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The Merry Bells of England,
Most people like ehines of Bells:
`Yet a large number of us have not the
vaguest idea of how bells are ru11g.
Ringing a bell does not Merely con-
gist in tugging a rope. Really speak-
ing, it is an art, and involves physical.
and mental exercise. An inexperi-
enced person soon becomes tired, and
until he has learned tog give the rope
(¢t`'tho correct swing he will contiuue
And it hard weak. A ringer of prae-
ttee usually finds four, hours of Con-
tinued ringing exacting, though on
Easter Monday, 1900, at All Saints,
Loughborough, a record of twelve
hours' continuous ringing was attain-
ed. But this is a record hard to beat!
A belfry usually contains from six
to twelve bells—though twelve is an
unedusmoxd number, the usual being
eight. These bells vary in note from
the tenor, which is the heaviest, down
to the treble, the lightest. They are
rang in changes. That is to say that
the tenor always comes first, and after
that the other bells follow In various
orders. A. peal consists of at least five
thousand changes, all different, so that
the bell-ringer has to 4oncentrate a
great deal, or he will spoil .the peal,
In ringing a peal the bells are turned
from side to side. This paeans that,
when the rope is pulled, the wholly
part which the ringer holds in his
hand—usually called the solly—is lift
ed several feet into the air.
When you hear the bells playing
some popular air they aro sounding
what is called a carillon. In this case
the bells do not turn over, but simply
receive taps from the hammers, caus-
ing a light musical note, and are opene,
ated by tugging simply at a series of
APPsshort ropes.
It takes about six months of prae=
tiee. to become a bell-ringer, and only
one man in forty ever becomes really
proficient in the art.
Hatch Eggs Electrically.
The largest electric hatching plant
in the world is located in southern
California. It is said to be the first
You don't have
to suffer
BAUME
BENGUE
relieves pain of headache, neuralgia,.
sciatica, lumbago, rheumatism.
BEWARE OF. SUBSTITUTES
,sr.00 a Wit.
THE LEEMIN5 MILES co., LTO.
MONTasAt.
Agents for Dr. Jules neuru6
RELIEVES PAIN
CASCAR ETS
"They. Work while you Sleep'
You're sluggish—slow as molasses!
You are bilious, constipated! You feel.
headachy, full of cold, dizzy, unstrung.
Your ideals delft fit --breath is bad,
skin sallow. Take Cascarets tonight
for your liver and bowels and wake
up clear, energetic and cheerful. No
griping --no inconvenience. Children
love Cascarets too. 1Q, 25, 50 cents.
The Land of Beginning
Again. _
I wish that there Were some wonder-
ful places
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our
heart -aches
And all our poor selfish grief
establishment on the kind that has : Could be dropped like a shabby coat
at the door
And never be put on again,
fully. and satisfactorily solved the
problem of bringing chicks into the
world • on a wholesale scale by elec-
tricity.
The plant has an output capacity of
10,000 chicks a week, and it works
full blast seven months in the year.
A thermostat of special construction
regulates the temperature of the in-
cubators automatically and so re-
liable that the percentage of eggs
hatched 'successfully is extraordinari-
ly high..
There is no danger of fire; no loss
of ch from chilling or overheating
-••-the k-: rooders being electrically
e:Asermed; no lamps to be filled or ad-
nliateale no gas burner to go dut and
t asphyxiate the downy' birds. All that
tee is necessary is to turn a switch, and
he machine attends to thhe rest of
he bush
The a etrie mother hen does her
work at a cost of one cent a chick.
I wish we Could come an it all un-
aware,
Like the hunter who finds a lost
trail,
And I wish that the one whom our
blindness had done
The greatest injustice of all
Could be at the gates, Iike an old
friend that waits
For the comrade he's gladdest to
hail.
We could iind all the things we in-
tended to do,
But forgot and remembered too late,
Little praises unspoken, little pro-
mises broken,
And all the thousand and one
Little duties neglected that might
have perfected
The day for one less fortunate.
Even the coops and chicken yards are i It wouldn't be possible not to be kind
illuminated by electricity, getting the!
In the land of Beginning Again;
laying fowis'on the job earlier In the . And the ones we misjudged and the
day, ones when we grudged
--0--.Their ndomeuts of victory bere
What a Beak! Would find in the grasp of our loving
hand clasp
As everyone knows, the beaks of !lore than penitent Iips could ex -
birds differ to a certain extent. Few plain.
people, however, realize exactly how
closely a beak is adapted to do its For what had been hardest we'd know
work. had been best,
The heron uses its beak as a dagger Ancl what had seemed lost would be
and very expert it is in its use in this gain;
respect, for which purpose the beak For there isn't a sting that will not
is specially suited. The helmet horn- take wing
bill uses its beak in exactly the same Wben we've faced It and laughed it
way as we use a hammer, and its beak - away;
Is hard and shaped for this use. And I think that the laughter is most
The beaks differ because of the - what we're after
birds' different methods of dealing In the Land of Beginning Again.
with their food.; this is the case with
many fish eating birds. ----ea. ______.
In a Curious Predicament
The scissor bill, for instance, differs
considerably from the duffin; the Two years ago a German prisoner of
short flat beak of the latter bird is ,-war named Hopp was tried by court -
made for ,holding as well as catching martial for the murder, in atrocious
fish, but it is also remarkable for an- circumstances, of a farmer's wife and
Cher reason.
At the base of the beak are certain
brightly -colored plates; when the
moulting season comes round these
plates are shed with the feathers.
They appear again, however, the fol-
lowing spring.
The strangest beaks of all are per-
haps those belonging to the hind bird
of New Zealand, for the,beak of the
male bird differs from the beak of the
female, and when food is found by one
to be out of reach. of .its beak, it is
said that the male is called, to see if,
with its different shaped beak, it is
able to capture the morsel.
;.--'" •
Age Secrets. -
As most people are aware, it is pos-
Bible to tell, the age of a horse by ex-
amining
xamining its teeth.
The age of a sheep may be knoivn
1 similar manner—that is, by its
tME. The number of years a cow
ivecl Ls found by a different meth -
he horns are examined, and the
i r of rings on these horns'tells
Almost exactly the age of the cow.
Juat as the horns indicate the age'
of the cow, so the development of the
antlers helps one to calculate the age
of . animals belonging to the deer
family, and the length of life of other
horned animals Is arrived at in the
same way.
The age of many birds can be dis-
covered by examining the spurs.
Trees often live to a very great age,
and while they are standing it is a dist-
licuit matter to arrive at the age e'
these; but when they have lir . ett
down the age of the tree '- i tI
taxed by counting the AV'be reelo
Visible in the 0•' s slumber of lri:ttg's.
.daltlon
has
b
nu.
daughter. He was condemned to
death, but it is now found that he can -1 trees even at night. As a result the
not be executed, and it would seem leaves become water gorged and ex-
that he will have to wait inprison all tide water through their tips. This
his life as a condemned man whose water is quickly evaporated and the
Valuation.
The thunderheads at twilight rolled up
behind the trees;
Thin, elfish lightning played behind .a
soughing, ghostly breeze;
The tossing froth of blooming plum
shone white aeroso the dusk
And filled the charged and restleee
air with sweet and.: drifting
Musk.
In k
Sock -footed ferns hands, on the grass
stretched loungingly about,
Canceearly in to seek their beds and.
shut the storm without.
Old_ Michaelrubbed his horses and
bedded them with hay,
While from the driveway gleamed the
car brought home on yesterday.
But only when his cherished bays
were ready for the night
He turned to "eye the polished thing
that caught the lantern's light,
"Ye're fit and fine, ye comet's tail,"
be murmured pridefully,
"But sure, ye'll never dare the roads
me nags have dared for me."
The storm;, to meet the moonrise,
blared nearer through the hills;
A sudden, passing drench of rain
sprayed off the window sills;
Keen, branching forks of blinding fire
split downward from the sky;
And through a sudden, breathless hush
a lash of wind went by;
Went roaring by and came -again, to
die and come once more;
A writhing maple wrenched its roots
and sprawled before a door.
'Twas then the heavens severed be-
fore one rending blade;
And in a anament more the wires rang
out a call for aid,
(Oh, somewhere there ase neighbors
yet). Black homes winked into
light
As word and answer leaped across the
• tumult of the night;
And readily, as yesterday they stopped
to swap a yarn,
Now, man and boy, old Michael's
friends turned out to save his
barn.
The clouds' were rose and orange and
flying swirls of flame.
First, coatless, hatless, swift of foot,
young Donald running cane;
Then Martin Bain came riding down,
Moonfiower, his little gray,
Stretched out until her skimming
length against the turnpike lay,
Tomb Asher's muddy -geared machine
brought up a willing load;
And Dillon on his white-faced roan
came pounding up the road.
In scanty clothes old Michael the rain
and wind defied;
Stood with his silver hair ashine, a
horse on either side.
Behind him blazed his ruined barn, a
bursting, glowing flame.
He did not seem to see them there un-
til they called his name,
And "Michael, did you save the car?"
'Twas Dillon raised the shout,
"The car be hanged!" he answered
back. "I got me horses out."
0 Sugar! .
Long before the white man came to-
North
oNorth America, the Indians of British
Columbia had a white sugar derived
from the foliage of the Douglas fir
tree.
Prof. John Davidson, University of
British Columbia, assisted by James
Telt, has given us the results of his
study of sugar -bearing fir trees. The
sugar appears in small white masses
and in small flakes. It is quite hard
and dry, not at all sticky, and tastes
like a high quality of refined sugar.
At first Professor Davidson thought
that the sugar appeared as the result
of aphides which punctured the foli-
age. But he soon discovered that. in-
sect§ were not present and that only
healthy firs yielded sugar.
Ile tlierefofe came •io the correct
conclusion that the phenomenon was
the result of atmospheric causes. In
the dry -belt region' the abundant sun-
shine produces an excess of carbohy-
drates. Moreover, the same abundant
sun so heats the ground that there is
great pressure in the roots of the fir
sentence can neither be remitted nor
carried out. In the Berne convention
of 1918 the Allies and Germany agreed
not to Larry out sentences on prison-
ers of war. It was meant to insert in,
the peace treaty a clause enabling the
Allies to deal with flagrant crimes,
but at the last moment it was omitted.
--Loudon Chronicle.
The. present ruling family of Japan
:came to the throne in 660 B.C.
Eat RED BLQ41D IBABY'S..OWN TABLETS
THE GREATEST NEER ALWAYS IN's E HOME
Nearly Ali Ills Are Due to Poor,
Watery Blood—lbw to Im-
prove Its Condition.
To be in a healthy condition the
humanbody requires a constaut sup-
ply of new, rich bleed. Nearly all the
ills from which people suffer arise from
one cauae--poverty of the blood, If and simple fevers and making teeth -
the blood is rich and red it absorbs fug easier. Coueexning them, Mrs.
nourishment from the food widen Salusto Pelletier, St.' Dumas, Que.,
passes into the stomach and distri- writes: --"1 have used Baby's. Own
butes that nourishment to the brain, Tablets for the past ten years and am
nerves, muscles and all the organs never without them yin the house,
of the body. When the blood is weak
and poor in duality it cannot do its
natural work of feeding the brain and
body, and the result is weakness and
disease,
Headaches and backaches, loss of
appetite, poor digestion, nervousness,
pimples and unsightly blotches on the
skin, all indicate that the blood has
b000xne impure—that it is not doing
its appointed work. If this condition
is not remedied it will grow worse and
worse, and a complete breakdown will
eventually occur. To bring about a
healthy condition of the blood no bad effect upon ]lilts. -....Ytil en other
medicine can equal Dr. Williams' Pink i workmen learn that one of their num-
Pills. Their one mission is to melee ber has a pull with somebody higher
a
new, rich bleed, which reticles every up they look at him askance and the
effect upon these other men is bad.
Then the foreman, or whoever is
over him, will either show him un-
due favors and push him into a posi-
tion for which he Is not fitted, or, if
the boss is of a different stamp, he
will hesitate to promote him even
when he deserves It because the boss
knows the others will think it is a
case of favoritism.
The effect, therefore, is bad upon
the whole organization. When any
young engineer or college graduate or
anybody else comes to me asking for
a leter to enable him to get a job at
our works I say to him just what I
have said here.
Once a mother, bas .used Baby's Own
Tablets for her little ones she always
keeps a supply on !land, for the first
trial convinces her there Is nothing to
equal4 keeping them in kee ill children well.
The Tablets are a mild but thorough.
laxative - which regulate the bowels
and sweeten the stomach„ time driving
out constipation and indigestion, colds
They have always given the greatest
satisfaction and I can gladly recom-
mend them to all mothers of littIe
ones." The Tablets are sold by medi-
cine dealers or direct by main at 25
cents a box from The Dr. Williams
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
ei•
6t
Influence3J a Drawback.
"Influence is the worst handicap any
young man can have," says the presi-
dent of a' copper company, It tends
to make him feel he need not exert
himself to his full capacity and has a
part of the body, bringing with it new
health and increasing vitality.
Thousands have testified to the bene-
fit they have found in the use of Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills when run down
in health. Among these is Mrs. Ber-
tha Kendall, Darling Avenue, Toronto,
who says:—'In the summer of 1918 I
was in poor health. My appetite was
variable, and I was weak and unfit for
work, and I differed a great deal
from nervous headache and palpita-
tion of the heart. A lady friend re-
cgimended Dr. Williams Pink Pills,
which I used with 'splendid results, as
by the time I had taken six boxes I
felt like a new woman. I think Dr.
Williams Pink Pills are worth their
weight in gold to every nervous, sick
woman, as they cure quickly and save
doctor bills."
Dr. Williams Pink Pills may be had
from any dealer in medicine, or by
mail at 50 cents abox or 6 boxes for
$2.50 "from The Dr. Williams Medicine.
Co., Brockville, Ont.
Growing Old.
At six I well remember when—
I fancied all folks old at ten.
But when I'd turned my first decade,
Fifteen appeared more truly staid.
But when the fifteenth round I' drun,
I thought none old till twenty-one.
Then, oddly, when I'd. reached that
age, '
I held that thirty made folks sage,
But when my thirtieth was told,
I said, "At twoscore men grow ofd!"
Yet twoscore came and found me
thrifty,
And so I drew the line at fifty.
But when I'd reached that age, I
swore,
None could be old until three score!
And here I am at sixty now,
As young as when at six, I trow!
'Tis true, my hair is somewhat gray,
And that I use a cane to -day;
'Tis true these rogues about my knee
Say "Grandpa" when they speak to
me;
But, bless your soul, I'm young as
when
T tb.ought all people old at ten!
Perhaps a little wiser grown—
Perhaps some old illusions flown;
But wondering still, while years have
rolled,
When is it that a pian grows old?
MONEY ORDERS.
Pay your out-of-town accounts by
Dominion Express Money Order. Five
Dollars costs three cents,
sugar is left.
Though the Dangles fir trees will Mining is an ancient art, being men -
never be a dependable source of sup- tioned in the Bible; while a gold mine
ply for sugar, the sugar will always is depicted in an ancient Egyptian
be valuable to chemists and ' phy- papyrus drawn in 1400 B.Q.
sicians.
Portugal's climate is, much milder
than that of Spain.
Before an aeroplane is considered
perfect, it has to pass through 200
tests.
Ten Days Tell
If y ou Ee e l off color and,
sw.spect coffee is the cause,
a change to
STUM
" a thilip out
y
..,LTH IS WORTH TH EFFOR
"There's49
. a Reason"
Minard's Liniment For Dandruff.
Endowed Flagstaffs.
For a long time England possessed
the only endowed flagstaff in the
world, that belonging to the Royal
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at
Margate. This staff was erected in
the first year of the reign of King Ed-
ward. VII., in commemoration of his
accession to the throne. The cost was
defrayed by the pupus and friends,
and the collection taken was so large
that it enabled the institution to pur-
chase twenty hags,
Even when the staff and the flags .
had been paid for, £40 remained in
the treasury, This sum was invested
for an. endowment fnnu.
There is an endowed flagstaff in the
United State ?:anion at
.rawrenee, lVltrt,L. .,.:.,,.....me of the
L&Wi0iic0 'stripe same 'Years a
go ,
when. many indignities wore shown to
the American flag, there was held a
flag parade of 40,000 persons, each
carrying a flag as e,prate.at nubile -
spirited
u
bi e-
. A
spirited citizen, Joseplh. Shattuck, of-
fered to erect a flagstaff and toset
aside funds, ibe interest on which
would buy flags for the ,staff. The
city of Lawr n.ce art'v'ted this offer,
and to -clay cni Ito t•ouuu-111- is .ane of
the finest flagstaffs in the world.
A merchant can obtain an imitation
of MINARD'S LINIMENT from a
Toronto house at a very low price, and
have it labeled his own product.
This greasy imitation is the poorest
one we have yet seen of the many that
ever: Tom, Dick and IL..rdy has tried
to introduce.
Ask for MINARD'S LINIMENT and
you will get it.
Vatican's Print Shop.
The Vatican possesses one of the
finest printing establishments in the
world. It was founded in 1826, and
only one year afterward already pos-
sessed the characters of 23 different
languages.
Save time by a -daily and weekly
plan for housework, by simple living,
by convenient workrooms, by efficient
utensils.
MOTHER!
"California Syrup of Figs"
Child's Best Laxative
•
Accept "California" Syrup of Figs
only—look for the name California on
the package, then you are sure your
child is having the best and. most
harmless physic for the little stom-
ach, liver and bowels.. Children love
its fruity taste. Full directions on
each bottle. You must say "Cali-
fornia."
Virtarmin4 relief for
tteun"tfc aches
LIE'S just used Sloan's
Liniment and the quick
comfort hadbrought a smile
of pleasure to his face.
Good • for aches resulting
from weather exposure,
osure
sprains, strains, lame back,
,63.-P! overworked muscles. Pene-
701 baler withou6 eubbilig. All
040 druggists have it.
Linimentone.,
ISSUE No. 45—'20.
HUMOR
FROM HEAEG7NEU
Classified. Advertisenen
BITS OFOX ati
Proof.
=" at s density?"
Professor --"What i n y?
Student --"I can't define it, but I can
give a good illustration,"
. Professor -•- ""The illustration is
good, sit down."
Between Friends.
"Say, old !elan, tollsthe truth now;
are you not a bit jealous of your
wife?" the guest askednie they pine -
idly enjoyed the after-dinner cigars.
"Well," his old-time friend and host
admitted, "I am frank to say that 1:
aura. It is for that reason that I never
invite to the house any one whom a
woman of the least sense or taste
could possibly take a fancy to."
Inquisitive.
The precocious infant had just re-
turned from his first day at school, re-
gistering intense ennui. The anxious
family gathered around.
"Donald," asked his mother, "what
did you learn to -day?"
"Nothing."
"What. nothing at all?"
"Nope; there was a woman there
who wanted to know how to spell eat,
so I told her. That's all,"
The United States lent France $3,-
000,000,000
3;000,000,000 dulling the war and France
owes 36,000,000,000 francs according
to the present rate of exchange.
"DAN ER1NE"
Girls! Save Your Hair!
Make It Abundant!
YOUR niI.VE14, 7Pf1XES Iela034
te, bl' • ntock all '"Standard bred"
nd guaxantleed. I'rlcee, right. E. X.
acDougall, West Gore, N.S.
Salt From the Sea.
With a new Norwegian electrical
process for obtaining salt from sett,
water it is estimated that each kilo-
watt year of power will produce ten
tons of salt, besides useful condensed
brine.
Minard'c Liniment Rdleveo Dlstampnw.
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Sleep with. the windows wide open,.
with plenty of warm covers on the
bed, as a cure for anaemia and that
"tired feeling" you so often have when
you e.wake in the morning.
Immediately after a "Danderine".
massage, your hair takes en new life,
lustre and wondrous beauty, appear-
ing
ppearing twice as heavy and plentiful, be-
cause each hair seems to fluff and l
thicken. Don't let your hair stay life-
less, colorless, plain or scraggly. You,
too, want lots of long, strong, beauti-
ful hair.
A 35 -cent bottle of delightful "Dan-
derine" freshens your scalp checks'
dandruff and falling hair. This stimu- 1
lacing "beauty-tonie'-' gives to thin,
dull, fading hair that youthful bright-
ness and abundant i:lliebness All
druggists!
!!O1 IP19WS &DOORS
a'. -r : ,1ZES to suit your
openings. Fitted
with glass. Sole de.
1 livery guaranteed.
Write for Price List
[C], Cut down fuel
-...4....$ -.....'•es tains. insure winter
comfort.
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by Manufacturers. Fortunes have
been made from simple ideas.
"Patent Protection" booklet and
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"FR E O "
Lift Off Corns! No Pain!
Doesn t hurt a bit! Drop a little
"Freezone" on an aching cora,insts.nt
ly that corn stops hurting, then short-
ly you can lift it right oft with fingers.
Truly!
Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of
"`Freezone" for a few cents, sufficient
to remove every hard corn, soft corn,
or corn between the toes, and the cal-
luses, without soreness or irritation,
the
Give � tieura e
a
�� our, Ski
And watch that tresabli some a:TsT,-
tion disapp _ar. li::the v ::s Cmi-
cure So .p, dee and eerie Culic::a
Ointment. For ec..ehnee, rt:..ihcr,
itchings, etc., they arc wend rit:i.
Nothing so in -u, c s a deer skin and
good hair as making Cutit.ra your
every -day toilet prcparaticns.
Soap 25c, Ointment 25 and 00e. Sold
throughout theDominion. CanadianDepet:
L ane, Limited, S. Paul S;,, Montreal
Cuticura Sake nh 'a without mutt.
A (:ure for
rip, -,41i tpx„.� do e.: µ .
AA ag.e4 . Pu.. a "erra:.se
"Bad breath is a sign of decayed
teeth, foal stoanaclr Cr t -_cicarc
bowel." if yoor ter -t - arc good,
j look to -a our dig native o Ana at
once. Get Seleis s :'st a Lr", S:,'r nil
drat. fists. IS to 30 drops
after rt:_alr, clean up your food
passage acid stop the bsd breath
odor. S0c, and $1.00 Bottled.
Do not buy substitutes. Gat
• the genuine. 6
America's Pioneer Dog Remedies
Book on
OHO DISEASES
and 1
Mailed Free to and Ad-
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ONLY TABLETS MARKED
"BAYER" ARE ASPIRIN
Not Aspirin at All without the "Bayer Cross"
Per G
nlds, Pain, Notra1 Neuralgia,
Tooth. package
~Melt contains complete 434
hello, Headache, Earache, and for rections. Then you are getting !^eat
ltheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Neu- Aspirin—the genuine Aspirin pre.
ritis, take Aspirin marked with the scribed by playeieians for over nine -
name "Bayer" or you are not taking teen years. Now made in Canada
1
2 tab-
in
boxes
containing
nd
t
' at all.
ITa
y
Aspirin A.
Cts
p eats. S}rii
Accept only `"Bayer Tablets of Iets cost 'but a tow emits,
Aspirin" ut an unbroken `Bayer" also sell larger Bayer packages,
"ihtero is only ono A.sliirin--"Sayer"—Yon must ,s�+ay Bares'
Aspirin Is the trade mark (registered In Crtnada5 of Bayer manufacture o grins MonoF1ono'.
s..eticacidcster of Falteyiicaeld, while It ie well known that Aspirin
u anufnrture, to assist the public n(ninat lrott:tilnr , the 'tablets ,"! T?svr.• C'ortpao1
will be stained with their general trade matt:, the . hJs, r