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Port Perry Star, 20 Mar 1930, p. 7

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Omnibus : e British Post-office As the subject of mall. nt remarks; but there is one small boy, at least, who deserves but commendation, for he is nT of his department and a worthy _upholder of its good name, To test the efficléncy of tha service two men entered into a conspiracy, the outcome of which was that one _ of them attempted to mail his com ale as a postal packet, 3 "From the first postoffice which thay visited the conspirators wera directed to another, where such business could "he transacted. « Here the unusual "letter® did not unduly excite the phlegmatic officials, who, with complete absence of emo- tion, handled the Inatter with quiet efficiency. Delivery Charge Pald An official form was filled out with particulars of the addressee, the send- er paid over twenty-five cents and the "package" was entrusted to the tender mercies of a small messenger, The "letter," of course, was sup- posed to be a complete stranger to London, and also ignorant of any eartliy language, so the friends part- ed with a simple farewell, "Cum Caesar Rhenum transisset," to which the other replied with deep feeling "Amo, Ama, Amat" The air of finality about these last words so impressed the boy that he grabbed his charge by the arm and steered him into the street. + "Letter" Found Reticent Here the boy, who was a companion able youth, attempted to make con- versation, but the "letter" replied with a non-committal smile. The boy shrugged his shoulders and continued in silence, The greater part of the journey had to be covered by omnibus, The "let ter" attempted to board several vehi- cles going in the wrong direction, but the youthful servant of the postofiice, with a firm grip on coat sleeve, dis- couraged these endeavors. At last they bearded the right con- veyance, and after a little difficulty over fare paying the journey proceed: ed in silence. Then the "letter," as befits a traveller in a strange city, stood up to émjoy the sights of Pic" cadilly Circus, but the inexorable Mercury forcibly indicated that a sit- ting position was desirable. Attempt to Escape Fails After leaving the omnibus the boy stopped to inquire the way of a taxi- driver and the "letter," grasplug his opportunity, disappeared in the crowd of pedestrians But the lad was not to be thrown oft so. eadily. Doubtless remember: ing recent postal thefts and losses, he tracked his charge with the relentless- ness of a bloodhound, - and, having secured once more a firm sleeve-grip, he did not let go until he had made delivery to the addressee in person. "Omnis Gallia" sald the man who had been steered safely across Lon- don. "Castra posuit" replied the re- cipient of this strange consignment. 'Whereupon the dimunitive representa- tive of the Britih postal service, grasp- ing his signed receipt, departed--an- 'other job done and an interesting tale - to relate to his friends and relatives. x mec Stamps { | Most of us, whether young or old, are interested in stamps. Sometimes | we collect them from parcels and letl- | ters, sometimes we trade them with someone who has specimens that we have not, and sometimes we buy them, At the headquarters of the League of Nations Society in Canada, Ottawa, where wa receive mail from many countries, we are always interested In new stamps. The newest one we have geen is a publicity stamp, issued hy the International Federation of the League of Nations Societies, whose headquarters are in Brussels, Bel "ment in my health. "I am writing to tell you," says Mrs, James A. Haughn, Bridgewater, N.8., 'the great health benefit I received through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I had become badly run down and very weak; could only with difficulty do my house- work, 1 suffered from headaches, and had very littie desire for meals, The so much so nd as a it night; trouble affected my nerves, result I did not sleep well and would often awake with a choking sensation, and would have to sit up in bed, I was taking treatment, but it did not help me and I was losing cour- age, when I saw an advertisement of a case which seemed much like my own, which had been relieved by the use of Dr, Williams' Pink Pills, I de- cided to give this medicine a trial and got two boxes, Befora these were all gone there was an improvement in my ghpetite, which seemed a hopeful sign. I procured a further supply of the pills and found a steady improve- 1 could eat well, sleep soundly at night,' and my house- work was no longer a task beyond my strength. From my own experience I would advise weak, run-down people to give Dr, Willlams' Pink Pills a fair trial, feeling that what they have done for me, they will just as readily do in other similar cases." It you will send your namé and ad- dress to the Dr, Williams' Medicine Cos; © Brockville, Ont, a little book, "Building Up the Blood," will be mailed you prepaid. This little book contains many useful health hints, You ean get these pills through any medicine dealer or by mail at 60c a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont, --------b A Prayer to St. Francis O saint! who talketh with all the birds In ancient woodlands dim, Care for the fledgling sparrow perched ,On yonder leafless limb, When winds are cold, and snows are deep : And dark clouds overhead, Lead the belated robin where He finds a bit of bread. Speak to the hearts of those who sit In houses snug and warm, And bid them scatter crumbs about After a freezing storm; And when the icy crust is hard, And bitter northers blow, See that the snowbird's tall seed grass Still stands above the snow, --Minna Irving in the New York Sun, reat Chemistry Professor--'"'What some of the uses of hot air?" audience up to the subject. Mrs. Thomas Edison, en that the world has ever ssen."~Mme, So hung ann'Heink. 1| some people have electhicity are Student--"In orating it is said to be especially useful in warming the "Mr. Edison doesn't like dancing, bridge or golf; he thinks the latter in- vented for men who eat too much."-- "I think radio broadcasting one of the greatest developments culturally A subscriber writes to hair? Of course we are not from personal experience, bu be becauss such people ha "thing shocking on thelr min Let us check up on its uses Everyone will soon: Curls, your hair and Sai at i Toasts your bread-so brown i et, 'Rings the'door bell, sends best Wishes In summer time it makes your ice, Cools tha house and cleans the car- pets, In a trice it starts Your car, Turn a switch and as you listen, Yes, 'tls music from afan In the honeymooner's kitchen Not a moment need they waste, The percolator on the tables Has tho cofiee just to taste, Eggs are cooked. Just préss a button, Hens lay eggs by day or night, 1 Oh! what a useful little witch Merry little Kilowatt! Every job just needs a switch, First--"Did you read about the man who swallowed the teaspoon?" Second--"No, what happened him?" First--"He can't stir." to The modern wife doesn't know where her husband goes in the even- ings, says a critic. She should try] | staying at home one evening; ' she might find him there, It was necessary for taxation pur- | poses to decide 'which side of the Canadian and United States border a farm, which an old lady had just pur- chased, actually lay, Surveyors findl. ly announced that the farm was just on the American side of the border. The old lady smiled with relief. "I'm so glad to know that," shy said, "I've heard that winters in Canada are ter- ribly severe," Cheer up and let the dentists do all the looking down in fhe mouth, She's a good mother, confides friend. She never sh ren except in self-defe a her child- ' ian Jones--""Well, old man, how are you getting along with your poultry rals- ing? Making Expenses?" Smith--"Not yet; but my hens have! taken to eating their own eggs, so I hope they will soon become self-sup- porting." Peopls who can't write their names so anyone ean read them, will often complain if they aro net spelled right In the newspa pers. 3 Comething in a Name It is sald that"a young lady by the name of. Adelina Moore invented the poststript. 7 © Simile: As unpitying as a loan shark, 1st Suburbanite--"Wa are getting up a Yasue of nations in our suburb. Have you heard about it?" 2nd One--"No, what is it? vote?" 1st One--"No, it's an agreement be- A straw tween those who are planning to make YOUR HAIR NEEDS LUXO TO GIVE IT HEALTH AND LUSTRE ASK YOUR BARBER a garden this spring and those who are going to ralse chickens. He is one »f those fellows who, if he were a singing celebrity, would spend hours listening to his own phonograph racords, sald a man of a friend. De anbiasion OIL Ga LS gium, The new stamp comes In blue, green, mauve and red, which will,' no doubt, ! prove popular spring &olors. They! are about the size of our Canadian 19¢ stamp and have a miniature map of the world on them, enciréled by a 1¢ 'of stars, You may buy these stamps, - a sheet of twenty-four, for fifteen cents. : ~ Unemployment " Natior Review = (London): The _ figures of unemployment mount; the uncertainties created by the present 'Government with regard to the 5: guarding and McKenna duties have "eapital finto the The ceriyinty. alos | expendl-| "nailed his] inched Siok eo fiat Soothe. Salve os | bolls in fowhours, Rink "The man who succeeds in his work is the man who can keep quiet and placid when there is very. severe pres sure,"--Charles BE. Hughes, etter AS pens deci "I am enthusiastically for every- thing that increases knowledge.'-- x Michael Pupln, Slay gop le, tWo rs after Hating. EY y- | sufter indigestion as they call it. Canada's Participation ; CAD ADA is taking a inent part in the Furth ; oulds Poultry Congress, London, July 22 to 30, 1930. ~ National Exhibits. Provincial Exhibits, * Commercial Exhibits. Live Bird Exhibits. 1,000 birds--the largest ex- hibit from any country. 500 delegates--the most from any country except Great Britain, Two After-Congress Tours After the Congress --an cleven day tour of the British Isles--the Shakespeare country, North Wales -- Ireland, Lakes of Killarney, Dub- lin, Belfast -- Scotland, the Tros- sachs, Edinburgh--back to Fngland, Lancashire, the English Lakes, Then a Continental tour--- Brussels, Holland, the Hague, Am- sterdam, Frankfort, Munich, Ober- ammergau (to see the Passion Play), Switzerland, Paris. Canadian and United States dele- gates and visitors sailing together from Montreal, July 12th, on the "Duchess of York." For detailed information write to the nearest of the following! Dr. F. N. Marcellus, Ontario Agriculwaral College, Guelph. Prof. W. A. Maw, Macdonald College, P.Q. J. D. Barbeau, Department of Agriculture, Quebec, P.Q. J. G. Morgan, Experimental Farm, Nappan, N.S. or F. C. Elford, President of the World's Poultry Science Association, Ottawa, - CANADIAN NATIONAL GQONGRESS COMMITTEE The Hon. Dr. W. R. Motherwell Honorary Chairman Dt, J. H. Grisdale Honorary Vice-Chairman H. B. Donovan--Chairman President, Canadian National Poultry Council L. F. Bufrows--Secretary 114 Vittoria St, Ottawa E! sxnsrsssnesrssd] tABARAAZRIASARALANRN] Mammoths' Graveyard Is Sought Along Yukon Fort Yukon, Alaska.--Secking ante- diluvian monsters with hair and skins intact, two scientist-traders have be- gun a leisurely journey down the frozen Yukon River in the hopa of finding the burial place of mammoths in the high bluffs of the str 1ap- proachable during the seal water, East spring frost forces hugé bones out of gravel beds: along the river Many valuable finds of ancient ivory were uncovered in the same manner. fn recent years and marketed by the two traders. The last well preserved car a mammoth was found near in 1904 and sold to an Eastern college museum for a large sum. That there are mors such remains still intagt in the frozen subsoil along the Yukon, where nature may do the excavating, is tha opinion of the seurchers. They expect to exchange dog sledges for barges early in the spring near the mouth of the Tanana River's con- flugnce with 4he Yukon, termine tibi-------- Beaverbrook's Proposal «Sydney . Bulletin _(Criticizing the "traiff truce" conference, which was barren of results, the Bulletin com- pares it with the "Empire Crusade.") The idea 1s soma relation to news: of wson paper "millionaire Beaverbrook's de-| proposition that all the British { shall somehow be tricked angement for absolute Free , that all ngdom ached nig: '| medicine dealers or by mail { Brussels the quaint Holland country KEEPING THEM WELL \ It ™ natural for children to be hap- DY, active, and full of fun. When. they are fretful, fussy and disinclined to play you may be sure Is wrong. Almost invariably that some- thing lies in the digestive tract. It is to meet the need for an abso- lutely safe corrective of childhood all- ments that Baby's Own Tablets have been designed, They gently regulate the stontach and bowels and thus drive out constipation and indiges- tion; break up colds and simple fevers and allay teething pains. Concern- ing them Mrs. W. B, Forsyth, Dover, N.B,, writes: "I would not be without Baby's Own Tablets as I know of noth- ing to equal them for fretful, fussy babies who are troubled with colds or sour stomach." A Baby's Own Tablets are sold by at 256 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. The Opportunity Of a Lifetime The opportunity of a lifetime is real- ly what is offered in the post-Congress tours which have been arranged to follow the closing session of the Fourth World's Poultry Congress, to be held in Old London, July 22nd to 30th, this year, ® The tours have been arranged, one following the other, The first starts July 31, and takes one through the historte, storled and scenic wonder- lands of the British Isles. The Shake- speara country, North Wales, Dub- lin, with its Rocky Road; the Irish Free State, youngest of the British Dominions; Cork and the lovely Lakes of Killarney; the Giant's Causeway and, of course, the Blarney Stone will be on the route. Crossing again to Scotland, Glasgow and the Burns country 1s viewed; the Trossachs, Edinburgh, the English Lake Country, and Liverpool provide days full of wonder and amazement, This part of the tour returns to London August 10. Then comes the visit to the con- nent which begins with a twenty- four hour stay at Brussels, From is visited, then the party proceed to the lovely Rhine Valley country, pass. ing on the way up that river the his. toric cities of Coblenz, with its cathe- dral, and Bonn with its world-famous universities, both places which were held by troops of the Canadlan Ex- peditionary Force immediately follow- ing the armistice, Frankfort and ara also visited, then the ceeds to Oberammergau for wltere they will be privileged the famous Passion Pl cemplifies what is regarded by most of ug as the greatest event of all i tory. Returning the party are the 2518 ata government reception at ch -before proceeding to Switzer: a four-day stay, which will in- t to Geneva, seat of the Nations, From Switzerland r arn to Paris, where an- other four days will be spent. The Paris vidit may be cut in halt and those desiring to do so will ba afforded an opportunity of a two-day tour of the battlefields of the Great War. To most of the party this visit to the battlefields will be the climax of what all will regard as truly the op- portunity of a lifetime. Munich - -- = Economy and Politics Perth Western Mail: Government in Australia has abolish- ed, on the ground of economy, the De- velopment sion). mission Australia, ciple In Australian public life, pre- venting the dissipation of public funds in political ventures whose only rela- tion, mour for people and production, but whose political "pull" against Eastern | States' interests is weak. ratio to the numbers who support'it," Channing Pollock. DO YOU » Z Countless remedies are advertised for constipation, moment and economy which the new Govérnment | would hug to itself for justification, | the continued functioning of the Com. | would have meant much to! Whatever its meth- | ods, it stood for a very necessary prin: | | { Western Australia, whose spaces cla-| (The Cecullin | and Migration Commis-| In the interests of that very, tion to development was their descrip-| Its executive death is a calamity | --a calamity of peculiar concern to "The quality of an art Is In inverse | Fro. Ship of Polar Floieh, Equipped her last voyage. when he reported having reached lati- ped dor} Her Jo at Wh Switzer, Granton, On Tu Oslo, -- battered ship! L¢ Fram, which has carrled Norweglan of stage and screen sent for 1 Ny Sales Co, C LATEST SON 8 10 Words of 100 Jatest song 13, Windsor, explorers to thelr ts during four decades, ls being equipped for Fs NEAR TORO! NTO--W or our interesting free list. rt & Lockhart, 319 Bay St, To The Fram carried Fridjot Nansen toward the North Pole in 1893 and brought him back two years later Arbogagt, Mitchell, Ontario, BGISTERED HOLSTEIN BUL ready for Pe service. Cheap. BABY CHICKS tude 86 degrees 14 minutes, the north- ernmost point visited by man up to then, The same Fram, with a few new ac- Si have been hatohing for 27 years, mers Poultry Farm, Stratford, On INGLE COMB WHITE LEGH and Barred Plymouth Rook els, wonderful winter layers. . Dstae 5 coutrements, carried Roald A d south in 1911 and carried him back in triumph as discoverer of the South Pole, to be acclitmred at home, Now the Fram 1s to proceed to Trondhjem to take part in an exhibl- tion on the-occasion 'of the 900th ans niversary of the introduction of Chris- tlanity into Norway. When she re- turns she will be placed In the Arctic Museum here. On her final voyage the Fram will be captained by Wisting, the only liv- ing man besides Rear Admiral Rich- ard E. Byrd who has seen both poles. Wisting was with Amundsen at the South Pole in a dirigible in 1928, The Fram's crew will be made up of AT RC RAINED 11 Lbs. in 8 Wks * And a Boy Friend." Juites Susan Seling, Thouss new fronized Yi hy HR ven Sd end. G visa: Font a Fook tablets from druggist today, "After years of rheumatism, now ia perfect health," says Mr. A. Duche| arme, Thousands writs rheumatie | pains, neuritis, banish like ode with" Fruit-a.tive: astipation, in gestion end overnight. Nerves quiets' Get" Fruit-a-tives"romdruggist today. old polar explorers from the Nansen, Amundsen and Sverdrup expeditions, A Peril to Egypt Cairo Sphinx: (Egypt is menaced by vast swarms ef locusts in tha Sinal Peninsula). At any moment, a strong east wind may drive the swarms of locusts across the narrow strip of des-| ert and sea, but a still more serious situation may arise if the locusts suc- ceed in breeding in Sinal, Indeed, | this is more than probable. The hatching of locust eggs requires a cer- tain amount of moisture in the soil, Normally, Sinai is too dry for this to| on Coughs & Colds A speedy, safe, proven remed for children and adults, BUCKLEY'S Acts Like aFlash - ASINGLE Sip Paovesit | | | { | | | happen, but this year's rains are with- out precedent, and there' is a possi bility that the sand will remain moist till the weather becomes warm enough for tile locusts to breed, The situation is a grave one that calls for immediate action, but it is dificult to get the anthorities to realize the mag- nitude of.a danger that is at present | just at tl Th» swarms can be destroyed now it a fleet of cars is employed in suflicient. numbers and equipped with flame guns and trained teams doors, Boils Dry up ard's, draws out the and disappear with Min- It kills the poigton and nflammation, Minard's Kills Dandruff. Banff Park Set Aside in 1885 Banff national park in the of Alberta is. the ¢ t of tt on playgrounds, tion havir compr miles Jjoyment wild life is she proving Dom res 1885. 14 the o - § It square I for the en-| it is als 3 ore all whe of sanctuar t in ar and bear to he § 18 adjac ) vi ) a v, evidence of which | ha larga number of en in the ays of the anif . D, dee are I --~FARM HELP- BRITISH BOYS AND SINGLE MEN Weekly Parties During Early nt to the highw Serine... APPLY NOW-The Secretary, The Balvatton Army Immigration: 508 Dundas Street, pdstock, Ont. ¢ 180 Ont. 1ll3,.0nt de treal, Que. A Q w 7 % of TOTAL FARES to CANADA ADVANCED BRITISHERS in Canada may now bring forward their Families, Relatives and Friends on Easy Terms For Qill detalls a1 j= J. D. C. ER » Dist. Supt. Colonix Canadian Pacific Ral Jute abate BRITISH RE-UNION ASSOCIATION ars FREE TRIAL OFFER If y at Decided to take Lydia E. my last b hy wi as since. 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