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jede and we passed inside a litle in- closure, where stood three platforms {of cement. One of those was care- | fully swept and sprinkled with water; and thus purified, it was heaped with blocks of wood for the burning. The | body, under its bright pall, lay out- side on the grassy slope; when the preparations had been made the mourners gathered round it. They |sprinkled it with cleansing water; the face was exposed again, and honey ,and ghee, and minute portions of the eight metals, and other ritual things | sfoen 'were passed between the pale lips.| ~ King Bluster Then- the mourners gathered round | King Bluster is a tyrant, _ in a. semicircle; and, squatting on His voice is loud and bold, _their haunches, with their hands fold- | His cloak sweeps out behind him, || cdlor or richness to tailored suit « afternoon frock, and its. appropriate-| ]f- ness for both must be considered. The} ff voluminous bag of soft morocco and like soft leathers in dark colorings "|the black patent leather bag, lined ps eo ee Gor lhe ESI verton Sun| "And Monkton Times |i] ARE PUBLISHED | _ | VERY THURSDAY MORNING ReRigel raat : once AE case = wpa Re reas 8 The Sun Printing Office | Street, - --_-Miiverton, Ont "Are | 'HEALTH | ¥ ee. Ree gu Ee ets se _ The world has. been suffering this. 'winter from another of the periodical outbreaks of the grippe. It has raged not only in this country, but the news- papers tell us, in Europe also. Now there are two things that are certainly true of grippe: It is perhaps the most contagious disease there is, and almost any precautions are justifiable 'to avoid it. Although it is very easy re -JBSCRIPTION RATES" One yeur. $1: six months. 50 cents; three, _ months. 25 cents, in advance, Subscribers" in arrears wil) be liable topes. $1.50 per year CONTRACT ADVERTISING RATES r "Vear) @Mos. 3 tos. Mos ame neem > ee ae ES ae jeorn, and there I stood at my post {in rain and shine, day and night, | i through the long, hot summer months. -- When the corn was well grown the 3 'erows could do-no more mischief, but -- } ace | . 8 umn. A Word on Hats for Spring _| with bright red or creamed-colored | "Fur is still the smart trimming for ore silk, and the envelope. purses, _jall garments, and it promises to re--- also lined 'with bright silks, are good! main in favor:well into the spring. form with tailored suits. There are 'There is already a hint here and there, Some attractive novelty striped/leath- however, that designers and manufac-| ©'S also being used with dark tailor- turers are tentatively reaching out, ed suits very effectively. Antique bro- for an attractive successor. In one of! C@des, Japanese embroideries, . and the eintet sli ps th etic morning, aj dyed laces are fashioned into effective 5 most attractive afternoon dress was and idcag oe bags for <the afternoon ee ; | displayed; it was made in Russian ef-: 80W?- eyes downeast, they Column ee y Column ae ti Spates © a 2 Inch... a, & 3 2 __ Eight cents per line for first insertion and _ your cents per line foreach subseqtient inser- | - tion will be charged for all transient adver- tisements. - Advertisements without specific directions will be inserted un*il torbid and charged ac- cordingly. ; Changes for contract advertisements must be in the office by noon Monday. M ailor telephone orders willrecelve prompt attention. } MALCOLM MacBETH, Publisher and Proprieto BusinessCards -DR.M.C.TINDALE, L.D.S. (Suecessor to Dr, Lederman) HONOR Gra DuATE TORONTO UNIVERSITY C.own and Bridge Work a Specialty. -- Office: Over Metropolitan Bank, Milverton : *Phone No. 38. : fect, was very simple, and 'sparingly | ornamented, the only trimming in fact, being bands of ostrich in the same. shade of blue as the dress, edging the | high-standing collar, the cuffs and the lower edge of the blouse pep- lum. * e effect was pleasing and perfectly appropriate for the warmer weather. Trimmings for Spring Hats Whether ostrich . as trimming for hats will be favored to any great de- gree, is still a question; that it will be used considerably, as in the past sea- son or two, for fancies, odd little stick ups, balls, rosettes, and similar effects on the chic small hats which aré be- ing introduced as first models for spring, has already been confirmed. Several of the newest fashion fea- frocks illustrating this letter; the'! cape-collar is one, the drop-shoulder | and attractive sleeve is another. The' band-trimmed skirt is new and effec-' tive, and the full-pointed tunic is smart' and becoming. Patterns can be obtained at your local McCall Dealer, or from The Mc- Call Company, Départment "W", 70 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario. THE SUNDAY LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEBRUARY 209. j to catch it, there is no possible justi- 'tures are illustrated in the afternoon fication for believing, as some persons do, that because it is prevalent they must have it. For the sake of others, if not for our own sake, we! ought to exercise the most anxious care to avoid having and spreading the disease. : Grippe is not only. bad to have; it is often worse after we have had it-- if an Hibernicism is permissible. It 'is one of those exasperating disorders that drag an endless train of troubles after it. It seems to be cured, its victims get up, stop taking medi- cine, and return to their normal occu- pations. Then months afterward- they acknowledge that -they have 'never really felt well since the origin- | al attack. That is true of cases that ;ed and their 'chanted their singsong chants, now, shrill, now soft, now a murmur, and then a shout, At Yast the time for the burning 'and the ceremony of havan that ac-. companies it. The ritual demands | the right use of four kinds of things: odoriferous things, nutritive things, preparing the raisins, the almonds land other food. When all was ready |the body was laid' on the pyre and "over it and around it were heaped more blocks of wood and a great deal of straw. Then the attendants light- on the end of a long pole, and when on the centre of the pyre. A. fiame 'leaped up. Some one lighted a torch } | Some had been welting 'ghee, some | ed crystals of camphor in a Spoon | they were flaming weli poured them | His breath is bitter cold. He bends the trees and shakes them, Disturbs the mighty sea, And everybody fears him, : And strives his wrath to flee. i still I stayed at my post. It was pleas- ~ 'ant, when the corn stood in long 'yanks up and down the field, to teh 'the ears, soft and white at first and -- leovered with long silk, grow full and Ss | yellow. = | One moonlight night a mily of /paceons came and had a feast on the ~-- leorn. I tried to frighten them away, 'but they paid no attention to me. At last when the nights were getting \frosty, the farmer gathered the corn land cleaned up the stalks; but still he left me standing there to watch over ; the bare field. When the first snow came, I hegan | to get lonesome and to Jong for a 'more comfortable job for the winter. -- | All through the summer and the fall I~ thad found no fault, but it did not Wa ¥ La King Bluster rese one morning, fa His temper all awry, Because the sun was smiling Above him in the sky. He swept the clouds together To hide the beaming sun 'And tore away in fury, His mad day's work begun. He raged across the city, He howled across; the plain, 'He lashed the waves to hillows,° And ordered out the vain. He drove the ships before him, _ And he hurled them-as inlay, ' { |did not seem especially severe at the 'time, as well as of those alarming Lesson VIII--The Christian Brother- |°25¢S.that are complicated with pneu- 2 /monia or with serious ear or throat, hood at Jerusalem, Acts 4. 32 to 5. 16. Golden Text: 1 Pet. 1.22. Many hand-made hats are being 'seem fair to expect me to stay at my post all winter. But: one day some- | thing happened that made me content- (ed and happy again. A floek of spar- "yows came to call on me and made 'themselves quite at home. People say Medical. ;made of straw and camphor at the 'flame and applied it to the four 'corners; melted ghee was poured here and there; and soon the whole pyre | was ablaze. And while it burned, the |mourners kept tossing upom it little | - But the sun smiled out in setting -- He'd stormed his breath away! F. PARKER, M.D. P.L. TYE, MD. DRS. PARKER & TYE _---_ (CECE : PUBLIC DRUG STORE, MILVERTON - trouble. In fact, the more serious on- "sets are usually more carefully treat- ed than the lighter ones, and it is The Scarecrowe's Story "Hours--10 to 12 o'clock a. m.,and 2. o 4 o'clock p. m., and 7 to 8 o'clock p. m. DR, F. J. R, FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat only. House Surgeon New York Opthalmic and Aural Insti- tute, Clin. As8istant, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. Golden Square and Mooretield's Eye , Hospital, London. Eng, Office : 53 Waterloo St., opposite Knox Church, Stratford, Phone 267. bega H. B. MORPHY, K.C. Barrister, - Notary Public, - Conveyancer Solicitor for Bank of Hamilton, LisTOw LL, MILVEKION, ATWOOD Otices; Listowel, Milverton Moncy to Loan > , FC Re BLEWETI. K€. Solicitor ior the Bank of Toronto Office : Gordon Block S1RATFORD, ONTARIO Veterinary. J. W. BARR, Veterinary Surgeon Milverton, Graduate of Ontario Veterin ary College, Toronto. Treatsall disease oi domesticated animals. Calls by tele phone or otherwise promptly attended to OAs & A.M., G.R.C., Milverton, meets every Monday evening on or before full moon every month in their ballixJ, E, Weir's Block, Visiting breth- renalwayswelcome, W. J Smith, W M, W. J. Zoeger, Secy. Secieties. MILVERTON LODGE, No. 478, I. O. O, F., 'Silver Star Lodge," No, 202, Milverton meets every Friday night at 7.30 p.in. in their hall over Bank of Ham ilton, Visiting brethren always wel- come. N. McGuire, N. G., W, K, Loth, I, Secy., J, H, Brown, R. Sec. Notary Public. W. D. WEIR, Notary Public, Auc tioneer for the County of Perth and Waterloo, Conveyancer, Deeds, Wills and Mortgages drawn and Aflidavits made. Village Clerk. Offige in the Weir block over the Metropolitan Bank, A. CHALMERS, Monkton, Ont., No- tary Public, Conveyancer, Issuer of Mar- riage Licenses, J, for the County of Perth, Real Estate bought and sdld. A ew choice farms for immediate sale, reat abe Hotels. GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, Mil- verton. First-class accommodation for _ sommercial travellersand others. Three pb oma ted bs age Good stabling. est brands brands of liquors and ci Chas. Ritter, Proprietor, ea QUEEN'S HOTEL, Milverton. On The best accommodation for peibassuits travellers and others, Two large sample rooms, Only the choicest of Wines, 1 quors and Cigars at the bar. Good warm stables. George F. Pauli, Proprietor. THE AMERICAN HOUSE, Berlin "pays special attenton to Commercial trade, ' Splendid sample rooms, Best wines and liquors served at the bar Rates $1.50 per day. Wm. Wirt, Prop, --_--_ PUBLIC NOTICE! RS. C. BORGEL, LINWOOD keep: M on hand Coal, 'Lime, Cement and all kinds of Building Material, such as Lumber, Lath, Shingles, etc. Cider _ and Apple Butter of the best quality ' made. Jacob V. Meyer, Manager x. Are You Insured# HE CANADIAN ORDER OF ' T FORESTERS offers protec- tection for wife and family at minimum cost. Investigate it C. Spencer, C R23 N, Zimmermann, R.S . inte] brbetetreeeeeberErrees | i RY.FISH&CO, | ? ¥ ; 4 * ve LINWOOD Dealer in od sone Coal, Cement and Lime Motar Stain, Etc. 4 : Grain, Flour and Feed and Furniture F : "Above Goods Constantly Kept on Hand : Drop Shoulder Freck--Band-Trimmed Skirt 'shown this season. The new braids | are mostly shiny; glace effects will predominate, although one sees some effective dull-finished hemps and tagals. A new glace braid from Par- is resembles nothing so much as the scales of a fish, and it is appropriate- 'ly named "fish-scale" straw. Some flowers will be used on the new hats, and quantities of ribbon. The new colors in millinery are, generally speaking, black, which is quite as strong as ever, geranium-pink, ab- sinthe, polished-gold, mintgreen, and baby chick; the last a charmingly suggestive title. Among the attractive millinery no- tions being displayed in the shops, and worn at the southern resorts, are sets consisting of hat, handbag and: col- larette and fashioned of faille, or the new soft luster satins. One of the most attractive of these is developed in the new Callot color, a soft shade of pinkish layender. The hat is very sharply on the left side, having no contrasting trimming; the bag is of the same soft luster satin as the hat, and the collarette, also of silk, is cord- ed about an inch apart, and finished with long ribbon ends for tying. These sets are being made up in many colors and are usually effective as a finishing touch on an afternoon frock of silk, or one of the sheer cottons. Fashions in Handbags Now that so much attention is being given to details, and in consequence | oer © Mccann. y 6o81--6o51 - _ Illustrating the Cape-Collar -- w we are all presenting a better groom- ed appearance than ever before, the attention, Once upon a time it was + PELE EET EEE bt simple, a medium sailor turned up| fafter my song last night. handbag is being shown considerable} One very obvious thing needs say- | ing about this experiment in com- | munism. It was the unforced outcome | of the family feeling for the Christian | brotherhood stimulated by the convic- | tion that the Advent was very near, and all worldly arrangements were temporary. It worked badly, in that . it brought out a shocking consequence of the weakness of human nature, even within this idyllic family life. Verse 32. Multitude--The regular word for the rank and file of the church. They realized Paul's ideal as expressed in Phil. 2. 2. 83. We see again what the twelve | received as their one function, the gospel of» the resurrection including the delineation of His life and words who by that resurrection was declared to be "Lord" (compare Rom. 1. 4). 84 For--A striking link: "great grace" comes when brotherly love has had its perfect work. Possessors-- | Was the rich young ruler among' them? one wonders. 86. Barnabas--The actual origin of this name is thought to be "son of Nebo," the messenger of the gods in the Babylonian pantheon. But no} | i ' {doubt Jews who could use it would | always assume it to mean "Son of | prophecy," deriving it from the (cog- nate) word regularly used for prophet , in the Old Testament. The Greek | equivalent here is a combination of exhortation and (margin) consolation | | is fairly near. It | 'is the first noun in Phil. 2. 1. Sen of ,has its usual meaning, like son of ipeace, children of wrath, etc. It is | noteworthy that Barnabas should have 'received fgrom the apostles this ap- | |preciative sobriquet from his gifts of | | Paul: in Acts 14, 12 we find the latter | lidentified by the Lystrans with Her- | mes--the Greek counterpart of Nebo! | --"because he was the chief speaker." Cyprus--whither he went back (Acts 15. 39) on a missionary tour after his parting from Paul. 5. 1. Ananias--or Hananiah, a com- mon name meaning "grace of Jeho- vah." i 2. It is not expressly stated that they retained the bulk of the money. for themselves, but the certain part that they offered suggests this rather | strongly. 8, Peter--As in the Gospel story, the regular mouthpiece of the twelve. To lie to the Holy Spirit--Put in this | blunt way, the hearers could realize 'the stupidity of the cunning Tempt- er's suggestion. It seemed so clever lto get the credit of generosity, and the money as well. : 4, Peter's words bring out the ab- solutely voluntary character of this communism. They had all embraced it, but only because they wanted to. Ananias had simply to say that he had brought part of the money, and the gift would have been gratefully accepted. But that meant taking sec- ond place after those who had given their all; for in this community the widow's two mites out-valued one of Dive's two millions. And Ananias and Sapphira were not the last to covet a good position in a ene tion list beyond any act of generosity of which theii left hand was not to know. It should be noted that Pet- er's reading of the man's thought was was the exercise of a most unusual but well-recognized human. faculty; modern chureh (and even secular) history can afford reliable parallels. Thou hast not lied unto them, but unto God--No word was spoken. Ananias, whose name is 'a byword for lying as that of Judas is for 'treachery, never "told a lie' at all, . ; 5. The sequel is very casy to un- 'derstand: the tremendous shock and surprise of detection, where they 'thought themselves perfectly. safe, was: quite enough to cause death-- many a man has died beneath a light- er stroke than this.. And when Peter sees the form of this judgment, which he did not predict, it was an easy step to the intuition about Sapphira. The central fact of the whole story is the Real Presence that threw every detail of these deeds into vivid relief, Ananias was like a murderer doing his crime in the blackness of night, on whom a_ powerful searchlight | | --encouragement ~ lessly. SEES ~ é Stopped in Time. "Yes," said the young singer, com- Lplacently, "I had a' great' reception The au- dience shouted 'Fine! Fine!'" "Good thing you didn't sing a said the cynic. Laie ee 3 "Why, what do you mean?" -- "They would have yelled 'Imprison- gain." eee. 'grippe. is | Mix and boil well. con ; hinf pitied. ss, ae = eee eee ee | clambered out of the ambulances, and considered for- its useful qualities PRC Se eke oe at ee ment!' the next time." t The gates of often the people who will not take a week to get well who are later obliged to take a year, We need not think that we must call on our friends when we have the We de not think, it unfeel- ing to avoid them when they have scarlet fever or smallpox, and the same rule is good with grippe. Teach- ers should avoid their sick pupils, and sick parents should avoid their children; kissing ought to be practiced very sparingly in grippe times, for the disease is very frequently spread by means of kisses. The unguarded cough or sneeze is responsible for almost as many cases; that is why street cars, shops and all crowded public places are places of danger. Unfortunately, many of us have not; yet learned that we break the golden; rule every time we sneeze without tak- | ing every precaution to keep it a strictly private matter. | What is best for the grippe patient a.su best for his friends and' the | public generally--that he should stay | quietly in his own home and in most ¢uies, in his ow. bed, unti! the worst | is oyer.--Youth's Companion. \ Rese | Sitting in the sun for half an hour | each day will strengthen weak. nerves. Cocoa is the best drink for those | who are endeavoring to overcome the craving for alcoholic liquors. Gargle for the throat can be made | with vinegar and sage, and a piece of of rag dipped in vinegar and placed on. the forehead will relieve a bad head- ache. According to Artic explorers any- thing containing fat, such as choco-| late, butter or bacon is a fine heat) promoter. Alcohol is a snare and a) delusion. An old-fashioned cough remedy that) has not lost its popularity is that which is made by boiling one ounce) of flaxseed in a pint of water, strain | add a little honey, one ounce of rock | candy and the juice of three lemons. Drink as hot a: possible, For cramps. Massage will usual- 'ly instantly afford relief, also rubbing 'with a soft piece of flannel, dipped ir alcohol. Another suggestion is to tie | the affected part -with a ribbon, so as to stop the circulation for a little while. Compresses, either of hot or cold water, will be found to be very effective. -If the cramp is in the leg, place the foot on the cold floor or stretch out the toes of the suffering foot, just when the cramp is start- ing. a A BURNING GHAT IN SUSSEX Welt Scontxcat A> Binds "Burial ic England. So many ineredible things are hap- pening in this extraordinary time, says the London Times, that we be- come accustomed to take the inered- ible for granted. But the spectacle of Hindu burial rites performed on the Sussex Downs is one that must stir the most jaded sense of wonder... ~ There has been a death in the Kit- chener Military Hospital at Brighton. The dead man was not a combatant, | but one of the personnel; he was a Brahman, and of the Arya Samaj. - Before the body was put into the big, black, motor hearse a_photo- grapher was allowed to come and take a picture of the dead man's features, to be sent to his relatives in far India,. Over the body was stretched a pall of printed cretonne, bright flowers on a dark ground; and white chrysanthemums were strewn lavishly upen it. oe ae : Through the pretty village of Patcham this strange funeral pro- cession went, until the road changed to a steep track; and before long the motors left the track and took their heavy way over the soft turf in a fold of the downs. Soon there came into sight a very ugly little screen and shelter of corrugated iron. To find its parallel you would have to journey thousands of miles. For that was the burning ghat of our Hindu troops. sao: The vehicle stopped; the mourners with much clattering and gesticulat- ing took the body from the hearse, In time (for all the ceremony was conducted with an odd mixture of cheerful disorder, strict ritual and absorbed devotion) the procession be- gan to climb the hill, the mourners chanting as they went:, "Ram Ram satya hai: , Vedic verses that tell of the eternal and single truth of the name. the ghat were tnlock- 'affliction failed to rob him 'of | blindness overtook him. Om ka nam satya hai'--| pinches of ghee mixed with grains and fruits, scent, saffron and spices. When the friends of the dead man go back, they will find nothing: but a few fragments of bones and heap of ashes. And some of those ashes they will take back to the hospital, where they will put them into a little wooden coffer that bears the dead man's name. In time, the coffer will be sent to his family in India, and from the Sussex Downs his ashes will return home, to be sprinkled on the breast of some Indian stream. ipsa epee BLIND KNIGHT STILL WORKING SIR JOHN KENNEDY, BUILDER OF MONTREAL HARBOR. St. Lawrence River Made Navigable for.Ocean Liners to Mont- real by Him. When Sir John Kennedy, of Mont- | real, became Sir John Kennedy, ' Knight Bachelor, on New Year's Day, all who knew this famous civil engin- eer, or knew his work, agreed that | the royal honor has been most worth- ily bestowed. attaches to this knighthood, John is totally blind. sight about nine years ago; but the skill or of his spirit, and by wonder- fully patient and courageous effort, he has accomplished much splendid work as a consulting engineer since For about thirty-three years he was chief engin- eer of the Montreal Harbor Commis- sion, and from an engineering point of view he is the creator of the mod- ern Port of Montreal. son of William Kennedy, a Scotsman from Dumfriesshire, he graduated at Sir JohanKenkedy: -McGill _ University, "Montreal, and filed a number of important profes- sional positions before 1876, when he was appointed chief engineer of the Montreal Harbor Commision. When he took charge, the Port of Montreal was a small and poor affair, in com- parison with what it is to-day. It had an uncertain, shallow channel, poor wharves, and was without piers and elevators... Its ramshackle old wood- en sheds of one story, overrun with rats, were erected évery spring and taken down every autumn to prevent their being smashed to pieces by the enormous cakes of ice brought down in the annual spring debacle. Disas- trous floods occurred from time to time. By the time John Kennedy ceas- ed to be chief engineer in 1907, and became consulting engineer for the Commission, he had worked a mar- velous transformation,= For eighteen out of thirty-three years during which Sir John was in charge of the engin- eering department for the Harbor Commission, he was also chief en- gineer of the St. Lawrence ship chan- nel between Montreal and Quebec. dredged from sixteen and a half feet to twenty-seven and a half feet Weep, and as a result of that work, Mont. 'real really became the national port of Canada. | Pgee, * Re More lee Shoves, The crankiness of the river was conque mph nt aed, Bem Tevenmren: Al ee x = A pathetic interest, too, | for Sir} He lost his eye-. his | Born at Spencerville, Ont., 1838, | '| eompleted one of the finest piers in Under his direction the channel was| All summer long I stood in the corn- 'field and did my work as best I knew how. It was not hard. The farmer made me in May, just after he plant- ed the corn. He made me of two poles, an old coat, a hat, and enough straw to stuff the coat. The' upright pole, which he stuck in the 'ground, held me up. The shorter pole, whic! he fastened crosswise on the tall pole near the top, gave me my two arms. Then when the coat was buttoned over the straw and the cap was in its | place, I felt that I was a fine scare-, | crow. My work was simply to stand there and frighten away the crows by mak- ling them think I was a man. I could 'not move if I wanted to; but th 'erows, which are very wise in some | things and very foolish in other's, al- that sparrows are foolish birds, but those sparrows knew better than to be afraid of me, as the crows had been. The wind was bitter cold, and they wie glad of the shelter that they, found inside my coat and under my hat. They even found food by pecking awsy at the straw that stuffed my coat. They were very sociable birds, too, and told me many things about the far-away world that I had never known before. We became great friends. One day a boy who was passing in the highway, just beyond the fence, stopped to watch the sparrows that were visiting "me. After he had -- gone along some of the sparrows fol- lowed him home. Later they came back to tell me that he had placed -- boxes in the apple trees near hishome | ways seemed to be afraid of me. They as shelter for the birds, and had -- | pulled up hills of young corn on the thrown out food for them to eat. -- far edge of the field, but they kept; So my life is useful, after all, and -- well away from me. Sometimes a I am happy. I guarded the young - | whole flock of them gathered in a corn from the crows, I have shelter- ,tree near the field and scolded me for ed and fed the cold and hungry spar- 'an hour at a time. What a chatter rows, and [ have set a good example -- ithey made! But I never let them for those who pass by. Is not that -- 'worry me or turn me from my duty. something for a ragged: scarcerow to~ |The farmer trusted me to guard his be proud of ?--Youth's Companion. ' oss -------- RAR ns RECO trusses § i built, and floods became a thing of _ Better at Figures. : the past. Sir John served on a Royal Mother (to newly married daugh- Commission in this connection, and, ; ter)--"You don't mean to say, Marie, | following his valuable report, the! that you have kept your grocery book : great guard pier was built and still) three months and haven't balanced it water was secured for the harbor, | yet?" and the picturesque but perilous ice) Marie--"Oh, no, mamma! 1 let the shoves right up on the water front) grocer balance it. He's so much bet- passed into history. 'ter at figures than I am, and I know 'he's honest, for he always tells _me that he has forgotten to charge some- ithing which should haye been in." After building the guard pier to ' protect the wharves, which he after- 'wards raised to high level from Mce- Gill Street to the Victoria Pier, Sir John built the King Edward, Jacques /@artier, and Alexandra Piers, all to |B length of a _ thousand feet,--a jlength "which everybody considered | quixotic at that time, but which is | scarcely adequate to-day. The old: | wooden sheds gave way to a splendid | array of gigantic permanent struc- Rubber Famine in Germany. Rubber is worth more than its weight in gold to Germany. There © is no other substance more in demand and harder to get. It is necessary in the manufacture of war munitions as well as in the thousand and one articles in everyday life. The fact that there sre practically no rubber- tired vehicles now sows how great is the rubber famine in Germany. |tures of solid steel. Sir John was the first engineer to design and lay a double-track rail- way in Canada. That was early in his career. He was at that time chief engineer. of the Great Western Railway, and the road was laid be- tween Windsor and Glencoe in On- tario. Later he designed great dredges now working on the Nile, and he has evidences of his ability and industry 'in many parts of the world. Since he became blind in 1907, he has designed two great dredges, the largest in the world, now being used in dredging the St. Lawrence Ship Channel for the De- partment of Marine and Fisheries, and has also designed and practically A Dainty Touch, "And her mean husband she's extravagant." "Why?" "Just because she insists on hav- ing Fido's monogram stamped on his -- dog biscuits." Sure Proof. 5 Pessimist--Is he prosperous, do you think? Saas ee Optimist--Is he? Why, he owes | twice what he owns. thinks' | | | Of course, no bachelor likes being roasted, yet it is no more uncom- | fortable than being married and kept _ in hot water. ~ : 'the world, for the Railways and Canals, N.S, Department of at Halifax, ---------- ee pene God and Men Are Partners > For Either to Refuse to Perform His Full Share Means Failure = or Partial Failure = } heathen darkness? How are they going to be enlightened except in go far as men, inspired of God, become -- His torchbearers? Are millions suf- _ fering from pain and disease? - n God must minister to them for the fey pets vi human sagt te countless numbers -hung thirsty, naked and in prison? Th : God can visit and relieve them 0! in so far as He can incarnate Himse in some human being who will, hot ever, inadequately, endeavor to x flect and represent Him, Is som great cause at stake--the cause of © righteousness, God's own cause? Then it will fail unless God can find human beings to fight for it and win the victory, + Each Dependent on the Other. In brief, God and man are partner not in semblance only, but in re A partnership of so vital a char. has been established that each pat ner is dependent on the other, Witl "And the babe lying in a manger." --St. Luke ii, 16. . Facts are always more than facts-- they are symbols as well. Especially. is this true of the great facts of re- ligion. To look upon such as facts merely is to see the shell and miss the substance, to see the outer and miss the inner, to see the body and miss the spirit. On the other hand, to regard a fact as also a symbol is not to deny or slight its reality, but is instead the only way to do it full justice and to understand it. That the Babe lying in the manger is God is for Christians an indubitable. fact. But it is also more than a fact; it is a symbol. As bare fact it has no vital power, no saving grace; its value arises from its content and im- plications, These implications, of course, are many, but for the present we shall think of only one, viz., the helplessness of the Babe as sym- bolical ofthe helplessness of God. out God's help man can do nothiy The Helplessness of God! he cannot exist, for "in Him we iit Does it not-sound both ridiculous and move and have our being." ¥ and irreverent? And yet when right- out man's help God {s as helpless ly viewed it is sober truth--a truth,/babe, Nor {s this any 'derogat! too, which will do much toward vital>| His power, because He Hims izing our religion. So far as God's/ willed {t so, It is rather an evider work in this world is concerned He of His tremendous faith in man is dependent on man, If man can do He is willing to put Himself 'and 'nothing without God, so God on the purposes in man's power, to staki other hand, can do' little or nothing on man's responseRey, G, Ashto g|without man, Are there millions in! Oldham,