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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-07-05, Page 2Screen Dors, well tildshed, =tide iii three ef- ferent sizes and fear different dlesigttas, emoted complete with hinges, pull and catch Stencilled Door, unvarnished, complete $2.25 Stencilled, unvarnished, but with brackets, complete $2.76 As illustrated, varnished, complete $3.25 With Panel, varnished, complete $4.75 Screen Windows, hardwood 45c to 75c Fly Swats 10c Fly Oil, per gallon Sprayers, with glass jar $L25 75e PAILS Baairy, in all weights of tin, 25c to $1 Strainer Pails, heavy tin $L45 lvanized Pails, Special 30c Other designs 40c to 90e BARN DOOR BANGERS &ndt enclosed square track of special strong design. 33a11 Bearing $2.40 Pair Track 2,5c Foot SHOVELS AND SPADRS Sterling Brand, solid neck, re-inforced blade $1.35 each D Handle $L65 Scoops $1.85 Ditching Spades $1.65 GLASS WASH BOARD•S..50c each Sea Elle SCE, DWtilRE, PLUM I:: ][ SLA & FURNACE RNACE WOR K ®UNDED in 1817, the lank �.,f ontrreal is now in its zi2th. year of financial service for the people and commerce of Cana "� ..i , In every place of importance the oughout . the Dominion, the tan k is represented by a flfly ., uiipped J ranch. It also has its own o ces in Great Britain, ]France,) ; e United States and Mexico. Its facilities in all phases of do- mestic and foreign banking are unexcelled, NK �;�i.•S RE c L Estiblished n831.7 Tottalt Assets in excess of 9OO,0O61,.00 D Heasall Branch: Clinton Branch: L. R. COLES, Manager H. R. SHARP, Manager Brucefield (Sub -Agency) : Open Tuesday and Saturday. ee gize haw ass nvnall a pease GyfFec will convert spam nOter.tasted Arm one ate l mt a ex= irc.pra o 2tg 0 ( MIDWAY AFTERNOON . y Isabel $guAilton, Goderich, Ont.) Biest are the pure in heart, For they shall see their God; The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode. Still to the lowly soul He doth • Himself impart, And for His dwelling and His throne Chooseth the pure in heart. John Keeble. PRAYER We pray that within Thy house to- day Thou wilt clothe Thy priests with righteousness and cause Thy saints to sing aloud for joy. May Thy way be made known upon earth and Thy sav- ing health among all nations. Amen. (Selected). S. S. LESSON FOR JIIJLY 7th, 1929 Lesson Topic—The Story of Ezekiel. Lesson Passage — Ezekiel 3 : 4-11; 24; 15-18. Golden Text—Ezekiel 33:11. Jeremiah and Ezekiel were contem- porary prophets. Dr. Kitto in his ser- ies of writings on the prophets says: While Jeremiah took an active part in the stirring circumstances of the times, and was subjected to much per- sonal injury and wrong, Ezekiel, al- ready in the land of exile, regarded from afar, end in personal quiet, the strange events passing in the land from which he had been removed, and took part in them only in mind and spirit. Hence less of the man appears in the prophecy of Ezekiel—less of personal history, of individual char- acter, of human emotion. We know in fact, very little about him. In the year 599 B. C., Jeconiah, king of Judah, was obliged, after a brief reign of three months, to submit to the king of the Chaldeans and was led away into exile, together with many important persons of the court and nation. Among these were Ezekiel and we read in chapter 3 of his living at Tel-abib on the river Chebar, and that his family was with him. He had been there five years before he was called by God to go and prophesy against the children of Israel. We read in the 1st chapter of a won- derful vision he had as a preparation, introductory to the service to which he was to be called. Then in the 2nd chapter the prophet was given to un- derstand that his message might not at first be received by the people to whom he was to deliver it; the Lord said, "And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear (2:5). The prophet is not to go at his own charges, or to deliver mes- sages of his owe invention—`But thou son of man, hear what I say unto them." Ile is assured that he is not being sent to a "people of a strange speech and of a liard language, whose words thou canst not understand." This was an encouragement but what followed was a discouragement. The Most High said, "Surely, had I sent thee to them," that is a people of a strange speech and of a hard langu- age—"they would have hearkened un- to thee." The prophet was thus assur- ed that he would have received bet- ter treatment from the actual heath- en than from the perverted Israelites. The prophet was further assured in most expressive terms that his min- istry would he ineffectual—"But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted." Here it is distinctly stated that is was not Ezekiel's message that would be re- jected but that of the Most High Himself. Dr. Parker in his exposition on this passage says: How does God meet the hardness of the human heart? We find the answer in 3:9—"As an ada- mant harder than flint have I made thy forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house." The ada- mant is the diamond so the Lord says that the people to whom Ezekiel was sent were as flint, but he tells the prophet that he shall be to them as a diamond, and the diamond is able to cut the hardest flint. So the words of Ezekiel, being the words of God, were able to cut through all their re- sistance, and make themselves felt in the moral nature that was to all appearance destroyed. In all this, however, Ezekiel is nev- er allowed to speak one word of his own; on the contrary as we read in verses 10-11, he is simply to listen, to receive, to hear, and then he is to go, and having gone, he is to open his commission and continue it and con- clude it with the words, "Thus saith the Lord God." Ezekiel 24 : 15-18. In the first part of this chapter is a parable of a boil- ing pot. By the sign of flesh boiling in a pot—over the fire, are shown the miseries that Jerusalem should suffer during the siege by the king of Baby- lon. By the sign of Ezekiel's not mourn- ing for the death of his wife, is show- ed that the calamities coming upon Jerusalem were too great to be la- mented, so great that they should sink down under them into a silent des- pair (15-27). WORLD MISSIIONS IN EXCFIANGE FOR A PEAR By Miss Winnifred Warren, Weiwet, Ronan. In one of the large cities of China, some twenty or thirty years ago, there lived a wealthy official, a proud Chin- ese scholar. Hie used to be greatly ril- ed by the sight of a missionary stand- ing on the street proclaiming what he counted as heretical doctrine. lie tried to persuade the crowds not to waste their time listening. i tried to interrupt and disturb the speaker; but still they gathered around him. One day he tried a new plan. From a fruit vendor on the edge of the crowd he bought a pear. Then forget- ting for the moment his dignity as Chinese gentleman he threw it at the preacher. But the minister was equal to him. Quick as a fiesah he caught the pear, bowed to the stranger med of- fered] profuse thanks for thin ",nee gift! Before the stranger had time to retire the missionary added: "Since you have no Edtnd1r present- ed me with thin delicionn fruit, allow cone to return the eornaphbtnent and pre- sent to you thin boolt—the heat 11 have Standard off Quality for over 50 Years to offer. So saying he handed him a beauti- ful bound copy of one of the Gospels. The chagrined man could not but ac- cept it, and amid the smiles of the crowd, turned to make his way home- ward. For a long time he was too proud to open the book to read it; but stili it was a hands ne: volume and const not be destroyed! So it lay waiting till a clay came when the scholar was led to open its pagee and even to go to the wissionary to hear the story explain- ed. And the God who works wonders changed this proud scoffer into a hum- ble follower of the Lord Jesus. Heretofore he had been one who had sadly fallen into the many temptations of the official circles in China; drink- ing, gambling and kindred sins. His poor wife had urged him in vain to, 'pante his habits. Now she saw her husband with no word from her be- come in truth a new man. Eagerly he tcld her of the Power which had wrought the change within him, and soon not only the father but the mother and ch))dren in the home were willing to accept the Gospel which could bear such fruit as they had seen in his life. KINGS AND QUEENS AND ENGLISI THOROUGHBREDS To commemorate the first running of the Prince of Wales' plate which will be contested on the king's birth- day, June 3rd, the Thorncliffe Park Racing and Breeding Association has issued a handsome booklet giving some account of the kings and queens of England who were keenly interest- ed in the turf. We do not' know whe- ther the Prince of • Wales has regis- tered his colors or if they have been seen on a race track, but we are a- ware that he is breeding some thor- oughbred stock on his Alberta ranch, and share with the Thorncliffe people the hope that some day he may make an entry in the plate that has been named for him. King George main- tains a racing stable, indeed, it has become a tradition that the kings of England shall do so. He has not had much luck though, last year was sup- posed to have. one of the smartest fillies in England, Scuttle, which won him the only classic event that has fallen to his lot, the Thousand Guin- eas, if we are not. mistaken. King Edward VII was the greatest racing man in the history of the roy- al family. He was very keen, and when Prince of Wales, had the dis- tinction of heading the list of winning owners. He had the honor of being the only breeder of two full brothers to win the Derby, the colts being Per- simmon and Diamond Jubille, and by anotlher coincidence each of the hors- es ran the course in 2:42, which re- mains the record for the distance of one mile, four furlongs and 29 yards. Persimmon is regarded as one of the greatest thoroughbreds ever seen at a race track, and his fame is being con- tinued by the get of his descendants. The year 1900, which saw Diamond Jubilee winning the triple crown, saw also Ambush II, another horse owned by the Prince, win the Grand Na- tional at Aintree, Never before, we believe, had the same owner won the Derby and the Grand National in the same year, if indeed, it ever was won by the same owner in different years. No wonder Aintree was on that oc- casion the scene of enthusiasm that no other steeplechase bad ever brought forth. Race horses seem to have been in- troduced to England at the time of the Rolnan conquest and there are re- cords t$• prove that the Emperor Ser- vus Alexander made special arrange- ments for the shelter of his delicate Arabians in Yorkshire. There is no evidence, however, that the Romans Abcorbine stops Damsaneco mated by e bona cc��aavtra, rine bone, sgtlnt, curb. owe bone, art charier troubles -ane Seto roue horse Bolsa sound again. This Veerertul enticeptic linime�npt doeo not blister or reatove the hair end the horse ran be worked durtne treatment. $2.5111 ---at druggists and general merchants. Moo/slot oe the ]Nome ablat (Free. 7S V'3. 7, lfoumg, Inc., zos am Mts.. L1lo a all did anyrthin for horse u ticing, and if they left any 'horses after they with- drew these may have been eaten by the hardy Saxoas of the day. So far as is kaein the first purebred Arab. Ian to be imported into the British Islet by a native was owned by Alex - under, King of Scotland, whose ap- preeiation of the animay may be in- ferred from the fact that he gave it to a church in 1121. Both Edward II and Edward III imported horses from Prance to improve the cavalry for their knights, but these were war horses rather than racing animals. In 1377 there was a match race, said, but on what authority we cannot im- agine, to have been the first in the history of the turf, between horses owned by the Prince of Wales and the Earl of Arundel. Richard II built up a royal stud which was de- pleted by the wars of the Roses. Gradually the quality of the horses improved and between the reigns of Edward I and Edward III the value of a good race -horse increased from ten pounds to more than two hundred pounds. Henry VIII was ' a good horseman and much of the time he was able to spare from his martial and ecclesias- tical preoccupations was devoted to improving the breed. He had Barbs and raced his stock against that of his subjects who were •bonused to bring horses to run at the royal course. In his reign the first jockey club was organized and the custom was introduced of costuming jockeys in a distinctive garb. Queen Eliza- beth was a racegoer and at Croyden a special grandstand was built for her convenience. The veracious chron- icler of the Thorncliffe 'brochure says that she was as fine a hoR'sewoman as the late Queen Victoria and when she was 69 years old she rode ten miles to a race meeting and attend- ed a hunt on the same day. We were unaware that Queen Victoria was a horsewoman, and had not suspected that the fine sporting instincts of King Edward had been derived from his mother. However, it seems even more unlikely that they would have come to hien through his father. King James authorized the expen- diture of £154 for an Arab horse which is known to history as the Markham Arabian, whose name is at the head of the English stud book. He is the ancestor of the modern race horse, and no horse is regarded 'as eligible for entry in the stud book who does not trace to him, the Byerly Turk, the Darley Arabian or "the Godolphin Arabian, and to one or other of the royal mares imported by James and Charles H. Indeed the word "thoroughbred" means distinct- ly a horse whose ancestry can be traced through all intermediary an- cestry back to these pillars of the stud. It is not applicable to any other pure-bred stock, whether of horse or dog or goat or guinea pig. In the reign of Queen Anne the prac- tice of giving royal plates or prizes at races was adopted, and this prac- tice which we see exemplified in the king's plate race, has done much for the improvement of the thoroughbred. To George II goes credit for forming the English jockey club. THROWS FRESH LIGHT ON OBSCURE DISEASE Dr. Hubert J. Pocock, the distin- guished Toronto osteopath, delivered one of the principal addresses before the American osteopathic association in convention at Des Moines and he chose for his subject the disease of epilepsy. This malady, as he pointed out, has received comparatively little attention from the profession, is per- sistently misunderstood by the gen- eral public and has been unwarrant- ably gieg ected by governments. The osteopathic theory of this disease is that it is the result of digestive dis- turbances and the treatment consists mainly in fasting, dieting and adjust- ments.. His own experience and the even wider experience of Dr. Hugh Conklin of Battle Creek, who has spe- cialized in this subject, is that 60 per cent. of the cases of epilepsy can be cured. It is significant that Dr. Van Gerdine, who has also made a special study of epilepsy, says to his fellow physicians, "Look out for attacks on Monday following the big meals of Sunday." Dr. Pocock strongly urges that physicians should be compelled by law to report every case of epilepsy as a protection to the victim himself and a safeguard for the public. The unfortunate victim of a seizure may be carted to a police station, the con- stable mistaking him for an inebriate. But the chief danger is that epilep- tics, unless confined to an institution, are now permitted to drive motor cars and even airplanes despite the fact that they are liable to seizures at any moment. It will be recalled that the late George Hendry, whose disalipear- ance caused a good, deal of discussion in Toronto a few weeks ago, died as a result of falling into the water in a fit. The last thing he was known to have done before he vanished was to drive his motor car. Blow could he know, or how could anybody know, that he would not be stricken when driving along a busy street? We have heard it said that one of the young men who was killed in an airplane accident at Leaside a short time ago, was also subject to epileptic seizures. if all cases of epilepsy were report- ed to the government the unhappy vic- tims, as a protection to themselves and the public, would not be permit- ted to drive motor cars or airplanes nor to engage in any other occupation in which they might unwittingly im- peril others. It is of the utmost im- portance that the public should understand that epilepsy is not in- sanity nor a form of insanity. Julius Caesar was an epileptic. Cassa said of him; 61lie fell down in the market- splace, and foamed at mouth and was speechless," to which Brutus replied: "'tis very like; he hath the falling sickness." Othello, too, was the vic- tim of the same malady. Paahomet, Byron onl and Napoleon were subject to seizures, though Ludwig} In his study of 1 ttpoleeu was unahld to find evi- dence, to support the tradition in Ws ease. toruibroso taeta dov n "a,. lepey d one of the .Statins of mental 4ll-health which is often associated With extra. ordinary mental achieves:mat. Men fssman islA0:0Safihtof•asec ''grebe is of course quite uneonsolous of what he is doffug on Valle ilt lots ttucsq ITL Pfk 171, said to be deranged. But as soon as he recovers, his mind becomes normal, and it is not less shocking to have such unfortunate persons confined to hospitals for the insane than to in- carcerate there people subject to bleeding at the nose or indigestion. In this province there are 600 cases un- der institutional care, 150 being in the epilepsy hospital at Woodstock and 450 in insane asylums. This is sure- ly a ghastly situation and if one would like to know something of the horrors of a sane man being confined with lunatics and the keepers of lun- atics he will find the picture in "Chris- tina Alberta's Father." Ontario, how- ever, is better off than Quebec which, medically is a most enlightened prov- ince, and which has no institution for the care of epileptics. First attacks of epilepsy, said Dr. Pocock, are not infrequently the re- sult of fright or sudden emotion. The case is recorded of a sentry posted near a graveyard one dark night v'hen he made the not unnatural mistake of supposing a goat to be a ghost. Short- ly afterward he had his first attack of epilepsy. Once the malady has be- come established attacks will follow any kind of mental disturbance. Some 30 years ago, in an effort to learn if there was any definite pathological condition which would justify surgery, a number of patients were operated on by trephining. They were reportedl- cured at the time, but the alleviation, was but temporary, for the trouble re- curred in all cases. After pointing out the essential differences between at- tacks of epilepsy and hysteria, Dr. Pocock called attention to the fact that very often an epileptic before an attack will do things of which he is unconscious. Sometimes he may com- mit criminal acts with no previous in- tention or subsequent recollection. Particularly fraught with danger are those attacks which occupy only a matter of seconds. As Dr. Pocock says, "A person who is talking to one may stop talking, take on a vac- ant stare, drop what he has in his hands, but in a few seconds go right• on with what he had been doing." These slighter attacks frequently oc- cur between the more severe ones, and] if an epileptic. were driving a motor car when one of these momentary lapses occurred, the slight interval of unconsciousness would be long enough to cause disaster. Epilepsy, he says, is not inherited, though a child may have a predisposition to the disease • if born of alcoholic, insane or syphil- itic parents. Most important of all, the disease is cya•able in most cases,. and it is plain that the government of Ontario could do a good deal more toward curing it than has been done in the past. J V�\ Na \e\ Delco -Light I nus too �za°k C©ITma nT EILCO.ILIKGHT gives your elieottrie Hight fon' the house and onnttbrau & gs, 112 MI= your pressure water pump. Ea permits the use of g]Il mummer of cellectt>rnealIl applianuoea fox your convenience and comfort. ILeit me give your E a iennno>lnsttlrattion>lo 1 oIbIlngaitnonne 11 W. C. BENNETT, Walton. DELCO-LIGHT SALES & SERVICE CAMPBELL & HUTT()N, Box 1, Komoka, Ont. 413 IIDt f'' is% atantoes,`� \\�` )jErlr not have it so instead of trudging to e old hand pump?' An Empire Duro l`. ales Supply System brings the water right from the well into your home. 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