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. : ment. 'Pils Ae 'the Blood and Nerves. Food is as important to the sick per #0n 'as medicine, more so in many. casés; A badly chosen diet may re tard recovery. In health the natural apretHe-ts-the-bost guide to: follow; in sickness the appetite is often' fickle and depraved. bist food and a good tonic will ost people in good health. 'Pink Pills-are a fine tonic and certain blood and restore vitality to the run- down system. -For growing girls who are thin and pale, for pale, tired wo- men, and.-for-old people who fail in strength, Dr, Williams' Pink Pills.are an ideal tonic. Thousands have testi- Mrs, William Gallie, Hantsport,, N.S: who says: "Before I began the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills..I was.so weak and run down that-I.could hardly do my, own work. _ 1 often suffered from headaches and was very nerv- ous. I then began the use of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills and I can truthfully say I have found them the. best medi- cine I have ever taken. You may de- pend upon it I will advise other suf- ferers to take these pills." You can get Dr, Williams' Pink Pills through any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from 'The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co, Hronkyiih, Ont. Pe A one ASP Trophies of 1870 Returned to France. As a balm to French patriotism Ger- many has finally decided to turn over a train load of military trophies cap- tured from France in the war of 1870, says a Paris despatch. Included among them are numerous cannon and rifles and even the first machine gun models. The train bearing these 'tro- phies has arrived at Mayence. They will be displayed for the troops of oc- cupation there and then brought to Paris for an exposition at the Inval- ides. ' The French Ministry of War has not yet been informed whether the French campaign banners which the Germans are compelled under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles to surrender, but some of which were re- ported to have been destroyed at the outbreak of the war aad the remain- der in the anti-French demonstrations fn Berlin last year, are in the ship- Nis napcital Work of f Philo- logical Society Contained in Ten Huge Volumes. . As long ago as 1857 the Philological Society (philology is the science-of in language)..decided to begin the work of compiling a great dictionary. which should contain @very word in any language, says an English newspaper. A week or two ago the last word of the New English Dictionary was. writ- ten. 'Nine huge volumes have already been published; the tenth and last will be on gale in 1923. Sixty-six years will have passed be- tween the firet approval of the-giant scheme and {ts completion. And what has. been done in this oe ears than twelve thousand pages which meastres about twatve 'E theies print--these are the results_of the la- bors of those who™ worked upon the dictionary. Half a million words are catalogued and explained in it; and the ways in which they are used are shown by means of two million quotations from English writers of all ages. A Murderers Valuable Help. The idea originated with Archbishop Trench, a writer of popular books on the fascinating study of words. As soon as the Philological Society had decided to adopt it, a committee was formed to begin the gigantic cellec- tion. Voluntary helpers in all parts of the world were asked to assist; and from} them came in a ceaseless stream of | words and illustrative quotations. One | of the most vafuable of these volun- tary helpers was Dr. Minor, the mur- derer, who for twenty-five years was an inmate of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. In 1878 the compilers possessed no fewer than three and a half million slips of paper, each containing a pass- age to show how one particular word was used. Think for a moment of the labor in- velved in sorting these slips and in selecting the quotations. If one man had been employed upon the work his task would have occupied him for more than twenty years, eight hours a day. It took ten years to get the first volume ready, for the press. rye _Lintmant. for Dang: if HAWKINS Variations--Hawkes, Hawkinson, Hawes, Hawson. Racial Origin--English. Source--A given name. They dog't look much like Henry, those famil§ names; but that Is the given name from which they have grown. The only variation of the given mame of Henry which is frequently found today is "Harry. " In the Mid- dle Ages there were many, prominent among which were "Hal" and "Haw." This last seems to have been due to a peculiar twist of the Norman tongue, which tended to substitute a "u" ora "w" for an "I." It was the same ten- dency which changed the word "healme" into "heaume" and gave us the family name of "Homer," though later the English speech reverted to the "I" and brought the word back to "helm" again, It is the same ten- dency which changed the whole char- acter of the French language a few centuries ago. rom this variation "Haw," of Henry, there developed in turn a dl- minutive form of the name "Hawkin." This "kin" ending is an Anglo-Saxon element, which has its counterpart in the modern German diminutive end- ing "chen," Then came "Hawkinson," at first a purely descriptive addition to the names of many sons whose fathers were named "Hawkin," but later to become hereditary and a true family name. Hawkins and Hawkes are fur- ther shortened forms, and Hawes eomes, from Hawson. ge and Their Origin When. Dr. Johnson' 'B Disttinaty, | shich. ds still Jo uw B, : L Sie Z Eaten ercate ee ee j NIXON Variations--Nichols, Nicholas, Nicolas, Racial Origin--Anglo-Norm Source--A given name, As is indicated in the foregoing list of variations, the family names in this group are all derived from the given tiame of Nicholas. This name did not appear in Eng- land before the period of Norman- French occupation and amalgamation. The Normans brought it with them from the continent, and due to its re ligfous association with St. Nicholas, who lived several centuries before and had become widely known as a patron saint of children, the name became quite popular throughout England about the time family names were be- ing formed. That was in the period centering around the twelfth, thir- teenth centuries. The medieval English did not al-|- ways pick the same nicknames and diminutive variations for given names that we use today, but one of their variations was "Nick," though some- times ft was spelled "Nix" and some- times "Nyk" or "Nykk." In one old document the same individual {s re- ferred to in one place as "John Nykks" and in another as "John fil, Nyck" (that Is John "fillus" Nick, or "the son of" Nyck). For the most part "Nyck" was the variation of the name most popular '| to: deal with -th by nine, densely covered with small working | oh Sroreaie disposed of them in 127-pages; the late Sir James Mur- ray, the first editor of the New 'Bing. eed required 1,240 pages em--not.an ssive allowance, considering that he collect- ed 31,254 of them! The Last Wordszyxt: Sir James Murray gave up his whole Hfe. to. the work; for thirty-seven years. be-Jabored on his tack.. Unhap- pity hé-did 'not live to see it completed | for he died six years ago, And what a task it was! Think of the problems that had to be decided. There were several speHings of this word, Which was the correct. one?) There were two or even three ways pronouncing the next; the right | ay must be decided upon.. Was the next one mang: or could it be called | good. 'English? », Bvery. word had to be examined | carefully; its derivation must be! Ph and if it had changed its mean- a history of 1c-must be written | illustrated by quotations from many ry of the compiling of the New.English Dictionary .is one of the most romantic in the history of writ- ing. The iast word--'zyxt," old Kent- ish.for. "thou seest'--has just been added to its vast collection; but the 'compilers cannot lay down their pens. They,must begin at once upon the | supplement, In the years that have | elapsed:since the first volume appear- ed, hundreds of new words beginning with-A and B have come into the Ian- guage, and all must be recorded and explained. When the supplement is finished another must be begun. SPEAKS HIGHLY OF 'BABY'S OWN TABLETS. Once a mother has w has used Baby's Own Tablets for her little ones she is al- ways pleased to speak highly of them | to other mothers. She knows the, good they have done her children and | realizes that her experience should be of benefit to others. Concerning the Tablets Mrs. Fred Murphy, Charlotte- town, P.E.L, writes: "I have use ed | Baby's Own Tablets for the past elght months for my baby. I cannot speak too highly of them for they have been of great assistance to me in my--first ; experience of motherhood." Baby's Own Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which are abselutely harm- ; less and may be given. to even 'the newborn, babe with . perfect safety. porch are sold nae mm : at en nn Be Wonderful Timekeepers. As far back as 300 B.C. the Egyp- tians used a clock which was worked by water. The passing of water through various pipes moved a cog- wheel with a hand attached, and this hand indicated the different hours of the day while the wheel performed its revolutions. Hour glasses, or sand glasses, were invented about 330 A.D. They were made of two bulbs of glass with an intervening neck. Dry sand placed in the upper bulb ran through the neck into the lower bulb in exactly one hour. Clocks worked by weights were in use in 1125, but watches were not in- vented until 1500. ----o-- --_----_ Skins of uncommon animals, includ- ing four kinds of pythons, lizards, walruses, apes, and many kinds of alligators and crocqdiles are now be- ing used for making ladies' footwear. | Beating the Potato Bug. - |... The se ee Magazino publishes, in the United States, calls attention ; to the fact that certain regions of the | upper peninsula of: Mithigan:.have been 'virtually freed of that notorious : Dest, the potato bug, by. the operations of a tiny parasitic fly which lays = €888 upon the striped beetle. G hatched from these eggs hore Into the potato bug's body and eat out his in- side works |. -Ifit-werenot for parasites that: 'prey }~ upon the potato bug, it would scarce be possible to grow: any potatoes in ; this country, despite all the farmer a bl ie poison the insect. with wThat d dastiuctive beetie was, origin- | ally native..to_moy _districts--of} Colorado, where it ted on a wild varie- ty of potato plant called the "sand bur." "It is supposed to. have been car- ried tnfo Missouri by the cattle traffic, and in 164 it crossed the Mississippi River. In the early seventies it had crossed the Detroit River and Lake Erie was literally alive with potato bugs, passengers on chips or whatever jelse would keep them afloat. They | reached the Atlantic coast in 1873, and | the beaches were soon swarming with them. Vessels were boarded by them in such numbers eine hatches had to be battened dow: At that b paar and for some time afterward much alarm was felt lest the potato would become an extinct vegetable in Canada and the United States. But nature has a way of deal- ing with such mischiefs, and before long parasitic enemies of the beetle multiplied in such numbers as to make possible {ts control. The above-mentioned fly, which has | done such good work in Michigan, will be colonized in other parts of the | country, and may solve = potato bug problem for good and al. 7 Bo | Unemployment in Great Britai Unemployment in the British Isles \is rapidly reaching the 2,000,000 mark, laccording to Government figures pub- 'lished for the week ending April 22. The report shows a total of 1,774,000 on the unemployment registers, which is an increase of 750,000 since the pre- sent industrial crisis began. During | the coal strike the figures have been rising weekly to an alarming extent. lor on and the wonthecsiarn Phe- northwestern Ristrict 'somes "next With 265,000, while in the West Mia-| lands there are 239,000 unemployed. In Scotland there are 179,000, Ireland 117,000 and Wales 100,000. In the London County Council area there are 192,000 unemployed regis- tered, exclusive of short time workers. The figures include 53,000 women. --_--_------__--_ Changed His Mind. Jack--"Then you didn't ask for her hand?" Tom--"No, when I went to inter view her father he was busy with the furnace. He called out to me to come down, and after watching his struggles for half an hour and hearing what he said about coal, I decided not to get married." signs upon fences and other places without permission of the owner." Minard's Liniment Relleves Distemper There may be more money in a trifling invention than in a big one. All about us are new Ideas just wait- ing to be grabbed, {f we could only see them. Consider the famillar mousetrap. It with the Anglo-Saxon part of the population, and hence those who hear | the family fames derived from it may assuine an original Anglo-Saxon an- | cestry as more likely than Norman- French. Y must de awake and d is exceptio There's a Reason - Grape-Nuts makes a helpful break eolicatis ince far ts ee ae Grape-Nuts is ne ie ype of wheat and nally rich in nourlshment. It feeds body and brain without tax upon the digestion. " "Theres a Reason" ma Why worker who alert during the day. erfected ted is a simple yet ingenious device, fa- miliar to every household. Mr. Mouse | pokes his head through a round hole to get at a scrap of cheese that smells inviting; his first nibble releases a Antrigger, and he is garroted. That little contrivance was the invention of a New England Yankee, Anthony G. Davis, of Watertown, Conn., who pat- ented it in 1869. . He made a large for- tune by it. . Grandall,-of "building block" fame, was engaged in the manufacture of croquet sets. It wes half a century ago, when croquet Was a popular cut- door sport. He hit upon the notion of economizing cost by putting the boxes together with wooden teeth that would fit into corresponding openings along each opposite edge. Thus their parts could be assembled easily, without nails or glue. - It so chanced that at this very time Crandall's small daughter was sick with measles. To amuse her he show- ed her. some pieces cf his croquet boxes, and she found such delight in puting them together that he was per- suaded to adopt the idea for a new kind of building blocks. Crandall was a born inventor. It was he who originated the "pigs in clover" puzzle, which became so great a rage. Unfortunately, he was so far Inventors of Trifles Have Won Fortunes from realizing its commercial value that he failed to patent it. the famous "fifteen puzzle." There have been many claimants. All that can be said is that it was never pat- ented and. that fortunes were made out of it, i Rather exasperating is the obvious® ; ness of many patented ideas that have brought fortunes to their originators. Take, for instance, the Dennison ship- ping tag. The trouble with such tags used to be that they would tear out at the tie-hole. the tie-hole with a caranoard re-en- morcement! Just that was the whole | of Dennison's invention, and it netted | him a tidy fortune, The metal ball-and-socket clasp tor! Street gloves, books is so familiar nowadays that we vention. Nevertheless, it would peg us very much if we were obliged to back to the old-fashioned buttons wad button-holes for our gloves. This dall-and-socket device is the idea cf a clever Frenchman. An im- portant point about it ts one that no ordinary person would ever think of, viz., the "cHck.". To be popular, a clasp of any kind must make a sharp noise when closed. What could be more 'obvious than the wooden shoepeg? Yet, quite pos- sibly, it might never have been thought of but for the ge-..us of a Bos- tonian named B. F. Sturtevant. It! brought him a fortune; but he went ' crazy, aud so for him the achisvement was fruitless, and da, of igatly a! . ' C.0.D, Sans suntan cae. if Slaw' Aus or refund in: full: our saaties: ' Saivage Part Duderin -- Recents. --------__-- St. Thomas, Ont., Horticultural So- ciety, in its annual report says: "War is being waged upon the billboard nuisance and the tacking of cards and Nobody really knows who invénted, How easy to surround | handbags and pocket: | never think of it as an ingenious in: | "No, your heat, he didn't xive a not." -- a. ae Af asreon | seen amo foot wre: I. saw him amine or a ree MOTOR "OroLEs. 'ION. OF USED ndians, ¥onge 8t., Toronto. t "How a6 you know he dtan't give-a "Well, he cpeaali i blow his horn." . "Saying = Giaae. "The "minister had said grace, and the four-year-old daughter of the hos- tess look up and said: "That's 'not ,the kind of" grace my INO?" & asked the minister, sweetly. "And what kind of grace does your papa say?" "Why," said=the child, "he came home last night, and when. he sat down at the table he just said 'Good heavens!) What.a supper!' " Spilling the Beans. Tommy-- oo ee I stay up & little longer?" Ethel--* "What do you want to stay up for?" Tommy--"TI want to see you and Mr, Green playing cards. Mr. Green--"But we are not going to play cards, sonny." Tommy--"Oh, yes, you are; for I heard mam saying to Ethel that every- thing depended on the way:in which she played her cards to-night." From Personal Experience. Little Freddy was using his fists on little Helen. "Freddy, stop!" commanded his mother. "Don't you know that gentle- man never strikes a Jady?" Instantly Helen stopped crying. The. do, too," she contradicted. "Why, Helen," said mother, "when did you ever see a gentleman strike a lady?" With an air of convincing proof the little maid pees replied: "Daddy spanks me Shut Him Up. Scottish humor--recently remarked Sir Harry Lauder--is generally dry and crisp, but I as told a story over in the United States which I think will beat many Scottish ones. A stranger arrived at a Far West village, and dur- ing his first walk up the one street he encountered a young man leaning against the door of a saloon, -- lazily chewing gum. "Pretty. quiet place. this," said the st Sie the visitor, hook 'to Cat on the conversation. "Not yet," came the dry reply. After that the stranger gave up. --_ His Hearing Restored. The invisible ear drum invented by A. O. Leonard, which {ts a miniature magaphone, fitting inside the ear en- tirely out of sight, is restoring the hearing of hundreds of people in New York City. Mr. Leonard invented this drum to relieve himself of deafness and head noises, and it does this successfully that no one could tell is a deaf man. It Is effective when deafness is caused by cataffi or by perforated, or wholly destroyed natur- al drums. A request for information to A. O. Leonard, Suite 437, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City, will be given a prompt reply. advt y, Storms of the Film. Maybe when you have seen on the screen the deck of a ship during @ storm at sea you have wondered just how it is done. Anyone who stops to think has real- ized, of course, that it is not possible to take such a scene on a real ship during a genuine storm, for reasons of light amongst other things. Concluding, therefore, tHat it is all | done in the studio, you probably | imagine a ship's decl: built on huge | rockers with the players staggering ; all over the place while the whole set | pitehes and tosses. But it doens't. Only as much as} necessary is built. It is kept wet with | a hosep#* The waves dashing over the sidec-+ome out of buckets, and the | rocking takes place only in the cam- era a With an attachment between the camera and the tripod, the motion of |a ship at sea can be imparted to a sta- ; tionary "set merely by the camera- j man' 5 assistant turning a handle. } peat aeberired | Never shrink from doing anything, which your business calls you to do., The 'man who is above his business may one day find his business above | him.--Drew. \ FREEZONE with Fingers wrop ulllie "Preezene ov an ach- ing corn, tfustantly- that corn stops herting, then shortly you lift it right off witb fingers. It doesn't hurt a bit. : Your druggist sells a tiny bottle. of "Freezone" for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard cora, soft cora, or corn between the toes, and the cal- j iuses, without a particle of pain. ranger. - 4 eee "There's a quieter over there," re | 'ed rit] Corns Lift Off ' Typewriters for the Blind. An ingenious typewriter for the use of the blind has been invented by Na- tale -Rovedo,-a young Milanése artisan" Its method is modelled, on the or- dinary but obsolete German portable printer Mignon, only a zinc plate is introduced containing forty-two spaces within each of which is set in relief one of the characters of the Braille alphabet. The operator places the index finger of the left hand in the finger guide, which moves over this zine plate, and, having found the required sign, strikes the stamping lever with his right hand. The chief merits claimed for the machine are its économy and ease. After two days' practice the inventor's sightless comrades learned to write sixty-five letters a minute. a ee MONEY ORDERS. When ordering goods by mail send & Dominion Express Money Order. . ce le Prince Henry to Enter Army. Prince Henry, the third son of the King and Queen, who attained his ma- jority on March 31, is destined for a military career. Although tLrust somewhat in the background by hig older brothers, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, Prince Henry is immensely popular with the public. In stature he excels his brothers and is fond of sports and outdoor life. In pursuance of iis inclination to be a soldier he went through the army class at Eton and afterward studied at Sandhurst, the English West Point. Last August the Prince was gazetted a second lieutenant of the King's Royal Rifles and at present is attached to the Thirteenth Hussars at Alder- shot. ---------- A broken heart is a physiological possibility; excess of emotion, especi- ally joy, may rupture that organ. eee KEEP YOUR HEALTH MIN: NARD'S America's Pioneer Dog Remedies Book on BOG DISEASES and How to Feed Matled any by the Author. lover x i ist Street U.B.A. ew Yor ASPIRIN "*Bayer"' ee IS only Genuine Warning! Unless you see the name "Bayer" on package or on tablets you are not getting genuine Aspirin at all. 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