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em Ty mer He McKendry' s Fall and Winter Style Book The daintiest hats you ever saw, the very <--> les, et bee which cannot latest the excellence of our work, and at the same t The bst of customers is You should be on the lia. stantial saving in price. season. oe x3 'Write to-day as the demand for our Book" is very greal. 2 McKendry's Limited 226-228 Yonge Street be srt a OSAKA WAS FIRE SWEPT JAPANESE CITY IS VERY MUCH UP TO DATE. It is Cat aad Crosxscut With Ca- nals Over Which are Many "ridges. Osaka, the wealthy ancient elty, centre of Japan's commerce, whose foreign import and export trade represents no less than $200,000 . A year and its inland and coasting trade an immense amount, fost tre- mendously as a result of the fire whieh cables say destroyed four square miles of the city. Of the -i3,- 009 buildings reported desired many will be doubtless mud a bamboo, a few mats and shojis oa bably worth scarce a couple of hun- dred dollars; but Osaka also con- tains a great number of modern buildings of Western style, as well as castles, temples, bridges and his- toric structures, storehouses con- taining valuable merchandise and gedowns with treasures of art, and the loss will run ate the multons. The city lies on tie banks of the Yodogawa, the river draining ee Biwa, and is more than 2,500 yea cld, one of the most ancient of Ja. fan's ancient cities. Its great cas tlewone of the most striking of the "city's structures, built by Hideye- thi as his seat of government in 1533, is the strergest of all Japan's -castles and was tne scene of many Stirring events. not the least of which was the uniemorable siege by the Shogun Iyeyasu at the close of the gre at Osaka canipaign of 1615. tthe city is built on either bank of the wide river and on Naka-no-shi- ina. the island in the centre of the stream. OSAKA MAKES MERRY. Canals cut and crosscut the city tuntil the visitor is reminded more ot Holland than Japan. 'Three great bridges cross the river, the a bashi, = Tenjin-bashi and wa-bashi. The principal thor -ou = fare is the Shinsai-bashi-suji, with its fine shops, theatres and bastling aspect; it is one of the hiust interesting -treets mot ouly cf Osaka but of Japan. In summer it is full of color, vari eolored cur twins being stretches { acress to shade the sipkeepers from the sun, and with the or ght hues of the ul tras arios sop blinds with their Lig glarsiy ab cle signs, the gay cal- ors of th vhing of the pedes- trans and the crush of ricksha coo- . there is a warmth of col- is strikingle Oriental. The xeneral ; aspectefthe iysern from a distance i, that of a factory city Since 1290 will after mill has fullowed in sas succession aad there vasa forest of factory chim- neys when che writes was fast in Osaka Centuries before Europe knew of Japan Osaka was the great = veia! and commerc rial centre of empire, andl that still. Throwek all the feudal era the mer echints of Osaka, de-pised though they were by, the samurai, were the bankers and = crediters of the anpenee princes, and it was they v gave the daimeys guld and sil- ver for their tribute of rice, and in the Ereproof gudowns of Osaka was kept the nativnal store of rice, cot- ton and sitk and the great captains secured th® money for their wars despised merchants of Count Okuma in a recent speech said: saka i3 financially, industrially and culnt --- su- perior to Tukio Kobe, known far as 2 great port, is really with Hyo- ge and Sakai an outport of the burned city Jealous cf Kobe growth Osaka is engaged in a re- clamation and harber scheme to cost 316,000,000, it being hoped that THE GREAT LINERS and big freighters which draw too much water to go upw to Osaka across. the bay will be attracted there when facilities are provided. Coasters come now i leets, er Osaka is the greatest enterport of Japan's commerce, and the junks come in great flotillas until their! masts look like forests. The street song of the Osaka coo- lie says: "Every day to Osaka | come a thousand shi ips. An idea of the commercial im portance of the city is obtained when it is stated that there are more than 400 guilds in Osaka. The | cotton mills load steamships va the millions of India. Most streets are narrow, although there are some wide thorotighfares. There are streets of three story houses and streets of two stery houses, | grays and yellows of the wall sur- kut there are square miles of hows: es one story high, flimsy places of mud, wattle a amboo, with | paper sides and mat floors. The! ec great mass of the city is an agglom-| and gold, cration of low wooden. buildings with eles roofs. are interesting, brighter, than Tokio, and hoe city as a whole fa more pictures 1} has been terined the Verice of | embankments supporting the houses Japan, for it is traversed in al] di- rections by canals, besides being separated into several large por- tions by the branching of the Yo- dogawa. Anything more in the shape of a street vista than the view looking down one of these watefways can scarcely be fuund in Japan. Still as a mirror surface, the canal flows between high stone --houses of two or three stories, all sparred out from the stone work so that their facades bodily ov emnene the water. They are hudd gether in a way suggesting honenve from behind, and this appearance of squeezing and crowding is strengthened hy the absence of re- gularity in design, no houve being exactly like another, but au hav- ing an 2 ga far Eastern queerness, a sort of racial charac- ter. They push out queer little gal- leries wit trades, glassless windows with lich balconies under them and rooflets over them like cyebrows; tiers of tiled and tilted wanings, and great eaves which, tn soren hours, throw shadows down » the foundation, As most of the Gabe: work is dark, either with age or staining, the shadows look deepor than they really are. It is a picture for an artist, tnis scene from a bridge across.one of Osa- ka's canals, with the cargo boats and boats yoloed by peasants with IT 15 A CITY OF ERIDGES. No other Japanese city has so many. War« are named after bridges, distances nfirked by them. There are 159 principal ones an goodness knows how many lesses ones. According to ancient custom, the various trades and industries congregate on particular streets, each trade to its street; even the theatres have their strect and the | fortune tellers theirs. The central + part of the city has many fine ler 'd- | ings. The city h is a classivat | Western structure with cranite co ! umns, aml the post office, mint, | senal, steamship offic nee parting- { larly the fine stone structure of the: Osaka Sho-en kaisha--mills brew -| jeries, cte., are all housed in solid buildings of Western architecture. The foreign concession, dating from | prior tu the civil war, whea the | foreis gners fled te Kobe to take pre! teetion under the gans of the war- ships, there, is also thick with) Western sts! led buildings now ocecu- pied by Japanese, for the foreign' settlement was moved to Kobe many | years ago There are many bry |' hewspape r plants, the Osaka Maini-| chi and Osaka Asahi being the most influential of ail Japanese news- pape rs and having far greater cir- culation than the Tykio papers Of the structures of destroyed Osaka the great castle is the most interesting of all. It is built of stone, with bulwarks and battle- ments, crenolated skyline, with loopholes for the old time muske- teers and bowmen with their ar- rows, passages from which fighting men hurled stones upon their assail- gots, with walls yards in thickness and a great parapet and moat, with bridges and yreat gates. Out- side the present fortress there was ormerly a second wall and para- ret and deep, wide moat, but this wall has been razed and the moat filled. The destruction of this was made a condition of peace when the Shogun Iyeyasu captured the castle after the seige which closed the great Osaka campaign in 1615. There was a great palace, built by Hideyoshi withing the castle, but during the civil war -- preced- ed the restoration of the present Emperor in 1868 the buildings with- in the castle were set on fire by a train laid by the samurai of the Tokugawa Shogun before their finel retreat a were completely de stroyed within a few hours, only some of the small. turrets on the valls remaining. The castle now serves as the he cdnaxctens of the Osaka garrison THE TEMPLES OF OSAKA ad jemi ke tintest. All the streets! 4 T i qainter| poy "aie Nest a ruin, sere, famous iu Japan, Sasticularty the Tonneji. which occupies a vast Lextent of ground in the southeast 'section of the city. It was found- ; ,ed 600 A.J) and has fallen into de-; {cay mmany times and been renovat- jcd at the expense of the ruler. The! seusation received on passing from| & i the bright, narrow. busy streets of 'shops to the mouldering courts of ihe Tonnej:- is indescribable. The buildere and renovaters have al- ne she. sans the peri veelh some plan, a pe, gee is centuries. e beutral tome Pe the old timbers, the fading spectral faces. eccentricities of disjointing jand extraordinary carvings under ithe eves. «f waves and clouds and emons, once splendid with lacquer now time whitened and indicate the age and stried pagoda,, and the. moss grown steve flags of the qn: iadrangu- ar cari surrey inded by an open eoister, the Budd ist school and dee he five straw hat and straw coat, like pea-|guiies. They plan laying a tax of eet of long forgotten picture|se per cent. on ail collateral be- s. ' of peace are up in arms 'tric tramways. iris lined pond with its tortoises, the statucs, stone lanterns, lions enormous temple drum where athletic young bonzes beat rhyth- mic rolls--all seem as from a past age, with only the booths for the sale of toys and oddities, the rest- ing places where the musmus sel! tea, cake a the ever-present "Beer-u" of the present. --$,----_-- BONUS FOR CHILDREN. Two French Saraats Scheme. Propose a2 sg proposed be Pref. Charles Richet, of the Academy of Medicine and M. Leroy-Beaulieu. The scheme se3 a ayatem of bonuses for children, the bonus growing asthe cumber of children in one family grows; that is, while the caress get nothing in consideration of the first child, they get s00f. for ro second, 1,000 for the third, and "Prot. Richet believes that births will be increased annually by 750,- 0000 or 1,000,000 as the cost to the State of 30,000,000f. yearly. This quests and confiscating half the es- tate in case there is only one child. . Leroy-Beaulieu further would reiace the salaries of unmarried employes of the State as well as of those with only one child, or i none five years after marri- Naturally the proposition has aroused warm opposition. It eh whether the class which ould be reached by such an offer 18 one worthy to be the parents of future generations. Theze are ro lacking those who affirm that the prosperity of France rests on the ag ait of the small family dd » foresee revolution, chnos and ee poverty if large families i become general. a HOT. WEATHER MONTHS KILL LITTLE CHILDREN If you want to keep your. chil- SS ELIAS ROCERS, President. Apply direct to head office. 25 Toronto National Life Assurance Co. Steal op LS | A endid Opening in this cou for active, a erastle 'agent possessing good charaster: Otrecter é. RALSTON, Managing to &, Toron ----SSSssaT How WIRE Is Is DRAWN. Sccuring Length h and Firmness Preventing Brittleacss. Bers of metal four inches square are heated and passed while hot and plastic through rapidly revolving rolls, reducing them to wire rods which vary from one-quarter of an inch to an inch or more in diame- ter, depending upon the finished size of wire want These rods, which are formed in- tc coils as they pass through the rolls, are dipped in acid baths to remove loose scale and provide a lubricant for drawing. Drawing consists of pulling rods while cold through holes of gradually decreas- ing diameter drilled in steel plates. During this process the particles of); metal become elongated and strain- ed, making the wire harder Sai! more brittle. To restore it to a pro- Per temper it is necessary to heat or annea When a fine diameter is required ter of a single thousandth of an inch and extended 13,00) miles in length. Before 30 fine a size is reached the wire will cut into the steel of the die og so the usual die plates must be discarded and the drawing continued through holes drilled in diamonds, the dia- affords a striking illustration of a 'material made more ome by the application of lab rom the time the he of metal enters the furnace nothing i is added te it. AL the work is done with ene article, which ts passed through rolls and drawn through die " until it is finished. wire made from an extra high grade at steel worth in the bar six ceats a pound, which is much above the price of the greater bulk of steel. {py the finished wire the value is in- creased from six cents te 350 a pound. Wire for fene:ng and the common grades of ev-called market wire do net involve a bizh labor cost and sell at a small advance abe the price of the meta' bar. i tawn for more eracting purposes sell at higher prices. Wire one one- thousandth of an inch in diameter is of course exceftional, being pre- pared fer delicate electrical tests of such importance that it is deem- vd advisable tu gu to great expense te make it exactly the required ize. ---- a SOME LARCE een interesting inside cls are divulged in iene "6 the einen, salaries earned by some ree Some sionally a gente, } It as rep ented thit tw agents recentiy sp } i bite pinion ohne 'dren rosy, healthy and full of life iduring the het weather give them an = occasional saby's Own Tablets. This medi- | ine prevents deadly summer com- ot plaints by cleansing the soannths |! 'and bowels; | or if cures the trou- | ble prompt ly if it comes on unex- vected] y The mother who keeps this medi- cine on hand may feel as safe as if she had a doctor in the home. iP Mrs. C. C. hans Georgetown, Ont . says:-- "' n heartily recommend ; Baby's ati Tablets as a great help to baby during the hot summer months. I have used them for sum- mer troubles and am much pleased with the result." Sold by mediciue | dealers, or by mail gt 25 cents a} box from the -Dr- Williams' Modi- | cine Co., Brockville, Ont ----r IN THE EAKLY DAYS. i -- | Absurd Arguments Advanced | Against Railway. Very extraordinary are the pre-! judices with wlfich human nature obstructs progress. Hardly an in-' Yention of importance has come | into use without a struggle against the wilful blindness of unreason- able people. In au article in Pear- son's Magazine one may learn of | the sisecnleus yet virulent attacks made on the vai!way when in its in- fancy. i The mere rumor of the apres hh of a railway within a dozen 'mil - of a district was for a lomy tine enough to cause a shower of ad- verse petitions to rain upon Parlia-} nt. Public ig nine would be opened to help on the opposition in much the same way as to day ' good citizens of some ancient haunt against any proposals connected with rlec- Househoklers were told that their homes were in dan er of being burnt down by sparks Frou the steam engines. Farmers were assured that their hens would gines passengers were gravely advised that they would not be able to breathe in a train Sarees at twelve sailew an hour UNOLE EZRA SAYS. ; y's 50 many corgi | oar i National bstood children." Applicant -- "I de understand * em, ma'am. That's y T wouldn't werk where they fare Hop. for the Chrouie Dyspeptic. i chronic, 'of /Parmelee's estern cities H > Thousand sere & 5 3 es 3 ~~ 5 "E* F started to wat businers a ner rs to cover the ter that any man whe has cent rh 'y "a this line could do Be we the reasons for the succees of Life agents w the paper. If ¢ to sou ta ake up the Life Insenranee business cennot) make with easier Company to - us National Life. And "ry need t an Agent right in ier SereshOry Com- mMunicate with the heed office. - ~~ + -- Applicant -- "Ne, 'malam I jeonldn't work. where there was lchildren.' Mrs. Keephouse --'But we advertised for a girl who under- depend upon it, "y ~Throuch lack of consideration of the bedy s needs many persens al- low disorders of the digestive ap- i paratus to endure inti! trey become | ic, filling and nights |! with suffering. To these a course! Vegetable Pills recominended as a sure and speedy way to regain health. These pills undead te com- are specially comp. 'hat ds ope "psia awl the many ills 'that follow in it- train. and they are auaersatal always- higtt: mention the name of this rine T, writing o .dvertisers, Jacks bad een impart ng to the { minister the important and cheer- 'fu' juforn:ation that his father had get a new set of fale teeth. *'In- deed. Jacky.' replie ed the = mi ais- , ter indulgently, "avd what _ he de with the old set? © pose. " answered Jacky, they' Hy Jem down and nake ine m.' eglecr, uv bes o keep cured Y the while." STRANGE ELECTRIC STORM On the night between the 17th] and 18th of Fobinary las® in south latitude 33 degrees, west longitude 35 degrees, the sailing ship Ville du-Harre encountered a most Te- markable storm. The rain fell in torrents, and the ship appeared to he electrified, the mastheads flam- ing like giant candles. Ights travelled ever the rigging, and after every flash of lightning a part of the se which had heen newly painted, remained for several seconds siovine with phos- phorescence. The lightning, which was very frequent, inst of dis- playing itself in zigzag lines, took the form of flying bombs, which ex- ploded with outbursts of light that illuminated the whole sky. Before and after the more violent explo- sions of thunder fierce gusts of w swept the ship. This terrifying ex- perience lasted for five hours with uo respite: + b4 Wilson's Fly Pads, the best of both the flies rt all fiy killers, kill and the disease germs. An orator holding forth ia favor concluded thus :-- nothing beats a bez pardon,"' bad Bevel wife.' replied a woman. Lusband does."" Mother Graves' Worm Extermin- ator dues net require the help of any purgative medicine to complete the cure, Give it a trial and be conrine rh a MRS. ALLGALL. "Who's the voman who calls every day tw use our te'ephsne 7" he ene who complained be- cause our children take a short cut through her yard on their way to schov!."' DON'T BE DECEIVED. --- Inacrupulous pine igi are attempting tu pee y mon ad ino ut ao, im: itation of he enthol, Plaste Be sure rel Et ae ee "nade by Devis & Lawre: Landlor "fre you, you 'aven't aad for your beer. Way- farer -' That's all right. 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It is known she atterds bullfichts! only as a concession te public wish "and national cusiecn, and it would ! exe ite no astonishment were she te announce her abseuce from al! bull- determined eppesition rules of the Spanish court. intreduced a systecn which for the liberality of the English court, in which she was raised and from which Alfonso carricd ber o a bride less than three years ago. Old-fash 7 Spaniards profess | to be shocked by the reforms the! Foting queen nes wrought, but just the same they have been unable to withhold ee for seenets of It has ac briet time, in truth, to mark Victoria as -- most au- thoritative of the women sharing as consorts the chreman of the old world. i iets mention bay name of this paper in writing to, advertisers. ORIGIN OF BEAUTY. Beau dignity are built ithin, and the qualities ee Cece ae a ven are are spiritual beings. of fiesh that the spirit for a time wears is modified and affected for the bétter or for the worse. 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