THE NOBLE HELMSMAN. se------ a ---- THE DAILY BS MARCH OF TEMPERANCE. The - Railroads GOSSIP OF THE PARISH. A clergyman, noticing the simple appearance] of the couple he had just married, ventured} on a little advice. He explained to the yonng, 4his redness develops in twenty-four hours. In some cases the skin when attacked by the and Manufacturers Closing' disease develops indolent vicirs preceded by i ; the Doors. [violent itching and burning. With the sub- Three great elements have - produced the sidence of the acute conditions the outer layer tri "Twas on Lake Erie's broad cxpause, One bright midsummer day, "dry" movement, says The Delineator. Tem- perance people have been the moral force, doctors the scientific, employers the economic. The result is a dry helt, absolutely new in history, Perhaps some people can remember smiling haii sadly at the spectacle of the little : round-faced boys of the Loyal Legion march-| ing at some W.CT.U. entertainment under a banner inscribed "Tremble, King Alcohol. We Shall Grow Up." Well, North Carolina gave sixty thousand - majority against prohibition| in 1881. In 1908 she gave forty-four thou- sand majority for it. ~The boys had grown up: The movement against intoxicants has) changed its name three times. First it was] "temperance"; then "prohibition"; now comes "Anti-Saloon." It exactly represents the pres- cnt phases of the movement. It is no longer dealing with individuals, whether children or drunkards. It is voting to exterminate the saloon. It is not pessible that majorities in the dry territory were composed entirely of total abstainers, No moderate drinker joins a4 temperance society or the prohibition party. Only total abstainers entered those . But there must be thousands, perhaps millions, of moderate drinkers in the Anti-Saloon move- ment. They are not tectotalers, but they are anti-saloonists. It has been growing harder and harder for| mien who drink to get or keep jobs. One after another, the great railroads have posted no- tices warning employees of instant dismissal if known to drink. The rule has more prac- tical effect thay a thousand femperance lec- tures. Frick's great iron and steel works at Homestead are under an absolute total-abstin- ence regime. The Marshall Field Company enunciated a rule, féllowed by other mercantile establishments. "We will not, to our knowl- edge, place a young man who drinks in our bul¥iness." The U. S. Labor centages based on found that ninety Department, using per- several thousand reports, per cent. of the railroads, seventy-nine per cent. of the manufacturers, cighty-eight per cent. of the trades and sev- enty-two per cent. of .the agriculturists dis- criminate against drinking men as employecs. For Antiquarians, by, in York- shire, is a happy hunting-ground for ,the an- tiquarian, Here may be traced the beginnings of English history, and the succession of ages has left many links. There are ruins of a British village, consisting of pits which served as houses. These ancient dwellings are in two parallel lines, divided by an open space, and bounded by.banks and flanked by a mound. Not far away are a numbér of Druid stones aud three large tumuli. The castle, also close by, is of early fourteenth century foundation, and has a peculiar vault, with decp, transverse ribs. In this fortress Catherine Parr lived for a while, previous to lier Henry VIIL The illustration is of the vencrable parish church of Danby, a weather-beaten, age-hon- ored fane, dating from Norman times. The oldest, sturdiest part is the tower, much of the main body being in the later stages of church architecture, chiefly Gothic. The pat- ron saint is Hilda, a descendant of the Royal Northumbrian line, born in 614, who beame a marriage with «of the skin scales may be rubbed off as if the {integument had been covered with bran. I Stripped in, this manter of its outer coating the skin appears thick and lcathery. For four [or five summers this condition may be repeat- led; the skin grows dry, wrinkled and withered. It is not unlike that séen in extreme old age. And then? This is the question thai over- turns all medical diagnoses. In its ultimate | development pellagra is the jumping-jack of diseases, for meningitis, insanity, manias of all forms, utter imbecility follow, and then death. } Royalty at Milton Abbas. Milton Abbas, where the King has been staying as the guest of Sir Everard Hambro, is a curious village in Dorset. The place looks extraordinary and unexpected. Indeed, there is nothing like to it in any part of England-- straight street, mounting uphill through a thicket. On either side of the way are ma- thematically placed cottages, all exactly alike, twenty on one side and twenty on the other. The space between any two adjacent houses is the same, and¥h every space is a fine chest nut-tree. Tle cottages are square, have yellow walls, thatched roofs, and an arrangement of windows characteristic of the common dolls house. Between the rows of dwellings and the road is a stretch of grass. 'On either side of the highway, with precise repetition, is the chestnut-tree, chestniit-tree wid yellow housc. Two only out of the regiment of cottages have dared to break forth into bow-windows. In the centre of the settlement are a prim church and an almsliouse, somewhat over-redolent of charity, while at the end of the avenue is a quaint little thatched-roof inn. The mansion house of Milton Abbey oc- cupies the site of an old religious building {founded in 938 for secular priests, who were made to give place to Benedictine monks in 964. At the dissolution is was given by Henry VIII to Sir John Tregonwell, his pfoctor in the divorce from Queen Katharine. In 1752 it came into the possession of Joseph Damer, afterwards Earl of Dorchester. It was he who built the present village of Milton Abbas, well out of sight of the great house. The monastic buildings were 'pulled dewn in 1771. The pres- ent home, designed by Sir William Chambers, is a large square mausion with. a central court, The monks' hall or refectory is still shown, A Remarkable Philanthropist. The world has been made infinitely richer by the Christ-like life of such a man as Chas. N. Crittenton, of New York. Consecrating his great wealth and himself for over a quarter of a century to a work from which many even of our grandest philanthtopists have shrunk, he accomplished results that would have been impossible except to one sustained at every step by divine blessing and direction. His active brain and generous heart, receiving in- spiration from a child, planned a chain of refuges extending aivund the world, for the most despised of «Il classes. Seventy-four missions. for the rc<cue of the, outcast, whom society usually spurus and condemns, exist to attest the tremendous earnestness and the tri- umphant cnergy 'of this wond®ful man. He was, in the largest sense, the "friend of the unfortunate." ~ Neither: George Muller nor philanthropies, ever planned so built so well as-he. grandly or He was his own pione and evangelist, going out into the ighesya] and byways and giving to the poor victims of life. Those who accepted it, no matter to what depths they might have fallen, were sur- prised to find themselves treated with a gen- tleness and a consideration in strange contrast with their familiar surroundings. He was the highest modern type of the "good Samaritan." professed num, and in 649 rose to be Abbess of Hartlepool. Nine years later her great work of building Whitby Abbey began, and this famous convent founded the neighboring | churches dedicated to St. Hilda. Napoleon and the Humane Dog. | I'lic night after the battle of Bassano the moon rose brilliant over the sanguinary scene. Napoleon, who scldom exhibited any hilarity, or even cxhilaration of spirits in the hour of victory, rode, accompanied by his staff, over| the .plain covered with the bodies of the dying and the dead, and seemed lost in painful re- verie. It was midnight. The confusion of the battle had passed away, and the deep silence of the jcalm night was only disturbed the moans of the wounded. Suddenly a dog éprang From beneath the cloak of his dead master, 'rushed to Napoleon as if frantically imploring his aid, and then rushed back again to the mangled corpse, licking the blood from face and hands, and howling piteously. Na- poleon was deeply moved by the affecting scene. and to-his officers, with hand pointed towards the faithful dog, said with evident emotion, "There, gentlemen, that: dog teaches us a lesson of humanity." by Spread of Dread Pellagra. Iechuical World Is Pellagra to be the new scourge? Twenty states of the-Union already have felt its af-| ficting blight. For a time it seemed to be a sectional malady, confined to the South, yet at the moment scientists in other states were giving thanks for its remoteness, it "jumped the reservation" and appeared, newspaper chronicler midst." "Moldy pellagra," exclaim a coterie of physicians and experts in the af- fected regions--North, West and South. But pellagra victims are found who have never eaten corn, cornbread or corn products. "Gov- ernment scientists and the Army Medical Corps almit being puzzled as much as laymen; such places as Peoria, Ill, and Worcester, Mass, are called upon to cope with out- breaks for which-go curative or remedial treat- fent is known. the rural "in their as would say, corn eaun-c Pellagra has been known under that name since 1735 in horthern Italy, Portugal, Austria, Roumania and southwest France, but its spread The Englishman in Canada. Canadian Gazette, The "average Englishman knows quite as much of Canadian conditions as thé average Canadian knows of Epglish conditions. We are agreed upon "the desirability of a closer knowledge of each other, and are attaining it each year and month. As for the short- comings of the Englishman in Canada, we agree with Miss Binnie-Clarke, who has noted marked change in the character of emigration. No doubt many Euglishmen who went to Canada at one time did nothing to raise the reputation of the Old Country. But now the Englishmen arriving in the Dominion who leave a deal to be desired are far fewer, and a great many others do well The failures were, in a large measung, those sent out. Emi- gration socicties persuaded people to go who could not get on in England; parents, sent their sons who Yd not know what else to do with them, so that the young men came out in a half-hearted sort of way, and without any strong resolution to adapt themselves to the new conditions and make their way in spite of difficulties. English women always did well, Miss Binnie-Clarke 'says, and she is endeavor- ing to persuade the government to give free grants of land to, women as well as to men. Effort to Save Crumbling Ruins. : ' Preserve the missions, is the keynote of an effort to preserve the crumbling ruins of the old Spanish missions in California. Wealth and influence are being exerted, and plans to make the movement country-wide have touch- ed the responsive chord. President Taft lent his influence to the preservation plans in a speech at Riverside. The stories of the mis- sions are like pages from medieval history. Yet they stand almost in a state of decay, with the exception of the edifice at Santa Barbara, which, thanks to the public spirif, has been restored in all its beauty. Three of the finest of the missions--Sann Juan Capistrano, San Antonio, and San Batista--are in need of im- mediate attention. San Fernando Mission, in the San Fernando Valley, is deserted and tapidly going into_ruins. Some effort at pre- servation has been made at San Gabrie|, and it is in fairly good shape. One of the Kindly Sort. Bishop Doane. I may be perhaps among those who are de- to America 15 of comparatively recent date. scribed as making Christian unity a fetish. I Watched carelessly the feathery The gallant steamer Oceah Quecn Swept proudly om her way. Bright faces clustered on the deck, Or, leaning o'er the side, aa foam That flecked the rippling tide. unvarying line maintained--ycllow house and | Dr. Cullis, world-wide as is the fame of their' misfortune and sin the invitation to a better| Ali, who bencath that cloudless sky: That Smiling bends screme, Could dream that danger awful, vast, Impended o'er the scen : Could dream that c'er an hour had sped That frame of sturdy oak Would sink bencath the lake's blue waves, Blackened with fire and smoke. A scaman sought the captain's side, A moment whispered low; ' The captain's swarthy face grew pale, He hurried down below. . Alas, too late! Though quick and sharp And clear his orders came, No human cffort could avail To quench the insidious flame. The bad news 'quickly reached the deck, It sped from lip to lip, And ghastly faces everywhere Looked from the dooméd ship. "Is there no hgpe--no chance of life?" A hundred lips implore; "But one," the captain made reply, "T6 run the ship on shore." A sailor whose heroic soul That hour should yet reveal, By name John: Maynard, castern born, Stood calmly at the wheel. "Head her south-cast!" the captain shouts, Above the smothered roar, "Head her south-east without delay! Make for the ucarest shore!" Na terror pales the helmsman's cheek, Or clouds his dauntless eye, As in. a sailor's measured tone His voice responds, "Ay, ayl" Three hundred souls, the steamer's freight, Crowd forward wild with fear; While at the stern the dreadful flames Above the deck appear. John Maynard watched the But still with steady hand, He grasped the wheel, and stedfastly He steered the ship to land. "John Maynard, can yon still hold out?" He heard the captain cry; A voice from out the stifling smoke Faintly responds, "Ay, ay!" But hali a mile! a hundred hands Stretch cagerly to shore. But hali a mile! that distance sped, Peril shall all be o'er. But half a mile! Yet stay, the flames No longer slowly creep, But gather round the helmsman bold With fierce, impetuous sweep. "John Maynard," with an anxious voice The captain cries once more," "Stand by the wheel five miftutes yet, And we will reach the shore." Through flame and smoke that dauntless heart Responded firmly, still Unawed, though face to face with death, "With God's good help I willl" The Hamas approached with 'giant strides, They scorch his hands -and brow; One arm disabled seeks his side, Ah, he is conquered now! But no! his teeth are firmly set, He crushes down the pain-- Fis knee upon tue stanchion pressed, He guides the ship again. One moment yet! one moment yet! Brave heart, thy task js o'er! The pebbles grate beneath her keel, The steamer touches shore Three hundred grateful voices rise In praise to Gad, that He Hath saved them from the fearful fire, And from the ingulfing sca. But where is he, that helmsman bold? The captain saw him reel-- y His nerveless hands released their task, He sunk beside the wheel. w The waves reccived his lifeless corpse, Blackensd with smoke and fire, God rest him! Ifero never had A nobler funerdl pyre! Two Rare Old. Friends. Yc might search the world's ends, But yc'd tind no' such friends As. Father O'Shea an' Father MeCrea. Very caustic in wit Was Father O'Shea, But as droll every bit Was Father McCrea; An', O, such a volley o' fun they were pokin', The wan at the other as good as a play, Wid their ready replies, an' their innocent jokin', When Father O'Shea met Father McCrea. Now, upon a 'March Sunday it came 'to pass Good Father McCrea Preached 4 very fine sermon, an' then after mass, . Met Father O'Shea; "T'was a very appropriate sermon Ye delivered this minute, For the season fastin' meant-- I could find no meat in it," Said Father O'Shea. for Lent 0 'twas very. well Then quick as thie laughter that gleamed in his eyc, Good Father McCrea Raised a finger o' protest an' made his reply To Father O'Shea: "Faith, I'll have to be workin' a miracle next To comply wid your wishes. Daré you ask me for meat, my dear sir, when the text $ Was 'the loaves an' the fishes? Said Father McCrea. : 3 0 '140 notorious 'that he earned the sobriquet of nearing Hames, min his duties as a husband, then told the 'younig lady how she should conduct herself, winding up with the old injunction that she forsaking father and mother, follow him whet- ever he went. The bride appeared very muchi. troubled at this and faltered out: "Must I fol- i: low him to every place he goes? "Yes," said the clergyman, "you must fol- low him everywhere until death doth youj, part." : : "Gracious!" cried the girl; "If 1 had known that before, I would never have married a postman." k ' - 3 When the Bishop of Trurg, Dr. Gott, was, Dean of Worcester, his absept-mindedness was "Dean Forgott" On one occasion he invited friends to dine with him; on their arrival a short time before the dinner hour he sug- gested that, in the interval of waitlig, would they like to walk through the grounds? After spending about a quarter of an hour in. ad- miring the flowers, shubs - and greenhouses, they came upon a door in the garden wall} "Ah!" said the dean to his astonished guests, "this will be a much ncarer way for you to go home than by going back to the front." And, all unconscious of his invitation, he open- ed the door and bowed them "out. | ¥ must look to her husband for everything, and,' | © i$ a blend of Ontario Fall "Wheat and -- Manitoba Spring Wheat. 'Itis thusa "Bread" Flour and a "Pastry" Flour. Best for either. Best for both. AT YOUR GROCER'S DEALERS--write us for prices on Feed, Coarse Grains and@Cereals. The T. H. Taylor Co. Limited, Chatham, Ont. "% : Herfert Gladstone, appointee for governor, general of United South Africa, was guilty of, an amusing bull in a debate on disestablish- ment, Dilating on the hold on the affections of the people by the.Church of England, he said: "When an Englishman wants to get married to whom does Ire go? To the parish priest." When he wants to get his child bap- tized, to whom does he go? To the parish! priest. When he wants to get buried, to} whom does he go?" The House answered with a roar of laughter, in which Mr. Glad- stone himself joined, adding: "As I was con-| trasting the English church with the Irish, the buil is, perhaps, excusable." An Englishman, motoring through a remote part of Ireland, came upon a poor old woman seated with all her humble furniture about her, 'in the road before her little cottage. The Englishman was deeply moved. Here, before, his very cyes, an cviction--a genuine Irish] cviction--aas being enacted. He from his caf, and gencrously presented the old, poor old creature?" ground with her gratitude, the old woman re-| } plied: "Sure, sor, me ould man's a-whitewash-{ ing the inside." I A Western Sunday school class received af visit from the Bishop. Boys and girls were, much impressed by the dignitary, and there was, a conscious effort to answer all questions. smartly. When the lesson was concluded, af ttle boy raised his hand politely, and shyly said. "Please, Mr. Bishop, may I ask you question?" "Certainly, certainly," replied good- naturedly. "It's about them," said the boy, eyeing the the Jishop,! | v | : A alight | 7) woman with a five-pound note. "Tell me," he PJ said, "what is the cause of your trouble, my Bowing nearly to the; LT TE BY OIR:S % 4 A N W | 4 ] 2 sent wheh Jat xs Choco- are on the, scene. =P girl can resist their > ¢/tempting deliciousness. i Daintiest, richebt, bishop's robes. "Is they all you have on, or! has youn pants under 'em?" | | A ready-witted cheegyinan was attending al regular meeting of ministers." "Ohe of the! preachers in excited mantier, and with strong! indignation, demanded: "What, sir, would the! Apostle Paul have said could he have seen the life of luxury led by our present race of prelates and church dignitaries, rolling about! in their carriages and living in palatial resi-| dences?" "Well," replied the witty clergy-| man, "I should think he would: have remarked! that things in the churgh are decidedly look | ing up." | A farmer's son was applicant for a position] under the government, but had been repeated | ly turned down. In despair the father said:| "Well, it's hard luck; John has missed that] civil service examination again. It looks like they jest won't have him?" "What was the trouble?" "Well, he wus short on spelling, | and geography, and missed purty fur in ma-| thamatics." "What is he going to do about| it?" "I dunno. Times is mighty hard and I} reckon he'll have ter go back ter teaching school for a living!" [ A Canadian author wrote an anthem for recent celebration in Toronto. Toward thei end of the exercises, when the people were going out a few at agtime, the author rushed to the conductor and said: "Is it over?" "Practically." "But, great Scott! man, they haven't d ! | sung my anthem!" "Well, said the conductor, "so long as the; people are going out peacefully and quietly, The Sentiment of Christmas. In or near the day read the wonderful Christmas' Carol of Charles Dickens. Is it not remarkable that, though the literary critics have pooh-poohed at this story, have called it "cheap fustian" and a mass of "silly sentimens tality"; have condemned it as false in its tone and "unscientific" in its philanthropy, it still retains its hold upon the human heart. Noi great "literary composition has ever escaped] the condemnation of these short-sighted liter- ary critics. Volumes could be written upon the monumental mistakes made in attempting to measure the permanent value of contem porary works. ] 2 | | | | | = | BOAR AOAC EN FAA AN For a Reasonable, . Seasonable, Comfortable Gift for Christmas We suggest one of these Warm Slippers, Over- shoes, Rubbers, Felt Boots, Overgaiterr, Mocca- 1 sins, Fine Evening Slippers. THE SAWYER SHOE STORE FAA CAA AAA kok FA EEE AEAAAAAAAA EAA mst ----_ - bar PACHA MAAK AA AAA AANA AANA SHAKE FAFAFAAAA AAA SAAN i"City Brokerage" ¥: - '18 MARKET STREET, KINGSTON. J. 0. HUTTON WILL BUY: Bilver J. R. C. 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Lady's Munificent Bequests. Frau Franziska Speyer, the widow of Herr George Speyer, of the Speyer banking house, who died in Frankfort-on-Maine, has left $2,- 500,000 to charities. Fifty thousand pounds) is left to Frankfort academy fer social and FERRER EE DON'T FORGET THAT BOX- OF Ganong's Christmas Chocolates The finest in the land. £ 2 ~ J 2 Very caustic in wit Wag Father O'Shea, But 2s droll every bit Pellagra begins in the spring. 'It brings w eak-| would rather be called any names than to be ness, lassitude, giddiness, headache, articular! counted among those indisposed to any effort pains, severe burning seusation in the small for uniting the forces of Christianity in the} A part of the back, radiating to. the limbs, es- battle against error and ignoranéé and sin.| Was Father McCrea, : : pecially the hands and feet. Often the victim! The Bishop of London has confessed to a Though ye'd search the world's cnds is slightly jaundiced." Last of all the skin is beautiful motto'as his favorite: "Look straight; Ye would find no suck friends affected but limited to the 'parts exposed to into the light and you will always have the As Father O'Shea an' Father McCrea the sun, which turn a deep red. Sometimes shadows behind." why sing it at all? commiercial science; £50,000 to the George Speyer House for the investigation of reme-| des for devastating epidemics. Large sums are for the study of lupus and cancer, and to Jewish charities and hospitals, to the pension funds of the Speyer branches in London and New York, and auxiliary funds for theatre,! chorus 'asd orchestra employees.'