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-.-<v_>-- "F" _-' .f. ~ .1 M“_r. \A .. . K, â€" ."\./~_'~..-\'\â€"~ . ...'\./* . .. â€"<. i Duran/w,“ W:rn~;u_-.'w--. mes-7. A. “ 1"; Stephenson of Fulham. \\_ - NM __________-â€"-_â€"â€"â€"â€"”_'“_ m MERRY 0L0 ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND ,IIIS rPIQQPLIQ- Occurrences "in . the Laud That Reigns Supreme’. in the-"Gom-i mercial World; ' .~‘;'.‘.->=' Several Basuto chi-efs'f'a-re'.fvisit- fng London. ~ ‘ -' ’ ’ Scarborough is tor-r haveiljioinother,‘ new music hall, which is: expected to be open beforejAu'gust. ;' _ . At Nunhead Cemetery the ‘funer- al took place recently of Mr. Peter Marsh, who rode in the charge of y the Light Brigade. ; _ jj'f' The late Lord Glenesk left-pro- perty valued .at $2,000,000; " His. residuary estate is. given in trust for his‘ daughter, Countess Bath.- urst. ; ‘ At Leeds Thomas Meadktllii 1,31‘. borer,‘ was. sentenced -tq5'=deaitlgc? for the murder of, Clara .Howelliat Leeds while; under theiinlfu'enceidf drink. ' l ‘ ' I Lieut.’ Napier Burnett Lindsayfor the 1st Royal. I-rish Fusiliers, whilst; hunting? with; the ,Aldershot drag houndsfi'wa'sthrown from his herse 1,- andikilledf' j. ._ . .. Mr. Alexande'rl , ager of‘;é a branch of the L'ondon City and Midland Bank at‘ Aston, Birmingham, was ‘recently found dead inaa chair at his house. The s-‘hooner Valhalla,,in. which Lord g'lrawford' 'cruised ‘200,000 miles, h'es been sold to a ship- broker’s’~-firm' i-n 'New 'York, and is to be used as a mercantile training ship. _ ._ ,- The Prince of Wales visited the Great Northern. Hospital, Hollo- way, the other day, inspecting the new ward for children, opened by the Princess ~of Wales on February 22. . - ‘ HoraCe' Lari-er, 19, who was sen- tenced to death for the murder of a young Woman near Norwich, has been respited with a view to re- 'moval to Broadmoor Criminal Lu- natic Asylum. At a Hampstead inquest on an actor who committed suicide the deeeased’s landlord said= that the only evidence of insanity he noticed Was that the man paid him five years in advance. A portion of the sleeve of Queen 'Anne’s coronation robe is to be sold by Messrs. H. Mawer and It is of cream silk, beautifully embroider; ed with a butterfly alighting on a spray of flowers. Coxwain Bryant, of the tug which was towing the pinnace of II.M.S. Encounter, when fifteen sailors were drowned on January 5 last, in Sydney Harbor, N.S.W., has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. Miss Gertrude Davey, daughter of Mr. George Davey, assistant to ‘ the Brentwood Justices, has die-d at Bishop’s Stortford from burns sustained through her apron catch- _-_-_..._â€"_.~_____-__-._. “I purchased a bottle of Scott's Emulsion and im- mediately ‘commenced to improve. In all, Ithink I took 14 bottles, and my , weight increasedfrom 133 pounds to 184 pounds in less than six months. I know from personal results the efficacy of Scott’s Emulsion.”â€"â€"FRED. R. STRONGMAN, 417 Bath- urst St, London, Ont. Let us send you a copy of Mr. Strongman’s letter. He had a. trying experience, had got run down ' Scottie - _ uisaon built him up, as it has thous- ands of others. The strengthening and flesh- producing properties of Scorr’s EMULSION, are un- equalled by any other prepa- , ration, and it's just as good for the thin, delicate child as for the adult. Be sure to get Scorr's.‘ It's been the stand~ ard of the world for 35 years, and is worth many times the ‘ cost of thenumerous imita- tions and substitutes. ALL DRUGGISTS Lot, no lend you a full copy o! Mr. Strongmnn's letter and some other litera- ture on the subject. J ust mention this vapor- SCOT!‘ 8: HOWE 126 Wellington Sh, W. Toronto P'rother'oe, mana _ _ ing fire while she ‘was putting coal on a kitchen range. Professor Oskar Backlund, di- rector of the Imperial Russian Ob- servatory, St. Petersburg, was'pre- sented at Burlington House, with the gold medal of the Royal Astro- nomical Society for his researches on Enckeis comet, extending over many years. > ,- Betting' by young factory girls was strongly condemned by Col. Trimble, chairman of the Licens- ing'Committee, at Walton le Dale Licensing Sessions. ‘He said that betting coupons found their way into youvn'g';fl'.;people’s houses and wrought inoalcul'able harm. ‘ 1908 is said. to have been the worst year ever. experienced by the Yorkshire n'qol\vorke1‘s. One mem- ber‘: out,0f every six belonging to theiworkers’ organization had re- ,ceivjed o'ut-offyvork- or breakdown pay; " - At apBurns-dinner at Bangor the chairman exhibited a silver verge watch which, he said. had been in his family for ‘a hundred years. It formerly belonged to Burns’ and ,b-eaiis the, following inscription :â€"â€" “fPresented to iliIr.i,Robert Burns, by his brother 'plough'men "of Ayr, March, L785.”- .. ____._i _\____-_- Pmcu RIVER FARMING LAND. No. I'Longer a Hunting Ground, Says a Pioneer. VV'flliam Beecher, a pioneer of the: inorth, arrived -'in' Calgary, Alberta, the other day on the way ti his home inMichigan. iHe is an old trader and hunter of the north, having lived a number of years in the Peace River country. He was once a resident near Fort ~ Churchill. in'the Hudsoanay coun- t-ry. . In conversation, the olditrapper had many. a tale of his experiences 11] Peace River and up in the Hud- son Bay country. Mr. Beecher has left the north country for good, as, he says‘ his business is not as good as it was years ago, unless he went further north, but he considers himself too old to do that. The last two years have not been very good, according to Mr. Becch~ ~ er, around his district, because the Peace River is becoming more po- lpulated, and alsoldue to the acti- wty of timber wolves, which rob the traps of the small fur animals. Further north the fur-skinned. ani- mals were very plentiful, and those able to ~go far enough got a good catch. ' 1- - . The Peace River country is'n'o longer looked upon as a hunting ground, as “this country is being settled up, and already small crops cf wheat are being grown. The impression that the part of the country is not productive is a great mistake, said Mr. Beecher. The soil is good and will grow any- thing. The only thing needed is a rail- way up the country, and when the .farmers settle the Peace” River country it will produce as much grain as any other part of the north country. On the way from the Landing to Edmonton he met two little parties numbering about twenty people, going up to the Peace River coun- try. This is rather early for se'tâ€" tiers to start for that country, but this goes to show how well that country is ‘beginning to settle up. With the prospects of a railway up that part of the country within the next few years, Mr. Beecher thinks there will be a large rush this sum- mer of settlers and immigrants, who will go in and settle down, and be on the ground floor by the time the railw iys come 1n. *1 TIIE ENGLISH COMPLEXION. The Despair of the Smart Ladies tn Paris. Outdoor exercise and the “sim- ple life” are for the moment the fad of the fashionable Parisienne. leading French actress when recently in London so greatly ad- mired the complexions of the Eng- lishwomen she saw that’ she anda number of her friends determined to cultivate, by means of walking and plain living, “English com- .plexions.” The experiment is declared to have had ~wonderful effects, and now every fine morning one may see quite a number of ladies,lboth of the theatrical and social worlds, indulging in “footing” round the lakes in the Bois de Boulogue. Some of the more athletic have adoptcdl a practical costume resembling that worn by lady mountaineers. Stout, square-teed boots are wn- sidered necessary for “footing,” and veils are discarded. Together with the morning walk, the morning cold “tub” is an Eng- lish custom more and more widely practised. If it rains, seekers af- ter a “British complexion” indulge in gymnastics athome. The de- votees of the new fad dispense with the now more than ever fash- ionable corset during their morn- ing exercise. the disease, die from it, and show the same pathological changes of STOMAGH liiBlGESTiflii. Pe-ru-na Strikes at t/ze Root of t/ze T ramble. MR. S. J- MRSSEY- Mr. S. J. Massey, formerly a re- sident of Toronto, and a well-known business man, writes from 247 Guy street, Montreal, Quebec. “I wish to .testify to the good results I have derived from the use oi‘ Pei-una. . - “Having been troubled for sev- eral‘ years with catarrh of the head, Ide-cided to give Peruna a fairitrial and I 'can truly say I have received great benefit from its use. It evidently strikes at the very root of the trouble and good re- sults are soon notice-able. “I have also found Peruna a very valuable remedy for stomach trou- ble and indigestion. “I have no hesitancy whatever in recommending Peruna ‘as a reli- able cata-rrh remedy.” ‘ There are several kinds of indi- gestion. The trouble may be due to slug- gishness of the liver, derangements of the bowels, enlargement of the pancreas, or it may be due to the stomach itself. In nearly all cases of stomach in- digestion catarrh of the stomach is the cause. The only permanent re- lief is to remove the catarrh. Peruna has become well-known the world over as a remedy in such cases. ‘ SLEEPIN G SICKNE S S. Disease IIas Spread 0vcr Whole of Congo Territory. A few years ago sleeping sick- ness was known only as a patho- logical curiosity, limited to certain parts of the west coast 'of Africa. Owing to the opening up of the country to civilization and trade, the disease has spread over the whole of the Congo territory, has depopulated some of the most fer- tile tracts of Uganda, and is spreading up the Nile to the north and threatening Rhodesia on the south. Sleeping sickness is caused by a trypanosome, which infests the blood of those suffering from the disease. By injecting a small quan- tity of human blood containing the parasite into animals, they develop the brain that occur in sleeping sickness in man. Moreover,~ it is now known that the parasite of the disease is carried from the ill to the well by a blood-sucking fly. |‘râ€"-â€"-_â€" C 0N SERVATIVE PRO GRE S S Annual Report of the Excelsior Insurance Company. The annual statement of the Ex- celsior Life Insurance Company. which is published in this pap-er, BhOWS this young Canadian Com- pany to be in an exceptionally strong position at the close of the year’s business. The management of the Company is to be heartily congratulated on the progress made in the past year and the growth and splendid standing of the Com- pany maintains its previous praise- worthy traditions. It is a very noteworthy fact that rthe death rate in the past year was 44 per cent. less than expected, and 9 per cent. less than the previ- ous year, which shows very care- ful selection of risks. Expenses have also decreased 6% per cent., illustrating watchful management. The increase of insurance in force amounting to 10 per cent, and the addition of 16 per cent to assets and 17 per cent to income undoubtedly show a most commend- able activity coupled with a wise conservatism. .__-,â€" >1 of mumps doesn’t be puffed up with An attack cause one to nonde. PROM ERlN’S GREEN [SL5 THE REMINDERS NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE. LAND’E SHORES. _ Happenings in the Emerald Isle 0! Interest to Irish- men. The Sinn Fein candidates sustain- ed a crushing defeat in Wexford Urban elections. The ofiicial returns indicate that Tipperary’s share of the old age pensions will be nearly $300,000. The Edenderry evening schools are proving a great benefit to the young men and women of the town. The landlord. and-tenants on the Glenties portion of the Conyngham estate, have agreed to ‘purchase terms. Returns in connection with the old age pensions are still pouring into the Customs offices at Dublin . r’ ; at the rate ~of 1,000 a day. Belturbet, Co. Cavan, is now lighted by electricity, and has a new commercial school. Michael Connors, aged 17, while at work in a malting store at Old Quay, Co. Cork, fell into a large bin and was suffocated in the malt. A blacksmith named John M. [Kay has just died at Armory, County Antrim, at the age of 101. He worked at his trade until a few years ago. Patrick McCart, of Bridge End, Strabane, a native of Ould Done- gal, has attained his 110th birth- day. happy returns. A cave, 200 feet long, and a room c-r cavern measuring 14 feet by 14 feet by six feet, was discovered by a member of the‘ County Louth Archaeological Society in Dungeo- ley district recently. The lands of Four-Mile-House, on the Campbell property, near Ros- coznmon, have been distributed amongst tenants of the Estates Commissioners’ inspectors, the ‘tenants receiving from 9 to 23 acres. The Connaught Telegraph says :-â€" “The unusual sight of a heifer with a wooden leg was seen at Castlebar a few days ago, when a farmer from Crossmolina 'distriCt offered such an animal for sale, and secured for her a good price.” Hale'and hearty and in full pos- scssion'of all her faculties, is Mrs. Hannah McKenna, who lives at Ballygawley, County Tyrone, and who a few days ago celebrated her one hundredth birthday. j At Buncrana all previous catches in connection with Lough Swilly herring fishing were surpassed Jan. 21, when the total catch land-ed by steam drifters amounted to fifteen lhundrcd crans, representing nearly $10,000.‘ The cottage industries of Done- gal are threatened by the latest improvements in machinery for em- broidering. The Donegal peasants have for a century been celebrated for the excellence of their em- embroidery. Belfast firms are set- ting up the new machines, and to . that extent discontinuing their Donegal hands? >14-__ _._... CANNON MADE 0F GLASS. Weigh Forty Pounds and are Exact Models of Mafcking Guns. One of the last things in the world, says a writer in the Strand Magazine, which one would expect the glass-worker to create would be a cannon; yet Messrs. Thomas Webb and Sons, of Stem-bridge, England, recently built two cannon out of the finest cut glass. The guns weigh, with their limber, for- ty pounds each and measure twen- ty-four inches in length. They wheel easily and move on their trunnions like ordinary cannon. The axle-tree and bearings are of ornamental brass. The creations may claim to be of some historic interest in that theye are exact models of the famous ordnance with which Major-General Baden- Powcll successfully defended Mafe- king. The old cannon was dug up in that place during the siege, and investigation has since shown that this old cannon was cast in Staf- fordshire, at an iron works within ten minutes’ walk of the glass- makers’ establishment. During the siege the gun was known as “The Lord Nelson” and “Skipping Sally,” the officers using the for- mer name and the men the latter. “is He-â€"“I notice you call a good many of your acquaintances cranks. [I hope you do not consider me a crank?” Sheâ€"“Certainly not! A crank is a person with one idea, and I-_ never heard anybody accuse you ofhaving one!” Wise ills the philosopher who is not ‘led _.1nt0 the grievous error of taking his philosophy seriously. Congratulations‘ and many‘ 0F RHEUMATlSM ‘801d. Wet Weather Starts the Pain But the Trouble is in the Blood. Cold, damp weather brings on the twinges and pains of rheuma- tism, but is not the real cause oi the complaint. ed in the blood and can only be The trouble is root- cured by enriching the blood and driving the poisonous acid out of the system. This is a great medi- cal truth, which every rheumatic sufferer should realize. Linimeots and outward applications can’t cure the troubleâ€"they can’t reach the blood. The sufferer is only wasting valuable time and good money in experimenting with this sort of treatment~and all the time the trouble is becoming more firmly rooted,‘fâ€"harder to cure. There is just one sure way to cure-rheuma- tism-Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills._ They act directly on the impure, weak blood. They purify and. strengthen it, and so root out the cause of rheumatism. Mrs. S. Bailey, Newcastle Creek, N.B., says :â€"“In the summer of 1906 I became lame in my ankles, but thinking I would soon get over the attack I did not seek medital aid, but used liniments to ally the pain and swelling. Instead of get- ting better the trouble increased and I then consulted a doctor whr pronounced it articular rheuma- tism, and treated me‘ fer this trou- ble. Instead of getting better the pain and the swelling became worse until I was hardly able to bobble about the house. On rising in the morning I was unable to bear my weight, except with extreme pain. Having tried so much medicine without benefit I began to think I" was doomed to be a cripple. One day a cousin advised me to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. She said, fI take them every spring as a tonic for my blood, and they make a new person of me.’ After some persuasion I decided to try them. I had taken three or four boxes before I noticed any change, and then it seemed my ankles were less painful. By the time i had used a few more boxes there was a wonderful improvement in my ecu- dition. Not onl did my ankles get well, but I feit like a different woman and bad not been as well in years. In speaking 0f this t“. a doctor afterward he said that no doubt Dr. 1Williams’ Pink Pills had enriched the blood thus driv- ing“out the painful disease.” Not only rheumatic sufferers, but all who have any trouble due to weak, watery blood or impure blood can find a cure through the fair use of Dr. Williams,’ Pink Pills. Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Wil- liams’ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. _'__'_'I< UNDERGROUND IN BERLIN. Pale Girls and Boys, Pale Men and Women Burrow in Cellars. Over 90,000 people live under- ground in Berlin, burrowing under the earth in the cellar tenements. Pale girls and boys issue out of these clean, chill holes; and paler men and women; and old people yet more pale, who have spent in thisdarknesseall their lives, one may seen borne out from them at last into other cellar'tencments, eternal and more still. The chil- dren from the cellar tenements have a strange look of the blood not flowing in- them, but a still life, like that in the round. The new tenement hou-se aw in Berlin for- bids them, but it. cannot touch the old buildings. This is something any one must see. DOES NOT NEED A DOCTOR Mrs. F. Porier, Valleyfield, Que, says :-â€" “I always use Baby’s Own Tablets for my little one, and therefore never need a doctor. When my baby is feverish or rest~ less I give her a Tablet and in a couple of hours she is ‘all right. They have been of the greatest benefit to her when teething, and are just the thing in all emergencies." These Tablets promptly cure colic, indigestion, constipa- tion, diarrhoea, destroy worms, break up colds, and make teething easy. Good for children of all ages. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. C4>C>¢O§OWNOM 04"3 1W ¢W WWWM