Witness and Canadian homestead, 7 novembre 1928, mercredi 7 novembre 1928

[" WITNES S Canadian Homestead ~~ JONN DOUGALL & BOM, PUBLISHERS.THER WITNESS is working through its readers in every province, and they through it, to made Choon o Land & Coa rer The Week\u2019s Outlook Undesirables in Pelitics oO of the disquieting features of modern politics is the shortness of the publie memory and the ease with which men who ought to be excluded from public life for all time can have themselves reinstated in the public favor.A politician forced out of power by revelations of corruption and breach of publie confidence need only lie low for a very brief season and then, emerging from his obscurity, unblushingiy attach himself to a prevailing cause in favor at- the moment and ride into office again on the wave of electoral favor.The recent election in Newfoundland isa case in point.Sir Richard Anderson Equires haë bosn returned to power by à majority of ten seats with three still to be reported.It is only a little more than five years since this same gentleman was forced to resign along with his entire Cabinet in the face of charges of corruption.The Royal Commission appointed to investigate the charges, found Sir Richard and some of his followers guilty of receiving public moneys as well as large sums from the British Empire Steel Company.He was arrested and committed for trial on October, 1924, but the Grand Jury refused to indict him.This 1s the man whom the people of Newfoundland have chosen to rule the country.By so doing, the electors have identi- fled themselves with this unworthy politician.They have secured the kind of Prime Minister they deserved.Already, in the suggestions of à sale of Labrador to a United States syndicate emanating from sir Wi- liam Coaker, a few years ago, An avowed annexationist, a chameleon politician worthy of his master, who has blown hot and cold on nearly every important question of the day, Newfoundland is experiencing the + VOL.LXXXITL NO.68.first of the many problems which it may expect as a result of placing the reins of government in the hands of à band of unprincipled adventurers.In view of the possibilities eof annexation, of Labrador or Newfoundland itself adumbrated by B8ir William Coaker, thers is danger, not only to Canada, but to the whole British Empire in the machinations of selt-seekers at 8t.John's.Canada Abread T is not easy for a Canadian prime minister, ever with thronging duties pressed, to leave his post.When he has a chance he generally needs rest.That is one of the principal bars to imperial solidarity, as, under one system, no one eise can potentially represent the country, whether at imperial conferences or at international functions.Mr.Mackenzie King has filled his brief absence with noted service which has got him much commendation.In Paris he fulfilled the formal function of signing for Canada the Kellogg pact, and so placing Canada on the map as one of the signatory\u2014shall we say\u2014 powers.There, also, he inaugurated the Canadian ministry at Paris, a position which Mr.Roy will all with distinction and considerable ségvice.At Geneva Mr.King's speech was the discussed event of the meeting, in which he made great boast of thé happy life of peace and goodwill that North America has led since the Rush-Bagot treaty In 1826, since which there has been no need for what was therein barred, any rivalry of armament or any thought of insecurity between the two countries.The Toronto Globe forbids the boast as made for Canada, as that treaty was British and not Capadian.We owe our immunities, in that as in other things, to Great Britain, as, but for the British aegis, we might be where Nicaragua is.8till, it was à new world achlevement and has relieved the larger continent of North America from such mutual strife as has hardly ever ceased in Europe.Perhaps as useful a speech as any was that in London, in which he disabused the English nation of the obsession that Canada obstructs British immigrants.Returning to Canada, he meets the leering spectre of the Vaughan case.Still, he seems to have left a good impression everywhere.Whose the Crime?\u2019 N untoward and pitiful light is shed on our whole immigration system by the record of Mr.Keith Harrison Vaughan.He came to Canada on a visit in 1918.It was a prospecting visit and instead of returning home he entered into partnership with his brother.He has been three times arrested by the immigration au- thorfties for the crime of being in the country without a proper ticket.There seems to be nothing In the record to suggest that he is, or has at any time before or after coming here been, anything but a virtuous and valuable citizen.But, horrible to relate, he was on record as & tourist! His first arrest was in 1918 when, under the despotic powers vested in the department and exercised through & board of enquiry, he bécame a ticket of leave man.His MONTREAL, NOVEMBER 1, 1928.3rd Year.sentence of deportation was relaxed into one which required him to report monthly like a tolerated criminal at the immigration office.Failing in time duly to perform this humiliating penance, he was again arrested this year and sentenced to deportation, fifteen years after he had broken up his home ties and become an established and domiciled citizen of Canada, all because, by somebody's mistake, he had got registered as a tourist.Is it a great crime to come to Canada with undetermined mind?He appealed to the court, which declared that when he was first arrested ten years ago he was already beyond the reach of the department, as he had been for the requisite three years a domiciled Canadian.Ten years of worry and legal expenses because Instead of going home to seek new employment in his own overpopulated country, he had become & productive Canadian.We do not doubt that, in all this perse\u2014perhaps we had better gay prose.cution, the department officers in Montreal were acting conscientiously, but, as it turns out, wrongly, under Sec.33, sub-sec.10; in whieh case Sec.33, sub-sec.10, whatever it says, had better be changed.The more they were right, the more it is evident that the law is foolishly cruel.The fact that they were wrong shows that & aingularly despotic power was vested in people SUBSCRIPTION RATRS INSIDE FIVE CENTS A COPY.not equal to so very serious a responsibility.\u201cThink what à story would have been Mr, Vaughan's, had he now been an occupationless wanderer in Britain, On the other hand, it may be recalled that the evidence at the recent Police probe at Vancouver, showed that one of that city\u2019s notorious vice exploiters, a continental European, succeeded by exercising influence with the civic authorities in having a deportable charge modified to save a bootlegger from deportation who had fraudulently entered the country as a farm laborer.There are ways of building up & country; but these are not of them.The Bootleg Quandary HE two responsibles are discussing how to deal with bootlegging.Mr.Euler is the national minister whose department it touches, at a recently diseased and still very raw spot.Mr.Euler took hold of the department fust after it had been shown what a putrid thing its relations with the liquor business law made it.It was his not very pleasant mission to clean out the stable, and he went at it with 8 will, but has met with great discouragement.He finds himself at war with the great brewers and great distillers, great benefactors of charities and notable subscribers to party A PARABLE ID you .ever try pumping when the pump was dry?Water aplenty in the well but no matter how hard you pumped the plunger would not lift it.The pump made a good deal of noise \u2014and there was some gurgling of alr, but that was all you got for your trouble.Then you went to the house and got a quart of water and poured it down the pump.To the inexperienced that would sound like carrying coals to Newcastle.But it worked a miracle .on the pump.Now with little effort and less noise the swinging handle and moist plunger produces the vacuum-pull that lifts and discharges the water in à gushing, ample stream.+ + We have tried to reason with our readers about the different kinds and relative values and services of papers.We have tried to show them that even more than the publishers or the advertisers the readers themselves are responsible for the press.We have asked them to use thelr best discernment and judgment and, whatever other papers circumstances forced them to take (as In cases of local papers where there was practically no choice) that they would put the best they knew first and at the top of their list.We have gone further and have said that If there were any Witness readers who had discovered a paper more disinterestedly devoted to the general welfare and could only take one\u2014that they should give up the Witness and take the better one.Our own interest is not in the Witness but In Canada's welfare.But we also urged, not in the interest of the Witness, but in the Interest of Canada, that such as did not know any other paper s0 disinterestedly devoted to the general welfare, would co-operate with us to extend both the efficiency and influence of the Witness \u2014their paper, even more than ours for it 1s published in their better interest, and only by us as a \u201ccalling\u201d \u2014 g voluntary, though strenuous and unpaid, service to mankind.AP here\u2019s where the parable comes in.We pumped in ordinary fash- jon for some time.But when we \u201cprimed the pump\u201d as we did last week, when we told our readers that two men (the publishers) contributed annually thousands of dollars and over five thousand strepuous hours of work without pay to the end that the Witness might be as valuable as possible to each reader \u2014that was like pouring a quart of water down the pump And the stream began to come\u2014and thousands have taken advantage of our \u201c3 for 1\u201d offer.But there are thousands of others that have not yet been \u201cmoved\u201d by such a challenge.Is it because It is s0 commonplace?Would that it were.Canada would long ago have been \u201cdry\u201d, and bettered in many other ways.J .»* OME one has sald: «Talk to them about some personal, material advantage\u2014te them, or even to you\u2014and you will get reaction.\u201d We will leave that to other publishers as far as material advantages go.We are getting them without seeking them and so will all who seek first the general welfare, for that Is another word for \u201cthe Kingdom of heaven.\u201d The cruse of oil and the measure of meal have a strange way of being replenished for such as believe in them.Of course 1t is only such as want to see general welfare journalism ime proved and strengthened and its influence extended to their friends and neighbors who will GIVE an hour or 80 à year by way of co-operating with such an adventure as this.That so many are doing so 1s 8 source of great strength to Your Publishers.> + tte a 210 0 + WUINESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 1, 1008.funds, but everywhere in league with Me opinion, ne less than by the ver- money in subsidizing, to come to the the outlaws.Balked at every turn, what could he do?&ir Henry Dray- ton, King Ferguson's chief butler, is in the same position.Mr.Ferguson holds his present position of power by virtue, on the one hand, of the aforesaid drink magnates, and on the other, of his promise that his way of taking over the drink business would put an end to bootlegging to say nothing of other alcohol excesses.The good folk of Ontarlo were heartily ashamed of the contemptible business of, surreptitiously invading a neighbor's soil with what that neighbor regarded as a nuisance, voted to try the new nostrum.To the respectable of Conservative mind, any excuse was good enough for voting according to party.With the riff-raff, as in the United States the liquor man was the fugleman; and to him, for votes, and for other practical assistance, Mr.Ferguson felt himself beholden.He however could not rule Ontario unaided by a large respectable vote.He has, perhaps honestly, sought to redeem his promise to the citizens by planting government U- quor shops everywhere especially where bootlegging was most rife.The eure was homeopathic in kind, but not in quantity.At all events it has proved a great and obvious failure, and the good people of Ontario are as much ashamed as ever.The two functionaries of opposite politics\u2014a very serious divergence in Ontario, are meeting to consider this impasse.What they will admit to each other we do not know.But without saying anything, both of them know that their common enemy is \u201cthe trade,\u201d and that it has them secretly bound hand and foot.It was this secret influence that brought about the dismissal of Provincial Constable Brien, of Waterloo County, Ontario, whose \u2018 charges of favoritism and maladministration of the Ontario Liquor Control Act, are meeting with a very undignified silence on the part of Attorney-General Price and General Willams, Commissioner of the Ontario Provinctal Police.The officer's allegations that he was ordered to drop cases after he bad secured the necessary evidence, the hints he was given to \u201cgo slow\u201d.with threats of unpleasant consequences if he ignored the intimation that certaln people could have all the liquor they wanted, have not yet been answered, nor is there the slightest indication of the holding of the enquiry and publication of the report that Colonel Price promised in his Initial hasty denial of the officer's charges.Genuine investigations and unbiased reports are the last things in the world, desired by the secret emissaries of the trade and the marionettes.Sound And Fury \u201cA GREAT many things that Sir Sam Hughes sald could not be regarded as evidence in a court.\u201d It was a delicate touch of the Chief Justice In pronouncing the unanimous Judgment of the Court of Appeal against granting a new trial to Mr.Preston, condemned at Cobourg for à very grievous slander against Bir Arthur Currie, when commander of the Canadian forces.Sir Arthur was accused of having led Canadians uselessly to death after he knew of the Armistice being reached.One of the reasons for asking to annul the verdict was that a speech of Bir Sam Hughes, making the same accusation, had been refused as evidence\u2014though Sir Arthur had suffered from that accusation for ten years without doing anything in the matter.What could he have done?said the Chief Justice.From one point of view, it was a fortunate thing for Sir Arthur that Mr.Preston 30 recklessly aired the charge in public.Canada's general has, as a result, been fully vindicated, by pub- dict of the learned judges, from à slander for which, as uttered in Par- lament, he had no remedy.Higher Standards of Citisenship youthful Scottish nationalism \u201cflares up, as in the Glasgow University election, why not Canadian?A higher standard of citisenship is the declared and worthy alm of an organization calling itself the Native Sons of Canada.They propose to attain this by excluding anybody but Canadians from any public position and by breaking the last ties with the Empire.The Governor General must be a Canadian, which, under our system, would practically make him a party creature and wipe him out, or, under another, give him undue power.The appeal to the Privy Council is to be abolished, which would leave us without the throne to appeal to.It is really an International court and for the final court of the realm, it is not only a singularly suitable tribunal for the adjudication of constitutional questions, but it is the traditional recognition of the sovereign who Is common to us all, and who takes advice regarding Canadian affairs, not from Stanley Baldwin, but from Mackensie King.The King may be a theory, offensive, perhaps, td those separatists, but necessary to our imperial fellowship and precious to all British hearts.There was 8 movement in the United States, which became a tangible political force for some years in the middle of the last century.It was the Ku Klux Klan of those days and waz known as \u201cKnow-Nothing\u201d because of its boy- igh boast of conspiring secrecy.Those swaggerers who had, no doubt, a wide acceptance among the lightheads of their generation, had for excuse the fact that they had all, as had all their neighbors been fatuously nursed in contempt for all other peoples, especially the British.They of course could not help the fact that almost up till then their presidents had been British born although for the most part, they had sought to repair that damage.William Henry Harrison, called after an English king, but besides being the grandson of a signer of the Declaration, was the Indian fighter who at the battle of Tippecanoe had started the war of 1812, or boasted of so doing.Tyler his running mate was daring enough to claim, or te allow others to claim for him descent from Wat Tyler, the English revolutionist.It was out of this mess of cherished spite that this \u201cKnow- Nothing\u201d miasma was exhaled.But the fresh air dissipated it in a very few years.; Canadian history has been for our youth, an entirely contrary training.The \u201chigher standard of citisenshipe\u201d to which the Native Sons of Canada can rise, finds !Ilustration in the juvenile quality of their polemics In a sympathetic paper called the Beaver- Canada First.It would seem that an Orange Lodge took the trouble to pass a resolution rebuking their proposal to crumble the British empire by cutting whatever remaining ties they could find, whereupon we find in the Beaver, these headlines: \u201cThe Hidden Hand of Rome;\u201d \u201cOrangemen tools of an American conspiracy?American stampedes country Orange lodge.\u201d Assuming to know all that went on in the dread secrecy of the lodge, the \u201cBeaver\u201d declares this reasonable and truly British resolution to have been moved after all but two or three Canadians had left the lodge meeting, by a man born in the United Btates, and goes on: \u201cBo we have this mob of immigrants, led by an American, censuring the native born on Canadian soil.\u201d \u201cAmericans jealous of Canada's progress are seeking to create dissension In the Country.This is the class of people we are asked to spend country.\u201d And s0 forthi Well, weill Boys will be boys.We have in this juvenils banter, for that ie what we take it to be, a vivid illustration of carried ou at a loss, This is the most serious statement made by the Hon.George P.Graham, once Minister of Rallways, and s0 an intelligent observer, in a speech made to railway men.The business of branch lines in the United States which were dependent chiefly on passenger business is being handed over to the motor bus, and the railways with their heavy station and other passenger expenses are suffering from the competition of the fine roadbeds which the motor car is cverywhere enforcing.While the rallway company lias to create and maintain its own track, the car has its road made for it at the cost of a light tax.In five years, 1920-25, the rafl- way passenger traffic, and the gross receipts from i, fell off twenty-five percent, \u201cThe old order changeth ylelding place to new.\u201d .No human investment can count om perpetuity.It is not so long ago that the railway all through the country superseded the old mall wagon.How could the sometimes solitary passengers of that primitive accommodation furnish business.for a railway?The solution was that for one traveler by mail wagon there were a dosen to use the railway.A generation later came the trolley lines.Running in many piaces close alongside the railways, they once more developed an entirely new trafic.In some places It was sald that this new convenience that could take you from the nearest corner to your shop or office or job, would have a dozen passengers where the railway had had one.And now the road travel is superseding the rail, but again creating a great new travel business for Itself.An Interesting question is: what next?Stil, it is not the falling off of traffic, but the increase of expense that has been the chief factor in making the passenger business anprofitable.That is chiefly due, as the papers would put it, to the demands of Labor unions for more pay, while the outcries of the public, and the competition of the automobile car, forbid a proportionate increase of rates.It is true that wage earners want better and better conditions; yet it would perhaps give a mere correct sense of the facts to attribute this pressure to the extraordinary reduction in the buying value of money.Money will buy much less\u2014about two- thirds what it did before the war, to go no further back.The rafl- way companies have to resort to hotels, shipping lines, land development, The greater companies can no doubt make good for a long while in one way or another.Even with the increased expenses they would no doubt still pay very well if they only ran where they could count on full cars.But it may be taken for granted that any system that persistently refuses to pay its expenses will have, in time, to be taken over by the government which will then throw its losses on the public.No doubt the prudent are already speculating whether the raflways will, before long, have to depend on heavy freight for their earnings.The air routes will be quicker and the omnibus more accessible and frequent for passenger travel The Freedom of the Seas (COMMANDER J.R.Kenworthy, war hero and member of the British Parliament calls on Great Britain, in the interests of peace and armament reduction to make an unequivocal renunciation of the right of making private blockade of enemy coasts.Fallure to do this, he thinks, will eventually ruin the Keilogg Pact and undo recent work towards peace, Pointing out that all great empires of the past have prospered by access to the highways of the ocean, the commander acknowledges the wisdom and logic of British sea domination before the war.With the British Empire scattered over the seven seas, \u2018with the British the world\u2019s greatest sea traders, and thus the most vulnerable to attack; with Britain herself dependent on the sea This power was used not only to protect the British mercantile fleets, but to close the sea routes to an enemy and by the use of the blockade to exert an economic pressure to counterbalance the military strength of continental nations.This exercise of see power naturally provoked protest from neutral nations.In the recent , it was resented by all the neu trading nations, especially the United States, aithough that country accepted the British view after joining the Allies.The time has come for the clares the commander, not only because of the faet that the United States is now equally powes- ful on the seas and that the development of the submarine and the airplane bate brought into being newer and more terrible offensive weapons on the ocean, but because the British position would be strengthened rather than weakened by the renunciation, President Wilson's Fourteen Points contained a provision that the highways of the sen should not be closed in peace or war except by international covenants.The British Government, loath to drop a weapon which had proved so serviceable in the past, succeeded in having this clause deleted from the Armistice terme.Britain still has a great mercantile navy on the seas, which would be exposed to attack in ease of war, but Commander Kenworthy considers that recognition of the fact that the world has travelled a long way toward peace, by the formation of the League of Nations, the Locarno and the Kellogg Pacts, should modify tbe histarie British sea policies.The central idea of the latest treaty is that the nations denounce war in furtherance of national policy and favor arbitration or other peaceable means of settling differences.British sea trade thus will have behind it, maintains the commander, not only British naval forces, but those of every nation willing to abide by the treaty signed in Paris.American naval ambitions are not the result of fear of any other peoples, but simply the result of national pride which not unnaturally refuses to consider any other nation \u201cthe mistress of the seas\u201d with the right in case of wars of dictating to neutrals with whom they may trade.A declaration from Britain that she no longer contemplates filling that role in the historic sense of the term | ist movement shot from Canton in 1038 by a Bolshevik explosive, continuing its course all the way to Pe- king\u2014some twelve hundred miles and more, which it entered somes months ago, all the forces of so-called civil war melting before it, embarrassed only by its Bolshevik trail.Se Mr.Blatchford's thrills are not of his own making.He got them out of à letter someone sent him from New York in the name of some Chinese organization.Blood curdling, indeed! The writhing and offensive remains of the Bolshevik skin, which China convulsively peeled off, could not make a more horrible picture than that which Mr.Blatchford thus epitomizes:\u2014 \u201cUnder the rule of the Kuo Ming Tang, In alliance with the international capitalist powers, the rivers of China are\u2018dyed with the blood of the workers.Twenty-five thousand killed protecting their union headquarters from occupation by troops; hundreds of thousands slaughtered in cold blood and tens of thousands rotting in jails; unions suppressed and their lenders executed\u2014all this to create a Chinese working class docile to the inhuman exploitation of the Chinese and international capitalists.\u201d The letter alludes to international capitalists, but does not incriminate any nation by name.The manifesto is more explicit.It is wddressed to the Ameriean unions; but it alludes to other governments:-\u2014 \u201cWe have been cruelly deceived by our bourgeoisie.«.They betrayed the common struggle of the Chinese people and offered their services to your governments and together with them they have been destroying and drowning In rivers of blood the workers and peasants\u2019 movements.\u201d There we have a direct .charge against foreign governments of complicity In massacre and tyrannous oppression.Don\u2019t let us minimise the horror of this charge.The manifesto states: \u201cDo you know that over 5,000 workers\u2019 corpses were thrown upon the streets of Canton?Do you know that working women were tied together in batches of five and burnt alive?Do you know that in Changsha and Hankow, where no revolts have taken place, Pel 8un-Chik and other generals have shot down over 4,000 people solely because they had work-soil- ed hands?\u201d So.Now read this: \u201cThe British, Japanese and American authorities are hunting for the workers, handing them over to the Chinese hangmen.The English oourts trade in the heads of our .brother workers.\u201d Mr.Biatchford supplements this farrago with a bons fide speech of Mr.Saraut, French Minister, fortunately, of the Interior, looking forward, in the \u201cnot so far distant\u201d future, to à conflict across the Pacific to which the iate war would be a mere skirmish, Russis, China, nnd Japan ranging themselves against civilization.Mr.Blatchford winds up his thriller thus: \u2014 \u2019 The day is soft and balmy, the trees are getting their tints of gold and fire.The garden is very green and sweet and quiet.I don\u2019t want any loot from the Yangtse Valley.But I would subscribe for a muzzle for bellicose fools.WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 1, 19238.\\ of us think often how charmingly the world would be governed if we ourselves were only absolute in it.This 18 not to say that the Latin alphabet, with its letters, Roman and Italic, is ideal.We can all see it to be arbitrary, illogical, very defective and, as compared with the aforesaid Arabic, very ugly.But as it is the English language and not Esperanto that ls spreading over the world; so it is the Roman alphabet and not Pitman\u2019s fonetik that is in the ascendant.The very Germans use it when they really need to understand each other, and it is used on everything that goes abroad, even the Graf Zeppelin The Japanese all learn it.So do the Chinese.For them it te a great facility, even though its signs have the least possible relation to thetr sounds.The Latin alphabet 1s however bullying its way till some more intelligent vehicle for the sound of human speech shall be devised and can assert itself, The Bishop of London Tr Bishop of London, Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram, is a good man.A.G.Gardiner, In the course of one of his inimitable character sketches described him years ago.\u201cWe are in the backwash of the intellectual tide, and the Bishop of London is with us.We feed ourselves on thth emotional gruel and the Bishop of London shares our food.Yet.he isa great bishop.in the sense that he is a great Christian.His heart is filled with the love of his fellow men, but most of all with love of his poor.From the days when he left Lichfield and came to the Oxford House settlement in the East End, he has given himself to the cause of the disinherited and the miserable.Slumming to him has been no idle diversion.It has been his vocation, his life.Into it he has poured all the wealth of a nature all sunshine and generous emotion.He .has realized that if you would reach the souls of men you must first care for their bodies, heal their sores, lessen thelr miseries.And, full of this: primitive law of the faith, he has carried the cup of cold water to the lips of the dying girl in the garret, labored to drain the morass of the slum, lved his days and his nights among the forsaken and the hopeless.And then, his heart full of the goodness of the poor rather than contempt of their squalor, he has gone \u2018down to Oxford to call others into the same harvest-field .or he has gone into Victoria Park to meet the atheists face to face; answer their pet posers with ready wit, and win their hearts by his genial comradeship.- It is the defect of the average Church dignitary that he is remote from the people, dwells in another atmosphere, talks another language.Dr.Ingram thinks their thoughts, talks thelr speech, is one of themselves .He is 2 \u2018pal\u2019 He does not fill you with the sense of the awful respectability of religion.He fills you with the sense of its good-fellowship .He grotted that the Bishop of Btepney ever became the Bishop of London .He rises early, retires late, lives sparingly, is poorer than when he had a tenth of his present income.But his true sphere is Bethnal Green Road, and the life of the mean streets that he loves and knows and has helped to transform.He is too light an intellectual weight for statesman- A Good Man Binders MARK TWAIN once observed that there was \u201ca great deal of human natur in man\u201d and the Bishop of London has been endowed with it in plentiful measure.It is the source at once of his strength and his weakness.The very human quality of impulsiveness, of leaping before he looks, has more than once landed him in hot water.Another famous ecciesiastic, Samuel Wilberforce, accounted for his nickname \u201cSoapy Sam\u201d by the fact that he \u201cwas often in hot water but always emerged with clean hands\u201d The Bishop of London emerges with clean hands, but often rather badly scalded.A year ago he caused a rumpus by implying that Canada turned a cold shoulder on British immigrants.Now he has put his foot in it by advising his clergy to break the law, but only to break it up to a certain point.He asked them the same questions that the other bishops did, but made too imperatively plain what answers be looked for.As might be expected both the law breakers and the law keepers resented such advice and answered \u201cYes,\u201d when he wanted \u201cNo\u201d, and \u201cNo\u201d, when he wanted \u201cYes\u201d.The Dean of St.Paul's, which is, of course, the bishop's cathedral, has commented on this action in his own biting fashion, It ls indeed a strange thing that the best of men will often violate their best principles for the sake of religion.The Englishman, above most men in the world, respects law and order.And if there is one thing that he esteems above law and order ît is \u201csportsmanship\u201d and fair play.Dr.Carnegle Simpson, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of England, speaking, by invitation, to an audience of the Church of England Men's So- clety, criticised the action of the Bishops as \u201cnot cricket.\u201d \u201cEnglish people,\u201d he said, \u201cdo not like that sort of thing; and if the Bishops persevere in it they will get their Church on the wrong side of the nation ethically as well as on the wrong side of Parliament constitutionally.Undoubtedly they are in a very difficult position, and every fair-minded man should recognise that sympathetically.But other churches have been in a post- tion just es difficult over this very matter of freedom, and have come through it by the open road of constitutionalism and sacrifice and not by the illicit by-path of sanctioning that for \u2018which théy have failed, under their own scheme, to obtain sanction.\u201d : An Anomaly OF course there would not be any breaking of the law 1f the Church of England was not & function of the state, and, therefore, subject In its teachings to Parllament\u2014rather an absurd arbiter In matters of faith and ritual.The conditions that have arisen throw too strong a light on this anomaly; and those who see the venerable structure cracking about their ears are vexed with the kick of the bishops who, led by the primates, distinctly repudiated the decision of Par- fiament, thereby accepting the logical consequence, should it ensure, namely, the release of the Church from the civil bond with the consequence that it loses ali its privileges, as being a function of the state and all its properties, which belong to the nation.The question of property was solved in France by Mr.Briand by creating in each parish a lay trusteeship.But that was easier In a country which, however indifferent to religion, knew practically only one church, than it can be in England where the majority, if not of the people, at least of the religionists, 1s nonconformist, yet has citizen rights in public possessions, as, for instance, in the parish grave yards.The Cure of Souls URE meaning care, that all ways was, and always must be, the pastor's service.Instruction and recognition of the human understanding are of the essence of Protestantism.The Church always recognized the need of instruction but 1t early became a formality.It took the form of catechism, which, when a child could repeat, he was supposed to be instructed in the faith, though he might not understand a word of It, either in childhood or later.Those parts relating to his duties to the church being of a concrete sort, he had to know pretty well.The most complete compendium of popular theology was probably the Shorter Catechism, which, till within the latest generation, every child in Scotland had to learn.The bright child who could: \u201cgcreed ye aff \u2018Effectual Calling\u2019 As fast as ony in the dwalling\u201d might never know its import as long as he lived.Still pastoral instruction was the essence of early Protestant preaching and customarily it was systematic.Preachers in the churches which followed the Christian year had their theme largely set them.The evangelical movement changed the sermon into an appeal for a change of heart, extremely needed and wonderfully fruitful.It is described by historians as having made a new England.But systematic training in the truths of religion lost its prominence .and In practice was largely relegated to the Sunday School, often a scant inattentive twenty minutes in the week, under the guidance of an untrained mind.There is still the sug- \u201cgestion of reserving the morning \u201cservice\u201d for instruction and the evening for appeal.It is possible, however, that there might be gain in setting the morning gathering imperatively apart for the more intimate functions of fellowship, as between à family essentially of Christian worshippers and inquirers known to each other, meeting for worship, systematic edification and communion though of course not excluding any one, leaving to other occasions and possibly more general gatherings, the general appeal.Changed Objective THERE has been in our generation & considerable change in the presentation of religious truth.The objective of past generations was largely the attalnment of heaven.That of our own generation has been the Kingdom of Heaven and how to bring it about.There have also been in our day disturbances in the convictions of youth which need very considerate handling, not met either by the Sunday School or methodically by the pulpit; so that a large proportion of devout people would be at a loss to declare constructively the faith that is in them.We are realizing the need of the impartation of a more definite body of truth such as the church has in all ages felt the need of, but has perhaps too much sought to congeal into verbal formularies, unable to move forward with the increasing light which comes to the church from age to age as the divine Spirit is able to impart it.No one, for instance, would be satisfied today with the attitude of the Churgh toward war which some years ago survived from the days of chivalry which filled the ancient churches with the escutcheons and memorials of warriors.Bringing about the end of war has become, through great tribulation, a fixture in our religion, as it never was before, and in many another way the religious outlook has taken a bound forward in practical directions.The important thing is to adjust the wave lengths o our spiritual receivers to the heavenly radio which has not ceased to \u201cstrive with man.\u201d This is a task calling for the intensest and most co-operative study on the part of the pastors, if they would keep ahead of their enquiring flooks or awake those who have got lost In the mists of unan- awered questions.Misplaced Emphasis Fw would directly aver that listening whether languidly or with a hungry appetite to preaching, the most competent and sympathetic, fulfils the purpose of a Christian assembly.But is it not too much the case that in ordinary conversation, that is what people are going to church for, the rest being the frame to the picture, the music having its share of critical attention, much of it being lost to devotion by conveying nothing but sound to the listeners.If the preaching is what people are waiting for, then is the traditional order of the service, wrong end foremost; for the people ought to be better attuned to intelligent praise and prayer after the inspiration of the \u201cWord\"\u2014using that term in its scriptural sense\u2014than when there is nothing special in their thoughts.The order observed is one of the numerous instances in religion of the sui- vital of old forms into new religious conceptions.The present order is due to the early habit in illiterate days of calling the people together morning and evening to prayer.The preaching or homily was supplementary on Sundays and holy days.Has not this dominant idea of worship and devotion lost its rightful place?It may be well worth while seriously to ask why! Have we in the implied slighting of worship the highest ideal?For those who would restore devotion to its place might not a closer relationship between its acts and the intelligence give to singing and praying more reality?Should not choir- singing reach the people's understanding at least to the extent of knowing what is being sung, and being able to co-ordinate with the frame of mind evoked by the exhortation.Why should hymns be sung with small sense of their meaning, when that meaning might be the theme of most valuable teaching.The hymns are indeed the holy scriptures of the generation in which they are Inspired and so come into more intimate relations with the spirits of men of today than some of the preserved utter- ancèsofthe hymn writersof twenty- five centuries ago, great as is the permanent contribution of the Psalms to the spiritual lite of allages of reM- gion.There are those who see in responsive devotion, a help to realizing the imperative duty of worship.There would seem, on the one hand, to be needed at least enough of liturgy to cover way those parts of worship which should not be omitted In public devotion, such as prayer for kings and all who are in authority including those who guide the public mind, the preachers, teachers, and writers.On the other hand, in à different category would be certain utterances of contrition and renewal of allegiance in which the people would have the essential part.None the worse if such responses be musical.Oft-re- peated, every voice could touchingly Join In.The high purpose of the present writing is to restore the pastor to his high position as the fatherly guide, instructor, and personal friend of a family of Christians, -not too large to be his intimates, or to be intimate with one another; also to release him, by a guarded hour for congregational life, from a pulling and hauling competition with passing apostolic, evangelistic, and catholic lights and events which his people should not be debarred from in the briefest possible\u2018 WITNESS AND CANADIAN NOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1088.RATES GOING UP On and after December first our lowest rate for NEW subscriptions will be raised from 67c to a dollar each.Our present club rate of one Renewal and two NEW\u2014all three for $3.00 will end Nov.36.Thereafter the club rate will be one Renewal and one NEW for $3.Any new subscription malled before November 15, will receive the opening chapters of the two new stories.We cannot guarantee such to new subscriptions mailed after Thursday November 15.Letters ORDINATION OF WOMEN \\ {A correspondent who a long poem glorifying the Methodism of fifty years ago (from the description given we should judge that the poem itself is fifty years old, and that it means a hundred years ago) nds us also the following clipping ay Bishop Hensley Henson's view of the ordination of women, with which he seems to be in sympathy.If we mistake not the Methodists of those zealous days to which he would hark back were among the first to make use of female zeal and talent as preachers\u2014such as Dinah Morris in - Adam Bede.The pastorate may not be especially woman's calling, but who will \u201cquench the spirit\u201d in any one called to it?) : Dr.Hensley Henson, the Bishop of Durham, referred at Durham Diocesan Conference to the problem of the admission of women to Holy Orders.There had been an enormous decrease in the number of ordination candidates, but \u201cit is not in my judgment by the admission of women to Holy Orders that the present crisis ought to be met,\u201d he said.\u201cI can find no reason in the present situation, and none in the spiritual achievements of individual women, past or present, Which can justify such a breach with the tradition of Christendom as the admission of women to Holy Orders on equal terms with men.\u201cThe world today needs the faithful fulfilment of woman's natural function far more than such an addftion to its resources of professional Chris- tlan ministry as female ordination can bring.The world wants desperately not female priests and bishops but Christian wives ard mothers.\u201d HEALING THE SICK (To the Editor of The Witness) Sir:\u2014For centuries the Churches have ignored the Divine Instruction to \u201cheal the sick.\u201d Does this not denote lack of Faith on the part, and does it not show that we do not value Prayer properly?Truly, \u201cGod ls more ready to hear than we to pray.\u201d Christ told His disciples to preach, and to baptize, and also to \u201cheal the eick,\u201d in His Name.Why do we utterly refuse to recognize what He said about healing?Do we doubt Jesus?He stated very clearly that power and authority to do ALL these things should be given to all who steadfastly believe.Is it not our duty to exercise the power and the authority to \u201cheal the sick\u201d as well as the power and the authority to \u201cpreach and baptize?\u201d - STERLING BRANNEN.N.B.October 18.I CARE GRENPFELL LABRADOE MISSION NORTHERN MESSENGER LAUNCEE Previous centributions seknow'sdg:d and paid to Official Tressurer .$10.08 Bank Interest .2.09 M JL, NS Ceres as 1300 Teta) LX J FRIENDLY HOME FOR YOUNG WOMEN AND THEIR BABIES Previous Contributions acknowledged snd paid to Official Tressurer .6447.77 Bank Interest .eee 200 seen Total BLUE RUIN (To the Editor of The Witness) Str:\u2014Mr.R.B.Bennett, the Conservative leatier, has been in Montreal and, as usual, laboring under the fear of imports, has been endeavor- Ing to make our flesh creep by quoting what he considers to be bluë- ruin statistics.For example he is reported to have sald:- \u201cDo you realize that two years ago this Dominion was selling 2¢ million pounds of butter and buying less than 200,000 pounds?That in the 13 months ending August last we bought 15 million pounds and sold only two.\u201d Now, a local Conservative Protectionist newspaper says: \u201cDuring 1927- 28 Canadians consumed 28 pounds of butter per capita\u2014the highest of this character in the world.\u201d Taking the population of Canada at nine millions this means that the Canadian people consume annuslly 252 million pounds of butter and that of this consumption the farmers of Canada provide 94 per cent.Mr.Bennett's figures are not go distressing as they look.CABG Westmount, Oct.31.THE GRAND OLD UNION JACK (To the Editor of The Witness) Sir:\u2014I read in your valuable paper, with astonishment, the article suggesting a change of our National Symbol.I thought that was settled for all time.For 164 years, that grand old blood stained Union Jack has been our flag, it is for ever made sacred by the sacrifice of that 66,000 of the best Canadian manhood in the late Great War.Who wants a new flag?Why this ceaseless agitation, to change our flag that our immortal Wolfe so firmly planted on Canada\u2019s fair domain in 1763?Who gave us that victary and that Immortal flag?The French had riled this Dominion for 230 years.Who was at the back of that victory?Mr.Editor you know, it needs no explanation, while our Empire stands that flag will stand, as our flag.The symbol of our glorious freedom.We knew of that sinister power that would like to displace that flag but ' every loyal heart still sings: We will never let the old flag fall, * For we love it the best of ali.\u2018 Yours British for Ever, JOHN PUTTENHAM.NOTE:-No one in Canada, that we know of, is objecting to the Union Jack.Canada is very determined to retain it as the flag of the Empire\u2014 the flag under which we have lived all our lives.Still, there are many in Canada who want a flag that represents Canada.Historically speaking\u2014 the Union Jack \u2014 \u201cThe flag that's braved for 164 years (not a thousand) the battle and the breeze\u201d represents England, Scotland and Ireland.and does not represent Canada.Ireland has now rather repudiated it, but Canada certainly has not.It is to her the flag of the Empire.But there is an evident demand for a distinctively Canadian flag.That most generally preferred is the red ensign with a Canadian emblem on the fly.Australia and New Zealand both use the blue ensign with the stars of the Southern Cross in the fly.But in both ensigns the Union Jack is of course in the dominant position.As a distinctive flag Scotland flies the flag of her ancient kings the Lion Rampant.Ireland's distinction is the Harp.Both appear with the three libbards for England in the King's arms.Canada's distinctive emblems are the Beaver and the Maple Leaf.The Beaver is the oldest; but we now glory in the Maple Leaf.THE FLAG (To the Editor of The Witness) Sir:\u2014In your issue of October 24th you have an article on the Canadian Flag.Now, really, the Maple Lesf can not be called a \u201cCansdian\u201d emblem, seeing that that particular maple is practically unknown west of the great lakes.I have been in Canada twenty five years and have pgver seen that maple in leaf.Moreover the tune, \u201cThe Maple leaf for ever,\u201d which ig 8 very tame melody, has besnn quite auperseded in the West by \u201cO Canada.\u201d The best suggestion for a Canadian Fmblem ever put forth appeared in the \u201cManitoba ree Press.\u201d If Australia has taken the Southern Cross aa her Flag Embiem, why should not Canada taks as hers the seven stars of Ursa Major, familiarly called \u201cThe Dipper?\u201d Canada is the most Northern of the big lands, and always is, as the Latins put it, \u201csub-Septentri- ones.\u201d Perhaps Russia may anticipate us in this, if we do not make haste.The maple leaf idea, song and all, is dead as far as Western Canada 1s concerned.I am yours, JOHN CARMICHAEL Oct.29, 1928.NOTE:\u2014Hôw many lions are there in Scotland or dragons in Wales?The Maple leaf certainly was worn and sung by our soldiers from the prairies and many of them are buried with it on.It is sacred to their memory.As for the singing, it is the popular ditties that stick.You would not sing Yankee Doodle in church.But our correspondent is not exact about the ubiquity of the maple.Lord Strath- cont who was an active advocate of putting it on our flag, and who well knew all the provinces, said it could be found or would grow in every province, and notably in British Columbia, where it grew to great sise.At one time when the question was before discussed some one in the Pacific province sent us some maple leaves about two feet across\u2014and genuine maple leaves.That is as big as they would be on the flag.We see no need for copying other people in the use of stars.Our neighbors have them abundance.They would need a bi field, and a blue flag with stars on could not be easily distinguished from other such.Red is our color.As the Great Bear, Russia has almost patent on that.The Russian bear\u2014 the bear that walks like a man\u2014is as familiar as the Scoteh Lion or the American eagle.We would take à long Ume to grow loyal to Urea Major.- BF of WAR VETERANS, AND LIQUOR (To the Editor of The Witness)- : 8ir:\u2014A month has elapsed\u2019 sinee one of our War Veterans of his own accord requested an Ontario Magistrate before whom he appeared for drunkenness, to lock him up for a month to get away from \u201cthe stuff.\u201d I have not seen any movement as to what should be done by those responsible for our soldier's sad predicament to prevent him again by the stuff\u201d as he termed it.What a travesty it is to expect with liquor obtainable in enlightened Ontario to keep a man with the drink habit sober! Many of our soldier lads who had gone to war determined to remain sober, were cajoled into the bellef that without a sup of rum it was impossible to be brave.\u201cThe Trade\u201d had \u201cthe stuff\u201d for sale \u2014 it was urged into our lads, and many a one formed the pernicious habit there, as well as that of the useless cigarette that \u2018now flaunts itself everywhere and makes itself udeful in many mys- terlous fires.Prohibition ls fast becoming a world-wide movement \u2014 The wonder ts that peoples and nations did not embody it in thelr laws long ago.Now we see through your \u201cWorld Wide\u201d that G.Bernard Shaw is coming to its aid in England.He says \u201cA public institution kept by ratepayers is the prison with its police, courts of law, judges, and all the rest of very expensive retinue.An enormous portion of offences they deal with are caused by drink.Now the trade in drink is extremely profitable, so much #0 that in England it is called \u201cThe Trade,\u201d the short for \u201cThe Trade of Trades.\u201d But why is it profitable?Because the trade in drink takes all the money the drunkard pays for liquor, and when drunk throws him into the street, leaving the ratepayer to pay for all the mischief he may do, all crimes he may commit, all illness he may bring on himself and family, and all the poverty to which he may be reduced.If the cost of these were charged against the drink trade in- \u201cbeing licked, à good many prisons as well.\u201d He sa.further \u201cUnfortunately as alcohol acts by destroying conscience, self control, and the normal functioning of the body, it produces crime, disesse, degradation on such a scale that its manufactures and sale are at present prohibited by law throughout the United States of America, and there is a strong movement to introduce the same prohibition here (Britaln)\u201d He also mentions the trade's ferocity of resistance, when a famous American prohibitionist was mobbed by medical students in broad daylight in the streets of London, and barely escaped with the loss of an eye, and his back all but broken.\u201cIf he had been equally famous for anything else the U.8.government would have insisted on ample reparation, apology, and condign punishment of his assailants; and if this had been withheld, American hot heads would have clamored for war.It was evident that had be been torn limb from limb, the popular verdict would have been, it served him jolly well right.\u201d .A few more sentences from this notable thinker are worth repeating.He says \u201cIT is to the motorist or aeroplane pilot that a single glass of any intoxicant may make the difference between life and death\u2014The moment people are in a position to develop their fitness to the utmost, work or play, they begin to grudge the sacrifice of the last inch of efficiency which aleohol knocks off, and which in all really fine work makes the dif- / ference between first rate and second rate.\u201d \u2014 Remember,\u201d Mr.Shaw says, \u201cthat our profiteers have engaged in the smuggling trade and actually tried to represent the measures taken against it by the American government as attacks on British liberties.1f America were as weak, militarily, as China was in 1840 they would drive us into war to force whisky on America.\u201d \u2014In the face of all these facts, Mr.ditor, why do Canadians allow themselves to be bamboozled any longer by drink traffickers, whether by firms or government?It's the people's money they are after\u2014not their betterment.Many a home was secured for families by means of former temperance acts\u2014The wives and mothers now stand in dread again of losing these honerable possessions \u2014 the stronghold of our land.The cry of the needy again goes up\u2014\u201cHow long?\u201d Trusting to hear through your worthy paper from other citisens on this momentous matter.: CITIZEN.\u2018Wellington Co., Ont.Oct.24 1928.KEEPING THE SABBATH (Te the Editor of The Witness) Sir: \u2014-I am sorry to ask for valuable space.in your paper, but this question is of great importance to all.By letters In the \u201cWitness\u201d we are told that we are not keeping God's Holy Babbath Day.Some have implied the question, then are we covenant breakers, Rom.1: 31, But there has been mo satisfactory answer to it.It is an important question, and has raised a lot of uneasl- ness as to our attitude towards God's commandments.James 2: 8, we read \u201cIf ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture,\u201d (the law and the prophets).Is this the law referred to as from the beginning?Also God's laws that Abraham kept, Gen.26: 5?Is this the ten commandments or God's law.In Matt.5: 17-18, Christ said, \u201cThink not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till ali be fulfilled\u201d (to the end of His kingdom).Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men 80, he shall be called the least in the kingdom or heaven.Who then changed the fourth commandment, and, vnder whose authority?Can we be Keeping the commandments it we do not keep the Holy Sabbath Day, which ie the Everlasting Covenant?For it Sabbath joyfully.\u201d Then it not a joy now, for the elect, who ave obtained what is promised to Israel, when the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled?God said he would make & new covenant, with a better promise, \u201cI will put My Spirit within them\u201d and He would write the com- mandnients on the fleshy tables of their hearts.The Genties of the early church had them written in their hearts and kept them.Rom, 2: 14-18.Who are the elect now, if we disobey God?: If some of the early Christians met to worship the first day of the week, does it make that day the Holy Sabbath?Did they ever call it the Everlasting Covenant?Then why did Paul condemn covenant breakers?Why did God's prophets say that when God visits the whole earth, they will have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant?Did they not give us a perfect picture of the world as it ls today?Are we \u201cabusing the privilege\u201d Paul gave?Will you, or some of your readers, please give us the \u201ctruth\u201d concerning this question, and unravel the tangle?M.McARTHUR.Murillo, Oct.22.NOTE: \u2014The \u201cRoyal Law\u201d referred to by James la distinctly specified as loving one's neighbor as oneself.That is the one great human relationship \u201con which hang all the law and the prophets.\u201d ANOTHER WOMAN'S BELIEF .(To the Editor of the Witness) Sir:\u2014I have just read the letter in Oct.10 issue, written by G.M.Çook, and was moved to write to express my gladness to my sister in the Lord, for writing it.I have never seen, nor heard of her before, and yet I be- lleve she is one of His Church, of which I also am à member, humble end unworthy es I am\u2014a member through acoepting a Saviour that is able and willing te save to the uttermost, all that put their trust in Him.\"Thy love to me, O God, Not mine, O Lord, to Thee, Can rid me of this dark unrest And set my spirit free.No other work save Thine, No meaner blood will do; No strength save that which is Divine Can bear me safely through.Thy precious blood, Lord Jesus, Shall be my only plea My only trust, my only boast, The Cross of Calvary.How very sad to read letters, which tell, all unwittingly, that the writer has never been \u201cborn again\u201d How unspeakably sad to realize how many are on the wrong trail, though very conscientious, but through ignorance, ignorance of their own condition as shown in Romans 3, and ignorant of the real remedy as shown In John 3.Or it the preaching of today, were like some of the beautiful old hymns that they sometimes sing.How then can they, who are ignorant of the certainty of where they are going at Death, and of what awaits them, be made Wise?Why, by really wanting to know.It is only to the thirsty that God promises living Water, only to the naked does.He promise clothing of righteousness, only to the wretched does He promise p , only to the blind does He promise sight, only to sinners does He promise salvation.How tomforting, in the presence of Death, to know on the assurance of God's Word that He is indeed.& Saviour, a Refuge, A Hiding Place.How terrible to see the unprepared one facing death, and all that comes beyond, with no promise of hope or help or light to sustain them.This peace can easily be obtained by anyone who wants it by the acceptance of à Baviour, \u2014 the Lord Jesus Christ, \u2014the Son of God.This ce has got to be made In time, thers can be none in Eternity; it has got to be an individual ac- \u201cOnly a Sinner saved by Grace\u201d.Neelln, Man.THE VIRGIN BIRTH (To the Editor of the Witness) 8ir:\u2014I read with deep Interest Mrs.G.M.Cook's letter in your ls- sue of October 10, \u201cThe Virgin Birth or Otherwise.\u201d It was beautifully reverent, deeply thoughtful and filled with the fire of a woman's soul.I can understand how men can treat the matter of the Virgin Birth as insignificant who approach the study of the person of Jesus as a botanist dissects the sweet rose; but one who has experienced His love and glory in the soul, who has lived on terms of dear intimacy with his adorable Lord, whose cup of communion with Him has oft-tige been full to overflowing then has, I believe, an instinct of the soul and saneness of the intellect which readily endcrses ths narratives of Matthew and Luke\u2014 great literature which carries the stamp of sincerity upon the face of it.Now {if this integral part of the Creeds and the Christian Faith be mere fiction who is responsible for putting over the Christian World for two thousand years such a colossal lle?It is unfair to place the responsibility upon the three hundred scarred veterans of the Diocletian persecution who came up to the Council of Nicea.They but gave expression to the generally received doctrine of their day.150 A.D.Justin the martyr wrote of the Virgin Birth.100 A.Dit was incorporated into the earliest form of the Apostles\u2019 Creed.Twenty- five years after St.Luke's Gospel was written (96 A.D.) St.Ignatius, a pupil of John the Apostle comes out from the presence of the Saint of.Patmos with his soul saturated with the same great truth.But the responsibility does not rest with them.Ignatius had read Matthew and Luke, Both these writers not only agree on the supernatural generation of Christ, but glve us detailed records of His birth, They write from independent sources, but there 1s perfect agreement.No page of history bears more unmistakably the stamp of honesty.It does not require a discerning mind to perceive we are listening to men speaking out of the \u201cheavenlies.\u201d It is Matthew who gives to us \u201cThe Sermon on the Mount\u201d in all its classified beauty, as well as the unapproachable majesty and splendor of other of our Lord's utterances.Matthew tells the story of the Virgin Birth with a simplicity and transparency which 1s unsurpassed in literature; and he sees in it a fulfilment of the immortal prophecy addressed to the House of David by Isaiah.(Is.7:14).What historian has shown such delicate restraint, such simple and beautiful dignity and reserve \u2018as Bt.Luke?Daring indeed would he be who would attempt to make Luke the father of a colossal falsehood.He was a scientist, a medical expert, an accurate historian and a saint.He is the man who gave to the world the story of the \u201cGood Samaritan,\u201d and that of the \u201cProdigal Son\u201d Even Harnack is sure Luke could not have invented a fiction.Yet It must be apparent to any fair-minded reader as it was to Ramsay that Luke attaches the highest importance to this part of his narrative, He writes from Mary's point of view who was doubtless his informant, and pauses to add: \u201cThese things which are commonly received among us.\u201d In the final analysis the burden of proof rests upon the only two persons who could possibly know, namely, hostile attitude on the part of society?Is it reasonable to suppose the hand of Mary unsheathed the sword for her own heart?that, it's a basic principle of scripture \u201cIn and Mary.Have we the slightest ground on which to reject their testimony?There could not possibly have been a motive.Will their characters bear inspection?The narrative need hardly pause to tell us Joseph was \u201ca just man.\u201d As he passes before us in the narrative it does not require a discerning mind to recognize his greatness of soul.Fiction could not invent a soul like that in an age like that.He was one of God's supermen.But the burden of the evidence rests upon Mary.Was Mary the woman to invent such a lie?Listen to the Magnificat.It Is a dull soul that cannot hear the music of the great white throne in its wondrous strains.Contrast that great New Testament Psalm with some of the flippant things that are being said today about the Virgin Birth.The contrast is as great as the illimitable gulfs of ether.After the Smyrna fire in the yard of the French Hospital stood a statue of the Madonna and child.AU about it was blackness and ruin, but nothing had happened to mar the whiteness and beauty of that statue.We would be far from ascribing divine honors to the virgin mother, but has not that sweet figure stood in all its purity above the hill-tops of the centuries?Has not Mary been the embodiment of perfect womanhood?Has she not given a glory and dignity to motherhood never before known?If the virgin birth be a myth, surely the lle rests more upon Mary than any other.The traditional belief has a solid historical basis, a reasonable likeliness and the rock- bed of saintly character.It has never been questioned \u2018except on occasions when a fourth century or a twentieth century wave of Unitarianism sweeps over the Christian \\ Church.We are facing cruclal times.The Christian Churches seem pathetically weak In the face of present-day lawlessness and the Herculean strength of the allled interests.It 19 a foolish optimism that fancies It sees the dawn everywhere and is deaf to the hollow roar of the precipice.The old Gospel of the Cross has wrought moral miracles in the past.It will do it again for it is the gospel of the Omnipotent Christ.\u2014A.J.REYNOLDS Parsonage, Bedeque, P.EL PRAYER (To the Editor of the Witness) Sir:\u2014Through the press It was suggested that on Sunday, August 26, united prayer should be made throughout Canada for suitable harvest and threshing weather.This suggestion was made In view of the unfavorable harvest weather Ontario was experiencing, and in view of the terrible threshing seasons the West had suffered from in 1920 and 1927.United prayer for specific blessings is plainly encouraged by the promise of Jesus Christ in Matthew 18:19-20.Ae two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven: for where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them.\u201d The result is cause for thanksgiving.The three prairie provinces have enjoyed exceptionally fine harvest and threshing weather, and threshing is practically finished.\u2014DAVID ROSS Strasbourg, Sask., Oct.21, 1938. =X { Floods in Ontario Land canmet be put inte shape fer cultivation in Nerth Bay district \u2018 In response to à request for Federal relief for flood sufferers in the North Leight of the waters of Lake Nipis- sing, & delegation, headed by Mayor E.L.Banner, of North Bay, was given assurance on Nov.2, by Hon.J.C.Elliott, Minister of Public Works, that the Dominion Government would cooperate with provincial and municipal authorities In any undertaking to remedy the present situation.Mr.Elliott pointed out that engineers of the Public Works Department were now investigating the flood situation, with a view to reach- Ing an estimate as to the possible cost of providing an additional outlet for surplus waters in the lake.Pending a report on this survey, he declined to commit the Federal Department of any definite responsibll- ity for flond losses.Members of the delegation claimed that more than 150 farmers had practically been ruined as the result of their lands being submerged and, un- leas relief was immediately forthcoming, there was little hope of the land being put into condition for cultivation next spring.Many summer homes on the lake front had also been damaged, with property loss alone estimated to exceed $100,000.One of the spokesmen suggested that the flood situation had.been materially aggravated as the result of diversion of streams and freshets into Lake Nipissing by lumber interests in the area.It was further submitted that prior to the erection of the Government dam on the-French River, recurring flood conditions around North Bay had not been evident.Eight years of investigating, J.H.Macdonald, city solicitor for North Bay, declared, had shown that the best method of dealing with the situation was the blasting of a rock obstruction at the mouth of the French River, thus providing a larger spili- way.Such an undertaking as this, he submitted, would invoive an approximate expenditure of $60,000.Mr.Elliott drew attention to the danger to settlements on the lower reaches of the French River, which an additional heavy flow of water might cause; further there was the interests of the lumbermen to consider.\u201cThe dams were primarily erected to safeguard the lumbering industry,\u201d Mr.Macdonald said, \u201call we now ask is that the farmers be accorded equal consideration in their distress.Unless there is a very dry spell between now and next spring there will be no delegation to ask for relief, for they will be too busy rescuing people from the flood zone.\u201d Mr.Eliott, in reply to a ples for an emergency appropriation to meet the situation, asserted that the department was not in a position to spend public money without Parliament\u2019s passing upon the matter.PLANE TERRIFIES INDIANS Ontarie Provincial Piet Frightens Tribe Of Sieux Indians Into Retreat When Gifford Swartman, crack Ontario Provincial Air Force pilot, nosed his big flying boat down upon the waters of Pigangikum Laks one afternoon last September, it was to put to utter rout\u2014with à 100-year-old \u201cmedicine man\u201d leading the retreat\u2014 cne of the very few bands of pagan Stdux Indians to be found now in the very remote sections of Northera Ontario.Incidentally, Swartman walked into the atrangest story he has ever encountered in his hectic career of forest fire-fighting between Four.Hope snd the Manitoba boundary.As Swartman tells it\u2014and he is in Toronto now for a few days\u2019 holiday following a strenuous summer\u2014he ped into the Indians\u2019 midst lke a bolt from the blue.One moment, he says, they were clustered on the shoreline absorbed in their forefathers\u2019 pagan process of making \u201cgood hunting\u201d medicine.The next moment\u2014 with the ; WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 1, 1038.-downward screech of the big plane\u2014 they were hunting the tall timbers as fast as their legs would carry them.It was the first machine, or \u201csky devil\u201d as they afterward named it.they had ever seen.For a good half hour, Swartman and Reilley, his air engineer, by means of the little \u201csign\u201d language at their command, coaxed the Indians to come out of the bush and \u201cmuch talk\u201d with them.When it looked as if they would have to give their parley up as & bad job.Reilley lit his pipe.That apparently broke the spell, for in 8 jiffy the chief of the tribe bounded out of the underbrush with the ancient medicine man trotting to heel.\u201cUgh!\u201d grunted the chief.\u201cUgh!\u201d grunted Swartman.The plane had landed, tha latter told the chief, for the purpose of establishing à gas cache\u2014one of the innumerable gasoline caches which the, Air Service plants everywhere in thé Far North to anticipate the onward march of the prospector and the fire hazard which accompanies that advance.Genera! Bramwell Booth, who is suffering from nervous prostration, is reported better by Col.Tucker.at Salvation Army headquarters.Dr.Weir, physician to the Prince of Wales, who is attending General Booth sald that no great change could be looked for, and that any improvement must be gradual to be lasting.Hunters in Kenora district have been very liberal with ammunition.Reports showed an automobile, a valuable horse, goats and chickens had been hit by stray bullets, or mistaken - for deer.Princess Ileana, 19-year-old daughter of Dowager Queen Marie, will leave soon for a visit to Stockholm which, it is rumored, may result in an alliance with the Swedish royal family.The departure from Stockholm of the Swedish minister to Rumania indicates that the visit of the Princess is considered important.Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the noted missionary and doctor of Labrador.was on Saturday elected rector of St.Andrew\u2019s University, defeating Lord Mel- chett, the former 8ir Alfred Mond, by 8 majority of 157 votes.Sir Wilfred and Lord Melchett were the only candidates for the honor.The election was non-political, only students of me university being entitled to a vote.- A chair and couch, once the property of Sir John A.Macdonald, Can- sda\u2019s Confederation Premier, were 901d for $3.50 apiece in a Toronto auction room on Thursday.Flight-Lieut.D'Arcy Greig drove his super-marine Napier seaplane 350 miles an hour in a trial flight at Cal- shot on Saturday, preparatory to attacking the world\u2019s record.He thus probably attained the greatest speed yet reached by man in the afr, Because a purchase deal for a piano was made on Saturday night and the defence, In the suit of a local music store, suing for defaulted payments, contended that the deal had not been completed until the piano was delivered about 1 o'clock Sunday morning, County Judge Macbeth, of London, Ontario, dixmissed the ae- tion.The Judge held that being a Lord's Day deal it would not hold im ° law.British alreraft interests have announced that an international aeronautical exhibition fs to be held from July 16 to 29 of next year at Olympic Field in London.The exhibition, ac- carding to a letter received by the Civil Aviation Branch tn Ottawa will cover all phases of development In the industry.It is understood that Canadian interests will be invited to participate in the show.The Time Is Short > Act At Once For reasons explained last week we have felt constrained to extend the offer throughout November 3 Subscriptions for the price of 1 if sent at once $2.will be accepted in full payment FOI\" Three new subacriptions\u2014or for YOUR OWN RENEWAL \u2014Bxtended\u2019 12 months from expiry date ® of your present subscription - and Two NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS fol a 83 wesks trial to start at once THAT IS $2 value for only 67c on $6 »\u201d »\u201d \u201d» $2.00 Additional NEW subscriptions may be sent in at the 67 cent rate.PROMISE and WARNING Up to Nov.15th All NEW subscribers are guaranteed the opening chapters of the two New Serial stories recently started Until Nov.S0th the \u201c3 for 17 offer will be In force On Nov.30th the \u201c3 for 1\u201d offer will be withdrawn On Dec.1st we will announce \u201c2 for 1\u2019 consolation offer oma and one NEW for $2 the price of an ordinary renewal sent by itself.* Why not approach yourfriends while you can make them the better Offer?N O W ~~ CONDITIONS To take advantage of this offer each renewkl must be accompanie@ by two new Subscriptions, otherwise the renewal rate is $2.each.This offer is good across Canada, Newfoundland, Great Britain and British West Indies except that the Post Office charge extra for distribution of papers, In the city of publication, therefore for Montreal and suburbs, the offer will be $1.00 instead of 67 cents OUR NEW SERIAL STORIES From the First All NEW subscriptions will start on Nov.15th, and we have reprinted the opening chapters of the two splendid \"serial stories which will be sent free to all new readers.In this connection we will be pleas- NOW And now that you understand this splendid offer, you will not want to miss this GREAT OPPORTUNITY to let your friends in on it, by promptly securing at least two of them as readers of a paper you can recommend.Secure your two friends and send in with your own renewal with the least possible delay.All Three for $2.00 r- CED SU WS SE VE SS ED ED WA A Ea ME SE SE CE SOS TS RO CS Ce CES John Dougall & Son, Publishers, WITNESS BLDG., Montreal.Dear Sirs, Name ADVENTURING Jor the general welfare I have secured the following two NEW subscribers om your 67 To offer, \u2014the new subscriptions to run for 53 weeks beginning Nov.15, And I am enclosing $3 to cover the two new subscriptions and my own renewal as from its regular expiry date.and Address Name N E w aye = ë otre ima NEW mhecripuons 31 cu ch may be ar/e6 on another sheet. Sways Congress Edouard Herriot's eratery swings Se- cialists te support Fronch Premier Béouard Herriot's personal authority over his party and his tremendous oratorical powers have saved Premier Poincare's government of national union from what seemed Baturday cvening, and even Sunday afternoon, certain disaster._ For two days, the extremists of the Radical-Boclalist Congress, which has been meeting in Angers, France, had carried the party with them.One of their ablest younger members, M Montigny, hid obtained the adoption in a political commission of a motion which laid down a party policy that was far from being in entire agreement with the policy, in some matters, of the present Government.It demanded the removal from the budget of articles which restore certain rights to the French missionary societies; it proscribed amendments to M.Poincare's taxation system; 18 called for further reduction In the army and navy estimates, which the has refused, and it suggested a different method for settling reprogramme.All this was bad enough, but à further amendment was added which practically demanded immediate resignation from the Government of Herriot, S8arraut, and two other min- | isters who are members of the Radical party.If this last motion had been carried, it would have meant immediately a governmental crisis.The four ministers involved would have been compelled to resign, and the temper of the Congress all Baturday and Sunday morning seemed set on that ob- fect.However, at the last minute, Mr.Herriett, in à whirtwind of oratory, succesdad in swaying the congress to support the Premier.: Justification for the air mail and passenger service between Montreal and New York, via Albany, which was with much eclat on October 1, has been found in an examination of carryings for the first month of operation, according to & report complied by the Canadian Colonial Airways, Inc, and Canadian Colonial Airways, Limited which maintain the two sections of the route.A substantial profit has been shown, and it is claimed that this is eminently satisfactory, as there are few if any air transport companies that have been able to conclude thetr first month\u2019s operations with a balance in the credit column.Two-dollars value for 67c is worth talking about.So le à paper of high CABINEY SPLIT South Afriean Minister Resigns Over Native Pestsl Workers Dispute Hon.W.B.Madeley, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, has resigned from the South African Cabinet and &.crigls has arisen which threatens to have far-reaching effects on the Na- tionalist-Labor party pact in the Union.The Government is a coalition of the two parties.- The immediate cause of Hon, Mr.Madeley's resignation is believed to be his action in negotiating with the native postal-workers through the intermediary native union.Premier J.B.Hertsog rigidly opposes dealings with the native body, which lis termed a breeding ground of native polities! action.On this account therefore the Premier, who leads the Nationalist party, called on Hm.Mr.Madeley to resign.The latter belongs to the Labor Party.The Nationalist newspaper One Vaderland says that Hon.Mr.Ma- deley\u2019's public speeches frequently piqued his Cabinet colleagues.\u201cHe always adopted sn extreme attitude toward Boclallsm, which was intolerable in an agreement such as exists between Labor and the Nationalists,\u201d says the newspaper.Some piquancy is added to the crisis by the fact that Hon.Mr.Ma- deley denies he has resigned.The National Council of the Laoor party of South Africa has wirea to Hon.W.B.Madeley, earstwhile Labour Cabinet Minister, assuring him of Labor's support in his present dispute with Premier Hertsog.After a prolonged meeting, the Na- tionalist-Labor coalition Government Cabinet, under Premier J.B.Hertzog, Nov.5., decided to resign.It is confirmed that Paris and Rime, are working on the preparation of a treaty to settle pending issues between France and Italy, notably in the Mediterranean and especially In northern Africa.Negotiations have been carried on by Ambassador de Beaumarchais and by Mussolini at Rome and hope is expressed here that they will be successful.More helpful than all wisdom 1s one draught of simple human pity - A na Siz ame Howard, British ambamad- or to the United States, and Lady Isabella Howard, will be guests In Ottawa on Armistice Day, November 11.In all probability this will be the last visit to Ottawa of Sir Esme as à diplomat since he retires within a year when he reaches the age limit, The first stage of his voyage to the great ice barrier in Ross Sea was completed on Nov.8 by Commander Richard EB.Byrd, who arrived with 14 members of his South Polar Expedi- n.Criticizes Bishops Joynsen-Hicks Attacks Those Whe Would Defy House of Commens Home Secretary Sir Willlam Joyn- son-Hicks has delivered a savage attack upon bishops of the Church of England who have been asking their clergy to vote on the question of whether the church should defy the vote of the House of Commons and put into effect the prayer book which Parliament has twice rejected.Sir William was one of the leaders of the opposition to the revised prayer book in the historic debates over \u2018its use in the House of Commons.He accused the bishops of acting without a sense of dignity, with attempting to revive the \u201cEpiscopal- sutocracy,\u201d with conniving to \u201chabitual breaking of vows\u201d by the clergy, with lending \u201cactive support\u201d to \u201cRomanizing\u201d of the Anglican Church and with refusing to recognize that the vote of the House of Commons may have been God's answer to the prayera of the bishops for guidance in a church crisis.\u201cI cannot but feel,\u201d the Home Secretary declared, \u201cthat there is something perilously near to profaneness in complete disregard by many of the promoters of the revised prayer book of the fact that the action of the House of Commons may quite possibly have been à Divine answer to the prayers that were offered up.\u201d Wants Bishop Shifted Dean Inge Thinks Feace Of Church Advanced If Bishop Of London Went To Gloucester.- The phenomenom of à Dean publicly suggesting that bishop should be transferred elsewhere is afforded in an article by Dean Inge, of 8t.Paul's Cathedral, in the \u201cChurch of Engiand Newspaper\u201d, well-known weekly evangelical organ.The suggestion is made in all charity and goodwill, the Dean saying he thinks the peace of the church would be advanced if the Bishop of London, Rt.Rev.Winnington- Ingram, were to exchange with Bishop Headlam of Gloucester.\u201cI shall not leave London,\u201d ia the answer of Rt.Rev.Arthur Winnington- Ingram, Bishop of London, to the suggestion made by Dean Inge In an article in the Church of England newspaper that the peace of the church would be advanced if the Bishop of London and Bishop Headiam to Gloucester were to change places.A] GRAS ci Ca: ; ' pe site Mn re EE wets, bs Hi ê 4 \u201d - Return Trip Graf Zeppelin Roceivod Great Recoge tiem From Excited Crowd Of Germans The German air liner, Graf Zeppelin, after successfully braving winds and storms for a record-breaking dirigible crossing of the Atlantic, almost came to grief on landing at her hangar in Friedrichshafen, at 706 am (1.08 Eastern standard time) on Nov.L, because thousands of enthusiastic Germans threatened to rush the gondolas.It was only with- the greatest difficulty that the huge ship was walked into her hangar and the gangplank put up after a flight that had carried her-over the North Atlantic in 71 hours and 12 minutes, completing the first round trip trans-Atlantic commercial alr voyage in history.The Zeppelin was tossed around \u201clike à ball\u201c on her return trip, Dr.Hugo Eckener, commander, said.A terrific gale off Newfoundiand, having a velocity of 40 metres (131 feet) a second, pressed the Zeppelin downwards towards the ocean.For two hours the dirigible was tossed to and fro, he said.Poiice had taken what appeared to be careful precautions to rope off crowds from the landing field, but no sooner had the gondolas touched the ground than the jubilant mob broke through and upset all the police calculations.Hundreds of spectators jogged along beside the huge craft, tossing flowers at the crew.In the centre of the wild confusion à vallant band held its place and alternately played \u201cDeutschland Uber Alles\u201d and \u201cThe Star Spangled Banner.\u201d \u201cHoch, hoch!\u201d shouted the crowd as the seppelin was pushed into the hangar.The most feted passenger aboard the Graf Zeppelin, was Clarence Terhune, 19 year-old caddy, who stowed away aboard the air liner in quest of & \u201cthrill\u201d and who declares that be found it.Terhune said that he had always had a place to eat and plenty of food during the voyage but that he had no place to sleep and had to lle down wherever he could find a spot that wasn't being used.He was 8 \u201cmaid of all work\u201d aboard, and was well treated by crew and passengers alike.The revenue earned by the Graf Zeppelin on her round trip from Germany was estimated at $343,000.What part of this is profit is uncertain.Dr.Hugo Eckener estimated the expenses for the round trip would be $100.000, but repairs to the damaged fin undoubtedly raised this considerably.The estimate of revenue is based on the assumption that 18 of the passengers on the trip to the United States and 20 of the 24 on the retnrn voyage paid the fuil share of $3.000.Since Dr.Eckener estimated the revenue before the start at approximately $100,000, it is assumed that several of the passengers who travelled in more or less official capacities did not pay the full rate.The mail carried on the return voyage included 49,745 letters and B1,.- 938 postcards, the most valuable mail fargo in point of postage ever handled y air.is IER The Graf Zeppelin which has successfully crossed the adantic both ways.Inset Dr.Hugo Eckener, commander WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1988.« .After Many Years A Thanksgiving Story by Alfreds Noddin Petterson.i pik Eos ii '£ | ê 5 Ë i : EE H z® « 4 i 5F 4 ir Beit HH Shi E pr 41 : slefs ES EYEE £3 it ef fey» cles ghÉÉE Strange how she keeps lookin\u2019 fer the boy.Well I did too, fer a long time; but it\u2019s no use now, not after all these years.Queer, queer though whatever happened him!\u201d Out in the yard a dosen turkeys strutted and preened in the afternoon sun.Mrs.Elliot soon joined her husband and pointed out the big bronze fellow she had selected to grace the feast.\u201cAint he 8 beauty, Hiram?He's the best one we've had in years!\u201d \u201cYes, but he's too big fer us\u201d grumbled her husband.\u201cWe'll git sick \u201cBut, Hiram, maybe it won't be just you and me this year.I knew it seems foolish, but I just know somehow\u201d went on, rather defiantly, \u201cthat going to hear something of him and I have a feelin\u2019 that we won't spend Thanksgiving alone.Oh, I know that Jack must be dead! No word all these years! But there's little Margaret, I can't believe she's gone too.\u201d Hiram sighed.No use trying to rea- with when she felt that .\u201cWell, I wouldn't bulld too much on it.You know how many times you've been disappointed before.\u201d \u201cI know,\u201d Martha's eyes were suspiciously bright.\u201cIt don't sound reasonable, but I ean't give up hope.I asked Jim and Ella over; they can\u2019t come till near night, but we'll have company for supper and the evenin' anyway.\u201d .\u201cThat's & good idea.Now I'll git this feller ready fer you, then I've got to go up the hill fer a piece of wood to fix that manger.\u201d An hour later, the lordly fowl all dressed ready for the oven, and the kitchen all tidied up, Marths sat in the low rocker in the bedroom off the sitting-room.She held à much-worn letter tn her hand.The letter bore a date of some fifteen years before and read as follows: \u2014 Dear Mother; \u2014 I am sailing again t for South America, and I shall y be away from civilization for some months.1 hope, however, that this will be the last trip.I want to settle down and have a proper home for myself and Margaret.Of course she 1s well cared for, and her aunt Is very fond of her.But I want her myself, I have had eo little of her during these years of wandering.And you, too, Mother! I have neglected you and father sorely, I haven't even written as often as I might.When I married my Margaret we planned to go back home, but she was taken from me so soon.And since, I have been wandering up and down on these expeditions, only stopping here im Seattle long enough 4 » to see my baby, and then away again, But when this trip is over, Mother, I'm coming East with little Margaret.the cookie-jar is full and to have the biggest tur- I shouldn't wonder it we EF 25 sure ather at, for on Thanksgiving day.I often of those wonderful Thanks at home, and I want Margar- enjoy a real old-fashioned Thanksgiving.We've had some great talks about Grandma and Grand- daddie while I've been with her this time, and she is s0 eager to ses the old boma.Bhe has grown so fast, Mother.She is eight years oi¢ now, quite a little woman.I think she like the sister I lost, but I don't remember her very closely.But now, goodnight, dear Mother.You probably won't hear from me again until I get back.\u2018Tell father not to work too hard and one of these days I'll be coming back to help him run the old home farm.Love to you both.\u2014Jack.PS.Margaret and I had photos taken last week.We are sending you one.It is very like.\u201d The white-haired mother wiped the fast-failing tears, and turned to glance at the picture on the table beside her.\u201cOh, Jack,\u201d she whispered, ff I could only know what happened you, that you've kept mother waiting so long.And dear little motherless Margaret! How grandmas could love you.\u201cOh, heavenly Father,\u201d she prayed, \u201cin Thy merciful kindness, grant me this, only to know where my loved El i vi 2 And we s0 near home, too,\u201d answered his sister Della.\u201cStill, this a very comfortable sort of place, and I wouldn't mind so much if we could get word to Bess.\u201d \u201cOh, I can arrange that.There's a telephone up in that little store, I think.Tl tell her to expect us early in the morning.We can run in in an Della turned to her friend, who sat in the hammock gazing dreamily out over the hills.\u201cIt's too bad, Margaret, I thought we'd get home în time to take you to the opera tonight.imagine, Della, how very much I enjoy being \u2018marooned\u2019 in a place like this I \u201cExplore to your heart's content, my dear.Only don't know have i tled underfoot, and here and there a few bright ones clung to the naked branches.Some late blossoms nestled in the corners of the straggling fence, and clumps of cranberry bushes flaunted their red berries.Margaret revelled in the beauty and top of the hill and through a grove of ancient pines whers the needles lay so thick that the track was almost indiscernible.All at once the great * trees ended and she stood on the opposite side of the hill, were lilacs and ross-bushes, further away a row of stately elms marked the border of the high-road.In distance were meadows and more hills and glimpses of blue water.the side of the hill, a flock of with tinkilrig bells, were grasing; down by the baek door-step a collie dug lay drowsing in the sun.Margaret sat down on a nearby log and opened her sketch-! \u201cHow very peaceful and homey,\u201d she thought.I think it must be like Daddie's old home.He used to tell me so much about it, but it all so dim now.It is strange that Auntie could never I wish I cool be old now.§ Ë Ë E f Engrossed work, she did not notice the crossing the hill until snapped clove beside her, sis \u201cGood day Miss! It's à fine afternoon for the time o\u2019 year\u201d \u201cIndeed it is!\u201d smiled Margaret.\u201cI hope I'm not trespassing.\u201d \u201cNot in the least, Miss.You're a stranger about here?\u201d \u201cYes.$ = 3 ê » of pictures he made of places around here when he was a young chap.\u201d \u201cOh, how Interesting! I should love is ses them.\u201d \u201cWould you now?If you'd step down to the houss, Martha\u2019d be glad to show them to you.\u201d As they went down the hill, Margaret asked of the son, \u201cDoes he still draw?Is he at home?\u201d Inside the kitchen, Hiram Elliot introduced her to his wife.\u201cMartha, here's s young lady who draws pictures, and she'd like to see some of Jack's.\u201d \u201cCome right in this way,\u201d said Martha leading the way to the cosy sit- ting-room.\u201cTake off your sweater and rest a bit, It's real warm this afternoon.Take this chair, it's more comfortable, Are you stopping in the village?\u201d She chattered on, all the while stealing admiring giances at the winsome young stranger.\u201cAnd so you draw, my dear.Our boy was always at it.\u201d case in the corner «he brought a rather batiered sketch-book.\u201cI've quite a few of his first ones, but these are the best\u201d Margaret was charmed.The work was really well-done, and the subjects finely chosen.\u201cJust what I need for those {Mustrations for M's Magazine,\u201d ' From a book- she closed the book.\u201cI should like\u2014* she stopped suddenly as the name written on the back of the book cqught her ayes.\u201cJohn Winslow Elliot! why that's my father's name!\u201d \u201cWhat\u2014what is your name?\u201d the older womsn asked breathlessly, \u201cMargaret Elliot! Margaret Dean Elliot.\u201d she repeated as the old lady stared at her in à strange manner.Martha turned, and going into the bed-room brought out a photograph which she tremulously eitended to the girl \u201cThis is my son and his little daughter, Do you know them?\u201d Margaret looked at the picture, \u201cWhy it's Daddle and Ii\u201d she exclaimed.\u201cDear Daddie!\u201d Then looking at the littls old iady with the tears running over her cheeks; \u201cWhy you are \u2014you must be\u2014\u201d \u201cGrandmother, dear!\u201d cried Martha Fre Pack baby!\u201d ne little Margaret, 's - \u201cBut what of your father, Margaret?what of Jack?\u201d they saked when the first breathless &s were over.\u201cYou know that he salied shortly were returned.\u201d \u201cWe left there within a few weeks after Daddle went away.Auntie brought me to Boston.I think she was afraid you might want me.I know she was always frightened of losing me.\u201d BSEEF epee Ë ingle Fleet thankgivin\u2019, when they know.says she\u2019s goin to stay right on with us, if we'll let her.Why this old house's Just been waitin\u2019 for her, hasn't it?and do you know, she\u2019s been makin\u2019 her livin\u2019, since her aunt died, doin\u2019 them pictures for magazines, and she can do that right here.\u201d \u201cYou'd better hurry and get the chores done, you're to go and meet het, and supper\u2019s most ready.What do you suppose she sald just as she left, she said \u201cGrandma, where do you keep that famous cookie-jar?\u2014I'd been so flustered I'd never thought to give the child a bite to eat.Seems her father told her about it one time and she never forgot.Oh, Hiram, mt # wonderful that we're to have a real Thanksgivin\u2019 again?\u201d Hiram ti and fumbled his way out the kitchen door, his heart too full for words.As he went down the steps he heard Martha softly singing.\u201cOh, my Boul! Bless thou Jehovah.All within me, praise His Name.\u201d Yes, after many years, it was to be a real \u201cThanksgiving\u201d day for them. Can Isabel McCorkindale, gives a to teachers at the start of twelve Temperance Lesson Art- To the teacher is given the task and privilege of preparing childhood and youth for the making of a life and, through the individual, the making of on WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1928.How a Sunday School Teacher\u2019 Help natural history, elementary chemistry, physiology and psychology, _4i1_of which opens up to the mind the pupil a world of interesting things.It will be seen at once the value there is to the scholar tn getting à knowledge of alcohol as a drug, before he becomes familiar with the old customs and Education, in modern days, is ex-, traditions which, In the light of pected to be practical.Ten years at Modern aclence, appear so absurd; school will not make a life, but they Such as that of drinking a person's should provide the keys that will un- health in what is known to science as lock the doors to wider knowledge and the friend of disease.truer understanding of the things The pupll follows the teacher in the worth while, The modern Temperance study of the chemistry of alcohol, as lesson will teach more than scientific in number two lesson.In later life, facts concerning alcohol; it will help , memory will always carry the picture to develop the desire to keep drain and Of the fruits of the earth in their body fit for service, ft will teach fresh, wholesome state, protected by citizenship and the community spirit, Nature from the yeast germ; of how and a true appreciation of the alcohol is obtained by their decom- » scholar\u2019s best gifts.Not negative, but position, and the power of the poison positive; not withdrawing from, but to destroy the first life with which it giving to life.comes in contact; this association of Tho use of alcohol as a beverage 1s ideas Will always remain.imbodded in superstition and custom.It is wise to avoid giving a number It is the youth's right that he should Of unrelated scientific facts.An un- receive the knowledge that will help related fact is usually a fact lost to him to see this custom in a sane memory and, therefore, useless.It sclentitic light, free from prejudice.does not conduce to straight thinking.There is & very grave need for teachers It is far more important to bring the to become familiar with modern acholar's mind to a starting point, to methods of teaching the Temperance Which he can return with the fruits lesson.It should be prescnted from a Of later experiences.A fact related to positive rather than a negative staud- some known object is a magic key that point; and as a health lesson rather Opens many doors.than a discourse on the pathological \u201cTo him that hath shall be given\u201d effects of alcoholism.This cannot be 1s simply a statement of a universal done from observation, or knowledge law.Truth thus presented will help picked up in a desultory manner.It is a new generation to grow up with \u201cthe necessary to connect the lesson with light of knowledge in their eyes,\u201d and the facts of life, and it is hoped that so be better able to free themselves the following chapters will be suggest- from the fallacies and superstitions ive of such a scheme of lessons.concerning alcohol, that older genera- The Temperance lesson can be the tions find it so difficult to abandon.most fascinating of subjects.It has It will help young people to have a ths distinct advantage of being as- saner outlook on the question, and fit sociated with life.It gives opportunity them to judge for themselves regard- for simple lessons on laws of health, ing its customs.A bov mav not be live an extra five years or not, but he does care about being at his best.Many teachers are too busy to study text-books on this subject.It therefore, feit that a book of lessons, prepared with suggestions for simple illustration, would supply this ready to hand with the twelve charts.The lessons have been prepared from recognized standard text-books.For the teacher who desires to study the subject more thoroughly, I know of no better text-book than \u201cAlcohol and the Human Body,\u201d by Horsley and Sturge (Macmillan & Co).This is a comprehensive work, which covers almost every phase of the subject that the teacher may desire to study.We also recommend \u201cAlcohol and Self- Control,\u201d by Dr.W.A.Chapple (Richard James, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, London, England.) and \u201cAlcohol in Medical Practice,\u201d by Dr.Courtenay C.Weeks.Toronto.Isabel McCorkindale.Does a cupboard on a balcony constitute part of a residence.Judge Cusson, of Montreal, has decided that it does not and accordingly he discharged a man who was accused of being in possession of 5 gallon of alcohol which was seized in & cupboard fitted with a false bottom and kept on the balcony of the house.The judge defined residence as being the place where a man lives.The lquor which it was stated belonged to a lodger was in the balcony and therefore, according to this definition, not in the residence.Judging from this decision there is nothing to prevent any man from keeping as much liquor as he wishes provided he has it on the balcony of his house.A 67c trial subscription may result in a life-long subscriber.It is because it does so in so many cases that we dare make such a slashing cut for Introductory purposes.Confer on Rum-running Further conferences are about to take place between Sir Henry Dray- ton, head of the Ontario Liquor Control Board, and Hon.W.D.Euler, re-' specting rum running operations at the border.Sir Henry has sought an appointment regarding the matter and the Minister has agreed to it, but the date has not yet been set.It will likely be at the week end.An initial discussion on the subject was held in Toronto last summer in an endeavor to secure tion in the suppression of illegal shipments.Afterwards the Revenue Department secured an opinion from the Department of Justice as to just how far it can go and what are its rights.Thess are claimed to be limited under the law as it stands at present.The matter is now to be discussed further.It is quite apparent that heavy shipments of alcoholic beverages are being made to the United States, the figures recently published mounting into millions.While the export of liquor to a dry country is not prohibited under the Dominion law there are some features which are claimed to violate the provincial act and hence the renewed conference on the question.Bir Henry Drayton.Chairman of the Liguor Control Board of Ontarlo, stated Friday that no new books would be issued when the 234 lines were filled in the new green liquor control permit books.\u201cNo, they can't get another permit,\u201d he stated definitely.\u201cWe think there is plenty of space in one of those permits for any man\u2019s buying for a whole year.\u201d BETWEEN LIFE'S EXTREMITIES Mothers will know the value of getting into the homes of their friends a paper which magnifies home life and which has such warm and true sympathies with every age, from the cradle .on to the dawn of the life beyond.Any Bunday thelr scholars for the course IF paper) may be had at the WE Drink Water Endurance, Prowess, Intelligence, Force, Discretion, Alertness, Poise.These are the masters who will tike part in teaching Lesson No.1 In the series of 13 Ilustrated lesson articles starting Nov.18 in the Northern Messenger for the W.C.T.U.PRIZE Competition.School Superintendent or teacher even yet may enter they act promptly.The twelve lessons in twelve issues of the Messenger (a 2¢-page family and Sunday School special campaign rate of only 10 cents per scholar for the series.Any belated large orders should be sent by prepaid telegram.Money can follow by letter to NORTHERN MESSENGER, Witness Bldg.(See Miss McCorkindale\u2019s foreword to 8.8.Workers above. YWELVE WITNESS AND CANADIAN AOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 192.Abventuring for the Kingdom Retrespoct and Prespect \u2018The Great War harmed the entire world and did not prepare the way for peace.However, it aroused such horror that for seven or eight years more any warlike projects will be looked upon with lively antipathy by any of the Great Powers.The decisive hour in the life of Europe will be reached about 1935, when a new generation will have grown up that did not participate in the last war and does not therefore feel this horror.\u201d\u2014Franceaco Nitti, in The Atlantic Monthly.-.Gandhi on War In answer to an open letter addressed to him by B.De Ligt, formerly pastor of a Dutch Protestant Church, Mahatma Gandhi states his attitude toward war in these words: \u201cSo long as I lived under a system of government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges It created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war unless I non-co-oper- ated with that Government and renounced to the utmost of my capa- eity the privileges it offered me.But the Light within me is steady and clear.There is no escape for any of us save through truth and non-violence.I know that war is wrong, is an unmitigated evil.I know too that it has got to go.I firmly believe that freedom won through bloodshed or fraud is no freedom.Would that all the acts alleged against me were found to be wholly indefensible rather than by any act of mine non-violence was held to be compromised or that I was ever thought to be in favor of violence or untruth in any shape or form.Not violence, not untruth but non-violence.Truth is the law of our being.\u201d Science and Religion \u201cScientists,\u201d anys Frances L.Robbins in the Outlook, \u201care beginning to recognize that their method has its lim- ftations, that there are things which cannot be measured on scales.Increasingly scientists are dissatisfied with mechanistic materialism as an explanation of ali things.Professor Millikan, Professor Bragg (in his recent address before the British Association for the Advancement of Science), Professor Eddington and a dozen others are pointing out that the way of science is not the only approach to reality.The mood of science is changing.The old dogmatism is disappearing.There is a growing friendliness toward religion on the part of scientists to match the obviously growing friendliness of theologians toward science.The Search for God \u201cScience in Search of God.\u201d is a note worthy example of this trend.Written by a thorough scientist, a Professor of Geology at Harvard University, this book deals with the relations between science and religion with the utmost fairness.The author believes that it is far more difficult for us to think of the universe as a result of chance or accident than it was for the patriarchs of olden time.As a scientist he says frankly that the theologians have been 80 often defeated because they have fought not as the champions of real religion, but as defenders of outworn and faulty science.He finds that there is no real conflict between religion and science because their aims are different.Science aims to describe completely the universe Which we live, while religion searches.for the most abundant and worthwhile life which man may possess in sich à universe.\u201d Christian Unity in Japan Japan's Chautauqua lake conferen- es at Karuizawa enjoyed a season replete with inspirational addresses.Through the beneficence of the United Church of Canada, Dr.Clarence MacKinnon of Divinity hall, Halifax, was loaned to Japan for the summer, and not only delivered to the missionary gatherings a remarkably unlift- ing series of addresses, but by his own spirit and experience exemplified the possibility of concerted action among religious bodies heretofore separated and differing in both doctrine and organization.It is a tribute to his fine leadership that after his careful exposition of the Canadian development in Christian unity, a meeting re) ntative of many of the \u20ac cal bodies in Japan was called to prepare the road for future union in the island empire.Toyehiko Kagawa This reformer is today as never before the prophet to which Japan is looking for spirittal and moral leadership.Whereas a few years ago Christianity was looked upon as constituting a menace to the nation, the government apd intelligentsia of Japan are now recognizing that, as all the bulwarks of old Japanese morality are falling before the prevalent materialism of the day, the only thing that can save Japan is a spiritual interpretation of all life such as Kaga- wa's Christian gospel advocates.And whereas Kagawa-san was a few years ago hounded by the police and government agents lest he be teaching dangerous thoughts to the masses, he le today as never before free to preach of unity in the cause of Christ is to rally round this man who more than any other figure represents Christianity in the minds of the Japanese people.Kagawa is under terrific expense to support the evangelistic and social work he has undertaken in various slum districts of the empire.Until now he has had to rely upon the writings to secure these necessary funds, and this has taken heavy toll of the energy he.ought to have for more direct evangelistic work.To relieve him of this financial worry and the consequent strain upon an all too frail physique, à group of missionaries are now undertaking to find funds and friends, both in Japan and abroad, to help Kagawa\u2014The Christian Century.» ° \u2018 .~ Japanese Leadership The annual conference of the Coun- cll of Pederated Missions In Japan was another attractive feature of the Karuisawa summer program.The agenda and discussion centered around the findings of the Jerusalem conference, with particular emphasis upon the task of reaching the as yet entirely unevangelized rural masses of Japan.Many excellent and for- ward-looking papers were presented and discussed, among the most stimulating being those of the Japanese, to whom the missionaries must look for ever-increasing leadership in infiltrating the life of the nation with Christian ideals.In the Secret of His Presence Sermon by Rev.John Lyall, Belle Plaine, Sask.\u201cHis Presence is salvation.\u201d\u2014Ps.12:8.\u201cAnd lo, I very closely with you am all the days\u201d\u2014Matt.28:20.(Sit.) \u201cMy Presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.\u201d Ex.33:4.HE presence of some particular person in your iif or mine, makes all the difference between existence and enjoyment.We know there is a crude sentiment in, the popular songs and love stories of to day about the romance of the \u201cgloamin\u2019,\u201d and the dreams of moonlight; nevertheless, there is also some truth in the statement that some companionships are made in Heaven; and the presence of certain persons; husband, or wife, or Father, or Hother, or son or daughter, means a great deal to the person concerned.No one can read the life of the poet Browning and his wife: and their seemingly perfectly happy union, or read the pathetic entry In the memoirs of Livingstone when he buried his wife on Shupan- ga Brae in Central Africa in the heart of heathendom, when in true Scotch he sobbed out, \u201cMy dear Mary, I loved you from the first time I met you, and I loved you more.at the end than when we were first acquainted; what will life be to me without you?\u2019 not be convinced that their are some perfect matches.Good for Livingstone was it that he could say, \u201cIt is the word of a gentleman; I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.\u201d How much the Presence of Christ means to the Christian.Life deprived of that would be like the earth robbed of the sun, or the body deprived of the senses.Some sections of the Church, seem to think thet the real Presence is reserved in the bread and wine partaken of at communion.And some again think that the real Presence cannot be 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Francis, who wrote that pamphlet, \u201cThe Practice Of The Presence Of God,\u201d said: \u201cI realized the Presence of Christ as sweetly and graclously, in the washing of dishes and pots and pans in the kitchen, as when engaged in the most sacred duties of the monastery.\u201d We may have His Presence wherever duty calls us, or need urges us\u2014to the utmost parts of creation, in the most extreme plights.The last words of the miner incarcerated In the mine, or the soldiur dying slowly on the battlefield, prové that they have felt the Presence of the Master, as an inspiring and uplifting influence.The Unseen Companion SHACKLETON, confined in the ice jams of the Arctie Seas, writes: \u201cThere was scarcely a day when the words of Psalm, 139.7-12 were not in my mind\u2014\u201cWhither shall 1 go from Thy Spirit, or whither shall I flee from Thy Presence?If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there.If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even znere, shalt Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.\u201d In his book \u201cSouth,\u201d which relates the thrilling experiences of those months amid the mysterious loneliness of trackless snow and unbroken ice; he says: \u201cWhen I look back over those days, with all their anxiety and perils, I cannot doubt that our party was divinely led, both over the storm-fields, and across the storm-swept seas.I know that during that long and trying march of thirty-six~hours over the unnamed mountains and the glaciers, it seemed to me often that we wa;8 not three, but four.I said nothitlg to my companions on the point but afterwards Worsley sald to me.\u2018Shackleton, I had a curious feeling on the march, that there was another person with us\u2019\u201d The veil which divided the seen from the unseen was lifted as those men lingered In the icy solitudes.That Presence is to millions of people the world over something without which it would scarcely be worth living.It is to them the supreme fact in life, the truest thing in experience.They have the knowledge of a strong and experienced Companion on .the road with them.And there are some souls, whose sense of communion with the unseen Is so real that the removal of the thinnest vell would bring them face to face.There is an incident told of Prof.Horace Bushnell, who was spending a holiday in the White Mountains.At the close of the first day he said to his friend, \u201cOne of us ought to pray before we sleep.\u201d Bushnell offered prayer, and his friend years afterwards remarked, \u201cI was afraid to stretch out my hand in the darkness for fear I should touch God.\u201d An old writer tells of revival days fn Caithness, Scotland, where the ai- lence was so impressive and reverential, as the Word was preached, that men were afraid to speak in case God would mention their name.1 \u201cSpeaks to Him, thou, for He hears; and spirit with spirit shall meet; Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands or feet.\u201d There are those whose knowledge of God is a theoretical knowledge.They cannot speak from experience.They cannot say, \u201cI have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but non, mine eye seeth Thee.\u201d ey grope blindly but eagerly for that which they would gladly pou sess.But they complain of the silence of God, of His splendid isolation, His (Continued on Page 13) DEVELOP THE DRAMATIC In your own group with plays written with a purpese, mirth-provoking withal, Twe without royalty.\u201cGe to Next Neighbor,\u201d 46 pages.\u201cMoney & Mud,\u201d a pages.80 ots, Circular of six pi WITNESS AND CANADIAN MOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1985.- THIRTY | Pauls Expériences in Jerusalem The Internetionsl Sunday Sehoo! Lesson fær Nov.18.(Acts 21:17 jo 23:38.) L Suggestions Concerning Lesson QGeals.The portion of scripture selected for study in this lesson is crowded with stirring events.It is by making these events real and vivid that the teacher can best make plain the herofc qualities of Paul's character.The teacher should emphasize the circumstances under which Paul was laboring \u2018in these trying times, thus bringing out strongly his pa- tlence, perseverance, courage, and loyalty to his Master.To help pupils appreciate these qualities in the great apostle wiil be a first step toward building these same character traits in their lives.IL Lesson Topies and Teaching Points.The material selected for study is rather extensive for consideration in one lesson, but if these stirring events can be brought before the minds of the pupils in one survey, there will be a certain advantage.The material may be divided into topics as indicated in the foilow- ing paragraphs.(1).An Attempt to Disarm Prejudice.(Acts 21:17 to 26.) Mountains of prejudice had been growing up against Paul in Jerusalem.The Jews looked upon him as a traitor to\u2019 the religion of his forefathers.Many Christians honestly belleved that he was ruining the Church by opening the door so wide to the Genflles.Many other Christians seem to have regarded him as an upstart leader who was seeking to make himself equal to the aposties, without any right to such a position of leadership.Paul was too sincerely devoted to the program of Jesus to look on these prejudices In a narrow and selfish spirit, He deplored them because they were hindering the cause of Christ.Therefore he did not sulk under these unjust criticisms.If his pride was wounded, he gave no sign of the fact but going humbly into Jérusalem he sought to disarm the prejudices which were s0 rampant \u2018He called first on the leaders of the Jerusalem Church, James and the elders of the mother Church which was there.He told them of the wonderful way In which the Gentiles were turning to Christ.Being big men and fair-minded men, the leaders of the Jerusaleri church soon lost any prejudices they may have had against Paul.These leaders suggested a way whereby Paul might further disarm the prejudices against him which existed among the Jewish Christians.They asked him to take part in a certain ceremonial which was distinctly Jewish, namely the ceremony of purification prescribed for those who had taken upon themselves a vow.Paul gladly accepted the opportunity.He would make any concession which did not violate his sense of right and wrong.(2).Mobbed in Jerusalem.(Acts 21: 27-40.) The scheme might have resulted in disarming the prejudices of the Jewish Christians, had Paul not come Into cortact with people whose prejudices were more deeply seated than was the case with the Christian Jews.Certain Jews from Asia met him in the temple and raised a riot.Dragged from the temple, Paul was in danger of being stoned to death, when he was rescued by the Roman guards and hurrled away to the fort- rest of Antonia.As the soldiers dragged him up the steps of the castle, Paul asked leave of the chief captain to speak to the people.(3).Paul Tells the Story of his Conversion.(Acts 22:1-21.) Standing there upon the stone stalrway of the fortress, Paul-raised his hand with a gesture which seems to have been characteristic of him and succeeded In quieting the multitude.Then he explained to them who he was and told of his career as a persecutor.He recounted the circumstances under which he was converted and told of the commission which had been given him by his Lord to preach the ospel to the Gentiles.The muiti- tude heard him in silence up to the point where he mentioned his mission to the Gentiles then they broke By Walter Albion Squires, DB.out into.riotous uproar once more.Evidently this was the sore spot with these Asiatic Jews.They were pre- Judiced against Paul not merely because he was a Christian, but because he was successful in winning Gentiles to the new faith.Their pre- Judice was intermixed with jealousy.(4).Paul's Roman Citizenship Saves him from Scourging.The chief captain was perplexed -about Paul and after the Roman fashion thought he might compel the prisoner to confess his gullt by the infliction of severe punishment.He ordered Paul to be scourged.As the soldiers were- tying him up for whipping, Paul revealed to them the fact that he was a citizen of Rome.On hearing this the centurion who had charge of the flogging was frightened.He went and told the chief captain that Paul was a Roman add that frightened the chief captaln also.The preparations fcr the whipping were quickly discontinued and Paul was led back to his cell in the n.(5).On Trial Before the Council.(Acts 23:1-11), On the next day the chief captain called together the Jewish Sanhedrim or council and brought Paul before them for examination.Face to face with the leaders of the Jewish church, Paul began to make his defence, but uttered only a few words when the haughty high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to amite him on the mouth.Paul was not the kind of man to take such an Indignity meekly.\u201cGod shall smite, thee, thou whited wall\u201d sald he; \u201cand sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?\u201d When taken to task by his accusers for reviling God's high priest, paul aid that he did not w that he was speaking to the high priest.It may be that defective eyesight had resuited fn Paola inability to recognise Ananias as the highest official of the Hebrew rell- tion.ahd then brought about a division ng the Pharisees and Sadducees who made up the council.He declared that he was himself à Pharisee and that the real cause of the Sadduceean enmity against him was his belief In the resurrection.So deep was the enmity between Sadducee and Pharisee that this mere reference of opinion accomplished just what Paul desired.The accusers were divided and some of those who had come with eager desire to see Paul punished now took his part saying, \u201cWe find no evil in this man.\u201d So fierce were thelr contentions that the chief captain fearing for Paul's safety came down and took him away from the midst of the contentious council members.(6).Paul Removed to Caesarea.(Acts 23:12-35.) Plots to, assassinate Paul having been revealed to the old chief captain, he determined to take the prisoner to Caesarea for trial.So a large company of soldiers took Paul and stealing away at night they brought him down to Caesarea that he might be examined by Felix, the Roman governor.III.Suggestions as to Lesson Procedure.Many Interesting questions will grow out of a study of these narratives under a competent teacher.Was Paul justified in what he said to the high priest?Was he justified in setting the Sadducees over against the Pharisees in the way he did?These questions will have a bearing on some practical problems of today.Should we respect a man because of his position even though personally he is unworthy of respect?The skilful teacher will welcome such quea- tions as these and through a discussion of them make the application of truth to present day problems.IN THE SECRET OF HIS PRESENCE (Continued from page 12) seeming indifference.Is it not possible there has been failure somewhere along the line?When our telephone goes out of commission, the trouble operator sometimes finds an earthbound connection that has interfered with the overhead line.The trouble with many who fall to make connection is, that there is something out of harmony with the divine will, Many walk through life with blinded eyes, like the two disciples on the Emmaus road, whose dull eyes only saw a stranger, where walked the Son of God.And what dull and sorrowful men were, without the Presence of the Master! And when He was seen, what a transformation! \u2018Did not our hearts burn within us by the way?\" The scripture was opened, and 80 was their understanding.And if our hearts were opened and our understanding clarifled by the Holy Spirit; we should be conscious of His Presence too.Our ordinary insight is but shrewdness, and blindness, and our knowledge but ignorance under another name.\u2018The Many Splendored Thing\u201d URING the past ten years, there has arisen a craze for the teaching of psychology, and they are telling us that if the principles of this science be understood and carried out, wonderful advances will be made.But while taking into consideration all the benefits of the newer teaching, we are still convinced that the world will never come to know God by human wisdom or philoso- hy.?Francis Thompson, & poor tramp.brought up .religlously and reared in a good home, was brought to sanity and decent living by friends who cared for him.This 1s what he writes about the loss of the Presence: \u201cThe drift of pinlons would we hearken, Beats at our own clay-shyttered door; The angels keep thelr anclent places, Turn but a stone and start a wing.\"Tis we; tis our estranged faces That miss the many splendored thing.\u201d And there 1s the story of Helen Keller, giving a very modern example, of how God reveals Himself to the pure soul, the spiritually minded, the reverent-hearted.She was blind to all the beauty of the earth, and deaf to its sweet sounds, cut off completely from our ordinary means of intercourse.The time came when it was resolved to try and convey to her the thought of God, and they found it quite an easy thing to do.When God's name was spoken to her by the sign language which she had been taught, she quietly said: \u201cIs that His name?I have always known Him, though I did not know His name.\u201d To her simple heart and mind, the glory of God was revealed, and the realities of the unseen world were familiar things.Such spirits see and feel the truth, without troubling about critical investigation and the laws of evidence.The deepest and most abiding things of life are not revealed to the senses, but to the heart that loves, to the pure spirit.There is such as seeing the invisible, and touching the intangible; but whether visible or invisible, we know that the angel of the Lord en- campeth round about them that fear Him.One of the chief hindrances to the realization of the Presence is the rush of human life In these modern days.We do not take time to cultivate acquaintance with God.We are living in days of unparalleled stroln and ceaseless bustle.The age is electric in îts activities.Feet and hands are not enough\u2014we are shouting for wings, and some are even using them.The world is in à dreadful hurry, and most of the hurry is not for the accomplishment of useful ends, but for money, sport, enjoyment, and something to make men oblivious of their relationship to God and thelr fellows.Our weakness is in our rush.Where do we find men who will take time to read solid books, to discuss great themes, Lo tackle great topics?We are rarely to do thelr best work.Let be silent, said Emerson that we may hear-the whisper of the gods.authoritative voice said, my soul be thou silent unto God.When Do We Think?IT is getting Increasingly difficult to cultivate quiet.There are wo many things to attract qur thoughts and our notice that we find it nl- most impossible to apportion time for meditation.The poet Southey, was one of those tireless workers; and he was describing the division of his day: \u201cI rise at five; six to eight I study Spanish; breakfast at nine; then two hours to French and Portuguese and the following two hours to poetry; and the rest to prose.\u201d \u201cAnd pray,\u201d sald the Quaker lady who was listening to him, \u201cWhen dost thee think?\u201d At the beginning of the Great War, when the men of Oxford University wers massed In the square outside the bullding, they started singing the popular songs of the day, \u201cIt's a long way to Tipperary,\u201d and the rest.\u2018Then after the \u2018popular songs had petered out they struck up \u201cAbide With Me\u201d.Some sang,-others whistled it, and thus they embarked.Every man can choose his own tune for the march of life.When Shackleton wen$ on his last voyage, he chose to take with him a gramophone record of Clara Butt's rendering, \u201cAbide With Me\u201d \u201cI need thy presence every passing hour.\u201d These words must have helped them in the dreary waste of the Antarctic.The old mystics had a more balanced Christianity than many of the moderns seem to have.Gerhard Tersteegen's beautiful hymn brings to us very clearly the poise and rest they knew: Peace, O restless heart of mine; Thou, the Still, the Blest; Lead me to Thy courts divine, Thine untroubled rest, Tossed upon the raging sea, Still, fair land, I long for thee.O'er the waves that cannot rest, O'er the drifting foam; - Wandering dove without a nest Weary-winged I come; From the lonely wastes of sin, Blessed Noah, take me in.Still, and sweet the silence deep, Where no foot hath trod; Softer than an infant's sleep, Rest alone with God.Closed on me Thy palace door, Perfect peace for evermore.Life without His Presence is a very hard road; but, having Him, we have the peace that passeth knowledge, the poise that tells others we are under control, and the power that helps us when we are face to face with life's hard tasks.THE WORD OF LIFE My presence shall go with thee, and 1 will give thee rest.Ex.33: 14, Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.The Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fall thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, net- ther be dismayed.Deut.31: 6-8, Have not I commanded thee?Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whitherso- ever thou goest.Josh.1: 9.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy path.Prov.3: 6.He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.So that we may boldly say, The Lord 1s my help- cr, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.Heb.13: 8, 6.Our suffi- clency is of God.2 Cor.3: 5.Lead us not into temptation.Matt.6: 13.O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it Le not in man that walketh to direct his steps.Jer.10: 23. MIND BODY The Test By Ibby Hall Youth learns early what is expect- od of it.The patterns of life\u2014stupid or inspiring\u2014are iaid out on an inexorable counter.Youth must choose.Four years ago the pattern of patriotism was the one chosen by à young boy of Pennsylvania.There had always been a streak of heralsm in this boy.Life at Annapolis, with its beauty and precision, its gallantry and promise of adventure, no doubt enthralled his soul.Otherwise he would hardly have undertaken the arduous discipline of military training.For this was a boy built on a framework so slight as to be almost feminine.His weight Was an inconsiderable something over 100 pounds.For three years the young midshipman met the requirements of the BOYS\u2019 and some of them splashing in the water, There was a sudden cry of \u201cHelp! Man drowning!\u201d A sudden stiffness of fright in the But for all his efforts and for all his success in other requirements during those three years at the academy there was one test he could not meet.Over and over again he dreaded it, he trained for it, he faced it and he failed.This was the life saving test.The mortification of it struck deep.Perhaps he had strength to pilot only himself through a difficult existence.Apparently there was nothing left over for the other fellow.For three years he was expected to show what he could do If the other fellow went down\u2014and for three years he went on record as being able to do nothing.The three years were about over.In another month or so the young midshipmen would be leaving picturesque Annapolis, the wide blue expanse of the Chesapeake Bay and the tricky, lovely shores of the Severn River, for their brief vacations at home.\u2018The sporting events were on.Boys from other universities were travelling to Crabtown to match their skill and prowess agalnst the abilities of the would-be naval officers.These visitors were the pick of their universities, picked for weight, and brawn and skill.The very sight of them must have been discouraging to the young 115 pounder of a midshipman who had never been able to pass his life saving test.But discouraged or not, his soul and sympathies were with the Naval Academy.He was on hand at every contest, giving through his enthusiasms what he might never give his Alma Mater in glory.Not until the last sporting contest of each day was over did he return to his quarters.In this way it so happened that he found himself after dark one night not far away from the spot at which the shore line of the little town curves back from the wideness of the Bay to meet the choppy waters of the Severn.At the water's edge a good deal was going on.Visitors, midshipmen, the big fellows from other towns were strolling about, scrapping or shouting, WITNESS AXD CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER T, 1988.AGE atmosphere; a sudden turning of tom-foolery into panic.The young midshipman found himself turning as quickly into an automaaton.He became on the instant something of steel and lightning.In another two seconds he was in those dark and choppy waters at the exact spot where a man's head had gone down.Cries went up about him on the water, on the shore.He heard none of them.A man was drowning.A few feet away that white strange face appeared again.Again it went down under the blackness of the Severn.The young midshipman made his swift calculation.When that head reappeared for the third time he was there beside it.Before it could slip away into oblivion he had hold of it.Befors he himself quite knew how it had happened, he had towed the 200-pound visitor back to life and safety.! The next morning the rescued giant and the light weight hero lay in nearby cots in the naval hospital.The young hero, possibly, stared at the ceiling, wondering how he was to meet the still unpassed life saving test.The viziting giant stared in the direction of the hero.\u2014The Outlook and Independent.OUR COMPETITIONS \u201cTHE NICEST THING | EVER 8AW A TEACHER DO.\u201d Last year J was siek, © could not attend schoel for twe months.| was very loneseme, as my sisters and brethers attended echool regularly, and § could not.For two weeks | could not go outside.| found this very unpleasant, as, when | am well, | am always in the fresh air, sliding, skating, or doing something, During this sams year we had a teach- or from Inverness whose name was Miss Oliver.| found her like any other teach- or, while | attended school, but when \u20ac was not attending school, 1 found her more than a teacher.She did everything in her power to please me.Every night after school, she came te ses me, always bringing fruit er sometimes story boeke.Bhe talked of hew my friends were getting on in schcol.One day she came and asked me if | weuld like to hear from my schoo! chume.| was only toe glad to say \u201cyes.\u201d Bhe came the following night and, on her arm she carried a handbag.1 noticed it as soon as she entered.She drew near the sofa where | was, saying to me, \u201cIt all belongs to you.\u201d Sn hearing this | raised on my elbow, looked into the bag, and to my great surprise, | found se many letters written by my friends, all through Mise Olivers kindness.\u2014Thelma H.Cameron, Que.THE FUNNIEST THING | EVER SAW A GIRL DO Desr Sir:\u2014Woe had been to school all morning and we were getting our oonts and hats on to go home at noon.The dir! of whom | am going te speak started off home with the ethers.When she got about half way down our school-yard she thought she felt something meving areund in her hat, but did not take any notice of it just then.In a few minutes she felt it again.She took her hat off then and shrew K on the ground.She picked up her hat again and feund that a little mouse had besa running around inside the hat on her head.She was frightened and threw the mouse out and grabbed her hat and ran.After this she toek care, for a while, to look in her hat to see if there was a mouse in it, but never since has eho had the same experience.~ Edith Rogers, Ont.\u201cTHE NICEST THING | EVER SAW A TEACHER DQ.\u201d The day of the plenic at Twin Fails dawned brightly souinat the green forest.This plonis was being given by the school teachers.All the pupils whe attended the scheel were invited.They were all taking a bus, and driving thirty miles away.ere the pionie was to be held, lovely refreshments were to be serv.od, and games and races were sise being held.In a little house at the foot of the hill steed a pretty girl lesking eut of the window.She lived alone with her ole.ter.Her mether and father were beth dead.se the burdens of living fell on her poor shoulders.Her sister was inelined te be deliente, se she nesded especial sare.\u201cWhat a we wl day for the ple- nie,\u201d theught Ruth, ) wish 1 were - ame 26 ~ 1 John Speirs, Gut, 3 Edith M.Waters, N.B, 2 Edwin = going, but | muet look after Ruby.\u201d With these thoughts Ruth turned back te her work.Bhe was an exsellent housekeeper, and kept the hewse shining.About an hour later a young lady of twenty-three rang the deor-bell.- \u2018t you going te the picnic, Ruthie?The bus wili be here in an hour.It will be a nice drive, and will de yeu good.You loek very tired.Come on, new, please take my place, and | will stay with Ruby today.\u201d Miss Warner kept on until she had Ruth ceaxed.There is no need of telling the lovely time Ruth had.It was very seldom she had a chanee te ride in = bus.She won a raes, receiving a prize, and enjeyi herseif from the first moment to the last.And wasn't that à lovely thing fer Miss Warner, the teacher te do?\u2014Evelyn Ward, Que.LIMERICKS | once had a fall from a shed, Which landed me square on my head) \"Twas a terrible shock, For | hit a big reck, And sat up with a start in my bed.~\u20148y Floyd Heney, Ont.A feliow once bought a new car Te see the earth nour and far; A match he did light Te see the gas rig And he landed up on a star.\u2014By Stecling GQ.Warner, Ont.| asked a wee maiden of eight Could she spelt the word \u201chorse,\u201d en her ate.She answered, \u201c! could, But what is the good Te spell a thing so out of date?\u201d S\u2014By Mattie D.Crewell, N.8.In addition te the thres ponelis to weekly the (kres besi steries published during the contest wifi be swarded prises as fellows: FIRST CASH PRIZE.i i ?iy a gl I F iy i I i I Hil 1 H {ifs Jt li I is in i ji i 7} jt t af i 7 i ¥ i Ë | Fi i it i i F 1 el H ! Ë : | Æ oh Hee i i f ; i i ; i Ë Bie Ë I bitin HH ~\u2014 Liner \u201cProvisionals\u201d An unprecedented postal incident occured on the last eastward-bound catapulted from the deck to expedite the delivery of mails.Letters to be delivered by this ship to shore air service cost an extra 10 francs postage, aud the ship's post office on this occasion ran out of 10 francs stamps.The postal officer in charge created provisional 10 francs stamps by surcharging 1,000 of the 1.80 franc blue and 2,000 of the 1.50 franc red stamps.The overprinting is said to have been done in the presence of a French Consul on board, and the novel stamp varieties thus created have been selling for 300 to 400 francs each in Paris, says Fred J.Melville, in the London Daily Tele- The summit of Robson pass is a broad gravel fiat extending between Adolphus lake in the Alberta side and Berg lake In British Columbia, the two lakes lying about à mile apart.In no other pass in ths Rockies does ons WTENESS AND CANADIAN, | QUESTIONS and ANSWERS \u2014\u2014 A WATER-COURSE Scotsman from Calthness:=There Is à ditch, or water course that has left ita old bed course, about twenty years past and takes oR another property.The owner does not want it put back on its former re Tho decides those matters?And me to arrange such oases in Ontario?Anz\u2014As a general thing à matter like this the Ditches and Act: Statutes of Ontario, 1927, chmpter 316.But we doubt very much that this particular ditch comes within the scope of the Act.In or.Ger te ascertain this we would require information as to its origih, etc.Assuming, however, that the provisions cf the Act are applicable to the case, the party who wishes the ditch restored to its former course should call a meeting by at least 12 clear days notice in writing te those also interested, mentioning a time and place to consider the matter.Any agreement arrived at, to be valid and binding, must be in writing, according to the form provided }y the Act.If ne agreement reached at such meeting, the enginesr of the local municipality, appointed by its Coungll pursuant te the Act, may be called im to make an examination and award and his award would be subject to appeal to the county judge.For further information and forms we would refer you to the Act itself.ROSEHEATH Mrs.Dora M, Meir, Ont\u2014Would Kindly tel] me # the sory \u201cRossbeath\u2019 (a published in book form?Ans-\u2014\"Rosehaath* by Catherine Bruce, which appeared serially in the Witness has not been published in book form, BROKEN 8HIPS AND THE MUSTARD SEKD Mrs.J.T.Seals, Que\u2014Can the stories \u201cBroken Ships\u201d an \u201cThe Mustard Seed\u201d be prooured in book form?Ans\u2014No, neither of thess books have been published as books as yet.\u2018| REQUESTED POEMS AGKNOWLEDGMENT are thanked for forward.Mrs.Peter D.Redner, Ont, scriber, Ont.: \u201cWill You be There and I\u201d Ruth L.Dickan; \u201cThe Little Rosewood çaskot Lilla Fraser, N.8.; \u201cServants\u201d, (Sent by J.B.Rowell) SERVANTS He held a lamp each Sabbath day Se low that none could miss the way; And yet so high to bring in sight That picture fair\u2014of Christ, the Light\u2014 That gasing up\u2014the Lamp between\u2014 The hand that held it was not seen.He held the Pitcher, stooping low, To lips of little ones below, Then raised it to the weary saint - And bade him drink when sick and faint; They drank;\u2014the Pitcher thus between, The hand that held It was not seen.He blew the Trumpet.soft and clear, That trembling sinners need not fearj And then with louder note and bold To storm the walls of Satan's hold, The Trumpet coming thus between The band that held it was not seen, But when our Captain says \u201cWell dane, Thou geod and faithful servant! Come! Lay down the Pitcher, and the Lamp, + This Canada of Ours 1ay down the leave the Camp;\u201d Thy weary hands will then be seen, Clasped in His pleroed ones, naught between, \u2018 (Bent by Another Subscriber) THE LONE PILGRIM I came ho the place where the lone pilgrim And quietly stood at his tomb, When in a low whisper I heard something amy, \u201cHow sweetly I slesp hers alone.\u201cThe tempest may how] and the loud thunder roll, And gathering storms may arise, Yet calm are the feelings that rest in my The tears are all wiped from my eyes.\u201d \u201cGo tell my companion and children most To weep not for Joseph that's gone, For the same band that led me through darkness and drear Has kindly conducted me home.\u201c1 wandered an exile among strangers be- To publish salvation abroad, The toump of the Lord endeavoring to ow, Inviting poor sinners to God\u201d \u201cBut when among strangers and far from my home, No friend or relative nigh, I met the contagion and sank to the tomb; My soul Slew to mansiens on high.\u201cI am now safely landed om Canaan's fair shore.My spirit hath entered its rest; Sickness and sorrow with me is all o'er; My soul shall forever be blemsed.\u201d (Sent by L.J.D, Que) SOMEBODY'S MOTHER \u201cThe woman was old, and ragged, and And pont \u2018with the chill and the winter vi The street was wet with a recent snow, And the woman's steps were aged and Ww; She stood at the crossing and waited ng, 'maided, uncared for, amid the throng oye.Down the street, with laughter and shout, Gilad In the freedom of school let out, Came thé nolsy boys, like a Sock of sheep, Halling the snow piled high and deep; Past the woman so old and gray, Hastened the children on their way, Nor offered a helping d to ber, So meek, so timid, afraid to stir, Lest the carriage wheels and the horses\u2019 feet Should crowd her down in the alippery street.At last came one of the me: troop, The brightest scholar in at the group; He stood beside her and whispered low: I'l help you across, If you wish to go.\u2019 Her aged hand on his strong arm She placed, and 30 without hurt or harm, He guided her trembling feet along, Proud that his own Were stout and strong.Then back again to his friends he went, His young heart happy and well content; \u2018She's somebody's mother, boys, you know For all she\u2019s old, and poor, and slow, And 1 hope some fellow will lend a hand To help my mother, you understand, If ever she's old, and poor, and gray, When her own dear boy is far away.And somebody's mother bowed low her hea That night in her home, and the prayer - she sald .Was: be kind to the noble boy, \u2018Who's somebody's pride, and hope, and Joy\u2019 IN HALF À CENTURY THE SEA-OTTIR WAS ALMOST EXTEAMINITD-\u2014 2-30 ,T00 WERE THE POOR ALEUTS.Lie HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1988.(Sent by @ PF.M, for Pcari Elizabath Ont) GOING ON AN ERRAND (Action recitation) \u201cA pound of tea, at ems and thres And a pot of raspberry jam) Two new-laid ess A dozen pegs, And a pound of rashers of ham, \u201cTN say it over all the way And then I'm sure not to forget For if I! chance to bring things wrong My mother has cause to fret, \u201cA pound of tea at one and three And a pot of raspberry jam Two new-laid oggs A dozen pegs, And a pound of rashers of ham.\u201cThere in the hay the children play They're having such lots of fon: I'l go there too\u2014that's what I'll de As soon as my errands are done.\u201cA pound of tea at one and three, A pot of er\u2014er\u2014new-laid jam; Two raspberry oggs A dozen pegs, And a pound of rashers of ham.\u201cIhere's Teddy White flying his kite He thinks himself grand 1 declare; FA like to try I'd go sky high, Yes, ever so much higher Above the old church spire, And then\u2014but there\u2014\u201d \u201cA pound of three, at one and tea A pet of new-latd jam; Two dozen eggs Some raspberry pegs, And a rash of pounders of ham.\u201cNow here's the shop, outside I'll stop And say my orders agsin; I haven't forgot, no, ne'er a jot My memory's good, that's plain.\u201cA pound of three at ons and tea A dozen of raspberry ham; A pot of eggs .With a pound of pegs And a rasher of new-lald jam!\" (Sent by G.F.M., for Pearl Elizabeth, Ont.) SENCE MARY JINED THE CLUB Yis, Ufe \u2018ith us hes allus bin & pooty serious rub; But somehow things is pleasanter sence Mary jined the club.Mary's a marster han\u2019 to talk, & reg\u2019lar talk ex-pert; But what she useter talk \u201ccleanin\u201d house an\u2019 dirt; \u201cBout bringin\u2019 mud in on my feet.an\u2019 hangin\u2019 up my clo'es; Of Tom's protrudin\u2019 elbows an\u2019 of Dick's protrudin\u2019 toes; An\u2019 \u2018bout her ples that got baked-om, \u2018bout her preserves that soured, An\u2019 \u2018bout her tin and pewter pans she never could keep scoured, An\u2019 \u201cbout the everlastin\u2019 files she driv out twice à day; \u2018Bout rats that et hee cheeses up an\u2019 cats that sp\u2019lit her whey; \u2018Bout cramp-spells with her scrubbin\u2019 brush, an\u2019 backache at her tub\u2014 An\u2019 all that ar 1 useter hear \u2018fore Mary Hned the club, But now she talks \u2018bout Tennerson\u2014the potery man, you know\u2014 The potery man -who writ se much\u2014 whose writin's jingle so; About Jomilton's bunkum verse, the best thing of its kind.In his book about the devil wich he writ when he wuz blind; An\u2019 \u2018bout a man named Shakespeare, ton, whose geenyus hed no clogs, Who spent his life in writin\u2019 down & mess er dialogues; An\u2019 a man who writ long stories that her club folks greatly prize\u2014 George W.Ellot, I beliave\u2014they sesm te me like lies; An\u2019 \u2018bout à chap named Blueing too\u2014no \u2014Browning-\u2014that's bis name.Who writ a book of pussies with no answers to the same; An\u2019 ol Alf Walter Emerson and Wendell Phillips Holmes.about wus - ALASKA IS SOLD TO THE UNITED STATES | QAUTAL TREATMENT OF THE AUSSARS LED TO BLOODED.SEVERN IPS AND SEVERAL WALAGES WERT OLSTAONEO.ry James Rustle Lynn\u2014No?Lowell?\u2014Tisl \u2014who Writ $0 many Domes; Sence all this stuff I hear about my life ain't such & rub, Ax now I hear this ev'ry day sence Mary Jined the club, An\u2019 sometimes she gits talkin\u2019 bout the renysarnce of art, I don't know nothin\u2019 w'at it means, but she dus\u2014she is smart! Wy the words she uses sometimes they { 1a puftickly immense, \"Bout the \u201cre-hab-bil-i-tashun of the scl.entific sense.\u201d An\u2019 she talks of everlution: Bayl you know what that ar is?Yer don't?Well then I'll tell yo just to show she knows her bist It is matter's intergration \u2018With conkomerant disserpation Of motion From incoherent Homer G, Nierty Te a keberunt Hattls Rowe GQ.Niesty\u2014 Cute notion, Yea.ofr! that is evolution.There yer have it plain as\u2019 fiat\u2014 An\u2019 Mary knows a lot er thiags that's pootier than that; An\u2019 now Mary talks \u2018em to me, w'y my life ain't such a rub.It\u2019s one sweet song of poo words sence Mary jined the club.Sometimes she talks for hours \"bout the planet Natan\u2019's rings, The neberier hypothernuse an\u2019 them ar sort er things; About the lates\u2019 theories of bisickle res search, An\u2019 lots er new thesrogy I never heerd in church, She knows the of philosophers that any man can know, She knows John Stuart Factory ax Bdward Ev'ritt Snow; She describes the great procession that the equernozes made An\u2019 I thought the way she told it \u2018twas a tarnal long parade, OW, life ain't wat it useter be, \u2018 sich grind an\u2019 scrub, For 1 jest soak in lteracher sence Mary jimed the ciub.\u2014Sam Walter Fossa 't ne WORDS WANTED W.Crawford, Ont\u2014I would like very much to get the words of a Christmas poem, each verse of which is n series of questions and each query is answered by the words, \u201cSante Claus\u201d The first lines are; \u201cWho fills the stockinga from top to toe?; Santa Claus\u201d Miss Doris Evans, Ont\u2014I would like te secure the words of a poem, three lines of which are: \u201cInto his brain Burned with the iron of ceaseless pain Pierces the memory cruel and pain.\u201d also a poem by Edgar Guest, two lines of which are: \u201cThe wheat's looking fine in the acres out there And I\u2014well, 1 just helped It to grow.\u201d ORIGINAL POETRY \u201cICI-BAS.\u201d (Transiated from the French of Gully Prudhomme) \u201cHers lilacs all their perfume spend; Here songs of robins cense for ever; I dream of Junes which never end\u2014 Oh.never, never, Here vanish dearest lips and eyes, And leave to us no trace Jor ever; I dream of love which never dies\u2014 Oh, never, never, How often hreaks the mother's heart Por children, who are gone forever, I dream that dear ones never part-\u2014 Oh, never, never, \u2014By Percy H, Wright, By J.& Morrison and Maud Morrison Stone OUT A COVRNOR, THE RAUSSIAN RECIME ON THE WEST COAST CNDED WHEN ALASKA Wis SOL WO TE UNITED STATES, 1967. WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBRA 7, 1938, Thanksgiving By Margaret Moore.© 8 there any weman, I wonder, who does not rejoiee over a cellar full of fruit and vegetables, ahelves fuil of well filled cans and a larder abundantly stecked with good food.be a burden, but only.a ago one who dwelt in the all the comforts and con- the terribly, my garden and my old cellar with its heaped up full ghelves.I feel poor have to go to the tele- ood things and hearts for it, but somehow we feel nearer to Him when we have gathered in the harvest of garden and fleld.We can give Him thanks for the very food we have watched Him bless with sunshine and rain.Many of us have thought of the wondering awe with which those disciples helped distribute the loaves and fishes and that we might have been with surely no less a miracle which we have been granted a and by which we have seen our few handfuls of seed changed into food for many, and for it we give thanks.Ë smile when we hear some ons say, \u201cI do like te see people eat - heartily,\u201d but it 1s a loving amile not à critical one, for where is the woman secing It appreciated.\"Way deep down.we have that feeling of sharing with.for this joy we give thanks A very real and sacred part of our Thankegiving Day 1s the sharing with those in need the good things which have been s0 generously given to us.For the privilege of so dividing our portion we give thanks.That we are able on this Thanksgiving Day to gather our loved ones around us in peace and comfort, in merriment and joy; that we may prepare for them the dishes they cach like best; tell over again with them, not only the great news of the times, but the foolish little jokes that are 00 dear they bring tears to our eyes; we give grateful thanks.We who are women do not forget.We do not need that Armistice Day come before Thanksgiving to remind us to give thanks for peace.We give thanks for our loved ones who are with us and we give thanks for those who lald down their lives.How the tears start at the little homely things of the day, the foolish little things, bring them vividly before us.For our memories, we give Thee grateful thanks.There are many of us who, since last Thanksgiving Day, have been through deep waters.Some of us have gone down into the depths until we could only say, \u201cWe cannot understand, we can only hold fast by faith and walt.\u201d For that faith we give thanks.God never failed us in those days before the Armistice.He never will.For great blessings and little joys; for seed time; and harvest, for home and friends; for strength, and fir comfort in weakness; for all ness of the Lord to us and to all the earth, we give thanks THOSE WINDOW SCREENS When the window screens and screen doors are taken down, have them thoroughly washed and brushed with a hard brush.If you have one of the brushes which san be attached to the hose you will find it very useful in cleaning out the accumulation of the summer.screens dry thoroughly, then rub them over thoroughly with a cloth moistened with bolled linseed oll.It will make them last indefinitely if this is done every year.Set them in their place of storage for the winter and cover them with old sheets or newspapers.\u2014M.M.If adhesive tape ia put on the sharp angle at the foot of a bed-spring frame, accidental three-cornered tears in one's sheets will he eliminated Thanksgiving and the Thankful Heart God be thanked for acred yleld, and mile-wide harvest bending Heavy for the reaping blades, waist and shoulder high, Reach on reach of golden seas, shore- less and unbending, Where the furrow-clods lay dark \u2018neath an April sky.amid our lifted prayers, let us not forget Little, tended garden-plots in Humble dooryards set.: Little, tended garden-plots, smiling to the sun.- Sweet with dew and dark with dusk, «mail and green and tried, Ringed with fleids, or city-grimed, bless them every one, The little, tended garden-plots that throng the countryside.God be thanked for marbled wealth and city pavements teeming, Inland set and clasped with hills, fronting to the sen, Mile on mile of lifted roofs against far skylines A Cities old and cities new and cities yet to be.Lord, before the sunset dies, let us not forget Little, brave, love-bulided roofs, In lesser byways set.Little, lamp-lit, bufided homes watching through the night, Tolling, friendly, stout of heart, for a nation\u2019s need.Lonely hill-farm pricked with fir, clustered village white, Grant them wealth of harvest, Lord; from every acattered sped.God be thanked for mighty men, vis- foned and high-hearted; Hands to grip a nation's helm amid storm-blinded seas; Faith that sails a fearless course through hidden reefs unchart- God be thanked that we can breed such mighty souls as these.Lord, before the embers pale, let us not orget 1 Loyal hearts and striving hands In / lowly places set.Simple hearts and humble hands, toiling day by day; Dreamer-souls that keep the faith on sordid paths unknown; Those who sow, but seldom reap\u2014 bless them.Lord, we pray: Send full store of golden grain for every threshing-stone.\u2014Marthe Haskell Clark, in Cood Housekeeping.THIRD IN SUCCESSION TIIRONE The danghter of the Duke and Duchess of York, Princess Elisabeth, whose most recent phote is shewn above, is at present third in succession te the threne ef England, SOME PRACTICAL POINTERS ON PAINT AND, PAINTING For the purpose of keeping flies and other insects away from freshly painted surfaces, mix a little bay oll with the oil paint or else place a small amount in an open dish neerby.The pungent odor will drive all insects \u201cWay.À Very simple way to prevent or remove spots from a cetling colored by an accidental water overflow is to {ake unslaked white lime, diluted with alcohol, and paint the spots with it.The alcohol will evaporate quickly and the lime will form an insulating layer « that will take the sise color and the spots will not show through.To prevent the peeling of new coatings on old paintings proceed as foi- lows: Rub the painting with rough pumice stone, wet by means of fait, , then add to the paint of the first coat 1 part.alcohol to 9 parts paint.This paint will dry well and give very good results, even in the most difficult cases.The remaining coatings are put on with the regular paint.To prevent the crawling of the paint, carefully rub a flannel rag moistened with aloshol over the work previous to varnishing, stripping or painting.This simple operation will prevent the crawling.In some cases crawling may be \u2018traced to defective varnish.The only remedy In this case is to obtain good yarnish.\u2014\u201cThe I- lustrated.World.\u201d HIGH HEELS AND SPINDLY LEGS The high heels women insist on wearing are destroying the shapeliness of their nether extremities.At least that is the opinion of Dr.Charles Mayo, noted surgeon, who claims women are \u201csacrificing the shapes of their legs on the altar of high heels.\u201d Not only are they losing their calves, he points out, but the spindly legs 20 much in evidence nowadays are the result.Women are also getting shorter, Dr.Mayo claims, because they ride too much in motor cars.Truthfulness and honesty must be part of 2 happy home.Happiness cannot live in an atmosphere of suspi- clon and distrust.Efforts to deceive other members of the family ruin the peace of the home.In truth and honor, happy homes are built\u2014Free Meth AV POWDER E.W.GILLETT CO.LTO, TORONTO, CAN. A Happy Boy or WIYNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTRAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1988.\u2018a Spotless House By Lillie M.Saunders.PI sc ir gd LacEg 83 pige EL z je Ep HES] \u201cOh, shoot!\u201d exclaimed the disappointed boy.\u201cI want to make some cookies.I'm tired of playing with that old wagon.\u201d \u201cBills Dean, that's not an old wagon and you know it\u201d said his mother, \u201cWhy, shame on you! You've had it only a week.Now go on out ~ and keep atill, I say.\u201d Blllle slouched out, ahutting the screen door with & bang that caused his mother to exclaim impatiently, \u201cThat boy! \u2018What shall I do with him?\u201d Her aunt from another town happened to be visiting her.In answer the mother\u2019s perplexed querey she replied, \u201cMary, I think you are making a serious mistake In not permitting Billie to make those cookies when he wants to so badly.If he were my boy I'd be only too glad to have him want to do such things.\u201d \u201cBut, Auntie, just think what a mess he'll make,\u201d protested Mrs.Dean.\u201cI don't see why he should,\u201d re- Hf he did he e¢ould clean tt up, rid er.ne ; LC \u201cOh, i \u201che could, .bat\u201d à wouldn't?_\u2014_ L > \u201cWell, have it eanderstooëd that if yoh let hins make the cookies he is to leave everything just as clean and orderly as he found it.Anyway, Mary dear,\u201d continwed her \u201cdon\u2019t you consider it all a your job as mother and maker?You can't just feed clothe your boy and call him ed.You've got to study him, live with him and for him, love him and show him you do.I've been here three days and I've not omce seen you play with Blllle, or show the least Interest in his affairs.He's such a fine little fellow, too, I wish he were my boy,\u201d she added wistfully, \u201cOh, I don't,\u201d quickly replied the mother with a laugh.\u201cI want him myself, but he does drive me half frantic sometimes\u2014always wanting to be doing some unheard of thing.\u201d \u201cWell,\u201d returned her aunt, \u201cthat's the way Columbus happened to discover America.You'd not want him sitting around like a dummy, would you?Anyway, I like to see a boy take an interest in housework.Mary, if you let Billie make those cookies FI see that he leaves everything In good condition,\u201d \u201cAll right, Auntie dear, you win.Ill call Billie.\u201d She found him ait- ting disconsoiately in his wagon back of thè house.\u201c0, Billle, come here,\u201d shs cried.\u201cWhat you want?\u201d asked the lad, sulkily.\u201cWell, come and see\u201d returned his mother.\u201cI've changed my mind shout those cookies.You may make some if you want to and will clean up afterwards.\u201d The lad gave & bound and let out a yell of joy.\u201cOh goody, goody, Mother! You bet I'll clean up afterwards! You'll see.And Pll make you some good cookles, .\"\u2014From a series of articles, issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York City.BETWEEN LIFE'S EXTREMITIES 7 THE NEIGHBOR'S FAMILY - Mothers will know the value of gutting Gato the homes of their friends \u2018a\u2019 paper whieh magnifies Home life and which has such warm and true sym) with every age, from the cradle .on to the dawn of the life beyond.* Antimacassars Mame words tend to wear out like any others, sometimes berause they are superseded by more modern words carrying meanings more freshly, and sometimes because the things they stand for pass away.It is a great many years since I heard the word \u201cantimacassar\u201d used.In my childhood ît was almost a sacred household ered to be a clever creation.The purpose of kn antimacassar was to pre- name, and I dare sy it was consid- serve the upholstered back of a chair from the macassar hair oll, which were merely thrown over the chairs and not attached to them, they were always falling down.The attached short variety is seen today In clubs and in Pullman cars, and here the word survives.A somewhat similar word, \u201cdolly\u201d or \u201cdoyley,\u201d ap to have had two derivations and two meanings.As & table napkin its name, according to Mr, Stenhouse, came from the Dutch word \u201cdivasl\u201d meaning & towel, and was modified by Grimm's law of the change of consonants.This I doubt greatly for the word must have been a fairly sudden creation, and I do not think Grimm's law could have had time to operate.1 should guess that dolly, the napkin, and dolly, a kind of light cloth, were both named after the seventeenth century linen draper in the Strand, who ls thus oddly mentioned in Addison\u2019s Spectator: \u201cThe famous Dolly is still fresh In everyone's memory, who raised a fortune by finding out materials for sych stuffs as might at once be cheap and genteel.I have heard it affirmed that had he not discovered this frugal method of gratifying our pride we should hardly have been able to carry on the last war.\u201d Evidently in those days war took its place among the amenities of lite.\u2014John o' London.in John 0\u2019 London's Weekly.A griat help In ironing is ¢ clin, smooth, cotton-covered kitchen holder, which slip under bits of embroid- ory and initials on linen.This provides just the right padding in the most - convenient form.It may also be used \u2014 te ubbhul Keep your hands satiny, soft and white with y's Own\u201d Soap.The gent] natural cilsaresoothing and heaut skin and the clinging fragrance is delightful.\u201cBest for You and Baby loo\" Sold everywhere\u201410c.a cake ALBERT BOAPS LIMITED, MFRS., MONTREAL hands cleansing fying tothe Fine flavour and été are combined in every package of Chase & Sanborn\u2019s low Cost JUPERIOR TEA Black ~ Green + or Mixed OU may avoid it by serving Quick Quaker.You rt up too late, and hurry through breakfast.You don\u2019t eat tbe essential food elements, and bence sre listless wp all day bog.\u2018all morning.What you mise at breakfast you cannot make Quick Quaker gives you the food elements you need and in proper Because it is the most perfectly balanced cereal it \u201cstands by\u201d you during the long hours of the morn- fag whea you have to face your work.: Be sure always to get Quick Quaker.In each package is « coupon with which you can secure household and persemal articles of genuine merit.Packages marked \u201cChinaware\u201d each contain a delicate piece of fne chine\u2014such as you would buy for \u201cbest.\u201d Buys \u201cChinaware\u201d peckage to-day, and start collecting these pretty pieces.Bie is ig: miners eel > emote Quick QUAKER OATs Cooks in 214 to § minutes\u2014The world\u2019s fastest eesking sereal The Quaker Oats Company, Peterborough and Saskatoon HOME COOKING WITNESS AND CANADIAN Thanksgiving Dinners By Margaret Moore.T Thanksgiving time, if at no othas season of the year, it seems good to us to go back to the ways of our mothers and grandmothers, and fairly load our table with good things.For this feast we save our choicest vegetables, our finest fowls, our most delicious fruit, our most beautiful flowers, sharing them with others and ourselves feasting and giving thanks., At this feast, \u2018too, we go back to the special dishes one or another of the family always liked.They may be very simple things but they mean home to the boys and «irls who come back to share the harvest festival with us.So we will, most of us, have already chosen which of the many good things we will serve our own folks, but perhaps we will enjoy adding one little change or possibly a suggested menu may remind us of some favorite dish we have got out of the habit of making.+e 0 0 The Turkey (CHooss à bronze aud black feathered turksy, say the knowing ones, rather than the smaller brownish red birds with white wings and tail, or the pale grey turkeys which also are marked with white.The meat of the brown and grey is pale and less succulent.If you buy the turkey dressed see that it is plump, with a broad full breast, pliable legs, smooth and black with soft loose spurs.The shorter the neck the better the bird.A hen turkey for tenderness, and 8 or 10 pounds in weight is ideal size for quality meat, other points being equal.The big prize birds are apt to he coarse and stringy as to flesh.Roast Turkey with Orange Sauce.\u2014To most of us there can never be any flavor equal to the old-fashioned stuffing of moist but light bread crumbs, flavored with thyme and summer savory, a pinch of sweet marjoram, a scraping of onion and plenty of fresh butter with pepper and salt.There are, however, times when something a little new, a little different is wanted.Where a e family has a series of turkey dinners at grandmother's, and Uncle William's, and Aunt Jane's and 50 on, a change of flavor is decidedly interesting.That ts \u2018where the Orange Sauce fits in.The sauce is first made by making the base of cornstarch and boiling water, in the proportion of two teaspoons of cornstarch to a cup of boiling water, cooked for five minutes and smoothly stirred.To this one cup of sugar is added, four tablespoons of butter and the Juice and grated rind of one large orange, and it is again cocked for two minutes and well stirred.Two- thirds of the orange sauce should then be mixed with cooked rice, chopped, cooked mushrooms and plump seedless raisins, with pepper and salt to taste.As soon as the dressing is made stuff the turkey and roast it.Baste with a mixture of fresh apple juice and orange juice until almost cooked, then baste with plenty of melted butter for browning.Be careful not to let the pan scorch, mix the delicious drippings with the remainder of the orange sauce and serve very hot with the fowl.Garnish the platter, which should be amply large, with thin slices of a small bright skinned orange alternated with sprays of parsley.Crown Roast of Pork\u2014Delicious as turkey may seem to most of us, there are families where, what with culls and cockerel, the appetite for fowl has been satisfied.For these a roast of tender young pork will easily win over roast turkey.To make It equally festive and lordly choose a crown roast cooked to just the right degree of nut-brown deliciousness.It will be all the better if home grown and dressed.For the crown roast cut a piece taking in the six ribs of the loin on each side of the backbone.Cut out the backbone and make an incision between the ribs.Trim each bons as for French lamb chops.Next turn the two pieces so that the rib- bones are outside and the chops inside.Fasten together in the shape of a crown using steel skewers or sewing them together with strong thread.A butcher will prepare a crown roast for you but it is easily done at home.For the stuffing use equal parts of well seasoned sausage and soft brea¢ crumbs which have been soaked in cold water, squeezed dry and then crumbled.A little more sage and onion may be needed as well as salt and pepper, depending on how highly the sausage is seasoned.Fill the open space in the centre with the stuffing and wrap the ends of the rib bones with heavy buttered paper, or wrap them in a heavy paste of flour and water to prevent their scorching.Place the roast in a dripping pan, sprinkle with flour, salt and pepper, then roast slowly in a mediums oven for from two to three hours.Baste frequently with the drippings that farm in the pan and after the meat has been cooking for about three quarters of an hour add a cup of boiling water.To serve, remove to a hot platter, take thc wrapping from the bones and ornament each with a white paper frill or with small glazed onions.\u2018The space in the top of the crown may be filled with glazed onions or mashed potatoes garnished with parsley and the platter with apple rings and parsley.Tomnte Juice Coektail\u2014Four cups strained tomato juice, three tablespoons finely cut chives, three table- apoons C parsley, one teaspoon lemon fuice, quarter of a teaspoon tabasco sauce, quarter of a teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, two teaspoons salt.Let chives and parsley stand in tomato juice for three hours.Strain and add seasonings.Chill thoroughly, shake well and serve in glass surrounded by shaved ic.Hot Cocktail \u2014If your guests are coming in from a distance or desire a hot course first as being more suitable for a dinner where children as well as grown-ups are to be considered.Use this same cocktail recipe but reduce the tabasco to a few drops at most and the Worcestershire Sauce by half.Follow the directions exactly.Do not boll the herbs with the tomato juice but after it is strained and seasoned set aside until wanted.Then heat quickly and serve in bouillon cups with small croutons.Beuillon.\u2014Wipe and cut in nice cubes, 5 lbs of lean beef from the middle of round.Put two thirds of the meat into soup pot and soak in three quarts of cold water for half an hour.Brown the remainder of the meat In 9 hat {frying pan with marrow from 2 lbs.of marrow-bones.Put browned meat and bone in pot.Heat to boiling point; skim thoroughly and, simmer, cooking below bolling-point five hours.Add 1 teaspoons pepper corns, 1 tablespoon salt and one third of a cup each of diced celery, carrot, onion and turnips.Cook one hour, strain and cool.Remove fat and clear.Thig gives a plain beef bouillon which may be served or made into tomato bouillon as follows: Tomato Bouillon with Oysters.\u2014Mix together three pints of beef bouillon, one can of tomato, 1 tablespoon chopped onion, half a bay leaf, 6 cloves half a teaspoon of celery seed, half teaspoon peppercorns and boil for twenty minutes.Btrain cool, and clear.Just before serving add one pint of small oysters parboiled, let heat and serve in bouillon cups with small croutons, Glazed Onjens\u2014Use the small silver skinned variety for this.Peel, prick through centres and each side to prevent splitting, put them on the fire in bolling salted water and simmer until tender but not mushy.Drain and dry thoroughly.Mor each quart of onlons, melt two tablespoons of HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1828.mellow ssnesthness of a fine That the cannot be appreciated unless It ts ied oi cup.Try this delightful green \"SAL DA\" JAPAN TEA \u2019 Foosh from the Gardena MENUS be the best way.When ready to be served, the potatoes are found to be Menu 1.glazed over with a sweet, rich syrup.Appettsers Carrot Salad\u2014Add the required Crown Roast of Pork Sausage Stuffing Brown Gravy Apple Rings | Sweet Cucumber Pickle Mashed Potatoes Glazed Onions Escalloped Tomatoes Baked Squash Pulled Bread Carrot Salad Apple Meringue Pie Crounberry Tart Home-made Candy Fruit .Mixed Nuts Coffee = Menu 2.Tamato Juice Cocktail Roast Turkey Orange Sauce ~~ Cranberry Jelly Curled Celery Small pickled Gherkins Caulifiower with White Sauce Stuffed Egg plant Glaaed Sweet Potatoes Home Made Finger Rolls .Cabbage and Pepper Salad French Dressing Cottage Cheese Balls Mince Pie, Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream Grape Juice Ice Mized Salted Nuts Mapis Cream Bonbons Fruit Coffee = Checas Strews butter in à heavy {ying pas.add =e tablespoons of grant Sugar; to the bubbling stage then add the onions and stir gently until they are well glased or carameled.They will not taste sweet when finished but will have a shiny surface.Baked Squash.\u2014Cut the squash In half, scrape out the seeds and stringy parts.Score it and dot with butter using quarter of a cup for each half.Sprinkle each half with half a cup of brown sugar and a generous dash of pepper and salf.Place in a dripping pan with a little bot water.Bake two hours or until soft.Scrape out.the pulp, sift and reheat for serving.Staffed Egg Plant\u2014Boil two egg plants and cut in haif.Mince one medium sized onion with half a clove of garlic and fry in fat.Mince and add one green pepper, one cupful of chopped cooked ham, four cups of bread crumbs, moisten with one third of a cup of milk, add little chopped parsl-y, season well wiih salt and pepper and a drop of tabasco.Fill the halves, with bread crumbs, dot with bits of Lutter and bake brown.Glased Sweet Potatoes.\u2014Wash and pare six medium sized yellow sweet potatoes.Cook ten minutes in bolling _ salted water.Drain cut in halves length-wise and put in a well buttered pan.Make a syrup by boiling three minutes one-half cup sugar and four tablespoons of water; add one table- anon of butter.Brush the potatoes with the syrup and bake forty minutes, basting twice with the remain- ipg syrup.For a richer dish, boil the sweet potatoes until they are nearly done, then take them out of the kettle and let them cool then peel.Cut them up crosswise in slices and put some slices in a baking dish, say a covered casserole.Bprinkle with two table spoonfuls of sugar, dots of butter and very little cinnamon.Put in a second layer of potatoes and treat in the same manner.Lastly, pour over a cup or more of bolling water, cover, and let bake slowly until the potatoes are soft and semt-t ent.This is a Southern way of co sweet potatoes.and by many persons thought te amount of bolling water to one package of prepared gelatine, lemon flavored, and stir until dissolved.Chill When thick as honey, stir in one pared apple chopped fine and three scraped and grated carrots.Pour into cold wet individual molds and chill.Unmold and serve on lettuce leaves with French dressing or mayonnaise This serves aix, Cabbage and Pepper \u2014Stin and remove the seeds from one red and one green sweet pepper, chop them very fine retaining a few thin strips only for garnishing.Shred the fine leaves of a close hard head of cabbage and throw into cold salted water to crisp.Drain the cabbage and arrange on individual plates sprinkling on the chopped peppers and garnishing with the strips of pepper.Serve with a French dressing to which a few drops of onfon juice have been added.Individual .Appetisers.\u2014 Use small bread and butter plates with a\u2019 little slices of well drained canned pears, close around peach, place salted walnut or hickory nuts and between the pear slices of timy green gherkins.Grape Juiee Ice.\u2014Omne tablespoon gelatine 1-3 cup water, juice of 2 lemons, 1 1-2 cups sugar, 1 quart boiling water, 1 pint grape juice.Soak gelatine in cold water.Boll sugar in boiling water for 2 minutes and pour over soaked gelatine.Add other ingredients, cool and freese.1 Pulled Bread\u2014This is greatly appreciated by everybody alike: \u2014Take a loaf of freshly made bread, it should be quite warm from the baker's, and pull the inside out of it, in pleces the size of your hand, or perhaps smaller.Put these into the oven, and bake them a delicate brown.When cooked they are crisp and a very delicious nutty flavor.Home-made Finger Rolls\u2014Use your favorite recipe for Parker Houss rolls but shape in finger rolls or the foi- lowing.Add quarter of a cup or four tablespoons of butter, two tablespoons of sugar and one teaspoon of salt to two cups scalded milk.when lukewarm add one yeast cake dissolved in quarter of a cup of lukewarm water, and three cups of bread flour.Beat, thoroughly and let rise until light; cut down and add enosgh flour to knead (it will take about two and a half cups.) Let rise again, toss on slightly floured board, knead, pat and roll out to half an inch thickness.Cut in finger length strips.Roll with the hand on floured board to shape, Place on greased pan, one inch apart; cover, let rise and bake In hot oven 12 minutes to fifteen minutes.A hot oven and quick baking is necessary.stooping and kneeling and reaching when the tub is acrubbed.talking about.80 is a paper of high purpose.A 67c trial subscription may resuls In à lUfe-long subscriber.It Le because it does so in so many cases that we dare make such a slashing eut for introductory purposes. WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1928.Indies above, Miss Masu Yumaki, left, and Miss right, are visiting public heaith centres in Canada the United States under the auspices of the Rockefeller Following their visit in Canada they will return by matiemal hospital at Tekis, Japan, where they will carry on their life werk.+ SH ei: E 2 el For Third Row\u20141 chain, 3 double in the first stitch, 2 double, and in the last stitch.Row\u20141 chain, 2 knots th the 4 knots and two knots in Fifth Row\u20141 chain, 2 double in the stitch, 6 double, 3 double in the Continue in this way, In- asing 1 stitch at each end of the and working alternately, knot double stitch until there are 16 .Then, still working the alternate rows, decrease one stitch at the beginning of every row, 1s only 1 stitch left.Draw the thread through and break it off.Now stretch the tie, but pulling it out to its fullest extent; roll up carefully, and put it under a moderate weight, and leave for a few hours.If you prefer it the tie may be ironed, between the folds of a cloth, instead of pressing it under à weight.A Warm, Firm Cushion son one side and green the other side, perhaps.If you do not know the stitch you will quickly pick it up from this description: \u2014Make a chain, the length required for one side of the cover, using a long bone crochet hook.When the length is made work back, p the first loop, put wool over draw it through two loops; i i E28 H à one loop wool over hook, two loops and so on, until worked a piece large enough one side of the cover.Work square in the same Way, using erent colored wool.Sew up sides leaving the fourth side at â NEEDLE WORK DEPARTMENT open, to take In the cushion, then sew up neatly and firmly.This cushion placed at the back of the invalid will form a warm, firm support.SLIP COVERS In selecting materials for slip covers or chair pads choose a good quality and select fabrics that will wash and wear well, suggests Miss Gladys Gallup, extension specialist at the Washington State college.She warns against making these things of poor quality cretonne.: \u201cWell made slip covers,\u201d she says, \u201cshould give many years of service._In the meantime the color scheme of the room may be changed.With this possibility in mind, it is well to choose à many colored cretonne for the covers so that the different color schemes can be developed from the one pattern.Fach time the room is changed, different tones from the cretonne will match with the plain materials used in other parts of the room.\u201d Home Made Clothes Dear Susan 8\u2014Can you tell me how to finish my coats and dresses so they will not look home-made.I get good patterns and am careful, but they never look as well as bought, ready- made clothes and I am discouraged.\u2014 E.B.H.Don\u2019t get discouraged.It is probably a matter of the small finishing touches only.First of all when you make your coats and dresses do you press every seam and fold before you go on to the next step?Do you press the under-arm seam and the shoulder seams, and the sleeve seams before you set in your sleeve?Do you press thé collar well before you join it to the coat?Do yqu press the bottom of the coat or skirt after laying the hem and before you stitch it down?Do you set in all pockets and trimmings and press them well before sewing up the dress or coat?Do you keep your work neat and well pressed from the time you baste and try it on for the first time until the last stitch is in?It not, then try doing all these things.The real secret of good looking tailor mades is the pressing not when the garment is finished, but during its construction.Have a clean, well-pad- ded ironing board and a sleeve board at hand.If you have not the latter roll a long piece of cotton round and round a rolled magazine and sew it 20 it will not come undone.Use this to press the armhole, sieeve, neck, or where you are afraid the used, care must be taken that the seams do not pucker.It is oftener nester to make a single seam, then overcast the edges together.On many of the simple frocks, the neck and sleeves are bound with cross- way strips of material, which gives a smart, neat finish.The binding, however, must be done very neatly and must de quite narrow, otherwise a clumsy appearance results.The neatest method is to use the binding material double, put the two raw edges to the edge that is to be bound, seam them together then turn the folded edge over and machine stitch or blind stitch it down by hand.Many of the new dresses are made with circular skirts, and here again binding is necessary.An ordinary turned-up hem \u2018would never sit nicely, and the neatest effect is got by binding the skirt.By the way, when making a circular ékirt, it is an advantage if the dress is allowed to \u201chang\u201d for a few days before being finished.The material usually being on the cross, it \u2018\u201cdrops® considerably after cutting.So, after making up the bodice and attaching skirt, hang the dress on a coat hanger for a day or two, and then finish off the hem.Round Bead Chain Dear Busan 8.:\u2014Will you be s0 good as to give directions in your needlework column for making a round bead rope or chain.I would like to make one of orange beads and work in with it some large orange, blue, and black beads I have\u2014A School Girl.You will not find the rope chain at all difficult if you are accustomed to using a crochet hook.Use English cut beads, size O, spool Purse Twist, a number 8 steel crochet hook and ten of your large beads.First: \u2014Crochet 4 chain stitch and Join without beads.Second: \u2014Insert needle in first stitch, take one bead and make a half stitch.Continue round using four beads to & row.Third: Insert needle under first bead, and make half stitch, continuing as in second row, always keeping four beads to each row.Continue until you have one piece twenty inches long, then finish off and begin again, making four other strips each six inches long.Join to the twenty inch strip at each end a six-inch strip inserting three of your large beads between.Two large round ones with a long one between looks well.Join to each of the six-inch strips another six-inch strip putting at each join a long bead.At each end add à large round bead sewing through it and adding three or five loops of the small beads.Six-inch strips of the small beads doubled back make three- inch tassels which are about right for the chain.\u2014Susan 8.Screll Table Mats Dear Susan 8\u2014I have had so many patterns for needlework from the Witness I am glad to be able to send one in that is asked for.I'm not sure but I think I got it from the Witness a number of years ago\u2014J.B.Mats scroll pattern\u2014Use No.5 crochet cotton.Chain 8 join In a ring.Ch 4, fasten in ring with sc.repeat until you have 6 loops of 4 ch.2nd row.* 4 ch.fasten in loop of 4 ch.with 2 s.\u20ac., repeat all round from .8rd row.* 4 ch.fasten In loop of 4 ch.with 2 s.c.and two more worked through the two sc.of previous row.Repeat from °.Continue to work thus, increasing by one s.c.the solid part formed by the sc.each row until you have 17 sc.in each scroll and you have one section complete.Make three more sections and sew closely together to form an oval.For border.Fasten thread at right hand side where two sections are joined.Ch.4, sc.In 2nd sc, and an &c.in each sc.until you have 15.Repeat all round.Next row you will haveg!3 sc.and decrease by 2 sc.each row and increase the number of loops of 4 ch.until you have only one &c.left when the mat is finished.One mat this aise, two with 18 sc.and two with 13 sc.makes the ordinary st, and they will be found AMMERING Bmatura! methods permanently restore i matural h.Graduate pupils everywhere.Free advice and literature.THE ARNOTT INSTITUTE | ADA KITCHENER, - CAN, The Norwegien Lutharsn Desconess Hospital - School of Nursing offers à 3% yesr course te High Schoo! graduates.Excellent instrustion and practical experience.Apply te Principal, _\u2014 Pourtd Ave.& 4th Bt, Brooklyn.New very useful for setting under hot dishes and adding to the appearance of the table.Thank you for the scroll pattern.I wonder If any one else has a pattern for round mats\u2014S.8.Mothers will know the value of getting into the homes of their friends a paper which magnifies home life and which has such warm and true sympathies with every age, from the cradle .on to the dawn of the life beyond.Our Pattern Service 63297.Girls\u2019 Dress.Cut in 5 Sizes: 1, 3, 3, 4 and 5 years.The Dress with long sleeves for a 2 year size requires 244 yards of 27 inch material together with JA yard of contrasting material.If made with short sleeves 1% yard will be required and the contrasting material.To finish as illustrated will require 5% yards of narrow banding.Price 15c.6276.Ladies\u2019 Dress.Cut in 6 Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure.À 38 in size will require - 3% yards of 39 inch material together with 34 yard of contrasting material for facings on revers, cuffs and belt.The underbody requires 1 yard of 32 inch material.The width of the skirt at the lower edge with fulness extended is 134 yard.Price - 18e.JOAN DOUGALL & SO Publishers, Montreal COUPON PATTERN Pease oend me PATTERN NOB.) MO.WOissoreen At the rate of fifteen coats que.Amount enclos L\u2026uocraconseccuvocs.CRD Name s.\u20261.vo0oucu vuscasessencess v\u2026.POV.socsusces For Blouses, ete, give BUST MBASURE tn taches For Misses and Chtiéres give age only is years secsecsasscce FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESYRAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1908.A Thanksgiving Adventure T was nearing Thanksgiving Day of the buggy.Then, getting some the warm stable with some hay from and the Stevens househoid was busily engaged in making tions for the holiday.There were Mr and Mrs.Stevens, Sadie and Adolph Stevens and a woman-of-all work, Maggie Cline, and a man-of-all-work.John Heart.The Stevens lived on a ranch in the West, and their world was a small one, for their nearest neighbors were from seven to ten miles distant, and their nearest town fifteen miles away.A few days before Thanksgiving Mrs.Stevens began making plans for a day of sociability and a fine dinner.\u201cWe'll have to get our turkeys from town,\u201d she said one evening.\u201c80 Dolph will have to go to town the day before Thanksgiving and get & pair of big birds for our feast.\u201d \u201cYes, mother, we must have our Thanksgiving dinner,\u201d declared Mr.Stevens.\u201cBut why do you want two turkeys?Won't one do nicely?We are only six strong here, you know, and à huge fellow would feed ten people\u201d Mrs.Stevens smiled.\u201cI have written to the Joneses asking to pay us a visit on Thanksgiving, and have dinner with us at 3 o'clock.It will make the day brighter to have company, I think.\u201d \u201cGood, mother,\u201d acquiesced Mr.Stevens.\u201cGet two big birds, for there are seven Jones, are there not?\u201cYes daddy, there are five Jones children,\u201d informed Adolph.\u201cAnd Mr.and Mrs.Jones make the seven.Say, I'm glad we are to have them over for Thankgiving.I'll let Harry Jones ride my new pony, and he'll enjoy looking over my new set of Dickens.He's awfully fond of books.\u201d : \u201cAnd Tll have a lovely time gvith Grace.Harriet and Helen,\u201d cried e.\u201cThey'll bring their dolls, I hope.\u201d \u201cAnd Baby Jones, will be for me,\u201d laughed Mr.Stevens.\u201cWell all enjoy the day, I am sure.The Joneses are a fine family.I do not know a better man in all the county than Sam Jones.He\u2019s good through and through.\u201d \u201cYes, father, we can\u2019t complain of our neighbors except that they live too far away from us,\u201d said Mrs.Stevens.Then the conversation became general, and the program for Thanksgiving Dav was planned.\u201cSay, what's the matter with my calling at the Joneses on my way to town and asking Harry to go with me on the trip?He can come on home with me and stay over a night.\u201d suggested Adoloh.\u201cA good idea.\u201d agreed his father.An hour before dawn on the eve of Thankselving Dav, Adolph Stevens was getting ready for his trip to town.The journey there and back covered thirty miles and much of the way lav our rough hills of what was called \u201cgrazing ground.\u201d no farms being in that vicinity.Onlv human habitations lav between the Stevens ranch and town.\u201cI'll be in town before noon mother.\u201d said Adolph.as he set down to his early breakfast, As Adolph jumped into the top- buggy, and gathered up the horses\u2019 reins, Sadie called out of her room window: \u201cDolph, be sure to get a box of fancy candy for me.And-\u2014and a blue band for my hair.\u201d \u201cAll right.Sis,\u201d called back Adolph.Then he clucked to the horses and was off just as the grey dawn peeped over the eastern hills, When Adolph drew rein at the home of the Joneses he found the family glready at their usual morning dut- es.He asked if Harry would bear him company to town.\u201cLike nothing better\u201d was the answers, and hurriedly putting on his best clothes, for his mother had agreed to his going home with Adolph to stay over night.Harry was soon in the buggv beside Adolph and they were riding over the prairie road chatting about all things of laterest to them.They reached the town a bit before noon, and Adolph found two fine turkeys at the market that just suited him.He bought them and tucked them away In some straw at the back prepara- y candy and ribbon for Sadie, groceries his mother wanted, and the he was ready to start home.But he and Harry decided that the horses should rest à bit longer, for the roads were bed and made traveling hard on them.So lt was about half-past one o'clock when at last Adolph and Harry turned their faces homeward.After leaving the town, which nestled tn a little valley beside the river, they reached the highlands, and Adolph sniffed the air, with some uneasiness.\u201cSure as we're born, H oye there is a storm brewing.The wind comes cold from the north.Bet we have a Norther before tomorrow.\u201d \u201cHope it won't keep Daddy and Mammy at home,\u201d remarked Harry.\u201cThey are counting on a day at your house tomorrow.\u201cAnd so are we,\u201d affirmed Adolph.\u201cBut\u2014there\u2019s a Norther on its wav.I smell it.And, do you know what I'm afraid of Harrv?\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d asked Harrv, also feeling the frost in the air of a sudden.I'm afraid it will meet\\us before we're half wav home.If 30, we'll put into vour house.\u201d \u201cYes.we\u201dil have to =*o0 there over night,\u201d said Harrv.\u201cThat is if.the Norther zets here before we can reach your home.\u201d Even while thev were sneaking the wind began coming in heavy gusts, and ice was to be felt in it.Then, before the bovs h~d covered five miles of the journey.the Nor*har was full upon them.It was difficult to go \u2018abreast tt.and the horses amnst-atag- gered at times.The boys had wran- ped themselves in the lap robes.and had to ride with heads bent and eves closed.The sleet and snow in the wind cut their faces and filled ears and\u2019 eves.After half an hour of tedious travel the air became zo filled with fiving snow and sleet that the boys could not see the distance nf ten feet around them.The horses bravelv toiled onward, but Adolph was afraid thev'd give out before reaching Mr.Jones' ranch, After what seemed a very, very long time to the bovs.they found themselves on the side of a steep hill, not the sign of a road beneath their buggy wheels.Just when the horses had gotten off the road the boys had no idea.Adolph drew the horses to a standstill and jumped out to examine the surroundings.\u201cI can't make out where we are,\u201d he said ten minutes later, as he climbed into the buggy again.\u201cRav, Harrv.we're lost, lost.and in a blizzard, too.\u201d \u201cSay, that\u2019s not a very cheerful prospect, is it?\u201d asked Harry, trying to smile.But he shivered instead.The storm was increasing in fierceness, and the bovs knew that thev and the horses would soon succumb unless they could find some sort of shelter.\u201cLet's give the horses their heads,\u201d suggested Harry.\u201cThey may take us home.\u201d \u201cThey had their heads.and brought us off the road that would have taken us directly there,\u201d sald Adolph.\u201cBut I don't know what else to do.I know the wind is coming from the north.If we turn them away from the wind they may find the road and take us back.\u201d So Adolph took up the lines and turned the horses in the direction the wind was blowing.On and on they went, till the day waned and dark began to settle about them.\u201cWe can't stop out ir this all night,\u201d de- .clared Adolph.\u201cWe've got to find shelter for ourselves and the ho: \u201c Even while he spoke an object loomed dark in front of them.On coming closer to it the boys found they were at the door of a country church which lay about seven miles from the Jones ranch.\u201cWe've found a place at last.\u201d cried Harry.No time was lost in conversation.The boys jumped from the b , thelr limbe stiff and their nosesbal.most frozen.They quickly unhitched the horses and led them to the long stables at the rear of the church, As the members of the church's congregation came from great dis tances to attend worship, and had te have sole place of warmth and shelter, for their horses, the stables Had been built for such accommodation.And Harry and Adolph were mast thankful that they had found a place where the poor animals also might be secure from the bliszard.Once the horses were safely shut in the back of the buggy, Adolph and Harry got into the church by means of a window which they opened.There, to their satisfaction, they found plenty of coal and wood in the big box that stood in the entry.Soon they had a roaring fire, and the church bocame warm and inviting.A brack- \"et lamn, well filled with oll, was lighted, and the bovs declared themselves quite comfortable.\u201cNow, If only we had some supper.\u201d said Harry, \u201cAh, we'll have some broiled turkey wing\u201d said Adoiph.And he made his wsy to the stable, where he puiled one of the fine fat dressed fowls from the straw.With his pocket knife he severed the wings and legs.and returned to the chur~h.On a sharn stick he held the bits of meat over the s\u2018ove blaze, and 80\" had thir supper ready.\u201cFait wouldn't do this turk harm.\u201d suggested Harry.a.\u201cWe're lucky to have turkey, without the trimmings and very thankful for it\u201d laughted Adolph.Then they ate their strange supper, without a murmur of discontent.Afterward they arranged beds in the pews nearest the stove, using the lap robes for covers and their own coats for mattresses.All night thev slept the aleep of healthy, innocent vouth.and on the morrmw \u2014 Thanksgiving Dav \u2014 found the storm had subsided sufficiently for them to venture homeward.\u201cIf we can't reach mv home.we at least can get to vours,\u201d sald Adolnh.\u201cAnd as snre oe fate vour folks haven't braved this weather to go visiting.\u201d \u201cNo indeed\u201d asserted Harry.\u201cBut both vour folks and mine must be warried almost to desth about us That's the thing that worriers me.\u201d \u201cAnd me.\u201d assured Adolph.\u201cSo, let's start: We'll give the horses a bite.And luckv for them that I put In a few extra ears of corn.Then after they have had some water from the chirch well, we'll start for home.\u201d It was very late In the afternoon that Mr.Stevens on the constant watch for the return of Adolph, saw a dark object dragging over the storm- blown road.And later Adolph turned the horses into the yard of his own home.The entire family were at the door and window to greet him, and as his mother folded him in her arms, weeping over him for jov, and declaring that she had feared he might have perished in the storm.he was obliged to remind them that he had a companion.And then they all greeted Harry warmiv.\u201cWell.we certainly have murh to be thankful for on this day,\u201d said Mr.Stevens.\u201cBut Harry's parents\u2014do they know?\u201d \u201cWe had Thanksgiving dinner with them at 12 todav.\u201d exvlained Adolph.\u201cThen we set out for this ranch, where we are to have Thankselving supper.I left one turkey with Mrs.Jones and the other is in the buggy.We'll all eat turkey tomorrow.wont we?\u201d \u201cWhat there is left of the turkey\u201d smiled Harry.We feasted from parts of him at the church last night.\u201d And to the astonishment of the family, the boys told the story of thelr night's ps And asain Mr.Stevens said: \u201cWe have great cause for v- ing this day.\u201d\u2014 (Selected).thankagt A THANKSGIVING DAY It was a hungry pussy cat, Upon Thanksgiving morn And she watched a thankful little mouse That ate an ear of corn.\u201cIf IT ate that thankful little mouse, How thankful he should be, When he has made a meai himself To make a meal for mel\u201d \u201cThen with his thanks for having fed, And his thanks for feeding me, With all his thankfulness inside, How thankful I shall bei\u201d Thus mused the hungry pussy cat, Upon Thanksgiving Day; But the little mouse had overheard And declined (with thanks) to stay, By Oliver Herford.\u2018= \u201c re for the children.Four uncles and number of cousins and aunties, well as grandma and grandpa, to dinner.Everybody was grown up, however, so after dinner Bobbie and Françes went out on the pond for & skate together.The weather was cold and the pond had frosen over.The loe was thin near the centre of the pond, but the little folks had promised to keep close to the edge, so they would not tumble into the cold water.The pond wasn\u2019t deep, but no one likes an icy pond bath in eold weather.Over their heads flew a number of blackbirds, calling to one another, and hunting for food.\u201cThe poor things want some Thanksgiving dinner,\u201d said Frances.\u201cI wish we bad something for them.\u201d \u201cLook at them now!\" said Bobbie._ \u201cSee howefunny they are acting!\u201d The birds had gathered together where the ice was thin and lay close to the ice.It looked as if they were taking turns in warming the ice, and so they were! \u2018They were trying to melt it with their warm bodies.Fish need air to breathe, and when the pound froze over, the alr was shut out and some of the fish in the pond died.The birds saw the dead fish under the Ice, and knew they would make a fine meal.They kept warming the ice till it was meited, then they poked in their bills, drew\u201cout a fish and feasted happily! \u201cWasn't that the smartest thing ever heard of?\u201d said Frances.\u201cAnd wasn't that the queerest Thanksgiving dinner you ever heard of?\u201d answered Bobbie, as they pulled off their skates and went running back the house to tell the exciting bit of \u2014Picture Story Paper.A LITTLE CHILD'S A very little child am 1, Yet I can thankful be To our kind Father who has sent Such wondrous things to me.For fruit and flowers, rain and shine, And skies of deepest blime; The twinkling stars that light the night, The frost and pearly dew.For songs of birds, and rippling brooks, And fairy things that fly, And all the creatures of the woods That shyly pass me by.I thank Him for all things so fair, Around me and above; But most of all I thank Him for A heart with which to love.\u2014Prémary Education.de 4 av Puzzle Corner Six-Letter Bquare-Word We see my first sail o'er the ocean blue.My second ls a bird of brownish hua, The whole, or all, is by my third expressed.My fourth\u2019's a riddle you have often guessed.My fitth means called, or named or classified.My sixth is firm, nor sways from side to side, Hidden Fruits 1.Look on the map please.2 Will you have fruit-or angel cake for dessert?This problem on fractions is easy.It will appear next week.I will help each child over the fence.6.That chap lumbering along must be tired.3.4.8.Answers, te Last Week's Pussies Beheaded Words.Tone, bone, lone, none,\u2014one.PL.Norway, Denmark, WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1928.FOR LEISURE MOMENTS Milt Fall was a stickier for getting what he went after.One day he went had not had his disgust he took it off the hook and threw in back Into the water.\u201cWhy, what in the world did you do that for,\u201d asked his companion.en I go eelin',\u201d Fall sald, \u201cI go eelin\u2019\u201d Fisk\u2014Can you let me have a week off?.I'm all in.Weatherby\u2014But you just had a two weeks vacation.Flak\u2014 that's the .I must have angther week to .\u2014\u2014\u2014 Photographer \u2014 Look pleasant, Please.Pewit\u2014Take me looking sad and gloomy.Photographer\u2014But why?Peewit\u2014This photograph is for my wife, who is away.If I looked too gay she'd hurry home, Patient\u2014But, 1s this operation dangerous?Surgeon\u2014Well, we succeed, gener- ally, once out of five times.Zut don't \u2014- worry; I have just falled in the last four I-had.\u2014London Passing Show.Doctor\u2014Perhaps you drink too much coffee.I should advise you to try a substitute.Patient\u2014Doctor, your advice is superfluous.I have lived in boardinghouses for 25 years.Stranger\u2014Did the mob burn that fellow at the stake?8ol.Plumbley\u2014No; we found there was some doubt about his guilt, so we only hung him.reel Billswiggle\u2014Just imagine, I just met -a fellow who resembled you so much that when he saw me he couldn't help saying, \u201cHello, George.\u201d Teacher\u2014Billie, do two rights ever make a wrong?Billle\u2014Yes, ma'am; when they are shoes.i Scribbler\u2014I wonder if I'd have better success with the magazines if I should have my articles typewritten.Friend\u2014Oh, no! Then the editors could read them.Boy\u2014No, mister, I don't want to sell this big fish.Angler\u2014Well, just let me measure him, so that I can truthfully say how big the fish was that got away from me.Mother\u2014 What in the world are you doing to poor dolly, child?Child\u2014I'm just going to put her to bed.I've taken off Her hair, but I can't get her teeth out.s Bozo\u2014Do any of the good things you hope for come to pass?Bimbo\u2014They all come to pass; but they come and pass so swift I can't grab \u2018em.\u201cI suppose you have heard of the \u201cYes, but I've never met him.\u201d \u201cThat is quite obvious.\u201d Jimmte\u2014Father, why do men get bald sooner than women?Father\u2014Becauss they don't wear their hatr so long.Mrs.Moneybacker\u2014Have you any antiques of the Louis XV perlod?Dealer\u2014Yes, madam, we have quite an assortment.What are you particularly interested in seeing?Mrs.Moneybacker\u2014I would like to set à Louis XV vacuum cleaner.TWENTY-ONRB The henpecked husband was returning from his wife's funeral and as be walked up the front steps to his house a dislodged slate fell from the roof and landed on his head.\u201cClee whiz,\u201d he exclaimed.\u201cSarah must have reached heaven aiready.\u201d Landlady: \u201cYou have been here three months and have never paid any rent.\u201d Student: \u201cBut you said it would be like home here!\u201d Landiady: \u201cWel, I hope it is.\u201d Student: \u201cAt home I never paid any rent.\u201d In the village of Notre Dame Laus, in Quebec province, Beryl (bored)\u2014Well, what shall do this evening?Merle\u2014Let's think hard\u2014 Beryl\u2014No, let's do something you can do, too! \u201cWhy don't you buy something at my table?\u201d demanded the girl at the charity fair.\u201cBecause I only buy from the homely girls,\u201d said the man.\u201cThey have a harder time making sales.\u201d The girl was not offended, and the man worked the gag right down the line.\\ The Week\u2019s Cross Word Puzzle A FRIENDLY FAMILY of attention.The young animal laymnates.the biacksmith has a is shown on the right playing pet deer D.Moncoin.The latter\u2019s son is pictured at the left with the family P What is worse than raining cats and dogs?Halling taxis and buses.Friend\u2014Why do you keep beating your wife?Caveman\u2014Because she keeps saying she\u2019s unhappily married.He\u2014Why didn\u2019t you answer my letter?: She\u2014I didn\u2019t get it?He\u2014You didn\u2019t get it?She\u2014 No, and besides, 1 didn't like some of the things you said in it.19.Toward a higher pisces 21.Te eripple 12.Holland tows 84.Egytisa goddess 36.Division of time 88.Leafer 28.The first weman @ 13 28.Dreaded 9.Devise for measuring 03.Narrow beard St.Te break suddenly 42.Te osaitinte 38.Fremeh fer \u201caod\u201d 12 44.While 34.Paso 40.Half an em 2e Molds «2.Spectrum 28.Suppesing that Bi.Cellage official\u2019 40.Feminine pronsun 68.Preliminary bat (possessive) 57.Alighted 42.Trinngular deposit at 20 OA.Te depart - er monte sa.Porm ver of \u2018sles .2 22 et Pather 47.Sen weed \u201c4.Sun god 48.Dregs 2 se.To disembark MORIZONTAS.82 Drazillea elty 1 met, 15 pronoue \u2018 .» Comparative endin HN oe 4.To exist 4.Puffing wp * 6.Small rooms 86.Townrd 11.Goblins 61.Te Mx 35 11.à bird £3.Put away 15.From 65.Whe wrete \u201cThe 16.Mohammedan woman's Inferno?\" N velit ee, Preneun 16.Type measure 67.Part of \u201clo be\u201d Answers to Last Week\u2019s Puzzles 0 LUE / VERTICAL 1.Age 28.Prefis; down 8.Similar to $34.1 am (contraction) Lin the past 9.Bakold 26.Bon sf Adam $ To pour in 16.Tangle of dreads 27.Moctite incursion 3.Te seb.14.Pesssesive premenn 20.mobs 12008 ite EE ts ve a wake rea < Orér 90 Holes 87.Kthod Mother\u2014Does my little boy like to study?School teacher\u2014He likes to do nothing better.Auntie did not know that Lonny had ju-t received a spanking, so when she found him crying behind the house, she said kindly: \u201cMy dear, what is the matter?Is there anything I can do for you?\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d was the tearful response, \u201cIt's all been done.\u201d Jones: \u201cCan you loan me a five- spot for a month, old boy?\u201d Jonah: \u201cCertainly not.What would a child one month old do with five dollars?\u201d \u2014\u2014 > M.T.Head\u2014I'm not myself lately.I.M.Mean\u2014Congratulations! Her father\u2014How am I to know that you are not marrying my daughter for my money?Suitor\u2014And how am i to know that you won't fall inside of a year?We are both taking risks.Lady (at fashionable ball)\u2014Do you know that ugly man sitting opposite to us?Partner\u2014That is my brother, madam.Lady \u2018in confusion)\u2014Ah! TI beg your pardon.I had not noticed the resemblance.IT WEARS WELL! What other paper of all-round-in- terest has been so great an inspiration to young as well as to old, has champloned at so great cost to itself and publishers so many good causes, and has done so for three, four, and in some families, for parts of five generations?In other words the great great grand-parents of some of our present readers valued the \"Witness\u201d\u2014e paper which has always \u201cbeen a leader In great movements and still has the courage to lead. WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1938.THE SPANISH PRISONER The Witness new serial of daring adventure and intrigue among Spanish brigands.by Freeman Tilden by arrangement with Doubleday-Doran Syndicate.Spain.out seoretly for Spain but the Melor Se his object acocompanica T drétner Preatis ths chase to povvent ihe evindin (Now read os) CHAPTER IV.i.While, Colonel Fenimore, anug- 1y stowed aboard the Synoptic, was having the time of his life.Never having heard much about seasickness, and therefore being unafraid of 1t, he escaped that calamity altogether.The Synoptic danced and lurched, and took thousands of tons of cold North Atlantie water over her bows, but the Colonel only waxed more entertaining and loquacious for it.By the time they had passed Cape Race, the reai- estate development of Bellemary was known to all the passengers who were well enough to listen, and, in the Colonel's retrospect, it loomed as a hustling metropolis.The Colonel was in high spirits.The first letter from Ramon de Santa Clara, inviting Erskine Fenimore to become the saviour of a Spanish gentleman imprisoned for bankruptcy, and thereby to obtain the handsome sum of $120,000\u2014the third part of that fortune which was hidden in a certain portmanteau\u2014had come just when the Colonel's fortunes seemed at the lowest ebb.The Colonel had said nothing to his daughter about the letter, nor to his son.He considered the \u201cproposition,\u201d and it engaged him.He felt that it would do no harm to risk a cablegram to the Spanish Prisoner and become possessed of more facts.80, two months before, he had cabled as follows: YES.YAGER Thereupon, after a few weeks of impatient waiting, another letter had come from Spain; but not this time from Ramon de Santa Clara.That good man, after languishing so long and painfully in jail, was dead.Dead! The Colonel's heart went out to him, across the mountains, the prairies, and the broad ocean.But, of course, the Colonel's heart did not go out quite so completely that he was unable to examine what followed.The new correspondent, a priest and confidant of the deceased prisoner,\u201d reported to Colonel Fenimore that almost the last words of the bankrupt had been: \u201cGet the good Colonel to come to Spain and take charge of my affairs.See that he becomes the guardian of my beautiful orphaned daughter, who will now be the sole helr to my fortune.\u201d The Colonel, always a sentimental man, flushed with pride and pieasure when he read this.A beautiful senorita, In need of a guardian! What better guardian could there be than himself?He had seen pictures of Spanish senoritas and they were all beautiful, with big, trustful eyes and raven hair.Not that the Colonel, though he was a widower, had the slightest notion of courting such à lovely young female himself.But he thought instantly of Freddle\u2014and a romance built itself up on the spot.An heiress with raven hair and big trustful eyes was exactly what Freddie needed.Altogether, it seemed perfect! The one cloud in the otherwise gorgeous sky was due to the fact that she Colonel had no money.The priest suggested in his letter that it might be just as well if Senor Fenimore came to Spain armed with at least thirty thousand dollars of American money, to settle the late bankrupt's court fees, satisfy the official itching palms, and so forth.The Colonel had no such amount, If he had h- this amount, the bankrupt's letter would not s0 have enthralled him from the beginning.But Colonel Fenimore had never been the man to refuse an entertaining speculation merely for lack of money, He felt that it was & poor salesman who could not deal with Spaniards\u2014a people very inferior in intelligence and more endowed with singing and dancing ability than with business acumen, if report were true.Somehow, somewhere along the road to this fortune, the Colonel would, he felt, ind the right way to get hold of the portmanteau and achieve the guardianship of Senorita de Santa Clara.Glorietta had guessed accurately when she assumed that the Colonel must have borrowed the necessary money for the trip.As it seemed to be nothing, however, that Glorietta would be disposed to look upon with favor, the Colonel made his plans without consulting his daughter.Thus when he said to Glorietta that he was going for a business trip to Denver, the Colénel was telling a small whopper.But he forgave himself this venial sin on the ground that it was in a good cause.So, the Colonel sailed on and on, eastward, and the farther he sailed, the more romantic and alluring the whole business became.There was something so dignified, ingratiating, and so healthfully optimistic about him that he won all hearts and confidence.He was a big man, physically, and his tailoring was designed to make him at once conservative.without being repellent.He wore his broad-brimmed Stetson hat with an alr thal was not exactly jaunty but was provocative.As he never spoke of money to strangers\u2014unless it was a question of a temporary loan\u2014in terms of less than thousands, he could not fail to give the impression of wealth.So, those who heard the Colonel describe, somewhat oratorically, the vast riches of Western America, confided to each other: \u201cThat great real-estate development he talks about is probably only a plaything.No doubt the Colonel owns oil wells or mines.\u201d One of the Colonel's favorite sayings was a quotation from the late J.Pler- pont Morgan: \u201cSir, the man who sells the prosperity of the United States short will go broke as sure as God made little red apples!\u201d It is doubtful if Mr.Morgan mentioned little red apples in the original remark.The Colonel added that part from his own rich vocabulary.But the point was that Erskine Fenimore repeated this aphorism in such an effective manner as tq-convince all hearers that he must have been à friend and co-work- er with Mr.Morgan.The stewards of the Synoptic would have received large tips from Colonel Fenimore if that gentleman had been in easier circumstances.They never questioned for a moment that the big American was travelling cabin merely because he preferred the company of the kind of people who travel that way.Nobody, by the way, has ever been known to admit travelling second class for any other reason.The stewards were surprised, then, upon landing in Liverpool, to receive such slight tokens of the Colonel's esteem.But the life of a steward wouldn't be worth Mving if it were not for the element of surprise contained in it.To the great relief of Colonel Peni- more, he found that the same language, approximately, was spoken in England as in the United States.Somehow, he had thought Englishmen were foreigners.Of course, they are.But he had thought he would have difficulty in getting about.On the contrary, It seemed that getting about was easier than in New York.From Liverpool to London, and from Lon- doa to the channel boat, the distinguished visitor travelled with ease and ished visitor travelled with ease and at Calais that he beggn to realise how far from Los Angeles he was getting.In Calais, Colonel Fenimore first became aware of the peculiar way in which some foreigners talk, when at home.Nor did they seem to understand him: nor did they seem to try to.In such a case there.is only one thing to do.That is, to overawe the foreigner.This the Cdlonel, at the fir she sald slowly.\u201cSince money long since ceased to be an aim with you, John Sargent, don't ask me to believe you came here to trade.As for myself \u2014 you are kind, and I'm grateful.But I shall not go France.\u201d ~~ - I looked at her stupidly.Stan with her black gown hanging straight from her shoulders, she was again Madame Rupert \u2014 the woman who had baffled and trapped me.She gave me back my self-possession an also my realization that I \u2018balanced on a hair rope.Yet, for the moment I was careless of whether she believed my story.I must dispose of her first.\u201cWhat can you do here?\u201d I knew my tone was hostile.She looked as though my sudden tempers did not touch her.\u201cWhat can I do here?\u201d she repeated gravely.\u201cWhat can I do there?Remember \u2014 I am neither mald nor widow.What ê rtunity for service.has had little education, but he has a methodical mind.He wishes records of his Indians \u2014 his marches \u2014 his speeches.I can do that.\u201d \u201cYou stay here to be Langlade\u2019s secretary \u2014 his clerk!\u201d - She turned, \u201cI stay here \u2014\u201d she began gently.Then her voice broke.\u201cYou said yourself the salt would come back to life, Is there any better way to get hold of life than by service?\u201d I took her hands and bent to them.\u201cHortense, I'm brutal.I don't mean to be.Be patient.But you must not stay here alone.Remember I have rights.You are of my blood.\u201d She zhopk her head \u2014 though she let her hands rest in mine.\u201cNo, no, not of your blood! Your wife's sister, John, and aunt of you?boy, but never of your blood.I am a Frenchwoman.We are miles apart.\u201d \u201cYour mother was English.\u201d \u201cI am my father\u2019s child.Then, too, my mother was wife of her husband.She spent the last helf of her life trying to forget England.\u201d I let her hands go.She was right.Her mother's first marriage had been a drab affair; dutiful, dull.She had found her belated girlhood in her French marriage.I could expect no sentiment toward England in a child of hers.\u201cBut you can't stay on here,\u201d I growled.\u201cIt's an impossible situation.\u201d - \u201cWill France make it a better situation?\u201d There she was s=ain, throwing me back to the terrible essentials, Was she right \u2014 was she better here, after all?But there was Godefroy; she might see him at any moment.I must get him out of the way.But suppose Godefroy killed mel.getting too warm.I felt choked.Then I realized 1 was walking the floor aiid stopped and sat down.\u201cHave you money?\u201d I demanded.\u201cHave you funds to draw on?\u201d \u201cAmple.\u201d \u201cApart from \u2014 from Lileuleant Godefroy?\u201d \u201cThanks to you \u2014 yes.\u201d \u201cNonsense! That money belongcd to you anyway.Then you could pay for escort to get out of here at any time?\u201d She had been standing by the window, talking over her shoulder.Now she turned and beckoned.\u201cCome here.\u201d I went to het.She had pushed open the heavy casement with its square of thick glass and the wind that had moderated to a light breese, came full in our faces.The sky was blue now, and a thrush was singing.In front \u2018of us the wall of the forest was shining and swinging.A tall slim birch was dipping curtsies to a pine tree like a maid In a pantomime.\u201cI am not leaving this,\u201d she said.\u201cWhy?\u201d \u201cI told you I had work.\u201d \u201cClerk to a half-breed chief!\u201d \u201cThat comes badly from you who are seeking favors from the half- breed! But let it.pass.And there is more.This work \u2014 it is my heritage.\u201d \u201cYour heritage!\u201d Bhe leaned away from mie.\u201cI must make you understand something.Wait! You did net know \u2014 Nicholas Godefroy.He was ynusual.He had almost Langiade's with Indians.He was young, but a leader.He\u2014she loved France.And he had great hopes for this country.\u2018Do you \u2014 do you see?\u201d I bowed.Godefroy's name on her lips shocked me.: \u201cYou do not see,\u201d she contradicted.\u201cYou can't see Lecause I haven't yet told you.If he had lived \u2014 he would have done great things for France.If \u2014 if it had not been for me, he would be alive now.So \u2014 an obligation to carry on his work is my heritage; the debt I owe France.\u201d Still I was silent.If she could talk of Godefroy \u2014 well, that was her affair.But I could not.I leaned to the window; & breath of the woods blew in \u2014 a scent of earlv clover.The room was ' ï i ë F i E Ë i H F § F Ë 5 3 FE ik This Mutual Monthly Income policy is one every man with family responsibilities should seriously consider.Ang Mutual Agent will be glad to policy.Let us send you our folder \u201cThe Greatest Thing in the World of Insurance.\u201d Tes W.H.Somerville RR Eat The Montreal \u201cWitness and Canadian Homestead\u201d is printed and published at No.360 Craig St.W., in the City of Montreal, by John Redpath Dougall and Frederick Eugene Dougall, both of the City of Montreal.Subscription rate $2.00 a year.Annual Subscription \"Facts The Montreal Witness snd Canadian Momesicad\u2014{2.60 per Year.Bince 1848 the Witness has been recognised thi Oanada, as the leading national week- ty.Rdited by JOHN REDPATH DOUCALL.\u201cThe Week's Outlook,\u201d a regular feature.is a clear and complete commentary on world and national affairs.Also = regular weekly department in the\u2019 Interest of Prohibition and Social Reforms.Besides its splendid News Peatures it has Special Departments, d by experts.of interest te «ll members of the family, end to all walks of life.Its Market and Stock Reports are fair and trustworthy.Its splendid Short snd Serial Stories, Home Department, Young Peopls's Depart.ment-cover & wide range of buman interest.Its Queries and Answers on all subjects, includ- Ing Agriculture, Veterinary, Poultry, ets., snd its Parm and Garden Departments are grestly prised for their practical and timely hints sad information.The Partnership Policy ef Pudlisation The Witness is truly \u201cThe People\u2019s Paper.\u201d Each reader is recognized as responsible for the extension of the Witness circulation in his own environment.82 per annum.ON TRIAL to NEW subscribers, as announced from time to time.POSTAGE Owtsida of Montreal snd Suburbs, ne extra postage is required for Oanads, Newfoundland, British Isles.Br.W.Indies, or Mexico.EXTRA POSTAGE PER YEAR: To the United States and in Montreal and suburbs 84 cents extra: lo other foreign eountries $3.00 extra.In the csse of Witness and World Wide te Montreal addresses.1f prepaid at full rates, the publishers assume this postage, but not on reduced rate, club or trial offers.SENDING MONEY No subscription may be paid by cheque unless the cheque has written clearly neross it the words \u201cPayable at Par Montreal\u201d Money or- Gers or postal notes are the best way te send money, Only small ameunts may de sent im stamps snd then only in the 1, 2, and Se de seminations.Stamps of larger denominations sannot be aécepied.Address all communications regarding subserip- tions to John Dougall & Son, snd not to the editor or individuals by name.This avoids annoying delays.The Business Departments are specially organised te give prompt care to money letters.JOMN DOUGALL & SON.Publishers, \u201cWitness\u201d Bidg\u2026 Montreal Bhe lifted her eyes to look at me squarely.\u201cHow narrow you are!\u2019 Narrow?\" \u201cYou think I should not say these things Von are wineine naw far fear - I will say more.Yet, what I am saying is my excuse for living.Why ask me to talk like a achool-girl in an English nursery?\u201d \u201cI think of you as a child.\u201d \u201cYou must not.I am older now than Helen was when you married \u2014 older than Helen ever was.Let me talk as a woman \u2014 a woman who knows sorrow.\u201d SIs it necessary?\u201d \u201cYes.For one thing you are hating Godefroy.Yet he was a man of exceptional honor.\u201d And then I did rebel.But her hand stopped me.\u201cWalt.Hear me out.Remember one thing.Remember he married Ahnawa, ind made her child \u2014 his child, legitimate.What other man in his position would have done that?\u201cAnd then he pretended to marry you, and wrecked your life.\u201d She looked over at the forest.\u201cHe gave his life for that,\u201d she said.\u201cYes, he met me \u2014 and he married me.But 1 have come to understand of WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1088.time I had alept but an hour, and had lived emotions enough to supply a normal man many years.Spirit and body ached.But I must meet Amalou at sundown.And it ssemed best not to return by the woodland detour.When I leaned from the window with Hortense, I had seen Agatha playing ball with Nicholas; I would not seem clandestine, so went by the Langla $ I went over to the door.The room was filled \u2014 men, women, children.They sprawled on tables, settles, chairs.Langlade, Coutrol, and Amiot the blacksmith were drinking together, and called me to join them.They filled one of the French dram- glasses, and pushed it toward me.\u201cOur glasses are only fit for a child's tea party,\u201d Coutrol grumbled.\u201cThe English do much better.A dram of their brandy is more a man's size.\u201d looked up.\u201cYou heard an - Langiade Inte how terribly powerful the temple\" padian say that, Coutrol,\u201d he said in- tion must have been.\u201d \u201cYou mean?\u201d \u201cI mean that a man of honor came, through love of me, to dishonor everything that had been dear to him; his church; his faith; his name.He must have been tempted beyond my poasible conception of temptation.For all his life had been honorable.So I cannot judge him.As you must not.\u201d \u201cA man may judge a man.\u201d \u201cA man who has loved wisely, his head in control, may not judge à case like this.You have been a fanatic to an idea, never to an affection.Yet \u2014 I respect your judgment, and would like you to understand.\u201d I looked at her slender figure; at the girlish leanness of her neck.\u201cIt is terrible to discuss these things with you,\u201d I said, and saw I was clenching my hand.She flushed; but it did not seem embarrassment.\u201cAnd it is terrible to me, too,\u201d she cried.\u201cIt is terrible that a girl is expected to marry and give s0 little \u2014 in comparison.\u201d \u201cShe gives herself.\u201d \u201cYes, but how! What can she give beyond a flattered acceptance, yes, and a eertain curiosity toward a new life.What \u2014 with our manners of marriage \u2014 can she know of lovel And if the man on his side cares so much; if it brings him to perjuring himself and injuring others \u2014 why\u2014\" I seized but one point.She had not loved Godefroy, had hardly known him.Poor child, so she had not even memories to help her.I took her hand.\u201cQuixotic,\u201d I sald, \u201cbut very real, I take it.You think then you owe his memory a debt for the love you failed to give?\u201d She winced.\u201cNot quite that, but \u2014 you undetstand?\u201d I shook my head \u201cNo.At least I do not agree.But I have never found it matters \u2014 what the other person thinks.If the compulsion is on us \u2014 why, we must\u201d I stood beside her, looking at the forest wall.To her that forest was the grave of the man who had killed honor and himself for love of her.To me it was the hiding- place of the greatest horror I had known.Why, Godefroy might be watching at the moment; she might see him! Revolt gripped me.I must handle this situation better; must get her away at once.Yet, how manage her.A woman's cajolery and tears I understood, but not reasoning.And reasoning, too, that cried to a chord in my own heart.One could almost tell her the truth; talk things out frankly.But one must not.I seised my hat.\u201cGood-bye.Another day\u2014But come away from the window, please.It's an unwise habit in an Indian country \u2014 always.Good-bye.\u201d And I went out of her door without a look behind.Little Nicholas was waiting for me.The cold hand he curled in mine X could.take now, and press without repugnance.\u201cDoes Madame Rupert talk with de- vile?\u201d he began again.\u201cDoes she?\u201d I was hot with feeling.\u201cShe talks with angels, Nicholas,\u201d I said.CHAPTER XIV More Entangicments 1 was tired, and wished to go to my cabin, and drop like a drunkard.It ws but Mttie over twenty-four hours since Langladé\u2019s arrival, and in that cisively.\u201cThat is what the Boston pack-men teach the Indians to say.Who is spreading that sort of talk here?\u201d I took my glass and went over to Madame Augustine Langlade, the Indian mother.\u201cI drink to my fn your son's return,\u201d I said.\u201cYou did well to bear a man like that.\u201d She nodded.\u201cYes, he is a man \u2014 and so thinks he knows everything, and is blind.He can look a mile away \u2014 and cannot see around the eorner.You are a relative of Madame Rupert?\u201d \u201cYes.Will you wait a moment, please?\u201d I looked around and found Agatha.She was standing by Coutrol\u2019s shoulder listening to his chatter.Her smile was supercilious.I went to her and whispered her to come with me to Madame Langlade.She joined me rather contemptuously, but she came.I penned both women in a corner, and talked as softly as I could in the roar of the room.; \u201cMadame Langiade asked me if I were kin to Madame Rupert, and I wanted you, Mademoisells, to hear as weil Madame Rupert is my sister tn law \u2014 my wife's siste-\"\u201d \u201cYou are married?.t was the Indian who asked.Agatha kept her contemptuous smile.- \u201cMy wife died five years ago,\u201d I answered.\u201cI have one child.Mademol- selle, you asked yesterday why I had lied about knowing Madame Rupert.\u201d She still smiled.\u201cWhy did you?\u201d ghe drawled, \u201cBut I did not.I never seen my sister-in-law and \u201cdid not know she was here.I could not explain when you asked me, not knowing how much my sister-in-law wished me to my.Yet I very much wished you to understand.\u201d I couldtnot but smile at myself.\u201cYou see I was between two women \u2014 to both of whom I was indebted.\u201d She laughed at that.All her fire was gone, and she looked tived.\u201cYou are straightforward as & pes- sant,\u201d she said, \u201cin matters that do not count.Did Charles tell you about \u2014 Madame Rupert?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d I drew Agatha one side.\u201cMay I say, as kinsman, you have been kind beyond all predecent.The way you buried her story is wonderful.\u201d She frowned.\u201cThat 1s Charles\u2019 work.His will ia obeyed.When we can we are as fond of gossip as the rest.You should remember that.But I suppose you will take her away now.\u201d That flicked the raw.\u201cWhy?Is she not well off hers?\u201d \u201c1 don't know.\u201d 8he looked over at her sister Charlotte, who, red-lipped and big- eyed, was perched on a table irr reach of her husband\u2019s hand.\u201cI don't know,\u201d she repeated.\u201cHow pretty Charlotte 15,\u201d she said irrelevantly.\u201cBut even if the coast to superintend construction.The city of Calgary will be chosen for a divisional point in the Canadian government's air mail service, according to information received by Mayor F.E.Osborne from Ottawa.To the little town of Vulcan tn Bouthern Alberta belongs the distine- of \u2018Near the summit of the Selkirk one of the scenic areas administered by the National Parks of Canada, Department of the Interior.Practically all of the mica produced in Canada is of the amber variety (Phlogopite).Mica is marketed in the rough-cobbed state, as trimmed sheet, splittings, scraps, and ground mics, Trimming and splitting 1s done hy A VISITING CANADA Sir Rennell Rodd, G.CB, G.C.MG, GCV.0, MP, whe Is te visit Canada.Sir Renmell lived in Rome fram 1908 till 1919 ns British ambassador.Since 1883 be has served the British diplomatie service from ZansiWhr to Stockheim and frem Abyssinia and Athens (e Paris and Berlin.Why some Hate the Church Dislike of the Ten Commandments rather than opposition to theology is what explains the indifference of the so-called intellectuals to the Church, believes Dr, Frederick Lynch, who is himself a writer of some note and eminent among the leaders of relig- fous thought, Dr.Lyach, writing in The Christian Herald (New York), says he is acquainted with most of the novels which deal with the struggle between {gith and doubt, orthodoxy and modernism, and he regards the treatment of the problem as an indication that the public has not lost its interest in religion.These books, he says, are full of the difficulties which the thoughtful man experiences in accepting the confes- \u201c dons and the creeds, and they all end with the assertion: \u201cLet the Church drop tts antiquated theologies, rewrite its creeds, or abolish them entirely; let it preach simply the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of than; above all, let it make service the only test of membership, and the thoughtful people and the students will flock to it again.\u201d All this sounds convincing, but it is not true, says Dr.Lynch.\u2018\u201cThe country is full of churches which have done just this thing, and those who neglect the Church because of its antiquated doctrines do rot go near them.\u201d In support of his assertion, Dr.Lynch recites: \u201cIn the summer of 1925 I happened to be in Rome.It was Holy Year, and thousands of pilgrims from all over the world were flocking into the city.Every day at noon the Pope met hundreds of these pilgrims in a hall in the Vatican and preached a short sermon to them.I happened to be present one day, and I was very curious to know what the Pope would say to that dense throng.What he said in substance was this: \u2018You will find in every country today groups of men who hate the Christian Church, and are attacking it.They will tell you they are opposed to it or indifferent to it because of its doctrine.Do not let them deceive you.It is not the Church's doctrine or theology that disturbs them; it is her morality that pure, unselfish, sacriticial, sinless life that keep them out or makes them antagonistic\u2014not her theology.\u2019 \u201cI am inclined to think that the WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1928.Carillon Book Club An association te previde Canadian readers with the 12 best Canadian books of the year.In these busy days many men and women like to buy their books upon the advice of an expert or a board of experts.The success of the Book of the Month Club in the States, which has over 80,080 subscribers, and of the Literary Guild, with over 50,080, to say nothing of other clubs, such as the Prime Book Club, The Religious Book of the Month Club, and s0 on, seems to have caught the minds of Canadians.For nearly a year now the Carillon Book Club of Canada, of Ottawa, has been steadily building up a member- ghip list of people who buy their books on the book of the Month Club plan.The Carillon Book Club chooses and supplies none but Canadian books, that is to say, books written by Canadian men and women.Under the Carillion imprint such books have been distributed thus far this year as Frederick Philip Grove's \u201cA Search for America\u201d, the Rt.Hon.William Lyon MacKensie King's \u201cThe Message of the Carillon,\u201d Prof.Watson Kirk- connell's \u201cElegies;\u201d and \u201cCanadian Short Stories\u201d edited by Raymond Knister is being sent out this month.The November book of the month is to be \u201cPeeVee\u201d, à posthumous novel by the late Fred Jacob, while in December Howard Angus Kennedy's \u201cUnsought Adventure\u201d is likely to be the book selection.Thus the Carillon Book Club does not confine itself to any particular publisher, but draws the soundest Canadian work from the hole range of Canadian publish- g.The Consultant Committee which chooses and recommends to the subscribers the book to be supplied consists of the Hon.Martin Burwell, Librarian of Parliament, Ottawa.Hector Charlesworth, the Managing Editor of \u201cSaturday Night,\u201d Miss Ella J.Reynolds (\u201cJenny Wren\u201d) of the \u201cHamilton Spectator,\u201d Professor Pel- ham Edgar of Victoria Coilége, Toronto, Bernard K.Sandwell, of Montreal, and Ernest W.Harrold of the \u201cOttawa Citizen,\u201d Ottawa.The President of the Carillon Book Club, who is the Secretary to the Consultant Committee, is Charles C.Knight, Ottawa.Farms and Factories as Allies The power of machinery to do work that requires too much accuracy to be done by hand is best seen in branches of the metal industries where the system of interchangeable parts is being developed.It is only after long training and with much care and labor that the hand can make one plece of metal accurately to resemble or fit into another; and, after all, the accuracy is imperfect.But this is just the work which a well-made machine can do mast easily and most perfectly.If agricultural machinery had to be made by hand, its first cost would be very high.When any part was broken off, it could be replaced only at great cost by sending the machine back to the manufacturer, or by bringing a highly skilled mechanic to the machine.But as it is, the manufacturer keeps in stock many duplicates of the broken part, which were made by the same machines and are therefore, interchangeable with it.A farmer, perhaps hundreds of miles from any good mechanic's shop, can pow use complicated, standardized machines with confidence.By mailing or telegraphing the number of the machine and the number of its broken part, he can promptly get a new part which he can readily fit into fits two natives with whom you contact.By so doing you may do the man or the country a rank injustice At your death Death, debt, immediately payable \u2014 succession duties.in many instances, creates a new It is inescapable, inexorable.Wise men now provide a special policy so that the event which creates the debt shall automaticqlly extinguish it.The cost is thus defrayed dut of income instead of out of capital.A life assurance policy is the only means by which succession duties can be discounted.Write for particulars of this plan to SUNL Conmant or Christmas and brings you back Old friends! Old scenes! Anold- time Christmas holiday! How else can you buy se much happl- mass for so little money?And, remember, the happiness will not be all your own, for these will be some even gladder to ses gon than you to be heme again.Any sme of five special Cunard end Anchor-Donaldson sailings will get you there in lots of time Our trans- Atlantic service bas been famed since 1868.Book your passage fer Christmas.CANADIAN Cunart; So Plgmonth, don, Beifast, Liverpool and Glasgow wntil Nossmber 23.wow! Return Third Class costs Departures from Heltiss and only $185.Saint John thereafter.* Ses your local sleamship agent, or write SERVICE = is LINES THE ROBERT REFOKD CO., LIMITED : 20 Heopisel Street, Montreal \u2014 Telephone MAin 5653 regaled her friends and neighbors with hours of gossip about the harshness and meanness of an official at the boundary line.To her, Canada was à good land not to live in; the Canadians were good people to leave alone; and her own United States was something that she was now more proud of than ever.When it was pointed out to her that the official in question was an American and not à Canadian, she could say nothing except \u201cWell! I think no more of him, no matter what he is\u201d But her reaction toward a friendly people had been broadcast.Many may have heard of the crude official, who will never hear her apology.Her map judgment not only demonstrated her own ignorance, but placed blame where blame was not due.As a matter of fact, the American of- ficlal was probably doing his duty ly and what seemed \u201cgruff\u201d to the tourist was probably merely a eareful attention to duty.Tourists are walking, talking, per- advertisements.The impression a country, & town, or a people make upon them, means much to the country, the town and the people \u2014 and vice versa, as well.But it 1s sad when \u201csnap judgment\u201d passes brickbats when bouquets are due.Origin of Names Mackenzie and Franklin Commemor~ ate Great Explorers\u2014Keewatin an Indian Name To facilitate the administration of the Northwest Territories by the Department of the Interior they are divided into the provisional districts of Mackenzie, Franklin, and Keewatin.According to the Geographic Board of Canada the first two names date from 1895 and the third from 1876.\u201cMackenzie\u201d commemorates Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1755-1820), the explorer of the Mackenzie river.Franklin district, which includes the Arctic islands is named after Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), the great Arctic navigator.Keewatin district extends north of Manitoba and embraces the islands in Hudson bay.The name is an Indian expression, meaning \u201cthe north wind coming back,\u201d applied by the Crees to à very cold wind which comes up to the lake of the Woods from the south in the winter.It is the same word as Keewaydin used in Longfellow's poem \u201cHiawatha\u201d published in 1854.The name was suggested by Hon.James McKay, Minister of Agriculture in the Government of Manitoba.1875-78 and well-known for his assistance In negotiating several.Indian treaties.: . WITNESS AND CANASIAN MOMESPRAD, NOVEMBER Ÿ, 1986.A Farmer\u2019s Hope By George Kingsley Reed, J.P.BOUT thirty years ago, I attended the anniversary service of & small Church, in a mining town where I was then employed, and as I sit here, \u201ctoying\u201d with my thoughts, the scenes and sermon af that service project themselves into the conscious realm of thought.On Monday of the following week, a \u201cget together supper\u201d was served #nd an opportunity afforded the lead- ors to \u201cwork off\" their surplus enthusiasm and fire the hearts of the rising generation with the faith of thelr fathers, known of old.On this particular occasion, and after the supper, the Mine manager Lad the floor, as we say, and along with the other good things he\u201d said, was this: \u20141I hesitate to say, just what would have happened to this little Church, had it not been for the kind friends who always surrounded her in the hour of need.\u201d Imagine that thought being kept alive for close on thirty years, and today, crowding out every other issue in its demand for recognition, it most reminds me of; The people out of old romance, And people who have never been, And those that on the border dance Between old history and between: \u2014 resounding fable.Because: there are so many of us who can say the same thing about life.and perhaps our own life in particular.Just what would have happened to my life had it not been for the hope that kind friends \u201cbuilt in me\u201d and the faith I had In Him who, with the thunder of His power, shakes these spheres until angels and men, devils and demons, believe and tremble.How can I forget those who warned me, that the danger of life was not in the difficulties, but in the discouragements, and helped me to see it as A National peril: discouragement! who ever saw it?who ever felt it so deeply as Christ h\u2018mself, when in the utter lonellness of sonl he cried \u201cMy God! My God! why hast Thou forsaken me?.While others avt +\" \u2026-\" couragement of his mission tugged at Dis \u201cheart strings\u201d as did that poor woman, who, in her long years of infirmity and deferred hopes longed to but touch the hem of His garment.Discouragement we say! why the whole wide world was full of it, until Christ came; And raised the hopes of human kind As high as heavenly arches span; Freeing a world which sin did bind With fetters, all too strong for man.And thus we apply this hope to our lives today, this \u201caxis\u201d upon which the world moves.We make comparison between the past circumstance and the present, and then hope that the future will be better and brighter.JPERSONALLY, I find myself hoping always, it may be for some worth while book, or to raise my literary standard, or to listen \u201ccloser\u201d as the Spirit leads with me; \u2014my son, forget rot my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments.Seldom, if ever, do I hope for any of earth's alloy, and by alloy, I mean those things that do not count in the bullding of = life.To enumerate them all would scarce be possible, because there are certain \u201cthings\u201d that are expedient for you, which would spell disaster for me, and vice versa: \u2014let me explain: You have read the story of Gideon and the Midianites, and how he discharged certaln soldiers for lying down to drink at the stream, retaining oi those who dipped up the water With their hand.The reason for his action was that the tall reeds and rushes of that stream might have been alive with ambushed Midtanites, who, with one stroke of hidden sword could have lopped off the heads of those thoughtless soldiers.Tne moral is this: \u2014Dip up your pleasures as you press on towards the mark of your high calling, for if we stop, and in stooping abandon the watch, the enemy may come as a thief in the night.So for the \u201chay, straw, and stubble\u201d ¥ seldom hope, because they will not stand the fire, and considering that I have spent forty long years on the foundation of my life, I could not afford to \u201clie down, and drink of that stream.\u201d : I am hoping to build a life, and Incidentally, it is one of the most difficult tasks I ever set myself, in that it requires constant vigil.Now that the foundation is laid (and ft cannot be altered) all possible thought and effort must be given to the \u201cscaffolding\u201d and to the material with which I hope to build.I have read somewhere.I believe ft is in Corinthians, that the fire shall try man\u2019s work, of what sort it is; if any man\u2019s work abide he shall re- celve a reward.Just what that reward will be I cannot tell, but there is this assurance:\u2014that when our \u201clittle ship\u201d swings in the hight, we shall be welcomed like a richly laden v.ssel into the harbor.And this is my hope:\u2014a farmer's hope, that when the scaffolding of my life is all torn down, and the fire,\u201d driven by (§'posing winds licks the building with its scorching tongues of flame, it will stand: \u2014firm on the rock; I hope it will, I believe it will, because: - My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus\u2019 blood and righteons- ness.And I believe, because:\u2014 1 see my way, as birds their trackiess way.I shall arrive! What time, what clr- cult first, Tasknot.In good time, His good time, I shall arrive He guides me and the birds.BREEDING STOCK Many of the illustration stations operated on private farms under the direction of the Experimental Farms system, are serving a useful purpose in providing neighboring farmers with superior seed grain and breeding stock.Mr.J.C.Moynan, the recently appointed Chief Supervisor of the Stations, reporting for the work last year, states that operators of the stations in many Fars of the country are steadily building up thelr herds from which improved young stock, particularly pigs and poultry, are being produced.Last year in the sta- cockerels, 174 pullets, and 378 settings of hatching eggs were disposed of to people in the district.In live Background for Flowers \u201c We who are fond of flowers take great trouble in their arrangement and the choice of vases to suit thelr individual characteristics, but quite as To show their vivid beauty, flowers of brilliant coloring need plain walls of unobtrusive but sympathetic tint.Soft grey, biscuit, pale green, or primrose yellow lend the best effects.Dark panelling, or a rich, dark curtain make perfect backgrounds for roses, which seem to demand luxurious surroundings.Sweet peas, on the other hand, prefer simplicity.The darker the background for white flowers the better.A mirror on the wall just above a table is a great opportunity to devise some beautiful flower groupings.A mass of lovely color finds repetition, and every pretty blossom is duplicated.Another effective device is to stand à glass rose bowl filled to overflowing with gay blooms on a circular mirror laid flat on a table.This makes a particularly good centre for a large round table.When the autumn foliage takes on the rich reds and yellows of the season, use clusters of leafy branches in tall vases as a background for shorter vases and bowls of chrysanthemums and asters.Ferns and bracken also lend themselves as a natural background for grouped vases.Two-dollars value for 67c is worth talking about.So ls à paper of high purpose.A 07c trial subscription may result in a lfe-long subscriber.It is because it does 20 in so many cases that we dare make such s siashing cut for introductory purposes.\u2014 .3 WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1828.Freesias Indoors FREESIAS have always been favorites with those who knew them, .the dainty fragrant flowers being equally decorative growing or for use as cut flowers.The delicate bell-shap- ed flowers are produced on slender stalks just above the follage, to the number of aix or eight to the cluster.They have none of the stiffness that makes the arrangement of some flowers difficult, and the straight leaves add to their beauty by contrast.Even to those who did not care to grow white flownrs they have always appealed with their soft white and cream and yellow throats.Now that skillful work has given us delightful colors, yellow and lavender and pink, they have an added charm.I have seen no more beautiful window boxes for a sunny living room window than those filled with creamy freesias and little blue scillas.Both stay in flower for some time sending up fresh flower stalks from the same bulb.Cut freesias will last a week with careful treatment.They are perhaps the easiest of all bulks to grow and bloom tn from ten to twelve weeks from planting.If u want to hurry them, choose the and finest bulbs for the earliest batch.None of the bulbs are temperature varied, going much high- tr in the daytime than as night.As soon as growth begins give them all the light and sun possible and as they grow put in twigs to support the siender stems with their weight of flowers.They will soon become pot- bound and, as growth develonpe, demand sbundance of water.Do not glve liquid manure until the buds appear or flowering will be delayed.Plant batches for later flowering any time up to the middle of December, but for best results from your bulba it is well to get all in then.Hold some back by growing them slowly in a cool room if you so desire, but do not keep them in the dark after growth begins or the plants will be weak and drawn.About the only inscet that will trouble them is the green fly which may be kept in control hy spraying once a week with a good insecticide.Fumigating with tobacco may burn tips of the leaves, especially if the is dry.Lack of water and over- may also be responsible for this condition.Yellowing of the leaves 19 usually due tp over-watering or de- If the foliage is cut with the flower, it is useless to keep the old bulbs large and they look as if they could Mor flowering & second season.In not produce & growth of flowers and foliage but even the smallest mature bulbs wili flower practically one hundred per cent later on in the season.If planted early they are likely to run to leaf and bear no flowers.They may be planted in pots or boxes but will flower a little earlier if grown in pots where the roots are restricted.They wiil, however require heavier feeding later as Freesias are rank feeders especially when grown in pots.About eight bulbs to a six inch pot or half pan should be sufficlent.Use mellow fibrous soil and give ample drainage.A cool, partly shady, position is all they need until growth etarts with water to keep the earth moist.A room with plenty of light and a temperature of fifty ls ideal, but I have had them do well in the window of a living room where the order to assure good bulbs, the foliage should be left intact and the pots kept watered as long as they show any indication of staying green.As they begin to show signs of yellowing, water should be withheld gradually so that the bulbs will ripen.leaves have dled down the should be shaken out and rested un- Ml time to plant again.They should be kept perfectly dry.The bulbs increase rapidly from cffsets.Plants may also be grown from seed, which should be sown as soon as ripe, giving blooming plants the second or third year.In spite of the beauty of the newer colored varieties Purity still holds its place as the most popular.California, Salmon Beauty, Pershing, Splendens, and Mendota are possibly the most outstanding of the colored varieties.\u2014 M.G.\u2019 Gardeh Sanitation SANITATION In the garden is the cleaning up of all vegetable rubbish from the garden and destroying the portions which have been diseased, even though crops were produced.It seems like a great waste of vegetable matter to burn the dead tomato vines, bean vines and other plant tops which have been diseased, but this should be done, because to save or compost these for fertiliser would simply be maturing and saving mil- lons of disease spores, which would be on hand ready to attack the crops next year.More than this, a clean garden appeals to the eye and to the pride of the owner as & winter landscape.Corn stalks, cabbage leaves and stumps, beet tops, if from healthy plants should be saved for mulching or be added to the compost heap.In planning for the early garden, the earliest planted crops like peas, turnips, spinach and potatoes should be placed together at one side and the ground-for them ploughed or spaded this fail.The object of this is to have this ground in planting condition early in the spring.If ploughed in the fall it will dry out and be in shape for planting much sooner than the unploughed portion could be worked.The ploughed part can be fitted with the garden cultivator, wheel hoe or garden hoe, and be planted as early .as the season permits.In this way two or three weeks may be gained, and this may make all the difference between success and failure of the earliest crops.Garden peas particularly thrive best in the cool early spring and the crop must be made before hot weather begins.No vegetable matter, such as dead wines, corn stalks and other garden rubbish should be wasted, because it is too valuable as an aid in the garden crop production.Besides the usual waste of garden rubbish, there is a large wastage of leaves, weeds and the skins and other unused portions of fruits and vegetables.These should all be thrown on the compost pile to decay for use on the garden next spring.The compost pile should be built up in.alternate layers of vegetable refuse a foot thick and earth an inch or two deep.Color of Clover Imports Changed The Dominion Seed Commissioner, Mr.Geo.H.Clark, announces a change in the color allotted to the United States in connection with importations of red clover and alfalfa seed.In the case of red clover, or any mixture of seed containing 10 per cent or more red clover when imported from the United States at least one per cent of the seed in each container must be colered navy blue.Similar seed from South America, Italy, Africa and that part of Turkestan comprising both Chinese Turkestan and the area formerly known as Russian Turkestan, must have at least ten per cent of the seed in each container colored red.Ail other countries must color one per cent of the seed green.: Alfaifa seed importations are allowed from States bordering on Can- ads and Utah, Wyoming and South Dakota when sealed in the container Ly officers of the state in which the seed originated certifying that the one per cent of the seed is colored variegated varieties of alfalfa, when navy blue.In the cass of all other seed is Grimm, Baltic, or Kindred Importations ten per cent of the seed must be colored red.These precautions are necessary in order to protest the strains grown In Canada from being contaminated with less hardy strains.Canada has established an enviable reputation for red clover and hardy variegated alfalfa seed, and these Regulations under the Seed Act are framed to protect that reputation.Be sure you got \u201cComet\u201d pricge before food requirements from camvessers, which matur- ally adds cost te the feed.Ask your THE CHISHOLM MILLING CO., Limited buying Toronto «+ Out iif if it t il , Conch\u2019 \"mac Guonck Jusior Pood Cannet Mach Casmck Mesh Canuck Goosk Up Elf i [Red ( This new rich, sweet berry aa res! saver: ase only half sa much sugar as ordinars for bi h old SUGAR SAVER - We, or \u2018will send cat Red Gold plants at planting time Paper Mulched Berries Better PLE Ee ee, Gardner Nursery Co, tes 957 Osage, In.Strawberries] - grade pre- to 8% ta, around.Hundreds of froma single plant.fend us your nasdeard not, ks .we and two strong .Special com- The Fork of Ignorance thing which had often impressed me, when studying other people\u2019s flowers, was the way certain plants would fail in big gardens, while they thrived apace outside a cottage door, seeming to revel in the fact that they were growing amid simple surroundings.I have seen cottage gardens overrun with flowers which positively refused to do anything at all in more exalted spheres.I believe one reason for this is the fact that the cottager (usually à woman) gives personal attention to every plant she possesszs \u2014 it she takes any sort of pride in her flowerbed, and most do.She knows each one individually, and just where it lives in the garden.And then\u2014though it seems contradictory to say so\u2014she leaves it alone! So long as only one person touches a garden the plants can rest in peace, for they are not likely to be murdered wholesale.But directly a second person appears on the scene, no matter how well-intentioned, there is every possibility that something will be dug up, and in this way destroyed.When the garden ls small enough for the owner to attend to it herself, she (or he) will know every item and its position in the borders, and will safeguard each root and bulb.In such a plot the white lilies will come up sturdily, and bloom year after year; the daffodils will faith- tully appear in their corner every spring; the everlasting peas will never be dug up by mistake, no matter how late they may be in showing above ground; the columbines will never be routed out in the winter, when the border is tidied up.There is something more than sentiment In the saying that flowers bloom best for those who love them.It is true.For when the plants in our gardens are friends whom we love, and for whose return we watch anxiously each spring, we are careful for their well-being.They don't get chopped In half by a ci reless hoe, or ruthlessly brought to tne surface and left there to freeze by the fork of ienor- ance\u2014Flora Klickmann, in Flower Patch Nelghbors.Why Grade Honey?Honey is one \u2018of the few uncooked, pure and natural foods in its class that remains.But because it Is too frequently allowed to go to the market in an unclassified or ungraded manner, it is often overlooked by the purchaser.Since there are so many different kinds of honeys, and so many individual tastes, it is important that, when buying honey, the purchaser thould know what he or she is getting.1 For example, buckweat as a table honey, is disliked by many people, while on the other hand, many people prefer it to any other.It is perfectly good honey, but it does not suit the palate in some cases.The only way to make sure that the purchaser is getting what is liked best, is to have the quality or grade marked on the container.Because in these days so much of the food-stuff consumed is graded and labelled, any commodity, such as honey, that is not graded, is frequent- iy overlooked by the housewife when purchasing her provisions.When purchasing a can of peaches, one can see the quality marked on the label, or when buying jams one can see the kind clearly marked on the label, leaving no doubt in one\u2019s mind concerning the quality of such purchases.When it coyes to buying honey, unless it be graded\u2014and much of it 1e not\u2014one must make a stad in the dark, hoping that it will prove to be good white clover honey (should that happen to be the kind preferred).Now if honey were to be graded, the purchaser would be assisted In making his choice of kinds.Furthermore, he soon gets to know what kind he prefers, and will return for more.Canada has vast resources of oil shale and bituminous sands, the former occurring in the Maritime Provinces and the latter in Alberts.These deposits have long been considered as potential sources of products generally obtained from crude petroleum, As a result of recent modifications in refining methods these raw materials may now be seriously considered as sources, to be drawn upon when needed, to help in supplying the rapidly increasing demand for motor fuel.THEO.FAVRE & SON Established 1849, TOMKINS COVE, N.Y.DEALERS RAW FURS.GINSENG GOLDEN SEAL ROOT Dressere\u2014Furs Made Up Price List Mallod ou Request ENGINES REPAIRED Marine, Auto, Statienary, Tractor Engines reconditioned, cylinders ground, new pistons, ete.Engines for sale.Guarantee Motor Co., Hamilien, Canadas CHEAP Saw Milla.Variable Le Write te RED GOLD Sp FREE i, hh.sweet ET i fg EE ed ay pont ee CEA LER I WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 188.ANSWERS to Garden Questions Flowers For a Grave Dear Sir:\u2014Being an interested reader of your paper for some years, {fom which I have received much help, J Would now like your advice \u2018please about planting flowers on a .graye, what kinds would be best and -when is it best to plant them.I would - like to have them or some of them that:wbuld-grow up each year with- if you would please suggest some * kinds and how to plant them I will be very much obliged.* As I do not see any mention of charge for answering questions in your paper I take it there are none am very for the help I have had in the past and expect to receive in the near future.\u2014A Reader, R.M.We are always glad to be of help readers and where our own whose long experience puts silvery leaves and white flowers are used and make a neat carpeting but their season of bloom is not long.Why not put in bulbs now and fill in with annuals when the bulbs are uver.A borden of blue Scilla Sibirica with pink or white hyacinths or daf- .fodils in the centre makes a beautiful covering.Or a border of snowdrops with purple or golden crocus or crocuses alone are beautiful.Crocuses or Scillas and Snowdrops may be set between the low growing double tulips and will bloom first then the tulips which may be lifted when the flowers are over and heeled in among the vegetables of your home garden until the leaves turn yellow when they should be taken up and dried off to be reset in the autumn.Daffodils and hyacinths would need the same treatment to keep the grave looking well but the little bulbs may be left in and annuals set between them.A border of sweet white alyssum may be kept blooming practically all summer {¢ it iz given a clipping with the grass shears now and then when it begins to grow straggly.The low growing bedding petunias such as Rosy Morn or Pink Glory will also bloom on and on and need only a clipping or pinching back to take off some of the seed pods and keep them flowering.White siyssum with a centre of pansies or one of the beautiful blue violas is also a good choice.All these annuals may be started early, in the house and it planted up in pots can be had in bloom when set out as the bulbs finish flowering.Chinese Lanterns And Box Trees Dear Sir:\u2014Is the Chinese Lantern\u2019 plant hardy or does it need to be taken up and replanted in the spring?Mine has grown well but the frost has cut it down already, that is the leaves.Can I store the ivy and box trees from my porch in the cellar for the winter?\u2014J.W.L.The Chinese Lantern plant (physalis franchettii is not only hardy but almost a pest in rich sandy loam.With me in the Laurentians it needs to be watched or it sends jis strong underground stems into places where they are not wanted.In a sunny place with plenty of humus and moisture it grows and increases very fast.It will profit by à heavy dressing of well rotted manure late in the fall.The leaves and tops will die down each year but not the roots.Both box trees and ivy in fact all plants that hold their leaves over winter require considerabls light.They will not take as much water as when growlug, but, the soil should allowed to Gty out.They kept tn & cool but frost- T Ip IE ri SSÈSE Ë F in but they still increase \u2014M.P.G.It looks as if you had red © week or by dusting the under side of the leaves with flower of sulphur.A diluted solution of kerosene emulsion or 8 swab of cotton soaked in aloohol will kill scales.Mentha Lengifelia Dear Sirs -Under separate cover I am mailing your plant department, à sample plant foridentification.Hoping to receive same through columns of your valuable paper.AJ.C- The government botanist at Ottawa, identified the speciment sent as Horse mint (Mentha longifolia) a European plant grown for ornament and farther south sometimes, becoming naturalized.The specimen sent very much resembled the Veronica longifolia, sub- sessilis (speedwell) a very excellent Canada has the distinction of being the first entrant in the International Grain and Hay Show, Chicago, which 18 acheduled to run during the week of December ist to 8th inclusive, according to secretary-manager B.H.Helde of the International Live Stock Exposition, at which the grain show is featured.James A.Paur of Lang- ham, Saskatchewan, has sent in samples of Marquis wheat\u2014the first of the year.Canada\u2019s principal chromite mines are situated in the Coleraine district, Quebec, and are regarded as capable of producing large quantities of ore.USE FOR BROODER Mechanical \u201cSeiting Hea\u201d Dries Seed Cern Brooder houses and Incubators are ambitious articles of farm equipment.Not satisfied to take Old Biddy\u2019s job away from her, thess mechanical setting hens are now going after seed corn.Unlike Biddy, however, they do not eat the corn but dry it and store it for use the following spring.Numéyous instances of using sheet tor being used to dry the ears.The brooder houses, however, are more as they provide a dry, rodent shelter.The brooder stove used when the corn is first dry the excess moisture from the Small bins of sheet are constructed by manufacturers for express purpose of storing seed TOPICS Hens Finish Strenuous Year British Columbia and Ontario Breeds Share Honors\u2014Barred Rock Best Individual.Fourteen hundred hens have just completed 51 weeks laying in the Canadian and Ontario Laying contests on the Experimental Farm at Ottawa.Premier honors in the Canadian contest go to a pen of White Leghorns, owned by T.H.Haywood of Langford, B.C., the 10 hens laying 2,374 eggs for a total of 2,320.4 points.W.Bradley owner of the second pen, White Leghorns, also halls from Lang- ford.His birds laid 2385 eggs and secured 2,2205 points.Ontario claims third place through another pen of White Leghorns, owned by J.M.Jackson of Port Dover.This pen lald 2,100 eggs and scored 3,178.8 points.Lay 151,909 eggs The 800 birds in the Canadian contest laid 131,000 eggs in the 51 weeks which now constitutes the contest year.In 1926-27 the production was 136,474 eggs for 53 weeks.It is interesting to note that the 10 birds in the first pen and seven in the second are second generation, which means their dams previously qualified in Canadian egg laying contests, and were registered under the Canadian National Live Stock Records.This year 127 of the 800 birds entered in the Canadian contest qualified for registration.Champion Hen Barred Reck Individual honors went to a Barred Rock hen, the property of Miss Bro: of New Westminster, B.C.officially known as C.L.C.I.133 laid 254 eggs for 308.4 points.place went to a White Wyandotte C.L.C.L 179, belonging to Fisher, Ayton, Ont, for 288 305.2 points.Alex.Mclean of Ga- nanoque, Ontario, took third place with White Leghorn C.L L 288, with 373 eggs and 3049 points.This is the first time for some years thata representative of the heavy breeds has taken individual honors.The lead- ng heavy breed pen was one entes- ed by J.Burgess of Qualicum Beach, B.C., Rhode Island Reds, which lata 2,085 eggs and scored 2.016 points.The contests are decided on points with one point for an egg weighing 24 ounces to the dozen, a tenth of a point added for each ounce over 24, and a deduction of one-tenth of a point for each ounce under 24 to the dozen.In order to register in the National Records a hen must lay 200 eggs or over averaging 24 ounces to the dozen, be typical of the breed, free from standard disqualifications, and from disease free flocks.Ontarie Contest : The 600 birds in the Ontario con- Notice is hereby given that The United Theologi College, Montreal, a incorporated body, having its office In the City of Montreal in the Province of Quebec, will apply to the Quebec Legislature, at its next session, for an Act to confirm and declare valid its Act of Incorporation, being Chapter 8 of the Statutes of Canada of 1918, and to declare that the powers conferred upon it by its Act In ration, or to be conferred upon it the Act to be applied for, to acquire and proper , shall not be limited or af- ec: any statute or statutes of Montreal, October 30, 1928, \u201cRa .Attorneys for - 355 0 Smee, or, Applicant.Ë The individual standing 1s: first, Barred Rock O.L.O.H.81, owned by W.Downham, Highland Creek, Ont, 240 eggs and 2079 points; second, Harvey Simpson, Leamington, Ont, with O.L.C.H.220, White Rock, 348 eggs and 263.8 ponts; and third a white Leghorn O.L.C.M 807 with 221 eggs and 2032.6 points.Seventy-three birds qualified fo registration in the Ontario contest.ol\u2019 A LCA Ges A i Ë E 1 i 352 fie | r i Fis Èt i I i iF Selecting the Breeding Male It may seem a little early in the season to talk of selecting next spring\u2019s breeders, but this is of such importance that it must be borne in mind early in the season, if best results are to be secured.Barly in the growing season the tryman should have marked \u201cfor bloek\u201d all those chickens that had\u2019 shown the character for slow feathering or any constitutional weakness.There will thus be reserved for breeders, only cockereis from high-laying dams that have laid large eggs.\u2018This latter is of great importance as there is unquesticzably a tendency to diminution in the size of the egs, where selection has been followed for high production, without due care to also select for size of eggs.: During the latter part of the summer and early fall it will have been noticed that there were some cockerels that had developed sexually very early.These cockerels almost invariably finish up as \u201cponies.\u201d In other words, although they look large early in the season, they become set In their growth, and not make birds of normal size at maturity.Cockerels of that kind should not be retained as breeders, as thelr offspring will have a tendency to mature in the same manner.They will lay early, before they reach proper body growth, and consequently lay small eggs throughout life.To summarize, the breeding male should be the son of a high-laying, jarge-egg hen.He should be well- grown, of good size for his breed, and, above all, should be vigorous.While vigor may be denoted in every part of the bird, in the broad back-deep body, the well set legs and general action, and in the nervous force, the paramount requirement in an egg breeding male, is indicated by the bright, prominent, piercing eye set in a clean cut face.This is the kind of male that will give resulls.\u2014George Robertson, Ot- wa.Breeds of Geese Market geese reared in Canada are principally of four breeds, Toulouse, Embden, African, and the Chinese.Toulouse is the largest, the standard weights being for adult gander 26 ds and for adult goose 20 pounds.variety is gray in color except on the lower part of the body which is white.The Embden goose is pure white and is more compact than the Toulouse.Standard weights are for gander 20 pounds and for goose 18 pounds.The African goose has been produced by a cross between the Chinese and Toulouse.They are stately birds of about the same color and size as the Toulouse, the standard weights are the same as for the Emb- den.There are two varieties of the Chinese, the white and brown.The brown resembles the African in color while the white is regarded as the most beautiful of all the breeds of geese, having an upright and stately carriage.These breeds are held in favor in parks on account of their beauty.They are smaller than the other breeds named, the adult gander weighing 12 pounds and the adult goose two pounds less.Circular No.88 of the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa shows groups of these varieties of geese and gives instruction on their breeding and management.Daylilies Why not secure some new varieties of the hemerocallis, or day-lilies and use them for forcing this winter, then plant them out in the garden in the Spring.It is well adapted for sunny positions in the herbaceous border, although it will grow In moist places and in partial shade.If pianted a foot apart in Autumn ft makes an effective display in early summer and goes on flowering & long time.The single flowers last for only a day, although one follows another with great rapidity.Furmerly vüly iwo kladé of hemer- ocallis were common in gardens, one WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMRER 7, 1908.yellow and the other a lemon tinted.In recent years hybridists have been busy, however, in the making of new varieties, with the result that many different kinds are now on the market and nearly all of them are very handsoms.As it happens, several of them bloom at different periods, so that it becomes possible to have a display lasting for two months or more.Members of the garden clubs who visited the Harvard Botanic Garden in Cambridge on invitation last summer, were able to see some of the best of these day-lilies because a bed has been established there embracing most of the fifty kinds which have been developed by Mr.Carl Betscher of Dover, Ohio, widely known as an enthusiastic hybridizer.In the list are flowers running through deep yellow, orange and lemon.Some are rather small, while others are unusually large.These flowers, which are perennials, are not at all difficult to handie, and when well established make heavy plants which produce myriads of blooms, and striking effects when massed.The old fashioned tawny day-lily, Hemerocallls fulva, is not refined enough for close assoclation, perhaps, but looks well when allowed to naturalise itself along the roadside.This species will grow readily enough in moist places, but that does not mean that it does not require drainage.Among the particularly good kinds for tite garden are the following: H.citrina, citron yellow in color; Dr.Regal, also a citron yellow in color: Dr.Regal, also a citron yellow variety: Florham, a rich yellow kind; low hybrid; Orangeman, Yich orange in color, and Luteola, golden yellow.In order to have a long season, it 1s well to plant Middendorfii, which has bell-shaped rich chrome yellow flowers, and ls very early; likewise Thunbergii, à variety having rich, buttercup-like flowers which blooms late.The oddities include Hemerocal- Us gracilis, which is a charming graceful little flower with grass-like foliage.Many garden-makers grow the double kind 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FARMERS \" CANADIAN TRADE WITH THE - .BRITISH WEST INDIES \u201cStudy of recent statistics indicates that \u2018the effect of thy treaty of 1936 between Canada and the British West Indies has an Immediate and reasonably large inéreass\u2019 in the-valse of this trade, \u2014an inosegse of $11,000,000, or about 28 per cent\u201d in three years.\u2019 Canadian imports .from \u201cthe Britlgh\u2019 West Indleg during the twelve months \u201cending July 36, 1928, angounted to $23.00 as compared months \u2018af 1928, and In 1938 exports amountéd to $19,000,000 as Compared with $15,000,000 in 1926.While a superficial, statement of this tende relationshi; proportionately vorable in promoting West \u2018Indian expels, closer analysis of the preferemtial tariff cates granted by the British Weat Indies and of the po- wntial volume of their Imports, would .»eem to indicate that Canadian exporters Pave not pet taken full advantage of the beneñts of this treaty.Readjustment in the channels of trade for basic commodities takes place at a more rapid rate than changes in the distribution of manufactured goods.Ho fur ag this trade consists of imports of sugar and molasses, and the export of flour, fish and lumber, the adaptailon to the new conditions is well advanced.So far as this will consist of an increase in the Canadian exports of manufactured goods and an increase in Imports of bananas, oranges and grapefruit, however, the expansion has been delayed by the lack of satisfactory transportation facilities and of marketing organizations which will popularize the products of the West Indies in Canada and the products of Canada in the British West Indies.Now that ships and refrigeration have been provided and harbor facilities improved, the next step is the organization of marketing.Representative men from the British Weat Indies have visited Canada tq study Canadian methods of marketing fruits and vegetables.Banka, shipping companies and merchants have been consuited concerning the best form of marketing organization, Canadian produce deale have been interviewed about best season for sales, detalls concerning packing and the necessity for the standardization of the quality of fruit and vegetables.Definite eiforts are being made to secure the co-vperation of exporters and pru- ducers throughout the British West Ia.dies in creating an influential marketing organization.To be effective, this organization must be adpquately financed so that it can also direct its efforts toward the popularization of West Indian pr ducts in Canada.The Canadian\u2014We Indian League has used its influence throughout the islands to secure general recognition of the importance of Canada ap a market for British West Indian products.The Canadian\u2014West Indian League, the Exports Club of Montreal and of Toronto and the Commercial Intelligence Service in Ottawa bave co-operated In spreading Information among Canadian manufacturers concerning the extent of the generous preferences which have been granted by the British West Indiea.Numerous individual manufacturers have asked their bankers and the Canadian Commercial Intelligence Service to secure consumption statistics, tariff rates and other information dealgned to assist them in exporting to the West Indies.In éach country there has been well organized effort to promote this trade and to foster the interest of those merchants and producers who will ultimately secure the greatest benefit from the provisions of the treaty, For the Canadian manufacturer who wishes to sell In the West Indian market, a knowledge of the extent of the preference granted on his particular products le of prime Importance.In British Quiana, the general tariff on boots and shoes amounts to 90 per cent nd valorem, but the duty on boots and f ces from Canada is only 30 per cent.In Barba- does, the general tariff ia 30 per cent and that on Canadian boots and shoes is only 10 per cent and in most of the other ia- Innds the general rate is 20 per cent as compared with 10 per t# t on Canadian shoes.Yet, as late as 1926 the valus of the shoes from the United St sold in the British West Indies was seven times ag great as the value of the Canadian shoes sold In this market.Throughout most of the islands the preferential rate on Canadian flour is sufficient to give Canadian millers a monopoly.Canadian butter now dominates the market and the amount imported from the United States is rapidly decreasing.\u2014The Koyal Bank Monthly Letter.BUREAU OF STATISTICS Ceneus Report Portrays Mechanism ef Distribution in Canada A report has just been Issued hy the Dominion Bureau of Statistics giving In detail the results of a postal census of Trading Establishments taken In 1924, the main figures of which were issued by the Bureau some time ago.The object of the cenaus was to ohtain à mensurement of the mechanism of dstribution In Cun- ada.Statistics have long been avallable relating to population and, more recently, regarding the production of commodities.The mechanism.however, by which commodities have bean distributed to the ultimate consumer, has In the past been subjected to but slight quantitative men- surement.Information ragarding this may make it seem dia- WITNESS AND CANADIAN HOMESTEAD, NOVEMBER 7, 1938.MARKETS mechanism is of great economic and s0~ cla] importance and the present report represents a first step to mest an urgent need.To bridge the gap between producers and consumers, or, Ia other words, to - form those services which finally p products of all kinds tn the ultimate consumer\u2019s hands, requires & large amount of capital investment of more than a billion and « haif dollars.Sales amounted to $1.600.000,000.Forty per cent of independent retail atores in cities of 50,000 population or over had sales of less than $10.0 6 and twenty-three per cent had saleh of leag than $6,000.A grouping of stores according to size of capital investment shows that TO j'er cent of the retail establishments reporting, operated on an investment of under $10,000, while the same percentage of holesale-retatl stores extanded into the $60,000 class and 70 per cent of wholesale storas reached into the 350,000 group.; Apart from zen- eral and departmental atores.grocery establishments had the larkest amount t \u2018capital invested.In retail establishments working capital was roughly twice fixed capital, {n wholesale-retall establishments It was roughly 23 times, but in wholenaie establishments working capital was nearly 4 times as great as fixed capital.Many other interesting facts about trading establishments are shown in the report, POULTRY MARKETS With further declines in fresh egg production storage eggs are now constituting the bulk of the trade in practically all centres outside of British Columbia and ir mome markets are being used almost\u201d entirely, The month of November is undoubtedly that of the shortest fresh ogg production.In December fresh exg production from the pullets starts to increases in the East and more liberal shipments of fresh eggs will be available from Dritish Columbia.This will.nf courge, then affect the use of storage *rs.It is now a pretty well defined principle In the trade that under normal conditions storage eggs, if at all posatble, bé moved out before the turn of the year and in fact the season for the use of storage eggs is becoming shorter each year.While the movement of storage eggs has shown considerable Improvement recently the market on this class Is still very easy.Reports from the West indicate that stocks on hand there are henvier than last year, a situation which 1s due, no doubt, In some measure to the fart that there have heen practically no shipments to the East.It is reported that a car of storage exrs was shipped from Swift Current to Toronto on consignment during the week.A bright feature of the situation is tho increased movement of storage eggs for export.It is understo ) that there has been a fairly liberal movement in this direction and while the price obtainable, somewhat under 38 cents per dozen on ship -board Montreal, does not :/fow any great profit to the exporter, the movement fs at least serving to takes s.r off the Canadian market and to add strength to the situation locally.VW 0% the turn of the week the weather.especially in the East, is much colder and L wid Ot Ll atiatulate egg consump- tian hut will further reduce the supplies of fresh and thus ald materially in the movement of storage eggs.The American .torage situation has heen distinctly better this week.November futures sold in Chicago on the 22nd At 293.8 cents.hut at tte clone of the week had advanced to 3'% cents.With- drawnls from storage In the United States are more favorable and are, In fact, run- n:ng ahead of last year.The market on fresh eggs Is distinctly firm.At both Toronto and Montreal dealers find It practically impossible to secure sufficient supplies of fresh exes to meet the consumptive demand.Production in British Columbia continues lixht, but la increasing steadily and is expected to increase from now on.It is rather a peculiar situation that the majority of the cars leaving Vancouver now are going to Tpronto, none having been reported at Montreal this week.On the Prairies fresh egg production.is at à very low ebh with only a few centres receiving anything like enough to meet thelr requirements.Prices do not show any material change.The situation in the Maritimes ig distinctly firm with price advances general during the past week.Fresh receipts In that section are also light and storage eggs are moving into consumption freely.The flush of the poultry season is approaching rapidly and receipts are increasing practically everywhere.In the Prairies carlota of llva birds are commencing to arrive on the principal markets and killing and packing for storage in getting under way.It ia understood that there has not been a great deal of packing for storage in the Fast yet as consumptive demcfd continues 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