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Zurich Herald, 1923-10-25, Page 7SII 15(.' pPr pac•lecPt 8 lb lir\ arlereeleerenemee eee Axl, ee eeee ne eefeeiri '{`4 tatiak"eftrXimireks Ifyou 'roll your. OWN ask far, 'EEL @Ulf Gatis, label). Surnames an4 Their Origin SMALL Variations—Little,. Pettit, Lepetit." ;Racal Origin—English and French. `Source—A characteristic: Here is a family name, with varia- tions, which "means: just what it says." If you bear"this name you may WALDO. Racial Origin 'Gothic, French. Source -A given name. Here is a family name which does not ;sound English, a name borne by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and though it has been settled in England aa a fami- ly name for man*y centuries, it is not or ancient °period, 1 enters(! with `a sigh •o lief, Finally I hada refuge, Bat where was I? What was going to happen? I drew my lamp ;trona MY' eeket and walked ahead. There was a long ital3stlgeevay—than to the lett tl furn•iehea roam. 1 • allied aloud tQ awaken the eccupante, No voice re- epon4led, The house was. empty. Since I was the solepassessor for the niglit and there was little change that the owners would return in such weather, I decided to install myself ae comfort- ably as possible and go to sleep I -found °tipper eandiestices' on a man- tel -piece; I lighted the candles. In the rrrom .were (emirs•,..a table .and a Peasant clothee closet. But all the furniture seemed ter have been :chosen by a City person with rustic taste rath- er than by country people. "It Is, a lucky chance which brought me Here," I said to myself,. "At dawn I shall get out, for after tbat 1 might net find a weloome," The tempest raged outside. I was so tired that I closed ,rny eyes as soon ae 1 sat down on the bench which -I intended to make my couch, and I thought I was dreaming when I heard these words: "What are you doing: la, my house?" I gave a start. No, it was. not a dream. Two steps away was a. woman who, .a candlein her hand, was ex- amining me curiously. r ,1II, "You came to rob me?" 84 4 'BRITISH WARSHIPS TO TOUR WORLD. Five light cruisers of the type shown in the picture are to start in Novena ler. on a tour of the world in which outlying parts of the Empire will'be visited. The ships. will include the Delhi, the Dauntless, the Danae, the Dragon and the Dunedin. They will be commanded by Sir Hubert G. Brand, it1lEUMITIC SUFFERERS May Obtain Relief by Enriching •the Blood Supply, the days of our fathers and grand- fat•hers,` rheumatism was thought to be :she;, unavoidable penalty of .middle -.She •spoke so audaciously and had lifeand old age. Almost every elderly the air of being so little frightened my p,ereens had rheumatism, "as well ds presence that 'I did not know .what inainy young people, It was thought that 'rheumatism was the mere effect 'of exposure to .cold and damp, and it was treated with liniments and hot' .ap1sl'ieations, which Sometimes gave temporary relief, but ;lid not remove the trouble. In these days there were many cripples. •. Now, medical science understands that rheumatism is a dis- ease of the blood, and that with good ;rich red blood any man or woman of »:ny,age can defy rheundatism. There are many elderly people who have never felt 'a: twinge of rheumatism, and ;many who have conquered it 'by simply- keeping their blood rich and pure, The<bloocl enriching qualities of "Don't be afraid. It is not for you. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills is becoming to answer and contented myself with looking at her closely. She was a young woman and very good-looking, as far as I could judge, for -tee water was streaming from. her clothes. Her leeks, escaping from' lander -her hat, were matted against her •cheeks. • But even so, nothing could :alter the ;purity of her profile, and I could see her wide blue eyes glitter like two pale sap- phires. ' - " Well," she continued, "are you afraid?" As she . said this, she drew a revol- ver from herrpocket: I Jumped ' up. "But,. madamoieelle"— It is for me. So I` am going to give be sues that the particular ancestor of you a piece of advice If you want to an English name. keep out of trouble and avoid being yours who first bore -it was a small it is traceable to no given ;names man—unless, 'perhaps, he was proms- •among either tate Anglo-Saxons or the accused of a crime, go away I intend Norman French, nor to any other to kill myself. And if they know that tient for his great size. At any rate, you spent the night here"— be was not of medium build, likely source in the language' of those . I was sure that she was not joking: Some people find it difficult to con- ceive how such a surname as this can . develop into a hereditary family name. They grant that it was natural to speak of a John who was little, as "John Little," or "Little John," But they don't understand by what law or rule all his :descendants have borne it, for in the first place .the name was merely deseriptive'of the individual. '. Well to 'begin with, not more than every year more widely known, and the,more general use of these pills has robbed .rheumatism' of its terrors. At the first sign of poor blood, which is. shown by loss of .appetite, dull skin and dim eyes, protect yourself against further :-ravages of disease by taking peoples. On the. other hand, it is She expressed herself calmly, without Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They have traceable genealogically, through the •'helped thousands—if you give them a settling in England of a family bear- bravado and toyed with the eweapontoyed in. ing that name, to a certain merchant her hand as•, she er necklace: ave of Lyons named Peter Waldo, who in with a pendant to her nacllacea the twelfth century attracted consider- "You want to kik yourself?" able attention for his denial of the "Yes." church's doctrine of transubstantia- "For reasons •which don't interest ion, and his translation of tne gospels ,`„ into French, or rather the Provencal' 'you• • language. Nevertheless, what justifies` you in With; this clue it is not difiicuIt to kill.g_no. m if?” "leo—no. moralizing.If you'laleae+e- a verb* s'malr.perceiitagaof-theePersons- exace hisettently lea7.i e (and this- was There is samstliing ,so ridiculous , zi itiizs c.I:as,;, like society, its Iaws of to' whom the name was `descriptively just the period when -family names our dialogue at this hour d1cu1 -Mathis- prorizsie and etiquette. t . applied passed it on to their children. were beginning to cone into exist -our dl thatoI almostthis feel like leaving What is genius - else than a priestly` 'anally names did not develop` sudden- ence) to a given name' among the ly. They took form gradually, over Goths. Comparatively little is known the road,' soul: you here and killing myself outside on power revealing God to the human period .of tines centuries or more, of the language of this Teutonic race In one family the name might have be- which domtnated all southern Europe come hereditary in the twelfth cen- after smashing the Roman Empire, for tory, in another in the fourteenth. both the language and the customs of Then, too, it Is not uncommon for the the Goths gave way rapidly before the, children of small parents, to be small. superior civilization which they con - Po a man's son might be called Little, quered and settled themselves into. not sq much because his. father bore Their nomenclature, however, persist the name, as' because he, too,` actually ed, exerting a powerful influence on was undersize. • As the strongest evidence that" the names Little and Small developed from this descriptive source, we have the 'corresponding names, of Pettit and Lepetit in French. Lepetit leaves no possible doubt, being a combination of -"le" and:"petit"-"the small."; fair trial they will not disappoint you. You rtan get 'these pills through any dealer in medicine or by mail at 60 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Timely Thoixghts. G;©nius . does nothing without reason. xiusic uta, be termed the univereal -juge of mankind, '� "But it is raining too hard. You Music .isnever stationary, -succes- want to shoot yourself, but you are sive forms. and .styles are only like so afraid of the rain!" many resting places on the road to the " "It is true', And now, go. I beg ideal. you, leave Hie hese alone You dont A sympathetic recognition is as know me. What :difference does it, cured to everyone. who concentrates snake to you if I kill myself? At my' his art to the divine service of a con- age, when one is tired of life, it is be- vection of a nonsolousness. God amid Religion. 1 wish it were possible to speak of God without the implication of dealing that of modern France and Italy, cause one has suffered in love. The. The given Hams in question appar ,Haan whom I loved has just deserted ently was• derived from the Gothic me, 1n spite of my tears. Tani indif- word "Valdan," and signified "one ferent to everything. I"can neither who rules." Names ending In see smile nor weep. i ask your pardon vita religon. By this I mean that 1 wereas typical of the Goths and the for sending you away. But it must be. am.anxious to keep religion out of Franks as those ending in ."a" were. of Go. Continue your jou.r'ney. Think of this', subject of the •conquest of fear. the Anglo-Saxons. me until the dawn. And •swear : to me The minute you touch on religion, as that you will never tell any one what com;uionly understood, you reach the 111111-iiii' TABLETS . 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It is. sight, which peers far he- The southwest wind blew in squalls was _ use. remorse, as if men could hear me, I straw litter about 6 inches sleep for. cjind the physical eye's vision, a aczross lite country; •ferning me to slop 1 mysel fat the door. The flames them to exercise In. feed grain in the courier which leads the way, opens to calcis my breath, I was not :dis- hur ed y r seas beyond the ob.- of the candles threw fitful shadows on Jitter night and morning, and above the closed door,, Y coura.gad until the rain began to fall all, feed at regular times, not 7 a.m. stacles, and points to the path which in torrents, blindingHie and almost the wall: 7 Pistoned, All was silence, ' spiritual faculties could not I saw her stretched on the bench on toddy and noon ` to -morrow, the less spwhich I )tad lain l had arrived too. see. THE INTRUDER By Rene Bizet Translated by William L. McPherson you have seen. sectarian. ' The minute you reach the She- put the weapon and the candle sectarian you start enmities. The on the table. She pushed me out and 'mineteyou start enmities you get men - slammed the door violently` behind tal discords. The minute you get men - me. tal discords no stand against fear is possible: Basil King, in "The Con- quest et Fear."; Good All Year Egg Pro- duction. I know that1 ought to have resist- ed, that I ought to have defended her against her folly. But I had neither e. the time nor the' strength to do so. I was eighteen years old. For the We had talked but a fe�v minutes, and S W. Knife: first time I was tree. My parents had the scene which I had passed through . was. so strange and Bo unexpected that Now is 'tine time to get your birds in- allowed me to make a' trip alone out on the road I hardly knew if it to winter Quarters. They'•should be through the country. For a whole had not been all a dream. I walked fully matured by this time, and to month I could realize nay dream of ahead abstractedly in the rain and start off in the race for high egg pro - rambling over the, Breton roads, my nand. 1 paid"no attention to the howl- duction for the year, should- have a ing of the wind. I tried to keep on. certain amount of surplus flesh and lit aabou on le back, without worrying nay feet and to plunge through the fat.'' There is no particular secret in ingundet rthe stars of the and eatingsleempy 'darkness, ' I remembered nothing. getting late Fail and Winter eggs: g Stumbling against a steno and al -The essential factors are good stock, breadoonet the bank� re a aiu, most falling over it restored e to my well ,matured (geet mongrels, as they m -... _ - Snmetinaes I was tired and condi- cost more to keep and pay less divid- able. of travel afoot were not favor.. senses, My memory. came back, ale. 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"Oh, Arthur," eke gasped, "that great, heavy grandfather clock in the hall just crashed down on the spot where I was. standing only a minute ago!" Jimson did' not seem to be greatly agitated at the news, and only mur- mured: "H'm! I always said that clock was slow!" Keep Minard's Liniment In the house. Tacti ess. "Tact, said the lecturer, "is essen- tial to good .entertaining. I once dined at a" house where the hostess had no tact. Opposite me sat a modest, quiet man. "Suddenly ed ns „;s40,4,.. star on.hearing "his "ylostess' say' t=he husband, 'How inattentive you. are, Charlie) 'You must look after Mr. Brown better. He's helping himself to everything." Son, ^ don't wait to be a great man —be a great boy.—The Watchman. 1 NIGHT,, ' MORNING KEEP YOUfei EYES, �pw+s. a�..r1i'i' 4J E.EA.F1. ANL' I•i kAL'JCRS1 [00506 YOR L'1.0a a: a cAaG 0000. 6f001Nt100.etaaa00,004 America's Pioneer Dog Remedies Book on DOG DISEASES and. How to Feed bt4.ited Bre, to any Address by the Author. H. 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