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The Exeter Times, 1919-12-25, Page 7AS PRESENTED' INFORMAL ANN _ IN[ GREETING KING. Ail American Writer Relates at a Humorous Incident Palace. BuckinghamPa His Royal Highness Edward Albert Ya g , Prince of Wales, so won all hearts dur- ing his brief visit that not only do our thoughts turn to him but to his family and hp and all concerning him, says a NOWrk writer. Perhaps, there- fore, '"a story concerning a certain American and his visit to Buckingham Palace will now be o$ especial interest,' though it doesn't direhtly concern the Prince. I dare not call this American's name, for you might happen to know hint; but I will tell you, that he hails from Texas, that he is an intimate friend of President Wilson and that he is 'not Colonel House nor is he former Attorney -General Gregory. This Texan gentleman had been in Paris on a .special mission, but found himself in London just at the time that -the President and his party were visiting, at the palace. I have said that' he is a friend of the President, which is true, but he is an especial friend of Admiral Grayson, the Presi- dent's physician. One foggy, dismal night, being all alone and time hanging heavy on his. hands, and being really desirous of seeing the President and Admiral Grayson, he decided to go to Bucking- ham Palace and call. Yes, decided just like that, just as you and I decide that we will go in and call on. Mrs. Joheb in the next block. So up to the palace he 'Went and upon being stop- ped at the "gates annoiinced that he was a friend of President Wilson. So commanding a .personality has he and so splendid a presence that he was passed right in and found himeeif .:at the very door of the palace. . Ushered Into Royal Sitting -Room. The guard at the door was no im- pressed that he informed him that the President, Admiral •Grayson and the King and Queen were out for the even - in that if lie liked he might wait for ati, as they had said' that they would- be in, early. It was abont 9.$0. Our friend said that he would like to wait and was ifshered into ,a big, com- fortable room. It wa•s t at all the kind of a room that one would expect to find in 'a royal palace. There was nothing, formal about it, just a' com- fortable living -room with big easy irs and : the simplest furnishings: guard had said: "I will show you Ko the King's own siting room:" Across one• end of the room blazed a roaring lire; one of those: huge brick fire- places 'in which logs as big as your- self burn. You know how cosy and. - comfortable they always are, but lfn- less you had frozen in Franco during a war winter you can't imagine what the' sight' of that fire did' to that Texan gentleman. You see he had been freezing inParisfor a' -long time. In telling me of it he said: "Nothing in this week' ever looked so good' to me. First f stood in front omit and liaked my front, then I baked my back and then my sides: I got warm through and through for • the fleet tulle in months." ' Then he said he just had to take off his shoes -and' cook his feet. "They. had been wet and cold for so long," he said, "that I simply had to get theeba warm once again." • En'te'r Their 'Majesties:- ' ,So he (Ire* one of the big chairs up to the fireplace, took off h shoes, propped his feet up in front of the lire and leaned back in that chair the picture of solid comfort. Now you know what a warm room will do for a person when he has just come in out of the cold. You can imagine the ef- fect of that warm room and that big, comfortable chair. In almostlesstime than it takes to tell it our friend was Sy fast asleep, and the next thing' he knew the President and Admiral Gray- •_ son were standing over him shaking) him. He said: "Wh I looked up and saw th 1d Queen standing there an red the condition of .my feet! I wished the floor could -open and swill - low me. It was bad enough to b' caught asleep that way, but.,no shoes on to boot. It was too much." However, he said the King and Queen thoroughly enjoyed, it and said they hadn't had such a Iaugh in years.: "Blit think how I felt; he said, as I laughed at him myself, "being pre- sented to the` King and Queen in my sock feet. It was most humiliating." I think of all the debutantes and ow they'd give half of all they pos- ess to be presented at court, and then I think of this lanky gentleman from Texas and his novel presenta- tion and laugh again. He'S a courtier of the old school, though, and no mat- ter how ridiculous it . Wits I know uo king could have more gracefully car- ried off the situation. I wish I could tell you his name, but I dare not. However; the joke was just too good to keep, especially in view of the Prince's recent visit, Look' For New Quinine Supply. Because 90 per cent. of the world's Supply of cinchona bark from which quinine is derived, Iii grown In Java, British Government scientists are searching for Other soirees of supply in (Treat Britaia's colonies, NERVOUS Nes Rich, Red Bland to Ri ert H alt�n and Strength. x gth. Many children start school in ceilent health, but after a short lionie work, examinations, hur meals and crowded schoolrooms 0 their blood to become weak and`' their nerves over wrought anti • t color and spirits lofft. It is a grea mistake to lot matters drift when boys and girls show symptoms of nervous- ness or Weak Mood.. They are al- most sure- tb fall victims of St, Vitus dance, or drift into debility that leads to other troubles. Regular meals, o' door exercise and plenty. of sleep .a 1,. necessary to combat the nervous wear of school life. But it is still more im- portant that parents should pay strict attention ;to the school child's blood supply. Keep this rich and red by giving Dr. Williams' Pink Pills ac- cording to directions ,and the boy or girl will be sturdy and fit for school. The value of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in cases of this kind is shown by the statement of Mrs. Pearl G. Harrington, Kingsville, Ont., who says: -"1 have often felt that I should write you and let you know what pr. Williams' Pink 'Pills did for me. At the age of thir- teen I was afflicted with St. Vitus dance. The trouble became so severe that I had to be taken from school. I. was given- medical . treatment but it did not help me, in fact I wds steadily growing worse. Then a friend ad- vise(' my mother togive me Dr. Wil- liams: Pink Pills, which she did, with the happiest results, as the pills com- pletely clued me and I was again able to, take up my studies and attend school. Again about three years ago' I was attacked with nervous' prostra- tion and once more took Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and after, using five boxes ',e'en fully restored. I cannot praise these pills too highly as I believe they will cure any vaso of St: Vitus dance, or restore anyone who is weak, •ner- volts or run down. You t can safely give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to the most delicate child, or take them yourself with equally good results when • you need a blood tonic. These pills are sold by all dealers in medicine,• or will be sent by mail, post paid, at 50 cents a box or - six boxes for $2.50 by The Dr. Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. A" Frenchman has invented a mow- ing Machine to be fastened to the stern of a launch to clear vegetation from waterways.'• The average weight of a man's brain is three pounds eight' ounces, and of a woman's 'brain two pbiiiids eleven Dull ccs. fospital for Sick Chilean TORONTO Upkeep of Big Charity Requires Fifty Cents a Minute: Dear Mr. •Editor: The 44th _annual report of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto,. shows a notable advance in every department of its service to the suf- fering_; A — rinnied youngsters of ae/province. The ?-. j,ccoziru :n alien has been taxed to its'ealp,pacity, and the summer annex, the Lake- / side Home, was opened for the first time since the outbreak of war. - l l��relations that t G i6td Go ara.?gton iao and, kis yatbc. "friend, "Light-I•ioree Harry" Lee, the father of General 'Robert L. Lee, were exceedingly close and tender. It was an authentic tradition In the,Lee fami- lythat t Was in 6t al regarded the e brll- Dant young eayalr'y officer almost in the light of a son. Lee wasrinciinedto be a spendthrift, p , and his lavish use of money often brought -upon hint the paternal reproof of kis older and more discreet friend —and the reproof was often followed' ;l' -affectionate assistance in extri- cating •him from his embarrassments, airs. Washington was almost equal- ly fond of the young officer, who o. ften. made long visits' at Mount Vernon. During, one of his sojourns there, Harry Lee remarked to his host at the breakfast table: "General, I had a singular dream last night, which I must tell you. • I actually dreamed that you rnade inc a present of your Westmoreland place" The need day, at the dinner table, Harry Lee found under his plate a document—nothing less than a deed to, him of the Westmoreland estate. For some moments, dazed with as= tonishment, he stared at his friend. "Now, Harry," said Washington, calmly, take good caro not to dream 1Vlount Vernon away from mei Football Was Rough Once. The style of football in this genera• tion fs a mild and tame exercise as compared to the original forms of the sport, according to a bulletin of the. National Geographic Society. In old' England football was ..rougher than most sports of those hardy tines. James I. thought it was "meeter lanae- ing than making able the users there- of," Henry VIII. and Elizabeth ruled against it. King Edward II. frowned upon the sport for -its, interference with arch- ery, and also" because of the collima- tion it aroused, fox' in those times it was played in tie= city streets, A writer of "the 16th century called it a "devilish pastime," and charged it with inciting envy• and sometimes brawling, murder and homicide. By the time of Charles II., however, football had become firmly -established at Cambridge, It waw even held in high esteem in Ireland. There, when all other sports were prohibited for archery's sake, "onely the great foot- balle" was exempt. Women joined with the men in playing it on Shrove Tuesdays. NOTHING TO EQUAL A'S OWN TABLETS p Mrs. Alfred Naud, Natagan River, Que., writes:"I do not think there is any other medicine to equal' Baby's Own Tablets for little' ones I have used them for my baby and would use nothing else." What Mrs. Naud says 'thousands of other mothers say. They have found by trial that the Tablets always do just what is claimed for them.. The Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which regulate the bowels and sweeten the stomach and thus banish indigestion, constipation, colic, colds; etc: They are soil_ 12w medicine dealers -,or � j • at '2G, cents a. nain. The Dr. Williams' alircf cij3ne Co., Brockville, Ont.` From City to Fal'm are continually h Daring about leen boy who goes to the elty,'tilt ar little about .the city boy who o the farm. Yet, just as -Many farm bo -ye have become suecesefui' business` rlienein our cities, so there are undoubtedly, many city bops who have become successful fanners. This is more especially true in the coun- tries' that are being newly opened up, such as Western Canada. Among the 'winners at the International Soil -Pro- ducts ,l!..>lpositien held at $Kansas. City recently at least one, if ,not more, of the successful exhibitors was born and bred in a city and only became a farm- er after he had reaehed manhood, join W. Lucas, who won prizes- for white oats, brome grass seed, barley and rye, had never. been a farmer un- til lie settled on his homestead in Cay - ley, Alberta, sixteen years ago. ' How- ever, he has set 'to work to learn all he could 'about this noble profession and nobody can say that he has made a bad job of it. Mr. Lucas was bortr-in one of the cities of Eastern Canada. Like many other boys whose parents are in moderato circumstances • he earned money after school hours . delivering newspapers and in various other odd jobs. Leaving school, he says, he got a real job at six dollars ,a week and later came West and worked• in Win- nipeg for a. year. He had always felt a desire to become a farmer, However, and itis not surprising that the call of the' Canadian Gcivernnsent for set- tlers for free homesteads at once ap- :pealed to- hien. He came to Alberta in 1903 and located on his homestead in Cayley, in the, southern part of the :province, the same year. He is now the owner of eight lion- dreg acres of land in a block, and is interested, besides, in six and a half sections of land -4,160. On his farm he has produced asmuch as 139 bush- els of oats to the acre and 66 bushels of wheat to the acre. The quality of his oats may be judged' from the fact that for five years he won the premier honors for this crop at the Alberta Provincial Seed Fair. He has also been a regular exhibitor and prize winner at the International Soil Pro- ducts Exposition and other exhibitions held in the United States. It has been Mr. Laces' ambition to become a good farmer and he has spared no efforts to learn all he could about his profession. He spent the winters of 1912 and 1913 in Iowa as part of his agricultural education. Here he visited some of the best farms in the State, asked lots of ques- tions, saw a good 'deal and came away with as much knowledge as he could gather. He considers these two win- ters spent in Iowa among the best in- vestments he ever plata. He learned much about horses, cattle and hogs, and also how good farmers select the ears of corn, bow in this way they in- crease the yield, producing ears true to type and uniform in size. Ile figured ;that if corer could be so pouch improved by selection the same thing could be done with the heads of wheat, oats,. barley and hills of potatoes. He came back to Alberta and began to use this knowledge. Not only has he increased the yield of these crops, but has im= proved the quality and type as well. Instead of fields of oats, barley and other crops with heenric of i` lase'' w . el a r The daily average of cot patients has increased during the year from 192 to 223, including children from practically every county in Ontario. Even had the cost of sup- plies and labor remained stationary, the substantial Increase in the num- ber of patients would alsne account for the addition to the charity's debt, which at the close- of -the fiscal year was $109,000. Thi§ debt has become to embarrassing burden. Further e ncrease must threaten impairment of an enviable efficiency. The Hospital is in the forefront of a - I institutions upon this continent dwvoted to the care of sick children, ,.'t Cost $335,399 to' maintain last year. .This great sum not only puts I lit the -"Service of the' children of Ontario ail the resources of medical science, but, in addition, provides for a training school for 120 nurses and for unsurpassed clinical facilities for the University students who are. preparing to engage in their pro- fession throughout the province. The income which must be forth- coming to finance this absolutely a,, sssential work figures• out at seven it hundred dollars a day; and, as there ti,§. no endowment fund, all but 'a Enaction of that amount has to be der?ived from individual benevolence. Therefore the Trustees are making _ iristmas appeal to every lover of cif ;'ren to foot the bills for some period of' time, no matter how short It n be. A minute of mercy costs 11f t antes, For chUrches, societies, lodges, etc., who 'havemore ample funds Wherewith to assist the youngsters, to a fair start in life, the naming of cots is suggested,. A number of memorial cots have been thus dedi- cated of the overseas ser- vicein r vice of fellow -members. This pri- vilege is extended hi recognition of gifts of $2,000 to the Main Hospital or $600 to the Lakeside Home, which can be paid in annual instalments If so &lired, Literature, illustrative of all branches of the past year's work, to getter with any other information desired, will -be gladly furnished or application to the. Secretary, the Hospital for Sick Children, College Street, Toronto. Contributions should also ho addressed to„the secretary. IRVINGoFA epee orSON 4ihairman y minitteet an le al. 0 Lau b WOcop1e Step- Try tep Try this yotirseif then pa» It along to .others. Q iJ l1:works! wio Ouch 1 1 1 1 1 1 Title kind of rough talk will be heard less here In town if 1will people troubled with corns wi follow the simple advice of tills Cincinnati authority, who claims that a few drops of a drug called 1reesone when applied 'to a tender, aching cora stops soreness at once, and soon the corn dries up ;and, lifts right out without pain, He says freezone is an ether eons. Pound which dries immediately and never inflames ar even irritatea •the surrounding tissue or skin. A quarter of an ounce of freezone will cost very little at any drug store, but .is suit• tient to re hove every hard or, soft corn or callus from one's feet. Millions of American women will welcome title announcement since the inauguration of the high heels.,, A New Worker. "Father, please let me marry Jim. -Ie's so neat. Why, when 'he was in France he got two medals for cleaning out dugouts and mopping up." these heads nearly all alike: By tion of potatoes, saving onl lie hills true to type, he has be to produce as high as thi marketable potatoes from on from one potato planted a' seventy-three pounds of This is a record difficult to b where. 1a These are some of the thin .1 Styles. for Childre boy has been able to do on a farm, Not only has he become the owner of a large area of land, but on this land he is producing crops of the highest quality and a maximum quantity. Practically the whole of the crop grown by him he sells as seed at a higher price than that obtained by the average farmer, and the demand for what he produces is greater thin he can supply. He is also a great believer in live- stock. A man who has studied farm- ing as he has done naturally would be. Cattle, hogs and horses are raised en his farm and the same painstaking care in the selection of types and breeding is paid to livestock as •he pays to the selection of grain, with results equally as satisfactory. Tice success of John W. Lucas should be inspiring to many a city boy. "Any boy.: can do what I have done in this country," he says. "All it needs is persistence." To thio may be added patience and a desire to ex- cel, qualities possessed by most sac- cessful men, whether in city or coun- try. I was cured of Rheumatic Gout by MINARD'S LINIMENT. Halifax. ANDREW KING. I was cured of Acute Bronchitis by MINARD'S LINIMENT. LT. -COL. C. CREWE •READ. Sussex. I was cured of Acute Rheumatism by MINARD'S LINIMENT. Markham, ' Ont. 0. S. BILLING. Lakeilelcl, Que., Oct. 9, 1907. Tornadoes "Come -Back." If it be admitted that lightning does not strike twice in the same place, the sante cannot truthfully be said of tornadoes. The little town of Cadell, in western Kansas, Sr as hit three years in succession 'by "cyclone twisters," and each time on May 25. The tornado is of all natural phe- nomena (save perhaps a volcanic ex- plosion)ethe most appalling. Revolving at a rate estimated at 500 miles a minute, the "funnel cloud" destroys - r ;+....- es s... seav nn Y. . When the groat ,raft' of tYreIzaraeh republic was enlaced to the peace treaty, thereby validating the signs tures of President I,oincere and 1V,1, Louis Nail, minister of jastloe .nine keeper of the great seal, only a tew privileged high ailoials attended,d,says a Paris despatch. 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