The best Tonic and System Regulator for Spring It purifies the blood and improves the tone § ~ of every organ in the body A- teaspoonful in a glass of water in the morning after breakfast. Sold by all druggists. - "READY Lunch Beef" julcy and tasty as foraty roan, ASK your Graces Wi. CLARK Mr, MONTREAL. N.B.~Have tried Clark's deh Pork and Beans? THE NONE) FATTY is now THE SPIRIT AND ENDURANCE OF THE MEN. What a Special Correspondent Had to Tell of the Work Done in the Last Drive of De- larey. Renter's special correspondent at Kiervksdorp, who secompanied Col, Rawlitson's column in the last big drive of Delarey, writes | The great feature of the drive was the ificent spirit and endurance of the men, It is a wost pleasing wait in the character of omr soldiers that the bigger the call that is made on them readier the response. Take them an ordinary twenty miles march with no fighting, and they will le. Give them a beavy fight or ask them to best a record a men whom 1 saw at Orange River in. February, 1900, unable even t5 mount their horses, now galloping freely over a treacherous veldt, kedn-eyed, alert, the mode! soldier, and the best Hghter in the world. Lord Kitchener called the columns who took part in A io to perform a task which, I venture to say, no general has ever asked of his troops before, So thing was done with a willing ness and an eagerness which proved that the commander-in-chief knew his men, Not a single column marched fess than seventy miles, and there was no halt or off-saddle. Many marched eighty and some companies and squadrons nearly ninety. It forms a record for ching in South Afri ea, and, I venture to assert anywhere else. From six o'clock one evening till eight the next is & weary time for a man on the saddle, but it was passed cheerfully by 'all the columns and the last drive deserves to rank as oye of the finest performances of the British It i» difficult to leave the subject without a reference to the work of the regular mounted infantry. There seems to be an idea abroad that the army is comppsed of small units of infantry thrown into a lump together with a horse and a bandolier and dubbed a mounted infantry battalion. There may have been a time when this was partly true, but it no longer holds good. We have now in the field batta- lions of mounted infantry which have made for themselves a tradition and possess an esprit de corps unsurpass- ed by any of our erack regiments. 1f you ask s mounted infantry =ol- dier 'what he belongs to Be no longer ives the name of his regiment, but of his mounted infantry battalion. Of- ficers carry on the shoulder the num- ber of the mounted infantry battalion to which they belong and not, as for game of their regiment. ugh a hard mill, but they have come out of it mi ni- ficent specimens of soldiers. ho would have dreanied two years ago that he would see soldiers who at the time fell off their horses on the least vocation galloping at Boers and 3 i from their horses at the tlop ? And vet it is not an uncom vt sight. Every trick of the Boer own by our men, They have the dash of the old Pen {nsular cavalry, with the cuaming of their nt enemy, They are proud to a of their mounted infantry and can never return to the sameness of infantry work, There is a great feeling both among the men and the officers that at least the first eight original battalions should be- come permanent. A great percentage of the men are willing to serve the twelve years if they can remain mounted, but will leave the army the moment the war is over if their time i hey 'are expected to re turn to their regiment" These hatia- lions have made themselves a naine, and to disband them back into their different infantry regiments would he a loss to the army which only those who have served out here can proper: ly appreciate. ---------- Will Be Safeguarded. London, May 9.--An important de- putation, representing all the princi- pal. shipping interest of Liverpool, waited on Jord Strathcona, yester day, wging that Liverpool should be the terminus of any fast Atlantic ser- vice which may he inaugurated tween Grept Reitain andl, a asa result of t rgan shippi bine. It is understood that lord Strathcona informed the deputation that negotiations were still in a ne bulous form, but that the interests of the Mersey would be safeguarded in any enterprise, a all other things were equal. CANADA'S GROWTH. How. G. W. Ross Describes it at St. Catharipes. Looking 'over the field, what 5 fu- ture there is before us, he said. "Can ada could Sustain at least 100,000,000 of people. Canada, this little Canady discovered only a few. hundred years ago by Cartier, this little Canada, to which your fathers and my own came probably with so capital but 4 pair of sturdy hands. (Applause). The reat British empire geking for a con- Bo with the premisrs of the colon. ies, and with the premier of Canada amo others. (Cheers). The great British empire taking notice oF us, that thirty years sgo thought we were a menace to th empire. Fancy Palmerston saying they would be well rid of we, and Beaconsfield say- ing we were an encumbrance. Fancy John Bright saying that the moment the Canadian. colonies wanted to go they should let them and Gladstone reiterating that himsell. And we, Canadians, were thought nothing of, in my early m , by the great smbife which is now proud of us. (Cheers). How have we attained to nationhood ? Because of the sturdy stall of which we are made, oscause of the sturdy stock from which we sprung, and the stimulating atmos: ere which we breathe, and the hope that inspired us to @ Possession of this glorious land. Can it be said that we are recreant to our trust? 5 set 5 future before us. Shall we all\by the wayside, let our hands drop nerveless and let the wheels of progress. stand still ? Young men of Lincoln, rise to the magnitude of your responsibilities discharge them like men, and, whether governments may stand or governments may fall, let it be said that Canada's prosper- ity shall on on forever. (Lond and prolonged cheers). ---- tine, The Man Who Wins. Henry Edward Warder in Baltimore News. The men who wine is the man who works-- The Ton who toils while the next man The man who stale in hi 2d With his head held hiwh eon Yes, he is the mom who wins, The wen who wine is the wan sho knows Tie value of man and the worth of woes-- Who & Jegson Jewrms from the men who fails Acd a moral finda in his mournful wails Yes, is the man who wine who wine is the man who stave In the emsought paths and the rocky ways : And, , who lingers, now wax then, To belp some failure to rise aguin Ab 1 he is the man who wis ! And the man who wine is the man who Tim curse of the envious in his ears, But who goes Ris way with his head held And poswes the wredks of the lnilures by-- For be is the man who wins, A German's Will. A rich and eccentric man who died the other day in Berlin left a will which was to be opened immediately and a codicil to be opened after the funeral. The will said, ""Bvery mem- ber of m$ family who shall abstain from attending my funeral is to re. ceive three hundred marks." As a re- sult the funeral was attended by his housekeeper, a distant cousin. On the codicil being opened it, was found to enact that the residue of his for- tune was to be divided among those who, notwithstanding the loss of the three hundred marks, attended his funeral. Hence the housekeéper gets all; but the heirs threaten to dispute the will, His Advice. The story is told of the present archbishop of Canterbury that, upon a candidate for ordination essaying to read a chapter of the Bible before him to test his elocutionary powers, he was stopped with abrupt comment, "Yeo're inaudible". "But, my lord," said the discomfited youth, "I've read the lesson in a big church, and been told that every word could be heard." "Who told yea lady ? Are ve engag- ed to her ?"' The candidate owned the soft impeachment. "Then, don't be- lieve a word she says--until ye're mar- xed to her," was thé' ungallant re ply. Double Reason For Prayer. According to representative Little field, it was a preacher's small boy, who got into a fight with another youngster, As the latter was going home with one black eve, the minister met him. "My lad," said the preacher, "you yo fight 7 1 will go home and pray for i "You had better go home and pray for your own boy," was the indign- ant reply. "He has two black eyes." . Not All Ice and Snow. Toronto Globe. The papers read at the Ontario land jors' convention may help to thé idea that our no i of ice and snow. country with its 16) The great THE DAILY WHIG, ERIDAY, MAY 9. A A A YOUNG 1.0.' FIRST CAL THE CASE WAS ONE NOT IN THE BOOKS. But The Doctor Soon Put it There Green Elm Returned in Pay- ment for the Small Loan-- ~~Well Remembers the Call New York Sun. Dr. Boone, whose reminiscences of the lost cause interest many listeners at several New York site, where he is a frequent visitor, told a good one about his first patient. His shingle had been a target for the elements for six months. "It was not because the town of Payette, Mo., was so distressingly healthy," he said. 'All my profession- al brethren were doing well while I whited, "My office was on the second floor ofsa shop, and I could hear what was go on below. One night & man gal- | his horse in front of the house and hallooed to the shopman. When the shopman answered, the wan «on horseback asked hom if be shought 'Doc Boone' was in his office. "The shopman assured him that I was tairs. The horseman dis- moun and hitched his nag. 'At last !' I said as most any young doc- tor would have dome under the cir cumstances. 3 "Then 1 thinking of all the ailments which human flesh is heir to and as each to me I thought of what I would preseribe for it. I never thought so rapidly-as I did be- tween the time of that man's dis mount and his knock at my door. As soon as he came in [ recognized him. * 'Hello, Doc!" was his salutation. The abbreviation wes common in those days. 'All alone 7' he asked. * "Obstetrics," 1 said to myself. 1 said to him that I had been alone un- til he appeared. "" J was just on my way to a dance down the road,' he went on to ex- plain, 'and just before I got here 1 discovered that I had ¢ my trousers. Loan me a dollar, Doe.' "And that was the result of a six months' wait for my first patient ! My visions vanished. "Well, IT had a dollar and I' let him have it. I didn't see him for several months, The next time he showed up be had a load of wood to sell. I bought it. After the fuel was deliver ed I asked him what I owed him. "*Oh, he replied, just called it even, Doo' on that dollar you loaned me." "I congratulated myself until 1 found that the wood was n elm, and if you know anything about wood you might as well try to fire asbestos as to fire green elm. Oh, yes, I re- member my first call." Safe To Say. For the benefit of those who are at a loss to know just what to say on secing a new baby for the first time, and who naturally feel that they must say something, we give the fol lowing hist of expressions, any and all of which are commonly used, there be- ing no patent or. copyright on them. Whether you shall offer to kiss the in- fant depends somewhat on its age and appearance, and the extent to which you are willing to sacrifice yourself in order to please the baby's mamma. The baby itself doesn't care a button for your feelings or your kisses, but you are expected to say: "What a pretty little thing !" "Bright-eyed lit- tle fellow, isn't he ?"* "Why, how large he is!" "] don't think I ever saw so young a child take so much notice of his surroundings." "He's the image of his father." "How much does he weigh ¥" "What lovely, silky hair!" "Looks very like you." "What a little rosebuddy of a mouth!" "Do let me se¢ his little toes !" "How very wise he seems." ""I really believe the little thing understands every word we say. +; Oh, what a splendid big boy is! My Mother's Rose Jar. wl jie 1 lilt the lid--the sweet perfume Of rose louves, spioed, steals through room. A fragrance faint and fine. Ail straightway to my misty eves From out Past fair visions rise Ff an ol garden dim, t rowed by Plars, rocking high animet & stretol turgectsy --_ The far son's rim. the be hedge of box. the lilies ivy on the oll south wal pinks, the poppies red, iw drooping with their luscious bloom The roses in ther eds. | : As bowling o'er her favorite's place, She culls the petals fair; I see my mother's gentle face, tall, ® il, -------- MYTHS OF HISTORY. "Pure Inventions" of Famous Men and Women. St. James Gomette Another pretiy story of 5 famous man has proved 'awry. For years it has been go pice of common gossip, made good we of by Sunday school tenchors and lecturers on self-help, that the late Jord Rassell was once a repoiter in the bousé of commons. But it is the purest of inventions. The new "life" of the late chief jus tice. makes it clear that lord Russell was pever in the gallery. The story goes the way of many another of its Kine, Mr. Kipling, wo know, was not named after the little village of Rudyard, where his father and mother ted their troth; the lato lady ouise Tighe was not taken out of bed to buckle on Wellington's sword before Waterloo; queen Victoria did not solemnly declare to the heathen that the bible was the secret of Eng- land's greatness. Fach of these myths has in turn been exposed dur: ing the last few years. One of these days we shall be told that there was no such thing as mag- na charta; already, in spite of the ev- idence at Mme. Tussauds, it is sol emnly asserted that ki John did not sign it, as the histories say, but merely affixed his seal. The Plymouth fathers did not from Plymouth. It is enough to shake one's last shred of faith in history; but the truth is that the Mayflower set sail from Southamp- ton, having originally come from Holland, and that the association of Plymouth with the historic departure owes its origin to the fact that Ply. mouth happened to be the last Eng lish port that the vessel touched. Fleet street is the home and cradle of many myths, and it was a journal. ist who invented ome of the most commonly accepted myths of all. Dr. Johnson never said-it is not, at least, recorded--"Let us take o walk down Fleet street." The phrase adorned the cover of a magazine for many years, and came to be popular ly attributed to Johnson; but the editor of the magazine, not long since desl, confessed that the quotation was altogether imaginary. Nor did brave general Cambronne, commander of the Imperial guards at Waterloo, exclaim, on being called upon to yield: "The guand dies, hut does not surrender." The phrase was first thought of by a journalist in Paris, and it is engraved on the general's tombstone, sail The Physchology of Hair. Liverpool Daily Post. Coarse black hair indicates power of character, with a tendency to sen suality. Straight stiff black hair and beard indicate coarse, stromg, rigid and straightiorward personality. Fine hair generally denotes exquisite sensi bilities; flat, clinging, straight hair a melancholy hat constant habit. Harsh, upright hair is 5 sign of a reticent and sour spirit, 4 stibhborn and cruel character. Coarse ved hair and whiskers are accompanied by violent animal passions, but some force of individuality. Auburn hair, on the contrary, denotes the highest order of sentiment and intensity of feeling, purity of thought and the greatest capacity for pain or plea sure. "Crisp, curly hair, we regret to say, is indicative of a hasty, impet- uous and rash character, and, gene rally, light hair is characteristic ,f 5 lymphatic and indolent constitution. There is no doubt that the coloring matter of the hair may be in some way affected, or may affect, the dis position, for it is an odd thing how often the sulphur in red hair or the carbon in black appears in the indi vidual's aets and thoughts. Perfumes In Old Days. London Good Works. Our forefathers were great people for scents and perfumes, fragrant herbs and spices, and the astonishing amount of seasoning they put wit simplest dishes prepares one for - al most any combination. When to make , cherry tart they found it necessary to make a sirup of cinna mon, ginger, and "sawnders," and to add rosewater to the icing, one can imagine how they set to work to cook a cormorant. Perhaps if we re- mind our readers that many chambers were provided with "draughts" which occasionally required cleaning, and that rushes took the place of car pets, we will realize one of the rea sons for the use of perfumes. 'Sweet waters" were occasionally sprinkled under the rushes in great houses, or for revels, or on the mattresses and bedding. The Ingenious Inventor. "Yes," said the individual with the bulging brow and the restless cyes "I am the man who invented indoor baseball, indoor tennis, indoor cro- guet, gid indoor golf, or ping-pong." We wiew him with undisguised amazement, 4 "And," we venture, "are yow study- ing up any more inventions!" "Ob, wes," be carelessly answers, "am now completing a simple form of indoor ballooning, gnd next year | will have my indoor mountain-climb- ing on the market." oumnot call write for Dia 'thase who carne call. from » 'All Duty snd 208 WooowarD AVE., Carpets, Carpefg, At Greatly Reduced Prices. We are positively giving up the carpet end of our business and much desire to clear the entire stock this spring, so have marked for cash buyers at a reduction of 20 cents off each dollar. : | Tapestry Carpets, 88¢. to 650. a yard, now 20 per cent, off. 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