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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1926-07-08, Page 3Do You Want To Get Ahea COME TO THE .t?.A,C. and LEARN TUE"' BUSINESS OE UP-TO-DATE FARMING Up -to -Date Farthing Is a real business -a profession, it requires know- ledge, it needs training, but it pays. c O`.A.C: and join the Freshman class in September. Cone to th, _...,. We will send you the Coile9e_:'Colo ndar:cantalning tUll :par•t!culara you -say o.. Write to -day. ' • ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL, COLLEGE Guelph Ontario ie ileynolds, 1vi.A,, A, M.Porter,'E.S.A, L. Stevenson, M.S.,' President, : Registrar.:. Extension, - BRIGHT REMARKS R CHILDREN MAKE As the superlfi endent was in diebt, the superintendent got up an eyccur- • s!oe, alae object of which was to make enough' money to pay the hills. The excursion was successful: At the next. _meeting, the superintendent said: "Now, children, we ars out efedebt -what shalt we ao?"' "Get in again!" piped; up a shrill Voice from 5 email bey on the' front seat. • "It you saw a poor, .half-starved,' boy in the street, wouldn't you give:hint a piece of ,your;, cake?"' asked a ldird- hearted little girl of her brother,; "No, sig,"( brae the reply;. "but I would 'be wilding to give him a'; Pleoe Ile wasn't a very bright boy. 'When rho family were making preparations to go to the Stiest•Ind2ee, he asked his ` father, whether he was going to buy a fire -prof safe. "Why by should I buy a fireproof safe?" asked his' father. ' "For ps all to get into if the vessel shon'ld'burn up," was the answer.., t noti * ** " "I'mcud ofthe way yo,r"aro •getting along ittschool," said a. father to his son. "There's Johnny Smart- he's marthe's way ahem] ot you." "I know, The teacher said Johnny, had learned all there was to learn in. that room, and' so I concluded there westi't anything left for me -to Iearti. is .a a,' *: One day'Carrie;aged six years, was doing some trifling thing that her inothei, thought she should not do.• : "Wily, Cerrie!" she exclaimed, "how could you do that?"` "• "Otiter girls do so," replied Carrie. "Bait that doesn't makeit right" .does "No; answered Carrie, slowly; "but It makes ft a good' deal more comf'- able." • w v * a Among the passengers in a' bus iti the White Meuntains was a liid of five years. The coach was quite full, and to that boy s,ttat in the lap of another passenger:- -While on the way sohie- tiring was said about,ptckpockets. 'Phe gentleman who was Molding the bey, remarked :_ "My fine little fellow, how easily I could pick your poeltei`," "No, you couldn't" 'said the boy; "I've been looking out for you all_tho a r M e1 "Tommy, dear," said a"fond mother to a lad et seven summers; "yeti meet not interrupt me when I am talking with lac tee. You must wait until we stop, and then you can talk," - Tommywas overheard to remark as he went out into the tali: "The trouble is they never stop." 0 .t A gentleman recent/1, asked a mite of a gdrl'•how-old she was. "OIdlj' exclaimed the child, lifting her eyebrows In surprise. "Old! I'm not old at all. I'm quite new. Grand- ma, is old;' i 0 Two children were playing in a gar- den. The sister said fey the brother: "Which would you rather be -a lit- tle flower or a little bird?" The boy thought a moment, and then reibartieds - • "A little bird. Because it eat!" • "Who is Lucifer?", asked a teacher ora claim of little folks.. "I know," spoke up Italie, aged live years, _• "Tell me, Katie," said the teacher. "Why, Lucys,for Mr. Spriggs, who has a funige little -mustache, and he mimes to our house to see Lucy every evenin', and-" "That will do, Katie," said"" the teacber-"that, will do!" A Sunday school teacher who bad ;grown 'eloquent in picturing to ,his pupils the beauties of heaven, finally asked; , "What land of little boys go to heav- ed?" The TS VED 25 000 YEARS AG 'So- Flied ' Their' Sketches on Bones and Cave r Wall vui\A\ tt\ tia 1 i c tfte Rooms in the Morias; I l , vary rooms, qutct, Cgol, undot- toted, had a memorable charm which,/ no mere, catalogue of their contents could ever suggest. Not the charm of ancientness, for this had been re. 1 jectod. Just as'the faintly-iteeif was not eaceentrle, so there was not an art- leseiy'quai*it corner In their house_ Yet individuality triumphed 'even over the i black walnut which at',tills period bad ' formidably superseded mahogany- Tile family assembly, room may have lacked actual beauty, ,rut it had' comfort and dignity it expressed the sane, 'reason- able. truly liberal temperament. And only an irecouoilable aesthete could have :called the "spare chamber" „an Ugly room, in spite of the'.b:igh-peaked. bedstead; and the towering•• bureau' with ponderous marble 'Stabs,' and Paintings found 'on'the soot of the Altamira"Cave, in' Northern Spa n are• shown' in the sketch. The paintings, :representing a bison and a gal oping" boar, are belieyed to have been the work of Cro-Magnards who lived 26,000 years ago. ' e. Secrets of Sciences They were artists. Rude sketches By 'David Dietz. which they made are found on the True, roan probably. made his first *dila of 'caverns of -the period and. appearance to South As1a_or North scratched on bones:found in the cav- Africa'25,000 years ago.:elms, ` It is thought that he appeared upon (- They even tried their' hand et sculp- territory which has since: dunlr below ture, making lithe statuettes out ' of seadevel -due to movements of theivory.and soapstone. - earth's crust and: is now covered by ' About 12,000 years ago a new type theMediterranean l eif man known asthe anean -Sea, w i c Azi]tan made his_ Anthropologists find two distinct', appearance, races in the :fossil' remains of thisThen about 10,000 yeah ago the period. ( greatest change came. Up until this One race has been. named the Cro- time- implements were all' of rough Magnards: . The Gro-Magnards we're stone. Bence thin foregoing period of tall men, about six feet tall, with which we belie written has been called. broad foreheads . and prominent noses; athe Old Stone Age, or to use the selen- Their skulls give evidence sem enter' title name, the Paleolithic Age. brain Capacities exceeded in :size the Now starts the New Stone or Neo- average of to -day.. IlthIe Age. Tills Is the period of polish. The second type is known as the ed stone implements. Grimaldi man and seemsto have been _Frouow"bn, man polished, his im- a negrofd type. trplements with.care. Arrow heads' are Many fossils' of this marled cannot tound. There are also are leads se be positively -identified' as belonging constructed as to- be fastened'. to to either race. Very likely there may handles, have been many other races at the. At We time the start of agriculture' time._ • and the domestication.of animals was Neanderthal man was driven out of also made. • his caverns by -•these new` types which•_ Six thousand years ago,btan learned, took •po5sessfon of the earth. Ito make implementsof copper. These new races were hunters. They , Three ``Oliousand yearp ago he gest made rough implements out of stone. learned the use, of it'on. ' ' DELICATE GIRLS • Gipsies. The origin. of the Gipsies gtit us long A lively little Pour -year old bo held NEED NEW sb:•ouded le mystery, and fa stili the y BLOOD subjeet of endless and abstruse con troversy. That they came from India is, however, generally accepted. In. Well, -you may answer," said the teacher. ' "Dead ones!' the little fellow shout- ed. !Fish; Cultpre Service Develops New.Carrier. • Than Met 11of' Canade are so,highly: re- garded that efforts.: are frequently made - to" establish theme -in foreign conntriee, and, . to assist in such en- (leavers, limited numbers of eggs of I several species have recently been sub -I plied by the fish Cultural Branch of the Department of Marine and'liiaher'-j (eater experimental and observational purposes. in Europe and Japan, I In x924, -salmon trout': eggs teem .Georgiai bay, lake Huron, and! 'cut -1 throat trout eggs from Banff, Alberta, were supplied to the Killywlian Either- tes near Dumfries., Scetiaiid. Since the beginning of the present yearspeeklect trout eggs have been shipped from Vancouver to 'the Tokyo Angling and Country Club, ,Tokyo, Japan, and soba o or landlocked g , sahubu e ggss have been Shipped from SL John, New Brunswick, to Dublin, Ireland- Ar- rangements have also been made"'to ship cutthroat, rainbow, •and lawn - loops trout egge from British Columbia to Japan during the coming spring., Shipments for any.great distanee of such a fraglio'aiiel perishable nature as Leh egoe were at one time acecen panted by attendants but with the Sys- who met In a Loudon taxern. It is tem of packing 'and inBulation now. in, "voluntary to the last yard-arin'in its vogue they are :forwarsed'by express; beiats; and It has never' been kaolin, i3"ucket of Water Helped to Produce Lifeboat. A' woman carrying a bucket ot water stopped to talk to a man, Quito ab sent-mintledly he poked at apiece of a wooden dish that floated .in tate pail, and so ,discovered ,that it was self. righting. Nothing would malre the dish remain upside down. ' Later, a tittle group of men' sitting In their 'club -house, h c b once; ivhlCh faced the eea, saw a ebiit w recicefd anti the whole, ships company perish -•because those on land.had no suitable boat to launch, In the ragiug'see, ,• .Horrified at the disaster, these "Gen- tlemen et Lowe House,' as they were ca•lled', inserted an advertisement. in a' Newcastle paper offering two guineas reward for a model'of a boat that could ,seep afloat in stormy weather. The man who had touebed 'h. t e ivood- en5111' a m tte.� t ,tt a of water 1 snbn. ttte i c a model -and icon the prize. From his design the first "official lifeboat was made. It soot X76 Ss. 9d: -,- and did service ,for forty years, saving hundreds•of lives, " It. is just over a century ago that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was formed by a little 'group of clLieetls Without mieg1Y!in•g as regards their l to ffltieh.from duty. sate demvery, provided no acoldent 0c- A Whitby ilfeboat crew was 'Once curs. The - Sete 'delivery at tdee-� called out . heir s Inc single flay. tinationf of the salmon' siif o• On the last" journey it e eggs Aped t y apsized-=used Scotland Ih 1924, which •reached Liver-, on.y one mall reached the shore. 'Yet pool .during a dockets' strike 505 were when an hour later another 5.0.5. cslt copsemeen'tly delayed' at that port for" came from a 11113) in peril, a voltin.teor mayoral days, Is strong testimony to crew 'came forward, lauucbed cit old too eilleiency of the. protection and in- boat, and brought the wia ked. crew satiation provided by..thenew shf thin 'to'safety,' II b Li& cases' developed by the Departmgtit of. shoat Wren have battled with the Marine and iFishel•ies.' raging- sea -for thirty,. hours, with ..�—._L._..,� -,,. cess!ltion and ` women , 't i eu ha, e. striven. e : with the 10515 'W • ' V�h n the Empire Mourned., , Wait, deep in icy water, The anniversary of one of the'l'eat''.to launch a IIielloat in'tthe teeth of a tragedies of the War occurred recent- ,,inters ga:e, e — • ¢+ lv It. was, just ten yoa.iw ago, oh June 5t11, 1910, that Lord Kitchener, whose • siatute was unveiled inLondou•on the 9th, was drowned on his way to 11.1.18 - Ohl on the IIanlpehire. Tie ,hail left Scapa '1516w that day, undeterred by the violent..storm that, was !'aging. • In the evening the cruiser stood* a mine laid by a D -boat near the Brough el 13irsay. Only • twelve tnen escaped, and the great leader; who had organized the ,New •Armies and sent them out to,fight' tai• de- mocracy, was bot one .5f. them -:-Ile was last seen standing en deck, calm and coul'atgsOus, as the ship went - When a great nen dies' before his • lime, there are usually .some people who refuse to believe that he is no more.Se for aeoug time ruiners were circulated to the effect that ftitcliener was alive and a-pri$oner 111 Germany; A BUSINESS. OF • YOUR -OWN N ry none —end tl r, r o t It every e,ek. sell rash 1,000, tewnr ng SNhr, .tondo treed; hedging— rasa i evnrot' r 05051 furnlohed. Old, ertehlieh- r1 fro !In .ry oeh•activa Sropor)flen for ennn'.or women tin (I itthodhhi end energoilo. E. n 50070 & SONS, LIM1ltTED, Vino o. Odlarlo Fixing the Biome 1lrc.' Iitiagg--"Ob,' dear! ,Wh did I ever matey you?" y IIsi klusband-"Don't blame rile. I did my beet to run out 011 you." Leu ©very•. dawn of morning be: to. you as•the beginning of `life, and every setting sun be, to you its its close; then• let every One of these short lives leave its record .ef:soine kindly thing done for others somegoodly: strength and knowledge gained for yourself." -John Ruskin. M!nerd's Liniment for Rheumatism, Which Can•he Had Through the Inetia they inhabited the marsh -lands of the Indus and were !known ars State The first record of migration of thle tribe appears in the Shah Name of Firdusd, who tells us that during, the fifth century of our era the Persian Use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Nature intended every girl to be happy, active and healthy. Yet too many of thein hind their lives eadd5ne by suffering nearly always because their blood is to blame. A11 those with. eolorle•ss *Meeks, dull skins and iuster- le.ss eyes are 10 this condition because they have not enough red blodtl in their' veins: to keep then well and in the' charm of health. • They suffer from depressing weariness' and' periodical headaches. Dark lines form under ;their eyes, their Heart palpitates vio- leutly after the slightest` exertion, and they, are :otters ettackeir with fainting spells: These at- only a,few of the miserias 1131 bloodlessness. Wit:n'.tl e b1ciod'becomes thin and waters it can 'be enriched through the use of Dr. WlilIatns' .Pink Pills and tlie -troubles that come from poor blood disappear. In almost ever neighborhood o Yy u will find Some.'fori et'iy ailing girl who has a good word to say for this medicine. Among. them there is '.Miss Ida M. Withrow, Hardwood Lands, N,S., who says -'iDr, Williams' Pink Pitts did more for roe than all the other medi- cine I took,,ralid I cannot, praise them too highly., When T began the use" of these pills I' was in terribly run down condition, very thin' and very pale i4Iy appetite was. gone, and. I hada tired, worn out feeling all the time, Doctor's medicine slid not seem to improve my condition and l: ,was' getting' greatly discouraged when a friend advised nae to give Digs Williains' Pink Pills; a trial. After some urging I d�esided td do so. Atter taking six boxes 1" felt like a new person, I gained weight, had -a geed color, and an improved appetite, and the, •constantly tired feeling alit had made nie so miserable was gone 1 took a few. boxes- more before L stop-, p ped, 'and by' that dine I- had. never felt so' well in my' life. I steal always feel very grateful to Dr, Williams' Pink Pills and strongly .recommend them to biose who are run. down,". ,you can get'' these piI!e Tran, ,circ• , di;uggist, (n• by mail at 60 cents a box from The Drt, Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. d, monarch, )3eitratn tiara',• received from the'liurai'ajah of India the royal gift of twelve thousand musicians of both solea, known 'as Luria or Jatts. Hoer long they staid. in.Persia is uncertaiu, probably aaveral hundred years, 'going from there to Armenia where they so- journed a longer thine.- By 1100 they had penetrated the Byzantine Empire and were spreading „northward into Wallachia; Moldovia and Iiungary. Tlie appearance et Gipsies in Europe. i5 first noted by chroniclers in the-fif- teenth'oentury, when "a peculiar rase of wandering, wastrel, ragamuffin vag- abonds" arrived ,in Germany, about 1417. •shay traveled in hordes, each led by a count on horseback, or by a "Lord of Sesser E t," ga p Gipsiesr ar it ecl'i n England. at a somewhat later 'period, enjoying a marked degree of, toleration, at first. . . Henry' VIII,. promulgated a' law against them in which they,ar'e described as "an outlandish people,, calling themselves Egyptians, eteingno craft nor featof merchandise, who having conte•into this realm,' and gone from Blare to shire, iu Areal' company, + '"pltere aremany historical evidences I hi belle ve that G1palea have been in I America from nearly the first days of Ito settlement.' Many Gipsies: were banished to the Colonial plantations, and many old-world families and tribea came voluntarilyiti'later years seeking ntore.elbow:yoom, The United States, Canada and South America have today probmably ori largo a Gipsy population as is to be touud in all of Europe. • 1`he;ttame 'Gipsy", originated. t > n, the pretense of .these wanderers to -being Egyptians.. They 'are. also kno wn ata "Zigeuuers" in Germany,'Czigauy " in, Hungary,-"Tsigan"in Bertnania and "`Zingar1 to Italy, ' These different'. forms of the Dame root are 'supposed to, be derived 'very significantly from the •Persian-• word fel-Masan, 'denoting musicians,. dancerel.-Tosepi5 Ebner, in the intro:dueto "The Gipsy Pa.tteran,,, Sentence.Sernions: We ('Tet But Little-Satlsfaotton out of money that is bought at the cost of conscience, -Pleasure out of the iitbppinessetha.t makes other people unhappy. -BnJoyment out of life if our child- ren are a• clieappoiutnient, --Pre() advice - that":leas -nnicii'ettslt --interference wit en>ve'start out to make fools of outaelv.es6, -Sympathywe aftee 'r start pitying ourkelvee. -Encouragement gement in" attackhtg sonie. sin that is highly profitable. BICYCLE aACCAINs Now andII t tl` ` $I e u1 v voce, a upwnrd0 Trnnepnrtntlon, ran d h n I Write for PH. Lie. t rEEILES$ BICYCLE Wenos I01 Dundee Street west, Toronto Minard's Liniment for alt paints. 1. 1 140*(44 i Lovely Air. When You go to country or seaside yell prebably pay a compliment to the fresh, pure air. But, if•,you were the father'of an inquisitive child, ,,.what would you be able to teli,i1 about air? Country stir is purest, because trees; plants and ficwers absorb carbonic acid from the air and aeturn.pur'd tax), gen'ta ii•. A summer day may be `very hot,"brit in this country, the air It lisually fr,ofn" ten te,tweIve.degrees cooler than the body tem,peretire. . The greater poetry of airy after a ith nderstortn With ',lightning is be, cause the latter produces nitric acid, 'tvlhielr destroys the noxious gates, ie,. tlis alt'. .Air 1s never "still," and cannot be seen. Subjected to greet:pressure at' a to to ei-. w m trope it p can be turned in-' to it liquid, or even 31, cluntsily'superftuous black Waluuf tae - eels ;It .was not ugly because it ap- pointments -pointments were so exquisitely con- sidered, Its tone sa unmistakable; and because blue -birds perched perpetually upon i is p n s- attd=lilac flowered' wail • paper in -:such delicately garadisal Pais- Ilion... as- hion. And through the windows on auminer evenings' you heard the frogs sing moodily from the river, 'and honeysuckle poured heavy fragrance all night long. ' From, the -, juvenile point of view, however, the consummately desirable apot'In the house` was a 01.47 ,,T00111, moet a closet, which juted out 'Item that. bright, orderly ,attic with which one associates a' slightly dusty scent of drying sage and mullein. Here one looked out upon a thorougbiy familiar prospect that at this height• seemed dizzily "enchanting; and one Spent hours searching for the nameless eeoret'pearI of `books that was 'bound to 11414ilden among discarded school - :becks ,a gemeratlan. old, little volumes of rhymed sentiments, with gaily gar- landed eavere,- magazines of the Go-. deys Lady's Book d'arfety, 'with' brlI- llant prints of, ladies' in ample azure skirts and flowing oriineon mantles, with bright checks, triangular fore- heads and black curls, ' • If Inters was a' more mite esting re. treat than this, 1t was that dbmbina- tion of *Mee, studio, and workshop in ,the unused .buildizg across theroad, where a much loved member of the tardily, , . practised law, dis- charged the not too exacting duties of a town office or 0, 'and assembled the ingenious tools of alt unrememberabie number of crafts. Here one found a, library and documents; 'blueprints and pencils; rulers and compasses, all the paraphernalia of draughtamanoehip; tripod, cameras„and t -dark dark agencies of photograph development; paints, brushes, end .canvases; tools for carv- ing and carp€nary; - , and a musical instrument or two, And one wquld'aiso come upon a book of log- arithnts, a sextant, and binoculars; for this lover ' of wood and river was moved by an even deeper love for eea and ships', for sea -lore and sailor -lore; Ills keen far vislou could fully test it- self only on vast stretches of Imam': his. body adapted Itself most naturally to the motions of a ship In' a storm. - Olivia Howard Dunbar. SIXTEEN YEARS USE OF BABY'S OWN TABLETS Has Shown One Mother There is Nothing to Equal Them. A constant .use of Baby's .Own Tab - tete for their children has proven to thousands of maulers that they are 'without anequal kr babyhood and childhood' ailments. One mother, Mrs. C. W. Jackson, R.R.1, Gilford, Ont„ writes: -''We have used Baby's Own Tablefe ever Mime our first baby was born sixteen years . ago. We have seven healthy children and the Tab- lets is the only medicine they re- cetved in their eariy years. Our baby is one and a half years old, is walking and talking and weighs 25 pounds. Baby's Own Tablets is the only inedi- cin e he has ever It fid. Bab • ys Owi1 Tablets are guaranteed to be absolutely safe for even the new- born babe. They are free from opiates and narcotics; act as a gentle laxa- tive on the stomach `and bowels and thus relieve constipation and indiges- tion; breakup -colds and simple fevers and,ma'ke baby healthy and strong. Ton can get Baby's Own Tablets from your druggist or direct by mail at 25, pante a box from The Dr. Wil- ]iarhs''Medleine Co.Brockville, Ont, .Meaning ng of .Miniature, \Ve af the present think of minia- ture 'as• something small, particularly a entail portrait. But this. word, ac- cording to the Mentor; • is The -same, virtually, as the more uneonirhon "nliniate,” which means "of a real color," and, "minium" which is the name Mt a real 'minetful, Tracing the wend "miniature,' back we find that it idleana not a smattportrait,.but a "red, portrait" from an Italian -weed,' which comes front the Letin'ntiniare,Mean- ing to "rubricate' 'or to paint 10 - minium; red lead. (The Latin name for reel lead probably was of Spaniel or Iberian origin): The name "minia- ture" was 'first applied to the 'orna- mental ertpltals which decorated old. manuaoripts. Later the word Melt en the connote tion •of "small" -just how ls' uncertain, but -It may have been through some association ' with the Tattle minor, minimus, which Meana small, or -less. So, trent meaning a reel portrait, and then:from being the -name of ornament- al Letters; "miniature" has come to• be implied to email pictures, and portraits 1general.. Large Foreign Eiereents;In U.S. Mare than 6 t . 3 ,00 0,000 of'trie inhabit- ants'of iho TJnited_States are of:f,,or- elgn blrth or parentage. Those who find fau:with t x th worthy things are captious without being he:g£ui. WE ,BTJY r, ' t i., FLEECE, q�Qyy�+. Y. Hara•is Abattoir. Co., Limited Strachan Ave., Toronto . i'*irttts-beef, Znuttvia, Ode $nd i8 to a -•.--date perfcd t°c1iby tile;t'ari f6ar to psi should be cold to .give,tho heft settlnet arab the Mustard Should• b,mixed I(b minuteubefore the meek' It's Cooler Near the. Surf. The, predicted, eunlmer heat wave need have no0 t rears -for anyone who can afford to take a trip in an aero - llaf net If the , e wave ,began this month, with the shade temperature well into the ?0'13, an ascent of about 6,000,feet would ,brin'`the thermometer down to near frceziiig-point. If that were not a sufficient "cooler," another mile up'would produce ten or twelve degrees of frost. The.reasou why it is cooler 1n the -air, even thoughyou are'going towards the sun, it that the sun's rays go"di- reet .to earth and •are Ming upwards from the earth.' Thus, the higher you go the fainter becomeu"the strength of these reflected. rage. ' If' the'predioted' heat` wave -In the vicinity of 90 in the shade-doesnot assert itself until July, it would mean ascending four miles • to. feet the ef- fects of zero. A nice cool air, with the thermometer at 41 degrees, could be encountered ata height of 6,000 or 7,900 feet. - Something very refreshing could be obtained at height of three miles in August --twenty. degrees of frost!" Whether onewants cooler weather or not, depends, of *agree,: on what one has been used .to in the matter of oIl- mate. Anyone newly home from a long residence in India or Egypt might shiver at the mere thought --of :the thermometer in the thirties, and would prefer to bask In the "cool" SO in the shade at ground level. On the other hand, an Arctic ex- plorer home from a two or- three years'. expedition in. the neighiibrhood of the North Pole, would have to go up six or -seven miles to get anything like the temperature he ba"a been used to. At this height there would-be a temperature of sixty degrees below zero, , ° The BestSeller. In an age when neglect of religion Is one of the chief indictments that is being levelled against this and every other country in the world, it is In- teresting to note that every year brings an ever-increasing demand for copies of the Bible, Moro Bibles were sold last year by the British and For etgn B'i'ble Society than In any Previ- ous twelve months, says au English writer. No fewer titan 610,00 ]Snglish Bibles and 366;800 English New Testa menta were sent out. 'Ate home and abroad 1,744,600 volumes have been circulated among British people, Slice 1920 the society's annual distribution of the Scriptures in the home lang- uages;ttas Increased by nearly mil- lion copies ,and the total number -0f complete Bibles, New Testaments, and separate books in all Ianguages ''has now attained to welt over the ten Mil- lion mark. a k. This figure is more than double that reached twenty-five years ago, and shows an 'increase of 412,158 for the year. It la -remarkable, indeed, that at the beginning of the century, when church -going and religion gen,eraMy were so much more in vogue than they are to -day, there sitowl5 -have been it smaller demand for the Old Book than there 1,6,noW. At the m0 ' moment British and Far eiG n Bible b e Society prints• the Scrip- tures in 579 languages, Seven new ones were added last year, four 05 them being Atrioan dialects.: _ Other languages are constantly being addled as the demand arises, several others being already is contemplation, ' the cost of translating,casting special• founts of type, distributing in out-of- the-way seat,. etc., is enormous, the society's' expenditure being well over' 52,000,000 annuahy, ' "A Stucker\ Froth Sydney, George-s"Dial you sound the family regarding our marriage?" Georgette -,"yes, and father sound- ed pevfectly Awful." • M!nard'a Liniment for o SoreFeet: •• • i Thousa 'ds w• i of lirt• C rangers are on the job.. this' month. protecting the forest against ]human recklessness Ease the ranger's job all you can. Make yotir-I se:f his ally! Now single cylinder Ii1rley-Davidson Metorcyclg, has just won a World's Re, cord for endurance. Less than one--- cent per mile to operate, and over 100 inilas-tfer gallon of gas. $97 cash, bal. once $20 per month, Price $295, WALTER ANDREWS, Ltd. 146 Yonge St. Toronto St'ff',1 au'd sore`mes,cles are quickly r,,elleved "hyo a few applications of Minard's. Light. Be net much troubled about many fraings, Pear often lath no whit of entbetanoe in it And lives but just a minute; Riihiie from the very -snow the wheat blade :springs; And, fight Is Sibs a flower Pbat burst in full leaf from the dark- est hour; Arad he who made the night, Made too, the flowery eweetnaus of the light. Be it thy task through 'his good grace to win it. ' -Mitre Cary. Marriage "of , Moslem women to Christians is forbidden in a bill new before the, Turkish National Assembly for passage. Minard's'Liniment for,Burne. • It is just as easy to form a good habit as it is a bad one. And it is just as hard to break a good habit as a bad one. So get the good ones, and keep them. --William McKinley. • URSES Tisa Toren', Rootlet .for lneurahles, 1n • .Maatlen WIN Bellevue and Allied Iteepitatr New York Olty, Amer. a three years' Course at Training to young oramen, 'mina 15. ' required edueatlon, cad dseirone et bepsmlag nurser. Tub Haepitai hos adopted tho sight. hour eastern. The guplts resolve unilorms of the School, a monthly aliewnnee and traveling skpcnies to and. from Nolo York. For further Informltlon write the Superintendent, SICK IC ABED EIGHT MONTHS After Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Could Do All Her Work and Gained in Weight Melford Saskatchewan. - "I had nward troubles beadachesand severe pains in my back „ and sides. I was so sick generally that I could not sit u and I was in bed mostof the time for eight months. An aunt came to visit and help nie as I was unable to attend to my baby and couldnot do my. I1t•x work. She told me to try Lydia D. Pinkha m's Vege- table Compound, at d after taking two bottles I could get up and dress my- self. I also took_ Lydia .E, 1'inkham a Blood Medicine. When I first took the medicine I only weighed seventy- eight pounds. Now I weigh twice as much. ,I5 I get out of sorts or weary " and can't sleep I always take another bottle of the Vegetable Compound. . 1 find it wonderfully good for fe- male troubles, and have recom- mended it to my neighbors. I will be only too glad to answer any letters I receive asking about it.'' --Mrs. WILLIAM RITbrilE, Box 486, Melford, 'Saskatchewan. c Face Badly Broken Out With. Pimples Cuticura Healed badly broken it was actually t started with the aides of my The pimples. cad, chin and and burned so . They looked shamed to bc. trouble meted prig -nent•.f r e. o Qiittmeat so' ed about two OiiitYnent and d yips healed." Kelly, Rt. 3, . 5, 1925. s a healthy, oft, smooth ixurixnt h>alr stied bay Cuti-; ne.Ces a y irli o e C t ndiV e:, y ice' &app Stic1r 25c, "My face, was. so . out With pimples that, disfigured, They .firs a few blackheads on t face, and festered. spread to- my foreli neck, They itched,' that: could hardly rest so badly that I was a ween' in public, The :about threey,ehrs. '"1•'read'.an adve Caticura Soa and' p pu hated some. l u6 boxes of Cinicnra four cakes of Soap an (lgncd),hirs, John L'sy City, nlich., Nov Nothing so insures clear complexion, s hands and giosay, It as CutICt1110 Scap, asst +a , im t cu O Y _n4 when i nu, fn a h rri 1.' Regal• FStonteuo i 1agatoq d5h. Gennnnr.r Nr And 1,0r 'hal C *tlootis Sho sea, 158Ua ,,^h. 1.r•