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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-2-17, Page 2the 11 Ile our /IOW use it to their u mos satiation Melissa's .Account Book. Meantime Melissa kept a strict eye on the cooky and dough -int outPut• She always inade nine dozen cookies and six dozen clouglinnts. Try lier best, she could not shorten the cooky ihn,e less than two hours; the dough- nuts took an hour and a half. The cokes had to remain in the hot fat three minutes and cookies could not be hurried in the oven without burn- ing. Reckoning the cost as what she had to pay for flour and sugar and flavors, and what she received far eggs, creani and shortening, plus le.bor and fuel, she found that cookies cost nearly nine cents a doze -n less than doughnuts. Therawas one way to save money but the time was long- er. Why not ehorten the time by dropping the cookies instead of 3:olleng and cutting them? And why espend so much time in baking, anyway, she pondered. The Tompkins family was noted for its lavisi1 table, it was a matter of pride 'with them all. But born of her knowl- edge acquired from studying how to ifeed Danny, Melissa knew that rich, leaked foods figured altogether too largely in their diet. During the war, 'hen food restrictions were on, they 'bad cut out a large part of the pastry and ate more vegetables and fruit. This quiet. observant wife and mother /mew that the simpler diet had lbrou,e,ht about a decided improvement to health and temper. But as soon as irestrictiens were removed, Dan and his father and mother had insisted On a return to the good oldnia.ys of pies, pudding and iced cakes end Melissa Was forced to give in. This morning she did a little quiet thinking. AU great reforms come hyenot re,fonn the fain- ly table so slowly that theY'-would never suspect? She really believid that what they objected to in. war times was not so much the idea that they did not have the baked stuff as the idea that they could not have it. t she quietly substituted some easily ibaaA.e fruit or gelatine desserts for pies- and puddings, and oecasienally was too busy to make anything, they Would not suspect.. her and so -would tacit oppose. The dinner hour came all too eluick- ler but with the help of Mother 'Temp- s, the meal was ready on the dot. • Melissa stole an appraising glance at tPie new mareAe he entered the wash - ream. Mother Tompkins frankly stared. "One et the lean ones, and eh always hungry," she saiel andertene to Mel's'. be said that - f011e'r-"' ee eniesk eieed go .away from hungry! There was _reach Melissa had• fried, down en eoctober, mashed potatoes, squash, team, tomato relish, pieided peachee, , brown bread, white bread, fresh fried eakes, apple pie, cheese, a three -quart pitcher a milk and tea. Cassius, the new man, needed not Dan's urging to "go to Melissa, , flmowing the approximate weight of ach slice of ham, estimated that a I pound went to fuenish Oassiva Ole calories, he needed to get through the afternoon. She watched him, fascinated, as mounds of potatoes and squash, five sliceof bread, three doughnuts and a pint of milk liee0M- panted the ham before he turned his attention to pie and cheese. 'Isn't there another piece of pie for Cass?" asked Dan, "He never can eat it," Melissa thought as she brought it in, but Cas- sius disproved this doubt of his gas- tronomic ability by not only eating the pie, but a ,generous slab of cheese, washing all down with a glass of Milk. Dan, paksing through the pantry, spied the fresh cookies. "Hello!" he crowed; "thought you'd hide 'em on us, eh?' Help yourself, 0,a,ss! We'll need a snack this afternoon." A dozen cookies went out with the men. Melissa could. hardly wait for the door to shut on them to get at her notebook. , "How Dan would rave if he knew I was keeping track of what anyone ate," she smiled. "But I guess he'll rave worse when he sees. how much that man's meal cost him," Housekeeping, never dull to Melis- sa, became an interesting ,game. There had been a number of things she want- ed to buy but had given up because she felt elle could not afford them. Now, with her neatly -kept account ibook _showing her endless ways to save, Tshe saw how she could get not only the things she had thought of but many others, Just the saving on cookies as compared with doughnuts quickly gave her the price of the magazine -she wanted to take. And one crust pie, especially with low- priced pumpkins as against high- priced apples, made a great difference. he sold a bushel qf apples, though they were short their Usual winter's supply and brought -a bfakele-feei.xer.. -nt'dhlanne-aaned, too, many ways to save time. She had never been able to attend the meethegs of her club more than. two or three times a year, and as to -getting an hour a day to rest or read, she had never seen it. Now she studied the clock as religiously as she did her account books. Drop cookies and hermits replaced rolled cookies with fig filling. She gave Dan his favorites just often enough to keep him d'Oodenatured. Bread -making was shortened by Triodern methods she had learned at home economics demonstra- tions. dish rit Tompleins' horror, Much to 'NT` to tinsea nil, cut- , lerity ;Esse, e„ ,. A aeavit fewer towels to buy and hem." "But Laan dry them, I've nothing -else to-do," Mother Tompkins parrie.d. "What will the neighbors say?" "Just think ot all the other things you can use that time for," answered. Melissa, overlooking "the neighbors." "You could get at that Log -Cabin quilt you've been wanting to piece for Danny. And there's that new' knitting pattern you wanted to learn." "But nobody sews or knit e morn- ings!" Mother Tompkins died hard. "That's because they've never had time,' Melissa explained. "Let' e you and me, make time --the way men make nioneyl" COia4iao..TaFc and lis Uses Iimong neeful non- , adetallic mitierals, WO is probably the >most adaptable and widel'iyused; tering Into the flailshhig process o1 pane of the moat Cemmon corninodi- teat Talc, sometimes dostnated soap- Vtone, aebestina ?renah chalk, miner- sia talicIay and ''verdplite, 1 fouud (In Cape Breton and In -Verne -se PteScouu- 1. Nova Scotia; Frontenac, Haat- ' Inge, ,Leede, Lennox and ' Renfrew taollaties and Kenoia, district it Oa - feria; teance, Brome and Megantid eounties in Quebec, and in the Leech ever 'eection of tae ,Vieteria, mining &neonof '13r1t1eli. delenabia., To color tt ranges, trete *late to greyish green, while to .the tench it hasa soft and aPaarently greasy Or slaaaery feeling. lt e, non -Conductor of heat and elec- ;Welty and it ev.elstant to meet Chem'. cal acetic:in. . It8 chief usesare aa a filler in the nutaleinggf book papers and 'as a (trdzeing for' white cottona, alto in the Dishing of letiadeay.'bilad cloth, 'Pale fargelY lista% i.n the itirmataotur4 goods, and toovercome the -aka between .1tener tubae and the covers of bicycle and automobile time, FinelY-powdered 'Matte tale is used in the makingof enamel and other paints whilethe 'poorer grades are dusted on roofing paper and tar felts before poll- ing, to prevent sticking.: ' In the preparation, of toilet articles, however, tale he moat generally known,` being- the base for talcum powdees„ tooth pastes and powderse.Shoe, glover and other lubricating pevedere, r. and as a filler or loader for the cheaper grades of teiliet soap The coarsefgradee.of talc are used, for 'eletilic-SWitchboarda, laboratory table tops, sarettaiw fittinge, stove awl furnace liminge and acid tanles, as a dressing for fine leathers and, El),S ' Tate, owing to ease with .which it can. be served, is often, used in. the pecianc,tion of statues, and oritain'enta, end eau be ta,wirinita elate, foe sailac- fug, The adaptability of talc Is tone stoutly finding new. lieet for it, and at increasing peoduction.lis 'evident. -In 1912 18,642 tont wet reined, of a valet) of 8116,205. The- greater portion was expoated t� the 'United States, and Cuba, hat' a considerable ,portion Was Marketed in Canada., With Den's threat of killing all the elan:kens. kept .feesh lu mind 1)y his weokly appearance with ono foe her to (Trees, Melissa gave a great deal of thought to the eoet, of eggs. It was not fair to charge the hone up with the c'ost of winter feed anti take no account of what they did le suminex. 'Luckily she had always kept track ef the eggs sold and the money received, ad rummaging, among old bills in Dana desk -she found feed liMs for three summer menths, These, wieli her accounts." gave her a pretty- fair average of atheri's earning power. (Concladed next week.) • Glass from Soot. We haie all heard the story of how glass was invented—that shipwrecked sailors built fire on the sands and that the heat of the fire Melted the sand and turned it into glass. - Sad as it is to turn down the legends of our childheod, this one must go epithet:he rest. Apart 'from the fact that Oasis was known to the Egyp- Cane 5,20.0 years ago, no ordinary fire could melt sand. _Another objection is that glass is not made of sand alone but of a mixture of fiMty sand with an alkaline earth such as lime. Few of as realize to wha,t: extent we depend on glass._ We might pot up - with talc or Oiled silk for windows, but just think how Many people would be reduced to practical blindness without spectacles! • Where would science be without the 'micros cope and telescope? Without glass we &520,uld know nothing about microbes or the causes of disease. Botany and natural history could never have progressed at all. In old days the seed used for the best glass was that brought from Blount Carmer'qto the naouth of the river Bolus; to -day we get our begt sand from Epinal,- In Belgium, Paris, and. Co. Donegal, in Ireland. This is mixed with sulphate of soda in order to produce the beat flint glass. ."AR sorts of things are used in the manufacture of different kinds of glass., including flue dust,. -which sup - pike potash and lead in the form of rednead or lead -rust. For coloring glass, suck metals as iron, copper, apkel, manganese, aluminium, cobalt, and. chronaium are employed. When Nations Make Gifts. Belgium recently presented. Britain with a beautiful statue, which has been erected on. the Thalnes Ernbag- ment, in ,gratitude for the hospitality extended to Belgian refugees. Just as iadividuals give eack other prese,nts, so oc,easionally -do nations. The Lincoln statue which has lately been erected near Westminster Abbey, Is the gift of the American nation to the old Mother Country. In 'Westminster Abbey itself is a beautiful window, depicting scenes from -Bunyans "The Pilgrim's Pro- . grew.,' which was a.lso a gift from America. ol3efore the war even Germany made Engmud, a present of a statue. It may still be se`ent. in' front of Kensington Palace, in Kensington Gardena, in which house Queen. Viceeriaawas born. This statue, of of Oranges7 William. III. of England, was presentee. to England by the extKaiser. But undoubtedly the grandest pre- sent of taia kind which one nation laas given to another, is the great statue of Liberty whieh greets every incom- ing ship to New York. It was given by France to the United States to com- memorate the memorable connection that exists betweenathe ,ereedein of America and that -of France. Prodigious Infants. Long before the war it was boldly stated that a man was too oldat forty. But now' it looks likely that soon the cry will be "too old at fifteen!" A small boy of eight summers re- cently tackled twenty or thirty of the best chess players in the world, set- ting them all problems they could. not tackle; another chikl appears on the scene, who, at the age of seven or eight, peensa diary, which the greetest literary lights describe as wonderful; while we'll soon' have quite a small library of jiivenile novels. It was regarded , as a phenomenon when Chattertan wrote 'immortal poems at:the age of twelve, when Mozart composed in his 'fifth year a concerto so difficult that only the most practised artistes could play it, when the infant son of Evelyn, the diarist, could read Latin and Greek at three and a half, when Macaulay had written a poem .as long as- "The- Lady of the Lake" at eight, and when Millais car- ried off a gold medal for paintingat nine! But now it's becoming quite the usual thing. ' Women!. Use "Diamond Dyes." Dye Old Shirts, Dresses, Waists, 'Coats, Stockings, Draperies•; . Everything. Bach package of "Diamond Dyes" .0ontait5 easy aireetions for dyeing any article of wool silk, cOttolt, or mixed goods. Beware! Poor dye streaks, spots, fades, and ruins' ma- terial by giving It a "deed -look." 13uy "Diationd 1)yes" only. Druggist has , Color Card. • • His Apology. SYli y J in rnie, axe] aim et' the /no (h- er of a precocious five-year-old son, "aten't you ashamed, to call auntie, stupid? .Co to her irt or.ce and tell, her you are soeryt" "Attnitie," said the little, fellow, awfully-serry you are se sttlpid," Mloarci's Liniment"Relieves Colds, e o. get what I Said. Come jast as you "I am a violielst" Milo began'. That WaS 1.-S far as he got. Mr. Bloom- curtly interrupted "If you want an orchestra job, go to union headquarters. If you're look- ing for a stage engagement, there's nothing doing. We're filled up, abso- lutely." That definitely settled the matter, it seemed; and Mil for the life of him, could think of nothing further to any. • His underlip trembling, he turned to leave. Then his eye fell on the viola?. He hesitated,,, picked mup the instrument and examined it criti- cally. He ieked up the bow and,ex- ammed tha , too, and then looked round at Mr. Bloom, who had not once glanced up from the work on his desk., Following another brief hesitation, Milo adjusted the violin and drew the bow across its Strings.- .The alluring music roseand fell en- rapturingly, new lilting with joy, now dying away tcn a whisper, and again pealing fortlts golden felicity. For tlie first timd dMe ;ric. Bloom really looked up iomh "What's your name?" he demanded, when the melody hacl-aeased.e., 'Milo Van Wynkoop." • "Where'dyou learn to play like" "In my native land, Holland. I play much better," Milo added, eagerly, 'when I have lily own Stradivarius." "Un-hunh., How's it happen you're on your uppers. Milo 'Shook his head with an apolo- geticesindle. "I fear I do net compre- hend." -- - "You're :busted, broke, down and out. 'How's that happen to a man who can play like you? I ineeen," explained the manager, seeing Milots perplexity, "you need enoney. Tell me about it." Light dawned upon the musician. He gestured to his rags. "You ask to know why I am so poor?" Then he gestured again, more eloquently, as one who would say: "It is a long story and a pitiful, and most involved. 'I despair of telling it to you."' How- ever, lie did tell it, partly in his care- ful English; partly in his native tongue, but mostly in a mixture of, both. He told how he had sought his fortune in. Canada and found orily pov- erty; how he had married, a young woman in Montreal and come with her to Toronto; how misfortune still pur- sued him. The manager listened with -a bored air. Perhaps he was used to hard - luck tales. - Presently, with an ill - concealed yawn, he interrupted the narrative.' - "All riglito • that' a enough. What d'you say to $75 a week. " Milo was too dazed with delight to say anything. . • "That's settled., then," said Manager 13loorn, and reached for a contract blank.' Milo recovered Ills faculty of sneech, "-If I may have just a little in, ad- araniceaf he faltered. "1 will need sonie uew clothes, a haircut." "No, you won't!" broke in Mr. Bloom, lifting a fat, white hand. "You'll go on just as you are without any make-up. Those rags you're wearing and that shaggy hair are worth as rnuch as your playing. Get rid of either and the contract's void. Picturesque stuff -that's what I want. I'm gonna 13411 yoti actValentine the Vagabond Violinist,' and you gotta look the part as well as Play it. Get me?" Milo nodded, dumbly, somewhat be- Wildered and mach disappointed. "Now aheut that aclvance,"went.on Mr. Bloom, inserting a hand in his trouser's' pocket and -wibhdrawing a fat bank roll. Here's-etwenty-five hones. Be .here _at ten to-rnorroW morning for rehearsal,' and don't for - Ahout two hours, later Milo Van Wyfilcaop staggered up tlie rieltety stairs to the third floor back.. The verb ' ' is employed leteeally, staggered because he was heavily laden with a cargo of porterhouse eteak, potatoes, onions, bread, butter, jana pickles, other green things, coffee, cream, sugar, ceal,for the stoe, coal - til for the lamp,' and a two -pound bex- of candg: 'When he reachedhis door, he kicked; on it right lustily; his hands and arms' being already fully engaged. The door, •was opened by his wife, clad in afull- len'gth apron, her cheeks flushed ros- ily, her hands powdered with flouie_in- dubitable ealdenCe of culinary activi- ties. As healurehed in and allowed the major part of has burden to slip to the , oor, he be anie awoue, in a detached iway, of an agreeable frage ranee, n fact, of frying steak and onions. He a so n.o e ,. an the same subconscious manner, that, the table was .laid for dinner, the laraP lit and the monkey stove glowing with warmth. . • But his mind Was' too excited with joy to let -him really take in. the sur- prising situation. First of all, he naust divulge his glad tidings. With -the wire in one, hand and the candy- in the other, he embracerhis wife, kiss- „ing her on both pink cheeks, and told her all about et. He showed her his contract and what was left of the $25; and he untied his parcels and showed her those; laughing and talk- ing all in a in eath. vAN iAng.RA ka4 OTHER GOOD % ,...te, Gettuine 21.11 )Vool Array .."' ‘-,•••°11e,ribtote, the ones with the bitteit'niril)e, dON'tOI' time centre, ,, None fte,x_1- 1.- A r.o.,,,,,le Ink-frF, HAS ADV A yt,T•,r4 tittle' without it.' ,fhese an no.t M..,14' ne,ANt,....rzzac,.. :i4latik0111, sarte as sonto are selling for ' ittalty• lilr,...uketth Those were purchased AGE OVER TRA.PPER from the ,Q0 'ernmont.. Only a few lett, ° Do not miss this opporttmity to ptir.. elta4o at . . $8.75 and $9.50 per pair la e Imperial ( el a oks ) tants, roads ' '' of I ure English 1V001 Worsted, Will give in ore warrotit, and outweor, ttny two nal) 8 of ortlinary pants. 111k1C10. As the Ove 'star nit th sire's 32 to 38 , . ... .. $5.95 per pair 1.)Qa. rh. g.;.:.,,,I,.11. . a.It.rr. i.t'e. t.-1.a.l. . . Ali . . ZTA:6)7:o9. Wool 1. r,...".3 ric or s;11P2.an5iicorl Pineeciaatitielo„.ejsial.a_tiso,s-p•i--ta.3.- , sa.h.0•13D•s: 1$2.50 '-' g"...a shirts, „ ,, ....a...... $3.50 Sizes 40 to 42 . neat y A' 1! 6 . 6W00 OP17 °API airti ry Underwear 1... nuw. weat none to equal it,t at . , .. . $2.60 a garment aAnyi'M' two 11)3aClur)Ft t'Sef•P4aO';'17didiPot.t.'11,1vvill•broluoetst ‘svcelatfl' Riding Breeches Fatigue Breech- es, to elem., .. . • . • • • . • • . ....-....:.....;..... $2.75 perirne7l.... ritish Colum. bia Fur Farnaer May Have iniportant Rezults. Socks Heavy All Wool Army SOclts, 'e0C and 75e per pair Phillips Soles and Heels Stout, $1.85 . Leight, $1.00 ,Halret'SaCkS -. Off cer., 6 pockets a. ... . t ...... $2.50 1 pocket ... :ea.... .. ... .. .... , , $1.25 tA.h.e,rin:'..:../..„.G7...eit.vt:s.e:s.Aii:v-a,:.ro.k.liG:11.10:9.1e5s,p,:ela(i:itii:peadi)r, , .Army m English Twill Sheets. • °Will .,. .. .. . $1.25, $1.50 and $1,75 per pair wear for years. . None others to beat Sheets ImPcrte , d from 'England. fine 1 .-... '0><90 Inehee; $6.90, per _palr .. . . ..... 66 x 80 1nche8,'$5.85 per pair , Special attention egad. to mail ordere. AU orders emptied seine day, aq received; , Tird success achieved in the, "breed- ing ot i.OXes has led ROlae fuf farmers to eXPeritilOilt Witt' 011101' fun ' hearers. The ranaher has a groat ad. vantage Over the trapper, in that he can. kill his animals when the furs are • prima end' thus realize the best prices, As .the pelts of fisher IriPee been -tell- ing from $200 'to more then. $300, while those of marten have often, brought over $1.00, there is a powerfal financial inducement to rear thes,e two. related specie, 'Unfortunately, the majeritY •.of exPerimenters have found it difia cult oe impossible to g,et, Giese • , malt' to breed in captivity, a condition - which has 'been attributed to lack of exercise, Mr. G. II, DeLey, Louis -Creel; )3 C ” has siteceected `in, raising tWO "genera-, teals of marten on his . lt lain a pair ot-"wild ma'rtees, he raised a litter' of 3, two females and one male; one year. old the yoeng females gave birth to 2 and 4 resiiectivelyaena all were raised to maturity. Mr. DeLey.,,a has supplied the. Commis.sion of Con_' servation with the following,. account ' of his'rnethods, which should 'prove in- teresting to, fur farmers everywhere, - as well as to all persons interested in wijeact.pilifoealttion and COnSerVatiOn Of "-My opinion on the raising of mar- ten and 'fisher is that they .are tob much petted and generally too much confined. These animals require much larger runs than generally recominend- ed and, considering tiles actual 'value of, their fur, it may be possible to al- low, say, 1/20 acre per animal and still be proflta.ble to raise. them. Running -Water and -Shade. • "The runs should be provided with obstacles a.nd hiding places in. the shape of hollow, logs, stone and brush piles,,,scrubbyor low -growing trees or bushes oresome. tall weeds. Sweet clover,- fcia example, may he encour- _aged to grow inside the 'enclosure. There should be also running water Or, a concrete trough about 4 feet in diame,ter be each pen, this trough to be provided with inlet and overflow plies. The enclosure should, be board- ed eao.se up to about 3 feet to -pre undue excitement, and netting fura, up to 6 or 8 feet. "Outside the enclosure should be • planted some shade trees -cut back' to about 8 feet above the ground to in- . duce the branches to spread out, and provide a thick shady growth. Alder, birch, ceder,. spruce and poplar are very goad for this, purpose. "The animals should not be made - too tame and should not be fed three tineeS a day regularly. Food .should be provided either. in two,rdeals a day OT a-full-do:3as ration at once; this will keep them more active and. on the , , • lookout and _consequently keep ,theni in betterlreeding condition, "In my opinion no harm will result in- withholding food for one day and feeding them double rations the next. Ili. the "-Orild state, tliee.e -alibi:mit re- main several clays without food and then; after successful. hunt, will fill theniseliee to capacitY. ' awrhoeunndhutnhgerYentehleosannrie- nsals 'will run andetake any amount of exercise and, to- auffPlementa' their activiti6i, the food -should be provided , aliVe in the 'form of • squin-els, woodchueka, chip- Illinks, sparrows, crows, gophers., etc." ett is for you, Rowena," he declared ' •REEVE '• ,CO. happily, and kiseed her a&lin-1 "all is 6_5012e BLOOR ST., W. ." TORONTO. for you." He gave her the Money and the ban -bons, and waved to the great heap of etuffaround him. "You shall be rich-. You shall have fine clothes and jewels., everything.." ' But something was wrong, and- Milo's words were cut short -by be- wilderment. Rowena was - strangely anent and would net look at him. When he lifted her face, he saw that she was crying. Alarmed, he drew her into his arm .- s again • 'Why, Rcievena, what hai happened, my own?" . She:smiled at ham through her tears. "You're so good to me, Milo— too good to me! I don'tocreserve Be patted .her cheek indulgently. Perhaps it was the •odor of burning steak that abruptly reminded him, made him. cograzant of another matter which required some explanation. "Rowena, 'tell me, how, clid you buY the food?" . Her consternation ,waa e. "I— I—you se.e, I—oh! the steak is burn- ing!"" She slipped from his -arms and fied to the kitchenette. Much pe61exedt; thorigh too elated by has new suecess to pay great heed to this new trouble,' he removed his eoggy coat and walked toward the glowing stove, intending to dry the garment there. But he was -destined not to do this to -night.. Midway to -the stove he stopped dead in his tricks" and stared, with distended eyes, at the nail ,en' -which he had hung hie yiolin, the nail on which he always hung it. The ni.11' was empty! Slowly he turned and •looked at the "table, looked .on the chairs, on the bed and under it, on the 'bureau and wash- stand. It was of no use. -His beloved violin was gone! " Fine -filet. he turned to Rawena, who had been covertly watching him from the akove.with a face denoting sharp stress of mind. "Rowena, Where is my Stradivar- ius?" She shrank from him and cover. her face with lier hands. • ene"!I--Ic}----,11 I Msoilid° itT'°'u"'4`1 never forgive • (Concluded in next issue.) When Power Comes. . .„ It was in a Christlaa Endeavor meet- ing- that he made the great discovery. As is generally known, eacet Eadeav- ore,r pledges. himself "to take some_ part, aside . front singing, - in -every Christian Endeavor prayer meeting, milese hindered by some reason which. I can conscientiously give .to my Lord and Master"—a pledge_ that has -been of incalculable value to, the Christian, church. He made his discovery th evening on which' he was to make his first attempt to fulfil his pledge. a He was afraid. He was just a boy fifteen years old,. but he wat .already deeply conacieus of 'a ca1l, to the neinistry. 1 -le longed to rise end doe his part, but he trembled: at the thought -of it. The Entlea-vorers, with where he met had a high standard of attainment; the speeches were thoughtful, the prayers. lad a fine, de- votional attubspheret , He did net think that he could do so well mac the , others, Ho decided that he would try first - to take part in prayer. 1 e did not believe in actually Composing a prayer beforehand, but he tried carefulla and . , eonseiously to prepare , 1 he was sure that, tae inspiration that he hoped feu would most .uiely camel , . Lo a Mind and heart reada to receive it It worried him ,to feel no nervous. "Sanaa"' he thought, "since I have prayed for " serength, 1, should have it. may; yet I feel ,t1t4, weak as water." The gdpal, mOrneint drew nearer and nearer, yet he felt no fitter for the Orcl,020; if anytiting, he grewntnore agitated. "I am 'not strong eliough for it," lie said to himself, "end yet T have prayed for strength le do rey clatyand fulfil my Plec1.5.C. -Why bas not €tonl MIS' \Per - ed my arayer7" Then soddenly a 1 thought flashed into his /rand like 'a ray of light a'nd probe lem: . "How do -I know, until I try, that God has not given me strength? It is not for the --tinee of waiting but - 'air the action that e leave asked his heap. I Will find. oui,hy trying." ' The great ma,meht had cornea He, the beginner, was "en hie feet, aad it -was as if some secret door hi his soul' had opened, through wiach poured a -flood of prayer. It was .notea long prayer; at was simple, perhaps here and there- it was crude; ' but it had burning .sincerity that everyone felt, So it was with this youth, who has since become al nmst effective minister of Christ, learned one of the greatest neas,ons of -life—that God's power 1 cornea when faith is perfected in ac- tion, "Fallth without a -cries is dead," • The Useful Lion: Accordiag to some of the farmers . of East Africa, the lion should. be'Pro- tected ' as a ,11Settril Iiniuflai,' ' no ttV th- standing the fact that once In a while he kills a man, .Tlne lion, they mam- tain, is a great destroyer oS pcoii6u herbivorous animals, s.tieli Inc zebras and ,antelopesawhigh are a scourge to the " prie dist riot, they say, no less than 346 limaswere killed in one season bY hunters, and they estimate tleat this represents the saving of 3,.5,000 to 40,- 000 zebras and antelopes, which would otherwise heile fallen a prey to the noes that were destr'oyed. Of course the henters sa—t ze, ran an ante- lopes h also, but this faeta they think, does not counterbalauce the des tree - tion of those -anitimils that veduld have been effectea irythe elate lieneo ."Haven't Got Opportunity tapped at the door ' With a chancellor a brother within, He rapped till bbs ling-el:a -were sore, And muttered, "Come on, let me in, Here is someteing I know you, can do, Heee'sea, hill I know you. ean climb." But the brother inside very quickly • , replied: - "Old fellow, I- haven't get time." Opportunity Wandered along senach of a man whOrivould rise, He said to, the indolent throng: "I-Iere's a chanCe for the fellow who tries?' _ . But each of them said with a sinile: 'I wish I could do it', but I'm very ' busy to -day, Very busy to -day, and Pm sorry to say That I really haven't got. time," ' At last opportunity came • To a man who waa burdened with cares.: ' . . -.And said: "I new .offer the same Opportunity that hasbeep, theirs. Here's a duty that ought to be done, e It's a clianee- yOu'yeaget time to -take it." • Said the man, with a grin, "Come • along, pass it In! Pli either fhla time or I'll make it." Of all the excuses' there are • liy which'thiS old world is accursed, Thia "Haven't got time" is by far • The poorest, 'the feeblest, the worst.. A delusion it Is, ,and -a snare; - •`If- the habit is yours you should shake it. " For if pi -if Want to do what is offered.. to you, . • -You'llafind time to do it, or make it. Irish Economy. , 'Mrs. Malone,' —a:Why, Pat, what ever, are you doing? ' Why, that's the third time you've shaved yourself to- day!" ' • Pat ----"Don't say a word! A penny saved is a","speany eaXned; and Ii' S three to/nes I've shaved Myself to -day,' an' that's a shilling earned!" Minillin3ent for Burns, etc, .FinExchan. The Ratepayer Publishing • Co., of Toronto at NO, $ Conunbine -Ave., -will 'buy jokes, old, new, fresh or stale, on ank topic. Must be less than 60 -word stories. Send' your•contributioni to- day'. Liberal rates. • ()ARSE SALT LAND' SALT 13u11( Carlots TORONTO SALT WORKS O. J. °LIPP - TORONTO *Fore The Dangerous Vine Trellis. Managing- wives and henpicked hust ba-ladi are not miconemon in. China, in spite of the subordinate position that women ase supposed to occupy in. that 1°111m5unotl'0f 'the. Cililie i7.A1?slder:?I soneand b I e•pa'crtapl'tehe with households Where _the woman if3 master; one popular story, quoted by a writer in. the Open,. Court, is -as fol- lows: A clistrict magistrate was sitting an, his court, trying cases, When the chief clerk appeared and took his goat the magistrate SaW that his face was full of scratches; so he .aeked "What have you done to your faae?" "Yesterday evening,"- rePlied the man, "I was sitting under my vine enje ' dn. o en -th