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Exeter Advocate, 1905-02-23, Page 2"MAN IS BORN TO TROIIBL f But God Has a Benevolent Purpose in k11 That He doeth Yet titin is born to trouble as the 'parks fly upward. -Job. v., 7. lie was a wise poet in holy writ who left us this statement. -wiser than most people who read the words aro apt to think. As natur- ally as tho sparks bound upward from the anvil when the hamnier de- scends upon the red hot iron do the sighs and moans of humanity leap upward front the stricken heart. Fate teals hard blows -hopes are shat- tered, wishes denied, plans frustrat- ed, lover) ones aro lost, friendships go amiss, suffering takes possession or a painful secret struggle comes upon us. and at every stroke the sparks fly as the very fibres of our being quiver under the concussion. Man Is born to trouble; none of us may hope to travel very far or very long without feeling it. keenly. ilut it makes a great deal of dif- ference to us in our walk through life how we accept these blows of i11 fortune. If you have the idea of God that He is a giant Thor, a very Vulcan of a deity, who delights In swinging the hammer on our hearts as on an anvil, and rejoices to scat- ter the sparks of our hot grief, you shall rage and rave all your days away in impotent wrath, and then go SOItIIOWING TO YOUR GRAVE. If, however, you are wise enough to discern benevolent purpose in all that God doeth, and reverent enough to acknowledge that "God afllicteth not wilfully nor wantonly grleveth the children of men," you may turn your sorrows to joys, your blows to benefits, your troubles to advant- ages. You realize, of course, that the smith does not hammer the iron merely to see the fireworks play around his anvil block; he does it to harden the fibro, to shape the mass and fit it for the purpose he has in mind for it. Ts it not very plausible, then, to believe that the all good Artificer of your destiny designs these troubles to shape you, strengthen your fibre and make you nmre truly useful? You know that exercise hardens the scles of your body, renders theta larger and stronger. You know that your brain also needs exercise of its proper kind or it will stag- nate, grow toiled and heavy. Brody and mind being thus familiarly in- vigorated by tension and centpres- sion, is it not most probable that the third element of your composi- tion, your soul, likewise shall be benefited by the tension of anxiety, by the compression of trouble? God then, is perfecting your soul when Ife thus hammers it. perfectin;y your noblest element. Your ailment nukes you sympathetic. The death that has stricken you so sorely teaches you to be kinder, more ten- der to those dear ones you still have and to be compassionate with all fellow sufferers. The sorrow of the misunderstanding that has severed you from your friend will deepen your nature, and you now realize as hardly before how sweet and how beautiful n thing is friendship, and you will work for ITS LASTING RESTORATION. '1'he sharp struggle that has arisen 1 within yourself, duty warring against inclination, your better self against your lower self, will clear your vision and either teach you to lift your head high and walk humbly elate at the contest you have waged or will show you that you were too fearsome, too rigorous, too asetic, perhaps, with yourself. Alen and women are frequently overscrupulous unnecessarily self-denying, in the name of religion. You say your hopes are shattered, your wishes de- nied? Perhaps you ought to be very glad that they are; we short- sighted rnortnls do not, as n rule, wish and plan for that which is best for us; be satisfied to submit your hopes to God's superior judgment. Did you as a child ever try to catch the glowing sparks that flew up so high from the sanith's anvil? Alas, they disappeared before they fell within your reach, were sparks no more, vanished into blackness and nothingness. So all your trou- 1►les will vanish into nothingness if with childlike faith and trust you accept the blows of what you call "adverse fortune," realize that they are strengthening and forming your character, making you sound and tense and sterling to the core. Ver- ily, "man is born to trouble," but if he will he can make his troubles, like the anvil sparks, fly away, van- ish and bo no more( --as troubles! HEALTH ti• k•�►•:«:•.'+.:► :s•a .«; r,«?444 �?O� BREATHING. The nose, larynx, trachea, bron- chial tubes, lungs, and air cells aro all included in the respiratory tract. Any affection of these involves more or less seriously the whole breath- ing apparatus. For illustration, a growth in the nose has caused asth- ma which has disappeared upon re- move' of the foreign body. Then, too, an inflammatory condition •f the bronchial tubes is liable to shut oil the air from certain regions of the lungs, writes Geo. J. Fisher, M. i). Talking about the nose -why is it hest to breathe through it rather than the mouth? 'There are at least three good reasons: First, it purities the air, that is, the fine hairs in the )rose strain out the particles of dost. Seeon(l, the air has a longer passage to trate' to get to tho lunge when 'ohnl'd-cold nir is irri- tating. Third, by virtue of the sante 1•enso0 the air is moistened by con- tact with the mucous membrane. The next question that is asked naturally is. why (lo we breathe? 'lite maintenance of life depends upon the absorption of oxygen and the excretion of carbonic acid gas. 'Tho lunge in this process are only rho medium of exchange, that is, they pro%idu the oxygen and carry away the poison. The blood is the me- dium nrdium %%hlch carries to the various ports of the body and gathers up the poisons and turns than over to the lungs for elimination. 'There- fore, the absorption of oxygen 1s dependent not only upon the lungs but the blood. if the latter is not itch in red corpuscles the blood is not able to take up the oxygen, no matter how much of it is supplied by the lungs. Why do we need oxygen? To pro- duce heat, to assist in the process of nutrition. Ther° can be no combus- tion without ozygee. 'rids it is that makes the fires of life burn. %thy. Is deep breathing valuable? Not because it supplies more oxygen to the blood. For the blood may be getting more oxygen than it ran take up in an ordinary inspiration. in fact, men can live with one lung, and many are living to -day with such a handicap and nre well and getting enough oxygen. 'Then why breathe deeply? The greatest value of deep breathing is the effect upon abdominal circulation. 'rhe uin- phrngnt makes Inrger excursions up- on the abdomifnel contents and thus rouses a greater blood soggily. Then, too, the aspiration of the lungs affects the circulation. There is a great suction in the veins. The lungs no doubt are n fnetor in this. If a %city is opened the air is allow- ed to enter, death occurs immediate- ly. If then the heart is dissected nir bubbles nre• found In the right auri- cle of the hetet. 111 the next place, deep breathing filly up all the nir (ells In the lungs, enters the apex of the ling which is its weakest pert. r,eppliea more blood and stakes it re - xi -1 disease. Aram. ile.•p breathing • 1r• ngthine the resit' rators muscles. Coil also, ff dune properly, helps to tui,.(; the thorax in its proper po- sition, and enlarges its capacity, giv- ing the organs of circulation Anil respiration freedom to work. I notice again that bee/tune a roan has a good chest expansion is not evidence that he line a good capac- ity. I note, too, that because he has a good expansion he is not in a position to flutter himself upon the fact of being a proper breather. I notice It the third place that a large lung capacity is not necessar- ily an indication of what we com- monly term "good wind." Mane mom have wondered what second wind is. The nearest to the truth that we have with regard to the physiology of second mind is that it is a matter of blood pressure. 11 a man runs in a short dash we find there is great blood pressure, his arteries aro contracted and tense, and the blood is forced back upon the heart. Thus in the early part of a long distance race this condition`is present in a less marked degree. Af- ter the man has ren for a time the blood vessels all over the body bo - come dilated and thus relieve the heart of the congestion and the blood flows more evenly and with less pressure nfl over the body, thus permitting the heart and lungs to adopt themselves to the conditions. SHINGLES. This is a curious affection, seeming- ly a disease of the skin, but really one of the nerves. and even thought by some doctors to be an eruptive fever analogous to measles or scarlet fever. The disease attncks children and young persons especially, but the middle-aged and even the very old are not exempt. 'I'lie characteristic feature is an eruption of blisters, re- sembling cold -sores, covering only one-half of the face or the body,' very rarely pas :ing- Naomi the mid- dle line in front. Preceding the ap- pearance of the eruption for a few hours or tiny s, or even n week, there fs usuall;, more or Tess sever.' pain of n sharp neuralgic character, limit- ed quite distinctly to the part where the blisters are to form. 'rids pain varies considerably in degree, from n stere uneasy sensation to nn al- most unbearable stinging netiralgin, being of slight intensity, or practi- cally absent, in the very young, anti increasing with the years. It is lim- ited ns n rule to the parts where! the eruption is to appear, but! in some cases it is more general, the skin over a wide area being piiinfl1' and very sensitive to the slightest touch. There is sometimes also a fever of mild degree. The erulitios begins quite suihlenly nnil progresses rapidly. There op - peer first a number of pimples irro- gulnrly grout. ••.1 in the midst of an area of reddened skin. and these soon develop Into firm blisters with a thick skin, In appearance exactly like cold -sores. in it couple of (lays 'brownish scabs for►n, which persist for n %%eek or two and then fall off. Tho eruption conies out usually in successive crop., so that from start to finish the disease may extend over n lrerfod of several weeks, 01. even 1 two or three months. .% second at- . tack is fortunntely not common. There Is little to elm in 111(. WO of treatment csceptto nllay 'siltation and protest the blisters from rub- bing by dusting them pith ox Id of zinc mid starch or some ether bland powder, and covering theta with a layer of absorbent cotton kept in' place by a bandage or strips of ad- hesive plaster. If there is much itching, frequent mopping with spir- it of camphor er u solution of men- thol in alcohol is useful. Tho inten- sity of the pain usually diminishes when the eruption comes out, but before this Onto and if it persists later, some meet' ne remedy may bo neee'ed, or relief may be obtained by the application of electricity. THE PAST AND FUTURE A COMPARISON OF THE TWO CENTURIES. We Wonder if the Twentieth Will Keep Up With the Nineteenth. The ninetoent century received the horse ane! bequeathed the autouu,- bilo. It received the dirt road and be- queathed o-queathed the railroad. It received the sailboat and be- queathed the ocean liner. It received tho fireplace and be- queathed steam and tho gas range. It received the staircase and be- queathed the elevator and escalator. It received the hand printing press and bequeathed the Hoe cylinder. It received hand -set type and be- queathed the linotype. It received the gooseluill and be- queathed the typewriter. It received the painter's brush and bequeathed lithography, the camera and color photography. It received ordinary light anti be- queathed the ltoetgen ray. It received gunpowder and be- queathed nitro-glycerine. 1t received the flintlock and be- queathed the automatic ;Maxims. It received the tallow dip and be- qucatl td the arc light. It received the beacon light signal and bequeathed the telephone and wireless telegraphy. • It received wood 11(1(1 stone build- ings and bequeathed twenty -story steel structures. It received letters sent by a per- sonni messenger and bequeathed a world's postal union. It received the medieval city, a collection of buildings huddled with- in walls for safety and bequeathed the modern city, lighted. paved, sow- e•ed and provided with five -cent transportation. It received a world without free public schools and left no civilized country without thein. It received a world in which then voted only in America and left thein voting in every civilized country. It received a world without a vot- ing woman. and left it with some measure of woman snfferage in near- ly every civilized country and full sulierage in a barge section of the earth's surface. Is the twentieth century going in for breaking after this style? If so it will have to hustle. Ilut, reaily, at times it, seems as if the twentieth century would use- fully employ itself in just utilizing the discoveries of the nineteenth. Steam heat, gas ranges, elevators, bath tubs and other nice things are in the world. Why not make theta available for everybody? Then there is the land. That has always been in the world. Why not make that available for every body? The nineteenth century discoycred the kindergarten. The twentieth could usefully make it. available for all children. It discovered the Roentgen ray. But lots of people can't afford to pay for Just plain, ordinary sunlight in their houses. The inventors are a very wonder- ful class of gentlemen -women, too, now -n -days -•but it really seems as if the twentieth cent tit y didn't need them so much as tome plain. prac- tical people to utilize what they'd clone already. And then again. it sometimes seems as if the little young twenti- eth century had nil it could do to manage the prohlc'rtis which the ninetheonth bequeathed along with its blns. The nessiin.•gtccnth century discovered how to make people live in per)►enrli- citler layers instead of beside each other on the ground. ns they used to, and bequeathed the problem of congested populttl., It (discovered the ocean liner and bequeathed the steerage. It took the went ing nut of the hurls of wornan nal sent her to the factory. It discovered how to make things by stain end bequeathed trusts. trades inions, strikes, lockouts, (11,1(1 labor. it (lid away with the slave and the serf and bequeathed the prole- tarian. It discovered the nutcnnatic Max- im and bequeathed imperialism. The nineteenth century yelped gleefully over the attainment of po- litical rights. The twentieth century sees nearily that Political rights are only a step on the road to economic rights. • I)iFFiCI'1:1'fI S. "Ito you think our new servant •will stay?" asked Mr. Rimini. "i nm afraid not," answered his wife. "She says her family doesn't like the things me have to eat, and I don't believe toy clothes tit her very esti." 4 N)':I':i)1•:i) 1'':%1'1'11. lea ke-Does she believe in tho fai(o? Marthjorie-%Pell, she Is using; a bot of lnepornrntlnns to make herr taco Jerkin. NIL Magistrate (lo delinquent charge.' nitbegging)-'"rhreo Clays' im- prisonment on brend nal water. 'fake him ittu ny.'• Ileggnr-"Make the linin' it trifle richer, y' r washes, and I'll stay a week." ***********fir* i HOME. ) :***********: j HINTS FOR 11(111•: LIFE. To Cure a Wart -Scrape a carrot finely. and apply a poultice of it for seven or eight nights. Fireproof paper may be made by saturating paler in a strung solu- tion of ulum. Hang up till dry. A pleasant household deodorise is marls by pouring spirits of lavender over lumps of bi-carbonate of soda. A few drops of alcohol rubbed on the inside of lamp chimneys will re- move o-move all trace of greasy smoke when water alone is of no avail. When shoes are wet do not put thele too near the heat or they will stf::en and crack. 'Turn them rather on one side in a dry but not warm place. For Whooping Cough -float to- gether one ounce of honey, one ounce of castor-oil, and the juice of a lem- on. The dose is a teaspoonful every four hours. %1 hots cooking a hare first baste thoroughly with salt and water, pricking the shoulders and chest and legs with a fork to remove the flood; pour away the brine and baste with dripping. Alillew stains may be removed from articles by soaking in a solu- tion of (o'ar quarts of cold water and one tablespoonful of chloride of lima Wash well in clear water afterwards and hang in the sun to dry. To help to remove dandruff from the scalp, rub or massage every night with the tips of the fingers; this stimulates the scalp and helps to loosen the dandruff. Mgssaging the scalp will stop falling hair and increase the amount of natural oil. Before cooking tapioca soak it in water tell it is considerably swollen, and allow one pint. and a hall of milk to every ounce of tapioca weighed before soaking. Savoury Thick Gravy. -Fry a minced onion in butter to a dark brown color; stir into it one ounce of flour. (gradually add half a pint of stock, pepper and salt to taste and a little ketchup. Let it 'oil for a few minutes, then strain and serve. %%'lien tea has been put into the teapot it should at once be filled up with boiling water. It is a great mistake to put only a little drop of water on the leaves first, filling the pot up afterwards. People are more likely to catch cold in the back than they are gen- erally aware of, att►i if neglected it may prove a serious matter. The back, especially between the should - ors, should always be kept well covered, and never lean with your back against anything that is cold. Never sit with the back in a direct draught, and when warming it by the fire do not continue to keep the back exposed to the heat after it has become co►nfortably. warts. To do so is debilitating. %Celsh rarebit is made as follows : { For five persons one pound of cheese is generally allowed; it should be tt mild cheese. as the flavor seems stronger when heated. (grate and place it in a porcelain saucepan; add stifiloient beer to moisten it, and stir constantly over a slow fire till the cheese is melted. Have ready five slicen of toast, each on a hot plate, and cover each with cheese. '!'his should be sent to table as soon as it is done. Savoury rico balls are very good. Boil some rico and dry it thorough- ly, then mirk into a paste with flour, a lit t le butter, pepper and salt. Form into bells, flour thickly, and fry in deep fat till a golden col- or. If the rico is not dried well, these Balis will be spoilt. To break up a hard cold at the start, take a hot mustnrd bath and go to heel, being earful notto tako more coed afterwards. Flaxseed tea with plenty of lemon juice and loaf sugar is very soothing to sore lenge, and will often cure n haat cough. Equal parts of honey, olive, and puro home-made wine made from. grape juice or Currants is both sooth- ing and strengthening for a had f cough. A handful of salt in the last rias-' ing water greatly simplifies the hanging out of clothes in freoz'ngl weather. As snit prevents ('nter` from freezing at the us'ia1 tempera tore, clothes thus treated can not! only be hung on the line before they freer.'. but if the stn is shinging,• on theta they will partially dry before doing so. n tire unistance which pre- vents much weer and tear. The Inundresn ought to wear white wool- len gloves when hanging out clothes in wlnler. Teen••it cold meat podding is n very good dish. 1Inrd boil two eggs; ehop up 'inch three-quarters of n pound of cold meat, freed from fat nail gristle; chop one onion and sono parsley; soak t Dunces of bread crumbs in some niilk; season to taste, and mix ail)) two ounces of finely shredded suet. Cut the egg In slices; grease n hnsi i, derornte it with the egg( and cheeped parsley. Mix nil the ingre.livid n together lightly, place it the basin, and steam for nearly nn hour. Turn out to serve, and pour A good gravy! round L iornshire 1lot, Pot should be' made from this reelpe:-(rut one 11►. of beef and tnutton into neat pieces, dip into flour, popper and salt, nicely nosed. Pince half of the (neat nt. the bottom of the df•<h, then n lover of I :diced is ion and nbotit ore poimrt of; potatoes Aired anti pnrhoiled. eta pent the '•rs, pour over half al pint of water or stock, anti rover all with greased roper. flake in a. slow oven for two hours. then remove the buttered pnper so as to n11.ow- the top layer of point 'u.. 'o brown. Cold meat may he uses! 1.1 of fresh, and makes a renll,, uir' dish. (Wit l'(1ltl:U;N I-'RT'I'I'S. Did vote ever t. to think how m rch ee nee ',•.1, .'ming the winter months . • 1 .111 , to what we may c'(tII ' • i,. t. f i , ' sinro h •'.e serf need there. they do not grow in our northern clime (e) '!'hero is the lemon, a household necessity. Said an impatient young woman, who %vented it lemon whim there watt none, "1'd as soon be out of soup as out of lemons!" As an article of food, its a delicious bev- erage, as a medicine and for its toilet possiblities the lemon has uses recognised- by all of us, Its rin.l gives us a favorite flavoring ex- tract; it is the basis of a luscious pie; how could we have picnics or enjoy a circus without lemonade? The juice of a lemon, taken every morn- ing, is a good spring tonic; stirred thick with sugar, relieves a cough; in hot wnter, soothes a sick stom- ach, while there's nothing butter to keep the hands smooth and white than lemon juice and glycerine or rose water. Then conies the orange, delicious anti refreshing, satisfying our crav- ings for fresh fruit uritis, and doing yeoman service in the culinary field es the basis of delicate p'Iddings and most appetising shortcakes. If you never tried an orange shot'teake, don't live any longer without exper- iencing its perfections. Cut your fruit into dice, removing all the white, pith -like substance, and pro - twit as if yon were concocting a strawberry shortcake. The orange is the great. breakfast fruit, and is us- uslly served cut across its periphery and the pelt) eaten out with it spoon. The banana stands at the head of aa i all fruits sofar s tool value s A concerned. Its very heartiness is against, it, for to eat one at break- fast is to take away the appetite for other food. 1t is so hearty an to distress many delicate stomachs. A banana should never be eaten hur- riedly. It. "slips down easy," but unless well masticated is apt to re - snit in uneasiness; moreover when hastily swallowed one misses the flavor. Don't fool with an underripe banana; it will get the better of you. When h'iying, look for the plump fruit; never mind the length. A long thin banana has been picked too green, and no matter how it has yellowed as to skin will be "puck- ery" as to taste. In preparing a banana to cat raw, pull oIT all the strings or fibers, and cut out all discolored places. Very few people ever cook bananas. but they com- bine well with tapioca and with custards, and are good baked it eaten cold. WOMAN'S ARMY CAREER THE INTERESTING STORY OF JAMES BARRY, M.D. Alleged Daughter of George IV. - Served Many Years in South Africa. some new and interesting light is thrown on the life story of a woman -who passed so r,uccessfully as a morn that she entered tate army as a medical ollicer-by an article in the Christmas number of the "Cape Times," says the London Daily Mail.• The case of this t.oman, who was known in the service ns .lama's harry T.D., is mentioned in "Fifty Years of Public Service," a book recently published by Major Arthur Griffiths. The %%Titer in the "('ape Times" sets forth Ur. Iturry's autobiography', tho manuscript of which recently came into 111s possession. The story opens milli a sudden vis- it on Christmas Eve to the house of Irr. Harry's mother by a mysterious stranger, who exhibited n signet ring and carried oft the doctor, then a child, saying, "It is the Prince's will." Finding later that her fath- er tuns George IV., then Prince Re- gent. 1)r. Barry called on hits at Carlton house, and after nn angry scene informed him thnt the shame of her birth had decided her to dis- guise her sex. ilenceforth she would be no longer .loan 1'ititoy but .lathes Harry. For the rust of her Iifc a powerful, clandestine influence was exerted on behalf of the pseudo. man, who ruse to the position of lnseestofr-General of Military 1tospl- tals. FOUGII'l' A DUEL.•loan took her medical degree at Edinburgh, her true sex never be- ing o-ing s'Ispecte(I, and received n post in ('ape Colony. hero a remarkable eel fes of adventures began. She made love to a handsome Dutch girl of w•1 another officer, Lieutenant Mfannering was deeply enamored. 11r. Barry actually (*spurt- ed and won her. Afterwards the disguised woman taunted Mering, (h , (lung; nmnnntatnbler of wino in her face. A duel followed, in tehich Joan allowed herself to be slightly wounded. 'The next day she told lltnnering that she had never loved the object of his elections, and the fickle Cape girl eventually married the lieuten- ant. On another occasion an otllrer with ((hoill .loan ons riding suddenly said to her, "Ily the powers, you look more like a woman than n ratan!" For this he rceeh'ed a savage cut across the face with a whip, and his demands to the Governer for redress were (net by his transference to 1`u l -tan d'.%cunhn. 'I he secret of the doctor's sex was dl5c•otered only after her death. • "WHEN A \iAN MARRIES." Jenkins -New that you're raising a family I suppose you have to work harder. 1 guess it's "early to bed and early to rise" with you now. i'opley-That's right. i scarcely get settled in bell there nights before 1'tn ftp again with the gabs. ----4---. A REASONABLE CLAIM. "Well dispense with your services, sir," said Mr. Merchant sternly. "I sate you tenting out of n saloon to- day. i told 3 ou 1'(1 discharge you for that, didn't 1?" "Why. no, sir," replied (galley, "you said you'd dischni ge hie if you saw me going into one. f think I deserve bums credit for coating out." ♦ -- A man has plenty of blends when THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. 19. Jesus at the Pool of Bethesda. John v. 1-15. Golden Text, John vi. 2. IN'I ROMAyrION. The narrative of St. John hat thus far pointed out how the gospel message, the words and works (signs) of Jesus have boon received by different types of people. Nathasn- ael, the guiltless Israelite; Nicodo- m►us, tho learned ecclesiastic, skilled in Scriptures but ignorant of their true meaning; the Samaritan wo- man. of sinful life but simplicity of heart and longing for better things; the nobleman, whose faith-sraduttlly developed into absolute trust --excret of these in his own way has accept- ed the Christ and believed the testi- ! tunny of his words 1111(1 works. So, doubtless, many others belonging to each of these types. 'tut as the !Christ reveals hiiteelf more fully, being accepted by many, tho ruling ' party of "the Jews," whose influence with the common people diminishes as that of Josue increases, become more turd more hostile toward hien. An instance of this hostility is giv- en in the sequel to our lesson nar- rative. It will be necessary, there- fore, to read the entire chapter in order to get the point of the evange litnt's narrative as a whole. LESSON ITELPS. 1. "After this. -The events narrat- ed in the preceding chapter and others not mentioned by .1ohn (See Mark 1. 14 to 2. 22; Luke 4. 16 to 5. 39.) "A feast of the Jews" - Which feast is here referred to can- not definitely be determined. 2. "fly the sheep market".-Neh. 3. 1, 32; 12. 89 retention a "sheep gate," but aside from this nothing is known concerning it. "A 114,01, which is called in the Hebrew toitg;,uo Bethesda" -Probably tho pool be- neath the ruins of the Church of St. Arum, north-west of the temple area, on tine walls of which is a fresco showing an angel troubling the water, tehich shows that this site was taken to ife the place referred to in the New Teetasnent. ]fere also the intermittent water supply of the pool and the ruins of what seem to have been "'ten" limited chambers, or "porches," agree with the details of the narrative. 3. "In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered" -The rest of verse :f and all of verso 4 are omitted by both the English and the American Re- vision. not being found in .any of the oldest manuscripts. 5. "Iiad an infirmity thirty and eight years" -Ile had been sick thirty-eight years. What his "in- firmity" was is not explained. 6. "Knew" -Perhaps supernatural- ly, but possibly not so; but rather from his withered forst. which point ed to a long illness already lived through. "Wilt. thou be made whole" -The question was doubtless asked primarily to gain his atten- tion, and in a tone of sympathy in- tended to win his confidence. 7. "Impotent" -sick. "When the water is troubled" -The water flowed into the pool from an intermittent spring, and was therefore changed at regular intervals. This probably gave rise to the explanat i suggest- ed in verse 4, which was added to the text by a inter copyist. (See note on v. 8.) ' 8. "Itise"-To attempt to obey this couunan(! implied great faith on the part of one so long helpless. 10. "'I'Ite Jews- sabbath day - not lnwfull"-That is, not according to the rabbinical rules which (els) interpreted the Sabbnlh law of the Decalogie for the people. 11. "Ile answered theist, ile that made mo whole, the s yne said" -As much as to say, "ire was able to heal me; his authority for currying my bed on the Sabbath is enough for ate." 12. "Then nskod they hint, What ratan is that which said" -Without heeding the testimony to his won- derful power they challenge his cont- mA1u1 to break one of their pet).3 rules. 13. "Anil-- wrist not- for .les us," having performed the miracle disappeared in the crowd, thus avoiding their curiosity. 14. "Sin no more" -Another pos sable translation in, "Continue nt longer in sin." "Come 1)11(1)" -Be fall. 15. "i)epnrted, anti told the Jews that it was Jesus which had nm(f hits whole" -The healed Innn hat given as his authority for carrying his bed on the Sabbath, "Ile the) made nre whole," end now, havin) lenrnal that. this person was non other than the famous teacher iron Galilee, he contintiec his defiance n the Jewish nut heritles on th strength of this ndditional nothorit: for his action. • )•'O I t'I' l 1.11:1 *. "Why do you Insist on starting that enterprise on Friday, the thir 1eetuth?" "Well." answered the morose man "the chances are thnt anything 1 undertake won't be a success and 1 like to have something to blame UM failure for." EASILY I'Li:AST•:it 'i'IiI:N. "Well," complained the ct:unk, woman. "I never met a than so hard to please ns my husband" "Hew quickly (nen change," ni mnrked Miss Sly, spitefully. "it win only a few years ago that he pre posed to yon." ♦ "Ilall..n, (fill, id'I men! Well, well T haven't seen you since the old days when we used to run nround to- get oget her!" "No, .1ack. Ah, those old (lava! Whet n fool 1 meed to be then!" "1 tell you, I'm glad to gree you. Yon haver t changed a bit, 01.1 elan."