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The Wingham Advance, 1907-07-25, Page 61111=i- TRUE GHOST STORIES HE WEIRDEST AND most gruesome ghost story true or otherwise, which J. ever listened to I heard Mine. Sarah Grand tell to a ihones' company assem- bled in the drawing room of the late Major James B. Feud, in Jersey City, during Mme. Grand's, visit to thie coun- try in the 'winter of 1902. It was a, meet conventional dinner party, and in its initial stages there ed- died the usual flotsam and jetsam of conventional dinner party conversation. All the precious old inanities were me chenged; all the pateut "bromiamns." Literature, art, polities, theology. the crimes of high finance, with convention:11 dinner party wit and wisdom; we skat- ed over their dangerous surfaces with almost as much grace and celerity as the dishes came and went. Those who had been invited to meet the author of "The Heavenly Twine" and had accepted with any preconceived notion that they were going to be regal- ed by finding her the reincarnation of any oilier unconventional heroines might have been deemed to disappointment had Major Pond not suddenly broken into a theological iliscuseion the lady was sus- taining with a well known divine, by pro- pounding the ever interesting query, "Do you believe in ghosts." Now, to that categorical question no wise man or woman ever gives a cate- gorical emswer. Only the foolish and ig- norant answer in terms of yes or no. And Mine. Sarah Grand is a wise wornan. Moreover, Mme. Grand is an artist, and in virtue of that title she proceeded to answer Major Pond's question in an un- mistakable way by relating to our erst- while conventional dinner party a series of remarkable ghost stories, each and ev- ery one of which she personally believed 'to be authentic. One exceedingly thrill- ing one she declared to have been a per- sonal experience of herself and her step- children, and the others -were all from sources she sincerely believed to be sin - questionable and unimpeachable. Of the latter the story of "The Driver of the, Hearse" was perhaps the most impree- sivei—impressive not only because of the peculiar nature of the story itself and the extraordinarily artistic woy in which it the additional face of the gen- uineness of its phenomena. Some fifteen years previous, so the tale ran, a woman friend of Maim Grand began to cause her family and friends considerable grave apprehension because of what seemed to be a case of approach- ing insanity. This woman, whom for ob- vious reasons we ellell here speak of as Mrs. A., was the wife of a well known country gentleman and landed proprietor of Kent. She was a woman of :brilliant social gifts and very popular in society, both in the country and in London, whore her house in Mayfair was ,and indeed still is, not for its hospitality. Story of the Hearse. The apprehensions referred to were first caused by a weird story which Mrs. A. one morning told her family regard- ing a hearse with a negro driver which she had seen passing along the highroad the night before. She had prepared for bed rather early that evening, and after dismissing her maid turned out the light herself and was about to lie down when the beauty of the moonlight impelled her to go once more to the window and look out upon the peaceful landscape. It was a scene with which Mrs. A. had been familiar all her life long— the wide reaches of gentle English country, now golden with the ripertal harvests, the winding roads, the dark patches of the leafy wooded parks, the roofs of distant country houses and villaand the great broad highroad which on its way to Lon- don led directly past the box hedge only a few rods from her window. Everything looked to -night just as it had looked .on hundreds of other moon- light nights which Mrs. A. could remem- ber from her childhood up. Nothing strange or unusual ever happened in this quiet Kentish country, she mused to her- self. Seed time and harvest and seed time again. The houses and the trees and the lawns and the hedges, the only difference from year to year, and from decade to decade, was that the houses were a little older and grayer and home- lier, the trees and the lawns and the hedges a little older, and, if that were possible, a little greener. And the peo- ple—why, nothing happened to the peo- ple either, except that from time to time some of them were born and from time to time others of them died and were laid away in the quiet churchyard of the parish. Turning over these placid reflections In her mina as she fea,sted her eyes up- on the moonwashed picture, Mrs. A.'s reverie became suddenly changed into a lively curiosity as she espied a vehicle moving along the high road a point about a quarter of a mile distant. It was; now about 10 o'clock, and immedi- ately Mrs. A.'s conclusion was that it was the carriage of a belated guest, whom she had been daily expecting from London for the last week or more, and who for some reason or other had been obliged to postpone the visit from day to day. With all sorts of pleasant anti- cipations Mrs. A. leaned out of the win- dow and watched the approach of the vehicle, as it appeared and disappeared behind the closely clipped hedges and clumps of trees that bordered the road- side. At the moment Mrs. A. was struck by the fact that the carriage moved very slowly, and as it drew nearer she became much impressed by the oddity of its shape and the unique manner in which the horses were caparisoned. Nev- er outside of a royal pageant, thought Mrs. A., had there ever been seen such a queer vehicle as this great black equi- page, four plumes at each corner, and drawn by two massive horses, upon the heads of which were also black plumes. In a few moments the vehicle must pass close to her own house, for, as she already been stated, the road to London here made a sharp dip so that it came close to the hedge, which was but a few rods from her window. Eagerly Mrs. A. watched that part of the moon flood- ed road where the carriage would emerge from the clump of alder trees and pass along the open space before lies - own 'brightly lighted carriage entrance. As she watched and waited Mrs. A. be- came impressed with the strange fact that thus far she had not heard a sound of the horses' hoofs nor of the carriage wheels, all of which puzzled her more and more the nearer the vehicle came. Negro Driver. At last a shadow fell upon the open roadway under the window, and slowly and solemnly the two great plume rep- ositioned black horses stepped into the breach, while behind them rolled a slam - did hearse, upon the bOx seat of Which sat a mem in a cap. Mrs, A. was, to say .the least, somewhat startled by the ap- pearance of e hearse at this hour of the night, and at her own gate; for, sure enough, the driver drew alp hie black air and peeled under the glare of the lamplight that shed itself from either gate post. He paused, but just for a moment—just long enough, apparently, to single out the window where Mrs. A. was, and to look up at her with a ghast ly and diabolical grin upon his repul- sive negro face. Then, the driver's face still upturned, his features still distort- ed iii the same fiendish grimace, the black horses drew the hearse once more into the shadow of the alder trees and on down the road leading to the village. Dumbfounded with astonishment, Mrs. A. watched the hearse and its driver until a bend in the road lost them to view. Nor was her astonishment unwarranted, as her family agreed when a few min- utes later she had gone down stairs to inform them of what she had just seen. A hearse of any kind at that hour of the night, was, in that part of the country, an unheard of thing. Where could it have come from? And why the strangely re- pulsive negro driver on such a splendid and stately vehicle? And, why, of all things, should the driver of a hearse, even if he WaS a negro, wear a cap with brass buttons and a braes buttoned coat? Anil, stranger than anything else, why should he, the driver of a hearse, in any circumstances, look op to the window of a quiet country gentlewoman and grin and grin and grin at her? Inquiry among the members of the household and servants threw no light upon the mystery. Such of them as were awake at the time hind seen nothing of what Mrs. A. described, but as Mrs. A's maid declared that the coachman and one of the housemaids had just that moment come in from it TiSit to friends in the village, and must have met the hearse on the road, they were accordingly sent for. But, when questioned, both declared that they met no vehicle of any descrip- tion on the road. They had walked from the village, 'where they had gone to call on an old friend, formerly a fellow ser- vant, and they had walked home leisure- ly upon the main road. Further inquiry proved that at the very those the hearse was passing under Mrs. A's. window the coachman and, the housemaid were approaching the entraee gate, because they both declared that they had seen Mrs. A. in the clear moonlight looking out of the window, and that they had wondered what she could be looking at so intently. No amount of persuasion or suggestion could shake their story that they had met neither vehicle nor pedes- trian on their return walk, and, still more mystified than ever, Mrs. A. gave up further inquiry for -the night and went. to bed, full of expectation of what morning might reveal. • Imagine her surprise, however, to dis- cover the next morning that the hearse and its driver were as much of a conundrum as ever. Diligent inquiry could throw absolutely not a ray of light on the mystery. Nobody of any note had died in the whole countryside for more than a year, and indeed the only death within a radius of ten miles for a whole fortnight had been that of the village baker's wife, and she had been buried a week. A telephone message sent to friends in a half dozen country houses along the road on which the hearse had passed only added to the mystery. Ab- solutely nobody save Mrs. A. had seen the phantom hearse with the negro 'driver. By nightfall the matter had come to be regarded as a joke by Mrs. A's. fam- ily and friends, and by bedtime Mrs. A. who ordinarily had a keen sense of humor, gave way to a very feminine expression of ill humor and disgust for the manner in which her story had come to be regarded. Being a very practical woman and not given to superstitious fears, she dismis- sed her maid after the usual services had been performed. Then, putting out the light, she said her prayers and, -with- out any more ado, went to bed and fell asleep. She awoke, as was her invariable habit, about two o'clock. The moonlight was streaming into her room and, re- membering her strange experience of the night previous, she arose and went to the same window from which she had seen the hearse. The scene was as peaceful and quiet as it had been the night before. tier eyes wandered over the hills and downs and rested for a moment upon that point of the road where she had first dis- covered the funeral equipage. To her great amazement there it was again, moving slowly down the broad, smooth ' highway. She leaned out of the window ' like one spellbound. Slowly and silently It drew nearer and nearer. Then for al few moments it was lost to view in the ' thick shadows of the alders flanking the road's approath to her own gates, and now at last it wheeled into the open under her window, the great black hearse With its black plumes waving from each I corner, the big black horses, their heads capped with sable plumesand, stranger than all else, the grotesque driver in his braes 'buttoned uniform and cap. Mon. A. Held her breath. The driver ' pulled the reins gently, the horses stop- ped, on the very spot they had stopped the night before, and, raising his fie , to Mr. A's 'window, the negro grinned a ghastly grin. Then the horses moved, once more and drew their gruesome freight into the shadow of the alders. This time Mrs. A. did not wait to see the vehicle out of eight, as she had done on the previous night, hut ran in great agitation to the room of her daugh- ter, whom the awakened. However, by the time the latter got to the window, the hearse had disappeared around the bend in the road and was no longer to be seen. The next morning an evert more dila looked and here sure enough it was, for she herself saw it with her own eyes in broad daylight—the hearse. Quieting the patient's fears, the nurse stood and watched its epproach, in every detail, as he afterward declared in the affidavit, it was identical with that seen on previous occasions by Mrs. A. There were the same great black horses, and its the equipage drew closer she also saw that the driver %IS it, negro. Nearer and nearer it drew, and at last pulled up in the open space in front of the house opposite where Mrs. A. and the nurse were stationed. Then the negro, whom the nurse described as about 23 years old, looked up at them, his face distorted itself into a horrible grin, and then, to Mrs. A's, amazement, for this was a new turn, he lifted his whip and struck the horses such a sharp blow that they dashed madly through the alder shade and around the bend of the road, The fact that the nurse had hVall the hearse anil could henceforth bear wit - nese in her behalf had to great tonic ef- fect upon Mrs. A. both mentally and physieally. But the strangest thing of all was yet to happen, for although what they 110 seen had taken ?leo at 4 o'clock in the afternoon—an hour when the road was much frequented by carriages and pedes- trians, not a single person could be found who had scan the hearse, and, whet was still more inexplicable, it half dozen per- sons whom Mrs. A. and her attendant had seen passing along the road when they met the hearse, declared emphatic- ally they did not met such a vehicle, and that it could not have met them. In the light of this additional testi- many on the part of the nurse, and ut- terly baffled be, the turn affairs had teicen, the physician recommended that Mrs. A. take a trip to the continent in the hope that acchange of scene would work a beneficial effect. Accordingly, a few weeks later Mrs, A. and her daugh- ter, accompanied by the nurse (the same who had Meet a witness to the phantom hearse), set out for a trip to Switzerland and the Italian lakes. The folio wing winter they spent in Italy, Mrs. A. all the while gaining in health and strength. The phantom hearse had by this time become only a tantalizing memory to both Mrs. A. and the nurse. _Neither of them had ever seen it again after that afternoon. It was, they reasoned, just one more of those strange psychical experiences which once in a lifetime come to certain I persons, apparently without rhyme or , reason. The Secret Revealed. From Italy the party sojourned to 'Paris, where they arrived just after dark 'one spring evening. Rooms had been en- gaged for them at one of the prominent hotels, the name of which I do not re- call. I When they arrived at the hotel they were conducted by an attendant across the main foyer to the elevator into which a crowd of patrons were hurry- ing. Mrs. A. by some accident fell be- hind the party'all of whom had entered the elevator before she could get to the door, which she did just in time to have it clicked to in her face and to see through the iron grill the face of the elevator operator grin back at her as the car shot upward. , Mrs. A. screamed with terror, for it was the face of the driver of the hearse, and none other, that she had seen. She screamed, and the next moment there were other screams from above, and then with a terrible crash the elevator fell. Everybody in it was killed, everybody in- cluding Mrs. A's, daughter, her nurse and the driver of the hearse himself.— New York Herald. DIAMOND MINING. How It is Carried on at the World's Greatest Mines. The story of the Kimberley diamond mines began two generations ago, when two bands of Boer immigrants fled out of Cape Colony to escape British rule, One of them, says a writer In The World To -day, settled on a patch of gold forty miles in extent which has since become the , famous Rand and yields a hundred million dollars every sem' in ;ace erecsous metal. On the caiaer hand, Bergner Jataies off - caddied on a humleed acres ef cleaeecries, and his lattle elaim to -day cer.taires an atemerse rconeeely in these teens. • . in,childien aeed te acey le tee Eillnd 71tb gent inquiry was made over the same territory canvassed the day before but strange to say, not a person could be found who had seen or heard of the hearse with the negro driver. On the con- trary, there was every evidence that no suoh hearse could possibly have paced along the road, either at the hour Mrs. A. declared she had sten it or, for that Thaettoer, apnaynt*sethofer time. which wer'oe carriages, raturniume from a late party at a neighboring coun- try house, and travelled along the same road in an opposite direction, and could not fail to have seen such a vehicle had they met it. Mrs. A. was by this time in a state bordering on hysteria, so confident was she of the reality of what she had seen. The family physician was called ill and he prescribed rest and quiet., confidenta Ally Informing the family that his pat- ient :was in the initial stages of nervous prostration as a reeult of the unusually arduous social duties that had devolved upon her the preceding sewn. The story of the beetle the physician disposed of as a species of hallucination symptomatic of overwrought nervous eondition. Seen by the Nurse, Too, For two weeks Mrs. A. was constantly attended by a nurse, 'while the physi- cian continued to see her every other day. During his time nothing further was heard of the phantom hearse, until one hot afternoon about four o'clock the nurse heard her patient utter a little seream from the balmily where she re - dined in an invalid's chair. Stepping Out the found Mrs. A. cowering in terror IWO she pointed up the road, The nurse inegat peare.es ter mart:cat. ale:saber Sehnh Van Neie,riz saw one ef the manes. rook It fl -coo Cli', atea oeas -,--,,ta tee remark three it might be valutiale, and the follow:Mg year it v.as oat snow at the C.:Live:sal ilt.ttosttlon of Parts as a magnifist diamond of ra-s, Two years latcr old Van Neikirk herreell picked out of the reed plaster of nefehbor Do Tait% hut the famous Star of Africa, which sold for 4:A4;v. That was the be- ginning of the diamond mines which to- day employ 16,0) Karrirs and 4,00 Euro - Deane, The pits rim in tubes or funnel; many acres in extent, evidently forced up ages ago by volcanic action. At first a Yellow i ground was found, aad men lett the blue ' below this severely alone. But the era of open workings soon came to an end, al- though thou -sands of Independent diggers made huge fortunes In a new monehe. To -day you will find neighs of 1,000 feet I In the diamond mines, and the bottom of the blue funnel bee not yet been reached. 7.. Both blue and yellow earths, ettraded with diamonds like a geological pudding, are sup- peceed to be volcanic mud. Holes for 'blasting aro drilled ,and after the blest are Muehed off the crushed blue - ground is conveyed to Nem mine shaft, 1,500 feet from the tunnels. Demo the ore Is dumped into buckets on *heels and drawn out of the mines by powerful engines. You will see thous -ands- of men, mostly negroes, earning e1.25 a day, perched upon the blue ground rock in the tunnels, patiently drillIng with hammer and chisel. Great stretches of ground known as the floors are marked off like tennis courts to receive the precious ore; for air, rata and sun will do tim work of disintegration as no costly machinery could do t. Onetine,lnebsfiTeriesofdumrlg floors.ton their smootsurlecolsnpre the blue olky to the depth of a foot and after sev oral months it crumbles and releases the in. I destrtletible crystals 'within. otiOh _as . din - mends, garnet .% olivines and other aeones of lesser value usually found associated with the naost precious of all gems. The disintegration peocess Is helped be' harrowing with steam ploughs; and all such ground as eernairle obdurate gees Into the crushing machine. The weehing gear is a marvel of ingenuity; and as the dirt and gravel pees down its plane the diamonds are arrezted by a tallowy coating. This fat is then scraped off and melted in a eat. n, in whose bottom the diamond, are 1°44 likt eereeloue grounds in a gigantic lCoffeehey coupe. taken from hero to the general Offices of the nionepoly and carted log to to value and size. atone worth e200,- 000 have been washed in a single day. But even the weste earth is not yet done with. Thie is twee:Illy treated lest tellow and machinery alike should have ovolooked anything of value, Thet the precaution worth while is Aeon from the fact that dle- inonde worth $1,400,000 were recovered from theme tailings het year. A Leaden eyndicato contracts to take the entire output of the ,mines; and all cut- ting is done in the Continent of Ettrene, chief- ly in ten etartiam end Antwerp. Tito titmice vary enorennoly in quality and leech in tho rough from $1.50 to MO a carat. There is very little leakage, considering the stupendous ecate on which the diamond mining is dram, Oue year, however, a memo sorter was found to have ewanowea e3,o0 Of stotee, but a colleague brOlso me record be mellowing $48 catate of diamorida worth 'r'l°41its' Merin are constantly &miming new modes of mougeltata They will load their eMe beWl with eman diamonds under a lay- er of tobamo aim vigorously puff emotes to divert euspimen. 0, Lawee of beelte hevo Mee so tut that to on would think eimateede were comeemed between them. Mitee eteugglere have gone so far as to inflict mtioun tete upOn them- selves and stuff Namable etoetei into those wets:414 The,Refege Againat Old At..' Debut Xhsle SeleeneoII Wrote " OHM: to your y,Outh. It It the artistel stock in trade. Do not give up that you are aging, and you Won't age." In this familiar and homely advice is hidden, the secret of the artist's power tied charm. The never grows ale; things never become commonplace to him; the colors do not fade. As a matter of fact, they never fade; it is the perceptions which become duller, the inteeeet which be- comes less keen. A good Many Men mat women have discovered that it It e Fema thine to associate intimately with poreone younger than themselves. This Is one refuge agalust.old ago, but the real refuge Is with- in. It is the aeeortion of one's immortality, the COnSCiotrinc::,s day by slay, In all relations and occupations, that one Li going forward and not backward; that the world, whielt grows sadder because one's compaulone go out of it, la growing brighter because one is pushing toward the dawn and not toward the sunset, There is e great mass of nits- ipading and cynical philoeophy about old age. Peary is full of images of disenchant- ment ereetea for the greater part by dis- enchanted men, There was a profound truth in the ale Grocer picture of the millet begin- ning its life In a strongly built house, pro- ; Meted from all the elements; finding pros- ently that the house -begins to be less cc - cure; direevering at last that It begins to crumble, and at the end that it falls in nano —only to leave the man free under the open elcy.—From the Outlook, New York, A Horse with a Strained Shoulder Is sound as a dollar in 24 hours after you rub the sore spot with Fellowe' Leeming's Rssence. It gives instant relief in all cases of Strains, Bruises and Swellings — draws the pain right out — strengthens the weak back, shoulder or knee. Whether you have one horse or twenty, accidents are liable to happen any time. Keep a bottle of Fellows' Leeming's Esserice bendy so you can have it when needed. soc. a bottle. At dealers. 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No grown person need fear them, for all lie has to do is to get out of the way. The dog will not chase him. Of Course, pilule children are in danger, as they do mit know how to dodge the inute."—Minneapolis Journal. Cow Carried Away a Golf Ball. On Saturday two goltore were doing the round of the Bury Field links, Newport Pan- nell, when a most remarkable incident cm- eureed. One of the golfers in making a cleek shot struck a grazing row on the hindquarters, In dropping the deall lodged in the -whisk of the cow's tail. Expecting to see the ball fall when the tow moved, the players approach- ed the animal, which started off on the run, the ball still lodging in the tall. Tao move- ments of the animal caused the ball repeat- edly to strike her on the legs, which made her kick out viciously. For fifteen minutes the players gave chase in tbe hope of dislodg- ing eh° ball, when a specially vicious kick caused the' ball to fall to the ground.—From the London Evening standard. Getting Tired of Bosses. The people are less and less well dis- posed toward bosses. They want none of them. The political boss is coming into constantly increasing disfavor. The voters are more and more awake and determined not only to know but to transact their own business without waiting to be told by any self -constitut- ed guardian, There have been recent examples showing that conventions can be controlled by the politicians, but, that the voters are free and independe emit, and that when they go to the polls they cast ballots according to their own Reim and as they choose.—Utica, N. Y., Press. BETTER THAN SPANKING Spanking does not cure children of bed-wetting. There is a constitutional cause for this troable. Mrs. M. Sum- mers, Box W. 8, Windsor, Ont., will send free to any mother her successful home treatment, with full instructions. Send no money but write her to -day if your children trouble you in this way. Don't blame the child, the chances are It can't help it. 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His frame shaking with sobs, lie cried: "Tohin, John, why, oi, why did you leave me to the misery of these past years?" tliyo.0 lenerw him?' the medium asked gen " Wow him,' moaned the elderly man, I I communed with him daily. Oh, John,' he burst forth again, 'why, why did you have to die?' "'Courage,' said the medium. 'Calm youreelf. Thought his loss was a groat one, you may yet find another friend to full his placea " not Impossible! His place is What do you mean?' asked the puzzled medium. "The elderly man, shaking his head sadly, answered: "'He was any wife's first husband." _s*.e Wild Geese Late in Northern Flight. Skowhegan reports that at 3.30 a.m. Saturday a flock of wild geese, estimat- ed at 4,000 or more, flew over the city, bound north. 'While they were passing over the town the air was so full of them that it seemed like the approach of a storm cloud. The first gentleman to witness this remarkable sight was Summer C. Ward, Who is an early riser. The flap- ping of their wings awakened him from a sound sleep, and his first impression was, until he went out on the lawn and sass- What it really was, that it was The markable part of ibis that the poem were going north so late in the season. It is past their breeding time, but as everything huts been so backward this spring it is presumed the birds waited for warmer weather before leav- big the southhaut—Lewiston journal. 4$. Minard's Liniment Curet Garget in Cows. 1,-----aemee----- Mrs. Vanderbilt's Cheap Gown, Mrs, Vanderbilt, of Baltimore, has re- cently appeased in a yellow gown made by a meeker woman of the North Caro- lina mountaies. The material was grown, spun and woven by the snme woman mid coat its wearer just $25. Tb is hoped that the almost lost art of hand spinning and ! weaving may be revived if a fad for ' homespun meting evealthy wangle can be : darted, This is a pleasing hope.--Tht- Oiango. lIlt liellee Is cool on the hottelit day, for He ceilings are high, its roof over - than, It. Iute jalousiett inetead of glass 'windows and it is bare of thiek carpets Completenos ofIrrenelt Com Feance it a country where the census tssumes almoet the elevation of high art. The cult of &Mil of the personal kind carriee pamion for statistics to as aV0i110063, Tilt"TO is uothing like it in the country. The timid bachelor who cares to know the Department in which women outnumber men, and are there- fore least likely to reject it suitor; the woman yearning for matrimony who would leant where meet are numericaaly lee preponderant SPX, and therefore mini- mal:el to respect the law of eupply and demand, need may 014 (heir eyes over heee abundantly Plea:dried is tic Similarly, ono may find at it glance or huk'hm KOVintiti (IOW I men t uuiost hie el hleci to baelielonlout or opintitaliood, is It ii'ls to widoWhoint ituki whieh to di- .. twee; whore till the dee f and Mina, :mine from, and where 1)11'1111103e is in Cashion, Tide 10441; 13 perimpe the umet .turione hi &tailor ell. Why, for in. • tame, should there be 10:1 blind pt.ople io the 100,000 Votalat and may .15 in tii Departnieut of Vienne? London tilobe, sa. Don't lake risks with your skin. Use the soap that you KNOW is free of harsh alkalies and in- jurious colorings and perfiimes— * "Royal Crown" Witch -Hazel Toilet Soap It is made of pure vegetable oils—and soothing, healing witch -hazel. 3 cakes for 25C. Insist on having "Royal Crown" Mich -Hazel Toilet Soap. 10 Signs of Long Life. "Bacon took a deep interest in longe- vity and its earmarks," eaid a physician, "and Bacon's signs of long life and of short life are as true to -day as they ever were. "You won't live long," Bacon pointed out, "if you have soft, fine hair, a fine skin, quick growth, large head, early corpulence, short neck, small mouth, brittle and separated teeth and fat ears. "Your life, barring accidents, will be very lengthy if you have slow growth, coarse hair, a rough skin, deep wrinkles in the forehead, firm flesh, a large mouth, avid° nostrils, strong teeth set close together, and a hard, gristly ear." —Minneapolis Journal. before you build. Tell why fire - roof 'The PEDLAR People GE , eRt EthisE Bo 0 k stLerfotrobroroekp.ai/silicAn=sotrocactC kind is the cheapest itr's8vsbalfiemtol buy. No matter what you mean pmetal material issheape from first to last—tells why one Oshawa Montreal Ottawa Toronto London Winnipeg Something in That. If the people are neglectful of their poll - tical duties and vote aecording to the orders of bosses, then they would faro equally badly under municipal ownership and under pri- vate or public ownership instead of them- selves and the bosses, then they would get good service under either private or public ownership. It all comes back to the vet- er'e willingneas to he independent of the boss. Os • Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. • *- What's the Use? (Toronto Globe.) The list of drovinia,g fatalities continues to grow. There seeme no remedy except to repeat and repeat the -warnings. .II•••••••\, WILSON'S FJ'1' Itircapkalculast more flies thew pADs of 840troksyhepeatpsar -- SOLD -- DRUCCISTS, GROCERS AND GENERAL STORES 10m per packet, or 3 packets for 25c. will last a whole season. Haunted Rectory Abandoned. Luffineott, where the rector refuses to reside in the rectory because he some the ghost of a predecessor named Paie her, is a remote parish of West Devon, in the picturesque valley of the Tamar. There are about thirty "haunted" rec- tories and vicarages throughout the country, but choke] ghosts have never hitherto been taken so seriously, though Fielding's truculent Parson Trulliber would make a formidable apparition. However, the Bishop of Exeter intends to stop the present week -end visits to the rectory of rowdy ghost layers—who certainly do not "do" their "spiriting gently"—by declaring the living vacant. As the population and endowment of Luffincott are both exiguous, the parish , could be worked, without disturbing the , ghost, by uniting the rectory to some adjoining benefice. --From the Westmiue ster Gazette. C., Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc. • 4 Judging by, a Sure Sign. Wise—He's very wealthy. mean. Mrs. Wise—Yes, and very sting end Wise—Come, now, you're not ,sure of that. You mustn't judge a man by his clothes. Mrs. Wise—I don't. I'm judging him by his wife's clothes.—Philadelphia Press. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Dear Sir,—This fall I got thrown on a fence and hurt my chest very bad, to I could not work and it hurt use to breathe. I tried all kinds of Liniment. and they did me no good. One bottle of MINARD'S LINEMENT warmed on flannels and applied en my breast, cured me completely. 0. H. GOSSAltatilf. Rossway, Digby Co., N.S. 8•11•11=•••••••••14 London's Exposition in rgo8. An exposition in London is officially announced for the summer of 1908, to include science, art, products manufac- tures and systems of education of the v,thole British empire, together with those of France and all her colonies. The preliminary arrangements were made last November between the offi- cials of the Governments named and a site for the exhibition agreed upon.).- • • ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT Removes all hard, soft or calloused 1tarips and blemishes from horses, blood ammo, curbs, splints, ringbone, sweeney, stit, sprains, sore and swollen throat, co. etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle, rented the most wonderful Blemishe ever known. Sold by druggists. • The Spirit of Militarism. (Philadelphia Record.) The Mores in the Philippines are neatly all kilted off In the stone of benevolent as- similation, and General Wood is now get- ting ready at Olongapo to protect the army and fleet of the United States against an im- aginary enemy-. 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