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THE ISSUE IS WELCOMED.
Lloyd George's Acceptance of Wyndham's
Incautious Challenge.
(Prom. His Aadress of Dee. 2L)
Mr. Wyndhem talked here ae if we
were a natiou of money -Minim end
commission agents, I ant goiug to
give you five 'Impositions, not because
ewe do uot know them, but because
I want yea to rententher theta as I 1,)1'O.
MA them,
The first is that at the present me-
lee:at we have got the greotest
national trade in the world.
The third is, we have the greetest
surplue welt in the werld.
Tee fourth is, aye have the cheapest
living -holm% food attil clothing- of
any courday in the woeld.
a he fifth is this, that if you take the
old countriea of the, world (and that
ie the only fee, vomparison) wo have
the highest wages, the Ehortest hours
ot work, and the beet conditions of
any of them. (Cheers.)
What does Mr. Wyndham want Wi-
de? Ile events yoa to risk all this, all
that superiority, all that supremacy,
atl that predominancy on an experi-
ment yvbia1t we tried before anti gave
up becauee it was a failure.
And then he had a great diatribe
against xnereltants and nrolters, against
bankers and their clerks. He did not
want that sort of people at all, Ile said
we are not producing enough pig -iron iu
this country. (Laughter.) And what he
wanted wire that those men who are
now wastieg their tinie upon banking
and brokering and buying and selling
goods to foreigners tillOnlel give it up and
become paddlers. (Laughter.) Ile admit-
ted thee they were making enormous
profits by trading in this way with the
foreigner, selling British goods to the
foreigner, buying the goods we wanted
back again, brokering for shipping, :But,
he said, what is the good of it They
are producing nothing, he said. What
you want, he said, is less gold and more
pig iron. (Laughter and cheers.)
TRADE ACCOUNTANCY.
Then, he said, there are too many
clerks -clerks sitting on high stools.
don't kuow whether he objected to their
positien cie to the particular article a
'eurniture, but, he said, you have too
many clerks sitting on high stools. Well,
of course, if you will have a fiscal sys-
tem that gives you the biggest interna-
tional trade system that enables you to
sell more British goods than any other
country mils of her goods, if you have
a fiscal system that gives you the big-
gest shipping the world has ever seen,
.aud if you will insist on a fiscal system
that gives you so much money that you
can afford. to lend to foreigners, well
then it is inevitable you will be induced
by foroe-you will be driven into it -to
keep clerks. (Laughter and cheers.)
You must write nets of lading; you
must keep accounts; you must have
oterks on high office stools. It is the
gentleman, mind you, who will prob-
ably handle the commerce of this
country, with its high and delicate
tnaehinery, who talks in this wild, ir-
responsible -really I Must say ignor-
ant way. Supposing you had a friend
'who started in business, say, thirty,
years ago. There you find hina produc-
ing some commodity, of course' keep-
ing clerks -three clerks. After thirty
years you conte back and find hint °with
a bigger establishment, turning out more
goods, keeping more clerks. Instead of
three he haa fifty. You say, "My good
fellow, 1 ant sorry. (Laughter.) When
first knew you you were really in a
prosperous way of business. You only
kept three clerks, but now you have ac-
tually fifty. When I first knew you you
had to borrow money. I am sorry to hear
now you have so much money you are acs
tually lending it to your neighbors.
Really if you go on like this, ruin nod
starvation are facing you." (Laughter.)
• OUR FOREIGN IMPORTS.
That is the alternative of the Liberal
policy. As to lending money abroad
purely because we have nothing to do
with it here. The two most prosperous
years we have had in the recollection of
anyone, when you look at the aggrega.
tion of trade, were 1906-7. In these
•••••••=0,
years we lent enormous sums of money
to foreigners and, coionials. Mr. Wynd-
ham imagines that all Ma money is ac-
tually carried abroad in the ships. Not
a coin .goes. It goes in goods. The
next thmn Mr. Wyndhaxn will say will
be that we are sending useful commodi-
ties which may not be useful at home
to the foreigner for cash. The Japanese
loan, which Was reeonstructed during
the last few years, and. the enormous
figures of -which were quoted by Mr.
Wyndham -there was no pausing of cash
from Loudon to Tokio, it was all in
goods. We have lent a considerable
amount of money to the Argentine. Can
you have anything better for our trade
than thatt The money is lent to de-
velop railways there, which are run by
British Boards of Directors. Tim result
is that they order Britoil goods. Our
trade with the Argentine has gone
by millions in the course of the last few
years. Foreign countries realize this.
Their only difficulty is that they bave
not got the cash. They actually encour.
age these foreign loans, bemuse they
know perfectly well that business ale
ways follows in consequence. I know
foreign powers ethical borrowed money
at a high rate of interest in order to
lend it at a lower rate of interest in or-
der to secure power, prestige, hifluence,
trade, In that part of the world, We
needn't do- that, (Cheers.)
Thanks to the free trade, we aro an
enormously rieh country, and therefore
we can affora to lend out of our surplua
to those foreign countries, aud WO get
It back in business and in goods. Now,
1 ant sorry to bave to detain you to
long. 1 have sem other :inures, but I
do not think. I will give them to you.
(Cries of "Go on.") I only wantea to
point these things out in order to show
the stupidity of the conception of those
wbo want to incest the- whole of our fis-
cal system upon another basis than that
on whieb our trade and commerce have
bee nbuilt during the last fifty years.
INCREASE OF BRITISH A1ANUFAC•
TUBE.
I could give you figures, if time per.
raided, showing how, during the lust
few years, our trade in manufactured
goods has grown enormously, Mr. Wyatt,
ham talks as if we were purely dealers
and commission agents. On the eon-
trary, we are producers. (Cheers,) We
sell more of our manufactures in the
world, after all, than any other coun.
try. We sell almost as much of geode
produced in this country as the two
greatest manufacturing countries in. the
world put together, or very nearly,
(Cheers.) Take. Germany and the Unit-
ed States of America, We sell almost as
much as these two countries put togeth.
er. Our amount of growth during the
last ten years has beeu considerably
greatei than the development of the
Unitea States or Germany in foreign
markets. We are not merely holding
our own; we are more than holding our
own. (Cheers.) And when you- hear
them talking about our industries -that
they are withering and dying -all I can
say is thet that is absolutely inconsis-
tent; with the most elementery knowl-
edge of the facts and. conditions of traits
in this land. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Wyndham talks about agricultnre
as if it -bad been ruined. He makes the
wildest statements about the agrieul-
tural population driven into the toWns,
and he gives a terrible picture of them
cadging for a drink at the -doors of
beer houses. All I can say i, if agri-
culture is fn ouch a very depressed con-
dition, it is a shame that, £45,000,000
of retie ehould every year be drawn
from this depressed industry. (Cheers.)
But the most serious part of Mr.
Wyndham's speech was its peroration
That h what you might eepect from
that kind of oratory. What • did. ha
say? He first of all began by saying
you must have a small tax, and he
ended up by saying that you must go
upon higher things -and. higher things
of course Means higher taxes. That
is exactly what happens. I really warn
those who think they can play with pro.,
tection to consider whet happens hi for-
eign countries. Mr. Wyndham says: "A
xof 2s. on corn, ;what is titian: Ab,
it is not much, but at the saane time
AFTER 20 YEARS0SUFFERING.
Zarn-Buit's Healing Power Proved
by School Commissioner and
Baptist Deacon.
ONE of the most recent converts to the
Zant-Buk method of treating and curing
disease is Mr. C. E. Sanford, of Weston,
King's Co., N.S. •
Mr. Sanford is a Justice of the Peace for the
County, and a member of the Board of School
Commissioners. He is also Deacon of the
Baptist Church in Berwick. Indeed, throughout
the County it would be difficult to find a man
more widely Imown and more highly respetted.
Some time back he had occasion to test
Zatzt-Buk, and here is his opinion of this great balm. he saye:-
"I never toed anything wet gave me suth satisfaction as Warn -Buie
I had a patch of eczema on my ankle, whieh had beenthere for over
twenty years. Sometimes, also, the disease would break out on my
shoulders. I had taken solution of arsenic, had applied various oint-
ments, and tried all sort* of things to obteiti a cure, but all in vain,
1 was advised to give nem -Butt a trial, and as I am a firm belleven itt
Nature's remedies, 1 did so, Prom first applying h t aaw it was
altogether different to the ordinary ointments and embrocations, said it
soon began to show signs of clearing away the eczema on my ankle.
This was gratifying, that I persevered for tome time with it, and I
am glad to say it had the desired result, 1 am now cured of the
disease which defied every other treatment for twenty years.
"This Is not the only direction in which 1 have proved the Merits of
lam-lauk. I guttered for a long thne from piles, and t found a perfect
cure for this painful ailment ittZarneEtuk. Zatti-Bak toothets the pain, e
relieves the congeated ',eine, and so restores the elasticity to the t1ssue:1
that the piles gradually but surely diaappear,"
2A tA•Billt IA A positive and certain -We for ents, hums, sprairo.PlIes.ftsleriek
tares, ulcers, scalds. biesd.poisonint, eesema, scabs, chapped henes. Lem TACtsw,
ringworm, sealp :sores, had hg,4115040Ocl eekles. and ti i other stan thleaon end injuries.
Rubbed well into tbe parts affeeted, ft etwes nostalgia, rhenniatiam, and seiatica. All &mists
and stores MI at see. box, three for .1.25, and post free from sani.itukces Toronto, for
Was. Refuse the harmful imitations SOrattlirias represerued to he "inst 53 geed."
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CORNS. !?4.REDHOUHS
Yon can painlessly remove any own, e t.or
hard, aott or bleeding, le Mining' nallatun
torn Extract/ It never turns, letwee no semi(
use. (Jure guaranteed. Sold•ny all ruggiste
We. bottlett.' Beene oubstItuteo.
PUTNAM'S PAINLESS
CORN EXTRACTOR
there are many poor houseltolde title
country where a 2s. tax on corn wattle
make all the difference between enough
and privation. •
THE TAX UN CORN.
But is it going to stay theret In, Ger-
many they began with a S. tax on corn,
What is it itowl-118, 10d. (Shame.)
They began, M France with a, frette on
corn, .11 is now 12e. (Id, That is tenni;
.eir. Wyndham culls "going on," attain-
ing to •higner things." (ilear, Item)
And if you look tit the price of bread in
Berlitt you wilt find the difference be-
tween the price of wheat and he prim
n Liverpooliis repreeented exactly by
the 118. 10d. tax neon U. Well, is that
the prospeotl are we to retain the
power of irrespoesibm eharnber merely
in Order to tax the bread of the peopte
and make it scarcer? We nave get e
far higher and better tvorn tb do titan
that. (Cheers.) Aye, tuore, the making
of le as easy no possible for people to
get every commodity that is good for
them -that win always be diffieult
enough at the best-ana the making as
hard as possible the people's as.cess to
every com.modity that injures them,
(Hear, hear.)
FREE EXCHANGE.
contains no a01 $ I 114 haralle08 becausecompogIn
e
011)7ItettlIng ttwua aad balms. yeara
That is the Liberal policy. Look at
the dolga of thinps and you will find
that Providence in:ended a free ex-
change between nations. Whet land
ist there that produces the best of
everything? What land is there that
Providence has not given the best of
something to? Why is that? Be.
came it was intended they should ex -
°Image. 'Ines land gives its best to
thet land, That land in exchange gives.
its beat to this. The result is that we
enjoy the benefits that God has given
to the childre» of men everywhere. in
a few days we shall be eujoying 11
great festival. You will find hundreds
of thousands of little children teeth -
area aroma tables in this city, love
for confectionery brightening their
eyes. As en ingredient of these con.
fections you will have flour that was
originally corn sown, grown and liar
-
vested on plains thousands .01 miles
away aeross the seas, lands unexplored
centuries ago; imice,s from the islands et
the Mediterrane,an, dried fruit from the
Isles of Greece and the vineyards of
Spain. You drew from east Red west
joy for these little children. You go to
them; "Here, little ones, do you know
give three cheers for the free import of
all the things the good God gives men."
The enemy comes along and sows tares
in the field of their joys. He saye to
them: "Here, little ones, do yuo know
that that which you have been enjoying
represents a foreign conspiracy against
the industries of, this country?" (Laugh-
ter.) These things have come from for-
eign lands, and if you feel any gnawing,
iuan honr.'or two it is. your pittrione
conscience that repudiates your disloy.
Any."
Free acce,ss for the people to all the
best the earth can produeeeproteetion
from the worst -that is our policy:
(Cheers.) If there is poverty in the
land it is not altogether through foreign
competition. It is a certain kind of
home coneumption. You cannot hare a
handren and fifty millions- a year spent
on ettiff that enfeebles the constitution
and shatters the'brain without some pov-
erty resulting. That is a direction in
which we, too, ean do something. And.
we want, too, to 'do Betrothing to being
the land within the grasp of the people,
The resources of the land are frozen by
the old 'feudal system. I am looking.
forward to the springtime, when the
thaw will set in and when the children
of the people will'enter into 'an inheela
ance that was given them front ou higte
(Loud cheers.)
Our Baby.
Our little baby came to town.
When days were bleak and ehilly,
His oyes they were a soft, dark brown,
His name -shall it be 'Billy?
'V:, no!" said father to the boys,
Who stood around our peL
"We're going to call him Johnnie 'toys,
We think that 'better yet."
Now would, you like to hear about
The brothers -five and. seven -
Who coming home when school was out
Found baby come from heaven?
The questions without ntunber sped -
"Say, mother, is he rubber?"
Ard "Why is Ito so soft and red?
Why wrap him in that cover?
"Do let us ta.ke him on the sled
When we go out to -morrow:
We'll let no one, not even Fred,
Our little brother borrow,
"Please wrap him in your furs as tight -
They'll match the eyes of brown -
The furs that came on Christmas night,
That father sent from town.
"Oh, father's slippers, where are they?
We'll knock out every tack;
Tlie tiny toes there warmly lay,
We'll bring him safely back."
Said father, laughingly, "Dear boys,
Just emit a little longer; "
• Another year he'll play with toys,
Then baby will be stronger,"
e.
British Drummers to Study Russian.
in order to foster ana develop trade
with Russia, classes for the teaching of
the Itussiait language are being formed
at the City of London College, Moor-
fields, te comfit -woe study under a giinl
teacher next nanith.
In a circular announcing the inaugura.
tion of the Messes it is ended Unit once
the diffieulty of eastering the itheettbet
is overcome the student makes as good
progrese in learning this language as in
the most eominen European language*.
It is further pointed out that it is
mistake to suppose that- all ltuteiane
speak Fronde For the meti who would
do business in Russia a knowledge of
lietesian is essential.
The possibilities of trade *with Russia
are enormous. It is urged that the men.
try, 'tele& occupies nearly one-sixth of
the land. Burette of the globe, will be.
room in the immediate future one of
the twist importaot matkete of 'the
world, aril that while other comerieti
have realized this awl are represeuted
by well 'qualified intents, England is
doing little or »Meting. 'London ntartn-
ani.
Another Gold Brick.
Totals 1 thought I Inut a golnen
eppcirtunity to Interne% it !emotive a few
slays ago.
7Ionne Well?
Tontelix-The gotten opportnntn afore-
said terrain out to be bloodined.
A fOut-in-luntil tie -en donble wede
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THE LAZY CLUB. weeti!.,weeneweeeneemeseseseensiese
Plan of Englieh Workmen to Piss
eottrege the Habit et -twins Tardy.
One of the beet -asset-, Of a inantifite-
turiug pMnt; is the intenne ot employees
and when thie develope into beendly
rivalry its value is many times ittereas.
.ed, Frequently workmen will 'Adopt
methods opontaneouely that are of great
eseistanee ti,t the firm,
In -the engineering shops el a vermin
English firm the workmen a, year or twit
ago originated what they onkel the
Lazy Club. it was .entirely their own
Idea, whien for °bylines reasente has. re-
ceived neither revognition nor Anemia'
support front the management,but lute
been a most excellent, mime of matte.
ing the number of Imo comers,
Whenever a workman it Mara than
five minuteafter time lie finds tbe
gate lockedanti lie ie not allowed to
enter until the half hour is up. This half
'hour is deducted from his wages, but in
additton he bait also to pey to the treas.
urer of the Lazy Club about five vents
for °Ming late.
If be is late more than woe or so dur-
ing it week everybody is aware of the
fact, and the second or third timehe
snake o les appeeranee after starting
time heis greeted with a terrific corns
binetion of noises produced on any avail-
able material by his follow workmen.
certain periods the aceumuleted
funds of the Lazy Club are divided., not
*mpg those who have produced them,
it should lie noted, but among the etts
tire staff equally. Thu5 the late work-
man is made to pay the early colliers for
his le.zinese. Tbe lett distribution wns
just prior to a "bean -tenet,' and funds
Accumulated during twelve mouths. were
distributed ;mounting to over seven
ehilliegs tt heath -System,
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C 0 nstipation
Bad reath
Headache
'When the bowels are eonetipated and
you lutve stomach trouble and beast-
achentry Dr, ilamiltonn Pills; they are
so mild you can searcely feel their me
tion, yet so effeetive that the entire
secretory apparattis , is stimulated to
healthy action.
OR. HAMILTON'S PILLS
CURE QUICKLY
Titus writes eh's, D. P. 'Fowler from
Yarmouth: "I used to feel drowsy and
heavy, my color WaS shallow, and there
was usually a bad taste in my mouth.
had. vague pains all through my limbs,
und an annoying headache as well.
"After one dose of Dr. Hamilton's
Pills there was a' sudden Outage. I felt
better, my appetite inereesed, and that
exhaustion ansi depression gradually
left me. 'Life seemed brighter and hap-
pier after I used Dr. Hamilton's Pills,
so 1 strongly 'recommend' swill a good
medicine."
Dr. Hamilton's Pills you certainly
need; then why not get them now, anti
enjoy the Abundant good health they
are sure tobring you? Price. 25e rat
box, or five boxes for $1.00. At .all
dealers.
Whoops.
SorneWhere, where I been a snoonian
Papa says, they had the whoopin'
Cough..
That's the reason how I got it,
But I dou't know -who I caught it
Off. •
Papa says, but. he's just funninh
If I caught 'em, Whoops was rumen'
Slow,
Or, he says, perhaps I met 'era
An' he asks why don't I let 'eat
Go?
Seems to pm Whoops did the cliagina
An' they go to beat a mein'.
Track.
Wish I knew who made me ketch 'mu,
An' you- bet I'd go an fetch 'em
Back. •
Anyway, we got a card out
On the house an' kids ave barred out
tow.
Wish they'dlet in Tom an' Benny,
But they got to go to school yet, any-
how.
They 111119 had 'em, but they ought to,
So's us three could have a lot o'
But their ma's afraid they'll take lent,
An' you ought to see me make 'mu
Runt
Dan's had ony mumps, an' Tom an'
Beaty never had hut common
Croup.
Shucks! They better uot come near me,
Wait a minute till you hear me
Whoop!
-Edmund Vance Cooke in the Circle
Magazine.
This vroman says that Lydia E.
Pinkhaires Vegetable Compound
°ured her after everything else
had f ailed.
Airs. W. Barrett., 602 gore= St.,
Montreal, writes to Mrs.. Pinkhatri:
"For years I was a great sufferer
from fettutre weakness, and despite
every- remedy given me by doctors for
this tronble, I grew worse instead of
better. / was fast failing in hotelth,
aud I was completely diseouregnst
" Os,te dey a friend advieca ate to try
Lydia, D. Pantimans Vegetable Come
rourid. I did am and tun thankful to
few that It mired the female weakness,
making me strong and well.
"Every Women' who :minas Irene fo-
male troubles should try Lydia i. Pinks
tiara's Vegetable Compound."
PACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia, E. Pink -
ham's Vegetable Compound, triad°
from rooti and herbs, has beenthe
standard remedy for lethal° ills,
and me positively- owed tl ionsatuls of
women who have been t roubled s
displaketnents, inflammationoileera.
801, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, bitelcavhe, that bear-
ing.ilt feeling, flatulency, int lips-
ion,fli ztti ness o r Mt haft,
Why don't you try it 'e •
Mrs, rinkluttu invites all sicl:
women to write her for ath
Itm guided. thousands to
itetatb. Addrass) Lynn, 111044
Y to Chest
Sore, Wheezy.
To delay is dangeroto-inflanintatiott must he drawn
ma at °nee. Bub throat and chest WPI1 Wit /1.'"Nerriline''
and put en a NerViline Porous. PiasterJu one hour you'll
feel well, The penetrating qualities of Nervilino enable it
to soak to the very eore of the trouble, and front the
Nervil-
uie Plaster eomes ft feeling of warmth and Nixdorf that
proves danger is past.
FOr Weak t!liest, sore throat, colds, quinsy atitl. VOn.-
ehitis
nothing enn be better than N/serrilint! treatment, No
home is safe without "Nerviliue.:”
leingetons Dee, 14th. ‘.
,70 Mfrs. of Nerviline:
"Eight weeks ago I was exposed to
very inclement weather, and -chitin a
twenty mile 'arive caught a severe cold
that coaled ott my chest. 1 uffered in.
tensely; couldn't draw a Mug breath
without it hurting. Itty chest was light,
made my throat raw. 1 stout to bed, ana. . ures
and every time coughed it mimed alai
...ervvone
Always
uickIy
sunthst cold Aldan break up. Then I seat to the drug store for the
Netwiline treatment. I took half a .teaspootiful of Nerviline In hot
water three timer,: daily, rubbed my throat, chest, aud shoulders 'with.
Nerviline, .and put on a Nereitine poroue plaster. Iatwelve lows 1
'MIS cured," Cyrus C', Stanhope.
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For nearly 50 years Nerviline bits. been a family stand -
Large bottles, 25e, and Nerviline Plasters, 25e --at all
. dealers.
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Time Required to Launch Lifeboat.
Abetted the Romantic the other day
several officero were talking about the
length of time required to launch ane
man one of the large lifeboats that
swing erom aavile on the upper cleek,
a distance of perhape sixty feet above
the sea. It was agreed that a boat
ean be lowered with its crew and
get away /rem the ship in two min-
utes in anything like decent weather.
An inetance was related where a
man had falltta from the Romantic
while she was. ;speeding .14 knots. The
alarm was sounded, boat lowered
and -the swimmer rescued after a eon-
siderable row buck over the emirs°
to where he was floundering about.
The crew had the reeeued indittielual
back to the shin with the boat in its
chocks in just seventeen minutes,
which is regarded a Meet creditable
performance. There was 210 ice • on
the rope falls to Mower the work arid
everythieg warned smoothly or the
the boat would have been much long-
er on its nth:non.
A stettnisbip of 10,000 tons when go-
ing at full speed lune momentum suf-
ficient to carry her at least two miles
after the enginesiare stopped, provid-
ing the sea s fairly. quiet. Crewa ..of
lifeboats frequetatly have hard work
cut clout for them while going to a
rescue beforeethe headway of their
vessel has been stopped. -From the
BostonHerald, • • •
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LITTLE'Ltyus LOST.
HOW .TO sAvg THEM.. "
The annual report of the Rage
istrar-General for Ontario shows
that for every thousaud childring
born ono hundred arid eleven
die before they reach the age of
one year. Moat of these dentin(
are due to disorders of the sto-
mach and .bowels, e;ncl most in.
these little lives could- be saved
if mothers kept atways at hand
a safe and cintple remedy like
Baby's Own Tablets. These Tab-
lets„. cure all stomach and bowel
troubles, but better still -an oc-
casional. dose will prevent these
troubles coming on. Mrs. N. Shaf-
fer, The Brook, Ont., says: ."I
have toed Baby's Own Tablets for
stomach and bowel troubles and
ahvaye find thein • satisfactory.
feel that my little ones are safe
so long as I have this medicine
in the house." Sold by modiclue
dealers or by mail at 25 cents a
box from The Dr, Williams' Medi-
cine Co., Brookville, Ont,
4-e-ele-e-e-e-we-we-4-an-enne•-+•-an.a+4-••••
BARREN CHURCHES.
7,000 in 1905 in Which Not a Member
Was Received on Confession.
There are many churches which do not
report a single .addition on confession of
faith in a year, and tlte number of such
barren churches is rapidly. increasing.
Only a part of the denominational year
books furnish the neeessary data for an-
al:vets, but all that do show the same
tendency.
The nuntber of bairea charges in the
Methodist Episcopal Church in 1893 (the
remotest date for which I have made
the analysia), says a writer in the Nu-
tienal Congress of 11.1otlicrs Magezine,
was 4 per (tent. The number in 1905
(the latest date for which I have made
the analysis) Wag 8 per *cent.
The uuraber of barren Prebsbyerian
churches- in 1893 was 19 per cent. • The
number ht 1005 wins 20 per cent. The
number of barren Congregational
churches in 1893 was rti per cant., and
twelve years, later the percentage bad
risen to 41.
The aggregate number of ehurchea in
1005 did: riot add a single sole on • eon -
Cession was some 7,000 -an increase of
more thnn 11,000 barren ehttrehes in
twelve years.
There are no corresponding AMA for
Sundny schools, but generally speaking
a barren church is a sure indieittion of a
barren Sunday school. It. Is an alarming
faet that from 1002 to 1005 there was a
shrinkage in the membership of the
Sunday scnoole of the United States.
Simply to have kept pate with the
growth of the population there should
have been a gent of 151,000 selielare,
whereas there WAS, au actual loss of
164,000 cholera.
Mach has been mittle of the fact that
(luting the eineteenth eentury the meet-
befehip of the trangelleal ehiirches of
the United States gained on the poptt.
lation from one member for every four-
teen of the population of 1800, to one
for 'every four of the population of 1900,
But few are aware of the greater part
of tbie gain was node during the first
hell eff the eentury. Awl that during the
hat half the rate of gain steadily fell
until in the last decade it wee only
.onceeiateenth part uf the rate of gain
fifty yeare Lefure.
In view of No steedy deeline in (he
Tate of gain for hall a century We 111114t
WA be etwprisell to learn that five yeare
latev teen the engin gain in woo heti
ilisappearol tinet the Evaintelieel
.Catliollee, Jews nal Aermons, %ilea To
keep pate with the grmilt of the poptt-
latieta
MODERN BURIAL CASKETS.
MOM QF COFFEE.
Sheep in Arabia Ate Coffee Plants,
Became More Lively.
The Use in volfee it+ neeribeil to tho .
1-ewho,
of e monastery lit Arable.
ho, deeireue ot preventing thm
e onks'
irom sleeping at their noeturnal r..
vice, niage them drink infusions of
eoffee, upon the report of shepherds,
who obeerved thet their Wants were
more lively after hrowAng on tits fruit
of the coffee plants. Titie then, an
firms the fact that coffee drinking le
a powerlul etirnulant and provente
sleep. it le elainied that black col -
fee, dripped, is lees injurious than
eoffee served with cream, but the lat-
ter will not be so injurious if al.
toned to stand until it forme a scant
on the cup, winch -can be lifted off.
If you purchase ground coffee, put
it in a glass bottle Mid cork it. It will
retain its strougth Pr years if kept
in a tightly -sealed tin. it exposed.
the aromatic oils evaporate, 1(30114 a
tasteless, woody bean.
• . ir
.. -
(N. Y. Engineering Record).
The supply of electric light ad pow.
er in, in ita nature, )Ilonopolistic. No
community wants ettplicate systems of
supple,' tinting up it streeta with wires
It it can get reaeouable rates from a iiin- .
gle eyetent. 11 such duplicate systems
ecirepete at all, it is generally only for
a short time, end teen eitsues a consolid.
atiou or trainee agreement that leaves
the conanuility no better off than if
tnere were an original monopoly. Would
it not be better to encourage physioal
monopoly wane reserving in the caee of
any grants from the nation the right,
periodically, to regulate the rattle on
any symtent reinforced by fillell grants,
and to require all eupply corioratioes
operating wholly or in part under such
gestate to cone squarely under eationsi
supervision es a neceesary prerequisite to
receiving under any pretext energy from
national sources? The obvious affeet Of
this woulsi be to force consolidations in
each eases, which is physically generally
a good thing, while putting such con-
solidations under public control and sup-
ervision.
Only ICI Per Cent, of the Deed Buried
Nowadays in the Old Time Coffin,
An elaborate burial eaaket lately made
le this city was lined with silk and cov-
ered svith silk Aunt, both liniug and
covering being of a delicate peachbloom
twlietai:aplush onesuckoof
gr
aketet;
si b1ti
plush covered eaeltets are made in blue,
white, black., gray, anti purple, purple
being the color most often used. Made
toof the41atlfion.ese. ' materials, such caskets are
expensive, ranging in priee from $90o
While caskets such as these might ex-
cite wonder, yet Initial caskets of one
sort -and -another haye now come Mee
such general use that throughchite a
great Rart of the cotintry probably titt
more.iIttt 10- per cent. of. thoee who
die aro buried in coffins. With thie
change
nthmasw
ieine a great change in 414.-
The old time coffin was made in one
anciently familiar style. It might be
made of whitewood or oak or mohogany,
and it might be expensively trimmed,
but it was still a coffin; and by the
cabinet-maker or the undertaker all
4offins itreen made: The modern burial,
easket ittrnandezin hundreds of style*and
its minnfacture is a .business isy itself,
Buibit ceiliets of tho 1eaSt; expensive
sorts, of whitewood stained in imitation
of oak or mahogany, may be bonght
•at a cost not much greater than that of
a coffin;' and a cloth acevered caoket may,
new be had as low as UO. The great ma-
jority are -those -ranging in price up to
abent $100, .and the greatest, demand
is for enakets black cloth canefred. •
There are burial caskets *covered with
embossed velvet; and metallio caskets Of
alutitinunt and breeze, berfal caskets of
bronze costiug from $1,100 to $1,800;
and there are many caskets, some itt
great simplicity of design. and others
richly coneted, Made in natious fine
woods. .
Here is it massive burial casket of
teakwood; it's cost $1,000. here is le cas-
ket' of dark red Mahogany finished With
niarqueterie work, the Way being of
sycamore, the price being$900. Here
is a casket tnadei
`of what s called ver-
milion wood, of a deeper hue than even
the darkest red mahogany and having
a beautiful grain, and here is ,a simple
and beautiful eiskee of white mahogany,
this coating $656. ' ten
Burial caskets made of the silver
maple are very beautiful. Of its natural
color the maple would be ver'- light, al-
most white, but to be used for this pur-
pose it is so treated as to make it gray,
and this not ou.the surface alone but alt
through. It is a wood with beautiful
natural markings, a,nd this beautifully
=irked gray wed is finished in the
mado up oaskeb with a dull smooth pol-
ish. From $500 to $800 the silver maple
caskets cost; more of them are sold iu
Philadelphia, thau in any other city.
Am.orican berial caskets in consider-
able numbers are now exported to var-
Mus foreigu countries, including the
West Indies and South America aed
England, South Africa and Australia.-
N. Y. Sum
tit KNOWS MOM
HIS EXPERIENCE
That Dodd's kidney Pills Will
Cure Bright's Disease.
Postmaster Coto Tells How the Great
Cananian, Kidney Remedy Cured
Him After Doctors Had Given
Him Up.
. Le Petit Bois Pratte, Terniscouta Co.,
Que., Jan. 24.--(Special)--Mr. Charles
Cote, postmaster here, is firmly convine-
ed. that Dodd's Ridney Pille will euro
Bright's Disease or Amy other disettse of
the kidneys. He knows it from his men
experience. Item:what he .sayst
'Tor over four years 1 was troubled
with Backache, Itheunuttisna and lack
of ambition, and my urine Was Of a dark
unnatural colbr. X was Attended by
throe doctors who did inc no gotta. The
sleitstte.one told me it Was only a waste a
money ter try anything else As eould
not live more than a year at the out.
"At the verge of death 7 decided to
give Dodd's Kidney Pills a trial, 1 need
eighteen boxes and to -day my Rhetuna.
tient, Back:tette auil Ileadanhe Are gone.
My urine i like tied of a child. 1 feel
7 owe my life to Dodihe 'Kidney Pills."
Postmaster erne had ell the eymploine
of Tirightn Dieease. The doetore
detaly knew he had Bright's Theme, -
the most deadly form of 'Kittery 1)k -
ease, Doild_1.1._,..4..„eitIney Pilleured hint.
They will cure Any ler») ef leiatiey en-
tente.
True Sympathy.
"You aro charged with stealing three
pairs of tronsers," said the -Nage
"Viliat nave tou to say ter yourself?'
••nin welly, emir 'honor," replied the
Ipvtilre:.wer, "but 1 sitde them. my
"You are illechargeti," !said , tint:kid:tee
eutt totto tedoleut milli eye/path". -
Itmlor watt in the henpecked etAss
*elf,
TONIC TREATMENT
FOR INDIGESTION
The Only Sensible Way to..Gure
Stomach Troubles and Give -
New Health.
•
• •
Hells
oft poisonous gases Unit distend the
walls of the atomaeli, and cause serious
interference with other organs, especially
with the action of the heart and lunge.
These poisonous gases have other ill ef-
fedi. They are absorbed by the. bloo4
and so weaken and corrupt it as to
cense aches in remote parts of the body
end the formation ofunhealthy tissee
everywhere. General bodily weakness
•and loss of weight is the result. The
nerves and the brain ere disturhed, and
discomforts ' suce as dizziness, hot
flashes, sleeplessness, irritability and de.
spondeney ,originate from this source.
Experience shows that these . troubles
vanish just as soon as the stomach is
inade strong enough to digeet the food.
In other words'it needs a tonic that wilt
rouse 11 to do the work of ehanging the
food into nourishmelit. The tonic ought
to be one that will agree with the most
delicate stomach, and this is exactly
what Dr, Williams' Pink Pills do. Here
is a bit of strong proof:
:Miss Lizzie Macdonald, Harbor-au-
Bouche, N. 8., says: "Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills have none for me what no other
medicine did or apparently dould do. For
alinost three years I suffered untold
agony from indigestion, 1 would rise in
the morning feeling tired and. worn out.
I lost in weight and was almost reduoed
to a shadow. I was under doctors' treat-
ment almost constantly, but with no
benefit. One day I read the testimonial
of a lady who had been cured of dyspep-
sia by Dr. Williains' Pink Pills, and de-
cided to try them. The first two or
three boxes I took did not show any tip -
parent relief, and 1 began to fear- the
medicine would not help Ina, but aS
bad bought a half butt boxes I decided
that I would use them up anyway.
To my joy, before they were all used 1
began to improve, and I got three boxes
more. By -the time I finislied these I
was again in the besb of health, and had
gained 12 Rounds in weight. I have not
&nee had a twinge of this terrible trou-
ble, and am more grateful than words
ean say for what Dr. Fillituns' Pink Pills
have done for me." "
You can get Dr. Wiliams" Pink Pille
from any inedleine dealer, or by mail at
50 cents a bog or sbc boxes for $2.50,
from Tlte Dr. aledicine Co.,
O
*5*
Love -Making in Mexico.
In Spanishsspeaking countriea
young women arts allowed but little
of the liberty that they enjoy in lands
where English is the native tongue.
They rarely meet young men at social
entertainments, and are never permit-
ted to converse with them except in
the presence of older people. They
do, of course, contrive to carry on fliv-
tations, but chiefly with the eyes. In
every town in a Spanish-speeking
country there is a plaza, where a band
plays on one or two evenings of the
week. The young men and wortien
congregate there, the former walking
round and round in one direction and
the latter in the opposite direetion
Thus they are constantly meeting and
making eyes et eaeli other, but they do
not pair off or sit down on the benches
together. When a young man wants
to pay his attentions to a girl, he
must get notes stnuggled to her or
"play the bear" -that is, stand Under
the window of her rootn and try to
attritet her attention, either by sett-
nading her with some musical instru-
ment, or, if he htts no gift that way,
by simply waiting patiently until she
chanes to leek out and east hint an
encouraging glance. In spite, how-
ever, of all difficultiee and obstacles,
CORI contrives to find it way, and
young people fall in love Mid marry
Just as in lands where etiquette is
less strict tend oppottunities tot tete-
IL-tele convereatious more frequent. -
Front The 3anuary Wido World Mega -
tine.
e----ge-e- -
!needy Theme.
"Archibeld," entlea the wife of the
eluvial writer 10 reeitea tones,
"Datil II:4 1"*" " my," eliouted her
timbal:al item his atm. ;
"Archibithe.eseten.
"Please keep tptiei. Didn't 1 tell you
not to bother me when 1 am liniee"
"Ilut 7 must, dear. Tim ebildren bete
taktn Those six bottles oi gohl pahit you
bought for tbegiex fixturce and -smeared
it on tliewSlls ftom garret to eollar."
nrliat go, lett•y? IVO!, *Mint let that
'worry you. I'll just call it an Mspirits
don and uee it in an Artiele entitled
'Hew Children litighten -Ca the House:
EXCellant ReattOrl.
The ie it, my young
friend that your mother aiwaya doe.,
11114 44arving ohm) you bare compenet to
?
Pieddicentetuse dal always nags
thleas oldie he's doieg it. '
Q•Jeor People.
ruck Inelt (readies scrispoper).--By
gum! Thee must be queer people. dowit
41 New Yntic:
Aunt Ituldeli.-Why, pa?
l'nele t.4ys .ttere that they
here just put a feller in jail for water-
htitis steek l-Sertinton Tribune.
Stidden Reaction,
ChoL•tie Old Omit leinan-Miss, if that
.00l boy of mine inarriee younne-n
eantles Woman (raisiug her lovely
-yes ta lest -Well, Mr. lecadley?
Choleric Old tlentlentan-4:1..,-
desell ,Itisit, 1 eater blame the hey.
• Not Her Affair, but
The groemee ,boy up the
kitthen stairway with .les arm: fiat of
sleek -sees.
"Boy," said the ntietrees of the hottee,
semi:Melt 'Keeney, . "ore your fest.
elen :3 a'
•lie answered, -still (abetting
the stairs.. "It's only •rno tame,: thane
dirlss."
Effect on the. Rising Oenerotion,
Distracted .lot nepeniing• the door
of the plsyrot.m) •-•Wnat are yen
making ell this terrible raeket ;Mouth
Iter Yomigast-We're pktylla con.
great, MM. We've just had e meSsage
from the pres'ilunt:
Might Help Some.
'file Week -ninth hail jam inherited a
forte:rte,
eaten," lie said, "I'm not going to fold
my ha ode a tift do nothing. What do yo
ninth t
-Take your halide to a good menieure,
for tbe first. thing," advised hie lawyer,
Tried Another Way.
• "L mewl toknow arr: Sneaker, who was
with yonr firm. I understand he • is a
trie d It 11 truetea employee- -"
elle wee; trusted, and heat be 'tried,.
trio, if we're so fortnUat a .4 10 eaten
Compensated.
innuelcy at
She --You Ray you ere
verde?
He-enery.
Shee-Well. yeti inu.t be lucky at hyp,
r suppose.
He- -I am. I've eever Neel married.
• .Too Oautieus.
-Maymess-You refused that handsome
name.; lawyer? enhy, I thought you lik-
edlue%alaCale-1 did, but when he propoe-
de to me he put it lu the form of a
hypothetical question 400 words long.
Princely. Sympathy.
Crewsy, how's things
wid yo these days?
Cnsey-01 busy, very busy, ludade.
Cassitly-You don't tell me?
Casey --Aye. Sure iv'ry time I'm at
laysure 1 liov somethin' to do: -Catholic
-Standard and 'Times. '
Usual Difference,
The Mae 1 eau look in your e704,
kat', alta
The 141aiden--1 ant Kirin but wholt 1
told father he looked in Bratietreet's and
saw urinates.
• The Difference..
' Little Tender Livermore -Papa, what it
the difference between a vision ani a,
sight? This book Imp—
air. Livermore -The difference between
a oirl before and after site is married.
Not So Strange,
niwn.Ya WPs during
home, s'et ILi keeps his job.
Onto"
"He's a bypnotic subject."
Fair Exchange.
everting
How ie
•
"Fair exchangeis no robbery."
• With a beautifal maid he was smitten;
Christmas he gave her a pair of gloves -
Ansi then eite gave hi- the mitten.
Give and Take.
"Women 11111it enusider it n dreadful
fete to be old maids," mused Mr. Chug -
water.
"They do, Josiah," said Mrs. Chug-
wnter. "Look what terrible noodles they
sometime marry to eecape it.'
Anti Josiah rubbed his chin, but sale
nothiug.-'11teDite.
Back to Earth.
Automobilist- What ad vantage ha
the airehip over the motor me?
Aoronaut-Well, for one thing, you
win always be sure of linking goad time
ini the return trip. -February Smart Set,
Never Again.
Beene -And are you so fascinated by
your flanece?
Teseie---Faseinated! You ought to see
the cute way he kisses me under my
chin.
Maisie -Yes, it ie elite; 1 taught him
that.--Vebruary Smart Set.
A Veteran,
"They any her married life was -one
long series of Nance."
' "Yes. she always refersto her ali-
mony as her peneion."---Fehrttavy Smart
Set.
Kept in Training.
"Do you give your dog any exorcise"
"Olt. yes: Ise goes for a tramp remit,
day."- Leslie's Weekly.
His 'One Hobby.
'11 ,•ott didn't take SO miteli interest
in horses you WO111:1 be better off." snap-
ped 'lb's. (Srowler. "1'011 11114e bail 'floree.
on your brain nil your life."
"1 %Tin)s:, that is how I happened to
Marty a luag," let isitOsi Mr. Growler, his
-fare A nilm wads(' behind the spertims
paper. -
Perfectly Equipped.
Whim 'Ow iliac Anil loalliyelciokitrt
intlivilital Islet hail asked itt ths Attar
far "e lii ti somethinit te eat" %vie tehi
that he pilule hive it 11117 wite3
a whit,. itt 1,11, we elan , • snook it:.
head motitufully.
"no pot Me :nine." be replanted, hen i
eity hanil is Olt mwthl Iv. I iwat'il 11 11':
111.11'iN roe wiet, in seven."
"All tight!" tends:it:eel the inistrses o'
the Liaise. "Un unt it the lnek v I
tient elieke thee' a -leg fir tii •." einetilds
(Snnpftnitin,