PURE, FRAGRANT, CLEANSING. . ALBERT Toner 4 £0. Meme. | Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of RG ent in British his- Qur Big Sale * Boots and Shoes $ | Red Letter event Lis week our tables ill be filled with snaps. Don't hem sessssnce ® ® . * . - ° * ® . . ® ° Careful and te famil dispens- socura' our forte. We continually , aim Reference To Walt, Whitman-- What He Owed To " Leayes of Grass "--** The Most Import- ant Thing in This Life is Re- OM oh a Toronto Mail and Empice. A rather melancholy interest at- taches 10 the following essay by Dr. Bucke, of the London insane asylum, who met, his death on Thursday mora- ing.. He wrote the article some months ago, at the editor's request, and looked forward with interest to its publication, for he hoped no doubt, that. it would have an influence on his young readers and direst their atten tion to some of the greatest philso- phical writers the world has known. Dr. Bucke was a cultured man of let tars, sud a studdnt all his life. His death was a loss to more than the lical pre ion in this country; and his last published words are entitled to all respect » 1 have always been fond of books, even those in languages that 1 could not read, From infancy 1 have owned books and carefully kept them. I can not recollect learnidg to read. A% far back in my Hie'as my mind will car ry me; | was reading for my own plea- sure. | was very young when I first read Scott, Dickens, and Byron, and recollect still how - much I surprised some members of the family by quot- ing, being then fen or twelve years old, a line from Doz Juan, apropos of something which was under discus- sion, Earlier still - I had read Capt. Marryat's books over and over. But none of the authors mentioned pro- duced any deep effect upon me. Per- baps the first book to do so was "The Vestiges of Creation," which I read with great interést about my sixteenth year. - It seemed to any 4 give: a meaning to the little I knew about the world, and my thoughts have ever since flowed in the channel then first traced. Later, when T read the in- comparably greater works of Darwin, he only scemed to enlarge and deepen an impression already made, rather than to teach me anything new or to sway me in a direction different from that already entered upon. But another book, or rather, a gi gantic torso of o book ead ghout the same time as the "'Ovigin of the Spe cies," that is, in the early sixties, though infinitely inferior to that work, influenced me by carry- ing into human affairs ideas that had hitherto * explained to me the origin of worlds, and the evolution upon them of plant and animal life. 1 refer to Buckle's "History of Civili- zation,"' and .as 1 write the name can still feel a trace of the intense en- thusiasm with. which I vead his two volume:. I suppose that not only every hook we. read influences us more or less, but that every magazine article, pa- per; even the daily talk we hear. does *o also. It js all a matter of degree. In order that a book should deeply influence it must be read with a pas- sionate interest, guch, for instance, as Lucretius excited in the young Victor Hugo. It may not be the best hook of the hundrdds read that excites this feeling. The interest arises because of some relation existing between the book 'and the mental status of the reader, Many books read by me that merely touched me, and, so. to say, glanced off, might and doubtless have moved others deeply--while those that moved me would produce little or no effect upon theny. : While still in my Wanderjahre, when studying in Paris, 1 came npon Au- uste Comte, and. read him, and Aditre's books upon him off and on for a good many years. 1 gained from the "Cours de Philosophie Posi- tive" and other positivist books many thoughts which I still think valuable. Herbert Spencer I rend at the same time and later. "1 felt; and still feel, that he is a great man, and a great writer, hut he never appeared to me the equal of Comte, and I still think in spite of his explicit denial, that much of his philosophy was derived from the French thinker whose birth preceded his by some eighteen vears, and who vovered very much the same ground 'as that occupied by Spencer. Shellay was one of she writers who appealed to me strongly at a cortain stage of my mental growth. [I still think highly of many of his works, es- uecially 'of the Adonais and the Epip- sychidion, but no longer feel toward thom as formerly. His poems, fine as they undoubtedly are, have lost for me most of the sp which they od Lo wear, ' ve tread Tennyson, Browning, Wordsworth, and many other Hy with pleasure, but think passion seeps Sh bly influenced other authors put Soutethut, In fact, as 1 look ack ve seem t my wpiritual i, such a it re, and is, has Mowed * from hat man and Nin "Leaves of most important thing in this bt he H a ------ After reading "Faust." T read a good many other ie Goethe's 'works, nd may fairly ace him t writers who have distinetly, oR houh markedly, influenced my mental evolution. The last anthor I shall mention is Francis Bacom, incontestably greatest intellect that the race has produced. His prose is the best in our language; his dramas {called Shake- speare's. Plays} are probably the noblest »evpivession of genius in any sonnets, to my minh, reached a spiritual level as high as has ever been attained by St. John or by the author of the "Divine Lay" ~the "Bagavad-Gita."' Francis . Bacon, by his prase, but still more by his verse, has for twen- iy years exerted upon we a powerful and most beneficial influence, and, as far as [| can. see, that influence is more Jikdly to increase than diminish during the remainder of my life. ~DR. JBUCKE. ---------- Brain Vs. Nerve Strings. Harper's Weekly. : - df a frog had its brain cut out, it would still kick very vigorously if a deop of some stinging acid be pus on its badk. Even the next day when the body of the animal was dry and shrivelled, a swall piece of paper soaked with acid and placed on the frog's back would cause it to kiek with both legs and dislodge the pa: per. Professor Lombard was quoted as calling these "reasoning movements," and the experiment can be carried out in 8 wayto make it look as if they were. For example, if a drop of acid be on the sided of the body of a brdinless frog, i® will use the nearest leg to brush the irritant away. But if this near leg be tied, then, after a short ineffectual struggle, it will bring the other leg into play. The old-time physiology still - eur- rent in. many a text-book thought this very wonderful, and was quite willing to attribute "intelligence" to a frog's hind leg. Recent experiments, however, have ov that this is not so very needful. The act is purely me- chanical, and a very simple arrange ment of the nerves suffices to account for the effects. All this is not half so curious as some late experiments on pigeons. It is a common idea that if the brain of an animal is destroyed it will die, or if it lives it remains in a "coma- tose" condition. An ingenious Ger- man has cut out some pigeons' brains with care, given the wound time to heal, and shown that the birds can run about, fly, measure a distance, eat, go Yo sleep in the dark, wake up with the light, and, in fine, do most of the thin a healthy normal pi- geon can do. Only memory and the mating impulses are quite gone. It is: possible to discriminate very nearly between the reflex acts and those involving some use of the me- mory. Thus a brainless falcon was put in a cage with some mice. Every time¢ a mouse moved the falcon juomp- ed for it and caught it. There the act ended. The normal falcon eats its mouse. When its brain is gone, it pays no more attention to its captm ed prey as soon as the mouse ceases to move, I ------ An Algerian '* Pompeii." Letters reaching Marseilles from Al- giers state that the excawations car- fied out at Timgad, on the site of the ancient Thamugas, have brought to light a veritable Algerian "Pompeii." e boundaries of the ancient city have now been laid bare on three sides. During 1901 more than 100,000 cabic metres of earth were removed, and the archaeological results were of the richest. These include a magnmifi- cent Roman mansion, belonging to Sertius public baths a. fountain, a Byzantine basilica with three aisles, a grand staircase leading to the up- per part of the theatre, a superh pa- gan temple in marble, probably dedi cated to Calestis, eleven other bhuild- ings, and a most varied collection of objects, such as arms, utensils, and vases. One of the ancient gates of the city and a great number of streets have also been laid hare. First Have A Clean Handkerchief, Christian Tegister. Wo are to sce that there is a reaction agglmst the so-called "Chau tauqua salute." Unless all the hand- kerohiels are clean, think of the mi grobes with whieh. thy atmosphere is charged after hundieils of them have been waving in {he air of a hall close ly packed with human Diings. American vs. Canadian Canned Meats. ys et vosis beélploen American and Canadian canned meats prove that no cauned meats are superior to those packed by W.'Clark, Montreal. The resaut {pei =» - -- action and of digested food, poisonous matter is reabsorbed of the body. wis attacked with a sinkin, dreams; food would not una , "1 had a terrible pal rheumatism in all my might gat some ease, vised me to tr We purch ut 1 onl good remedy. blood and system require. The Ozone Co, Limited Gentlemen: sensation; I wohld have frightful gest, and my nerves seemed tring in across my back; sometimes I felt that it would break, so great would be the pain, I alsohad ints. 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All the waste products caused by muscular which are found in the blood, have to be thrown off from the body--most of them pass through the kidneys. If there is any inter- ruption in this process, instead of being thrown off, this by the blood and spread to the remotest parts of the system to work harm and injury. Powley's Liquified Ozone stimulates the action of the kidneys, causes them to throw off all poisonous matter, restores health conditions to 'all the tissues About July last 1 to be ght 1 My husband ad- My be : We good ORONTO, Limited, I BP IW GI t [5 TOZOHTO and CRICARD. ie ci LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Veterinary Should Be Employed. Kingston, Feb, 26.--(To the Editor) If 1 understand the situation aright, the city council, on the score of econo my, intends compelling dog bailiff Con- ley killing ofi, by the use of ehloro form, all unclaimed dogs that may be impounded. The object of the new order, as mentioned in the foregoing, is economy. But will it result in a saving ? In the first place--with all due respect to Mr." Conley's intelli gence--what does the dog catcher know about the use of chloroform, its possibilities, ete.? Does he know what amount it requires to kill a dag ? Can he say that one ounce or one pound is necessary? 1 submit that only one versed in the use of this anaesthetic should be employed to per- form this work. Supposing, for instance, because of lack of training, the dog bailiff uses a pound of chloroform in destroying the life of a dog, when an ounce is suf ficient, where will the saving be effect: ed ? Would it not be wiser to pay a veterninary twelve and one hali cents er canine to kill off the dogs and PO the job performed scientifically, J with the least possible waste of chloro- ora! As 1 understand the question the veterinary heretofore employed charged only for the chloroform used, nof for his services. Such being the case I submit that a mistake has been made in deciding to dispense with his. services, from a financial stand point. ' Take next the humanitarian view. The veterinary of the Kingston humane. society was dppointed to as phyxiate all dogs impounded and un claimed. The appointment was wade upon the request of the society, the officials of which desired to have the canines despatched in the most pain less manner. Can the object of the humave society be carried ont with out the services of a veterinary ? It may be, but at a probable cost ex- ceeding by far that paid the veteri nary for the chloroform used, Sup- posing the dog. bailiff, in his desire to serve the 'best -- interests mol the city not a sufficient quantity of choloreform, and dogs half dead come to life again, would that be considered humane treatment «or. an economical way of disposing of the canines ? By all means let the dogs be despatched by a scientifically trained nan. I have no axe to grind in writing this letter. 1 am actuated solely by two reasons--economy and humaniisr- anism. Jt does not make any dif ference to me what veterinary does the work, but 1 think the work should be dane hy a veterinary for the reasons I have stated. 1 am rather surprised that the humane society has not al- rendy made a move in the matter. -- HUMANITARIAN. uses Can Talk Vebhemently, James McNeill Whistler, the artist, is capable of expressing bimsell with extreme vehemenos. when occasion de- mands. He was recontly:a guest at a dinner given by Sargent, and after the wine had been circulating somewhat freely Mr. Whistler excused himself while he went into an adjoining "apartment to answer a note that had n in during the progresf of the dinner. 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