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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-2-3, Page 6fes- It is packs to please and serves its nilssion Q@ S is used day, millions of teapots daily. ,send us a postai for a free sample. Please state the price you now pay anti. whether Black, Green. or Aimed The Rosary of Mr. Nimrod Briggs By WILLIAM DUDLEY P1 LLEY. PART Y. Mr. Nimrod Briggs tools the lad into the boarding house just as the widow was rising to prepare early breakfast. "I hardly know wh?eh o' tie two of Address Salada, Toronto. 13722 IPS is the slokesti him or me, he sand, --e--...—. with au attempt.at a smile, as mothere- ---- r—. ly Mrs ,Mathers, with. an exclamation e4 ae'=i -e-- e.----,-• o -- < / of amazement and,pityl helped him to a"3;� get the almost unconscious lad to bed. &obi:Ca/7C 61 Relation of Food to Good Looks. remains soft and creamy merely he - Human nature longs for things that cause they fail to loarn three very are remote and expenaixe. Supplies produced daily on the farm, or which are found in abundance at ova dooms, rarely receive the esteem which they deserve. Surely it is Niue me may ac- count for the general tendency to avoid the use of that most wonderful beverage, water. If you weigh one hundred pounds, eighty of these are water, which is a part of every body fibre, The process of. life causes a daily loss of some of this; in thea breath, ' in ` perspiration, through the kidneys and the bowels a large amount of water passes off. This water niust be constantly replaced, if Ile individual is to be kept healthy and attractive. Tea and coffee are used by many persons instead of water. In the di- gestive trace they pass through a pro- cess of separation from the flavors, the caffeine, the tannic acid, the cream .simple secrets of its preparation. Tho first secret is to beat the white of one egg until it is so stiff and white that it is almost like fluffy snow. When ono cup of granulated sugar, one-third cup of cold water and one tablespoonful of vinegar have been boiled over a moderate fire until the mixture distinctly forms a thread when dropped from a spoon, then the second secret has been disclosed. The thread should he as fine as silk and when it breaks to release the drop be- low itthere will be -a tiny, glossy out- ward curl of the thread. • Then comes the revelation of the third secret, which is to pour every drop of the hot mixture over the beaten egg as nearly at the same in - stent as possible and immediately be- gin to beat very barn, Motherhood. and the sugar, before the water is Into the dark unknown, ready for use, consequently neither Braving its fears alone, of these beverages can take the place A woman's soul goes down. of nature's beverage, which is 'ready Now at the place she stands for use and. can be absorbed as soon Where. life and death touch hands, as taken.. , .,And God•waits there with her erowu. Norman tea and coffee be taken in The long, dark way she trod, the 'quantity in which water is es'se11- Now at the feet of God, trial. Six to eight glasses of water Smiling, puts forth her hand. every day is none -too much for the Perfect, this blissful hour? healthy individual. Watelo aids in Crown'd, she hatheuII'd a flower overcaning constipation; in regulating Out of God's own Flowerland. circulation; in making digestion easy; This mother -loos T sin in -giving pe power to work; in keep- g— Ing us coal; and in building. a' beautiful This wondrous, holy thing, body, No one can afford to pass it Transeendeth ev'ry other. by, Let's all have more ef it. Changeless in shade and shine, Another common feed material Deathless and h'aIf-divine— abund;ant on the farin is milk. This is This is the love of n smother? the only known food, capable alone, of —CONSTANCE I. DAVIES. sustaining life in perfect condition, for months. Whole milk is necessary �} to the health of children and investi- Woolen Building Houses gations carried on among the children ea in England. of our rural and city schools during the past year reveal that many of them, in some places as high ds seven otit of every ten, are suffering from insufficient milk. Many children Have sore eyes, be - cense Ibay are given neither Whole milk nee butter, many children have peer teeth hecause they are given neither milk nor any veeetable ex- cept the patnno, Banes. intlsc c, red blood, healthy glranris are all improved in quality when milk is a part of every day's •dietary. It is true that many children do not care to drink milk. Too often they are following the example of the adult members of the family, who would be the heater for use of this liquid food, Eaton on cereals, in puddings, Cus- tards, soup, bread, as eggnog, cocoa, cereal gruels or "coffee•s," it is not difficult to give cath member of time family at least a pint of milk a day. It takes careful planning to include in the fifty's dietary all the foods es- sential to perfect health and to keep 'these within our means and within our anssibility of supply, The effort, how- ever, is so soon repaid in time ,improved appearance of the different members, in their clear skin, bright eyes, glossy hair and springing step, that a time set aside for weekly planning of meals soon be,'emes a pleasure. Logical Dishwashing. In cleaning the table, after caring for the food, place the stacks of soiled dishes on a tea wagon or largo tray. Since the plates are heavy, plane them In the centre of the top tray. If placed near the edge, the pile of plates might tip the tray, On the front of the tray place the glass, teacups, diver and sauce dishes. Set the vegetable dlsh- ee behind tho plates. The tea wagon ,or "lazy Susan," as it is sometimes called, saves many steps, for it can be wheeled to and from the sink and the dishes taken directly to the dishpan of hot suds or wheeled away to be wiped and set away. Working from right to left, first wash the glasses and place them in the pan of clear hot rinse water setting in the sink' botton on the left. Next wash the silver and rinse. Use a tea towel for drying the glasses and silverware because they will not shine If merely allowed to drain until dry. -All tine other dishes need only be wash- ed, rinsed, and then put in a big drainer to dry. Place cooking pens, egg beaters and other coapting utensils in 0 smaller drainer and set the drainer on the range shelf, over a warm burner or in the snnshhie. 13y the time the tables and elnelves are cleaned and time dish pans hang up, the dishes and utensils in the cliainers are dry aamd ready to be put away, It saves one handling of the dishes to sot the table for the next meal and then place a cheose cloth eover over the table. Dish washing •can be beautiful or sdlnniy horrid, according, to what our altitude of mind is, If we bning clean anal orderly thohghts to • bear upon work, it will be clean and orderly, Mirehmallov icing. Almost any kind of calve will pasta master if it be thickly coated with the smooth, areamny kind of icing which laterally melts in the mouth. Many housewives fall to master, the ort of snaking marshmallow icing that a traveler; At -.last the house shortage is•to be alleviated in England! Women are go- ing in for house building—"home milk- ing" they call it, pertinently borrow- ing a phrase from Lady Astor in her agitation for niore•and better housing before Parliament. A firm called Women Iluilders has established itself in Victoria Street, London, with ono House built to its credit and several ethers in course of construction or 10 prospect. Mrs, Oliver Strachey, an excertionally able woman, with a war record acquired with the Waacs, is inaugurator and bead of the new company. Iler first conlple Jcl building was a stucco house at Harlomero, ^in Surrey, A woman architect drew up the plans, Mrs. Strachey acted as he own con- tractor, and female labor was used throeglhout almost the entre opera- tion. Women rammed the walls, shoveled the Earth, plastered and painted anti plumbed! Unfortunately, men had to be brougimt in on that building to lay the bricks for chino ineys and to.make the doors, but wo- men bricklayers and women carpen- ters have since been secured and no, man can be found about the pressed brick house on which the Women Builders are at work at present in a London suburb. The purpose of the company 1 to undertake the building of houses on a large scale next spring. The new woman proposes to throw herself into the breach and make the shortrge a thing of the past. Beteg a woman she will build houses very much better than men have been doing it, for she knows what women want and need', and what Hien architects and contract- ors have not been giving them! The personnel of the force employ- ed by the Women Builders is Interest- ing in the light it throws on after ef- fects al war work. All the female la- bor employed thus far got its training during the Great War, either in muni- tion factories, automobile siiops or while serving In France. Moet of the women are demobillzeci war'workers' from the big British organizations for women that did such tremendous work back of the Front, and they are of so athletic a build that the term "Amaz- ons" describes them well, "You call Doctor Tohnson, Mis' Ma- thers," ordered Nimrod, "Mem-I'm go - in" up right away to see Sam Hod." He got !Sawn out of bed and made him come down, '1lhe editor flung a bathrobe over his night shirt, and faced Mr. Nimrod Briggs across the table of his dhdlly dining room. Mr, Nimrod Briggs took a fat little wallet -fat like himself, yet frayed and battered with life like himself, too —from his coat pocket. He counted out nine ten -dollar bills and shoved therm across to Sam. And there were more bills hi the fat wallet even with the ninety dollars gone. "What's this?" demanded Som. He was not fully awake. "It's your pay roll, IIeel. I made the boy give it back," arniotroced Mx. Briggs stoically, "Ice's given it hack; he's restored your money; now you can't hold him any Tenger or prose- cute him—" And Nimrod told of aaere the lad had been found. Ie never imams any protest about his wages; he never refuses to work over- time when the holiday business Is heavy. Ho is as faithful as our old drum press, and so long as we have the tried and true combination of the old press and Nimrod Briggs, we can always be certain of getting out a paper. But down in Toronto now, there is a young man with a good pair ef eyes, a commendable ambition, a resolute determination to snake good the old printer's confidence in him. Yesterday Mr. Mowed Briggs, having taken his cob pipe frortn his withered lips, re- moved his speetie:0es, and washed up at our sloppy old sink in the corner, remarked from force of habit, as he was rolling down his sleeves at the close of another week's work; "Well, I ain't always goin' to do this, Some -day I'm going. to take •a trip around thewor-' But he stopped in the middle of a word. Then he added: "O,h, well, it really don't matter! The part I wanted to see has been shot all to pieces by this time, any- how?" (The End.) "Yes, I can," declared Sam. "Even if he gave it back, the feet remains that he committed. a felony—" "No. ao, Sons Hod; you won't prose- cute him! 'Why won't I, Nimrod Briggs?" "Prosecute hint. Sam IMO, and I ---I —I quit you cold!" Sam smiled weakly. Finally he said: "Of coarse if you feel that way about it, Nim, I'll take the Money—" "And you'll 'take the boy back?" "O11, no! I couldn't do that!" "Then I quit—I quit you cold, Sam- uel Hod! I quit you'coldl". "But, Nimrod—" • "1 ain't much use in this world, Mr. I3od. I won't never set the world on fire—now. ,All my life lies in the past. Ain't got no kith nor kin. I saved a little money, and I might as. well use it to help someone else make a success of his life, if I ain't made much of a success of my own." Sant was fully awake now, and staring speechlessly at his old em- ployee. "I'm going to send for his wife and baby, Samuel Ilod. I'm going to loan him the money to furnish . a' little house. Then., if it doesn't cost too much, I'm going to send him away and see if the city doctors can't take that film off his eye. When he conies back, Samuel Hod, I want ,you should give him a regular job in the ad alley— not a boy's job, but a man's job at man's wages." Then, to Sam's qt estions, Mr, Nim- rod Briggs told the Robbins boy's story, producing the pitiful letters in proof, and conclud: 'You se's, it's thisdeway, Sain Hod: I'm old amtl played out and my life's gone. I'm nothing but an old tramp printer who's wasted his substance in riotous livin'. I've iiggered it out, as I sat by his bed this night, that it's a sort of duty I owe the old world somehow to take a youngster like prima under my wing and make a man of him, to take any place—only a bet- ter place—when I arm gone. Thane what I'm up to, Samuel Hod, and I—I leak you very sincerely—not to hinder I me in my duty now!„ "All right, Nim. If that's the way you feel about it," replied Sam. "0' course I'm not ono to stand in your w^ay!We» il, the next morning the charge against the Robbins boy was with- drawn. He had a good room in Mrs. Mothers' house. The news that his wife and a baby would be with him by the end of the week was greater than any physician's medicine. He began to mend, And the next Saturday, on Nimrod's money, the boy's wife arrived. Nimrod Briggs rented the furnished bungalow belonging to Fred Osgood on Cedar street, and had it ready for then that Saturday night, The girl got off the train with the baby in hero aims. She was an emaci- ated girl, pretty in a pale, starved way, and her baby showed the effects of poverty and malnutrition. But you'd have thought that the little red weaz- ened-up thing was worth five hundred or a thousand dollars, the way the half -blind Robbins boy handled it. Mr. Ninsrod Briggs saw thein safely in the bungalow, and then he fled. He left them to their child and their a'e- union and their explanations. "I got to hustle bock to the office and set an ad„” he fibbed. Mr, Nimrod Briggs went home in the early evening to hfs' boarding place. Slowly he mounted the steep, narrow, creaking stairs and opened the door lento his stuffy little chamber. Haviirg reached his room at last, he Paused as if at a loss to know just why he had eonhme, It was easy to see that his thoughts were far away. Firt- elly he sat clown on the edge of the bed, he took off his dented derby hat and laid it beside him. With hie lips shut very tightly, the far -away look still in his eyes, Ise fell to picking aSmiesely at the calloused spots on his patine, After a while even the motion of. his Rogers were suspended, The room grew dreamy and husky. He Was lit- tle more than a silhouette in the cur- tained darkness, A Credible Witness. A Kansas City grocer named Tony Grisntck was arrested by the food in - specter, after a housewife had nom- plained that Gralnick had sold her n01ne bad eggs, The grocer pleaded not guilty. "Is anyone here a judge of good and ball me?" the judge asked, after hearing the evidence. No one re- sponded, The inspector, who was prosecuting Grisnick, toyed with an egg above the judge's desk, "I guess we had better give Tony the benefit of thedoubt, and—" began the judge. Ise was interrupted by a loud "pop." The inspector bad drop- ped the egg. "You're fined twenty -:five dotterel" shouted the judge. A tagged salmon that Ovals released August 18, 1918, at Point Partridge Whidbey Island, Wash„ was caught In the spring of 1920 in the Skeane river British Golumbia, These places aro 600 miles apart by the most dived( water route. Mr. Tagged Salmon wag Finally there oanie a sigh. It was not a sigh of relief. It was a long - drawn sigh that quivered with pain. He moved across the rooms to a eltit- terocl closet beside the chimney, and he felt around until he located an out - of -data telescope valise. Then ho went slowly back across the room to the west window, and ran the certain to the top so that all the light possible from the after -glow of the sunset might illumine that wlmich he held in his hands, Mr. Nimrod Briggs untied the little parcel They were letters --letters bedint- med by the musty hand of time. One by one he opened and read them. Ami in so doing, as he had deme on count- less other nights in years gone by, he counted his rosal'y---4110 rosary that prompted lain to letterest himself in , the nffaire of the little Robbins X41(111117. Mr.' Nimrod Briggs still wos'Ics m ottr. office. Over. and over again he ' sets the ads for nen Williams' cloth- ing store, fore Will Seaver the grocer, ' far Joe Price's picture show wild the Mangan Bargmain Storo and the Hee- hive Store anti the Son -Ton Miililtery, UNEARTH A CHURCH OF FOURTH CENTURY. Christening the Tank. The name "tank" as well as the Oink itself originated at Foster's Works at Lincoln, England, and was not to any governmental deliberations at Whitehall. But adopting -the name mvilln a view to misleading the enemy about the real nature of the machines was the clever. idea . of the govern- ilet t. The name originated thus: Sir Wil - Bent Trlttin, the managing director of Tritton, roster & Co., Limited, who, in collaboration with Maj, W. 0, Wilson, actually prepared the design, decided that the- best way to secure secrecy while the machine was building was to make no seeret at all 'of the matter. So two independent orders went through the shops; one order was for an "experimental chrssls," a pilease that might mean anything, but that actually referred to the propelling me- chanism of the tank, and the other or- der was for a "water carrier for Meso- potamia," a phrase that referred to the body of the vehicle. The men in the boiler shops where the tank was built regarded the design for the "water carrier for Mesopo- tamia" as some freak idea of the man- agers; and, since rho title of the draw- ings was too long and cumbersome for everyday speech, they weee soon speaking of it as "that bloomin' tank." The government recognized the ad- mirable inappropriateness of the name and promptly adopted it. Thus the word "Tank" acquired a technical sig- nificance that may puzzle the future etymologists to explain, A Callous Old Rascal. Aches are so human that even when they display traits that in man would be simply abominable man cannot help laughing. A correspondent in South Africa writes that certain large apes aro so much in the habit of raiding the coffee plantations that they ]save to be guarded. Anmong the coffee trees there grows a shrub the fruit of which the apes particularly enjoy. But as wasps fast- en their nests to the shrubs, the apes, fearful of being stung, usually peep away from them. One morning the people in a certain plantation heard the apes making fearful outcries and, rushing out, saw this singular scene. A large baboon, the leader of a band, was throwing some young apes at the wasp nests just as a boy might have thrown stones at them. The poor vic- tims, stung by the infuriated insects, wore crying piteously, but the old ba- boon paid no Heed to them whatever, While they were suffering from tho anger of the wasps Ise quietly proceed- ed to regale 'himself with the fruit, which he could now pluck without dan- ger. Occasionally he would throw a handful to some females and young a little way off. RESEARCH WORK IN THE HOLY LAND. Fortress of the Crusaders May Become Memorial to General Allenby.. ' ,according to a correspondent of the London Times the dis'ooyerY of• a very early Ohriettan church in the Garden of Gethsemane has directed attention to the valuable worit which is 'being carried out in Palestine under the direction of the newly formed Depart- ment of Antiquities. Sir Herbert Samuel recognized from the outset of hie career es Iligh Commissioner that the whole -world was anxious that all possible care should be taken of the monuments, and every facility afford- ed for investigating the history of the Holy' Land, He called to his aid the Director of the British School of Arca- aeoiogy In Jerusalem, .who is now home ouce more after strenuous work which he line had the gratification of seeing bear fruit. Excavations in the Garden of Geth- semane were begun by the Francis- cans in the spring of last year, and they discovered a church of the thir- teenth century. In digging the foul - dations fora new building on the spot they discovered traces of a much ear- lier church on a slightly different axis. They duly received permission to ex- cavale • this earlier building, which proved to be a church of about the fourth century and one of the oldest monuments to Christianity in Pales- tine. The whole of the outside wall can be traced, together with the two - rows of colons which supported the aisles, and three apses, the central one being the largest. I-Iere and there are well. preserved though small remains of the original mosaic floor. The Franciscans have undertaken to preserve these remains in such a way that they will bo permanently visible; even though a new church. be built, it will be designed to enclose the old church, and steps will be taken to dis- tinguish the outline of the ancient structure and to preserve the • pave- ment and rho bases of columns in a way that is quite satisfactory. The central apse of this building reaches out just beyond the modern limits of the garden: toward the rocks which are usually associated with the Agony of Christ. It has been arranged that the work shall be completed by the Board of Antiquities on behalf of the Gov- ernment. Some architectural frag- ments, including columna with capi- tals In Carinthian. style, came to light in the course of the excavation. Plan Memorial to Allenby. One of the first acts of the new Gov- ernment under Sir Herbert Samuel was to organize a Department of An- tiquities, the in'incipal function of which is the protection of all the his- torical sites and monuments In Pales- tine and at the same time to encour- age Learned societies to make scien- tific excavations. The historical monu- ments of Palestine are not merely in- teresting from the antiquarian point of view, but have a human and a religi- ous interest .for the great bulk of Immunity. Accordingly, an interna- tional board has been established to advise the Director of Antiquities on matters of common interest to the dif- ferent local societies and schools of foreign Powers engaged in archaeolo- gical research. - There are many interesting build- ings of iifahomedans and Crusaders liot only in Jerusalem but scattered , through the country. One of the most imposing of the Crusaders' structures is the great fortress at Athlit, on time coast between Haifa and Jaffa. This is the place from which Richard Coeur de Lion finally evacuated his forces. It lea wonderful and imposing ruin, and the Government of Palestine is laying its plans for the systematic Preservation and opening up of time monument. It bus been suggested that its restoration would be a fitting mem- orial to Lord Allenby, aid though no action has been taken officially in this direction the appropriateness of such a course is generally recognized. Streets of Ascalon Opened. Fifty miles of drainage ditches have been constructed in the Sperling and Morris districts of Manitoba this year, at a cost of $140,000. These ditches will bring much waste land under cultivation. A very interesting discovery was made at the close of the war neat Jericho, where the remains of an an- cient ,Jewish synagogue, having a mo- saic paved floor with an inecripton in early Hebrew characters worked into the pavement design, were found, The British West Indies Want Home Rule A. movement for home rade 15 on toot in the British Wesbh Indies, says - the correspondent of The London Times, In Jamaica, and, indedd., throughout the British West Indies, crown colony government has become repugnant to all classes, crud tine movement for re- presentative institutions is now well nigh irresistible. At the legislative elections last year In Jamaica every member was return- ed with it mandate to press for a change in the cementation, and now a committee of tine Legislative Council is engaged in preparing a memorial to time Socreary of State for the Colon- ies asking that a royal cotuhhission should be sent to Jamaica to inquire into the political, in addition to other, condttons obtaining there, Early this year three members of the Legisla- ture will proceed to Lamson to poosent Ole case of Jamaica to the Secretary of State to rale eololiee. Tho Lesser Antilles have already prepared pians for a like deputation with the same end in view. Desire for change from an anti- quaed system of government finds ex- pression in pritislm Guiana, this Lee- ward and Windward Island's, Trinidad end Jamaica, and Mende of constitu- tional government aro evorywbere hopeful that the imperial government will consider and formulate a scheme by whichthis can be brought about. The present system is criticized as stifling the voice of the people; crown goVernrnnant:, it is declared, is auto- , cattle and the government niay flout the wishes of the people even though the people's representatives press them ever so ardently. Before 1866 Jamaica had a consti- tution, granted by Charles II„ which was a representative one. It consist- ed of a governor, a privy council, a legislative council and nn assembly of forty -sown members, In that year this constitution was surrendered and a Legislative Council established con - eating of an equal number of oMcal and nitofiIcial members. In 1896 a change was instituted whereby the counatl Consisted of the Governor, five ax-oillclo members. and other persons not exceeding tet, and fourteen per - eons to be electetl, with a Privy Coun- cil which is tlio Executive Council. This texperhnent to crown colony government bee proved expensive, Nor Can the enlargement of 1398 be considered an improvement. The Privy Council is an added burden. It le made up of officiate, the cemmancler of the forces, and a couple of planters. There is no representative of the peo- ple at its sittings, no one to advise on matters deeply affecting the tax- payer or check extravagance. in the hands of the Privy Ceunel'1 the Govern nor himself is more or less a puppet, However well disposed or otherwise he may be to project- of legislation, be must net clearly on ilhe advice of the Council, though, as it is continually urged in the colony, this, body does itot represent the people of itolmhalea as a whole, Annual Meeting of the Royal Bank Reports Show Sank in Strong Position - Total itageta $594,070)013 -- Profits for Twelve Months " $'41253,6x49.24. The statement presented to the shareholders of the Royal hank of .:, Canada, at the Annual Meetng, held at the Head Office of the Bank of Montreal, on Thursday, January 1.3111, was a most satisfactory one, as the• soar brought to a close on November 80t11 last was one of substantial prowlh and the most successful 311 the hietol'y of this institution. The Directors' Iteport was read by the Gonera1 :,tanagor, Aia•, C, 11 Neil),. as follows; Profit and Lees ®eoOUnt, Balanoe, November 29, 1910 0 • , 81,000 418.74 )t'ronto for the year, after dednetntg Charges of Aranagement and all other nnxpe:lees, Accrued Interest on Deposits, fall Provision for all Ibad and Doubtful Debts and 1tebate of Interest on Uumaturod BMs 84,263,049.04 Appropriated no follows: Dividends Nos. 180, 131, 182 and 133 at 12 per cent per annum 82,163,169,1.1 Bonus oe 2 nor cent. to Shareholders • 402,880,20 Transferred' to Oiflcore' Pension Lend 100,000.00 Written off Bank Premises A000unt400.000.00 War Tax on Bank Note Circulation - 180,296.47 Transferred to Reserve Fund 1,607.006,00 Balance of Profit and sosee carried forward 640,028.20 82, 350, 501.09. 85,330,007.0M The assets of the bank have boon, as usual, carefully revalued, in order to, ' make ample provision for all bad or doubtful debts. The total Assets of the Royal Bank are now $594,670,013.43, an increase' over last year of $61,022,028,58. The total deposits are $455,0i7,387.82„ the growth being $61.,463,229,74. While n shrinkage is shown In free de- posits, accounted for by, the feet that on November 30th, 1910, there were. on hand large special deposits in connection with subscriptions to the Victory Loan, there is shown a substantial increase in interest-bearing deposits, which is. a particularly satisfactory feature. An increase of not less than $12,951,880,00 in current loans is the resnpt: of the policy of affording legitimate Assets to clients of the Bank during' a period of great trade expansion. The percentage of current loans, and' total assets, now stands at 48.16. The liquid position of the Bank is well maintained, the liquid assets being 50.5 18 of Liabilities, and the actual cash and deposits in banks being over 30% of the total Liabilities. The Capital of the Bank has been increased during the year by the :.:are• of thirty-four thousand shares to shareholders, The reserve fund now equals. the capital and a very satisfactory increase in earnings has been made,, the net profits being $4,253,64024, equal to 2330% upon capital or 12,1% of combined capital and reserve, The Usual dividend' a.nd an additional bonus of 2% has been paid to shareholders and a balance of $546,028.20 carried forward in profit and lose account During the year seven new branches were opened in Alberta, seven in British Columbia, five in Manitoba, two in New Brunswick, nine in Nova Scotia, twenty-seven in Ontario, thine in Prince Edw.trd Island, nine 'n Quebec, one in Saskatchewan, two in Newfoundland, twenty-two in the West Indies, two in South America. excavation -of this Is to be completed by the very learned Dominican archaeologists representing. the French school of archaeology in Palestine. A young and vigorous Jewish archaeol- ogical society is _malting a preliminary 1 examination of various sites of in- terest in Jewish history, notably Artuf, Caesarea and Tiberias. The latter is proving to be of particular interest and attention was directed to it early after the British occupation, numerous traces of ancient buildings of the Period of the Talmud, just south of the town, being brought to light by road - makers and engineers 01 the course of their duties. Overlooking the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee are the very remarkable and interest- ing rslllnins of an early Jewish syna- gogue. It is to be. hoped that on the com- pletion or the excavation steps will be taken and the moans forthcoming to restore thLs ancient building, of which a great portion of the masonry is ly- ing about, apparently as the result of some earthquake. Should it bo pos- elbie scientifically to reconstruct the building it will prove a unique addi- tion to the wonders of Palestine. The chief feature of the last year in the work of excavation has been the opening oe the work at Escalon, which has been undertaken by the Palestine Exploration Fund, The remits are not yet published, but are of remark- able promise. A very fine building of Roman date — namely, a massive temple or forum built entirely of, Greek mettle, possibly the Temple of the Fortune or City Goddess, was one of the wonders discovered. The columns of this building weighed nine tons each, end the capitals three tans. The whole structure, both floors, walls and colunns, is entirely of marble. As'ealon was the home of Herod the Great, and we are told h1 early litera- ture that ho greatly embellished the city with splendid colonnades. It will in time be possible to recognize these. One of the objects discovered is a gi- gantic foot, measuring over n yard fron heel to toe, wearing a sandal, the whole its alabaster, possibly part of a huge statue of his time. The chief in- terest to the scientific world is the ef- fort which the Palestine Exploration Funcl is making to recover some tang- ible remains of the Philistines and their civilization, and it is believed that the layers representing this period have been located, as well as some objects illustrating their civili- zation. Unfortunately, the Philistine layer is at a great depth, five to seven metres (sixteen foot to twenty -trey feet) below the surface, and all those interested in the development at our knowledge of Palestine in Bible tines must realize that the work of the fund arm only be adegnntely done if adequately \supported, Both Geod. Once Day and Night in converse met, And n rguetl long— Said Day: "I bring the world its light Its flower and song; All life anti warmth are my hours' claim; My ehere le best" Said Night: "You bring the world its work; I bring it rest!" Dusk Sounds Curfew in Norway. Children are not allowed out in the streets of Norway after dark, When the Bakers Saved Vienna. During the siege of Viemia by the, Turk; in 1683 bakers' apprentices were at work ono night in uncler- ground bakehouses. The boys heard a rhythmic thump! thump! thump! and were puzzled by it. TWO of the. apprentices . guessed therelehe 'Turks - were driving a mine, and ran to the counnandant of Vienna with the nems. They saw the engineer ofticer and told him of their discovery. Ile went to tho underground bakehouse, anti de- cided that the boys were rlsht. The Austrians got the direction from the. sound and drove a second tunnel, Then they exploded a powerful count ermine. Great numbers of Turks were killed, and the siege was temporarily raised. On September 12- of the same year John Sobieski, King of Poland, utterly routed the Turks and drove. diem, bank into their own country. As a reward for their- intelligence, nee baker boys were granted the prlvi-• lodge of making and selling a rich' roll in the shape of the Turkish em- blem, the crescent. The rolls became' very popular with Ole Viennese, who - cailed them klpfcln, When Jlarle Antoinette married Louis XVI. of loranee she missed bier Myelin and sent to Vienna for an Austrian baker, who should teach his Parts ,:onfreres the art of making then. 'rhe rolls-_ known as croissants—retained their original shape and became us popular' in Paris as they were in Vienna, And this is why one of the rolls that is brought with your morning coffee in Paris will be baked in the forst of a- creseen t, • IndianCalm. Yom cannot startle an Indian, de- clares Mr, Malcolm McDowell, nor can you ruffle his calm dignity. I once had the satisfaction of point- ing out to an Indian chief tut aero- plane sailing across the sky. 0 \vas the first aeroplane he had ever seen, and I had fond (mopes that he would show some excitement. 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