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This is only one more liak in the chain of proof that "Fruit-a- never fail to cure Constipation or non- gotion of the bowels. 50c a box, or 6 for $2.60, or trial box 2 At dealers yr sent on receipt of price by Fruit a- tives Limited, Ottawa any one ives" be. ZF EVERY TEN CENT DACKET OF WILSON'S FLY PADS Will kill more flies than three hundred sheets of sticky paper DETECTIVE STORIES THE VALUE OF SMALL CLEWS ------ "in All My Experience," Says Police "Sergeant Cuff, One of Wilkie Col- fling' Creations, "I Have Never Yet Met Such a Thing as a Trifle" If you ask some London publishers they will tell you that no book sells so well as a detective story and that peo- ple still find a fascination in the achievements of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin, Gaboriau's Lecocq and Tabaret and the redoubtable Sergeant Cuff of Wilkie Collins. These men were the forerunners of Sherlock Holmes, and their feats of criminal tracking were as remarkable as those achieved by the famous char- acter created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Perhaps the least 'Known is Cuff, who figures in "The Moonstone." Cuff looked for clews in trifles. In- vestigating a smear on a newly paint- ed door, he was told by the superin- tendent who had the case in hand that it was made by the petticoats of the women servants. The superintendent said petticoats were trifles. "In all' my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world," replied Cuff, "I have never met such a thing as a trifie yet. We must see the petticoat that made the smear, and we must know for certain that the paint was wet." Lecocq, the beau ideal of the French detective, was wont to explain his de- ductions to assistants, just as Sherlock Holmes did to his friend Watson. In the story of "File No. 113" a safe has been robbed. There is a scratch on the door of the safe which seems to have been made by the key slipping from the lock. But Lecocq explained that the paint was hard and that the seratch could not have been made by the trembling hand of the thief letting the key slip. He therefore had an iron box méde, painted with green varnish, like the safe. As Lecocq inserted the key he asked the assistant to endeavor to pre- vent him using the key just as he was about to insert it in the lock. The as- sistant did so, and the key held by Lecocq, pulled aside from the lock, slipped along the door and traced upon it a diagonal seratch from top to bot- tom, the exact reproduction of the one shown in a photograph of the safe. Thus it was proved that two persons were present at the robbery ---one wished to take the money and the other to prevent its being taken. In the. play Sherlock Holmes, the detective, with the aid of an accom- plice, raises an alarm of fire at the TO WIS MAJESTY. 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Although "The Adventures of Sher | lock Holmes" somewhat overshadow | the stories of other detectives which appeared in the Strand Magazine, one should not forget to mention Martin | Hewitt, investigator, and Dick Don- ovan. Both these detectives worked alone and were past masters in the art of solving robbery mysteries, murders and the crimes of secret societies. And the value of noting trifles, par ticularly in detective work, is striking: ly illustrated in "The Case of Mr. Fog: gart." The latter had been murdered in bis chamber, which was sitnated at the top of the building io which Hew- itt had an office. Hewitt was the first one on the scene. The door was lock- ed. and when he got inside the room he found Foggatt lying across the ta- ble, shot dead. There wus 2a sheer drop of fifty feet outside the windows. How bad the murderer got in, and how had he escaped? On the sideboard were the freshly { bitten remains of an apple. Hewitt noticed that it had been bitten by a | person who had lost two teeth, one at the top and one below: He also | saw that the dead man had an excel | tent set of false teeth, with nove | missing. He observed, too, that an ac- tive young man could, by standing on | the window sill, draw himself onthe | roof and thus escape. 'Thus Hewitt | comes to look for a tall. athletic look ing young man with two teeth miss. ing. He finds him. obtains by a ruse | another apple which he has bitten, | compares the two and ultimately ob { talons the startling story of the mur | der from the murderer himself after | the coroner's jury bad returned a ver | dict of "accidental death." -- London | Tit-Bits. | It is the little pleasures which make | ite sweet, as the little displeasures make it bitter. | |" Confide a secret to a dumb man and | # will make him speak.~--Livonian. { | Backache is almost immediately -re- | lieved by wearing one of Carter's { Smart Weed" and Belladonna Back- {ache Plasters. Try one and be free fire. pein, Price 25 | | may do more than afflictions can 0 . THE BUFFALO. Fes | A Good Surveyor and One of Our First Roadmakers. heavy animals wonld crash through the forest, breaking in their rapid progress a broad, deep road from one feeding ground to another. As this route would be followed again and again by this and other berds, it would become level and hard as a rock, so that there was great rejoicing in plo- neer settlements when the weary road- makers, struggling with log causeways and swampy hollows, came upon a firm, solid buffalo trace. Nor was this an uncommon experience. The line of many of these roads Is followed today by our railroads and canals, as it was followed by our log roads and turnpikes. The buffalo followed the level of the valley. He swerved round high points whenever it was possible, crossing the ridges and watersheds at the best nat- ural divides and gorges, and he crossed from one side of a stream of water to the other repeatedly in order to avold climbing up from the level, after the fashion of our modern loop railways. ONE OYSTER ENOUGH. He Swallowed It Alive and Had to Kill It After It Was Down. A farm laborer from the interior' on his first visit to London dropped into a small oyster shop where a pumber of men were eating raw oysters. The extreme satisfaetion displayed on the faces of those about him created long- ings of a gustatory pajure in the new arrival, who edged his way up to the counter in anticipation of eating a real live, julcy oyster. It was tite first time he had, seen an oyster, and he became at once inter- ested. and when the shellfish had been finally uncased he proceeded to bal ance it on the end of his fork. then, with a look of extreme satisfaction, guiped it down "Great Scott! shouted a mau stand: ing near him, "You haven't swallowed the oyster alive, have you?" There was a horrible pause. »That critter will eat right through you!" shouted anotber. By this time the poor countryman was shaking with fear and horror. He commenced to have terrible pains in his i, Sa? and was soon doubled up in his agony. go for a doctor to get. the thing out He continued to grow worse, when some one suggested that he take a dose of tabasco sauce, which it was claimed would kill the object that was creating such terrible commotion in his interna! arrangement. He grasped the bottle with avidity and took a draft, tis condition, which pefore had been alarming to the vie tim. now assumed a serious phase to the perpetrators of the hoax. The wau gasped and choked. He became black in the face, and tears were ruvgning down his face, when some on® thrust a bottle of oil into his mouth, and he was forced to drink copious drafts. The effect was magical. The oyster was evidently "dead." He became more composed, and when he finally recovered his breath he said: "We killed it. But when that darn ed stuff got into my stomach that oys- ter rushed around as if a shark was after it." ~London Scraps. Her Health So Shattered Her Children Weve Taken From Her. It is a cad story, one that is not often heard nowadays that is told in the following letter by Mrs. Marion R. Charlotte, written from her home in Pittsburg : 'For about five years I suffered -from a complication of dis- orders, the origin of which my doe- tor was unable io discover, twas undoubtedly owing imperfect act- iog of. the liver and stomach. 1 am sure of this because there was a con- tinual weight and painful fullness in my right side and scaveely anything 1 ate was digested. 1 also suffered agony with hemorrhoids. A succession of sleepless nights, erucl pains in my side and back, combined with the ter- rible state of my nerves made me wish for death. "I could do no housework, my sis- ters took my small children and I de- | spaired of ever geiting on my feet again. "One memorable day a neighbor brought me a box of Dr. Hamilton's Pills which had cured her of troubles similar to mine. To my astonishment, 1 folt better next day. Gradually all my pains didappeared. T put on flesh, looked healthy, had lots of spirit and | a desire' to work, Dr. Hamilton's Pills cared me and 1 know they will work marvels for every woman that uses them." \ The one safe depandable medicine for men and women in poor health is Dr. Hamilton's Pills--rcfusa any substi- ate. At Bl dealer 0 He begged some one Lo | A Mother's Breakdown Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes for Children--before going to School-- with Milk or Cream, invigorates and strengthens for the day's work. Kellogg's is in itself an entire, satisfying, delicious breakfast. Kellogg's is already cooked--it's purified--just add milk and serve. ------ ee ---------------------- Brlish hssociaion for the Advancement of Science The 79th Annual Meeting Will Be Held in Winnipeg, August 25th There are twelve sections, namely : phy, Feonomic Science and Statistics, Engineering, to September 1st, 1909. Mathematical and Physical Science, Chemistry, teology, Zoology, Geogras Anthropology, Physiology, Botany, Agriculture, and Educas tional Science, which meet daily during the week. There will be five Evening Lectures, some of which will be illustrated by experiments. These will be delivers ed in the Walker Theatre, by eminent gcientific men. Terms of Membership { Anyone interested may join the Association and obtain full j Annual Members, $10 first vear, $5 subsequently; Life Members, £50; Ladies' Tickets (transferable to Ladies only), 1 all information can be obtained from the Honorary of Manitoba, Winnipeg, up to Saturday, August 2lst. : $5. Programmes, tickets, anc Broadway, Winnipeg, ~ yrivileges on the following terms: Associates, 85; Secretaries, University . Roomy Drill Hall, Local "After that date, at the Reception AFTER THE BATTLE -------- An Incident That Seemed to- Explain Joshua's Miracle. There was an incident in our life at Brandy, commected with Gettysburg, which is worth relating. Batchelder, whose map of the battlefield of Gettys- bury is authority amd whom we had fallen in with while we were there, hsked to join our mess at Brandy when he came to the army to verify the po- sitions of the various commands. One night we had just sat down to dinner when he entered our big hospital tent, quite tired. "Well," he announced sfter taking his place at the table, "I have been down in the Second corps today, and I believe I have discovered how Joshua made the sun stand still. I first went to -- regiment and had the officers mark on the map the hour of their position at a certain point. Then I - went to ---- regiment in the same bri gade. They declared positively it was one or two hours earlier or later than that given by the other. So it went on, .no two regiments or brigades agreeing, and if 1 hinted that some of them must certainly be mistaken they would set me down by saying with severe dignity, "We were there, Batch- elder, and we ought to know, I guess," and T made up my mind that it would take a day of at least twenty hours instead of thirteen at Gettysburg to satisfy their accounts. So when Josh- ua's captains got around him after the fight and they began to talk it over the only way under the heavens that he could ever harmonize their state- ments was to make the sun stand still and give them all a chance." Any one who has ever tried torestab- lish the exact position or hour when anything took place in an engagement will confirm. Batchelder's experience and possibly, if not too orthodox, «ac cept his explanation of Joshua's feat. ~--Morris Schaff in Aflantic, A MONSTER SKULL. © _ One That Was Said to Be Bigger Than a Bushel Basket. ; One of the most remarkable-finds of gigantic human remains of which we have any record was that said to have been made at Palermo, Sicily, in the year 1516, when an entire skeleton of unheard of proportions was unearthed by some marble quarry men. These mammoth remains measured exactly thirty-four feet from head to foot and nine feet seven inches from point to point of the shoulders. A stone ax buried withrthis did time giant may still be seen at Palermo in section "Z" of the St. Isorent museum. It is made of a bluish looking, fine grained bowlder and appears to be about two feet eight inches long by ene foot broad and nine dnches through in the thickest place. A musty, rusty look- ing tag attached to the relic informs the visitor that it weighs fifty-two pounds, but the general verdict is that it could not weigh over thirty or thir- ty-five pounds. The skeleton 'was burned by = Tob in the year 1662 during the prevalence of the black death at Palermo, the ignorant, superstitions Jpoapie believ- terious way with the th dealing dis- temper. The skull of | this giant, ac cording to Abbe Ferregus, "was Jarge- ly excessive of 'the baskets sayd te hold the bushel, being Site abutoand to«the umber 25¢. per box, or EASY TO SEAL j TITHE | Fruit is not perfectly preserved unless sealed in:Schram_Automatic Sealer The "Schfam™ is the 'next best thing to an imperishable fruit jar: iL 1U's/as cleat asiCrystal and as durable as plate glass because all green glass is rejected when'if-comes to manufacturing Schram Automatic Fruit jars, The * h" has a wide, smooth, polished mouth. It admits whole fruit easly. 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