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WHITE CITY IN ASIA. . - â€"â€" Results from common soaps: eczema, coarse hands, ragged clothes, shrunken flannels. Summon Son ::::::: Ask few the «auger! Bar fills HE WAS m ‘ Caused a Sensation; »A sensation is being created in BUT DODD’S KIDNEY PILLS East Russia, says a. St. Petersburg correspondent, by the extraordinary GAVE HIM A NEW LEASE OF LIFE. story of a traveller bamed Kozuirefl. who has just returned after two years’ wanderings in Mongolia, East- Geo. Robertson Had Rheumatism and Dropsyâ€"Had to be Tapped. ern Turkcstan. M. Kozuirefi affirms that he has â€"Doesn’t Know What it is to be Sick Now. discovered in the great Tarim Desert which lies on the north of Kashmir, Montreal, Que, Dec. 19â€"(Special). -~'M.r. Geo. Robertson, .a well-known a mixed Mongolian and European citizen living at 392 St. James St... race, ruled over by a family of pure- !ilontreal, is one of the many people We can handle your poultry either. alive or dressed to best advantage. Also your butter, eggs, honey and other produce. . THE SAWSGN COMMISSIQN 00., Cor. West Market and Oolborne Bts., TORONTO. “Sir,” began the timid youth, as he entered the office, “I am in search â€"erâ€"that is, I came to seek your daughter’s handâ€"â€"-” “Well, it isn’t anywhere in this vicinity,” interrupt- ed the stern parent. “She’s probably lelted ly European appearanca and cus- 0 this city who are never without toms. Budd's Kidney Pills in the house. “In a large oasis near the River Khotan," he says, “I came upon a Like all the others, Mr. Robertson has his reasons for this and is al- Europoan town, that is, a town which would have been European in Ways ready to gia’e them. "I Was a total wreck before I the Middle Ages. Guna, so it is started to use Dodd’s Kidney Pills,” Mr. Robertson says. “1 had been troubled with Rheumatism and DrODSy for five years. I had to be tapped to relieve me of the pain. My arms and legs were terribly swollen. "I had just begun to get downâ€" aaarted when a friend induced me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. Before I had used the second box I felt better. Seven boxes cured me so completely that now I don’t know what it is to be sick." ' __.._._+__._ LESS TEA DRINKING. British, Isles Show Decrease in ' Annual Consumption. ,Figures published by the Tea Brokers’ Association of London for the five months ending October 31 this year show a dimunition in the consumption of tea. The deliveries of tea'of all des- ’ criptions for home consumption from the London bonded warehouses tot- llled just under 118 1â€"4. million lbs. compared with 122 1-2 million lbs. during the same period in 1903. “The heavy tax of 8d. per lb. is checking the consumption," said Mr. Ernest Tye, secretary of the Inâ€" dian Tea Association, to a London Express representative recently. “A few years ago the average an- nual consumption of tea. was 4 lbs. per head of the population. More recently it rOSe to 6 lbs. per head, ‘Now it is dropping back again. alâ€" though every Chancellor of the Exâ€" chequer is supposed to disapprove of any taxation which is likely to check consumption. “The planters in British dominâ€" ions are discouraged in every possiâ€" .ble way by the Government. What with the labor problem and the fixed price of silver in India and the heavy taxation at home. they find the utmost difficulty in carrying on their plantation at a profit. “Yet these plantations are of great value to the Indian Empire. Broadly speaking there are 750,000 acres under ‘tea, which provide work, for, say, half a million people. Unâ€" til the British planter arrived, the only produce which most of this land yielded was gallâ€"nuts and wild honey.” The consumption of tea in the British Isles for the last three years was as follows: ' 1901 . . . . . . . . . _...255,873,000 lbs. 1902...... .......254,449,000 lbs. 1903 . . . . . . . . . ....255,366,000 lbs.- The bulk of this tea is grown with-- in the British Empire. For instance, last year over 229,000,000 lbs. came from India and Ceylon. Yet twenty years ago China and Japan provided 825,000,000 lbs., against 74,000,000 lbs. produced by India and Ceylon. __.__+___._. SUGAR FOR THIN PEOPLE. A French chemist recently gave an interesting account of the value of sugar as a. food in certain conditions of ' illâ€"health. In some experiments be carried out he found that, by giv- ing from 1} 025. to 10 ozs. per day to emaciated weight averaging 31029. per day was the result, some of the patients even gaining over 1- lb. each day. From‘ "his observations Dr. Toulouse found ,lhat the sugar was most beneficial lwhen given in conjunction with, a milk, diet. LONG -LIVED PEAR TREES. The pear tree will continue bearing fruit for several centuries. Trees bearing fruit in abundance when at least 300 years old are not uncom- mon. They are much longer lived ithan the apple, which rarely lasts more than 100 or.;2l?5'0“"years. The ‘pear tree also grOWS much larger than the apple; and when 200 years old has often the dimensions of a forest tree. took my two native guides to the outskirts of the settlement and promptly put them in jail. purely European in physique, comâ€" ment not unlike a Roman toga, reâ€" ceived me in a large adobe house, and conversed by signs. He was a handsome, fairhaired man of about ' town, being plentifully supplied with said the shoe salesman to the cus- tomer. *"You are very Wise. A good many people are beginning to do it, especially between seasons. the winter. There is more warmth in two pairs of summer socks than there is in the heaviest pair of Woolens that ever was manufactured.. ' - you will find that the combination of threadâ€"will fix you up comfortably feet are tender, you can wear the people,~ a grain, in called, has over two thousand five hundred inhabitants, all with a disâ€" tinctly European cast of face. i'They spoke a Turkish dialect which I did not understand, and were attentive to me, though they “The chief or king of this little State and all his near relatives are plexion and manners. The king, wearing an undershirt and a gar- fifty . . . I spent seven days in the food, all cooked by roasting, for boiling seemed a\ procass unknOWn to the Guna‘ns. ‘ _ _ I “I attempted to find out whether the king knew anything of the ori- gin of the State, but he replied, ‘From the west,’ and dropped the subject. I tried him with hundreds af simple Slavonic, German and Latin words, but he understood none, except the word ‘vogel’ (bird), on hearing which he promptly pointâ€" ed to a feather breastâ€"covering worn by his wife.” .___._+.____ WEAR TWO PAIR OF SOCKS. .â€"â€"â€". What 3. Shoe Salesman Says 011 the Subject. “I see you wear two pair of socks,” "People ought to do it all through “If you are troubled with cold feet a pair of woolens and a. pair of light~ weight socksâ€"balbriggan or lisle the coldest day that comes. If your thread ones inside and the wool with- out. If you are extra cold, reverse the process. Viih'ichever you do, you will find the thin pair easily doubles the value of the thick one. “There is, generally speaking, an altogether wrong notion as to the best way to keep the feet warm. Peoâ€" ple ask for heavy soles and cork soles and insoles and fleece soles, and think they are protecting their feet. “It is all a mistake. The soles of the feet are not sensitive to cold. It is not through the soles that you catch" cold or feel cold. Any ordinary shoe affords the feet-all the protection necessary, so far as tcmlm‘ature is concerned. “To a‘-'oid cold feet, the ankles and instep should be protected. That's where yollr second pair of socks does its work. But as a matter of fact, in very cold weather everyone should wear cloth‘ tops covering the whole upper part of the shoe. "'With spats and doubled socks and medium-weight shoes you can walk’. on ice n zero weather and not know it's coldâ€"so far as your feet are con- cer;ned.~' I .â€" Mmards Linlmenl [lures Burns. ‘etc. ' There was this singular announce ment to be seen recently outside a certain suburban place of . worShip: “This evening the Rev. Mr. X. will preach his farewell sermon, and the choir will render 'a thanksgiving specially composed for the occasion." The Fall of Rheumatic Paine. -â€"-When a sufferer finds permanent relief in such a meritorious medicine as South Amer- ican Rheumatic Cure, how glad he is to tell it. C. W. Mayhcw, of Thames- ville, Ont... couldn't walk or feed him- self for monthsâ€"four years ago three bottles of this great remedy cured him â€"not a pain sinceâ€"isn't that encourage- ment for rheumatic sufferers'2â€"82 GOOD THINGS TO LEARN. Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medicine. Learn how to tell a story. A Well told story is as welcome as a sun- beam in a sick room. Learn to keep your own troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to care for your ~ills and sorrows. _ Learn to stop creaking. If you c’annotsee- any good in this world keep' the bad to yourSelf. I Learn to attend strictly to your own business. Very important point. -. . Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. No one cares whether you have the earache, headache or rheumatism. Learn to greet yonr friends With a smile. They carry too many frowns in their own hearts to be bothered With any of yours. risinngt as a piano-thumper about this time of day." ncw’s Ointment stands at the head as a. reliever, healer, and sure cure for Piles in all forms. will give comfort in a few minutes, and three to six days’ application according to directions will cure chronic cases. It relieves all itching and burning skin diseases in a day. 35 cents.â€"79 another she sees only her clotheS. to Wash Woolens and flannelsr you’ll like it. ‘ ’ bachelors sow what they rip. Minard’sllnimenl fur saie everywhere tain, and guide your barque over the Sea of life?” Widowâ€""No; but you can be my second mate.”- â€"â€"â€"â€" Pilo Terrors Swept Away.â€"â€"Dr. Ag- One application When one woman turns to look at Use Lover’s Dry Soap (a powder) Farmers reap what they sow and Wooerâ€"“Ah, may I be your cap- “Bought my Llfe for 35 Cents." â€"-This was one man's way of putting it when he had been pronounced incur- able from chronic dyspepsia. “It was a living death to me until I tried Dr Von Stan's Pineapple Tablets. Thanks to them to-day 1 am well, and I tell my friends I bought my life for 35 cents.“ 60 in a bozoâ€"89 Heâ€""Your sparkling eyes would out-sparkle the most precious diao mend.” Sheâ€""Why don’t you make the test?” He took the hint and bought a ring. ____________.___â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€" _________________._.â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Dear Sirs,â€"â€"I was for seven years a, sufferer from Bronchial trouble, and Would be so hoarse at times that I could scarcely speak above a, whis- per. I got no relief from anything till I tried your MINARD’S' HONEY BALSAM. Two bottles gave relief and six bottles made a complete cure. I would heartily recommend it to anyone suflcring from throat or lung trouble. . J. F. VANBUSKIRK’. Fredericton. r” “The bride was young, I believe, and the bridgroom quite elderly?" “Yes. She was seventeen, and he eighty-three.” “Ah, I see! She was not old enough to.know better, and he was too old not to know better." The Poisoned Spring â€"As in nature so in man, pollute the spring and dis- ease and waste are bound to followâ€"- the stomach and nerves out of kiltor means poison in the spring. South American Nervinc is a. great purifieri cures Indigestion, Dyspepsxa, and tones the nerves. The best evidence of its efficacy is the unsolicited testimony of thousands of cured oncs.â€"76 “Seen Edwin’s new horse?” asked one villager of another. “I have,” Was the reply. “Well, what does it look like?" asked the questioner. “Well, it looks,” said the other man, slowly, “as if- Edwin had taken it for an old debt? - Mlnard's Lilnl'menâ€"tllllleves Nurallgla Gw‘iliamsâ€""Slickinger has disapâ€" pointed me. He was a young man of great promise. Everybody thought he would be a. big gun some day." Sflint â€""Well, he did become what you might. call a, big bore. Ele’s a‘l'ife in- 'surance agent." To prove to you that m I Chase’s Ointment isacertain I as and absolute cure for can! and every form of itching. bleedingand protrudin piles, he manufacturers have guaranteed it. ee tee- lmonials in the daily press and ask your neigh- bors what they think of it. You can use it and get our mono back if not cured. 600 abox, at .11 ealers or HANSON,BATEB a; Co.,Toronto Dr. Chase’s Ointment WHEN "A MAN IS POOR. A man is poor when he has lost the confidence of his friends, when people who are nearest to him do not believe in him; 'when his character is honey-combed by deceit, punctured by dishonesty. 'He is poor when he character, when principle does not stand clearâ€"cut, supreme in his idea. When this is clouded, he is in danger of the worst kind of poverty.‘ To be in the poorhouse is not necessarily to be poor. If you have maintained your integrity, if your character stands foursquare to the world, if you have never bent-the knee of prinâ€" ciple to avarice, you are not poor, though you may be compelled to beg broad'.â€"-O. S. Marden in Success. When This Flower is Thirsty it is has made many journeys in South America to enrich the Kew Gardens, near London, with new plants, re- ports the discovery of a remarkable plant belonging to the orchid family. seems to distinguish it from any other. When it is thirsty it lowers to the water a tube from its station on the tree of which it is a para- site. When it has imbibed the need- ed amount of water the tube rolls up into a neat coil and takes its V place again in the centre of the . plant. ‘ ' his discOvery : . the neighborhood of the Rio de la the neighborhood of the Rio de in Plata. I observed a number of leaf- less trees whose life had evidently been absorbed by the growth of par- asitic plants that hung upon their trunks. to a. flat plant with a number of sunburst around the common centre. It was a plant I had never seen be fore. except there was a growth from the centre, a sort of hollow tube of small circumference which extended makes,.money at the expense of his. PE CULIAR OR CEID . __ Able to Suck up Water. Mr. Suverkrop, a naturalist who The plant has a peculiarity which The naturalist tells this story a “I .was sitting one hot afternoon 5' 7 Made big enough for a big % man to work in with comfort. ...â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"I Has more material in it than any other brand of shirt in Canada. Made on the H.B.K. scale it requires 39% to 42 yards per dozen, whereas ___...__._..._.â€"â€"â€"-â€" 2 common shirts have only 32 "My attention was soon directed large leaves, in form like spear heads, which were arranged like a It was nearly as flat as a platter, to 33 yards. several feet to the water below, the end of the tube being about four inches beneath the surface. I invesâ€" tigated the tube more closely and found to my surprise that it was sucking up water! I could distinct- ly feel the inflow as I put my finger over the mouth of the tube. “But my astonishment was Unâ€" bounded a minute later when I saw the tube begin to roll up, the pro- cess continuing until the coil thus formed had reached the middle of the plant, where it came to rest. Casual inspection would give the im- pression that it was a part of the growth raised a little above the gen- eral surface. "I found'a few other plants of the same kind and watched their proâ€" cess of quenching thirst. Every few days the tube would unroll slowly until it reached the water, and when it coiled up again the plant would be saturated and spongy to the touch. It is a remarkable provision of nature which seems to require alâ€" most the intelligence of an animal for its operation." _____+_â€"_ For Over Sixty Years MnsAVmsu ow's Soc-rum!) SYRU? has been nae-1 we millions of mothers for their children while teething. ltsoothesthe child, softens the fume, ullayspain. puree winduohe regulates thestomac i and bowels, endls the bestremedyfor Diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle Sold by druggiats throughout. the world. Be sure and union-"Mm.Wmsnow'sSoorumoSvanr." 22â€"05 That’s the reason why the H.B.K. “Big’.’ Shirt never chafes the armpits, is never tight at the neck or wrist- ‘ bands, is always loose, full and comfortable and wears -nv,‘rvr- well. Each shirt bears a tiny book that tells the whole history of the “Big” Shirt, "and 1- also contains a notarial declaration that the H.B.K. “Big” Shirt contains 39% to 42 yards of material per dozen. . Sold at all dealers but only with this brand:â€" Men want the earth, but women are satisfied With a honeymoon. ; my "My Kidneys are all Wrong!â€"â€"llow shall I ‘insure best results in the slmrt- est time?" It stands to reason that a ‘ BUBSGN BAY KNiTTiNG CO. .A ’12-» a liquid specific of the unquestionable Montreal whm'wcg Dawson merit of South American Kidney Cure I; V will go more directly and quickly to I; N h. 1%. 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