HLS CTOYEMS OO AND GETTING WEL! Thanks fo Gin Pi Dil the Argus yr. age : 3 it' two' years, ave been solteris wr ' severe with Kidoey Trouble pains its my back at tines, and 'with feet, ankles and legs so vefy swollen that I found great difficulty ir . sround the house even ir slippers. 1 am pleased to tell you since taking GIN PILLS, the pain bas gone, the swelling lias subsided, and 1 sgain wear my hich have not been upoit my feet for nearly two years. I am sevent Jears o ORs and a now sixtly n 18", Ming st EB. A;8CADDING. Old people with lame backs--whe suffer with Rheumatism, or Kidney or Bladder Trouble--will find welcome a i Er guarant, money refund nol satisfactory. soc. a box, 6 for $2.50 free if ite National & Chesies) Co. of Camas Linied & Dept. B Toronto, Thomas Copley - Telephone 987 Drop a card to 19 Pine Street when wanting Apvining done in the Cargen- ter line. Estimates given du all kinds of repairs and new work: also Hardwood Fleors of all kinds Alt orders will receive prompt attention. Bhop, 40 Queen Sireet. Dr. de Van's Female Pills liable regulator; never fails, eos re eiceading werful in regu the iy el Se ---- are ia i 4 a to any Fot sdle at Mahood's drug stove. THAT TOBACCO With the "Rooster" on It 3 Is crowing fouder as ne goes: along Only 46e per pound. For chewrmng and smoking. AT A. MACLEAN'S, Ontario Street, BIGYCLES A BICYCLE SUNDRIES DISC Records at Cut THE KINGSTON ICE COMPANY LIMITED 1912 RATES: Book of 30 tickets, 20 to 26 Ibs. each it $1.78. Book of 30 tickets, 45 to 60 Ibs. each \ : $2.78. Ticket books must be purchaset at the office before ice delivery com mences. Office: 14 MARKET STREET' 'Telephone 68. BOOTH & 00. For Potatoes start the plants in- to vigorous growth hE bhi 'sized dots... Lele a *| Canning (earl), first. viceroy of India; '| tselt fn the same sphere of endeavor, recent | though nan BR butes 3 buble. For all that LINKED IN GENIUS, Great Fathers Who Gave to the World Great Sons. Cm y THE QUESTION OF HEREDITY. 3cience Asserts That Genius fs Not Transmissible, Yet Here Are Numer- ous Brilliant Exceptions, Both An- cient and Modern, to That Dictum. An allusion by Henry W. Lacy, an wcute Judge of contemporary hotables, © Winston Bpevcer Churchill as 4 boru sarliamentarfan io whom the genius of bis father, Lord Randolph Churchill, dves agalv and who may prove to wersbadow the fawmie of rd Ran- lolph, even as Willlam Pitt' eclipsed 'he renown of Lord Chatham, moves Thomas McCaleb, in the New York American, to say: "We are promipted by these allusions w» nak ourselves.the well worh query. is genius transmissible? And, though the most authoritative latter day die- tam. of sclence answers in the nega- Adve, therecare not a few noteworthy sxceptions that involuntarily oceur to he mind. "Might we not, first of all, cite from imong the ancients such fathers and ons respectively as Philip of Macedon nd Alexander the Great. Hamllcar ind Hannibal, Marcus Junius Brutus ind 'Luciug Junius Brutus, Vespasian ® ind Titus? Also we find genius resi tent both In Pepin and his offspring. "hariemaguoe, to which ease might be dded, did space permit, the féw great nedieval English kings who were also be sons of great kings. Nor should. ve omit to mention the poets Bernardo Passo and his progeny, Torquato Tas 0; also the great Nicholas Bacon and he still ter Francis Bacon. In- leed, the list might be multiplied to an ipprécfable figure by taking an ex- tended tour Io universal biography. here are, besides, quite a number of fathers and their sons possessed of mech extraordinary talent that they might, by slightly stretching a point, be likewisd called men of genius. ¢1o the blographles of great (Germans we see thiy fact especially creeplog out now and then, and In France, to men- tion only three cases, we tind genius exemplified in such a sire and offspring a8 Etienne Saint-Hilnire Geoffroy and Isidore Saint-Hilaire Geoffroy, as La zare Hippolyte Carnot and Sadi Carnot and as Adexapdre Dumas pere and Alexandre Dumas ils "Quite rie 18 llustration of the ap. parent hereditary transmission of gen- fus is 'the list among Englishmen. Here, contining our essmples to those whose fame belongs to the last cen- tury, we may select at random such uames as Sir William Herschel and Sir Jobn Frederick William Herschel, astronomers; George Canning, ordter nnd prime minister, and Charles Jobo Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, novel ist. and Robert, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith), poet: Jumes Mill, philoso pher and historian, and John Stuart Mii, economist: Isané Disrnell, anthor, and Benjamin Disroell, Tord Beacons field, statesman and novelist: Gabriel Rossettl, poet, and Dante Gabriel Ros- settl, poet und painter: Thomas Ar nold, educator and historian, and Mat. thew Arnold. poet and critic; Justin McCarthy, politician and historian, and Justin Huntly McCarthy, advocate. "In American biography we find the names of such famous fathers and sons respectively as Increase Mather ind Cotton Mather, theologians; John Adams abd John Quincy Adams, both presidents' and statesmen; 'Light Horse" Harry Lee, patriot, and Robert B. Lee, soldier; General Zachary Tay- lor and Geperal Richard Taylor; Jo- séph Story, jurist. and W. W, Story, sculptor; Oliver Wendell Holmes; hu- foorist and poet, and Oliver Wendell flolmes, jurist; Louis Agassiz and Alexander Agassiz, naturalists; Na- thanlel Hawthorne and Jullan Haw- thorne, writers of fiction; Thomas Crawford, sculptor, nnd 'Marion Craw. ford, novelist; Henry George -and Henry George, Jr., economists: the two George Innesses, landscape palutefs; Henry James, the most famous of the Swedenborgians, and Bis son and namesake, the gifted novelist "That the genius of interpretation, a truly great art, may betimes be ib. berited would appear from the In stances of such great actors and théir sons respectively as Junius 'Brutus Booth and Edwin Booth, Sir Henry Irving and Hepry B. Irving, the two Saivinls, Wommaso and Alessandro, and both Coqueiin pere and fils "It is observable from the examples recorded fv thiy article that the genius of fathers and sons ofttinies manifests either of thelr approximating or ex- Ceiling, ns the case might be. the tame or excellence of the other. i "It goes without saying that tilus. trations, perbaps far more nhmetous, oigot ba ghan to prove 'the conten- tion of best nt Wb 'belleve We fave pro cent number of concrete exceptions to affirm that et pardeuiar the late dictom of science, which. of 8 i A SILVER SONG. Silver shove the silvered snow. ; We watched the cold moons dawn i and go. : pto our dreaming hearts were run The wild sweet sun... Through hollowed ranks of osiérs old Rayan the borthland marigold sudden sapphire flame When the firs PE came, A soon. O soon the winds shall bless Our: slim leaf-shaken loveliness. O soon, O soon we call the hours Silver above a sward of flowers. ~Marjorie Pickthall in Saturday | Night. RECEIVING NEW CITIZENS. -------- Every Consideration Is Shown to the Incoming Stranger. We hear a great deal about Can- ada's efforts to'get immigrants, bus everyone seeking admission to the { Dominion is not necessorily accepted. Canadian is glad to welcome the néw-comer, but he very properly requires that he shall be "desirable"; he has no intention of making his broad acres a dumping ground for other nations' outcasts. Consequently, one of the duties of the immigration départment is to examine the immigrants as they land, and suffer only thosé to proceed who satisfy certain requirements, of which the chief are that they be heal') y. are going on farms, into domestic service, or into assured employment, and have a little money in their pocket, so that they are not like: through any mischance to become - public charge. The money qualifies tion is waived in the case of farn. hands and domestics going to assured situations, and of cerfain persons going to join a relative, The examination of the shiploads of immigrants as they disembark at Quebec is one of the most instructive and poignant sights in the Dominion. The breaking of home ties and the departure for a strange land will ever form one of the most touching themes for the artist, whether of the pencil or the pen; and only second to it in interest is the landing on this side, when, after the discomforts of the long voyage, the litfle family looks with widely-opened eyes on the strange sights that abound, wonders what the new home will be like, and prepares for the tedious overland Journey to the final destination. What a blending of hope and fear, of con- fidence and misgiving, of sick longing for the old friends, and eager curios- ity concerning the new. It is at such a critical juncture in the immigrant's career that a little kindness s a long way. Hence it is one of the department's instructions to its agents to extend to the new arrivals all courtesy and considera. tion. Comfortable quarters are pro- Yidud Jor their accommodation at a various stopping places en route, all ta is readily given to assist thom in reaching the distant town or homestead to which they may be going. : In fact, a stranger in Canada need never fail of information and counsel. His own experienck has made the Canadian sympathetic, and even a Susy man will go far out of his wa % direct a wayfarer to a difficult destination. Of the various callings followed by the settlers, farming--either as labor. ers or as homesteaders--that is, farmers of their own free grant of land--claims by far the. majority. This, according to the authorities, is as it should be. The Government not encourage in any way the immigration of skilled laborers, mechanics, or artisans of any sort. Only * farmers, farm laborers, and domestic servants are advised to go, and the Government publications strongly insist that all others should have definite engagemeits in Canada before leaving home, and have enough money to support them for a time case of mishap. In Honor of John Cabot. Halifax is preparing for a very interesting function, to take place in August next, when His Royal High- ness, the Duke of Connaught, will dedicate the tower now being erected above Halifax harbor in Temory of the landing in Nova Scotia of John Cabot, that brave old navigator, who during the reign of King Henry VIL carried the flag of England to the New World, when it was almost as unknown as it was new. This was four hundred years ago, and the tower in Halifax will remind the ple of Nova Beotia at how early a date their fair land came into the light of his bot sailed from Bristol, then cer- tainly the third, and possibly the second, seaport in England. Long ago Bristol erected & monument to commemorate these exploits of the Cabots, and next August the rd Mayor of Bristol, accompanied b other representative | citizens, will come out to Halifax and take part in the dedication of Halifax's monument to In = commemorating the achievements of the brave old navi » Bt. John's, Newfoundland, has rst place so far as this side of the Aflantic is concerned. Several years it erected a Cabot tower on one the hill Sverlooking the cit d Barbar, wd from Whi can be had wines of earth and | "bluebird called ' and | THE DAILY. BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY. JUNE 11, 1912. : HUNTING A MAN-EATER. . Story of How "lr. Stripes Fell to the Englishman's Gun. gives a graphic account of the sue- cessful stalking of a big man-eating tiger in Mowrbhanj, India. The beast had appeared in a village six miles from the hunter's camp, and had kill- ed and partly eaten one of the inhabi- Aants, . News of the raid was brought +fo- the writer, whq thus describes Athat followed. "§ was further told that the tiger had taken shelter in a plantain garden attached to the house of & raivut in the village. I hastened to the village on foot, a8 no conveyance was available at that time of the day. On my arrival I could not, however, find MPBtripes | in the aforesaid garden. Many people of the village ghad climbed . up the trees in the vicinity and had been watching the movements of the tiger. They said that a little before my ar- { rival it had removed to an adjoining bush, which though small, was very thick. v All my attempts to have a glimpse of the animal failed, and at last I was obliged to dislodge him Irom the bush by pelting it with stones. The monster gave two stunning roars, and with the speed of lightning covered a distance of about a quarter of a mile through the compounds of several houses of the village. The people who had accompanied me fled in all di- rections. 1 attempted to follow the brute, but I'%est him. "Presently conflicting news regard. ing the whereabouts of the animal was brought to me, and we made a further search in the bushes situated in the outskirts of the village, At about four p,m. a man came running to me and.said that he had seen the tiger take shelter under a bamboo elump not very far off. 1 ran towards the clump, and sure there was the brute, seated on his hind legs with his abdomen exposed to my rifle, I took the chance and fired from a dis- tance of Bearkt 60 yards. The thud of the bullet was distinctly heard, and the tiger gave a roar and A #pring, but was caught by the bam- boos overhead and dropped oi the ground. He then dragged himself with and expired in another quarter of an hour. The animal was a magnificent full-grown male tiger. The carcase measure 9 feet 8 inches long from fhe tip of the nose to the tip of the tail, rand 4 feet 2 inches high at the shoul- dets. There were great demonstrations in my honor, and 1 came back to my camp with the trophy at about nine p.m." Lost $20,000,000 Will. A sensation has béen caused in North Wales by the operations of mys- terious visitérs to the ruins of Valle Crucis Abbel, Llangollen, who are sup- posed to bé searching for the will of Anthony Pritchard, whose vast estate, valued at $20,000,000, went, into chan- cery 100 years ago in the absence of a will or next-of-kin. The will was sup- posed to have been left in the custody of a caretaker named Jones, but after Pritchard's death it mysteriously dis- appeared, and claimants to the estates have been hunting for it ever since. Some years ago the grave of the care- taker Jones, who a rs to have ex- ercised a weird fascinaticn over Prit- chard during his life, was twice dug up at midnight, and the coffin was searched for the will, which, however, was not found. Excavations appear to have been made at the abbey dur- ing the absence of the guardians, but whether anything has béen discovered it remains to be seen, Rainfall and Consumption. A study of the influence of rain. bearing winds upon the prevalence of tuberculosis has been made by Dr. William Gordon, physician to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. After classifying several Devonshire parishes according to their exposure to rainy winds, Doctor Gordon search- ed out in precisely which parishes the deaths from consumption during a series of years had mainly occurred. He found that the death rate in the parishes exposed to rain-bearing winds was generally twice as high as that of the parishes sheltered from them. Further investigations were conducted in many other localities, among them the city of Exeter. The result was the same. . Doctor Gordon declares that the important point to consider is'the matter of shelter from the rain-bearing winds of the locality, exposure to which is a more serious matter than altitude, character of soil, or even the amount of rainfall, The Nototherium. Mr. F. H. Stephenson, of King Is- land, Bass Straits, has sent to the Launceston Museum, Tasmania, some fossil bones which were discovered on his estate. Mr. H. H. Scott, curator of the museum, states that the por- tions sent for. identification leave no doubt that the animal was a notother- ium. He hopes to be able to extract some interesting 'scientific data from a study of the remains. Mr. Stephen- son discovered the' remains while draining a swamp on his property under conditions similar to those which obtained at Smjthton, where a skeleton was discovered last year. The nototherium i8 one of the three enera of giant marsupials which fourished in Australia in the Pleio- |-céne age. It was a kind of giant wom- bat, with a sl dard of Empire. A correspondent of the Englishman} great difficulty into an adjoining bush ® a sharp, broad skull. --Stan- °, A PUZZLE IN METALS. Brass Has: an Odor Yet Copper afl Zinc Separately Mave Not. Brass, as every oue Knows, has an twful odor, yet the two things of which brass cousists zine and copper, give no odor whatever in their sepa- rate states. This is a problem that has given a great deal of work to sclen- fists. It 1s one as yet pot entirely solved. - : To arrive at the general law it has been found that almost all alloys, or mixtures of two metals, will give an odor, while the metals themselves do not. Brass is not the single example, though probably the most odoriferous. The explanation is as follows: All substances, including metals, are al- ways giving off smail particles of their substance to the air--that is, evaporat- ing. Some solids give these off so rap- idly as soon to disappear. Gum cam- phor is a conspicuous example, To smell any substance a particle of that subStance has to tickle a nerve ending in the nose. If a small particle of cop- per, we shall say, does this by itself, ao effect is noticed, but if a particle of zine and a particle of copper strike at the same time the effect is such as to cause a perceptible impulse to the nerve. The chance for these two to strike at the same time is given only when they are intimately mixed in an alloy.~New York Tribune. FAMOUS EPIDEMICS. in Europe In 1348 the Black Death Claimed 25,000,000 Victims. In the twelfth century not less than fifteen epidemics of disease and many famines carried off the people of Eng land. The thirteenth century saw twenty plagues and nineteen famines, while the fourteenth had a black ree ord of disease. In 1348 the "black plague" or "black death," which was brought into the country from the east, caused the death of 100,000 persons ib London 'alone, while in Europe alto gether 25,000,000 people fell victims to its ravages, In 1485 the "sweating sickness" ap peared in England, causing great de struction of human life. It reappear ed at various intervals for a century thereafter, The last terrible visitation of the plague In England was in 1664-68, by which 100,000 lives were lost in London alone. This epidemic was followed by the great fire of 1666, which destroyed 16, 000 houses, including all the most densely populated portions of the city. The rebuilding of London with some regard to sanitary laws appears to have put the first check on the epi demic diseases that bad previously devasta the population. -- London Loe TRE Whistles and His Door Opens. There is in London a man who sure ly must combine the two characteris tics of laziness and invention to a ve markable degree. It is his custom to have his breakfast in bed, and, bur dened with the trouble of getting out of bed for the purpose of unlocking his bedroom door, he has invented a door which opens to his whistle. He has ac- complished this somewhat remarkable feat by means of a simple electromag- net which draws the bolt when a cur rent passes through it, a platinum point and a plano wire attuned to a certain note. When this note or one of its oc taves Is sounded the wire vibrates in response, and this vibration brings it in contact with the platinum point. The circuit is thus completed, and a sensitive relay is brought into opera- tion.~Chicago Tribune. 3 Russian Place Names. = The Russian bas not applied his names without reason. In 1858, when he founded the capital of the Amoor province, he named it Blagoves chensk. This means "good news"--to all save the proofreaders in newspaper offices. Three years later he founded the capital of Primorskayz and gave it a name that plainly showed what it was intended to be---Viadivostok, "ruler of the east." Near the end of his great transcontinental railway he made a brand new city and called it Dalny, "farthest," a very appropriate name for a place 5,800 miles from the starting point of the road. #4 , His Profession, "Now, Robert, what do you intend to do when you become a man?' ques tioned Aunt Ellen as she looked ap- provingly upon ber small nephew. "I'm goin' to be a soldier," replied the boy promptly, *'cause then 1 can fight whenever 1 want to without be ing spanked for it."--Youth's Compan- fon, -- wry Its Suggestion. ~~ "When 1 asked our new girl if she could do anything in the line of putting up vegetables she replied, '1 can can.' " "My dear, that sounds as if she was a French chorus girl" -- Baltimore American. mn To Stop Mis Laugh. Patlent--Wkhen 1 laugh my side hurts me. Doctor~Ah, well, we'll soon put that right Send for your mether-in- law to stay with you and 1 will send in my biil.--Pele Mele. : * Money and Time. Money and time are the heaviest bur dens of life, and the unbapplest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know bow to use Johnson. Heard In a Street Car. Big Man (with a grooch)--Will you be so kind as to get off my feet? Lip tie Man (with a bundle)---I"ll try, sir. Is it much of a walk?-Boston Tran ot. aid ------ ed A lot of good reach the maturity stage. ished. This old world is fall of peopla with mortgaged opinions. Noe CORPORATION LIN ENGLAND 3B $10,000,000.00 minion Government for security of .. tisiale ghae coluge T * THE EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ASSURANCE OF LONDON . TOTAL ASSETS < : Deposited with holders BUSINESS TRANSACTED FIRE, EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY, ACCIDENT, SICKNESS, GUARANTEE, BONDS AND AUTO MOBILE INSURANCE. HOWARD S. FOLGER, Agent, 55 Clarence St. Kington, Ontario, Phone No. _-- DELLLLLLRLLLLL0LLLLL0ALRLLRILL0D000000000F ELLIOTT BROS. --FOR-- Gas Stoves and Ranges, Coal Oil Stoves and Ovens, Refrigerators, Iee Cream Freezers, Garden Ete, Screen Doors, Window Screens, Hose and Sprinklers, Lawn Mowers, ------ AGENTS For Filter and - The Celebrated " Brownlow" Water Cooler. : 3 3 : : 1 : : { Phone 35. 77 Princess St. FETIFIIIIIIVIGIPIPIIIIISIII IIIs Iso a good home made bread--made of "BEAVER" FLOUR. It means vigor, bone and muscle to your growing children, because it is a perfectly balanced food. And itis the least expensive food you can put on the table. "BEAVER" FLOUR is a scientific blend of the best Western Spring Wheat and Ontario Fall Wheat. It is as good for pastry as for Bread, and best for both. Your grocer has it. DE ALERS-- Write us for prices on Feed, Coarse Grains and Cereales THE T. H. TAYLOR CO. LIMITED, 110 CHATHAM, Ont, intentions fail to --CASTORIA ° For Infants and Children. id The Kind You Have Always Bought - ag a v2 ivepriclaryor Patent Medicine Adt { FAY le Preperation: brie i S1miiating Me Foud and Regula! bing ihe Stamachs and Bowels of ees ee. Promotes Digestion Cheerd Ress and RestContainsneitier inn Morphine nor Mineral. OT NARCOTIC. pr ie