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ested neral Labo e Absorbed OFS UP 1N RESERYVOIR. se In August t Year the advance in the t month was prinâ€" is aro nmot very (079 d ANTE durng thoe com & 1mmi'ru;1 g to W* 1@ ;h., 'dm h at home, du s st leaskt d‘ Interesat. PNOrs. i serious outâ€" Hungary and Esypt‘s Cotton iter atored by ir this winter mes the quanâ€" is ye.n.’yli.d ccoedingly low . and the food oir water was possible, yebk y 15 by which »1, during this itor arrived atb | and 700 tons ‘r is now nearâ€" one grand serâ€" veen :.pnl 4 elp the river er oontributo‘ been equal to hole duehargo :an during the an . erperimentay W P Wnn tigais 1. . all be outclassed * we Mn‘.onu in bogy. ourse, "old«n’.‘ * alle /: Morang the seroplune a in at« -om.= in turn out And ca.eonnq. un Btate that time, howâ€" ‘a . will ’mfiz or _ more will begin again, ind pods deâ€" . zbove the tion of the reâ€" erage figures . but during ibove Assuan is. The last cop issues by irtment, on orable. The where look :. the cotton : in both the wok place. :. fow daye, ain this week, dnssday Ni on Office will e percentage r was much nad arrived. considerubiz pto the mi« rvice of the Department, with the levâ€" he Nilo, has year in its As late as d that the â€" early than rmal _ chil« Miss Peda gen r than it has has not yet »seires, 420 on the Blue first point river i. “k' d to Cairo. tra _ water lam â€" allows is been used + result that nce has been Chief of least. the Zeit 1867 cases it grains Yes, one NOTES ANDCcOMMENTS A quarry miner of Northumberâ€" land, Engiand, has focused attenâ€" tion on himsel! of late by reason of his prodigious memory. This singular man appears to possess a mind similar to a phonograph reâ€" cord. He can repeat, for example, long lists of words both backward and forward a‘ser they have been read out to him once only ; he can reproduce, after a single hearing, as many as half a dozen pages ot a book;, he recently won a large wager by glancing through a pamâ€" phiet of coster songs and recling Buch a prodigy as this miner is only a trifle less impressive than the lightnmning calculator who can extract the cube root of 678,954,â€" 867,0935 in his head, and he serves as an exeuse for the London Standâ€" ard to moralize a bit on the decay of memory. Only among the relaâ€" tively illiterate, says the Standard, are such memories likely to be found toâ€"day ; unless people are inâ€" sulated somehow against the strong ourrent of contemporary print, they rely on memory very little. In the mediaeval days, on the contrary, you might reasonably expect to enâ€" sounter a man who could unburden his mind of thousands of lines of Vergil or pages of Tacitus with as great facility as a magician pulls rabbits from a hat. mem off wiithout an error, though the reading occupied twenty minâ€" Learning by heart, as the saying is, used to be a labor of love with our forefathers, if we are to believe wll we hearâ€"which we don‘t quite. You will read in the biographies of actors of the heroic period that, if wll the works of Shakespears had tragically perished in some worldâ€" wide conflagration, such and such a treader of the boards could have sat down if the flames had spared himâ€"and â€" restored _ Shakespeare word for word. Literary men like Macaulay had a most inconvenient way of flooring their opponents in parliament and elsewhere by appoâ€" site quotations from the classics that lacked nothing whatever in their fullness. But the tide has now so completely turned that we find Mr. Chesterton making it a test of copious reading to misquote. The place to carry literature is in the head, he argues, and unless a man misquotes now and then we may be certain he isn‘t rememberâ€" ing at all, but going back to the original source. Thus Mr. Chesterâ€" ton mesumes that memorizing is more or less of a pretence toâ€"day. Perhaps it is in some degree, bub! it is still more a dreary task, a) penalty for wrongdoing, which fact indicates suficiently how hard meâ€" morizing has become for moderns. One hundred lines of Vergil or a page of Cicero used to be the re-i gular sentence imposcd upon luckâ€" less youth "kept in‘" after school.’ The sonorous Latin‘s landscapes compensated presumably for the: gonuine landscapes through which | the culprit vainly longed to wanâ€" | der. Mateful task! How dreary: became the pastoral view so lovingâ€"| ly depicted by the poet. The mur-E mur of the sea among the mountâ€"| ains could hardly compensate for| the want of the murmur of thel winds among the trees of freedom.| UOne wonders how many who have | forgotten even the tale of Didol could yet reel off one hundred lines| of choicest Latinâ€"the last bit of: heroic memorizing they ever acâ€" complished ! For once in a way the fellah has come put on top, and the wouldâ€"be market manipulators are â€" bitterly rueing that they did not find out "hye many boears mads fivre" heâ€" fore thoy touched them. duce. As a result, prices dropped. But the follash was not to be had. He continuod to sschow beans, and as the Jlatter do not improve by kecping, and the banks, who had, in axamo cases, advanced tho corâ€" merers on their stocks, began to forse them to realize, prices have gone down to such an extent that the stocks thave all had td be sold st a dead lo#s. [eastintsok Exgyptians Won‘t Buy Them When Price Is Raisod. It has been said Lord Kitchener‘s Egyptian homestead law had rained the trade of the usurers who had in the past reaped untold profits out of the Juckless fellah, whom they had been won‘t to expoit to an infamous degrec. 4 t But some of those gentry, shrewdâ€" er than their colleagtes, found what they thought was a surer means of making vast profits. They know the fellah amd his cattle lived at certain times of the year on beane, grown locally. So they deâ€" cided to corner the bean supply, which is only just sufficient to meet the demand. Up went the price by leaps and bounds, and the fellah began to find beans becoming someâ€" what of a Inxury. Now the fellah may be improviâ€" dent, but he is no fool. He at once stopped buying beans, and fed himâ€" selft and his cattle on other proâ€" CORNER IN BEAXNS FAILS. ' With the coming of autumn and |\the predicted exciusive reign of the small hatâ€"at least for street wearâ€"the veil comes again into its own. Some devotees, of course, remain true to the veil even in the warmer weather. Some veilâ€"lovers try to get around the fact that veus ‘ are uncomfortable by wearing a ‘freak veil, like the nose veil seen at some of the seaside resortsâ€"a ‘little veil that was liften from the chin to the nose and tied under the | Panama hat. _ These new veils are worn trimly ‘and snugly fitted over the hat brim, and are then drawn over the face, slacked a little over the point |of the nose and chin and pulled in in fords about the neck. They are held together at the base of the hair with veil pins or hairpins. ‘ Unlike much that characterizes | the present fashions, they are the epitome of neatness. If they are not drawn trimlj' and smoothly ‘over the hat and hair, they are \not smart. And there are always women ready to take up a fancy, no matâ€" ter how warm the weather, like the mystery veilsâ€"heavy veils that showed only the eyes through a little clearing of transparent net. But most women, devotees to veils though they be, refuse to wear them in the summer. And when summer sanctions the wearâ€" ing of big hats the veil is forgotten. Veil weather is coming back again in America, and with it a big showing of interesting weaves and designs on the part of the makers of veils. The most interesting of the new veils are important. French woâ€" men, it is said, are not paying much attention to veils this season, . but American women always like them. They are called "novelties.‘‘ Like many new things, this ‘"novelty‘‘ veiling is expensiveâ€"partly beâ€" cause it is a novelty and partly beâ€" cause it is well made. The mesh is of rather heavy cotton threads, woven together to form laceâ€"lke patterns on various sorts of backâ€" grounds. es Bome of the grounds are of alâ€" most tulleâ€"like fineness, and some are lined heavily with threads runâ€" ning parallel to each other, all in one direction, from end to end of the veiling. Some have checked backgrounds, squared _ off with heavy threads. This veiling is made in both black and white. Lace veils, to be worn loosely with the larger hats, are still fashâ€" ionable. They are as varied in design as in price, and that is sayâ€" ing a good deal. The preference is given to a design which shows a rather small, decided motif, reâ€" peated with mathematical preciseâ€" ness. The big, showy, allover deâ€" sign is not so much in favor as this small, equally striking, pattern. The French variation of the linâ€" geric dressâ€"lace tunic and black satin skirtâ€"is seen daily. A current red serge, trimmed with dark blue satin at the cutts and revers, is chic and becoming. The all tulle hat of black is quite the thing, the transparent crown leaving the coilfure plainly to be seen. Very popular is the normal waist line, with the broad sash, which suggests the upper line of a high attachment. Maline is more used than ever, and there is scarcely a gown withâ€" out the plaited frills or ruffle of this soft material. The dividing line between tunic and skirt drapery is so dim that one can scarce distinguish the one from the other. Gowns of white voile and lace are noticeable among the pretty new costumes. They frequently have tunics of embroidered voiles in colored flower effects. The favorite embroidery at the moment for fine lingerie dresses s the East Indian or blind work, with no holes, but broad flat flowâ€" ers and leaves evenly and finely worked. Bohemia, the centre of Austria‘s beer production, brewed more than threeâ€"cights of the total output, whils Hungary is credited only with a litt‘s over oneâ€"tenth, Four, broweries wore responsible for oneâ€"seventh of the total producâ€" tion. The Pilsen Citizens‘ Brewery comes first with 609,000 barrels, about 2,000 barrelse per working day, which is half as much again as the second on the list. The very hest effect must be a feature of the new neckwear. _ It has been accepted by fashion as a touch worth while. ( ers and leaves evenly and finelyi ‘‘*Very few,‘"" he replied, "and it worked. may interest you to know that Weivedere rerammen U i nierersramentthtes there is no s]u(nh thing as a female 5 akr 5 cannibal. Although the men may AUSTRIEA l)RliE? LESS BEER+| cat human flesh the women of the C s uh tm M s same tribe never do. The women Stat!flu:s Showm.g 'hf' Output ABd | ovo further advanced than the men, Consamption in 1912. |\ard they band together to protect Judging from the official returus%t}lem“]_"os from ‘man, the monsâ€" just published, AustriaHungary‘s ter.‘ Yos, the movement for equal consumption of beer seems: to b,\%snffrage is probably stronger in stcadily decreasing. The total out.| Central Africa than anywhere in put for 1912 was 14,764,000 barrels,| the world." which was mearly 3 per cent. less| _ ‘‘And were you ablg to convert than the precediug year. And in| these people to Christianity ?" view of abominably wet ard cold| ‘‘The tribesmen with whom I weather reported nearly every. made my residence were ready to where in the monarchy, the brow.l profess Christianity, but I disâ€" ers will be very lucky if they don‘t| suaded them from it. They would drop more than another 5 per cent. | NAY® been but nominal Christiars this year. | then, and T feared that a change of Bohemia, the centre of Austria‘s] faith w«,:u‘d result in their destrucâ€" beer production, brewed more than | tion. Unless you have seen them threeâ€"cights of the total output, | 48 they. are you have but a faint while Hungary is credited only with | conception of these black men in a litt‘s over oneâ€"tenth., their natural state. The ‘civilized‘ Four, broweries wore responsible | blacks have picked up all your vices for one seventh of the total produc.| and few of your virtues. But the tion. The Pilsen Citizens‘ Brewery| nCgro under natural conditions posâ€" comes first with 600,000 barrels,| S¢eses a culture of his own. He has about 2,000 barrels per working| 2 definite and delightful code of Anc whith ‘s nnif n« much nsm ue t oblqirefbte."" 3 s w s i.h cou e .. _ ‘Aw. what‘s the use* I haven‘t eold feet."‘ To outline the natural lines of the head, special attention is paid to bandeaux. They are jeweled and barbaric. Maker of Fact. ‘"Darling! Sweotheart! Can‘t I throw my burning heart atâ€" your feot 1‘ y h Veils Are Popular. Fashion Notes. l The Mormon people are making |rap:d gains in Canada. They are \the pioneers of Southern Alberta,. | and own upwards of 200,000 acres of |land in this country. Seven years | ago the Church purchased one tract | of 67,000 acres, which is being coloâ€" I nized with people from Utah. _ | of November, 1838.© He was the son | of Hyrum Smith, brother of the oriâ€" ‘ginal Joseph Smith, founder of the | Mormon Church. His mother was Joseph Smith Is a Man of Remarkâ€" able Ability. President Joseph Smith, head of the Mormon Church throughout the world, has just made a visit to Canâ€" ada, and while here dedicated the ground for the first Mormon Temple on British soil. The occasion was marked by a civic celebration in the town of Cardston, Alberta, where the event occurred. The president came in & private train with his councillors, bishops, and advisors, ard spent three days on Canadian soil. Jeseph Fielding Smith was born at Far West, Missouri, on the 13th Mormon Church, His mother was of Scotch descent, and from her the boy Joseph received his early eduâ€" cation, with the Bible as textâ€"book. h on d 4 c 20 00100020b c t Antitcatiie nc i 0 it In 1846, at the time the Mormons were compelled to fiee from Nauâ€" voo, Ill., young Smith was six years old, and his mother a widow. His father, Hyrum Smith, had been killed by a mob at Carthage, IlL., two years before. In 1848, when the long trek was made to Utah, the Smith boy, then 8 years of age, drove a team of oxen across the Western plains. Arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Joseph was nine years old, and became a herd boy of the Mormon cattlo. It is his provd boast that he "never lost a Spent Twentyâ€"Three Years in the Heart of Africa. A Scotchman, who lost himself in tho heart of Africa for 23 years, and who recently produced a book callâ€" ed "Thinking Black,"‘ has now arâ€" rived in America. He is known as "For 23 years," said Mr. Crawâ€" ford on his arrival, "I never wore a collar, never saw a train of cars, and hardly ever spoke to a white man. I really feel more negro than white man. A quarter of a century ago I was a young man and I was dying from consumption. I heard that the climate of Africa would be good for my trouble, and I went there as a missionary. I struck into the heart of the country alone and lived by my rifle. "I found the black men in Africa a magnificent race,‘"‘ Mr. Crawford continued. "I settled among & milâ€" lion of these people. They speak a wonderful language, which it took me years to learn. There are 23 tenses of the verb and the q0un has 19 genders. I translated the Bible into the Luban languag«, and also wrote a grammar, which, incomâ€" plete though it is, gives a pretty good idea of the tongue.‘"‘ hoof." Dainâ€"not Danielâ€"Crawford. The missionary author is a short man with sandy hair, beard and mousâ€" tache. He has sharp flashing eyes and a manner of speaking rapidly and with great emphasis. _ "Did you find any of the peoples cannibals?"‘ Mr. Crawford was askâ€" Mr. Crawford said that after his visit to Britain was over he would return to Africa, to live again among the people with whom he has chosen to «perd the greater part of his life. A man is all right in his way as long as he keops out of your way. sTORY OF DAN CRAWFORD. THE MORMON PRESIDENT. Mr. Joseph Smith. ‘‘To remain young, drink water â€"pure and soft water." SBo says a famous physician. ‘"Age," he says, is dryness and ossification.‘ Different authorities giveâ€" difâ€" ferent amounts of water as the proâ€" per ones to drink, but no hard and fast set of rules on this subject can be laid down. Drink a littie more water in the course of the day than you are in the habit of drinking ; that is a good rule for the beginâ€" ner. Gradually increase â€" the amount until every day you are drinking from three pints to two quarts of water. _ There is a difference of opinion as to the best time to drink water. Some physicians and dieticians say not to drink it with the meals, and some say that it is needed then. ‘The only way to find out whether A glassful of water as soon as you waken in the morning is a good thing. Ancther at bedtime is If clear water is unpleasant to you, and it is to some persons, try drinking it with a little femon juice, without sugar, squeezed into it. The lemon juice gives it some charâ€" acter and taste. This is not lemonâ€" ade, however, of the sweet, unâ€" fiavored sort. This sweet lemonâ€" a<le does not take the place of waâ€" ter. Neither does milk, which is a food in itself, and which realiy does not contain such a large perâ€" centage of water as asparagus does; and neither do the usual beâ€" verages, cofiee, tea and chocolate. They are either stimulants or food drinks, and in no way supply the part which water should take. it agrees with you at mealtimes is to try drinking it then. lf you have indigestion after meals, try eating without drinking and drink between meals. It is not at all rare to see a perâ€" son, especially an adolescent, makâ€" ing movement, rapid, sudden, and spasmodic, repeated from time to time, yet not due to any definite cause. These â€" movements _ are known as "‘tics." If such a movement be carefully analysed it will generally be found to have had a cause originâ€" ally. Thus a person with an error of refraction of the eyes may deâ€" velop a habit of blinking. sut if this error be corrected by glasses, and y€t this blinking persist, a false habit has been set up or, to put it another way, & tic has been developed. Himilarly an uncomâ€" fortably balanced hat may be the beginning of a jerking movement of the head, and an illâ€"fitting coat may . cause a shrugging of the shoulders. When such spasmodic actions are confined to a small group of muscles, as in blinking or snifing, they are usually called simple tics or habit spasms. Hereâ€" dity, mimicry and a nervous temâ€" perament are often responsible for them, and tics of slight severity may be due to overwork or to a condition _ of â€" general _ debility. These will disanpear when the genâ€" eral health improves. Where this kind of a habit has become firmly established the only way to cure it is to educate the higher nervous centres to control the movements. This form of treatment, together with attention to the _ general health, will generally soon prove efâ€" fectual. Some Odd Experiments Alleged to Have Boeen Made. Lord Rosebery‘s recent lament of the decay of mannors has led an inâ€" vestigator to test the question by the laboratory method, and he has "‘The first Londoner subjected to observation was a topâ€"hatted city man in a Liverpool street omnibus. Applying the treadingâ€"onâ€"theâ€"toe test, the operator exerted a twentyâ€" eight pound pressure on this man‘s patent leather shoes, and in reâ€" sponse to the apology, ‘Awfully sorry,‘ was gratified to hcar the subject come triumphantly out of the ordeal by his immediate ansâ€" wer, ‘Not at all, not at all.‘ ‘"On leaving the omnibus, the manners tester increased the presâ€" sure to forty pounds on the same toe, but the experiment could hardâ€" ly be classed as successful. "After a careful and prolonged examination, I have great pleasure in certifying that the general civilâ€" ity of London is well maintained, and might even be said to show a marked improvement over the figâ€" ures for the corresponding week last year. . "‘Using the reverse testâ€"that of allowing the toes to be trodden uponâ€"in ten cases of which record was taken nine persons said ‘Awfulâ€" ly sorry,‘ and the tenth declared that persons with feet like that ought to sit on the top of the omniâ€" bus and hang their legs over the raile. made the following report to the London Daily Express: 4 c ‘"‘The soup test, as applied at several West End _ restaurants, yielded equally successful results, the percentage of noise to the quanâ€" tity of soup consumed being slightâ€" ly under three per cent. Theose figâ€" ures, however, are only approxiâ€" mate, as some diners were eating soup in a distinetly foreign aoccent, and these cases could not properly be included in the English total. ‘‘Children in all parts of the city show a well marked desire to be polite, and there is a distinct imâ€" provement in the manner of asking for cigarette cards." Branding for crimes .was not abolished by law in Britain till Drink Water To Be Boiled. TESTING MANNERS. Nervous Habits. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO THE SUNDAY SCHODL STVDY Lesson XII. The Golden Cal (Temperance Lesson)â€"Ex. Chap. 82. Golden Text, 1 John 5.21 The clufters intervening between our last lesson and this _ne conâ€" tain sundry laws coveâ€"ing in deâ€" tail the legislation relating to sabâ€" baths, feasts, the furnishings and appointments of the tabernacle and the regulations governing its serâ€" vices. All these, according to the narrative, were revealed to Moses in the recesses of the mountain where he met with Jehovah face to face. Joshus had accompanied him part of the way, and for a st:ll shorter distance Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel also (compare Exod. 24. 1â€"15). While Moses tarried the people at the foot of the mountain became impatient of his return. The story of their impatience and apostasy and the consequent disâ€" pleasure of Jehovah is related in the opening verses of our lesson chapter. R. _ Verse 15. Went down from the mountâ€"Returned unto the camp of Israel. Two tablesâ€"Or tablets of stone, already mentioned in 31. 18. _ s 16. The tables were the work of Godâ€"Not so, however, the "two tables of stone like unto the first," which subsequently were substitutâ€" ed for these and which Moses himâ€" self, at the command of Jehovah, hewed out of the stone on the mountainside (compare Exod. 34 1â€"4). The writing was the writing of Godâ€"SBo also in the subsequent table (Exod. 34. 1). hugs The noise of the peopleâ€"Great demonstrations of religious ferâ€" vor, including especially singing and dancing, were characteristic of religious ceremonies in ancient times. $ C 17. Joshuaâ€"Who had now rejoinâ€" ed Moses on his way down the mountain. 4 18. The noise of them that sing â€"It was not the sound ~of conâ€" flict, but of festive singing, which came from the camp. 5 19. Moses‘ anger waxed hotâ€" Once before in his carly life had Moses grown exceedingly angry to the point of losing control of himâ€" self. On this occasion his anger caused him to cast the tables of the sacred testimony out of his hands and break them. Ce 4 34, 35. I will visit their sin upon themâ€"It is not clear whether the threatened visitation of punishâ€" ment is to be thought of as followâ€" ing immediately, or at some later time. From the expression, ‘"And Jehovah smote the people,""‘ some have inferred the former, while others think that the punishment referred to was the ultimate perâ€" ishing of the entire generation in the wilderness, specifically menâ€" tioned in Num. 14. 35: "In this wilâ€" derness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.‘" _ g0. The â€" calfâ€"A symbol _ of strength, borrowed from the reâ€" ligion of the Egyptians. . $ Made the children of Isracl drink of itâ€"Implying that this drinking would cause disease in those guilty of idolatry. Peradventure I shall make atoneâ€" ment for your sinâ€"Appease in some way the wrath of Jehovah, apparently by offering himself in their stead to be blotted out of the roll of God‘s people. 32. Forgive their sinâ€"; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy bookâ€"We are to supply in thought the ellipsis indicated by the dash, inserting some such words as "well and good," or "I am content,‘"‘ or "I have no more to say.‘‘ The broken phrases indiâ€" cate the deep feeling of Moses. Burnt it with fireâ€"The image would be cast over a wooden core. WilIe} lAAFPORI MIMRMIC AML MMCAMEDAE MR MICC cA people and the relentless punilh-i I was fishing a small troutâ€"stream ment inflicted by the loyal sons of that ran through a narrow mounâ€" Levi at the command of Moses,. _ |tain meadow, at times approaching 30. Sinned a great sinâ€"They quite near to the timber on either had not only broken a definite proâ€" \side. A friend was fishing the same mise, but in doing so had been| stream something like half an hour guilty of gross ingratitude toward before me. 1 became aware of a Jehovah. | voice droning a song. The sound Peradventure I shall make atoneâ€"| kept on, but I was very much interâ€" ment for your sinâ€"Appease in ested in my sport, and did not look some way the wrath of Jehovah, up. I crept along the shore, castâ€" apparently by offering himself! in ing my fiy. The sound all the time their stead to be blotted out of the| became more distinct. T thought roll of God‘s people. _______ _ _ | my friend had turned musical. Metchnikof Shows that Enemy of System Shuns Vegetables. Metchnikoff, the eminent investiâ€" gator and bacteriologist, appears to be intent on bringing back to earth the widely soaring price of meat. In pursuing his investigaâ€" tion of the pernicious little colon bacillus he has reached the concluâ€" sion that this busy and ungrateful parasite would not have such an enâ€" joyable time in the human system but for a meat diet. His recent exâ€" plorations into the realms of bacilli led him to the celebrated conclusion that the seur milk bacilli combatted the colon bacilli, but more lately he has concluded that the sour milk forces merely subtract from the nourishment of the deadly colon bacilli, Abstinence from meat subâ€" tracts further from the happy enâ€" vironment and bountsous commisâ€" sary of man‘s principal enemy in Verses 21â€"29 record the appeal which Aaron made in behalf of the people and the relentless punishâ€" ment inflicted by the loyal sons of Levi at the command of Moses. . the bacteriological field. An interesting experiment is reâ€" ported by Metchanikoff in support of this idea. Ho inoculated chopped meat and vegetables in separato culture tubes and injected the culâ€" tures into a rabbit. From the vegeâ€" table cultures the rabbit experiâ€" enced no inconvenience. But the colon bacilli in the meat culture had multiplied to such an extent that the rabbit‘s demise followed Deaths duse to traffic accidents in the metropolitan area of London have increased in number from 155 in 1904 to 527 in 1918. that the quickly. INTERNATIONAL, LESSON, SEPTEMBER 21. BACILLI LIKE MEAT DIET. 30 IHE FATHER‘S BUSINESS Time and Again Our Ways Are Not God‘s Ways» and Our Purposes Not HKis Purposes. Wist ye not that I must be ; about my Father‘s business. Luke ii., ivivix. ‘ It was with these words that the ‘boy Jesus addressed his parenis when they found him among the doctors in the temple and asked ‘him why he had deserted them. ‘Thus early did the Nazarene indiâ€"| cate His determination to devote His life exclusively to the work of God, and that this resolve had its ; origin in something more than an| idle boast or a youthful dream or| a passing enthusiasm is impresâ€"| wively shown by every detail of His later career. From the time that He first rose in the synagogue of His native town "to preach the acâ€" ceptable year of the Lord,""‘ to the time when He was seized in the| holy city by the saervants of Ca.ia-‘ phas He was as one consecrated to | a sacred mission. Nothing seemed to have any claim upon His time| and attention as compared with the | business of the Father. To do the things which God wanted done in | the worldâ€"to heal the sick, redeem | the poor, destroy tyranny, estabâ€" lish justice, bring in the Kingdom of Godâ€" This Was His One Task. | Not only must nothing else interâ€" fere with this divine work, but to His mind nothing else was even worth doing at all! Life is short â€"time fleetingâ€"strength limited ! Therefore must all we have and all we are be dedicated exclusively to To the ordinary man there is something altogether remoteâ€"not to say unrealâ€"about this singleness of purpose which was so supremely characteristic of the Nazgrene. And naturally so, as the ordinary man exactly reverses the example of the Master. _ What Jesus put first most of us put secondâ€"and a bad second at that! The thing of prime importance with us is our business, and not the Father‘s. There are lands that we want to buy, goods that we want to manufacture, inâ€" The Cunning of These Animals Is Almost Beyond Belict, To watch wild animals feeding at a time when they do not suspect an audience is always an interesting experience, and in the case of black bears, owing to their keen sense of smell, a comparatively rare one. Mr. Charles 8. Moody, writing in the Outing Magazine, tells how he came upon a big black bear which was indulging in a feast with very evident symptoms of enjoyment. When the sound became very clear, I looked up. I was less than thirty feet from a black bear which looked about the size of a load of hay. His bearship did not see me, but was busy licking ants off a dead pineâ€"tree that stood at the edge of the forest. I was so close that I could see the insects running about His dinner over, he dropped down and started| through the dense skunkâ€"cabbage toward where I stood. I yelled. He reared on his haunches, took one look, and mowâ€" ed down a wide swath of skunkâ€" cabbage as he plunged back into the forest. in great confusion. Occasionally the bear would cuff the tree, and out would come the ants. He would lick them up, rising on his hind paws to reach those above his head. All the time he was whining in a singsong to himself, and seemed to be very much pleased with his sucâ€" Another time I watched a bear fishing. It was in August, on the upper Lochsaw River, during the height of the salmon run,. A forest fire had swept over the Clearwater Mountains, and destroyed all the berries, so the bears were coming to the river, attracted by the fish that were seecking the shallow, still water, where they could bask in the sunshine. I walked up the river one evenâ€" ing about sunset in search of a deer. Coming round a bend, I eaw a large black bear perched upon a flat rock, several feet from the shore. I could not toll at first what he was doing. HMe was stooping down wirh one paw in the water, and warving it gently to and fro. I watched closely, and saw, just beâ€" yond his reach, & large male «alâ€" mon, so nearly dead that he could not swim. The bear was using his paw to creato an eddy that would draw the fish within his grasp. Blowly the salmon drifted toward the ‘rock. It was amusing to watch how carefully the bear moved his paw so as not to frighten his prey. At last the fish came within r@ch; bruin reached over, gave it a quick slap, seized it in his jaws, leaped ashore, and lumbered off, to eat his evening meal in privacy. wERont " RReRORmi OM COMky C emeP Ne EVGRnee | meal in privacy. Lnck. é NRA "agier.. j "kBr’owu seems to have al‘ the s | juck, No Foz In It. | *"*What‘s the matter now 1‘ "Why don‘t ;ou want to go lwim-i "He‘s been ordered to take a«@ ming, Willie ?" ‘trip to the west for his health. Noâ€" "Mother didn‘t tell me Ilthmg like that ever happened to mustn‘t, me. A BLACK BEAR‘S MEAL. vestments that we want to secure, wffices that we want to attain, pleasures that we want to enjoyâ€" whove all, money that we want to makeâ€"and all of this sordid busiâ€" mess which fairly reeks of the "‘earth, eaArthy,‘"‘ has the first call upon our time and takes the best ‘‘that there is in us of blood and sweat. If, when every last item of these tasks has been attended to, there is a moment of time or an | atom of strength left over for other \things, we may perhaps remember ithlt God lives, and that there is some business of His which needs | attention. It is bad enough to make the Father‘s business wait upon the petty things which we woufi)do for ourselves. But what shall we say when the business is not only negâ€" lected, but actually opposed ! That this is not infrequently the case is shown clearly enough by the fact that much of the cherished busiâ€" ness of men is in open antagonism to the will of God, and can succeed onli by defeating this will. In all such cases we have to choose as to ‘whether we shall do what we want or what God wantsâ€"what will serve us for a fleeting moment, or what wil serve God through all eternity. And all too often when such fateful choices have to be made we have the effrontery to look out simply for ourselves. In ‘vther words we not only shut the Father‘s business altogether out of our lives, but when there arises conflict between our business and his we defy Him, thwart Him, fight Him | ‘"But the brother did not give up, and the next day the other broâ€" ther come with workmen, and they measured the old house and dividâ€" ed it into quarters. Then they sawed and chopped and cout and took uuz one quarter to another | place, an the fourth brother lived ‘all alone. Every one in Marbleâ€" ‘head knew about the quarrel; so | the ltolz has come down to this ‘dlay ; and if you go to Marblichead, tfollowinx a little winding street to the water‘s edge, there you will see |\ the ‘Old 3&&0 House,‘ as it has / been named." ( | â€"‘Then Patty said |lowl{-â€"“1 guess | we don‘t want our playhouse to be | a spite house. Come on, Kittyâ€" |let‘s have dinner for the dolls." | "All ri{lht." said Kitty happily. | _ ‘‘And there are some pink pepâ€" !psrmintu for dessert," said grand» \ ma, as she kissed each little girl. Now to all this the carcer of Jesus presents an exact antitheâ€" sis. His business, if He had any apart from that of God, had to wait, and if by any chance this business was hostile to that of God it was dropped forthwith. Thus was Mis life with God, and God‘s also with Him!â€" Rev. John Haynes Holmes. The Spite House. ‘"‘You‘re mean, Kitty Perkins. ‘ ‘"Bo are you, Patty Barker ; and if you don‘t look out I shall take all my things out of this playhouse and have jem somewhere else. Then how would your old playhouse look 1 ‘"Down in the queer old town of Marblehead, on the Massachusâ€" etts shore,‘‘ began grandma when Kitty and Patty were settled on either side of her, munching the pink peppermints, "there is a very oddâ€"looking house. It looks just as if some one had taken a big knife and sliced out a quarter of it, just as you cut a square corner out of a loaf of cake."‘ "HMow funny|" cried Kitty, ‘"What made it that way |"‘ askâ€" ed Patty. j To grandma, sitting on the verâ€" anda, the cross voices woere waftâ€" ed loudly from the corner playâ€" house under the plum tres, and grandma looked troubled. M ds clearly "Did you ever hear about the old §£ite [f«'mle in Marblehead ?" askâ€" grandma, smiling. ‘‘Come up on the verandah and have a pepperâ€" mint while I tell you about it." Kitty and Patty loved pepperâ€" mints, and, moreover, they loved grandma‘s stories, so, without looking at each other, they walked stiffly beside grandma up to the veranda. s At first Kitty and Patty did not hear, their own voices were too loud, but when grandma came down across the lawn and stood in the doorway of the playhouse they both lookedy up just a little ashamâ€" "There once were four brothers who lived together in that house when it was a whole house and not threeâ€"quarters of one. And then one day the brothers had a quarâ€" rel, and one of them saidâ€" "‘If I can‘t have my own way I‘ll go off, and Ill take my share of the house with me.‘. _ ‘That‘s just what I‘ll tell you if you‘ll listen,"‘ said grandma. "l{ivtt} and Patty were very quiet as grandma finished the story. Kitty, Patty Nor is This the Worst! 499 she _ callod,