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is EUROPEANS -GO FANTI" WHITE MEN WHO LIVE WITH COLORED RACES. Many Instances Where Rich Men Cut Thcmselvco Off From Civilization. Whca a European abandons the life to which he has been brought up, and throws in his lot with a colored race, he h said to "Go Fanti." Buch lapses from civiliza- tion are by no means uncommon in Africa, India, China, Japan, and indeed, in almost every country in- to which the white man has forced bi; way with whisky and Bible. A curious case of cutting uneself f>fi from civilization occurred in Persia some years ago. A rich English traveller was captured by hill-robbers at the edge of the des- ert, about midway between Ispa- han and Yedz. They held him to ransom, which was to be arranged for by a friend of the Englishman, who was staying at Teheran. Before the release could be effect- ed, the captured man fell deeply in Icve with the youngest daughter of the chief of the marauders. De- spite the entreaties of hia friend, he put the old life behind him, mar- ried the girl, and became a full- fledged Persian robber. On his fa- ther-in-law's death the renegade Englishman succeeded the former as head of THE ROBBER GANG. A well-known British war corre- spondent relates how he was once entertained bj a friendly Arab, whose tent was pitched a few miles south of Gurara. During dinner â€" which was a typical Arab meal â€" the conversation was carried on by means of the few words of Arabic known to the newspaper man. aud. when words failed, signs were used. The inevitable hookah was pro- duced, and the two men puffed away in contemplative silence. At tht end of half an hour or so the guest was utterly astounded at hearing his entertainer say in per- fc ct English : "Hang it all, let's have a decent smoke 1" "What the Why, you're no Arab I" exclaimed the war corre- spondent. The brown-faced, bernouse-clad man smiled grimly as he rummaged out an old well-colored briar pipe and a packet of choice mixture. "I was once an Englishman," said he, as he passed the tobacco erer, "but, now " He finished the sentence by a shrug of his shoulders. They talked of Hyde Park and of Piccadilly ; o? Hurlinghani and of Lord's ; of hunting, of shooting, of fishing. Th? guest felt the delicacy of putting questions; the host vol- vnteered no explanations. He de- clared that he would never return to the irritating, tightening bonds of civilization. "THE DESERT HOLDS ME,' he said simply, as the other swung himself on to his camel and depart- ed, marvelling at the vagaries of mankind. A fev,- years ago a capta'n in a v.ell-known regiment stationed in I lie of the Xorth-West Provinces of India became infatuated with a handsome hill-girl. The mess soon lost its attraction for him. and the society of the uncivilized maiden I'ceame preferable to that of the station ladies, with their latest London aud Paris fashions. He CAentually married his dusky di- vinity, and 'went under. ' He is still perfectly happy and contented, and, living a free-and-easy life, has no desire to return to the trammels of society. In Japan there are many Euro- peans, who, fascinated by the charms of the East, have put the West for ever behind them. With- iu a few miles of Tokio there lives a man who was once a familiar fig- ure in St. James' Street and Pall Mall. In the autumn of 1902 he went out to Japan on a yachting cruise with some friends. He be- came enamoured with a peach-and- cream coniplexioned native, wooed, and married her, and disappeared from the world that had known him. A wealthy Frenchman, when on a visit to the Far East, met a L-harming daughter of Japan. He fell madly in love with her, and asked her to become his wife. This she consented to do on condition that he agreed to live in the land pf the Mikado. It was a terrible wrench for him to abandon his be- loved Paris, but he felt that it nould have been a still greater rhc- rifico to give up the girl whc had ,won his heart. He now lives fn a secluded- and beautiful house near Kioto, and Paris is almost A FORGOTTEN MEMORY. There are several well-known in- kiSnces of Europeans turning Zulu, one of the most notable being thu'^ Cetewayo's" Whit^ mI" ThT^ugh COMMENDS A GOOD DIET his bravery, Dunn soon won the heart of the Zulu King, and be eventually became a chief. A famous London journalist, who has acted as war correspondent in almost every part of the glo.'ie, re- lated the following story : Cete- wayo, in the days before the Zulu war, once asked Dunn suddenly what ' he would do if the Zulus fought against the white men. Dunn at once replied that he would go to the side of his own people, and Ce- tewayo grimly told him that, had I.-e given any other answer he would l-ave stabbed him, for he would have known him to be a liar. When the war did break out. Dunn kept hih word. Always a white man at heart, he took up arms on the side rt his own people. You will find Europeans wedded to Samoan women, with their deep languorous eyes ; to women of the Celestial Empire, with almonds ej es and crippled feet ; to dusky fcll-Iipped Africans ; to North American Indians, with long broad noses and hair as strong as horses'. All these men have "Gone Fan- ti." â€" Pearson's Weekly. * THE GREY Nl'NS & ZAM-Bl'ii Leading InHtitutions Use ThiK Balm Most of the leading institutions throughout Canada have adopted Zam-Buk as a standard preparation without equal for skin diseases and injuries, burns, blood poison, etc.. From the St. Patrick's Asylum, Ottawa, crimes the following ap- preciation of its merits : "Gentlemen, â€" In the orphanage department of the Asylum, we have found Zam-Buk very good for heal- ing cuts, sores, and skin injuries generally, and shall continue to use it for such. Yours sincerely, (Signed) GREY NUNS. When a mot-her rubs on to the de- licate skin of children a salve to heal some cut, bruise, burn, erup- tion or skin disease, she needs to bt as careful as if she were giving the child an internal remedy. Zam- Buk is pure â€" free from all animal fa* and all mineral matter, and may bt- applied even tu the skin of young babies. Zam-Buk heals sores, cares ecze- ma, skin eruptions, ulcers, ring- worm, itch, barber's rash, blood poisoning, bad leg, salt rheum, ab- rasionx, abscesses, cuts, burns, scalds, and all skin injuries and dis- eases. Of all stores and druggists at ."iO cent!, or from Zam-Buk Co., Toronto, for price. 3 boxes for|1.25 TALISMANS IN MALTA. Odd Shaped Stnnp<« to Ward OIT Ef- fects of Snake Poison. SIR JAMES CRICHTON BROW?*E DEPRECATES POOR LIVING. I'iintiuonioasnem in Diet May I>ead to Serious Results, He Says. At the annual congress of jhe Rcyal Institute of Public Health, at Pvxton. England, Sir James Crich- toR Browne, president of the Pre- ventive Medicine section, delivered ail address on parsimony in nutri- tion, in which he deprecated the present tendency to abstemiousness in diet as an offset to ''over feed- ing," while he uttered a warning to "record-breaking' athletes. Sir James Crichton Browne pointed out that physiologists and medical men of high authority are preaching not merely simplicity of diet, but a degree of abstemious- ness that would hitherto have been regarded as dangerous. Chronic over-feeding or the habitual inges- tion of an excessive amount of nu- tiiment was one of the burning questions of the hour. MEAT EATERS RULE THE WORLD. The campaign against overfeeding was all very well, but we need not substitute for it, or rashly accept, the new and startling standards prescribed for us. He proceeded adversely to criticize the declara- tion of Professor Chittendon that the daily amount of proteid or al- buminous food required for the maintenance of health and vigor is not more than one-half that regard- ed as necessary. Vitality and en- ergy might almost be measured by the degree in which animal flesh en- tered into diet. With the departure of the old re- gime in Japan the prohibition against eating flesh had been swept away, and coincident with the ra- pid rise of Japan among the nations theie had been a vastly increased consumption of animal food by the I'fcst people. The Anglican Alliance was now tjTpified by the popularity of beef steak with mustard and Worcester sauce. (Laughter.) PtECORD-BREAKlNG ATHLETES The conviction that eating was cne of the chief pleasures of life had led to much too close shaving in diet in the application of puni- tive measured. Of course, prisoners must be pun- ished, but there is plenty of pun- ishment without inanition, and there was no reason why we shouid run the risk of permanently damag- ing our criminals who were in dur- ance vile for a time. It was level- ling up outside prison and not level- ling down within it that was want- ed. (Hear, hear.) Economy not less than humanity and justice d*- manded that every prisoner shall be placed in sound hygienic conai- tions and sufficiently fed so that be SOME STRANGE OFFERS HUSBAND AS A PRIZE FOR THE MOST COUPONS. Business Compodiioas Have Been Run With Sponses as the PremiuQis. A Berlin. Germanv, tradesman THE TORTURES OF NERVOUSNESS TbB Sufferer Feel ^ fliat Unles Mef Comes Insanity Will Follow. There is no torture more intol- lerable then nervousness. A nerv- ous person is in a state of constant irritation by day and sleeplessne<i8 v.. Ut!) ^"'°»."J-- tradesman by night. The sufferer star's at has lately issued a circular promis- ! every noise, i., shakv ;.nd .ienresHed. .â-  „ j.„ i,_„,. , , , - . , every noise, is shakr and depressed. ing to bestow a husband, m the n*, 1-.1. l • 1^1 «...„„ t u- s"-"", lu uui Often although in a completely ex- person of his son, up'-n the spinster ' I, . j * » â-  ui . â- .,. 1 ^K« „i,oii â„¢w . "•""""''^ i hausted state is unable to sit or li« who snail, wiUiin a j"ear s soace. L*;ji ^ li r »u- i- j u rr.u^^t fkl â„¢ * J " "J'"'-'-' stiJl. or trouble of this kind absj- uS i! !;. .K P"u"'' "°.' "f'lutely the best thing in the world u, the vafulnf fii. ^"'t "T^fr i '^ Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Th. nriz« h?l/„y : L- ^* *^*^ nerves are jaded and jangled b^ th. h« nro^ilA a ''eddia-^ gift, ,,„,e th.y are being starved b, io h^ 'hn.?««» %'^ViP^' "''"'v blood. Dr. William,' joi hi. business, says an Engliah ; ^j^j, Pill, make new rich bl.od I This singular oSer. though. ot^^l^ZV^^n" %f "^^^^^ 'r.<M.,..o „f --- * .L **^ nerves, there is absolutely no course, ot rare occurrency m theLj.^„u» -u ^ »i. -1. j " /.nmr,,-,.,.;-! _«,i-i . '.""'^ doubt about this: thousands c»n 1 commercial world, is not without >.-.;«,. „# .u. ui j u- _ll nra^.ri.r,!. fl^.-- ,.». , " j"' ' testiiv Of the blood-Bsaking, nenfe- preceaeat. Home years aso a Leedii, ' .. . • i-.- , ^l tih England, firai of drapers^ircuUted I ZlnTo^.T T %k '^^H ^"'"ll' among its customers penny tok.ns. ; ^"^P/J R^H v" « . Harpell, whereon was depicted a stvlishlv \*i^f ®"'*«*- ^r^" '»»« .«»y ^"J d:e.,ed young man surrounci.d h\ Jj'T ; *" ''^" ^ '^.t T^ m** !tl,e legend "A Husband for a G^li-\t^riZ"^'yT"'-'^^ the trouble ne.,- signifving tnat such as ex- [^^7^1,^. f I'â€" ^''•â- t'^^n' ! e>pendeJ tLt amount on the I'lVtv^.f . if' "''""I 't ^•'' firm's goods were allowed one rf^lr'Sil^ ""'^''''"^ '*••' ^ T crance in a raffle for an eligible Jj'f,., ^t.*'°«°'^ 8*^^ "t^"^^ v«.in» m.r, »!,« i...i - „. . ' "^^ ""* '* "1° "ot Seem to help me. I the houTe ' ^ "• â- """ •>« •'<1^"<1 ! HARD ON THE YOUNG MAN. I A circular which a now defunct j tea company distributed among its indy canvassers eontained the an- mc away for » change, but I 'was afraid to go, sal I always seemed tu fear .som« im- peuding calamity, and was afraid to spend the night alone, as I usod tu think each night that I would die nouncomont that "the young lady f^j^' naorning. I tried different who Dro<nires the )i«.t ro..,l» ^„™ I *>o«s of medicines but with no bet- ; who proeures the best result, com â-  pared with the amount of salary re j ctived, for not less than six months' I service, will receive S2(500 and be ' allowed to marry any single young 1 gentleman in the firm. Shouid the i ter results, and finally decided I «uuld go to my parents to see if the change would benefit me. I went to their doctor but with no tetter results. My mother urged young gentleman refuse" to'inarry ' ^^ '"^ *''J' ^^'' Williams' Pink Pills i her, we will pav the breach of prom- 'â-  *"*' ^^^ â„¢^ * ''"^- "' course I did : M damages, $600 extra, and dis ^ "°* expect a box would help me, ; miss the young gentleman from the j ^,"* ^ continued taking them and in j firm." about a month began to fsel better. In the early days of our late ^ ' <^â„¢ **•** "^ '^'•ore was an improve- 1 Queen's reign tbo proprietor of a j "'*j''. »"^â„¢>' condition every day, I library at one of the leading Ken- tish watering-places issued the an- I nouncament of a lottery for a hus- : band, who was guaranteed to be in the emjoymeut of an annuity of not ! less than tUOOO per annum. The I event created quite a stir, as the and in the course of about three months I was again enjoying the great blessing of perfect health. I gained about twenty pounds in veight and my friends could hard- ly believe I was the same person, T believe I would have been in my There are still to be found in Malta a number of small stones shaped and colored like the eyes, tongues and other parts of ser- pents. The superstition among the Mal- tese connect these with the tradi- tion that St. Paul when shipwreck- j might do some useful work while iu ed was cast on their island, andlprioon, and might not, when set at that it was there that while light- i liberty, swell the <rcat army of do- ing a bundle of sucks tor a tire a ' generates and incapables who have viper fastened on the Apostle's U- be maintained out of public prue was a handsome young fellow. ! grave long ago if it had not been jviho appeared to be in every way i f"^"" L>r. Williams' Pink Pills." eligible. Great, then, was the dis- j Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are good may created by the arrival, on the jfer any disease due t.. bad blood very day when the draw was adver- ! <^'" weak nerves. That is why they Used to take place, of a couple of! cure such troubles as anaemia, in- London constables by whom t'ne digestion, rheumatism, neuralgia, much-admired Adonis was arrest- St. Vitus' dance, paralysis, and the el on a charge of fraud. ailments of girlhood and woman- CINDERELL.A COMPETITION. '• ^^'"^- , ^°'^ ^^ medicine dealers at i 50 cents a box or six boxes for 82.50 Every New Year's Day a large cr may be had by mail from The Viennese firm of bootmakers was | Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- wont to offer a husband to the lady . \ille, Ont. whose foot was considered to be the smallest and most shapely of the year, guaranteeing at the same time to set the coaple up in busi WHITE ISLAND. hand. St. Paul calmly shook the reptile off into the flames and no harm followed. The natives wear these stones us talismans, in which character they suppose them serv- iceable in warding off dangers from suake bites and poisons. They are found in St. Paul's Cave, imbedded in clay, and are sot funds. There was a tendency in these e.x- perimental days to be a little short- sighted iu our physiological views, li. every newspaper there was testi- mony to the beneficial effects of strenuous physical exercise. But bow many of these athletes lived to a green old age, and how many who in rings and bracelets, and when! had undergone severe training and found to be in the shape of a tongue | made records in one way or another or liver or heart are hung around i succumb prematurely to heart the nock. They are also taken in- ternally, dissolved in wine, which method is attended, according to some people, by more immediate results. 4 FOR THE SUPERSTITIOUS. To make tea too strong is a sign of new friends. If you make it too weak then you will lose friends. If you sing while making bread you will weep before it is eaten. To forget to put coffee in the cof- fee-pot is a sign of a coming gift. If a cork pops out of a bottle sud- denly, beware of an unknown en- emy. A quarrel is coming if you allow a cooking-stove to get red-hot on top. In washing dishes, if you forget an article, you will soon hear of a wedding. If a girl who is kneading dough clutches a lad's face, he'll never grow a beard. When bread, cake, or pie will burn in spite of you, your husband or lover is angry with you. If, while opening a tin of fruit or siiything similar, the jui''e should happen to spurt up in the opera- tor's face, it is a sign of some com- ing gc>od. â- N.B.â€"And if you place too much weight in these omens, you arc simply looking for trouble. troubles. He could no^ help fear- ing, that the breaking of records might sometimes end in the break- ing of hearts. We must not con- fuse muscular energy with constitu- tional vigor. (Cheers.) * BABY'S OWN TABLETS WILL GUHS mi BiBT If your little ones are subject to colic, simple fevers, constipation, ii.digestion, worms, or the other minor ailments of childhood, give them Baby's Own Tablets. This medicine will give relief right away, making sound, refreshing sleep possible. Better still an oc- casional dose will keep little ones well. Guaranteed to contain no opiate or poisonous soothing stuff. Good for the new born baby or the well grown child. Mrs. Ronald L, Seafield, Palmer Rapids, Ont., says: â€" "Baby's Own Tablets are the most satisfactory medicine I have ever used, and I would not like to be without the Tablets in the house.'' Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at m cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Frockville, Ont. Hi A woman says thai all mei may be equal, but none are superior. There are more than 1,300 thea- tres in Europe. ness should such help be needed. ; Always EnTelopcd in Cloui:^ of I For over twenty years was this | Steam-Its Strange Lakes. ipiactice continued, until the bean j )f the firm, an old widower, fell in | White Island. New Zealand, de- I love with the Cinderella-footed ; rives its name from the clo.;ds of I li>dy, who. being of an ultra-jealous ^ white steam in which it appeai-s to j disposition, sternly vetoed the cus- 1 be continually euveJopod. Us area loms continuance. j is only 601) acres, and its height In the late eighties a Brussels : about 860 feet above the sea level, tailor took a young man into hisjsays the British .Australian, employ on the stipulaticm that he; In form and color it is like ,a re- should be allowed to dispose of him I posing camel, while its interior in marriage. The agreement sign- ' with its gray, weather be,iten, al- ed, the tailor made public an- j most perpendicular cliffs, recalls ncuncement that he would bestow a the Coliseum at Rome. Overhang- husband upon that spinster or wi- ing the southern landing place dow who should bring most custo- 1 stands a column of rook closely re- mers to his establishment within j sembling a sentinel, which has been twelve months. Af^er a keen com- ; dedicated to the memory of Capt. petition the pri/e was carried off j Cook. The water of tlie i.sland is of a pale green hue, and anything dipped into it becomes of a red brick color. The fumes of sulphur are always plainly perceptible. On a fine moonlight night a won- derful sight is afforded to any one whc will sit in an open boat in one o; the lakes of the island. Cover- WHY WILLIE FELL. ing an '''"e* of A'ty acres is an im- mense caldron hissing and snorting Before Willie started for Mrs. and sending fortli volumes of pois- Smith's house, where he was invit- onous stoam, while all chances o! ed to dinner, his mother gave him egress appear to be denied by the SI. me final advice : stt?p, silent and gloomy cliffs. Above all things," cautioned his n-other, "do not drink tea from your saucer.' Willie promiied. When he got back home hia mother inquired how le had enjoyed hira-self. Willie said he had enjoyed himself im- mensely. I hope you did everything the way I told you to," said his mo- th c'r. "Yes'm, I did." answered Willie somewhat hesitatingly. "And you did not diink your tea from your saucer 1" ifes, mamma. I did," replied Willie, "but Mrs. 8mi*h drank her tf» from her saucer first." iy a buxom widow of 60, who. be sides introducing her eight sons to the clothier's notice, was the means ( ' inducing over a score of bro- th.ers. cousins and nephews to pat- ronize his shop. Many a man imagines he's done something for the church when he buys a cushion for bis pew. LITERAL. "Did you take your shoes to that place with the sign. 'Shoes Repcir- td While You Wait' ?' "Yes. They repaired six wi;ile I waited, and told nio to call in three days for mine." In Tasmania no person less ih<\n thirteen years of age may smoke in public. The person wiio buys an) ot.hcc tea always h(>pcs it will be 'as good" as "Salada.'* •ns