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Mary‘s parents were Christians, but they had no Bible because Bibles were very scarce and the weavers’ trade, though honest. was one by which riches were not made, so they could not afford to purchase a Bible. They had taught Mary all the Bible verses they could remember, also all the Bible stories. and they took her to every religious meeting they could attend to hear the Word read. Every time Mary heard theBible read she longed to hear more and longed for the time when she could read it herself. There was no public school for children as there is today and Mary had no chance to learn how to read. She was kept busy with numerous little tasks around home. So imagine Mary‘s joy when her father returned one day from the village where he had gone to dispose of the woollen cloth they had made at home. and told her that a school would be opened in three weeks’ time and she was to attend. Her first thought was. "Now I shall learn to read the Bible." Not long after the opening of the day school. a Sunday school was started of which Mary became a mem- Dear Little that you have been 111, and I note your. request for a story about some one that did something great. I wonder how you would like to hear about the little girl that was the means of starting that wonderful society that DOW prints one million copies of the Bible in a year in six hundred different languages and are trying to accomplish more each year in the printinge of the Scriptures. This is the British and Foreign Bible soc- iety. A neighbor who owned a Bible toldi Mary when she could read she would be welcome to come to her home and read and study the Bible. Mary quickly learned to read and went every Saturday afternoon to her neighbor‘s to study the Sunday School lesson from their Bible. This made her resolve that some day she would have a Bible of her own if it took ten years to earn sufficient money to buy one. Six years went by in this way and sometimes Mary could commit to memory a whole chapter of the Bible on a Saturday afternoon, and repeat it to her narents when seated around No Bibles could be purchased for 5*.ny have one in his possession forsale. E regret a Florida 1 When Mary told him her story Mr. Any Canadian Charles“ bright face overshadowed, and Agent will help 1 he said he was indeed grieved that . . . give yox the consignmentoIWelsh Biblesm. . and maker * Come in 8: Chat Awhile ‘ â€"Rn'th Raohnrn. Thursday, February 7, 1m At Home girl before tion and distribution of God’s holy word. In t_he winter of 1802 he visited Religious Tract Society, told he story of Mary Jones and made his appeal on behalf of his countrymen. Rev. Joseph uughes arose in reply and said that surely a society might be formed for that purpose and if for Wales, why not for the whole world? A committee was formed to take up the matter and two years later, in March, 1804, the British and Foreign Bible Society was estab- I hope, Maybelle, that you have en- joyed this little story. When every pool in Eden was a mirror That unto Eve her dainty charms proclaimed She went unwrapt without a stitch ’Twas only when she’d eaten of the apple That she became inclined to be a prude And found that evermore she’d have to grapple With that much debated problem of the nude. Thereafter she devoted her attention, Her time and all her money to her clothes. vention And modesty as well, so I suppose. Reaction comes about in fashion modern: Now the girls conceal so little from It would seem that in the name of all that’s “decen ” Some one ought to pass the apples round again. FOR A This is the Florida social season. Trains from almost every part of the Continent are bringing their quota to this famous winter resort country. The marvellous cuisine! The tropical atmosphere! You’ll never forget nor regret a Florida holiday. Anv Canadian National Railways upon her Nor thought that she had need to be will help you P1811 an _must have a Bible. HOLIDAYâ€" TRY FLORIDA of Telephone ringsâ€"aésistant answers. Assistantâ€"“Oh, Dr. Wrangell, there is a lady on the phone. She wants to know how much you would charge to cure her husband of measles.” book, turning to measles section). Dr. Wrangellâ€"“Ask her what. size her husband is.” Assistantâ€"“She says he is six foot three in his stocking feet, doctor.” Dr. Wrangell (sotto voice) â€"“Ah, heavy composition. Ask her if she wants a first class job of curing.” Assistantâ€"“She says a medium job. Nothing too expensive.” Dr. Wrangenâ€"“Twenty-seven fifty. That doesn’t include medicine.” Assistantâ€"“She says you are high, doctor. Her own measles only cost twenty-five dollars.” Dr.f Wrangellâ€"“Well, maybe I "can cut out one can. Tell her we’ll take the job for twenty-five dollars.” Assistantâ€"“She says her small son never had the measles. If he had them now would there be any reduc- tion?” Dr. Wrangellâ€"“Well, if he’ is only small, I will take both jobs for $35.00.” Assistantâ€"“She says if either of them had the measles again would the price he the same. Could you keep their formula standing?” Dr. Wrangellâ€"“Tell her the number of calls would probably be the same. If they have them within three years. I will take oflf five per cent.” Assistantâ€"“She says could you send some samples over, of people you have cured?” â€"“Let me seeâ€"Mrs. Stratonâ€"Cured. Mr. Forbesâ€"Cured. John Williamsâ€" Cured. Jack Hennessyâ€"No, I couldn’t send him over. know. doctor." “Yesh tell her I have two or three good samples.” Assistantâ€"“She says she will let you Perhaps it is the inevitable that it should come up again in a court case, but that it should appear so early in the year is somewhat: of a. surprise and a bit of a disappointment. We refer to the old line fence dis- pute. Read about it in an exchange yes- terday. Two farmers had lived side by side for about 22 years; never had any trouble of any kind; best of friends and Came a time for renewing a fence between the properties, and two of the boys of one family undertook to dig the holes and put in the posts, while the other farmer was to put on the wire. That looked like a fair enough division of the labor and costs. All went well until one farmer found that the boys had put the fence about two feet over the other man’s properâ€" ty. Of course it was described in more technical terms than that when it came to court. It was all set out in such a way as to indicate that a sur- veyor and a lawyer had been secured to apply the technical and legal sur- roundings for the right. Evidence showed that there had been many disputes over the affair. Thechildrenusedtotakeitupon about it until there were a blows struck. There was no decision given by othe wrong, adding that the good-feeling of one family toward another was a great- erthingthantheMOnofafoot or so of ground. fence between them, but 3 IF OTHERS DID ' AS PRINTERS DO Dr. Wrangell (consulting card index) SCENEâ€"A DOCIOR’S OFFICE acrossthefieldfromonehouseto A Play In One Act OLD LINE FENCE THE DURHAM CHRONICLE NAILS AND OTHER THINGS STILL MADE BY One of the few crafts that have survived the age of machinery is that of making hand-wrought nails, which is still carried on at Lye, in the Mid- lands of England. Although machinery can produce nails at a far greater speed than they can be made by hand, it cannot equal them for toughness, and hand- wrought nails are especially used for shoeing horses, to obviate the danger of a broken nail in the hoof. There are still a score of nailers working at Lye, one of whom is a woman; they can each make, on an average, 20 pounds of nails a dayâ€"a smallv duantity compared with the 24,000 nails which a modern machine turns out in an hour. In Wales and Durham “Quilt Wivw” quilting, the art of which has been handed down from mother to daugh- ter. The wool for wading is bought locally and is first washed and carded; it is then placed in the frame between the two outer coverings of the quilt. andthewholeisreadytobestitched. turner wholivwinBerkshire is the lastoneleftinEngland. The bowls which are made of elm- Bowl-tummg, at one time 3 1101111511- ing craft in England, has now nearly PastPresidentoftheCanadianAma- cups and bowls, “treen” astheyare difler considerably over the birth-place of Canada’s winter sport, hockey. Many placaclaimthehonorforbeingthe Thefirstactualggmethatwehave anyaccuraterecordof,wasstagedin University and the Royal Military Col- amundthebandstandonhisway. A good?- “wmmmm”w themâ€"Jum- THE ORIGIN OF HOCKEY Jack Strathdee, the very able winter sports director at the Cha- teau Frontenac, his friends will be pleased to learn, is losing weight. Jack runs a summer camp at French River in the fishing season and he took his present job for the reason that he wanted to rest and draw a salary at the same time. When he has time to reflect, and this is seldom, he longs for the easy job of operating a camp and handling a crowd of Indian guides. He finds no rest, for during every daylight hour there is soEnethifig doing on the ski- uill, on the rink. on the slide:- and a hundred people to provide with sports equipment and di- rection. But he keeps fit as they all do. The air is bracing and invigorating and there is lots of fun. ' portant than clothes? That friends are more than money? than the giving of gifts? That gentleness is more important than cleverness? That smiling faces are more import- ant than regular features? That a helping hand is more im- portant than advice? That stability and reliability are more important than ability? That willingness is more important than skill? And, last of allâ€" That sharing is not only more im- In the group above one sees the director assisting Their 'Ex- cellencies Lord and Lady Will- ingdon who have just come down the slide for the third time. The other group perhaps explains why he finds so much pleasure in his work and why the has taken up skiing again. There is also a picture of his rink which shows how the slide in the back- ground drops down steeply from the citadel. But take the other picture. This will show you Jack Stnath- dee’s most recent discovery. Be- yond the dogs and the terrace is a field of free ice. Beyond that the Isle of Orleans is a shadowy form. Now to the left of the Island, just above the lamp standard. great slabs and chunks of crystal and opaque ice hurled themselves in a mass, Ste. Petronille The Royal Bank .; of Canada ANEWhorizon opens out before the man with money. With 31,000 saved you can looktothefiJtutewithconfidenoe-Wtone of these easy savings plans now:â€" SLM in 4 yearnâ€"costs $940.16 in weekly DO YOU KNOW? would probably be about as cast reefs of glistening cplnnacles to the sky in one glorious chaos and screechingly, groaningly set- tled down. Then the mayor of St. Gregoire and__the mayor of Ste-Petronifille set out, each armed with a small spruce cut- ting. They met somewhere in the centre of the river, solemnly shook hands, and the ice bridge was declared open. It was after that, that the sports director drove over and discovered Ste- Petronille with its ski slopes and toboggan and snowshoe pros- pects, and also the “Catalogue". The "Catalogue” has a rubble- \ stone fire place of catalogue about the floor end as window dTaxpes. the oddest old furnituret and quaint bed-rooms and. above 2.11 a splendid cuisine. It is {less than one hour from Quebec and The Morning After A man who was city-bound on a street car was accosted by the conduc- tor as follows: “Well, sir, I hope you arrived home safe last night.” “Why, of course I got home safe; why shouldn’t I?” “Well, it’s like this. While you were in this car late last night a lady got in and you offered her your seat.” “What of that? Whilst I recognize the equality of the sexes, I neverthe- less also recognize that the age of civil- ity is still alive." “Of course, sir, just as you say, but I thought it a little peculiar as only you and the lady were in the car at twenty-two lit matchw ave} four thousand stepped on it.- Last year gas killed four thousand. it, PAGE 8’. ‘3?