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Surnames and Their Origin
SPENCER.
Variation—Spenser.
Racial Origin—English.
Source --A title of office,
T•g
were many, many castles in medieval
England. Hence there are many
Spencer families to -day.
SELLER'S.
One of the most peculiar points Variations—Seller, Seeler, Sadler.
about the social and military, system I Racialat Origin—English.
of the Normans was the manner in Re—Og
hich occu ations "whieh to -day we accur-
w p not possible to tell with
ahold t It is
lack upon as of an .humble, bons
ature were exalted into titled of icy in the individual case which of
n
flees.
The answer, of •course, is that in
those days each feudal castle, the
social unit of all who were not tillers
of the soil, was., though a angle"household," a small nation in itself,
largely independent 'said owing vassal -
ago to counts and kings ,only as a unit.
Thus' the keeper of the "family"
puree was in reality the "secretary of
the treasury," and the head of the
household kitchen was the commis -
Nary -general
The "despenser" or "despencer," un -
two sources these family names
Saturday's Child,
Sante are teethed on a Silver spoon,
With the starry strung fora rattle
I cut my teeth as' the black raccoon,'
For i11lplements of battle.
Smile are swaddled, in silk and down,
And heralded by a star;
'i`bey swathed any limbs ill a seckeloth
gown
011 a night that was black a5 tar.
For some godfather and godcdame
The opulent fairies, be;
Dame Poverty gave me my name,
And Pain godfathered Ise.
•
For I was born on Saturday,
"Bad time for planting a seed,"
Was all my father had to say,''
And, "One mouth more to feed."
have.
come from, with the exception of the being exhibited in the Australian .Pa -
last named. vision at the British Empire Exhibi-
It may be taken for granted, how- tion.
Death cut the strings that gate me
life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg er borrow,
Countee P. Cullen.
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A Cross of Pearls.
What are perhaps the most remark-
able natural pearls in the world are
ever, that, like saddler, the rest of This extraordinary exhibit, known
them in the vast majority of 'eases as the Southern Cross, is a cluster of
come from the occupation of making nine pearls forming an almost perfect
saddles. The assumption that there is Latin cross. The shaft es composed of
any connection with our modern word seven pearls measuring an inch and
"seller," or salesman, is erroneous., for a half in length, while the arms of the
the medieval English 'did not use this cross are formed of one pearl on each
word to designate tradesmen. • side opposite the second pearl from
Sadler is a form of the name trace- the top downwards.
able to the Anglo-Saxon A 1 S o word "Sell," Examination under a powerful mic-
Aleeth " •'eneral Sir Lee Stack, gover-
nor-general of'the Sudan and sirdar of
the Egyjjtiau army,"has had • a difficult
situation; to handle the past few
weeks, but the iron hand of authority
has• wcnout.
WN.sN.IN TOIIONT0 VJe1T Tee
Royal Ontario Museum
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l,elmancnt e211Thitian 9n t anode, Arelaae0109., 77 ViCtar)d St,, pr9nto,
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THI ALS OF I Sr110 d
Cornmeal Errors • About This
ploy,'nnv,an3lClnaroat raxK• _ Brothers of B.0
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Longest in the Empire. "Attempt not to direct a married
71 is just Over a year sincer. est that :she .is a perfect housewife.
say, Prime Minister of Now Zealand, Say not to her: 'Where is that (i.e.,
opened at Otira the longest tunnel in such -and -such a tbing) ? Bring, it to.
the British Empire. ' us;' when she has pet the object in idyl
The Southern Alps, whieh run from propea place."
North to South of the South Island, for This was not written in A.D. 1,924,
many years formed an insurmountable hut round 9,000 B.C• It is'one of many
barrier to railway travel, Itailwhys similar 'sayings of Egyptian 4agefll:
had been constructed to. the eastern that go to prove that the greatbroth�er'.
and western slopes of these mountains hood of. married men had the same
but the heights themselves had to be problems and,the same tribulations in
crossed by a dangerous caatlTingraad" the days of the Pharaohs as in tale
over Arthur's Pass. ' days of King George V.
Then, for a long time, engineers be- ; These sayings are contained in the
longing to the British. Electric. Com
pang were hard at work boring tun Moral Papyri, which have been"collect•
ed by Sir Ernest Wallis Budge, the
nel through this pass, where the moon- l famous Egyptologist, and are now be -
tains rise to a sleight of 3,000 feet, ing published in book form. Other
The Otira Tunnel is nearly five and gems from this husbands' , "Goldien
a half miles long, and, forms the only Treasury" are:
direct connecting link between the The interfering man only sets con -
east ast and.west coasts of South Island, fusion in his house."
woman in her house when. thou know
Mas-
it is now possible to travel from Christ-
church in the east of Greymouth on..
the west coast without any change at
all.
Constructed entirely by British
'-'workmen, using only British materials,
Otira Tunnel is one mile longer than
'the Severn Tunnel and is the seventh
longest in the worlds.
The Simplon Tunnel, on the main
Trouble IMo Which People Fall. Paris -Rome railway is cut through the
of 121/ miles., while a huge boring
"If thou wouldat he wise or prosper-
ous, get married:"
"Undertake nothing as the result of
,having drunk beer. For if thou dost,
words which can have a second mean-
ing may come forth front thy mouth
without thy knowing it.. When thou.
fallest down and breakest thy bones.,
there will be no one there to put out
his hand to help thee. Tby boon corn
tong l pinion will stand up and say: 'Away -
Many people
ea le so far misunderstand heart of the Swiss Alps fora distance
with this drunken beast!' "
the digestive system as to treat it like
a macliine; neglecting it until it works made through the St. Gothard Pass,
sluggishly, then irritating it into work also in Switzerland, is nearly ten miles
again by the use of purgatives. The in length.
The greatest achievement of this
kind in .the United States is a four
and three-quarter mile tunnel through
the Hoos'oc Mountains in . Massachu-
setts.
assachusetts.
The five -mile spiral tunnel in the
Canadian Rockies at Kicking Horse
Pass is a marvellous piece of
ever wasp the word most often roscope shows that the gems were stomach _needs help at all times, but
i«action will
der the feudal custom of the Normans, use N in the early produced by nature in their present a study 'of the process. of d
was the officer responsible for n it en- arrangement, probably as „a result addle and g ,
r the used by the Demons
d to denote a sa of Chow that purgatives, as commonly
castle,an office of great zesponsibilitydared fo long l r atime. In fact, it did:mutual compression during d of
.
in days when sieges were laid, often not become obsolete until after Spen-
not
pearls were discovered. in hotel
not to be lifted for. months or even I cer wrote:
years, "He left his lofty steed with.golden
This title, however, when coupled sell,
with the word "le" (the), as of course And - goodly gorgeous barbes."
it was, soon became too clumsy even 1 The form Sellers', Seller and Seeler,
for the Norman tongue, with the result however, may also be derived from the
that it did not take' many generations i old word. "seler," which was the appel-
before the more common form of the ' ation of those craftsmen who manu-
word was"spencer" or "spenser." There i factored seals
"buttery" or food warehouse of the Per
d in growth. taken, are seldom necessary an
fill
1874 by a pearl fisher at Roeburn, in To safeguard your digestion the diet
'Western Australia, but so amazed- must he controlled. Over -eating is al -
were the finder and the owner of the Ways harmful, but one must assimilate
vessel that, belileving it to be a heaven enough zood to supply the needs of the
wrought miracle, they buried the trey blood. Remember, the blood has to
sure and left it to be forgotten. carry nourishment to all parts of the
It remained hidden until 1879, when body and find fuel for its energy.
an Australian explorer, Alexander Bence when the blood becomes weak,
Forest, passed through Roeburn and, and fails to do its work, indigestion
hearing accidentally of the pearl, dis-
closed its existence to the •world.
It. is now the property of a London
merchant, and is valued at $50,000.
A RECIPE FOR
LASTING LOVE
A young husband, speaking of• his
bride, said , o his mother: "She is so like attentions of their courting dash's;
h for him still to give her kisses w
1 ass
nt to
live with."
The mother
pleasant
to
tell
her that
3m
Ii- for h
them;o
a thrill to
she grew more"beautiful to him and
clearer as the years went by, and. that
his lucky day was the day he won her
for a wife.
,
and s
of the contracting parties that make A. woman rejoices in her hush
marriage a success or. a failure. success in business. But she can be
It is 'curious but true that things utterly miserable ie he ha a surly dis-
that count so much before oiarriagei position; if he never speaks, at home
•
if he never shows her any tenderness
o raffection, or gives any sign that he
still cares for her. The thing that
would make her go down on her knees
and thank Heaven for having given
her her heart's desire in a husband
would be for him to be pleasant to
live with; for hint to keep up the lover -
was thankful, ler she• knew that all
was well with her eon. When all is
said, the greatest domeetie virtue is to
be pleasant to live with. It is the dis-
positions, not the looks, nor the brains,
tea`L
matter very little after marriage. Be-
fore marriage we put -great stress on
mental brilliance,; on charming man-
ners. We are allured by a beautiful
- face. We are fascinated by a witty
an entertaining t taining converstionalist. We
except to find fault, and if thefamily
lives in terror of doing or saying. some -
thin gthat will bring ona burst of tem
per. The husband who makes life a
grand, sweet song to his wife is the
man who is pleasant to live with; the
are charmed by those who have gra- man who is cheerful and good-natured,
clousness and poise, but after mar- who jollies his wife and pets his child-
riage we grow tired of looking at even ..ren, and at the very sound of whose
a living picture, and we soon cease to key in the door exerybody brightens
see beauty in it if that is all there is up and begins to smile.
to -a"person.• And precisely the same thing is true
1` of wives as of husbands. The good
Keeping Affection Alive. wife is not necessarily the best wo-
The thing that is of vital importance man, or the best 000k, or 'the best
is the disposition of the one with housekeeper, or even the woman who
whom we have to live day in and day loves her husband best. Many a wo
out, in pro'sperity or adversity, in sick- man who would gladly die for her hus-
ness or in health. I band nags him so that he would be
Of course, a wife is glad that her willing to die to get rid of her.
husband is a roan whose word is as I The erfect wife is the woman who
Gas Replaces:Brazier.
The charcoal bhazier, characteristic pills. Then under the influence of the
of Japanese homes for many years, is new blood supply, your digestive"sys-
being displaced rapidly by the _ gas tem will respond naturally, your ap-
stove. petite improve and your food will do
• also nein 1,000,000gas
s
Japan is , g
lamps in city streets and 2,300 'gas en-
gines in the tiny factories that ,pro-
duce everything from ivory carvings.
arises.; Therefore the sure remedy for
indigestion is to build - up the blood.
If you suffer front any form of indiges-
tion choose your: diet-' carefully and
take wholesome nourishment. Above
all, start building up _your blood by
taking a course of Dr. Williams' Pink
tO tooth -brush handles 4d:from sane
Pocket Sundials.
It was not uncommon in the days of
Queen Elizabeth for men to carry
pocket sundials for the purpose of
time -telling.
Dials of all kinds were common then,
though previous to that time they had
been little used in this country. One
of the oldest, erected about the time
of Edward the Confessor, is still to be
seen over the south •door of leirkdale
Church, in Yorkshire, England. It
bears the inscription: "This is the
sun's marker at every hour, and Hay-
ward made me and Brand the priest."
toimprove your rad
you• good. So begin p The fashion for dials began to spread
digestion by starting to take Dr. Wil until the. whole countryside, portion
limns' Pink Pills now. lady in the North aztd in Scotland, was
You can get these .pills from your
drTggiet or by 'mail at. 50 cents a box dotted with -then. We see them, to
t day in interesting.forms at St. An-
dreves, Melville Hausa,. Hailyrood
an other
andm
Castle, y
Castle, Dundas C . ,
places which are popular resorts of
sightseers to England.
The legends engraved on some of
these old dials are very quaint. One,
humble in its. opinion of itself and
mankind, "announces: "Shadows we
are, like shadows we depart."
In China and Japan small dials
made of boxwood are still carriedand
consulted by their owners.
dais to sausages: 1 Erose "iiia-? is Williams'. Medicine, C
Gas production to -day, with 10;000,. Brockville, Ont.
000,000 cubic feet; annually, is double
that at • 1914. Seventy-six companies,
as compared with ten -in 1914, furnish
the service. '`
CHILDHOOD INDIGESTION
Nothing is more common in child-
hood than indigestion. Nothing 1
more dangerous to proper growth,
more weakening to the constitution or
more likely to pave the way to danger-
ous disease. Fully nine -tenths of all -
the minor ills of childhood have their
root in indigestion. There is no. medi-
cine for little ones to equal Baby's
Own Tablets in relieving this trouble.
.They have proved' of benefit in thous
ands of homes. Concerning them Mrs.
Jos. Lunette, Ininiaculate Conception,
Que., writes: "Mybaby was a great
sufferer from indigestion, but the Tab-
lets lets soon set her right, and now I
good as his bond, and that he is is leasant to live with. She is the would not be without them." Baby's
spoken of as "Honest John tones." f woman who is cheerful and good-na- Own Tablets are sold by medicine
But the knowledge that he husband 18 tured; who is reasonable; whois ap- dealers of by mail at 25 cents a box
incorruptibly honest• • does not make preciative and contented, and who can from The Dr. Williams' 'Medicine Co.,
it any easier for Mrs. John -Jones to 1 asy a thing once and let it go at that. Brockville, Ont.
pet money out of him if he is tight —Dorothy Dix.
fisted
The thing that would make for her
Model of Niagara.
happiness would be for him to be plea-
sant to live with, for him to be fair A model of Niagara tarrying
" and generous about money, and for an amount of water directly propor-
him to give her what he could afford tional to that of the real Niagara is
without haggling over it. I helping engineers to remedy, an evil.
Nothing is of avail in making a wife `that threatens to destroy the beauty
happy if her husband apparently re- I of the falls. As the limestone wears
Bards her as nothing more than a away underneath the "throat" of the
piece of useful household: furniture, Horseshoe more and more water is
concentrating thereand seems likely
before many years to make the falls
no more than a huge V-shaped gully.
Experiments with weirs and artificial
islands, placed in the stream above
the falls on the model, show how the.
water can be distributed so as to give
the American Falls a greater volume
and keep on thea •Canadian edge of the
-Horseshoe water tbat the power com-
pany on that side now .fears that it
will lose.
Quite Respectable.
"What's become of the good old
names 'Prudence' and 'Patience'?"
"I guess they've changed them to
`Imprudence' and 'Impatience...
Useful Watch.
Two brothers -call them William
and Henry, although being good busi-
ness men, were absolutely ignorant in
so far as book -learning goes, not even
being able to tell the time of day, so
that a clock being entirely useless to
them, '. was not among their posses-
sions. However, the idea of having a
good watch took their fancy, and so
one was purchased to be owned jointly
and carried by each on alternate
weeks... One 'hat afternoon as they
were weeding the Dorn, Henry paused
and, wiping the moisture from his
face, observed, "Wonder what time
'tis." William, Whose week It was to
carry the watch, Ieaned on bis hoe
handle and, producing the glittering
timepiece, ` held it out toward his
brother with a flourish saying, "Wall,
that she be," "Darn if she ain't," re-
plied' Henry, whereupon they took
their customary glance at the sun and
resumed work..
•
Aquarium Too Small.
• Mr, Youngbride—"Now that you
have your water spaniel, dear, how
are you going to keep :him?"
Mrs. Youngbride—"I'm glad you.
asked that, love.—our aqual'iunt is ah
"I Hope'," remarked his mother to together too small.
t • ` " ilittle Willie, who had been to a party —�
Say Bayer Aspirinn her absence, "that you washed Dominion Express Money Orders
your hands before tea." are on sale in. five thousand offices
the Canada
l,_
,. anad .
seem re C
l o throughout 011ass 1 ou
Unlessim• tow hrou
INSIST!: Ytion t levo t o t g
"Bayer Cross" on tablets you than one," lie confessed, "Utrt 1 ate --'''--
ars not getting the genuine with that and kept the other in my
Bayer Aspirin proveb safe by pocket.."
millions and prescribey phy-
sicians
h
ysicians for 24 years.
Accept only a
ceof
Bayer
package
a
e
Which contains proven directions
Rand "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablete
Also betties of 24 and 1.00,—Druggists
Aailrin Is the trade molt (registered la
*maw of nod ftZonc-cvir'a of. 14054•'
etttiesefdestor of $a)ferifr
The Oniy.Reason.
Minard's Liniment Relieves Pain.
Nothing Less Than n a Million for
This Little Girl.
The perfectly absurd inflation of the
German currency has been the source
of some humor along with a great deal
of wretchedness. So the Berlin paper
Ulk tells of a little German girl who in-
for;ned her father that she could count.
"Wonderful!" exclaimed her father.
"Begin then!"
"One million, two million, three mile
lion," said the child importantly.
Important as it may be to consider
what you are making of life, it is no
less .important to size up just what
life is making of You.
If you say nothing, your words can'
not be brought into court.
The effect of athletics on Women
arec,______�_�_._—` �=-.�-=-•
,niestionnaire in England. It was ed -
and girls was the su jcct o ,fie �►
Deserved to Succeed.
A story that is characteristic of
Lord Leverhulme—fox has he not him-
self made good awing to his dogged
pers•everanoe?—relates how a certain
dogged and persevering commercial
traveller worried the manager of 'a
business., in the most praise -worthy
way, for an order. .
The manager, however, was one of
those nasty, soulless creatures, and
turned the traveller away every time.
Finally, he went still further and
had the poor man thrown out.
The traveller picked up his hat, and
also himself, rushed upstairs again,
and hailed the manager.
"Look here, sir,". he panted. "Joking
apart, what about that order?"
Nature's Wonders.
Muriel, visiting the country on a
May day, came to a pondwhose shal-
lows were full of tadpoles•—thousands.
of thein flopping about in an inch of
water.
"Oh,!" she cried, "see those tad-
poles! • And just to think that some
day every one of the horrid wriggling
creatures will hatch into a beautiful
butterfly!"
Ancient Indian people of the Valley
of Mexicobuilt a mighty stone strlic-
hurt% to the •gods of their land, centur-
ies before Pharaoh and his slaves built
the great pyramids of Egypt. It is
said that this great structure has re
malted silent and buried for nearly
T ie f ent 8,000-yeats.
dressed to those paeans who wool e
Bingo—"I'm going,to bring my wife thought to have speciallrnow1edge an
g
round
to sari on you to -night:" file subject, such as
a
physicians, prise -
Plane Photos of Crops.
Airplane photographs are being ex-
perimented with as an aid in crop re-
porting.
CLEAN SEED CRAW
Use
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j����(�?jLgUTAT7EDry^ BY &CINDERS
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i0 EXPECTANT
MOTHERS
Letter from Mrs. Ayars Tells
How Lydia E. ?inkhorn's
Vegetable Compound,
Helped Her
Spring Valley, Sask.—"I took the
Vegetable Compound before mg last
confinement, when I got to feeling so
badly that I could not sleep nights, m
back ached so across my hips, and I
could hardly do rny.avork during the day.
I never had such an easy confinement
and this is my sixth baby. I read about
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound in the 'Farmer's Telegram' and
wrote you for one of your books. We
have no druggist in our town, but I saw
your medicine in T. Eaton's catalogue.
I am a farmer's wife, so have all kinds
of work to do inside and outside the
house. My baby is a nice healthy girl,
who weighed ;nine pounds at birth. I
am feeling fine after putting in a large
garden since babycame. (She is as
good as she can beYours is the best
medicine for women, and I have told
about it and even written to my friends
about it." -- Mrs. ANNIE E. AYA.Rs,
Spring Valley, Sask.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veent dgetable Com-
pound
icine for ex-
ppectantsmothers, an lland should be taken
during the entire period. It has a gen-
eral effect to strengthen and tone up the
entire system so that it may work in
every respect as nature intends. All
druggists sell this dependable medicine.
Give it a trial.
Fanning MIIIs—I supply screens, wire
cloth, zinc, repairs—Chatham Fanning
Mills and other snakes. Incubator
supplies; Thermometers.
MANSON CAMPBELL, Chatham, Ont.
Rub
Rub It In
For pain,_ stiffness, or inflammation,
apply Minard's and rub it in.
Peo I,e
�rif 13itru•I'hosphate- feeds the nerves
.,�." , � t o me •els of schools and -women stladeuts- to tYS. and 017- and old people need it 4o make them
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wife to see it lust now. t' ..,. but centime ;iii and other Dai" y,returns, cans supplied, , an •dawoulo ia: Price that r
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what We are e Dining - so .o uce unusual fatigue or it tlt7w
,�...w,_..-._� ...:.- fort may produce
Mlnard's LIitliiierit for nett strain. `
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Glossy With Cuticura
On retiring,. gently rub sot o€ dam-.
druff avid itching with Cuticura•Oint
merit. Nextmorning shampoo with
a suds of Concurs, Soap and hot
water. This treatment does much to
keep the, scalp clean and healthy
aid
?roulotn hair growth...
to 3" ers .
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