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PAGE TWO . He ofl'ered himself to the Lpndon Missionary Society as a missmnary doctor and was appomted to ’l‘ravancore. story : Inghn- y--. the Everest part; as a physician. could not see from the height of Mount Everest, he saw clearly on the plains of India's des- perate need. Listen to him! "En route for South India immediately after the Everest climb. I found a district containing a million souls with only one doctor to look after them. I took ten days” duty for the overworked doctor. and what I saw during those ten days of appalling need changed the whole course of my life.” A POOR MAN IN CHINA. WHO IS A CHRISTIAN. HAS TO work all day away from home. He has put on the door of his house this. notice : “I am a Christian and if any wish to go in and read my Good Book while I am out. they may. The Buddhist priests need not come here; I do not want. them any more.” Peo- ple often go into his house and learn whole chapters. which in manv instances make them wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. -Iâ€" WELL-WISHING IS BENEVOLKNCE. WELL-DOING IS beneficence; and the reason wh poverty is allowed always go confront us is that our benevo ent will may find exercise m beneficent doing. “The poor ye have always with you,” that whensoever ye will ye may do them good. -‘- an. IT IS A COMMON SAYING ON THE CONTINENT THATfleE result of the war was a military victory for France. a political victory for England, an economic victory for America. a cultural victory for the Jew, and a religious victory for the Roman. Catholic Church.-â€"-Dr. Adolph Keller. A BECAUSE OF THE RELIGIOUS AND PIOLITICAL CHARAC- ter of Islam and the fanaticism of its adherents, its hatred of the infidel. and its wiled women, missionary work. in Moslem lands is the most. difficult and perhaps the most pressmg problem before the (:hritian church. _ SCIENTISTS CAN MAGNIFY THE HL‘MAN VOICE 12,000 tunes, but they seem unable to d.) a thing fur the voice of con- science.â€"-Brock\'ille Recorder. ventinfabd'ut three milliona, MORB THAN HALF THE BAPTISTS IN THE WORLD ARE in the Southern Stages. The Southern Baptlst convention clalms three and a half milliw}. adherents and the Negro Baptlst con- HERE IS A DELIGHTFUL MESSAGE THAT TELLS ITS O\\';\' \VEIIA’I’ DR.‘ HOVVARP bOMERV El LZMW' HO \CCOLVLPKNII' D an {'1 \m {kn hnlnhf RELIGIOI.’S PAPER HAS QUOTED FROM ANOTHER JOUR- sedative excuses for the non-church-goer. It calls them 5,” and thev are emmentlv worthy of attention by all ess and call themselves Christians": "_hurc.h pharmacy there are at. least four bromides lbly Induce. a quiescent consmence. and gently put ', to sleep : fact is, I work so hard all the week that, when ‘ning comesâ€"” (Vary to SUlt the age of patient.) ' was a boy [was made to go to church three owâ€"--." (Useful, also, for a woman. patient:l ame just as we were about ready For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,. that whosoever helieveth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3.16. Changeful the world, at best Yet doth the Christmas chime Tell of abiding rest, And love outlasting time !_ m - r: 'l‘he sweetest of all words is LOVE The mOSt profitable thing to do. The most reasonable thing to do. The best thing for each and all to cln. is to The greatest, the most majestic. the sx mbol of longest duration of all \\ ords is GOD The shortest, in point of time, of all words is For The Quiet Hour a-v’ - v- V'r â€"__ The m-instrelsef the warning throng. The choirs angelic, bending low Above that far Judean hill, Loosed such immortal waves of song That hearts attuned are listening: still. LOVE GOD NOW When God incarnate came to earth Then yvoke the silent heavens to song, As, sgqeeplng down the. azure steepe‘ 1\ot many saw that hem enlx light 01‘ heard the first divinest strain. But all the world will see and hear When God inacrnate comes again “I e, and not a soul spoke to me (Succeeds _by Dr. F. B. Meyer : .rine for butter?’ said an excited fine day. is.no harm in; selling “3‘ on an Innocent 3 you must :06, A Pr0phecy. Mr. Heaton preduced his bulletin for the second quarter of 1923. pub- lished in July last. “This was writ- ten on July 20, before the heavy tire losses commenced," he remarked. “While I am not a prophet or the son of a prOphet I felt I should send out a note of warning. Here it is : “Reports coming to our office indi- cate that crops of alfalfa and the clovers are particularly heavy. and that there is evidence of much im- mature drawing into the barns. I am very reluctant to express the opinion. yet I am compelled to do so. that 1923 will afford a very clear and distinct. evidence of an unusually large number of fires arising from the causes natural to the storing of impi‘(‘ipe1'ly housed crops. We, are just on the threshold of the season when we must look for very many fires characterized as mysterious} Skepticism. "Most farmers do not believe spon- taneous combustion possible." conâ€" tinued the Fire. Marshal. “if you Show them charred hay or straw they dismiss it with, ‘Oh, that‘s fire- fanging,’ and let it go at that. But fire-fanging is really only slow burn- ing or combustion where there is not enough air to feed a flame. We are still working on the question of the relation of ventilation to spon- taneous combustion. More and more are. coming to believe in its possibil- ity. however. as the eviiilenre he.- comes more indisputable. And we have indiSputable evidenm, We. classify as spontaneous combustion cases only those in which the prob- ability is very strong. Last year out of LOGO barn fires we classed 87 as spontaneous combustion cases and 31! as unknown. I am certain that many of that 311 should be in the other column. but the proof was not sufficiently definite. The 87 cases which were definite. however. ar- , counted for a loss of over $470,000. A Clear Case. “How are the facts in a lire which occurred in Grey Jounty. The». farm- or mvnml two farms. No one lived on farm No. 2. and there. was no stock in the barn. Consequently the». barn was wry sclc’IOm visited and hail nut. boon untormi for at least nin «lays boforo the Iii-0°. Them were. no tramps or suspicious characters in “There is nothing new about this cause of ham fires. Law cases in the English courts dating back to the reign of George III. refer to it, and an English insurance company as far back as 1835 would insure farm pI‘Operty only upon condition that it was not to be held responsible for losses arising from the natural heat- ing of the crop. In fact, if we care to delve. into ancient history, we find the Roman writer Pliny describing the cause and occurrence of such fires. “There is no question in my mind that the chief cause of the unusually large number of barn fires in Ontar- io this year is spontaneous combus- tion of the crop stored in the barns." said Fire Marshal E. P. Heaton in an interview recently. “The shortness of the harvest. season and thescar- city of labor have led to the use of mechanical devices in haying and harvestâ€"and mechanical devices have no intelligence. The heavier grade of hay now grown is too often rushed into the mow before. it is properly cured. and often spontan- eous combustion results. If all hay went into the barn in thoroughly cured and dry condition, barn fire losses would be very greatly reduc- ed.” tho neighborhm‘u‘i. and yet that barn burnnd. On invvstigation we found every nthor «widence pointing to spontanetms combustion as a. cause. SPONTANEWS COMBUSTION CAUSES MANY BARN FIRES "There are (we other pronounced causes." went on M r. Heaton. “Gasâ€" Qline and lantern exijilusiuns, etc.. which we may classify as resulting from petroleum and its products; d threshing Izicciilents. There has a particularly large number of Ontario Fire Marshal Claims Damp 0r Poorly Cured Hay Greatest Agent of Mysterious Outbreaks. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Money Orders LIFE TEN YEARS LONGER THAN INSURANCE ESTIMATES The. popular cry. and the oft made statement. that the present genera- tion is weaker than the preceding one receives quite a slap in the face from the statistical reports of the insurance companies. While it is true. possibly. that the present gen- eration rould not immediataely unâ€" i‘lel'go some (if the hardships that our ancestors had to put up with. it is more a. matter of not having to than for any other reason. It should be. remembered that the pioneers did not. undergo their hardships '1s a matter of choice. They had to; there was no possible way of doing other- wise. In the recent war, we believe we are safe in saying that the hardâ€" ships experienced there were as great as in any other war; still the. present generation of soldiers got fat on it. and demonstrated that they had the stuff in them if it was need- ed. The following from London, En- gland. will give weigl'it. t0 the above line of reasoning : fires this year from flames shooting from the separator blower during threshing. In one case the burst was so sudden that a man in the mow was burned to death We are in- vestigating this cause and expect soon to haVe a conclusion from \\ h1ch to make recommendations.” Weather Has Influence. "Has the weather anv influence upon tires?’ \xas the last question. “Considerable influence,” replied the Fire Marshal. “There is a decided connection between the temperature of the day and spontaneous combus- tion fires on .that day. This year with a fairly cool August we had less fires than are usual for August. With an unusually hot November we had an unusually large number of fires for that month. As time goes on we are securing convincing data, which shows a decided connection between weather and ‘mysterious’ fires.” “Is there any connection between the hard times and the number of tires?” Mr. Heaton was asekd. “Very little, if any,” was the reply. “These fires are taking place when the barns are crammed with crop. If .3 man wished to raise money he could raise more of it by selling the crop than by burning it. The average insur- ance carried on barns covers only about 60 per cent. of the value.” “People til-(lay are living so much longer than their forefathers that insurance companies and the editor of \Vhitaker‘s Almanac are facing the necessity of revising their life oxljwctancy tables. This lengthened average span of life has resulted from the adaptation of the working to congestions and other conditions in the modern city. and from pro- gress in the fields of sanitation and hygiene. \V‘e may believe it or not, as we wish, but it is a well established fact among those engaged in the bus- iness that it will not be long before the old span of three score and ten. will be superseded by the full four score years. And why not? PeOple do not have to do the sluggish work to-day they used to thirty years ago; there is machinery for most of it nowadays. Coupled with this is the notable advance in sanitation. Peo- ple may smile at the man who tells them there are microbes in this, that or the other thing, but it is the knowledge of microbes and the in- creased sanitary regulations as much as anything that contributes to the longevity of the race. The only thing that will tend to keep the al- lotted span down to the three score and ten mark will he the increased worry necessary in business in the ‘chase after the almighty dollar. “Medical returns for England and Wales for the greater part of 1923 show that. the year just closing was the most healthful in the ceuntry’s history. the. civilian death rate per thousand being 11.7, or .7 lower than the previous low record established in 1921. Lieut.â€"Col. Whitaker, edit- or of Whitaker’s Almanac, says his experience of thirty years has con- \‘ineed him that the expectation of life is new ten years higher than is cnmmenly believed. “The principal factor in our in- creased average longevity has been the reduction of m‘ortality early in life.‘ said the chief medical officer of the R'linistry of Health.” " John Kelly, Manager. Travellers who have. visited Cairo and the lower regions of the Nile will find in l’ola Negri’s first Amer- ican picture, “Bella Donna," which comes to the Veterans’ Star Theatre Friday and Saturday nights of this week, more of the real Egypt than they were ever privileged to See durâ€" ing their actual visits. According to Dudley Stuart Corâ€" lett, special technical adviser and a noted Egyptologist, roal Egypt can only be found far from the points of contact with European civilization. Inasmuch as “Bella Donna” calls for the Egypt of the Egyptians, Cor‘lutt has supplied the picture with genu- inc and little known scenic hack- grounds. Pm-haps the most, beautiful and slightly known is the temple Hf Aim Simbcl in Upper Egypt. which was roconstruceted for this picture by (lmrgo Fitzmauricv. ”It" prmlucmn This structure, carvml from tho livâ€" Beautiful Temple Shown In Poia Negri’s “Bella Donna.” OLD '36va ON scam: m ! 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