The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 30 January 1913 — Page 3

COULD STAND PLAYFUL DOG Young Man Considerably Relieved When He Learned the Animal Was Not in. Earnest. “Have you seen papa’s new dog. Carlo?” she asked as they sat in the parlor. • “Yes,” he replied uneasily. "I have had the pleasure of meeting the dog.” “Isn’t he splendid? He is so affectionate.” “I noticed he was very demonstrative,” returned lie, as he moved uneasily in his chair. “He is very playful, too. • I never saw a more playful animal in all my life.” “I am so glad to hear you say that.” “Why?” “Because I was a little afraid that when he bit that piece out of mo the other evening he was in earnest. But if he was only in play, of course, it’s all right. 1 can take fun as well as anybody." —■■ p I GOT LEFT IN THE RUSH. “Ruth is engaged to be married the coming winter." “The mischief she is! I Intended to propose to that girl myself when I got time.” riot on the Program. A little four-year-old girl, whose par ents had been discussing an approaching meeting in connection with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, begged to be taken. Hei mother explained that the meeting would not amuse her, but she persisted in her demand, and finally het mother agreed to lake her if she promised to be very quieL She was very go’od throughout the greater part of the proceedings, but after listening patiently to. the speeches for some time she whispered to her mother: “Mummy, this is dull!. When is the cruelty going to begin?” Her Great Love. They had already celebrated the fact that the mistletoe hung in the hall and now they were occupying not only one settee, but also the entire drawing room. “Could you love me, darling.” he murmured, ns the thought, of that sprig of :i:. toe came to him again, “if I possessed only one coat in the wide, wide world?” She looked up into his eyes as she framed her reply. “I could,” she said, “if I knew you had sacrificed the others to buy me a new dress!” It keeps wives as busy providing foi the inner man as it does husbands providing things for the outer woman. Mrs. Austin’s Bag Pancake, delicious light cakes for breakfast, all grocers. Adv Married women like to board and pretend that they are doing light housekeeping. , It’s easy for a man to resist temptation —if he has something better in sight.

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IS SYNOPSIS. Mrs. Keziah Coffin, supposed widow, is arranged to move from Trumet to Boston, following the death of her brother, i for whom she had kept house. Kyan i Pepp-r, widower, offers marriage, and is | indignantly refused. Capt. Elkanah Daniels. leader of the Regular church offers Keziah a place as housekeeper for the new minister, and she decides to remain in Trumet. Keziah takes charge of Rev. John Ellery, the new minister, and gives him advice as to his conduct towatMi members of the parish. Ellery causes ff sensation by attending a “Come-outer” meeting. Ellery’s presence is bitterly reI sented by Eb<>n Hammond. leader of the I meeting; Grace apologizes for her guardian and Ellery escorts her home in I the rain. Capt. Nat Hammond. Eben’s son, becomes a hero by bringing the packet into port safely through fog and storm. Ellery finds Keziah writing a letter to some one, inclosing money in response to a demand. She is curiously startled when informed, of the arrival of Nat. Nat calls on Keziah, and it develops that they have been lovers sinee youth. Daniels remonstrates with Ellery for, attending “Come-outer” meeting. Ellery is caught by the tide and is rescued by Nat. They become friends. Ellery meets Grace while walking in the fields, and learns that she walks there every Sunday. The clergyman takes dinner Sundays with the Daniels. Annabel, the captain’s daughter, exerts herself to make an Impression on him. She notices with vexation his desire to get away every Sunday at a certain time. She watches him through a spy glass. Nat again importunes Keziah to marry him. He says he has had a quarrel with his father, who wants him to marry Grace. Ellery asks Grace to marry him. She confesses that she loves him, but says she fears to displease her guardian. Elkanah Daniels tells Eben about the meetings between Ellery and Grace. Eben declares he will make Grace choose between him and the preacher. Grace finds him in a faint, following the excitement cf Elkanah’s visit. Just before he dies Eben exacts a promise from Nat and Grace that they will marry. Keziah breaks tlfe news to Ellery and later he receives a note from Grace saying she is to marry Nat. and asking him not to try to see her again. Keziah tells the story of her own marriage with a man who turned out to be a good-for-nothing, and who -was reported to have been lost at sea, and of her love for Nat, whofh she cannot marry because the husband is alive. Captain Nat sails for Manila to be gone two years. He says he and Grace have decided not to marry until he returns. Nat is overdue, and It is feared that he has been lost at sea. : Keziah gets a letter from her husband i saying he is coming back. Grace goes on. ! e. visit to relatives of the Hammonds. A I vessel flying distress signals is discovered i off the eoast. Ellery goes with party to I board the vessel. A man is found sufI sering from smallpox, the rest of the ; crew having deserted. XV.—(Continued.) The sick man was raving in delirium when he reached him, but the sound cf the water lapping the sides of the saucepan brought him to himself. He seized Ellery by the arm and drank Mid drank. When at last he desisted, the pan was half empty. The minister laid him gently back in the bunk and stepped to the. foot of the ladder for breath. This made him think of the necessity for air in the place and he remembered the little window’. It was tightly closed and rusted fast. - He went up to the deck, found a marlin spike, and, returning, broke the glass. A sharp, cold draught swept through the forecastle, stirring the garments hanging <,n the nails. An hour later, two dories bumped against the side of the San Jose. Men, talking in low tones, climbed over the rail. Burgess was one of them; ashamed of his panic, he had returned to assist the others in bringing the brigantine into a safer anchorage by the inlet. Dr. Parker, very grave but businesslike, reached the deck among the first. “Mr.. Ellery,” he shouted, “where are you?” The minister’s head and shoulders appeared at the forecastle companion. “Here I am, doctor,” he said. “Will you come down?” The doctor made no answer In words, but he hurr’ed briskly across 'the deck. One man, Ebenezer Capen, an old fishe?s?.an and ex-whaler from East Trume\, started to but he was only one. The others waited, with scared faces, by the rail. “Get her way and inshore as soon as you c<n,” ordered Dr. Parker. “Ebenezer, you can help. If I need you below, I’ll call.” The minister backed down the ladjftyr and the doctor followed him. Parker bent over the bunk for a few moments in silence. “He’s pretty bad,” he muttered. “Mighty little chance. Heavens, what a den! Who Broke that window?” “I did,” replied Ellery. “The air dowm here was dreadful.” The doctor nodded approvingly. “I guess so,” he said. “It’s bad enough now. We’ve got to get this poor fellow out of here as soon as we can or he’ll die before tomorrow. Mr. Ellery," he added sharply, “what made you do this? Don’t yen realize the risk you’ve run?” | “Seme one had to do it. You are running the same risk.” “Net just the same, and, besides, it’s my business. Why didn’t you let some one else, some one we could spare— Humph! Confound it, man! didn’t you know any better? Weren’t | you afraid?” His tone rasped Ellery’s shaken I nerves. “Os course I was,” he snapp€d : /l|? j ritably. ' “I’m not an idiot.” i “Humph! Well, all right; I beg yteiir pardon. But you oughtn’t to have done it. Now you’ll have to be quarantined. And who in thunder I can get to stay with me in this case is more than I know. Just say smallpox to this town and it goes to pieces like a smashed egg. Old Eb Capqn will help, for he’s had it, but it needs more than one.” “Where are you going to take—him?" pointing to the moaning occupant of the bunk. “To one of the empty fish shanties on the beach. There are beds there, auch as they are, and the place is secluded. We can burn it down when the fuss is over.” “Then why can’t I stay? I shall have to be quarantined, I know that. Let me be the other nurse. Why

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should anyone else run the risk? I have run it. I’ll stay.” Dr. Parker looked at him. “Well!” he exclaimed. “Well! I must say, young man, that ybu’ve got— Humph! All right, Mr. Ellery; I’m much obliged.” CHAPTER XVI. In Which Ebenezer Capen Is Surprised. Before sunset that afternoon the San Jose was anchored behind the point by the inlet. The fishing boats changed mooi-inga and moved farther up, for not a single one of their owners would trust himself within a hundred yards of the stricken brigantine. The largest of the beach shanties, one which stood by itself a quarter of a mile from the light, was hurriedly prepared for use as a pesthouse and the sick sailor was carried there on an improvised stretcher. Dr. Parker and Ellery lifted him from his berth and, assisted by old Ebenezer Capen, got him up to the deck and lowered him into the dory. Ebenezer rowed the trio to the beach and the rest of the journey was comparatively easy. The shanty had three rooms, one of which was given up to the patient, one used as a living room, and, in the third, Capen and the minister were to sleep. Mattresses were procured, kindhearted townspeople donated castfoff tables and chairs, and the building was made as comfortable as it could be, under the circumstances. Sign boards, warning strangers to keep away, were erected, and in addition to them, J the Trumet selectmen ordered ropes stretched across the lane on of the shanty. But ropes and signs were superfluous. Trumet in general was in a blue funk and had no desire to approach within a mile of the locality. Even the driver of the grocery cart, when he left the day’s supply of groceries, pushed the packages under the ropes, yelled i a ! hurried “Here you be!” and, whipping up his horse, departed at a rattling gallop. The village sat up nights to discuss the affair and every day brought a new sensation, The survivors of the San Jose’s crew, a wretched, panicstricken quartette of mulattos and Portuguese, were apprehended on th« outskirts of Denboro, the town below Trumet on the bay side, and were promptly sequestered and fumigated, pending shipment to the hospital at Boston. Their story was short but gruesome. The brigantine a Turks Islands boat, but a coaster from Jamaica. She had sailed with a small cargo for Savannah. Two days out and the smallpox made its appearance on board. The sufferer, a negro foremast hand, died. Then another sailor was seized and also died. The skipper, who was the owner, was the next victim, and the vessel was in a state of demoralization which the mate, an Englishman named Bradford, could not overcome. Then followed days and nights of calm and terrible heat, of pestilence and all blit mutiny. The mate himself died. There was no one left who understood navigation. At last came a southeast gale and the San Jose drove before it. Fair weather found her abreast the Cape. The survivors ran her in after dark, anchored, and reached shore in the longboat. The sick man whom they had left in the forecastle was a new hand who had shipped at Kingston. His name was Murphy, they believed. They had left him because he was sure to die, like the others, and, besides, they knew some one would see the distress signals and investigate. That was all, yes. Santa Maria! was it not enough? Captain Zeb Mayo went about cheering for his parson. Mrs. Mayo cooked -delicacies to be pushed under the ropes for the minister’s consumption. The parish committee, at a special session, voted an increase of salary IS!®® IHOfejp ! n |M Dr. Parker Looked at Him. •Mpid ordered a weekly service of pray- [ iter for the safe delivery of their young from danger, Keziah Coffin was, perhaps, the one person most disturbed by her parson’b heroism. She would have gone to the shanty immediately had not Dr. Parker prevented. Even as it was, she did go as far as the ropes, but there she was warded off by Ebenezer until Ellery came running out and bade hetcome no nearer. Keziah, after more expostulation, went back to the parsonage. She wrote to Grace and told her the news of the San Jose, but she said nothing of the minister’s part in it. “Poor thing!” sighed Keziah, “she’s bearin’ enough already.” The sick grew no better. Days and nights passed and he raved and

moaned or lay in a stupor. Ebenezer • acted as day nurse while Ellery slept, and, at night, the minister, being younger, went on watch. The doctor came frequently, but said there was no hope. A question of time only, and a short time, he said. Capen occupied his mind with speculations concerning the patient. “Do you know, parson,” he said, “seem’s if I’d seen the feller somewheres afore. ’Course I never have, but when I used to go whalin’ v’yages I cruised from one end of creation to t’other, pretty nigh, and I might have met him.” That night the sick man was much worse. His ravings were incessant. The wooden clock, loaned by Mrs. Parker, the doctor’s wife, ticked steadily, although a half hour slow. Ellery, glancing at it to see if the time had come for giving medicine, suddenly noticed how loud its ticking sounded. Wondering at this, he was aware there was no other sound in the house. He rose and looked in at the door of the adjoining room. The patient had ceased to rave and was lying quiet on the bed. The minister tiptoed over to look at him. And, as he did so, the man opened his eyes. “Halloo!” he said faintly. “Who are you?” Ellery, startled, made no answer. “Who are you?” demanded the man again. Then, with an oath, he repeated the question, adding: “What place is this? This ain’t the fo’castle. Where am I?” “You’re ashore. On Cape Cod. At Trumet." “Trumet! Trumet! ” He was struggling to raise himself on his elbow. Ellery was obliged to use force to hold him down. He struggled again. Then his strength and his reason left him simultaneously and the delirium returned. He began to shout a name, a name that caused Ellery to stand upright and step back from the bed, scarcely believing his ears. All the rest of that night the man on the bed raved and muttered, but of people and places and happenings which he had not mentioned before. And the'minister, listening intently to every word caught himself wondering if he also was not losing his mind. When the morning came, Ebenezer Capen was awakened by a shake to And John Ellery standing over him. “Capen,” whispered the minister, “Capen, get up. I must talk with you. You used to be a whaler, I know. Were you acquainted in New Bedford?” “Sartin. Was a time when I could have located every stick in it, pretty nigh, by the smell, if you’d set me down side of ’em blindfolded.” “Did you ever know anyone named-—” He finished the sentence. “Well’s I wanted to. Pretty decent feller one time, but a fast goer, and went downhill like a young one’s sled, when he got started. His folks had money, that was the trouble with him. Why, ’course I knew him. He married—” “I know. Now, listen.” Ellery went on talking rapidly and with great earnestness. Ebenezer listened, at first silently, then breaking In witFi ejaculat’ons aid grunts of astonishment. He sat up on the edge of the bed. “Rubbish!” he cried at last. “Why, ’tain’t possible! The feller’s dead as Methusalem’s grandmarm. 1 remember how it happened and —” “It wasn’t true. That much I know, I know, I tell you.” He went on to explain why he knew. Capen’s astonishment grew. “Judas priest!” he exclaimed again. “That would explain why I thought I’d seen— There! heave ahead. I’ve got to see. But it’s a mistake. I don’t believe it” The pair entered the sick room. The sailor lay in a stupor. His breathing was rapid, but faint. Capen bent over him and gently moved the bandage on his face. For a full minute he gazed steadily. Then he stood erect, drew a big red hand across his forehead, and moved slowly back to the living room. “Yup,” he said, “it’s him. Mr. Ellery, what are you goto’ to do about it?” “I don’t know. I don’t know. I must go somewhere by myself and think. I don’t know what to do.” The minister declined to wait for breakfast. He said he was not hungry. Leaving Ebenezer to put on the coffeepot and take up his duties as day nurse. Ellery walked off along the beach. By and by he heard Capen calling his name. “Mr. Ellery;” shouted Ebenezer. “Mr. Ellery, where be you?” “Here!” replied the minister. The old man came scrambling over the sand. He was panting and much excited. “Mr. Ellery!” he cried, “Mr. Ellery! it’s settled for us—one part of it, anyhow. He’s slipped his cable. Yup. He miist have died just a little while after you left and after I gave him his medicine. I thought he looked kind of queer then. And when the doctor came we went in together and he was dead. Yes, sir, dead.” “Dead!” “Um-hm. No doubt of it; it’s for good this time, Mr. Ellery, what shall we do? Shall I tell Dr. Parker?” Ellery considered for a/.moment. “No,” he said slowly. • “No, Capen, don’t tell anyone. I can’t see why they need ever know that he hasn’t been dead for years, as they supposed. Premise me to keep it a. secret. I’ll tell —her —myself, later on. Now promise me; I trust you.” “Land sakes, yes! I’ll promise, if you want me to.” The next day the body of “Murpby,” foremast hand on the San Jose, was buried in the corner of the Regular graveyard, near those who were drowned in the wreck of that winter. Capen remained at the shanty another week. Then, as the minister showed no symptoms of having contracted the disease and insisted that he needed no companion, Ebenezer departed to take up his fishing once mere. Ellery himself was- most urgent in the decision that he should not go back to the parsonage and his church just yet. Better to wait until he was sure, he said, and Dr. Parker agreedDr. Parker told him of Grace Van Horne’s return to the village. She had come back, so the doctor said, the day before, and was to live at the tavern for a while, at least. Yes, he guessed

even she had given up hope of Captain Nat now. '• “And say,” went on Parker, “what I want to know is whether you think I could leave you for a couple of days? The Ostable County Medical Society meets at Hyannis tomorrow and I had proihised myself to take it in thia ywr. "But I don’t want to leave you, if you need me.” Ellery insisted that he did not need anyone, was getting along finely, and would not hear to his friend’s missing the medical society’s meeting. So the physician went. John Ellery did not feel cheerful that afternoon. The tired feeling he had spoken of so lightly was worse than he had described It, and he was despondent, for no particular reason. That night he slept miserably and awoke with a chill to find a ; cold, pouring rain beating against thu windows of the shanty. He lay down on his bed and tried to I sleep, but though he dozed a bit, woke : always with a start and either a chill : or fever fit. His head began to ache ; violently. And then, in the lonesome- : ness and misery, fear began to take hold of him. Night came. The rain had ceased and stars were shining clear. Inside [ the shanty the minister tossed cn the bed, or staggered back and forth about i the two rooms. He wondered what the time might be; then he did not care. He was alone. The smallpox ( had him in its grip. Why didn’t some one come? Where was Mrs. Coffin? And Grace? She was somewhere neat him—Parker had said so—and he must see her before he died. He called litei name over and over again. The wind felt cold on his forehead. He stumbled amidst the beach grass. What was this thing across his path? : •/ 1 / The Old Man Came Scrambling Oves , the Sand. A rope, apparently, but why shoulC : there be ropes in that house? Then [ had never been any before. H< climbed over it and it was a climt of hundreds of feet and the height made him giddy. That was a houses another house, not the one he had been living in. And tnnre were lights all about. Perhaps one of them was the light at the parsonage. And a blj bell was booming. That was his church bell and ha would be late foi the meeting. Some one was speaking to him. knew the voice. He had known it always and would know it forever. II was the voice he wanted to hear .“Grace!” he called. "Grace! I want i you. Don't go! Don’t go! Grace! I oh, my dear! don’t gti” Then the voice had gone. No, it hat I not gone. It was still there and h« > heard it speaking to him, begging bin: i to listen, pleading with him to gc I somewhere, go back, back to some i thing or other., And there was an aboiA. his "waist and some on« was leading him, helping him. Hi broke down and cried childishly and some one cried with him. (TO BE CONTINUED.) The Raw Recruit. F. M. King enlisted in the Spanish American war and was sent to Jeffer son barracks. He was strolling through | the company streets smoking a cigai j when an officer approached. King sa : luted. “Look here,” said the officer, “don’t you know better than to salute an officer when you have a cigar in youi mouth? How long have you been here?” “Three days,” replied King. “You are excused this time,” said the officer, “but don’t let me catch you doing that again.” In a short time King met the sami officer and walked by without saluting. “Why didn't you salute?’’ demanded the officer, stopping him. “Well, you just told me not to salute when I had a cigar in.my mouth,” re plied the raw recruit. But he spent three days in the kitchen peeling potatoes for this offense. —Atchison Champion. "A Mighty Man Was He." At a concert for charity In a country town Miss Carter obliged by reciting “The Village BlacksnfTth.’’ At th< conclusion of her recital the rural audience cheered. “Ancower!” they cried. “Ancower!” Miss Carter wa» about to grant the request when a burly fellow, very much out of breath, tapped her on the shoulder. “I’ve jus! come around from in front,” whispered this man, excitedly. “I want yer to do me a favor.” “Well, what is it?” qilqried Mids Carter. “It’s this,’whispered the intruder. “I happen tei be the fellow you've been talkin' about, and I want you to put in a verse ! this time saying how I let out bicycles.” Long-Distance Justice. R. W. Smith was arrested yesterday by Detective Sergeants Cashel and Armstrong and booked at the city prison as a fugitive from justice. Advices from Parlier, Fresno county, to the local police state that Smith is wanted in that town for passing a fictitious check for $8 on John Gird. Detective Cashel notified the authorities at Parlier of the arrest of Smith, and two hours later received the following telegram from J. D. Sayre, the constable at Parlier: “Dear Chief — Collect of Smith and send it to me. Collect your own expenses and turn Smith loose. (Signed) J. D. Sayre, Constable.”—San Francisco Chronicle.

•HIBMIONAL SONWSOM Lesson (By E. O. SEDI.ERS, Director of Eve- ; nlng Department The Moody Bible In- ■ stltute of Chicago.) LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 2. THE FLOOD. LESSON TEXT—Genesis 6:9-12. 7:11-24. GOLDEN TEXT—“The wages of sin Is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Rom. 6—s R. V . The first great fact recorded in the : book of Genesis is that of Creation, which may be divided into several lesser facts. The second great fact is that of the Fall, which began with the temptation and ended with the exchi- j sion from Paradise. In this lesson we ■ come to the third great fact, the • Flood, the account of which embraces, , the fifth to the ninth chapters. Chapter five gives us Noah’s genealogy; six, the history of the building of the ark; seven, the occupancy of the ark; eight, Noah’s departure from the ark, and nine, God’s covenant with Noah. In this lesson sin flourishes like the proverbial green bay tree. “Every j imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart-was only evil continually,” v. 5. These thoughts were crystallized into the lives of men. for we read that . “the earth was filled with violence.” Viewing this awful development of ■ sin, God was so deply grieved in his heart that he turned aside (repented) • from his plan and purpose thus far. to j a determination to destroy man (▼. [ 7). Noah, however, found grace In , God’s sight, as we see from v. 9, even In the midst of these adverse circum- i stances. Environment is powerful but not all-powerful, and it is never a match for God’s grace. Wo must not ■ gather from this verso that Noah was faultless, but rather than he sought to conform his life ,to God’s will and not to the standards of those among whom he dwelt. Noah gave himself to a whole-hearted service to God. | We are told that the foundation of j Noah’s, acceptance before God was his , | faith, Heb. 11:1, like his great grand- . I father Enoch, he had “walked with God” (5:22). Noah stood absolutely i alone and was thus thrown upon companionship with God, compare v. 9 ■ . with I Jqhn 1:3. Given Dye Warning. God could no longer endure the ' : sins cf men. their iniquity was full. ! therefore God determined to destroy : them. He did not, however, cut them > off, for we read that they had 120 j years’ announcement of the coming of ’ : the flood (v. 13), time enough in : which to repent. They also had a ; faithful preacher to warn them dur- ' Ing this time, 2 Peter 2:5. But their ■ apostasy was complete and they : would have none of God’s mercy nor ; heed his warning, Prov. 29:1. Noah’s , obedience as he built the ark was a i daily reminder of the impending flood. The ark was a flat-bottomed chest , 450 feet long, 75 feet broad and 45 : feet deep, built of Cyprus (gopher ' woo 4) and coated vjith pitch. Under ; the eaves of tjne. roof was an open j space for ventilation and its 'three ' j decks- were divided into compart- ; j ments. As to the “eight souls” (I Peter ; 3:20) who entered the ark we need I to remember that usually children and I servants are understood without menj tlon in such enumerations. We are | not to infer that of all created animals J two of each entered the ark. The flood certainly was not universal and hence such a miracle was uncalled for. Attention has been called to the fact that zoologists tell us there are in reality less than 400 distinct species of animal life. Further, -we must compare Chapters 7:2, 3 and 6:19. i These animals were preserved for fu- ; ture Increase, also for sacrifice. Exo- ! dus gives ten ’ such clean beasts. ! Therefore of those for sacrifice Noah had but seventy in all. Modern ships j carry hundreds of beasts with their | food besides hundreds of human be- i Ings. Attention has been called to the detailed instruction Noah received for the building of the ark, yet God is ready and willing to give us as clear specifications for our life and work if we will walk as consistently with him as did No&h. Race Swept Away. At last the flood arrived at the exact moment prophesied. Its cause seems to be twofold, a subsidence,of the ground and a downpour of rain. The Euphrates valley where this event took place fills all the necessary conditions. Subsidence would allow an inundation from the sea. Such an inundation took place in 1911 in the Yangtse valley and another in 1901 rendered more than ten million people homeless; the water rising from 50 to 90 feet. All that the account demands, however, is that a corrupt race was swept away and that God saved his righteous servant and his household. It is the privilege of every believer in God to save, his household. See Acts 16:31, 2:9; I. Cor. 7:14. The only way God could insure the purity of the race was to destroy irrevocably the impure. This seeming severity was the essence of tender- i ness and another evidence of the love ! of God. ! Skeptics have read into the story j of the flood much exjtraneoui matter. Some have sought to prove; that be- j cause nearly every race under the sun I has a flood tradition therefore the writer of Genesis is merely passing on a “Babylonian tradition.” It is far more reasonable to believe that these traditions are corrupted forms of the true account found in the Bible. Few of these traditions but are full of polytheistic vagaries, as, for instance the Assyrian epic poem giving this story,, but which is without a single enduring lesson. Whereas in this account Moses has given us a clear presentar tion of the facts. He has made It a medium of spiritual instruction. His account is the work of inspiration revealing the majesty, the righteouSneaa and the mercy of God. J : ' j

THE BANKS \ The closing of the year 1912 has brought out the usual bank statements accompanied by the addresses of the Presidents and General Managers of these institutions. Thdir reading is j interesting as they show in a striking ; manner the prosperity of the country, and deal with economic matters in a ; first hand way. Those who know anything of Canadian banking methods know the stability of these institutions. and the high character of the . men who a?e placed in charge. In : discussing the Ijmd situation the Pres. • ■ ident of the Union Bank of Canada, whose branches are to be found in all parts of the Canadian West, said:— “A goed deal has been said about speculation in land. The increase in ! land values has added enormously to the assets of Western business, and : has to some extent formed a basis for ; extended credit, but this is not felt to be a drawback when the value is real and convertible. We consider that a business standing which is strengthened and enhanced by property hold- , ings is entitled to a reasonable enlargement of credit for legitimate busii ness operations.” It will thus bo seen that the banka recognize the certain rise in the value jof farm lands in Western Canada. : When the facts are known of the wonderful producing qualities of farm lands in the Provinces of Manitoba, ■ Saskatchewan and Alberta, it is simple to understand the liberal stand i taken by the banks. Living not far from Lashburn, Sask., is a farmer named Clarke who in 1913 secured a crop of Marquis Wheat, yielding 76 * bushels per acre. Thia is spoken of as a record yield, and thta is doubtless true, but several cases have been brought to notice where j yields almost as large have been pro- ; duced, and in different parts of the country. During the past year there i have been reported many yields of from 35 to 45 bushels of wheat to the acre. Oats, too, were a success- | ful crop, and so was the barley ■j crop. Wheat that would yield 40 bushels per acre, would bring <ffn the market 70c (a fair figure) per bushel, i a gross return, of $28.00 per aefte. At . low $12.00 per acre (an outside i there would be a balance of $16.00 per | acre net profit. This figure should satisfy anyone, having land that cost i i ss than $100X)0 per acre. Very much ' less return than this proves satisfac- ; tory to those holding lands in lowa and Illinois worth from $250 to S3OO I per acre; The latest Government returns give , an approximate estimate of four hun- ' dred thousand of an immigration to ! Canada during 1912. Os this number ; 200.00 T w(ill be from the United States. ; Most of these are of the farming class ; and it is not difficult to understand i why farnfiag lauds in Canada will adi rance from ten to twenty per cent. , within the next twelve months. TherfM ; lore investment in Western Canadian : lands is not looked upon as being-in > the speculative class. Those fortunate ‘ snough to secure free homesteads in i Canada will acquire in the intrinsic i value of the land alone the best posl rible start for a splendid future. Ad- ' vertisement. . Wedding Rings That Wear. The next time you are married —or, if you will, when you are married — lon’t buy a gold wedding ring. It isn’t being done. Platinum \Vedding rings Lire the newest thing. Mlle. Jeanne ! Provost, a French actress, is to blame. ’ She thought of the idea, and when she was married to M. Firpo, she had one. Platinum rings are more expensive than gold and wear better. Just why an actress, especially a French actresk should want a wedding ring that will last a long while the jewelers haven’t learned. Mrs. Austin’s Bae Pancake, delicious , light cakes for breakfast, all grocers. Adv. I Many a woman'ptays to get into keaven and fights to get into society. i ..1.1!-.!.!"!=

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