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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-04-01, Page 6PATItOhNIA,Nd$ SONG, hig stay at the beach of time % short, rhe joy of the Lord le long. Give me but room te. strive' my harp, Awl perfect myself hi song. The night shades yield to the morning eiew, The eateh fires dimly barn,. 410 tiny epeek tot the wane dim, d'oriabetiews Inv bark's latent, Voineth the ret to my weary eye'? Rest to my long tin:a heart, .Cometh the eall from over the een, isetaten me rise aud depatt. The music of thne is te Reding Chialee lent the intisiegii are deep and free, 1 gether me :fa ength from day te And wt dh for tho. tall from the boa, (Reilly T leave thrdstrewn beach,4't Wawa I have loved se long, Relefteed! 1 bid farewell to time send welcome the signet with song. 'Tie past, the long petrebnan's watch, Sileut the minute gun, The worst of stones lute rolled away, Joy withoat end begun. PRAYER. Our leather in Heaven, Thou aid crowning our lives with Thy kendeess and mercy. Thy kindneas to us le lovieg kindness and nay merey teutter mercy. And yet, like thoughtless and migrate - fel children, we often receive Tay rich- est gifts as a mattev of course, and our heart:slue not lifted tip in loyous thnks- gtvn. We reinember the time of trial and, forget the unnumbered bleseinge that luive been showered upon tie tem Thy bountifal hand. Enable us to culti- vate the grateful spirit; belp us to see. Thy loving heed in all the manifold ex- periences ef life, and to eee how all Thy loving kindnees Bede int higheet expres- sion in the gift of Thy Son. As. we look into His face and see Thy great hive to IA may it awaken e reeponelve love to Thee„ and may our gratitude be melte fested in lives ef cummerated services Amen. THE GENESIS OF LIFE. (By ,A. Bunke). Althougbman is endowed with most marvellous and most varied powers, and is able to harness many of the forces of Nature into his service, and to manufac- ture appliances and apparatus which are capable of producing far greater energy than could be attaulable from any ani- mate sources, yet to create the vital principle a Life is altogether and ut. terly beyond his capacity. It is now uni- versally admitted practically by all scientists that life, whether animal or vegetable, cannot originate spontane- ()ugly, but that all present life upon this earth nuist be derived from, and emanate from, Life. And how marvellous and incomprehen- sible is this vital principle. Involuntar- ily and automatically the heart coutin. nes to beat, with more or less the same regular throb, thron, throb, without rest,- without- Teal pause, until, either by the effluxion of the natural term of its existence, or by violence, or disease (in other -words by the instrumentelity of other and malignant forms of life), or by other life destroying agency, that pulsation is invested. And, once defin- etely stopped, no power on earth an reanimate that vital spark. ,And too -with vegetable life, a form of the vital principle much more persistent and diutUrnal, the tremendous force which, silently and automatically, drives the sap through the stem of a plant, far exceeds that which impels the blood through the veins of any animal. It is calculated that the impetuswith evhich the sap is driven through a vine - stem is five times as powerful as that which forces the blood through the ar- teriesof a horse; and even such a hum- ble form of vegetable life as a fungus exerts, in its growth, sufficient force to lift and displace a heavy paving stone beneath which a minute spore has drifted. In consequence too of this vigorous vitality as .a general Tule the growth of plants is far more rapid than that of animals. The bamboo grows at the rate of six inches daily; while nom a minute seed, almost imperceptible, the giant puff -ball in a single night grows to the size of a gourd. The scientist Lindley caleulated that this strange fun- gus during its twelve hours' growth pro- duces cells at the rate of ninety-six mil- lions per minute! Aye, and only an omnipotent Creator could have originated life upon the earth. He spake the word—Let there he life; first the vegetable, then the ani- mal, then man. But to man also was granted the living soul, which never dies; and according to the conduct of the earth -life, so will be the deathly for the Bout -life. For He who by His power created man, demands from him obedience to Ilis commands, as set out out in His Hoiy Word. But those sacred pages also coevey the glad 'Have that every breath of His law may be ex- piated, and eternal life gained, by sim- ply coming for pardon to the Saviour of the world, who Himself on the cross made atonement for them. THE GLORY OE GOD. God's glory tvill be increased the more we develop according to His pun pese. Those glorify Him the most who are working most efficiently according to His design. God has set Us in the world; He has established the course of ordure, in the midst of which we are moving, and His glory is atomplished the more we fulfill Ilia purpose and tarry on the work to whielt He has eailed us. If eve are to aint at this one object of glorifying God atal doing His will we =let eaell nine at one particular way, aecordieg to the per- tieular gift and character and endow - meets. He has bestowed upon us. Let eath pub before himself the fact that he him a particular calling to which he has been direeted by Clod, and let ain't fulfill that &tiling to the best of his ability.—The Dealt of Ripon, Won DEEDS. Live for /sweet -hien Do good, and leve behind yon amonument of virtue that the storms of life can never destroy, Write your name ,by kindness, love and nierey on Lite heerts of the thousends you come in contact with year by yeer, end you will never be forgotten. No; non name, your deeds will be as legible on the hearig you lenve behhulite the stars on the brow at everting. Good deeds will shine as bright on the earth 4r the gins of heavens—Da Chalmern At th6 0rintert. She Don't you think that lier play- ing thowe remarkable finish (yawilifige—Yes; Wag •g clinieed keng tit% in getting to IL Bosthie Tratieelipt. Long Record of War, Rapine, Opp res Won Bloodshed. The Balkan region may be ealled above all things the lend of -confusion, It is the land. of war, the land of rapine, of cruelty, of treachery, of tyranny, of alined all thths evil, bite above all it Is the land of cantle:den. It lute been so tor 1,600 neare, The confusion began with that inert- elen of berbath1119 Which overthrew the Roman EMpire. The wild tribes which wept down over.the Carpethiana or in from the atemies of Russia found it In the enjoyllient of the Greek and Rellettil civilization, Some of theni swept ore some settled dOwet la the region betweeu the A.driatie end the Bickel( Sea, They tangled up the civilization they found with their own barbaric en:atones, They created a Moan confuelon which ia stfll at the bottom of all the other confusiens that make up the Balkan, problem. In a" ieritory not Vellelt bigger than France /here era te be found to -day the dtstie et searvivals of three races Ring back -co primitive times. The Albanian, Rumanian encl. Greek peoples are lineal' descendants of peoples who have held' 'the e000ti7 since immernerial tinees. The Albaniaes are 1)f the old illyriae stock. Every one knows who the Greeks are. The Rumanians are nobody quite knows who, but most likely the Thea. elm% of old tlays with a. strong Roman modification, not to speak of various subsequent admixtures, Mixture indeed is the racial law of the Balkans, Only the Illyrian blood ie approximately pure. Even the Greeka of to -clay havo a large percentage of Slavic blood in them. The original Bulgars were a Finno- Tartar peaple, akin to the Magyars. But the rime has been so nearly ash:dieted by the Shin% people whom, they found in the regions where they settled that the present Bulgarieue, deapite the name, are far -more Slav than Thiranian be their characteristics. Next after the Illyrian% ter Albanians, the Serbs are the purest blooded Balkan people. But they are a comparatively recent anrival. Thee are probably 90 per cent. Slants. The rano has been only slightly modified. by the peoples whom they oveythrew end intermarried with when they took possession of Servia, Bosnia, Herzegovina., Novibazar and IVIoutenegro where they now make up a majority' of the population. Tangle of Population. But the racial confusion is not hi the blood alone. It is still more remarkable in the matter of location. For instance, of the 4,000,000 Bulgars who live in the Balkans only about 2,- 700,000 live in Bulgaria itself, while the rest inhabit Russia, Rumania., Austria, Hungary and the Turkish provinces, es- pecially Macedonia. On. the other hand, the balance of the 4,000,000 population of Bulgaria. is made up of Turks, Ru- manians, Greeks, Gypsies (52,000 of them), Spanish Jews (27,500), Tartars and samples of all the ether nationalities of Europe. There are to -day 8,000,000 Serbs, but only 2,500,000 of them live in Sonia,. The rest are scattered over Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Novibazar, Croatia, Slavonia. South Hungary, Istria and Dal. matio, In Rumania 92 per cent, of tho people are Wallachs—that is, Rumanians —but only half of the Ruraftnian race inhabits that kingdom the other half being found in TransAvenia, wbieh. is Aintriain in Bessarabia now under Rus- sian rule; in Servia ad in Bulgaria. The Albanian% or Arnauts—they all themselves Shkipetars, by the way—have kept their territory pretty free of straegera. TLey are pothaps the wildest people in the world, and it % said that only Pyrrhus the Great ever conquered them; but besides the 2,000,000 of them inhabiting Albania' the western shore of the Adriatic southof Montenegro, there are 200,000 of them in Greece and 100,- 000 in southern Italy. As for Macedonia to describe tbe nen- fusion of races is tdmost impossible. The characteristic fact is the tendency of all the races to flock by themselves. There is mixture in the towns and Share are a few villages in which Turks, Bulgars and Greeks live together, but for the most part each of these three peoples has its own settlements. You will find a Bulgarian village more Bulgatian than any in Prince Ferdirtand's dominions, and a few miles from it there will be a Greek village as Greek as any in the Peloponnesus. Making a. triangle with the other two, a, Turkish village will be :found v,here every man wears a fez and every woman goes veiled. The Religious War. The tangle of religions is almost °pal- ly remarkable. There are the Moham- medans and there are the Christians, but there are Christians of the Orthodox Greek Church; whom the Roman Whe- lks call schismatie, and there are Christians of the other Greek Church, whom the Roman Catholics call orthodox and who are allied to Rome through the hierarchy of the Grecian Kingdom. 11 niay fairly be said that the hatred between the two sects of Christians is °itan more bitter than that between Christian and Turk. It is a leading if not the leading factor in the Macedonian troubles of to -day, and the unspeakable atrocities which make Macedonia the raost distressful country in the world are just as frequently peepetreted by Greek Catholics upon Bulgarian orthos dox &unbitten or by Bulgarians Upon Greek Catholics as by the Mohammedans upon either. The Greek Church is the church of the majority of the people and bus the State ehtlrelt in Bulgaria, Servia and Rom mania. In Bosnia those ef the Greek orthodox etilnInimion are about 43 per out, of the population, the Mohamme- dans about 85 and the Roman Catholics 21. In Albite% the great majority of the people are Mobaminedane, though fierce- ly hostile to the Turkish Government. There are, however, about 200,000 Chris- tians equally divided between the two sects who hate each other, the Molutin- mediters, Albanians Rea the Turks, With an impartial hatred. Bulgatian Greatness. All the multiform hatreds whielt keep the Draken peoples seething irt disorder and bloodshed. are ceeteriee old in their origin, There were the 13u1garians, ler hi- stanee, who stlreitiTy bit the sixth century Were itt war With the ernperors of CO*, stantinople, tonverted to Christian. ity nt ninth (nanny, reeelted such power in the tenth that their teller, Syitteon, assumed the title Of Czer Of all the Bulgarian—the title Pet revived by Prince Ferdinendesserel ruled over a ter- ritory'extenaing front the Bleck Sea to the Adriatie and stIntoet from the Car - Widens tsouth to Ailliselople. Tail great monarchy was overthrown about the year 1000 A. am we Mid the ilyeentine Emperor, Basil no corn - plating its 'subjection In 1620, when he IltterMed the *tee of Lentirtidttle and found, bit it a treenere of 10,000 pounds weight of gold, equal in value,perhaps, to $2,000,000. His methed of sigiudizing his COluelleet Wes ellaracteeilitie Of the age. lIe eatiSed, 16,000 Of hie eaptivee to be blinded. But to one out of elTery 100 men he spared o single eye, in order that they might lead the whole lament - Able pitaiann to their King, a fugitive in some mountain fastness, It is related Wit he died of horror on beholding them, Te it wonderful that the Bulger Mace the Oreels? • Servlass Heroic Period. Servia also has its heeele period. In 1050 Michael, its Grand Shupan, was recognized as an independent sovereign by Pope Gregory VII, Ito power reached it climax between 1331 and 1335, when Stephen Dushan celled himself the Em- peror of the Rumelittns and ruled ovex territory whielt embraced Bosnia, AI. bailie, Macedonia, Theseely, part of Bul- garia eud Greece as far as the Istineue of Corinth. Stephen Duthan % the greet hero of Servien legend. He lies buried in the Staidenitza Monastery in Servia, and when King Peter was called to the throne he made a pilgrimege thither and kissed the dead Emperor's brow. The remains, wrapped in their ancient winding sheet, are encased in a COffin of black wood and on the breast lies a gold - on crucifix containing in the centre a ,particie of the True Crosse There is an outer coffin also Which was presented. by the ancestors of King Peter,the liar. ageergovitches. It is a massive affair of silver with a crimson velvet top and it great silver cross upon it. When the Obrenovitches were in power in Servia this gorgeous easement waa hidden away in the cellar of the monas- tery and King Alexander and Queen CPraga presented a wonderful set of golden vestments to be used in the great ceremonies of the monastery church. Nowadays the vestments are in hiding in the cellar and the silver coffin is in evidence again. The Servians expect the Emperor Stephen to reappear as a sort of a Meseittle Turkish Conquest. The overthrow of Serval was finally completed, by the Sultan Mohammed II., who, having taken Constantinople in 1453, devoted his attention to the Bal- kan region, From this time until the beginning of the nineteenth century Ser - via had practically no history, but an offshoot from ite peoplekept up the fight against the Turks unceasingly and without ever being overcame. After the battle of Kossovo, 1 1389, a band of refugees under ;One Ivo, the black, took possessien of the rugged mountain tract just above Cattaro, the Adriatic shores. .The region was named Tzarnagora, or the Black Moun- tain, the Montenegro of to -day. Ivo is atiOther of the heroes whom the Serbs expeet to come hank some deg and help drive the Turks out of Europe. The Montenegrins still weer a badge of mourning in their caps for hire. His spirit has certainly been continually alive in the little realm that lie found- ed. Under its Prince Bishope, who awe ceeded each other for more than three centuries from uncle to nephew, Mon- tenegro has not only resisted Turkish conquest but hes frequently sent arm- ies out into Novibazardrtfid Mecedonia, and inflicted tremendous losses upon the /soldiers of the Porte. The Great Awakening. Elba a singular circumstance that the awakening against the Turkish domin- ation which lasted for nerudy 350 years after the conquest showed itself in sev- eral regimes about the same time, Just at the period when Alexander Ypsilante was putting an end to Turkish misrule in the country which is now Rumania, the Greeks were starting that heroic struggle for independents) in whith Lord Byron played a picturesque part. The Servians simultaneously began a bitter and determined fight to throw off Turk- ish In 1804 Kara George, Who was cer- tainly a peasant and perhaps a brigand, finding that he was down on a list of persons to be massacred, took to the mountains and raised the standard of revolt, He defeated the Turkish force and in 1800 be took possession of Bel- grade. The Russians helped. him for a while then deseeted him, and he was obliged to take refuge in Hungary.. The Turks swept over the country in 1814 with murder and pillage. They crucified 300 Christians at Belgrade. But now one of the lieutenants of Kara George began to loom up with new strength. This as Milos& Obrenoviteh, also a peasant, a swineherd who had acted as sPy for Kara George in the esialy part of the struggle. His bands in 1815 made sueh headway against the Turks that the Sul- tan was forced to make terms with hini, Kra George came heck into the coon - but Milosch betrayed him to the Turks, who kilted him. Rivalry thus re. moved, Miloseh had himself proclaimed in. 1817 hereditary prince of Servla. In 1830 the antonom, of the prima pality was recognized by the Porte and then began its tarbulett career as a European State, The descendants of Kant George and of Miloschintrigued and conspired for the throne. The Obrenovitehes were deposed in DMZ and the Katagorgovitches seized the tit% of prince, A few yeate later a prince of their line was assassinated and the Obrenovitchas came back, and thus it was that Prince Milan, an Obreno- vitch, found lifitiself on the throne at the era of the ilusso-Turkish wars Another region in which the standard of revolt was raised in the beginning of the nineteenth eentury Was the south - ere seetion of Albania, where the famous or infamous Ali Pasha, the lion of Jan- ina, established for a few brief yearn sort of independent power, Those who are interested in his sareer Can gain a good "viesv of it on easy terms from Maumus joicalei novel "The Lien ot Jae- Bulgariah Ateoeitiee, All these etrugglee in: the, early part of the nineteenth ceettny brought free- dom in one degree or another to the par- ticipating states. Another fierce strug- gle egaituit the 'Jenks began in 1816. In these matters them teems to be a soli of eontegion. It is certein that an epidemic of tweet Tail through the Balkan panieettia bit (hat year. 'Bul- garia, which had been. SO enslaved AS to be Wien the peasant state, After ten - tilting' ofsubmiesiou, sheaved. Aloe of awakening. The brutelitiee of Turkielt rule teemed tie be brought to a head by the cetablishinent of tt Circeselou colony in the heart of the eauutry. The nee/sentry mealiest and the Bashi 13azotiks, the Turkielt irregttiat soldiery, eutiateined espeeially for purposes of ittroeites were Sient in to put down the uptitingi The tesseuletiolle Of heariel anti villages were wiped out. The bowies were Mimed, the women outraged, or .cavried off to Turkish Imams, Waldron were slaugh- tered la their mother' knees, end men were burned alive in the clittreitese hum dresle at a time. When the 1141Wei of thee* deluge were spread through Europe by Januexius Aloysius histeGoba,n, the fam- ous correspondent of the irondelt Deily Telegraph, there was an uncontrollable outbursb of liorron and the role of the Turk M the devastated midi% was doomed, 1314 gillittlialle011ely With the Bulgarian hasurrection the Servians under Prime Milen had deelered wee on Turkey. The troops sent against them also wasted their country with murder and. Pillage. a Bosnia and tlerzegoVinit wee. alne Welt and illSO more atrocities, Afoutenegro &eared war on the dale ten and an Army of brave monnteineera Punched into _Macedoelit. Vidierever the Sultan's isms went to oppose them, there also were unspeeable enmities a:imitated an the Christian populatioe. It was expeeted that England, would take the lead bit endieg this dentinal= of murder, lust and. robbery; but Eng- land., under (Redstone, temporizedand tegotiatetli Russia, went to wee, and with the Remodel -la, Sensheris stud foie- tenegrine as her ale, drove the %hake back past Pleven, and Salina, rase, over the Balkans into Itunielie aod as far eolith almost as Adrianople, when. the Sultan gave way and signed the treaty of Sao Stefano, by wawa he surren- dered the greater part of his European dominion% Reesman itt's Progress. While all thie was gOing on ill Bul- garia., Enillaniat was in the Meta prole pining greatly and civilizing herself, The national exhibition held two nears ago at Bucharest in honer of the fortieth annivereary of King Carlos' accession to the rulerthip was a great den-J.4)114ra,- toin of material and intellectual pro- gress. • Under the genial guidance of Queen Elizabeth, the famous "Ciarnien Sylva," literature and art have gained new headway; but even Rumania, has had her troubles and the revolt of the peas - Sint limners last year against tate great landed, nobility and the money leaders showed that a, -readjustment of condi, tions is atilt necessary in this inoet favored of the Balkan land. Servia's Dark Story. The history of leery% since the Treaty of Berlin has been one of material pro- gress.' The capital, Belgrade, has been practically rebuilt and modernized in the last thirty years; the tradeo2the country has been greatly increased; its industries and agriculture are Hanish - Ing. Its government, however, has been a troublous affair. • King Milan found the debautheries of Pans and, Vienna, mare to his taste than ruling over the Serviann Be ab- dicated the throne in 1889, turning it over to Alexander, still iso young that fe Council of Regency beta to be estab- lished. One fine day when he was about 18 Alexander asserted himself. Ile seized the reins of power end clapped all the regents in prison, and then followed 14 years of capricious rule, such as might be expected of a bay who was half a genius, half an idiot. The end ca,me In June, 1903. Some say it was an Austrian plot to cause chaos which would have justified the Austro- Hungarian Kaiser in seizing and annex- ing Servia in his dominions. Others hold that the endurance of Alexander had reached. its limit and that *it was to prevent savage despotism and masa- ore that regieride was decided on. Anyway, the fact is that on the night of June 10th the regiments quartered in the capital surrounded the royal palace and after a long and fevered search, in the course of which 001110 faithful at- tendants were struck down, a band of ofe ficers found Alexander and Drage hiding bit their eight robes and killed them b°tIVl'ith Alexander died the last of the Karageorgevitah dynasty, and King Pet- er, the head of the exiled Obrenoviteh house, who had been living almoet poverty in Switzerland, was called to the throne, where he still site, not over formly, according to Austrian versions of the situation, but firmly enough, ac- cording to the accounts of many inde- pendent English observers. What all these new countries need is peace and. capital to develop their re- sources. It is believed that they have enormous mineral wealth which England would be glad to develop were it not for the war risk. The Lure of Southern California. For over a quarter of a century, or since 1884 or 1885, there has been an extraordinary movement from all over the country to the southWesterneportion of the United_ States, the sleepy region of the old Sparkish dons who, for cen- tunes, lived and owned principalities on the shores of the Pacific, literally be- tween the desert and the deep sea, the great American desert reselling out to the east, a dominant terror alike to friends and enemies. This movement had taken the shape of -tourists' excursions, -very similar to the throngs who yearly migrate to the south of France and Italy, but with this exception: in Europe they are tourists, pure and simple; they rarely remain, while the men and weeneli, generally rich or well-to-do, who have braved the terrors of the great "Ameriean Desert," have in so many instaoces succumbed to the clime*, eeenie and other therms of southern California that in a guar - ter of a century they Lave taken pos. sesseon of the region, planted it with countless orange groves, built large towns and villagesand made of the ,ptieb- lo of Los Angeles, an adobe town of a - few thousand Mexicans and Amerleane, a city of neerly 300,000 souls. Whet the magnet has been to attract this vast army three'lhousand miles, and bold them, on tot fell to be of iti. tercet, as nowhere in the world has there been so interesting, so rapid and sensational a building up of communi- ties as in California, especially in the south. There have been Itution migra- tions in various parts of the world, but the average pioneer moves to bettet his eondition flnaneially, arid his evolution and that Of the town or village he es- tablishes IS a slow and painful opera, - time Mt le the /southwest, le that half of the State called vionthern Califotnia, the results seem to Mime been- produced, to a large esttent, for aesthetics kettitolle, and the region to -day is a vast colony, coinposed in the main of cultivated, well-to-do, often very wealthy eastern men and Wettest who have suddenly moved in, taken pease:salon and set the etamp of the% virility on the WA, which finds expression in elicit aides as Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Redlands,Paseclena, San Jose and Sante 110114.,—Prolit "Along the American 111- bit the Outing Magazine for Fele tun ri, Nasal Orthography. Teeelter-e-Yertr tame k John Thinning, is it? Where are you from, &limy/ New Wath. 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Perhaps this one box will cure you—it has done so for others. /f so, I shall be happy and. you will be cured for 2c (the cost of a, postage stamp). Your letters held confl- dentlally. Write to -day for my free treat - Merit. MRS. P. B OURRAH, Windsor, Ont, CAUSE FOR REGRET. "Tea, sub," said a prominent son of the Dark and Bloody Ground, "it is a lamentable fact that the you/Tull gen- eration is tuhning- its back on tradi- tions and institutions of our beloved southland. Now, tenth was Cithnel Clawkriglins eldest son, as fine a boy, 1 -gad, suit, as mit lived; he went nawth, and by -end -bye shot himself in e saloon in New Yowk,..when lie might just as well have stayed Leah and had some one else do it for him."—Puek. 414, $11.00 Atlantic City and Return From Suspension Bridge, vis. Lehigh Valley It. R., Thursday, April Sth. Tickets good 15. days. Particulars, 54 King Street Bast, Toronto. HARD ON THE PARENTS. • "Your daughter and her beau were engaged a long time, weren't they?" "Goodness, yes! I had to buy eight now sofa cushion covers before they got married at last."—Cleveland Loden • en Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia. 4 MS METHOD, "Why do you always burst into tears when you come home from the club?" "My wife would burst into tears if I didn't, Beat 'cm to it, old, boy. It's the only waya—Louisville Cot -trier -journal. -* IVIinard's Liniment Ciires Burns, etc. Tit foe Tat. joima—Well, you and I won't be neighbors much longer. I'm going to live in a better locality. Smith ---Se am 1. Iones--Whet, aro you going to more, too? Smith—No, Ism going to stay here. Cleveland Leader. Thoee Spring Hats. Theee new eating hats are frightful thiugs; They lotik like W1104111/11 When invert- ed; To .eiteli a Miming garden eliuge, With bele and there a twig inserted; If ever, elute this world began, More homely headgear WEN- invented, The poor inventor, whether man Or WOntall, ilitiet have bent dem:mina, You wonder when you see theta in kihow windowe scattered through the eity, liow winneet wearing them rusty Wilt Mode love or be coneiderea Prettehl Yon ask youreelf as you behold, Them on the du:melee, forced to bear them, How lovely woman, young or old, May ever be induced to wear Oren. Bet be of good cheer yet end eline theseasingly to hope, *it'brother; The maiden will bo sweet this spring, And 'charming stilt, somehow or other! She never yet has fallen to stir The old, disturbing,. heavenly paesion, No matter whet the 'enlister Decreed to be the latent faehion. --Chlestgo Record -Herald, ECZEMA CURABLE? PROVEN! .1.6i•••••••••, Attorney et Moline, Ill., Oonvineed by Oil of Wintergreen Compound. Them is nothing that will ConViage a la-Ob- Yer except evidence. Now, here is some rather startling evidence ot 8 imple home cure for eezeina winch oon- .vinood ono lawyer, le. C. Butrilten, attorney tit Meline, Ill, lie tells haw all of winter- green compound mixed with tinenol and glY- cerinene in D. D. O. Prescription, cured eim In thirty days after thirty-two yettre of suf- fering, "For 32 years," writes Attorney EntrIken, "11 WU troubled with eczema, seebs all over my face, body and head. I could rea a hair brush over ray body and the floor would be covered with scales enough to 2911 a bas- ket; I tried everything—salves, internal med- icine, X-Ray—all without result, "just it month ago I was induced to try ri.1),D. Prescription. The iteh was relieved instantly: so I continued. It ts just a month now and 1 am completely ouree. I have not ipartiole of itch ape Ole goatee have deep - pee off, "I cat linty say again, CURB DISCOV- NAND. 1 am now starting all eczema suf- ferers on the right track." For free stunple bottle write to The E. 13 D. laboratory, Department D., 23 Jorder, St, Toronto, For eats by all druggists. * 6 * Indian Runs .Down Wolves. Charley Taylor, a hell -breed Indian living at Solon Springs, a small town near Superior, is in the wolf hunting business for the bounty there is in in and catches the wolves by marling them down. He hit the bot trail of Cale Of the timber beasts February 10 and overtook the exhausted anmial ot Februavy 22. He killed it with a stout club which he =nice when "bunting," Taylor says that there is nothing 're- markable about hunting wolves in this manner, Wita snowshoes a ,man eau run down a wolf, witose pace is slower in snow, la from oile and a half to two days, but Taylor was without snow- shoes. All one needa la endurance, pa- tience and the ability to follow the hall of the wolf after dark. The Indians usually hunt in pftirs.—Superior Corre- spondence St. Paul Pioneer Press. Horsemen, Read This. I -have used Mde.TARD'S LINIMENT in my stables for over a year, and eon. sider it the VERY BEST for hove flesh ca,n get, and would strongly recome mond it to all horsemen. GEO. HOTIGIL Livery Stables, Quebec, 95 to 103 Ann Street. Plague of Wood Pigeons. Following the example of the Devoe - shire farmers, an organized effort is be. ing made by Hampshire agriculturists to reduce the vast number of wood pigeons in the county, which dining the last few weeks have committed havoc among green crops, Shoots have been arranged nightly, and as the birds came in to roost large numbers are killed. Great num- 01 the birds axe bred yearly in the New Forest, and itt the winter months they are largely increased by migrants from Scandinavia.—From the Lennon, Evening Standard. Gold Laid Watch eisaranteedfor 20 years FRES forselling4 dozen Co - bait Gold Inkless BEMS at sc. each, These pens write a beautiful color by siroplY din - ping in water. No ink re- quired. Write to-da,y,i We trust you with the pens, sell them and return the money and win this tittle beauty Gold Finished Watch ana also a lovely Tea Set Free COBALT GIGLD PEN 00. Dent 130 eoronto,oin. SOMETHING NEW. "Does your opera open with the usual chorus of merry villagers?" "No; my opera is very remarkable. Tt opens with a chorus of disgruntled tax. payers."—Louisville Courier -journal. 4 *4. Repeat it:—" Shiloh's Cure will al. ways cure ray coughs and colds." Preliminary. "Mrs. MeGoozle, your husband is a singularly gifted man. It's a wonder to mo that he islet on the lecture plat- form." . "I think he conteinplates taking to that SOMe day. In fact, he has been lec- turing in a desultory sort of way, just for practice, for the last ten years." "Why, where, Mrs. McGoozlef" "ten home. I'm the audience," • • * $1.1.00 Waslilngtoii, EC , and iteturn Prom Susnentien Drift*, Via Lehigh valley Fridtty, April 23r4. Tickets good 10 days. Partleulars, 54 Tans Street !list, Ter- mite, Ont. Submarine Dail in Vienna. subrueriee ball is the latest attrac- tion devised by the Prineeet :Metternich. Every year the Princeopenthe Vien- na Seftaint with a hall at her palitee, Tide year she sought the nesistitnee Of well 1010%11 Seellie artisints,siailieulndtolive arnesdulitogweaas. 11147t11811ellslitili;oargcous scene at a panto- mEve y guest in devising their costumes haliliedt.T) borrow something froin the flora and fattne of the sea. The imams repre- sented a gigantie agearium, or, more eon reetty, the 'bottom of the eeit, TLere were enchanted grottoes, strange r0ek4, peculiar plants and beds of coral, 'Ilse dowers appeared in eostunme cleeorated with sea roses, royals of the molt deli. care shades, and altott of hellfisle including lebsters.—From Throne Ana Country. nem ere etrile things In life OA - Mile almost no easy to a Mall as steal- ing them, liALP TUE TOIL of household work is taken away when Sunlight Soap IS brought into the home. F or thoroughly cleansing floors, metal+work, wails and woodwork, Sunlight is the most economical both In time and money. dilasemeaseeepeseasesamemeaummeaatesoeseer Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree, A, correspondent tells of coming across, during a country stroll, a climbing shrub with green foliage and a few therms, On taking it home and examining it he towel that it was the pleat conutionly known as the Duke of Argyll's tea tree, behniging to the same natural order (Soler:maid as the potato and tomato. Loudon tells no that le got its aristo- eratie name front the feet that e tea pleat, Thea viridis, was sent to the Duke of Argyll at the &tine time as this plant, and the labels became accidentally transposed. The alien seems to have quickly established itself in the Routh - ern counties of England and was re - 'corded by British botanists. under ;the name of Lyetum barbarum, the Barbary box thorn, It Is described in the text books as a naturalized British plant on the eoutliern Meets of England, but it seems to have established itself Well On the Scottish coasts too. Like a good many other aliens It has flourished for a long time under a false name in this country, for it was only lately •discove ered that its real mini Is Lyctum chin- ense, and that it isit native of China and not of Barbary, as was thought:— The Scotsman. 41 * Regain Nerve and Vital Energy From Walton P, 0,, Qtte., comes the following from Mr. Nazaire Begin: "If anyone had told me any remedy could build up my nervous system so well, I would not have believed them, Before using Ferrozone I was run down in nerve and vital energy, and in very weak health. I didn't get enough aleep at night, felt poorly in. the day time, Fer- rozone bas filled me wth energy and vim, increased my weight and made a new man of me." IlundrecLe tell the seine story—weak ad dispirited, everything going wrong, unable to catch up. They took Ferrozone and all wa.s changed to health and seren- ity. Price 50c, per box at all atalers. -• • e Maine Schoolboy Traders. With a reeord of swapping four watches in Ono day Albert Kilby, a four- teen-year-eld Freeport schoolboy, claims the cluimpionship of Maine. Youeg KR - by can be found at any place at any time, wherever it crowd has collected or is liable to collect, trying to trade \vetches, and he rarely fails to locate a custonaer. Saturday the boy sold a watch for $8. He bought it back for $2 and another to boot, then finding his customer still open for business he gave him an stlann clock for the watch. Within the last year Kilby has traded more than 300 watches,—Kennebec Journal. BETTER THAN SPANKING. Spanking does not cure children of bed-wetting. There is a constitutional cause for this trouble. Mrs. M, Sum. mars, Box W. 8, Windsor, Ont., will send free to any mother her successful home treatment, with full iustrutions. Send no money, but write her to-dity if your children trouble you in this way. Don't blame the child, the chances are it can't help it. This treatment also cures adults and aged people troubled with urine M. ficulties by day or night. Paris Doctors May Wear Badges. The Paris Medical Society is consider- ing asking physicians to wear badges in the streets and public places so that they can be easily found in ease of aeCidaats. It is not infrequent for a person in need of medical aid or acting as :nes. senger for some one who has to run for blocks before encountering a doctor's sign, and at any time he - might ur- knowingly pss a physician. —From Po- pular Mechanic& 4 * • M i n ard ' s Liniment for sale everywhere. His Burst of Generosity. "Your boy's injury is not as severe as I had anticipated," the surgeon as- sured him, "I shall not have to ampu- tate I haims leg iand' to hear you say so," said Mr. Tyte-Phist, with emotion. "Still if it had been necessary in order to save Itis life, I—I was willing to hear the ex- pense of it!" • • Minard's Liniment Oures Dandruff. A ()EWA'S Wetehrittle TO Slefdle TEA.5, tb• hest ftweillee. Alfred Tyler, Lea- den, Out. A.ONNT wAN,re,D IN Witeli.Y 'row:i to menstio our nue of opinion*: enor- mous sate ;move banunse men; writs fur narelculares sample, ni tents. Sterling Soo- verlY Ce., A Tarouto street, Termite, Can. •-• AND WOMEN—TO' SEL14 TITUS znaeliftlge4aintfootirjgrimfg:ketiler:?7bIrwpIX tit, A. Jamas Chosher, l'ort Helm: Ont. FARMS-act, Farm For Sale awastsersta Stretit's New afonthly Bulletin ot nest Bargee:is, profueely illustrated, nulled free; we pay your R. R. fare, E. A. STROUT CO., Book p 1. warn', targot Farm Dealers, 0steepitylnds., tinatesa,fil? LI ON 0.0,10—TWO IIUNDIIND AND FUlt- -acty EUWEE Una in Iliatitoba. Price, gem/ Per atTO. Sydney Smythe, 401 Talbot se, nous don. fent. FQR SALE VVPOLUSIN MILL FOR S4LE-1M' custom and roan order buelneee 30 State; age compels retirement; don't write- unleee yott mean beefiness. Win. Latrubmt, Reed city. miousan. LUMBINO—AN AGM) PLUMBUN WILL eel!, Ids old eetablished businees and acme, velue about r.308. MoKenetry, 98 Dun- das street, Toronto, Oat. LOTS IN PRINCE KUPBRT, THE, (+RAND Trunk Pacific terminus, will be put on the market in May or JU114 next. Persons lutendiug to invest should write for Infer - minion are advice 10 the Prince Rupert Real- ty -Commercial Co., Limited, 430 Richard &treat, Vancouver, 13. 0. SNAP FOR FIPThI1I2N HUNDRED— .ane stere, rented for 1001 year* at ele.00 Per menth; one lean etore, occupied as bar- ber slop, boots, ehoeo and tobaccos, or will rent barber shop and sell stock; good reasons for eelling; good businees; good localltY; to tallways; O. P. 11coming. el, A, Ken- nedy, Brecinn. Ont. 200,000 WILLIAMS STRAWBERRY PLANTS The famous commercial berry. Also Senator Dunlop, Brendywiue, Cardinal and Early. Write now for Sidon:nation and prices. S. 11, RITTENHOUSE, Jordan Harbor, Ont. LAND WANTED. EFORE SELLtela YOUR SCRIP, WIREi -leo me quantity and lowest price you will take, subject telegraphic acceptanee, you to forward subject sight draft; any bank. Ken- ning, 354 Maln, Winnipeg. ANTEDH —SOUTAFRICAN VEVR E- W ans' and warrents; spot mesh paid. W. P. Rodgers, real estate agent, 608 McIntyre block. Whinlimg, Mau, Making It Clear. The vicar was invited to share in the festivities held in honor of the coming - of -age of the son and heir of a certain Berkshire squire. At the dinner table he sat in front tia a goose, and the lady of the house occupied a eliair on his Ieft. "Shall I sit so dose to the goose?" he asked, thoughtlessly. Then, finding that his words might be misconstrued, he added, hastily, "Excuse me, Mrs, II--; I meant the roast one."—Tit-Bits. THE "CHAMPION" Ari GAS and GASOLINE ENGINES i It must give sails- . _ faction or you don't pay for it. zez, r'• SOLD ON TRIAL Is the only Gaeollee Eloglne that you can try before you buy. 2 know what the "Manx - pica" will do, and I want you to be fully wished, with it before you pay for it. The tatiOe is low. 11'ull Dartioulaes tree. Wm. Gillespie, Dept. ',NI" 00 Front St. East, Toronto Wanted Toast Butter. A young woman in Philadelphia but recently married was enjoying the de- lightful novelty of marketing one morn- ing shortly after the terminetion of the honeymoon. "I with to get some butter, please," said she to the dealer. "Roll butter, mum?" asked the man. "No," promptly replied his customer, "we wish to eat it on toast. My hula band doesn't care for rolls."—What To Eat. Cc N A new diecovery. Ma more e rejuvenating, vitalizing • •" force tban has ever before been offered Sufferers from lack of vigor and vital weakness which sap the pleasures of life should take C. N. one box will show weeder- ful results. Sent by mail iu plain package only on receipt of this advertisement and one dollar. Address, The Net -vine Co., Windsor, Ont. NO OCCASIONS Philanthropist—Haven't you any sym- pathy for the unemployed, colonel? Politieal—I don't know any unem- ployed, ein Every man of my acquaint- ance has been. working hard for tho lest two or three weeks trying to land a job in Washington. RepeatCure will always cu soutigiiiolisvasnd colds," 04• NO txAor EQUIVALENT. "It would be correct to say, then, that you are on the water anon, wouldn't gtlished actor; it, 10'x' oyhelitdhethreepodinisetr. in "that hardly expresses it. I have merely quit drinking coffee tied taken to more wholesome beverages. You might say, perhaps. that I am o11 the milk wageo," MAKE YOUR OWN ERICK WITH THE LITTLE GIANT Cement Brick Machine The simplest, most tOmpatt and practical Medlin° made. Makes plain or fancy brick. Saves one-fifth the material. Easy to work. A •ioy can operate it, an pay foe itself in four days' work. Price, $25. T FOR FULL I,ARTIOCLARS APPLY TO HAMILTON STUART. Sole Agent. for Canada LAWLOR NUILDING, TORONTO •••••45. THE FAVORITES MDY'S "SILENT" 'MA'rCHES Is anent att the SPhiltX I " THE MOST pritrea MATCHES YOU EVER STRUCK Always, everywhere in andst asIt for Eddy's Mafehes