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Gallstones.
Gallstones are concretions formed,
ehieily in the gall bladder, from the
bile; they are •.composed either of
cholesterin. (a fat -like substance in
bile) or of a compound of limo and
one of the coloring natters of the bile.
When found in the gall bladder they
are sometimes present in immense
numbers; they vary in size from a
grain of wheat to a small hazelnut,
and are usually more or less cube --
shaped or pyramidal as a result of
mutual pressure. It is estimated that
one person in every ten or twenty
has gallstones, but fortunately the
sufferers from gallstone colic are
much fewer.
The stones are formed usually as
the result of inflammation of the lin-
ing membrane of the gall bladder or
the bile ducts; sometimes- they have
as a nucleus a little mass of cells
from the mucous membrane or a
clump of bacteria on which layers of
cholesterin, or bile salts, are deposit-
ed. As a rule, gallstones cause no
symptoms, and most persons are
blissfully unconscious of having them.
It is only when they are dislodged
from their resting place in the gall
bladder and begin to move down the
bile canal to the intestines that they
cause symptoms; but then they make
up for their previous silence, for the
pain they cause is often almost un-
bearable,
An attack of gallstone colic begins
suddenly and often without any warn- one has to stand day after day, year
ing as a severe pain in the right side in and Tear out, with the worries great
of the abdomen and just under the I and small, from handling children, it
ribs and usually shoots up the back begins to tell upon even the strongest
to the shoulder. The pain is some -,and especially upon the nerves. I had
'times slight, and felt only as a dull.! been teaching about five years, and
ache .or soreness in the back just be- was then located at Springfield, Ont.,
low the right shoulder blade; but when I found I was far from having
often it is excruciatingly sharp. There , the vitality I started out with. Before
is usually some fever, though occa- my term was out I had a complete
sionally the temperature is below l nervous breakdown. I tried doctor's
normal, and the patient has a succes- medicine and it helped, but only for a
sion of slight chills. The skin is cov- while. I then tried osteopathic treat-
ered with perspiration, vomiting is trent but with no better results. I
frequent, and the distress is increased suffered from loss of appetite, slept
by hiccoughs. When the attack con- poorly, was nervous and troubled with
tinues for some time without relief severe headaches. Holidays came and
I tried a change of schools. but got in-
to a harder place where I had over
fiftPpupils under my care. There
were days when it seemed impossible
for me to carry on my, work. At this
stage my sister, who. had also been a
teacher, strongly advised me to try
Dr. Williams' Punk Pills. / took the
advice, and by the time I had finished
my second box, I felt that the pills
were helping me. I was on my ninth
box when I decided there was no
necessity for continuing the treatment,
as I had never felt better, and had
gained twelve pounds in weight. Dr.
Williams Pink Pills, with plenty of
fresh air, worked wonders in my case,
and I should advise the use of them to
any other run down teacher."
You can get Dr. Williams Pink Pills
from any dealer in medicine, or by
mail, post paid, at 50 tents a box, or
six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Wil-
liams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
SSS GIRLS
AND TEACHERS
Suffer~ From Overtaxed, Nerves
and. Often a Complete
Breakdown.
Thousands of earnest, intelligent
young women who earn their liveli-
hood away from home, in the school
room, in public offices and in large
business establishments, are silent,
suffering victims of over -taxed nerves
and deficiency of strength. Weak,
breathless and nervous, they work
against time, with never a rest when
headaches and backaches make every
hour seem like a day. Little wonder
their cheeks' lose the glow of health
and grow pale and thin; their eyes
are dull and sunken and beauty slowly
but surely fades. Business women
and girls, because of their work and
worry, look older than their years.
What they need is the frequent help of
a true, strengthening remedy •to carry
them through the day. Dr. Williams
Pink Pills are like actual food to the
starved nerves and tired brain of the
business girl. By making rich, red
blood they supply just the kind of
help girls need to preserve their health
and energy, and their good looks. Dr.
Williams Pink Pills bring bright eyes,
rosy cheeks, high spirits, and thus
make the day's duties lighter.
Miss Mary H. Hunt says: "Many
people think of the life of a school
teacher as one of comparative ease,
with short hours and holidays plenti-
ful. But the reverse is the case. When
the sufferer may fall into a state of
collapse, and jaundice frequently ap-
pears during or after a prolonged
attack.
The symptom that calls most urg-
ently for relief is the pain. For this,
heat applied to the seat of pain or
in the form of a hot bath is often
effective. When this fails the physi-
cian must give anodyne drugs care-
fully, but in doses large enough to
dull the pain. There may be only one
attack, or repeated attacks may occur
at longer or shorter intervals. In the
latter case the wise course is to sub-
mit to an operation to remove all the
stones in the gall bladder and so put
an end to the painful attacks and
avoid more serious consequences that
might follow the impaction of a very
large stone in one of the bile pas-
sages.
How Advertising Helped
to Win the War.
"The Force That Makes Ideas Live"
is the title of a very interesting books
let recently issued by A. McKim,
Limited, Montreal. It .tells of what
regular advertising accomplished in
educational work during the war, and
refers specifically to the many cam-
paigns which were handled by this
Agency. One has but to recall the ef-
fect of such propaganda campaigns as
Belgian Relief, Canadian Patriotic
Fund, Thrift Campaign, Military Ser-
vice Act, etc., etc., to realize that ad-
vertising has entered upon a new era
of usefulness.
To quote from the booklet: "During
the past few years Government poli-
cies have been preserved and en-
dorsed, armies and war loans have
been raised, thrift and production
have been engendered by propaganda
advertising.
"Where an equal community of in-
terest and unity of effort is needed,
Propaganda advertising will be used
p.gain, whether to [hake a given pro-
duct of more service to the consumer,
'to correct general misunderstandings
of the operation and earnings of in-
dustry, to quicken public interest in
thrift and conservation, or to arouse
sentiment on great national issues."
As the booklet declares, the news-
paper press is the greatest agency for
enoulding public opinion. in its ad-
verl ising columns, the story can be
presented throughout the whole coun-
try and can be repeated till its mess-
age is carried home to the whole
People,
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It has been estimated that had
there been no wars and no epidemics,
the present population of the world,
3.,619,000,000 people, could have des-
tended from a single couple in 1,781
'ears:
The number of V.C,'s awarded
lug the war was 578.
Nellie Was Practical.
It was 'Nellie's first visit to the
museum, and she was accompanied by
her mother. Rooth after room they
passed through, till at length they
stood before a knight in shining ar-
mor.
"And this, Nellie," said the fond
mother, "is a suit of armor which used
to be worn by the knights of old. What
do you think of it, dear?"
For a few seconds Nellie regarded
it thoughtfully. Then she shook her
head.
"P'r'aps it was all right," she said,
doubtfully, "But don't you think,
mother, it must have scratched the
furniture awfully?"
All living creatures except plants
are grouped by science as animals.
The flea is really a fly, the glow-
worm a beetle, and the black beetle
a cockroach.
I3uy Thrift Stamps.
A Serpent Garden.
The serpent garden of Butantan is
a sort of "snakes' paradise." There,
the most venomous snakes in 'the
world have palatial homes, built in
the shape of beaver huts, of concrete;
and their surroundings and the care
taken of them• leave even the most
exacting snake nothing further to de-
sire.
The garden is about ten miles from
Sao Paulo, Brazil, and here scientists
are studying the mysteries of snake
biology.
The original reason for the estab-
lishment of the garden, which is a
huge nursery for snakes, was to, ob-
tain serum enough to provide a -rem-
edy for those bittern by snakes
throughout Brazil. In. the compar-
atively small state of Sao Paulo alone,
the average annual death rate from
snake bites used to be 240. Since 'the
garden of Butantan was opened and
serum cultures ° taken, the prompt
treatment of victims has been made
possible everywhere. and the death
rate reduced to nil. There are said.
to be more snakes in Brazil than in
any other country is the western
hemisphere.
The garden is 600 acres in extent
and divided into three departments,
two of which are devoted to cobras,
crotal:ds and bothrops, the most poi-
sonous snakes known; while the third
department is given over to.non-
poisonous snakes.
The inclosure within which the
snakes' habitations are situated is
surrounded with a low, thick stone
wall and a ditch, that while not wide
enough to be dignified with the name
of moat, is nevertheless an impassable
barrier to the slimy, creepy denizens
of the garden of Butantan. In the
centre of the garden is another en-
closure, against which the - outsjde
World is similarly safeguarded as
from the larger one; and in that small-
er inclosure are kept only spec" • is
of the rarest species of the r
f
orally.
Mining the Diamond
How big is a one -carat diamond'?
Perhaps the best way to answer
that question is to say that a pound
of diamonds represents exactly ''2,2 i0
carats.
A cubical box -two and 'oue half :inch=
es in diameter will hold dust `that.
quantity of diamonds. Nine pounds
of diamonds will f 1 a quart moi e.
Diamonds wore never reallyr found
in quantity until the South African
deposits were opened up, at Kimber-
ley, Nearly all of the world's ,supply
now conies from that source. It costs
$9: a carat to produce the stones, for
Which you must pay $200 to $400 a
carat, because the output is controlled
by a single British company, the "Bar-.
neto crowd," of which Solomon roes
is the head.
The South African diamonds are
found in volcanic "pipes"—that is~'to.
say, in conduits through which long
ago molten metal flowed out from the
bowels of the earth. This material
contained considerable carbon, which
was crystallized out by the enormous
heat, forming diamonds.
The South African diamond diggers,
in order to obtain less than a pint
'of diamonds, are obliged to handle
enough" material to 1111 12,000 of the
largest coal cars, or twenty-four train-
loads.
To get one pound of diamonds (2,270
carats) a washing plant at Kimberley
must treat 14,500,000 pounds of rock.
The deepest diamond mine at Kimber-
ley. has attained a depth of more than
half a mile, and there is no sign of ex-
haustion of its .wealth in precious
stones.
Consecration.
"In full and glad submission
I give myself to Thee,
Thine utterly, and only,
And .evermore to be.
Reign over me, Lord Jesus,
011, make my heart Thy throne;
It shall be Thine, my Saviour,
It shall be Thine Aldus!"
A Vision of the Future
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly
dew
From the nation's airy navies grappling in the central blue;
Far along the world-wide whisper of the south wind rushing
warm,
Till the war -drums throbbed no longer, and the battle -flags were
furled
In the Parliament of man, .the Federation of the world.
There the common sense of man shall hold a fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law.
--From Tennyson's famous poem, "Loeksley Hall," written about eighty
years ago, soon after the great poet had seen the first railroad. Part of the
poet's vision has been realized in these days of ours when wonder ships
sail the skies, Perhaps a further realization of the vision will come to pass
In the not -distant .future.
Re arkable Year
of Progress
Rom by tale
Merchants Ball
Growth of Assets During
1919-1920 Was Aiimost as
Large in Proportion as In-
crease in Capital Stock.
ShareholderShareholderS Had a Very
Satisfactory Year. Balance
Sheet Exhibits Bank in
Strong Position.
The Merchants Bank of Canada en-
joyed a very remarkable year of pro-
gress during the twelve months ended
April 30th. The paid-up capital of the
Bank was enlarged during that period
by $1,400,000, representing an increase
of 20%. Not only did the new capital
immediately justify itself, so far as
earnings were concerned, hut it was
accompanied by a growth in the total
volume of business which was suf-
ficient to keep the ratio of capital to
assets unchanged for the year. The
assets of the Bank are 18.40% great-
er than they were at the beginning of
the year, having increased from $166,-
725,404.95 to $197,387,855.14. Of this
growth $24,900,000 is accounted for by
the remarkable expansion in deposits
which largely represent the savings
of the clients of the Bank and which
are now over $163,000,000.
The Bank was able to maintain a
strong liquid position throughout the
year. Quick assets at the end. of
April were over $72,697,546.36, and
were at a ratio of 40.S1%a to the total
public liabilities, amounting to $179,-
988,920,94. The Bank's share in the
task of financing the commercial and
industrial business of the Dominion
`vas well attended to, the surd of $113,-
198,913 being devoted to current loans
and discounts in Canada. The sum
of $3,587;491.69 was loaned to Cana-
dian cities, towns, municipalities and
school districts, and $1,117,268.51
loaned otherwise than in Canada.
The shareholders benefited largely
by the prosperity of the institution.
The:nhual distribution of profits was
increased by the addition of 1% bonus
to the 12% dividend regularly in force,
while the shareholders also enjoyed
the privilege of acquiring a large is-
sue„ of new stock at much less than
its, market value.
The distribution of profits was, how-
ever, moderato in comparison with
the earnings, which were at the rate
of 20.48% on capital stock, or 10.64%
on the actual investment of the share-
holders, when the Rest Fund is taken
into consideration. Of the remaining
profits $100,000 was written off the
Premises Account, and $700,000 added
to the Rest Fund, but a portion of the
latter amount was derived from the
profits of previous years, as the
Profits carried forward now stand at
$260,774.,
Both the shareholders and ' the
general public are indebted to the
management of this old and conserva-
tive, yet enterprising institution, for
the constantly increasing services
which it is rendering to Canadian
business. Its progress during the
past year must be highly gratifying,
not only to the shareholders, but to
Sir H. Montagu Allan, President, Mr.
D. C. Macarow, General Manager, and.
to the members of the Board of
Directors.
Previous to 1914, anarchism found
no support in Germany.
Financial Notes
A bonus of 1 per cent. has been de-
clared by the directors of the Toronto
General Trusts Corporation in connee-
tips with the current quarterly divi-
dend of 21/4 per cent., payable July
2nd to shareholders of record June
19th.
Net profits of the Producers and
Refiners Corporatit,n fur the month of
April show an increase of almost 700
per cent., the figures for this year
being $403,705 as compared with $52,-
050 last year, Gross earnings totall-
ed $616,793, compared with $224,823
last year.
The belief is gaining ground that
the reported finds of radium in the
district between Burks Falls and Al-
gonquin .Park' are of greater signifi-
cance than at first thought, Work is
at present being done by•hand.and the
progress is slow, but many claims
have been taken up and developments
are said to be of an affirmative char-
acter.. The statement is made that an
American ' Syndicate- has options on
Several claims:
Montreal.—Carl Riordon, who is to
be Vice -President and Managing -Di-
rector of the Piordon Company, Lim-
ited, which is the outcome of the re-
cent merger, ,gives a review of the
outlook and resources of the company.
He estimates about 25,000,000 cords of
pulpwood and about 1,200,000,000 feet
,of white pine are owned by the com-
pany and adds that the keynote is
increased output at a minimum cost.
Goldman & Company, Toronto, are
about to offer privately a $175,000 is-
sue of Paramount Kitchener Theatres,
-Limited, 7 per cent. cumulative pre-
ferred stock carrying a bonus of com-
mon.
Application is made to the Govern-
ment by the Continental Wood Pro-
ducts Company, a subsidiary of the
Continental Paper and Bag Mills, for
the right to increase its capital to
'1500,000 preferred and $1,500,000
common. In' conjunction with a large
tract of freehold timber lands recent-
ly acquired in the Sudbury district
of Ontario, the company is now erect -
Discontent. '
The splendid discontent of God
With chaos made the world,
Set suns in place, and filled all
space
With stars that shone and
whirled.
If apes had been content with
tails,
No thing of higher shape
Rad come to birth, the king .of
earth
To -day would be an ape.
And from the discontent of man
The world's best product
springs,
Then feed the flame—(from God
it came)—
' Until you mount on wings.
—Dila Wheeler Wilcox.
ing its second pulpwood -preparing
plant and sawmill and for that pur-
pose a site is being cleared. The C.N.
R. is arranging for sidings for the
new mill.
Brent, Nor on & Company, Toronto,
are the successful tenders of a $100,-
000 issue of Town of Sarnia deben-
tures. The issue bears interest at 51/4
per cent. and is 20 -year serial, $5,000
maturing each year from 1920 to
1939. The price was 93.11, meaning a
cost to the town of slightly over 61
per cent. Other tenders were: Dom-
inion Securities Corporation, 92.389;
C. H. Burgess & Co., 92.03; A. E.
Ames & Co., .91.68; wood, Gundy &
Co., 91.63; and R. C. Matthews & Co.,
00.60.
Looked Intelligent.
"Describe the man you saw talking
to the prisoner," said the judge to the
witness.
"I don't know how to, sit."
"Did he look like any of these law-
yers?" inquired the judge. "Did he
look Iike me?"
"Oh, no, sir," said the witness; "he
looked like an intelligent gentletnau."
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