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â- k<»«- V. V I /I f r rJ TBEATK£NT OF THE POOS. Sow the City of Berlin Handles th^ Problem. Matiy interesting details regarding the cumlition and treatment o{ the poor by the municipality of Berlin are contained by the report forward- ed to the State Depaitment by Unit- ed Htates Consul Haynes at Uouen, France. From this report it appears that is is a crime in Berlin to be out of work. When a ragged man makes his appearance on one of the streets in Berlin he is immediately rerjuest- ed by a policeman to show his pap- ers. If they show that the bearer has WAS IN ITS GRIP FOR 25 YEARS THEN DODD'S KIDNEY PIZ-LS CURED HIS KIDNEY DISEASE. Remarkable Cure Reported From Quebec â€" The Lesson it Teaches. Hunterstown, Ciue., Jan. 9â€" (Spec- ial). â€" The thousands of Canadians who suffer from Chronic Kidney com- :Sjept more than a curtain prescribed P'^'*"^ *''! ''e interested in the cure .,^-:'^'v^-P'.Shts in an asylum for the "f *f'^'"'"«-- ^'o"*:her of this place, umtier o. ^''•i^^^ ^„ g^^ ^^ ^e ^'°'' twenty-five years he sullered There are very few cleans- ing operations in which Sunlight Soap cannot be used to advant- age. It makes the home bright and dean. jg days to the a honiele.ss. from l is immediately conduc' work-house, which, although no prison, resembles the latter in all de-'-' tails. Every person of humble means is in.su red by the St%te in Clerniany, Clerks, shop assistants and ser- vants are c'ompellcd to insure ag'ainst sickness and old age. 'I'Tie State has built an immense sanitorium at Becl- itz at a cost of nearly $2,500,000. where the invalid citizen is sent with his pension, in order to expedite his return to the ranks of the wage- earners. The whole object of the Berlin munic-ipality is to secTire the phy.sical and intellectual well-beirfg of its citizens, and although the Germans are not soft-hearted in the manner of achieving this purpose they have this recommendation â€" they succeed. Dr. Freund, the chairman of State from Kitlney Complaint. Dodd's Kidney I'ills cured him. Speaking of his case Mr. Boucher says: lyjt was Do<ld's Kidney Pills that cu^SI«™<-'- I^""" twer.ity-tive years I suffere^ViJ''''' ^^'^ malady of the Kid- neys. I feHt 'I'^^'iys feeble and was often in paiffV^ne day I received a Dodd's AlmanaN.^"^ ""t-'a'' of many wonderful cures it\j'^- '''•^en I decid- ed to give Dodd's Y^i'l^ey Pills a trial. I took twen^t""^'*^ boxes in all arid now I am perfSSjly cured." Dodd's Kidney Pills aV'^^'' <^^'^« sick Kidneys. If the diseasai'''''« &"<â-  a firm hold it takes theiJvl""e<?r than if is just starting. But >^ere is no form nor no stage of Kidi'-l^ Disease that cannot be cured by Dodd's Kidr.iey Pills. Dyeing I Cleaning I For tha •irr bati«m4 fni work to tka " IRm«H AMERICAH aTIIHO CO." LMik Mr *(<at la fm Hnra, or u>d 4irm*k. MobUmI, Toronto, OtUwa, Qucb«« -^ No Breakfast Table complete "without EPPS'S An admirable food, with ail its natural qualities intact, fitted to build up and maintain robust health, and to resist winter's extreme cold. It is a valuable diet for children. W'^C^Jci^ ^ Mc-tc£^ OyUiAZL^ S^^^^Me^. c^^t^ ^n^ -^^z^/ V^t^ Sf^yrtd- " POULTRY THE insurance in Berlin, takes the ground that the State should do everything I ^g^t door to each other In to fit its citizens for the battle of ' commercial competitions, and when it has done everything, when it has first equipped, then safeguarded and afterward assisted in distress, it should punish sternly arid steadfast- ly the lazy and the indolent. Fall sick, says the State to its work people, and we will nurse you baxk to vigor; drop out of employment and we will find you fresh work, grow old, and we will provide you , with bread and butter; but become I'eave my house." lazy and vagabond, and we will 1 A week passed. and. the lawyer lock you up and make you work 'tame and asked-Jor- the loan of his till you have paid the uttmost farth- lawn-mower. ing of your debt. I '^ ^"^ ""^^ *"° *f'*'' ^^ \e\iA you Hags and misery dare not lie about jmy lawn-mower," said the physician, in the park or scatter disea.se j "though it is my rule never to let through the crowded streets. If it leave my lawn. There, however, there is any virtue in the unemployed you may use it all you jdcase." the State will certainly develop it as NEIGHBORLY NEIGHBORS. A rather humorous story is toUI of a lawyer and physician who lived a small country town. The physician one day asked if he might borrow from the lawyw his edition of Shakespeare's works. "You are welcome to read the work in my library," the lawyer an- swered, "but you can't take it away with you, I am sorry to say, for I have lost so many books through lending them that I have resolved never to let another volume Piles well as it is possible to do so. There is a central bureau for providing men with work, and when a man knows that not to work means the work-house he solicits employment here and elsewhere with such a will as almost compels wages In one year the State has secured employ- ment for 50,000 men. The c*ilizen is provided with sani- tary dwellings, with unadulterated food, with schools and technical col- ' Lady â€" "Why don't you go to work? leges, and with insurance for sick- ] Don't you know that a rolling stone ness and old age. For a penny he gathers no mo.ss?" The Tramp â€" can travel almost from one end of , "Madam, not to evade your question Berlin to the ether by electric tram- ! at all, but merely to obtain infor- way or electric railway. His streets : mation, may I ask what practical are clean, brilliantly lighted and | utility moss is to a man in my con- To proT<» to Jtm tuA tJR Cbane'a Ointment ta a certain and aboolute euro for eae^ and every form of itchine ble«dinic»nd protrudintc piles, Ji* mannfacturers have imarr ate«l IK See t«» Imonialu in tho daily preBS and a.sk yourneijh- Kjra what thoy think of it. You can use it and ("•t voor money back if not cured. 60c a box. at U dealtrs or Edmasbon3ates & Co_ Toronto Or. Chase's Ointmeni noiseless; his cafes and music halls are innumerable. He lives in a pal- ace. And all this is the result of municipal government by experts in- stead of by amateurs 4 . DAY GROWING LONGES. A scientific writer in the Electrical magazine advances the startling theory that the time occupied by our world in its diurnal rotation is slowly lengthening. The fact, he says, remains irrefutable that the duration of our present day is much less than it was some million years ago; but there are now several na- tural physical causes tending to ef- fect a gradual arrest of the earth's proper motion about her axis. The most important of these is the retarding effect of tidal action in- fluenced by the sun and moon's at- traction. The tides, no doubt, had an enormously greater effect during the early stages of the earth's career than at present; but while the re- tarding action of tho tides still re- mains probably the greatest factor in the possible lengthening of the day, it must be Infinitely less than formerly, when the globe was a mol- ten state, and at a still earlier peri- od when it was in a gaseous condi- tion. There are other retarding causes which hnve to do with the lengthen- ening of the day â€" the drift of mil- lions of tons of glaciers in their flow towards the equator, the weight of excoriae thrown up by volcanic ac- tion from possibly the depth of a mile to the earth's surface, and the action of magnetic currents, which would absorb some energy from the revolving mass that represents our world. dition?" ::^ DODDS ' /KIDNEY ^, piCls;.- \ TAKE NOTICE. We publish simple, straight testi- monials, not press agents' inter- views, from well-known people. From all over America they testify to the merits of MINARD'S LINI- MENT, the best of Household Reme- dies. C. C. RICHARDS & CO. The ^- Most Nutritioua an^.BconomlcaL ' The game of chese\ is still included in the curriculum of liussian schools. Heâ€" "Why did Miss ^Oldly take to tho violin'?" She â€" "Beicause a bow goes with it." 1 We can handle your poultry aithoB alive or dressed to Also your butter, eggs, honey other produce. CAWSON COMfVliSSiON Cor. Wast M^rkat anJ Colbarno best advantage, eggs, honey and CO., Limited 8t»., TORONTa Minarij's Liniment M\w.\ ESTATES nr LONDON INDIANS' STJPEKSTITIONS. Believe in Ghosts, Witches and Po-wer of the Medicine Men. The Indian believes there are boa constrictors in the streams of North America, and also that the South American tapir lives in North Amer- ica. He calls the boa constrictor the iste-ach-war-nayer and calls the tapir nocas-oh-mer. The Indian believes he has a cure and preveniive for rabies or hydro- phobia. He also belie^'es he can cure any snake bite on earth, from a ground rattler to a velvet tail or diamond rattler. An Indian never was known to go mad from a dog bite or die from a rattlers bite, while other races succumb to the ve- nom of a .snake or go mad from the bite of a rabid dog. "ITie Indian be- lieves that cleansing the stomach I each full of the moon by vomiting gives long life and good health to all who will practise it through Bits of Land That Bring Their Noble Owners Wealth. Viscount Portman owns less 300 of London's 74,672 acres, they ai« worth more than half countj' elsewhere. j The Duke of Bedford is lord of 84,- ; 000 acres; but the 118 acres which | lie within the four-mile radius are i probably more valuable than all the rest put together. 'I'he Duke, it is said, draws an income of $60,000 â-  from t he t olls levied on the fruit I and v^PWtbles that enter Covont I (larden Market, in addition to an j enormous sum from rents. I The Duke of Westminster has two '' estates in London, either of which yields a truly regal income. From the two estates the Duke is said to j draw many millions a year. 1 The Duke of Portland has a snug life. The Indian, when in battle and fatally wounded, believes that if his medicine man can reach him with his bitter medicine before he dies it will give his instant relief and he ^\\\ be able to escape from the bat- 'ifield. He thinks every man is Iipnest until he finds him out, in wj^ch event he loses all confidence in than *'^â„¢k *"^*^ never gets over it. j^yj ! Th« Indian never makes up J „ -^ after ^ I falling out with any one. He may I speak to an enemy as he passes, but dies with the hatred in his heart. He believes as much or has as much faith in an Indian doctor as the paleface has in his M.D. The Indian doctor claims he never under- takes to treat a patient unless ho thoroughly understands the nature of the case. The red man once believed in wit- ches, but he does not now. He says some old time Indians were witches, but thej- are not the experts in med- icine they once were. He believes that through their medicines was gained the power of witchcraft. The Indian believes in ghosts, but and very valuabte little estate tuck- | ^Jf-'""-^ '^'^^^ °°^ '"'^"y a''° ib'o to see ed away in the comer between Port- *^^"' ^"""^ °«^^'" ^« ^^^^- «i>i'° PROBLEM OF THE PAUPER. Great Question Which England Has to Face. England's greatest and most press- ing problem to-day is not Iiraperial federation. Nor is it preferential tariffs within tho finvpire. The prob- lem that is worrying her most is, what to do with her paupers, says the New York Sun. One family out of four- of that country's population earns normally less than $3 per week, and 8 per cent, of all the families in the king- dom have an average income less than this. In London one person in every five dies in the workhouse (a public poorhouse in which adult pau- pers are made to work), in public hospitals, or in public lunatic asy- lums. In 1387, out of 82,545 deatlts in London. 17,000 took place in public instiCutious for paupwrs. This being the normal state of affairs, some idea may be formed of the frightful conditions existing among the laboring class when, as now, the country is sutTering from a severe in- dustrial depre."!sion. Hundreds of thousanc's of men and women are out of work, their little savings arc where they wanted to bring on a quick, violent revolution. In the pro- sent emergency, as in past ones, thev arc not spinning theories or in- dulging in violent talk of riots, but a large portion of the intellect and wealth of the country is eni-rgctioal- ly endeavoring to ameliorate pre.sent bail conditions and to contrive some means to prevent their recurrence. The rich are contributing generously to the Mansion House and other funds for the relief of the poor; and me.intimo both sdcialists an<l non- socialists are nttncking vigorously the land laws, which prohahly are at the root of present deplorahlo I conditions. I land place and Marylebone road. In point of acres it is insignificant, but it produces in rents $2,500,000 a year. When in the 17th century Sir John Spencer, Lord Mayor of London, bought for a song a few acres in the districts known as Clerkenwell and Canonburv, he little dreamt that he was preparing a reigal fortune for a noble family. Sir John had a charming daughter who was wooed by a handsome but impecunious Baron, Lord Northamp- ton, on whom the city Knight refus- ed to smile as a potemtial son-in- law. But the young lover was de- termined to have his way in spite of pacernal frowns, and one day, so the story goes, he drcseed himself as a baker's apprentice, calle<l at the Knight's house, and carried off the heiress in his basket on the top of his head. To this romantic incident the Lord Northampton of our day owes the enormous revenue that comes from his London property. HABIT'S CHAIN. Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed and Hard to Break. An ingenious philosopher estimates that the amount of will power teces- sary to breaJi a life-long habit would, if it could be transformed, lift a weight of many tons. It some' imes requires a higher de- gree of heroism to break the chains of a pernicious habit than to lead a forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a lover of coffee. Before I was out of my teens 1 was a miserable dys- peptic, sufftring terribly at times with my stomach. "1 was convince*.! that it was coffee that was causing the trouble and yet I (ould not deny myself a cup for breakfast. At the age of 36 1 was in very poor health, indeed. My sister told me I was in danger of becoming a c^Jffec drunkard. "But I never could give up drink- ing colVee for breakfast althoiigh it kept me constantly ill, until I tried Postuni. 1 learned to make it properly according to directions. and now we can hardly do without Postum for breakfn-st, and care nothing at all for coffee. "I nni no longer troubled with dyspepsia, do not hnve spells of suf- fering with my stomach that used to I rouble me so when I drarik cof- fee." Name given by I'ostum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book. "'I'he Uoad to Well- viU«." others do. f ALREADY SUPPLIED. The man who has to pitch the hay Sighs "Oh^ to just sit down Beside a desk .and work the way Those fellows do in town." The man who's caged from morn till night Takes liver pills, and then Says sadly, "If I only might Be on the farm again!" rrr flv»r Slity Ve«r< Mlw.WiwnioWf SoiTBinngTROThM hMninl f% viUliortof mothrn for thair uiitldrcn whit* t««&Iiin' luoo^b«ithe child. aofUni thecumn. klUr«pain, c«r«i *iadeoli«,r«cilUte«thcitoni«fibuia uuvela, knilis -.li« UKtr«iiia(17for O.arrlitfa. rwvuby.&T* e^au • uotU« Sold by druasiau Uiruugtaout Uio world. B« aar* «a 1 •ti<«f"lla . WiK>La inSuffTniKudikur.* Li-Hi He-"! suppose Mi.ss de Millions married that poor young artist be- cause she loved him?" Sht â€" "No; because her dearest friend loved him," Mkard's Linimsnt Coras Boms c!c. When a Japanese audience wish to express disapproval of a play, they turn their backs to thu stage. An idea of the popularity of Tuckett's Marguerite Cigars may be gained from the fact that the sales in 1904 exceeded 12,000,000, which is by far the largest sale of any brand in the history of Canada. She â€" "I think it's so ers to quarrel." He â€" silly of Yes. making:; up is so expensive." lov- The Minard's Liniment Cures Daniiruf, HIS LAST PLACE. A gentleman who was interview- ing a valet asked him. "Why did you leave the last place you lived at?" "Well, sir," replied the valet. "I didn't like it at all, and was glad to leave. But 1 could go back any time I like." "Then, if you could go back again that shows you mu.st bear a eooil character, so I'll eni;ago you," said the gentleman. Tt afterward^ transpired that the la-st place tho valot lived at was a prison WoineTi kiss when to show tho men ready to do unto would that others them they meet ju«it that they nre otherK as th.'v sho«l<l do unto Used in H.B.K. Mitts, Gloves and Moccasins â€" tough as whale- bone, flexible, soft, pliable, scorch- proof, wind -proof, boil -proof, crack-proof, tear-proof, rip-proof, cold-proof, almost wear-proof â€" certainly the greatest leather ever used in mitts and gloves. 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