Daily British Whig (1850), 7 Jul 1906, p. 10

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Tablets, any kind will NOT ~ headaches, Simply because they never reach the CAUSE of the headache. What causes headaches? Poisoned blood, always, 1f the bowels are constipated-- If the kidneys are a ts . ¢ of are x the millions of pores pation. Act y on the kidneys, heal all kid- ney irritation, Act ou the skin, stimu- late and open the pores. With bowels, kidneys and skin all healthy and working in harmony,' the Brot s pure and rich and there can be no headaches, 'FRUIT-A-TIVES are pure fruit Juices ~combined by a secret process wi tonics and intestinal antiseptics. §0¢. a box or 6 boxes for $2.50, Sent on receipt of price if your druggist does not handle them FRUIT-A-TIVES LmiTED © ] S10Nns Manitoba, Alberta OTTAWA, 'Saskatchewan GOING drugs, of cure IAN OLD COW DEAD AND THAT HAPPENED OVER -/ 220 YEARS AGO. Members of British Parliament Give Example of Red Tape Business Which is Costly to Taxpayers. : British Government business is jus m ta up by red tape as evel ih lagies up by. sed. ta) to have ridiculed much of it out of existence but in reality he accomplished little In proof whereof this 'story of the Purley cow, which has just been mads the subject of & Parliamentary "white Paper, "ordered by the House of Com: mons to be printed" as is duly set forth in the precious document itself, ani "printed for His Majesty's stationery office by Eyre & Spottiswoode, print. ers to the King's most excellent Ma. Jesty." To begin---as near the beginning as it Is possible to begin--something ove two and a quarter centuries ago, soms Charitable person, whose identity sinc: eluded the vigilance of exhaustive mn Rs inquiries, donated to the poor of the parish of Purley, a littl village in Berkshire, a cow "valued as £6," which Is about $30 in Canadias money. The cow. which must have then beer talned national recognition in 1786, In the Parllamentary returns of that yea) other Interesting and important details ambition to becom , . | composed some verses every night be- dead about a hundred years, first at fore going to sleep, and wrote them out in the morning. She had great Uterary advantages, for not only was there an fabulous con Was recouti, mons | Salant Miron Tras Ba ke us laud for £130. ow Don to bring back a age Ambherst's deputy steward, Mr. Knock- and trap was standing in the yard, and Mr. Couldrey was asked that there was In the hands of the | °F nagazines Fon jae of every ore overseer of the poor of Purley the sux | Mont! Prima Pond ye. Lelia Jorse the "Purley cow mon. | U% Was the Youth's Magazine to w of £6, known as Jane Taylor, under the ro ey," and, furthermore, that the over. ly contributed, phe tng Seer paid 6 shillings ($1.50) a year as | ToSularly . AIL Iv, SATURDAY, JULY 7. SWEET SINGER AT REST. Tribute to Memory of Mrs. Jemima Luke; Hymn Writer. Mrs. Jemima Luke, author of one of the most famous hymns in our lon- Suage, "I think, when I read the sweet story of old," died at Newport, Isle of Wight, on Friday, at the age of 92. This venerable lady was born at Isling- fon in 1813, Her maiden name was Jemima Thompson. Her father was one of the ploneers of the Bible Society, and assisted also in the formation- of the Sunday School Union, with which he remained in full association till his death. He was Interested in the various missionary societies, then in their In- fancy, and in 1827 he attached himself to the. London Missionary Society, and attended its committee meetings regu- If you are tempted to reveal ' A tale some ome has told About another, make-it pass Give truthful answer, and the next Is last and narrowest, *Is it kind? And if to reach your lips at last three, Then you may tell the tale nor fear What the result of speech may be. THIS IS NOT COMIC OPERA. Century, told that her father helped to support the first floating chapel for sailors, and that he also was a founder of the Home Missionary Association, which is now merged in the Church Aid Society. "His capital never exceeded £60,000, but he and my mother lived simply and he al- Ways had his £100 in readiness to further any noble object." In girlhood Jemima Thompson at- tended -Hanover Chapel, Peckham, un- der the ministry of Dr, Collyer. She tells that even in childhood it was her ® a poet, and she got the 3s. 64. Q." | if the horse were his, widows, In a report made to Parliament by "the still was yielding $1.50 a year. Third Report In 1862. PF. A. FOLGER, JR. t, Gen. Supt, were noted for their well preserved complexions -- and they used Baby's Own Soap It was then, as it is now, the best soap for toilet and nursery. 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[Titan Sim UY 4 The imperigl P, GILDER, | fewer than forty-one cities in the course of its 800 miles, Purley, was the custodian of the £4 Cow money. "Since his death," he adds, "there has been no Payment, and the money cannot be traced, but it is said lat ite: that his descendants can. | dren, opposite That leaves the door open for some | "T™ fussy official or inquisitive M. P, te resurrect the cow at any time in the PARLOR CARS near or remote future, by demanding thi to be informed it any wrote, been made to trace the descendants of e, "has been cheered. by the aftec Mr. Sherwood and if not, why not, and 80 on, 1686 and numbers Some two hundred every Sunday in a bath chair. volumes. The scarcity of books and the value of the collection are both indie | yp, cated in the care taken for their pres. Churches an ervation and especially against loss of day, Sept such treasures by theft. chains and rods the books we fastened "to chains, it is rather su were not renewed until 1857, When the library fittings were repaired. Amon, 1 canal in China is the opr in vellum of "Reginum Aninna« HANLEY, | longest in the world and connects no | rum." sleep undisturbed for a quarter of century, but in 1862, in another report on local charities there appeared this alarming entry In tabular form: Total Pp d Location and designa- tion of charity. C no hue and cry in Parliament to dis- | cover what had become of the lost Pur- ween Victoria crowned in Westminste ley cow money. The American civil Q ed T Al war was absorbing public attention ' to recall this daszling scene, and es- For nearly' another half century th pecially the moment in which the girl ley cow was forgotten. Then, it fs Sovereign held out her hand to 'help the aged Lord Rolle. browsing among the old records, cams her friend were obliged to be in the &cross the above entry, and saw there. abbey between four and five o'clock in in.a brilliant opportunity to justify his the morning to eecure their seats, sev. eral hours eariler than Was necessary certain how the money was lost, and In the 'case of King Edward's Corona. why it could not be found again and tion, when the poor old cow died, and wha! Supposed, some member of Parliament Teaott by starting an inquiry to as. it died of, and various other thing: that the zealous legisiator deemed of traniscendent importance. So rest of it. i tol In due time the oMolal wheels be. the Society for Female Education in the &an to go round, and there followed § East. One Spring morning Mies Thorp - lot of cor r with the parish so authorities at Purley. ment--and summoned all the parish of- Ve ficlals to a solemn inquiry into the mat- known. The ter which was held in the village coO schoolroom. Oaths were administered response to a request from her father and evidence taken, and no doubt the to alr round about was electric with ex. ve cltement. It is hardly conceivable thai lis the Purley cow itself, when alive over Magazine, to which Mr. Thompson sent 200 years ago, ever created such a pro- It. found sensation. . * " A her extensive le ac intanca -- Fund Disappears In 1837, served. after the hymn appeared, Mrs. ae - Sei cua tits Avs. ingston (str.) 5:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m! In his report, the assistant SOMITE: | | uke Teceiw do letter requesting her to | much into society, and 1s a hot favorite pir. Cape Vincent (str) 7:00 a.m, 4 p.m,' loner of charity recapitulates OVery: | undertake the editorship of a mission- | among the nicer sex because of his Xv. Cube Vincont, 7:20 a.m. thing that Parliament had done to re- Soy nagazine. The work proved con. | eves. Alack! one of them Is glass: but Am Yinartown, 8:10 Beliia vive the memory of the cow. He con. genial, and" the magasine. prosececs. | there Io me need, as he says, for every. ar Sy taname, is gti 12 | cludes by stating that in 1837 Edward Among the contributors were Robert | One to know that, and, really, it seems Arr. Rochester, 2:28 p.m. a.m. | Bherwood, as overseer of the poor of Arr. Utica, 12:20 pan. pap nam, efforts have tio "an be thrust upon the attention of a Barong and conscientious that body Intrusted with the Government of the largest Empire in the world, The ®Mmoned, among the Isle of Wight re- Purley "cow deserves to be immore Bisters, in September, 1904, In an ex- taliged. other was smoking, and the following r | dressed to the editor of The Morning | conversation ensued: a The Chained Library, + {| Leader, and dated Sept. 21, 1904, Mrs, Wimbourne, Ireland, ibrary is perhaps the most notable of mo) of I By means of re securely the shelves and rprising to learn, cat he interesting works is a copy of the first edition of Sir Wale of the collection | er Raleigh's "History of the Worlg,* ' 614. It has suffereq from fire ang trae ' Pio oy dition says that Mathew Prior Was ree | COT s Dock ord De. &ponsible for its present condition, the !© heavy hair, bu pm. tory being that he fell Kingetan.* Garden Ialandgoing to and from | PUE®* Were burned by his Sande, 3 "Poor man!" exclaimed th asleep whey SParingly. Ammonia will cause the © Judge reading it once upon a time and the Dalr to turn gray. : "Take se pider. twopenge" ---------------- : has been Baily Tepaireq and its mige ' . A custom peculiar to Buddhists i Mp now a ay . ta interest The olde Bright eyes are an infallible index | that of wandering abont the coun- me in ary is a fine old 30 Fauth, windows from which Cupid | try with hammer and chisel and cary. Shoots his arrows, Hollister's Rocky | ing holy symbols upon 1, rke hy . by a ia manuscript ang beary Mountain Tea makes bright oves, rosy wayside, POR roe hy he * 43. sb |oheccks. Toy or Tablets, 35 cents, 0 hird 3 Maho 1 reg store ne-third of the recruits of our interest on the cow money, which wai Friend was the en retentions : Subilea lonally" among poo mig distributed "occas ly in oS ASiod sught The cow cropped up again in 183; | there, In due time, her first poem Commissioners appointed In pursuance | the ew of her work in bri: ves he of acts 6 and 6, Will, IV, ¢, 71, as con. | ® eo rp ponies 2 khioh she tinued by the act 7, Will IV. o, 4, te Feud, 'A Littls cq pleased to hear again continue the inquiries ooncemng Shas. she may rest assured that with us mod. Bar 1 pe 30) Aceon toe) S37 SoA ae nn 18 mod " . ciation." report, the long defunct Purley cow fgement could there be for a child au. thor? No wonder that Mra. Luke, long Years afterwards, sought out the shop The cow continued to sleep its las! in St. Paul, magazine had issued, and was disap. i ey oor. tels may be taken as a heriot, and it is former Obser. | Under the ministry of the Rev. James income. vations Stratten, of Paddington Chapel, and in Purley. --Cow money ...£06s04 Lost his church she heard men such as Dr. Li i mas George But, strange to relate, this started efchild, Tho Binney ana he set tn entitled her hymn, was written in a motion the machinery provided by "Act Stagecoach between Taunton and Well- § and 6, Will IV, o Tan and all the Ington. In the small town of Welling- That proving horse coach to see how the society was unsatisfactory, a $4,000 a year assistan{ prospering. It was an hour's ride, There commissioner of charity journeyed t¢ Was no other inside passenger. She Purley first class--hig traveling and 00k a letter from her 'pocket, and on hotel expenses are paid by the Govern. the back of the envelope wrote two in an probability never have deen pre- appeared, it has served as a model of In 1843, Jemima Thompson the Rev. Samuel Luke, a Congregation. vent to a startled exclamation. Her al son, with his wite 'and two grandchil- ! dren." Meanwhile the taxpayers have had to pay a large sum for publishing the | ridiculous report. But what an illum- inating light the incident sheds on the atl wor of former days, and fol. necessity for sweeping Parliamentary ye public events with lively interest. reforms when such absurd trivialitieg Te To the end Mre. Luke retained the Luke is noted for have many things, but its famous chained bers of our chi ts curiosities. The library possesses teacking, unique interest as being one of the earllest attempts to disseminate knowl edge among the people, The collection worshipper at the Congregational chapel Was made accessible to the people In at New Port, to which she was wheeled these oongeientious protest 1906. Hair that is ver ap- Scarcely less gratifying than horse, redeem it on payment of £11 11s. Girl of Thirteen," and 3s. 6d. instead of £11 118, What more welcome enoour- Manor and Manor 1 8 Churchyard whence the worth between £32,000 ana £3,000, For ten years Mrs. Luke 'worshipped layton, On June 28, 1838, Mrs. Luke saw bbey. To the end. of her life she loved | Manor, ------ When Gold Boils. Prof. Henri Moissan has been trying Some interesting experiments in vap- orizing gold in the electric furnace. He finds that it bolls at 2,400 degrees C. and that 100 to 150 grains can be eva- porated in two or three minutes. By condensing the gold vapor on a cool surface either filiform masses or cubical Crystals can be obtained. It is found that gold, like ©"per and iron, dia- "The Child's Desire," as Mre. Luke solves a certain amount of carbon when in the liquid state, but this separates out as graphite on cooling. Gold is found to be less volatile than copper, The properties of distilled gold are the same as those of hammered gold or the melted metal reduced to a fine powder. Prof. Moissan has found no indications of an allotropic' modifica- tion of gold. When an alloy of copper and gold is distilled the vapor of cop- Per comes over first, showing that there is no definite compound. In the case of alloys of gold and tin the latter mot. al burns in contact with the air. This tin oxide is found to be of a purple col- or, due to a deposit of fine gold on its surface.--London Globe. Mrs. Luke and n there was an association in aid of N, 45 she was then, went in a two- TSes of the little hymn now so well composition originally nsisted of two verses oaly, but in make it a missionary hymn, the third se was added. 'The hymn was pub- -- -- hed In The Sunday School Teachers Betrayed by a Fly. A young lady friend of our acquaint- ance has recently received a shock. But for his intervention it would 80 much the counterpart of the other the magazine was The Missiomary | that not one in a hundred would detect Though it has long dis- | It. On this occasion he escorted the young lady in question to a refreshment room. As they were taking tea and coffee he looked unutterable things at her, when all of a Sudden she gave er missionary Magazines for chi. married minister, whom she Survived for eyes fixed on his with a mysterious in- rty-three years. "My. loneliness," she tentness and horror. A fly had Ll tled in the centre of his glass eye, and remained there--he, of course, uncon- scious of its presence. The sight of that eye looking at her with a fiy on it, and the owner making no attempt to brush it off, was too much for his companion. It overpowered her, and she shudders when she recalls the cire cumstance.---Answers, ------------ An Impossibility, Two Irishmen were moving some kegs of powder when one noticed that the Date attentions of a dear and only Passive Resistance. T Opposition te the jon Act 0 pay the rate, and was written autograph letter, ad. "Look here! Ain't Ye got any better sense than to be smoking whilst we're handling these 'ere kegs of powder? Don't you know that there was an ex- plosion = yesterday, which blew up aj dozen' men 2 "Faith, but that cuq never happen here." "Why not™ gave her reasons as follows: * refused to pay the education rate the act wil place large num- Mren under Ritualtstic and so prepare them for the Te advanced doctrines of the Church Rome." Mrs, Luke wig a regular t was great Pleasure to her when o Misplaced Sympathy, ding in a Londen tram car when the conductor asked for his fare, The against the Bdyu- lon Acts. --British Weekly, Feb. 3, ------ For the Mair. y olly may have a ch of borax'or soda in the water '0 rect the musty odor which clings t either should be used conductor twopence, saying: "Here, my man, get yourself a glass of beer." A clergyman, sitting Opposite, inter. Posed: "Excuse me, sir, but is it wise to en- courage drinking? | have not touched a glass of beer for years" THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK. Before you speak three gates of gold. Three irieh gates--first, "Is it true?™ Then "Is it needful? In your mind It passes through these gateways But Feudal England In the Twentieth Mr. Alfred Couldrey of Dunton Green, near Sevenoaks, England, das Teen tly 5 a Oe Of e Sayiy oer interesting autobiography, a ap satan pry et 'which stil "Early Years of My Life" Mrs. Luke . ho 1 exists in that country. Last year purchased a small estate of two and a half acres at Dunton Green for £1,700. It is situated in the Manor of Otford, the lord of which is Earl Amherst. The estate is held under what is known as "customary freehold," and the lord of the manor is entitled to a -heriot on every change of tenancy. As the heriot he may seize the tenant's best live beast or in the absence of a beast he is en- whom Mr. Couldrey bought the pro- perty, says Truth, possessed no beast, and consequently Earl Amherst only A short time ago Mr. CouMrey sold He replied in the affirmative, whare. upon the deputy steward cut some hairs from the horse's mane, and, placing his hand on its shoulder, said: "This horse is now the property of Lord Amherst" The deputy steward's action actually made Earl Amherst the owner of the Mr. Couldrey was allowed to If he had kept a motor car instead of , & horse he would only have liad to pay In a recent Interesting book on "The Records" Mr. | Nathaniel J. Hone mentions a case in 1827, in which a lord of the manor seiz- ed as a tenant's best beast a racehorse tional Gallery) would be seized as the customary heriot for which he was lia- ble as the copyhold tenant of a certain manor. 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