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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1931-03-06, Page 2it 11 Si ICS Only in the Quaker' package can you get the Quaker flavour and rich food value UAKER OATS Cooks in 2% minutes after the water boils 183a SUNDAY AFTERNOON (By _Isabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.) Beneath the shadow of the cross, As earthly hopes remove, His new commandment Jesus gives, His blessed word of love. O horn' of union, strong and deep! 0 .bond of perfect peace! Not elver '•'-:e liftsd cross can harm if we but hold to this. PRAYER Grant, 0 Lord, Thou what are the perfect ,pattern of love, that we may take ,heed to our dealings with our neighbors so that envy, i11 -will and distrust will give way to love, kind- ness and compassion. Amen. S. S. LESSON FOR MARCH 8, 1931 Lesson Topic—The Good Samaritan. Lesson Passage—Luke 1$:25-37. Golden Text—Leviticus 19:18. ',I From a sermon by Dr. Henry Bur- ton on the Good Samaritan we con- dense the following: It was probably during one of his public discourses that a "certain law- yerf° or scribe—for the two titles are used interchangeably—"stood up and tempted Him." He sought to prove )Him by questions, hoping to entrap Jesus amid the vagaries of Rabbinical tradition. "Teachetj,"' said he, hid- ing his sinister motive 'behind a veil of courtesy, "what shall I do to in- herit eternal life?" Had the question been sincere, Jesus would no doubt have given a direct answer; but read- ing the under -current of his thought Jesus answered his question by ask- ing another: "What is written in tle Law? How readest thou?" With a readiness which implied a perfect familiarity with the law he replied: "Thou shalt. ,love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself." Jesus commended him for his answer. "Thou hast answer- ed right; this do, and thou shalt live." Having the tables so turned upon himself, and wishing to "justify" or to put himself right, the stranger asks still another question; "And who is my neighbor1" To the Jew the ques- tion was a most important one for in the Jewish mind "neighbor" was simp- ly "Jew" spelt large. Jesus doesnot declaim against the narrowness of Hebrew thought; He quietly unfolds the word, spreading it out into an exquisite .parable, that all coming times may see how beautiful, how divine the word "neighbor" is. He said: "A certain man was go- ing down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers whirr both stripped him, and beat him, and de- parted leaving him half-dead." The parables of Jesus, though drawn from real life, had no local coloring. Here, however, He departs from His usual manner, giving to His parable a lo- cal habitation. It was 'a much fre- quented road. Our annoymous trav- eller, however, does not find it so safe as he had anticipated. "And by chance, a certain priest was going down that way; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. And in like manner a Leivite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed tar on the other side. They had probably just completed their "course" of Temple service, and were now going down to Jericho, which was a favorite residence of the priests for the spmewhat long inter- vals their sacred duties allowed them. They had therefore, no pressure of business upon them; but they bring no help to the wounded man. "But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was; and when he saw him he was moved with compassion, and came to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine; and he set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him." "The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans," said the woman at the inn and she expressed a jealousy nd hatred which were as mutual as hey were deep. But here in this id- eal Samaritan, is a notable exception. It makes no difference to him that the fallen man is of an alien race. He is a man and that is enough; and he is down, and must be raised; he is in need, and must be helped. lHle gives first aid and then takes him to an inn. If his business demands speedy attention that is set aside and he re- mains over night and, on the morrow as he continues his journey, he art ranges for the care of the man giv- ing the equivalent of two days' wag- es of a laboring man, and at the same time telling him if more is needed it will be paid on his return. We do not read whether it was needed or not for the Samaritan mounting his steed, passes out of our hearing and out of our sight. Not quite, however, for as we read the New Testament there is no picture more beautiful than that of the nameless Samaritan whom all the world calls "the Good," the man who knew so much better than his age what humanity and mercy meant. In the new light the lawyer can an- ,swer his own question now, and The does; for when Jesus asks, "which of these three, thinkest thou, proved neighbor unto him that fell among the robbers?" he replies, with no hes- itation, but with a lingering prejudice that does not care to pronounce the. to him, outlandish name, "He that showed mercy on him." The lesson is learned, and Jesus dismisses the subject and the scholar with the per - stinal application, "Go thou, and do likewise." WORLD. MISSIONS The First Protestant Missionaries In Javan. In July, 1859, six years after Com- modore Perry's first arrival in Japan, treaties between Japan on the one hand, and England and America, on the other, became operative, and be- fore the end of that year six mission- aries -- all representing American churphe , though one was an English- man and another a Hollander—enter- ed the country. The hatred of Christianity which had been handed down from the trou- blesome days of the seventeenth cen- tury made it impossible for the newly - arrived missionaries to do openly any propaganda work. There were two things the missionaries in the early years had to do to secure any pro- gress in their work, namely, to win the confidence of the people, and to gain a knowledge of the language. Neither task was easy, but with pat- ience, perseverance and uniform kind- ness, they won out. By 1867, eight years after his arrival in Yokohama, Dr. Hepburn was able to publish his monumental work, a dictionary of the Japanese language, which 'became the standard work in this line for a gen- eration. In the same years he pub- lished the first tract that was put out in Japanese, a simple exposition of Christian doctrine. Translations of New Testament books were also made and published before the end of this first period. Dr. Hepburn was a medical doctor, and opened a dispensary where a fel- low missionary, Dr. Thompson, preached to the people gathered there to have their bodily needs attended, far as yet it was impossible to hold meetings in public places. Young men of the samurai class, the only ones outside the nobility and the priesthood, who were educated, were attracted to the missionaries through their desire to secure foreign learning and many of them, pushing beyond their first objective, became in time earnest Christians and co-work- ers with the missionaries in propa- gating the gospel. For these young men classes and small private schools were opened in Kanagawa and Tokyo, and it was not long until even the government sent students to be taught by the missionaries. (To 'be con- tinued).—From Fruits of Christian Ivtissions in Japan. Now try this interesting BRITISH GUN PRACTICE MAY RUIN SCOTSMEN Fishermen of the highlands of Scot- land are threatened with the loss of their livelihoods, as a result of the heavy gun practice of the British fleet in the narrows of the Moray Firth. It is claimed by the fishermen that the excessive firing of the big guns has kept the shoals of sprats and young herrings from corning into the firth. As a result of the situation, the fisher folk and their friends of the north have Sent a petition to the secretary fox Scotland, praying that the gun practice cease. The petition points out that for many years prior to 1923 fishing was the chief occupation of the village of Avoch, on the shores of the firth and that from September to March each year the gross receipts for a season ran up to $100,000, and seldom ever fell below $50,000. This revenue has disappeared and boats going up the firth during the past few seasons have not come across any young herrings or sprats. As a consequence, serious financial loss has come to the fisher- men and to over 100 persons who handled the fish after it came ashore. The fishermen claim that the young fish are disturbed by the detonations of the great guns as they are heading into Moray Firth. 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A British Doctor writes: "1 have been prescribing ANG I E R' S EMULSION for many years. 1 find it invaluable for bronchial and chest affections, and I also prescribe it fur anaemiaanl wasting,, 65R diseases of children.'., '�'_ (Si,;nrrl) ly`'/F L.R.C.P., etc .�.ti JI�:lle.rmv" 65c. and $1.20 at Druggists. "Endorsed by the Medical Profession" Firth and Beauty Basin, they turned around and found feeding places somewhere else. The situation has caused real dis- tress in the village of Avoch, for the fish famine has affected others be- sides the men who do the fishing. Scores of fish -girls, who clean and pack the 'fish for the market, have been thrown out of work, shopkeepers who supplied the fishermen have lost business, and the railways and steam- ship companies that carry the packet, fish to the markets have lost busi- ness. As a result of the widespread effect of the disappearance of the herrings and sprats, the petition of the fisher- men has been supported by many prominent people in Inverness, and it is hoped that the admiralty will see fit to change its plan; to conform to the wishes of the fisher' -folk. Clean Milk Boxes. I have found that a small piece of linoleum tacked in the bottom of the milk box will make it much easier to clean. Recently, we had our kit- chen floor recovered, and the small left -over piece that was tacked in the milk box has already ,saved time and labor. * * * . Green Onions For Salad. If you keep an onion in a glass of, water in a window where the sun shines on it, it will sprout to quite a height, and you will always have green onions to put in your salad— instead of having to cut an onion whenever you require a small amount for flavoring. As you cut off the stalks of onion, they continue to grow. 4 even humidors, in which the finest Havana cigars can be kept at a .per- fect temperature and degree of damp- ness.' The mattresses in the bedrooms are of selected tufts of lambs' wool and cost $300 each. The coach is double the length of a British gunman, and contains complete kitchen arrange- ments, with electric range and living and sleeping quarters for the steward, the chef and the porter who travel with the family. The rooms are all on the telephone, and extension equip- ment enables the coach to plug in, at any station, to the local exchange. The ibeord for t,n expensive railway journey was entailed in a trip of Mr. Phipps, the Pittsburg steel magnate, to Florida. A private train of nine coaches and a special locomotive were ordered. Three of the coaches carried his polo ponies. The journey occupied two days and nights and cost about $'12,000. Down in New York there's a min- ister who considers the Ten Com- mandments out of date,. A lot of peo- ple never have liked them much. Kil- lers, adulterers, thieves and liars ali disapprove of them.—Detroit Free Press. Meighen may not be coming back into politics, but he is getting an amount of publicity that doubt- less makes some politicians envious. —Peterboro Examiner. Ontario may have a law to force motorists to . stop at railway cross- ings. Railway engines have been en- forcing something like that for quite a while.—Stratford Beacon -Herald. A resident of an eastean town re- ports radio programs coming from his stove and programs have also been heard here that sound like blaz- es.—Port Arthur News -Chronicle. A snowball caused a fatal fight in Buffalo. In Chicago, however, they kill you without even that much ex- cuse.-4Peterboro Examiner. The prisoner in the local jail who looked in vain for a back door to his cell thinks, no doubt, it is a perfect "sell." --Hamilton Spectator. U. S. MONEY KINGS TRAVEL IN 'STYLE When a Californian gold -miner who had "struck it rich" a few decades ago spent nearly $50,000 on a private railway coach for himself, he was de- nounced from scores of pulpits as a spendthrift. But nowadays much larger sums are spent on such con- veyances by American millionaires, without any notice being attracted. The coaches forming the royal trains of Europe, for instance, are quite plain affairs compared with those of the money kings in the Unit- ed States. The costliest piece of railway roll- ing stock in the world is the private coach of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Dona- hue of New York. The bill for it amounted to nearly $250,000. A lavish use of gold is made in its fittings. Clocks and electric ' light fixtures are gold-plated. So are the Barth -taps. The fixtures of the shower bath are of solid silver. Three gold ash -trays set into the walls of the living room cost $750 each. Ivory, cut glass, the costliest silken damask hangings and deep. Bokhara rugs are used hi its furnishings. There are 'built-ini ookehelves, medicine chests, wardrobes, shoe leckers—'arid THE BEST OF ALL "There is so little to give Dad on his birthdays. He has everythin," thought Mona. `Perhaps he'd like something different this year—some- thing I alone can give." And she went to the telephone. Beer voice ov- er Long Distance was the most cher- ished remembrance she could send! GOULD, BEST SELLER OF EARLIER GENERATION Having read an article about Edgar Wallace, a subscriber has requested that similar attention to be given to Nat Gould. The information being at hand in a book by the author which is mainly autobiographical we aro glad to oblige. We have on hand several requests for articles on such diverse subjects as the Melbourne Cup, the Beefeaters of 'London, and the Burchall murder case; and we think that we are not exceeding the bounds of reason when we suggest that our docility' in the matter of Gould holds out high hopes that in time 'we shall' be able to work round to the .others. But what with getting in and out of goloshes, paying instal- ments on furniture, staring at a type- writer, whistling at pigeons, and brushing our teeth twice daily—and up and down, mind you, not merely across—and seeing our dentist at least once a year, we find our time pretty well occupied and ourself rarely in a mood to write anything at all, still less articles about Beefeaters., the Melbourne Cup and the Burchall mur- der. We are not aware whether Mr. Gould is -still living and active, and if we have read any of his novels it was so long ago that we remember nothing about it. ,But we do know that he wrote scores, if not hundreds of racing stories, dealing, we presume with the attempt to nobble the fav- orite by some blackguard who wore a black moustache which he was for ever twirling in a manner than can only be described as diabolical. Now and then the heroine would turn up just as the horses were going to the post, and disguised as a jockey would steer an outsider home ahead of, the field to win the Derby --and perhaps, as Anstey suggested on another oc- casion, the last Derby he was ever destined to win. These books had a tremendous popularity, and literally millions of them were sold. In "The Magic of Sport," published in 1909, Gould tells us that he was born of, decent stock in 'Manchester in 1857. His father built up a successful busi- ness as a tea merchant, but died sud- denly, leaving the widow with some private means. Nat had a fair edu- cation and saw something of farming in England before an advertisement in a newspaper suggested to his mother that he would make a good press man. He applied for the vacancy, was ac- cepted and then for several years had the varied experience that is to be found on a busy weekly newspaper in an English'provincial town. He had to do reporting of all kinds, and as he had a natural inclination fox sports probably put more enthusiasm into his articles . on thi ssubject. He also had a hankering for betting, attended every race meet he could convenient- ly reach and even ran a handbook for a short and disastrous period. Again it was his mother who suggested a new move for hini and Australia was' the field chosen as more suitable for the exercise of his expanding abili- ties. So for Australia he sailed when still a young man and for ten or elev- en years he worked there on various papers. In time he became a recog- nized turf authority, a skilled or lucky picker of winners, on terms of in- timacy with horse owners, jockeys, bookmakers, actors, hotelkeepers and other sporting and Bohemian char- acters. His first novel, "With the Tide," was written to order for a proposed new weekly paper in Sydney. After it was finished he was asked to make it longer, and we infer that a request to make anything l'ongex was for Nat Gould an Australian dish known here- abouts as duck soup. He cut out the chapters as they appeared and glued Neuritis-- Lumbago Sciatica You can expect and get instant re4ef when you rub in Joint -Ease One man wrote a letter and in it he stated: "Joint -Ease knocked out my lumbago over night." Yes! 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Choose your flower and vegetable seeds and other garden, requirementa from our new catalogue, now ready. them in a book for purposes of ref- ence. He seemed at the time not to have been' aware that he was really writing a novel, but merely a series of more or less connected newspaper articles. But one day he fell in with a publisher's agent, showed him th book, and the upshot of it was that he made a contract for the production of similar novels with an English pub- lishing house. The first book was ev- entually published under the title of "The Double Event." Later it was dramatized and played with much success in Australia. It was now plain that Mr. Gould could make a handsome living by writing racing novels, so he severed his connection with the daily press and returned to England, where he continued the sporting life he loved so well, but industriously turned out four or five models a year which sold so well that his fame Ilecame world- wide. Mr. Gould says that some of his critics have suggested that he doesn't write literature. To which ho retorts: "I never pretended I did. We can't all write classics. There is not a novelist of the present day whose work will ever become a clas- sic. George Mieredith may !but I doubt whether he will ever hold the public like Scott, ,Thackeray or Dick- ens. Literature, what is it? I have seen it described in so many different ways that I feel quite safe from ship- wreck when I am told I know nothing about it. Style. What is style? .-A- gain I am in a fog. Is it absolutely necessary to have literature or style or both to write a good novel? Jules Verne, it will be acknowledged, knew how to write good novels. His suc- cess was phenomenal. Why? Be- cause he wrote stories, not literature, and had no style. Here is what Verne says:"To have no style is to have a good style. 'Duma; had no style; I have no style. Style is a necessity to the writes who has nothing to say.' It seems to me this is true" It seems to us that Mr. Gould does himself an injustice. We believe that he has a style which is not easily to be con- fused with that of anyone else. FURTIVE 'HORDE OF RODENTS INFESTS DOWN TOWN TORONTO You don't, sometimes, have to wait long in a new building to get mice— and .possibly rats. In fact you may buy or enter into possession of a 'brand new building, already equipped with these ubiqui- tous and pestiferous rodents. A Toronto architect recalled two brand new buildings from which ho had to expel rats before they were occupied. One was a dwelling. The other was a club. "They came in," he said, "when the buildings were going up. They were attracted evidently by the food left around by the workmen who ate their lunches. This is possibly the most frequent cause of attraction to a new, unoccupied dwelling. Then they stay, if they are not driven out." "You got rid of them in the case of the club? ", "Oh, yes, we got some stuff and set it around and soon there wasn't a sign of one of them. though there had been scores formerly." Toronto has all enormous, uncount- ed population of rats and mice—an in- visible, largely unseen army of the rinderworlld—and they are found in all sorts of places, including modern sky- scrapers 'built of steel and concrete. Few people see these rats or are aware of them except possibly night watchmen, building engineers and workers who have to descend into sewers. In making inquiries into this sub- ject of rodents, the writer spoke to the secretary of a real estate man who claimed to have been chased along King Street by a rat which came out of an old building that was being wrecked. The hour was noon and the young lady said that she was perfectly sob- er. She did not think that she was seeing things. "It came right out after me," she said. "And I had to run to escape." "Do you think it would have eaten you alive?" "I : don't know. I caught a street car." "Were there any witness to the al- leged assault?" "There were three or four people. on the street, but I did not stop to get their names. I do net know if any of these people were attacked, but I did not read anything about it in the papers, so evidently they were not," "Was it a large rat?" "Oh, very large, the largest rat I ever saw." If all the rats in the downtown came swarming up out of their hides and holes at the same time, they would make a huge army. It is not strange that they should be found in large numbers in certain pudlieus, for rats anslice are probably the most universalof animals, but it is strange that price and rats should be found in the big skyscraper buildings which aro 'btu .it Of ''steel and conerrste off' shine' or brick and whose fo iildatlona go down, in most cases, until they are anchored in bed rock. The rats in a skyscraper rarely go, higher than the basement levels, ac- cording to superintendents spoken to,. but mice may be found right to the highest floors. "We have mice above the twentieth floor," said the superintendent of ,a well known building. "You'd think they would starve to death up there, but they don't. ' Some of the boys and girls bring their lunches and drop enough crumbs around to keep the mice from starving. You'll always, find' mice where there's food." In his building, he said, there wass an annual drive against the rats, a kind of poison being used which cut down their numbers. "We haven't a mouse in the buifd- ing now," said another skyscraper superintendent, "but we have rats in the basement. Last week we caught eight. We leave traps for them all' the time. 'low did they get in? Prob- ably the first of them came when the building was being built. There's lots of them in the old buildings around. They probably came first attracted by the scraps of food left around by the men who were putting up the build- ing. "In a building like yours, what do they now find to eat?" "Some of the men eat their lunches in the basement. They drop enough food to keep the rats thriving." "You had mice, but you -have none now. How did you get rid of them?"' "We didn't. They' vanished of their own accord. They were here by the hundreds when the building was going up, right up to the top floor. When the floors were being partitioned off for tenant, we used to see them regu- larly. They were so tame that when the workmen were eating their lunch- es they would sneak out and snitch crumbs right from beside them. "But as each floor was populated, they cleared out. Now I haven't heard. for months of one in the building. They gradually worked their way !downstairs and disappeared." People will be relieved to know that there is no active rat menace in To- ronto, even though rats may exist in, undesirable nunrlbeds. At least in- quiries brought out the fact that two• insurance companies most likely to write unusual forms of insurance have never issued policies covering possible destruction by these rodents." Household mouse (mus musculus), the black rat (mus rattus) and the brown rat (mus norvegicus) are the world's most universal animals. The mouse, originally a native of Central Asia, has spread to all parts of the globe. The rat also came originally from the Orient. But this fierce and cun- ning fellow went travelling by ships until he, too, inhabited the globe. The first black rat reached Europe in the 15th century. He proved a house - haunting rat. And in some areas he has been all but exterminated by the brown rat which came later and prov- ed his enemy. Brown rats grow large, but they are never as big as giant rats••found in Africa, called cricetomys, which attain a length of two feet six inches. Fortunately these big fellows have so far ,shown no sign of becoming world' tourists. Rats don't take long to swarm. A pair has four, sometimes, five litters a year, with from four to ten young in every litter. These may breed in six months and the period of gestation, is only 'twenty days. In three or four years an original pair of rats might have children, grandchildren and great -great-grand- children to the twelfth or fifteenth generations, running into the thou- sands. The wonder is that we are so little conscious of rats. You'd think that at the above rate of increase they'd' have long since driven us into the lake. Are our cats really responsible for making the city safe by keeping the rat population within reasonable proportions? 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