DAILY BRITISH WHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY ii, * ATRA NOR Agents A subject that demands considera. tion, and serious thought isthe seleo- tion of a yf able and competent drug- gist to whom you can go at all times with assurance that your pre: jonk will be honestly and faith: fully filled: I you have not yet de: termined who shall fill your orders for the future, we ask you to give us a tial. Our drugs medicines are the purcet, and our prices the low: est. MAKES SICK PEOPLE WELL. Paine's Celery Co und, . the world's test and amily medi gine phd ge sick yg well. The thou uadicin Sed so mely banish Sissnae ne's Col 'ompound permanent cures theumatisnu, neuralgia, liver and ki troubles, and removes all im- purities from the blood. Our stock of Paine's Celery Compound is al JO W, Mahood, Druggist, Kingston, Ontarie. is good Ale--it's the "Ale that's always good" & # # » sells good goods sells | just below. ways fresh; get your supplies from, AN AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE. NO LONGER ANY NEED FOR " HELLO GIRLS." Science, It Is Said, Has Sounded The Doom Of Central Office Operators--A Bacy Story. New York, Jan. 11.~"hello, Cen tral I" was one of the nioeteeulh cen tury's pet phrases, with its answeiing ery, in dauloet ot sharp totes, from some leminine throat tar away. "What number, pease 1" but "hedo, Len tral 17 new toast the tweadels cen- tury is bere, promises soon to be a | purase merely Biswouic. Suience bas meue a stride forward. The "nelle gil," presiuiag goutus of the telepnone ever sine tue installa ton, ust seek less employment be tore long. For tere Bus sridveq, and is pow in practical successiul opeéra- ton, a giviess, centralless tespuoue system, with waicn, with a few iwists of a cuiious dial, wiy one can get the Kumber be wants alsectly, in a lew se- conds. \ No delay, no i reply, "Shey're busy--i1l let you xpow !" lurks in the rece.ses of tas new _in- stroment. No tuird person sits in the tantalising somewhere, ready to "lis: ten," if 'she pluases, to cut off tae hurried man or the Hurried woman at will, to juggle with tbe wires, putin and pull out plugs, and when the subscriber is driven to the verge of desperation not infrequently to "talk back." Un the contrary, be who "calls up" now, if he be on the line of the pew shone bas at ones. a. LEAL. wire in bis band, ( He slips a fingeg tip into one of the ten lite holes along the curving sides of this metal on ihe wile phone bo. (the holes are numbered to 9), having frst taken thi reventer off its hook. He jerks the dial ar ound sharply until it catches. dwung on a pivot the dial moves easily end quickly. tt moves buck to its plnce automatically. if 2,741 is the num he called, the man inserts his b i the No. 2 hole and makes the urst mo:cneot, For Nos. 7, 4 and | he tw is the aisl in the same way. As the disc nnally comes back to its starting point he presses a button At the other end the bell is already ringing. I he connection has been made, toe person called in four to five seconds. Had the other end of the wire been "busy" the man would have heard ai- tor he had gone through these rapid motions, a faint buming sound. Automatically, again, does this we phone announce the fact that any other wire is eagaged. Utherwise, uf the unger is put 1ato the right uoies, the proper number is secured infali- bly. ihe delicate, complicated, perfect mehanisin bebind it all never fails, Uperated on mathematical priogi)des, it is surer even than human hands, A big, bare room, lilled with rows of hign seyboards of glistening metal, is tne substitute for central." A strange "'ventral" this, inceed ! It is nothiog but a machine room, with a mingle electrician listening to the con: Stan , cond, thence to a third. There is no sign oi a petticoat or any sort of telephone operator. The man in charge has simply the task of keeping ths machinery in order. Sat- uraay night he, with the clerks in the front otuce, and the manager, locks up the exchange, not to return ual Monday morning. And through seven nights in the week and all day Sun- day the exchange clicks away, the ser- vice goes on without hitch, with no human hands to aid it, The banks of instruments in the room chick away, subscribers call each other as they please, the 'wi fe move up and down the "selectors."' Fall River, has the most on 10 a se tomatic wires. Fali River has seven hundred, how: | i f tl £ tle ¥ questions. . bas - given the voeahulary of cooling, Eegiand has TENNYSON'S EGOTISM. Fully Aware of His Fre-Eminent Position. The London Acauemy reprints from Charles blowurt s recesly Met aa. bio pC HAIRISCERORS Leg poh Lile in samourgh asd Loe don, isou-i0," the following reminis cence of 'I eunyson : with Alea iemnyson in his latter years | had sather irequent opportuni ties. of meeting, bots mn Loudon and at his county bows. LVersoval iat: ACY With great sulBiors is a danger ous expérimest, and especially with great poets, lor their unsginative writings have stimulated Obes ideas avout toeir personality till one 100k ishily hail expects to bod their gemus displaying twselt in every word and action of whewr daily lie. lennyson ul niled such su unressonable ioeal per- baps as well as auy man could; ior fis personal appearance, with which every one 8 fanuiar, was, of course, maguiucent, and in his maoners and babies of lie were digniued, if a livue the adula- tion' which he received from his family snd friends was somewhat sa: tisting. 1 have seen Mrs. Greville, a woman Herself of the most bnilsot talent, actually prostrate herself on the floor beiore him, just as 1 have seen ladies of rank and talent literally siti at the feet of Sir Henry Irving. Temnyson would have been more than human if be had resisted the effect of this hero-worship. ine was one day Tennyson s knee.' y 28.1 but there was a sciousness in the word and i which was not infrequently served in the poet." French College In America. Paris, Jen. 11.~Prof. Leopold Ma- billeau, of the college of France, sail: od for New York on the steamer La Savoie to-day to deliver a series of lectures at American universities un- der the auspices , of L'Alliance Fran- caise, on French society and social Prof, Mabillean is also en- trusted with missions in behali of the ministeries of public instruction and commerce. He will investigate and draw up a report on the social side of American education, and will also re port on the best site for and means to be taken to organize the proposed French industrial college in the Uni- ted States. He will put himself in communication with various American technical institutions. . First Wheat For Denmark. Portland, Ore., Jan. 11.~ihe British steamship Java has been chartered to load at this port for Copenhagen di- rect. She is a 6,000 ton carrier. Dur- ing the past season cargoes have been cleared trom Poruand tor South Am- erica, South Africa, Siberia, the Uri: ent, Germany, France, and other Eurepean countries, but this is the first "appearance of Denmark buyers in the market for a direct shipment. The Java will carry a full cargo of wheat from the Walla Walla district to sup ply the shortage in the Danish crop. p--DsigTas Oyster Well. Galveston Daily News. Yaris, 'tex., bee. 30.--~Two years ago Robert Douglass, colored, living a mile northwest of toww, took an oys- ter home covered with barnacles and miniature oyster shells sticking to it like a leech. It was thrown into the well by some of his children and now the bottom of the well is covered with an oyster bed. When the well bucket is drawn up after being left at the bottom any le of time, the sides are found to covered with young oysters. Changes On The Great Northern. 8t. Paul, Mion., Jan. 11.-A num- ber of changes smiong officials of the Great Northern road were made to- day. J° W. Blabon, general western traffic manager, acsumed the duties of | vice-president, succeeding Darius Mill- er, who becomes vice-president of the Chicago-Burlington & Quincy railroad. Mr. Blabon's place of general western traffic manager, is filled by the promo- tion of John C. Eden, heretofore traf- fic manager of the Eastern railway of Minnesota, Distinguished Guest Each Time. than a thousand miles from San Fran cisco, said ; . "Ranetaber our 4 ; next Sunday. The Lord is with we in the forenoon and the bishop in the ovening." France's Sporting Vocabulary, Lovdon Traveller. | H- France France the wv through Jle Velo I came across in one number: "Le record: man," "Voverland stroke," "'le boxe, "lo cross country," 'les Yi "le touristman," "le cap," "le jockey," "le yacht," 'le sweepstakes." of sport. i ; 2g sei ee | 1 fi Les Hi! It gt GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1900. a PLT F DO NOT TAKE SUBSTITUTE. : When you ask for MONSOON be sure you get it. Try a packet of the 4oc. grade, it is the most delicious tea you can buy. ---- When Father Tried To Skate. UR Ae wate sesautsuaiched the BLLUC through Lh LAU US GUE Wo suuW A PoE UA skates Wo Newd Wu Wee Dua ANGELS EEE BgVs ave weld Vues Pruwasy uy the shoags, ANG ad WILE eel ee, A gO GUWE Ww ee Pond An' sliow Yo BOW Ww ssa." 50 favker put his cowhides on, Anu start] Wr Whe we Me sctywed tae sciews ute his heels Add chs appa Shes WigLt Sad Bate. "1H show yew Jouagwiers bow tow out re A Pagina wig Ut s gress 1' Gat dekh Ged then he seated oub To shew us huw 10 shate. Hé made a bold and rapid stroke, Mat sims spread ly 7 And shen his lows wom 1m the air, Al with so swial yell " down on the ice We carried him isto the house, And lad "Please sen' fur good ol' Dr. Brows, And said my father's case was one Of wo much eseccise. Pa saw a million stars, 1 guess, And likewise sew his err; He let us put thowe skates away Without the lenst demur. They hang up in the ettic pow, bandoned their lave; The Methodist And The World. We ae kop SERA, Vek LEE Maluuvidst os ae weakgcii hpe, 6 We Bye post Bin good Lat Jesus wy Bul agadlael bus; Bia BE Sung; oie magh Bway Lil Ube sas Of Uw world, Wiklh BLE pO BAA GUMLIsGslg SROW; Blt GAME UL [aeguE, Sue Walked WUE caltE UOW. ber Joy in Her guimenis they were spoticss; she walked LE ] SE Lewmwad AB Ue gospel; Regn hak, 3 But sue Uawuod $0 She gussp of the world Wilh Clussing Bue, Who, wilh Puisussive Sctenis, said wed aud be ----, whe, was wai by Com, Ba, " No," she answered, © 1 prefer to walk Wy way sous, Your road lends to the dockest might, your Plonsufos wie your Lomb. Bug Sou Just Wilh ule aOR; We never could agrees,' the Woon, be smilingly replied, " Just wy and you will ses." You But *Rour Way is guicy, aed gwomy and sed, while MiMe i SUsEAy BUM bagel, MAES, 00 which WHY Bub Gesu BU Geet Way, Bal jo your poand in eles; ABCie se duel suvegl Bere LY gy se. Lm, ay. whl yum we Rue 1 etwivis, thie Methodist appronchad bs WOLIG, AUG geve wm Dee ast so lei, She WOLIE bu DRpewius glaepad ah, Be Proisty UE WY bir. ME peoascdt DEX Juli Bad STS, While Ly ay wee, Until bur Beart gus esting, with saciloment SUG With Pass, And bor lite "4 do wot like your dress, my dear, Vie WUARE IB SERCNSUC Wer; "1 wal gave JUS Velvols, Shas, ahd W dress WOE We Bivie. I will gove you gey sud cosy fare, dis MODUS GOU Sappudce abu pestis, Aut Jaupis Wall puaiss FUR Ws ung Boat, ane Wallung wits lee workd. said silks The Methodist looked dows at ber plais at Bile, Sud Maus BL We ASOT Wold, Ditatietl - Be SRE SUGGES U8 Les pecouilt SLAW SMU OF EF Bolus Bal Cui, I wsdl cusuge May Gos wWosalisy you, whe SBM, Will @ WeNIUn mE, And regu itedti Decne 8 1orm, with mirth + Mwtend Or prayer, And They built large churches of stone' aud brick, Wik Susily Warauws aod sles; lostend of woe humo swuce Bios with » TghleOus pup. They eid beur fuirs oud frolies wateld, where the word of Lou shoud be, Ahem seunght We Des ADU sells ae, ad Charged S0 enliabos les. They rented the pewp for a um, they bad sucisls ald Guess #8 Sigel, And ail vu secount of the sbutiinsbic owbt, mourred bY pot being Tignes. They bod periors sod kicbens inside of the chuich, Ww begwie cid amuse the rab- Who enme sot to hear (ha preaching or prayers, but on purpose WwW gusep and "The preschers are too old-fashioned for we, we want mots brilliset diviacs. Said the world with a ot bas Metho dist mats, "we am sway behind the is np i fl A Few Words on Gas. When you receive your gas bill scan it carefully. If you think there is a mistake don't blame the gas meter, The trouble is in your urners. > Call and [see F'the" KERN BURNER. [It will save and give the hght you qook ts Also see the Gas Consumer's Meter illuminated and we jwill teach to read its face. 13-W. OLDFIN, City Agent, 3 253 King Street. 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