ener tt - My hesith was miserable aud I ica to improve immediately and this wonderful fruit restored me to health. Ali the old pains, headaches, indigestion and con- stipation were relieved.and once more I was well. To all who suffer from Indigestion, Constipation, Rheumatic Pains or great Fatigue, I advise the use of ” *Fruit-a-tives’.” Madame HORMIDAS FOISY. 50c.a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. At all dealers or pent postpaid by Fruite-tives Limited, Ottawa, Ont. A Good Old Song. The decree recently issucd by the Admiralty that in future whenever detachments or brigades of men from the royal navy march past at reviews it will be to the*strains of “Heart of Oak,’ reminds one that this good old song—whose. title is of- = and wrongly given in a, plural was written ‘by David Garrick i 1759. He was at that time striv- ing in vain to get a hearing for Shakespeare at Drury Lane, but the public preferred the pantomimes, which were being produced at rival theatres. Stung ty the lack of public taste, Garrick himself wrote a pan- tomime, to which he gave the title. “Warlequin's Invasion: A Christmas Gambol.” In this piece Harlequin “invades the realm*of King Shakes- peare, but ultimately suffers a hope- Jess defeat. The main point of inter- est, however, lies in the fact that it was thought desirable to introduce a topical song, for events of great importance to this country were hap- ing. It was in 1759 that Wolfe won his victory at Quebec, and Bos- cawen defeated the French fleet at Lagos, while in the same year Hawke dashed along the coast of Biscay and “won yet another great victory for the British navy. Well might Garrick, in the second line of his song, refer to 1759 as “this wonderful year.’’ The music, composed by William Boyce, has no doubt added to the popularity of the sorg. Roof of the World. It is estimated that it will take at ~ $east two years for the proposed new British expedition to explore the heights of Mount Everest, the high- est point in the world above sea-level. No white man, according to so emin- ent an authority as Sir Martin Con- way, has ever reached the base of the mountain, which is situated partly in Nepal and partly in Thibet. In fact its actual formation is unknown. }Whether it will be possible for a party to reach the summit (29,002 feet), is a question that no-one can answer definitely. So far as can be judged by telescope inspection from a igreat distance the upper 5,000 feet, or 6,000 feet, if they were at an Alpine level, would be climbable, but many mountains in the Himalayas are cut off all-round in the middle re- gion by inaccessible cliffs or by slopes iewept by avalanches. Ecuador produces less mineral than any other South American coun * U. 8. Postage Stamps. Postage stamps made by the Unit- ed States Government are handled by machinery, and do not touch a human hand until ready for purchase by the feomsumer. Then there are machines to moisten and press the stamps. The alm -| just as they varied in popularity. rawer, pened—most thankfully to- day umiekes balm through the old atudy.” So did Ruskin write to Kate Green- | away from Brartwood, on May Day. ings,” her grand than evef,” and coming finally to “the Piper,” Kate Greenaway's Me, Piper of Ha book she ever did, he tells her, ve Piper himself unsurpassable. To those who are familiar with Kate Greenaway’s work, and who is not? such a letter and such ise seem to recall the atmosphere of it all with peculiar distinctness, the Kate Green- away of. Marigold, Garden, of The Queen of the Pirate becotge the Kate Greenaway of the Alm By this time, of co ras the achool of Kate Greenaway, if it it may be so » is an established fact, long since taken for granted and grate- fully atcepted. But in the ‘80's and 90's of last century, when it was still in the making, a new book by Kate Greenaway was one of the peculiar joys of the literary and artistic world of England, and far beyond its bor- ders. There was something peculiar- ly refreshing about these books. They seemed to open up a new ante of ee into which the “general public” liter- ally poured with morn d ‘o those who recall these times, or even the echo of them, a special interest attached to the recent an- nouncement to the effect that a nate ous collection of Kate Almanacs had been sold at Gothetye. 8, in London, for a good round sum. For it was through her almanacs, pub- lished, year after year, from 1883 to eee and again in ee that Kate maway appealed to one of her poke publics. as} me very first, the almanacs obta enormous success, not only “ay Bc gland: but in American, France and+ Germany, where they sold by the thousand. En- graved and printed in,colors by Mr. Edmund Evans, to whose skill the excellence of the reproduction of s0 much of Kate Greenaway’s work due, they were inclosed in their fa- miliar paper envelopes or wrappers See sold everywhere for one shilling. anacs varied in excellence Ruskin, however, usually so generous with his praise, was sometimes, where the almanacs were concerned, a hard critic. At any rate, athongst his letters to Kate Greenaway is a characteristic one dealing with the almanac for 1884. Curiously enough, the pictures for this issue were subsequently thought of so highly as to be exhibited in Paris, but Ruskin had evidently no liking for them. “I find;” he writes, “Baxter -(his servant) thinks the almanac beautiful! if that's any con- solation to you—but I divide the fig- ures of it simply into the Hobbiers and the Kickers—see August, March, | June, and November for the hobblers (or shamblers) and the rest for the kickers with the one variety of a Straddler in October.’ The public, however, as a writer in the Chris- tian Science Monitor points out, thought very differently, and bought | some 50,000 of them. The almanacs have always been fay- orite subjects with collectors. As one authority on the matter puts it, there are various little conceits about them appeal specially to the collector, so that complete sets such as that which changed hands the other day, have a considerable value. Spo ship. A despatch the other day from New Zealand telling of the | progress of the, tournament between \tennis teams from the United States and from Australasia for the Davis Cup cited a| fine instance of true sportsmanship. This despatch related how in one of the close sets at singles between Norman E. Brookes, the Australian player, and William T. Tilden [1., the American champion, Brookes thought that a line umpire had erred in call- ing one of his strokes good. Brookes believed he had driven the ball out- side the line, instead of just inside the line, as the umpire ruled, thus giving him a point he considered was not rightfully his. So on his next ‘shot Brookes delib- erately and ealmly drove the ball out- side the line to score a point for his opponent, and thus even up the point he himself had obtained on the um- pire’s wrongful ruling. Under any ordinary interpretation of the ethics @f-the game, Brookes was entitled.to that point when the umpire ruled it in his favor. His own ethics of sportsmanship would not permit him to do it, so he gave away his next"point to even the count. That is sportsmanship of the very highest quality. Incidentally, it is the kind of sportsmanship for which British ath- j letes are notea, by . king of oe it must pe be supposed that there had no a keen appre- ciation of -cclag value and uses aionéy. for centuries previous to the ‘introduction of coinage. The ancient E had ‘a gold and silver and ve silver ornaments, rings and nugeets, the value of which depended upon weight. The Greeks improved upon this by marking the weight upon the gold and the silver nuggets, so that it would not be necessary to weigh them Next came the gold, ed uniform sises and value. After that there was the moulding and stamp- ing of disks made from the precious metals. Some of the first coins were enor- mous, the idea apparently being to discourage the greedy from attempt- ing to accumulate and carry around too many of There were cop- per coins as large as dinner plates. This inconvenient style had to give way to the demand for smaller and more convenient forms of currency, and the giant pennies soon dwindled tn size to meet the popular demand. The earliest trace of the use of golé as money is to be found in the pictures of the ancient Egyptians weighing in scales heaps of rings of the precioug metals. But there is no actual record that these rings were known as coins with fixed value. Iron, according to Aristotle, was onoe extensively employed as cur- . Lead has also served as money —tn fact, fH still does in Burma. Copper has been more widely em- loyed as money than either of the two last mentioned metals. The He- brew coins were composed chiefly of ee while down to 269 B.C. the sole Roman coinage was an alloy of copper. Tin money was once used in Eng- land..probably on account of the rich tin mines bot Cornwall. Early English tained much of this tin money, pctncipalty in one form of farthings nad half-penc 4 Silver formed the baits for the | 1 early Greek coins, and was used in Rome first in 269 B.C. Mediaeval money was first composed of silver. The Smallest Screws. . The smallest screws in the world— those turned out in a watch factory— are cut from steel wire by a machine, but as the chips fall from the knife it looks as if the operator were simply tutting up the wire to amuse himself. No screws can be seen, and yet a screw is made every third operation. The fourth jewel-wheel screw is almost invisible, and to the naked eye it resembles dust. With a glass, however, it is seen to be a small scréw, with 260 threads to an inch, and with a very fine glass the threads may be seen clearly. These tiny screws are four one- thousandths of an inch in diameter. It is estimated that an ordinary thim- ble would hold 100,000 of them. About 1,000,000 are made month, eae me attempt is ever made to count In Res Gaining the number 100 of them are placed on a very delicate balance and the number of the whole ae ae is calculated from the weight of th Thea screws are then hardened and put in frames, about 100 to the rame, heads up. This is done very rapidly, but entirely by the sense of touch, so that a blind man could do it as well as the owner of the sharp- est eye. The heads are then polished in an automatic machine, 10,000 ata time. The Sorrows of Genius. Homer -was a beggar; Plautus turned a mill; Terence was @ slave; Boethius died in jail; Paul Borghese had fourteen trades, and yet starved with them all; Tasso was often dis- Of the 1,500,000,000 people in the worl one-half a re still only partiy clothes, “and 250, 000, 000 wear no clothes The increase in rates has bee analyzed, with the yemeit that over es. A leading American shop has in- stalled an X-ray outfit which permits patrons pero just how their feet fit penta patr of boots. ny-piece wax found in an egg laid y, a hen at Stretford Bridge, The coin was bright, but the mo of ‘the egg was discolored. The w “please” in telegraph messages cost Canada $800,000 dur- ing 1920. On an average this word a gpbrocmas smi thd lee deo eth ise travel, you can find money at your disposal carrying 2 Letter of Credit issued by the Bank treal, Particulars may be obtained from any branch of this Bank. BANK of MONTREAL appears once in every thirty tele- graphed words. A Good Sign. to bring back to consciousness a wo- man who had had a_paralytic stroke. For a long time his efforts seemed to be in vain, for her utterances were only the ravings of delirium, but all at once she sat up in bed and, look- ing straight at the doctor, cried out: “Oh, you funny oid man!” “Ah!” said the doctor, cheerfully, “now she’s beginning to {glk pense.” Her Ring. She (looking at the ring),I think it's the dearest thing, He (ruefully) —I know it ia RHEUMATISME mbago, Névralgie ou n'importe En vente partout NIMEN ul qT | <i Yarrnouth, N.E- F6 An eminent physician was trying | a oe | | | ty i = ie ae TIRE apg iv te When Is a Tire Worth Repairing ? Many motorists discard their tires too soon. They forget that very often a casing, old, can be made to yield up a tional mileage. As tire surgeons of our job to get all the mileage We've the equipment; highly trained specialists; and every job re- ceives our persona! and careful attention. Before buying a new tire, bring the old one in to us, for examination, If it’s past ing profitably, lot old and partly-worn casings repair- we'll tell you so, and you'll be nothing out of pocket anyway. ARTHUR ATKINSON AT THE FORD GARAGE though of addi- long experience, it’s possible from our workmen are Linen Her Baby Girl Had Fearful Eczema “If mothers onl: es value of A. 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