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lenge comparison. Can yo nd anything more certain than advertising i _We have te largest circulation in the district, : iron SALE! BY v uuu uuvu us nu-J, nuulnc, HUN. 3[;{ A ' ,9 ueen Sl:., E. `Toronto, Nov. `24th, '; ago, 1 endured sufferings as never _' more than my tongue or pen M1 _. annot understand it. My trouble I v ftet another without gettingm; er be cured, a. -1 death would have been prefer {Eve Dr. Arnold's " g in Pills for weak people ; tone `was dissolve - .: . nd expelled Without :3. thanks to Dr. Arn ls English Toxin Pilis. r lea dinsolving and expelling :n Ann ,kI'I 1|:-ntrnr\6:nn 6`-an F H nah 83111386 to the g`dn8'w-I string but trees 0f3PP1" Pam cherries. Whil:t`Mr. Ebon T03}! Eongof ` *1-If week hi-% 4! "`" m 1ate1y ..,kn.tfo%-ttin 000- *8 '` ` m mu 31:9`- 59 xiu for weak Without :2 I _s .1- i-dens. sea of apples. pa `Til don't believe nuthin of the sort! says the old woman. `Yo are allus hevin vishuns 'bout b ars and coons` and possums, but nobody ever knowed _ 3 ..- to hev a vishun 'bout choppin wood ( ; hoein corn. ' . ` She was right 'bout that, said Zeb, ` vith a smile, but it riled me up jest the same. I answered back purty I.-riskly. and she got mo sassy, andso we had a row. I got up from the table and took my gunaud whistled to the dawg and started off. and theold wom- an called out to me that she hoped I'd be clawed by Wildcats. I wasn t yarn- in 'bout that vishun. I was lyin on my I back in bed, eyes wide open, when that vishun riz up befo me, and I seen things so clear that I fell into a trem- ble. Thar was a cave full `of coons and possums, and I went in and slayed em by the hundreds and got nut money out of their skins to buy me a mewl. I wanted to x that leak, of co se, but it seemed a powerful sin to let that vl- . shun go by. I hadn t got more n halt a mile from the house when the dawg begun to hang back. The critter allus peared to take the old `woman's -side whenever we had a row. When I no- ticed `him hangin back, I yelled out at him and grabbed up a club, but he went out of sight like a rabbit. I wanted that dawg to hold the mouth of the cave while I went in and slaugh- . tered the yarmints, and I jest madeup my mind to'kill -him when I got home. Thar was three ca res, and it was a six . , mile trip. The middle cave was the ` biggest. and when I reached it I looked all around fur tracks. Notone was to be found, but that didn't discourage -`me. I peered around fur a spell and- - then went in. Itwas a narrer openin, and the cave was dark, but 1 had vbrung along a taller candle. I lighted the candle and begun to look about me. n1I\_j _.__L IA. 1.--). __|.-A. _ --I_ '_ ...-_- J um a first coat of economy, comic Barrie. 19, 1900. Y. Comfort, A. V Srxxsmi its ri_n 3' Human or TENNESSEE - V TELLS OF A VISION. ' iowi .~ gtcopyilght, 1900, by C. B. Lew1s.] ,_.".l`he root of our cabin had bin leakln V _;m-~;nax:. a y ar,_ I reckon, . began old {Zeb White as I asked him fur a. story, ' but as it didn't rain more n once on fv oteek"and` as the leak didn't" douny_ g-'31`-eat hurt I wasn t'breakin my back to x it... The old woman didpft say nuth- in till one muwnin she got `up with a T headache and was techy. Seein how It ` was, I didn't say nuthln to `provoke her, but she-burned her hand ng in the stove, stubbed her toe and nally bust- .ed out on me with: `:1 (v1.1. TTTLIL- -n -nu .1 , _,u,_ ,u,-cA__ jhe: ` whlspl 11-` I117 -- vs-w v-- ---v v `Zeb Whiter-or all the shackelty " critters on thi yere Cumberland moun- ting nobody _kln hold a candle to yo !" _ "` `What's wrong with me? says I. V _ `Heaps and heaps of things. This ` old cabin is rbg larly tallin to pieces fur the want of a day's work,Ib11t .yo `ain't man 'nut to take hold and fix V things. ' `I'll x that leak tomorrer. _ `That's the old song. Yo ll go right. at it` this minit or thar'll be a row. ~ `Look here,`now, , says I, speakln as 9 Iottlyas I could, `I ll work all day to- ARE YO R NAME ZEB Wain?" matter, but today I've got to go up to -them limestone caves. ` I had a power- ful vlshun last night. In my vishun I saw a cave, and that cave was chuck full of coons and possums. I can't say .what brung the varmints together, but ' that they was, and that was 500 of vvnu ow-vvuuv --v Dod rot it, but what a rule a man kin make of himself when he tries!" exclaimed the old man after apause. s Anybody of sense knows that coons and possums don t go hangin around caves. That vlshun was a tarnashun lie. That cave was as big as half an acre. and I ` walked all over it and found nuthin. I was mad and klckln myself when I started to go out, but I hadn't gone van Vial-Dipav noun. wwauun av fur when the roof of thecave 'peared ` to fall down upon me. Mebbe it was half an hour later when I opened my eyes and found myself on my back, and it seemed as if one side of my head had bin caved In. I found my brle with the `stock broken. "and 91 ' could smell b'ar all around. It didn't take me-long to ngger out that a b'ar - had wfollered me into the cave and ' fetched me a whack longs_lde the head, agmlnlttl heard him snlmn and move outside the ..cave.l and as .1 [ eimwxea along 1. found mm on V :If,Amy~.;rle.;had_=i_b! '49 ;4?l1??:`E2 P1`?il%b LLJQ. -_ n.___.1 ..-- _.- Ee`+ w_"a's mu down falrln the way'.: lcouldthersbt naasoxflhunelsl -BVIU Vlilbg Elli II wvuluu U Irv no-vwu L 3'4: the var heard me movln up he showed` his teeth and growled in a. way niy hfmf stand up. He /didn't hat:_`he:e.wi{tsn.'t gain to let me out. V ht &t1wa._I-_ he_at1.to keep :t$1l,,tur ` i?":"?`?`;-`?`3'*.- `?f~`3`-".9"-z C ,~an_g-V0,-_' . Mebbe yo _li say 71` otter ev. %taLken53 comtort lnlthat cave, but when! found a the atterno,on_ wearing. a away, and , I-the"? b-"ar'hangin\9n` I was mighty miserable : overit. - '1`he.b ars of Tennessee owed me a p0Wle_rfuligrudge.,rur..th_elway I -: had` laug-htered them, and who -was x to tell what, this crittgr proposed to do? I sHe could nish me on! any time he a wanted to, but he peared tovbe playin - another game. `Bimeby it come dark, `but he didn't move, I was "hungry and ' thirsty, and I knowed the old woman " would be worryin, even "though she 9 was mad. The b ar didn't move oir, however. and at last I softly -crept as fur away as I could and went to sleep. I don't reckon he come nigh me durin the night, but he might, hev slipped away fur food or drink, He was. that all right when daylight broke, and then _I was so mad and hungry that I got desperate. With the rie bar ! in my hands I advanced to the` mouth of the cave and yelled fur him to come in and hey it out with me. He wouldn't do it. He growled and roared and clawed, but he wouldn t come in. It was a narrer place to git out, and he had all theadvantage. I yelled and whooped and` ung stones and called him names, but he let `me tire myself out. Noon come, and he was still thar. I "had another row with him. and if he'd bin a proper b ar he'd hev come in and showed his grit, but he staid-V outside and growled. my u--u__.1 n--...a.I.;.. ..lA -nnrnnn all fhnf I kept quiet tnrtwo hors. -and he nev-'3 er moved. Then `I. ung a stone at him, and he woke up and growled `till I had a" chill. ` ' c . I A_I__.'- Uuwnuc uuu 51v vv Icuo ` I -looked fur-the old woman allthai: % afternoon, but she didn't come. I had ` 3' -L AA-..__._ 1-. "6`In;\ `ur\IIIl\ I13!` I H..I.LUl.'l.lUULl, uul. uti unuu up \.v-nun - -.-_ an`old'sl1otgun inthe house, and I_ knowed that if she come she'd load it 1 with -buckshot and bring it along. If ~ the b ar waited fur her. he was a gon-._ : er. Night come along ag ln, and 1' was.- b ilin over-vlth madness and ready to eat nails from hunger. The only thing I could do was to sleep, but it was a nightmare all through the long dark hours. I kin tell yo I was mighty glad to see the daylight ag in.g I went to look fur the b ar, and he was in the same old place and as cheerful as ever. We had a jaw, but he wouldn't ght. I made up my mind to wait about two hours and then kill or be killed, but I was out of the cave before that time. The old woman h'ad'come huntin fur me, and she got clus up to that b ar and red aihandful of buckshot into him bhfo he knowed what was up. As ` I `crawled out of the cave she looked at me- fur a minit `and then keerlessly said: _4___ __-l l.-A_l ILA`? l.|.ll. lb 1.5154-Illa Ina-nu unav-n envy- -u-v-v-9 -.-r---- "Pears to me I ve seen yof beto . Are yo : name Zeb White? w `That's it, says I. `Gineraliy spoken or as the possnm hunter 0:`. Tennessee? _ e V `Yes. i V 1 `Man _what has vishuns of coons i and possums in a cave? . `I thought it was a vishun. `Yes, I know, but it was mighty sing 1ar that when yo was` hevin 9. vi- shun of coons and the possums yo didn't see nuthin of the b ar.` White, yo come long home and go to work_ on that cabin root and let vi- shuns and dreams go to pot. . ' uv _,___ ..1_.1 n.._-An 4.- _'I_ _. n -.....I..l....A Zeb V DIJIJLLS u-Mu uswunuw av av `Iva: I wasglad `nut! to do so, explained `the old man, -with a sorrowful. smile. I tagged along behind her till we reached home, expectin she would hev mo to say,` but she was mighty good about it. She~cooked me the biggest meal I had ever eat, and she let `me go ; to bed and sleep fur. 20 hours, and all i she said was: . ' - __s |___._-.__-._ -_J A Salty Tale. The old saying that the way to catch a blrdis to put salt on its tail has been veried by little Jimmy Belew, ,who ` lives in Naudain street. Jimmy was 1 sent by his grandmother for two bags of salt for some domestic operation i already in "progress. After an hour's absence he returnedin a high state of excitement, crying, I've got the bird! Sure enough, he had a sparrow clutch- ed tightly in his fist. But where's the salt?" asked his grandmother. Oh, the salt! said Jimmy. Why, that's around the -corner in the middle of the street. a '_n,-_.-.-I L1._h. AL- I.__. DI-IV Dulu . vv IIDJI `Zeb, yere's nails and hammer and boards, and now yo hev a vishunfbout leaks In the root `of this cabin. If f\-nvn-ru Van bbny Iaunvuu Investigation showed that the boy, returning from his errand, saw some sparrows on the car truck. eHe opened one ;bag and poured out the content, which the birds proceeded -to investi- gate. .'1`hen he threw the contents of i the other bag on top. of the sparrows. isubmerging them suicientlyi to cap- ture one beforeiit couldextricate itself from` the `avalanche ofVsa1t.-Philadel- ; phia Record. The Latin Quarter. Thackeray said of the Quartier Latin, ` the noted art district of Paris: The 1 life of the young artist here is the `ease iest. merriest, dirtiest existence possi- ble. He comes to Paris probably at 16 from his province. his parents "settle 40 -a year on him and pay _his-master, he establishes himseltin the Pays La- tin, he -arrives at his atelier at aa tol- erably early hour and labors among. a, score : ot companions as "merry and as poor as himself. The students quar-,1 ter islocated south of the Seine. where p the principal colleges and schools have been situated {for manycenturies. and where rnujmerous students hav.e.li`ved. v_ V cry unuurv A man may stand on 2-Lnelnklng ship at sea or plunge through the vortex of 1 destruction upon the field ofbnttle and still be self possessed, "but it's dterent V % with him when he and: that he has: been sitting on fresh `.pa1nt.--Chicago Times-Herald . - . _ The greatest of all human ` benets, that. at.le_ast,* without which no other benet canbe truly enjoyed, in mass. ; pen_'1ence._-_Pay.'ke Godwin min3:seY3$:T; Ea iSt'-5SE1;ii 1 .1! .th.e\ivstfI 1- u IIttMare.-H- As; vX'.'a`.IAII .` ,We a .i_'t~hardT to_love "those we ._ __.~_.._._;_ . -`-___..-1__.. - .._ n. ...;. .`-..--l-II.. Var!` nnnraz-Cit. nay a s1 QUAD. PRINCEOF SCHEMERS Tragedy dogs the footsteps of the Foreign Ministers of Czar Nicholas II., sgys The'London Daily ' --_4__. ____,`_ _?., ..I...,.. V 4 His prst. i7oreign Minieter; Prince Lobanofffdied of an instant from no. spasm of the heart by the side of the railroad, when travelling to meet the German Emperor at Bres-lau. Now the` Reaper has smitten down without warning Count `Muravie, the present `Czar so second Foreign Minister`. Thus, again, _within the `pace of four years, that high `office at St. Petersburg, which exercises so potent an inuence over the peace of Europe, stands va- cant. - wanna V . `For four months after" the death of Prince Lobano, `a. successor was not appointed. In.J;unuary, 1897, to the" astonishment of the world at large,- the Czar nominated the Russian Am- 'bassa.dor at Copenhagen; Count Mich- ael Milravieff, to the Ministry of For- eign Affairs. I1.-H...` Ilfn-unur-En -yon 4-I-son {n kin CHARACTER SKE`.rCl-`1.`O.l-' THE LATE count MUkRAV|EFF- ' A-Typical Buslah II`: Appourunco` \VaII tho` _AL$to Fox`-olgin minister at can Nicholas lI.-A Duilomatle Autocrat, El: I-`alloy in` Bnulb Ban Boon crowin- ad with BlghlSImeon.' ' G15 ILLICJI I .' Count Muraviefi was then. in his \52nd year, vHe cameof a. noble fam- ily, whose annals went back_ to the -fteenth century, and which had ren- dered frequently valuable service to the state. "Mura.vietI signies in Russian `Tan ant, and the proverbial characteristics of the industrious. in- sect have marked the careers of many Muravies, notably of the statesman who lies dead to-day- 'I"l'.'_ .l_LL-.. ---2.- 4.1.. _......-.... Il ..I_--1 VVLL\l blvlo uynnu your auto`; I` His father was the famous Michael Nicolaievtich Muravie of Wilno, tho ghter of iron, the savior of the coun- try, who, when Governor-Genez-`a1 of Lithuania. in 1863, ruthlessly repress- ed the insurrection. His grandfather was the founder of the Staff College at Moscow, and played a leading part in the campaigns of 1814-1815; while his great-grandfather was a _distin- guished mathematician, the author of therst treatise on al;gebra. in the Russian language, and appointed by Catherine I1. tutor to her- grandchil- dren. Thus it was that the instincts % of statesman, warrior and student were inbred in the Count. ' * IN -vvov J-nnIn\.I\n :1: vnnv \I\r\-AIUI Count Muravie's mother is a Ger- man lady, the daughter of Von `Posen, a. -former Secretary of State, said to have been of Jewish extraction. "She is still alive. Russia's future Foreign Minister graduated at the University 1 of Heidelberg, and became a. perfect 3 German scholar. ru_.. ,5` *II___., __9,1m ___, _ \lUL L.u.5|r1l. DVIIULGOL o In appearance Couznt Muravie was a typical Russian. A man of_ middle height, of slight figure, with thin features and rm expression. a. grey, almost white mustache, turned up at 1 the ends, and hair to ma.tch,at the i sides and [back of the head"--so M. de Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of The Times, described him as he stepped from the train on his famous .visit to Paris in 1897, directly after ; his elevation. A II'___.,-_!-AQ ,- -___,___,_,,_I 3., LL- Anna \;4l~\t 7 av: Count Muravie persevered policy initiated by Prince Lobano. He schemed, and schemed deeply, in order to strengthen Russia and to in- crease her material resources. When at the Copenhagen Embassy he is laid to have observed, "As Russia can better blessings of peace, and as she increas- es more quickly than any other state, so she will overtop all others if only the opportunityis offered to her to Wait silently in peace and tranquili- ty. I ' Q3`n-6`Iv 9-4.. IIJI o "\l\A\ an in the 2 develop herself amid the Silently in peace and tranquility the Bear waits. Waits, but does not stand still. .Ever it prowls forward Itill the war. ;.clouds gather. Then- ? waits again; waits till the clouds scatter; and again moves forward. In China, ix; Central Asia, in Persia, in Abyssinia.-this has been Russia's persistent foreign policy. l'V:\-nu.` If nnnnn .-1. .u-x`.-.-p...-I LI... `I..:...1. Irv -aauvv--v A\JD\dAbQl l\l-III`, and peculiar privilege of being a. pop- ular person at the Danish, court.-- lthat court where European policies j are discussed en famille. His selec- ` tion :by the Czar is attributable to this circumstance. .The story goes that when at the end of 1896 Nicho- las II. -was staying at Copenhagen, the Dowager-Eniress spoke highly 0! the opinions held by the Ambassador. So the Czar ordered these opinions to be put in writing, and Count Mura- I vie prepared an elaborate report on {he Eu_ropea.n_ situation, which ap- peared to imperial eyes possessed of EJount- Muravieff enjoyed the high I \ high merit. m1.:. ..........4.' u :. ..=..:.: u... (1...- ...5.. .......... _ " This report, it is said, the Czar I showed, to the Prince oi Wales for his opinion, and 'the Prince, with his nephew's sanction, handed it` to Lord Salisbury, who expressed xhe warm- est approval of it. ` The very fa.vora- ; ` ble expressions called forth by the re- 1 port decided. the Czar in his choice. A 1):`:-u-Spun-u 1A`4\nA`trI\ mm`nA# `Q o I-IIIIII \A\I\aA\-l\r\-I VIII) \/Canal. III JAIL`! ullvnvva A Russian Foreign Minister is a. very different being to an English Foreign Minister. The former is ac- countable to no Parliament; his do- \ ings are beyond criticism; he is the Czar's other self, and so long as he conducts a policy which is acceptable to the throne he is, a diplomatic au- tocrat. Count iMuravie's first act was 'to` visit France, to keep -bright the ame of friendship that had ar- ed so lustily when the Emperor and` Empress of all the Russias had been the guest of M. Felix Faure a few months before. "Having by order of His Majesty the Emperor arrived in _.this beautiful country of France, so `dear to my entire Fatherland, I have. .ence_ and to enter into personal re- lations With you, my dear colleague, "trains" my glass to -. drink your `health, '_convineed,'-that the close relations ex- been haiipv to` make your acquaint- if you permit me to ce.ll"yfou so.` - I 4 isting__between ourytwo countries will 4 `,r995in.'u 1n,.the9paat. the best ] lai,rt'ee`lot-&peii.ce;PP~ _ can-Ah `halt/`Q -` TX UT \II `I929? 0 I In these words, `softer than butter, the Count toasted M. Hanotaux, "the AFot-sign Minister of France in Janu-_ ary,` `In June. 1900. the close \ mr1a$.i.onI bgtween the ;tw_o countries * Jontlnyae 'qutm`rdly. `but that main J 'itU0lf` out.) '-I.".`..'-~..t1.u.`< .1...La.4-.|_ L_...'1..v.a.*o. V .1.-... ___..s rvuvuu-nuuus ulul Ilululo IIIIUM DUB, unu mt _behind-wha,t.? Atlas and J_`oz_. 1 NORTHERN Anum. 'utt1e in-oin h"aiIranc`e with 4; iiation whose Minister had determined ;on Acounte Muravie has einterrered as `little. as might` belin` Eastern Europe. He asserted the predominance. "of St. Petcrsburg in the Balkan" States, but. he refused toabsorb Armenia. . Tur- key has not been allowed a`ggrand- isement, _but there have been no de- signs on the integrity of .its'domin- ions. The eastern question is over- shadowed. by the far. eastern ques- 11..4.L.... A... ..-..A `Dru-+ A--4-lrnnr Illlllo . ` In Russia. Count `M\;.1ravie s policy has.been crowned with high success, _. .._..-l1 .................. 4... 4.1.... A1 U15 - |lL'ULb \II V VI uvu vv cyan lilac: gs-vvv-on due in no small measure to the ex- traordinary ability of Count Pavlo, the Pekin Minister `and Muravietfs ardent disciple. Russia. is to-day su- preme in Manchuria, 'even as she is supreme in Northern ,Persia. His -triumphs in` Central and Eastern Asia during a brief triennium of pow- er has assured for the dead states- man immortality in the annals of his Empire. ' Ln LA`II.n AI .I;`..J.I_ 1.. ...L AL- Bl1u.uuwcm- ugv vuv u.u- vuwvuann 3-.. tion. A` Better peace and Port Arthur than Constantinople and Armaged- Jaaaaraavo But the hour of death is not the time to pass afverdict. On 3 states- man it .Would be a, condemnation. Count Muravieff has schemed for fu- ture generations; so far as can be _ judged in the present, he has schemed wisely. When `the ink was still wet on the famous Peace Rescript issued in August, 1898, a scheme for vastly increasing Russian` armaments was in preparetion. So has been the foreign policy of the last three years, n.......4. 1u'...._--:-a 1.-.. .......1-;..a 0..- `Iv-av`, vn VI-Av -tiiiv vans vv J vnvo on Count Muravie has worked for peace, not for the peace of the world, but for the peace of his fa;therland- ` a. period of tranquillity to be passed in preparation for war. When that war begins, who shall say? China is in the world's eye at pres- ent writing, so here are a -few facts about manners and customs of the Celestials. ' nan ,,-,._,_- "AL- vvnuw Itnvvnna o ` According to Chinese custom, " the ?brida.l procession is formed at the ibride's house. First, there` are a }number of boys who are hired to 1Wa.lJ:; ahead, carrying red banners ` fastened to long poles; then come the musicians, some playing wind instru- ments much resembling in sound Scotch bagpipes, others scraping el- ongated ddles, others thumping gongs of various sizes and discord- ant tone, while some are beating hollow pines of bamboo, which `give forth a dull sound. After the band come more boys carrying large para-g sols, with long red and gold fringe (these parasols are on sticks ten feet long), then more boys with red banners, which bear Chinese charac ters in gold on either side expres- sing all sorts of complimentary things to the bride. PI... .-`unusual-#nuu- -I-um-snbvyu:-uni AC 1-Is -3' A luv Intorgstlug luau About the Can (mu Q! the Colonial: of tho Ohihuo lllnplrp. VAAALJELI UV vnav an guy The supertitious treatment of dis-' ease is an extraordinary feature of Chinese social life. Death, they ac- count for by saying it is_ in accord- ance with the "reckoning of heaven, and it would appear that in this at least they are not far "out of theirs. Recovery is by grace of some partic- ~n'ar.god or goddess. They imagine that this evil god Works by mysteri- ous inuences existing between and among the members of a family, and resulting "in illness. Hence `great bribes are oered to "this pleasant familiar, and large prots to: the Ta.- onist` priests; _- Y4. ...--- `I.-- _-:A J.I.-A. LL- tNL:..,_...__ van 5-rv rs gym n It may be said that the Chinaman is born shing-he has for age` past cultivated a system of articial breeding and rearing of live sh for the market in the shops may be seen displayed live and dead sh, sh fresh and salted, smoked and pre- served. One variety are like white- bait in basket, graded from `tiny things` nothalf an inch long to what appears to be the same sh grown to `eight or nine inches in length. These are` sold fresh, salted and smo$ed. Shark ns are a delicacy. There are sh mottled and barred, bright and dull, sh of quaint and, to us, unknown shapes, but foremost above all, and everywhere to be seen are the `articially grown live sh. r\L2..-_-.._ I...:1 ;I_-:_ ..--- .2- n-A.' ---_ egg :4 vnnv A vganvavuggg n An. v v -an-no an`: Chinamen boil their rice in at ves- sels shaped like deep saucers. Erom 20 to 30 inchesacross and from 6 tor9 inches deep is the usual size of these utensils, `which are cast wonderfully thin, the ' metal rarely r exceeding an eighth of an inch in thickness. The blast furnaces are shaped like large, squat lamp chimneys, and fuel and metal are fed through. the narrowed opening at the top. The verylrugal Chinaman while he works also uses his furnace tire to cook his evening ........`I Plants willstarve in any soil, how- ever fertile, unless water is present to dissolve the- food elements and `prepare them for the plants use. `The soils that are most thoroughly ~ pulverized and divided into ne par- ticles so that a better mechanical arrangement of the soil grains (rest- ing lightly and uniformly one against the other) is secured, are capableyal a rule, of holding the highest per- centage ot moisture. This `moist- ure, inturn, draws from the soil the highest percentage of food, and a soil in this condition obtains much _more value ,a given quantity 0! fera- tilizer than a soil `oi coarser or more I uneven texture, and a consequent | lessened capacity `to. retain water._'= Manures usually increae the 4znoiet- _? ure contents of a` "soil, by improving the ~1nechu.nic_al arrangement 10!. the soil grains; and in this way become 'n rinnana` 6:; running` It... 4...... 1--.! -1-- A German-American, well known to the New York police, is alleged to have p1a.nned,a. desperate attempt to steal some of the but gold from` the trucks attached to Presidmt Kruger : Vtre1i'.1!ii1z-..c8-Pit1-"';Iie_ .131 said to have curried`: o" |o:_n_e Vbio.Arn=-be't`o:je- . no e .-v..- --y----, w-o-- Ann wanna: VVGNJ IJVUULI-LU `a means to make its own food ole-A l ments Better` available to the plant. besides unlocking tertility in` the soil itself not - before available , to the plant because of insunlciont moisture to dissolve _it.-'I`he `Market . Basket. THEIR EVERYDAY LIFE. units; In-Igor : Gold. Moisture In soil. ured by A. STINSON from stone in the b1;1dde1'_ ferable to Such Agony-Evefy Medicine failed to help him Until he Tried ` Tortures _ was _ For more than three veare,-up to five mo mortal can endure. . The tortures L went through describe. Those who have not experienced the ago was stone in the bladder. 1 used one kind of medici the slightest relief. I thought I`could never be able to the tortures I was undergoing. Ilnlnl-`Olin than T I-nan Iinlvnncatlot` `ll (I:lvn ll AII1n`l"a getting 9,; prefer v:n `nu Ivvnnlv _-.vJ Dr; Arnold s English Toxin Pills besides dissolving exnellingle stone, kills 7.`. germs to which its presence in the bladder is due, thus preventing the ffgnation of other ' ._ . __ -5. guts? 3c. Z 1;}gL"b3xT 235.` Z Efnllff b3,`3enE }ZsE"paE}i`1)"11$c(l$x';}` lg THSE ARVI;OLDTCHEMI-CAL CU., Limited, Canada Life 1.}ui13mg ; ing treat `est, V oronto. T IIVIU Ell VII? 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