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¢ nc “'\-: T} C s KOoTESs ANDCOMMENT s Ot all the facts that the Fnroyeui‘ war has disclosed none is morse reâ€" markable than the solidarity of the British Enmpire. Except for : the slight disaffection of a few irreconâ€" cilable Boers in South Africa there has been not only an enthusiastic but a practical loyalty on the part A all the dominions, colonies, deâ€" pendencies and protectorates. In the very hour when a wideâ€"zpread insurgency might have won an easy independence the wideâ€"scattered units of the empire have manifest ed a sacrificial devotion to the litâ€" tle island that lords it over half the world. Fredictions of interested foes have been quickly falsified. Even Egypt, almost the youngest and quite the strangest of Brittania‘s wards, has remained steadfast in the face of the Turkish expedition. The explanation given by Egypt apâ€" plies equally to other parts of the empire:â€"England has been fair and sincere in all of her relationâ€" ships ; the country has not been exâ€" ploited on behalf of the suzerain, but devoted for the benefit of the native ; British official\dom has been just and considerate. According to the New York Triâ€" bune the trouble with German dipâ€" lomacy is that for many years back it has been neither intelligent nor ecautious. _ After â€" Bismarck‘s disâ€" missal it gradually lost that foreâ€" «ight and breadth of view which made the great Chancellor‘s sucâ€" eessor possible. Bismarck formed his policies with foreign opinion and the obvious interests of other nations in plain view. He did not worry about the effect of his diploâ€" macy on (German sentiment so long as he was sure of its effect in the world outside. He felt his way earefully and played one outside interest against another before he struck. In that way he isolated Austriaâ€"Hungary in _ 1866 _ and France in 1870â€"71. His successors have followed anâ€" other course. They have given far less study to conditions and the drift of sentiment outside Germany and shaped their diplomacy so as to make it appeal to German pride and consciousness of power. In that way they have helped to unify Germany. But at the same time they have united foreign opposiâ€" tion and driven powers like Great Britain, France and Russia to igâ€" nore former diversities of interest and to mnite for purposes of proâ€" tection. org t Dogs as spies to betray the posiâ€" tion of French troops to the enemy is the newest German stratagem in Flanders, according to the Paris Liberte, which received the story from a wounded soldier. After hard fighting, the Francoâ€"Belgians recently occupied the village of Reâ€" nighe, where scrawled in chalk on the walls of a ruined house they saw the words, ‘"Please feed the dogs." _ ie Thinking of the many dogs left by villagersâ€"Flanders uses dogs enormously as beasts of burdenâ€" the soldiers obeyed the instrueâ€" tions. _ About midnight the dogs suddenly began to how!, making a suddenly began to how!, making a tremendous noise in the night silence. Immediately _ German shells rained on the village, whose exact indication was thus disclosed, until the allies were forced to reâ€" tire hastily after heavy losses. The soldier‘s account concluded : ‘"‘There has since been great morâ€" tality among Flanders canines." Howling Directed German Shells to Positions of Allies. The DoGSs THAT BETRAY TROOPS. W u d Encountered Rough Weather. greatest factor in the world re inization that is certain to fol the war. lady and husband were crossâ€" the Atlantic for the first time. it steamer encountered terribly sh weather, and they were both y unwell. As they lay in their ths watching the luggage rolling ut on the floor of the cabin and D e at home isurance T D it do y cles al where our Of all skin comnlaints, eczema 18 by far the most prevalent ; and also one of the most trowblesome. That is to say, the genuine eczema unâ€" doubtedly is so ; but a great deal of what is called by that name is not genuine at all.. I have seen innuâ€" merable cases of scabies, the comâ€" mon itch, due to a parasitic insect, so styled; and a learned doctorâ€" epecialist on skin maladies, long since dead, had a mania for calling everything om the skin eczema. M n e Oe t s on P Like every other malady the real disorder usually springs from some interference with the function of the organ attacked ; and no organ is so much injured in this way. by not giving it fair play for its funcâ€" tions, as the skin. People hinder that function by being dirty, by not washing regularly every week with soap and water. Or they do not change their under linen once a week, but continue to wear woollen garments soaked in perspiration for weeks or months. Or they (rarely) wash too much; irritate the skin by too frequent baths, by the use of unwholesome soaps, &e. There may ‘be an excess of zeal even for cieanliness, and as Talleyâ€" rnlm,l‘ remarked ‘"Surtout, point de zele. But not seldom it is not so much the skin itsef that is at fault as the constitution and general habits of the patient, so that the blood is tainted and impure, and tries to throw off the poisonous impurities by way of the skin. Muchseczema depends on gout, and much is assoâ€" ciated with rheumatism and scroâ€" fula.â€"A Physician. Here too often we find impaired hearing due to changes in the interâ€" nal parts of the ear; more or less on a par with grey hair or baldâ€" ness. If that be the case there is not much to be done by way of reâ€" medy. The great préeventive is to be careful of bodily health throughâ€" out early years, to avoid evil habâ€" its of living, to strive for ""a sound mind in a sound body,‘"‘ to be temâ€" perate, moderate and regular in all things, to lead a thoroughly virtuâ€" ous life. But when old people beâ€" gin to get deaf this is often due to an accumulation of dried and hardened wax in the ear. All you have to do, then, is to pour into the organ each night a little glyceâ€" rine, warmed gently. That disâ€" solves the wax, which you can wipe away by degrees. There is no 0câ€" casion at all to syringe ; although that process is not so harmful, so likely to injure, as in the child. Then if the glycerine gives no reâ€" lief, or if there be reason to susâ€" pect some injury to the drum of the ear, you must use the glycerine with the borax. "I formed one of the escort and it took us seven days and nights to reach Cairo. We had some wonderful experiences. We were on the Nile from Wadiâ€"Halfa to El Shallal, and at the latter place we visited the ruins of Philae. The best part of the journey was from Luxor to Cairo by train. The route is by the side of the Nile, and here surely is the land of milk and honey. ‘"‘Amongst the country people here contentment holds sway. Very small girls act as goatherds, just starting to toddle, leading a big camel along as though it were a Pomeranian. Measles, Diphtheria. Scarlet fever. Whooping cough. All lively in spring. Keep your house ventilated. Keep garbage pail and yard clean. Soldier‘s Story of Wartime Trip Down River Nile. A private in the 7th Manchesters, who is stationed at Khartoum, gives an interesting account of his journey with a special escort, from Khartoum to Cairo, with ammuniâ€" tion for the troops. _ " "We met with great hospitality from various high officials at difâ€" ferent stations along the journey. My impression of Cairo is one of delight. At one part of the jourâ€" ney I slept twenty yards from the Citadel Mosque, one of the sights of Egypt. We visited this ancient place and the sight was grand. The floors are of marble, and are covâ€" cred in parts with.luxnrious rugs. At this temple the Khedive of Egypt worships. It is thousands of years old, and there are many leâ€" gends connected with it. _ Before they eat, and keep them away from children with colds. It comes within the battlements from which all Cairo can be seen, with the Pyramids in the distance. The health of the men in camp at Khartoum is very good, but at Cairo, I believe, the hospitals are fairly full. If they develop a rash, persistâ€" ent cough or a sore throat send for the doctor. Bee that your children wash theis hands. His jury. ne ki rdict for the defendant. If, on e otherhand, you believe the witâ€" sses for the defendant, in that se you will find a verdict for the aintiff. Again, gentleman, iflike vself, you cannot believe the witâ€" sses of either party, heaven ows what yohu‘ll do. Gentlemen, nsider vour verdict." ESsCORTING AMMUNITION. Deafness in the Aged. Honorâ€"‘"Gentlemen of the { you believe the witnesses of aintiff then you will find a t for the defendant. If, on merhand, you believe the witâ€" for the defendant. in that HEALTH In the Spring. Eczema. Revised. phic. Assembling Various Periods. Possibly we shall continue to look as though we were at a fancy dress party if we are assembled in Emâ€" pire frocks, Colonial ones, those of 1880 and 1850, with a dash of Rusâ€" sian and Algerian. It is safe to asâ€" sert that if fifty women were foreâ€" gathered each wearing a gown perâ€" fectly adapted to the new spring fashions, the appearance would be that they had responded to an inâ€" vitation to a costume iball repreâ€" senting a half dozen periods. The Kaiser has lately been at pains to explain that it is foolish to imagine that he ever intended to form a world empire.â€"London Graâ€" As far as one can judge from the meagre information that the exâ€" perts give, there will be as much laxity in choice of fashionable apâ€" parel from now until June as there has been since last June. If this condition is continued it might reâ€" sult in the elimination of that feâ€" tish "the leading fashion‘"‘ and give women and dressmakers a far betâ€" ter chance to display initiative. There are styles, however, that are not in the running any longer, wide as the choice remains. The skirt that is narrow across the back at the knees, and pulled up and forward to the front with a sash from hem to knees, is among the things that are reckoned as dead. The long coat is another fashion with a taboo, unless it serves as an overcoat, and the wide _ elbow sleeves with a lowered armhole should be abandoned by those who still cling to it. Long skirts for any occasion are not reckoned in the spring styles, for even where there is train it is not part of a hem that sweeps the floor all around, but a separate atâ€" tachment. Over in Paris the women practiâ€" cally have abandoned the collar that closes up the front, but they show that they bend to the demand for the high one by allowing the bones to keep it up at the back and at the sides, and, after going that far, the material is simply cut away from under the chin. This trick keeps down any semblance of a double roll of flesh at the spot where a woman detests it. The colâ€" lar that buttons in a straight lin= around the neck always adds to a woman‘s age, therefore, why acâ€" cept it? There are so many ways of getting around it. The same leniency may be claimâ€" ed for the high collar. True, it is the leading collar, but no one can deny that the wide, rolling, low one has many adherents; the new white blouses that were offered this week have collars in this shape, and do not even compromise with the fashion that calls for a high buttoned frock. Coats that fasten below the waistâ€" line are abandoned for those whose buttons, always prominent, end above the waist, or merge into a girdle. The long waistline on jackâ€" ets is meeting with strong opposiâ€" tion, but no one can safely predict that its day is done. of geiting around it. There is a tendency on all sides to lower the collar on coats also ; it is not reasonable to suppose that the coachman‘s collar of fur, which has been such a happy note in street costumes, will be repeated in cloth. It wouldn‘t go with the mild weather. child is to say that the normal child will, when grown up, be indepenâ€" dent and able to care for himse}!, to make a home, and to carry on work without continual. direction and supervision. This the feebjeâ€" minded child cannot do. Mental delectives never grow up. They are Cheruit is making a bid for the return of the shawl revers, and Bernard and Drecoll are giving some attention to the plain revers and collar of other days. These are not especially graceful, and it is to be hoped that we shall get hold of something more enlivening to the coat when the new fashions come out in March. » Mentally Defective Children Should Attend Them Early, Mentallyâ€"defective children may be of so low a grade mentally that any one can see at a glance they belong to the class formerly called idiots, or imbecilas, or they may be of so high a grade that they apâ€" pear normal until we try to teach them in school. Then we discover that what a normal child readily masters they cannot learn. The limit of their mental age may be ten or twelveâ€"but they cannot climb the ladder any higher. Perhaps the best way to describe the difference between a normal child _ and. a â€" mentallyâ€"defective child is to say that the normal child will. when grown un. be indenenâ€" AUXILIARY CLAssEs. Fashion Hints "The Grapes Are Sour.‘" always dependent. Even their own parents â€" recogniz this, â€"though naturally one do‘: not press them to say it in words. But discuss with them sympathetically the fuâ€" ture of the feebleâ€"minded child, and they at once acknowledge that ‘"Somebody must always look out for John.‘"‘ This is what must be done for the feebleâ€"minded. ‘The community must provide a permaâ€" nent home for them where the best may be made of them, where they may be trained to good and useful work and so be made happy and at least partly selfâ€"supporting, where no one is allowed to tempt, tease, or wrong them, and where some wise and kind person will always know where they are and what they are doing. One of the greatâ€" est advantages of this plan is that mental defectives so _ cared for would have no posterity. . The earlier these children are taken into Auxiliary Classes the more can be done for them, and the more can be done by them. When they are in their teens much more can be done for them than when they are over twenty, but the best time for training is before they enter their teens. Numerous inâ€" vestigations by experts have shown that the mental age of nearly all the feebleâ€"minded is less than twelve years. They age early, sometimes ~appearing to be sixty years old when they are less than forty. â€" The higher faculties are the last to develop. Parents and friends express this in speaking of their normal children by saying that they hope the boy or girl of thirteen years, for example, will soon "get more sense." Normal children do so, but the mental defective never does "get more sense."" The higher faculties never develop at all, or only in a childish or rudimentary form. It is characteristic of the mental defectives that they lack judgment, Moresight, understandâ€" ing, selfâ€"conmtrol, regard to the fuâ€" ture, and the capacity to adjust themselves. successfully to the soâ€" cial and economic conditions of their environment. 1. Idiots : That is to say, persons so dceply defective in mind from birth or from an early age as to be unable to guard themselves against common physical dangers. 4. Moral imbeciles: That is to say, persons who from an early age display some permanent mental deâ€" fect, coupled with strong vicious or criminal propensities on which punâ€" ishment has had little or no deterâ€" rent effect. An interesting invention which has just been adopted by the Briâ€" tish Admiralty is the Mallockâ€"Armâ€" strong car defender. It has been found that the heavy guns cause by their terrific din such mental shock that in some cases men are incapaâ€" citated for a time. The earpiece is no larger than the cottonâ€"wool plugs hitherto used, but contains a diaphragm of goldbeater‘s skin, which, while readily responsive to ordinary vyolumes of sound, preâ€" vents any abnormal sound from reaching the ear. * This effect is brought about by a "stop‘‘ on each side of the liaphragm, which limits the distance through which it can vibrate, While the ear receives readily and clearly a word of comâ€" mand, it is protected from the noise of ghe discharge of a guan. Port~Coquitliam will cut its j room license fees in half this year The Mental Deficiency Act gives legal definitions of the different grades of mental defect as follows : 2. Imbeciles : That is to say, perâ€" sons in whose case there exists from birth or from an early age mental defectiveness not amountâ€" ing to idiocy, yet so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves or their affairs, or, in the case of children, of being taught to do so.. 3. Feebleâ€"minded persons: That is to say, persons in whose case there exists from birth or from an early age mental defectiveness not amounting to imbecility, yet so proâ€" nounced that they require care, suâ€" pervision, and centrol for their own protection or for the protection of others, or, in the case of children, that they by reason of such defecâ€" tiveness appear to be permanently incapable of receiving proper beneâ€" fit from the instruction in ordinary schools. Moral imbeciles are sometimes recognized as such in school, but frequently their defect are more evident in later life. ‘Their vanity, lack of affection, anxiety to atâ€" tention, and desire to display the little they know, as well as the abâ€" sence of moral sense, are characâ€" teristics. They usually do well in institutions, and should always be under permanent care; otherwise they are a great danger to the community. â€" Helen MacMurchy, M.D.,~ Inspector _ of _ Auxiliary (Casses for Ontario. Ear Befenders for Soldiers pool TORONTO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Lesson XII. Jonathan and HMis Armorbearer, 1 Sam. 14, 1+46. Golden Text, Rom. 13, i2. Verse 1. The young man that bare his armorâ€"The armor of the Israelite warriors was patterned on that of their enemies. It was heavy and cumbersome. The warrior needed a servant to carry his arms. He told not his fatherâ€"The reâ€" lationship between father and son is such among the Oriental people that it was a very unusual thing for Jonathan to have done what he did without telling his father. 2. Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegraâ€" nateâ€"treeâ€"Saul was a full hour‘s march from the place where Jonaâ€" than was. For other instances of places made prominent by trees, see Judg. 4. 5; 1 Sam. 22. 6. _ 3. Ahijah, the son of Ahitubâ€" Ahijah is the same Ahimelech. See 1 Sam. 21. 1; 22. 9â€"11. The ending of Ahijah, "jah,"‘ means "God" ; and the ending of Ahimelech, ‘"meâ€" lech,""‘ means "king.‘" â€" The Heâ€" brew names frequently had a difâ€" ferent beginning, but the name itself was the same. Ichabod‘s brother, the son of Phinshas, the son of Eliâ€"Ichabod is referred to in 1 Sam. 4. 21. When the wife of Phinehas, the son of Eli, gave birth to a son, it was just at the time when the ark of the Lord had been taken by the Philisâ€" tines. She called the name of her boy, therefore, Ichabod, which means ‘no glory," or, as it is exâ€" plained, "the glory is departed from Israel"‘ (1 Sam. 4. 19â€"22). As Ichabod was the son of Phinehas, who was one of the sons of Eli, he was, therefore, the grandson of Eli, and was not so much younger than Samuel. This means that about fifty years had passed from the time when the ark of the Lord was taken by the Philistines to the time when Jonathan scaled the heights of Michmash. The fact that a grandson of Eli should now be a priest, even although his father, Phinehas, was a wicked man, and really brought about the death of his father, Eli, shows the herediâ€" tary character of the priesthood among the Israelites. Even one who was untrue to the tradition and office of the priesthood could not break the line of priestly desâ€" cent. Wearing an ephodâ€"Verse 3 is seemingly thrown into the narraâ€" tive here. It is important for two reasons: first, because it gives us these facts about the grandson of Eli, who was a priest, and, thereâ€" fore, helps us to fix the time of the occurrence; and, second, because it paves the way for the events that are to follow. Because of Jonathan‘s violation of an oath which his father took (1 Sam. 14. 25â€"30), even although Jonathan was an innocent offender, it was necesâ€" sary to cast lots. This was always done only in the presence of a priest who wore an ephod. (See verses 18â€"24ff.) Also compare 1 Bam. 2. 28; 23. 6, 9. As to the nature of the ephod, see Exod. 8. 6, ... . _ 6. The garrison of these uncirâ€" cumcisedâ€"This is a term of reâ€" proach used by the Israelites only of the Philistines. See Judg. 14. 3; 15. 18; 1 Sam. 17. 26, 36; 31. 4; 2 Sam. 1. 20, etc. There is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by fewâ€"It was a wellâ€"established belief of the children of Israel that wherever the proper faith was shown the desired result would follow. Jonaâ€" than believed that the Philistines ought to be smitten, and that God would help him to smite them. That he and his armorâ€"bearer were two against a multitude did not spell defeat to him. 11. The Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves â€" The Israelites had been so pressed by the. Philistines that they had hidden themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits, or cisterns (1 Sam. 13. 6). The Philistines â€" knew~ this, and when they saw Jonathan and his armorâ€" bearer coming up the hill, it doubtâ€" less looked to them as though they had come out of a hole in a rock. The boldness with which they came led them to think that other Israelâ€" ites also were near, and zo they jum?ed to the conclusion that the whole Israelite army was coming out of the places in which they had hidden themselves. The people knew not that Jonaâ€" than was goneâ€"It seemed imporâ€" tant for the narrator to state this fact so that the people themselves would not be held responsible for anything that Jonathan had done. It was a crag toward the south which caught the full rays of the sun, and hence, whenever the sun shone, it was shining. _ Seneh means ‘"thorns." 8â€"10. The Israelites believed in signs and wonders. They would consider certain things as desirable or possible, and then look for such things to come to pass. A splendid example is found in the twentyâ€" fourth chapter of Genesis in the instructions of Abraham to his serâ€" vant and in the meditation of the servant himself. Come up to us, and we will show you & thingâ€"This, of course, was said mockingly. The Philistines thought they could easily overcome not only Jonathan and his armorâ€" bearer, but the whole Israclite army. N 4. The.name of the one was Boâ€" zez, and the name of the other Seâ€" nehâ€"Bozez means ‘"the shining.‘" This shall be the sign unto usâ€" Ree Gen. 24. 12â€"26 ; Judg. 6. 36â€"40; Isa. 37. 30, etc. It will be rememâ€" bered that Jesus once reproved the Jews because â€"they were always looking for a sign, when, as a matâ€" ter of fact, their eyes were not open to the things that were hapâ€" pening all about them. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 21. | _‘"I have no home," said the afâ€" | fectionate and devoted father of a |\ feebleâ€"minded girl. It was true. | She had ruined the home. Famiâ€" | lies find it out after having spent | twenty or thirty years trying to | keep the feebleâ€"minded child in the lhome. "Our lives have been ruinâ€" | ed,"" they say:. They will all} tell {,\'uu then what a mistake it has | becaâ€"how it has cut them off from PAVID‘S EREATEST TRIBUTS Poured the Water Out Which Men Haz . arded Their Lives to Get for he said, . . . shall I driak the blood of the men that went in jeopâ€" ardy of their lives ! Therefore, Daâ€" vid would not drink it, but poured it out unto the Lord."â€"LL. Bamue! xxiii., 16, 17. Many readers of the story from which our text is taken have ever felt that David was woefully _ ungracious _ to _ "the three mighty men‘‘ who snatched for him a drink of water from the woll of Bethichem at peril of their lives. Here was Bethâ€" lehcm in the hands of the Philâ€" istines. Here did these men, when they heard that David was longing for "water to drink of the well og Bethlehem, which is by the gate,‘ "brake through the camp of the Philistines‘‘ and draw water from this well. And yet when these heâ€" roes brought to the King the water which they had purchased at so great a price he ‘"‘would not drink it, but poured it out unto the Lord !‘ What could have been more ungrateful than such an act as this ! How could David have more pointâ€" edly shown his contempt for the three who hazarded their lives for his sake ? What must have been the sensations of the three when they saw the precious water spilled out upon the ground ? Poured 1t Out Unto the Lord. Buch is our first impression as we peruse this story. But if we study it a little closer shall we not find that David‘s act, so far from being an insult to these three servaats of his pleasure, was in reality the greatest tribute which he could pay them? Could he take this gift which had been won at the peril of the lives of three good men _ Could he use, for the gratification of his own selfish and whimsical desires, what his fellows had wellâ€"nigh perâ€" ished to obtain? Nay, to drink this water would be to drink not water merely, but the blood of men. From the heart of love, not from the well of Bethlehem, came this precious Mentally Defective Are Maintained At Public Expense. The mentallyâ€"defective who have thus far come to the notice of the authorities in Ontario are being maintained now, in almost every case, at the public expense. _ _ In the first census of the Feebleâ€" minded, September 30th, 1906, 1,505 persons were enumerated, and of these 1,094 were adults, and 411 were children. Of the 1,094 not one was selfâ€"supporting, and over 1,000 were supported by public charity. Most of the remaining 94, so far as is known, have become the objects of public charity since. Of the 411 children, one was the daughter of a wellâ€"toâ€"do farmer, two others the sons of lawyers, one the daughter of a physician, one the daughter of an artisan earning very good wages, one the son of a house painter, one the son of a church officer, two the sons of merchants, one the son of a small farmer, one the son of a business man, one the daughter of a clergymanâ€"twelve in all. Almost without exception the rest were the children of laborers, mechanics, artisans, small shopâ€" keepers, teamsters, and others who were unable to pay anything at all for the care and education of the defective child. Indeed, it was only by care, good management, and selfâ€"sacrifice that they were able to feed and clothe their norâ€" mal children. Vernon has sanctioned expenditure of $105,000 on a drainage system. In a great many of the cases above referred to, the family and friends made application for the adâ€" mission of the moentallyâ€"defective child or adult to some institution where he would be properly cared for, being usually driven to this course because they and their neighbors could not longer endure the affiiction. The presence of the feebleâ€"minded makes normal and happy family life impos:ible. . As a result families are often broken up or reduced io pauperism, and the older the fe2bleâ€"minded person grows the greater the danger and the burden become. Bo much as to the question of public expenditure. _ What about the influence of the mentallyâ€"defecâ€" tive on family life and interests? social pleasures and from the higher relationships of life. ‘Any one who is placed in the same posiâ€" tion shou‘d take warning and make use of the experience of others who have bought. that experience > so dearly. It is only too evident in such cases that the defectives must be cared for during their lHves and prevented from becoming parents. Where the family are unable to do this at home and it means the loss of preper family life and happiness to attempt to care for a mental deâ€" fective in an ordinary home), then the community must be protected from the feebleâ€"minded and the feebleâ€"minded must be protected from many in the community who would lead them iu%(evil ways.â€" Helen MacMurchy, M.D., Inspecâ€" tor of Auxiliary*Classes for Onâ€" tavio, "But he would not drink thereof ; THE FEEBLEâ€"MINDED. fluid. Therefore | drink it, but poure Lord !‘ Thus did David consecrate. Wi5} came to him through the work of men‘s hands and at° the peril of men‘s lives. Why do we not do the same? The wealth which we accuâ€" mulate is bought by the eweat and tears of myriads of toilers, yet we use it for the vanities and luxuries of idle fancy. Our knowledge % the gift ofâ€" hundreds of faithfiu scholars, who gave and dared all to find the truth, yet we take it as & medium of selfich culture and not of efficient service. Our politinl freedom is the boon transmitted by men who bled on battlefields, rotâ€" ted in prison cells or died on £3>â€" bets,dyet we snatch it with ignoble greed as an rtunity for plunâ€" der, power 13 pelf. Our Religious Liberty. is living water snatched from wellâ€" springs of the spirit, beleaguered by Philistines of every age and place, by an unbroken line of marâ€" tyred prophets, yet we accept it as a chance for lazy indifference to all the higher and nobler things of life. The very world we imhabit is the free offering of the creative love of Almighty God, yet we use it as a playground, a battlefield or a In a beautiful wood, still and cool, there flowed a little stream : it was a slow little stream «L scarcely moved between the mosey banks that sheltered it To this stream there came one nignt 4A family secking m place to build a new bhome, for the old home dad been destroyed. When the family saw the quiet stream, with the beautiful moon shining down npon it. they decided that it was ;ast the place for the new house. From the ibranches of a great tree that stood near by came the solemn voice of Mr. Ow!. He seemed to say, "‘Twitt‘witâ€"t‘hoo‘â€"I think so, too !"‘ At last, one night, the work was done, and the beavers stopped | to rest. From one bank to another stretched the brandâ€"new beaver dam, and in the verv centre of the little lake nose their new house â€" a hollow mound of sticks and mud. Its doors opened out into the waâ€" ter, and there was room inside for Father and Mother Beaver and a\ the little beavers, and for auntie an_f_l uncle and their beaver bovs. This hanpy family did not sleep until it was daytime, for night â€" when all the birds and flowers are asleepâ€"is the time that this family like best to be awake. The father and mother, with their four chilâ€" dren, Weeâ€"wee, Frisky, Tixie, and Bunker, and their aunt and uncle, with their two big boys, Waddles and Bonney, all wanted to begin the new house right away, but first they must build a dam across the stream . Before long the exact spot was chosen, and everyone began to work. It was such a busy family of busy beavers! Sonney and Bunâ€" ker slipped into the water to gaâ€" ther all the mud they could carry in their little forepaws, while the, rest of the family cut down big trees and little trees that stood beâ€" side the stream. Thev floated the trees into place, and Bonney and Bunker !ilied the cracks with twigs pig trough. What do we possessy from the commonest material obâ€" ject to the rarest spiritual faculty, which has not been bought at some incalculable price! _ Aadwhat, therefore, do we possess which can rightly be used for ourselves and not for God! To take all that we have and all that we are, and offer this, after the example of David, as a glad sacrifice ‘"unto the Lord®" is only what we owe unto those who have again and again gone in jeopardy of their lives"‘ to give us what we have and make us what we are. and mud. Soon, above the dam, a tiny lake began to form, and the beavers chose a place for their house right in the middle of it. Night after night the little people hun:ied to and fro; they bit off small twigs with their sharp little teeth, or pounded down the mud with their paws ; they worked every minute. That was the way that the little carpenters built their house and their dam, and settled down to live happily in the great still forest.â€" Youth‘s Companion. Bervice of God, in the last ana‘s sis and from the highest point <© view, is not a privilege but a duty â€"Rev. John Haynes Holmes. "It will be impossible for me to give you the mo unless you can identify youmltn‘g some way,"‘ said a, suspicious bank clerk. "But I am Mrs. Johnson,‘" said the woâ€" man, with the air of an empress. ‘‘Certainly madam," said the clerk, ‘‘but all the same it will Ta to us.‘ herself wish to know yvou w to give you an i M 'fiu haughty up and regarded ‘"Bir." she said Young Folks A Haughty Lady. 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