I’ is not generally known that the’ ig MAR. FRANK HALL Wyevale, Ontario. | “For some two years, I was s sufferer from Chronic Constipation and Dyspepsia. ¥ tried every remedy I heard of without any success, until the wife of a local merchant recommended ' “‘Pruitvo-cives’, : procured a box of“Fruit-a-tives’ ' and began the treatment, and my condition. commenced to improve iy. The Dyspepsia ceased to be the burden of my life as it had been, and I was freed of Constipation. I foel that I owe a great debt to ‘Fruit-c-tives’ for the benefit I derived from them.”’ FRANE HALL. 50c.a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 250, At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit-e-tives Limited, Ottawa, Ont. - Cradle of British Navy _ - Occupied Historic Spot - |. Near the Tower of London OOO EOOEOCEEHOCOOHOOOD British navy was cradled in Mark Lane, London, at what : was known as the old Navy _ Office. There it remained until 1656, when it was removed to Crutched Friars, Tower Hill. mere Wet cae [+ “At this time,” says Mr, G. Hob- den, O.B.E., writing in “Chart and Compass,’’ ‘‘Samuel Pepys, the Diar- ist, was Secretary of the Admiralty. It wes here in 1777 that Horatio Nelson passed his examinations for his Heutenancy. Thus for centuries the navy had its’ home near Tower. The port of London Auth- ority is now building its headquar- ters on the yery site of the old Navy Office. This-is-indeed a historic spot commanding a fine yiew of Tower 4 Hill and the great waterway of Lon- don. In the vestry of a neighbor- a eer Ste Olave’s, Hart street, 4 k Jane, can be seen a splendid | etching Wf the Navy Office as it was | in pe time on ears. MENT te my, . . “It Was from Mark Lane that the |. Bavy received its orders and planned strategy during what may be Called one of the greatest epochs of ~eided what action our old sea dogs should take against that destroying - host— ‘the Spanish Armada’ — in: 4642. Here Raleigh, Drake, Frobish- er, and Hawkins, and many other gallant sailors and merchant ven- > turers obtained authority for their | @xpeditions against the Spaniard and ers. Here were formulated plans -- oth P for the building of our Empire over seas, and the making of Eng- » dand’s fair name. Hawkins, the gal- lant Elizabethan sailor, was buried in the churchyard near by — St. - Dunstan. “Tower Hill, Deptford, Green- _ wich, and Woolwich may all be re- » @arded as cradles which nursed our Mavy from the days of the Cinque Ports until quite recent years. It _ was in the Woolwich Dockyard that - Perhaps most of our ‘wooden walls’ _ were built from the days of King Henry VIII. until the closing of the yard in 1869. There was a large | trade done between ‘Woolwich and | the wooded districts of both Kent / @nd Sussex, where grew the match- P dese oak that resisted both guns and stories of adventure and dis- ; covery. Then, as now. , the was the centre of the English wine trade, and there are many storigs of this. celebrity taking too much wine his boat back to a School boys who want to become good cricketers will be interested in t following passage from “My Cricketing Life’ by Mr. P. F. r ; arner. ‘ “It cannot be too often insisted,” he says, ‘‘that good wickets are es- sential for the training of young ‘cricketers. Many a Promising boy is |ruined for ever by playing+on bumpy | ckets, for confidence is lost and | bad faults acquired, and‘a fault may | become a habit. Much attention is Paid in every school to the coaching of boys in and near the eleven, but taught, for it is from them that the elevens of the near future are chosen. *“Cricket education should begin at the bottom, and not only at the top. The real reason why the Aus- : frallans, with their meagre popula-. OD, Bre 80 good at cricket is be- cause their boys and young men learn the game on perfect wickets; and I should like to see the practice wickets in every school given a top dressing of Nottingham marl every two or three years. The expense might be great, but the results would be astounding. Rough wickets are no use to any boy. They are destruc- shed his cricket as the plague is to e.”” The Greatest Dictionary. The work of compiling the Oxford Dictionary, which has just been com- pleted, has been going on for forty years. When the first volume of the new work—which is said to be the greatest dictionary in the world— was published.an airplane was ‘a Plane placed in the air for aerostati- cal experiment.” A barrage meant a bar across a river. The words “garage” and ‘fuselage’ did not exist in our tongue. The final entry is a strange word, ‘‘zyzt.” Thus one Kentish yeoman of the fourteenth century, meeting another, expre: him when he wanted to say, “thou seest,’* EINER resin se aar es 7 Spee Delicacy of the Desert Known to All “the World. There is nothing uncommon now- adays in the ex n “Tunis It is not, however, strictly accurate, any more-than many other commercial descriptions which have arisen in various ways. The port of shipment is frequently named as a source of origin, not for purposes of So-called Tunis dates are grown in the oases of the Sahara Desert, and disposed of by Arab-owners in the large markets nearby. Amongst the chief. centres of the industry is Bieskra, a place seldom heard of, ex- cept by people intimately associated with the date trade and others. who aauige in the pleasant hobby of trave z. Te ee ee ee Some forty years ago authoritative writers on the vegetable kingdom spoke of the date ag unknown in this country, except as a luxury. No doubt the comment included the dates of Turkish Arabia, which have long been popular in Engiand. Since then matters have moved quickly. ose dates have ranked amongst the cheapest foods provided and there has @ wonderful de- velopment of the trade in dates from the Sahara Desert. © Geographically, France is favor- ably situated to deal with Tunis (really Sahara) dates. The fruit having been gathered in the desert and selected in the market-places of Northern Africa, is shipped to Mar- seilles, where French importers put it through a further process of selec- tion and pack it in the dainty and attractive cartons now a familiar feature of most of the leading British fruit shops. he system, though apparently simple, is yet complex. No member of the trade. can say definitely who first thought of bringing the fruit, of the African date palm within ch of millions of people in the British Isles, and eventually to Canada. Whoever might have been that com- mercial genius, he certainly did good deception, but as a matter of con- t vi is In Barbary beads were of the stones, and the leaves were con- verted into baskets. with which other fruits may be pre- served, i the addition of ter, es by distillation a potent by announcing a dish “ecour de palmier,” which description ‘Was accurate enough. By the destruc- tion of the tree the heart was used as avegetable. It was uncommon, of course, and distinctive in flavor, but most people would have preferred a dish of good Brussels sprouts; whilst asparagus and peas are certainly more toothsome. . Date trees have passed from one Person to another in the ordinary course of trade, and the price paid to a girl’s age on the occasion m, as a description of the beauty of righteousness there occurs the phrase, ‘He shall grow up and flour- ish like a palm tree.’ é Coltsfoot for the Pipe. A common plant which has been used as a substitute for tobacco, been held a sovereign remedy for all chest troubles, and in olden days the apothecaries in Paris used to baint a .coltsfoot. flower on their door-posts, a silent testimony to their opinion of the value of the plant. Sir John Hill, after dilating on the value of coltsfoot tea for’ colds and coughs, says ‘‘the patient should also have some of the leaves dried and cut small and smoke them as tobacco.” certain remote districts in Ireland | eoltsfoot is often mixed with tobacco which is known as “Sinn Fein mix- ture,” as the colisfoot has paid no duty to the British Government. “at bt if a Cinnamon. Although. cin n is produced in Various parts of the tropics, the best quality comes from Ceylon. Owing to its peculiar climatic conditions, Ceylon is particularly adapted to the growing of the cinammon tree, which jrequires an annual rainfall of 85 to 100 inches and an average tempera- ture of 85 degrees. The tree has a very long life, and has often been known to attain the height of 40 feet. Lvery second Year the shoots are cut trom the tree, After being subjected to a process of sweating, the bark is peeled from the shoots and then softened to re- move the outer skin. This outer skin is of secend quality, the middle section being first, and the inner and thicker section of the bark the third quglity. ‘ é pieces of bark are turned con- cave si downward to dry, and in drying contract, taking the form of rolls or quills, the smaller ones be- ing fitted \into the large ones, mak- ing what/are known as “pipes” of about three feet in length. These are then/packed into bales for ship- ment. Little of pure cinnamon: in stick form is consumed in the United States, the great part going to the Latin countries—-Spain, Mexico, Cen- tral and South America—in which countries it is used in preparation of Various foods. Cinnamon and cassia are ground and appear on the market as ground cinnamon. Cinnamon oil, which is quite extensively used in perfumes and medicines, is chjefly made in Ceylon from inferior pieces of bark, chips and brokén quills. Needs Reforming. 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