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ORE RHEUMATISM | PHONEY MARQUIS. DEAD FFRUT-A- TIVES *" CUBED Kim {3 hristopher D. Graham is a well | FASCINATED IMPRESSIONABLE kiowH citizen of Ottawa --{orzierly in | WOMEN OF THREE CAPITALS, the City I1all and largely instrumental i ing the Ottawa Hunt Club, Mr. . voluntary testimonial as to | Was Great Masquerader Had Pic the great benefit he received from taking | turesque Figure «and 'Great ideas YFruifea-tives' will carry conviction, Hunting Foy Heiresses-- Swindled His Wealth, { There bas just ded et Brighton = | Yeritable prince of .dandies, who mas- | queraded for twenty years as tho Mar- | 4 Ottawa, Ont. Nov, 26h, 1907. {ot 'DeagSirs = © I Bave been a sufferer from Rheum. | ot his for a long time -- paius in my Which holder and joints practically all the timer I tried varioustreatments without benefit and then [ was recommended by afriend to try "Fruit-a-tives," took Fseveral boxes of thie tablets and now, 1 - ? [for & long time, T have been entirely free from all rheumatiszn and rheum. atc pains, 1 Wish to state, also, that I suffered | m haemorrhoids, or piles, for years, used all kinds of ointments and treatinent and nothing did me any good, 'but after taking " Fruit-a-tives" for my etiam I am entirely cured of these ul piles. (Sgd) C. D. Cramanm. : a 149 rv it-a-tives -- or ** Pruit Liver s" are sold by dealers at 50¢ a box #6 for $2.50--or will be sent on receipt of Pfice. Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, MN on SALBDRATUS IS THE BEST. LGILLETT TORONTO, ONT. company LiMITUD heiresses weres not shy. society Hell of *the most, -- tain Jady i Ing Jovae hy him, der "and. romantics cular friends ihe. had 'made. *Siloer Plate that Wears» FINE TABLE CUTLE"Y Knives, forks, spoons, etc, -- 5 the best made--are identified | by the famous trade mark " This name has three score Jae reputation for beauty, nish, style and quality, SOLD BY LEADING oEALEnS Phe mark on candelabra, fern dishes, . should be Bitehers, ores, " MER!D a C JAS. MULLEN, = iranite and Marble Works Fon a CN Pa Tr 1890 hat, i ass. Work G teed careful . mode miasion Assured. et his wot re Ar i : umataries Neatly and Prompt- pososol , he~ bl Emmcuted, himself ass the Marquis. de Leuille. §72 Princess St lated manner, {Opposite ¥. M, O, A, Every W should know MARVEL Whirling S, The bi jw V aging) priv: y ng conven. leanses font, Jt astantly > ys the ankles. But, happily, thedBar- mans have evolved a boot of "their own, shapely things in brown or-white buckskin, which harmonize very well with native clothes, and they wear "finely knit, appropriately eoloved stockings kept in place by A Wonderful Drummer, Probably the most remarkable drum- mer who ever lived was Jean Henri, the famous tambour major of the Emperor Napoleon. One of his feats was to play on fifteen different joned drums at the same time in so soft and harmonious a manner that instead of the deafening uproar that might have been expected the effect was that of a novel and complete instrument. In playing he from ohe drum to the other with such wonderful ness that the eyes of the tors could hardly follow the movement of his Mids and body. A French engineer hus a plant for constructing a sail water ship canal through the Seine valley to Paris. Royal tea, best #0¢. tea in the city, and big premiums. Gilbert. Un pe aiph May was drowned in the Ham: Them Out of Hugs Sums-Gulled '| the Parisians With Tall Stories. sof | i | | | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1908. OSTRICH SUPPLY. Not a WORLD'S Removing the Feathers Is Painful Operation, The world's total supply of ostriches is now said to be about 380,000 birds All but 20,000 of these are in Africa, the native country of the biggest birds, "The stock is not decreasing, for it is one of the good fortunes of the ostrich that to take his feathers does not cause his death. The feathers would drop off themselves if not re- moved, and there is nothing painful | v about the latter operation, though the vanity of the bird at being robbed of its chief ornament makes him resent the process. The ostrich is too valuable a bird to' be ill-used, for on the average they are'worth $800 per pair, and each one will produce some $60 worth of fea- thers every year. Hence i will be seen that the owner has the strongest motives of self-interest to take care of the birds. The feathers are never plucked till they are ripe. But the beauty of a feather and its cost depend more on its width, on the length end thickness of its flue or strands than on the length of its quill, { To some extent every feather is made, even the handsomes$ being for. tified with two additional feathers nn- derneath, making three layers in all; and five or six es are sometimes needed to give the tip the very thick, laxuriant efféet so mmeh admired. A single ostrich feather is very seant and slim, indeed, and no woman would look twice at one. Preparing the feather is e thing. From first to last' an ostrich feather asses through nearly 100 different ands before being delivered to the retailers, African merchants estimate that the industry brings into Africa every year some $15,000,000, hence it is hardly to be wondered at that 'hey oppose ship- ping of the birds to the farms of the Unithd States. In fact when the first experiment was made by an English- man in California, he had to pay as high as $1,200 a pair for his birds. Along the Salt River Valley in Ari- zona, the development of the ostrich industry is steady and prosperous The average compare favorably with those shipped from Africa. The stock is probably not as fancy as some of the in] brought out by the more experienced breeders of South Africa, but the size of the American bird is increasing and the health is all that could be desired. Ostriches need a hot, dry climate, and alfalfa is the best food, though the big fellow is not particular, and gill eat most anything. Indeed the Inmorists say that he enjoys nothing beter than a hearty diet of stones. .. THE BASUKUMAS. Africans Who' Have Most Original and Hideous Ways of Hair Dressing. "The Basukumas, natives who make their homes around Lake Vie toria, are ugly blacks and they look savage enough," writes Frank: G. Warpenter. "Most of them strong African type. They are tall and well formed, but their skins are black or very dark brown, and they have- thick lips and flat noses, Their hair is woolly or kinky, and they have original ways of dressing it. "Some of the women shave seetions of-the scalp, and a man will often have a place as big around as the bottom of a tin cup scraped off at the crown. Bometimes this bare spot is covered with sears, made by cut- ting and gashing it te cure the head. ache. - Others of .the men are per- fectly bald, made so by the razor. They grease their hegds, and they #hine like patent leather dress shoes. are of Many of the women divide the hair into small braids and evidently shave iean the partings between them. Others twist the wool out into curls which stand forth like little worms all over the head. They are like angleworms, only black. ' Imagine a thick-lipped brunette Medusa who wears fish bait instead of snakes and you have the typical - Basukuma beauty, "Some of the more giddy of the belles tie shells and beads at the ends of these earls, so that the - most jingle as they run. I have Jock. od. in vain for eyelashes and eye- brows. The Basukumas pull them wutewith tweezers. The men also pull wut their beards by the roots in the same: way." RoyallEtiquette To-Day and Yesterday Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's last illness in one respect established a record. Of his predecessors in office in England (in modern times, that is) not one has been the object of such avert demonstrations of sympathy in dvigh places. The sympathy may have been no less in other cases; the eti- qu tte was more. Sir Henry received they personal visit of the Sovereign, of the . Heir-Apparent, and of Queen Alexandra and the Empress Marie. Marks of sympathy such as this were not accorded to Melbourne, to Palmer- ston, to Beaconsfield, to Gladstone, nor to Salisbury. Palmerston wrote to the lete Queen Vietoria from Brock- et--where, and by, he was to die himsedf-- tha Mel big tiger roaring in a ve on the fire line. Thi i : Lord Curron's fund, for the ostah- Vishment of an electrical laboratory ut Oxford, has reached $100,000, Nearly 300 ships will take part "ia he British naval manoeuvres in the channel and the North Sea this week. "CRAWLED THREE MILES. | Mountainside In Wales. After the ' terrible experience of spending two nights on the side of a | mountain in the Snowdonian range, with a broken leg, a young German loctor, mamed Hahn, lies in a weak condition at Penygwryd Hotel. , Dr. Hahn, who hails from Berlin, left the Penygwryd Hote!, Llanberis; on a recent Sunday, saying he intend- ed to climb one of the heighta in the , but he did not inform any- y a8 to the place he meant reach, nor did he engage a guide, " He did not retur~ that night, and his absence did noi tract a great deal of notice; but as he did not put in an appearance on the following day | a search party was formed, and on Tuesday morning the missing man was found in a state of extreme ex- haustion : Dr. Hahn told a wonderful story of pluck and resource. "I scaled the mountain for a considerable dis- | tance," he said, "wheg I lost my way in a dense fog, and to make matters worse an unlucky fall on the rugged | path fractured my leg. I then became unconscious--for how long 1 do net know--and I remained on the moun- tainside numb with coid and blinded by the mist. } "Some sheep drew around me cur- iouely, and for two nights and a day they were my sole companions. | "TI thought I would make an at- | tempt somehow to descend. I had a stout stick with me, and I broke it | up into. three pices. I used two of | them as splints for my fractured leg, and then I began my descent. But I | was like a dead weight, and was eom- pelled to stop and rest close to a huge chasm where one of the searchers saw | me waving my handkerchief. "I had only a few bars of ghoecolate to sustain me during my pilgrimage." Altogether Herr Hahn must have | crawléd over three miles. HUNTING GULLS' EGGS. Englishwoman Thinks It Fun te Be Lowered Over High Cliffs, A visitor at a seaside resort in Fng- | land recently espied on the face of a cliff 400 feet high the figure of a wo- man. She was seated in a kind of chair arrangement suspended by ropes from above, and she carried a: point- | ed pole to steer herself clear of the | jagged rocks, while a canvas bag was | slung across her back. The air was | full of gulls, evidently much disturbs | ed by her presence, and every now | and then oue of them would swoop | down upon her and strike at her sav- { agely with wing or beak. | The young woman turned out to be | a Miss Leslie, who lived in the peigh- | borhood and thought it amusing to have herself lowered over the edge of precipitous eliffs in order that she | might collect gulls' eggs for breakfast. | "She'll break her neck one of these | fine days," the fishermen said, but | Miss Leslle declared that there was no occasion for alarm | "There is very little danger," she | said, "provided you keep your head, look out for algal falling stones and see that the ropes are strong and | that they are not cut by sharp edges of rock. It is delightful to feel one-'} self swinging over some lofty preei- | pice, to peep into the cumning places | in which the eggs are laid and to hear | the gulls screaming around one." When Miss Leslie has no one to help her in the egg hunts she fastens the ropes to a stake or bush and lowers herself over the cliff. She sometimes | takes young birds from the rests and | has found that they make interesting pets. { Switzerland Leads, Switzerland takes the lead in thé | public ownership of telegraph anc telephone servieds, having 10.548 miles of combined wires extending to | all the railway stations and nearly every town and village in the coun- try It alfo has more telephones in use in proportion to the inhabitants than any other country in Europe Great Britain has one telephone to 116 persons; Germany one to 112; France one to 301; Rassia one to 2,028, and Switzerland one to 48. The | Government is now going into the | business of manufacturing the instru- | ments. The yearly charge for a tele- | phone in office or resid:ice is $12.45, | and the ates for long-distance calls | are far below similar calls in Canada. | An average of three long-distance | calls a day, and the yearly charge of | $12.45 would not bring the total for | both services for a year above $24. | Low charges and profits ran togeth: r| as the net edrnings last year were | $564,000 on gross receipts amounting | to $3,000,000. Tt is instructive to note | that the United States had at the | close of 1907, 3.039.000 telephones in | use, of one for every twenty-two in- habitants. No less than 76% 340 tele. phones were added during 1907, and the number nearly doubled during 1906 and 1907 over that at the end of | 1905. A Ralic of the Penal Days. i There are two places in Ireland | where it has been customary for many | centuries to ring the curfew--the vil- | lage of Tynan in County Armagh and | Derry. The Derry curfew is a relic of the'days when no Roman Catholic was allowed to live inside the walls | of Derry, although the citiseps were | glad enough to have them in the | daytimie as laborers and customers. | At sundown, however, the curfew bell was rung and every Roman Catholic who was then in town had to leave with all haste, even if it meant sleeping in the open on the bleak hills which surround the city. Rabbits vs. Mufton In Australia. Up to the beginning cf December, says a writer in Australia, 918,000 crates of rabbits, totaling about 23.- 000 tons, had been received in Lon- don during 1907, and the market for mutton was never so bad as it is industry Be anki! the rabbit w! the: be ni ta gan le 30 SOMPromise, is The man who will keep a promise i never has 0 make one, - Don't Pare Corns. You may get rid of some of the corn and also, your foot, through blood. poisoning. Better take corns ont safe ly, with ~Peck's Corn Salve. in big boxes, 15, at Wade's Drug Store, { part for part, featuré for feature, | Holiday | Shoes Now that school is closed the Boys will be wanting Canvas Boots, Running Shoes, Ete. We have a large assort- ment at reasonable prices: BO0O4 DO0OOOO00000CV00V D000 sizes 6 to 10, for little fellows, sizes 11, 12 and 13, "" 1 to 5, Boys' Running Shoes, little Boys, 8, 9, 10, J " Boys', 11, 12 and 13, Ge | o 1 to 5, 75¢ 's Canvas Shoes, White Canvas, $1.00 & 1.50 Best Grades, 1.75 &2.00 Grey Canvas, 2.00 P'ink Canvas, 2.00 Blue Canvas. 2.00 Brown Canvas, 2.00 See Our Special $2.00 Brown Shoes for Wo- | } men-- Fine Vici Kid, Boys' Canvas Boots, : - 60c | tbe 9c 60c | "i " "" " - Women " " " ~ O00 00000OOTCOOOICD00 0000 "" Ly af SEAS. | Synopsis of Canadian Northwest HOMESTEAD REGULATIONS. ¥ section of Doe ion Lands in Mabitoba or the ides, exceptin way any persin the r male over 18 ye xtent of ome-quarter more or less even-nuiubered Ny n for homestead entry must wrson by the applicant ata Agency or Subsagency Le made Lands or cancellation uust Le 1 The applicant must be meostead entry At least six n and cultivation during the te in y Joint ownership in oat this requirement Ii the father {or mother he 18 deceased) of a homesteader had We farpung Inud m, not less than edehty , in the vicinity pon a homestes ity stead land n vicinity" tn the twe s defined as mean nine wiles tn a direct FF CANADIAN NORTHw * MINING REGULATIONS, oal rights nining may ! 060 acres can he leas cant. Royalty, five cents per ton. QUARTZ. <A person sighteen vears of age and over having made a covery TEPENDABLE = SHOES ~ - OO00O (OVO OOODO COOOO0O CODDOOOOC HOO 00000000000 " --y This Is the Weather For Living Out of Doors. For comfort and ease we have a big line of Verandah Chairs and Rockers, Lawn Set- Folding Camp Chairs and Camp Cots. A big line of Fancy Rittan Chairs and Rockers, all 'this week at sale prices. James Reid, The leading Underaker. "Phone, 1 17. tees, IF IT IS TO GET A SINK Wm. Murray, Auctioneer Set up or a bath room enstalled. | 27 BROCK ST. I can do it in first-class style and | at the right price. Give me a New Carriages, Cutters, Harness | ste., for sale be expended on the claim fay a claim 1.500 fest by 1,500 500, At least $100.00 must ach year, or paid te the mining Recorde When £500.00 has been expended or paid and Other requirements complied with the claim may purchased at $1.00 an acre PLACER MINING CLAIMS () feet squar r fone niry be SL ¥ Pwo leases of five of a river may bo issued to one ap tf A term of 30 years. Hentai, per annum. Royaliy, 24 thie output exceeds $10. nerally 1 PREDUING rifles mile er $10.00 a per 000, cent a WwW. W. CORY, Deputy of the Minister of the Interfor N.B Unauthorized publication of this advertisement Will not be paid for American Oils Coal Oil Lubricating Oils Gasoline We make a specialty of handling Lubricating Oils of all kinds. Prices on application. W. F. KELLY & CO., South Cor. Ontario and Clarence. trial. | 9 64 Brock St' Sale of Horses every Saturday. DAVID HAL Phone 335 or Will You Try An The Standard Visible Writer We know other typewriters of all We do not Belong to amy trust] kinds and we know that the L. C. and mobo ly dictates the PRICE | Smith has every improvement gaa we sell at or HOW we shall sell, | eve feature that any of thew | . . : | AND MORE. We want to That's OUR business. | lace an L. C. Smith Bros.' Type- 1 Lab pate in your office AT OUR EX. [Ne sell our machine strictly onl PENSE, and have you compare it | | All the writing om the L. C.| | Smith is always in sight, and direct in the line of vision The | WRITING LINE IS INDICATED, | and the PRINTING POINT IS POINTED OUT so that the L. ©. Smith is just WHAT WE CLAIM a perfect VISIBLE typewriter. with any other typewriter. We will let the typewriter speak for itself. All we say about it and claim for it will be demonstrated by the machine itself more con- vincingly than we could tell it. The typebar and hanger are the heart of a typewriter, that means they are the most vital part--a | weak typebar means a weak type- | writer. Show us a typebar-tear- ing that is narrow and has neo wearing surface, and it tells us | that under hard wear such a type-| writer will not retain its align- ment, and sooner or later wil' get out of order. On the IL. C. Smith the bearing is wide and the bar heavy, and will stand years and years of hard work, Then we want to leave the de cision to you. If YOU want it then we will sell you one on favor- able TERMS, or if you already have a machine we will take that in part payment, THE TEST OR TRIAL WILL NOT COST YOU A PENNY. This is the way we sell typewrit- ers ; it is a good, fair, honest way. It has not a weak link in the, chain of fairness, Typewriter Supplies for all makes of machi L. C. Smith Typewriter? Then again, with LC Stith one machine is equipped to do all kinds of work--better writ- ing, invoicing, billing, tabulating, figures, stencil cutting, without touching the ribbon and heavy manifolding anything that any typewriter can do the L. C. Smith will do--and more. the You can lift the platen, or writ- ing cylinder, right out and put in another in a second You can write ip two rolors, and you do not have to touch your ribbon from the time you put it in the machine till it is worn out. You can do all these things, and many more, and do them better than you can with any other type writer. WILL YOU DO THIS» And remember THIS 1S the ma- chine we want to place in your » ee 'or trial and examination AT OUR EXPENSE. It doesn't Cost you a penny to try it. nes. Typcirriters Rented and Repaired --all makes. d. E. Ferguson Company, EASTERN DEALERS, 205 QUEEN STREET, OTTAWA. + LOCAL AGENTS: NEWMAN & SPRIGGSELECTRIC CO. 79 Princess St, Kingston, '