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BIRTH OF JOHN MILTON
Three hundred and eighteen eears
ago, on the 9th December, 1608,
John Milton, the great epic pot and
prose writer, was born in the City
of London, his father being a wealthy
scrivener.
It was originally intendTThatho
should become a clergyman, and he
was educated at St. Paul's School
and Cambridge University. While
at Cambridge he wrote a large num-
ber of poems which attraeted con-
siderable attention, and when he left
the university he abandoned tLe idea
of entering the Church and deckled
to devote his life to litereaure. He
was only 25 years ox ages when he
wrote "Arcades" and "Comes", and
had he written nothing else these two
works would have entitled hint to a
place among the immortals.
At the outbreak of the great Civil
War he was recognized as the fore-
most writer of the day, anI he we.
the first man of note outside P:rlia-
ment, to openly attach himself to
the Commonwealth cause, which he
defended and glorified by his mighty
talents, his unrivalled eleem•nce and
hie uneerproachable learniog.
At the restoration of the Monar-
chy in 1660 Milton found nimeelf the
rest hated man in Beitam f r it
was the powerful aeguments set out ;
in his "Defence of the Enelieh Peo-
ple" that had justified the execution ;
mi King Charles I throughout Eur-
ope. How he escaped the seaffold is
a mystery, for a price was it upon
his head and his writ'ngs were pub -1
hely burned, but it 14 bOlieVad that
he was saved through the influence of 1
Sir William Davenanr, the Poet Laur-
eate, who stood hig'i in the new .
king's favor. This is quite possible,
for Davenant owed Milton a good
turn, as during the Civil War the
former had been made a prisoner and
was only saved from execution hy
the intervention of Milton, who was .
the sole survivor amine the promin-
ent men who had championed the.
Parliamentary cause in the great
struggle between the Crown end the
people.
It wrta when he was old and peer
and blind, and living amidst the de-
baucheries of the Restoration, that
Milton commenced to write his mas-
terpiece, "Paradise Lost," the most
popular and famous of his many
works, For many years he had mac -
over the theme of this superb
poem, but it was not until the great
cause, for which he had labored se
strenuously through the best years of
his life, was lost that he was able to
find time to give expression to the
wonderful thoughts which had pos-
sessed him for so long.
The copyright of this wonderful
poem, an imaginative word picture
in blank verse of the fall from
grace of Adam and Eve and its con-
sequences, was sold by Milton for
the sum of five pounds in cash, a
payment of another five nouns after
the sale of the first edition of 1,300
copies. and the promise of two addi-
tional —ate n'' five pound each after
the se' ;:f • • more editionof the
same -.eine a total of twenty
poumi ;n ell. "Paradise Lost" was
compl in 1664, but its publica-
tion r- delayed for over three years
owing the fear of the authorities
to lest. the requisite Beene° to a
writer had played such a. protein
ent part in the cause of the Common-
wealth Govermnent.
Milton died on the 8th November,
1774, at the age of 66, ana was laid
to rest in tbe Chureh of St. Giles at
Cripplegate.
_AMBITIOUS VINE
"Me friend 'ere wants a cli-
matic vine, same as yuh aold
"Don't you mean a clematis?
We have no climatic vinee."
"Nuthin' else'll do. If it won't
climb to the attic I'll not have
YOUTHFUL EFFICIENCY
"Auntie, will you please waih
my face "
"Why, Bobbie, I thought you
could do that yourself."
"Well, I can, but I'd have to
get my hands wet and they don't
need it,"
ae a.
TO FIT THE OCCASION
As a disciplinary measure it
was customary in one housiehold
to malc;: the offending. member
eat alone at a small table in the
corner and repeat a yerse from
the Bible.
On one occasion, whil; the
other members of the family
were assembled at the dinner
table, the little boy in the cor-
ner was asked for his Bible quo-
tation. Ile solemnly offered the
following: "Thou preparest a
table before me in the presence
of mine enemies."
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we lift it. We gethee with covered eruct; to keep Sun off it.
We pay a Premium of 1 emit per lb. butter -fat for Spec-
ials river that of No, I grede, aml 8 cents per lb, butterefat for
No, 1 grade over tbet of No. 2 grade,
The bnein prineiple 1,1 the improveme.ot in the quality of
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of geed cream a better prase per pound of !niter -ft than le
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From the Past
Weller
OTTILIA FRANICES PFEIFFER
Bride of a month, mated to a man
she devotedly loved, mistress of a
beautiful home, Arline Ward sat
cronehed back In the darkest corner of
her boudoir staring aghast, heart
stricken, at a letter that seemed to
seal her doom.
"Oh, to blot nut that foolish, reck-
less our la the past!" her trembling
lips repeated woefully over and -over
again.
In memory she saw herself the
daughter of a man of means, the belle
of the seminary where she was a gen-
eral favorite. Young, confiding, inex-
perienced in the ways of the world,
she had met and fancied she loved a
man she had met Incidentally. He
had told her that he was Roger Der-
went. He had saved her from being
run down by a speeding automobile,
being himself slightly btart to the res-
cue. Interest, sympathy la and for a
haadsome, Pleating face had bed ease- to
meeting him clandestinely. He had
made love furiously, and ese
that fatal tiny! ever &maned, St
aotatzed, to standees att Itteet cabeadue.
Ile hiad tad her that he vas called
to n distance to settle up ea estate.
He had pleaded for a aecret marriage
—the was to steal to the city, a beta
essessouy, an immediate parting, she
to hasten back to the seminary before
sbe wa$ missed, he to return In a few
months and go to her father and claim
his bride.
It was only after Roger Derwent
was gone that Arline Ward compre-
hended that there had been no depth
to the affection she had believed she
felt for hem She had been dazzled,
led to confide tu a num who had spe-
ciously developed her gratitude into
what she fancied w -as love, She was
'dumbfounded and frightened every
time she thought of the rush deed of
which She had been guilty, Then one
day two months litter her soul froze
With terror, a muneless dread, as she
read in a daily print of the eapture of
a notorious counterfeiter, Roeer Her -
went, and from the tlescription she
recognized beyond the shadow of a
doubt the identity of her husband.
A few weeks later she received a
letter 1111(1/.0,41,4'd to her maiden name
at the seminary. It was signed "Roger
Derwent," and the contents chilled and
crushed her. Audavionsly the man di-
vested himself of all delicacy and
shame, He told her that he WaS In
prison, that he had married her be-
cause lit her father's weelth, that he
had been sentenced to ten years penal
servitude and that she must send a
thousand dollars to it friend at a cer-
tain address or he would cover her
with contumely and repro:eh.
-Arline managed to obtain the money
and sent it as directed. She sold some
of her jewelry, she drew upon her fa-
ther for fictitious wants and there was
O period of half relief, hut always the
gnawing dread of Inter exactions in,
mind. Then one day she read in a
newspaper where Roger Derwent, 11)
attempting to escape. lupi been shot by
O guard while etvinnning in a river
and drowned.
"Free!"
nun was the one thrilling paean of
deliverance that -seemed to herald In a
new life. Arline loft school. Her fa-
ther lost his fortune and died. Then
she was wooed and won by Harold
Ward, the brother of her clesest girl
friend, and she realized that true love
had become her portiou at last,
Anti now!
A letter just delivered was signed
"Roger Derwent." and in the same
handwriting as the one she had first
received. It told her that he had
really escaped guard and river. He
informed her that he had 'minuet of
her second and illegal marriage and
demanded a steeled thousand dollars
to he sent to the same address he lied
named to her nearly two years previ,
ous.
It was hours before Arline could
arouse herself from the lethargy of
dark despair into which she had been
cast without n seeming ray of hope.
There were hut two clear thoughts in
her mind—filight from the home and
man she loved and whose life she had
blighted, and then—self-destruction,
Arising to put her plan into execu-
tion the terrible strain of the hour car-
rier] her down as from a lightning
strike, first to Insensibility and then
into a raging delirium of weeks.
"Oh, et last, thank heaven! Arline
—Arline, do you know me?" and as one
emerging from a blur ef mist, Arline
looked up into the face of her hus-
band's sister. She was In her own
home, there was nothing but love, ten-
derness, welcome fn the anxious,
yearning face of Irma Ward.
"Ffarold I" breathed Arline weakly
—and then the past! "The man who
has come between us!"
"Alle-all of that is ora of your life,
poor, dear euffering darling! Har-
old started to explore the meaning of
that terrible letter you received. Ile
found that rigger Derwent had been
dead for two YearS, thitt hls knavish
lawyer, who had written the first let-
ter, was the author of the eecend also.
Are you strong enough to have Har.
old tell you that the dark secret of
year life is, hurled fathoms deep and
all your future golden and beautiful,"
and, tel Arline nodded feebly, Harold
Ward came into the room and en-
folded her In Ills strong, steltering
A nutmeg may be great, but SWIM
or later it will Meet a grater..
THE BRUSSELS POST
TRENTON MAN IS
VERY GRATEFUL
SAYS THAT " FRUIT-A-TWES "
STOPPED NERVOUS HEADACHES
MR. R. A. BOVAY.
Mr. Roy A. Bovay of Trenton, Ontario,
thinks very highly of "Fruit-a-tives" for
removing the cause of nervous headaches.
'I wish I coeld tell every sufterer in the
world what 'Fruit-a-tives' have done for
men—he writes—"For years I was much
troubled by bad headaches, nervous dys-
pepsia and liver troubles. Then I com-
menced taking 'Fruit-a-tives', Thanks to
these wonderful tablets I am once more
entirely well."
Are you, too, afflicted with nervous head-
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to lazy bowels, stomach, kidneys or liver.
What you need is the gentle, natural help
of "Fruit-a-tives" which is made from
intensified fresh fruit juices blended with
tonics. "Fruit-a-tives" is nature's own
ally in promoting health and happiness.
Enlist its aid for yourself, to -day. 25c
and 50e, everywhere.
LESSONS FROM THE YEAR'S
WORK
There wome appear to be some
lessons in beekeeping that are very
difficult to learn and the failure to
learn them is costing the beekeeping
industry of Canada large sem; of
money every year. One of the nmet
important and most costly lessonis
the one on "wintering," During the
post winter a large number of col-
onies died in eastern Canada through
lack of proper preparation for the
winter. In addition, many more
wore seriously weakened from the
same cause. Occasionally there comes
a winter that is very severe on bee
life and, unless the bees are thor-
oughly prepared for such a winter,
the loss will be heavy. As there is
no means of foretelling just what the
winter is going to be like, the only
alternative, if we wish to play safe,
is to prepare the bees each fall so
they may survive the hardest winter.
We have also learned that sugar
syrup 18 thel safest feed for bees dur
ing the winter months. Hundred,: of
colonies that went into winter quar-
ters last year with anywhere from
forty to sixty pounds of late -gathered
honey, starved to death before spring
because this honey granulated ;Mal
in the combs. Another lesson of the
past season is that in a lean year,
such as was experienced in eastern
Canada in 1926, only etrong colonies
of bees are able to gather a surplus
of honey. This means that, in ad-
dition to wintering well, the colonies
must be headed with good prolifie
queens from the time brood -rearing
starts in the spring until at least the
first week of the main honey flow
and that no check must occur in
brood production during that time,
This, of course, holds true in any
SOELS011 but more SO in a poor OM.
WHAT'S YOUR ANSWER'?
If you want a little competition
take a pencil and paper an i write
the names of Brusels people to suit
the following:
The laziest man?
The best vocalist?
The earliest riser?
The oldest persony
The biggest crank?
The richest citizen? '
The hardest worker?
The most popular resident?
The shrewdest business resin?
Who has the largest family?
Who is the biggest grouch?
Who attends church the most?
Who attends the most funerals'
Who is the most sarcastic man?
Who is the most genial snan to
meet?
Don't send them' in to ue--we are
not looking for a battle.
RUNNING EXPENSES
"How's the 71OW car go, Bort?"
"Fine, but it costs a lot to
keep it up."
"Oh, and how are the wife
and daughter?"
"Just the same, thank you."
LAST SHOULD BE FIRST
"Is it not peculiar that the
encores are so much more enjoy-
able than the listed numbers on
the program?"
"Se itmeh so that I think they
should sing them Arst,"
IN CLIFF AND TREE -TOP
QUEER HABITATIONS Olif HUMAN
BBINOS.
Eskimo Lives In Snow -Rut, Indian
In Wigwam tutd Pueblo, Turco -
roans Carry Villagos -with Them
when Triteening.—Troe Ihrollers
One of the strangeet human habi-
tations is the enow-hut which is often
the home of the Eskimo of Greenland
during the culd, :lark days of the
.Aactic winter. In the shape of half
O globe, it is built of slabs or bricks
cut out of frozen snow and slightly
tapered, forming an aroh ring, 80
that they are wedged together by
their own weight. In this curious
chamber the inmates live in warmth
if not in comfort.
The wigwam of the North Amer-
ican Indian is also in many respects
decidedly curious, The wigwam pro-
per, which is built by tribes Bering
about the Great Lakes and eastward,
oonaists of a framework of saplings
set In the ground and bent inwards to
form a rounded root, and severely
lashed 4.0g -ether by means oe vrithies
or thetigs, the whale being coyered
with /sheets of birch bark,
Soieth of Otto bireh-tree region, the
wire am is replaced by the tepee,
wicklup, ki, haven, and pueblo. The
first of these is a tall, ooneeehaped
tent of buffalo or other skins. The ,
second Is built of shrubbery, usually
wattled. The kt 15 the gra.sa house
of the prairies and deserts. The
began is an earth lodge constructed
by the Indian tribes of NAVAJO, while
the pueblo la another name for the
well-known atone abode of Mexico,
Mention of the pueblo brings to
recollection the marvellous cliff -
dwellings of Arisona, Now Mexico,
and Colorado, for It eras the race who
constructed these by vrhotn the pue-
blo was first developed. The pueblo
Is an odd-looking structure, usually
three storeys high, and, at the base,
three rooms deep. The second storey,
however, is only two rooms deep, and
the top storey only one room. Seen
from the country behind it the build-
ing looke like an ordinary flat -roofed
house with perpendicular walls, but
seen from the courtyard which it en-
closes, it appears terraced, the
storeys forming a succession of steps
like those of a gigantic stairway.
Another peculiarity about the pue-
blo is that the rooms are entered by
means of trapdoors in the ceilings,
reached by ladders from tier to tier.
Some pueblos exeeed five hundred
feet in length, and contain ns many
as a hundred rooms. In aUdition to
these terraced habitations, the people
who first constructed them had cities
of refuge high up in caverns in the
sides of the lofty neighboring cliffs,
Fere:mei like swallows' nests uPrn
the face of the wen -nigh IMITonell-
eular precipices which rise to u
height of over a thousand feet on
each side of the upper eonrse of the
San Juan and lantern, two rivers of
Colorado, the ruins ef theancient
cliff -dwellings may still be seen.
The Threw -flans, who dwejl on the
eastern shore.: of the Caspian Sea,
are a nomadic folk like the Incliens
of North America., and, like the let-
ter, they carry their villager, about
with them wherever they en. Their
settlements, hnwever, ere not merely
camps, but real villages, Otto enits
whieh compose them being portable
houses, and not tente.
These travelling houses are con-
structed with marvellous akin and
ingenuity, and are so light and com-
pact when packed for a journey that
they as' e easily carried by a cemel.
The natives of certain parts of
New Guinea are literally more at
home amid the branches of the forest
than on the ground beneath. Not
only can they climb like monkeys and
travel long distaneen by swinging
themselves from beugh to bough, but
they actually build their houses itt
the tops of the tallest trees they can
and.
With their rude tomahawIts of
stone they lop off the limbs of wane
stately teak or cedar at a short dis-
tance from the trunk, and upon the
mutilated stumps construct a strong
platform of bamboos. Upon title
platform the Minnie dwelling is erect-
ed, It frequently contains several
rooms, and to reach it it is necessary
to climb the tree or to mount a long
ladder made of vines, which dangles
from the bamboo platform,
In this lofty retreat the builder
and his wife and children— to say
nothing of bls parrots, poultry, and
pet pigs, of which he has always
quite a number — can dwell in com-
parative safety. Safe from the at-
tacka of human foes and savage
beasts, they are also high above the
low-lying bad air which causes fevers
D:collesisict<1.3t:ess, while the mosquito and
the ant likewise leave them un-
it is for much the sante reason
that the fisher folk of Lake Mara-
eaybo, in Venezuela, inhabit the sin-
gular dwellings in which they live.
For the mosquitoes and other Insect
pests which are produced in millions
in the marshy and wet lands which
surround the shores of the beautiful
lagoon never fly very far from land,
and therefore by building his house
in the middle of the water the oc-
cupier is able to escape from their
very itudesirable attentions, Accord-
ingly he forms a foundation by driv-
ing a number of piles Into the muddy
bed of the lake, aud having construct-
ed on top of them it fairly solid plat-
form, proceeds to erect the rude, tent -
like sanctum which he dignifies; with
Otto name of dwelling,
The lake -dwellers' home, however,
Is quite an elaborate bending com-
pared with the shelter that serves the
aborigine of Australia. This is really
nothing but a great.noet, and is made
by disposing a number of lea&
boughs round a space of ground vary-
ing in extent with the size of the
family Who intend to occupy it,
The bushman of Africa is aisle a
nest -blander, but his tett is provided
with a rude form et canopy made by
intertwining the. twigs of a -clump of
bushes and drawleg their tops to-
et:In:tee ouvry71,0I:thisg a.;veenaoyves, snug-
ly lined with grass, loaves, Isseol, or
it
other soft materials, for the bushman
If You Produce Good Crea
at 1 want the best results under the now Grading 'System,
ship your Cream to THE PALM CREAMERY, Our Creamery
will be operated 21. hours a clay in the hot weather, and
your Cream will be in our Creamery and Graded 15 minutes
after arrival in Palmerston. Thus assuring the farmer who
produoes good Cream the best possible Grade and Price,
We loan our Patrons cans and pay cash for each can of
Cream received. You can ship o» any train any day and be
assured of prompt delivery and pay, Send us a trial oan
to -clay.
TIE Palm Cr3amery Co. - Palmerston, Elot.
FIGHTS A GOOD FIGH
tIon. William F. Nickle K.C. for-
mer Attorney -General, wbo, contest-
ing Kingston and Portsmouth as a
supporter of the Ontario Temper-
ance Act, was defeated by the Gov-
ernment ctontrol
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WINTER SPORTS IN CANADA
How many of our summer visitors
, know the thrill of a Canadian win-
ter? To those who delight in brac-
ing air and the pleasure of winter
sports, to thoee in search of new
and unexpected scenes of winter
beauty, Canada extends a hospitable
welcome.—Chas. Stewart, Minister
of Interior.
Canada has always been noted for
its winter sports. From the earliest
times skating, tobogganing, and snow -
shoeing have had their devotee4 and
with the increase in the arban popu-
lation and the greater need for out-
door exercise to offset the strain of
the close application to indoor pur-
suits these forms of sport have been
supplemented by ski-ing, curling,
ice -boating and hockey. These sports
provide such a wide ranga that both
sexes front chi4dhood to old ago can
take part in at least one of them
with zest and benefit. Hockay is the
• most strenuous of gaines; curling is
Iakin to golf in its appeal and and its
physical demands; whereas skating,
snowshoeimt, ski-ing and tobogganing
can be as strenuous or as leisurely as
the partleipant desires. Ice -boating
demands rather unusual facilities in
the way of great expanses of -smooth
snow -free ice, but, where conditionz
are favorable, it provides thrills
comparablt only to those of flying.
All these sports develop skill, ease,
and grace, and all promote a
strength of body and a love of the
outdoors that are assets throughout
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life,
Physicians are now agreed that the
avocation, hobby, or sport should be
so different from\ the vocation a; to
provide a complete and pleasurable
change for both mind and body, and
this Canada's winter sports do for
the average man. It is for this rea-
son that, in addition to the thousands
who take part for, the joy of the
sport, thousands more come in on the
advice of their physicians, and it it
no mere figure of sipeeeh to say that
both these classes find the winter alt
to short to accomplish what they de-
sire to do.
The best of it all is that these
sports all tend to develop players
rather than spectators. Everywhere
young people are joining the ranks;
everywhere there is room for the
novice and the 'learned. And, even
though one may not take part in
high-class hockey or in ski-jumping
contests, no one who has learned to
skate or to ski every becomes too
old to enjoy the delightful senemiofl
of einoothly gliding with scarcely
perceptible effort over the surface of
the earth and picturesque scenes of
winter beauty, the enjoyment of
evhich is heightened by the sparkling
sunlight and the tang of the pine -
scented air.
It is because of these 7aried ap-
peals that Canada's winter snorte
constantly inereasn in popularity and
attract a steadily growing, throne of
devotees from Canadian communities
and from those beyond our bound-
aries.
"WHEREAS"
(Submitted as a possible substitute
for "Because" and "Until," to be
sling at weddings.)
Whereas I met you long .19;0,
Whereas I loved you when We
met,
My dear, I fah; would have yen know
In spite of all, T love you yet.
After :nature, unbiased thought,
I1 am at least prepared this day
To take you, and I think yea ought
Gladly to promise to obey.
1 Whereas the years to come may tend
1 Toward mutual disillusionment,
My socks you may omit to mend,
! Or in my shirt -repair the rent;
-1 may not prove Al at Lloyd's,
You may neglect to dust or sweep;
may develop adenoids
I And labour, somewhat in my sleep.
However, dearest, come what may
Whether as breadwinner or nurse,
Remember that thou did'st this day
Take ine for bettor or for worse.
Our life may turn out dull and gray,
Cr steeped in matrimonial jazz,
To -morrow le not yesterday,
I warned you, dear, I said,
"Whereas."
ROGER B. ,PRIESTMAN.
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