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PROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. .â€".â€"â€" What is Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands oi Auld .Scotia. Glasgow’s tramway system, when com- plete, will measure 191 miles. ._ Leith grain merchants are com-plain- ing of a considerable dullness. in trade. An organ is to be erected urTrnnty U F. Church, Greenock, at a cost of $3.500. ‘ The Fair City of Perth declines to have its quiet disturbed by Sunday tramcars. a The Technical College in‘John street. Glasgow, is to be extended at a cost of $105000. A tombstone dated 16l1, has been late- ly unearthed at Whittingchaine, Had- dingtonshire. ' A Cockatoo which could speak ,l-Im- dustant (without profanity) has just died in Aberdeenshire. About 900. miners through the stopping of Airdrie and Lcsmahagow. The Company of Stationers of Glas- gow claims an existence of 168 yearS. having been formed in 1740. _ A telegraph operator at Edinburgh G.P.O. has fallen heir to $500,000 left by an uncle near San Francisco. . Eight tanks of Loch Levon yearlms trout, numbering about 53.000, have been deposited in Linlithgow Loch. A duck belonging to Mr. Wm. Stew- art, Near Mains, Whithorn, has laid two eggs, each of which weighs 5 ozs. A few people are agitating for an arti- ficial cascade being constructed on the facc of the Castle Rock at Edinburgh. Glasgow has the reputation of con- suming more bananas for its size than any other town in the United Kingdom. One of the new sea lions at the Glas- gow Zoo barks like a dog. Its bark seems to be inspired by a desire for £1 fish to eat. ' At Arbroath the dangerous bit of road at Fernlea and Woodville is to be put right by the filling in of the ditches and by fencing. A two-foot snake with a “back cover- ed with white and green squares like linoleum” was killed in‘a‘n Edinburgh back garden the other day.‘ At Auchterderran Mans-e there has been unearthed a piece of a sundial, sup- posed to have belonged to St. Fothad, the bishop who gave Auchter-derran its charter in the year 1025. The Sheriff at Dunfermline has decid- ed that the owner is not liable for dam- age done by a strayed bullock, which entered the lobby of' a dentist’s prem- ises and destroyed a valuable vase. A Mohammedan baby was named re- cently by the priest of the Senegal vii- lagers now‘ in the Edinburgh Exhibition. The ceremony was performed in public, and the child was called Oumar Reekie Scotia. It was discovered that Burns’ Monu- ment and museum at Kilmarnock had been broken into since it had been closed the night before. The most valu- able thing stolen is a copy of the first edition of Burns’ poems. . For years a decline in the birth-rate of Aberdeen has been very noticeable. The returns for 1907 show that. the birth rate per thousand of the population was 25.8, which is the lowest in record since the passing of the Registration Act. Paisley has 350 people over '70 years of age who are in receipt of for relief. ,A couplo of Monnon converts were baptized recently by immersion in the Leith public baths. A good deal'oi damage was done to M'c-Ewan's brewery. Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, by a recent. fire. Dundee Harbor Board is said to be in such a satisfactory condition that: it is able to invest money instead of her- rowing it. Duncan has decided to charge vets- sols, landing goods or ,j‘asscngei's at its pzer 1d. per net ton over the existing chargrs. ‘ A public meetin g in Edinburgh recent- 13,7 decided to. take steps to raise money to erect a. memorial to the late Marquis 0 f Lin 1 ith new. The attractions of golf, football. cv- c‘mg and motoring have almost 1310th out. the p‘easur-cs of boating on the Dec at. Al'erdeen. The penny direndfuls are. probablv to blame for a very youthful message‘bov bolting from Edinburgh. with $6.50 and seek’ng adventures in. Glasgow. The body of a man supposed to be Gmrge Rae Cowie. solicitor, of Inver- urin. was found in an Edinburgh hotel with an empty bottle of laudanum standing rear. The. Paisley School Board are paying special attention. to the education of " mentally defrctive children, and about eighty are at present attending Aber- corn school. _ This is the jubilee year of the forma- tion of Dnlbeattie into a burgh. and it is propoved to celebrate the event by a gala day in the parks during the sum- mer. Orcadian fishermen are opposed to the granting of a lease of Firth Bay to a syndicate in order to start. an oyster ranch. and the Secretary of State for Seo'land has been appealed to on the subject. Mr. John R’rkmyre has given a dona- tion of £100 in aid of Port Glasgow un- employed. Including this sum. Mr. Birkmyre has now made a total contri- bution of £300 to the rel’ef fund. The workmen at Selby Abbey recently found a. large jackdnw‘s nest. on the stairCnse of the. old tower. They were compelle'l to remove it. and in dung so thev found in and around it 64 six-inch Tic-".4 and 32 screws. tireenock School Ronni has decided to have lost work collieries at recommend the payment of wards the instruction of Gaelic scholars in districts where a consider- able number of Gaelic-speaking ratepay- ers express. a desire for such education. Mr. John Anderson, who recently re- tired after a service of forty years as secretary of Callander and. Oban- Rail- way, was presented at Oban with his portrait as a tangible recognition of his services in the development of the West High-lands. Lord Provost Gibson, Edinburgh, on Wednesday perfm-m-eds the opening cere- mony in connch )1). with- the new block of cottage homes which has been added to the cottage homes of the Aged Chris tian Friend Society of Scotland at Colinton. The Provost, magistrates and- Town Council of Stranraer hold in trust fit-2,500 bequeathed by the late Mr. David Guth- rie, a Provost of the burgh, the free in- terest. or income to be derived from such sum being applied for the education or for assisting in the education of poor deserving children. it. THE REBIRTII OI? DRUG-ES. Restoration. of Trade to :1 Forgotten Capital. After more than four centuries of stag- nation, Brug-es, once the commeac al ca- .pital of Europe, is to regain some of its ancient prosperity. The sea has been restored to it. A canal has been cut from the city to the sea, a new port constructed, and a way made by which the quaint old city of the lace-makers may handle some of the current of trade which passes between the ocean and the hinterland. . In the middle of the fifteenth century Bruges was the busiest and richest city, if not the largest, in Europe. It was situated on a canal which had been so built as to form a branch of, the Zwyn estuary, was a principal market of the Hanseatic League, and had at its wharvos shipping from all the world. When Paris numbeer one hundred and tWCi’lty thousand people, Bruges .had a fourth more. Its factories were never idle, its merchants became princes, its many canals were alive with boats bcund'for inland places. But in the course of time it was found that the arm of the sea was filling with drifting sands. Efforts were made to stay the process, but without success. Year by year the waters shoaled, and by the middle of the sixteenth century Bruges was but an inland town, the empty shell of former greatness. In the lapsing centuries many efforts have been made to restore the Citys harbor. A canal to Ostcnd gave some relief, but was soon rendered obsolete by the increase in the size of Vessels. problem, but failed again. Meanwhile the population fell away to forty thousand. Houses stood idle. thousand of the Bruges women, and the ancient city hall, the markets and the fifteenth century. At last, thirty years not to the sea direct. years of deliberation and city together begun work. to wharves and quays. itself has already felt the impetus, and sand. seems at hand. years than this restoration of trade to of the sea through dunes to the ancient City of'Bridges. FOREST FIRES AND RAIL‘VAYS. .â€" More Attention is Now Being Paid to Prevent Burning of Forests. -Railway construction has too often meant forest destruction. Immense as are the benefits that the Canadian Pacific Railway, for example, has conferred on Canada, it is never- theless true that during the construction of that railway millions of dollars worth of timber were destroyed through fires originating along its right of way. And fear is now felt that the building of the Grand Trunk Pacificâ€"running, as it does in many districts, through dense forests, of valuable timberâ€"may give rise to similar destruction. The New Brunswick authorities, ac- cordingly, negotiated with the author- ities of the Dominion with a view to the adoption of a system of elllcient patrol along the lines for the purpose of de- tecting and putting out incipient fires; and it is now announced that arrange- ments have been made to have the line patrolled this summer. Along the line of the G.'I‘.P. west of Edmonton, too, a strong patrol has been arranged for and is already in operation. Forty years ago there was a solid for- est ext-ending fronwipigon, Ont.., past Port Arthur andlffj'rt William and west- ward up to a comparatively short dis- tance from \\’iiini1)cg.- But when the troops. went through in" 19.4 on their way to Fort Garry to put down the first west into British Columbia a similar work of destruction went on. Instances of ex- tensive destruction can be instanced around Canmore, B.C., and also on the shores of Kicking Horse Lake, where green forests were converted by fires di’ring railway construction into barren wastes; and these are by no means iso- lated instances. paid to this problem. Mr. John R. Booth, himself a lumberman of wide experience, in building the Canada Atlantic, placed such restrictions on his contractors in regard to burning brush and setting fires generally, that no fire of any consequence occurred during the construction of the railway; and this in spite of the fact that the road ran through what was then one of the most valuable pineries of the pro- vince. In Northern Ontario, along the lines of the Temiscamingue and Northern Ontario many places through valuable timber, no serious fires have occurred. by reason of constant and vigilant patrolling of the line. The Commissioners of the National Transcontinental ‘ adopted regulations governing their em- plcyees in this matter and enjoining strict vigilance in the guarding of all fires. of the disease in making the vital fluid rich and red. strengthen nerve, thus driving out- disease and In 1810 Napoleon attempted to solve the and stores Only the lace factories re- mained busy. They still employed five churches, built in the days of prosper, ity, remained the finest examples in northern Europe of the architecture of ago, a certain Flemish nobleman proposed a deep ca- After a dozen the government agreed. and in 1896 the state. province A canal awenty-six feet deep has been dredged through the sand, about eight miles in a straight line to the North Sea. There immense concrete jettles make a new “fore port" for Bruges, where passengers and express freight can be transferred to rail. Heavy goods will pass through a lock to the canal, and so to a great new basin at the city itself, where all the canals have access A city of Zec- hrugge, or Sea-Brugcs, has been estab- lished at the mouth of the canal. Bruges. Lute my recovery 5,0191), it is rapidly growing again, the popula- tion in 1900 being more than fifty thou- Its paupers, of which it has the largest proportion of any European city, are diminishing, and prosperity Nothing more pictureSque has been attempted by the engineers in recent a forgotten capital, this reintroduction the treacherous Through the Rocky Mountains and Of late years more attention has been Railway, which also runs in have also Railway IN THE HOMES 0F FAIR CANADA â€"- Dr. William’s Pink Pills lire Bring- ing Health to Weak, Despondent People. There is not a nook or corner in Ca- nada, in the cities, towns, villages and farms where Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have not been used, and from one end of the country to the other they have brought. back wives and families the splendid trea- sure of new health and new strength. You have only to ask your neighbors and they- can tell you of some nerve- shaltered man, suffering women, ailing youth, or unhappy anaemic girl who owe present health and strength to Dr. to breadwinners, their \‘v'illian’is’ Pink Pills. 'l‘heir wonderful success is due to the fact that Dr. Wit; izums’ Pink Pills go right to the root. the blood, and by every organ and every pain. . Mr. Joseph Lacombe, Quebec City sayszâ€"“To-day I weigh about forty pounds more than I did a year ago, and am in every way in much sound-er health. For upwards of two years I had been studying hard to pass my ex- aminations and my health had com- pletely given way under the strain, I lost flesh rapidly, my appetite was gone and my nerves were greatly weakened. I was obliged to abandon .my studies and was in a state of complete exhaus- tion. I consulted a physician, but as I was daily growing weaker I decided to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, which I had often heard very highly spoken of. The beneficial effects were indeed re- markable for I had not used more than a couple of boxes when I could feel an m‘tprovmnent, and hope returned. I c-Ontinued using the pills for some weeks longer, with the result that my strength increased daily and I was soon able to take over my studies and work with as much energy as I had ever done. To day I am in perfect health and I attri. to Dr. Wil- liams” Pink Pills.” .You can get these Pills from any mo- dicine dealer or by mail at 500. a hex or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. (\jVitllliams’ Medicine Co., Brockville, n . ' â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"*I<â€"â€"-â€" SAVED lllh/ISELF. Lanceâ€"J‘Was your husband during the last race meeting?" “Yes,” answered young Mrs. Torkins, “he sprained his ankle and couldn't ill- tend." lucky SOMETHING WRONG. Gyerâ€"-“I.sn‘t it queer that the bump' 0t benevolence is located exactly at the top of a man‘s head ” Myerâ€"‘What’s queer about it" Gyerâ€"“Why, it’s as far from the pock- etbz'ok as possible." â€"â€" LET HIM OFF EASY. bolaâ€"“Last. night young Borem det- clared he Would willingly go- to the ends of the earth for me." Glfl-JCâ€"“Al'ld what did you say?” Lolaâ€"“'1 finally got him to make a start. for home, and let it go at that.’ CORRECT ! When a man ceases to be interested in his work, says the. philosopher, he no longer lives. Which may account for so many dead ones encumbering fairly good jobs. Hard luck and work seldom travel to- gethcr. A man who can turn his hand to anything is usually too lazy to make the turn. There’s many a man open handed with his own pleasures from whom a dentist could not draw a dime for the needy. Tit-Bits of is too talkative may be divorced. man is two-thirds that of a farmer.. tunnel builders. They have been. known to construct a length. eyes which magnify objects fifty times their natural size. The ccuhsts consxder her a wonder, was an anaconda, found dcad in Mexi- cr: It was thirty-seven feet long, and it took two horses to: drag it. for the'r general good health. This is to some extent attributed to the fact that the working people of Italy eat less than those of my other European naton. by electricity. tight rooms, wh'ch electric light. . The powerful lamps have the same effect as sunshine, and the rip- ening of the fruit can easily be regu- fated. use in both hemispheres. They are to be manufactured at Gr-ossalmcrode, Ger- many. An architect of Cassel has been granted patents for it. in Germany and other European United States. The glass is reinforced by wires suitably disposid. These poles, it is supposed, will be particularly adapt.- ed for countries where wocden 'poles are quickly destroyed by insects or cl‘mate. The Imperial Post Department of Ger- many hus ordered .to climb daily in ITEMS OF INTEREST. â€"- Information About ’Most Everything. . According to Chinese law, a wife who The average length of tie of a trades- The ants of South America are gleat. tunnel three miles in A woman in Manchester, England. has The largest serpent ever measured Italians of the poorer 018.5195 are noted Bananas are now ripened in London They are hung in.a1r- are flooded with Glass telegraph poles are coming into countries and in the these poks for its t/xltgrnpli and telephone Iin‘s. The Queen of Spain likes figured broâ€" cades, while Wilhelmina of Holland is most at home in a tailor-made gown. Carmen Sylva wears the fi'iw'ng robrs of her country, and the favorite color of the Queen of Italy is .a blue-gray. The Czarina of Russia likes a white gown and is always simply but richly gowned. The library at the Brit‘sh Museum, which now contains between three mil- lion and four million volumes, is with.- out exception the largest in the world, tht‘ only care wh'ch approaches it in size being the Billo’hcque Nutonale, Paris, and it is interesting to not: that f r the acaon'nnudat'on of this immense numbm of bioks upward of forty-three miles of shelves are r. qnfired. The ingcnous Germans have inventcd a composition made fiom potatoes that answers the purpose of cedar in the making of lead penc‘ls. Consul Han.- nah, of Magdeburg, writes: “ have used some of these pencils, which, wh‘le slightly heavier, are the same in size, firm and appearance as thos: at pre- sent inuse, admit of sharpining a li- tlc more easily, and can beipreduced at a very nominal figure." In Denmark there is a peculiar institu- tion in the way of insurance for the daughters of the nobility. As 50711 as a daughter is born to a Danish nobleman he enrolls her name on the books of this insurance company and pays a ‘ca’ri'ain sum into the treasury. Euch year-there- after the same sum must be paid. When the girl is twcnty-t-ne she becomes en- titled to a fixed income and a su'te of apartments until she either marries or dies. A Norwegian inventor has patented a suit of clothes which will protect its wearer against drowning. The (tribes are lined with a nonâ€"abrorbrnt material made of specially prepared vegetable fibre which without be‘ng too heavy will effectually hold up the wc'ght of a man in the water. Twelve ounces of the new material will, it is claimed, save a parson from sinking. The inven- tion has hem tested with favorable re- sults at Christiania. Successful trials were also made with rugs made of the sumo material capable of supporting two persons in the water. Cigars are being made out of chest- nut leaves over in England now-a-days. So far, it appears, the custom has not been introduced into this country. Many men weie employed in gathering up the dead leaves in the CIICSLIIUL groves of scwrul big London parks. The leaves are dipped into .t'ibacco juice 5'! that they absorb large quantities of it. 'l‘hese are enclosed in wrappers of real tobac- co. While it is declared that smokers are unable to dutcct. the spurious tobac- ce no attempt is made to get fancy juices for the cigars. They sell for one and two cents apiece. The letter boxes fly in Hungary. The Ptst Office Depaitment has dev'seil the aerial letter box to relieve the Budapest j'oslmen, who are few in number and who have hundreds of fights of stairs the great tenement houses. The new letter box can be sent up to its destination from the ground floor by a spring. It stops at the floor required, and remains there until emp- tied or until. the next. delivery. when the postman, by touching a spring, can bring it down. Each box contains the necessary number of lockers, fitted with a safety lock, according to the number of residents. The boxts are nzoved up and down by electricity. Maine newspapers sptak of Peter A. Foley, of Portland, as “the most won- derful ‘tlegrahh opera'or in the world." Foley is totally deaf, an iifilictiin \‘vhit-h ordinarily .would be supposrd to make telegraphy an utter impossibility to him. but since he became deaf, eight yiars ago, he has developed what may b3 call- ed a sixth sense. and by touch rind sight ht‘ C2111 (letOCt the finest movcn'i-i‘nt4 of the instrument and correctly interpret them. ly means of the sense of tour-h in his finger tips he takis messages transmitted from the ends of the con- tncnt and can also read-a. message by watching the sounder. With its left tannin-er placed l‘glitly on thc‘soundcr, he crn take a mussagc as accura'ely as. the average operator. and was soon dead. of the poison test. refused to retain the liquid and he had lived his innocence of the crime would have been proved. him, and this was clear proof of his guilt. __‘__________________________________.__._..___~_â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" grants to- Riel Rebellion, the country was badly to burned; and in 1882-84, while the rail- way was being constructed, the work of destruction was finished. Even in 1884 it; was possible to walk through unburnt forest for a distance of one hundred miles east of Lake Superior. VICTIMS! 0F FEllClllSM \VITCH DOCTORS KILL THOUSANDS IN DARKEST AFRICA. _â€" Their Victims are Falling‘Dcnd Every Hour Over a vast Domain. The whites in barbarous Africa say that in spite of the evils the white race has inflicted upon the natives, the good they are receiving,especially the protec- tion to life and property which the new governments are outweighs the evil. giving them, vastly All authorities have much to say of the horrible misery which fet'ch doctors impose upon the natives. that fetichism crimes and suffering than all the native wars, epidemics and cannibal‘sm that alllict parts of These brutalities can be excused only beâ€" cause the people have always lived in savagery. They assert is the cause of more the Dark Continent. Liout. Poupard of the French army, who has been travelling thousands of miles in the French Congo, says that the victims of fetichism are falling every hour all over that vast domain. Many of the victims drop in their tracks and are dead in a few minutes. They know who dealt them their death and so do all the natives, but they (if. not dare to breate his name. I‘. is the ictich doctor who has caused poison stealthin to be MIXED WITH THEIR FOOD. In January, 1906, while Poupard's party was passing through a little vil- lage they saw a vigorous young man surrounded by natives, who were accus- ing him of crime. A bowl filled with a red fluid was given to the young man, who drained it. A few minutes later he fell on his face He was a victim If his stomach had The poison killed Some days later at Miceto the same party heard a great hubbub and found a woman on the _ wounds. Her left shoulder and her tight ground covered with forearm had been cut. to the bone, there was a gaping wound in her hip and her body was covered with contusions. She had received no care, though her in- juries had been inflicted several days be- fore. The white men came in time to save her life. They dressed her wounds and cared for her until she was well. She told them that her husband had died and in the course of his interment the fetich doctor cried out to the peoâ€" ple that their friend had not died a na- tural death, but. IIIS WIVES I-lAD KILLED HIM. All the men in the village immediately set upon the unfortunate women and only one of them lived to describe the crime. Poupard on another day came across some women running at top speed w1th babies on their backs, pursued by a crowd of men who were, hurling pct-zon- ed javelins at them. The fetich- doctor had accused these women of lookan up- on the bieri, a sacred object that had bren taken out of its box for an airing. Any woman who even inadvertxntly should look upon this object would be put. to death. _ On the river Muni lives an old man with twenty-two wives, some of whom are young and, attractive. For two years past it has been observed that every young man who has attempted to setâ€" tle on the adjoining lands has mysteri- ously died. There is no doubt that the ag‘d husband, in league with the local Itftlch doctor, has brought about their death. M-:st oi the tribes do not believe that p a. man dim naturally. Some enemy is always the cause of his death, and the fetich doctor is brought into the case amt POINTS OUT THE CRIMINAL. Mr. Bret found at Ndombo in October last. three natives weighed down by stones at the bottom of a box where they had lingered in agony for days because the fetich doctor suspected that they had cost a spell upon a bo-atman who had been drowned in a shipwreck. Commandant Moll. in a lecture before the Paris Geographical Society recently told of bereaved widows who had been compelled to take the poison test to show who were responsible for their husbands‘ death. Six-me of the women survived because their friends gave. pre- sents to the wizard, who thereupon mixedi an innocuous dose for them. The bodies of the murdered women were, eaten. These are not isolatiul cases, but. far and wide over Africa superstition is shit claiming the lives of thousands. But the. influence of the fetich doclor is al- ready beginning to decline because it is now a crime severely punished under the laws of the Congo Free State, the French C'~ngo and all Rhodes-la to prac- tise the black arts of the fetich doctor. The bands in which he has held the helpless people will some day be broken. __.._â€"â€"-»1I \VIIO WOULDN'T. Jackson is the kind of man who is al- ways seeking gratuitous advice. Not lung ago he met a well-known physi- c'an at a dinner-party. ‘1)n you know. doctor,” he said, as Shirl] as there was a chance, “1 k1 ow a man who suffers 5'0 desperately from neuralgia that. at, times he can do no- thing but. bowl with pain. What. wuild you do in that. case?" - ‘Weil; l supp'mc.” dclibu-aled the me- dical man, “that I should- bow! with pain, tool”