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I I`l(, (? .`p in Barrio I\....... C'L..__- _____________. Tho n\'(-1'n'_"0 m1mbm' of` ('_Q'!.n' pm- du(:o by :1 lm1i}n1t is 53; milliom, but :1 lm'-_"('- l.'()([ will Iuxvo an m::n_\' ::~ 0 millions. 1 HUI ]PlH('H tho \\`:1_\' homo,` or $1101.-pisl1]_\`. H'H'\I`I'{\\\` nun-hi... Illllll l(I\\ |(1:1ys. | Mrs. `(']f1])})(`rl -W \\'I...+ I I l(I.ll IL"l \\'h:1t \`0utl_V. ' John! your farm pay, that is what _\'on are \VO1`l{lI]_`._'.` for, you want help too no doubt. Has it ever occurred to gun that there is another kind of help which 'eosts but a trie and pays for itsrelf over and over a_;`ain each your, help that helps you to farm and buy and sell ri_.<;'lit. The farmers business paper, The Week- ly Sun (26th year) is published with only one point in view, that of serv- ing` the farmer. It costs but a trifle to lll1(l out what a real help The Sun can be to you and you will won- (l0I` how you got along` without it.. Its market reports are 1l1lS1U']):1SS(`l ll for aee1x1':1ey' and its general farm news is worth 1nan_\' dollars to _\'ou.l The subs(-riptiion prir-e remains the same as lieretofore, One Dollar. You. ,r.-annot get as much real help |throu*_"l1 any other souree or spend a lllnllill` to :.:'reater ml\'anla'_1`e. Try it. for N18. Unloubte(ll_v you want to inalce [u\:.3L'uLilL1Ull. M1`. 1{('M:1}1011, in 1-eplyillg, told of earlier renliniset-nc0.~2 of their mar- ried life and disc-us.<<\d the motives aetu:1tin;: him and Mrs. McMahon in the work and social life of the community and pm'tim1lurl_v in the church work and extension of the Kvinzrdonx. Other _n.e.~;ts expressed their con:_rrat11lntions. There \ms at musical duet hy Miss Anderson and A Real Providence. M1`. Y0un2'lmsl)annl 1'vuvI1(~u [late for (limmr. | _ :.. 5:! .....4 I 1 . I 4 Roy Tudhope, Mrs. Smith S1l}_!', midi several _\'01ll]}.j,` ladies assisted in the! musical progimnincz The party broke up about .11 o clock amid con- gzratulntioxls and singing God be with you till we meet ag`aix1. In addition to the tea s01'\`ico M1 . and Mrs. McMahon were the recipients of many x11ag'11i[i(:ei1t gifts as 5011- \'(`I1iI`$ of the occasion. Dr. Tren1a.in s Natural Hair Re- : ...4...I 2. tnrativn um! .... .1 o-nvvl-I a Last qu:11'to1' New moon .. First quarter Full moon .. CERAYVHAIRM i. A. SIRE`; Vhilanager Y0l1nu'h11.<|)mId I'm'\'vnfl_\' 1 two hlistorml little l1:nul.'. ; :1 p1'()\`i(I(-mo!" she rim-(l(l<-- "Yuunlust tnliv tlu-13 r[:I_\`.~'. The rook lms just left!" uuurl . mnclu- For .<}wudi11}_:` hmnn " lm nx-u.l..:..,..l ... Bookstore o 1 am-I M1171-`i`I-1`.iv:`x.1:-' .00, at \\'m. Cr0s .~' 'Vl IKII .`l7l' he oxplu `II:1\`o In and `:01: I .I,)cxr. (S .I)cc. 14 Doc. `21 .D('! . '38 [u`\:ulII"_'. nil luim- 1'ntrh- ) :l}r})(':ll` 1n- CSHI 4... I". (IIIIIV S-'11) lmmo I i u.-`avg. II`-/JIJIISLUII DU) : W. J. Bell, B.S.A., the newly-a,p- pointed superintendent of the On- tario Government Agricultural School at Kemptvllle, 0nt., was born in Wellington county, graduated from the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege in 1915, and since graduation has been live stock specialist of the Agricultural Department and in- structor in live `stock `feeding and breeding at the Ontario Veterinary College. ` uAoappcu.1`t:u uuuer some DOOKS. It was one of the largest species found in England and the naturalist lifted the books instantly, according to World's Work. The spider darted toward the old justice. He sprang up, and the spider's life ended. It was a very rare species, murmured the naturalist, regretfully. "I made it rarer, said the judge, grimly. .._:__j___ ..... \l\/ nu Av(.II.Lln A pa.rty`of distinguished English- men whic included a judge of the high court, an editor oflthe Satur- ay Review and a, naturalist, were sit- ting in the editor's room when a sin- gular spider ran across the oor and disappeared under some books. It one of the largest cnntnu +`nnna ..... .... ..-....-...~. ; The British schoolmaster, espe-g cially when the summer term is well 1 over and the annual examinations ' well behind, has a peculiar penchantl for reporting schoolboys howlers." Two or three from those which have been given recently are worth quot-i ing. One is particularly hard upon; England as a place of residence. In 55 B. C.," says the writer, Caesar came to Britain for a holiday, but as soon as he saw the place, he went back. Another schoolboy has evi- dently no use for socialism. "Social- ism, he says, means having all the railways run on one line, and all that sort of thing, which seems rather hopeless. Then here is a world of feeling in another effort, which runs, All geometry begins with a general denunciation. A.A\4 J.` an, nuaunlvnl. Louis XIV. being harassed by the repeated solicitations of a veteran of- cer for promotion, said one day loud ` enough to be heard: That gentle- 1 man is the most troublesome olcer I ; have in my service. cisely the charge," said the old man, which your majesty's enemies bring against me." Sidney Smith tells the 1 above story in his essay upon Edge-- That is pre-- l v I | worth on Bulls, and with it he links . of us in other forms. from Mr. I He quokas it I Edgeworth, who in turn . cites it from a certain Joe Miller. An { English gentleman was writing a let- ter in a coiiee house; and perceiving that an Irishman stationed behind him was taking that liberty which - Parmenio used with his friend Alex- ander, instead ot putting his seal on the lips of the curious impertinent, the English gentleman thought pro- ` per to reprove the Hibernian, if not with delicacy, at least with poetical justice. He concluded writing his letter in these words: I would say more, but a tall Irishman is reading I over my shoulder every word I lwrite." You lie, you scoundrel, ` said the self-convicted Hibernian. another which is familiar to many? I I l 1 I \\A mu ulc ucuuu UI lll(' __"1`Ol1]) U10! happy couple, in whose honor all celebrated, and read an address, Mrs. I?ir'hax'd .\x1d(-x'.~;0n making` the presentation. up u,.1r..1.,... :.. as a. marvel OI. 1L5 tlme. According to Allan H. Burgoyne, F.R.G.S., the honor of having con- doubtedly belongs to Cornelius van Drebel, a Dutch physician. His first submarine was made in 1620, when he built and launched a navigable submersible boat, and so successful I did it prove that he had two others constructed on the same plans, in the larger of which James I., of whom van Drebel was an intimate friend, I made a lengthy trip. These early I craft were built of wood and render- 1 ed watertight by stretching greased 1 leather all over the hull. I lowing is from a description of the 2 largest: She carried twel-ve rowers, besides passengers, and made a jour- ney of several hours at a depth of from twelve to fteen feet. The holes for the oars were made to hold water by leather joints. Van Drebel accounted his chief secret to be the composition of a liquid that would` speedily restore to the troubled air a proportion of cital parts as would make it again fit for a good while. of this liquid for enabling air to be for respiration used again was never made public.` Van Drebel died in leaving no document relative to his work on the subject. i structed the rst submarine boat un-. The composition ' 1634 without. having completed his experiments,. 5 I I I The fol- I 0 i I uuv.L .l`eL:uI'ue(1 111 lS[0l') . - Alexander the Great is said to have employed diving bells at the siege of Tyre, 332 B.C. An Arabian. historian named Bohaddin, who lived I about 1150 A.D., relates that a diver entered Ptomlemais during a. siege by means of a. submarine apparatus. An invention for descending into the [ sea was heard of at Toledo in 1538. and Charles V. is said to have inter-` ested himself in it. Forty-tWo yearsl later an Englishman, William Boone, was credited with inventing a plunging apparatus similar to a de-l vice produced nearly 200 years later- by one Symons, which was galleyl shaped with a dome-like roof, but differing in the manner of submer-' sion. Boone's plunger was sub- merged by contraction of the hullg through the instrumentality of hand vises, which reduced its volume while Symons made us-e or leather = bottles, which he lled with water.` Magnus Pegelius in 1605 made :1! similar device which was regarded I as a marvel of its time. Annnr-Rina On A11nv\ U D ........ ..- Sceret of Keeping Air Pnre Died With Inventor. The submarine is much older than the German" Empire, and the credit of being the first sovereign to make a. trip in one is given to James 1. of England, :1 monarcl. who has gener- ally been represented as a man of more than ordinary tixnidity. Doubt has been cast on the story, but whe- ther it is true or not that James act- ually made a trip in :1 submarine, it is interesting to recall that one of James friends did undoutbedly con- struct the first practical submersible boat recorded in history. Alexander tho Grant in maid fn w. J..Bell, Wellington Boy, W .1 Roll `nan H... .......u.. THE FIRST SUBMARINE. some Hawk-rs," ,1, n . He Felt Insulted. `V717 I_-2_ ,, u, TEE NOREEHBRN AEDVANOE u-u illlt IV ulna The late Herbert Tnee chanced to fall into conversation with a Gaelic guide. After asking a few questions he was startled by a. return. And what may ye do for a living? I," said the actor, a little taken aback. Oh, -I'm on the stage." "Circus or hand-bell ringers?" Mr. Tree ex- plained that he was neither, and add- ed: My work is more serious than that. The man eyed him doubt- lully. Ah, weei," he said at length, in tones of disappointment, "it seems to me you are no much better than a meeniste/r. twenty-five years ago, at the Ruther- ford homestead, Trueman H. Me- Mahon and Mary Rutherford were married, by the late Rev. A. B. Dob- son, and as Mr. and Mrs. McMahon are in their element while entertain- ing friends concluded to celebrate the event, and celebrate they did. About seventy-live invitations were extended to relatives and friends to come to the feast, and something over sixty` responded and made merry with the bride and groonrof a quarter of :1 century .00. During their twenty-five years residence in this district both Mr. a11d Mn`. Mc- Mahon have always been in the very] forefront of the religious and social activities of the eom1m1nit_v, ever ready with money and time to boost any growl cause, zuul untirinq in the work ol' ehureh and Sunl21_v school. While the invitation ezu- strictly forhazle ;:il'ts, still their friemls eould not let the oe<-::sion pass without expressing their (-.<,teen1 in some tan_ form. Some of the 1 ladies proposed getting; :1 silver teal service and the liappy idea was soon I put into execution. After the wed-I. din:_: dinner had been disposecl of . tho Rev. D. Smith xvns in\'it(- to _ take elmr}_ve nl` c-t-remonies. .-\l'ter :1 few emnplinientzinv renmrks he enll- ed to the t.-entre ol' the _:1'0up the ` l'11l.Dl)V' C0llDl( . in \\'lIn lunnnr nll lv Orillia Paeket-0n December 6th, : bit of the connecting text. gpelins raided London and the air- ` planes went up to spikeboozle them. It is all as clear as can be. 1111 WULLIHH. Flight Lieutenant Rosher_ or the British air service, wrote a book shortly before he was killed in which he listed the new words coined by the men in the aviation corps. One of these was spikehozzle, to under- stand which one needs only to have a The zep- The word does not need to look for an- -cestor, and probably would look in vain. But it is not so with hick- boo," which in the aviation corps means an impending visitation by enemy dirigibles. It has been trac- ; ed to an Indian word for eagle, and perhaps the Indians got it from some mispronunciation of the white man's language. Not many true Indian words have survived to become parts of our speech. Inc! nnuv ihn L`n.-\n,.l. ....,t l.._..:_ ._ puuu. ' , ` Having taken over coinmandecr from the South African War, iirst as a bit of English slang an:-i then as a word so reputable that the Govern- ment may employ it; having adopted hike, and being willing to con- ccde that every housewife is doing her bit" when she saves food or knits socks for the soldier, we are prepar- ed to go so far as need be in the great democratization of language. It will not be done in a day, or by a rule, and no one can forecast which words will be retained and which rejected. This is a matter of time and or not particularly discrim- inating taste. Some words have a way of sticking, and that is all that can be said about them. UL uur speecu. trouble with "attaboy. Having heard it used as a greeting by Cana- dian soldiers, they hare had it ex- plained to them that it is a short form of at her, boy! and have given their own au travail, garcon, as an approximate equivalent. This is chiey interesting as evidence that the French are trying sincerely, and with their accustomed politeness, to enter into the spirit of our slang. It is one of the little things that help to draw the bonds tighter. We would I be likely to have more trouble com- jprehending theirs, for it commonly is t more subtle than ours. We strive for ldirectness, while they seek a differ- jent effect. But we will not hesitate long over poilu, the French term [of at`t'ection for the common soldier. "Hairy one, in the sense that one `has neglected to shave or cut oue s i hair, does not dene it fully. There :is a certain association of luxuriant hirsute adornment, especially among virile peoples, with great physical strength, which is the compliment the French seek to bestow. They are not poking fun at the soldier for his carelessness as to appearance, but are paying tribute to his prowess, though by indirection, when they call him a poilu." Havina tab-an pun-no -I,..\...`.~......)..,...y; Just now the French are having. ' LLULLIUC r pruuamy 15 very large. some of our words of present good repute we are reasonably certain about, howev-er. One or these is liaison, which we have accepted in three senses, culinary, phonetic, and amatory, and to which still another meaning has been given by the op- erations of this war. An officer de liaison is one charged with the duty of linking the various units or a mili- tary expedition. The new use clings as closely to the root meaning as we have done in applying the word to a. thickening for use in soups. or to the juncture of two words or to a parti- cularly intimate association of man and woman. T.`In-L6 1 .'n..A...____A 1\,,L,,, - I z i i l 5 s I I i i suiau part 01 our humor or to-day. The perplexities of a prominent Belgian over the expressed intention 3 of the Americans to "can the kaiser " 3 are recent history. The London Postl ` has been, having as much amusement? : out of its conception of th.e phi-ase:i as a description of an intention to seal the German Emperor hermeti- cally in a tin receptacle" as it it had - hit nearer the mark, and Reedy s Mirror has been led to recall a sim- ilarly mistaken deduction of Andrew Lang's that a ja.g" is an American appurtenance or convenience of daily life. He had been reading about a. man who "came home carrying his- jag with him." How many such errors have been perpetuated by the philologists in the past it is impos- sible for us to determine, but the number probably is very large. Some of our word: n.` nrnen-nf O`(\!\r` 1 1 i 1 1 W. U .~::.':"":'VZt~:o %I: i u I i . . . v . . ~ . . `II `J... v\.A uu.u_v cL'-'\4|.. It will not do for us to go back to the origin of every word we use and insist on employing it only in its classic sense. If we did, we should be in trouble half the time. It would make us weep, for example, to read of a dilapidated" wooden building, and we should have no humor in our language at all, for the -very word humor has been so twisted in its travels as to be no longer recngnyizuble. Originally, it was full brother of humid, and as such would be descriptive of only a small part of our humor of to-day. nernlexities of :1 nrnrninnn} I I I UCH common words as recon- noizer," pontoon," and ma.- muding" give living testi- ` mony to the etiect. of wars upon our language. There was 3 time when these were regarded as dubious English, `mt they were ac- quired by campaigns of British troops abroad, and they stuck fast. despite the fact that there were purists in those days, as there are now, to oppose their admission to the lists of the verbally elect. 10 uv3I1 uni ::r\ (`nu .... AA __ L. ,w . . . - . - . . . - . - - . ` - ~ a u - v r vvr -`Q :3: War Slang `=2 .2. Enters Language '~"1f-'Z~?~.`-'Z**3I-'$~I~Z-3!-of-3-vZ~2-4!~I~I*-I-Iv-M2`:- Did Not Work. ._ 11-... _ _._--.- -..... 4L\AvuAAI..U UL ucu. .;U, 1.001 `N. D. Ardagh and \Vm. Boys were contestants for the Reeveship. The nominations were held at noon, followed by a public meeting, which continued till 4.30 in the afternoon. lllfl l'OWIPu It .13 said that Anthemius, Greek u-chitect and mathematician, know the power or steam in 532 A. D. Grief hallows hearts even- while It Iges heads. Ll-IC unuwuulg uuu I" I thought it by far the best one your husband ever wrote for you." Firmly Anchored. `T15 easier to drag a rock from the bottom of the sen than the sentiments of right from the hearts of the people. Her Opinion. `What did you think of my paper at the Browning club?" "1 fhnnnvI1l- -:4- I... 4.... u.- u.-._.. -__- \:uAuupuI.`. . Well, it s this way." said Bildad, "it ' Dobbleigh could write the way he talks he'd have Sir Walter Scott and Alex- ander Dumas lashed to the mast." I A Master of Fiction. ' What is Dobbleigl1`s general reputa. tion for veracity, Bildnd '2" asked Hick. enlooner. "Wall 'T|~ n +I.:.. H... u ....:.1 1n:I.:_:I .... vuu uuxn Au unu tau (1 uuscrveu. And why should tlmy?" asked the gentleman next. They've both been across several times." nuuu\.uI:u uu LUU 5011 U1 II.l11[I'lIDOI]y. 1`hc_v don t seem a bit afraid." some one back in the crowd observed. Ann n-hn ..k,...I.1 41.-..-an ....u.-.1 LL. Fashion s Changes. I Fashion in earlier times, We are in- 1 formed by :1 student, originated in the royal courts. and most of the z1b- I surdities of fashion that we have in- herited began as efforts of the design- ers of royal garb to conceal certain royal deformities or blemishes. These I absurdities are being rapidly dis- carded. E V..- 35.1.` __.._ _._!L_ ,_,-,1 . - -- -...._ ...._,. Miss Eva Lee, of the west ward school staff was presented. by her class with a jewel case and mount- ed mirror. Rev. \Vm. Fmsc-1'. D.D., for many years minister of Bond Head Pres- byterian churcli, died at his home on Toronto St., aged 84 _\'cars. (hvinrr f-n -Hun ~n6`....~.I .-.u H... `D4..- _L \.(ll\JU\.l- } Yes. it is now quite evident; from the styles that humanity thinks it has nothing to hide. I Old Salts. E Another couple was about to be: launched on the sea of matrimony. ]`hn\' r1nn f ennm n Mr ah-..m H uni-inn Wrong Number." There is no place where the disposi- tion ot a person is better shown than at the telephone when one accidentally or otherwise rings up the wrong num- ber. Then the answer to the signal tells the sort of person the respondent is. Sometimes he gets very mad and _spitefully answers and then with :1 bang hangs up the receiver. as if the `man who rings him up has done so i with malice prepense. But sometimes the respondent answers with a fellow ; feeling in his heart and, knowing it is ' no fault of the person at the other end of the line. speaks gently and kindly and really makes of the accident a pleasant incident. How much We all ` prefer to deal with the latter individ- ual! u.u:u.Lur_y UL ucl.` LIISL recuuuuu. | On Friday she had been given the} rst lesson of Adams` Latin grammar I to commit to memory. When she was called up early Monday afternoon she began to recite uently declensions and conjugutions without pause until as the K daylight waned the whole of the Latin } grammar passed in review before the I speechless teacher and dazzled admir- 3 ing pupils. " `nntv 114:1 uvnli nu-vo\- .1- 11.9 71'... Jug yupua. ! How did you ever do it? How could your head hold it all?` demanded Amanda, with n gasp, as they walked home together. '\Vnll rnnnw I'll run". 4,. A"... ....v uuun: |.u5t:Luc1'. `Well, really, I'll have to own up. said Mary, with some reluctance; `I, studied all day Sunday. It wasn't so very hard, though. I soon saw where I the changes in the conjugations came l in, and the syntax rules are much like I I l English grammar." ` :_ Mary Lyon Learned the Whole Latin` , Grammar Over Sunday. i Studying was never hard work to Mary Lyon, the well loved founder of Mount Hoiyoke seminary, now Mount Holyoke college. Her busy childhood in a frugal New England home hadl taught her to attack a task at once, while others frequently were spending their time thinking and talking about t it. In St. Nicholas, Mary Parkman tells how in Ashland tradition long kept the , memory of her rst recitation. | I -Inn w.-mg... ahn 1....1 5...... ..:...... u.-: aauauca uuca. ' Of these atoms radium is the most striking example. Its "atoms seem to be steadily going to pieces at such a rate that or an ounce of radium only half an ounce would be left; after 1.670 years. so far as we know, the half that was lost would have turned nally into a sort of lead, together with a strange gas called helium. Each "atom" of radium perhaps yields one atom of lead and ve of helium. More. 1 over. radium itself seems to be slowly I formed from another still heavier ele- ment, uranium.--Theodore M. Richards 1 Far Smaller Than Anything We can See, Feel, Taste or Small. In ways too intricate to be deseribed here We have little by little got some knowledge of the probable size of atoms. They must indeed be exceed- ingly smull. For example. in a tea- spoonful of water we have good reason to believe that there are very nearly a million million million million atoms- 4-hun . 1 nnn Ann rnn nnn Ann nnn nnn nnn nuuuuu uunuuu u.uIuuu uuluuu unnum- thus: 1.000.000.G00.000.000,000.000.000. "l`IxnG- uurnlnu. :. an ....u.......:.-.....|.. u.:. LULUHLU DI", nguu of years. Owing to the refusal of the Forest school board to release H1`. Reid, who had been appointed principal of the central school, Mr. Hallett of Lindsay, was chosen. AL, cvcu u-Iuugu nu uuu nuu: ll. uuwu. l It means, of course. that the atom is far smaller than anything we can see or feel or taste or smell. Indeed, the atom must he so small that if we im- agine a tennis ball magnied to be forty miles in diameter the atoms in it . would then be no larger than grains of ne sand one one-hundredth of an inch in diameter. n..1.. L"... .... I...-_ -5 u_, -,s,,_1 ,;{ LLI uu.lu.u:|.\:L. 1 Only two or three of the kinds of atoms that we now know on earth ap- pear to be capable of splitting up into l I smaller ones. nu 44.-.... -;.____ ___u.._, L n., _,,, . I Luua; J..UUU.U\JU.UUU.UUU,UUU,UUU.UUU,UUU. That number is so tremendously big that it is beyond our ability to imagine it, even though we can Write it down. If rnnnne nP nnnu-on Hana Qhn nl-1\vv-n L. THE SIZE or ATOMS: A MENTAL MARVEL Stoam Pownr. hi `huh A ntl. ..-.- FRED BRO0KS--Practical P; Tuner and Repairer. New pi.', always on hand for sale. Maple Avenue, Barrie. .30. I Piano Tuning? 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