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finally fi by carry the gospel farther afield. L.A CRIPPLE HEALED: Acts 14: 7-10. Tucked away in a remote highland glen, twenty-five miles from Bighiand day le little Lycaonian town of _ys- tra. Its people were chiefly native Asians, enough Greeks and Romans to havc built a temple of Jupiter, and a few Jews, but not eno to form a synagogue. This country-side was sacred { b Jupiter. Was it fo in the near vicinity--Phrygia--tha! wi his attendant Mercury, once vistted an old couple, Philemon and Baucis? The humble peasants alona recognized and entertained their magnificent guests. and were by them Wagnificen y ce- warded. The populace, however, were solemnly warned that another failure to recognize visiting deity would be properly punished. Into this primitive . Paganism came the messengers of the gospel. healed. a cripple, v. 8. It was the im- pact of a Superior and dominating mind upon a feebler one. The same kind of thing happens whenever a werful will acts upon a weaker one. hat is the transforming power of God, but the action of Mind and Spirit in human lives? ' : ~ II. DEIFIED AND STONED, : 11-20a. : The cure electrifizd the whole town. The old legend flashed info these un- cultured minds. Slipping into heir native. tongue, the crowds cried out, "The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men!" Paul and Barnabas, ignorant of the local speech, were con- scious only of the enthusiasm. Swift- ly the news spread. On it came to the ears of the priest of Jupiter. He was equal to the occasion. Not this lime ~ ould the populace be caught napping when the gods arrived. Sacrifice must be made. When the apostles heard of it thay immediately stopped the proceedings. "We also are men of like passions with you," they said. and Paul began to preach to them. His address is . fine example of what all preaching should be. He used the knowledge which they péssessed to bring them to he knowledge of God. The work of evangelization ,was soon interrupted. The ersistent ha- tred of the unbeliering Jews follewzd the apoctles, even to Lystra. The new arrivals had little difficulty in per- suading the people that these men were impostors, The Lystrians stoned Paul. He, however, must have man- aged somehow, in the hail of stones, to protect his temple. and his heart. Toward evening, as they watched, his astonisked friends saw the body move. "He rose and came into the city." v. 20. One would think it was quite the ordinary thing for men to walk back t+ their would-be murderers! Mast men would have gone in the other di- rection. Years after, writing to Tim- othy, whom, as a boy, he had won for Christ in Lystra, Paul said, "I know whom I have believed," 2 Tim. 1: 12. It was "hat knowledge that kept him steady in Lystra. 3 ~ ATI, COMPLETING THE TOUR, Acts 14: 20b- Acts 14: "And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe." Derbe was not far from the "Cilician Gates," the pass which crossed the Taurus Mountains down to Tarsus. Just around the bend 'of the Mediterranean from Tarsus was Syrian Antioch, It was now Autumn, The travelling season was drawing to a close. After their un- interrupted success in Derbe (v. 21). what more natural than that the two - men would head for home? Not they! Work was still to be done. Back to the cities from which hatr:d had driven them they went, strength- ening the faith of the unsteady Gala- Paul organized the various ups under elders, nd, commending Ronn ato the Lord (v. 23), they male tians. In the course of his preaching, Paul{ L Youthful jauntiness perfectly ex- presses this simple little outfit, A fascinating' scheme made the original, And unbelievably inexper- sive. And to the making of it, you'll be amazed. The dress is just a straight one-piece type. It is lengthened by a circular flounce. The white handker- chief linen frill at the neckline and sleeves may be bought already by the yard. if you choose. However, pattern provides for same. You'll find 'he collagless jacket just as easy as A, B. C. to make it. Silks, light wool and jersey make up attractively. Style No, 3156 may be had in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches bust. : . Size 16 requires 3% yards 35-inch for dress with 1% yards 36-inch for jacket, HOW TO ORD3IR PATTERNS. "|and there ars 365 days in a year, lug ¢ : i you 'born in India-- " received the 'somewhat N "Ohtall of me" . There are, points out John Hix (in a deck and 62 weeks in a year. There there are 12 months in a year. There are 4 suits in a deck and 4 seasons in a year. There are 13 tricks in a deck and 13 weeks in u quarter. The num- bers of the cards in a deck total 366 And, he might have added, the odd trick is the seventh and there are seven days in a week. - . * "People who talk abbut 'poor old Pepy's," remarked Edmund Gosse at] a celebration of the diarist's birth- day, should remember that he was only twenty-six when he commenced his diary" But what interests me more is the pro unciation of his name By the people who talk about Pepys. There are, to my knowledge, three variations: Peeps, Peps and Pep-is. Which is correct I do not know. * . . However; in south London, in the Borough of Deptford, which for over 300 years has had 'close afiiliations with the Pepys family, there is a Pepys Road. Should a visitor to Dept- ford ask to be directed to Peeps or Peps Road, he would be told "There ain't no such road." But should he spell out the name, a smile would come over the face of the native, who GENERAL -- ---- -- ---- TRAVISS would say: "Oh, you mean Pep-is Road. Why that is down by New Cross Gate!" Which it is. . .- Li Hung Chang, famous Chinese statesman, when visiting New York some years ago, was taken for a trip on: the subway. Told by his guide that they had to change from a loeal to an express train, the wondering Chinaman asked why the change was necessary. The guide replied that it would save five minutes. "But," returned Li, "what are we going to do with the five minutes?" The guide didn't know. Changing was just a habit, he admitted. "A disease, you mean," corrected Li | Hung. | * » * * What would modern diners think of a feast like this--provided at the in-' stallation of Archbishop Neville at York in 1467: A partial list of the food includes 300 quarters of wheat, 300 tuns of ale, Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want, Enclose 20¢c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number. and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. to preach. Back in Antioch they to'd how God had "opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles," v. 27. It was the door which led into the kingdom, but not through the works of Judaism. Many Jews also wera converted, 13: 43; 14: 1; 16: 1. Luke. evidently not liking Jews, did not say much about them, . -- ----- Joy To-day, whatever may annoy, The word for me is joy, just simple joy; ' The joy of life, the joy of flowers, The joy of bright blue skies; The joy of rain; the glad surprise, Of twinkling stars that shine at night, The joy of winged things on their flight~ The joy of noonday ,and the tried, True joyousness of eventide; The joy of labor and of mirth, The joy of air, and sea, kind earth-- The countless joys that ever flow from Him Whose vast beneficence doth dim The lustrous light of day, : And lavish gifts divine upon-our way, Whate'er there be of sorrow I'll put off till to-morrow, And when to-morrow ¢omes, why then, their way across the mountains again, and down to Perga where they stopped "Twill be To-day, and joy again. --John Kendrick Bangs. 0 MANY 100 tuns of wine, 104 oxen, 6 wild bulls, 11,000 sheep, 304 calves, 304 "pokers," {400 swans, 2,000 geese, 1,000 capons, { 2,000 pigs, 103 peacocks, besides over 13,500 birds, large and small, of vari- ous kinds. : * " In addition there were stags, bucks and roes, 500 and more; 1,500 hot pas- ties of venison, 608 pikes and breams, 12 porpoises and seals, besides 13,000 dishes of jelly, cold baked tarts, hot and cold custards, and "spices, sugar- ed delicacies, and wafers plentie." It is true that there were said to have been some 6,000 guests at this famous feast, but a slight calculation shows that the allowance for each was enormous, says William HE. Mead (in "The English Medieval Feast" (. -. . . The custard included in the above menu bears no resemblance to the cus- tard of to-day. It was then a serious undertaking, as will be seen from the recipe: "Take veal and smite * then take fair (Le. clean) water and let it boil together with parsley, sage, savory, and hyssop cut small enough; and when it is boiling take powdered pepper, cinnamon, cloves, mace, saff-| good deal of wine therewith. . . * Same custard: "Strange As It Seems"), 62 cards in, are 12 picture cards in a deck and | in little pleces into a pot and wash it clean; | ron, and let them boil together and a; n tle ves put into the broth and | : salt, ka the broth in the coffins, bake a Tittle with the flesh be- fore thou put thy liquor thereon, and let 8ll bake together till it be enough ne). Then (take) it out, and serve! forth." . * . Like most airmen, Captain Frank Hawks, the "Speed King," won't ad- mit to being superstitious, but on his first "wild journey across the United States," as he calls his record flight from Los Angeles to New York, there was a rabbit's foot tightly wired to his airplane. It was the gift of a friend. ] "Because I fared so well on that trip, I have kept it ever since though' I am not at all inclined to be super- stitious,' says Hawks (in the reminis- cences "Speed"). 'Whether rabbits' feet are effective amulets or not, Hawks doesn't pretend to know, but he does think they are not such hot luck-bringers to the bun- nies that originally owned them. -. . - Captain Hawks spent five delightful days with Will Rogers not so long ago at the humorist's ranch near Santa Monica, California. "There are two good-sized boys and a girl in addition to Will and his wife --'Ma'" ha calls her," says Hawks. "My host's favorite pastime, I discovered, is 'to go out to the corral back of the house and put in a half hour or an hour roping calves. He is a sure- enough cowpuncher both on and off the stage!" -. * . Invited--As a newspaper corres- pondent during the World War--to join a destroyer of the famous Dover Patrdl for a 24 hours' stretch of duty at sea, Cecil Roberts, the novelist, tells of being on the bridge when a wireless message was delivered to the skipper, who, after reading it cram- med it in his pocket. Roberts, scent- ing a "scoop," was curious as to its contents and tactfully began to ques- tion the skipper, but to no avail. * -. - "I became bold, to the point of in- and a lit] > natural substance 300 mes sweeter than cane sugar, rival ling some of the coaltar products of chemical laboratories, has been shown by two French chemists to consist of a chemical union of common glucose and another compound whih has little or no taste. United, they are intensely sweet; divided, they are not even as sweet as ordinary sugar. The compound bears the chemical name "stevioside," because it occurs in a South American plant known to botanists as stevia. The plant itself wag first introduced to the scientific world about the beginning of the pre- sent century; it is a close relative of such familiar North American weeds as boneset, joe-pye-weed, and the plant that causes occasional outbreaks of milkness in the Midwest. After its discovery by Europeans it rapidly ac- quired the name of "the sweetest plant in the world." A very small piece sufficed to sweeten a cup of coffee or tea. During the past generation several partially successful attempts have been made to isolate and study the Analysis Reveals Rain Falls Cycles Existence of wet and dry cycles is revealed by mathematical analysis of the rainfall records of California, Dr. A. F. Gorton of the Scripps Institution of Oceancgraphy reports to the Am- erican Geophysical Union, "Fluctuations of rainfall," he says, | "occurs at intervals of from two to three years, five to six years, and twenty-two. to twenty-six years, the first being more noticeable in the rec- ord of the northern stations and the second in southern California. Los Angeles shows successive wet and dry periods eleven years in length, with a total cycle of gpproximately twenty- Paris. -- A / French chemists, M, Briddel and Lavielle, accomplish the final purification, They have discovered, to their sur- prise, that the sweet crystals of sievio- side, upon 'chemical move a part o fthe combined water in them, break apart into about 60 per cent, common glucose and 40 per cent, of a new stuff which they called "ste- t to re- viol" The latter has no taste, but com- bined with the glucose it produces a BE poignantly sweet substance, "Bride! and Lavielle made an- other interesting discovery, the sig- nificance of which is not yet clear. If sometimes for the oven-wood, three feet long, which must be per fectly dry before using. Mandy al lowed no one but herself to st tend the important office, ¢ illus the oven with wood, > shovelful of coals When the wood were skillfully taken out with the long-handled "peel" and cornhusks, the stones were swept clean. She put the loaves of bread on the stones, by means of a flat wooden shovel, and the children, ver peeping in anticipatory they freeze a 50 per cent, solution of delight, held (leir breath as she the intensely sweet stevioside they ob- tain a mat of fine needle-crystals, which contain more chemically com- bined water than the original sub- stance, and which are only faintly sweet. The sweetness of stevioside seems to depend on the presence of an exact amount of water in combina- tion with the glucose and steviol; a trifle more or a trifle less spoils the effect, Summer Quarters ' of Blue Goose Found Discovery of a second breeding ground of the mysterious blue goose on Southampton Island in Hudson Bay is reported in the Auk, organ of the American Ornithological Association, by Dr. George M. Sutton, of Cornell University, The blue goose is very abundant in winter about the mouth of the Missis: sippi but, until two years ago, its sum- mer quarters were unknown. It seem- ed to disappear entirely over the northern horizon. Then a large nest- ing ground was found in Baffin Land. On Southampton Island, 600 miles to the westward and with an area of two years. In addition to these there is evidence of a longer cycle of fifty- five to sixty years. ing purposes is the five-and-a-half viting a snub," relates Roberts (in his | ling with their close relatives, "The most important for forecast- many thousands of blue geese ming-!' after three bakings, for thus she some- 19,000 square miles, Dr. Sutton found an enormous summer bird population, the lesser snow geese. The whole island year cycle, especially marked in the has only about 140 Eskimo inhabit. | records of the southern California sta- | ants, so the birds are little molested. was aften reheated for the baking of | brought from the butt'y the pies that had been waiting behind that closed door, for Mandy's "baking" began of- ten before cock-crow. | A steady and skillful hand was need- .ed to place all properly, that each | should have the desired amount of heat. The pie-platet were of browm carthen-ware, rounding and some- what unsteady of base, and to place one, full of liquid pumpkin far in the hot recess, was well-nigh impossible, {A tin dipper had not cheered a house- wife's eye, and though a gourd might | be used for dipping water, it could not , serve all purposes. This difficulty was met by wooden spoons with handles half a yard long, and a squarish- ; shaped bowl holding nearly half a pint, that, supplemented by Mandy's long reach, could safely fill to the brim the | half-filled pie-plates. Now and again a pan of gingerbread sent out delicious ! odors from the oven when the watch- ful goddess took observations. Then there ware times in the fruit seasons when, the other cooking be- | ing finished, with an air of mystery | she placed in the dark oven a stone , bot, well covered, holding, as she alone knew, plums, gooseberries, or "other fruits and their modicum of loaf ' sugar, leaving it in place till the fol- lowing day, and repeating the process times made sweetmeats, After the bread was baked, the oven reminiscences "Half Way."). "At last! tion. It is brought out by computing i Their nests are scattered through the meats, or, if the never-lacking cookies the skipper yielded, He pulled the! the frequency of occurrence of seasons lakes, generally close to the shore, As and seed-cakes were to have ther 'flimsy' out of his pocket and passed | with two or more consecutive months ' grass ranges between the numerous turn, or anything requiring a quick it to me. Elated, I peered at it. read: " 'His Majesty's Ship Blank to His Majesty's Ship Blue; Is the journalist sick yet'?" Roberts was sick -- in more ways than one. "> "Beautiful view here. Reminds mo so much of Scotland, you know." "Oh, then you went to that lec- ture, too?" - me 3 Scientists Discover Ancient. City Under Black Sea Moscow, U.S.S.R.--On the south- western extremity of the Crimean Peninsula, near Sebastopol, the floor of the Black Sea has revealed to. So- viet archaeologists an ancient buried city which is believed to have thrived between the fourth and second centur- ies B.C. An expedition which was sent there three months ago by the State Aca- ;my of Arts reported recently that ity operations had uncovered the re- mains of old Khersoness, the existence of Which has long been suspected, but never verified. About 40 feet under the sea; the expedition's divers and motion pic- ture photographers found the ruins of a city in the shape o 4 gigantic horase- shoe, with walls, towers, houses ard "When the flesh is boiled, take it from the broth all clean, and let, the broth cool ;and when it is cold, take eggs, the white and the yolks, and cast through a strainer, and put them LD BEAN, ! EQUAL Wi SYE, DON'T You GET A TURKISH SOME under-ground tunnels honeycombing the whole. 3 Archaeologistsf here believed that the city was destroyed by the gradual sinking of the shores of the sea and by an earthquake. It ' of decidedly abnormal rain--the San 'soon as the young are able to take heat for a short time, a good handful Diego record containing thirteen such "care of thémselves the geese move in-: of pine wood set alight in the middle seasons in seventy-two years." | out, appears to be universal while the others may be more dependent on local conditions. emer Ape The Summer Goes How. swift the summer goes, Forget-me-not, pink, rose, { The young grass when I started, | And now the hay is carted, And now my song is ended, And all the summer splendid; The blackbird's second brood Routs beech leaves in the wood; The pink and rose have speeded, Forget-me-not has seeded, 4 Only the winds that blew, The rain that makes things new, ! The earth that hides things old, . And blessings manifold. i O lovely lily clean, | O lily springing green, O lily 'bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart again That I may flower to men. Mercy. AT When Hope Lies Sick When hope lies sick on bed of fear, ! And clouds are dark and days are drear, | i Faith waits with cup of loving cheer, | To hasten Hope's reviving, And Love comes with a golden bowl, . To warm and heal her sister-soul; ! She steals a smile past Sorrow's toll With winsomest contriving. { Ah, Hope look up! Arise! Partake Of these sweet ministrations; i Thou must be well for their dear sake, Who: bring these inspirations. { Faith's cup of Peace, Love's bowl of grace, | Shall bring the smile back fo thy face. | --Charles H. Hunter, in Echoes from the Hills. . the migration southward. The blue goose family, Dr. Sutton found, is a rather stable organization, the male and female remaining de- voted to each other and their young through the summer, Whether these families are broken up after the mi gration is unknown. Power Man has one power in particular, is the power of making the world as to make quite a different world from what it is at present. The power is called kindness.--F, W. Faber, Truth Truth is always consistent with it- self, and needs nothing to help it out; on our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is tion upon the rack.--Tillotson, "Well, old man, how are things?" "Bad, with skirts lower this year a fellow has a hard time getting a square meal" By BUD FISHER . |land in family groups, feeding until of the oven would serve both cook and The twenty-two year cycle, he points late August, when all reassemble for cookies.--Jane de Forest Shelton, im { "The Salt-Box House." -- Egyptian Plover Buries Chicks When Threatened Observations of a bird that buries its chicks alive to protect them from enemies and from the hot sun are re- ported in Ibis, organ of the British Ornithological Association, by A. L. Butler, Egyptian ornithologist. This bird is .he Egyptian plover, . | Which is not sufficiently dwelt on. It found in the upper Sudan country. The instant a strange noise is heard | happy, or at least of so greatly dimin-' or the shadow of a hawk falls over | ishing the amount of unhappiness in it ' the desert sand, he recounts, the chicks i instinctively flatten themselves in the nearest depression, usually the foot- | print of some large animal. Then the | mother bird shovels sand over them | with her bill until they are completely | covered | The chicks are covered in the same | way to protect them from the sun | it is always near at hand, and sits up-, when they are not feeding, he obsere- : ed. From time to time the old birds will sprinkle water over the sand with --John Masefield, The Everlasting | troublesome, and sets a men's inven-| their beaks to cool their offspring. This practice continues until the chick are about three-fourths grown. After the eggs are laid, Butler »b- served, the mother bird covers them with sand dur'rg the day, the incuha- tion process heing carried on by the | heat of tne soil. At night, when the ! sand cools rapidly, she uncovers the cgys and broods them. by a | Happiness Happiness is not a single gem--a , precious stone sb rare that all search fatter it in vain, Happiness is a mosaie composed of many smaller stones, Some of them seem trivial, colorless, commonplace; but joined together and judiciously viewed in their relation ship to a beautiful pattern for every life, each glows with a charm and pre- ciousness never before suspected. Human experience has shown that the happiest people in the world are not those going up and down the land searching for happiness ag If it were some jewel, carefully concealed and covered up. Rather they are those who have learned to accept each event cheerfully and courageously, with the conviction that it is part of a wise plan and necessary to its completion and beautification. The Harp of Life Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all its chords with might, Smote the chords of self, that trembling, passed in music outof sight, --Tennyson. Sr------ PLEASURE To make pleasures pleasant, short en them.--Buxton. . . 0» Car wealth give happiness? Look around and see 2 What gay distress, what splendid misery, --Pope. ENJOYMENT hea we say we enjoy oursél it means that we forges ours altogether, ud