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. _. I IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT .JOIlN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. _._.. Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Commercial World. Advertisinn' for a lad, a London firm received within a very few hours 600 applications. The early potato crop in West Nor- folk has been attacked by slugs, winch have done much damage. The extensive fiour mills at New- castle-under-Lyme were recently burned, the damage being estimated at $75,000. An 'iron steamer built on the Wear, in 1883, of 3,260 ions, at a cost of over $250,000, has now been sold for about $42,500. _ A series of small machines that silent- ly generate sea air in the auditorium. have been installed at the London Hip- vpodrome. A robin made its nest In a human skull which had been left hanging on the outside of a stable by a medical student in London. A' town's meeting, called by the Mayor of Lowostoft, has decided by a large majority in favor of permitting ' Sunday music on the pier. ‘ Miss Emily Easton, of Gateshead. has ,placed $100,000 in trust for providing annuities for spinslers in Northua‘nber~ land and Durham. The C-ockermouth Union Board of Guardians has decided to provide work for the 500 unemployed ironworkers at .Workingtcn at slonebreaking. To Brierley Hill (Staffs), belongs the honor of being the first town in the kin dam to complete a new battery of artiâ€" lary under the Territorrial Army Scheme. The Sund-erland millers have advanc- ed the price of flour by is. a 20-skme ‘ sack. An‘ increase in the price to the Consumer, of probably a penny a stone, will follow. Despite his plea of guilty a man at Stratford charged with theft was dis- charged becausc the Bench said there was not sufficient evidence__for any jury ' to convict him. Proof of the perfect discipline in the ranks of the Salvation Army was af- forded last week when 1,200 officers changed stations and spheres of duty without a single hitch. Bright sunshine has been recorded in London to the extent of nearly 280 hours since the first day of the present year. The average of 25 years ended 1905 is 245 hours. Mr. Franklin-Adams, the astronomer, is making a chart of the entire heavens, and is counting the stars, amounting to some 23,000,000 recorded on his photo- graphic films. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have again lent Stafford House and gardens for an exhibition of crofters’ cottage Industries. home’spuns and which will take place on July 6. Whilst engaged at a house in Dover found be- Boad, Folk-stone, workmen heath the floor near the front door two old. letters. '9 I; 4. FOOd ,3” - ' «i Produc - ' may. l .I‘Venl Loaf g is made of. ...~.the...-: best-s. iitfliiifidm‘” , - . 4 at. waiting for bites. selected meat‘;scientifig.. ,5. aIIy prepared and "é.véneh:_' Iy baked byddrnp'I-I'ieat 1‘ Kitchen. The natural’ flavor is all retainedl , When removed from the I It can he quickly prew pared in a variety of styles and nothing maIses ' a better summer meaIi ,g In the home; at the camp; and for the picnic .'l.ibhy’s Veal I.an is a satisfying dish; full of "~_ food value that brings .._' contentmentl ‘2 Libby. acacia a Libby, ' - 5‘ Chicago. i i, : '5‘ c; *l"“.{ suit-morn». 1r. -‘-J.1m‘~- :â€".z 1d£=.“-‘ld->‘" ~ ness after They bore postmarks dated pin-k. _- r v o , '.- . ~.. - _°* » - - ,., ‘ ‘ WW _ u ‘U _, 1n I-lbbl’ S .fi'IICaI.-~.r ,7 th‘My',",‘Blllthil‘f: «said _tlie_patron"”with5 the infant in her arms, “will you please 1884, and in one was a postal order for 55. Mr. James Bain, Marine Superintend- ent of the Cunard Line, comes of a me- chanical stock, for his father .was one of Robert Napier‘s men who helped to build the machinery of the first of the Cunard liners. The record number of 43,035 persons paid for admission to Shakespeare's birthplace during the year ending March 31, and the number who visited Ann Hathaway‘s cottage was also more than that in any previous year. Sixty nationalities are represented in the visi- tors‘ 'l:oc~k at the birthplace. r -â€"--â€"u< IIIX'IOUS MOMENT FOR. YOUNG MOTHERS The hot weather months are an anxi- cus time for all mothers, but particu- larly for young mothers. They are the most fatal months in the year for babies and young children, because It the great prevalence of stomach and bowel troubles. These come almost without warning, and often before the mother realizes that there is danger the little one may be beyond aid. It is the duty of every mother to use all reason- able precautions to ward off summer complaints. For this purpose no other medicine can equal Baby‘s Own Tablets. An occasional dose will keep tbe’stom- ach and bowels free from offending matter, and will ensure the little ones :1. health. If the trouble comes un- expectedly tho Tablets will speedily cure it. Every home, therefore, should keep the Tablets on hand always; they may be the means of saving your child's life. They are guaranteed free from opiates and narcotics, and may be given with perfect safety to a new born babe. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine (10., Brockville, Ont. ..__.__.p._._.__ .475 TROUT IN TWO DAYS. The Catch of a Party of Sixâ€"A Sample of Nova Scotia Fibhing. Maine and Quebec have besn celebrat- ed for many years as a paradise for anglers. Ma'ne’s neighbor on the east, New Brunswick, has shared of late "n the glory. Nova Scoti-a has been- overâ€" looked, but the fishing there is as good as the best. _ There are many fine salmon streams «and trout fishing is excellent all over the. province. Fishing in all the rivers and lakes is practically free and unre- strict-ed. Nova‘Sco-ti-a has few large rivers, but there are. thousands of streams which 8.1V? filled with trout. There are many estates in‘the province through which three or more good fishing brco.ks._run. Some of these streams you can step across, yet fish abound in them. Take for example a stream which has just settled into some sort of steadi- a hurried, tumultuous de- scent down the mountain. As it cuts its way through the level upland it digs out holes here and there, and from these holes the angler may take a dozen or more one pounders in an hour's sport. A party of six made an expedition early last summer to Canaan Lake in the southâ€"eastern part of the province. Fishing from canoes they caught 275 trout in one day. The trout ran from onohali to one and a half pounds each, with a. few larger. The next day the six anglers added 200 more to the catch. These nan about the same size, except one beauty which weighed almost two and one-half pounds. The sportsman will shudder when it is recorded that some of the party fished m the good old-fashioned wayâ€"with angle-worms. But. flies were used too, the silver doctor, Ma y fly and barnyard fly. The barnyard fiy took the best, as is proper in a farming community. It isn’t expensive to go fishing in Nova Sootia. This party of six were out five days, thrcc being spent-in go- ing and coming. The total cost was $34. less than $6 each, and at that they had a. guide, on Indian and an Indian boy too. who were glad to get $11 for four days’ work. The trout fishing is good all summer long, and after September 15 the ang- ler can take a gun along and- shoot As forthc. trout, they "ai'o.“t'-lic"saliiiorr variety. “speckled bea-_ ’ flitshf‘h' ' delicate? tics,“ so' called," the ~ {ASL/live orua'aiii. .k weigh my baby?" “Sure!” responded the busy butcher, depositing the little human bundle on h'i'. scales. “Just sixteen pounds and a quarter, Mrs. Riley.” “But,” commented the watching par- .‘ cut, “your scales register only sixteen pounds." .- “You’re right, madam." said the but- clicr, reddening as he took anothe" look. Then turning to the bollkkcepcr behind the desk, he. called out, “Annie, take off that quarter of a pound!” \VOULD TAP VESUVIOUS. An Italian scientist, Signor Coartino, proposes to supply a safety valve for V0- suvius. \thn the outlet of a volcano be- comes choked with solidified lava, it is always possible that the next eruption may shatter the mountain to pieces, a fate which actually bcfcll the volcano of Krakatoa some years ago. His idea is to tal-‘ihe mountain by boring a tunnel in flu, base and letting the lava escape into IIlti sea. Nor need the molten lava be wasted. It could, he points out, be run into moulds and made into blocks for use in the streets and quays of Naples. A Lonllm log is estimated to weigh 3.000.000.000 ions. ’me with tea and bread. rabbits ‘Ofldz'fiwlasoztsvhile .1. AN UMBRELLA HIS ROOF. __ Hermit Has Dwelt Twenty Years in the “'oods. ’ In a wood about thirty miles from London, England, lives an old man who fcr twenty years has known no other roof than an umbrella. “Twenty years ago I took to the woods," he said. “Dur- ing the great snowstorm a few weeks ago I slept soundly, and when I woke up in the morning I was covered with 7 snow many inches deep. But I am new. or ill, I have not had- a day‘s illness in my life. I have lived a simple, single life, and I have no more worry than that tree has. I haVe no rates and taxes to pay, I have no wife to both-er me, and l have plenty of friends. “How do I live? Well, all the vil- lage people know me, and they provide (not want much to live on, you know. I am quite happy under my old um- brella. “I can sew as well as a tailor, and l mend all my clothes. I have several changes of clothing. I have clean shirts, socks, boots, and other things there. I have my bath. in the woods and wash my things here. No one ever interferes ‘with me. I never light a fire, and l mover ask for money. "When darkness comes on I put up my big umbrella, take my boots off, put lmy legs into a sack, and cover myself uo with clothing. on top of which I place this mackintosh, and. settle down for the night." ' “In. â€"* NEW SERUM TO CURE RABIES. Will be‘ Effective in Urgent Gases, .Says the Discoverer. Dr. Auguste Marie, chief of the lab- oratory of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, France, has been experimenting for several years with the modified treat- nc'nt for advanced cases of rabies. With the Pasteur treatment, as used sznco its discovery in 1885 until now, full immunity is not reached until near- ly five weeks after the first injection is given, the treatment lasting a minimum of eighteen days now. In cases of se- vere bites on the face the diseases may develop in three weeks or even less. Dr. Mario has succoeded in. ob‘a’ning from shcep which had been immunized against rabies a serum which, when mixed in certain properti-ons with fresh virus of rabies, renders the latter in- nocuous when injecth into animals and human beings. This mixture of virus and serum permits the beginning of the Pasteur treatment with a material which secures immunity much quicker than when the ordinary method is used. It is precisely what has been needed for severe cases and the results obtained within the last two years have amply fulfilled Dr. Marie's hopes. Furthermore" the new form of treat- ment will be of great practical value in immunizing dogs, inasmuch as two in- jections rapidly immunize a dog against rabies, and this immunity lasts for a year or more. ’ â€"-â€">X<-â€"'â€"' \VEEKLY MARKET LETTER. A. J. Pattison & Co., Toronto, in their weekly market letter, report as follows: The Canadian Banks report an in- crease of over $0.000,000 in deposits of the Canadian public, and a decrease of loans in Canada of $5,700,000 for the monthâ€"not an unusual condition for this time of the year. Mexican Power to which attention has been called when selling at 40 as probably going on a dividend basis, has advanced to 57, and as intimated, a dividend of 1 per cent. has been declared payable in July. It is not stated that this is a quarterly pay- ment, but the earnings warrant this ex- pectation. Rio will materially reduce expenses by the completion of the \vahu‘ power system, coal being an expensive fuel in that district. The net earnings should show large increase within the next sixty days. The American mar- hole, which have suffered a reaction ow- ing: to the Presidential. nominations, of- fer attractive dividend investments in such standard issues as Northern Paci- fic, Great Northern, Pennsylvania and St. Paul. Industrials have advanced steadily, but still show large earnings ill prices quoted for standard conpora- irons. We doubt if the present condition 7,05. trade in Unit-ed States warrants the advances, but certainly no more prom- ising crop conditions have existed for 1 many years than are new general throughout Canada and the United States. 1 Cobalt shares have advanced general- _ ly. The expected dividends on a num- ber of shipping mines have been rca- lived. Crown Reserve It per cent., Tc- miskaming 3 per cent and City of Co- balt 5 per cent. are amongr the recent declarations from mines which have not heretofore been regular dividend payers. It is stated on apparently good au- thority that Trethcwcy will be placed on a dividend basis within the nextmonth. Recent earnings appear to warrant from 3 per cent. to 5 per cent. quarterly. lic- ports from the mine show sufficient dc. velopmcnt to warrant expectation of a continuation of dividends. 'MCKinlcy- Dar. is also expected to declare quarter- ly dividends, beginning in July. Recent quotations are: Crown Reserve i7â€"l-9x div: Tcmiskaming Iii-i0; City of Cobalt l.’72,Trclhmvcy 82â€"84. buyers 60 days. 00; .\lcl\'inlcy-D:ir. 76, as. Lanosc, the new Cobalt merger, which was placed in New York at SL75, has sold up to $5.13. Shipping,r Cobalt mines may be consid- ered a fair speculative investment. We think flint the other stocks should be 1ch alone for the time beingr until the properties have given evidence of values. .p.___ .â€" IiXI‘LANA’I‘ION. “A lrlzy man." said Uncle Ellen, “is 1‘. ins mild-natured. I‘ll do simple rea- son dut he’s got to be to git friends to The Trusts and Guarantee 06mph. 43-45 KING STREET WEST, TORONTO Limited ‘ DIVIEEND NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a half-yearly dividend for the six months ending June 30, 1908, At the ,Rate of SIX PER CENT. Per Annum Ina this day been declared upon the paid-up Capital Stock of the Com any, and the same will be payable at the offices of the bompan y, on and after July 2, 190 , and the Transfer Book! will be closed from June 20th to June 30th, both days Inclusive. Toronto, June 12, 1908. A man does v ‘ You Won’t JAMES J. WARREN, Managing Director. ....: .. . .. .. .. «a. â€". .. flind Warm Weather if you eat Shredded Wheat. It does not clog the system or tax the‘digestive machinery. Every paré ticle of Shre‘dded‘Wheat is easily and quickly digested by the most delicate stomach. Try It with fresh fruits for, a week and note ' results. sold by all grocers. LIVE A SOLITARY LIFE MEN \VIIO LIKE TO BE MONARGIIS OF ALL THEY SURVEY. Live on Desert Islands Because They [lad a Dilslikc to Human Society. Cayman Brac, in the West Indies, is one of the “last, least, lonelicst islets” under the British flag. Three families live there, as their ancestors have done for generations. I visit-ed the place a few years ago, and found. that each fam- ily lived as far from the others as pos- sible. Their members seldom spoke to one another, and had no social inter- course, says a writer in London Answers. An eccentric Canadian had settled on the island shortly before my visit, and built himself a. hut. His only dmire in life, it seemed, was to be left severely alone. He spoke once only to me, in or- der to make that fact plain, as he had done to the head of each of the three fam- ilies. But even the sight of other people new and then was too much for him, and he departed on a schooner with me to take up his abode on one of the Pedro Gays, where the only other inhabitants are boobies and gannets. H.M.S. Psyche found him there, and wanted to rescue him as a castaway; but he irritably REFUSED TO BE RESCUED. - “I am disgusted with men and women, and never want to see one again,” was all the explanation he chose to give. Lighthouse-keepers inevitably lead a lonely life, but few of them are like the Dutchman I knewâ€"the man who kept dad. [-10 had lived there alone for over five years, steadily refusing to have a mate or to take the holiday offered him every three months when the supply ship called. In the sixth year, for the first time, he was induced to leave his rock, and go to the neighboring island of Saba for a month's holiday. There is only one little village on Saba, with a few hundred inhabitants, but the Dutchman could not stand the busy whirl of things. After a week be borrowed a boat and sailed back to his rock and the society or his scagulls. He told me he couldn’t hear a crowdâ€"that was his only reason for his love of loneliness. A \VEAL’I‘HY MISANTHROPE. A few years ago "a rich Scotsman named Ferguson, who had made a great fortune as a trader on the West Coast of South America, astonished his friends by purchasing from the Government of Ecuador one of the many barren, desert- of rocks in the Galapagos archipelago. He had always been popular in society, and had never shown any disposition for a hermit’s life; but he retired to this island and lived there alone for nearly two years under conditions of great hard- ship. Supplies were brought to him every two mouths from Guayaquil by a chartered schooner, but he pel’mittfd him- self no luxuries, and toiled hard every day after the fashion of Robinson Crusoe. His friends tried hard to induce him to return to civilization, but in vain. At last the crew of the supply ship, on one of their visits, found him dead in his but, with a bullet through his brain. Letters which he left behind showed that he had committed suicide out of sheer disgust with life. He explained that he had chosen to live alone because he had found that his friends and relu- livcs cared only for his wealth, and not fitr himself. But. after a busy life solitude bored him incxprossibly. So he took what seemed to him the best way out. \VITH A GRAND PIANO. When I was on a United States surch- sl‘.ip in the Philippines, during the Aguiu- nido insurrcciimt, I was detailed with a small party to land on a small atoll off the south-west of Mindanao. I-Iidden away in a groye of cocounul palms we found a little thatched bungalow, sur- rounded by patches. of yams sweet pota- An dressed in tattered wliitc toes. CIISSIIVII, and other vegetables. old German. ducks and a palm-leaf hat. \\’CICOIIII‘(I us sucking-pig, fowls, and tropical dainties. It} was served by a Chinese boyâ€"his Man Friday. They had lived together on the islet for six years, and during that period i had not seen another soul. This “Robinson Crusoe” was a Prussian nobleman, and was conccrned in the re- volutionary movement of 1848. When that failed, he left his country for ever and wandered about the world, finally Settling on the atoll. He had taken a. lot of stores and live stock there with him, and many of the luxuries of civili- zation. He had even a grand piano and an Edi-sonphonograph. His principal amusement, he told us, was to write poetry and essays; but he had no ambi- tion to have his works published, or even to submit them to our criticism. IN A MINIATURE PRISON. Perhaps the quoercst instance of a craze to" solitude that I have ever known was that of an eccentric Chicago millionaire named James Lanigan. He had a minia- ture prison, with one cell erected on his country estate near the city, and con- demncd himself to imprisonment in it for months at a time. He employed two wardens, who were instructed to feed, treat. and work him exactly as a criminal would be in Joliet. the Illinois State pris- on. His eccentricity was much discussed in the Chicago newspapers, but he never gave a reason for it. When he was not occupying the cell himself. he would in- vite his friends to do so, but, so far as I know, nobody accepted. ___._.x.____.. BY INFERENCE. The magistrate looked severely at the small, red-faced man who had been summon-ed before him, and who returned his gaze without flinchlng. ' “So you kicked your landlord down- stairs?” said the magistrate. “Did you tenant ” “I’ll bring my lease in and show m t you." said the little man, growing still redder. “and Ill wager you’ll agree with me that anything they've forgot- ten to prohibit in that lease I had a right to do the very first chance I got.” BETTER PAY UP. Tourist (visiting an ancient cast-1c)â€" “Are there any legends connected with this old castle?‘ Guideâ€"“Oh, yes. It is said that in ancient times a stranger once visited this castle and gave no tip to the guide. Thcreupon the latter threw the visitor into the well But don’t be frightened. Of course, it's only an idle legend.” STILL INNOCENT. Farmerâ€"I’ve got yo, yo old black thief! That's my chicken ye’re catin.‘ Deacon. Jacksonâ€"Xcuse me, suh. Am yc' dc gen'leman lives at de Four Co’ncrs? Farmerâ€"No. Deacon Jacksonâ€"Den, pra'se dc Lawdl I's an hones’ niggah yit. Dis ain' yo' chicken. THE LAST ACT. Teachirâ€"“Why, Flossiel can’t you tel; what p-râ€"a-yo-r spells? What's the last thing your may says when she rc- tires at night?” Flossicâ€"“Shc asks pa if he wound up the Clock and put the cat out." TIIE DIFFERENCE. A teacher in a certain school said to a (lull pupil: “When I was your rage I c‘:uld answer any question in arthmr-tic.” “Yes,” said the small. child: “but you forget that you had a different teacher to what I have.” m?.__ GUESS IIIE KNE\V. Old Farmer {lending threshing ma- chine, to applicant for j'lb)â€"“Iivcr done any thrashing?” Applicant (incite;tly)»â€"â€"“I am the father of seventeen children, sir.’ 'I‘li.n man who always gets his own why his a lot of enemies. 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