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Doings and Sayings in
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goon fell lido go deep sleep, 1rad the next
inerning felt increased vitalisation."
A report of the hust relief ship's voy-
age to Tristan de,b(lunint, the lonely is-
land in the South Atlantic, was issued
on Thursday. The problems of the lit-
tle community of eeventy-eight sands,
lost to the world for menthe together in
every year, are set, out by the Rev, J.
G. Barrow, the clergyman in charge.
Tristad de Cunha was diseoverea in
1500 by the Portuguese. In 1817 a 13rit-
ish gerrison was pitteea there, but I th-
drawn In 1821. A Corporal Glass re-
mained, and, with a few storm -driven
whaling men, founded the present com-
munity.
Cattle (boas° and potato crop fallnre
necessitated the sending of relief, which
arrived at the island in kasbruary of this
year. The islenders were then offered
free transit to Cape Town, Mr, Barrow
summoned a meeting of all the inhabit-
ants and urged the advantages of emi.
gration. All refused to move.
There ere pine surnames only Among
the seventy-eaght islanders. The popule-
lation is divided into widows end spin-
sters, quaintly called the "Old Rands,"
of whom there are eight, ranging in
age froni fifty-five to aeventy-eight;
merried adults, twenty; unmarried ad-
ults (five. men and four women); boys,
twenty.three; and girls, eighteen.
The maTriage problem is the islanders'
gra.veat difficulty. "If the people are to
marry they must inter -marry not only
to a wrongftil but to a dangerous degree.
I consider the later -marrying danger
much nearer than the Unger of etarvas
tion, though anyone living here must
expect privation as a matter of course,
as they expect wind or rain." Mr. Bar-
row is taelding the education problem
by elementary teaching, the "three Pes"
and Bible teaching comprising the syllas
hue.
ROYAL BA PT I SM.
In. the parish church of Esher on Wed.
nesday- afternoon the infant son of
Prince and Princess Alexander of Teck
was christened. The residents of the
village had received a general invitation
to attend, and the church was crowded,
while spectators lined the road from
Claremont Palace. '
The ceremony was performed by the
Bishop of Winehester, assisted by the
'rector and curate of Esher, and the in -
Rant Prince received tae name of Rupert
Alexander George Augustus.
The royal babe wore the tulle veil
worn by his grandmother at her wed-
ding, by his mother at her christening,
and confirmation, and et her christening
by his little sister, Princess May, last
year.
PENSIONS FOR ALL.
"Five shillings per week for all al
sixty-five."
This is the demand of the Labor Party,
which next week starts its greatest
campaign. In barely twelve weeks before
Christmes 600 meetings are to be held
in different parts of the country.
'Tbe two „main planks in our pro-
grainrne," said Mr. Ramsay Macdonald to
an Over -Seas Daily Mail representetive,
ware an Unemployed Bill and Old -Age
Peusions. About 2,120,000 people in this
country are over sixty-five; quite 500,000
!would never elaim at all.
"Here is our scheme in a nutshell. The
proposel is to pay 1,750,000 persons £13
-per annum. To do this we require a lit-
tle over Z20,000,000.. in 1896-7 the In-
land Revenue dealt with incomes assess-
ed ae Z705,000,000. By 1905-6 this sum
had grown to £025.000,000. Probably
half the increase of 4220,000,000 is what
might be called unearned income, such
as mining rents and royalties, ground
eenti, and the like. On all these I hold
• that there should be a super -tax.
CHAPLAIN TELLS HOW IT FEELS
TO DIE.
A remarkable story has been told to
an Over -Seas Daily Mail representative
by Mr. James Kane, who for thirty
years, was a chaplain in the United
States navy, from which he only recently
retired. Mr. Kane is well known in Lon-
. don.
"I have bean no fewer than eight times
:at the point of death," said Mr. Kane,
wand on three occasions I was pronounc-
ed dead by phyeicians. On one of those
•occasions I rested in my coffin for 24
hours.
"During the third year of the Ameri-
can civil war I wee attached as an ex-
ecutive offiecr to a gunboat of the west
gelf blockading squadron, which was un-
der the command of the late Admiral
Farragat. Yellow fever WEIS virulent,
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TELEPHONE .FEAT.
A remarkable feat in telephonic' engi-
neering was accomplished. by the Na.
tional Telephone Company at their Ger.
reel street exehange on Saturday after.
ueon. •
In the spate. of nine miuntes the 12,000
witee communieating with the exehange,
ineluding those connect it with all
the other exchangee in the metropolitan
area were -transferred to a new build-
ing.
'A few figures indieete what the change
meant:
12,000 circuits were broken and con-
nected,
6,000 subscriber:3 were affected.
20,000 telephones of subscribers were
out of gear for nine minutes.
18,000 wedges were knocked out to
lnako the connections.
100 men were engaged ou the 18,000
wedges.
100 girla began work
switchboard.
It is now possible for artists and all-
thors to insure their work against fail-
ure. Under policies now obtainable in-
surances can be ef-fected by
authore-That his latest book will
sell to a given number of copies.
A playwright.- -That his drama will
not be taken off the stage through fail-
ure before a stipulated number of per-
formances.
A painters -That his canyeet will be
accepted by the Paris Salon or the Royal
Academy, or will be sold within a time
agreed upon.
A composee-That his song will be a
success,
A golfer. --That he will be relieved of
financial responsibility if he hits or in-
jures his caddie.
Of course, the author, artist of play-
wright would have to be of established
reputation.
GYROSCOPE TRAIN.
Mr. Louis Brennan, the inventor of the
wonderful meno-rail gyroscope carriage,
has just been granted £6,000 by the In-
dian Govermnent towards the cost of his
experiments in connection with the de-
sign of the full-sized mono -rail vehicle
which he is building for that Govern-
ment.
The War Office, which is greatly in-
terested in the invention from the
military point of view, is also assisting
Mr. Brennan in conneetion with the ex-
periments by giving him the use of the
Brennan torpedo factory.
The performance of Mr. Brennan's
model is being watched with interest by
the Australian Government, and at a
demonstration on Wednesday at. Gilling-
ham several representatives from the
Cape Government railways were present.
FUNERAL WITHOUT MOURNING.
on the . new
Much interest was aroused at Brighton
on Monday by a funeral cortege from
which all the usual signs of mourning
were absent.
The coffin was covered with the Amer-
ican flig, tbe horses were brown, the
coachman wore ordinary livery, with a
cockade in his hat, and knee breeches.
The Mourners followed in open- landaus,
dressed in ordinary attire, tied with no
signs of mourning.
The funeral was that of the wife of
Colonel Gouraud, an American gentle-
man, who wore a dark, -wide-brimmed
hat of Buffalo Rill type. Inetructions
had been given to the undertaker to eon.
ceal all appearance of mourning.
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BROKEN HEARTS' ANNIVERSARY.
Many are the schemes that General
Booth has brought formed for the re-
lief of human suffering, and few of
them have failed.
The latest is one that will appeal to
even a wider circle than auy he has yet
put forward.
It is the cure of the broken heart.
For the moment the headed the Salva-
tion Army speaks of it as a soheme for
the .establishment of a "University of
Humanity."
He put forward this last of his enter-
prises at St. John (New Brunswick),
where he was addressing a meeting of the
Canadian Club.
There were colleges of all kinds in exis-
tence for the.higher clasees, let he want-
ed a university for inen and women to
deal with broken hearts and to teech
people how to reclaim the criminal and
the drunkard, and to rescue the children
of the daughters of shame and all miser-
able creaturee of the humao race.
The scheme would require a large am-
ount of money, but he trusted that' the
and ultimately I contracted the dis. milhoneiree would. cpme and sey, "Pen-
eral, you'e3ball have it."
OilMo Only a brief resume of what the °Un -
"I struggled hard against the disease, iversity ought to be and. do was furn-
which was deeply rooted in the system.
I gradually grew worse, and began to
evelcome the approach of death.
"All this thne I was perfectly con.
'scions, and as the body grew weaker the
mental powers grow stronger. I recog-
nized the peculiar distinction between
tha soul and the body, and made the
startling discovery that I was possessed
of wonderful faculties belonging to the
Soul, vehich were gradually developing as
the separation from the body was tick -
Mg place.
"Weaker, oeld yet still weaker I grew;
my breathing became difficult; pulsatiot
admoet ceased. Without losing conscious -
:twee I at last passed through the final
stage. In an instant the spirit was freed
and I stood beside my body, pronounced
dead by the doctors and nurses. 'All is
over; he is gone,' said they, as they eloss
ed. my eees.
"I elaim that the act ef dying is one
of the moat delightful and exciting epi.
sodee of my life, filled with pleasurable
emotions, not only at the thought of
Meeting long -parted friends, but the in -
hilted. But, as usually happens when
General Booth outlines a scheme, the re.
stune was comprehensive in its retails.
' It should have two head institutions,
be said, one on either side of the Atlentic
with. affiliated eolleges in every land
where students would be taught how to
alleviate the miseries of the people.
326: for malicious damage, 1,947 for of-
fencee against the poor lam, and. 2,370
for beggiug and eloping. oat.
"Juvenile delinquency as decrea4ing
year by year," adds the report. "Puy-
ing the hist ten years the ammo shown
lute Wen marvellouie"
" EDINBURGH EXHIBITION.
Arraneemeuts ere so far adeaueed Iti
connection with the exhibition to be open-
ed lalinburg aley next that the
eutting of the tiret turf will take place
very seortlee it is the mot extenaive
dertaising of its kind yet attemptea
north. of the Twee(1. Saughtou Park, the
tato of the eelabitime ie well adapted
for the purpose. The eetate; ear -
1'4 about Day Imes, Wag purehaeed in
1880 by the cite, at a mat of £52,900,
and it affords' luore than double 00
space devoted to the exhibition of 1830.
More than £13,000 hes been Set aside
for male and amuseinente.
On the commercial .side the industrial
hali plannea to contain 100,000 square
feet of -floor sputa, compered with 00,000
in the oorresponding buildie,g at the Dub-
lin exhibition. Applicatioue ere coming
from all parts of the world for floor
space, ano already there are intlications
that the demand will exceed. tao sepply.
DEGREE FOR EX -BLACKSMITH:
A distinguielted Unitaritte divine, and a,
notea New York preacher, the .1tev, Rob-
ert Collyer, who commenced life as a
biteckanuth, had the degree of Doctoi
of Letters conferred upon hint on 'Aura -
day at Leeds University. Dr. lee. Boa.-
ington, the Vice-Chancelor, performed
the ceremony.
"BRAVO, ANGLAISI"
Walking With his wife on the banks of
the Aar, near Thun, on Sunday, Captain
H. 0. ifolma,n, D. S. 0., Milian Army,
saw an excited crpwil 'vetch a Swiss
drowning in the 'rapids of the swollen
river. No one de.red go to the rescue.
Captain Holman immediately • sprang
in, reached the drowning man; and after
a long struggle, which at times seemed
likely to end in the death of both, land.
ed the Swiss find climbed ashore himself
in an exhausted atate. He refused his
name to those who questiouee him, but
the crowd cheered and shouted, "Bravo,
Anglais!"
This is the first rescue at this danger-
ous part of the Aar, those who have fell -
en in before being drowned.
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THE SPINSTERS' EXODUS.
The exodus of spiusiters from the Old
Country to Canada or North Ametica.
continues at an unparalleled rate.
The Cedric, which left for the United
Stetes on Thursday, took over 600, while
the load on the Cmyric, which left the
Mersey the day before, bound for the
same destination, was almost as large.
This, is in addition to the thousand
which left Liverpool last week, -besides
several hunereds for Canada.
Some of the emigranta are going out
to be married, while others are going out
to friends or to domestic service,
THE KING'S DIAMOND.
I learn, telegraphs our Pietermaritz-
burg cerrespondent, that there is a pro-
bability that the portions of the Cullinan
diamond removed in cutting it for pre-
sentation by the Transvaal to the King
may be used to make a necklece for the
Queen.
The diamond is 3,032 carats encuteand
it is said that one of the cut portions
will be almost as large as the Koh-i-
noor, in its cut form 108 carats.
ALLCONQIJERING TEA.
In 1906-7 the total exports of Indian
tem a.mounted to 23t3,7e1,623 pounds, an
increase of more than 178,000,000 pounds
over the previous year. Of this amount
the United Kingdom took 176,343,075
pounds, or 75 1-2 per cont. of the total,
but over 12 per cent of the exports to
the United Kingdom are re-exported to
Europe and Atneritee' eel
Throughout the last five years the
percentage of the Indian ten crop sent
to the -United Kingdom has steadily
diminished, while the direct export to
other ..countries have increased in the
same proportion.
,FINE STAG SHQT BY THE KING.
The King went out deer -stalking on
Thursday, and succeeded in brinzerez
down a fine "royal" weighing 22st., one
of the largest stags ever shot in. the
13almoral Forest. •
About forty stegs have been shot since
the arrival of the Prinee of Wales on
Sept. 7, when deer-stalkiog commeneed,
SMALLER JAIL POPULATION.
Crime is decreasing in the United King-
dom. This highly gratifying state of
affair is strikingly proved by the itnnual
repert of the Prlsons Commissioners,
published on Thursday.
The number of persons received into
crease of knowledge and freedom front local prism.: during the year ending
earthly elements. 'When I awoke, a eol- March 31 Iast was 18,044 fewer than
ored preacher, who was very much at- the previous year.
tailed to me and who was weeping at There ha,a been a further deereaat of
my bedside, said: 'Thank God, you are OM cases for drunkenness, 682 for
once more alive,' and there was rejoic. breach of pollee reguletions and local hy-
ing at my restoration. My vision haunt- laws, 588 for assault, 1,572 for larceny,
ed I mourned over my return. I 078 for offences against Highway Acts,
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Rickets.
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Simply the visible sign that baby's tiny bones ID,
.are not forming rapidly enough.
Lack of nourishment is the cause.
Scott'a Ernattion nourishes baby's
entire system. Stimulates and makes bone.
Exactly what baby needs.
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RESTLESS BABIES.
If your little one is restless and cross
it is more than likely the trouble is dne
to some derangement of the stomach or
bowels, and, if Baby's Own Tablets is
given the child will soon be bright and
cheerful, arid when the mother gives her
child .this medicine she has the guttean.
tee of the Government analyst that it
contains no opiate or p,oisonous drug.
Mrs. J. F. Loney, Allanford, Ont., says:
"I Wye used Baby's Own Tablets for
constipation and other ailments of chil-
dren and have found them more satis-
fuctory than any allele form of meda
eine." Sold by medicine dealers or by
mail at 25c a box from the Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Broekville, Ont.
THE RIVER OF GOD.
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The Church Abroad.
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The .eollectioae for the orphans.' Mimes
eondtwted by the tlerman liapttsts of
Now York amounted to over $12.000 for
the past year.
Tile W0111403 Home Missionary Sot+
et,y of the Iowa, Methodist Church rais-
ed. $12,880 amoug its 2,36e members for
work during the past year.
The mluisters of Richmond. Vas, are
organizing to fight before the Legislae
tote for the raising of the age limit in
the Child Leber law from 12 to 14 years.
The Baptist State Commission has
chosen Lawton, Okla., as the .sato far tlie •
new Baptist University, the city offering
to furnish 40 acree of land and $75,000
in cash. z
The oldest church, in continuous exist-
ence west of the Allegheue Mountains,
the German Evangelietti Protestant
Church, of Pittsburg, is celebrating. its
125th anniversery.
Nearly $200,000 is s:dd to have been
pledgea toward the great Bible school
which it is proposea to establish in At-
lanta, an endowmeut of $250,000 being
sought,
There are an meny pastorlees churches
in the Northwest Iowa Methodist Con-
ference that the matter has become a
serious one, the attraetione of the Dako-
tas, Colorado, Washington and even
Canade having taken away the minis-
ters.
The Methodists of Seattle hey° ereet.
ed a large tabernacle for the great revi-
val services now in progress, and will
present the structure to the city for a,
market -house when ne longer needed by
the church.
campaign for members on the part
of 14 Sunday schools of the Christian
denomination in Indianapolis was start-
ed with a procession of over 4,000 child-
ren klowed by a rally that was the
fire't of many which will be held during
the next three months.
An attempt is to be made in the Cen-
tral Ohio Methodist Conference meeting
at Toroeto, Septembee 25th, to make the
five-year-old rule Afective for pa-stors
again, it being held. by inany that the
removal of the limit for pastorates has
in the main been detriMental.
At the communion serviee which
marked the bi-centennial of the Narra-
gansett Episcopal Church, Wickford,
R. I., the silver service presented to the
0hurch by Queen Anne during the pas-
torate of the first rector was used.
Five members of the Catholic Mission
Order of the White Fathers have been
sent from Quebec to Africa, gojng first
to the novitiate. near Algiers, where
they will study, the African dialects pre-
vious to taking up work in the mission
field.
Modeled after n' Greek temple of the
Ionian period., the Chriatian Temple, ef
Baltimore, is ready for dedicatione and
at the !ceremony there will be peeaent
the .011hiese ;Sunday school aed-100- stua-
ents, robed in cap and gowu, from the
seminary conneeted with the chalet.
• The China Inland Miesion of England
Has sent out 22 missionaries during Sep-
tember. .
Commissioner Reoth Tucker is 4bout
to return to India to resume his Salva-
tion Army work.
• The Church of England Waifs and
Strays Society has been given a fine site
for a home at Caerleon, England, by the
Viscount Tredeenr.
• The British and. Foreign -Bible Society
has now printed either the whole or part
of the Bible - in, 409 different languages
and dialecta.
It is proposed to place on Cardinal
Manning's tomb in Westminster Cathe-
dral a handsome effigy in bronze rem*
eenting him as nu archbislion. -
Out of 3,348 Wesleyan Methodist min-
isters in Great Britain, Ireland and the
colonies, 325 hold degrees- from various
colleges and universities.
The Loudon congegation of the Mora-
vian Chureh has decided to extend -its
work an& spend at least $25,000 on new
buildings in the northern part of the
city.
The great cathearal at Cologne, . al-
though completed but a few years ago,
has so deteriorated from factory smoke
that the body of the church will have
to be renovated throughout. .
A fine memorial tablet to Rev. T. H.
Le Boeuf is to be placed in the old
Benedictine Abbey at Crowland, England,
it being due to his untiring efforts that
the mediaeval structure has been saved.
British 'Unitarianism is taking on a
new activity, four large. „vans having
been sent on -tour, besides which a large
theatre Juts' been ea -cured in London for
Sunday evening services, starting next,
month.
The Greek theological college at the
Halki is about to receive its first Eng-
lish pupil. so that Greek divinity rimy be
studied first hand, the Ecumenical Patri-
arch at Constantinople having given per-
mission.
The Bishop of Loneon, deepite all his
other duties, finds time to nut in ono
day eaeh week on the golf linke, plays
tennis for an hour each day and gener-
ally walks (mite a. distance each clay
wheh in London.
The river of Goa is full °twitter, slaver
empty. The river of God is full of water,
never bursting ita banks and carrying
devastation.in its mad rush to the ocean,
Itia full, suggestiug peace, plenty, fer.
tility, and permanence, aud just as the
river is full of water, so the heart of
the believer is filled with the fullness of
Him thee /Meth all in all. We aro filled
with every, spiritual bleosing. in the hea-
yenle, places in 'Oldest: '
It is for the want of thought and it
more extended surveyof the 'fullness"
that meu are no ill' equipped for the
stern duties of life, How many think
they have some religion, that they have
been saved on the instalment plan, a lit-
tle now, more to -morrow, the fullnese
very far away.' These are ill inatructed
souls. They neither know themselvea,
nor God, hence thole halting progress in
the path of life. Take this es a sure
foundetioo for all time and all eternity,
Man is one and indivisible. God is one
and indivisible. God cannot. come to a
part of a man. Man cannot receive a
peat of God. It is now or never. A full
Christ for a whole man. It is impossible
to sing a song of "degrees." To be half -
born is not life, but death, a double
death, the death of the mother' and of
the child. In the justifying righteous-
ness of the Gospel there are no degrees.
The stubborti sinner is eondenmed al-
ready, because he will not believe, the
believer is freely forgiven, -and ahall not
come into condemn:aims but is passed
from death unto life. A full Christ for
a whole soul is the fullnese and fatness
of the GospeL 11., T. Miller.
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generetiona the foremoat centre of train.
ing for the Noneonformise bee
been purchased by Canon Fox Lambert
and turned over to the Church of Eng -
end for theologwal purposes. egefe.",
The Salvation Army emigration de- tie)
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pertinent has in twelve months sent over
15,U00 persons to Canada from Englund, DOMINION DEPARTMENT
and hopes before cold weather bets in 1
mend out 2,000 women and children,
he families of meu already well settled.
Determined that Ids church shall be
oept scrupulously clean and independent
the attendant. the vicar of St, CM.
nen'S Episcopal Church at Fulham, Eng -
and, has formed the Guild of Church
Cleaners, certain duties being allotted to
each member in caring for the fabric and
fittings of the church.
Until recently Belachislaue outside of
1.1.etta, was practically elosed to nmenon-
tries, but the British elovermnent has
now permitted the Medical Mission to
liter Kelat State, a country nearly as.
large as England, inhaletea by several
!mitred thousand Beluchis, Brahuis,
Kurds and Pathans.
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Telephone and Telegraph Poles.
Recent estimates give 800,000 miles If
telephone and telegraph pole line in the
United States. At au average of forty
poles to the mile there are 32,000,000 in
use, and,assuming that the life of a polo
is twelve years, there are needed eaeh
year 1110re than 2,050e100 poles. --Wood-
craft.
The Dritiah Rine Book confabs the
criminal etatistiee relating to Vele:rat
for the yeav 1006. It :atom; that indict-
able offeneem for the ehole Of Ireland,
which had them from 9,017 in 1004 to
0,728 in. 1905, thellued to 0405 in the
year INC
A FISHERMAN'S LUCK.
Weak, Worn and Almost in Despair
When Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Came
to His Rescue.
A church tor children under 12 years
of age has been formed at Christ Church,
Blackburn, England, to be offieered en-
tirely by boys, have two services each
Sundity and be maintained by monthly
collectiOns..
One of the most important but prob.
Ably the least known of the societies in
connection with the ehurch of England
is the Central Society of Sacred Study,
which had its annual conference in Lon-
don on Sept. 26.
Over $20,000 is to be spent at once to
insure the future safety of St. Paul's
Cathedral in London, one of the devices
being an automatic recorder, which will
register the slightest movemeht of tho
building.
A beautiful Cleltic cross, 20 feet high,
has been everted at 'llengihoure Pay of
Islands, where 03 years ago Samuel
Marsden, "the apoittle of New Zealand,"
landed to hold the firet Christian service
in that seetion.
' An ordinary tailwity teach has been
refitted for a mission chapel and is noW
used regularly et Dunsiand 'Cross, a new
railrona centre that is too young to heve
elmrelt as yet, for width reason the
railway compluly gave the passenger
coach.
Cheshunt College, in England, for butny
eath very
"My strength 'WM almost gone, my
short and I could hardly
walk, I used many rentediesh, but thew
ail not help me. Finally a friend ad -
Nisei( me to take Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills. I did so and to -day, thanks to
the pills, I am a perfectly well nem."
Thie very emphatic statement is made
by Mr. IL L. Porter, of Maitland, N. S.
Mr. Porter is a fisherman, subject to
mueh exposure. He further says: "I
was in a state of debility and bloodless-
ness. Sometimes I could attend to my
work but often was too weak and miser.
able to do so. I was wakeful end rest-
less at night and could not eat en the
morning. I was troubled with pains in
my back and shoulders, sometimes I
could hardly stragiliten up. Then- indi-
gestion came to ead to my misery, ana
my eondition was one that made me al-
most ltopeleas. 1 tried several medi-
eires-but in vain, Then 0110 day a
friend said why don't you try Dr.
liame' Pink Pills? I tried them and I
shall ahvays be grateful for them. In
a abort time I began to regain my
heulth. I could eat bettee and could
eat any kind of food. My strength re-
turned. I could attend to my work.
wee in fact, perfectly well again, and
this is actually due te Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills' build up the
strength and drive out disease in just
one way -they actually make -new red
blood, TWO is all they do, but they do
it well, don't act on the bowels
-they don't purge and weaken like com-
mon pills.- They don't bother with melte
symptoms; they go right to- the root .of
the trouble in the blood. That is why
they cure anaemia, with all its head-
aches and backaches, and dizziness and
heart palpitation. That is why they
cure indigestion, rheumatism, neuralgia,
St. Vitus danee, general weakness and
the special ailments that growing girls
axe women do not like to talk about
even to their doctors. But you must in-
sist on getting the genuine pills with the
full name "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People" on the wrapper around eech
box Sold by all medicine dealers or by
mail at 50e a box or six boxes for $2.50
from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
OF AGRICULTURE,
Branch of Diary and Cold Storage
Cow Testing Associations.
testing operations in Scotland during
1910191,o, report just received of some Ow
the following figuree occur, and
will be reaa here with intereat.
In the Stewartry oesociation, commis.
ing 12 herds and 009 00013, the everage
yield of 10 per cent. of the heeviest
mg cows in each herd during 214 day*
(20th March to 31st October, 1900), was
6,859 lbs. of milk, testing 3.9. The aver-
age yield of the pooreet cows was 4,230
lbs„ testing 3.0; this indieetea a differ.
mice of 2,6e0 lbs. Six of the best heif-
ers, 3 -year-olds, M this asaociation aver.
aged 0,030 lbs. milk, testiug 4.1.
The Dumfriesshire Mary Femme'
Aseociation comprise:3 22 herds, 742
cows, From April 2 to Nov. 10, 1900,
11 of the pooreet'cows (ages 4 to 11),
averaged 2,790 lba. milk; 15 of the best
cows had an average of 7,000 lbs, milk.
In the Renwick Society, embracing 18
herds, the average yield in 51 weeks ef
1900, from 451 cows, was 6,481 lbs. milk,
Only 12 cows eeve 10,000 lbs. or over to
t41,71e7i.or icbrse.dit, their average being 10,540
lbs. Ten of tae poorest cows averaged
The dairy industry at large is indebted
to John SPeir, Esq., of Newteu Farm,
Glasgow, for a oonscientious compile-
oti joantioolfisinsiilnkcerecords of five distrist asso.
1902.
Mr. Speir hes the following reinarks,
which will be of interest to members of
cow testing associations. in Canada. Nete
his last sentence:
"The Fenwick Society is principally
composed of farmers in the pared' bf
Fenwick, between Kilmarnock and the
borders of Lanarkshire. The district
lies at a rather high altitude, much of
it being from 400 to 600 feet above sea
level. Cheese making used to be the
principal industry of the district, but,
with few eiceeptions, all the farms, now
send their milk direct to Glasgow or
to the two collecting milk depots in the
district. Breeding is largely followed on
every fern; and in a very few years the
milk records should exercise a meterial
influence on the herds in this district.
The farmers here have entered into the
movement noe simply because they were
asked to do so, or becitttse one or more
were wanted to complete the number
sufficient to make a good group of herds,
but because they think it will pity them
to do so. The work has now been carried
011 without any break for over two
years, and the more experience the peo-
ple have of it the more highly they ap-
preciate it."
C. F. W.
. -
SONS OF_P_E_ASANTS. .
Some Frenchmen of Humble Birth
Who Rose to Eminence.
Some time since I pickese up in Paris
a curious little book by Alphonse Karr,
called "Histoire des Pee:sans Illustres;
Plutaeque des Campa.gnes," 1838. Among
the number of peasants' or workmen's
sons attaing fame or local celebrity fig-
ure Elechier,, perhaps beet known to Eng-
lish readers by his "C4rands jours d'Au.
verve"; Ney, "le brave dee braves";
Amyot, the tranelator of Plutarch;
Hoche, the pacificator of La Vendee;
Rerun*, mathematician and philosopher,
a victim of St. Bartholomew; Palissy,
the great potter, who narrowly escaped
a similar fate; the savant Mabillon;
Marmontel, the author of "Belisaire" and
friend of Voltaire; Chaptal,.• the great
chemist and discoverer, wao was sum-
moned by the Convention to eupply the
army with gunpowder and did so; Lap-
lace, the illustrious physieist-these in-
ter alios, and, if not peasante' sons, all
of them were of humble origin. And if
Alphonse Karr's interesting theme were
brought up to date hie successor would
be able to add the greatest name in
Feench fiction-Balzact
"My name is on my certificate of birth
as that of the Duke of Fitzjaines is on
his," somewhat pompously wrote the au-
thor of the "Cesmedie Humaine," and,
unlike Rouget de Lisle, he had not know-
ingly approprieted the mall coveted par-
ticle. In all prob•ability he firmly be- .
lieved that he had come of noble etock.
But in his work -eHonore' de Balsac"
E. Bire relates that a well known an-
tiquary entirely disproves poor Balzae's
title to the "de." 'Ibis gentlemen, M.
Charles Portal, has indeed Unearthed the
birth tegiater of Balzac's father, who
was born in 1746 in a village of League -
doe, and in that document is described
as Bernard Francois Balssa, eon of a
laboter. The great Honoree; father had
literary testes and even. wielded the pen.
Quite possibly he may have thus euph-
emized his patronymic out of respect
for. that early meter of French prose
(1597-1654) reelly belonging to the
noble de Balzac or de Palsse house. Be
that as it may, M. Biro truly says, that
Balzite has earned his right to nobility.
-Prom the Westminster Gazette.
Plenty of Assurance.
"Do you really mean it, Mr. Spponer,
when you say I era the best girl in the
world?" asked Miss Flypp, after the
youhg man had suggested that she should
become Mrs. Spooner.
"Indeed I do, Miss Flypp," asseverated
the young man. "I say it again -you are
the beet girl in the world."
"And the lovelieat, I think you seid?"
"The loveliest, without doubt."
"I think you sithl something about iny
aeomplishments, too?"
"1 (lid. snia they exeelied those of
Any' other girl."
"I believe you called me sweet?"
" sweeter woman ne'er drew breath."'
quotea the ardent lover.
"You used the word 'perfect: too, did
76'11'1 7idt.V/' also proitouncea you the pink
of perfection, propriety and modesty, the
empress of my heart, the peerless one
among the beeuteene ereatures of your
tex, a maiden adorable, enclietting, and
worthy of the Imna of the beet man on
earth, Say the word that will make me
the happiest man, my own floral"
"Before I give you all allSakly Mr.
Spooner,,t should like to nett you one
question.°
"A dozen if you like."
"One will be enough. Don't yott think
seIti have a gootl deal of agallrariee telex.
pad it \Vann with all thee° cecellerd,
qualities to marry you?"
Then Mr. ,Spoolior Meat ilernev
Some of the recent records of cows in
the cow testing associations organized
by the Dairy and Cold Storage Commis-
sioner are:
St. Marc, Que. Sept. 11., 123 cows, av-
erage 546 lbs. milk, 4.0 test, 22.] lbs. fat.
Best yield, 950 lbs., testing 3.9.
Spring Creek, Ont., Sept 1, 202 cows,
average 750 lbs. milk, 3.6 test, 26.1 lbs.
fat. Several individual cows gave over
1,100 lbs. milk in the 30 days.
Jenquieres, Que., Sept. 6, 133' cows, av-
erage 553 lbs. milk, 4.0 test, 22.5 lbs, fat.
Highest yield, 1,020 lbs. milk, testing 4.1.
Ormstown, Que., Sept 6, 147 cows av-
erage 099 lbs. milk, e,6 test, 25.5 lbs. fat.
Best yield 1,772 lbs. milk, testing 3.3
from a 4 -year-old Holstein calved April
27.
Pine Grove, Ont, Sept. 17, 129 cows av-
erage 538 lbs. milk, 3.7 Mee, 19.2 lbs. fat.
Highest yield of milk 990 lbs. test 2.6.
Chilliwack, B. C., Sept. 5, 228 cows
average 036 lbs. milk, 3.8 test, 24.6 lbs.
fat. Several cows yield over 1,000 lbs.
milk during 30 days.
Dixville, Que, Sept. 16, 223 cows aver-
age 463 lbs. milk; 4.1 test, 19.1 lbs fat.
Beet yield of milk 820 lbs.
North Oxford, Ont., Sept. 21, 124 cows
average 696 lbs. milk, 3.4 test, 24.0 lbs.
fat. One yield of 1,205 lbs, milk.
Keene, Ont., Sept. 27, 114 caws, aver-
age 555 lbs. milk, 3.8 test, 21.1 lbs. fat.
Highest yield, 1,103 lbs. milk.
C. P. W.
THE ROYAL CHILD.
she Wag known as the Princerie Louise
Marie Antoinette of Austria.
For SOW eeare. at Any rete, so far as
the outer World knew, the royal couple
lived happily toigether. Several children
were born of them, two of whom died;
and, whatever ,elee may have been urged
against her, there 15 no doubt that the
princess was a most devoted mothee.
She was pasaionately devoted to her
children, and this, after she left the
court, was the chief eause of her bitter
su f tering.
It was in 1002, nearly eleven years
after the marriage, that it became gen.
orally known that there were dissensions
between the prince and hie wife. The
trouble was at first saki to be about her
failure to stietain the dignity of her rank
as Crown Prineess.
81
le loved cycling, informal dancing
and other anmeements which were
thought breaches of etiquette by the
Dresden court. Ana one of the chief
offences urged against her at this time
was her delight in amateur theatricale,
Storm 'of Scandal Breaks,
It became known that the Crown
Prince bitterly rebuked her for playing
MOTHER LOVE PITTED AGAINST
POWER OF SAXON KING.
All Europe the Field -Pursuit Equals in
• Romantic Flavor Many of Dumas'
Most Entrancing Tales.
A romance rivalling mealy of the
Dumas entrancing tales of royal intrigue
is being enaeted at the present time,
with all Europe es the stage and a flee-
ing former 'princess, with her child and
a pursuing king, as the principals.
The former Princess is Louise of Sax-
ony, who, but for an elopement, would
to -day ocetfpy a throne; the child is
Princess Monica, her daughter, and the
pursuing King is the ruler of Saxony,
from whom the former princess fled.
Bereft of her• -titles and estates and
of all her six children except Monica,
the former princess, who styles herself
to -day Countess Moetignoso, is travel.
ing hither and thither throughout the
continent with her new-found husband,
Signor Toselli, endeavoring to prevent
the kidnapping of her little daughter by
emissaries of the Saxon ruler, How
nmeh longer the pursuit will last and
what its end will be none elm tell, for
when a mother's love and wit are pitted
against, the power and influence of a
father scorned predictions its to the out.
come of such a conflict are futile, in-
deed.
Peirce& Into Lotreless Marriage.
The Princess Louise, daughter of the
exiled Duke of Tuscany, was a brilliant,
beautiful, bighemirited young woman.
At 16 she was noted for Ilea wit, her
knowleage Cif languages end love of
music. She loved outdoor sperts, was a
fine horsewoman and painted admirably.
Het many accomPlishmente were univer.
sally praised.
Veer years after she left school Prinee
Erederiek Augustus Crown Priem of
Sweeny, and now King, fell in love with
her rota proposed marriage. it WaS
highly advantageous matell, and the
girlat perenta readily geve their consent.
Bnt the girl beraelf pasaionately ao.
elered that she dia not love the prince
and would never marry him.
None eatt tell her reason for changing
her mintl, None can may what family
pressure was brought to bear item the
woung and brilliant girl -though it may
gurased. But be the twee what
they may, she ventuallv ennsented te
the marriage, foul the temple were mar-
ried itt Viemut on 'Nov, el, 1891. Amid
many ;netlike:tat inlet rvf publie rejoicing.
Passionately DavOted to Children,
The bride 1V0S el years of Age and
By ,31 to 9 the Anglo-American ,schenr
for obligatory international arbitration
was approved by The Hague Coeferenee.
11 m,t aere yet. but it comine
emitter,
• • or
The townehl Tilbur and Rom;
are great oil produeera. in the °ember
statement, showing what bounties were
paid on 011 In September, they are ere:l-
ite,' with 32,903 barrels.
600,000,000 bushels of wheat. The largest
The United States consume nearly
whe.at crop ever raised in the United.
States was about 735,000,000. One of
these daY8 tile United States will be a
buyer of Canadian wbeat.
the part of a servant and blacking boote .Lord mouut.m.,ailsteien aivi;n 433..
upon the stage.
Another cause of dissension between
the Crown Priuce of Saxony and his
wife was her expressing approval of
the action of her brother, the Archduke
Leopold, who resigned his title and pee-
regatives to become a plain citizen,
Then, in the midst' of thie unhappie
ness came the scandal. The Princesa'
name was assoeiated with that of M.
Ginn, the Belgian tutor. Their rela-
tions are said to have been discovered
by a lady at the court. The tutor was
ordered to leave. Then, after he did so,
the Princess fled to him at Zurich, and
they went together to Geneva,
She fled, like the heroine of the wild-
est romance, at midnight, prompted,
seemingly, by something in the blood
which has driven other inemhers of the
ex -princess' family to deeds which have
acandalized the eourts of Europe, and a
wild desire to revolt against the iron
laws governing members of continental
royal fa.miliea.
Spurned by Her Own Father.
The real truth about that flight may
never be known, but the generally ac-
cepted account of it told of the Princeas
leaving her husband's palace at Dresden.
and going to her father at Salzburg,
She told her father qf her sorrows, and
begged him to consent to a divorce. Her
brother, the Archduke Leopold, sided
with her. But her father refused, Then
the desperate Princess, accompanied by
her brother, ran. away from their fath-
er's palace. They left by a spiral stair.
ease little used, hid themselves in the
station waitingroom et Salzburg, and
eventually left for Innsbruck, whence
they went to Zurich, to be joined by M.
Giron.
The scandal fell like a bombshell upon
the Saxon Court . There could no longer
be even an official pretence of secrecy.
Every effort was 'made to coerce' the
Princess, but in vain.
Grief -Stricken at Loss of Children,
Misery, inevitable misery, followed her
action. She went in deadly fear of being
placed in a convent or mad -house by
force. She seemed to care not at all for
the loss of her dignities. She renounced
her titles, all her royal prerogatives,
without a protest. But her great sorrow
was the loss of her beloved children. She
wept bitterly. She implored to be al-
lowed to see them. It was rumored that
she attempted suicide.
Then after a few weeks Giron left her
-to avoid, it wee staled, unnecessary
trouble in connection with the negotia-
tions between the ex -Princess and the
Court. The flighty Belgium never re-
turned.
Taking the title of the Countess o,f
Montignoso, she returned. to a villa of
her father's near Florence.
Her greatest sorrow during this time increase of Z74,000,000, or, say, 26 per
was the loss of her children. Communi- cent. Seventy-fout millions e: 'year le
equivalent to 4 per cent. inteTest upoo
anital su of £1
a large sem. It represents what might
have been saved, if Europe had in 1899
taken hold of t'he Czar's proposal to res.
trict war expenditure. Some ..day this
wasteful folly mill awaken itustonashe
ment,
000 to Alierlour (Scotland) mph:allow;
whielt will bringein a -minimum of 41.09a
per annum. Tido will support 011e
dree beds. Hie Lordehip is /1
sabscriber to North of Scotland -ehar-
If Marconi can give 0 the/M(11'07
trans•Atlantic wireleae eervice at 5d, a
word instead of the IS, charge now levied.
-the fifteen eables now in operation may
be compelled eo reduce rates. And that
Would not be a calamity to those who re-
quire the service.
e it is c.stimated that Onealtird of the
United Stites school ehilaren are stiffer;
ing from remediable physical aefseta.
some of the larger cities much good la
being done by methodical inepeetion by
competent physicians. TWIT.. is room
for doing much along those in Can.
8d lat. t..oeop.ri 1 and Ma4y-o0f this. year. tit: -
land Revenue Department examined 247C
eateries of maple syrup offered. for sale
in stores throughout, the country. Of
these 187 were genuine; 2 dpubtfal;
"illaple flavor"; 2.1 compound, an& 20.
aululterated. That is better than SOM0
4;Yristtt(mebrec would have supposed the Sup-
• • *.
A New York paper says a canvas of
six tiptown flatkin the fashionablepart
of that city revealed the Met of 'creme -
pancy ef 405 families and a total •of 21
babies. 'go' three east side tenemente
were found 1Q4 families, with a totel
j 350 infaet ehildeen. The averagaof ba-
bies in apartmentsewas one for every 2a
-families. The average of babies in -east -
side tenements Was found to be three to ,
each family, Of course, thelapdloyda,,01-'
the particular flats refuse to rent to ten.
ants with children, and that may in .
degree account for the showing.
The 'W seys that.
es---e-e-a----.-tmineter „Gazette
Europe spent in round numbers, £200,-
000,000 on its army fold £80,000,000. 4111
its navy' in 1006, as against £140:000.-
000 and £60,000,000, respectively, in
1898. That, is to say, Europe spends to-
day £280,000,000 on its atnty and• navy
as against £206,000,000 in 1898, it total
cation with them was demed her, and
in 1904 the unhappy mother made a des-
perate attempt to see her little ones: -
Heavily veiled, she journeyed secretly to
Dresden and tried to enter the royal pal -
ac. But she was recognized by the of-
ficials, who were adamant. The King
was away, and their instructions were
imperative. Weeping bitterly, the mother
was escorted away by the pollee.
And, strange though it may sound, the
Dresden people cheered her to the echo.
This extraordinary woman had never
lost her hold of the hearts of the Saxons,
and they wildly applaudea her attempt
to see. her children.
She did not see them until 1906, and
then only in the presence of Court of-
ficials. This she hes never forgiven her
husband. 'Even now she speaks bit-
terly of the Met that she was not al-
lowed to see them alone.
Meanwhile the Princess has been di-
vorced. The King of Saxony was
known to be dying. It eohld not W-
allowed that she should have the faint-
.ese right to the title of Queen of Sax-
ony, and the .proceedings were hurried
forward, terminating in February, 1903.
Will She Keep the Child?,
In May of that year a child was
born to the Countess of Montignoeo,
and christened Monica.
The Saxon court attempted to gain
possession of this child, and a fierce
contest followed, which has lasted for
years: But the Countess clung to it
with desperate fondness, and even 310W
declares that she and her .present hue.
band will not let the iittle one go,
though, under a family agreement, it
is understood that the little Princess
should be delivered to the King of
Saxony next May.
In the following yeara the Countess
led a quiet life in Italy, the south of
France, and in the Isle of Wight, where
she spent many happy months with
her little one. It was barely a year
••• • 40.
,seema that in the ligbt of actual ex.
perience opponents of female suffrage
will have to give up the contention that'4.-
women should not be enfranchisea be-
came they would not vote if they were
quitlified. In South Australia, at the last
general election, 59 per ceet. of the men
on the rolls voted and .42 per tent. ef
the women; in Western Australia, 49 per
cent. of the men and 47 per cent. of the
women voted; at the last Federal elec-
tion 50 per cent. of the men voted eV
40 per cent. of the wome.n. Non.e of the
Austridien States has yet reached the '
extraordinary record of New Zealand,
where in 1902 nearly 75 per cent, of the
women ,electees .reconled their votes, as
agitha 70 per aants. of tlteereebeethers.
The, Australian and New Zealand ..1/b -
men Must be 'active politicians.
The iron Age, ari authority on all
mattere pertaining to the iron trade,
says that, the gravest evil front which
the United States are now suffering is
the decline in the effieiency of labor, It
finds expression hi' slouchy work on the
part of those who knowbow to do bet. •
ter, and poor work on the part a those
who have never been taught or are in-
capable of learning, It also says that
to the more serious defect of lowered
ago that she met Signor Enrico Toselli, quality is added the troublesome feature.
the pianist, whom ale has now married.
The chief anxiety of her life still re- of lessened quantity. It also adds the
when the de -
?rimless Monica? Everywhere the significluit statement that
mand for laber deelines the 'privet:F. of
mains. Will she be able to keep the
Ring of Saxony is searching for the weeding out the lazy and the inefficient
child, while the mother protests and.
protests that he shall tever see het promptly begins, and it may lae aceepted,
it says, as it general fact that few manti.-
Couldria Pairt WI' Him.
Fur once the American had discovered
something British that was better than -
anything they could produce in the
States. His discovery was a fine collie
dog, and he at once tried to induce its
°alley, an old. shepherdeto Bell it. "Wad
ye be takin.' him to Ametiea?" inquired
the old Scot. "Yes, gums eo," said
the Yankee. "I thocht as muekie," seed
the shepherd. "1 midi% pairt
Jock.' But while they sae and chatted
an English tourist came .up, and to him
the shepherd sold the collie for much
lase then the American luta offered.
"You told me you wouldn't sell hitn,"
stud the Yankee, when the purchaser
Wet departed. "Nee" replied the Seot,
"I Mid I eotadria pctirt wi' him. Joek'll
be beck in a day or so, but he couldna
swim the Atlantic."
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The Countess of Aberdeen is having
mode% of her favorite dogs made by an;
aeulptor, 1010 WAS in Dublin for
that purpose a short time ago. Lady
Aberdeen has ordereil tlie..e models in
order to have souvenirs of her pets at•
ter their death,
gas have not thoroughly exatnined theer
pay mile with a view towera
their selectione. The efficient, steady,
honest workman is reasonably sure or
his job.
-
France is to legislate. against the ab.
sinthe habit, whielt has becianeaa ne-
tional Vane. Little Or the liquor eutries
to Ameeiee, ana it is well ler our royplp
that it is so. lie manufaeture and sals
nro forbidden in; 'Belgium and in some of
the cantoes ef Switzerlioad. Cenatie can
get along very well eithout the green
poltson. end Parliament might do woree
than confine Re handling to the drug
stm•ca, Theme Dreparittione.of ultra:woad
have medicinal use, and it aherad be pees
sible te have any good in the drug with-
out putting it en the merket beret. -
Op.
In. 8weden tire SfriVOIre are clewed on
Saturday -pay day--whIlet the saviall
book.. are kept ern erftil le:Weight.
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