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People Whose Blood Supply is Scanty Are in Dangar of a .. Breakdown The ornamean possess various social or tribal significance. No Ma- ,sai woman ventures to leave off her‘ an ornaments in the presence of1 her husband; should .she happen to take them off in his absence, she- would on his return run into the am} and rpsume them immediately. ‘ Thin or impure blood is an inviâ€" tation to sickness. The blood is at work day and night to maintain the health, and any lack of strength or purity in the blood is a weakness in the defence against disease. Anaemia is the doctor’s name for lack of blood. -Its surest symptom is palor. Anaemia does not confine itself to age or sex, though it is par- ticularly common to young girls be- tween the ages of 14 and 17, when nature makes peculiar demand upon the blood supply. The same lack of blood, however, prevents full recovery after ila grippe, fe'v- ers, malaria, and operations, and is present in old age, and in persons who have been under unusual menâ€" tal or physical strain. In all cases of bloodlessness Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are the best medicine known to medical science. They actually make new pure blood, which brings with it a healthy appetite and new strength and vitality. Mrs. George Roy, Clair, Sask., says: “I have tested the value of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills time and again when a poor condition of the blood might have led to more serious trouble. I am a woman of forty and as occa- sion required I have used the Pills OE and on since girlhood. I have proved their value in the ailments that aflict my sex, and I have never known them to fail. I also gave them to my son for nerve trouble which we thought w'ould result in St. Vitus dance, but the use of the Pills prevented this and made him well and strong. I do not know any better investment than to keep half adozen boxes of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills in the house, as they will save more expensive doctorfsrbills.’:_ _ To break one of -these rings of tissue is a. great offense, and ac- cordingly when native women “fall out,” they snatch at each other’s ear-loops and seek to spoil one an- other’s “beauty.” The tribes have men among them, however, who are ‘skilful enough in plastic'Sur- gery to reunite the endsof broken can-loops. ‘ _ ‘ Just how strong is the desire of the black man to mutilate his body can be seen by the fact that the ma.- You can 'get Dr. William’ Pink Pills through any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a. box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Wil- léams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, nt. The boys and girls, at the age of thirteen or fourteen, say-s J. Bland- Sutton in his book, “Man and Beast in Eastern Ethiopia',” have their earâ€"lobes pierced. A thin {spigot of wood is inserted in the hole, which is gradually enlarged by the intro- duction of thicker pieees, until it is large enough to receive a stone with a, groove running rouvnd‘it. . These stones vary in size, but the ultimate result is the transforma- tion of the lobe into‘a munded cord- lzike loop, which, in theblack ears of these men and women, looks like a ring of indiaâ€"rubber; Among the Masai the full size is attained when the cutaneous ring of one side will meet its fellow over the ci‘own of the head. When the lobe has been stretched to its utmost capacity. it ,becomes the receptacle of many strange things, such as plugs of wood, rings of horn or ebony, and occasionally a. can or gallipot. The British Museum has a. stone earâ€"plug that weighs two. pounds and fourteen ounces. It is not an uncommon eight to see natives with scores of rings in each ear. Plugs of Wood, Rings of Horn or Ebony, and a Can. No people in the world are fonder of personal aadornment; than the black natives of Africa. Their cravings has led them into practises that, to our eyes at least, hideously deform the body. Among these is the custom of loading their ears with all manner of rude ornaments. AFRICAN ‘EAR ORNAMENTS. jam pm RUBBER sou? ; E-Mumwemg farms INVITING SICKNESS CA'lf'SAfBAWfi-g fl? béw’fleelsifm Tread softly - n. Ste-P §af91L nhaazn tive police, after three years’ of civilizing service- under‘ the govern- ment, generally go back to their na- tive villages, strip OH their uni- forms, smear themselvqs with greasy clay, and weight down their ears with wooden plugs and meta] rings. ' Be-cha/de collected the leeches. by buying all the worn out horse‘s he could get hold of and driving them into the marshes five or six times a. month, especially in April, May, June, October and November. Be- chade’s business flourished, and when he died he was worth a. million francs, After a. while the French leech trade was ruined not only on acâ€" count of the grewt decline in the deâ€" mand, but on account of the accesâ€" sibility of other sources of supply brought about by’the improved facilities of transport, fast trains bringingthem in a, short time from Turkey, Bohemia and Dalmatia and to a, more limited extent from Al- geria and Russia. Wearing his kilts, Mr. Harry Lauder, the comedian, played a. novel part on the sands at Blafik- pool, England, recently. His con- cern for dumb animals, especially pit ponies, is well known, and when he was invited by the Mayor of Blackpool to distribute the prizes in a competition for donkey‘s, Mr. Lauder eagerly responded. Having fixed medals" to the Winning don- key’s bridles, the comedian mount< ed a sandhill and indulged in inter- esting and amusing “patter.” In former times the Paris poor law administration purchased 80,â€" 000 francs ($16,000) _worth/a‘ year; This was in the thirties and forties of the nineteenth century; the ad- ministration now finds itself amply supplied with $40 _worth annnaliy. A total of $324,000,000 per annum is spent on the salaries of Goverrnu ment officials in England, Scotland and Ireland. Butter may be kept cool in hot weather by filling a. basin with cold water, and putting the buter on a. plate on the top of the basin. He related some of his experi- ences as a. pit boy. He told how, when going through a, drift, in a. coal mine, his/pit'pony suddenly stopped. “Immediately I struck _him with the whip,” Mr. Lauder proceeded: “He turned round to the side of the little tub I was sit- ting in, and I em not exaggerating when I tell you that about 10,000 tons of stone fell. Had it not been for the cuteness of the hearing of that pony we should both have been buried alive. I owe my life to that Shetland pony. Instead of licking my pony because he didn’t go on, when I saw what'happened I jumped out of the tub and put my arm around his neck and kissed him.” The great breeding ground for French leeches was the marshes around Bordeaux. A poor peasant named Belchade was the creator of the industry. He rented a, tract of marsh land for about $60 and this, when properly stocked with leeches, became worth $5,000. Nothing to What It Used -to Beâ€" Paris the Source of Supply. ‘Forty years ago there were in Paris alone ’oen wholesale dealers in leeches, each of whom sold between 300,000 and 400,000 leeches nionthly, for which they received on an aver- age about $50 a. thousand. To-day there is only one dealer in the capital and he gets from 6 to 7 francs ($1.20 to $1.40) a, hundred“ His name is Leya and he handles about 130,000 per month, says. the Medical Brief, his best market beâ€" ing the United States. He has sometimes half a. million in stock. THE TRADE IN LEECIIES. SAVED LAUDER’S LIFE. Harry Lauder. The almost unseemly haste with which the City Council rushed through the ap- pointment of Mr. T. G. Meredith as Cor- poration Counsel in succession to Mr. H. L. Drayton has given rise to no litle com- ment. Needless to say, there is many a Toronto lawyer who does not relish the idea of a $15,000 a year plum going to an outsider (for Mr. Meredith hails from Lon- don) and who think that they are just as capable of handling the job as he is. They point out that Mr. Meredith, in his London practice has never been called up- on to handle cases of the importance that he will be required to deal w’.h 'as To- ronto’s Corporation Counscl, and that his appointment was just a leap in the dark. At the same time the Meredith family has generally, in mental capacity, proved equal to any job they have undertaken. A family that has produced one Chie! Justice, one ordinary Justice and a Bank manager ought to be able to provide a. Corporation Counsel for Toronto. In fam- ily ability the Meredith family resembles the Oslers. At the same time it is not altogether unnatural that there should have been some comment about T. G.’s speedy appointment. It calls attention to the fact that while Sir William Mere- dith never attained oflioe as Prime Minis- ter of Ontario he is to-da one of the most influential men in it. 'lfi‘ls remark is, by the way, because Sir illiam may not have known anything about the city counsel appointment. SIR JAMES AND SIB, WILLIAM. In Provincial matters. however. it is doubtful if Sir James Whitney has a higher regard for anyone’s opinion than for that of his predecessor in the leader- ship of the Conservative party. Loyalty to old friends is one of Sir James’» most llkeable qualifleu. 8.!th loyalty to Sir Dr. J. O. Orr and the Canadian National Exhibitionâ€"Jim Meredith Famflyâ€" Dr. Hastlns's Rogula'tiona. F01: fifty weeks in the year Dr. J..0. Orr IS a private citizen; for, the remam}ng tyvo weeks he becomes a public institu- tlon. Those two weeks are, of course. the period of the Canadian National Exhl- bition, of which he is the General Mana- ger. . Dr. Orr is not a Doctor by courtesy. He has not been honored with a D. D. from a theological college or with an L.L.D. from a university; although he has been appointed a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto by the Provincial Government, an appointment which at the time provoked considerable comment. Dr. Orr earned his title, like any other M. D., by putting in five years plugging at the Medical College. But it is a long time since he has practised medicine. He had in h1m always the instincts of the showman. He has the cap‘amity for attracting crowds and for entertaining them, and so it came about naturally that when there came a vacancy in the management of the Ex- hibition, and when the same exhibition had fallen upon evil days, the Board of Directors, searching for some one with a genius for the show business, should let their choice fall upon the active doctor. ms DOCTOR’S JOB. Managing the big show is not such a hard business now as it was ten‘years ago. It goes with its own momentum now. So many various organizations have taken hold of various departments, pledg- ing their prestage to make ago of them that there would be a pretty good show now if there was no central management at all. But there is still plenty of work for an active manager. If there is to be a growth there must be improvement in all departments, and what is even more important, there must be fresh novelties of a more or less spectacular nature. These are the hardest things in the world to get. Another great showman, P. T. Barnum, declared that the public likes to be fooled. This is scarcely true now- a-days. The public wants its money’s worth. If it is going to be fooled, it wants to be fooled in a real smart'way. It won't stand, for fakes, and the fact is that about ’fifty per cent of the “peoial 'attractions" which try to get space at exhibitions are fakes. It's up to the doc- torrto separate the fakes from the “square deals,” and when he makes a mistake there is a howl from‘the public. Every year in the “private citizen" period of his life Dr. Orr spends several weeks in the Old Country, and some of the most interesting attractions of re- cent years have resulted from those vis- its. The exhibition has been able to en- list the sympathy of such men as Earl Grey, who provides the Doctor with let- ters of introduction when he goes abroad, and in this way he gets close to the peo- ple who can give him the things he wants. If the Doctor could some time only give an exhibition of old .world “Red Tape," he would be happy. I Mr.‘ .W. K. Mo‘Naught, M.P.P., and Mr. W. K. George. The Board of Directors is elected by the Exhibition Association, which meets once a year, and is composed of repreentatives of various organiza- tions, but dominated largely by the 11‘0- ronto City Council, Board of Trade and Manufacturers’ Association. While there is room for criticism of the method of representation in the association, there remaining in it a suspicion of the system of pocket boroughs, it must be admitted ah?” the 'results attained have not been a . IURDNIU BflRR While Dr. Orr is the acfi 'nnager, and is expected to supply the :. rive pow- er in initiating and sane judgment,- in making recommendations.‘he has the ad- vice, and is under the direction, of a Board of Directors. which includes many leading citizens. During fair time the Board meets daily, sometimes several times on one day, and throughout the year it keeps in close touch with the plans under way. All these men give theirr‘time without remuneration, having in mind only the welfare of the city and whatever personal honor and glory that may come incidentally. The present President, Mr. J. G. Kent, has been preceded by such, men as ML. George H_. Gooderham. 143;?” A lot of time is spent. too, in getting in touch with people who have valuable paintings which they are' willing'to loan for the art exhibit. Few of these are to be had on this continent, but Europe :has them by the car load, if one only‘. knows how to go about getting them. On the subject of paintings there is a continu- ous feud on between the Doctor and the Artists Association. The artists think the pictures that are. put in the Exhibition gallery ought to be high class artisti- cally. The Doctor doesn’t object to high art, but if he can’t get with it some sub- ject that has a strong popular appeal he doesn’t give a hang for high art. For example, it has been found from long experience that battle scenes and pretty women are the subjects that make the people come and look. But your connois- seur might find more high art in some quiet landscape with a few sheep in the foreground. The Doctor lets the artists have their own way to some extentâ€"he lets them stick up their landscapes and sheep over in' the cornerâ€"but he takes pains to see that his battle scenes and pretty women. stand right out on the middle of the wall. WHAT IS TRANSPIRING AT THE HUB OF THE PROVINCE. A HURRY UP APPOINTMENT. BOARD HAS FINAL F‘Y. THE DOCTOR AND ART. SPflNDENBE Dr. Hastings, who for the past year has been the city's Medical officer of Health, continues to keep in the limelight. That is not to say that'he is a self-advertiser, but he keeps himself talked about by reason of his enthusiasm for his work, which is a vastly different thing. He has made of the health olfice of the city a live institution and has brought it into closer contact with the daily lives of the people than perhaps any other depart- ment at government, municipal, provin- cial or federal. He has just concluded a vigorous swat the fly campaign, thereby arousing the interest of every housekeep- er in town. He has been insisting on covered garbage tins for every house, and has demanded that the fruit dealers who make elaborate sidewalk displays must keep fruit covered over. He has been protesting against noises as being injuri- ous to public health and has even gone so far as to advise against the keeping of any earlyerowing’ roosters within the city limits. He has succeeded in making outside closets made illegal, a sweeping order which ail’ects about one-quarter of the homes in the city. He has abolished the common drinking cup at public foun- tains and is installing a type of foun- tain that can be used without a, cup. There is a. firm in Toronto who give hun- dreds of men and women an opportunity to earn from $250.00 to $1,500.00 every year with but little effort. This firm manufac- tures reliable family remedies, beautiful toilet preparations and many necessary household goods. such as baking powder. washing compounds, vstove. furniture and metal polishes, in all over one hundred preparations that every home uses every day. Just one person in each locality can secure exclusive right free to distribute these preparations to their neighbors. They pay 100 per cent. commission to their agents. Don't you thinkyou better in- crease your income? If so, write The Home Supply 00.. Dept. 20, Merrill Build- ing, Toronto. Ont., for full particulars. Some ople think the Doctor is fussy. And per aps he is over careful. But the man who is responsible for the general health of a. modern city has quite a. care on his shoulders and he realizes the ca.- tastrophe in the shape of epidemic that always hangs over Iany one of the big centres of population as other people don’t. However, most people give the M. 11.1 0. credit for “doing something.” The criticism which he probably feels is that which is coming from the work- ing- people. A good many of his innova- tions. while making for the general, com- fort and health of the“ city, mean consid- erable expense to the poorer people. New garbage tins, for example, are an item. The abolition of roosters cuts off a. source of revenue for many more. Covering up fruit brought a big protest from the small merchants, while the installation of in- side closets has brought an expense that thousands ‘of families can ill afford, though it has brought a rich harvest to the plumbers. PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS QUIET. One of the du-llest places in Toronto these August days are the offices at the Parliament Buildings. The staff are tie- pleted by reason of holidays. The min- isters are often away and business is pretty nearly at a standstill. The only excitement is. caused by the motor bus loads of American tourists who make hourly plilgrimages to the seat of provin- cial government. They troup through the corridors; look at the maps and the paint- ings on the walls, peep in at open doors, and if they are in good humor tip the guide who has shown them through. But it is a. very vague notion of Canadian institutions that many of them get. There are frequent inquiries if the King ever comes here. and this year a. great many fair tourists asked to see the Duke of Gonnaught. Last year Swiizerland exported over 11,000,000 watches of the ag- gregate value of fnore than $25,000,- 000. William Meredith has manifested itself more than once. Toronto may find that an alliance with the Meredith family may not be unprofitable, even if it, (1qu cost $15,000 per annum. ’ TURN YOUR TIME INTO MONEY Domlnlon Express Bldg., Montreal loKlnnon Bulldlnz, - Toronto lb Gornhlll. - - London; Eng. GANADA SEGURITIES CORPORATIDN LTD. INVESTMENF SECURITIES DR. HASTING‘S CAMPAIGN. OUR SEPTEMBER LIST IS THE DOCTOR FUSSY. how in press. We Will be glad to forward copy on application. ' FOR MAKING'SOAR SOFTENING WATER, REMOVING PAINT; DIVSI NFECTING SINKS. CLOS ETS, D RAI N5 . ETC. SOLD EVERY-WHERE REFUSE SUBSTITUTES Some people wonder “If bonds are so good. why do bond dealers want to' sell them?" Moreover, if this new issue 0! stock they see advertised is so likely to Increase in vnlue, why ‘don’t they hold it and then sell it. 7 Now, in the first place, bond dealers, and those who handle new stock issues (I would call them promoters had not that word come into disrepute as a. result of its connection (with mining stock “0W tion) are merely dealers, as their name implies. A grocer buys preserved fruit and sells it to his customers. He makes his profit on that transaction and by turning over enough preserved fruit in the year he makes it pay him to handle it. If at that same time he knew that the fruit crop was a poor one and that he would probably have to sell his pro- serves higher the next year, would he be likely to hold his in his storeroom in order to make'a greater profit? Not if he was wise. While he was holdin his present supply he would probably 0059 a chance of turning over his stock three or four times, and that turnover would be much more satisfactory than hold- iing on the chance of the speculative pro- t. ' Moreo‘ver, a bond dealer is not an in- vestor. The expense of handling bonds is very great and the, profit relatively very smallâ€"the percentage is far less than that which the grocer makes on his purchases from the wholesaler. And though the grocer may think very his ‘ of the goods he deals in we would think him very foolish if he shut up shop and just kept his supply of goods on his shelves to use for his own food, even though he had sufficient to last him the balance of his life. There is. however, a very important reason why most grocers couldn’t do this, and that is because their business is done on credit. They buy from the wholesaler and borrow money from the bank to do so, repaying the bank when they have sold the goods. (Of course. in some cases they get credit from the wholesaler, but in that case they really borrow from him). The bond dealer does the same thing. He buys a. million dol- l-ar issuerofrbond-s and? borrows money The articles contributed» by "Invent.ch are for the sole purpose of guiding prot- pective investors. and, it possible, of "1' ing them from losing money throul’b placing it in "wildâ€"cat” enterprises. The impartial and reliable character of the information may be relied upon. '1‘!“ writer of these articles and the publilhel of this paper have no interests to la". in connection with this matter other than those of the reader. Sometixfies a girl misses a good thing by pretending she doesn’t Want to be ki-ssed. from his banker to pay for it, pay‘m of! the banker when the bonds are 301 . It would be unwise, indeed, to criticize him for_at_§em_pt-ing to_ sell his Abonda: ' MAKING SAFE INVESIMENIS They are Dealers In Bonds Jun u the Grocer Deals In Grocerlesâ€"Thelr Money Is Made In a Qulck Turnoverâ€"Salesman Just as Necessary In a Bond Buolnou as In in Wholesale Grocery Busineu. “Well, if your bonds are good why do you have to send men out to sell them," asked one man once of a bend salesman. “Why don’t you just advertise them in the papers. If they are so good the inves- tors will buy them.” A good mahiy peo- ple do buy bonds from reading newspaper advertisements, but in the present day it is so difllcult for people to tell the good from the bad in advertisements that they seldom buy from what is advertised unless they know the house ofl‘ering the bonds. It requires a personal interview with most investors to get their business. just as no wholesale grocer would trust to a news- paper advertisement to get the country grocer’s orders. It istthe same idea ex- actly. And the salesman who gets the most business gets the greatest salary. and so he has to "hustle." It isn’t be« cause they can't sell bonds in Toronto that they seek you out in the ’country, but because they want your business and your neighbor’s. The more business they get the quicker the turnover and conse- quently often they can afford to sell bonds at a less profit than a house whose business is smaller and whose turnover is slower. That is why it pays to send out salesmen. Many a man’s courage isn’t skin deep. Whern‘ two smiles ~come together in a headâ€"on collision the result is a kiss. WHY BOND HOUSES SELL BONDS IN- STEAD 0F HOLDING THEM- Worthless people are often more amusing than wgrthy ones. A man likes to acknowledge his faults to a woman who insists that he has none. The largest pyr'amid in Egypt, contains 90,000,000 cubic feet of stone. One way for a. mah to find out just what a woman really thinks of him_is to make her_apgry. , The child who is afraid of the dark may become a politician when he grows up and fear the light.â€" It is said that there are people who have money and do not know hoyv to qnjo-y it. _ r Nothing jolts a married Ens-m morg than to have his Wife spring One of his old love letters on him. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. (By "Investor.")