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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927. Sunday School Lesson May 22. Peter Heals the L« Acts 3: 1 to 4: 31. Golden Text-- Neither is there salvation In any other; for there is none other name under heaven given amang men, whereby we must be saved.-^Acts 4: 12. ANALYSIS. I. peter, mighty in word, is also mighty in deed, 3:1-10. II. the source of peter's power, 4: 8-10. Introduction--An incident is related, which shows that Peter's contribution to the Christian religion was not confined to teaching. As Jesus himself appears in the gospel, not only as the teacher, but as the Saviour or Physician of the soul of Israel, so Peter and the other apostles undertake healing functions among their fellow-men. I. peter, mighty in word, is also mighty in deed, 8:1-10. V. 1. "The ninth hour," reckoning, as was the Jewish custom, from 6 a.m., would be three o'clock in the afternoon, the hour of the evening oblation in the temple. V. 2. We are intended to feel the contrast between the hopeless condition of the man and hit beautiful surroundings. He sits daily at the beautiful pate of the shrine, but for him there is no joy nor health in these Inspiring surroundings. He expects nothing from life except charitable doles from the worshippers who pass ii* and out of the gate. V. 3. Consequently, when Peter and John are teen approaching, the man feels no interest in them Leyond what Is excited by tb« prospect of a possible coin. His whole expectation of good has shrunk to the receiving of monetary doles. He does not even look' up as the apvstles advance. Vs. 4, 5. Peter feeb it imperative to rouse the man cut of this sluggish apathy. He means to make the cripple a case for faith in the redeeming power of Jesus. Therefore he bids him look up. The man does so, but with lack-lustre eyes. What are Peter and John, what is anybody good for ■unless to put their hands In their pockets and produce a copper Possibly the man sees little sign of money about these poor Galileans. V. 6. This gives Peter nis opportunity. He tells the man frankly that he and John have no money to bestow, but that they have something more precious. It is possible to be poor in the monetary sense, and yet to be rich in the things of the spirit. "Silver and gold have I none; but what I have I give thee. In the name of Jesus the Messiah, rise up and walk." V. 7. Nothing so astounding had ever before fallen on the man's ears. Peter seemed to be mocking him. But no, he appeared to mean it. Not only so, but he had held out his hand. Something inspired the man to grasp it. He made an effort to rise, and to his amazement he found his legs supporting him. Vs. 8-10. A moment's reaction convinces him that he is healed, and then to the amazement of every one this man, who had been a helpless cripple from birth, begins to walk and to career about. Realizing that divine power had healed him, he mingles with the stream of worshippers entering the temple and makes his thank-offering to God. The incident is an expression of the power of the gospel to restore sinners to life and to God. The cripple stands for the chronic victims of evil habit, whom the grace of Christ reforms and changes into glad and useful men. The gospel offers men not worldly alleviations, but a renewed will and nature. II. the source of peter's A SKUNK USEFUL | Brazil Using Skunks to Kill Snakes. PERHAPS A NEW INDUS-; TRY IN CANADA. 'I The skunk is that little white and ' | black creature so well known in Can- j » ada that no description seams necessary. While many think of this i cunning little animal in terms of fur j coat, thief, or smell, a few see him as a great benefactor, not only as a tavenous eater of destructive mice and insects, but of the dreaded rattle-It is frequently asked how it happens that rattlesnakes multiply no more rapidly and what are their natural enemies. The skunk is the answer. Science knows no other animal immune from rattlesnake poison. Hence, anyone who dreads snakes should hesitate to kill a skunk. As skunks should not be killed for fur, and only rarely for their raids upon hen nests and tiny chicks, the only objection left would be the odor emitted when molested. This may be avoided by not disturbing the skunk while it slowly waddles through field and orchard searching for food. Brazil has a pest of poisonous snakes. There the snake is a national problem. Each year more than twenty thousand persons are bitten, j and five thousand die annually of snake bites. While a serum has been discovered tc save the people bitten, Brazil has no animal which preys upon ahe snakes multiplying rapidly in the cultivated areas where man has overturned the balance of nature. No doubt in the jungles there are snake-eating animals, but they do not follow into the cleared regions where the poisonous snakes go to feed upon mice and other creatures upon which snakes thrive. Thus it happens that in Brazil snakes menace the land most desired by man. The Brazilian scientists have turned to Canada for relief. They have chosen that little smell-maker, the skunk, to help them rid their country of their dangerous snakes and to keep down the creatures upon which the snakes thrive. For years Brazilian scientists experimented with various animals to find an enemy of the venomous snakes so abundant there. Two birds, the emu and the jaburu, eat snakes as does the wild pig. A. pet skunk at Brazili Fast Work in ths Air. NEW PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUDSON PLANES SPEED HERE Speed marks these illustrations at Camp Borden, the plates being de- ■ W. J. Riddell, who piloted the plane, given herewith. In the first place they veloped Friday night. A 8 o'clock Sat- j Left to right in the upper photo at will be used in connection with the urday morning a plane left Camp Bor-, the left are: Group Captain J. Stan-Hudson Strait government air dash to den bearing them. Exactly thirty ; ley Scott, director of the Canadian Air the north in the summer, possibly one minutes later it reached Leaside, near j Force, and Flight Lieutenant F. A. of the most hazardous Arctic under- Toronto, a distance of forty milos I Lawrence, commander of the north takings ever attempted. In the second They were rushed to the office of a air survey. Lower is shown one of place, the photographs on the left Toronto newspaper for early edition, the new Fokker universal planes were taken late on Friday, April 29, On the right is shown Flying Officer I which are to be used in the expedition. ADVICE ON SHEEP. Now is the Time to Prepare for Good Fall Prices. The consumption of Canadian lamb! tS inf R« Cross Doing Yeoman Ser-producing this article, according to' vice in Saving Valuable Lives. DEATH RATE AMONG MOTHERS MUCH TOO HIGH IN CANADA IGNORANCE AND INCAPACITY COMBATED. Colonel Robt. McEwen, prominent sheep breeder of London, Ontario, and president of the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers. "That 'Spring lamb' is one of the most popular meats is evidence by the prominence given to it on the menu cards," he states, adding that if restaurant keepers "The mortality rate for women in and hotel men were always careful to childbirth in North America is one of supply this meat when demanded, in-; the highest among the civilized nations lake farm pointed the \ stead of something which should real- j of the world,' said Dr. C. E. A. Winslow way. It wandered about at will, fre-1 ly be called mutton, the consumption of Yale University and a Past Presi-quently receiving snake bites, but could be developed to such an extent! deot of the American Public Health whenever it was hungry, it simply. that the present supply would not be j Association, in speaking recently to picked out a choice rattler, bit off its j able to meet the demand. 'the^ Social Welfare Conference in To- head, and ate it. That caused the Brazilians to turn to the skunk for girls have received the sort of individual instruction to which Dr. Win-slow referred. Already from those who have to date received this valuable training there will benefit at least 48,000 people in the families to which they belong. Touching on the Visiting Housekeeping Centre in Toronto, another Red Cross activity, Dr. Wlnslow said: "It was one of the most unique, important and useful experiments in economics and social service now being conducted on the American continent," and pointed out that in time this institution, which has already 23 women trained in the field, will have performed not merely a local but "Grow the kind, of lamb you prefer*? on •■Public Health and Com- °f U°nal.servic* by i^f0*0* .lts ff°n,t' , , „ , „ , K ,, -flJJF'.i tt.„m n i iiXl .v. ™ "al attack on the hitherto insoluble your own table," is Colonel Mc- munlty Well Being. "Of the many, ,, , . . t. . .. , ... I problem presented by the family in which illnes, ignorance or incapacity do their worst work of disintegration The only two countries in the and generation, hich at all adequately deal advice to the farmer. "In new problems arising in the realm of order to do this the ram must be se-' public health one of the very greatest lected with care, avoiding leggy, long-^ is that of maternal and pre-natal mor-when this provoking little creature j necked and slim-waisted animals. It tality. makes a raid on a hen nest or turns is recommended that ewes be bred to \ world pet dog into a temporary odorifer- have the lambs dropped on the grass, wftn these important matters are Hol-ous abomination. The offending' that they be kept on pastures that land and Denmark. In both countries skunk may have been hunting for a, will keep them in good condition, and such deaths rates are very low ittlcsnake in the hen roost, or j that all lambs that are fat enough the health authorities have clearing the mice out of the garder when it was molested by that favor- NEW PROFESSION Where the Tweed Rises. But what is the solitude of this place o that of the wiM and lofty region you inter when you reach the summit of [ the MM? Far away on every side of you stretch miles of lonely moorland, with the shoulders of the more distant hil'ls reaching down in endless succes-> sdon into the western sky. . . . It ie > In the wilderness of heather and St mose that the Tweed takes its ie; but we could hear no trickling of __iy stream to break the profound and-\® melancholy silence. There was not can, the authorities to hearts f" * shepherd's hut visible, and we explanation of the case. d™>™ on in silence, scarcely daring to V. 9. Tho healing of the man is the ' break the charm ot the utter loneh-f act which has to T j explained. None j ness of the place, will say that such an act can pro-j The road twists round to the right, ceed from any but r. good source. But: Before us a long valley Is seen, and we what is this source of beneficent pow-1 guess that it receives the waters of , ieet deep and fill What is it that is setting the. ^ Tweed Almost immediately after-! pared in the following way: 1-3 par! rivulet sand, 1-3 common loam, and 1 - V. 8. The sensation produced by the, healing of the cripple gave Peter a! supreme opportunity. All eyes had witnessed the striking event, and no further illustration of the power of Christian faith was necessary. Peter's piration rises to a supreme ' be sold by the first of September be- made generous provision for sillied fore they are too heavy for the mar- and supervised nursing care for moth- ket demands." j erg before, after and at the time of N.Y. Women Form Society to idently leading Canadian pack- the birth of their children." ers are in agreement with Colonel; "Education," the speaker went on to McEwen, as they are distributing say, "i« the only thing which can suc-leaflets this week announcing the cessifuWy change people's habits of usual cuts on heavy and buck lambs, living. In such education the public Culls and heavies, they declare, will health nurse is the dominant factor Solve "Servant Problem" Which Will Interest Ontario Housewives. York.--Women of society have be picked out of the general run of. and we are coming more and more to undertaken to solve the servant prob-lambs received and be priced from see that Individual instruction such as liem through the organization of a to three cents below that of good is given by the nurses of the Toronto corDg of trained "domestic employees" the farr How to Plant a Rose Bush. To plant a rose bush dig a hole three ..i Israel upon their feet, enabling them to throw away their | ^ --~ ^^J^^ Ure. Put in a layer of the loam, thc„ cry ioS Peter has no hesitation as to 1 young Tweed itself or one of its vari- a layer of small rocks, and another the rrswer lUs the Jower of Jelus,1 ous sources; and as we drive on in the layer of loam. Before putting the bush the crucified and risen Lord, which,' gathering twilight, towards the valley, , in straighten out the root* and prune working in the Christian community, lt Beems as though we were accom- j off any that are broken or bruised, has made a new man of the cripple. panIed by Innumerable streamlets Right in the centre is the taproot The Jews crucified Jesus, but God has tr;ck.ling down to tne river The fire. which must be supported in the hole raised him, as the extraordinary re- lof mmet ^ ^ m ^ wegt> but ()Ver ! by a mound of «arth so that the crown 5 there in the clear green-white of the! of the plant will come just above the : east a range of hills still glows with a level of the ground when the plant is strange roseate purple. We hear the 1 Straighten ■ low murmuring of the Tweed in the \ the mound and put in enough loam < silence of the valley. We get down hold them in place. Then fill the hole among tie lower-lying hilto, and the 1 with water several times and allow it neighborhood of the river seems to to soak away until the plant is washed have drawn to It thousands of wild quite firmly into the earth. Then fill wres. There are plover calling the^-°le„^ 1^"" whirling over the marshy levels. suits which follow, wherever believed on, show. Peter, once so bold to act and speak for himself, no longer takes personal credit for his successes. He has learned to put complete trust in Christ, and to give ths whole glory to him. The Old Story. The Saskatoon Western Producer (Prog): The farmers have had too long and too bitter an experience with the organized grain trade to be deluded - black-cock and gray-hen It off within 6 inches of the ground, dusting themselves in the road before us, and waiting until we are quite near by friendly overtures at this stage of | them before they wing their straight the development of the marketing re- j flight up to the heaths above. Far volution. They know that the friendli-' over us, in the clear green of the sky, ness of the trade for the farmer is the a brace of wild ducks go swiftly past, friendliness of the butcher for the fat- A weasel glides out and over the gray ted calf, the kindly concern of the' stones by the roadside; and farther tpider for the fly, the playful sym- j along the bank there are young rabbits pathy of the cat towards the mouse, j watching, and trotting, and watching the tender care of a gamekeeper for again as the phaeton gets nearer to his birds. The farmer may take a them. And then as the deep rose-pur-cholce between the Grain Exchange pie of the eastern hills fades away, and method of selling and the Pooling all the dark-green valley of the Tweed method. It should not be difficult, lies under the cold silver-gray of the When a gentleman with money in his twilight, we reach a small and solitary pav.-f las the choice of being accom-' inn, and are almost surprised to hear geology is a hard thinker, penied home on a dark night by a hold- once more the sound of a human voice. . 2nd Student---"How do you know-up man or a policeman, his course is --From "The Strange Adventures of al 1st Student--"Haan" reasonably eiear. j Phaeton," by William Black. j rocks and sto cents below that of good is given by the animals. It is also stated that be- Health Department, a department not s,erVants_and the elevation ginning July 18th, a cut of $2.00 per which is one of the most wonderful in household service to the dignity of a hundred pounds--and after the 1st the world, is the only satisfactory so- profession. This will be done through of October, $3.00--will again be effec- lution of the problem offered for our scientific Housekeeping, Inc., a co- tive on all buck lambs. Their advice too high death rates among mothers." operative organization, all of whoss is to dock and castrate early, and fin- The figures to wnlch Dr Wjn9i0W members are listed in the Social Re- ish the lambs so they are ready to referred--tor these include Canada as gister. Mrs. Richard Boardman is market between 80 and 90 pounds at well M the united States--show that president of the organization. in the Dominion in 1925--the last year Scientific Housekeeping will engage for which detailed statistics are avail- a corps of domestic employees. In able--1,196 mothers were lost in child- Mrs. Boardman's own home, amid con-birth, over half of whom were in the ditions which prevail in the best re-prime of life. Stillbirths accounted for gulated New York households, with in-the loss of 8,043 lives and even with structors and supervisors in attend-the always increasing reduction In in- ance, the domestic worker will receive fant mortality rates in most of the pro- training which should enable her to vinoee, there died 23,310 Infants under qualify in personal appearance, de-one year of age and exclusive of the portroent and efficiency of service, stillborn. The total losses of Infant There will be no servant problem life throughout the Dominion in that for the mistresses of New York homes year, therefore, amounted to 30,353 under the new organization. Accord-babies. Realizing what these far from ing to Mrs. Boardman, "Once a cook, creditable and largely preventable waitress or maid, or an ent'.re staff of losses mean to Canada, where new set- domestic employees, has been engaged, tiers are being brought at great cost we will do the reBt. Our supervisors from long distances, to populate the will oversee the work of the staff, look country, both governmental and volun- after the proper uniforms, keep an tary agencies in recent years have eye on expenditures in the kitchen and been making real efforts to provide adjust all differences that may arise pre-natal, natal and post-natal care for between the mistress of the house and mothers and to do definitely education- her employee, d stampitdown al nealtn work- j The sponsors of the organization say Red Cross Helps. !that't is an experiment, that the work is largely of an educational character. In this connection the Canadian Red xhey be.Heve the experiment will work Cross in its thirty-nine Outpost hospit- because lt wiu raise domestic service al* in pioneering sections has done an £rom its present menial position to the effective piece of conservation. In the dignity of a profession and will attract past year over 6,000 patients were to scientific housekeeping a corps of served in those Institutions, among domestic workers proud of their estate them being 743 mothers who must and ready and able to give the utmost otherwise have gone without skilled in service to their employers. The domestic worker of the future BIRD VISITORS New Knowledge of Bird Habits Acquired by Recent Study. "The regularity of the reappearance of birds every spring has led to many theories to account for their amazing sense of direction. Some scientists say that they have a magnetic sense and are drawn toward a magnetic pole. Others maintain that a nasal sense enables them to identify air currents. Telepathy and hereditary memory are other suggestions that have been advanced. It has also been suggested that they guide their course by the stars, the moon and the sun', though this does not take into consideration foggy weather. The faculty for orientation in carrier pigeons is well known and has been developed by fanciers to an amazing degree. This problem or orientation will probably be eventually cleared up by experimentation, but at present the ornithologist has an explanation to offer that is very lucid or convincing. A MYSTERY. "The reason at the bottom of the long trek twice a year is a mystery. The entire act of migration, according to Dr. Wetmore, is so utterly .complex that no single factor may be ascribed as the absolute cause. It has arisen, he believes, from movements induced by seasonal and climatic changes until it has become a hereditary instinct that is now actuated by physiological causes. "Early ornithologists used to think that most migration took place above 15,000 feet. The experience of aviators shows, however, that with great-, er altitude there is more difficulty in maintaining height and speed. Most migration is now thought to take place below 3,000 feet. "The preference for perpetual spring displayed by the barn swallow, the bobolink, and many other birds, is not shared by the arctic tern, that makes the longest migratory flight known. It makes its nest close to the North Pole, and has as a southern winter resort the icebergs of the Antarctic. MYSTERY BEING CLEARED. "The nest of another bird of the north, the surf bird of Alaska, has recently been discovered for the, first time. Though he spends most of his life on the rocky reefs of the Pacific Ocean, the surf bird turns to the mountains when he wants to raise a family. His home site was discovered for the first time last summer on Mount McKinley, by scientists from the University of California. "Much of the mystery of migration has been cleared up by the gigantic system of bird census-taking instituted by^he U.S. Biological Survey, known as bird banding. Tempted by an alluring display of food, birds are enticed into large wire traps where the operator attaches a numbered aluminum band to the leg. This serves as an identification tag by which the movements of that particular bird are traced at any other trapping stations where he may happen to stop. Those that are roughly approached never come bark, but they respond to kindly treatment, and there are records of many ahat return to the same locality year after year. "Any bird student over eighteen years old, who satisfies the authorities of the Biological Survey that he Is competent to identify birds and turn in the desired information, may receive a Federal permit to operate a trapping station. He should record the number and name of every bird he bands as well as that of every 'return' and every visitor to the station who already has. a band. This information is sent to the U.S. Biological Survey where it is filed and analyzed by experts working on the migration problem. From this source ornithologists expect some day to get answers to such questions <\s, how long birds live, how long birds stay married, how fast they travel during the migratory season, and others of greater scientific import, if of less sociological interest." Trees. • hist tell upon i around s the filling proceeds. Lastly, prune A Hard Thinker. Student -- "Our professor of l his mind?' their pages The pageantry of ages, No earthly dwellers they , Who watch all day The scenic splendor of the sky , Drifting by. Battles and beauties, palaces that rear Imperial domes within the painted atmosphere. Princes on pranci Heroic deeds Unseen of man, In ways unseemly to the firmament. --Angela Morgan, in Poems. their children were born. In addition to such practical assistance, the Outpost nurses did an immense amount of educational work among the settlers in their districts;, a work which follows every Outpost into the frontiers. Then through the 305 new Red C Home Nui will be strictly a professional worker. She will work not more than nine hours a day, with a fixed scale) of pay for overtime and will live and take her meale out unless other arrangements are made. In that event she will pay the mistress of the. house an agreed ed last upon sum for her board and lodgings, ear all over Canada and the hundreds Tn other words, she will live exactly which have been completed in the past like her sisters in offices, stores and three years, over 12,648 women and elsewhere. Thing. Moth -- "You're intoxicated again, Mr. Candle." Candle^--"What do you mean, intoxicated?" Moth--"Well, you're all lit up!"