; THE. DAILY BRIT ISH WHIG, T TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1919. CONTAIN ATER OVERCOATS ~~ $48.00 to $38.00 ~~, SUITS $20.00 to $38.00 Largé stock of indigo blue serge and fine worsted suitings. All wool, extra heavy weight pants, $8.00, "Exact Copy of Wrapper. John Tweddell," Sivil and Military Tailor, Princess noes St. =| have GASTORIA BUEN) § For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria "For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA Food. THE CENTAUR SOMPANY, NEW YORK Give. The Most Artistic Roof § is the one that complete- ly 'harmonizes with the design and finishing .of the house. For thid rea- son there is a steadily increasing demand for Brantford Asphalt Slages for the modern style of homes, Brantford Asphalt Slates have a surface of crushe slate embedded into our asphalt coating; the base of the roofing being felt saturated with asphalt. They are cut the size of shin les, and their beautiful soft colors of reddish brown and dark green give a roof a most artistic appearance. ; * colors are the natural shades of the slate as it. comes out of the quarries. Brantford Asphalt Slates are, therefore, unfadeable --never require painting. - are aceurate in size afd pliable, which makes them © very easily handled and quickly laid, saving time a fabor, and therefore costing Jess to lay. Brantford Asphalt Slates make an artistic, durable and Scanomicd] roof. Booklet Sessiibing them sajlen Head Office and Factory, Branford, Canada Branches at Tarants, Moritreal, Halifax 1 transplanting. J wellaile | GRAN MIXTURE VALUES Oats MH Lbs., Barley 48 Lbs. the Best Combination. By Opening Surface to Rains, Many Dollars May Be Made by In- creased Crops -- Full Directions Given Regarding Starting Barly Celery. > Agriculture, Toronto.) LARGE amount of experi- mental work has been con- ducted at the Ontario Agri- cultural College in testing grains both singly and in combination for the production of grain. The' results of experiments indicate that there is practically no advantage in growing in combination two or more varieties of grain of the same class. Quite decided advantages, however, been obtained from cértain combinations of grain of different classes. : In an experiment which extended over a period of five years in which "oats, barley, spring wheat and peas were grown separately and all the different combination which could be obtained by having two, three and four grains in each mixture, it was found that in about ninety per cent. of the experiments the mixed grains gave a greater yield per acre than the same grains 'when grown separ- ately, Of the different combinations, oats and barley came at the head of the list, giving slightly over two hundred pounds of grain per acre mor8 than when 'either one was grown alone, * It is important to use in combin- ation varieties which will grow satis- | factorily together and which will ma- j ture at the same time, Such varieties 21 barley and the No. 3 as the 0.A.C. No. Daubeney, Alaska or 0.A.C. oats give very good results, Of twenty-five different mixtures with different proportions of oats end barley used for five years in experi- mental work it was found that the greatest returns were obtained hy us ing one bushel, by weight, of each or a mixture of 84 pounds (34 pounds of oats-sand 48 pounds of barley). ~Dr, C. A, Zavitz, O. A. College, Guelph. ' Open Your Surface Drains. Drainage--either surface or under- ground---is essential if farming is to be profitable. With the dearth cf ditehing machinery, the depleted labour market and the increased cost of underdraining, progress is re- tarded somewhat. Everything, how- ever, has been dene which prevailing conditions> permit. Yet forty per cent (40%) of Ontario is in urgent need of drainage. The underdrainage of so much cannot be accomplished in a short period of time, hence that which renders timely service, even though only of temporary duration, must be taken advantage of, Surface draining must be resorted to. Several lines will be necessary. Indeed, if thé majority of farmers would leave all "finishing" furrows open in the ploughed ground and connect them by opening up cross chahnels through the lower-lying parts of the field--cleaning out all the furfows thus traversed---a system would be formed whereby the water could be carried to outlets quickly, efciently and safisfactorily in the early spring. Not alone to level fields or farms does this apply. Large areas of On- tario are quite rolling, hence natur- ally drafned. "Yet, a small open ditch or deep furrow will pay for the trouble necessary to make a channel by the greater ease with which water can escape, thus permitting quicker disposal of the same, hence hastening the drying of the land. These surface drains should . be opened at least once per year. The best time to do so is In the late autumn after the fall work is done. Labour can be obtained them with tess difficulty and at less cost, The work may be done by hand or by the use of a team if. water does not prevent, . Surface draining, however, is not recommended to take the place 'of tiling.~--~Thos. Cooper, B.S.A., O. A, College, Guelph. ene Starting Early Celery. The starting of early celery should be done immediately as the seed is glow in germination; requiring aboat four weeks before ready for the first The seed should be sown in flats in a soil very sandy in nature. This goil is pressed down about 14 an inch in the box and then the celery is sown broadcast over it, The box is then watered through bur- lap and is left' covered with burlap or brown paper until the seed germi- | nates. When the plants are showing two gr three leaves they are trans- planted into flats, 2 inches each way in soil that is sandy in nature but with good manure and fertilizgr, such of a ni- ood fertilizer is -at this stage so that the s will net receive any check. hs should | (Contributed by Ontario Department of | ythey took them. Specks Floating Before His Eyes When specks start to float before the eyes,- when 'everything turns black for a few seconds and you feel as if you were going to faint, you may rest assured that your liver is not working properly. The essential thing to do in all cases where the liver is slow, lazy or torpid, is to stir it up by the use of a medicine that will clear away all the waste and poisonous matter from the system, and prevent as well as cure all the trouble arising from this accumulated mass which has col- lected in the system. Keep the bowels open by using Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills and you will have no liver trouble of any kind. They will clear away all the waste and effette matter which has collected and make the liver active and working properly. Mr. John R. Morrison, Grand River Falls, N.S., writes:w""Several months ago 1 was troubled \with a sour stomach, and had specks float- ing before my eyes. I took five vials of Milburn"s Laxa-Liver Pills which cured and cleaned my blood before any length of time. I told my frientls about it and they got some, and they, too, find themselves different since 1 recommend your pills very highly." Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 25¢ a vial at all dealers, or mailed diréct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. rn nt Abandoned Manuscripts. It is said that Kipling's "Reces- sional" was rescued from his waste- paper basket, and had it not been for the intervention and pleading of a friend that magnificent fragment "Hyperion" would have been put be- hind the fire by Keats, whily even the still more famous "Ode No -a Nightingale" w discovered by the same friend behind a pile of books. Newman thought nothing of His "Dream of Gerontius." He wrote to please himself and would forthwith have burned it. But again-a friend stepped in and saved a poem whic h Elgar has set to splendid music, and which provides one of ithe pane hymais in the language, "Praise to the Holiest in the Height." One day Tennyson wrote to "Omar" FitzGerald, casually men- tioning that he had left a few verses behind him in his cupboard at his late lodgings, and would be rather J glad to recover them, says the San | Francisco Argonaut, Fitz found them among the butter and sugar, written in an old butcher's book. They were "In Memoriam." FitzGerald thought a great deal about "Alfred's' verses, but very lit- tle about his own." He wrote "Omar Khayyam" in al] its haunting beauty long before his death, and had a few copies printed, but he' seems to.-hawe told nobody about it. Another poet found a copy in the twopenny box of a second-hand bookshop, and boomed it into deserved fame. Browning actually did destroy everything he wrote before 'Pau- line," and tried to withdraw that from publication in order to burn the last left copy. He did nof suc- ceed, but he made it so scarce that a first edition was sold recently for £480. Sir Walter Scott threw the first copy of "The Lay of the Last Min- strel" into the fire, and was only per- suaded to rewrite it from memory by two friends to whom he had for- merly read it. Even the first of his novels, "Waverley," was accidentally fished out of some lumber where it had lain for years little regarded. Thimble Lore, Though the thimble is claimed to be a Dutch" invention, somebody who knows says that they had them all the way back in the days when Herculaneum was. Sailors formerly wore a like device on their thumbs, and they called them thumb-bhefls or simply thimbles.. Henee the origin of the present word. You'd never think, would you, that it takes twenty, men plus a great deal of expensive machinery to make one little thimble, would you? When John Softing introduced them from Holland into England in 1695, he virtually introduced a new industry besides.' Small Men. "Papa," said a small boy to his parent the ether day, "are not sail- ors very, very small men?" « "No, my dear," answered the fath- er. "Pray what leads'you to suppose that they are so small?" * Because," replied the young idea smartly, "1 read the other day of a German sailor going to sleep on his watch." Pale Cheeked Women Told About Restoring A Rosy 'Complexion A few years ago the girl with pale, drawn cheeks scarcely knew what tu do in order to restore her fading ap- pearance. At that time there was no blood-food medium made that really would put color and strength in ystems 1 that Wate more or less -- un To-day it's "different. can be quickly wourished, can "be made rich, Joh and healthy. All yoa have to take two Ferrozone Tablets 5 > Fike or two of water] meals afeet, is almost CLOCKS STRIKE AGAIN. the Wartime Removed. Perhaps in no instance was fhe great release brought about by the signing of the aiymistice, more im- mediately signalized In london thar in the quick removal of the ban or the striking of the clocks in its man} towers, steeples and public buildings, says the Christian Science Monitor For four long years and more the bells had bean siient, and although London needad nothing in armistiec week, and, indeed, has needed noth ing since, to arémind it that the fighting was over, yet it is to 0 imagined that, during the last few weeks," many' thousands of citizens have hailed the 'sound of some weil F known clock striking again with : special 'warmth and gratitude, Not that, in these past vears London has ever been at a loss ic know the'time. Never, indeed, in the course of its log history has it been So well supplied in this respect as ir these days of wrist watches; bu Lohdon has an obstinate attachment for its institutions, and one of Lon- don's institutions is its bells, its church clocks, picking up the how from one another, now near and now far away, with, maybe, the boom of Big Ben as a kind of hum note ip the distance. It is an attachment stretching a long way back into his: tory, for, indeed, there was a time when London, like most other cities was largely dependent upon it: church bells to inform it as to the hour of the day or night.' As far back as the days of Alfred the Great the two ideas of a bell and a clock were so ¢ ly connected that Alfred in making'a translation ef-a passage in which the Venerable Bede speaks of campana, renders the word clug- gan, or clock. The clock, however, which re corded the hours by striking a bell was a comparatively late invention, dating, in England at any rate, from about the fourteenth century; whilst for centuries before that time the ringing of the church bells had re- corded certain hours of the "day: Wherever there was an abbey, fo instance, the beM rang out every three hours, and in many towns and villages special bells were rung at certain times of the year or on cer- tain days of the week. Thus there was the famous "Washerwomen's bell" at Nottingham, rung at four o'clock in the morning to rouse the washerwomen to work; the seeding bell, the harvest bell, the gleaning bell, and so on, rung in many di'- ferent places. But the best-known bell in London, as elsewhere, was, Another of Banns ed by his son, Henry I.; but, for cen- turies, the curfew was rung, as a matter of course, in London as in other towns and villages, and is still rung in many places. The usual time was eight o'clock, but in London and other, large towns it was often rung at nine. curfew for the City, whilst St. Bride's and St. Giles' also were auth- orities as to the hour for closing in their distriets. Then, as time went on, the custom of having a certain bell rung in a certain district to mark tHe time for beginning or ending the day's work became a recognized practice, There was, for instance, a certain Mr. Doune, a wealthy mercer and citizen of London, who bequeathed two tene- ments in Bow Lane that their rents might pay for the daily ringing of "the tenor of Bow bells" as a signal of this kind to the apprentices of London. The bell was rung 'at six in the morning and eight in the even- ing, and the story goes, according to one authority, that the London 'pren- tices, having good cause to com- plain gf the clerk's carelessness in the performance of his duty, sent to him the following warning: Clerk of Bow bell, With thy yellow locks, For thy late ringing Thy head shall have knocks. To which the offending clerk hasened to reply in the words of the 7 oka conciliation: ildren of Cheap,. "Hold you all still, For you shall hear the Bow bell Rung at your will, As, however, public clocks became more common, the ringing of special bells fell more and more. into dis- use, and then, as "grandfather" clocks and watches became more plentiful, people, especially In the great cities, became less dependent on the public clocks. In London, however, as elsewhere, the striking of was ever a welcome and convenient sound, and London to-day counts it amongst the greatest of her smaller blessings that they are striking again, pisliked Portraits. . Some people are abnprmally sensi- tive. about having their portraits made, either by photography or the brush. Not all of- these are as suc- cessful in avoiding the artist as was Joseph Bramab, an English invent ig of the last century. He never. for'an artist; but his portralt was fo- eluded in a large engraving called "Eminent Men of the years 180%- 1808. en this engra amined, however, according to a re- | cent book on mechanical inventions, it is found that Bramah a his back to the beholder! The explan- of course, the curfew. The formal act i of William the Conqueror was repeal- |; And Boy Church rang the| = e clocks in tower and steeple' is ex- ation is given that a relative supplied the engraver with a description of tne avenors fpure and ce. 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