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The Wingham Advance, 1906-03-15, Page 3BETTER BE WISE iN MATTERS OF DOUBT BUY u',�,iJ, i,r 04. • qr:.-�hY�un-..•o :� t.Ls.ml+l TEA. DOUBT then changes to CERTAINTY, certainty of quality. Only one BEST TEA—BLUE RIBBON TEA, irN0+444.42 40: +: :4.44-0 000 i V" + I44C.t :40OONSNONo...:.**:•.:•4:•••:.•,':44••:.1•1414•4 . .t. ._. JUBILEE iIF THE VICTORIA CROSS (The London Express.) Fifty years ago Queen Victoria found- ed the Order of the Victoria Cross, and the little bronze emblem bearing the words For Valor still remains the must famous naval and military decoration in the world, the one most dearly cher- ished, and the one that has to be most dearly, purchased,. After 50 years the little bronze cross stands above all else the emblem of British courage and self- sacrifice in every corner of the earth, The wording of the notice issued from the war office on January 20, 1850, was cold and formal, But the spirit which inspired it was far from reserved, fund the spirit which still inspires the life of the order is the noblest and the bravest in the world. Naturally it has formed the keynote of a thousand stories to romance, but it is quite un- necessary to wander into fiction when one is faced by the romantic roll of the Victoria Cross. Up to the present 520 sailors and eon diers, including three civilians acting for the time being as combatants, have re- ceived Queen Victoria's cross for valor, and among the gallant band that bear upon their breasts this simple recogui- CAPT. COOK and Australian Natives So well did Rho Australian natives know the mted0atnal virtues of certain roots ands Herbs that when (first dLseover- ed by the great English navigator, Clap- ' tole Cook, they Wens practically ereo - fram disease. Australia. that uuystonLous country— that land of gold -,is eaiaeptlenrallo' rich in roxedieleal ,plants, It mos In this won- derful country 13dteitns for Bilious - leers, the great herbal retmedy for all liver emelt ethmath disorders were first discovered' and, used,. As Weans have Just been introduced into Canada, anal aro now pbtlaInaable trans all druggists, and shores, at Mew Tants about their ells - cowry and their exceptional power will ' be interesting to our treaders. Ono diad a Bow years mgto Mao Austral- ' • lion aruirlto vera firat tintormeell they . could obtain a households remedy mule • up in the corm ad a amen bean. That this remedy was of pure vegetable cora- position; that it wars entirely different moms the ordinary muecLieines and iprejaarm- tioms so widely wide and that it was a certain cure dor biliousness, indigestion, liver complaints, Si:eadnuohe, constipation and allied disoixtea u. In a very Short time after their des- oovmy, Ibeoaune of their vast ettperiority ovier other remedies, mut their certain , action on the above, ailmients, Weans be - teams the leading household remedy in Australia. They ore so tto-dey. They were next tintreduced to Grseat Britain. There again their vast super- iority was soon admitted, and for the att- meats just sorerred to ahoy are new the best known romedty throughout Britain. From Great Britain, Weans, 'because of its Superiority, spend rapidly, and their use is now worldwide. If you were !to Visit India, China, South Africa, you woulll find there en, general pita tau the washes et Haman, in the cities of Japan, in elset teareen,.enoves of Sicily and albs grasp% d,tatelet s of Prose, int (Gler- tnairyy, in, Ausahrka--dn all these places you Viii tined Ithat Oilcans are nvikiiaiy used. In trying Weans for 111tLouanmss, - the'etcre, do not think that you aro ox- Pennewing with a neand untried ei Ask yourself snlUbi r dihks question; if a medtoine is Wowed) up by such universal favor --if a m'edeciniet can the so widely tested and ;cameo tem nee one Ylohar- dAus-+wou d Ile not be 'ii efud in your homed It is Well known what Item oodlelnes • hithreatro gun wee anately contain, bismuth, snereury, and other lessinful minimal pro- duots, and rely upon Chase engredients for their terriponer r oefext. But WWI, mtnrmmd coin:,t'Itulerths ore vest' injurious if taken for flI n'. solid trro.1to emelt et - tette so that ,or loo orong the teeth, cawing the ,War to fab oat, eta. fLbeans are oatirely thiel mutt ,.aid tomer:or. They aro purely vegetable., are cantata no tense (d any stub ber.+mful htgeolleles • as ihho above. In taking. them theta b ate tear Whatever of ore? talent il. eceorndr ary ,eefe,it:•s, They Mina that rsib.Leli the are taken to tru+rtr, and do mot lea.ve he- ' hind tbwn evils nviarss eon the cote:lea *nee. All riteseing dltmedt!in tows eon M- emo at GO omits frier "tsax, (w they array be *teetered Meet t t'n:rn this Becaw Co., Qat- b,ettia tenon, Tcratit r, span re eipt el prie,o. Six boxes mile fi s mat for Leto • db11_rre, City oasts !Leman thank./ sant bo coreteesi, with tiler m lietne9. They ' are dityereat end sioprsiiwt: _ . r tion of their heroism there immediate- ly leap into one's mind the names of Lord Roberts, General Buller, AdmiralNilson, Sir George White, and Sir Eve- lyn Wood. The record of the Victoria Cross is part of our national life. The reason which brought about the institution of the little cross was Queen Victoria's mournful appreciation of the individual acts of heroism performed by her soldiers and sailors in the Crimea, which had to go, if not unwept and, unsung, at least outwardly unhon- ored, and so Queen Victoria bethought her of the idea of the Victoria Cross. Its institution began a tale of brave deeds performed in India during the mutiny, in China, in Japan, in Canada, in Ashanti, in Zululand, in Egypt, in Burma, in Crete—indeed in every lanai and in every clime where the little Brit- ish army which goes such a long way has fought. Naturally the first recipient of the -decoration, which is still made from the bronze of guns taken at Sebastopol, was a man who won it in the Crimea. This is Admiral Charles David Lucas, who, as mate of H. M. 8. Hecht, during the Baltic sea operations in 1854, picked up a live shell which had fallen upon the deck of his ship ,and threw it over- board. Thus, at the risk of a horrible death, •he saved the lives of many others. Lord Roberts, the immortal Bobs, won his V. C. 47 years ago. It was at Kho- dagunge, during the mutiny, when fol- lowing up the retreating energy, Lord Roberts, who was then lieutenant, saw two Sepoys escaping with a standard. Galloping after them Lord Roberts overtook them, when the men turned and faced him. Lord Roberts seized the standard, cutting down the man from whom he took it. While this struggle was going on the other Sepoy leveled his musket point blank at him and pulled the trigger. Fortunately it missed fire, and Lord Roberts saved the standard. The same day -Lord Roberts rode up to the rescue of a sowar„ who was being attacked by a rebel armed with a bayonet. Small of stature though he was, Lord Roberts killed the Sepoy with one blow of his sword and brought the sowar into safety. Lord Roberts is the only man on this roll of fame who possesses two Vic- toria crosses. The second was won by his son in his heroic efforts to save the guns at Colenso. Everyone knows that Lieutenant Roberts died of his wounds, but the cross that he won at the cost of Ida life was given to- him in death, arid by the special permission of Queen Vic- toria Lord Roberts is permitted to wear the proud, but sad, reward of his son's bravery upon his right breast. Like Lord Roberts, Sir Evelyn Wood also won his Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny, when at Sindwaho he attacked almost single-handed a body of mutineers, and completely routed them. Shortly afterward he indulged in an exploit of almost unparalleled au - dimity. Hearing that the enemy were about to hang a loyal native trooper, Sir Evelyn Wood ,then Lieutenant Wood, took a dozen troopers and started in pursuit of the mutineers. After •a ride of many miles they came upon the en- emy, 70 in number, encamped and asleep. Selecting only two nten to go forward with him, he erope among the enemy, fired a volley, put the mutineers to flight, and rescued the man he had set out to save. lie was then twenty years of age, and had actually been rec- omrnended for the Victoria Cross when he was only eighteen years old. At that time he was serving to the navy during the Crimean War. Most people who have watched the passage of royalty are familiar with the venerable and white -bearded figure of Sir Deighton Probyn, the Queen's pri- vate secretary. But few people know that Sir Deighton Probyn long ago re- ceived the Victoria Cross as the climax to a. long succession of gallant deeds perforated during the mutiny. Upon one occasion he was surrounded by six Sepoys, of whom he killed two, and wounded the rest before he escaped. An- other time, when in single combat with a Sepoy, his horse was wounded and one of his wrists. was nearly severed before he managed to kill the mutineer. General Buller, the soldiers' hero. won his V. C. many times over on the same day, during the Zulu campaign. The occasion was when, with a very small force, General Buller had to face 20,000 Zulus. The troops that he com- manded were very nearly overwhelmed, and would have been altogether annihi- hilated but for General Bulier's personal exertions. Captain D'Arcy, Lieutenant Everitt and four ,troopers of the Fron- tier Light Horse were all reamed one af- teranother by General Buller from cer- tain death. It is, of course, impossible to give even one-tenth of the deeds that have won the Victoria Cross, but it would be a mistake to close even a passing refer- ence to them without recounting the ab- solutely amazing exploit that won the Victoria Cross for Admiral Wilson. It was upon the famous occasion at Tel- El-Kebir, 'when the British square was broken. Admiral Wilson, or as be then was, Captain Wilson, was the man who mended it, dashing out from tbe ranks, he attacked several Arabs, and broke his sword, Throwing away the useless weapon, he hurled himself unarmed upon the Arabs, felling several of them to the ground with his bare fists. The diversion caused by this most gallant action gave the York and Lancaster Reg- iment time to come up and save the site nation. Ill•Bred Gotham Flunkies, It would appear that the 1'resldent's dauthhter was ,fairly driven Min Now York the sortaetsiropinglpublict yon 11bewlilewoh that laely'n every Ertel) woes dogged while in this city. The thing goes beyond newspaper sen- sationalism. No amount of advertising and egging an could set COcrowd ea wild to intrude upon at young girl's privacy uuleet there v.•es n growing reeiing that It is the beagle of bliss, era muni as to guze upon ono tear to the President. It Is more than empty -beaded curiosity. It Is ipie kind of enobbleb.uess which Thackerny denounced for feeling dt thrin at the vory eight et the Court Circular, SBA BIRDS AND THEIR WAYS. The Eider -Duck, Crannet and Other Inter - eating Creatures. Some years ago there was a great de- crease of sea birds in the British Isles, but now, according to l:nflioh Country Life, these birds are growing more num- erous every year. Country Life sent let- ters of inquiry to the lighthouse keepers and the stories sent in about the birds aro interesting. Scenes Buell as the ono pictured are frequently witnessed on all coats. A battle between sea birds is usually for a bit of punder of Rome sort. The present increase of British birds is the result of protective laws lately 'adopted. On sea, as on land, it will be noticed that the commoner birds are in- creasing most, The eider -duck has mul- tiplied greatly since protection was afforded it, and although not in suffi- cient numbers, yet to make the coliec- tibn of down profitable, it is permissible to hope that it will become so in time. Fortunately the duck is an extremely good mother and sits very close on her eggs, so much so that you can approach her and lift her off them without causing her any great alarm, and the boys on the islands are in the habit of feeding and petting the nesting elders. But the great - (tttnger comes from the gulls, which de- vour all tlio eggs they can get at. They have increased to an enormous extent, and it is worth consideration whether they eannot be decreasing. It is rather curious that the gannet or Solan goose, should nest so freely on the Bass Rock, and yet avoid the Larne Islands. It is a very roaming bird, and may be seen even now in the height of the breeding season cruising up and down the coast far away from nests, dropping every now and then, like an arrow shot from a bow, into the water and picking up its re y. Another factor that has helped to bring about the increase of sea birds is the establishment of sanctuaries where they can breed without disturbance. It bad long been the custom of fisher -folk and tourists to rob every sea -bird's nest they could find, partly to add to the collection of eggs, but still more fre- quently for the purpose of eating them. On the seacoast the eggs of those birds are considered particular delicacies, and for centuries it has been the habit to take them. Now the taking is discour- aged. We might offer the blaek-headed gull as an example. In many places throughout Great Britain the privilege of taking these eggs stood very much on the same footing as the right of common, and in the meres, lakes and marshes of England, and in the bogs, mire and ponds of Scotland, the eggs- were collected quite regularly. Even the young birds were taken and made into swab - pie, which is said to have been made as as good as pigeon -pie or rook -pie. In no case that we know of did the birds forsake their nests on this account. Still, there was a limit, because the tradition was that one could take two sittings, but the third sitting had to be left to be hatched out. Most housewives judge the purity el a flour by its whiteness, White somehow signifies purity. But while pure flours are always white, white flours are not always pure, Royal Household Flour is the whitest flour that is milled. It is also the purest. You may think the flour you are using is about as white as flour can be, Yet ifyou place it beside Royal Household Flour it will book yellow by com- parison. Ask your grocer for Royal Household, and make sure that he understands that you mean it. Ogilvie Hour Mills Co., Ltd. Montreal. "Ogilvie's Book for a Cook," con- tains 130 pages of' excellent recipes, some never published before. Your gro r can tell you how to get it FREE. Good Judges of Liquor, (Kansas Cety Star.) There as really nothing paradoxical in the familiarity displayed yesterday by Mr. Tillman an the Senate regarding whiskey, a commodity which he declares he does not use. A roan who is habitu- ated to booze is liable to be quite as fair a judge of its quality as one who con- stantly indulges in it. The ,prinu iple of serving goad liquor until the guests are all too full to know the difference and then to run in ehoarper etteff ,holds, good in the long run. It is your steady "lush- er" 'olio doesn't care what kind it is so long as it's whiskey. Paying College Athletes. Illustrating 1Donv the college expenses of some athlets who play on the college teams are paid, David L. Fultz, now a professional baseball player, told his old college club the other nrght of an alum- nus wino offered to bet a promising ath- lete $100 that he could not jump across a line drawn on tithe floor. The athlete of course jumped it, won the preposter- ous wager and. bad his, room refit set- tled for the rest of the season. How- ever, that is an old. story. The colleges are busy reforming all that sort of thing. LIFE OF LYDIA E. PIN t re And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound I Had its Birth and How the ``Panic of '73" Caused i it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. This remarkable woman, whose maiden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass., February 9th, 1819 com- ing front a good old Quaker family. For some years she taught school, and became known as a woman of an alert and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, possessed of a wonderfully sympathetic nature. In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They had four children, three sons and a daughter. In those good old fashioned days it was common for mothers to make their own home medicines from roots and herbs, nature's own remedies—calling in a physician illy in specially urgent cases. By tradition and experience many of them gained a wonderful knowledge Of the curative properties of the various roots and herbs. Mrs. Pinkham took a great interest in the study of roots and herbs, their char- acteristics and power over disease. She maintained that just as nature so bounti- fully provides in the harvest -fields and orchards vegetable foods of all kinds ; so, if wo but take the pains to find them, in the roots attd herbs of the i`ield there are remedies expreesly designed to cure the various ills and weaknesses of the body, and it was her pleasure to search these out, and prepare simple and effec- tive medicines for her own family and friends. Chief of these was a rare combination of the choicest medicinal roots and herbs found best adapted for the cure of the ills and weaknesses peculiar to the female sex, and Lydia E. Pinkham's friends and neighbors learned that her compound relieved and cured and it became quite popular among them. All this so far was done freely, without money and without price as a labor of love. But in 1873 the financial ,crisis struck Lynn. Its length and severity were too much for the largo real estate interests of the Pinkham family, as this class of business suffered most from fearful de- drrereian, so when the Centennial year awned it found their property swept away. Sonne other source of income had to be found. At this point Lydia B. Pinkllem's Vegetable Compound was made known to the world, The three sone and the daughter, with their mother, combined forces to restore the family fortune. They argued that the medicine which was so good for their woman friends and neighbors was equally good for the women of the whole world. Tho Pinkhams had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory was the kitchen, where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of bottles. Then camp the question of selling it, for always beforo they had given it away freely. They hired a job fprinter to run off some pamphlets setting orth the merits of the medicine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and these were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, Now York, and Brooklyn. The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were, to a great extent, self -advertising, for whoever used it re- commended it to others, and the demand gradually increased. In 1877 by combined efforts the family had saved enough money to commence newspaper advertising and from that time the growth and success of the enter- prise were assured, until to -day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound have become household words every- where, and many tons of roots and herbs are used annually in its manufacture. Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not live to see the great success of this work. She passed to her reward years ago, but not till she had provided means for continu- ing her work as effectively as she could have done it herself. During her long and eventful experi- ence she was ever methodical in her work and she was always careful to pre- serve a record of every case that came to her attention. The ease of every sick woman who applied to her for advice— and there were thousands—received careful study and the details, including symptoms treatment and results were recorded for future reference and to -day these records, together with hundreds of thousands made since, are available to sick women the world over, and repre- sent a vast collaboration of information regarding the treatment of woman's ills, which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly bo equaled in any library in the world. With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her daughter-in-law, the present Mrs. Pink - ham. She was carefully instructed in all her hard-won knowledge, and for years she assisted her in her vast corres- pondence. To her hands naturally fell the direr• tion of the work when its originator passed away. For nearly twenty-five years she has continued it and nothing in the work shows when the first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham, now the mother of a large family, took it up. With woman asietants, some as capable air her- self, the present Mrs. Pinkham continues this great work, and probably front the office of no other Berson have so many women been advised how to regain health. Sick women, this advice is "Yours for health freely given if you only write to ask for it. Such is the history of Lydia V. Pink - ham's Vegetable Compound : made from eimpbe roots and herbs; the one great medicine .":Ori women's ailments, and the fitting monument to tho Noble woman whose none it bearL +444++++++++444++++++4+1+0414++++++++++++++++++441440 Royal Courtships of •asp .% Couples ::swot «. +a<'f+44+d+++i+++ 44++b++>r++1F++++i+++i+++i+++I+1+144•++I++44+I+++++>F++++i++d+f+ The romantic wooing of the Icing of Spain reminds one hew rarely the ele- ment of ronianeo has been associated with royal marriages. What could have been more brutally inconsiderate than the arrangements for the marriage of Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III.? This Princess, just 17, was selected as consort for the King, of England. liar life at Mecklenburg, writes Lady Violet Greville M the London Daily Chronicle, had hitherto been of the sim- plest, She dressed en robe de chantbr'c every day except Sunday, when site put on her best gown and drove out in a coach •aud six. Tho Ambassador sent to demand her hand having arrived, she was to dine downstairs that night for the first time. "Mind what you say, "et ne faites pas l'enfant,'" was the warning of her eld- est brother, After dinner at which she was naturally very shy, she beheld tho saloon illuminated, a table and two cush- ions prepared for a wedding, her brother again saying, "Atkins, 210 faites pas l'en- font, to vas etre mine d'Angleterre," led her in. Some kind •of ceremony then took place, she was embraced by her family and pre- sented by the Ambassador wlth a beau- tiful paruro of diamonds, including the little crown of diamonds which so often appears in her portraits. She was pxeracd for an immediated departure, but plead- ed for the respite of a week, in order to take Ieave of everybody. During this time she ran about visiting the poor and the little garden of medical herbs, fruit and flowers which she cultivated herself for the benefit of the poor. She afterwards introduced the salve practice at Kew and Richmond. The pool little bride suffered a terrible crossing to Harwich, the royal yacht being nearly driven on the coast of Nor- way. The Duchess of Ancestor and Ham- ilton, sent to conduct the Princess to England, were bout much indisposed, but Charlotte herself remained quite well and cheered the company by singing Luther's hymns to her harpsichord in her cabin with the door open. Perhaps alio remem- bered the saying attributed to Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I., who was also nearly wrecked on her crossing, "Les mines ne se noient pas." Arriving in London at about 3 o'clock having travelled since 12, she was met by the King in the garden of St. James' Palace. Attempting to kneel, she was caught by the enthusiastic monarch, who embraced her kindly and nearly car- ried her upstairs. That very evening the wedding ceremony took place. Horace Walpole writes of the new Queen: "She looks very sensible, cheerful and is re- markably genteel" (that favorite epi- thet of the period). Her tiara of diamonds was very pretty, her stomacher sumptuous, her violet vel- vet mantle and ermine so heavy that heir clothes were dragged almost down to _her waist. The wedding over and supper not being ready, the Queen sat down and obligingly played and sang to her harp- sichord. The royal party never separat- ed till between 3 and 4 in the morning, no slight trial for a bride of 17 who had employed the few moments she passed in her room after her arrival in trying on her wedding gown and the rest of her trousseau. When first she caught sight of the pal- ace she became very nervous and, being told that slie was to be married that evening, she, in fact, fainted in the car- riage. The Duchess of Hamilton, one of the beautiful Miss Cunnings, smiling at her fears, Charlotte said: "You may laugh—you have been married twice— but to mo M is no joke." It is pleasant to think that after being so highly tried Charlotte's married life proved perfect - ]y happy. Very different was the arrival of Oath - mine of Brngganza, who when first seen by Charles II., was laid up with a cough and a little feneir in bed. He was not favorably impressed by his new consort, and remarked as much to his attend- ants, Elizabeth Farnese, who married the Xing of Spain, son of Louis XIV. of France, as leis second wife, celebrated her arrival in Spain by quarrelling with and summarily dismissing the ,lady in wait- ing sent to receive hors the famous Prin- oesse des Ursins, who had ruled the late Queen, and by whom. she herself had bean chosen as successor. Elizabeth's future life was passed in slavish attend- ance on her husband that see might eeoure her influence over frim and pre- vent any State affairs being transacted without her knowledge. Twenty miit- utes only .of the day and night was oho permitted . to be alone. Elizabeth was an ardent sportswoman and foblowe•1 the King even at the chase; the rest of her existence was passed in a a'outin:a of ar- duous etiquette and monotony. George IV's. reception of has bride, Caroline of Brunswick, is well known.— how nownhow the blue eyed, buxom, bouncing girl was implored by Lord Malmesbury to be very particular abort her person and her toilet; stow the Prince pretended to be overcome at their first meeting and called for a dram of brandy, and Trow the Princess afterward deeianed that he was drunk on her wedding night. Not much chance of happiness there) xhttil quite recently very little liberty was accorded to princesses. Queen Char- lotte, even after herr inttriiiage, was for several years an thraldom to the Dow- ager Princess of Wales and denied all divesion and pleasure. She told ,lli•s Burney that even her jewels had eeased to dazzle and interest her. "Believe mo," she said, "it is the pleasure of a week, n 1. rtu'g]it at most, and then returns no more." One of her greatest griefs, and : ne which «a.used her bitter tears, :vas the determination of her mother-in-law that Charlotte should wear her jewels when she received the sacrament for the first time afstr soh became Queen. She had promised her own mother r ver to do this—it was an not of hu - lenity a-•, •h had teen strictly inculcat- ed on her; and it proceeded from the some devotional impulse which caused sing GOs'e• to take off Itis crown when I t kne , at the altar during the corona- tion. The comrtship of Queen Victoria brine us into a pleasanter atmosphere. On Prince Albert's firt'st visit to England siio liked snit appreeiatoi frim at *nee, and his tastes agreed with hers. "Every Pince i awl been showered by nature on 'his charming boy," Rays Baron Steel: - mar of him at this time. The Baron judged him critically, calmly and impar- tially, until he finally became his most attached and devoted friend and adviser. Queen Victoria and deer eou.;in met at first unconscious of the object of their aequaintance, and eeken the deeireut im- pression had been produced, the young Prince, dike a second Sir Galahad. was ;int away to travel and fit IliunmIf by study and careful education for his great positions On his return to Engluld the Queen writes: `Albert's beauty is moat striking, and he is moat emiroble and un- effected—in short, faseeinating." The young couple were g'enuine'ly in love, and the Queen informed Lord Mel- bourne thett the cangnest of lief heart was complete. So serious, so dignified, so studious acid so excellent a young man would infuse an element of poetry and deep feeling into his lova niakiiig; but by the rules of etiquette the proposal itself haat to come from the young Queen, whose maidenly modesty was somewhat embarrassed at the prospect. She sum, named him to her boudoir, 'wlrero he found her :clone. After some desultory talk duo to her shyness, she suddenly said: "Could you forsake your country for me?" 'J1ue Prinoe answered by clasp- ing her in his alms. In such simple fashion did a young sovereign woo and win the husband of hem choice. COALING SKIPS AT PORT SAID. January it was, and the wind piping cold, We reached Port Said before mid- night. It rose suddeuay out of the sea, low and lonely, with a string of lights winking in black velvet. They coal all day and all night at Port Said, week in and week out, and the long year round. Men, women and little children to your knee. Natives they are and black with sun and coal dust. They do not bo, ger about clothes —rags and twists about their loins and sometimes loose blue trousers, All day and all night it is—baskets on their heads and in tbeir arms, filled with little chips of shining coal. The barges come alongside the ships, and then the baskets begin to pass faster than •you can count. They start a sort of groaning, all together and in rhythm. It sounds like a song or chant, but very dreary. They do not seem like human beings. It is because of the smut, perhaps, and the nakedness and the toreltes flaring over them. They work away at the black !Mapes behind them like miners—dig right through before you know it. .And a basketful at it time. It looks absurd at first. But it i•1 the number of them that tells and their quickness. You cannot count them any more than the bits of coal. They swarm over the barges like ants and are as like. The dust they raise settles about them in clouds. The doors are bat- tened down and all the port -holes closed. But the dust is soft and fine and puffy and it sifts through the decks and the planks and pours down the funnels. It covers everything and chokes you so that you cough and stran- gle and can hardly breathe. It takes a solid day of soap and water to get the ship clean again.—Froin The Canal, by Elizabeth Washburn Wright, in the De- cember (Christmas) Scribner's. PURL RED BLOOD Is Necessary to Health, Strength and Happiness. Pure, •rieh red blood is what is needed by every woman, young or old. Thin, weak, watery blood is the cause of all the headaches—all the weakness and weariness, all the dizzi- ness and despondency all the ner- vousness and fainting spells that af- h`e'et girls and Women. The only thing that can help you is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These pills make new, rich red blood, that gives new life and strength to every organ of the •body. In this way they make pale, feeble girls develop into healthy, happy women, and for the same reason bring ease and coin - fort, and regularity to women at all ages of life. Miss J. Dietrich, SI, Clements, Que., is one of the many thousands made well and happy through the use of Dr. Wiliams' Pink Pills. She says: "I tried sev- eral medicines, but got nothing to help me until I took Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I was subject to palpi- tation of the heart, a throbbing in the head, and dizziness and fainting spells. I had no appetite, and was weak, pale and discouraged when I began the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Six boxes of these have made me feel like an altogether different per- son, and have given me new health and strength." Riche, red blood is the true secret of health and strength, and it is simply because Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make new, pure blood, that they cure such troubles as anaemia, loss of appetite, indigestion, neuralgia, rheuma- tism, St. Vitus dance, partial paralysis, kidney troubles, and the special ailments that only women folks know. But you must get the genuine with the full name, "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo- ple," on the wrapper around each boy. If in doubt, send to The Dr, Williams Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont., and the pills will be mailed at 50 cents a box, or six boxes- for $2,50. He Has a Difficulty. ' I like the comfortable life— Above all things to take my ease; But then, you see, I have a wife Whom ft is my desire to please, And pleasing her, I grieve to say, lily hopes of sweet content takes wing, I sacrifice them every day Because it Isn't quite the thing. I like to elevate my feet Upon a table or a chair; In times of quiet excessive beat A. coat I always hate to wear, Some pierrust really neds a knife, And to ,old habits still I cling. That doesn't go with my deer wife Because it isn't quite the thing. I may not breakfast till I dress My pipe indoors I may not smoke— To which, however, I confess, She hasn't got me wholly broke. Whatever I array do, I find Some rule of etiquette she'll spring. And language can't relieve my mind, Because 1t Isn't quite the thing. Relief From Congestion. This is an age when things tend to be- come congested. The multiplicity of mat- ters in the public mind makes for con- fusion. Tho public seizes upon what it can quickly grasp and gives the go-by to what it fails to understand. In like maturer, goods that pile up in the ware- houses are forgotten by all save the owner. If there were a famine, or a dearth, they would be remembered; but there is plentitttde, just es there is eon- gestitm. Ono way-•-ttu+l the best way— to relieve such congestion is to adver• Use. `1 - Modest Violets. (yew York Sun.) Thaw the modest violets The florist had to show, Surrounded by pahzu etta blooms And roses wine as snow. t haw the molest violets t With foliage of green, The sweetest flower of them all, And all sedate, serene. I encu tho modest violets, As pure, as chaste as lee: The flower may be modest, but Just gaze upon the price! Every Two Minutes Physicians tell us that all the b• le 0 d in a healthy - human body passes through the heart once In every two minutes. If this action be- comes irregular the whole body suffers. Poor health follows poor blood ; Scott's Emulsion makes the blood pure. One reason why SCOTT'S EMLILSION is such a great aid is because it passes so quickly into the blood. It is partly di- gested before it enters the stomach ; a double advan- tage in this. Less work for the stomach; quicker and more direct benefits. To get the greatest amount of good with the least pos- sible effort is the desire of "everyone in poor health. Scott's Emulsion does just that. A change for the better takes place even be- fore you expect it, We willsend yes • ample free. Be sure that thb picture in the foam of a label bon the wrap- per of every bottle of Emulsion you buy. Scorr & Bowies : cosy Chemists '. Toronto, Ont. so cents nd Si.o• All druggists Chinese Eyes Not Crooked. Chinese eyes are straight in the skull, according to E. Lemaire, in La Nature, of Paris. They appear oblique, but they are not really so. Von Siebold, Abalds- dorff, and Schlegel, the great Chinese authorities, all agree that the eyes of the Chinese are straight, and in order to convince ourselves of this it is merely necessary to make a careful study of the portraits of Chinese. The reason the eye appears oblique is that the upper eyelid and the general direction of the eyebrows are oblique; tbe upper eyelid at the side of the nose, forma a special fold, which covers entirely the angle where the lachrymal gland is found. In addition, the lids are generally very thus and the eye less open. Hardly a Whole Page, George Pippert, the page at the 13row1t Palace Hotel. Denver, is very small. The other day, relates the Denver Post, a man entered the hotel and asked for a guest. "He's not in his room," said Clerk ' Shuler after looking at the key box, "but I'll have his name called. He may be in the lobby, Hero comes the page now." The man turned and saw little George approaching. "Is that boy a page?" he asked. "He is," replied Shuler. The gran smiled. "He doesn't look like a page to me," he said. ''He looks like a paragraph," - - His Chief Distinction. Bill Glubbe was a harmless son of a gun, But he had a magnificent beard. Nobody could point to a thing he'd done, but he had a magnificent beard. He nourished that beard with scrupuloeI c, Ho carefully brushed each separate hair, And strangers who saw It were wont tit stare. And say: "What a magnificent beard." H0 courted an heiress; he won the day— She adored a magnificent beard— And she fell in love at first sight, they Ray, Of his truly magnificent beard. And soon be was snugly settled to life, Secure from poverty's struggle and strife, With nothing to do but to please a wile, Who adored a magnificent beard. This wasn't all. At a caucus ono night, Where he flashed his magnificent beard, And party ehiefs had locked horns in a tight, They observed his magnificent beard, They said "there's a man who can beat those dubs, As easy as turning a Jack tI ClubeP' Ilees a power in polities now, is Glubbe, And les power all Hes in his beard. i BABY'S SMILE. Baby's Own Tablets has a smile in every dose for the tender babe and the growing child. These Tablets cure indigestion, wind colic, consti- pation, diarrhoea, and feverishness, break up colds, and bring natural healthy sleep. And the mother has the guarantee of a government ana- lyst that this medicine contains no opiate, narcotic or poisonous "sooth- ing" stuff—it always does good and cannot do harm. Mrs. Joseph Rosa, Iiawthorne, Ont., says; "I have used Baby's Own Tablets, and find them just the thing to keep child- ren well." You can get the Tablets from any medicine dealer or by mail at 25 cents a box from the Dr. Wil- liams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Go to Africa. /Hebei) Goodman (impre;sttvoly): "Only think, children: In Africa there are 10,000,00) square miles of territory without a single Sunday School where little boys and girls can spent their Sundays. Now, what rileaUld we all dry and cavo up our money and dot" Class (in ecstatic taloa): "Go to Aides." I- Ile --Marry me, and my life shall be an open book to you. She_ 'A cheque book