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£4 - PACE FOURTEEN. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1910. [THE FINEST QUALITY Baker's Cocoa PA 2 ca, "half pound can contains t .ogtices of pure cocoa, of finest quality, most delicious ve ing all the téngth of the best cocoa 18, most carefully blended, WALTER BAKER & CO. Ltd, Established 1780 Branch House : 88 St. Peter St., Montreal Use it to finish floors with a beautiful and most durable surface that you can keep clean most easily. ML nze Use it instead of paint or var- nish for vehicles of every sort. It withstands the weather. Use it to renew the looks of old furniture and every sort of woodwork. LITTLE KNOWN BRITONS KACHINS OF UPPER BURMA AID SUBJECTS OF THE KING. Secluded Race Who Live In the Hills Are a Highland Tribe 'With Pecul- jar Customs--They Are 5 Feet § inches Tall as an Average--They Attribute Everything te Nats or ! Spirits. All travelers have remarked thot | while on level stretches of particular | areas of the world's surface the peo- | ple are of the same race and speak ! are id | a similar language, there mountainous fregions many races in close ' proximity who are startlingly dissimilar and who speak quite dil- ferent languages The hills have done much to lock people up in particular distriets and to prevent them from communicating with their neighbors. But many of the hill tribes; like those in tae wild land of Upper Burma, whien cuts off China from the rest of the world, re not aborigines, but ¢oie irom ls in the west. It- looks as though, 'over a long stretch of prehistoric time, the noma- dic people on the plains of Central Asia went wandering and wandering until at last they got into a toagle of mountains, which barred then ani there they have stuck ever gince. Just as in the Caucasus Mountains, and mostly on the southeastern side, are many races, speaking more than sixty languages, so in the Burman- China mountain ranges, and general ly on the western side, are many quaint peoples. Now, in all my vagabondings in strange lands 1 have never come across a place which is se captivat- ing a story-book of the human race as the little:known patch of the Brit ish Empire in Upper Burmah, says John Foster Fraser. The Burmese are a delightful people, kindly, ecasy-go- ing, picturesque; but it is when you get on the eastern fringe of Burmah that ypu run into 9 hoteh-poteh of tribes which have got nothing in common with uf Burmese except the browness of 4heir wkins 1 remember once falling in with a party of Kachins who had been down to the plains getting rid of pigs and fowls and honey, and receiving in ex- change gaudy cotton goods. 1 walked with them--all of us trudging zigzag. Indian file, up the jungled mountain- side to their temporary village. 1 knew when Pr was approaching the village, because curious bamboo devices, hung with tufts of colored wool, had been erected to keep away the evil spirits. My casual fiends were will disposed, and I got sleeping accommodation in the house of the head man, an oblong, low-built house, rather like a Noah's ark, raised from ' the ground, without windows and di- vided into various apartments. The Kachins are divided into many sub-tribes, or minor clans. The chief- tain is called the sawbwa. The vari- J ous tribes are distinguished by their customs, some shaving the head, ex- cept for a topknot, and other allow- ng the hair to grow tangled. he Kachin, as a rule, is a short man, averaging 5 feet 4 inches, while the women, short, podgy and unlov- able, are rarely tailer than five feet. The man is slim and weedy, and though apparently lacking in muscle is capable of much cudurance. The variety of types of counten- ance among the people is mpst mark- ed. Some are curly-haired and thick- lipped and others are fairish skinned and have straight hair. Then you come across oblique eyes and aqui- line noses, while in an adjoining vil lage the eyes are round and the nose is a misshapen dump in the middle of the face. Mostly, ay Ahe eye is oblique, telling of descent from. the Tartar, ; As might be expected, the Kachins ars sosked in superstition. Illness al- ways indigates that some nat or devil is displeased. Aecordingly,. presents of eggs or fish or fowl, or even a buf fulo, have to be made in proportion to the danger and stringency of the pain. The funeral ceremony. is singular. When death occurs there is much Pelatter, and if. anybody has a gun it is fired. The coffin is usually the scooped-out trunk of a tree, and just when the tree is being felled a fowl is beaten to death agaimst the stem. Money is. always put into the mouth of the d , for a long journey is to be taken and tolls wi ve to be paid in crossing the riv- Bers by ferry. At dawn next day some 'T 75 of the relatives return to the grave and place by a plece, of pork and some sherop--a ive drink, The Kachins have no religion ex- cept the worship of nats, or spirits, fog. of 4 Xet, through the terror and superstition, there is a kind of belief in a Supreme Being. This is a nat called Chinun Way Hu iss : rl 2. LA 3s g ; 6. g 'y 5 g AI COMFOR ~~ FOR MEN Because of "its delicate, | emollient, sanative, antisep- | tic properties derived from i | Cuticura, united with the | purest of saponaceous in- | gredients and most refresh- ting of flower odours, Cuti- i cura Soap is unrivaled for shampooing, bathing, shav- ing and for every use in preserving the hair and skin. Assisted by Cuticura, it allays itching and irritation and tends to prevent clog- ging ~f the pores, a frequent cause of facial eruptions. Bold throughout the world. Depots. London, 27, anim. Austra. Re Towds & Co dn Ihde , Aust . Tow Do. ney . B. K. Paul, Calcutta; Chima, Hong Kong Drug Co.; Japan, Maruya, I Tokio: So. Africa, Lennon, Lud, Cape Town, ete, I! 8 A Potter Dru & Chem. Corp. Props. 135 Columbus Ave, Boston a 32-page Cuticum Book, post.free, a Guide to the Best Care and Treatment of Skin and Sealp. " Booth at Home. General Booth is a strict vegetar- jan, and his needs in the matter of food are carefully looked after by a little housekeeper, an old-time Salva tionigt, whom the géneral regards with a deep affection. As with all his friends and visitors the general en- joys a gentle joke at the expense of ks housekeeper, and he tells how, al. ter returning from -a deeply interest- ing imterview 'with the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace he caught himseli ad ing his little housekeeper ag "Your Majesty," He hoops up the joke still, much to the old lady's confusion. The "Autobiography," which he 1s now engaged upon will cover a period of sixty-five years of active work, and the general does not mind confessing that one of his inspirations in his task is the portrait, hanging in his room, of his dead wife, the "Mother" of the Salvation Army, the courageous wo- man who, when the Methodist New Connection decided to send him on circuit work, instead of the revival work for which his heart longed, echoed his "Never" from the gallery, and so determined his new start in life. Pauperism Growing. The number of paupers in England and Wales is rapidly approaching a million. The latest returns show that land and Wales, 904,028; London, 140,- 123. This means an increase of 2.5 per cent. over the previous year for the whole of the country, but in Lon- don the increase is only 0.8 per cent. Paupers amounted to one person in every forty in England and Wales, and one person in every 34 in London. HER HUSBAND WAS A DRUNKARD A'Lady who cures ter husband of His Drinking Habits Writes of Her Struggle to Save her Home. » on July 1, the numbers were: Fng- | ABOUT DREADNOUGHTS. Paragraphs Concerning the Shipsi {| That Will Make. i910 Famous. | (The year 1910 will go down in na. val annals as thé year of Dreads noughts. In addition to two--the Col. Hogwood Sod the will be officially declared com in February pr | March, ten pice mondter ships are due to be launched trefore December 31st, a round dosen' in all; or at the average rate of one a month.) Twenty years is as the maximum useful life of a Dread- | "The sub erged of the bul e subm portion 1 of a Dreadnought is entirely un. Jarmioted. ow Sac readnought costs, 8 i- mately, $10,000,000, qa about one cent in the ar on the income tax. ¢ Suggestions have recently b imede by naval experts to armor Dreadngughts with: concrete in place of stool, In fixing armor plates, the nut sé. {curing the inner end of the bolt to the ship is fitted with a rubber wash- er in order to absorb shock, : | A Dreadnought's gngines are of the {turbine variety, and are designed to | develop over 23,000 horse-power under | nature] dreught, 'sufficient to drive {her at a speed of not less than 21 i knots, | No fewer then 120 miles of steel { ribbon go to the making of one of | the Dreadnought's guns. It is wound round and round a central "barrel" or "bore," and afterwards covered with a protective steel jacket. A Dreadnought's. bull is not all steel, as is generally supposed. Be- tween the outer armor and the inner "skin," or hull plating, is a layer of | trak, four inches thick, to foym a 'bad' for the armor plates The thick. curved, steel decks of a Dreadnought are a very important item in her scheme of armor defence, constituting, as they. do, a species of carapace for the protection of her en gines and other internal mechanism. One hundred tons is the approxi. mate weight of a Dreadnought's tripod mast, These masts are hollow, and through their interior men can climb { up and down bétween the decks and the conning towers they support. The only explosive carried cord. 1 of nitro-glycerine, a substance which in its pure state is so exceedingly vola- tile that the slight shock of a foot | step has been kuown to cause it to | explode. Dreadnoughts are known in naval | perlance as all-big-gun ships; that is to say, they carry no 68-inch, or other intermediate guns, such as were us- | wally fitted in the earlier battleships. | 'heir armament consists solely of ten | 12.inch guns, reinforced by twenty- i four small, quiieh firing, ganti-torpedo- boat guns, and five submerged tubes. The new armored cruisers. Invine- ible, Inflexible and Indomitable are | only slightly inferior as fighting ma- chines 1% the .Dreadnoughts. - They | displace 17,250 tons, or only 650 less | than the original Dreadnoughts; they | 12-inch guns, 8s «COM ar i ile | | carry eight | ed with the Dreadnought's ten; w { their speed 1s, of course, very much | groater, 25 knots as compared with | 21 knots. Dresdnoughts are. divided into a | number of separate watertight and shell-proof compartments by means of armored bulkheads. Thers is no communication | whatever . between these compartments. They ean be en- tered only from above and separately. This is safe, but exceedingly incon- venient, although the inconveni¢nce 18 obviated as far as possible by an ela- borate system of lifts, : The Krupp steel with which Dread- noughts are sheathed is made by "Iwiling" ordinary molten steel in huge cauldrons, holding from 40 up to 60-tons of metal. Small quantities of chrominm, nickel, and manganese are added to the mass while it is In a state of effervescence. 14 is then al- lowed to go "off the boil," as cooks say, after which it is "olarified" by the sdmixture of ferro-manganese in a finely-divided form, much as jelly is "cleared" by the addition of albu- men. 5 ¥ The method adopted for sheathing a Dreadnought in her armor is an ex- coedingly ingenious one. On no ac- count must an armor-plate be pierced for bolte, or it would, when struck by a projectile in action, be liable to srack badly from hele to hole. In- stead, the plates are fixed in position from the inside of the hull by means of an enormous number of small, short bolts, which only penetrate the back of the plate a very little way, and so weaken it Scarcely ab all, but which, nevertheless, possess in the ag- gregate great holding power by reason of there being so many of them/ Welsh Proverbs In English. Just ai the Welsh people have their own. language they have their own philosophy. Here are 4 few proverbs in common use in the prineipality Everything possible is easy. Everything needlnss 1s waste. One sin drews a hundred alter it. Let him who reads reflech. He wha knows least will talk most. The weapon of the brave & in his heart. : Sate is the owner: ol gs ciewr gon- Good for yen. One does not ring a bell for the dead. is not born who knows not sin. be everyone stand. on his own feet. 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We employ a staff of about nine hundred people and distribute in salaries, dividends and other expenses over Gne Million Dollars annually. We carry a stock distri- buted among our branches of about Two Million Dollars, and in addition to these and other large assets our real estate and buildings are today worth about Pive Hundred Thousand Dollars. All this backs up our positive guarantee that goes with each package bearing the NA-DRU-CO Trade Mark. If your druggist hasn't the particular NA-DRU-CO Preparation you want in stock he can get it for you within two days from our nearest wholesale branch. 1 Livery formula used in compounding NA- DRU-CO articles has been given years of careful study and practical tests, proving beyond question its value and its safety. All the ingredients in NA-DRU-CO preparations are the best and purest that money can buy. 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