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JANUARY 21, WESTMINSTER BUDGET 25 placed but next best scores are Mr. Wilmot, of Birmingham Mr. Schott. of Aberystwith Rev. J.

Owen, Mr. Sherrard, and Mr. Gunston, in the order named. Second Class Tournament: First, Mr. Chssold, and ties for the second Miss Finn and Messrs.

Brookes, Lewis, and Mackenzie. Handicap Tie between. Messrs. Burn, and Bellingbam in one and tie between Messrs. E.

O. Jones arid Sherrard in the other. The management was not well advised to crowd three events into so short a space. The Cup Tournament and a second-class tournament would not have interfered with each other; whilst the Handicap did. The chief competitors in the Cup.

Tournament played the Handicap, and to enable them to do so the games in one event counted for both contests. This is an unusual proceeding, and cannot be Mr. Burn is to be congratulated upon winning the first prize and losing only one game (to the second prize winner), and this game he might have drawn had it been necessary for the result. He was short and made a hasty move, which gave his opponent the victory. Miss Finn distinguished herself also by making an equal score with three male competitors, although she had the good fortune of scoring a game by default of Mrs.

Fagan, who was not well enough to encounter her opponent. The annual chess festival of the Hastings Chess Club will be held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, January 24 to 27, at the Queen's Hotel, Hastings. The English masters will give performances of exhibition play, as well as M. Janowsky, who will come especially from Paris. Each master will play simultaneously Mr.

Blackburne blindfold, whilst consultation matches are arranged between master and amateur against master and amateur. The match between the British and St. George's Chess Clubs takes place to-morrow (Saturday) at the British Chess Club. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 89.

1. Kt to B4, Kt (B4); 2. Kt to B7, to K5 3. to mates. 1 Kt (K5); 2.

Rto K7, ch, Kt; 5. to K3 mates. 2. to Q3 3. to K6 mates.

No. 89 should have been marked mate in three PROBLEM NO. 90. By- Tolosa Carreras. BLACK.

WHITE. White to play and mate in two moves. THE PRINCE OF WALES INVITED TO CANNES. The Mayor of Cannes has forwarded to the Prince of Wales a request that he will lay the foundation-stone of the new breakwater. The ceremony is to take place in March, during the regatta week.

The presence, of his Royal Highness is not certain. WAS IT THE EARL'S DOG? Things were at the close kissed by the into Was it not Pascal who said that if Cleopatra's nose had been an inch longer or shorter it might have changed the course of history? Very likely, inasmuch as history is nothing under the sun but a tale about vast numbers of people. And what alters the direction of one life may easily affect millions. You have, no doubt, heard the story about the Earl of Wiltshire's dog. It was at the time the divorce of Henry VIII.

was under discussion at Rome. progressing favourably, and when the Pontiff, of the audience, put out his foot to be Earl, the had followed his master it. This so enraged the Pope and horrified the officials present that the negotiations were broken off. This atory may be true, or not, but we are all aware that the course of history was changed about that time. Such things merely illustrate the truism that you never can judge of the importance of anything by the size of it.

A nod of the head or a wink of the eye does sometimes literally and truly "speak volumes." On a tense harpstring it needs only the touch of a finger to elicit a tone loud enough to fill St. Paul's Cathedral; and just an accidental word or two, dropped in passing conversation, may, all unbeknown to the parties speaking, be a matter of life or death to one or both of them. If, for instance, a woman living in his to.wn had not given a sensible bit of advice to James Ward he would never have written the letter setting forth the reason of it. In what way this chance talk affected him we will now see. In January, 1893," he says, my health began to fail me.

I felt weary, tired, and weak, and could not think what had overtaken me. With the least exertion I was exhausted and perspiration poured off me. After eating I had intense pain across the chest and stomach. A fixed throbbing pain settled in my left side (on the lower part of the abdomen), giving me much trouble and uneasiness. All my food turned sour on my stomach and gaseous wind would rise up into my throat and head, causing a lightness of the head, and for a time, during each attack, I had to press my temples to ease me.

I soon got so low, weak, and dejected that I could not attend to business properly. A horrid, nervous feeling prevented me sleeping, and my condition was such that did not care what became of me, and I despaired of ever being well again. For over two years I continued like this. I consulted a doctor, but was no better for any medicine that I took. In July, 1893, Miss Jones, at the Bazaar, Rostrevor, recommended me to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup.

I began taking this medicine, and after taking the first bottle I began to mend. My food no longer gave me pain, and the pain at my side was easier. with it, and soon I felt strong, all the, wretched nervousness and sinking feeling leaving me. Since that time I have kept in good health, taking an occasional dose of the medicine when required. You can make any use you like of this statement.

(Signed), James Ward, Rostrevor, co. Down, Ireland, August 18th, 1897." Mr. Ward is a tailor in business at Rostrevor, where he has resided many years. He is well known and respected throughout the district. He strongly recommends Mother Seigel's Syrup to all his friends and customers.

It has often been observed of shoemakers and tailors that they are apt to be unusually intellectual and thoughtful men. The reason for this I will leave the reader to find out for himself. They are also apt to be troubled with dyspepsia, which may possibly be due to the contracted and confined positions in which they work. Then, too, they get but very little exercise, and exercise is a great stimulant to the digestion. From these causes, acting, maybe, with others that he does not mention, Mr.

Ward's trouble arose. That it should have weakened him is plain to see, for strength depends altogether uppn the amount of nutritious food one eats and is able to digest. Nothing will do in place of that. And when Mr. Ward's victuals turned sour on his stomach the source of his strength was cut off.

Out of the fermentation of food within him came all the pains he speaks of, and the "horrid nervous feeling" which made him reckless and despairing as to his future. This might easily have culminated in a hopeless physical and mental break up, and death a short time later. Here comes in the" happy accident that saved his health and life. It was, you know, one of those narrow squeaks that you cannot begin to reckon on. It might happen or it might an even chance.

And it is to increase the number of these fortunate accidents that we print Mr. Ward's story to-day and scatter it all over the country..