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As he couls no longer remain in the lapd of the Philistines, but must return to his own country, and as the northern part of the land was beli by the Phi.istines, the return to the territory ofi his own tribe was most natural;, for there, where he had a long time found refuge (L Sam. sxli. 5), ne i*‘ghlt count on a large {following, and {irm support and proâ€" tection against the remains of Saul‘s army under Abuer."â€"Lange. Cilies of Judahâ€"ILt wouid be useless to think of udneriaking to assume control of the country in the northern part of the kingdom, as that was in the bancs oi the Philistines, and David was in no position to drive them out. Go upâ€"*"Going up" meant assuming royal authority. God‘s answer was ImmoClate and clear. Davia‘s decigion, gulixd by God, was to establish himâ€" gell as king at once. Unto Hebronâ€" (One of the most ancient cities of the world. P 2. So David went upâ€"It may be well to note seme of the leading clements wuich we ciscern in David‘s ie and character as he enters upon his new lifte. "He had, 1. A vivid sense of Goi‘s presence. 2. Personal prowâ€" oss. 3. Promptitude in all his moveâ€" ments. 4. A patience that was subâ€" lime. 5. An affectionate hbeart. 6, A eool head and a steady nerve. 7. Wide experience. 3. a hneart loyal to God. Thitherâ€"We are to think of this journey as a march of an army, or, rather, the migration of a large comâ€" pany of gueriilias. There were few househola effects and iew . women and children in the company ; it was made up oi bronzed youths inured to hardship, among whom â€" rank _ and fame were secured by daring deeds rather than by anything comparable to modern military «kill. 3, 4. His menâ€"The six hundred men oi his chosen band. With his houseâ€" hold. There was to be no more roamâ€" ing in exile, but each one was to setâ€" tle down to the duties of a peaceâ€" {ful and quiet life. Cities of Hebronâ€" The small towns which surrounded Hebron. Men of Judahâ€"The elders of Judabh, the official representatives of the tribe. Anointed. "He had been privately anointed by Samuel, by which hbe had acquired a _ right to the kingdom ; by the present anâ€" ointing he had authority over the kingdom. The other parts of the kingdom, were, as yet, attached to the family of Saul." . 5. David sent messengers â€"This : was David‘s first act as king, and it | was worthy of him. He had been inâ€" , formed of the manner in which the ‘ Philistines had carried away the bodies of Saul and his sons after the baittle. He had also been told that the inhabitants of Jabeshâ€"gilead bad sent forth a party by night and had taken the bodies from the wall and carried them â€" sa{ely to their own town and burled them. Blessed be ye â€""David respected Saul as his once legitimate soyereign ; he loved Jonâ€" athan a« his most intimate friend. Sanl bad greatly injured David, but that did not cancel his respect for him as the anointed of God, and as the King of Israel. 6, 7. Will requite youâ€"Will show you this kindness; that is, the atâ€" tention and honor shown in the bleseâ€" ings I give you through these mesâ€" sengers.â€"Terry. Be ye valiantâ€"Be of good courage; be strong and show yourselres brave men. Saul is deadâ€" And therefore ye are without a king unless ye acknowledge me, as the house of IJndah has done.â€"Whedon. II, Ishâ€"Bosheth King over lsrael (vÂ¥s. 8â€"10). 8. Ishâ€"Boshethâ€"Saul‘s fourth and only surviving son. He was a mere tool is the hands of Abner. Abner was a great general, and if Ishâ€" bogheth, who was a weak man, § A prominent club woman, K Mrs. Danforth, of St. Joseph, Mich., tells how she was cured of falling of the womb and its accompanying pains. "Life looks dark indeed when a woman feels that her strength is sapâ€" ping away and she has no hopes of ever being restored. Such was m{ feeling a few roonths ago when was advised that my poor health was eaused by proiapsus or falllnf of the & o o t 1 n YE s * s womb. The words sounded like a knell to me, I felt that my sun had set ; but Lrdia E. Pinkham‘s Vegeâ€" table Compound came to me as an elixir of life; it restored the lost forces and built me up until my good health returned to me. For four months I took the medicine daily and each doso added health and strength. 1 am so thankful for the hel I obtained through its nse."â€"hgll. FLomrExcEr DAXFORTE, 1007 Miles Ave., mnot be equalled any medicine in the Wol:'{d- aueau â€" SWBs 00 cce _z I write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, | 2 0s _ L sasmes m# eW ‘ Ees s a" o 0_ Sum 4 m t er ie vi mptoms appoat. g symptoms appear. " EREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN." David Becomes King.â€"2 Sam. 2 : 1â€"10. save time and The second â€" anointirgâ€"The {first was at his home in Bethlehem, the second at Hebron. God‘s purpose bad at last ripencd, and David‘s exâ€" perience had gipened as well, and upon h‘s inquiring of the Lord he was told to go to Hebron. There he | found a people ready to accept him as king, and they anointed him as ‘ such. However, the way was not clear to the exercise of his office over all Israel. could be made king, Abner would would be almost supreme. Mahaaâ€" alimâ€"Aboer chose this town because It was on the eastern side of the Jordan, and so beyond the range of the Philistines, who never seemâ€" ed to have crossed the river. 9. Made him kingâ€"Here was the establishment of a rival kingdom, which probably would have had a0 existence but for Abner. He was cousicr to Saul. â€" Loyalty to the kouse of his late master was mixâ€" ed up with opposition to David, and views of personal ambition in his originating this factious moveâ€" ment.â€"Gileadâ€"The land beyond Jorâ€" dan. Ashuritesâ€"The tribe of Ashur in the extreme north. Jezreelâ€"The extecsive valley bordering on the central tribes. Ephraim ......... Benâ€" jJamirâ€"These tribes, which had not yet been gonquered by the Philisâ€" tices, holding no doubt to thr house of Saul. Over all Israelâ€"The majority of Israel, not of Judahb. III. David king over all Israel (v. 1â€"10). After Abner and Ishâ€"bosbeth were assassinated, the tribes of Israel came to David, through their elders, and urged him to become king over ali Israel. They have good reaâ€" sons for this: 1. David was one of their race. 2 He had shown himâ€" self worthy. 3. He was divinely apâ€" pointed. 4. He understood the duties of a king. 10. Reigned two yearsâ€"Five years and more had passed since the death of Saul, and Abner now proâ€" claimed Ishbosheth King of Israel and thought himsell powerful enâ€" ough to reduce Judah to obedience. â€"Deane. David â€" preparation. The _ stepp from a shepherd‘s calling to kingâ€" ship is by no means a short one, and in the case of David there were years of preparation made up of hardship and disappointment before the crown was reached. Caring for the sheep was his occupation when Samuel came with the horn of oil to anvint him King, as Moses was carâ€" ing for the herds in the desert of Midian when God appeared to him in the burning bush when he was about to appoint him leader of Israel from Egypt to Canaan. Busy with his father‘s sheep, practising with his sling, acquiring the skill with which he was to vanquish Israel‘s boasting foe, training his hand and voice to soothe the malady of h mad king, he had no thought that within a few years he was destined to be a king of God‘s own peonle. At Saul‘s death a crisis would oceur, and a man of unusual power and experience must be ready to take the throne. God had a youth in preparation for this work. Now he was defending his father‘s flocks by slaying the lion and the bear, but it would not be long until he should be calied to defend God‘s people against the asâ€" saults of the Philistines. The long delayâ€"There is no eviâ€" denceo to gwhow that David was impaâ€" tient to enter upon his royal office. He proved himsel{ so great a deâ€" liverer to Israel that the song, "Saul hath slain his theusands and David his ten thousands," was sung by the women of Isracl, and Saul‘s jealousy was so completely aroused that henceforth Davids life was by no means gale in the han«s of the king. Saul is in turn kind and graâ€" clouws, then fieree and vengeful. Daâ€" vul is engaged in fighting off the Philistines on the one hand and in evading the king on the other. Purâ€" sued almost to despair he finds Pretty Fair Evidence. Kansas City Star. Tom Delchay, who livese near Craig, eaw a magician perform the other night, ami is convinced that he usged duplicates in his sleightâ€"o‘â€" bhand work. The reason Delehal! knows is because he gave the mag cian & lead dollar to palm and was hmwelf among the enemies of Israel. ‘One thing, however, cheers him durâ€" Ing these geven or eight years of waitingâ€"he has a warm friend in Jonathan, Saul‘s gon. But the same battle that accomplisched Savl‘s death brought about that of his friend. There was real mourning for Saul as well as {or Jonathan. Her Responsibilities. S. E. Kiser. For her he fails, for her succeeds, For her he sins or does his best ; She givres him the swocs praise ne needs, © Or blights the hops within his breast. For her he looms before mantind, given & _ For her he makes himsel{ sublime, Or plunges, brutalized agd b!lpd, For her he holds his hoad erect, For her he slinks in hidden ways, For her his spsech Is cireumspect, For her he‘s loyal, or betrays ; Behold in errors brushed away, And in the things that make for Which multiply day after day, The triumph of her womanhood The tribes unitedâ€"There was a great loss to Ishâ€"boshoth‘s kingdom when Abner, his father‘s _ servant, was slain, and he was soon to folâ€" low his servant. Ishbosheth had two captains, Baanah and Rechab, who conspired against him and sl‘ew him. These men were executed at David‘s command, because they had slain their master without cause. _ This opened the way for the uniting of the tribes, and he was for the third tixe anointed,â€"this time as ;. king over all Israel. By the taking of the Jebusites the seat of governâ€" ment, which had been at Hebron for seven and oneâ€"half years, was reâ€" moved to Jerusalem. At last the purpose made known fifteen years provious was accomp‘ished and David was Israel‘s king. â€" The testing times had been severe, the losses had been great, the burdens had been heavy, but he had endured and was crowned. There are in this lessons of patience, roverence, submission and trust. Weak souls faint, strong souls enâ€" dure and win the Godâ€"ordained prize. Down to the oozing depths of crime. PRACTICAL SURVEY. â€"David S. Warner. !! Ceylon GREEN Tea. It is pure, delicious and healthful. It is as far ahead of Japan tea as "SALADA® Black is ahead of all other black teas. In lead packets only. 25¢ and 40c perib. By all grocers. 6656099000006 8600008008060068E2 800008 20006582800E CC00088 |A NARROW ESGAPE! ‘"My dearest Gladys, "I was coming toâ€"day to tell you, what I am sure you must already know, that I love youâ€"IL cannot live without youâ€"to ask you to be my dear and cherished wife; but I have just received an urgent wire asking me to go up to town imâ€" mediately on some importaat busiâ€" ness. I can only scribble a hasty note to ask you, if you love me, to write a few lines to the Câ€"â€" Club, and say if I may come on Thursday morning to hear from your own dear‘ lips that you are mineâ€"mine to love, honor and protect, till death do us part." _ FOR THE SAKE OF GOOD HEALTH goemmmmmmmmmmeg The letter was from}j Capt. Treâ€" vor, her near neighbor and friend, witkh whom _ she had played and {lirted as long as she could rememâ€" ber. He was an oaly son and heir to a beautiful estate, and such a dear fellow, too, so gay and good natured, a favorite with old and young alike, It would be very pleasant to live at the Hall so uear to her father, and she would be Lady Trevor some day if she married him. _ Gladys Merton paused anad looked thoughtfully into the fire. Suie sighed, then took up the secâ€" ond letter, This was from the Rev. Franklia Brown, her father‘s curate, now away on his holidays. "My Dear Miss Merton : "I am very pleased to tell you that I have unexpectedly received the offer of the living of Bâ€"â€", in Somersetshire, where I am now staying, with a stipeod of $400 a year. At last I am at liberty to tell you, what I am sure you must ha.ye felt, that I love you dearly. Tears rose to her eyes; she could read no further. He was so good, so saintly. It had always been her kleal to be a parson‘s wife and to devote herself to trying to alleviate the sufferings of the poor, but then Bâ€"â€" was so far away, and Captain Trevor was so very nice. It was really extremely difficult to decide. When she had finished it, she sat in a dreamy reverie, trying to picâ€" ture the preity rettory at Bâ€"â€", with the beautifui garden, and herseli its mistress, and the rector‘s wife. "Oh, if you please, migs, the coachâ€" man‘s just come {from _ Woodborâ€" ough. He says Mrs. Wilson has been taken very ll, and wants you to go back with him at onee." It was Mary, the housemaid. Glaâ€" dys had been so absorbed that she tad not heard the rap. "AXunt Bortha very Ll!"" @ahe exâ€" claimed. And in her surprige and exâ€" citement, she ran â€" quickly . down stairs to obtain further enlightenâ€" ment, quite forgetting the letters that lay in their envelopes on her writing table. 4 eifie o F I have loved you for three long, weary years; but poverty forbade me to ask the question that has so often beer trembling on my lips. Dear Gladys, will you be my wife ? I think it would almost break my eart to go away and leave you. Will you come to be the light and joy of one who has labored so loag im undesired loneliness? I expect to be at home again toâ€"morrow night. win you send me a line to say if I may call on Thursday morning to receive my answer? I am writing this in the _ rectory study overlooking the beautiful old garden, and itrying to picture you walking amongst the flowers you have alwiays loved so well." She rose at once, and locking the letters carefully in a drawer began the reply to Captain Trevor first. It was soon finished. She would be very pleased to see him on Thursâ€" day. she had always cared for him vrery much. She thanked him for the honor he had done in asking her to bo his wife, etc. â€" * "I know what I will do," she said to herself pregently ; "I will git down and write an imaginary reply to them both. Perhaps when I come to put my Seelings into writing I shall know which it is I really love." # She placed it in an envelope and began the second letter to _ Mr. Franklin Brown. This was a longer letter; it took her some time to write. The doctor was there when she arâ€" rived. Mrs. Wilson was very ill, it was true, but he did not despair of her recovery. It was necessary that sho should be kept as quiet as posâ€" gsible. He had sent in the village nurse until another could be proâ€" cured. s i Pn ud MB 4 s She seemed easier when Gladys was in the room, though quite unable to talk. All day long she eat by her #ide, giving her medicine and nourishâ€" ment with her own bands. At nine o‘clock, when the doctor paid his last visit, be offered to drive Gladys back to the rectory, and as he assured hor there was no immediate danger, she q“d S t s i e $ y‘ _2 _‘ In the middle of the night she woke and ber thoughts recurred to the Mrs. Wilson was her father‘s only gister, wino lived alone in a village about three miles away. She had alâ€" ways boeen & very good friend to the family at the rectory, and the girls looked upon her almost as a mother alter the death of their own. Yes, the man said, in angswer to her inquiry. His mistress had taken a sudden chill, and was laid up with pnoumonia. She was continually askâ€" ing for ner niece. Gladys flew back to put on her hat and, loaving a message that she exâ€" pocted to be back before dinner, mounted into the dog cart, and drove away at once. Te o A SALADA® D FPINEKE ! Byrup, |_"I will promise on one condition,‘ ; asid Gladys, laughingâ€"‘ that is that | you will give me your word to put i the letter from me that you wiil find l on your return étraight into the : {ire without ever opecing it. Tell | me you will do «o." "I‘m sure 1 locked them up in my drawer," she murmured drowsily, and turning over on her pillow was soon fast asleep again. . . ALit. two letters. She knew now which would b»e sent and which Tonsigned to the Names. SBhe was late down for breaklast the next morning; the rector had quite finished, and was already busy in his garden. No one was in the dinâ€" ing room when she appeared but her brother Frank, who was reading with a tutor at a neighboring town, just packing up his books to depart. _â€""Any letters to take this morning?" he asked. "I posted the two you left yesterday. I thoughtâ€"â€"" _ "Why, the two you left on your writing table. One was addressed to Captain Trevor and the other to Brown. I stamped them and _ put them in the wear box in time for the elevenâ€"tnirty post. I guessed you‘d forgotten all about them in your hurry to be of{ to Aunt Bertha." _ Gladys stared at him with amaze ment then sank white and trembling into the nearest chair. _ _"Oh, what have you done? What have you done?" cried Gladys, covâ€" ering ner face with bher bands. Eo "Why, didn‘t you want them to go ?" Â¥ onl ol i REGARD ERYSIPELAS as a dangerous disease, Anoint the swollen itching skin with Weaver‘s Cerate, reduced with lard or eweet oll if it emartesharply. Take Weaver‘s ‘"‘Well, you can‘t get ‘em back now. They"!l both have got them by last g};rmt'a post. Goodâ€"bye. I must be 39 What should she do ? She felt quite stunned by the awâ€" {ul prospect before her. She dared not tell her fatherâ€"he would think hber so childishly careless and absurd. _ "Oh, no, no, no!" she said with a little hysterical sob. ______ _ There was but one course open to herâ€"{light. s 9 A "I have only one request to make,‘ he said, "that you will eithâ€" er «lestroy my letter or retura it to me, and promise me that you willl mever mertion tie matter to any ore," A knock at the door stopped the conversation. C "Goodâ€"bye, I promise faithfully," ealid the captain, shaking her warmâ€" ly by the hand. ; f Gladys whispered her answer, for ehe felt too radiantly hapgy to speak. This was the mar who loved her, and whom she loved better than all the world beside. She would pack up a few things imâ€" mediately, and set off to eperd a {ew days with her aunt ; at any rate, it would defer the evil hour, and perâ€" haps some way out of the difficulty, might occur to her. At this very moment the door openâ€" ed wide, and Mary, the housemaid announced "Captain Trevor, please miss." The curate was quite pale with emotion as he entered the room and fourd them shaking hands. ® Ste laid her head on his . shoulder with a little sob off mingled relief at jov. How came ske to be so foolish as to dream she ever could love anyone but him ?, p Wenineo Bhe looked wildly around the room â€"there was no possible means of esâ€" cape. She had not even time to conâ€" ceal hersell so she held out her hand reluctantly. "How do you do?" she said. "Oh, I‘m quite well, thank you," he replied, absently ; then there was a pause. ' *Mr. Franklin Brown," announced the «ervant. "Gladys, dariing," he said, drawing ber towsrds liiim as soon as Hugh Lad gore, "vour letter has made me tive happrlest man living." P Rup! *"May the wedding be eoon, dear?" ho said, as he kissed her sweet, up turred lips, passionately. * "You know," he began presently, In an embarrassed tone, "what I have called to see you about." "I should never have found it out," the captain continued, "if . Gladys Carpbell had not returned this"â€" pulling a note from his pocket. "I was obliged to run up ta town yesâ€" terday afternoon, and in my hurry, must have put the letters in the wrong envelopes. This is my subâ€" scription to the Sunday school which should have been sent to you. _ I have only just returned by the early train, and met Colonel Campbell‘s groom on the way to the Hall with it. I thought 1 had better come straight on to you and explain." Gladys breathed a sigh of relief. Then it was quite evident that he bad not yet received her letter, and the right one only had reached its destination. "Yes," he replied, visibly brightenâ€" Ing. "Of course, all a mistake. But I can‘t think how I came to be so careless. I wouldn‘t have had it happen for the world. I do hope you will forgive me." "Yes," she said faintly. "But, oh, Hugh, it is all a mistake! Iâ€"â€"*" "Gladys gazed at him in blank acâ€" tonishment ; then it slowly dawnâ€" ed upon her that thaletter had never been intended for her at all, and was the result of some mistake. "What letters do you mean ?" she ONTARIO ARCHIVEs TORONTO London, Sept. 5.â€"Live cattle easâ€" ler at 11 1â€"4c to 12 3â€"4¢c per Ib. for American steers, dressed weight ; Canadian steers. 10%s to 11c per Ib.; refrigerator beelf, 9 1â€"4c per Ib. Sheep, 11% to 12%¢. The receipts were larger toâ€"day and prices ruled steady. Plums, 15 to 30c ; pears, 20 to 30¢ ; peaches, white, 20 to 30¢ ; do., yellow, 35 to 60c ; huckleberries, basket, $1; grapes, small, basket, 20 to 80c ; do., large, 35 to 50¢ , Lawton barr‘les. 4 to 5¢ ; apples, basket, 10 to 20c. Orangesâ€"California, late Valencias, extra, $41.50 to 85. . Lemons, cass, $3.50 to $3.75; watermelons, each, 25 to 30c ; banauas, bunch, $1.40 to $2 ; canteloupes. basket, 25 to 30c. Yegetatblosâ€"Potatocs, 40 to 45¢ per bushel; tomatoes, 15 to 2023 per basket ; cucumbers, 12 1â€"2 to 15¢; green corn, 7 to 8c per dozen ; celery, 35 to 40¢ ; egg plant, 30 to 40¢ per basket,. + The offerings of grain toâ€"day show a slight increase, with little chango in prices, Wheat is a trifie easier. _ Hay in good supply, at unchanged pr_‘cea. C S B 0 POm? se ied -â€"-“‘\ ie Awontiznl 1 Dressed hogs are unchanged, with sales at $8 and $8.50, Following is the range of quotaâ€" tions ; Wheat, ‘white, Lushel, 78 1â€"2¢ ; red, 78 1â€"2¢ ; goose, 74 1â€"2 to T5¢;, peas, 75 io 79c ; oats, 34 1â€"2 to 35¢ ; do., new, 32 to 82 1â€"2¢; barley, 45 to 45 1â€"2¢; hay, new, per ton, $8.50 to $11; straw, per ton, $9 to $10 ; geeds, alsike, per bushel, $4.75_ to $5.50 ; apples, per bushel, 50 to 75¢ ; dressed hogs, per cwt., $8 to £8.50 ; epgs, fresh, dozen, 18 to â€"0> ; tutter, creamery, per Ilb. 18 to 203; do,, dairy, 14 to 16 ; chickens, per lb., 11 to 13¢ ; ducks, per pair, 70c to $1 ; turkeys, por lb., 12 to 14c ; potatoes, new, bushel, 50 to 55¢ ; cabbage, per dozen, 40 to 50¢ ; celery, per dozen, 35 to 45¢: cauliflower, per dozen, Te to $1;; beef, forequarters, $4.50 to $5.50 ; beef, hindquarters, $8 to $9.50 ; beef, choice, carcass, $6,50 to $7.50 ; beef, medium, carcass $6 to $6.70 ; lamb, yearling, $7.50 to $8.50 ; do., spring, per cwt., $8 to $8.20; mutton jper cwt., $5 to $7 ; veal, per cwt., $7 to $9. h-ldinz.“'beat Markets. Following are the closing quotaâ€" tions at important wheat centres toâ€" Cach. Doe. New YOTK ...... ... .cs â€"= 88 3â€"8 CHIOBEC cecrseers sssssves ues A8 83 ‘TOICUG ...... in in se P BLI~2 B0 4~2 Duluth, No. 1 Nor. ...... 84 â€" Fariures Last Week. R. G. Dun & Co. report liabilities of commercial failures in August to date this year $9,627,621, against $7,043,671 last year, Failures this week is the United States are 178, against 238 last week, 174 the preceding week. and 173 the corâ€" responding week last year, and in Canada 33, against 8 last week, 22 the precediag week, and 14 ‘last year. Of failures this week in the United States, 61 were in the east, 47 south, 51 west, aad 17 in the Pacific States, and 56 report liaâ€" bilities of $5,000 or more. Contracts have already been made for ths shipment to Great Britain this year of over two miliion bushâ€" els of Canadian applos. Experts say that Cacsadian pippins, Ribstons and Baldwins are equal to the English fruits of the same names. Failures in Canada. August insolvencies in the Dow.inâ€" ion of Canada wore sl.ghtiy nore numerous than last year and the amount oi â€" Gefauited _ indebvedness was very much heavier, but, on the othor hand, the exhibit is very much better in both respects than in Augâ€" ust. 190i. Al commercial faiures in August, 1903, were 90 in number and $816.6â€"0 in amount, against 83 last year, involving $169,349, and 1832 in 190|, with liabli i ies of $10145,514. In nianufacturing lines there were 23 suspensions, for $518 433, compared with only 14 last year, when the In:olvrent debts aggreaated $81,6~°0 This year there were +everal imlivid. ual failures for about that amount ; one in iron, one in machinery, one in clothing, one in paper and a conâ€" tractor. Trading bankruptcies numâ€" bered 65 anrd involved $319,19%5 against 68 last year, for $386,499. There were two other failures not properly ineluded in the principal clase»s. with 1 abilities of $8 992. As urual. the Canadian returns include J. B. Stringer & Co., Grain Dealers, Chatham, Ont.. report as followsâ€" We are very sorry to have to reâ€" port that prospects for the next crop of beans are very much impaired since a week ago, owing to drenchâ€" ing rains that have occurred almost continually over that period. A conâ€" siderable acreage got pulled _ just previous to the bad weather setting in, and toâ€"day (Saturday) we hear farmers talking of the week‘s exâ€" posure in the raings as likely to cause great damage. Toâ€"day‘s reâ€" ports from the country have brought about a decided change in sentiâ€" ment, growers and dealers now realâ€" izing that beans will see a big adâ€" vance. no banking defaults for the month â€"Dun‘s Roeview. Chiropodists say that the high heeled shoes now worn by many women have caused a great inâ€" crease in deformities of the feet, and are productive of evea more serious injuries, By throwlag the body forward ard placing it in an unnatural position for walking all ease ol movement is destroyed and a strain is thrown on the spine that is apt to result in p>rmanent Injury. It is not the lirst time, however, that fashion has presâ€" cribed practices injirious to health, We have bad reports toâ€"day from Michigan points, their crop being apâ€" parently as much in danger as ours. British Live Stock Markets. But Her Foot Looks Preity. Toronto Farmers‘ Market. Canadian Apples Wanted. Toronto Fruit Markets. The Bean ¢®»>p. Somcthing About the HMabits of the Ocean Monsters. Both whalers and naturalists bhave usually held nat when whales ‘s‘ound" they descend to great depths. One writer on the subject estimates that the larger members of the group dive fully a thousand yards. In a memoir published in Belgium Dr. Racovitza chalienges this belief, and states, in his opinion, 100 yards is the manimum depth to which any whale can dive, and that many species cannot reach anything like that limit. Says the writer: 4 Why should whales want to nso to such depths? All whales sound for the purpose of obtainingg food, and in the profound Garkness of 1,000 yards what food could they get ? Those species which feed on animailâ€" cules might, peflmgs obtain what they want. But how about the epecies which feed on fish and catâ€" tles? At a depth of a thousand yards they certainly could not uso their eyes to detect nonâ€"luminous species, and we have no evidence whatever that they feed on the rll- luminous deepâ€"sea fish and cuttles ; if, indeed, there are any of the latter, On the contrary, the available eviâ€" dence indicates ‘that they feed on ordinary â€" lightâ€"dwelling fishes and cuttles which live in much shallower zones. But this is not all, It is known that the effects of a pressure of more than three atmospheres prove fatal to human life; and, although we may believe that whales can stand treble this pressure, or nine atmospheres, which would occur at about ninety yards‘ depth, is it conâ€" ceivable that they cou‘d resist the effect of ten times the latter presâ€" rure, or ninety atmospheres ? Moreâ€" over, does it seem possible that a whale, whose body is only slightly heavier than water at ordinary presâ€" _sure, could exert the muscular force lnecosfim’_\' to propel that body to a denth of a thousand yards ? Dr. Racovitza contends further that whales never sleep. One of his arguâ€" ments is that individuals will follow a ship for days, which they coul not well do while asleep.â€"From Knowlâ€" Plants are Endowed With a High Degree of Intelligence, Professor Shaler, of Harvard Uniâ€" versity, is of the opinion that plants are possessed of intelligence that serves the purpose of selfâ€"protection and selfâ€"gratilication to a very considerable degree. Recently aifter discussing the automata observed in growing things, he said ; "We may accept the statement that our higher intelligeonce is bat the illuminated summit of man‘s naâ€" ture as true, and extend it by the observation that intoiligence is norâ€" mally unconskcious, and appoars as conscious only after infancy, in our wiaking hours, and not always then." In summing up the professor usese the following sentences; "Looking toward the organic wor‘d . in We manner above suggested, seeing that an unprejudiced view of life affords no warrant for the notion that agâ€" temata anywhere exist, tracing as we may down to the lowest grade oi the animal series what is fair eviderce of actions which we have to believe to be guided by some form of intelligence, seeing that there is reason to conclude that plants are derived from the same _ primitive stock as animals, we are in no conâ€" dition to say that intelligence canâ€" not exist among them. In fact, all that we can «dliscern supports the view that throughout the organie realny the intelligence that finds its fullest expression in man is everyâ€" where at work." At the same time among men who have long lbeen accustomed to the services of manicurcs,there has for the past few years been a reaction cgainst them. Manicures are no longer careful, those men say ; most of them have had inadequate preâ€" paration and in the soâ€"called maniâ€" cure parlors they try to attemil to too many Customers. "‘The smoli emery papers that are to be had for less than a cent apleom keop the nails short and enable anyâ€" body who uses them to shape the nail ‘The flesh about the nail and at the base, which to this day most manicures cut, although the practice is very injurious, and they know it, can be kept from growing over the nail by pushing it gently basckward when the hands are damp after wash» ing and the flesh pliable. "All these things can be done for any man who will give half an hour a week to the task. ‘That will be less than the manicure would require, and his hands will look wellâ€"and stay that way, which is more than they do under the care of a mamâ€" Advice From Expert Concerning the Care of the Natls. The manicure has become nearly as important in every barber shop as the trush boy. The habit of being manicured is more general than ever before. The practice o( having regularly the wervices of a manicure injures the nails eventualiy unless the operâ€" ators are ekillful! and careful. 1: they try to produce with strong acids the tifects thit shou‘d be obtained by slow and deliberate work, the nalle wil| ultimate‘y be epoiled. " Any man can keep his nails lookâ€" ing as wel\ as ho could wast shom," said a chiropodist who looks upon a manicure as an eutirely unnecesâ€" sary evil "By cwuning a few plocos of emery paper, an ivory nail cleaner, a piece of pumice stone, and above all else a «tiff pail brush he can do without the services of a maniâ€" cureq. 8 [Â¥ Y ' t :. " It keeps the nails naturally white, and gives the effect that manicures try to produce with acids. The stiff brush also tends to prevent hang nails, as the tits of flesh that cause these are removed when they are very gmall and before they develop into a serious abrasion,. "‘The nail brush is the most imâ€" portant imnplement. Hard ruobing of the nails with a stif{ brush will do more for them than anything els> in the world. GUIDED BY THEIR SENSES, MANICURES NOT NEEDED. WHALES DIVE DEEP, my | t 1 + bj #% "t 4 W