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War Gift from Valparelso. The British Colony in Val paraiso has sent a sum of £344 to be devoted to the care of sick and wounded soldiers and sailors in Great Britain. This gift is the balanca of a fand raised to build a"King Edward Memorial Hall," but in view of the urgent neoda created by the War, it has been decided to defer the original project, and to apply the money collected to better purpose.
Cardinal Gotti,
Rome, Eeptember 25.-Cardinal Jerome Mary Gotti, prefect of the propaganda, fainted and fell in his office to-day, striking his hend violently on the floor. He suffered a alight concussion of the brain and his condition is considered grave because of his great age-*** 81 years. All strictly missionary lende, such as come parts of America and of Africa, are under the propagande. Cardinal Gotti was one of those mentioned as possible successor to Pope Pius X. Canada's New Route to the Pacific.
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"Here is a curione document," distance from Toronto to the Pacific Coast in three days and said an eminent Frenchman, as six hours. This is the third great he handed me, in March, 1814, an with the Turks. Bis references to TO LET.-Offices at 2 Con-
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What can you do [he axelaimed "You have a Queen among to ine] with a man who always your correspondents," I remarked. lives in bodily fear-fear of "No, not a Queen, a King," he assassination, fear of diecast, fear of socident! You cannot think returned. "Head and rce."
The latter was dated from what a job it was to keep up our It ran, as nearly as I can troops' enthusiasm for a King Sofia.
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The signature, in the some bebas borne and the sacrifices he feminine hand, was "Ferdinand has made oa her behalf. But he has his moments of cynical self.
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An alteration in the coinage of My mind went back come 11 revelation.
"You were much attached, I Egypt is at present under con-years to another conversation in aideration, certain changes being the spring of 1903.It was with the believe, to my unfortunate pre- rendered imperative owing to the late M. de Kallay, the famous ad-decessor," he said to an English. of Bosnis. man who had lived in Schia during oreation of the Sultanate of Egypt ministrator-dictor and the separation from Turkey, Herzegovina. A revolt, stimulated the reign of Alexander of Batten- "Yes," was the rely, "and As the silver coinage is of Turkish by Balgar Komitadjie, had broken berg.
assured. Princess Clementine origin sud beare the monogram out among the Bulgar passante I admired him sincerely, although of the Sultan of Turkey. The of Turkish Macedonia, and there his qualities were rather those of always" played the game." This remodelling of the token money was much talk of a Turco Bal. the heart than of the head."quality formed no part of the rich "I eball never iacur that beritance she bequeathed to her affords a good opportunity for regerian war, I asked M. de Kalisy,
returned Prince son. forming the entire monetary who was regarded as the foremost reproach,"
In later years he
Ferdinand as a Collector, system. At present, although European authority apoa Bilkan Ferdinand.
Caroa of State and fears for the everything is calculated in pias- affairs, for his view of the sitas exclaimed to another Englishman with whom he was wont to chat tres and the standard unit is ation.
at a Bobemian watering-place: safety of his own person are not of 100 pisstres, M. De Kallay's Prophecy. gold pound
the solo preoccupations of the He bestowe I all depends on Ferdinand"When I went to Bulgaria I re- there are current in Egypt,
much thought
hie пров an legal tender, the English [uo replied] I know him well. He solved that, if there were to be Bulgarian Tear. Bovereign, the French napoleon, is not a hero, but he is very any asssssination. I would be on sad the Tarkish pound. The ebrewd. Now, in Balgaria, a the side of the assassine." No estates in Hongary and Bul-Hongkong, 4th November, 1915. Egyptian pound foll into discredit ruler must either braver one who remembers Stamboloff's garis, cherishes his gardena and thon death or is conversant with the vineyards, and feels deep affection mors crafty and has practically disappeared. or The three foreign coins are all his subjects, Bulgaris has secret history of Bulgaria during for staffed birds and bensis. Ás undervalued in the relation of had her hero--Alexander of Bat-King Ferdinand's reign con taunt an ornithologist he has few equale. their tariff value to their intrinsic tenberg-and a few officere oart- bim with having departed from value, but the English soverign is ed him to the frontier one dark this resolve.
The better part of Ferdinand of the least andervalued of the three, night! Now they have-well, the and in oonsequence, whilst every other man; and, unless I am Bulgaria disappeared with the thing is reckoned in piastres, mistaken, he will go much farther death, in 1907, of his mother,
which invariably accompanies payments-up to the outbreak of than the bero. The Bulgar, who Princess Clementine of Coburg, in their Sovereign's private safe-
him on hia travels. Ferdia- Hongkong, 5th November, 1915. war, and the consequent saforce is a peasant, is much impressed daughter of Louis Philippe. She ment of notes as currency and by cunning greater than his own. had worked, intrigued, and spent and makes no secret of his but afterwards, when Ferdin-
belief that the money spent and had legal tender-were made in Will Ferdinand fight the Turks? vast sums for him, and had lent a
subserved Austrian the annexation sovereigns and silver only. The Not yet, I think. It depends certain quality of manliness to
dronments has been well spent. orisis, it was granted at the same inconvenience of having as the whether his fear of the Macedo bie policy. He took no step with-pon this interesting collection of interesta in
andard unit a coin which is nien Komitadji pietol is greater out consulting her. At every It makes his Ministers his tools time that the honour was bestowed
aritical tura, when she was absent tariffed at a figure like PT. 975 is then his fear of Abdul Hamid.
upon a batch of minor Austrian obvious, and efforts are being We are hero on the first floor, from Sofia, the Bulgarian Min- and accomplices. It enables him
wold be to employ without homan hin- noblemen. A similar attitude of made to reform the system so as If I tell you that assassins are inter to give the English sovereign the waiting for you with loaded pistols dispatched post haste to her drasce those arts of payabological amused contempt was noticeable same value as the Egyptian at the door of my room, and advies residence of Ebenthal. There, prestidigitation that are so well in all the late King Carol's pri- pound, .e. P.T. 100. There are you to jump from the window at owing to her extreme deafness, understood at the Austrian Court, vate references to him, espe an the risk of breaking your book, questions had to be written on where the foundations of his state who know him grudge a meed of objectione, however, from economic and financial point of you will besitate; but if you see a alips of paper. She would reply craft were first laid on the basis of recognition to the ability with the political unmorality that forms which he has exploited the After one protracted view to such an alteration, and cart laden with straw passing orally.
the substratum of Hapsburg wie qualities and failings of a people fashioned by centuries of Ottoman the banks have been asked to under the window you will jump. consultation, the slips of paper give their opinion on the question. So will Ferdinand, but not till he accumulated into a goodly heap,
Francis Joseph, who has known servitude. Under another raler and the Minister, as he left the seas the cart coming.
Ferdinand of Bulgaria saw the presence of his Sovereign'smother, him from childhood, has always Bulgaria might have been the cart coming in 1912 in the form cast a wistful glance at the tell handled him with humorous con- corner stone of a redeemed Balkan
When, in September, Confederation; under Ferdinand, (2 blocks West of Cont. Market, and punch ticats available for all car IF you have lost your appetite of the Balkan Alliance: Then tale record of the way he had tempt.
one of the big variety of he fulfilled M. de Kallay's pro- discharged his mission.
1908, Ferdinand begged to be Bulgaria may prove to have been dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- phecy. After the victorious war "Born them" paid the Princes, made a Knight of the Golden a milletone round the necks of the DRA CAFE is sure to tempt against Turkey he turned upon and the Minister departed re- Fleeco the entreaty was refused;
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