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Sarsaparilla
dense,
Any sarsaparilla is sarsapa-
rilla.
arsaparilla. True. Se ,any tea is tea.
So any flourls flour. But grades
differ. Yawwant,t1 a Mi.. It's
so with sarsaparilla. There are
grades. You want the 'best, If
you understood sarsaparilla as
well as you do tea and flour it
would be easy to .determine.
But you don't. How should
you? When you are going to
buy a commodity whose value
you don't know, you pick out
an old established house to
trade with, , and trust their ex-
perience and reputation. Do So
when buying sarsaparilla,
Ayer's Sarsaparilla has been
on the market so years. Your
grandfather used Ayer's. It is
a reputable medicine. There
are many Sarsaparillas'- -
bat only one Ayer's. it
cures,
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A e0X. DOr,D's MEDICINE COMPANY,
Pnorn,e•rona, TOpONTO, ONT.
PARALYSIS CORED—SWORN STATEMENT.
Mrs.:liaggia McMartin, 27 Iiadanhuret St., Toronto,
Ont., swears thatlfyckman'a "Kootenay Cure" cured
her of Paralysis which rendered one aide of her body
entirely useless. Phyeleians said there was no chance
of her over recovering the use of her limbs. Rope
deserted her, but to•day she is walking around telling
her friends how Ryclunan'e "Kootenay Cure" gave
her life before J. W. SeymoursCorley,y la' 1896;
Notary Public).
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THE VERY LATEST FROM
ALL THE WORLD OVER.
Interesting Items About Our Own Country,
Croat Britain, the United Staten, and
All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and
Assorted for Easy Reading.
CANADA,
Archbishop Langevin's health is slow-
ly improving,
There is talk of the erection of le
new 450,000 opera house at Brantford
by a syndicate.
The Dominion Bank statement for
October shows a remarkable jump in
the circulation of the banks.
MT. Wm. Miller, a Napa,nee hunter,
was lost in the woods near Plevna for
four days without food.
The C. P. R. has reduced passenger
rates one cent a mile on a number
of its western branch lines,
The Canadian Pacific railway is now
arranging a series of special excursions
to the Klondyke for the coming spring.
It is estimated that the amount of
wheal; delivered by western fanners
since September 1 to date is 17,000,000
bushels.
The grading on •the Crow's Nest Rail-
way is at present finished to Crow's
Nest Lake, a distance of 72 miles from
MacLeod.
Thomas Davidson, messenger in the
Bank d`1•ioohelaga at Winnipeg, com-
mitted suicide by shooting in the rooms
over the bank.
the e public at large, for sub-
scriptions Ions. to a memorial for. Henry
George.,
The first shipment of five hundred
carloads of potatoes; in bond, from.
Canada to Cuba, passed through Sar-
atoga, N. Y., on Tuesday.
The first Scientist chureli in Chicago
and the largest in the world of that
denomination, was opened on Sunday. It
has a seating capacity of two thousand.
President Fetterolf, of (Girard Col-
lege, Philadelphia, has issued an ediet
against football, and henceforth the
students of that institution must keep
off the grid -iron.
Fred. R. Ketcham, of Chicago, was
given a judgment of 1621,666 in his
suit there against the North-western
Railroad for $25,000 damages. Fie was
blacklisted while a conductor for that
road! ,
It is said that President McKinley
has prepared an Anglo-American arbi-
tration treaty, which, while not go-
singtand as far as he,,would wish, goes as
far as he thinks the Senate will
Dr, Neilsen, who lectured in Milwau-
kee. Wis., on, Thursday night, denied
that any arraugements were being
made for another voyage to the North
Pole. In fact, he was not. at all cer-
tain that he would try again.
Itis stated that the reason Mr. Sove-
reign resigned from the office of Grand
Master Workman of the Knights of La-
bour was that he might have free bands
to run for President of the United
States at the close of Mr. MMKiuley's
term.
"Satin's Invisible World Displayed,
, or Despairing Democracy," is the sense -
Ottawa wants to be the metropolitan • Bonet title of a sensational book,
dealing with the Greater New York,
which Mr. Stead, the editor of the Re-
view of Reviews, will give to the public
Anglican See of Canada, instead of
Prince Rupert's Land, which at pre-
sent holds the honour.
111'r. George Goodwin, of Ottawa, the neat month,
chief financial backer of the roller boat, 1 The Knights o fLabour, at their as-
says the machine will not be given an-sembly in Louisville, Ky., have passed
other trial this year. a strong resolution condemning the
A construction engine and seven cars proposed Anglo-American arbitration
on the Crow's Nest Pass went down , treaty, simply because England is
with the bridge over Old Man River. gold -coining country, and a majority of
Brakeman Hillier was drowned. I the Knights of Labour are silver men.
Twenty thousand dollars in gold ar- j According to reports from New York,
rived. at the C'ustoins Department hi ' the general trade conditions show no
Ottawa on Monday as duties collected' marked variation. In some lines there
on miners' outfits et the port of Lake is a moderate improvement in de-
Tagisle ; mend, as cooler weather in some di -
A party of four Englishmen, under { rections has helped retail trade to a
the command of Captain E. H. Bernard. ; noticeable extent. Better prices lave
of the Indian Staff Corps. a nephew of Prevailed in wheat, oats, corn, hides
the Baroness Macdonald, left Montreal, •. and leather, syrup, turpentine, eta.
on Thursday Slight for the Ilon•lyke, i The consumption of iron and steel is
(increasing so rapidly that an advance
The Department of the Interior has in prices is probable. Railway earn -
received a rel:ort fres Major Walsh, ' Ings ,for the third{ quarter of the year
dated at Slragttay. Re states that lie lead us to anticipate fairly satisfactory
has got all his supplies over the pass net returns, and the reports of a
and is how on the way to Selkirk. o- large proportion of the railway' com-
Mr. W A. Grenier, who was sen- a panics in the United. States point to
tented to six months' imprisonment . a more satisfactory geniaral result.
for libelling Mr. Tarte, Minister of The commercial failures in the United
Public Works, was released on Th'urs- ' States for the week just ended amount
day afternoon, Slaving served one ; to two hundred and thirty-five, as
month of his sentence. compared with three hundred and
eight in the corresponding week a
The arrangements for the erten- , year ago,
sion of the Intereolouial railway into
Montreal over the lines of the Drum-
mond County road are now completed, i Meavy rains have caused floods
and the service is expected to com- , the south of France.
mance the first of December. 1 'f.Tnder pressure from Russia, Tur-
The Montreal Harbor Commission- j key has abandoned her idea of increas-
ers have filially accepted the plan of ! ing her armament.
harbor improvements proposed by the i p, is announced from St, Petersburg
Department of Public Works. The ! that the Czarina may present an heir
Government will do the work,. whish to hex husband before long.
i Elaborate preparations are being
GENERAL.
In
will cost $3,000,000.
The Chateau de Ramezay, Montreal, , made for Dr. Nansen's next expedi-
has obtained a valuable addition to its ' tion in quest of the North Po1..
collection in a, portrait of Gen. Wolfe, A branch of the Royal Mint is to be
by G. Constable Alston, the only paint- established in Perth, Western Austral-
ing extant that was executed duringia, for the coinage of native gold.
the general's lifetime. 1A bili has been introduced into the
John Hough, 84 years of age, an in- ; New Zealand Parliament for recip-
mate of the House of Providence. Dun- ' roeal trade relations with Great Brit -
dos, wandered from the institution on ain.
Monday afternoon and his body has ; The rebellion in northern China is
been found in two feet of water in "spreading and fears are expressed
the rear of Wardlaw's Woollen Mills. that the insurgents will advance on
I Tien Tsin.
Major-General Gascoigne, on Thurs-
day held an investigation in Montreal
nto the dispute existing in the. com-
missioned ranks of the Royal Scots of
Canada. The Commander -in -Chief
ensured Lt. -Col. Strathy, A.D.G., and
Major Ibbotson. and said if the bicker -
ng did not cease he would dismiss
loth officers and disband the corps.
GREAT BRITAIN. .
Mr. Gladstone is reported to be
rowing very feeble.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
ave begun their Saturday to Monday
parties at Sandringham.
About three hundred firms which
were burned out by the London fire
are seeking for new offices.
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Louisa White, nine years old, who suffered with semi. since her birth, has been entirely cured and
Cr general lyetetn built up by Ryckman's "Kootenay : i
re." The above rams are given in a sworn state- . 1
FFent made by her' mother, bars. George White, 130
tinaon St., Hamilton, Ont„ dated July 8, 1890, ,
etore J. F. Mack, Notary Public.
A COMBINATION DISTURBED — SWORN
STATEMENT MADE. g
Charles E, Newman, 13 Marlborough Sb., Toronto
Ont., had a complication of blood troubles, Rhea. 11
Mad em, severe i,Idney trouble and constipation..
Was frequently disturbed at night loot his appetite
ti>tia Was a Very stole man. His Kidneys are now in a
iI, althy Conditioqn, his appetite good, sleep undis-
1 eed and oryletl ation otirod ; all thio was done ey
r1:44"Kootenay bore." I'e makes sworn
4,., th' b ve faote betore J. W. Seymour
oJ p qbp
Y. 10, ilia . ,
FOR TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS,
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'HECOOK'S BEST FRIEND
o A:3;;;EST SALE EN CANADA.
Price go cents per Box, or 6 for $2.$o. At
Druggists, or Ma4ed on Receipt of Price by
T. MILBURN & CO., Toronto.
THE
• EXETER
TIM FCS 4.1
OF ANY
It is reported that Most Rev. Fred-
erie Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury,
is about to resign on account of ed. -
yawing years.
The temperature which was high last
week in the United Kingdom., suddenly
dropped on Sunday, and snow has fallen
in Scotland and the north of England.
Mr. Fielding, the Canadian Minister
of Finance, who is at present in Lon-
don„ reiterates' that Canada strongly
desires friendly irelations with the
1 European diplomats are asking what
the United States, whose interests in
the East are advancing, will say of
Germany's recent seizure of a Chin-
ese harbour.
Dr. Thomas W. Evans, the famous
American dentist, who aided the flight*
of ex -Empress Eugenie, in 1870, died
In Paris on Sunday. He was seventy-
five years of age.
The leak of French military secrets
has not been stopped by the de-
portation. of Captain Dreyfus, and
suspicion points at Comte Ester -
hazy, who has demanded an investiga-
tion.
Serious tensibn exists between Japan
axed Russia, owing to the latter's
efforts to control. the Corean• Cus-
totes, and some of the Japanese Min-
isters go to the extent of advising
war.
A Havana special says that nearly
seventy-five per cent. of the four
hundred thousand women, children,
and non-combatants, affected by
Gen. Weyler's starvation policy are
dead,
It is estimated that about one thou-
sand eight hundred persons were ren -
United States. dered homeless by the rising of
the 'waters of the Neva, the flooding
Six hundred reindeer are to be col- of the canals, the suburban islands and
lected from the United States Govern- the outlying portions of the City of St,
meet herds in Alaska, to take part in Petersburg.
It is rumored that negotiations( are
on foot between Austria, France, and
Germany, in regard , to tbe, opportune-
ness of convening an international con-
ference to secure a general agreement
form' a nucleus of an art gallery, on for the diminution or abolition of the
the ground that many of the pictures sugar bounties.
are spurious. The black soldiers of. the first batta
It is pointed out that the men in hon, West Indira regiment, at Dings
the, American engineering yards work'ton, Jamaica, began.a lively riot, but
ten hours a day, and it would be 1111- Major Buck; : who was called to the
possible for Great Britain to maintain scene, bravely confronted the .men, re-
aprofitable compietition if the Eng-duced the majority to order and used
',Leh engineers work only eight hours Chem to `overpower the rest.
a day.
The Queen, who is in excellent
health, has invited a succession of
"Dine and Sleep parties to Windsor.
The storekeepers of London are up in
arms over, the visit of the Prince of
Wales, their best customer, to a large
departmental store, where he made
many purchases.
the expedition to be sent to the eight
whalers ice -bound in the Arctic,
The Lord Mayor of London has de-
clined the gift of some paintings from
• an Englisllnian and an American, .to
The law ordering the ',muzzling of
dogs, passed by the .English Govern-
ment is likely to cost the Conservative
party many votes in the next election.
So grave is the issue considered that
Mr: Long, the Minister of Agriculture,
NEVER TAKEN OFF.
Sunset Sims, drowsily—Dey say de
Prince uv Wales never wears a suit uv
clothes more den once.
Weary Willie --Well, neader do we-
only it's a longer once.
AT THE CYCLE CLUB.
'First Member—I ran dowai two men
to -day but 1 couldn't help it.
Second _ Member—I suppose not. It
seams to me the law ought to stop reck-
less pedestrianism.
OVER THE IDE TO YUKON,
seee
MAJOR R WAI.SH S PARTY 6t0O
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KLONDIKE BY LAND ROUTE.
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MitirSon to Two Months — In
specter lI1eGregor Follows two pays D,
Prev-
hind lsiHol ruChter with Horses, Dogs USW
s.
J. H. McGregor, mining inspector of
Major Walsh's staff, has left with the
last of the administrator's party, says
a despatch from Skagua,y, Alaska. The
Major started half of his party three
days ago, and left himself the next
day with' a determination, cheerily ex-
pressed that he would certainly get
through to Dawson City in January.
Ile takes two team of dogs only, for
packing on the ice when it is reached,
but he left Tweeter McGregor, who
will be several daysbehind him, to
come on with horses and dogs and res-
cue ,him if he gets into a. tight place.
Be believes, 'however, that Mr. McGre-
gor will hot catch' up with him, but !i
that he wiU. be able, with the mount-
ed police in advance of him with sup-
plies, to push straight through.
OUTCOME EAGERLY NVA.TCHEDFOR
The outcome of the Major's endeav-
or will be eagerly watched for, as it
is held that if he can get through on
the soft snow, instead of waiting until
February, others may do so.
Inspector McGregor is, having made
here sleighs with irons four inches wide.
These are for this horses, of which he
takes in ten. The Inspector will also
take forty dogs. These were sent to
Lake Bennett to be regularly exercis-
ed on the snow and hardened for the
expedition. Three men go with the
dogs and three with the horses.
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Major Walsh on his way up will de-
signate stations fifty miles apart, and
at each' of these stations a train of
dogs will be left for the mail service
With stations well provisioned only fif-
ty miles apart a regular mail service
may be depended upon'.
EXPEDITION IS WELL PLANNED.
Then, if Major Walsh should be froz-
en up when Inspector McGregor catches
up with him, the horses will be used
to puck in his personal belongings and
feed for the animals.
It is a well planned expedition, and
there seems to be no reason why it
should not go through. McGregor's par-
ty takes sixty days' rations for ani-
mals and 180 days' rations for the :men.
There is a great activity in Skaguay
building sleds, and several parties will
not be able to restrain their impati-
ence until there is a crust on the snow,
One of these rarties is making prepar-
ations to take in turkeys, cranberry
sauce and mincemeat to Dawson, with
the hope of reaching there by the
Christmas holidays.
BEEF TO BE TAKEN TO DAWSON.
Willis Thorpe and his partner are
sending in their cattle, The plan is
to get the cattle to Lake Bennett,
there kill them and freeze the beef then
to sell it to camps along the lakes,
and got the remainder to Dawson City.
About four hundred head will be
treated in this manner, so that Daw-
son, about the beginning of next year,
tiwi.il be well supplied with beef for a
me.
There is no diminution in the activity
of Skaguay and Dyea, both of which
places are now running a race to sup-
ply facilities of transportation over the
passes. Skaguay's tram road of wood-
en rails has about thirty men at work,
and at Dyea car wheels for a railroad
uplive to near Sheep Camp have been de -
From this point it is proposed to
make a tram road over the summit and
to Lake Bennett. There was a story
two or three days ago of a man found
dead of enervation near the summit of
the Dyea Pass, but I have so far been
unable to verify it.
CANADIAN WHEAT.
Loading lip Ail the. Sten niers with the Gratis
Tient iA Gotng to England.
The contracts made by Ontario grain
exporters have pretty well absorbed
all the ocean steamship space at Mon-
treal, and large quantities of grain
are now being sent forward for ex-
port, via. Portland, Me., and St. John,
N.B., over 500,000 bushels, it is said,
having leen engaged. The Grand
Trunk rate is 30 cents per 100 pounds
on wheat irpm Midland through to
Liverpool, via Portland, and the Can-
adian Pacific rate from Owen Sound
through to Liverpool, via St. John, N.
B., is 26 cents per 100 pounds. A very
large business in Ontario flour is be-
ing done by millers both to Great Bri-
tain and to Newfoundland.
Ontario millers occupy a favorable
position in export trade, as they are
buying their fall wheat at about 11
cents per bushel cheaper than it is
selling in Toledo and Detroit, and 17
to 18 cents cheaper . than Manitoba
wheat costs at Goderieh and Owen
Sound. Ontario millers are, therefore
able to sell, at 40 to 50 cents per bar-
rel less than Americans can lay down
the same grades in Newfoundland. It
is said: that Ontario millerse have ex-
ported 300 per cent. more spring wheat
flour than they. did last year. The
totalgrade exports` this season to the
close of last month from Montreal
were 23,476,904 bushels, as compared
with 15,093,784 bushels for the year
previous.
i'PBRHAPS IMPOSSIBLE.
Mrs.Dariey—The manufacture of ar-
tificial eggs is talked. about.
Mr. DarlieySuch eggs would be hard
to beat.
GOT ENOUGH.
Reporter—You didn'tget all the way
to the Klondike ?
Pilgrim—No I upas lucky enough to
starve almost to death before going ov-
er the pass
AGE OP THE ENGLISH THIRST.
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Proof That Intemperance in Eugland Is Not
of Re•
,.ant Growth.
As an. incident of a recent temper-
ance revival in, .England the question
of the date at which Englishmen really
began to get drunk was brought up,
and it was stated with' great positive-
ness that drunkenness in anything like
the form it exists to -day first became:
common leo longer than 300 years ago.
The temperance advocates declared
proudly that before that time a drunk-
en man was looked upon with abhor-
rence and that drunken men have re-
ceived the mild toleration which greets
them now only within the last 20a
years.
The authorities for these views of
early British sobriety are said to be
Camden and Nash. No sooner had the
temperance people pronounced this
respectful conviction on the• subject of
their ancestor's habits than a great
many other people set out to prove
that their forefathers were not nearly
so abstemious as the temperance ad-
vocates had made them out to be. Eith-
er from a desire to prove that they
were not degenerates, even if they
were the least temperate nation in the
world to -day, or with the object of
talking bank to the teetotalers, these
critics have resented the early sobriety
of the Britons as bitterly as though it
were. -
A NATIONAL DISGRACE.
One of the two quotations on which
the temperance people based their
claims was from Camden, who wrote:
"In the long wars of the Nether-
lands Englishmen first learned to
drown themselves with immoderate
drinking and by drinking others'
healths to impair their own, Of all
sobriety.the northern" ,nations they had been
before this the most commended for
Nash wrote that "superfluity' in
drink is a sin that ever since we have
mixed ourselves with the Low Coun-
tries is counted honorable; but before
we knew these lingering wars it was
held in the highest degree of hatred
that could be. Then, if we had seen
a man go wallowing in the streets or
lain sleeping under a board, we should
have spat
against at himhim,and" warned all our
friends
So soon as these authorities were
hurled at the public there came a hunt
for ,Milers to prove that Englishmen
had been in the comfortable habit of
getting drunk whenever they wanted
to, since the nation began to exist.
One patient seeker after denials to the
temperance people discovered one au-
tority who said that even before the
Conquest Englishmen "drank till they
sickened," and the Romans are said
to have got the habit from the Eng-
lish. Even the guilds are put under
suspicion by one writer, who says that
they were formed in the first place
as drinking societies, and that the
members took advantage of that fea-
ture to drink as bard as they could.
Archl ishop Anselm is quoted as hav
in ; interfered as early as 1102 to bring
toanend intemperance among the
clergy. "Drunk as an Englishman"
was an expression on the Continent
centuries ago, and the old record of
the expenditure of money for liouor
for coronations and other festivities
is regarded as other evidence of the
fact that the drinking on such occa-
sions was always
AN IMPORTANT FEATURE.
In the effort to prove how much their
ancestors really did drink soma of the
investigators have established the fact
that drinking among women was very
common even in the period of the mys-
tery plays when it was common to re-
present Noah's wife always as a sod. -
den drunkard. Under the common-
wealth even the wives of respectable
Merchants are said to have been ac-
customed to frequent public houses as
familiarly as the men did, and the dif-
ference in the quantity of ale they
consumed is said to have been slight;
Shakespeare was appealed to as a final
witness to the extent to whi"h Eng-
lishmen drank during his time and
for a long period before that. The
injured feelings of the persons who
replied to the statement that drunk-
enness was a new thing ought to have
been healed by the vigor with which
they overwhelmed the tenaperanre ad-
vocates. They nrodueed overwhelming
evidence that Englishmen had drunk
as much as they wanted to ever since
they were a nation.
FIRE AT MELBOURNE.
A Block in the Business Section of the
City learned •— Loss £1,000,000 — Large
'Warehouses Destroyed.
A despatch from Melbourne says :—A
great fire broke out here at 2 o'clock
on Sunday morning and in a very short
space of time did enormous damage. It
started at the warehouse of Mr. Craig
Williamson, in Elizabeth street, in the
very heart of the city. 6: strong wind
was blowing and the fiercely fanned
flames rapidly engulfed building after
building. Despite the desperate efforts
of the firemen; the entire block bound-
ed by Elizabeth, I'linders and Swans
ton streets and Flinders lane, with the
exception of two buildings on theSwen-
ston street front, were destroyed, with-
in three hours. The burned section in-
cluded manly of the largest, business
.houses in Melbdurne. The 'buildings
were completely gutted. As most of
them contained soft goods, the flames'
progressed with a, rapidity which deft=
ed all checking, and in the furious wind
ashes and burning debris were carried
into the .suburbs, a distance of two
miles. It is estimated that the loss
will reach £1,000,000, while the trade
involved has received a serious setback:
Hundreds of employees of all sorts have
been suddenly thrown out of employ-
ment.,
If a retailer found that every at-
tempt at substitution cost him, a cus-
tomer, he would soon be tired of it,
and would supply what the nubile asks
far.
THEY DIED TOG + TRER,
TWIN SISTERS, ADA AND LILY CROSS,
ASPHYXIATED..
Sad Double Fatality.— Death Caused by a
Nell=t'ecder •Coal Store.
;A despa,toh from Toronto, says:—Coal
gas was the cause of the death ' on
Tuesday night of two young girls liv-
ing over the Don. Ada and Lily were
the twin daughters of Christopher
Cross of 676 Gerrard street east, and
head of the painting firm of C. Cross
& Son'. The deadly fumes arose from
a self feeder stove, which on Tuesday
night was lighted for .the first time
this season. •
The stove was situated on the ground'
floor immediately under the sleeping
apartment of the" two girls, and the
pipe from it passed through their
room. ` Aniother pipeheats the adjoin-
ing room, which is occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Cross. An elder daughter
slept in a rear room•.
The girls retired on Tuesday night
about 10 o'clock and death must have
taken place a couple of hours later.
About midnight Mr. Cross awoke
with a headache, but thought nothing
ing of it. He got up as usual at 5
o'clock yesterday morning, when he
noticed a. strong odor of gas. He open-
ed the windows and then went into
his daughters' room whish he found
full of gas and the two girls were
dead. They had passed away without
a struggle.
Dr. Rowan of Queen street was sent
for, but he could do nothing. Coroner
Greig made an investigation, but de-
cided that an inquest was not neces-
sary.
The girls were just 15 years of age
last March. They attended the Bolton
Avenue Public School and St, John's
Church Sunday School.
htr. and Mrs. Cross suffered some-
what from the effects of the gas, and
the latter is prostrated with grief.
Mr. Cross is one of the best known
and most respected citizens of the
east end, and the deepest sympathy is
felt with him and Mrs. Cross in their
terrible bereavement.
COUNTESS ULFIELD'S SUICIDE.
A. Fashionably Dressed Linty Shoots Bersetf
in an Edinburgh Police Station.
A despatch from Edinburgh says; —
There was a tragic occurrence in a
police station here, on Tuesday even-
ing; A lady, apparently about; twen-
ty years of age, and fashionably dressed
in the deepest mourning, who said she
was the Countess Teresa. Ulfield, a
Russian, adding that she had; come to
Scotland a fortnight ago, via Copen-
hagen, and that she was, in mourning
for her deadlover, complained to the
police officer on duty that she had been
robbed of her purse containing a large
sum of money. The Countess was ap-
parently in great distress, and, as the
officer turned round to enter her com-
plaint in the station blotter; she drew
a revolver and killed herself: by shoot-
ing through the temple. Only a few
shillings were found on her person. Two
photographs were found among the ef-
fects of the deceased, One was that of
a young officer intake Russian army
and wan signed "Alexander Romanoff,"
It is supposed to be that of the
fiancee. The other was that of a Span -
fah officer who had visited, the Coun-
tess since her arrival in Edinburgh.
The hotel people say the deceased Coun-
tess was well educated and had evi-
dently bean accustomed to move in the
best society.
NEW FOOD PLANTS.
Mr. Garton Said to Have Discovered brays of
Producing Titin by (Tossing.
What is alleged to be the discovery
of Mr. Garton, an Tngli;h agricultur-
ist, has been tested esheestively with
the greatest success at the Earl of
1 inchilsea's experimental farm at
Sleaford, England. It consists of ap-
plying the principle of cross-fertiliza-
tion to grasses, clovers, cereals, and
other food plants.
The Earl of Winchilsea's secretary
says that the experiments were made,
not only with plants grown in the
United—Kingdom, but with those of all
foreign agricultural countries. Spe-
cial varieties that are best suited to
any particular soil or climate can there-
fore be produced.
The experiments have not been made
public hitherto, in order that a suf-
ficient quantity of seed mightbe
raised to supply the demand when the
Important results were made known.
Mr. Garton ..has already received ap-
plications from some foreign govern-
ments for seed.
The United States have affected cros-
ses of wheat, but have not attempted
to cross barley or oats. Mr. Garton
has succeeded In all his efforts, and
Great Britain is thus enabled to take
the lead in supplying the world with
new varieties of grains. This will be
a potent factor in restoring prosper-
ity to British agriculture.
Dr. Goodfellow, an expert, writes
that Mr. Garton's methods of producing
marvellous permanent types of cereals
are most unique and original, and that
comparatively useless cereals are con-
c=erted thereby into the most valuable
food plants.
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A PAYING PROFESSION,
1Vir. Million—]:bumph? Want to mar-
ry, my ,.daughter? Newspaper reporter,
1 understand. I never heard, of
anewspaperreporter getting xioh.
Mr. Qutckpen—Oh, I have. I know
of a dozen who have married heiresses..
iiousiess
Is caused by torpid liver, which prevents diges-
tion and permits food to ferment and petrify in
the stomach. Then follow dizziness, heaaaohe,
insomina, nervousness, and, • •
IIIS
if not relieved, biitons fever
or blood poisoning. Bood's
Pills stimulate the stomach,
File the liver, euro head -the, dizziness, con.
phtion, etc. 26 cents.: Sold by all druggists,
Theo Pills to take with hood's Sarsaparilla
111Y $fit ap ilia
SicklyWIn,f
Out of sorts—easily hired, hag-,
ard, pale and listless, try Indian
omen's Balm. It makes rich
new blood, banishes backaohes,
headaches, heart palpitation, epn
etipation and all other ailments
to which women are so subject. It
le suffering womanhood's greatest
boon. Has cured thou9ands---
. Why not you? rti
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PERISHED ON THE TRAIL.
Reported Deaths or Twenty alien Vaulted by
the Hardships of the Klondike Trip.
A despatch from Sat Francisco, Cat.
says: -George Pope of Chicago has
written to a friend here from Sheep
Camp, on the Chiikoot trail. The let-
ter is dated October 28 and gives the
latest news of the condition of the.
men who are stranded on the way to
the I'Iolndike. He says a heavy sterni
had been raging on the pass,
"The other day a man toad me that
at least twenty men had perished on
the trail within the last few weeks.
I have not been able to verify this
statement. At every town and every
settlement where prospectors are com-
pelled to stop the men have stories to
tell of the danger of the journey,
Their advice is t•;, avoid the trip now
'et any cost."
SAVED FROM HERSELF..
A pretty love story without the usual
ending comes from the life of Greuze,
the famous French painter of the lase
century, who was so successful in re-
producing the beauty clf children's
faces.
'Whets he was ayoung man he gave
lessons in art. ,Among his pupils was
a lovely young 'Russian girl, named;
Laetitia, the daughter of a grand duke.
This child at heart, if not in years, con-
ceived a romantic devotion for him, and
after an illness }when she was still
weak and not quite mistress of herself,
she sent for hien to come and see her.
Too evidently she was under the mis-
chievous influence of her nurse, who,
when the painter entered the room
kept, urging her to speak, whereupon
she said with a disconcerting direct-
ness, -Yes, Monsieur ilreuze, I love you.
Tell me frankly do you love met'
If he did not,. 18 felt at least agreat
generosity over the innocence of the
avowal, and received it so kindly that
the young girl began Laughing an l cry-
ing together, and exclaimed, "Listen to
me, you two; here is my plan; I love
Greuze, and I will marry him!"
It was a simple plan, but one not
to he adopted offhand.
"What about your father?" asked
Grauze, who knew avhat opposition
would be made by the family of a prin-
cess to her marriage with one who was
not even noble by birth,
"1 know he will not consent," said
Laatitia, airly; "but what then? 1 am
rich through my mother; I can dispose
of my money, and I give it to Greuze."
But after the painter had left her,,
and his sense of exaltation had fled,; he
realized that nothing but grief could
came to the little lady through an im-
possible tie with him. So in spite of
her tears and, reproaches, he bade her
farewell, and tare himself quite away
from her.
This was an episode of the artist's
visit to Italy. which was begun in 1757.
Eight years after he had. quitted Rome,
there came a letter from the young
woman.
"Yes, my dear Greuze, your old pup -
i1 is now a good. mother: I have five
charming children, whom I adore. My
eldest daughter is worthy to be offered
as a subject for 'your happy brush; she
is beautiful as an angel. My husband!
almost convinces me, ,that I continue to
be young and' pretty, so much does he
still love me. As I told you, this hap-
piness is due to you, and I love you
for having prevented me from loving
you."
Who fao.
simile
signature/.
it cif
every
weeper,
HIS LIVING TOMB.
The Missionary Delegation—Will you
point out to us the grave of our late
brother, Dr. Prearbanpray, that we
may pen an epitaph over his remains ?
The Cannibal King—I would, but I
hate being tattooed.
"Tommy," said the teacher, "what.
is meant by nutritious food?" "Some-
thing that ain't got no taste to it."
replied Tommy.
ale—I wancles why id is that womee:
are naturally.eo much more curious
than men?
She—I don't know. I've never had
the curiosity to try to find out,
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CASRIA
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For Infants and Children,
The fat.
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OBEDIENT CHILD.
I wish you would. be :more explicit
when you're moralizing to the chil-
dren," said the good wit's to her bus-
band. You told. Jimmie last night that
he must never put things o:f till toe
morrow.
Yes.
Well the little imp went to bed with
bis shoes on.
WELCOME CYCLE NEWS.
Mouldy Murphy—t see day ain't go -
in' ter have no chains on bicycles next
year, Leary.'
Languid Leary, a e oviu l
g y ialY 3' y —Oat's
good.. If a bicycle what I see in a
g y back
yard, yesterday hadn't been chained 1
could have arvi"Ad Id *gee,
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