IW? tew.*. ::. '.' V'1 Kfijf.fc. to".^1"- ".:,', iW-'< K&Kv: '.-'.Stautiful eyci irrowdull and din UffiEV;"." ::. a the swift years ileal away. ; Beautiful, willowy form* io illm ^^ , ., iToic^alrneis with every day. $$&t '> ' Bat iflc I'tlll U queen and liatb cnrmf to Mty'^V"1 >Vbo wears you.th'4 coronal beautlfMl S^V: .'.{. hair.' ' 8&?- i^.'. fT> l*>i: 1^ I J.' Preserve Your Hair and you preserve your youth. ,"A woman is as old /is sho looks," says-'the world. No Woman looks as old as she is if her hair has preserved its uprxnal beauty. You can keep hair from falling out, restoring its normal color, or restore the normal color to.gray or faded hair, by the use of U Ayer's Hair Vigor; h--- :,' . |fe;X . / Fruit' Tree Disease. ':/ "'- It ia a general opiniou of the frqit grow th;!'*:; era of this county that the oonnty couuoil -,'; marie a zniatake in' reducing the a alary of '; the Fruit Tree Inspeotorto eaob a very .- low figure, that no man can give attention t to, this very Important industry aa it da- Bervea for bo Btnall a remuneration. Ho . one can read his report, bat. will admit that Mr. Mills thoroughly .understands his business and has performed hie. duties iv.. . fftlthfally. Dieeaned frnifc trees aro alarm- r'v'>Ingtne|?npta io and Michigan, ""; and John Craig, horticulturist at the Ex perimental Farm, Ottawa, told the Apri- ; onltural Committee of the Houao that . three cases of oxieteuDe of the Ban Joee Male had been found in Canada. Mr. ' Craig proposed that the cuetoma ofhoers : should be instructed to refuse the admiss- ion to Canada of all paobagea of fruit trees unaccompanied by a certificate o( the State entomologist whence the consignment came, declaring the orchard where the trees originated was free from noale, Mr. Craig stated to the committee that tho Department) of Agriculture has loaned a , few fields in Niagara district for tho pro secution of experiments in ft ait culture, whiob|oannot satisfactorily bo oarried on , ', at Ottawa. The Welland county couuoil diflouflHad the question of B^ndiug a dele* gate to Ottawa to bring tho matter before the "Department. Ebsgx Comity cannot afford to trifle with is fruit mfcoroBtn. It is too important an industry. Tho (sum of 6300 to 8400 a year ifl only a bagatelle compared with tho services ran do rod by Geo.. H, Mills during the past year, and every praotioal rruifc grower knows it. , The salary is snob as his Jaervicafl will be .loab to the oonnty outside of probably Mereea and Gobiield- The county council petitioned the Legislature to oh tin go tlie Act so that a county iuspeotor could bo appointed and then, after trying it for a few months, on the plea of economy, places the salary below starvation rates. ;. Prof..John QraJg, horticulturist of the ; Bxperlmental Farm, Ofctawe, is making a | . !tonr_of the fruit growing districts obtain- 1 ,ing tho opinion of tliB growers uu to the i advisability of prohibiting, the importa tion on Amoricau fruit treon on uocount of the St, Jose scale. Homot a. number of . the growers at Iioaniiugton, Goato and ,Windsor., on Saturday. The growers in ( thia diatriofc are ail in favor of the prohibi- ".'; iion of the trees, and why should thero ':, not be b competent inspector to KUard the ; :frnit interests of the county/ (.->. ' , . : Mr.Orr, Ontario Spraying 'intitrudtor and Prof, Pan ton, Quotph, have gone to . jpiagarw ((jptriot toeeoortttiu thefjtveu^i of -the hold which the San Joao eoale has ob- tainbd on tho fruit oro^ap^a, The nest r\m<j itaraV' hitherto it hae pyA^e^vA.tttiBiffo0ji;^nriio oi;Bp((v u^i~;l;:^}:^y>y^V\?vf;.-. ^ :>,".; ,,,W dew was on the snrjamer lawn, , The roBes bloomed, the woods wore green When forth there oame, aa fresh w dawn, A maiden with majeatlo mien. They girt a crown about her brow, They placed a aooptro In her band, . And Iond_raag oat a nation's tow; "God guard the lady of thVland." And now the ouokoo calla once more, And onoe again Jane's roses blow; And round her throne her people pour, Reoalling sixty years ago. And all the goodly'daya between, Glory and sorrow, love and pain, The wifely mother, widowed Queen, The loftiest, as the longest, reign. She shared her subjects' bane and bliss, BWelcomed the wise, the base withstood^ And taught by her olear life it ia____ The greatest greatneBB to be good. Yet, while for peaoe she wrought and prayed, She bore the trident, wore the helm, And, Mistress of the Main, she made An Empire of her Island realm. So, gathering now, from near, from far, From role whereon ne'er sets the day ~ From Southern Cross and Northern Star, Her people lift their hearts and pray: Longer and longer may she reiga, Aud, through a summer night serene. Whence day doth never wholly wane, God spare and bless our Empress-Queen. "What Pleases a Woman . It ploaeea her to be told that she is fas oioating. It pleases her to be called a sensible little woman. It pleases her.to.baoailed a well-dreased woman. It pleases her to depend on some man and pretend she fa ruiing him. - It pleases her to be told that she im proves a man by her companionship. It pleases, hor to be treated 'courteously audi wlth-respeot and to be talked to reason ably, '. It pleases hbr to be treated sensibly and honestly, to be considered and questioned, and not to bo treated as a tbattoriiy, with no head and no heart. It pleaaea her to bo loved and admired by a man who is btrong enough to rule aud subdue her and make his way her way, to lead her and tako oaro of hor. Education's Eapid G-rowth Sixty Tears. in "Books, sixty years ago, were in oom- puriRon with now," writos William Goo. Jordan in an article "What Victoria Has Been," in the Juno Ladies' Homo Journal. "Tho public libraries of the United States, all put togethor, had only half a million volumes in 18S7. This ialeaa than Boston Public Library contains to-day. Throe of aur American libraries havo together more books than were in all the public libruriee of Bngland, Ireland, Scotland and Wales whou "Victoria Rfloonded tho throno. Ig- uoranoo was general. Forty por oont. of tlie men and sixty five per cent, of the women of Groat Britain could not writo their owu names when Victoria bocame their. Queen. The National education Hyst.em .was but three'years old; its money' grants amounted to $800,000; , Uncle Sam now sponds 9140,0001000 a year for teach- era and superintendents of our public houooIh,", . j1-^:1.....' T,'"(.|.ii Eoyal Disobedience V'. - i:;:f,ilai fcravelled fromOali(ornia,wl ^i; -t>T|*'S0^ iittvebeen ereat, and hith K:^;|?a-Aee }belUyed'^uaf it could not: Hvo through J'^' V ,9, northern" winter. ' Poach trece are the Where whale l&ttr'W-'Wil1 **y'*t? .w*w^ ..... .a used- Sj}'TO^V^'i^^^B"'^*"'^ut *** n06*1' iuaoauoflH l*,'?0?-" '$*$ iaferemedy iitb-cal down tho tresis L'/ fel'- >*nd-bhrn them." A.aeterminod effort will " '"&'l.vb&inade to^get.rid of the pe'dtfdttb'e earh-: ^S^jBai/.^posBlble; moment., Ordhard owners, I'T>fiw'/[ Jjoweverj raust oc-operate with tho author! |^^ei-^^t'^.A^ \im^y-:-^-'C', fyM$-'ffi($$W- dJrowping. aooijdeht ooourreel, off lW$HK^^^ ^otiiTuflyt ^fl' vi-: Hi^^ft^eojie;; a^d'18,iboth pupils'of ;"the mm^'e.'ri-'tj.'^i'-i An umutuug' ahesodoto is told of 3'riti- oobh Royal, uOw EmproBBFrodoriok. "When i child the Queen had some difficulty in keeping her in order. ' " On ouo nooauion, when Dr. Brown waa Htaying at Wjudaor in afctondunoe on Prince Albert, the little prinoesaes, hearing,her- father oall him "Brown," uaed tho,same form of speech to him alao. The Queen at onoo oorreotod thorn for it; all obeyed except the Princess Royal: .who was threatened with 'bed," if she did it again, Tho next day when I>r. Brown uume down to breakfast, the littlo prinooHa got up and fluid ; ' , "Good moruinc, Brownl," fchon, seeing lior'mother looking at hor* sho continued I 'And goodnight Brrwn, for I'm going to botll" And sho walKod rcsolutoly away tb her punishraont. ^ . SIGNS OF, IVOA'MS m e vnrhbh appetite ticking at tht iw#, etc. / >>: //.pie's Worm "Syrup Js"'thi> oist'.tmrm estprfht. A oable despatch repeats tho rumor that Do lag oft Bay has already passed into the hands of tho Britiah. tatlfleatuUy half the aloknoaa ; retains the digested food to and produces biUousnoM, ,tbe woV.WvH nglo thebowelfl rplp* Uver, hid> " '*" ' -501,s Hfls ^JultirieaftUy'i ' ' if,?ffl?" 'Mm* " " VB^ 4h^^^* p^ .. ment#,M. yoltatMW tiio^: bo* afti the ohwen ha pwu inip^oted. He is' dreued in fait rait of blue jeans. He* la h*althy lookiug, long legged and gauat, and a broad Brimmed felt hat and drooping black mnjBtaoha seem in keeping' with nii BWinging gait and odd, drawling aoointa Ho fairly beamtfnpori finding that bis erviceaaa guide are so* ooptable. "This Is a nighty tasty atone," he oommonta; laying hU brown hand on a marble shaft "They give out that it cost $00. It'i tolerable plain for that, but, then, the Griggses mostly has things plain. They say Miss Origga wanted a harp on it, and it wouldn't have cost no more either, but old man Griggs he jlst shut.up like a -ateel trap. at the notion of a harp, He, 'lowed they oould git this monument (with a stress on the "moot") or nono at all. 'Twas Miss Griggs* sister what died. She took a heavy cold 'long about Mardb,- "I tako it that that there gravo is tho most interestin bury in 'mongst the. whole lot," he goes on, leading tho way to a spot between two tall pines, where the ground Is thickly covered with brown pine needles'. "That was a duel, Tho fight came off toward sundown, up in tho mountains, and thin fellow was hauled hero in a wagon and buried quick, after 19 o'clock at nigbt. You see, it was against the law then in them way back days to fight, and the ono what did the killin he and tho seconds was anxious to git across into Georgia before the business leaked out I disro- menibor tho names now, but tboy were big people. One was a governor from up here by Greenville somewheres. The dead man was brought along on a com mon wagon, and there wasn't time for no JTuneral nor no-thin. Somo pine tops, gtoon, frosh broke pine tops, was throwed on top of the wagon body, to make, things look better. After the gravo was filled up in their harry like, but not likin to leavo It with no mark to know it by, they took two of the pine tops and stuck 'em np, one to the head and one to the foot These two trees is them same pine tops. Seems like the Lord Almighty let 'em grow purpose to keep that sin een mind." - " What was the cause of, the quarrel?" he is asked. "It ain't exactly knoWed for sure.. Some holds out it was about a boundary lino 'twixt two plantations, and I've heard it said it was a old election squabble. Anyway, the dond man was flxin to marry soon, and his sweethoart never did git over it to enjoy herself no more.'*-^New York Post. THE CAMEL'S HUMP. The *%Mim*t Solontlflo Explanation of It*' Origin mud Purpoie. Where did the oamol get its hump? Be it known that earn els: did not originally havo humps on thoir backs. So says Pxofessor Outtuneo of tho Ital ian Institute of Science. Tho proof that thoy did not and tho tixplonation of Why they have thorn now ris given by this savant in. a recently published monograph, which is tho result of sci- ontiiio stady of tho snbjoot Tho 11 u in a ia known to have been used ns u beast of burden oenturios bo- foro the discovery of tlio western hemi sphere, but it is assorted that thonsuiids of years before the first llaiiia carried a load upon its back/tlie oamol had been domesticated and was used for tho trans portation of burdens. It is upon this point thut tho Italian savant rests his theory us to the forma tion of that animal's hump.. In tho bo- ginning, ho says, the camel, like the llnma, was straight of baok, but 100 centuries, perhaps, of making a pack animal of tho oamol havo brought about tho change. At first the skin grow loose upon tho camel's back. Thou thoro and upon its knees tho akin grew thick- and callous. . Soon nature began to pad this burdened part with fat and muscle, then for countieas, generations heredity'did its work. Little by littlo. the hump grow, until it finally acquired its present sizo. . The uho of the darnel in!the desert' places of the world also pluyod its part, 'in'the'formation of this portion of its anatomy. For, boing forced to go with out food for.days*atn time, nafcurooamo to tho reaouo'of tho oumel and provi dently stored, those humps with-fat which should nourish the boust through its pejrigda of privation. New York Journal/ s . Blow din's Rope, . A. J. Hnmliut nn old.reflidont'of Ni agara Falls, declares, says the, Buffalo Express, that he was instrumental ii; getting' JBlggdin^he moans for croBsiiig the gorge the flrsi timo. Everyboily was skoptioul: Over the pretensions of tho ucrobat, and he was unable to eqt. money enough to buy tho rope till Hamlin looked him over and made up his mind that bo was* equal to tho task '. and was sincere in tho undertaking.. .ilo then Went surety for. the xopo, and it Was bought and, put up 1,800 feet of mauilla, with many email ropes for guys. WhenHnmlin went to Blondin's room just before he waa to make tho first trip ho found him pluying on a flageolet as unconcerned as thohgb h,o! Was, anticipating a pleasure' drive, and he declared that he was not tho least bit anxious or nervous.',. t / . '., " By,the way, I see that Hobba, who !haa come ^ba^'to,ltownV^'^^\/VT;;;;d^^,;/1/i:v;^.^ !/^:' ; ".Yea >We dropped:^ Jarley fttnn the ;biu^.^.^q^l,: It be d^!da^iS^b^^th,A*d0w pi,tott,liWA'rsf"^ ro>^'h?hX?av^^^ And iielMs hi '^ihep^ Jiivii^t lost uL^^swW^s fcta;"-;' ' 6h6 has two m4a wlUia Uw pthn, ttis hollow Bh takM their mli aad blowi thttt forth u . Idle, drifted stud. And on* falls back upon her brsast that U his : quirt honot, / And ono gooa out iato tho night and Is as wind Wowafoam. .. , And Is thero aay homo for him wbow portion Uthonfgatr . And ia there aay peaoe for him whose doom iq endleufltghtt / ' O wild, sad bird, O wind spnt bird, O bird \ upoa.tho wave, , There is no home for the*, wild bird, but in the oold so* travel "The HUM of Dreamt," by Flan* Msclood. MUSEUM CRANKS. FoQple Who Want to tMspoa* off Alleged Valuable. XUUoa, The amateur oolleotor of curiosUfea generally h" an exaggerated idea of the value of his treasures. . No sooner does he get hold of something which he considers unique and io teres ting than he fancies that every museum in the country will jump at the ohance of pur chasing It from him, With this idea he la continually calling upon museum keepers and trying to persuade them into exhibiting his so called rarities. The curator of a popular northern museum hsjuhasn much worried in this way during the last year or so. Only the other week a white)' haired old man came to him and showed him a dagger which was said to be the Wsapon used by King John in stabbing, the boy Pzinoe Arthur. The dagger was quite a modern affair and showed no signs of age, but the old man stuck to his de scription strenuously. "My.dear fellow," he said to the cu rator in patronising tones, "if you aro so blind to your own interests as. to re fuse this dagger, it Is no concern of mine. It has been in our family for cen turies, and we are descended in a direct line from Hubert do Bourg, the noble man who refused to allow Prince Ar thur's eyes to be burned out with red- hot irons. I'll give you one more chanee; and-if you won't have It I'll take it elsewhere.1' Needless to say, he hod to take it elsewhere. Another crank drove up to the nau seam gate one afternopn on a dray, to which was strapped a big, cumbersome writing table. The curator ' hastened out to meet him and was just in time to prevent him bringing tjha piece of furniture bodily, into the hall. On being asked for on explanation, the visitor said ho had decided to pre sent the museum with a priceless treas ure in tho shape of a writing table used by Sir Francis Bncorr. He bad been pro- serving it for a long time, he said, in order that he might writo its history, which he hud at last completed in a manuscript volume of 820 sheets. The curator, Who ie, of course, an expert, examined tho desk and declared it to be worthless. It had apparently been usod In a schoolroom until it had got too rickety for service and was then dis pensed with. At any rate, it couldn't have been more than 70years old. This report was communicated to the visit or, who thereupon took to raying like a mudmuu and became so-Violent that ho and his treasure had to be moved along by the police. Royal.relies aro much in favor with amateur collectors, and, though some of tho curiosities submitted to tho museum recoutly have boon thought worthy of u. plaoo on the tublos, the majority havo proved to be hopeless rubbish.' London Tit-Bits. . No Vntt iFor the Metric Syttem. We have little to learn or gain by adopting the measures of continental Europe. Three-quarters, or nearly so, of the commerce and traflfb of the, world is curried on by come form of appliance, whether moved by, wind, water or steum, which has been built from Eng lish moasurcs by some English speaking people, and tho proportion . is' all tho. tiiuo'increasing. Why adopt another ahd moro incon venient system which will render all systems of eorcw threads, gear toeth, foundry pattoixs,, shop drawings, etc!, obsolete, ue well as shelving-the most, valuable colleotion of ineohaniaal liter- aturo in tho- world 'wf"recurring ' all its tables to bo translated into a foreign meusure, merely to obtain tho advantages of a deoimal flystem which we already havo to all intents and purposes in f a. Tar 'more convenient form- thftji wo ahguld obtain from, the ini^auotlon of ohe meter and its derivatives? Besides these two unit measures the inch and the foofc-rwe bIbo "use. tho cubic ^ard, in divil en gineering, for excavations and earth work, but for mechanical purposes we could got along very well with no other unit but the inch. -Cassier'a Maga zine.. ' 8h Knew. Young MrsL Torkins had read the paragraph through twice. ;l?hen 'she broke into a ripple "of laughter. .' "What are yon laughing'-atrV:".-in- quired her husband, . '. ' "HbwAdy^uk^wit'rto the bantering rejoipder, ." by loek^nsj, at Ji It's about two men who,m^on the Btreet They ^tand tbere and say.a lot c*, ttipgs and at' last ohe /of them says, ^Woll.vthe'driiunl^ 'j|hbws-tna't;,\it'Bi-"tony.V5^Wa^ ,u\--r'.'r"YV,yri: ^^;'T'T;::^"',:'^J*^lrWn : .....--t m ' '/.'.^-.fflf iTejib!';' :-*' " m^v-y'-'.' T - 11 "(M^^i^m^^^m w r t NERVE PILLS FOR WEAK PEOPLE. At all DrugflsU. Price 6o cents per Box,, or 3 for Si.so. Sent by Mail on receipt of price. f.MILBURN & CO., Toronto. Is what you can rely on getting when you buy from us. Onr wa^on goes to all parts of the town. Buns, Cakes'and Pastries, You cant find nicer, fresher, or sweet' er in the conntry. All kinds of Fancy Cakes and Jelly Rolls. Fresh Taffy and Candies every day. We sell nothing stale or 3ry.- Leave j our Order and you can rely on prompt de livery. FRANK FOSS. Opposite Book & Frauds, Eases SIN&LEE. CHINESE LAUNDRY. Wilson Ave., next Aberdeen Hotel. 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