oy i The November Westminster Magazine, which well sustiins its popular attraction, con- tains glimpses of Iona, by N. Tourneur; Ox- ford stories, by W. S. Wallace; "How Higher _ Criticism Helps," by Prof. A. R. Gordon; "The Worship of the Celt," by Rev. M. A Mackinnon. The best selling book in Canada in Septem- ber, according to careful reports, was R. W. Service's "Ballads of a Cheechako," Canadian all through. Then 'in order came "Anne of Avonlea," "The White Prophet," "Goose Girl" and "Danger Mark" . Mrs. Arthur Murphy, of Edmonton, wife of an Anglican vicar, has written a clever book of western. impressions, well-spiced with hu- mor. Two books en General Wolfe are among the output of last month in England, the auth- ors being Beckles Wilson and Edward Salmon. Mrs. Humphrey Ward's story, appearing serially in England and America, has its scene in Canada, opening in the great west. The now-noted higher critic, Rex George Jackson, Methodist, Toronto, has produced in England "Studiés in the Old Testament." "Choice Thoughts From Master Minds" is a compilation by a Toronto business man during leisure hours--William T. Robinson. ¢__Death has called away Herman Tuck, one of the chief' members of Raphael Tuck & Sons, the truest artists in illustration. A short novel, "Old. Clinkers," Harvey O'Higgins, df Toronto and New York, has been publishéd in Toronto. Rev. Dr. Rainsford has put his 4,000 miles of tramping in Africa : itér game into a book-- "Thie Land of the Lion." A biography is out of the late Archbishop Machray, by his nephéw, formerly Canon of $t. John's, Winnipeg. The advance orders for Ralph Connor's novel, "The Foreigner," are unprecedented in volume for Canada. Over 2,000,000 copies of W. H. Fairbairn's "Notes on the Cathedrals," (England) have been purchased. "Northern Lights," Sir Gilbert Parker's latest, deals with pioneer life in the Canadian North West. Dr. Grenfell, like other men of note, has written a book upon his work and pet land, "f.abrador." Father Morice's history of the R. C. Church in Western Canada has appeared in two vol- umes. William Wilfrid Campbell's novel of the war of 1812, "The Fair Rebel," has appeared. Robert Barr's "Cardillac," a story of me- dizval France, has been reproduced in Canada. Agnes Laut's "Canada: The Empire of the North," has made its bow to the public. Note the creditable place Canadians are tak- ing in literature. Committed Fourteen Common Faults. "The Fourtéen Mistakes of Life" was the subject of an address delivered by Judge Ren- toul before the Bartholomew Club, London. These he named: To attempt. to set up our own standard of right and" wrong and expect everyone to con- form to it. Trying to measure the enjoyments of others by pur own. To expect uniformity of opinion.' To look for judgment and experience in youth. To endedvor to mould all dispositions alike Not to yield in unimportant trifles. To look for perfection in our own actions. To worry ourselves and others about what cannot be remedied. 3 Sha to alleviate all that needs alleviation 'if Not to make allowances for the weaknesses of others, To consider anything impossiblé that wé cannot ourselves perforin To believe only 'what our finite minds can grasp To live as if the moment, the time, the day was so important that it would last for ever To estimate people by some outside quality. How To Be A Leader. One of the best-known clergymen in the Western Statés, Rew Dr, William Carlton, was recently appointed. temporary Chief of Police of Mason City, Jowa. He donned a police uniform and made the rounds of ques- tionable resorts, inspected gambling-houses, and looked into music-halls and moving pic- tare shows to see that the local regulations were being obeyed: "In his eight hours of "inspection he made 'only three arrests. After serving thirty hours as Chief, he vacated the post' and resumed the ministry. He has for several years made a study of municipal af- 'airs and waged war against crime. The itizens recently asked him to act as Chief of Police, offering to pay any salary that he «ight ask. He refused the post, but offered » serve temporarily whenever opportunity came. ---------------------------- Fine Old Sample Duke. It is thought by many that the people are ird on dukes and that the proposed British iff is an outrage. But there is another side the picture, which cannot fail to exasperate 'e great mass. Some time ago the London sunty Council tried to compel the Duke of srfolk to réndef an account of his receipts ym Covent Garden. His imposts on fruits . 1d vegetables were so high that the council oposed to start an opposition market of eir own, so that the poor of London could buy cheaper, The Duke refused to give an counting, and even succeeded in getting an junction against the council restraining them ; om building an opposition market within « ven miles of Covent Garden. * The Covent arden property cost the Duke's ancestors six ,unds ($30). Now it yields him in tolls alone *125,000--and yet he is too poor to allow his « nants their annual spread! Battle of Child Crusaders. The child crusaders of Norristown, Penn- ylvania, are fighting for their religion just as .arnestly as the child crusaders did hundreds of years ago. When the school board here ordered Bible reading and prayer stopped in the schools, the children called a strike--"No Bible, No School." There never was a strike like this one--a strike for religion's sake. Parents backed them up in refusing to go to school until the order had been revoked. Bos and girls are parading, carrying banners an bibles, and cheering for the lone school board member who stood by the Bible. Lawyers are busy while the schools are idle. # 3 RELIGIOUS COMBINATION. This is the Hope of the Church Says Saturday : Night. "A Soneof the Manse" writes to Saturday Night in defence of the rebate system among ministers on the ground that the clergyman is usually underpaid. "Where do you find a class of men so highly educated," says he, "who receive such meagre remuneration? A man_ entering the ministry bids farewell to all chance of becoming wealthy, whether he would or no. Mark you, let him be guilty of a stock speculation or of engaging in any secular calling, and he becomes a victim of the very people who cry out against rebates to clergymeri as seriously affecting a mini- ster's spiritual prestige." Another writer de- clares that "it is only a combination kitchen gardener and preacher who can exist on country _circfits." To which Saturday Night adds: "These opinions bear out the conclusions reached by those who have made special study. The church is, broadly speaking, in a bad y as regards finances. In other professions' the ever-increasing expenses of living have been met by augmented incomes, but the clerical income has failed to keep pace with the times. The minister in many country districts is still drawing the same old $500 or $600 per year, whereas these sums have not much over half thé purchasing power of twenty years ago. In some instances contributions are not com- ing into the churches as they once did. This is general, as witness a recent tabulation of declines in givings in U. S. churches. When the cement interests in Canada found that competition was too strong, that they were opetating plants without making a cent, and in some cases losing money, they amalgamated and made one strong paying concern. This is what the churches should do in the country districts; cut dowm the competition; assure each church a congregation sufficient to make its support certain and to raise the minister to a point of earthly paradise, where he can feed his horse the oats and hay necessary and buy himself a suit. of clothes and his wife a dress whenever required. Cut down some of the church competition by an application of modern business methods." Combines are defensible when within the regions of fair consideration of those taxed or contributing; a religious "combine" would be in the best interest of all concerned. FAITH IN IMMORTALITY. Lately Discovered Letter Shows Franklin's Confidence in Future Happiness. Philadelphia, May 12, 1790.--Dear Child. -- 1 condole with you. We have lost a most dear and valuable relation, (his brother John), but it is the will of God and nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embryo state, a preparation for living, a man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their Kappy society? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they can afford up pleasure, assist us in acquiring. knowledge, dr doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid, become an incumbrance, and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, 'it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We, ourselves, prudently choose a partial death, In some cases a man- gled painful limb, which cannot be restored, we willingly cut off. He who plucks out a tooth parts with it freely, since the pain goes with it; and he that quits the whole body parts at 'once with all pains and possibilities of pains and diseases it was liable to, or capable of making him suffer. Our friend and we are invited abroad on a party of pleasure that is to last forever. His chair was first ready, and he is gone before us. We could not all con- veniently start together, and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are sure to follow and we know where to find them? Adieu, Benjamin Franklin, The People Are Pleasure Loving. E. T. Root in Delineator, The best Christians think less of getting to heaven than of establishing the kingdom of hea- ven on earth. Creed and ceremony are less val- ved than character and service. The truest chil- dren of God are more absorbed in doing the will of their Father than in telling Him, however 'sin- cerely and fittingly, that they love him. Worship indeed, must never, can never, die! As well attempt to fill the ocean with a drop, as fo satis- fy the heart of man with anything less than God! But if there be a real lack of piety and its manifestation publicly, this must not blind us to the undoubted fact, well stated 'by that Chris- tian magistrate, Mayor Logan of Worcester, "that there is more_honesty, truth and charity, more real religious power, in the world to-day than ever before, though it is not all in the church, and does not find expression in the ecclesiastical language of the past." ? The conditions of life have been more changed sincé the application of steam and electricity to manufacture and transportation than in all the millenniums which preceded. Men work harder; neéding more rest and relaxation, they find it less easy to secure them without leaving their own neighborhood or availing themselves of the arts of popular entertainment. The means of travel and amusement are rendered easy and in- expensive by the same civilization that taxes their energy in toil. And 'the remedy? Not in vain lament at changed conditions. Just because the motives to worldliness have been strengthened, it is not enough for the church to do as well to-day as it did in the past. What is needed is a church as far ahead of its predecessor as the railroad is sWhfter thin the stage-coach. Shall a people who have quintupled their rate of travel over the earth be satisfied to ptoceed toward the heavenly kingdom ne faster than their fathers? A Sayings-Bank Centenary. In. a little town of Ruthwell, in southern Scotland, the people are planning to celebrate next year the centenary of the first savings- bank in the sense in which that term is now commonly used. Before 1810 there were a few concerns and associations for savings in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and England, springing from the philanthropic movement which marked the closing years of the eigh- A Word to Parents. Mrs. Mulock. Be ever ready to listen to the smallest of little mysteries knowing that nothing to childhood is too trivial for the notice, too! foolish for the sympathy, of those on whom the Father of all has bestowed the dignity of parenthood. QDD ENGLISH FESTIVITIES. Functions That Have Come Down From the Dim Past. . Uckfield has held its annual pea supper, which owes its ,origin to a practical joke. Fifteen years ago a plot of land belonging to a resident became from neglect such an eye- sore to his fellow-townsmen that they dug it up. The owner resolved to profit by their labor and plant the field, but found, to his annoyance, it already sown withy peas. How- ever, anger gave place to amiisement, and he told the perpetrators of the joke that they would have to eat the peas. This in due course they did, and the celebration has grown yearly in popularity, with repasts of peas, bacon and other excellent fare. The Colchester oyster feast, which has ac- quired world-wide celebrity, is annually pre- ceded by another function. At the opening of the oyster season, the corporation of the Essex town, owners of the Colne fisheries, steam down the river to Brightlingsea, where they dredge for,a few samples of the bivalves --a mere prelude to satisfying their appetites on the hundreds thatjawait their coming in the packing house at Pyefleet Creek. SS The Fishynge Feaste, held every August af Plymouth, commemorates the deeds of an] ¢is Drake, to whose enterprise the town owef its water supply. "To the pious memory, of Sir Francis Drake," is first drunk in water from two golden goblets, which afterwards, refilled with wine, are emptied to the toast, "May the descendants of him who gave us water never 'want wine." Then, after having lunched off Devonshire patties, those present go in for amusements until summoned to the feast proper, at which fried trout and sucking pig are invariably served. In November Clacton-on-Sea holds its whit- ing dinner. Then this usually tasteless fish undergoes a marvellous metamorphosis, ap- pearing in delectable and unrecognizable guises. Another seaside town, Yarmouth; boasts a banquet which commences with sprat hors d'oeuvre, and, after having run through thirty courses, is brought to a' conclusion with sprat biscuits. : Sausages and champagne are Peterborough's specialty, Every October, at Bridge Fair time, the Mayor and corporation proeeed in solemn procession to the bridge, beneath which flows the Nen, There a halt is called and the town crier declares the fair open, both in Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire. The Mayor and his guests adjourn to a neigh- boring hotel, where a repast of the above- mentioned delicacies awaits them. Equally tasty, although simpler, fare is spread at the annual auction of the White Bread Meadow at Bourne, the rent of which goes to supply poor people with bread. Every Easter a curious custom is observed, the fuctioneer putting up the field and accepting bids only so long as a number of boys are running a race over a fixed course. The mo- ment the hindermost boy reaches the goal the hammer falls, and the meadow is knocked down to him who has made the last bid. Woman's Sane Suffrage Work. Mass meetings are being conducted through- out New York state in the interest of woman's suffrage, and the enthusiasm has been greater than ever before. Admirable has been .the manner in which the leaders have approached the legislature, to have the word "male" stricken froffi the state constitution. They have won the respect of all who have studied their methods; the accusation of "lobbying" is undeserved, Forty thousand women are members of the New York State Suffrage As- sociation. All classes are included in this vast enrolment--the quiet home-keeper and phil anthropist, the social leader, the college 'pro- fessor, doctor, lawyer, teacher, and a great army of industrial workers. The women, too, have a sound argument. In lagge stores the married women applying for work have great- ly increased in numbers, because their hus bands are unemployed. It is easier now for a woman than for a man to get work. The laws governing the work of woman are made by men. Since she is more and more 'obliged to enter the commercial and professional world, it is only just that she should have a voice in the making of the laws controlling that world, A Voices the General Opinion. Montreal Star. The government have again made a success in fixing Thanksgiving Day for the month of fine autumn weather. There are always forc- es striving to Thduce the ministers to go back to the bad old system when Thanksgiving came late in November, long after we had ceased to consider the harvest to be thankful for, and at a season when the/day was fairly certain to be cheerless and gloomy. About the only people really incommoded by the change are stock speculators who would per- fer not to have two stock exchange holidays for Thanksgiving. Now they have our own; and they might as well observe that of the United States as well. But the great bulk of the people gain by an early Thanksgiving. They get a real holiday, just at the threshold of winter 'when a holiday is needed: Then the Monday celebration permits thousands of peo- ple to go home for this home festival. Take it altogether, a late Monday in October is the jdeal Canadian Thanksgiving. London Ratepayers and Tithe. Complaints have long been rife among the ratepayers in several city of London parishes about the burden of the tithes, the commuta- tion of which does not seem to be affected, as in rural districts, by any fall in the price of wheat. In the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate, the tithes amount to £7,000 a year. It has a large Jewish population, but the reluctance to pay the heavy impost does not arise from re- ligious antagonism. As a fact, the vicar of St. Botolph's draws a modest stipend for a city incumbent; the bulk of the tithes, over £6,000 a year, belongs to some lay impropria- tors, chiefly represented by the Esdaile fam- ily. The parishioners have arranged to pur- chase the tithes for £131,500 by means of a sinking fund, lasting sixty years. What True Living Is. "The utilitarian proclaims. as his great prin- ciple," said Rev. Prof. Macnaughton, McGill University, "that the object of education is to fit the boy Hor the battle of life, Yes, of course, it is. But the battle of life is not a mere battle for a living. It is much wider than that. The extent of it is not adequately expressed in any formula short of the mag- nificent declaration of the Westminster Cate- chism--that man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever, There is really very little fear about a living, Anybody with two legs and arms, at least in our country, can be confidently counted on to make a living." He can do that with one hand. The Dr. Paterson-Smyth on the Power of the N . : Rev. Dr. Paterson-Smyth lectured béfore the Nomads' Club, Montreal, on "Novel read- ing and religion." He described the novel writer and the preacher as rival teachers of religion--having in his mind a good class of novels. The novelist had a larger audience, and often had a more attractive way of pre- senting his views than the preachér. People seemed more inclined to heed the words of the novelist than the preacher, and if the former were a spiritually-minded man, and well educated, his influence for good must be great. The novelist, whose works might reach a circulation of 100,000 copies, had a vast influence and a corresponding responsi- bility. It was very Mmportant that he should write in a sane and morally uplifting vein. ers, and in this world of dull, tired people, it was part of God's purpose that we should be amused and refreshed. It was a great mis= take to try to divorce from God the many in- nocent things which made life happier. "When to tired workers of a good novel or a beauti- ful poem, when one thinks of the enormous circulation such jitefature gain e feels thankful for the help that some of them are giving to the cause of righteousness in the world. But I once heard a definition of the would allow her mother to read. This book dealt openly with problems of sex and was in the main a mischievous addition to modern literature, breaking down the reserve which ought to -e kept about such subjects.. Such novels were written shamglessly, and quite as often by women as by men. We got in print for our young people to rel, for which, in- stead of fame and money, the writer deserved whipping at the cart tail. Not that a book was necessarily immoral because it dealt with sex. The real danger was in the tendency of much modern literature to paint vice in at- CHAFF FROM THE FIELD. A Lot of Things That Are Readable and De- cidedly Amusing. A missionary arrived to take the Sunday services at the Church of Giggleswick-in- Craven, On behalf of the 'foreign heathen' a collection was taken. One of the wardens offered the box to a member of the congre- gation who' did not believe in foreign mis- sions. In a stage whisper, heard alike by congregation and parson, this man said ih blank vernacular, "Tak' it away, lad, I'm not going to give owt." At that period the col- lecting boxes were taken direct into the vestry. Down came the preacher from the pulpit, forthwith into the vestry, brought one of the boxes, and marched straight toward the gentleman, all the congregation imagining that he was going to shame the unbeliever into giving something. Nothing of the kind. The clergyman merely offered the box to the heretic with the naive remark, "Tal what thou wantest, lad; it has been gathered for the heathen!" An architect and man of newly gained wealth were consulting as to some details of a new house being built for the latter. "Would you like the floors in mosaic?" ask- ed the architect. The client looked dubious. "Weuld you like the floors in mosaic pat- terns?" "I dqn't know so much about that," he finally said. 41 ain't got any prejudice against Moses as a man, and maybe he knew a lot about the law. As regards laying floors, though, I kinder think I'd rather have 'em unsectarian." The dear little girl arose, bowed and recited it in this manner: "Lettuce Denby up N. Dewing, Widow Hartford N. E. Fate; Still H. E. Ving, still per Sue Wing, Learn to label Aunty Waite." Then, with the tumultuous applause of the audience ringing in her ears, she sat down in happy confusion. Mother--""Johnny, you said you'd been to Sunday school." Johnny (with a mamma." far-away look)--"Yes, hands smell of fish?" Johany--*"I carried home the Sunday school paper, an' the outside page is all about Jonah and the whale.""--Western Christian Advocate. Sunday School Teacher--"What command- ment did Cain break when he killed Abel?" Johnny--"Please, there. wasn't any com- mandments then." ' Vicar: "All sinners, Mary, will be washed whiter than snow." Many (anxiously): "Not them as truly re- pents, -sir, 1 'opes, sir." =The Tatler, Strange' Old World Conservation,- Customs traceable back to the end of the Stone Age are still observed by the inhabitants of rural Roumania. There are still in that land 54,000 cave dwellings, in which a quarter of a million peasant folk live, These caves are almost as primitive in their arrangements as the original cave dwellings of the Stone Age. The peasants still use ploughs really no better than pointed stakes. At funerals a repast named coliba is partaken of, consisting of soaked and boiled corn, exactly as corn was first prepared and eaten by the tribes of Eur- ope. Crab apples. and wild pears are the only fruit known to the peasant, and his vegetables are wild herbs boiled with oil pressed from the sunflower, hemp and gourd Seeds. Medic- al men in rural Roumania are still known as wizards. Re-opening of the quicksilver mines near Konia, in Asia Minor, abandoned centuries ago, has led to dramatic discoveries. In their depths were found fifty skeletons, with lamps, clay hammers, and other tools made of stone, a quantity of arrows with stone points and a supply of charcoal. The remains @are suppos- ed on accurate data to belong to a mining The Glory That Was Rome's. *What most interésted you in Rome?" "In Rome? Say, I'll never forget Rome as long as I live! They had the sweetest little manicure girl in the hotel where I put up that ever trimmed a nail" In Chicago the police ambulances instead of carrying brandy as a "first aid," will carry spirits of ammonia. The brandy intended for great fear is that he will never enter into life." patients 'was being consumed by the men in charge of the ambulance waggons. : The object of a novelist was to interest and | ° amuse, as well as edify and instruct his read- |. one thinks," said the lecturer, "of the pleasure | modern novel as a book that no nice girl' Mother--"How does it happen that your |. 1S BY FAR THE BEST STRENGTHENING TONIC. We will it y with the : Y ack do what me ne ; She understanding iat 4 i does GEO. W. MAHOOD, nl and Manitoba Spring Wheat. 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