Ps a hes of the imagination, however to identify sie og oe oe | this mysterious gem with the Taver- nier diamond, and its fame was speed- ily noised abroad. -- To the ears of Henry Thomas Hope, +2 banker who had amassed wealth un- tii he was tired of saving, came the news that there was in the market a diamond the like of which was never scen before in England, and to this gossip added it was once a crown jewel of France. 'The banker saw the dia- mond, bargained with Mr. Eliason and finally bought the stone. Neither buyer. nor séller told the price paid, but the busy tongue of rumor placed it at £13,000--$65,000 it would be to-day. "And cheap at the price," added ru- mor. x STONE MAKES OWNER FAMOUS. As the Hope diamond, the blue stone leaped into fame. Perhaps the fame of the slone was reflected to its owner-- perhaps that is just what the banker was calculating on when he bought 't. At any ratc, Henry Thomas Hope soon became as famous as his diamond, and when his daughter, Henrietta Adela, married the sixth Duke of Newcastle in 1861, besides the millions in gold from her father's {treasure chest she teok with her as dowry the Hope dia- mond, Of her two sons, one became Duke, the other got the diamond. Of the trceubles of Lord Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope--a special royal warrant gave him the right to add his grandfather's surname in honor of the diamond--much has been written. His marriage to May Yohe, in 1894, caused a sensation throughout . the English speaking world. The great Hope dia- mond graced the firra of the former concert hall Singer on more than one oceasion during the brief duration of thelr married life. Fortune dealt so adversely with Lord Francis Hope that in 1899 he tried to sell the diamond to salisfy the most urgent of his creditors. His family ob- jected, and he appealed to the courts. AL that time the gem was estimated to be worth about $125,000. It was not until late in 1901, only a few months before his divorce from May Yohe, that ke finally was. permitted to dispose of the stone. Whether or not he ever blamed his marital and financial diffi- culties on the ~ diamond, they ended simultaneously with its passing from his possession. Simon' Frankel, of New York, bought the stone. As on the occasion of its last previous sale, the amount involy- ed was not made public. Rumor got busy again, and placed the price at £620 a carat--$148,800 for the stone, Whatever the price, Mr. Frankel brought it to New York, and here it has remained since. Millionaire after m'l- lionaire has looked at it, discussed its purchase and almost bought it--then turned away, leaving it in the hands of the merchant... For more than six years it has lain in a vault, eating up inter- est on the purchase money at the rate of $7,500 a year. Just lately, game the news of the fin- ancial difficulties of the Frankels, prominent among whose assets is the big diamond, held at a quarter of a million and so listed on their books. While there is every reason to believe the affairs of the diamond dealers are not Badly involved, as was at first re- ported, and that they will be soundly ou their financial fect again before long, there are those who say they will never regain their old position of su- premacy in their trade so long as the Hope diamond remains in their owner- ship. Other fragments, or what are believed te be other fragments, of the Tavernier stone have had a less eventful history. Speculation as tao what had become of the pieces cut off when it was reduced from the size it bore in France to that it had when sold in London were partly In the quarter century and more that). af rest by the disclosure te i874. remained of the reign of the Grand], sage ae a : Monarque the great blue diamond flash- has sell: - a ri Mees et ed over many a gliltering scene. On ae BOP gen eee state occasions Louis wore it suspended from a blue ribbon about his neck, and ambassadors. and princes saw it and envied, Louis died and another Louis reigned, and the chronicles of eigh- teenth century France tell here and there of the reyal gem, monarch of all the jewels of the crown. Then came another Louis, sixteenth of his name, and with him and his tragedy it would seem the evil power of the blue dla- mond began to be effective. Nothing but tragedy can be told of Louis XVI. and his reign, and when at lost he went to the guillotine in 1793 and the sansculottes sacked the royal treasure house they took the blue dia- mond with the rest. Who was the man and what his fate into whose hands this most precious gem of all fell NO LIVING MAN KNOWS, ond if is not likely any written record will ever tell, The rest of the crown jewels were deposited in the Garde Meuble. Not so the Tavernicr dia-|the lafest demonstration of his Majes mond. Where it went, through what] tv's success as a farmer, of which he vicissitudes it passed, nad one knows. |is so descrvedly proud, says the West- It had brought a royal head to the axe | minster. Gazette. When the King be- and one might almost fancy it hiding; gan breeding nearly forty years ago jo ambush, wailing for another oppor-|the Sandringham. farm lands were in tunity to strike. an almost hopeless condit'on, barren Men were born and married andj;and barely capable of cultivation. To- founded families and died before the ,day, according to Rider Haggard, "it great blue diamond was heard of again. | is a wonderful farm, for nowhere. is ~ Then in 1880, one day in Halton Garden, | there so much high-bred stock to be the jewel mart of England as it is now} seen on the same area,' c{ the world, appeared Daniel Ellason, But probably nowhere will you find a thrifty dealer ine precious stones and | Such an array of plates and cups won such like, and in his hand he held a} at shows as that which Sandringham blue diamond. His fellow dealers gasp-|boasts.. At a single exhibition his Ma- ed, then asked questions, The stone | jcsty once won no fewer than fourteen svas nol so big as the missing crown | first prizes. In 1903 he captured five jewel of France, but it was the biggest | first prizes and cups, in addition to diamond that had been seen in that | Numerous seconds and thirds; in 1904 market, and the biggest blue diamond | his prizes numbered twenly; in 1905 any of them had ever seen. It weighed | he won a champion plate, a challenge 44 carats, and except for the absence} cup and, eighteen other prizes, includ- of the triangular projection or horn ring four firsts, while last year he took that the cullers had left on the Taver-!at the Smithfield show ten firsts, nine nicer stone,-it was almost of the same ;"breed" cups and plates, six other shape and size as the famous gem. prizes and several "highly commend- To the question, "Where did you get} eds," and every prize-winner he has jl?" Mr. Eliason told one and all the} bred himself. game slory--he had hought the stone from a stranger and had asked no ques- tidns. There was the stone; its price was so much; did they want to buy?. ------_ . S9GS6OOS00S80S5 900066 That hacking cough continues ~ Because your system is exhausted and your powers of resistance weakened. ' &e Take Scott's Emulsion." : It builds up and strengthens your entire systems lt contains Cod Liver Oiland Hypophosphites 80° prepared that it is easy to take and easy to digest. ' ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c, AND $1.00 FAMOUS HOPE DIAMOND) ficicese'ftie i ntedat no stein Fake am coe re 3) Pe : St es tS ae Nei > 5 * e : RESPONSIBLE FOR DISASTER _ "TO EFS OWNER? 3 To Tragedy Enough Surrounds Its History to Almost Warrant Such : 'Conclusion. Ridicule the fancy that would endow ~ & crystal of carbon wilh sentient qua- _ lites, or believe in the occult power Gf jewels to curse or bless, one must own that in the careers of those who Rave been so fortunate or unfortunate as to possess the great blue stone they tall the Hope diamond there have been - death and disaster enough, and more than enough, to make a peg on which to hang a tale of imprisoned evil reach- ing oul to blight whom its baneful rays may reach. Hid in the lost lore of the oldest East li: the earliest chapters in the great -. -gem's story. Imagination might run ~ yiot in tales of lust and blood with the blue stone for their motif, Fancy might _imbed it in the ephod of Prester John or gather it into the treasure hoard of Genghis Khan, but behind a modern, tangible date, the day when Andre Ta- ~ vernier toiled overland back from the Orient with jewels enough, if not for a king's ransom, at least for the price of a barony, in his wallet, any attempt to trace its history lies in the realm of pure speculation, : Cunning in trafic was Tavernier, "the King's jeweller." More than once he went out from Parts to the East and, matching the clever Orientals at their own game, returned with spoil of gems and gold to grace a crown or garnish a mitre, King and Cardinal, bourgedis and Bishop; Richelieu, Colbert or Mme. de Mainltenon--these were the custom- ers of Tavernier, the jeweller. He knew the goods he could sell. So when Tavernier came to the gale of Paris on that day in 1688 he knew that he had with him what, in spite of the outpouring of royal treasure in the invasion of the Palatinate, would cap- ture the royal fancy and win him not only gold but that which he had long coveted--the title that would place him on the plane of those he dealt with and lift his children from the bourge. cisie to the nobility. Twenty-five dia- monds--nothing else--were in the lea- ther pouch that, strapped under his arm, next to his skin, never left his possession night or day. But among thom was the gem of gems--the great blue diamond, still in the rough, but even so a jewel that overshadowed every gem that Christendom then knew. JEWELLER MADE BARON. It must have been an interesting spec- facle, the bargaining and dickering be- tween the jeweller and Louis XIV. over the handful of stones. The end of it was that the royal treasury was enrich- ed by the addition of the entire collec- tion and impoverished to the extent of 2,500,00f. inv gold coin, and in addition Tavernier left the royal presence no longer plain Andre 'Tavernier, jeweller and traveller, but Baron d'Aubonne, with the right to hold his head as high as any nobleman in Paris. Rough and unshaped as it came into the possession of the French King, the Tavernier diamond weighed 112% car- ats. It was badly formed, and when it went fo Amsterdam, where then as now the diamond cutters held sway, they had to chip and trim it into shape until only 67% carats were left. But what a gem it was when they finished their work! Of a deep sapphire blue, 't sparkled and gleamed resplendent from every facet, while a great triangular projection they had left in its centre seemed to multiply the flashes. No diamond so blue and so large had ever keen seen before, of identically the same sapphire blue color weighing 10% carats, and some time later Edwin Streeter, of London, bcught a blue stene of the same qua- lity weighing about one carat for $2,- 500, The Brunswick diamond fetched enly $3,400. Taken together, these two and the Hope diamond, allowing for waste in cutting, would just about make vp the weight of the Tavernier diamond of the French crown. Records of valuable gems are more carefully kept to-day, and it is not so easy for a famous gem {to disappear as if was in the troublous times of the past, Future history of the Hope dia- mond imay be more easily noted. ean a Wee EDWARD Vil. AS A FARMER. Ile is One of the Most Successful in England. The rich erop of prizes which the King's cattle and sheep have won at the Bingley Hall show, Birmingham, 's wh icin Lols' of men wauld be worse than {hey are if they only knew how to go habout it. RHEUMATISM IN THE BLOOD! Cure it by Boriching 'the Blood With Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. There is only one. way by which rheu- matism can be cured. It must be treat- ed through the blood. Liniments and outward applications may give "tempor- ary relief, but they can't possibly cure the trouble. And while you are experi- menting with liniments the trouble is every day becoming more firmly root: ed in the system, and more difficult to cure. The poisonous acid that causes rheumatism must be driven out of the Lblood, and you can only do this by making new, rich, red blood through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Mr. Chas. H. Lumley, of Brickfon, Ont., is one of the best known farmers in Lambton county. About three years ago, while Mr. Lumley was engaged in threshing, he became overheated, and this was followed by a severe chill that started the rheumatic pains, Mr, Lumn- ley says: "I did not think anything of it at the 'time, as I was accustomed to being exposed to all kinds of weather. As a result I was unable to go about next morning. I had severe pains in my arms and legs which | treated at first with the usual home remedies. As these did not help me, and the trouble was growing worse the family doctor was sent for, but he did nof have any better success. He told me I was suf fering from a severe attack of rheuma- tism, and there can be no doubt akout it, as | was confined to my home arout four months before I was fortunttely advised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I sent for a supply, and it was not} long before I found they were helping me, and by the time I had taken a halt dozen boxes the trouble had entirely disappeared, In other respects the pills also greatly improved my health, and I never felt better in. my life than 1 have since 'taking them. 1 therefore most. cheerfully recommend Dr, Wil- liams' Pink Pills to other similar suffer- ers," Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make cures ot this kind after doctors and common medicines fail, because they actually make new blood, They don't cure the mere symptoms. They -go right to the root of the trouble in the blood. That is why this medicine cures anaemia, indigestion, neuralgia, palpitation of the heart, and the headaches and back- } aches 'brought on by the ailments that fill the lives of so many women with misery. Do not take any pills without the full name, "Dr. Williams Pink Pilks for Pale People," on the wrapper around the box. Sold by all medicine deal- ers or by mail at 50 cents a box or "ix poxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Go., Brockville, Ont. oH KAISER AN LL.D. AND A D.C.L. King Oscar of Sweden Enjoyed a Great Many Titles. Among the compliments paid to the Kaiser in England was the bestowal upon him by the University of Oxford ef the degree of Doctor of Civil Law. It was not his first academic honor; he was already an LL.D of the University of Pennsylvania. Despite the military training, Euro- pean princes usually sccure the ordin- ary academic degrees from their na- tional universities, but the attainment of the higher ones is far from com- mon. Among several hundred persons of royal rank, there are not more than 'twenty-five pr dhirty who hpve the right to call themselve No member of a reigning house ever enjoyed more titles of this sort than the late King Oscar of Sweden. He held diplomas as honorary doctor of all the faculties of the University of Vien- na, Bologna and Leyden, was Ph. D. oi Erlangen and LE.D. of Oxford and Cambridge. The Kaiser shares his Oxford honors with King Christian VIII]. of Denmark and King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, the latter also having the LL.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Prince' Henry of Prussia is another holder of an American degree; he is an LL.D. of Harvard, and so is the Duke cf the Abruzzi, uncle of the King of Ilaly. The new Grand Duke of Baden, Fried: rich I.. is an honorary doctor of juris prudence of Bann and Heidelberg. The Grand Duke Ernst) Ludwig of Hesse was made an honorary doctor of philo sophy during, the. jubilee of the Uni versity of Giersen, and the heir: to. thc throne of - Bavaria, Prince Ludwig, iz doctor of political economy of Munich and Erlangen, and doctor of engineer ing 'of tha Technical High School of Munich. : Archduke Rainer of Austria, a third cousin of the Emperor,is honorary doc: to. of philosophy and technical science at Vienna, the degrees being in recog- nition of services to art and science as patron and 'student. The Regent ef Brunswick, Prince Johann Albert of Mecklenburg, has honorary degrees from all four faculties of Rostock, and Duke George of Meiningen, a patron et art, is doctor of philosophy of Jena, while. his son, Prince Bernhard, who is interesfed in Greek archeological discovery, has the same degree from the University of Breslau. Not all the advanced degrees are honorary. Prince Maxmilian of Baden, the next heir to the Grand Duchy, is a doctor of law at Heidelberg in right ef actual study, and Princess Ernst of Saxc-Weimar and Julius Ernst.of Lippe are also doctors if law. Duke George cf /Mecklkenburg-Strelitz. and . Prince Henry of Reuss- are doctors of philo- scphy in right of completing the cours- es in various universities. Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria is an. M. D. of the Munich school, and! his uncle, Prince Karl Thedore, has the same degres and is a famous eye speci alist. Prince Max of Saxony. brother of the King, is a doctor of theology. Only two women of royal rank hold academic degrees., Queen Elizabeth of Roumania, whois Carmen Sylva in lit- erature, has honorary doctorial degrees from the universities of Budapest and St. Petersburg. The other is the Prin- cess Therese of Bavaria, daughter of the Regent, Luitpold. She has gained celebrity through explorations in South America and the University of Munich has made her a Ph, D. oe SOMETHING NEW, -"Burglars "broke into Green's dry goods stere the other night and stole three bolts of silk." SW?" cS re : "Now he's advertising 6 great burg- ee lentered a public house. | occurred --_-- NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Commercial World. Grosvenor square, London, is to be paved with wood this year. Eleven bullocks were roasted to death s a farm. fire af Edingthorpe, Nor- olk, Derbyshire churchmen have presented the Bishop of Southwell with a motor ear. Lord Brassey will be installed at Dover as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in May. A 'thousand chickens have 'been de- stroyed in an incubator fire at Vassail noad, Brixton, : Mr. Warale, M. P., will introduce a bil. into the House limifing the work- ing day to eight hours. The Mareoni Telegraph Company now accepting messages for Canada a rate of 16¢ per word. Charles de Gurchy, who claims be a descendant of Napoleon, was sen- tenced at Leeds for begging. It is intimated from the War Office 'that mounted infantry will not form part of the territorial force. -- Sir S. T. Evans, the new Solicitor- General, is to be presented with the freedom of the borough of Swansea. Five men have been arrested at Cha- tham in connection with extensive pocke!-picking on football grounds. A stag, hunted by the Mid-Kent pack, It was se- cured by the landlord and his custom- ers. Since its formation in 1884 the Self- lelp Emigration Society has emigrated over 10,000 persons, mainly to Canada. Pictures painted by convicts while undergoing terms of imprisonment are to be seen in Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Sarah Fisken, an old rag picker, died in destitution at Bristol last week. She was found to have a bond of £80. Al a wedding on Southend-on-Sea re- cently the' parly on leaving the church passed under an arch of fishing rods. When the Rochester barge Ryan was cfi. Woolwich the wife of the skipper gavo birth to triplets--two boys and a girl. An alarming autbreak of measles has at Halstead, At the British School nearly 400 school children are attacked. A fox, chased by a number of Rep- ton boys through the village, was fin- aily bagged in a Sunday school, to great terror of the children, Alexander Fife. who died recently in Wandsworth prison, aged 80, had heen an inmate of prison and workhouses fcr the last fifty years. A tramp was recently found in an East Ham church. He had made his bed under the communion table, using the cushions from the seats. Twenty-three boys and fifteen girls have asked to join the party of poor jaw emigrants which is being sent to Canada by the Lambeth guardians. As there is one license to every 118 inhabitants in the Llangollen urban area the licensing justices declined to renew 25 per cent. of the licenses. The three rare American prong-horned antelopes which President Roosevelt has presented to the Zoological Society ar- rived at Regent's Park. Having shut up his folding bed, a Heckmondwike father discovered 20 minutes later that his wife had left the child in it. The child was suffocated The Emperor of Austria and many foreign princes are on {he subscription list for the Benedictine Abbey Church which is tobe built at East Dulwich. Shoreditch has a larger number of unemployed than ever before, 749 hav- ing their names on the labor bureau register, as against 722 for the whole of last year. is at hh. th ----_--_- ILLS OF CHILDHOOD, . HOW TO CURE THEM There is no medicine can equal Baby's Own Tablets for the cure of sucit ills ol babyhood and childhood as consti- pation, indigestion, diarrhoea, colic, simple fever, worms and teething trou- bles. When you give this medicine to your little ones you have the guarantee of a government analyst that if is per- fectly safe. . Mrs. Thos. Mills, - Ethel, Ont., "T have used Baby's. Own Tablets: for my lithe boy and find them just the medicine needed to keep babies healthy. They are easy to take and al- ways do good." Sold by medicine dea- lers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. Says: pita sy Sat Ee ESE TRAITS OF LOCOMOTIVES. Peculiptities are Mpstered. by Skilful Drivers. It is a remarkable truth, and might allowance for the difference between the temperaments of different men --- that every locomotive engine running on a railway "has a distinct individu- ality and character of its own. It is perfectly well known to experi- enced practical engineers that if a doz- en different locomotive engines were made at the same time, of the same power, for the same purpose, of like materials, in the same factory, each ot those locomotive engines would come eut with its cwn peculiar whims and ways, only escertainab'e by experience. One engine will take a great. meal of coal and water at once; another will not hear of such a thing, but will in- sist on keing coaxed by spadefuls and Luckelfuls. One jis disposed to start off. when required. at the top of his spcod; another must have a. little time fo warm to his work, and to get well into Fit. j Theso peculiarities ara so accurately mastered by skilful drivers that only particular men can pérsuade particu- lar engines to do their best. It would seom as if seme of these "excellent monsters" dectared;on being brought wut of the shed, "Tf it's Smith who is to drive me, T won't go. It its my friend Stokes, IT am agreeable to any- thing!" = se ed in damp and foggy weather. . They have a great salisfaction in their work when the air is crisp and frosty. At such a time they are very, cheerful and brisk; 'but they strongly object to haze and mists. These are points of char- acter on. which they are all united. It is in their. peculiarities and varieties of evenmacter that they are most remark- IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND | be profitable in helping us to make fair. All locomotive engines are low-spirit- | HEALING) POWER OF PINE -- If you have ever taken a walk ber how, almost unconsciously, the 'head was thrown back and lungs ex- panded as you drew in, with hong deep preaths, Ure pine-laden air. How tn- vigorating it was--how healing! Thousands of men and women suffer- ing from lung and bronchial affections, but whose circumstances prevent them from seeking renewed health in the pine forects, can be relieved and cured fa their own home by using Virgin Oi of Pine (pure). This preparation con- tains ali the health-giving pnopertics of the forest trees, and will break up a cold in 24 hours and cure any cough that is curable. It is also a perfect neutralizing agent for uric acid, and affords speedy relief in cases of rheumatism, lame-back, or other affec- tions resulling from disordered kidneys. Virgin Oil of Pine is put up in 74-02. vials only for druggists to dispense, each vial enclosed in a round wooden case fo prevent breakage and exposure fe light. This case is sealed with an engraved wrapper showing the name-- Virgin Oil of Pine (pure). Prepared only by Leach Chemical Co., Windsor, Ont.--plainly printed thereon, It is well to get the genuine. Should your druggist be unable to supply you, you ean have a 34*0z. vial mailed to you by sending 50 cents to the Leach Che- mical Co., Windsor, Ont. oe WISE SAYINGS. It is better to break up a quarrel than to patch it up. The price of popularily is sometimes a willingness to be bored. When a woman pauses to reflect it is usually in front of a mirror. When a man has to defend his acy tions he admits his weakness. There is more or less charity in the heart of every man--usually less. Unless we have sense in our heads, it is hard 40 keep money in our pock- ets, So many people find it easier lo take {wo sleps backward than_one forwards, It is all very well to ask for advice. but some people make the mistake of following it, When a small boy refuses a second piece of cake, it's a sign there is some thing wrong with him--or with the cake. When a married man brings home a box of chocolates instead of cigars, his wife wants to know what he has been doing. Sats Soya he nein pd FOUR HOSPITALS FAILED. James Heard, of Morton Park, Ont., says: "While employed at the Specialty Works of Newmarket 6 or 7 years ago, I bruisel my ankle, but through neg- lect this bruise turned to an ulcerated cr burning sore which caused me a great deal of suffering. 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Dr, Ferguson "immediately , sued the eily, which fought the case, taking as its defence the fact that the water responsib!e for the outbreak had been drawn from a disused reservoll', and that Dr. Ferguson had no business to use it. The case passed through the courts, until it reached the King's Rench. There Mr. Justice Lawrence recently decided that. the city was guilty of ccntributery negligence and awarded a verdict in favor of the applicant. -- The costs of court, which the city was ordered to pay have reached $50,- 000, in addition to the damages award- el fo the extent of $37,500. The case has been appealed and may go to the Privy Council. A GOOD TIME TO BUY CLYDESDALES: Those who know farmers who. are paying for their farms and making money usually appreciate that to raise a few foals each year is a sure money maker, Clydesdale horses are recog: nized to be the best heavy draft herd of horses for Ontario and every up-to- date farmer should try this year, when prices are low, to procure & brood mare at the current prices. Quality and pedi- gree should always be considered when purchasing to breed from, so only high- class mares should be procured. A number of chances in the way of auction sales have gone by, but there is 'an important sale to be held at feaver'on, March 12th, where many brood mares are to be sold, heavy in foal. This is an opportunity to be taken advantage of. These mares are owned by Messrs. Donald Gunn & Son, the pro- prietors of the famous Dunrobin Stock Farm. The reputation of these men is sufficient fo guarantee a good sale and good animals. 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