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ER --- ER ITI LB : by Mr. Vincent, seated on the verandah of his summer home peeling willow wands to make a towel rack noticed a sturdy black ant running straight across the verandah. He tried to turn it back with the toe of his boot, but the little creature quickly made fits way round. Then Mr. Vincent, using the wand in his hand, turned the ant round several times, but he &tould neither confuse ft nor deter it. In a 'moment ft was climbing over parts of the boys' radio outfit, which nrust have been as confusing to it as & mountain range and a forest combined is to a man. Mr. Vincent stamped his foot in front of the creature, but he could not scare it. When he was ready to give up try- ing to turn the ant back his son Allen came along and took up the task. Fail- ing In every other way, Allen placed a plece of board in the ant's path. 'When the ant mounted the board to walk over it the boy carried it back to the starting place. But immediately the ant began its journey again. When it was haltway across the verandah the boy brought it back a d time, but the determined little took up its journey anew and pressed on over 'every obstacle and in ipite of .all opposition... Finally the boy sat down, and the ant reached the er side of the verandah and vanish: ad over the edge, , ~ "Well, Alleng sald Mr. Vincent, "if had such perseverance, there are few things we could not achieve! The Bible sends the lazy man to the 'ant to learil {adustry; this morning we may learn perseverance from the ant." WN "But it's not true of all ants," Allen replied, "I tried the same game on a winged ant, and I turned It aside easily." : "And what a parable that fs!" ex- i ed Mr, Vin it, an ant with wings so that it could soar right over your head and go on it way gives up, whereas this little fellow who has only his legs to d on, goes on over everything, . x 2 Lait 3 THE FARMERS' GUIDE, Canada's Finest Farm Paper, Is offering you over $2,000.00 in cash prizes, in a most unusual and attractive under taking. J T IS THE AGE OF to the station as quickly as possible. . "Suttinly, gen'Vmen," sald 'John. "@it right in." He gathered up the reins and shouted: "Make ready! Charge!" The horse broke into a gal: lop and soon reached the station, "Git ready to jumy, gen"men," John | looking frightened, shouted to his fares. "I've done forgot de word what stops him." ---- enn. THE CAUSE OF SICKNESS Almost Always Due to Weak and 'Impoverished Blood. Apart from accident or {illness due to Infection, almost all ill-health arises from one or two reasons. The mistake that people make is in 'not realizing that both of these have the same cause at the root, namely poor blood. Either bloodlessness or some other trouble of the nerves will be found to be the reason for almost every ailment. If you are pale, suffering from headaches, or breathlessfess, with palpitation of the heart, poor appetite and weak di- gestion, the cause is almost always poor blood. If you have nervous head- aches, neuralgia, sciatica and other nerve pains, the cause is exhausted nerves, But run down nerves are also a result of poor blood, so that the two chief causes of illness are one and the same. If your health is poor; if you are pale, nervous or dyspeptic, you should (give Dr. Willlams' Pink Pills a fair trial. These pills act directly on the blood, and by enriching it give new strength to worn out nerves, Men and women "alike greatly benefit through the use of this medicine. If you are weak or alling, give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a fair tMal and you. will be pleased with the beneficial «results that will speedily follow. If your dealer does not keep these pills you can get them by mall at 50 <¢ents a box from TLe Dr. Willlams* Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. : ---- rs ---- Good Queen Bess Watched Pennies in Her Household. + Housekeeping accountdncy was a fine art, practiced by royal personages in the sixteenth century, according to a big book auctioned off {n London this week. The imperial follo account book was one kept by Queen Elizabeth when she was still a princess, eighteen years old, and shows the household ses of her residence at Hatfield for the year 1661-15562. The volume has twenty-six vellum pages and the covers are decorated with illuminated lettering and scroll work, with five pen and ink emblem- atic drawings among the entries. Each 'account is signed "Elizabeth," the sig- nature being graceful, one with fine | flourishes around it and countersigned . by Bir Walter Buckler, then her cham- | berlain. It is shown that Elizabeth spent nearly £4,000 that year, quite a re- spectable amount, when it is consider- ed that g pound in those days was worth at least four times as much as 'it'is to-day. Although "the good Queen Bess" is supposed to have had a great '| love for literature and a passion for dress, these "accompts" do not give much indication of it, y: In the period covered by the ledger she seems to have made only two pur- chases of books and items of £18 for "certain stuff for her grace's person" cand i '| however; to say this connection, in! in which they lived ons of the Christian. names were a, grow! which existed 'about . through may generations rather than 1 and the Scot-| the definitely adopted appellations 8 . 3 | There are If ly dozens of family ~The name, of course, is Greek in names common in America to-day origin, but # was taken by the medle- | which trace back to the given names val residents of England and Scotland | of women in those days following tho from the Bible, and they spelled it as | Norman 'conquest, when wars on the they pronounced it rather than as it!continent wrested from the Norman- was spelled in the Latin, They spell- | English monarchs and thelr nobility ed it "Alisaunder," or "Allessaundre." | thelr holdings In Normandy and left It you Just slide over the third syllable | them no alternative but to call them- or drop it out, you'll shorten the name 'gelves Englishmen. into something like "Alis-der," which | Rleanor, or, as it was more common- isn't far from "Alaster." ly spelled, Allanora, was a. popular The abbreviation of this name Into name for girls among the Normans, In "Alec" is not found in any of the me-| the Course of the centuries succeeding dieval records. Instead, at that time, | the conquest it became variously An- the tendency was to shorten it into !nora, Annot, Alinot (Norman diminu- "Saunder" or "Sander." Indged we tives), Ellen, Leonora, Lina, Linot and have the Scottish form of "Sandy" to- | Nel (diminutive resulting from the day. Anglo-Saxon influence). MacAlaster, of course, means "Alas-| Nelson simply means "the son of ter's descendants," and Sanders and |Nel" The earliest records of the Saunders are simply shortened forms | name ocour in this fashion as Fitz-Nel of "Sander's-son" and "Saunders-son." | and "fil, Nel." "Fitz" was the Norman It 1s not likely that such a name as [method of expressing 'son of," and "Alexander's-son" could have lasted in | "fil" was the abbreviation of the Latin uncorrupted form long enough to re- | "filius," meaning son, commonly used main as Alexander when the "son" |by the clerks of that day. Neal and finally was dropped. It probably is a | Neilson are variations, as is Nelle, change back to original spelling at a | which has no connection with the Cel- still later period. muttons, veals, hogs-heddes of here, and Raynishe wine." Thirty dozen "eandelles" cost the princess 45 shillings, and she paid to "John Brydges for seafish 15 shill- ings; to a poor woman that brought six chickens and two capons, 5 shill- ings; to him tbat made her grace a table of walnut tree, 44 shillings; for Bible, 20 shilling A Watch for Time Study. Modern efficiency methods as ap- piel in factories and shops often make it necessary to study the time required for different operations in the manufacture of certain products. For this work it 's absolutely necessary to have a stop watch. The conventional stop watch, however, leaves much to be desired, for the reason that, while it gives the time elapsed for a certain operation, it is necessary to indulge in a considerable calculation for deter- mining the output per hour or day. Now a time study watch has been evolved for the purpose of eliminating all computation and making it pos- sible for an observer to reid from the dial the quantity desired. The cir cumference of the dial of the watch is divided into 100 parts, as in the well known decimal dial, but instead of these divisions being numbered in the ordinary manner they are marked! with figures which indicate the num- | ber of operations per hour, when the | tOWn lot, with 20 White time of a single operation 1s = I "a x Tewves| Sore All were good standard breed: | 10g, as shown by the fact that they sented by the elapsed time. instance of very short operations ten tic names of O'Neil and MacNeill Town Lot Poultry Keeping. By 8. W. Knife. Only a small space is required to keep a few hens in which would sup- ply table eggs all the year. Bu! someone says, "I have no one to look after them and I am not able my- self." This obstacle has been over- come in many families where there are no boys or girls. I was much in- terested in the poultry displays at the school fairs this Fall, and I had the pleasure of visiting quite a number, One small town in particular(of one thousand inhabitants) had an exhibit of close on two hundred fowl, all col- ors and stages of growth. The prizes were well deserved where they were awarded and were in the form of a setting of eggs in Spring, from pure- | bred stock, thus encouraging the youthful fancier. We are all aware of the vim a youth will put Into any- thing Interested In; and boys and girls in many cases have made a de- cided success in the poultry, taken in as partners with their parents. ~The following Interesting items, by courtesy of The Reliable Poultry Jour- nal, will show what two juniors did, both under 14 years of age. At the time of writing, these children had | finished their 3rd year in the business. Paul and Aileen Warner started poul- try-keeping on a three-quarter-acre Leghorns, 120 Barred Rocks and 20 Rhode Island and in packages Manufactured by Imperial Tobacco Company of Carada Limited a boy of 13 years, who had the caring for 26 pullets of real good stock. They got fimest care and attention possible, with the result that their average pro- duction for the year was 216 eggs each in a pen 10 ft. by 14 ft. Get your boy or girl interested In poultry and thereby instill into their young minds a fundamental knowledge It will benefit them mentally as well as financially, -- -- "s Heavy Enough. Dealer--"I assure 'you, sir, this is Customer--"Must be--always able to hold up its price." eel ee Mocking the Doctor. A doctor and his Irish coachman were driving past a duck pond, when the coachman sald: "Of! hate thim birds, sorr." "Why should you hate the poor crea- tures, Pat?" asked the doctor. "I'm sure they never do you any harm," "Sure, sorr, don't you hear thim mocking you? You niver pass thim but they call 'quack, quack, quack! ----p Keep Minard"s Liniment In the house. ee fees Mild But Suggestive. The more than usual lask of Intel operations instead of one can be took 31 first and 13 second prizes at) ligence among the students that morn- timed. --------erep-- CHILDHOOD CONSTIPATHON Constipated children can find prompt relief through the use of Baby's Own Tablets, The Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which never fail to regulate the bowels and stom: ach, thus driving out constipation and indigestion; colds and simple fevers. Concerning them Mrs, Gaspard Daigle, Demain, Que., writes: "Baby's Own Tablets have been of great benefit to my little boy, who was suffering from constipation and indigestion. quickly relieved him and now he is in the best of health." The Tablets are | Chickens sold sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 26c' a box from Ths Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. reer fr es pr For a Long Visit. Little Madge was in high excite- i ment; a baby brother had arrived on | and 12 pence "for making paper up-'the scene. She spread the good news, per bodies for her grace," which does' and among others told the gardener, 8: gg~s sold on market .$431.38 n very extravagant. She gaye bit of a wag. "The question is," sald | pggs sold for hatching . . 152,00 "allmes to dyverse poor the o" man, "is the new baby going Chickens sold for breeding .... 52.00 women at sondrie times," and 'was careful to record all tips, one of te 'to stay?" Oh, yes, he means to stay," said Madge, 'he's got his things or i MONEY ORDERS. "Pay your out: Wn. accounts by | Dominion Express Money Order. Five Dollars costs three cents. a DAE ern tWe : Tn Geom Health, Teacher--"Comparé 'cold.' * ¢ "'Could, cough, coffin." various shows. A great many adults would be proud of such a record, both In prizes won and net profits made by these young poultry keepers. Their first year they sold. from 36 hens: . Eggs at local market . .$129.12 Eggs for hatching 102.90 ChicKens sold for breeding . 3150 8.51 Chickens sold for eating 8 802.03 Feed and supplies cost , .. 192.18 $109.90 | Eggs sold on market ... $280.07 They | ees sold for hatching ....... 125.80 for breeding ... 44.00 Chickens sold for eating . 80.37 Premiums from shows ....... 66.60 593.74 Feed and supplies cost ,.,..... Increase in flock . Third year flock contains 110 hens. Chickens sold for eating ...... 140.25 Premiums from 58 prizes i. 848.13 Feed ar i supplies cost ........ 366.23 .. $481.90 70.00 ventory value of $148 in- Another Instance I came across was ing had got under the professor's skin. "Class is dismissed," he sald, exas- peratedly. "Please don't flap your ears as you pass out." ----e eet Training schoolboys to "lend a hand" with the housework is a novel educational suggestion which has much to recommend it. 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Even constipa- ed, bilious, fever- ish, or sick, colle Babies and Child. ren love to take genuine "Califor nia Fig Syrup." No other axative regulates the ten- der little bow: nicely. AHN, sweetens the stomach and starts the liver and bowels acting without grip- ing. Contains no narcotics or sooth. ing drugs. Bay "California" to your druggist and avold counterfeits! In- sist upon genuine "California Wig Syrup™ which contains directions. THE | CHILDRENS COUGH REMEDY [ole 30 aaraie Sales Agents: Harold ¥. Ritehis & Oo, Limited, Toronte HOARSE Gargle several times a day with Min- ard's in water. It outs the fungus and gives relief. ym | Aspirin fs the trade mark (registered } in Canada) of Bayer Manufacture of | ~ | Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacld: