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Blck leadchea xc~liivWUilthe troubles bicl- dent te a bit-iC>uSsitofcithe îye,,ern. suclias nIzîness. aeal'wie'sDtress al ter romrka Le xccý lis been shown in curing meadache, 2,-- C'x-Ârxts LITTrLE Lî,,Ea PIîc are equall'y --lilen consipaion, curleg and prevent -il' g iaîsigcopaat hl they so ed5soiders o cio tesomach, athilte tký5 le lii'd 1reguate 21e bowels. Eif t!they' 0only oral Aehe they vr-louS b aie ost priceless to those whoe ufer --f e li--i i itresing (compaint, iut fortuna-tfelY t!,r ooclness does not ed hieaandtt-10- r, mtce trI'theci will Ced thes; littie pil -v.-xabis e 0 tl5fy Nuys thnt tkiey will nç->t '0 5vi lin; tui do witiiOut them.- B3ub alter al l ck Ead ta thebare, ç>f -aio rn-ay Ives thRt hem 1% whert WC maire cirgres bitat. Our' PIlacure il wll thcri 1 e CÂnltu J7ZTT~ ,vtariLi.s are ,ei'y'm al anid rery eaigY to tae. one or two plla makq a dose. Tih ey arestictly regetable and do -, gie r irgei,but bt lilirgeetie action ~l sae ai wLl tis 5c Inle iais St 25 cents; v. fr $. Sld asryviîreor sent by mail. CÂ ZE MMIhlCII 0., New?0, ONT.R[O BA.NK ocotinuer to qdf a Gneral Banking Business Bowmanville gnr g.eevedin 3,vflg<Hak iepartmient and on il n Itersa tIIOYSI a2lrrent rate$ Noe notice of wthdrtWftfleiaary. ÂAU delîos's lizy&ble on desnancl Bwijzgtand $o, i aandCI)rafts lesned epon ilnnrcpe UntedStatea andCaaaisqllyrd Unlted$ta.es Gree a oksbou&eht and sold. C01AAICTIONS primnptiy tmade at cirront rates unoon 9ailpa t of Grîeat Hrt.ain, tie lhntted State% and cIe Do lann lcfanadas, Telegirapi Traiisfers Madie for large or sil sains on ail part of Canada. This is elehcially advantagona te Pesscn'living luiii .iliaor the Northwest, îtmakes the f ti ds araflable at oace at tie Thme Can.adian Statesmani WE.,DNESD AY, ilARZHf 17, 1897. SO ]TES A XND CO .1/MESTS. Reports of the progrese cf the famine in India grow steadily worse, the num- ber cf desttute employeti on 'relief works, aQreadyý 2,750,000, and the dealli list. in,' the,<centrai prcovince anti Bom- bay pesitiency, ccnqtantly uncreasing. Th--,,area cf scarcity exceetis any sim- iharhy alfecteti dcrung the present cen - cary. andti ne'udes 81,000,000 cf people, Vwice / le population of the Uneitedi Kiugtiem-, anti"nsaucli a mass cannot ha adegnately relieveti by any human agency, the mcrtality promises to be appalung. While the percentage of deaths la yet infinitesimaI as compar- ,eti -with the great total cf destitute, tiraI total is grow-,ing steadily weaker, andi ast the menthe go on the tendency toward deethi muet ha sharply acceher- ateti. As thee mains doe net corne anti the ýsky la stillias brasa, tirere is a poa- sibility that the exi ent of the calamity may bhi enowmuusly increasedtiniisomeý districts by a scarcity of water as we'l as of food, a condition tira absolute hum- mcm of avbicb is atincet inconceivable te Uic -western mid. In any avent, ih, te apparent that the Indian goveru- meut alone, thotigh doing al w ithin ils power, canuot adequlateiy cope witb thc situaticn, that the imperial treas- ury must corne te its aid, anti that, aveni that; may ha sericasly overstra in- eti. The cstimated ecst cf relief b-rs risen frou -o millions Vo six m illions sterling, ant imnay yet reach dcouble the the "latter, amcunt, and even if foodtisj secaee, the lever anti diseases whiclh flloîv famineýý, anti for -which theme can ba no relief, mgtst lhill off a great popu * aticn ThelisprckpecL is ruade wcrcby tire faIl in É tha alup, fcicliver, thescliver onninents in wsvicli the peaeantry Ln- s est their saving, àanti whicb they have been accastomedti o exchange lu limes of distrees, w eighi. for -weight, for upees, havung tiepreciateti ixty par cent. ;Thuis shoen of their means, starvatitin-w iili e quickly reachati, anti as mtitudes w 111 not take thamselvem lu relief works unlil they ara dyung-, or7 Vo tha, poorbouses hecause of caste ligions liberty to an absolute maonar- chy, nihose chef motive hi the alliance is not friendship or ccmmunity of ini- terest, but financial gain. 'fhcv infflmral ally of IFrance le, Eng- iland, each representin~g in differung de-' gre the, demoratic principle of selfs govexnmnent, and eaeb' infduenced bohot iii its doinertic and ýforeigu polîcy by that principle. Tue natural allias of, l5usjsia, on the, oethter baud, are Ger- many and Austria, the three represent-' ing the monarchical pou oer in Europe, and pl'dged Vo mainte ii that powerli againe thte advancing wave of demoý- cracy. Eacli of these groups bave com- mon' interests w.hich tend to, cernent their untion, France and England de-( sirîng to expand in Africa, and, the question of lEgypt and Tangiers once, settled, able to do so wit'bott frictioni4 1Thie oùher group rigbt, if all'ied, dom- mnate Europe frcm Sscandinavia to the Blackea and divide the Ottoman em-' pire ang1 the miner Balkan states he- tween them, as tbey once partioned Polandc. The two alliances tises formeti mighît last f if ty years, mi,-ht-w ithcut' confliot andi often luý unison do a greatl work for civilizationl and coulti se di- mnii armamient that taxation would hie greatly reduced, and w'îthi it the ,spread cf socîalism., Race batretis anti the jealousies of dynasties may preven.t for a long tim',_, if noV permnanently, gý, coalition. of the' imperial powers, but no such obstacles rtand in the way ai an' AngloýI7rencl1 aliance, whule the pre- servatien, cf peac1ýe betweeii theff for four-fiftbs of a cenetury show-, that their inlerests are noet se antagoistÎo as they are madetie appeitr. If Heroti hat b,ýeen also a miodemn sta- tistician vith a trust i census returns, ihe woulI have set up school bouses as aLissoffensivea methoti ofcarmyin.g ont biâ deadly purpose. A Gerinan person 1of figures, a, abstract of -wlose long, jugubriolis essay bas1 been published witbouLt dissent or criticisminin a Isati- ing medical journal, maintaîns that cd- uc-ation is a cause of early death. Sol- emii comments bave heen made on this discover.f anti much.syympathy is feit for future generations that mnust make delibrate choies between appallin.g ig- norance anti fatal -education. Rousseail tieclared agaisst ahl civil- eyes or niauy ihrr11ary criLioswoa the hsginuing cf <bal nar, a b army of Osman Pasha, that: ,afterward inflicted three defeats on the linssians at Pievnia, the vant etý smartness, thec bararcs,-coliugra-whide sandale ni the infantry, and other ircusestauces, tiepreciateti the va:n'e of thre Turkisb scdier as a figbtiug machine. 'Events proved this to ha ,hypercriticistmn. The eal causas of tse prolongationi of the campaigu linflulgaria were' thre absence of transports and depots of supplies; the breakintg up of the arnny mm tb ree sep- arate emnmands under Osman aI Plev- na, Suleimnan at Shipka, anti Mahemiet Ali lu thla quadrilateral ini East Bul- garia; andtheib retentie'n of their gem- emsl direction in the hands of the Sul- tan at Yildi-z Kioisk in; Constantinople finsteatiof f 1h those of a supreine com- mander in thre field. Everytbing con- spixedti te aver Russia and whon the reinifotrcaînents, armed witb, thre long- ange Berdan insteati cf the useless transformeti Kriinka rifle, arrive'd 411 Bilgaria, andtihie operatiens 'were, in- trusted te a capable Genmral, Todleben, thie Ruselan vitory w as swift. In rihe hamds of a ompatent leader the Turkish armýy is ailwaynstrong for deferce; it la in aggreesive warfare that t ta] ls tbre&ugbh lack ef mobility arising frAu a.a defectivecmisait it is fQr abat reason, aven, iu a war with lit- tIc Greecae that iits suoceas is problemat- icabl as scion as it enters hostile territ- ciry. L'uitthe ga(naral (d-«ifficultyie f in- ancial anca the unerTadicable corruption cf lise administration. Against the fira. Vhs, Satan has,, in, a Pmaasure, proý- vidati in the event, of, hisbeing called on to make a supremel effort ln defence of hs throme. file haLi hiËnusshf a money, res.î've of large bit qnonw4,aiount, tire accumlaticns cf yearsl cf savings anti extcosrtion;. and a cail toi a Jebad, or holy avater, -would mol cnly bring figliters, but treasure,, te thre service cfl the Khnhiff. Ini an, attaok from theo stand a Hue ie wonld, under the c hanged circumstances, be effective- ly supporteti hy Russix and il ha exceed- ing,y problematical whether any single west, ihýever,-- thi-2 Sutan noulti .not Eniropeian p«wser, or even' two, wouhld he prepareti te face sucb a powerfuji cern- bînaticm on thre daensiî, The front te ha atiackePd woulti he' xednl narrow, anti therarserva cof ,defence be- Literary Notes. Among, the noteworlby .intibu- lions le the Mardi W,main's Home Coru- ion is an interesting article on 'The' New Wmau. by Lillian Bell. Il la at once humera115 andti hougbtful, anti in every Eue reflacte this claver aullior's happleel moud. The fiction ini Ibis num- bar uncînties ,.1Buncir cf Lilacs, b1 lEd- gar Faw catI, The Birthday Larnp, by M1adeline S. Bridges, The Bumial Ar- rangements of Eider Woueack, by WilI N. Hlarban, Out cf the Diarirness, by Paul Goodwnin, anti the, coul inuation of fIlis. Holmes' cariai, Paul Balslon, be-- aides l-wo geod slories for the boys anti ginls, tb wil: A Savenlty-g.allon Ele- pliant by W. Brm Fostar, antiA Lost Boy, by Eila Rothuan Churcli. Grow- ing Olti, is the tila of Martba L. Calk-. ns' second soliloquy unde r the caplion cf Maiden Medilations anti a very reati- able article il la. Enîi E. 'Bennett ha- gins a series cf illustrateti paDers on Wonian as Designers, anti Ella Rodman Churcli launches the 1meV cof a num- ber cf sketches in which she undertakea t0 give women saume valuable hints on ho-w te maIre mcýney. Poetry la contrib- uteti by Clarence Hawkies, Abbig Far- well, Brown anti Madeline S. Bridges, anti there are lrieutily chats wilh rnoth- ers by Kate lJpson Clark anti Florence Hull WVintemhurn. lu addition tte se may ha mentioneti a chapte5r on Len- tan Fare, by Fusza R. Parker, the mouthly article on home tiressnraking by -Mary Katharine Howardi a page of embroitiery designshy Ida àBeBnnett, anti the departments devoîcdti bfeeli- ions, housakeepiiug, llower culture and home deccratione. The illustrations ini Ihe Mardi Companionare by W.P. Sny- der, Jessie Wihlcox Smith, Albert B. Blashfielti Fretieriak J. Boston andtiF. A. Carter. The cuver decsign, by Jessie \Vilhccx Smith, represents the spirit cf the Mari- wiuti, ant istaona of lie baud- somest thal bas ever been presentid by Ibis magazine_. Publisheti hy fIast, Crowecîl & Kirirpatricir, Springfieldi, Ohio; fifly cents a ycsr; five cents a copy. The March nîîimbercf Tic Forum (ha- ginming Vol. XXIII.> contains a dozen Iiueyanti nnnsually important arti- cles. Thec Arbilmtaticn Treaty le disecuss- cd by Vi-o compen t authoritics-.thc Hon. Fraderlo R. Coudert, the 'eminent international! laevyenandi cx-moembcr of tie Behirîg ses Abitraticu Commission. anti Thectiome Sý..Wooksey, prefessor. of international la-tv iYale. Apropos of the recent reprt of lie Comptrolar of the SIap iNewr Yor'the Hon. Perry~ Belmnout tiLacures s Taxation: its Sum, Jusîlficatioa anti Methode." Mr. V- hemn Allen Wbifp contrihutes a poîver- lui paper oun- "The _Present, anti Fu- Your anxiety is for your delicate child; thc child that in spite of ail youir care- fui over-watchinig, keePs thin anid pale. Exercise seems to weaicen ber and food fails to nourish. That child needs Scott's E uli with the Hypophosphites-i nlot as a medicine, but as a'food containing ail theî elenents of growth. ht means rich blood,, strong bones, healthy nerves, sound digestion. No child refuses Scott's Emulsion. hIt s Pleasant and palatabie. SCOT&BOVW NL, Uelleville, Ont. ~For CoughsSrc SCOlIds, Bron- chitis, 'Sore tliroat, etc.OTE. KtERRY, WATSOTr2 & Co., apce inauguration, th4e apprebension for bis safety,, and. the excited condition of the oth sat thsuea tie. CaorTsiscos then- sa i reol o Tot's Hom ingtumnal ompsiton wordsthe fiorst lamaons song-writer, anid Alice Barber Stephens' drawing, The Woman in Re- ligion, the second of lier lAmerican ýWo- man sketches. The day After the Ser- via Got ini,-a delightful short story re- cords the romnantic adventnre of a Vlrin- cess, ai The Colonel and Nie, the f irst