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What Iiappe�ed to a Room
tiunter in New York.
tBy W. J. Lampton in Naw York
Herald,
Dobbins is a bachelor and old enough
to be (Iifferent. Perhaps it is his fault;
perhaps is is his nlisfortuue. In either
event be is a bachelor, and this is no
sentimental acid enlotiounl biography. Ile
had lodged in New Yolk for three years
with friends in an excellent neighborhood
at a nominal tent -•423 a month for a
very pleasant room. here he was as.
comfortable ani
s satisfied as a bache-
lor
a s re t.
lor• has le right to be, but he did not real-
ize the snap ho had, Not long ago his
friends made arrangements to ge West
and Dobbins was gently notified that ha
would have, to sccure.new quarters. He
was sorry to lose the friends, but the
new quer•tcrs never bothered him a min-
ute, in a city, of one hundred and fifty
or twe hundred. thousand houses, say a
million rooms, more or less, he felt as-
sured that he would find hundreds to
rent which would be eminently satisfac-
tory to a man of his simple tastes. lie
bad in a
careless, desultory sort of
way ay
glanced over eolininis and columns of
"Furnished Rooms to Let," but the ad-
vertisement's meant nothing to him be-
yond the gratification of an idle curio-
sity when there was nothing else to read
in the paper. Now he realized their use-
fulness acid he thanked the man who in-
vented advertising. • There was nothing
for hint to do but make out a list of a
few from the many offered, run around
the corner and pick up a desirable home
almost anywhere.
So Dobbins one afternoon selected,
from his newspaper a list of several F.
le. T. L. notices of places in his neigh-
borhood and vicinity, and ambling cheer-
fully around+tire corner rang the aoor
bell at a nice looking house. A tidy ser-
vant met hint, to whom he stated the
object of his visit, She called the land-
lady.
"You want to see a room?" she saluted
inquiringly.
"If you please, madam," replied Dob-
bins with deference, because the Iady
looked like a high born dame.
"What kind of a room do you want?".
"Something cosey and comfortable for
a bachelor Who. is fond of homelike sur-
roundings,' he smiled blandly.
"I think I have just what you want,"
she smiled back at him and led the way.
upstairs, Dobbins following lightly as a
bird.
On the second floor she ushered him
into a handsome room with an alcose,
two windows looking on the street, bath
adjoining and other accessories of com-
fort and civilization.
"This is just what I'm looking for,"
exclaimed Dobbins, greatly relieved •by
the thought of bow easily it .was to . fell
right into a good thing first off.
"I thought you would like it," smiled
the gratified landlady,
Dobbins nosed around, inspectinng ev-
erything in sight, and fairly chuckling
at the thought of a bath within two
step& of his door. At the other pines he
was compelled to go the length of the
hall to reach his morning tub, and Dob-
bins would rather mise horning prayers
than his morning tub,
"I'll take it," he said, finally, and paus-
ed a moment as if something liad been
forgotten. "HIow much is it?" he added.
"Twenty dollars," replied the landlady
amiably.
Dobbins gazed about him in astonish-
ment. IIe had been paying $25 to his
friends for a room that wouldn't cone
pare with this.
"Only twenty dollen?" ho exclaimed
with joyous enthusiasm. "Wily, I've
been paying $25 a month for a room
much less attractive than this one." •
"This is not twenty dollars a month,"
the lady explained, haughtily. "It is
twenty dollars a week."
"A weckt" gasped Dobbins, and held
himself up by the mantle. His salary
was $1,500 a year, and twenty a week—
well,
eekwell, twenty a week was a disbursement
out of proportion to the receipts,
Dobbins took his hand away from the
mantel and slowly straightened ltimself.
"Does that include board and clothes
and spending 'money?" he inquired, des-
perately.
"Sirl" she almost hissed at him.
Dobbins wad chivalrous, and. to what-
ever depths of impolite and sarcastic
repartee lie aright with justice have
sunk, he did not. He restrained all vio-
lent impulses end maintained the level
of his gentle breeding.
"I beg your pardon," he said, cour-
teously. "I have made a mistake in the
relation of time and money, that's all.
Good morning,"
He surveyed both sides of the street,
up and down, All the houses looked
alike to him. Tho windowed monotony
of brown depressed frim; the stolid sim-
ilarity of stoops confused him. Re fear-
ed to eneer another house in that neigh-
borhood, and flurried on to a block fur-
ther west.
Choosing a number at random from
his list, he climbed the stoop steps ansa
pulled the bell as if it were the rope to
hang him. .was new at the business,
,
but discouragement had begun early.. Ho
was admitted by an unlaundered lady
whose hair would have sunt a whole bar;
ber shop out on strike.
"I'd dike to see the landlady about
rooms," he ventured, midlly.
"I'm the landlady," site replied, with
seeming curtnesss. "What kind of a
room -do you want?"
Dobbins felt better. If this were the
landlady she lacked the style that cost
money, and the man of moderate means
braced up. He even felt toward her as
he imagined the other lady must have
, felt toward, him only a short time ago.
But he was cautions.
"I Want a large, sunny back room on
bathroom floor, two flights up, and at
$25 a month," he replied, somewhat cock-
ily"I'll show you what I've got," she said,
CANA A
Assurance CO
Financial Statement
58th Amnual, Report
ANYBODY CAN MAKE A
DELICIOUS INFUSION WWI
not be all he getting
)las, statistically, a JJa1 Women
slim chance of .esiree sandier. `.fha ova •
men are not only rare, but good. More
itr to lotyrnmtleSbjtMhPety well They
indomitable con- uuecMuch 5.4soussed et women'Ii c'hip-,.
trot of the men, whom they use as niero The Future of a Country Depends on the
convenient agencies with which to carry •r� ,,�I
out their purposes in ail the relations of et ,t3:71 or Its Women,.
life, -•-••Philadelphia• Enquirer,
KING EDWARD'S TASTES,
Likes Confectionery, /fever Uses Butter,
and Savors. Black Bread..
CEYLON TEA. There's no trick about it, "The quality' Iona upward is never conventional when
Is there•, that's the 1I1fhQle secret. plat -sky Mixed or Nat» be can ovals being so with satisfaction to
bimeelf and those around biro. las 5lajes+,y
• ural Croon.
Sold only in sealed lead packets. B
TRY A TEN CEN
- Received the ldgliest award anti G
making acatch at her slattern skirt and
mounting the stairs with Dobbins at her
slipshod heels.
She took hint up three flights to a
north front room, e.orfortably furnished
and of creditable appearance as com-
pared with the mistress of it.
"How much is it?" he asked, before
further consideration.
"Thirty dollars a month, including
heat, light and attendance"
"Bat it isn't a back room and it. isn't
sunny, and it isn't on the . bathrbom
floor and it isn't up two flights and it
isn't $25 a month," he protested.
"I didn't say it wall, did I?" she eamo
at
back a c pun with some asperity.
s cr't
t
Y
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"No, ma'am," he admitted, humbly.
"But it's a beautiful room, in a good
neighborhood; there isn't a bug in the
bed, and it's very cheap," she Insisted.
"X know that, ma'am," Dobbins'plead-
ed, 'but 'it isn't what I want."
"Well, so meaty people do:t t know
what they do want." she saki, 'and I
thought youenight like it, and it was all
I had."
"Thank you, very much, I am sure,"
he responded. "I'm very sorry it does
not suit."
Ito stumbled back down the dark
stairs, the lady. following with contin-
ued assurances of the excellence of the
room, and got away into the street once
more.
:He hesitated a moment turning,
vaguely about, and chose a new number
from his list.
"It's more uncertain than a lottery,"
fro growled, as he rang another bell.
He was met by a man.
"Sorry,"' said the man, in response
to his inquiry, "but we're full up. What
kind of a room did you want?"
Dobbins realized the futility of tell-
ing him, but there was a peculiar satis-
faction common to all human beings to
tell what they want, even though they
know the impossibility of attainment,
and he went over the same old large
back room, sunny, bathroom floor riga-
marole.
"We had just the thing yesterday,"
the man said, consolingly, "but a party
took it. about an hour ago."
"How much?" asked Dobliins, with
the fluttering hope that the answer
would be fifteen a week.
"Five dollars a week."
• Dobbins choked a bit, bowed'and. went
forth into the forbidding streets.
He rang a bell and again a front door
was opened to him. It was it pretty
doorway, with a pleasant hall beyond,
. iW 61 a YI tii,adl i ,Ilii B d. 914(iNii,
ASSETS
Government, Municipal, and
other Bonds, Stocks, and De-
bentures... .... •.. ......
Mortgages on Real Estate...
Loans on Bonds, Stocks, Etc...
Loans on Policies
Real Estate owned (Including
Company's Buildings in To.
ronto, Hamilton, Montreal,
Winnipeg, St, John, N.B., and
London, Eng.)
Premiums in Transit and defer-
red (net) and..lnterest ac-
crued.,.... ... .,..
Other Assets
Cash on hand and in Banks.,
$17,249,744,96 ,
4,506,711.29
308,093:66
3,504,421.18
, 1,762,633.99
989,898.30
402,996.00
290,099.62
$29,074,599.00
RECEIPTS
premitun and Annuity Income
(net) $3,043,178.15
Interest, ete 1,204,851.50
Profits on sale of Saeurities 52,361.63
$4,300,391.28
LIABILITIES
Reserve rand Company's Stan-
dard (Htn 8% and 3i%) •
Death Claims in Course of Set-
tlement, and Instalment rand
Dividends to Policy -holders in
Course of Payment •
Reserve for Policies which may
be revived ....... ...... ...
Other Liabilities
Total Surplus on Policy -holders'
Account, Company's Stan -
Bard.....• . ...... ..... ..
PAYMENTS
Death Chains (net) ... ... . .
Matured Endowments (net)
Dividends paid Policy -holders
(including )tonus Addition
paid with Death Claims and
with Matured Endowments)
Surrende!e Values paid Policy-
holders ,,.... .
Paid Annuhttuits , . , ......• . , .
Total paid to Policy -holders
Coinniisslon, Salaries, etc. .....
Taxes, Dividends, eto.......
Excess of Itecefpts over Pay-
nrortts. . .. ...... ..... .
$26,408,650.00
237,445.23
16,126.80
33,070.00
2,280.98
2,376,425.99
$29,074.599.00
$1,221,815.60
218,857.00
207,781.12
76,500;95
23,597.01
.$1,748,551.08
681,292.71
320,120.80
1,550,420.09
$4,300,391.28
Net Surplus over all Liabilities (Company's Standard), . $1,376,000
Net Surplus over all Liabilities (Government Standard)' . $4,326,000
• GAINS IN 4304
1004 1003 Increase
• Number dl applications received ... 7,221 0,803 258
&Mount of lts:tultances applied for ..+,. $ 14,571,153 $1$,881,060 $ 089,193
13,043,603 12,033,032 408,471
11,211,721 10,122,130 1,089.682
101,805,944 05,631,110 6,274,834
Polibies ISSIlled , ,......Y..... ... .,.t..Y.i...i,
Policies paid iter ........ 4 ...............4..4..,,
• 'total buitlnes 4 lak lorae . ....r. 01.44611
The new brut* t►eti<s paid for in 1904 weep greater in aMount than that of any
previous year in the Company's history.
A lull reporttoi the annual meeting will appear in the Company's paper,
., ll,ile Echoes.
i
y all grocers.
SAMPLE PACKET.
old hledal at St. Louis, 1904.
and the atmosphere exhaled comfort,
peace andle
plenty. . 1comely woman
of
forty or thereabout met him.
Ile knew
instinctively • that site was the land-
lady, The clouds went hurrying by and
Dobbins felt the warm sunshine,
"I saw your advertisement in the pa•
per and came to see the room," he said
quite cheerfully, by way of introduction.
"Yes?" she responded so winningly
that poor Dobbins at last felt he had
found the place he sought, and he made
up his mind then and there to take any-
thing that was open. But she did not
offer to lead the way to the promised
land. of his hopes and his voice quaver-
ed.
"Yes," he echoed vaguely.
"I'm sorry," site said—Dobbins slily-
ered—"but we do not take lodgers.
Haven't you niade a mistake in tbe num-
ber?"
"I hope not" Dobins tried to smile
and be gay, as lie fished ltis list out of
his pocket. 'The number here is 108.
Isn't this house 108?" he asked, show-
ing the list to her.
She smiled, but not unkindly, as she
looked at it.
"The number is right," she told him,
"but you are one block out of your way.
It is 168 in the street next below," '
He went around to 108 in the next
street. Maybe there might be better tuck.
there. The memory of the other 108
haunted him as the fragrance of roses
grown out of reach,
IIe pulled at the doorbell viciously. Ht
was becoming desperate. The housekeep-
er came. '
"Yost have a room to rent?" he said,
without preliminaries or polish.
`Yes," she answered, sizing him up.
"We s a double parlor, suitable for a doc-
tor or a dentist. You ain't either, are
you?"
"I am,' he replied, with a total disre-
gard of tate truth, "but this house isn't
big enough for' you and nie. Good day."
He slammed the door as he went out,
and ire stamped down the steps, jabbing
his heels into the insensate stone as if
it were to blame.
"Damn it," he said bitterly, "Pll seek
the welcome of an inn'
Encouraged by this resolve and by
his slap at the uncalled for impertinence
of the housekeeper, he went to the
nearest apartment hotel. He made no se-
is particularly individual in regard to bis
tastes in food, and has many peculiarities
in this respect, wbleb aro known to row
beyond his intimate frienees. Says a writer
in Tlt-Bite:
Tho Klee le very tone of his aeteraoon
tea, and having a sweet tooth, as Queen
' Victoria had, likes to see co
nfection
er
y onlt otable But Is not well awntou
t
Ills Majesty never by any cannot) partakes
{ of butter, and that, moreover, b0 never`
Lakes tea made with milk, but in the lilts-
' elan fashion, with a piece of lemon instead.
•Similarly be has a special way of his ow
own
of making coffee, or, rather, it is the way
of bis own particular coffee maker, Ibra-
him, a dark-skinned Turk, with whose skill
in this particular department of kotenon
work his majesty was at the first expert-
enee so pleased that he brought him home
with him from one of his journeys abroad,
and installed him in the royal aousehol.11,
to do nothing else but make the King's
coffee. So in4ispeasable is Ibrahim to the
Icing that h0 is attea taken abroad with
him. His method of malting the King's
coffee a 1:r
f as follows: 1 ire o allwar
i l a t e the
is boiled, and then the coffee is Nut in and
allowed to 'infuse." Ibraham then warms
it again until the coffee grounds "rise to
the top, turn over, and descend."' The
1 grounds are then allowed to settle, and
finally Ibrahim pours off tbe liquid with a
flourish of his long dark arm, the coffee as
he makes it being superb,'
Another peculiarity of the Icing's taste is
for the German black bread, welch is
known as "schwarzbrot." It has been a
favorite with him for many years. but it
is an acquired taste and needs much assid-
uous cultivation, for the person who tastes
it for the first time feels that he would
never care to do so again. However, two
varieties of rye bread baked In the Ger-
t man fashion are regularly supplied by a
*erman firm in the city of London for his
majesty's use. One variety has a large
proportion of Vienna flour added to the rye
meal, and la the case of this bread the
Peculiar sour flavor is not so noticeable,
Beginners who wish to train themselves
to eating "sehwarzbrot" usually begin with
ft. But It is the real "schwarzbrot," the
genuine sour black bread, which most fre-
kuently finds its way to the King's table,
Iand his majesty thoroughly enjoys it.
One of the King's favorite dishes at the
dinner table is a minute chicken on a
s morsel of toast. These tittle "poussins,"
as they are called by the poulterer, yield
but two or three mouthfuls of delicate
white flesh, and In London they are re-
tailed at such high prices that they are
a rare dainty. Nevertheless, in the west
' of Ireland they are sold by barefooted
peasant girls, who charge only 60. each for
thfeitsm,
majesty is extremely abstemious in
regard tq liquid refresbmgnt, but here again
he has coneIdr red individuality of taste,
and perhaps this Is most curiously exempli-
fied in the case of a "cocktail" of bis own
invention. This is made up of a little rye
whiskey, some crushed Ice, a small square
of pineapple, a piece of lemon peel, a few
, drops of maraschino, ditto of champagne.
a dash of Angostura bitters and powdered
sugar, sufficient to bring the mixture ex-
actly up to the royal requirements.
lection beyond contiguity. He didn'tAi THS LUNOS
•even notice the onyx walls' of the lobby,
the bronz elevator, the marble stairs, the
imperious clerk behind the mahogany
counter and other warning signs. Dob-
bins was really desperate. It was six
o'clock now and he was hungry and tir-
ed besides. He asked for an apartment.
"We have only eight, ten and twelve
room 'apartments," said the clerk, "run-
ning in price from twenty-four hundred
to seven thousand dollars a year."
Dobins never turned a hair.
"I want a twenty-acven room suite,
with a stable, on the fifteenth floor and
private golf ]inks on the roof," he said
calmly, and walked out.
The clerk hell himself np by • the
Flemish oak carving and stared after
him.
"I wonder where the devil they all get
the moue, 1" he growled, and turned his
steps towitrd the place he Was so soon
to lose,
"'What hies?" inquired his friends; who
knew whet he had been doing.
He threw up his hands in despair and
told them his harrowing experiences. For
days and days after that he wandered
through the wilderness lying between,
but the harmony between what he want-
ed and what be wanted to pay could not
be struck.
Dobbins had a final talk with his
friend just before they departed.
"Well," 'lie said resignedly, "I guess
I'll have to become either a millionaire
or a conrntuter."
Everything was packed up and the
man friend was marking the boxes.
"Good enough, he laughed, "I'll ad-
dress your stuff to Haystackhurst on the
Hackensack,"
Dobbins bent his head in submission,
AGE AND SU IN AMERICA.
Depend Upon Rich, lied Blood—Poor
Blood Means Weak Lungs *and
. Patel Consumption.
Every drop of blood in the body must
go through the lungs. TJeat is why the
lungs are helped, and healed, and
strengthened, with the great blood -build-
er, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They fill
the veins with pure, rich, red blood, that
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That is the way Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
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,lungs after an attack of la grippe or
pneumonia. That is the way Dr. Wil-
Iliams' Pink Pills have saved hundreds
in Canada from consumptives' -graves. No
, ether medicine does this work so speed-
ily and so well. Airs. Jane A. Kennedy,
Douglastown, Que., says: "My sister, a
I young and delicate girl, ,took a severe
i cold when about seventeen years olll.
4 Nothing we did for her seemed to do
i any good, and we feared she was going
into consumption. Often after n bad
night 1,' would get up early to see if
t she had spit blood during the night. A
I friend strongly urged me to give her
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, •and within a
Imonth from the time she had begun their
use, she had almost recovered her health.
Under the continued use of the Pills she
is now well and strong."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills not only make
weak lungs strong, but they cure all
troubles arising from a poor or deficient
blood supply, such as anaemia, indiges-
tion, rheumatism, neuralgia, general
-weakness, St. Vitus' dance, headaches,
and backaches, kidney troubles, alpita-
tion of the heart, and the special secret
ailments of young girls and women. In-
sist upon the genuine with the full name
"Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People" on the wrapper around each
box. Sold by medicine dealers every-
where, or by mail at 50 cents a box,
os six hoses for $2.50, by writing
The average record per row is poor. no -
The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ticenbly below the average of the whole
vale, Ont. 1,120 cows for July. The best showing '
_ i..�• was made by a Holstein grade, whose
EP,OCH MAKERS.record is more than double that of the
poorest eow. This dairy had five more
Important Inventions and Date of cows than that first mentioned, and yet
Discovery, produced 4,000 abs. leas milk in the
A German contemporary publishes some month, Another July record showed
very interesting notes on important invert. drat one lieritl of $lx cows date 2 313i Ibs.
tions, developments, etc, we abstract um of milk, while another dairy of tavety).
following items from this valuable document: cows pee epee me; twice as many
, Yea,. cows gave over three times Cts much
Acromelic telescope, invented .......... i,it �•
Figures That Show Soureea of Life In-
surance Profits. I
It has required almost five years for !
the Census Bureau to tabulate some of
the most important sociological results
of the enumeration taken in June, 1900.
We have had bulletins on all sorts of
topics, and at the start it is necessary
to say that the director of the census
distinctly states .that ladies are very
unreliable in giving their age. Most
men probably had noticed this failure,
but we believe this is the first time it
has been officially announced,
Thus we find that the average age of
all the people in the country is (all sta-
tisties as of 1000) a little less than 23
years. This must be taken in connection
with other statistics, which show that
the averag person born lives to be 35
years, or about one-half of trio period
allotted by the Psalmist.
Also the director Bays that elderly per-
sons have exa;;gerai.ed their age, so
that the statistics of centenarians are
notably unreliable. There were 3,504 per-
sons reporting tltentselve;s as 100 or over,
and the director thinks this an exagger-
ation, particularly among the negroes of
the eolith, where the older portion of the
population have nothing but very indis-
tinct memory and large imagination on
which to base their eettuputattion, About
30,000 persons confessed to being 00 or
over, the women being predominant, and
it is further interesting to note that
there are nearly a million who have
,reached the ago of 75, figures not seri-
ously disputed.
The census figures show that if you
can get over the ails of infamy you have
a fair expectation of life, but that when
you have voted. for two years you are
the average of the race in this country.
It is such futures as these which make
insuranto businese profitable. While,
as old Dr. Young remarked, all then think
all men mortal but themselves. the fart
that figures show how near death is
makes for the benefit of the eonipanh's
whie•h provide fur your relatives when
yon are gouts.
is to sex, the figurts are improeeive.'
new air about 2.(I00.lRh1 less 'minim
Mail null in the eeautii 1t iiiiiini+'.atll
ages). and this aerounts for the feet
that the women run the eonntt•y, In
lands where there is it stirreue of women
men have control, hut in this textuary
Where so mom, are perforce brained to
baelielmilo0(1. the (-base to attrnel the
lam ieirie is eueli that the latter hate it
} all to ehemPelvee to tenintaitt control be•
cause the elan who thinks his wife inay
k1 t tees be better off if pts disposed of at least
Glans p ,. 31 to1/ 1 r
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•
At a large State Assembly of Mothers
a prominent New York doctor told the
500 women present that healthy Cana-
dian women were so rare as to be
te,actin
al os t
m c.
This seems to be a sweeping state-
ment of the condition of Canadian
women, Yet how many do you lrnow
who are perfectly well and do nothave
some trouble arising from a derange-
ment of the female organism which
manifests itself in headaches, back-
aches, nervousness, that bearing -down
feeling, painful or irregular menstrua-
tion, leucorrheea, displacement of the•
uterue, ovarian trouble, indigestion or
sleeplessness? There is a tried and
true remedy for all these ailments,
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pound has restored more Canadian
women to health than all other reme.
Bios in the world. It regulates,
strengthens and cures diseases of the
female organism as nothing else eau.
For thirty years it has been curing
the • worst forms of female eom-
plaints.
Such testimony as the following
should be convineing.
Mrs. Anna McKay of 326 Spadina
Avenue, Toronto, Ont., writes:
Dear Mrs, Pinkham:—
"Being a mother of five children, I had
had experience with the general troubles of.
my sox. I was Iacerated when one of my
children was born, and front that hour I date
all of my afflict -lona 1 found. that within a
few months my health was Impaired, I bad
female weakness and serious inflammation
and frequent flooding. I became weak and
dizzy, but kept on my feet, dragging thr. uggh
my work without Iife or pleasure. A neigh-
bor who had been helped by taking Lydia B.
Pinkitam's Vegetable Compound insisted that
I take at least one bottle. I did so and felt
Lydia E. Pinkham's
./ktr.r. Anna ./LIck'ay
so much better that I kept on the treatment
and It made me a strong and well woman.
The few (letters I spent for the medicine can-
not hegin to pay what it was worth to ma"
Missen el
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Ont., writes:
Dear Mrs. 1'iinkham:—•
I consider Lydia R. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound the best matte/sea fa the world for
a woman sick and weak from exhaustion
irregularities and overwork. I have Mutat
from personal experience that it is all and
more than it is recommended to he, I only
wish that every sick woman would try it; for
it cured me of suppressed menstrua nett and
Irregularity, and has cured many of my
friends of tbe same difficulty, in fact all who
hays used it have nothing but good to say of
its efficacy. Please accept a grateful woman's
thanks for all it has accomplished in myeastaa
When women are troubled with
irregular, suppressed or painful• men-
struation, weakness, leucorrhoea, dis-
placement or ulceration of the womb,
that bearing -down feeling, infiamma-
tton of the ovaries, backache, bloating,
(or flatulency), general debility, indi-
gestion, and nervous prostration, or are
beset with such symptoms as dizziness,
faintness, lassitude, excitability,' irri-
tability, nervousness, sleeplessness,
melancholy, "all -gone" and "want -to -
be -left -alone" feelings, blues, and ltppe-
lessness, they should remember three
is one tried and true remedy, Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
A light heart, a cheerful countenance,
and all the charms of grace and beauty
are dependent upon proper action of the
bodily organs. You cannot look well
unless you feel well,
Mrs. Pinkham invites all pick women
to write her for advice, Her advice and
medicine have restored thousands to
health, Address, Lynn, Mass.
Ve;}etable Compound Succeeds Where Others Fail.
ERESTING COW CENSUS.
figures for Canadian Herds—Some Strik-
ing Contrasts.
Department of Agrieulture,
At the Eastern Ontario Dairymen's
Convention Mr. IS. C. Whitley, of the
Dairy Commisioner's Branch, Ottawa,
gave a very interesting account of a cow
census which he conducted in the vicinity
of Cowansville, Que., during the summer
of 1004. Under his supervision seventy-
-two farmers kept daily milk records of
their cows, and three tunes a month' took
samples for testing from the milk of
each individual cow in their dairies. in
this way reasonably accurate figures
were obtained.
For etre month ef June the general av-
erage of all the herds tested was 652
lbs. of milk, yielding 23 ]bs, of fat. In
one ease twenty-two eowe had a yield
for the month of 17,8.3 lbs, of milk and
722.5 lbs, of fat, an. average per cow of
811 lbs, of milk and 32.4 lbs, of fat. In
another herd of eleven cows, every ani-
mal was below the general average, the
range being as law as 280 lbs. to 805 lbs.
of milk per cow, and this herd consisted
of Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire and Hob
stein grades and natives. In contrast
to this, another herd of twelve cows of
similar breeding yielded from 830 to 1,-
115 lbs. per cow, so that every cow in
tate herd was above the average. This
shows that the flow of milk depends
upon the individuality of the cows
even more than upon their breeding.
In the mouth of July a 'herd of
twenty-seven cows, Jersey, Ayrshire,
holstein and S.ltorthorn grades, gave 13,-
760 lbs, of mill: and 473.7 lbs. of fat, an
average of 509 lbs. of milk and 17.5 lbs.
of fat per cow. This was typical of sev-
eral herds consisting of mixed grades.
Aluminum, first used In. ...., use milk. in September one let of twenty -
Aneroid barometer, inveutod ..•. .. , 1814 three cows geve 8,120 lbs. of milk, and
Aniline colors, discovered, .. .• BM
Anchors tot' ships, first used... ., ...,.. lame another tot of twenty-three yielded Ila:
Arae, known to Chinese In .• ........ gnu 201) 11>g. These resort'emphasize the
Apothecary, first in Baguad .. .. .. .. SOU
Bayonets, first used in need. for knowing, definitely the product- t
.. .. ••,• •• 104u tion ef melt individual cow
Baud says, first applied .... .. .. .. 144
Bank, liras In Veuico .... .... . ... 11;1 ; Thr overa;•r production per, t
cow mat t j
Barometer • 1661 be unproved by vocally: out the poor
Beer, first knows) a• r• •.. •. •.... ast)d • ones. Figuring goes welt with farming
Bleaching linen, Nuremberg .. .. .. .. 1414 :, n n•
Blind, tirst method of reading for .. .. 1830 \Stili forethought and figures, the pm- ,
Bridges, first iron in England .. a ... roe duction of butter in the average farm i
Chemistry sGerma , fun lett - .. a I71i herd stn be increased at least 40 lbs.
1
chemistry,science o$ founded 1,t,2 per year in five ,yu*:trk. It Iraq been clone I
til' e'.. 1;,;:0
Chocolate, first appearance in )S op scores of tines. It is safe to say that,
Cable, first, Dover -Calais ... ., .. 1350 almost everyfatt'tuer milking twenty
Coffee, introduced into Arabia ........ 1330 :,
Coffee-house, first in Constantinople ., loot Until he keeps records he cannot tell
Coffee-house, first in London .. .. 1„9E 'which they are. It will pay him to find'
Cocoa, introduced into Mime ., .. nee
Cotton printing, that la Berlin .. •.. .. 1112 oitt.
Candles, known in Ilyzanttntim ...... :ten 't;he wide variation in tate total yields 1
Ciarirtette, known in . •••• 10J3 of batter by individual animals in the;
of 1:nown first 00
c
l)tamauds cut, 1Vtirettiliurg :: .: :, 137u ' iCedreaa fila longer periods. For four
Coffee, planted iu Java .,....., 1,10 cows has tined on whieh ho loses money.
Distilling method ,
Decimal system `, liio'samc heed is even more apparent in the
Dynamometer, invented .. . .4„ 1866 months the cows in one herd of fourteen i
Fa tri light first in Miris Isi1 •
led colors (Twain; .:.. ,. . 1653 yielding nearly three times ars much as
Ie ctroinaEnetie clock .. .:: 1836'varied from 40 to 114 11)8., the heat cow
Fume SS 64
I`iles first in use , . .,, lite
obtained by using the scales and Bab-
cock tester to detect the 'robber cow and
get rid of her, Then, by the use of a
good dairy -bred sire, and aiming at a
:standard of, say, 6,000 lbs. of milk end -
250 lbs. of butter per cow annually, a
good herd can speedily be graded up.
There are hundreds of dairy farmers
who have Huta raised butter production
of their herds in a few years from 150
or 175 lbs. to 300 lbs. per annum,
W. A: Clemons,
Publication Clerk.
MOTHER'S ADVICE.
"I would advise mothers to stop
dosing their little ones with nauseous
castor oil and soothing stuffs, and use
only' Baby's Own Tablets.' This is
the advice of Mrs. Joseph E. Harley,
of Worthington, Ont., who has proved
the Tablets. Tho best medicine in the
world for the troubles that afflict young
children. Mrs. Harley adds: ",Aly little
one has had no other medicine but the
Tablets since she was two months old,
and they have kept her the picture of
good health" These Tablets are good for
children of every age, and speedily cure
all stomach and bowel troubles, break
up colds, prevent croup, expel worms
and allay the irritation of teething. And
you have a solemn guarantee that there
is not, a particle of opiate or harmful
drug in this medicine. Sold by all deal-
ers or sent by mail at 25 cents a box
writing The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont,
BIRTHDAY OF DICKENS.
Were He Living Now He Would Be
Ninety-three.
Boys and girls who have read "The
Child's Dream of a Star," the story of
little Nell in "David Copperfield," and
the sad death of little Dombey, will like
to recall that to -day is the birthday of
the noted English author who produced
these interesting stories—Charles liick-
eus. Itis father, John Dickens, was a
Government official who entered news-
paper work. Charles began writing for
the papers when he was very young.
But soon he began to write books, of
which be has written more than most
anthem Most of them are good books.
Charles Dickens always took the side
of the people ahem he thought needed
to be helped; and Itis touching stories
of life among the time of England re-
vealed the real conditions to many who
would not otherwise have known how
the other folks lived.
It wars after his first visit to the
rnited States in 1342 that Dickens
wrote the story, `Martin Chuzzleavit,"
and also an account of what he caw
here. IIe carne again to Atneriea 25 years
later and gave readings from his Werke
in many eitie8, including Philadelphia.
IIe was given great honor in this ,Coun-
try. Ile died ht 1870, three years after
his return to England.
If Charles 1)iekens were living today
rte world bo 93 years old.
• I o tine poorest. The overage for tate herd .•'W__
yeaextinguisher, first gnawn,... lane 81 lltq. per Caw., while the general
yea hats, first its use ..., .... iucii g
Gas, for burning du Human ..., .... I6'30 averaae of all the VOWS tested for four
tens light,
first plant , ,. .. 1738 alethias was 08 lbs. Would not this masa
Gas tight, first in Germany .... ., ,... 181i
rias coo ng s over ..
Grass windows, nt1uri0/ )mown tn...... S10 four cove? Another herd varied from
windows, a ?, lbs. per Cory with stn average
f
t't works, first In appeared
1•i7 below the (ensue aa'0t'ag1. It, is path -1
Glass tnitrors first appeared 1W
ild
Gold foil flint made in Nuremiiorg,:�:: lino :able that Moth men think they have
hops Moat In Germany .., •....... sY6Ipatsy gaol coats.
llydrnniL• t regia (Brant' 11) •. I31t 1 1, . a p u'rinsi tit fha'o Bron,• ,stns dairy
IiOraulI1. 'Mr f:illg press (ltuttir) . ,.13:,4 t , rr
Iodine dhaovered by Courtois Mit tattle. •the. creditable. 6howin„ of 100 lbs.
Potatoes, brautibt to l:urog0 by llralits iso of batter per cora, more than double the
Iatnilul, pre.,s, �bou .. nvrr "e 01 80100 <Ititer herds, and well
Steel, cast in 1•,ueland .. ...... 1740 .
~resat ham,ncrW (avntt) .. .... ,.,. 1�s4 abovr
the census overarm of 1133 Ibs. per
tameable,plows (England) . .1' 0 a'ow for five months. Ttnleed, every one
t.ipatneble, GM, rivaling Atlantic Oil
cant carriage tatevenson .... 1Sw6 of the twelve Coav ill thrai herd exceeded
R`t,revhlnit nrae'hino tCoitytq •...:.�..., I,e16.1.1)0 g0l1)Itl 11,111;1' ranildni; fr+ant 147
'P.11':.eopo tJ,utseu) .. IC.ab'of fire twelve Cetus its thiq herd exeeedrd
emeaeeee Mallei) .. .. .. .... .... ']oto in„. This matte record eau be. dtti't
'(vire netting, first made .... .. .. ..., 1311
Woe rablsg +Albert) .. .1831 should be, equalled on a thottaand far ata
Wire, flat drawn 1n .Nurentba ii .. .. Ida la tlt� Beat.
hive yearq, utlh rrsultl ex(r