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if: W I. I" "l ot hr, i ll an; m your can, the .trrttt is tremble with the violence of th you feel it palate against your c to the mom mud ot the "rap a bullet up: the life-bloc! of whose elbow has touched your: d for (any hours. There in a “In ondurnnco in the" struts." Mmard's Lin-meat ares th" - -__ _"v\u "If. The whip-like unack ot the bursting than. the swlsh of the scattering bullets. are noth- inst to the making screech of these damned messengers ot death as they pursue each oth- er, and it in competition to complete the awful object ot their hideous mission. The whole weikin I: discordant. with their tumult: you feel the rush ot misplaced air. splinters Mud}: "Pr en's. the earth I: In mum-m In the January World'n Work is n m description ot the sounds of battle. wr by a correspondent In the Far East: "Only those who No In the firing-lino hear the constant screen of the shells ll cleave their terrible way through the above know the true want of man-r- remedy. I used in all about twenty boxes when my doctor pronounced me quite well. I have had no return of the trouble sinee." Bright‘s Disease is Kidney Disease in its worst form. Dodd', Kidney Pills al. ways cure it. They also easily cure mild. br forms of Kidney Complaint. "My attending physician,” Mr. Bond status. "said I was in the last stages of Bright’s Disease and that there was no lmpo for me. I then commenced to um Dmld‘s Kidney Pill: and no other runmly. I used in all about tWenty boxes when my doctor pronounced me quite well. I have had no return of the trouble since." Mount Brydgcs, Ont., Jan. y1.r--(spe. cial.r----ihat Dodd's Kidney Pills cure Bright's Disease completely and perma- nently has been clearly shown in the tame of Mr. Robert Bond, a well-known resident of this place. Mr. Bond does not hesitate to say he owes his life to Undrl's Kidney Pills. "Mr attending nln-uinion" Rr.. MD.-., Doctors said I him but he He ND DOUBT ABOUT BURT. BUND’S CASE child Some wert, on their hands and 1:11:23; others running around after a Pet' In ms mum $594.53 'ti'ib&tiiai.(atWi.t prize fight. . " ” _' ' Where was the di,ir,nit, and the. are now.' Forgotten in the 'happiness of a moment of return to that nature which makes the whole world kin to a little The child's delight grew and caught the whole company. What a. sight it would have been for the audience leav- ing the theatre could they have seen on the other side of the curtain. There was the entire court of _Carotr---king, queen, prince, princess, cardinal, oourtiers, am- bassadors, ladies in waitingvall in their grogeous raiment, playing like children wit the toys. Oh! the wohderful wagons that went half-way across the stage when they were wound up, and the funny animals that junfpod about all by themselves. 'l'he"poor little actor for Aa' all this Joy had been prepared by his grown comrades was too stunned to speak. Even after a formal introduction to Santa Clause and his assurance to the little boy that all the tree was his, the realization came slowly and he gave faint little squeals of joy as the un- dreamed-ot toys were shown to him. As the curtain fell upon the final tableaux of the play, with the entire court assembled, there was not the usu- al rush for the dressing rooms. Every one remained on the stage, and the Princess, taking the tiny Prince by the hard, explained that she had received a ln‘lnr from Santa Claus to say that hr . t 3>4it the theatre that day. i 'An' the explanation made “i, :ue Santa Claus, imperson- ami '. ot' ro rt man, drawi in a moat c1'i/',Q1'gr'ul',f,'d,' tree, faded with gifts and candles and fairy things. was Bridges, Thin the Cardinal, in his magnificent scarlet silk robes, guiltiiy concealing a hong, box. .Others of the royal hmily were Jee% along the dark passage carry- lng parcels .to the property room, from ale,t they emerged with smiling, eager noes. But on this especial Christmas Day last year there was an sir of great but suppressed excitement in "A Royal Fam. ily." One met the Queen in her long court gown, struggling with her tmin over one arm and a huge pachge in the other, groping along a dark passage to the “property room,” The; the t‘elegnms, the flowers, the unexpected gifts from members of the company, or little offering from I poor "stage hand," which touches you ded 1y, because yoq know how much the dork! and a half meant to him. A ireseni' from "the nav, who no re- united for the holidays in the old home, and who each lend a. gift and a word of laying signing to the absent worker. Still, they have their eompeuitions in the my'tar3oun packages brought. up by the sage door man, which one hasn't time to open until after the next. wane. Oh, the delight of finishing that scene And opening .the Rack-.312.“ _ Of "a Royal In!!!” I!“ and With the Little ”In, loam Children Chi-tau Day h usually 3 joyless holiday for uton, nth it. two per- forman- and hurried dinner between than. Christan. ludiencu are Always in n happy mood. and quickly respon- aim. But the very happiness in the air in a pathetic suggestion for the player who must work while other. play. [ was Cured of Bright's Disease by Dodd's Kidney Pills. THE SOUND or BATTLE HOW I” DIGNITARIES __ r _ Tr'e".. um "i d or the panpethn‘J o life-bloat of the cm tggcbodjom day and rlble way through the air true aunt of modern war. there “In no Hope for ' is " Well Mun Now. arcs I Mrapet. and then .2 or the comrade 'urs day and mgn: a limit to human Work is n curious of battle. written is In eiriiriGi.r' the discharge; ' fly" pressed k'yr auntie ce:u'a Cea- as they a little _ “3mm, m TFE In! mysteries ct the man. u an: or eight hens would Jon: P rcns' rluh nodal?! alter Sarah and throw the roaster donut good and herd onceor kyle. he would soon discover that ho'm an no on]: kernel on the cob. Vast Cozceit of the Rooster. (Minneapolis Journal.) Were it not tor the disgusting nelbconceit of use roastcrl we might enjoy the poultry show next week. The rooster I: but to In. ture's heart. He but not civilian!“ enough to veneer his opinion. with common pollution and savior faire and hi disgusting exhibi- tion of the art ot heme tt oneada good taste and refinement. How the hen man-nu to m un with it is__ver_tninly we at the lumen.- i A well-known Englishman constantly wears ', in a small locket attached to a chain around the neck a portion ot the charred skull or Shelley. Ot late years a great msny persons have visited the former residence ot the late Victor Hugo to see a tooth ot that cele- brity. which is kept In a smell glass case with this inscription: "Tooth drawn trom the jaw ot Victor Hugo by the dentist on Wed,. nesday, August tt, 1371. at Vionden, in the zurden attached to the house ot Mme. Koch, " 2 o'clock in the afternoon." in the year 1816 a tooth of the famous Sir Isaac Newton was sold " auction by a relic monger ot London. Ind was pur-i chased by an English nobleman tor 1 sum equal to 83.650. The buyer had a costly diamond removed trom a Invorite ring um the tooth set in its place. The wig that Sterne wore while with; l'Trutraiii Shandy" was sold at public suction soon utter the neat utters death tor the sum of t10,000, and the favorite choir ot Alexander Pope brought $5.000 " n on. tn 1x2, Save up for Easter. Remember Lent is eoming. Exehangeosis raged for a. week. Time to lay in thin summer wear. Women with large families start sum- mer sewing. We may rejoice that the days are getting longer. We near not fear more than three bad months at the most. It will be time to take down the Christfas green the last of the week. With twelfth night we feel that Christmas is really over until next year. Ive can at least "get busy" living up to the good resolutions we have made. We may be thankful that not all our holidays are eolhbrated with a noise fair. ly rivaling that on the first of July. Minard's Linimem Cures Distemper. No, Maude. dear; horseplay is not always confined to the races. - "Old age glasses don’t actually improve the night. They only take the place of certain muscles that age has stiffened. They don't even do that, though, unless they are cleaned frequently. Glasses should be kept pyteetly elean-should be cleaned when in use. once an hour, with a silk handkerchief. never with a. linen one." l tuin sight muscléafl "An olt1 man, t' instance, can sit down the"same a young man, but he sits down o1owly/yndutittfit, because his sitting-down mu cles are no longer sup- ple. So it is i?','ii' an old ma 'g eyes. They see Quite ' well as a you man's, but the muscles that do the f using--- tho muscles. that is to say, that alter the degree of convexity of the crystal- lino lens-are hardened and don't yrork well. Tho strain that the managing at those musclm demands of an old man gives him a headache. Home he adopts glasses, which do his int-using for him---. one pair focusing for wading another pair focusing for long distances. Of milk London consumes (B,000,000 gallons per annum, and a quarter of a millian of cows are rtsponsible for this contribution to the table. It is impossi- ble to get _absolutely correct figures as to the number of eggs eaten yearly, but approximately they number about 500,- 000,000. What number the British hen contributes to the quantity it is impos- sible to Bay. Of cheese London gets rid of a large quantity-each London'er'a share being 12 pounds, and just half of it comes from abroad. The Londoner ranks high as a meat-eater-the Metrop- olis every year reeeivine about 450,000 tons of meat, alive and dead. A fair quantity of fish also disappears, put down at no less than 574,000 tons. shilloh's' _r', ( Consumption! The Sunday Strand tells that the food bill for London for a twelvemonth does not fall short of E1M,000,000. London consumes large quantities of bread. It takes 4,000,000 sacks of flour and 5,000,- 000 sacks of unground wheat to appease London's bread-eating capacity, and of this vast (iuantity Canada supplies one- sixth year y. This amount of bread is not, of course, all eaten dry, and the quantity of butter consumed is given at 94,000,000 pounds, besides a very large quantity of margarine. Home dairies supply London with but 10 per cent. of its butter. Into the pockets of dairy- men of Normandy and Brittany, Den- mark, the United States, the Argentine, Canada and Australia goes close upon £3.20,er annum for butter alone. 5 IIVVD- w. ur. 25c. 50c. 31 LeRoerNL. Those whom neglected coughs have killed were once as healthy and robust as you. Don't follow in their paths of neglect. Take right now. It cure. It has cu: ands. . _Ptiersst, s. WHY GLASSES . Lure LITERARY REMCS, " has not civilization enough union» with common politenou 'e and " disgusting exhibi- ofubelni Itholfendi Bool mu n- . - -- --- THIS AND THAT. "" . tet?,i,idFiric- iiggr0.: "I a vents cer- The Lung Tonic _ ‘ . the 33.83335 was pup. tt' a sum a costly ring “a [is that EEDED. Bank adver'tissing is of comparatively recent development, but it is making rapid strides. Many bulking inatitu. tions have nlready learned the value " imparting tt ensemble turn to their "ads," nnd several in the West ere eatt. ing nttention, through the newspapers, P: the desirability of giving young peoo ple a newty-etartud bank account as a Christmas present. The time will come when the bank which fails to advertise will he on the same footing with the merchant who neglects publicity. The object is to look after delinquent debtors, 'to inquire carefuly into the tsol, idity of business houses, and to give ver- bal or written reports on their standing. A responsible secretary is constantly in charge of each office. His ply depends upon the amount of fees paid by the members. The ttssoeiations issue nah of introduction for the use of nun-m»; salesmen which enable them to unain fairly correct reports on the trade they have to visit in my place, no matter how remote from home." l "The most influential and most im- portant credit ageney," he says, "is an association called the Verein Creditrrc form. This association iu 'ro'.upused ci' the best element of bankers, manufac- turers, merchants and trtyietpeople in over 40 cities in Germany, 175 in Austria- Hungary, 75 in the Nethemnds, and with branches in every large city of Enrope. While these work entirely independent each in its own district, they exchange their experiences in a systematic and honest way. _ Writing from Bamberg, Consul W. Bar. del culls attention to a. German way of doing things. Cowboys, Wild Bills, Indian fighters and plainsmen of the old camp have long been creatures of the past. Their pres- ence and even their delineation or repre- sentation on the stage arouses as much interest and amusement in the west as it does in the east. In fact, there is a. strong suspicion that those who assume the garb and role of "typieal western man" usually do not come from our side of the Missouri. A traveller from the west does not these days expect to find Puritans in New England, Kniekerboek. ers in New York, Quakers in Pennsyl- vania, cavaliers in Virginia, nor pioneer wood choppers wearing coon skin caps and butternut dyed shirts with chamber lye in Ohio. He expects to find (and he is not disappointed just such mea nnd women, customs and dress in those states as he sees on his native heath. -1Gnsas City Journal. . Ainard's Liniment ca, Colds, etc. NOTHING LEFT OF THE WILD WEST. Gentlemen,--Last winter I received great benefit from the use of MIN- ARD'S LINOiENT in a severe attack of La Grippe, and I have frequently proved it to be very bffcctive in cases of in- flammation. MESSRS. C. C. REWARDS & co Rothenburg espoused the cause of Martin Luther during the Reformation, and in 1631 was besieged by the army of the Oatholie League commanded by Tilly. Although assisted by the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus, the city was eventualy compelled to capitulate, the senate and burgomaster being condemn- ed to death. Before the sentence could be carried out, however, the conquering general, mellowed by copious potatimzs of good Taubor Wine, conceived the sat. anic humor of offering to set free the condemned men if one of their number could finish at a single draught the enonnously large mugful of wine, from which he “an then drinking. A member of the senate, Nurwh by name, essayed the herealean task. and emptied the somewluut more than three quarts of wine down this 'ieip'r_ith-century throat, without removing the cup from his lips. _T.hey 'were stout. drinkers in those 'a/df-FJ/il) . omburg on the Tauber, by.d.lr, Cells, in Four- Track New for J 'it.. Despite the fact that a moving stairway has long been in operation " the uptown elevated station at Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue, there are many New Yorkers in whom such a contrivsnce still awakens curiosity. Crowds daily surround and watch the workings of one put in operation a few days ago " the downtown Thirty-third street elevated station. and there are still many persons who ride on a moving stair- way for the first time. Many are afraid ot it, and hesitate long before getting on it, advancing and drawing back several times before intrustlng their precious bodies to the unknown and untried. "What should I do if it stuck?" asks one woman. who is unable to fathom the meaning ot a man who says, “Why, you just use your own feet and walk ahead it it stops." Queer expressions flit over the face of those who ride on the stairway for the first time. sp- prehension. timidity. or the pleasure derived from s. new and comfortable sensation, as the case may he. manifesting itself. One woman whose courage failed her the other day started to so down the stairs that were moving up. Only her forcible seizure and detention by a man below her prevented her from what might have resulted in . serious acident. Another woman demon- strated that the moving stairway can be utilized in more than one way. She was laden with bundles. Mounting the stairs. she set her bundles down on the step beside her. They went right along with her, while she did what few women do-fumbled in her pocket and got her nickel ready be- fore she reached the ticket ottiee.--New York Minard’s Linlment Cures tiarget In Cow: Yours CREDIT AGENCIES ABROAD, HOW! Baal: Advertising, A DEEP DRAUGHT. W. A. HUTCHINS0N. 5% 'ARRy ARCHIVES TORONTO r . . . "awn, -riciiri,v" ' A great many stories are in exmtence "Well, I want y about the origin of the word "macaroni" Dorm 1"/1tW4"', . ' . . . "Yes, a ," and the invention of the dish so design: ed hand, .. ‘slleuc hated. According to one authority, says ttir." ', the Indianapolis Sentinel, a drunken chef - employed by one of the Popes was re- Wnah 1rretor d, sponsible both for the name and the dish. hever's Dry Soap lie was preparing a souffle for the 2tt,) move the grease w soup, and, hying taken consule 1y more than a drop too much, he went on " stirring the flour until the souffle We; COST Oh' of the consistency of hardtack. The as- The dense tog: ‘ sistant chef, knowing that His Holt canny in Louodu. ness was not pver-patient about things I tstreet tttttte, can a pertaining to the table, ventured to aBll I vowed in web Vlt the attention of his chef to this Stet [that a "‘1',de"5e' . , don trom $L50,000 t and the latter, being a resourceful man, ll proportion of this decided to make a paste instead of a gutpgm ftll angoeleclér souffle. " er em-- I 5 tl He awaited the result with some lanx- iliiii2ta'i'i,'iiii'l'li? r hat}, and responded to a call to a r into London may as before His Holiness with considexble “As atria ‘83:" anxiety. Visions of a stay in the Pepe! l {aligns valley, on, dungeons rose before him, and when the) its boundaries. Wt Pontiff asked, with a smiling face, for, in pen not": ithfus'u the name of the wonderful paste served ' te “mums r g 9' . . Ivelop the montage! in the. soup. he was too nervous to think} universal. Three y of a name, "Mi cam” (my favorite), he ' Marl} in London, " replied at last, and the Pontiff, not to Aorlrs.ltire, trom . . . Naturally. it is tl catching the words exactly, said: "Ma. in the air above _ caroni? Well, in future never serve me to! there often of I a meal without a dish of macaroni.” may Ite Bltaned b'OtT V -. .. .. --. -. “n, u... These hznnble creatures, Thou hast made; How man we dare their rights deny, (“I w"nm Thy sun! of love is laid? Teach Thou our hearts to hear their glut Aa Thou dost a man’s in prayer to I es. Fez-tug gay .t?'d, tot us thty die And torrned -aIiirtiu, EBB-r36 Bless the dumb creature-, of t And listen to their V0!"I'}"::§ p A Prayer. (Our Dumb Animals.) Maker ot earth, and sea. and sky. Creation’s Sovereign Lord and King, WPo‘thg t‘lxe‘ggrgy worlds o_n high. _____ "m"-.. my.“ the success of my experiment. "I recommend the umbrella cure dogs. Try it."--New York Sun. “I tried it again a minute later on u big nondcscript animal that came bellow- ing at me in a dark stretch under some 1115 yty.eAehdhgWttthsntlyi, yehliril'r .355; and I'm sure I don't know where he stopped running, He certainly got do" If,!. the block; I was startled myself at Good for little pigs Ind big hogs --for lambs end sturdy sheep. Nothing like it to keep them fat and welt. Used all over the continentby successful farm.. on. Write for free literature and teattmtrniati. IVER! ROYAL CM! CO. . mmIA "51.0.0011. A as. "That dog gave a low growl of alarm and turned a flip flop in haste to get away. He ran clear into the middle of I big vacant plot before he stopped. "I walked close up to him, he snarling and yapping to split your ears. At about ten feet range 1 suddenly opened the umbrella wide, right facing him. "You know theuodd napiring and click. ing noise it makes when you do it quickly. Well, Mr, I was astonished " the result. "Well, I was carryiné an umbrella un- rolled last night and an inspiration struck me. One brute, a cross-grained fox terrier, was standing in the fringe of shadow about twenty feet from I lamp post. "The beasts haunt my street, and the moment they hear my footstep they set up a barking which wakes up all the neighbors and sets them wondering what form of dissipation keeps me out Y? late. " think I got square with a couple ot dogs last night," said the suburban resi. dent whose business keeps him out til! 2 o'eloek every morning, " and that with. out running foul of the s. P. C. A. Myers’ Royal tiJii" Edinburgh has adopted an ingenious system of police telephones, and one of the most interesting features of the ar- rangement is thnt an opentor " the Central Station on establish communi- cntion with the policeman on his beat. At certain points signalling boxes are placed, in the centre of which is n tiny} round disc, like . mininture bull'e-eyir/ visible to the passer-by through tram" parent glass let into the cover of the signal box. The disc is colored red. Should the operator at the Central Sta- tion desire to call the attention of the policeman in n particular beat all he has to do is fo turn a lever. Instantly the discs tft every signal-box in the but operated by the lever show a. con- spicuous white. The policeman then underatandst he is waged. in n chair will Wkly wash a tutr. fut ol clothes. Bait Baring! tad strong min! steel springs istheaecret. Noprooeuueuy onume f1ot,het or the oeetor. -- Sold at p so. " {out dealer iiGArCGiii;rm the mach at write us for partials”. - JN WWW “NAHUM!!! 00. "I. Renders? it huite my to he I whboatd. Five or nix Inhaler a povcxgeql oCthe, machine while In ORIGIN OF MACARONI. Umbrella Cure for Don. HANDY POR POLICI- HAIILM . our. thy mic" )ra yer. ‘13- The dense tog: which have weaned to- hir cently in Lonodn. on one any ”ruining his! I street tttthe, call attention to the expense in- .]|.volved in such vlsitutlous, It is estimated ' t ”hat a real, dense, persistent tog costs Lon- Ite , i'dort trom ammo to may» a dar. A large aftt,jiriiipiitTa of this sum, however. I: spent. f a, I upon gins and electric light. To take a single other 'tern-tog signals. They are troagttt tor [about ninepence a dozen, and on one toggyi atx.. day alone a big railway company running bar into London may use 30,00 of them. [Me As is well known, the loss of London. l-lying low as the metropolis does in we IPtt ,Thnmu valley, oiten do not extend beyond the, its boundaries. While the Londoner nrnnnl . I" ...- ctur I that they won't stop to blag. for V. -.. w... - my trouble?" asked the other “I???" as an '. 'l n woman. a " lo tron-eyed thet when she "in the tears run down h but, . '"1'Pttt tune (In: he; h or .. on' no anyt " to arm shun can." w“ the mend doctor‘- can“: "What are you treating her tort" "Far him of can" _ V v“- '_;anwnlul met. "We'n got a horritpn can one ot the doctors. “Why. Vhlt'l the trouble?" doctor. :It'o , Tee. "as she's no The Doctor's Pun. (Philadelphia Record.) In on. of the corridor- ot a hospitnt two panicky! met. "Mr-'.... -. - . ,_-,_ "nu moxature, cud descended upon London again, London {on no always pmducu" of incidents. Piekporkea then invarilbly reap a god houi. A winter or two back oom- cattle being driven to market were log: in g London tog, and some of them were not found until next morning. In nearly every thick London fog numbers ot loaves ot bread are stolen from bakers' hood bprrodi mm. the men on on their rounds. But than, of course. are minor matters. All the particles of m London's chimneys send become, in n tog, “turn 3nd dyeenfed upon uma, Twenty year; turo or Tii" MM. ' was twenty fogs I rti/")r/f'g'og2pge,,r,e.e. of 1879-80 there were a toggr dare, b winter " PI the record of so an" of ii, Itt 1390- then, mg: which km ott itali'uh,p',te ple each winter. happily lem, Neale“ peo- of the longest lasting fog: of Which . One has been kept occurred In DeeerntG ”cord With slight Intervals of mere “HEMP. 157). ',ttet,1adrtot','h 21m trunk): of the 1'l'eag on u All the particle. J,',nt1Slyietiii Eve. F,etr. people are _ -__ -""__r_-_r. u! _ Naturally. It In the amount ot in the air above London that fort there often of so rich a u: may be gleaned some idea of Ir,', quantity of smuts and sooty at ordinary. 'wetlimr_ttouse havin- Thoma valley, often do 'notV "u m - its boundaries. While the iff/tg',,,. 23°24 In pea Ioup. the sun a few miles away 'life te shining brightly. Yet some tag; that e y velop the metrtonom may be, In a ”an. universal. Three years ago one such 'lor,: black in London, stretched from Land's, EB. to Atrlrtt.tire, from Ireland to German no naturally. It In the amount ot coal my” in the air above London that Rink. ttrut, fort tttyngl,tg', of so rich a gloomy [1:31 ma ean so . /,','d,%",', so! amm- 'et,,ityt.er. YP, “I! tttat) Wash greasy dusiGhtota J/pan, with hever's Dry Soap th powder. It will re. move the grease with the greatest ease. 38 Dripping a Gentle Hint. (Phlladelphln Prose) “James," um Mr. Rukeley. "I believe you saw 'pe-er-ring the maid." . "Whr, rs. sir," replied the butler. "Well, wt!!! you to keep quiet. about it. Do you understand?" "Yes. sir." slid the butter, with outltretcm ed hand. " uilenee is golden,' you kaow, sir." The Chicago, Union Pacific and North- western line runs through first-elass Pullman and Tourist sleeping cars to points in California. Personally con- ducted ucursions from Chicago every woqk. r-rt. NETS . hinde- " Nukes. --t I"'""".": pecial attention given to family parties. For maps. illustrat- edtiolgem arid raten. address It. H. Ben. ne , emu. ent 2Kine t t Toronto, Ont. Ag , a I roe east, Yet it is not so remnrktble when one stops for A moment to remember that, given tav- ornhle conditions tor its growth, and lusten- ence, the average tree will never die of old Bee-its death is merely an accident. Other younger and more vigorous trees may spring no near it, and perhaps rob its roots of their proper nourishment: insects may kill it. [1de or winds may "veep it away, or its roots they come in contact with rock and become so gnarled and twisted, become they have not rom to expand in their growth. that they literally throttle the avenue. ot things do not hapnen a tree may live on tor sustenance; but these are accidents. If such century utter century still robust, still flour- ishing. sheltering, with its wide-spread branches. the men and women ot age after Still. it in not the oldest organic monument in the world, no Humboldt declared. tor not Mexican scientists have proved that a huge cypress tree sanding in Chepultepec. with n trunk 118 feet and 10 inches in circumference. is older than lt-older. too, by more than n thousand "tuw-tor it had been shown. as conclusively " these thing! can ho shown. that its use is nbout 6,260 years. To become impressed with wonder over this one has only to dwell on tint duration tor n little while in thought. _ _ a. .. “an“-.. Their years are few, though, compared with those ot the trees I had in mind when I made my first assertion that the statement printed about them in a scientific Journal was inoorretc. In one chapter of " writlngs Humboldt refers to a gigantic bosbah tree in Central Africa as the "olde" organic man- ument" in the world. This tree has a trunk twenty-nine feet In diameter and Adttttttott. by a series of careful measurements, demon- strated conclusively that it had lived tor not less than 5.150 years. -- . - was-'- - -___ __ St. Louis Globe-Democrat. These you ere old. very. veg old; there is no doubt shout wet; - then were stelwert trees even before Queer landed on these shores. There is one now stunning In the churchyerd " Fortinnl. in Perthshiro. which Deeandole, new! n century ago, prov. ed to the srntiattuttiott at botanists to he more then twenty-live centuries old, and mother " Hedwr, in Bucks. which is S,M0 years old. How Decnndole srrived It In unpar- ently correct estimate of the enormous use ot these living treee. is a simple thing. and the nrincipie is doubtless known to-day to " The yew. like moat trees. add: one line thou! the tenth of an inch. to its circumference each year. He proved this liter en investiga- tion extending over several yours. end we know now. n hundred years Inter. that his de- ductions were correct. The old yew at Hed- sor, has a. trunk twenty-seven feet in diame- ter, proving its great age, and it is in I flour- ishing .heelthy condition now. like its broth- er 9 Porting“. - AL ___ " was-o-V Huge Cyprus Tree Which nu Num- bered 6,260 Years. The Imminent recently and. that than m m- in Ell-Md which are the olden 11v- ,4; " --o MM nvl “I. The mtement recently and. that than m m- in Enlhnd whlch are tho olden liv- ing things on out) is not comet, an the St. Louis tNote-Democrat. Then you :11 old. very. very old: then tit no doubt about um; some o than were stalwart trees even before Lunar landed on then Ibex-es. There its on. now stnnding In the churchyard n Fortlnnl. In Perthshlro. which Decnndole, nenrly a century :30, prov- ed to the satisfaction of beam“: to be mom ther, r-v-rivet centuries old, nndAgnotner Shirt waists and dainty linen are made delightfully clean and fresh with Sun- light Soap. " ed by _ V CALIFORNIA EXCURSION. COST OF LONDON FOGS, ownsr BF mm: TKINGS. ever. in such cream-d popularity of make. Otttirs declu-c at. and promise that ater on. so: Lqudon's "an" sooty with“ a. 291950 the t Btteh . hurry tell their tron. usual“, " moisturi, mm: York “id that " t above picture of the man and fhih is the trade.. illllt,it1,iii, ofScott’s Emulsion, and is the synonym for strength and purity. It is sold in almost all the civilized coun- tries of the globe. If the cod thh became extim-t it would be a world-wide calmn- ity, because the oil that camps 'rom it! liver Burnt!!!“ all (Ml-m- loud mr nvo “mph. SCOTT a BOWVNE. Ch Explained. in Simple union. (Philadelphia Pro...) “Yes." 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