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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE. ONT.. THURSDAY, FEB. 17, 1921. In 1892 We first offered the public our "SALADA" TEA Millions now use it to their utmost satisfaction The Voice in The Night FART IL However, even thus protected, I suf fered severely. It was as dark a; nothingness. My horse was a bay rump was invisible to ttiiu even lump was uivijmuiv: w 111c i(_ , - as I sat in the seat of the buggy. The! ,.1 , like a cloud-burst; and, to. whispered. ! dress a folded paper. I guessed what | it was, recognized it as the will she | had drawn years before. She handed | it to me, I took it stupidly, and held my hands. you,' make matters worse, the wind she i the house. I told him. He will try to Thus* the . . . "•e blown * thrust the document into ray through P°cket. "I will see that he does not hed and.K^.JV I s* most directly in my face, rain and the flying drift in over the robe, and, even my heavy coaf, I was drenched and »et it, I said. "But I shall stay here cold. The journey was not a pleasant W1£ to-night, one. I passed gradually outside the town, left the last houses behind struck the mud of the country roads. The wheels of the buggy lurched into puddles and slid in the thick mud, and stuck and pulled loose with little sounds like those made by the removal cf a cork from a bottle. I could hear the feet of my horse plunging through the mud, but I could1 not see his efforts. It was folly to attempt to guide him; and so I let the beast pick his own way through the night. In the end, he brought me safely to my destination, and I saw a lantern in the carriage shed to guide me. I drove in and blanketed the horse and made him fast. He was of an independent turn of mind, and had, now and then, left me at the home of some patient and trotted off to his home stable. I had no wish to be left afoot on such a night, and I was careful to fasten him securely. Then, taking the lantern, I made my way to the house. Even in that brief passage, the dreadful thrust and buffeting of the wind and rain seemed to sap my strength. I found a side door. It opened under my hand and I entered. The woman who had sent for me was alone in a room on the lower floor. I knew she had no servant, and so did not knock or summon her to the door. When she saw me in the doorway, froilr the room where she was sitting, she rose hurriedly and came toward me, and1 I saw distress and terror in her eyes. Now, there was little for her to fear in all the world. Though she was wealthy, it was well known that the: She died, quite peacefully, in ._ furnishings of this house were meagre a few weeks later. An old woms and that she never kept valuables ; who came to the house every mori here. It was her custom to leave all j ing with eggs, discovered her body, her doors and windows unfastened,! As I started home that night, _. for, as she often told me: ■ seemed to me the fury of the rain had "If anybody thinks fhey'll find any- increased. A winter rain is so much thing here, I want them to feel free. more chill and drenching than a sum to try it." mer tempest. There had been snov She could not be in fear of thieves;; on the ground when this downpoui she was a woman of sense and cour- j began, two days before. But the age; and so, I was at a loss to ac-|snow was gone and the rain still count for the manifest anxiety which I continued. distressed her. She did not leave me! The wind was blowing colder, how long in doubt, however. I laid my i ever, so that I said to myself as the wet coat over a chair before her open I horse turned into the homeward road, fire, sat down beside her, and she j "This is turning to snow--to a bliz-said abruptly: zard." "Doctor Price, James is here." The wind had shifted somewhat, James was the young man, the son' during the evening. It had been in of her husband's brother, the disso- j my face as I drove to the house. Nows lute and reckless creature she had j instead of being at my back, it blew determined to disinherit. I straight across the road. The alertly, all the anxiety gone now, proud and erect; and she smiled at me. "Nonsense, Doctor Price," she said. 'Take it with you and go. Once it is gone, I have nothing to fear. I am not afraid of a drunken puppy--not for myself. But I do not wish him to destroy that She was a strong, fine woman; and I saw that it was true. She was no longer afraid. She was more than a match for the young man in everything save physical strength; and she did not fear his strength. There was a compulsion in her eyes and in her voice as she told me to take the will and go, which I could aot resist. "Deliver that, in the morning, to the trustees of the hospital," she said, naming the institution which was to receive the bulk of her estate. "Warn them to preserve it carefully till my "But--I will speak to the young man before I go," I protested. She shook her head. "There is no need," she said. "Once that document is gone, he can do no harm here." There was nothing for me to do but obey her. She guided me to the door, and I took the lantern which I had brought in with me and bade her good-night. We heard no further sound from the upper floor. I opened the door quickly and slipped out and closed it before the rain could beat in; but she opened it and stood there, silhouetted in the lighted door-! way, and watched me find my buggy "Haven't Got Time." Opportunity tapped at the door With a chance for a brother within, He rapped till his Angers were sore, And muttered, "Come on, let me in, Here is something I know you can do, Here's a hill I know you can climb." But the brother inside very' quickly replied: "Old fellow, I haven't got time." Opportunity wandered along In search of a man who would rise, He said to the indolent throng: "Here's a chance for the fellow who But each of tliem said with a smile: "I wish I could do it, but I'm very-busy to-day, Very busy to-day, and I'm sorry to say That I really haven't got tij At last opportunity c To a who i i burdened with And said: "I now offer the same Opportunity that has been theirs. Here's a duty that ought to be done, It's a chance if you've got time to take it." Said the man, with a grin, "Come along, pass it in! I'll either And time or I'll make it." Of all the excuses there are By which this old world is accursed, This "Haven't got time" is by far The poorest, the feeblest, the worst. A delusion it is, and a snare; If the habit is yours you should shake it. For if you want to do what is offered You'll find time to do it, or make it When Power Comes. It was in a Christian Endeavor meeting that he made the great discovery. As is generally known, ea«ch Endeav-orer pledges himself "to take some part, aside from singing, in every Christian Endeavor prayer meeting, unless hindered by some reason which I can conscientiously give to my Lord and Master"--a pledge that has been of incalculable value to the Christian church. He made his discovery the evening on which he was to make his first attempt to fulfil his pledge. He was afraid. He was just a boy fifteen years old, but he was already of a call , uie ministry. He longed to rise and do his part, but he trembled at the thought of it. The Endeavorers with whom he met had a high standard of attainment; the 'speeches were thoughtful, the prayers had a fine, devotional atmosphere. He did not think that he could d< others. He decided that he would try first to take part in prayer. He did not believe in actually composing-a prayer beforehand, but he tried carefully and consciously to_ prepare his mind, for he was sure that the inspiration thai. . he hoped for would most surely come to a mind and heart ready to receive it. It worried him to feel id start my return journey. As l| "Surely," he thought, "since I have drove away, she was the last thing II prayed for strength, I should have it "Has he distressed "He has frightened me," she said frankly. -'He is intoxicated." "He is--in the house?" "In his room upstairs," she assented. "We dined together. He had been drinking before that. I reproached him for it." I nodded, listening'in spite of myself for any sound from the young - man in the upper room. But the wind was so blustery, and the rain'S totfcoo on the windows so constant, that if he made any noise it was instantly smothered in the tumult of the night. "He jeered at me when I begged him not to drink any more to-night," said the woman, my patient. "He angered me; and I told him--perhaps it was unwise to do so--of the wil which you witnessed. Doctor Price, ir which he receives only a few dollars.' "That was not wise," I agreed. "He was furious," she assented "He cursed me, and he swore he would even the score with me." Now, while this woman was not ill. her heart was in a serious condition. She had worked very hard in hei youth, and the physical effort had weakened her. She was in no immediate danger of death; yet, at the same time, shock or fright might lead to a seizure of the gravest nature, determined to speak to the young m before leaving the house, and wa him of this danger. The woman see ed to guess what I was thinking. "He frightened me, and I felt little sick, Doctor Price," she said, told him you had advised me to avoid shock or fright. He laughed outright at that, and said: 'Sooner you go, thi better I'm pleased.' " For a moment there was no other sound except the trumpeting and thumping of the wind and rain. Then I heard a step on the upper floor and i quickly. "I'll speak to him," I tains of the buggy sheltered me from its direct assaults; but it made little eddies and whirls inside the curtains and brought flying drops that half-blinded me. The force of the wind was so great that, at times, it made the buggy sway dangerously; and I was prepared, more than jump free if the vehicle sh (Continued in next is; said. But she detained me. ' please," she whispered. "The something else." I turned back and stood besidi and die drew from the bosom c Prodigious Infants. Long before the war it was boldly stated that a man was too old at forty. But now it looks likely that soon the cry will be "too old at fifteen!" A small boy of eight summers recently tackled twenty or thirty of the best chess players in the world, setting them all problems they could not tackle; another child appears on the scene, who, at the age of seven or eight, pens a diary, which the greatest literary lights describe as wonderful; while we'll soon have quite a small library of juvenile novels. It was regarded as a phenomenon when Chatterton wrote immortal poems at the age of twelve, when Mozart composed In his fifth year a concerto so difficult that only the most practised artistes could play it, when the infant son of Evelyn, the diarist, could read Latin and Greek at three and a half, when Macaulay had .written a poem as long as "The Lady of the Lake" at eight, and when Millals carried off a gold medal for painting at nine! But now it's becoming quite the usual thing. In 1867, the United States bought Alaska, from Russia, for $7,200,000. A disgusted public criticized the purchase as a shameful waste of money. Now, every year, the Alaska salmon industry alone brings more mc than the sum paid for the whole o try. yet I feel as i great moment drew near yet he felt no fitter for anything, he grew s water." The t and nearer, he ordeal; if agitated. not strong enough for it," he said to himself, "and yet I have prayed for strength to do my duty and fulfil my pledge. Why has not God answered my prayer?" Then suddenly a thought flashed into his mind like a ray of light and illuminated his problem. "How do I know, until I try, that God has not given me strength? It is not for the time of waiting but for the action that I have asked his help. I will find out by trying." The great moment had come. He, the beginner, was on his feet, and it was as if some secret door in his soul had opened, through which poured a flood of prayer. It was not a long prayer; it was simple, perhaps here and there it was crude; but it had burning sincerity that everyone felt So it was with this youth, who has since become a most effective minister of Christ, learned one of the greatest lessons of life--that God's power comes when faith is perfected in action. "Faith without works is dead." When Nations Make Gifts. Belgium recently presented Britain with a beautiful statue, which has been erected on the Thames Embankment, in gratitude for the hospitality extended to Belgian refugees. Just as individuals give each other presents, s-o occasionally do nat: The Lincoln statue, which has lately been erected near Westminster Abbey, is the gift of the American nation to the old Mother Country- In Westminster Abbey itself is a beautiful window, depicting scenes from Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," which was also a gift from America. Before the war even Germany made England a present of a statue. It may still be seen in front of Kensington Palace, in Kensington Gardens, in which house Queen Victoria was born. This statue of William of Orange-William III. of England, was presented to England by the ex-Kaiser. But undoubtedly the grandest present of this kind which one nation has given to another, is the great statue of Liberty which greets every incoming ship to New York. It was given by France to the United States to commemorate the memorable connection that exists between the freedom of America and that of France. Glass from Soot. We have all heard the story of how glass was invented--that shipwrecked sailors built fire on the sands and that the heat of the fire melted the sand and turned It into glass. Sad as it is to turn down the legends of our childhood, this one must go with the rest. Apart from the fact that glass was known to the Egyptians 5,200 years ago, no ordinary fire could melt sand. Another objection is that glass is not made of sand alone, but of a mixture of flinty sand with an alkaline earth such as lime. Few of us realize to what extent we depend on glass. We might put up with talc or oiled silk for windows, but just think how many people would be reduced to practical blindness without spectacles! Where would science be without the microscope and telescope? Without glass we should know nothing about microbes or the causes of disease. Botany and natural history could never have progressed at all. In old days the sand used for the best glass was that brought from Mount Carmel to the mouth of the river Belus; to-day we get our best saaid from Epinal, in Belgium, Paris, and Co. Donegal, in Ireland. This is mixed with sulphate of soda in order to produce the best flint glass. All sorts of things are used in the manufacture of different kinds of glass, including flue dust, which supples potash and lead in the form of re|-lead or lead rust. For coloring such metals as iron, copper, manganese, aluminium, cobalt, and chromium are employed. A Word With Mother. Are you a "fun spoiler"? This is how a little friend of mine designated grown-up people. I heard him say: "They're all fun spoilers, and mother's the worst one of all." How it set me thinking. I was sure that I couldn't possibly be included in that category, but, when I reflected on the many-games I had ruthlessly interrupted and the apparently arbitrary demands I had made on my children at times when they were most deeply absorbed, I was forced to admit that I, too, had been all too often a "fun-spoiler*" We mothers are a thoughtless lot, and ar. apt to forget that the rights of th. children as individuals are quite as sacred as our own right to liberty^ When we want a child to do something for our convenience, we do not hesitate to call him away from his play to do it, even if he is in the middle of placing a beam in a shack 's building. We demand our small daughter's immediate and cheerful attention at the crucial moment .n her doll's dressmaking when, if she drops her work, the stitches will all be lost. To them these matters are of tremendous importance, and we should respect them. We should give them the thoughtful consideration that we training them to give us. This is not to say, of course, that children should not learn the lessons of obedi-cheerful service and unseifish-i. It does mean, however, that the parents should not demand a service without stopping to consider the children's side of it, whether it will interfere with some task he has se; himself, or even "spoil his fun." The; service should be asked as a favor, and j time allowed for the completion of the matter already on hand. | If we expect children to appieciate' the loving things done for tlw-m by foode^en If you do not remember how much you paid for your canned fruit or vegetables, how much sugar was used, how long it took to can, etc., the cost will be hard to find. If you have kept your figures, tl:e cost of a can is easy. Elberta peaches last year sold in our neighborhood for $2.76. One bushel netted twenty quart?.- One cup of sugar to the «n, makes ten pound's-- twenty cups. This sugar was eighteen cents in ihe spring. This made the actual cost of peaches and sugar figure up to twenty-two and three-fourths ce-nts jer can. It took seven i hours to can the bushel, for which the I charge would :>e forty cents an hour. A woman would charge forty cents an hour to do the work. Dividing by the number of cans, twenty, gives fourteen cents cost of labor to be added to each can, or thirty-six and three-fourths cents, actual cost of a can of peaches, exclusive of the fuel. To make any money selling those peaches one coulc. not charge lesa than forty cents, per can, and should have more. One can of peaches will give about twelve generous dishes. It goes without saying that one could not expect to make money from boarders at a dollar a day, and give elaborate meals. A breakfast of fruit, cereal, toast or ho'; breads, and bacon, or eggs, or country sausage; dinner of meat, one vegetable, potatoes, bread and butter, a salad or canned relish, and simple dessert; supper of one hot dish, bread and butter and dessert, would be sufficient to keep everyone "fed" up, and give a chance to make a little. With this sort of scheme, the board money should pay all table expenses, but would not do any more. Breakfast can be made interesting by changing the kind of cereal and fruit. Don't serve oatmeal every morning, nor flakes. With all the market, elders, we must render apprecia- could have , c d for tion for the thmgs the children fefor month An(] don-t think you must have grape f ri it. or oranges. Give the We all His Apology. "Why Jimmie," exclaimed the mother of a precocious five-year-old son, aren't you ashamed to call auntie stupid? Go to her at once and tell her you are sorry." "Auntie," said the little fellow, "I'm awfully sorry you are so stupid." Irish Economy. Mrs. Maloney -- "Why, Pat, what ever are you doing? Why. that's the third time you've shaved yourself today!" Pat--"Don't say a word! A penny saved is a penny earned, and it's three es I've shaved myself to-day, an' that's a shilling earned!" Minard's Liniment Relieves Colds, etc. When a man i it is usually to o Fish hooks have been made in the ame shape for 2,000 years. Discovery at the wrong time that the oil supply in the crankcase has run low is a common experience of motorists. A standard grade of lubricating oil is now obtainable in a two-quart can, of easily carried form, with an oblique conical top, terminating in a nozzle. The contents are easily emptied directly into the crankcase, without a funnel, and without soiling the1 hands. If it seems necessary to call child away from play to perform some errand or household duty, the child should be consulted, the favor asked, and a reasonable time given for adjusting its thoughts to a change of occupation. Due consideration should be given to their plans and if j ossible we should arrange our work so that their play shall be reasonably free from interruption. Ever since that little lad gave me an unconscious warning, I pause before summoning my children to carry out my wishes, even when I know my way is right, and murmur to myself, "Fun spoiler." Then I try to be as considerate of their convenience and happiness as I like others to leave me free to follow out my plans, always allowing for the proper guidance and oversight that is a mother's duty. Children are individuals with individual growth and progress to make, and it is not the parents' place to form and mold children to their sonal wishes, but to help thi in the best way for their ow -folks baked" apples, apple prunes, canned fruit, home-made jam and hot toast, and store fruits once in a while. The great thing is to ring in changes. own per-m unfold i good. Estimating Table Costs. "How can I find out if it pays me to take boarders at one dollar a day," asks a woman who is trying the experiment. "We buy in quantities and it would take too long to wait until the food is all eaten and average it up. How can I estimate the cost of the canned foods I use?" For a woman who has never kept accounts, nor given her table any thought beyond buying what she wa: Women! Use "Diamond Dyes." Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists, Coats, Stockings, Draperies, Everything. Each pacgage of "Diamond Dyes" contains easy directions for dyeing any article, of wool, .silk, cotton, linen, or mixed goods. Beware! Poor dj'e streaks, spots, fades and ruins material by giving it a 'dyed-look." Buy "Diamond Dyes" only. Druggist has Color Card. The Useful Lion. According to some of the farmers of East Africa, the lion should be protected as a useful animal, notwithstanding the fact that once in a while he kills a man. The lion, they maintain, is a great, destroyer of noxious herbivorous animals, such as zebras and antelopes, which are a scourge to the fields. In one district, they say, no less than 346 lions were killed in one season by hunters, and they estimate that this represents the saving of 35,000 to 40,-000 zebras and antelopes, which would otherwise have fallen a prey to the lions that were destroyed. Of course the hunters shoot zebras and ante-d and eating it up, the problem would') lopes also, but this fact, they think, be rather difficult. Doubly hard for j does not counterbalance the destruc-fafm women, who take so much from tion of those animals that would have the garden without a thought as to been effected by the slain lions. what it cost for seed, labor in plant- ] ~~ *-■ ing, cultivating, harvesting and get-j Machinery has been invented in ting ready for the table. Here is one Norway for making anchor chains that of the best arguments possible for .are said to be as good as hand made, carefully kept farm accounts. -- Of course, the only way to find out if it pays is to find out what it costs.! And as no accounts have the thing to do is to begin Canadian Talc and Its Uses Among Canada's more useful non-metallic minerals, talc is probably the most adaptable and widely used, entering into the finishing process of some of the most common commodi- Talc, sometimes designated soap-stone, asbestine, French chalk, mineral pulp, talclay and verdolite, is found in Cape Breton and Inverness coun-in Nova Scotia; Frontenac, Hastings, Leeds, Lennox and Renfrew ities and Kenora district in On->; Beauce, Brome and Megan-tic counties in Quebec, and in rer section of the Victoria mining ison of British Columbia. In color •anges from white to greyish green, while to the touch it has a soft and apparently greasy or slippery feeling, is a non-conductor of heat and elec-icity and is resistant to most chemi- I ilftio chief ii i tiller finishing of book papers and as a dressing for white cottons, also in the finishing of window blind cloth. Talc is largely used in the manufacture of rubber goods and to overcome the friction between inner tubes and the covers of bicycle and automobile tires. Finely-powdered white talc is used in the making of enamel and other paints while the poorer grades are dusted on roofing paper and tar felts before rolling, to prevent sticking. In the preparation of toilet articles, 1 however, talc is most generally known, being the base for talcum powders, tooth pastes and powders, shoe, glove 1 and other lubricating powders, and as a filler or loader for the cheaper ■nfrew I grades of toilet soap, n On- : The coarser grades of talc are used gantic I for elecric switchboards, laboratory Leech i table tops, sanitary fittings, stove and j !"~ ! furnace linings and acid tanks, as a ! dressing for fine leathers and as a lubricant. Talc, owing to the ease with which ft can be served, is often used in the production of statues and ornaments, and can be sawn into slabs for surfacing. The adaptability of talc is con- j stantly finding new uses for it, and an j increasing production is evident. In ; 1919 18,642 tons was mined, of a value | of $116,295. The greater portion was exported to the United States and Cuba, but a considerable portion was I marketed in Canada. the measure everything that goes onto the table, down to the flour to thicken the gravy. This isn't as hard as it sound's. For instance, a standard brand of breakfast food contains ten cups of food. Two cups will provide the cereal for breakfast for six persons. The cereal in question costs twenty-five cents a box, which gives five cents a day for the six, or five-sixths of a cent a day per person. Similarly, if twelve oranges are sixty cents, and each person has a half an orange for breakfast, the cost of that individual's portion is easy to reckon. Sugar is still easier, there1 are exactly two cups to the pound.! Buy an accurately marked measuring cup; find out how much the sugar bowl holds, and keep track of how: often it is filled. A sack of flour con-! tains twenty-four and- a half pounds.! Four cups of sifted flour equals one pound; two cups of solid butter or of, lard equals a-pound. It is better to 1 have scales and weigh flour, butter j and lard, but if you have none, accur-1 ate measurement will do. Two weeks-.of careful work, keeping] accurate accounts should do. In keep-' ing accounts, do not charge up to the' boarders any household supplies they do not use. For instance, if you do not do their washing, do not charge up laundry soap, starch, blueing, etc. But toilet soap which they use, matches, kerosene or lights of any sort,, heat, etc., should be reckoned. Fun Exchange The Ratepayer Publishing nn nr Tm-onto, at No. S Ave., will bay ljr^ topic. MUSt^b* Joke_. stale, old, COARSE SALT LAND SALT Bulk Carlots TORONTO 8ALT WORKS C. J. 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