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Hair, Fibre, etc. also Mattresses made to order of all kinds and descriptions. : Mattresses from $2.00 up. : Lee ew mE Ree. i OUS HEALING GOING AROUND WORLD i PSYCHIC WAVE WITH MIRACUL- POWERS. { This Remarkable' Theory Has Been Advanced by a London Medical {| Man in Connection With Astonish. ing Cprel--Well-Aftested Modern Miracles in Great Britain. There seems to be a paychic wave traveling round the world with mira. culous healing powers, and diseased persons who come into contact with it 4 be cure without medical aid, { though all hope of recovery may have | been given up. This remarkable the- ! ory has been advanced by a London | medical man in connection with the | astonishing cure of Miss Dorothy { Kerin, of Herne Hill, London, who, ; after five ears of terrible suffering from organic diseases, including gas- tric ulcer and tuberculosis of the lungs, and who had been given up entirely by the physicians, "suddenly got up, walked about, displayed an appetite, ate with a relish, and fo-. day is one of the most cheerful and healthiest persons in England. Miss Kerin herself attributes her cure to the interposition of Providence in response to prayer, but specialists regard her own version as the ex- planation of a s'mple mind unversed in the laws of the psychic world. Another remarkable case which seems to bear out the theory already referred to was that of Miss Edith Ballard, of Gillingham, who, in No- vember last, made a remarkable re- covery from paralysis. For a couple of years she had lain in bed, prac- | tically helpless. Then, according to her own story, an inspiration seemed to come to her to get up. She tried, and, to her amazement, found that she was able to walk round the room. | Ultimately she found herself able to rise without the least assistance, dress herself, and walk downstairs, and ap- parently has quite recovered from her former terrible affliction, Curiopsly enough, another Gilling- ham resident, Mr. Charles Sampson, who was formerly a shipwright in Ohatham Dockyard, and who, about seven years ago, lost the use of his lower limbs, made a miraculous recov- | ery. The authorities regarded his case as hopeless, and gave him six weeks to live. However, he lay on his back for two years and four months. Then one day, when he was dying om his bed, he got excited because they wanted to move him to another ward, rolled himself out of bed, and, through the excitement, his limbs | seemed to come to life again. After that he used to get out of bed in the night and walk round the bed, and some time later asked the doctor if he could gét up. The doctor was thunderstruck. However, when he saw the patient walk, he told him he could, and in a fortnight Mr. Samp- son was well enough to return home. There have been several remarkable cases, by the way, of excitement cur- ing cripples. A few years ago a fire broke out in a London shop, where a man who for four years had suffer- ed from paralysis in both legs and | was compelled to walk on crutches, | was staying. When the fire broke out he grew so excited that he forgot his infirmity and, throwing away his crutches, rushed out of the burning | house and ultimately found that he was completely cured. | In another case a man who, on ac- jeount of a shock, had entirely lost | the power of speech for several months | recovered his voice again through the excitement of watching a football | mateh; while a deaf and dumb man found that he had recovered his speech and hearing after accidentally falling down a flight of stairs ani pitching on the top of his head. | New Welsh Leader. 8ir David Blynmor Jones, the new- ly-elected leader of the Welsh Par- lamentary party, in succession to Mr. Ellis Griffith, is the eldest son of Rev. Thomas Jones, the preacher under |'whom Robert Browning used to "sit." Bir David is a well-preserved man of sixty, with twenty years of Parlia- mentary experience, a gift of persua- sive speech, and a combination of { tact, dignity, and sagacity, He is a lawyer, who relinquished a County Court judgeship to take up a political father's sermons, to which Robert Browning contributed an introduction, and with Sir John Rhys wrote a stan- dard book on "The Welsh People." Sir David is a Congregationalist, an authority on the disestablishment uestion--he sat on the Welsh Church Commission--and a lifelong servant of the cause of education. ------------ The Game of Checkers. The game of checkers, whether we call is checkers or draughts, is an- cient and almost universal. The Chi. nese have a form' of it which they call "the game of circumvention." It was known to the Egyptians, the Greeks 'and the Romana, and, what is strang- er still, antiguarians find it to be one of the amusements of the aborigines of New Zealand, a people who wers apparently cut off from all continén- tal assoeiations and influences for th ds of years. So the pedigree of the game is as long as that of chess, snd indent there have oun skilife) a! both games who Lov hon as the better of the two. Sandy's Warning. + The of all career. He edited the volume of his | THE DATLY BRITISH WHIG, TUESPAY. MAY '4% 1012. SEA MARRIAGES. . Captains Can Tie the Knot But It Can Be Annulled. | Very iow people are. aware of the | power vested in the commanding | officer of a British man-of-war, or in| the captain of a British mercharet- | man, when on the high seas or in a foreign port where there is no British representative, ss regards marriage, providing. ome or both of the con- ; tracting jes be a British subject. The sco# afforded either of the offi- | cers is such as might be turned to | very good account by enterprising novelists. The captains of His Majesty's vessels are anthorized by the For- eign Marriages Act of 1892 fo act as marriage registrars just the same as an am or, consul, or British Resident abroad, and the eeremony may take plate on the high seas or on board a British man-of-war on a foreign station, subject to certain "prescribed modifications." These in. dicate that the legality of the mar- ri depends on the commanding officer fulfilling the conditions eof the Foreign Marriages Aet, which, with very , slight differences, conforms to the conditions as to age, consent of | parents, false oaths, residence, and 80 on, applying to marriage in the United Kingdom. Though no one can question a captain's suthority to marry at sea or on board a vessel on a foreign sta- tion, if any of the provisions laid down are not fulfilled, a Secretary of i State has the power by means of a warrant to vary or annul the marriage performed under the act. But in the case of such a marriage, the captain who acted as registrar is protected from any disastrous conse- quence ensuing from his act. Before this act commanding officers of men-of-war and merchantmen cele. brated marriages on board under an old act, and the marriage had to be confirmed on arrival at the nearest port by the British representative there. Where there was none, the captain himself had to act as consul and confirm his own deed. In the merchant service the skipper has even greater power. He is not obliged to give a certificate, the only compulsion on him being the necessity to "log" the marriage in his official log-book, where it may be seen entered between réports dealing' with the vessef's victualling, her course, the weather encountered, the ships spoken to, and the many humdrum details of "writing up the log." A "Talents'™ Tea. The latest in novel teas comes from | Londen, says The Toronto Star Week- ly. At the "talents" " tea, every guest was expected to do something towards the amusement or entertainment of the other guests, and no one was al- lowed any tea until he or she had fulfilled this condition. Some went in for the more serious asocomplishments, such as singing, or playing the pi- ano, exhibiting paintings, needlework, ete. but most fun and laughter was heard in the room where the more frivolous of the "parlor tricks' were going forward. When I went into this room, I saw a pretty girl cutting out the cutest | little paper figures you ever sgw, and arranging them into a scene of "The i Glad Eye," one of the plays at pres. {ent on in London. Lord Cochrane, Lord Dundonald"s eldest son, was busy showing card tricks, while Lady Diana Manners and her sister, Lady Majorie, in a far corner, were acting a small little diologue to a select and admiring audience. In another room there were some beautifully-made ar. tificia! flowers, a trimmed hat, some exquisite embroidery, one or two well- | executed paintings, and some finely- | modeled clay figures laid out on a { table, with their producers' name duly affixed. When everyone had displayed his or her talént to the best of their ability, a ballot was taken and small prizes awarded to those who had gained the most votes. Tt is generally conceded that the hostess herself deserved a big prize for exhibiting such "talent" in the idea, and all her guests were glad to hear that as the afternoon had been such a success she intended to repeat the experiment later on in th season. i Last Use of Sedan Chale. | The Sedan chair, which Mrs. Ed- mond, the Beotch centenarian, remem- bers using in her youth, required skillful handling on* the part of its bearers. The last person in London to use this form of conveyance habit- ually was Lady Lucy Pusey, mother of the Tractarian leader. Lady Lucy believed in resting her horséds on Sunday, and used to go to church in a Sedan chair. In 1845, however, she had to abandon the practice, ow- ing to the impossibility of procuring satisfactory bearers. By that time there were no properly trained bearers left. Men unaccustomed to the work would fall out of step--London Chronitle. Sir Andrew Fraser Honored. Sir Andrew L. Fraser, who was fi Canada in the interests of the lay- men's missions, has just been honor- @l by the unveiling of a statute in Dalhousie Square, Calcutta. He was Liewtenant-Governor of Bengal for 37 vears. The statute is on a high pedes- fal. It was unveiled by the Viceroy of India with great pomp. The An- giiean Metropolitan and Roman Cath. olic Archbishop were present. "The unveiling was saluted by the firing of filteen guns from fhe fort, Profits of Suez Canal. The British Government last year moeivetl £2.190.200 in dividends on the Sues Canal shares which Lord Bea are as A am Pam ve years ago. r has Td £17,000,000 in mand from these shires. London in I by a tou in an a ang Tess og ita ae in son he 58 men existence, at & total cost S308. of ---- PENSIONED PEERS = Many Persons In Britain Are Paid For Deeds of Ancestors. For more than 200 years the heirs of Lord d'Auvrequerque have been drawing comioriable pension for some- thing an ancestor did 217 years ago. | If} Was in 1684 that William III. granted to Henry de Nassau, Lord d'Auvreguerque, his heirs and assig- nees for ever, the sum of $10,000 a © year, in consideration of "His many and faithful services' --which, in fact, were those of a purely nominal peli. tical nature. Lord Cowper, to whom four-fifths of this yearly sum was paid, commuted a portion of it in 1853 for $200,000 down, but his heirs still receive $1875 annually. There is the case of the Schomberg pension, granted also by William III. He burdened the state with the sum of $20,000 a year to the Schombergs; and, though portions of this have been eommuted by descendants, we still pay out $3,500 annually to peo- ple who, it is alleged, are not in any way comhected with the original Schomberg family. Earl Nelson gets §25000 a 'year through holding the Nelson title and representing the famous admiral's family in the indirect line. In a like manner Lord Rodney gets $5,000 a year, but he is the direct descendant of the gallant seaman who defeated Dé Grasse. The largest of the perpetual pen- sions is that received by the Duke of Richmond. It amounts to $95,000 a year. The story of this pension takes one back to the days of Queen Elizabeth, who got a duty of one shilling per chaldron on al io ried from the Tyne and burned in ngland. Her successors held this duty until the reign of Charles II., wlo granted it to the first Duke of Richmond. He and his heirs received it for over a century, till in the time of George III. it was changed to the present annual pension, which is known as the Richmond Shilling. The Duke of Norfolk obtains $300 a year from the Exchequer for what are known as "ancient fees," and the Duke of Rutland $100 under a like heading. These sums are nomi- nal, it is true, yet the recipients do nothing whatever to earn them. The first Duke of Grafton was grant ed by Charles II. a certain import duty known as "prisage and butler- age" upon wines. In 1806 the then existing duke commuted this duty for the annuity of $34,000, and his heirs still receive yearly this handsome income. ~ But it it not to be supposed that it is only the aristocrats who have been granted free pension on the national Exchequer. Fourteen thoug- and pounds odd is paid out on account of th Courts of Justice for compen- sation to those whose offices have been abolished. One old man is still alive who obtains $275 a year because through' the opération of a new act he was deprived two generations ago of the privilege of selling forms in court. Laundresses who lost their work some twenty years ago through the law courts being removed from Westminster to their present site op- posite Temple Bar still receive from $400 to $550, according to their sta- tus. A "Preacher at Rolls," formerly of the old Chapcery Division, is paid $500 annually, though not a sermon has he preached for innumerable years; and there are many other in- stances in which the taxpayer is call ed 'on to pdy every year. Shoeing Horses. Horses were not shod either by the Greeks or Romans. The ancients were content * with cloth around the feet of their horses in cold weather or when it was ne- | cessary to pass through miry districts. Instead of troubling about horseshoes they devoted their attention to hard- ening the hoofs of their mounts. Nero, who ever strove to outdistance his contemporaries, caused his horses to be shod with silver, while his wife's were resplendent with gold, but in po case were nails driven into the hoofs. The practice of shoeing horses by driving nails into the hoofs was introduced into England by William the Conquerer, but was slow in win- ning favor. Sea Water «For Street Cleaning. In Blackpool, a city of Lancashire, England, the authorities have given a great deal of attention to the preven- tion of street dust. The principal streets are paved either with wood er asphalt and are swept from twelve to twenty times a day. The watering is done very thoroughly, and for this purpose sea water is used almost ex- clusigely, since it has been found by actual test that sea water prevents dust about three times as effectively as fresh water and thi it has no in. jurious effect upon the road surface when properly applied. The streets are not merely sprinkled, but are thor. oughly scrubbed, brushes being used oh a the paved streets. --London ail. When Use of Coal Started. When was coal discovered? The London Daily Chronicle thinks that Britain led the world in making use of coal for heating purposes. In 1234 Henry III. granted a charier for the mining of coal, and some 20 years be. fore that the Haddingtonshire monks had found that their fites gave out a gentler heat when lumps of coal were used with wood. In 1306 Parliament tified the wood merchants by pro. thiting the use of coal, but they put up their prices in a sc lous man- ner, and the act was repealed. -------- Built by One Man. The biggest one man structure in England is Stivichal Church, ant Coventry. James Green, a native that city, not only worked the stones used in it, but with the help of one laborer placed them all in . tion and constructed the whole of the from foundation to turrets. He iz said to have been engaged on the task for forty years. } ---------------- First Long Tunnel In England. Be eon that sv Hor in 1 was st Horo- a Ww Egiand in 1897. coal ex- ! wrapping fiber | SUITS OF ARMOY, The Men Who Fought In Them Were Evidently Small Men. In an exhibition of armor a visitor is apt to be interested at first less in the art of the armorer than in the practical question of how armor could { ever have been worn. It was cerfain- ly heavy. A suit weighed fifty pounds or more; some times the headpiece alone, in the case of a helm for tilt. ing, might weigh thirty pounds, And | it was evidently uncomfortable--"a rich armor worn in heat of day that scalds with safety." wrote Shake speare, who probably knew his theme at first hand. In fact, a complete harness must | have been stuffy emough on a sum- | mers day, but we can safely say it | Was not as hot as one imagines, for "the polished surface reflected the Beat, just as a bright andiron re. mains cocl in front of a fire. Doubt. less, too, it was cold in winter, bat the metal surfaces were not in con tact with the wearer; heavy buff lea- ther or padded garments stood be- |, tween, these mainly, though, for the purpose of deadening the actual shock of arms. A surprising thing is that the men who wore armor were generally mot of' heroic but of small size. This, 1 think, is admitted, though not with, out an oceasional protest. Thus, Lord Dillon, curator of the Tower armor. ies, notes that parts of the armor can be lengthened or shortened, depend- ing upon how they are mounted, so that a suit apparently for a short man { may have served for a man of avers age size. In my own experience I must nev: { ertheless conclude the average size of harnesses is small, even when their adjustability is taken into aceount. Of twenty odd suits I have in mind only one is large enough to Lave fit- ted a man of five feet ten who weigh. ed 200 pounds. Especially small were {the heads. There are, for example, in my collection six casques dating i from the fifth century. They are =o little that they will hardly go over a head of averdge size. Their wearers must, therefore, have had sifigularly small erania. for be- tween casque and head heavy padding i was worn as a protection from shock. { It is difficult to believe that these six iecasques are exceptions in size, and { they could hardly have been prepared i for children, for siich juvenile pieces are excessively rare, so large a num- | ber--half a dozen--occurring only in ia few national collections. 4 Silent John Burns. John Burns is going down to Lanca- i shire, where he will shake off "the cold ¢hain of silence that has hung o'er him long." English gossips, who will insist on putting two and two ! together so as to make five, asser? that {his silence arises from the fact that there is no love lost between him and Mr. Lloyd-George, who was not. suffi. i ciently careful to: ascertain John's views about old age pensions budgets, {and insurance schemes. "J.B." as he sometimes names himgelf, therefore held his peace on all those legislative efforts. For a strange compound is John. As the first workingman to at tain to Cabinet rank, he reflects un- bounded credit to the class from which h> sprang, and the éredit is not les, sened by the fact that he is entirely a self-made man; but it is equally undoubted that Heaven has given him a good conceit of himself. The late King Edward, who dearly loved his little joke, was wont--so cynical peo- ple sdid--to point out with bated | breath to visitors to Windsor Castle { the chair on which John Burns once sat, and the bedroom in which John Burns once slept; and there were other evil-tongued people who told that when Bir Henry Campbell-Ban-. nerman offered him a seat in the €abinet, the imperturbable elect of Battersea replied: "The most popular thing you have done yet." But when all is said, the fact remains that he is one of the most rémarkable men of our time. He has about him ali the charm of a strong, self-reliant man- hood, and his dark, soft, gleaming eyes invite that confidence which men | of all shades of political thought have not been slow to repose in him. Lighting London In 1716. The question of the lighting of Lon. don was settled ip simple fashion in 1715. The common council "repealed, aunulled and made void all the for- mer acts concerning the lighting of London" as a preliminary measure and then proceeded to enact that "all housekeepers whose house, door or gateway fronts or lies next to any street, lane or public passage or place of the said city shall in every dark night--that is, every night between the second night after each full moon moon--set or hang out one or more lights with sufficiént cotton wicks that shall continue to burn from 8 o'clock at night till 11 o'clock of the same night on penalty of a shilling." Pigtal's In England. It is not so very long since the pigtail disgppeared not: merely from the army and navy, bat even from every day civilian life in England. Waist long ils were the fashion. able wear in England about 1740, and before that the bag wig had been adorned with a pigtail looped up in a blsck silken bag. As late as 1558 an old gentleman was seen in Cheapside with his gray hair tied behind in a short ¢ue and even to-day we can find a relic of the pigtail, for the three pieces of black velvet on the dress tunics of officers in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers are the remains of the rib. ban with which the cue was tied.-- London . Chronicle. Speaks Twenty-Three Languages. Siy Charles Eliot, vice-chancellor of Sheffield University, a post which Le has held since King Edward opened that seat of learning six years ago, has accepted the ntment of prin ipal of the Hong University, which cori to an ish vice. chance! [8 will necessitate resignation of the Blefield post his Sir Charles speaks 23 languages. JMDOUGLAS £6: AGENTS | +0000 "FARM FOR SALE (110 ACRES), » Situated near the Village of NVERARY, convenient to School and Church, Frame Dwelling and numerous outbuildings, iaciud ing Cement Stlo, all in good repair; also good Orchard, For particulars, apply to E. BLAKE OVER NORTHERN CROWN BANK. 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