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" Ten't it a good thing the new year 'comes around once in a while with its manuscript of 365 days, all untried clean sheets? Somehow we feel we "can start over then for Father Time seems to be handing us another chance to make good. One of the yearly puzzles that keeps growing more and more perplexing to many people is the money question. Things that were considered luxuries are now necessities and it is hard to keep track of where the money goes. 'The following suggestion might help to solve this problem. First subtract from the annual salary 10 per cent. for savings and in- come tax payments. Then divide the remainder into five equal parts for-- ist, food; 2nd, shelter; 3rd, clothing; 4th, household expenses (which in- cludes electricity, fuel, water, maid service, repairs and refurnishing); 5th development (which includes church and club dues, vacation funds, benevo- lences, medical hills, automobile up- keep, personal expenses, entertain- ment, education and recreation). Then lay aside these sums every pay day over the year and keep with- in them every week. It works out fairly well, Window Cleaning Occasionally wipe the windows off with clean paper. Tissue paper is best if you have it, It keeps the dust and dirt from accumulating and reduces the number of real window washings. The amount of black dirt collected on the paper, also the ease with which they can be cleaned is a surprise and clean, shining windows for another week or so is the result. Three-year-old Beatrice was eating her porridge slower and slower. Her mother knew she wanted her toast and honey waiting on her plate, so she said: "Eat all your porridge now, dear." But there was no answer. Af- ter a while a violent coughing took place. "Why, what is the matter, what are you doing that for?" Still no answer, but the coughing kept up, a noticeably forced cough. "Listen Beatrice, why do you do that?" At last the muffled answer came: "I coughing 'cause I don't want my porridge." Twilight Hour Story--Chapter 7 Billy, the farmer man's son, left the Hey-Day Come and go a-berrying, Would you wiser be! Come and learn that everything Younger is than we-- We who almost dared to think In our wearying There were no more springs to drink, No more pails to swing! We were dusty with our books, Come and let us go Out among the lyric brooks, Where the verses grow, Where the world is one delight Made of many a song Lasting till the nod of night, Lovely all day long. Till the smallest glimmering nook Holds the moon in glory; And the heavens are the book And thé stars the story! There the peaceful earth is sweet, Either way it lies-- Under unacquainted feet Or in tired eyes. --Witter Bynner, in "Young Harvard. me ff} em. igations No man can be under an obligation to believe anything, who hath rot suf- ficient means whereby he may be as- sured that such a thing is true.-- Tillotson. iil Master: "How did you puncture the tire so badly?" Chauffeur: "Ran over 'a bottle, sir," "Didn't you see barn door open and then went to get George, the horse, and pretty soon Mamma Hen thought she would see if it was a nice day outside. Of course when she went out all the four little chicks went too, It did look nice out- side for the sun was shining, but just as they got outside of the door-- swish came the wind, and it was such a cold wind. It was so cold that the little chicks came running back and wanted to get under their Mamma again, But just think, Mamma Hen wouldn't sit down on them as she did before, so they could get warm under her wings. All she did was. hunt around for something to eat for her- self, and besides that, she walked so fast they could hardly keep up with her. I really believe she is going to be a bad Mamma, and the chicks look- ed so cute, too. I don't see how she could act that way, do you? Well, she just got worse and worse and even got quite cross because they followed her, and all at once she ran real fast away from them and left them all alone. Wasn't that a dreadful thing to do? And there were four little chickies without a Mamma. She went off and left them just like some bad mammas leave their little boys and girls sometimes. It is a good thing it isn't often that there are bad Mammas but once in a while that {s what hap- pens, We should be so glad we have dear kind mammas who always take such good care of us, shouldn't we? I tell you there is nothing, no, nothing in the world so good and nice as a good mamma, js there? So you must always remember to love her and help her just all you can and when bed time comes, it pleases her if you hur- ry up and get into your warm little beds, then turn out the lights too, so you can feel the soft dark that makes eyes sleepy. What that [little verse again? Perhaps you can say it from memory. The dark is kind and cosy, The dark is soft and deep, The dark will pat my 'pillow, And love me as I sleep. God made the dark so daytime Could close its tired eyes, And sleep awhile In comfort Beneath the starry skies. Next Week--"The Little Chickens' New Mamma," Canadian Coal Industey The last three years in the Canadian coal industry have shown a larger out- put than any similar period in the his- tory of mining in the Dominion. Two of the three years have seen new re- cords established. The year 1929 showed a slight decline, but the output even in that year was nearly 12 per cent, higher than the average produc- tion of the past five years. Within the five-year period the increase in output has been nearly 30 per cent, Canadian mines last year supplied approximate- ly one-half of the coal consumed in the country. Imports came largely from the United States, while there were similar quantities from the United Kingdom. The Canadian fuel problem is geo- graphical in character. The Dominion possesses abundant supplies of coal, but these are situated at the extreme ends of the country. The two central Provinces of Ontario and Quebec are without local coal supplies, though at present certain deposits are under in- vestigation in the northern part of On- tario. As a result of the distribution of coal within the Dominian, there are large imports into Quebec and Ontario from the conveniently situated mines in the United States. --p-- Customer: "The sausages you sent to me were meat at one end and bread-crumbs at the other. Butcher: "Quite so, madam. In these hard times it is very difficult to make both ends 'meat,' " -- ree Mother--"Have you much room in your new flat?" Dorothy--'Mercy, no! My kitchen and dining room are it in time?" "No, sir; the man had |so small I have to use condpnsed it in his pocket." milk." A---- MUTT AND JEFF-- By BUD FISHER What New York: Is Wearing BY Esai = Illustrated Dressing Lesson Far. nished Wi'h 1 very Putiern All the smart young women are wearing snappy jacket suits of light- weight woolen. The one sketched is just adorable with the bodice of dress in lighter blending tone. The pointed treatment of skirt creates a flat slimness through the hips an. waist. The snug fit of the skirt is what makes it so popular. Note the low placement of fulness with three inverted plaits at front and one at centre-back which flare only in mo- tion. Style No. 3190 can be had in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust, Spanish red tweed in diagonal weave with beige wool jersey bodize is youthfully smart. Hunter's green wool jersey is sport- ive made entirely of the one fabric. Wool crepe, silk crepe, kasha, can- ton crepe and tweed-like rayon crepes are suitable for this chic model that may be worn all through the spring. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving the number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred, wrap it carefully) for each number and address your order to Wilson Pat- tern Service, 73 West Adelaide St. Toronto. -- Through a Glass Darkly . If I could be. as sure of life As I am sure of death, It would be easlef by far To draw this constant breath. If I could see the gates of life Swing wide on such delights As swing the gallant gates of death, I should sleep well o' nights. But life is such a twisted thing, And death it goes so straight Between the stars and through the moon, Oh, I must not be late-- And I must not be hesitant, But step with valiance out Beyond the little lanes of life To learn what death's about. --Barbara Young in The New York Times. -- een Like the Rest of Us Wifey--"There's an old clothes man at the door." Hubby--"Tell him I've got all I , tist might not be Christ. January. 18. Lesson (11--The Minis - try of John the Baptist--Luke 3: 717. Golden Text--Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repen- tance.--Luke 31 &. " V. 15. We are told that many peo- ple wondered whether John the Bap- The word "Christ" is of Greek origin and means anointeu. It thus corresponds exactly with the Hebrew term "Messiah." In the Old Testament "Messiah" hardly occurs as a title, but many people are thought of as "anointed" in a special way. Thus kings or high priests, or even foreigners, such as' Cyrus (Isa. 45: 1), might he spoken of as "mine anointed." In the time of Jesus the term had some to have a technical meaning. For long centuries now the Jews had been subjected to one reat heathen empire after anther; «t this time they were a part of the Roman Empire; they were allowed certain special privi- leges in it and almost completo reli- ious freedom; but they had nothing ike the liberty and independence of "Dominion status." They were held down by military force, and felt that in spite of religious liberty their na- tional Ife was thwarted and spoilt by the heathen oppression. They were perhaps the proudest and bravest race in th: Empire, and they dreamed of freedom. , as many of them thought, must raise up for them a Deliverer, a grest king in their midst, as David had been who should restore and increase the ancient glories of their nation. This Deliverer, for whose reign they hoped, they callad "Messiah." ' This hope and widespread expecta- tion was much more fhan political. The world, as they saw it, was given over to evil; the best of them were much concerned for the triumph of righteousness and the spread of true religion than they were for their own national aggrandizement. Surely, they felt, the world had suffered the rule of Satan and of the heathen long enough; surely God must soon over- throw sin and evil, and establish his glorious kingdom of righteousness and peace and true religion! The expecta- tion of Messiah was widespread, but not, it seems, universal; many thought that the Messiah would be an earthly king and deliverer like David; others thought of a mysterious, angelic Be- ing who should appear on the clouds of heaven. It wag not unnatuxal that in the excitement of John's "Revival" some should wonder whether he might not be the expected Messiah. V. 16. But this was not John's funec- tion. He was like the outrider who precedes the royal carriage, or like the servant who cuts a way through the thick brush, that his master may follow. He was the herald, the fore- runner of the Messiah, not the Mes- siah himself. John had baptized with water, immersing his disciples in the Jordan, but there would follow him "the stronger Oae"--apparently he meant 'Messiah--who should baptize men "with the holy Spirit, and with fire." This phrase combines two very dif- ferent ideas. What is meant by "fire" the following verses show. John pro- claimed the near advent of the. fiery Judgment. In the Day of Judgmeat the worthless chaff would be given to the flames and burnt. Hence, the fu- ture baptism would be a baptism of "fire." It would not, however, be quite true to say that John the Bap- tist preached "hell fire," for his mean- ing is that the wicked, the chaff, will be destroyed, not that they will be eternally punished. We ought not to expect to find in his teaching a real- ization of God as the Father of infi- nite mercy as the divine Shepherd who seeks for the lost. sheep "until he find." It is not very clear how John could have spoken of a baptism of fire and of the holy Spirit at the same time, and .it is possible, though not certain, that the words, "and with the Loly Spirit," were added by the Chris- tians to correspond better with the real facts, for though the coming of Jesus was in a real sense a Judgment (see John 3: 19), yet, actually, Chris- tian baptism was a baptism of the Spirit. "Denunciation is an ineffective method. It is very doubtful if scolding ever does any good. - Righteous in- dignation may sometimes be needed, but it is not enough. Rebuke for fail- ure in duty will only aggravate, unless the better way can be shown, Human- ity need not despair, but hope.. The gospel is positive, not a mere negation of evil, but the overcoming of evil with good. Herein is its glory. Duty can be achieved, and conscience can A: i eR Nature Continues to Asto ' emains ~ Bnyder, Tex.--One of the greatest mysteries.in Texas to geologists, that of the source and cause of the frigid compressed air which comes from wells in the section around Snyder, has been heightened by the bringing in of another well of enormous com- pressed air flow in a new locality five miles from the other wells. The latest discovery was made in a test for oil that was 'being drilled by Selfert, Dibble & Blackburn, 7 The air stratum was encountered at a depth of 1,171 feet. The air rushed out of the hole with a tremendous roar and quickly covered the derrick with frozen moisture. The flow was brought under control and prepara- tions are being made to harness it for use in bollers in industries of nearby communities, In Acts 19: 2 we read of a company of disciples in Ephesus who knew of John's Haptism, but knew nothing of a pouring out of the holy Spirit. It was this new "Spirit," givén to Christians which chiefly distinguished - John's baptism from that of Jesus. The re- ceiving of the holy Spirit, which was the seal and proof that a man was a Christian, was associated with bap- tism, sometimes because it was given in baptism, sometimes because it im- mediately preceded baptism. When we think of baptism by the holy Spirit we should not have "in mind the strange "speaking with tongues," so much as the new power and hcpe and character which came with Chris- tianity. 2 John is here represented as looking forward to the coming of Messiah (though the name is not used) whose shoe-lace he felt himself unworthy to untie. x --_---- Bad Patches Have you noticed how disappoint- ments come in waves? The explana- tion is hard to find. It puzzles us why, at certain periods, all kinds of troubles should seem to ¢oncentrate upon us. It is really stupid to allow ourselves to be intimidated by a continuous run of bad luck. we should probably discover just why these things happen. We may be suf- fering these set-backs through a force ly, we have no control. On the other hand, they may be the final result of some perpetual wrongdoing ° of our own. Much of the trouble can be elim- inated if we look into the reasons honestly and without fear of finding unpleasant facts about ourselves. "I'm feeling blue and bad-tempered," we say. Immediately the fact becomes more certain. In nine cases out of ten, these bad patches are of our own making, and they continue with us be- cause it is too much trouble for us to get rid of them.--G. H. G. j;fiq.B ----p ee Stuff To Give 'Em Farmer Jenkins believed in giving his workers a real Christmas meal. This year he ordered the feast to start with soup, goose, roast beef, and unlimited sup- plies of plum-pudding, The workers, having fasted all day in order to be in good trim for the Christmas meal, were prepared to make the supplies look foolish. Roast goose and strong ale were all they expected. "'Ere, what's this?" said a disap pointed' guest, when a plate of soup was placed before him. "You've for- gotten the goose and stufin', "I don't want any gravy." te eee ee Cheek A very' young man-about-town entered the hairdressing establish. ment for a quick shave. Much to hls annoyance, however, the shop was full of people waiting to be attended to. "I say, my man," he sald, "how long before I can get a shave?" The barber, who was working at full speed, looked him up and down. "Well, sir," he sald curtly, "you be void of offence,.and righteousness need."--Judge. i HHH can, and presently will, cover the earth like a garment." A » WHAT'S WRONG 2 WHERE'S THe DON'T BE SILLY. THAT'S I'M GETTING FoR THE WORL! Series UMPIRES. on might be able to start in about a couple of years." wish Men of Science---But Bodly Harnesses. Force Even Though Phenomenon: ot If we were wise enough, ' of circumstances over which, apparent- | | i ginning of the late season of 1929 | was 40,105,200 pounds, while in the to be followed by | ystery The first of these strange wells was completed" near Snyder about five years ago, The air was below the zero mark in temperature and during the hot summer days, when the, surface temperature was 90 to 100° degrees, the freezing air from the well was used for refrigerating vegetables and other products. Later it was turned the power used as a substitute for steam. Since the original discovery two other similar wells have been brought in hére and are furnishing power for boilers. Many geologists of note have visited the freak wells, but none: of them has been able to explain the phenomena. For a time it was thought that the product of the wells might be non-inflammable hel lum gas, but an analysis showed that it was pure oxygen. Canada's Fisheries Report Good Year Outstanding Increase is in Salmon Pack on Pacific Coast Although prices were lower, Can- ada's catch of sea fish and shell fish 'in the first nine months of the past year was larger by some 30,000,000 pounds than the catch in the corres- ponding period of 1929. The out- standing Increase was in the salmon pack on the Pacific coast, In which it is already clear there will be a new record established for the year. The combined catch of all varieties of sea fish and shell fish in the nine months' period was approximately 818,570,000 pounds, compared with | 788,201,700 pounds in the first three- quarters of 1929. . Increase on Pacific Coast The sea fisheries for the month of September showed an | the Atlantic, For the two coasts i together there was a drop of 32,900,- 000 pounds in the catch. On the At- lantic coast decreases were fairly gen- eral in nearly all the principal fish- jeries, although Quebez and Nova Scotia both fared better as regards i mackerel than they had done in 1929, and there was an increased catch in i Nova' Scotia halibut, The major lobster fishing for the month was in New Brunswick, and the catch there was nearly 1,997,000 pounds compar ed with 1,311,400 pounds in Septem- ber, 1929. The total catch of lobsters on the coast as a whole since the be- preceding corresponding period land- ings totalled only 36,498,900 pounds. On the Pacific coast, salmon and pilchard landings for September were both well ahead of the totals for the same month of 1929, though in each case the value was less than a year ago. The salmon catch amounted to about 33,643,000 pounds, a gain of over 600,000 pounds. The pilchard catch was 58,240,000 pounds, against 50,826,200 pounds in September last year. The month's halibut fishery was much less productive than the halibut operations in September, 1929. In September of the present year the catch was 2,874,000 pounds, compared with 3,493,800 pounds in September, A929, For the British = Columbia salmon pack figures are now available up to Oct. 11, at which date it had reach- ed 1,900,509 cases, or mote than 690, 000 cases above the pack total for the full year 1929, and only 74,689 cases less than the record quantity put up in 1926. There have been large increases this year in the pack of all varieties of salmon in British Columbia except cohoes. The sock- eye pack increased by 'over 187,000 cases. Pink production has more than doubled as has also the produc- tion 'of springs. There have been substantial gains "In 'the case = of chums, bluebacks and steelheads, al- though the pack of the last-named is never large, There ig little question but that the pack for the full year will set a new record for the British YELL= EADY Mutt Should Have A Sound-Proof YOU'RE GETTING READY? I AM Reaby! Columbia canned salmon industry, Room. into boilers of industrial plants and | increase ont Scientists fo Op Rr . Convinced of Truth of Curve Speculation -- Time Element Probed Pasadena, Calif.--When Dr. Einstein, the world's outstan man in the field of mathematical ro . physics, visits Mount Wilson Obser- | vatory here, he will become associat | ed with a group of astronomers who have done much to prove his theorles. | The observatory, conducted bythe | Carnegie Foundation, perhaps is the best, equipped in the world, boasting | six telescopes, ranging in size from a | six-inch refracting type, to the 60 and 100-inch 'reflecting instruments. Work , already is under way on a 200-inch | telescope, which, when added to the equipment, will be of invaluable aid in exploring that part of the uni verse which so far has only been a place of mere theoretical work. Heading the staff at Mt. Wilson, Dr. Walter 8. Adams, Dr. Edwin P. Hubble and Dr. Milton Humason. These three noted astronomers first pointed the largest telescope into the heavens and undertook a study of the spectra of the stars many mil lions of light years away. In fact, Jo far away are these stars that fit was necessary to expose a photo graphic plate a week before suffici- ent light could be captured om. the filnr to prove their presence. It was these men who first became fully convinced that Einstein was right when he said that the universe was full of curves and had a limit. They were able, during a total eclipse of the sun, to photograph a star which, at that moment, was be hind the sun, by its own bent rays, a positive confirmation they said of his curve structure of space theory. Time Element Probed While this group largely has been | Investigating the truth of Einstein's space theory still others at California Institute of Technology, have been probing the time element of the same theory. Two of these physicists, Dr. Roy J. Kennedy and Dr. Edward M. Thora dyke, figurately placed time under a ! microscope, measured it, watched its varying positions and photographed it. Results of these experiments have not yet been announced, but there is reason to believe that some- thing definite may be made public before Prof. Einstein's return to Ger- many. 5 The Mt. Wilson staff has decided that everything which moves, except- ing light, changes as its velocity im- creases. For example, it is pointed out that an object travelling at the tremendous speed of 90,000 miles a second would flatten into an ellipsoid, and upon reaching the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second; would be- come so flat as to lose one dimension --and time would stand still for it. The truth of this theory, is being determined by Dr. Kennedy. Other Scientists Among the other scientists who are gathered at Mt. Wilson are Dr. Charles E..St. John, who contributed to Einstein's theory with the argu- ment that atomic vibrations in light- giving vapors are slower in the strong gravitational field of the sun than in our own atmosphere; Sir James Jeans of England, who is at- tempting to show that, according to Einstein's original conception, the dimensions of space are determined by the amount of matter it contains --the more matter, the less space. It was at Mt. Wilson that Dr. Humason made photographs of neb- ula 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 light years away. In other words, the light which struck the photographie plate, left the nebula that many years ago at the rate of 186,000 miles per second and only recently arrived here. "Some idea of this huge distance can be gained from the fact that the light by which you read your morn- ing paper left our sun only a little more than seven minutes ago. . on Success The ordinary man thinks he can get what he wants out of life if he has but 'the price to pay for it, and to get that price without success, Yet there are others, not a few, who know that success quite as often lies in'the re- linquishing of wealth as in its ac- cumulation; who find it in the putting aside of fame and poverty rather than In grasping them There are many "ordinary" people, or those whom the: world ® calls such, who "have learned that a true manhood or womanhood is the finest success earth has to offer, whatever its surroundings may be. -------- _ Great Desires The ideal of life is in our blood and never will be lost. Sad will be the day for any man when he. becomes contented with the thoughts he fs .Where there is not forever beating at the doors of hig soul some great Th» " fo do something larger, Which he knows that he was meant ang made to do.--Phillips Brooks, 72 "I hope, Jones," Bald hig loyer, "that you are saving at alg, of what you get." "Well, sir" Jones, "I would, : but bi Bt Se fact is I don't i AX {4 thinking and the deeds he is dolng-- situated 12 miles from this city, is . i