Zurich Herald, 1919-06-27, Page 3THE GARDEN OF
EDEN TODAY
THE FIRST IRRIGATED AREA 'IN
THE WORLD.
gritiph Government is Establishinj a
Wonderful Irrigation Plant Similar
to the Egyptian Enterprise.
"And the Lord God planted a garden
to the eastward of Eden. Anil a river
went out of Eden to water the garden;
and it was parted into four heads."---
0enesis,
Sir William 1Villc:acks, who, in be-
half of the British Government, had
had charge of the wonderful irrigation
works in Egypt, was assigned not long
ago to the duty of planning a similar
large-scale enterprise for the restora-
tion of ancient Babylonia to its for-
mer agricultural productiveness.
Thus it happened that he located, to
the reasonable satisfaction of arch-
eologists, the veritable site of the Gar-
den of Eden. For reasons wholly
practical, he thought that the best way
to begin.
Starting from the spot where Jewish
tradition placed the Gates of Paradise
—the word paradise meaning "gar-
den"—he followed the trades of the
four streams mentioned in Genesis,
which as herein named, were the
Pison, the Bihon,, the Hiddekel and the
Euphrates.
The Euphrates (known by that name
to -day) flowed through the great city
of Babylon. The Gihon is now called
the I-iinciia. The I-ilddekel is the mod-
ern Sakhlawia, which flows into the
Tigris at Bagdad. The Pison has gone
dry, but is represented by many -arm-
ed ehsnnels "encompassing the whole
land of liavilah" (see Genesis), which'
lay between Egypt and Assyria.
Restor!?s Former Paradise.
The Euphrates enters its delta a
few miles below Hit, there leaving the
desert and debouching into -a vast al-
luvial plain. In this departure it has
a considerable fall, with a number of
cataracts, and along a narrow valley
giant water -wheels lift water to irri-
gate the Tend on both sides of the
stream.
The entrance to this valley (accord-
ing to Jewish tradition) was the gate
of the Paradise in which Adam and
Eve dwelt, and from which they were
expelled for disobeying a divine com-
mand. There the traveler first meets
the date .palm, which is a "tree. of
life" (see Genesis) to the whole Arab
world.
Along the valley garden succeeds
garden. It is to -day a veritable para-
dise, orchards and date groves check-
ered with fields of cotton. The cli-
mate is everlasting summer, so that
three or four crops a year may be
grown,
Anciently the cataracts were much
higher, and water -wheels were un-
neeessary, the water being led off by
ditches.
The Garden of Eden, indeed, gains
interest from the fact that it seems to
have been the first irrigated area in
the world.
FINE OLD PLATE IN BRITAIN.
Antiquaries Dig Up Fourth Century
Collection at Whittinghame.
A search which Society of Antiquar-
ies of Scotland have been conducting
for some time on Traprain Ale, an iso-
lated hill, which forms a part of
Arthur J. I3alfour's Whittinghame es-
tate, resulted in one of the must re-
markable archaeological discoveries
ever made in Britain.
The excavators came upon a pit two
feet deep and two feet wide filled to
the brim with fragments of metal ves-
sels. An examination has shown that
these relics, although in a broken con-
dition, form a rich collection of fourth
century silverplate, Two tiny coins
give the date. Orie was struck by
Valens, who was Emperor of the East
from 364 to 378, and the other by one
of his successors; probably Gratian or
iloonorius.
The vessels found have decorations
of striking beauty. On the surface of
ono embossed cup is a representation
of the Fail of Man, and figures of
Adam and Eve being shown standing
by a fruit -laden tree with a huge ser
pent twined around the trunit. The
same oup bears a representation of
the Magi, and on• another is depicted
the miraculous draught of fishes.
More than one example of the Chi
Rho monogralu al'e among the inscrip-
tions.
"What was the result of the flood?"
asked the Sunday school teacher.
"Mud," replied the bright youngster.
Old pieces of velveteen nlaliwe
sklendi 1 polishingjtrtllso fern,-
lure, silvdi' or plat articles.
Chinese keep eggs fresh for ship-
ping long distances by coating them.
with a paste made of sea salt, vege-
table ashes and water.
RrlaSY CHEEKS
AND GOOD HEALTH
Come Through Keeping the
Blood in a. Rich, Red and
Pure Condition.
When a girl—or a woman --finds her
color fading, when her cheeks and lips
grow pale, and she gets short of
breath easily and her heart palpitates
after the slightest exertion, or under
the leiist excitement, it means that
she is suffering from anaemia ---thin,
watery blood. Headache and back-
ache frequently accompany this condi-
tion, and nervousness is often present.
The remedy for this condition is to
build up the blood, and for this pur-
pose there is no medicine that can
equal Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They
build up and renew the blood, bring
brightness to the eyes, color to the
cheeks, and a general feeling of re-
newed health and energy. The only
other treatment needed is plenty of
sunlight, moderate exercise and good,
plain food. The girl or woman who
gives this treatment a fair trial will
soon finch herself enjoying perfect
health. Mrs. Hiram Shook, R.R. No. 1,
Lyndhurst, says :--"I cannot speak
too Highly of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills,
for I believed they saved my daugh-
ter's life. She was in a terribly run
down condition, pale, wan, and des-
pondent, and people who saw her con-
sidered her in a decline. The doctor
who treated her did not help her any,
and then I decided to give her Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills. This decision
proved a wise one, for before six boxes
were used she was much better. I got
six more boxes, and before they were
gone she was in the best of health.
When she began the use of the pills
she weighed only 90 pounds, and under
their use her weight increased to 127
pounds. I strongly urge all mothers
of weak girls to give them Dr. Wil-
liam's Pink Pills.
You can get Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills from any dealer in medicine, or
by mail post paid at 50c. a box or six
boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Wil-
liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
Bits About Bees.
The price of honey has made many
of us think more of bees. And, as
hardly anything is more interesting
than the "busy bee," here is a little
news about him -rand her.
In a hive there are three kinds of
bees—drones, workers, and the queen
boo, Drones, alas" are the male bees.
They are stingless—thanks for that!
—and unlike other bees, have no pol-
len baskets—the fringe of stiff leg
bristles on which pollen is conveyed
to the hive.
The eeueen bee is the only fully -de-
veloped female bee in the have. Only
she, with her series of productive or-
gans, Can perpetuate the bee race,
IKi11 all the queens, and there will be
do bees and no honey.
The queen bee will lay from two to
three thousand eggs daily in the sea-
son. She is the mother of all the
other inmates in the hive, and can
lay eggs to produce either drones or
workers—as the fancy takes her.
The queen bee heads the bees when
they issue to swarm. ,This takes place
when the queen cell is capped; but
should the weather be unsuitable the
bees tear down the queen cells, and
wait.
There's more in bees than their
sting!
•
Luxuries of Modern
Johnny handed the following note
from his mother to the teacher one
morning:
Dere Teacher. You keep tellin' my
boy to brethe with his diafram. May-
be rich children has got diaframs, but
how about when there father only
makes one dollar and fifty cents a day
and has got five children to keep?
First, it's one t11i Ig, then it's another,
and now it's diaframs. That's the
worst yet.
The a reel? i j1'
Fashion3
8656—Isn't this just one of the
simplest and most effective child's.
models you have seen? And the
fullness may be smocked instead of
tacked, by using McCall Transfer
Pattern 690, blue or yellow, price 10
cents. The dress is cut from McCall
Pattern 8656-5 sizes -6 months to
6 years, price 15 cents. The bit of
embroidery is taken from McCall
Transfer Pattern 884, blue or yellow,
price 15 cents.
8649—This house dress may be de-
veloped from plain and figured per-
cale; the pockets are roomy enough
for one's bunch of. keys. Medium
size requires 41.3 yards of 36 -inch
material and 1 yard of contrasting
material. McCall Pattern 8649-8
sizes -34 to 44 inch bust measure,
price 25c.
These patterns may be obtained
from your local McCall dealer, or
from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St;,
Toronto, Dept. W.
Compliment to Canadians.
A Belgian Salvation army worker
whose letter appeared in the New
York Herald Magazine for May 4th,
in describing the withdrawal of the
German army from Belgium, refers to
the Canadians as well-equipped, well
mounted soldiers, who were kind,
quiet and gentlemanly men."
A Motto.
Over the choir loft of an old church
in Nova Scotia hangs a yellowed mot-
to which reads:
"See that what thou singest with
thy lips thou clost believe in thine
heart, and that what thou believest in
thine heart thou dost show forth in
thy works" --Tenth Decree of the
Fourth Council of Carthage, A.D. 398.
Chi1i.iren Can Dri .k
as many cupfuls 'of
s they like.
There's no h,o,rm- in
os to . ndrugs
to hurt them pint no
after-"
sJ�
there's a 1C)eason
KEEP CHILDREN HEALTHY
To keep children healthy the bowels
must be kept regular and the stomach
sweet, Nine -tenths of the ailments
which afflict l„ttle ones are caused by
derangements ' of the bowels and
stomach. No other medicine can. equal
Baby's, Own Tablets in guarding either
the baby or growing child from the
Ills that follow a disordered condition
of the bowels or stomach, . They are a
mild but thorough laxative and never
fail to give results, Concerning them
Mrs. W. 13. Coolledge, Sarnia, Ont.,
says: "1 have used Baby's Own Tab-
lets for over three years and have
found there the best medicine I have
ever used for my children. I never
have any trouble giving them to my
little ones and they have saved inc
many a doctor's bill. hly advice to
all mothers of little ones is to keep a
box of the Tablets in the house," The
Tablets are sold by medicine dealers
or by mail at 25 cents a box from The
Dr. 'Williams'' Medicine Co., Brock-
ville, Ont.
RECORD OF FRENCH FAMILY.
Thirteen Sons killed in War and
'Others Suffered Injuries.
Thirteen sons killed on the field of
battle, three discharged with grave
injuries, one wounded four different
times, the father and one daughter
summarily shot by the Germans for
going to Lille to celebrate the centen-
nial anniversary of a relative, and an-
other daughter killed by a German
shell at Dunkirk, is the record of the
faintly of M. Vanhee, a French farmer
of Reminghe, near Ypres.
M. Vanhee had thirty-six childlren,
twenty-two sons and fourteen daugh-
ters, all of whom were living when
the war broke out. One of his sons
was valet to Pope Pius X„ he re-
turned to France to fight and was
wounded in each of four different en-
gagemonts. One of the sons lost both
legs, another returned from the front
blind and deaf, and another underwent
the trepanning operation.
QIRLS! WHITEN YOUR SKiN
WITH LEMON JUICE
Make a beauty lotion for a few cents
to remove tan, freckles, sallowness:
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drub„ store or toilet counter will supply
yon with three ounces of orchard
white for a few cents. Squeeze the
juke of two fresh lemons into a bottle,
th ti. put in the orchard white and
"PiaTi .��;*, well. This makes a quarter pint
of the very best lemon skin whitener
and complexion beautifier known.
Massage this fragrant creamy lotion
daily into the face, neck, arms and
hands and just see how freckles, tan,
sallowness, redness and roughness
disappear and how smooth, soft and
clear the skin becomes. Yes! It is
harmless, and the beautiful results
will surprise you.
The Higher Learning.
The schoolmaster was calling on an
indignant mother.
"For niy part," babbled the good
woman, "I can't deceive what on earth
edclification is comin' to! When I was
young, if a gal only understood the
eltmens of distraction, provision, re-
plenishing, an' the common dominator,
an' knew all about the rivers an' their
obituaries, the currents, an' the dormi-
tories, the provinces an' empires, they
had eddication enough!"
MONEY ORDERS,
Send a Dominion Express ''Money
Order. They are payable everywhere.
Editions and Additions.
Private Pigley's people were good
to him, but after receiving a pocket
service book, a pocket Bible, a pocket
album, a pocket French dictionary and
a pocket edition of the poets he
thought it time to say something. So
ho sent his mother a postcard. It
read:
"Please send no more pocket edi-
tions until I get some pocket addi-
tions."
IlSinard's Liniment used by Physicians,
Disappearing Lake.
In Georgia, near lladosta, there is
a lake which disappears every three
or four years and then comes back
again, no matter what the weather is
like.
The lake Is three miles long and
three -quarter's of a mile wide, with an
average depth of 12 feet of water.
There are natural subterranean pas-
sages beneath it, through which the
water passes off.
It takes two or three weeks to dis-
appear, when a mammoth basin is
left in its place, which furnishes a
beautiful sandy beach. After a month
or so the Water begins to return, and
then in a couple of weeks. it is the
same magnificent stretch of water as
it was bofore.
Equal parts of ammonia and spir-
its of turpentine will remove stale
paint on a fabric.
One man can grow a. large flock
of sheep; and grow enough food for
winter them in good condition.
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,..JJ internal and external, cured with-
out pain by pur home treatment. Write
us before too late. Dr, Hellman hfedicai
Co.. Limited, Cnllingwood, Onb ' •
.Excessive,
Dorothy: "Auntie, I'rn studying now
about the least common multiple."
Aunt Miranda: "That's right, rely
child. Always go in for whatever is
least Common."
I was cured of Bronchitis and Asth-
ma by MINARD'S LINIMENT.
MRS. A. LIVINGSTONE.
Lot 5, 1?, E.'I.
I was cured of a severe attack of
Rheumatism by MINARD'S LINI-
MENT.
INIMENT.
Mahone I3ay. JOHN MADER.
I was cured of a severely sprained
leg by MINARD'S LINIMENT.
JOSHUA A. WYNACHT.
Bridgewater.
The Lucky Strike.
Dentist—You say this tooth has
never been worked on before? That's
queer for I find small flakes of gold on
my instrument.
Victim—You have struck
collar button, I guess.
A delicate graham bread is very
nice for invalids.
my back
THERE IS ONLY ONE
GENU1NE ASPIRIN
ONLY TABLETS MARKED WITH
"BAYER CROSS" ARE ASPIRIN.
If You Don't See the "Bayer Cross"
on the Tablets, Refuse Them—They
Are Not Aspirin At Al!,
Your druggist gladly will give you
the genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin"
because genuine Aspirin now is made
nadians C'`:.nai-
dlbya1lCaCompany. and owned by a
There is not a cent's worth of Ger-
man interest in Aspirin, all rights be-
ieg purchased from the U.S. Govern-
ment.
During the war. acid imitations
were sold as Aspirin in pill boxes and
various other container.. But now you
can get genuine Aspirin, plainly
stamped with the safety "Bayer Cross"
—Aspirin proved safe by millions for
Headache, Toothache, Earache, Rl:eu-
matisnr, Lumbago, Colds, Neuritis, and
Pain generally.
Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets. also
larger "Bayer" packages.
Aspirin is the trade mark, registered
in Canada, of Bayer Manufacture of
i\lonoacctic-acidester of S:tlicylicacid.
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A Cnre for.Ph es
"You don't need mercury,potasia
or any other strong mineral to
cure pimples caused by poor
blood. Take Extract of Roots— (
} druggist calls it "Walter Seiglel's
Curative S3rnp—and your skin (
will clear tip as fresh as a baby's.
Itivillaw r.a+rh.d
relate your byowuels, stomacGet thanen
gegunome. 50c.and$I.O0Bottles.
At drug stores. 5
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fP v Live Poultry, :E'ancy liens Pigeons.
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10-i8 St, Jean Baptiste ..Market, Mont.
real. Que.
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House Plans, and information tell-
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STLTJ>CT r. iZri4S.
BELL'S LIMITED, GRIMSBY . NAVE
some choice' fruit farms in the Nia-
gara Peninsula; our policy is, first, to
see that our ".client gets the right place.
then we give him expert instruction on
working the farm, •or if desired we work
it tot him with our tractor outfits; our
last. wec.lc's bargain. ten acres as adver-
tised, .hays been sold. The specials for
this Werk are: -
11 -0 T1"TY-TWO ACRE'S—HALF' FRUIT,
fullbearing; brick house, bath, fur-
nace, electric light; workman's cottage,
good barn. drive house, implement shed,
etc.; price twenty-four thousand. eight
thousand cash.
rn EN 1 C rt l: S—ALL PL.tNTED;
.H. young trees, choice sand land; no
buildings: price forty-three hundred.
thirteen hundred cash.
PriWi^NTY-EIn1iT ACRES --ON HIGH-
WAY and trolley line, planted to 4
fruit in full bearing: good frame house
and barn: price fifteen thousand, cash
ai sty -live hundred,
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131>, Grimsby,
When a raincoat is too badly worn
to be used, but partially good, the
back can be cut into an apron to wear
under another apron when washing.
Niinard's niniment 3,umbarman's E'riend.
Put three tablespoonfuls turpen-
tine in three quarts of water and
sponge the carpets after sweeping,
to prevent moths.
THE POLICE FORCE
OF THE BODY
DAY and night—without
ceasing—a struggle is
going on in your body be-
tween the germs of disease
and -the white blood cor-
puscles—the police force of
the human body.
If this police force weakens,
disease germs gain a foot-
hold—sickness follows.
Constipation is the most common
and dangerous way of corrupting
the human police force. rood
waste remains too long in the in-
testines—decays—poisons the blood
—and opens the way for attack by
the germs that cause tuberculosis,
diphtheria, pneumonia and a mul-
titude of other ills.
The culpable habit of using salts,
pills, mineral waters, castor oil,
etc., to force the bowels to move,
makes this condition even worse,.
as constipation returns almost im-
mediately.
Nujol is entirely different from
drugs as it docs not force or irritate
the bowels.
Nujol prevents stagnation by soft-
ening
oftening the food waste and encour-
aging the intestinal muscles to act;
naturally, thus removing the cause
of constipation and :.elf -poisoning.
It is absolutely harmless and pleasant. '
Nujol helps Nature establish easy,
thorough bowel evacuation at reg-
ular intervals --the healthiest habit
in the world.
Get bottle of Nujol from your
druggist today and keep your police
force on the job.
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