BT -- A GENEROUS SOUL IS MR. JOHN BULL The British Public Has Given Millions for the Relief of Those in Distress On the appeal of the Mayor of Bol ton for fymds in the recent Pretoria aster no less than $350,000 in a week! That alone ls enough to show that John Bull {s a generous soul. The first time that he publicly helped the miners was in 187%; when nearly $150000 was raised on behalf of the sufferers from a niine explosion fu Wales. Since then every colliery disaster has found the British nublie | 10 ald the widows and chidren left be- kind. Mansion House Funds The Britisher is as generous to his fellow-beings gbroad as he is to those at home. When the Seine rose and caused such widespread damage-ryear ago the British public, through the medium of a Mansion House gent over pearly $350,000 for the help of their Continental neighbors. Strange 10 say, the first Mansion Hous® Fund was inaugurated to relleve Paris. This w or the relief of the sufferers in the siege by the Germans in 1871. Over 60 was collected © and sent to Paris tly in money and partly in clothing, food and BeCess ari The Parisians did not want m much as food, for money ¥ i p ul, and Johm Bull resi fr appeals of the starving by sending over sixty-eight tons a day or two after the siege was raised. Sipce that first fund the lian- sion House alone has received nearly $20,000,006 out of the pockets of the penerous Anxlo-Sayon When the terrible Messing startled dramatic suddenness and its conse ont misery Great Britain foreign cour that contributed to the rel of the refugees $606,000 was patched to jt with 3400.00 Ne paper eariliguake at the world with its most ver the country ar the ir readers, and the as not in vaio. all « appeal thus mad Famcus Famine Records In 187% ths Mansion House opened Fund, | other | the | Over | ly collected and dis-| y, Germany coming next | ), and France with $300, | receipt | a fund for the great Indian Famine. In response to the appeal of the Lord Mayor, the huge sum of $3,450,000 was extracted from the pockets of the na ton. In 1897 abother fund was organ- { ized to sid the Hindus, over two and a { half million being sent to India. Al | together Englhnd has sent $10,000,000 in one way and another to relieve our | fellow-subjects in India. Such figures are a spiendid tribute to the generosity { of the British Public. | During the Boer War, however, Bri | tain really rose to the occasion and { showed what she was capable of in emergencies. The Mansion House left | all its glorious records far behind when it raised $5,659,300 for the Transvaal War Fund. In addition to this, $350, 000 was given to the fund for the Transvaal refugees and $585,000 for the C.LV.s. That was the Mansion iiouse | alone, and when it is recalled that i { there were three other junds of a simi- | lar kind in existence at that time one | { is astonished at the 'capacity of John | Bull's pockets. Altogether nearly | $20,000,000 was subscribed during the | days of the war. Britain paid gener ously for the magnificent help that her soldiers and sailors gave her. An Unpeopular Appeal The greatest given to a fund, apart from the perma nent charitable organizations, was the $125.000 given by Sir Thomas Lipton to the Poorest of the Poor® London Jubilee Dinner'Pund in 1887, Practeally only once has the British public refused to give, and give hand- somely. On April 13th, 1882, the Lord Mayor of London ammounced that he wished to receive funds to help the un- | i { { i employed to emigrate. In tweélve days only & few paltry pounds were col lected, and, as a result, the Lord compelled to close the amounts Mayor was fund and to return the few that had been sent. The British Public are, as a rule, however, only too willing to subscribe, and the names of a few funds will show how wide are their sympathies { Princess Alice isaster, Hungarian | floods of 1879, Relief of Persecuted Fugsian Jews, Iceland Famine, Egypt { Cholera, Gordon . Memorial, Ottawa | Fire of 1901, and the St. Vincent vol canle eruption of 1902. { of five hundred n { reverdu¢' in the Lit has been Father Time: "Now, then, my A A A AINSI II lad, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1011," $ : : ¥ i | you've a busy time in front of you te get round with all these things--and more to come!"--*"London Opinion." : ~------ ers... TAXES ON TITLES WILL TOTAL $16,350 What the Recent New Year Honors Cost--Money Goes to Inland Revenue Fund encies of the politl- about the creation Should the cal situation 1 ew Peers a nice little nation's Indeed, that when sum would be added to the way of fees. suggested at times the Chancellor of the Exchequer, endeavoring to make up a deficit on the Budget, might do worse than fol the of James 1, who, when desperately created, on ow example hard-up | the Duke of Fife, A ROYAL DEBUTANTE Princess Maud Will be Introduced at the Courts of the Coming Season ~--Duke of Fife's Daughter Pretty Princess Maud, the younger | ss Royal and | Princes will be one of the debutantes at daught er of the most coming season's Courts Years younger than fair-haired Princess Alexandra--who came out, not at a Court function, but interesting the | She is two | her sister--tall, | J WAS REDUCED TO A SKELETON GIVEN UP BY THE DOCTORS "AND PREPARED TO DIE "FRUIT-A-TIVES™ SAVED HER LIFE The days of the miracle have not passed away. miracies of healing in some part of our couatry ! Every day--almost ev 3 rm One 'does not ordinarily think of miracles in connection with fruit juices hour--'Fruit-a-tives™ is performing --and yet it is fruit juices that are changing sick, helpless, and sciuetimes dying, people into happy, healthy-men and women. Here is just one case in which the cure made by *'Fruit-a-tives'" was nothing short of a miracle. Madame Tourangeau suffered for eleven years and 'was finally given up to die by her physicians. Yet "Fruit-a-tives"' ~~the marvellous remedy made of fruit juices--completely cured time. no good. The ste covered This lis MADAME ARTHUR TOURANGEAU. all and Jiat of Digestive digests the foo her and restored her to health. Here is her letter--read it--study it--profit by it, Rrviire A PiEreE, Co. PorTNEUF, QUE, May oth, 1910 "1 look upon my recovery as nothing short .of a miracle. I was for eleven years, constantly suffering from Chronic Dyspepsia and Indigestion with Constipation. The last two years of my illfiess, I was confined to my bed nearly all the I was treated by several doctors foo 4 During the latter part of my illness, I was so thin that I weighed only 90 pounds, and I vomited everything I ate. Even water would not stay on my stomach. The doctors gave me up to die as the stomach trouble produced heart weakness hr y received the Last Rites of The Church and looked forward to death in a short time, At this time, *"Pruit-a-tives' and they simply did me was frequently unconscious. I 1 was reduced to a skeleton. a lady friend strongly urged me to try bow thankful I am that I did so. When 1 had taken one box, 1 was much better and after three boxes, 1 was practically well again and had gained 20 pounds. taken 13 boxes ij absolutely well--no pain- heart is sound For the sake of other suf publish my letter and photograph." DAME ARTHUR TOURANGEAU. » bag about a foot long and six inches wide, 1 have now weigh 150 pounds and am no indigestion--no copstipation--uy and complexion clear, erers, I give 'you permission to oat a licate membrane wild pour out for each meal about a 1 lined with de uid called Gastric Juice, which dissolves or n Sg digestion, the muscular coat Squeezes and presses the food from one e nd of the stomach to the other, and this churning mixes the food with the Gastric Juice. If the food is not churned properly, or if the Gastric Juice is weak then the food is not dissolved properly and Indigestion and Chronic Dy spepsia result, Gastric Juice comes from the blood --and the only way to have strong, active Gastric Juice is to keep the blood pure by the suggestion of the Earl of Salis bury, a couple of hundred baron:ts, each of whom paid $5,000 for the dig A A A A A IIPS LANSING CENTENARIANS at a ball given by Lady Farquhar for the late King and Queen Alexandra. | To King Edward Princzss Maud was | much devoted, and was a great favor FIVE A Wonderful Old Lady Who Had 170 | i Living Descendants--Remark- | able Longevity At Leicester Workhouse Infirmary the death has occurred of Mrs. Eliza beth Jarrom, in her 10ist year. When | the old lady celebrated her 100th birth tday, on March 13(h last; there were great rejoicings in the workhouse--a birthday party--and a big birthday cake, which Mrs. Jarrom took great { interest in cutting. She had a family of eleven children, of whom six sur | vive, the eldest being a won of 72 years {and the youngest 62. Her descendants include 48 grandchildren, 108 great. ; srandchildren, and eight great-great grandchildren, making a total of 170. Mrs. Jarrom smoked a clay pipe regu- | larly, and was the proud possessor of a handsome silver tobacco-box, present. ed to her by Dr. Ellis on the occasion of her 100th birthday. Mrs. Kate Sykes Waters, who lived at Milton, Sittingbourne, with a son aged 82 and his wife aged 80, is dead {at the uge of 101. She could see to read and thread a needle without the aid of glasses. Mrs. Clementine Bdwards, Queens- borough, passed away in her 101st year. She was the mother of eleve: children, of whom only a daughter, who is in receipt of an old-age pension, survives, Except for being rather dear, *¥Mrs. Edwards retained the full possession of her facuities. Few would dread the approach. of old age if it came to all as gently and lightly as it has done to Mrs. Bacon, of Burghclere, Hampshire, whose han- dredth birthday was marked by a let j ter of congratulation from the King. { This wonderful old lady leads a life that many a Tan or woman thirty | years her junior might envy. Each || morning she comes down to breakfast ting her many friends and relations, DUKE OF CONNAUGHT Who will come to Canada in September as Governor-General, succeeding Earl Grey CHARGERS OR THEARMY English Vetdrinaries Are Making Pun chases in Austria "Two English veterinary surgeons, of the highest sta dard, are now on their hay fo Austriz with $56.000 to spond on the parehase of 214 chargers for the Army and Naval tournament, which Is to tour the British Iles thin spring snd summer. In (he casd of horses for the officers over $306 will Be given per animal. It has been de elded to purchase horses of Hungarian breed, because they are docile, very) teiligent, and can stand sea voyages do English or Irish ani Hungarian breed is three and the Austrian cavalry what superb chargers they rms for the tournament, Just red, are used by £5) : E Fie is ip £ i ! ii . | walker now," she said, as she stepped {at 830, and fills her day reading the newspapers and writing to and receiv- When it is fine she goes driving in a rdonkey-ehaise. "I am-ndt-a very good tout of the low carriage and went | briskly to the house. At luncheon and ; dinner she sits at the head of her table | and carves or helps the various dishes, {and in the evening, when tired of read. | i | Ing--she wears no spectacles--she | plays bezique or some other game till | ten o'clock. when she goes to bed. {| Mrs. Ann Speed, who celebrated her | 101st birthday at the village of Heigh- { ington, near Lincoln, received letters {of congratulation from all quarters of | the globe, Almost every Friday morn ing Mrs. Speed carries her basket of ieggs to market at Lincoln. She | attends to her poultry herself, and tin bakes her own bread. i DANCING AND LONGEVITY | The Paris correspondent of the "Standard." Ciscussing the question of | dancing and longevity, points out that | the celebrated Vestris died at the age {of 80, and his son Is now 102, with cousin 3uyears old. Petitps lived to ithe ripe age of 80, and his brother i reachad 95 before dying at St. Peters (burg tu 1898; and the brother of Mer sue, an old favorite of the Paris { land Revenue. {and six Privy Councillors, twenty-five | i knights, nineteen récipients of" Colo- | nity. Fees have been considerably re duced, however, since "the wisest fool in Christendom," as Sully described James I, invented the order of baro- nets in England, Nowadays the grant- ing of letters patent to a baronet costs only $500, payable to the Board of In-| There were nine baro- | nets in the list of New Yaar"s honors, nial honors, fourteen recipients of | South African honors, and fifteen re- vipients of Indian honors, eéach of] whom will have to pay $150. The In- land Revenue authorities will thus "receive $16,350 altogether. These amounts do not include the stamp duty incurred in taking out a coat of arms, nor the charges of the Heralds' College for the using of let ters patent. For designing a coat of arms and granting letters patent for its use the Heralds' College charge! $338. Assuming that the eighty-eight recipients of honors all decide to take out letters patent to the right of armorial bearings the whole cost of the New Year's honors will be over $50.000, The absence of any peerages in the new honors list makes a considerable difference to this form of revenue, for a duke has to pay $1,750, a marquess $1,500, an earl $1,260, a viscount $1,000, and a baron $750. Then, again, the Knighthood of the Garter enjails $1,000 in fees. It may be remembered that Lord Roberts objected to paying a bill for $3,750, which was presented to him after accepting an earldom in 1901, and complained still more when he found that his acceptance of the Garter entailed a total expenditure of close upon $5,000. Even this, however, was not quite such a costiy distinction as being made 8 Scottish baronet in the time of Charles I, who compelled every man | so honored to pay $15,000. As a setc:f to this heavy fee the patents down to | 1638 included a grant of specified land in Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, this grant did not prove of much advantage, for long before 1638 the colony had | passed into the hands of the French. | PRINCESS PATRICIA Daughte®of the Duke and Duchess of { ouf of it again. | Mgud who callefl her mother, who is { dhe is | ter. ite with his Majesty. She is clever, and can speak fluently in French, Ger an and Italian. of initiative; and if at one time she was always getting her sister into trouble) she was always getting her It was merry Princess ox\remely retiring, "Her Royal Shy- nesd," The presentation of a Royal | Princess is always of great interest. course, formally pre- not, of sented, but enters the Throne room,' where the presentations are made, with the Royal party, and sits behind their Majesties while the Court 1s In progress with other members of the Royal family. After her debut, she usually appoints a lady-in-waiting, who escorts her to any social functions she may atlend. WHERE KING MANUEL WiLL LIVE, A Mansion of Victorian Design in Four Acres of Ground Abercorn, King Manuel's residence } for the pext twelve months, Is a man- sion of mud Victorian design standing in four acres of grounds, which include a charming rosery, fruit, kitchen, and flower gardens, two tennis lawns, and 8 croquet lawn. The house has only two floors. On the ground are dining and drawing rooms, which open into a large conservatory arranged as a winter garden or smoking lounge; a boudoir, and a splendid library over- looking the garden. The first floor leads to fourteen bedrooms and dress ing rooms and three bathrooms. The furniture is a mixture of old English and substantial modern, and there are many - interesting Oriental articles brought ever by Sir Harry Maclean Except in the servants' quarters no paper or paint is used. all the Walls | being of varnished piteh-pine. Forty years ago the house was built at a cost of $125,000, but Kaid Mgclean secured it in 1909 for about one-fourth | that sum. "JAPAN'S 'FIGHTING PRINGE Fushimi Will Attend the Coronation of King George Prince Fushimi, of Japan, who. is to represent the Emperor at the forth- coming Coronation of King George, when he came to this country to return the visit which. was paid by Prince Arthur of Connaught, the head of the Garter Mission which had visited the Japanese capital in the previous win As an officer of the his attention in the main to the ques tion of transport and commissiarat; and he glso greatly distinguished him self in the war, with China. The hdborary freedom of Newcastle was conferred by the Lord Mayor upon Sir Willlam Stephenson, who during bs forty-two years' membersdip of the council has been six times elected chief magistrate. The honorary free others in 450 years. dh We Do Not Claim To Teach the older phonetic or alpha- betic systems in thirty days. This, we grant vou, would be ont of resson. We do, © claim to teach » aye tem which gives supreme satisfaction-- 8 system whichis as fac in adyavee of the older systems, good though they Were, as our modes of hemting, light- A = of those of by-wone In disposition she is | lively, adventurous, fearless, and full the . will in all probability occupy the same | quarters at York House as In 1907, | keeping the bowels and kidneys regular, and the skin active ; "Fruit-a-tives"' will always cure Indigestion; liver, bowels, kidneys and skin, purifying the blood. *'Fruit-a-tives" Trouble of Digestion, by all means take **Fruit-a Uves". 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