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i AAT fn HT Wo ay od EE =. Lt SS yg po « nd A ay XN SR Pont, eS Span Sm ~~. - BS AT "the knife in relicving the body of a * TATA NN ¥ You Never Know Your Luck A fifteen year old. girl unwrapped a parcel she had found by the road- ------side-recently--It-contained-a--woods=--f-- en leg, relic of an English Civil War skirmish fought near by in 1644, About the same time a woman whose purse and eleven pounds were "lifted" in a Sydney store, found a diamond in "her. handbag, She: sold the diamond, which she - thinks . slipped out "of the purse- thief's ring -- for £100. A 'boarding-house keeper: went to an auction sale and made a suc- . cessful bid for a quantity of hotise- hold 'goods, . Among them was a stuffed parrot. which she said she didn't want, but singe this was part of the "lot," it was now her proper- ty and she was compelled to take it away. When she got Home she gave! the parrot to her children. They pulled it to pieces. "to find out what'it's made of," and in a few minutes the floor of the living - room was strewn with ten - pound notes wor- th £300. 'A bass caught offen {6 MW evon coast in 1939 was offered to a cus- tomer but was refused because it was "too big." The fishmonger took it home for himself, and dis- covered a large emerald inside its gullet. . One of: the strangest finds of re- cent years .was made in France when two men suspected of a ser- ies of burglaries were tried before a Court of -Assizes. bs Evidence againtt them + was com- plete but none of the plunder. 'could be traced till one of the nven said it was in a cavern in one, of the mountains. After a He climb a police inspector reached the cavern and found all the stolen 'property, but havirig shown that the cavern was accessible - he - encouraged some archaeologists to make the trip. - Exploring the cavern thoroughly, these experts brought to light a. priceless -collection--of prehistoric | remains -- skeletons, flint hatchets, pottery, and jewellery worth mil- lions of francs, -- Se RS wy 'Sheepish Loser -- An expres-: sion of matronly consternation "was caught on the face of this sheep_as she watched the judge award first prize to a rival. To add insult to injury, it was ruled that her best bonnet could re- ceive no consideration from the ORTY TIC Theree's an old adage--we don't just recall the exact wording--that is addressed to folks on the make, It is to the effect that when you're climbing up the Hill of Success it is advisable 0 mind your manners and not chuck your weight around . "Because - the folks you pass on your way to the top are the vety ones you'll pass tumbling 'down We have pften thought of this i individuals niillionaires, {ycoons and the like throw their ey were up came tumbling down who didn't hesitate t Thi around when They always seemed so sur- He that other folks didn't take such a mournful view of the tumble. as they did themselves. sympathy, the best they got was advice to go and look under the letter "S" in the dictionary. Expecting Now that same adage comes to mind when we consider the present plight of a couple of football outfits who, just about ten -months ago, were the two top teams in Canada --to wit, the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Calgary Stampeders. It is hardly a secret that neither the Riders or the Stampeders had to be told they were good. They would freely admit that they avere, Three colors of suede fashion this four pa outhit for Junior, if you"asked them. Or even if you The jacket has a zipper that works up or down. and a vest didn't. In fact, over a fairly lengthy - matches one of the lighter shades. stretch of watching. athletes in the pracess of winning or losing, we | - Suifsigg to the point And now look at them! definitely out of it. either third or Saturday would, be loath to wager than a picayune on their ances of winning the Big Four | again." (A picayune, if you *must - 'down New Orleans As for the Stampeders--well, for them the ship has definitely sailed. About all that is left for them is to borrow the line managements . of losing baseball clubs feed to the fans and say, "Next year we're go- ing to have a HUSTLING ball : iy . N A d U f But maybe 'there was a reason, - ew n se u " FASHION NOTE FOR JUNIORS can recall few teams who created a Argonauts. With Wesieins starring mor¢ unfriendly feeling among the on Big League bascball teams, and general public by their actions. off on College football -elevens, south : the field; although, in all fairness, of the Border -- with a United it must be said that a generous States Negro just receiving a Nobel measure of that ill feeling may have Prize that proclaimed him as one -been-due_to__a__horde of loud: of the world's outstanding citizens supporters - who carried --such treatment of tlic race here i in of ob- | Cnada is sickening, to put it very mildly. : aldly , .: Arig; while the Calgary and - It is a_'fact. that Ulysses Curtis, Ottawa teams may have been high- one of the colored gentlemen in ly popular in their own: back, yards, question, has a rather reprehensible they were far from that among the habit "of shaking his large dogs around after he has been tackled. But his Big Four playmates could Ottawa, 'have been' trusted _to cure him. of of course, at present writing are not 'that. Other footballists, in the past, anyonee have had the same habit--and who witnessed the pushing around wound up by being carried off the they tok from the Argos--the team field with a badly twisted knee. picked to finish . * + = fouth--the other But if Ulysses Curtis was the | dirtiest player who ever stepped on a Canadian gridiorn--which he was ~a great many_miles from being-- even that wouldn't excuse the kind ! know, was a coin they used to have of filthy abuse that was hurled ar | Like Father--Tollowing i m the l way, worth him by one, at least, of the Rough !| footsteps of a famous father is around six and a quarter Lents). Riders. What was. even worbe was. | William _F._ Rickenbacker, 22, | the action of a member of the son of Eddie Rickenbacker, ~ Ottawa management in backing up World "War I's "ace of 'aces." | --~instead of repudiating--what his Accepted as an air cadet, young | players had done. lf that's what Rickenbacker tries on an Air professional' sport in Canada is Force qfficer's cap coming to, the sooner we're rid of gL ' it the better. Now '1 hope that after reading this you won't rush madly. to sell all your live stock, together with most of your harvesting machinery and so forth, .in order to make' a clean up by putting all your acres under 'grass, Still, if the followipg infofmation is true--and I have po reasfn to doubt it---there may come a day jwhen we'll all: be growing grass; ot as a filler for cattle, ot asa things ithan that have, happened. Why, ilist the other day, beleive or not, 1 saw a teenzaged lad get tp | and! offer his seat to *aplady on; cropdet street-car, ood for human beings. Strangér } l { 'Most people laughed when a London grass-eating 'enthusiast re- commended fine golf course tips garnished with, lawn cuttings," and rissoles cooked with dried grass. Yet today scientists agree that grass 'may prove a panacea for the world's. pressing food problems. * * * Diiring the war British Govern- ment chemists investigated the food possibilities- of fresh young grass and, at the hcight of the U-boat menace, actually set. up a shadow factory for potential production. * * * 4 Desert troops in Libya and else- where who munched sustaining candy bars never-realized they were cating experimental grass nougat. ausages can be made from grass protein, and researchers 'at the Rothamsted soil science station have © experiniented "with a dehy- drated clover-like lucerne grass which can be used ih souns. giving - the flavour of peas.. Two per cent of Britain's total protein. needs, it is asserted, could he.supplied in this way . * * Since wheat, barley, oats, .rice SN ,500 varieties of the great grass ih the news is not surprising. "Sugar canes, sorghum and éven bamboos all hint at fresh variations in grass. nutrition. But fresh wild . grass--nature's waste product--is, of course, the focus of current ex- periments. « & * * Analysts conhfm that ;an ounce of grass provides eight thes more" vitamin B than equivalent toma- toes, fourteen times more vitamin A, plus invigorating chloro- phyll and valuable mineral salts. Carotene, the vitamin A substance 'which counteracts failing eyesight, is yielded. by grass in three times _the quantity' available from the common source, carrots. * * » Again, in probing grass possibi- lities, therapeutists have discovered a sugar--anti-sterility-- {factor which has overcome parentage problems rats and rabbits. But perhaps the trend of current resecafch s hest illustrated "in the experiments of David Tullis, a poultry expert. Aware "that young grass contains hormones and proteins which make it an ideal food for hens, he set out to overcome the outstanding Jiudgres, y . that old adage we . Shang not an Wik As poz old i i pt the sh that hens pine) be AE a "alluded-to at the sarc ismt sue | Jack Jon once sition here 100, | etn Heel o flock on powderet Selling Leeches For bad one for 'teams, as well as indi- ng, nny" y gr tat 8 rane-Lien.tric ~- worried about my bad morals till . SAVES SOAP removing all the indigestible fibre, Over A Century A chémist's 3 hh bencath the arch of London's Holborn Viaduct still sends hundreds of leeches a week to hospitals for cases where the leeches' blood- -sucking property' ies excel modern practice. This shop has been selling leeches for more than 130 years, and to meet the consistent demand Henry Potter, the founder of the business, established his own leech farms. Today the leeches are imported ~ from France. . The use of leeches in mediciné gocs back to the time when the 7} notion arose that most of human ills. were due to excessive blood in the body and bleeding the patient "was invariably the first-act of "the surgeons. It was in India and Arabia that the leech was first used to replace "its offending blood, and the prac- tice came westward to Rome inthe fimic of Cacear Augustus. From tien on the loch © was anjong the oillfirs of medicine. In Europe the heyday of leeches was in the nineteenth century. It was then. that practitioners . really 4 let themselves go in leecheraft, In {France some fifty million "were annually required to meet the ne¢ds of the treatment prescribed by the surgeons. . Besides the native leeches in the marshes and streams. there were Jéech-farms in Hungary and Ger- many which did a lucrative trade in sending thém: over Europe. In England, leéch-ponds became fam= liar features 'ip the suburbs. There was even a living to be made by poverty-stricken old ladies who stood in rural ponds collecting "{eeches by allowing them to fasten on to, their bare legs, surely the most unkind occupation that penury could demand, but an: occupation immortalised in Wordswarth's poem "The Leech-gatherer",. « to take to heart "Always remember that the folks you pass on your way to the top are the same ones you'll pass on the way down." And we hope that the Stampeders and the Ottawa Rough Riders are feeling plenty sorry for themselves--sorry enough to plas- their mental : aches and ; on soap; does away with prying bruises. Yes, they'd better, because A weliare officer "was interview- ., open box and spilling soap. supporters, ing a mother of thirteen, children. ° so» f outside of their own nobody else appears to be. * their actions in regard to a couple " : of -deeply-tanned members of the can thirteen take?" . - - | est single cause of battery failure. ] Ottawa after so many by yourself?" New battery on market has grid Rough Riders do anything to in- The mother replied without hesi- | "Metalex" which maker claims crease their general popularity by | tation. "When I had only one child | offer 100 per cent more resistance «it took all my time, so what more | to overcharge, said to be the great- after I'd copped the championship." | Maybe, if is Curtis had-been--- 1 ---- BOX. -and measuring spout just _an ordinary run-of-the-mill ae een hel this gadget for player, instead of an outstanding a Toasts nsuts presses star, those proud Ottawa's wouldn't | spout en ra 2 Pouring have cared whether his skin was for dish sod ough soap black, white, or skyblue pink ' pan of suds at every tip. Calgary Is said to save up to 50 per cent. "It's incredible," she said. "How on BATTERY RESISTS earth do you find time to look | OVERCHARGE | Other features of battery include = * chemically active current- -producing BY material said to ensure snap starts "HAROLD ~----{--in--any-weather;--hard--rubber--con-- ARNETT SN tainer with 10 per cent thicker walls robe 0 to safeguard against container fail- lure; new sealing compound to lock plates and prevent electrolyte leak- age. Batteries come in four group sizes. ; & : + * BIKE LAMP A beam of light a block long is claim of company for new bicycle lamp. Lamp has a 50-hour life; is of sealed beam 'design, the re- flector being hermetically' scaled to the lens. Dirt cannot tarnish re- flector and permits use of a larger filiment. When filament burns out anbther is plugged in; no bulb --- | fiecessary, Running on three or six "| flashilght batteries, lamp casts a _5,000- -candlepower shaft of light," +0 PLASTIC FLOOR COAT Floor fihish of ' 'eellulose claimed ideal for gym or playroom floors; prevents chipping, blistering, rub- ber burns and is very durable. Sey- HANDY BRUSH « ier whan snosn eral coats are used; the first pene- trates the wood to make a bond,' the second makes the floor non. CONVENIENT YY AT HAND'ON THE BUCKET BY BENDING ee aed the foce don LL REST ON"TOP OF THE BUCKET RIM aes « | ator or brash, Is sald yp quic but still in vain. * * * Geese can digest grass--why not hens? During 15 years of patient experiment, he isolated digestive juices which geese: have but hens lack, and succeeded in manufactur- ing them synthetically. On being fed grass pellets mixed with these juices, oil and carbohydrates; "thes liens put on weight 26d laid better." * As a result, PEE, farmers all . over; Britain are feeding their birds entirely on pellgt grasd.-Pullets have been putting on as much: -as eight - ounces in ja week, while full-grown gtass--fedthens weigh an average pound ~more "than those raised on + other foods Fow yields too, are up. * That's The Ticket--\When Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Babiskin heard 'that a a hospital was giving away a they bought a ticket in "their, daughter June's name. It's easy to see from the tot's smile here: 000 'Dream House, : that her ticket won. AGENTS WANTED RES; Batteries, re, Stoves, Radios, Freezers and Milk Permanent Anti. EAS. Paints, Electric Coolers, Root Coatings, Freeze, etc. Dealers wanted, Write: War- co Grease and Oil Ltd. Toronto, ~~ OR - NTERNATIONAL diesel tractor h Bucyrus-Erle hydraulic angledozer, steel winter eab, 11 ft, V-type snow. plow, Will sell reasonable. Melville Davison, 'Meaford, Ont. 53 LABOR OFFERED BABY CHICKS that our special satisfy the most exacting broiler special come here for roore. Alsd chicks for: laying, Hatcheries: Limited, Fergus, Ontarlo {prompt "shipment, ND CLEANING needs dyelng or clean. 3 e 6 us for ; {Information, Dye orks Limited. -g OKKERPING and prs Ni Nasmith Street, TULIP "BULBS wn DOZEN will Eve large flowered bloom in I's Thy of Valley roots: this isi a real buy. 0. ili Ontario. FARMS FOR SALE , In first class dairying and mixed. farming district, also commercial properties. Donald, 'Winchester, Ont. grapes and fait, garage, chickenhouse and hens Seven miles east of Hamilton on Highway, John McLaren, CORN EQUIPMENT "ONE 24 Interpational Mounted Corn Picker in good condition. Ja 5 Phone Burlington 5914. MOTORCYCLES, and used, bought, sold, stock of guaranteed used motorcycles. 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Hamilton, Ontario : Model 302-8 - Badger. half-track Trencher complete. Lennox Equipment & Supply Company Limited, Selby, RAISE Rabbits for meat, bitry, Chilliwack British Columbia, HI-POWERED SPORTING RIFLES Write for latest catalog listing various SCOPE SALES CO., LTD, McCULLOCH CHAIN SAWS--Two Models - 25 and 49 pounds Attachment for digging 9 Cowan Avenue, + "VAC" Case tractor, , BR John Deere trac- tor, "V'* Case tractor, ""C'*. Case tractor, Eaniy nt, Jamitea, NS, 30 for $1 postpaid. shapes, sizes, colors: Brooklyn 23, New York.. 1 1946" Pontiac- 'Sedan ~ Coupe; - 1939 Buick -- 1936 Dodge Coach. C1944 Ko 7 Jmernasenal Chassis and Cab, "Wheel Base 179'; al Chassis and Cab. K.6 International, K.5 Internation- Long wheelbase com- plete with" platform and high racks; 1940 Ford Two-Ton with stock rack. FAIRBAIRN MOTORS British Enfield Repeat- + Nitto-proofed_ and tho-- Expertly reblued, . finished walnut stock. Condition perfect. Appearance as new. only $37.50 Also - British Enfield .303 cal peaters in excellent condltic faction guaranteed or money refunded, Other types write for list. of rifle box 48 cartridges $2.50. Eastern Sporting - Equipment Co,, RIFLES--, 303 cal, rouglily checked. A reliable hunting (26" barrel) Re- . on $217. 50. Satis- 1320 Bank St. i J ER; two-wheel loader, 1 Goud birds havd Ifid "245 eggs a "year; am increase of -about 45------ Modern methods enables 50 per cent of the moisture to be extracted ; while Fetaining particle of food v thore, onelounce of vitamin Bl ex- © tracted from grass is sufticient to. supply 30,000 people with all they JYield a 'new foods ff to feed Sworld's starving peoples antk-create new levels -of nutrition. LABOURERS muy be scarce next spring, Apply now and have one for next spring, or sooner. LRA, P.O, Box 383, Ottawa, Ontarlo. z MEDICAL DIXON'S REMEDY--For Neuri- tis: and Rheumatic Pains. 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Two kinds--Number 1 for protrud- ing Piles, Sold in tube with perforated pipe for' internal hfe 758¢. Number 2 for external Pilea, So in Jos, 75¢. Order by number from your MECCA PILE REMEDIES - vv CWO (MND enews = 3) = B-1 fl SORE FEET ~~ THIS WAY Rub in 'Minard's Liniment gen "and feel the relief steal oo Erovsly, --muscles amd joints. Por all muscle and joint pains, aches and stiff ness, sprained ankles, twisted limbg= Minard's has n famous for over 60° years: Good for dandruff and skin disorders, too, hind a bottle today; keep it GS) HARD ARDS IgzOLINIMENT LiNMEDS wee ISSUE pry 1950 LEK pe Sm Gf AES