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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS. BIRTH. tb at 22, N ichoV-street, Swansea, the wife of Mr. Thomas Rees, chief reporter, Cambria Daily Ijeader," of a daughter." DEATHS. Kearon.-At 62, Brunswick-street, Arthur H. "FT. Kearon, a?ed six months, beloved ou of Captain Job Kearon, master Agnes May of this port. CLAYTON, -on the 4th inst. at Glasgow, Gillian, the beloved wife of George Clayton, and daughter of James Howell, late of Kilvey-terrace^ THOMAS—On Sunday March 28th, 1897, at New Dock, Llanelly, Lydia, the beloved wife of William Thomas of Swansea. J OirKS.—On the 28th inst-, at 4 Rhon dda-sfereei, Jano, the-widow of the late John Jonea, tailor.

I A DEFENCE OF THE BOERS. Miss Olive Schreiner continues, in the Fort- mghtly Review, her defence of the Boers, which, whatever one may think of its palitics, is full of eloquent and impassioned writing. Is it nothing that he should rise morning after morning, in the sweet grey dawn, when the heavy brains of the card-player and the theatre- goer are still wrapped in their first heavy sleep, and watch the first touch of crimson along his hills—a crimson fairer and more rich than that of anv sunset-sky—while the stars inde sfowly up above; that he should stand, dnnkhig his coffee on the stoop in the sharp exhilarating air, as the earth grows pinker, till after a whlie, as he stands at his kraal gate, and watchos his eheep file out he sees all his plain gilt in the snnlisht? Is there no charm ita those long peaceful days, when tho hours count as moments; when one may hear the flies buzz out in the sunshine, and the beat of a far-off sheep sounds loud and clear; when upon the un- taxed brain, through the untamed nerves cf sense, every sight and sound trace themselves with delicious clssmeae, and merely to live and hear the flies hum-is a pleasure? Is there no charm in those evenings when after the long still day the farm breaks into its tempo- rary life an l bustle, and the sheep stream bleating home, and the cows come hurrying to the lit la calves who put their head between the bars and over the kraal gate; and the Kaffirs ccme up to the bouse for the milking, and tlie children and dogs play about, and in the great still sky the Ftars wme out one by one; while there is still light enough from the dear west for the house-mother to finish her seam or sewing by as she gits at the back-door. Is it nothing that the competition, ambition, worry, and fret, which compose the greater part of vwn's lives is cities, are hardly known beri ?- that with nntired nerves and untaxed brain man and woman may nink to sleep at night, and in the course of long years hardly know a night of thought, broken reet, or wakeful torture ? Are this man's pleasures smaller or less rational when he breaks in his young horaas or rejoices (wei- the birth of a dozen white-noeed calves, than those of the man who finds delight in waiciiing the roll of the dice at Monte Carlo, oi no qu vera with excitement as ho deaermines whether he shall put his coin on this square or that? Is he not a more rational and respectahla object when with his wife and children beld)d him, he drives his waggon with eight horeea through his own veld, th'n tho man who sometimes with the of an empire ou bis shoulders, with ali eM culture which unlimited wealth and unlimited opportunity can bestow at tho end of the l&th century, and with an almost unlimited opportunity for the exercise of the intellect in large fields and for human benefits, yet finds life's noblest recreation in driving round and round in an enclosed park with foui horsas and a lacquey with a trumpet and a red ooat-like a four yeaxzl child ahewiig off hia J

DREAMS. I What Part tky have Played in some Well- known Crimes. Tha Story of ssmg very Rsraarkable I Dit ections. A recent number of a Scottish contemporary contained the following remarkable article — Signs, arcaiiis, and portents played no incon- siderable paat in our law courts, and the reports M thfl sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are brimful of references thereto. In connection with dreams, perhaps t ne of the most rernark- iblo trials—certainly of later davs-was that in connection with the slaying of Maria Martin, or the murder of the Red Bain, in which the murderer Was discovered wholly and solely through the- means of information gained through -t dream. The victim was the daughter of a mole • etcher, who possessed far more of bea-uty and education than most young women of her class. Needless to ::ay, she was the cause of much jealouay, and among her lovers was a rich young man named John Corder, by ^?L;»m she was pcduced and then abondone.1. Iii ,-tlM 'vlllLafl Corder, John's brother, appuzL-C.1 I upon the scene and under a promise of marriage Maria was again betrayed, and afterwards tindiug that she was to become a mother, she prayed her betrayer to carry out his promise. Tins, however, was not to the taste of William Corder, who, llTldtt promise of a secret marriage, made arrangements with the girl to meet him at a red barn on bis mother's bnu, whence they would leave for a neighbouring town and get married- The girl met h'm &s? arranged, when he shot ani buried her beneath the flooring of the barn. William Corder then disappeared, and returning after a few days, tell Mr. and Mrs. Martin that the marriage had taken place and that their daughter was living at Ipswich. Some months elapsed, the barn wherein the body was buried was tilled with com, and as no tidings came from the young woman, Corder gave as a. reason that she had hurt her right hand, and therefore could not write to her par ents, shortly after which Corder left the neighbour- hood. Some time later Mrs. Martin dreamt that her daughter had been murdered by Corder and bjuried in the barn, and so frequently was the dream repeated that in the end she persuade d her husband to get the grain removed, and to dig at the spot incdcateu in the dream, which he did when the body was immediately discovered a,nd identified. Suspicion naturally pointing to Corder, he was traced to London, where he was found married to a schoolmistress, on whose earnings he was living. Ho was arrested, found guilty, arnl duly executed, the meting out of justice in this instance being entirely due to a. dream. An Irish murderer -%Vus convicted largely upon dream evidence. One Rogers, a Waterford publican, dreamed that ho shaw a man murder another in a particular green spot on the summit of a neighbouring raoantain. Un the following day he described both men he had seen in his dream with perfect accuracy to many of his companions. One of too men was exceptionally strong; the other, who committed the crime, was weak and small. Rogers at length prevailed upon the parish priest to accompany him to the spot, which was easily found, which bore no traces of a death-strugglo. On the following day, however, two men entered the public-house whose appearance tallied exactly with those in the dream vision. When they rose to leave, Rogers begged the one whom he expected to be murdered to remain, but un- availingly. After the man had left, he nearly fainted from fright, and-in the end persuaded a neighbour to accompany him t-o the green spot on the hill, where, sure enough, the tragedy of the dream had been enacted in real life. Tha murdered was tracked and captured, and g-ers was the principal witness against him. His description ofhis dream was so vivid, that the murderer immediately ac knowledged hi3 guilt, an d said that he killed his companion with eight stabs, exactly as pictured in the dream. In 1810, at FrankfoTt, in Germany, a woman named Kraeme, made wtlication to a local judge to be sworn, as she had some infor- mation to impart relating to a murder com- mitted in a remote village in Rus;a, many days' journey from her German domicile. Her story ran thus: -Ten years before her only son had left home. She heard nothing of him, and had no idea at all where he was living until the night before, when his spirit a^neared to her and told her what she now hastened to re- late. i'oe revelation was that after leaving home the young man had wandered about Europe till he had finally found work in the village of Klaf, in Russia. Here he had fallen in love with a serf's daughter who had a Russian beau. On the preceding night, this latter had inveigled tee ycung Teuton into the country, where he had stabbed him and them concealed the body in a cave off the highway. The judge was so im- pressed with the description, that he forwaxded it to a rotary in Klaf. In the meantime Karl Kraeme had been missed, and on the receipt of the dream, story, the police searched for the cave, found it exactly located as described, and also found the body with a wound corresponding with that detailed in the vision. The murderer was at once arrested, and the widow Kraeme undertook the long journey to avenge her son's death. Her recital in court was vivid in the extreme, and she screamed with fright when she firat saw the prisoner, whom she Ticked out from a crowd of men in a dimly-lighted cell. She also identified the woman who was the cause of the trouble equally easy. The 74th Highlanders have a. legend handed down for three generations at least. A captain, whoso name escapes us, was writing in his tent at Sbolapare, when a young soldier in hospital garb entered. "Please, sir, I wish to have my arrears sent to my mother. Will you kindly take down the address?" The officer did so without think- ing when he looked up the visitor was gone. Then it struck him that. this was very irregular. He called th seargeant, who informed him that the voung man in question had died m the hospital the day before, leaving an unusual sum of money, and that the audress of his friends could not be discovered. It is alleged that a report of these facts, drawn up there and then, still exists.

A Royal proclamation was issued on Friday Jun;?? 22 n. t shall L, ob- night commanding that J mi a 2'2 no." t shall bo ob- served as a national holiday, in recognition oi the Queen's record reign. The Archbishop of Can- ] terbury is authorised to prepare a special form of prayer and thanksgiviug to be used in all churches and ohapels on Sunday, June 20. At the Manchester City Sessions on Wed- nesday, Mtu-slaoU Lindsay Potty, formerly oashier in the treasurer's department of th", Maache^ter Corporation, pleaded guilty to stealing iJi,OCO belonging to the Corporation. He was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. At Manchester City Council on Wednesday, a letter was read from the Home Office stating that the Home Secretary wmld order on inquiry into the local police scraMsals, and that for- ther commusieskUofl, VWQM h* received m duo ASpCltS

^HE HOME USEFUL AND SUGGEST 0 ADVICE TO OTULS.-M, i.m LrniFta Alcatt Kiwas file following advice to gills, the euys H(iirl.. don t be in l»aste to wed. Build up healthy bodies by good food, plenty of exercise, ml Letu n ull the useful IwusehUd arle befuo yoti Attempt to make a home. Cultivate yoitf Ittittde with the be,-I, IA)<)ke, that you may IJe aWII im tost-h your children much that school-fcraM* i, atone will never give ycu. Cl"xwA yoW ft phoneme 11 La wisely, for yout.h unwt have plea enre, bub need not wusfce itself in liarmfol frivolity. Above all, seiect your friends Wkb care. Avoid gii-Im who live only for faoliion. Uirtation, and enjoy moot, rvod u?e th« pf?Hej?W sit women may claim to dccLme the actjuniafc- "neo of young men whoe liv" will out bew inspection by the innocent eyes of wornelt IAIt no delusion of wealth, rank, coinelisseed, ae love tempt you to trust your happiness Le eucli A one. Watch and wait til, tho true lover comiv oven if it be ail your lifo, for single blesswdieea* it; far better than double misery anti wtOIJ. Spinsters are a very uful. happy iijueiHsiideHicf race, never more fo than w hen all profe««*Mtf are open totiieui.and honour, fame, ami fortune are bl' l,ely won by many gifted mombers of Lttt fcistei'liood. Set your standard high, aitdl liv* tip to iL, sure that the reward will come. here off liereafler, in the form best auited to your nØ4.¿ 8 CURING BIRO-SKINS.-—Anoint every park of the skin with arsenical soap, made am fulU»«F« —Powdered arsenic, 2 oz. cauiplior, 1 tiz. a white soap, 3 oz.; salt of tartar, 1 oz., powderwa lime or chalk, 3 o; oil of thyme t its. The Poat) must be cut in very small and thi. alkiei. put into a crucible with a small quantity Water, and held over a gentle fire, beiag fro. qneutly stirred with a wooden spatdla, ct a piece of wood of any kind. When it is proporlf melted add the lime and salt of tartar, mud mix thoroughly. It mosb now be taken off L60 tire, the arsenic added in small quaulilise, MM) "irred in. Powder the camphor by beating In a mortar, with the addition of a Utile Çk.-i: s& wille. Theil put it in, and well roix L6 cea¡.. position with a spatula. Now place it on ilia fire again to ail!'t in making the ingredåen" unite properly, but do uot beat it rotwit, or tka campltor will escape. After this it cAn be poured into a glazed earthen pob and allotfredl to cool, a piece of ¡W¡Wf being tied over tjbo top. When it is necessary to use the soajfu pat as much as yon require into a jam-pot. a»d| add to it an equal proportion of water. TUi applied to the skin, especially to the ri where the oil glands arc sitllnte, or the feautwrd with a bristle brush. It should be kept as close as possible, aud used with cautiou at il H I deadly poison. How TO 0 8R A DICTIONARY Thue is no book, except tho Bible, which makes so large a rti, ttititforc-areful study as the English l^vctionar#! The best method of studying it. ii to read two pages every (lky to consider the }>rontn>cia4it>H aud meaning of each word LI)o-,o with wh"- we are familiar are immediately recognised, butons »lo€«»w jll to consider the pronunciation, uo mat- ter .¡o."f.wiliar IJe mf.m:,ingof the wonh. on la that are new to the person will easily be tiugiiinhed in th", mild a* obsolete, -1) or still in u.-AL Let every meaning a nd history be carefully considered. Next, let every new word which is suitable for use in this ago and coal," be employed as soon as |K>«sibla In ietter, or rw.-ech, or composition. Third, the great dictionaries quote from author* certaia slina- trati v9 passages. Let these be referred to in the original when the writer possesses the book, and let him read the passage in its setUngJ^ Fourth, keep a dictionary at hand ADd rafelp at the instant to any word used in A ne,. at questionable way, or to any new word to which one comes in reading. Do not say, MI wiM look this np at some other time." S«fc» Ü>4 moment of excited enricsity for ili-e, aeqttinities of k now ledge." Uules^ t.he word is examined at. once i will be forg->tfcen or crowded o»k A./ person who ustw th dictionary in this way Wttl in six months, make more progress in th' mastery of facts, ideas, and words, than coat otherwise lie done in several years. A MOTHER'S The powdering of inoth-er 1 If ib ct),um be written., if fcbere war any angelic rejfrrrt^r-hand bo take the bee thoughts lu.d the ewettest fancies, and if kk life of a mother's heart eould be written in tKos early brooding days, it would shine fit U b I rea, I in the libraries of the Ueaveafy MHI j itlf. ntHn?M nature never cornea s*> now {the Dtvu?e M when ? loyal p«*r» 04ak tfci f f?H Rood of her &hht and fy -d t?e ? tho little, unheeding, bo 6oc as yet adee child. Where eJ"e is she so bejaoftifnl as wte* the sits in the centre of this mystic esreie—at when site »h*gs to her babe, or gazes stit-mtty ai I ifc feeds upon tier bowm ? Tbe-st-arshaveimthpng 8o bright, and the heaven seoreely aark6up more pure and more holy thaw the hewressry Ic*. vi':J of a mother to her Ht?e belpiesa *M' |«utfa»4»i<9i<hed child. \V ,TKfW'!tt)(Ji' PAPlt1L-Ct!m pws?)??, ?r v?ry Mmp?e pr-oce. m?y be co"nmto4 M? ? > #ub*ti«»oe as stroug ?8 I ).rchm by m.?aM <? sulphuric acid. The paper is »in»p*y dipped ia the aebd but the acid mtuMs be of an ad" determined strength, and mixed with Iwfclf hi i bulk of water. A sheet of pa par dipped En tbit liquid is almost instantaneously changed Ï8 cliar-.tcter. It becomes tough, hard, aud fibroma^ but its weight is not. iuerensed, and ib i6 fm • better for writing than an-iinal pftrckmeo^. Ifc stands rubbing better tlmn paper, and alaa«e4 as well as sheepskin aud it serves for vellum [ in bookbinding, and for all legal Inrrloe", aa 1Wtdl as ani(«al parciimenfc. It tuay itloe be Maers ? & for bladders t,Q. "lver r,?vklm "A t jam jars. Any p?per t.?t. ha« even beeo prmbet? oil may be etu vet te-I., by means of solPL-acia acid, into vegetable parchment. SHH.INICIN<I IN WOOLLEN* GOTTEN—A Carrism fiabries trcat,e-1 according to the f"wi,ig srmpie ■ method will be found 1.0 be pf ag4tinA eln inking and wTl also retain their ecatwzr ms, | eluuifcre+l. The fabrics are first s+)ak. ed £ «• j several h »urs in a warm, moderately couremb. I trated sohitiun of-oda, to which abwwt half a tumbler of ammonia has been adiieti, 1JI"41t"8 or less, according to the quantity of material 1 treated. At thi^ stape the fabrics are waaited out, after tlw addith)« of some water that is i Wann, then ri nsed its fresh water. The same resell, may be reached by add iivg a tirw Wer ot ammonia water ? a Mt?H tub of water, so akiwg the stufw for h?tf an ho«r in ?i&, anJ &amMy rinsing them in pare water. IFx.rTING Cmi fRE?.—To take yonng Mf?Mtta to the theatres or to other plaees w hf?e the Mt'??t. • the hearing, and Llw other senses are exeived, is to prevent sleep, atri hence to indict "fives injury upon the child. Convulsions and bra* diseases of variotts killclare often produced by the folly of mothers, who, thinkittg to (>leasa their babies or to cause t heui to be ad i%i ired, inflict irreparable iujnry upon them by keeping thom Kw?Le wh?t I,hey ?x?hL to œ Ip. Even if Uve child1 does not die or?]fter inH1¡' ntely fn?) some disease, its whole C?eM?a? and ■ physical orgaoisathm may be radically changed for the worse by depriving it of ihat ft.. | amount of sleep so necessary to its well-Lioitig- PATT-KRN IVOMAS--A g(,oi housewife holtld 1 not be a woman of one idea," but 4waid b8 equally familiar with the flower-garden and flour- barrel and though her lesso»i should be to lessen eXI)e&Vr-e, the scent of a fine roee should not be less scented than the cent in the till. She will doubtless prefer a yard of shrub- hery to a yard of satin. If her husband is a skilful grower of grain, she is equally skilful aa a sewer of garments- he kee|>s his hoes bright by use, she keeps the hose of the whole family in order. STKKNGTHCTI5G HAIR LOTIOX. — Glycerine. One ounce eau-de-Cologne, four otinoes liquid ammonia, one drachm oil of origanum, half a drachm oil ,f rosemary, two drachms; tinctura Cnntharides, half an ounce. Shake well for HHIM minutes, then will camphor water, ten ounces. Mix. To be well brushed into the roots of (ha hair with a moderately hard brush three times a week. PLATTIMK.—Children, says Mr. Rusk in, "¡)f)..I? have their times of being oif duty like soMi»ts and, wheu once the obedience, if reqv.ire certain, the little creature should be ver put, for periods of practice ineompb' of itself—set on tolte !lltro backc' will, and toil to break it by it I A USOrU IN A N "rnvola" (Fisher Un- Jes.wpp, opens with the par icular story of a :J at 1 a. m. ou October aa t, and I was fascir staving, but lest he si writing, I lifted my I stt etched it out to the the top one. I cann,, rny arm passed in fr vanished. I was nothing more. I we; nothing: bad happen* Irninu,es, and I liad words of wha t I when the ifgure app. •ame place and att: hands clos3 to my again, to examine h. was framing a sentence discovered that I did not afraid of the soun,1 of my sat, and there fiat 1. I to my w, rk, and fitligh, three words I still had to my notes are at this 9xhii.iit not the siirj/.te m?3s, I could point out tho Phantom app?arE<i. Hiviasr f- book and thraw alight noia;" Tuis is a facts. Explanatio. to others.

Owing to the large increase in their business, Smith's Advertising Agency, of 132, Fleet-street, have just added new offices at 82, Fleet-street, thus doubling their already large establishment. The new branch will be exclusively employed I. in transacting adve.rt"rnents for the provincial papers, the head odn-jo retaing all the London wrk. Rich grid deposits have been discovered on the tributaries of the river Yukon, in Canar dian territory, the gold-bearing belt being 300 miles long. The consequence is that the Canadian Mounted Police have caught the gold fever, and as their term of servce expires this spring, none of them will re-enlist. New re- l tachioents of men will, thereflare, have to be seat to the district

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Brahms, the composer, who died the other day, was very shy and reserved, and sought the society of veiy few friends. Strange to say, he was very fond of Hen Johann Strauss and his valses, although there is such a vast difference in the character of the works of the two men. A pretty anecdote is cold of their intercourse. Strauss once wrote the music of "The Blue Danube" valse on a wooden fan belonging to his wife. When Brahms saw this fan he wrote under the valge: "This is exactly what would wish to have composed." A few months ago the friends of the now deceased com- poser advised him to make a will and g £ t?e (lireLlJoiu as to his works, his collection of musical autographs, and his property, hieb amounts to between £ 8,00C and £ 9,000. Brahma was without blood relations oi any kind, but bad a step-mother and a step-sister. He neglected signing this will, or having il legalised by a lawyer, though he had made th4 ¡ h..t:y of the Friends of Music bis hiira, and now 3» will tabeveuthina that bekacea to him The Gothenburg system is turning out a failure, an dthe friends of the prohibitory move- ment in Norway have had a fuither disappoint- ment in that a mort alcoholic and miserable, but cheap, wine," pours into the country Ilnd a large part of the population used it to drink to excess. Mr. Cecil Rhodes will sail for the Cape at once to resume his Parliamentary duties, and will re- I turn to London when required. The Indian famine fund on Saturday amounted The Rev. Sir John Frederick Halford, who only succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of hia brother, Sir Henry Halfor-d, a few month. ago, died at his residence, Draughton Reotory, Northampton, at three o'clock on Wednesday morning. While waiting for the train at Lara- port station on Tuesday afternoon, ho was seized with an apoplectic fit; and never recovered. He was 67 years of age. The child of a Chiswiek resident named Davie, has met with an extraordinary death by swallow- ing egg-shells. Tracheotomy was performed, but with non-success. Medical testimony at the inquiry showed that death was due to asphyxia from bronchia^ pneumonia. ut up by a foceiirn in the wmd-pijpa.

GREAT REDUCTION IN THE CONSUMPTION DEATH RATE IS IT CURABLE?—AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW. In 1853 (says the" Weekly Dispatch") the deaths from consumption in Great Britain were at the rate of 29 84 per thousand of the popula- tion. In 1892 the number had fallen to 10 82 per thousand, or about one-third, and it has not i risen since. Still, the insidious malady is istt il too pravalent, and he who can discover a curs for it, will be hailed as a benefactor to the race. ib has lately been alleged that a remedy has b-?en    -?P?Md q?cer, ?da \Veddy Dispatch" Co?im?sioner ?aa deputed to make mqmiy. Is it the case that you have a new cure for consumption, and that people have already been lestorea to health by itel asked the Weekly i spates Commissioner, interviewing the head of a well-known establishment in London. It is quite true that several persons discharged from various consumption hospitals have been Cured lately, and that the fact ha.s been noticed a good deal in the Press," was the reply. "But" (" ith a quiet smile) "there is nothing new about the retijedy. It is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for I'ale People. The Dr. Williams' Medicine Com- pany has from time to time received intimation? that consumptive people in ali parts of the world have been cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. But we never made a feature of the cases in our advertising until lately, for the reason that we were afraid lest there should be some mistake in the matter; and it would be contrary to all our rules to recommend our Pills for any disorder unless we were absolutely sure that they had been proved suitable to it." What -o you mean by 'fearing some mis- take?' Well," said the manager, "a mistake could arise in one of two ways. People might suppose that they had been f I AFFECTED BY CONSUMPTION, whereas they had suffered from some other cause, such as blood-spitting from injury to the throat or stomach; or they might really have been consumptive, and, having got a little better, imagined themselves cured when they were not really so. But recently—that is to say, within the last year or two—we have had under our observation, cases in which consumption un- doubtedly did exist, we the patients had been examined and certified as consumptive at various hospitals and in other official ways. These j people were led to use Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and, as a rewlt. after a time they were proved to be "cured." This led us to make the facte pub- lic, and they have been taken up and reported upon by a number of newspapers, by our re- quest. That is the whole story. You see there is nothing very striking about it." Not very; it is simply an exceptional re- cord of an honest hesitation successfully re- moved." "I don't know that there is anything excep- tional about it, though it's very kind of you to say so. What has happened in the case of the disease consumption, or phthisis, is just what has happened with a number of other diseases which are incurable by ordinary medicine, but which are cured, as published evidence shows, by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." What diseases do you refer to? Oh, a number of them—locomotor ataxy, and other forms of paralysis, for example; spinal disease, cystitis (a disorder of the bladder), some forms of anaemia, and some disorders special to women. We were some years before we pub- lished our first case of locomotor ataxy, although we had reports of several cases cured in the inter- val. We wished to see if THE CURE WAS PERMANENT, because the man had been paid death dues amounting to over L200 by an insurance com- pany, on the certificates of medical specialists, that he was absolutely incurable, and could not live. This is Mr. Marshall, and he is well and -sti,ong to-day, thanks to Dr. Williams' Pink Pilla. Another instance is that of Mr. Robertson, a well-known Scottish football player. He sus- tainad an inj ury which culminated in spinal dis- eaee, with a huge growth on the back. He WM discharged from the Glasgow Infirmary Hospital as incurable, and went home to die. His mother spent £ 150 trying to get him cured by various means. He was cured m a very short time when he began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pilis, and can play football as well as over. He is a for- nlidable chiip in the field, I can tell you I Then there is the case of Mr. George Bilton. who was paid his death dues by a Friendly Society-the BouSr Makers—as totally and per- manently disabled by cystitis, or inflammatory catarrh of the bladder; certified as practically i dead by three doctors. He was cured by Dr. I W illiams' Pink Pills; we waited MORE THAN A YEAR before publishing his case in our book. He had lain paralysed for more than two years, and also suffered frightful agony from rheumatism, before he used the Pills; but our Pills have made him a strong man without an ache in his body, and he walks enormous distances. The same doctors who certified his discharge as incurable have certified him cured and fit for work, and the trade society actually re-admitted him-a. unique case. The object of this is to show the permanency of the cures you effect." Excuse me; it is Dr. Williams' Pink Pilla that effect the cures. We don't doctor people. We will not even examine or see them at our office. But if we are written to (and we are always pleased to have sick people write to us as fully as possible), we will tell them frankly whether cases like theirs have been cured bv Dr. Winiaird Pills before, or not. If we do not think the Pills suitable, we are only too glad to say so, because our business is built up entirely by the recommendation of people who have used our Pills and found benefit from them. We have sruch a large trado that, really, the sale of a box more, or a hundred boxes more, is not to \e cotnmred in importance with the recoru which we hold for fair and candid dealings. We do not fear any amount of investigation; and that is how it is that we have so many good friends among EDUCATED PEOPLE AND THE CLERuY who know we deal honestly with the public. As an example, Dr. Williams Pink Pills cured of spinal disease a girl of Glasgow. Her name is Miss Bell, and she was actually visited by a clergyman, in order to prepare her for death. When she was cured, more than three years ago, the clergyman wrote to us about it, and he 13 kind enough to write to us from time to time. telling us how the girl is getting on. His name .ia the Rev. Samuel Harding, of 7, Firbank-ter- race, Dennistoun, Glasgow. The girl is, and remains perfectly well and strong. "But -with another quiet smile—"I fancy "Tire are getting rather far a.way from the subject -of consumption, and my time is rather limited." Well, about consumption, then. I always supposed that consumption was absolutely fatal." So it is if it gets to the final stage, though we have been told by people even far advanced in consumption that they have pulled up strength wonderfully by using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. But in some stages, even when specialists and hospitals can only offer palliative treatment, and try to delay tha inevitable, we have good evid- ence that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have actu- tlly effected cures." The manager cited the following, among other cares: Mr. F. Joyce, of 5, Brown's-buildings. West Pottergate-streot, Norwich, raised phlegm every morning which was streaked with biood; his face was blanched, and he lost weight. His breathing was short and pamful, and Mr. Joyce's apprehensions were increased by the fact that HIM FATHER HAD DIED OF CON- SUMPTION. He went to two doctors. Then one morning, to use his own words, "I looked in the Norwich Eastern Daily Press," and there I saw a case of a. consumptive young man who had been spit- ting up blood like myself, and having night sweats, who was cured and restored to rubust health aivl strength by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pals People. I procured a box of these Pills myself, and followed the directions as to taking them, with the result that after taking the con- tents of three boxes I felt as well as I over did in my life." But while feeling so well, Mr. Joyce still had an uncomfortable ii,.prem.en that he was still in consumption, so he sub re I r-ted himself for examination at the Norfolk and Nor- wich Hospital. THE DOCTORS OF THAT GREAT INSTITUTION I declared him to be in a. sound state of health, and refused to supply him with any medicine or enter him upon the bOQb. as he hM no need o! elte,r h?,m u I vr Wilhains' Pink Pills are not like other medicine, nor can they be imitated as is sometimes dishonestly pretended; take cars that the package bears the" fu n nlme," ut. W il- liams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and in case of doubt send direct to Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, 46, Holborn Viaduct, London, L.S., as tha Pills can be had post free at 2s. 9d., or six boxes for 13s. 9d.

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