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FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM UEB DANKS AND BnA^S. SVhat Js Colno On In the ffloWands and Lowlands ol Auld Scotia. Glasgow's tramway syslpni, when com- plelo, will moiisune I'Jl miles. Ullh graiJi merchants uio conti'lnin- luj, ul a considerable duUn.ss m tiaUe. All organ is to be eroclea in 'Inmty U F. CImrcli, Greenock, ul a. cost oI (>3 5(0 Tlio" Fair Oly of Perth d.'clin^s to h«v<' iU quiel dlilurbed by Sunday tramcars. 'llK' Tithnical College in John sired. Glii.sgow, is U) be cxl«ndeJ a* a cost of S10i.<J()0. , , A tombstone (laU-d I'lH. has bren late- ly uneaithod ul VVhillaig.'hiimc, Hud- djigtonihre. A cockuloi) which could speak llin- du>luni (without protanily) has Juit died in Alx-rd<;eii-.hiio. About 9<)ti miners have last work Ihrouah the stopping ol coUierics at Aiidiii! and b'smahagow. Th« Ojinpaiiy oJ -Stiitonors of Glas- g.,w claims nn existence of 168 years, having liflen formed in 1740. A leU'graph operator at Edinburgh G.P.O. has fnllon licir to S.V)0,000 left bv an uncle noar San Francisco. Eight tanks of Loch Ix;vcji yearling tr.iut, numbormg about 2.000, liave t<cri dopoaitixl in Linlithgow Loch. A durk belonging to .Mr. Wni. Slew- art, N.ar Mains, Whithorn, has laid two oggs, each of which weighs 5 om. A few i^eoplo are agitating fo.- an «rti- flciiil CBSoade leing construclM on the face of the Castle Rock at Eduiburgh. Glasgow has the reputation of con- suming more bananas for its size than any -jther town in the Unit-d Kingdom. One of the new sea lions at the Ulas- pow Zoo barks like a dog. Its burk sooms to be Inspired by a desire for a fish to oat. At Arbro.-ith the dangerous b t of rcind al Fernlea and Woodv.ll© is to be put righl by the llPing in of tlie ditches and by fencing. A two-fool snnko with a "back cover- ed with white and green squares like l.'rolcum" w:is killed in an Edinburgh tack gar<lfn the other day. At Auchtt^rdcrrun Manse there has been unoui Ih^'d a piece of a sundial, .sup- j'flsod to have belonged to St. F<jtliait ttiv bL8h<p who gave Auclilerderran lU cliartiT iii the year 102."). The Sheriff iit Dunfermline has decid- ed that the owner Is not liable for <lum- nge done by it slrayod bullock, which cnU)Pod ttic lijt)by of a donliat'a preiu- ises and <lesti-jyod a valuable viise. A Mohammedan l>nby was named re- cently by tho prie.sl of the Senegal vil- lager.* now in lh<' Edinburgh Exhibilion. The ceremonv was jjerformed in publi' and I he child was called Ouniar FU'ekio Scotia. It wat dlscovfred that Burns' Monu- ment and maseum at K.lmarnock had teen broken inl-i since It had been c\r,^d the nit'tit Ix-foro. The most valu- able Ihing stolon Is a copy of the first tdlton of Huras' (>oems. For years o decline in the birlh-rnto of Alwrdeeii lias been very noticeable. Tfie nluriis tor lt»7 show that the Lirth rate per thousand of the ijopulation wa.s 85.8. which is tho lowest in rec>ird .since the pas.<5iig ol the lUT'islration Act. I'aisley has 35(> i)e.»ple over 70 years of age wh-) nie in receipt of i o r relief, ,A O'liiple of Moemon converts were \\r,p\mtl iei'enlly by lmm«ision in tho Leith public biillis. A gcxitl deal of damage was dune lo Mcf^wan's brewery. Fountainbrulgc Edlnle.iruh, hy n reo n't fire. Dundee llarlK-r IViard Is said to be In such a Siil sfaclorv eondilion tlwt it Is able to Invest nxney Instead of bor- lowiiig it. nunooM Iws decided to c.hnppo vn* seN laiidin'.< H(0<ls or •; a.s.s<>nB<'is nt ils per Id. per net Ion over llie existing cbargis. A piilil c meet'ng in Fdinburph rec^nl- I.- (leeidel to take .slop.s t> raise money to <r -ct a mem rial lo the* lak> .Marniiis of I.inlilhjf' w. The ntir.icllon.4 of polf, ro'.lliall. ey- eing and motoring have almost blolUM r,iil thA p'<VLsm-es <,f Ixialing on Ihe Deo at .\l eivjeen. The jxmny dreadfiih are prolmlilv lo lil..nie for a very youthful mes.<!Hg.-'lx)y bltng from r,<l;nliurg|i wllli $0.50 and s<'ek ng ndvonlures in Gln.sgiw. .The IxmIv of n man .siip|xifl»\l |o bo Cwvirpe Ui'.f Cowie. .'oliejt/vr. of Inver- uil', was foiiml in an Kdinhurgh hotel Willi nn empty bottle of loudamim <ilnnd:ng rear. Tl'« I'n sl.'v School rvinrd are paying i»fiec'nl Bllenllon to the eiUrnll<,n of nienlnllv d'fective rhlldiym. and abuit eighty ar»' at pro-ont nll.-iKling Alier- corn seh'ol. Thi.s [H the Jubilee year of Ihe fon-na- t:on nf Dalbeattie into a hurgh. nn<l it Is pr-ipo-od t> celohrate the event Ijy a gr.!;i day in Ihe parks during llic slim- mer. Orcadian (Ishormen are OT>pAi!ed to tho (/rnnllng of a lens^ <,f Firth flay lo a fyndleale In or»ler lr> start an oy.i^ler rnn'^h. and the Secrel'irv <if .«;Uite for Sco'land has Uvn uirixjalivl to on the suble-t. .Mr. John n-rkmyie hns given a dona- tion of ,f 100 in Hid of I'<.rt Gliistviw iin- eHinl<n'«l. Including tlik sum. Mr. Dirkniyre has n<^.w miid> a (<.tal (vintri- billon of .etOO lo the ivl ef fiin.l. The workmen al Sejliy ANvy ivcentlv toqnd i\ large Jnekdnw'.<i nest on the Blalrcnee <if Ihe old lower. They were Conijv»Hei lo remove it. and In d>ing.so Ih^v foen.1 In and around It M .six-ineii T"" and ^1 .S'-rews. (ii^eenork .«;ehn»>l fViar.l hna decided to recommend the payment of grants to- wards the Inslructon of Gaelic lo BChtilurs in dlstikts where a consider- able number of Oaellc-spenklng ratepay- ers e.xpr<!ss a de-iirc for such educal:on. Mr, John Anderson, who recently re- tti«d aflei" a .service of forty years as secretary of Callander and Oban l^ail- v/ay, w,s [;r.\senled al Oban Willi hi^i p..rlrait a.^ a tangible rcoognilion of his .s<-rviccs in the development of the We»t Highland-!, Lord Provost Cll.son, IMinburgh, on Wodnesday j.'^irfoi-nied the opening cere- iiony in cmnectl n with- the new blocJ< <-f collate h Jins which has been odK.led to the cottage l:oinis ot lh« Aged Ctiris- tian Frcnd S<jciety of Scjtland al Colinton. The rrovost, magistrates and Town Council of SUonraer hold in trust f?2,5O0 teqiieitheij by the late Mr. David Guth- rie, a Piovost of Uie burgh. Ih« free in- l. rcit or inc<jine to Ix) derived from such mun bein!,' a, plied for the educ;iloii <>r for agisting m tlie education of poor desoi-Ving cliildrcn. THE niCDiniil OF ISItl'GF.S. Itcsloralion. of Trade to a Forflotten Capital. Aft<!r more Ihan four centur e<! of stag- nation, Bruges, once Ihe comme.cal ca- pital of EuioiH.', is to regain some of lU nnel.'nt prosporily. The sea has been restored to it. A canal has been cut from the city lo the sea, a new port constructed, and a way made by which the quaint old city of tlie lace-makcrs may handle some of the current of trade which pa.sscs between the ojean and the iMiilerland. In the middle of the flfUeiith a>ntury r5'-uges wa.s tho busiest and richest city. If not the largest, in L^uwpe. It was situated on a canal which had Ix^n so built as lo form a branch of the Zwyn <'iluary, was a priucipul market of the Hanseatlc I>eaguc, and had at ils v.'harves shipping from all the world. \\ hen Paris numlkrd ouj hiindiel and twenty thousand pc'<jple, Bruges had a fourth more. Ils Ia<:'-ori-es were never idle, ils merchants became princes, its many canaLs were alive with boats tciinl for inland pliicivs. But in the course of time H was found that tl;e arm of the sea was filling with drifting sends. l-;ff<irls were made lo stay the process, but without success. Year by year tlic waters .slioaled, and ly Ihe middle of Uio sixttn'nth o.'ntury Biuges was but an inland town, the empty shell of former greatness. In th? lap.sing centuries many efforts ba\e Ix^n made lo rostoio tho citys harlior. A canal lo Oslend gave sonic relef, but was soon rendered obsolete by the lncrea.se in tho .size of vessels. In IHIO Na,p<il-e<.n alU^iipled lo solve tho problem, but failed again. Meanwhile the population tell away lo f ,rty thousand. II^.usos and stores ktood idle. Only the lace factories re- mained busy. They .still employ*^ live thousand of the Biug'-s women, an.l tho ancient city hall, the markets and churches, built in the tiays of pro.sjtcr- ity, rcinainod the (Inesl examples In nortlierii Europe <if the archileclure of the flfleenth century. Al last, thirty years ago, a certain Flemish nobleman propo,sed a deep ca- nal to Ihe sea direct. After a d<jzen years of deliberation the governnieiil ngroed. and in 1890 tho slate, piovinee and city together begun work. A ennal nwenty-six f- ct <lecp has been dndged throu^ih the siinJ, ab-mt eight miles in a tilraight Un.; lo tho North Sea. There immense concrete jetties niak« a new "foi« port" for Bruges, where pass«>ngers and expre.ss freight can be transferied to rail. Heavy g. ods will pa.ss through a lock to tlie canal, vTiil .so lo n great new ba.sin at the city iljelf. where all Ihe canals have access lo wharves and quays. A city of Zei>- Irugge, or Sea-Bruges, has been cslab- li.slied at the m<iuth <•[ the canal. Bruges it-elf has a'ready iolt the iiii|)etus, and It Is rapidly growing agiiin, lh<^ popula- tion in 1900 being more Hum llfty thou- .sand. lis jiaujiers, of which it has the IniKOst ppoporlion <if any Euroi)ean city, are dimlnbhing, and prosperity s<'eiiis al hand. .Nothing more picturesque has lioen alleiiipted by the engineers In recent ye.irs than this restoration of Irado to 1 forgotten ca|)ilal, ihia i^-tntioduction of tli« sea through the treacherous dunes lo the (indent City of Bridges. RIel Rebellion, the country was badly burned; and In 1882-84, while the rail- way was being oonstrucled, the work of destruction was finished. Even in ISd-i It was possible to walk through unbumt forest for a distance of one hundred miles east of Lake Superior. Through the Pocky Mountains and west lnt<i British Columbia a similar work of destruction went on. Instances of ex- tensive destruction can be instanced around Canmore, B.C., and also on the shores of Kicking Horse Uike, where green forests were converted by fires di ring railway construclion into barren wastes; and these are by no means iso- lated Inslnnces. Of late years more attention has been paid to IhU problem. Mr. John R. Bo<jth, himself a lumberman of wide experience, ir building the Canada Allanlic, placed such restrictions on his contractors in regard to burning brush and setting fires gcnernlly, that no fire of any consequence occurred during Ihe oonslruction of the railway; and lhi« In spile of Ihe fuel that thi; road ran through what was then one o' the most valuable pineries of the pro- vince. In Northern Ontario, along the lines of the Teml.scaminguc and Northern Ontario Railway, which also runs In many places through valuable limber, nc serious fires have occurred, by reason o' constant and vigilant patrolling of the line. The Commissioners of the National Transcontinental Railway have also adopted regulations (joveming their em- plcyees In this matter and enjoining strict vigilance in the guarding of all fires. IN THE HOMES OF FAIR CANADA Dr. William's Pink Pills Are Bring- ing Eealtli to Weak, Despondent People. There is ml a no^k or corner in Ca- nada, in tho cities, lowxs, villug<'S and furms wlieie Dr. W'illiamsi' I'uik I'ilU have iKjt U-cn used, and from one end "f the Country lo the other llvcy have brought tiack lo breadwinners, tlieir wives and fajrilie.s tlve sjilendid trea- suj'C of new health nnd ncw,.slienglh. \ou have only to asJt your ni'ighlxjrs and tlK-y can tell you <J .•^mie nervo- sliallcivd man, suffering women, aihng y<ulh, or unhappy <iimeanic giiM wlio owe present liealtli and .str.mHth lo Dr. Williams' Pink I'ilis. Their wondi'iful siicco-ss is due lo Ihe tad that Dr. Wil- i.iiius' Pink I'ilis go righl to the root of Itw disease in lh.> blood, and by making the vilal fluid rich and red, strenglhen every organ nnd every nerve, thu.s driving out disease and pnin. Mr. .losoph Lacombe, Quebec City says:â€" "ronluy I weigh aloul forty (xiujidsniore than I did a year ago, and iiir in every way in niurh sounder health. For upwiiriU of two jiears I had been studying hard to pass my cx- nminalions and my health had com- pletely given way under llio strain, 1 lost ne,sh rapidly, my api:etilo wa.s gone nnd my nervw were greatly weaken<\l. 1 was oblig<-d to abandon my .studies nnd was in a state of (v»npk?te exhaus- tion. 1 coasull-ed a physician, but as I was daily gr<Aving \veak<r I deciiU^I lo l>y Dr. Wllhums' Pink Pills, which I had often heard very highly sjoken of. The l^neflcial iffects were Indeed ro- niurkable for I liud not u>ed more than a oou|)lo of lx>.\es w lien I could feel an improvejnent. iiiid ho))o returned. 1 continue>lii.singlho pills for .^ome wivhs I'-iiger, with Uw result that my strength increa.s<>d daily ajul I was soon able lo take over Jny studie.s and work with as much energy as I had ever done. To- diiy I am In ixrftjct liealth and I attri- tute my r<>c<ivery .solely lo -Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills." You can gel these Pills fn\m any me- dicine dealer or by mail al 5()c. a box or .six lioxe.<> for $2.50 from Tho Dr. Williiims' .Medicine Co., Brockville, Out. FOREST I'lRES AND nAILWAYS. More Allenllon is Now Being Paid lo l'r«\en( Itiirninu of Forests. Railway construction hns too often meant forest destruction. Immeiuie us are tlic beneQts that tho Canadian Pucilic Hallway, for example, has conferred on Canada, it is never- theless true that during tlie construction of tliat railway iiiillions of dollars worth of limber were desli-oyed through llri« originating along lis right of way. And fear is now fell that Itie huililing of tho Grand Trunk Piicillc- running, as it does ill many districts, through dense forests, of valuable limberâ€" may give rise to similar destniction. The .New Urunswick aullMiritles, ac- cordingly, negotiatt'd with the autlior- itlos of the Dominion wilh a view to the niloptlon of a system of ellleieiil paliyil along the lliie.s for tim purixisc of dc- lecling and putting out uicipient llres; and It is now announced thai arrange- ments have been made to have the line patrolled IliLs slimmer. Along the line of the G.T.I', west of I-;(liiionl<in, I<mi, < Blr ing pnlrol has be; n arranged for and Is alrea<ly in o|ieration. Forly years ago there was a solid for- e.sl extending from Niplgon, Onl., past I'orl Arthur and Fort William and weet- wttfd up lo a coiiipnrulively sjiort tli.s- lance from Winnipeg. Bui when tho lieops went tiii'ough In l.s. . on llieir way lo Foil Garry to put down the flr&t SAVED Hl.MSELF. Lanceâ€" "Was your liusband lucky during tho last race meeting'?' "Yes,'' answered yoiin^; Mrs. T<irkins. "he .sf)rained his uiiKle and couldii l at lend." SOMETHING WRONG. Oyerâ€" "Isn't it queer that the hump of b.mevolence is located oxactlj- at live lop of a man's iKwd " Myerâ€" 'Wliala qiie^-r nbiul it?" tiyerâ€" "Why, it's as far fivon the pock- elb ok as iKxsslble." LET IIIM OFF E.\SY. I.-daâ€" "l.ii.sl night yoiuig Ilorem <lt> c'areil Iw Would w iUingly go to Ihe ends rf llie earth for me.' Giae--".\iid what did you .say?" I.0I11â€" "I llnally got him to make a start for b- me, and let it go at ihut." CORRECT I When a man ceaso.q lo l>t> inUMcsled in hi.s work, says tlic phikisopher, lie no bmg-ir lives. Which may account for .so miaiiy <lo:id ones encumbering fairly g â- <k1 jobs. Hard luck and work seldom tra.el to- gether. A man who can livm his hand to nnyth'iig i.s usually loo lazy to malve tlv turn. Th-.To's ii'any a man oi)en bamJed with Ills <wn pleasures from wIkhh a dentist coiikl not draw a dmio (j.* the needy. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Tll-Bil3 o( Information Abo^t 'Most Every tiling. According to Chinese law, a w fo who Is loo lalk.ilive may be divorced. The average length cf He of a tiad.'s- man is twj-lhirds that of a turnier. The anis of South America «'e g eat tunnil buildt'is. They have been known lo construct a tunnel three miles in length. A woman In Manchcsl.^, England, hag eyes wliich magnify objects litty limes tt.eir natural size. The cculisti consider Imji a wonder. The Icrf-'est serp<nl ever measured was an amiconia. found d-ad in M xi- cr It was Ihii ty-.=even feel long, and it took two hoisjs lo diag it. It.iliansof the p-corer clas es are no'eJ fo-r Ihe r general gooJ health. This is to some extent allnbuled Ij the fact ihat th. woiking pi-oplc of Italy cat less than tliose <pf any other European nato.i. Bananas are n^w ripened in London b; electricity. They are hung in air- tight nxims, \vh ch arc fV'o ieJ w.lh eieclr c light. The jvoweifiil lamps have the >aine cff ct as sunshine, and the rlp- oning of the fruit can easily be r-igu- luled. Glass lelegrnpli jkites are 00m ng into uo in both h' mi.si.heres. Tli'y are lo b.' nmnufaciuit^ at Gro.ssalmerode, Ger- many. An archil ct of Ca-s-sel lias leen gtanbd paloiits f<,r it In Genna;iy and other European coimtrcs ai:d m l-he Uiiitf^d Slates. Tlie gla.ss is rent reed by wipes suitably dspos d. Thes > poles, il U suppos xl, will be particularly a.inpi- ed for comitrlej where wo den poie.s ar« quickly destroyed by in--ecLs or cl mate. The Imierial I'ost Departinenl <jt tk;r- many h:is ordered these poUs fur ils t<-l grapli and lele.ihoiie I n a. Tlie Queen of Spain Ikes figuied br> Cades, while Wilh'linini <.f llillaiid is most at hon;e In a t lilor-miide gown. CiMinen Sylva wears the fl w ng r b -s of Ikt couiitr>', and the favorile color o' tlie Queen of Italy is a blue-gray. Tlie Czarina of Russ a likes a white g.wn and is always simply but richly gi.wned. Ttielbrary a; the Brit sh .\lii>eu.i), which now contaii s belw»:vn three mll- llim and four niill.oji vo umes, is w 1 1- "ut exception th' larg-st :n the woilJ. tix- only ore wh ch apiiuaches it in size being tic Bilo'lKque Nat onale, pi.iis, (ind it s interesting to not' Ihat f r h«' acxmim- dat on of this immoiLse numb r of h'Ok- â- !! ward of forty-three m.les of sliel\es are r q'lred, Tho Ingen O'ls Germans have Invent d a comfKiciition iimde f.om po'alocs that answers the | uri ose of coJiir in th- making <if 'e d pcucls. Consul Han- nah, of .Magdeburg, wrl'es: " have used some of Ihcs? leucls, wliicli, whle .s! ghlly heavier, aio the saicc in .size, f rm and appenrnnio as Ihos" al jm^ .sent in iise, ad.nit of .--hariv ning a 1 1- tie mor<reasily, and can bj-priduoed ut a vtry nominal llgiire." In Denmark there 6 a peculiar Inslitii- ti'on in the way of insurance foa- the daughters of the nobility. As so n as a ilatiglibr is born to a Dansh iiollenian he enrolls her iiaiiie on the b^ks of ihis insuraiue como.iny and pays a c< rain sum ink) the Irea^iiiy. Each jeiir lliero- a:t"r llie sane surii must bc! paid. When the girl is lwin!y-vne she beo iiie.s en- titled to a lixeil in-onve nnd a su l^ of apartments until s!:e ci'hoi' niiin-es or di< s. .\ N rwv>irian invenl-r lias pal^ntotl a .suit of clothes wliii'h will piolec' its w.aier n'.ainst dAn\nirg. The 1 1 thcs are lined will 11 iion-ab orb nt maU'rial made of i-pjcially prepaixxl vej;elable llbre whirh willuiul beni; loo heavy w;ll iff-itually hi;ld up the weglit of a iiiiin in I'le water. Twelve ounces of tlir-; new mu'orial w II. it is daniKxl, .s(.\e a pir^jii fr m sinking. The Inven- t on has Umb bssled with favo-abe riv suits at Christiania, .SucossJuI trials wn're a'so made wilh iiig> made of Ihc same mab-rial capable of supjiort^ng two jHrsons ill tlw water. Cigars are being made out of chest- nu' leaves ov<m' In Eiiglan 1 iiow-:-,-;lays. So far. it ap; ears, the cas'.oiii has liol b.s n introduced into this tountry. Many m '11 weie «impl>,v<d :Ji gathering up the dead leaves in the Caestnut giovt>s ot sexeral big Lop Jon parks. The leaves are di'?i)ed inti t >b8?co juice s 1 that Ih y absorb large quiintties at il. The.-o are em'losed in wrap|KTS of real t< bac- 10. While it is d<H;laped thai smokers are imalde lo d<te.t tin' spuiious tjb.ic- cc no atlimpt is made to jfet lancy iricos tor IJk! cigars. Tliey sell for one and â- two cents apiece. The teller boxes fly in Hungniy. Ttie p. st onice IX'paihiient has devs?>t Ihe icr.al lel'or box to lelUve the Bi.dapest lostmen, wlio are few in number and who have hundnxls of 11 glils of .^lairs le climb daily in the gieat l.-iicment hous.s. The new 'elier b ix ciin be sent up to its di'stiii.ilion tioin tlio ^;l•^)und I' or by a .spring. It stops al th,. poor nquirtHl, and Miiiiin.s Ih -re until emp- tcd or until the next delivery, wh n the p..slniaii, by touching a si r ng, can bring it down. I'.iich I ox c.iiililns the necessary iiiinibor of lo ker.s', lUle<i w th a i-atety I ck, acixirding to itie numlK'.r of residents. Tb> boxis aiv> n;oved up nnd d iwn by electricity. Maine news|.npors .spi ak ot ivi-r A. Foley, of Portland, as "the most won- derful tleyrai h opera or in Ihe world.' Fdey is totally d aL an nmcll n wbh h orliiaiilv would be su'.ipo<id to make tleyra.ihy nn ullir imiK).s.sibiidy to h'ln. but -sljice he l>ecame d'uL eight \.ai3 ago, he has deve!-ijx\l what niav b-"(all- <hI a sixth .<M>n*'. and l.y touch «ind sight he cm detect Ihe finest mov.nnnt. of the ln.s|iu.ni!'nl and correjllv inlerinvt them. l!v moans of the s<>ns.' <il :oiuh ill ills llnj-er tips he lnk>s iiie.vsaKes I'-aMsinitlisI from the ends nt the con- InejU, and lan also read a iiie-sai;e by walC'l'ig Ihe .-oiinder. \\ U\ hs left f relloLer plrc<xl I ghlly on the founlor lie c;n like a m .ssaye an accuraelv as tlie average operalor. VICTIMS OF FETICHISM >YITCH DOCTORS KILL TDOUSANDS I.N DARKEST AFRICA. Tliefa- Victims are Failing Dead Every Hour Over a Vswt Domain. Tho whites in barbarous Africa say that in s-pita of Ihe evils tlie white race has inllicled upon th-; natives, t::e g od l.'Ky are rc-^eiving, especially tlio piolec- lioa lo life and properly wbch tho new gmnmwnls are giving Ihcm, vastly oulweighs the evIL All authorilies have much to say of the horrible misery whch let'cli doctors imposo ui)on the natives. Tliey assert lliat fetichlsm l.s the cause ot more rrim-cs and suffering than all the nalivo wars, <pidemics and cannibal sm that afllict parts of the Dark Continent. Tlicst> b;ut.ilities can be excused only be- cause tho people have always lived in savagery. Lieut. Poupard of the French army, who has been travelling thoasands ol miles in tho Frencli Congo, suya that tiK- Vict nis of fel.chism are falling every hour all over that vast domain. Many of the victims drop In their tracks and are dead in a few minutes. They know who dealt them their death and so do all the natives, but they 0-. not <lare to breate his name. R in liv: fetich ds^ctor who has caused poison steal I hi ly t'i be MIXED WITH THEIR FOOD. In J::nuary, 1906, while Poupard's party was passing through a little vil- lage they saw a vigorous yoimg man surrounded by natives, who were accus- ing him of crime. A bowl filled with a red lluid was given lo the young man, who drained il. A few minutes later he fell en his face and was scon dead. He was a victim ef Ihe. poison lest. If his stomach had r.fuscd la retain the liquid and he had i.ved his innocence of the crinw would have been proved. The pilson killed him, and this was clear prcwf of his guilt. S ime days later at M^eto the sime party hi'tird a great hubbub and found a woman on the ground covered wilh woiimls. Her left shoulder and hi^r r ght foieaim had been cut to tl>e b 'ne, theri; was a gapbig woiin I in her hip and hoc bidy was covcixKi with conlu.sions. Sho had ivceived no care, tlraugh her in- juries had been inflicted .scviral days bo- f..ie. The'wtiite men came in time to save her life. They dr-ssed her wounds and caivxl for her un'.il she was well. Sho lo!<l th'm that her husband had died and in the cour-e ot his inti-niienl Hie fetich diclor crioti out lo the peo- ple that their friend had not died a na- tural doalh, but HIS WlVKrf II.\D KILLED HIM. Ait tlk^ nicii in the village immcnliately set up Ul ttie unfortunate women and only one of Ihcm lived to describe the crime. Poupard on aiioUior day came ocro^ some women runnini! at top ipicl will\ babes on tb«lr bucks, pursued by 11 crowd of nan who w r.' hurl.ng p. i-oii- ed ja^elin-s ul Ihem. The fetich tloctor hud ai'cusid these women <jf k)ok ng up- on the bierl. a sacred object that had b- en taken out of its Ixjx tor an uirint'. Any woman who evi n iiiadveil ntiy slKiuld look upon this object would be pu! to death. On tho river Muni lives an old man with twenly-two wives, some of whom nie young nnd ntliactive. For two years past it lias Ix^en olvs«'rve(.l that every young mini who has nltempt*'d to set- lie on Ihi" aljoniiig lands ln.s mysteri- ously died. Ttiero is iv) doubt tlia! the iig d hu.sl-aud, in IcegU'^ with th^ local Iitich duclor, has brought atoul their death. M si of the tribes do not lelieve that a man dies naturally. Some enemy 's always the coiise of his death, and Iho fetich doctor is brought into the case and PO'NTS OUT THE CRIMINAL. Mr. Bret found nt Nilombo in O 't 'ber li.sl thi«v natives weighi^d down by stones at the bottom of a box where they had rngennl in agony for days because Itie fetich docior su-siHJclid that tliey had cast a spell uixm a boatman who had be<"n drowned in a shipwie-'k. Commnn lant M >U in a l.elurc bcfoie lU- Paris Googrnphicnl Society i-ocenlly loKl of bereaved widows wh<3 had been compelled to take the poson test to shiw wlK) were responsible for their husbands' death. S nie of the w.mien survival lecause tlK-ir filends gave pre- s.nLi to the wizaiil. who thereupon iiiixixli an iimoL'oiis doio for them. Tho bodies of the murdered wotncai woro eaten. TIk'Sc are not LsTlnb-d cases, but far nnd wid-o over Africa superstition is St 11 claiming the lives of thousands. But Ihe inflience of the fetich doc'or is al- ready beginning !o decline because il 's now a crime .sevvroly punishtvt under Hie laws <it the Caui^jo Free Stale, ttio French C ngo and all Rl.cHle-in to prac- tise tho black arts of Ihe fdich d-'Clor. The bonds in which he has heUl the helpless !x?oplc will somodny be broken. WHO WOLI.DNT. Jacks \n is the kind < f man who Is al- v.ays .â- >e»'kiiig graluitcnis advice. Not loll;,' ago he met a w<'ll-kjK/wu pliysl- c nn al a dlnner-pai ly. 'IVi you know, doctor," he .said, as s.K>n as thi'iv was a chan-?e, "1. kiow a man who suffers .-.o desperat-ly Unm inuralgin that al times be can <lo n-o- Ihing but hiwl with pain, \\h:il wJllld you do in Ihat case?" 'Weil, 1 .sup ose," delib'rnio:! th* mo- deal mini, "Muit I shuuld Imiw- with pua, tool"