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CURING THE COWARD Teacher Engaged in Real Character -Making When She Taught William to Fight His Battle* "Did he hit back, Johnny?" asked Miss Farrar. "Naw," answered Johnny. "He jest bettered, 'I'll tell teacher!' " "Boys," said the principal, "*e ortly way that I see to square things up be- tween you (wo is a real fight So far, Johnny, you have don* the fighting owe a in* temperament, oo ,,vv ^ wiubm ^ have d<OTe ^ ^y. Jo.hr.ny loved the thumping of nrt , '_ , . , ' f)M . OTvVv __ ft,, bovs In response to a summons, Johnny and William stood in the office o* the school principal. Johnny was a fighter. Russian, In- dian and Canadian blood flowed in hia reins and he was the adopted son of Greek. This combination of rure and emrirofunent could scarcely pro- " **"* *> and tho rotting of hi antagonist and himself in the dirt WilHam was not even a stf -defend- er. When attacked at school he usu- ally ran to shelter under his teacher's authority; when not in school, to any Convenient protection. Pure Swedish blood coursed through William's arterial ry*tm, but any Augustus i ing. Sometimes the only wy for boys to settle their quarrels is to fight it out I believe in fair fight where both take part. The reason I have brought you here is that you rimy have plenty of room. You are to fight until one of you is whipped. I am going to be principal as she noted the changes in the two human factors in her problem. "Well, William," she said, "yon can flght for yourself." "Yea, Mies Farrar, I tank I can lick him if I try once again." William al- most grinned. { The next round was a battle royal. Step by step the Swede backed the Russian- Indian into a corner until at laat h parrted, "Lef s stop!" His eyes told the story. "Time!" called the umpire. "Are yon beaten, Johnny?' s.he | asked. > "Well, William, he has learned to' fight some and I'm kind of tired," he gasped. His backward trail across the room W&B marked by drops of blood from his skinned knuckle*. The umpire ached to bind op the hands so pitifully small and to bathe the dripping faces of both boy*. Hers must be the Spartan's part, so the' It is the overflowing fountain, not the one that is half full or just full, that makes the valley below green and glad. It is abounding health, health that is bubbling over, sup- erabundant energy, that counts. This is the health that makes mere living a joy. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL * dams across the targe umts of the; gully. I A suggestion box was placed at the ' entrance to a farm, and a board wa ' pat up invit'n* criticism of methods, business The idea of APRIL 24. 'overty and Wealth. Isat%5: 8-10; Amos 8: 4-7; St 16: 19-25. Goldeli Text St Luke 12: 34. selling: to the poor "the refuse of the wheat," unfit for human food. AIMM believes that such ill-gotten wealth can bring no real good to its possessors* The justice of God is challenged by it, and God never for- gets. St. Luke 16: 19-25. A certain rich man. It Is not the rich man's wealth thai is condemned in the parable it is his callous indifference to the need of the poor sufferer at bis gate. The compassion than Connecting- Link) Where social and economic eonditiora are such that men who work hard and long do not earn enough to keep themselves and ! their families in comfort, to feed and i clothe and educate their children, > there is evidently something wrong. I This is especially true in a land likej our own, a land of abundant resources, i It u folly, in this country of free peo- pie and free democratic institutions few who have gathered ; is not new, but thu was. Many novel patient effort to ideas were dropped in the box; not Lf inequality and Injustice and pover- the least helpful was one reading:; ty, and when discovered to remove kindly impulses were trampled down, j "Why don't you advert i se and hold | them. I* not on* of the chief causes umpire to se that there is fair play _ _ "Johnny, you stand on this side of A'ck*pTu"tr^n"rts~ " wnioh " 'we're' his 'by ! th " ne ^^ William on that side." rightful racial inheritance were being! Johnny, eager for a fray, threw the eruh*d out by the uiscipline of an j lock of hair out of his Vef t eye with a unduly pious father. toss of his head, stepped into the Johnny, undersized, alert, faced his "ring" and assumed an attitude both chool principal with the assurance offensive and defensive, that come* from fighting for self in' William, fear in his eyes, shrank life's struggles. William, overgrown, back. "O Misa Farrar!" he boohooed. phlegmatic, stood in the attitude of "My father he all time says do " accustomed to dodging blows: "Stop!" said the principal sternly. on rather than to parrying them or strik- "Your father has nothing to do with ing back. this." Misa Farrar sat looking at the two coi.cretc factors in a problem which had been troubling her for some time. Miss Farrar's blue eyee grew steely. "William," she said, "you are a big baby! For two years your teachers She had thought out a solution baaed and I have taken your part against' on a theory which she believed sound other boys smaller than you. We will and which she also believed would | do this no longer. You must learn to five a true result that would be last-' take your own part, fight your own fog. An ervent, in which the two boysj battles. Stop crying. 4f you do not were the principal actors, seen by her know how to fight, I'll show you how. at the noon recwss, had given her the! "Brace up. Be a man. Take your' conditions for testing her solution. J place. I'm going to make special "William," she apostrophized men-; rules for this fight. One is, Johnny, tally, "you have always been a babyj you are not to hdt William until he but you are getting the look of a hits you a pretty hard blow. Then you coward. I don't like the change in your' can pitch in. Neither of you must hit eyes and your hands have sneaking! below the bolt or on the face. All movement*. You will be striking in ready. Your first blow, William." th back next. "Johnny, you are a "I can't!" bawled William. funny little The fighting blood of Scottish an- bully! You are becoming insolent. I cestors began to revolt in the prin- foar you are even getting brutal. You ' cipal'a heart. Conquering a desire to wed to be conquered by one of your 'shake the coward, she said: own victims. What you need, Wil-| "Shut your fists this way. No, liam. you baby elephant, is to be taught that God helps him who helps tight. It's your knuckles that hurt. Now think that you are driving a stake in the ground or splitting wood! himself. And it set-ms to be up to me to give you both what you need." ' and draw back and hit Johnny as The principal stood up and gave the hard as you can on the chest." little boys a long look. Miss Farrar's lung looks had a reputation among the pupils in th- school. "Come with me," she said quietly. Johnny went with a s-wagger, wink- William wiped away the tears on | his left coat sleeve and holding out i hia right arm limply, approached , Johnny as though he were a sleeping! bulldog or a stick of dynamite and ing knowingly at shuffling William | touched him on the chest with the but the silent ordeal in the of flea had back of his hand. buen trying. WilHam's tears weir* j Johnny giggled. ready to trickle down his freckled j "Good!" exclaimed the self-appoint- face and even Johnny's dark cheeks *d pugilist trainer. "But keep your showed rod. i fist doubled up und hit very hard Entering: an empty recitation room, like this." The principal struck a Mi*s Furrar said suddenly, "Who: sample blow on William's broad chest. licked in the scrap to-day?" "Mo," piped Johnny striking a bantam-cock attitude. "Just to stir him up," she thought. It worked. With a last gasping sob, William adjusted his list and warily "Is that so, William ?" a&ked Miss approached the indifferent, amused Farrar, turning to the lad. i Johnny find planted something Like a "Yes, Miss Farrar," blubbered Wil- Wow on the small area of the fighter's! liam. "I never touched him and I told chest. The young pugilist, taken by' him it was on the school grounds ami surprise, staggered. he mut not ftgh* but he hit like as This was first blood to brawny Wil- be always is." liam. His eye brightened, Ms big "Why didn't you pitch in and lick hulking shoulders straightened, thoj him? You are biggw than ho is,", primal man began to waken. Then! mid the principal. ' the battle was on. Fists flew out 1 "Why," stammered the astonished witl h niore rapidity than skill. Johnny, William, "my father he says he will 'he experienced, kept hi* head, used lick me awful if I flght. He always his cyos and made his blows count.! My that it Is only bad and wicked 1 William, drunk with the joy of his bo, .ike Johnny an fights." ; new-found power, struck blindly but i'ride Illumined Johnny's little darkj each blow increased in force. Per- at this tribute to his fame and spi ration instead of tears soon! streamed down his face. At th end of eight minutes just as Johnny s-eemed to be getting the worst of It, the umpire called, "Timel" "Rowt n few minutos," she said. William, now a young animal, with something of the man's BCHSO of power of defence, and offence awaken- ed, was restive under the enforcnj In- terruption. Johnny looked with somej fear and con*i<lerublo respect at the aroused Swede, but as yet his thin dark face showed no sign of yielding. "I'm willing to lay a stake of a month's salary that my solution will turn out to be correct," thought tihe pro. "Then you are going to keep on letting Johnny tease you and knock you around, are you?" queried th principal. "O Mim Fnrrnr!" sniffed William. "My father ho all time says do like tlto Bible nays about soft answers. When Johnny calls me cry baby, I ay soft, 'Cio chase yourself up nround iieu once.' And to-day when he wlle-J m 'SwoAe.,' I say soft to him, "You're on by-gosli Indian like what )hres dbwn on tho beach and eats rot- ton fish.' Then Johnny rums after M and swats inc." Experience Counts You can't afford to neglect fertilizers this year. Here are their advantages: Fertilizers: (I) pay your monsy back with blftintcrsst. ()) Increase yields. (3) improM quality. (4) hasten ripening. (5) eliminate to a large <i- cent crop failures, (6) help banish weeds. (7) cut down labor coits. Last tumtmr 91 invested in fertilizer for potatoes growing near Lxmdon returned in one case tf 94 and in another t^ "S. ., . Figure your needs, and place your orders at once so that you can receive fertilizers in time for seeding. The Soil and Crop Improvement Bureau of the Canadian FirtlllMi Auoclallon Henry C. Bell, B.S.A., Director. M Manning Arcadt, Toronto, Ont. > ! aBU a -**< M K U U M The laughter that had been danger- ously near the surface more than once during the active solution of her prob- lem was choked back and Miss Farrar i looked seriously at the steaming lit- , tie primitives who with heaving chesta stood eyeing each other. "How is it, William? Have you had enough?" "He ain't said I've licked him yet," answered the lad. The third round was soon over. William closed with his antagonist' clumsily but effectually. There was a, short, fierce struggle, then down they | both went on the floor, William on top, ! pinning his old tormentor flat. "Say ! you're licked once! Holler ''nough'! yet!" he- panted. No answer from Johnny but a claw- 1 like hand wriggled loose and got hold ; of William's hair. "Shame!" called the umpire. The son of Sweden bore hard on his fallen foe, showing no sign of mercy to his enemy. "Miike him let me up," at last gasp- ed the under Lad. "Holler ' 'nou.gh!' Holler you're lick-, ed already y*t!" grunted William,! pressing a little harder on Johnny's breathing apparatus. "Aw, go on! Ain't you pot me down?" The defiance was in Johnny's' words. There was little in his voice, i "Has William whipped you, John- ny?" asked the principal. "Y-e-s," came in broken tones from the conquered tyrant and bully of the primary grades. "Very well," enid the umpire. "The fight is ended. Rise, William the Con- queror." They were two grimy, sweaty, gory boys that stood up. Black hair and ash-colored hair were dripping wet. Shirts were torn open at the neck, ties were off and coats were ripped. But William, a new light on his face, had never looked so manly; and Johnny's braggart insolence had disappeared. ' The tears that were running down his face the principal pretended not to see. . "Now boys," she announced, "this ! should end your quarrelling. Every- , thing is nil square and settled, so shake hands like men, for you are friends now." This conventional act was performed with some reluctance, due to shyness perhaps, but it was done with solemnity if not with dig- nity. After buttoning their collars and arranging their ties, Miss Farrar said cheerfully, "Go wash your faces and comb your hair and make yourselves look like nice third-grade boys." It was just be-fore dismissal. The third graders, with hands clasiped in! devout attitude on the desks in i front of them and with a Raphael - angel expression on their fnco-s, sat waiting for the welcome signal, when tho principal come into the room with two damp- haired, red-faced, sheepish- looking hoys. "Miss Hun'tlcy," she said to the teacher, "William will be able to light his own battles hereafter. He will como to you with no more com- plaints about being teased." When tho jubilant third graders had filed into the freedom of outdoors. Miss Huntley turned to the principal with a look of curiosity. "Do toll nw, what were you doing in room nine this afternoon? You're looking utterly fagged, but I know you don't believe In using the rod and I think you wouldn't use the thumb- screws or the water euro. What wore you doing with Johnny and WllHwm?'' "Making character," answered the principal. Topics in Season. A set of good tools win often pay for Itaelf In one Job on tho farm. If you must uso locks, use good one. Not much protection In a cheap lock. Plenty of water lutornnlly, extern- ally and ternally---all posalbla tf you heed the U>gnn: "Running water and a bathroom In every farm home." A remedy for erosion: To prevent erosion on snndy hllUMcs, throw up ridges of earth runrrlng arroM the hlttsldo, when plowing. A few luch rldiges, i>rrri(><! at interval* uf twolve or flfU'en yards, will help to prevent the noil from being washed down th hill by heavy rains. Steep slopes, poor soil, sandy land, unusual convcrs, gullivnl anil woode.l tract all these afford opportunity for growing timber profitably, Certain kind's of ti-i'i't, like the locust, builil up poor soil through the nitrogen- gathering bacteria in the root nodules. Smnll gullies can l>c stopped up by closely packed brush and tree-topa. Large, o|>en gullies arc checked only by planting over tho entire gully basin, supplemented by low brush a sale of potatoes?" The idea was a good one, and the farmer used it, of poverty and unemployment tile crowding of nraltitade* of people into _, ., j - j. . Lhildren or Armenia. with the result that many potatoes'! * oit * M - when <>" fieWa - oar forests, ~^IA T<K^ T^VT^T, wwX ~~.A~. fk^> of 1 fisheries, and our mire* cannot !"!2* J^f ^? ^ ^ Sf! *1 *>"#h We? Does not the ! suggestion told h friend., with the :relliedy tor Canada( 5n very Urge result that many became purchasers. ; partf i ie In more and still more pro-; - $, - I duction, and, therefore, in the engag- ' mg of more and still more workmtm in our great productive industries? ! And it will lie with our government to ! provide by law that there ehaU be a are bomeVess and starving, waiting f air and ^ adeq^te recompense to for us to decide whether they are to ^gry honest worker, and restraint or compulsion of seme *ort for both ' the idle loafer and the busybody. Isa. 5: 8-10. Woe onto them. The prophet, Hving more than seven hun- dred years before the birth of Christ, live or die. I Wonder. I wonder if I have the right To let myself forget to care How children shiver in the night Where a'.l is dark and cold and bare. sees the injustice of his time and is filled with a passion for reform, i Especially is he disturbed by the fact My little ones are freed from dread | that the land seems to be passing out And sheltered safely from the ' * the hands of ita original owners, storm j the free men of Israel, into the posses- Theix eye. are bright, *eir che^ are tg^*gfiH3 Their r own masters, owners and cultivators Thew laughter glad, their clothing, of the !and> become practically slaves. warm. or leave their poor homes to find a precarious living in the shops and But other little ones must weep, j markets of the city. And face new dread with each new; Isaiah foresees trouble coming upon fay M?? rich land-grabbers, whose insati- Where Hunger's fangs bite very deep And Want sits like a ghost in gray. If children who are hungry sigh; If others who are coH complain; No guilt toes on my conscience I Have never wronged them for my gain. But, knowing how they weep at night, able lust for more would s-eem to indi- cate that they wished to dwell alone in the midst of the earth. A foreign enemy, the Assyrian, will soon invade the country, and their fire houses shall be left desolate, and their vine- yards and com fields waste and un- productive. Then ten acres of vine- yard shall yield one bath, that is only eight or nine gallons, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah that Where all is dnrk and cold and bare, is one-tenth only of what was sown. I wonder if I have the right For an ephah contained about nine To let myself forget to car? gallons by dry measure, and an homer g j;; Kiser "** * CT times aa much. . , c tii ill k ' A" 10 * 8: 4 " 7 - Hear tftis .- Amos, like If you do not feel like adopting an the immoderate and unscrupulous orphan fcr yourself, get some of your' seeking of gain, and the preying upon friends to join you in the financial the poor. It seemed, indeed, as if they undertaking. ! would destroy poor men out of the Send contributions to Treasurer )*? 3 J C3L 1 !*? t JB* ric '. 1 lami ' Canadian Armenian Relief. Mr. D. Cameron, Canadian Bank of Com- dayV^r^rt'^r^T and" merce, Toronto. These traders are impatient of the <. holy days, eager to return to their rv r r o dishonest traffic. They defraud the LMSintect Dairy Darns. people who buy by making the pphah, The spriffg renovation In the dairy or bushej^ measure, small, and the barn should include a good spraying ! '"^el (~** > IU * ^ pz.), with which with disinfectant after the dust and |the r y TJ^J*I \ b 11 * W * , 'were offered in payment, too great. cobwebs have been removed rf such lFor a p.fc fi^g* ^ of silv * r things are present. Let as much sun- ; the price of n pair of sandals, a poor shim.' in as possible as It helps to man or his children might be sold into clean up the stanchions. Dark and slavery. Moreover, Amoc charges damp corners are good disease-breed- these same avaricious merchants with ing places and where the sunshine ' cannot reach, the spray dope should be used most liberally. IHIDES-WOOL-FURS1 afUBXKATS ! : money can still be made on thru.' ektna. Ship your lot to us und make sur of re- ceiving tli right prlco. Re- turns sent the Mune day a* Hhlpmont Is received. IWILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED] WOODSTOCK. ONTARIO ESTABLISHED I87O The contrast is strikingly set be- tween the rich man faring sumptuous- ly and the beggar full of sores. Can these men b brothers, sons of the same Heavenly Father? Can then be any love between them? Has the rich man shown a real brotherly feel- ing by throwing a penny to tha beg- gar as he passes him by ? What would Jesus Christ have don*? Would He have taken the beggar into His home, and fed and nursed him to health, and helped him to a place of inde- pendence and comfort? Carried by the Angels. The par- able suggests the lesson that the wrongs a:.d injustices of this life may be set right in the world to come. But it suggests with equal directness and force that the time for men to begin honestly arid unselfishly, trying to set thin'<rs right is here and now. The rich man neglected his opportunity and was lost. A man lay hungry, thirsty, and siek at his gate, and h did not minister to him. The Bible dots not teach that evil lies in the making 1 cr in the posses- sion of wealth. Rather does it com- mend industry, and thrift, and right- ful gain. What it condemns is wrong ways of making wealth, and the \vron.T ?.nd selfish use of the power that wealth gives. Application. Many diseases which were one* thought incurable are now often treat- ed with such skill that the patients recover. A distinguished medical man said recently that the term incurable ought never to be applied to any dis- ease. So it is in regard to social diseases; we have too long regarded poverty as something which is inevit- able. It is not so, and one cf the tasks awaiting an earnest church is to show that poverty is no more in- evitable than were many physical dis- eases which are now disappearing. Much of the poverty in Christ's day was due to men's selfishness. Moat poverty among us is due to the sime cause. * have got him on the run. A well-kept wood lot or a planta- tion of forest trees on the hilly por- tions of the farm will make the place moro attractive. 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