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TUE NVI.4'9( fli%,IVI AD W A/,1 It
STORIES OF WELL.
KNOWNPEOPLE
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The Prime Minister's Stelae
M. Stanley Baldwin and Mr. Rad -
yard Kipling are cousins, and I once
heard the former, before he ,beioana.e
',Premier, tell a goad story about the
'author. It appears that a woman was'
descuesing the English laivguage with
K1p1 iilg.
"Don't you think it strange), Mr,
Kipling," she said, With ,snlperior wis-
d,aln, "that .suga'r is the only ward in,
the:English language where s1u 's'• Med
a 'u' oom•e• together and ars pronounee4.
Mr. •ISipiing's eyes twinkled as he
answered: "Sure!"
The Farmer's Boy.
The Tion. John Oliver, now Prime
Minister of British Columbia;, was in
hips youth a:Devcns•hire,farmer's• boy. .
Born in Hartington, in Derbyshire,
he began work as a farmer's boy. He
was hard-working and thrifty. 'When
lie mar -nee Ips eanigrated to Canada.;
There 'he succeeded in busimese, and
later. entered politics. Now he has
crowned a career of many successes
by reaching 'the Meekest. office in the
Land.
Sir Alfred's Tip.
Sir Alfred Butt, M.P., one of the
members. of the Tax on Betting. Com-
mittee, need to weer a.shilling on his
watch. -chain, and'this is how he earned
It. '
Some years ale the Lord Mayor of
London. gave •a reception to mayors
and mayoresses, and Sir Alfred was
among the additional guests
Noticing_ a couple 'who looked rath-
er out of it, hemade himself civil,
fetching tea and sqforth. . Then he
overheard Mr. Mayor say, "This, young
man bee been very attentive; I shall
give him half a crown."
"Nonsense, Sohn," retorted Mrs.
Mayor.; _ "a shilling will be quite
enough".,
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Sur° $es and Their Origin
MACKINNON.
Variations — MacKInney,.Mackinning,
MacKinven, Love.
Racial Origin—Scottish.
Source—A given name.
• The Gaelic form of names of the
Canadians and Rabbits. Highland clan from which these family
Mr. W. H. 'Cavesdale,''-president of names are 'derived is "Mann Mhic
the Canada Steamship. Lines, during li ionghain."
his longsojourn in the United States It is apparently one of` the oldest of
once found himself "travelling: beside I Highland clans, belonging as it does
an Australian. to that group of clans which .had their
"2 s,uppose," suggested Mr. Cover-
dale during' their conversation, "you
have a goad many Canacliiass In Aus-
tralia?,r,_
"Canadians?" ha replied vaguely.
"Oh, yes. But rabbits are our worst
pest
origin in this ancient Clan Alpine,.. no
longer existent as such, and tracing
back to Kenneth MacAlpin, whose pro-
genitors came -over from Ireland with
the Dalriadic Seots, and who became
the first` king of a united Scotland. The
chieftain from whom the clan takes its
name was Fingon, a grandsons of Gre-
Royal Fire Fighter.. gor, who was a son of tbis king.. The
The trio of fire.bucleete which, curl- clan name appears in various ancient
ousisy, came to the Duke of York dacunents written in other tongues
aiuong his wedding presents, no doubt than Gaelic as . "MaeI+ingon," MacFin-
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 London
The. Often, to their no small embar-
rassment, he would insist on helping
the firemen at their perilou's work. The
love of courting danger for its own
sake is evidently .a heredltiary. trait in
our Royal famdiy.
I -10w Wheels Originated Hid-
den in the t ins `Past.
As yon liniten,to the motth" studding
along •hills '%streets, oar the .ecp•resis train
crashing along the permanent way, dto
You rearlize. that •none' o'f'thteiae things.
aeesoe_ h ,,.fisted others— would be
possible ' ff It wens not for one thing
—
the Wheel? '
The wheel was old when Egypt was
stili a new nation, ands of 'its actual
origin there lei no authentic record.
One, theory goes back to the distant
period of; cave -dwelling, whose chief
occupation lay :in"buelddng
: He would drag (togs, of, timber from
the foresee. day after allay and pole them
at an .angio against the rocks, iillivg
in the cracks with. earth end rubble,
thus affoa'ding himself shelter.
It is thought that by using serail-
oistcular. branches as runners under-
neath, the logs et wast foundthat bbey
coulttl be moved "forward far more
easdly than by justt lilting the dead
weight:
-A:nother theory ie that .a • cimeuIar
zitoiile 'Ihlaving a hdle In the .: centre at-
tn+acteci' thie adateatticat of a, -savage ' more
fiirteliigelnt`tdvan the resit of heirs, fellows,
Taking thee up, he tonna , that lie
could revolve It upon a ettick, anal this,
it Is t'hiontght, gave mane ,an inkling of
the wonderful utile to wthiinli.hie conild•
put it.
Safety 'First.,
A dear old 'lady' •enitered a druggist's
and looked doubtfully at they youthful
aesistantrbehiai,d the Counter,
,rl..susib," elle said, .„you etre a
pn'olletrly' qualifier) Chemist?"
"tea, madam,"the young Man de -
dared.
"You ;leave; pawed aid your efaniina-
tions?" she anxiously inquired.'.
. •"CetY+taiiir4.Y," iter teaselled
"You have never poisoned anybody
by-nxitsttake?„•
Tricotto my lertei :ledge."
"Very Weill, 'than, Yoe. cien give me a
perinywarth of cough drt'111s,"
•
The Nakimu 'Osaka, in Glacier Na-
tional park Britieh Catila»1aia, ; are a
noii" and "Mackinnon," the last named
spelling having become the dominant
one in more modern tunes.
In the uprising of 171,6 the clan was
out for the Stuarts.
The forms MacI inney and MacKin-
ning are variations developed in the
lowland among members • of the clan
who settled there.
In Kintyre the name became -Mae
Kinven, "whence developed a fanciful
rendering in Gaelie, owing to the simi-
larity of sound, at Macicm.mhnin i (pro-
nounced "Mac-Invin"), whdch it turn
has been Anglicized by its fanciful
meaning into Loveson or Love.
LESLIE..
Racial Origin Scottish.
Source—A locality, ,
The family name of Leslie is a 'clan
name of the Scottish Highlands, but'
it originated far from the Highlands,
in Hungary.
The story of, the wanderings' of the
original 'Leslie, int 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 brills embarkation for Scot-
land and final establishment in the
favor of the Scottish lung, must have
made a striking romanee. • Unfortune-
ately only these meagre facts • have
been preserved.
Bartholomew de Leslyn came to
Seotland from Flanders, using --as. his
surname the name of the fortress in
Hungary.. over which he had been over-
lord. '
"I•t was Mal•solm de "Leslie," a des-
cendant, who founded the Highland
clan bearingthat name. This Mal-
colm had retained the honors' won by
Kis 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 Rotlies, Ballen-
breioh and Fife were acquired in the
thirteenth century by marriage.
IMIND li! ® @'IU U 9F 1•iai ._11111t!_ .'
mint 1J1111 ,1Jus.mi aYsJary
DURING HOT
WEATHER
Every mother knows how fatal the
hot summer months are to -small Child-
ren. Cholera infantum, diarrhoea,
dysentry, colic and stoma -eh troubles
are rife' at this time and often a: pre-
cious little
re-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 „inspector .,of railway property
'Whoise duties had taken him to Bridge-
port, Connecticut, discovered that ,the
foundation under the local freight
house' needed repairs. Without delay
he 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 Yorrk wire apparently did,
not space the lettere properly in the
,word "foundation" and also pressed
too long to form the letter'"t"; for this
was the message received in New
Yodel•4
"Found a lion under freight beuse
at Bridgeport unsafe—rash men at
mate
The, inslpeetor Was astomished a fear
hours lt'iterr to see a special work train'
come into the yard with. fiat Car con -
'asinine ' a lenge animari cage and also
ten . melt, who eripeeted' to have an ° t-
ailing time oato1ing 'a' lion that they
teeies ere e exeners,irormed.partly by supposed had escaped from Some pass
seieltilc:disturb;Mico and partly.iiy tliel ing 6irc115..
fiction of the waters of Cougar' creek.
"The:e •
are . connected tat varibtit levels'
b . narrow passageways along which
aliostream rushes in ahriost total
darkness.
A dream seldom lasts
seconds,
ore than fiVo,
Three hundred him actors and act-
resses were treated in hospital in Los
Angeles last year for eye trouble
caused by -the powerful arc lights used.
in
cinematograph ' studios.
Mlrtel'd'e, l..lalnaesfz ueted by Phyakclantis
Linen from Lilies.:._
It- is surprising how. many of bhe
manners and products of • the Stone
Age have, after centuries of disuse,
sprung into prominence again: -
Linen,;- made previously, from flax,
has far 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 daysof 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 fl:bre.
crops. .
Before the war, the raw material
dost about $160 a ton, whereas to -day
itale, priced at anything from $500 to
$750.
The enormous . demand for linen
made it imperative that a substitute
for flax should: be found, and a vigor
bus search resulted in the adoption of
the flax lily, found in great abundance
in New Zealand.
' This plant wasintroduced into Eng-
land es a garden flower more that half
a century ago. It was found easy to
propagate by reason of its bulbous
roots, whichare easily divisible. Then
the leaves were found to be fibrous,
and experiments yielded string and
cord, Later, the pleat was found use-
ful fortextile purposes..
After years of -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 very best fiat. -The plant will
grow admirably in such climates as
those of Great: Britain, New Zealand,
Tasmania, Prance, and'Beigium, and ft`
le no Mere difficult to cultivate than
ordinary garden lilies,
The lily is far easier to cultivate
than flax itself; and it has a yield of
2,2401b, to an aura. .
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?
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START RESTORATION WORK ON NELSON'S "VICTORY"
The famous old flagship, "The Victory," .is being restored and preserved
by a fund subscribed 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 bowfrom their 'places The picture
shows the scene; of the ceremony, just under the Victory's bow.
Orchids.
To -dray, in an 41d Folks' Home;
I
,saw ,e. littler, old lardy,
Rate as a winter violet,•
Frail as a bubble blown;
Bent with •her ninety.years,
Her rate was. clear as spring water,
In black :eyes brighrt as a robiin's
An ag.eleste hlznlrrr shone.
I gave her a bunch! of. orchride
Tiled, with, a purple.r.ibbon,
Fragilis,, esequis'ite blossoms—
Her eyes brimmed ii.p. with tear's;
"Oh," she seed with' a. ebgh,
• I wish my 'neither .could see them"
Frain the lips of ninety years!
Her'mobhier! How •sweet, how far
away!
—Mary Colee Carrington
�IN IMPURE BLO
Means a General Weakness and.
Doss of Health.
If people would realise the import-
ance of keeping the blood rich and
pure there would be less sdcimess. The
blood is the means' through whdch the
nourishment gained from food reaches
the different parts of the body- If the
blood is impure, the ,nourishment that
reaches the neeves, and organs of the
body is tainted- with poison and dis-
ease follows. The blood isalso the
medium by which the body fights off
ddseaste. If .the blood is thin and
watery the. power..ef resdsrtance to dis-
ease is weakened. If you are weak
and run amen, if your "n'erees are fray-
ed, if you lack ambition, have no ap-
petite, and air 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'
Punk Pills to build up the blood. They
help to enrich' and purify the blood
• from first to last dose, and in this way
bring mew health and strength tb
weak, riin down people.. Mee. John
Timmons, Elmvale, Ont., tells of the
benefit Dr. Williams' Pink Pilus were
to her, as follows:—"1 became very
weak and was hardly able to walk and
had to be helped upstairs. 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. Ile 'gave
me medicine, which I took 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 ,sttrength'and feel that I have
to thank Dr. Williams' Pink Pills that
I am not an invalid to -day."
Ton. canget these piing through any
dealer . in medicine, or by mail, post-
paid, at 50 cents a box, from The. Dr.
Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont.
Not What He Expected.
Alocal cebebrity, visiting' one of the
schools in a certain town, thought it
proper . to ask the youngsters, a. few
questions.
"Cam any little boy ctr girl tell me,»
be said, impressively, "what is. this
greatest of all the virtues?"
There was• no reply..
"We will try it again," said the visite
or. "What am I doing when I'give up
my time a'ivd pleasure to come and talk
to you in your school?
"I know now, mister!" exclaimed
Johnny Smith, raising his 'hand.
"Well, what am I doing little man?"
"Battle(' int". was the startling re-
joinder.
When a seventh son, is been 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. I
If We Had the Time.
me.
•If I had the time to find a pi�ace
And silt me down futll face to face
With my better self, that stands no
show
In my daily life that rnshen so,
It might be then I would see my soul
Was stumbling still toward the shiri-
- mg goal—
I might be nerves' by the thought
sublime,
If I had time!
If I had the time to Rett my heart
Speak out and take in my life a part,
To look about and stretch a hand
To a comrade quertea'ed in no -luck.
land.
Ah,- God! If I mlgiat but just slt,still
And hear the notes of the whip-peor-
will
I thunk that my wish with God's
would rhyme---
If
hyme—
If I had time!
If I had the time to learn from you
How much for comfort my word 'Saida
do,
And I told you then of my sudden
will
To kiss your feet. when I did you ill;
If the. teats aback of the coldness
feigned
Could flow, and the wrong be quite ex -
Brothers, the souls of us all would
Gv.im
If we had the tinge.
Richard Burton
There
ne Mo n?
linetil recently it Was thought that
the noon was a roid ereereetit' Woadd
with no sign of life upon, its surface,
But astrea mers of today are inclined
to believe that life of some kind May
exist on our aatellte,
A short time ago sin obisexrver 1 cs
wee studYing one of the moon's, vbl-
canGee through a huge telescope was
amazed to see olauds of egicke and
steam'conzing`from it. Ile was actual-
ly witnessing an eruption in a crater
which scientists• believed to Have been:
cold and dead for countL ee, thousan4a
of years.
So interested was he that he kept ,a
very. careful watch on ether 'parte of
the' moon's surface, Was any change
taking place? He. began to suspect
something; .taken as night followed
night he became convinced that there
was a gradual alight alteration in the
color of certain parts, which could be
due to only one cause --the growth of
vegetation.
,Pblree things are necessary for life
to be possible;: air, water, and warmth.
Volcanic activity le 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,
which would be sufileient to maintain
simple forms of vegetable life.
Water we: have never 58siU on her
surface, but it may be present in small
quantities, in some of the gigantic ex-
tinct craters with which her wb.ole
surface is studded.
Life on the moon would be verydif-
ferent from life 011 earth. We have a
dense blanket of air fifty miles, or more
in depth which shields us from the
run's heat in the daytime and keeps
us• from being excessively cold at
night.
The moon's day lasts a whale fort-
night, during whici, time the heat must
be terrific. Then comes the two weeks.
night, when the, cold must be intense
—a lunar -thermometer would, in fact,
register more than 300 degrees of frost
at the coldest part of the long dark-
ness.
The answer to our question, then, is
clear. There is no man in. the moon.
Life is confined to plants which grow
at an enormous pace during •the four-
teen days o2 sun, and wither at once'.
when bhe night comes.
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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 lover had. at last screwed
up his courage and was, resolved to`in-
terview his sweethearts father with-
out delay.
"Darling," he said to her. "I am gee
Ing to ask him this very minute!"
"My brave bay!" she murmured in
reply, as he went off.
The girl waited in suspense and. et
last hie returned looking very thought-.
ful. •
"Ie it good news?" she asked eager-
ly.
""1 don't laiow,» was the reply.
"John, what do you mean?" •
"1 dont know whiether he' said `Take
her, my bay,' or 'Take care, my beyt' "
MONEY ORDERS.
When ordering .goods by mail send
a Dominion Express Money Order.
Did for the Family,
Grocer—"Did that watermelon I
seed you do for the whole family?"
Cn�sttomer—'"Very nearly, The doe -
tor is still calling."
Look Out, Here Comes Eddie!
"Eddie," said the father to a young
l sen found coasting in the street, "do
you look out for the automobiles?"
"No.." replied Editieohterfully, "they
have to look omit Ear' ttemeeitvetss
MI-�at•d's Liniment for sale everywhere
An automatic aeroplane directed by
wireless was recently tested in
France. The machine left the ground,
flew in various directions, .and Ianded
successfully:aiessesseaessesaisae
th
can never tell when you
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'`"Big t! Willie, what le a cone?"
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Mother Tells How Her Daughter
Suffered and Was fade Well by
Lydia E. Ph>iikhani's Vegetable
compound
Vancouver, .B.C.—"My daughteris a
young girl who has been having severe
'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. Pinlcham'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 bottleof it in the house, for I myself
take it for that weak, tired, worn-out
feeling which sometimes comes to us ails
I find it is building me up and I strongly
recoraniend it to women who are suffer.
sag as I and my daughter have. '
J. MCDONALD, 2947 26th Ave. East,
Vancouver, B. C.
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Many a woman has suffered years;;. of
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notice a slowness of thought, nervous;
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