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Toreiger [41 ae oF mas mie fd he. present; he blaspheing to meanness. Sacred 'words become in degraded when uttered lightly to Ino purpose. 21-24: Having stifled the voice of {reason and of conscience, it was "| not hard to pass on to lying and fraud, and a treacherous act that compromised his master and friend and did much to annul the high- mindedness' which 'had prompted him to spurn the' offer of money. 25. Btood before his master -- Once more the servant of Jehovah "'Jeonfronts the evildoer like an ac- was an immense one; no less | 860,000 of our money. "7. The king. . , rent his clothes ] Not 'was said in the letter about' the ihre eine and Ashoram 'Heould see in sion for a the For. to the invasion of Moab. had brought. hin into special promin-. ence before the king, and even a little maiden knew about his works 'wonder and' believed he was , Rosman was wroth--His pride patriotism' had both been hurt. he was made to stand as a Fir of iant at the 'door: of the house Sb Tach in instead of be: ing received isha in. person, . las his rank a seem to demand, phi the pr was determin p | humble still_farther this man. who | WTU came with: 8 show 'of worldly , 8, 9). Let ordan if he would some' sort cusing conscience (compare the case of Elijah 'and Ahab). 27; He went out . . , & leper-- The punishment was terrible in its appropriateness, but it has supplied a lesson for all time of the 'wretch- ed results of a base cupidity. re AR SENTENCE SERMONS, Man's best possession is a sym- pathetic wife. ~Euripides, Ignorance of one's misfortune. is clear gain, --Euripides. Try Sst thyself, and after call in worker God himself lends aid. ~Faripides.- Who. go neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.--Euripides. "Not, by years but by disposition i8 wisdom acquired.--Plautus. 1 am a man; sand hothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.--Terence. "There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.--Terence., To do two things at once is to do | neither.--Publius Syrus. We are interested in others when Sey are interested in us. --Publius 1004, 'and which has been anpecial: fevkon of no account.--Publins Sy- RE vicorisy is the homage vice pays to, virtue.--Francis Duc de Roche- faucauld. ne pleasure of love is in loving. © are happier in the passion we than in that we inspite.--Fran- Duc de Rochefaucauld, e always like those who admire do not Always like those om we admire.--Francis Due 'Rochefaucauld, ge jevenge is a kind of wild Justide | 112 more man's nature runs kh more ought law to weed 'it Francis Bacon. cretion of speech is more than Bence: and to speak agreeably ith whom we deal is more Be hy er gai gO, of the best have seen hung in room was made of heavy a smooth coat hanger i y sli thro, ph nw ole The protest t cinopulsd¥y agains i Tactination continues loud snd long Vancouvér. . Chilliwack, B. O©., will Phave' a brass band this year. It already has two newspapers. W. H. Voight, who recently died in Merritt, went to British Uolum- | Pleas bia more than 50 years ago. The Kosmos liner Uarda recently brought 600 tons of nitrite for the i) Victoria: Chemical Works. "In agriculture and stock-raiting there is remarkable progress in all parts of the Kootenay district. The Harris Bros. of Rossland have refused $110,000 for the American group ef claims, near Hazelton. g The Fraser river valley has been pestered with hoboes this winter : more than in any previous year. In Creston, B. C., buginess men pay 85 a month for telephones. This was the rate in Ontario 30 years ago. A gypsum plant, costing $200,- 000, is to be built at Spotsum, B. C. The plant will turn out 300 tons a day. From a mine in Alberta there was taken the other day, a single piece of coal weighing over 1,200 pounds, There is some talk of building & wagon road from Chilliwack to a group of mining claims on Toma- hoy creek. It has been conservatively esti- |. mated that nearly 2,000 men could find employment through Winnipeg agencies to-day A shortage ot hay in the Leth- bridge district is reported, and hun- | '*®® dreds of tons, it 18 reported, are|" being shipped from outside. y With a population of just over |' 200,000 Winnipeg consumes approxi- mately 40,000 pounds of butter and 80,000 quarts of milk daily. In the northern part of the Koot- enay Valley they are now engaged in getting out millions of feet of timber, also millions of ties. Calgary city council will likely ap- |® propriate $1,000 to assist in enter- [5° taining the Dominion Trades & La- bor Council there next fall. Different Boards of Trade met in Edmonton the other day for the pur- pose of working out a scheme of co- operation in publicity work. Nine carloads of large pipes from Pittsburg Pa., arrived over the [© Great Northern consigned. tothe Powell River Paper Works at New Westminster. !At Bull River, the Bull River Power and Mining Company are harnessing the Bul River Falls} to rnish power and light to every city and town in the istrict. The Dominion Government has decided: to supply flax seed 10 |} 1 hondesteaders, and the distributing | points will be Bow di Winni- fred, Irvine and Medicine go ¢ At, New Westminates, Hl Sie a Shee yet g & c ia ain jut be- 1g yu rye by a Te 3 og Wee b stum Jos a ly tnd Thee flocks of gray geese flew over Winnipeg northward the other |, morning. Old timers say this is a sure sign of 'an early spring. The |, eee are a month ahead of their aan CA statement just prepared by the 1 mines department branch of | nlia, marks department shows |g 10 three million tons of |g. ined