HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-01-31, Page 2Jan. I:0, 1018, Lesson III.
Josue at Work.-alark 1: 21-45.
tioanueutaryt-I, Jesue in the eyna-
gegue tire, capernaum-
.RNud ltenceeorwited matte Vaperitaum,
5.eity on Ine northweet stde of the
kiita of tialitee, his home. Prom Ice
location anti imoortauee it Was an
eepeentily fating centre for his tenure.
6ittiba•t2t. day-1.la Jewish Sabbath.
Tee senagogue-A place of worship
tor the Jewa, This one was built bY
the centariOn vvirose sarvitat Jesus
healed
it little later. Synagogues were
built in the various, Pities where Jews
dweit. Taught -Jesus was careful to
observe tae Sabbath, It was the aun-
t= for the ruler of the synagogue to
invite visitors of ability to speak at
the services, and thus Jesus was ae-
corded the privilege of opening the
scriptures to the people. 22. Doctrine
-"Tectehing."-R. V. His uhfolding
of the word of God was so dear, cOn-
vinaing and dablime that his hearers
were filled With astonishment. Au-
thority -Christ's authority did not
wine from his having been trained in
the schools of the rabbis, but from
his inherent wisdom, power and love,
and from the spirit which he manifest-
ed. His divInIty clothed him with
authority. Not aa the scribes-TheY
were sometimes called doctors. Their
duty was to copy and explain the law
and the treditinns of Vie elders. TheY
simply repeated what the rabbis be-
tter° them had said.
23. A man with an unclean spirit -
The man was under the power of a
demon, so that he had no proper con-
trol of himself. Luke says he "had a
spirit of an unclean devil" (4: 33). It
it; called unclean bemuse the acts in-
spired in the oue thus posseesed aro
unholy and irapure. He cried out -
The spirit cried out, using the organs
Of speech of the man whom he con-
trolled. 24, Let us alone -The evil
spirit at once recognized Christ's
Power. Art thou come to destroy us
-There is enmity between Christ and
evil spirits. Jesus came to "destroy
the works ef the devil" (1 John 38),
andthe unclean spirit thought the
tinae to destroy him and his fellows
had come. The Holy One of God -
Men generally had not recognized
Christ's divinity, "but heaven and hell
alike bea,r witness unto him." 25,
Hold thy peace -Jesus would not con-
sent to have witness borne to bis
divinity by unclean spirits, lest the
truth uttered by liars should be looked
upon with suspicion. 26, He came out
-The evil spirit did not loose hia hold
without a struggle. The man was
thrown into strong eonvuisions, but
Luke says of the evil spirit, "He came
out of him, and hurt him not" (4:35).
211, Amazed -The people were so then
eughly astonished at what they saw
that they at cr ce sought an explana-
tion of the marvellous transaction.
With authot ity-The authority with
which he taught found its guaranty in
the authority hacked by power with
which he forced the devils themselves
to render obedience.-Godet. 28. Im-
raedlately his fame spread abroad -
trate report of this astounding miracle
at once was carried cat and wide. The
maple were lee to believe that the
Nazarene was more than a mere man
and was "a teacher come from God."
The 'way leas open for a favorable
reception in the several places whien
he• was 60011 to visit.
II. Jesus in a home (vs. 29-34). 29.
Ferthwith-Immediately after the
canting out of the demon, Jesus, with
the four disciplee whom ho had recent-
ly called went from the synagogue
service to Peter's home (Matt. 8;14),
where Andrew also dwelt. 30. Sick
of a fever -She was prostrated. Fev-
ers were prevalent about Capernaunt
on account of the marshy region near.
According to the physician Luke it
was a "great" fever. Intermittent
fever and dysentery the latter often
fatal, are ordinary Arabian diseases. -
Maclean Anon -"Straightaway."
R. V. Tell him of her -The mighty
cures which Jesus had already
wrought prepared the minds of those
Interested to believe that he could cure
this woman. 31. Took her by the
hand, and lifted her up.--alatthew
says, "He touched her hand." Teis,
was a token of the application of pow-
er. The fever lett her -"He willed,
and it was done. . The curative virtue
Is in Christ's will, not in instrument-
alities." Ministered unto them --Such
fevers naturally leave the patient
weak and liable to dangerous relapses,
arid much time and care are required
to recoVer the usual strength. In this
ease strength was given immediately.
62. Evea-Evening. Jesus had attend-
ed the Sabbeth service in the syna-
gogue. The sun had set and the Sab-
bath vras over. They brought unto
him -Since the Pharisees considered
it unlawful to tarry a bed on the Sab-
bath, the friends of the sick refrained
from bringing them before the close
of the Sabbath. Then also It would
be cooler than in the heat of the dtiy.
Possessed With detaons (R. V.) -A
condition in which demons or evil
Write took control of the person to
such an extent that he Was unable to
restrain himself from acts of violence
or wickedness. 3:h At the door-At-
traoted by the miracles wrought by
Jesus. 34. Divers diseases - Many
different diseases -Suffered not to
speak, because they knew him -Jesus
was nott. Willing to have testimony
borne to his eilessialiship by deraoria
The voice from heaven which always
spoke the truth had declared him to
Ire the Son of God, and He would not
permit lips givi,ng to lying, to testify
to his divinity.
III. Jona; at prayer (vs, 3547).
Early in the morning after the San -
bath Jesue awoke toed Went to a re-,
tired plaee for prayer. He realieed
that It wag iMpOrtant for Hint to hold
eatnriettatoil With the Father, Jesus
Was possessed of a Iturean nature as
Well as a divine, and he eraved tho
help the ll'ather only could bestow.
The burden of a lost world rested
Upon hini and he desired Strength to
fulfil his earthly minh3try. He pray -
cd, net Only on his &wit eteOunt, but
as an exaMple for his followers in all
Agee of the World. He did teet need
to go far from Capernalun to find "a
soliterY place" for the Sea of Galilee
Is surrounded by aleeated table -lands,
cut through her and there by raanteit.
Jesuit Moro than ondo retired for pray-
er in the region about this sea. Peter,
Andrew, James and Johri followed
Semis to his &tee of eommunion With
the Father, and when they feund him,
reported to him that all men were
looking for him. They bad seen the
turea he had gteconiplIshed and they
desired to reeelVo or see other displays
Of his power. He was the eentre of
attraction to then* Who Were in bed.
Or dietrnta ttnd t� others *hate
friends were afflicted by being pos.-
segted Of evil Writs, ea welt il
thelie who were eltrthati to. no
%Wattage. a his greet power. WI
the Lord diapleYel his Power in
merited degree, thee tlie people
drawn and their interest centers
the werie Which is done.
W. Jesus healing a leper (vs. us 38*
Jesetarted ottt with his disciple
Preach in the Many tolvne Gal
and completed hie great Genie
ministry, He took advantage or
may opportunities that were 0
before him or enteriag into the an
gogtlea ho tSabbath and procia
ing the gospel to the people. The
cowl allows that he had frequent oc
sins to east out evil spirits,
miracle ot cleansiug the leper is 111
irapreesige, Tae afflicted man ea,
In faith to Jesus, He belletied in
ability to cure him, but he rat
aoubted his willingness. ;resin qui
ly assured hlra that he Would (10
work. Contact with a leper was
filing to the Jew, but Jesus put fo
His hand and touched Itim and ole
sed him. Following the miracle,
people flocked "to him from ev
quarter." This interest in the w
of Jena waa largely due to the to
peony elf the man who had been cu
of the leprosy. Jesus had told h
very empaatically that he should
tell any oue about the cure, but he
parontly was Unable to keep it
himself, The coming together of t
crowds ainclered Jesus iu bis wo
in that region.
QUESTIONS. -Give one character
tle of the teaching of Jesus, Descri
the cure of the demoniac in the syn
gogue at Capernaum. Give an
count of. the healing of Peter's wif
mother, Why did the Pee* w
until sunset to bring their friends
Jesus? What effect did the mirac
have upon the people of the comma
ity? Where did Jesus retire f
prayer? What is the nature of le
rosy? In what respect is it an
emblem of sin? How did the ley
show his faith in Jesus?
PRACTICA.L SURVEY.
Topic. -Jesus meeting human need
L His methed proved his divdnitY.
II. His design was mains rester
tion,
n lets mottled proved his divinit
We nus ave in taehamer a geuer
sumxt
summary of Joints' lite eeneiug ov
a. conehieraide length of time. eve g
a glimpse ot ono ef he beneath da
lee this early Gauleen period. ,At tli
outset of his ministry Jesus appeare
as one haviug authority. With a
thority sunnuoned fishermen t
forsake their nete and follow him
With authority ho taught in the syn
gogues, awakening the amazement o
his hearers. With authority he corn
mended unclean spirits and the
obeyed him. With authority lie r
baked fevers and healed leprosy. Wit
authority he dispensed blessing upo
all who came to him. Satan confesse
Christ % authority. Demons felt i
and fled at his rebuke. Nature obeye
his voice. His enemies were con
scious of his superiority. His Mend
rejoiced in his love. His works ha
the eeal of God upon them. Beaus
he was the Son of God he had autben
ity. Upon that he based all hi
claims. His listeners to his discourse
felt the authority of his words. Ther
was a directness and certainty abou
his utterane,eis that impressed then
as something new. His preaching o
certainties had its due effect in spirit
mil power. His hearers instinctivel
felt his doctrine to be true. An inde
finable, yet absolute, difference existed
between him and the customary teach,
ers of the people, It was the problem
of his authority which presented itsel
to his critics. Taat "anknown quan
tity" in Christ was as unmistaltable
as it was imnaeasurable and betokened
his divinity. The first miracle re-
corded in this gospel is the dispos•
eession of a demon. It was the means
of diffusing an interest in Christ's
ministry.
II, His design was mains reStoration.
"Christianity is the embodiment of the
wisdom of the Physician, the power
of the Creator and the compassion of
Cod." Christ's . work embraced teach..
Ing, the conquest of evil epirits, the
healing of human infirmities. The
names by which he is known are a
monument of his compassion, tho Re-
deemer and Saviour. 01 mankind.
Clothing men in their right mind,
enabfing them to think and act for
themselves, and to resist the subtle
temptationa to ein formed the greet
object of his work. His great and
high purpose was one which was far
removed from the superficial and
worldly hopes of the people, Wher-
ever he went, he had a heart sensitive
to the appeal of human need, suffering
and sin. His hand was outstretched
to help and deliver. The• healing of
Peter's wife's mother followed the cure
of the demoniac in the synagogue.
Crowds of suppliants gathered around
him and none were to oe disappoint-
ed. Among the 'many miracles wrought
by the divine Physician upon the
minds and bodies of sutfering human-
ity, the gospel writers have recorded
certain ones as types of the Saviour's
spiritual work as well as his benefi-
cent ministry of bodily healing. Every
class of sufferers seems to represent
some epeeial aspect of sin and need
and every receded miracle seems to
convey some special lesson concerning
the Healer's grace and Power. His
object was to show himself as the De.
liverer and Restorer of ',Inman nature
as a whole. At the unfaltering tone of
Christ's voice all diseases fled.
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LESSoNS FROU LIVE STOCK PRICES IN 1911
Cattle Weights On Chicago Market Steadily Decreasing Ilogs Lighter Also -
Alarming Shortage of Beef Animals -Cattle Will Go Above $20 Pro.
bablY-iMmullate Need for Wool Increase,
Stay in the game. This eentence,
eontracted to the one word wincit
means "don't give up," take the fat
and tae Nan," and "figat it out on the
same ground," thie word sTicx, oar
ries the greatest lesson taught in the
unpreeedented floodtime Of prosperity
tor North American agricilltere.
In. 1917 every need for high pricee
tor live stock hitn been broltea.
1916 every record which had stood
Until that time wont by the boards.
In 1915 recorde were amt. And the
lession that, runs along through all
thin is that those who have raised
live stock during the past three Years
When their neighbors sold oft their
stock In the fear that the extreme
prices could not teat, have been the
ones who pronted bY the steady in-
crease in values.
When hogs sold at the el2 mark,
many men who ha4 been in the breed-
ing business for years, believed that
their fondest dreams had been reale-
ed, and immediately rushed off all
available young stink to the saam-
bles. Wlien prices mounted to $15 a
hundred pounds, herds were gone over
again and. marketed even closer. At
last, when $20-a price not dreamed
of a few years ago -was reached, it
found farms throughout the United
States and Canada stripping them-
selves of valuable (very, very valu-
able in view of aubsegatent events)
brood sews,
MANY UNFINISIIED CATTLE SOLD
Live stock raisers absolutely refue-
ed to believe that it was possible for
primes to remain on these high levels,
and in their anxiety to take b.ome
some of the run of gold, which had,
been discovered at the marketing
places for live stock, they shut off
the flow at its source.
There are thousands of farmers
scattered over the great meat pro-
ducing belt of North America who are
now Joining the ever-increasing pil-
grimage to the markets in the hope
of being able to pick up hogs of pos-
sible breedingequality; hogs far below
the quality of those which they sold
at prices they now are forced to pay
for breeding; and feeding stock.
Cattle also have come into the mar-
kets in numbers all unwarranted by
a more or less close study of world
canditions. Producers generally have
formed the habit of -selling anything
approaching killing condition. The
large rens, as the receipts are called
In live stock marketing circles, are all
toodee:silting of true conditions
tha country. During October, 1917, the
average weight of cattle at the Chie?
ago market was the lowest for seven
years, and stood at 9.38 pou.nds. In
1916 producers fed their cattle to an
average of 1,024 pounds, and from 1914
to 1911 the average weight of cattle
at Chicago was not below the 965
pound mark, no it easily can be seen
that while the receipts at the mar-
kets have been increasing, the actual
number of pounds of meat have been
decreasing. Hogs also have been
lighter in weight than in former years,
due to the fact that producers refused
to take chances with markets and
wanted profits while they saw them
available.
GERMAN REPLY
TO ALLY TERMS
A Laden cable: It is reported in
nerlin that the Gerznan Chancellor,
Count yen Hortling, probably will
address the Reichstag Main Com-
mittee on Monday in reply to the
war aims epeeehes of Presideut
Wii-
Sflfl eiut Premier Lloyd (4eorge, an
Exchange Telegraph deSpatch front
Copenhagen says.
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BRITISH AGAIN BOMB HUNS.
Loielkm, Csble-Tbe Brittitit offlelal
enininuriteittiort dealing with aviation, is,.
sued tills evening, oeys:
"Nearly twO tons of Mantle were eitopt
ited Thursday on an. ammunition depot in
tho vicinity a Courtrai, and other tare
gets.
"0»e enemy nia.chine was driven down
out of chute& One of our tnechines is
iniseinge.
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AUSTRALIA'S COMPLETE vove.
MelbOurnea Australia, dello-The
eomelete entente from the ooneeription
referendum show the follosvhor figuree:
Far conscription, 1,011,000; egttittet, 1,178,-
000.
There wore majorities torthist eene
toriptioa tit New Seuth Wenn Vieteria,
Ct.:Newland andenotith Auetzelit, Wet,e
tan Atistrallit, Teareenia, the Fiatertti
terra/nate. and the AUStralittil Military
force° gave rataioritiee for conenieetion,
Another great lesson that has been
taught. by 1917 prices for livestock is
that economic feeding systems Must
Play an even bigger part in war -time
production. 'Substitutes for the high-
er priced feeds must be used in in-
creased volume. Where in former
years producers ef the corn belt of
the United States gave OOrxm to their
hogs without a thought of cost, now
they must give these hogs cheaper
substitutes wham will pm the gains on
therm
Agricultural colleges havo been
striving, since corn mounted to unpre-
Minted leveis, to find effective
feeds to take the place of it, and they
have succeded to a wonderful degree.
Oats, barley, hay and roughages to it
great extent have taken a prominent
place in feeding plans.
Silage, an experimental feed Of a
few years ago, has mire( into general
use and has proven one of the great-
est blessings to accrue to the benefit
of farmers during the last two de -
cedes. Corn stalks form a big percent-
age of the silage, and this toed former
ly went to waste.
Every available particle of food
must be saved for the production of
Ilea stock on the fermi if thie pro
duction is to be profitable. No longer
can farmers put in it certain number
Of hogs, cattle or sheep and feed then1
as formerly without giving a thought
to the cost, certaln in the thought ‘that
a profit is assured.
In the United States reeently the
Gevernment gave its pledge that 110
far eut it is able it will not allow the
minimuni average price ot hogs to
fall below el5.50 per aundred pounds.
Talia frank statement of the purPoces
of the food administrator has done
more to set the country at rest and
assured increased production of porn
than any other thing during the war,
Producers have been willing to take
their chances with the law of supply
and demand, but for two menthe, Or
even tare° menthe, hay° held off from
increasing their herds in the fear that
the government would set it Price for
hogs which they did not believe would
allow them to emerge from a feeding
season with a profit.
To win this war we need more and
more meat and to increase meat pro-
duction quickly, hog breeding must
be increased inaterlally. The United
States Department of .A.grieulture has
recommended that the various states
increase their hogs from 16 to 40 per
cent.
As a matter of fact the American
hog has assumed a place of more Im-
portance than wheat and almost as
important as American soldiers. The
gotiernment of the 'United States has
asked that the hog population be in.
creased 20,000,0e0 in the shortest pos.
sible time. The reason for this is
obvious. Pork is the most easily ship-
ped or all fooas. Its quality is improv.
ed by curing, and bacon and haat are
more relished in soldiers' rations than
fresh pork. It furnishes more fat than
any ether meat.
It is for the lack of animal fats that
Germans are starving, and this is due
to the mistake of islaughtering, hogs
by wholesale in Germany during the
ferst years of tile war. This mistake
Is considered in Gernmny as having
dealt that eountry one of the great-
est blows that it has suffered.
HOME CONSUIVIIPTION IONREASED
The shipping problem is so serious
that cargoes have been limited to
materials having the greatest concen-
trated value in the smallest bulk.
Pork, having the greatest specific
gravity of any meat, therefore is best
,for shipment and, being cured, does
not require refrigeration or special
-packing.
Since the war began there has been
a decrease of 82,450,000 hogs in the
herds of European countries. In the
United States, in the year 1916-17, the
hog population was 67,450,000, a slight
increase over the three-year average,
but 96.1 per cent were slaughtered
during the year, as against an average
of 86.3 for three years.
At the same time exports of pork
increased from an average of 992,88;
000 pounds to 1,501.270,000 pound,
and consumption of pork products at
home increased from 72 to 75 Pounds
per capita.
The results have been to deplete
droves, while at the same time prices
have advanced enormously, without,
boweven having reduced the consump-
tion at Immo. Experts are puzzled to
account for the increase in home con-
sumption in the face of ever -rising
prices.
In the 'United States this year there
will be 1,000,0e0 bushels more of stock
feed, than last year. 'With this fact
before the farmers, together with the
assurance from the government that
a high average price will be maintain -
•ed, it appears tone up to them to "do
their bit."
Since Europe has been in the war
live stock of every description has
been slaughtered in increasing num-
bers. Trouble has been encountered
In bringing in feed for the stock and,
as a consequence, live stock producers
of other years have slaughtered their
herds rather than 'Me a ehanee of not
having feed to "make meat."
Then, men , who never before ate
meat, at three meals per day now are
haring the privilege. "An army advan-
ces on its stomach,' and wise govern-
ments know that meat should form
a big portion of the ration of fighting
men.
AlVIERICAN HOGS FOR CANADA..
If the war was to stop today there
ADMIRALTY BOARD,
New Body is Not at All
Revolutionary.
.A. London cable: The new Admiral-
ty Board is announced officially
There is nothing sensational or dram
atic about the list of naines, and only
ono naval member of the board was
not serving at the Admiralty when Ad-
miral Sir John Jellicoe was the head.
He is Rear-AdmireytIttey R. Pre
mantle, who becomes deputy chief of
staff to Vice -Admiral Sir RosslYie
Weinyss, the new First Sea Lord.
Archibald S. Hurd, the naval critic,
in commenting on the new beard, says
It is apparent that no revolutionary
?isturbance of the main lines of naval
policy is indicated. lie adds that be.
hind the board is the reorganized war
state, for which 801110 Of the most
brilliant younger officers have been
ellosert.
The new Admiralty Board, a des-
patch from London on Jan,. 9 said, will
be divided tato three departments -.i
operations in home Waters, operations
overseas a,nd trade protection opera.
tions. Admiral Wernytis will be chief
of naval Staff and responsible for the
large questionof naval poifeY,
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OPEN BALTIC :PORTS.
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Agreement of Russians and
Germans Reached.
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London eable: A report has been
received in Iraparanda, aceording to
despatelt to the Morning Paa from
.Stoekleoltn, that Admiral SeleneY hat;
telegraphed froM Riga informing the
lensalazi Donal authorities at tieleing-
fors that aut agreement hag been made
at Brest4.41tovek regarding the open.
Ing elf flaunter harbor to traffio, rt Is
added that the Buselans mul Gertnane
have reaehed an agreement to open
allPattie porta.
lltunuo is A Pitiniell Seaport on an
arm of tin! Gulf of llotlinia, it ie 55
Mitee DerthWeet of AIM,
Ail
would be years and yeara of Mall live
stock production iu Europe, bentitae
breeding stook will have to be Me
ported to take the place of the animals
which have gone to the sheinblee for
war food,
At the principal marketing Piaees
In the milted States, partieulaely nt
Chicago, it trade ot a quarte or it
century has been revived becalm of
Canadian elemands far a certain kiwi
of hog which is called -in trade to:ells
-singers.
These "singeing" hogs are it long,
rangy hog, weighing from 179 te 230
pounds. Buyers are rather insiseeet
that the hogs weigh right emend 20O
pounds. These hogs, because of their
length, are solely bittenhogu. 'or
are shipped to Canada after they have
been singed and their heads and feet
cut off.
A quarter of it eentury ago there
was considerable trade in hogs 01 this
type, but 'he emend gradually SIUMP-
ea off mail ten eaers ago it was very
small. The larger pecking plants of
the United States made it specialty of
preparing bacon sides for shipment
abroad, With the advent of the war,
Canadian buyers revived this demand,
and now are taking enormous ambers
of hogs of this type. The price paid
for them is generally near the top of
the market, because of the bacon value
of the animal.
During the last three months in the
United Stine, the price of hogs has
been, oil an average, more than twice
U much as tho average pried for the
five years front 1911 to 1915. Pigur-
ing or. this basis there would act seem
to be a cloud on the heti:toe for the
hog producer,
Showing the condition of thedattle
Industry in the United States, Can -
adieu steers established a record top
.price of $16 a hundred pounds tea the
Clacago market. These ethers were
n0 better than thousand a and tens or
thousands of steels which have came
from Canada in former years and sold
for half the rnaney and even less.
There is no secret made in live stook
circles at an alarming shortage ot
beef animals. Stock has been coining
to the market which by all means
should have beea kept batik for m -ore
poundage In some eases, and lor
breeding in others.
Last winter the West experienced
the most severe weather in its history,
so far as live etock is eoncerned, nad
this year saw herds already depleted
by winter hill, sold closer as bee ei be-
came scarcer and scarcer, 3tIaty Is
selling at well above the $20 mark, and
those of the 'Western men who. etaged
in the game, sold off all surplai snick
that they might go through the winter
with the smallest possible number of
animals to feed, because of the goon
mous feed bills they were certaia to
encounter. Previous to title $16 mark
established for Canadian cattle, $11 a
hundred had been the top pries, and
this price had attracted much cattle.
The top price for native beef tattle
for all time was establiahed this (:ear
at $17.90. With the corn belt strip-
ped of feeding stock, because of the
betterthan42-price for corn, and with
the western ranges short of their nor-
mal quota of cattle, it appears that
this wiater and next spring will un-
cover a shortage which Will geed
prices to levels above the $20 mart.
Cattle feeders of the corn belt, who
in former years have depended attire.
ly upon the 'West for feeding steers,
found the supply &tut off 'before they
were prepare.a to stock their fetus
last. fail, and made greater purchasers
proportionately, at 'Canadten steers,
than ever before. Anything wearing a
hide has been in clemend for almost
a year now at the markets, and this
winter and next spring it would seem
that the demand will be qven greater.
The top price paid for native eaves
was $16, while western. lambs sold for
$20,60 on the open mitaket and spring
lambs sold for e21. The extreme
raege of pieces which wise farmers
have been getting for their sheen has
forced many farmers into the game,
who -jut former years never had a sheep
on the place. Thousands of farms in
the United States which neer had a
"golden hoof" on them, now have their
flocks and are showing big profits on
them,
• A bONti• OF CHEER.
A. singer sang a song of teen
And the great world heard and wept
For the song of the sorrows of fleet.
Ing years,
And, the hopes which the dead past
kept;
And souls In anguish their burdens
bore,
And the world were sadder than ever
before,
A singer sang it song of cheer,
And the great world listened and
spelled,
For he sang of tho love of a father
dear
And the trust of it little ehild;
And souls. that before had forgotten to
pray,
Loolced up and went Singing along the
way.
--Emma, C. Dowd.
---
A TENDER FATHER.
Like as a father pitieth his children,
so the Lord pitioth them that fear him.
--The Lord 1.3 gracious and full of
tonne's:non. He will ever be mindful
of Ilis covenant.
He that keepeth thee will not sluin.
bee. Behold, he that Iteepeth Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep. -As
en eagle stirreth Up hor nest, flut-
tereth over lier young, spreadeth
abroad her wings, taketh them, bear.
eth them on her wings; so the Lord
alone did lead him, ahd there Ws no
strange God with him.
His compassions fail not. They are
luny every morning; great M thy
faithfulness, •
,Theils wont forth, and sew a great
multitude, and was moved with cont.
paiisiet towerd thenn and he bealed
their flick.
The very halm of yonr head ere all
nombered. Are not two narrows sold
for a farthing? and one of them ellen
IRA fall en the ground witheut 30111,
.'atI44.1r. Pear not therefore.
-The Canadian Countryman.
PERFUME.
There is the peanut° of the flower,
of the dressing table, of the character,
the perfume of the honn, of the
a:lurch, of the world, The cultivated
rose has no smell, its essence has been
strained away; inapes improvement of
God's work has stopped half way. A
girl tried her hand at horne-made per-
fume; she got essential oil and spirits
of wine, but when the porfunae had
clone its work, It residiune became
acrid and stinging,
"Only the action e of the just smell
sweet and blossom in the dust."
There is the perfume of character,
and just as In the art of the per-
fumer there is a nide adjustment of.
parts and principle, so in the finished
touches of character you get the sweet.
est and moat enduring savers. Some
men wear the white newer of a blame.
Iess life, some the red flower Of a
generous life, seine adOrn the doctrine
of benevolence by eccentricity. We
oace called ea it medical man, some
thirty years our senior; he responded
generously to our appeal, led ue te the
door, tarried for a while, then took
aur hat frem our hand and Put it on
our head, the first and only time we
ever had the service of such a valet.
There is the perfume ef the pen. If
the pen le dipped in gall it will pro-
duce bitternees, and the esseece of the
bitternem will return to the Writer.
We aro to Apealt And write the truth
frt love, but not ten the truth, A man
:ince said ff ministere and doctors told
all they knew they would set the town
on fire!
There is the perfume of reprwelon,
keeping under hatchee foul portions of
the cargo, which is only fit to be
unloaded at the end of the voyage.
There Is the perfume Of it studied and
cultured &Imo, nestle, like ships,
sail out on the waters of Noddy under
sealed ordqis, I 'look out many a
woman's beinitiftli moutil and delight
be the thinge elm never littera. How
eloquent, remedial and tdoricua Both
Silont
There( IA the porfutne of charm,
which, to our thinkinn, is tt grace from
licaten. How many mon Nte meet aro
thrso.cornered, lop.shled, top.hcavv
oearte lull -of contueloni prei etaree
In the midst ot PlentY, itAd go hank'
rupt to the great accoeut.
There is the fragrant finieh of email
aetione, which add to the beauty AIM
eharin of the giver. John Howard, the
great philanthropist, had surplus milk
to give to the poor. A baugaty than
or woman would have said: "Come
to the back door at 8 o'cloelt and there
will be milk," but Howard said to hie
wife, "We have more time than they;
we will send it tO their door by One
Of our eery:traria
Ohl the embroidered cloth that en-
closes many it gift of little Worth in
the world's esteem!
"The gift without the giver is bare."
The perfume that never turns acrid
belonge to hearts that give out the
sweet-smelling lucense of gonseeratioa.
II. T. Aliller,
e b.
PRAISES BRITAIN,
••••••••••••.T•••••
Jay.. State,sman Calls Iler
Savior of Mankind,
An Ottawa. report: Baron, Ito and
Dr, iltshida, members of a special
Japanese finence commission to the
United States, met members of the
Dominion Government. at a dinner
given in their honor by Yusuturtt Nu -
mane, Japanese Consul -General for
Canada, at the Chateau Laurier te-
Baron Ito paid a tribute to the part
tee British Empire had played in the
war,
"I firmly believe," he said, "that
wheu the history of the war is writ-
ten, generations yet unborn will tee
to the British Empire and hail her, as
the savior of the human race."
Speaking of the part Canada had
pliiyed in the war, the Barontaid that
"one of the most notable things in
connection with the war has been the
manner in which the spirit of Can-
ada has risen to the help of the
Mother C oun tree "
Touching upon his own country,
Baron Ito said that Japan was a na-
tion dominated by sincerity and a
sense of justice. He described the
Angio-Japaneso alliance as the 'mar-
row or Far Eastern peace."
DEADLY STORM
* SWEEPS SOUTH
•••••••••••••••••••••• yowl"
Sixteen Known Dead, and
100 Injured,
And Coast States Shivering
in Snow.
Atlanta, Ga., report: With the en-
tire south in the grip of its worst
snow and sleet storm of the winter
to -day, early reports show that torna-
cams which swept through Eastern
Alabama and Central Georgia ...,had
taken a toll of sixteen lives, and in-
jured More than 100 persons. Wire
communication over it gnat area was
paralyzed, scores of small towns in
the interior beiug isolated, while Sav-
annah, Charleston, Jacksonville and
other cities along the South Atlantic
coast were cut off from outside come
municatiou.
The deaths and injuries reported
early to -day were as tolloWs:
.Cowarts, Ala. -Seven kilted and 26
injured.
Dothan. Ala. --Sir children killed
and forty inured in collapse of a
school house in the country near Do.
than.
Webb, Ala. -One killed and estimat-
ed 70 injured in destruction of store
and other buildings.
Troy, Ala. -Ono killed and several
injured.
Macon, Ga. -One killed at Camp
Wheeler aud several injured.
The cold wave, that extended as
far south as Florida, was preceded
by an unusually low baeometrie pres-
sure, 28,98 being recorded at Knox-
ville late yeeterday, while thunder-
storms and lighting accompanied a
heavy snowfall at Asheville, N. C.
It was thought to -day that sleet anci
high winds were the chief wises ..of
the isolation of most of the towns,
ant that little or no damage had re-
sulted in the larger cities along the
Atlantic coast.
The (mid wave, combined with a
virtual fuel famine in nearly evere
sectinn of the south. was ev.peeted to
add ereatly to suffering already re-
ported.
*e o
WHY GERMANY
FORGED AHEA.
Told by American to British
Gathering.
Sohn Bull's Clannishness at
A London cable: J. 13. MacAfee, an
American banker, epeaking at it con.
femme. on Anglo-American relations
at the Royal Automobile Club, under
the auspices of the Atlantic Union,
criticised Great Britain's dealings with
America.
He said he knew of a man some
years ago who, after he had taken a
high degree at an American univer.
sity, came to Englandwith the idea of
taking a post -graduate ours° at an
English university, but, to his sur-
prise, found that Oxthrd would not
recognize his American degree. in
Germany he was received with open
arms, and he took degree e at He'(-;
berg. Subsequently he Obtained a
degree at Vienna. It was easy to
realize, itt added, ItOW Amerlean prs.
fete -tore with German degree e told their
students more about Germany than
about Englintd.
The British propaganda in the
Itnited States, Said Mr. efitatee, was
ludicrous in the firet years of war,
lett now there was a marked improve -
meat. He told astory of it monocled
Britigh officer addressing a redrafting
meeting In America with tin aria°.
traiie drawl, and urged that lIngland
refrain- from sending over men with
these peculiarities. There were many
Americans, he thought, who would be
glad to aid ih the dissemination of
British news of the war in America,
resolution was par,sed that a tom.
mittee of nritian and Amerlean Ott.
anis should lie fettled to inatitute
public lettures, itt whieh the Waters,
et the relatione between the to
eeuntrietl, and theideals mid resources
con or. trim. poekon ,rull of money, of both, SilOtliqj ot fort14
rOROIsITO reARKEr.i'S
FARMERS' 'MARKET.
Dairy PrOlitice-
Butter, choice dairy .$0 45 •90 47
0 OS 0 37
rxgga, new -laid, dozen.. 0 75 0 00
Cheese, lb, . ....... • • • It 0 30
DO„ iuiicy, lb. • • • • • • . • 0 35
Dressed PoultryTerkeys, lb, ..... 0 35 0 ;;O
Fowl, lb. , . 0 18 0 24
SPrinK chickens 0 28 0 :30
Ducks, spring, fl, 0 28 Q 32
Geese, lb, „ 0 25 0 25
Fruits -
Apples, bkt. 0 35
0U
Den , • • • ..... 4 00 6 00
Vegetablee -
Beets, bag ....... 1 00 1 15
Do., peck 0 25
Celery, per egad .. 0 05 0 Oi
Cabbage, each .... 0 10 0 15
Vegetable marrow, each 0 03 0 10
Onions, 75 -lb. bag 2 25 2 75
Du, large bkt. 0 CO
Do,, plckllng, bkt. 0 65 0 75
Potatoee, bag, 2 25' 2 40
Parsley. bunch .. . ... „, 0 00 0 10
Pasnips; bag . , 0 00 , 1 15
Do., peck 0 00 0 30
Sage. bunch 0 05 0 10
Spinach, peck 0 20 0 25
Savory, bunch ... 0 05 (1 10
Turnips, peck •... 0 00 () 16
Do., bag „ 0 Ca 070
DRESSED METE -WHOLESALE.
Beef, forequarters, cirt.$10 00 $18 00
Do., hindquarters „ 20 00 22 00
Carcasses, choice .... 18 00 20 00
Do„ common 14 00 16 00
Veal, common, cwt. ,13 50 15 50
Do„ medium 16 50 18 00
170., prime 21 00 24 00
Heavy hogs . 17 50 19 50
Shop hogs 24 40 25 00
Abattoir hogs 26 00 20 00
Mutton, heavy .... .,12 00 10 00
Do.; light 18 00 21 09
Lamb, lb 0 28 0 en
SUGAR MARKET.
Wholesale quotations to the retail
trade on Canadian refined sugar, Tor-
onto delivery:
Acadia gran. (nominal) ..100 lbs. $9.14
Redpath granulated .. 100 lbs. 8.64
St. Lawrence granulated 100 lbs. 8.64
Lantic granulated „ .100 lbs. 3 4
xNo. 1 yellow 100 lbs. 8.64
xNo. 2' yellow . • 100 lbs. e.t4
xNo. 3 yellow .. 100 lbs. 8.44
Granulated in 20 -lb. bags, 15 cents
over cwt. prices; 10 -lb. bags, 20 cents
over; 5-1b, cartons, 25 cents over. and
2-1b. cartons, 30 cents over.
xAtiantic quoted 10 cents lower.
Redpath ltd St, Lawrence quoted aec
lower.
OTHER 1VIARKETS
WINNIPEG GRAIN EXCHANGE.
Maleyluctuations on the Winnilteg avian
Exchange yesterday were as eallowi:
Oraiatsx: Open High Low Close
x0 84% 0 851n 0 83% 0 8514
July 0 83 0 s3140 81% 0 831/4
kr any
33 2275intil 33 231% 5 33 2295e4i 33 3203'11,t
alINNEA.POLIS GRAIN MARKET.
!Minneapolis -Corn, No. 3 yellow,
31,65 to 31.68. Oats -NO 3 white,
79 1-4 to 80 1-4c. Flour unchanged.
Bran, $32.50.
DULUTH LINSEED.
Duluth -Linseed, on traek, 3.54 1-2
to $3.6 71-2. arrive, $3.62 1-2; January,
33.52 1-2 bid; May, 33.52; July, 113.46-
1it; October, $3.30 nominal.
CALGARY GRAINS.
Calgary -Oats -No, 2 C. W., 90 1-4c.
BUFFALO LIVE STOCK.
75E; as,stttaDaytt,ffal,-, „Jesee -Cattle, receipts
Calves, r:celpts 50; easier, 37 to 317.50.
Hogs, receipts 2,000; strong. Heavy
aid mixed 817.50 to 317.55; yorkers e17.40
11o,s64.4c314t.:07e.(50.0; $1113g,7151t: 13:0%1.'111% srs 316010.(750 3%1151;7 ; tags
plgs
anti Iambs, receipts 1,000; steady.
Lambs 313 to 318.75; a few at 313,35; otlx-
ers tinehanged.
tioCeAlioGts0501,L.I YE STOCK,
10 13 GO
eStaliletivker sekrse:t, eNtsulea"fce:cderes TO 10 75
Cows and heifers “. ... 5 70 11 05
8 75 16 00
0
Hog receipts 5,' 00. " .. -
Market .
Mixed ,
IleavY . . .
Rough , , .
Pigs.. ... ... ... ......
l3ulk of sales .
Sheep, reecipta 590.
Market weals,
Wether s ... ,.. 9 60 13 23
Lambs, native ... ... 14 00 17 40
VI 75
16 00
15 05
15 90
12 55
16 26
10 50
16 60
16 60
1815
15 93
16 55
ISOLATION OVER.
U. S, Must Aid in Forming
a New World.
A New York report eays: America's
dream of isolation is at an end at tt
period of time when history is only
beginning, and the republic now is
to aid in creating it new world, where
law is to be supreme and force only
the instrument of Justice, Charles 16,
Hughes, • former Justice of the
United States Supreme Coart, said lo
an addrss to -day at the convention of
the New York State Bar Association,
of which he is president.
A declaration .that "reparation for
loss of life is not the sole purpose of
the war, for tbe defeat of .the Cen-
tral Powers is necessary if civil liberty
Is to be presereed throughout tho
world," Was the outstanding featare
of a minute offered by Wifllaun How-
ard Taft and adopted by a rising vote.
'The Duke of Devonshire, Governor-
General of Canada, was among those
Who heard ..Mr. Hughes speak.
000 MOTS IN
TEUTON CAPITAL
Waithingtonereport; Peed rioting
in Vienna ott 'aiew Year's Day is de -
Bellied in a despatch received bore to-
day from Switzerland. When the au-
thorities ramounced that 500 Serbian
pigs weeild be pUt on sale at 76 cents
a potted, more than 20,000 people as-
sembled outside the market, most. of
them remaining throughout New
Year's eve in 'intense eold for. the
cliance to buy: In the morning, the
despatch' °Pays, the crowd lost Its pa-
tience, broke through the police lines,
and invaded the Market, where many
persoes were woanded before 411a
supply of pigs were exhausted, Then
ctowde are said to have marched
through the etreeto 0001111dt/4 tha
Municipal autlgreitiee and the imperial
government.
Wellington Ilutool
Fire ins. Co.
199tattlialte4
Med 0:flott, OVICL414 aft%
Maks taken, OA All Oatasee We*
eihite PrePortr on WI eaibi Ota PnaO*14/14
riot. system,
-COOL Enit9104EAK, ;ow WICO1110X
Prealdeat Beeretert
PtiUttitli 4 0091119911,
Astntat Vatiaaphem, OA,
Dudley Rolviee
�A*�TI1,01.901T091. Irrdt,
Oftleat Meyer Bieck, WINO**
R.. Ironstone
wutftwrapi AHD SOLSC4,09% ;
hheefq to hate towest wit" i
WRIGHAtii.
4
Arthur J. Irwin
0.0.8,, LeD,S,
Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Penne
sylvarila College and Licentiate of Den.
tat Surgery ro Ontario.
Closed every Wednesday Afternoon.
Office in Macdonald Block.
F. M. DANS
D.D.S.
,
L.D.S,
Honor Craduate of tbe Royal College of
Dental Surgeons of Ontario Honor
Graduate of 'University of Toronto.
Faculty of Derlistry.
C.losed every Wednek•clay Afternoon.
Office Over H. E. !surd & Store
In the Dental Paribre, formerly (met:,
pied by Dr, G. 17. Ross.
W. R. Hamby
B.See, M.D., C.M.
Sendai attention paid to diseaaes
ot 'women and Children, haring
taken postgraduate work in (tur-
nery, Bacteriology and Scientific;
Medicine,
Moe In the Kerr residents,
Omen the Queen's Hotel and the
Bennet Church,
An ameinetis given careful attention.
Phone E4. P. O. Box Ill
Dr. Robt. C. Redmond
M.R.O,S, (Eng,)
L.m.e.p. (Loud.)
PHYUICIAN AND SURGEON.
(Dr. Cedeholma old stead).
DR.t 1 SI MART
Graduate of UniversitY et Toronte,
Pacuity of Medicine; Licentlatb of the
Ontari ) College of Fhysieland ripd
Surgeons.
OFFICE ENTRANCE:
SECOND DOOR NORTH OF
ZURE3RIGG'S PHOTO STUDIO,
JOSEPHINF, ST. PHONE 29
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
D. F. A. PARKER,
Osteopathy bunde vltality and
stronsta. Adjustment of the spine and
other Usenee ix gently secured, there -
!I' disease,
liemovies the predisposing catitieS
'Mood pressuro sod other examinee
tams made. Tresses scientifically fite
ted.
OfiriCE OVER CetiRTSTiEtS &TORR.
Ifeers-eleuesdays and Friday, atm
to 9 pan.; Wednesdays, 2 to 11 cra,
Other days by aboinixenk
'Genetal. Tiospital
(Under Government Inspection).
Pleasantly situated, beautifully fur.
nished. Optia to all regularly licensed
physicians. Rates for patients (which
include board and nursing) -34.90 te
$1.S.00 per week, according to location
of room. For further information -
Address MISS L. MATHEWS,
Superintendent,
lox 223, WInghem, Ont,
SELL
Town and Faten properties. can and
see my Kat and get my pPlcee. I have
some ones:lent values.
J G. STEWART
WINGIHAht
Aimee 114. *Mee In Town Han%
•••••••61i.1•117.•121•1.1!
J. W. DODD 1
(Successor to J. G. STEOVART)
FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT
and HEALTH INSURANCE,
P. 0. Box 4166, Phone 198
WINGHAM, ONT.
N
John P. Grov,
Issuer of
IttLitaRRIAGE LICENSES
TOWN HALL WINGHAM
Phories•--Orfloo R4; Raids:1o* it&
eineemeeememeeensinamesMesesaram.
WE WANT CREAM
We
ewtnt crIau'"dl111PaYih
lrtr/ie:dafz:gXite'.FaVit4di4t.l
.nnyerceltui01PrIe
near Immo. Anil in sending your cream
to us will helo it home tnAistry, W.
furnish two cans te oath shipper and
ropearrul kvan:tht:Ocnn4,13crohttigabvg iiitsezihntige2agmOhadnodcricongteg ?tiger:
wrielnittattrtotarofutildratdeor rwareltileutoisreshlto, to u.5.
THE SEAFO3TH CREAMERY
atAtroRTH
-- ONTARIO
TO FIX STATICINMEN S. WAGES
elentnal, eteportienthe adjueiment
witees and working' conditioits which tho
llrotherhood of Railway Stationmen, at
their recent Meeting lime, deeldee upoil
demaneing from the Grand Trunk Bait.
way (letnnany, was 'wilt to it, cotnmitivil
to discuss- /natters with the (4.T.11. man.
rigenumt. J. A. De tiagiv•, of Portlatut
been ainmilstett by this come
mittee to repreze ,nt the Brotherbood.
BRITISH REPULSE G.ERMAN RAID.
London, Coble-TheDritish official
communication it491A(4.1 Friday evenina
Rapti:
"The enema Neely -Bile morning made
ft raid eolith of Armentieres 1)111 was re»
Tln Wire n:lillery has alioWii
themigbout t.ge
is, north of Yrre•4
'Our artillety disrr•rscd enemy worktuo
praties entitle -ea rg Montity-leipreex
Mr thing.'