YEAR 84, NO. 301 12 PAGES % Ee ee A a -- a FEY oh Che 1 iINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEM SEEING THE NEAR IN THE LIGHT. OF THE LARGE. The International Sunday School Lesson For December 30th Is| A Quarterly Review; "God's Redeeming Love."-- Psalms 123, 124. " i Within the past week | have trays eled from the shores of the Yellow Sea, past the Great Wall of China, ud the fertile fields of Manchuria dole the mountains and the great wreen valleys of Siberia, an imperial realm. Within that time I have had to face and discuss the Chinese Ques- tion of the Japanese Question and the Russian. Question, with the relation of America to them all. Whatever else may be sald of such a strenuous week it certainly helps one to see things in the large. The incidental and de- tails become lost in the general. One must deal with large units; which seems particularly easy to do as | "look out of the windows of this Si- berian express, across vast spaces of grazing land, with lakes and rivers, and. the blue: hills beyond, and the Mongol nomads standing to gaze as the train glides by. Somewhat similar in effect to the Journey I am at the moment taking ig this quarterly review of the Sun- day School lesson. It sweeps a wide horizon, and deals with a succession of great events and movements. An honest study 'of this lesson, with what it involves, would give one the essen- tial groundwork of a liberal educa- tion, which is the ability to perceive things 1y their large relationships, with a true historical perspective, Well do I remember an address by the late 'Bishop Fowler, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he set forth the march and compass of the Russian nation, and Its possibilities. More definitely than any other one single experience in a young report- or's life, that great speech did for me what I hope this week's Interna-, tional Sunday School Lesson will do for other young peoplé--set them to cultivating an international con- sciousness. For the only way to be a really up to date and efficient persen is to keep in mind what has been and what may yet be, in the whole large scheme of things. A village mind is inadequate simply because it does not take all the factors into con- sideration, . S-- Getting God's Viewpoint. Two little keys that help unlock the mysteries of providence are the quotations concerning God, "My Ways are not yoar ways," and "With Him a thousand years ars as a day." That is to say, God always sees things in the large. He does not Took through Any man's spectacles. All His ways With men comprehend large units of time. His plans do not all work out in a year or a century or a mil- lenfum---hut they are eventually work out. Human views are in- adequate, because they take account of only a small portion of the great battern of God's weaving. We think in small terms about God's large Mans. The near misfortune meals more to us than the ultimate out- come. Private soldiers are often in- terested only in battles, whereas commanders in chief are concerned with the enfire campaign. To the Jews driven into exile, all things had collapsed. Their skies had fallen. In their place of shore. vision, it was im- possible to see the great and bene- ficent purposes of Jehovah ia 'that stern experience. Yet the exile was needed by the Jews and by the world. Into these dark days about which the Sunday schools have been study- ing came the prophets, who tried to help people see things in the large, and to point out the relation between Cause and effect. This prophet gift of patriotism, "Which sees beyond the vear, Thine alabaster cities gleam, Undimmed by human tears." alone sustains a people in a dark time. If there were no prospect of a long to-morrow, to Justify to-day, we should be of all men most miserable, A heaven is indispensible to any happy conception of earth. Every Mother who has given her son a sac- rifice to the great war would indeed Sorrow as one who has neo hope did Ste aot Setlote that God is working Out in our time some great purpose, which i» worthy of the wy or sense of forming part of an infinite and eternal plan is one of the loftiest conceptions ble to mortal. It links him with the beautiful here- after wherein all things are made ' perfect, Holding Steady To-day. The experience of these old Jews do not particularly interest ys ex. cept as they have a bearing upon our own time. That the hand of Jeho- vah was in the history of Israel con- cerns us less than that His hand is Sulding the course of events in our world of the here and now. And this is the very truth for to-day. Near views may be disconcerting, and the tingle of things may seem inextric. able, but the larger view--the look from God's side of the dark cloud-- reveals the outworking of designs so Yast that there must be a commotion in heaven. TA Our day seems to be the frutition time of history. The goals for which the prophets and patriots agoniseq Me Bow in sight. This fs y of universal emancipation. on shackles are being enslavements ended. nations are coming into the light of freedom and sell-government.. Exiles are re- turning home. Social injustices of immemorial antiquity are being right- ed. Despite the great war, hatred between men and men, class and class, is diminishing. With a new sense of racial solidar- ity and int ting about the the waste places of hungry everywhere may be fed, Bur- By William T. Ellis. This" en and old a dens that have been on the backs of the depressed classes since the begin- ning of organized society are being lifted.. Wealth, as 'well as oppor- tunity, is finding a juster- @istribu- tion. Best of all, a new sense .of hu- man rights is being learned in the severe school of war, Thuis is a time of jubilee. God is workiug great pur- poses out. ) That is a message for every pulpit in these perplexed days. Religion's part is to see that the Christian mo- tive is kept close to every one of these great changes in life, The noblest events in "history are taking place: their distinctively religious character should not be obscured, or the Au- thor of them al! deprived of the honor this is His due. "It would be sad should any of us miss the high {evel and meaning of what God is doing beforé our eves. If we but interpret aright "the times, there will be no doubt about our making war morally safe for the soldiers. And when we go forth to the conquests of peace, they will be wrought in a Christian spirit What society is now under: taking to do in the world cannot be successfully accomplished .without taking God into the reckoning Falling in With the Forces. Stale and jejune though the ad- vice m~y seem to some oversophis- ticateuw youths who Is supremely proud of his acquaintanceship with head walters and chorus girls, the truth remains tha® the one sure route to a success that counts, is to find out God's purposes for one's life and to fall in with them. There are great forces--which we reverently call the providences of God---abroad in our day: the wise person will fall in with these. To every man, woman and child it is possible to bear a share in the great goings of God.in our days Not in vain has this war taught us new lessons in co-opera- tion. , Any life, however obscure, may bear its proportionate part in the working out of the ideals which a divine hand has clearly sketched upon the canvas of to-day. Stevenson puts the idea into a beautiful figure: "80 from the hearth.the children flee, By that Almithy Hand Austerely led; son one by sea Goes forth, and one by land: . Nor aught of all men's sons es- cape from that command. - "And as the fervent smith of yore Beat out the glowing blade, Nor wielded in the front of war The weapons that he made, But in the tower at home still plied his ringing trade; "So like a sword the son shall roam On nobler missions sent; And as the smith remained at home In peaceful terret pent, So sits the while at home the mother well content." To have a part however slight, in working out the divine purpose In one's day is success. This is the root conviction that ennobles life, and extracts its sting and dissipates its Jadedness. All lesser considerations of safety and yecognition and reward count for A alongside of this one major achievements, the helping to bring to pass the great and beautiful will of God among men. Some of the prophets of old were willing and witting instruments in the achiéve- ment of this purpose; but the Jewish people as a while underwent the tragic experience of seeing Jehovah's will done 'in spte of them, and not because of them, Learning the Great Lesson. After all, and after all, did the Jews learn their lesson during the five hundred and eighty years of his- ; lere'are sone of odr . bome distance from the firing tory which thls review period covers? We have seen them rise as a kingdom split in twain and then pursue an unduiating course, until finally they were dispersed by the Captivity, which -was_ the flail of Jehovah Were they cured of their idolatry? Yet the archaeolmwgists are digging up in= cantation bowls which show that for centuries. after Captivity the Jews were Er, inthe art of the witchcraft, To-day thé tenfporal condition of the Jew better than it has ever been since the fall of Jerusalem. Wealth, prestige, position, and poli- tical consideration all belong to the Jow The most careful observers within the race, perhaps point out that the present irreligion of the Jewish people is an ominous sign of a deplorable condition that makes wealth, learning and standing of no avail. The youth of Judiasm is be- ing lost to the faith of its fathers, The need for old prophets, such as have spoken words that have echoed in all the Sunday schools of earth during the pgst twelve months, is still present wig t Chosen People. The Jews were in school to God. We have seen in these studies the full course of the curriculum... The one gréat admonition of the teacher was to fixedness of heart, With incredible patience and infinite resourcefulness, God sought to teach His people the lesson of loyalty to Him They pre- ferred to follow fashion. Can this new world learn the same is Western lesson ? STILL MAKING GRINDSTONES, One Family Has Operated New Brunswick Quarry for a Century At Woodbine, 'N. B., five miles from Sackville; in the Moncton con- sular district, is a grindstone quarry whose product, until the present transportation restrictions, was ship- ped in large quantities to ports on the eastern seaboard of the United States, says a consular report from Moncton, N. B. - The president of the company op- erating this quarry states that grind- Stones were first quarried in Canada near Minudie, N. S.,, probably by the French, for local use before the Brit- ish occupation, or about 1746. In the early part of the nineteenth cen- tury the great-grandfathers of the present holders of the leases, in com- pany with an associate, acquired con- trol of these grindstone ledges and began making regular shipments of grindstones to the United States in small vessels. Quarries were opéned at other points, notably in Pjctou County, N, S.; at Shediac and Fox Creek, along the Miramichi river, and at Stone- haven, Gloucester County, in New Brunswick. At the last named oper- ations were started in 1856, Although the Stonehaven quarries lie beyond the limits of the Moncton consular distriet, a description, of them cannot well be omitted. Stone- Laven is situated on the south bank of the' Bay' of Chaleur, eighteen miles €ast of Bathurst. The bank of the cliff at this spot. is fifty feet or more in height; on the beach below is the quarry opcrated by the same company as that similarly employed near Sackville. It is said that half the grindstones used in Canada orig- Inaté at Stonehaven. The product consists of stones of all sizes from eight inches in diameter, for kitchen use, to eighty-four inches in dia- meter by fourteen"inches thick. The latter is the largest "stock" stone, each one weighing about three and a half tons. Stones from twelve to thirty inches in diameter for the hardware trade are made in large quantities. Stones from thirty to forty-eight inches for machine-shop use are made in only slightly Jess quantity. The Stonehaven quarries were re- claimed from tidewater by the build- ing of dams. The most recently con- stfucted of these dams is over ome and a quarter miles long. Like the others, it is built chiefly of timber cribwork filled with stone, and heav- ily rip-rapped on the side exposed to the sea. After the dam is built the water is pumped out and quarrying o "CLOSE-UP" OF A bays, "somewhere in France." bégins. The stone lies in horizontal sheets of varying thickness. the total N-------- 'applies tothe 'larger stones. line, tuning up, as it were, for the real . depth of the formation being about twenty-five feet, Modern methods are employed at the Stonehaven plant. A steam chanpeler and steam and air drills are used as required, and by their use, with powder and wedges, the rock is quarried to the required sige. It is then hoisted to' the "dump," where the stonecutters take it and | shape it round. | From there, if it is not too thick for a single grindstone, it goes direct to the lathe to be fin- ished. If the block is two or three feet thick it is sent to the saws and cut to the required thickness. This The smaller stones are split out of the irregular-shaped that come out along with the larger siones. The stones are cut round and shaped as a rough grindstone. For handling stones three derricks are used at the quarry, three at the mill, and three at the wharf and sta- tion, while a traveling derrick oper- ating under its own power and equipped with an "orange peel" bucket has been used for stripping purposes. One steam. plant of nfty borsepower operates the hoisting ma- chinery for the quarry derricks. © An- other of about the same capacity handles the pumping plant and the steam channeler, A 100-horseposfer plant runs the mill machinery. This tousists of an air compressor" for: {fie hammer drills used in the quarry, three Bang saws, eight lathes, two geythe ston grind- ers, and a shinglé mill for making shooks for scythd stone boxes, be- sides - the necesjary hoisting and pumping machinery, exbaust fans ete. Water for the boilers is piped from a reservoir balf a mile Sv y. A good public wharf provides accom modation for water shipment. Abou: 2,500 tons represents the normal average annual output of (he Nev Brunswick grindstone qQuarrics, Alberta's Wool, Alberta's tetal wool clip of 2.0%6, 663 pounds is valued at $1,181, 628.29 by James A. Hill. of the Do minion live stpek braneh, who ha just comnleted a census cl the voo shipped <from the provine sea son. Average price top per pound. The highest price dor ; ny ine grade was 67.29¢ per pound, a lot of fine medium comb at a Toronto sale. This year's ¢i i repre sents more money than two average clips would in ordinary tines Mr. Hill states that the industry is on a sound footing 2il over province. Many cf the range so} are pasturing on [orest re: 3 the mountains, though some of them, including pary of a bund own- ed by Ray Knight, have been brought back to the prairi¢ owinz to the damage done to feéd by foros: fires, PASE oh Apples in Nowa Sootia, There ape -said¥% be about 2.000,- 000 apple trees in Nova Se ntia, yielding 500,000 to 1,560,000 bar- rels a year, with a recent ave rage of 800,000 barrels. Experts say the province should producs 10,000,000 darrels yearly. La grower Go Stamprobliterating Machine, A new stamp-obliterating 'hine in use at the French Pos dc¢e gives. the instruction: the stamp on the righthand 'he envelope." 13 lost when served, ma Of- 'Stick top =; Muh valuable tar this rule is nut ob- re ------------_ Green Feed For Chickens. Chickens coatined tg small rarda should aiwayx be supplied with green feed, such as lettuce, sproutest oats, alfalfa or-clover, but the best place to raise chichens successfully is on » good mngze, where no extra green food is re quired. Where the chickens are kept in small bare yards, tive charcoal, zrit and oyster shell should be kept before the chickens all of the time, and erack ed or ground bone mar be iad, 'The bone is not necessary for chivkens that dave a good range. -------------- A spoiled child is to be pitied be- cause of its silly parents. The price of liberty often depends on the humor of the judge. 3 -~ BER 27, 1917 ANECDOTES FROM FRANCE. German Soldiers Express Desire for Peace, # A Heutenant and patrol men of a Quebec battalion gave an object lesson on the western front recently, showing the value of care- ful Scouting. The party went out 'into a haze lying in the low land be- tween the enemy lines and our own, and at a point about 300 yards from a German trench discovered six Ger- mans on outpost duty under the shade of some trees. The Quebeckers stalked the party. They captured three and killed others. After bring- feeling certain that the enemy, hav- ing heard the sound of firing, would investigate, took out the patrol agdin and concealed"his men near the ont- post. A second party of Germans: appeared shortly afterwards, and in | the fight that followed three of them were captured, one after sustaining || Not ene of our men | severe wounds... was hit in this admirable bit of out- post warfare. German soldiers at Lens fired the | following into the Canadian linés by li thé use of an aerial dart: "Dear Tommy: The German Tom- | my sends you hearty greetings from | Lens. When will Please reply." That the - rank and file of the enemy troops have 'a great longing for peace is confirmed by every pris- oner captured. grievances is the failure of higher officers to take risks. company commanders frequently de- pute to under officer their duties while in the trenches and remain' well back from the front. This is 50 different from the relations between our own officers and men that it is freshly impressed on the minds of the Germans on cvery occasion when there is hand-to-hand fighting. be there peace? Petroleum in Canada. According to Victor Ross in his book "Petroleum in Canada," com- mercial petroleum was brought into existence in Canada in 1858 byJ. H. Williams, of Hamilton," who was at- tracted by what was known as the "gum beds" of Oil Springs. Be- cause he was familiar with the dis- covery of petroleum in the old world, Mr. Williams set about ex- tracting what he believed to be the same sort of naphtha as that produc- | ed by the wells in Baku. His first effort took the form of a retort and the gum was boiled. attempt at distillation comparatively light, quid. tain greater quantities beneath the surface of the be excavated a wel), and found that the deeper he peneira.ed the earth the greater the yield. This was really produced a irridescent the first oil well in America and was | dug a year before Drake's well in Pennsylvania, 1859, althougi it did not pierce the limesfone. The experiment attracted persons to the field, and twelye shallow wells were at Black Creek, in the viel Oil Springs. I: was not until many ten opened ty 'ebru- of nine | One of their chief | their | Ji Even |} This primitive | li- | In the hope that he might ob- | by digging | gum, beds, | or | of | ary, 1862, however, that what may | be termed the first real oil well was | drilled. of James Shaw, a who had lived in the vieinity for many years, and had been a close observer of the methods of the pros- pectors, With . the spring pole worked by foot-power Shaw punched the cap of the upper vein of oil «rock at a depth of 165 feet at Oil Springs. The result was a well that gushed thousands of gal- This was the achievement | poor photographer, | old-fashioned | lons an hour and flowed for-a com- | paratively long period. Shaw received no permanent bene- | fit from his discovery and i$ said to have died in poverty. He was offer- ed $25,000 in gold for his property | when, the well began to flow, but de- clined all proposals and lived to see the day when it dwindled down to a "pumper" of a few barrels a day. py aD Wrote Oopy of Bible, Hugh Russell, of Notre Dame de Grace, a suburb of 'Montreal, has a copy of the Bible written entirely in his own hand. It bas taken him twenty-three years to do it. Mr. Russell is a commercial traveller. AAG (RELIEF, DUGOUT SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE" | | | | | l ing in the prisoners; the lieutenant, | This Week Only 29% Reduction ~~ Not Many Left. Inspection Invited. Grawford & Walsh Tailors. Princess and Bagot Streets. rm --_ . » PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, Visit This Dairy and Decide for Yourself. -- Satisfaction Usicial Test by H. B. Smith. Milk test. ed 3.2 Butter Fat Phone 2083 24 JOHNSON STRERY As Age Advances the Liver Requires occasional slight stimulation. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS correct CONSTIPATION. 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In avery case, interest at the rate of five and one half per cent per annum from January the 2nd must be paid. i§ payment is not made on or before the 11th, For the convenience of subscribers, by arrangement of the Canadian Bankers'. Association, Banks will remain open on the evenings of Thursday and F riday, January 3rd and 4th, 2nd on the afiernoon of Saturday, January the 5th. Evening hours 7.30 to 9.30. Saturday afternoon from 2 until 6 o'clock. It has heen. brought to the attention of the Finance De- partment that a considerable number of 'subscribers, who have deposits with Banks, are under the impression that their . Banks will take care of their January payments by auto- matically debiting their accounts with the necessary payments. arrange for these payments. - i va He 'T.C. BOVILLE, Deputy Pu ge wh