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CREW FERRETS the detective many of his experiences.
Here is one of thew "When I got te
Australia. I went up to one of the Min.
ing camps, where I was looked upon as a
Of LONDON. ne:WitilZelrirtt4eVVa(IViilt(1)n two of the
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local sharps, taking me for a pigeon, sug-
geeted game of cards, and I agreed.
Chief Inspector froest the Hero of Calls for Britoil end Paint.
"I saw their game almost at ce. 1,
Many Narrow tseanes. rang the bell loudly for the onwaiter, stop-
ping the game tilt its arrW
ival, hen he
came, .t said, 'Ve.aiter, bring these gen-
Drew, of Vine Street, Great in Cases tiemen a pot of paint' and a brush.'
"'What for?' asked the other two
Where Diamonds Are Lost.
players,
"Oh,' geld
,holding holding up a couple oe
eards, 'you've 'narked some of the ('01(18,,
but not all of them. 1 thought perhapsyouwould.lika to finish the lot,'
Melville Versed in "Reds." Inspector Drew, of Vine street, may
he called the great jewel theft detective.
Ile is a tall, handsome man, always in
Tho public as a rule knows little of
irreprooehable silk hat and frock coat,
the detective:3 mato nandle great caeos. and he bloke the Piccadilly clubman to
Their names may be known all over the perfection.
world, but they are naturally careful Two year ago Detective Drew affected
the arrest, of four men who had stolen
to preserve their incognito on all oeca- if50,000 worth of jewels by the use of
gone. The first .thing that strikes any-
oue who meets them is their remarkable
difference from all preconceived ideas.
Below are given four character sketches
of the elevereet detectives in London,
written by one who ,has hod many op-
dieguises, It, was necessary to effect
sudden entry to the house of the men,
and te ao it unsuspected. At 5 o'clock
one Sunday morning detectives dressed
as milkmen with aprons and glazed
hats, with milk mine in their hand,
kueeked loudly at the dome in ques-
portunities of observing their methods, tion. They were opened unsuspectingly
Rua
ire the thieves were arrested in their
Among thenaFrank Freest, the (man
specter Fox, who hasamong been working on personated, other people a bank
beds,
of many narrow eseapea, and Chief in- , Ae times theltective bimself has
a tunnel murder mystery. manager, a city clerk and a inechanie.
Chief Inspector Frank Freest is the Once a Canadian who had been fleeced
came to him for assistance and took him
best known detective in England and on.e that night and introduced him as a
of the most famous detectives in the man with money to three dangeroir Am -
world. erienn raid ellarpers, who had robbed
He has been on the hunt for men him (the introducer) on the night be -
%Tough Europe and in North and South fore, The pleasure of the card sharpers
America. "Freest of the Yard" le a et the introduction might be guessed.
well ,dneesed, debonair anan of the age Chief Inspector Fox, who is trying to
round. about 40, with deepset blue eyes solve the tragic mystery of the death of
sparkling with the Sun of a boy. Miss Mary Money in the Mersthan tun -
He is groomed to perfection, is never i ael, is one of England's leading detect -
In a hurry, has a pleasant .word for the
anost casual acquaintance, and a wit,tyl He it was who for many weeks led
etory for those he knows a little better. 11110 search for Miss Hickman, the mis.
He brought Dr. Jamieson beak to Eng- sing doctor, and wbo before the body of
dr
Land after the famous raid, and he ter- the ill-fated woman was- discovered in
rested Jabez Balfour in South America. the Richmond plantation, had made it
Those 'white, delicate looking hands, practienlly certain by means of keen,
with their manicured nails, are said to but Silent, organization, by patient,
be strong enough to bond a sixpence ceaseless probing and by the hundred vied.
double. Those blue eyes are not always lent eyes of his unknown assistants that
sinning, and those who have met him in Niles Hickman was not in the land of
the way of "business" will tell you there the living -
le no more resolute man in any kind of Stands Off Reporters.
*mounter, no man quicker in recourse It was he who unravelled the tangled
or cooler in action. skein of the brutal Deptford. murders
Hero is the story of one of his escapes. recently and by skillful methods, of
A notorious French criminal in London which the public know nothing, brought
was shadowed for days by Inepector to justice the two murderers.
Froest and his asistants. It was after Chief Inspector Fox had
Presently the time 'n -as ripe for his ar- for some days been investigating an
rest, and on that any, when the French- obviously brutal murder that two per,
man called a eob on the embankment and sistent pressmen waylaid him and begged
stepped into it, a well dressed gentleman him for some Ida as to the direction
in the person of Inspector Freest step- in which his suspicions lay. They knew '
ped tin and told him he was under ar- quite well ho was laying a plan of cane -
rest. The Frenchman accepted the sit- paign against the unknown murderer.
uation with philosophy. On the way to He smiled genially and declared there
was really nothing to say.
'they persisted.
Ile seemed to be debating with him-
silf as whether he should tell them any-
thing and then in an apparently weak
moment he determined to give thein a
word. "Well," he said, with the air of
conferring a secret, "between you and me
have you considered the question of sui-
cide?' Then he hurried away to go on
with his preparations for the arrest, •
On Trail of Anarchists.
Then there is Superintendent Melville,
just retired from Scotland Yard, whose
exploits with anarchists would make a
fascinating and exciting book. Ho looks
like a middle-aged family doctor.
Once an anarchist treater went to
Scotland Yarcl and told him of a sedi-
tious and strictly private meeting of an-
archists in Soho on the night before. He
related bow violent and threatentria
speeches were directed against promin-
ent people in England; what plans were
made at the meeting; how the anarchists
quarreled among themselves at the ine.et-
ang and how after promiscuous fighting
with fists a revolver was drawn.
"Yes," said the detective quietly, "but
you are late. I have hero (reaching up
to a pigeon hole and taking down a sheaf
of foolscap) a full account! of all that
took place at the meeting, together with
a verbatim report of the speeches made."
The man left Scotland Yard, frighten-
ed beyond measure at the omniscience of
this remarkable detective. As a matter of
fact, Mr. Melville had in the meeting one
of his young detective sergeants, who
had a knowledge Of shorthand. The risk
ho ran may easily be imagined.
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The Best of People
• Make mistakes unintentionally, but no
one ever made a mistake in buying
On the closer study of the life of cen-
tenarians'WO perceive how an optimistic
belief in their strength has helped them
to bear tbe weight of their years. Baron
Waldeek, who died in Paris in 1875, at
the ago of 109, nem ceased to entertain
the "suggestion" that he had still loug
•• _ to live. At the age of 102 he undertook
TEA. The tea that is used as well as talked for the firm of 1)idot, eo Pierre Giffard,
bis biographer, affirms, a, three volume
about. Only one best tea—BLUE RIBBON. encyelopactlia, treating of archeology.
Consumed with his idea that the Egyp-
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If tho bacon trade of Canada is to con-
tinue to improve it is necessary that hog
raisers adhere to the elass of animals moat
suited to the requirements of the British
market -
In the production of hogs of tho lard typo
Canada cannot compete successfully with
the United States. A visit to Chicago Stock
Yards and to western came feeding centers
afford ample evidence of this. A large pro-
portion of cattle are fed on snapped or
shelled corn. Herded with those are hogs
that thrive and fatten on the undigested
corn left by the eteere. Those hogs con-
stituting a by -production of cattie feeding
are produced at a cost much lower than
oork eau he rained in Canada. All United
States hogs are not fed in this way but a
large proportion of theta have at least ad-
vantage of cheap corn, then which, there is
no bettor feed for producing fat hogs of the
lard type. Let the Canadian farmer go back
to the thick, fat type of hog, as some talk
of doing because they feel they have a griev-
ance with the packer, and it will not be long
before the price of Canadian bacon will have
fallen to a level with the United States pro-
duct which is usually from ten to fifteen
shillings per hundred and twenty pounds
lower than tho quotations for Canadian
"Wiltshire" sides.
It seems to be very generally supposed
that pork is more cheaply and easily pro-
duced from hogs of tho thick, short Amer!.
can breeds than from tho three English
breeds which aro favored for bacon produo-
tion. Why such a belief should .be so gen-
era' is difficult to understand, as repeated
tests conducted at various experiment sta-
ttons have shown that hogs of the York-
shire, Berkshire and Tamworth breeds pro-
duce pork as cleanly as those of Poland
China, the Cbestter White or the Dune
Jersey breeds. In the opinion of Prof. pay, of
the Ontario Agricultural College, who Is
foremost among authorities on bacon pro-
duction, the lusty, growthy pig of the
bacon type is the most economical pork -
maker we have, especially 'when reared, as
bacon bogs should be, largely on such
foods as roots, soiling crops and dairy offal.
There is much difference of opinion re-
garding the cost for which hogs fit for mar-
ket can be produced; and there is probably
as much difference between the cost to one
feeder and the cost to another au between
these opinions. Under general conditions
the production costs in the neighborhood of
five dollars per hundred pounds on an aver -
ago. In summer under favorable conditions
the cost may be somewhat lessened but in
winter pork can hardly be produced at the
figure mentioned. As in all other lines of
Production the cost will vary according tO
. the station Ito chatted in friendly way,
"You've had a narrow escape, Freest,"
he said.
"I have known for (lays that you
were shadowing ane, and I have known
that though 1 had perfect freedom 1
could go nowhere without being follow-
ed byyou or your men; thatd
I would
sli
eep n no house whloli Was not sur-
rounded by. unobtrusive 'watchers. There
W OS no escape, and it got on my nerves
and nearly drove me mad.
Another Took the Trial.
"I determined to kill myself and you.
You remember strolling along behind me
in Piccadilly? I SW you. I stood in a
doorway near Piccadilly cireuemei with
my hand on a loaded revolver in my
pocket decided t &hoot you when you
came abreast of me and then to shoot,
myself. But you did not come right
along to me; you turned up the passage
leading to Vine street. That saved your
life."
"Yes," said the inspector, "I had a
man to pick up at the circus. We weren't
leaving you." 'The Frenchman smiled
and ho and the detective chatted away
until the police station was re.ached.
Point is given to Mr. lamest% escape
by the fact that the Frenchman is now
serving in a French penal establishment
for the murder of a companion In Paris.
Once tho detective went to Australia
to arrest a celebrated swindler named
"T—," who, among other things, was a
brilliant and successful card sharper. Mr.
Forest brought him back to England.
On the way back the card sharper told
All Run Down
HIS is a common express
sion we hear on every
side. U n less there ii
some organic trouble, the con.
dition can doubtless be remedied.
Your doctor is the best adviser.
Do not dose yourself with ail
kinds of advertised remedies —
get his opinion. More than likely
you need a concentrated fat food
to enrich your blood and tone
up the system.
Scott's Ennuisiori\
of Cod Liver Oil
Is just such a food in its best form.
It will build up thc weakened
and wasted body when all
other foods fail to nourish. if
you are run down or emaciated,
give it a trial $ it cannot hurt
you. It is essentially the best
possible nourishment for delicate
children and pale, anaemic girls,
We will send you a sample free,
LURING ME MOOSF„
CALLING THE GREAT BULL WITH A
BIRCH -BARK TRUMPET.
The moose -calling hunter is one who
with a birch -bark trumpet imitates the
bellow of the cow Moose and tempts
the bull forth into plain view for an
easy shot.
Though the least sportsmanlike, it
is the most effectual way of getting'
bull Moose. Fortunateiy for them,
it can bo practised only for a fortnight
or so at the beginning of the season, and
in exactly the right weather and sur-
roundings.
Dead calm Is essential. If there bo
wind from the Moose to you, he can-
not hear Your call; if it be from you
t� the Moose he smells you and fliee
to far regions. In a calm the call can
be heard - for miles, so far indeed, that
even if the Moose came directly and
9uiekly be might be an hour or more
itt getting to your stand. 1 oneo called
from a hill at sunset and learnexl later
that my friends four miles away heard
me distinctly and therefore a Moose, with
his keen hearing, might have heard it ,
five or six miles off,
The experienced limiter begins very
low, ea there le always a possibility of a
bull lurking in some near thicket, and
calls not more than once in tett minutes,
some think every twenty minutes often
enough. It is probably too fast, once the
response has come The bull's answer is
a deep, long grunt, varied by the snapping
of branches as he plunges forward
through the woods, but stoppieg at times .
It is, indeed, one of the most impres-
to thrash Willa bush ht Ids course.
sive sights in the animal world when et
length in the last dim afterglow the melt 11
heralded monster heaves his bulk WO
OW, overtopping the shrubbery like an 1
elephart, looming huge and black against ,
the last streak of red light. No matter
how nitwit we may be expecting it the
corning is always a thrilling surmise. I
4Ve knew how big he was, yet how start,- I
Es lure that this pictUre !Mee,' huge he looks and those nutters,
In the form *f a label It oa a heavy burden for a num, he switches 1
the wrapperof every beta. about as an Indian does the eagle ketl-
e( ErsuiliOn you buy. ere in his linir.--From "The Moose and
SCOTT & BOWNE His Antlers," by Ernest Thompson Set-
on, in the February Scribner's.
"I admit that 1always like to have
a finger in the pie," said Wigwag. "I
Tbeentd, Ont, like about three fingers in mine, if it's '
Mince," replied Colonel Bluegrass, of
Oc nd $1, An 001104 Kentucky.
EA iN CASII
In Your Leisure Time
elf you could start at once in a busi-
ness which would add a good round
sum to your present earnings—WITH-
our INVESTING A DOLLAP.--WOUldn't
you do it?
Well, wo are willing to start you in
a profitable business and we don't ask
you to put up any kind of a dollar.
Our proposition is this : Wo will
ship you the Chatham Incubator and
Brooder, freight prepaid, and
Yon Pay No Cash Until
After 1906 Harvest.
Poultry raising pays.
People who tell you that there is no
money in raising chicks may have tried
to make money in the business by using
setting liens as hoteliers, and they
might as well have tried to locate a
gold mine in the cabbage patch. The
besiness of a hen is—to lay eggs. As
a hatcher and brooder she is out-
classed. That's the business of the
Chatham Incubator and Brooder, and
they do it perfectly and successfully.
The poultry business, properly con-
ducted, pays far better than any other
business for the amount of time and
money invested.
Thousands of poultry -raisers --men
and women all over Canada and the
United States—have proved to their
satisfaction that it is profitable to raise
chicks with the
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No. 1— 80 Eggs
No. 2-1213 Eggs
No. 3-240 Egga
CHATHAM INCUBATOR
AND BROODER.
"Youra is tho first incubator I have
used, and I wish to state 1 had 62
chicks out of 62 eggs. This was my
last lot; truly aloe rel' cont. hatch.
lain wail pioaeed with my incubator
and brooder. Tuos. Iviceeetrourox,
Cheihrack, 11.0."
"11fy first hatch came off. Igot
170 lino chicks from 110 eggs. W ho
can heat that for tho tint trial, and
so early in the spring. I am well
pleased with incubator, and if I
mule not got another money could
not buy it front me. Every fatntor
should havo a No. 3 Chatham Thou.
bator,.—F. W. Italasar, Dtannei/lo,
Ont.
• "The incubator you furnished rne
works exceedingly well. 11 13 easily
Operated, and only needs about 10
) minutes attention oVery day.„ It.
111COUPitik, MOOSE JAW, Assa.
The Chatham Incubator and Brooder
is honestly constructed. There is no
humbug about it. Every ;eel' of material
is thoroughly tested, the machine is
built on right principles, the insulation
is perfect, thermometer reliable, and
the workmanship the best.
The Chatham Incubator and Brooder
is simple as well art scientific in COD-
structiot1,-a woman or gid can operate
the machine in their leisure moments.
You pa), us ine cash until after 1906
harvest,
Send us your name and address on
a post card to -day.
We WI yon quickly from our
dietributleg wareltoUse1 at Calgary, Bran.
don; Regina, Winnipeg Neetminater.
11.0„IllontrallT,IInlifax.Now W1hatliam, Address
all correspondence tO Chathata. 314
The Mattson Campbell Co., Limited
Dept, 33, C1!ATIIA1114 CANADA
Vedettes at Cnernasi, ONt., and Dreamt
Let us- quote you &lees
011 Q doorVannind M�L
flood Farm Seale.
the character of tho animals fed and the
amount of latelligence exorcised by the
feeder.
Taking ono year with another the Can-
adlan farmer On geed land who understands
crop growing and hog raising, Can Undoubt-
edly raise hogs Re cheaply as tho figures
quoted, and probably for less. Ile will keep
only such BOWS as produce largo may lit-
ters of tho right type. Ile will grow such
pasture and soiling erops itt mover, alfalfa,
rape, vetches, rea.ngen, sugar beet and such
coarse grains as yields the greatest trumbor
of pounds of hog feed per acre, Ici other
words lie will manage his operations in
such a way that will return hire the great-
est returns in hose per acre of land, and in
so doing will learn to reduce tho cost of
; raising hogs of the best type to a minimum.
Live Stock Branch, Department et Agri -
BABY'S OWN TABLETS.
Meets the mothers needs in caring for
the health of her little ones no other
medicine in the world can. Tablets euro
constipation, indigestion, colic, simple fev-
ers, diarrohea, teething troubles and expel
worms. They break up colds nail prevent
croup. They melee children sleep natur-
ally and healthily because they remove
the cause of sleeplessnese. .And they
are the only medicine that gime the
mother a, solemn guarantee that it con-
tains no opiate or poisonous soothing
stuff. They are good for children from
birth onward; they always do good—
they cannot possibly do harm. Mrs.
Geo, Turner, Barry's Bay, Ont., bays:
have used Baby's Own Tablets for the
troubles that come to little ones with
perfect satisfaction. I think there is no
medicine can equal the Tablets." Every
mother ought to keep a box of these
Tablets in the house as a safeguard for
her little ones. Sold by all druggists or
sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writ-
ing The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
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MOTHER BIRD'S STRATAGEM.
Her Clever Method of Reaching Her Nest
Unobserved.
While strolling on the banks of French
Oneek, near Clayton., in company with
my wife and a friend, we started a
woodeoe.k, which feigned being wounded
and gave utterance to the most plaint-
ive squeaks, from which we inferred the
nest must be near.
A short search discovered it among
email bushes on the ground in a 0001-
pamtis-&ly exposed position. The nest
contathned three eggs, which we, of
course, did not disturb. Leaving the
neat for over an hour, I cautiously re-
turned, and getting on my hands and
knees crept within ten feet of it with-
out disturbing the old bird,. After
watching, her for about ten minutes I
sane her stand up in the nest and with
her bill and one foot change the posi-
tion of two of the eggs, after which site
settled back on the nest.
She then evidently saw me, for she
gave a sudden twist sideways with her
h,ettel and then slowly and cautiously
aeretched out as fair as .possible, ner bill
resting flat on the ground. She remained
thus, for fully five minutes. Presently
I arose from my position and stepped
forward, when the bird quietly sneaked
away from the nest, seeming to crouch
as near the ground as possible, until
about twenty feet away, 'when she torose
with the usual cry, but immediately fell
to tile ground, fluttere4 up and down
and finally turned over on her bacinflut-
teeing her wings as if in the last agony,
but WS I approached she scrambled away,
dragging one wing on the ground, until
she ;had led me fully 200 yards from
the nest, when suddenly echo bade me au
revoir, and darted away like a rooket.
Secreting myself some distance from
the nest, in fourteen, minutes I was our-
. prised to eiee her sitting on it as before
, being disturbed, but how she reached
! there I ant unabla to say, as I did not
see her approach and half a minute be-
fore. her appearance ore the nest nothing
was to be sem or heard. As the, woods
were open I itted an excellent opportun-
: ity of watching her interesting enanoeu-
• vres, and had hoped to be able to note
the manner in which the return would
lee mean—Forest and Stream,
ENGLAND'S WATER SUPPLY.
A Problem Which is of Staggering
Magnitude.
Owing to her tremendous industrial
activity and the needs of her teeming
• population, England may find herself one
of these days face to face with a prob-
lem of staggering magnitude—namely, a
1 scarcity of fresh water, said Mr. Bentley,
F. S. A., president of the Royal Meteor-
ological Society, at the annual meeting
z on Wednesday in Great George street.
So enormous now is the drain upon the
j country's available supplies, so much
have the growth of cities, the disappear -
mice of forested areas the extent of
1 street surface impervious to moisture
j and the diversion of rivers, lakes and
other natural fresh water reservoirs from
their natural functions of irrigators, die-
- tributors of the all -essential moisture to
the land, interfered, in England, with
natare's arrangements, that English en- .
gineers and meteorologists at no distant
date may find a task of almost insuper-
able difficulty awaiting their endeavors.
Vest Losses by Fire.
Individual carelessness, criminality,
poor construction of buildings and loose
and imperfect fire laws were responsible
for the lose last year in the United
States and Canada of h•O less than r75,-
157,800 by conflagrations of all sorts.
While this total is lees than that of
1004, when the Baltimore fire occurred,
it is,
with that exception the highest
fire loss yet recorded. In this matter
of loss by fire, as with the slaughter
occasioned by our railroads and the
lynching horror, the laiiitea States has a
distinction all its own among civilized
nations and one which can barely be con-
templated witlt pride or satisfaetion.
Wireless Telegraphy in Mexico.
Wireless telegraphy hes been mein -
Weed for several years iiemss the Gulf
of California, Rita now the Mexican Gov-
etnineut has awarded contracts for a
plant net will afford communication
Mew a distance of about 200 mike not
only between the various stations of the
system but with shipping. The Mexican
government has a trained staff of Wire -
lees operaters and it is thought likely
that this method of communication will
undergo important extension throughout
that (tawdry.
tam civilization descended in a. direct
line from the Mexican, be extracted from
his ardent work reagens for going on
living. Born under Louis XV, and having
travelled at the time of La Perot's°, this
man breakfasted with Labarpe and the
Abbe Welille. counted. Camille Desmou-
lins among his friends, knew Bonaparte
ae. a sub orderly -officer in Egypt and
Tillers RS, a drawing master, 11703 prceeut
at a series of revolutions, and passed
away under Macalahon, almost itt the
plentitude of his intellectual forces.
M. Rigaud ,the senior mayor of France,
whom I met during the Exposition of
1900, told me that at the age of 02 he
was in the liable of rising at four in the
morning and immediately beginning
work, after rubbing himself with cola
"tierO
"iIV about your 02 years?" I asked,
sniffing.
na`tquriyneeavei: look at thorn," he said good -
As a contractor for public works he
was still at that period personally sup-
erintending his workmen.
One of my friends, a most distinguish-
ed Englishman, M. W„ whom, in spite
of his 87 years, I am careful not to call
an old ma», leads as active a life as if he
Were no more than 30. I shall never for-
get a walk of some home' duration which
we took together in order to visit,
among other things in the heights of
Montmartre, the studio of L. Dimmer,
one of our greatest pastel painters. With
intense curiosity M. W. set to work to
study "the secret" of the master's pro-
cedure. The painter who had heard tell
of the venerable age of his visitor, said
to him respectfully:
"There are no longer any secrets to
you, Admiral."
"Don't you rely on that," said M. W.
smiling„ "I have plenty of time before
me, and I may yet come into competi-
tion with you."
.And as a matter of fact, in the follow.
ing year M. W. renewed the lease of his
London house for 00 years.
Mrs. Margaret Neave, who died in 1004
in the Island of Guernsey, at her estate
Rouge Huyshe ,at the age of 111, was by
no means cut off, up to the end of her
days, from the outside world. She receiv-
ed visitors and questioned them on the
affairs of the day. As long as Queen Vic-
toria. was alive, she never failed to send
an annual telegram of congratulations
on her birthday. The Queen replied: with
affection and carefully examined the
portrait of oId Mrs. Neave, just as some
women who are soon expecting to be mo-
thers anxionsly watch the faces of beau-
tiful children.
Mine. Viardot, the great friend of
Tourgeneff, in spite of her advanced age
of 84, continues to give singing lessons.
To her active life and to the absence of
all depressing suggestions she OASTS her
youthfulness of spirit which makes her
ono of the most agreeable talkers in
Paris, I shall never forget the vivid por-
traits .she sketched for me of some of
the celebrated personages she had met on
her long journey-. And is not "creation"
the true gift of youth?
Such also was the case with the beau-
tiful Mme, Scrivaneek, the glorious rival
of Dejazet, whom I saw, towards the
year 1000, giving lassoes, and private
tutoring, at the age of about 80.
We ought to take a flying view in
memory of the celebrated men who, as
nonagenarians and centenarians, have al-
ways distinguished themselves by their
untiring activity and their faith in "their
youth." When we think over their cases
wo realize that it was the suggestion of
force the innate conviction that resis-
tance is possible, together with the ab-
sence of depressing ideas, which chiefly
contributed to the preservation of their
health and their prolonged life. So that
we see how important it is to shut the
door of ono's heart, or rather of one's
brain to all injurious ideas as to stingy
limits of life. Nature, who created poi-
sons, has also created their antidotes.
Wbat, for instance, can be more painful
to almost all mortals than the mere
thought of inevitable old age? Nearly
as many tears have been shed over this
necessity as over that of death,. For
those, alas, who tremble at the dark, aro
quielc to perceive its terrors. And yet
this old age, so ill -spoken and so feared,
contains within it unsuspected delights.
Everything depends on the angle at which
we take up our position for observing
and studying it. The author of the Epis-
tles to Lueillus (XII.) goes into eestacies
over its charms. "Apples are not good,"
he tells us, "until they are beginning to
go. Tho beauty of children appears to-
wards the end. Those who love wine take
the greatest pleasure in the last draught
they drink. All that is most exquisite in
man's pleasures is reserved for the end."
Renanalp ("Discourse de reception a
PAcademis) discovered tun attractive
canvas on which to paint old ago, so
abhorred of all: "Charming age," he says,
"that of the Ecelesiast ,tho most appro-
priate to serene gaiety, when ono begins
to see, niter a laborious day's work, that
all is vanity, but also that a number of
ram things are worth tasting at leisure."
What a fragrant bouquet of delicious
and fortifying herbs might be culled
from the delicate thinkers who have med.-
itated long on old age. Try to train your-
self in it, and you will taste, little by
little, under their influence, the charm of
quiet, in the place of the worries of
fear. Yet, bad suggestions, come to us
from all sides. We think too 13112011 of the
diseases of our organs, of the using up
of our tissue and of fatal decrepitude.
We distrust our physical and intellec-
tual forces, our memory, our conversa-
tional gifts and powers- of work, For
enemies to our happiness lie in wait for
us everywhere. The necessity for keep -
,ing them out by good zuggan
estions, d
above al by deliberate auto-suggestien,
thus beemnes most obvious, Contomper.
ary Review.
DO YOU NEED A PUSH?
This Little Boy Not Only Needed It, tint
Got It.
"When I was a little fellow 1 nus in-
clined to wait to be coaxed." eelates it
Iettrnea and sueeeesful man in en change. "I remember sitting beside the
, brook one day while the other ehildren
were building it clmn. Theywere wal-
ing, carrying atones splashing the niud
and shouting orders, but mu' of them
paying any attention to inc. I began to
feel abused and lonely, end was blab-
- bering over my neglected condition when
!Aunt Sally game down the. roe&
1 "'What's the matter,•eonny ? Why
ain't, you plqin) with the rest?
"They don't want me; I said, -dig.
Absolutely white flour makes the most
beautiful white bread—the kind we all like.
But white bread is not necessarily pure
because it is white. To be pure it must be
made from purified flour.
There is only one method of making
flour absolutely pure, and that is by elec-
tricity. No impurity can withstand the
searching, purifying work of this electrical
process.
The electrical method is employed by
every big mill in the United States.
In Canada the only flour purified by
electricity is
oyal Househoid Flour
therefore it is the only flour that can be
considered as absolutely pure.
Say " Ogilvie's Royal Household " to
your grocer—he'll do the rest.
Ogilvie Flour Mills Goo, Limited,
MONTREAL,
"Ogilvie's Book for a Cook," contains tso
pages of excellent recipes, some never before
published. Yaer grocer can tell you how to
get it FREE. 2
ging my fists into my eyes. "They never
ask me to come.'
"I expected sympathy, but she gave
me an impatient shake and push.
"'Is that all, you little ninny? Nobody
wants folks that'll sit round on n bank
and wait to be asked!" she cried, 'Run
along with the rest and make yourself
wanted.'
"That ,shake and push did the work,
Before I had time to recover front my
indignant surprise I was in the middle of
the stream ,and soon was as busy- aa the
others", But for that shake and push I
might be neglected and waiting to this
day. It's the people who'll help push
instead of waiting to be pushed that
succeed.
-1
AGONIZING NEURALGIA
Due to Poor Weak Blood. Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills Will
Insure a Cure.
Neuralgia is the surest sign that
your whole system is weak and un-
strung. Those sharp, stabbing pains
aro caused by your jangled nerves.
But your nerves would not be jangled
if your blood was pure and grow.
You can't cure neuralgia by liniments
or hot applications. They may re-
lieve for a moment—but they can't
possibly cure. You can never cure
neuralgia, until you enrich your blood
and brace your starved nerves with
Dr. Williams' Pink Pils. They actu-
ally make new blood. They soothe
the nerves and strengthen the whole
system. They strike right at the
cause of agonising neuralgia,
Mr,
John McDermott, Bond Head, Ont.,
says: "As the result of a wetting, I
was seized. with paha; in all parts of
my body. I consulted a doctor, who
told inc the 'trouble Ines neuralgia.
He treated me for some time, but did
not help me. I had often read of Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, and decided to
try them. By the time I had taken
three boxes, there was a good inn
provement in my case, and after 1
had taken ten boxes, every ache and
pain had disappeared, I had gained
in weight and felt better in every way.
I shall always have a good word to say
for Dr. !Williams' Pink Pills."
'When the blood is poor, the nerve('
are starved: then conies neuralgia,
insomnia, St. Vitus dance, paralysis
or locomotor ataxia. All these trou-
ble.; are cured. by Dr. lariliams' Pink
Pills, because they actually make the
rich, red blood, that feeds and soothes
the starved nerves and Rends health
and strong -tit to every part of the
body. That is why these pills also
cure such troubles as rheumatism,
anaemia, ehronic erysipelas, indi- ,
gestion, and the special clients of k
growing girls and women. But you
must got the genuine with the full
name, -"Dr. Williams' Pink Pille for
Pale People," on the wrapper around
each box. If in doubt, write the Dr.
!Medicine Company, Brockville,
Ont., and the pills will be gent by mail
at 50 cents per box, or siic boxes for
$2.50. If you are ailing, try them to-
day.
The Original New England.
Xot ote num in a thousand living on
the Paeifie oast knows that as a mat-
ter of feet the accents of our mother
tongue were heard on the beach not far
from San Francioco forty-one years be-
fore English was spoken on Plymenth
rock. 'More amusing still is the fact that
the original !Mee England was on the
Pacific roast, for Mewls Drake in 1570,
at the close of a monthae stay, took pos.
PWinn of the 00111111)' for his eovereign,
Elizabeth ,and named the now acquisi.
tam. Nouvo Albion (N.ew EngIen(1), be -
met he thoaead, the white cliffs near
what is now Point Reeves resembled the
chalk cliffs near Dover.
Metal Application. '
(Plinedelphia Imager.)
'111110 11 money, young mem"
That toe Well, I've a '1214E12 et Otte 00
MOW 11 1ikPOtt to break into small WIC"
WHO CANNOT BE AN M. P.
Clergy, Peers, Bankrupts, Sheriffs,
Judges and. Insane Debarred.
The British House of Commons is lint-
ited by a statute of 1885 to 070 mere-
bers, of whom 377 represent omitted.
284 represent cities and boroughs, and 9
represent universities. Every male na-
tive or fully naturalized subject of the
British Empire is eligible for election,
providecl he is 21 years old.
But there are these exceptions: An
English Church clergyman, a minister
of the Church of Scotland, or a Roman
Catholic priest canned be elected an M.
P. Neither can a sheriff or returning
officer for the district for which he seta.
Also debarred .are some who have com-
mitted felonies, or have been declared
bankrupt, paupers or insane.
Judges of the superior courts or of
the county courts are ineligible.
.Any member, sv•lio. personally or
through being a partner in an unlim-
ited firrn, holds a Government contract,
is. liable to very heavy penalties if he
sits or votes.
As for peers of the realm, they are
most of them eligible for seats in the
House of Commons. A peer of Eng-
land is ineligible. A peer of Sootland
gets into the House of Lords if he is
one of the sixteen elected by the Scotch
peerage each Parliament, but he cannot
get into the House of Commons.
Irish peers, however, elect twenty-
eight of their number as members of
the House of Lords for life. The re-
mninder, if not also British peens, are
eligible to represent an English or a
Scotch constituency in the ammo oe
Commons. Thad is how a peer is some-
times also an M. P.
Little Men on Thrones.
(Boston Herald.)
Hist., brave man who becomes the life
partner of a woman taller than himself.
Let no one, then, accuse the Czar of
RUSSiS, of cowardice, for he is consider-
nbiy below the average height of men
and is fully a head shorter than his wife.
It is a fearful handicap for royal person-
ages, who must "look every inch a
king" under all circumstances, to be ob-
liged to sit when they should stand in
order to avoid these physical discrepan-
cies beforeathe public. The Czarina 1 -
ways trios to bring herself to the -level
of his majesty, precisely as the beauti-
ful queen of Italy is constantly endeavor-
ing to make her dwarflike husband seem
the taller of the two.
Great Socialistic PrOpagana---'
No. 20 Broadway, New York, is the
headquarters of the Standard Oil Com-
pany eind. if those offices are not the
nest of a, band of socialists of the most
virtulent type the conclusion is inevi-
table that their occupants are <mazy. At
any rate, no other ageney ever estab-
lished in America, ever made socialists
so rapidly as the Standard Oil Company
magnates are now making them And
such men as Rogers, the Roekefellers and
others of the most astute men in the
world must so understand it. If they
think they are sufficiently skillful to
safely ride out any storm which such
proceedings can raise, they have simply
lost their heads.
131obbs—"Yott can't always depend en
what Longbow says, can you?" alobbv,
—"Longbow? Why, that fellow caul
even tell the truth when Ile boars it,"