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SEARCH FOR LIGHT ON LIFE BEYOND GRAVE IS PASTOR'S TOPIC
Rev. John H. Boyd Discusses Quest of Mind for Revelation and Speaks of Development in Christ-Likeness.
TIIE SUXDAT OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 6. 1915.
Ol'n DEAD."
Fradiel In tfc First Presbyte
rian Church, Portland, Or,
Mar 23, 1915.
FOREWORD.
This sermon is the record ef
thoughts born of a sorrow, tem
pered and sweetened by Chris
tian confidence. It claims for it
self no worth, beyond that of a
candid exposure of a. faith which
sheds light in a dark place; and
of my own heart's attempt to
think today of one who yester
day walked with me in holiest
fellowship, and wrought with me
the willing tasks of his kingdom.
If others shall find my faith
helpful, and my best thought of
"Our Dead" comforting, I shall be
satisfied.
JOHN H. BOYD.
Texts.
Second Corinthians 6:8 "We are of good
courage, I Bay, and are willing rather to
be sbaent from the body, and to be at horn
with the Iord."
Phllippians 1:23 "I am In a strait betwixt
the two, having the desire to depart and
be with Christ; for It is very far better."
Klrst Epistle of John 3:2 "Beloved, now
are we children of God. and it is not yet
made manifest what we shall be. We
know that, if he shall be manifested, we
shall be like him; for -we shall see him
even as he la." .
Ktrxt Corinthians, 13:13 "Now atoldetn
faitb. hope love, these three; and the
createst of these la love."
BY im. JOHN H. BOYD.
Taator First Presbyterian Church.
WHEN the anxieties of sickness
have given place to the realities
of death, and the precious body
lies silent and pallid upon the bed, or
lias been shut away in the prison house
of the tomb and no longer responds to
the call and ministries of affection:
when the soul which
we knew and loved
can no longer be
reached by the Ave
nues of sense, then
those that! live on
and love enter into
a. state of eager,
yearning question
ing. I do not mean
that bitter ques
tioning which arises
from distrust of the
goodness and wis
dom of God; I do
not mean the outcry
of doubt which won- Dr. jot,m M- BoyaU
aers wnetner tnere
is life beyond the grave.
I speak of another state of mind, an
other form of questioning. In this there
is no doubt of immortality. In fact,
there is an intenser conviction, a firmer
assurance that life does continue be
yond the grave. I speak of that in
stinctive, irresistible wondering and
outreaching of the yearning mind
which desires to follow the dead into
the new abode of life, to know where
they are, and to understand how they
live and what they lo, in order that we
may imagine and sympathize with the
new forms of joy and blessedness into
which the loved ones have entered.
- Now, just when the mind enters upon
this eager questioning, it meets a most
OPERA ARTISTS BEGIN SCRAMBLE
IN SEARCH OF HOMES FOR SUMMER
Light Offerings Held Forth in a Few Theaters Except Standard, Where Excellent Company Is Presenting Such
Classics as "Cloches de Corneville" Madame Fremstad, Born in Norway, Now More American Than Ever.
BY EMILIE FRANCES BAUER.
NEW YORK. June 5. (Special.)
The conditions In the musical
world at present have resolved
themselves into wild scrambles son the
parts of the artists to find Summer
homes, aa many of them fully believed
that the war would be over by the
time Summer was here, but, unfor
tunately, this dream of bliss was not
to be fulfilled.
Most of them are in search of quiet
resorts, a thing that is difficult to find
In the East, and. to quote Madame
Amato, who no doubt voices the feel
ings of others:
"We roust find a home that will al
low Mr. Amato to take complete rest,
es he has never had a more compli
cated season and he has studied a num
ber of new roles, as well as new
oratorio roles, which means, of course.
In Escamlllo. in French, and several
In English. He has filled a great many
engagements in private musicales and
his list of festivals, coming just when
the season was over, and, beyond this,
just when his heart was torn with the
agony of conditions in Italy, it has
made it impossible for us to accept
the vast number of invitations which
we have had for Summer, and we must
take a quiet home where he can begin
his study for next season.
If people think that the life of an
opera singer is a quiet one. they should
see the activity of Mr. Amato. who
never stops working from the minute
the eeason ends nntil it opens. Only
when he Is on the steamer, where he
must be away from things, does he
get any rest, and this year he cannot
have that. The boys are happy at the
Idea of a Summer home in. America,
and all I think of is the possibility to
get a few hours of rest."
a
Summer opera has come and gone
In most cases, including the Aborns,
who closed In Brooklyn without com
ing to New York.
Light opera holds forth in a few
theaters, including the Standard, where
a. most excellent company is present
ing such old classics in the way of
light opera as "Cloches de Corneville,"
"Mikado" and "Erminie." Incidentally
it may be said that the chorus is made
up of members of the old Century Com
pany and is as well equipped on upper
Broadway as they were on the Circle.
Dorothy Morton, the well-known comic
opera star, is in the title role, and the
company is more than ordinarily good
throughout. The only question that
presents itself is how far Summer at
tractions are affected by the tremen
dous rush into moving pictures. One
sees nothing . else advertised, hears
nothing else discussed, and. as a matter
of fact, the newspapers devote them
selves as seriously to dramatic crit
icism so far as moving pictures are
concerned as they do to the real thing.
But for those who still enjoy the
Id melodies, such as those Just heard
in the "Bells of Corneville." Erminie"
and next week "The Chocolate Soldier."
the performances at the Standard will
be a relief. Jose "Van den Berg is
the conductor and Mr. Conger is the
director.
Max Rablnofr is planning a consid
erable departure from the manner in
which the last tours of the great Rus
sian dancer, Pavlowa. have been con
ducted. A musical feature will be
added by which several first-claBS
operatic artists will appear with
Madame Pavlowa and her company.
Those already engaged include Marie
Nedllzoa, lyric soprano of the Imperial
Opera of St. Petersburg: Rlccardo
Martin, of the Metropolitan Opera
Honse. and Maggie Tayte, the English
soprano.
The form of entertainment, which
will be given is new in this country,
and may be called grand opera, in
which dancing and pantomime are
given equal importance with the vocal
find instrumental numbers. These are
baffling and painful experience, an In
capacity to think. We cannot think at
such an hour. We cannot adequately
think at any hour. Whatever we have
known of the life of that mind and
spirit whom we loved and treasured
was associated with a body, it was
in relationship to earthly things, it was
a physical presence, but now the bodily
form lies in the silence and darkness of
the grave, the spirit is otherwhere.
We find, ourselves utterly incapable
of conceiving of the place, or of the
mode of life into which the spirit has
entered. How can one hear without
ears? How can one see without eyes?
How is the spirit related to a euper
sensuous, spiritual environment, as the
physical was related to a physical en
vironment here in the earth.? There
is no answer, the mind is driven back,
defeated. It has no categories of
thought, no powers of conceiving, and
hence In attempting to pursue the dis
embodied soul into the realms of the
spirtual. it comes back, utterly baffled.
Then, the imagination takes up the
task. The lonely, bereft heart of grief
thinks of a land of green fields, and
beautiful trees, tremulous under the
touch of soft airs; of flowering vales,
with bubbling springs and singing
brooks; or else it pictures an all-glorious,
radiant, perfect city as in the
Apocalypse of John; but no sooner does
the Imagination yield itself to the de
lights of these conceptions than rea
son acts and reminds the imagination
that there can be Bo reality in these
things. The help of fancy is vain.
Silence of the Bible.
Then once again, impelled by sor
row's desirei grief turns to the in
spired revelation. Surely in the Book
of God, which addresses itself . to the
common need of humanity, there will
be light on these hidden things.
Within the Old Testament, there Is
no help whatsoever. Not a satisfying
word or image only vague suggestion
shadowed, formless, fearful.
In the New Testament, Jesus assures
us of the triumph of life over death.
He brings life and immortality to light,
but he never opens a door that leads
Into the other world and shows what
really lies there.
Laiarus spent four days In the world
beypnd, and returns, but ever after
ward is mute. Sacred writers tell of
the "rest which remains," of "the
"HeavenHes," of being "caught up into
Heaven," of "Christ sitting on the right
hand of God," but never srttempt to
supply information concerning,- the
world beyond which in any degree is
definite and satisfying.
John dreams in apocalyptic vision
of a city with its walls of jasper, of
radiant glory, of palms and golden
streets, but we know that John never
designed such imagery to be a de
scription of the eternal residence of
the souL o we come back from reve
lation, disappointed, frustrated. There
is nothing in all the word of God, be
yond poor, faulty, earthly symbol, to
tell us of what lies beyond the grave.
No Symbol of Hevelatlain.
Why this silence of the Bible? Be
cause of the intrinsic, essential impos
sibility of revelation. Before a thing
can be revealed, there must be a lan
guage and a symbol of revelation. Be
fore the mind can conceive and under
stand, there must be an essential ca
particularly well known in Russia,
where the terpsichorean element Is ac
corded the first place. Among those
who have written works of this sort
are Auber, Rachmaninoff and Joseph
Holbrooke, the English composer, who
wrote from a scenario conceived by
Mr. Rabinoff.
The Auber work is called "The Dumb
Girl of Portlcl," and the Rachmaninoff
mi mo-dramatic-grand opera is called
"Aleko" the gypsies). The Holbrooke
work, which will have its world pre
mier by this organization next Fall,
will be called "The Enchanted Garden."
The company now being formed will
Include the Pavlowa Ballet Russe. con
sisting of 52 members, operatic prin
cipals, the former orchestra and chorus
of the Boston Opera-house, Ignaz
Cooper, first conductor of the Imperial
Russian Opera of St. Petersburg, and
the stage director will be RyBzard
Ordynski, long the chief colleague of
Max Reinhardt. The company will
open early next October in New York
City.
a m
Titta Ruffo, who has been singing
all season at Havana, arrived in New
York this week and is sailing for
Buenos Ayres, where he will join
Caruso, who is already delighting the
audiences of South America, . While in
New York the eminent baritone was
considerably under the weather, but no
doubt he will recover In time for the
next sailing. Before this, however, it
is understood that Ruffo will give two
concerts in New York, either at the
Manhattan Opera-house or at the Hip
podrome. Madame Fremstad has decided t6 be
an American, notwithstanding the fact
that the country which she can claim
as hers is still among the few neutral
spots left in the world. Madame Frem
stad says: "I am an American. It Is
true that I wajr born In Stockholm,
that my mother was Swedish and my
father a Norwegian, and of course I
studied In Germany, and in Germany I
had my "first great successes in opera.
FOE OF ROSE DESCRIBED
AND REMEDY SUGGESTED
Birth, Life and Ravages of Plant Louse Are Rehearsed and Effective
Method of Eradicating Pest Pointed Out-
Francis E. Blackwood-West. F. E. S., F.
Z. S.. the author of the following article,
was formerly Government entomologUt or
Ceylon, scientific adviser to the Fruit Com
mission of Australia, pathologist for the
Society of Destruction of Diseases of Crops.
Australia; chief of the investigation for the
extermination of the house fly in Colombo,
Ceylon.
BY FRANCIS E. BLACKWOOD-WEST.
THE aphis or plant louse is the pest
most familiar to those who grow
roses and I suppose there is hard
ly a place in the world where roses are
grown so abundantly or on such a large
scale as in Portland. This pest breeds
with wonderful rapidity and practic
ally destroys not only the Individual
rose, but the whole plant by sucking
the juices from the tender leaves and
stems and draining out the vitality of
the plant.
The lice or aphides are protected in
their work by the ants, who guard the
aphids and keep them in flocks, as
men do cattle, tending them, carrying
them back if they stray, and "milking"
them by stroking them with their an
tennae to obtain a jelly-like substance
called honeydew.
The ants will usually fiercely attack
trespassers and the aphids are thus as
sured of a protection which Nature has
denied them, in return for which they
supply their keepers with food. This
aphid is a European species which has
pacity within the mind, a faculty to
receive. There is no language, there
is no symbol to portray, there is no
capacity within man's being to receive
& revelation of the life lying? beyond
death. The Imagination cannot con
ceive, or intellect rationally accept,
that which lies wholly beyond experi
ence. The missionary to Siam endan
gered his influence when he tried to
make the King understand that In -the
land from which he came the water
sometimes became so hard that a man
could walk upon It. It was so abso
lutely contrary to the experience of
men in Slam that the missionary was
accounted a prevaricator and exagger
ator. When a blind man 'was asked what
he thought of the sound of a trumpet,
he "said he thought it was scarlet
showing his utter want of any capacity
to conceive of color. When Henry W.
Stanley came Into the great forest of
Africa and there met the roaming
bands of pigmies, who knew only of
houses of wattles, or of branches and
leaves, though he had mastered their
language, he found himself utterly un
able to communicate to them any con
ception of the life -as men lived it in
civilized England. He could not tell
them of the great steamship by which
he came to Africa. He could not tell
them of the vast buildings, or of the
commerce and inter-relationships of
life, or of the spiritual content and
idealisms of civilized life. There was
no language, no symbol, no capacity
within the pygmy to understand the
modes and thoughts of civilization.
We marvel at the silence of Revela
tion. We are keenly disappointed be
cause there is nothing in the Old Tes
tament nothing in the words of the
Master, nor in the writings of inspired
apostles, nor in the visions or John
naught in all the word of God which
uncovers the dwelling-place of the
dead or reveals their manner of life.
This silence arises from the utter in
capacity of language, of imagination,
of reason. Revelation of such realities
Is impossible.
Some IlltunJnatlimr Truths.
Is this the final word? Can we know
nothing? Can we find no thought of
loved ones departed in which our minds
may rest and the bruiBed heart soothe
itself? Yes, there is more to be said.
There are truths and realities, in the
word of God, when associated with an
analysis and interpretation of the con
tents and processes of our spiritual
being, which will enable us to con
struct a rational, satisfying idea of
our dead, as they live and move and
have their being in the unseen world.
There are three lines of thought along
which we may move with certainty.
Beyond Change and Defeat.
The first is this. They have entered
into a state of permanency. I do not
mean fixation or stagnation. I mean
that they are blessed in a state free
from all anxieties of change or of de
feat. They are blessed with a sense
of Infinite leisure and repose. They
have come Into an existence where no
hope is ever frustrated where no plan
is ever broken, where .no task ever
remains unfinished, where the limita
tions of earth, the' checks and hin
drances of failing time, -and disease,
and weakness are unknown, and where
every enterprise and hope and plan
Notwithstanding all this, the greater
part of my life I have passed in Amer
ica, and I feel myself an American in
all my sympathies. I have decided to
include more American songs in m
repertory than heretofore, and perhaps
in that way I can really express the
Americanism that is within me."
Madame Fremstad has gone to the
Maine woods to get away from th
clang of the war news, as she want
to study quietly on her programme for
next season. She says that the war
has made her a more ardent American.
The German Saengerfest, which
opened Saturday night in Brooklyn,
has been one of the most Important
musical events ever held by the United
German Singing Societies. It is esti
mated that not less than 15,000 people
have been in attendance, and it is cer
tain that there has never been a more
elaborate list of soloists. Madame
Gadski sang two numbers Saturday
night, and five selections were given
by a male chorus of 6000 singers. The
soloists Monday night were Madame
Schumann-Helnk and Herman Weil,
both well-known operatic stars. In the
afternoon a contralto, Edith Magee, ap
peared with the chorus of 4500 school
children, who were heard in choruses.
Among the conductors were Carl
Flque, Felix Jaeger, Ernst Schrupf ana
others. The judges include Horatio
Parker.' of Yale University; John Lund,
of Burfalo; Louis Ehrgott, of Cincin
nati; Kurt Schlndler, of New York, and
other noted musicians. These united
singers are competing for a prize sent
by the Kaiser for this occasion.
The Bach Festival at Bethlehem,
under direction of Dr. J. Fred Wolle,
closed Saturday night after one of the
most successful performances ever
given here. Dr. Wolle had the as
sistance of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
It will be remembered that Charles M.
Schwab, who has made many musical
enterprises successful, has stood behind
Dr. Wolle, both in moral and material
support.
long been known as a pest of peach
foliage in this country.
ine lire nistory is as follows:
The Winter is usually passed in the
egg stage on one of the deciduous fruit
trees. The eggs are small and oval
and are laid in the axils of the buds.
The first generation hatch in the early
Spring ana multiply upon these buds
and give birth to young all females
called stemmothers. These stemmoth
ers are all of a deep pink color and
begin to give birth to living young.
These young are a pale yellowish
green and UBually there Js a medium
and two lateral dark green stripes
passing over the abdomen. About the
middle of May, and often before, the
third generation are born and become
winged; they then leave the fruit trees
and alight upon various succulent
plants and vegetables, such as roses,
snowball, astors, cabbages, tomatoes,
celery, etc. All aphides die by late
Fall, but the eggs are laid, and remain
deposited until Spring when the same
round of life Is repeated.
Many remedies have been tried from
fumigation to washing with soap and
water, sprays of all manner are man
ufactured, but most of them are use
less. A good contact Insecticide Is the
only safe and reliable spray to use,
because the aphid is a sucking and soft
bodied insect and therefore the Insecti
cide must come la contact with its
conceived will find its completion. Its
uttermost fulfillment.
This is the promise of the Apostle l
PauL He says. "If the tent in which
we are living should be suddenly borne
down by the winds, if it shall be struck
by the mystical hand of death and
taken away, we are- going to move into
a building of stone, erected by the hand
of God himself." Or, in sweeter phrase,
"They who are absent from the body
are 'at home with the Lord." Oh. the
words, "at home" to a lone, wearied
traveler!
You men who have been upon the
road In pursuit of business, passing
from city to city, from inn to inn, with
constant changes of place and rela
tionships, in hurry and worry of-rest-lestlesa
living, the sweetest thing In
your existence is the homecoming, be
cause of the permanency of it, because
change has passed.
One of the most tragic elements of
our life finds expression in that trem
ulous threnody.
Change and decay In all around we sea.
Our affections are hindered and
stifled; .Life's delicious marvels and
treasures are taken from us by the
inevitable changes that come to us.
We form our plans. Some adverse
event breaks them and they fall. I
am looking into the faces of men and
women who have dreamed sweet dreams
of joy and repose in companionship
with one you loved. When your for
tune was made, the home was built,
here on the mountain side or yonder
on the plain, you would settle your
self down and enjoy instead of this,
emptiness and desolation have come.
There are three kinds of homes
among the habitations of men, the
lowly cottage and its meagre, simple
furnishings; the great mansion of
wealth, with its splendid appointments;
then there is the little cottage with
furnishings large and magnificent.
There has been some change of for
tune here. Out of the wreckage the
family has saved a. remnant of the old
and better life.
Beloved, our natures are like such
homes, lowly, simple, but with magni
ficent, divine furnishings. There is
something within us too large for its
earthly setting. There is need of
another building. There is need to
occupy the house builded by the hand
of God, need of a home-coming. Oh!
Blessed are these home-seekers of ours.
Restless, tired, tearful and desolate,
because of the change and stress and
tain and sickness, they are at home.
We. too. are coming home sometime.
as our loved ones have come, into a
state of permanency, where defeat and
disappointment shall never frustrate,
where sweet companionships are re
covered, where hopes are all completed.
and all tasks are accompnsnea.
Companion! hip Wltm Christ.
The second thought is this. I re
peat, it is absolutely impossible for the
mind to conceive of the place of the
residence of the dead, or the forms
and modes of their life, their activity,
but, while we cannot know of the en
vironment or place of our loved ones,
w can know something infinitely
better. We understand and realize the
sniritual associations of the soul be
yond death. We shall be present with
the Lord, "I am building a mansion in
body to corrode the skin or to be sucked
into the body and so suffocate it.
Many manufacturers say that their'
articles do this but to have this effect
on the insects, the insecticide has to
be made so strong that It burns the
foliage and therefore does as much
harm as the aphides.
There is, however, one aphiclde that
I can recommend and that is a spray
placed into operation sometime ago,
and called Myzus, which is an article
prepared from resin. It is a really re
liable aphicide and for many years be
fore It was put on the market it was
rimental
stations. This solution can be used on
the most delicate flowers ana iruivo.
I have seen it used on orchids and even
ripe peaches and, besides killing all
aphides, it also acts as a protection to
the plant from the ravages of fungus.
ALCOHOL TEST IS FAILURE
Federal Experts Find Milk Reaction
Indicates Little.
WASHINGTON, June 1. The alcohol
milk test, used to some extent in
Europe and believed by some investi
gators to be a quick means of testing
the condition and keeping quality of
milk, is not a satisfactory substitute
for bacterial examination, according
to bacteriologists of the United States
Department of Agriculture. The al
cohol test is based on the fact that
when equal parts of 68 per cent al
cohol and milk are mixed and the mix
ture shaken gently in a test tube, a
flaky, white precipitate will .form
under certain conditions. The occur
rence of this precipitate is held, by
those who believe in the test, to indicate
that changes have been produced in
mixed market milk as a result of
bacterial fermentation. i
The department's investigators, who
have reported on the results of this
test, in bulletin 202. "The Alcohol Test
In Relation to Milk," however, find
that alcohol will produce this precipi
tate when the mixed market milk con
tains a certain amount of lactic acid
or rennet produced by varieties of
bacteria which form these BUbstances.
As a consequence milk may be high in
bacteria of other varieties without
showing the precipitate when alcohol
is added. Moreover, it has been dis
covered that even with lactic-acid or
rennet-forming organisms present in
the milk, the precipitate does not show
until these organisms have produced a
considerable amount of the special
substances which seem to cause the
reaction with alcohol.
In the case of mixed market milk,
which frequently contains many va
rieties of bacteria other than the lac
tic-acid or rennet-forming kinds, the
alcohol test may be negative when the
bacterial examination shows a high
count.
On the other hand. In the case of
milk from a single cow, the investiga
tion apparently establishes the fact
that a positive reaction in a 68 per
cent alcohol test indicates that the
milk is abnormal. Even here, how
ever, the value of the alcohol test with
milk from a single cow, or a small
herd, lies principally in the fact that
It will show when the milk Is abnormal
and will give warning that a careful
examination of the herd should be
made. It also might indicate the need
for improvement in the method of
handling and chilling the milk, with
the object of cheeking the growth of
milk-souring organisms.
Coke Supply Being Stocked Up.
UNIONTOWN, Pa., June 1. Perma
nent runs of five days a week are be
ing planned-for the H. C. Frick Coke
Company, which has fired 1096 ovens
since May 20. 230 additional ovens be
ing put Into operation last Friday and
Saturday, while 860 nave been ordered
into operation. The company has been
operating on a 63 per cent basis, but
for the last two weeks it has been
working its men six days each week.
Thirty plants are affected by the last
increase. It is understood a supply of
stock coke is being prepared.
Fortunately the public at large Is not af
flicted with as poor eyesight aa the girl
who paints seems to think.
order that you may be with me where'
I am."
There is nothing, more satisfying
than the spiriutal associations of life.
To know a, great soul, to feeK the
warmth of a great heart, to com
mune in thought-life and friendship
with some superlative mind and char
acter is the highest privilege and bless
edness of our being. Our loved ones
have Jesired to know Christ to un
derstand the mystery of his beauty,
to enter into .communion with him.
They tried while here .to follow him
in thought across the fields of Gali
lee; to imagine how he looked, how
he lived and in the hushed, separated
hour of prayer, they tried, as we try.
to realise his presence with us.
In that other world, through tne
mysteries of spiritual fellowship, soul
meets soul, the earth-child comes into
the nresence of the eternal, divine
Christ, and that association is affec
tionate, intimate, essential. Our loved
ones ere under the shelter of his en
folding presence. They look down
into the deeps Of his lniimte nunc
They understand the movings of his al
mighty loves. They measure tne
reaches of his redemptive sacrifice. I
cannot tell you, fellow sufferer, where
that dear one of yours is living today
in the wide universe of God. I cannot
find the path over which my loved
one has gone from me, but when I
last saw her face it was uplifted to
ward the master whom she loved and
served, and I think of her as being
with him. She sees him as he is
she is "forever with the Lord."
Bereft love sometimes conceives or
Us lost object as out yonder, far hence
amid the lonely spaces of an infinite
world. This is wrong. There is no
loneliness there. Our dead are en
folded in the love and peace of their
eternal Lord and Savior. We see the
strong workers lay down the unfin
ished tasks of life and we wonder what
their hands are doing and how life
expresses and fulfills itself.
They have gone to be associated with
a master worker. They enter into his
perfections and become partners in his
larger thought and larger tasks, which
fill tjie spaces of Eternity and com
plete the purposes of infinite love.
Earthly Things )hall Pass Away.
Let us mark to a third considera
tion. We can -understand something of
the changes which death makes in the
spiritual activities of.our life. We can
understand a little concerning perma
nent elements and phases of our eter
nal being.
In the great chapter on love, the
Apostle Paul speaks of the inevitable
changes which come in the growth and
drift of lifie. The child-life has one
environment, one interest, one employ
ment These soon change ana pass.
We who have reached maturity have
dropped from our hands the toil, the
thought, the little things that once en
gaged our little lire, our mannooa ana
womanhood live a different life. Our
hands are filled with other, larger in-
Now, the apostle says that In the
world to come these earthly interests.
these earth-knowledges are going to
drop from us, but there shall be a
residuum of the eternally permanent.
It is terrible to think of the etrlp-
BUNTING AND CLOTHES
SHOULD BE FIREPROOF
Simple Mixture of Ammonium and Clear Water Makes Cloth Safe From
Blaze, Says Physician. .
JUST now, when the Rose Festival
is near, a method of f ireproofing
buntinsr and other cloth decora
tions should be of interest in Port
laud. Such a method is described In
the New York Times by Dr. Charles F.
Pabst, of Brooklyn, in the following ar
ticle:
In the course of my duties while
Coroner's physician in Brooklyn I was
deeply impressed by the large number
of deaths among children caused cy
their clothing catching fire while they
were frolicking around bonfires or
playing with matches. In one period
of 16 days I attended 21 children who
were burned to death in this manner.
I have compiled the statistics for
19141 which show that there were 18a
deaths from accidental burns in Brook
lyn alone, and at least 90 per cent of
these cases resulted from carelessness.
I sougrht for a means of preventing ac
cidents of this character and the fol
lowing description of my plan shows
how this can be accomplished without
trouble or expense:
There is an easy and efficient metnod
of fireproofing the clothing of children
which every one should know. Many
tragedies can be averted by fireproof
ing the children s play suits, as well
as lace curtains and such other articles
of an inflammable nature as may easily
come into contact with fire and so cause
serious accidents.
Simple Mixture Effective.
A solution of ammonium phosphate
is used for this purpose and can be
made quickly and easily. Dissolve one
pound of ammonium phosphate in one
gallon of cold water, and a clear so
lution is formed- in which the fabric
to be fireproofed should be soaked for
five minutes. The garment can then
be taken out and allowed, to dry. after
which it may be worn with perfect
safety, as it is absolutely fireproof.
The solution produces no more harm
to the material than would the same
quantity of ordinary water. It will
keep indefinitely. Is non-poisonoue and
can be used for several suits. Am
monium phosphate is a common white
crystalline powder, not patented In
any way, and sells for about 25 cents
a pound at any drugstore.
Any article fireproofed by this
EXPERT ADVICE GIVEN ON
RARE AND COMMON ILLS
Dr. F. M. Rossiter Discusses Ailments, Answers Questions From Sufferers
and Cites Methods of Relief.
Worried writes: I would like very much
to know if you can tell me the following
through The Oregonlan:
1. Is hyocine hydrobromate given for
contractions or spasms of the muscles?
2. Is It given for hysteria and chronic
nervous cases?
3. Does it have bad effects on a person
taking It a long time, and does it affect
the person's head, making him dizzy?
4. Does it have a quieting effect on the
nervous system and on the muscles?
Reply.
1. It may be used for that purpose.
2. It may be necessary to use this
drug In severe attacks. It is not the
best preparation to use for nervous
ness. 3. It is not a good plan to use this
drug for any length of time. It is
a heart depressant, and it has a de
pressing influence on all the mental
faculties.
4. Yes. It is only in exceptional
cases when it is wise to use this power
ful alkaloid for any length of time
See a Physician.
Anxious writes: I am troubled with neu
ralgia and sever headaches, and feel tired
all the time. Am very nervous.
Reply.
It is not scientific to treat symptoms
unless the cause is known. The cause
of your troubles should be determined
pings which death makes with us. 1
When Columbus set his foot upon the :
Western world, in that moment every
map. every, book of geography, every
speculation and guess of the old think
ers passed into uselessness. He had
proved the rotundity of the earth. He
had uncovered a new continent, and all
the past of man's knowledge of earth
and sea dropped into error and im-
pertinency.
Men of business, who know only oi
trade or office work, notes and mort
gages and routes of transportation, of
modes of manufacture and distribution.
and you, who know only of the petty
things of your homes and the little in-
consequentialities of your life, the mo
ment that death comes to you all this
knowledge disappears. All these in
terests are stripped from us. If you
have not another content, life will be
absolutely and sadly empty.
Things) Which Abide.
But the apostle says that there are
things which abide. What abide? Why,
he says, "Now abideth faith and hope
and love." What Is faith? Faith is
trust. Faith is a leaning upon God.
Faith is a means by which we unite
ourselves to the invisible spiritual.
Faith is that attitude of the earthly
life which looks forward and leans
upon the eternal and unseen Father.
That shall abide. There never will be
a time or place or state when the
created, dependent spirit will not lean
upon the eternal Father. Such a rela
tion is independent of absence or pres
ence. I trusted in my earthly father.
as you trust in' your father. I leaned
upon the bosom of my mother, as you
lean upon yours. This is faith. This
is trust, and the apostle says that this
relationship to God will abide forever
and ever.
Hope is going to abide. "What is
hope? Hope is the wing of the soul.
Hope Is an inspiration. Hope is a
forward impulse which sprfngs towards
the future. It is that - thing which
looks and moves toward the days that
are to come. The apostle says that
hope is going to abide. In other words,
there shall be a restless attempting and
aspiring and desiring to go on. to
grow, to become larger and to go far
ther into the deeper, holier experi
ences and achievements of being. Such
inward impulse and uplifting of as
piration and of hope is going to abide,
and ail the glorious processes suf
fused with the spirit of love. With
all the jealousies and envies of life
purged away, with the pure passions
of love burning forever and ever upon
the soul's altar. This is the state of
our dead.
A Glorious Activity.
Where are they? I cannot tell you,
but I know that in intimate, eternal
relationship with the divine Father and
Christ, the freed, ambitious souls are
reaching ever forward, all the pure
passions of their being are burning
in radiant flame, somewhere and a
ways. You have thought of heaven as
quiescent, reposeful, restful. No, no.
there is a knowledge to be attained
ambitions to be accomplished, growth
to be developed, and the loved souls
who went away from the limitations of
earth are yonder, amid the pulsing life
of that spiritual world, where never
method will remain non-inflammable
until washed or drenched with rain.
The use of this solution is a safety
measure which should be employed for
pageants, carnivals and receptions,
where flimsy draperies play an im
portant part in the scheme of decora
tion. It should also be used for scenery
and properties in theatrical produc
tions and as a safeguard at all ama
teur Christmastide and New Year dis
plays. Children Often Burned.
Hardly a day passes without some
child being burned while playing near
bonfires or with matches. The records
show that the accidents occur both to
the children of the rich and the off
spring of the poor. The cowboy and
Indian suits which are so popular with
our children are particularly danger
ous, as they have a flimsy fringe which
becomes ignited easily. These suits
should never be worn unless rendered
impervious to fire.
The American Society for Fire Pro
tection and several public safety com
mittees have approved of this prac
tical method of fireproofing and are
urging its adoption throughout the
country.
Victims of the open grate have been
plentiful In the past, and doubtless
will- continue unless the proper safe
guard is adopted. The fender is a
preventive, but unfortunately, many
homes are not provided with these;,
and even If one's hearth is protected
with a fender the child may perhaps
visit the home of a neighbor where
such safeguard is not provided and
that visit may prove the fatal one.
Teat Proves Worth.
In order to give this ammonium
phosphate solution a severe test I ex
perienced with some strips of flimsy
gauze, which ordinarily take fire and
burn up completely in a few seconds.
One of these etrips I placed in the
ammonium phosphate solution and then
allowed it to dry. The flame of a
wax taper was applied to the edge
of the gauze for one minute, at the
end of which time the gauze was
blackened at the edge, but remained
whole In substance.
first. It is possible that eye strain may
give rise to your symptoms. At any
rate you had better see a physician
and find out what is the trouble.
Use of Thyroid.
R. C writes: Was much Interested in
your article on obesity, which appeared in
The Oregonlan on a recent Sunday. Would
like to inquire if thyroid affects the heart
any way adversely? At one time I used
thyroid tablets for the purpose of reducing
and they aid the work, but on being told
that thyroid eventually would work an in
jury to the heart discontinued use of same.
In on of Madamo Sarah Bernhardt' arti
cles in The Oregonlan she mentioned the
death of a very dear friend and attributed
her death to the use of thyroid for the pur
pose of reducing her weight. Would be
pleased to have your opinion In regard to
this.
Reply.
For the purpose of maintaining
health and prolonging one's youthful
ness thyroid has been, used without ill
effect through a period of years. In
such cases tne thyroid gland has under
gone degenerative changes and Is not
producing sufficient internal secretion.
The administration of the thyroid gland
substance compensates for this lack. On
the other hand in the disease known as
"hyperthyroidism" there is too much
internal secretion, or too much passes
into the blood and the heart is quickly
defeat, or disappointment where no
check or hindrance comes; they an "
there, living that glorious life of in
conceivable activity. What is the goal
of it? The goal of it is Christllkeness. .
"We shall be like him."
Dare to measure the diameter lying
between your present proportions and
the capacities and growth and the in
finite self within! See how far your
life reaches this morning! Thirty, 49,
60 years have led you from infantile
weakness, emptiness, incapacity, to
manhood and womanhood ability. Life
is ascending. Life is growing. Life
reaches out beyond earth it pene
trates and fills eternity, and the goal
of it is the perfectness of the man
hood of Jesus Christ- We are to be
come partakers of the Divine.
The Final Goal of Beta-. ,
KelflVerl. IherA lies within thlai nnv- ,
tal, earthly self, within the mysicaJ, .:
powers of human nature, a divine ca
pacity to be like the infinite Son of
God. Oh! Away with these earthly
horizons. Break lhA nn.rrow!no- hnniiA
of this cabined and cribbed conception
of our being, and realize that yonder,
along infinite avenues of ascent and .
growth, lies the final end and goal of
day, some day. with imperfections :
miro-ul ti -. i . - W 1. 1 J f ' 1 ( 1 ..
lifted from us, with ampler fields of .
occupations, with infinite reaches of .
attainment with no defeat, or checks
possible, we Tise, we go on, until, nn-
v i uuw i we wny ti", nuw near w3
may come to the stature of Jesus
xuuukui jieie ih vaio anu woras are
empty but we shall arrive.
The Confidence That Satisfies).
So I think of my dead as climbing
those infinite steeps, onward and on
ward, the sweet spirit of earth whom
1 loved, tne mind that thought for tne
and about me. the heart whose pas
sions ever awoke the noblest and beet .
witmn me 'i ininK ot her as rising
on, on, and attaining unto the image
of the Christ whom she loved, and the
complete fulfillment of a nature whose
radiancy and strength was the glory
of 25 beautiful years.
This is the thousrht which uHnflea
me. You may picture groves of
tremulous trees, a city radiant with
golden streets and resplendent walls.
I cannot conceive of my dead so en
vironed, but 1 think of her in a land,
beyond defeat, and change, enfolded
in the eternal presence of the loving
Christ, with faith and hope and love
eternally active and vibrant, and mov
ing up the awful slopes of human pos
sibility into a God-likeness which she
shall reach, some time, somewhere.
This is my hope, the outlook of my
faith, from the place of shadow and
of loneliness where I stand today.
Prayer.
Oh! Almighty God, upon our bruised,
bereft hearts, upon the loneliness and
desolation of our emptiness, may there
come great visions of life that is to
be, and in the confidence of a radiant
hope may we take up again the routine
and weariness of the duties and lowly
mission of our life here, and make all
the future days bright and full of
simple things well done and plain
words epoken in tenderness. Amen!
affected. The heart dilates and beats
very rapidly.
In the treatment of reducing fat in
the body with the thyroid substance it
is necessary to give quite large doses.
For this reason the writer does not
except under the advice and observa
tions of a physician. There is no
danger in its use providing the -dose
is suited to the individual needs and
there are no contradictions to its nse
such as an, organic heart with poor
compensation. If thyroid should cause
an increase in the heart's action, with
its discontinuance the heart immediate
ly returns to normal.
So if in the case mentioned the death
was due to thyroid it must have been
used beyond all reason and long after
it should have been discontinued. Per
haps in her case it should not have
been used at all.
SWINDLED MEN STRANDED
154 Pay $11 Eacli for Jobs Tbcy fcio
to Get but Vail to Find.
PITTSBURG. June 1 With the ex
pectation of obtaining employment on
roads near Tyrone, Pa., 164 forein
born men who left homes in Aliance,
Ohio, became stranded in Wilmerdlng.
Their baggage, which would tax the
capacity of a boxcar, is in the Wilmerd
ing railroad station. The people were
given shelter in the Wilmerding Police
Station a few nights ago.
According to several of the men a
man who said he was John Smith, of
Tyrone, went to Alliance two weeks
ago seeking men to work on the roads
near his home. Smith explained each
man would have to pay him ?11 in order
to get a position. Each of the 154
foreigners paid Smith $11. they ay.
and he paid their train fare to Pitts
burg. When Smith's victims reached here,
they boarded a train at the Pennsyl
vania Station for Tyrone. When thu
conductor asked for tickets they ex
plained "Smith will pay."
They were put oft the train at Pit
cairn and were taken to Wilmerding.
UaMncirl u.nia ruilriKlll Officials ft TP
making arrangements to send them
back to Alliance.
Kecluse Leaves $30,000.
KANSAS CITY, June 2. James Brady,
who died at Excelsior Springs, Mo.,
left an estate of S30.000, lived aa a
recluse, and. so far as is known, had.
no relatives. At the railroad shops
he was known as "the man who swung
the big hammer."
Man. Hurt Seeking Health.
COLUMBUS, O., June 2. Convales
cing from Injuries received in one run
away, John Dahn went for a drive on
the first day he was able to leave his
bed. The horse ran away again and
Pahn received serious injuries.
SOAP IS BAD
FOR THE HAIR
Soap should be used very sparing
ly. If at all, if you want to keep your
hair looking its best. Most soaps and
prepared shampoos contain too much
alkali. This dries the scalp, makes
the hair brittle, and ruins it.
The best thing for steady use is
just ordinary mulsified cocoanut oil
(which is pure and greaseless). Is
cheaper and better than soap or any
thing else you can use.
One or two teaspoonfuls will
cleanse the hair and scalp thorough
ly. Simply moisten the hair with
water and rub it in. It makes an
abundance of rich, creamy lather,
which rinses out easily, removing
every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff
and excessive oil. The hair dries
quickly and evenly, and it leaves
the scalp soft, and the hair fine and
silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy &nd
easy to manage.
Vou can get mulsified cocoanut oil
at any pharmacy, and a few ounces
will supply every member of the
family for months.