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friant) Firm 18 Years Older than Confederatiflù On July first Canada celebrated the pemi-centennial celebration of Confederation. Confederation. Looking back over the progress accomplished accomplished in Canada during those jrears, the many remarkable achievements achievements seem hardly possible. : z The industries of Canada have progressed progressed step by step as the population increased. Among the older "truly Canadian" firms is The Williams Piano Co., Ltd., of Oshawa, Ont., makers of the famous Williams New Scale Piano. | R. S. Williams came from England and established this concern in 1849-- €8 years ago. Canadians will feel proud to. know that they have such a "truly Canadian" piano--the Williams New Scale, which they can be proud to place in their home. The Williams Piano Co. at Oshawa will be glad to send interesting\points concerning the "Artist Choice" piano, free upon request request The Stately Homes of England.' The stately homes of England How stricken now they stand, The cottage homes of England Are lonely through the land. And Flaffders from her riven side Sends seagulls in with every tide. The lilacs bloom in England, But their fragrance breaks heart, The hawthorn glows in England, But it has a poisoned dart, And Flanders with her crimson flowers flowers Has stained the tender hue of ours. The nightingales of England Still cry from hill to hill, The cuckoo sings through England, But other songs are still, And Flanders from her fields of red Sounds us the Last Post of the dead. Orders. "Eugene," said Mr. Dixon, "pile the wood in the woodshed on the side next the barn. You'd better do it this morning." Eugene went to the woodshed as his father went off to work. He did not object to pilling up wood. He was not at all lazy, and there was nothing in particular to do that morning; so he whistled as he carried the wood in, armful by armful. Then he looked round the shed. "Pile it on the side next the barn," hik father had said. There was no reason at all for that, and it meant more steps; so Eugene piled the wood on the side next the door. He was very painstaking. At noon Mr. Dixon came home in a little .electric automobile. He tried to run it into the woodshed, but the wood stuck out several feet and prevented prevented him from getting in. "Eugene!" he cried. "I thought I told you to pile the wood ever th3re!" "I didn't think it would make any ! difference." It does. I am to have the use of the Hamiltons' car while they are out of town. The woodshed was where I planned to keep it." I didn't know--" began Eugene. He was already throwing the wood across the shed. I told you what to do. You should learn to take orders without always knowing why " But that was just a home episode, and the lesson did not sink deep into the boy's consciousness. He had similar experiences all the way through school. In spite of his good mind and his willingness to work, the teachers found him annoying. It was difficult for him to obey orders exactly; in his own mind he could always always see a better way. But he had no serious difficulty until he went into the high school. He was taking his first year's work in chemistry. Dr. Roberts gave them instructions for minutes-- sixtéen . " There was only' a faint "pop" when he had made his test after twelve minutes. "I guess it will be all right now," he thought, "and I am tifed-of waiting*" The Wonder of Our Religion is Jn Its ÔvérfloW of GraciouMiess, its Ütterancè of the Unlanguaged, its Cobqüest . * of the Added Touch "Then again he laid his'hands upon his eyes."--St. Mark, viii.. 25. / - After conducting/' a service in a hospital one Sunday afternoon. I was taken through the wards by the founder, founder, that we might say a word to the sufferers. By each bed I noticed a He touched a match to the nozzle of .«owef, and by way of explanation my the generator. Something exploded like a bomb. The generator flask was splintered, and the hot.acid ran over his hands and burnéd them like fire, and ate into the sleeves of his CO c* C • In college Eugene took tho engineering engineering course. His work was good, and the instructors used their efforts to get hint a position. He went to one of the big offices of a railway. His superior officer, the chief clerk, wàs a man of few words who gave his orders without unnecessary explanation. explanation. "Let the Queen Run bridge work go and compute these," said the clerk, coming in one morning from his office and handing the data to Eugene. Eugene looked them over. They were mere fragments in construction work. He could do the whole thing in two or three hours. At present he was in the midst, of the most difficult difficult part of his bridge work. He would finish up the one difficult point, and'take up this new piece of work when he came back from luncheon. He finished his. computations and friends said:--"Do you see that little flower? Well, it is our custom here to have a flower by each bed when the patienf^is placed in it. Patients receive receive flowers from their friends, of course, but we do not want a single patient to wait even a day for a bit of bloom and cheer." And this," he added gently, "is what we call 'the one touch more.' " Instantly I was back in old Bethsaida looking at A-blind man, or else the Master of Bethsaida had come gloriously close to my side!* For I found myself repeating:-- "Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes.'" Is n\>t the one touch more the secret of Christianity? Surely, the wonder of our religion is in it's overflow of graciousness, its thrill of the uncatalogued, uncatalogued, its utterance of the un- languaged, its conquest of the added touch. Compared with all other religions religions Christianity excels in what it adds, not in what it takes away; in what it fulfils, not in what it destroys; in what it supplies, not in what it suppresses. suppresses. To-day we frankly recognize the good in other religion... We are went out to luncheon. When he not unmindful of what the world owes the arsenic test. The sad waves cry round England, The sad clouds tower and break, But brave man smile in England, Brave women work and wait, And Flanders from her deathless pyre Waves high her torch of holy fire. The stately homes of England, How glorious now they stand! Oh, the cottage homes of England, How great they are and grand! And heroes kiss the sacred sod Of Flanders and give thanks to God. -- S. M. Smythe. "On no account must the hydrogen be lighted untiT'it is certain that all the air in the generator has been driven driven off," he said to the class. "Collect the gas in small quantities and test it away from your bench. It will require require twenty minutes before you can make the final test at the generator." Eugene timed himself. "Fifteen came back at two o'clock, he found the chief clerk, the master mechanic and the chief engineer at his desk. "I was just about to begin them," he said. An unpleasant scene followed. There had beerf a wreck of one of the flyers, and a viaduct had been so badly shaken up that reinforced concrete must be put in before trains could use it. Meanwhile they were making a detour of twenty miles. ThéXcon- struction crew were to go out on a two o'clock-special. They were waiting waiting for those drafts. "I could have had them done an hour ago, if you had told me they were important." "I don't ask questions!" roared the chief clerk. "I obey orders as they come in, and that is what every man i:. my office will do." It delayed Eugene's promotion; it nearly cost him his position. But it will take a long, long time for him to l_-.rn his lesson. to Confucianism, Brahminism, Buddhism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and other faiths. Some of us recall the time when if a scintilla of good was discovered discovered in these venerable beliefs we thought a direct attack had been made upon the validity of our own religion. Happily, our mood is wiser and more ChristlikeV now. God has never left Himself without witness in any nation. A New World's Wonder. But if this law of the added touch is embodied in the Christian system, how wondrously, how heartbreakingly is it seen^ in the Master's personal rela- tions.\ Witness the scene from which the text is taken. Here -is this blind man--who in that weltering mass of Oriental humanity cares anything for a blind man ?- I fear earth's answer would be disappointing. But Heaven has a big, sweet, tender, golden answer. answer. You ought to dip your voice «in tears before attempting to read it. "And he took hold of the blind man by the hand." Here, surely, is a new world's wonder ! The Hand that ham- mere I out the stars and set them in their orbits has clasped the hand of a blind manT - The Hand that nestles the seas in its hollow is leading a sightless man out of thé village! He who walks the worlds and the eternities eternities knows how to keep step with a poor halting, eyeless human! Hut the wonder is not yet. True, He took him by the hand and led him forth, touching touching those dead eyes. Already the man can see somewhat--men as trees walking. But that is not enough for the Master. He must yet add that touch of tender grace, that fine, rich, wordless, beautiful something--sweet as a |lower by a sick man's bed; white as mother love, stealing into the daughter's room and kissing the fair sleeping girl that on the morrow will be a bride; artless as the child coming coming out of the Vast Unseen into our noises and then toddling back again into the Heavens with a merry peal of lyric laughter, while we stand looking looking up, thinking "unworded things and old." Do More Than is Required. Here, then, is a law that greatens and glorifies human life. It says to the patriot:--"You must not be satisfied satisfied simply to do your duty; you must add to your duty the sense of prl- vilege." It says to the employer:-:-- "You must not only pay good wages; behind the wages must throb the compassionate compassionate power of the human touch." It says to the employee:--"So long as yôur chief motive is to 'kill time' at the expense of your employer you will remain a victim of mechanical routine. Do more than is required and you will enjoy more than you thought possible." possible." ' " Truly, the spirit of the, one touch more would make a finer, sweeter, saner, saner, happier world for us all.--Rev. Frederick F. 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Capital punishment is indeed as much against the national sentiment as, against tradition in Russia, and as long ago as 1888 the late W. T. Stead declared that it was never inflicted without producing a feeling of shame among educated Russians. The death penalty was abolished by the Empress Elizabeth in 1750, and though it was later revived, it was only in recent years, and especially after the rising of 1905, that it was carried out in other than exceptional circumstances. The number of executions executions then, however, quickly.-multiplied, quickly.-multiplied, and early in 1909 twenty-seven took place in one day. Not an Acorn. When James A. Garfield was president president of Hiram College, a man brought up his son to be entered-as a student. He wanted the boy to take a course shorter than the regular one. "My son can never take all those studies," said the father. "He wants to get through more quickly. Can't you arrange it for him?" "Oh, yes," said Mr. Garfield. "He can take a sho^t course; it all de pends on -What you want to make of him. v When God wants to make an oak He takes a hundred years, but He takes only two months to make a squash." by Don't let your dog be tortured fleas in summer. Field beans planted "in June mature a crop in ordinary seasons. Well- drained, limed loam soils of medium fertility produce the best crops. THE NEW KING OF THE HELLENES PRINCE ALXEANDBR IS A YOUTH OF TWENTY-FOUR. A Charming and Lovàble Personality And a Keen Lover of All Kinds of Sport. SEAPLANES ARE AN EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAINST SUBMARINE The Greater Part of the Recent British Successes in Combating Undersea Pirates Has Been^Obtained by the Skilful Application of Old Methods. Renew the Joy of Living Don't let ill health any longer longer rob you of life's pleasures. Get back your appetite*, strengthen your _ digestion, stimulate your liver, regulate regulate your bowels and improve improve your blood by taking Their action is prompt and thorough, and you soon feel their benefits. You will eat more, work better, sleep sounder, sounder, and feel new strength after a short course of these dependable dependable pills. They restore healthy conditions, and are worth a guinea a box Precisely by what means our recent recent successes against submarines have been obtained may not, of course, be revealed. We have been definitely told that a new devicç has been employed with good results,"and it may be safely surmised that therie are more to follow, says £he London Observer. But the greater part of j the -tfork has been done by the skilful application of old methods which the ing càlled in evidence. The reasoning' reasoning' has proved sound. The human observer from aloft obtains the vision of the seâ bird of prey. His quarry is visible to him under the water, save in certain unfavorable circumstances, circumstances, almost as' plainly as if it were lying on the surface; You ihiist imagine ^ea-hawks with a 60-foot span of wing, and sword-fish 200 feet in length. The bird of prey, perhaps, stoops at its quarry L.ce its proto- On sighting the submarine under water the aviitbr ' 'summons "thé cruisers,-"trawlers, aiM * "chasers" bv wireless and they encircle the spç indicated. If the submarine comes to the surfacTand'théJé ïs danger of escaping before it can be netted, the aviator proceeds to bomb it. unwearying w °rk of our young offi- type; but, instead: of following-it into cers has taught them to handle with j the depths,: it proceeds to -lay mqn- ^ no I strous and fulminating 'eggsZ The secret that, with the longer days and ! rest is silence, Tor/the public" : and' clearer weather, the seaplane - has j frequently,' for .the sword-fish too. It been used most effectively, both for is enough to say that there is a for- L purposes of observation and of "strafing." "strafing." The possibility that the plane might, prove the bane of sca the mula by which the necessary damage is ensured without the need for an absolutely direct kit, and that the submarine was foreshadowed before | three-inch armored decks : with which / i the war, the analogy of the sea-hawk the Hun is believed to have protected and other birds of the same habit be-[his latest craft, affords no protection. A sturdy college boy rather than a soldier is Prince Alexander, King Alexander I., whom the entente powers powers have raised to the Greek throne in place of Constantine. A charming personality is Prince Aléxander, inclined rather to reading history than making it, paying more attention to high-powered automobiles than to all the intricacies of international international politics, preferring the charming company of sparkling youth to the grave face's of the military critics, Alexander, of all the children of Constantine, comes first in the affections of his father, whom he"" loves dearly and admires openly. Ot his mother, it can be said with equal frankness that she considered him a wee bit frivolous and far less martial than" a nephew of the great war lord of Potsdam ought to be. But Alexander Alexander has always succeeded in disarming disarming Queen Sophie. He was the most lovable man in the whole pàl- acé and shared in no small way the immense popularity enjoyed by his father and his brother, George. The Prince, who is now twenty-four years of-age, likes any kind of sport, especially football and tennis. His particular hobby, however, is motor ing in all its forms.' He simply wants to drive anything, just as "fast as he can; and he does it, too, in defiance defiance of all the speed laws of the Athenian police, which is especially lenient to the popular Prince. One thing his father used to tell him often was,that it would be impossible, for Alexander to get a royal warrant of driver to his Majesty : the King. Neither the Queen nor her daughters ever intrusted themselves to the drivr ing abilities of this princely chauffeur. A Characteristic Incident.. Incidentally Prince Alexander was a lieutenant in the artillery, and those closely associated with him found/the young man an excellent officer. A curious thing about it was that Sophocles, Sophocles, the second son of Venizelos, was likewise a lieutenant, not only in •the 'same fegiment, but also in the same--battsry• with ^|lie prince; more curious still, both we|re promoted to a captaincy on the same day. T8ie officers of the regiment^^desiring to. celebrate the promotion of the xçrince, arranged a smàll affair with plenty . of champagne and other accessories. Then, however, a controversy arose. On account of an interview that King Constantine had given to the writer of this, article, which was published in America, 2 -there appaared in the newspaper newspaper edited by Venizelos himself a vitriolic attack on the king. This, by some diabolical coincidence, happened happened on the very day when the officers' officers' spree was to take place. There was consternation in the regiment. regiment. "It is impossible to have the son of the . king and the son of Venizelos Venizelos at the same table," said the officer officer in charge of the arrangements. "But what is to be done ? We cannot tell young Venizelos to keep away from the affair any more than we can tell the prince not tp come." At that moment Alexander camé in and solved the problem. ~ "I don't mind- drinking a glass of wine with Captain Venizelos," he said, "arid I wouldn't mind cracking a couple of jokes with hirii. If he were his father, and I miné, "things would be different, but as it is I am not king and Sophocles Venizelos not aspire to the premiership of Gréece." The celebration was held and the two young men shook hands, to the delight delight of the whole regiment'. This Time of Stress and Strain Teaching Us Many Things. When we are hearing so much of the horrors of war that we grow sick at heart, it is well to open our eyes PROTECTING YOUNG TREES. Animals Grazing in Woodlots Bad Effect on Growth. Have The most important step to take in the care of the woodlot is to pro to some of the good things .that are tect the trees of the future. Unless coming out of all the stress and loss. First of all we are less self-centred, less self-indulgent. Nearly every one has forgotten his own petty ills and grievances in the sight of so much greater suffering. Men and - women are sacrificing pleasures and luxuries as they have seldom done before. -Mere sacrifice of these things is nothing iqeritorious in itself, but when it is done for a worthy purpose it makes for character. character. It is rémarkable ■ how .easy and simple we find it 'to do without many things now that we have undertaken it. . We are getting more democratic because of the war. Social lines merge in the one purpose to do-one's level best for the country and for humanity. humanity. Little shams arid purposeless purposeless poses are shamed into disappearing. disappearing. We are becoming more frugal, more appreciative of rçal values, more deeply conscious of the vulgarity and sinfulness of waste. ' . We are growing more efficient. We Such is Alexander, the present King of Greece. He came to the throne not at the bidding of his people, not as make man 7 mistakes by the way, but the lineal successor of his father, but we P r °fit by them and are learning simply because the entente powers so willed. His popularity will depend not on the amount of friendship and confidence that the entente show to him, but on the' message that his father father will address to the Hellenic peo- plé, iridorsing his son-'s nomination. / Hardships of Alpini. The Italian army maintained its captured outposts during the severe winter of 1916, often at elevations of from 7,000 to 12,000 feet, only by building huts for its men and sending sending them hot food in thirty-gallon thermos bottles hauled up by steel ropes. that if the world is to be saved it must be through useful, effective work. Even the children are assuming assuming their share of responsibility. The Government of Hawaii has set aside 690,000 acres of land for forest reserves and is experimenting with planting eucalyptus trees for firewood firewood . In Exodus iii. 8, Palestine is described described as a lariu "flowing with milli and honey." Bees are abundant even to the present day. In the remote parts of the wilderness they deposit their honey in the crevices of the rocks and in hollow trees. Cultivating corn level, not ridging or hilling soil round the stalks,, saves mosture and adds to the yield. Ridging Ridging exposes a greater surface from Which soil riioistüre can evaporate, atè, and at the same time corn roots are cut off by the cultivator. ~ v " Bolivia, South America, the country country of Andean heights, torrid valleys and freezing plateaus--a South Am-i erican Switzerland that perhaps never ; will be liberally provided with hotels for tourists--has a total of 153 auto- , mobiles. ! 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Not only do the cattle destroy a large number of the small trees by eating • the top offibut they trample them down and mS'-sun and wind have an opportunity to act on the soil and dry it out or bake it, thereby causing the tops of the larger trees to die back. On open patches within the woodlot or where thé borders are thin young growth should be encouraged as much as possible. r / -V Ï <