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The rock sang to the people; the people people sang to the rock--both sing to us: --the Song of the Well is the song of the World-Soul! What is that Hand which reaches down to the depth of things, and sends to the surface shapes of endless variety variety and surpassing beauty, with resistless resistless pressure and yet so gentle a touch that what seems a command becomes a coaxing, and what seems a blow becomes a caress ? Where lies the secret of that spontaneity which is. the actuating spring of all creation? creation? Things grow and climb to* ward the light; Things Move and Press Forward; Everywhere there are urgency and breathless speed and unerring purpose; purpose; yet everywhere there are ease and rest and quietude. God's cosmic engine emits neither black smoke nor shrill blasts. The feeble grass is pushed upward with tremendous insistence insistence through husk arid clod, yet it appears to be growing freely, of its own accord, and while the sap within the tiny cells, overcomes the law of gravitation it sings the Song of Free-" dom:--"Spring up O grass; ye cells sing unto it!" And flowers and trees and birds take up this song, carrying it over hill and dale to the farthest corners of the earth, and everywhere colors glow, branches spread, wings flutter--all spontaneously! The stars rush through space with terrific velocity, yet how reposefully do they twinkle in the heights, these luminous eyntheses of motion and rest! And while in the heart of the twilght the battle is waging between light and darkness, the dusk sings the Song of Freedom "Spring up, O star; ye heavens sing unto it!" And the spheres take up this song, carrying carrying it to the utmost boundaries of the universe, and forthwith everywhere stars spring into view--all spontaneously spontaneously ! The Gift of Spontaneity. And what is that mysterious power which forces thoughts out of the human human mind, which reaches down to the darkness of our being and sends up glowing visions, iridescent dreams, winged words pulsing with eternal life ? Here again, in the well of the soul, there is the same stintless spontaneity spontaneity behind which we feel, never- the less, the impulsion of a power other other than ourselves. What is more wonderful than the free flow of the soul's life? And yet this very freedom freedom points to a higher being under whose sway we think, we act, we create. Call it inspiration, call it by any name you please, that strange gift which changes the creature into a creator is the gift of Spontaneity, The brain centres sing the Song of Freedom:--"Spring up, O thought ! ye heart and mind sing unto it!" Anji all the nerves and fibres take up this song, carrying it to the remotest nooks of our being, filling our days with joy ineffable, and the blood dances in our veins as thoughts ripple ripple forth from the depth--all spontaneously! spontaneously! Truly, as we behold this universal spontaneity manifesting itself in the life of man no less than in the life of nature, we arrive revently at the con- culsion that beneath it all there is an inexhaustible Well, whence all power and all beauty and all truth flow. To this Well, hidden in the Rock of Ages, we raise our song:--"Spring up, O Well; sing ye unto it!".--Rev. Joel Blau. • The Late Lord Kitchener entering-St. Paul's Cathedral at the recent celebration of "Anzac" Day, in honor of the Australian Colonial troops. GENERAL SMUTS VERY CLEVER. The Brain of the South . African Government. General Ian Christian Smuts is the greatest man South Africa has produced produced in the last ten years, with the exception, perhaps, of General Botha. He is always spoken of as the brain of the South African Government, the man who draws up the policy which the others carry out. He was the Defence Defence Minister in South Africa when the war broke out, and he it was who destroyed all hope of success for the German paid plotters who tried to stir up rebellion there. Though General Botha brilliantly crushed the Germans in South-West Africa, it was General Smuts who actually actually drew up the plan of campaign which resulted in the end of German rule there. .General Shuts has proved himself an exceedingly clever army leader time and time again. When the Boer War broke out he was a private. During that war he rose to be a general general and one of the very toughest nuts General French had to crack in the last stages of the fighting. He is one of the youngest leaders in the present war, for he is only forty-five. Quick, tenacious, and enterprising, enterprising, he knows the conditions of fighting in Africa from A to Z, and there can bé no better certainty of success in German East Africa than the fact that General Smuts is in command. . Several good stories of Botha's right-hand man are told. When he visited England some years • ago--it was to bring the Cullinan diamond over for King Edward VII., by the way--he found himself sitting next to a rather supercilious young officer officer at a public reception. Let me see,", said the officer; "haven't we--ah--met before?" "Yes," replied General Smuts shortly. "Thought so," returned the officer, and added in bored tones: "One meets so many people, don't you know. Let me see, where did we meet ?" "In South Africa," retorted the general. general. "You surrendered to me during during the war." Once the, iron determination of General Smuts broke down. He was appointed by President Kruger to be Attorney-General for the Transvaal, and he attended the Transvaal Parliament Parliament in grey trousers. This shocked shocked the Boer Ministers dreadfully for they all dressed in sober black/and the clamor was so great that the State Attorney had to go back home and change his "breeks." Yet Hope: 'Waiter, have you forgotten me?" 'No, sir, not yet, sir." Doctor Tells How To Strengthen Eyesight 50 per cent In One Week's Timl in Many Instances Free Prescription You Can Filled and Use at Home. Have Philadelphia, Pa. Do you wear glasses? Are you a victim of eye strain or other eye weaknesses ? If so, you will be glad to know that according to Dr. Lewis there Is hope for you. Many whose eyes were failing say they have had their eyes restored restored through the principle of this wonderful wonderful free prescription. One man says after trying it : "I was almost blind • could not. see to read at all. Now I can read everything without any glasses and tny eyes do not water any more. At night they would pain dreadfully : now they feel fine aU the time. It was -like a miracle to g e. A lady who used it sa vs : "The at- ospbere seemed hazy with or without f rlassy, but after using this prescription or fifteen days everything seems clear I can even read fine print without glasses." It Is believed that thousands who wear glasses can now discard them in a reasonable reasonable time and multitudes more will be able to strengthen their eyes so as to be spared çne trouble and expense of ever getting glasses. Eye troubles of many • descriptions descriptions may be wonderfully benefited by fol- : lowing the simple rules. -Here is the prescription prescription : Qo to any active drug store and get 1 a bottle of Bon-Opto tablets. Drop one Bon-Opto tablet in a fourth of a glass of water and allow to dissolve. With this liquid bathe the eyes two. to four times daily, lou should notice your eyes clear up perceptibly right from the start and inflammation inflammation will quickly disappear. If- vour eyes are bothering you, even a little, take steps to save them now before it-is too late. Many hopelessly blind might have in < time Ve<1 lf they Lad cared for,their eyes Another prominent Physician to whom the above arhcie was summed, said. "Bon-Opto is a very remarkaMe remedy. Its constituent ingredients are well-known to eminent ,nr e c^ ,aHStS . an , d r idely P^bed by them^° TTio°manufac- turcr* guarantee it to strengthen eyesight 50 per cent in on. s time in many instances or refund*the money, it can be obtained from any good druggist and is one of die vew few preparations I feel should be kept on hand for regular ^se in almost every family. It is sold in Toronto by Valmas Drug Co. NEVER FAILED IN HIS SERVICE Kitchener Was in Franco-Prussian War Before He Entered British Army--Most of His Life Was Spent in Foreign Climes. Irishmen like to claim Lord . Kitchener Kitchener as à countryman of theirs on the ground that he was born at Guns- borough Villa, County Kerry, on June 24th, 1850. 'But although, his" father, Col. Henry Horatio Kitchener, had migrated to Ireland from Leicestershire Leicestershire two years before the birth of his son Herbert, the family is East Anglian. Even before he entered the army in 1871 he had had a taste of actual war. While still a Woolwich cadet he was staying during a vacation vacation with his father in Brittany, for the Irish estates had been„ sold. France's last desperate struggle against the German hosts was being fought out by brave but ill-organized armies of hastily-raised levies. Young Kitchener offered his services to the French, was accepted, and fought under under General Chanzy in .the operations around Le Mans. Learned Value of Organization. In that terrible winter campaign Kitchener saw miles of stalled freight cars loaded with war material; soldiers soldiers freezing for lack of overcoats stored in plenty half a mile away, but which there was no one to issue, and starving for fopd that rotted because there was no machinery for its distribution. distribution. That is why he later fought the Dervishes with Nubian track-layers track-layers and American bridge builders and hemmed in the Boers with blockhouses and charged wire. His first campaign ended by his catching a severe cold after a balloon ascent made when his clothes were wet. In three months he was near to death with pleurisy. With British Army. He joined the Engineers in the spring of 1871 and began the long, hard toil that England exacts from the men who serve her. For three years he worked at Chatham and Aldershot and then was detached to work in a semi-civil capacity on the Palestine survey. For four years he passed up and down measuring the land of Canaan and learning the ways and - the speech of its people. In Palestine, in Cyprus, in Egypt, Kitchener Kitchener managed to adapt himself to the ways of the natives. He acquired not only, their language but their very intonation, intonation, and could live among the Arabs as safe from detection as Kim in the crowded streets of Lahore. Making a Mummy Fight. England acquired Cyprus in 1878 and Lieut. Kitchener was placed in charge of the exploration. He had neither money nor powerful friends, but the maps and reports he sent back to London were models of their kind. In 1880 he was made British Vice- Consul at Erzerum. His real chance came in 1883. After the bombardment of Alexandria Alexandria England had to reorganize the Egyptian army." Kitchener volunteered volunteered and was one of the twenty-six men chosen for the" work of raising a force of 6,000 men for the defence of Egypt. The Fellah does not come of a fighting fighting race and the 'job seemed hopeless. Capt. Kitchener was told to lick the cavalry into shape and was attached to the Intelligence Department. He proved that the Fellah was like a bicycle, incapable of standing up alone, but very useful in the hands of a skilled master. In ten weeks after the arrival of the first batch of raw recruits 5,600 men went through the ceremonial parade movements as practised. by the British Guards in Hyde Park, and they did it with unusual unusual precision. 14 Yëars in Egypt. For fourteen years Kitchener served served in Egypt. He was with the Gordon Gordon relief expedition in 1884, and stayed till the hero of Khartoum had been avenged. At" Handoub he was severely wounded by a bullet that shattered his jaw and buried itself in his neck, and he was invalided back to England. In 1888 he returned to Egypt as adjutant-general to head the First Brigade of Soudanese troops at Toski, where he led the final charge. Time and again he was mentioned in despatches. From Governor-General ? of the Red Sea littoral and Commandant Commandant of Suakim he was made Chief of Police at Cairo, and on Lord Cromer's recommendation was promoted to be Sirdar in 1892. He was only a colonel then. Slaughter of Dervishes. Four years later he began his reconquest reconquest of the Soudan. The Don- gola^ expedition won him the rank of major-general, and the next, year, 1897, he started to avenge Gordon's death.- His first step was a railroad from Cairo, to Khartoum. It had to cross the desert from Haifa to Abu. Harned, 230 miles of sand. Experts scoffed" at the idea; it was absurd; the entire carrying capacity, of the train would be taken up by the water supply necessary for the locomotive. But Kitchener built on, and as he built he bpred, and he; struck water in the sands just where he néeded it, and the work was finished on October 31> 1897. In April of the following year Kitchener won the battle of thé At- bara, and on Sept. 2 caught up with the Mahdi's forces at Omdurinan and sealed his former victory and. the Khalifa's doom. Gordon was avenged. After the fight was won he cut off the Dervishes' retreat, and as they huddled around their standards he played his IT MAKES ROUGH HANDS SMOOTH -There is no better remedy for chapped hands and lips than Trade Mark B Keeps the skin smooth and soft. Sold in handy metal boxes and tin tubes at chemists and general stores everywhere. Refute Substitutes. Booklet on request request ^ lC F CHESEBROUGH MFG. CO. (Consolidsted) 1880 Chabot Ave., Montreal xv- 4P? - ^1 if «3 ;• The Ulcerated Tooth. A girl 8 years old was allowed to go in bathing early in the season. That night she had a toothache. A hot mustard foot bath relieved her. Next day the tooth ached some more. A mixture of equal parts of aconite and iodine, suggested by the dentist by telephone, was applied and gave considerable relief. But she slept little little all the following night, and the third morning she was taken to the dentist. The dentist informed her father, that the child had an "ulcerated "ulcerated tooth," but that it would be dangerous dangerous to do anything to it until the swelling subsided. We should say here that the dentist was a bargain : dentist--there was no sterilizer in his ! office, but he did phenomenally che^jp . work. I The fourth night the child grew de- : lirious. The doctor was summoned. There was no sign that the pus was '= pointing--that is, no "gum boil." The Viscount Kitchener was sent to In- ' doctor urged immediate extraction, dia as Commander-in-Chief, and in j The parents objected--because the seven years he revolutionized the In- j dentist had told them it would be dian army, and freed it from red tape. ! dangerous! The child suffered for This stern, icy man put" an instant end : two more days and nights. Finally to the old round of polo-playing ,garri- j a consultation was demanded by the son life. He made every one work ' doctor. Counsel insisted upon inland inland thanked no one for working. Just | mediate extraction. A first : class as in South Africa he had shipped ! dentist was called in. He agreed. He back to England more than 400 offi- extracted the tooth. Pus flowed cers as "useless," he started in to , from the socket freely. But the child Clean to handle. Sold by all Druggists, Druggists, Grocers and General Stores. ELECTRIC ARC MELTS STEEL. weed out the incompetents in India. He never played favorites. After leaving India with the rank of Field Marshal, Kitchener succeeded succeeded the Duke of Connaught as Commander-in-Chief Commander-in-Chief and High - Commis sioner in the Mediterranean, and made a tour of England's colonies to organize their fighting forces. On his-way from Australia he visited continued to run a high temperature, have chills and some delirium. She was anesthetized once " more on the ninth day, and then it was found that necrosis of the jaw bone was extensive. extensive. The dead bone was cleaned out, the wound drained, but on the 12th day the child died from blood poisoning--acute poisoning--acute septicemia. Now, the first dentist in that case Most Intense Heat Produced, ia From the Carbon Fire. The most intense heat produced by man is that of the electric arc, and the possibilities of its aplication in various branches of American industry industry have only begun to be realized. Like many other useful scientific agents, the electric arc has been adopted adopted by the burglar. There is no safe known that will not yield to the electric carbon applied by the skilled "safe cracker." Aside from lighting, the most useful useful purpose to which the electric arc has been put is in the mending of broken or cracked castings and. metal parts of all kinds. A broken shaft, for instance, can be resurrected from the junk heap if a skilled workman, with adequate arc apparatus, is given a chance at it. Moreover, a broken metal piece repaired by the c-.^ctrie arc is as serviceable as when new. In fact, strain tests made upon repaired repaired castings often results in breakage breakage at a different point than where the repair was made. Operators are well,protected against I danger. Due to the intense heat at Japan and the United States, return- was responsible for all the trouble, j the point at which the carbon nours W tn iV lom His latest I Upon, his head is that child's blood. I i ts electrical fire upon the metal the He told the parents a vicious lie-- ' -- ' machine guns upon them, killing about 15,000. The Mahdi's tomb was the great shrine of the Dervishes. Kitchener Kitchener demolished the tomb, the holy place, and scattered the mummy so that no part of the body could be got for re-enshrinement to be a focus for future trouble. He gave peace to Egypt. Congratulated by Kaiser. He was created Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, received the Grand Cross of the Order qf the Bath, the thanks of Parliament, and was voted $150,- 000; also it may be recalled the Kaiser telegraphed his sicere congratulations. congratulations. Two weeks after Om- durman, Kitchener's forces met Marchand Marchand at Fashoda with eight French officers and 120 Soudanese tirailleurs, and their withdrawal left the whole of the Soudan in the power of England. England. Kitchener at once began -to build up the country. Boer War. Within a year the Boer War broke out, and after the British disasters Lord Roberts was sent to South Africa. Lord Kitchener, while. still Sirdar of the Egyptian army, was promoted promoted lieutenant-general and made chief of staff. He arrived in Cape Town in January, 1900, and in November November took supreme command after Lord Roberts had left for England. He went to work with systematic thoroughness and built across the Transvaal a line of blockhouses connected by wires charged with electricity; sixty mobile columns were put into the field; all the women and children and non-combatants non-combatants were taken off the farms and placed in huge concentration camps. Slowly and with much less loss of life than would otherwise have been possible possible the Boers were worn down, and in May, 1902, the struggle ended. Kitchener was made a viscount, advanced advanced to the rank of General, given the thanks of Parliament, and $250,- 000, also the Order of Merit. Sent to India. No sooner was peace signed than ing to England in 1910. service prior to the war had been in Egypt, where he went to continue Lord Cromer's great work. He succeeded succeeded in restoring the Fellah to the land, and, with a grant of $15,000,000 from the British Government, created a great cotton-raising industry. When War Began. When war broke out Kitchener was in England to accept promotion in the peerage to an earldom. The Prime Minister made him Secretary of State for War, and he had responded in his wonderfully efficient way. His first question when he got to the office, "Is there a bed here?" He was told there was not and said, "Get one." It was said he slept only five hours out of the twenty-four and left his post every morning at 1 o'clock, returning before 9. His orders to recruiting officers officers were typical: "Never mind about drill; it doesn't matter if they don't know their right foot from their left. Teach them how to shoot, and do it quick." Striking Appearance. In appearance Lord Kitchener was six feet and several inches tall with a brick red glow to his cheeks, due to years of exposure to the tropical sun. He was as straight as any soldier well drilled in calisthenics. During all the years the British people had looked on Kitchener's silent but effective work; they had never been able to fathom his personality. personality. A cockney non-commissioned officer, who had seen much service under him, summed up the general opinion when he said of Kitchener: " 'E's no talker. Not 'im. 'E's all steel and h'ice." Demanded Deeds. His face was that of a man who neither asked for sympathy nor wanted wanted it. He had steady blue-grey passionless passionless eyes and a heavy moustache covered a mouth that shut close and firm like a wolf trap. He believed with all his might in the gospel of work. He had illimitable self-confidence. self-confidence. For bungling and faint-heartedness faint-heartedness he was incapable of feeling sympathy or showing mercy; an officer officer who failed him once get no second ! 1 chance. Nineteen-twentieths of Kitchener's active life were spent outside of the British Isles, and for that reason it has been said of him he didn't really know England when the war broke out. maybe he knew no better, but if so, he had no right to be practicing dentistry. dentistry. But the second dentist and the family doctor and the surgeon called in consultation were blamed by all the "old women!" An "ulcerated tooth" is a misnomer. The^condition is an abscess, pus at the root of a diseased tooth. The only safe and proper treatment is prompt operators usually wear helmets, not unlike the gas helmets of the present war. A RIVER OF HORROR. No White Man, Exploring its Riches, Ever Has Returned. There is a river of mystery and drainage of that pus, either by ex- j horror in Peru, and the legends of traction of the diseased tooth or by j rich rubber regions and untold wealth drilling through the tooth. Possibly j in gold are accompanied by tales of the abscess may point on the gum and i those who went up it never to return, discharge that way, but only at the | Casimer Watkins, a naturalist, reexpense reexpense of needless suffering and i recently returned from South Amer- more or less necrosis to the jaw bone. The great wonder is that more sufferers sufferers do not have a fatal result from delay. delay. A sliver in a festering wound is extracted instinctively by everybody. everybody. The identical principle applies applies in the treatment of "ulcerated tooth." The ancient superstition that it was dangerous to treat an ulcerated ulcerated tooth in an intelligent way ica, tells of the stream. "This river," he said, "is the Colorado Colorado River, the richest river in Peru, Great groves of rubber trees lie along its course, and-gold has been found in it. But the Mascos, a tribe of cannibals, infest it-. They still practise practise cannibalism and will kill a man on sight. Expeditions have been -tested -tested out and been heavily armed to doesn't deserve serious consideration j exploring for rubber and gold, but to-day. It is a sad commentary upon the status of the .dental profession that such a delusion should be fostered fostered by one of its members. The little little girl in the present instance had cionplained for many days prior to the bathing incident that she couldn't chew popcorn or peanuts, "because it hurt her teeth"--proving that the trouble had already begun and that the bathing was a mere coincidence. none of them ever has returned. The savages have killed, the men and eaten them and turned the canoes a- drift. They have come down the river empty, bottoms up, or filled with supplies which the savages did not care to remove." The hands of man are like the hands of a clock. They move once round the dial of life and grow still. GOOD DIGESTION -- When your dltfestion is faulty, -weakness and pain are certain and disease M Invited. 4 Mother SeiCel'i Syrup corrects nnd stimulates -FOR 40YEAR8 TieStaidaid REMEDY thi , the dljeetiyc organs, and hanitbi ailment* which arise from lndi£estl I isbec the many on. 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