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HIGHWAYS jN OM'AillO. SUGGESTIONS FROM AN EXPERT AS TO THEIR CARE, rn^TUeUI Koad iBiirneior Cunpbfll'a rint Kcport «â-  (be Work or Ibe New U«- l^rtmcutâ€" As Inu-rrritius Pmuphlet. 1 A. W. Campbell, ia a clever young engineer, who was appointed Provincial Ijustroctor of Bioadmaking of Ontario, by" aa Order-in-Council, dated April 15, 1896. Since then he haa Ijeen lecturing and working ftt the goo<l roada prob- lem all over the country. His official report has recently Lwcn issued, and contains mu£h valuable information. â- Ml. Campbell notes the fact that the 4a^rcvement of roads in Ontario has D(Ot kepit pEice with th<e progress oiade along other lines, lie iliuatratea bis BjBtem of personally pointing out road- way defects to Boards of Works, exam- ialng available material, deciding on the A HimiR'S STOM. EXPOSURE BROUGHT ON A» ATTACK OF RHEUMATISM. WcrrsniBcaii tad stomach TrsaMe* Fallow- «1 â€" Sleep at Time* Waji Uapoaalble â€" â- esllk Acala Bes tared. From the Amherst, N. S., Sentinel. The little village of Petitcodiac is situated iin the south-easterly part of New Brumsw-icfe, on the line of the Intercolonial Railway. Mr. Herbert Yoemabs, who resides there, follows the occupation of a hunter and trap- per. His occu^iatioii requires him to endure a great deal of exposure and hardship, more pspeciaJly when the snow lies thidk and deep on the ground m OUT cold wijjters. A few years ago Mj-. Yeomans tjells ouir correspondent that he wasseieed withasevere bilious attack and a complication of diseases, such aa sour stomach, sick headache and rheuDiatism. Mr. Yoemans" ver- sion of the facts are:â€" "I became very htet system, and presenting the Council ! "J'. and suffered the most excruciating _.-.i, . â€".1 _* • jj-.- . ' Pa^ns in myarms, legs and shoulders. ^ith an â-  ral rejrort, m addition to an ' so much so that I could not addrees, covering the ground. During lt96 be yiaited the following places; .tTowna and ivillageaâ€" Cobourg, Arn- prior, IngeraoU, Wincliesler, Pembroke, Gj^ortb, Berlin, Orang«Tille, Brighton, Oarleton Place, Iroquois, Gait, Clinton, Paisley, fiarrie. Port Hope, Cornwall, llorrisburg, J^eiwniurket, Woodstock, Paris. TownBhipsâ€" Beckwith, Matilda, Wil- li^maborg, Boxborough, Charlotten- burg, Pembroke, A'orth Norwich, El- diralie, West Zorra, Hamilton, Moun- tain, Finch, Cornwall, tUtchiel, Tucker- •mith, Cavan, Greenock, Puslinch.York; .Winchester, Osnabruck, Kenyon, Iau- o«t«r. Stanley, £ast Niseouri, East Zkorra, Htallowell. The report advocates a reorganiza- tion of the statute labour laws, eepeci- ally as to the oollectloa of the road tax, which is now said to be ineffectual, •B-aate/ul and unjust. In Maiden Town- ebip, in Kseaix County, the people abol- i8)i«d the statute labour system by bj^law. The vote was two to one, and they are now frajaing plana for a new •jBtem. • WHERE THE FAUiI/T UES. jAs t« road construution, Mr. Caj^p- bell says the ques«.iain of tires ia an important one, a,nd if tirw of suitable width were used, a very greaX part of tie road question would be solved. The proper application of the energy which _ls now wasXed would, he thinks, give a system of roads that would render the good roads movememt unnecessaxy. 'Ab a country we siiould conserve our euei'giea and exerciue them in the moat juduiouB manner. We should learn of tAe history of roada In couatrieawhexe Hiey dated back a thoosaud years, and not waste monejr ia ^peoulatiive efforts. Tile question is both vexy broad and very local. So one clasi of uavemiant cin be clearly upecified for all streets, aod no one class or ruad can be adopt- ed im rural diatricis, but tbesd can all be divided Into uluaaes and platied be- fore Douucila and the peoiple m such a nwinner as to maieriallj aul in propor- tioning puAemema to requirements, aji<i to the ability oj" the various coouuuni- Ute. There are the country ruads which M-e least travelled; there are those more heavily travelled leading to highways; there are the mtiiji highways which Barry the tra/fin; of exiensivw areas; tfere ia aQothntf ulawi of rouds most l;irgely travelled of all, necessarily rare, whinh verge finally Into the streets of 'ajpo cities; tlMvre we the streets of vvllagea^ of towns, of cities, all of vary- ing requiremeniA regarding which the i^oat reliable iofco-mailion should be proinired. There are materials suit- able for all classes of roads, and theni axepirinciplesiuvailved in the construe- Uon of pavements as wiith any other structure. ' SOME SUGGESTIONS. ' The data far determining the annual «xp«jidituxe ot mcneo' and labour on the streets and ruuls has never been Elected with suifficieait accuracy to permit a close stateiuvoit of this ele- ment vi our national taxation. Enough m known, huiwiever to warrant the as- aNTtioci that it is millions annually. Of this vast sum the greater part is wasted in ill-<tmtriveJ, and tcnwiorary repairs needed to keep the roads in a faaeable c(»ititiuo in Uhe present 4tate o< oux taxation it is difficult to expect tte {>eople to impose a special tax to apceiedijy iuiprov'e louintry roada Keoerally. It vnill lie found that to at- uun the end (n view the best plan is toaecieimble as far as (loasible bhe forces at WM-k, conremtrati'ng' thp expendi- tuaw uf money and ilivertingto durable ^ muctb as possible of that which is jjttw paid for mereJy temporary repairs. Vbe mcM reoeouuble explanation of ei- Utang conditions i» to he found in the Httle attention which has been paid 5P the effect and value of good roads, [tniis in turn has permulted the admin- i<R.ratiaB t>t our lawB to 4>e neglectecl, ^V\d has not itti«nu.Lited sufficient UuDUght to develo(> am eiffioient orgjini- Mttlon of tlie ways aod means available. IJo city, towti or towiisJhiip, county or (jpovint'e c«j> afford to rely solely up- on its own efforts, but eochi shoiUd be ataounw of exj>erienc* for the otheri and all should be able to draw u^ion t^ expei-ietice ot other la<nds, past and I present, to the fullest extent There 1 U a great deal of pa.'^t experience on which to draw, but thlere is more im- liwrtan't, present and future experi- I ebce wihioh slibuld be indexed and made |»TallabU for r«fere(ntc-e. 1tir> TtpoTt contains about lOO pages, iMild Is full Cnm oov<er to cover with |*«laable (nformatian which every iBmitiojml c«unoil will do well lo take Ito itself. MVwh Interest is being taken â- fall this question and many have been Iwiitiaig anxiously for the refwrt up- Mtli tWs new departure i«f Government Iwnn. rest in any poeition.i I fre- quently could not sleep nights, and when I dild I awxAte with a tired feelhig and very morb depressed. My appetite was ver^ poor, and if I ate ainything at all. im> ma.tter how light the food was, it guve me a dull, heavy feeling in my stomachs which would be followed by "vomiting. I suffered so intensely with pains in my arms and shoulders that I could scarcely raise my hands to my head. I tried I almoui entirely different remedien, but all to no pwr- 1 tiou facilities pose. A luiigbbor caoue in one evening and asked " have you tried Dr. Wilr liama' Pink Pills (" I bad not but then determined to try them, and procured a box, and before the pills were all gone, I began to improve. This en- couraged me to purcbtlse more and in a few weeks the pcun io my shoulders and arms were all gone, and I was able to get a good night's rest. My appe- tite came back and the dull, list- less feeling left me. I could eat a heaxty meal, amd have no bad after effects and 1 felt stl-ong and well en- ough as though I had taken a new lease of life My old occupation be- came a pleasure to me and I think nothing of trajuping eighteen or twenty miles a day. I know from ex- perience and I fully appreciate the wonilerful results of Dr. WUlisms' Piuk Pills as a safe and sure cure and I would urge all those afflicted with rheumatism or any other ailment, to try Fink Pills aa they create new vigor, build up the shattered nervous system and make a new being of you. The genuine Pink Pills axe sold only in boxes, bearing the full trade mark, â- ' Dr. Williams" Pink Pills for Pale People." Protect yourself from Impo- sition by refusing any pill that does ' oni^. not bear the legistered trade mark around the box. IT'S EAST KOOTENAI NOW ANOTHER ELDORADO DISCOVERED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. A Bis K«*b or Praspectom. â- Imers aad Apecalalor* lata Ibe Caiialnr to be Opea ed by Ibe €raw'» \ext Itallway. Here ore a few New Denver notes, taken from the (Ledge . The work oa the Payne waggon road will be finished this week. Nearly 1,- titiO tuna lii ore iire ready to ship ac tiie mine, and this original Siocon pro- perty keeps up its record aa a wealth prouucer. fl'he Uuih ia woiking 70 men and shipping two cars uif ore a day. The ore gct» to l^ieblo and EvereLt. fl'here is nearly a carload olt ore on th* dump at the iTwo Ji'rtends. Tb» original locatorit are working the pro- perty and leel uonfideni that it will again be a shipper. Eugli^ui capitalists are looking into the advaniages of New Denver as a point tor sampling works. if more money wua spent in develop- iing the clamu at the iuuC of Slocau lake amd less in real eatata, the coun- try would be better tot it. Several Slocaai mines are shut da'.>ii on account ol luu much waiex from melting snow. And while there are himdreds uf pro- perties in process of development, any one «t wrhich may yet rtval the beat oi tboee I have alreiadj mentioned, yeO it is not in the Sluuo, but in the I'urt Steele country, that the mot>t develop- ment will take pla^-e duxmg the com- ing season, says a coxrespondeui uii the Vancouvex World. There is a iremen- doud rush of proupeL-tors, mining men and operators into East Koolenay. iltie new town of K.imJL«xley is growing mure rapidly than did Rossland. Kim- berley is a mining camp adjacent to tne ceiebraued North SUir mine. I am in- foxmed by mining experts of world- wide experience tnat Kimberley is go- ing to become the richest lead and sil- ver producing district tiial the world has ever kuofun. I'his is a very strong statement, indeed, t>ut it is unquestiuu- abiy the general opinion held by min- ing men. The Eoxt Steele country is lacking in truu^sporta- i'oir Mwo or three months, when the water ia high, the steamers ply between Jennings, on the Great Northern Kailway, and Fort Steeiie, but in winter and in the spring Fort Steele is seipaxaied from tue rail- roads by lUU miles oi bad roads and rough teaming. The building of the IT DOJiSN'T PAY TO PARLEY WITH RHEUMATISM. Rheumatic joiia-^-, and aching limbs mean :ability to work, and inability to work, for lost people, moans inabilit> to gain a live- .hood. So from that point of view it doesn't ay to parley with Rheumatism. Then .ere's anoilier side of the question â€" the .t\ s of agony and suffering. How many people are there whom Rheu- i.itism compels to icive up liicir occupation. .nJ ihrew up a Mplendid petition that it look hem perhaps years to attain? Mr. Thomas Warren, of 1 54 Strachan St., :Uniilton, slates under oHih that he had to ^ive up his situation iu the shops of the â- ' Big Kouv R. I{. ' on account ol Rheuma- tism. He tried mineral springs ia Indiana and mud baths, but these did liim so little Ifood that ho returned Home to Hamilton a cripple. Then hestartedtakin«r Ryckman's Koote- nay Cure, and four l)«>tiles have completelv cured him. He feels tit to start to work now If he'd only 'Ki'own ot' Kootenay at the outset, how much time and money he would have saved, and how much sutferiug he would have escaped. Mr. James \\'atson, living; at 64 Florence Street, in the City of Hamiltcn, makes a iworn statement, he is employed as niouider In the Grand Trunk shops. He lud Rbeu- Biatisni so bad in his feet and kaees that he could not work steadily. He says since taking Ryckman's Kootenay Cure he has not f^t a twinge af Rheumari!<m. Now he can work every day, without the slightest suffering. Kootenay has pu* the Rheumatism to rout. It will pay you it you are a victim 01 Rheumatism or Sciatica to iuveeiigate the Merits 01 Ryckniaus Kootenay Cure Tc parley with these dis«ascai means loss 01 lime, loss of money, loss of health. Sworn stalrmmis of cures sent free ot; application to the Rycknian iMedicine Co.. Hamilton. Oni 4 Oaf boi^l* ' â- â€¢â€¢." ov^^ a »"rto''' FOR TWENTT-SEVEN YEARS. DUNN'S BAKING POWDER THECOOK'SBESTFRIENO LAROeSTSALE IN CANADA. TOYS FOR CHILDREN. Some one who has been watching the vagaries ol the infant mind asks why a child shouldn't be provided with some ; "accidentai toys" at the start and so Crow's >est I'ass KaiUoad will tap this ' prevent the u/ual sienes which happen wonderful counixy, open up its richval leys to settlement and its rich mines to industry, and I have no hesii.aliou in saying that the reoources 01 East Koo- tenay are so vast and. so iu:h that they alone will mure than remunerate capi- tal fur the cvtii. oi. t^e Crow's Nest Pass Aailroad. Tile chief muii^o exciiement for the goal week hajs been in the viciuity uf Stump LaJce and lio-'kiurd. says the Nicula ouxrecipuudjeiut uf tiu: \ ancouver World. At tlie latter place the rock isreported very ricib aud u New iorit syndicate liuve, it is taid, IxMided all itie property they uiu get huld of lor A CLEVELAND'S WIFE BEATER. Bixtkford farmers and ranchers have etruck it rich. ^Messrs. Scott, AUrretoo and otjhers in that vicinity liu.ve aL last reached that looig-detured goul oi the<r ambition. \^ui(h enabled iJuciu to realize that there us at least hiiU a mtUiiw in It. Meecirs. Miller and Drunkard Nearly Kill* â- !• 1»lfo WkoKad ] 'llynne, two w^ll-JLkiio(« u mining men, â- â€¢rae Him a «'kll<l Tkree »•;* Before. paid a vitdi to the Mill Creei^ mining • f.tt ij I 1 u 1 < ' CBinD to the nurth of Nicola Lake on A fifteen-year-old girl rushed from ^J^^_ ^^j »re. very lav^^urably im. the house 28 llerge street, Cleveland, ^ ^^ ' . Ohio, late on Saturday afternoon shriek- when l^by is deprived of some cherish- ed possi'ssion Ihril IS wtinteil elsewhere. Why not, she denuinds, purchase an egg beater outright for toe little girl who delights in turning the • rank . ' the one sacred to kitchen use t It would not <'c«t xs much) as mauy of he 1 playthings and would give her much more delight. Or why not buy .1 brand new lamp l>umer with a long wick that can l:>e acreu'ed tup and down for the U>y who hankers after the ll-snielling ones that go into th«' w.i.^te heap? fhe fascination which siM-h things have for children can be &eeu over and over .igain. Most of us remember having bad sui'h treasures in our childhood and stUI exix-rieoce the heart p.ing that would come when we watched our large miimitiiji A tuwueite has beeu neighbor's Jimmy manipulating the in- •ecuredaau a cunocmralor for there- sides o( an aliau^oned clock. \Voui<ln't ductiisi ot Lha free ore. which i» prin- we then have given our Paris dolls eipally free imlUnnj is to be erected at and grai-e hoops over and oyer again for just htilf of those delightful wheels and springs 1 ' CURIOUS SUPERSTITIONS. SlopplBs Ike I'lork at a Ueslh or Birtk la Mill Practiced. The superstitions which have cltister- od about tine cloning M.'ene uf human life axe almo-t Innumerable ; some, perhapc^. the greater portion, now seem Munday. . . ^ ^^. „ I pret>sed w\ih the prospi-cts m that vicin- to li« meanmgie-s. but a few had in ity. More will Iw hk-urd irt-m thie eaxly days a significam^e whioh they camp in the near future that wtli »ur- ^j^y^ since loat. The stopping of the I pxiae even a Hucelauder. ing for the police. PtRrolmen Bidling, Meyer and Jacobaon were attracted by her cries and folIov/Lng her into the house fuund Store Ataraski standing over the unconacious form of his wife. In his hand was a cat-o'-nine-tails, and even as the police enterdd he brought it down again and again on the head, _ face, and shoulders of the woman. A ^^>^^ ^^ '"^*» •**>« ^^* ""' Portage prf^snt. w^hoae duty .t was to stop the blow on thehead. none t«. gently a^ ?â€" ,,^^^-, l^^^ ^XhTh^.^ ^^L^ w*^n7f hT^iSeTaS^dJl: pUed, sent him reeling to the wall, and .^J^^^^ ^.^^^ t„„ gumethiiug tb.it the timepiece wa.s thM> a mute record of the police snapped the manacles on him mT»nectors d^d not anticipate, i ur- the event. From the royal familiee the before he could recover. The woman's i her examination was made w ith equal- I de^-'ont of this proA-tice lo aristocratic, face, bead and body w. re covered with ' ly good r.milts, uud aa a consequence â- Â«Â«â€¢ tnaHj. «f familiee ot low degree groat welts, showi'ng where the blows two or three well-known Rat Portage *»-'^ <'"»^- "»l 1"^"-^ l'"^""" adopted S^xne twelve milee down the lake skMitb-east o< ttat Portage eome par- liee made find of what proves to be a very rich property, the vein being 8 feet wide, and running through clock at the moment a death ciccurx a the house ia still practiced in many fam- ilies iu ihis ccuTitry and Ku.' 4 ••. and arigiuate<l in the fuc< ihiit according to the. laws of several European slates it waci nie<.-essary to have evidence of the exact moment of ))^irlh^ and deaths oicumng in Ihie rr.v.i.: f;uuiily. When a km^^ ilied on attendant was always jyj it as a mere superstition without know- \ I half of the property, paying .in ca,-d» ^ i,^_?f_J2^°« lllM'rr^.i »J?1'j[iâ„¢?.i:r. In places the flesh was 1 gentlemen yesiterday clotsed a ileal lor : had fallen 'Mrs, Ataraski jgave birth 'to a child \ i^ ^ iT^roST' Thiir^th^ ,â€" t";^ Tumirig the lcoking-^la« to^the wall three days ago. On Saturday the hus- band returned houae drunk. He ,„ agood «ie ts ^--t certain or, ^4-^^ ma„dedhiswifetoget,utofbed^rd!^p;;^a'fo"rrmeâ„¢;r.^°"^'*ga\^^^^ ""-"«•*- '"•- «'-> -- (irepare his dinner. She prote.Hted that > men were sent yestenUiy to strip the she was too ill. Foraged, the man I vein and commence development â- work. aeized the oat-o'-nine-tails and beat her. ' it is thw iutention to sink with a dia- Frightened, she got up and tried to do'oi^oind drill as wall in a few days soas aa i-rdered. Too wvatk tio stand, ahel to get the exatt dip and sixe of vein. FICBXE. , pM*â€" You know Mr Sm?. kertoa. the ">y tt»t was engaged to Mies Trap- erl nat falloiw never could be de- mded upoa. ifaud-RVbat has be done oowt Clara -«..»*»:.. I her. fell over and sank into a ohair. Oazed with anger, the buehand renewed the oasault, and blow after blow was rained upon the woman. She rolled uncon- acious from the chair, and then it was that the police, summoned by the cou- ple's daughter, burst in upon the acene. The woman was taken to a hoopital. The physicians do not expect her to recoTer. 1 MNTtNTI aF THI MTTIJ- PROOF PQSmVB. XJy course the sun is dyinir out, siudi the aged gentleman leaning heavily on his ataff. It don't even shine as bright ner aa warm aa it did when I was a boj. OUGHT TO KNOW. IVaoherâ€" What makes you iinsist WU- lixv, that fourteen ounces maike a poundf Willieâ€" I've helped pap 'tend grocery for tvi-o years an' I guees I orter to kuuw. A KKMININE PAr >1JQ3 There's another thing : -lout wuman that is p.ira'I'.ixi'Cal, gru< led C>uiky. What's tb.U$ fn»e le.>y< she p\i<8 c« .be longer H takes her to dres^. Where a Rheumatic Sufferer Was Cur ed With One Bottle of South Ameri- can iRhenmatuc Ctire. ,j-w__ j .v j .u~ i 1 The cures effected by South American. | ^^ â„¢<n » . oe*th ociurred the looking- toin were novelties. Mirrors of g-loss with quicksilver backs are s;iid to have been made at Voni'^ in 1300 A.D.. and wfsrt first biiule in England in 1673, butt did not cotue into common use among the middle c.lasf>es until the be- ginning of the last century. <At first they were regarded with superstitious awe. the idea being that the reflection of the face iu the mirror was a sort of specter or setoiul si>ul of lie individual. Rheumatic Cure ai* so qui/* and cer- tain thai they m<ior well be* â-  teamed marvelloua. The set^rtH is thaj. the medicine removes from the system the â- cido that are really the c&uae of rheu- matism. W. H. CVoper, of Delhi, Ont., Bays: '"My son, IS yeere old, was a sufferer from rheumatism for six months. IBb bnaione so bad that he was unable to walk, i purchased one bottle of South American Rheumatia Cure from Mr. >Byers, our local drug- gist, and ths following day he was able to dri've a load of wood to Delhi." Sold by W. E. Riohardaon. BACK-ACnjfG EXCAVATOR In aa improvad steam shovel or ex- cavator the shovel instead of being throst from the oar of the machine in digging or taking up a load is moved toward the tnacbme, which is thereby parltcalarly ^vell adapted tor places where the surface to be reni«ved ia un- derlaid by ground too soft to support the weight of the machine after the surface is reuuived, as the car can trav- al in advance ot tL« work. gla<is â- which the person was .iccustonied to u°e wa« turned to the wall, lest his ghost should he disi urbed by others ua- ing the miTror 1)efore his spirit bad fin- ally departed from the neighborhood, there being .in ide« that the spirit ot tlhe defMurted lingered .ibcut the vicin- ity for eeveiiU hpUTS, or perhaps days, after it had separated from the body UNDEfi A HieH PEESSURS TRIP INTO BLACKWELL TONNBt, UNDER THE THAMES. Peeallar latexlcaUoa Cader AlBwapkerla Prrithareâ€" Carious <«eBi>altan.4 Wkiie tk^ Air Was BcUsc Fumped lulo Ike Ckaaa berâ€" Tke Voice Was itkrill and itkasUy It may sitrprifie the general public to learn that for three years hundreds ot woritmen have Ijeen Uvlng in cumpreaa- ed air, each carrying a hundred-weigM) of air to every square incht of biei bodyy while we, on the surface, have borna but fifteen pounds to the square inch. This has occurred in the maiting ot tha tunnel beneath the Thames at Blade- wall. London, which is described by Mx< J. M. Bulloch, in a vivid article on tha subject in the Fnglish Illustrated Maga- zine for January, as tjie greatest feat in subaqueous engineering. You may undexsand the process ba^ ter, he says, if I describe a journey I made into the compree>8ed air. Having half scrifiped and equipped myself with a rough woollen shirt, huge jaokboota and leathern jacket â€" so that I looked Uke an old fo&hiuued pirateâ€" my guided and 1 sallied forth from Kent and trud- ged along the entire passage througtt mud and mire, noticing ,eu route, aa army of men engaged an all aorta of work. Along the roof ran a line of electrio lights, while in the dark corners tha men used pink colored candles. A Uttla north of Shaft i, m which a lift waa tearing up and dow n. taking the exca^ aied soil to the surface, we came on the twelve feet briuk barricade, which effectually corked up the compreaaed ai* and wtuch, of course, had been moved several times as the work pruceede(k 'Ihrougb this barricade ran two nar- row pa^uages, about the height of aa urOJoary man. These were the air- locks. A little air-tight door, just lika the door of a safe, openedâ€" the air, ot cottrse, being let out in the processâ€" and we entered. The door was closed after uj\ and we were left for some minutes in the look to become acclim- atized to the new aLmubpherio condi- tions of the tunnel bcyund. To this end certain valvee were turned on. and the compressed air from the inner tun- i nel poured in with the deafening roar I of a steam nozzle. I A CVIUOCS PAJJTOMIME. I Then foUuwed a curious little paat»i mime. 21r guides holding their nuaas i betweem their fingers, began swallow- ing viguruusl), and signalled me tu fol- I low their example, ^jeech being al- most inipuesible, xa sound depends ao ! much an atmosphere. 1 felt a craokr . ing m tiie uxum ot luy ear. ind little wonder, for the six thousand cubic feet of air which waa lieiuig pumped in ev- ' ery minute was curving the membrane I iuward, so that I had 10 swalluw in urd- er tu clear tue Eustachian tube and get the pressure on each side uf the tym- panum equal. riieu 1 brgan to feel distinctly exhil- arated. The iucreased amount of oxy- gen pumped iu was intuxicating me a trifle. The journey along the tunnel ha4 been a little tiring, but now I felti spr;gh«ly. Here wae the secret ofl yuuth; here was a practical demonstrai> lion of Je&yll and Uydeiam. But at what an expense ! 1 was living ever so muuh quicikea than the man at the surface .ilxjve. Ev- oryiliing was living quicker. \Iy cigar burued to ashes wuh the rapidity of a cigarette. \Vben the process of acclimatizatioo was complete we emerged from the safe- lik« door at the opposite end of thia marvellous chamber of youth, to find ourselves in the sectiun of the tunnel which was worked itnder lompressed air. rhtil preeented a strange, unearthly appearance. Black darkneo<> all arouoid, save for the line of electric lights run- ni<ng along the roof; a straugc. dcuihly ab<ll; a touch uf clammiaie«B infecting everything. Our vuices piped shrill and strange and ghostly. A lung caravan of mud laden troUeya from the shield were running down on rails to be emptied on the other side of the barricade, and here and there the shadowy figures of the mud-splash- ed workers were just visible. Three hundred feet further on we came to the shield, working as I have described. In that little jouruey from the bar- ricade to the shield one sivw In exa^ gerated operation a series of physical laws ihiit ordiTiarily esu-apes one s at- tentionâ€"acoustics, pneumaiics, hydraul- icsâ€" in short, the entire range uf phy* sics. MUST M OiSSOLVtO. •UTH mm aiuiv. A Ii/« lost by heart disease when prompt measures would have saved it. Thie IS noi to be said of one death from heart disease only, but of tens of thousands. It the symptoms that warn one of heart trouble are not heededl the outcome la almost anre to be seri- ous. PlV'ho.n one ie fortunate enough to be acquainted with the merits of Dv. Agnew's Cure for the Heart in 95 per cent, of cases disaster is averted. This medicine will positively give relief in half an hilir's time, and taken with some little drcree of perseverance radi- cally Cttres. if your heart palpitates j flutter<^ or tires out easily, and you value lifet use this remedy. • (told hy W. B. Ricb<>-\l;on. Kidney disease cannoi he cured bj pills or powdersâ€" the i-ommon sense or science. Vor a disordered stomach or a sick headache pills and powders are not without effect, but when these same remedies are said lo cure kidney di»> ea.se. the commun»seuse uf science re- bukes the claim. I'his iusidtuua and f rowing liisease will not tie driven! rum the -ftAeui itnlera a medicine ia given that >vill dissolve the hard sub- stance â€" mui-ic acid and oxalate of lime â€"that guve rise to the distress and bain that is oomiuun lu all who sut- ler from kidney i-oiuplainl. South American Kidney CNire ia a kidney spe- cific. It dissolves these hird substances, and while it dissolves it also heala. The cures effected leave uu question ot its powers. Sold by W. E. RkJiardson. HE STATES FACT. Is Hiunply telling tihe truth when ha sava be was never whi(ipe<lf v Obt yes. He's the fastest runaer ifl to«-a. FRANCE SHTPBUrLDING. Though it cost from '^ to 50 per cent, more to build a tnerchant vessel in France than in England, according to tho Vicomte d'Avenel, France still builds hex own ihipa.