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The Exeter Advocate, 1921-4-28, Page 3We should more fully appreci- ate our opportunities `could we realize what a blind person with a love of -the beautiful would give for just a glimpse of the marvelous world, which is all shut out from him and tree to us. What would he not give if be could ,lust have his eyes opened for a to months and be allowed to travel over this beautiful earth and drink in the world's beauties? Just to be able to see the flower, to get one glimpse of the landscape which we see so often that it makes almost no impression up, on us, what w quid it not mean to hien,? Conservation of Soil Fertility and Soil Fibre.. Of unusual interest to the farmers of Western Canada is the publication relating to Conservation of Soil Fibre and Fertility just Issued by the Coot- mission of Conservation. This pamph- let .contains a series of papers and discussions by leading authorities one the problems .confronting the prairie farmer. Particular attention is ,paid to the *ontrol et soil drifting, the re- tention of ntoisttre and to cropping systems tor drought areas. The purpose of this publication is to place before the western farmer the Testae of the experimental work con- ducted by the Dominion and Provin- cial .Departments of Agriculture, and by the Agricultural Colleges, in their efforts to determine the cropping sys- tetras and methods of citltivatton most imitable for the various prairie areas, particularly those which have suffer- ed most severely from soil drifting and from drought. Copies of this pamtphlct may be Ob.- tattled b•tataed free on application to the Com• mission ot Conservation, A "Doonum." In issuing regulations that are to govern the transfer of land in. Pales- tine the high commissioner. Sir Her. bert Samuel, helps to put into the lan- guage a word that will be new to most readers ot English: the word "deo- num," a measure of laud. The regu- lations, intended to protect Zionists, oblige everyone who wishes to sell land to get ilio written consent of the administration; and to get it he must detacribe the character and situation 'of the land and name the price, The buyer must be a resident of Palestine .and can buy under the new Ordinance not mare than three hundred doouums of farming land or more than thirty Yloenums of city real estate. A. dao- eum is one forty-fourth of an acre. Mlnard's Linlrrtantfor Dandruff._ Germany Census. The census of Germany, recently .completed, shows a total population of 60,252,000 people. The total num- ber of Inhabitants in 1918 was about 65,000,000. Babies .with dark eyes at birth are very rare, most newly -born infants having blue eyes, Web -Footed Folks, Occasionally it happens that a boy or girt is bora with webbed feet— that is to say, with toes united by fleshy tissue. It is a phenomenon called "syndactyly." This eccentricity is apt tube hand - ea down from generation to genera tion in a family, appearing in some of its members, but not in others. The Magazine of Heredity describes one such case, in a, braneh of as old New England family. The paternal grandfather was web -tooted and be- queathed his peculiar toes to a son, who passed them, along to three of his six children. If these people were to intermarry for three or four generations with an- other weletooted family, all the child- ren born would exhibit the .peculiari- ty, Por nature, curiously enough, seems always willing to perpetuate freaks of any kind. What we call freaks, or "sports,"" in the animal or the vegetable world are nature's Tittle experiments. It is by Ids means that she creates new species and varieties. Some anthrte polaglste are of opinion that all hu- man beings were originally black and that the first white man was a sport,. It might be said that many white people to -day respond to that descrip- tion, though not in the saute Sense. Lyons, Perfume City, Lyons. In France, le the city of scents, It is the centre of a region which supplies the world with per- fumes and liaa the only university that offers a course in perfumery making to students. Within the last few years Lyons has developed a great laboratory system tor the manufacture of artificial Per- fumes by the processes ot synthetic chemistry. Thus- its technical experts convert ail of verbena into violet and Illyof•the-vakley, oil of camphor into heliotrope, aniseed into vanilla and oil of rosewood into bergamot, Toluene (a derivative of peal tar) they transform into jasmine and arts• delal rose, From xylene (likewise a coal tar product) they obtain artificial musk. Roses are grown on an immense scale in the region about Lyons for. the manufacture of perfumery. Like- wise sage, thyme and sweet marjoram. That region produces 90 per cent. of! the total wcrld's output ot real laven- der oil, representing a. value of 20; 000,000 francs a year. One concern has ten square miles planted with lavender. MONEY ORDERS,. The sate way to send money by mail is by Dominion Express Money Order, Reserving the Aborigines. The commonwealth of Australia lune taken stege for the preservation of the aborigines of that country nand has as- signed a tract of public lands in the Northern Territories as reservation for the tribes. It includes the Man and. Peterson Ranges and practically the whole of Lake Amadeus. The Governments of South and Western Australia have .set aside adjoining areas for the purpose of this reserve- tidn. Thunder is audible .ata distance up to eighteen miles. Surnames and Their Origin EDWARDS Variations—Edmonds, Edmunds, Ed- gar, Edeson, Edison, Edmondson, Edmundson, Edwardson, Edes, Eth- ards, Edkins, Edouard, Odouard. Racial Origin—Anglo-Saxon. Source—A given name. The given names of Edward, Ed- mond, and to a less extent'Edgar, are Indissolublybound b d up with the his- tory of England, and ' in the under- standing of that history are significant in more ways than one. Edward, Edmund, Edgar and the still shorter form "Eadda," the last particularly were all most wide- spread among the Anglo-Saxons, and, indeed, are traceable togetber with a number of names popular with the Goths and the Franks to a common Teutonic origin somewhere beyond the dawn. of historic light ' n the Teu- tonic p eu- tonic languages. Though the Normans were Teu- tonic, speaking a French developed out of a combination of Latin, Celtic and Teutonic tongues, given names of this group were not common among them, and following their invasion of England appear very infrequently in the period when their connection with Normandy was severed politically, and they began to consider them- selves English and to adopt ninny Eng- lish names. These names formed a prominent group In the Anglo-Saxon nomenclature . of the "common • peo- ple," which they resurrected, and from that time on Edward was taken even into the royal household. And this was just the period in which family names began to take shape. The formation of all the foregoing family names, through the additidn of 1 "son" to the given name or its vari- 1y ous contractions and diminutives, with sm the subsequent shortening of the "son" se to a mere. "s" in many instances, is quite clear. 11 i The form Edouard is French, as is Odouard. It is interesting to note that the latter shows quite clearly a Frankish origin. "Ode'•' was the pro- Th nunciation and .spelling which the ancient Franks gave to the name that the Anglo-Saxons called "Eadda," the lengthening -of vowels into the "o" sound being characteristic, There was a famous bishop in the early Mid- dle Ages in northern France who bore this name. A Clever Husband. Wife—"Mrs, Jones has another new bat.,,, Hubby—"Well, if she were as at- tractive as you are, my dear, size wouldn't have to depend so much up- on the milliner," Advice Followed. Doctor (to profiteer patient)•—"I'zn afraid you have not heeded my advice to adopt some hobby or fad that would take your mind off:Your ordinary busi- t ger of suck a condition, which, if al- ness.'" lowed to. persist, may result in a eer- '"Oh,. yes, I Have doctor." vous breakdown. In this condition ",what is needed is rich, red blood. As Wliat did you take up?"" a tonic for the blood and nerves Going collecting,", e Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have been used with much success: They have a di- rest action on the blood, and through it carry to the nerves the elements needed to. restore their normal Pune tioi;, at the same+ time improving the general health. The benefits that fol NERVOUS PEOPLE NEED A• TONIC Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Enrich the Blood, Thus Increasing Tour Nervous Energy. Nervous people who have not yet developed a disease that can be re- cognized and treated by the medical Profession, often have great trouble in fending relief. Irritation, headache, sleeplessness, nervous indigestion. All 'these discomforts make life miserable, but are endured rather than run a doctor's bill Sueh sufferers should know the dam - He Couldn't Welt Forever,. A young fellow who was the crack runner of his town•-.eamewbere in the southeawas unfortunate enough to have a very dilatory laundress. One tore,. An island S. red in one of the THA KF'UL MOTHERS yarns; so R. L. S. drew a map .of it, carefully elaborating an outline of the bays and the harbors. The story of Treasure Island was all woven round the map, R. L. S. de- clared teat'his uncousefous plagiarism front Washington Irving's Tales of a Traveller, which in his Younger days he had read with much delight, was absolutely glaring; the skeleton was obtained from Poe, the parrot front Robinson C:ruuae and the stockade from Marryat's Westerman Iteady. The audience was so delighted with the first perfarzuance that they begged for more; and so it became a con- tinued narrative for many afternoons. He had partly completed writing the story when the editor of a trlagazine called Young Folks' Paper urged hini to finish it for publication. The bar- gain was made, and R. L. S. sent the story with the nursery map to the magazine. It was printed witheut the map and without illustrations and at- tracted no attention. Wore than a year later, when R. L. S. was looking through some of his manuscripts with a view to turning one of them ince a little much-needed money, he picked up Treasure Island evening when out for a practice run Williams'nd, deciding that he still liked it, his low the use of Dr. �i iPink Pills gent the manuscript to Cassell & Co,, rather airy and abbreviated is shown by the case of Mrs. Normae P_ track eestutne he chanced to dash Past Seitried, West Mantrose, Ont., who the publishers, who accepted it, hadat the dusty lady who at the time was a nays: "It would be hard for me to a tragedy happened. The story couple of weeks in arrears with his overstate the benefit I have derived been written to the neap; in fact, the washing. He had scarcely reached from,the use of Dr. Williams' Pink map was lite chief elentegt in cite Route again when the bell rang Yuri- Pills, Before I began taking the tills plot; but the matt had disappeared. ously and an excited voice was wafted : I was ver 1 So they had to go over the whole beak down I Once a mother has used Baby's Own Tablets for her little ones she would use nothing else. The Tablets• give such results that the mother bas nothe ing but words of praise and thankful- 1 ness for them. Among the thousands of mothers throughout Canada` who . praise the Tablets is Mrs. David A. Anderson, New Glasgow, N.S., who writes:-�-"I have used Baby's Own Tablets for my children and front niy experience I would not be without them. 1 would urge every other mother to keep a box of the Tablets in the house," The Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which regulate the bowels and sweeten the stomach; drive out constipation aud lndigestion; break up colds and simple fevers and make teething easy. They are sold by medicine dealers or by roan at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Wililams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. The Spring That Comes to Flanders. in from the porch. Y nervous weak and tun and. tabulate and arrange all the al - "Fob de Lawd'a sake, won't you ail tell parse Bob ,please not to go out no .Mak till I kin git kis clo'ea round to hint?"" Pass the he Salt, Cir, Green's radish -bed had been at- tacked by slugs. Distracted, he sought the advice of a neighbor, "It you want to exterminate the pest," said the neighbor, "place salt between the rows of plants."' Mr. Green went oft tull of hope, A few days later they met again. "Did you do as I told you?" asked the neighbor. "I should think I did!" replied Mr. Green, "Was it successful?" "Well, I put salt down one evening, and :bless me, when I got up the next morning the slugs were pulling the radishes up, diping them in the salt, and eating them with such happy looks upon their faces!" Quite Unnecessary. At a certain college It was the cus- tom to have the students write the fol- lowing pledge at the bottom of their examination papers: ""I hereby certify on my honor that I have neither given nor received aid during this examination." Soon after handing In a paper to a professor noted for his sarcasm; a young fellow hurriedly. entered the classroom and said: "Professor, I have forgotten to put the pledge on my paper." "It's quite unnecessary," replied the teacher. "I have just finished looking over your paper, and I felt sure that you did not give or receive aid." . conld hardly do my house- work, and as there is a great deal of work to do about a home on a farm, I telt very much discouraged. One day while reading a newspaper' I saw as advertisement at Dr, Willie s' fusions, and then with a pair of emu - passes draw a map to suit tite facts. The task was accomplished; but, as 11. L, S: whimsically remarked, it killed his liking for the book, which he valued chiefly for the welcome sum m Pink Pills. and decided to give them a it brought bin when he sorely needed trial. 1 could notice beneficial effects atter taking a box of the pills, and by the time I bad taken a few boxes, I could again do any work with ease, was. zea longer weak or nervous, slept well at night, and awoke in the. mop- ing feeling well and strong, I ant. happy to say that the pills so greatly beneiltted late" Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all dealers In medicine or will be seat by mail as receipt of 50 cents a box or $2,50 tor six boxes by writing The Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Out. Awards For Gallantry. One of the most interesting phases of the work of the Boy Scout Move- ment is its recognition of acts ot gal- lantry performed by its members. There are three grades of award's which are granted, and oddly enough the highest Is not a gold, but a Bronze Cross. The second highest award is the Silver Cross and the third high- est the Gilt Cross. All applications for awards of this nature are not made by the boy, but by the Scoutmaster of the Troop he belongs to. All the evidence in eaoh case is carefully con- sidered by .a Local Beard of honour, and when complete, is forwarded to the Provincial Board of Honour—a per- manent committee whose duty It is to make recommendations to the Chief Scout for Canada as to the action to be taken. The Chief Scout for Canada has just made awards in the following cas Bringing Up Father. which are of particular interest: Troop Leader Charles Haddleto and Patrol Leader William Haddleto the 29th Ottawa Troop, were awar ed the Gilt Cross for their efforts i the attempted rescue of two littl boys who had fallen into the Ride Canal. A brother of one of the'Iittl fellows, when be realized what had happened, started to throw stones in- to the water with the idea of maks waves to wash the other two boy ashore. In this way he attracted th attention of the two Scouts, who a once jumped into the water. Only a ter considerable difficulty were the able to locate the little bodies, bu life was extinct before they could b brought ashore. Patrol Leader E. Goulet, of the 41s Ottawa Troop, is awarded the Silve Cross. for his successful attempt rescuing Mr. M. Villeneuve, of the L Salle Cadet Corps, who was swimmin at Britannia Pier •when he became ex hausted and began to drown. Scou Goulet at once jumped into the water and although very much smaller than man he attempted to• rescue, sue "Father," said James, "why is it they say that the child is father to the man?" Mr. Jones shivered. The elucidation of an abstruse problem like this was rather more than he felt equal to. Therefore, he temporized. "Well•—er—because it is so, I sup- pose." "Oh, then, if that's so, pa," answer- ed the youngster brightly, "I'm going to see if I can't get you a ticket for the theatre to -morrow and a half-dial- ler ale dol- lar to spend, I always said if I was a dither I wouldn't be so stingy as the rest of Fent. Go along, pa, and have a good time while you are young! II never had the chance!" Whereupon Jones smiled reflective - and handed' out the needful. A art boy like Jim, he considered, de- rved it. nerd's Liniment Relieves Distemper The Childher. e house that have the childher is the house that has the joy in it, oeeded in, bringing him ashore after a Money. The Du Knob. On the door of a house at which I was calling the outer day I fauud two knobs. One was a dummy put there for symmetry'; when I , tried it, it turned round and round in my hand. The other resisted my hand but open- ed the door. The two knobs reminded Inc of Dick Hartley and Dan C'ortelyou. Dick's mother feared. that his charas' ter was weakening. When at her re- quest I urged him to be a man and re- sist temptation, ho smiled and pro- mised to do everything that I asked; but his promises were so glib that I had no faith in them. He was like the dummy knob that turned round and round iu myd hand. I could not open the door. Dan Cortekyou was different. When I s•pake to him of his wild ways, his color mounted, his eyes grew defiant, How could. he help It, he asked, if his pals were doing this and that? Whose busluess was it what he did? He re- sisted. I new that I had 'hold of a live knob. Before long tae door had opened wide enough to admit the truth. But the door kucbs reminded rhe of other things than people --the easy and the hard way. There was Jim Smedley. As his father was well to do, he lead a golden knob that opened every door, He never put his strengh es against an obstacle, but played with the knob that turned round and round so easily. The doors to real success n remained closed to him. on, Far many years the French mission- d- ary Francois Coillard, labored among the Barotse, a native tribe in South e Africa. When he felt that his death au was near he wrote: "I solemnly be- e queath to the churches of France, my native land, the responsibility for the Lord's work in Barotseland, and I ad - ng jure them in His holy name never to give it up." Bequeath work? We usually- be- t queath something hat we think the heir will prize. But work—especially ' work calling for self-secrifice? t But think again. Is there anything e more precious than the chance to do a great work?, Many persons End life t insipid nler.ely because they have no ar task that will make them work with all their might. A hard task is some - a thing to rejoice in, Take hold of that g knob. It may resist obstinately, but. t it will open for you the doors both of earth and of heaven. • Vha.*-es Your Experience? If coffee keeps you awake nights, change to. NSTAtT a delicious meal -time dL ink,whoie- some aici. satisi. in, , but containing nothing that will disturbyour rest. Economical ,--.- Better for You ugh' y� • �.d �N-i. a-�.�' z� e 4� G'..^� ��a�' EIAs �:c� :.v. e: A tree will -make gill make .a million matches; - a match may destroy a million trees. When in the woods take tto •eh To me 'tis only home that has a girl- • een orboy in it, And every one that's added only makes the place a -cheerier, If childher are the gifts' of God the. more He send the merrier, Sure, every. little one I've had gave The Story something to my bliss the more, y O Treasure And every little baby • face my lips Island. were drawn to kiss the mare, From all accounts Robert Louis And tho' I know.:the trouble and the Stevenson never, plumed himself on thrall' and the care they are, having written Treasure Island, He And tho' I know how often wild, how used whimsically to grumble that so wayward and how quare they much of his reputation rested on a4 are, book that,• he declared, cost him less And. tho' 'tis many a night I've watch- labor and contained less originality ed beside the little beds of and mare unconscious plagiarism than them, . anything else that he ever wrote, And held their little hands and cooled , Once in a burst of candor he told the fevered little heads of them, • hoer he came to write it. His.'canii- And tho' I know the surly moods that dant was Mr. W. E. Clarke, head of fall upon the best of them, the Anglican mission at Apia, who re Can one who is unkind outweigh the tells the story; love of 'all the rest of them? , Steven -son, it seen , was •on a visit No, no, the trouble that I've had to his father's home near Balmoral through them I'll never rue at Castle it Scotland. The weather was all, bad, and he and his schoolboy stepson, And sure, without the childher now I Lloyd :Osbourn, were 'confined to the don't know what I'd .do at all. house. To amuse the boy "lt.t.S." —Denis E. McCarthy drew pictures in pen and ink, which rtee boy colored from a. box of paints. The transformation of ,productive .They - pinned the pictures on lh:e forests by fire into idle wastes im- nursery wail; and when the boys' poverirhes the nation, damages the friends assembled in the afternoons individual, is wholly needless, and R•L•S., D laying the part of Shownlaii, mus lie stopped. improvised a story to suit each pie - struggle 41, ggje in the water which lasted with lighted matches, tobacco, or or almost ten minutes. The rescue was camp -fire. Get the habit. Be careful particularly plucky because of the fact with fires in the woods. that the rescuer had never received any instruction in life-saving work. • CUTICURA HEALS INTENSE ITCHING BurningOn Hands, Could Not Put Them In Water, Lost Sleep. "My hands were very sore and I could not put them in water to wash Fes` t them. There were some wn�v„ pimples on my hands, and the itching and burning were so intense that I scratched and irritated them, and I could not sleep at night. "The trouble lasted two weeks before I tried Cuticura. When. I • had used twd cakes of Cuticura Soap and one box of Outicura Oint- ment for about two weeks, I was healed' (Signed) Reginald Daigle,. R. F, D. 2, Fort Dent, Maine. Oat: Cuticura for every -day toilet purposes. Bathe with Soap, soothe with Ointment, dust with Talcum. 304.25c. 0intmrnt:25'and Sec, Talcum 2Sc. Sold throughouttIieDommion. Canadian Depot: Limn., Limited, 344 St. Paul St., W. t4entrcal,' Wg — Cuticura Soap.ahaves without mug. The spring that comes to Flandera Goes by on silent feet, Lest they should wake, remembering How once the spring waw sweet, And streams that now in Flauders, Past poppy field and hill, Are silver streams and stinting, But thoughtful streams and stili. The wind that blows in Flanders. Across the listening air. Is gentle with the grasses That bend above them there— And rain that falls in Flanders Is tender as a prayer. For years I have never considered my stook of household remedies complete unless a bottle of llinsrd's liniment was included. For burns, bruises. sprains. frostbites or chilblains it o' - eels. and I know of no better remedy for a antere cold In the head. or that will give more immediate relief. than to hale from the bottle through the nasal, organ. remedies ittis essential. trs it haves tinavery many instances proven its value. A re- cent experience in reclaiming what was supposed to be a lost section of a valu- abis eow'a udder has again demonstrated its great worth and prompts me to re- commend it in the highest terms to all who have a herd of rows. large or small. I think I ani safe In saying among all the patent medicines there is none that covers as large a field of usefulness as does Minaret's Liniment, :S real trueis,z good for man or beast. CHAS. K. RO111IiNS, Chehoguue Point. 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It's criminal to • take a chance on any substitute for genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin," prescribed by physicians for twenty-one years and proved safe by millions. Unless you see the name "Bayer" on package i or on tablets you are not getting ,As- pirin at all. In every Bayer package are directions for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache, Lumbago and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve', tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger packages. Made in Canada. Aspirin I"isehe trade mark (registered in Cana- da), of Bayer Manufacture of Man aceticacidester of Salicylicacid. ' ISSUE' No. 17—'21.