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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18069, 19 March 1923, Page 6

THE VALUE OF TIME. TTO CHARLEMAGNE’S Court from a far-away Bagdad came an oriental water-clock. King. of the Franks and Roman Emperor, the mighty Charlemagne was ever mindful of the value of Time. For his empire was vast, his government personal: he must needs make moments, count. Education, brushed aside in his youthful fighting days, became his binning ambition. While he ate he listened to history. While he dressed .he gave audience to pleas for justice. Wakeful nights found him struggling to learn to'write. Time made the unlettered monarch one of the greatest educators of the Middle Ages. Haroun-al-Raschid, caliph of -Bagdad, read the secret of Charlemagne’s power and paid it subtle tribute a wondrous water-clock inlaid with sold. , , Proudest possession .of a proud empire, eleven centuries ago yet how crude a device compared to those maivellous tinjekeepers of our own day—

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NEW STOCKS of HIGH-CLASS TWEEDS AND WORSTEDS juat arrived. Before sending your work out of the town, inspect our Stocks and Prices. All made on the Premises. FOR QUALITY of Material, Fit, and Workmanship we more than hold our own with outside firms. Old Address' OPPOSITE COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICE. TIMARU CHIMNEY SWEEPING COMPANY. ADDRESS: 37 YOt'Uv. STREET. (Syd Plaw, Manager.) Spring Cleaning now on. Send your orders to Mr Craig’s Wood and Coal Merchant-, Church Street. ’Phone. BufcINTYRE’S Extra Strong Ki<> latlnjt pilla. Es 6d. Your Chorn lot or Grocor will poat for Twopence I