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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1925-04-16, Page 2FACT AB S!RfES—o.1. Tea fiit became known in China nearly 3000 years Ix rote Christ. In that couilATy tea was greatly prized, both for ItS .1."e/rark- able qualities as a beverage and for the almost religious eerernony attachea to the drinking of it. Up to the sixth century, tea was used only for tnedicirtal purposes. Even ifri the seventeenth-- century it cost $25.00 to $50,00 per pound. All tea caddies were constantly kept under /oak and key. Today when even fine finality like " SALADA" costs less than one-third of u cent per cup, it is not surprising that the consumption of tea is it/creasing tremen- dously. MUSIC AS'IVIEDICINE By Arthur Mason The valueof music topereens elif feriae physipal or Mental illneete . is bang discussed in 'many places,, aid ' edica1 scientisis are -reeordiag more and more .frequently the result of in avestigatione they have made in re epect of music as medicine for body and mind. - In.hospital wards, la asylums, in con- valescent homes., where „elm effect of music: as stimuli% or :as sedative, is being tested many times and in ;many ways, the general result la to 'prove that, -although music cannot euro nese, „at -least It cairalleyiate suffering, canproduee, not in all minds, it is true, but in raincis'Ilige,are susceptible to music's appeal, a 'condition that in more or less degree is of -benefit to the Sufferer. Soothing or Stimulating Influence. It would be strange If tide were not so.- The soothing or the stimulating influence of music is well known to hosts of persons in good health who have exemdenced this power of it to lay a restful touch upon the heart, and to eneigise the flagging spirit; Music e has its universal appeal not only be- cautie it is pleasant to Beton- to, but also beeause its way of quietening the inind and of etirrieg the eingtions le of direet value in hours when worry preeses or whenthe emotions are jaded, That is One of the medicinal benefits 14 music—for an iniluetioe that balms the exerted nerves, or im- Dela- the tired heart to.new activity, is undoubtedly a healing- influence. • In, the case of listeners who are deli- iiitelY ill, this medielnal effect of numic Is less certain... The conditon set 'up by illness variee both with the individual and with the particular form or degree of' illneseles- suffers. Some pergons ante some stages -of sickness are, of course, more responsive than other e to the appeal of teuele, and it is for this reason that we have on the one hand, well -proved easei of the value.of raueic,in siektesg, and on the other hand' equally well -proved cases. of its failure to de very much. There can be little doubt, however, that in the majority of eaeeswhere the ton- dftion of the patient alloWs a chance to music, its ,iniluenee upon his mind is a heanling, softening, soothing or invigorating I/ilium:tee likely to be of no s.ma.11 benefit to him. , Music as Consolation and Relief. Medical testimony, it may fairly be said, definitely suports those .who claimfot music that it is medicine for the Mind. The -convalescent, cheered by the enlivening straibi of it, is helped towards recovery. The anxious or the vain -stricken patient fe the better able - ta beat his suffering in so far as the • 'interest .or the charm of mimic can Snake him Torgetif. Even the rhental- ly afflicted, an certain types of brain diseaseseera to find in =lee at least a pleasure if it cannot be, a remedy. And any of us, though his only ail- ment be that of "the weary weig,ht ot • all this unintelligible world," has in magic •a consolation that Will lighten the burden of it, au& a relief that will ease its strain upon heart and mind. Humor Always Safeguard. • What an ornament and Safeguaed is _humor! Far better than wit for a poet 'or writer. It le a geniusi and so defendg from the iusanities.—. Sir Walter Scott, ftgyea NIP f, 'Li e Pitee,ft &mama after ever* aneat • 614Ye the fairailr 'the beifefftoflts) 4 to digestion., Lieadts teeth too.) heel, it 41-Yracysli , t‘h9iitse: filltatf" SOUS No, No, 18-1213, &thatelAjaaillirtu 14c;e' .1 -)jar - Ix Variation of the Straight-lus• ); Frock ' A VARIATION OP THE STRAIGHT -LIN H FROCK. The Silhouette still follows straight and slender lines, but much fullness is often added to the lower portion of the skirt by means of the chaular flounce. A smart combination of ma- terials is achieved by using a white and black printed silk for the hnain portion of the dress, and soft Meek satin for the collar, circular flounce and loosely knetted string ties. The model' pictured, No. 1063, has short himono sleeves with a seam on shoul- der, and convertible collar. It is an 'unusually mart design for afternoon wear. Made in sizes 34 to 42 inches' bust. As pictured, size 88 requires 3 yards 36 or 40 -inch material for the upper ,part and 1% yards for the flounce. If dress is made of one ma- terial, size 38 requires 4% yards of 86 ler 40 -inch. Patterns mailed to any address on receipt of 20c in silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Orders filled same day as received. The Hunian Attic.. A. short time ago we had the privil- ege of visiting a home for crippled ehibleitift This- visit was an inspire: t len ; -it was a lesson in eourage, & de- monstration of the trittimph of Inind over matter, Of all the handicapped suffering children. we UV% we failed to see one sober face. If these children who were strapped on their, backs or with portions or their bodies in emits, were not sleeping they were 'smiling the.great smile that comes 'dram with - Here Were those who should natur, ally be ronming and tree, suffering from real personal difficulties brought on by circumstancee beyond thelt con- trol; they Were more than netkieg the „beet of their afflictlorrie Life wee ap- parently worth living fee each one of them - Do not we, normal, free and ma- tured Of mind, ste,nd out, inesad cot- troa; they were -more than making the best ot %Me afflictions, , Life was ap- parently werth living for each ono of . Do not we, normal, fee° and ;ma- itpnarent persenai problems are see kr911.0hYi kW ilee',,Se who haVe iMaglaary -pees Usually afe......4,- . .. _., This is-iipringt. it is cleaning tinteel Let Ile Dot forget to clean that moet! jelip rtant prege, -LI/eh/man attic,. of i 1 44,43/44 b2,19,0 ot be diere, mid ileue [, 110_7 Vi.,ITINI I4,Ieta. forthe, clean, eane I 'i9Witrtvwve thou -gilts which shonel 1 welie , 111.1.4. to bring,' us' the .greate,st reinit't dniing -the ceming season 1 _ tured of mind; stand out in Sad con- . trast with thee° children, We, who suffer CenstalitlY .With worriee- PYPI. Imaginary things, or thine which nolreeecereee harm, exemet three& our worry ofethem, heed endlrexemples to make uJ1 realize the nectssity of heleen- ig mat der .neental s oreleouse, the humem attteed41 the rubbish that has Collected therein. • . UM' It segate tbat theme who have real, es urvii LovE oic or THE FAR moots ,SYNOPSIS 17.1/F' Baree, 5512, OfKaMi and (1.',.,41.? ,rovitect the °Ulna:a In thf fil'f3t chap- ter of Hs educatien. tottat he saw an owl ewoap down rand /at/ sttawban rabbit, rhea ate gray, atilt attacked 138r0e, rhe dog buried Via teeth in the 1.N•a's breast, but (kr. ()tot fastened ,its beak an Ba.ree'e, e00. Bare(3'S fangs ,cloped eit• one of the otviet's tender fiat a/ta' the'eloa'a ear atas freed, Po- gethoi. the antagentstoPill ,into ereek 'and the owl flew aunty. ' „ A..P,TLP R When he went on, continuing, in the direction he had been following yeetee- 'day, he slunk along in a 'disheartened Beet of way. Hie heed.and ears were, no longer alert, and his curiosity was ,gone. He was not only etomach- hungry mother-hun er rose above HS physical yearning dos something to eat. He wanted his mother as be had never wanted' her before' in his 4ife, He wonted to snuggle Ilia shivering little body close up to her Med feel' the warm caressing of her tongue and listen to the mothering' whine' of her voice. And he wanted Kazan, and the old windfall, and the big blue spot that was in the sky right over it. While he followed again along the edge of the creek. he whinmerecl for thorn as a child' /night grieve. The forest -grew rnor-e open after e time, and this cheered him up a little. Also the warmth of the elm Was taking the ache out of Ibis body. He grew hungrier and hungrier. He had.. depended entirely on 'Kneen and Gray Wolf for food. His parents had in some WaYS, made a great baby Oi him. Gray Wolf'e blindness accounted for this, for*shice his birth she had not taken up her hunting with, Kazan, and it was quite natural that Bare should stick close to her, though more than once he had been 'filled with a great yearning to follow his father. Nature was hard at work trying to overcome its handicap -now. It was Struggling to 'imprese 0 Bane.e that the time had now come when be must seek his own food, _ With the thinning Out of the foeest the creek grew More ebeilow. It ran agair over bars of sand and stones, and Barea began to nose along the edge of these. For a long time he had no success. The few crayfish that he say were exceedingly lively' and elusive, and all the clamshells were shut so tight that oven Kazan's power- ful jay's would have had difficulty in smashing therm It was alMoSt noon when -he caught his first crayfish, about rie big as a nian'a.forefingerlIle devoured it ravenously. The taste of food' gave him fresh courage. He caught two more crayfish duning the afternoon With the approach of night Berea's fears fInd great loneliness returned. Before- the day had • quite gone he found himself a shelter under a big rock, where there 'wee a warm, soft bed of sand. Since his fight with Papayuchisew, be had 'travelled a long distance, and the rock 'under which, he made his bed this night was at least eight or nine miles from the windfall. It was In the open of the creek -bottom, with the dark forest, of spruce and cedars close on either srde,;, and when the moon rote, and the stars filled the sky, Baree could look out and see the water of the stream shinnnering in a glow almost as bright as day., Directly, In front of him, running to the water's edge, was a broad carpet of *white sand. Across this Sand, hall an hour, later, came a huge black bear. 'Until Baree had seen the otters at play in the creek, his conceptions of the forests had not gone- beyond Ms Own kind, and such creatures as owls.' and rabbits and smal) feathered things. The otters had not frightened Inn), because he still measured things by 'size, and Nekik was not 'half 4S big as ,Kazan. But the bear was a monster beside which Ifaza-n ' would have stood as'0 mere pigni3i. He was big. If nature was taking this way of introducing Baree to the fact that there were more linportant ereatures in the forests than dogs and w,elves6 and owls and crayfish, she was driving the point home witha little more than necessary emphasis. For Wakayoo, the hear, weighed six hundred pounds Id he weighed an ounee. He was fat and sleek from a Month's feasting on fish. His shiny coat was like 'black velvet In the moonlight, and he \\milt- ed with a curious rolling Motion with his head 'hung. low. The horror grew - when he stopped broadside in the car pet of Sand not more than ten feet from the lock under which. )3aree wee thivering as if he had the ague. it was quite evident that Wakeyoo had caught scent' of him in the air. Bared could hear hfm sniff—could hear his breathing—caught the star- light flashing in his reddieh-brown eyes se they swinig, suimiciously to- ward 'the big botthler. If Bevee could , have knoedi thee 'that.lte-4M,ineigiii- &ant self—wag Making' that monster.' aetually neryoue and unseen he would have given a 3relp Of joy, 1 For Wakayoo, in epite of Ins size, wae s eomewhat of a doward \vhen it came to wolves,' And Bare°. caeried the evelf-eeent. /1 grew, 'stronger uix Wn4ayoe's. nose; and just then, ,as if t to increase Whatever neevousnees Was in him. there came Prom out o the iCiootl‘aos.t_lehititi him a ion;a: alId wailing. With an audible grunt, Wakayeo moved _OT1. Wolves Were pests, he a`rgued. Theywetildn't stand up and 'tight. They'd snap .and ya'p. et' one's' heela for hours at a time, and Were always on:feet' the :WAY, (Illfeker thAa 'Wink when one turric,d 051 there. 1,17liat weA Ile Use ot loinging'arountI Witihe; there, wetse WO*..ve ,Ls Oh a beautiful night like this?- lumbor,ed on de- cieively. Bares could hear him splash - tug heavily, through the water Of the creek. Not nail -then. did the dog. draw a inn breath; It w'tis mest al- is gasp. . CHAPTER IV. When, '13gre'd ventured forth' b:Orn 1.111(15'3' his rock at the htginning the, next' day, he was a much older:puppy than lie met PapayaOhisew; the young owl, in his path near theeold 1 IA', df all. fr. ekpMeence min be made to take the place of age, he had :aged geeat deal in the last 'forty-eight houree. In fact, he bad paesed almost Jut of puppyhood. no aevoke.with new end much ,beoader eonception of the world, . Was a 'big place. It was filled .with many things, of,Which Kazan and Gray Wolf were not the most impottant. The monsters he had ,Seell 011 the moonlit:plot of sand had roused in him a new kind of caution, aim the one greatest instinct of beasts —the primal understanding that it is the strong, that prey upon the weak— was s wakening Zwittly in him, s If he coiild only find something, to att.- That was the master thought that possessed Berea, Instinct had not Yet iniPress.ed upon him that this wluch he sew all -about him was star- ve, ton. He went on, seeking.hopefully for , food, Diet at last, as the' *Jure passed, hope -began to die out of him. Thaestiii sank 'weetward. The sky grew less blue; a low ,wind began to ride ova. the tops of the .stubs, arid now and then one of them fell with a startling crash. , ' Baeee could go not farther. An hour besfove dusk he lay down in the. open, weak and starved. . The sin' dis- appeared behind the forest. The moon rolled up from the east. The sky glittered with Stars—and all through the night Berm lay as if dead.: When morning emne, he dragged himself to the stream for a drink. With his last Strength -lie went on. It was the wolf urgemg hue—compelling hint to strug- gle to . the last for his life. The dog .hun wanted to he down and die. .But the wolf-spatk in him 'burned stronger: In the end it won. 'Half a mirele faess tethber'.on he c,rtrae again to the In the forests as -Well as in the great cities fate pla3-s its changing and whimsical hand. If Baree' had drag. gad himself in the timbe-: half an hour later he would have died. Hawes too far gone now to hunt.for crayfish or kill the Weakest bird, But he came juat as Sekoosew, the ermine—the moil bloodthirsty little pirate of all the wild—was making a kill. As Baree lay under his tree, Seltoo- sew was creeping on ,his prey. His game was a big ,fat spruce -hen Stand- ing under a thick .o black currant hushes. The ears of no 'Wing thing could' have heard. Sekoosie\v's move- ment. Ile was like n,shadow—a gray dot -here, a flash, there, now hidden be- hind a stick no 'larger than a man's wrist, appearing for a liniment, the -next instant gone as-. completely as if he had. not existed. Thus he ap- proached from fifty feet to within three feet of the sprude-hen. That was his favorite striking distanee. 'Unerringly he launehed himself at the dreway partridge's throat, and his needle-like teeth sonic through feath- ers into flesh. ,Selconeew was -prepared fe's what happened them It ahirays happened when he -attacked Napanao, the wood - partridge. Her winge were powerful, and her first iastinet when he Struck was always that of flight. She rose straight; up now with a great thunder of wings. SekodSear hung .tight, his teetli buried deep in her throat, and his tiny, sharp claws clinging to her lik hands: Through -the air he whiz- zed with her, biting deeper and deep- er, until a hundred yarda from Where that terrible,death thing had -fastened to her throat), Naparmo crashed agina to W°3hretil‘le' she fell was not ten feet from Baree. For a few moments he looked .41 the stroggling- mese of feathers in a daze, not quite compre- hending that at last feed Was almost within his reach. 'Napalm° was dy- ng, but she still struggled convulsive - y with her wings. l3aree rest stealth- ly, and after a moment in which he gathered ell his remaining strength, 10 made- a rush for her, His teeth sank into her breast—and not until hen,clid he see Sekoosew. The ermine had raised his heed from the death grip at tho partridge's throat, and ne savage little red eyes glared a Ingle instafif into Baree's. Flare wag something too big to Inn, and with, en angry squeak the ermine was gone, Napanao'.s wings relaxed, and he throb 'went mit of her body. She vas dead, Baree hung on until he ra d Canyon Nat;onal Park gsrth's scenic wonder is located in Ari- zona. It is over 200 miles long, from nine to thirteen miles wide, and in many pl ac es more than a mile deep; colored with rain - hew hues—an ever-changine-a moody •—fancinating gash in the Earth's sulfece. The Indians in their dayis' woleinped the Canyon, but today the white man goes there in ever-increasing numbera to view its marvelous beauty, its mag- nificent spaces and to ride doWiri the easy trails to 8 river which from the rini looks like a silver ribbon, but which in reality is tile mighty Colorado. ' You can go to the very rim in a Pull- man. Two of the Santa Fe's California traislscsrry Phllmans vitt Grand Canyon., 4 very elifrOot to hini now. Jaen, 0110'S ealfaCity for happieess has guffered, „One'e heed luck end depends. largely Me how ..(1,:eply. one misfort00'e,for41 the rue,isoring stick for future good luck and lortene. So 11 was with Baeee. Forty-eight hours pego,-a. full stomach would not have blade him a tenth partm happy as he,waZ new. Then his greatest long- ing was for his mother. Since then a still ,greater yearning ha,q come int") he life-efor food., In a way it was fortunate for him that he had almost died of exhanetion and starvation, for bitnofh seitperiinienc_%ra w hadheolpiflog, te tomake m,s, meeir3eahriesmlerfor'elfatiinindta o piLenigtin t. Ile weitdt he would never miss her again as he had missed her yesterday, and the lay bere. For another day and eight Baree eemained in the vicinity of his cache. When the last bone was picked h - moved on. He now entered a country, where subsistence was no longer a PlyeTiell'auesPeeert°rhel,enlandf°revhheinire Xerweasarae lynx, there are also a great many rab- bits. When the rabbits thin out, the lynx . emigrate to better, hunting grounds, As a snowshoe rabbit breeds all the Spnimer through, Berea found himself in a land of plenty. ' And thia was straight hitt. the trap- ping country—Of Pierrot, the halibreed. Pierrot, until two years ago, had believed himself to be one of the most fortunate men in the big wilderness. Thet was before La Mort Ronge--the Red Death—caine. He -was 'half French, and he had married a, Cree chief's , daughthr, and in their log cabin en the Grey Lobo they -had lived for many .years in great prosperity and happiness. Pierrot was proud of three thingS in this Wild 'wield Of his: he was proud of Wyola, his royal - blooded wife; he as proud of hie daughter; and he was proud of -his reputation aa a, hunter. Until the Red Death came, life Was quite corn - pie% for him. It was then—two years ago—that :the smallpox killed his princees=wife; He sun lived in the little cabin on the Gray Loon, but he was a different. Pierrot. The heart was sick in -him.- It would have died, .had it not been for Nepeese, his daughter. PliS wife had named her Nepeese, whielfineane the Willow, Ne:- peese had grown up like the willow, slenderlas a reed, with all her moth- er's wild beauty, and with a little of the French thrown in. She wassix teen, -with great, dark, wenderful eyes, and hair so beautiful that an agent from Montreal passing thetway bad once t-ried to buy it. It fell in two shining braids, each as big as a man's almost to her. knees. "Non, M'sieu,"-Pierrett had. said, a cold glit- ter in his eyes as he saw what wa$ in the agent's face. "It is not for bar- ter." . Two days after '73gree had entered his „trapping ground, Pierrot came in from the forests with a troubled look inhisfe "Something is killing off the young beavers," he explained to Nepeese, speaking to her in French. "It is 'a lynx or a wolf. Tomorrow—" He shrugged his thin shoulders and smiled 4thele. "Wwill go on the hunt," laughed Napeese happily, in her soft Cree. When Pierrot smiled at her like that, and began with "To -morrow," it always meant that she might go with him on the adventure he was contern- plating. Still another day later,. at the end of the afternoon, Baree crossed the Gray Loon on a bridge of driftwood that had wedged between two trees. This was to the north. Just beyond the driftwood bridge there was a small open, and to the edge of this Baree paused to *enjoy the last of the set, ting sun. As he stood motionless and listening, histail drooping low. his ears alert, his sharp -pointed nose sniffing the neve country to the north, there was not a pair of eyes in the forest that would not have taken him f or a young wolf. . 'From -behind a clump of young bal- sams, a hundred yards away,. Pierrot and Nepeese had watched him come over the driftwood bridge. Now was the time, and Pierrot levelled his rifle. It was not until then that Nepsege touched his arm softly. Her breath came a ,little 'excitedly as she whis- peted: "Nnotewe, let me she'd. I can kill him 1" With a low chuckle Pierrot gave the gun to hen He counted the whelp as already dead. 'For Nepeese,, at that distance, could send a bullet into an inch square nine times out of ten. And Nepeese, aiming carefully at Baeee, pressed steadily -with her brown forefinger upon the trigger. (To be continued.) The Real Feast. An interesting anecdote was told by Agaesiz of his visit when s; young man to Professor Oken, a ramoug German naturelistObhe professor received his guest very want/1y, He' 'thoWed his visitor the labbeatory, and the stu- dentsat work; .alao his cabinet, an. lastly dila splendid library of booke pertaining to zoological EletIICO, a col, lection then the beat in Germaey. The dinner hour appeoached, and Okee's ntheslasm gave ptage en/bermes- , meat.' "Herr Agassizi" heaseid, with perturbation, "to gather and keep up this library exacta the utmost husband, rY of my pecuniary means. To aceonip- lIs I allow myself eie luxury what- ever. Hence my table is rastricted to the plaineet rare,. Thrice 0 week we indulge in Meat; the other days, we have only potato -el and salt. I very mucli. regret -that your visit has occur- red On 0 potaea ,day." And e� these two ardht men dinea with the students on potatoes and refill, end the students de'clare that their convemation was both witty and learned. ., eadloee Lack. The things ethat ,eeine by -radio are • Wonderful 'indeed ; - We tune in en' the little wayee, just as . our !melee lead. ' One- station- sends religion, and. the • ' others politica, The,. crop' repOrta, the fashion notes, the latesteringside licke. They're even zending photographs, and erossword puzzles flY With drama_ and grand , opera aetose , the teeming sky. • But We'll never all our. aerials with 'real, -old,fashioned bllaa Till Station L-Os1T-D:learne to radio; —Celia Kremesi e t whcn 0:4H...peopp.t. ••• • says , Mrs. Uxpertence,, -who tells how to wsh Chem. \\\ , "Some women actually rub holes in clothes trying , to get them clean with baxsh, .ordinary laundry soaps,. . which Are only half soap anyway. No wonder the say, Washingis so wearing cin clothes'. "The easiest way I've found to wash clothes—easiest on 'clothes and easiest on ,myself—is by using Sunlight Soap. No bdiling or hard rubbing is needed---thepure Sunlight suds penetrate througlUand through each fabric, lodge/ling-dirt and dissolving grease spots. Then in rinsing, all dirt and soapy =totter just runs -away. "Ancl'as every bit of Sunlight is pure, cleaneing soap, it lathers generously, does not fade anything washable and is far more bcopomical. Sunlight keeps your hands nice and soft. Levers. Torbato make it." • Not Things, But People. Ilven after a man. has accumulated many passesitons, he may. discover that, an. itokl, they mean Infinitely lege than human beings.. Then, 'perhaps, he perceives the capital relitake he made when tile put the value of rouses and lands, of stocksantl bonds, above the winning and holding of friends, the affection of children and all the soci- able contacts that enrich and sweeten 1ffe and keep it menial and serene. ' The fault eve find with the miser Is not that he has hoarded but that he pute what be has saved to no unselfish end. Re has acquired merely that he may gloat- over the aequisition and add to iteintending to do nothing With It save to make it. more. Material possessionrule life waking hoers and coetroi' his dreams, He values them for their Impotent selves', not for the power to do good and to help mankind that they .represent The maatims that are offered for suc- cess in life too often translate success In terms of the dollar, comisial to prompted sele.sacrifIce equally inspir- that it is better to make friends than meet terrible scourges of Mankind, Thinit Of yellow fever, one or the youth ought to lay stress en the fact,ing. and the comparative immunity which le ours to -day. Whatwe know of the disease mid its prevention stand almost entirely to the credit of a handful of nperiment- ems whose names are all but uuknoWn outside medical circles. Nurse Olars Mead eras pile of the Ilret to give liet life hi the course of the experiments —slie volunteered to he Inoculated with the deadly germ—aed her death was almost immediately followed by that of three other workers. Honoring a Leper. SACRIFICED TO SCIENCE 1.. , . To the roll of those -who have given . _ their lives In the cause ef stientific •progrese them hive 'lust- beeateadded. two more names, those of lernifeinenie troox ol Paris,' Ind profeseor'Ber- genie, of Bordeaug., Who died tti a re- sult of experhnents, unftinchingly put - seed, with Xways. Their death tragically revives the memory of other victim of thle. ephere of investigation, notably. Dr. Ironside Bruce, of °baring. Ceose. Hospitel, Lon- don, and Dr. Adolphe Leroy, of St. An- toine Hospital, Paris. But, whileno line nt medieal ra- seareb has -engendered greater hero - Dine It 'la to 'be remembered that in- vestigations, in' other_ dieectiong have to make money. Nor is a friend 'min- able, as the cynic teaches, because he can offer a place or further promotion. That is a ineanelow tise to make of friendship. The friend in time of need is he who givesyinpathy and counsel, sober and advised, which dem net weaken the manly indepeudence nos destroy the personal initiative of the receiver. For, since the world is a school and a proving -ground- for the soul, each must Way his own part la it, and nong catt live life for another however we may long to de go The best serviese Leprosy, now a curable disease, has solution by encouraging us bo lean and The tragedy of Dr. George Turner in of a friend does net destroy oor re- taken a heavy toil of valuable lives, cling too much. But in a, time of stress we learn .as we never knew- before Ing from the rest. But it was third, plagueee 0' v01008, what a stay and comfort a brut friend 1 fully ordeinedethat in trouble foe eith , bitterness," and eaeh ie aware of the inevitable Isolation of one human be - can be. "The heart knoweth its own, ifieewaiiii,Ara English medical officer of ' Years ago to tulle tbe problem of rinderpesee the devastating. cattle this Connection is remembered by ioo he went to South Africa thirty_ In, tt tt leirep :tee/ resi nofi.tthiiirsesorwo, rkanlicei af us. there are sustaining handa These give us the grace and] and ' SO afflicted.. spared no efiort to find relief for those SOMe them later, after he had re, vain to the graven images men buy 1 thathe'llimself had contracted the dis- courage to go on °when TM appeal In turned 'to Ehigituid, Dr. Turner Sound .and , sell for gold, mute and unfeeling; ease, a casu,allym,oticed mark on his !deli in the shrine where only lite and left hand being the ehte that led to the love should be. terrible discovery. ' 'With eharaetoristic unselesenese, he at once niade arranger/seats to „be 180. rated, althouga he reused to 'thI10011. '' three hie exec/entente. Gradually he was bereft of the; power of using his limbe, titan there was -almost no per, zonal serviee that he could.rencler him- self unaided. On the Xiug's own initiative he 'was knighted, but, un- happily, he did not live long to enjoy the hewn.. • '' A "PoYson-Gas Victim, "A Cake -Eater Now. "So Jit1i has become a calte-eater, ell?" - "Yes—mairiecl the baker's daughter lase night." , A Curious Sentence ' The following eurlOns sentence, "Setae Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas," le pretty bad Latin, hut, may, be f.realY- translated--"I cease frem my worlr; fife eower will wear, away hie wheele." • It has theee peculiarities: rtrst, it spelle backwards and for - wenn the eame. Second, the flrst later qf each, word i 'epollS the fleet tvord, , Third, the Second letter of eaoh word t epellstho seCond word, and so with the 'third fourth and fifth. Fourth, in veveesing the line the last letters spell the first Word; theelext to . the last open the first, wore; the neee to the, last thasecond weed, and soon througliont. Fifth, there aro just ae many lettere la in °itch word as there aeo weeds. -The evolution of Deleon gases in the Vfdr resulted the loss of a -number g01' lives matle doubly valuable by their contributions to Science. One martyr in this category, Colonel. Harrison, of the Royal Eng/veers, was waimed dine after time that his health Was, imperil- led by hie efforts find an antidote to eertain of the more virulent gases, but, Iso . refeicd to. abandon the task. Venally, he etiocumbed to pultionary disease, directly attributable to his eiperiments. Another worker tor ecience Dr Fox of Melbourne,. lost his life in the courSe ef experimenting with a snake. bite' serufh. While examining some 'snakes in the Caieutta gootogioal Ger- dens 110e eoceived four penctures the wrist, frpm e venomous -snake. He ep- plied some orhie s,ertniletp three of the wounds, but overlooked the feerth, few hears later he was; felled .dead 0 bed, where he luta gone to rest at- m his fatetul experience.' e An Effleiency Crank, A rooster by perseverance rolled an o strIch egg let° the chicken yard, He ailed the helm and eald: "New len not °eating nny leeinue, ions et eeproeciiing any el )..eu hens, /It1 mst wanayou to eee what is be. lig dello in, other placate" ,