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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1930-01-16, Page 6(Canada's Air Mail Services Expand ` 'ostal Fliers Play Leading Role in Developing . Northland ' ' TWELVE ROUTES Iontreal'to Vancouver in,•3b. Hours is llnrmtediate Goal Ottawa. Canada is rolling her map Itorthward. • .The. cry, to go west is giving way to the, call of the North ;wed tn' pushing back the frontleS•— rtvitlt untold., millions in riches of the ICanadieeeeNoi'thland as the magnet— `tine Dominion's air mail service is ;spiaying a leading role. Mone than 1,000,000 miles' have been `t e:Versed in the year 1929 by Can- ada's air mail Planes: Nearly an- ether million miles in air }nail ser- vice will be added for 1930 by the 'opening on Feb. 1 of the '9i innipeg- #Regina -Calgary Mr mail route with offsiioots'.to Saskatoon, NortiiBattle- total,and Edmonton. To 'Points -three hundred miles Within the -Arctic Circle, . Canadian mall planes travel, 011, gold,' silver; Copper, nickel- and fur -tanning cell- ' 'tree in Ontario, Quebec and Western. tCanaela to -clay are being servied by these eerier -mail carriers, making more habitable the baokwoocl - die- tricts with little or no road comment kation: . e Regular Services In Ontario's Northland, tate Red. Lake and Narrow Lake mining cen- tres have their regular deliveries of mail be, ' Far north of Quebec City, the Chibougamau -mining do firict, has a' periodical' service from Oskeianes. Even to Fort Resolution,. FHay River Fort Providence, Port ISimpaon and other points in the area • of Great Scare Lake, along whose "shores gold has lately been Pound, air ptail .planes• of the Dominion wing their 'way. To Fort Norman, too, seeue of recent oil discoveries and one of the great fur -trapping centres, ,l'the air mail service extends. Dog teams and ice -breakers are giv- Ing war to the advance et the air- nlanee The .three weeks'trip by dog team to Seven Islands from Quebec is replaced by a weekly air mail de- livery taking three hours' flight to accomplish: Anticosti and the Mag- dalen islands have, the1l' n1r mail ser- vices and are uo longer dependent ba the comparatively slow ice -breaker. Twelve Air •Routes To -clay, 12 air rani' routes are in loperation; liIontroai•Detroit; Mout- treal-Albany; Toronto -Buffalo; Mont- Teal ontreal • Ottawa; Montreal - Rlmouski; ;Quebec -Seven islands; QuebecAnti- coetl; Moncton - Magdalen islands; Leamington - Pelee Island; Narrow ]Luke-Sloux Lookout; Lac du Bonnet: Bisset; Fort McMurray - Alclavik; Nontreat-St, Jtdin, and Oskeianeo- iChibougamau. Two great co uleatiug huts which would complete a trans -Canada air mail service are mooted for tate near future --one from Montreal to Winui- neg; the other from Calgary, Lath- tb idge or Edmonton to Vancouver. Early itt the new year Canadian air oiliciais contemplate making a survey to deternnine the best route from Alberta to the Pacific coast. This fact lends color to the probability !that Parliament may be asked at the next session to make the necessary ainopriatioa for these new routes. A 26 -hour air mall service from Mout- 'real to Vancouver Is the goal. ' • arolist Campaign Quickly Quashed `Rumania Government Uses Force to Stop Issue of Newspaper Bucharest, Rumania. --The Govern- ment used force Sunday night to ,quash a campaign fox the return of 'Prince Carol, father of the boy king, Michael. • Under orders from ths' Minister of lht'S'ar, after reading the country edition of the Carolist newspaper Cuventul, the type was broken, which made im- anossible the printing of a city edition: Earlier the semi-official newspaper La Nation Rouutaine published ant of- ficial communique denouncing the Co- ventlil campaign for Carols return, saying it was against Carol's own in- eteests. The government headed by Premier l;tans will nevelepermit Carol to come back from Paris, evhere he lives with Madame Magda Lupesca, the eon-' tnunique said. Neither wiIl,Maniu al- low any alteration of the present, !throne law. Cuvetttui had asserted the country /wished Carol to return and assume [the throne, rights to which he re- itauncecl for his mistress. # ,Indian Aspirations Times of India • (Bomber): His Mel' 13esty's Government,' through, His Oix- reliency the Viceroy, has by a frank ;and eordiei ekpression of its ilttea- )tlone made ,a generous gesture for In- , (ellen co-operation. In responding he ;that gesture India should not heel- • (tate unreservedly to support -Lord lis. twin. The Viceroy deserves well of glee country. 'Whatever the prelimin• 'ry• mistah;ap with regard to the 81- non Conunission -may yitade been, Lord Irwin: has.given, the fullest twee - (cal proof of hie, cheep sympathy with • Indian aspirations and of his earnest desire to further them by, well -order-„ • ecu methods. , li r, • .SAFETY O1-, the Comfort, the inexpressible Oolufort,of feeling safe,with 'a Person ted -Baying neither to eveigh tiiotight ftor' iheasure words, but pouting them 11` rightlit Just asff b, they are, ,chaff together; a's'certain 'that a ftaltliful hand will take and sffe theta, Quebec Christmas Tragedy Averted Virginia -Baked Poisoned Cake is. Traced in Time. CONTAINED ARSENIC FIour Inadvertently Mixed With Insecticide—Baker is III. Washington; How Cenadian and American officials in Washington and (aueheo -Cite traced a cake Heavily citai'ged with arsenic and probably saved thelives of a Canadian family averting a Christmas tragedy was re: eared by G. P. Dunbar assistant Chief of the food and drug administration here. A neat bit detective work by Iuspeotos• G. P. ,Lerritic, of the Milted States Department of Agricul- ture, a :telephone can front the, office of Merchant Mahoney at the Canadian Legation to authorities in Quebec City and the deadly cake containing flour inadvertently mixed with aniii- seetieide was on its way back to Washington int an unopened Pack- ego ackage bearing a'Christmas seal and the warning stamp of the Canadian Gov- ernmeht-poison. The cake was one of nine hums - baked in Virginia for the Christmas trade. The woman who made the cake is said to be in a serious condi- tion as a result of eating some of her baking, ' She sold most of the cakes a week or so before Christmas and one of them was ;sampled with serious consequences. A dentist is said to have brought 'a piece of cake to the Department of Agriculture where au analysis, disclosed the arsenic con- tent. Oa Dec. 19 the cake; was put into the hands of Inspector Larrick and within a short time all but one of the cakes had been rounded up. - Traced by Cheque The ninth cake the baker said was sold to a young woman she did not know.. Fortunately site remembered the cake had been paid or by cheque. The bank where the cheque was cashed traced it, Over Sunday, Dec. 23, the signer of the ohegae was found and a long distance call was im- mediately put through to Quebec to the family to whom the cake had been sent, About noon the legation here called the Quebec authorities and two hours later a call came back an- nouncing the dangerous Christmas Present had been put in the mail for Washington. - ' Officials settled back to enjoy a merry Ciu'estntas satisfied that what might have been a very disastrous clay wee largely saved. Number of Auto A Brief Breather fl'oun Our Cold Blasts Fatalities Higher Statistics Show Toll of 113 Lives Around Toronto During Year 1929 Toronto.—Motor vehicles took a toll of 113 lives in and about Torreon during 1939, an in0rease of 35 over 192S, according to statistics released by Edward Armour, secretary of the chief coroner's department. Sudden and violent deaths for the year total 1,099 as compared with 084 last year. During the year there three murders and 81 suicides. Fire losses for the year, according to incomplete figures amounted to alt- proxitnately 52,276,973. "Up, the Guards!" ' Loudon Daily Express and. cons.): Protests are still risingagainst the decision of the Brigade of Guards that any officer must resign who be- comes engaged to au actress. We feel, however, that the splendid stu- pidity of this edict is not properly understood, -ante that the wince of dis- approval should be tempered to the shoran moustache. 'With full know- ledge of the chivalry of a gallant corps It is quite obvious that the rule Is inteucted to safeguard the a.risten oxalic women who crowd the profes- sion of the stage from marrying into regiments that 0f late :'ears have kept so 'resolutely in step with the march of democracy, ' Haw !Haw! Washington Post; Dr, Otto Jasper - eon has invented a new language which he says sounds "better than a Dane's English or au Englishman's Daniell,' but utiles it sounds better than en Englishman's English it -won't be worth much. THEIR EXCELLENCIES TOUR THE WEST- INDIES The Governor-General and Lady Willingdon attd their patty on the B M,S. Lady Hawkins during their West Indies holiday cruise.. SV'ilih theta is little Margaret Goldsmith erf Newmarket, Ontario. • Fr nce Has Found Year 19149 Costly But ' Thrift Effort Has Pro deiced Impressive Pros- perity Spectacle Paris. --The year 1929 goes into history, for the T'reuc*t, as one of in- ternational liquidation. Stabilization cost them 30'per cent. of the value of the franc, --conse- quently 80 per cent, of the face value of the Government bonds they held. Liquidation cost them 70 per cent. Of the amount they expected Germany to pay in reparations, It coot them also about 20 million marks a year additional to satisfy th eclaims of the British, , Yet, as the old year goes out, Paris ie gay and France generally is rens-. sured and confident. One reason for the fortitude with which those saeriiiees have beeu'sup- ported is that the French have work- ed so hard to pay their taxes that their extra effort has given France an unitoped for prosperity. 'Phe deficits with which successive governments strugled a few years ago have become surpluses and now comes tax reduc- tion, with continued amortization of the public debt. This remarkable financial recovery produced the accommodating state of mind without which there could have been no Young plan, no evacuation of the Rhineland, and no effective recon- ciliation with Germany, Church and State in Italy Manchester .Guardian (Lib,): The Fascist State is the strangest and most uncomfortable bed -fellow, for the Catholic Church. An agreement with the old Liberal regime to restore territorial sovereignty to the Pope might not have beeu possible, but it could and would have safeguarded the Church's freedom within. the body politic. But by his agreement with Mussolini the Pope seems in danger of hawing secrificed the substance to the shadow; he has gained absolute liberty within the very limited area of the Vaticau City, but only condi- tional freedom for the Church out- side it. Mr. Thomas' Relief Schemes The Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman (Coos.): 311', Thomas's schemes are absolutely barren of now ideas to give a permanent uplift to industry. They 'are relief schemes—nothing more—and the most disturbing fea- ture is that they can do nothingebe- youd meeting the inarease,o2 unem- ployment that hall occurred since the Government took ofilce. ' • . Falling in love Is recommended in cases of threatened nervous break- down, A cynical correspondent says that a far less dangerous remedy is to fail in front of a double,decker bus.' Radi`a<, Reaches yrd While Phone Waits Captain Railey Holds Wire as Messages With Antarctic Are Exchanged in 20 Minutes Describing the radio service' be- tween New York and the Antarctic a8 'nothing short of black magic" Captain H. I -I, Railey, Admiral Byrd's manager, gave au example of Sine ser- vice recently. "Requiring an immediate reply from Admiral Byrd on matters that had developed after the closing of my office in New York," he said, "I sat at the telephone in my study, telephoned the operators in the radio room of the New York Times and- dictated the messages I wished to transmit to Lit- tle ibtle America, emphasizing the urgency at exactly 9.30. "'Hold the,phorto,' was t11e Taconic rejoinder of the operator, I overheard hila say "Raney wants to get these messages (ite had copied them) to Byrd. Put 'em through and get an answer. Ics's boldin' the wire.' "While I held that wire, those mes- sages went through and in less than Ave minutes the operator reported: `Lofgren (Admiral Byrd's secretary) says hold on a minute or two. Byrd is replying.' "At 9.50 I hung up—with Admiral Byrd's answer in my halide. "Believe it or nett." 'Captain Railey's enthusiastic char- acterization of the service as "black tragic," however, was thought too much by those who opel'ato the radio. They explained that the service was particularly good at this time; that conditions were most favorable and that ail that could be done t0 befit - tate and speech up messageswasbe- lug done. Firewood Detroit News: The United States is still dependent in a large measure upon firewood for fuel. Few persons realize that more trees are crit for this purpose than anything else. Or- dinarily one would think that lumber exacted the greatest drain upon our timber resources, but this rues sec- ond to firewood. It is estimated that 0,500,000 cubic feet of wood finds its way into hone fico boxes aunuelly- Lumber is second with 8,250,000 cable feet and then there is a big drop down to fencing Sleted at 1,800,000 'cubic feet, Railroad ties come fourth with pulpwood and nine timbers fifth. Not No is' Detroit Free Press: "The average woman spends more time than money when she goes chopping,"—Chicago News.. Not at this time of the year, brother. The Sun Spots Are Sure Making Some Spots Cold reap what is wortli keeping and' with IT'S OHILLY WHIkRH GOLD i8 001.0 lit, breath of eomfort blow the rest' Tee ie is no doubt about the seasons in the mioupis. gold tart area. it was only 59 - 'k"a .--Dinh Mulock r l h . D y y a1 lllulocl. Craik. ale picture was taken. deg Lees below zero wizen British Farmers Deplore, Condition George Hambleton; Canadian Press Writer, Gives Re- view of Situation as He Finds it Loudon,—Gloom is deepening over ,the broad acres of British farmlands. The farmers of last Anglia, where the depression la agriculture is. most severe, are organizing a monster peti- tion calling the attention of the goy -v element to. the "deplorable condi- tion" of British agriculture. They complain that with current prices, they cannot make both ends meet. ,The tendency of, farmers to turn arable lands to grass is resulting in diminished. employment' for farm workers. Farm workers at the .same time are resisting' and attempts tore- duce their iiay, and they want the bonelite.of the dole. At present the "unemployment insuraaee scheme". does not apply. to agricultural work- ers. The' unrest in the agricultural areas follows, paradoxically, on the heels of a bumper crop. Britain produced 4p• proximately 100,000 morn hundred- weights of wheat in 1929 than in 1928, and this on 65,000 fewer acres. Tice estimated wheat yield 'of' 1929 was 19.1 hundredweights per acre, against 18.1 in 1926 and auaverage for the past 10 years of 17,3. The hundredweight contains 112 pounds. • But the farmer contends his "heavy crop" is lat'g8.iy a delusion. lender the pressure of Argentine and Ger- man wheat, prices have been forced down to a level too low for profitable wiseatgrowing, The farm worker re- plies that what the farmer needs are better marketing methods, citing the instance of.the Canadian wheat pools. Says Hullabloo Groundless • "The Lund worker," the official or: gen of the,National Union of Agricul- tural Workers, refers somewhat un- kindly to the East Anglican Farmers' campaign as "tete Norfolk farmers' pantomime." It adder -"The Norfolk farmers have not had the best year in their experience, and they are therefore telling the world they had the worst. But, it facts are called for to back up this hullabaloo, a strange silence falls." The index figures of wheat prices compiled by the mintstry of agricul- ture has risen four points within a month. It stili stood in December, however, at 28 as against 31 in 1928 and 34 iu 1927. The number of agricultural work- ers orkers who would come under the unem- ployment insurance scheme is esti. mated at 800,000, including Scotland. The unemployed an1011g these are es- timeted to average 56,000 a year, The land workers also want a lower scale of coutributions to unemployment in- surance, on the ground they are lift- able to meet the scale levied upon the city worker. The situation has great" political significance. It is int the rural areas that the Conservatives Sud their chief strength. The Labor Daily Herald editorially observes that with- out a greater measure of agricultural suport, the government can hardly hope to eecuro a parliamentary ma- jority essential to its efficient work - Ing in the future. "In these circumstances," the Her- ald adds, "Rt, Hon. Noel Buxton, min- ister of agriculture, might not unrea- sonably recommend to the farmers that they should reconsider their past political allegiance," A French View of Stresemann We must not fait to grasr the prin- ciples and sentiments that determin- ed Herr Stresemann in adopting the attitude he assumed In leading Ger- many along the path she has followed for the past five years. The thief diplomat in Germany had•nottting of the mystic about him, Ott the con- trary, he was a complete realist itl the full meaning of the word and at- tached himself only to immediate possibilities. Being German in heart, mind, and 'soul, he had no other thought titan German interests. In spite of certain general formulas that he loved to repeat, his actions lacked that generous enthusiasm for a great idea that characterizes the efforts of strait aman Briand. In spite of his evolutions, Stresemann remained absolutely himself, bat he did have 'tile merit, though he was a former I upertalist, to understand that the policy of resisting the peace treaty, the policy of revenge, had no chance of proving useful to his country. Civil Re-establishiauent in China New Yotic Times: What to do with the millions of soldiers 'who overrun China is still an unsolved puzzle. Dia - banded, they become bandits. To maintain them' Costs millions. •The money to pay them and to meet tile other got'ernmeutal expenditures is the crux of the whole matter,: Funds: are no forger se easy to get as they Were. A long succession of bandit war lords have drained the country. A syst nt' of "voluntary obligations" a hs beds suoecssfufly used 10 extract money from C1linese men of wealth. The tart oollectimts 'bare been ex- tended as mach as the country would tolerate, But always the need is/tor More cash.—� SUCCESS Whoever starts off iu life with the, idea, "I shall succeed," always does mimed because he does•fNhilt islxgres, sary to tering about this result, If only one opportunity presents itself to hem, and if this .opportunity has as it were only one hair on its head, he seizes it by that one hair. Fur- ther, he. "often brings about., uueon- nolously or not, propitious eirOutn- stances. -Emile Chile. PAST OPPORTUNITY,( Como, gone—gone forever) Gens ss an unreturning river -e To -morrow, today, yesterday, never— Gone, ono) for ell. —Christine 41, Rossetti Prince -£ Wales - ;�- if For Africa win Resume `Hunting Trip Interrupted by Royal, • Father's Illness TO RETURN IN APRIL: Heir to Throne Will Visit Dia- affected,' Districts With Earl of Athlone Itondon.—Without any ceremonial files, which he abhor:,, the Prince of Wales left last Friday'on a four- month,"go-as-you-please" bunting trip "in Africa. Once he stepped aboard the steamship Kenilworth Castle at South- ampton docks there is to be no set program. ..He joins the Union Castle liner as an ordinary first -slain pas- senger with eytry formarity, taboo, -takinghis heals with the 04±011 500 tourists aboard, waited on in the ordi- nary way and free to roam all over the ship. When he arriyes at Captown, how- ever, it is hinted, ho will get a new thrill, for when he resumes his hunt - lag tip, interrupted just over a year ago by his father's serious illness, he iii reach his base at Dodoma in the Lake Tanganyika territory by 'plane. TO USE PLANE He had intended to' go there by automobile but owing to the unusually prolonged "short rainy season" the roads are not practicably; Capt. Denys Finch -Hatton, who is arranging the retails for the Prince's hudting trip, regularly uses this form of transport through the big game country, and thus, unless the roads dry out much more rapidly than is now probable, the Prince will icy from place to place searching for the big felloi'vs he wants to complete the "bag" which was only half full when he left Dodoma in a hurry a year ago. Much of the Princes baggage, in- cluding new guns and revolvers for use in the jungle is aboard the liner, but some of his hunting kit and favorite rifles are at Dedoma where be left them. The Prince's cabin aboard the Kenil- worth Castle opens right on to the promenade deck. Two cabins have been merged into one, forming a sit- ting room suite, the may change made being the substitution of a bed for a bunk in the adoining sleeping cote partment. Once at sea the Prince's holiday starts, It is his habit while on the ocean to take a great deal of exercise every clay, medicine -hall being one of his favorite mediums. Wearing a sports' "ruffneck" sweater probably far from new, he will join the Other passengers in throwing the ball. RETURNS IN APRIL, .After spending about .1 week in Capetown as a guest of his uncle, the Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of South Africa, he will visit with the Earl and Countess the disaffected na- tive districts from which troubles were reported recently, and counts upon being able to obtain first-hand knowl- edge of the situation. Further north, however, that is to say in Nothern Rhodesia, Tanganyika and parts of Kenya and Uganda, he will be in the places which he tit'ill hunt for the print - &y purpose of his trip, which is big game hunting. It is known that he has long been especial', keen to bag a big rhinoceros. The hunting will be good until the long rains begin, which is usually about the last of March. I1 is expected that he will be back in England at the end of April or early in Maya To Keep the "rC o s Horne on the Farm Ontario Gives Farmers Cheap Power to End Drift to Cities Toronto.—Electricity is being put to work on the farms of Ontario. To supply farmers only, 1,157 miles of transmission lines were built during the l,tist year by the Ontario Hydro Commission at a cost of $2,650,000. This year the expansion program calls for 2,000 miles, Rates for fanners, already reduced by the government, are to be still further cut in an endeavor to put elect triclty en every concession in the thickly settled parts of old Ontario. The government contends that elec- tricity, more titan any other factor, is offsetting the tendency to drift from tate land to the .city. With power avaffable there is no city convenience that cannot bo had on the far. Fannter's are finding electricity cheap- erline forpowerm. echanical chores than gaso- With extension of rural lines and extensive developments in the cities, the province faces a power shortage. To offset this the provincial com- mission has just contracted for 250,- 000 horsepower from the Beaullarnois development in tete St. Lawrence and is pushiug its own developments at Chats Falls and Carlitcn on the Ot- tawa Rivet'; which will give a total of 9711,000 horsepower. Labor and Ettnpiue Natal Advertiser: It is indeed • a welcome sigu of improvement to thud a Labor ensu like Mr, Bea Tillett, the former seerotary of the Dockers' Chien, publicly exhorting housewives of the 010 Cootie/ to "buy British" when • teeing • their Christmas shop. plug. In the past Labor has Oeteeea ::0 closely Wille all 011Pe,i01ey interna- tionaliem as rV ue genoraily suspoct 9f eeefeet•ttlhur the claims of any other patten to those of her own, but post- war problems have brcznght the theorists up against the sharp logic of feats and the consequent revival of working -Mass irterest In the possibili- ties. of Britain and her Empire is one of the brightest aspects of a some what gloomy period. FA3'E 'Ahs useless �sp00lilating on i,that might have been, We are: puppets 1n the hands of fate, most of ne. 'ire are carried along by a power stronger time ourselves. Si :nday School Less :January ,19. :Lesson Ili—Jesus Beglne His Ministry --Matthew 4t 17'25, Golden Text—Repents for the IdnO- dom of heaven, is• at hated.—Ma t' Mune 4: 17- •• ANALYSIS, I. THE CALL, OF THE (BUST DISCIPLs, X1'7-22. It THE BEGINSTlia'G OF ries rdrssION, • 23-25. Iwraootrorxoo—In order ID follow the movements of Jesus .after the temptation, we .beat turn io the drat chapter of John. Evidente he did not return at once into Galilee, and when he did come,' back, he did not go to Nazareth, but went to Cepernauml on the north side of the Lake of Galilee, which now beconies his headquarters. I. THE CALL OF THE PIRST DISCIPLE, 17-22. V. 17. This call of the diseiples is a matter of great significance, There axe four accounts of this call in the gospels, and all agree in showing that this was one of the fist things to which Josus gave his attention. The evidence for this discipleship is very full.' He felt tett need of having help- ers who would come to know Ium per- sonally, who could learn of the true nature of his teaching, and to whole he could enthuse the future of his kingdom. It is only is the case of -a. great men that we find disciples, Ordinary people -do not have followers. Jesus gave a great deal of his time to the training of the band f intimate followers. Ile took thein with him wherever he went, and acted like a teacher to them. The four here men - Honed telongod to the otdinary•follc. They were fishermen, who earned their living with physical t' it. - They were resourceful and courageot,s, and the result justified .the choice of Jesus. 'We may be astonished that he did not call then of more influence, rho had wealth and fame, but perhaps this class was not willing to come after Jesus and only a few rich then joined his cause. V. 19. Jesus does not shrink .from asking these men to give up their calling. in fact, there was no sacrifice that Jesus would not ask his diseiples to make, if necessary. Ii'e demanded of all' those who were to follow him, that they should take up '-heir cross and fatless,. Jesus did not oared them to do this with any reeompen.e;for he held out to then a much finer kind of life than that which they were giving up, They were to be fishers of sten, and wore, therefore, to be concerned with a much nobler and more interesting duty. V. 20. The response is immediate. There seems to be a capacity for sacri- fice to our endure, which is one of our noblest qualities. Every age tells ns of the many men and women who have surrendered wealth and comfort to follow the calf of Jesus into the most 20111310 and difficult work, V. 21. These four men formed the first group of the Twelve, and they continued to have the first place in the development of the church, V. 22. Perhaps we can understand the immediate acceptance better if we read John 1: 255. II. THE BEGINNING 0P THE MISSION', 23-25. V. 23. A most comprehensive verse, giving an outline of the work of Jesus. We picture the active movements of Jesus and his disciple,e as they go from place to place in Galilee. They go fleet to tate sown near tate Lake of Galilee, then they go to the village in the interior, and afterwards make longer trips, always returning to Capernaum. In each village there was a synagogue. This was the meeting place of the Jews, and it was built in some conspicuous place, on the 1411 - top, it beside a river, It was the most important building of the village, like the church today in some countries. Here services vers held every Sab- bath, and also on two week -days. There was the reading of the Old Testament, and exposition. The syna- gogue was also a school for the chil- dren, where they learned 41 read and write, and to know the law. It was natural that Jesus should go first to these places of religious influ- ence, and he never neglected the ser- vices in these places. We are told hi Luke, eh. 4, of the time when he went to the synagogue in Nazareth, where he had been brought up, but we have no account of a full sermon preached in tete synagogue. Most of the ser- mons reported were delivered out -of- doors. His work is divided into teaching and preaching. The first of these was more informal, and would include an- swer and question, and repetition. Jesus' made much of teaching, and was called the Teacher, while his fol- lowers were caller "disciples" or learners. Preaching was more formal, and appealed more to the Had and emotions of the hearers. The subject of the preacher• is given here as "the gospel, or good news, of the kingdom"; and this introduces one of the common words of the New Testament, The term, "kingdom of heaven," or "the kingdom of God," ocean very frequently in the four gos- pels, though. it is found very seldom in the rest of the New Testament. It oceurs in the Old Testament, and means the sovereignty or rule of God. Jesus takes a terms that was known to the people of his time, and gradually reads new meaning into it, ' V. 24. It was 110 wonder that the fame of this preacher spread quickly through the land, especially ,when we think of these marvelous cures which he wrought on the sick. We should notice in this verse the great variety of his miracles, and recognie the fact that the healing of the sick was a distinctive part of the work of Jesus. In this the c1-urch hos tried to follow his example, in the founding of hospi- tals, and en all .the efforts to care for the neces"'.tib's of the body. V. '„`t, 'This verso shows the extent his mission, including, not only Galilee, but the: lands that lay both south and east, Mind and Matter Political pl uos:miry Observes one rule, I find, Which is that Matter must not be ' identified with Mind. The plans of statesmen and of kluge Might very well be shattered, If those who Mattered Minded things, Or those who Minded Mattered. P. "W D. B. in G,K.'s Weekly. "Let tie eons to give 0110 name 01 divine worship to what has often been no More Haan a spiritual yawn,"•' Stxeita Itaye-Sueith.