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po-mon admitted, when only sailâ€" ing and houseboats plied on the vriver. One sultry evening in August, 1834, a quaint Chinese houseboat, bearâ€" ing a widow with her two daughters, and x coffin, was moored to the left bank of the Hankaing The lady‘s husband had been serving the Crown in the province 10 oatysu ® suwm of se jng ‘uufgyoory J¢ Peking, his body had to be buried in the latter place. They had halted there on their way to Peking. Their stores were exhausted, they lacked the wherewithal to replenish them, and, bereft of funds, had but elender hopes of pushing on to the capital, And the widow‘s only chanee of saving her little family from starvation seemingly depended on her reaching Peking. For there she intended Next day about noon another boat lay to alongside that of the widow. On board was a functionary from the proâ€" vinee of Hupeh, who had just been apâ€" pointed to the post of Tao Tai or Govâ€" ermor, and was on his way to the capâ€" ital to do homage for this mark of favor, A new Governor is a monarch in miniaâ€" ture, and many officials of his province make an carly bid for his favor. First in the field here was a city judge, Wu Tang by name, who despatched his serâ€" vants with refreshments and a present of about £30 in money. _ ‘The messenâ€" gers, boarding the wrong boat, presented the widow with the edibles, ‘the coin, and the good wishes of their master, Pleasantly surprised, the lady mentally set down the offerings as tokens of the w of some friead of her deceased . Bhe accordingly charged Wn Tang‘s messenger to express her inâ€" debtedness ‘to lltflir master, and to say that she would be much pleased if he could do her the favor to come and reâ€" ceive the expressions of her gratitude. to rflfion the authorities to admit her little danughter to the palace as a canâ€" didate for the imperial harem. The gitl‘s qualificationa were her Mandchu extraction, her rank as daughter of a third class officialâ€"of him whose body was now being conveyed to its native sdilâ€"her â€" comeliness, aptitudes, and grace. Presentation at court under such conditions is more than a mere privilege â€"it may be the startingâ€"point of a brilâ€" liant eareer. From among the numerous girls upon whom this honor is conferred, the Empress Mother selects for the fâ€" ture Emperor his first lawful wife, two wther spouses, nine concubines, and a goodly number of handmaids. _ Hence hundreds of families that possess the requisite qualifications strive after the honor for their daughters. The servants returning delivered the widow‘s message to Wu Tang. Wu‘s anger know no bounds. _ He cudgelled them and threatened the chief one with death, But his wrath subsiding, he conâ€" sulted a certain councillor of the tribâ€" unal, who advised him to look upon the money as lost, and to call on the widow. Boarding the houseboat next morning, the judge performed the traditional cereâ€" monLc betore the coffin. Meanwhile the lady came out of her apartment, fell on her face before him, and offered her heartfelt thanks for the kindness which had prompted himâ€"the friend 0% her deceased husbandâ€"to help her in her hour of need. The presents he had sent would enable herâ€"she saidâ€"to reach Poki‘l?. where she hoped to arâ€" range her affairs. She could not thank him adequately in words but "as a token of my gratitude and devotion, 1 hereby give you my eldest child as your adopted daughter." Now in China to give one‘s child to be #dopted is a mark of gratitude for favor _ too great to hbe ever IJ Thereupon the lady made a sign to her eldest daughterâ€" A GIRL FULL OF LIFE AND CHARM AND GRACEâ€" who, glancing with wistful awe upon the strange benefactor, prostrated herâ€" self before him and called him father. Wu returned the grectings, recognized the child as his daughter by adoption, and soon after took his leave. _ The same day the houseboat sailed down the Yangtse, bearing the girl, whose name was Yehonala, (At her birth, a Chinese girl receives _ a temporary name, which is generally suggested by an object just seen by one of the parâ€" entsâ€"as, for instance, a flower. _ Sis or seven years later another name â€" containing a flattering allusionâ€"is sub stituted for this, but nobody may utter it excepting her Junlp‘nltc, parents, and professors. Her brothers are not excepted), on to the high seas _ of life, where, under the name of Tsu Hsi, she was to grapple successfully with cireumstance. Twenty years later the curtain was raised on the secoud scene of this little drama. Mcauwhile: a deep dent had been left oc the history of the Colestial Bmpire, deeper than any the preveding ‘; length of se 5 jou. We Tan , erred to t! , he set on d But the | a | 1 an of t e | r â€"was di g~ is new i @ | W fl"l‘ j“ n | around him a ba m | ers, had no use hundred years had made. Hankow had been destroyed in the Taeping rebelâ€" lion, which cost the nation twenty milâ€" lion lives. China, theretofore an . emâ€" baimed corpse, enfolded in silk cereâ€" ments, covered with ancient inscripâ€" tions, was being slowly shaken out of the lethargy of ages. Monarchs hd;' " 2 on ue o mds uiss Svws he set out on a visit to his new But the Marquess Tsengâ€"a polâ€" 1 an of the world and moderate was disgusted with the denseâ€" is new subordinate. Tsong, who w iving just then _ to gather around him a band of onli%!nanod work» ers, had no use for Wu Tang as subâ€" prefect, and deemed it his duty to get the appointment quashed. The Viceroy accordingly dismissed his visitor curtâ€" Iy, and despatched a damaging report about him to Peking. In the fullness of time there came a strange reply. Tseng was informed that the Empressâ€"Regent _ had been pleased to raise Wu Tang from the pT of subâ€"prefect. to that of Prefect. At this the Viceroy marvelled. The Emâ€" press, he €oncluded, could zot have reâ€" ceived "his report. He therefore wrote again. Quicker than before came the answer. It was another edict of promoâ€" tion. It now pleased her Majesty to apâ€" point Wu Tl? to the post of Tao ‘Tai, or Governor. The mystified Viceroy sent for Wu Tang. "Who are your influenâ€" tial friends at court?‘‘ he asked, "I posâ€" sess no friends, no igfl\nn«, no acquainâ€" tances there," was the avswer, and its accents carried conviction. **"Then it is a mistake after/ all," the Viceroy arâ€" Euod, as ho turned the matter over in is mind, ‘"and it mtt be set right. So he despatched another letter to the Empress, this time "asking that her Majesty would vouchsafe to honor Wu Tang with an audience. wWas MADE A CONCUBINE of fifth rank. A splendid success for the little maiden who had had such a narrow escape from _ starvation, this might well seem but a poor start for one whom Fate destined to raise to the throne of China. For concubines enjoy few privileges. They are cloistered in a pavilion, where they fill#in their day with sewing, embroider?l:reuling gilkâ€" worms, sauntering about the spacious %roundq or boating on‘ the garden lakes, hey rarely receive ‘their parents, and never anyone else,. _ If, however, one among them becomes the mother of male offspring, she has established her right to a highâ€"sounding title during the reâ€" mainder of her life, a tablet over her grave, and household worship after her death. And that seemed the dizziest height attainable by Hsien feng‘s fifth concubine, who was then a winsome girl of sixteen. Five more years rolled over the Emâ€" rive of China and the harem of Hsien eng, and the fifth concubine had beâ€" come a favorite. The Son of Heaven, yielding himself more and more to the soothing spell of the daughter of earth, made her his boon companion, his solace in trouble, his counn‘::: at all times, Within the harem she n to discharge certain of the functions which belonged of right to the chief spouse, yet without arousing the envy of her rivalâ€"a meek, loving, devoted wife, who felt remorseâ€" ful regret that she had not yet borne her lord and master a male heir. _ At last the fifth un‘:;ho.md‘:h: m with. a; + bound to the highest position in the Emâ€" pire. Festivities were organized at enurt, oi Chdeed io aimin‘ .was granted to * ‘als, =‘ ager Empress assigned a come and vanished, the dynasty had been eudangered, the throne shaken, the empire itself had wellâ€"nigh . gone to pieces. But Wu Tang had survived all changes, plodding tamely on with the flawless serenity of spirit which so many of his countrymen seem to hold ever at command. Dogged perseverance apd length of service at last won recogâ€" Un the decisive day the lists of the lucky were issued..One girl was gazetted Empress, two became lawful spouses, and the little orphan with the magnetio ¢yes, soft feline ways, royal felicity of utterance, and imperial vyoice But to return to her early _ career. Soon after her father was laid to rest in his native soil, Yehonala was preâ€" sented at court‘ ‘The maidgn‘s . good looks, blithe temperament, ,tnco of gait and lztrin‘. and those winsome ways that élude analysis and are conâ€" noted by the word charm, induced the palace authorities to receive M#r. _ Acâ€" cordingly she entered the ‘‘sacred preâ€" cinets," which no girl candidate, once admitted, can ever quit alive, Like the Roman vestais, they are cut off from the world whose pleasures they _ have remounced. During several months of probation under the eye of the Empress Mother, their aptitudes are noted, their defects corrected, their manners polishâ€" ed. They are taught Mandchu, are inâ€" itiated into the ceremonies and rites of ancestral worship, and trained to conâ€" duct themselves as behooves future comâ€" panions of the mightiest mortal on the globe. The names of those whose shortâ€" comings appear glaring or incurable, or whose positive qualifications seem inâ€" adequate, are gradually struck off the list of candidates, and even _ of the many . who _ are allowed _ to comâ€" pete, _ relatively _ fe are ulti« mately _ chosen. Ycl:uln'- name, however, remained onfthe books to the last, rising in relatiye position as time went on. 4 Shortly afterwards the new Tao Tai was summoned to Peking. On the mornâ€" ing fixed for the audience he entered the palace in trepidation, _ his eyes downcast. In front of _ the imperial throne, congruously wit%‘*\om, he fell upon his knees. The #L press comâ€" manded her awestruck sukÂ¥et to rise up and draw near. Startled at the voice, him how glad she was to meet again the benefactor whose friendly hand was once stretched out to help her _ from among the weird shadows of the grey world, at sight of which 4 her child‘s heart was swelling. She t(en dismissed him to his post, promi¢ing to turn a deaf ear to all calumnious denunciations of him. # . ‘Wu Tang was promoted and erred to the province of Kan ai. separate palace to the mother of her grandson, who was thereupon promoted to the rank of a "western consort"â€"the first spouse being termed the eastern. On the happy mother the Court also beâ€" stowed the name of Tsu Hsi, or "clement benefactresd." o At this period of her career, Tsu Hsi, native chroniclers tell us, was & girl with the budding charms of an ideal woâ€" man. Prepossessing in person, she was so kindly in manner and suave of dispoâ€" sition that she won every heart, perâ€" suaded every hearer, disarmed envy and hatred. All who came in contact with her describe her as a fascinating talker. Her language abounded in witty sallies, quaint notions clothed in racy words, embellished with poetic images, bright with bursts of musical laughter. People loved to listen to her, were proud of her notice, and captivated by her smile. While she amoke an intense fire lighted her eyes, kindied her mobile tongue, and as one of her countrymen puts it, "made her lips drop honey." People of charaeâ€" ter were drawn towards her despite their will, and clever statesmen were swayed by her despite their intelligence. A magnetic force seemed to go out from her, hypnotising her environment, and making instruments of all who came wihtin the radius of its operation. It was thus that while supplanting the chief spouse in the affections of the Emâ€" peror, she contrived to win her friend: ship and to kee? it. And it is worth noti:? as a proof that she eschewed foul means when fair methods were obviously adequate, ‘that that same lady, with whom she lived and worked in amity for many years, died a natural death in 1881. ‘The eunuchs, who are an allâ€"presâ€" ent, allâ€"powerful, and permanent eleâ€" ment at court, were the next to yield to Tsu Hsi‘s fascination, Their obedience was prompt, thorough, cheerful, their coâ€"operation precious, and their attachâ€" ment Farbook of the nature of rel.lfious worship. And in this boundless deyoâ€" tion of the powerful body which carried out all the palace revolutions, liee a clue to much of what seemed mysterâ€" ious about her marvellous suceess. The Empress remained their staunch friend until her death. Last year, when reâ€" forming or abolishing other antiquated institutions, she refused to meddle with the eunuchs. Another five years passed into hisâ€" tory and wellâ€"nigh dragged the Mandchu dynasty with them. The Taeping rebelâ€" lion, which stirred the nation to its foundations, made upon the mind of Tau Hei a deep and lasting imprese. Its victims are computed at twenty milâ€" lions. The fom'tin invasion of Chine administered another painful shock. For the first time in history, it was borne in .upon the rulers of the Empire that their naive faith in their superiority to the rest of MANKJND WAS A DELUSION. Buch was the politcal debut of the charming woman who, as a pretty maidâ€" en, had a few years before so narrowly eluded the grip of misery on the banks of the Hankiang River. Within that brief span she had raised herself to a loftier eminence than that once occuâ€" pied by Semiramis or Cleopatra, Catherâ€" ine IJ, or Maria Theresa. She now held the destinies of a fourth of the human race in the hollow of her hand. And she bore good fortune splendidly. In the new as in the old role, she was simâ€" ple, ready, resourceful. That she reâ€" tained her modesty is proof that it was deepâ€"rooted, for her advisers did their utmost to cure her of it. Fitness for great opportunities and a capacity to create lesser ones were among her main characteristics. Success never seems to have intoxicated, nor failure to have demoralised her. In politics, which may be described as the art of the possible, Tsu Hsi, like the world‘s great statesâ€" men} was an opportunist, She made the most of changing cireumstance, and when unable _ to _ alter _ conditions _ to suit _ her _ plans, _ she _ modified her plans and adjusted them to the conditions. _ Hence she has been charged by the Conservalives with exâ€" cessive readiness to humor the white men, and by reformers with harboring rancorous hatred of everything that was neither The Angloâ€"French campai against China culminated in the p:;g:uu of Poâ€" king, the humiliation of the imperial family, and the insertion of the thin edgeo of the wedge of western civilization in the massive realm of the far east. But in the midst of the wild confusion at court there was one person who reâ€" mained cool. When the Emperor was making ready to flee his capital, and his panicâ€"stricken courtiers were urging him to lose no time, Tsu Hsi strove to dissuade him. She would have had him hold his ground and make a fight for the rights of his house and his empire, But her advice was disregarded, and Hsien feng repaired to Jehol in Monâ€" golia. Teu Hsi, ever a model spouse, folâ€" lowed her lord and consort, zealously guarding her pricoless treasure, the fiveâ€"yearâ€"old son, through whem she During her first regency Tsu Hsi, then in the flower of her age, indulged, it is said, in the passions of a Messaline and the cruelty of a Bluebeard, putting seyâ€" eral of her obscure favorites to death. A priori the story may be true. It is safe to assume, however, that many acts of the regent, which Europeans would conâ€" demn and Chinese condone, have been magnified by enemies into heinous crimes. _ As a western critic once cauâ€" tiously put it, "half the calumnies spread about the lady are in all probability untrue." Doubtless Teu Hsi perpetrated crimes enough to kindle _ raptures of moral indignation in the West. But it would be well to remember that she had not only no scruples of any sort, but no indwelling source of fny. A conâ€" science formed no part of her equipment. She dwelt beyond the domain of right In truth, she merely utilized the foreign element for the good of her empire, her dynasty, her personal weal. It was ever her way to use mankind as a bridge over which to pass to her goal, and having reached it she generally tried to draw her people after her. had won title, dignity and power, and bereft of whom she would again become the merest cipherâ€"secluded for the reâ€" mainder of her life in a palatial prison. and wrong. Thus Tsu Hsi, who was the first Emâ€" press, was also the last autocrat â€" of China, an autocrat by nature as well as by law. In a country â€"where centuries of peaceful toil and military quiescence had contributed to the decay of enerâ€" getic passions, she was an epitome of much that was great in healthy human kingship. And her death was worthy of her life. « Such was Tsu Hai‘s zeal for the public service that during her last agony she insisted on being present at a state council, and, lying dressed on her couch she took such part in its deliberations as the rapid advance of her malady permitted. For the freshâ€" ness of her soul was unimpaired in & body that years had enfeebled and disâ€" ease undermined. "I can bear no more," were the last articulate® sounds that passed her lips. A few minutes later the colummar figure that ~had dominated Ching for over forty years had faded to a memory and a shadow. . And the Dalai Lams bent down over her paie, rigid Sace im silent prayer. s t CHINESE NOR MANDCHU Mr. 8. J. Massey, formerly & resident of Toronto, and a wellâ€"known business man, writes from 247 Guy street, Montâ€" real, Quebec: "I wish to testify to the good results 1 have derived from the use af Peâ€" runa. â€"‘"I have also found Peruna & very valuable remedy for stomach"® trouble and indigestion. . e 3 "Having been troubled for several years with catarrh of the head, 1 deâ€" cided to give Peruna a fair trial and I can truly say I have received great hbeneâ€" fit from its use. 1t evidently atrikes at the very root of the trouble and gdod results are soon noticeable. 4 "I have no hesitancy \\)atever in reâ€" commending Peruna as a reliable catarrh remedy." There are several kinds of indigestion. The trouble may be due to sluggishâ€" ness of the liver, derangement of the bowels, enlargement qf the pancreas, or it may be due to the stomach itself. Peâ€"ruâ€"na Strikes at the Root of the Trouble. In nearly all cases of stomach indigesâ€" tion catarrh of the stomach is the cause, The only permanent relief is to remove the catarrh. j All ?'ou need do is to write for a free box of the remedy which has been placed in my hands to be given un{l. Perhaps this one box will cure youâ€"it has done so for others. , If so, I l‘l-ll be happy and you will be curodytor 2c (the cost of a sost'a‘:fi lt‘gvmfi).. t 3:1' }etter- l;eld 'cont;- en . Wt oâ€" or my free treatâ€" ment. lIRS. F. EB CUB&!AH. Windsor, Ont. "Well, that‘s another horse on me," said the automobilist as his machine stopped dead in the road nine miles fzom any where. o T. â€" Peruna has become wellâ€"known the world over as a remedy in such cases. Scotland is. rich in ghost lore. There is perhaps hardly a castle or ruin which has not some spectral story clinging to it, and the strange part of the matter is that many of the legends are substanâ€" tiated by latter day experiences. Dunâ€" robin Castle, the Highland home of the Duke of Sutherland, boasts of a hauntâ€" ed room. ‘The spectre there is invisible and denotes its presence by an awe inâ€" spiring laugh, "Oh," says Wallace, "there‘s no danâ€" ger of that Every water plug in town is tested two days before a big fire, and if it‘s found frozen we put a man to work thawing it out.‘"â€"From the Cleveâ€" land Plain lgealer. Flocks of Wild Geese in Oklahoma. Large flocks of geese still linger along the Arkansas River between Muskogee and Keystone, and even above the point of the Cimarron‘s embouchure into the Arkansas. ‘On?ocite Turkey Mountain, on the Midland valley, eight miles below Tulsa, a flock of seventy big honkers has been spending the last week in the fields in the daytime and roosting on the sand bars at night.â€"From the Kansas City Times. The story goes that one of the Duke‘s ancestors caused the chief of a rival clan to be starved to death in his room, visitâ€" ing him periodically during his sufferâ€" ings and llugbini at his tortures. As punishment for this crime the unscrapâ€" ulous chieftain has to haunt the room, â€"COnssell‘s Saturday Journal, They got to talking about _ fires. ‘‘George,‘" spoke up the man from the country, ‘‘supposin‘ one o‘ them fire plugs was to get froze up one of these cold nights and you couldn‘t get any water, What‘d you do then?" Minard‘s Liniment Cures Dandruff. Fire Chief Wallace, _ walking down Superior avenue the other morning, met an old frieed who now lives on a farm a short distance down the State. _ ‘Thereupon he began to look around for a farmer. THE "CHAMPION" Wm. Qillosple, Dept. 98 Front St, East, Is the only Gasoline Engine that you can try before you buy. I know what the ‘"Chamâ€" plon‘‘ will do, and I want you to be fully satisfied with it before you pay for it. The price is low. Full particulars free. A_Woman‘s Sympathy STOMAGH INDIGESTION. When to Thaw the Fire Plugs When the Tank Went Dry. Ghosts in Scottish Houses. GAS and GASOLINE < ENGINES It must give satisâ€" faction or you don‘t pay for it. $sOLD ON TRIAL ONTARIO ARCHIVES TOROoNTO in the March Canadian Magazine, are so important and far reaching that it may well be likened to "Nature‘s Balance Whee!." _ Its importance does not conâ€" sist merely in the immediate output of lumber, ties, timber, fuel, pulpwood and other forest products; but also in its regulation of soil erosion, the formation of a good game cover and its amelioratâ€" ing influences upon climate. By retardâ€" ing evaporation, checking the drying fâ€" fects of winds, rendering the soil more perous and fertile, retaining .the moisâ€" ture favorable to agriculture, and reguâ€" lating the flow of water in the streams, it is of the highest _ importance in the general economy of nature. _ Through mighty eycles of time vegetable growth and tree growth have wrought incessantâ€" ly to clothe rocks with life and beauty and to prepare the earth for the habiâ€" tation of man. Wherever man hasâ€"disâ€" turbed the nice b«lance that exists beâ€" tween the forested _ and _ nonâ€"forested areas he has _ restored the proper balance his efforts have been generously rewarded by better climatic conditions, increased fertility of â€" soil, and a more equable stream flow. Their Importance is Now Becoming Keenly Appreciated. The effects of the forest upon its surâ€" roundings, writes A. 11. D. Hoss, M. F., That "the hand is quicker than the eye"" is one of those accepted sayings invented by some one who knew nothâ€" ing of conjuringâ€"or, as is more likely, by some cunning conjurer who aimed still further to hoodwink a gullible ublic. The fact is that the best conâ€" furer seldom makes a rapid motion, for that attracts attention, even though it be not understood. The true artist in this line is deliberate in every movement, and it is mainly by his actions that he deads his audâ€" ience to look not where they ought, but in an entirely different direction. Mr. David Devant, who for a number of consecutive years has entertained London with his ingenious tricks, has said : ‘"‘The conjurer must be an actor. By the expression of his face, by his gestures, by the tone of his voice, in short, by his acting, he must produce his effects.â€"From the "Simple*Tricks in Magic‘ in the March 8t. Nicholas. SLEEPLESS LITTLE BABIES ARE SICKLY BABIES When babies are reatless, sleeptess and oross it is the surest possible sign that they are not well. Well babies sleep soundly and wake up brightly, Sleepâ€" lessness is generally due to some ailment of the stomach or bowels, or cutting teeth. A few doses of Baby‘s Own Tabâ€" lets will put the little one right, and give it sound, natural sleep, Mrs, Jos, Goneil, St. Evariste, Que., says: "I have found Baby‘s Own Tablets a splendid medicine for constipation and stomach troubles, I give them to my little girl, and they ‘Two interesting exhibitions are to be held in Paris this spring. Queen Alexâ€" andra is the patroness of one, to conâ€" sist of a hundred portraits of English and French women of the eighteenth century. The profits will go to the fund for the widows and children of French naval officers and seamen. At the secâ€" ond, to consist of the works of royalty only, Queen Alexandra will be repreâ€" sented by some of her water colors. Princess {.omu Duchess of Argyll by sculpture, and the Queens of Italy and Rumania by sketches. Queen Amelie of Portugal will send some of her charmâ€" !nl' pastels.â€"From the Lady‘s Pictorâ€" ial. 1 give them to my littie girl, and they keep her lively uu{well." Sold >y mediâ€" cine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co,, Brockville, Ont, Minard‘s Liniment Relieves Neuralgia. Thick woollen socks under their busy fingers take form for some brother or sweetheart in Liverpool, or other seaâ€" port of the British Isles; for these stewâ€" ardesses as a rule come from families of seafartrs. Meavy mittens and tippets are also the product of their spare moâ€" ments.â€"Boston Herald. "Yes," said the bride of three short months, "I iad made l:: my mind to remain in the spinster class, then John appeared upon/the scene and I accepted him because he was ;so unlike other CGentlemen,â€"My â€" daughter, 13 years old, was thrown from a sleigh, and inâ€" jured her elbow so badly it remained stiff and very painful for three years. Four bottles of MINARD‘S LINTMENT completely cured her and she has not been troubled for two years. Yours truly, + J. B. LIVESQUE, Knitting on Steamships. The old fashioned habit of knitting with steel needles is coming into vogue on the passenger steamships operating between Boston and European ports, and the stewardessea, mostly buxom Englishwomen, are engaging in the homely work with commendable zest. _ "Oh, of course, he‘s different," rejoined the envious lady friend. "He proposed." â€"Chicago News. Minard‘s Liniment Co., Limited Why Steel is Painted Red. "Why is iron or steel invariably paint ed red!" This question has been asked by scores of men and women recently who have walked over Hungerford Bridge on the way to Waterloo station from Charing Cross, One of the workmen was asked why the bridge was being painted red. C.° N. ies " Sb rejuvenating, ® ® force than has ever before been offered Sufferers from lack of vigor and vital weakness which sap lh:'rkuum of life should take C. N. ~One box will show wonderâ€" ful results. Sent by mail in plain package only on receipt of this advertisement and one doliar. Address, The Nervine Co.. Windsor, Ont. "Oh, it‘s not the color that counts," he said, "but it‘s what the paint is composâ€" ed of.. This is red lead, and any stecl man will tell you that red lead is the best pre.erud're against dampness and rust. Recently a dark green lead has come into use as a first coat for fron and steel, but after all red lead seems to hold its own as a covering to preserve steelwork. When the red lead is once on it the structure ean be painted in any other color to suit the taste. ‘The red lead lasts years."â€"Titâ€"Bits. Bt. Joseph, P. O., Aug. 18, 1800 OUR FORESTS. The Conjurer Confesses. Point of Difference. Queens as Artists. Buggestions are being made to the sugar planters of South America and elsewhere that industrial | aloohol, making excellent fuel for driving enâ€" gines, might be distilled from their surplus stock of molasses. According to the experiments made in the United States says the Dundee Adâ€" vertiser, where the output of beet and cane sugar combined reaches some 400,000 tons, about one %l.llon of in dustrial alcohol can be obtained from three gallons of molasses; and as the price of the latter is quite nominal on most lug: sugar estates, the c.soâ€" hol would cheap. _ Launches on Bouth American and African rivers, which must at present trust to the troublesome and lengthy process of cutting timber for their fuel, could thus be superseded by motor boatsâ€" a change which would be in many ways welcome in the rubber trade. Of nervous prostration we hear much nowâ€" adays, and it is comforting to know that there are places specially equipped and Jocated for combating this phase of modern life. On the main line of the Grand Trunk Railâ€" way System, at Catharines, Ontario, mre loâ€" cated the curative Saline Springs known as the ‘"St, Catharines Well." Oonnected with the Springs is ‘‘The Welland," where treatâ€" aments for nervous prostration, rheumatism, etc., are given by skilled attendants in charge of a resident physician. _ _ Chinese as Poker Players. "The Chinese play mker like fiemds. That‘s because it fits them, Strange to say," writes Lincoln Colcord in the Amâ€" erican Magazine, )‘l‘ol all the trash we‘ve ut up to them the game of draw poker ?- the only thing that fits the Chinese character at every turn. _ Bt. Catharines is the mildest point in Canâ€" ada during the winter months. A Grammar Lesson. We study grammar, Tom and I: We know an adjective and noun, And we can conjugate a verb, As well as any boys in town, First person, present tense, "I see," .3 saw" for past tense is the law, But Tom and I, we conjugate ; Both verbs in one when we seesaw When Tom goes up, then I go down, > When Tom goes down, up, up I go, Each is the first person in his turn, And both, in best ofâ€" moods, you know, We love our books and teachers, too, And never at our tasks are late; But after hours, when school is out, Seesaw‘s the verb we conjugate, Qold Laid Watch "It‘s as if they had spent all these years just to perfect themselves for that game. It nppeals to them, it‘s philoâ€" sophical, it‘s got sense; and so they play it, inscrutable, emiling with pleaâ€" sure in their hearts. Minard‘s Liniment Cures Burns, etc. Remembering All. An carnest young preacher in a reâ€" mote country village concluded a long and comprehensive supplication by sayâ€" ing: "And now let us pray for those The young woman wrote a letter to the tiller of the soil and received an answer in which the farmer declared himself pleased at having heard from her, etc. He wound his letter up with : "I hope you did not eat the egg, as I wrote that on it a year ago.‘"â€"From the Philadelphia Record, ing: "And now let us pn{.for those 1:nr'-â€"-Ciâ€"volulâ€" i aline, 5) x T EC ., Lo who are dwelling in the uninhabited porâ€" | barenttorintim acn dttiomnetant tions of the earth."â€"The Standard. Minard‘s Liniment for sale everywhere No Chance for a Romance. A young woman living in the neighâ€" borhoo! of Thirtyâ€"third and Cumberland Wreets the other morning bought at a nearby grocery a dozen eggs. On one among them there was scratched the name, with address, of a young farmer up the State. He had also written on the egg a request that the person buying it write to him. ® c¢sERp Ds rtoral ( ‘. f. n S G/ Josh Billings, the quaint Nn‘ huoowhgr whonq maxâ€" Ku are full of homely wllllomi ence said : “’l‘h: m live the more e a good set of bowâ€" els are worth more than a food set of braing." Ce c.r{ King makes sood bowels. 25 cents, at dealâ€" 220 ~rs or by . , Toronto. .~rs or by mail, 8. C. Wells & Co., T\ **CoimmtaneniattintP *LE LE S laee tds ies > S Orciinais THE FAVORITES " Silent as the Sphinx!" _ A mt THE MOST PERFECT MATCHES YOU EVER STRUCK Always, everywhere in Camade, ask for Eddy‘s Matches "SILENT" 7 MATCHES * NERVOUS PROSTRATION. Sugar Fuel for Motors. EDDY‘S I" "sell his old established business &n stoct, value awbout $300. McKenstry, 9# Dun Lm INX PRINCE RUPERT, THE GFAXND Trunk Pacific terminus, will be put on the market in May or June next. Persons intending to inveet should write for inforâ€" mation and advice to the Prince Rupert Res!â€" tvâ€"Commenrcial Co., LAimited, 430 Richard street, Vancouver 4 me quantity and lowest price you will take, subject telegraphic ecceptance, you to forward eubject eight draft; any bank. Ken ning, 354 Main, Winnipeg. "What have you to say for yourself >‘ asked the police justice. "Are you guil ty or not guilty?" "I‘m one o‘ the guilty ones, y‘r hon or, I reckon," answered the prisoner "The umbrella had the name of J Thompson on the handle. G. H. Brick ley stamped on the handle. G. H. Brick an * I stole it from _ a man . name Quimby,""â€"Chicago Tiibune. "Then I‘ve got ‘j‘em again!" he groaned. f1" 0 REBNTâ€"COMPLETE, ONE sET WoOL Bro.. Franktort, YÂ¥ "ans‘ iand warrants; spot cash puid. W P. Rodgers, real estate agent, 608 Kl-cln:,no The hard looking customer had been arrested for stealing an umbrella. . With a dazed look in his bloodshot eyes the man who had been on a jag for a week or more and had \nnder ed over the country in a halft delir ious condition without knowing where he was going came‘to himself. He was in a strange city. Everything around him looked un familiar. Herâ€"Why on earth do they call him the paying teller? block, Winnipeg, Man postively eures Leucorrhoea, Uiseration, Just think of the enormous strengthâ€" ening power Ferrozone possessesâ€"con sider what it did for H. V. Potter, well known in Kingston. "I was subject to spells of dizziness,. For eight months I had intense pains in my right side be tween the shoulders. 1 was almost in curable with weakness and _ lack of vigor. Often I scarcely ate any break fast and felt miserable all day, Nerv ous, easily excited, troubled with heart weakness, I was in bad shape. Ferrozone restored and nourished me back to health in short order." Whatever your weakness may be, Ferrogone will cure, _ Price 50c. per box at all dealers. Nervousness, Melancholy, Pains in the Head, Back or Bowels, Kidney and Bladder troubles, where caused by weakness peculiar to our sex. You can continue treatment at home at a cost of only 12 cents a week. My book. *‘Woman‘s Own Medical Adviser," also sent free on request. Write toâ€"day. _ Address, "Officer," he said, stopping a pol iceman, "what town is gm:.*" qi Herâ€"But, it isn‘t. I asked him how muck you had in the bank, and please to give i to me, and be wouldn‘t tell and he wouldn‘l B'fii)um.lm YOUR 8SCRIP, Wikk me cuantity and lowest price you will A WINDSOR LADY‘S APPEAL ful or Irregular periods, Uterine and Ovarâ€" Bank‘s Night Force. "Yonder goes the night force to work over at the bank," remarked a man waiting for the owl car after midnight. It was the night foree and they were going to work at the bank. They start in every n%l‘n. at 12.30 and work on till morning. eir job is to open up all the big volume of mail that comes to a big bank and have it all distributed to the various departments ready for the » lar day force when the bank opemfi’:r business in _ the . morning.â€"Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Night force! You‘re crazy!" came back the man with him. "Who ever heard of a night force in a bank *" WAX'i'lDâ€"sov'ru AFRICAN VETER ans‘ land warrants; spot cash puid. W To All Women: I will send free wwith full *"Anaconda," answered the police ISSUE NO. 12, 1909 Tells why and wherefor. Gives inside fac IT IMPARTS STRENGTH ‘"EGGS, BROILERS OR MARKET POULTRYâ€"Wwhich 2" E1 4.D ies 5. 1300 d Atudatricnd stent Vn *Ct len mmill; water power.. AwIlel[ & Partners in His Crime Where 1t Landed Him. LAND WANTED. For You in This Ont., that‘s his job Paradox. TO RENT. Pavides aan*, Ont Jadies‘ waitin '“ were MlI.k and thei wall into the ingâ€"room, wh marble | pillar Then with a 1 over, The 1 through the and fung «n pl ava 8 There i Lh« M 4 2 FAdn mt 11 wh morming, had gath at the is dh« LOUIS CRAIG, 161 Waverly aven JOBN GARIEDP calm streei. WILIJAM ANI inmate of Nalvati Unknown farme cover. ROBERT slLreel. WM. BCX ploye wka not scaip wound. JONAH WELI $3 ud MISS GoobDiA nawaga, sealp w MISS C DF brui al wmiting noom « tASHING THRO! Bo far the offic n deseribe the « ficials and . thos the tram â€" ®y MISS NIXOX, « MASTER XIxXO MARK CUXN Montrea! Junction ELSIE \'u_u£1 street, twelve vea two vears Five Pe MON ge ear fol imge, and The HOW ace and right ha MRS, A, sSCHOC treet, Albany, N. ospital after me« MHARRY BoUst nd hands, leiw ho Wi ine miti WILPRID PHE Thev »aJ \U DoUc MABEL MURIDXC WM. PLANTH MRS. 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