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§P§|| g3 |g|Jg ^jffy, $&£*? 11pli ■ ' - "■ .-\.- ■ - . - - - :■ - ' » - - • . ■■'.M J '. -..., - - . 1 ' - - • • - - .. ^ - * V * -'.- - ' * *« t I ( i i# 1 à i E i GOD'S BUSINESS AND OÏÏRS The Most Important Task ôf the Father is the Making of Men . Old folks who heed something of the kind, find Wist ye not that I must be about [ n^y Father's -business ?--Luke ii. 49 & [Having said that, Jesus immediately immediately returned t-o Nazareth and became--a became--a carpenter. Most" of us think of the Father's business as something remote from and foreign to our daily task--to be about God's business means to desert one's home and homely occupation and -to go as a missionary to , China. Doubtless Doubtless that is God's business, but it, is just as true that, the carpenter, the miner, the merchant and the farmer are also about he Father's business if they perform their tasks faithfully. We are instructed to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," but experience proves that God does not, m answer to prayer, bestow bread from celestial bakeries. bakeries. If the bread comes it arrives along the channels of ordinary *" Industry and Commerce. Not long ago a charity worker discovered a family in great distress, distress, a sick mother, hungry children, children, a discouraged man out of work. What was the first thing to do ? She obtained bread for the . family. Whence came the bread? From the neighboring bakery. Where did the baker obtain the - necessary flour ? From the flour mills. And where did the mills ob- .tain the grain ? "" From Western wheat fields. The charity worker was only the last link in the chain. If one link had been missing the hungry family could not have been fed. If the charity worker was about the Father's business it is equally apparent that the farmer, ;the miller and the baker were about His business also. ~ The best new year resolution that one can make is that he will perform perform his' work in the world as a member of a co-operative commonwealth commonwealth exactly as if he had been commissioned to that task by the Almighty Himself.. most effective without : any discomfort. 25c. à box any Increased doses not needed, at your druggist's. lattoMl Brat aad Chimleal Cs, of Cauda, LMM. He eat with the baby on his knee for some time, afraid to move lest he should wake her ; but by-ànd-by "A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps Laws Makes that and th' _ action fine." the hungerfor tobacco overcame a room as for Thy So Jesus for twenty years became a carpenter. During this time we read that He "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." Jesus became a perfect perfect man by first ' > Being a Good Carpenter. Livingstone became a great missionary missionary by first being, a good weaver. Wilson became a great statesman by first being a good shoemaker. God's world is a great man factory. It is a mistake to say that God made man. God is making man. You are raw material out of which a man is being made. More than that, you have a part in the process. The best use. to which you can put this year, and all years, is tb make yourself yourself as much of a man as possible. And the way to do that is to take hold with both hands of some worthy task and perform it with might and main.--Rev. Dr. Frank Oliver Hall. other considerations, and he laid her carefully on the seat beside him, and lit his pipe. As the afternoon afternoon drew in, it became colder, and he took off his heavy blue greatcoat and wrapped it, with a tenderness at strange variance with his appearance, appearance, round the tiny form. The child was lost in its folds." At the next station, which was ' the last. but one before reaching Plymouth, the ;uard hurried along the train, looking looking into every window. He just glanced through the window of the compartment in which Brunter was sitting, then ran on. . "Not in the . train," Jim heard him shout to someone, v . Then the engine shrieked,, and they .started again.- ■ "Now, I wonder-----" muttered JIM BRUNTER'S BABY Jim Brunter, A.B., Official Number Number 017259, entered an empty third- class compartment at Waterloo, placed a bundle wrapped in a check handkerchief on the rack, seated himself in a corner facing the engine, engine, planted his feet "on the opposite opposite seat, and promptly went to sleep. .He had that morning been paid off from H.M.S. Belligerent,-just- returned to ■ Chatham from the "China station, and was now proceeding proceeding on the fortnight's leave --g-fanted to all ranks on return from -•Ubreign service. His -destination ■ wa-8 Plymouth, where his old mother kept a small chandler's shop in Treville Treville Street. The train rattled across the South of England, but Jim Brunter, swaying swaying from side to side with the swing of the carriage, slept soundly, as if rocked in his hammock in a heavy seaway. : Salisbury had just been passed when he woke up, - yawned, and stretched himself. Then his mouth, opened for the yawn, remained open in amazement. He rubbed his eyes with thè" back of his hand to - clear their vision." On the seat in front of him, close to where his feet had. been, lay a child about twelve months old. "Except for himself and " the baby, the compartment was empty 1 ; . "Great Jack Berèsford !" ejacu- ' la ted Jim Brunter. As if at the sound of thé mighty ' name, the youngster opened its eyes, and regarded the blue jacket- solemnly. Jim Brunter i returned the look with interest ; and not a u OVER-WORKED KIDNEYS Cause, Bush of Blood, Fullness, Fullness, Dizziness. •*. -j. T. Qhetland, the well-known railway railway engineer, of Hamilton, found the strain always resting upon men of his occupation vastly intensified by a te^ iency of the blood to rush to his head, and often at times when clearness clearness of vision and great steadiness were demanded. Finding some 1 difficulty difficulty in bending--a stiffness ..with pain having settled in his back, it occurred occurred to him that his .kidneys might be at fault. "This was a happy idea, for by it I not only got rid <3f the pain but many other troubles- àa well. I took a fail dose of Dr. Hamilton's Pills and was glad to note that some obstruction obstruction of the kidneys, which .1 had lately noticed, was at once relieved. The flushed appearance of my face gave way to a more rational color and there -was a perceptible improvement in my appetite, Pr, Hamilton's Fills certainly act splendidly üpôh. the blood, removing heat and- fulness and that sort of dizziness that makes a maxi at the throttle wish when - it Eiezes him that he were - elsewhere." .No medicine gives such unquestionably unquestionably good results for "stomach, liver, J nd blood troubles as Dr. Hamilton's ills; they are mildV certain, and al- rays curative. Refuse any substitute. c All dealers sell Dr. -Hamilton'» Pills* 25c per box. or The Catarrhozone Co., Kingston, Ont. Or. Hamilton's Pills "" . - Cure . Kidneys and Liver little trepidation. How on earth had the " morsel of humanity got there ? The carriage was not a corridor corridor one, so that the supposition that its mother -had left it there temporarily- was untenable.- "Seems to me uncommonly like a case of desertion," said Jim.- "I wonder,what the dickens I had better better do 1" Suddenly the- youngster's face crinkled up, its lip went down, and it began yelling in a manner - that testified .to the excellence of its lungs. Though the weather was cold, and he had just come from a hot climate, the perspiration gathered gathered in beads on the sailor's forehead. forehead. i. " "Here. I say, don't cry, my poppet poppet !" said Jim, in whàt he intended intended for soothing tones. • -But the youngster only yelled.,the louder. Jim looked desperately .at the communication-cord, but the intimation intimation that tits . improper -- use; would subject him to a fine of five pounds caused him to shake his head. Has married sister down at Glia- pelf ord had children, and he had often been amused at the baby-talk with which she soothed their infantile infantile troubles. He racked his brain in vain endeavor to recall the expressions expressions she had used. - "Here, I say, p-opsy-wopsy, I wouldn't be a bloomin' cry-baby !" he ventured, but.the result was not encouraging. ' 'Wish I could remember the bloomin' lingo !" he muttered despondently. despondently. ti He hoped that the child's yells would reach the people in the next compartment, but loud as they were, the roar of the train drowned them. Spurred by the terrors of the situation, situation, he bent over, and, lifting the little one from the seat, took it on his knee. The child stopped yelling, yelling, and looked up in his face with wide-open blue eyes. Then, though ! the tears still lay on its _ cheeks, it I broke into an angelic smile. "Come now, that's better !" said Jim ' approvingly. "Wish to good ness you could tell me where your mother is !" - ." ^ The youngster gurgled up at him, and seizing one of his work-roughened work-roughened fingers, carried it to its mouth ; then it -contentedly fell asleep. "Well, this 'ere's a queer set out !" said Brunter,. The child, a pretty little girl baby, was " well dressed and clean as a new pin. Little tendrils of flaxen hair escaped from its berib- ! boned cap. Whatever reason eix- | isted for its being left in the train, ! it had certainly not been neglected before. As Jim Brunter sat looking down into the sweet baby face, his own i softened. He might, he thought, ! have had a little ; one of his own like I that if Emily Cosgrove had not I jilted hkn for a sergeant of marlines. marlines. This was just before Iris departure departure for the China station, .and was, indeed, the immediate cause of his volunteering for that warm corner corner of the globe. As the remembrance remembrance came to him, he sighed involuntarily. involuntarily. The_ baby woke, smiled up. in his face, and went to sleep again. Jim gave a hurried glance round him ; then, with something uncommonly like a blush on his mahogany-tanned face, he bent down, and gently kiesed the little forehead. And with the kiae came a great resolution; - ? "By Cripps, I'll take her 'ome to mother !" he said. Jim Brunter to himself. When they arrived at North Road Station, Jim took up the baby, still sound asleep, in his greatcoat, and with it on one arm and the bundle in his other hand, he took a cab to the little shop in Treville Street. "Why, Jim," cried his mother, "I didn't expect you so soon-- Then she" stopped, and stared open-mouthed Jim calmly laid -the sleeping; infant infant on a -couch, and, placing his bundle on the floor, threw his arms round the old woman's neck, and kissed her heartily. "But what, for goodness gracious' gracious' sake, "have you" : got 'ere, Jim V ' asked his mother, when released released from his embrace. _ A kiddy," answered Jim laconically. laconically. "Give me some tea, mother ! I'm starvin' !" ; "But--but-----" the^old ■ woman was persisting, when a sudden thought seized the sailor, and. .he rushed to the child, and looked anxiously anxiously into the little face. -- . "Shouldn't youngsters 'ave milk?" he demanded. "Yes, of -course," answered the old làdy. "But where on earth did you get 'er ?" Then she looked with start-led eyes into her son's face. "You ain't been an'" got married, married, Jim,' out in them furren parts?" "No, no, mother ;1 ain't married, an' I ain't agoin' ter be. Get some milk for the kid !" / . r Among the miscellaneous articles m the old woman's- stock ; were babies' feeding-bottles. One . of these was soon prepared, and filled with warm milk, which the little one sucked with evident enjoyment. She's a wonderful pretty" baby Jim ; but 'ow in the world do you come to 'ave 'er ?" . - Jim,, while he drank his tea, entered entered into a brief explanation of the circumstances under which he " had assumed the duties of a guardian. ' 'Poor little mite !" said the old lady. "To think that some heartless heartless wretch of a woman has got rid of 'er baby in that way !. I suppose she'll 'a@re ter go to the work'ouse, but it seems a.pity." -' 'She ain't agoin' to no work 'ouse !" said Jim firmly. . - "I was almost afeared that you 'ad got married, Jim;" said his mother, mother, as Brunter was. smoking his pipe after tea. "No fear !" said Jim. "I .ain't agoin' ter trust no more.women ter make a bloomin' fuie o' me !" . "You are still thinkin' o' - Emily Cosgrove. Well, she.lived ter. be sorry for the way as she treated you." ' i ' ti "What d'yer mean, mother ?" asked Jim, in tones that showed that 1rs interest in his faithless sweetheart was by no means dead. "That 'ere brute Trevenna treated treated her badly," said the old woman, shaking her head. "It was a mercy for 'er, poor soul, when 'e died." ' Jim Brunter sprang to his feet. .-v *•- >v ■' < - v.'x •• .-a •,./ v-y • - - • • \v>Z v-f-; ' ,-.V-\ ", iÿ-'.'-î"-' r vi -Æ. ■' £: ■?. s • -is t * > ■ f '> v wk "" / r -f* 1. ' ■ » J- -ti- ^ > A' . v . •; -r ' 'x- Give You : ;ti: -. :: ' - r " ... V - . - _ . -, - - . . . -, - -?£?.•/.&- - •• • .- - - : ; ^"1" ' ' • - ' '*i-< '. • . ' - T -'-iV- *:• AX" ,v : ' ■ •• •: ■■■'• . ;• . -, -- ■ - •• • y-. : ' ^ 0M ■<: - ■ i * .Af- - . .... ... "I . * V , ..... ... . ^ v-*'- /!ii; A- -- PRINCE LOUIS OF BATTENBERG. Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman having resigned, for reasons reasons of health, H.S.H. Prince Louis Alexander of Batten- berg, G.C.B., G.C.Y.O., K.C.M.G., À.D.O., the Sefcond Sea Lord, has become First Sea Lord of the Admiralty. His . Serene Highness, whose experience of naval affairs is of the first order, was born on May 24, 1.854, ; at Gratz, in Austria, eldest son of the late Prince Alexander of Hesse. In 1884 he married his cousin, Princess Victoria, daughter of the Grand Duke Louis IV. "f Hesse and Princess Alice', daughter ^ of ' Queen Victoria. He became a naturalized British subject and entered the Navy in 1868. He became a lieutenant on the ' 'Inconstant" during the Egyptian War, arid, in charge of a battery, landed with the Naval Brigade for the occupation occupation of Alexandria. He has held command of a Cruiser • Squadron, in the Mediterranean Fleet, of the Atlantic Flçet, -, and in the Home Fleet. Amongst various other ' appointments appointments he has held the most important < one of Director of Naval Intelligence. Prince Louis visited Toronto at Fair' • time a number of years ago with a detachment-^, sailors from the fleet, the latter of whom gave very interesting gun drills in front of the grand stand. There is no more effective vermifuge vermifuge on the market than Miller's Worm Powders. They will not only clear the 'stomach. and bowels of worms, but will prove a very serviceable serviceable medicine for children in regulating the infantile system and maintaining it in a healthy condition. condition. There is nothing, in their composition that will injure the most delicate stomach when directions-are directions-are followed, arid they can be given to children in the full assurance assurance that they'will utterly destroy all worms. "Is Trevenna dead ?" he asked huskily. "Dead a year agone," rejoined the old woman. "Died from drink. Ah, 'e was a brute, .if ever one lived !" "An' where is Emily now?" asked asked Jim shakily. . v . ' 'Lordamussy, child, I can't tell 'e ! They moved down along ter Saltash about four" or five months afore 'e died." - • "An' 'aven't yer seen 'er since, mother?" asked Jim, anxiously. "No ; I don't expect as she ' ud want -ter see me after a-treatin' you as she did !" "I must try to find ' er, mother, " said Jim. "She was led away by that brute Trevenna.." ' " Jim Brunter !" The sound of his name from the mouth of the womari ' who had him. restored Jim's faculties. " 'Ave yer lost a baby ?" he asked •awkwardly, as he might have asked asked : ' 'Have you lost -sixpence V ' The woman seized his arm, and shook him. "My baby----" Then a light seemed to break on her. "Why, it was you, Jim, that was in the carriage carriage !.. What have you done with my. baby 2 Tell me what you've Ceylon Tea when you ask for It, but there are others who would rather make a big profit than serve you well. Ask for "Salads 11 and see that you get It. BLACK, MIXED or 8IEKN. ._ loM Only In Ltad Feuskete. . «ta ly all Of A Grammatical Point. 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Compounded by the National Drug and Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited. 1 " 318 _ Two hours after the arrival of the train which had brought Jim Brunter Brunter and the curiously acquired addition addition to his responsibilities, a wild- eyed woman flung herself from a carriage in a train which had just come" in from Salisbury. She rushed rushed to the first official she ; saw; which happened to be the station-master. "My baby !" she wailed. "Have you seen my baby?" ... -v "No, - madam," replied the station-master, station-master, sympathetically. "We have received a telegram from "Salisbury "Salisbury that a child had been left in a third-class compartment of the 3.50 from London, and so, of course, the train was searched, but there was no child in it : except with- friends. How did. the child come to be iri the compartment by itself ?" The woman was in a state border-, irig on hysterics, and it was difficult to get a lucid explanation from her. It appeared, however, that she had got into the train at Salisbury, and just before it started she discovered discovered that fehe required some milk for. the child's bottle. Leaving the little one in the compartment, she went to the refreshment-room to; get the milk,.and was horror-stricken horror-stricken on her return" to find that the train had started. _ . ' 'Was anyone in the . compartment compartment ?" asked the station-master. "Yes ; ther" was a sailor -asleep in a corner,." replied the woman distractedly. "Oh" my' baby--my baby !" . "Can you describe the man ?" . "No; his face was covered by his ariri. You--you don't' ; think he could have harmed my child ? Sure ly he wouldn't harm my little baby?" " - - A crowd had gathered round the woman, who was almost insane with 'grief. She tore her hair, and wail ed for her lost child. A young sailor sailor touched one of the onlookers on the arm. v "What's the matter, chum ?" he asked. "Woman lost 'er kid. Seems ter 'ave left it in the train*" answered the man addressed. Jim Brunter had - returned to the station for his kit-bag, which in his excitement he had forgotten to get from the guard's van. He now elbowed elbowed his way through the crowd. As his eyes fell on. the woman, be stopped and gasped. "Emily !" he exclaimed, incredu- done with my baby!" "Great Jack Beresford !" exclaimed exclaimed Jim. ' 'Was that 'ere kiddy yours, Emily?" Before she had time to reply, he had thrust her into a cab, and they were dashing towards Treville Street as fast as the horse, could gallop. But, short as the journey was, there was time for certain- explanations, explanations, which embraced, other matters than the loss of the child. 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