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Exeter Times, 1897-4-22, Page 9Before Retiring.... take Ayer's Pills, and you will :sleep better and wake in better condition for the day's work. A.yer's Cathartic Pills have no •equal as a pleasant and effect- ual remedy for constipation, biliousness, sick headache, and all liver troubles. They are sugar-coated, and so perfectly prepared, that they cure with- out the annoyances experienced in the use of so many of the pills on the market. Ask your druggist for Ayer's Cathartic Pills., When other pills -won't help you, Ayer's is THE PILL THAT WILL Anij POISON tine blood is sure to do havoc some- , where. The only Menthe is sound kidneys, the only Citge, kidney med- icine, the only tedicine is Dodd's Kidney Pills, liu • • tr EVERY §..AMILY SHOULD KNOW THAT to a rery remarkable remedy, both for X. VERNAL and EXTERNAL use, and won. derful in its quick aotiOn to relieve diotresa PAIN -KILLER I s ft sure ouro for Sore Throat. Coughs. Miarrheca, Dysentery, Cramps, Cholera, and all Bowel Complaints. PAIN -KILLER le TILE BEST rens. ear known for sere• sickness, Sick Jileadache, rain in the Mack or Side, Illietsulathins end Neuralgia. PAIN -KILLER tratrimittki MADE. It brillp $IT.EIZ AND PERMANENT RXLIZIT ig all moss of isruisets, uta, Sprains, Severe esteem, etc. PAIN-KILLERis the well triad and trusted friend of the Mechanic. Fanner. Planter, Bailer, and in ,ract all ClaSSOS wanting Meditate always at band. ond sAnt To USA intern:lair or externally wills oortainty of relblf. Beware of imitations. Tdka none but tbe genuine .PERRY DAV13." Bold eyorywbera ; rOr. big bottle. •.".11/LA1IfSIS CURED—SWORN STATEMENT, Mrs. Maggie McMartin, 27 Radenhurst St., Toronto ' Mt. „swears that ityokman's "Kootenay Cure" mired ,,or of Paralysis which rendered one aide of her bod) ,ntiroly useless. Physicians said there was no ehanct .f hor over recovering the use of her limbs. Hope .1::rer1ed her, but to•day she is walking around telling :ter friends how Ilyekinan's "Kootenay Cure" gar .ur life aad happiness. Sworn to, July 10, 1800, z °tore J. W. Seymour Corley, Notary Publia. .1 WORN STATEMENT OF A GRATEFUll MOTHER. Louisa White, nine years old, who suffered witl, 'Eczema since her birth, has been entireiy oared and un• general system built up by Ryokinan s "Kootena) Jure," The above facto are given in a sworn state. matie by her mother, Mrs. George White, 139 Stinson St., Hama*, Ont„ dated July 9, 1890, ef'cire J. F. Monek, Notary Public,. it COMBINATION DISTURBED — SWORN STATEMENT MADE. , Charles K. Newman, 19 Marlborough St, Toronto Ont., had a conepheation of blood tronbise, ghee - manes, sees*. Kpint lopuble and oonstipatien. il'es ffiquently dishflbefl at night, list his appeth, md was a very filen math His Ridneyi are now in r ooaltby condltiqp, his appetite good, sleep undim and-rv-melipation Mired ; all this mil done b, ,Iy• elfina0 0 ' ilootenay Cure..!: Hs makes 0;06' Itateinent the above tants befork J. W Sopa= • Jul,'JO. 1890. TH tTh"alTEXETER " TTIVIE$ IRE NEWS IN 1 MIME VHE VERY LATEST FROM ALL, THE WORLD OVER. tatereeting items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States. and All Parts ol the Globe. Condensed and Assorted ter Busy Reading. 0ANA.DA.. St. Patrieleas Boys" School at Halifax was seriously damaged by fire. Caetle shipments front Manitoba td the British markets have corameneed. Dr. Montague speaks in very high terms of the prospects of the Bothwell oil fields. Montreal retail grooens have organ- ized a boycott on the depa,rtmental states. Manitoba's total contributions to the Doraietion India famine fund amount. to $18,390. The Thirteenth Regiment of llarolle ton is now completely armed with the new Lee -Enfield rifles, Mr. Henry J. Medlin of Ilarailton is dead as the result of swallowing a beam -beaded taok six years ago. An attempt to burn the steamer Gar- den CitY at Post paal01.13/0 INV..% frus- trated by a cotaple of fishermen near bar, The Massachusetts Iastitute of Tech - Teleology etunmer sch.00l of architecture win be held at Qaebec City this „sum- mer. A general order has been issued by the Militia Department whiela re- stricts tie pay lists to men who are Lit fax active service. A portion of the C.P.R. track oe. the Pacific division carried away by. a landslide has been relaid and trains are ru.nning as usual. A large mass of rook weighing sever- al tone fell from the oliff down on Cbanip.aia street, Quebec. A couple of bowies were damaged. It is expected that the lower floors of the Western. Department, buildings he Ottawa, which were injuxed by fire, will be ready for occupatioa by the first of May. It is rtunoured at Winnipeg that the object of the visit of Sir Frank Smith 'and other officers of the Dominion Bank is to start a branch. there and at Van- cou.ver. IAn intimation has been received from, , Atuatralia to the effect that several oh the Premiers are considering the ad- visability of tre.vellreg to London by the way of Canada to participate in the diamond jubilee. Mr. J. B. Riley, United States Consul, gives the exports from the consular district of Ottawa to the United States for the quarter ended March 31, as $550,909, of which $467,151 was lume b,or. Chief Justice, Sir Francis McLean tel- egraphs from Calcutta to the Gover- n.or-Cs'eneral thanking all who have con- tributed to the India famine fund. and. reporting the progress of the work of sellef. The authorities of McGill University Montreal, eavegeoeived from his High - Imes the i'llahara.tan of Jeypore, a 'number of works on India architec- ture, known as the ;Teypare portfolios of architectural details. THE EXETER TIMES Harry de Wbaclt, who recently ra- ted to travel by land from New Tor to Paris es ill in London. The trade returns for nine months of the present fiseal year were 0184.- 734,000, nearly ten millions better than teat year. Danean Forbes, of Oualoden, the de- soendant of President Forbes, of Scotch btstario fame, died itt Oullocle.n, house, three roiles from In.verness, on SAW" - day. The British shipbuilding engineers and their empaoyers have a dispute which is growing very grave, and great strike is irahnineut h aal the yards. Diphxmatic notes are passing between London and Washington with reference ti the. Behring sea fisheries, and a, dif- fictulty is threatening s serious as the Venezuelan affair. The :usual Queen's Maundy bounty, was distributed at (Westrnmster on Thursday, and the coins given to the old people were eagerly bought as sou- venirs of the jubilee reign. 'A despatch front the American Sec- retary of State, -couched in decided terms," hasbeen served =the British Government, urging that the indis- criminate slaughter of seals in Bering Sea be stopped. • It is stated that Lord Wolseley, Com- mander -in -Chief a the Baitisla force will have to shoxtly retire on. account of ill -health, 'Lord Roberta and Sir Redve,rs Buller are mentioned as fate, ariteie for the successions Referring to the trouble in Hawaii regarding the landing cf Japanese tmn- mzgrats, the London St. James' Ga- zette says that if a rupture takes place between. Japan and the United States the latter raw find, the Japanese navy a hard oustaxaer to tackle. Mr. R. W. Hanbury, replying to a question in the British House of Com- mons, announcedthat the Board of Trade, woald ask the Government the Dominion a Catnacla to furnish a, report on. the result of tee law prohib- iting gambling in future. Truth says:—"It is doubtful if Lord Saisbury's health will permit him to retain the posts of Premier and Sec- retary of State for Foreign Affairs. Un- der these ctreu,nestanees mealy Union- ists axe suggesting Lord Roseherry as Secretary of State for Is'oreign Affaare." The Sons of England are making ar- rangements for the holding of a dia- mond ju.bi.ee service on Sundae-, the 20th of June, that will circle the globe at the hour of four eeolook in tbe, aft- ernoon. Everywhere the National An- them will be sung, and. prayers offered for her Majesty. Mr, John Ha-ys Hammond, the Ameri- can engineer and former rnember of the Johannesberg Reform Committee, arriv- ed in London on Friday from South, Af- rica. Ile says affairs in tbe Transvaal are very unsettled, but he does not think an outbreak of war with Great Britain is likely in the immediate fut- ure. The report of the penitentiary inves- tigating commission has'been transmit- ted ter the. Ministe'r of Justice. It ie stated that one tresuilt of the investi- gation will be a thorough shaking up of the staff. It is peobable that the. Dominion Government will shortly (give ineteur- tions to its agents in England to see that the children, sent out to this coun- try are not the dregs of the crLminL classes or otheateriee undesirable. Mx. Donate M. P., has received a let- ter from Sir Oliver IVIawat stating that hie application for the Suppression of the lieetnets of the Massachneetts Benefit Insurance Association cannot be granted utader .the laGV• as it exists. A man about twenty-one years of age jumped off the upper Suspension bridge at Niagara Falls 011 Saturday. He was seen to strike the field of floe ice. The only evidence teat by him was a brown Derby hat, with the maker's name in - "Hall, Boston." The Secretary of State has prepared. a memarandurn for Council as a basis for a proclamation making Tuesday, the 22nd of June a national holiday and the day far the official celebration throughout Canada of the jubilee of her Majesty's reign. The resignation of Chief justice Hagerty of the Ontario Court of Ap- peal has been aeztepte,d. Mr. Justice Bu.rton of the same court will be the new Chief ju.stice of Ontario, and Mr. Charles, Moss, Q. C., is mentioned in Legal circles as the most acceptable new Judge iv place of Mr. Justice Burton. The p'roporeal to organize a, special regiment of GOO men to represent Canada at the jubilee celebration will, probably fall throtegh, as the Govt. eramr-General has received a cabala message from Mr. Chamberlain ex- plaining that the Impertiel autheritiee cannot aocosen,modate more than 200 troops from Ctainada. It is stated that the Goveraam,ent has decided to grant the C. P. R. a bonus or $10,000 pee mile for the eons stractiom of the Crow's Nest Pass Rail- way, en retuen for the company's sur- render of the monopoly olattilses of its agreement, a. redutotion. og freight rates, and reaming powers fOr other railways over the new line. Adrairail Markham, rear -admiral of the Mediterranean fleet, has declined the Dominion Government's offer to take coramand of the expedition to test the navigability of the Hudson Bay straits, on, the grounds that a seal- ing vessel, with engines of only seventy horsepower, is not a, craft suited for the purpose. The Red River is still rising at Emer- son. Many have had to leave ' their hams,. and great destruotton of pro- perty is being caused. Same buildings are submerged (to the eecond floor There is over three feet of water in the stores on Main street, and all come roeu.nioation from the country is cut off. Mr. • W. C. McDonald, the Montreal tobacco manufacturer, was condemned by Judge Pagnuelo .to pay the parents of the late Alphonsine Thibandeau $1,999, the amount of their action for compensation, for the death of theix daughter, who was working in the Mc- Donald tobacco factory When the fire of Aprill, 189.5., occouged, and died from injuries received by jueoping from a wmdow of the fourth storey. GREAT BRITAIN. • The drift in England towards war with the Transvaal is heartily welcom- ed by ell closes,* • UNITED STATES. Conamiesioner Roosevelt has resign- ed. from the Police Department of New York. It is repeated at Washington that Spain is withdrawing her troops from Cuba, claiming that the rebellion is practically suppressed. The Carn.egie Conapany, of Pittsburg, has been invited by the Russian Gov- ernment to bid on armour plate for two first-class battleships. A. gunner was killed and two otb,er men seriously injured by the prema- ture explosion of a charge during tar- get practice Oil the United States cruis- er Yantio. Mrs. Tillie Morgan, a Denver woman of martial spirit, insists on her rigat to enlist in the National Guard„ and is causing much trouble to the Adjut- ant -General. Col. John Hay, 'United States Ambas- sador to the Couxt of St. James, left New York on Wednesday for London, to assume the duties of his new post as soon as possible. Mies Louisa Weiss, a young Ger- man woman of Malone, N.Y., head on a charge Of stealing goods, has made her escape from gaol, and is supposed to be making for Canada. An incident of the floods in the Southern States is the drowning of a colored familyof semen persons through their bull kicking the side out of the boat in which they were inti - grating to higher land. Special agents of the United States Sub -Treasury department at New York are reported to have unearthed a sys- tem of smuggling of embroideries and other goods from Montreal. Several ar- rests have been made. Mr. Wallace Thayer, of Buffalo, has consented to the extra.dition of Mrs. Sternaman, charged with poisoning her husband, if her trial is set down for the MayAssizes. Mr. Cartwright Deputy Minister of Justice, says that he will endeavor to have the trial take place at the next assizes; but he thinks that, following the ruling of Judge Ferguson in the Hyenas case, a United States counsel will not be allowed to appear in the Canadian court. The weeklyreports from the com- mercial agencies in NtilV York state that the conditions of business are practic- ally unchanged. The stook market, of New York has been more or less af- fecte,d by rumours from Europe of a warlike nature. Business in the United States (has been seriously interfered with by floods, an.d prospective labour troubles are causing considerable mis- apprehension. While the general con- ditions of business are perhaps normal, the outlook is generally of a promising nature. GENER,AL. Prince Bismerek is much improved in health. Spain is contemplating raising a • loan of fifty thousand dollars for war purposes. Ten persona were killed by the ex- plosion of fare damp in the Ofberha,.sen pit neag. Essen -on -Rehr. Eight Ertglishrmen and 26 native ruiners were killed by an explosion in a mine near Johannesburg on Tues- day. According to reports from Bombay 2,853,000 persons are employed in the relief works in the famine distriots in India. P,rince Bismarck has oompletely re- oovexed from his recent indisposition and is able to take bong carriage drives. • Speciale from Havana say that high- ly respectable woMien are beingarrest- ed and imprisoned on the suspicion of aiding the insurgents. Russian prisoners tor Siberia will in future be taken to their destination by train and be thus epared the harrotrs of the long march. Prince Hohenlohe, the German Im- perial Chancellor, has resigned, and persists an his resignation being a,e- cepted by the Emperor. There is excaltehment in Honolulu over the arrival there of a large number of 3.0•113anose gotatorp, WillO have eea3,13 into the country in the guise of stu- dents. tjahety WifeifdliCangin S etlre tabouaLs sla,clarb;toilf tthhee country with tee Brittsh ealony of Belize. There Is now a feeling in fa- vour of ratifying the treaty. rive American fishing vessels are lyingInSoraudnidandIs,launndlnPl ole tope.cerocnutri: beet owing to the rigid Lmforcement a the Anti -Bait laws, A despatch from Cape Sawa says the Het Dagalad, the Dutch newspaper, de- clares that leading officers in the Trans- vaal sneak openly of war with England being inevitable. The Federal convention in Adelaide by a vote of twenty-three to ttveave has rejected atu atmendment to allow Atou5trvaoltiewnfoureusemernaberB4s profasethn.e SouthwtaiveiThes. The next advance of the AnglotEgep- tan force% in the Soudan will barnacle as soon es there is water enough for the steamers to pass the fourth eata- rAaougtuosft.the Nile, probably is July or A despatch from Japan says that the recent coevention between Russia and. Japan in regard to ()area have seriously injured the standin,g of the Japanese Ministry. which is not likely to last nanoh longer. The strotrighoad of Ganmeen, Bechu- analand, (hae been captured by the Duke of Edinburgh's voluitteer Galishowe loot three huadred horsee, malty c,attle and many warriors. The British had six wounded. The Turkish Government has form- ally informed. the Greelc Government that any further raids of irregulars into Turkish territory will be regard- ed, by Turkey as a, deolaratioa of war upon the part of Greece. It is eenli-officially stated that all coercion of Greece upon the Part of the powers will cease so soon as' war is declared, because otherwise it would th:ravrenthticonchameter prosurkieli in - 'no choice of the movement to begin war with Turkey does not rest with King George or the Greek Govera- raent, but with the Ethnike Hetairia, a secret organization, which directed tirereegeurosslarisee of the frontier by Greek The British cruiser Reversal• which left Cape Town on February 12, under sealed orders, arrived at Durban, Ne- tal, unexpectedly during Thursday night with six other Ilritieh warships, arid two more warships were expected. The object of the naval demonstration is not known at Durban. The Prince of Monaco expresses his willingness to offer a reward for the detection of the steamer which passed one of the boats of the foundered steamer St. Nasaire without giving tbe eufferers in the boat any.assistaime. The action of the steamer is strongly coederated by all seafaring men. NEW PUNE TREATMENT. THIRTY-THREE OUT OF FIFTY PATI- ENTS RECOVER. i•••=01, Sataractory 'Metall of the res of Dr. Tersitt's Scrum—Statistics of Mortality. A: despatch from Bombay sags :--Put at fifty aaotved oases of the plague whicth have been txnder treatment by Dr. Yersin che,re ha,ve been thirtya three recoveries and seventeen deeths, sae a mortality of 31 per cent. Since the outbreak of the plague the mortality bee been 83 per cent: The cases treeted, in which the na- ture of the diseaee was confirmed, were distributed as Under Re- Treat - Cases. Mod. covered. ment. Feet day 2 15 17 Second day 6 11 12 Third dayG 6 3 Fourth day 2 1 1 Fifth day 1 0 0 — — — Total 17 33 33 The cases treated with feeble doses of serum gave a mortality of 10 per cent., while the cases treated with strong doses of sufficiently active serum gave a mortality of only 7 per cent. Dr. Yersin also anade preventive in- jeotions of serum in twelve persons. He is awaiting fresh supplies of serum to carry on the experiments. The Plague in Bombay is diminish- ing, but fresh centres of contagion, it is reported, have been discovered ha the provinces. The plag-u.e is very severe at Karachee and Poonah. THE WATERS RISING. The Situation at Morris and Emerson Growing Worse. A despatch from Winnipeg says :—The wife of Conea.d Noar, a German settler, was drowned on Monday while endeav- ering to escape to a place of safety faxim the rising waters at Emerso.a. Near also had a narrow escape. The flood. situation is growing worse at both Morris and Emerson, as the Red River is still rising: oin Emerson despatch: says:—" A cold, sleety rein has pre- vailed all day, which adds to the mis- ery already existing. in the families °coped up in second storeys., Their close quarters since the flood commenc- ed have made them feel very despond- ent, and they would gladly welcome scone means of, exit to their friends in Winnipeg on dry ground. The citizens have all they can do tolook after their families and property. All are doing the best they can ande,r the ciecume stances, but the outlook is gloomy for some time to come. It is a se,riou.s matter foe Emerson." pEBTS DELAYED HIS BURIAL. The case of a burial tong delayed has recently comae to light at Revel, a Rus- sian town near the Gulf of Finland. The body thus tardily interred was that of a Belgian soldier et fortune, the Das Charles de Croy, who had been Com- mandexein-Chief of the Reasien army at the historic battle of Nerve. in 1700. Made a prisoner during the fight, De Ctoy took up his residence at Revel, vothere he died in the course of events; Itis creditors dem:waged to his burial, however, until his debts were paid. So the scattier raniounified and his remains have stayed ever canoe in a chuaah, where they have been exhibited to vis- itors as a curiosity. Now, at last, amid snob, pomp as wee to be found among tate locaa authorities' he has been give en a fitting coffin and premerly inter- red in one, of the vaults of the church. AS REPORTED BY THE PAPERS. Is that a good hen, Unele Josh? " A good hen, seal "Uncle Josh; why that 'ar hen lays eggs as big as( hail- !stun's. TRAGEDY OF A TIMBER', THROWS HER CHILDREN INTO THE RIVER AND LEAPS AFTER THEM. The Woman Found Vier Death—rite Rabies Drifted Nearly a Mile Down Stream and Were Miraculously Saved—Wonsan and Babes Well Clad. Mrs. Sophia. Vogel's life. came to a teagio end in. St. Louis, an Saturday. It is the pethetio etory of a evemenn atruggles with the trials ineidexit to many a wornan'a life, trials borne WI.. complainingly by wine, that prove too great for the sensitive nature of others, who toll of them in insane hab- blinge or in eonie each way as the dead face of Adolph Vogelts wife told hers on Saturday. Adolph Vogel is an honest mart and an industrious ane. There are scores ready to say that he was baconsidexe ate of his young wife, that he let the cares of the 'household weigb too heav- ily upon her and that caring othing himself for a neighborly visit or an evening at the play -house, ite denied te her these forms of recreation. "When Carrie LS two years old, there will be a brother or sister," she said in a stoles five-minute coraidence wit)), her neighbor aoross the way. She said it with none of the delight ehap- py wangle shows When she announces the dawn of motherhood.. Her face was moody, her voice trembled. "1 Olen die, I know," she said, "1 study about it all day when I am at work and 1 ecannot 5105» tor thinking of it at night, aly chit ren wxU heve it stepernother. I ctazat bear to think of that. It makes me crazy. I can't go away and leave them. They raust go with me." The plain, hard-working woman wite YOUR LITTLE ONES of her own paid no heed to thisplaint. "If I only had noticed her thisraiget not bays happened," she said over and over again, while tears streamed dowa her sunbrowned fake, On Saturday Adolph Vogel's wife dressed the children and herself with unwionted taro, arid with them. went on board the ferry -boat Dr. Frederiok Hill. Other passengers noticed the tall bcittts aAnteattathliy lbderae4u1st. nye(' tiorifn tshbeoroikhn,i black she watched so tenderly and because of her abstraction and the restlessness of her eyes. One of these, kindsheart- with her in the comforting little cora- meraplaaas women love, but. tbei woman turn trip was nearly completed. boat-hou,se, keeper, was looking idly a.t gave no aign that she hea,rd. The boat orossea the. river, end its re - the river when tee Dr. Hill steamed ed Miss Lana Utriale, tried to talk Mrs. .Edward Bradley, wife of a. was leurryieg down the stairs to the lower deck. S'he almost leaped down the steep, narrow stairs, dragging two oeildeen with her. She Ian to the railing around the deck, seized the smaller child in her areas, kissed it, raised it above her head anti hurled it into the water. Then she caught up the other child, and, flinging it almost beneath the boat, sprang in herself. "I screamed," said Mrs. Bradley. "My husband and Walter Stolter got out the boat and rowed after them. The woman sank a few yards from the ferry and did. not rise again." The men rowed rapidly after the children, who were betng carried down -stream by the swift current. THEIR LIGHT CURLS tossed on the waves and guided the rescuers. A row ot a, quarter of a mile and they were abreast of the children. Young Stater grasped Hut - data first. The babe had fainted. When Carrie waa pulled out of the svatex elle smiled and said: "Da metre ter?" Both little ones were carried to the City Hospital. Adolph Vogel lead gone into his house et noon and found neither wife Dlor child there. "She has one of her spells," he said angrily to the man next door. "But she knows where she cgetaher cbeead and ll butter. She wi ome b ,A boy ran to tell him of the womaa who had jumped overboard, taking her children with her. "They don't know Who she is, but she threw hor hat off on the deck Data there was a note pinned in it. It said; 'Send to lVfirs. Bertha Jost, 2537 loth Market etf'elitru sister( It's Sophia," said the wa:etched man and 'hie ran towards the ferry tearing hie hair. Alt the City Hospital the Meeting between him and his claildrreu was meet pathetic. All three wept. ' "Vo ist det mutter?" sobbed the man, "In a. hole in, wa...ser," said Cerrito. Fever is the immediate effect of the terrible experience upon the younger child. The older seems stunned. AN AUTOMATIC SINGER,. An "automatic singer" was exhib- ited to the editorial staff of a Paris newspaper. The apparatus is in the form of a tripod, an the top of which is a, machine sraaller than the photo- graph, into which the cylinders are put. The sound is transmitted by highly per- fected boards to a metallic trumpet, auld Lt Ls stated that the voice can be heard 220 yards aff. A POSSIBILITY. Oh, wad sonatt power the gittie gle us To see oursel's as others see us; 'Twould make some writers quit on son- nets And wowen change their taste in bon- , nets.' A VANCOUVER SUICIDE. Prominent Barrister Takes Ilia Own Life. irt despatbh tram; Vaneoktver says :— Mr B. A. Magee, a prominentbarrister of this city, committed suicide on. Tues- day afternoon. Sone weeks ago he visited Tisdale's gna stare to purchase at revolver, bat no finding MO l'ff Snit him said he would call againl when new stoele arrived. Tuesday afternoon he called at the stoke and selected a 38 - calibre Smith & Wesson, itt response to a. trequest; Mr. Tisdale loaded it to show how the ejecting mechanism worked, Magee tbok it up, mad+ before Tisdale could stop labn bed placed. it ize his tadeth and fired, Death warit inistantaneofas. Deceased was a. na- tive, of Nova. Scotia, and 1 graduate of Dtalhousle University, Halifax, where he took the degree of LL, R., in, 1888. Re came to this Province that year, and has since follo,wed his profession. About fate years ago he married a: daughter of Mx. George Biaok, ono oh the paoneees of 1858, who recently. died Magee had. been deinking heavily of late, and it is said this and family trou- bles eansed his act, • s CLOSE CROPPING-. A Prominent .1Igst1ce or the Englialt Reuel* Taken for Prize,Fighter. Six Honey Hawkins, one of the jus- tices of the English bench, wears hi$ hair very short—the prize-fighter's cut —MO IS clean shaven. On two occas- ions this habit led to Her Majeety's judge being mistakeu for a member oA the olas.s to be shenned, Sir Henry was once waiting to take' his ticket at the Epsom Railway Sta- tion, at which there were a number of resists returning from the races, One of there was rude to the judge, who remonstrated (with him, where- upoa the man invited him to go out- side and have "what for." Sir Henry then took oft his hat, thinkieg that, as the men. were probably of the crim- inal classes, they wdald recognize him, and quietly remarked: "Perbeps yea do riot k,now: who I am." "S'elp me, Bob," his assailant said, edging off, "a. bloomin' prize-fighter, Not me," an.d the judge was uot further molested. Oxi another occasion Sir Henry, out on a ram.ble, between assizes with a compttnion, stopped at a wayside inni and they were soon hard at skittles with two rustles. Things went on pleasantly until, in an unguarded mo- ment, the judge removed his moleskin cap. Thereupoa one of the rustics, eyeing him suspiciously, said, "I don't raised being neighborly, but I'll be hanged if I'm goin' to play skittles with a -ticket -of -leave anani" .1.111•1•1•1.0116, THE MAN OF MODERATE MEANS. 12 rzud llhnself, in Ono Respect at Least, Like a Illau Whose Means are Ample. "If," said the man of moderate means "we dwell too long upon a. word our apprehension of it is likely to become dull. The word may even cease to look familiar; and we may find our- selves unaLle even to tell whether it Is correctly epelleil or not, though it may be a 'very simple word indeed. It comes to us all right again the next rinethrunv ie we luoontkinuedio adtit,veits-hen,n we view it "I suppose that this is a common ex- perience, though it earnest seems as If some persons ought to be exempt from it. I met, for instance, once, a man who is worth I don't know how many millions, but a lot of 'em, who over some Inn.tter we had occasion to discuss, spoks of this teraparary men, MI obtuseness concerning a word as an experience of his ONV11. "It seemed kind of strange that a roan with all hes mlilisus shouldever find himself unable to spell just a, simple little ward, but int that respect we were more .aearly so in certain ow:theervse.7 just alike. I could, wish that GOT HOLD OF IT. A Wilkinsburg, family was discussing rausio yesterday when one member strove to recall the name of a certain composer. I can't remember it to save my life, she said, although it is on my tongue's end. As near as loan wine to it his name is doorknob. Doorknob, repeated one of the others. There is no composer whose namo sounds anything like that. I'll go over a few names; Beethoven, MendeLssohn, Wagner, Haydn, H 1 That's it, interrupted the forgetful one. It's Handel. I knew it was some- thing you seized with your hands. WRreER'S CRAMP. Seribbler--I've been suffering a good deal lately with writers' cramp. Attious—In your fin -gars, or in your etomeoli MaSISSIMMICIOMMERSSESSIMea====lOSIMMISSMISMOMMTIUMaal Modesty! Makes thourinds of wornen snAer silenoe, rather- than tell their y, trouble's to anyoo. To suck 1 Incliart Woman's Iflahn is a foot boon. It cures alt wobib trenbles, corrects monthly irrege- beiges, abolishes the agonies of re ehila,tirth, makes *eak Warren 9? strong, and renders life worth Ft; living, ,(MiBTOSISItee,S4VIEA,V •••••• • se* *Relief for • • •Troubles • • • • • . • • in cumin arid N mid Atli WO ..... O Dnnots ES. 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J. 11. lierrv, Chemist, 623 Youge St., Toronto, writes .3 " As a general cough a na Lam syrup Pyr,v., Pectoral is 0 most luveleabla Proseritton, le alran dm utmost talds.ctlen to *II wIlo have tried It. natty having spoken to moot tbe Nu:tilts derived non, its 1163.01.tbalr h is suitable for eig ol:yOunicbrIrld Olaasynt 10 tlio taste. Its saki ultif Too bat hapr,nemiellulf Ana I eel altektd Neamsnana lt ej st sofa, Ind rCisblo tough reestielgs.' 3arg° r4f,f18. 25 rifIS & LA.Wg11b174 ds). LTD. Sole Ptetnialicirs ''*ensladar., 1140SNINEteolPartig Backe/tele, racevAcheeficiatle rains, Neuralgic Pains, rain lit the Side, etc: ' Promptly Ethelred and Cured by The "D. & L." Menthol Plaster laving nand your D. Is 1.. Menthol Plastor lbroc$eo,zlpifl tbn'baolt end lumbago. wilsteitatioglv ro,Ofnmond %gum ad 00010, sure and ralaretatelyt in fact. %Ws:tanks Intrabathttmts,Ont. Price 211e.. DAVIS & LAWRENCE CO., LTD. Propifetort, MONTREAL. ? IN SEALED' C4rozes. AtINDER ME SUPERVISION OF ey e•e4 P LAW' " MONSOON" TEA • Is packed under the supervision of the Tea growers, and is advertised and sold by them as a sample et the best qualities of Indian and Ceylon 'Teas. gor that reason they see that none but the very fresh leaves go kit° MORSOOO packages. That is why "Monsoon," the perfect Tea, cao be sold at the same price as inferior tea. It is put up in sealed caddies of g lb., 7 lb. and 5 lbs., and sold in three flavours at 40e., 50c. and 50e. STEEL, HAYTER & CO., Front St., Toronto, OGIMRSMIMM,..:WW11.Z.-Titn.'SASUS:.12111111=671191MORINEIIIIIMIIIMII AMBIGUOUS. A Doted evangeliet is fond of tallA Lug of hbs experienees 15 preashing to the rtegroes oit the &nth. At 1140 eaoSe, of arra of h.iis moettnigts,- a very large old colomed woman ok - up to bum anti ehoolk his hands war whale she said: God bless yon, Btru.dier Xonesi Y evahhody's preacher. eva,hh loves to heah yea Preach, an' evah gah loves ter bah yoia; an' 33 Jonee, you. Preaches me? like a than any wthlhe man that est sin' Ern:cider Xones You'v'e got skin, but t'ank 410 Lawtd, yo a, black heart MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES. (What's the matter between you a your neighbor? asked the judge. I cultivate a garden arta he keeps Oentence sting.rndeCt, I live n. suburbs myself.