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Surnames and Their Origin
MACKINNON.
Variations — MacKinney, Mackinning,
MacKinven, Love.
Racial Origin—Scottish.
Source—A given name.
The Gaelic form of names of the
Highland clan from which these family
names are derived is "(Mann Mhic
Pb iongllain. '
It is apparently one of the oldest of
Highland clans, belonging as it does
tb that group of clans which had their
origin in the ancient Clan Alpine, no
longer existent es such, and tracing
back to Kenneth afacAipi•n, whose pro-
genitors came over from Ireland with
the Dalriadic Scots, and who became
the first king of a united Scotland. The
chieftain from whom the clan takes its
name was Fingon, a grandson of Gre-
gor, who was a son of this king. The
clan name appears in various ancient
documents written in other tongues
than Gaelic es "MacFingon," MacFin-
non" and "Mackinnon," the last named
spelling having become the dominant
one in more modern times,
In the uprising of 1715 the clan was
akeeut for the Stuarts.
Tho forms Macltinney and MacKin-
ning are variations developed in the
lowland among members of the clan
who settled there.
In Kintyre the name became Mac-
Kinven, whence developed a fanciful
rendering in Gaelic, owing to the simi-
larity of sound, of MacIonl•mhuinn (pro-
nounced "Mac -Irwin"), which in turn
has been Anglicized by its fanciful
meaning into, Loveson or Love.
LESLIE.
Racial Origin—Scottish.
Source—A locality.
START RESTORATION WORK ON NELSON'S "VICTORY"
The famous old flagship, "The Victory," is being restored and preserved
by a fund subscrilled by British subjects all over the Empire. The work
was started when descendants of some of Nelson's officers pulled the ropes
that lifted the gilded figures on the bow from their places. The picture
shows the scene of the ceremony, just udder the Victory's bow,
Orchids.
To -day, in an Old. Folks' Home,
I saw a little, ofd` lady,
Rare as a winter violet,
Frail ase a bubble blown;
bar ninety years,
Her mind was clear as spring water,
In black eyes bright as a robin's
An ageless humta•r Shane.
I gave her a bumble of orchids
with a. purple ribbon,
Fragile, exquisite blaossoms—
Her eyes brimmed up with tears;
"Oh," she said whiff a stela,
I wish my motheroouad see them"
From the lips of ninety years!
I -ler mother!' How sweet, how far
away! All, God! If I might but just
—Mary Coles Carrington. !And hear the notes Of the whi
will
If We Had the Time.
If I had the time to find a place
And skit me down full face to face
With my better self, that stands no
show
IsThere a Man in the Moon?
Until recently it was thought that
the moon was a cold worn-out world
With no sign of life Upon its surface,
But.astronomere of today are inclined
to believe that life of some kind +nay
exist on our aatellte.
A short time ago an observer who
was Studying one of the meon's, vol-
clwuoee tbrougb a huge telescope was
amazed to see clouds of smokeand
steam coming from it. He was actual
ly witnessing an eruption in a crater
which scientists believed to have been
cold and dead far countless .thousands
of years.
So interested wail he that he kept a
very careful watch en other parts of
the moon's surface. Was any change
taking place? He began to suspect
something; then as night followed
night he became convinced that there
was a gradual slight alteration in the
color of certain parts, which could be
due to only one cause—the growth of
vegetation,
Three things are necessary for life
to be possible: air, water, and warmth.
Volcanic activity is a proof of the ,
existence of heat. The moon has no
atmosphere as dense as ours, but it is
believed that she may have a narrow,
surrounding envelope•of very thin air, s
which would be sufficient to maintain !
simple forms of vegetable life.
Water we have never seen on her I
surface, but it may be present in small
quantities' in some of the gigantic ex -
In my daily life that ruches so, tinct craters wwith which her whole
surface is studded.
It might he Been I would site my soul
Wassstumbling still toward the shin-
, lag goal—
Life on the moon would be very dif-
ferent from life on earth. We have a
I might be nerved by the thought dense blanket of air fifty miles or more
sublime,
If I had time!
If I arta the time to let my heart
Speak out and take in my life a part,
To look about and stretch a hand
in depth which shields us from the
sun's heat in the daytime and keeps ,
us from being excessively °old at l
night.
The moon's day lasts a. whale fort- ,
night, during which time the heat must
Toa comrade quartered in no -luck be terrific. Then conies the two weeks
land. ni
grit, when the cold must be intense
sit stili —a lunar thermometer would, in fact,
p -poor- , register more than 300 degrees of frost
1 at the coldest part of the long dark -
God's ' nese.
The answer to our question, then, is
clear. There is no elan in the moon,
The 01 the name of Leslie is a clan T IMPURE BLOOD
name of the Scottish Highlands, but
it originated far from the Highlands, ►
in Hungary.
The story of tbe wanderings of the
original Leslie, in. the eleventh cen-
tury, from his own barony beyond the
Hungarian frontier, through the num-
erous small and violent political units
into which Europe was divided in
those days, to the coast of Flanders,
followed by his embarkation for Scot-
land and final establishment in the
favor of the Scottish king, must have
made a striking romance. Unfortune-
ately only these meagre facts have
been preserved.
.Bartholomew de 1 esiyn came to
Scotland from Flanders, using as his
surname the name of the fortress in
Hungary over which he had been over-
lord.
It was Malsolm de "Leslie," a des-
cendant, who founded the Highland
clan bearing that name. This Mal-
colm had retained the.honors won by
his father at the court of• the Scottish
kings, and had added to them. Many
of the Highland clans were thus found-
ed by "foreigners," who gathered about
them followers of Gaelic blood, and
who usually ended, as was the case in
Ireland, by becoming more Gaelic than
the Gaels themselves.
Tho clan lands in Bathes, B•alien-
bredch. and Fife were acquired in the
thirteenth century by marriage.
KEEP CHILDREN WELL
DURING HOT WEATHER
Every mother knows how fatal the
hot summer months are to small child-
ren. Cholera infantum, diarrhoea,
dysentry, colic and stomach troubles
are rife at this time and often a pre-
cious little life is lost after only a few
hours illness. The mother who keeps
Baby's Own Tablets in the house feels
safe. The occasional use of the Tab-
lets prevent stomach and bowel trou-
bles, or if the trouble comes suddenly
—as it generally does -the Tablets
will bring the baby safely through.
They are sold by medicine dealers or
by mail at 25c a box from The Dr. Wil-
liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
A Trick of the Telegraph.
An inspecto-r of railway property
whose duties had taken him to Bridge-
port, Connecticut, discovered that the
foundation under the local freight
...amuse needed repairs. Without delay
be filed this dispatch to the New York
office:
"Foundation under freight house at
Bridgeport unsafe—rush men at once."
In sending the—message the operator
on the: New York w.ire apparently did
-not space the letters properly in the
w—"foundation" and also 'pressed
too long to form the letter "t"; for this
was the message received in New
York:
"Found a lion .under freight mouse
at Bridgeport unsafe—!tush men a2
once:;
The inspector was astonished a few
,pours later to gee a special work train
$come data the yard with a flat oar con-
taining a large animal cage and also
ten men who expected to have an ex-
citing time catch lg a 1.iioe 'that, they
supposed had escaped from some pass -
Ing circus.
Three hundred film actors and . act -
ranee were ti Bated in hospital in Los
Angeles last,; year for eye trouble
caused by the powerful arc lights used
Sri cinema tograph studios.
i 41nard's Linimont x,01 Vy Pi ielsiana
Linen from Lilies.
It is surprising how many of the
manners and products of the Stone
Age have, after centuries of disuse,
sprung into prominence again. -..
Linen, made previously from flax,
has for many years been growing dear-
er and scarcer, in proportion as the
flax plant has. become rarer and more
difficult to cultivate. This material
was used for wrapping purposes before
the days of the .Pharaohs.
Flax is the oldest of all cultivated
fibre plants and until the gitowth of
the cotton industry in the United
States superseded it, it was by far the
most important of the world's fibre
crops.
Before the war, the raw material
cost about $160 a ton, whereas to -day
it is priced at anything from $500 to
$750.
The eno
made it i
for flax should
• search
the flax lily
`mous demand for linen
mperative that a substitute
be found, and a vigor-
ousresuited in the adoption of
found in great abundance
in New Zeeland.
This plant
was introduced into Eng-
land as a garden flower more than half
a century ago. It was found easy to
propagate by reason of its bulbous
roots, which are easily divisible. Then
the ]eaves' were found to be fibrous,
and experiments yielded string and
cord. Later, the plant was found use-
ful for textile purposes.
After years 61 experiments by bot-
anists of the Royal Horticultural
Society and of Kew Gardens, the fibre
obtained from the leaf is now a rival.
to the vary best flax. The plant will.
grow admirably in such climates. as
those of Great Britain, New Zealand,
Tasmania, France, and Belgium, and it
is. no more difficult to cultivate than
ordinary garden lilies.The lily is far easier to cultivate
than fax itself, and it has a yield of
2,2401b. to an acre..
What think you the earth will 'be
like when the majority of men and
women in it learn that to be simple
and honest and true is the part of
wisdom, and that to work for Love
and Beauty is the highest good?
Means a General Weakness and
Loss of Health.
If people would realize the import-
ance of keeping the blood rich and
pure there would be less sickness. The
blood is the means through which the
nourishment gained from food reaches
the different parts of the body. If the
bleed is impure, the nourishment that
reaches the nerves, and, organs of the
body is tainted with poison and dis-
ease follows. The blood is also the
I medium by which the body fights off
disease. If the blood is thin and
watery the power of resisitance to dis-
ease is weakened. If you are weals
and run down, if your nerves are fray-
ed, if you lack ambition, have no ap-
petite, and are short of breath after
slight exertion, the trouble is almost
always due to poor blood. In cases of
this kind you should take Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills to build up the blood. They
help to enrich and purify the blood
from first to last dose, and in this way
bring new health and strength to
weak, rim -down people. Mrs. John
Timmons, Elmvale, Ont., tells of the
benefit Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were
to her, as follows:—"1 became very
weak and was hardly able to walk and
had to be helped upstairs. 1 had no
appetite and slept poorly at night. I
finally went to a doctor who told me
the trouble was lack of blood and that
my condition was serious. He gave
me medicine, which I toot faithfully,but did not improve. I was advised to
try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and did
so, and after I had taken two or three
boxes felt that they were helping me.
I could eat better, and I slept better.
I continued using the pills for some
time longer and quite recovered my
old-time strength and feel that I have
to thank Dr. Williams' Pink Pills that
I am not an invalid to -day."
You can get these pills through any
dealer in medicine, or by mail, post-
paid, at 60 cents a box, from+The Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont.
Not What He Expected.
. A local celebrity, visiting one of the
schools+ in a certain town, thought it
proper to ask the youngsters, a few
questions.
"Cam any little boy •or glad tell me,"
bre said, ianpu'etssively, "what is the
greatest of all the virtues?"
There wasnoereply.
"We will try it again," said the visit-
or. "What am I doing when I give up
my time Nnd pleasure to come and talk
to you in your school?"
"I know now, mister!" exclaimed
Johnny Smith, raising his band.
• """Well, what am I doing. little man?"
"Butlin' in!" was the startling re-
oinder.
When a seventh son is born in
Argentina the President of the Re-
public becomes his• godfather.
Dozens of feminine students in the
three great universities of Chile are
preparing for careers as dentists.
ISSUE .No. 27—'23.
I think ti -at m5 wish with
would rhyme -
11 I had time!
a Life is confined to plants which grew
If I had the time to learn from you at an enormous pace during the four-
How much for comfort my word could teen days of sun, and wither at once
do,
And I told you then of my sudden
Will
To kiss your feet when I did you i11; I
If the tears aback of the coldness'
feigned
Could flow, and the wrong be quite ex-'
plained—
Brothers, the souls of us all would
chime,
If we had the time.
—Richard Burton.
But Has Advantages,
Reggie—"One cawn't get very far
without brains."
CholIy—"But it has its advantages,
dealt boy.' I nevah have the slightest
trouble finding you, y' know."
Food for Thought.
The young lovetr had at last screwed
up his courage and was resolved to in-
terview his sweetheart's father` with-
out delay.
"Darling," he said to her. "I am go-
ing to ask him this very minute!"
"My brave boy!" slue murmured in
reply, ass he went off.
The girl wanted in suspense and at
last he returned looking very thought-
ful.
"Is it good news?" sti&a.•sked eager-
ly.
"I don't know," was the reply.
"John, what do you mean?"
"1 dont know whether he said 'Take
her, my bay,' or 'Take care, my boy!' "
MONEY ORDERS.
When ordering goods by mail send
a Dominion Express Money Order.
Did for the Family.
Grocer—"Did that watermelon I
sold you do for the vtshale family?"
Customer—"Very nearly. The doc-
tor is still calling."
Look Out, Here Comes Eddie!
"Eddie," said the father to a young
s•on found 'coasting in the street, "do
you look out for the autoanobiles?".
"No." replied Eddie cheerfully, "they
•have to look out for iiemlao1vaa
MI.rard'a Liniment for sale everywhere
An automatic aeroplane directed by
wireless was • recently tested in
France. Tho machine left the ground,
flew in various directions, and landed
successfully.
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"Right! Willie, what is a cone?"
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. Among the servants of the British,
Royal household Queen Mary has the,
reputation of being a kind and sympay'
thetic employer, but at the same time !
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MADE WELL
Mother Tells How Her Daughter
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