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' scribed 13 ". W $25.00 FOR A LETTER CAN YOU WRITE ONE? Eight Prizes tn ha Awarded in a Letter Writing Contest 0an to Every (ins in Ontario ,Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People have been used in Ontario to: a generation. Hundreds (if rc- markable cures have been reported during that time and there is scarcely a family in which the re- medy has not been tried with bone- ficial results. This furnishes the material for the letter to be written in this contest. There is no demand upon the imagination; every letter must deal with facts and facts-only. PRIZES : The Dr. Williams’ Melicine Co., .of Brockville, Ont., will award a prize of $25.00 for the best letter ‘received on or before the 20th day of March, 1911, from residents of fthe province of Ontario, on the sub- ject, “Why I Recommend Dr. Wilâ€" liams’ Pink Pills." A prize of $10.00 will be awarded for the sec- ond best letter received; a prize of $5.00 for the third best letter, and five prizes of $2.00 each'for the next best five letters. CONDITIONS : The cure or benefit from the use "of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills describ- ed in the letter may be in the Writer’s own case, or one that has come under his or her personal ob- ‘Borvation. Morc/ than one cure may be de- in the letter, but every statement must be literally and ab- solutely true. The letter should be no longer than is necessary to relate the be- nefit obtained from the remedy in the case described. Every letter must be signed by the full name and correct address of the person sending it. If it do- ocribes the cure of some person other than'“the writer of the let- ter, it must also be signed by the person whose cure is described as a guarantee of the truth of the statement made. The writer of each letter must state the name and date of the pa- per in which he or she saw this an- nouncement. Fine writing will not win the prize unless you have a good case to describe. The strength of the ‘of the letter will be the basis of. the award. _ ‘ It is understood that The Dr. Wil- liams’ Medicine Co. shall have the right to publish any letter entered in this contest if they desire to do so, whether it wins a prize or not. The contest will close on March 20th, 1911, and the prizes will be awarded as soon as possible there- after. Do not delay. If you know of a cure write your letter NOW. Observe the above conditions care- fully or your letter may be thrown out. Address all letters as follows: The Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Brockvillo, (Int. Letter Contest Department. 7 T A WOMAN’S WAR RECORD. The death has occurred in the National Asylum at Le Vesinet, France, of Mme. le Breton, who un- til quite recently, was a canteen woman in the French army. She followed the colors in the wars of the Crimea and Mexico, and in the mar with Prussia in 1870 she was . {Vilbunded and taken captive. A1. hgiboush aJppl‘oaching h-er cightieth lfear, she went out to Morocco with gthe expeditionary force a year or so ago, and was once more wound- and captured by the enemy. recommendation and not the style. ‘LW'haii doest thou here '3” “This is ‘ ':‘.ss«..s-g-ix::.i~:n~.n Esta-:siuxc‘e} , . xs‘v‘ t e wi derness. There are no idol- ’ . r ' ‘ ators or murderers, or breakers of $5“ "~ mag INTERNATIONAL LESSON. FEBRUARY 19. .â€"..._.â€". Lesson VIII. Elijah's Flight and Return, 1 Kings 18.41 to 19.21 Golden Text, Isa. 40.31. The sound of abundâ€" anceâ€"The Greek Old Testament has here the suggestive words, “the sound of the feet of the ram- storm.”. All the evidence the pr.)- phet had was the word of the Lord. “Show thyself to Ahab, and I will send rain.” Faith was not difficult after the miraculous exhibition of Jehovah’s power in the sending of fire and the blotting out of the heathemsh priesthood. So Elijah Verse 41. urges the kin to renew his ex~ hausted vita ity with food and drink, at his tent up on the slope of the mountain, before the expected downfall should make a journey to Jezreel impracticable. 42. Elijah went up to the top of Carmelâ€"The rugged haunter of the wildernesses forgot his own need of refreshment in his eagerness to see the hand of Jehovah displayed still further. The attitude he assumed was one’of earnest prayer. 43. His servantâ€"Tradition says this was the widow of anephath's son whom he snatched from the jaws of death. The sea was of course the Mediterranean from which rain would naturally sweep in. Six times the lad went up to the point from which the greatcx- panse of water was clearly Visible, but each time saw nothing but what had appeared in the brassy sky for three weary years. 46. The hand of Jehovah was on Elijahâ€"That is, he was filled with a. divine impulse of rapturous exultation, which carried him be- fore the rapidly moving charictpf Ahab even to the gates of the City Jezreel, where the king maintained a palace. Here he halted, for he had no liking for cities and could easily find shelter in the neighbo:- ing Gilboa. 2. Jezebel-To her the events on Carmel meant more than they pos- sibly could to her husband, for her devotion to the cult of her father, who had been a high priest of the Baal-worship in Tyre, amounted to fanaticism. She could not sit idly by and see her work of years oblit- erated. It was to be expected that she would send just such a message to theprime mover of the threat: cued revolution, pronouncing upon him a virtual sentence of death. 3. Beershebaâ€"Though this wasa town of Judah, about thirty miles south of Hebron, yet Elijah did not feel himself secure there, inas- much ns the king of Israel was in alliance with the king of Judah at this time. So he took himself, in characteristic fashion, to the wil- derness (4). . 4. Juniper-trecâ€"More properly .a species of the broom plant, which grows everywhere in the deserts of lt‘he Holy Land. It afforded a poor shelter, but sometimes the that could be had. , 8. Went in the strength of that food forty daysâ€"The journey to Hor-eb, being not over 180 miles, would require a much less time than that. The number forty, how- ever, is often taken to symbolize a period of testing (compare the cases of Moses and Jesus), and here doubtless refers to the time of Eli- jah’s seclusion. _ 9. What doest thou here, Elijah? â€"â€"Dr. Farrar gives a vivid inter- pretation to this question by em- phasizing the successive words: "What doest thou here ” “He was doing nothing. Was there no work to be done in Israel Was he tamcly to allow Jezebel to be the final mistress of the situation?” “What doest thou hero’i” “Is it not very significant of thy name, ‘Jehovah he is my God ’2’ Is he to to be the God of but one fugitive?” “For Tea You Can’t Liptenfe” The Only Genuine best . by wireless f God’s commandments here.” 10.. I only am left; and they seek my lifeâ€"A confession of conscious failure, on the V part of a man thoroughly discouraged. ' 11-12. Jehovah passed byâ€"Hn was «present in the strong wind, and in the earthquake and the fire, as well as in the still small voice. But the more tumultuous elements did not speak to the soul of the pro- phet as did the calm following the storm. God manifests himself in the quiet providences of life as well as in its upheavals. 13. He wrapped his face in his mantleâ€"The solemn silence of the mountains filled him with awe and even dread, and he felt impelled to an act of self-abasement. His con.- dition smote him, and with re- proachful iteratiOn the question re- tufined: What doest thou here, Eli- ja ’3 ' 15, 16. A threefold mission: (1) To anoint Hazel king of Syria, which would mean the founding of a new dynasty; (2) to set up Jehu as king over Israel, thus abolish- ing the house of Omri; (3) to an- oint as his own successor Elisha, son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah. The purpose of all this is partly ex- plained in the next verse. Israel had not been wholly purged of its pollutions by the long famine. It would still be necessary in' the div- ine plan for the swords of Jehu and Hazael to fall upon the Baal- worshipping kings of Israel, and for Elisha to carry the reformatory work still farther. There is no reâ€" cord of Elijah‘s fulfilling all of this mission, but it came to be fulfilled, in one way and another, through his successor. 19. He with the twelfthâ€"Elisha was guiding but one yoke, the oth- ers being in charge of servants. Cast his mantle upon himâ€"“It meant the adoption of Elisha by Elijah to be his spiritual son; and it meant a distinct call to the pro- phetic office.” 20 Let me kiss my and my motherâ€"An expression of the tenderness characteristic of the younger prophet, and not an act of hesitation. Elijah, in the words, Go back again, gives him full per- mission, disclaiming any other pur- pose in throwing upon him the mantle than simply to summon him to a high duty. 21. Took the . themâ€"A kind of bridges behind him. father . .oxen, and slew burning of the Specimens Manufactured at One- Fifth Cost of Real Stones. ' After nine years of experiment a young Englishman has succeeded in producing what he calls “Syn- thetic diamonds,” of a quality he claims never before approached. Their hardness is 98 per cent. of that of the natural diamonds. They can be stamped upon with the heel without injury. A London Daily Mirror Scientific representative has heated one in a spiritâ€"lamp flame .sml kept it red hot for three min- >5 MAKING DIAMONDS. lute»; without damaging it. i j The color is so good that even by daylight an expert can scarcely de- tect the difference between these stones and natural diamonds. And though the smaller ones are slight- ly better than the larger, they can be made satisfactorily up to a weight of one carat (four grains). Two months ago the inventor had succeeded in turning out stones which defied detection at night by the ordinary untrained eye. His latest stones are still better. Their density is practically the same as that of natural diamonds, and they are abmlutely permanent â€" unaf- fected by the atmosphere. But they are deficient in that dis- tinctive steely-blue shimmer which the best natural diamonds possess. Of course, the maker does not dis- close his process. Tne base is pre- sumably mineral, and' the stones are made by compression, simulat- ing the formation of natural dia- monds through.the contraction of cooling mineral matter. ‘ Diamond makers, by dissolving sugar in iron, or some other sub- stance which exerts tremendous pressure upon its contraction by cooling, havc’often obtained very small but perfect stones of more or less effective appearance. But this newest inventor has produced stones of remarkable size and bril- liancy. He estimates the cost at about one-fifth that of the natural stones, at present prices. >1<.._._._._. 7 Many a learned man has succeed- ed in making a fool of himself in several different languages. “That ship of yours that’s coming 1nâ€"can’t you communicate with it purposes. MODERN CONVENIENCES, BUT THEY COME HIGH. An Englishwoman Writes of Her Experiences in Housekeeping in That Country. “When I first went to Egypt to live, about twenty years ago, reâ€" sidence in Cairo was very different from what it is now,” writes an Englishwoman in the Queen. “Houses were inconvenient, had neither pantrics nor bathrooms, and servants had no English train- ing at all in the way of orderly housekeeping. “Of course there were always the one or two exceptional servants to be had and occasionally a decent house or two to be found, but these things both cost a mint of money and were not available to the young official. The English commounity was small, perhaps 300 or 400 souls at the outside, and their residences Were scattered over a wide area of many miles. “Mrs. Joribs had where did she live? called; but Right away on riverside road, under a gateway, through a cotton repository, and then into a one-storied flat bunga- low surrounded by gardens. And Mrs. Smith, where did she live? Out on the desert, two miles from nowhere in a corner of the old soldiers’ barracks; no address, no road, no signposts. “Still. you had to find it, and in doing so you made great friends for your pains, and everybody absol- utely knew everybody else. In winter things were quite gay, but funnin enough in summer THEY WERE STILL GAYER. All the unfortunatcs who were Left behind to spend the heat in Cairo clubbed together, full of real friendliness and good will, to give each other a good time. “I am afraid that sort of thing is quite done away with now. Cairo has grown too big, too prosperous, too busy to bother with the next door neighbor. The change seemed to come with the change of govern- ment. In the old days when the, Sudan was a military fighting unit the pick of the English army spent its holidays from Halfa to Assouan with us in Cairo, coming and going throughout the year andrma’de up of England’s best form of. sportsâ€" men. ' - “In Cairo itself the present in- flux of hundreds of young educaâ€" tional officials had not yet come in- to vogue. The club, not full to 0vâ€" erfiowing, was quite small, very cosey, very homely, very dear. The men had no wives and we few ladies had our drawing rooms always full with delightful bachelors. “And now, twenty years later, what has happened? One’s winter is epent in returning endless calls from unknown acquaintances sent from other acquaintances just pass- ing through. You pass friends you would like to know only in the rush and tear of Savoy dinners or other hotel dances. You are out every night and in bed all day resting for the next bout. EXPENSES ARE HIGH. “Rents are enormous, . servants’ wages are ruinous. You must have endless dresses for such a climate, and in April, when your money is all gone, you still have 'got to leave for Europe, else you spend the whole of next winter getting over the heat of a summer spent where you are. in price. The old houses are unfit the other side of the city, down the [WINE Ill GAIRU, EGYPT Everything -has increased . ' its the Stands; Article i READY son USE IN ANY QUANTITY disinfecting sinks, closets, drains and for many other A can equal: 20 lbs. SAL SODA. Useful for 560 yurpoieJâ€"J‘dld Everywbnre. E. W. GILLE'IT COMPANY LIMITED TORONTO. ONT. “You can at cxhorbitant wage! throw out your servants when you leave, but it is better to pm,- them a reasonable rate and keep then: through the summer. After allI they too have got to live, and their wives and children; also if you get a reputation for closing the house no servant living will take much in- terest in your welfare and will in- cessantly rook you during the win.- ter months because he must. “The cook’s wage is hing, but he has to pay rent, a family to keep and no summer work available. You ~must feed your English cools and pay her rent. It averages the same with the good one, and the bad ones we do .not keep at all. Your black butler boy is your Eng~ lish parlormaid and in these days quite as haughty. He also stops at the silver and the door and will not touch the dustpan. ‘ “There is little to chOose in these days between the price of a good flat and service in Cairo and the same IN THE CENTRE OF LONDON. You can get everything now saniâ€" tary, well-built flats, telephone, el- ectric light and gas stoves, motor and electric trams just at the corâ€" ner, but also you must have not less than $5,000 a year. In Engâ€" land if you are comfortable you can stay there all the year round. but in Cairo the more babies there are and the more the expenses in- isithat you must move out in sum- rear and repeat all- your bills in crease, so much the more urgent another country more sanitary and ' with better climate. “That is what makes Cairo so ex- pensive for the poor man. I have seen humbled creatures with hu1n~ bler wives arrive full of joy at a salary of $3,000 a year. With the best intentions, both pulling the load, living in summer on their peo- ' ple, with only one child and choa servants, they could not make bot ends meet. You cannot help your- self. out of the trouble. not go to market, you cannot visit your own kitchen full of Arabs, you Cannot help being cheated. “You must pay, or else you must do with cheap, bad servants who are stupid and inefficient. If a cook is clever at cooking he is clev- er at your accounts, and you may stand over him while he weighs the beefâ€"he will still get his propor- tion. He has only six months in. which to make enough to keep him going while you are away during the summer. Pay, and he will give you the best of good timesâ€"good dinners, no worries, no tempers, the house running on oil-ed wheels; but you must pay, remember that." ___,x,____ MAKE TEETH NG , PAINLESS I Teething time is always a time of anxiety to mothers. At this time baby becomes cross, restless and nervous. His gums painv him, he is troubled with constipation or diarrhoea, spasms, colic or convulsions. His little life is in danger unless a medicine is given him to keep his sto- mach sweet and pure and his bowels regular. Such a me- dicine is Baby-’s Own“Tablets.' Nothing can equal them durâ€" ing the’teethingv'period. They have lessened the worries of ’ thousands of mothers. Among them is Mrs. W. A. Yeadofi', Halifax, N.S., who writes :~â€"â€" “I have used no other medi- cine for "baby" but Baby’s Own Tablets and I would not _ be without them. V Last sum-' mer bab _-was_wgre,a_‘,s;ly trouâ€" ‘bledIâ€"wit his teeth until I for habitation and the new ones] ' Save/him'the Tabl'BtS- They want $1,250 a year rent for five rooms. Een then you can only stay there half the year. Added to this you must come and go with your family and you must keep alive somewhere during the other six ,, months. helped him and now he is a big healthy child.” The Tab- lets are sold by medicine pleaâ€" The Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. K__.____.___ .â€" x .nV You can» lcrs or at 25 cents a box from i 3? Q's-cg,Wrcm‘serliwfi-rVFW‘U’vV’t “' var-w v ,- l .32:- Ji :4- aw”) w vessel? aw Wâ€"TFJWIâ€" .r h. ' v... >.;....,u.-u -,_I-. (1.1.5 (,s “mm.” .W a e a-.:\:7-’ ’31 .,- _.:.â€" ,szmitrt «as...»