+ UN cect ons TO BE HELD IN HALIFAX DURING MONTH OF SEPTEMBER. Extent, Scope and Unique Chatacter of the Bicentenary G:thering--An Hiscorical Sou venir Has Been Issued by Rev. C. W Vernon-Work in Cathedral Is Being Rushed. Many people have not yet grasped the ex- tent, scope and unique character of the Bi centenary gathering in Halifax which cele- brates the two liundredth aon versary of the first Anglican service wt Canada, and coin. ¢c.des, 160, wth the 200th con yersary of the final establishment of British rule in Canada, All Saints' Cathedral, the permanent mies 'worial of the Bicentenary, needs only to be vised in ns grandeur and architectural beauty to be recognized as the finest Church edifice yet erected in Canada. With such men as the Bishops of London and Massa- chiuseits, Bishop Courtney and Bishop Brent, as the preachers at the sefvices, its opening should be ove of the most imposing events in the history of the Church of England in Canada : Then the Canadian Church Congress is ion-wide in scope, and world-wide in the field from which the speakers are drawn, It will continue for three days and isto meet in two sections. An immense amount of work has been done in securing leading thinkers and speakers of our communion as speakers, Two years of preparation have been spent on the programme, and immense correspodence it has involved Every sec: tion will be presived wvir by a visiting Bi- shop. 4 The mass meetings wal be a feature of the Congress. Two are to be in the cathedral, two in St. Paul's, and one eich in St George's and Trinity. The speakers at these include some of the most dist nguished wvisi- | tora. Every Canadian diocese will send official delegates in addition to the Bishops. These include some of the best known names in the Canadian Church. The hospitality commitéce is providing hospitality for all Bishops, dele * gates and speakers, and many members of i the congress will be entertained by friend. Adeommodation will be arranged for many ingale was known to stand for twenty houfs receivibg fresh arrivals of wounded, directing her nurses, apportioning quarters, and deal ing out the supplies she had broaght with ber. The hospital commissariat had broken down. She started a laundry and a Kitchen, cleansed the hospital of filth and insanitary conditions, and conteried the huge place into of Canadian heroines. the mwst heroic feats in the annals of his tory. This was sufficient, to make her fa A CANADIAN PIONEER TALE That Will Never Grow Old--Story of Laura Secord. Undoubtedly Laura Secord is the greatest She periormed one of something like a well-organized institution She returned from the battieheld, physical ly worn out. and was during the rest of her Her advice was zlways sought by the Brit'sh war office in matters pertaining to the proper care of life more or less of an ingalid, the sick and wounded As "Mother of Nurses" she will never be forgotten as Joug as human sufferers lic upon Before Florence Nightingale, then a beautiful, winsome daughter of a pro- hospital cots mous, but the romance which colors the his tory of hers®f and her husband adds muc) to the glamor which' has always been asso ciated with her and her name. Farther, the deed which she was called upon to perform was the kind which appeals to Canadian mes and womien. A npineteen-mile tramp by moonlight through an untracked forest anc over unbridged streams comprises a journey the strain of which cvery Canadian can un derstand and appreciate. minent English family, chose the hospital as her life's vocation rather than society, the Laura Ingersoll was the daughter of Thos purses in the hosp'tal were coarse, destitute of refinement or feeling, ignorant and stupid. To become a nurse then wad to abandom reputat on itself, Then Florence Nightingale, given $230,000 by the Euglish people ayd the linglish sol diers as a reward for her great Work in the hospital of the battlefield, endowed the first training school for nurses with the money, and speedily the character pf hospital staffs became changed. Gentle, cu'tured and pure women took up the work, Miss Nightingale was the only woman teceive the Order of Merit. and it is now thought, that in addition tio her other honors, she will be g'ven the honor of a public fun- eral, with Westminster Abbey as her resting written by place. We append the poem called Longfellow, dedicated to ler, "The Lady With the Lamp" and Santa Filomena Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in_g'ad surprise To higher fevils rise. Honor to those wivise words or deeds Thus help us in pur daily nceds, And by their overflow Raise us from what is low! Thus thought I, 4s by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp-- 'a Ingersoll, a United Empire Loyalist whe came from Massachusgses to Ontario abou 1895. He was the founder of the town whick goes by that name His dapgliter Laura was about twenty years of age when the family came to Canada. Shortly afterwards she married James Sccord of St. Davids', whe was afterwards a successful merchint it Queenston. James Secord was a young mar who had also shared in the sufferings 'of the U. E. Loyalists. His mother was one of : party of five women and thirty-one childres who had arrived at Fort Niagara in 177% destitute and starving. In October, 1812, the crossed the frontier but were - defeated at Queenston Heights by Gen. Brock. Jamies! Secord helped to carry the biced ng genera from the battlefield. In the final assanlt he himself was wounded und in the dusk of thé evening was found and rescued by his wile who had gone to search for him. Iu June o the following year the Americans had for th first time gained passession. of the Niagars Pea'nsula. The British had outposts st Jordin' Beaver Dams and other points, and the Americans' were advancing: against then While entertaining a dumber of America officers in theif home at Queenston, the Se cords heard of the enemies' plan to seize the post at Beaver Dams next day. The husband still suffering from; his wounds, was unable tc, make the attempt necessary tO warn the | troops at this point. His plucky little wife tirerefore, started off in the middie "of the night on her dreadful journey. It was thir teen miles by road, but the road was unsafe American tipop: would rather give the whole 1.500 10 SP.G. SATURDAY, leaving the commitice of that bociety to deal with the money as they thisk most desir- able" 3 ------ Warning to Hatless Women. Canon Willink, vicar of Yarmouth, has is sued in his current parish magazine a warn- ing with regard to hatless ladies attempting to attend the parisk church. He denounces the "vulgar dnd most tnscemly habit" of some fgdies "in abandon'ng a reasonable head-dress," and proceeds: "Strict orders have been given that women without any head-dress zre not for a single moment to enter the church any more than men would be allowed to enter without removing their hat" It 'may not be generally known that in days gone by hats were worn in churches by men as well as women, and, indeed, were not nfrequently worn by them in private houses also. The wearing of the hat in the House of Lords and Commons has its origin in this custom, . Romance of Missing Son. The romance of a missing son was re- ferred to in the will of the late Archdeacon Sutton, a Sussex vicar, who died #ecently. In the document he asked his family to be- friend and assist the missing son he should ever reappear. Mr. Walter Sutton, who was at Oxford, went to South Africa 16 years ago. He had fever soon after landing, ind while camping with a party in the morth fd Cape Colony was missed from his tent md never scen again It is supposed that ae wandered away cond was killed by Lons Mr. Suitont was a handsome man of splendid ohysique. The archdeacon left $2500 to Beatrice Foster, tb whom his son was en- gagad, il she was still pnmorr'ed at the tes. tator's death. O'd Note-Books. In relation to the question as to the "ast lay of a public fast, a lady finds in her note- book, March 20, 1866, "Day of humiliation before God for relief from the cattle plague," with a note, 1887: "The nation has never since humiliated itself before God." Another recollects London shops and the law-courts shut in 1866. © Here comes from an account book, an entry as to the three dates believe to be the last "Public Fasts" "ordered by authority": --1854, April 26, Offering on Wednesday--a day of fasting and prayer on account of thé War between Russia and ¥ ps WHITE LABEL ALE Bottled by The Dominion Brewery Co. Limited fw Toronto "The Ale of Quality," the very life of the malt, caught and held in absolute PURITY. INDIA PALE ALE First in Progress -- first in Perfecticn --first in Popularity, the finest example of what a PALE ALE should be. INVALID STOUT Yon want strength---you can get it and keep it by taking DOMINION BREWERY CO., Invalid Stout. XXX PORTER, Will make you work better, play better rest bictier and sleep sounder when you tak: it. Its blood making properties arc unex: celled. DOMINION BREWE:Y G0., Limited TORONTO RIGNEY & HICKEY ,Agents 138 PRINCESSE STREET, KINGSTON, ) because of the American seatries and out posts, She must needs tramp through th: bush, wade the streams or creep across fal len trees on hands and knees. She muse needs also avoid the Indians who, though working with the British, were not likely $c] respect a white woman whom they fount wandering in such a fashion. However, the frail and delicate" woman accomplished het nineteen-mile jourvey and tottered into camy in time to ¢ncble the garrison to prepare' it self for the attack and to win a tremendou: victory, Sa kat i Antiquity of Faked Foods. So much is heard of pire food laws Hit food adulteration these days that one i+ prone to assume that the abuse in question ; ia result of modern conditions of trade an competition. ' Such, however, is uot the case for the Gre'ks and Romans complaited a bitterly ag the man of to-day of the adulters tion of their {ood i In Pliny is found an account seiting fort: how the bakers of Rome were wont to mi with their dungh'a white 'earth, soft to 'thy touch and sweet to the taste, thus turnin' ous a foodstuff that had. weight. and fine ap pearance, but little food value. Pliny also touches upon wine adulteration He assures us that not evén the rich Roma: noble could be sure that the wine he pur chased was pure. Moreover, the famou; § wines of Falerno were doctored, and wine from Gaul generally esteemed to be of the best were as a matter of fact artifically color ed by aloes and other drugs. Much complaint was made in Athen touching wine adulteration, so that in tiny it became necessary to appoint special in spectors with a view! to putting an end to the evil, There was one wine merchant, name Canthare, who was so skilful in the matte of adulteration that his name actually be came a synonym for the expression "cleve deceit." Canthare's long suit wus in impar§ ing the flavors of old age to new wine. And so on. Throughout Europe, from fhe tenth century onward, are found numerow instances of food adulteration ih genera practice by bakers, brewers, vintners, etc 4 The tricks of the trade were originated more than 1000 years ago. Laziness in Youth a Disease. "Iy laziness in young people a form @ disease?" asks Dr. Laumonier in La Nature After a long series of experiments, he ans wers in the affirmative. What is known a laziness at school, he says, is very often no thing but the manifestation of a morbid stat of health, and such children shold not bs punished but treated as invalids, Dr. Lawn onier traces the complaint to hereditar: causes. Of twenty-seven lazy school childres be found that twenty-two had parents suffer ing from obesity, gout diabetes, arteria sclerosis or nlm troubles. He assért: that sluggishness in various forms is frans mitted to the offspring as the result of mal adies from which the parents suffered. Such children, he says, 'simply need mor: than the uswval share of fresh air, smitabl exercise and careful supervision. Often, o course, an unsuitable diet affects a child power of application. Unfortunately childrer are often pustished 'for wilful laziteds wher malnutrition of indigestion is the true caus of their inertia. Children who snore at night and whose sleep is tronbled are almost in variably dull witted and averse to exertion but iate medical treatment is alway found effective. Dr. Laumonier appeals & clergy of the Maritime Provinces at Pine Hil} aud the Ladies' College. The special five dollar Congress tickets have been in great demand, and the Bufeay of Information, at the Church of England Institute, will be an important branch of the work. The problem of a suitable historieal so1.- venir hus been solved by the publication of "Bicentenary Sketches and Early Days bf the Church in Nova Scotia," by Rev. C. Wi Ver: non, copiously .illustrated with views - and portraits. The official handbook of the Con- gress, which is also to be illustrated with views "of places and persons of interest, has been prepared by Reginald V. Harris. Hymn sheets for meetings have been prepared, or- ginists secured for the different sessions, while C. F. Austen, the cathedral organist, has been getting his choir ready for the great services of September. _-- k at thé cathedral " being. ruslied on toWards completion. It reflects the greatest credit on architects and builders, S. M. Brook. gid, Limited. The carved oak and altar have been made in New York, and will ph be placed in position, Beautiful bang. hy have been secured for the sanctuary, and Dean Crawford has been busy in looking after a thousand and one details at the cathe: dral itself. Bishop Worrell has attended nearly every meeting of the sccretaries, has ¢arried on an immense correspondence, and bas worked up the thankofferng for the fund, for which an appeal was sent to every priest of the Anglican communion. The attendance promises to be immense. Programmes and invitations were sent to every Anglican clergyman in Canada, while the clergy of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick have been urged to work up parochial pilgrimages to the event, The congress office is at the Church Institute, the secretary of which, Rev. C W. Vernon, is general organizing secretary of the congress. Thete an. immense daily mail is to and inbumerable details dealt with. x The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pam, The cheerless corridors. The cold and stony floors. Turkey. 1855, March 21, a day of Fasting and Prayer for the War, 1857, October 6, given at collection for Indian Relief Fund, § Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp | see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room and room And slow, as in § dream of bliss, The speechless shifferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening wills, -- "Look at the man above. He's SHAKING an ordinary furnace. He bends nearly double, exerts all his strength, works up a prespiration, and gets a sore back. Now, look at the woman. She stands nearly erect, gently moves the lever to and fro, a few inches, and the ashes are dropped into the Sunshine ash-pan. This is called ROCKING DOWN. It's 80 easy a child can do it. Which method do you prefer? Why, Down, of course. Go to our agent in your loc A Lady with a Lamp shui stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. Crows' CGiy Colors. The crows were vies beautiful birds, loved and admired by all the fowls of the air. The erows of thag t me dressed in the most gore geous colors and thelr hea re decorat with réd feathers that ghstemed lke fire when the sun reflected upon them. The crows had many servants who attend- ed upon them. The woodpecker was the head servant, and his helpers were the sap suckers, yellow hammers and lindets, They faithfully performed stheir duty of combing the beautiful heads of the crows, and would tow and then pluck a feather from the crow's head and stick it in their own, at the same time making the excuse that they were pulling at a snarled feather or picking nits from his head, So one day the crows got very angry at losing their beautiful feathers from their breasts, and when the servants heard of this they immediately formed a plot against the crows, and one morping as the sefvants were attending upon the crows they overpowered them and plucked all of their red feathers from their heads and rolled them in a heap of charcoal, thus coloring them black to this very day. : Anyone can see for himself the Crows are [not on friendly terms with their former ser- wants, for they still possess the red heads that the crows once had. being a day of humiliation. : Mendacipus Windows. } .'-Chaneellor Prescott, of Carlisle, is anxious | that 'stained-glass windows should tell the truth and not represent the pictorial fiction of artists. He granted a fapulty for a' window which is to be erected in St. Ailan's church, | Carlisle, in memory of the late Bishop Ware of Barrow-"n-Furness, subject ta an amended ! Jesign being submitted. He &id not thick | | angels usually wore coat-of-arms (1), arly one of them was represented elad im the core i of-arms of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle | Oswald, King of Northumbria, who died ot the zge of 38, was represented as an aged | @an, and the artist in stacned glass will w.v nave to make him look more youthful : A Recipe For _Banity, Henry Rutherford -Elot, ~~ i Are you worsted in a fight? Laugh it off. Are you clieated of your right? Latigh it off. 1 . Don't make tragedy of trifles, Don't shoot butterflies with rifles Laugh it off. Does you work get into kinks? J.augh it off. Are yon mear all sorts of brinks? Laugh it off. I it's sanity you're after, There's no. recipe I'ke langhter-- Laugh it off. Harry Lauder's Sunday. Harry Lauder, the well-known comic sing er, has, on more occasions than one, testified in unmistakable fashion to his regard for Sunday. He wae ready to break off alto gether the negotiations concerning a recent American tour, because of the inclusion of | Sunday concerts. As concluded, the contract left him $1,000 a week the poorer on account | of his refusal to appear in a music-hall on 2-7 il A the day of rest. Reverence for the day, also, | i characterizes his home life, and he has in| this regard a sympathetic help-meet in h For Sale by wife. Mr. Lauder, as is pretty well know y, | has syng sacred solos time and again in S tish churches on Sunday evenings Rocking 0 T ality. Let him show you the many other time-saving, labor-saving and fuel-economizing features of the Sunshine. (rder him to install the Sunshine with a guarantee to heat your home to your entire satisfaction, wal, Winnipeg, Vancouvcor, Bt, Jolin, NB. Hamilte Calgary J. B.BUNT & Co, Kingston T_T MOTHER OF NURSES. 'Florence Nightingale at the Age of Ninety Is Dead The famous war nurse, the "Mother of Nurses," Florence Nightingale, the Crimean heroine, has followed into the mysterious world the spirits of the soldiers whose last honts were soothed by 'bier kindly inistea- tions. The story of this- gentle English woman, who was bgra "in Florence ninety years ago, has often been told, There are = few that do not know that she was led 0 think, at twenty-two, of the need of trained . nurses because of the difficulty of finding « capable nurse for a sick member of her own © family. She went under training herself and « when the Crimean war broke out volunteered ty Organize a band of nurses. The sufferings f the soldieré in the autumn of 1854, after battle of the Alma, semt a thrill of in- ii through the country. The Govern. had decided at the owtbreak of the war to send Gut women nurses, as the class fel vo disreputable. The allies hi 5 : ¢ ti 1 5 % g provision "in: he' Sidn 8. In the ny UE ert, the War Minister, bethonght him- sell of bis friend, Miss Nightingale, and asking ize and take out a hy The Sunshine Club. There 15 a club in Winnipeg called thie Sunshine Club. Its objects ate: To feed and clothe some hungry child; To gratify the w.sh of an invalid; To maintain the "Fresh Air Home" at St. Louis for the working girl and woman, ie It s exploited in a columm in Winnipeg Town Topics, a bright weekly, which says of it: Li being original adds value to the under taking, then the Sunshine work will always! be of great use in the world. Sunshiners are neither fearners nor followers, but - boldly forge ahead, breaking their way daily into some new and unexpected line of duty. The reason of their success lies principally in the fact that the world always makes way for new ideas that are good, and such are work: ers. We are not afraid to act independently; we dare to think aloud; we have faith in our ability; we go on "blazing the way," taking upon ourselves the roughest work. Sait ei NERVOUS, LIFELESS DEBILITATED MEN Whittington Well Buried. The famous London church of St. Michael, | Paternoster Royal, to Swhich Mr. Gardiner | went in 1909, was built from funds left by Dick Whittington, who was buried 'in 'it no fewer than three times. He was buried first by his executors under a fair monument. In the reign of Edward VI. his tomb was vio- | lated in the belief that treasure was buried ; with him, and he was buried again. In the | reign of Queen Mary he was taken up, lap- | ped in lead, and buried again, and "so he | resteth" said Stow. His monument was de- stroyed in the Great Fire, when the original church was destroyed { i ! ] : i ger ¥ i Nothing To Do With It "Stationery" has ctymologically as much to do with standing as has "stationary." The original® stationers, or stat'onarii, were 30 called because they sold their books wpon stalls or "stations" --in London round about 2d St. Paul's Cathedral, in. some cases age ost the walls of the cathedral itself. This is one of many trades the names of which bave no direct allusion to the commodities. sold. "Grocers," for instance, were so called | tither because they sold "en gros," wholesale, or because they were "engrossers," monopo- seers. In the light of the latest facts it appears *hat Babylonia was in a comparatively high Long Wait Ended. A remarkable story of hllal devotion and lovers' constancy 'is reported from Braila in Roumania, and has culminated in the mar- riage of Maria Liega, aged 80, and Joseph Stolesco, aged 85. Sixty years ago Maria and : ; peals Joseph were anxious to wed, but the girl's| parents to study their children's digestion: father refused consent and the dutiful daugh- and breathing before blaming them for lazi ter agreed to remain a spinster until death | ness. ios removed his opposition. The father, in a country where, thanks to the use of sour, milk, - centenarians are common, kept her! y : { waiting until he reached the age of 113. The of leaving legacies, has decided to devoi 'Shop of Braila, who ~ the long. £10,000 ax a that ng to Almighty Gor : 3 delayed ceremony, held op the sewly mar- for His and continged. mercies, ung | state of civilizdtion about 6.000 yesrs before |. ried couple ds an example 10 all young lov-| givs £1.50 10 she General Fond «of the SP.G. Jthe Christian era. At about that time from ers. THRE eR : suggesting that £500 of this might go 10 § he cast came Babylonian settlers, who found ward § pens Canada | their way toward the west and, finally halting to the northwest of the Red Ses, colonized the region on cither side of the Nile. When , Mr. Richard Foster, of 'Chislehurst, instead the. day. alter. th Rettle of Thiker. and IRON wick and. wounded sol. ie SED OV TYE ONS yee Cor. Michigan Ave. and Griswold St., Defroit, Mich: PEPROTICE All letters from Canada must be sddtessed patleuts ino nid to our