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Favorite Numerals All the World Over Disclose Some Queer Results Twisted About a Bie, in popular partiality for odd num- "This is the third time!" exclaims on the occasion of a crisis in his with one of the merry wives Windsor, "I hope good luck lies in umbers; they say there's a divinity in mativity, And it is scafeely to say that the belief Is much than Sir John Falstaff, Three, and nine appear to have been the ite numbers all the world over. The ts had three fates, three furies and graces; Neptune's tyident had three prongs, Jupiter's thunderbolt three forks, Cerberus three heads. We have three estates of the realm, a maa who accepts a bill hae three days' grace, and three persons congregated together may make a riot. Shakespeare was well awara that he must have neither mere nor less than three witches in "Macbeth" and that the brindled cat must mew thrice, and our popular folklore insists upon three merry men, three blind mice and three wise men of Gotham. Three meals a day is the usual scale of feeding. Of a more mystical character than three is the figure seven, or, at any rate, an a larger nuniber of religions appli- Noah bad seven days' warning | 1 0 s by sevens and clean 'Beasts by sevens into the ark; the ark \ touched on Mount Ararat in the seventh month, and after seven days a dove was sent out, followed seven days afterward by another. In Pharaoh's dream there were seven fat and seven lean kine, which Joseph interpreted to mean seven years of plenty and seven years of fam- ine. At the destruction of Jericho sev- en priests bore seven trumpets seven days, and on the seventh day they walked round the city seven times, after which the walls fell. In the apocalypse almost everything is seven, except the number of the beasts. There are seven churches, sev- en golden candlesticks, seven lamps be- fore seven spirits, the book with seven seals, the lamb with seven horns and sev- en cyes, seven angels with seven seals, + meven kings. seven thunders, seven thou- sand slain, the dragon with seven heads and seven crowns, seven angels bring Keven plagues, and there are seven vials of wrath. In merely secular matters seven occurs frequently enough. We have seven won- ders of the world, seven champions of Christendom, seven sleepers, seven wise men, seven planets, seven deadly sins, seven ages of man, and our ordinary lenses are made for seven or a multiple ie of seven years. ES But however mystically significant Hh three and seven may be, they eannot lay glaim to any such peculiarities as are the property of the fizure nine. Twat the ancients had nine s, nine rivers in the infernal regions. a hydra with nine heads and nine gods for Lars Porsena to swear by. or that in modern times a cat has nine lives, that it takes nine tailors to Soake a man, or that possession is nine Woints of the law, are facts that pale into msignificance after one has once sat down with pencil and paper to investigate fome of the special peculiarities of the figure wine. For instance, if you mul tiply nine by any other number you will find that the figures composing the prod- wet when added together will always amount to nine. Thus: Ox2mi18 and L+8=8, Ox8=2 and 247 =0, : PX 4mB30 and $4 0m=9, and so on to any extent. On arriving at 11 times 9 we find what appears to be an for the digits of ¥9 equal 18, be observed that 18 is a mul- up i is figure is discovered by ¢ any number of two figures of 'which the first figure is of greater value 'than the second, rewursing these figures and then subtracting the nuniber thus ob- tained from the original number. What- ever figures we may take, the result will always be 9 or some multiple of 9. The smallest possible number of two figures of which the first figure is larger than the second is 21. Reverse the figures, and we get 12. Subtract 12 from 21, and the remainder Is 9. The largest similar pumber is 98. Reverse these, and we get 89. Subtract 89 from 98, and again the remainder is found to be 9. Or let us take a case in which 9 com- ines with the mystic 7. The number 65 is pot divisible by 0. But if we add 7 to it, wither in front, when it makes 765, or in the middle, when it makes 675, or at the end, when it makes 657, we shall find that every one of these numbers is divis- fble by ©. It is not every number which <an thus be dealt with, and the reader may find an evening's entertainment in trying to puzzle out the reason why. An example of a higher number may be giv: <n by: way of a little assistance: 8Y6.573 mot divisible by 9, but if the mystic be added to it, either in front, where it raises the amount by 7,000,000, or in any other position, each one of the eight various amounts which may thus be ob 'tained becomes divisible by 9. The fact can be verified by any child who bas mastered the first four rules of aritbmetle, but the explanation of it is another matter. To Senior Wranglers or even to Junior Optimes there may be pothing very mysterious about all this. And it may be that if any of us would only put himself through a course of the digher algebra. digest the integral calcu- Sus and master a few amusing treatises on the theory of differences all that now seems so perplexing in the matter would become as pla'o v# the multiplication ta ble. Order! Order! ! The dignity of the house of commons eonsists In inventing all sorts of childish excuses for shouting "Order!" After gew gears of it the average member geems to become a sort of automatic ma: pe wound up to shout "Order!" The ould shout "O if the place as me "Order!" if a rd quest'm to 8 Is a notorious fact that the average ment clerk is the most improvi- "person found in eny class of em- yment. Im proportion to the amount he has mol debts ar storé and hands him 'return for something pur- man can ascertain by a BANISHMENT FOR LIFE METED OUT They Are Sent Either to French young fellow of 21 who 'was convicted for ed in court that he intended to break the Now, this is one of t | smith, figures. A TRENCH CRIMINATS. TO HABITUAL OFFENDERS. Guiana or the Isle of Pines, the Latter a Coral Fringed Paradise In the South Pacific, The other day I read an jccount of & the twenty-eighth time as a drunk and disorderly. The poor wretch openly boast- record previously held, I believe, by the late unlamented Jane Cakebread, who was convicted more than 400 times of the same offense. In the many prisons I have myself vis- ited I have found exactly the same de- plorable state of affairs with regard to theft, burglary and kindred crimes. In one English prison, for instafice, 1 saw a man about 40 who. had spent nearly 80 years of his life In reformatories and prisons. His family was most respecta- ble, and he had had every assistance, but It was no use. He was a crook, and he simply couldn't go straight. To punish these miserable people with terms of imprisonment and then let them loose to commit new crimes--practically their only possible chance of getting bread and butter--is about as sensible as it would be to discharge a scarlet fever patient from a hospital during the scal- ing period of the disease, Yet year after year we go blundering along, knowing perfectly well that our reformatories and prisons are simply academies of crim centers of infection from which the moral se is unceasingly oe 4 id. se things which they manage a great deal better in France, and how they do it is what I pro- pose to tell here, A pickpocket, a profes- sional beggar er a habitual "drunk and disorderly" is brought up for his or her fourth or fifth conviction. It is proved be- vond doubt that he or she is incapable of verforming the duties and therefore of axercising the rights of a free citizen. Sentence is passed for the last time, a term of imprisonment is imposed which 8 really a preg tion for the new life ase, the plece of hu- piration of your sentence you will be placed in relegation," says the udge. That means banishment for life. The 3] »s his old haunts, never nixes is old companions again save in exile. It will no longer be pos- ible for him to c mit crime or to con- .aminate the society which has now fin- shed with him. Moreover, he has got to work, and if he won't do that he will ind his food cut down and himself in a prison, which is made just about as un- omfortable for him as it can be. Krapce possesses two of these dulp- ng grounds for human refuse, as they may justly be called. One is French Guiana, which is about one of the best places in the world to get out of and stop away from, The other is the isle of Pines, which is a coral fringed para. dise far away in the south Pacific, one of the most beautiful spots ever trodden by buman feet or darkened by the pres ence of human crime, It is on the isle of Pines that the first process of compulsory reformation be- gins. The bard es are lodged in bar racks, fed and taught, possibly for the first time in their lives, how to do use- ful work. Their working day is about seven hours and a half, and from what I have seen of them they are well treated, well fed and by no means overworked. Of course very few of them know anything about a trade. Their only idea in life has been to loaf from the cradle to the grave. Those who can pever be made into work- men or workwomen are put on the fields, farms and coffee plantations. Others are taught trades, apd gradually the aimless, shiftiess loafer of the slums becomes & more or less skillful carpenter, black- the free peasant women do in France or taught straw plaiting, hatmaking and that kind of work. Those who conduct themselves well and really try to work can earn a few sous a day. Half their earnings is saved for them by the government against the day of partial release, The other half they are allowed to spend on little luxuries which of course always take the form of something to.eat or drink or smoke. All this time they are under what is practically prison discipline, and it is wonderful how quickly this shapes the bully and blackguard of the streets into the decent industrious workman, who knows that good work and good behavior will win him comparative freedom and the right to live a really pleasanter life than be could ever have led as a criminal in France, At length, for those who have been proved capable of a certain amount of re generation, arrives the day when they pass from "collective" to "individual" relegation. In other words, they are per mitted to leave the barracks and the la bor gang and seek such employment as they can get in the colony. If they have learned a trade, they mdy practice it. There are, indeed, cases where a hopeless case In France has be come an employer of labor in the colony Others go into domestic service, and some get minor posts under the administration I met one mild eyed old gentleman io the isle of Pines who was employed as secre tary to the government. He kept the ac counts of the island in order and amused his leisure by the compilation of the his tory of the penal colony. He was a doctor of letters of the uni versity in Paris, a man of great intellec tual power, but absolutely no moral con trol. In France be had lost office after office, taken to drink, then to begging and petty thieving. Under our system he wonld have been in and out of prison, dodging the police meanwhile till he starved to death under & railway arch or let himself drop out of human sight in the Thames. Here he was living a quiet, healthy. useful life in an exquisite cli- mate without a care on his mind, save perbaps the memory of what he had been. As a rule when reformed hard case: have reached a position like this there h no reason why they should ever want for the necessaries or even the comforts of life again. There are, in fact, only twc things they may not do. They must nol leave the colony, and they must not mar ry. In former times marriage was per mitted, and those who were married be fore bamshment were allowed to come to gether again in the colony, but now the government has most wisely put a stop ta this, wherefore the Krench criminal Joes pot increase and multiply as the Englieh one does. 4 New York Is Provincial. Perhaps there is no city quite so pro- vinclal as New York, says A. Maurice Lew in The Atlantic, due to the fact that the average New Yorker, whether in society or business, has got into the habit of patronizing the inhabitants of any ether city. The New York busi- ss man complacently feels that the rest of the country is financed by New York and must do as New York tejls It The soclety man or woman of New believes that outside of New | York, with few exceptions, there is no soclety worthy of the name, and what | soclety does exist Is merely a bad fmi- of its New York prototype. --ren wheelwright or Li a : 'women work in the elds' just 'ad' PERT PERSONALS, 4 ein, Zimmerman had met the duke and 10 doubt was much touched.--Memphis Commercial-Appeal. John W. Gates has jarred Wall street again. He is now commonly referred to as the Gates Ajar.~New York World. Sarah Bernhardt when asked how she kept so young replied, "Why, I am young." Wise Sarah! We get old when we think old.--Minneapolis Journal. Chauncey M. Depew's busy season has begun. His problem is how to be in his seat in the United States senate between dinners in New York city,--New York World. President Diaz of Mexico has been In- #ugurated for another term. Mr. Diaz comes as near being regular in his habits as any man now in public life.~St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mark Twain is ungrateful in refusing to allow his speeches to be reported. If it were not for the newspapers, compara- tively few people would ever have heard of him.--~Boston Globe. The terrible De Wet is a little man with a fierce eye and a small black hat. He is quite unaware of the moist news- paper jokes suggested by the Aemoness in his name. Stomach *Scowls." Ever notice the seams and furrows that steal into the face of the sufferer from indigestion, dyspepsia and chronic stomach ailments? Watch the sunshine break in and the lines vanish when Dr. Von Stan's Pineapple Tablets are given a chance to show their power. One lady, in writing of their efficacy in her case, i them *'A heaven-born healer." 35 cts.--1ac Sold by A. J. Davls. : Lr A ai CURTAIN RAISERS, Galveston has no theater now and will not hive until sext season. One of the plays in common use in Eng- land is "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The first production of "Hamlet" in America was in New York on Nov. 26, 1761. Henry Miller has secured from Made- line Lucette Ryley her play "Richard Savage." Kyrle Bellew has abandoned the stage forever, it is said. He may go to Austra- lia to engage in mining operations. "The Country Judge," a new pastoral play by Alice K. Ives and Jerome Eddy, will be produced in New York next March. Mme. Sarah Bernbardt is devoted to her family, and fully half of the millions she has made has gone to the support of her relatives. E. H. Sothern and Virginia Harned have a new costume con:edy by Laurence Irving dealing with the career of Love- lace, the poet. There are three scenes among the 28 in Mansfield's "King Henry V" in which no word is spoken. They are tableaux and processions. A freshet at Blyth, England, filled a theater with watcr nearly to the stage level and submerged the parquet, but a performance was given before an audi- ence seated in the balconies. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the famous ac- tress and beauty of Loudon, is engtged, it is said, to marry the Karl of Wemyss, a noted nobleman of the British empire. He is nearly 80 years old, but a man of great intellect. Charles Frohman spends more money in railway fares than any other individ- ual in the world probably. He spends approximately $100,000 annually. He has 80 companies traveling an average of 500 miles each week. A Magical Life Saver is Dr. Ag- new's Cure for the Heart. After years of pain and agony with distressing Heart Disease, it gives relief in 30 minutes. Thos. Petr. of Ayl- mer, Que., writes; * I had suffered for five ears with a severe form of Heart Disease The sli need fa Agnew's Care for the Heart gave mein t relief, four bottles entirely cured me."--115 Sold by A. J. 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An internal treatment that will absolutely cure most acute forms in from one to three days.--114 Sold by A. J: Davis. Things You Hear, Youn no doubt "hear" things every day that are not true and repeat them. Try not to do it. It is surprising bow many things are told that are untrue and cruel. It Is serprising how many people like this sort of talk. Be above circulating an untrue and damaging story about any one to oblige some mis- chievous gossip. BE The Demon of all Dise Kidney diseasesare rightly so-called--they"re inexplainable, unaccountable and insidious. It is the function of the kidneys to filter out all impurities. If they're clogged South American Kidney Cure will put them to rights and defy' the ravages of so grima visitant as diabetes or other kidney com- plications. It relieves in six hours.--118 Sold by A. J. Davis. 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The comfort of guests will be thefirst consideration and no expense or labor will hefspared in order to meet their requirements and wih their approbation, so that their good opinion of the Sebert ITouse" may be heralded throughout thé'entire Dominion and the traveling public thus made acquainted with the fact that Port Perry possességhotel accommodation in- ferior to noné elsewhemeito be found, and my charges, as in the past, Wd il continue to be noted for moderation. In order tof provide ample yard, stable and shed accommodationor all, especially on market days I have purchased thelot to the north of my already spacious premisessand have had erected thereon large and comfortable sheds, and my patrons will. find at their servicegan attentive and obliging hostler. 1 have every capfidence that my enterprise will be fully appreciate ®a generous public and that all will gladly availfthemselves of the superior accommodations 1 have ovided. L. SEBERT. Our fee returned if we fail. 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House ard lot fcr fee.e orto A Port Perry, April 5, 1899, Agricultural IMPLEMENTS S r . MUA EATON MPG GD Binders, § f McDonald's Hotel. t N returning thanks to the public for the patronage extended to me for over 3 intimate that I or businces, and have a F DOUBLE AND SINGLE HARNESS A Doowuad of 10 gor oa Jan. Ist next. All work being MADE BY HAND, factory work kept in stock, the arent. utending purchasers will find that by and price, my ng an indis in itly on hand JOHN ROLPH. Rent. A HOUSE AND LOT on Simcoe Street, _ Port Perry, for Sale or to Rent. The sous contains five rooms, The lot contains yne acre on which there are a barn, a good Jrehard sud a well; Imnfediate possession, Also for Sale a General-Purpose Horse, Juggy and a Set of Single Harness --will be old cheap or will exchange for other live tock. Apply at the Office of this paper. Machines ---- AND dom A 1 in UNDERLAND. 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The object distribution has bee productivness andl quality of these important agricult-* ural products throughout the coun- try, by every farmer, pure seed of the most vigorous This work has met ' with much ap- preciation, and a large measure of success. 2 Minister of A distribution will the greatest help to the live grocer d of those varieties of grai best o farmers in all parts of the Dom- view in this 'improve the placing within reach o and productive sorts. Under instruction of the Hon, culture another made this season Owing to the very large number of applications annually received, it is not practicable to send more than one sample to each @pplicant,---- hence if an individual receives a sample of oats, he cannot also, re- ceive one of wheat, barley or pota- toes, and applications for more than one sample for one household can- not be entertained. These samples will be sent only to those who ersonally, lists of names will consist { A of oats, spring wheat, i? Indian corn and potatoes. Applications should be addressed to the Director of Experimental Farms, Ottawa, and may be sent any time before the 1st of March, 1901, after which date the lists will be closed, so that the samples ask: ed for may all be sent out in good time for sowing, Parties writing will please mention the sort of sample they would prefer naming two or three different varieties of their choice. Should the available stock of all the varieties named be exhausted, some other good sort will be sent instead. The samples of grain will be sent early but potatoes cannot be distri- buted until danger in transit by frost is over, No provision bas been made for any general distribu- tion of any other seeds than those named. Letters may be sent to the Ex- perimental Farm free of Postage. Wu. SAUNDERS, Director Experimental Farms. Convinced by Printed Testi- mony of the hundreds of the cured, Mrs, Benz, of 418 E. 8th street, New York, who was for years a great sufferer from Catarrh, IES two ttles of Dr. Agnew's atarrhal Powder and it effécted an abso. lute cure in a very short while. One puff through the blower will clear the head and stop headache. 50 cents.--11§ Sold by A. J. Davis. CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, REV. JOS. FLETOHER, M. A., Incitmbent, Sunday--Matins, 10.90 sm. Evensong, 7 pm. Sundey School, 2.30, p.m. Wednegday--Evensong, 7.00 pn. METHODIST OHURCH, REV. G. W. MoCOLL, B A., B.D,, Pastor, Sabbath Services, 10.30 and 6.30. Week Evening Service, Thursday 7.30. Strangers welcome and conducted to seats, ST. JOHN'S CHURCH. (PRESEYTERIAN.) REY. W. COOPER, B.A., Pastor. Sabbath Services, 10.30 und 7.00. Week Eténin Sarviee, Thursday 7.30. BAPTIST CHURCH. REV: MR. MOFARLANE, PASTOR. Sabbath Services, 10.30 and 7.00, Week Evening Service, Thursday, 7.30. R. C. CHURCH, REV. A. O'MALLEY, Third Sunday st 10 30 4, m, The Light of t}® World OR / Our Savior in Art. of Cost nearly $00,000 to produce, Contains nesdy 100 full page en- graving gf our Savior and His Mother bythe world's greatest paint- ers. Trie copies of the greatest Wastepieces in the art galleries of Eutdpe. Every pictute is as pedutiful as a sunrise over the hill- tops. Contains description 4f the paintings, biography of the painters the names and locations of the galleries in Europe where the or- iginals may be seen. Also €ontains a Child's Department, 'including a Childs Story of Christ and His Mother beautifully Avritten, to fit each picture. This wonderful book matchless in its purity and beauty appeals to every mother's and in every Christian home there are children the book itself. Christian men and wom alc mhking money rapidly takin orders. A Christian man or woman can in this community soon make $1.000 taking orders for Christmas presents. 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