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fROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. ~â€" What is Going On In the Highlands and Lowlands oi Auld Scotln. The death rate in Perth in Decem- ber was 13.6 per 1,000. There were 2,137 criminal offences committed in Paisley last year. Ronfrew has now a population of 12,355. 'It has gained 3,000 since the last Government census. All the linen factories in Dun- fermline are on full time. It is over a year since a. similar activity prevailed. Galashicls Town Council have bought for $10,000 the property in Channel street, to widen the street. Over $46,455 has been spent on Ladybank drainage and water schemes. They are nearing com- pletion. Last year Galashiels had 271 births, 91 marriages and 179 deaths, and Selkirk 158 births, 46 marriages and .94 deaths. The Linlithgow district public health authorities are at present exercising the utmost diligence in connection with the rather serious outbreak of typhoid fever at Lin- lithgow Combination Poorhousc. Pollokshaws has just added to its buildings a splendid school which ,was formally opened by Sir John Stirling Maxwell. The big thread mills of Messrs. Coats and Clark have been the sal- vation of Paisley during the recent industrial depression. A convent of nuns will shortly be established in Hawick, and the sisâ€" ters will come from the Dominican Convent of Stone, Staffordshire. At a meeting of over 2,000 ratc- payers of Glasgow recently, a re- solution was passed protesting ‘against the proposed alteration in charges for stair-lighting. At a meeting in Glasgow the Scottish iron and steel makers re- solved to stop work rather than pay the proposed demurrage charges for railway waggons, etc. Hamilton Corporation will pay all workmen for holidays, half-pay is to be given to employee in cases of sickness, while foreman are to be paid full money when ill. Isabella Beatts was fatally strangled in the works of Valentine Sons (in Co., photographic publish- ers, Dundee. The moving machine caught a scarf she was putting on and dragged her in. The death occurred of Mr. George Syme, who, for nearly half a cen- tury, was the principal tacksman of the burgh land at Kinghorn. Mr. Syme, familiarly known as “Kinghorn Geordie,” was over 90 years of age. There is about to be erected a “I have taken Scott’s Emulsion for six weeks and have found it a won- derful remedy. Before I , took the Emulsion I had no appetite; was weak; had lost nearly fifty pounds of flesh, and now I eat well and am gaining every day. I find Scott’s Emulsion to be very easily digested and a good food for all weak people."â€"FLORENCE BLEEKER, No. 1 Myrtle Avenue, Bridgeton, N. I. This is Only one of thousands of cases where Scott’s : Emulsion It's so easil ' digested that it doesn't tax has given an appetite. the igestive organs and they rest; yet the body is wonderfully nour- ished and built up. The digestion is improvedâ€"then ordinary food is sufficient. Growing boys and girls, who need so much food to keep them well and strong, and also growing, should be given a bottle of SCOT‘r‘s EMULSION every few weeks. It does wonders for them. It pre- vents their getting run down and spindly. Nothing does them so much good. ALL DRUGGISTS Let us sendyou some letters and lilers. sure on this subject A Post Cuhl. giving your: midi-m and the name of this paper, in mflolnnt. SCO’IT 8: BOWNE handsome pile of buildings, to be known as “The Donald Institute, Bothwell," the cost of which was bequeathed by the late Mr. James Donald, a native and long a mer~ chant of Glasgow and London. ____+___ ECZEMA OF THE SCALI‘. ZamvBuk Cures a BM who Suffeer for Three Years. Now and again mothers find that sores or ulcers on the heads of children refuse to heal, despite all ordinary treatment. Then is the time to prove Zam-Buk's healing power. A case which mothers will read with interest occurred recent- ly in Winnipeg. Mrs. C. Keep, of 592. Alexander Avenue, Winnipeg, says :â€"â€"-“A year ago my little girl contracted eczema of the scalp. and notwithstanding all I did the sores spread until the child’s scalp was completely covered. I took her to hospital, but none of fhe lotims and ointments applied had any cf~ feet on the disease. By degrees tl-e child’s hair came out, until she was quite bald. We were at this stage strongly advised to try Zamâ€"Buk and did so. From first commencâ€" ing with this wonderful balm the child got relief from the itching and pain. The sores were quickly ban- ished, and in a remarkably short space of time the child was cured. The hair soon grow again, and is now quite long and in a healthy condition.” All who have care of children should know that Zam Buk is parti- cularly adapted, because of its purity, to the tender skin of chil- dren. It cures with equal dispatch ringworm, blood-poisoning, ulcers. cold-cracks, chapped hands, frost- bite, piles, bad leg, etc. Used as an embrocation it cases the pain of sprains, and cures rheumatism, sciatica, and neuralgia. All drug- gists and stores sell at 500. a box; or post free from Zam-Buk 00., Toronto, for price. ._... i4aâ€"..â€"â€"â€".â€" SECRETARIES TO THE BRAIN. Certrcs Which Attend Always to Same Details. Habit is the acquirement of a machineâ€"like or automatic power of performing certain duties. Actions which we have at first to exercrse our intellectual centres to be able to perform are ultimately discharged without any reference to our mind or consciousness. ' Indeed when the intellect comes to interfere with the automatic per- formances of such acts, London Illustrated News, they are apt to be less perfectly executed than when the machinelike activity of brain is permitted ‘to have its sway. Take the case of reading, writing and spelling; at first we have to acquire these gifts through ‘of private secretaries to the »of the mental firm. Even when we the exercise of close intellectual attention; later on they are auto- matically performed. We do not after the childish stage of education require to bethink ourselves over the shape of letters, the sound of syllables or the formaâ€" tion of words by act of the pen. Clearly what was at first an intel- lectual act has become purely me- chanical. Also in exercising the other “R” and in doing a sum we arrive at a correct solution without having to think out the rational of the operation, as we did when taught arithemetic at school. The saving to the intellectual centres which deal with questions and affairs of every moment must be enormous in consequence of this division labor. The centres in question are left free to exercise judgment and to engage in the highest operations of our conscious life. In the brain structure we actually find centres which discharge these automatic duties and play the part head come to higher brain operations a like principlc prevails. Centres arc set apart for governâ€" ing muscles, others receive mes- sages from organs of scnse, others again, sitting in the judg- ment seat, report upon information received. {<_______. THINGS WE CAN DO WITHOUT. I It is Wonderfully how many things Ewe think most uccdful are really ,not so very necessary after all, Try this little experiment and it will astonish you. Take a sheet {of paper and write down all the :things you “vent.” Make the list Eas full as your dcsircs are. {this list away for one hour, then ilook it over. (‘ross out thc things {you think you can do without, and lin another hour revise the list once I Next pick out the things ‘ more. you feel you cannot afford to buy. lThcu, with a mud determined to be says the I of1 and 1 Put i A FONI) RECOLLECTION. Of Buckwheat Cakes and Sausages or Pork Chops. “I have wondered sometimes," said thc amiable head of a voraci- ous city family, “why we didn't have more griddle cakes, wheat and buckwheat, and that sort of thing in our house, because I am very fond of such cakes, and so are all the children, and of buck- wheat. cakes in particular I have a very pleasant recollection. "When I was a boy we used to have always buckwheat cakes for breakfast in winter, with fried pork chops or fried sausages, and I used to think that that was a brcakfast good enough for anybody, and I still think so. “The cakes we used to mix in a batter pot different from any other piece of crockery I ever saw, and I can see it now in my mind’s eye as plainly as if it stood before me, a deep, straight sided, earthenâ€" ware pot of a very dark brown glaze and in capacity of about a gallon and a half and having on the other side a handle; the only pot of just that style and dimensions that I ever saw, and perhaps it was the .only one ever made. “We valued it highly. I am sure that if anything had happened to that pot it would have been regard- ed as a household calamity, famil- ‘iar to us as it had become through year after year of use, and the mix- ing of the batter in it was a mighty familiar household rite, the last thing done in winter before we went to bed. “Every morning when the cakes were cooked there was left in the pot just enough of the material to serve as yeast for the next day’s batch ; and every night the last thing we did was to get out the buckwheat .batter pot and mix up in it the butter for the next morning’s cakes. Then we would put a loose cover on the pot and set it near the kitchen stove, where it would get a little warmth, but not too much, so that, the batter would rise just right. Sometimes it would run over, but not often, for our folks were high experts in making buckwheat batâ€" ter, and usually our batter rose just enough to fill the pot, rising at the same time to the highest attainable quality; and then in the morning the batter was thinned down a little, so that it would spread just exactly right when poured on the griddle, and then the family was ready to eat 'em. “It seems to me that the pork chops we had in those days were better than any to be had now; they were from locally raised and fattened pigs, and they were very tender and superior. Certainly it‘ lwould be difliculrt to find now such sausages as we had then. “We used to eat those buckwheat cakes red hot off the griddles, with those superior pork chops, or those extra. superior sausages, and with the pork or sausage gravy on the cakesâ€"a morning meal of great deâ€" light and glory. “A meal calculated to tax the stoutest constitution surely, but we fall had cast iron stomachs and it did us no harm; and I have won- dered sometimes why we couldn’t have something of that sort now; but she. meaning thereby my better half, telling me that cooking cakes means a headache and a burned face and a fired back; that cooking cakes for this family would be an awful task and that it wouldn’t do. So that grand breakfast of buck- wheat cakes and sausages comes to me now in memory only.” 4,. FEDERAL LIFE PROGRESS. l Financial Statement for Past Year , Pro-eminently Satisfactory. Policyâ€"holders of the Federal Life Assurance Co.l i’mustbe highly gratified with the" twentyâ€"seventh annual financial} statement of the directors, which; appears in another column. Thel ‘prngress it has made during the‘. past year clearly reveals that; ‘Cauadiaus appreciate home com-i panics that arc wisely managed, in:‘ fprcfcrence to those operatingl “under forcign charters. This company offch policy-hold- (‘l‘s ample security and pays them: ,libcral bonuses on the maturity of1 ,their policies. r . During the past year income and, assets show a licalthy increase.“ The latter now stand at $3,314,-l $56.65, an increase of 8314.383.91,l exclusive of guarantee capital. 5 The security for policyâ€"holders,‘ including guarantee capital, now stands at the high figure of 34,- VlMfibGJié, whilst the liabilities for reserves and all outstanding claims is 33.045.756.00. showing the hand- some surplus of $1,140,070.65. esâ€" lclusive of uncalled capital. i and shareholders, . his TRlIE CAUSE â€". THE EARL or LElCFSIfIi 0F LATE NOBLEIIIN WAS FIRST FAILVIER OF ENGLAND. Caused Ul‘lfi In Blond and Lives of His Philâ€":dr and Himself tan Only be Cured Through the Blood. Not many years ago doctors thought rheumatism was only a local pain caused by exposure to cold or wet. Now they know that rheumatism is caused by the blood becoming tainted with uric acid. This acid contracts the muscles, stiffens the joints, and irritates the nerves. Then the cold and wet make the joints and muscles groan with a‘ching rheumatism. You blame the weather but the real cause is acid in the blood. If not promptly treated the stiffness spreads and the pain grows worse each year until you are a helpless cripple, torturcd day and night. If the disease touches the heart it means sudden death. You can’t cure rheumatism with linimeuts, plasters or hot cloths. You must go to the root of the trouble in the blood. The one sure, scienti- fic way to cure rheumatism is Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, because they actually make new blood. They sweep out the poisonous acid, loos- en the joints and muscles, and bring ease and freedom where beâ€" fore‘ had been pain and misery. Mrs. Fred. Sabeau, Canada Creek, N. S., says :â€"“Three years ago I was taken with a severe pain in my right hip. It grew gradual- ly worse until it finally settled in both my hips and legs. The pain was really almost unbearable. At first I tried foot drafts and lini- ments, but this gave me only the most temporary relief, and I felt as if I was to go through the rest of my life as a suffering cripple. A neighbor been cured of rheumatism by Dr. Williains’ Pink Pills advised me to try this medicine, and I purâ€" chased three boxes. Before they vwere all gone I was able to get my foot. up on my knee and untie my shoe, something I had not been able to do for two years, and I began to feel I had at last found a me li cine to cure the trouble. I kept on taking the Pills until I had used, I think, a dozen boxes, when I was completely cured and I am as well and strong toâ€"day as ever I was in my life. I want every suf- ferer to know that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills is a sure cure for rheu- matism, and that if they will give this medicine a fair trial, their pains and aches will disappear as mine did.” Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Wil- lianis’ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. __â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"!X‘â€"â€"_ SUGGESTIVE OCCURRENCES. Instances When Children Initiated Great Inventions. Some of our most useful mechani- cal appliances owe this rexistence to the ingenuity of children in fash- ioning their playthings. Argand, who invented a lamp with a wick fitted into a hollow cylinder, was one day busy in his workroom; sitting before the burning lamp, his little brother was amusing himself by placing a bottomless oil flask over different articles. Su‘denly he placed it upon the flame of the lamp, which instantly snot up the long circular neck of the flash with increased brilliancy. Argand did not allow such is. suggestive occur- rence to escape him. The idea of the lamp chimney almost immedi- ately came into his head, and in a short time his invention was per- fected. The telescope owes its origin to a Similar occurrence. The children of a Dutch spectacle-maker happened to be playing one day with some of their father’s glasses in front of the shop floor. Placing two of the glasses together, they peepel through them, and were exceedingly astonished to sec the weathercock of the neighboring steeple brought within a short distance of their eyes. They were naturally puzzled, land called to their father to see the strange sight. When the spectacleâ€"maker looked through the glasses he was no lcss v surprised than ‘the‘ children ha'l , been. He went indoors and thought . the matter over, and then the idea occurred to him that he might con- struct a curious ncw toy which would givc people a good deal of amusemcut. Not long after the telescope was an accomplished fact. __.__+.-,_.___ ‘ THE ALPHABET IN .\ SEN- TENL'E. The lel [wins E: the Sllfll‘?(‘.‘.-t senâ€"y whose daughter hadrlacknowledgment of the fence of the “American Colonies and 1father danced with Marie (Jon-red a Spun of a Century and a Hall. The death of the Earl of Leicester recently removed from the scene one of the most interesting figures in English country life. ThrI (Jokes of Holkham in Nor- folk have been established in that county since the early days of the twclfth century. The first to rise to real eminence was Edward Coke, born in 1549, the famous Chief Jus- ticc, who was the author of the Petition of Rights, which he propos- ed in the House of Commons His great-grandson was the first Coke to become an Earl of Leices- ter, but the title died with him. It was revived by Quecn Victoria for the father of the Earl who has just (lied. He was the first commoner whom the late Queen raised to tho peerage. He was 83 at the time and for over fifty years had been fam- ous as Mr. Coke of Holkham. Like several other heads of old and dis- tinguished but untitled families he was reluctant to accept a title to which could give but LITTLE REAL DISTINCTION. He died in 1842 at the age of 88, having been born in 1754. His son, who died recently, was born when his father was 68, so that the two lives covered an extraor- dinarily long span of years. no less than 155 years separating the birth of the father and the death of the son. It seems strange that in 1909 there should have been living the son of the man who headed a depu- tation to George III. from the coun- ty of Norfolk in favor of tho independ- Plantations,” strange that a man should have died last Sunday whose Antoi- nette, knew the wonderful court at Versailles, where he was called the handsome Englishman, and could tell his son what he had seen of France before the Revolution. The late Earl, who was created a Knight of the Garter in 1873, was the father of the House of Lords, having been a member of it since 1842. He was not an ardent politi- cian and the last vote that he gave was against Mr. Gladstone’s second home rule bill, prior to which he had been counted among the Lib- eral peers. His one absorbing in- terest was agriculture, as it had been that of his father. SPENT A MILLION. When the latter succeeded to Holkham much of the estate was a mere barren rabbit warren, some of it unredeemed marsh lands. Father and son, in almost equal amounts, spent well over a million sterling in improving and developing the estate. Holkham is regarded as the cradle of English farming of the advanced type. Holkham was the birthplace of enlightened estate management and agricultural practice. There was introduced into farming the four course shift, turnips, barley, clover, wheat, practised in East Anglia to this day. To the Holk- ham sheep shearings at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century can be traced the origin of the show system that has done so much to improve live stock. It is acknowledged that the efforts of these two Earls of Leices- ter placed English agriculture in the front rank throughout the world. To Holkham went the most eminent agriculturists of England and from abroad to see what was being done and to exchange ideas. Thus it may fairly be said that the greatest farmer 'in England died on Sunday. .“ .____._. O+O+O+O+0+O¢O+O+O+O¢O+ ‘ SAVED BABY‘S LIFE. Mrs. T. Osborn, Norton Mills, Vt., says :â€"â€""I have no hesitation in saying that Baby’s Own Tablets saved my baby’s life and I cannot say enough in praise of this medicine. He was so weak and sickly that he took .no notice of anything, and cried so much that I was worn out caring for him. After giv- I i ing him the Tablets there was i :4, a great change, and he' is ' now a bright-eyed, laughing baby. the pride of our home.’ I ‘z i Baby’s Own Tablets cure all 1 stomach and bowel troubles, it break up colds. destroy 1: worms and keep little ones i 0 healthy and happy. Sold by It medicine dealers or by mail i0 at ‘25 cents a box from the I Dr. Williams’ Medicine (70., ltencc containing all the letters'o‘f thrust upyulthe alphabet: Prick my box With five dozen liquor jugs. .p Greatness that is people seldom lasts long. level and sensible and pratcical, go lover thc list once more. What isl gthc result: Try it and see. I g g 12‘? W'oifinxton St. W. Toronto Brockvin; Ont. g (4â€"04»O+O+040+0+04 D‘ I ' 3 C") i