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:rs theme thi ‘ to l Q‘Wsfian , M0! the l » At the pr gent, fate of Won‘the‘supply of coal in the Uni-ed States will beexhwsted #1200ch or lens! This is the deliberate opinion of M. R. Cmpbefl. the United states geologist, and it is based mngdentiflc enquiry into ’ all the possible supplies *0!er coal fields and the enormous consumption, es- Qpecin‘llv in out great lines of transportation. . _ Very much the same is true of our iron supply. ’flie ”fitment enormous We of iron for buildings, mam; etc, tosay nothing of our great railroads. is Wing the iron to fast that the Supply will be exhaugted in a conipmtively short time. ‘ it in up no the scientits‘ts to find some new agent to lubstitme these imponant materials. Poesibly some 'way yin be open to a readier and more eeonomical mppfi of electricity for heat and power, and such thing‘as Concrete may be manufactured to substitute mm” are go. every now and then, made aware of. A man nafreed Heilway, when summoned to serve as a jury- Ching last week, said: “I am a Christian and my religion forbids me to judge others. ”A mm: Bible he quoted this passage. ”There- art inexcisahle, 0 man, whosoever than in tjudgest; {or wherein thou iudgest another that: emnest thyself: for than that judgest does: th ‘ . the thing. ” Romans 2:1. ‘ 1‘? to In. is a new interpretation of the teaching a Science. It I! the a strange misapplica- 8011.0! the Bible. and particularly of the text read. If fir. Heilwuy Is guilty of ”the same things" as are To mm mun lengths of religion fanaticism as, every now and then, madé afivare of. A man Motto for the Week Coal ind Iron in the United States. Volume 20 cu}: in my love alike. . . . 1‘ Ltd rather have eleven die nouy {or their country. than one voluptuous], out of nation." Citizenship and the Bible. “ Hal I a dozen lOlIl.-- 0ur 0uflook PATRIOTISM tly mrfeit wCon'o/anu: HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS, jUNE 29, x If these mtemem are not true the press that meted them ought to be held responsible. There is a sad toning of the seeds of dissatisfac- tion and anarchy in such expressions of legal bitter- .ness and injustice. But what sort of a country would christian: live in if they were." toluene themselves from the duties Ind reponn'bilities of civil hr and practical governâ€" government. a ‘ plainly denounced in the First Chapter of Romans, he is of course. ungt to judge other: inlhooc things. Tunas run nun rum uatements made in the daily press which indicate that. the attitude of District Angmey lemme ll that of apedecudng. vindictive officer 0! the'law. It has recently been repeated in the daily papers in reference to the deplorable Thaw case that when the tfialwa’e_9ver__Jelmne said: Nomi! this represents the statements of the District Attorney it reflects an emirc absence of that dignity and poise which“: ought to look for in all ofidnl re- pruenmtives of the lgw. ‘ Tnzxz'rus LONG mm 'a spirit of unrest, amounts- ing in tome sections of England. to revolt against the Home of Lords. That body is known ’as the up per house of Parliament and consists of L hereditary lords, and the bishopg of the State Episcopal Church. i -- -__ -vâ€"uv urwvvy-u \vlllll‘yll. It is not responsihle to the electors and is in fact almost absolutely imponsible. Occasional vacancies, occuring through the death of a peer without: succee- sor,my be filled up by the crowned head of the nation who usually W the mum-don of the prime minister. Hence. Gladstone or Beaconsfield were fiaid now and again to have created a new lord. At other times’ a peer is created by the King without such no- mination. as when Queen Victoria made Disraeli the Earl of Beaconsfield. Gladstone it will be remembered, declined 11 similar distinction. But people are grm‘ving weary of this body and it has become a question for practical politics and doubt- less will figure largely in the next parliamentary election. The present prcrnieg ices this and is preparing the way for me legihtive action. On the 24th inst. he moved a recolmion looking to the autumn; of the power of the upper house. The resolution will not, if carried, accomplish any change but it will test the mind of Parliament on the question and I0 prepare the way for the bill at a later date. The Law for Junker-Not Vengeance British House of Lords 0ur Out/oak . An able and extensive symposium with the above nit: general theme, appears in am last number of fihe annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The articles which are by men of first-clan stand- ing and authority ought to have a much more general circm'ation than in given in this large and costly meg- axine. F rom, it we learn that the number of murders and homicide: in the United States have increased from 1.808 in 1885 to 10,652 in 1896, with a reduction from this maximum number to 8,482 in 1904; that for the number in 1904 there-were 73 executed and about that proportion in other years. , Lynch law, however, has been somewhat checked as the proportiOn of lynching! in 1892 was 230 to 6,791 murders and homicides, and about this propor- tion continued for several yearn. One of the articles of the symposium, by Prof. Garner of the Illinois University, ably dis- cusses the defects in” our jury system; while another by Secretary Samuel]. Barmws of the Prison Ano- ciation of Nev’v York presents the legislative tenden- cies in regard to capital punishment. Prof. Gamer points out that the death-penalty is not a living question in some of the. parlinmenm of'the world "because they havepctually abolished it and donotdeliremresm'it” "' . “ ” ‘ Thai Russia abolished it except for , political mm. It was abolished in Portugal in 1867: in Holland in 1870; in Italy in 1889. and in lhe majority of the Swiss cam while It‘nne countries which have" not formally abolished «by legishtlve act. have suppressed it in practice. - - ' ' l9°7 All of which shown the trend of “may The‘ In 313: beauty of the link. W511: glory_in Hi1 Bonn That W I - “771:“ J A. 1.. did to “£2,221,” Let Ill diatomic men free WEI. God in latching on. Crime and Capital Punishment. . our Outlook ' ‘ ‘30“): Hm of d» Refiuuic MARCHING ON! Number 26