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uisite satig. your Were way , munmea the and the M rt le M dleep breaths, she will have no occaâ€" sion to complain of nerves, even if her daily duties are confining. If it is out of the question to take this hour‘s walk in the morning, take it in the evening after dinner. You may rot have as much sleep, but it is rcfreshing and will more than compensate for the time expended. Any woman who has a moderate «degree of health can walk. If she will rise an hour earlier in the morning and walk, with the body erect, chest strongly expanded, swinging the arms at the side of the body as a man does, and take great Many women, because they are tired at night, think that they do not need physical training, that they have already taken too much ; but this is a mistaken idea. Houseâ€" work, says a writer in the Woman‘s Worla, tends to make women nerâ€" vous and irritable unless they obâ€" tain diversion in the form of exerâ€" eize or healthful recreation. When women are nervous or bordering on hysteria and feel like cerying or screaming, a little well chosen exerâ€" eise follewed by a cool bath will imâ€" prove these conditions, and, if perâ€" s‘sted in, will eventually cure them. newspapers, week zines should be in civies and â€" pel* mies and sociology â€" schools and college drawn from actual cant and illnminat case system Prescribed for the Person Borderâ€" ing on Hysteria, law the use epinions . should _ | schoolroorms as illust pretative of certain moral. social. histor ever . possit It is reco; that pupils « dry and ped: ture. It is also pils are interes things and deve! newspapers friends Practice makes the miser perfect in his specialty. peal par finding the ing and profital S1Cs mat U 86 ne w men whom he not think as m think . the In a recent installment of his diary he made the statement that he had been studying the faces of western womenâ€"women of western western w Europe at pleased w faces of t! too much acter to : Enrope and America. He was not pleased with them. He found the faces of these women indicative of too much intellectuality and charâ€" acter to suit him. He could imâ€" agine that the husbands of such woâ€" men must have a tough time. favorite Ni ladv Abdu! Hamid, former Sultan of Turker, is keeping a diary. Abdul, it will be remembered, was providâ€" ed with a fine palace at the time of his dethronement and permitted to take his wives with him into reâ€" tirement. _ The exact number of Abdul‘s wives has never been auâ€" thoritatively stated. It is variousâ€" ly estimated that there are between forty and one hundred of them. With even forty wives an ordinary man would hardly find time to keep a diary. _ Nevertheless, Abdul is keeping one, and it is being pubâ€" Ly lished NOTES ANDCOMMENTsS )e a uty We NERYOUS SHOULD WALK. m N it tea w h t p« scernible. It â€" therefore, that posed to pity t n whose faces the mind of the Oriental, y consists largely of fat. The te of the harem is a rotund In h n inte‘ligent MJ ind maga TNL O e zed more and more i certain age dislike ic «lissection of clasâ€" ponding to the apâ€" nd it is being pub rman paper. ted and re n al features a It is not that Abdul ago John Morley ted the intelligent rspapers in schoolâ€" and libraries. The a popular. In the irrent â€" new istrative or inter in principles â€" orical. ng the n ment editorial discus terary and draâ€" now regularly nolti cauty in litera gnized that pu in the men )€ rnalism current pular te 1e husbands of indicate that thoughtful and s pr UI Illustrations hd accurate and magaâ€" teao_hinz of In libraries rd in treate L Y What the that their stimulat N rres31V nts are surprisâ€" Hamid ut in Wherâ€" ndar mifi im «io | ""lofty"‘ (mguntain) for the proper they | houn Moriah in this passage, $ * | while the Vulgate, the earliest Laâ€" tin translation, has the noun "visâ€" ion.‘"‘ This would seem to indicate [orley | that the proper noun itself was inâ€" ligent |serted later. Following either the hnoor Septuagint or the Vulgate reading, ‘the two oldest which have been preâ€" The +served to us, the command was n the |simply to proceed into the mounâ€" rrent | tainous country, probably to the iseus. | north, and to offer a burntâ€"offering j _ upon one of the mountains which draâ€" | Jehovah himself was to designate. rlarly | 3. Rose early in the morning.â€" »ssive | Suggesting, as already indicated, s are ithat the communication from Jeâ€" ulat. | hovah was received in a dream or vision. 1 Two of his young menâ€"Servants. ' Clave the woodâ€"Or, as we wonld‘ mor? | say, split the wood. )are ind LN« In 12. Lay not thy hasad upon the ladâ€"The sacredness of human life receives a new and great emphasis in this command. 11. And the ange!: of Jshovah called unto himâ€"Abraham recognizâ€" es the voice, whether audible or heard only in the inmost recesses of his soul, as the voice of divine command. It is made clear to him that while the absolute trust and obedience involved in such a sacâ€" rifice is desired of God, yet God does not require the sacrifice itâ€" self. _ Bound Isaac his sonâ€"There is no suggestion of resistance on the part of the boy. The custom of human sacrifice was doubtless not unfamilâ€" iar to him, since surrounding peoâ€" ples commonly practiced it at this time. The underlying idea of such sacrifices was the surrender of that ‘which was of highest value to the deity. _ Under the later kings, especially Ahaz and Manasseh, the custom still existed in parts of Judah (compare 2 Kings 16. 3; 21. 6; 23. 10. ; Jer. 7. 31; 19. 5; Ezek. 16. 20; 23. 37; Isa. 57. 5) The Deuteronomic law, however, strenuâ€" ously forbade the practice (Deut. 12. 31; 18. 10), while the prophets also strongly condemned it (Mic. 4. On the third day . . . the place afar offâ€"The place selected must, \ therefore, have been three days‘ \journey from Beersheba. The exâ€" 'act distance would vary with cirâ€" | cumstances. ~If we are to think of | the vicinity of Jerusalem, it may be | estimated that the journey from \Beersheba would, after Oriental fashion, have occupied from seyvâ€" ;entwrn to twenty hours‘ continuous |traveling, a «listance which might |be conveniently divided into three | days. 6. Took in his hand the fireâ€"The method by which the ancient Israeâ€" lites secured fire is nowhere exâ€" plained, though a reference in the Book of Maccabees speaks of "firâ€" ing stones and taking fire out of them‘‘ (2 Maccabees 10. 3), from which it may be inferred that fire was obtained by striking stones toâ€" gether. Here, however, it seems that Abraham had carried the burnâ€" mg embers with him, keeping the fire burning all the way . 7. Where is the lamb for the burntâ€"offering !â€"The boy was quick to observe that while all the accesâ€" sories of the sacrifice had been carefully provided, the offering itâ€" self had apparently been over. looked. 9. The place which God had told him ofâ€"No name is mentioned, for the reason that it was this event which gave to the place its name, Compare verse 14. 8, God _ will provideâ€"Hebrew, God will see for himself, or, as we would say, "see to the matter himâ€" self." Here, as in verse 5, there is a suggestion of hope to which the father was still clinging. 5. We will worship, and come againâ€"Doubtless â€"Abraham _ still cherished the faint hope that in some way his son might be spared or restored to him. |_ _ And saidâ€"Verse 3 would seem to }imply a dream or night vision. 2. Thy son, thine only son, whom ithuu lovestâ€"After the rejection of \Ishmael, Isaac alone remained to ’;\braham. and the emphasis upon their relationship to each other as |father and only son is intended to \indicate in advance the severity of |the demand about to be made. ! The land of Moriahâ€"The name \later given to the hill on which the |\ temple at Jerusalem was built. The | Septuagint, or earliest Greek verâ€" sion of the Old Testament, howâ€" ever, substitutes the _ adjective 13, Abraham lifted up his eyesâ€" Lesson XI.â€"The test of Abrabam‘s faith, Gen. 22. 1â€"19. Golden text, Hos, 6. 6. Following the account of the deâ€" struction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the biblical narrative (Gen. 19. 30â€" 38) records the birth of sons to the daughters of Lot, Moab, ancestor of the Moabites, and Benâ€"ammi, ‘father of the children of Ammon." Chapter 20 contains the account of Abram‘s sojourn in the land of CGerar to the south, and his dealâ€" ings with Abimelech, upon whom he practiced the same deceit with reâ€" gard to Sarah, his wife, as earlier he had practiced on the king of Egypt (compare Gen. 12. 10â€"20). The birth of Isaac and the casting out of Hagar and her son, Ishmael}, toâ€" gether with Abraham‘s covenant with Abimelech at Beersheba, reâ€" ported in chapter 21, prepare the way for the account of*the great test of Abraham‘s faith and loyalty to Jehovah. ‘ God did prove Abrahamâ€"Put ting him to a severe test of obedi ence and faith. Verse 1. After these things â€" The longer sojourn of Abrazham in the land of the Philistines, reported in the preceding chapter. THE SUNDAY $S6H09. STUIY INTERNATIONAL LESsON, MARCH 16. _ Excited Boyâ€"She‘s too busy. She‘s got him down and she‘s bumpin‘ his head on the floor. Policemanâ€"Why don‘t she come herself, if she wants to make a comâ€" plaint, or have him arrested ? Excited Boyâ€"Come on quick! The ould man is batin‘ the ould woâ€" man. A&SHL,. * >!â€"544 * :3 PC | Are Ungder Mortial Law at Examiâ€" nation Times. Students. actually are worked to death in Wuchang, China, where every third year the quesrest colâ€" lege examination in the world is held. From 12,000 to 15,000 stuâ€" dents are locked in cells for three days while they struggle for a deâ€" gree. Bo great is the strain that frequently several of the students die before the end of the 72â€"hour bout, and several times hopeful candidates have been crtushed to death at the gate when trying to get in. Every row of cells has two servants who cook and attend to the wants of the candidates. Martial law prevails during the examinaâ€" tion, in which about only one per cent. of those who take it are sucâ€" cessful. An army of 20,000 tradesâ€" men, doctors, cooks, tailors undi printers gather in the university: town when the big examination is pulled off. A salute of guns is fired in honor of the lucky Chineso who skin through. We were rescued at last by a Norwegian ship which had seen our signal. The Norwegians who landâ€" ed said we looked wild and terrible, ‘like musk oxen.‘ And we, who had been alone on the ice for more than two years, could scarcely realize after our long solitude that there could be so many people in the world." "It is the terrible monotony that is the most awful thing about the Arctic regionâ€"the monotony and the constant dread of death. No man wants to die; I do not want to die. ‘‘Shakespeare was a great comâ€" panion, but a little white fox ran away with Shakespeare. I suppose our greasy, oily fingers gave the book a meaty flavor. The fox beâ€" came quite tame, and we made a great pet of him. He was just like & d()g. sSTUDENTS PLKCED IX CELLS "I had two books, Adam Bede and Shakespeare. I read Adame Bede over and over again ; I know it by heart. "I shut the door and boilted it, and Iversen put his back against it. The bear knocked again. ‘"Why didn‘t we shoot it!? _ Beâ€" cause the oil in our guns was frozen hard, and we couldn‘t get a cartâ€" ridge in. But, all the while, I was warming a gun, while Iversen stuck to his post by the door, and at last I managed to get a cartridge inâ€" just in time. The bear died. opened the door, wondering who the caller could beâ€"it was a huge bear ! "One day as I was breaking up some roots for fuel, I heard a knocking at the door of the hut. I Captain Mikkelsen set out to find the records left by Erichsen, anâ€" other explorer, who, with two comâ€" panions, Jied of starvation and eold in exploring the northâ€"east coast of Greenland. How the capâ€" tain and his companion were lost arose in this manner. _ They left their ship to cross the wilderness of ice and snow till they came to the point where the Erichsen party perished. Having obtained the lost records, they retraced their steps, and, after suffering terrible privi â€" tions, returned to the place from whence they had set out. To their horror they found that the ship had been wrecked and the crew gone. Captain Mikkelsen tells of his senâ€" sations on making this discovery : "Well, there we were in a hut by the shore. Our ship was gone, and we couldn‘t get away ; the quicksilâ€" ver froze in the thermometer. Captain Mikkelsen Spent Two Years on the Iee in Solitude. Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen, the intrepid explorer, who was lost in the Polar Regions for 28 months, with one companion, has been deâ€" scribing the terrible experiences they underwent. For a time he had been altogether absorbed in his own trying experiâ€" ence and struggle. Now that the probation was ended and the strain of suspense and fear over, his eyes saw what they had not seen before, a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. ® Offered him up for a buratâ€"offerâ€" ing in the stead of his sonâ€"And with double gratitude for the preâ€" servation of the child‘s life. IN THE POLAR REGIONS. Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen,. Can‘t Spare Time. He did so in my presence, and under one of the flagstones we disâ€" covered an iron box, Imagine our astonishment when on opening it, we saw 50 golden sovereigns and â€"Two Sets of False Teeth, At my suggestion. he buried the teeth in a churchyard, and gave the sovereigns to a local charity, From that time the hauntings ‘‘You must be far more clairvoyâ€" ant than any of us,‘‘ he said, ‘‘We have never seen anything, only heard such noises as you have deâ€" scribedâ€"scraping and screaming. I will have the cellar excavated at once."‘ That was enough for one night‘s vigil. I lost no time in getting to my bedrcoom, where I remained with the lights "full on‘"‘ till mornâ€" ing. My doctor friend was greatly interested when I related to him what had occurred. That done, she gave a low chuckle of satisfaction, and, picking up the candle, advanced to where I was standing. In mortal agony lest she should perceive me, I shrank back. Out she cameâ€"out into the black, narrow passage, and, gliding past me, her pale, sinister eyes fixed smilinhgly at the gloom ahead of her, ascended the staircase. At the top she paused; there was the sound of a violent scuffle, a chorus of awful bloodâ€"curdling screams, the rush of several heavy bodies through the air, a couple of terrific thuds at my feetâ€"and all was still. I could not see what was in the box, but from the clinking sound she made as she passed her fingers through its contents I judged it was full of coins. After amuvsing herself in this way for some seconds, she carefully closed the lid, placed the box in the hole, covered the latter with a flagstone, and cemented the crevices. Cautiously approaching on tiptoe, I peered in. Opposite me, eagerly engaged in cxamining the contents of an iron box, was an old woman. She was kneeling down by the side of a deep hole, and the light from the candle she had set beside her, {falling on her face, revealed a counâ€" tenance which for sheer deviltry would have been difficult to match. Hour after hour passed in perfect silence without anything happenâ€" ing, and I had almost begun to deâ€" spair of witnessing any phenomena when a sudden noise below me set my heart vialently throbbing. It was tne sound of some one scraping â€"scrape, â€" scrape, scrapeâ€"on a bard, motallic surface.. Impelled by a fascination I could not resist I crept gently down the wooden stairs, and, aiming for the direction of the noise, perceived A Bluish White Light proceeding from a halfâ€"open door The house was the last one in a fine old crescent, that in all probaâ€" bility had been erected about the beginning of the nineteenth cenâ€" tury. It bhad the deep and rather gloomy basements, long passages, and narrow staircases characteristic of that period. In the daytime it looked cheery enough, but directly the sun set and the evening shaâ€" dows made their appearance it unâ€" derwent an unpleasant metamorâ€" phosis. There is a peculiar someâ€" thing in the atmosphere of a hauntâ€" ed house that sooner or later beâ€" trays itself to me; in this instance it was most pronounced. I at once set to work to locate it, and at length arrived at the conâ€" clusion that it was most in evidence on the top landing, back staircases, and in the basemeets, which spots I resolved would constitute my noeâ€" turnal beat. As arranged, directly the household had ratired to bed I crept out of my room and, stealing softly across the thickly druggeted floor, took up my psition at the top of the stairs leading to the baseâ€" ment. "I won‘t tell you what form the hauntings take,"‘ he said. "I want you to ind out for yourself, and then we will compare notes.‘"‘ (One of my most exciting recent experiences was at a house in a Southern watering place, owned by an old schoolfellow of mine, whom I will call Dr. B. At his earnest reâ€" quest I spent a Twelfth Night with him. It is not, however, of the doings of research societies I am going to write, but of my own experiences. The publication of my book, ‘"Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales," by Mr. Eveleigh Nash, some years ago led to a large numâ€" ber of people writing to me to know if I would investigate Incxplicable Happenings at their houses, and the work so inâ€" terested me that I eventually set aside for it a certain portion of each vear. Bocieties devoted to psychical reâ€" search sprang up in various parts of the world, and, although no very ‘‘showy‘"‘ work has been accomâ€" plished, a vast amount of evidence has been collected, which goes far to proving the actual existence of haunted bouses and the occurrence of supernatural (styled by some ‘"‘superphysical"‘) manifestations. Not so very long ago the mere mention of the word "ghosts‘"‘ exâ€" cited general ridicule; toâ€"day it is otherwise. _ Theâ€" numerous testiâ€" monials of reliable people to the effect that they had seen or heard phenomena unaccountable by natâ€" ural causes at length led to an earâ€" uest and widespread desire to take the matter up and make a systemaâ€" tic investigation. SOME EXCITING ADVENTURES Days When Supernatural Stories Raised a Laugh Have © Passed By. wWEIRD EXPEBRIENCES IX A MAUNTED HOUSE. bers frust it ceiirakihes 3s . Doctor (to patient)â€"You‘ve had a pretty close call, It‘s only your strong constitution that pulled you through. Patientâ€"â€"Well, doctor, remember that when you make out your bill. Captain Battreau was able to prove that the rifle had indeed been his, and he received permission to keep it. A Dahomeyan warrior was killed in the act of levelling his gun at Captain Battreau of the Legion from behind a cottonâ€"tree. As he fell, his rifle clattered down at the officer‘s very feet. Captain Batâ€" treau saw that it was an old Chasseâ€" pot, and picked it up out of curiosâ€" ity. Suddenly he became very much interested. He examined it carefully, and at last exclaimed, with a gasp of astonishment : "‘Well, th‘s is a miracle! Here is the very rifle I used in 1870 durâ€" ing the war with Germany! See that hole in the butt! That was made by a Prussian bullet at Saintâ€" Privat. I could tell the gun from among a million by that mark alone; but here‘s my number stemped on it as well, which is oviâ€" dence enough for anybody. Who would have thought it possible that I should pick up in Africa, as a capâ€". tain, a rifle that I used in France as a sergeant twentyâ€"two years ago! It is incredible.," â€" ‘ Remarkable Find by Captain Batâ€" treau in Africa. While Mr. Frederic Martyn was serving in Africa with the French Foreign Legion there came under his notice an incident that he reâ€" cords in "Life in the Legion." The Legion had advanced against the Dahomeyan army, and was in pursuit of the black warriors. I nodded. Exactly a week afterward I reâ€" ceived a blackâ€"edged envelope from my friend‘s brother. "‘Isn‘t it dreadful!‘ the contents ran. *‘Charles (that was _ my friend‘s name) was found this mornâ€" ing quite dead, hanging by a cord to the beam at the) foot of his bed !‘ The house is now vacant. Too eerie a home for me ! "It‘s very odd,"‘ my friend obâ€" served, a few minutes later, as we helped ourselves to brandy ; "I can never see anything there, though I frequently have the sensation of being strangledâ€"of feeling someâ€" thing tight around my throat. Do you think someone hanged himself there ?" And, unable to bear the sight of it any longer, I beat a precipitate retreat. ‘‘There‘s nothing there,‘"‘ he said, his cheeks ashy pale. â€"‘"What do vyou see ?" ~"A skeleton!"‘ I gasped skeleton swaying to and fro Now for the tragic. I was lookâ€" ing over a house one day with the occupier, who had only just comâ€" menced his tenancy. "Gooed heavens!‘ I exclaimed. ‘"What‘s that?‘ "What ?"‘" my ‘Friend asked. ‘"‘Why, th&st thing suspended to the rafter over vour bed !" We were both so relieved we burst out laughing. The owner of the voice was another host-huntor’ who, oddly enough, hafi singled out the house and night for his investiâ€" gations. _ On hearing me move about downstairs, ho had made sure it was some kind of phantasm, and had just managed to screw up sufâ€" ficient courage to go and look. We spent the rest of the night in each other‘s company, but, beyornd the sourd of one or two rats, there were no other manifestations. So much for the humorous side of psychical research work. "I wish you would tell me wheâ€" ther you have any peculiar sensaâ€" tions when you enter this room,"‘ he said, ushering me into a large bedroom on the first floor. Fhere Was An Awful Pause, and then a voice, equally weak and frightened, faltered out: ‘"‘That is just what I was going to ask you !"! Nearer, nearer, nearer‘! At last, unable to bear the suspense any longer, the hair on my head literalâ€" ly standing on end, I jumped up, and, in a voice quivering with emoâ€" tion, asked, in heaven‘s name, who it was and what it wanted. For some seconds Coming to the conclusion that the best thing I could do was to remain where I was, I flopped on the door and had just succeeded in making myself talarably comfortable when the sound of some one moving about overhead sent the blood to my heart. Who on eaArthâ€"what on earth could it be? What but a ghost! For assuredly nothing else would be in such a house at such an hour. The sounds came nearer and nearer, over the landing, down the stairs, andâ€"horror of horrorsâ€"into the room towards me. it, ard with this plea obtained the keys from the agent. I entered the premises after sunset, and, armed only with a candle, was procesding to make an examination of the place when an icy current of @ir blew out the light, and I wes left hopelossly stranded in the darkâ€"in the intense dark, for the sky was heavily clouded, and there were signs neither of moon nor stars. To add to my predicament, I covld not find any matchâ€"box. I usderwent rather a different experience to this in a house in one of the London suburbs. Hearing that the place was supposed to be haunted, I pretended I warnted to look over it with the idea of renting ceased.. A year or so later he wrote to me, saying: ‘‘After endless enâ€" quiries, I have at last ascertained that this house was once occupied by two old ladies‘ reputed to be misers.â€" They were frequently heard quarreling, and were found one day at the foot of the kitchen staircase with their necks broken." A RIFLE RETURNED. Entitled to Rebate. ONTARIO 193 TORONTO Billâ€"‘"Why did you break your engagement with that school teaâ€" cher ("‘ Jackâ€""If I failed to show up at her house every evening she expected me to bring a written exâ€" cuse signed by my mother."‘ The method of construction is to lay a solid concrete baze and imâ€" pose a two inch sandâ€"cushion for the brick. A grout filer united the brick into one solid substance. _ Good brick roads cost the county $1,000 a mile for each foot of width. Btone curbing with an expansion joint is used to protect the edge of the pavemengt. Usually one half of the road is paved, the right hand half for the heavierâ€"loaded traffic that is bound toward town. The other half of the road is graded and can be used in dry weather. The growth of the public markets in Cleveland is one of the beneficial results of the good roads movement, and it is one of the very best ways to fight the increased cost of living, for it brings the producer and conâ€" sumer together to a much greater extent. _ Easy transportation has encouraged the production of marâ€" ket truck, and turned a good part of the county into a vast garden. Country life has become popular with city people of means, who can motor in to the city easily and quickly, and the farm for pleasure ard the benefits of the country life. This has been an important factor in raising the value of farm proâ€" perty..;. :. A The increased revenue from the boosted land values has counterâ€" balanced all the expense of paying for the road work. City and county real estate ten years ago totalled $171,000,000 in value. Toâ€"Jay it has risen to $605,000,000, an increase of $434,000,000. Farm lands in the country ten years ago were worth #29,000,000, but now are worth $101,000,000, showing an increase of $72,000,000. The three County Commissioners who manage the road building, are Messrs. William F. Eirick, Harry Vail and John G. Fisher. Mr. Eiâ€" rick says that the large expenditure on rural roads has really" not cost the county anything. A thousand miles of brick paveâ€" ment has been laid in the city and county combined, and 110 miles of rural brick roads will be added this year, while 43 miles of brick paving has also been contracted fer in the city. The good roads policy has had many beneficial results, both for the farmers and the city populaâ€" tion, and the value of farm lands has increased in some cases from 875 to 8300 per acre during the last ten yvears. The highways radiating out from the city, and other main roads, have been paved with brick, which will endure the heaviest motorâ€" driven traffic for from 50 to 100 vears. 1,000 Miles in Cleveland, Ohio, and Surrounding Country. There is probably no place on the continent where more attention has been paid to the improvement of country roads or where the benefits accruing from such a policy, have been so striking as in the county of Cuyahoga, Ohio, in which the city of Cleveland is situated. HMHow many a student becomes a scholar by privations in school! Many a poor man has become wealâ€" thy by enduring the pinchings of economy. There is no attainment that does not rest on some pain. There is less hardship in the fire salt of suffering in order to become scholarly, forehanded, or good than in the salty fire of ignorance, povâ€" erty, and wickedness. Toil of Preparation. It is painful to learn the consoâ€" lations of heaven, but not so agonâ€" izing as comfortless sorrow. _ The toil of preparation is severe, but not so distressing as chance lost because of unreaginess to seize it. It is wearisome to live truly, but not so full of anguish as to reap the fruit of one‘s sins. Every soul is sure to be salted. If the fires of training are spurned, the flames of consequence use us as fuel. Socially we must have resourceâ€" fulness. _ Three great sins Jesus called attention to in the contextâ€" ambitions at the expense of others ; the wish for a monopoly of priviâ€" lege, and indifference to the wel fare of others. The social world reeks with these crimes. The true Resourcefulness â€" costs. Every one is salted with fire. If hand or foot or eye are triggers to traps, get rid of them and gain something better than to hold on to everyâ€" thing and forfeit the best. _ There must be fire, either that of discipâ€" line or of punishment. Pain is an element in education, or else it is the fruit of folly in despising it Suffer in winning, or suffer more in losing. fire. Have ~salt in ‘)fl'o\;â€"r;;\l;es. ~â€"â€" Mark ix. 49â€"50. There are two kinds of lives, those who help and those that, all the time, need help. . In business we see creators and dependents ; in litâ€" erature, originals and quotations ; in social life, suns and statellites ; in all life, the healthy and paraâ€" sites. Religion also has its exhiâ€" bits of ministerial © nurses and ecâ€" clesiastical infants. It sometimes looks as if only a minority in any realm have salt in themselves,. One fraction in each sphere must fur nish preservative for the integer. Selfishress Is the Root From Which the Black Blooms of Social Sins Come SHOULD BE RESOURCEFUL Every one shall be salted with BRICK PAYEMEXNTsS. adP Imagination is what keeps the doctors busy, In Chili, during the winter or season, the shops are closed all afternoon, and remain open nadaight,.:!.,. _« .0. > Strawberries are so called from the custom of placing straw over their roots to shade them, to preâ€" serve their moisture, and to prevent evaporation. _ f Forty miles of stee! have been laid on the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway. The end of steel is now twenty miles be yond Morinville, Violins are now aged with Xâ€"rays., Gossip has a hundred tongues and no heart. A ship‘s life is 25 years. Don‘t think that because you #ast reflections people will deem you brilliant. The country about Cardston has been baving some of the worst storms ever. . Big ranches were foreed to suspend feeding till the blizzards stopped. The Medical Officer of Health of Calgary eays the death rate of 52 per 1,000 in typhoid cases is far too> high. There were 70 deaths in 319 cases. The directors of the Edmonton Fair are now facing the question of putting in pariâ€"mutue! machines at the track to replace â€"the bookmaker. There were 1,000 deaths from all causes in the city of Calgary during the year just passed.. O these 393 were of children under five. Lethbridge Council lately refused to permit Sunday band concerts in the moving picture show houses on the collection basis. Fourteen Edmonton families are in trouble because they cut their Christmas trees in Rat Creek Park. The cooks and wa‘iters of Calgary have organized a union with fifty members, The Great West Lumber Com pany has 450 men employed in camps weet of Olds, Alberta. Prince Albert is to have a pro fessional baseball team this sum mer in the WesternCanada League The P. Burns Company plant at Calgary, recently burned, is to be rebuilt on a greater scale. Water tanks, hose and foros pumps are to be purchased by the town of Irricana. Brandon is to have a municipal line known as the Brandon Rural Radial Railway, J. A. Glasgow has received the position of town policeman in the towa of Olds. The Rational Sunday League peoâ€" ple are about to form a branch in Calgary. A Hollanders‘ Club has been organized in Edmonton. The C.P.R. shops are not to be removed from Revelstoke. NEWS OF THE MIDDLE WEST Moral Resourcefualness is not wanted by many. We shrink from the severity of discipline. Again, our fellows all about us are selfâ€"indulgent. Why _ not we? Again, there are no quick cash reâ€" turns from simple goodness. A!ll the world lives for money. Why should we be peculiar? The man with riches has them in lands, seâ€" curities, things outside of himsell. The rich man has inner wealth. There is infinity between them. A rotten selfhood often controls milâ€" lions. A rich selfhood often lives from hand to mouth. Strip men of the accidental garments of mere things until souls are naked and we then see who has most resources. The true antiseptic, personal and social, is in selfhood, not environâ€" ment, not legislation, nor quack salines of political economy. Moral sufficiency comes only from God. Both the #ocial organism and its units, â€" individual lives, can fnd their preservation nowhere â€" else than in the principles that the Nazarene revealed. Here only is the salt of the earth. Eternal law savs, ‘‘Buffer in attaining, or sufâ€" fer for not attaining." _ Every realm of life illustrates it.â€"Rev. Wm. C. Bitting, D. D. The libertine holds on to hand, foot, eye, avoiding the maiming of indulgence, but fights the fires of volcanoes of remorse, shame, and ostracism. . Every man is his broâ€" ther‘s keeper. Many repudiate the trust to become pensioners on the resources of others in every realm of life. BETWEEX ONXTARIO AXxD B&R1Iâ€" TISH COLUMBIA. Items From Provinces Where Many Ontario Boys and Girls Are **Making Good." man will salt himself with their opposites. The cross of Christ meant ambitions for humanity, sharing of heavenly privilege with mankind, and love for the happiâ€" ness of the race. Belf sacrifce is the seed from which the cross grew. It costs to serve men, but it is not so expenâ€" sive as to cheat them. It is painâ€" ful to be the slave of humanity, bat not so agonizing as to be hated by every one. Both the heartless, godless rich and the heartless, godless poor avorid the social fires of service, and socially reap the crackling flames of consequence. Fact and Fancy. hot the till