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The Wingham Advance, 1906-04-12, Page 3J,+ From the Plantation to Store We watch Blue Ribbon Tea, Unsleeping vig- ilance selects the tenderest leaves, scrutinizes every process of their manufacture, and care- fully seals them in lead packetslo preserve the flavor. No wonder the best is Blue Ri Ce Illwn ri 4.+++++++++++ ++++++++++++''+++++++4+++2.+++++++++++'p I Surae Cases Of • +d+++f++ "++T++44 ++d'+'I'+'i +*+.t+f +++3++3.+4.4'S. '+444.• 44,14.1.++F+++t++4. o + Dual Pers Gases of dual personality are not to . rare as might be sunopsed. Many such are related in Dr. Sidis' book. The most remarkable is that of the Rev. Thomas Orson Iianna, a young clergyman of I'Iantsville, Oonn, One day when stepping from this ear, rine his foot slipped, and he fell for- ward, striking on lits head. He 'was picked up unconscious. When be re- gained his senses his former personality , had disappeared. He was practically a ' newly born babe. He remembered noth- ing of a previotis life, He could not talk or understand anything that was said to him, In former times it av'otuhl have been thought that he had become idiotic, and be doubtless would have been sent to a home for imbeciles, there to spend the rest of his life. Dr. Sidis, then in New York, heard of - this peculiar ease. Here was an oppor- tunity, he thought, to test his theory of disassociation of ideas, He believed that Mr. Hanna's brain cells had merely been dislocated, and that if they were brought back into proper position. and working order the lost personality aright be restored. Under Dr. Sidis' direction, the young minister was educated, from his A 13 O's upavard, Itis faculties were as keen as ever;; even keener, it seemed, than before the accident. In a week Ire learn- ed how to read as well as a child roads at the enol of its first year in school. In three hours Mr. HUMUS learned how to play the banjo. In a few weeks be bad been taught the meaning of words and language so that he could carry on in- telligent conversation. The first assurance that some traces at least of his former personality re- mained was in the dreams which he re.• !,ted. He told of incidents and places seen in dreams, avdnieli were' really ex- periences of his past life. He spoke of seeing a square house with the sign upon it, "New Boston Junction." This was a place in Pennsylvania where he had once been. Yet in his new personal- dty he could not recognize the church of which ,he.was pastor; nor diol he rememn- ber the young woman to whom he was engaged. It looked as if the would never again be able to take his former place ttn society, An entirely different man Ives growing up from the -former Rev. Mt. Hanna. But still he could not remember his past life. He did not even imagine abet it :meant. When asked if he could: riot guess what Boston meant, he replied: "It might be the name of the building." Resurrection of the Mr. Hanna. Dr. Sidis, not at all discouraged, be- gan a most unusual course of treatment. When Mr. Hanna avae asleep he passed naturally into a hypnoidie state, which was not a hypnotic condition, but was a resurrected dead personality of his own life experiences. Then something hap- pened that in other ages would be thought miraculous. The patient began to tank of one of his old friends, Mr. Buster, and told incidents about him just as he would have done before the accident. The Rev. Mr. Hanna had returned; ho was himself again! This was the joyous thought that first flashed into the minds of his father and attendants. But they were mistaken, As the hypnoidie state passed away the young minister relapsed into the secondary state, as Dr. Sidis called it. Again and again thgpatient was brought beck to glimpses of ]lis first life. Fin- ally Dr. Sidis tried a medicinal stimu- lus, in the hope of bringing back the lost personality in more stable form. Fin- ally, ono morning, the patient woke up, . and, turning to his brother, asked: "'Who has been preaching at the ehnreh?" Here at last was the resurrection of - the real Mr. Ilanna in perfectly natural and rational mind. The brother then related how his fa- ther was occupying the pulpit and the fam=ily had moved to Plantwville, to which the young•minister exclaimed, in great surprise: "Why, you don't say so! When was this?" .A number of events ocourred during the previous ,six months since the acci- dent were related, but his mind was an a=bsolute blank about them. When asked , how he felt, lie said: "I feel just like Rip Van Winkle. I feed hazy." In this astonishing way was the lost personality regained. Incident- nliy, Mr. Hanna afforded an example in real life of how a man may actually fall into a Rip Van Winkle sleep, and be utterly unconscious of the progress of events, for a long .period, of time. Mr, Hanna's case was even stranger than that of Washington Irving's sleep- ing hero. for in this instance the reran was living an entirely different life while the former personality was asleep. Mr. Hanna is now entirely restored to his normal condition. After recovering he married the .girl to whom he was first engaged, wh-o nursed him through his pitiable state of lost personality, when he looked upon her as a stranger. So an element of romance is lent to this very strange ease. Strange Case of a Russian Woman, Similar instances of forgetfulness or lost personality, though usually in mild- er form, are chronicled in the daily press every little while. Amnesia is the term Dr. Sidis applies to this form of aberration. Another kind of case which Dr. Sidis relates is that of a ;pretty yoiuig Rus- sian woman of 22. She suffered from violent headaches, which seeemd to be located in a spot about as large as a half dollar just back of the left temple. Upon questioning her, Dr. Sidis learn- ed that when she was a child an insane woman living aeross the street rushed into the house one day when her par- ents were away, caught up the child and kissed her on the left side of the head. It gave the little girl a violent •fright, and ever after that she had headaches A TRAINED NURSE After Years ;of Experience; Advises Women in Regard to Their Health. Mrs. Martha Pohlman of 55 Cheater Avenue, Newark, N. J., who is a graduate Nurse from the Blockleyy Training School at Philadelphia, and for (six years Chief Clinic INurse at the Philadelphia Hospital, writes the letter 'printed below. She has the advantage of, personal experience, besides her professional education and what she has to say may be absolutely relied upon. Many other women are afflicted as she was. They can regain health in the same way. It is prudent to heed Ouch advice from such a 'source. Kra. Pohlman writes : '"I am firmly persuaded, after eight years of experien- ce with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, that it is the safest and best medi- cine for auy suffering woman to use. "Immediately after my marria e I found that my health began to fail me. I became weak and pale, with severe bearing-downairs, fearful baekecheai and fre- quent dizzy spells, The doc- tors proscribed forme, yet I did not improve. I would bloat after eating and fre- quentle become nauseated. I bad.. ppains down through my limbs so I nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, Could l ardl walk. It was as bed a case of "all -gone" and `want -to -be -loft -alone" ferrate trouble as I have over known. Lydia feelings blues and hopelessness the E, Pinlcliam'e Vegetable Compound, hoes(shouldremember there is one tried and ever, cured me within four months. Since true remedy. Lydia Pinkham', that time I have had occasion to recommend , it tot number of patients suffering from all Vegetable etable Compound at once removes forms of female difficulties, and I find that Ouch troubles. while it is considered unprofessional to re- No other female medicine in the commend a patent medicine, I can honestly won=d tn. received such Widespread and recommend I,ydta E. Pinkham's Vegetable un uaii8od rSndorsement. Compound, foe I have found that it tures lro needless suffering of women from lbma]le ills, where all other medicine fails. $ It Is a grand medicine for sick women." diseases peculiar to their sex is terrible Money eannot buy such testnnony ae to bee. The phoney which they pay to this -+-merit alone can produce suet re- doctors who do not help them is an sults And the ablest epecialista now enormous Waste. The pain is cured and Wee that Lydia E. Pin ham's Vege. the money is Paved by Lydia E. Pink. t ble Compound is the most universally liam's Vegetable Compound. suceeseful remedy for all female diseases It is well for women who aro ill to known to medicine. write Mre. Pinkham, Lynn, Masa„ Tho When women are troubled with irrc- present Mrs. Pinkham is the daughter- gCrllal, suppressed or painful periods, nt-law of Lydia E. Pinklianl, her assistant we ektleaa, displacement or ulceration of for many years before her decease, and the female organs, that bearing -down for twenty-five years since her advice leas feeling, inti tmietlon, backache, Bloating been freely given to Slick tt'omen. In her (or fiatulonce), g;etieral debility, indiges- great experience, which rovers many t=on, and nervoub prostration, or aro bead yearn, she has probably pati to deal with With Mich Aytnptoms as dizzineba, faint• dozens of casts just like yours. trier ;sefgi, lateitude, excitability, irritability, advice ib strictly confidential. ilk R. Plat khantes Veact$ble Compound Succeeds where Others Fall, on the epot where the inane woman kissed her, Now cornea a still .queerer develop, wont. It was learned that this. insane woman's delnrsion was that two women in white were always following her and pointing their fingers at her, This hal- lucination was transferred to the girl by a species of mental contagion. While wider the spell of this delusion the girl was really as crazy as the insane woman, She was cured by hypnotic suggestion; and afterward had neither headaches nor hallucinations. Another example of the practical use of psychological methods occurred when Dr. fiidis was director, of the Psycho- logical Institute in New York. An 18 - year -old girl was brought to him. Me had !leen found wandering aimlessly about the streets in a seemingly dazed condition. The police were puzzled; so were the doctors at Bellevue Hospital Dr, Sidis put her through a severe psychological test. His suspicions were, aroused, Ije tried an unusual experi- ment by administering to her some can- nabis, or Indian hemp. In this relaxed condition which followed he plied the gill with, questions. Thrown off her guard by the subtle effects of the medi- cine, the girl confessed that the whole thing was a deception1 It had been done on a wager that she could fool the New York police. Her name was Lulu Schneider. ALL HE WANTED, The Grecian Winner of the Race From Marathon to Athens. He was a poor man, !nark you, who had to live most economically to live at all, They offered him 25,000 francs in gold -25,000 francs in a country where a stout laborer earns less than two francs a day. Ho refused it. To sustain the honor of Hellas was enough for Loues Spiridon, he said, and only asked that he be given a water privilege in his native town of Mourassi, that he be allowed every morning to fill his goatskins in Athens and drive his little team to his own little village and there sell such of the water as his own people might care to buy from him. The money? They net it aside for the physical training of the boys of the Loues' village. --James B. Connolly in "The Spirit of the Olympic Games," in The Outing Magazine for April, SAFEtY FOR CHILDREN. Baby's Own Tablets is the only medi- cine that gives the mother the guarantee of a government analyst that it contains no poisonous opiate and is absolutely safe. This is worth much to every mo- ther who cares for the future welfare of her child. The Tablets are good for the tenderest baby or for the well grown boy or girl, and cure the minor tree - hies that are inseparable from child- hood, Mrs. W. J. Macintosh, Clam Harbor, N. S., says: "I have used ! Baby's Own Tablets for constipation, ! vomiting and colds, and have found then= a splendid medicine. I give the i Tablets all the credit for the eplen- did health my little one now en- : joys" The wise mother will always Ikeep a box of these Tablets on hand. ist I or by They front The can be got Dr. Williom ams'uMgedi- It' sine Co., Brockville, Ont., at 25 cents a box. R • e=• THE DISCOVERER OF VACCINATION. Edward Jenner, immortalized as the one who introduced vaccination as a preventive of smallpox, was horn in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, in the year 1749. • After studying in London under the famous John Hunter, Jenner settled quietly down in Gloucestershire as a medical parctitioner, Iittlo dreaming of the everlasting fame that he was destined to inherit. l In establishing the discovery upon which his honors were to rest, Jenner' encountered tremenefbus difficulties. • The reports flying about the neigh- borhood to the effect teat the Gloucester- shire milkmaids that had had cowpox were immune to smallpox were looked upon as being little more than idle rumors, and when Jenner expressed him- self as having some confidence in them the gentry and small folks laughed at him. But the young physician was not to be laughed down. To the girl who said to him in an offhand wig one day when smallpox was mentioned: "I can't take that disease, for I have had cowpox," Jenner replied: "I will investigate." For twenty odd years he kept up ;his observations and experiments, working hard and talking but little, until finally, he became satisfied that his labors were not to be in vain. Jenner's faith in his discovery was 1 perfect—so perfect, in fact, that he vaccinated his own son upon three dif- ferent occasions. I In the meantime he published the results of his investigations, giving the I details of 23 cases of successful vaccina- tion. Going down to London, Jenner at- tempted to acquaint the profession with I the facts in his possession, but not a single medical man wanted anything to , do with this new-fangled discovery! For three months the humble country doctor remained in the great metropolis, ' biting his lips as the renowned city i physicians in turn Iaughed at and' cursed him= They swore that he was trying to "bestialize" his species by the introduc- tion into their system of diseased matter from the cow's udder. The pulpit thun- dered against the "Vaccination Man." i Some went so far as to say that vac- citrated children would become "ox -faced," that they would have "horns," and that the voice would be like the "bellowing of bulls!" Jenner went back to his quiet village! home nothing discouraged, feeling that ; vaccination was a truth, and that in spite of the ridicule and aspersion that were being heaped' upon it it would sooner or later win out and receive the confidence of whieli it was so worthy. Slowly but steadily the medical men began falling into line with the coon• try doctors idea, end some of them The Better Way The tissues of the throat are inflamed and irritated; you sough, and there is more irrita don -'more coughing. You take a cough mixture and it eases the irritation—for a while. You take SCOTT'S EMULSION and it cures the cold, That's what is necessary, It soothes the throat because it reduces the irritation ; cures the cold because it drives out the inflammation builds up the weakened tissues because It nourishes them back to their natural strength. That's how Scott's Emulsion deals with a `sore throat, a cough, a cold or bronchitis. WE'LL BEND YOU A SAMPLE FREE, SCOTT 4 DOWNS, O g, Ia `e THE POWER OF ATTENTION. When Exceptional It Results in Genius or in Great Accomplishments. The fact that the mind. of man is eas- ily distracted from any subject in con- templation accounts for the slowness of the development of most minds, and for the extreme slowness of the devultn,r•it of the human mind collectively. 'There are historical periods when general en- lightenment seems to have Advanced uy leaps and bounds; but when one takes cognizance of the tens of thousands of years that man has been at play in the Kindergarten of Creation, one is aware of the very gradual and deliberate char- acter of human progress as a whole; and this deliberateness of growth, and the remains of ignorance and superstition even in minds regarded as educated, come largely from the inability of Wien to keep their thoughts employed steadfastly on the various objects and problems of mat- ter, mind and life. The faculty of at- tention is strikingly lacking in the sav- age man; it increases as civilization in- creases, and is a large factor in tee advance of civilization and of culture. When the power of attention is excep- tional in the individual, he is set apart from his fellows; he is a genius in the business world, or perhaps a poet, artist, inventor, discoverer, philosopher, reform- er, statesman or conqueror. When the power of attention in a community has been stimulated by one attentive mind, or by a group of attentive minds, the world' passes through periods of great mental activity: great reforms take place; there is great material or intel- lectual advance; or there are revivals in letters and in the plastic arts. The supreme object of the teacher is to cultivate attention in his or her charges. When a child has learned how to pay attention, he has learned how to study and to learn. "Object lessons" are favorite devices for fixing attention. According to the orthodox theologies, re- ligion has been taught to mankind large- ly through object lessons, in the form sometimes of "progressive revelations"; and the systems of symbols in all reli- gions may be called simply devices for fixing the wandering attention of souls, for their sustenance and lasting bene- fit. We see, year in and year out, the coming and going of beliefs, customs; popular heroes or mere popular pets; best sellers among books; sports„ move- ments and fads of all kinds, which fig- ure prominently only as long as they are able to claim the attention of large groups or of the entire community. The whole system of business advertising, and the infinite number of publicity depart- ments—publicity as to all sorts of wares and all manner of causes—are nothing but means of securing attention; of spreading information and inducing ac- tion through suggestion. -- From an edi- torial in the April Century. were even mean enough to try to rob the doctor of the honor of his immortal discovery. Jenner lived to see vaccination prac- tised throughout the world; and at his funeral it was declared that he had been one of the world's greatest bonefaC- tors,--''ew York American. •.e. A Sultan's Big `War Drum. An interesting and unique 'War 511510 recently arrived at Itltartoum in the elrape of the late Sultan lanubio's great war u=rine, It is cut front it solid block of wood, and is intended to represent a buffalo, though perluaps, says the Wide World Magazine, the execution leaves acute✓ thing to the imaginatlon. The whole thing is over 10 feet long, 41.2 feet Incli aura 4 feet wide, and regulrei tight et teat man to carry it, Strange Stories of Dreams Some of the strangest stories in the annals of crime are those which te11 of the part dreams bave played in the dis- covery of criminals. One spring day in 1830 a far=e laborer, when passing a lonely mountain lake in i,ntherlandshrre, saw in the waters a dead body, which when rescued proved to be that of a well known peddler who bad myster- iously vanished about a month earlier. The body bore marks of violence, the pockets were empty, and it was clear that the por fellow had been brutally murdered and robbed —but by whole? That was it mystery which for many a week completely defied elucidation. One night, however, Kenneth Fraser, a tailor's assistant, saw in a dream the cottage of a man named ifugh Macleod, and heard a voice say in Gaelic. 'The peddler's pack is lying in a cairn of stones in a hole near this house: Ile told the story of his peculiar dream to the authorities, who accompanied him to Macleod's house; and there, sure enough, beneath a heap d'f stormier the murdered man's property was found. Macleod was arrested, confessed, and was executed. .Another very remarkable story is told of a tragedy in Ireland, One evening two strangers presented themselves at a wayside inn near Portland, and after tak- ing refreshment continued their tramp in the direction of Carrick-on•Suir. The incident was common place enough; but it led to startling developments, for in the wayfarers the landlady of the inn recognized two men of whom she had dreamed a very strange dream the night before. In cher dream she had seen one of them kill the other with a coward's blow from behind, rifle the pockets of the dead man, and stealthily bury him beneath a hedge. So impressed was her husband when this dream was told that he made his way to the spot indicated and there discovered the body of the buried elan., The assassin was pursued and arrested, and at the ensuing assizes was sentenced to death. There has seldom been a more myster- ious crime than the murder of Mr. Stock - dem, a London victualler, a great many yearstago; and the mystery would have remained unsolved to this day had it not been for the intervention of Mrs. Greenwood, who came forward with the statement that the murdered man had appeared to her in a dream and conduct- ed her to a house' in Thames street, where one of his ,assassins was to be found; while in another dream Stock - den appeared and showed her the like- ness of the man. On the strength of>this dream clue the man indicated was ar- rested, and not only confessed his guilt, but betrayed his accomplices—three cri- minals being brought to the scaffold as the result of these visions of the night. Some years ago .a. Mrs. Rutherford dreamed that her aged relative, Lady Leslie, was about to be murdered by a man whom she clearly saw. She imme- diately set.out on a visit to Lady Les- lie and asked permission to sleep in the lady's room. In the middle of the night Mrs. Rutherford heard some one trying to open .tbe bedroom door. She raised an alarm and flung open the door, when Lady Leslie's two sons rushed out and in a moment had seized the man of the,dream. The following story Is ,perhaps, the strangest of all. One night tbo Roy. Herbert Powys, a Church of England clergyman, dreamed that the daughter of one ,of his pnrishoners had gone out into the darkness to meet her lover, who, at the time was waiting for her in a secluded spot and spending the time in digging,, grave for her. Jumping out of bed Mr. Powys rushed to the place indicated in his dream and arrived there just as the man had hurled ,;.rho Igirl to the ground by the side of the open grave and was about to kill ,ler with his spade. —Froin Tit -Bits. COMES NOW A ROCI{OPHONE. u Musical Instrument Which is Likely to Be Long a Curiosity, Geographical Posers. 1,'f How much did Philadelphia Pa? Whose grass did K. C. Mo? How many eggs could New Orleans La? How much does Cleveland 0? What was Watshitngtoane nh1) Chicago She would Tacoma Wash, in spite Of a Baltimore Md. When Hertford and New /Raven Conn, What Reuben do they soak? Could Noah he had oulGuthr eOk?ld a Lttle dock Ark We call Mdnnaiapolle Minn. Why not Annapolis Ann? • If you can't tell the reason why, . ' I'll bet Topeka Ilan. • Bet, now you speak Of ladles, what 1 A Butte Motrtan°. is, If I could borrow, Memphis, wenn. , I I'd treat that Jackson, Miss, Would Denver Colo Cop because ' Ottumwa Ia dere, An1l, tbo' my Portland Me doth love, I threw my Portland, Ore? —LtppInoott'a Magazine, About seventeen years ago Alonzo R. Gilman of South Berkwick, Me., while driving in New York with his wifo was passing a atone wall. Ile stopped, got out and tested the tones of several rocks by tapping thein with his penknife. He later confided to bis wife an idea that had been suggesting itself to him for a long time. He wished to collect thirteen rocks of the right tones to make a scale of one octave, semitones included. He could play upon then with mallets, he thought, like a xylophone, . Since then his spare time has been spent in 'searching stone walls and heaps, i•Ie has carried stones miles which out- doors gave as sweet and correct tones as could be amagined, but which were uesless when placed beside the others of the instrument, the difference in tone being caused by the confining walls or the aid of a wind or clear atmosphere outdoors. The result of days of searching, test- ing, carting and clipping now lies in the "rockophone room" of Mr. Gilman's home on Youngs street, the only rockophone in this country and probably in the world. Fifty-two rocks or four octaves, aro placed in a ease resembling a square pi- ano case in height and shape about 12 feet long and 3% feet wide, .Tho rocke vary in size from six Welles to three feet, the general shape is oblong, tlio average thickness about an inch. Mr. Gilman and his sons, aged 10 and 11 respectively, stand at the instrument and play upon it with mallets. The heads of these are Iignum vitae or boxwood, 'one edge tipped with rubber for pian- ' issimo effects. The tone of the rocko- phone is unlike that of any other in - 1 atrument; there is not the metallic ring !of the metalophone nor the hollow sound iof the•woodon xylophone. There is a rip- pling natural tone quality that first as- tonishes the !tearer end then becomes very pleasing to the ear. It has been recently tested by a professional tuner end declared to be in perfect tune. After It being especially arranged by Mr. Gilman any inutile in any key eau be played up- on it. Mr. Gilman still devotes his epare time to the perfecting 'of his unique in- strument, adding to and changing the rocks.• --Boston Transcript. Too Swift for the Eggs. A4tatrese,-•Well, why don't you boll the egg's" Cook -Sure, I've no clock in the lattohen to no by. Mlstres•l-Why, Yee, Ilrlionsh there's it elnek in the lrttenen. !'sok-.'1h .at food b ut? It's tin niluntt4 fn -a, New Ideas About Farming. (Minneapolis Journal.) Nothing eau oonarlbute more to the ad vorsocunent of agriculture than the eradiot- tlon of the trld, stupid notion that fanning Is mere physteal drudgery and to be displeed and the inculcation of the truth that farm- ing is a steatite pursuit entitled to as much respect as any other occupation when there le devoted to it the amount of scientific knowledge and, Intelligent judgment and discrimination to which the business le en- titled. To the extent that the farmer boy and the farmer girl of Minnesota learn to look With pride upon this oCotrpabu0n In that degree is the ,business of'farming benefited and success assured. One Privilege of the Rich, "What would you do it you were riot?" asked the Meer York man. "Well," replied the Man teem Chtcage. "I M'.pose the first thing I 'wont& db mould bo to have dinner at aupgicx clan% like all the test of the rich ;Mika" rr"HI cost of living is an important thing in almost homes. You may have- to figure Close!' lr in these matters. A little extra an a barrel of flour may look hig to you, But there is a differ. ence between spending money wisely and spend,. ing it foolishly. Some -times it is ccono' my to spend instead oft() save, It is in the case of Royal Household Flour,. Those few extra cents a week, that give you Royal Household Elour in preference to inferior flour, buy health, Nothing contributes so much to the food you eat as flour, and therefore nothing should be more carefully bought, Ogilvie's Royal Household Flour is the whitest, cleanest and most nutritious flour that's milled. It is the only flour that is absolutely pure. Ask your grocer. Ogilvie Flour Mills Co., Ltd. Montreal. "Ogilvie's l=ook for a Cook," contains 530 pages of excellent recipes some never published be• fore. recipes, can tell you how to get it FREE. 40,000 for a Chair Fortunes That are Sat On "411 iis 3aIn 4 +int4edd:g,o4nI7dndIcedd at, while the Prince of Wales is making his regal progress through one great Brit- ish dependency, in another, Canada, a city of Ontario is wildly excited at the prospect of securing a certain chair in which King Edward sat during his Aire erioan tour a generation or more ago. Nowhere has the King been received with more enthusiastic loyalty than in Canada, and that this loyalty is as last- ing as intense is proved by the fact that enormous sums have been offered for this old-time memento. It is interesting to compare the £1,- 000 which is said to have been offered for this chair, intrinsically worth a few shillings, with the prices realized by other chairs which halve had Royal or distinguished occupants. It is not long sinee two £5 notes purchased a chair in which the "Merry Monarch" used to sit; while another which once held a Pope went for £5 10s. Even a chair in which the great Shakespeare himself took his ease could command no higher bid than £126; Lord Byron's chair ' changed hands for 50s.; and £2 was the ; price paid for one of Sir Walter nal - , sigh's, A chair which a1 one time was used by the beautiful and ill-fated Anne Bo- Ile3 brought ten guineas, which was 50s. less than was paid for one of Bul- w•er-Lytton's; Gay's favorite chair was i knocked down for £30, Theodore Hook's for £19, Mrs. Siddons' for £7, and Mre. Browning's for a £5 note; while £3 10s. purchased a. chair of Thackeray's and the same pride was realized for ono of Walter Savage Lan•der's. ISuch prices are trivial indeed com- pared with the £40,000 paid ,far a won- derful chair presented more than three centuries ago to the Emperor Rudolph II, of Germany. The material of which it is Wade is steel, and it is covered with Biblical scenes .executed with the most wonderful delicacy and akill. On its back is a representation of Nebu- chadnezzar's dream; while on another compartment is an exquisite engraving of Daniel explaining his dream to the King. For thirty long years one of the greatest of sixteenth-eentu"ry artists labored on :this chair --a fact which goes far to explain the •enormous sum paid for it, In later years it was sold to Gustavus Brander for 1,800 guineas, and for a third of this sum it came into the hands of the Earl of Radnor. Enormous prices have been paid for chairs in recent years, notably £20,000 for set of half -a -dozen Louis XIV. chairs, upholstered in Gebelin tapestry, which were originally made for Marie Antoinette. Even this price, by the way, was exceeded by the sum paid for three of the Hamilton Palace tables, one of which. fetched £6,000; another, a Louis Quinze, £5,500; and a third, of ebony with wreaths of ormolu, £3,200. One secretaire went for 9.000 guin=eas, and another was knocked down for £4,- 620. Front sucit prices as these there is a great drop to the £320 paid to a ibirmingbam firm by an Indian rajah for a gorgeous chair of out crystal with it crystal dome fitted with electric lighAts. most valuable end historically in- teresting suite of furniture is that which, more than a century ago, was presented by Warren Hastings to Tip - poo Sahib, and which was purchased at at Londesborough gale for 1,000 vet- oes. In the house at Commons at Getitionan to Know. (9baxiiko 1r,attblicem.) George Ste1?a wits au pbstsnnt taller' at the lieeubltcan office this ' esit, lie is the e'en - tel attesdaat et that Palatal e?aLotn, and wilt tit alt times administer I•s your vrants In his bere/Sy, ;Await; eMilt. Gert aex;r!.ulnteod with Georite, e. r4 you'll ttt1 him aK convivial, ne geetnlortestti gentleman. .e,•.,,,el.ar Westminster, we must not forget, are two arm -chairs which once belonged to thelate litr, Gladstone, and one of which was his favorite seat when at Downing street.—Tit-Bits. Scraping the Surface. "Don't merely serape the surface of your business chances. Probe them Then take your coat off and dig." This is the advice or 'an exchange devoted tt publicity. If you do not advertise --if you trust to the drawing power of the sign over your front door for new cur torners—if you bury the good things Is your stock in obscurity, you are meretla. "scraping the surface." But to get the new trade that can be had by going of ter it you don't have to take your coal off. The newspaper will do the digging for you. Put your hand to the advert=e ing lever and set the steam shovel to work. e - A SPRING TONIC. Weak. Tired and Deyresse+d Peopiie Need a T antic at This Season to • Put the Blood Bight. Spring blood is bad blood. Inclose life during the winter months is re• sponsible for weak, watery, impure blood. You need a tonic to build ui the blood in the spring just as mucl as a tree needs new sap to give 3.1 vitality for the summer, in the spring the bad blood shows itself it many ways. In some it breeds pins pies and eruptions. In other° it ma; be through occasional headaches, r variable appetite, perhaps twinges of neuralgia, or rheumatism, or a 1553 feeling in the morning and a desire to avoid exertion, For these spris ailments it is a tonic you need, an the greatest blood -making, health giving toric in ail the world is Dr Williams' Pink Pills. Every dose helps to make new, rich, red, health giving blood, which reaches every nerve and every organ in the body bringing health, strength and .energ3 to weak, despondent, ailing men ase women. Here is proof: Mrs. Charles Blackburn, Aylesford Station, N. S. says: "i"or the past ten years Dr Williams' Pink Pills is the only medic cine I have taken when I found i needed it medicine. Last spring I wa feeling poorly, was weak, easily t=ree and depressed. I got three boxes ane they made me feel like a new person These pills are the best medicine 1 know of when the blood Is out od or der." Thousands of people not actually sick need a'tonic in the spring, ata to all these it box or two of Dr. Wil hams' Pink Pills will bring new en orgy and new strength. To those who may be more seriously piling, whe are suffering from any of the alt ments due to bad blood—a fair treat ment with these pills will bring nets health end vitality. You can get these pills from any medicine doalei or by mail from the Dr. William* Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont., at 6( tenth a box, or six boxes for .$2.50. As Good Now as Then. At Chrl:tie's great auction rooms in Loo don one day last week there was sold tb autographic order issued by Nekton to eap talus of his fleet lust ,previous to the batt% of Trafalgar. The concluding sentence 0 this historic message is worth the *ale cost. It says: "in ease signals can netthe be seen nor perfectly understood no captalt can do very wrong it he places his shit alongside that of an enemy." Could then be any better gospel for hum.aa aetivlte that c 1s here expressed? No one can make a mis take who confronts his enemy tace to tate It is as applicable in morals as in marttitn warfare. It is as pertinent to the man o business es to the elan of the sword. W.e Y.Att t,,ate :.tyti,.y;rciy�[. +,�a -441 rr a,f i•.;:.. 11111141 0109 11e OWtt The Urgent Stook rood Factory In the AMI; It covers over a eltyblock, Contains over IS acres of floor epee*, rest Sse0,c00, Size of our office 360X129 300 °Flee people, 130 typegrftere and we use fifty Million letter beads and envelopes every year, .A: or - load every 30 days. Our cheminat laboratory le out of the best. Out Office is one of the great eights of the business world. Many very small concerns advertise large buildings. We invite you to visit ant factory and see that we have everything we!enote. atenufactured and tluer,mcad by leternattonal Steck Pref ti. " Were/alma! Meek reed" "tnleratlload touitr!eet" "iateraatiessi newts Cure'" "listernatioaal Warm feeder'' "laternatisnal Gel Care" rr "Sifter Plea !leaflet Olt'" "Miens/Obeid Cemented neatest" "laipraatiata! 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