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NU of the most important lessons to be learned from ancient Rome is
the practice of e p;'i y ing to wounds and ,kin diseases, herbal balms.
Deep in the b east of both ancient and modern man is the instinct to
rub a place that hurts, In ZaIII-Buk is found the ideal balm with which to
rub weak muscle: or anoint injuries and sores, Zara -Ball is the ideal balm
because it is made purely from u 1lerbal essences, It contains no trace of any
animal fat or any harmful mineral coloring matter. It is so powerfully anti-
septic that it kills instantaneously the harmful microbes which set up inflam-
mation and putrefaction in a wound. Yet it is so mild that it can be applied
to the skin of a newly born bake, It is universally be.
lieved in wherever it has ever been tried. One of England's
leading analysts has testified his distinct knowledge ---based
on exhaustive experiment—in its power to cure, America's
ex -champion wrestler says : "I never go on the mat without it." hospital
nurse,, medical men and clergymen endorse it
When, therefore, for skin injury or disease you need a household balsa
remember that there's nothing to equal Zara-Euk.
THE LESSON APPLIED IN MODERN :.. CA,NA13A.
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The following cases show flow varied aro the uses of Zaut•lluk and how effective it is when applied to any skin
Injury or dieeaso:
Mrs. 11. Saville, of Oakwood, Victoria County, says : I have pleasure in stating that 'Lam-Buk cured my husband
of barber's rash with twieo rubbing. It also cured my little hey of a dreadfully bad arca after vaccination. I know of
several other cures phos effected, and I cannot speak ton highly of it. I am surd if people once try it they will always use it.
Mrs, 1. Brown, of Mountjoy, Markham, pals: I will tell you what your Zam.11nk did for mo. The night I
received it I rubbed it on some bruises on my knee and in the morning the knee was quite well l I have also used it
with equal satisfaction for rough and Coro hands. I think it a wonderful preparation.
blr. Wm. 11. Wore, of Orillie., says : I had blood poisoning in my leg, and until I tried Zam.Buk 1 could got
( no relief. This balm, however, proved very different to the others, and from first using it, the wound began to heal. I
awes think it is a splendid preparation,IMMO
NINSO 714171 13uk F oulcl Yin on Ads *scats Zb to -Bo ld exceptionally for.—Whenever e o is
n biinjury of the skin and subjacent tissue
wawa 1 p, y bruises, insect stings, chronic sores,
ulcers, ,•memo, barber's rash, poisoned wounds, abscesses, pimples, eruptions, scalp irritation, ringworm, sero foot
hl flamed or ohandafein-
d
surfaces, etc. It
is also an exceli-
:w" vet embrocation
for tho cure of
rheumatism. st,
alien, stiff1nists,
etc. Zana. uk is
obtainable front
all druggists at
60c.er box, or
post free from the
Zam•Buk Co.,
Toronto, upon re-
ceipt of price. 8
boxes for $2.60.
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SECRETS OF
OLD CASTLES
(London Mail.)
Tile strange discovery In Ireland the other
day of a vaulted subterranean chamber un-
der an ancient castle revives the belief In
the undiscovered secrets that still await the
explorer of our mediaeval strongholds.
Romanitc novelists have been largely re-
sponsible for the general indifference to tb'o
very real mysteries and -tragedies of these
grim castles, for thele• taoles of hidden wrong
and violence have come to be regarded as
merely efforts of the imagination, having
no existence in fact. How very wide of the
mark this is lot the following few instances
show:
A discovery almost iprecisely identical with
that in County Roscommon a few days since
was inade in 1826, during the restoration
works In the ancient chapel attached to the
castle of St: Michael's mount, in Cornnvall,
which dates back to the fourteenth century.
Tho workmen in removing a wooden plat-
form discovered a walled -up door in the south
wall and opening 1t a narrow flight of stone
steps was revealed, leading down Into a griin
stone Boll nix feet square, without any win-
dow or other opening than tlio door by which
they had entered.
They were horrified by stumbling in the
darkness of that dreadful place upon what
proved to bo a skeleton of a man of extraor-
dinary height What unfortunate wretch
was thrust luto this living tomb to die of
starvation has never been discovered, Such
dungeons as these, in which you flung your
victim and then 'forget" htm, were known
as "oubliettes."
The appaltng cynicism that constructed
this ,oarticular example beneath the chapel
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floor is worthy of remark, While the doomed
man lay there in the agony of starvation
above him the polus castellan and his fellow
vlilians were praising Cod.
The ruined castellated manor home of
Minister Lovel in Oxfordshire kept its tragle
secret some 220 years.
This is one of the most romantic places In
England, both in the circumstances of its
situation and its story. It came to Fran-
cis, Viscount Level, in the time of Richard
III. Ile it was whose name was one of the
subjects of a political rhyme then current in
the land:
The cat, the rat and Jovel the dog
Rule all England, under the hog.
Tho cat was Catesby, the rat Radcliffe and
the hog King Rlehard himeelf, whose favor-
ite badge was the blue guar. Tho character-
ization of Level as the "dog" sounds like the
expression of a special hatred and contempt
of him, but it was merely a play upon lits
ancestral crest, that of a hound, or, in beret -
die language, a "talbot." .01,111, he was the
object of much hatred on the part of the
Lancastrians, for he had deserted their cause
for that of the Yoriclsts.
When the Lancastrians triumphed and
Henry VII. reigned Level, to save his head,
fled the country, but returned later with the
invading expedition of the impostor, Lam -
bort Simnel. At the battle of Stoke, when
Simnel was defeated, Lovel mysteriously dis-
n.ppeared, By some ho was thought to have
fallen on the field, while others declared that
they had seen him In flight, attempting to
swim his horse across the broad channel of
the river Trent.
Ile was never again hoard of until 1704,
when, in the course of some alterations in
what had been his old manor house of Min•
ister Lovel, a large underground vault was
discovered. When the workmen accidental-
ly broke into it they were astounded at the
grisly sight of the skeleton of a man seated
at a table, his bony band still supporting a
shriveled countenance, dried, phrcbmentllke,
over the skull. Before him lay a cap molded,
and decayed. with an open book, paper and
I.IFE
A Time When Women Are Susceptible to Many
Dread Diseases—Intelligent Women Prepare
for It. Two Relate Their Experiences.
The "chane of life" is
the most critical period of
a woman's existence, and
the anxiety felt by women
as it draws near is not
without reason.
Every woman 'who ne-
glects the caro of her
health at this time invitee
disease and pain.
When her system is in
a deranged condition, or
she le predisposed to apo-
plexy, er congestion of
any organ, the tendency is
at this period likely to be-
come active—and with a
host of nervous irritations
make life a burden. .A
this time, also, enncere and
tumors are more liable to
toren and begin their des-
truetiVe work.
Such warning symptoms
Ae sense of suffocation, hot
flashes, headaches, back-
aches, dread of impending
P g
evil, timidity sounds in
the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the
eyes, irregularities, con-
stipation, variable appetite,
Weakness, inquietude,
and dizziness are promptly
heeded by intelligent wo-
men who are approaching
the period in life , when
woman's great change may
be expected.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound was prepared to meet the needs
Of woman's system at this trying period
of her life. It invigorates and strength-
ens the female organism and builds up
the weakened nervous system.
'For special advice regarding this im-
portant period women are invited to "As 1 owe my splendid health to Lydia
write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Maas., E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, I am
and it will be furnished absolutelyfree very plensed to write and tell you my oxpe-
ar . Th Mrs. i ri Cnc with it. I m the mother of three
etch o o re ant .l: s. rnkham s e n a l e
re
is the -daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pink- children grown to womanhood, and have
barn, her assistant before her decease, safely passed the change of life, and feel es
and for twenty-five years since her advice young and as strong as I did twenty' ycara
bas been freely to sink women. ago, and I know that this is all due to�your
y g even woman's friend Lydia L. Pinkham s •Vege.
Read what Lydia E. Plokham'a Com- table Compound. y I used it before my
pound did for Mrs. Powless and Mrs, children 'were born, and it greatly assisted
Mann : nature and saved me much pain dtiring the
Dear Mre. Pinkham :— change of life. I took it off and on, for
is no medicine four years, and had but -little trouble and
"In my opinion thorn
made for women which can compare with s3ekness that most women have to endure.
Lydia ou have noffiirm erefiend its the 1)omi- Toronto Canadti Marrs, 800 Bathurst St,
noon than I ant, At the tomo of change. of What Lydia E. I'inkllam's "egeetable
life I suffered until I was nearly crazy, and compound did for Mrs. Powless and
Wag not fit to live with. I was eo irritable Mm, Mannit will do for other women
irrational and nervous that I was n tortneni at tine , b limo of life.
to myself argil others. I surely thought It Them conquered air lettered
that I woult loon my reason before I got q pain, health,
thron;h, when fortunately Aft old friend and prolonged life "in cases that utterly
reeommended your Vtgetable Compound, baffled physicians.
Lydia E. Tiltkhltln's Vegetable Compoimal Succeeds Where Others Fail.
1.:..1 iJ, I,CeGlI ....I., .114 lien r",dsi 1,,.lin it
I took it for five months and then off and
on until the critical period had passed, and it
restored me to perfect health. My advice
to suffering Women is to try your Vegetable
Compound, and they will not be disap-
pointed." --Mrs, E. Powless, Deserouto, Ont.
Another Woman's Case.
Dear Mrs. Pinkham :—
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pen. Empty barrels and some gnawed bones
were also discovered.
Tho discovery explained the mysterious
disappearance of Lord Level. He had fie,l
from the fatal field to his old home in the
peaceful water meadows by the winding
Wlndrush and had lata there in concealment,
far removed from hostile notice, In this secret
room, whose existence eras known to only
one confidential servant,
IIo had been furnished with provisions to
last some time in case of need and had then
been locked in against such time as it would
bo possible once more to escape abroad.
Whether the servant yielded to treachery or
was killed or died will never be known. Only
the fact remains with the unfortunate Lord
Level, having exhausted his stock of food,
was starved to death in his secret hiding
place.
Nowadays the great house of Minister
Lovel is no more than a maze of tall, ruined
walls, from whose midst the traveller sees
the parish church rising pictureeequely in the
distant view. Many supernatural legends
belong to old castles. That of Skenfrith,
Monmouthshire, was the subject of such a
one so far back as the time of Queen Eliza-
beth, when ti was said: "The voyce of the
county goeth there is a dyvell and him dame,
one sits upon a hogshead of gold, the other
upon a liogshed of silver."
The writer of this startling news petitioned
the queen's ministers from his dungeon cell
in the tower of London that be might be set
at liberty to go and find his treasure for the
queen's majesty, probably thinking that evon
an encounter with guardian devils would be
preferable to endurance. But we do not hear
that they let him go.
A secret to the eupornatural sort is tradi-
tionally said to belongto Rochester castle.
According to the marvelous legend, a myste-
rlous crypt exists, crammed full of untold
sold.
To find it you must seek with a hand of
glory—rather a difficult thing to obtain in
these days. To prepare this magic. article
you cut off the dried guilty band of a hanged
and gibbeted murderer, wrap It to a winding
sheet, count seven, name the seven planets,
and after a number of exceedingly nasty
rites take some of
the murderer's fat and
some of his hair and twist the mixture on the
fingers of the band, making them in fact,
into so many candles. Lighting them, .the
approved method, according to the "Ingolds-
by Legends," is to chant:
Now open, lock,
To the Dead Man's knock
Thy bolt and bar and band!
Nor move nor swerve
Joint muscle or nevre
At the spell of tbo Dead Man's handl
Sloop all who sleep, wake all who wake!
But ho as the Dead for the Dead Man's sake!
Legend tells tbet one intrepid seeker did at
that vague period known as "once upon a
time" fullfll all those varied processes and
came at last to the mystic portal, dousing hie
magical gllm as be progressed. He had ex-
tinguished all but the thumb when ho uttered
an exlamation. (Perhaps ho burned him-
self.) Instantly his unholy candelabra burst
into flame once more and he was dashed
senseless to the ground. He was never
again able to find the crypt or the door.
WOMAN AND DRESS.
FAMILY LIVING AMONG BELLS.
Births, Deaths and Marriages in a Great
Cathedral Tower.
So far above the pavement that
those who walk in and out among the
hundreds of passing vehicles appear
like creeping insects, and so high that
the ordinary noises of the city reach
upward only as a confused murmur,
lives the family that has the distinc-
tion of being the most elevated in'
Mexico's capital. The home of this
family is high up in the eastern .tower
of the cathedral; and there, among the
bells that for centuries have called the
faithful to the services of the church,
this family has lived for years, and
there is every indication that the tower
will be their home for many years to
come. Two years ago Manuel Brenn,
the head of this family, died, and now
his widow, Luisa de la Brena, assisted
by her three sons and her daughter,
looks alter the ringing of the bells
and cares for the great clock that has
marked time for so many years for the
residents of that part of the city,
Brides have been led to the little
)home among the bells, births have
there been celebrated and death many
times has come to the occupants. It
was more than 100 years ago that a
man was placed in charge of the bells
and those who now live there are the
lineal descendents of this man. This
man was the grandfather of Luisa de
la Brena, who is now a grandmother
lheirsulfl When her husband died he
was an old man, and the woman is no
longer young, but it is probable that
the time-honored position of bell-ringer
will not pass to new hands when she
is carried down the winding flight of
stairs. Doubtless the work will fall
to one or all of her sons, who now
spend their time in looking after the
work of ringing the bells at intervals,
the time of which is no doubt known to
the priests themselves no better than to
I them.
They Are bell-ringers by birth and
education. Those who sing the masses
before the alines know the time for
the ringing and the length of the per-
formance no better nor as well as the
members of the Brena family. There
are three sons, Francisco, Augustin
and Antonia, and one daughter, Maria
Gaudalupe. The mother and daughter
care for the home and the sons handle
the ropes their father, their grand-
father and their great-grandfather once
handled.
Probably not one man out of ten
knows that a family is living in one
of the cathedral towers, and probably
not one man out of a hundred known
anything of the condition of that hoine.
By far the majority of those who do
know there is a. family there is is im-
agined that they live like oldinsry
peons. The idea doubtless prevails
that the family lives like the poorest
How Her Garb Would Make Man's Life
Miserable.
(Public 'opinion.)
The manners that the distinctly feminine
dress necessitates would be considered manly
if petticoats had been dedioated by custom ,
to men. Lot us imagine a youth putting 1
on the 'skirt, as the modern woman does for
warmth and freedom, over some sort of
knickerbockers. It sags and flaps and sticks,
and wears out round the bottom, and catches
between his Iogs in the most ungentlemanly
manner, smears his boots with mud and gots
trodden on behind when ho bends back, as
he always does in carrying a baby or wheel-
ing a jarambulator, and In front when ha
goes upstairs. As it is vulgar to have legs,
he must not expose these undignified !Mahe;
so ho must really got something—In fact,
layers of something—to puff the offensive
garment out of his way; and, since man is
a dainty and vain animal as well as a utlt-
itarlan one, he gets the stuffing -out made,
or devotedly makes it himself, of a starchy
white or emotional gauze material, Certainly
when he drags aside the outer robe toesce.pe
the dust, be pulls its statuesque folds a bit
awry; but as he thus makes a good impres-
sion with the gauze on all apeetators, It
matters not In the form and set of the cos-
tume be not soronly Greek.
It be raining woefully, and he seeks the
shelter of an omnibus. This, however, is
tilled with nimble, trousered barbarians, and
draeory and all, be dlnibs the stairway. Tho
bleak bench on the root le so low that his
cherished gauze meet brush the floor, which
has not, he perceives, been used quite as it
it Vero a drawing -room carpet, However,
himself upas best ho ma isle
others m
!ioy,
k
best, after all, Is rather molaneholy. Really,
he must not feel these clinging draperies
round hie steps at all. He must mount tho
skirts on a frame, ho must live snug and free
within a cage and wood and metal—in short,
Ise must hear a crinoline, most reasonable of
all garments. Now tho omnibus and the
pavement ore not merely uncomfortable;
they aro imposslblbe. Ile will renounce the
norlls of the street, the dooks, and the count-
ing -house altogether, To stay at home, oven
if there bo no children there, to duet and
cook, and to look glee shall henceforth be
his life and ambition, the scope 02 his genius
and the reward of his work,
Evidently the feminine costume is an ex-
pression of
character or of robust than of and
its beauty Is rather a morbid thins, a do -
vice, indeed, though it 18 unconscious enough,
to advertise the wearer in the marriage mar•
kot, that unrecognized, yet flaunting institu-
tion that neurishrs like a dower-gerdcn In
our most, and inclines one to think, with
MrM. £ltetson, that in reality lash ate more
beatutiful than women,
OO 0014 ana ffl101ftCl
The season's first cold
may be slight --may yield
to early treatment, but the
next cold will hang on
longer ; it will be more
troublesome, too. U n
necessary to take chances
on that second one. Scott's
Emulsion is a preventive
as well as a cure. Take
SOOTT'S EJ1IVLSION
when colds abound and
you'll have no cold. Take it
when the cold is contracted
and. it checks iuilalnma.
tion, heats- the membranes
of the throat and lungs
and drives the cold out.
Send fdi' free sanpre.
SCOTT & 13OWN , Chemists
Toronto, Ont.
ltOc, Ind x1.00 - N Ml drut'si,te
portero, but eheuld any Otte pity a vlsiA _
to this home above the city they would
finds s. home far superior to the Avel'age
home in Mexico City,
The Brent), home is one of the most
comfortable of homes, Its sanitary
condition is naturally far superior to
that of nine•tenthe of the homes on a
level with the thousands of buildings
that compute the city, and the air that
reaches the cathedral home seems
filtered of the nauseous odors that are
not uncommon to those who live be-
low. The fresh air of the country
seems blowing about one, and it is re-
quires no effort of the imagination to
believe it really is the same untainted
atmosphere of the hills that eirclo the
city.
Instead of living like peons, the
Brena fancily lives among luxuries
the poor of the city never have the
pleasure of knowing. The cement
floors aro covered with cazpets, and
furniture and pictures give to the sev-
eral rel ala that are located there a
home -like sir that might cause the
family to be envied in spite of the bn-
mense number of steps it is necessary
to take in order to reach them. At
one side of the parlor 114 a piano, and
Miss Brenn and one of her brothers
are skilled in its use, The music of
the church and music that is never
heard in the organ loft may frequently
be heard by those who sit in the
benches in front of the cathedral. Many
have wondered where the sounds conte
from, and few have discovered that
they cone from among the bells of the
old cathedral.
It was here the mother was married
more than thirty years ago and doubt-
less it will be there that the daughter
will be married seine day. For the
maidens of the Brenn family the bells
of the cathedral are wedding bells,
and on those occasions the men ea
the family perform a double duty
when th, d
below seldomeypull knowthe thatropesthe anringingthose is
for anything more than one of the re-
gular services of the church. --Mexican
-c
IMPROVED machinery
will not, of itself, pro.
duce good flour.
You may be an excellent
cook, but you cannot pro
duce light, wholesome
baking unless the flour you
use be the kind that permits
such results.
So in the milling; machin-
ery alone cannot produce
oyal Houseboki Flour
Out of the wrong kind of wheat any more than you
can make the right kind of bread or pastry out of
the wrong kind of flour.
Ogilvie's Royal Household Flour is made from
hard spring wheat—a wheat that is rich in nutriment,
that grinds fine and white, and produces bread and
pastry that are wholesome and nourishing as well as
light and crisp—it's a flour that begins to be good in
the wheat fields, not in the mills.
Your grocer prefers to
sell you Ogilvie's Royal
Household Flour because
he knows the value of a
pleased customer.
Ogilvie Flour Mills Co., Ltd.
Montreal.
"Ogilvie's Book for a Cook," con-
tains 130 pages of excellent reel ea,
sunte never ppublished' before. Your
104 grocer can tell you how to get it FREE.
The Porpoise. HOME OF THE TOOTHPICK,
How it dives!
It is a mammal.
It is very graceful.
It is charmingly sociable.
With others it makes the cetacean o P
group. have anyidea of the enormous quantity
It lives mostly in the North Atlantic of wooden toothpicks annually q turned
and North Pacific. P y
At times it seeks the Mediterranean out by betories in the beyond
United States.
and Gulf of Mexico. The number of these is beyond calcula-
It delights in swimming abreast of tion—thousands of millions each year.
passing ships. Besides those manufactured in this coun-
It playswith its fellows in frolicsome try toothpicks in incredible numbers are
shoals. imported, peineipally from Japan. Por -
It is sought for the oil its body tugal and Italy, but by far the greater
yields. number used in the United Staten are
It was formerly hunted for its flesh, furnished by home factories.
which suggests pork; the names comes The State of Maine furnishes most of
from two French words meaning swine them. It is in that State that white
flesh, birch, of which the greater proportion of
•domestic toothpicks is anode, is found in
NERVOUS CHILDREN most abundance. Tire wood in question
� is .preferred for this purpose because o�f
its softness and •pliability, which affords
just the amount of resistance requisite
St. Vitas 1Aanoe, Neural -la and Bead- for a toothpick. In .Maine there are
numerous nulls, equipped with costly and
intricate machinery, whose entire Indus-
try it is to supply the United States
St. Vitus dance is a disease that is ' with toothpicks. .knd the industry is
becoming more and more frequent . a most profitable one,
among school children. Young pee- Although it is said the State of Maine
plc tire the nerves with study and possesses what is practically a .mon•opoly
trouble tages the form of neuralgia, of toothpick manufacture, there are
headache, nervous exhaustion, weak- other mills, notably in Verinont, New
ness of the limbs and muscles, and york and Massachusetts,
what we call "being run down." In White birch is not the only wood used,
other eases St. Vitus dance is the re- maple and poplar as well being employed,
salt, and the sufferer frequently loses but as birch lova the desirable, quality
all control of the limbs, which keep of retaining its forest odor and sweet -
up a constant jerking and twitching. ness it has the preference over all other
There is only one way to cure this woods.
trouble --through the blood elthich 1 The felling of trees to be split into
feeds and strengthens the nerves, toothpicks forms, of course, merely an
And Di'. Willims'Pink Pills are the 1 incidental part of the regular (work of
only medicine that can make the , the Maine forreters. Though no especial
new rich, red blood that feeds the 'gangs are told off to select suitable trees,
nerves and strengthens every part of the foreman will shark a tree that seems
the body The case of Flossie Doan, : adapted for the making of toothpicks,
or Crowland, Ont., proves the value i order it cut down and put aside. The
of Dr. Williams Pink Pills. Mrs.! branches are trimmed off. Then the
Doan says: "A couple of years ago , •bark is skinned and the naked trunk is
my daughter Flossie Vituss dangerous- ; run through tt machine that severs It
ly afflicted with St. \ dance. She • into veneers. "veneers" being the tech -
became so nervous that after a time nicctl term for thin stripe of wood no
we could not let her ace even her , thicker than a piece of blotting paper
friends. She could not pick up a and no wider than the length of a tooth -
dish, lace her shoes, or make any move- i ick.
herself. She had grown in
P
meat to helpe thin
When the trunk has been cut into
and very pale, and as she had been treat -
these + sheets of wood only one other ,pro -
ed by several doctors without Benefit cess remains• --to turn out the toothpick%
I feared she would not recover. A friend
advised me to give her Dr. Williams' fit for packing anti shipping to market.
ma -
Pink Pills, and after she had used it : The veneers are .feel into a second ma -
couple of boxes I could see that they chine, supplied with sharp rotary knives
were helping her. We gave her nine that 'whirl at a high speed, snipping the
boxes in all, and by that time she ' veneers into toothpicks at the rate of
was perfectly well and every syznp• hundreds of thousands an hour,
tom of trouble had passed away and - ' she is now a strong well developed A Century Ago.
girl"
If your growing children are weak Few persons to -day stop to realize how
or nervous, if they aro pale and different things were in the States a
thin, lack appetite or complain of century ago• Here area few things to
headaches obackaches, give them • ceiitlt net
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and see how
speedily the rich, red blood these 1 �\lerchauts wrote their letters with
pills make will transform them into quill (pens. Sand was used to dry the
bright, active, robust boys and ink, as there was no blotting paper.
girls. You can get these pills from i There were no street Letter 'boxes; let -
any medicine dealer or by mail at 501 ters had to be carried to the post office.
cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 It cost eighteen and one-half cents to
send a letter from Buston to New York,
and twenty-five cents from Boston. to
Philadelphia,
Every gentleman—Washington, for ex-
ample—wore a queue; many powdered
their hair.
Imprisonment for debt was commion.
Virginia contained a fifth of the whole
population of the eountry.
The Mississippi Valley was not so well
known' as the heart of Africa now is.
n
Two stage coaches carried rigid all the
h
tra-
velers between New York and Boston,
and six dnyn were required for the jour.
Maine Furnishes the Greater Part of
This Country's Supply.
Aceording to an official of the depart-
ment of commerce and labor few persons
aches Common Among School
Children.
by writing The Dr. Williams' Medi-
cine Co., Brockville, Ont.
MANY SAMPLES.
Circulars and sa,mp}ea of everything
from a pot of jam to a drawing -room
earpet begin to pour in upon the happy
girl. Tlie following is it sample of the
eamunurications sent out by the enter-
prising tradesmen:
Mademoiselle—We beg to convgrattt-
u t alio of your •or h-
Tatoyou n the occ n t t
y
corning marriage, and to wish you every
happiness in the future. The desire to fa-
cilitate your task as a goad housekeeper
pronrpe us to inclose our price list. We
specially desire to call your attention to
our jams•, of which we send you a sample
so that you may judge for yourself of
the excellence of our preparations. We
beer yon to aceept this as a token of our
desire to number you among our clients,
Always at your some* for any informs
-
tion you may require. Yours, etc.
At the end of a week after the inser-
tion of the announcement of her engage-
ment n girl finds herself almost in a
position to start a general store, so num-
erous are the samples she has deceived
from the subscribers to the Engaged
Couples' Advertiser.
I have had an interview with the rep-
resentative for French Switzerland,
whose headquarters are in Getleva. '1'lre
venture, he informed ale, cost L16,000 to
launch. 'I')l:e agents, who attend all the
eli.urehes to hear the announcement of
banns, aro: paid at the rate of tenpenoa
for every oddres' they receive, in midi -
tion to {heir travelling expenses. It le
estimated flint .emelt address costa the
paper five shillings.
The majority of the coups es whose
names appear in the Advertiser belong to
the 'middle claustra, and they do not ap.
pear to object to the publieation of their
n.0nit1. The annouio0ani Pts, moreover,
net to soiue extent as an haunt -nee
against tho defeetien of timid lovers,
and prevent theist front jilting.
Even with the perfeetion of the ttir-
ship, it will be hard to rise above Auti-
pieton.
Lep.
There was not a public library in the
United States. A day laborer received
two shillings a day.
Stoves were unknown. All cooking
was done at an open fireplace.
Many of the streets were unnamed.
•Curious Circumstances.
McSoslt--•Misher Bartender, think I'll
take 'nether one o 'them p-p-ppous--p-
pussy-cat-p•-----•
Bartender—Another pousse-cafe, Mr.
11feSoslh ?
McSosir--Thasit ri'. 'S funny tiring---
th' more closely i become 'soshiated an'
'puiinted with the' drink th' less I can
r anember its name!
' Corea No Longer a Nation.
A few weeks ago the diplomatic rep-
•resentntive of Corea at Washington and
the other great capitals protested against
the absorption of their country by Ja-
pan. Neither President Roosevelt nor
the head of any other country gave any
official attention to what they said. In
London, Paris, Washington, Berlin, ,St.
Petersburg and all the other capitals) the
Corean legations have been closed, never
to ,eb reopened. Hereafter Tokio talks
for Seoul. A pretense of administra-
tive independence for Corea is made by
Japan, but this does not deceive any-
body in or out of Corea. That country's
foreign affairs are lookesi after 1. Wash-
ington, London and the rest of the na-
tions by the Japanese legations. --St.
Louis Globe -Democrat.
AFTER 18 YEARS
OF SUFFERING
An Ontario Farmer Finds a Cure
at Last In Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
The Direct Cause of His Trouble was
a Strain in the Back Which directed
His Hidneya—Dodd's Kidney Pills
Cured Him,
Ardoch, Ont., May 14.—(Special.) —
Mr. Ami Jeanneret, of this place, gives
a very interesting account of his exper-
ience with Dodd's Kidney Pills. Ile
says:
"I hurt my back and strained my
kidneys and for 18 years I suffered on
and off intense agony. 1 was subject
to attacks of Rheumatism and Lumbago.
_ My joints were stiff, my muscles cramp-
ed. I lost my appetite, my flesh 'began
to fall away, my nerves were shaken, I
could not rest or sleep at night and 1
was sinking into a deplorable condition
when I was advised to try Dodd's Kid-
ney Pills. I used six boxes and I am
now an strong and healthy as ever I was
I am certain I owe my cure wholly to
Dodd's Kidney Pills"
Bulldogs; a Menace to Health.
And another count in the indictment
against the bulldog is that he is a men-
ace to health. We have this on the
authority of a noted. French physician,
who says that because of his large mouth
the bulldog is a great purveyor of dis-
ease, especially of consumption diphthe-
ria, and the like, as the dribbling from
the heavy, loose jaws is incessant. Those
who fondle bulldogs do so at a great
risk. He traces many cases of infectious
disease, especially among young children,
to households in which bulldogs are kept
as pets. When wet add to this the in-
variable ferocity of the beast, the dan-
ger to which children and other innocent
and defenseless people are exposed when-
ever he roams the streets or highways,
we have an argument in favor of his dis-
posal that cannot be gainsaid. Away
with bulldogs t—From Leslie's Weekly.
DELICATE BABIES.
Every delicate baby starts life with a
serious handicap, Even a trivial illness
is apt to end fatally, and the mother is
kept in a state of constant dread. Baby'.
Own Tablets have done more than any
other medicine to make weak, sickly
children well and strong. They give the
mother a feeling of security, as through
u
their she use sl a sees her delicate child d d -
veto 'nom
healthily. Mra.
S. M. LeBlanc,
Eastern
Harbor, N. S., says: "Up to the
age of fifteen months my baby was
weak and sickly, and at that age could
not walk. It was then I began using
Baby's Own Tablets, and the change they
wrought in her condition was surprising.
She began to get strong at once, and
has ever since been a perfectly well
child." Every mother who values the
health of her little one should keep a
box of Baby's Own Tablets in the house.
Sold by all medicine dealers or by matt
at 'ti cents a box from The Dr. Williams
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
PRESERVES BY THE TON.
Jams as Made Wholesate in Nev
'Zealand.
The futility of housoivived attempting
to compete on score of economy 'wit
manufacturers of jams and small fruit
preserves is made evident by the Agri-
cultural Economist of London, showing
the wholesale manner in whioh ouch
preservation is bete rpiished by ca.
operative growers in New 'Zealand. Fruit
- to the extent of three or four tons is
placed in huge tasks and stirrdd me-
chanically by beaters. Simultaneously
sulphur-dioxid gas is introduced through
pipes entering at the bottom Of the
receptacle. Fruit thus treated keeps
indefinitely and may be worked up Into-
jams
ntojams at a subsequent eon'enient date.
Although fruit thus treated prostate A
bleached appearance it regain its
natural color upon heating fore sttttl-
tient length of time to drive, oft As re*
Weed sulphur. .