I AT SEVENTY-FOUR Little Digesters are a Great Help Hd Mr. John F. Becker, g eight of years ften bri it a still Donvice burden, hat of or some Form of Stomach "Sills te '* come to the give them a chance, ghee i 70 'Here is his letter tells ing what they did for him: 2 Now. 10, 1000. : To Tus COLRMAN 1c Co, © long time troubled with meals, and my tongue coated. ied Sesitg the *' Little t rome a bos, Bxcuse my writing with pencil, bein "a mari he feebl : . the est ach to digest the food perc 'This ] enjoy every meal, En 1 Ttrength otit of what you if take a "Little Digester" at mail from Cons Ma rns » FLGLUR Our Robin Hood 'Brand, of Roar Bas & guarantees In every bag for good quailty. ANDREW MAULRAN, Untarlo Phone 1339 © 218 Earl St. For Sale 9 room house, néw; all improvements, $3,000.00 Easy.terms. Apply W. H. Godwin & Son: BD i me Notice Arrange your coal bin so that baskets will not be required In de- very. This will save you the extra ts per tom, 7.50 it:shovelled in. Stove Coal, 87.75, If carried, Nut Coal, $7.73, if shovelled in: Nut Coal, $8.00, if carried. NA © THE JAS. SUWARDS COAL CO PHONE 155 Fresy, strawbergles 'and cher- ries daily. Sweet Oranges, .20c, 25¢, 80c, 40¢: and 50c a dozen, nd besides being Besutifully your boots will be foft dnd waterproof Sold in has, , 100. k ¥ Always finsist on the "Cobra" mark wre te sot ops BLYTH & PLATT, Limited WATFORD - ENGLAND MACLAREN IMPERIAL CHEESE CO. Limited, TORONTO SEdErEE RE REE NINERS, Ward for any case i hed bottle, rw Fae Ri 91014 A SAILOR'S YARN One bright moonlight night during the fifties of the last century a com- PANY of thre were 1011iNg on the Tore castle when one of them, Jim Buus, told tis yarn: "Mates, I've seen marvels © salt water, but the biggest marvel I ever see was on land. I'd been left in a hospital at Marseilles, and when I got well 1 shipped in the brigantime Northern Light, bound for New Or- leans. But I wasn't fated to git te that port, for we was driven ashore by a sou'-easter and every soul lost except myself, Bein' washed overboard. I hung on to a chicken coop that floated by me, was carried into the breakers and throwed on a cindy beach. Between seas 1 manag ed to crawl up beyond "em, and some- how as soon as I saw they couldn't git me ag'in my strength went out o me all of a suddent, and I didn't know nothin' The last I remem- beréd was a lot o' corpses of my mates rollin' around in the breakers and they seemed to be lookin' at me envious. - "There was a big change from this to what I saw when I got back to myself dgin'. A gal with a pair ©' blue eyes was a'lookin' down into mine She had just poured some grog down my threat from a bottle and was watchin' to see If it would bring me out" "Bully," slid Tom Nye, "1 would n't give a piece o' hardtack for a yarn without a gal in it." "There bein' nothin' the matter with me.' continued the speaker, 'except Sxhaustion, 1 rose on my legs and, havin' got my bearlii's, axed the gal where I was. She sald I was on the coast o' South Carolina, not far from Savannah. Sle pointéd to a bouse bgek on the. shore smd said she lived there. I caiild come up there if 1 liked and git some rest and somelhin' to eat. "It was a queer lookin' house and geemed to have been bullt a long 4tine before, when there was Indians ii the neighborhood, 'cos thére was loopholes in it. It 'hid been kind o elegant oncet, but was turrable run down I concluded to go up there with the gil if only to git rid of the rollin' corpsés. I found what they call a poor white family .occupyin' the premises -- the gal's mother, ofie br two WHIté children and a féw niggers. They give me some grub and by this time it was growin' dark dnd, havin Ween two days and nights at the pumps, I told 'em I'd like tc turn in. The mother dnd daughter did a lot o' whisperin' together, and then the daughter went and came back with a Key and told mé She'd show me to niy room. As sdon 'as shé opened the door a shut-up smell come out that almost made me sick. "The furniture was the old fasfg- fonetlest I ever see. It was fine stuff, I kin tell you, but thé curtains and ! the canopy to the big Bed was all fallen to pieces. There was a fire place big enough to roast an ox in did armehrirs that for comfort beat a hammock all to pieces. But I was too sleepy to take much notice. "Well, now, nebbe them covers wasn't musty. If I hadn't "heen réady to drop Off, 1 wouldn't stayed under 'em no time. 'As it was, 1 was adleép almost before 1 struck the bed. "In the middle of the night I was dréamin' of my mates rollin' around in the breakérs atid woke up with a start. What d'yé suppose I saw? A man comin' in at the door. He held a candle*"o light the way, and is shin- ed right on to hig face, and it was the ugliest mug I ever See in my country. Why, a Malay pirate was a holy Joe to it. Wo'st of all, the feller clutched, a knife as long as your arm. "He wasn't lookin' at the bed ai fust. His face was a-workin" as if he was powerful mad. But he come right on and purty soon held up his candle so the light shined right on to my face At the same moment I jumped. But I hadn't landed on the floor 'before the light went out, and it was ds dark as the black hole o' Calcutta. I expected to git that knife in my ribs. but I didn't. Then I lis- tened to hear the feller move, hopin' he'd go out. The room was as still a buryin'-ground "I had no way o' for when I went to bed 1 hadn't aort about wakin' up in the night. I sondered if I hadn't been sufferin' rom nightmare. Anyway I got back into bed, my heart a-thumpin' and the sweat standin' out on me; 1 lay awake till day came and ¥ could see all over the room. There was no signs of any one except me havin' been in it durin' the night. So 1 turned over andl went to sléép. "1_waked about noon and downstairs, " 'Where's tHat piratical chap that coma into my room last night?" | asked ' 'Law sakes!' said the gal, 'Did you see him?" 'Reckon 1 did. Who is he?' "He's a ghost. When this yere country was first dettled a slave dealer built this house and bfovght a young wife here to live fn It. Due tinie when he come homie from Af- rica suddent he found anothér man here. He killed. both the man and the woman in that room. We've ne- ver been able to use it. We thort we'dotry it last night on you.'" The speaker stopped, having fin- ished his yarn. "Didn't you marry the al?" ask- ed Tom Nye. 8 "Marry the gal? No. Do ye suppose I've been spinnin' one 0! them cheap Jarm thats pristeas 8 jist As true as plum duff on Sunday. Th d Bell, in the Peter borough | as strikin' a light, went pdlin' drad Dollars Re- that can- by Hall's Catarrh Cie. " ENEY & CO. Toledo, O. have Rnowh F. We offer One s not be cure F, We Hy aE { erst 3 J. Cheney for the Fed 15 years. and be- L lieve him perfectly honors t business transactions a he in able to-carry out any obi fs ata ras his firm. img; Kinman & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O h Sire Is taken internals 1¥, ing dhs the blood and us Su Vof Ne systein. osti- muco | mowials sent free. 75 cents per Sold by all druggists. o Taka Hall's Family Pills for donsti- gatish. ---- hat I've told: WEIRD FIGHTING. Africdn Tries Entrench Themselves th Boweéls of the Earth. ' . Fnglish soldiers tell stories of Weird nndérground fighting against the Baggara, or cattle-owning tribes af the Soudan, the rémnants of those lerce warriors who formed thé main #dgbting strength of the Dervishes These savage tribesmen hide them selves when pursued, with their cat. ile and othér belongings, in great oUrrowings that are described até 'vast rabbit warrens." At southérn Kordofan ig the coun: ity of the Nubas, remnants of the original negro inhabitants of the :ountry, who have been driven intc the isolated rocky hills, rising 2,000 or 3,000 feet above the swamps and forests, =" In 'these mountain fastnesses aoneycombed with caves, this strange face builds its villages, grows iis corn and tends its herds of sheep, cattle ind goats. Generally speaking, they are peaceable enough, but some of the clans have an evil reputation of raiding the neighboring Arabs, mur dering isolated parties that may HAp- pen to stray too near, or Carrying off their women. The tribesmen in- variably retire, with the gréatér part of their personal property #nd live stock, to the .bowels of the earth, whence they maintain a hot fire on any 'troops who may happen to come within rdnge - of their Sniders or Remingtons. The un#atisfactory nature of this fighting may be understood if the reader can imagine himself walking over a vast rabbit warren composed of enormous bowlders piled to a Height of some 1,000 feet or 2,000 fegt and covering several square milés in area, with an invisible én- éfy beneath him whose wheréabouts it is impo#sible to ascertain. Officers naturally hesitated to em- gage in underground warfare fin labyrinths where whole battalions might be swallowed wp, and where all the advidntage lay with the en- emy. Latterly, however, the problem has beén tackled in & bystematic man- ner by the camel corps and in recent expeditions extenkive cdve-cleartug operations Have been carried out. Partiés prétedsd by torch-bearers have explored thede recebsés with 'great gucedss, (and though Boule loss has been sustdinéd, the Nubas mow know that their timunity is gome, and that the urm of the government is 'ble to reach them, The Most Famous Song. What's the world's most famous song? A London paper recently asked this question and then proceeded to make an ufiéfpectéd dnswer--dadely, that it is 'not Auld Lng Syne, Annie Lit- rie, Home, SWeet Home, God Save the King, The Watch on thé Rhitie, The Markeilfatée or The Last Rode of Suminér, '#11 of Which aay deem to be 'probable éauncidatés for the honor. What Is ft, thén? The dfswer is Malbrook, whose refrains, We won't go hoe till joni, and For he's a jolly goo fellow, gre equally familiar in Europe and in Amefich. The air -of the song has been sung in Europe since the time of the cru- gades, when it was carried to the east and 0 became familiar to Turks and Arabs. The modernization of tHe song dated fromm Somié tinie aftér the bat- 'tle of Malplaguét, When ft was Hirst sung By a French nidse at Vérfailles, whence {it 'spread to Paris and throughout France, and, #8 has been Said, gave the gréut Duke of Mar- borough more celebrity tHdfr all his victorfes, The words were printed on fans and scrééns, and were sung in palaces and on the streets. The still further modérnization for the exi- géncles of roistering melody was the fast touch which {nSuréd the song universal popularity. Incorporatéd in opera bouffe by Bizet, sutig by Marie Antolfiette fn the Tuilleries, introddcéd by Beaum#rchais in THe Marriage of Figaro and by Beethoven in bis Syfaphony, dnd hummed by the great Napoleon wherever he entéréa a battle, the air of Malbrook has lit- erally Butig iter futo the HWeurt of the world. And Du Maurier understood its in- finite possibilities when he had Trilby transform it into a great lyric tra- gedy. A Great Painter's Love Story. Turner's love story is tragic, Some- where about the year 1797, while the great painter was still at school at Margate, Eng., he fell deeply in love with the sister of one of his school fellows. The intimacy grew and con- tinued, and a few days later Turner proposed and was accepted. Then he went away for a couple of years to pursue hi art studies, and during all that time mot a message or a letter came from him. The young lddy was hurt and offended at such cruel treat- ment, and under the smart of neglect and pressure from an unkind step- mother she accepted another Buitor. a week of the day fixed for ih wedding Turner returned. He ob- dd gn interview and pleaded his Te passionately, but the girl refus- ed to listen to any explanation, Accomplished Miner. At _Tylorstowh, in South Wales, ives: & most versatile miner. For the last seven y®ars, so the story goes, he' has lived entirely on milk, fruit, and eggs, with a little fish oc- citstonally, #nd hé has the finest mus- cular development imaginable. . He takes his own clothes, plays the 'cello and four other musical instru- ments, andl Is &n extremely clever black and white artist. Each day be goes down the pit, taking with him only a pimt bottle of cold water, which while he works is all | that passes his lips. The ambition of his 1ifé is to 'become an actor. The Odor of London. Max Nordan, the eminent author, ufserts that the characteristic smell of London is beer. 'I bave," he gaid, "&pprotuched F onlon from every point of the compass, by land and ges, and on every occasion my nos- trils have been assailed by the same up-itstakable smeli of beery' fo Lots of people would rather send a dollar to the heathen than give bis poor at home a pleasant look When a bachelor marries a widow the females who also ran are mnani mous in condemning his chaice. Fhe was ' poles. BRICHT AND GLADSTONE. thé Question. It is fot always an ¢ASy matter for | a man of strong convictions and na- tive force of characigr to see and re- spect another's point of view, W. E. Gladstone and John Bright were {wo of the strofigest mén that the Jest century produced, yet am anecdote from "The Life and Work of Frank Holl," that these grédt dn were quite an- able---on ome occasion, at least--te see more than one side of a question Soon . after the --bréak between Bright and Gladstone that followed a difference of opinion concerning the Government's foreign policy, the ar- tist Holl was engaged to paint the portrait of Mr. Bright. He incidént- ally mentioned that he was about to paint a portrait of Mr: Gladstone also. "It must be a very painful thing for you, Mr. Bright," le hazarded, "that after all these yedrs you should have found cause to sever your friendly relations with Ar. Glad. stone." "Indeed it ig," replied Bright, with a sigh. "To think that after we have trodden the game path together, shoulder to shoulder and hand Io hand, we should be forced apart in the evening of our lived! And by what? By a bogey that is béckoning him away from dnty and sense. Do you know, Mr. Holl, I seriously fear that my dear old friend's mind has become radieally undermined Later, when Holl was painting Gladstone, the subject of Bright's portrait came up. "Ah!" sald Gladetone, with much interest. 'And how did you find him? It was a cruel plow that, after a life- time of mutual esteem and of good work undertaken and carried through together, we should be divided on so clear a question! Tell me, Mr. Holl" and here his mouth twitched, for evidently struggling with strong emotion -- "tell me, did you tiotice anything in the minner of my old friend that would Tend you to be- lieve that his réasdn was becoming in any way unhinged?" Where Wives Work. Willesden, one of the suburbs, of London, is a perfect paradise for a certain type of husband. There is no need for him to go out to work his wife will see to that All Le needs do is stay at home and mind e baby. He has a job for life, and prac- tically nothing to do. This Gilbertian urrangement ig due to the peculiar industrial conditions of Willesden, where 'there are many laundries and factories dnd female Jabor is muth chéaper than mals tabor would be at the Same clasy bf Work, the wagés ure good, consider- fife that only five days a week are Worked in the laundriés, the women fot being required on Mondays. Consequently the women rule the fadustrial world of Willesden, The positions of man ahd wife are re. versed. There is no feéd for the man to go to work. Not only would he be unsuitable for thy job, but the labor and the wages would hot suit him, It was mentiohed at the local police court a short time #go that a mother and her daughtérs who were at work #llowed the father 5s. a week pocket fioney. In the end he tired of his job dnd revolted. Atrictn Doctors, Mr. Hylton-Sithpson, whose anth- ropological investigations on the Congo are well known, has just re- turned from the-Algerian hinterland, where he has for some years béen Cg the Bedouin and other tribes the desert. During his previous travels Mr. Hylton-Simpson had heard much of the wonderful skill of the tribal doc- tors, particularly in surgery. On this ditioh he cimé. into touch with riendly Arab docter, who helped Bim to & meeting with eight village surgeons. He has brought back for the learnéd societies a muss of valu- able information and a large collee- tion of native surgical instuments. These, consisting of fifty saws, lan- cets, and probes, are of the crudest description, but prove highly effec: tive. 5 Armed Skeleton Unearthed. Valuable discoveries of Roman and Saxon relics have been made at the excavations on the Roman gite at, Lowbury, on the Berkshire Downs, four miles west of Gordon-on- Thames. Under the guidance of the archaeological department of the University Reading a rectangular in- closure containing several barrows has been unearthed'and seventy-two Roman coins, some as early as the second century, have been found. The coins belong to the rel of Trajan, Antonius and Marcus Aurél- fis. Other discoveries included a bronze signet ring, daggers and spefr- heads. der, fully armed, was found buried close at hand. Curious Nestiig Place. A thrush has built its nest, laid three eggs, and inthe natural course of events will, if- undisturbed, rear its young on a scaffold pole at the secondary school for girls which is being erected in St, George's avenue, Northampton, Eng, The nest has been built at the junction of two There are between fifty and gixty men working on the building, but the -bird takes not the slightest notice of theni. The men have taken & great interest in the bird, and will not have it disturbed. The Prisoner Escaped. Great excitement was cdused in the ty magistrate's court at Poona the other day. The court wis crowded, while a thef! case against a young Pathan was being heard, when the prisoner, whose police guards were paying more aiteniion to the case than guarding him, escaped from the dock. lily exchpe wai not discover- ed until more than half ax hour later, wheu a search was made. Up to the vresent he has not been recaptured. The most changeable earth is a woman. other woman. Once in a Wile a man has so much money that he feels he can al ford to be honest, on thing 7 1 Efe Meén Who Only Siw One Side to b Last Stirviving Officer of Famous by Mr. A. M. Reynolds, shtwe The skeleton of a Saxon War-.| The next is an' THE BIRKENHEAD, Veddel Passes Away. The recent death in England o1 Captain G. A. Lueas has removed ai Officer who was believed to be the las: survivor of the Birkenhead, a troop ship {Bat ran on the rocks off the coast of Africa sixty years ago. The oly of the digastér is here reprin ne Kaflir War 'was dragging on [ndecisivhly hd ihglortously, én word wds Bént Nome for more $61 diers. Immediately the Birkenhega-- a failure 4s a btédm ey ~WHs or dered to prépate for 86a, and*on Sih 7, 1852, she Safed from ueeHslow with twenty-fo officets dng non-tom- missioned officers 'and 466 men of variols regiments, tWwénty Womén children, and Some détails of medical Service. The ctew ADEE 130; altogethér there e 830 souls on board. ? All went well until alter leave Simon's Bay, aid thén on the ath light night Wis boérhe the ¢ the ship was #shore. Instantly commandér ordered the go astern, Tie Ship responded, dnd the water riefed to the wound which BHA H8én made by the rocks on which shé W#d Struck. Then the brave vessel was carried dgain on the reef, and receivéd further griev- ous fojury; her bottom plates being crumpled up. THe Bulkhéads tore asunder; the #éa Hooded the fore most compartments ind engine rooms; a pumber of mén met death while agleep in their bérths. In' the meantime, order amid chaos reighed on deck. The soldiers, who had beén mus. tered as for drill, wéut to the chain pumps -- quite ugelessly, as it hap: pened; the women and children were placed in boats with as little excite went as though it were an roution to test the efficiency of tie éréw Three boats with seventy-eight persons were thus got away. At last the great ship broke in two, the forward part sinking out of sight, léaving the stern only afloat, crowded with officers and men and the crew. Was there dismay? The soldiers weré drawn up as if they had en on the drill ground; they hat they were face to face with deaths but they stood firm -- the champions of the race, cool, ¢olléctéd, resolute. Around the doo -ed fapped, in the moonlight, calin and fnscrufable, the long swell of the waves against the ship's torn sides chanting a dirge; now and sgain the sllvéry surface was ruffliéd as a shark appeared; away in the distance could be described an, inhospitable shore, guarded by a well-nigh fuipen- etrable network of coarse seaweed. This avas the getting of the drama. Every Boldier--even the least im- aginative -- must have realized the terrible fate which awaited him, yet 'not a man fiinchéd. They Were pres. ent at fhe dst roll-cdll. Standing ut attention, facing unmovéd the &én étify of huuralty and-surroytiied by some of the Worst hofrors of the §ea in the &hitpe of the fikh of prey, these heroes went down With the Birkeén- hewd. When the grey, dawn broke there rémaibed only the memory of a h splendid Epic &nd a féw score of sur- vivors. By dhe miifaglée or Hhother 194 lives were saved bf the ¢bnipithy on bokrd thé doomed ship, dnd of these Captiin Lucas was one. men the sea Foiiiia In a Gracier. Sir Martin Conway las recently told this story of finding a lost ax in the Alps: Zurbiggen, one of the cele- brated mountain climbers of the world, In Bedlifg a pbak of Lés An- glaises, near Chamounix, dceldentally let his ax fall near the summit of the peak. It fell some thousands of feet. buried in snow and swallowed up in the glacier, being covered deeper ahd deeper each year, and at tlie same time being carried slowly dowfiward as the ice flowéd oh. Séveh or eight years afterward Hon. C. G. Brice dnd Harkbir, a Sepoy chief, in descending a peak in the Alps just as night was falling, atid a great crevasse barred the way, being unable to find the bridge over it, cut a path down to the ottom, where Harkbir stepped on an ax which had M. Z. Zurbiggen's ini- tials on the handle. There could be no mistake as to the identity of the ax, as Harkbir had seen it and used it before. : A Little Mistake, It is #aid of Archbishop Trench that he wak "a man of singularly vague and dreamy habits," who "re- gigned the see of Dublin on account of advancing years and settled in London. He once went back to pay a visit to his successor, Lord Plun- ket. Finding himself back again in his old place, sitting at his old dinner table, and gazing #eross it at his old wife, he lapsed in memory to the days when he Ww master of the house, and gently remarked to Mrs. Trench, 'I am afraid, my love, that we must put this cook down. among our failures"!" To Look For Delicacies. A doten English epicureés, active members of the Gourmands' Léague, have decided to organize a seriés of pilgrimages to all the towns and vil- lages of France renowned for their cookery or whose names are énrolléd on the scroll of fame by reafon of some famous acy that is theirs exclusively. The first pilgrimage un- dertaken by the gourmands will oc- cur in a few weeks--tb the Enclent town of Troyes, the home of thé "'an- dopiletfs," a small sausagsé. Chinchilla, inchillas, valuable fur-bes-'+g which "ighabit a h moun- ile, have imported for bréeding experl- ments on a farm. : Bahia Coffee. Exports of Bahia colfée from Bri zi} last year approximated 24,000,000 pounds, of which bhaif went to ance, ., The avitage mf dislikes a chron- i kicker--unless she's in the chorus A girl who is 'kittenish during courtship 'may develop into a cat af- ter marriage. p In the normal coyrée of things it was || oF wri all dust is carried up smoke pipe. See fe for hoo yk fet. 0. 1 FOR BALE AND HIRE Motor for Rewboats ¥ NAPP Rs Me opidaryor Feat eal MedicineAct AVedeiable | ation forAs. 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