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ong . a J ears. ord RIAGE. com pam y Toâ€"day his » absolute For the Ti cullllg LOLA m pik n V _ smutd â€" smudé med in about ninet? to Part M m i1ably comâ€" has o-l"- M webt in th pet the agh ne Ma W X m W M a n (By Frank G. Carpernter.) Zanzibar.â€"Sixtyâ€"five thousand _ el> phants were killed in Africa last year and more than a"million and a half pounds of ivory were taken from them a«nd shipped off to Europe. Of this fully oneâ€"third came from Zanzibar,/another third was from Portuguese East _ and West Africa, and a large part of the balance was from the valley of the Conâ€" yo. Cape Colony furnished a hundred thousand pounds, Egypt three hundred thousand pounds, and a large part came from the Niger teritories and Lagos«. During the last six months 1 have been traveling through the lands 6fi ivory and elephants. 1 saw tusks for sate in the Egyptian Sudan. At Mombasa 1 was shown $50,000 worth of ivory in one rih, ani _ during my travels throug) Uganda and German LEast Africa I pass ed many long lines of porters carrying elephauts‘ tusks on their heads or tie Terrible Slaughter Goes on Annually and Fortunes Are Made In Tusks. Aanzmbar has lor years been one Ol the chief ivory markets of the world. There are companies here which have their Lbuyers and traders scouring Ger man and British East Africa, as well as the Portuguese possessions, . farther 65,000 ELEPHANTS KILLED FOR IVORYVY. wf German 1 east to Bog site Zanzibecr ivory to Mog produ est I «ne W porter from < so tha waithered together, but there is said to be much buried yet to be unearthed. In addition to this is the ivory of elephants which have died natural deaths. 'Fhis is composed oi the enormons tusks of aged elephants which have dropped in their tracks or have been killed by lions and wther wild beasts. Their bones lie where the huge animals fell, and the earth and leaves have covered them so that they are frequently hidden from view. 1 am told that the pygmigs have killed many elephants with poisoned arrows, but, not knowing the value of the tusks, have left them lie idle where they fell. Some of this dead ivory has been injured by the forest fires, but that imbedded in the mud or covered with vegetation is still as we smoke beef. They make ciephaNt steaks and roasts and they eook the trunks and feet in holes in the ground. The foot is considered a delicacy. It is iften n shant r lollams vuth. ‘These me ud Other mercha atives, and wher I a cargo they s# ailroad nece ea. In marged mooting »valt y een upes w inting reat Ri T Th Many k4 V Pul African Digging Up Dead Ivory Great lvory Market t AnY eat h half th U irmly imbedded as e ”be tusks sare ay up. The small for a man, while inds requires four Such men are paid ay for their labor, nsportation is not 1N 1SQN int # ! England, 1 w ,. | worth of ivor gâ€" | there to be u: o | I saw them s y | strips for this ,. | every serap of q | Sshavings and _ ) making ivory prepared by making a fire laying the foot on the bu mouth of the hole and a 1i leaves is spread upon them. posit of earth is placed on meat is allowed to eook ai several hours. Aifter it is t skin is removed, when the j« lor is ready for eating. 1 it is so tender that it can l with a spoon. The ordin steak is black in color, and it looks and tastes a littl and fan sticks and also for the little statuettes cut out by the Japanese, Much of the product goes into billiard balls, knife handles, combs and fancy articles. During a visit I ouce paid to Sheffield, England, I was shown about $100,000 worth of ivory which had been brought there to be used for knife handles, and I saw them sawing up the tusks into strips for this purpose. In such work every serap of the material is saved, the shavings and dust being valuable for making ivory black or artists‘ pigments. Mammoth Specimens of Ivory. of the produc knife handles During a visi England, 1 v worth of ivor t Bince Germany of the mainland c trade has been . Salaam, anod a lar now goes there. crease with the bt which is now bei Lake Tanganvika. while some is i Germans Er The Germans The Germans are rapidly ex their colonies, and they are findin strange things away out here in rican wilds. They have altoget 000,000 or 8,000,000 of the nat their part of the white man‘s . and they are divided up into ma tions and tribes. Some of the m and from t with a brand The shipping telligent are about Tabora, and it is from there that the colony expects to get the labor to cultivate the plantaâ€" tions along the sea coast. The natives of that region have a king and suborâ€" dinate chiefs, and women are so highly regarded that they are sometimes electâ€" ed as the chiefs of their respective vilâ€" lages. These people believe in spirits, and they think that the dead live again as spwits, Every chief has a but in which the spirits are supposed to dwell. They have medicine men and witch doetors, and they think that a good medicine man can change himself into a wild animaT at will and thus torment his enemies. ly increasing harbor. and There are but few whites in the inâ€" terior of that celony, and almost none excepting officials. In Tabora there are eight foreigners, of whom six are miliâ€" tary officers. In Ujiji, on Lake Ton ganyika, there are only four white men. Two ars civilians, cne being a doctor and tho wther a towrr. At Usamburu, Education of the Negroes. The Germans are ruling these people to some extent through their chicfs, and they are establishing schools to teach them. The missionaries are also at work in different parts of German East Africa and the Government has high ‘scbools and â€" manual _ training sehools. with European teachers, who use colored awssistants. jnst in the beginning, to grow. Fiftyâ€"two eoic already employed, and several thousand pupils in r, n alling Queer African Natives Germans are rapidly c roduct . goes 1 indles, combs a a visit I ouce , 1 was show { ivory Which be used for 1 hem sawing . u r this purpos Great lvory Trust soiutely worthless, er Into Competition . wild in PP a fire in the bur osite erted 1 for inlaying fur he best» quality o making piano key also for the littl th» Japanese, Mucl into billiard balls me ol 1 Tabora colon? up into many naâ€" ne of the most inâ€" abora, and it is colony expects to ivate the plantaâ€" oast. The natives a king and suborâ€" men are so highly an be se00] rdinary . ele and when c little like but but it promises red teachers are he schools have ti t culled white e the ivory ) Dar es the product de will inâ€" he railroad, on toward to Tabora, n to Ujiji, ria Nyanza. m is rapidâ€" gether 7. nalives i» i‘s burden t xple ssess10n M Af 1) \CORN S.SYREO | WEDDING OUTFITS You can painlessly remove any comn, either hard, soft or bleeding, l" app!y‘:; Putnam‘s Corn Extractor, 1t never burns, leaves no scar contains no acids ; is harmless because composeo{ only of healing gums and baims«. Hflxg.un in use. Cure guaranteed. Sold by all ggists 2e. bottles. Refuse substitutes. PUTNAM‘S PAINLESS â€" CORN EXTRACTOR at the head of the lake, there are four Europeans, and at Rismarckburg, on the southern end, there are only two, both of whom are officials. At Mwanza, on Lake Victoria, 1 found about twenty Europeans, equally divided between the military and civil branchées of the Govâ€" ernment. * | Speedy Barber in Squash. \ "It was one of those sleepy, oneâ€"horse, | backwater towns, like Squash," said | Representative Burton, describing at a l Hot Springs dinner a town that me disâ€" | liked. k g Among the Washashi. There is a queer town on Lake Vieâ€" toria belonging to the Germans which 1 have not mentioned in my previous letâ€" ters. I called there during my tour around the lake. It is known as Shirâ€" ati, and it lies near the boundary of Briâ€" tish East Africa. The country about it is beautifully rolling. The hills slope gently up from the lake, and upon them stand hundreds of thatched huts, an Inâ€" dian business section, and a fort belongâ€" ing to the Germans. The people are like the Kavirondo and a little â€"like the Masai. _ They are dark brown in color, are well formed, and of a good height, I talked with o chief who was fully seven feet tall, standing like a giant above his fellows, who averaged, I judge, The Washashi, like the Kavirondo, do not worry over their wardrobes. Those 1 saw were almost naked. Many of the women had only a string of beads about them, and some wore l{ringes of beads two or three inches long hanging from their wuist belts. The men were often clad in a single goatskin, which _ was shifted so that it covered now the back and now the front of the person. _ All wore jewelry. I saw many dandies who had on great coils of wire, and one whose arms and legs were wrapped with brass wire the size of a lead pencil, _ Another man had coils of this wire on his upper arm, and that so tight that the flesh seemed to be growing over them. 1 counted the strands on one woman‘s Many of these natives had shields of enormous size made of skirts fastened to a framework and painted in bright colâ€" ors, and they had head dresses of ostrich feathers whicn looked odd in contrast with their nude bodies beneath. _ ‘They all carried spears, and were celebrating a war dance. The houses oi Shirati are round huts with thatched roofs and walls of upâ€" right sticks clinked with‘ mud. ‘the inâ€" terior of each house is divided into two arins and legs were wWrapped WIIWZ DURDZ wire the size of a lead pencil, _ Another man had coils of this wire on his upper arm, and that so tight that the flesh seemed to be growing over them. 1 counted the strands on one woman‘s calf. . It had eighteen parallel strands of the thickness of a lead _ peneil, _ from where the swelling began to the knees. Otherwise _ the lady was _ bare to the frinve â€" avron â€" which ran around her AFIER FiVE YEARS OF SUFFERING Mrs. Margaret Brady Tells How They Relieved Her of ‘Rheumatism and Made Her Stronger in Every Way. Dodd‘s Kidney Pills Effect Anâ€" other Grand Cure in Nova Scotia. Dod: disease are C impure â€" Smait Nephewâ€"Yes. Ma said it was too bad but we needed the money badly. ff f [ [ m " " No C ° ~ iâ€" ie : AND THEY NEVER GOT IT. Rich Unclo Ebenezerâ€"So you are named after me, are you T hests ) s with "Squash is the limit. A gentueman arâ€" rived there the other day and waat»1 a hair eut. He found the barber shop, and, after shaking the barber vigoroasly, managed to awaken him. * Shyneâ€"Made a large cool bowl of lemonade,. " ‘Hey, send the kid down to the newsâ€" paper office to tell the editor I want my scissors just so soon as he‘s done edâ€" itin‘ the paper. There‘s a gent here waitin‘ for a hair eut.‘"â€"Washington Star. What Was Handed to Him. Raynorâ€"What have you done with all your Christmas presents? ) many Not | ld Ca l13« Roots for Cattlé and Men A pT the cau her cured me." Kidney _ Pills Kidnevys and a men sutier Pills _ always _ eure nd all diseases that diseased Kidneys or ctou County, A. 5. That diseased Kidâ€" { the ills from which fier, and that they and permanently by is once more proved Margaret Brady, of The Bride of Toâ€"day is Willing to Buy Frocks Soon After She is Married and Even to Wear a Travelling Gown That Has Been Usedâ€"Buyâ€" ing Abroad. DIFFERENCE I§S.IN QUANTITY, NOT IN QUALITY. (N. Y. Sun.) "In all the talk about bard times and the estravagance cfi womenms clothes L have heard nothing at all about the fallâ€" ing off in bridal orders," said a dressâ€" maker long in business. "At one time we all used to get quite escited when a customer came in with a daughter to order a wedding trousseau, even though some of the force knew that before the order was finished they might have to work nights. "Aiter one or two interviews _ with mother and daughter 1 myself, 1 rememâ€" ber, on one or 1two occasions used to wake up in the night and begin to figure out possible profits and plan how _ 1 should invest them; and it never hapâ€" peued that the profits were less than 1 expected or the troussean smaller than we at first planned. On the contrary, as the time for the wedding grew near one extra garment after another would be tacked on until, as we all expected, the last few days found us pushing all other orders one _ side _ to put the finishing stitches in fifteen or twenty gowns and wraps, to say nothing of negligees and the wedding dress itself, "Afiter the last try on of the wedding dress, on which occeasion nearly every employee in the hou%e would come to the fitting room door to get a peep at iL and the bride, when the shining satin was packed away in billows of tissue paâ€" per and carried home by two of my trustiest messengers, we actually felt encd per and carried home by two of my trustiest messengers, â€" we actually felt loxely until the next wedding order came in,. Occasionally we had two wed:â€" ding orders on the carpet at the same time, in which case the excitement was more intense. Every leading dressmaker at the time I speak of had this experiâ€" "It was not so common for the mothâ€" ers of girls now in society to run over to Europe as soon as they got engaged and buy part of their trousseau as it is now, and none that I met ever dreamed of waiting until she was married to buy this, that or the other garment. 1t was about eight or ter years ago that the trousseau had reached its greatest point of luxyry _ from a dressmaker‘s point of view. Even then, however, there was a great falling off to be sure in the quantity of bed and table linen and underwear included in a rich New York girl‘s bridal outfit, but that dién‘t effect the dressmaker‘s profits at all. Both in quality and quantity evening gowns, street and caling costumes, wraps and negligees and fancy neckwear were at their most extravagant point, and it was almost never that the bridal gown was bought on the other side. "Here is one order just as it is put down in my November ledger of 1899; Bix dinner dresses. Four evening dresses â€"cut _ dancing length., Four afternoon recention _ costumes eut demiâ€"train, high in the bodice. Fofir calling costumes, three of them matched with fancy coats. Three street costumes. Four tea gownsâ€"eut with a long train, Ji+ lsw Three negligeesâ€"long. i «[fine Three negligeesâ€"short. ‘Two long evening wraps. Two long afternoon wraps, "The evening wraps were of white and gold brocade, white chiffon and yards and yards of fine Viennese lace, and of pink satin and velvet brocade combined with quantitiea of creamy lace, 1 have forgotten exactly what kind. The afterâ€" noon wraps were made of dark velvet, combined in one case with fur, embroidâ€" ered white satin and lace, in the other with fine cloth of a lighter shade elaborâ€" ately embroidered and braided. The street costumes each had its coat, The dinner gowns were of the richest satins and velvets offset with superb laces; and the ball gowns. although made of tulle, chiffon and other thin goods, inâ€" eluded also quantities of handsome laces and embroideries, "Of the reception gowns there were two to be worn at the two first recepâ€" tions given by the bride, and these were handsomer than the others, One, I reâ€" member, was almost entirely of white Irish point lace, and another was of pale blus erepe de chine almost covered with hand embroidery. _ This order was not exceptional then or for two or three "There is no attempt to economize in the cost of these things; that is not the point. The modern New York bride gets on the whole far handsomer clothes than her mother or her grandmother dreamed of buying, and pays twice as much for ithem; but she is careful as to quantity, and that is bad for the dre-sm:fl:er- and for the dealers in fine lingerie. Where former generations of brides bought unâ€" dergarments by the dozen at least. this generation buys them by the half dozen. The lingerie, however, of the modern bride is a marvel in the way of workâ€" T râ€" York _ In some all to do hion to her the can ARE CHEAPER. the wedding and husband. A few ofâ€"a bride who is told me when orâ€" ney neckwear vagant point, mat the bridal ther side. as it is put rer of 18909; AND A WOMAN‘S WORK (6) ] In zoological circles _ the prevalent | opinion is that this mole is a link beâ€" | tween birds on the one hand and manâ€" | mals on the other. These _ "lowest" lqludrupeds lay eggs like birds, _ the young being subsequently hatched from ! the eggs, whereas in the kangaroos and a!l higher mammals the young are horn l alive and nourished by means of milk. NATURE ‘The Indiars on our Western Plains toâ€"day can produce roots and herbs for every ailment, and cure diseases that bafile the most skilled physicians who have spent years in the study of drugs. From the roots and herbs of the field Lydia E. Pinkham more than thirty years ago gave to the women of the world a remedy for their peâ€" culiar ills, more potent and efficaâ€" cious than any combination of drugs. Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound is now recognized as the standard remedy for woman‘s ills. Mrs. J. M. Tweedale, 12 Napance Streot; Toronto, (hmuia., writes to Mrs. Pinkbham: "I was a great sufferer from female troubles, had those dreadful bearing down pains, and during my munthlI periods I suffered so 1 had to go to bed. I doctored for a long time but the doeâ€" tor‘s treatment failed to help me. My husband saw Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegeâ€" table Compound advertised and got a bottle for me. 1 commenced its use and soon felt better. I kept on taking it until I was well and an entirely differâ€" ent woman. J also found that ft dia E. Pinkham‘s \'efiieuble Componn! made childbirth much easier for me. I would recommend your Vegetable Compound to every woman who is affliected with female troubles." "All the same now there is a good deal less sentiment about the trousseau than there was formerly, brides of toâ€"day beâ€" ing quite willing even to wear a traveling dress which has done duty several weeks before the wedding. Sometimes they preâ€" fer to do this, in fact. Catch a bride of twenty years ago doing anything of the sort. If there was one thing more than another about which she was fussy it was her traveling dress. Now it is her dinner dresses that she cares most about, and I must sayâ€"that the modern trousâ€" seau contains far more dinner gowns than it used to, whether bought here or manship and fine lace, and naturally she doesn‘t care to lay in a supply of such expensive things to store them up to wet oldâ€"fashioned. When it comes to What Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetaâ€" ble Compound did for Mrs.Tweedale, it will do for other suffering women. "The popularity of European honeyâ€" moons is another reason for the cut in size of some of the trousseaus, So soon as a brideâ€"elect tells me: ‘I am going abroad directly we are married,/ I know what to expectâ€"that she will wait until she comes back before ordering her most expensive gowns, and that a few of these at least will be bought in Paris, London or Vienna. T# than it used to, on the other sid "The cost of the 1899 trousseau I menâ€" tioned was $6,500. The cost of the trousâ€" seau I am providing for the bride who starts South after her wedding is $3,500, Relatively the drop in the number of garments, aside from lingerie, hosiery and such things, contained in the modern trousseaun of wealthy New York girls is 50 per cent., and the drop in the relative cost of the New York trousseau of ten years ago and of toâ€"day is 40 per cent." xpensive Th zet oldâ€"fashi rostumes she ably. Touristâ€"I understand _ you â€" have relics of the Battle of Waterloo for Boyâ€"We did have, but they are all sold an‘ the swords father buried last woek won‘t get rusted before next summer. sale Australia produces those lowest of the quadrupeds, the duckâ€"billed water mole and the Australian porcupine ant eater, They, along with the kangaroos, . may be described as the groundlings of the mammalian family, for in respect of their structure they are of a much lower grade than, say, a dog or a cat. This inferiority is seen not only in the brain, but in many other details of their bodily anatomy. "I do not recall your face, but I reâ€" member your dress <â€" very well," said Mrs. Blaine.â€"â€"Boston Herald. LYDIA E. PINKHAM Odd Australian Animals. ENTIRELY OUT. ned. _ When it feels the same we are married, 1 know â€"that she will wait until before ordering her most â€" and that a few of these ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO rousseau 1 menâ€" 1st of the trousâ€" the bride who dding is $3,500, the number of prob huge a disaster, The Duke of Aosia, in walking over the ruins of Palan, came upon the body of a dead man, clutching in both of his cold hands silver and bauk notes. As the world collapsed he seized his money, but it wa« of no use to him. In clearing away wreckage in Messina the searchers found the bodies of two policemen, and between them the remains of a prisoner with handeuffs on his wristsâ€"here the outlaw and the Some Idea of the Dimensions of the (Toronto Saturday Night.) In attempting to grasp the dimensions of the catastrophe caused by the earthâ€" quake in Calabria and Nicily, one is aided to some extent by the later details apâ€" pearing in the English press. We are told, for instance, that a train, with passengers and running speed along the seashore, was by the tidal wave and disappea .ustant, and that cwo trains, fw engers, ready to start from th at Reggio, were swallowed in way and that nobody escape« are many storics of the fate o uals, showing how peity are ha sions and pursuits in the prese stons huge t men survive, experience of who was buric response to sh Don‘t think 0 have all 1 wa they were try ments, static ments, stationed at Messina, only ten men survive, Of another nature was the experience of the Marquis of Semmola, who was buried alive in the ruins, but in response to shouts replied: "Save others! Don‘t think of me,. 1 am in a bar and have all I want to eat and drink." William Maxwell, the English war corâ€" respondent, declares â€" that the Chinesc city of Port Arthur, after bombardment by sea and land. was not half so ruinons as Messina,. *"Six months‘ cannonade by all the artillery in the "would not produce t] seconds of Nature‘s rio that the spectacle, when eommander of the Briti seconds of Nature‘s riot." We are told that the spectacle, when witnessed by the commander of the British «teamer, Elbo, was «o horrifying that his hair turned white in a moment under the great shock that he eustained. The dimensions of the disaster m realized from the following table ; the destroyed cities and towns with populations and the numbers slain The chief towns destroyed are: Messina . ... . . . . .160,000 _, . _ 100.0( Reggio........ .. 60,000 .. 55.008 Monteleone...... 10,000 .. 1800 tizzo Palmi Bagna Gazzi Sant‘ The following Calabrian towns were also devastated: Villa San Giovanni, San Roberit, Maropa, Scilla, Santo Stefano, Seminara, Cannetello, Catagono, Bocals, Catona, Pillaro, Giola Tauro, Gallico, Motte, Mileto, Villa San Guiseppe, Salâ€" ine, Misitano, Gerace, Montebello, Nicoâ€" tera, Gallina, Archireggio, Sinopoli, Camâ€" po_â€"f‘nlabr_th Tonio,. #8 _ The Sicillan towns of Noto, San (ire gorio, and Risopto were severely dam aged. (Boston Herald.) One of the most significant and virile of the younger and "coming" American poets is Harry H. Kemp. In his poem, The Song of the Wireâ€" less Telegraph, he touches on that phase of the daily presentâ€"day miracle which is uppermost in the public mind just now because of the salvaâ€" tion of crew and passengers of the Republic. The Wireless sings: With silent and lightning feet I pass __ swift as a dream. I leave behind on the wings of the wind creatures of steel and steam. Who will gather my fling reins and bridle my headlong speed Who will hold me back on my whirlâ€" wind track as 1 carry the hidâ€" den creed? Do you think you have conquered time, laud slaves of the narrow rail? I will leave you a thousand miles beâ€" hind in the teeth of an open gale! o A. When _ the stormâ€"wrecked â€" steamer limps through the mist and the awirling spume I push a way to the outer day and tell of the vessel‘s doom. I have come unseen with secret speech, I have guarded the tale upheard ; I have put mine eyes on the journey‘s end and delivered the faithful word. Don Marquis has hinted at the same splendor of achievement in his lines: gonts of pusti riests, who ar hat they wore ive thousand ; xplained their hey happened { a chureh w But now they may howl, the storms, and growl at the rk of the lineman‘s hands, But gone is their pride with the boast of the tide that bit at the deep sea strands. For a sentence thrills through the bastioned hills that has neither voice nor form, Nor reeks of the might of the chaosâ€" sprite that lashes the earth with his storm. Bited and bridled, and shackled and girdled and bound with a linkâ€" less chain, The brute powers cower at the godâ€" like power that dwells in hnman brain ; Man has stolen the wings <f the deathless Things that range where the spirit is lord. He is leagued anew with the Rilence through the strands of a «trandâ€" less cord. THE EARTHQUAKE. It is estimated that the summer hotels of the White Mountains are worth $5,000,000; of Vermont, the same ; Massachusetts, _ $10,000,000; those or the Catskills, $3,000,000; of the Adirondacks, $7,000,000; of Conâ€" necticut, $4,000,000, and those of New Jersey over _ $50,000,000.â€"From _ the Hotel World. Mt TRIBUTES TO THE WIRELESS. iCs and Ni ufemia Jersey‘s Summer Hotels. rescuer in one grave, . in "According a compary of soldiers were | pands of our erately to release some un Kuropatkin he were pinned down under peace force . ‘®, when an adjoining brick | sjsted of 116. »d, killing all the soldiers | as 13090 wer the agonies of those whom | peserve of ths ving to rescue, (Of two re?i< | 315000 men. oned atâ€" Messina, only ten "Thus â€" the Of another nature was the according to { the Marquis of Semmola, | pf only 418.0 ied alive in the ruins, but in | ealenlations houts replied : "Save others! | ssaldishad 3. n of the disaster may be following table giving 3 and towns with their 9,000 14,000 10000 3,000 5.700 1 disappea trains, ful t from th the results 100,.000 55,000 1800 Destroyed Obliterated 1,000 1,000 Handful of Survivore | of pass tails apâ€" We are crowded at â€" full engulfed ed in an he savs sta ton pas HAD GIVEN UP HOPE But Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills Reâ€" Mediciat®s of the old fashioned kind will sometimes relieve the symptoms of disease, though they never touch the disease itselfâ€"they never cure, Ordinâ€" ary medicines leave behind them indiâ€" gestion, constipation _ and headaches. Purgatives leave those taking them fey erish and weakened, On the other hand Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills do direet good to the body, the blood and the nerves. They fill the veins with new rich blood; they tone and strengthen the merves; they cure disease by rooting it out of the blood. They always do good â€"they cannot possibly do harm, Mrs. George R. Wilson, Moncton, N. B., says: "A few years ago after con finement 1 contracted a severe cold and although 1 took considerable medicine, 1 got no better, In fact, my condition was gradually getting worse,. 1 was all run down, had no appetite and grew o weak that 1 could not do my housework. At last the doctor who was attending me told my husband that 1 was going into a decline, and 1 feared so myselt for a sister had died of consumption. When almost in despair a friend sug gested my taking Dr. Wiiliams‘ Pink Pills, and 1 got half a dozen boxes. Be fore 1 had taken them all 1 began to Estimated to Have Exceeded the Size of Entire Peace Force. "According to the information in the hands of our General Staff," writes Gen. Kuropatkin in MeClure‘s, "the entire peace force of the Japanese army conâ€" «isted of 116000 men, of which as many as 13,000 were on perpetua) leave,. The reserve of the territorial army numbered 345000 mon. , "Thus their entire foree of soldiers, according to our caleulations. eonsisted B., says finement get better. Then 1 got another half dozen boxes, and before 1 had used them all 1 was able to do my housework again and was in better health than 1 bad enjoyed for years. 1 believe Dr. Wil liams‘ Pink Pills saved me from going into consumption and 1 warmly recom mend them to every weak person, old by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for #2.50 from the 1. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. "The losses in killed and wounded were very great, In the cemetery of honor at Tokio alone 60,000 were buried who had been slain in battle, and to these must be added 50,000 who died of their wounds, _ Thns the Japanese suffered battle losses of 110.000 menâ€"that is to say, a number almost equal to the entire army on a peace footing. "Our losses, compared with our army of 1,000,000, were several times smaller than those of the Japanese,. During the war 554,000 men were treated in the Japanese hospitals, 220,000 of them beâ€" ing wounded. Counting in with the Kil! ed and wounded those who died from disease, the Japanese lost 135,000 men." "Thus their entire foree of soldiers, aceording to our caleulations, eonsisted of only 418,000 men, But according to caleulations made on the basis of data mblished _ by the Japanese sanitary authorities, it is evident that during th» war over 1,000,000 men were summoned ‘o their colors, which created an extra ordinary drain on the forces of the popu lation, "The losses in killed and wonnded were A Working Passenger. A persistent lawyer who had been trying to establish a witness‘ suspicious connection with an offending railroad was at last elated by the witness‘ ad mission that he ‘had worked on the reil road." "Ah!" 1 fied #mile "Do you wish to convey the impres sion that you have worked for the P T. & X. for seven years without reward*" asked the attorney, "Absolutely without reward," the witâ€" ness answered calmly. "For seven years, off and on, I‘ve tried to open the win dows in the P. T. & X. cars, and never once have 1 succeeded."â€"Youth‘s Com panion. ; on the P. T. & X.*" "Yes." "For how long a period*" "On and off for seven year«, or since I have lived at Peacedale, on their line." "Ah! You say you were in the employ of the P. T. & X, for seven years, off and on ?" "No. I did not say that I was employ ed by the P. T. & X. I said I had work ed on the road, off and en, for that length of time." Joggsâ€"Why, three, of course. » Boegezâ€"No; a man, wife and baby; two and one to carry. The Queen‘s Maids. The queen demands of her maids that they shall be musical, neat in their atâ€" tire and eschew picture hats. Otherwise, she is very un_\'goini with them, and in the kindest way ministers to their &lu sure whenever it is possible, A maid of honor no longer receives the coveted "dot" of a thousand pounds on her mar riage, as of yore, but the rank of "hon orable" is still hers.â€"Gentlewoman, one? Willieâ€"Pa, message isn‘t good 1» eat, is it? Paâ€"What are you talking about * Willieâ€"Why, Mr. Tangler, our Sunday schoo\ superintendent, kept telling us all the time toâ€"day that "Esan sold his birthright for a pot of message..â€"â€"A Frozen Mustaches. Moustaches are not worn by men exâ€" posed to the severity of an Alaskan winter, They wear full beards to proâ€" tect the throat and face, but keep the upper lip clean shaven, The moisture from the breath congeals so quickly that a moustache becomes imbedded in from the breath congeals so quickly that a moustache becomes imbedded in a solid cake of ice, and the face is frozen in a short time. Would be Nice. "These sectional bookcases are fins things, You can star; in a small u! and add to them as you can afford it. "Cood ijdea. â€"Why doesn‘t somebody "Good idea,. \Why doesn‘t ® invent a sectional hat for ladies stored Vigorous Health. JAPAN‘S WAR LOSSES said the attorney, with a sa e. "You say vou have wor o0 "te M’ €,