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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, APRIL 2T, T92L CURING THE COWARD Teacher Engaged in Real Character-Making When She Taught William to Fight His Battles "Did he hit back, Johnny?" asked !iss Farrar. "Naw," answered Johnny. "He jest ' bettered, 'I'll tell teacher!' " ! "Boys," said the principal, "the only way that I see to square things up be-tween you two is a real fight So far, Johnny, you have done the fighting | and, William, you have done the crying. Sometimes the only way for boys > settle their quarrels is to fight it out I believe in fair fight where both take part. The reason I have brought ' you here is that you may have plenty . You are to fight until of you is whipped. I am going to be mpire to see that there is fair play, arterial system, but any Augustus "Johnny jwistamd on this side of - AdotofaM instincts which were his by the tae ^d Wllham on that rightfrjJ racial inheritance were being! Johnny, eager for a fray, threw the •crushed out by the discipline of an j lock of hair out of his left eye with 'unduly pious father. I toss of his head, stepped into the Johnny, undersized, alert, faced his j "ring" and assumed an attitude both school principal with the assurance j offensive and defensive, that comas from fighting for self in | William, fear in has eyes, shrank life's struggles. William, overgrown, i back. "O Miss Farrarf" he boohooed. phlegmatic, stood in the attitude of j "My father he all time says do-" one accustomed to dodging blows! "Stop!" said the principal sternly, rather ihan to parrying them or strik- j "Your father has nothing to do with ing back. this." In response to a summons, Johnny and William stood in the office of the school principal. Johnny was a .fighter. Russian, Indian and Canadian blood flowed in his veins and he was the adopted son oi a Greek. This combination of race and environment could scarcely produce a tame temperament. So little Johnny loved the thumping of fists and tibe rolling of his antagonist and himself in the dirt. WilKam was not even a self-defender. When attacked at school he usually ran to shelter under his teacher's authority; when not in school, to any iponvenient protection. Pure Swedish blood coursed through William' principal as she noted the changes in the two human factors in her problem. "Well, William," she said, "you can fight for yourself." "Yes, Miss Farrar, I tank I can lick him if I try once again." William almost grinned. The next round was a battle royal. Step by step the Swede backed the Russian-Indian into a corner until at last he panted, "Lef s stop!" His eyes told the story. "Time!" called the umpire. "Are you beaten, Johnny?" she asked. Well, William, he has learned It is the overflowing fountain, not the one that is half full or just full, that makes the valley below green and glad. It is abounding health, health that is bubbling over, superabundant energy, that counjs. This is the health that makes mere living a joy. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL APRIL 24. Poverty and Wealth. Isaiah 5: 8-10; Amos 8: 4-7; St. Luke 16: 19-25. Golden Text--St Luke 12: 34. fight some and I'm kind of tired," he gully, gasped. j A suggests the large units of the n box was placed at the His backward trail across the room! entrance to a farm, and a board was marked by dcrop3 of blood from his put up inviting criticism of methods, Miss Farrar sat looking at the two concrete factors in a problem which had been troubling her for some time. She had thought out a solution based on a theory which she believed sound and which she also believed would give a true result that would be lasting. An event, in which the two boys . were the principal actors, seen by her at the noon recess, had given her the conditions for testing her solution. "William," she apostrophized mentally, "you have always been a baby but you are getting the look of a coward. I don't like the change in your eyes and your hands have sneaking movements. You will be striking in the back next. "Johnny, you are a funny little bully! You are becoming insolent. I fear you are even getting brutal. You need to be conquered by one of your | ewn victims. What you need, Wil-| liam, you baby elephant, is to be i taught that God helps hdm who helps | himself. And it seems to be up to 1 me to give you both what you need." 1 The principal stood up and gave the j little boys a long look. Miss Farrar's j long looks had a reputation among the 1 pupils in the school. "Come with me," ; she said quietly. I Johnny went with a swagger, wink-j ing knowingly at shuffling William J but the silent ordeal in the office had ! been trying. William's tears we$e ! ready to trickle down his freckled face and even Johnny's dark cheeks ; showed red. Entering an empty recitation room j Miss Farrar said suddenly, "Who 'licked in the scrap to-day?" "Me," piped Johnny striking a bantam-cock attitude. Farrar's blue eyes grew steely. "William," she said, "you are a big baby! For two years your teachers and I have taken your part against other boys smaller than you. We will do this no longer. You must learn to take your own part, fight your own battles. Stop crying. If you do not know how to fight, I'll show you how. "Brace up. Be a man. Take your place. I'm going to make special rules for this fight. One is, Johnny, you are not to hit William until he hits you a pretty hard blow. Then you can pitch in. Neither of you must hit below the belt ox on the face. All ready. Your first blow, William." "I can't!" bawled WiEiam. The fighting blood of Scottish ancestors began to revolt in the principal's heart. Conquering a desire to shake the coward, she said: "Shut your fists this way. No, tight. It's your knuckles that hurt. Now think that you are driving a stake in the ground or splitting wood and draw back and hit Johnny hard as you can on the chest." William wiped away the tears his left coat sleeve and holding out his right arm limply, approached Johnny as though he were a sleeping bulldog or a stick of dynamite and touched him on the chest with the back of his hand. Johnny giggled. "Good!" exclaimed the self-appointed pugilist trainer. "But keep your fist doubled up and bit very hard--■ like this." The principal struck a sample blow on William's broad chest. "Just to stir him up," she thought. It worked. With a last gasping sob, William adjusted his fist and warily "Is that so, William?" asked Missi approached the indifferent, amused ; Farrar, turning to the lad. j Johnny and planted something like a "Yes, Miss Farrar," blubbered Wil- jWow on the small area of tbe fighter's" \ Ham. "I never touched him and I told' chest. The young pugilist, taken by him it was on the school grounds and 1 surprise, staggered. ■ he must not fight but be hit like as; This was first blood to brawny Wil-be always is." | liam. His eye brightened, his big "Why didn't you pitch in and lick hulking shoulders straightened, the him? You are bigger than he is,"j primal man began to waken. Then said the principal. the battle was on. Fists flew out "Why," stammered tbe astonished; with niore rapidity than skill. Johnny, "my father he says he will I the experienced, kept his head, used skinned knuckles. The umpire ached to bind up the hands so pitifully small and to bathe the dripping faces of both boys. Hers must be the Spartan's part, so the kindly impulses were trampled down. ! The laughter that had been danger-' ously near the' surface more than once during the active solution of her problem was choked back and Miss Farrar looked seriously at ihe steaming little primitives who with heaving chests stood eyeing each other. "How is it, William? Have you had enough^ " "He ain't said I've licked him yet," answered the lad. The third round was soon over. William closed with his antagonist clumsily but effectually. There was a short, fierce struggle, then down they both went on the floor, William pinning his old tormentor fiat. "Say you're licked once! Holler ' 'nough' yet!" he panted. No answer from Johnny but a claw-like hand wriggled loose and got hold of William's hair. "Shame!" called the umpire. Tbe son of Sweden bore hard his fallen foe, showing no sign of mercy to his enemy. "Make him let me up," at last gasped the under lad. "Holler ' 'nough!' Holler you're licked already yet!" grunted William pressing a little harder on Johnny's breathing apparatus. "Aw, go on! Ain't you got me down?" The defiance was in Johnny's words. There was little in his voice "Has William whipped you, Johnny?" asked the principal. "Y-e-s," came in broken tones from, the conquered tyrant and bully of the, primary grades. "Very well," said the umpire. "The fight is ended. Rise, William the Conqueror." They were two grimy, sweaty, gory boys that stood up. Black hair and, ash-colored hair were dripping wet.' Shirts were torn open at the neck, ties| were off and coats were ripped. But' William, a new light on his face, had never looked so manly; and Johnnj* braggart insolence had disappeared The tears that were running 'raT*jH face the principal pretended not ~tW see. "Now boys," she announced, "this should end your quarrelling. Everything is all square and settled, so shake bands like men, for you are friends now." This conventional act was performed with some reluctance, due to shyness perhaps, but it was with solemnity if not with dig- stock and- business. The idea of having a suggestion box inside a store is not new, but this was. Many novel ideas were dropped in the box; not the least helpful was one reading: "Why don't you advertise and hold a sale of potatoes?" The idea was a good one, and the farmer used it, with the result that many potatoes were sold. The person who made the suggestion told his friends, with the result that many became purchasers. Connecting Links--Where social selling to : and economic conditions are such that men who work hard and long do not earn enough to keep themselves and i their families in comfort, to feed and ! clothe _ and educate their children, there is evidently something wrong. This is especially true in a land like our own, a land of abundant resources. It is folly, in this country of free people and free democratic institutions to blame the few who have gathered wealth or to talk revolution. The i very dogs had r 5 poor "the refuse of the wheat," unfit^for human food. Amos believes that such ill-gotten wealth can bring no real good to its possessors. The justice cf God is challenged by it, and God never forgets. St. Luke 16: 19-25. A certain rich man. It is not the rich man's wealth that is condemned in tbe pirable--it is his callous indifference to the need of the poor sufferer at " ledy lies with ourselves, in careful, he. patient effort to discover the causes of inequality and injustice and pover- tw ty, and when discovered to remove ly them. Is not one of the chief causes thi of poverty and unemployment the : ip:.?n The contrast sn the rich r nd the beggar full of s •e men be brothers, so te Heavenly Fa thi kingly set be- Car i h . r; lie!. re awful if I fight. He alway say-; that it is only bad and wickei bo.>- lake Johnny as fights." 1 ride illumined. Johnny's little dark iac ■ at this tribute to his fame and prcv.os3. "Then you are going to keep Jetting Johnny tease you and knock you around, are you?" queried the principal. "0 Miss Farrar!" sniffed Willi; "My father he all time says do like the Bible says about soft answers. When Johnny calls me cry baby, I Say soft, 'Go cliase yourself up around a tree once.' And to-day when he stalled me 'Swede,' I say soft to him, 'You're one by-gosh Indian like what Jives down on the beach and eats rotten fish.' Then Johnny runs after me and swats me." his eyes and made his blows count. William, drunk with the joy of his new-found power, struck blindly but each blow increased in force, spiration instead of tears streamed down his face. At the end of eight minutes just as Johnny seemed to be getting the worst of it, the umpire called, "Time!'" "Rest a few minutes," she said. William, now a young animal, with something of the man's power of defence and offence awakened, was restive under the enforced ' terruption. Johnny looked with some fear and considerable respect at the aroused Swede, but as yet his thin dark face showed no sign of yielding. "I'm willing to lay a stake of a month's salary that my solution will turn out to be correct," thought the Experience Counts You can't afford to neglect fertilizers this year.* Here are their advantages: Fertilizers: (1) pay your money back with (4) hasten ripening. big interest. (5) eliminate to a large ei- (2) increase yields. tent crop failures. (3) improve quality. (6) help banish weeds. (7) cut down labor costs. Last summer $1 invested in fertilizer for potatoes growing near London returned in one case $2.9-!, and in j another $4-58. j Figure your needs, and place your orders at once so j that you can receive fertilizers in time for seeding. The Soil and Crop Improvement Bureau j Henry G. Boll, B.S.A., Director, 14 Manning Arcade, Toronto, Ont. ' ity. After buttoning their collars and ■ ranging their ties, Miss Farrar said cheerfully, "Go wash your faces and comb your hair and make yourselves look like nice third-grade boys." It was just before dismissal. The third graders, with hands clasped in ;> devout attitude on the desks in front of them and with a Raphael-angel expression on their faces, sat waiting for the welcome signal, when the principal come into the room with two damp-haired, red-faced, sheepish-looking boys. "Miss Huntley," she said to the teacher, "William will be able to fight his own battles hereafter. He will come to you with no more com-1 plaints about being teased." When the jubilant third graders had filed into the freedom of outdoors, Miss Huntley turned to the principal with a look of curiosity. "Do tell rrae, What were you doing in room nine this afternoon ? You're looking utterly fagged, but I know you don't believe in using the rod and I think you wouldn't use the thumbscrews or the water cure. What were you doing with Johnny and William?" "Making character," answered the principal. Children of Armenia. Thousands of Armenian children are homeless and starving, waiting for us to decide whether they are to Kve or die. I Wonder. I wonder if I have the right To let myself forget to care How children shiver in the night Where all is dark and cold and bare. My Little ones are freed from dread And sheltered safely from the Their eyes are bright, their cheeks are red, Their laughter glad, their clothing But other little ones must weep, And face new dread with each new day, Where Hunger's fangs bite very deep And Want sits like a ghost in gray. If children who are hungry sigh; If others who are cold complain; No guilt lies on my conscience--I Have never wronged them for my gain. But, knowing how they weep at night, Where all is dark and cold and bare, I wonder if I have the right To let myself forget to care? --S. E. Kiser. $60 a year, $5 a month, will keep an Armenian child from starvation. If you do not feel like adopting an orphan for yourself, get some of your friends to join you in tbe financial undertaking. ^^^d contributions to Treasurer PHIiian Armenian Relief. Mr. D. A. Cameron, Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto. -----ding of multitudes of people into be any love between them? Has the the cities, when our fields, our forests, rich man shown a real brotl erly feel-our fisheries, and our mires cannot ing by throwing a penny to the beg-find enough laborers? Does not the gar as he passes him by? What would remedy for Canada, in very large Jesus Christ have done'l Would He part, lie in more and still moTe pro- have taken the beggar into His home, The par- ani fe-i and nursed ani helped him to a pi pe-ide-nce and comfort? Carried by the Angel: able suggests the lesson that the wr:vngs and injustices of this life may be set right in the world to come. But it suggests with equal directness and force that the time for men to begin honestily and unselfishly, trying to set things right is here ar.d now. The ri.h man-neglected his opportunity and was lost. A man lay hungry, thirsty, and sick at his gate, and he die not minister to him. The: Bible docs not teach that evil lies in the making or in the possession of wealth. Rather does it com-itnd industry, and thrift, and right-1 is wrong cf the pew Disinfect Dairy Barns. The spring renovation in the dairy barn should include a good spraying with disinfectant after the dust and cobwebs have been removed if such things are present. Let as much sunshine in as possible as It helps to clean up the stanchions. Dark and damp corners are good disease-breeding places and where the sunshine cannot reach, the spray dope should be used most liberally. duction, and, therefore, in the engaging of more and still more workmen in our great productive industries? And it will lie with our government to provide by law that there shalil be a fair and an adequate recompense to every honest worker, and restraint or compulsion of some sort for both the idle loafer and the busybody. Isa. 5: 8-10. Woe unto them. The propbet, living more than seven hundred years before the birth of Christ, sees the injustice of his time and is filled with a passion for reform. Especially ia he disturbed' by the fact that the land seems to be passing out of the hands of its original owners, the free men of Israel, into the possession of a few great nobles or rich men. :.... Henceforth they who bad been their j ft. gain. What it own masters, owners and cultivators ways of making of the land, become practically slaves, I wring and selfish or leave their poor homes to find a | that wealth gives, precarious living in the shops and Application, markets of the city. | Many diseases which were one* Isaiah foresees trouble coming upon , thought incurable are now often treat-the rich land-grabbers, whose insati- i ed with such skill that the patients able lust for more would seem to indi- ] recover. A distinguished medical man cate that they wished to dwell alone . sj.id recently that the terni incurable in the midst of the earth. A foreign ' ought never to be applic d to any dk-enemy, the Assyrian, will soon invade j ease. So it is in regard to social the country, and their fine houses diseases; we have too long regarded shall be left desolate, and their vine-j poverty as something wiin is inevit-yards and corn fields waste and un-i able. It is not so, and one of the productive. Then ten acres of vine- ! tasks awaiting an eamtM church is yard shall yield one bath, that is only : to show that poverty is Do more in-eight or nine gallon®, and the seed evitable than were many physical dis-of an homer shall yield an ephah that j er.?e3 which are now disappearing, is one-tenth only of what was sown. ! Much of the poverty in Christ's day For an ephah contained about nine ' was due to men's selfishness. Most gallons by dry measure, and an homer; poverty among us is due to the same was ten times as much. 1 cause. Amos 8: 4-7. Hear this. Amos, like Isaiah, denounces the spirit of greed which was so prevalent in his time, the immoderate and unscrupulous seeking of gain, and the preying upon 1 A well-kept wood lot or a pi; the poor. 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