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Make the Liver Do its Duty Nine times in ten when the liver is right the stomach sad bowels are right, 'S WE HAVE PLACED « § Electric Light IN MANY HOMES THIS SPRING, In every case our patrons | have been pleased with the | fixtures work and prices. Let us wire your home and do your repairs. H.W. Newnan Bectric Co 79 PRINCESS "Phone 441, ® Trey our Electric Irons, "THE FATAL BANQUET ey ay They are made by {erm IRISH "LITTLE FOLK" | THE CELT TAKES HIS FOLK-LORE | VERY SERIOUSLY. {Only a "Naygur" Who Came Over | With "Crummile" Denies the Exist. ence of Fairies and Leprechauns | and Banshees -- Latter Is Always a Woman, Sometimes Old and Sometimes Young. There is no eountry in the world | which takes the supernaturzl so ser. hich did his a sch { fously as Ireland, and there is no vne , Wand did nm so mine i who will be 20 disposed to resent dis. belief in the existence of apparitions, banshees, and fairy folk. good and bad, as an Irishman. There are Irish. men and Irishwomen who do not be- lieve, but they are not worth count. ing; they are only what a Corkman would call "naygurs that come over wud Crammlz (Cromwell--none o the ould stock--an' a bapshee would be | ashamed of herself lookin' at them," says The London Daily The loeal traditions associated nearly every part of Ireland are dif- ferent; some refer to saints and holy women and some to kings and heres of the Tuatha de Damann period, but there are at least three or four cur. rent beliefs which are found in every | part of Ireland; and they are the exist. ence of the banshee, the phooka, the | , leprechaun, and the "good people.' The family which does not possess a banshee is obviously not of very | great antiquity. Banshee must be de- scribed as a mixed blessing, for their | appearance, while it proclaims the an- tiquity of the family it visits, cannot be described as conducive to equani- mity. Literally translated, the word means "woman of the fairies," "sidhe," or "shee." being a generic for fairies of all kinds. Th» banshee is sometiines represented as old and shrivelled, and sometimes as {| young and beautiful, with long golden 3 {hair which she combs while pouring {1 forth strains of weird melodies. Bha is generally regarded as the ghost of {| some person who suffered violence at {| the hands of a family progenitor, and her wail, which is supposed to have a. vengeful note, announces the death of one of his descendants. She ap- pears by preference in the neighbor. hood of a lake or spring, but if these are not gvailable she floats in the night air nedr the castle or house where the' family she is attached to lives. Bhe does not appear to tho person whose death she foretells, but to his nearest relative, or, in the old days, to his clansmen. Three times she repeats her K warning, which is sometimes regarded as a hint to pre- pare for death When the banshee appears in these latter times she often has to take long journeys to give her warnings, for many of the "good old stock" have left the country owing to the land war, and have gone abroad. Some time---agew-an Irishman of a very old family was studying in a scholastic college at Louvaine. He was lightine his lamp one morning when he he-+| a strange wailing cutside, His win- dow was on the second floor, and ret it sounded directly opposite him. 11» was pet ified with horror when it as repoate twice again and a hand Leat three tunes against his window with long bony fingers. He buried his face in his hands and prayed, for he knew that the sbul of his mother was pass- ing, though he had had no word that she was ill, and when he had last heard from her she was in perfect health: The family banshee had from time immemorial given warning of the death of elder members of the house, and three days later he learn d that his mother had died at the mo- ment that he heard the banshee s last wail. Of the solitary fairies there is no need to be specially afraid. They have a power of doing good and evil, but the evil is generally only mischief of the "gamin" type. The best known of these 7 the Leprechaun; or, as he is called in Ulster, the Logheryman. Ha» knows where hidden treasures lie, ani it is a lucky peasant, going through a field, hears a faint sound of ham- mering, he may come on the fairy shoemaker with his leathern apron tied over his green coat and shorts, "| sitting in the shade of a hedgerow, busy making fairy shoes. Then is the time to hold him to ransom. If his captor takes his eye off him for a mo- ment the leprechaun becomes invis- ible. He does not think much of wo- men, because he finds it very easy to divert their attention by pretending to see their sweetheart coming up in the distance. "There's your Micky," or "your Paddy," as the case may be, and the foolish woman will look away for a is off in a twinkling. But the Cluri- caune is a sprite of a more mischiev- ous nature; he has little to give, and for what he does give he takes his re. ward in making a fool of the reci- pient. Any one who fears ghosts should never pass an Irish graveyard at night lest he see the dead hurlers at play and be kept as goal keeper. For at midnight the dead of one graveyard arise and play against the dead of the next parish, So they have a living man from each parish as goal keeper. If the man so chosen should refuse to act he may be the next to go feet first into the graveyard; if he agrees he will have to come night after night for seven rs, at the end of which time he will be released from ;his duties and have the power granted to him of healing certain diseases. It is not a pleasant Rost, as during the long sev. en years is forbidden to tell how he spends his nights, and consequent- ly he is debarred from the joys of i . The person who is buried his ied accounts for the uency wi which one can see two Jr racing each other along the Irish country yunitry roads te the graveyard, and sud Christmas season a dy- man bas the chance of escaping and going straight to if he dies as the ight on Christmas prohibited in Telegraph. | with | the | oment, and then the little man | | GRAHAME WHITE, AVIATOR. ! Rejected the Army to Become a Pion ] : eer In Motoring. Mr. Grahame White strikes one as {#4 typical flying man. Young (he is only just thirty), tall, and lithe, 'he | iooks as hard as pails, and gives the | "mpression of béing practically with- out peryes, : Ie was originally intended for the army, but his taste lay in the diree- tiop. of engineering, and he followed his inelinstion. His love of sport is { Inherited, his father being a famous yachtsman At Bedford Grammar i S¢hool young Grabame White is | chiefly remembered for his success as a cyclist. When fifteen he end his | brother were joint owners of a small motar-ear, and his experiences with this machine tempted him to the motor industry. He not only estab Hshed a business for making metor- cars, but raced them, winning many prizys From motoring to aviation was but His early experience motors was, of course, of con- siderible service to him in his flying experiments, but his connection with viation is quite recent. He had not i cen any fiving until the Rheims | meeting last August. He was so tak: en with the new sport that he there | and then ordered a Bleriot machine, | and was himself astonished at the | quickness with which he learned to fiy w Less than a month ago he aequired the latest improved type of Farman | biplane, fitted with a Gnome fifty | horsepower rotary motor, and his in- { stant mastership of this wonderful machine at once inspired him to try for fhe Manchester record A plucky attempt was made recent. ly by Mr. White to win the prize ci $50,000, and at first his success seem- ed assured He was asmpelled by adverse weather and éngine trouble to' wait, at Lichfield, with sixty-nine miles still to be traveled, until too late to com- Ply with the conditions under which the prized is offered. Mr. White started on his gréat jour. ney - soon after five in the morning from Park Royal, his mother and sister being present to wish him good a natural step. i with The machine rose easily and grace. fully, the engine worked beautifully, and everything thus early promised well for the daring young aviator's | t i holdi Flying splendidly, Mr. White soon | trip left the accompanying motor-ears be. hind. At one period he attained a speed of sixty miles an hour. At Rugby he made the first of the two stops he was allowed on thé journey, and after having some Te- freshments left for Crewe, which was to be his second halting place. Fortune, however, decreed other. wise, for, numbed with cold, and feel. ing sorely in need of rest, Mr. White descended for a second time at Hade- more, near Lichfield. While awaiting more favorable con- ditons his biplane was seized by a boisterous wind and overturned, suf- foripg damage that was repaired in time for a flight the following week only by the fiercest exertion on the part of "his mechanics. Scottish and Irish Bogs. The recent "bog-slide" in Cpunty Roscommon, recalls the fact that Ire- Iand has still close on 2,830,000 acres of bog-land, varying in depth from nineteen feet to a few inches. Seot- land is also "rich" in bog. Rannoch Moor, for instance, is nearly twenty miles square. Moss Flanders, in Perthshire, still contains over 10.000 acres of peat, and it is reported that the deep Black Moss contains 800,000 cubic yards of peat. The reason why so few calamitous bog-slides take place in Scotland compared with Ire. land is due to the varying constitu. ents of the bogs, their situation, and the higher cultivation of neighboring lands. After a long spell of rain--the usual forerunnér of an Irish bog slide--great quantities of water acen.. mulate at the bottom of the bog. The mosses and dense plant life on the surface, or close to the surface, pre. vent evaporation, and the pressure ot | the steadily eccumulating water either rises the aries, or bursts a subterranean pas sage. Where, however, the fringe, of the bogs have been reclaimed, as in the ecgse of most of the Beottish bogs and the land in the neighborhool drained and more or less cultivated, artificial escapes are drain off the floods. Hence the main reason for the paucity of bog-slides in Scotland compared with Ireland, where the bog lands are still in a "state of nature." Tea Is Ireland's Curse. Some interesting sidelights on the life of the peasantry in Ireland are i contained in the renorts of the In- spectors of National Schools, which have lately been issued. The report says: "The use of tea is now carried | to such dangerous excess that it ranks | before alcohol as an enemy of the pub- | lic health. To aggravate the situation | it is in the very;poorest parts of the ! country that the tea evil is most ae i tive and hurtful. It is only the cheap | sorts of tea that reach these poor . ples and, let the quality be gv or 'bad, the tea is so preparéd for use that the liquid, when drunk, has the | properties of a slow poison. The tea. | pot stewing on the hearth all day i ling is kept literally on tap; the i members of the family, young as well faa old, resorting to it at discretion." Bereslerd Suit Ends. The curious romance of the late { Lord Delaval Beresford, known throughout Mexico as "Lord Beres- ford," and a colored woman, has just hrough ty t t e payment in curre and land of $500.000, When, ate the death of Lord Deluval Beresford in a railway accident ni Aericn three years ! Beresford came to acttle his brother's woman. who represented that Lord Delaval. Lord Charles entered a suit in Mexico to oust the woman from the estate and disclaim her as his brother's heiress, with the result above noted. entire estate was valued at over $30,500,000. Tra | forever." superincumbent mass and | makes it overflow its natural bound. ' ereated which financial conclusion estate, he was confronted with the claims of the colored she was the wife in common law of a > 3 i > : ed ' THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, ToRshAY, Jr SIR JOHN AND THE HOME. Mr. Basile Benoit Tells a Characteris- i tic Story of Macdonald. The Canadian Club of Ottawa has placed the lover of Canadian lore under a debt of gratitude by presery. Ing in its last published volume the record of a banquet held some months ago at which. the guests of hong in. cluded eight of The twenty-four sur- vivors of the First Parliament of Canada. They were Hon. Sir Mae kenzie Bowell, Hon. John Costigan, . Hon, Wm. Ross, Hon. Wm. Miller, Hon. G. B. Baker, Sir James Grant, Sheriff Hagar, of Prescott County, and Mr. Basile Benoit, of Chambly, Que. The reminiscences uttered on that occasion are preserved. Of the great Conservative leader, Sir John A. Macdonald, Mr. Benoit gave a couple of little incidents. During one sitting of the House, he said, Sir John was speaking on the possibilities of settlement in the immense fields of the Northwest Territories for a vast number of families. He appealed to his people in Canada and to the world at 1 to come and to take these lands and to build happy homes, "His woice grew tender," said Mr. Benoit, "and I have still in the ear the words 'Happy Homes' that he re- peated many times with a caressing tone and deep feeling, pressing them, as a father, to come and to found a happy home in the boundless prairies that. God had reserved to them. "Abother trait of personal charae- ter that 1 love to point out," con- tinued Mr. Benoit, "is thé following: When I was superintendent of the Chambly Canal, Bir John happened to be Minister of Railways and Canals in the interim. As everywhere, some accidents happened occasionally to 15 the laborers on the (unal. | askel Bir John what to do when a man was injured on the work. His first ques- tion ,was always, 'Has he a family; has he children?" On an affirmative answer he invariably told me in earn- est, 'Find the means to pay that man; don't let his children suffer.' 1 do not refer here to what Bir John has done in the building of the country, nor to his wonderful attainments. 1 have just found in him a tender heart; his memory is sacred to me Waiting For Homesteads. Philosophers will tell you that it is the lust for land, that hunger for a of his own that has sent the man of Aryan origin and his ideals of civilization to the four corners of the earth. It was this hunger that first Pople Europe; just as it has popula America, ustralia and ~South Africa, and which has sent the white man to face impossible condi- tions of climate in the tropic lands. This primitive instinct, ordered and controlled, may be seen at work with all its original intensity at any Dom- inion Land Office in the Northwest provinces, when new homestead hold- ings are to be allotted. . The rule of "first come, first served" has been adopted as the fairest to all parties and the scene resembles that in a great city before the opening of the - box office sale for a critical collegiate football match or for some theatrical star of world-wide fame. It resembles it but it is infinitely more @ripus. It even has its tragic aspects. Frequent ly the waiting man.is a dow ~out- er, to whom the hope of wrenching a living from the virgin land appears his last chance. The men wait for days holding their $s in line to make sure i a oy choice. All sorts and conditions mingle together on democratic terms. Many languages are heard and under the influence of | a mutual desire, a spirit of comrade- . ship springs up, which is a check on dirty trickery; though this is not un known. Canada and Bigness Synonymous. Canada is synonymous with bigness. It is three times larger than the United States, ineluding Alaska; it would make thirty Great Britains; it agua to one-third the entire Brit- £h Empire and almost the Size of all Kuarope, writes Frederick Lownhaupt. Out of an area of nearly 4,000,000 square miles close to 1,000,000 are yet unexployed. It is often said of the United States that with 85,000,000 pop- ulation they are still young. What shall be said of a country greater in extent with. fewer than 8,000,000, in habitants? Some -ofté has said that | "Canada begins with the 20th century in the position the United States were in at the beginning of the 19th." By which it is meant, of course, in re. spect to its marvelous resources which have as yet hardly been touched. Can- ada's advantage, however, in the sit nation described, ties in the fact that | it stands on the threshold of a won- derful future with all the mistakes of the United States to guide it. Under .Deep Conviction. Herbert Booth, son of the Salva- tion Army General, has just .coneclud- ed a mission at First Methodist Caurch, London, Ontario. One even- ing near the close of the week, it is related, he was - being assisted by Evangelist Belcher, a local man. Mr. Booth was asking people through the audience to rise as an indication of their desire to lead a better life. The heads of all were bowed. The Eng- lish evangelist beckoned the other to him. "There is a man up there in the gallery," he said, "who seems to be under deep conviction." Mr. Booth described him very carefully, and Mr. Belcher went down the aisle ard up the gallery stairs. When he reached the vicinity of the individual specified, he perceived with mingled fealings that the man "under conviction" was no other than Rev. Neots Che ay Satin, Heeet ist president of London Conference! ---------- s Mrs. Pat's House. One of the most remarkable houses in the world is the London residence of Mrs. Patrick the the various Praia Leg By | sociates i Wat NE 21, 1910. ; culated to and wireless telegra OLD NEWS-GETTING How Canada Got Word of Napoleon's | Escape. "Louis 15th dethroned and gone to England! Bonaparte's return to Paris ana in quiet possession of France!" That certainly was a headline eal | startle, perhaps stagger, | the readers for whom it was printed | in Quebse on Tuesday, May 9, 1814-- : ninety-six years ago. [It contained information that several weeks earlier had staggered Europe, and the events, | of which it announced the beginning, fill one of the grest epoch-marking chapters of modern history. The headlines quoted appeared over three columns of closely and bedly! printed matter in the issue of the "Quebec Mercury" of June 8. Nad poleon, or Bonaparte, as hevis in this announcement, left Elba on February 26, landed at the Bay Juan on March 1. On the 11th he reviewed the troops at Lyons, and be gan his march towards Paris. More than three months elapsed before the' news of these tremendous events was published in Canada. { How comparatively small the cable' have made the! world since those distant days, when news traveled by sailing packet and stage coach. i The volume containing the files of this old Quebec newspaper for the! years 1814 and 1815, is filled with what may be called the bones of his. tory. The war with the United States! was still raging, and Europe was! practically one great battlefield onl which Napoleon was contending for, universal empire. Issue after issue of] the old newspaper--at that time a weekly-~during the year 1814 con- tains dccounts of the et es of iritish troops on Continen Europe! and in the Canadian wilderness. Meagre as are the accounts of the! batiles and other military operations! in the Old World wd in the New, appearifhg side by side on the pages of this old-time newspapef] they br home to the reader of to-day a more! accurate and vivid realization of the gigantic struggle Britain was then engaged in than do chapters of his- tory treating separately of the two! great wars carried on at the same time in widely distant parts of the world. In history the stugent reads accounts of these wars # different chapters, often in different volumes, sometimes in different works. The old newspaper shows how they were parts of the world's story at the same time, woven together and forming one chapter of Britain's national life, It 'took three months for the news of Napoleon's escape to reach Canada.| The news came by way of New York, where, on April 27, a schooner from Rochester, France, arrived bringi tidings of the great things that been happening up to the middle of March. From New York the news traveled north by -stage-coach, the most reliable and abundant souree of} information being New York news. papers, in which were reproduced despatches copied from European and) British newspapers that on schooner in question and on other sailing vessels had reached the Ameri- can port. These despatches gave in address to the) both dated "Gulf. of Juan, March 1st, 1815," and signed "Na- poleon Emperor' and "Bertrand, the Grand Marshall exercising the fune- tions of a Major-General to the Grand Army." Al this news filled almost three pages of that old-time weekly, equal to about three columns of an ordinary modern newspaper. Among the miscellaneous news paragraphs are several bearing date of March 19, and are copied from the London Chronicle. One states that "Lord Wellington is spoken of as the Commander of the British troops in Belgium." Another gives news of the fleet----""Twenty sail of the Line were yesterday ordered to be put in com- mission, and many officers who had been put upon half-pay, have been ordered to repair to the Admiralty. A press is ordered in the port of Lon. don and in all other ports for the service of the fleet." All the news of that issue, and the editorial as well, relate to the mo mentous events transpiring in Europe. It was only the advertisements that had to do with home 'affairs. One of; these is of interest to-day. It an- nounces for sale "Twenty years pos- session of a field on the Plains of! 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