Herman Biggs is also very keen on
this theme, a view of consumption
around which will be fought the fierc
est battles of the future. Prevention
is now considered everything in con
sumption, while curing is not thought
worth a bawbee by some. Prevention
must begin on the child, oftlmes the
infant.—New York Press.
The English language is full of sub- !
tie meanings and unexpected turns.
Not long ago a man asked an acquain- !
tance a number of questions about his
business. “How many people work in
your office?” he inquired. “Oh,” said
the other, carele ssly, “about two-thirds
of them.”—Youth's Companion.
Doan’s Regulets cure constipation,
without griping, nausea, nor any weak
ening effect. Ask your druggist for
them. 25 cents per box.
BIBLE IN SUOFLIi
Many have been the eccentric liter
ary capers, mostly in rhyme which by
no means could be called poetry, that
have been attempted upon parts of the
Old and of the New Testaments, 'but
it remained to a clergyman of today,
the Rev. William Wye Smith, of St.
Catharines, Ontario, to perpetrate th§
audacious novelty of rendering the
New Testament into broad Scotch.
