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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1910-08-11, Page 3000•101 BULLETIN ON TYPHOID FEVER 1,•11 Cleanliness and Care Are Essentials in the Home, r +Sigler House Ely is a Menace and Should Be Excluded, .""mrrs-arr: eiarAM How to Avoid Catching Disease When in Its Neighborhood, Any ease of typhoid contracted from, the first ease in the same home showe that, there las been carelessness some- where about the place. One should re- member that there are apt to be germs on anything about the patient, and that sonsequeutly nothing should be touched cnnecessarily. After doing any service f.ir the patient or Omit the sick roosts the hands should be carefully disinfect- ed. This is accomplished by having a basin of bichloride of mercury solution (1 in 1,000) or dilute carbolic acid solu- tion (1 in 40), and before leaving the room and going anywhere else to dip the hands in the disinfectant solution and rinse this off in clear water. This should be done without fail before put- ting anything into the mouth. Nothing should be put into the mouth of a. well person while in the room wit's a typhoid patient, and nothing should be eaten which has came from the sick room. The sick room, if possible, should be large, well and easily ventilated. .A. free circulation of fresh air should be had both day an night. Pure air is a good aisinfeetant. Carpets, curtains and all articles not absolutely needed should be removed from the room. Brooms and dusters should not be used in a sick room, but rather use moist cloths for cleaning floor, walls and furniture. Flies are now looked upon as among the greatest earriere of typhoid. If • it is the season when flies are about, the windows of the sick room should be screened. It is well for the windows and doors of all houses to be screened dur- ing the fly season. Flies; should be rig- idly excluded from the sick room. If any get into -the room they should be killed or caught on fly paper and burned. • The table utensils, such as plates. cups, spoons, etc., used by the patient should be kept for his use alone, and not mixed with similar utensils used by others until they have been washed in boiling water. Remnant e of food left by the patient Should not be carried to the kitchen, but should be put into paper bags and burn- ed by the attendant. All bed clothing, sheets, towels etc., used about the patient or bedroom, should be put into a disinfectant solu- tion, which should be kept in a tub or other vessel. Among the ,good disinfect- ant solutions for this purpose is chlor- inated lime, one quarter of a pound to four gallons of water, others are car- bolic acid (1 to 40) or bichloride of mercury (1 in 1,000). After soaking not less than one hour, the clothes may be laundered as usual. The most important feature in the prevention of typhoid is the disinfection of the discharges from the bowels and kidneys. This is neither easy nor pleas- ant, but it is not nearly so hard as the. nursing of a second case in the same house. The best disinfectant for this purpose is good fresh milk of lime, or what is commonly known as wbitewash. This is -made by putting several pieces of good quick lime in water,.letting it slack well, then stirring the whole up together and using the thick, milig limed which results. Instead of the milk of lane or "whitewash," a solution of chlorinated lime may be used (8 ounc- es to the gallon). These disinfectants should be allowed to remain in contact with the dejecta for at least one hour after having been well mixed. Never throw the discharges on the surface. HOW TO AVOID TAKING TYPHOID Do not go into the patient's room un- less it is necessary. Do not eat or drink tnything that has been in the slightest way connected with a. typhoid patient. See that your own, windows and doors are protected by fly screens, particle, larly your kitchen and dining room. If you have reason to think your wa- ter supply suspicious, boil any used for arinking purposes and keep it in bet- tles. If you have reason to believe that your neighbor who has typhoid at his home is not taking the proper precau- tions, notify the health officer, because his neglect is not only a menace to his own home but to those about him. Give the health authorities any ins formation that will enable (them to watch and guard those conditions beyond the reach of an individual such as the water supply, silk and food supply, and to see that proper measures are taken In connection with other eases in the community The Short and Simple Annals. "Me gotte da geed job," said Pietro, hs h VA'S the monkey a little more line after grinding out on his organ a selec- tion from "Santa Lucia." "Getta forty dollar da month and eate, myself; thirty da month if da boss este me."—Every- body's Magazine. PLAVVIVIE Eirouna THE LAZY VIOLET. The sunshine fairies and raindrop elves had been down at work in the ground, calling the flower to wake and grow. It was spring. The birds were all singing and Surely it Was Unto for the flowers to be putting forth their delieate green leaves. All the plants, even to the tiniest violets, hurried to appear. That is, all but one sleepy, young, lazy violet that just curled herself up and snug- gled deeper, saying to herself: "I am tired; I don't want to get up yet." So, while all the other flowers and violets were getting their new dresses on and peeping up through the ground to Bay: "Ho do you dor' to their old friend, the sun, this lazy violet .slept. When the gardener came to look et his garden, he saw all the flowers up and nodding in the breeze, except this violet plant. "'tong past time for that violet to be up," he muttered: "Guess,it isn't go- ing to grow. I'll take it up and plant' something else that will grow right away in its place." And with that he pulled the lazy violet up, roots and all, throwing it out on the ash heap. Then how the poor violet cried to think she had been so lazy, and was now thrown out to wither without a chance of bloom. She told a ',Tin - pathetic robin her sad story, telling him to be sure to tell it to all lazy flowers that they might profit. AN ORGAN FOR 25 CENTS A WEEK We have on hand thirey-five organs, taken in exchange on Heintztuan St Co. pianos, which we must sell regardless of toss, to make room in our store. Every Instrument has peen thoroughly over- hauled, and is guaranteed for five years, and full amount will be allow ed on ex- change. The prices run from $10 to $35, for such well-known makes as Thomas, Dominion, learn, Uxbridge, Goderieh am. Bell. This is your chance to save money. Aspost card will bring full particulars.— Heintzman & Co., 71 King street east, Rant -Linn. Earthquake Catching. Earthquakes are recorded by means of the horizontal -pendulum, seismo- graph. The best example of hori- zontal pendulum in everyday use is a common hinged door. The earthquake instrument is a heavy weight pivoted delicately on a frame, which is swung at an upright hinge -line, so that the faintest movement in the post will be communicated to the frame. A light lever with a. pen at the outer end of the weighted frame, makes on a paper moved by clockwork a magnified rec- ord of the movements of the earth's crust. The pen is a mastic, and the the record is a scratch. The weight tends to stand still as the earth waves move the post, and the pen writes an autograph of the =ve- lment, which takes place about the weight as a centre. .Every second an electric ticker connected with a clock scratches a mark on the side of the moving paper, so that the exact time of any earthquake autograph may be calculated. Let us stop El, moment to watch what happens when an earthquake wave passes through the earth. The weight is still its pen is lightly in contact with the paper, and as the latter moves by clockwork there is left written a straight line. Slowly, as we watch, the Writing finger moves sidewise, and begins to make little Wayemarks. This lasts several min- utes. Then the pen begins to creep out until it is very slowly scratching long, sweeping zigzags. in the course of nalf an hour this slowly dimin- ishes. Not a single tremor has been felt. The waves passing through the ground were too broad and slow for sensation, but they have come thou- sands of miles from a place where walls were falling and people were rushing frantically into the streets. When we consider that every strong earthquake may be recorded all over the globe, and that one occurs some- where every week or two, the sport of earthquake -catching becomes fair- ly exciting. the interest attaching to seismology were better known there would be nainy amateurs. An Omori eeismograph may be uought for about one hundred dollars, and any cellar, on any sort of ground, will catch the passing earthquakes.—From Prof, Jag - gar, Jr.'"Studying Earthquakes" in August Century. 0$* A DAY Ole TROUBLE. (Chicago Tribune.) Knieker—As a boy 1 hated Monday because it was wash daY- Docker—And now it ie the day the Supreme Conet hands down decisions. SOMETHING AILED HIM, SURELY. Kobby—I beg pardon, old top, b ut are you. reading Punch? Job -by -Th; I haven't aeon it. Nobby—Then msy 1 ask what makas you look so dspresaed! FOR THE FARMERS. A Veterinary Not Always Necessary.. Cleanliness' and Disinfectants Essential, • ••,. -sr (By Dr, H. G. 'Reed, Georgetown, Ont., in Canadian Farm -I While an animal that has sustained a severe woend ought always to receive. competent veterinary treatment, yet in many cases of minor wounds home treat- ment can be adopted with success, pro. sitied the OWEIW: nas a feir knowledge of the vitro necessary in suck cosies. Wounds; are divided into four claesee, uuzie1y' Lnoised, punetured, lacerated and ountused. A inciecel Wound is Made With a clean cutting instillment, the tissues are divided evenly and • smoothly without any tearing or bruis- ing of the parts. Such wounds are tesual- ly very .easy of treatment and unless the ineision is very deep, need only to be kept perfectly clean with an applieation, twice daily, of a four per cent, solution of carbolic acid or creolin or other dis- infectant when the healing process will take place readily and quickly. PUNCTURED WOUNDS. Punctured wounds are made with a more or less blunt instrument and are often of a serious nature, snore especial- ly if the puecture is comparatively deep and likely to have injured some of the deep mated structures such as the ar- teries, nerves, veins or any of the inter- nal organs. A wound of this nature will never heal without the formation of pus, and it is always of the utmost im- portance to eee that the pus has a free chance to escape, if such care is not tak- en and, the pus allowed to gather in a sae or pocket of the wound a -vast' amount of local inflammation will be set up and serious conditions result. Lacerated wounds are those hi which the tissues are torn asunder in a rough and, uneven manner. The treatment is much the same as in the ease of pune- tured wounds. See that the pus (which is sure to form) has a free avenue of escape, being 'careful also to remove any splinters or dirt or other foreign bodies which are quite likely to be found in such wounds. A contused 'wound is one in which the tissues are bruised and in- jured without any breaking of the skin. If the contusion is only slight the appli. cation of a warm poultice or bathing the parts in warm water will soon over- come the inflammation, but if the con- tusion is severe an abscess is likely to form in which case an incision has to be raede ter allow the pus to escape. In the case even of a trivial wound where no disinfectant is used, serious complica- tions suck as erysipelas or tetanus (lockjaw) are liable to set in, but where a good nisinfeetant such has been noted above is used, the worst eases are likely to heal without any untoward results. A CAULK WOUND. A caulk wound or the wound made on a foot by a cut from the shoe of another foot is one of the most ordinary wounds in farm life. In such eases care should always be taken to see that any of the hairs which may ha.ve been pushed downwards inside the top of the hoof are removed. Intense lamness and. great onffering often follow if this is not done. The hairs or other dirt set upnri inflammation inside the hoof, the pus cannot escape and an *mai is often laid off work ler weeks because of a little carelessness an the part of the at- tendant in not properly cleaning the wound when it happened. Also III the case of a horse treading on a nail and puncturing the sele of the foot, it is not sufficient to eherely pull out the nail, but the hold left in the sole by the nail should be rimmed out to a considexiable size to allow the pus to escape and the foot be kept in a \MEM poultice every night for a few days to allay the inflam- mation. A pleget of tow soaket?t in tar might be put in the hole during the da,y when the animal is at work in order to keep out any dirt. The sole of a horse's foegrows quick- ly (much more so than the outside walls), and such a hole will grow- up again in a -week or two, and the animal be all right again, whereas if the pre- caution lust mentioned is neglected seri. ous consequences often eeeult. • SKIN BEAUTY PROMOTED. In the treatment of affections of the skin and scalp which tortere, disfigure, itch, burn, scale and destroy the hair; as well as for preserving, purifying and beautifying the complexion, hands end hair, Calomel Soap and Cuticura Oint- ment are well -night infallible. Millions of women throughout the world rely 011 these pure, sweet and gentle emoillients for all purposes of the toilet,bath and nursery, and for the sanative, antiseptic cleansing of ulcerated, inflamed mucous surfaces. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Boston, U. S. A., sole proprietors of the Cutieura Remedies, will mail free, on request, their latest 32 page Cuticula Book onsthe skin and hair. As Ed. Howe Sees Life. (Atchison Globe.) You may have noticed that the preach- er who is opposed to circuses will risk a look at the street parade. • On a rainy day you have a genuinely sunny disposition if you don't think once of an overturned headstone and a sunken grave. An Atchison woman has so many bol- sters, and shams, and flounces on her bed that it takes as long to undress it at night as it takes to undress all five of her children. Most people have maudlin sentiment "nixed with what they call their sense of justiee and right. When we hear any one say, "I would- n't lie to save ray own life,' we begin to doubt their other statements, tiso. Many fools die without eves finding out that they are fools. "If I should buy an automobile," said an unlucky Atehison man to -day, "what a lot of fun my hoodoo would have with me When the paper announces that a man has bought at automobile; every one in- voluntarily checks off what neighbors will get a chime to ride in it. When a boy climbs to the roof of the house and his mother comes out in the yard and threatens what she will do if he doesn't COMO right down, it shouldn't he a funny sight, but it is. A man must not only attend all the family reunions but after his wife is dead he feud lira up all her stray dead kin and bury them in the eased, lot with her, so that her family reunion may be perpetual, if he wants to be en- tirely eatisfactory. Any Testa is a health resort, if you will take care of yourself. sl-sa 0 AN ADDP.,D ATTRACTION. • "You say the church attendance is foe proving?" • "Yes; a fashioneble milliner ban open. ea neat doors 'With a fine window die Pig -0 se= oeseeeeeee •-",•••WIPMS“....11. .....,••••••••••.4.1 AFTERNOON FROCK. Transparent cottons, figured or Plain, become more and more the ac- cepted material as summer waxes. They are usually made in the quaint- est fashion possible, and, frequently tax the ingenuity of the designer. The one illustrated was in a won- derful tone of faded rose and trimmed with simple bands of embroidery. en - bow length mandarin sleeves are used and the neck of the bodice is cut out in the most approved fashion. TBE HEAD OF IKE ROBE. (Farmers' Advocate.) Much emphasis is properly laid, upon the head of a lime, no matter of what breed he is. Besides entering largely in- to the weole sum of a horse's .beauty, from a practical standpoint, the head has a great deal of signifieance regard- ing the breediness, the disposition, the stamina, and vitality of its bearer. A neat, trine, proportionate head is desired, if beauty is io be attained. A• large head is ungainly, and in 'icative Of underbreeding or mongrel breeding. This is especially true in the lighter breeds. Yet, a large head is preferable to an unduly small one, it being pretty largely aeceptea that a horse with so smell a head lacks in vigor. In heavy' 'draft horses the head is preferred to be always quite large, yet in proportion to the scale of the entire animal. It is especially desirable to have the forehead broad, and the eyes prominent, clear, placid and fearless. - 'Width between the eyes denotes courage, and bespeaks the intelligence of the, animal. Much is to be learned from the eyes. A smalls sunken eye usually accompanies a. vicious, sullen, unreliable disposition. The cheerful, free, generous horse shows ictitainbliseybess. ight,. lively, yet not ex - The full front view of the horse's head should show the gieatest thickness at the jaws, with the head taperuig to- wards the muzzle. The profile should show full between the eyes, but not bulging, and straight erom.the eyes to the nose. A dish -face is not attractive, if at all pronounced, though a slight dish is often seen in the lighter breeds, and is not a serious objection. Inc light breeds, a Roman nose is not liked, al- though it is usual in the Shires, com- mon in the Clydesdales, and frequent in other heavy _breeds. It is usually believed to be associated with a rather wilful and enduring disposition. Iu light breeds it is associated with a lack of refinement, which is associated withthe straight or slightly -dished face. The lips should be strong and neatly carried; the nostrils large, dilating and fine. The ears lend much to make or mar the beauty of the horse. They must not be too far apart, and, -while car - seed slightly forward, must chiefly be erect. It is very desirable to have thezn. nicely pointed. The attachment of the head to the neck is very important. Throatiness or thickness at the Juncture of these mem- bers is not desirable. The jaws should , be wide apart at the angle, and curve well upward at the rear. A coarse set- ting of the head results in an awkward carriage, resulting in a plain- appearing horse; WHAT'S IN A NAME? (The Delineator for August.) Charles' father was trying to think of the coachman's last name. '!Charles, do you reniember Al's other name?" he asked. "Yes," answered Charles. "Alfonso." , It's no use singing about rising in the ems of faith so long as you forget that faith bas feet, too., LINEN WALKING DRESS. rn Paris they're called frocks "de trattaur"--here we call them street or walking dream Gray 'linen IA the fabric of which this dress is made, and it is trim- med with gray pearl buttons, and heavy lace banding set in the skirt ,ared bodice. ememplo.•••••••••4, 1BROMN RAUH .BRIN65 WRINKLtS How Alt Wolin C411 Preserve Good 'Health and Gool Looks. ......,•1•1••••••••• Too many women and girls look ola long before they should. la nine eases out of teu le is a matter of health, Work, worry, confinement in - desire and lack of exercies calve the hadth to 11111 down, Then facets become thin and pale; line anil wrinklesi fele pear 411ti a OOUStatit feeling of thedneee. 'Women and girlwho feel well look • well. Therefore improve our health ana you will look better. It is a feet that thousande of Canadian women nad girls owe the rebust health they en- joy to Dr. Williams' Pink Pile!. They fell well and eiljoy life as only a healthy person eau. The simple masses for this 19 that Dr. Williams!' Pink Pilist 1nako new, OA, red blood, which strengthens all the vital organ% brings brightness; to the eye, a glow of health to the cheek, end bracing strength to every part of the body, Mrs. Warren Wright, Tint, Reek., Pays: "I feel Hot I owe a debt eratitude to Dr. Willianne Pink Pi1l9 Chet nothing I can say in their fever will fully repay, I was so reducea in heelth end strenethethet T IVIS hardly able to walk at all. and ceuhl de no work what- ever. My blood Wag so thin and watery that Inv lips and finer tips resembled time° of a corpee, T had almost con- stant benslitehe9, and, the Bendiest exer- tion would set my heart nelpitating vio- lently, and often 1 would drop in faint. Nothing I did seemed to help me in the least, and 1 feI.t so far gene that 1 never expected to mover cier health. I was in this eritical eondition when I read in a newspaper of a cure in a ease like mine through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pille arid' I decided to try them, 1 get a half dozen boxas and before I used them all there ems a great change in my condition. My appetite returned, the color began to come back to my lips and face, and my strength was increaeing, I con- -Lineal the use of the Pills for some time longer and they restored me to tee pink of perfect health. While using the pills • 1 gained twenty eounds in weight. leiv cure was made in the summer of HMO, and I am now enjoying better health than eller be- ft'lg: Williams' Pink Pills will do for other weak and worn women just wbat they did for Mrs. Wriabt. if they are given a fair trial. Sold by al medicine dealers; or bv mail at 50 cents a box, or six boxes; for $2.50. from vTihnee.Dorn.te.Villiains' Medicine Co., Brock - 0 • • CHI LE.AN PRESMF:NT.... PEDRO MONTT, President Pedro Montt, of Chile is on the ocean enroute to New York city, where he will stop on his Way to Europe for his health. President Montt probably will call on President, Taft before continuing his journey. o The destruction of the house fly is a public duty. Almost all boards of health are now carry- ing on a crusade against it. A bulletin recently issued by the Dominion Government states that no house fly is free from disease germs. Use Wilson's Fly Pads freely and persistently, and do your share towards exterminat, ing this menace to ,the public health. Liabilities of Conduct. Bankers are students of human nat- ure. With them two and two snake ex- actly four. In deciding whether or nort a customer shall be trusted for a loan, they base their answer, not so much on his personal honesty or his willingness to pay, as upon the vari- ous causespersonal or otherwise, which may interfere with his ability to do so. A man may have a flourishing busi- ness and all may be going well, and, then after continued prosperity he may adopt habits 6f living which in the end may interfere with the accumulation of as- sets. The banker feels that sum bit of extravagance begets another, and sets down—upon his cod system the facts es they Come tO 'him one by one. In the course of time the man applies for a loan and as security he offers what he eonsiders to be his aesets and against these he mentions a number of liabili- ties which seem to him to be so little worthy of consideration that the bank- er cannot help but consider the loan a good one. But the man fails to mentioe those other liabilitiee arising out of hie over -expensive habits which the benker has set down Signing his tredit in the eard system. And so he may be eurpria- ed to meet with a refusal of his pro- position, --Phe Christian Herald, Popular Fiction. "1'm so glad to se youl" "Oh; what a beautiful ilew gown you h eve 1" "My friends, it gives me great pleasere to addrets this magnificent endienee," "1 assure you it will net be the slieeit. est inconvenienc.0 "Aahough you havo defeated me, sineerely congratulate -Sem on your election." "Why, you don't lank a lay older than you did .410 years ago." shalt be delightet t.fl hlve you cell." "I do sio enjoy !oaring you sing." "ely Attention hes been eilled."--(14 csgo %iribune, Vigorous Health11. .--the power to enjoy to the full 11100 1141work aud pleasure—comes only with at good digestion. 1 14 A." 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Dressed so very clean and neat, And from out a crooked lane, Crowds of Bugs came with her train— Crickets, Roaches and some Gnats, Wearing big and funny hats; Then she stopped and said to me, "All these Bugs are good,you see; Only children who will mind, This dear Dreaniland ever find; Naughty boys and girls, you see, Cannot come to visit me." That's a strange tale you'vs begun, But I like such dreams so well, That each one you must now toll." And the lad said, "Daddy, dear, What I've told may Seem no queer, But you know in, Dreamland they Do things in a difPrent way. On great lawns the children run, Having loads and loads of fun! There they play games strange and queer— Nothing like we play down here— And they never cry nor fight, 'Cause they know it isn't right; There they ride on big Tune Bugs., • Down wide streets all paved with rugs; There the men, with might and main, KING OF 0000S ISLAND. Romance of an Indian Ocean Utopia —Scotsman Despot:. The death occurred at Ventnor re- cently of the King of the Cocos' Keel- ing islands—Mr. eieorge Cluniqs Ross, who had come to. England from his coral island domain in the South Indian leseen in search of health. The connection of the Ross family with these remote islands, which are under British protection and are sit- uated about 700 miles from Java, forms a romance of adventure which .inight have been taken from a, chapter by Stev- enson. It was in the Caces Islands that Darwin studied the formation of coral reefs, and at the time of the great nat- uralist's visit in 1827 the first of the Ross dynasty—June Clunies Ross, a Scotsivan and a British. naval officer— had made his home there. The second of the house, his son, took up the rule in 1854, and. was succeeded by George Clunies Ross (who died yesterday), at the age of thirty, in 1871. Mr. George Clunies Ross was a man pre-eminent in courage, capacity, and tenderness, and his island home, of which he was the proprietor, as well as the chief, is a veritable Utopia. Coin- ed money is unknown there, for the parchment notes of George Ross are the sole medium of exchange; crime hardly exists and, without police or military, perfeet order prevails. BENEVOLENT DESPOT. air. Ross was the most 'benevolent of despots, with the power of life med. death over six hundred or seven hun- dred subjects. His domain was an en- chanted land, where the rats climb trees and nibble the coco-nuts, where the giant land crab scuttles to and fro brandishing claws of such formidable character that it can "nip through wire netting as easily as can a man with cut- ting pliers, can tear up tin with ease, and, break with its • great pincers the wooden bars of a cage that would serve to imprison a large wild animal. As to the rats—therehy hangs a story. Until as few years ago not a rat was seen in Cocoa. But a ship was wrecked .off the islands and the rats swam ashore. They increased at such a rate that they became a nuisance and caused a tremendous loss by spoiling the buds of the coconut, which are ex- tremely tender, ana are spoiled itnmed- lately anything touches them. The King of the 03C05: Islands, therefore, sndess- vored to exterminate the rodents, and at last he imported cats. But the eets did not do their work at all. The trouble of catching the rats was apparently i co much for them, and finding a delicious shell -fish on the shores evhich they liked much better, they within a short time became large and wild, and, in fact, a tremendous nuisance, so much lo +net now the islanders have not only the trouble of rats, but also of cats. SHARK -INFESTED COAST. One of the most interesting facts about the Cocos Islands is that at their highest point they are only 8 feet abos c the sea level. The prineipal island, tak- ing its name from the proprietors, is known as Ross Island, and contains Ma- lay villages. The waters suerounding the islands abound in sharks 6 feet to 12 feet in length. The principal ex- port of the islands is copra, the dried kernel of the coco-nut, and it is from. this product. that the Ross family have amassed their great wealth. As a young man Mr. George Clunies Rose studied engineering at Glasgow, returning te the islands in 1804. He had a large family, of whom several sons and daughters were at his bedside when he died. Mr. Ross' grandmother was an Englishwoman, and, his mother was a Malay. He himself married a Eurasian. There are no white women in the is- lands, • The eldest son of Mr. George Clunies Ross will succeed his father as King of the Cocos Keeling Islands. . The body of the late Mr. Clunies Roas will be conveyed to his island domain and there interred in the vault where He the remains of his father and his grandfather who reigned before him. ACCOMMOdatirlg. Night was approaching and the rain was corning down faster and faster. The traveller dismounted from his horse and rapped at the door of the one farmhouse he had struck in a five -mile stretch of travelling. No one came to the door. As he stood on the doorstep the water from the eaves trickled down, his collar. He rapped- again. Still no answer. He could feel the stream of water coursing down his back. Another spell of pound- ing, and finally the red head of a ka of 12 was stuck out of the second. storey. "Watcher want?" it asked, "1 want to know if I can stay here over night," the traveller answered test- ily, The red headed lad watched the man for a minute or two before answering. "Ye kin fer all of me," he finally an- swered, and then closed the windove.— From Lippincott's, THE HERO. (Washington Stars) Who's the hero of this drama?" said the manager at a first rehearsal. "e am," shouted a mat from an ob- scure corner of the theatre. "I'm the fellow who is putting up the money for the production." The course of true love runs smooth when there are banks on both Endo. AXLE GREASE Is the turning -point to economy in wear and tear of wagons. Try a box. Every dealer everywhere. The Imperial Oil Co.,Ltd. Ontario kaais The Oaten My 011 Co., Ltd; A REBUKE port "SOUND REASONS. (it .arf do lawrn." 121I0wed tho caretaker to Miele Jededialt in the city. "No tre.mosing allowed." ."Gosh, I didn't know 1 wuz mak- in' any noise," apal)gizeil rnek Zed, tiptoeing off the pzentLes. ROD'S CONSTANT CARE, (From the tierMansi lemma thou at the s thy Father Mali forgot? -Moog% the eleints aronnil thee gather, iroubt film not, Ablere hath the daylight broken, Always bath the eomfort spoken, Better ha th lie bee» for years Than thy fears.' L1eset-ore whatisse'er betideth, Night or day, Know His love, for He provideth„ Good alway, Crown of sorows gladly take; Grateful, wear it for His sake, Sweetly bending to leis will, Lying still, To His own thy Saviour giveth Daily streugth; To eaeh troubled soul that livetb, Peace at leugth. Weakest lambs have largest share Of the tender Shepherelei care; Ask Him not, then, "When" or "liows" Only bow. PRAYER. Our Fetleer, mored by the mereles. of God, we would present our bodies living sacrifices, and bring •ourseives to Thee, tend surrender ell that we hvae and an that we are, and all that we do unto Thyself, sifelp us that these be not words, but the deepest resolve of our. fixed hearts, and give us .grace, we pray Thee, to live according as we profess be. fore Thee. Hear es now in our prayer,. in Thy mercy accept anti bless us, for our Saviour Christ's sake. Amen. FIRST-HAND, _ In surveying the chambers of the or- iginals we walk alone, and yet are oppressed with. conmauy, like glowers of, meteors on a September night, they dart and. fly in 'bewildering confusion. And yet there is order, beauty and power, we are in touch with the past, and tile future is preguant with blessing. We tremble as we discover the edaring power—do they call it intuition or inspiration?—as these germs come up from the primeval mine? What helps; us to discover the true nature of a mean- ing or a motive, We are eonseious of a conception—clear, definite and strong, lofty, original, uplifting. No prompttr is nigh enough to help sie to receive; we drink of a cup we do not see, eat angels' bread from invisible bands. Come away from cups and. company into this great love -land, and see the wilderness blossom and bear fruit. "Cease from men"; open the gates of your soul to God; be silent before Him, and a new music shall make you glad. Who shall hold the light while we reach the standard of real values; who shall enlarge our horizon of life, our own life; who shall -augment our outline of spir- itual realities, so near, so available, so warm. Men who heve won shall be our lead- ers; men of inner experience, of nest as- pirations; men who have .ventured and who have arrived. Men who have wen well, because they have planned well; men who have found their standards in and by themselves, not their neighbor's truth, but their own. Sail in craft we have built ourselves; shape our course, rig our own sails; keep our own watch, let.go our own anchor. All this is the loneliness of the lovely sea. 0, beneficent isolation! "1 went into Arabia," says Paul. Welcome the silence of the sandy plain, Thrice welcome elelm envirorunent of God! Here let me rest beside the desert stream. Too short my sounding line to reach the depths Of knowledge, power, and mercy in- finite, Too deep; yet I may drink and be re- freshed, And with e vision. purified decay Freels beauties in the future's glittering dawn. Ile tells us of his life. "I neither re- ceived, it of men, neither am I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." The world's great need is not second- hand men, but first-hand men. "Here I stand," said Luther, "1 can do no other, may Gold help me." ,"Thrice blest is he whom is given • The instinct that can tell Tbat God is on the field( when He Is most invisible." Says William Penn of his time; "It is a sad reflection that many men have hardly any religion at all, and most men have none of their 'own. In that 'which is a religion of their education, and not of their judgment is the religion of another and not theirs." We must light our candle at the furn- ace doors of eternal fires; original, pro- found, inspiring. A reflected light will fail us in, the final hour, our light must be inherent, it must transfigure, identity and attract, in dignity and beauty, and so adorn the permanent personality of a first-hand, man. —IL T. Miller. A13OUT PRAYER. That which renders prayer so diffi- cult a subjeet to it thoughtful man is the utter selfishness with which it used even by good people. Mon pray for themselves, their children, their friends, their bitsiness coreerns, and in sueli prayers touch the horizon of as- piration. 111 other words, they attempt to secure for themselves certain favors whieh are not granted to others. tiOW 15 it that such persons have never con- sidered the elauses of the Lord's prayer? This is admittedly the model prayer. Christ, who had beeu addressing his dis- feiples on this very subjeet of Wrong ideas of prayer, gave them this prayer as the pattern of what all prayer ought to be. Yet what are ite themee? It consists of four parts. The first four {douses are pure aspiration. They ex - prose the ardent desire of all pure and exalted spirits to see (lode; kingdom prosper and its righteous law fulfilled. One clause only touehee the temporal life of man, It is the most modest of requeste•-the prayer for daily breed. The next three elausee express spiritual need. They speak of forgiveness, temp- tation and atliveranee from evil. The last three dames are triumphant as. 'eription, emresponding with the open- ing note of aspiration. Thus vie find that prayer is the flowing out of the soul to ood itt obedienee and inspiriatieti. The man who prays is not im much a stip* pliant to God, as a sympathimer vith bitn. ITe does not beg at the gate: be adores at the throne.—lev. W, J. Daw. son.