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There is not a. corner of the civilâ€" ized world where Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have not brought health and hope and happiness to some weak, debilitated despairing person. If you have not used the pills yourself, ask your neighbors and they will tell you these statements are solemn truth. Mr. Charles Saulnier, Cor-i berrie, N. S., says: "I was very much run down and so weak I could hardly work. It seemed as though my blood was little better than wa- ter. I tried several medicines, but I got nothing to help me until I be- an taking Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. ’t was simply astonishing how quickâ€" ly these pills began to help me and how much new life and vigor they put into me. I am a cook by pro- fessiOn, and the fact that I was able to ccok for fifteen men last winter is the best proof that the pills have made me as sound as ever I was.” There is no mystery about the power of Dr, Williams' Pink Pills to put new life and strength into you. They actually make new blood, and that is why they Cure all blood disâ€" eases, like anaemia, indigestion, liver and kidney troubles, headaches and backaches and the special ailments of women. _Through the blood Dr. Williams' Pink Pills feed and steady the nerves, strike at the root of nervousness. cure St. Vitus dance, fits, neuralgia, sciatica and partial paralysis. All these diseases spring from bad blood and disordered nerves and they have all been cured posi~ tively and permanently by Dr. Wil- liams’ Pink Pills. Sold by all medâ€" icine dealers at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, or by mail from the Dr. Williams’ Medicine 00. Brockville, Ont - Mn“ CAUSE OF THE QUARREL. She: “So many men marry for moneyâ€"you wouldn’t marry me for money, would you, dearest?" He (absently): “No, darling, I wouldn’t marry you for all the menâ€" ey in the world.” And he wonders now why she did not speak the last time he met her. + SAFETY FOR YOUR CHILDREN. When a mother finds it necessary to give her little one medicine she cannot be too careful as LO the remâ€" edy employed. The so-called “soothâ€" ing” medicines always contain poisâ€" onous opiates, and these should nev- er be given to a child. Strong drugs and harsh purgatives should also be avoided. An ideal medicine for young children is Baby’s Own Tabâ€" lets, which cure all the minor ills 'of childhood, and the mother has the guarantee of one of the foremost ana- lysts of Canada that this medicine contains no opiate. Milton L. I-Icrâ€" sey, M. A. Sc., demonstrator in Chemistry, McGill University says: -â€""I hereby certify that I have made a careful analysis of Baby’s Own Tablets which I personally purchased in a drug store in Montreal, and said analysis has failed to d'etect the presence of any opiate or narcotic in them." 'Analysis is proof, therefore mothers know that in giving their little ones Baby’s Own Tablets they are giving them an absolutely safe medicine. Sold by all druggists or mailed at 25 cents a box by writing the Dr. Williams Medicine 00., Brock- rille, Ont. §__.__ WHAT THEY BIEAN. The Way Japanese Ships Are Dis- ’ tinguished. We have been hearing a 'good deal about, Japanese vessels lately, and we are, perhaps, fated to hear much morembout them in the near future. The. observant. reader will have not- ed that at the end of the name of every ship occur either the terminaâ€" tion ham or maru, and he may have been puzzled to know what they meant. For all practical purposes they have come to be the equivalents of our “H.M.S.” and "8.8.", and in accordance with Japanese usage, come after instead of before the title of the vessel “Kan” is a Chinese word, meaning “war vessel," and is attached only to the ships of the Emperor's fleet; “maru” literally means "round," and even 3. Japan- ese cannot tell you how it came to be applied to merchant vessels. __...__+._ Young; man, beware of the girl who is too lazy to return your kisses. To prove ltdlyou-tbet‘m ‘ . Chase's Olntmentleacerbain I and absolute cure for each . and every form of itchiefl. bleedingand protruding piles, e manufacturers have ancients it. on ten- o‘nials in the daily press and as your nelshu m what they think of it. You can me it and 8 our. money back if not cured. we a box, at E Jealors OI‘.EDMANSON.BATEE 8: Co..’1‘oronto, l l f ’Di": Chase’s Road to Wellville" in each package. Splendid Showing Made at ' Annual Meeting. ' A striking statement was made by Hon. Geo. A. Cox, President of the Canada Life Assurance Company, at that institution's annualmeeting. 'He pointed out that since the company’s inception it has paid out to policy- - holders and their heirs over $27,000,- 000. Such a fact gives some idea of the vast benefits that result from life insurance. Over 895,500,000 of assurances are now carried by the company. During 1903 the new business paid for amounted to well over $10,000,- 000, a gratifying advance even upon 1902, itself a record year in the com- pany’s history. The assets of the company increased notably during the year, and now stand at well over $27,000,000. In making up its po- licy reserves the company again em- ployed the most stringent valuation basis of any old-established life comâ€" pany on the American continent. Ovâ€" er and above even these strong reâ€" serves the surplus on pclfc-yholdcrs' account is more than $1,860,000. _.___+____ ABOUT SEALING WAX. First Imported From the East Into Venice. The Hindoos from time immemorial have possessed lac and were accusâ€" tomed to use it for sealing manuâ€" scripts long before it was known in Europe. It Was first imported from the cast into Venice and then into Spain, in which country sealing Wax became the object of a considerable trade with other countries under the name of Spanish wax. If shellac be compounded into scaling wax im- mediately after it has been separated by fusion from the'palest qualities of stick or seed lac, it then forms a better and less brittle article than when the shellac is fused a second time. Hence sealing wax prepared in the East Indies deserves a preference ovâ€" er what can be made in other coun- tries, where the lac is not indigenâ€" ous. Shellac can be restored in some degree however to a plastic and tenacious state by melting it with a very small portion of gum thus or parafln wax. The palest shellac should be selected for bright-colored sealing wax, the dark kind being rcâ€" served for black. The following formula may be used for making red sealing wax:~â€"- Take {Our pounds of shellac, one pound of 'Venice turpentine, and three pounds of vermilion. Melt the lac in a cop- per pan suspended over a. clear char- coal fire, then add the turpentine slowly to it, and soon afterwards add the vermilion, stirring briskly all the time of mixing with a rod in either hand. In forming the round sticks of sealing wax a certain portion of the mass should be weighed while it is ductile, divided into the desired num- ber of pieces, and then rolled out upon a warm marble slab by means of a smooth wooden block like that used by apothecaries for rolling a mass of pills. The OVal and square sticks of sealing wax are cast in molds with the oval compound in a state of fusion. The marks of the lines of junction of the mould box may be afterwards removed by holdâ€" ing the sticks over a clear fil‘o orl passing them over a blue gas flame. Marble sealing wax is made by mixing together two, three, or morn colored kinds while they are in a semiâ€"fluid state. From the viscidlly of the several portions their incorâ€" poration is left incomplete, so as to produce the appearance of marbling. ON A RAN CH. w...â€" Found the Food * Fitted Her. A newspaper woman went out to a Colorado ranch to, rest and recuper~ ate and her experience With the food problem is worth recounting. “The woman at the ranch was pre~ Woman That eminently the worst housekeeper I have ever known,~â€"poor soul, and poor me! "I simply had to have food good and plenty of it for I had broken down from oVerwork and was so weak I could not sit over one hour at a time. I knew I could not get well unless I secured food I could easily digest and that would supply the greatest amount of nourishment. “One day I obtained permission to go through the pantry and see what I could find. Among other things I came across a package of Grapeâ€" Nuts which I had heard of but never tried. I read the description on the package and becailne deeply interest- ed so then and there I got a. suncm' and some cream and tried the fam- ous food. "It tasted delicious to me and seemed to freshen and strengthen me greatly so I stipulated that Grapeâ€" Nuts and cream be provided each day instead of other food and I litâ€" terally lived on Grapeâ€"Nuts and cream forltwo or three months. "If you could have seen how fast I got Well it Would have pleased and surprised you. I am now perfectly well and strong again and know ex- actly how I got Well and that was on Grape-Nuts that furnished me a powerful food I could digest and make use of. "It seems to me no brain worker can afford to overlook Grape-Nuts after my experience.” Name biven by Postum 00., Battle Creek, Mich. Get the minature book, “The The Year’s Business. for 1902, are as follows :â€"â€"- Number of applications received . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . 19%. 6.863 Amount of Assurances applied for. .. . . . .... . . . . $13,881,960 Policies iuued............ .......................... Policies paid for Total business in force............................... 12.635.032 10,122J39 95.531. I 10 ‘The Canada. Life Assurance Company. 57th ANNUAL REPORT. The new business of the year was the largest ever submitted to the Company, and the figures in tabular form, together with those 1902. Increase. 5,022 1.84! 810,687,072 33.194.288 9,784,002 2.901.030 8,398,886 1.123.753 89,170,675 6.360.535 {Of the applications received, 266 for Assurances of $693,716 were declined, as not conforming to the Com pany's standard. The Income. The gross premium and Annuity income was $2,847,559.74, and the income from interest, including $30,757.20 profit on sale of securities, reached the handsome sum of $1,176,374.33. Together these make the total gross income (exclusive of pay- ments on account of Capital Stock), $4,023,934.07. The death claims paid during the year amounted to $1,227,414.42. The matured endowments and death claims (including bonus additions), and annuities paid in 1903, amounted to $1,528,420.46, while $145,273.40 was paid as cash dividends and surrender values to policyholders, making total payments to policyholders $1,673,693.86. The total assets at the Blst December, 1903, as shown by the balance sheet, amount to $27,180,007.21, being an increase of $1,215,074.71 over 1902â€"21 The Assets. growth that your Directors think is very satisfactory. The usual conservative practice of the Company has been followed in the valuation of its assets. ' The growth of the Company’s assets in the past twenty years is shown by the folio win g table :â€" 1111883.. In 1555...... ... The Liabilities. cascaeeo .toocunn...... TOTAL A SSETS. 3,954,000 IN 1903, 27,180,000 In 1393......H............... $14,313,600 In 20,008,000 In the valuation of the policy liabilities, the Company’s own standard, has again been employed, viz.: the Institute of Actuaries’ Table, with interest at 3&7, for all business prior to January let, 1900, and the same table with 3% interest for policies issued since that date. The total not Reserve by this valuation standard amounts to $25,093,374. In addition to this the Company holds Reserves of $32,315 for lapsed policies subject to revival, and $55,028 for instalment claims fund. " After providing for these Reserves and for all liabilities. except Capital Stock, there remains a surplus on policyholders’ account of $1,861,367.32. A large section of our business was valued on the new table known as the OM Table, and the Reseers brought out amounted to .9077, of the Reserves required by the table new in use by the Com~ pany. So that it would appear that no material change in Reserves would result by the adoption of the more recent tables of mortality. So far as is known this is the first occasion upon which these new tables have been used in a. valuation in. Canada. or the United States by any Company having an established business. ' ' ' The Payments. A full report of the. meeting will appear in the Comparast , paper, Lite Echoes. .Good sealing wax is made simply by iaddmg gold chrome instead of vermilâ€" iion to the melted mass. Wax may be scented by introducing a little essential oil, essence of musk, or lother perfume. STORM: IN ROCKIES. l W "WW" I The Thunder Worse Than Rear of a. Battle. If you‘have never seen a mountain thunderstorm at an elevation of 7,â€" 000 feet or more, you have missed an experience that will add grey hairs to your head. Hero is the story of a storm among. nature’s massive sentincls that is de- ‘Scribed by an easterlicr upon whom it left a lasting impression: V “To me, a tllunderstorn’l back East ,held no special terrors, and frequent- [ly I have been out in such a demon- istration without feeling any especial nervousness. l “Up here on the Rocky Mountains ,things are different, and I confess inow to live in an awful, abject terâ€" lror of a thunderstorm. especially at Enight in my tent. I suffer this terâ€" Eror nothwithstanding the fact that Iso far the storms have in every in- stance except one gene around or ibeneath us without ever raining lenough to wet the ground. But it ils the ‘going around and beneath’ “that gets into my nerves. In the first place, imagine what it is to be I1?,» miles nearer a ripâ€"roaring thun- ldcrstorm than one is 'back home.’ ,Thcrc you have occasional flashes of :lightning; here it is one continuous, f’dazzllng’, aweinspiring performance. l'l'hc lightning strikes, too, for it is 'no uncommon thing during a. storm to hear the rocks splintering and cracking where one especially vigorâ€" ous bolt has landed. "Add to this nerve-racking exhibit the most awful detonations of thund- .er that you can imagine and a straight-blowing' wind that some- times makes the iiaps of your tent play a ragtime melody, and you have some idea. of a mountain thunder- storm. The thunder is worse than the sound of a mighty battle. It hangs up against the mountain side and reverberates and rolls off into one earâ€"splitting concoction after an- other, until you, lying quaking in your tent, fully believe that the next 'boom‘ will split mountain and val- ley in tWain and land you in China .or some other seaport town. I. (lay one night and with chatter- the l . . . ing teeth counted five distinct tllunâ€"‘Y‘Ecurl‘mf-T Question Of the allln'GaChlnfil derstorms come up to the edge of the plateau on which my tent stands and each time go through with an electrical performance that would give Tom Edison a dumb ague, and through it all not a cupful of water fell on my tent. “These electrical displays are. not seemingly much dreaded by the peeâ€" ply who live in high altitudes. They comfortineg declare that a tornado or cyclone is unknown in the mounâ€" tains. ’ ’ UNDERWORLD EXPIORATION. logist, strongly advocates a new geoâ€" logical survey of ling-land, shall do as much to make known the subterranean'world there as existing 12013234,,” bUt ‘1 V116 us . And Thomas replied : “The missus, sir.” surveys have done to make that which lies on and This demand grows out of the everâ€" The kidneys, after all, are responâ€" sible for rheumatism as well as most of the other pains and aches of the body, and lasting cure can only be obtained when the kidneys are set right. ' Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills are the most popular and successful kid‘- ney medicine of the day, because they act promptly and are of lastâ€" ing benefit. Mr. Charles Morrish, Dorchester Station, Middlesex county, Ont., writes :-â€""I desire to acknowledge to on the benefit I have received from Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills. For about twelve months I could hardly walk, on account of being so crippled up with kidney derangement and rheumatism. "I had tried many medicines withâ€" Prof. W. W. Watts, the English geoâ€" ltask one morning" “Who is it near the surface. . I exhaustion of the British coal-flelrir". Professor Watts says that there is still an area of concealed coal-fields , deft, possibly at least as large and ,productive as those already explorers}. ‘but to develop them work will how to be done at depth of thousamb’u linstead of hundreds of feet. The first. step must be systematic and detailed exploration of these invisible fields under the guidance of scientific prin- ciples. W THOMAS AND THE BISHOP. "Now, Thomas,” said a, certain Bishop, after taking his servant to that sees all we do, and hears all we my. which iand knows all we think, and. wh'n lreg‘ards even me, in my ‘lnshopv worm of the Gould Scarcely Walk, But the Pains and Aches Have Entirely Disappeared Thanks to Dr. Chase’s Kidney-simmer Pills ; out benefit, and hearing of many bch ing cured by using Dr. Chase's Kid- ney-Liver Pills, 1 made up my mind to give them a trial. After having taken six boxes of this medicine in succession, I can truly say that I am in better health toâ€"vday than I have been for twenty years. The rheumaâ€" tism pains have entirely diseappcared. and I am well and hearty. As I am nearly seventy years of age, I con- sider my cure remarkable, and give all credit to Dr. Chase's Kidney- Livcr Pills." Dr. Chase’s Kidneyâ€"Liver Pills, one pill a dose, 25c 23. box, at all dealers. or Edmanson, Bates & ’00., Toronto. To ‘ protect you against imitations. the portrait and signature of Dr. A. W. Chase, the famous receipt book author, are on every hon, i l a ‘l