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.BRITAIN'S NAVY COMPARED
WITH HER, RIVALS.
Keeping Paee With. France Ries -
ale, and Germany Com-
bined.
The reeent assembling at Ports-
mouth, mu the occasioa of the cor-
onation review, of England's chan-
nel, home and reserve Butte, was
ueade the oecaSioa of a renewed out-
break en the Part of the NavY
Leateete autt persons in sympathy
with the objects of that organiza-
tion. To read the comments made
by these advocates of increased na-
val expenditure leads one to think
Immediately that while the British
navy is a beautiful thing on paper
and a still more beautiful thing to
look at from the more prosaic utili-
tarian point of view, it is all but
worthlesei. And all this comes from
the presence in the fleet of a number
of obsolete warships, from the old
turret -ship DevastatIon, with her
muzzle -loading guns, to the ships of
the Admirel class, which represent a
transition stage in the building of
battleships and, viewed, in the light
of modern knowledge, are, to say
the least, partial failures.,
That these ships are oat of date
in guns, armor, speed and coal ca-
pacity has never been denied, but to
infer that the fleet winch was ree
viewed by His Majesty was fairly
representative of England's nava, is
not only misleadieg but unfair. It
may be taken for granted that Eng-
land's rivals on the "Continent do
not look at the matter in this light.
The best and most powerful of Bri-
tish ships new in comanisaion are
with the Mediterranean fleet or in
MORE 'DISTANT WATERS,
while still more powerful ones are
building or are authorized. A glance
at the list of British ships shows
how absurd these critics become
when they, compare unfavorably the
41a,vy of to -day as illustrated at this
coronatioii review with the navy of
1897 ae illustrated at the Diamond
Jubilee review.
Taking into account only raodern
ships, that is, ships vehich have
been authorized and bezilt since the
great quinquennial programs of
1889 were made, Englatel has built
or is building 45 first-class battle-
ships, 28 armored cruisers, 19 first-
class protected cruisers, 47 second-
class cruisers and 19 third-class. In
the last five years she has put to
sea five 14,950 -ton battleships of the
.Caesar class, six 12,950 -ton battle-
ships of the Canopus glass, five 15,-
000 -ton battleships of the Formi-
dable class, eight 11,000 -ton pro-
tected cruisers of the Diadem class
and five 12,000 -ton armored cruisers
of the Cressy class. In addition to
these she has now building three 16,-
850 -ton battleships of the King Ed-
ward class, five 9,800 -ton armored
cruisers of the Suffolk class and six
10.200 armored cruisers of the
Hampshire class; and she is com-
pleting three 15,000 -ton battle-
ships of the Venerable class, six
4e0Qp-ton battleships pf the Albe-
marle class, four 14,100 -ton arm-
ored cruisers of the Drake class, one
12,000 -ton armored cruiser and Ave
9,800 tons each, zneiag in all 12
battleships and 21 armored cruisers,
which will be in commission within
the next two or three years.
A comparison of these with the
navies of her rivals shows that the
Mother Country is sot only keeping
pace with France and Russia, but up
•to the present has been keeping
pace with Prance, Russia and Ger-
many combined. *In 1897 England
had 13 first-class battleships which
DATED SINCE 1889,
and 18 Erst-class cruisers. France
had four first-class battleships, two
second-class and one cruiser. Rus-
sia had three first-class battleships',
three secondeciass and two cruisers.
Germapy had four first-class battle-
ships and ono first-class cruiser.
Thus five years ago England had
two more first-class modern ships
than the three powers combined, five
lese second-class battleships and nine
, more first-elass cruisers. Since
1.897 England has commiesioned 16
first-class battleships, as compared
with Frances six, Russia seven and
Germany five, while in first-class
cruisers England has commissioned
13, France six, Russia .five ard Ger-
many to. But in the matter of
ships ,building and authorized, Eng-
land is follirig behind her combined
rivals. In this class she has 14
battleships of 212,000 tons and 23
first-cla se cruisers of 250,000 tons.
France is building or will shortly
lay down six battleships of 72,000
tone, and 14 first-class cruisers of
145,000 tons; Russia nine battle-
ships of 120,000 tons and eight
first-class cruisers of 52,000 tons;
and Germany nine battleships of
101,000 tons and three first-class
cruisers of 27,000 tons.
These figures seem to show that,
all things being equal in respect to
the individual qualities of the ships
themselves, England has not bad no
Is she in danger of having much dif-
ficulty in keeping abreast of the nee
vies of the dual. alliance. But if
,it beeorees neceseaty for her to count
In Germeny as a. possible member of
a combination against her and there-
fore 'cels it necestary to keep .her
fleet equal to the combined fleets of
Illaitlia;tarreriezerseetatle Missile, it is '
evident that a most trying strain!
will be put on her finances. But as,
the navies stand to -day, she is fair-
ly tvell oft despite the presence of
the Devastation ia thareviewing
line.
HEROIC Ar0NICII3Y.
A Paris monkey named Albert is
the hero Of a thrilling story front
that city, A fire broke out In its
mistress's hotlee, and the monkey,
scenting the stneke and becoMing
alarmed, Inamiged to Open the win-
dow, climb doWn a waterspout to
Vie pollees lodge, and give the
alarm. The portee went up, Woke
opea the dooe, aud was just In time
to preVent the tady being suffocated
by tbe flamee. Albert quite the
'hero Of the clig*rtct,
IMPROVING OF OUR LANDS
$11ALLOW CULTIVATION A.ND
ROTATION.
By J. H. Grisdale, Agricaltari,s1,
Experimental, Parra,
Ottawa.
Por ixiany years •fanners in East-
ern Canada were grain growers mere-
ly, Necessity- forced the ineeption
of, such a system of agrieulture. Hab-
it and ignoranee prolonged the prac-
tice of such teeming. The wonder-
ful strength, and seeneingly inexhauee
tible fertility of the soil made its
long continuance possible. The dis-
covery of the possibilities of the
Northwest and the gradual exhaus-
tion of our fields called a halt.
Hence, for some years past change
has been in the air.
Live stook farming, the system
making the smallest Mr:kande on ectil
fertility, is rapidly supplanting
grain growing. Parts of nearly
every farm are now much better in
Condition than they were a few
years ago; and, further, such is na-
ture's worderful recuperative power,
since the partial cessation of the tre-
mendous draM of grain exportation
the average crop returns for Eastern
Canada have gone up very considera-
bly. But, as every farmer knows,
even live stock- farming long con-
tinued means a gradual loss of fer-
tility anloss consideralele food other
than that produced on the farm is
fed to stock and the manure pro-
perly cared for and utilized.
This fact has led to a study of the
methods for cheaply restoring lost
fertility and profitably cultivating
soils so that "improved, rather than
impoverished" may be the annual
verdict.
It is impossible to discuss the sub-
ject exhaustively in such an article
as this, but one plan of cultivation
found to give good results is where
the meadow or pasture is plowed in
August, the sod being turned to a
depth of 3e or 4 inches only. Im-
mediately after plowing, if in a dry
time, the land is rolled, then har-
rowed with a light harrow. It is
then left' untouched until grass and
weeds start to grow when it is
again hat rowed, care being exercised
1 .to prevenit the sod being disturbed.
The harro tying or cultivating pro-
cess is coatinued at intervals (as
the weed seeds germinate) until Oc-
tober, when by means of a (3 plow
gang) double mould -board plow the
surface soil to a depth of about 4
inches is put into drills about 22
inches apart and 8 to 10 irches
high. This is found to be a most
satisfactory preparation of the soil
for corn, roots or grain. Where
graine is sown, -the soil is ready for
seeding at a considerably earlier
date than where late fall plowing
is practised. .
If along with this system of shal-
low cultivation a proper rotation is
adopted, most excellent, results are
sure to follow. As clover ie the only
crop which, while giving a paoiltabie
harvest still serves to enrich. rather
than to impoverish the soil, it is
evident that clover should take a
prominent place in August rotatione
in this country. With this fact in
mind, a few rotations .suita.ble for
the improving of our lands may be
offered, as follows:
Three-year rotation—(1) grain, (2)
clover hay, (3) pasture.
Three-year rotation — (1) corn
and roots, (2) grain, (3) clover hay.
Pour -year rotation — (1) corn and
roots or pease, (2) grain, (8) clover
hay, (a) hay or pasture.
Five-year rotation — (1) grain
with 10 lbs. clover seed to plow
down for fertilizers, (2) corn and
roots, (3) grain, (4) clover hay,
(5) hay or pasture.
Six-year rotation — Same as five
year, but left one year longer in
pasture
The reason for surface cultivation
and the use ef such short rotations
as given above is to increase the
quantity of and place properly the
chief factor making for soil fertil-
ity.
Dead vegetable matter exposed to
moisture and warmth soon breaks
down to a form called humus or
blade earth, the factors above men-
tioned. Our prairie and newly-
cleare'd soils contain immense quan-
tities of this material. Exposure
to heat and the intermixture of
earthy matter serve to waste. Thus,
repeated grain cropping with deep
plowing provide the conditions best
calculated to dIssipate this matter
most rapidly and most effectively.
The functions of this common, yet
easily lost, substance are varied and
important. 13eing, as anyone can
find out for himself, of the nature of
a sponge, it retains the moisture in
a dry time, but will allow all su-
perfluous water to rapidly and harm-
lessly percolate to the lower soli
la,yers.
It holds loote, porous solids to-
gether, and so otherwise loose sands
become staple and provide a good
root hold for plants. It renders dense,
inifeermeable soils open and porous,
permitting the free circulation of
air and water and allowing the
weak rootlets to penetrate the erst-
while impenetrable space in search
of food. In brief, it is -'the chief re-
quirement of good physical conditioa
in our soils. It contaios much plant
food, since it is really vegetable
matter, and a large perceatage of
this food is in available forms. It
aids also in the conversion of the
non -available forms of the eletnents
of fertility into available forms.
Further, it retains war the surface
the dissolved plant food whieh must
etherwise have sunk into 'the Mb -
oil.
The Most important sources of hu-
mus on the average farm are farm-
yard manure anti crop residues, 'Up-
on the proper application or use of
thee taaterials depends the better°
Of Canadian agrietAttue.
Where the supply oi humits is limit-
ed its location becomes a Very lin-
portant eonbideration, NOW, most
of our craps draw the greatest part
of their food fron1 the surface soil,
for, while eome roots of most plants
penetrate to a cOnsiderable depth,
Most roots of all plants are near
the serface. Plants of nearlsr all de-
face soil is inelleve aid rich in Ina
Mus. The great crepe produced by
newly-eleared failde and prairie lands
exemplify this, as does also the raak
growth of plants in our forests,
where the scab -soil is never stirred,
At Where the az:Maulsand smaller
perennial* muet depend for their
nourishment upon the surface soil al-
most exclusively. It would, there-
fore seem to be elear that available
plant food should be near the sur-
face of our fields and that our sur-
face soil sleould be itpartieularly
geed physical conditiou of tilth.
How to secure these two require-
ments of rapid, rank and, desirable
plant growth west, therefore, be the
first consideration of every would-be LADY NICOTITE.
succeseful farmer. Experiment and
long practice seem to prove that Wives Should Bless Husbands Who
shallow cultivation arid some rota- seaeke.
time more especially the three-year
FOR THE acmrr Tooala,
Wom,thin ? Genger Cookies.. --One half ctip asug-
one cup molaesee, One-half Op
Not Washed thin! That's so butter, one-half eup mlia, one egg,
when common soap is used. c'ne teaSpOoiifUI sada, One -ha f table-
spoonful ginger, one-half tablespoon-
ful eillnaMen, flour to roll.
Columbia Cake, --One and one-half
cart sugar, one-half cup butter, two
eggs, one cup sweet milk, four eupe
flour, three tea,spoeufule baking
powder, one-half teaspoorfal lemon,
BlreDlLYChna one-helf teaspoonful va1Ua, one
• cup Ane citron, one cup raisins, and
TpEcrzusga
eup currants, one cup cocoanut;
bake in two leaVeS.
Aim or um oetngon Vier. ag Mock Cherry Pie.—One heapiag cup
cranberries, et in halve, 011e -half
11
or the four-year in dry districts, and
the Ave -year in rainy districts, are,
most serviceable in increasing the
humus in the surface soil, and so
"improving the physical condition";
evinch means "increasing the pro-
ductivity" of our fields.
BABY'S OWN TABLETS..
For Weak, Sickly and Fretful
Children of All Ages.
If the children's digestive organs
are all right, the children are all
right. They will be hearty, rosy,
happy—and hungry. Get the little
ones right, ard keep them. right by
the use of Baby's Own Tablets. This
inedicine mires ail stomach and
bowel troubles, nervemsness, irrita-
tion while teethirg, etc. These Tab-
lets contain no opiate or poisonous
drugs and mothers who try them
once will not be without them while
they have little ones. Mrs. D. E,
13adgley, Woodmore, Man., says:
"When our little girl was about six
months old she caught a bad cold,
and was much -troubled with indiges-
tion and constipation, and very rest-
less both day and night. One of my
neighbors brought me some Baby's
Own Tablets and in a few days my
little one was regular in her bow-
els ard rested well. I found the
Tablets so satisfactory that 1 now
always keep them in the house and
have since found them valuable when
she was teething. 1 cart truly re-
commend them for the ills of little
ones."
Cheldren take these ,Tablets readi-
ly, and crushed to a powder they can
be given with absolute safety to
the smallest infant. The Tablets
can be obtained at all drug stores,
or you can get them post paid at 25
certs a box by writing direct to The
Dr: Williams' Medicine Co., Brock-
ville, Ont., or Schenectady, N. Y.
THE GRASSHOPPER.
Means by Which It May Be Ex-
,
terminated.
As grasshoppers have again pes-
tered farmers in Manitoba and the
Northwest, it is opportune to re-
mind farmers that "prevention is
better than cure," and, while it is
now too late to give advice that
can undo the damage perpetrated
this year by these pests, it is ol por-
tune to remind agriculturists that
they have the remedy for next sea-
son almost wholly in their own
hands.
As in 1900, the places in Manitoba
where most injury has been done has
been along the line of the Canadian
Pacific Railway from McGregor east
Melbourne, Carberry, Douglas, Bran-
don; and Oak' Lake to Routledge,
and south by Pipestone, Lander,
Hartney, and f011owing -the Souris
river to Glenboro' and thence north-
easterly to McGregor.
The recommendations for the de-
struction of grasshoppers are that
farmers should promptly destroy the
young insects in epring by burning
them at night when they have col-
lected on rows of straw which should
be spread across fields for the pur-
pose, then plough down stubble
fields, constautly use hopper-dosers,
or poison the insects with a mixture
of bran and Paris green. They are
passionately fond of bran, and are
easiest disposed of by placing it in
spots ready of access and poisoning
It.
It is highly important that far-
mers in the affected districts shall
plough down all stubble this au-
tumn or early nexteespring—this fall
preferably.
The mixture of Paris green is com-
pounded as follows :—Take 0218
part of Paris green, add one part of
salt which appears to make the bait
much more attractive to the in-
sects, and eleven parts of bran. Mix
into a. mash, adding as much water
as the stuff ; then spread
it in as small lumps as possible. A
trowel or a thin piece of wood makes
a handy distributor. The mixture
should be made fresh and the epread-
ing prooeSS be repeated every two '
days until the grasshoppers disap-
pear. As the poison takes two or
three days to kill the locusts they •
are able to fly some distance before
dying. The full sized insects eat
this mixture much mere ravenously
than the young ones ; and it has
never been known to fail whore it
has' once been tried. Recently it has
been discovered by Mr. Normaa
Griddle and Mr. Harry Vane, of
Awetne, Man., that horse droppings
may be substituted for bran, and
that the mixture is even more at-
tractive to the grasshoppers. This
mixture, also, has the very great
advantage of costing nothing, tvhile
the bran is expensive in the West.
The efficacy of this remedy is
vouched for by Dr. Janaes Fletcher,
Dominien Entoraoligist, of Ottawa ;
the Provineial Minister of Agrieul-
ture ; Mr, McfCellar, his chief clerk,
and other equall3r praetical and
eminent authorities.
DEPT. Or AGRICULTURE,
Ottawa, Sept., 1902
-- 0,
Youtig Husband — "Isn't there
something peculiar, about the tate
of these oniOns?" Young Wife (anx-
idusly)—"Oh, X hope not/ I took
such panes with theme; I evert sprink-
led them With Jockey Club before I
put them. On to boil to take away
eseeritions thrive best where the sur- .the IMPleasaat odor."
Not long ago. a good woman wrote
me that her husband was the best
of men, that he was true and up-
right and generous and tolerant ;
but she wanted me to tell her some-
thing that would make him abandon
what she described as the "soul de-
stroying habit of using tobacco."
She admitted that he smoked out -
doom when the weather was ibie,
and in the kitchen when storms
drove him to that shelter. But,
even so, she was afraid the smoke
would creep through the cracks and
doors and lurk in her curtains, says
Grace Boylan.
1 have known women like her be-
fore ; and I want to help her, fox.
She reminds me of a child carrying
in its careless little fingers a pearl
of inestimable value, Any moment
it may slip from her foolish clasp
and be gone fore -ver. And I say to
her and to all like ner : "Go down
on your knees and thank God for
that husband with but one fault,
and drag all your curtains down
with you 1 I31d him come into the
best room with his pipe; and then,
while its blue wreaths rise to the
ceiling and choke you and blind you
shake out your hair that its meshes
may eateh and hold than even as it
held the fragrance of your wedding
garland !"
That handsome young cavalier who
spread his mantle for his queen to
walk upon had ever the good and
comfort of women at heart ; and he
never did a kindlier thing for them,
than when he introduced to their
quarrelsome lords the nerve soothing
and temper tranquilizing weed from
the
PLANTATIONS OF VIRGINIA.
It has made soft the way for the
feet of women even as his cloak cov-
ered the path for Elizabeth.
The governments that send out
troops have learned by experience
that tobacco is a military necessity.
With it men can bear hunger, cold
and the sting of bullets, Even the
venerable Queen came to understand
that hee kin,gdoniestretching depend-
ed on the tobacco pouch as well as
on the sword. The London Lancet
and all medical authorities point out
the virtues of the brown weed in
times of stress and warfare, and the
Indian has proved that the calumet
and the lodge fires smoke best to-
gether.
Poor Cbaxley Lamb tried to give
up smoking because some one
thought he should do so, and as he
sat in the first hours of his divorce-
ment from his briarwood pipe, look-
ing at it with longing eyes, he said,
mournfully :
For your sake, tobacco, I
Would do anything but die.
Nobody knows how long he might
have kept up the effort (I fancy not
forever) had not a friend come to
hire and begged him to resume the
habit if he intended to remain a
poet.
"Man," he said, "fill up your
pipe. You write nice a tobaccoless
female I" .
Had I four walls roofed in with
love and called by that most naean-
ing narae af "home," I would build
an altar in the choicest room to
Lady Nicotine, and keep it heaped
with armfuls of her fragrant weed
fetched by myself. I do not know
what magic lurks within the plant,
but 1 am uonvinced it is more potent
than treaties to preserve domestic
peace, and some day someone will
rechristen it the "Happiness flower."
le-- •
BRIDAL SUPERSTITIONS.
Many mid curious are the cus-
toms regarding brides. In. Switzer-
land the bride on her wedding day
will permit no one, not even her
parents, to -kiss her upon the lips.
In parts :',Df rural England the cook
pours het water over the threshold
after the bridal Couple have gone in
order to keep it warm for another
bride, says the London Globe. The
pretty custom of throwing the slip-
per originated in France. An old
-woman seeing 'the carriage of her
young king—Louis XIII. --passing on
the way from church where he had
just been married, took off her shoe,
and flinging it at his coach, cried
out: "Ti all I have, your Majes-
ty, but may the blessings of God
go with it." There is an old super-
stition in Germany against *mar-
riages in May. A favorite wedding
day in Scotland is December 31, so
that the young couple can leave
their old life with the old year and
begin their married life with the
new one. The Italiana permit no
wedding gifts that are sharp or
poiated, connected with which prac-
tice ie our superstition that the
gift of a knife severs frieudship.
One beautiful marriage eustora is
that of the bride, krauediately 'after
the ceremony, flinging her 'botigtet
among her maiden friends. She who
catches it is destined to be the next
bride,
"Just.a Little"
Pain neglected, may produce chronic
itheuntatiem or Gout. Just a ,littlet
Backache may create Lumbago. &wet
e, little Sprain. sometimes makee a
Just a little Bruise May do
a lot of klaraage. Just a little
Headache may be the forerunner Of
Neuralgia, Just a little St. jacobe
Oil, applied in tiree, tures proniptly
arul perratinehtly Aches and Paine,.
Just a, little caution ; USt 0, little
gOSt. Years of Pleasure againat years
of Pain.
cup sugar, one-half eup cold Water,
one scant cup raisins, one teaepoone
ful fiour, one teaspoonful vanilla.
Republican Cake.—Two eggs brok-
en into one cup sweet cream, beat
with one eup Sugar, one cup Aour,
otte teaspoonful baking powder, flay -
or to taste.
Centennial Cake.—Whites of three
eggs, one-half eup butter, ore cup of
sugar, one-half cup of sweet railk,
three teaspoonfuls baking powder,
one and one-half cups of flour. Use
the yolks of the eggs for frosting.
AT SMITH'S FALLS
A WONDERFUL CURE FOR
13RIGHT'S DISEASE.
So Weak He Couldn't Stand—Ter-
ribly Broken 'Up and Unable to
Find a Cure — Dodd's Kidney
Pills Made Him Well,
Smith's Falls,. Sept. 15.—(Spec-
ial.)—The cure of Mr. Theodore
Young of this place is a wonderful
example of the progrese that medi-
cal science has made in the last few
years.
Up till a short time ago the doe,
tors claimed that Bright's Disea.si
was absolutely incurable, and in fact
there are a few who still adhere to
this theory,
But Bright's Disease is not incura-
ble, Dodd's Kidney Pills will cunt
this terrible malady and have donc
so in thousands of cases.
Those who are skeptical need not
go farther than this town to find
proof. Mr. Young makes this state.
ment:
"I was affliete'd for about two
years with Kidney Trouble and
chronic Bright's Disease. 'My urine
was very dark and I lost consider-
able blood, making me so weak I
could scarcely stand,
"After using the first box of
Dodd's Kidney Pills, I was much
better, and when I had used four
' boxes I was able to resume work
which I had not done for some time
previous.
"I can conscientiously recommend
Dodd's Kidney Pills to any one
afflicted as 1 was."
Mr. Young's case is only one of a
great many where Dodd's Kidney
rills came to the rescue after every-
thing had failed. They have con-
quered Bright's Disease and restored
I to life and health men and women
jwho had not expected to ever again
enjoy this great blessing.
Dodd's Kidrey Pills having demon-
strated their ability to grapple with
Kidney Disease in its very worst
forra—Dright's Disease—can certain-
ly be depended on to pure ary of
the lesser forms.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are the only
medicine that has ever cured Bright's
Disease.
A LONDON MUTTON PlE.
Dr. Klein, one of the experts af the
local government board, has been
investigating pies on behalf of the
department, says the London Morn-
ing Chronicle. "From an ordinary
ham and beef shop, on two different
occasions," he says in the report
just presented to Parliament, "two
eightPenny pies and two tuppenny
pies were bought and analyzed. None
contained bacillus coli, or other coli -
like microbes, and none contained
the spores of any pathogenic ana-
erobe, But all contained the spores
of anaerobe non-pathogenic bacillus
batyricus. Also all contained the
spores of mesentencus vulgatus, and
staphy-lacoccus albite of at least
two different kinds; both of them
non -liquefying and non-pathogenic."
And this is not the worst, for
"there was isolated from one of the
tuppeny pies a bacillus which, M
morphological resPects resembled the
xerosis or pseudodiphtheria
irArs OF Onto, env or Toreceo,
enema cotnery. --
PRAMS J. 01IENEY makeoath
that he is senior partner of the Arra of
F. J. CHENEY d LiO., doing business
in the City of Toledo, County and
State aforesaid, and that said iSral will
pay the sum of ONE etretteeleD DOL-
LARS for each and every case of CA-
TAHRld that cannot be cured by the
use of ELALL,s CATAHAH OUSE.
FRANK . CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
lituLpziette3n6co, this ete day of December,
A. W. GLEASON,
_eatery Public.
2.P• SEAL :
Hall's Catarrh Care is taken inter-
nally, and acts directly on the blood
el.nd mucous surfaces of the system.
blend for testimonials, free,
1% J. 0.11Elelev & 00„ Toledo, 0.
Sold by all Druggists, 750,
Hall'Family Pills are the best.
•LENGTHY OOURTSHIP.
The longest courtship on tec,ord
was that of Robert Taylor,' pbst-
Master at Scarva, Ireland. He
courted his lady -love for fifty years
and married her in 1872, when his
age was 168. He died in his 134th
year,
Millaii'S Liniment Lumberman's Friend
The number of his in the Ameri-
am whaling fleet hae fallen in the
past twelve years from 9/ to 40,
arid much the same in the ease tvitb
the Scotch Whaling industry.
.ero 01111411 A O1 I ONE 1LAlf4
Take Laitablvii tromo rd'ulnies Vs.bitts,Ati
gititt,s reft4e4 Ineney. It it•.14114 te ours."
Sittig slifeature hOn email 1,10, 25e.
ADVICE TO 13414,CIXELORS.—Vai .ng to eb tb gir. yoU Warxt
:reu mitehf as well be wedded to
CEYLON' TEA, It can't refuse you
Pere, Lead Packete.,
and may be 'h.acl at all Gro-
wHoLesAL
Staple Clothing
Also PANTS, KNICKERS;
OVERALLS, SMOCKS. dio,
Ask your dealer for these goods.
BEST EVER.
SOMPART, LIMITRO, TOSONVO,
The Damson Cog ammo!! Co.,
a a Limited,
TORONTO,
Can beadle your APPLES, PERCHER, PEAC8, PLMS, ONION% POULTRY (dead or ay.]
BUTTER, rocs, HONEY, to good advantage. Let us have your consfgninento,
will Pay You. OtaulPe and pada Oa Japptoation.
THE LONDON SEWER HUNTER.
The London sewer hunter before
commencing operations provides
himself with a bull's-eye lantern, a.
canvas apron and a pole some seven
or eight feet in length, having an
irori attachment at one end some-
what in the shape of a hoe. For
greater convenience the lantern is
invariably fixed to the right shoul-
der, so that when walking the light
is thrown ahead, and when stooping
its rays shine directly to their feet.
Thus accoutred, they walk slowly
along through the mud, feeling with
their naked feet for anything unus-
ual, at the same Mule raking the ac-
cumulation from the walls and pick-
ing from the crevices any article
they see. Nothing is allowed to es-
cape them, no matter what its value,
provided it is not valueless. Old
iron, pieces of rope, bones, current
coin of the realri and articles of
plate and jewellery—all is good fish
which comes to the hunter's net.
When washing greasy dishes or
pots and pans, Lever's Dry Soap (a
powder) will remove the grease with
the greatest ease.
Germany employs 537422 people
on her railroads—that is nearly one
per cent. of her entire population.
There are 17 to every mile of line.
.•111.11.11•11.0
Keep Minds Liniment in the Huse,
The 1,040 million gallons of beer
Britain brews equals the total year-
ly production of America, France
and Austria.
Per 0 ri r sixty Years.
An OLD AND WELL•TRI767) eira
Winslow's PoothingSyrUp has been used for over sixty
years by mllliona ef mothers for their children whian
teething, Ivith perfect success. n booGhea the child,
softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, oed
is the beW remedy for .Diarrhceafit pleit,ant to this
taste. Sold by druggists in every part of the wor 0.
Tweety•Ilve cents a botile. Ito value is in Oalcillable
tte sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
and take no other kind.
Boys from reformatory institutions
won three Victoria. Crosses and ten
Distirguished Service medals during
the South African campaign.
Sons tar
and works off the Cold
Laxative Brorno-Quinino Tablets cum a cold in one
• lay. No Qum No Po.y. Price 25 cents.
John Skelton, who was born in
1460, was England's youngest Poet
La.ureate. He attained that distino-
tion at the age of 29.
THE MANY ADVANTAGES
offered passengers bound for Buffalo
and New York by the Grand Trunk's
Cast "New York Express," leaving
Toronto 6.15 p.m. daily, are seen al
a glance when the splendid equip
Meat is considered. A full dining
car service until Niagara Falls ix
reached, a cafe parlor car running
through to Buffalo, and one of Pull-
man's finest sleeping cars from To-
ronto to New York guarantees pa-
trons comfort and luxury as well a
speed. The cafe and dining cars art
acknowledged to be the Iva.ndSonlesi
in America, being electric lighted and
equipped with electric fans. City
office, northwest corner Ring and
Yonge streets.
Inard's Liniment Is usedhy Physiclali3
The coroner for Central London
has to hold about 1,500 inquests a
year. They are paid for at the rate
of about 80 shillings an inquest.
••••••••••••.•
A FIVE HUNDRED DOLLA.R
TICKET.
Mr. Holmes, the ticket agent at
the New York Central Station, has
eold a ticket from vOkeepsie to
Yokiehama and return. This is a
er y unusual Mile. The purchaser
teas Mr. Paul. Maio/mac of thiv eity
bio propOses to go to China and
japan on a pleasure trip. The
route is by the way of San Fran-
cisco and the Patine. As it takes
about three weeks to cross the Paci-
fic, the round trip cannbt be made
hi much lees time than three months
and if Mr. MaCorraac takes in all of
the interesting :eighth in the Orient
he will prolong his stay =eh long-
er than that even. The &it of this
ticket calls atterttioa to the feet
that travellers oan be accommodated
In purchasing tranaportation to any
part of the World by applying to
the etation ageats of the greatest
American railroad, he tieket coet
nearly five handred dollara,—Frore
the Potnehkeepale (N.Y,) Evening
Etterprise,
Mr. De Sutter—"How do you like
your new coachman, my dear?" 3fre,
De Sutter—"Oh, hes delightful, -but
his hair does not match our chest
nut carriage horses."
Tie preservation is a question of
growing importance to matey rai1.
roads which do not own timber suite
able for the manufacture of ties,
and several new preserving plant(
are going up in several parts of the
country.
MESSRS. C. C. RI01.1ARM & CO.
Gentlemen,—In June '98 I had my
hand and wrist bitten and badly
mangled by a vicious horse, I su,ffer-
ed. greatly for several days and tho
tooth cuts refused to heal, until
your agent gave Me a bottle of
lifINARD'S LINIMENT, which I be-
gan using, and the effect Was magi-
cal. In five hours the pain had
ceased, and in two weeks tbe wounds
had completely healed and my
hand and arm were as well as ever.
Yours truly,
A. E. ROY.
Carriage maker, St. Antoine, P. Q.
The largest bronze statue ever
made was that of Louis XIV., erect-
ed in Paris in 1699. It weighed
nearly 30 tons.
433.00 TO THE PACIFIC COASTe
from Chicago via' the Chicago &I
North-Western R'y every day dmilig
September and October. One-way
second-class tickets at very low rates
from Chicago to points in Colorado,
Utah, Montana'Nevada, Idaho. Ore-
gon, Washington, California and
various other points. Also special
round-trip I-lomeseekers' tickets on
first and third Tuesdays, August,
September and October to Pacific
Coast and the le est. Full particu-
lars from nearest ticket agent or
adclrese, B. H. Bennett, 2 East King
St., Toronto, Ont.
There are in the 'United Kingdom
48,000 cabs, which earn between
them 8a millions yearly.
Ask far Millard's and take no other,
The wholesale price of a. pair of
boots represents material, 65 parts;
wages, 22 parts; profits, etc., 13
parts.
...1.e1.1140:10Cra.
THE MORT POPULAR DENTIFRICE,
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CARBOLIC
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mst.z.-w-Do
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for trial ;f fit works ,end sera. Pea 4
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Dominion Line Stearrishilpg
Hobnail tc Liverpool. ludo to layer -
pool, Parkland to Livemord. Via quotas.
teem. '
Largo and Fast Steamships, Sttperlor tulatatunedeiloa
for all chases orneweagors. lisloona and Staterooms
are %nib:leaps. 'Special attention has been shied to Adi
Second Silicon nod ThIrd45aild necomniodatioa. Fat
rotas of_psostuni and all pertinieero, eelee anY agolla
of the 06loptvo, or
Re:alum, eons* D,Torranoo &Cm,
77 bltote $t.. Reales. SIMICreitl sad Portland
woo ktiptiolo.IENGRAvio,
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