use--and every toilet | purpose as. ions and sudsiilutes Lenwine * Daly's _ Base Ball Bais Balls Catchers' Mitts == "Masks - Basemen's Gloves AInfielders' « 'Suits and Caps. the busy Sporting Goods i i br Bros. acd 90 Priccess St. Lin, switched off and a second in ny Horace Plante, of Sorel, Que, of a GABRIEL ID'ANNUNZIO, Rome, May 4.--An amazing adventure of the poet Gabriel d"Annunzio, * who was by a spook table, ¥s ve- lated by the Messagero. . + This newspaper declares that Sign d'Annunzio often gods to the villy of the Marquis Clement Origo, near Florence, to attend spiritualistic se ances. During his last visit a small table, from the studio of the painter Corcos, was used, and the spirit, in response to an invitation to declare itself, answered in the, conventional manner by repping on this piece of furniture. The spirit introduced itself as that of a gentleman who was killed re cmtly in a Mmoloring accident, and immediately proceeded to make most demagi statements ainst d' Aununzio, with his i, at first smiled, but later began to show obvious uneasiness, This troublesome spook was accord- but matters only became worse for the table seemed with the 'most violent animosity against the poet. Tt moved steadily in his direction, and finally leaped at him with: such' violence that he way thrown against the wall. The Marquis Origo, having calmed the Hable, asked the spirit for its opinion as to d'Annunzio's literary merit. "All smoke," chme 'the answer, tatoke which will be speedily dissipg- The experimenters then decided to oall on the spirit of a woman who died not long ago, but the statements made by het ere such that the Mes- sagero refrains from publishing them, adding that the poet is lishing. issue a statement in reference to his remark. able adventure, to be imbued The 'Last Advertiser's" Finish. Philadelphia Record. "Ihe first advertiser was the man who sought out the place where the most ple passed and hung out. a sign. The last advertiser will be able to do no more," This, of course, emanates from a bill-posting concern. It sounds well, but it is ridiculously false. A sign, whether on a bill-board or over the door of the merchant's place of busi- ness, is only a reminder which serves to recall to the observer what he has read set forth in printer's ink, When the "last advertiser" is able to do no more than hang out a sign that sign is more than likely to be an announcement of his retirement from, business. TORTURING RHEUMATISM. Suffered For Five Years--Cured By Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Agonizing pains, sometimes in one part of whe body, sometimes in an- other, more often in thé pack or Joints--that's rheumatism. Do not de- | lay in finding a cure. Fach day makes the disease worse--increases the torture. Dr. Williams Pink Pills have cured thousands, They cured most aggravated case of What they did for Mr. Plaité they can do for you. He says: "} was seized with rheumatism, 1 walked as if my bouts were filled with pebbles. The Pains, starting in wy feet, spread to umatism, all parts of the body; n\y back ant joints became affected. upwards of five years 1 suffered the greatest agony. Often 1 was confined to bed, hardly able to move. Nothing seemed to help me, 1 despaired of ever being well again, By good chance Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills were brogght to my attention, and 1 decided to try them. 1 got six hoxes--before they were gone 1 felt 'a great improvement, [ con- tinued the treatment and my health gradually came back till now 1. do not feel the least pain--I am totally cured. It was a surprise to my friends strong after five years of torture, They wanted to know what brought about the change. I told them Dr, Williams® Pink Bills, for 1 todk no other medicine once I began their use other small birds there would be little } and simmer they carry on an exten- and tiny insects. They detect the tiny eggs and the young larvae, and feast upon them, casionally steal pullets, carry on a rabbits. robins were examined. sweetly garded. of dollars' 5 nous warfare is waged against him. to see me on the street again well and | In pounds single plantation to kill the hirds. pecker is looked upon as a beneficent bird; vet in 2 ? . F. EB. L. Beal, who has charge --- division of Economic Ornitho- logy of the Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agricul ture, hps spent seventeen years ex- y the little stomachs of birds. He his assistants have examined microscopically the stomachs of 60, 000. . He ought to know what they eat, oughta't he ? But to find out is not so easy -as it would seem. Prof. Beal, alter this exhaustive in- vestigation, has declared that few birds arg destructive, even. the robin redbreast, whom the farmer regards as a pest when he feasts axulontly oa cherries, cats comparatively little fruit that is useful to man. When he ean get it, he prefers wild berries and fruit, amd is particularly fond of de structive insects. That birds are (riends.of the farm- ord is the a n of these investiga- ting scientists. In their efforts to destroy evil in- sects, birds eat the most poisonous. In the stomachs of some birds have been found bugs and beetles that would: prove fatal if taken into a man's stomach. A favorite repast for most birds con. sists of iders. In the soft, fat, malignantly poisonous bodies the feathered creatures find an epicurean banguet, In the stomach of a king- bird, Prof. Beal found fourteen blister beetles, one of which would scorch the flesh 'of a man like fire. Many birds seemed to have a' pre dilection for insects, as Prof. Beal de- scribes them, "with an odor so fierce that a skunk is fragrant in compari- son." Others favor bitter, venomous hugs--bebtles with acrid excretions. Of fruits, the most bitter and poisonous scem to appeal to their palates. In the stomach of a bird that has been kept in alcohol for two years were found poison oak berries. The man who eéxamined the stomach was poisoned. Cuckoos were found to dote upon caterpillars. This insect, with 'its stiff, bristling hair, is enough to cive jn- digestion to any bird, vet the cuckoo eats until, his stomach is filled with a ball of hair. In the stomach of one enckoo were found the remains of 250 caterpillars. The purpose of Prof. Beal in ex- amining the stomachs was to find which birds are useful to the farmer. Tn watching a bird pecking it is im- possible to tell what he is eating. They often peck and consume noth- ing. From all parts of the country birds of all kinds were sent to Washington. Of the 60,000 examined, Prof. Beal analyzed the contents of 30,000 sto- machs himself. The others were eox- amined by assistants. To determine the fruits and vege tables was a difficult task. Usually the fruit was crushed into an indis- tinguishable mass, so the experts se- lected particles of skin and studied them uhalpr a microscope. Often the grain and seeds were pulverized, so that the starch granules had to be inspected under the glass and the spe- cics of erain determined by the shape. The hard, indigestible thorax of ants betrayed their presence. Like red rubies, the eyes of spiders remmined undigested. Hard spicules told of angle © worms; hard jaws. with little plates about the breathing holes, of cqterpillars; beetles were detected by their bony jaws, and grasshoppers by their mandibles and = leg plates of armor, of ingocts there are two kinds to be considered--the parasites that feed on vegetables and trees and the para- sites of other insects. Some birds eat only the former; others, like the lin- net, refuse to eat insects that are harmful, eating only the beneficent bugs and destroying cultivated fruit. In striking contrast to the wicked little linnet, flickers thrive on ants. What is most remarkable, they prefer the ants that--eare for - plant lice. These little insects, it is probably known, keep the lice as "cows," milk« ing them regularly and carrving them from plant to plant as the plants be- come defoliated." In the stomack of a flicker were found 5.000 aunts. A member of bird nobility is the meadow lark. His principal diet con- sists of caterpillars, tussock moths, coddling moths, canker worms and full web-worms. The sweot-throated warblers live on plant inseets. Their work in exterminating the pestiferous insects, going over fields and cleaning infeeted limbs 'of trees and shrubs is invaluable. fere it not for bushtits and many fruit in many parts During the warm of the country. months of = spring sive work of cleaning trees of scales Hawks and owls, although they oe- continuous war én field mice, rats and Because of the predilection of robins for wild fruit, Prof. Beal has advised farmers to plant trees of wild fruit near orchards. The stomachs of 300 In these were found the seeds of forty-two species of wild froits to those of three or five enltivated trees. $i. In the north all good virtues are at. tributed to the bobolink. He sings so and cats so many harmful bugs that no bird is more highly re Yet when he goes south in the winter he goes 'on a rampage of wickedness. Every winter he destrovs thousands worth of rice. A contin- ie stated, 2,500 were used on a season, it of powder one In Pennsylvania the red-belliod wood- Le { ER BRITISH WHTG. SATURDAY, MAY 4. NEWS OF CHURCHES RELIGIOUS ITEMS FROM ALL DENOMINATIONS. -- The Calls and Invitations Given-- Proposing a Federatiou of Canadian Methodism--Jews Attending Services in New York. The National Bible Fociety of Seot- land, issued 1,670,000 copies of the Bible last. year. Rev, H. E. Allen bas retired from the pastorate of the nacle, Toronto. St. Paul's church, Peterboro, is to give Rev. Dr. Torrance a retiring al- lowance of $2,500, Last Sunday, an organization to be known as the Men's Christian League, was organized in Windsor. Rev.. John Kelman, New North church, Edinburgh, has accepted a call to St. George's, Edinburgh. Rev. C. R. Vones has resigned from the pastorate of the Preston Baptist church, on account of ill-health. The Preshytorian congregations of Warsaw and Dunmer have extended a call to Rev. P. W. Currie, Port Col- borne. Rev. George A. Lowes has heen or- dained and installed as. pastor of Parkdale Congregational church, To- ronto. It is said that of the 900,000 Jews in New York only 25,000 are reported as Jing connected with some syna- gogpe or place of worship. At a congregational meeting in the First Presbyterian church, St. Mary's, a call was made out in favor of the Rev. D. N. Morden, B.A., Bradford, Ont, to succeed Rev. A. MacWilliams. A call from: the .pastoral charge of Enniskillen, Cadmus and Bléckstock unanimously in favor of Rev. J, C. Foster, late of Red Deer, was sustain- ed. Mr, Foster hag accepted, and was indueted at Blackstoek on April 30th. cis Ashurv, hecame the first American At the forty-third session of the Can- ada conference of the Evangelical As- sociation, these appointments were made : Arnprior and Killaloe, 0. G. Hallman; Pembroke, A. Geiger; Golden Lake, E. M. Gishler; Rockingham, E. Baptist taber- The Archbishop of Canterbury says that Sabhuth-breaking among the lower classes in England is due to the example set by the upper clusses. Mrs. Russell Sage thas given $350,- 900 to erect a headquarters building in New York 'for the Y.M.C.A. Mrs, William FE. Dodge gave $135.000 for the site. The building will be eight storey, 'completed in Muy, 1908. Bishop James Atkins provoses a federation of American Methodism wm- der four autonomous divisions, the northern, southern, eastern and west- ern, to be calicd The United Metho- fist church of America. The membership of the Young Men's Christian Association in the United States is now 415,000, with property valued at 212,000,000. The railroad departments number 230, with $2,452 members amd 262 buildings worth $3,- 150,000. The National Congregational Coun- cil will "vote on the proposed union with the United Brethren and the Me- thodist Protestant churches in Octo- ber, 1907, the Methodist Protestant conference in. May, 1908, and the Uni- ted Brethren 'conference in May. 1909, When Thomas Coke, who with Fran Methodist bishop, was preaching in Jamaica, in 175, his stern rebukes of sin aroused the audience, which began to threaten the preacher. A woman with a pair of scissors in her hand took her place by Coke, saying "The first man who lays violent hands up- on him shall have these scissors thrust. into his heart." Rev. E. J. Peck, the veteran mis- sionary of the Church of England among the Eskimos in Hudson's Bay Territory, and Baffin Land, who has resided for the past year in Winnipeg, left for Barrie, Ont., with his family. He will leave his wife and two sons there while he will do deputation work in the east. He will also take a trip to England, and will publish the Epistles and Book of Revelations, which he translated into the Eskimo language. This wotk will complete the New Testament in Eskimo. r You're to be the judge. We leave it to you to decide. All we want is your verdict." 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Fibre 'Mo growers to distraction by Considerable harm is done to trees ow yvellowbellied woodpeckers in the as rheumatism, indiges- | Allogany mountains. To ontoh insects hey peck "holes.in the trunks of trees n the sap which exudes, ants and and ypon the woodpeckers feast pelied in the Dutch fashion. though of | / Moth Bags. : Keep moths from furs by using Bell's th Bags. The cheapest and on the mark Toronto London . The Sunshine way of placing coal THE LARGE DOUBLE FEED DOORS and wide enough to admit great rough chunks of wood that would either have to be wasted, or chopped up for an ordinary furnace. | the easiest thing imaginable ! Such a generous opening would be next to im- possible to miss. And you can easily deposit the coal in any spot you desire. Alter you have experimented -with small feed- doors, and hit' the edge of the door frame a few f in the furnace. provide an opening deep in the Sunshine; why, it's It is the easiest-man- aged, cleanest, greatest labor and fuel econo- mizer you can buy. Montreal Winnipeg (VA LIV. scientifically and perfectly con- structed furnace. It radiates most heat with * - If your local dealer b does not handle the Sun- il shine, write direct to us NACE times, you will recognize' more completely the ease and advantage of the Synshine method. The illustrations hint at the difference. If you will examine the fire-pot of.the Sunshine you will notice that the sides are straight up and down. On many furnaces the fire-pots slope, forming a rest on which the ashes accumulate. As ashes are non-conductors of heat they prevent the fire-pot from radiating as much heat as it should; they clog up the draft and deaden the fire. But the Sunshine fire-pot is a wonderful radiator of heat. No ashes can cling to the straight, sheer sides of its fire-pot.- The live, red-hot coals are always snug up to them. radiation of every unit of heat produced by the fuel. There is nothing to prevent the The Sunshine is the most ess consumption of fuel, or Free Booklet. i ERR AE The Common Way of Distributing Coal on the Floor. St. John, N.B.. PEREIRA Hamilton Calgary -- MO Perfectio | are "the perfe Packed i proof b alway Get 2 wil or I= E. P. Jenkins FREE T0 10U--MY SISTE ta lete trial; and if you sh ee that two eents a da Just send ne I iree, inp) t s y of Cost,my book--* WOMAN'S OWN MED ing why women suffer, and how they can ¢ have it, and learn to T