Zurich Herald, 1920-09-23, Page 3rci
• TOWER OF LONDON'S
1F4W CONSTABLE
QUAINT CUSTOMS AND.
OLD TRADITIONS.
England's,. Love for the Past
Shown in Picturesque
Installation Ceremony.
Gray skies and a gray mist of rain
served only to accentuate the pictur-
esque pageantry of the installation o.f
Lord Methuen as Constable o:L' the
Tower of London, says the London
Daily Mail.
On the cobbles of Tower Green, be-
neath the green plane trees, khaki clad
"xrenadier Guards formed three sides
of a square. Behind them, with Isere
and theee a gleam of brass, was their
band.
At a signal the dull -hued scene was
aflame with scarlet. The Yeomen
Warders filed out into the middle of
the square. They were .in full state
dress. On shoe and at knee were great
rosettes—red, white and deep blue.
The full skirts of their scarlet coats
were striped with bands of black and
gold, and before them and behind were
embroidered great crowns of gold, and
the thistle; rose and shamrock, woiked
in rich silks.
Round each neck was a much -plaited
ruff of •f ne white linen.
At their side were their swords; in
their hands were their tall halberds,
gold -tasselled; on their heads were flat
velvet hats ribboned with rosettes of
blue, white and red.
This, body of men in their sumptu-
ous medieval uniform farmed a hollow
square inside the strangely co'rltrasted
.. lines of drably costumed soldiers. In
its subdued setting of faded old
houses, gray walls, shining cobbles and
dripping fair green trees, the scene
was almost dreanallke.
Office is Nearly 1,000 Years Old.
Out of a door then appeared a small
procession, and the band struck up the
national anthem with an unexpected
crash of sound. Into the hollow square
of warders walked the Lord Chamber. -
lain dressed in his official dress of
black with black cocked hat and with
a broad pale blue ribbon across his
chest, carrying the Tower keys upon
a crimson cushion. On his coat spark-
led a thick cluster of medals and stars.
There followed two figures dressed
in etearlet and":`with white -feathered
hats. • One was Major -Gen. Pipon, the
Major of the Tower; the other, Dr.
Wynne 13aa-ter, coroner of East Lon-
don and the Liberty of the Tower.
Field Marshal Lord Methuen himself
was dressed in simple khaki, as was
Lord Cavan, the Lieutenant -Governor
of the Tower, who accompanied him.
The chief warder marched with his
wand surmounted with a silver model
of the White Tower.
Dr. Wynne Baxter then read the
Ring's warrant from a large parch-
.ment, and the Lord Chamberlain hand-
ed the keys to the Constable. The pro-
cession filed out, the band burst into
the lilting march of the Grenadiers,
end the guards swung out of the Tow-
er Green.
Quaint customs, old traditions, pic-
turesque ceremonies, were compressed
into five vivid, minutes—minutes that
held all of England's love for the past.
Lord Methuen was installed as Con-
stable an succession to Field Marshal
Sir Evelyn Wood, who died at the end
of last year. The office was instituted
fly William the Conqueror nearly 1,000
years ago, "the first holder of the title
being Geoffrey de Mandeville: The
Constable is always a man of high
rank, and though he is by tradition
head of the Tower his office nowadays
is merely a nominal one.
A Sagacious Mouse.
Mice have been making inroads up-
on the family larder ancl wardrobe,and
so the head of 'the family set a trap,
the bottom of which was si.uiply a
piece of tin in which the manufacturer
had left little slits, or openings, about
a half inch wide, parallel ,with each
other and extending the full length of
1t, When in the morning he found a
eine, mouse iusliink wildly from wall
to wall of its cage, he lifted the trap
from its hiding place and laid it on a
thick rug in front of the grate, where a
lire was burning briskly. Then, al-
though he had no intention of being
cruel he entirely forgot that the crea-
ture was in danger of being roasted
alive.
When he returned the mouse had
actually built a barrier ten or fifteen
times the sire of its 1- dy between it-
self and the fire. With its teeth it had
cut away the Inn on thi surface of the
rug through the slits in the bottom of
the trap, and had heaped this material
together into a veritable wall .of de -
lase untilit entirely filled the trap.
Th itain depends upon other coun-
tries for all her cotton, nine -tenths of
bier wool, most of her motor oil, alI
bar rubber, and two-thirds of her food
requirements.
REQ J x'11 HEADACHES
A Sut'e Sign That the Mooi
is Watery and Impure.
People with thin blood are much
more subject to headaches than fullµ
blooded persons and the form of
anaemia that afflicts growing girls is
alnost always accompanied by head-
aches, together with disturbance of
the digestive organs.
Whenever you have constant or re-
curring headaches and pallor of the
face, they show that the blood is thin
and your efforts shouse: be directed to-
ward building up your blood. A fair
treatment with Dr, Williams' Pink
Pills will do this 'effectively, and the
rich reel blood made by these pills will
remove the headache..
More disturbances to the health are
caused by their blood than most peo-
ple have any idea of. When your blood
is impoverished, the nerves' suffer
from lack of nourishment, and you
may be troubled with insomnia, neur-
itis, neur'alg:a or sciatica. Muscles
subject to strain are undernourished
and you may have muscular rheum-
tism or lumbago. If your blood is thin
and you begin to show symptosis of
any of these disorders, try building
up the blood 'with Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, and as the blood is restored to
its normal condition every symptom
of the trouble will disappear.. There
are more people who owe their present
state of good health to Dr: Williams'
Pink Pills than to any other medicine,
and most of them do not hesitate to
say so.
You can get Dr.- Williams' Pink
Pills through any dealer in medicine
or by mail at 50 cents a box or six
boxes for $2.50 from the Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
Blue.
A garden filled with larkspur, blue and
sweet;
Beneath the bluest of unclouded
skies;
A lass clad in blue muslin, fresh and
neat,
To match the, blue of her deep; wist-
ful eyes.
A lad, whose dark blue serge's trim
lapel
Was decked with bachelor's button,
I blue and gay,
I Spelled at the bine eyed lass, yet,
• strange to tell,
There were no blues for them, that
bright, blue day!
Minard's Liniment For Dandruff..
TOGS FOR
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1
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Embroidery
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9649—Boy's Russian Suit (with or
without trimming -bands; knee trous-
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6 years. Size 4 requires 1% yds. 32
ins. wide; contrasting, % yd. 36 ins.
wide,
9640—Child's Dress. Price,, 25 cents.
In 6 sizes, 1 to 6 years. Size 4 re,
quires 1% yds. 32 ins. wide, or 1%
yds. 36 ms. wide.
McCall Transfer Design No. 003.
Price, 15 cents.
These patterns may be obtained
from your local McCall dealer, or
from the McCall Co., 80 Bond St,
Toronto, Dept. W.
•
Naming the Baby.
They were discussing It -It with a
capital "I." The only thing that count-
ed in the whole wide world. In other
words, the new baby,
"Have you settled its name 'yet ?"
asked the visitor.
"Yes," replied the fond mother.
"And you should have seen the trouble
we had! It's so difficult to get a_really
good and appropriate name, don't you
think?"
"Row did you settle it?"
"Well, I got a book on nomenclature
and read it all through"
"Whatever's that?' exclaimed the
visitor.
"Oh, it's a book giving thousands
and thousands of names for children
to be christened. It's in two volumes,
and I don't believe4 single name was
ever invented that is not mentioned.
We've decided on John._"
Of a total of $8,665,000,000 lent by
Britain to tier Allies, Russia owes her.
$3,840,000,000.
Wasteful Making of Railway Ties
In our timbered districts, the waste
in making hewn or "axed" ties is
causing much interest. This is a very
wasteful practice, and is one to which
government agents have been repeat-
edly calling attention.
The awakened interest in the sub-
ject is due, no doubt, to the growing
market for jackpine lumber and the
consequent operations of the sinaII
mills, which are sawing ties along
some of the northern railway lines and
also shipping lumber to the cities. The
appearance et a woods where logs
have been taken out for this purpose
presents a contrast to an area where
the ties have been hewn in the bush.
On the former areas, all trees large
enough to produce ties are cut and
logs are taken down to a minimum
top diameter of probably six inches.
When the tree is down and bucked,
all the wood material goes to the mill.
For ties hewn in the woods, the tie -
maker is paid at a rate per tie. Na-
turally, he will use only the most easi-
ly converted trees, consequently, the
trees which would. entail much work
in removing limbs are left standing.
If a tree is a little'larger than is neces-
sary to make a good tie, he discards
several feet of the butt (the very best
wood material). To snake the tie he
scores it on two faces, and the chips
left in the woods represent much lum-
ber which would be taken from the
sides of the ties if sawn at the mill.
Finally, lie leaves on the top of the
tree all that will not make a No. 2 tie,
and this often means that an eight -or -
nine -inch top is left in the woods.
This actual waste, however, is not
the only consideration. Operators
taking out hewn ties necessarily skin
over large areas, using only the choice
material and leaving much good tim-
ber, but, in all probability, not enough
to make a second operation over the
same area a paying undertaking.
These slashings also form a serious
fire hazard, and when fire once gets in,
nothing can save the remaining tim-
ber.
The waste in hewing ties will be ad-
mitted by all operators without ques-
tion, but they contend that expediency
demands it in some parts, due to the
difficulty of driving the logs by water
to the mills. The fact remains that
there is much absolutely needless
waste at present. In view of our
rapidly disappearing timber supplies
as few ties as possible should be hewn
in the woods, and operators should
take out both tie timber and pulpwood
when logging areas where it is not
commercially possible to take one af-
ter the area has been operated for the
other.
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see ate
Sere are many brands of
tea and coffee—you take
your chances on quality— ^
and you pay ±fie price.
But there is only one .brand of
invariably hi h in quality
and invariably moderate
price. A Fair. Trial ial re .
Canadian, Posture. Cereal Co.,Ltd„Wiindsor, Ont.
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HAMILTON FACTORY DISTRIBUTORS CANADA
Forty -Eight Years in
"Canada's Western Empire"
Colonel John S. Dennis, C. M. G.,
whorode the plains of Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba 48 years
ago, when Indians and buffalo were
plentiful, knows more about "Canada's
Western Empire" than any other pian.
He killed and ate the buffalo, narrowly
escaped being scalped by Indians on
at least one occasion, suggested and
built in Alberta the largest irrigation
system in North America, recruited
thousands of British and Canadians in
the United States during the recent
war and not only volunteered for but
saw service with the Canadian Expe-
ditionary Force in Siberia.
Now the four western provinces of
Canada have a population of 2,500,000,
the buffalo are to be found only in
parks in the Canadian Rockies and the
Indians are on reservations. There
are nearly 20,000 miles of railway in
bhe four provinces, or one mile for
each 125 persons; and of 225,000,000
acres- of good agricultural land, but'
35,000,000 acres are at present occu-
pied and cultivated. Of the balance,
190,000,,000 acres, some 30,000,000
acres lie within fifteen miles of these
railway lines waiting for settlers.
"Think of it," says Col. Dennis, "and
the world crying out for food." His
view is that while Canada has won a
standing among the nations by her
-work in the xecent, war so that. to. -.day
the nariie "Canadian is recognized as
distinguishing a citizen of a progres-
sive and virile country, Canada's share
in the great struggle has involved her
in financial obligations which can only
be met and discharged by increasing
her population and developing her vast
natural resources which, while ample
security for many times her war debt,
must be made productive of wealth
through development.
Between 1905 and 1914 about 2,-
500,000 people settled in Canada, the
largest proportion in the four western
provinces. They left Great Britain.
the United States and other countries
for their new home, and Col. Dennis be-
lieves that 500,000 each year may fol-
low then until these provinces have a
total population of 10,000,000. Canada,
he further believes, is destined to be
"the keystone in the arch .of the Bri-
tish Empire."
St. Joseph, Le.vis, July 14, 1903,
Minard's Liniment Co. Limited.
Gentlemen,—I was badly kicked by niy
horse last May, after using several
preparations on my leg nothing would
do. My leg was as black as jet. I was
laid up in bed for a fortnight and could
not walk. After using three bottles of
your b1INARD'S LINIMENT I was as
well as ever, so that I could start on
the road.
JOS. DUBES.
,Commercial Traveller.
None to Spare.
The skipper of a small steamer
which ran tip and down the Clyde man-
aged one day at low tide to get his ves-
sel on a bank of mud.
After he had exhausted his entire
vocabulary in describing the tide, his
erring steamier, and his stili more rot-
ten crew, 11e leaned gloomily over the
side to wait with what patience he
could muster: for the tide to rise
again.
'Very soon he saw a girl approaching
the river swinging a bucket in her
hand. Obviously she was coming
down to get some water, and the
wrath of the skipper famed up anew.
Leaning farther over the side, and
shaking his fist at her, he said:—
"My lassie, if you tak' one drap o'
water till I get afloat again I'll warns
yer ear for't,"
Statue of Charles I. Perfect.
The statue of King Charles I. in
Whitehall London, is universally
praised as perfect the only one so
regarded in all England.
ED. 7. ISSUE No. 38—•'20
After Eating Thirteen Buns,
Mrs. Wiggs—"Is hilly 111, Mrs, Skin-
ner?"
Mrs. Skinner—"Well, he ain't ill ex-
actly, but no stummick can stand thir-
teen buns! It's an unlucky number."
India's Products.
At a school examination the exam-
iner asked one child:
"What are the products of our In-
dian Empire?"
The unhappy infant began nervously
to reel off the list she had got by
heart:
"Please, sir, India produces curries
and pepper and rice and citron and
chillies and chutney, and—and—and—
"Yes, yes," said the examiner, im-
patiently. "What comes after all
that?"
Another infant's hand was raised.
"Well, you tell her what conies after
that"
"Please, she India-gestion."
MONEY ORDERS.
The safe way to send money by mail
is by Dominion Express Money Order.
Hubby's Choice.
Wife (buying new hat) : "What sort
of bird shall I have on it?"
Hubby: "Get one with a small
bill.,'
Minard's Liniment Relieves Distemper
Some people's idea of taking life
easy seems to be making it hard for
the rest of us.
MOTHER!
•
`California Syrup of Figs"
Child's Best Laxative
Accept "California" Syrup of t+igs
enir—look for the name California on
the package, then you are sure your
child is having the best and most
harmless physic for the little atom -
tali, lives; and bowels. Children love
its fruity taste. Full directions on
each bottle. You must say "Calf.
forma."
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Play accompaniments on Plano or organ
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Achill, or Eagle Island, the largest
island belonging to Ireland, is eon-
nected by railway with the mainland.
GIRLS! A MASS
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BEAUTIFUL HAIR
tet "Danderine" save and
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In a few moments you can trans.
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of life. Just get at any drug or toilet
counter a small bottle of "Danderine"
for a few cents. Then moisten a soft
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this through your hair taking one
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yes, immediately, you have doubled
the beauty of your hair. It will be a
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Let Danderine put more life, colo:,
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This stimulat'ng tonic will freshen
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hair, and help your hair to grow long,
I thick, strong and beautiful.
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'Whether it is an itching, burning
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First bathe with Cuticura Soap and
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approval of the most discriminating.
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ONLY TABLETS MARKED
"BAYER" ARE ASPG N
Not Aspirin at Alt without the "Bayer Cross"
The name "Bayer" identifies the
only genuineAspirin,—the
Aspirin
prescribed by physicians for over nine•
teen years and now made in Canada.
Always buy an unbroken package
of "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" which
contains proper directions for Colrlaa
l
Earache. Neu-
ralgia.
Toothache, B
Luin11ago, boa-aurtiatism, Neuri-
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Tin boxes of 19 tablets cost but
a few cents. Larger "Bayer" packages.
Those is only one Aspirin...d' 3a,year"mYou roust say "Bayer"
Aspirin is the trade mark (rczis'cred in Canada) of Rayer Manufacture of r,iono-
aeat1tacid.ester of SelIeylleaeld, While it is well known that Aspirin meant Bayer
manufacture., to assist t1,o public against imitations, the Tablets of Bayer company
Will be stainped with their general trade mark. the "Bayer Cross."