August Clearing Sale Children's Low Shoes that were $1 for 65e. Childs' Low Shoes that were $1.25, now 7c. Ladie's Shoes that were $1.50 and §1.76, mostly small sizes, Yor ® Free to You, My Sister Free to You and Cvery Sister Woman Suffering from Woman's Ailments Attract the Interest of the Visitors--The Fear of Malig- nant Spirits. > Hip : Fie fo ER spi efit! SRS E i and eaten; Crusoe was strand- ed on the neighbouring island of To- . The aboriginal Carib name of Trinidad was Iere--the land of the hum- ming-bird, and well it deserves ;that name, for, the air is alive with ae gorgeous birds of all sizes and colours, and the silence of the noonday heat is broken by the rhythmic vibrations of their wings. As in most tropic lands the beauty and colour and light are in- describable; Kingsley, in his "At Last," has come nearest of all writers in paint- ing these islands, but even he falls far short of describing their full beauty. Huge flowering trees which, though de- cidpous, are yet almost always green; enormous masses of palms, bamboo, tree fern; d bowered valleys, musi- cal at times with the gentle murmur of their streams, and at times with the heavy boisterous roar of mountain tor- rents; a sky blue beyond an artist's dream--are some of the things which nature gives to fascinate the dweller. But side by side with the physical beauty must be remembered the physical draw- backs, snakes of all kinds and sizes, which even invade the privacy of one's house, and on two occasions caused great excitement by appearing among the congregation in my parish church; centipedes, forty-legs, scorpions, spiders of enormous size, and the greatest of all plagues, the malaria-bearing mosquito. Although yellow fever has for a decade been unknown in Trinidad, the malaria scourge is terrible, and very few, black or white, odd or young, are free from hh g its attacks. In Port of Spain (the cap- Pursuant lo R.8.0,, Cap. 129, 8. 38 Leacorrhea or Whitiss ital town), owing to improved sani- 1 , ' Displacement or Falling of the Womb, Pro i is di i b NOTY 1S HEREBY GIVEN TO fuse, or Painful tation, this disease is kept at bay, but ali ern or Le lakhs a erty or Mad Doviods, Uterine oc |G Givin of the islanders live under Phattips, lute of od Head hack rar J: Seta a pats in the such conditions that malaria claims "in Miliimer: Amie of the Bervousness, cresplng testing up pric one form or other a grievous roll of : 2 that the melancholy flashe : victims year by year. BN The 30th day of "am sat i where caused by weeks |, Trinidad became an English cclony . nesses in 1797, having en then ceded by aoa or to tien O° 1 i" Seustins to ov Sex: ten days Spain, but a few years before it was a | Tintrisor of the sal" Ketnion" si | treetment swtuty ee te erm me 077 gy eich, Salone} to. among the European descriptions the full particulars and yu an ure hn home, easily, quickly pr "old Spanish "and French set- their claing, "a statement of their so. pn Ci eas it wil cust you tlers. The island is. almost a perfect ties and the mature of the security W" should wish amplets h square, with headlands running out ten anv) held them. After the said ! and if you jo Soutinue, it wil t i i will. cost aout 3h irate week, or than | miles westwards on north and south 5 hute the said Ketdfe - Tecan § two A A i hot lustatere with coasts; the area is nearly 2,000 square ne notice and hich he shall hd et gd Ion walier if you | miles, and the population about 300,000. " and ll send you treatment, for | Of these only 2,000 are uropeans, tha i oti. white. Shim he hus ot Tor' dase etl anaes iain artapyer. BY Lie che white to the coloured pepuiaticn ; : Ohambene - is in proportion of one = 150. hh nEaten, On explanatory fllustrations show- | is no colour question there; side by Teted at Kingston, 7th August Tose, PA re, a ier, and how ernest | side white and black sit in the House eee et ee ned have it and learn to for |of Assembly, on public boards, end in Rereait. when the Servs | the churches. Two-thirds of the people WAGGONS for yourselt, TE houtarids of one loan, dee are of pure or mixed negro origin, the - y with home remedy. It cures | descendants of shaves Drought in hom what 'want shortest all. © or . the west coast o rica ween the _-- AR a home treatment w! a] nian a seventeenth and nineteenth centuries ; sna and oh h § 1 aver oe cures , Green Sickness | the other one-third consists of immi- wheels, --- is ey front | and hor irregular ruation in young | grants from India, who for thirty years strike - body. ---- ---- > do uo from ine | 1d bealth always elf |) 0e heen pouring into Trinidad as in- 5 y over. an 3 X a other: points which we will be pleased to | Lp herever dentured labourers. The period of in Honest Guarantee We guarantee our milk to be ABSOLUTELY pure © put up in gixrilized bottles It is the best. Kingston Milk Depot : Sw. Arent and Bagot Sts. Carriage Painting Neatly and promptly donel to us for good work at reasonable prices. Our work is sure to be satisfac- tory. Big Storage Warehouse in con- nection ; moderate rates. 261 Princess Street i We take plensure in announcing the ar- rival of 'Mr. Mets, © TO MISTMAJESTY. THE KING: SirJohn Poweri& Son Lua. Wi ESTABLISHED AD.1791. THREE SWALLOWS IRISH WHISKEY Famous for over a century for its delicacy of flavor, Of highest standard of Purity. It Is especially fecommended by the Medical Profession or account of its peculiar "DRYNESS" Waggoner's Starts at Once. ings at have ever imported. t Summer Sale During August we will offer the lee of our Summer Suit- $16, $18, $20 To make room for the most extensive stock of Fall Goods we WAGGONER dentures is five years, during which time the Indian lives within the compound on the estate he is indentured to, and re- ceives one shilling # day for his labour, in addition to - house-rent and free hospital attendance. So happy are the Indians in Trinidad that but very few of them return to their own land; ow- ing to their thrifty habits they save a jal sum during their indenture- ship, and set up for themselves as cane farmers, or cocoa planters, or small shop-keepers. ny of Christianity in the West Indies is a strange one. The African slave of old days in his own land was practically without religion, his sole idea of a supreme power being that of a malignant and avenging evi spirit. On his introduction nto the est Indies he began to ask for in- struction in the religion of his white masters, but so strange an idea had the slave-owner of the real dignity of the African or of his duty towards him that, instead of readily welcoming his desire for instruction in Christianity, he did everything he could to thwart this desire; and as late as 1676 an Act was passed by the Legislature of Bar- bados forbidding the conversion of the negro lest it should lead to "notions of equality." And so for a hundred years or more but little encoura; ement was given to the poor negro's longing for Christ. As the dawn of emancipation began to loom, however, this was changed, and from 1830 efforts were ut forth by SP.G. and SPCK to ring the negro into his heritage; these efforts were crowned with signal suc- cess, and every one of the blacks in the West Indies had been brought into Christ's fold--nor have they fallen back Of the Indian people a different story must be told; they are still coming from India, and reveal that in spite of all one hears about the vitality of Buddhism and Hinduism these religions "(as re- ligions) are practically dead. Our Trin- idad Indian will perform his various daily functions according to a certain Er -------- Lung Rest Your lungs bave all they can do: They work might and day, and are faithful to the end. Then use them well. If they are rasping and tear- ing themselves by hard coughing, come to their relief. Give them | Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. It heals, soothes, quiets. Your doctor, will explain its action to you. Ask him. We bavy 00 wearer | opr odompt yh Lowal mon: | cipating itself from the coarser and H FISER ji F Fecgen ET is i i185 prodigal potato), yam, eddo, va, and other succulent not only the native, but te. =3-8 iE F,2p gid 87 degrees; tain times are cool in March we see the thermometer at 75 a egrees. Of late years there has been a great increase in cocoa growing; the area der cultivation is Nasty uble that of Al the large grow- y & Con whose estates Maracus, in the north of the The cocoa trees equal in size to large apple trees, are overshadowed and protected from the sun by enormous forest trees, the poui with its blaze of amber-coloured flower, and the bais im- mortelle, with its blaze of scarlet.' Pods grow out from the gnarled joints and angles of the cocoa trees, when ripe measure eight inches long. "These pods are of many colours, claret red, old gold, Buthle brown, bright yellow, vel- vety b 3 few places are more glori- ous to be in nm a cocoa grove at harvest time. A cocoa grove has to be remembered amongst the fair places of the earth, pods are cut from the tree when ripe, and allowed to remain a little time on the ground; then they are opened, and the beans carefully extracted. These are taken away to the drying-house, and for a fort-night or more are subject to the direct rays of the burning sun; - then they are ready to be placed in bags and sent to their destination. Perhaps, however, one of the things which interests and astonishes the stranger most in Trinidad is the pitch lake. There it lies, down in the south- west corner of the island, a huge coun- 24 of asphalt, ninety acres in extent. e pitch is rently solid and firm, for people walk and even drive across it; the heaviest carts leave no further impress than with their wheels they might make on any hot summer day on an asphalt road, and yet the pitch is really liquid, for the hole dug out to- y--perhaps a cube of eight or nine feet--will be found to-morrow to be filled up again by pitch pressed up from the bottom. The asphalt is picked out in chunks by the labourers, and looks much like moist or soft coal; this is carried by an over-head railway in iron buckets to the ships, which lie some two miles away, and so exported to Europe and America to be used by makers of asphalt roads. This lake is the property of the Trinidad Government, and is leased by them to a syndicate, who y royalty on all the pitch they export. The average amount Saporied is 60,000 tons, and yet the lake WS no appreciable decline of level; the average income ac- cruing to the Government is £35,000. Amongst the Indians in Trinidad superstition is rife, but amongst the Africans too (Christian though they be) lingering remains of their old fear of malignant spirits manifest themselves. The practice of Obeah has not entirely died out, although, among the younger folk, such things are in less danger of being believed in. An almost universal custom is to place a bracelet of black beads around the wrist of the newly- born child, so that the evil spirits draw near to harm the little one they may be warded off. This bracelet, by the way, is always removed on the child's bap- tism, as then he is sufficiently guarded by the sign of redemption on his brow. Again, it is looked upon as very un- lucky to pass any remark on the beauty of a little baby less evil spirits come and take away its life, or inflict some ter- rible disease or deformity. Instances, too, have occurred of trying to propit- iate the evil spirits (or perhaps even to propitiate God) by vicarious suffering. assing through the village, I saw a live tortoise suspended from a huge bamboo pole, thirty or forty feet high. Sus- pecting propitiation was being pract- ised, I found that 2 man was su ering from a severe attack of island fever, and so the poor tortoise was suspended in the burning sun that fever might settle on him, and the evil spirit who in- flicted the fever would depart from the sick man and be satisfied with the suf- fering and death of the tortoise. A member of my own family was ill with severe inflammation, and in attendance was a dear, saintly, old black nurse. As the inflammation" for days refused to yield to treatment, she suggested that a toad should be procured and rubbed over the part affected, and that then it should be suspended for a night out- side the bedroom window. This would transfer the inflammation to the toad, and, with that suffering, God would be appeased and satisfied. Needless to say, the advice was not followed, and in spite of nurse's oguostications, in time recovery rl he custom still lingers of keeping awake during the hours that elapse between death and burial (in all cases in Trinidad burial must take place within twenty-four hours after death) ; but in place of the rum-drinking and shouting that used to on, with the purpose of driving the eparted spirit away from the house and starting it on its final journey, the wake is now mostly observed by hymn- singing and recitation of litanies and prayers for the repose of the departed and the comfort of the survivors. The younger generation is gradually eman- are at Is grosser superstitions, owing to the in- crease of education and larger know- ledge of the teaching of the Church; but the day is not yet with the African, any more than it is with his brother Englishman, that superstition is en- tirely forgotten--C. J. H. The third missionary convention of Roman Catholics was held recently in Washington. A purpose was planned for the conversion o America to Rom- anism. "How to reach the devout Pro- testant New Englander" was discussed The motto of the movement is, "We have come, not to uer, but to win." HA Bie permanently tight. all winter--that burns will cost to install. UNION ON ESSENTIALS. Mutual Respect and Mutual Con- cessions Necessary. If church union is ever accomplished, it will be the outcome of mutual respect and mutual concessions. That is to say, we must enter the door of church union walking erect as men and not cringing. A minister in Montreal ob- jects to union because each denominat- ion has its special religious message to the world, and, therefore, union would be a mistake. I feel that as Christian people we ought to empha- size the whole truth. We should act together and compare our different con- ceptions of truth, our phases of truth, and the result would be more apt to be the whole truth. If as religious men we would emphasize our points of agreement rather than our points of disagreement we would be surprised on what a deep and wide basis of religious truth all denominations stand. Practi- cally the whole Protestant religious world believes in the fundamental truths; our points of disagreement are only incidentals; we have no right as Christian _ men, looking - towards the salvation of the world, and especially of the heathen world, to permit non- essentials to continue to divide the church of Christ. Union would con- solidate the home field and bring econ- omy and efficiency in the foreign field. An organic union would be necessary to give coherence to the organization, but the deepest union would be a union of spirit, one for the express purpose of bringing the world to Christ."--Rev. J. W. Graham, Methodist, London, Ont. S------------ Universities And Missions. One of the interesting signs of the times is the extent to which the stu- dents and alumni of leading American universities = are establishing special missions. A Harvard committee, with President Roosevelt at its head, is maintaining important work among the students of India. Yale has established an educational mission in the centre of China. The University of California sustains a movement to reach students of Kyoto, one of the great educational centres of Japan. The University of Pennsylvania is establishing a Christian medical school at Canton. Princeton has plans for a special mission at Pekin under an experienced missionary, At Presbyterian layman has given $30,000 for*a building as centre of educational, social and religious work for young Chinese of the educated class. There could scarcely be a greater contrast than that between the spirit which prompts such enterprises and the general indif- ference to things religious marking most American universities two or three gen- erations ago. They are now following the way admirably pointed out by stu- dents of England, through the establish- ment of such enterprises as the Cam- bridge Mission to Delhi, the Oxford Mission to Calcutta ties' Mission to Central Africa. -------- Birth Of 'A Hymn. The story of how the late Bishop Bickersteth wrote "Peace, Perfect Peace" was told recently by his son, vicar of Leeds. The bishop" was stay- ing in Harrogate one summer and attended worship at Christ church, where the late Canon Gibbon took for his text, "Thou wilt keep him in per- fect peace whose 'mind is stayed on Thee." After the service the bishop sat on one of the seats in the Stray outside the church and wrote the hymn on a scrap of paper, then took it and read it to a sick friend. Borrowed Lights. An Oriental said: "We have no need of the sun, it is light enough in the day- time. ¢ moon is all right, it shines at night" Just as ridiculous ; position of the man who says: have no need of Christianity. is all right, it sheds light in the a sin darkened world." did not know that the its light from" the sun, forgets that morality "We Morality midst of As the Oriental moon borrowed sb the moralist Persuasiveness will the weapon used. 2 po borrows its li from Christianity, 3 45 Tou The cast iron top and bottom of the radiating chamber, and the steel sides are FUSED, where they There is not an opening--and no possibility of there being an opening --to permit gas, dust or smoke to escape into the house. Fused joints are a "Hecla" feature--originated, controlled--by. Clare Bros. & Co., Limited. The "Hecla" is the only furnace that has fused joints. That means the only furnace that will NOT let gas, smoke or dust come into the house. l If you want a furnace that keeps the whole house warm and comfortable gas-tight--you will certainly decide on a "Hecla." Write for the new catalogue fully illustrated. of your house, I will tell you--free--just what the 'right "Hecla" Furnace Write to-day to CLARE BROS. & CO., LIMITED - - - and the Universi- Ever see a blacksmith make a horseshoe ? When he is ready to put toe and heel clips on the shoe, he heats the iron shoe ang the steel clips white hot--hammerg them--and when they cool, they are practically one metal, THEY ARE FUSED_ The same results are obtain. ed in constructing « Hecly" Fu. nace.: meet--making a joint that is absolutely and perfected, patented ang LESS coal--and that is smoke-tight, dust-tight and If you send a rough sketch "Clare's Furnace Builder." ® ' A a PRESTON, Onr. KINGSTON AGENTS: ELLIOTT BROS. 8° Oe0seses cos sncecses were $ E. B. 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