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LAND'S sJLOitES
1lialk ' PPe nags in the Emerald Isle of
sactreal�' Interest to Irish -
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3 .. men.
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eria an ,,further outbreak of.' the .foot-
d -mouth disease has e
healthy sb oaare ort
de ;csss. ficin •Thturles, 'and on owe farm
al thickl the cattle, have been destroyed,
:t is no sr. . F. Morris aged n of -
milk
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milk et muel-' Morris, J.P., N.ewrath
.ods ar ouse, • was thrown from his horse
is with ,ar Caktrock and instantly killed.
man Two persons lost ttheir.lives in a
rolesom acus fire that broke out in the
task t op and dwelling house occupied
in mil 14Ir. Dolan, tailor, Thomas
o lie i reet, Portadown..
he Belfast shipbuilding industry
unusually prosperous at present,
d in botch the yards a. large num-
✓ of new vessels are being com-
eted.
The North Down regiment at-
nded a drum head service when an
dress was given by the Bishop of
own and the troops were inspected
-Sir George Richardson..
The death has occurred of Mr.
rthur Donn Platt, vice-consul in
ublin for the U.S.A., in his forty
ghbh year.
A workman named James Porter,
Laskey, Fintona, was instantly
lled in the saw -mill of Mr. Bell,
'nttona.
The funeral took place recently
Gort, of Wm. Glynn, of Gort-
carnane, who had attained the
e of 105 years.
'Militant suffragettes are reipon.s-
;i.e for the destruction by fire of
other stately County Antrim
•nsion, known as "O'rlands".
. n aged woman named Margaret
Greal of Knockcroghery, was
asked down and killed near the
ation by a Dublin train.
Coal has been discovered in a
mote part of County Louth, on
e'estate of Mr. Samuel McKeever,
P., of Rathban, Co11on.'
A complaint has been made by the
aster of the Athlone Workhouse
at the institution is being used as
public morgue. It has been sug-
sted that the Town Council must
ovide a morgue.
ccording to official returns the
hing industry- in the Londonderry
strict during the past quarter has
en most disappointing, and un-,
anunerative, the .price being low
id the quality only medium,
:4�.bpy named George Cochrane,
reit "ten, was• run over and killed
y a traction engine on the Newry
oad, about a mile from Rath-
iland. .
An attempt was made to burn the
elitist and County Down Railroad.
tation at Bangor, but fortunately
e night-watchman saw it in time.
While P:atriclk Hogan, aged 73, of
lali'nmore, near Clougthjordwn, was
aking a meal at his brother's table,
small bone stuck in his throat,
easing death.
The week before Easter e.stablish-
a record in pay in connection
ith the shipbuilding works of
e.ssrs. Harland & Wolff, $150,000
eing the amount paid in wages.
During the past few days there
ave' been very high -tides at Water-
ille, The water went over the sea
romenade which was littered with
eaweed and fragments of wreckage.
Dr. Whyte, medical officer of
ealth, has reported to the Bally-,
on sanitary authorities a, ser-
ious outbreak of .diphtheria in the
'strict. All the schools have now,
been closed. .
A young girl who was one of a
party driving on a car from Cooks-
town to Ooagb' to take part in an
Orange ball, was seriously injured
by a blow from a stone, her skull
being fractured. .
The Registrar -General's return of
the number of Irish people who emi-
rtated from Ireland during March
shows that the number was 1,426,
being a decrease of the same month
last year of 802:
The ,first .outrage attributed to
militant suffragettes which has yet
occurred in Londonderry' was ,dis-
covered when a large, unoccupied
esidence in Derry was found in
flames. A large document was
found, reading, "Fair play to
women,"
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the lady; "I like to hear little boys
day Tank you,j"Well,"re-
joined 'Jetties,: "if youwant to hear
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Hailf :-_a Century in
Business
The' Meryc:hantts Bank of Canada
has-just eonip•leted. fifty • 'years of
business -`in Canada and 'has cele-
bisated the half century mark' by
ahowing the best report in its his-
tory. Net profits for the year,
a{n itnted' to $1,218,694, t ibioh,. is'
equal -to 17.8 per: cent. on the aver
age paid-up capital for the ; year,
Tdking into -account the Faverage.of
'beth capital and the •resb acoount,
which ,axnourited to • $13,348,100, the
Bank Darned 9.13 per cent., which
lea trifle; less than was earned dur-
ing the previous year.: In view ;of
the fact that the year, which just
closed, was a sosn w at trying one
for the banks, :the.showing made by
the Merchants Bank is oonsicleied
highly satisfactory. For a consider-
able porti•cnn of the year, Canada, in
common with other countries, en-
countered a period of depression
which interfered with the earnings
of the • banks. Exact comiparison•s.
with previous years is difficult -to
make, owing to the £•act that the
fiscal year of the bank was changed
from November 30th to April 30th
and the statement issued previous
to the present one covered a period
of but five months.
t,,An examination of the report
slows that gains were .gnado in all
departments of the bank's activi-
ties.. For the first time in the his-
tort of the bank, the reserve fund
equ'Ils the paid-up capital, each of
these now standing at $7,000,000, a
considerable gain over the showing
For the` previous year. The bank's
cash holdings; are $1,500,000 greater
than at, the end of April, 1913,
while savings deposits have increas-
ed by $2,600,000. The bank's cur-
rent loans increased during the
year by over $1,000,000, and niow
amount to $54,700,000, indicating
that the bank has been doing' it•s full
share by catering to the cosnm•eroi.al
needs of the communities in which
its branches are located. The total
assettsShow a gain of almost $2,500,-
000, and now amount to $83,120,000.
Dieing the year the bank issued
new stock on which, the premium
amounted to $1$0,000, which, with
the net earnings; of •$13218,000 and
balance brought forward amounting
to $401,000, ,made !$1,800,000 avail. -
able for distribution. Dividend re-
quirements absorbed $686,000, pro-
fit and loss $580,000, bank premises
account $1,000,000, .officers pensions
fund $50,000, written off for depre-
ciation in bonds and investments
$135,000, leaving $248,000 to be
carried forward. A feature of the
bank's report was the large propor-
tion of quickly available assets,
which represent over 36 per cent.
of its total liabilities to the public.
This is a satisfactory showing, espe-
cially in view of the recent financial
stringency. Altogether, the show
made by the bank is most encour-
aging, as it shows that good bank-
ing practice and careful conserva-
tive management characterized the
year's operations. At theannual
meeting it was .also decided to es-
tablish a Holding Company for the
purpose of taking over and manag-
ing the premises utilized by the
bank for the housing of the various
offices. The old Board were re-
elected, and, at a sub:se•quenrt• meet -
ting, Sir H. Montagu Allan was re-
elected President and K. W. Black-
well, Vice -President.
THE CITY OF ;MEXICO.
Points About the Capital of Distressed
Country.,
Mexico City is 7,415 feet above sea
level, and by rail 264 miles 'northwest
of Vera Cruz. With a wet, undrained
sub -soil, and many thousands of In-
dians and half-breeds, living in crowd-
ed quarters, the death rate has been
notoriously high' --46 to 56 per thou-
sand, though drainage works, under-
ground sewers, and sanitation have
tended to improve these conditions.
The city is laid out with almost un•
broken regularity. The name of a
street changes with almost every block
according to old Spanish custom. The
Paseo de la Reforma, the finest avenue
in the city, is a broad boulevard al-
most three miles long, There were
(1908) 323 government schools in the,
city, including 13 professional • and
technical schools, and nearly 200 pri-
vate schols; a Geographical . Society,
an Association of Engineers and
Architeets, and a Society of Natural
History, also a National Library dedi-
cated in 1692 of upwards of 225,0'00
volumes. There are over 150rnanu�.
facturing establishments, including
iron working shops.
"Doesn't it .give you a terrible
feeling when you run over a man?"
they asked him. "Well, if he's -a
large man, replied the anotorist,
"it does give none a pretty rough
juI t." •
IIOW,.T'O CUI E
STOMACH TROUBLE'
The Common cause is ` Lack
of Blood—Therefore You.
Must Build up the, Blood
;There is the most intimate rely
tion 'bettve.en the condition of the
blood acrd •the activity >of. the sto-
mach The blood 'depends upon the
stomach for, a large past of its
noigrishmnant, ',white.- 'every act of
digestion, f roan` the time the .food
m'
enters the stov ch and is . assimi
hated by the blood needs plenty •of
pure Well -oxidized "-blood. The
muscles, glands and nerves of the
stomach work only aocording to the.
quality of the blood.
The most common cause of indi-
gestion' is lack of rich, red blood,
only does impure blood weaken
the muscles of the stomach, but it
lessens the product of the glands of
the• intestines and stomach, which'
furnish the digestive fluids. Noth-
ing will nose promptly cure indi-
gestion than plenty of pure blood,
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the
safest and most certain blo.od-
builder. A thorough trial of these'
pills gives a hearty appetite, per-
feet digestion, strength and health.
Here is proof of the value of these
Pills. in cases of indigestion. Mrs.
-Alfred Austin, Varna, Ont., says:
"My system became run-down and
my stomach very weak. I had no
desire for food and what I did take
caused me great distress, and did
not afford me nourishment, and I
was gradually growing weaker, and
could scarcely' do any work a;t all.
I did not .sleep soundly at night,
and would wake up not at all' re-
freshed and with a feeling of dread
Some years previously I had used
Dr. Williams' Pink_Pilis with much
benefit, and this decided me to again
try them. My confidence was not
misplaced, as by the time I had used
six boxes I was again feeling quite
welI."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold
by all medicine dealers or will be
sent by mail at 50 cents a box or sic.
boxes for $2.50 by sending to The
Dr. Williams' 14leclicine Co., Brock-
ville, Ont. • ,
!D)FFER ON FR +`SJ1 AIR.
London, Siieciaiists Who Want
Their .;i intlows,Shut.
I S R complains
SirRobertson. Nichol compins a
about the "detestable habit of open
windows," by whieh he asserts that
he catches eold, .`Despite the fact
that many doctors • preach the gos-
pel of .the open window; there is
apparent dissonance' between medi-
cal teaching and medical practice,
says the London ;Standard.
At half -past eight o'clock on a re-
cent morning in Harley street there
was scarce a. window that let in the
morning air. Later exploration at
eleven o'clock and at noon of a
warm, ' sultry day in the doetors'
quarters—Harley street, Queen.
Anne • street, Cavendish square,
Wimpole street, and Devonshire
street—corroborated the fact that
to outward appearance, doctors do
not practice all they are believed
to preach.
A physician gave the following
explanation : "All up and down
Harley street just now you observe
the painters' ladders. I want the
air but unmixed with the odor of
paint. This tfailed to account sat-
isfactorily for the ease, however.
While the painters were busy about
the house of Dr. Abercrombie, for
instance, and the doctor's many
windows were all sealed, the men
of the brush were equally busy next
door to Sir John Tweedy, yet most
of his twelve windows let in the
odorous air. Ladders were reamed
:against Dr. Gordon Holmes' and
Dr. Pegler':s, but the windows there
were open wide. Yet a tour of the
district, where specialists' consult-
ing rooms vastly outnumbered the
paint pots, made it evident that
eleven out of twelve of the West
End medical practised the plan of
the closed window.
In Cavendish square but one half
heartedlv opened window let. t4ie
noontide air into the shouse of Dr.
Symes Thompson, son of the great
pioneer of open-air 'treatment For
tuberculosis. Sir Victor Horsley
kept his closed, save one on the
second floor, and seemingly of his
mind were Sir D. Ferrier, the :spe-
eialist in neurology ; Dr. Sandwith,
Dr.Elizabeth Patteson,"Sir Ar -
Lane, e senior
-butthnot th surgeon
of Guy's;; Dr. Dundas Grant,
throat and ear :specialist, and Sir
Ronald Ross, who has special ex-
perienee of tropical medicine, There
it appeared as though a six-inch
opening was in deference -to the
wishes of. a small bird that 'hung in
St gilded cage,
No. '7 Harley street, 'which has
the plates 'of seven doctors on its
door, had 'but two sparingly open-
ed windows. On the :other hand,
:those, of Dr, G>: thrie Rankin, physi-.
'oxiin to'the ,Seamen's Hospital at
Greenwich, all opened so widely
that -the -c u•tains `flutteredout into
the zephyrs of 1?be ;street, and Sir
Anderson Critchett, surgeon in or-
dinary ry 'to the King, invited as . much
air as he eould into every room,
'Ile praotical evidence at the house
of -Dr. Lister, ex -president of Guy's
and an 'authority on consumption,
was .to the 'contrary purpose. At
Dr, We hered's. physieian to the
•Brompton ,arid .Ventnor Hospitals,
three windows out .of twelve; were
•opened a little way;; but Dr', Ras -
tear is,
tastear'is, 'senior physician to. Middle-
sex Hospital; were opened wide,
Sir Maurice Abbott -Anderson, sur
•,geon to the Princess Royal, used
the double window favored by
Queen Victoria, so arranged that
liis first Poor was aired between the
panes,
But these ,andmany open-air ex-
ceptions only proved .the rule of the
sealed house.
CRAFTY SNAKES.
Instance of the Wisdom of the South
African Eggeater.
The South African snake called the
eggeater has inherited from long gen-
erations of ancestors a sense of smell
so acute that it appears never to be
at fault. Professor Fitzsimons, direc-
tor of the Port Elizabeth Museum,
gives In his book on "The Snakes of
South Africa" an 'interesting instance
of the wisdom of these serpents.
Being short of fresh pigeons' eggs
once; I went to my cabinet and took
the clean -blown shells of a few doves'
eggs: Beating up the contents of a
fowl's fresh egg, I syringed them into
the empty shells, and carefully pasted
tiny bits of tissue paper over the holes.
I put these in the egg -eaters' cage, and
watched, for I expected the snakes to
swallow them as they did the other
eggs. First one eggeater advanced.
He touched each egg gently in turn
with the tip of his nose or the point
of his forked tongue, and crawled away
In disgust. Another and yet another
eagerly advanced, repeated the per-
formance, and straightway retired. I
began to get interested. Leaving the
eggs, I returned in a few hours' time
to find them still there.
For two whole weeks those eggs re-
mained in the cage untouched, al-
though I refrained from giving the
snakes, any others. Then I procured
(some fresh pigeons' eggs and put them
I into the cage. The snakes approached,
touched them with their noses or
tongues, and instantly began to swal-
low them. I tried this experiment a
second time with the same result. Fre-
quently I have noticed that the snakes
would eat some of the eggs that I gave
them, and reject others. On breaking
the latter open, I always found that
they were either: addled or else had a
partially developed young bird. inside.
I could never induce an eggeater to
swallow an egg that was not perfectly
fresh. •
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HER MOTHER-IN-LAW
Proved a Wise, Good Friend.
A young woman found a wise,
good frie1nd in her mother-in-law,
jokes notwithstanding. She writes :
"I was greatly troubled with my
stomach, complexion was blotchy
and yellow. After meals I often
suffered sharp pains•an:d tVould have
to lie down. My mother often told
the it was the coffee I drank at
meals. But when I'd quit coffee I'd
have a severe. headache." (Tea con-
tains the same .poisonous drug, caf-
feine, as coffee).
"While visiting my Mother-in-law
I remarked that she always made
such; good coffee, and asked her to
tell me how.. She laughed and told
me it was easy to make. good `:coffee'
when you use Postum.
"I began to use Postum as soon
as I got,honie, ,and now we. have the
same good °coffee' (Postum)..every
day, and I have. no more trouble.
Indigestion 'is a thing of the past,
and my complexion ;has cleared up
beautifully.
"My grandmother suffered a great
deal with her stomach. Her doctor
told her t:a leave off coffee. She
then took tea, but that was just' as
bad.
"She finally wa,s induced to try
Postum, which she has used for over
a year. She travelled during the
winter visiting,. something she had
not been able -CO do for years. She
says she owes her present good
health to Postnsn:" ,
Name given `by Canadian Postum
Co., Windsor, Ont. Read "The
Road to W ellvalie,". in pkgs.
Poston now comes in two forms:
Regular Po$tir)u u-- must be well
boiled, 15e and l25c packages.
Instant Posthn-..ifs a. soluble pow-
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quick-
ly -in a cup of hot water. and, with
cream and :sugar, makes a delicious
beverage instantly, 30c and 50a
tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds is
alimit the same. •
84There's a Reason" for Pastuna..
—Sold by Grocers.
"Did mother •pttnish',you ttorday,'
James 1" "Yes, fail s's" ? `'4y'iiali
did :she do?" "Made me sebay itt
the xooin while ;she was taking her
singing lessons."
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FOUND HAY FEVER . CURE?
Toxin Remedy of Western Physi-
cian Proves Successful.
A pure for .hay fever ?
Out of the despised ragweed, the
loved and feared golden rod and
the honey -bearing Spanish needle—
the pollen bearing trio that set the
world to sneezing is made the rem-
edy that was proposed as a cure be-
fore the convention of homeopathic
'physicians of Missouri, held re -
gently.
Dr, E. J. Burch of Carthage,.
Mo., -a. widely -known homeopath,
made the announcement.- It caused
a sensation at the closing session of
the convention.
The remedy, he explained, was
the result of his wife's severe case
of hay fever. He conceited the idea
of a. toxin from the weeds that
cause the trouble, and after many
experiments prepared a. toxin which
he used as ahypodermic injection.
That was last summer. His wife
was completely relieved of all symp-
toms, he reported, and out of twen-
ty who took the toxin either as a
cure or as a preventive, nineteen,
cases were successful.
"I am not announcing this as a
cure," he said. "I certainly hope
that it will prove as successful on
further trials as it has so far, and
if it proves the cure we have sought
so long, I want the entire medical
fraternity to have it.
"The process of preparation re-;
quires great care. The pollen must
be gathered early in the morning
.befare the sun rises, for the -toxin'
found in the pollen in the heat of
the day is a different thing from
that found in early morning or late
night, I shook the pollen from the
ragweed, two varieties of golden
rod and two varieties of Spanish
needle on a plate of glycerin and
prepared and strained a toxin with
water that I injected into the bodies
of the patients. It carried the ac-
tive poison or principles of the pol-
len. For a cure I used four doses
two days apart.
"For a preventive T began before
the time for the patient's hay fever
to appear and used an injection
each week for five weeks,
"The toxin has shown its virility
by hastening the hay fever season
of 'patients in an overdose."
FIRE AND WATER.
Woman's Swim for Life in a Burning
Sea.
The story of a two hours' swim in•
the sea at night in danger of being
overtaken by a flood of burning ben-
zine is told by Mrs. Anna Boerne, wife
of the captain of the Russian steamer
Kometa, which blew up off Algiers,
and was completely burned, with the
loss of 15 of her company. "My hus-
band put me in a boat after the ship
had burst into flames" she said, "but
it capsized. I began to swim in the
black water, whieh was lit up by the
burning ship. The benzine spread on
the sea and formed one vast burning
Alm which the wind drove towards me.
For two hours I swam desperately
from the ..Acmes. At last, when I was
on the point of giving up, I heard a
voice shouting in Russian, "Coiiae
here!" It was the chief stoker and
some of the men in a boat which was
full of water. They hoisted me in it"
and I sat in water up to my hips for
two hours' more. I can only hope that
my husband is among those who were
picked up by the English ship Lim-
erick."
THE HIGH COST OF L1VPNG
At the present time possibly no
other subject is receiving quire as
much attention in Canada as this
one, It will be a surprise to .most
readers to know that during the Pas-
cal year which ended March 31st,
1913, Canada paid $11,500,000 in
duty on food, and all of this large
sum is virtually a, direct tax on the
consumer.
In glancing over the list it is easy
to understand that the buying pub-
lic are themselves largely to blame
in many instances, for there are
articles of food produced in Canada. ,
that are equal in every respect to •
those made in any country in the
world.
In the baking powder line alone
there were 667,904 lbs. imported.'
into Canada, and this in:eans the
consumer paid in duty the enor-
mous sum of $67,000.. There are aro •`'
better goods. in the world in 'this
line than magic, baking powder, ' and
it is macre in a model sanitary up-
to-dalte factory,and lean be pro-
cured in any first -•class sabre at one-
half the price the imported article
sells for.
Such laxrticles as raisins, currants,
and many other things, which ,do.
not grow in Canada'
or are not pro-
duced here, have of necessity to be
imported, and the duty paid.
If the .consumer would devote a,
little thought and attention to this
subject a. large amount of money
could and: would be saved, --Cana-
dian Home Journal.
An Unknown Tongue.
Doubleyew-Is that your wife
talking babe talk to the dog?
Eeks—Either that or she's talk-
ing dog talk to the baby.
It's up to the man who would live
long to lice slowly.
A bigamist, says a wit, is a. man
who has more wives than judgment.
"Mike, I am going to make you a
present of this pig." "Ali, sine,
an' 'tis just like von, sor !"
Many a good man has let a good
job .get away from him because he
harbored the delusion that no other
matt was smart enough to get hisplc oe.
does make the
bread and butter
taste good 1"
T is when you spread
it out o e ` n bread or
pancakes, fruit isi
porridge, that you notice most the sweetness and perfect
purity of REDPATH Extra Granulated Sugar. Buy it in the
2 and 54. Sealed Cartons, ar in the 10, 20, 50 or 100.Tb.
Cloth Begs, and you'll getthe. genuine ' I absolutely
clean jut as it left the refinery. 83
CANADA SLIGAkt'REPINING CO., LUMMhIT D, „' MONTREAL.
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