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ME "RN LATEST FROM ALL THE
WORLD OVER.
-eating Items About Our Own Country,
t Britain, the United States, and
U Parts of eke Globe, Condensed and
teed Ite few Reacting.
Stratford City Council is considering
curfew byelastr.
Mr. John Carnegie was elected Pre -
dent of the Peterboro' Board of Trade.
DU. E. T. Sanford, son of Senator
nand of Hamilton, died at Fl. Paso,
Texas.
Antletaxine is being successfully
used at Brookville for the -cure of diph-
theria, , •
e Mr. Watson Crosby. Patron member
ot the Manitoba Legislature for Den-
• is dead.
The London City Courieil lam decided
impose a. license fee of $100 on cigar-
ette vendors.
The Montreal rolling mills have clos-
ed down, throwing about 400 men out
of employment,
The Nova Scotia Legislature has been
dissolved, and. the general eleotions or-
dered for April 20.
Charcoal, or "Bad Young Man," the
Indian murderer, was hanged et the
police barracks, MacLeod.
Rey. Dr. Potts of Torofito has been
elected Chairman of the International
Sunday School Lessons Committee.
A fm'illightlet steamship service be-
tween Montreal and Manchester will
be inaugurated when navigation opens.
The Dominion Line has ordered a
new steamship from Harland & Wolff
of Belfast for the St. Lawrence trade.
Rev. D. Jackson, of Knox church,
Galt, has accepted a call to Madison'
avenue Presbyterian church, Cleve-
land.
Two eases supposed to be leprosy are
under the supervision of the Winnipeg
Health Department. Both are for-
eigners.
The St. Thomas Board of Education
' 'is taking steps to suppress the habit of
cigarette -smoking among the school
children.
Joseph Freeborn died at the Hamil-
ton C•ity Hospital from the effects of
a, rib broken several years ago and.
neglected.
An old lady named Mrs. Mary E.
Monteith, living inoStratford, Ont., was
killed on Saturday by a runaway horse
in that city.
Nin of the marksmen eligible for
pcsitictts on the Bisley team have mai"
lied t e secretary of the D. R. A. that
'11 go.
There is everyprospect of a large
i
make of butter n Manitoba and the
North-West Territories during the ap-
proaching season. •
It is left to the discretion of the Can-
adian Militia Department as to what
troops shall be sent over to take part
in the diatom:ad jubilee.
Mr. Peter Mitchell has been ap-
pointed General Overseer of Fisheries
for Quebec and the Maritime Provinces,
with beadquarters in. Ottawa.
The Governor-General will shortly
announce a date for the closing of the
- national India famine fund, which has
now reached about $130.000.
Mr. George Mercier, governor of the
county gaol at Guelph, died on Friday-,
aged 79. He had held the position of
governor of the gaol for 37 years.
Harry Yelveri on. Goring, a tobacco-
nist of Tamworth, has succeeded to a
baronetcy by the death of Sir Craven
Goring, the tenth baronet of that name.
The Hon. T. Nesse, the Japanese Con-
sul -General at Vancouver, B.C., is in
Montreal to report on the advisability
of appointing a Japanese. Consul in that
city.
By the bursting of a watennain on
Atwater avenue at Montreal part of
the western end of the city was in-
undated and damaged to the extent
of over $5,000.
Mr. Nosse, Counsul-General for Japan
at, Vanceuver. B. 0., who is at present
In Ottawa, will shortly have a confer-
ence with the Toronto Board of Trade
on trade matters -
re. • It is reported that Lieutenant -Gov-
ernor Mackintosh of the Northwest
Territories is about to resign his office
and move to Roseland to look after hie
mining interests.
Minister Davies has published
through the High Coloamissioner's of-
fice in London, a cablegram denying
the statement that there is danger in
the use of Canadian canned salmon -
Students of Laval University, Mont-
real, mobbed a. French newspaper for
publishing a .paragraph they thought
reflected on them. The police were
called and dispersed the students.
The Hull Electric Company has serv-
ed the Ottawa Electric Company with
notice of a claim asking $20,000 dam-
ages of infringement upon the terri-
tory and fghts of the Hull company.
Sir Donald Smith, High Commission-
aer for Canada in London, has arrived
at Montreal. His spoke encouragingly
of immigration prospects in England,
and. also discussed the school settle-
ment.
Ottawa is divided in opinion as to
whether the military celebration.
Amid. take place on May 24 or on July
21, the diamond jubilee. Sir Richard
Cartwright has promised to talk the
matter aver with Major-General Gas-
coigne.
The Rev. George H. Wells, whose
death by a railway accident is report-
ed from Milwaukee,was pastor of the
American Presbyterian church in Mon-
treal for twenty-two years. He was
fifty-six years of age.
How Sidney •Fisher announces that
/ the Government has made final ar-
rangements for the cold storage of but-
ter and other perishable food. products
which will be shipped weekly on steam-
ships running between Montreal and
Avonmouth,. London and Liverpool.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Prof. James 7, Sylvester; the noted.
mathenuitierad, is dead, at London,
Eagland.
,Lord Salisbury is suffering from a
mild attack of influenza, and cannot
leave the house at present.
• Sir Edwerd Ebenezer Kay, Lord Jus-
tice of Appeal, is dead. He was seven-
ty-five years of Age.
• The President of the National Libor -
it Federation states that home rule is
nailed to the masthead of the Liberal
tarty.
Two cases of smallpox have been dis-
amered in New York, and mea,sares are
being taken 1„o prevent the spread of
the disease.
The largest diamond- in the world
has arrived In London from Kimberley.
ft is said to be worth two million and
a half dollars "uncut.
Ia,n Maclaren (the Rev. Dr.john Wat-
son) is to be cited before the Presby-
terian Synod, for alleged heterodox
teaoKags in "Mind and the Master."
TrieLord Mayor of Dublin has issued
Invitations to a meeting at the Man-
sion house, to start a Parnell family
fund, Mrs. Parnell and Mr. John Par-
nell being both in needy circumstances.
Another step in tht direction of mu-
nicipal ownership has been taken in
Liverpool, where the corporation has
purchased the horses, vehicles and
good -will of the United Tramways &
Omnibus Co.
Coraplainbs 'have recently been made
in London that among tae Canadian
horses imported during 1896 some were
affected with an infectious catarrhal
disease, wraith greatly lessened their
value.
Secret and rapid peeparatione are now
being made at Wohvioh and other mill-
tary establishments of Great Britain,
and war stores are being forwarded to
Cape Town, as trouble is expected in
South Africa,
Lieutenant -Governor Kirkpatriele has
sufficiently recovered from the effects
of his recent operation to be enabled to
leave London for Brighton, where he
will remain a short time before return-
ing to Toronto.
UNITED STATES.
Two eases of smallpox have been dis-
covered in New York.
airild cats are reported to be killing
cattle in northern Michigan.
The loss caused by the big fire in
St. Louis, Mo., on Monday will reach
;1,000,000.
The new United States tariff: it is
expected, will increase the revenue over
$50,000,000.
The village of Pigeon, Mich., is
inundated as a reeult of the overflow-
ing of the river there.
A mother, father and child were
burned to death at Omaha, Neb., on
Tuesday by a gasoline explosion.
Scott Jaiikson and .A.•loazo WalUngi
were executed at Newport, lKy., on Sat-
urday for the murder of Pearl Bryan,
The floods in Tennessee are increas-
ing, and reports from Memphis record
loss of life and great destruction of
property.
William T. Adam, better known as
Oliver Optic, the writer of stories, for
boys, is dying at his home in Dorchest-
er, Mass.
4Fralak Butler, alias Newman, the ac-
cused Australian murderer now in cus-
tody at San Francisco, will not fight
extraaition.
The Tariff Committee have agreed
to report an amendment to the Ding-
ley bill which will allow the import
of fish canght in the Canadian waters
of the great lakes free of duty.
The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, of
Brooklyn, will nob be allowed, to lec-
ture in the Y.M.C.A. hall in Phila-
delphia, because he recently threw
doubts on the story of Jonah and the
Commercial telegraphic advices from
the United. States tell a story of busi-
ness depression that even the facile
pencil of a commercial editor cannot
effectually gainsay. Business is in-
creasing, 'but it is much below the av-
erage of previous years. There is, we
are told increased. activity and. neces-
sarily increased demand for labour,
but the value of labour does not appear
to rise. Collections are spoken of as
"more satisfactory" generally, through-
out the States. There are MOTO male
at work, but tariff changes are serious-
ly interfering with the possibilities of
trade.
The lockout in the engineering trade
el:England isegan on Friday night, and
kds fair to narayse the, trade of the
-eantry.
GENERAL.
Signor Grimaldi, the Italian states-
man and ex -Cabinet Minister, is dead.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
will visit St. Peteesburg uext month.
A very serious water famine exists
in the central and southern portio n of
the Island of Jamaica.
Despatches in the London Daily Mail
say that Emperor William is showing
marked signs of insanity
It is rumored in Paris that Prince
Henry of Orleans will be offered the
position of Governor of Crete.
According to a census just taken the
Japanese in Hawaiian Islands number
24,000 and the Hawaiians 31,000.
Violent gales prevailed all Thursday
night throughout Germany, causing
some loss of life and great destruction
of property.
The Dutch steamer Utrecht, which
ds supposed to have founded at sea,
carried a crew of thirty-six 'then, but
no passengers.
At Canea a gun exploded on board
the Russian „turret ship Simi Velikn,
killing fifteen men and wounding an
officer and twenty seamen.
La Liberte, of Paris, commenting up-
on President McKinley's tariff policy,
strongly recommends a European com-
bination against the United States.
President Kruger is very evasive in
his reply to Mr. Chamberlain complain-
ing of Boer violation of the London
treaty, and there is fear of a Trans-
vaal war.
Twelve women charged with poison-
ing their husbands and other near re-
latives in order to obtain insurance
money, are being tried at Hold Mezo-
Vesarbely, Hungary.
Despatches from Cape Town an-
nounce that British troops have receiv-
ed orders to hold themselves in readi-
ness for emergencies, and that the
sieuationin the Transvaal is very
grave.
There is reason to fear that the
Dutch mail steamer Utrecht, which
sailed from Rotterdam on February
28th for -Java, foundered in the vicin-
ity of Usbant, and that the hundred
persons she had on board are lost.
TIIE EXETER
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
PARIS'S EXECUTIONER.
Deibler, the Monsieur de Paris," has
resumed his post as executioner, if re-.
ports are to be credited. Formerly
France had a head cutter for every de-
partment, but of late ',ears, until his
recent resignation, Deibler filled the
office for the entire country, having 400
execatiene to his credit. He used to
be something of a dandy, but more re-
cently avoids publicity as much as pos-
sible.
A GOOD LUBRICANT.
Those children, said Kr. Netherby,
as he threw down his paper, are mak-
ing so much noise I can't hear myself
think. Pm going to attend to them.
Don't he too severe, said iVirs. Nether -
by. Suppose you try the plan of casting
oil on the troubled waters.
T will, said Mr. Netherby, as he pick-
ed up his ruler ;1 11 try a little whale
oil.
NINE CHILDREN KILLED AND SU-
" ERAL SERIOUSLY INJURED.
A Cyclone mows the High School Building
to Pieces at arebigton, Ga.—Seenee of
Horror.
despateh from Atlanta, Ga., says:
—A cyclone strack this town on Mon-
day, and has left behind it a trail of
death --and destruction. The High
School building was blown to pieces,
and from the evreek nearly 100 dead,
dying and injured people have already
been tak/len.
The following named pupils were in-
stantly killed :—011ie Parramore,Claude
Roberts, Alice Putnam, Albert Butler,
Willie Molatarra, Kenneth 'Boynton,
Maud Johnson, Mary W. Elloias.
least ten others will die, according to
the reports of the corps of emergency
physicians now caring for the injur-
ed. Prof. .Walker, it is feared, cannot
live, and Prof. Covington is badly in-
jured. .
Not a single person in the big build-
ing escaped injury. About 1.30 o'clock
there was a lull in the high winds which
bad prevailed, giving some promise of
a clear day. Prof. Covington, going out
to look around, beheld a dark cloud.
well fringed with electricity, moving
ra.pidly in the direction of the school.
His trained eye at once told. him there
was danger. Hurrying the children in-
to the building for safety, the roaring
of the coming cyclone was upon them
before they had time to think. The
storm increased in strength and vel-
ocity and the building began to shake
and careen. The building was wrench-
ed into fragments, so that the pieces
fell inward, and among the first struck
were Claude Roberts and Alice Putnam
who were killed at the first blow. Pro-
fessors Covington and Walker both
worked to succor the children, notwith-
standing both bad received serious
wounds. The scene was soon surround-
ed by the parents of the children. The
sight of eight. little ones ahem:1.y dead
and of ten others crushed and bruised
and bleeding in all the phases of tor-
ture was enough to wring the stout-
est heart. Among those wounded quite
a number are not expected to live, and
it is MOTO than likely that the list of
dead will be doubled before morning.
Blakeley was struck by a severe
storm on ,Monday morning, and did en-
ormous damage end cost several lives.
The chaos caused by the storm still ex-
ists, end during the confusion nothing
can be definitely learned. as to the
amount of harm done or the number
of lime lost.
HUSBAND POISONING.
A COMINIOn Crime in Illungary—Arsenle
the Principle Agent Employed.
If the attention of the European
world were not absorbed by the threat-
ened march of great events, popular
interest would be directed in large
measure to the astounding revelations
made last week ini. the criminal courts
of Hungary and Austria. A dozen wo-
men are on trial in one town for pois-
oning their husbands, and it is freely
admitted theirs are only typical cases
which illustrate what is almost a na-
tional custom in the country districts
of that region. Husband poisoning, it
is coolly announced in court, is as
common a calling as midwifery, and
the public prosecutor declared that he
only proceeded in these few oases be-
cause the culprits had confessed, and
desired to break up the practice.
A trial in Vienna, which ended in a
sentence of death on Friday, showed
what an important part arsenic plays
in the domestic economy of the in-
habitants of Styria. A peasant named
Seliimaelefoer began shortly after his
marriage be 1891 to have, intimate re-
lations with a servant, Marie Peni-
sipp, With whose assistance hein his -wife by mixing arsenic n her
food. Ho married his paramour, and
on her faster sister, Katharine Millek.
then only fifteen years old, entering his
service in 1895, he also became inti-
mate with her, and murdered his sec-
ond wife, as be did the first, by
sprinkling arsenic over pieces of meat
on her plate, which, while she was
away, were turned over, in order that
she might not see the powder on, her
return to the table. The two children,
girls of two and three years, asked
their mother for more meat, and as
she gave it to themlrom her own plate
the father had to sit by and see his
children eat poison. He ma'naged, how-
ever, to keep silent, in order not to
betray himself. The children recover-
ed, but the mother died. Suspicions be-
ing roused, the exhumation of the first
wife took place, and, speaking of it.
in court, a ebernist made the remark
that all the village cemeteries in Styria
were full of arsenic.
DO WE BUILD TOO FAST.
English Journals' Opinions or Canadian
RC
ailwaye-apital Expended.
English joternals are impressed with
the idea that Canada is building her
railways too fast. The latest available
statistics shoiw that there are 16,091
miles of line laid in the Dominion, and
the capital expended is $894,660.559. To-
wards the cost of the construction of
this mileage the national Government
has contributed an average of $9,369 per
mile, the Provincial Governments 41,-
847, and the municipalities $881 a mile.
Altogether the subsidies amount in
round figures to 5195,000,000. Ibis held
that the results' obtained do not justify
liberality so great. A correspondent
points out that in Cape Colony the pro-
portion of the net revenue to the cap-
ital cost of the railways is 5.75 per cent.;
in India„ 4.90 per cent.; in Seuth Aus-
tralia, 3.13 per cent.; in New South
Wales, 3.46 per cent.; in New Zealand,
3.78 per cent.; bat in Canada the pro-
portion is only 1.57 per cent. In Tas-
mania alone of all the British colonies,
is there a lower return. The cost of a
railway, it has been laid dawn by some
authorities, should not be more than
ten times its annual traffic, that is to
say, the annual traffic should yield 10
per cent. of the capital test. The appli-
cation of this test to Canadian railways
shows that the percentage of traffic to
cost is abolut 51-4 instead of 10.
. WASN'T A BARGAIN SALE.
"Madame mesa -ad" paid Dr. Nausea
45,000 or the blubber-soakedsuit be
wore when he met Mrn, . Jackson on the
ice of Franz Josef Land.
TIMES
THE KAISER'S SANITY.
The Dental Condition of the German
Emperor Causes Great Alarm.
A despatch from Berlin, says :—In
regard to the stories of Emperor Wil-
liam's insanity, it is stated privately
by met who know hint more or less
intimately that his Majesty is very ner-
vous and 'irritable, his features twitch-
ing frequently. They admit that the
Emperor has certain eccentricities,
chiefly denoting inordinate vanity, con-
cerning which many queer anecdotes
are in eireneaticia, but his behaviour
has always been that of a sane per-
son.
A letter to the London Daily Mail
reiterates the story of Emperor Wil-
liam's insanity with startling frank-
ness, mentioning his Majesty as being
the sovereign previously reterrea to as
pinching nis guests and trying be trip
them up with his sword. The writer
says the fact is now that there is no
doubt that the Empower, if not epee
enmity insane, is liable to fits of ab-
erration, which, while they last, are
indistinguishable from madness. •His
local derangement behind the ear, and
almost in contact with the brain, has
hitherto, R is added, been kept in safe
limits by a treatment evbieh provokes
a constant discharge. While the dis-
charge lasts the pain is not, very great,
and the inflammation and swelling of
the affected parts being relieved, there
is nothing either intolerable or alarm-
ing. But, it appears, it has lately be-
come increasingly difficult to maintain
the process, and the result is a com-
bination of pain, excitability, depres-
sion and re dlessness which has brought
the Emperor too condition fearfully
alarming. Cantinuing, the writer says
that no Hobenzallera is allowed to as-
cend the throne or keep it if he is
afflicted with an incurable disease, and
that it is obvious no madness can be
tolerated in the Emperor. The know-
ledge of this is said to be disabling the
rale of his house, and is doubtless in-
tensely aggravated by the symptoms of
disease. It is said that should things
get but little worse, Prince Henry of
Prussia, the Emperor's brother, will be
proclaimed Regent, with an advisory
Croatian, on which the constituent sov-
ereigns of the Empire will be repre-
sented.
BRAVE SURGEONS.
Instances or the Heroism of Two British
Army Dociors.
Persons who glorify military opera-
tions do not always stop to think that
they could scarcely be undertaken with-
out the aid of the medical staff. Hare
are men who must be coneulted at ev-
ery turn who constantly suffer toil and
anxiety in order to keep the troops at
their fighting best, and who in the
day of action risk their lives as
truly as if they were heading a column,
Black -wood's tells the story of, an Eng-
lish surgeon who was mortally wound-
ed at Majaba Hill, end Who yet per-
formed an ant worthy to be mated, with
DEATHS FROX STARVATION
HARD TINES IN THE STATES AT THE
PRESENT TIME.
A Dollar a Week Insufficient to Feed
Family -Starved Herself and Children
to Save a Sick Hushand-Poor III and
Starvitg.
Gras Eppi Grossi lives at No. 51 Hill
street, New Haven, Conn. He is cap-
able of doimg any kind of labor, and
is willing to work, yet his little daught-
er. Marie died from starvation on Sat-
urday.
Grossi has beset employed as a polish-
er at the big hardware factory of Sar-
gent & Cu, by Centraotor Alfred T.
Mix and he did not make enough to live
on. ale says he was paid $1 a week.
Mix says he was paid what he earned
on piece work. That bin pay "d not
average more than a dollar is Pro eed
by his pay envelopes..
A week ago Friday ibis wife applied
to the Outside Poor Committee' of the
Board of Selectmen for aid. The Select-
men investigated and learned what
;Gross' bad been earning.
I Mrs. Grosai appeared before the come
I Mittee again Friday and they gave her
$1, and said they would renew it weekly.
Mrs. Grossi told thern her husband had
been discharged after the Selectmen
had looked into the case.
Contractor Mix said Grossi had earn-
ed only §1 a week or thereabouts be-
cause he did not work steadily. Polish-
ers, said Mr. Mix made from $7 to 49 a
week. But Grassi was very slow. Mix
mid he discharged him because he
couldn't earn enough. Grossi, on the
other hand, said he had to work eight
hours a day for six days for $3.
He pays $3.50 a month for the three
miserable rooms in which he lives.
There were four children before Marie
died. She was five years old and the
eldest. The youngest is two months
old and the mother has been forced to
give up her work of washing.
TO SAVE A SICK EIUSI3A.ND.
After weeks of terrible suffering, Mrs.
Edward Bergunder ancl her three chile
dren appeared before Overseer of the
Poor Frederick Wright at New Bruns-
wick, NaT, on Saturday and said she
had been a widow but three days, her
husband having died of starvation.
The Demander family lived in one
small dingy room in an old house on the
outskirts of the town. Berguinder made
a good living working in a factory un-
til le woe, taken ill last June. Since
then he never left the house, Mrs.
Demander had. some money saved when
her husband was etrioken, but; her
funds grew lower and lower until she
eras penniless.
Then she sought work herself, and
for a time succeeded in keeping the
wolf from the door. She told the Over-
seer that for days she and her children
had hardly eaten anything so that her
I husband could be fed, -in the hope that
he would legatee his health and again
go forth to earn a living for them.
• Mrs. Bergunder says that many times
her husband had to go to bed without
having eaten a morsel. At times he
begged piteousla for food, but. she was
powerless to assist him. A. doctor who
examined him said. that Bright's aiseme
killed Um, but. Mrs. Bergunder is peel-
tive that had he beenl fed, properly he
would now be alive.
Mrs. Bergunder realized. that if she
dill not secure aid shei and her three
children would soon meet the same fate
as her husband. They are now in the
custody of the Overseer. The body of
the husband has been buried by the au-
thorities.
POOR, ILL AND STARVING,
that of Sir Philip Sidney, on the field
of Zutphen.
The agony of death was closing in
upon hate He had succumbed to his
own hurt, and weakness, but just at
that moment he heard a wounded man
shrieking in an extremity of pain.
That was enough, and he crawled to
the spot where the soldier lay, gave
hint an injection of morphine, and died.
During the Ashanti War in '1874, the
English force was hotly engaged at
Amotiful, and one regiment wee gal-
lantly making its way through the
bush. Several men had fallen, and ev-
ery surgeon connected with the fight -
lag line was fully occupied, When sud-
denly two Highlanders appeared, bear-
ing between them a gallant old officer
who had been shot in the neck. The
arterial blood was spirting like a foun-
tain from the wound, and the principal
medical officer at once recognized, the
danger of the case.
"If that man is not attended to," said
he, coolly, "he will be dead in five min -
ales:"
And though they were at the moment
in an open space exposed to a.raost in-
evitable death, he stopped short and ape
plied himself to his task. He extempor-
ized a -support, for the poor fellow's
head, and laid him down. Then while
the ugly "phit I phit 1" of bullets sound-
ed about them, he tied the carotid art-
ery with as steady a hand, and as un -
Shaken nerve as if he 'had been in an
operating -room.
One brave man tad done his duty
with the simplicity of true heroism, and
another brave man had been saved for
the service of his country. i
HAIL, GENTLE SPRING.
Come gentle Spring;
Haste here and bring
Tears that are sunny and smiles that
are glad;
Soon all the land,
Will, by thy hand,
In garb of sweetness and beauty be
clad.
1 Louis Simpiraewho lives with his wife
and two babies in 't'hetenement at No.
124' Eldridge street, New York, is. far
gone in consumption. Until two months
ago he made a livingby peddling,
starting out every morning, weak as he
. was, because necessity compelled, but
"his health grew steadily worse, until
. he is now helpless.
1 The poor wife, also a consumptive,
can do no work. The family has been
rapidly sinking down into the lowest
. depths of poverty. XONV their affairs
I have reached a crisis. There is no food
in the house, and the, children and
'parents both are faint with hunger.
:In a few days they will be evicted for
non-payment of two months' rent, am-
aniating .to $16.. They are deserving
people, and contributions will do a•
world of good.
With blossoms sweet,
Deck all you meet,
Be it the orchard, the field or the
glen; •
With cheery notes,
From willing throats,
Make the wood e echo the joyous re-
frain.
Bid winter drear,
No longer here
Tarrying, chill us with snow and with
Taint
All hearts rejoice
When the soft voice
Of the cuckoo proclaims thy coming
again,
JUST SHREWD JUDGMENT.
She—I wene to a fortune teller to-
day, just for a lark, and she told me el
lot of things.
ne—Yes, seine of them hit it pretty
closely, but I hope you don't think
there is anything eupernatural about.
their powers. They just use shrewd
judgment; that is all. •
That may be trim, dear. She told
me I was married ta a man who fell
fair short of whet I deserved.
ea Bachelor at a banquet in New-
castle gave the following toast—"The
women and coal of Durham county
Oh I how desolate would be the fireside
without them.
Whatever a man honestly believes
to be his duty claims his uncomprom-
ising and unhesitating allegiance; and
every time he disobeys the call of duty
he fallen, seep lower, in the scale of
character.
MEMORY DOCTOR WANTED.
Caller—Are you the memory doctor?
Professor—I am a professor of the
science of —
:Yes, I know; you fix 111:1 memories.
In common parlance, yes.
That's what I heard. Well, I want
my memory dootared.
That is very easily done. All you
have to do is to adopt my system, and
in a little while yon will get so that
you can remember'anything at all.
My stars I That's isn't what I want.
I want my memory fixed so I can't re-
member anything. I have been called
as a witness in a trial.
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With Liver Complain 3 and Dyspepsia—Suffered
Greatly and Found No Relief in the Scores
of Medicines Prescribe&
South American Nervine Was Recommended, and Beforel
Half a Bottle Was Taken Relief Came.
'Have Bine. Improved Rapidly, and Ana Now Completely Cured-ei
So Says Mr. David Reid, of Chealey, Ont.
What Ills come to humanity from a.
disordered liver! Henry Ward Beecher
has said that it was impossible for a
man to hold correct spiritual views if
his liver was out of order. The liver
Is so important a part of the mechan-
ism of man that when it ceases to work.
with ease the whole man is unable to
do his work aright. Can we not appeal
to thousands, nay, tens of thousands,
for a verification of this fact? Cer-
tainly it le, that lir. David Reid of
Chesley, Ont, felt that the enjoyment
of life had been taken from him,
through the unhealthy condition of his
liver. For ten years he says he was
troubled with liver complaint and dys-
pepsia. Employing his own language:
"At times my liver was so tender I
could not bear it pressed or touched
from the outside. Had tried a great
many remedies without any benefit.
Was compelled to drop my work, and
being worse than usual, I decided as
a final 'resort to try South American
'Nervine, which had been recommended
to me by friends who had been cured
by it. I got a bottle from A. S. Good -
eve, local druggist, and commenced
taking according to directions. Before
I had taken half a bottle I was able
to go to work again, and I have lm -
%roved steadily since. I can considen.
tiously recommend South American
Nervine to any suffering from dyspepe
sin or liver complaint." This is Mr.'
Reids story as he tells it in his owns
words. Were it thought necessary id
could be corroborated by a host of wit.
nesses. Mr. Reid has lived a long time
in Chesley, and his case was known WI
be a very bad one. But that makes ne
difference to Nervine. This -great die"
covery rises equal to the most tridne
occasions. Let it be indigestion, the
most chronic liver trouble, as with Mr.
Reid, nervous prostration, that makes'
life miserable with so many, stele
headaches, that sap all the effort oue
of man or woman, Nervine meaeures te
the necessities of the case. It Is el
great medicine and thousands to -day fel
;Canada are happier and healthier me*
and women, because of its discovery,
There is no great secret about it, and
yet there is an important secret. It
operates on the nerve centers of the
system from which emanate all life and
healthfulness, or if disordered, sickroom
even death. NerVine strikes promptly at
the nerve centers, hence, as with Mae
Reid, where ten years' use of other mi.
dicines had done no good, ltse than a
bottle of Nervine brought about len*
couraging results, and a taw bottlei
(surest
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A FARMER'S LIFE,
City Youth, in the country for a I
day's shooting,—Ah1 How wonder.]
fully bracing Ellie pure country air is 1
After all, there is no lite ea tall of
solid comfort as a farmer's, and I wish
I could, be one instead of a pent-up
dlerk in a, great city.
Farmer—Think you'd like to be a
farmer, eh? Da you see that bent -
backed old fello'W over there grabbin'
stones and building it into a fence?
Been et it from daylight to dark for
six weeks, and ain't half through yet,
When that's done,: lot's harder things
has gat to be attended to. Making
stone fences is just restin ; tem tweak
Well, he's a fernier.
City Youth—That's strange; who are
those men neat him who do nothing
but. idle aholut tAiren't they farm-
ers, too?
Farmer Hayseed --No, indeed. Them%
only hired men.
HABIT OF DOING WELL.
Learning to do well is like learning
to swim. Yea wade into the water,
but not fax, for feax you v'ill deown.
Ycia try again, and do a little bettee.
You swallow a good deal of wailer, but
you keep on' splashing, and finally cart
swim. So you must keep on doing
well until acia learn how. A habit la
something which we have. t That is
what the ward meane often be-
comes sometbing 101(41 has us,