WHY WOOLLEN BLANKETS WEAR THIN. A Scene 13 a Grocea's Stone. Bir, 1 bave just come round myself to tell you that you Rave absolutely | spolled a pair of blankets on mea { Surely you are mistaken, madans ! I am pot mistaken. I sent roend | my little girl a few days 4go for a good strong soap to wash out some Besvy in all innocence | used what = JBbF gpathen d such as potash and soda, affect cotton, linen, and Wobl, "he says : . "on one occasion I employed this of soda in a useful way. the ts old Plankets wets, and that led fo an investigation as to whether the blankets were genuine or not. They looked well, and weighed | A and I got B blanket sent to me for, examination and analysis. We found Sk y | was only from each cotton fibre. using soda. and put it in a vessel with sods, and boiled it there, and very quickly the wool got eaten away by the soda, and there was left behind the cotton kind of skeleton---a sort of ghost: the original blanket out of which it was taken, by detaching the fine fibres other you identified the 1 fell on the device of I took a bit of blanket I mention this merely to will more slowly, but with equal cer- thinty, tend to destroy the woollen bre." Now, 1 want to tell you that we neighbors have had a talk over the matter, and we are not going to have our clothes and hands ruined in this Several of our neighbors who know have proved to us that Washing Sodas, Potash, Chloride of Lime, and " goap substitutes " are most injurious to clothes and hands. " Free alkali " in soaps is practically the caustic soda that burns the clothes. Why, you dare not keep Caustic Soda in a tin capister; it must be in an jar, or it will even corrode the tin! Now, it's for you to provide us with pure soap without free alkali, or we must find it elsewhere. Madam, you enlighten me! So many soaps are advertised as pure, that | really took little heed to any difference between them. I have oné, however, that has medi- cal- certificates of its freedom from and further, I am' the purchase money to any one find- fig cause for complaint. let me see it! Why, Sunlight Soap! It's a beautiful clean, fresh- looking soap, and this Octagon shape is very handy. Give me five bars. Note by the This whole neighborhood is . Thave no more soon that there wag cotfon mixed with! Hanilson th Brockville Asy tral Prison, as noted : Asylum for Insane, Toronto. Hard 'coal~1,250 tons lsree eww 3 fons stove size, 100 tons nut wine, ooul, 500 tons lump, 150 tome soft sc oes. . Asylum for Insane, London. Hard coal-2,000 tons small eye size, 250 tons stove sive, 60 tons chestodt sive. Sols | tons for grates. Of the 2.950 {one Io may oot be reguired will Janvary, Asylum for Insane, Kingston. Fae i=+1,860 tons large tous. small wine 25 tous tons 500 fi 1 As; lum for Insane, Mimico. Hard coal-1,600 tons large exw size, 120 tons stove wize, 166 tons chestout, 100 tone sole poi 850 cords green hardwood. lum for Idiots, Orillia. Rolt sonal screenings of run of mise lemp, 000 lon: 90 tous hard coal. stove site; toms hard coal, grate wise. Asylum for Insane, Brockville. Hard 'cont-1,800 tons large . 128 tons siove wise, 75 tons small rot the tity 1.080 tons may be re i January snd 1808. Asylum for Female Patiohts, Co- bourg. Hard tons ®, nt inns 30 tome give ne 18 toms © 'Central Prison, Toronto. Institution for Deaf and Dumb, FE ET Belleville. ko Hand coal--800 L Ae lg rage Boge A Rg rg wu shee. % Jnssitute for Blind, Brantford, as ms 0s oe iy ny 2 tome 1a Letter. BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS. 15 a spring medicine it has no equal. It purifies and enriches the blood. Asts on the Kidneys, Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Cleanses and invigorates the entire system from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet. Don't:be sick, weak, tired, worn and weary. {THIS SPRING TAKE Burdock Blood Bitfers AND KEEP WELL. Write us "ade If you have any need in the N just write us about it. Our : : and will be sent | dead, another tigd *slands Visited By God's Heaviest Curse. LIVES THAT WERE GREAT HAVE GONE OUT. A Great Naval Commander Dies in Sorrow---A Shocking Fra- tricide--Reminiscences of the Men Who Have Passed Beyond Earthly Ken. (Whig correspondence: letter No. 1.304.) New York, May 16.--The week which closed on May 11th, 1901, will be one of the red letter days of history aa long' as time shall last. Far away among the islands of the sea two of the most beautiful of the Antilles have been visited by God's heaviest curse. There are few more beautiful spots on the face of the earth than the islands of Martinique and St Vincents. They care very little ahout bei up-to-date. The wonderful in ventions that have astonished the civilized world have little charm for them. They prefer the good old ways of their fathers and so dreain ,n from age to age satisfied with their sur roundings. Simple in their wants, the abundance which the earth yields without much exertion supplies their every, peed, and so they might dream on till the last judgment on The inhabitants of the two islands are entirely different," Marting ie being French and St. Vincents English. The difference in the inhabjtants of the two islands can be better imagined than described. Neither of them are subject to great changes in their po- puldtion as the nations in other por tions of the globe which are nearer in touch with each other gnd all the world beside. It is too early yet to give an ac count of the calamity which has be fallen these West India islands, Rut we know it is fearful. It comes with a peculiar terror when in an instant, almost in a twinkling of an eve, Lpau- tiful towns and cities and thousands of industrions popmlation are swept from the face of the earth, and blot: ted from time's calendar, leaving no record that they had ever been ex- cept pn vast bed of consuming fire, like that which blotted from exis tence Sodom and Gormorrah of old, and which nearly 2,000 years ago bur- ied Pompei with all of its beautiful surroundmgs, and which, after 1.800 years of entombment is given back to us exhibiting almost every aet of their daily life. We koow the story of its extinguishment, for here, thoush dead, we have the living proofs, the merchant still vends his wares, the luxurious noble is stricken down on his way fo the beautiful marble bath, an absolute necessity to Roman life. The Roman sentinel still. mounts uard at the city gate, he sees the danger, he faces the death which is inevitable and pear at hand, but true to the demand of duty, he scorns to flv, ani so after 1,800 years we have the living testimony of his virtue, fidelity and faith. In otr own land a series of phenomenal scenes have pass- od in review, a mighty representative of the prince of peace hav been called by the Almighty to his reward. At the capital of the nation d great naval commander gave up the ghost in sorrow, for by a misunderstanding which should never have occurred his sun went down in darkmess and clouds. The splendid tribute which the highbst in the nation rendered at his passage to the grave can bring no joy to the desolate heart now still- ed and silent. The escort which fol- lowed his mortal and honored pe mains, led by the nation's president, surrounded by his wise advisers, were there to render their tribute of honor and love. The eyes of beauty were dimmed with sorrowful tears as the procession passed slowly on to the rear admiral's last resting place on earth. He was indeed buried in con secrated ground, every imch of which was made holy by the ashes of the nation's re. Many of his com- panions in death had gone down in the shock of battle, their only regret being, like that of the immortal Na- than Hale, 'that he had Lut ope life to give," The unseemly strife which has distuthed the nation's peace ever since the Spanish war will be heard. no more. His life, from the first hour he entered in the nation's service, neds no vindication. The fair page of his history comes to us without a blemish, and so we pass it te our posterity without stain. Bravest among 1 ave, truest among the true, we lay him gently and lovingly beneath the earth, --4o rest in péace till the last great call summons the quick and the dead. While our president was following all that was mortal of our - great admiral to the necropolis where rest many oi thaws Who were his companions in a n of most eventful scenes of his life, and all the people could ashes of the grand t of the metropolis of the republic was passing slowly down to the grandest mausole- the American continent to lay did to the mortal clay of the livigg ? IH he Kad let his fancy soar away to the uttermost limit of human ken he never could havé dreamed of the mag nificent homage and respect to the ashes gi their beloved archbishop dead greater thar he Had ever known orl hoped for in his life. The aistance from the archiepiscopal residence is only a few blocks from the cathedral of Bt. Patrick, where the archbishop was laid to rest. Nearly a thousand acolytes led the way and a thousand priests, faithful ministers of Christ, were there to do honor to Christ's vicar. The avenue was crowaed, and, although thousands upon thousands were assembled, there were no unseem- ly noises to disturb the communion between the living and the dead. He had, indeed, heen 4 faithfel servant of Him who offered up his life as an atonement and redemption for sinners at all time, and now the hour bad come when he should return to his Master the crozier and the miter, the emblems of his commission and power and standing there, naked as be was born, all that was earthly about him had dissolved like the morning oew, as he stood before the great white throtie to be invested in an angel's rohe of spotless white and to receive for his fidelity the crown of everlast- ing light apd the harp of gold on which he shogld sing the praises of his Lord forever and forevermore. Never before'in our country's history did our people realize in its fulness the great power of the Roman Catholic church. Within the memory of living men it was but an insignificant factor in our national politics, but to-day it challenges 'our respect © and Bynor wherever its name is known. No won der that it has increased its numbers, wealth ana influence. It has survived | the prejudices that existed in our doun- try fifty years ago, and never was the change illustrated more fully than it was in 5 preat religions gathering held at Carnegie hall 5 few months ago, when a missionary who had been ab- sent in New Guiana for thirty years and who in that time had succeeded in gathering a half dozen natives who had. been saved as brands from the burning, he desired to know how the gospel progressed during the years of his absence and whether any successful efforts had been made to convert the Catholics and the Jews. A fellow missionary to whom the question was from your grocer. START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT. Rm S-- If you are not already using MONSOON Tea, we would ask you to get a packet adaressed pointed out of the window to a in its proportions, and rich in its en aowments, which existed but few blocks away. It is of liv tle use, he replied, to seek the con: version of those who to-day are exer cising such an influence in the charitable and religious world, If it were not that I knew they desire no proselytes I should not be surprised at any time to hear that they had sent out a commission in search of the erring christians who had wandered away from the fold. There was but little evidence of grief in the vast throng that followed the remains of the archbishop to St. Patrick's cafhe- dral, What grief there was, was tear ful, quiet and reverential: no grief for him who stood in the presence of his Master to receive his cross and crown and to hear the words from those im: mortal lips, "Well done, well done, thou good and faithful servant." Bat while this religious pageant stirred the hearts of this community as it has seldom been stirred before, a shocking fratricide took place on Thursday for which, thank God, the annals of the world has but few par- allels. Malcolm Ford might be called the leading representative of one of the proudest and most aristocratic families jn the borough of Brooklyn, more widely known in former times as the city of churches. Some of the most noble specimens of pulpit elo- quence, were to be heard within its limits and there was a general air of respectability about it which gave it the appearance of that rural virtue so frequently seen in the quiet towns and villages of New England. There were no broad "avenues where under the shadows of night the painted temp- ters lured the unwary to ruin was a city of quiet and respectable Romes, such as decent people would like to dwell in. Mr. Ford, the father of the two brothers whose lives were 80 rapilly extinguished on Thursday, was a lawyer of distinction, who had accunmlated a vast fortune by being an expert in the values of real estate. He desired his two sons to follow his busibess and perpetuate his name. The vounger son, Paul Leicester, chose a different class of literature and be came a historian and novelist, while the elder son, Maleolm W., in his childhood and boyhood was his fath- er's . hope and delight, developing, however, as he approached manhood, a taste for athletics which developed him into the most formidable athlete within the bounds of onr republic, and while our sporting inhabithnts were loud in~ their praises of his superlia tive excellence, the course he pursued was met by his father's bitter oppo: sition. The feeling between them de veloped itself so at last that Mal colm was driven from his father's house and his name was eliminated from his will. The father died; no re conciliation had ever taken place and Malcolm W. Ford, without a settled home, became a wanderer to athletic entertainments in different states, where as an all-round athlete for five I II rr GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1900. of : £ il i i | Fads i Walter Baker & Co.'s PURE, HICH ORADE ¥2%s% § i gi of Jewish institution, magnificent a years years he stood without a rival. Hav ing no settled means poverty stared him in the face. He was frequently an applicant to his brother Paul for him self and boy from dav to day. No greater contrast could be conceived than the physical difference between the brothers. Paul Leicester was a hunchback and dwarf; Malcolm was a well developed giant, one of the fin est specimens of physical perfection to be found in his country On Thursday last he called on his brother, soliciting his aid, which Paul had no desire to give. High words en sued, when suddenly Malcolm drew a self-cocking Smith & Wesson pistol from his pocket. He placed the musele close to his brother's side and mur dered him at the desk where he writing, then turning to a female at tendant, he said, "See me kill my self." He placed the muzzle of the re volver nearest his heart, fired, and in | an instant, he reeled on the floor, | dead. The phenomenal fact of the death of the two brothers startled the community, when it was shown that the brothers were to sleep side by side in the city of the dead. It is useless to inquire why the course was taken. It generally - believed that | Malcolm was insane on the subject of his father's will. It preyed on hi mind night and day, when hungry ernditors came knocking at the door This verdict is considered just hy the | relatives that remain and so they | bury his errors with his body in the grave was is ~BROADBRIM ------ The Stunt®d Poplar. 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