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STRANGE COVENANTS 'ENTERED
INTO IN OLD LEASES.
A Recent Irish Incident Recalls souse
Quaint Examples of Payment
in Kind. ..
Some of Lord Massereeno'Ii tenants
In Co, Antrim still hold their farms on
leases which reserve to their landlord
Certain duties, such as so rnany,daYs'
work of a man mil a horse, se many
ducks:, capons, or hence,
They have recently been warned
that they must either perform these
duties -or else agree to an increase in
rent proportionate to their value.
Few people have the least idea of
the amazing number and variety of
queer covenants entered into in old
leases.
Here is a sample of one such ancient
lease in the exact words in which it
was originally granteCt:
'William, king, give to thee,
Plowden Boyden, my hop and my hop
lands, with all the bounds up and
down from heaven to earth, from
earth to. hell, for thee and thine to
dwell, from ore and aline to thee and
Made Pham,
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Experienced on Woolens and
Worsteds.
Good pay and steady employ-
ment, under ideal working con-
diti0ns.
If you .cannot call, write or
telephone.
THE BARRYMORE CLOTH
COMPANY
1179 King St. West Toronto
Telephone Parkdale 3200
RINGS
AROUND THE SUN.
In Many Cases Followed by Rain
Within 36 Hours.
Rings around the sun or moon are
property called halos. They may be
thine, for a bowand a broad orrery, defined as somewhat complicated
ar-
when I come to hunt upon Yarrow. In rangements of arcs and circles of
witness that this is Booth, I bite this I light surrounding the sun or the moon
wax with my tooth in the presence of accompanied by others tangent to or
Magge, Aloud, and Margery, and my intersecting them, with spots of
third son, Henry” special brightness called parhelia ap-
'rhe document is ouch shorter than
any modern lease, and not half so dif-
ficult to understand, It amounts to
this—that the king gave Boyden these
lands in perpetual leasehold on condi-
tion that lie himself received hospi-
tality when Ire came hunting, and
was provided with instruments of the
chase.
Any number of tenants held land on
similar terms, Some had to provide
arrows, some spears, some horses or
dogs. William de Grey held his land
at IFokenhall, in the County of Not-
tingham, by the service of carrying a
gerfalcon 'frons Michaelmas till Lent at
the king's court.
"Booting Corn.
Hightesty, also in Nottingham, was
held upon condition to find dogs to
destroy wolves and foxes.
The tenant of Herchin, in Lancs -
shire, got a good estate free on con -
HISTORIC FURNITURE
IN P LATIAL tIQTEL
Chaml'lain, Jacques Cartier and
Molxtcalm, three of the heroic figures
in the "early settlement of North
America along the St. Lawrence River
have been happily united in a suite
of rooms which have been named al-
to them at the famous Chateau :t'ron-
tenac, in Quebec. This'suite is in the
baronial tower which forms one of the
most noticeable landmarks in the
ancient city, and commands a won-
derful panorama of the great river and
of tiro blue Laurentian Mountains.
The central room, named after Mont -
calm and used as the sitting room,
has among other tui ions furniture of
two hundred years ago, a table and
chair of rough design made by sol-
diers who served under General Mont -
calm in the Siege of Quebec in 1759,
and actually used by the General up
to the date of his last fatal battle with
the troops of General Wolfe. The
writing desk in the same room woe'
formerly an altar in the old 'Ursuline
Chapel, while the antique Grand-
father's Clock used to figure out the
hours and minutes in the Old Jesuit
School. The habitants, or peasant
proprietors of French Canada, are
famous for their skill in handicraft,
particularly weaving. The floor -cover-
ing used in these rooms is a specimen
of this habitant handicraft, known as
"catalogue," a washable material of
fast dyes.
The two adjoining rooms, one on
each side, are used as bedrooms, and
except for the private bathrooms
which have been built in to meet with
the requirements of modern habit, are
faithful replicas of rooms in the seig-
peering at the points of tangency and norial Chateau of Old French Canada.
intersection. Parhelia are most often
observed about sunrise or sunset, fre-
quently when the intersecting arcs
are themselves invisible, except at
the paints of intersection. In order of
frequency halos average about 22 de-
grees, 46 degrees, or 90 degrees in
radius, but on rare occasions other
sizes have been observed.
Halos are observed only when there
is present in the higher atmosphere
a cloud sheet which meteorologists
term cirro-stratus. The floating par-
ticles forming this cloud sheet are ice,
crystals, as the cloud is always above
the plane of permanent freezing tem-
peratures. Those are the highest
clouds known, the average height be-
ing five to six miles. When the sun
or the moon is observed through such
a cloud sheet, refraction and reflec-
tion of some of the sun's rays by the
ice crystals produce rings in which
dition that, whenavee„the ,sting (•prea.. • w ~akeeolors when visible are invariably
to Lancashire the tenant should meet arranged with the red on the insideof
him with a horn and a white wand,
conduct him through•the county, and
remain with hon until he left it.
Sometimes the service rendered in
lieu of rent was the provision of some
delicacy for the royal table. Walter
de Burgh held Rakley, in Norfolk, by
paying two maids of red wine and
two hundreds of pears, called per-
maines, yearly. From tenants at
Westbury, in Wilts, honey and ale
bad to be sent to, the king.
We hear of wool lambs, hemp, flax,
butter, and cheese being paid instead
oi; money as rents for farms during
the middle ages.
Freme's lands, in Gloucestershire,
were held by what was called heriot
service. Thomas Freme, of Lypiatt,
paid to the owner, Lord Berkeley,
twenty horseshoes and their nails. It
may be mentioned that a horseshoe
was more valuable in those days than
in these.
Rent in kind paid for land at Had-
denhame in `Bucks, was called "boot-
ing corn," which means that it was
paid as bete, boot, or compensation.
.At Grimston, in Norfolk, all resi-
dents having a cart and horse were
obliged to do several days' work year-
ly in reclaiming the common. But
their food was given then free while
they did this work. At the same
place, all tenants who pastured their
cows on the common did one day's
work for their landlord at harvest
time.
Cheap Rents
The town of Yarmouth Is, we be-
lieve still nominally bound to send to
the sheriffs one hundred herrings,
baked in twenty-four pasties, to be
d.elivored to the king. So lately as the
year 1778 the sheriffs attended in per-
son with their offering.
Some of the rents asked were pure-
ly nomilutl. Bermcton, in Co. Dur-
ham, was held in capite by the ser-
vice of three grains of .pepper. For
other lands, the rent asked was one
rose, or a gilt arrow, leathered with
a peacock's feathers.
One of the oddest of such tenures
was that under which'Kingstoln Rus-
sell, in Dorset, was he1cl, By the
terms of the agreement, the tenant
had, whenever required, to count or
tell the king's chessmen, and to put
them in a bag wiron finished with,
ee
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Anything exceeding half a ton of
waste per acre in 0 potato crop is
regarded as abnormal in Great IV?
gains
lite is made up of compensations.
ley the time a man 13 old enough to
realize what a lot he does not know,
be le too old to worry about it. f
the arcs,
Halos are good weather signs. Many
weather proverbs based upon the ob-
servation of halos are founded upon
sound scientific principles. Studies of
the relation of halos to rainfall show
that during the summer months 56 to
60 per cent. of all halos are followed
by rain within 36 hours. During the
winter months 70 to 75 per cent. are
so followed.
Tommy Was Surprised.
Though the Prince will be glad to
have a house of his own, he's not al-
together thrilled at the idea of York
House. For one thing there's too
much publicity about it. Kitchener
had it, of course, when he was at the
War Office.
I happened, says an English writer,
to be passing through the courtyard
one evening just as the great man,
dressed in civvie, was coming out of
his front door, A very "tired" look-
ing Tommy
ooingTommy who k
was walking in front
went up to him. "I say, guv'nor," he
said, "can you get this way to Vic-
toria?" "K". looked at into hard for
a moment, and pointed toward. the
Mall. But before he could utter a
word of explanation the Tommy had
fied with a' muttered "Gor-blimey!"
and an air of such noisy precipitation
that the corporal of the guards came
out to see what was the matter. It
Yeas the only time I saw Kitclieiier
gain.
The four poster beds, chairs, fire
irons, crockery and chs,rcoal burners
are actual antiques. Here can be seen
the old warming pan of the pre -radia-
tor days and the old pipe lighters of
the days before matches were invent-
ed. The old fashioned open hearth
with its bellows standing by and the
family kettle give their welcome and
tell their tale of hospitable byegone
clays. On the walls hang old prints
and priceless tapestries.
Cabbages and carrots were unknown
before 1547.
BI
RDS
OF
PA
RADISE.,
Noir is the, time for the best bar-
gaiix.% Buy now and save money. We
have hundreds of good bicycles at
prices ranging from, 316.00 to $23.00.
Write or call for particulars, R. G.
M.ehead, 159 King St. West, Toronto,
GIVE QUEEN WONDERFUL VEIL.
Belgian Lace Experts Worked On It
Four Years.
The Queen of the Belgians' has re-
ceived from the lace and embroidery
works of Belgian Flanders a marvel-
ous veil. Surrounded by all the mis-
fortune and misery of war these loyal
subjects have toiled in secret for four
long years to produce a unique piece
which they offer in homage to their
queen. Such is their devotion to their
sovereign.
A French publication describes the
veil—designed by„the most famous of
Belgian artists and executed by thee
most expert workmen, perfect in
every detail of mesh and motif.
Twelve thousand hours were required
in workmanship, for the veil contains
not less than 12 million points. It
displays the almost unknown art of
light and shade, a difficult effect and
one of ram beauty. It solves for the
first time, perhaps, the question of
perspective. The entire piece weighs
but four and one-half ounces.
In the centre of the veil are the
Belgian arms, and in the four corners
of the central panel the arms of the
cities of Ypres, Nieuport, Poperinghe
and Furnes. The four side panels re-
present the industries of weaving,
fishing, hop picking and dairying.
SAVING KAISER'S STATUES.
Brilliant Plumes Adorn the Natives of
New Guinea.
New Guinea is the home of a large
percentage of the world's birds of
paradise. The supply of these beauti-
ful birds is fast failing. Not only do
the women of Europe and America
demand feathers for their bonnets, but
the natives of New Guinea and sur-
rounding islands make lavish use of
the plumage as head dresses.
Some precautions are now taken to
prevent visitors to New Guinea from
killing the "most beautiful birds in the
world,” but the natives are left alone,
and they continue to deck themselves
out in capes and headpieces more gor-
geous than any seen on our stage
beauties or the wives of our million-
aires.
In New Guinea it is the man who
affects birds of paradise decorations.
The women, like the female bird of
paradise, are inconspicuous in dtill
colors.
To obtain the much prized feathers
the New Guinea natives set out for
the forest, knoleing that the bird of
paradise seeks to conceal his rainbow
hues in the dense foliage of the trees.
If they can find no haunt of the de-
sired birds they start calling in excel-
lent imitation of the shrill, ugly cry
'of the bird of paradise to its mate.
This ruse is usually successful, and
a bird shows itself only to be snared
or shot down with arrows.
In mating season the male bird
dances before the female he desires
as a mate to display his beautiful
feathers, and at such a time so ab-
sorbed are the birds in their own af-
fairs that large numbers are taken
easily by the wily natives.
Dishes that have become brown and
burnt through baking in the oven may
be easily cleaned if allowed to stand
awhile in borax water.
...
If tea or coffee disagrees
the sure way 1 'ut is to drink
No of pleasure, but
tad ti ± i in health.
Net an experiment.
o raise in Price!
Ask the iyocer
An Essay on Geese,
The following cglnpositioxx on geese
was written in a western city by a
schoolboy:
Geese is a heavy -set bird with a
head on one side .and a tail nu the
other, His feet is set so far back on
his running gear that they nearly
miss his body. Some geese is ganders
and has a curl in his tail. Ganders
don't lay or set They just eat, loaf
and go swimming. If I had to be a
geese I. would rather be a gander.
Geese d0 not give milk, but givq eggs,
but for me give me liberty or give me
death"
Germans in Thorn Fear Poles Will
Destroy Them.
The Germans are carefully remov-
ing all bronze statues of former Kais-
ers from Bromberg and Thorn lest the
Poles destroy them on their arrival.
The statue of Frederick the Great
at Bromberg already has been taken
to Schneidenhehi and re -erected
there. That of William the Great
will be removed in a few days and the
former Kaiser's statue at Thorn will
be' aken from the market with a fes-
tival parade. The German Govern-
ment will be asked to erect it else-
where. Memorials of Bismarck and
other German chiefs also will be re-
moved from the bridge across the Vis-
tula River.
MONEY ORDERS.
Pay your out-of-town accounts by
Dominion Express Money Orders.
Five Dollars costs three cents,
e
SUMER AT
HARD ON BABY
No season of the year is so dan-
gerous to the life of little ones as is
the summer. The excessive treat
throws the little stomach out of order
so quickly that unless prompt aid is
at hand the baby may be beyond all
human help before the mother re-
alizes ho is i11. Summer is the sea-
son when diarrhoea, cholera ixlfan-
taxi, dysentry and colic are most pre-
valent. Any one of these troubles
may prove deadly if not promptly
treated. During the summer the
mother's best friend is Baby's Own
Tablets. They regulate the bowels,
sweeten the stomach and keep baby
healthy. The Tablets are sold by
medicine dealers or by mail at 25
cents a box from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co.,,Brockville, Ont.
When Thirteen Was a Dozen.
There was a time in early English
history when a heavy penalty was in-
flicted by the authorities for short
weight, and the fear of punishment
was so great that rather than run the
risk of violating the law, bakers gener-
ally threw in an extra loaf, when cus-
tomers asked for a dozen loaves. Thus
a "baker's dozen" came to be not
twelve pieces of a given article, but
thirteen.
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited.
Gentlemen,—I have used MIN-
ARD'S LINIMENT on my vessel and
in my family for years, and for the
every -day ills and accidents of life I
consider it has no equal. I would not
start on a voyage without it, if it cost
a dollar a bottle.
CAPT. F. R. DESJARDIN,
Schr. Starke, St. Andre, Kamouraska.
BOE o'1x1.
rl11,.N SITARS:a DAVID' ON CONSOLI.
DATED (sold Alines 'at. $2.60 p.,
St
share. "',S". Hyland, 217 George ,
Toronto.
FOR -6-7 le. ,—also D3. rag GASOLINE
g
3"and Double
'(snit Milker. Wi11 sell lot or separate,
all now. P.O. Box 343, Montreal.
W SPAPEi1, WEEK F Y. IN ]31t 1J(331
i r County. Splendid opportunity. Write
Bak' T. SVllsnn Publishing Co., Limited.
73 Adelaide St. W., Toronto. •
Y7lOL r. , EQUIPPED N WSf''A.PEIK
V and Jab printing Plant in 'Bastean
Ontario. Insurance carried $1,600. Wilt
w
Wilson Publishing Co.. Ltck d.. Toronto.
seEnee WANTED,
Muscles or Brains?
A cartoon in a city paper repre-
sents a slendor, intellectual looking
Young man as applying for employ-
ment at a factory office and asking
about the rate of pay. The boss re-
plies:
"Twenty dollars a week for brains;
42 for muscle.
In the same paper appear, side by
side in the "Help Wanted" columns,
two notices, one •offering $1S a week
for a "bookkeeper with long experi-
ence," and the other offering e23 for
a bootblack.
These facts might be duplicated a1 -
most anywhere. The old standards
seem strangely reversed to -day. Is it
going to continue so?
lainard's Liniment Cases Il si tenger,
The "Zoo" Mouse,
Jock, fresh from the Highlands, was
visiting the London "Zoo." Seeing so
many strange animals, he called out
to an attendant:
"Here, neon! Ye micht tell's the
names o' thae bit beasties."
"Certainly," said the attendant.
"That large black one is a bear."
„Ay!"
"And that one with the small horns
is a wapti"
„Ay1„
"And that one with the large horns
is a moose,"
"A moose! Awa', mon! If that's a
moose, then what are yer rats like?"
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Humane Anima! Muzzle Is Regulated
by Gravity.
The secret of a recently Introduced
humane muzzle, which allows the ant -
mal wearing it perfect freedom of the
jaws when the head is in a lowered
position, but which restrains when
the head is raised, lies iu a gravity -
operated catch. This' catch holds a
rubber -covered metal bar firmly under
the lower jaw when the animal's nose
is not pointed earthward, but is disen-
gaged by the force of gravity when
the nose is lowered.
—se.
Rediproe!ty.
"Did the doctor pay a visit?"
"Yes, and the visit paid the doctor."
Best Time to Weed.
Do not let any weeds go to seed, as
that will mean extra word next year,
weeding out the seedling weeds, start-
ed by the gardener's neglect this sea-
son.
Early horning, before the sun is up,
is the best time to weed. If the weeds
are left out on the top of the ground,
exposed to the sun, until the next day,
the sun will kill then.
/YS'}�TANT16D—MIN AS COUNTY RE-
. PRIaS.16N*7 ATIVES to handle won-
derful new gasoline -raver for Ford cars;
save ten cents ver gallon; excludil e
territory: write to -day for particulars,
Post Office Box 716. Toronto, Ont.
i'oTIZTnY WANTED
Y
HAT HAVE YOLT FOR SALE IN V Live Poultry. Fancy Hens. Pigeons.
Eggs etc.? Write I. Weinraueh & Son.
10-18 St. Jean Baptiste Market, Mont-
real. Que.
With the Fingers!
0
Says Corns Lift Out
°
e Without Any Fain
NC= SUIL1EILSI
i3TRITI FOR OUR FREE LOOK 00
Y House Plans. and information tell-
ing how to save from Two to Four Hun-
dred Dollars on your new Home. Ad-
dress Halliday Company. 23 Jackson
W.. Hamilton, Ont.
rax CSLLANEOUS,
Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
any kind of a corn can shortly be
lifted right out with the fingers if you
will apply directly upon the corn a few
drops of freezone, says ~a Cincinnati
thority.
°
(1A,y(8ER, TUMORS. LUMPS. ETC..
1,..) internal and external. cured with-
out pain by our home treatment Write
..b
Lome tedCoilingwo Be. lOnto Medical
SINCE le 1870
eJ ' 3STO'RCOUGHa"
A spider's web makes a good baro.
meter. When wind or rain is ahead,
the insect tightens up the web elong-
ating the filaments only when fine
weather is coming.
Winarrl's Liniment Cures Colds. Eta
The British Government made a
profit of £10,500,000 by insuning pro-
perty against aircraft and bombard-
ment risks; £13,610,000 was received
in premiums and only £2,970,000 paid
out.
THERE IS ONLY ONE
GENUINE ASPIRIN
ONLY TABLETS MARKED WITH
"BAYER CROSS" ARE ASPIRIN.
44,01444.1
If You Don't See the "Bayer Cross"
on the Tablets, Refuse Them—They
Are Not Aspirin At All.
Your druggist gladly will give you
the genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin"
because genuine Aspirin now is made
by Canadians and owned by a Cana-
dian Company.
There is not a cent's 'Worth of Ger-
man interest in Aspirin, all rights be-
ing purchased from the 'U.S. Govern-
ment.
During the war, acid imitations
were sold as Aspirin in pill boxes and
various other containers. But now you
can get genuine Aspirin, plainly
stamped with the safety "Bayer Cross"
—Aspirin proved safe by minims for
Headache, Toothache, Earache, Rheu-
matism, Lumbago, Colds, Neuritis, and
It is claimed that at small cost one Pain generally.
can get a quarter of an ounce of free- Heady tin boxes ot 12 tablets, also
zone at any drug store, which is suffi- larger "Bayer" packages.
tient to rid one's feet of every corn Aspirin is the trade mark, registered
or callus without pain or soeeness or
the danger of infection. in Canada, of Bayer Manufacture of
This new drug is an ether compound, Monoaoetic-acidester of Salicylicacid.
and while sticky, dries the moment it ' —
is applied and does not inflame or even
irritate the surrounding tissue.
This announcement w111 interest
many women here, for it is said that
the present high -heel footwear is put-
ting corns on practically every
woman's feet.
LEMONS WHITEN AND
BEAUTIFY THE SKiN.
Make this beauty lotion cheaply for
your face, neck, arms and hands.
At the cost of a small jar of ordinary
cold cream one can prepare a full quar-
ter pint of the most wonderful lemon
skin softener and complexion beauti-
fier, by squeezing the juice of two
flesh lemons intcl.,a bottle containing
three ounces of orchard white. Care
should be taken to strain the juiee
through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp
gets in, then this lotion will keep
fresh for months. Every woman
knows that lemon juice is used to
bleach and remove such blemishes as
freckles. sallowness and tan and is
the ideal skin softener, whitener and
beautifier.
Just try it1 Get throe 011.00es ot
orchard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer and make
up a quarter pint of this sweetly fra-
grant lemon lotion and massage it
daily into the face, neck, arms and
hands. It is marvelous to smoothen
rough, red Bands.
Clear Your Seal) and
Skin With Cutkkura
Aftcr shaving and before bathing
touch dandruff or irritation, if any,
with'Cuticura Orntmont, Wash all
off withCuticura Soap andhotwatcr,
usinglenty of Soap hest applied
with the hands. OneSoap for all
uses, shaving, shampooing, bathing.
Finally dust shaven parts with Cud -
tura Talcum, 'Ile Soap, Ointment
and Talcum sold everywhere.
ISSUE No. 34--'19,
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