NEWS OF " NEIGHBORS WHAT WHIG TELL US, A -] The Tidings From Various Points In 'Eastern Ontario--What People Are Doing and What They Are Saying. o_o Notes From Flower, Flower, Feb. 21.--Lawrence Cameron and children have returned to Parham, Miss Evelyne Cameron is laid up with s heavy cold. R. McGonegal is haul- ing ties to the siding here. Derwood Cameron has gone to Kingston, Peter Gray was in Flower, yesterday, on business. At Clarendon Station. Clarendon Station, Feb. 20.--Miss Mary McDonnell returned to her home at. Creighton, Min, on Friday, ber aunt, Mrs. Campbell going as far as Renfrew with her. Miss Myrtle Leish- msn spent Friday and Saturday with her sister at Godfrey. Mrs. Isaac Kirkham and sons nt Sunday at Wor father's. Miss McKinnon, teacher #t school No. 8, spent the end of "ust week at her home at Lavant. Miss Martha Leishman is visiting friends at Ladore. At Yonge Mills. Yonge Mills, Feb. 20.--D. Alton Rae, Winchester, spent the week-end ai H. T. Gibson's. Miss Blanche Trickey is spending a few days in Brockville. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Purvis] Lyn, called on friends here on Saturday. Mrs. Scott, who was very ill with mumps, # better. Mr. and Mrs. Pocock, Lyn, dnd Miss Maud Avery, Junetown, were recent guests of Miss Mabel Gibson. Miss 8. McCormack, Lyn, was a recent mest of the Misses Purvis. The many B iand s of Mrs. Clink Tennant, in this vicinity, are pleased to learn of the favorable turn of her serious illness, Charles Scott is visiting in Lanse downe. Filmer Gardiner and Harry Wilson are confined to the house with mumps. Mr. and Mrs. Edson Burn , Brockville, was a recent guest at . Burnham's, sn, Echo Lake News. Echo Lake, Feb. 21.--~Many rom here attended the sale at Parham on Saturday, preach Gunter Free, Methodist er, from Fifth Lake, held a meeting at the school house on Sun- day. Announcements were given for meotings in two wees again. Pray- er meetings will be held on Wednes- dey evening at Jacob Babeock's, Mere. J. Babeock, from the Front, in visiting her daughter, Mrs. ; MeCulls. A quilting bee was held nf Mrs. Allan Wagar's on Wednesday Jast. A load from Wagarville was present and three quilts were com- pleted. A sugar party was held at Mie. A. Rutian's on Wednesday even: ing. Miss Ella Mcleod is able to be around after a severe illness of t; id pneumonia. Louis Mcleod, of Parham, is visiting here. Angus Meleod and family, Parham, visited ol A. Wagar's last week. Allan Wager has finished drawing cord wood to the railroad, Mr. and Mrs. Vandewater are visiting at Colebrook sud other places. Ernest Barr, of Parham, "called at A. Wagar's on Wednesday evening. John Switzer and family at John Cronk's. Daniel Me- _ Leod and family at Arthur Buckley's. Mr. and Mrs. Cox av H, Baboock's, OC. Meulla and family at A. Wagar's and R. McCulla's, William Wagar at J. Jeficey's and Arnold Leslie at H, Hick's. Angus McLeod at CU. Bab- 's. i Fernleigh Facts, Fernleigh, Feb. 21.~Some. farmers are taking out timber. G. Salmond, who was op the sick list, is somewhat im- proving. Mrs. L. Leemon has return- ed home from a visit at Sydenham. Mrs. M. Davey was a recent visitor at. Me. Babeook's. Hev, N. G. and Mrs. Harp are expected for meetings this Aoming Sabbath, Ervin Martin made 'a flying trip to Harrowsmith. Miss Babcock is at her sister's, Mus, Salmoud. Warden Godkin and Mrs. Godkin is at Mrs. McCormic's, Plevna. Mrs. G. Martin at Noah Ly o's. Mrs. Edward White, Ardock, at ber mother's. Robert Martin is spend ing a few days at Clarendon. Demes- tor (Lyon is home from the camp. Mrs, Edward Flieler is visiting her two daughters at Wensley. 'WR. Ricks and F. Flieler has been ing logs to Long Lake, J. in thrashed for L. Leemon last Levmon has returned home from Sydenham. This communi a worry to here of the death of X J. McCormick. D. Keller and tr. Shaveran, Westport, made a flying ip to Ompah last week. W. Mo Ki W. Kellor had a lucky E fishing on Fon Lake. E. Martin : straw from L. Leeman's. J. Godkin returned from Ottawa last Salmond is very ill with measles. Mrs. T. Tappon at Mrs, Kellar's. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. God- at A. Larock"s. W. T n and ] B.-W. Watkins at D. Kellar's. Mr. and Mrs. W. McKinnon at E. Mar- t's, ; Maberly, Feb. 21.--~The funeral of the Henry Moove, of Maberly, was wld in the Methodist church on Mon- His remains were laid to rest he suffered from hekrt disease, so death was not altogether unex- taken suddent: ill ! : | CORRESPONDENTS h Mrs. J. Manders is visiting her par- ents in: Hinchinbroke this week. Rev, {H. Walker, of Oxford Mills, will occu- py the pulpit of the Methodist church ere on Sunday night. Rev. Hollings. worth, Methodist minister, who had the misfortune to lose his horse, was presented by his congregations with a purse of 8150 to assist in the purchase of another, ROYAL SUICIDES OF UGANDA. Monarchs Who Never Allow Them- selves to Become Old or Infirm, Some of the curious customs of a pastoral people of Uganda, known as the Banyoro, are told by the Rev. Jobst Roscoe. He said that when once a king was enthroned his person be- came sacred and his food was re stricted to milk and beef from a sacred herd of cows, which were kept apart from other cows, The Banyoro monarch never allow- ed himself to grow old or his facul- ties to become impaired. When he thought he was going to be seriously ill he called a council, arranged the state affairs with the principal chiefs without giving them any reason for thinking that he was about to die, and dismissed them to carry out his structions, Then he returned to his private house and summoned his chiel wife and ordered her to bring a cup of poison. He draik the contents and in a few minutes was dead. The widow thereupon ealled one or two of the principal chiefs, who prepared the body for burial. For as long as possible the death was kept secret. Each day the milk and beef were brought to the royal residence and enquiriers were informed that the king was suffering from an indisposi- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, FEBRUAR - EE TT TT TTT tion which required him to rest. In the meantime the chiefs were en- gaged in making private arrangements to guard the body and protect the sacred herds of cattle during the wars which would follow on the an- nouncement of the death. When the news 'had leaked out the sons of the dead king fought among themselves, brother killing brother. The survivor became king and attended his father's funeral. At the ceremony several widows of the deceased king clubbed to death, as were the men and the eook, Other took poison. All the bodies were placed in the grave, the ides being that their ghosts should minister to the ghost of the king in the next world, When the last king came to the throne the country was a British pro- tectorate. According to the medicine man, the "god" was displeased, and indicated thpt the first person seen coming along a particular road should be slain over the drum in which human blood was wont to-be poured at each coronation, That unfortupate per- son happened to be a tax-gatherer, an Eaglishman, who -was accordingly de- capitated. The medicine man was ar- rested, but the judge libérated him with a caution, taking the view that he, acted out of ignorance. The drum, however, was bfought by the speaker to England.--London Standard. ---------------- of the were cow- widows J. G. Lindsay, city engioeer of | Belleville, has given Ald. Robinson for- 'ty-vight hours to apologize in the pub- lic press far stating that some thou- sands of dollars of the city's money ; has been squandered by the city engi- ! neer, To accept a our inferiority, handicap is to admit : LAZY LIVER, BILIOUSNESS, HEADACHE, nme You men and women who somehow have an almost daily headache, coated tongue. Qreath, dizziness, can't sleep, ~ COATED TONGUE OR A BAD STOMACH can't feeling right--who taste and foul get foul are nervous and upset, bothered with a sick, gassy, disordered stomach, or have backache and feel all worn out. Are you keeping clean inside with Cascarets----or merely forcing a passageway every few days with salts, cathartic pills This is important. Cascarets immediately cleanse sour undigested and fermenting fo bile from the liver and carry off thé decomposed or castor oil? and regulate the stomach, remove the »d and foul gases; take the excess waste matter and poison from the intestines and bow els, A Cascaret to-night will straight en you out by morning--a 10- cent box will keep your entire family feeling good for months. Don't forget the c¢ hildren-- their little too. insides need a good gentle cleansing, REGULATE STOMACH, LIVER §-BOWELS TASTE GDOD- NEVER GRIPE OR SICKEN, 1 4 ~ GASTRONOMIC FEATS. Remarkable Record Established by a Berlin Market Porter. Tit-Bits Not long ago a Berlin market por- ter undertook for a wager to put away al ope sitting six mutton chops, twelve eggs, a goose, a duok, six pounds of potatoes and twenty-two pounds of hay. Difficulties were anti- cipated with the last course, and large sums were, laid against the ae- complishment of the feat. The ingenious porter solved the difficulty by calling for a cigarette ai- ter he had finished the duck. He then set fire to ihe hay, pounded the ash- es up with the potatoes and swallow- ed the lot. After a heated discussion the referee declared him the winner, A certain Jerry Eke, of Norfolk, on one festive occasion had a small calf prepared and cooked for his special delectation, and deliberately consumed it, all but the bones, during the space of seven hours, and so little did this interfere with his excellent 'digestive powers that he joined his boon com- panions in a hearty repast the same night, and appeared to be gone the worse for it. Tn Perhaps the smartest gastronomical feat on record was that performed by Vicomte de Viel Castel, who, to de- cide a wager, disposed of the follow- ing items in two hours and = forty minutes : Twenty-four dozen of oys- ters, a soup, a beefsteak, a pheasant stuffed with truffles, a saimis of orto- lans, a dish of asparagus, another of peas, a pineapple, a dish of straw- berries, five bottles of wine, ending with cofiee and liquers. The meal was valued at £25. A Siberian soldier, notorious for the insatiable appetite, he possessed, once disposed of a meal, in the pre sence of an English oflicer, consisting of ten pounds of . bread and butter, ten pounds of beef and a bundle of tallow 'candles as dessert. A young Russian soldier, seventeen years of age, named Tarane, ate twen- ty-four pounds' of beef in twenty-four houts, and on another occasion dis- posed of a repast prepared for fifteen people. A Neighbour Now Talks. Watertown Times It is extremely doubtful if Canada should endeavor to revive the treaty, that any administration in this coun. try would now listen. President Taft, after having his fingers burned so severely, and his re-election put in peril, would certainly be very sensi tive about any proposal on the' sub- ject of reciprocity that Canada night make. The danger &s that if Canada should change its mind, the treaty is on our statute books, already ratified by the American congress, and only needs the ratification of Canada to make it effective. It is still open to their action. The first thing con- gress ought to do is to wi the treaty off the books, so that Any fu- ture action this country or Canada mizht take would be on an entirely pew basis. Canada has had its chance to help itself at the expense of the United States. It shouldn't be given another chance, at least not on the wms of the treaty it rejected. 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