The i1(►w•er and inclination to believe is al- so a work elf divine grace In the heart. 45. in the prophets -Compare Ise. 51. J3, where such divine instruction is predicted as a !nark of the Messianic community. Everyone Hint hath heard from the Father and hath learned -There is a hu- man els welt a.4 n divine element in entering the life of faith. The drawing of the Father is not mechanical or com- pulsory. but operates only upon !pens free will and requires their co-operation t.e be fruitful of results. 51. The bread which 1 will give is ma Cesh-i1 lies been much disputed whe- ther or not in this discourse. en.l r-pec'inily In this verse. Jesus refer,' either directly or indireetlg to the ho'y eit,'hnrtst. Thin. however. is to he que•t- Ei Eine!. and with Dr. f'lumrner we may r(.nsider rather ihiit 'Tire discourse re fe'r• to all the various channels of grace by which Christ imparts himself k the believing; *CUL" DOES YOUR HEAD Feel As Though It Was Being I lanuncrcd ? As Though It Would Crack Open? As Though a Million Spark; Were Flying Out of Tour Eyes? horrible Sickness of Your Stomach? Then You Have Sick Headache 1 BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS will afford relief fmtn headache* no matter whether sick, nervous, epnsmod;e, periodical or bilious. It cure* by removing the cause. Mr. Samuel J. Hibbard. Belleville, Ont,. writes: " Lcut spring i was eery pr.nrly, my appetite failed ate. I felt weak and ner‘ou., had sick headache., woo tired all the ti:ne and not able to work. I saw Iturdock iileod Bitters, recommended for Just a':ch a case as mine and I get two bottles of it. and found it to be an et:c'llent bk. .1 mtri►cine. You may use my :Arne se 1 think that others should know of the o 4s4el to gree of Burdock Wood Bitters." A STORY OF LEAP YEAR 'ALL SORTS OF Q1•I:E:Rt TI1INI.s HONE 10 1• I;tlIll .tltl . 1'irA It \1 a, at find ul \ ear Some- times. an 1:\tr;t rut lit Middle of 14. The way in hich tiro maedis whic5 forret our year have been bhuken ap anti jugg k'd atx,undw, pared clown here and padded out there makes u mighty intercuting story, 'lite Met European division of the year that we know anything about hnd only ten months and 301 .lays. This mei the Invention of Itontutus, who must have had a lovely lime patching ug, things so us to coma out even. They evidently did get into a pretty bad mess, for Num Pompilius, the secs King of Ronne, had to add two umhs. Jury nbruary. January, ontnamed anutteraJalaild Fers, itte goal whro presided over the beginning of the year, was wade the li: st of the twelve months. February, from a Latin word mean- ing to expiate. was clapped onto the end, that being considered the appro- priate period for repentance. It stayed there for 200 years before it finally got itself pre►moted to second place. And it has somehow always been February which was tackled first If anybody wanted to do anything to the calendar. Even with Ni non's twelve months the year had only 351 da)rs. The trouble was that the. irfl lents had a very great regard for the moon and were trying to make the months follow exactly tile nloon-s revolutions. The result was that the year_Was eleven days too short and the seasons were climbing over themiselves in THE MOST CONFUSING FASHION. Something had to be done. and of ccurso February wa.s chosen ns the month to he tinkered with. The orange ss as so clumsy that one wonders Trow anybody could manage dates at all un- der such a system. Every alternate year a whole month was donated to the year, but for t -.orae ten -on instead of putting it between tw-) months it was thrust squarely into February, between the 24111 and the 25th cf that long suffering month. The length of this intercalary month, as it was called, was itself alternated every alternate year, and So the length of the year was made pretty nearly cor- rect. It was now one day leo long. how- ever. instead of being ten days too short. so that still another clumsy le - vice had to be arranged for correcting this. The year was of different lengths at, different times, but once in twenty- four years it came around to the right point and then libeled all over agulan. That is. it would have come around al; right if it had been let alone. But the management of the calendar was in the han;ls of the priests. %who could a'Jer the kneel of the intercalary month -poor Fehruary again! -to suit themselves. These shrewd' gentlemen therefore. used to spin out the month when they wanted to hang onto an of - lice for therm selvets or friends, or svoula cut it short if they were in a hurry t'or the annual elections. As may well be believed, the common froplo had no cxonipreh(nsion of the right way of running their complicated calendar. They didn't know whether the priests were doing the thing pro- perly et. not; so it was confusion worse confounded as time went on, until in Julius Cirisar's limo the year was 1101'Ei.FSS1.Y MIUDDLED UP. The winter months were In the au- tumn, the autumn months in the sum- mer, and so on. Sdnnebhing had to be done again. atnd Cason. was equal to the occasion. Ile planked in two extra months between Novnml'er and December. in additi:en le the intercalary month in February, s., that the year contained fifteen nteenlhs and 4.45 days. This was 40 13 t:. and is known as the Year of Con- fusk.n. it re'ttlly was the Inst yenr of confu- sion. It cancelled all past errors, and the next thing wns to make subsequent years the proper length. Fortunately there was n philosopher ofAlexandria, .0 xun tela nantcdroc -i genes, who Ln(1 the thing all worked out. (:u'snr adopted his plan. and the result is our modern year, even to our occasional leap year. But. peter (old February still hnd to come in for some tinkering. Ceresar de- creed Ihnt the months of the year should be of thirty and thirty-one+ days alternately. except February, which in ordinary years was to have twenty - tight days, with an extra day every flair years. The only foolish thine illeout this arrangement was that the extra day was not pieced at the end of the month, as al present, but between the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth, where the Intercalary month had t:e»n. it was (:n:sar therefore who intro- duced leap year. in order that the nems+ of Julius Cn•sar might forever lee associated with this nese cnlendar, the month in a high his birthday occurred tuns nctl nflrr him. it isnaohur July, fornherly known as Quintilis. This was a very proper re. ct,gnition of Julius Cnrsar's servicot4, but it contained the seed of MOIUE. TROUBLE FO11 FEI1HtJAitl'. When Julius died and Augustus suc- e 'eded him, the latter swan rather Jea- kktis because of that month which per- petuated the first (:u'ser's name. Ile decitics;1 to have one pruned after him too. so when his array won some vic- tor, s In the month following July he .skeet that one out to be called Angus- hrs. That wee all right as far as it went, but there was ono serious drawback. Augiwttus heel only thirty days, while Julius bad thirty-one. Horrid !Wright! Augustus wns net the man M put up with a emnIler ►n(enth than nrtylealy else. •o he calmly tucked another (lay tent.) eugtrsl, 'The wonder k that lie d•c1 net tack ou two so u to be not merely equal ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • to but ahead of July. Ile made trout enough us it was. The kngth of each of the loaf tour months had to be changed 60 hush they would alternate in their number of days. And us he had added a day to the year (lee haat to It ioppel off butte - Where. Needle -SS k► sa)*, 11 came gilt February. The year was now of the right length except for u fraction cf an hour, but this slight error, only 11 minutes and 10 seconds it year, was allowed to grow until in 1582 it amounted to ten days. In that year Gregory XIII. decreed that October 5 should he Octater 15, thus catching up those ten keit days. Some muntires, however. stuck to the old dates. Itustia still hol:]ts to the (Id style, and in some places in Great Britain certain terms raft regulated by it, although the new style was adopted in England in '1'1111 EIGHTEENTH (:I NTURY. The British people thought they were being robbed of sonwthing when the (tango b as tnt.de, and cl•owdts of thorn paraded \with the demani: "Give its tuck our eleven (Jaya!' For by that time itis ditto rence had increase, another day. Having oor rected past errors Gregory decided to keep things straight in 'u- ture, so he decreed that only those century years which are divisible by 400 should be leap years. I'or instance, 1000 and 2000 would be leap years, but 1.060. 1800 and 1900 would not be. That makes things come out so ex- actly ttiat now there will be a difference get only one day in 3.900 years. It LS proposed, therefore, to snake the year 4000, which would be a leap year, a common year, and then we will Le all right again for another 4,000 years. Just why leap year received that name is not quite dear. That it dates back a long way is certain, for it is found to have been in vogue in the Middle Ages. Some aulh';rities say that it is be- cause the days following February 29 leap a day beyond where they would have been had the year been an ordin- r.ry one. For instance, if March 1 would have come on Tuesday leap year puts it on Wednesday instead. Another reason is that in England formerly the 29t11 and 28th of Febru- ary were one in the eye of the law. The 28th. as the regular dety, was con- sidered that one; and itte 291h, though civilly held as a day, was not one le- gally. So that the legal year did really kap that day. One name for it is bissextile year, a name which goes back to old Roman limes for its origin. At that thee the days were oounted backward from the beginning of the next month. Febru- rery 2a was the sixth day before the kalends of March-sextus ad Kalendas Martins. The additional day that• (:re - ser put in between the 2 -lift and 25th was called bissexlurn, and so the year came to be known as the bissextile year. a.-- - - TAKING SALT FROM SEA \\ 1:FN S.tN i'EDiRO AND LONG BI:.►(:11, (:tLII'ORNIA. Pacific Ocean Wafer Evaporates Warm Sun- -Description 01 Process. in Transforming ocean water into salt is t wonderful process, and nowhere is it crtrried on to a greater advantage than is a plant situated ntidswuy between San Pedro and long Beach, California, where nature has st.pplied the necessary kw, level country, clean wan water and worm sunshine in abundance. Salt has been gathered in this location for more Ihnn nine years, and the best method yet worked out is as follows:- Pure ollowsPure water front the Pacific is pumped into ponds. It lies in these ponds gravi- tating from one to another, until in fifty er sixty days, according to the weather, it becomes a saturate snlution-brine- arrd is pumped into crystallizing vo64. There, nre twenty-six of these, each aseraging 50,000 square feet. Ilere the salt water crystallizes to n depth of more than one foot. while all iinpurit•es rmuin in the water and are drawn 011 through small ditches. This water contains Epsont salts, trngncsium chloride, calcium chloride, pelassium chloride and a small per cent. 61 -o(1ium br'emide, which until now hes rib gone to waste. November 1. however, it contrivance wits put in for sawing the magnesium chloride. There nre great advantages in ocean water over the C S a source of real! .all Laken. of, water for the former is purer and contains no alkali. DRYING IN SUN. When the eater has Leen drawn off a force of leen invades tete crunching salt to shovel it tip In long winnows, much as Eastern white wings do show. There 'I partly dries, is shovelled on email cars. dumped into a hig one, and finally piled on a broad belt that carries it into thy' storage mill at the rale of twenty tons in twenty-five minutes. From the slornge mill are bent annually many tons of salt for Ice first and crudest uses -for cattle and to freeze ice crcnrn. About one-fourth of the output is consumed in this way. The remainder Is drnwn up through pipes into a left and tercel through a crasher; then it is ready for pickling and meat pecking. \Viten net taken at this point it is blown through a drier. a tre- mendous iron cylinder which, revolving, hisses the salt Mina with hot-nir cur•- renl_s and dries 1t thoroughly, %% lien it tecentcs fit for reeking; glazed lilt and s(wnr piles and preparing( hklms. The sacking machine ie worth de'scrib ing. It is fed through a chute from the ;• ft, which distriht►teg the salt into small metal tithes, front which it empties into on.• and three-fourths pound sacks. fill Mg 4,1) per hour. 'These letter. when full, close nutematically and drop off And nre carried away on a revolving belt Only one' operator is ttereSSary• but she is kept busy hanging empty hags on the Beteg, One final r)lling anti sifting ►nnrhine Is 111 Hie Snit for table use, when it it M \ed. n clean and ateolulely chemically pi re pr edoct, (,1 w hr h mare than 400.- ($tu 1weepe+und packages are bent Otal each month. CONSTIPATION. : • • • Although genctally described as • • a disease, eau nes er exist unless • • some of the organs are d:tanged, • • • which is generally !•shed to be the• • liver. It consists of an inability to • • regularly evacuate the bowels, and • • • as a regal -r action of the bowels is • absolutely essential to general • • health, the least irregularity should • •• never be neglected. • •MILBURN'S • • • • • LAXA-L1VER PILLS • • have no Equal for relieving and • • curing Constipation, Biliousness, • • Water Brasil, heartburn, and all • • hirer Troubles, •• • Air. A. B. Bettes, Vancouver, B.C., • • writes :-Ivor some years past 1 was • • troubled with chronic constipation • • and bilious headaches. I tried • • nearly everything, but only got • • temporary relief. A friendluduced • • me to try Laza-Liver Pills, and • • they cured the •completely. • • Price 25 cents per box, or 5 bones • • for .1.00, all dealers, or mailed • • direct on receipt of price. • •• THE T. MILBURN CO., LIMITED • T•oronto, Ont. •• ••0••••••••••••••••••••••• Sl 11 IDE IN JAPAN. Becoming bore Frequent-- Women and the kuuny (;ise Large PcrOesttave. A Russian statistician, M. Tarnowaky, is uuthorily for the. statement that sui- ciaie bus increased more than 50 per cent. in Japan in recent years. While the number of caves was about 144 to 100,C00 inhabitan's in the early 'gas, it 1= mow In excess of 205 annualiy. The c.ld-fashioned method of hara-kiri plays no part in the increase. 1t is pract.sed, if at all, only by members of the higher classes. Hanging and drowning are the usual methods of the people at large. Women furnish n very unusual pro- pertton of these tragedies. Whereas tete proportion of the whole .bomber et sue cides ui- cides to the population is about the same as in France, the number of wo- men suicides is about twie as great. in France one-fifth of all cases approxi- mately are of women; in Japan they are two-fifths. Jealousy is the usual nr(•tive. Fee 500 French women who kill themselves fur this reason (here are 1,800 Japanese women. Another strange feature is the prP (Veit/ of th:se who ore tired of life. In France about seventy-five children under 16 years of age to►nmit suicide every year; in Japan the number L5 246. In Franc' about Twenty-one out of every hundred suicides and In Japan about thirty-five nre less Than 30 years of age. The women are relatively a large pro. portion among tt.o young than the old. Women in Japan furnish only 8 per cent. of the total criminality of the em- pire, so Tarnawsky concludes that they are mere virtuous yet more unhappy than European women. E:TQI'1•:TTI: OF ANCIENTS. Inti;atiuns to Dinner \Vritten Teo Thou- sand Years .ego. Translations just completed by B. E'. (,ienielt, of Queen's College, (bike], of wonderful papyri he and Dr. hunt brought back from ex•'avat:ons in Or- _ bychus. Egypt, provide, n rude silo, k to those who kindly pride themselves on lite twentieth cer►4ttry's pittance eking the path of progress. ' ''1, Ant ng other interesting lid ririalieen in these translations is a rev.-lat:on for students of the evolution of social 1• rm, that dilettantism in dining was as much de rigucur among the best people 2,000 years ego as to -day. and that the simple life was advocated by Pinder in his odes even nt It remoter peri.xi. Manuscript de-'tphered by Grenfell shows the following toren proper at it dinner invitation in the Nubian desert in the first century :-- "C:hacljon inviles you to dine with hint at the table et the I.ot•d Sernptte. in 5craphem lo -morrow, which is thm fifteenth day of the month, at 9 o'clock." According to the difference in meth - e3 of designating time, says Grenfelf, the hour mentioned ploba1 ty meant 8 o'clock in the afiernoon, and that the invitation shows little difference be- tween the dinner forms then and now, except tl►at ib" hosts 2.000 years ago u'md no linen mssary words. t t r trnnslnti(en shewa that T .tc fe,l.ess n wedding br•califeets are net Suelt a lata social development as belevcd: "Herein invites sou to dine with her at the marriage of her children at her luonie to-merreev, which is the fifth day of the month, at 9 o clock.' f Any kind of advice Is g.-' d Ing as you don't attempt to 1. It's a poor teed that can't le . i t: - ed p -ith ways. 'MILBURN'S Heart and Nerve Pills. 'Are a speetfo for all dtsesass and die' Order* srl,ing from a rundown seems tion rd the heart or nerve ayet�r�et, enc a* Palpitation of the Reart,}srervous Prentrtttion, N,•rvousntaar, eeplove- ne s. Faint and Duey Spells. Brain flag. et • They are lair bon•Actal to w omen troubled with irregular men - Mutation. Price 1.) cents per hot, or 8 for 11.25. All fireless. or Tan T. M'r 31 sw Tur(r.to. (int.