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iv»..- ' Good Progress CAPE-CAIRO LINE. Towards Union Being Made. In a description of the progress which is being made with the Cape to Cairo telegraph. a writer in the Glasgow Herald states that the line has now reached Udjidji, the capital and chief town of German East ‘Africa, which is on the eastern shore of “Lake Tanganyika.” For the moment construction work is sus- pended while the route northward is carefully surveyed and the sections of the line that have been erected are got into thorough working order. From a purely commercial point of- view the line is fully coming up to, if not exceeding, the expectations that were formed concerning it. When the work of construction is recom- menced the route will probably be along the eastern shore of the Vic- toria Nyanza, and will then strike due north to the town of Rosares, which is the southernmost point of the Soudanese telegraph system. A junction will be effected here be- tween the two lines, and the scheme for .a “Cape to Cairo” telegraph will then be an accomplished fact. The engineers of theline are, how- ever, faced with a difficulty in their preparations for carrying it forward to Udjidji, inasmuch as the country for a distance of 100 miles through which the line would have to pass is Very swampy, and quite unfit for the erection of a telgraph wire. It was at first thought that a wide detour would have to be made at this point in order to escape this region, but latterly other councils have prevailed, and a much more daring experiment is likely to be tried. This is the installation of A NATURE HEALER. A Successful Defence Set Up By a. Woman. 'A curious case has been engaging for some time the criminal court at Tilsit, Germany. A ,Fraulein Rib- ios set up in business as a. “nature healer,” using simple and ordinary rational means as her entire stock- inâ€"trade. In the course of her prac- tice a child whom she was treating died, and an action was brought against her for manslaughter. Her counsel, :1 man of extreme ability, argued that in Fraulein Ribio's meâ€" thods there was absolutely nothing criminal. She made no pretensions to the possession of secret powers, but simply relied on nature. He pointed out that two of the most notable names in modern German medical science, Drs. Lahmann and Schweninger, were identified with the methods which Ribios had adOp- ted. Dr. Lahmann was the director of the famous establishment near Dresden, to which the highest in the land resorted, including members of the reigning family. Dr. Schweninâ€" ger was Bismarek’s body physician. It would, counsel maintained. be a. miscarriage of justice to condemn Ribios for practicing the elementary rules of hygiene. The jury acquitted her, and the State was condemned to pay the costs of the action. _....___+_._.____ YOUNG AGAIN AT SEVENTY-TWO HOW CALIXTE RICIIARD, J. B, FEELS AFTER USING DODD’S KIDNEY PILLS. â€"_ They Make the Kidneys Strain out: of the Blood all the Seeds of the Diseases That Trouble Old Folks. Acadie Siding, Kent 00., N. B., Feby. 20â€"(Special.)â€"After suffering for forty years from Kidney Trouble, Calixte Richard, the well-knOWn Jus- tice of the Peace here, is fully reâ€" covered, and he says that Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured him. “Yes,” says Mr. Richard, "I had Kidney Trouble over forty years, with the result that I was a worn out man at seventy-two. Then I started taking Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and the result is that the pain is the Marconi system of wireless tele-[g-one from my back, and I am able swamp with the latest triumph of scientific discovery reads very strangely, but it is only another instance of the onward march of civilization through what were until a comparatively few years ago the unknown parts 0 the earth. ._._...__+.._ TURN ABOUT. “It is true,” said the Reverend Goodley, “that women are more regular and devout attendants at church than the men.” "So they should be, ’ replied the savage bachelor, “if they have any gratitude. The church aids and abets them in committing .natrin monv.” .._._._+__._. READS THE BOOK; .â€" “The RSad to Wellville” Pointed the Way. Down at Hot Springs, Ark., the visitors have all sorts of complaints, but it is a Subject of remark that the great majority of them have some trouble with stomach and bowels. This may be partly attriâ€" buted to the heavy medicines. Naturally, under the conditions, the question of food is very promin- ent. A young man states that he had suffered for nine years from stomach and bowel trouble, had two operaâ€" tions which did not cure, and was at last threatened with appendicitis. He Went to HodSprings for rheu- matism and his stomach trouble got worse. One day at breakfast the waiter, knowing his condition, sug- gested he trv Grape-Nuts and cream, which he did, and found the food agreed with him perfectly. After the second day he began to sleep peacefully at night, different than he had for years. The perfect digestion of the food quieted his nervous system and made sleep posâ€" sible. He says: “The next morning I was astonished to find my condition of constipation had disappeared. I could not believe it true after suffer- ing for so many years; then I took more interest in the food, read the little book, “The Road to W011- Ville,” and started following the simple directions. "I have met with such results that in the last five Weeks I have gained eight pounds in spite of hot take baths which away the flesh from anyone. “A friend of mine has been entireâ€" ]v cured of a bad case of indigestion and stomach trouble by using Grape- alone for and cream Nuts Food breakfast. "There is one thing in particular _..I have noticed a great change in .my mental condition. Formerly I hardly remember anything, and now the mind seems unusually acute and retentive. I can memorâ€" ize practically anything I desire.” Name given by Postum 00., Battle Creek. lflch. could graphy in order to bridge over this inhospitable delta country. This combination of an African jungle to Work again." Dodd’s Kidney Pills make the old feel, young again. They make the Kidneys sound, and sound Kidneys strain out of'the blood the Seeds of the diseases to which the old are subject, such as Backache, Rheuma- tism, Urinary and Bladder Troubles. etc. â€"-â€"+â€".â€"â€"â€" CRUSIâ€"IING OUT REFORM. â€".__ Police Break Up a. School Teach- ers’ Conversazione. More than half the battle in cleaning greasy dishes is in the soap you use. If it's Sunlight Soap it’s the best; an ANITOBA. IMPROVED FARM lands for sale, all located in the famous Wawanesa district. The Souris Valley is the garden of Manitoba and the Wawancsn. District is the Garden of the Souris Valley. These farms are for sale at reasonable prices and on good terms, all located near markets, schools and churches. Write for lists and fur- ther particulars to the Souris Valley Land Company, Wawanesa, Manitoba. “TOUR ovmcens and faded Suits would look hetterd ed. If no won of ours in your town. write direct ontreal, Box 158 am'rIsI-I AMERICAN nvsme co. MONTREAL. _' I..- â€"v- .u DmnerSets Fre FOR CASH TRADE. BENEFITS THE MERGHANTS BENEFITS THE CUSTOMER A Merchant in your neighborhood is showing his appreciation of cash trade h giving absolutely free, these DINNE SETS. It you do not know this Merchant, write 11’. and we will not only tell you who he is, but forward you a handsome souvenir FREE The Brltlah Canadlan Crockery 00., Ltd. ‘ TORONTO, CANADA. m ’ FENCE WIRE SHOULD NOT BE TAXED. The Dominion Government did a. good thing for the farmers of Can- ada. when it placed certain grades of fence wire on the free list a few years ago. Since then galvanized smooth wire Nos. 9, 12 and 13, which are most used in farm fencing, has been kept down in price to a place which enabled thousands of farmers to replace Old unsightly, wasteful, wooden fences with neat, new wire structures, thereby improvâ€" ing their own property and enhancâ€" ing the Value of the surrounding neighborhood. Now it transpires that pressure is being brought to bear upon the Government to go back to the old order of things by imposing a customs duty on these grades of wire. That such a change would work injury to the farming community admits of no argument. How Russian oflicials curb the re- 'At present, practically none of the form spirit is shown by their hand- grades of wire on the free list are ling of educational gatherings. The Russian Congress of Natural Science Teachers which has been sit- ting has been closed by order of the curator of the Educational district. The congress sent the following telegram to the Minister for Public Instruction, and to the Committee of Ministers: “The unsatisfactory and abnormal position of Russian schools and teachers is due to the social organiâ€" zation of the Russian State. The schools can only be freed from this positions by the carrying into effect of all the resolutions passed by tho Zemstvo representatives at the St. Petersburg conference.” The Nijniâ€"Novgorod Teachers’ As- sociation held a. conversazoine in cel- ebration of the tenth anniversary of its foundation. It was largely at- tended and subjects of current interâ€" est Were discussed. The debate at one point became somewhat excited and the poliCe entered the assembly room to disperse the meeting with drawn swords. In the scuffle which ensued some ladies were thrown to the ground and about ten persons received injuries. The mayor and the president of the provincial govern- ment department haVe complained to the governor of the conduct of the police, and a popular protest is to be addressed to the town council on the subject, asking that the police shall be compelled to observe the law. The Odessa Literary and Artistic Association has been closed by the Prefect of Odessa for violating its statutes of incorporation pending the drafting of new regulations. At the meetings of the association, which has a membership of 1,500, all kinds of political subjects were discussed. +â€" DIFFERENT. H “My son, said the good old man, "If you only work hard enough when you undertake a thing you’re moral- ly sure to be at the top of the heap when you’re through.” "Oh, I don't know, pa. I undertook to dig a well?” Customerâ€"“You don’t call this skyâ€"blue stuff milk, do you? You ought to call it milk and water, inâ€" stead’ of milk!” Milkman (politely) â€""So I do, sir. I always say, ‘Milkâ€"eau,’ which, as you are a unan of education, you will know is for- eign for water. I always keep withâ€" in the law. sir.” Suppose manufactured in Canada, any duty that would be put on the wire would prove an equal tax upon the consumerâ€"the farmer. 'A tariff of say 25 per cent. would undoubt- edly enhance the cost of fencing fully ten to fifteen cents per rod. This would mean that the owner of a me- diumâ€"sized farm would have to bear an extra tax of fully $150 to fence his farm. Were fencing an unimporâ€" tant matter there Would be no reason for alarm, but with the passing of the old fences, and the increasing at- tention to stock raising, new fencing is an absolute necessity. In the older parts of the Dominion the improvement of farm buildings and the construction of new fences have been making very rapid strides during the past few years, and it would prove a very unfortunate matâ€" ter if a check were given to this much-needed advance by the imposi- tion of a tax that could work no benefit to the farmer and at the same time hamper the Canadian manufacturers of fencing who use wire as a raw material. Rather than hamper farm improvement, and de- moralize an industry important to agriculture, by placing avire which is now admitted free of 'duty on the dutiable list, it would be much betâ€" ter to wipe out the present tariff of 20 per cent. on Nos. 7 and 11, which would enable farmers to get a strong er style of fence without increasing the cost. ._...__.+.__ “I have administered anaesthetics to about 4,000 persons, and only lost one patient,” said a London doctor recently. }__â€"‘â€"â€"_____:â€"â€"_â€".â€"â€"__â€"_â€""_ MESSBS. C. C. RICHARDS &. CO. Some time ago I had a bad at- tack of Quinzy which laid me up for two weeks and cost a lot of money. Finding the lump again forming in my throat, I bathed freely with MINARD’S LINIMEN’I‘, and satur- ating a cloth with the liniment left ating a cloth with the liniment left it on all night. Next morning the swelling was gone and I attribute the warding off of an attack of Quinzy to the free use of MINARD’S LINIMENT. G. F. WORDEN. St. John. The Russian State sceptre is of solid gold, three feet long, and conâ€" tains, among its ornaments, 260 rubies and 15 emeralds. so that ' WELSH MUSICAL GENIUS . Boy Pianist Who Has Won Schol- arship at Academy. At the age of thirteen, when the ' average boy is turning his attention from catapults to cricket, Percy Hughes is a wonderfully accomplishâ€" ed pianist, who exhibits every prom- ise of becoming a great musician says ' the London Mail; He has already won the “John Thomas” scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, open to any one under the age of twentyâ€"one, and is . now beginning a. three years’ course under Mr. Oscar Beringer. ' Wales has a dozen musical petitions every month at one town or another, and during the last three years young Hughes has won over two hundred prizes at these. includâ€" ing the first firizes at the Rhyl and Llanelly National Eisteddfo'dau, which are open to the world. There is a grave doubt as to whether young Hughes will be able to take the fullest advantages of the scholarship he has won, for his father is only a. clerk in a Welsh c'ol- liery, his income never exceeding $10 a week. Out of this a family of seven children has to be main- tained. 'A committee has been formed to lift part of the burden of the boy’s expenses in London from his father’s shoulders. â€"-â€"+â€"â€"â€"â€"- There was a piece of cake on the teaâ€"table, and mamma divided it beâ€" tWeen Willie and Tommy. Willie looked at his mother’s empty plate. “Mamma,” he said earnestly, “I can’t enjoy my cake when you haven't any. Take Tommy’s!” Minaid's Llnlment Relieve: Neuralgia .â€"â€"â€"a “I would box your ears,” said a. young lady of London to her stupid and tiresome admirer, “ifâ€"” "If what?” he anxiously asked. “If,” she repeated, “I could get a box large enough for the purpose.” FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup has been used by millions of mothers for their children while teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures windcolic, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. Twentyâ€"five cents a bottle. Sold by druggists throughout the World. Be sure. and ask for “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup.” 22â€"04.- 'An attempt is to be made to raise the United States battleship “Maine,” which was blown up and sunk in Havana Harbor just before the outbreak of the Spanishâ€"Ameri- can war. _.â€"._.9 Minaid‘s Liniment Cures Bu‘ms. talc. Lord Stoneybroke â€" “It’s time, Clarence, that you Were thinking about a career.” Dutiful Sonâ€""I will be guided by you, father. Shall I go into the Church, study for the Bar, enter the Army, or marry an heiress?” Wash greasy dishes. pots or pens with Lever’s Dry Soap a powder. It. will remove the grease with the greatest ease. Mrs. Bejmks (to a casual visitor) â€"W=hy, how do you do! It’s such a pity you didn’t come a little ear- lienâ€"we’ve Tonmny Bejenks (reproachfully)-â€"Oh, ma, ain't we going to have any more? I hadn’t had half enough when the doorbell rang an’ you all jumped! DRJl. W. GHASE’S 25c GATABRII (HIRE . .. ' is sent direct to the diseased parts by the Improved Blower. Heal: the ulcers, clean the .1: passages. stops droppln in the throat and cn‘nnnant y cum Catan'h and a Fever. Blowel free. All dealers. or r. A. W. Chen Mme Co.. Toronto and Buffalo FIVE HUNDRED “V. C.’s.” There are five hundred heroes of all ranks in the British regular army who have attained the distinc- tion, of the Victoria Cross, that simâ€" ple decoration “for valor” which is universally regarded as of incomâ€" parable value and significance. It is claimed for the 24th Regiment, known as the South Wales Borderâ€" ers, that it stands at the head of the entire British army in the number of winners of the Victoria Cross, which it has produced. It has six- teen names on the glory roll as against, to take the next highest figures, fourteen of the Rifle Brigade and thirteen of the King’s Royal Rifles Goats’ milk is found to be im- mune from tuberculosis germs. just finished l‘u-ncheon.| comâ€" ‘ Used in H.B.K. Mitts, Gloves and Moccasinsâ€"~tough as whale- bone, flexible, soft, pliable, scorch- proof, wind-proof, boil-proof, crack-proof, tear-proof, rip-proof, cold-proof, almost wear-proofâ€"~ certainly the greatest leather ever used in mitts and gloves. Like buckskin it is , tanned without oil, unlike buckskin it is not porous, it is windproofâ€"will ontwear three buckskins. “Pinto ” Mitts and Gloves never crack or harden, never get sodden, are always warm, pliable, "5 soft and comfortable. Sold at all dealers but never with- out this brand :â€" â€">~.‘\.\_..- v 39: HUDSON BAY NITTING co. Montreal Winnipeg Dawson 2 1- H. i..-. .ew‘r-M n: :3: “vitrified-weir“ {:1 -‘ Gladysâ€"“I thought you said he was rich?” Mildredâ€"“Oh, no! I merely said he had more money than brains.’ ’ Minard's Linimenl fur saie BlBWW'lBlB Mrs. Browmâ€"Yes, they’re in Egypt now, and will spend the Winter on the Nile. Mrs. Malapropâ€"‘How nice! They’ll get a chance to see all them Pyrenees and the Phoenix, won’t they? Minard‘s Liniment [lures Dandruff. Young Jones (drawing a little nearer)â€""Such a beautiful moon- light evening as this, Miss Judie, is enough to make anybody love every- body.” Judie (moving a little far- lther away)-â€"“Yes; but it isn’t quite lenough to make everybody love. any- body! ” Most peo le think too lightly of a cough. t is a. serious matter and needs prompt attention. Take Shiloh’s' . Consumption The Lung Tonic when the first sign of a cough or cold appears. It will cure you easily and quickly then-later it will be harder to cure. Prices. 25c.. 50c" and $1.00. 311 ‘ ISSUE No. 7â€"05., r”...â€" N AMAAkAAAMAAAA‘AA-AIAA AA AAA‘AA‘A'AA‘A‘AA‘A'A'AWAAA‘L‘SEAAAAA