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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1926-1-27, Page 2WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27, 1920, AVING installed a New Bat- tery Charging Plant we are now able to give our Customers the best of Service. McIntyre & Cudmore Ford Cars, Trucks and Tractors Used Cars a Specialty Phone 7llx F !V -owe- —maw. Sunday School Lesson BY CHARLES G. TRUMBULL (stator of The Sunday School Times) JESUS FEEDS FIVE THOUSAND MEN. Sunday, Jan. 31—John 6:1-71. Golden Text: Jesus said unto them, I am the Bread of Life; he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believ- eth on Me shall never thirst (John 6:85). We must not underesthnate the miracles of Christ. Some would deny them, or explain them away by nat- ural causes; others are saying that, even if the miracles were just what. they claim to be, we have high: -r grounds for believing in Christ. Bet it is dangerous to minimize or dis- count that to which God gives (m- portance. Christ's miracles were credentials of His own Person and mission. John throughout his Gospel calls the miracles, signs. Of what were they signs? We have the in- spired answer in John 20:20-21: "And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of His discip- les, which are not written in this book: but these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through His name." Our Lord's miracles of healing at- tracted a great naultitude to Him, as God intended, and people flocked after Him to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus was with His little company of disciples, and He asked them how they might "buy bread, that these might eat." The disciples were baffled, and their an- swer showed it. All the time, we are told, the Lord knew what He would do, and was simply testing His dis- ciples faith. When such a question comes into our lives, should we not look up to God and remind Him that He has promised to supply all our need by Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:19), and then tell Him that we are trust- ing Him to do so? Any anxiety on 'our part is sin—the sin of unbelief. Andrew mentioned the presence of a lad with "five barley loaves and Iwo small fishes," and at once noted the hoplessness of that supply. Yet the Lord took and used that meagre little lunch, giving a wonderful dem- onstration of the precious truth He spoke long afterward to Paul: "My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weak- ness" 2 Cor. 12:9). When vse sur- render to the Lord all we have, even though it is only poverty and wealc- nese, He will meet all oar need: we may safely, "leave the miracle to God." It is a striking fact that J,els, when He had taken the loaves and fishes, as He lifted His heart and voice to God in prayer, did not ask God to de anything; He simply gave I thanks! The Christian is enjoined: i "In everything give thanks" (I. 'Moss. 8:18), and if thanksgiving had a larger place in our praying God could do a great deal more for us. We know from the other Gospels that the disciples had asked,the Lord to send this great multitude of peo- ple away and let them find food for :themselves. In !mite of this ungrac- • ious and unbelieving attitude, Cheiel now, instead of giving the miracul- ously multiplied food directly to the multitude, "distributed to the dis- ciples, and the disciples to them" He let the unwerthy disciples have the great privilege of feed* the Multitude. How• many times, by our selfishness and unbelief, IMAM we for - * 1) right to give. the Bread of Life to ()there! Yet Our Lord still says to us, "GiVe eta the to eat," and enables tia, Whenever We Will, to give the miraculous Gospel to the starving, dying world about us. God never only just meets peo- ple's needs. He is not that kind of God and Saviour. We do not read "where sin abounded, grace equally abounded." What we. do read is that "where sin abounded, grace did much more abound" (Rom. 5:20). And so in this actual historic event that is bath mkaele andparable, the five thousand were not just barely fed: they ate "as much as they would," and then trona the five loaves and two small fishes there were twelve bas- kets of fragments "which remained over and above unto them that had eaten." However great our need may be, God's resources and supply are always greater. The Golden Text of this lesson, printed above, is the key to its mean- ing. It occurs in a long discourse that the Lord gave the next day to this same great multitade who sought Him out again- They wanted to "take Him by force, to make Him a king" (v. 15), but He declared to them that their greatest need was "everlasting life which the Son of Man shall give unto you" (v. 27)• Then He went on to declare that He is the living Bread which came down from Heaven, and that- this bread "is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.,. .Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood ye have no life In you" (vs. 51-53). We know, from other Scriptures. that this means simply believing in Christ as our Saviour, and recog- nizing that, when we are saved by faith in Hen, He Himself has en- tered into us and has taken us unto Himself. It is the wonderful, pre- cious truth of the vine and the branches (John 15), and "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27). THE 01ATEAU FRONTENAC, QUEBEC AND WINTER SPORTS PROGRAM With seasonable weather prevail- ing and a nice blanket of snow on the ground, winter sport season in Que- bec City is now Well under way. The snow -wreathed beauty and exhilara- tion of a winter vacation are a grow- ing need. Winter sports are qui,* and effective restoratives, bringing to you the enjoyments of glowing youth. Up in the spruce country, where amidst the color, mirth arte hospitality of old Quebec, the true winter carnival spirit is to be found. The recent lire at the Canadian Pacifees famous hotel—the "Chateau Frontenae". has caueed no interrup- tion in the social activities—there be- ing ample accomodations and public rooms for guests—•nor in the Winter sports program arranged by the Sports Director of Chateau Fran- tenac and the Frontenac Whiter Sport e Club. Organized activitine and interesting events daily, includes skating, snow -shoeing, hockey, eki- ing, Mardi Gras Carnival, etc. Vari- entered costumes present a brilliant spectacleThe season terminates with the open championship bob eled races February 27th, Hotel reservations arranged --fell particulars of railroad and sleeping car fares -gladly ftninished on appil- cation to any Canadian Pacific Ag- ent. (2 wits.) From common swamp cat Utile scientists have recently made both feed and sloth. A read hog is it fellow who Paitleg you on the highway, no Matter haw vrefeh tweed you try to put On. THE New Member in Parliament BRUSSELS POST Themes Mehlillan, M.P., South Huecei 'Under the above head, W, E. Eld before you. The matter lies with liott, iriVes the following description you. Your decisien shall meet my of the new member for S'outh Huron I a;:proval. and I shall be found ready in Tuesday's Free Prose; as in the past, to help elect the can - South Huron as it stands to -day ,tli,Iate of eout choice. As between Mr. McMillan and WUS Croraed by the Iledieteibutien ' of 191-1, and ie. the three subeequent Owen Geiger, reeve of Hensel], the eivretion decided, in favor of the elections hes returned to the House of Commons in ,mccesion a Censer.; fteener, wheeeupon Mr. McMillen etatie 0 little speech of acceptance vative, Progreseive and a Liberal, lie said: '"I feel I know 0(1) 131 of the trust and respell- ibi;ity you have placed upon nut, and if I did not enjoy going out amongst the people of South Huron I would. oot gece•pf your candidature to -day. I thank yen from the bottom of my leart fee the manner in which you hove used mes in the past and I want to say that, including .Liberals, Pro- gressives and Conervatives, there is not a citizen in South Huron, so far as I know, who has any feeling a- gainst me personally. I feel that we stand on the threshold of victory in South Huron, and in the pest two or three months many of our Progree- sive friends 'have come to me and sale', "If the Liberals request you to accept the candidature again, don't be backward in taking it, because we are ready not only to vote for you, but to do everything we cat for you.'" Mr. McMillan was one who attend- ed the Clinton sitting of the Ontinee agricultural inquiry committee last year, and there took occasion to in- form that body that it was wasting its time trying to find out what was wrong with the farming industry, because everybody knew that. He is for better trade arrange- ments with the United States, for one thing. just to see which variety it likes beet. Duncan Marshall, Liberal organizer, hist ra emphasized the advisability of more farmers being sent to Parlia- ment, and South 'Huron may, have Paid some heed to this point. At any rate, Thomas. McMillan is not only 0 practical farmer, but has had senno speeial experience which will. un- doubtedly prove valuable to bit. As befits a newpomer, he has spent the, time 40 far in listening and watching but one of these days the House is likely to get an "earful" from Mr. MeMillan, N.Vhiell will be worth lieton- ing to, all about the rattle trade ef Canada. Thonme McMillan, M.P., farms iu Hullett township, near Seaforth, on the homestead where his father, John McMillan, settled limey years ago, and where he himself was born. More than 40 years ago he and his brother. Robert„ were extensive Importers of Clydesdalehorses, and from 18-82 to the present time Mr. Thomas McMil- lan has been engaged in greater or less extent in the cattle export trade. He pays close atteetion to the finish- ing of his stock, and in the rush fol- lowing the lowering of the British embargo was one of the few Who managed to break even or a little bet- ter. He has vigorous views on the matter of ocean rates, which may be ventilated in the House later on. The genesis of Mr. 1VieMillan's par- liainentary aspirations might proper- ly be traced back to the time when, at 15 years of age be was persuaded to join a debating club. For 10 suc- cessive winters he took part in those debates, and when the Farmers' Ad- vocate, of London, offered prizes for esssays on farm topics Toni McMillan committed his oratory to paper. F. W. Hodgson, then on the Advocate, was later appointed by Hon. John Dryden as first superintendene of farmers' institutes, and Hodgson ask- ed young McMillan, then a youth do- ing chores around•the farm, to go on the road lecturing. Eventually he ac- cepted the offer and eccompanied Prof, Penton from time to time dur- ing the next 15 or 16 years all over the province and even into Prince Ed- ward Island, Nova Scotia and the West. Even during the Conservative administration in Ontario, when Hon. Nelson Monteith was minister of ag- riculture, Mr. McMillan's services were retained, and he went on his way addressing the institutes on soil cultivation, underdraining, care of live stock and all the other topics on the curriculum. Under the same min- ister he also served on a special com- mittee to inquire into the number of pure bred horses in the province, and the need for importation of stock. More recently he was member of the rural credits committee formed in 1920 and headed by Prof. Jackman, of Toronto. Out of the reeommenda- tions of that body grew the legisla- tion under which the farm loans sys- tem of Ontario operates to -day. Front 1902 to 1908 Mr. McMillan was reeve of Hullett Township, an office in which his father 'before him had Served. He never received an acclamation, but always got there just the same, surviving the storm which arose over the Summerhill School controversy and the local op- tion by-law.. Always actively identified with the Liberal paety, Mr. McMillan- was for 80 years ehaieman of his township organization, and in 1917 was the party's choice as candidate for the Commons. J. J. 'Werner, who had been elected as Conservative member in the reciprocity election foe th.e old riding of South Huron, had no dif- ficulty in carrying the south riding hi the war -time election, and Mr. Me - .Millen had to bide his time. The Pro- gressive wave engulfed South Huron, with many other Ontario ridings in 1921, and William Illack, a farmer near Seaforth, was sent to Parlia- ment, with a majority of only 44. Last fall the Progressives changed candidates and eelected Robert Mc- Millen, brothel' of the Liberal candi- date, and a ,director of the U. 'F. O. Co-operative, thus precipitating a campaign of a unique character, J. J. Mernerran again for the Conserv- ativesi and it was a pretty close con- test, but Thomas McMillan came ont on top by 268. - At the convention -which chose him as candidate, at Hensel', on May 21 last Mr. McMillan made- a speech whieh was at least e model of brevity, The Writer's .hoteboak reveals the fol - bowing: "At the instance of very Many Mende I again allow My name tol"ge "If we could only get across into that market with our live stock, it would be a Godsend," he said in con- versation with the Free Press. "It is short-sighted for any Government not to encourage freer trade with the United States. As far as manufac- tured goods areconcerned, our ex- ports to the United States are in- creasing more rapidly than our Im- ports, even under present condi- tions." Mr. McMillan is a Presbyterian-- • even since church union. His frater- nal connection had been with the Canadian Order of Foresters. Mrs. McMillan was formerly a Miss Mc- Lean, member of a family well known in Huron County. Their family con- sists of one son, farming in Hulled:, and a daughter, attending high school in Seaforth. Mr. McMillan's room mate on Par- liament Hill is Dr. W. A. Hall, South Bruce, whose election also represents a Liberal gain last October, and who, like Mr. McMillan, takes the place e a Progressive member. ASKS FOR MEMBERSHIP Friends of Mine. Cutis, co -discov- erer of radium, are campaigning in favor of ber election to membership in the French Academy of Science. She was a candidate in 1911 but was defeated. C.hangein NumberS THE POsT 1st Telephone numbers are now Office 31 Residence 104x Please Remember These APAT RADE FRE !Britain's Great Rubber Trade W How uvHsTociiOBADED AND Sprang From a Jar of Seeds SOLO ,IT TORONTO. Bogs Are Grailed Under Government System But Buyers' Seek Quality In Other Classes 118 Well. (Contribined o) Ontario oepartinent of Agriculture, Torunt0.) A eluiracterLd ic feature �iall agri- cultural moaned I te0 is t he wide var- iety itt IM COMatiUll and quality among articles of tile same kind. This condition Is most marked in live stock, There is such a confusing variety in respect to age, type, Ka, quality and condition, that u spclal grading service must be perfermed just prior to sale in order to establish 00 uederstandabla money value for the stock offered and to facilitate and speed up sales so that they may be effected at the least cost. Mar- ket practice and experience, there- fore, have established certain grades in the live stock industry into 0110 of which each animal will fall. No two animals however are exactly alike, the quality of the animals Varies with the season and in the various sections of the country; with- in the grades there is a.diversity of sub classes. Though It is not the purpose of this article to enter into a full dis- cussion of any of the technical phases of the animal industry (that is the field of the animal husband- man, breeder and. meat packer) still, at this time, a short schedule of the various grades and market classes into which all animals are sorted is not amiss, particularly as it is the comparative fewness and simplicity of the grades of hogs and the uni- formity with which hogs genera* conform to these grades that make the marketing ef' hogsa different problem to that of cattle and sheep in these two vital respects, viz., first, the services of the market are not called into use in the marketing of 60 per cent, or more of Ontario's hogs, these being shipped dii•eet front producing centre to packing plant, and, secondly, the Government has felt impelled on the solicitation of producer, breeder and packer to step in and interfere with private enter- prise to the extent uot only of arbi- trarily laying down exact standards for the grades of hogs, but the more radical departure of establishing ac- tual price differentials to be made between the various grades. To no such extent has there been interfer- ence by public authority in the nat- ural working out of competition and custom in establishing the grades and price differentials between grades with other classes of stock. ' Grades and. classes of stock on mar- kets are determined in the last analysis by the varying consumer de- mands, and the varying supplies of the different products of the animal es.rcaSs. The grades are the inter- pretation of this demand and supply as appliedto actual animals by men (sellers and buyers) skilled in such interpretation. Certain terms come by custom to bo used in describing the various grades intowhich all animals fall, and the grade is deter- mined by the size, conformation, sex. age, condition, finish and quality of the animal. The following terms adopted by the Markets Intelligence and Stook Yards Service of the Fed- eral Government may be considered OS fairly descriptive of the grades into which llve animals are sorted in the marketing process: Cattle— Steers, 1,200 lbs. and up " 1,000 to 1,200 lbs. .Good Com. Steers, 100 te 1,000 lbs. Good Com. Heifers Good Fair Com. Cows Good Coln, Bulls Good Com. Canners aud Cutters Oxen Stockers, 460 to 800 lbs. Good Pair Feeders. 800 to 1,100 lbs. Good Fair Calves— Bcef Dairy Heavies Grass Ls Sows Stags Lambs— Sheep - 0001 Reavy Ooto. Light COM *tinder quite similar grade tonne does the Market Intelligence Service, operated by the Federal Govern- ment, repert the marketing day by day on all Canadian markets, along with the price ranges for the day for these grades. Mao the market sections of the press use similar elassifications in their publicity of the market,. With cattle, sheep and calvee the market practice is to allow theexperionee and skill of the ,com- mission saleinnen and of the buyers to determine into what gradee par ticular animals shall fall, but with hogs the interests et the whole trade appear to have justified a .more arbi- trary and artificial grading put into effete by GOVOrtiMOnt actien.—A. Leitch, Dept. Fleonomies, 9. A. Col- lege, Guelph. Winter nye. The rye crop in Ontario is grown on approximately 100,000 acres. It Is not an important crop when com- pared with oats and wheat on an acreage basis. The increase in acre- age as ar grain crop has been very slow, due to the diffleulty generally experienced in harvesting a heavy erop. At the Ontario Agrieultural College the variety known aa Pothue ha e headed the list for productive - nem The average yield per acre per ennuin of the Petkus winter rye sur - Passed the next eigheat 'variety by four bushels in a seven years' teat,— Dept. of Fatensleu, 0. A. 0., Guelph We shall have fewer aud better sews when Ire bubrove our dahl herb, illy R. IL Batson, in the N ew York Evening World. British rubber growers are now get- ting 00 cents a pound and last July the priee of the raw product was $1.20 a pound. It is enriching tbe Empire by between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000 annually, The man who made this possible for Britain was Sir Henry. Wiekham, a scientist who evidently had except- ionally rare business actin= and vision. Sir Henry went to Brazil in 187a to do a lot of scientific work. He -became intereeted in rubber grow- ing. Brazil even then realized the trineneloue potentialities of her pra- etleal monopoly Or raw rubber, and guarded it zealously. But Sir Henry 0-,1013' urbane selentist„ andevi- dently was somewhat of a diplomat. He WitS seized with a consuming de- sireto attempt to cultivate seede of the rubber plant in his native Eng- land. Brazil had placed an embargo on these -seeds, mid it, was rigidly en- forced. But Sir Henry did not con- sult Out Brazilian Government. When he was leaving Para, Brazil, nearly a half century ago,SirHenry frankly told the customs guard on the dock that the glass case in his lugg- age contained some of the seeds. He explained with great politeness and net without a touch of deference that he simply wanted the seeds :for botan- ical speeiments. He, Sir Henry, was not in trade, he explaine4,but was a ecientiet and :Wired the little eeeds merely for scientific experimnt. The eustoms guerd wag impressed, so much so that his bow of acquiescence was a little more formal and polite - that that of Sir Henry when the lat- ter sought permission to tate the seeds. Whether the scientist rekly know that he was carrying away .with him the seeds Of another tremendous in- dustrial empire eat only be guessed. At any rate, he kept his word with the customs guard. .He took the seeds to the botanical garden in London for experimental purposes. And during the experiments, and to Sir Henry's great eatiefection, the seeds sprouted. These sprouts were sent to Ceylon and planted. They soon began to thrive. Other sprouts were sent to practically every other tropical coun- try under British dominion and con- trol. And they, too, thrived. Borneo, Cey,len and several other coun- tries soon began to be great rubber producing countries. To -day Britain produces more than 70 per. cent of the' rubber that is grown in the world. South America produces less than 10 per cent. Dutch colonies account for the major part of the balance of pro- duction, and these Dutch rubberin- terests are largely financed by Bri- tish money. LACK OF INFORMATION "Am I descended 1 rom a monkey, ma?" "I dare say, but I'm not sure; never met any of your father's peo- ple." + + + THE IDEAL Guest (iii library) -1 see you've bought a new set of Shakespeare with notes. Newrich—Notes nothing! I paid cash on the nail f or it. + + + REASONABLE DOUBT Lady—There is no need to be frightened, my little man; my little dog is only wagging his tali to show how pleased he is. Tommy—But that is not the end I'm afraid of. • + + THE 'WILY WAITER "Waiter. b ring mu two fried eggs, some ham, a cup of coffee, and aroll," said the first "commercial." "I3ring me the same," said his friend, "but eliminate the eggs." I The man on foot often overtakes happiness, while the man who pur- sues it at high speed often passes it by. Put two perons in a room, one with a toothache and the other in love and the one with the toothache will go to sleep first. + + 'Twas not an act of chivalry, Nor yet the fear of scorn; He offered her his street car seat To keep her off his corn. 4- "I hope Pm protruding," apologized the fat man as he butted in on the Private party in the dining room. Prof. teacock's Campaign For Cancer Research McGill Professor, Moved by Death of His Wife, Will Devote Pen apd Money to Fight Disease. The cancer problem, the greateat one faced by medical science today and which so far seems to baffle all attempts at solution, is to be attacked with greater force as the result of death from the dread disease of Mrs. Stephen Leacock, wife of the well known professor of economics and i literature of McGill University. i When Prof. W. Blair Bell, of the University of Liverpool, was in For - onto last November he was called on • to visit Mrs. Leacock in Montreal, and administer to her the lead solu- tion treatment of which he is the discoverer, and which he presented to the Canadian Academy here, show- ing the results so far obtained. • "Yessir." in a moment the waiter came back, leaned confidentially and penitently over the table and whispered: "We 'ad a slight accident just be- fore we opened this mornin', sir, and. the 'andle of the liminator got busted. • off, Will you take yer eggs fried, same as this 'eve gentleman?" .2.2.2.2 The mate who catches cold on a fishing trip gets no sympathy from his wife until he dies of pneumonia, + 44 + + Succeed and you'll be hated, fail and you'll be pitied. Letterheads Envelopes Billheads And all kinds of Business Stationery printed at The Post Publishing House. We will do a job that will do Credit to your business. Look over your stock of Office Stationery and if it teqUires replenishing oall us by telephone 81, The Post Pohlisgsg House ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.,..........1*,e....a.r. Prof. Leacock Professor Bell shortly afterwards returned to Liverpool, and there ho was followed by Professor Leaceek, who wished to have Mrs. Leacock continue the treatment. Her death occurred there shortly after her ar- rival. Professor Leacock, moved by her death, has undertaken to forward with his pen and his fortune a stren- uous campaign in the research field in quest of the secret of the cure or prevention of the disease that carries off 100,000annually on this continent. The British Society for the Control of Cancer which has branches in all the Dominions will likely be the agency through which Professor Lea- cock will direct his efforts. Prof. fOrInOrlY of 1VIeGi11 University and a fellow professor of Prof. Lea- cock, is new at the head of the Path- ology Department in Liverpool Unl- vereity, and ie thus associated with Dr, William Blair The society is also represerited 111 McGill and it connection With the University of Torotto.