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~ dersigned, acting official judges of the Boy Scout Field events on April 21st, 1923, at San Jac: Battle Grounds, Texas, do hereby rtity that Scout Elwood Fisher, row 18, Houston, Texas, did then and _ there make a fire with bow and drill "by friction in nine and four-fifths _ seconds. We were acting in tho ce- pacity of official judges and were using an official stop watch. (Signed) . JOHN DROEPER, 'W. T. ALLYN," gf 'CHARLES H. TAYLOR." R. A. Adoeck, Scout Exécutive. In the rich vernacular of boyhood, "Can you beat it? ero The prac- papers that - 'they are should be required to show unmistak- able evidence that they are, before any | the _ courtesies are shown; even then, only in cases of unmistakable need should requests for assistance will do much to end the muisanco of will be "Saturday, oth "Boy Scout Day" st the Western Fair, from all Western Ontario are being in- 0 part of Scotland is over rey 3 be heeded. | This aftitude'on the past of the public | boat ,| of my hunting knife, which I had left roll | "in 'the tom? of the boat, my ite severed tho ina: a | bottom, - thoroughly shaken and. ex-| ad hausted. Had it not been for my wife's * | pluck, I should not be alive to-day, for Troops'| she saw me she pulled to- 'ward me with all her might. The boat could not haye been more than twenty yards away when the line round my urface a seco . Struggling with all my might, I tried to release my leg from the tangled line, but I could mot do it. All at once I felt something slimy brush against my face, and | realized that the fish was taking me toward the weed beds; where I should probably become entangled and die a horrible death! No swimmer could hope to free himself from their clinging em- te reach the surface, 4 That time I was not submerged for 50 long, for evidently the salmon was becoming tired. 'When I came to the rapidly through the water; apparently the fish haa lost strength and was yn able to pull me under util he had ha time to rest. ~~ : 7] 1 After what seemed a long while the yat came alongside, and I was able to grab hold of the A 3 line and soon dragged me in. For some time I lay on the she had rescued me directly over the deadly eelgrass beds! : HARD ON BABY No season of the year is so danger- ous to the lite of little ones as is the summer. . The excessive heat thrown the little stomach out of order so | quickly. that. unless prompt ald ls at diarrhoea, cholera infantum, dysentery 'and colic aré most prevalent. Any one of these troubles may prove. deadly if | not promptly treated. During the sum- mer the mother's best friend is Baby's Own Tablets, They regulate the bowels, sweeten the stomach and keep 'by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co, Brockville, Out. - [oi | N.8 | some other ailing girl will profit by | brace. Redoubling my efforts, I tried | stern. With a slash man hand the baby may be beyond all hu-| {| man help before the mother realizes Lhe ds ill. Summer is the season when baby healthy. The Tablets 22 ath and vitality. : This 1s proved by the statement of Miss Bldora Acker, Lake Pleasant, ., who says:--"I shall be glad if my experience with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills; 'I was very much run down; my face was pale and there was dark circles around my eyes. My appetite was bad, and 1 had no ambition to do anything or go about. I had once be fore been helped by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and decided to try them again. t proved a wise decision, for In less 4 two months time I felt in every way better; had a splendid appetite, the tired feeling disappeared, and I can work with enjoyment. Naturally I think there is no better medicine for young girls than Dr. Williams' Pills." : You can procure Dr. Williams' Pink Pills through any dealer in "madicine or they will be sent to you by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writing direct to The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. -- eens. Colors From Coal. As everyone who cares at all about plotures and painting is well aware, many of the most beautiful works of painters 'of a century ago are fading away. Turner's exquisite pictures form an instance in point. To-day many are the | almost gone, and others have to be kept away from the light, in order to prevent further fading. , The reason is that the paints of that period were so bad.' Artists used not only red and white lead, but even such quorice and tobacco-juice. __ Now, in order to obtain good and lasting paints--permanent colors, as ey are termed--it is necessary. to 3 real. sclentific knowledge, ard to 'make long and careful tests. - ~ This has been done by the modern anufacturers' of artists' colors, with the result that to-day the painter, whether inioll or watercolor, has an immense range of colors to choose from, and these are constantly being (cruel in number 'by new discover- es. PI In order to prepare these colors, every kind of material is used, a mere list of which' would fill several pages of this paper. Colors come from min- eral, vegetable, and animal sources. Take Prussian blue; this is an ore, ferro-cyanide of iron. Sienna is made from an earth, and so are yellow ochre and Vandyke brown. One very beautiful blue comes from an extract of indigo, and the various madders from the root of the madder plant," The bark of a variety of oak- '1s. used to obtain a lovely pink BY DR. J. J. Di Middleton «lll be glad to ters through this column. Are you going swimming this sum- £1 If you are, be careful, cr? If you are, be ordinary pigments , as . Spanish | "HEALTH EDUCATION { indecision of these lucky celi- ates who are invited to select among thousand brunette, blond or aubyrn lowers. those that seem to them the 'most charming. . Paris, on Mount Ida, had only to de- cide among three goddesses. And for 80 little he has entered into legend. Bcaussines the celibates find them- to en-, At "00d selves otherwise embarrassed. There . {is an encumbrance of goddesses! "It fs in a name," says Maurice Prax, in "Le Petit Parisien," "a brides' fair," but it would be more appropriate to call it a husband's fair. For while the girls make the polite pretence of in- viting the men there to chose their brides, the faot is that the men are invited to be looked over and chosen by the girls. "The poor bachelors who have pene trated the large wedding garden, who find themselves suddenly in the pres- ence of a redoubtable battalion of re- solute young girls--resolved not to re- main young girls--must not for a long time keep up their confidence and sang-froid; they must not for a long time imagine that they are gentlemen of the sort of the shepherd Paris, It is the young ladies who, in truth, must make their mischievous or rational choice from the infatuated troop of hapless bachelors. It is the young ladies who 'pluck' the bearded, mus- 'tached or shaved bridegrooms. And the gathering must not be much more difficult then that of certain fruits that ripen in September, "The young girls of Hcaussines are gracefully clever and cunning. 'Come lon, noble gentlemen; come om to choose ameng us frail women the brides that will seem to you the sweet- est and fairest. "So they say. But when the bache- lors go upon the field of the fair they suddenly throw out the casting net." eel sat Earth's Energy. An imminent physician has esti j mated that the power developed by a million Niagaras in a milldan years not equal the energy expended by the earth in a single second as it circles around the sun. And yet go perfect is the mechanism that flying jaround its axis at an equatorial speed of mope than a thousand miles am hour, and around its orbit at more than 1,100 miles a minute, all the mundare in- fluences of which astronomers know could not change the length of its day a8 'much as a second in a hundred thousand yéars. : MONEY ORDERS. Send a Dominion Express Money Order. Five dollars costs three cents. 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