The Seaforth News, 1923-07-05, Page 7t'.
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STORIES OF WELL-
KNOWN PEOPLE
The Prime Minister's Story.
l\4r,' Stanley Baldwin and. Mr. Rud -
yard Kipling are cousins, anti I once
heard the former, before he became
Premier, toll a good story about trier
author. It appears that a woman Wase
tlitscueeing the 17n.giish language with
IC i11ing. .
-"Don't yon teller It strange, Mr,
•ICipltng," she sia•id; wee superior wis-
dom, that sugar is the only .word to
the ,Dnglish• lahguage where an `s' and
a et' conte together and are pronounced
eh"?"
`Mr. Ktpling's eyes, twinkled as he `
answered: "Sure!''.!
The Farmer's Boy.
The Hon, John Olives', now Prime
Minister of British Columbus, was in
his youth a Devonshire farmer's boy.
Born in Hartington, in Derbyshire,.
ho began work as a f?irnler's boy. He
was hal d-werleing ,oriel thrifty. When
he married be emigrated to Canada,
T
Usere he succeeded �
s ado
dill.. -.n
uua
i ass, and
ed later mitered politics. Now. he. has
crowns ar
d a career of many successes
• by reaching the •tightest office in" the
land,
nd
11Sir Alfred's Tip;
reAlfred Butt, M.P., one of the,
ers of`the Tax on Betting Coin-,
used to wear a shilling on his
-ch
sin and this
,is how he earned
e years ago the Lord Mayor of
en gave a reception to mayors
ma
r
1
yoa•essess, and Sir Alfred was
among the iidditional guests.
Noticing a couple who looked rath-
er out of it, he made himself civil,
fe cl n
t d g tea and so forth. Then he
overheard Mr. Mayor say, "This, young
man Inas been very attentive; I shall
give him half a 'crown."
"Non -sense, John," .retorted Mrs•,
Mayor; "a shilling will be quite
enough,"
Canadians and Rabbits.
Mr. W. H. Coverdale, president of
the Canada Steamsbip Lines, during
his long sojourn in the -United States
once found himself travelling' beside
an Australian.
T suppose,"
„
suggested d Mr
Cover-
idale during their conversation, "yon
have a good many Canadiauns. i'n Ass-
tralla.?"'
"Canadians?" he replied vaguely.
"0'h, yes. But rabbits are our worst t
pest."
Royal Fire Fighter.
The trio of fire-budeets wbiich, curie
may, came to . the Duke of York:
among his wedding presents, no doubt
reminded him of his grandfather, King
Edward, who in his younger days as
Prince of Wales, had a perfect .craze
for turning out at every big Landon
fire. Often, to their no small embar-
rassment, rue would insist •on helping
the firemen at their perilous work. The
love of wetting danger for its own
sake is: evidently a hereditary trait in.
our Royal family,
How Wheels Originated Hid-
den in the Dim Past.
As you listen to the motors) seudding
along the streets om the .express. train
crashing along the permanent way, do
you realize that none of these things
—nor a hundred others, --would be
possible Ule ifvt were Dot for we thing—
the Wheel?
The wheel was olid when Egypt was
E .
Still a new nations and: of its, actual.
origin there is no aultirentde r°coed.
One theory goes, back to the distant
period of cave -dwelling, whose oietef
occupation lacy in building ,
He would dame logs of ,tdmbet' from
thee -forests day after dray and pride them
at an angle: against tole reales, fillies
in t'ive cracks, with earth. wild rubble,
thus, affording himself shelter.
It is thought that by :tering semi-
circular branches ae eenners under.
math the logs it wins found treat tbey
could be moved forward far more
easily than by just litthig the dead
weight.
Another theory is that a cimeular
stone leavinga hale In. the 'centre at -
t. enacted.the Meentiom of a savage mare
iifitelii•gent than telecast of his fellows.
t- Taking this up, . les found that he
elle revolve it upon n a
P. -mitre,
;,
t and this,
t is thought, .g gave mdm an inkling o>i
e wondiea'ful wsie to watch he eould
't it.
Safety FIrst. '
fie;A dear•old'Lad•e entered a druggists•
and rooked doubtfully` at the youthful
assistant behind the counter,
I seppoeleeeeshe•, saki, : °you are a
pr eerly qualifie'd' ctiierndsit"? •
"Yes, nla'daln," the• young man '•de-
clared.
"You have passed all your examnina-
/ tions?" she anoLottsdy Enquired.
"Certadndy," he aseerteai' a
"You have never poisoned anybody'
by mits,take?"
"Not to my lenewledge."
"Very went, then, you can give ine a
peanyworth of cough drops,"'
The Nalcimu Caves, in Glacier Na-
tional tpark British Columbia, are a
series of chambers .formed -partly by
seismic disturbance and partly by the
r action of the waters of Cougar creek..
They are connected at various levels
by narrow passageways `along which
the stream rushes • in almost total
darkness:
A dream seldom lasts more than five
seconds.
T6Tob
Surnames and Their Origin
MACKINNON.
Variations — MacKinney, Mackinning
MacKinven, Love.
Racial Origin—Scottish.
Source—A given name.
LESLIE.
, Racial Origin—Scottish.
Source -A locality. ` '
The family name of Leslie is a clan
name of the Scottish Highlands bu
it originated far from the Highland
in Hungary,
a The story of the wanderings of th
-,original Leslie, in, tho eleventh cea
f tory, from his own barony beyond the
s Hungarian frontier, through the num
r Brous small and violent political cal units
into t 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-
s ately, only these meagre facts have
been preserved.
Bartholomew de Leslyn came to
Scotland from Flanders, using as his
surname the name of the fortress in
Hungary over which he had been over-
lord,
1t was Malsolm de "Leslie," ,a des-
cendant, who founded the Highland
clan bearing that name. This,Mal
-
calm 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.
The clan lands in Rothes, Bailen-
bre'ioh- and Fife were acquired in the
thirteenth century by. marriage.
- The Gaelic form of names- of the
Highland clan from which these.family
names are derived" is "glean IIIhi
Fleoughairi." -
Itis apparently one of the oldest o
Highland clans, belonging as it doe
to. that sou of clan
g• p a wh•ich had thei
origin
in •
g the ancient Clan Alpine, no
longer existent as such, and tracing
back to Kenneth MacAlprn, whose pro
genitors s came over from Ireland with
the Dalriadie Scots, and who became
the first king of a united Scotland. The
chieftain from whom the clan takes it
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 as• "Maceengon," MacFin-
non" and "Mackinnon,' the Last named
spelling having become the 'dominant
one in mere modern times,
In the uprising of 1716 the clan was
out for the Stuarts.
The forms MacKinney and MacKin-
ning are variations developed in the
lowland among members of the clan
who settled there.
In Kintyre the name became Mac-
e nven; whence developed a fanciful
rendering in Gaelic, owing to the simi-
4arityof sound, ct Maclonmhufnn (pro •
-
nounced "Nlao-Invin" ), which in turn
has been Anglicized by its fanciful
meaning into Loveson or Love. I
surSeeeeee
itte..
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STARTRESTORATIONWORK ON NELSON'S "VICTORY"
The famous old flagship, "Th -e Victon•y,",is being restored and preserved
by a fund subscribed by British subjects all over the Empire. The work
wee 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 under' the Viotory's bow.
Orchids.
To -dray, in -an Old Folks' Home,
I skw a little, Cid lardy,
Race es, a winter violet,
Paoli as a bubble blown;
Bent wLt'h her ninety years,
Her mimed was Blear as spring water,
In black eyes bright as a eobiln's •
,An agellssls humor shone; •
I gave her a bunch of orchids
Tied with. a piurpie ribbon, •
letagil�e, exquisite blossorne—
Her eyes bndmmed up with teare;
"011," she seed with a sigh,
I wish my =steer could see them"
From the lips of ninety years!
Her mother! How sweet, how far
away!
-Mary Coles, Carrringtcn.
Highlands
THIN, IMPURE BLOOD
"1 Means a General Weakness and
Loss of Health.
KEEP CHILDREN WELL
MIRING 1WEATHER'
Every mother knows how fatal the
hot summer mantas are to small child-
ren, Cholera fafantunl; diarrhoea,
dysentry, colic and' stomach troubles
are rife at this time and often a pre -
BMus little life is lost, after only a few
hours illness. The mether 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 2kc a box froth The Dr. Wil-
lianas' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
• A Trick of the Telegraph.,
An inspector of, railway property
whose duties had taken him to Bridges
port, Connecticut, discovered •that the
fotuuldetian under the local fi+elgbt
house needed .i"epains•, Without delay
he filed this dispatch to the New York
office:
..F(uudation sunder freight house at,,
Bridge Art unsafe-en:eh men at once."`
Ln'
delteing.,the eseseiage the operator
on tife °sees, Bork Mee. apparently' did
•
net space the `:lettere :ero1erly in the.
weed fonetta-tfonri"and also pressed
too long toebeer the letter ''t"; for this
was the message reoeived in New,
York'
"Found a lion under freight douse
at 13iedgepoat unsafe—rash men at
once,,, .
The inspector wars astonished a few
hours. later to set a special work train
come into, the yard with a flat car con-
taining a letege enteiai�'' iage end else
ten men who• expected to have stn ex-
citing .-time catohing a MAon that they
supposed had .escaped from some hose.
ing circus.
Three hundred film actors and acts-;
resses.wel-e treated in hospital in Los
Angeles last year for eye trouble
caused by the powerful arc lights used
in cinematograph studio's,
per ■ Inlmont used by Physicians'
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 growth 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 $600 to
$760.
The enormousdemand for linen
made it imperative that a substitute
for flax should be found, and a vigor-
ous search resulted in the adoption• of
the flax lily, found in great abundance
in New Zealand,
This plant was introdluced 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 leaves, were found to be :fibrous,
orifi experiments yielded string and
cord. Later, the phut was found use-
ful for textile purposes.
After years • of experiments by bot-
anists of - the Royal Horticultural
Society and of Kew Gardens, the fibre
obtained from the leaf is snow a rival
to the very 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 allies•.
The lily is far easier to cultivate
than 'flax itself, and it has a yield of
2,2401b. to an acre.,
What think you theearth 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?
'ISSUE NQ. 27—'23.
If
people 'wo
would d realize the Import-
ance
mportante of keeping the blood rich and
pure there would be less sickness. The
blood is the means through whiob the
' nourishment gained from food reaches
the dtifferent parts of the body. If the
blood is impure, the nourisbment that
reaches the nerves, and organs of the
1 body is tainted with poison and dia-
ease follows. The blood is also the
medium by which the body fights off
disease. If the bloodis thin and
watery the power of resistance to die-
eaee is weakened. If you are weak
and run down, if your nerves are fray-
ed, 1f you lack ambition, have no ap-
petite, and are abort of breath after
&light exertion, the trouble is almost
always due to poor blood. In cases of:
this kind you should take Dr. Williams'
Pink Ptlls.to buiid up the blood. They
bele to enrich "and purify the .blood
from first to last close, and in this way
bring new health and strength to
weal[, . run-down people, Mrs. John
Timmons, Elmvale, One, tells of the
benefit Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were
to her, as follows: -"1 bedame very
weak and was hardly able to walk and
had to
behele
upstairs. Pd pat rs. I 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 took faithfully,
but did' not improve. I was advised to
try De. William' Pink Pills and did
so, and after 1 had taken two or three
boxes felt that they were Ihielping me,
I could eat better, end 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 marl, past
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 yaungstteae a few
questions,
"Cam any little boy or girl tell me,"
he said, impa'otsively, • "what is the
greatest of ill the virtues?"
There was no reply.'
"We will try 11 again," said the visit-
or, "What an} I doing when I give up
my time end pleasure to cone and talk
to you in your, school?"
'.`I know now, mister!" exclaimed
Johnny Smith, raising his bund,
"Well, 1Nl1af sun I doles little man?'
"Buten' `.int'' was the startling re-
: joinder. •
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.
If We. -lad the Time.
If l hard the •time to find a place
And slit me down full face to face
With:my better self, 't ,
that stands no
In my- daily life that rushes so,
It might be them I would see my soul
Was stumbleng still toward the slh!•n- l
• ing goal
I might be nerved by the thought!
subl,iinla,
If I had time!
•
If I had the time to let my heart
Speak
out 0
a'
rod take in my life a
To look about and stretch ala
To a oomrade quartered M. no -luck
land.
Ah,. God! If I might butt just sit still
And hear the notes of the. whip -Boor, ; r
'IS There a ll/d2441in the / loon?
tea
eat
ems ° zaltR OWhpl I1SJIYESEN' u,y rw
d your territory:' I u t [ r-.,it.iv,'nt Biwa Lux-,
up r'Oinfeit 11111 I%abnanlr. Rot your wnnie ioltnM.
iW icnnugllatelr, ..auto specialty co., retorboro,'
ontarN-.
- Classified 'Adver r,.,, -.,sot
'Until recently it was- thought the
the moon was a cold worn-out' wort
with no sigzl oY :life upon its surface
But ,astronsm ers of today' are ,inolinet
to believe that Ilf,'e of somo:kind ma
exist on"ouelsetelite,
A sh•o'rt tree ago an observer wh
was steeelog one of the moon's, Was canoeseekroughr a,�huge telescope .was
yPenes n n:TesJ nnitnsnn COUPLE,/to Imdc talon a r l b 51aos Igency, Wlf4 IT.
rosy ho phiasste conveesution4llat and have elm
n" volco for telephone fnadng. • , Plnsband mnnt bo en
experienced xn/e*mon and ha o a tnlophone in hie
mr`fi 'ph seW I rrled eoi t $ we Gel ottor e dignified
s nnilttag propoeltlo,l eerie glelna tu11 , poo
tl ul l pf gudWlt:ation te. Gootlyeer 'WolcrprooI
('omnndy,. rya Afaonl street, � Menneni.
amazed to seeclouds of smoke and
steam• coming free 11. He wee auteal
1y witnessing an eruption in a crate'
which scientists believed to have been
cold and' dead for Countless thousands
of years.
So interested was he that he kept a
very, careful. watch 011 other parts of
the noon's surface, Was. any change
taking place? He began to suspect
something; then as night followed
night` he'.b.ecame' 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,
TLree 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
sn rounding enveiopeeof vett' ;thin air,
which` would be sufficient to maintain
simple forms of vegetable life, ,
Water we have lever seen en her
surface, but it may be present in small
quantities, in some of the gigantic ex-
tinct craters with which her whole
surface u qe ie studded.
Life on the moon would be very dif-
ferent fre'en life on earth.- We have a
dense blanket of air fifty miles • or more
in depth which, shields us from the
eon's heat in the daytime and keeps
us from being excessively ewe at
night,
The moon's day lasts a whole fort-
night, during which' time the heat must
be terrific.; Then comes the two weeks
night, when the cold must be intense `
—a lunar thermometer would, in fact,•.
agister more than 300 degrees of frost
at the coldest part of the long dark
ness.
The answer to our question, then, is
leer. There is no man in the moon.
Life is confined to plants which grow
at an enormous pace during the four-
teen days of sun, and wither at once
when the
ni
ght comes.
z' . Johnny's}, Definition.
"T tinny; whet Lea cube?"
• "A cube 4s a amid, surrounded by
e1x'•eiival equates"
"Right? Willie, what� le a cone?"
"A cone? Why—a come is--er—a
fanned stuffed with ice cream."
Among the servants of the British
Royal household Queen Mary has the
reputation of being a kind and sympa-
thetic employer, but at the same time
a strict' diseiplinarian:'
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will
I think iihlat my wish with Cod's.
would rhyme-
If I had time!
If I had the time to learn from you
How much for comfort my word could
do,
And
T toad your then of my
su
idea
will
To kiss your feet,when I did you ill;
If the teams aback of U.va coldness
feigned ,
Could flow, and the wrong' be quite ex
plained—
Brothers, the souls of us alt would
chime,
If we had the time,
—Richard rd B
urian
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OSQUITOE
Selinard's takes the
itch and sting out
of insect bites.
youNG DAUGHTER
O.alerresa. ?looser nog 2.evloQta7
Iluo;. on
DOG DISEASES
and how to reed
Maned Free to any Ad-
dress sr eine moverAco.,, tea
129 West 24t1 Street
A'nw 1 ark U.S.A.
-ass
But'Has Advantages.
Reggie—"One cawn't get very far'
without brains,"
Cholly—"But it has its advantages,'
deabt boy. 1 nevah have the slightest
trouble finding you, y' know,"
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Food for Thought.
The young lover had at last sorewed
up his courage and was resolved to in-
tervLesv his sweetheart's father with-
out delay.
"Heeling," Ise said to herr. "I am go
ing to ask. him this very minute!"
"My brave boy!" she murmured in
reply, es he went off.
The girl waited In suspense and at ;
lash he returned 'looking very thought-
ful.
"Ie it good news?". she asked eager -
"I don't know," Was the reply.'
"John, what dO you mean?"
"I dont know whether he said 'Take
tel•, 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—"Diel .that watermelon I
sole you do fee the whole family?"
Ciusitomer—"Very nearly; The doe,,
tar, is still calling." '
Look Out, Here Comes Eddie!.
"Eddie, said the father to a young
son fosund •coasting- in' the street, "do
you bolt out foe t'Ine automobiles?"
"No," replied Ed,cite ohieemfully, "they
have to look coat for themselves.
ML,erd's Liniment for sato everywhere,
An automatic aeroplane directed by
Wireless was recently ,• tested in
France. The machine left the ground,
flew in various directions, and 'landed
successfully.
the H
'Tom can :;nOpft 4911 when you may want it
Cutie lra Quich y Relieves
Irritated Skills
Bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot
water to free the pores of impurities,
dry lightly, and apply Cuticnra Oint-
mentto soothe and'heai. Cuticnra
Talcum is ideal for powdering and
per£nming,
Somp25c, Oinimentd5ved50e. ialeom25r. Sold.
throughouttheDominion, CltnadianDepot:
Loam., Limited, 344 St. Peal St., W. Montreal.
EiNiErTuticura Soap shaven wititout mug.
MADE WELL
Mother Tells Row Rer Daughter
Suffered and - Was Made Well by
Lydia E. Pinkhaln's Vegetable '
Compound
Vancouver, B, C.—" My daughter is a.
young girl who has been having eevero
pains and -weak .and dizzy feelings for
some time and had lost her appetite.
Through an older daughter who had
heard of a woman who was taking it
for the .same trouble, we were told of
Lydia E, Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound. My daughter has been taking it
for several months and is quite all right
now. It has done all it was represented
to do and we have told a number' of.
friends about it, I am never without
a bottle of it in the houte, for I myself:
talc° it for that weak, tired, worn -put,
feeling which sometimes comes to us all.
I find it is building me up and 1 strongly`
reeomsvend it to.women who are setters
ing as I andmydaughter have."—Mrs:;.
J: M
cDoxALD
a
26th
i;«0
.,7 Ave. East,
Vancouver, B. C.
Fromthe age of twelve agirl steeds all
the care a thoughtful mother can give.
Many a woman has suffered years of,
pain and misery—the victim of thought-
lessness or ignorance of the mother who
should have guided her during this time.
If she complains of headaches, pains
in the back and lower limbs, or if yen
notice a' slowness of thought, nervous-
ness or irritability on the part of your
daughter, make life easier for her.
Lydia E. Pinhham's Vegetable Com-
pound is especially adapted for such
conditions O
UJNLBSS you see the name `Bayer" on tablets,. you
are not getting Aspirin at all
•
Accept only an "unbroken package" of "Bayer Tablets of
Aspirin," which contains 'directions and dose worked out by
physicians during 22 years and proved safe by millions for
Colds Headache Rheunlatisnt
Toothache Neuralgia ' Neuritis
Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain
Handy "Bayer" boxes'oI' 12 tablets --Also bottles of 24 and X00, --Drug fists.
Aspirin is the trade mark (re 1'
in Canada) f Boyer.Dfgnufacture of Dfono-
acoticaoldestor'of aallet'lioacld. While It is ;0,11 I nnWo brat slopirin meaus Sayer
manufacture, to Assist Otto ou511, ngginet imitations, the, Tablets of Bayer colntailtiy
Will bo stamped .with their general trade maria, the 'Bayer Cane..,'"
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