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■---***- - . ■'V ^foSPt m A Si INNOCENT THIEF Of cour B e tUe cattle had been tired the J He winked again, dropped his foot to day before, and drove more easily than A Having, bought three Holstein heifers of a stock raiser named Ainsworth, of the Dry Run neighborhood in the lower part of Bethel towmshlp, Uncle Jake Secor sent Cousin Jim and me to drive the animals home. We-speedily found that we had our task cut out for the ground, and strodè away. us. cattl The intervening distance was thirty miles, in an air line, and considerably more by the tortuous hill roads. -There were very few highway fences, and much of the country was covered with second-growth timber, with a tangle of black ash, and willow undergrowth in • ma ny of the valleys, across which the roads were corduroyed. The voung cattle had spent most of their lives in a back pasture, had never never been handled at any season, and were as-wild neither drive iect, seemingly, being to escape us. Fortunately, their instinct taught - ance them to keep together, or we should 1 have lost one or more before we had gone a mile. . ... • We certainly ran five rods hither and yon for every rod that we. progressed progressed northward, and by the middle of the afternoon were tired out, as were the heifers. When we came to a roadside barnyard in Clear Valley, one of the few prosperous and well- settled districts through which we had to pass, the smallest heifer staggered inside the inclosure, through the open gate, and fell rather than lay down; the others crowded beside her. "We can't get them any farther tonight," tonight," said Jim, sitting down on the edge of the watering trough, and wiping wiping his firehead with his handkerchief. "How far have we come, anyhow?" "Between six and seven miles, according according to the numbers on the telephone telephone poles--about thirty-five by the route we've followed. Have you any idea who lives here?" "Not the slightest; but we can soon find out." if they had been.fresh, but most of the credit for their docility was due to the collie. As a result, in contrast with i the preceding day, we were very little fatigued, and " the heifers showed no sign of exhaustion. "I'd cheerfully give twenty-five dollars dollars for you, old fellow, if your master would sell you," said Jim, patting the dog. Shep accepted the caress with dignity, but with no show of familiarity familiarity in return. - . We fed him well, and then went into the dining-room for a belated dinner. When we came out Shep was gone. He had hastily swallowed the food set before him, and started without a moment's moment's delay on the homeward journey. journey. , . The heifers had to be put" in the lower pastüre with the calves and yearlings the next day, for the milch cows received them unkindly, and they^showealxp disposition to defend themselves. \ We were busy for several days, fill- sowed corn, when on a neighbor, with a griev- SNOWDEN We had heard similar rumors before, before, whether well founded or not, and this hint set us off on a new tack, but without results. The heifers were worth at: least $40 apiece, and Uncle Jake did not relish losing them. He notified the sheriff, and offered a liberal liberal reward, but .nothing came of it. The cattle seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth. We might, and indeed did, have our suspicions, but they ended nowhere in particular; and did not seem susceptible susceptible of proof. So the matter rested until, until, one noon late in October, Homer Powers drove hurriedly into our yard. After being introduced to Uncle Jake, whom he had never before met, he hesitated an instant, and then asked: "Could you recognize those ^Hoi- steins, so as to swear to them?' We all looked surprised; but Jim ! said, "I could!" and I nodded. "Well," Powers observed, with a^ary j Socialist M.P. Is An Implacable Fighter for the Cause. Philip Snowden, M.P. for Blackburn, Blackburn, England, who has been spend ing a few days in Toronto with his one of the heroes and you'd attend to your young called. "They're wander- clever wife, is leaders of the Socialist movement in Britain. His election m Blackburn Blackburn seven years ago was the first big election win for the Socialists. Mr. Snowden, now in his fiftieth year, is an apostle of revolution! rather than reform. He has the reputation reputation of being such a thorough Socialist that he would willingly go to the stake for the cause. Snowden cares nothing for himself, his personal personal success and political rewards. He "is a zealot. Lloyd George s Liberalism is no more pleasing to him than the Conservatism of Bon- womanly woman as a cross between an angel and an idiot," says Mrs. Snowden. *'Mr. Ellis knew what he was writing about. It- is the anti- suffragist that would make women coarse, never permitting her to forget forget her sex." "If the suffrage movement means one thing more than another, it means less of sex and more of humanity. humanity. That does not mean any defection from the sacredness^ of motherhood--her noblest work." "Thé average noble woman looks, for a home, desires a home, but it does not follow that the woman- who never goes beyond her own four walls will make the best wife and mother." * itr |. ,1 1W 4P i ncAd I guess they have ! a r Law and Austen Chamberlain. twist of the ^ es ; io 6 n 7^om^a legal Llo^TGeorge aims to reform abuses ing/ffll over my place.' "They point of view, at least ever since they ; readjust a deranged system of got out of your pasture; but I didn't ial ]ife _ Snowden wants revolu- know it till last night." J tion--bloodless, but nevertheless The fruit-raiser let bis glance rest I ra dical and absolute. Efforts to on one face after another for a ipom- re j orm society, he deems, were ent, and then continued: _ ^ ^ j hurtful trifling ; he would cut under *hev are!" Uncle Jake exclaimed. They were in the pasture down by the swamp the last thing I saw of them. How long have they been bothering bothering you?" .. "Well," said Mr. Rindge, scratching his head, "only since this morning, but I guess they've been there longer. My wife says she saw some calves down in my lower meadow night before last, but thought they werë ours, and so didn't tell me at first.'* "Jim and I hurried over to reclaim the strays, finding them wandering up and down the complainant sAane. In going, we had discovered where they had escaped from the pasture, over a partially prostrate length of fence where the swamp and the cleared l^pd abutted on the highway, side by side. They had then passed through one corner of the swamp to begin their •Ford Spencer, who Uv«**m*j g- foSnc of society as it is Btotiorjef me n ; a e r st™rday" as" I ! and *ndit tottering into.collap^ waï going to the station with a load of | Liberalism he regards^ as more barreled apples, and asked me if the ] dangerous to his cause than Con grade Holstelns Steve Bates had to se rvatism--the latter holds out no eelT were three-quarter blood, as he had represented them. " T don't know,' I said, 'I didn t supposé supposé Steve owned a hide or a hoof, except except those on that old blind horse wife drives.' « •why, you're pasturing them over on your north farm!' said Ford. "That made me sit up and take no- NAVY PDWfRFUL The Proprkhryor [fogjfiHed AVç^etobk Preparation forAs aim ilatins lhe R)o4 and Ri .ling Ihe Stomachs 4nd 3oy IT IS EQUAL TO THE ALLIANCE. triple Training Not So Good On Ships of Germany, Italy and Austria. For Infanta and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bears Signature Promotes Di£eslion£heerfW ness dhd Rest.Contains neither: OpiuiuMorphinc norMiacrak Not Narcotic. ! of hope of a change and in a sense justifies justifies revolt, but Liberalism, with its forms, lessens the strength of Socialism Socialism and kills its nerve. Like An Accuser. Snowden is numbered with the Labor members, but he is not of them. They are too yielding for tice, especially when I learned there ' His voice is shrill, and as he were three of them, all rather light, 1 and coming four next winter. cûû that north farm of mine isn t You see, that north farm of mine isn't properly properly a farm at all. It's merely a tract, of woods and rough pasture; and I hadn't been there since last July, when I took up a pair of colts. Speimer lives over the county line, and had the last of the j heard nothing about jourjost^cattle^ 1 trespassing. j We had just driven '-..v, - - ", j "xjua, bad some more We went* to the house and were di-; herd through the S^Pthat soon as I could deliver my load of ap- we f a oun°d r ?pL d asant yPung^n , -- \eHers " gathering early fall fruit. On hearing J}m? „ 1 agked of our predicament, he readily agreed , 'My gracious." said my cousin. f to keep us overnight, and Seated us , ith the bunch, are they we torn _, mif- with t.h both courteously and kindly him our names, and learned in turn , Qtkerg „ Maybe they didn't get out with the nies I took him over to the north arm' with me. Then we hunted up St6V6 and ii6. hemmed and hawed, and finally told me he bought the heifers over at Cherry Ridge. I don't believe a word of it. Of course I didn t pay much atten- that he was Homer Powers, a comp ar-, lhey were t ,„_the pasture tion t,.their markings j£üey.« had Wh ° ™ ^ ^ ,^ n 0"^ M in fruit culture. During the convers house that evening, I could get on much better if we had a dog to help us drive the cattle home. Mr. Powers instantly turned to his hired man, Steve Bates, a tall longhaired longhaired backwoodsman, who looked much more like a hunter or trapper than a farmer. "Whv not lend them Shep," he said. '.He'd make the heifers keep to the road." ^ . „ T don't know where the dog is, said Bates, indifferently. Jim looked up. "If he's a competent driving dog," he said,. "I'll pay you a couple of dollars for his use, and bring 'him back to-day after to-morrow myself." myself." . , "Oh, he'd come back all right! said Steve, chuckling. "You wouldn't have to bring him. But he's over with some of my wife's folks ; I don't know just where to find him." "You could get him, Steve, in no entertainer insisted, and sation at _ the . return- j ,y certain the^re your cattle I want stated that we | a^ong and tf^iess seaxcn^re^-1 ÔÜ' to go hack with me and ed to the house to consult +hpm "Ten to one," he decided, afta Yea - .. Bu J sa id Uncle Jake, "how did he ing our story, "they ve gone ^ack to | But sa. stray there, or Betheb Yes, that s what they ve , |? d l he c™me here and steal them?" done* 1 . "Npither I think. As to his sten.ling "But, father," Jim asked, "^credu-, , 1 he has i os t only a half lously, "do you mean that cattle e r | them j ' n the last four months, act that way--like a cat.' , - when he went to dicker "Not often, but sometimes, when and that was when they they're not yet wonted to a new place. | with pencer. Those heifers got out first, Probably, strayed emier. The Danube River,"which forms the boundary between Servia and Austria, affords room for ' manoeuvring &. respectable respectable fleet, but Servia has never put an armed vessel on the river. Austria, Austria, on' the other hand, has long maintained maintained a flotilla on the upper Danube, and within the last two years--since the last two Balkan Wars revealed Servia's Servia's military strength--she has .increased .increased her naval forces on the river. She has in commission on the Danube Danube six little monitors and two more are building. None of them amount to much in fighting value, as against other ships, but on the Danube and against shore batteries or field artillery artillery they will prove formidable. Aus-. tria also has eight motor patrol launches, with a machine gifn in each, on the Danube. As Belgrade is situated directly on the river and has no batteries that could effectively resist even this little navy, the flotilla would bè ample to capture Belgrade single handed. The flotilla, moreover, would have no difficulty difficulty in covering the landing for an invading army. Germany's Fleet. When it comes to a comparison of the navies of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, the figures come, much nearer to a balance. In the Jiicîpe of OM IkSMJELmaml Pumpkin Seed" ji!ic.Sama + Jhc&tflc Softs ~ jfàttSud * Itirzi Sttd- Aperfect Remedy forConstip* ' i 1 ion. Sour StomachDfejThottr- Woms,Convulston^Feven«y ness and LOSS OF SLEEP- Facsimile Signai we of TYti Centaur Company. MONTRBAL&NEW YORK ieihasjti Esact Copy of Wrapper. THE CENTAUR COM P»AN Y. NEW YOWK CITY. press the eye. But for all-around offhand offhand sea-fighting efficiency a good many competent critics rate the Italian Italian navy, ship for ship,- a notch above the methodical German. In personnel the Austrian fleet is heavily handicapped at he very start by one circumstance--the Austrian German is no sailorman and never was.. The Hun is no better. As a the Austrian fleet is Mr. Philip Snowden, MJP. Triula Alliance the most formidable j consequence inpie Alliance vue I manned entirely by Italians and Dal- naval pow-er is Germany. The Ger- man fleet has been making rapid ! mations, with the Dalmatian in over- strides in the last few years and can ^"S^Tgooi saüorman racial- ly, is a Serb. He is pure Slav, with as and started straight south; and the others only followed' after happening to find the* broken place in the fence. You boys hitch up the little bay mare to the light buggy, and drive to Ams- How did he get them, then?" "You must remember his dog, Shep? That dog is a wonder. As I figure it out, Steve sent that dog after them some evening soon after they were aiuue, driven over here. Shep, of course, the way. You'll.probably ge a i 1 ,, traCe j whyVe^®to^o^no ^hers. He would of them somewhere on the road. I wny ne worth's, inquiring here and there along driven over here. n tne roau. | h ck a v, 0 ut midnight, and get to We started at noon, and reached the . nnmar . a r, PÎ , r mv north place be- dealer's house in Ms^a^S^ -mme^earmy north place fore daylight. Steve could meet him sundown, but neither there n°r_5^' i tber e r and° t urn the heifers west. The where else could we learn anything^rA, ctiances are ten t0 one that no one garding the stray heifers. would see them at that hour. Do you time," our entertainer msisteu au returned tQ their former borne; j ~ T counted the houses, coming spoke enthusiastically ot the «toga In- nelth apparently, had anyone seen|know, I eo telligence and skill. Jim also renewed his offer ; but the most that Bates would say was that if the animal "turned up" we might have him. We went to bed early, and rose with the dawn. Mr. Powers would not accept a pen i u v unless they 1 over, and there are just thirteen be-, them along the way. Unless tney j ona -vnnr ninn.A were lost somewhere m the interven- j tween that corner^ and Place. a go ing woods or swamps, we seerned to , ^e' 1 of them, and sleep sound. be searching in the wrong quarter W T e stayed overnight at Ainsworth s : "Hum! But could the dog do it? "Yes, sir! He would pick a pocket and returned home the next day. ^ Go-, tk ere "was a cow or a sheep in it, frpm Steve ing south, we had found no one at the ° . : V»«i r*\r xxrex was I esty before, but I've seen him do some ny from us for our entertainment^so ^ p 0 Vers L place/but coming_ back we and^he god^his orders^ ^ disho n- we helped with the milking and other j ^ ■ d aga in, and Mrs. Powers an- j Bates ^As we were turning the hei-, n11v rnn Her husband 1 Pe^fnmlLTighwIy.'Teptred^fora j ^ P m ber^ dayfon büsi- 1 wonderful things. ^ ^ renewal of the struggle, Steve ap- , connected with the sale of fruit, j peared from behind the barn. He led j ness •n _ne ieu • , ^ : found the cattle, concerning the iden- -, « p' nc .o wit h i she said. She had neither seen-nor, which there could be no ques- a large mongrel L collie,, a. cross with ■ heard Qf aQy gtray cattle> but promised j W ot ™ algQ we discovered, wan- some variety of bird °g, l ^ j d ! to inform us if she learned anything. | deri ' about the crossroad near the "You go with them, Shep, and , At the next crossway we saw Steve ; Dagtu ^ e We the n went to interview just what they tell you to.^the^^ j Bates lounging toward the corner, car-. ^ ut he and his wife had disap- rying a measure of salt. • peared--had gone to the lumber woods "Did Shep come back all right. Jim , P q wQrk in a ca mp, the woman's fa- shouted. _ , f]ipr gaid "Yes," said the man, "he was on; ghep he i P ed us faithfully on the se-1 hand the next morning. con d drive without orders, and then j "Where is he ?" I asked. . , . went back as before. . , I "After a woodchuck in. the back lots, Drev ent a repetition of the theft, prob'ly," said Steve. "I hear you boys heifers locked in lost the heifers. i aa underground stable. Two days la-, "Yes," said Jim. "You haven t seen d = g reap peared, and remained ; speaks in the House of Commons he points a long lean finger, accuserlike, accuserlike, at the man he attacking, and that man is frequently Lloyd George. . A „ Mrs. Snowden .as-^ai^- ardent suffragist--but suffragist--but not a militant. She does not agree with the Pankhurst methods, but she speaks sympathetically sympathetically of the militants and defines them as being more sinned against by the Government than sinning. Mrs, Snowden is a clever little woman, with a voice as clear as a bell and a pronounced turn for logical logical argument and sarcasm. Torontonians Torontonians will remember that she spoke in Massey Hall some years ago just after Mrs. Pankhurst had been here. She has the saving touch of humor that keeps her audience in good spirits, and when she spoke here, one of her most pronounced hits was a burlesue/of Austen Chamberlain. Chamberlain. This is how she told it: "Adjusting his eyeglass and consulting consulting his notes he began : "Ladies and gentlemen. -- oh (that's Parliamentary)--I do not be- }ieve in votes for women. I ah do not believe in votes for --ah-- It walked sedately behind the cattle, and there paused, looking to us for instructions. instructions. "When vou get home, feed him, and leave him loose," said Bates, talking the money that Jim handed to him. j 'You'll find him a good dog; and you couldn't keep him if you tried to Although his appearance was hardly prepossessing, Shep proved even bet- tke ^ co kave you? er than liis recommendations, if that j „ As we were about to drive on, he were possible. I never have seen a more- intelligent animal. After the first few rods he had no difficulty in' keeping the heifers to the roadway. They were driven steadily ahead at the rate of about four miles an hour into Uncle Jake's pasture. We had nothing to do except to follow at a swinging walk, and tell the dog what road to take when we reached a turn suddenly halted us, and walking up, rested one foot on the hub of a front wheel of the buggy with us. . . I Jim wrote to Mr. Powers, asking what to do with the animal, and was ; advised to keep him, as he no longer , had a master who dared show himself. . The mongrel collie continued faith- j I was a lumberman once^ a Jong; fu f a nd~use7ul, but at no time familiar, | time ago," he said, with a wink. The ne saiu, until the following spring, men fellows up Salmon Lake way are some- j ^ early in Apri i he vanished, and I never saw him- again. times mighty careless how they their corned-beef bar'ls.' Then one we 1 A little later ! i we learned that Bates had. been seen. Women Look Well When they escape the sallow skin, the pimples, blackheads, blackheads, facial blemishes due to indigestion or bilious- At times, all women need nelp to rid the for a day or two near his former home, and we conjectured that he had en- , 1 ticed the dog away. We often held ; i family debates as to the probability ot ; ! Mr. Power's theory being absolutely j correct, but never could reach a un- j animons decision, although Jim and I ( firmly believed in it. Youth s Companion. Companion. f A »> send to sea seventeen battleships or battlecruisers of the Dreadnought class. She has eleven more on the way, but not now available. Besides this first fleet, Germany can still show a second line, in reserve, .of twenty other battleships, all built in. the last twenty years. Many of these, however, however, need not be taken seriously. In the first place they are not all, by any means, in full commission, and there is no doubt that it would take weeks of hard work, at least, to get them all ready for sea. In the second place, until less than ten 3 r ears ago Germany maintained the remarkable policy of arming none of* her ships with guns of more than nine-inch calibre, and all these ships belong to that period. Sending them into action with modern Dreadnoughts, with 12 and 13.5 inch rifles, would be pure slaughter. Italy's Power. The second naval power, of the Triple Triple Alliance is Italy. She can send out a powerful - and homogeneous squadron of four Dreadnoughts, which, designed as they are by the man who is conceded to he the ablest wai ship designer now living, will have to be reckoned with in any sea fight. She has two more fine ships on the ways, hut not within months of commissioning commissioning With this one contribution, however, however, Italy's bolt ' is shot. She has eight old battleships, which, although probably gun for gun, are better ships than Germany's twenty old ships, are open to much the same criticism. Austria, numerically, is stronger than Italy in fighting ships, hut their quality is not comparable. She. can bring into action two ships of the Dreadnought class and three others, which, although older, smaller and slower, wouldn't compare unfavorably with the United States Connecticut ing all three fleets, of the Triple Alliance Alliance together^ to muster a fleet that numerically would compare with that England would send against them. But the figures of the expert's, comparing comparing ton for ton and gun for gun, entirely entirely overlook the essential fact that sixteen ships thrown together without without even so much as a common system system of signals arranged would be easy prev for a real battle fleet. It takes more than ships, it takes months of hard practice to produce a fighting combination out of an aggregation aggregation of ships. Germans No Match. much love for the Germans' as any of The German fleèt alone is an excel- his race. He is Serb in language, ] compact fighting organization sympathies, and very largely in reli gion. Criticism of French. The French navy has come in m But'the German fleet numerically is no match for the English fleet, and add the heterogeneous units of to Austria and Italy, that $re not even the -past for some very hard knocks | tactically acquainted with each other. from the critics. Discipline in that j in the hope of overcoming that su service has been declared to be just ! periority, would only make the whole two jumps above the Russian stand- array so much the easier victims, ard and approximating that of Spain. As a matter of fact, the French navy suffers from very much the • same trouble as the Italian. There are no navel men in the world who study tlieir profession, along scientific lines with the zeal the French çut into it. ne ed. But it is the English ships which j ncome . "Is Jones a friend in "Yes, he's always in need. . It would take a sorcerer to discover discover the source of many a man's are to-day the best manned, the best handled, and probably would _ be the best fought, of any ships in the world. It might be possible by lump- No, Adolphus, not all the gushing gushing letters are written jyith a fountain fountain pen. MAN SHOULD BE THANKFUL Ignorance is Yielding to Knowledge, Pride to Humility, Humility, and Fear to Faith rejoice. ' '--P salm "Be glad and xxxii., 11. Why not, indeed 1 Who that nas eyes to see. ears to hear, and a heart to understand, can look upon upon the world these summer days, and not respond to the admonition of the Psalmist? Behold "our Francis with tne united , brother the Sun," as St class Besides these she has three j called him, spreading «_-bioad t mnrA which class with Germany's and splendor of bis radiant beams _ py Italy's secondary line. All her fleet is in full commission. Britain's Mighty Fleet. Against these three fleets, for the Triple Entente, the backbone, if not practically the entire opposing force, is . --' j- frron + W-jr flppt in Great Britain's great war fleet. Great Britain has now at sea day, and all our little brothers, the •stars, sending down the benediction benediction O-L their gentle rays by night. Look upon the. earth teeming with grain and fruit for the sustenance of every living creature ! "Yonder ness. system of Poisons, and the surest^most \ convenient and most economical help they find in This famous family remedy has an excellent tonic effecti^o the entire system. It quickly relieves the ailmentetoused by defective or irregular action of the organs of digestion, headache, backache, low spirits, extreme nervousness. Purifying the blood, Beecham's Pills improve and * - - - ■ to Tfct wit!» every be* ere very How Far They Could Travel. An old Irish woman travelling on a train one day noticed that two young men who were fellow-passengers fellow-passengers and who were travelling on passes, did not pay. Turning to them, she said--"How does it come that you young men do not pay ? "Oh," they explained, "we are travelling on our looks." She look-* ed from- one to the other a few ■seconds, ■seconds, and then said--"Shure, and you must be near your journey's end.*" Mrs. Philip Snowden. Men an( j j is the sea, great and wide, wherein ready for action, thirty battleships of | are things creeping innumerable, the Dreadnought or super-Dread-1 See "the hills whence cometh our nought type, besides ten others, which | strength"--"lilies of the field, how like the Lord Nelson and Agamemnon j ^ ey g row "--the trees "which God class are but little below the Dread- j hath p i an ted"--the 'birds which nought ratings. „ _ n , ^ ! sing among the branches !" What need of man is unsatisfied by the world in which he lives, what de- The ships carry ..four 12-inch guns, 1 therefore they are classed helots the Dreadnoughts But they carry no less than ten 9.2-inch, which make them Estate Agent (exhibiting house to prospective tenants)--And then this house is 6b~ " conveniently located. Nohthe slightest need of equipping it with expensive clocks to tell the time--a train passes every five minutes minutes on the railroad not thirty feet away. women. Men--ah--are men. are men. And--ah--women are women. Nature made them- ah different. An Act of Parliament cannot make them--ah the same. < 'in the face of this astonishing piece of information how could they go on?" ended Mrs. Snowden amid ironical cheers and laughter. Satire on Mrs. Ward. Her satire on the attitude of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the noted novelist, novelist, toward the suffrage movement was also very funny. She said that Mrs. Ward was not in favor of votes for women, and then folding her hands and turning her eyes downward downward she said in : prayerful tones "for which we may be truly grateful. grateful. Amen." . She had no patience with any specimen of arrested development. "Havelock Ellis has described the far superior to any other battleship not of Dreadnought rating now afloat. And that is aside from the fact that the British 9.2-inch is a gun of terrible terrible effectiveness hut faintly shadowed torth in figures. . , . , ... Besides, Britain has thirty-eight smaller and older battleships, which outclass the twenty older ^hips of Germany. Of armored cruisers, Britain Britain has sixteen to Germany's three, Italy's four and Austria's none, comparison--morale, training, discipline discipline and fighting efficiency. German Discipline/ The German navy is a wonderfully efficient organization--in a- typically Gërman way. There is no discounting the thoroughness with which the German German fleret has been drilled. -The Italian Italian navy has almost none of the showy precision, of discipline of the German. For one thing, their ships are dirty compared to the spotless decks beneath the banner of the Fatherland and fit sire unanswered, What Dream Unfulfilled !" "O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! In wisdom hast thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy riches !' ' Ho you answer me that the wot id is ugly as well as beautiful, and is filled with things terrible as well as useful ? I answer you in turn, that nothing is ugly or terrible save to man's ignorance, pride and fear. Is man still baffled and at times destroyed destroyed by the sea?--it is because he has not yet learned to bow his proud spirit to the "laws. of wind and wave ! Does man still tremble at the lightning?--ifc is because he has not yet completed his certain task of taming .the thunderbolt t-o do his pleasure ! Is man still overwhelmed overwhelmed by the cataclysms of tornado, tornado, -flood and earthquake ?--it is v - v - "A4- /A4- nnx-iallpVI t.h6 herlarid; for another, their drill hecause'-he has not yet unveiled the of&plasMn ÎLtiîà e do«n ? t S lm:l secret of these might, mysteries of j God ! Is man still stricken with disease \--it is because he lives in dust and filth, knows not the balms of sunlight and fresh air, herds in cities, or practices the corruptions of the flesh ! Is man still doomed to poverty l--it is because he has not yet learned to share in justice and mercy the bounty of God's providence providence ! Does man still shrink from death 1-- it is because he does not see in death the entrance to the larger life ! ' Man's ignorance, pride and fear thus I answer y^>u the charge ! The Whole History of Mail has been the tale of his discovery of - unseen beauty, his explanation n unfathomed mystery, his ^conquest of unmastered terror. Famine i "it has disappeared ! Pestilence f it is limited to the remotest corners of the earth ! Floods /--they are being harnessed ! Deserts ? they blossom like the rose ! The sea it is almost completely his 1 Poverty Poverty ?--the beginning of the end is here ? What a history !_ And this history, let me tell you is going on, until "the power of the universe is mastered, its deepest secret unveiled. unveiled. and its highest,-law obeyed. And then shall we be able to prove, what the poets and seers have ever seen, that "God is good, and His tender mercies are over all His works 1' . . , , . , So be glad with a_ mighty gladness, gladness, and rejoice- with exceeding great jov ! Sing to-day and evermore, evermore, as little Pinna sang, on New Year's Day in Asolo:-- "The year's.at the spring; The day's at the morn ; The morning's at seven ; The hillside's dew-pearled ; The. .lark's on the wing' ; The snail's on the thorn : God's in His^heaven-- All's right with the world . --Rev. John Haynes Holmes* * * < « < i 1 < « i i « V , ' y