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•Obstinate Cold:
The (kind That Stick
tit Kind That Turn• To
BRONCHITIS,
Thi Kind' That End hi
CONSUMPTION,
Become a Serious Matter
IF NEGLECTED..
All obstinate• coughs and colds yield
quickly to the curative powers of
Dr. Wood's
Norway Pine Syrup.
This old and well-known remedy has
been on the market for the past 30 years.
You will find that a dose or two will
stop the cough, soothe the throat and
bronchial tubes, and if the cold has be-
come settled on the lungs the healing
properties of this famous cough syrup
will soon bring complete and permanent
relief.
There are many imitations of Dr.
S ood'a Norway Pine Syrup on the
' market. Get the original when you
a, • tisk for it. Put up in a yellow wrapper;
8 pine trees the trade mark; price 25c.
and 50c .
Manufactured only by The T. Milburn
Co,. Limited. Toronto.Ort.
LONDON TYPISTS
RECEIVE 0. B. E
Telephone Operator Ar norag
Recipients of Imperial
Honors.
A. despatch from London says:
Great Britain has begun ' to confer
Imperial honors upon stenographers
and telephone operators performing
distinguished services during the war.
The Iatest Iist of honors contains the
names of eight women typists created
"members of the Order of the British
Empire." Among them is Mrs. Alic
Alison, Premier Lloyd George's confi
dential secretary, who was the only
wom : s• •Ttness to the delivery of th
peace 'eros to Germany at Versailles
The other girls honored are em
ployes of the Foreign, War, and Air
in rr ;< 'including' a War Office
elepha perator, Daisy Fiuch,and
s
^��su superintendent
� , p dent. of the gir
messengers of the Air Minis -try.
Upper Canada Calle 3e En-
dowment Fund.
Tipper Canada College, the oldest
and most historic school in Ontario,
has launched an Endowment and Ex-
tension , Campaign far $1,500,000. It
is proposed that $600,000 shalt be an
Endowment, the interest of which
shall be used to raise the salaries of
the masters and to found a pension
fund; $400,000 as. an entlOwnaent for
the provision of forty entraiice'scholar-
ships, each of the value of $500., ten-
able for three years; and $500,0.00 for
improvements and additions to the
Present buildings.
Ail the residential schools have
Been forced t'o raise their fess to
meat the H. C. L., but the winner of
one of these entrance scholarships
should be able to live at Upper Cana-
da College' at an expense, no greater
than it would cost hie parents to keep
him at honkie. Upper Canada College
has at present about 450 boys, drawu
from every province in the Dominion,
with the exception of P.E.I. It bas
about 4,500 "Old, Boys living, and
oefough Usually spokenof as a Toron-
to School, counts among its "Old Boys
the Minister of Agriculture in the
Hearst and in the Drury Government.
--4
Hoover in Ring for. President.
A despatch from San Francisco
says: -Herbert Hoover' telegraphed
the Horver Republican Club of Cali-
fornia that he would accept the Re-
publican nomination for President.
• The choicest corks come from Al-
geria, which has 2,600,000 acres'of
P'i forests.
Can Eat Anything if
Now tiffany Dyspeptic*
Can Say Th -Is?
The sufferer from dyspepsia and indi-
gt who has to pick and choose his
loo . is the most miserable of all roan.
kind.
Even the little he does eat causes such
torture, and is digested to imperfectly
t it does lura little good,
Vhat dyspeptics need is not dieting or
ifoial digestants, but something that
1 put the stomach right so it will
rnenutacturc its own digestive ferments.
For over 40 years Burdock •°'}3lood
Bitters has been restoring stomachs to a
normal, healthy condition so that the
food no longer Causes distress, but is
thoroughly digested and assimilated, and
the dyspeptic can oat what he pleases
Without any suffering,
Mr, P, Dalton, Collin;wood, Ont,,
writes: -"I was troubled with d spcpsip,
and was induced to try 'Burdock Blood
Bitters, I took ,throe bottles and am
cured entirely; my stetnach is free of
all pain; I can eat anything X ravish, and
do not feel any bad elects,'
,,1 B.1343. ie rnanufaetui•ed only by The
d., Milburn. Co., Limited, Toronto, Oat,
NIIE DESERT 70 FLOWER iHR011G6
• • BRITISH' IRRIGATION PKOiEcr'
Undeterred by threats of revolt,
Great Britain is planning vast inign-
tign work for her protectorate of
Egypt which Will double the present
area of cultivation and enormously in-
crease the prosperity of the people..
More than three-fourths, of the coun-
try is still desert, and it is proposed
to regulate the watersof the Nile in
upper Egypt so that a large area on
both sides of the river shall be ro-
claimed. Irrigation is vital to Egypt,
for without, i. there could be no crops
and a general famine would result.
Thin work will be the first great
construction project to be raunohed
since the war. An irrigation commie-
,ion has been named to study the
question on the White and Blue Nile
and has already arrived on the
ground.- It constets of four engineer-
ing experts. Their work will oarry
them far south of the limits of
the Egyptian 'Government'a exclusive
sphere into the Anglo-Egyiitian Sudan,
to Khartum, where the waters of the
White and the Blue Nile meet. The
river has many Miami* during its
course, the longest of any waterway
on the globe, next to the Mississippi.
From its source in Lake Victoria to
Lake Albert, about 200 miles, it is
known as the Albert Nile; thence to
Lake No, 600 miles, as the Bahr -el -
Jebel. Then it becomes, the White
Nile to Khartum, where' the Nilo pro -
par begins.
Above v that
paint the
principal affluent is the Sobat, ptduth
west of Fashoda, while below Khar-
tum the atbara is the only tributary.
The Nile drains a basin. of 1,107,227
square miles, e. little less than the
Mississippi and the Obi, or the Congo,
with 1,425,000 square miles, or the
mighty Amazon, with 2,722,000 square
miles, . draining two-fifths of South
America. Northwest of Lake 'Victoria
the Nile and Congo have a common
watershed divided only by small ele-
vations. From the low hills of Dar-
fur the Nile valley sharply oontraots
till It approacheswithin a few miles
of the river at the great bend between
the fourth and third cataracts, retain-
ing its restricted width to'the Mediter-
ranean. Beyond the narrow strip is
the waterless desert withonly a few
oases.'
5,000 Years of Endeavor.. •
This, is the enemy that the irriga-
tion commission has eet,out to con-
quer. Water alone will not do it, for
as soon as the siupply is withdrawn the
land would again become dry and in-
sert
ile. It is the rich loam brought
down by the Nile from the luxuriant
lake region and deposited over the
sandy bottom that makes lower Egypt
one et the most productive regions; of
the world in the restricted a%ea 'Of the
delta, once the. granary of the Roman
empire. For . 5,.000 • years the Egyp-
tians: have been toeing to catch this
alluvial deposit and as yet have only
partially succeeded;
Heroclotus mentions their efforts at
a very early period of history and he
himself, about the year. 460 B.C., made,
a journey up the river as far as the
first cataract at Assuan, -where the,
great dam, finished in 1902, has con-
iderably obliterated the rapids. The
story of Jorelrh and hie brethren Is
evidence of the oonserration of grata.
in Egypt end the dependence of our-
rounding
urrounding oountriee upoai the land of
the Nile for their supplies' in times of
dearth.
Even in those early days there was
an attempt to catch the alluvium of
the Nile in Lake MoorIs, south of
Memphis, and above the head of the
delta formed by the Rosetta and.
Damietta branches, of the: river, The
annual 'rise of the river overflowed in-
to the lake, and when the Stream fell
in the dry season the water poured
back through the channel and was
diverted , by sluices" to the ground ` to
be irrigated, The lake has nbw shrunk
in area and subsided more than 200
feet and its outflow ceased. about 230
13,0„ but the system of retaining the
waters of the river in a basin by which
the surrounding country can receive
an annual flooding has been continued
to this day.
The greatest problem for the engi-
neer isto catch de much as possible
of the rich alluvium by preventing its
escape. to .the sea and depositing it on
dry fields, The slope of thee -land on
each side of the Nile is away from
the river, so that at flood it' vae easy
to top it and let the mud charged
water flow over ,the fauns to e. depth
af` about a yard.' The mud was grad-
ually deposited and after a month or
sdx' weeks ks the
water,'
then !almost
most
clear, 'Was.- run off into the falling
river, •Tbe ground usually 'was'rough-
ly,plowed •in November and planted
with ,,grain that sprouted in April
without other watering.
•
Doubled Cotton Crops:,
To prevent the loss of alluvial de-
posits a French engineer under Me-
hemet Ali designed two bridges aerate
the Rosetta and Damietta branches at
the head of the delta 'so constructed
thatthe arches. could be closed by
drop gates diverting the water.', to side
oanala•. British engineers completed
•these structuresoin 1$90 and the re-
sult was that the five-year average
cotton crop, ending in 1884, amount-
ing to 123,000 tons, was raised by
1898 ,to 251,200 .togs. In' .1900.'.there
were:abo'ut 2,100 miles of basin canals.
A similar barrage was built across
the river at Assint, finished in 1902 in
time to avert disaster from the low
Nile of that year, Extension` of the
area sit ',cultivation• made 'More and
more demands upon the river, and it.
was realized,; ;that' if •'the" Perennial
system were 16 be* continued the
waters of the river would have ,to: be
stored up, during flood'•time.' This re-
sulted in the great Assuan dame finish-
ed December 10, • 190, " which' sores
up the tester, becoming full in March.
As the demand for water increases,.
the sluices, by which it is plarded, are
grraduaily opened until July,when the
current is allowed to Sow freely,
Thus the great river 1s harnessed tie.
the uses of man from Assuan to the.
sea. It is now proposed to extend -
this work far to the south to make the
•deserts of the Sudan fertile. for the
years to come. This great .work 'of
•construction foreshadew,s the.. de-
velopment of the'African continent: to:
the benefit of the world at large, ....
MUST INCREASE '.:....,. . .
PRICE* -OF . FLOUR
Result of' Action of Wheat
Board and. Lack of Export
Markets. '
A despatch from. Ottawa says: - A
material advance in the price eft flour
in Canada is indicated in an announce-
ment made here on behalf of Can-
adian millers by George A. Mardon=
ald, representing the Quaker Oats
Company, and head of a delegation
of representative millers which wait-
ed on the Government to discuss the
serious situation which Canadian
mills are facing as a result of " the
action of the Canadian Wheat Board
in continuing the restriction - in the.
price of flour on the Canad,''an market,
and the lack of export markets., for
Canadian flour. The increase will be
necessary to meet the increasing cost
of manufacture, it is understood.
The scarcity of mil]feeds in Can-
ada is directly traceable to the lack
of a market for flour and the conse-
quent decrease in the volume of dom-
estic milling, the millers state. They
have asked the Government to modi-
fy the regulations of the Wheat
Board and to cooperate. with • the
millers in 'inducting, foreign .buyers to
take a reasonable' pvQportionaoft Can-
adian wheat as flour rather, than . sae
wheat. -
'Vast quantities of flour are said to
be. available in the United States for
export,,:and this complicates the Can-
adian problem. It is said that more
than 4,000 men have already; been
thrown out of employment by forced
closing down of the mills, of which
there are about 500 in Canada. ;
Irish- Hoare Rule .
Passed" Second Reading
A despatch from, London says: -
The Lloyd Geocge Coalition Govern-
ment scored its expected victory in
the House of Commons when the new
Irish Home Rule Bill passed' its sec-
cond.reading, which is tantarnountr"to
its becoming law, by a vote of 348 to
94.
The opposition votes were confined
to the Nationalists, Laborites and ex-
Premier Asquith's few followers. The
division followed a speech by, Premier
Lloyd George.
FIY CERTAINLY
MRS. KELLY! SEND
THE ('ABY RIGHT
OVER-- I'1,1. e -
ONLY 100 GLAD
To HIND HIM
Buy Thrift Stamps.
•
LAXA-LrifIER PILLS
Stoop the Iiiirrrois RSSular and
• Prevent Censtlpwtfars.
When the bowels cease to work
properly all the organs of the body be-
come deranged, , theref oro a free (motion
of the bowels every day should be the
rule of every one who aspires to perfect
health.
Keep the bo*els regular and � you will
have no constipation, no
bilious or
sink headaches, no ian ul internal,
bleeding or protruding piles, etc.
Milburn's Laza-Liver Pills will regulate
the bovrels so that you will have a
free and easy motion every day.
They do not gripe, weaken, or sicken,
nor do they leave any bail.afber-effects,
" ;loss,' 1. F. Bouitilier, North West
Cove, N.B., write(; -"I suffered, with
sick headache and constipation for
over a year. I used 'Milburn'a Laxa-
Liver Pills and am completely cured now,
>l will recommend .your medicine to all
..
MiIburn's Laza-Liver Pills are 26c.
a vial at all dealers ormailed direot
on receipt of price by The T, Milburn
Co„ Limited, Toronto, Ont.
Markets
of theWorld
Breadstnffs.
Toronto, April 6. -Man. wheat -
No. 1 Northern, $2,80; No, 2 North-
ern, $2.77; No. 3 Northern, $2.73, in
store Fort William.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 98e;
No. 8. C.W. 94c• extra No. 1 feed,
94e;
No.feed,.�8 • o
1 fc N. 2 feed,92c
in store Fort illiam. '
Manitoba barley -No. 3 C,W.,
$L64%; Ne. 4 C.W., $1.44%; rejected,
$1.82%; feed, $L32%, in store Fort
Wflliarn,
American corn ; No. 8 yellow, $1,93,
nomfrial; track, Toronto; prompt ship-
ment.
Ontario„oats-No. 3 white, $1.03 to
$1:.05, according to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, .per
car lot, $2 to $2.01; No. 2 do, $1.98
to $2.01; No, 3 do, $1:92 to $1.93, f.o.b.
shipping points, according to freights.
Ontario wheat- No. 1 Spring, per
car lot, $2.02 to $2.03; No. 2 do, $L98
to $2.07; No..8 do, $1.95 to $2.01, f.o.b.
shipping `feints, according to freights.
Pease -No. 2, $3:00.
Barley -Malting, $1.78 to $1.80, ac-
cording to freights outside.
-Buckwheat-$1.65 to $1.70, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Rye -No. 8, $1.88 to $1.85, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -Government stand-
ard,, $13.26, Toronto.
' Ontario flour -Government stand-
ard, $10,25 to,:$10,45, Montreal or To-
ronto, in jute bags. Prompt shipment..
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont-
real freight; bags included -Bran, per
ton, $45; shorts, per ton, $62; good
feed flour, $8.60 to $8?5.
Hay --No. 1,. per ton, $28 to $30;
DO YOUR
SIR AUCKLAND QEDDE8
Newly appointed British Amba5sa-
dor to the United States,
mixed, per ton, $26 to $28, track.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $10 to
$17, track, Toronto. ,
Country Produce --Wholesale. ,
Cheese -New, ' large,' 29 to 30e;
twins, 291/41,41 to • 30c; triplets, 80%
to 31c; Stilton, 88 to.84c; old, large,
81 to 82c; do, twins, 82 to 82%c:
Butter -Fresh dairy, choiceG, 56 to
He; creamery prints, 67 to 68c.
Margarine -38
to 8
8 c.
..
Eggs -New laid, 55rto, 66c.
Dressed poultry -Spring chickens,
40 to 42c; roosters, 26e; fowl, 85e;
turkeys, 58 to 60c- ducklings, 38 to'
40c; geese, 82 to 35c; squabs, dor.,
$6.00.•
.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 80
to 32c; fowls, 36 to 40e; ducks,,35 to
40c; geese, 26 to' 28c.
Beans --Canadian, hand-picked, bus.,
$5.50 to $5.75; primes, $4 to $4.50;
Japans, $5.26 to $6.50; California`
Limas, 163 to 17%c• Mad`agascar
Limas, Ib., 15c; Japan Limes, Tb.,' 11c,
Honey -Extracted clover, 5 -Ib. tins,
27 to 28e; 10 -Ib. tins, 25 to 26e;60 -ib.
tins, 26c; buckwheat 60-1b. tins, 18 to
20c; comb, 16 -oz., $6. to $6,50 doz.;
10 -oz., $4.25 to $4.50 doz, ,
Maple products ---Syrup, per imp.
gal., $4.25; per 5 imp. gals., $4.00.
Provisions -Wholesale,
Smoked meats -Hams, med., 38 to
40c; do, heavy, 29 to 30c; cooked, 64
to 56c; rolls, 30 to 31c; breakfastbacon, 48 to 48c; backs,. plain; 50 -to
52•c; boneless, 52 to 66c.
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 81.
to 32c; clear bellies, 80 to 31c.
Lard-Pure,i
tierces, s 80' to -'304e;
,
,tubs, 80% to 31c• pails, 303. to 81'�a•o;
prints, 81% to 3�2e. Compound tierces,
28% to 29c• tubs, 29 to 29%•c; pails,
29% to 29%e; prints, 30 to 30 c.
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Montreal April 41. --Oats, Ca s►diezt is a� .
Western loo, '2, $X,15; Gan. Western, % •
No. 8, ;1,1.1 4$ Flour, new standard Fainting'
a • 90 lbs., $5, 0 to *5.60.ed oats.,
oracle, $18.26 to ;18.515; Rol Bram, fl w.
148.25. Shorts ;62.25', Hay, Na, 2,,
per ton, car lots, $8A to ;81, Cheese, So Weak and Noxious
finest eaaterns, 20 to 2014, Butter,
choicest treahnery, 64 to %e. Eggs, Could Not Sleep.
fresh, 55e. Potatoes, per bag, ear
lots, $4.80 to $4.40. Lard, pure, wood
pails, 20 lbs, Chet, 80 to 3014e.
Live Stock Markets,
Toronto, April G. --Choice heavy
steers, $18.25 to $14; do, good, $12.50
to $13; butchers' cattle, choice, $12,50
to $13; do, good $10,75 to $11; do,
med„ $10 to $10.60; do, coma $8,50 to
$9.25; bulls, choice, $10.25 to $11; do,
med., $9 to :$9,60; do, rough, $7.60 to
8; butcher cows, choice, $10.16 to
811; do, good, $9 to $9.50; do, corn,;
$7 to $7,50; stockers, $9 to $11; feed-
ers, $11 to $12.50; canners and cut-
ters,
utters, $5.25 to $6; milkers, good to
cho'ee, $100 to $160; do, emu: and
med., $65 to $75; springers, $90 to
$1I0; iambs, per cwt., $18 to $19;
spring lambs, each, $14 to $'19; calves,
good to choice, $18 to $22.50; sheep,
7 to $14; hogs, fed and watered,
$18.15; do, weighed off cars, 319; do,1
f.o.b., 317.75; do, do, country points
$17.60.
Montreal, April 6, -Butcher steers,'
med., $11 to $11,76; com., $9 to $10.60;
butcher heifers, med., $9 to $10;60;
coma $7. to $9; ,butcher cows, med.,.
37.50 to 39.50; canners, $5.26 to $6,60;
cutters, $5.50 to $6.50; butcher bulls,
corn, $7.50 to $9. Good veal, 316 to
$16.25; med., $10 to $16. Ewes, $11
to 31.2,60, Lambs, good, $16 to 317;
coin., $15 to 316. Sows, aft -car
weights, $16.
Mrs, Bhtlilt: 0. Ryan, Sand P,x c ,;
,writers --"I have been a great sutierer
from nerve. trouble. I was so weak
andsus couldnot sleep at.'ni ,a'' t
an
myappetite was very poor. 1
could not walk aetoos the floor without
trembling all over, . I had bot flushes
and fainting spells. When 1 was pu zny
second box of Milburn's Heart and Nerve
Pills I began to feel better and fret on
until. X bad used six boxes when felt
like a different person. I urn never
without them in the house and recom-
mend them to au who suffer with their
nerves "
Milburn's .Heart and Nerve Palls are
60c. per box at all druggists o. dealers,
or mailed direct on receipt ofrice by
p
me T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto,
Ont.
' A despatch. from London says:-
His attention being called in the
House of Commons to the American
naval estimates, Walter Hume Long,
First Lord of the Admiralty, entered
into a detailed comparison.
He showed that, at the current rate
of exchange,, when, 128,000,000 for
end -of -the -war expenditure was sub-
tracted from the British estimates,
the American estimates were 4� ate e 344,-
000,000 in excess of ' the British.
Moreover, while the personnel of the
British nary was being reduced, the
American estimates provided for an
increase ,in personnel. The First Lord
refrained from comment.
A despatch from Chicago says: --
Navigation on the Great Lakes will
open about April 10th, the Weather
Bureau predicts.
A Letter Fr om London
The outbreak of influenza, which
caused the postponementof the de-
parture of the Prince of Wales for
Australia has had the effect of pro-
ducing an interesting • coincidence.
The date of hie • departure from Ports-
mouth was the nineteenth. anniver-
sary of the sailing of his parents' on
the Ophir for their memorable tour
of the Dominions. Their majesties
were then the Duke and Duchess of
Cornwall, for the visit took place
shoh,tiy after the death of Queen Vic-
toria, and King Edward had not then
given the title of Prince of Wales to
his son. The Duke opened, the first
Parliament of the Commonwealth of
Australiawhile' he was away,sY, and up-
on
on his return the Prince, as he had
then become, deliveredhis famous
"Wake Up England" speech at the
Guildhall. '
* * * *
Just before the Prince sailed he
was formally summoned to the Privy
Council by the King, though in the
case of a member of the Royal Family
no formal swearing-in ceremony takes
place. This step would have been
taken some time ago, had it not been -
for the war, and the Prince became a
member of this Council at a rather
more advanced age than has been. sus-.
tomary in the cane of the Sovereign's
sons in the past.
* 5 * *
So far no -woman has ever been ad-
mitted to the Privy Council, though
how long it will remain a masculine
preserve is very problematical, since
in the event of a woman M.P. becom-
ing a Cabinet Minister she would pre-
sumably be sworn of the Privy Omen,-
cll.
ann•cll.
* * * *
Up to the present King George has
been able to gay that he has travelled
more miles throughout the world than
any, other living Royal personage, But
this record His Majesty is certain to
lose within the next eighteen months~
since, extensive as the King's tours
have been, they will .by that time
have been eclipsed by the Prince ,of
Wales
* * * *
The Prince, by the way, will be the
first member of our Royal family to
set foot on the West Indian Islands as
a. formal visitor, and his welcome ie,
in consequence, likely to be more than
ordinarily enthusiastic. As it may
now be taken for granted that the
King's globe-trotting is at an end, and
since at least two other visits for the
Prince of Wales are projected, he is
likely to set up a mileage record that
will remain unbeaten for many a day.
* * * *
Prince Arthur of Connaught was to
have held an Investiture on, behalf of
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the King at Manchester and Birming-
ham, but owing to illness he was un-
able to attend either of these, and his
place was taken by Prince Henry, the
third son of the Ring and Queen, who
thus made his first appearance at a
ceremony of this kind, He had the
distinction 01 having represented the
King at one of these local Investitures
before his elder brothers, as neither
the Prince of Wales nor Prince Albert
has as yet appeared at such a func-
tion in place of his Majesty. Prince
Henry was twenty an Mareh 31. He
first ofall went to school at St,
Peter's. Court, Broadstairs, then to
Eton., and afterwards to the Royal
•
Miit
arY College,Sandhurst. In July last
he was gazetted a second lieutenant in
the King's Royal Rifles, of which the
Ring is Colonel -in -Chief.
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The Prime Minister has now been
in office continuously for fourteen
years. He was appointed President
of the Board of Trade in December,
1905, and has since been Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Minister of Muni:
tions, Secretary for War, 'and Prime
aSinister.
It is a record without parallel in
modern times, Sir Robert Walpole, in;'
the first half of the eighteenth cen-
tury, was Prime Minister ,and Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer for twenty-
one years, and Lord Hardwicke sat on
the Woolsack for nineteen years.
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For some years Sir WiIIiam Slither
land, the new Junior Lord of the
Treasury and Scottish Coalition Whip,
has. been Mr. Lloyd George's Parlia-
mentary Secretary and right-hand
man. At a fair computation he has
been worth £10,000 a year to the
Prime Minister, although he is only
just over forty.
His.constituency is Argyllshire, and
because he is unmarried he was Ince
taken to task at a meeting there.
"Why," asked a woman, "are you not
married?"
"I am waiting for Bonnie Mary of
Argyll," promptly replied Sir William,
a rejoinder which effectually- captured
the women's votes.
Our Colonial soldiers seem to have
played a considerable part in the
growth of yuperstitious beliefs in this
country. One of the most persistent,
which apparently was believed in. Im-
plicitly by many Australians as well
as Canadians, is that the lees of a
silver coin should be followed by the
news of a legacy. To meet a white
donkey in the morning, the soldiers
say, should be Interpreted as the
sign. that a handsome present is on
the way. -Big Ben.
ALL RIGiir
MOM - - 4imme.
ROCK.
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