Fey. ey ~ RECORD YEAR 'The report submitted at the An- nual Meeting of the Home Bank of Canada indicated that the Bank had enjoyed the most successful year in its history. The progress made by the Home Bank during the past few years was _ "referred to particularly by, General Manager Mason, who pointed out that the liauid assets now amounted -- to over 57% of the total linbilities to the public, or actual cash assets were the strongest in the history of the Bank, representing approximate- ly 22% of total Habilities to the pub--- ie. Large gains were also made in deposits. the increase for the past *yelve months having amounted to aver three and a half niillions, not- withstanding the fact that 9,508 of the depositors had subscribed over $4,900,000 to the last Dominion Vic- tory Loan. The increase in deposits during the war period had amounted to over ten million @ollars, an increase of over 105 p.c., and reflects the in- creased patronage extended the bank by the public in both savings and general commercial Hines, None of these firures include deposits of the, Dominion Government. The general statement of assets and liabilities everywhere reflects the progress made, the total assets of the bank now standing at $28,- 685,924, as compared with $238,675,- 778 at the end of the previous year, Total deposits now stand at $18,500,- 000, as compared with $14,600,000 at the end of thé previous Wear. -_ The Profit and Loss Account is al- 'go of special interest to sharehold- ers, as it reflects a gain in profits and has permitted of an appropria- tion to rest account. of $100,000, The "net profits for the year amounted to $288,758, equivalent to 10.63 p.c. of the pald up capital and reserve fund. After the payment of dividends and various appropriations, includ- ing $100,000 to Rest Account, the amount carried forward was $158,- $48, as compared with $150,871 for the previous Ata <7 5 By Chas. H. Smith. I have questioned many farmers as to the kind of time they keep. One will say: "I keep sun time--it's about twenty-three minutes faster than standard time except that our clock gains some.' Another says: 'Well, I try to keep sun time. I set my clock thirty minutes faster than the depot crock. My clock loses a_ little though." And another answers: "I try to keep my clock about three-quar- ters of an hour faster than standard 'time so I won't be late for the train. My clock gains when it's just wound up and loses when it's running down." Just as I was about to conclude that farmers must.own every poor old clock in the world I rejoiced to hear a man answer: "I keep correct standard time and my watch and clocks are good time-keepers, too." And I said to myself: "That farmer is a good business man." Ad ; The entire business world runs on standard time--except farmers, The trains, boats, interurbans all run on standard time. The rest of the bust- ness world goes to work and closes up shop on standard time, whether it is Bastern, Central, Mountain or Pacific standard time, This is right and proper--the way it should be. It is difficult to imagine the confusion that would result if each industry should adopt a different time. Because farmers persist in keeping their own special brand of time they are constantly figuring out the dit- ference between their watches and the watches that govern the rest of the business world. "Let's see," one man says, studying his watch; "it's now seventeen minutes past nine. The train leaves at twenty-two minutes past ten. I have a little more than an hour--and my watch is little better than half an hour fast. That gives me a little more than an hour and a half. Whereas if he had correct standard time--and it's easier to have standard time than any other kind of time--he would glance at his watch and say: "Nine seventeen--have exactly an hour and five minutes to catch my train." I have never been able to under- stand the logic in the farmers' reason- ing regarding time. Why not keep correct standard time and then know exactly what time it is, instead of us- ing your watch as a basis for guessing at it? Ihave known of farmers actual- ly waiting two hours for a train be- cause their "watch was a little fast." Now that "daylight saving" law is in force, it is even more important that you keep the right time if you would avoid needless confusion. Go to work and quit any hour of the day you please, but keep correct time. If your watches and clocks do not keep good time, have them put in shape so that they will. Then set them exactly _ With standard time and get in step - with the rest of the world. Another Haig Story. Larl Dartmouth, the Governor of the Zingari Cricket Club, has related a new story of Sir Douglas Haig. When Sir Douglas was invited to accept the _ freedom of the club, he was reminded by Harl Dartmouth of its three prin- -ciples--"keep your promise, keep your temper, and keep your wicket up." The Field Marshal promptly replied: "Your principles are worthy of the nation that entered the war to keep its pro- "mise, that kept its temper through ill- fortune and through good, and please God, will keep its wicket up until its promise has been redeemed." The prairie dog is a curfous and en- tertaining little fellow. His color is a reddish gray, the under side of the neck and belly being Hghter than the other parts. The legs are short and the breast and shoulders wide. The ears, too, are short, as if they had been cropped; and the jaw is furnished with a pouch to contain feed, but this pouch igs not so large as that df the common squirrel. The two inner toes of the prairie dogs forefeet are long, sharp, and well adapted to digging. From the tip of his nose to the reot of his shaggy little tail the prairie dog moasures about one foot, but his tail itself measures nearly four inches. While clumsy of form, the prairie dog is, nevertheless, most active and digs with great rapidity. Coionies of these creatures live in the ground, generally six or eight, and their holes are some- times quite deep. When at rest they sit upright on their haunches, seemingly with great confidence, barking with a fretful and harmless intrepidity at every in- truder that may approach. The noise they make resembles that of a pet dog and is both shrill and sharp. When alarmed they turn "back somersaults" and in an instant disappear into their holes. When they have mustered suf- ficient courage they raise the tops of their heads just above the ground sur- rounding their burrows and curiously peer out to see what is doing. Black-footed ferrets, rattlesnakes, prairie owls, and skiinks sometimes find their way into the holes with the THE QUAINT LITTLE PRAIRIE BOG bors. \ | | latter find them ho ad unpleasant neigh- It is an amusing sight to observe the prairie dogs come out of their holes 'and sit with their tiny forefeet dang- 'ling upon their breasts, a posture that 'gives them the appearance of little | old men taking their ease with folded 'arins. These nimble busybodies run 'from hole to hole like gossips making their rounds and hurrying as if the news they conveyed could on no ac- count be delayed. They chatter with one another and seem to brush their gray whiskers in a knowing sort of way while exchang- ing comments. The young ones are easily trained, are quite intelligent, and most affectionate when once their confidence has been gained. People who live in the sections where prairie dogs flourish aver that if any animals can talk to one an- other; these are surely the ones, for it really seems as if one could hear them carrying on a conversation. Then proceed from hole to hole, stopping for a short time to say a few words to an acquaintance and then, with two or three shakes of their tails, away they go to the next hole. : Sometimes a whole tainitly of prairie dogs will emerge to observe the pas- sage of a stranger, and on such oc- casions. they look for all the world like a well-to-do family of country folk, The mother is, of course, the central figure, surrounded by her pro- mising offspring, while the father ap- pears somewhere in the background. MOONS OF PLANETARY SYSTEM. The origin of moons is one of the mysteries of astronomy. If, as some star-gazers assert, our lunar orb was thrown off from the earth when the latter was a molten, fiery mass--the Pacific ocean being the hole left by its departure--we have a special right to feel a proprietary interest in it. On the other hand, the two little moons that revolve about Mars like golden shuttles are strongly suspected to be asteroids (minor planets), cap- tured out of space. The larger of them, Phobos, only sixty miles in diameter, is much smaller than many of the known asteroids. We are rather poorly off for moons. Saturn has eight, the biggest of them, Titan, being nearly twice the size of our orb of night; and Jupiter posses- ses four, the largest of which, Gany- mede, is greatest of all moons in our planetary system, having a diameter of 3,480 miles. At least two or three of Jupiter's moons are still hot, as proved by the fact that they give out some light of their own. It is very interesting to -watch, through a telescope, the shad- ' ows thrown upon that giant planet | by its moons, observation of the eclip- | ses of which furnished the first data for estimating the velocity of light. Uranus has four little moons, which, oddly enough, rise in the north and set in the south. Neptune possesses only one, rather diminutive, which traver- ses the sky from southwest to north- east. The most' remarkable guess on re- cord had to do with moons. Dean Swift, a century before the moons of Mars were discovered, made Gulliver say of the astronomers of Laputa: "They have found two satellites which revolve about Mars, whereof the in- nermost is distant from 'the planet exactly three diameters of the planet. The former revolves in the space of ten hours _and the latter in 'twenty- one and a half hours." As a matter of fact, the inner moon is 10,000 miles from Mars, whereas--- the diameter of the planet being 4,000 miles--Gulliver's estimate would place it at a distance of 12,000 miles. For the outer moon he gives 20,000 miles as the distance, which is really 15,000 miles. The time of revolution for the inner moon is actually seven and a half hours and for the outer one thirty hours. a ey "as KEEPERLESS LIGHTHOUSE. » Near the Isle of Guernsey, Scene of Hugo's "Toilers of the Sea." The first unattended rock lighthouse with a powerful fog signal is the re- cently completed Platte Fougere light- house, marking the entrance to Rus- sell channel leading to St. Peters Port, Guernsey, a spot which figures in Vic- tor Hugo's romance, "The Toilers of the Sea." < genious electrical devices, controlled from the shore by a submarine cable nearly a mile and a half long. By its -aid the foghorn and siren are regular- ly blown--they have been heard thirty miles away on the French coast--while the current it carries also controls the light in the lantern. It is proposed to use this type of automatic lighthouse for illuminating Hudson Bay and Hudson Straits in connection with the opening of these waters and the carriage of wheat by the new railway to Fort Churchill. A proposal to establish similar lights on the more exposed and barren coasts of South America has also been con- sidered. : f Many an Off-Color Day : f| » is due to a disturbed digestion. Tea or. coffee is often the ~ mischief--maker, | _. If you have suspicions --. "about, --- _Therels a Reason" Seq. tea or coffee,try © Saul ROE eee Norrie een The lighthouse contains many in~ \ WEAK MOTHERS ~ REGAIN HEALTH Through the New Blood Dr. Wil- _liams' Pink Pills Actually Make. No mother should allow nervous weakness to get the upper hand of her. If she does werry will mar her work in the home and torment her in body and mind. Day after day spent amid the same_ surroundings is enough to cause fretfulness and de- pression. But there are other causes, as every mother knows, that tend to make her nerves run down. A change would benefit her jaded system, and rest might improve her blood so as to give the nerves a better tone. But rest and change are often impossible, and it is then that all worn out wo- men should take a short treatment with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, which make new blood, rich with the ele- ments on which the nerves thrive. In this way these pills restore regu- lar health, increased energy, new am- bition and steady nerve. There is a lesson for other women in the case of Mrs. Harry P. Snider, Wilton, Ont., who says:--'Five years ago my twin babies were born, and I was left very weak and very miserable, hardly fit to do anything. The doctor gave me medicine, but it did not help me. Then I tried another doctor, but with no better results. One day I went home to my mother, telling her how miserable I felt, and that the doctor's medicine had not done me any good. Mother asked me why I did not try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and as I was glad to try anything that might help me, I got three boxes when I went back home. By the time these were used there was no doubt they were helping me, and I got three more boxes. But I did not need them all, for by the time the fifth box was used, I was entirely cured, and never felt better in my life. Now when I hear people talk about feeling weak or miserable I always recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and tell what they did for me, and in similar cases I shall continue to recommend them." At the first sign that the blood is out of order take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and note the speedy improve- ment they make in the appetite, health and spirits. You can get these pills through any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. e ~% FIRE THAT IS HARD TO PUT OUT. Water is not of much use for putting out an oil fire. It may, indeed, be much worse than useless, for burning oil floats on it, and may thus be car- ried to considerable distances, spread- ing the fire far and wide. Steam turned upon the flames through pipes is often highly effective. If its volume is sufficient a cloud will be formed that serves as a blanket, filling the tank about the oil and ex- cluding air from it. Much more satisfactory, however, is the newer method of bringing together two chemical solutions, and spread- ing over the surface of the burning oil the thick foam resulting from their combination, thereby excluding air and extinguishing the flames. The steam method works very well with gas well fires, a number of por- table field boilers being set up and steam thrown from them upon the purning gas column in the form of spray. If the gas stream can be in- terrupted for only a moment just above the point of discharge the fire will be put out. For putting out small gasoline fires (especially on the floor) sawdust works \surprisingly well. It floats for a while on the surface of the burning liquid, forming a blanket which ex- cludes the air and smothers the flame, Dry sawdust seems to serve as well as moist. f Frothy mixture solutions of the kind above described, when put up in port- able containers of convenient size, are useful in extinguishing small fires about garages, -- SS Sometinies electricity generated by the friction of flowing gasoline against the bottom and sides of a can, or even by the flow of gasoline through a rub- ber hose, produces a spark which, dis- charged into an automobile tank that is being filled, ignites the fluid with serious or disastrous results, To guard against accidents of this kind is for obvious reasons most difficult, 5 5 Seasonable : Designs -- \ This boy's blouse suit.may be made with or without yoke, long or short sleeves, nickers or straight trouser). McCall Pattern 8862, five sizes, 4-12 years, price 20c. 809 House Dress with Cap Sizes 31 to 48 Price, 25 cento This charming house dress has a four-gored skirt and its lines are just right for the stout figure. Pattern. 8809, cut in eight sizes, 34- 48-inch bust measure, price 25c. McCall This smock dress has a two-piece skirt, which measures about 1% yards) around the bottom. McCall Pattern 8868, which comes in four sizes, 14-20 years, price 25c. The smocking is taken from McCall transfer pattern No. 690 (blue or yellow), pnice 10c. Made of plaid gingham and white percale, the frock is most attractive. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond st., Toronto, Dept. W. RED HOT JULY HARD ON THE BABY red hot days and sweltering nights, is extremely hard on little ones. Diarr- hoea, dysentery, colic and cholera in- fantum carry off thousands of precious little lives every summer. The mother must be constantly on her guard to prevent these troubles, or if they come on suddenly to fight them. No other medicine is of such aid to mothers during the hot summer as is Baby's Own Tablets. They regulate the bowels and stomach, and an occasion- al dose given to the well child will prevent summer complaint, or if the trouble does come suddenly will banish it. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cts. a box from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. ' ee The Miracle. Love met a worldling on the way, And softly crept into his breast; Straight self and greed refused to stay Where love had dared to build a nest. Into a grim and cheerless home Love forced his way through bar- Fes and chill : Yiers tall, Fled Wwretchedness gloom-- The golden sunshine flooded all. anes --Jean Blewett. > 3 and Thirty-six counties in Ontario in- tend expending nearly $5,000,000 on road construction and maintenance this year. i 'Minard's Liniment Cures 'Diphtheria, cate iia With Cuba's jasman, waxen-pale, ed The Great West Permanent _ Loan Company. _ Toronto Office. 20 King St. West. 4% allowed on Savings. "Interest computed quarterly. Withdrawable by Cheque. | 614% on Debentures, Interest payable half yearly, Paid up Capital $2,412,578. , It Was His Old Complaint. Two weary tramps met after a lengthy separation and sat down to compare experiences, | "Have yep been to the front?" asked one. '"Ain't seen yer about lately." "T've had influenzy." -- "Influenzy? What's that?" 'Well, I don't know howo I can ex- actly explain it, but it takes all the fight out of yer. Yer feels sort of tired like. thing only lie down and sleep." f "Why, I've had that disease for the last twenty years!" exclaimed the first speaker; "but this is the fitst time I've ever heard its name." OTHER TABLETS NOT "ASPIRIN AT ALL ONLY TABLETS MARKED WITH "BAYER CROSS" ARE ASPERIN. ° -- If You Don't See the "Bayer Cross" on the Tablets, You Are Not Getting Asperin--Only Acid Imitation! [33 A BAYER E Genuine "Bayer Tablets of Asperin" are now made in Canada by a Cana- dian Company--No German interest whatever, all rights being purchased from the United States Government. During the war, acid imitations were sold as Aspirin in pill boxes and vari- ous other containers. The "Bayer Cross" is your only way of knowing that you are getting genuine Asperin, proved safe by millions for Headache, Neuralgia, Colds, Rheumatism, Lum- bago, Neuritis and for Pain generally. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets--also larger sized "Bayer" packages can be had at drug stores. Asperin is the trade mark, register- ed in Canada, of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic-acidester of Salicylic- acid. A Wreath Immortal. The nations weave a garland gay To deck the allied dead, Who died that earth might feel no more The tyrant's iron tread; Old England's rose of velvet red, The fleur-de-lis of France, The blossom of romance; The Irish shamrock filagreed With drops of silver dew; Brave Belgium's forget-me-nots So softly, sweetly blue; The sturdy thistle, purple-dark, From Scottish glen and hill; And from the shield of Portugal, The yellow daffodil; The wattle from Australia's bush, Japan's chrysanthemum, Canada's maple-leaf that decked So gallantly her drum; Italy's laurel, spring first To crown a Classic god; And, plumed with glory like the sun, The U. 8. goldenrod. All, all are rooted'in the dust Of heroes o'er the sea, Who perished in the righteous cause Don't seem to want to do any- | ae ou Some War Facts and Figures. These are some of the amazing facts in Sir Douglas Haig's final des- patch:-- General Headquarters received 9,- 000 telegrams in one day, and 3,400 letters by despatch-riders. One army headquarters had 10,000 telegrams in @ day, and the daily telegrams on the lines of communication were 23,000. There were 1,500 miles of tele- graphs and telephones, and 38,688 miles of railways, on which 1,800 trains ran weekly. In six weeks 6,000,000 rations were supplied, by our armies in France, to 800,000 civilians in the relieved areas. The total daily ration strength of our armies was 2,700,000. An addition of one ounce to each man's ration re- presented an extra 75 tons. Over 400,000 horses and mules and 46,700 motor vehicles were used, and 4,500 miles of road made or main- tained. In 1914 there was one machine gun to 500 infantrymen in the British army, at the armistice there was one machine gun to 20 infantrymen. Over 700,000 tons of ammunition were fired by our artillery on the western front from last August to the armistice, The number of individual landings at the ports managed by the British armies in France exceeded 10,000,000 up to the armistice, while in the last eleven months of the war the average weekly tonnage landed at those ports was 175,000 tons. a YES! MAGICALLY! CORNS LIFT OUT WiTH FINGERS You simply say to the drug store man, "Give me a quarter of an ounce of freezone." This will cost very little but is sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn from one's feet. A few drops of this new ether com- pound applied directly upon a tender, aching corn should relieve the sore- ness instantly, and soon the entire corn, root and all, dries up and can be lifted out with the fingers. This new way fo rid one's feet of corns was introduced by a Cincinnati man, who says that, while freezone is sticky, it dries in a moment, and sim- ply shrivels up the corn without in- flaming or even irritating the sur- rounding tissue or skin. Don't let father die of infection or lockjaw from whittling at his corns, but clip this out and make him try it. Fen OE * The automobile horn was adopted ) in this country in 1900 to substitute whistles, bells, gongs, etc. Of God and Liberty. Immortal is the wreath entwined On this Memorial Day; The tribute of a grateful world, It will not pass away. 2 a LEMONS WHITEN AND BEAUTIFY THE SKIN. Make this beauty lotion cheaply for your face, neck, arms and hands. At the cost of a small jar of ordinary cold cream one can prepare a full quar- ter pint of the most wonderful lemon skin softener and complexion beauti- fier, by saueezing the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white. Care should be taken to strain the juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach and remove such blemishes as freckles. sallowness and tan and is the ideal skin softener, whitener and beautifier. : Just try it! Get three ounces of orchard white at any drug store and two lemons from the grocer and make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fra- grant lemon lotion and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hands. It is marvelous to smoothen rough, red hands. A grocery store on a large truck is one of the latest uses of the motor ear. A complete line of meats, groc- eries, green vegetables, and every- thing typical of a grocery store is carried. The patrons pay their bill as they leave the car. The terror of the high-rent districts is thus elimin- ated. 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Apply SSS Old Coln In Tree, A coin of the reign of George II. dated 1780, was found by a cottager while splitting up an old tree trunk near Burnham Beeches, says a London despatch. The coin was wedged tight- ly in the wood. Experts who saw the coin express the opinion that it must have been dropped into a cavity in the tree and the bark gradually grew over it, MONEY ORDERS. Send a Dominion Hxpress Money Five Dollars costs three cents. By adding 50 per cent. coal oil to the waste oil drained out of the en- gine, a very efficient mixture is ob- tained for the use on springs, which will keep them in the finest condition, Minard's Liniment Cures Distemper. "Blurting out facts, in season and out of season, is not necessary to truth; to hold the tongue is also a morality."--TIbsen. All grades. Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS G. J. CLIFF TORONTO Seer Ween CUTICURA HEALS PIMPLES In terrible rash on face which made skin sore and inflamed. Irritated face by scratching and was disfigured. Could not sleep well and made feel unpleasant. Trouble lasted 3months before used Cuticura and after using 2 cakes of Soap and 1 box of Oint- ment was completely healed. From signed statement of Miss Gladys Neabel, R.R.3, Brussels,Ont. Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Tal- cum promote and maintain skin More than 40 per cent. of the motor | cars in operation to-day are owned by | farmers. Minard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows purity, skin comfort and skin health often when all else fails. For free sample each of Cuticura Soap, Oint- ment and Talcum address post-card; "Cuticura, Dept. A, Boston, U. 8, 4."" Sold everywhere. engineers, introduced cértalit Princi-} ( That is why porper work in the summer. make " WORKMAN' shoes easy, restful and can have several pairs of of leather shoes. _ Sunday _ for all work about | the farm £75" Shoes are much cheaper than leather. is so economical for farm \ . The strong canvas uppers and springy rubber soles * and "EVERY-DAY" comfortable--and sturdy 'enough to stand up to rough work, As it is, i ol Shoes mean money in your pocket, for you. [FF for the price of one pair There are F**E™ styles for men, women and children for work and y--for every-day and, wear. iS ae Ask your dealer for FA"F™ Shoes, The name is stamped on each pair. i 23 fin i ; Hospital. _