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best thing lor jmnimgmilk camp use only snowf lake dissolve one tablespoonful of snowf lake in a gallon of hot water it will re move all grease and thoroughly sterilize the cans and bottles 3 places sor snowslake kitchen bathroom laundry musician he could not keep a single tune nor count upon a single note the lilt came easy and the rhyme but something wayward in his throat would spoil the music every time the scantest air was sure to stray and somehow perish by the way so forhe knew the humble art of yielding in his patient heart he wrought one little meagre line of love and supplication blent four words two bars a simple thing a frayment that a child might sing and mastered that and was content at work at rest in storm and calm his prayer his paean and his psalm o lord remember me it went sometimes twould lapse for weeks and then come drifting down the stable lot timed to a saunter staid and slow familiar and serene again or sound across the garden plot tuned to the ticking of a hoe and often in an hour of gloom we heard it like a bugle tone calling to courage high and lono in an old shabby upper room or else some april morning long at brief contented intervals it filtered through the 6tudy walls a low monotony of song like droning of a happy bee o lord remember me eves apple tree among the many botanical curiosi ties of ceylon is a fruit suppose to bear ahe marks of eves teeth the tree on which it grows is known by the significant name of forbidden rruit or eves apple tree the blossom is pleasantly scented and the fruit is orange in color outside and a deep crimson within- each fruit has the peculiar appearance of having a piece bitten out of it this fact together with its poison ous quality led to the belief that it was the forbidden fruit of the garden of eden and selves the useful pur pose of warning such as might be tempted by its lovely appearance to imitate eve and take a bite children like them babys own tablets are effec tive and easy to give at all grocers 10c large package helping baby to think education starts long before schooldays the really im portant time in early life is when baby begins to think for himself all mothers will tell you that their babies are very wise they abound in an instinctive wisdom which being given to them naturally at birth has as its main objective the obtaining of exactly what they want for this purpose in early days the lungs are employed frequently and fully but gradually the little one be gins to think and act for himself it is sheer delight to all parents to watch this development the stages of which can be marked by the babys power to do certain things arid to puzzle out problems which to the infant mind are full of pitfalls wise mothers will tell you that as soon as baby is born you can tell whether he is mentally perfect by put ting some small round object it used to be a halfsovereign in the old days into the wee open palm if baby im mediately closes his chubby angers tightly over the treasure well you have no further need to worry about the little ones mental powers he is ctitain to be fully equipped in that re- speet smiles and tears a really healthy baby should begin to take an intelligent interest iff things wlien about six months old at this age if a vgatch is put to his ear he should smile and as soon as the ticktick is taken away his sound lungs should come into play between the sixth and ninth months baby should be found trying to lift things for himself and as the first an niversary of his birth comes round he should be able to lift quite heavy toys and other things which were never intended to be toys at all and quite easily also he shouldbe beginning to reason for himself atthis age a child will copy a par ent who sounds a note on the piano and will begin to see theconnection between the striking of the note and the noise which follows then again his little mind should now be able to tackle problems ho should be able to understand that it one of his small toys is put jnside a box in liis presence and the lid closed down the treasure is not irretrievable if he lid is not too heavy and does not stick baby after tinkering with it for a bit during which time he is turn ing the problem over in his mind should try to open it learning to talk now of course comes the most in teresting of all periods in babys growth he learns tc speak and copies everything that is saidj select ing if possible tho longest word in any sentence to repeat babys mind is still keeping astride of his develop ment in other directions and at eigh teen months he should begin to point out and name animals and so on pic tures of which are shown him in books at this stage the child memory is continually coming into ise and every week you find that baby remembers things for a longer period so the gradual development of tho little brain goes on until the time comes for the child to go to school and learn terribly big things out of speciallyprepared books and who shall say that the earlier sducation of the home is not more important than the mere formal studies of the school i and so when day was in the west butnot one shade of gathering night had dulled dear memories in his sight or touched tho things he loved the best with life still sweet and hope still springing and peace his portion to the last he took the summons clear and lafe and scarcely faltered in his singing for almost as he sang he passed on evening through the open gate upon his brow a faint surprise a quickening light as though he caught old echoes jn the fair new skies his little lowly melody with unimaglned music wrought the broken beat the halting bars the wistful lord remember me in measure with the morning stairs the song that on and upward led sounding beyond earths utmost rim a part of heaven ay we faid his lord remembered him- nancy byrd turner in youths com panion you do not have to coax and threat en to get the little ones to take babys own tablets the ease with which they are given as compared with liquid medicines will appealto every mother none is spilled or wasted you know just how big a doso has reached the little stomach as a rem edy for the ills of childhood arising from derangements of the stomach and bowels they are nost satisfac tory mrs rose voyer willimantlc conn says i used babys own tablets in the canadian northwest and found them a wonderful medicine for child rens troubles especially indigestion and constipation i have also given them to my children for simple fever and the restlessness accompanying teething and they always gave relief i can recommend babys own tablets to all mothers babys own tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mall at 25 cents a box from the dr williams medicine co brockvllle ont order from your grocer his best tea and hell usually send red rose temss good tea 65 the same good tea for 30 years try uk a- poem you should know the ancient mariner you might roll shaokleton scott the origin of a nursery rhyme scholars are always finding out that bcnolars are always undlng out tnat and amundsen into one and then fall j thj most nonsensioa nu rbymes to produce a combination of expert have a resectable ancestry and were is never don countries out of shape modern- mapmakers regard tho united states are preserved in yellow- 1 stone park but in canada where there is more room the buffalo is ilkv maps made a few hundred years ago lo become a lmtional asset d as great curlosltiesnnd so they are source of revenue yet every atlas published in the twien- h a ihai ther6 aro tleth century borrows an idea from canada 10 000 head of the fifteenth century it is known as ther preaervation is due to tho ta mercators projection strathconaf wilcii neariv fl as a rule the map of the world is awl af6 coieetei a sma1 nerd for represented in our atlas in two forms his estate near winnipeg they flour- nrstthe two hemispheres side by lsfled and inpngsed and were bought by the government to stock the na- side with america and the pacific oc cupying almost the wholeof one and t abon in tho rockies the rest of the continents and oceans when tlle herd nearly the whole ofthe other but the about 700 was removcd to lco two circles arajjiftlcult of mental ad justment aslhey require to be placed backto back to represent the actual geography of the globe this difficulty was recognized by a famous geographer named oerardus morcator he originated the system still followed of drawing tho map of the world as though the globe were flat having all tho merlchans of longi tude parallel and at right angles to the parallels of latitude thus one gets a birds eye view of the world as it were but only the part of the map adjacent to the equator are correct to scale as the map proceeds north anl south towards tho poles oceans and continents expand more and more and are thus out of propor tion nevertheless the advantages of this projection named after morcator ore obvious saving the buffalo many people recall buffalo bill ho got his name from his prowess as a hunter of tho american bison he and others almost exterminated this magnificent beast which within the memory of many now living roamed wo learn wisdom from failure much the prairies of the united states and more than from success canada in vast herds square miles of territory in alberta here the herd thrived and now it is about 8000 strong tho dominion has established another herd in alberta at elk island park keepsakes i would take away- with mo only youthful dreams bit of cloud sky of blue mystic songs of streams that flowed through a woodland i knew long long ago ah the early loves i held crimsoning and oh bright first hopes what matter now they were unfulfilled going i would tako them with mo who havo thrilled and thrilled with their magic who can say where i travelfar i may hvo all these again on a distant star x no wonder health gives out and she becomes weak and despondent it is literally true concerning wo man in the home that her work is never done she starts with house work when she rises in tho morning and is kept busy up to the time she retires at night the wcrk must bo done whether she is feeling well or not it is no wonder that she often breaks down under the strain she becomes breathless at slight exertion feels exhausted if she walks up stairs headaches and dizzy spells become frequent- and life seems a burden much of this trouble is due to the fact that her blood has become thin and watery and to regain her good health she must take a reliable blood-enrlch- ing tonic such as dr williams pink pihs the great value of this tonic medicine is shown by the statement of mrs mary nolan lintlaw sask who says when i becan usingdr williams pink pills i was a physical wreck it was with great difficulty that i could do light housework i suffered from headaches my heart would beat violently at the least exertion and i always felt tired and depressed i did not sleep well at night and i had no appotitermy limbs would swell as in dropsy it was at this stage that a neighbor advised me to take dr wil liams pink pills i had used tho pills for some woeks before i began to feel their benefit and thus encouraged i continued taking them for several months when i was again as strong and well as ever i had been i have no hesitation in saying that these pills are a remarkable blood builder add strength renewer and i shall ever be grateful for what they did forme you can get these pills from your druggist or by mall at 50 cents a box from the dr williams medicine co brockvllle ont iw a ico wktxuiv autciuv ouu nolo ence tha would even begin to rival the symbolic to the popu- coleridges picture of the south polar j mnd of sm happen regions in his great poem the any te warfare socinl progress cient mariner let coleridge had here a man never been uxro nd wo writing t about a meanlng m ona of the most familiar of such rhymes our readers will be interested it not convinced by what he says i was taught in my youth he says some sixty years ago that sing a song of sixpence arose as an occult jubilation over the first printing of the complete english bible in the year 1635 the fourand black birds stood for the alphabet they were baked in pie when set up by the printer in pica form the opening of the pie was the publt- cation of the volume which by its dedication in the preface to henry viii was set before the king sad seasounds she to tourist i suppose out on the great lonely ocean the crying of the seamews is very sad her yes but nothing like as af fecting as tho blubber of the whal3 purely from his imagination the following extract from the poem is interesting at the present time for the discovery captain scotts antarc tic exploration ship now known as the royal research ship recently sail ed on a voyage of research in south polar regions and now the stormblast came and he was tyrannous and strong he struck with his oertaklng wings and chased us south along with sloping masts and dipping prow as who pursued with yell and blow still treads the shadow of his foe- and forward bends his head the ship drove fast loud roared the blast v and southward ay we fled and now there came bothmlst and snow and it grew wondrous cold and lce masthigh came floating by as green as emerald and through the drifts and snowy cllfts did send a dismal sheen nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken the ice was all between the ico was here the ice was there the ice was all around it cracked and growled and roared and howled liko noises in a swound i fobiouft holesom8is5ireff0slimg dandruff rub the scalp- with m i n a r d s it stimulates the roots of thehalr and removes dandruff tit for tat the dealer made ycu pay more than this car is worth commented the candid friend i know it answered mr cumrox im selling him a piece of property and i want to convey the impression that i am guileless and easy a puzzle a little boy recently puzzled his mother with this query whats the miz the miz dear im sure i dont know where did you hear nbont it at sundaychool the superin tendent said god made heaven and i earth and all that in the miz i j a tulchan in this seventeenth century two hundred years ago the dairymen of scotland when ever they had an un ruly cow which refused to let down her milk to thonilker would bring out a tulchan by means of which they completely deceived the animal and induced her to give her milk to the dairymaid freely a tulchan wasvsimply a calfskin stuffed with hay in a rude manner this imitation calf was brought its head bent under the cow and while the mother thought her young one was dawlng off the milk it was in reality the cunning milkmaid who was doing so in 1g17 king james a3 carlyle in his cromwells letters tells us ap pointed certain men for certain duties in scotland the scotch were very much opposed to these new appoint ments for the object of them was to deceive the people and to drain the money away froin them for this reason the scotch gave these new appointees the name of tul- chanspieces of political mechanism constructed by parliament and the kings council to deceive the poor scotch and milk them of their re venue in life there are alas tulchan friends and tulchan friendships even unto this day many a lad is decoyed into evil by tulchan promises and pro fessions what sort of friends are these roalones a thousand times no they aro tulchans false a mere similitude of thetnth beware of them while thoy are beguiling you satan may step in and make you his prey when bad men try to win the hearts of others the make all sorts of pro fessions and use nil sorts of specious arguments but their words are tul chan stuffed with f isehood and meant to cheat sentence sermons there is something sfd about the man who has any serious moments about the show which must de base women to provide entertainment about the joke that leaves an evil memory about the home where cards are more important than children about the business which must wreck men tof make money about the candidate who has won an election and lost his independence about the man who must choose between his friends and his conscience keep mlnards liniment handy a poor marksman well i hope this is my last lap in the matrimonial race said widow smith as she married her fourth hus band george blllston to day the only buffalos left in the mlnards liniment for chilblains shfp us youiz- poultrygameeggs butter and feathers we buy all year round wile 1oilayfirpriefsirc guarantee fienifor a week ahead ppoulin co limited tv es22s2i fs m2lira f japolishes m ail purposes mtkci wiu ilk niw british military shoe polish sunbeam shoe dressing the cs iollno lit tunlltca i i thought yyou ttold me you were experienced a muchshaken old gentleman sputtered as ho crawled from the wreck of his handsome new car which his chauffeur had just wrap ped around a tree i am asserted tho chauffeur why i drove three years for an of ficer during the war and was wounded every year wounded only wounded snorted his employer 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was nervous and could not sleep nor eatas i- should and spent much time in bed i was in this state more or less for over two years before lydia e pinkhams vegetable compound was recommended to me by my neighbor before i had taken five doses i was sitting up in bed and when the first bottle was taken 1 was out of bed and able to walk around the house during my sickness 1 had been obliged to get some one to look after my home for me but thanks to the vegetable compound i am now able to look after it myself i have taken lydia e pinkhams blood medicine in turn with the vegetable compound and i certainly recommend these medicines to any one who is not enjoying good health i am quite willing for you to use these facts as a testi monial mrs j shepherd iso jos i janisse avenue pord ontario nervousness irritability painful times rundown feelings and weakness are symptoms to be noted women suffering from these troubles which they so often have should give lydia e pinkhams vegetable compound a fair trial all druggists sell this medicine will help youtohmi and a lovely qdofl use cuticura soap daily to keep your skin clearcuticura ointment to relieve and prevent irrita tions vkcep the scalp healthy byshampoos with cuticura soap assisted bytouches of cu ticura ointment when needed scspla ret r t vt1 amr canadian depcj suatu ltd kosiral prirsp c qln a uul soe talcum s3 stv cuticura shtm stick 35c issue no 25