cans Herald % who £0r:6,000 years Las been beld responsible for all the ills to which man is heir, has been exon- She didn't eat the apple after all. 't eaten for several thousand years &fter she inhabited the Garden of Eden. Moveover, it wasn't an apple. but an herb that was eaten. ~~ "A tablet in the possession of the University of Pennsylvania has been @roduced as indisputable proof that 'the germ of all human ills grew out of Noah's appetite for herbs that were believed to be stow immortali- y. Instead of having the effect on , however, the repast of herbs "obly served to anger gods who are 'supposed to have cursed the unfor- funate pilot of .the ark, and made and his offspring victims of L and the many troubles to- day beset mankind. The tablet, which was unearth- od in the land of Sumer, province of * Babylon, Southern Asia, was looked W#pon as so much junk by the univer- Sity students,for many months after . Ms arrival here." Then Prof. Step- shen Langdon of Jesus College, Ox- , was called in. He made two trips 10 America to study the tablet before he succeeded in translating 'the 'Sumerian megsage. : At last he announced that it plae- od responsibility for the erimes at- tributed to Kve upon Noah, who is rvaferred to as Tagtug in this ac- count of his doings. The _ cassia herd, which was recognized by the Creeks as possessing powerful wmedi- b, Ginal properties, was believed to LJ + possessed also the ability to immor- " talize any human being who ata of ft. The gods not wishing to make an equal of Noab, are shown by these tablets to have forbidden Noah #0 touch the cassia tree. ~ But the wiser builder of the ark Was too sorely tempted. . "sumed the forbidden herb and was pdiriven from the garden he had him- y planted following the deluge. And from that moment human ills 5% Prof. Langdon tells the story of iibe tallet. in these words: : Be *The tablet, which contains a re- "markable account of the early Sum- _ifnerian theology concerning the ori- of human culture, has been al completely restored by m authorities. i', vitten in liturgical style, this somposition deserves the rank of an , for it handles. the most pro- a d problem which concerns hu- of . It begins by describing the of primeval bliss, which it lo- at 'Dilmun, 'an island in the Gulf. | : aa (Published Annually) traders Wi SBTRnlT Sironehont the Wort MANUFACTURERS. AND 'DEALERS £5 each class of Besides being a lets comm ide to London ita suburbs the LAA contains BXPORT MERCHANTS Bolu dvr they , and the Co- they aup- © STRAMBHIPF LINES Sh RR An PROVINCIAL TRADE NOTIORS of leading Mannfacturers, Merchants, oo the current edition wifl REEL Sat WHR 133D0%, Prnmcony co, 10. our to siz Ee food Jot increase in on the other > wuining, ai + + 4 + $ * + * * * v * + * * 4 * * + * + * *» * * 4% * * + + * » * + * * + + + + + + + + * & + + +» "The cassia, in Sumerian excellence as well as 4n Semitic Greek medicine. The legends in gards to it probably, told. of its ing the plant which solute immortality. of ¢ Tagtug was not to eat, for thereby he would attain eternal }ife. "Mankind, until this time, Ppos- sessed extreme longevity, but mot immortality. UE. on his own initiative becomes a prey to disease and ordinary mortality. Thus ac- cording to the original Sumerian story, Noah, the survivor of the flood, is the 'one who eats from the treo of life. No woman is concern- ed in this disobedience, which re- sulted in 'our loss of perfect health, peace and countless years." ------ ------ SEPELLP PIII EP EDEL ELI NCS D0 AN OLD PRINCIPLE. People sometimes talk about the Made-in-Canada movement as though it were some new. dis- covery. It is regarded as a matter of novelty that people should ask for goods by the labor that keeps thy' coun- try =, But a8 a mat- ter of fact the principle of Made-in-Canada is as old as. the nation.. It began generations ago in the farmhouses and the villages when there wasn't a machine invented that wasn't operated by hand or by foot. The whole fabric of Canadian industry traces directly back to the old spimning-wheel and the loom and the village blacksmith' shop. Nothing left the maker's hands in those days that could not be depended upon to give the last ounce of wear fear for the work and the cost that went into it. Qur pioneer makers were not afraid of the cost of production. They went on the principle that it never pays to make a poor article even though to do so costs less than a good one, The factory operators of to-day have not Rone' back on that principle. They never could afford to do SO. Since those days and be- fore, in spite of a tariff high, low or middling, the manufac- turers of Capade have been tested by the competition of old- er nations expert in the busi. ness of manufacturing. If Can. ada bas learned the art of self. government more thoroughly than any other overseas domin- ion in the world, she has also learned the art of seif-eficiency in. the business of producting what the people of Canada have to buy. It never paid to do anything else. The slip-shod- maker is out of date. He throve on the credulity of some people. In an age of publicity only ef- ficiency tells. MOLTKE WAS OUSTED WHEN HE DIFFERED WITH THE DIVINE KAISER. Eee erre Gd bbe P BELSEDIBIAI0 0430040000000 4 PORE E PUL IOELO PIPE IP4SOOd i i i : : : : is Wanted to Attack French Centre, Kaiser to Advance on Calais -- New Chief Not Popular. Amsterdam, Dec. 15.--According to information received by the Handelsblad the resignation of General Von Moltke as the chief of the German general staff was not due to illness as reported from Berlin, but was in consequen- ces of a conflict of opinion between the. general and the kaiser. It was the wish of von Moltke to c¢oncen- trate the German main fofces against Verdun. It was his belief that a strong effort to- break through the French lines there, fol- lowed by a movement in a northern direction, would have compelled the British to retreat. » To this the 'kaiser disagreed. His object was to break through - tie lines ofthe nllos in the: directioniof Calais. and his favorite General von Falkenhayn. minister for war, whe succeeded von Moltke as chief -of the general staff, worked put plans on the lines of the kaiser's idea, which resulted in the events at Dix- mude and Ypres and on the Yser. At this moment the only gemeral strong enough. to withstand the in- fluence of the court camarilla is von Hindenburg. : LONG DRAIN COMPLETED. Extends 8% Miles, Is 45 Feet Wide, 6 Feet Deep. Windwor, Dec. 15-=The long march drain, believed to be the longest one just been completed at a cost of $50, 800, which includes bridges. It was this| started on Oc¢tober 16th of list year. ual. It isn't their 4 cession, Malden township, tends to the It is 45 feet wide at the top and 30 feet at the bottom. Its average depth is six eet, 4 a ------------ Plot to Kill Vou Der Goltz. Petrograd, Dec. reached Odessa ments, is the herb of healing| par ab-| plant of its kind in Western Ontario, has The drain starts at the. eighth ton and ex | Canard River, a distance - {Of eight and three-quarter miles. ¥ | : gias jtorted When Christmas gifts bear with | them kindly thoughts or careful work " on the part of their donor and a recog- | nition of good taste in those to whom them are given, the recipients are sure to be pleased. And, whether the; purse be fat or lean, good manage- ment and cleverness make it possible; ! to embody 'these ideas In all gifts. i Those which are the handiwork of the | giver are whose which make the strongest appeal to our hearts and bring homie the sweet, gracious spirig of Christmas. What taxes us most each year is the matter of deciding on what to give. After this has been settled upen and our list made out, the rest is easy and the work a pleasure. There are innumerable pretty things for women and girls, All of them love articles made to decorate their homes, and those made for their personal adorn- ment; so the choice is not so hard. It does require some thing to find out gifts for men. But we won't go far wrong if we stick to things which add to their comfort. - And they like, too, | those things which add to the attrac | tiveness of 'their rooms. About the prettiest and easiest gift to make is the bewitching breakfast cap. Everybody, that is anybody, has a little frivolous and dainty cap for morniug wear these days. They are a delight to the eye amd anybody may own one. Some pepple call them boudoir caps and, furthermore, there are caps made of micer materials which are worn in the evening and are cdlled opera caps. They are all simply 'made. It isn't' a bad idea to decide on a gift of this kind and niake them up for 'all one's girl or women friends. Each one may have seme little individual touch to make it dif- ferent from the others. By planning to make several caps at one sitting there is a saving in material and time. These caps are very {inexpemsive. They are made of plain or dotted net, allover lace, thin silk, mull, batiste, embroidery and chiffon and edged with narrow plaitings of net or lace. A square of the fabric uséd makes the crown, that fs a piece of goods 18 inches wide and of the same length is all that is required for the crown. The corners are trimmed away mak- ing the pieces somewhat circular, A narrow binding is sewed about the edge of this piece and an elastio cord run in, It is long enough to reach about the head with a lit le stretch- ing. A single or a double fall of plaited net' or lace is sewed about the edge, one row being slightly wider than the others and falling a half inch below it. A single ruffle is often edged with narrow ribbon. The cap shown In Fig. 1 had a crown of sheer eyelet embroidery with a double ruffle falling about the face. The upper riffle is edged with a nar row: Valenciennes insertion. Thesq Seas Ing is sewed, finished with a hem- | bon one inch wide 'is made into lttle plaited 'ruffies may be bought, "and range from twenty-five to' fifty cents A yard already to sew on. A band of soft fiessaling ribbons in light blue, extends about the cap with a small flat rosette Wt each side. This is made by gathering & quarter of a yard of ribbon along one edge, A lit- tle bunch of pink rosebuds is perched under the rosette, just where the ruf- fle_joing the crown. It requires one and a half yards of ribbon for this lit- tls cap, such 'as may be 'bought for fifteen or twenty cents a yard. Three quarters of a yard of plaiting 1s a 1it: tle more than is needed but Is the al- lowance for one ruffie, One and a third yards will easily make two raf fles. il Fig. 2 shows a less expensive cap made of a coarse dotted net. It is made in the same way and edged with a rufile of net having a finish of ner | row: Val lace. Under this ruffle a plait. stitched hem. Pink and blue satin rib bows and mounted at each side. Such a little cap costs only fifty cents. A lovely cap of spangled chiffon is pictured in Fig. 4 and 'this cap is also very cheap in price, The chiffon 1s light, blue with: little crystal dots over the surface. A plain; thin net crown lines the chiffon, to: protect. it. They are bound with a thin, narrow satin ribbon 'in pale. blue, through' which the elastic cord is run., The. ruffle is made of the same chiffon edged with a border of the ribbon, A little bunch of pink moss rosés and leaves is sewed to the left side. . This cap is made in pink or light green or laven- der or in ail white, It requires al- most no time to make and is one of the prettiest of all. It one has time to make the plaited ruffles, the expenss ! is lessened. But even buying it ready made it only requires three yards to make the single edging for four caps. An average of seventy-five cents each will cover the cost, when several caps are planned to be mad= + sue time. Evening caps are mos axpensive. One is shown in Fig, 4 made of silver lace. The ruffle is a satin ribbon, is blue, covered with the silver and there is a hand made wreath of Iit- tle ribbon rose buds made of narrow pink satin ribbon set about the top of the ruffle. Pretty flowered = ribbons and those of rich brocade make beau- titul opera caps. Nearly always tiny made flowers, or smail millinery flow ers like the forget-die-not, are used In trimming them. Rich laces are draped in full puffs for crowns and lace odg- ings fall about the face and over the neck in caps that are worn 'with eve ning dress. But, ver. g > opera cap is not Ow : nearly so use READ THE LABEL ------------------------------------ For THE PROTECTION OF THE CON- SUMER THE INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL. uT I§ THE ONLY WELL-KNOWN MEDIUM~ PRICED BAKING POWDER MADE IN CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALUM AND WHICH HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON THE LABEL. MAGIC BAKING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM ALUM 1S SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SuL- PHATE OF ALUMINA oh SODIC ALUMINIC SULPHATE. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT BE MISLED BY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. ! E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO, ONT, MONTREAL J =) | SIREALTETERR Toronto Fat Stock Show TORONTO and RETURN Fare $6.55 Good going P, M. trains Deq 10th. AN trains Dec. 11th and 123th. R§turn me it, Dec. 14th, 1014, For full particalars apply to J. P. HANLEY, Railroad and Steamship 'Agent, Cor. Johnson apd Ontario Sts. " LRT )/7 5 6d, TIE A For Cooving and Drinking, also for Cake icing and making Fudge. a A A a NS . AUTOMOBILES DO YOU WISH TO BUY, TO SELL OR EXCHANGE? We store, list and advertise cars for sale, and will supply exe perienced chauffeur for démonstrating. Cars for sale may be seen at apy hour. Garage well heated, central and fireproof. PORRITT GARAGE CO., Limited Phone 454. 210-214 Wellington Street. PAA cn sa A At At Ag A AAA AA Tho Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been {n use for over 30 yeais, has borne the signature of and has been made under his pere sonal supervision since its infancy. y Allow no one to deczive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Jr ~as-good " are but Iixperiments that trifle with and Ladanger the health of lnfants and Children--Esperience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, are gorie, Drops and Southing Syrups. It is pleasant. 1s contains ncither Opium, Morphino nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it Las been in constant use for the relief of Co n, Tlatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles an Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea--Tho Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALways Bears the Signature of o in Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COMPANY NEW YORK CITY, For breakfast is a daily happen- ing, and anything that makes the young day cheerful is § Christmas gift worth having. ; 3 CHRISTMAS BALL A NOVELTY : : J i BE i £ : g 3 iH 2g B Thinking so does not make a thing . Imagination never disturbs facts, Many so-called sins are only dis- ; does not make the lo- :| ent that ain't any use PR comotive: wo; ii's selent steam, and]h you would have the shape of tions for the inner framework; cut from eight of these pleces, for seams. Sew. : and fit to f the seams come y them; now seloss Avnt--Yes, Johnhy, Gants brought you a baby brother. Johuny--Great, Beak Ascii Tres un the mistletoe can LT dr ma & good child- it's the silent ' example tha! 'how Tow a Aressmaki] 3 AAR, 37h, The gets the bi Felt Slippers Always make a most acceptable gift to any member of the family. WOMEN'S FELT SLIPPERS 75¢ up to $1.50 MEN'S FELT SLIPPERS : $1.00 up to $2.50 SLIPPERS 65¢ up to $1.25 CHILDREN'S FELT SLIPPERS : 50c to 75¢ -- SHOP EARLY --- J.H.SUTHERLAND &BR0. The Home of Good Shoes. uly GIRLS' AND BOYS' FELT rm » a <u CANADIAN aS WINTER TOUR | TO THE LAND OF ' SUNSHINE AND SUMMER DAYS ------------------rer pn THE "CANADIAN" Fast Thme Between ' MONTREAL-TORONTO DETROIT-CHICAGO | Particulars from Canadian Pacific | Ticket Agents, or write M. G. Mur- phy, District Passénger Agent, cor- per King and Yonge Sts, Toronto, or F. CONWAY, C.P.A., City aihet office, corner Princess and Welling tom Sts. Phone 1197. Asn CIE ---- er -- | CANADIAN SERVICE) NEW YI J] . MAILINGS FROM sanwar TO LIVERPOOL. After TRANSYLVANIA, 15,000 tons, Dee. 21 1 a.m, Apply Local Ticket Agent or The Robert Reford Ceo. Limi ts, 50 King Street East, Toronto. NN rl ited, General ao © BERMUDA OHRISTMAS TRIP $25 and 'up 8S. BERMUDIAN leaves New York December 26, arriving back January 4th. Giving six days in Bermuda ~-40 hours from Frost to Flow- ers. Unlimited attractions ineludin all summer sports and delightfu social life at Bermuda's palatial hotels. 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