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THE ROAD TO HEALTH. Liej Through Rich, Red Blood and Strong Nerves. Debility Is a word thut lalily cx- pros.-cs many (lilmentii under one iiuiiio. I'oor blood, wou-k norvcs, im- j)aiifd digestion, lo.ss o( (Icsli, No «"e'TSy. >'" ambition, li.stless and in- diiTercnl. 'Jlii.s rondition i.s iicrhaj).s the ponnlty of overworlv, or the ro- eult of neglected lioallh. You must regain your health or succumb en- tirely. 'Jlicrc is ju.st one alvsolutely vuio «av to <lo lliiHâ€" take l>r. Wil- litiine I'ink rill.s. These iiill;4 will lining jou now life, till every vein \\i:h rich, red blood, restore clnsli- tiiy to tie .step, the glow of health to the wan cheek; they will inspire you with new energy and supply the vital force of mu\(l and '.)0<ly. 'J'liere is not a corner of the civil- {;cil world where Dr. Willinmn' Pink /'ills hnvi- not liroiiffht health and hope and haMiinrss to some weak, deiji italed despaiiinjj" person. If you have not useil the pills yourself, osk your neighbors and they will tell >ou' these statements are solenui iruth. Mr. Charles Saulnier, Cor- berrie, K. K., says : "1 was very much lun down and so weak I could bardly work. H seemed as though my blood was little better than wa- ter. 1 tried .--everal medicines, but 1 got nothing to help me until I be- gan taking Dr. Williunis' Pink Pills. It wa.s simply astonishing how quick- ly these pills began to help mo and how much new life and vigor thej' put into me. 1 am a cook by pro- fession, and the fact that 1 was able to ccok for liftcen mi'n last winter is the be.'it proof that the iiills have made me as sound as ever I was." There is no mystery about the power of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to put new life and strength into you. Tlicy actually make new blood, and tiiat is why they cure all blood dis- ease:-, like anaemia, indigestion, liver and kiiiney troubles, headaches and backaches and the special ailments of women. Through the blood Dr. Williauis' I'ink I'll's feed and steady the i.ervcs, strike at the root of nervoi:sness. cure St. Vitus dance, fits, neuralgia, sciatica and partial paralysis. All these diseases spring from bad blood and disordered nerves and they have ail been cured posi- tively and iiermanently by Dl'. Wil- liams' I'ink Pills. Sold by all med- icine licalers at 50 cents a bo.x or six boxes for Si!. .50, or by mail from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.. tlrockvillc, Onf. THE CANADA LIFE'S B'^FOVLT. Splendid Showing Made at 57th Annual Meeting. A striking statement was made by Hon. (Jeo. A. Cox, President of the Canada Life Assurance Company, at that institution's annual meeting. He pointe<l out that since the com|)any's inception it has paid out to policy- holders and their heirs over $27,000,- ()00. Such a fact gives some idea of the vast benefils that result from life insurance. Over $5)5,500,000 of assurances are now ciu-rieu by the company. During 190,3 the new bualness paid for amounted to well over $10,000,- 000, a gratifying advance even upon 1902, itself a record year in the com- pany's history. The assets of the company increased notably during the ye.ar, and now stand at well over $27,000,000. In making up its jjo- licy reserves the company again em- ployed the most stringent valuation basis of any old-established life com- pany on the American continent. Ov- er and above even these strong re- serves the surplus on policyholders' account is more than $1.8(50,000. for for CAUSE OF TIIK QUAnRF.L. She : "So ninny men marry money â€" you wouldn't marry me money, would you, dearest ?" Ho (absently) : "No, darling. I wouldn't marry you for all the mon- ey ill the world." .\nd he wonders now why s\ie did not siieak tlio last time he met her. SAFETY FOR YOUR CHILDREN. When a mother finds it necessary lo give her little one medicine she cannot be too careful as to the rem- edy employed. The so-called ".sooth- ing" medicines always contain [lui.s- onou.s ojiiates, and these should nev- ir be given to a child. Strong drugs and harsh purgatives shonUi al.so be avoidi'd. All ideal meilicine for young children is Itaby's Own Tab- lets, which curc^ all the minor ills of childhood, and the mother has the guarantee of one of the foremost ana- lysts of Canada thiit this mediiine liontains no opiate. Milton L. ller- Bcy, ]\r. A. He, demonstrator in Chemistry, MctJill University says: â€""I hereby certify that 1 have made n careful analysis of Jl.iby's Own Tablets which 1 personally purchased In a drug store in MoriLreal, and laid analysis has faili'd to detect the presence of any opiate or narcotic In .hem." Analysis is proof, therefore mothers l;now that in giving their little ones llaby's Own Tablets they jre giving them an absolutely safe medicine. Sold by nil druggists or inailid at 2.5 cents a box by writing the III-. Williams Medicine; Co., llrock- fille, (Int. WHAT THEY MEAN. The Way Japanese Ships Are Dis- tinguished. We have been hearing a good deal about Jntiane.so vo^^^Fols lately, and we are, iierha) s, faterl to hear much moreiabont Ihem in the near future. The oliservanl reader will have not- c:l that at the end of th(! name of every ship occur either the termina- tion kail or niarii, ami he may liave been puvTili-d to know what they meant. For all practical purposes Ihcv i.avo come to be the P<|uivaleiils of our "If. M.S." and "S.S.", and in accordnmo with Japanese usage, conn' after Instead of before the title of till! ves^cl "Kan" is a Cbinose Word, meaning "war vessel," and is attached only to the ships of the Kni| eror'a fleet; "main" literally means "rtnind," and oven a .laiian- esc <annot tell you how it came to be njM lied to moirhant vessels. Yo'.ini:; man, beware of tlie girl who la too laz.v to return your kisses. â- ^â- t To proT" to yon thK* Vn. MXal^^Mk C'h-uio'a Ointment !• a nortAla ^^llt*^% nnd nhiiolato rur* for rncV â-  IB^*^^ (nil erery form of llehinc blcoilinic.ind |irotriHUn|c ptl<«, }i» m«ntif»rtur»rn liavii mikranlMd it. be«f«»- Jmnnliiln In thn ilallr rr*"'* ""'l »"k )<>'"â-  nci.rli' loniwhatthur lliinko'tt. You nan a«« It and nt rour monoT back if not ciirtd. «>c » iKit. at i lU dftklsra or Ent«*Ni(jN.HiT«« & Ca. Toronto, Dr.Chate'8 Ointm«nt ABOUT SEALING WAX. First Imported From the East Into Venice. *' /. The Hindoos from time immemorial have possessed lac and were accus- tomed to use it for sealing manu- scripts long before it was known in Kurope. It was first imported from the east into Venice and then into .Spain, in which country sealing wax became the object of a considerable trade with other countries under the name of .Spanish wax. If shellac be compounded into .sealing wax im- mediately after it has been sejiarated by fusion from the palest qualities of stick or seed lac, it then forms a better and less brittle article than when the srnillac is fused a second time. Hence sealing wax prepared in the East Indies deserves a preference ov- er what can be made in other coun- tries, where the lac is not indigen- ous. Shellac can be restored in some degree however to a jdaslic and tenacious .state by melting it with a very small portion of gum thus or parafin wax. The palest shellac should be selected for bright-colored sealing wax, the dark kind being re- served for black. The following formula may be used for making red .sealing wax:â€" Take four pounds ot shellac, one pound of Venice turpentine, and three jiounds of vermilion. Idelt the lac in a co|)- por pan suspended over a clear char- coal lire, then atld the turpenlino slowly to it, and soon afterwards add the vermilion, stirring briskly all the time ot mixing with a rod in eillier hand. Jn forming the round sticks of Healing wax a certain j)ortion of the mass should be weighed while it is ductile, divided into the desired num- bi'r of pieces, and then rolled out upon a Warm marlile slab by means of a smooth wooden block like that used by apothecaiies for rolling a mass of pills. The oval and square j slicks of sealing wa.x are c.:ist in | molds with the oval compound in a i state of fusion. The marks of the lines of junction of the mould box may be afterwards removed by hold- ' ing the sticks over a clear (ire or! passing them over a blue gas llame. ' Marble sealing wax is made by mixing together two, three, or more colored kinds while tliey are in a S'mi-lhiid stat<'. I'rom the viscidity of the several portions their incor- poration is left incomplete, so as to produce the appearance of marbliiuv. The CdLiidLdaL Life Assurance CompaLny. 57th ANNUAL R.EPORT. The Year's Business. for 1902, are as follows : â€" The new business of the year was the largest ever submitted to the Compauy, and the figures in tabular form, together •with those 1003. Number of appUcatione received 6,863 Amount of Assurances applied for $13,881,960 Policies issued 12.635,03'^ Policies paid for 10,l'i3,13O Total business in force 93,331, llO 1002. 6,022 810,687,072 9.7S4.002 8,398,.'i8a 89,170,675 Increase. 1,^41 2,901.030 1,T33.T53 6.3ii0,535 Of the applications received, 206 for Assurances of $693,716 were declined, as not conforming to the Company's standard. The Income. The gross premium and Annuity income was $2,847,.559.74, and the inconle from interest, including $30,757.20 profit on sale of securities, reached the handsome sum of $1,176,374.33. Together these make the total gross income (exclusive of pay- ments on account of Capital Stock), $4,023,934.07. q^. p , The death claims paid during the year amounted to $1,227,414.42. The " â-  matured endowments and death claims (including bonus additions), and annuities paid in 1903, amounted to $1,528,420.46, while $145,273.40 was paid &i cash dividends and surrender values to policyholders, making total payments to policyholders $1,673,693.86. The total assets at the 31st December, 1903, as shown by the balance sheet. The Assets. amount to $27,180,00721, being an increase of $1,215,074.71 over 1902â€" a growth that your Directors think is very satisfactory. Tho usual conservative practice of the Company has been followed in tho valuation of its assets. Tiie growth of tho Company's assets in tho past twenty years is shown by tho following table : â€" TOTAL ASSETS. In 1883 83.CU4,OOa III 1S88 8,934,000 111 1893 $14,31.1,009 lu 1898 */iO,O.;8,U09 The Liabilities, m 1903, 27,180,000 In tho valuation of the policy liabilities, tho Company's own standard lias again been employed, viz.: the Institute of Actuaries' Table?, with interest at for all business prior to January 1st, 1900, and the same table with 3% interest for policies issued since that dato. Tlio total net Reserve by this valuation standard amounts to $25,093,374. In addition to this tho Company holds Reserves of 832,315 for lapsed policies subject to revival, and $55,028 for instalment claims fund. After providing for those Reserves and for all liabilities, except Capital Stock, there remains a surplus on iDolicyholders' account of $1,861,367.32. A large section of our business was valued on tho now table known as the O-"^^ Table, and the Reserves brought out amountotl to 90.7% of the Reserves required by tho table now in use by tho Cotn- panj'. So that it would appear that no mutorial change in Reserves would result by the adoption of the more rocout tables of mortality. So far as is known this is the first occasion upon which these new tablos have boon usod in a valuation in Canada or the United States by any Company having an establishctl business. A fuH report of the meeting' will appear in the Company's paper. Life Echoes. ON A RANCH. Woman Fotmd the Food Thtit Fitted Her. A ii('\VHi),np(>r woiiiaii went out to n C'oloriiflo ninch to rest unil rcciipcr- otc iind lior cviHTiciue with tho food pioblcni is woilh rccountinj;. "'J'ho woiiKin at the iiii\ch was prc- piiiiiu'iitly tho woiKt houscki'OjK'r 1 hnvc (rvcr known,â€" i)ooi' .soul, and poor me! "I simply hull to hnve food jjood iind plenty of it tor 1 hud broken down from overwork anil was s;) weuk ] could not sit over one hoin' at a time. I knew I could not (j;>'t well unle.ss T secured food I could eusily digest nnd that would supply the ppreali'Sl unuinnt of nourishiiiciil. "One day I obtained jierinission to frn throiiKh the pantry anil see what 1 could Iind. AmouK other things 1 came across a package of Crape- NulB which 1 had heard of l)\it never tried. 1 read the descrijition on the packnge nnd liecaiine deeply is. t crest- ed HO then and there 1 got a aaucer i\nd Hinm; cream anil tried the taiii- ous food. "It tnslod delicious to me and seemrd to freshen and strengthen nio greatly so I stipidalod that (Jrape- NulH and cream he provided rnch (lay infilead of other food and I lil- terolly lived on (!rape-Nuts and croMii for two or three months. "If you could have seen how fast 1 got well it would have plonsed nnd surprised you. 1 am now perfectly well nnil strong again nnd Iinow ex- actly how 1 got well and that wns on (Irnpe-NulR that furnished ino a powerful food I could digest nnil make tise of. "It seems to me no brain worker can afford to overlook Ornpe-Nuts aftirr my R.xperioricp. " Name liivcn b.v ro8t\im Co., n«ttlo Creek, Mich. (Jet the mlnature hook, "Tho Hood to Wcllvillc" in each packaftfl (Jood sealing wax is made! simply by adding gold chrome instead of verndl- ion to the molted mass. Wax may be scented I'y introducing u littlu os.sential oil, essence of musk, or other perfume. STORM IN THE HOOKIES. The Thunder Worse Than tlio Koar c£ a i5attle. If .vou havp never seen a mountain thunderstorm at an elevation of T,- 000 feet or more, you havo mi.sscd an o.Nperienco that >\ill add grey hairs to your head. Here is the story of a storm among nature's massive .sentinels that is d(^- scribed by un easterner upon whom iit left n lasting ini|iresKion: I "To me, a tlnuaierstorni hack lOast i hold no special terrors, nnd froquont- 1 ly I have been out in such a demon- Istration without lei^ling any especial : nervousness. ] "I'li horo on the Kocky Mountains j things aro dilTerent. and 1 confess I now to live in an .-.luful, abjoct ter- i ror of a thunderstorm, especinll.v at I night in v.iy tent. t sulTer Ihi.s ter- 'ror nothwithstanding the fact that so far the storms huve in every in- stance e.\eej)l one gone around or : beneath us without ever raining ; enough to wet the ground. Hut it i.s the 'going around anil benivith' jthat pets into iny nei'ves. In the illrst place, imagine what it is to bo !14 miles nearer a riiv-roaring lluni- rierstorm than one is 'back homo.' 'I'here yini have occasional Hashes of lightning; levo it is one continuous. da'i'.lin_', aweinspiritig performance 'riio lightning strikes, too, for it in no iincoinnion thing during a storm to lienr the rocks splintering and i cracking where one esi>oclally vlgor- lous holt has landed. 1 "Add to this nerve racking exhibit the most awful iletonations ot thund- 'er that yoti can Imat^ine nnd a Istrnight-hlowing' wind that sonio- ! times n'okes the flaps of your tent Iplojr tt ragiime mclod.v, nad you havo 'some Wlra of a mountain thunder- storm. The thunder is worse than the sound of a mighty battle. It Ihnngs up against the mountain side and reverberates and rolls olT into ono 'ear-splitting concussion nfter nn- , other, until you. lying quaking In ;yonr tent, t\illy believe that the next â- boom' nill split mountain and val- ley In twain nnd land yon In China or some other seaport town. I "I ley one nltfht and with chatter- ing teeth counted five distinct thun- derstoinis come up to the edge of the jiiatcau on which my tent stands and each time go through with an electrical porformnnce that would f;i\e Tom Ku'ison a dumb ague, ni\d through it all not a cui>[ul of water fell on my tent. "These oloctrical disidays are not Roemingly imieh ilreadeil by the peo- jdy who live in high altitudes. They comfortingly declare that a tornado or cydono is unknown in tho moun- tains." UNDKnWOIlLD EXPlOItATION. Prot. W. W. Watts, the Knglish geo- logist. slronj;I.y advocates a new geo- lo;;ical sur\i'y ot Kuglaiul. which shall do as much to make known tho suhterraneaa world there as existing; survey!! ha\ e done to make that which lies on and near the surface. This demand prows out of the ever- rocurring question of tho approaching exhaustion ot tho British conl-Iields. Trofcssor Watts .says that there is still an area ot concealed coal-liclds left, po.'^ibly at least as large and productive as those already oxpk^rod, but to develop them work will have to lo dune al ,a (lei>th of thousands instead of hiuuli'eds of feet. The lirst step must be systematic and i!et;iiled exploration ot these invisible lields under the guidance of .scicntilic i-rin- ciplcs. *. â-  . TiiotJAS .\Nn TUF. rtisHor. "Now, Thomas," said n lertain r.ishop, after taking his servant to task one morning, "wlio is it that !e(>s all we do, and hears ail we .sa.v, and knows all wo think, and who 1 Oman's even me. in my Hi.whop's robes, as but a vile worm ot the dust?" And Thomas icplied : "Tile missus. Was All Crippled With Rheoma Could Scarcely Walk, But the Paine and Aches Hava Entirely Disappeared Thanks to Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver PiEIs The kiilne,\s, after all, are respoii- ; out beuel'.t, and hearieg of many be- Tho kiilne,\s, after all. are respoii sible for rheumatism as well os most of the other pains nnd aches of the body, and litstiiig euro can only be obtained when tho kidneys are set right. Vtr. Chase's Kidney-i.iver nils arc the most popular and successful kiiN ne.v medidne of tho dny, because they act promptly nnd are of last- ing benefit. Mr. Charles Morrish, Horchestcr Station, Midillesex county. thit.. writes ; â€" "1 desire to ncknowIe<Ige to you the benefit 1 have recei»ed from I Dr. Chase's Kidney-hiver I'ills. Kor | about twelve months I could hardly | walk, on account of l>eing so cripjilc^l j up with kidney dci'ongeuient nnd rheumatism. "I had tried many mcdieinen with- out beuel'.t, and hearieg of many be- ing cured by usirg Dr. Chaso'sKid- r.ey-l.ivcr I'ills. I matle up my mind to give them a trial. .\fier ha\inK taken .'ix boxes of this ino.liiino in .lucce.ssion, I can truly say that I am in belter health to-tla.v than 1 have been for twenty years. 'l''be il.euma- tism pairs have entirely di -appeared, and 1 nni well and hearty. As I am neatly seventy jeais (,f age, 1 con- fider my cure remarkable, and give all credit to I'r, Cha«e's Ki;iney- I.iver Pills." l>r. ("hase's Ki.lnej-Llver Fills, ono pill a dose. 2r>c a box. at all ilealers. or KdmaU'-on, llatcs & Co.. Toronto. 'l"o protect you ngainst iinilnlions, the portrait and (igiiature of l>r. A. W. Chase, the famo's re.-elpt book antlior, R-e on eveiy \fOX.