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SANCHE & CO. 364 ST. CATHARINE ST WEST. MONTREAL .. • itimitmortasui.ttti...**MattarrtritlassortOssiv ' Always After Pa. : I"No matter what we do, there IS one class of people- who will always be after us." i "WM' are they?" J V !4"fe 6 Posterity." ' .•.. . • . A MAN OF PRIVILEGE raagg :::21:7114;Plto Zart LONDON'S LORD MAYOR A PER- SONAGE OF POMP AND' POWER. the ourtly Whittington replied, "Surely, sue, never had subject such a king Still prettier is the history of Lord Mayor Oaborne (1589)., Osborne was the apprentice of a mayor who lived on London bridge, and one day he The First Holder of the High eeci dmiesvetedrlfrittrzizritearnclorleoschuaeddlait 'Mighty Office Wes..Elected In HIS ' • en tnrouga a, lattice winclew. Years and Proved Popular -Dick Whit. alter the girl was a rich heiress, court. ed by earls. and lipights, but.ker lath.' tington and Other Ancient Worth- ad said to them all, "No Osborne lese-How Self -Maths L-ord Mayor saved her, and Osborne shall have Gave Charles II. a Taste of His bee! And Osborne, the hero appren- Quality. tice, did have her and became lord . mayor as well His great-grandson The most impressive thing about the was subsequently created Duke of mayoralty of London is it e great an- Leeds. tiquity. In Saxon and Nornaanlimes Such stories read like fiction, but London was an independent etate, and - they are perfectly true, The. city ar- the chief magistrate -the portreeve, or chives preserve • them, with many the bailiff -was an absolute ruler. more. -Keith Hunter in London Ex - The first mayor was elected in 1189, press. and he was so popular that he retain- pLEN-rv OF CHALK, ed the office for 24 years. The first lord mayor's pageant was An the reign • Of Henry VIII. and in it he figured A Block That Was Once as Large as as chief butler 'to Anne Boleyn. the Continent of Europe. I , Through the long intervening years the lord mayor has retained many of The small piece of chalk' which is his prerogatives as a ruler. Most in nhe constant ruosoem ,inthtehab ills ei ha r r9onomni People have no idea how extensive, his privileges are and the workshop has a 'strange his- tory, the unraveling of which through He has his own chaplain (in olden clays, like the monarch, he had his all its complexities is one of the most jester, too), and badges of royalty are difficult problems with which the sci- attached to his office -the scepter, the ence of the present day is called upon swords of justice and mercy and the to . deal, This piece is •in reality a ails the city before all the royal family'. that once filled an area the size of ' IWO mace. He has right ,of precedence in c o an immense oc ir or. 'Soldiers in. any number cannot march through the city without his consent. He has the right of private audience With the Eing. He has the privilege of direct entrance without queetien' royal levees. He cen. at any time dis- solve the city courts, even that of the common councils by removing the sword and mace from the table. • Re to Portugal in the south. is lord of the 'river Thar/tea, of the In the British Isles the chalk is donservaney, and. he controls the city found in greatest perfection and con - purse. - tinuity in the east and southeast Of The Majesty of his state is pretty England. A sheet of chalk more than considerable too. The city gives him' a theueand feet in thickness under - a sum of £10,000 to expend. His pal- lies all that portion of L'ngland which ape, the Mansion House, is furnished is situated to the southeast of a eeftli plate and ornaments Worth £100,- line crossing the island diagonally° the continent of Europe and of which evenyet several gigantic fragments remain, each. hundreds of square miles in extent. Therm patches are scattered over the region lying be - Omen Ireland on the west and China on the east and extend in the other direction fro Sweden in the north 000. He has a splendid retinue of from the North Sea at Flataborough H d t tl t th En lish seryants,. including it sword bearer, ea o cove on e g mace -bearer and seven trumpeters, . Channel in Dorset, This enormous whose liveries cost some £1,000 an- sheet of. chalk is tilted up slightly on nually. He gives a yearly banquet, the west, and its depressed earitern which costs thousands of pounds, and portions that dip toward the waters employs an arMY, a 150 waiters, cooks of the North Sea are usually buried and carvers, • from sight - by means of overlying Best of all, lie has the power to sands and clays. Where the edgesraise vast sums : f Mont? for chat' - of the chalk flo r• come upon the table perposes. In the last quarter sea. the cliff sc nety is strikingly of a century the toed niayore of. Lone gra.nd and beautiful. Any one who don have raised nearly £6,009,000 for • has once seen the magnificent rocks , the relief of various people in dis- of 'Flamboroegh and terichy Head, trees. the jagged stedics of the. Needles or Another feature which makes the ..the dizzy mass o Sha espeare's cliff, Isi A MILITARY DESPOT. The Mageriesive of Dose Private Is • the liersestot" Army. The following Is the experience o( a German army private: During the second maneuvers 1 wag sent MI ahead to select quarters for my company. The police supply the names of householders who are expected to shelter the soldiery. and I bad to de- cide on the number of Men who should be assigned to each place. It seems that our nutior dispatched a courier with a message foe our captain. For some reason or other the message was not delivered. The next day the captain called we outand in the pres- ence of the whole company rebuked me for not delivering the message. "I, did not receive any message," ventured. , . "Shut up your mouth, you liar!" he thundered. Awl again he bellowed, "Why didn't you deliver that message, You" - I told him a second time that I had not received any message. The cap- tain's temper broke all bounds. With an oath he rode his home at me full tilt, hurling* filthy names ,at me the while. When he had ridden right up to me - ,I fully expected be wouldeve me over, but I dared not move -he suddenly reined in bis horse and, drawing a long dagger from his belt, shouted, 'avid with passion, "I have half a mind' to stick this through. your vile body, you schweinthiedi" Once more he asked me ebout the message, and fence More I answered him. breahdenandthev;t4ilerSlee's:-MThy-01,-1-r..Ptiniehment, you liar!" be retorted. • - He repeated the question several times and inereesed my term of impris- onment each time I answered in the negative until my term or imprison- ment equaled fourteen days._ I was Placed under arrest. Next day I was released. I afterviard found that the captain had discovered his mistake, but he ,never referred to It. SEE:WITS YET FUNNY UNCONSCIOUS HUMOR THAT HELPS TO PUT SPICE. IN LIFE. Pomo 10**mph:is or pentissattam bums, steeliness in speakers, Writtais and Painting That Agpoall Wapiti to the Sense rre the matooktue. • Nothing baa added more to the merri. reent of the world than the uninten• Venal, unconsciourt hunter of =item public speakers and, In fact all classes and conditions of men and women. And there is none so -delightful. It far exceeds in mirth provoking quality the Cold blooded humor of the professional Wits. We Americans are a fun loving peo- ple, and we must and will have our jollity, Some one has said with ger- tain truth: ."With all our vanity, ener- gy and unrest, we are not a dull, cheer- less people. Sour faced fellows, yellow and dyspeptic, are to be met with In our cars and on our' streets, but they are not the type of the American, for ' be is as ready for a laugh as for a speculations as fond of a joke as an office." • And the jokeela all the more enjoy- able when it is spontaneous. The great - et the Stress and strain of life the greater the need and deraahd for hu- mor, and no one deprecates the value of humor excepting those wife have none of this good gift to their portion. "Sunset" Cox, one of the wittiest men of his day, says in ills Insole "Why We Laugh:" "Eliminate from the ditetits ct of an one eo e the PERILS OF EIALLOONINO. As Liaoning Trip 1* the 111,400 • • Wild Tassseressm,.. On one occailon, rising endden17 through a stratum of .elotale 10,000 feet Lu the air into brilliant sunshine, the gas dilated, I let out a little, DOWEL we dropped into a cold air current. Tlie immediate condensation of the gen dropped us back into the cloud layer, which eondensed the gee still more; and accelerated the drop, We came out directly abeve a stretch of wood over Which lay another cool belt, By this time we were falling like a reek. . We were going so fast that the bagfule of sand we threw out went up instead of down. Hastily, we threw out the drag rope, the anchor, the lunch basket •-to little purpose. We struck the trim% with a terrific crash; but. escaped; how. ever, with nothing wome.tham a shak- ing -up and a few bruises. . The most - exciting trip I ever Wader was a record breaking voyage that be- gan eue Sunday evening. ,The Weather was, not propitious, but we cast Off. • We 'sailed across the Hudson river to ••• New Jersey rihd Plunged into a cloud. After traveling; twenty miles descend- ed to drop a twee to my wife, assuring her of our safety. Again we shot into it cloud. Presently we drifted over a village . and, with that exaltation that, accompanies the sensation of floating In the air, enjoyed tie s strange degtess the music of church bells drifting Ute from belay's., Before we were aware we plunged into the nildit of a huge approaching thunder cloud: It seemed to open and swallow us Into a pit of gloom- and sinsultaneously Into the' heart o e un'e think have 'ever seen. The clouds rolled and tossed and twisted. The \, balloon would now -be forced downs \ then tested up aisd again spun swiftly about like a top. We.lost all Sense of - direction., Thunder wee crashing and roiling 'end crackling all ereund. us. Lightning flashed, .not forked zige zags, but in great flashes of fire, It was frightful. We did not want to de- .. scend, but presently we heard the un- nelstakanle sound of water not far away. Letting out a. little gas, we shot downward. Faster we dropped and peter. Land was 'below us. The prole len] was to land in the high wind with- out damage. r let out moee gas. We 'Sanded he a treetop with a: jar that fix- . ed the beeket so firmly in a crotch -that it could not, be disiOclged by the wind, _ forenew we had droPped below. 't•he • stem, lcird Mayoralty attractive •is its glare-. near Dover, can. understand why "the Our of eornance. More often than not • White cliffs of Albion" has grown into the king of the city is • . self-made a stock phrase. , man: Dick Whittington started out • • ,This massive sheet of chalk appears as an apprentiee, as many other lord again ' France,.' in many parts of ' mayors have done. The mayor of 1611 Europe as 'far east as the Crimea and came to London in rags in a carrier's even in Central Asia. beyond the sea cart. The wealthy mayor. of 1415 had of Aral. How far it stretched west - been a foundling: As recently. as 1800 ward into what now ;the Atlantic - we had a lord mayor of London who may never be known, but chalk ' cliffs began. tile rie a heicktayer's laeheyee,e of at least' 200 'feet in thitknese are. When men of this Chatacter are ex- seen at Antrim, in Ireland, and lees sited to 'the seate•Of the 'mighty they conspicuous. formations are found in' rere apt to 'do freakish thingsat times, Scotland, in Argyll and _Aberdeen.' The laborer mayor instanced above There can be little -eitieitiOn that all' had a son Who fell freni a high ladder these now isolated patches were once apd'was killed, and the mayer on be- eo ing brought to the spot broke through whielt must therefore have occupied -the crowd, 'exclaiming, "See that the a superficial area about -00e Miler; poor fellow's Watch is safe!" ,• „olong by nearly .1,000 broad, an; ex Another self-made lord mayor gave r lent larger -then that of the present Charles II. a taste of .his quality. contirieht of EurOpe.. Charles dined with him in: the City, . . uneeted in a continuous sheet • e • and the wine passed so freely that Unneteisary 'Hurry. • the guests grew noisy and the mayor You have promised e let us say, to familiar. Charles therefore stole away call for ,a• friend at his .offiee, so as to to his coach in Guildhall yard; but the go down into the country together. He bibulous mayor' pursued his majesty is a stockbroker, merchant, what you and, catching him by the hand, cried will, His place of business being ten out, with a monstrous oath; '"Elir, you minutes! walk from the Station, you . than. (stay and tak' t'Other bottle call. after business *hours, about a And the merry monarch actually turn -s ed back and Saw the fun to. a finish. The temerity of this Mayor. seems all the snore.- remarkable in view of the 'Stuart king's tyrannous dealings with the cite He imprisoned twenty -Of the princinal- citizens because they hi loan on bad security. 4.'"Vdtaltd#20.tt a Teach-. I "Don't you think you're wasting your thee talking the value of aeon- ! oaty to Blank? hasn't any know, Mit I have • refusedni a • . He fined the Mayor and aldermen stating that for the benefit of the la - £6,00e on the Pretext of a trifling 'city dies he Would make"pluffs, boas; ete., riot and £ee,000 for pretended, mia- quarter of an beer before the. tram :tarts. You find him cheerfully doing nothing unless a. cigarette counts for work. He absolutely' declines to start yet. It is too abeurdly early.- After five minutes you -suggest departure. By no , means will he move. It never takes' him more than eaten minutes at the BIRTH OF A "GASSER." Noise of a plowing. Well Drowned All Other Sounds. Lu the Broadway Magazine Is a story by Rupert, Hughes concerning the oil wells of Texas, He tells or the birth of a "gasser." "It screamed like the death cry of'a thousand -panthers.'---Ile says: 'The thee steel cable has been sent flying like a twine string. A. great length of pipe has been • hurled against a tree and wrapped around it The derrick was almost hidden inn white haze. A geyser of fine sand was streaming up- ward mid eating away the lofty crown blocks 'Seth knew what It was. •He found Tom, and they gesticulated at each. other. They made faces, but no audi- ble sound: • Their voices were vain as candles in the -full sunlight.' Each was trying to yell the same thing: •eesnes gasser' blowing. her head ciffe • • "Men gathered Enron eyerywnere and aeted like crazy Nike 'working their Jaws and delivering no message.. . ,-"They were aeaked, drowned,' Ob- titerated to a sea of :Intolerable noise. ,"A mile away. at the railroad :Station. the passengers were emially made dumb by the -Uproar. If a: man want- ed 'a ticket be had to write out the name Of the station. An engine relied In With a bell that rocked without sound and a whistle emitting puffs of white steam that no one heard. "The anlmals eif. the region were greatly disturbed.. There wets muds .breaking of harness on. the part Of horses,, and one or two galloped about under.- empty. saddles, Their riders were doubtless stuck in the mud some- where, head first . • "A few pigs wandering here and there had sniffed at the noise and re turned; to their luxurions wallows in the ollY muek." • amusing and the amused faculty, and you produce a sterility as dull and. un- interesting as the cinders and ashes of the volcanic fields of Iceland. • But In- clude- the a.masing element within the experience and history of manklad, and no description of luxuriance, with grape, collie, nectarine and orenge, such as makes the vales of Portugal a peren- nial.smile, is adequate to emphasize the contrast." -One could not well destanceea more amusing- blunder than that in a paint. lug of the"Blessed Virgin" in an- old church in Spain. In this painting the Virgin is represented as sitting on a red telvet sofa fondling a cat with one hand, while with the other she is pour- ing coffee from a silver coffeepot. ' This 'is as amusing tie a painting in a German church representing the sacri- fice of Isaac by -Abraham. . In this ' painting Abraham is about to .dis- eliarge a huge pistol at Isaac when an angel descends --and pours a. pitcher of water on the pan of the pistol, thereby saving Isaac. The writer once saw a crude painting .of King Herod :with a pair of specta- dies painted on his nose.', There -Is a veryeeld painting of St Peter' denying-. the Saviour, and several of the Roman soldiers In the background have pipes - In their uniuths. ' ' • Those Who are onthe. lookoer• for them will fled .many arnasing blunders. • In the daily papers and in periedicals„ of all kinds.' It was but the .cithei day . . that the writer saw Miss Fanny Cros- by referred to In a religious paper as ' the "author of .many blind poems." And it was a great metropolitan daily that one morsingegateeitesreaders the following information regarding the wrecking of a ship, the' night before:. "The captain swam ashore and suc- ceeded in saving the life of his wife. She was insured in the Northern. Ma- ' rine Insurance comPany and carried a cargo of cement Equally amusing as an. Instance of unconscious humor *as the statement made by another paper regarding the capsizing of a boat at sea-. It said that but one life was, lost and that was found afterward."' He must sadly deficient in Mitaor who. does not find himself amuried by a sign like the following seen In the win- dow of a shoemaker: "A•ny respectable man, woman or child can .have a at: In. this shop.' It Was an enterprising fur- riee. whe placed a eard-in his window ICnowing his walking. cape- • doubt, At cities, Yea but.acquiesce, last you ,are off. and halfway to, the train he says : "By J•ove, old man, we mud' hurry up. My Watch is slow." So . . Treating the Insane..,: In. 1796 'William'. Tu. a Quaker; - opened the first national asylum for out Of their own Skins." . management of estates. . A prolific source of amusement to The mayors, themselves e however,. you run-ignominiouslyu yo run If the insane in York, England.. A few manuscript readers is the surprising could fine readily enough on (Jena' luck befriend. you,youIpst catch years earlier a Frenchman named Pi- way In which aspirants for literary 'Mon. ,,or example, his virorship,of the 'moving train, andas yousink pP ers ir- nel had made a similar effort to restore honor and ,glory often "put things." year 1'479 had one of his (I is ieg and .breathless into your seat he the mentally deficient to the rank' of We find one young woman Baying of £50 (abt £1,000 of our money) for says: "You see. we . kneelingoutoo close to him' while at time. Never mwere in plenty ofissed a train . in my human beings. Pinera plan was that her heroine: "The countess fell back in prayers in St. Paul's. rife." Plenty of time, indeed! And all • ef nonrestraint a system then unheard a deadly swoon. When she revived her Yet another ford aof and, of course, to be ridiculed as a spirit had fled' ., utlyere.(11132)_mades this hurry . for nothingIf he had been . an amusing blunder of speech' at . a doing anything -had a letter to write Preposterous heresy. It is now being' Another young writer places her her dinner to judges ...and . leaders of the or the like -in these wasted eight followed every -where. . - : °the th a very perilous situation and Bar. "See before you," he exclaimed minutes, you could forgive him, but — ' ----- then%ays` of her, Her flee quivered, magniloquently 'the examples of my- he hadn't, or at all events he didn't pale; her breath came self,' the Chief magistrate of this great You mop your brow and, though he , Ihtersheo4retepkasngtsr7 empire, and the &lei juetiee of Eng- is your very, good friend, remember A. third writer „gives this amusing land sitting _at my right hand, both with- '..ceimplacency that this "just ' now in the- highest- offices of the state catching trains leads to marry coron- description of ebb appearance of some and both sprung &rim the very dregs of the people-!" • • , • view. -ewes- e • ere ,esserse.........e.e.' ..41" The 'banquets, by the er'e inquests, -London Saturday "Re- one she referred to as "the bell of the belle' ."She was clad in some soft, Vinging; fleecy, Vapory stuff of purest white that, gave the appearance elf a. bit of detached cloud floating in the sky, She wore no ornament with the 'exception of several bits of rare bric- a-brac gathered in a foreign...clime." A charming bit of purely unconscious huinor was that noticed by some vie - Inns to a great English coal mine. At the mouth of the great central shaft hundreds of feet deep was a placard bearing these.words: "Please •do not tumble down the shaft." se mayoral way, have always been wonderful af- fairs. In the year of George III•iss Marriage' there .were placed on the tables 414 different dishes, excluding -dessert. Forty-five years. later (1806) no fewer than seven of this monarch's . sons were guests at a, mayoral dinner. The Guildhall banquet to the' prince regent and the allied sovereignsbe- fore the battle of Waterloo was eery - ed on plate valued at dyer' £200,060 and cost £25,000. All this, • however, is hardly ro- mance, We must revert to Sir Richard • Whittington for that. Sir Richard really did hear the bells of Bow tells leg him to "tan' again," and he did marry his Wealthy ma'ster's 'daughter, , and he did become thrice lord mayor of London. But, alas, he had to cull There is a story of Sir Richard which makes a good foil to the above of the laborer mayor. Xing lieriry V. was. dining with him in the city when Sir Richard caused a fire to be light- ed and threw into it' bonds to the value of £00,000. given him by the Xing for money lent, thereby freeing his Majesty from debt. The gratified Where. He Stood Ouee- One deli, at .a dinner. partY, Thorn- ae Raikes tells Us in his diary,: John Wilson Ctoker, who Was nothing if not dogmatie,_ flatly contradicted the old Dukeof Wellington about some incident in the Waterloo eampaign. The duke gave up the- point cour- .thously. Shortly after the discussion fell upon percussion caps, and Croker -again flatly contradicted the hero of Waterloo. "My. dear Croker," said the duke, "I can yield to your superior information on most points, and you may perhaps know a great deal more of', what passed at. Waterloo than my- self, but as a sportsman. I will main- tain my point about the percussion caps.' • • • The American Collector. "Historic Bibles In America" is a very pemarkable record of American enterprise. Among these Bibles are volumes that belonged to Charles le,' George III., Queen Anne, Prince Hen- ry, son of James T. ; 'the Duke of Sussex (ten), and Riehard III. Will the crown jewels find iheir way Over there P -London Spectator. Chrintman Inland. • "I spout last Christmas on Chrkunas Island," said a globe trotter. "1p ,the moruing I bathed In the sea rind In the afternoon, dressed In white flannel, .1 plaseed tennis. Christmasisland In In the !Indian ocean. it Is always'. SUMMer there, 'The thermometer nev- er falls below 70 and never rises above 00 In the shade. There's ohms a COOL pure °wind • froth the southeast. Fresh fruit and flowers and vegetables are its plentiful in January us in JUly. ' This little perallee is nine tulles long ' and tee miles wide.", Established1879 Whooping Cough, Croup, Bronchitis Cough, Grip, Asthma, Diphtheria Ctesolene is a boon to Asthmatics • i,),cs it not seem more effective to breathe in a . . remedy to cure disknie o the breathing :organs than to take the remedy into the stomach? . . septic ii:s. 1 -becausetieco:elre the rcell'sclearseercil surface with tirtittil; t %cry breath, ycjng prolongedandc nstaant treat- ment. It is intraluable fo-ttioth s with small cat I.tren, Those of a consumptive tendency And itnmediate ✓ elief front coughs .or In- tl uned conditions of the throat, . . Sold by druggist . Sand postal f thooklet. / . Lltasinio, . meg Co., Linhted, gents, Mont- ✓ ealo .C1 ada. go7 nowerailve. First' Doctor -Is this operation &brae Intely. tieceseary? Seeerld Doethr-It ' Is. 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Enclosed find ..., for which. send toba Free Press and News-Ttecord, as No. ... f Name 6 • _ Addresa....................,,...L..ktiati.•ip tr�*ti.440,40** Irottliet...., 1 itimitmortasui.ttti...**MattarrtritlassortOssiv ' Always After Pa. : I"No matter what we do, there IS one class of people- who will always be after us." i "WM' are they?" J V !4"fe 6 Posterity." ' .•.. . • . A MAN OF PRIVILEGE raagg :::21:7114;Plto Zart LONDON'S LORD MAYOR A PER- SONAGE OF POMP AND' POWER. the ourtly Whittington replied, "Surely, sue, never had subject such a king Still prettier is the history of Lord Mayor Oaborne (1589)., Osborne was the apprentice of a mayor who lived on London bridge, and one day he The First Holder of the High eeci dmiesvetedrlfrittrzizritearnclorleoschuaeddlait 'Mighty Office Wes..Elected In HIS ' • en tnrouga a, lattice winclew. Years and Proved Popular -Dick Whit. alter the girl was a rich heiress, court. ed by earls. and lipights, but.ker lath.' tington and Other Ancient Worth- ad said to them all, "No Osborne lese-How Self -Maths L-ord Mayor saved her, and Osborne shall have Gave Charles II. a Taste of His bee! And Osborne, the hero appren- Quality. tice, did have her and became lord . mayor as well His great-grandson The most impressive thing about the was subsequently created Duke of mayoralty of London is it e great an- Leeds. tiquity. In Saxon and Nornaanlimes Such stories read like fiction, but London was an independent etate, and - they are perfectly true, The. city ar- the chief magistrate -the portreeve, or chives preserve • them, with many the bailiff -was an absolute ruler. more. -Keith Hunter in London Ex - The first mayor was elected in 1189, press. and he was so popular that he retain- pLEN-rv OF CHALK, ed the office for 24 years. The first lord mayor's pageant was An the reign • Of Henry VIII. and in it he figured A Block That Was Once as Large as as chief butler 'to Anne Boleyn. the Continent of Europe. I , Through the long intervening years the lord mayor has retained many of The small piece of chalk' which is his prerogatives as a ruler. Most in nhe constant ruosoem ,inthtehab ills ei ha r r9onomni People have no idea how extensive, his privileges are and the workshop has a 'strange his- tory, the unraveling of which through He has his own chaplain (in olden clays, like the monarch, he had his all its complexities is one of the most jester, too), and badges of royalty are difficult problems with which the sci- attached to his office -the scepter, the ence of the present day is called upon swords of justice and mercy and the to . deal, This piece is •in reality a ails the city before all the royal family'. that once filled an area the size of ' IWO mace. He has right ,of precedence in c o an immense oc ir or. 'Soldiers in. any number cannot march through the city without his consent. He has the right of private audience With the Eing. He has the privilege of direct entrance without queetien' royal levees. He cen. at any time dis- solve the city courts, even that of the common councils by removing the sword and mace from the table. • Re to Portugal in the south. is lord of the 'river Thar/tea, of the In the British Isles the chalk is donservaney, and. he controls the city found in greatest perfection and con - purse. - tinuity in the east and southeast Of The Majesty of his state is pretty England. A sheet of chalk more than considerable too. The city gives him' a theueand feet in thickness under - a sum of £10,000 to expend. His pal- lies all that portion of L'ngland which ape, the Mansion House, is furnished is situated to the southeast of a eeftli plate and ornaments Worth £100,- line crossing the island diagonally° the continent of Europe and of which evenyet several gigantic fragments remain, each. hundreds of square miles in extent. Therm patches are scattered over the region lying be - Omen Ireland on the west and China on the east and extend in the other direction fro Sweden in the north 000. He has a splendid retinue of from the North Sea at Flataborough H d t tl t th En lish seryants,. including it sword bearer, ea o cove on e g mace -bearer and seven trumpeters, . Channel in Dorset, This enormous whose liveries cost some £1,000 an- sheet of. chalk is tilted up slightly on nually. He gives a yearly banquet, the west, and its depressed earitern which costs thousands of pounds, and portions that dip toward the waters employs an arMY, a 150 waiters, cooks of the North Sea are usually buried and carvers, • from sight - by means of overlying Best of all, lie has the power to sands and clays. Where the edgesraise vast sums : f Mont? for chat' - of the chalk flo r• come upon the table perposes. In the last quarter sea. the cliff sc nety is strikingly of a century the toed niayore of. Lone gra.nd and beautiful. Any one who don have raised nearly £6,009,000 for • has once seen the magnificent rocks , the relief of various people in dis- of 'Flamboroegh and terichy Head, trees. the jagged stedics of the. Needles or Another feature which makes the ..the dizzy mass o Sha espeare's cliff, Isi A MILITARY DESPOT. The Mageriesive of Dose Private Is • the liersestot" Army. The following Is the experience o( a German army private: During the second maneuvers 1 wag sent MI ahead to select quarters for my company. The police supply the names of householders who are expected to shelter the soldiery. and I bad to de- cide on the number of Men who should be assigned to each place. It seems that our nutior dispatched a courier with a message foe our captain. For some reason or other the message was not delivered. The next day the captain called we outand in the pres- ence of the whole company rebuked me for not delivering the message. "I, did not receive any message," ventured. , . "Shut up your mouth, you liar!" he thundered. Awl again he bellowed, "Why didn't you deliver that message, You" - I told him a second time that I had not received any message. The cap- tain's temper broke all bounds. With an oath he rode his home at me full tilt, hurling* filthy names ,at me the while. When he had ridden right up to me - ,I fully expected be wouldeve me over, but I dared not move -he suddenly reined in bis horse and, drawing a long dagger from his belt, shouted, 'avid with passion, "I have half a mind' to stick this through. your vile body, you schweinthiedi" Once more he asked me ebout the message, and fence More I answered him. breahdenandthev;t4ilerSlee's:-MThy-01,-1-r..Ptiniehment, you liar!" be retorted. • - He repeated the question several times and inereesed my term of impris- onment each time I answered in the negative until my term or imprison- ment equaled fourteen days._ I was Placed under arrest. Next day I was released. I afterviard found that the captain had discovered his mistake, but he ,never referred to It. SEE:WITS YET FUNNY UNCONSCIOUS HUMOR THAT HELPS TO PUT SPICE. IN LIFE. Pomo 10**mph:is or pentissattam bums, steeliness in speakers, Writtais and Painting That Agpoall Wapiti to the Sense rre the matooktue. • Nothing baa added more to the merri. reent of the world than the uninten• Venal, unconsciourt hunter of =item public speakers and, In fact all classes and conditions of men and women. And there is none so -delightful. It far exceeds in mirth provoking quality the Cold blooded humor of the professional Wits. We Americans are a fun loving peo- ple, and we must and will have our jollity, Some one has said with ger- tain truth: ."With all our vanity, ener- gy and unrest, we are not a dull, cheer- less people. Sour faced fellows, yellow and dyspeptic, are to be met with In our cars and on our' streets, but they are not the type of the American, for ' be is as ready for a laugh as for a speculations as fond of a joke as an office." • And the jokeela all the more enjoy- able when it is spontaneous. The great - et the Stress and strain of life the greater the need and deraahd for hu- mor, and no one deprecates the value of humor excepting those wife have none of this good gift to their portion. "Sunset" Cox, one of the wittiest men of his day, says in ills Insole "Why We Laugh:" "Eliminate from the ditetits ct of an one eo e the PERILS OF EIALLOONINO. As Liaoning Trip 1* the 111,400 • • Wild Tassseressm,.. On one occailon, rising endden17 through a stratum of .elotale 10,000 feet Lu the air into brilliant sunshine, the gas dilated, I let out a little, DOWEL we dropped into a cold air current. Tlie immediate condensation of the gen dropped us back into the cloud layer, which eondensed the gee still more; and accelerated the drop, We came out directly abeve a stretch of wood over Which lay another cool belt, By this time we were falling like a reek. . We were going so fast that the bagfule of sand we threw out went up instead of down. Hastily, we threw out the drag rope, the anchor, the lunch basket •-to little purpose. We struck the trim% with a terrific crash; but. escaped; how. ever, with nothing wome.tham a shak- ing -up and a few bruises. . The most - exciting trip I ever Wader was a record breaking voyage that be- gan eue Sunday evening. ,The Weather was, not propitious, but we cast Off. • We 'sailed across the Hudson river to ••• New Jersey rihd Plunged into a cloud. After traveling; twenty miles descend- ed to drop a twee to my wife, assuring her of our safety. Again we shot into it cloud. Presently we drifted over a village . and, with that exaltation that, accompanies the sensation of floating In the air, enjoyed tie s strange degtess the music of church bells drifting Ute from belay's., Before we were aware we plunged into the nildit of a huge approaching thunder cloud: It seemed to open and swallow us Into a pit of gloom- and sinsultaneously Into the' heart o e un'e think have 'ever seen. The clouds rolled and tossed and twisted. The \, balloon would now -be forced downs \ then tested up aisd again spun swiftly about like a top. We.lost all Sense of - direction., Thunder wee crashing and roiling 'end crackling all ereund. us. Lightning flashed, .not forked zige zags, but in great flashes of fire, It was frightful. We did not want to de- .. scend, but presently we heard the un- nelstakanle sound of water not far away. Letting out a. little gas, we shot downward. Faster we dropped and peter. Land was 'below us. The prole len] was to land in the high wind with- out damage. r let out moee gas. We 'Sanded he a treetop with a: jar that fix- . ed the beeket so firmly in a crotch -that it could not, be disiOclged by the wind, _ forenew we had droPped below. 't•he • stem, lcird Mayoralty attractive •is its glare-. near Dover, can. understand why "the Our of eornance. More often than not • White cliffs of Albion" has grown into the king of the city is • . self-made a stock phrase. , man: Dick Whittington started out • • ,This massive sheet of chalk appears as an apprentiee, as many other lord again ' France,.' in many parts of ' mayors have done. The mayor of 1611 Europe as 'far east as the Crimea and came to London in rags in a carrier's even in Central Asia. beyond the sea cart. The wealthy mayor. of 1415 had of Aral. How far it stretched west - been a foundling: As recently. as 1800 ward into what now ;the Atlantic - we had a lord mayor of London who may never be known, but chalk ' cliffs began. tile rie a heicktayer's laeheyee,e of at least' 200 'feet in thitknese are. When men of this Chatacter are ex- seen at Antrim, in Ireland, and lees sited to 'the seate•Of the 'mighty they conspicuous. formations are found in' rere apt to 'do freakish thingsat times, Scotland, in Argyll and _Aberdeen.' The laborer mayor instanced above There can be little -eitieitiOn that all' had a son Who fell freni a high ladder these now isolated patches were once apd'was killed, and the mayer on be- eo ing brought to the spot broke through whielt must therefore have occupied -the crowd, 'exclaiming, "See that the a superficial area about -00e Miler; poor fellow's Watch is safe!" ,• „olong by nearly .1,000 broad, an; ex Another self-made lord mayor gave r lent larger -then that of the present Charles II. a taste of .his quality. contirieht of EurOpe.. Charles dined with him in: the City, . . uneeted in a continuous sheet • e • and the wine passed so freely that Unneteisary 'Hurry. • the guests grew noisy and the mayor You have promised e let us say, to familiar. Charles therefore stole away call for ,a• friend at his .offiee, so as to to his coach in Guildhall yard; but the go down into the country together. He bibulous mayor' pursued his majesty is a stockbroker, merchant, what you and, catching him by the hand, cried will, His place of business being ten out, with a monstrous oath; '"Elir, you minutes! walk from the Station, you . than. (stay and tak' t'Other bottle call. after business *hours, about a And the merry monarch actually turn -s ed back and Saw the fun to. a finish. The temerity of this Mayor. seems all the snore.- remarkable in view of the 'Stuart king's tyrannous dealings with the cite He imprisoned twenty -Of the princinal- citizens because they hi loan on bad security. 4.'"Vdtaltd#20.tt a Teach-. I "Don't you think you're wasting your thee talking the value of aeon- ! oaty to Blank? hasn't any know, Mit I have • refusedni a • . He fined the Mayor and aldermen stating that for the benefit of the la - £6,00e on the Pretext of a trifling 'city dies he Would make"pluffs, boas; ete., riot and £ee,000 for pretended, mia- quarter of an beer before the. tram :tarts. You find him cheerfully doing nothing unless a. cigarette counts for work. He absolutely' declines to start yet. It is too abeurdly early.- After five minutes you -suggest departure. By no , means will he move. It never takes' him more than eaten minutes at the BIRTH OF A "GASSER." Noise of a plowing. Well Drowned All Other Sounds. Lu the Broadway Magazine Is a story by Rupert, Hughes concerning the oil wells of Texas, He tells or the birth of a "gasser." "It screamed like the death cry of'a thousand -panthers.'---Ile says: 'The thee steel cable has been sent flying like a twine string. A. great length of pipe has been • hurled against a tree and wrapped around it The derrick was almost hidden inn white haze. A geyser of fine sand was streaming up- ward mid eating away the lofty crown blocks 'Seth knew what It was. •He found Tom, and they gesticulated at each. other. They made faces, but no audi- ble sound: • Their voices were vain as candles in the -full sunlight.' Each was trying to yell the same thing: •eesnes gasser' blowing. her head ciffe • • "Men gathered Enron eyerywnere and aeted like crazy Nike 'working their Jaws and delivering no message.. . ,-"They were aeaked, drowned,' Ob- titerated to a sea of :Intolerable noise. ,"A mile away. at the railroad :Station. the passengers were emially made dumb by the -Uproar. If a: man want- ed 'a ticket be had to write out the name Of the station. An engine relied In With a bell that rocked without sound and a whistle emitting puffs of white steam that no one heard. "The anlmals eif. the region were greatly disturbed.. There wets muds .breaking of harness on. the part Of horses,, and one or two galloped about under.- empty. saddles, Their riders were doubtless stuck in the mud some- where, head first . • "A few pigs wandering here and there had sniffed at the noise and re turned; to their luxurions wallows in the ollY muek." • amusing and the amused faculty, and you produce a sterility as dull and. un- interesting as the cinders and ashes of the volcanic fields of Iceland. • But In- clude- the a.masing element within the experience and history of manklad, and no description of luxuriance, with grape, collie, nectarine and orenge, such as makes the vales of Portugal a peren- nial.smile, is adequate to emphasize the contrast." -One could not well destanceea more amusing- blunder than that in a paint. lug of the"Blessed Virgin" in an- old church in Spain. In this painting the Virgin is represented as sitting on a red telvet sofa fondling a cat with one hand, while with the other she is pour- ing coffee from a silver coffeepot. ' This 'is as amusing tie a painting in a German church representing the sacri- fice of Isaac by -Abraham. . In this ' painting Abraham is about to .dis- eliarge a huge pistol at Isaac when an angel descends --and pours a. pitcher of water on the pan of the pistol, thereby saving Isaac. The writer once saw a crude painting .of King Herod :with a pair of specta- dies painted on his nose.', There -Is a veryeeld painting of St Peter' denying-. the Saviour, and several of the Roman soldiers In the background have pipes - In their uniuths. ' ' • Those Who are onthe. lookoer• for them will fled .many arnasing blunders. • In the daily papers and in periedicals„ of all kinds.' It was but the .cithei day . . that the writer saw Miss Fanny Cros- by referred to In a religious paper as ' the "author of .many blind poems." And it was a great metropolitan daily that one morsingegateeitesreaders the following information regarding the wrecking of a ship, the' night before:. "The captain swam ashore and suc- ceeded in saving the life of his wife. She was insured in the Northern. Ma- ' rine Insurance comPany and carried a cargo of cement Equally amusing as an. Instance of unconscious humor *as the statement made by another paper regarding the capsizing of a boat at sea-. It said that but one life was, lost and that was found afterward."' He must sadly deficient in Mitaor who. does not find himself amuried by a sign like the following seen In the win- dow of a shoemaker: "A•ny respectable man, woman or child can .have a at: In. this shop.' It Was an enterprising fur- riee. whe placed a eard-in his window ICnowing his walking. cape- • doubt, At cities, Yea but.acquiesce, last you ,are off. and halfway to, the train he says : "By J•ove, old man, we mud' hurry up. My Watch is slow." So . . Treating the Insane..,: In. 1796 'William'. Tu. a Quaker; - opened the first national asylum for out Of their own Skins." . management of estates. . A prolific source of amusement to The mayors, themselves e however,. you run-ignominiouslyu yo run If the insane in York, England.. A few manuscript readers is the surprising could fine readily enough on (Jena' luck befriend. you,youIpst catch years earlier a Frenchman named Pi- way In which aspirants for literary 'Mon. ,,or example, his virorship,of the 'moving train, andas yousink pP ers ir- nel had made a similar effort to restore honor and ,glory often "put things." year 1'479 had one of his (I is ieg and .breathless into your seat he the mentally deficient to the rank' of We find one young woman Baying of £50 (abt £1,000 of our money) for says: "You see. we . kneelingoutoo close to him' while at time. Never mwere in plenty ofissed a train . in my human beings. Pinera plan was that her heroine: "The countess fell back in prayers in St. Paul's. rife." Plenty of time, indeed! And all • ef nonrestraint a system then unheard a deadly swoon. When she revived her Yet another ford aof and, of course, to be ridiculed as a spirit had fled' ., utlyere.(11132)_mades this hurry . for nothingIf he had been . an amusing blunder of speech' at . a doing anything -had a letter to write Preposterous heresy. It is now being' Another young writer places her her dinner to judges ...and . leaders of the or the like -in these wasted eight followed every -where. . - : °the th a very perilous situation and Bar. "See before you," he exclaimed minutes, you could forgive him, but — ' ----- then%ays` of her, Her flee quivered, magniloquently 'the examples of my- he hadn't, or at all events he didn't pale; her breath came self,' the Chief magistrate of this great You mop your brow and, though he , Ihtersheo4retepkasngtsr7 empire, and the &lei juetiee of Eng- is your very, good friend, remember A. third writer „gives this amusing land sitting _at my right hand, both with- '..ceimplacency that this "just ' now in the- highest- offices of the state catching trains leads to marry coron- description of ebb appearance of some and both sprung &rim the very dregs of the people-!" • • , • view. -ewes- e • ere ,esserse.........e.e.' ..41" The 'banquets, by the er'e inquests, -London Saturday "Re- one she referred to as "the bell of the belle' ."She was clad in some soft, Vinging; fleecy, Vapory stuff of purest white that, gave the appearance elf a. bit of detached cloud floating in the sky, She wore no ornament with the 'exception of several bits of rare bric- a-brac gathered in a foreign...clime." A charming bit of purely unconscious huinor was that noticed by some vie - Inns to a great English coal mine. At the mouth of the great central shaft hundreds of feet deep was a placard bearing these.words: "Please •do not tumble down the shaft." se mayoral way, have always been wonderful af- fairs. In the year of George III•iss Marriage' there .were placed on the tables 414 different dishes, excluding -dessert. Forty-five years. later (1806) no fewer than seven of this monarch's . sons were guests at a, mayoral dinner. The Guildhall banquet to the' prince regent and the allied sovereignsbe- fore the battle of Waterloo was eery - ed on plate valued at dyer' £200,060 and cost £25,000. All this, • however, is hardly ro- mance, We must revert to Sir Richard • Whittington for that. Sir Richard really did hear the bells of Bow tells leg him to "tan' again," and he did marry his Wealthy ma'ster's 'daughter, , and he did become thrice lord mayor of London. But, alas, he had to cull There is a story of Sir Richard which makes a good foil to the above of the laborer mayor. Xing lieriry V. was. dining with him in the city when Sir Richard caused a fire to be light- ed and threw into it' bonds to the value of £00,000. given him by the Xing for money lent, thereby freeing his Majesty from debt. The gratified Where. He Stood Ouee- One deli, at .a dinner. partY, Thorn- ae Raikes tells Us in his diary,: John Wilson Ctoker, who Was nothing if not dogmatie,_ flatly contradicted the old Dukeof Wellington about some incident in the Waterloo eampaign. The duke gave up the- point cour- .thously. Shortly after the discussion fell upon percussion caps, and Croker -again flatly contradicted the hero of Waterloo. "My. dear Croker," said the duke, "I can yield to your superior information on most points, and you may perhaps know a great deal more of', what passed at. Waterloo than my- self, but as a sportsman. I will main- tain my point about the percussion caps.' • • • The American Collector. "Historic Bibles In America" is a very pemarkable record of American enterprise. Among these Bibles are volumes that belonged to Charles le,' George III., Queen Anne, Prince Hen- ry, son of James T. ; 'the Duke of Sussex (ten), and Riehard III. Will the crown jewels find iheir way Over there P -London Spectator. Chrintman Inland. • "I spout last Christmas on Chrkunas Island," said a globe trotter. "1p ,the moruing I bathed In the sea rind In the afternoon, dressed In white flannel, .1 plaseed tennis. Christmasisland In In the !Indian ocean. it Is always'. SUMMer there, 'The thermometer nev- er falls below 70 and never rises above 00 In the shade. There's ohms a COOL pure °wind • froth the southeast. Fresh fruit and flowers and vegetables are its plentiful in January us in JUly. ' This little perallee is nine tulles long ' and tee miles wide.", Established1879 Whooping Cough, Croup, Bronchitis Cough, Grip, Asthma, Diphtheria Ctesolene is a boon to Asthmatics • i,),cs it not seem more effective to breathe in a . . remedy to cure disknie o the breathing :organs than to take the remedy into the stomach? . . septic ii:s. 1 -becausetieco:elre the rcell'sclearseercil surface with tirtittil; t %cry breath, ycjng prolongedandc nstaant treat- ment. It is intraluable fo-ttioth s with small cat I.tren, Those of a consumptive tendency And itnmediate ✓ elief front coughs .or In- tl uned conditions of the throat, . . Sold by druggist . Sand postal f thooklet. / . Lltasinio, . meg Co., Linhted, gents, Mont- ✓ ealo .C1 ada. go7 nowerailve. First' Doctor -Is this operation &brae Intely. tieceseary? Seeerld Doethr-It ' Is. The only possible chance we have of collecting our bill Is from his life insoro rice t-t- .Dear Mother Your little Ones are it constant care is FA and Winter weather. They will catch cold. Do you know about Shiloh's Censumption Cure, the Lung Tonic, and what it has done for so many? It is said to be the only reliable remedy for all , diseases of the air passages in children. his absolutely harmless and pleasant to take. It is guaranteed to cure Or your money is returned. The price is 25c. per bottle, and all dealer* in medicine sell St4 This mincer should be. every household. , • Market Ante, Some of these big, magazine editors are humorous at times. In response to this inquiry from •an tunateur, "What does poetry bring in New York?" one of them replied: * • "We have no regular prices. but If you ship it -1h crates or :carloads we believe that you can realize 114 cents' a pound for it." He is great who Is what he is from nature and who never reminds Ua Of others.-Emersou. Her Plan, He -DO you believe In long engage - Meets? She -It all depende. - I don't understruie, She • be has pienty-of-etioney and is inclined to -be liberal it long engagement is the thing, but If he cannot afford- boxee est° the , Opera anti such things' I always make his rneeme tore Short. " There tird stars so distant that a fly - Mg =chine moving at the rate of 500 tulles an bone would require 00000,- 000 yeare to reach thorn. PASTOR AND PEOPLE PRAISE 'CHINE 1PRONOUNCED Slik!RgN) A Marvellous and Triumphant Record of Victory Over Disease. No medicine has ever effected as large a number of wonderful and almost mar- . venous cures as Psychine. It has had one continuous record of victories over diseas- es of the throat; cheat, lungs and stomach. Where doctors have -pronounced cases incurable from consumption and other wasting diseases Psychine steps in And • rescues numbeiless people even from the very verge of the grave. Coughs, Colds, Catarrh, 'Bronchitis, Chills, NightSweate, La Grippe, Pneumonia, and other like • troubles, all of which are forerunners of Consumption, yield guickly to the curse • tive powers of Payclune. . malt:lee tChanniolibelloiwilnognes:ifteimhecuir:nYcn.red' 'cannot refrain from telling all Who saitee of my remarkable recovery with Psychine. In • April, 1902, I caught a heavy cold which settled on my lungs and gradually led to consumption. I could not sleep, was subject to night sweats. ' my lungs were so diseased, my doctor considered me incurable. Xer, Mr. Mahaffy, Port Elgin Presbyterian Church, recommended Dr. illo,cum'e PsychMe to me, when I was living in Ontario. , • After tiling Psychine for a short time I ate and slept wl. the night sweats and cough ceased. Months ago I stopped taking Psychine, as I was perfectly restored to health and to -day I never felt better in my life. Psychine hu been a god- send to tne• ANDcRolltronewtrctINLL.w,..t. PSYOHINE never disappoints. - PSYCHINE has no substitute. There is no other medicine "Suet se At all dealersh5neoct. wyiendtettio.00 per bottle. A. DR, T. L SLOCUM, Limited, 179 ling St. W., TORONTO Dr., Root's Kidney Pills aro a sure and permanent cure for Rheumatism, Bright's Disease, Pain in the Back and all forms of Kidney Trouble. 25c per box, at an dealers. ' Let Ise sell.y�ua. CHATIIAM Incubator On Time' no you know there is big money in raising poultry? Do you know my incu- bator Will pay you a big, ger profit than any other thing you can have on your place? 'Well these things ate true'. Thousands of people all over Canada have peovcd it every year forthe last five years. I want to quote you,a price on my Chatham Incubator, sold ON TIME and ott a S -year guarantee. I wantle send you my Chatham book. -This ince- , bator bookis free -'11 send it j , to you for just a postal card. ' it tells you how to make mono Oct of chicekinet"Isinta Incubators and trooders will omit° you money, for CI Chatham Incubator will hatch a live, healthy chicken on of every fortilo egg put into it, telt . Will you write for, mtt book to-dav just say on a ti6tital 'Home send ins your incubator. liook"-t hat's all, AclaressIne PersonAlly,. filittilSokt Campbell President The etatesn eimpesti ese w tam It3 411.4 ton ra *ionti,,pti. frorri braat 1.et1.-,!e, St Olt r)Am"1,t trott,Que.tkron. ttua,‘;An ; " harm at.)