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PROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES 0F. INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. -_ What ls Going 0n in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. The death rate in Perth in Decem- ber was 13.6 per 1,000. There were 2,137 criminal offences committed in Paisley last year. Renfrew has now a population of 12,355. It has gained 3,000 since the last Government‘ census. All the linen factories in Dun- fermline are on full time. It is . over a year since a similar activity prevailed. Galashiols Town Council have bought for $10,000 the property in Channel street, to widen the street. Over $46,455 has been spent on Ladybank drainage and water schemes- They are nearing com- pletion. Last year Galashiels had 271 births, 91 marriages and 179 deaths, and Selkirk 158 births, 46 marriages and 94 deaths. The Linlithgow district public health authorities are at present exercising the utmost diligence in connection with the rather serious outbreak of typhoid fever at Lin- lithgow Combination Poorhouse. Pollokshaws has just added to its buildings a splendid school which was formally opened by Sir John Stirling Maxwell. The big thread mills of Messrs. Coats and Clark have been the sal- vation of Paisley during the recent industrial depression. A convent of nuns will shortly be established in Hawick, and the sis~ ters will come from the Dominican Convent of Stone, Stafiordshire. At a meeting of over 2,000 rate- payers of Glasgow recently, a re- solution was passed protesting against the proposed alteration in charges for stair-lighting. At a meeting in Glasgow the Scottish iron and steel makers re- solved to stop work rather than pay‘ the proposed demurrage charges for railway waggons, etc. Hamilton Corporation will pay all workmen for holidays, half-pay is to be given to employes in cases of sickness, while foreman are to be paid full money when ill. Isabella Beatts was fatally strangled in the works of Valentine Sons 8t Co., photographic publish ers, Dundee. The moving machine caught a scarf she was putting on and dragged her in. The death occurred of Mr. George Syme, who, for nearly half a cen- tury, was the principal tacksman of the burgh land at Kinghorn. Mr. Syme, familiarly,known as “Kinghorn Geordie,” was over 90 years of age. There is about to be ______. _4 erected a “I have taken Scotfs Emulsitm for six weeks and have found it a won- derful remedy. Before I took-the Emulsion I had no appetite; was weak; had ‘ lost nearly fifty pounds of ' flesh, and now I eat well and am gaining every day. I find Scott's Emulsion to be very easily digested and a good food for all weak . people.”â€"FLOREN-CE BLEEKER, No. 1 Myrtle Avenue, Bridgeton, N. J. This is only one of thOusands of cases where has given an appetite. It's so easily digested that it doesn't tax the digestive organs and they rest; 'et thebody is wonderfully nour- ished and built up. The digestion is improved-then ordinary food ls sufficient. Growing boys and girls, who need so much food to keep them well and strong, and also growing, should be given a bottle of SCOTT'S EMULSION every few weeks. It does wonders for them. It pre- vents their getting ruu down and spindly. Nothing does them so much good. ALL DRUGGISTS Lot uJ send you oomo letters and litera- tire on this subject A Post Card, giving your uddreu and the name of this paper, Ll Mcicnt. SCOTT 8r BOWNE '. I?‘ Wofliniton Sh, W. Toronto handsome pile of buildings, to be known as “The Donald Institute, Bothwell," the cost of which was bequeathed by the late Mr. James Donald, a native and long a mer- chant of Glasgow and London. _______>s _ ECZEMA 0F THE SCALE’. Zam-Buk Cures a de who Suiiercd for Three Years. Now and again mothers find that sores or ulcers on the heads of children refuse to heal, despite all ordinary treatment. Then is the time to prove Zam-Buk’s healing power. A case which mothers will read with interest occurred recent- ly in Winnipeg. Mrs. C. Keep, of 592. Alexander Avenue, Winnipeg, says :-â€"“A year ago my little girl contracted eczema of the scalp, and notwithstanding all I did the sores spread until the child’s scalp was completely covered. I took her to hospital, but none of the lotims and ointments applied had any cf- fect on the disease. By degrees the child's hair came out, until she was quite bald. We were at this stage strongly advised to try Zam-Buk and did so. From first commeno ing with this wonderful balm the child got relief from the itching and pain. The sores were quickly ban- ished, and in a remarkably short space of time the child was cured. The hair soon grew again, and is now quite long and in a healthy condition.” All who have care of children should know that Zam ‘Buk is parti- cularly adapted, because of its purity, to the tender skin of chil- dren. It cures with equal dispatch ringworm, blood-poisoning, ulcers. cold-cracks, chapped hands. frost- bite, piles, bad leg, etc. Used as an embrocation it eases the pain of sprains, and ‘cures rheumatism, sciatica, and neuralgia. All drug- gists and stores sell at 500. a box; or post free from Zam-Buk Co., Toronto, for price. ... _.__.__>I¢_._..____ SECRETARIES TO THE BRAIN. Certres Which Attend Always to Same Details. Habit is the acquirement of a machine-like or automatic power of performing certain duties. Actions which we have at first to exorcise our intellectual centres to be able to perform are ultimately discharged without any reference to our mind or consciousness. Indeed when the intellect comes to interfere with the automatic per- formances of such acts, says the London Illustrated News, they are apt to be less perfectly executed than when the machinelike activity of‘ brain is permitted to have its sway. Take the case of reading, writing and spelling; at first we have to acquire these gifts through the exercise of close intellectual attention; later on they are auto- matically performed. We do not after the childish stage of education require to bethink ourselves over the shape of letters, the sound of syllables or the forma- tion of words by act of the pen. Clearly what was at first an intel- lectual act has become purely me- chanical. Also in exercising the other “R” and in doing a sum we arrive at a correct solution without having to think out the rational of the operation, as we did when taught arithemetic at school. 'l'he saving t0 the intellectual centres which ‘deal with questions and affairs of every moment must be enormous in consequence of this division of labor. The centres in question are left free to exercise judgment and to engage in the highest operations , of our conscious life. In the brain structure we actually find centres which discharge these automatic duties and play the part of private secretaries to the head of the mental firm. Even when we come to higher brain operations a like principle prevails. Centres are set apart for govern- ing muscles, others receive mes- sages from organs of sense, and others again, sitting in the judg- ment seat, report upon information received. ____)h-â€"â€"- THINGS WE CAN DO WITHOUT. It is wonderfully how many things we think most needful are really not so very necessary after all. Try this little experiment and it will astonish you. Take a sheet of paper and write down all the things you “want.” Make the list as full as your desires are. Put this list away for one hour, then look it over. Cross out the things you think you can do without, and in another hour revise the list once more. Next pick out the things you feel‘ you cannot afford to buy. Then, with a mind determined to be lovelsand sensible and pratcical, go over the list once more. What is Lthe result? Try it and see. familiar thing done in winter before we went to bed. “MM A noun ascents-error. 0f Buckwheat Cakes and Sausages or Pork Chops. . “I have wondered sometimes," said the amiable head of a voraci- ous city family, “why we didn't have more griddle cakes, wheat and buckwheat, and that sort of thing in our house, because I am very fond of such cakes, and so are all the children, and of buck- wheat cakes in particular I have a very pleasant recollection. “When I was a boy we used to have always buckwheat cakes for breakfast in winter, with fried pork chops or fried sausages, and I used to think that that was a breakfast good enough for anybody, and I still think so. “The cakes we used to mix in a batter pot different from any other piece of crockery I ever saw, and I can see it now in my mind's eye as plainly as if it stood before me, a deep, straight sided, earthen- ware pot of a very ‘dark brown glaze and in capacity of about a gallon and a half and having on the other side a handle; the only pot of just that style and dimensions that I ever saw, and perhaps it was the only one ever made. “We valued it highly. I am sure that if anything had happened to that pot it would have been regard- ed as a household calamity, famil- iar to us as it had become through year after year of use, and the mix- ing of the batter in it was a mighty household rite, the last “Every morning when the cakes were cooked there was left in the pot just enough of the material to serve as yeast for the next day’s batch ; and every night the last thing we did was to got out the buckwheat batter pot and mix up in it the batter for the next morning's cakes. Then we would put a loose cover on the pot and sct it near the kitchen stove, where it would get a little warmth, but not too much, so that the batter would rise just right. Sometimes it would run over, but not often, for our folks were high experts in making buckwheat bat- ter, and usually our batter rose just enough to fill the pot, rising at the same time to the highest attainable quality; and then in the morning the batter was thinned down a little, so that it would spread just exactly right when poured on the griddle, and tlicn the family was ready to eat 'em. “It seems to mo that the pork chops we had in those days were better than any to be had now; they were from locally raised and fattencd pigs, and they were very tender and superior. Certainly it would be difficult to find now such sausages as we had then. “We used to eat those buckwheat cakes red hot off the griddles, with those superior pork chops, or those extra superior sausages, and with the pork or sausage gravy on the cakesâ€"a morning meal of great de~ light and glory. “A meal calculated to tax the stoutest constitution surely, but we all had cast iron stomachs and it did us no harm; and I have won- dered sometimes why we couldn't have something of that sort now; but she, meaning thereby my better half, telling me that cooking cakes means a headache and a burned face and a tired back; that cooking cakes for this family would be an awful task and that it wouldn't do. So that grand breakfast of buck- . wheat cakes and sausages comes to me now 1n memory only.” q‘. FEDERAL LIFE PR9 GRES S. - .0 Financial Statement for Past Your Pro-eminently Satisfactory.’ Policy-holders and shareholders o'f the Federal Life Assurance Co. must be highly gratified with the twenty-seventh annual financial statement o'f the directors, which appears in another column. Tho progress i't has made during the past year clearly reveals that Canadians appreciate home com- panies that are wisely managed, in preference to those operating under foreign charters. This company offers policy-hold- ers ample security and pays them liberal bonuses on the maturity of their policies. During the past year income and assets show a healthy increase. The latter now stand at $3,314.,- 856.65, an increase of $314,383.91, exclusive of guarantee capital. The security for policy-holders, in‘cluding guarantee capital, now stands ‘at ‘the high figure of $4,- 184,856.65, whilst the liabilities for reserves and all outstanding claims is $3,045,786.00, showing the hand- some surplus of $1,140,070.65, exâ€" elusive of uncalled capital. .___--_)!‘ . Greatness that; is thrust upon ‘people seldom lasts long. ~.- _ ‘17' " "Lao . . {uwwomnwnmsragr THE TRUE CAUSE 0f RHEUMATlSM (hated by Uric Acid in Blood and Gan Only be (lured Through the Blood. ' ‘Not many years ago doctors thought rheumatism ‘was only a local pain caused by exposure to cold or wet. Now they know tha't rheumatism is caused by the blood becoming tainted with uric acid. This acid contracts the muscles, stilfens the joints, and irritates the nerves. The-n the cold and wet make the joints and muscles groan with arching rheumatism. You blame the weather but the real cause is acid in the blood. If not promptly treated the stiffness spreads and the pain grows worse each year until you are a helpless cripple, tortured day and night. If the disease touches the heart it moans sudden death. You can’t cure rheumatism with liniments, plaster-s or hot cloths. You must go to the root of the trouble in the blood. The one sure, scienti- fic way to cure rheumatism is Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, because they actually make new blood‘. They sweep out the poisonous acid, loo-s- en the joints and muscles, and bring ease and freedom where be- fore had been pain and misery. Mrs. Fred. Sabeau, Canada. Creek, N. S., says :â€"-“Three years ago I was taken with a severe pain in my right hip. It grew gradual- ly worse until it finally settled in both my hips and legs. The pain was really almost unbearable. At first I tried foot drafts and lini- m-ents, but this gave me only the most temporary relief, and I felt as i'f I ‘was to go through the rest of my life as a suffering cripple. A neighbor whose daughter had been cured of rheumatism by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills advised me to try this medicine, and I pur- chased three boxes. Before they were all gone I was able to got my foot up on my knee and untie my shoe, something I had not been able to do for two years, and I began to feel I ha-d at last found a me li- cine to cure the trouble. I kept on taking the Pills until I had used, I think, a, dozen boxes, when 1 was completely cured and I am as well and strong to-day as ever I was in my life. I want every suf~ ferer to know that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills is a sure cure for rheu- matism, and that if they will give this medicine a fair trial, their pains and aches will disappear as mine did.” Sold by all .mcdicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. I'Vil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. \X 4 OCCURRENCE . Instances When Children Initiated Great Inventions. Some of our most useful mechani- cal appliances owe thie rcxistence Ito the ingenuity of children in fash- lioning their playthings. Argand, who invented a lamp with a wick fitted into a hollow cylinder, was one day busy in his workroom; sitting before the burning lamp, his little brother was amusing himself by placing a bottomless oil flask over different articles. Sn 1denly he placed it upon the flame of the lamj'),~ which instantly snot up the long circularneck of the flash with increased brilliancy. Argand did not allow such a suggestive occur- rence to escape him. The idea of the lamp chimney almost immedi- ately came into his head, and in a short time his invention was per- fected. ‘The telescope owes‘ its origin to a smnlar occurrence. The children of a Dutch spectacle-maker happened to be playing one day with some of their father’s glasses in front of the shop door. Placing two of the glasses together, they peepcl through them, and were exceedingly astonished to sec the wcathcrcock of the neighboring steeple brought Within a short distance of their eyes. They were naturally puzzled, and called to their father to see the strange sight. When the spectacle-maker looked through the glasses ho was no less (surprised than ‘the children 'ha'l been. He went indoors and thought the matter over, and then the idea occurred to him that he might con- struct a curious new toy which would give pCOPlO a good deal of amusement. Not long after. the telescope was an accomplished fact. __ I“'<_'_....,__._. _ THE ALPHABET IN A SEN~ TENCE. The follmving is the shortest sen- tence containing all ‘the letters of the alphabet: Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. l oc~¢~o+o+0§o+0+o+o~e o t» 3 Ml THE EARL OF Lucinda" LATE NOBLEMAN WAS FIRST FARMER 01" ENGLAND. ,_._..-. Lives of His Father and Himself Covered a Span of a Century and a Half. The death of the Earl of Leicester recently removed from the scene one of the most interesting figures in English country life. The Cokes of Holkham in Nor- folk have been established in that county since the early days of the twelfth century. The first to rise to real eminence was Edward Coke, born in 154.9, the famous Chief Jus~ tice, who was the author of the Petition of Rights, which he propos- ed in the House of Commons His great-grandson was the first Coke to become an Earl of Leices- ter, but the title died with him. It was revived by Queen Victoria for the father of the Earl who has just died. He was the first commoner whom the late ‘Queen raised to the peerage. He was S3 at the time and for over fifty years had been fam- ous as Mr. Coke of Holkham. Like several other heads of old and dis- tinguished but untitled families he‘ was reluctant to accept a title to which could give but LITTLE REAL DISTINCTION. He died in 1842 at the age of 88, having been born in 1754. His son,_who died recently, was born when his father was 68, so that the two lives covered an extraor- dinarily long span of years, no less than 155 years separating the birth of the father and the death of the son. It seems strange that in 1909 there should have been living the son of the man who headed a depu- tation to George III. from the coun- ty of Norfolk in favor of the acknowledgment of the independ- ence of the “American Colonies and Plantations,” strange that a man should have died last Sunday whose father danced with Marie Antoi- nette, knew the wonderful court at Versailles, where he was called the handsome Englishman, and could tell his son what he had seen of France before the Revolution. The late Earl, who was created a Knight of the Gartervin 1873, was the father of the House of Lords, having been a member of it since 1842. He was not an ardent politi- cian and the last vote that he gave was against Mr. Gladston-e’s second home rule bill, prior to which he had been counted among the Lib- eral peers. His one absorbing in- terest was agriculture, as it had been that of his father. SPENT A MILLION. When the latter succeeded to Holkham much of the estate was a mere barren rabbit warren, some of it unredeemed marsh lands. Father and son, in almost equal amounts, spent well over a million sterling in improving and developing the estate. I'Iolkham is regarded as the cradle of English farming of the advanced type. Holkham was the birthplace of enlightened estate management and agricultural practice. There was introduced into farming the four course shift, turnips, barley, clover, wheat, practised in East Anglia to this day. To the Holk- ham sheep shearings at the end of the'eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century can be traced the origin of the show system that has done so much to improve live stock. 1t is acknowledged that the efforts of these two Earls of Leices- ter placed English agriculture in the front rank throughout _ the world. To Holkharn went the most eminent agriculturists of England and from abroad to sec what was being done and to exchange ideas. Thus it may fairly be said that the greatest farmer in England died on Sunday. ______.~14._.____. ocooowwmooowcocoxf ' SAVED BABY'S LlFE. Mrs. T. Osborn, Norton Mills, Vt., ‘says:-â€"“I have no hesitation in saying ‘that Baby’s Own Tablets saved my baby's life and I cannot say enough in praise of this medicine. He was so weak and sickly that he ‘took no notice, of anything, and cried so mu‘ch that I was worn out caring for him. After giv- ing him the Tablets there was a great change, and he is now a bright-eyed, laughing baby, the pride of ourhome.” Baby’s Own Tablets cure all stomach and bowel troubles, break up colds, destroy worms and keep little ones healthy and happy. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from the In‘. Williams’ Medicine Co., Brockvill-c, Ont. 2 i l i i i ‘ ~.¢i"_;~é. , " I .li~§:w“'r'- ' ..- ,