Experiment Proved Successful. From the Evening News, Toronto, November 27th) i8<ff. The study and careful investigation of ordinary things has oftentimes resulted in great inventions and the saving of time and money. Watt, while seated at his fireside, watched the kettle boiling, and obtained the idea of applying the steam as a motive power. He worked diligently at his task and succeeded in giving to the world the means of rapid transportation. There are many cases where the proper and timely application of everyday things gives a result of universal benefit. The following is a story of an experiment which proved the means of saving one man's life and may be of benefit to many others. Fifteen years ago James Dean Smith came to Toronto from Buckinghamshire to take a position in the shoe factory of J. D. King & Co. He was a competent work- man and his experience in a certain line of the business was so wide that the firm recognized the fact that his services could not very well be dispensed with. As a re-| suit he has been in the employ of the company ever since, but at one time, about three years ago, his health began to fail and it looked as if he would have to quit work altogether. The manner in which he has been restored to health was so simple that it was decided to give the public the benefit of Mr. Smith's experience, and a News reporter was requested to get the story from the shoemaker, who resides on Malvern avenue, Davenport,the first house north of the railway track. Besides his work in the city Mr. Smith is cultivating a large parcel of land as a market garden, and is known in the village as a hard-work- Y&m pak m the M® will be cured bj using a Seigel'a Plaster*