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l ft in in an obscure Welsh village, qr,,ri7,11sl entered among the nabobs ‘and inaugurated a keel-hauling of present-day society. John Burns, once. of the docks, now president of 1the local government board, puts on his plumed Chapeau and goes to _ court. Keir Hardie, chairman of the labor party, claps on his Scotch plaid cap and guards the interests ‘of miners and others in the com- mons. It is not likely, to-day, that a Balfour, speaking as an aristo- crat, would taunt a Hardie with his lack of a university education, or . that a Hardie would be measurab- ly disconcerted if he did. For the house of commons is no more a gen- .lemen’s debating club, nor does a youth spent at Oxford or Cam- bridge any longer place an essential stamp upon the British legislator. - The opportunities for the poor loo: in this country have been so long a matter of congratulation among us that we have fallen into Jhe-way of assuming that our own 'eiand holds the monopoly of world- ly advancement for those whose start was at the foot of the ladder. But a glance at recent political ac- tivities in England, with some ref- erence to the constitution of the new house, of commons, will remind via that more than one door of hope is open and that even in old and “lose-knit societies a man of force and merit may still rise. When Rear Admiral Reginald ll. 1. Bacon, in an address before the Institute of Naval Architects, pre- licted the coming of naval cstalr 2isbanents of 40,000 ton battleships. ‘I. naval critic raised a question of 111nm. "Way ‘we not expect," he asked, "that finally a fleet in action mill. overwhelm officers and men i NOTES AN D COMMENTS 's “Machines of destruction are raving." said the critic, "but is“? about the. nerves of men?" Here we have a. sobering, thought, which gives us pause, Human in, jgntiyeness is traveling more rap- 14ly than human comprehdhsion, Human intelligence. fashions things which outrun human endurance. The, human brain is untwearing the human nerves. Unless some t'ortu- nate defects in the mechanical op eration of engines of war come to our rescue we seem to have pm» giessed scientifically into a realm of destruetion which we cannot en- be): physically. An aging organism, however hale, requires new blood. England knows her needs and is meeting them. The Roman system fell, trpccifieally, because there was not Enough individual virtue and ability left to carry on the public business. The public business of England, that modern Rome, happens just now to be in an amusingly exasper- 4yfing-iiridrl, thanks to the determin- ed innovations of that little Welsh- man, Lloyd-George; yet no man seriously looks for a prolonged em- barrassment, still less for an his- toric downfall. If a somewhat stale aristocracy cannot furnish the mer- it and the ability that modern ad- ministration requires, a vast new res-ervoir, almost untapped as yet, ls available for the nation's needs. sire people, finally, will participate --as, they have participated else- where. And when the ultimate ad- }ustment of this new element to the 'heady existing structure shall [Lave been accomplished, even the like old crusty British aristocrats nay come to acknowledge that jhings, in the main, are well, and hay wonder whether the new dis, gensation might not advantageous- 's have been brought about a little iooner. .01 something more awful than Error i" More awful than terror--- ' new and undiscovered emotion to k developed to express fully the .entiments of human beings facing he ultimate extreme, of human in, :ention. _ We are traveling a hundred miksl mechanically to one pulosoNvical) 1y. It may be all very: well for the: intellectuals, but the plain tollss are" F'tlent, and even more illustrative of} the new spirit abroad is the ftgure) of England's vigorous Chancellori of the exehequer. It, is Davidi LloydsGeorge, son of a washer-i Forty-odd-such is the tale of lab- oring men in Britain's new parlia- David J. Brewer, Associate Jirs- tice of the United States Supreme Court, is dead. ' The re. is trouble at Peterboro' be- tween the 57th Regiment and the band. and the musicians may break away From the regiment and form an independent band. li is reported that, eight men were killed or wounded on the Unit- ed States cruiser Charleston by the explosion of a gun during target practice. Caused the Death of a New York Woman. A despatch from New York says: Mrs. Helen M, Mitchell, a widow lising in Brooklyn, died on Monday as the result of a spicule of pine- apple she had been pating enter- ing her thumb. The wound was a slight, one, but in half an hour her hand was swollen. Her arm then became inflamed and turned black and green. A physician was called in, but the swelling spread to her body and the woman was soon" in great agony and later died. The doctors believe the pineapple was infected with some deadly West In- dian poison. _ Five fissures have opened near tIre main crater of Mount Vesuvius. Robbers stole stamps valued at $100,000 from the postoffiee at Rich- mond, Va. Ruth Wheeler, & fifteen-year-old stenographer, was murdered in a New York house to which she went; seeking employment. Three hundred persons were killed and a hundred or more in- jmed at a fire in a ballroom in a Hungarian village. ' Exodus From Province at Rate of N Fifty-two a Day. A despatch from Quebec says: According to statistics furnished by Mr. Rene Dupont, local eoloniza- tion agent for the Department of the Interior of Ottawa, on every day of the year 1909 52 inhabitants of the Province of Quebec left their parishes to go either to the States, to the North-West or Ontario. In all 10,183 inhabitants of the Ire0- Vince went away. Mr. Dupont, ex- plains this heavy exodus of popula- tion by the lack of local industries, and also to the natural taste. of the Fumelt-Canal1ans for traveling. Railway Neehanies Have Presented Demands. A despatch from Winnipeg says', A great strike of the federated me- chanical trades on the C. N. R. and C. P. R. during the coming summer is one of the probabilities. The men have been dissatisfied with the wage schedule for some time, andhave submitted to the com- panies a demand for an increase of two and a half cents per hour all round. This would make the sched- ule for machinists forty-five cents prr hour, or the highest paid in that trade in Canada. C. P. R. mechan- ics met on Saturday night and had a most protracted discussion, after which a, unanimous decision was ar- rived at to Stand firm for the schedule. The C. N. R. men were in session on Monday night. Should th, strike occur, it would probab- ly be a fight to a finish between the railroads and union labor, as the latter are better prepared than two years ago. It would be a bit- ter struggle. Cr" If we must come to 40,000 ton battleships we milst submit to a, physical and philosophical rear- rangemenL getting rid of our indi- vrclaaiistie consciousness and hark- ing back to the placidity of the pro- topalsmic state in which the com- munity idea, we presume, prevailed flack, at least, to the peace and ast:3renity of the coral insect which, if it know anything, must know that it fits beautifully, even if individu- ally insignificant, into the scheme of things, and with that knowledge is tyontent-no matter what hsp- pens. At least it does not have so many nerves to embarrass it, being shoved into unexplored fields where they are bound to get the fidgets. It is not adequately con- soling to tell us that we have sur- vived thus far; that we have sus- tained the shock of wireless tele- graphy, the. homeless vehicle, and the heavier than air flying machine. Probably we shall be able to adopt a'l the benevolent idventions, but our acute fear is aroused by the malevolent. lt may be that nature will invent the aerial man nowthat man has invented the aerial cant er, and we are willing to agree that, this is possible, but we share the fears of the British naval cri- tie regarding a continuance of de- structive inventiveness. DEPOPULhTLNG QUEBEC. MAY BE A GREAT STRIKE. PrNEhPPLE'S SPIC ULE. 22. Jesus turning and seeing her ---Thougi1 the crowd pressed closely upon him, Jesus detected the swift, nervous tug at his cloak. and per- ceived m it. a can for help. The woman hoped io escape unseen. The disciples. eager to get to the house of Jairus. remorvstrated, But 21. If I . . . touch his garment--- Her faith was colored by the super- stition peculiar to her age, but it was faith. Compare the story in Acts 19. 12, many things of many physieians" an] only "grew worse"; (3) that she, was considered ceremonially unclean, and therefore was harsh, ly isolated from society. Came behind him--Ch1yostom says: “She was ashamed on account of her affliction, accounting herself to be unclean.” Border of his garment-Every Jew, atcording to the requirement in Numbers 15. 37, were on the four corners of his cloak a tassel which reminded him of the commands oi Jehovah. In this portion of the garment it. was thought a special sanctity resided. 19. His disciples-An unwieldy crcwd set out with Jesus, but he permitted only Peter, James, and John to go with him to the ruler’s house (Mark 5. 24, 37). 20. A woman-Note concerning her disease: (1) That it was regard- ed as incurable by ordinary medi, cal treatment. and was given over to be dealt with by charms; (2) that: for twelve years,: to use Mark's ironioal phrase. she "had suffered Verse 18. A ruler-Mark and Luke‘givc him the fuller title, “rul- er of the synagogue." His duties were to preside over the synagogue as a center of worship, maintaining order and choosing those who were to participate in the services. He was a man oi high rank. a My daughter is even now dead-- Thiv, is an abbreviated form of the story. Compare the fuller state, ment in Mark and Luke. And so the spirit 0? man, canning to a sense of the great spirit of all, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL Worshipped him-Paid him such reverent homage as men are wont to give to kings. gh ry; the old dread or horror of a bloody victim led unwillingly to propitiate the gods is changed to the great privilege, the crowning glory of our kind, that life is so truly our own that we may use it for others, that we catch this divine attribute and find ourselves lifted into a higher atmosphere, tasting sweeter living as we learn this law of enrichment through giving. is the spirit finding its way to give itself to some other, the outflow of life, of thought, sympathy, cheer, the exchange of the inner gifts and light; each life expandirrg as it be- str ws itself'on the other. And some service we are able to render for a, stranger makes. us more truly his debtor than he can be ours, for he has afforded us a chance to sacri- fiee. Deeper than the law that leads us to getting and gaining is this law of giving, of sacrifice. It runs through all our living. It guides our social organization. It makes possible the home where the larger lives delight to serve the lesser ones and all find the true joy of living in self-giving. It makes the pains and restrictions of mother- hood and fatherhood the real en- riching of these lives. An altar is an eternal necessity. All who live give. Sacri'r'rce is Sport- taneous to the upward moving life. The higher the self the more will it give in self-sacrifice. Men may have made their oblations often to please their deities, but they have always also sought out some ob- jects upon which they might joyous- ly bestow the best and deepest of themsel " s. This is the heart and essence of all true religious worship, whether it be that of a harmonious life con- stantly offering itself to some great being or aim or that of the special period when men seek to give ex- pression to their religious aspira- tion and devotion. Both are parts of the process of the glad giving of the richest and best of oneself, to some higher and nobler being or aim "A. living sacrifice-your rational services."--)-, xii. 1. To Use Our Lives in Any Way for the Enriching of All Lives Is True Living. THE e .- LAW (l? SACRIFICE. 1088011 The word syuirifiee gains a new INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 3. ' Matt. 9. 18-34. Golden Text, Mark 9. 23. I. The Power of Truth, FRIENDSHIP 27. Jesus passed by from thence --He had enjoined secrecy upon the little company who witnessed the miracle, for he knew what would happen as soon as it became known that he had caused the spirit to re- turn to the girl's body, So he has, tens to return to his own home. Two blind men followed him .-_ A stcry peculiar to Matthew, though a number of similar miracles are re- corded by the Gospels. Their cry- 2. Jesus invariably looked upon death as a, sleep. The early Chris.- trians followed him in this (Matt. 27. 52; Acts '7. 60; 1 Thess. t. 13-15). 24. The damsel is not dead, but sltsepeth---It must be noticed: 1. That she was actually dead, in the sense that life had flown from her: body. The mourners. indeed, laughed Jesus to scorn for his words. Moreover, the. miracle loses its point if the girl was only asleep in the ordinary sense. Peter was present, and the accounts of the event must have some from him, and Luke, a physician, says expli- eitly that "her spirit returned." 25. He entered in-Together with the three disciples and the parents of the child. Luke's details are sugg,estive and touching. It is of interest to compare this miracle of resurrecbion with the other two (Luke 7. 12: John 11). Those have m trouble in accepting them all Mu believe Jesus to be the resur- rection and the life. 23. Flute-players, and the crowd making a tumultr-All this confusion was in keeping with ancient CW3- tom Mourners and musicians were hired to make lamentation and dirge. The crowd of them is an evi.. dence of the wealth and station of Jairus. Here is the great altar, my city, my home, my daily ways of hfe. Here is the great and sanctified period of worship, all my days and hours. Here burns the blessed in- cense, the glow of affection, the joy of mutual helpfulness, the the warm currents of human love. And here is the seat of true com- munion, fellowship, and partner- ship with the most high in the di- vine privilege o.rlove. Be of good cheer-Mark informs us that she shrank back, "fearing and trembling." To be discovered in this way was to be put to shame before the multitude. But it was the only way Jesus could rid‘her of superstition, and show her it was her faith that had made her whole, and not any magic edfieacy in the holy tassel. The woman was made whole from mat hour-This cure became notable. An early tradition says that the woman's name was Vera, nica, and her home was in Caesarea Philippi, and that she was there, fore a, Gentile. At, the gates of her house, in the fourth century, was to be seen a monument rep1'eseut- in7, this scene. Jesus was not satisfied; his sympa- thy had been aroused: "Some one did touch me." And when he dis- covered who it was, he insisted on her confessing her story. The world wants live saints, liv- ing sacvifices. Love offers not its worst but its best. If we love God and love our fellows we will cease to talk of living anything less than our best, our whole, sane, healthy, joyous and joy giving lives. No man worships anywhere who does not thus worship everywhere. He makes no offering to high hea- ven at any time who is not offering himself with all his powers and pos- sessions always to carry out the will of the highest, to make heaven real and present. And where men are so living life becomes too real and serious for its time to be spent in speculations as to whether the re- cording angel sees us or not. is not a life led out and offered in death, but a life led up and offered birthe profess of_]iving. - - Wherever our lives, 'ave set forth int ' ways that. we kriiotto be high, wherever we seek trritrtit'fai' living st' trve business of seWit/d)'tttiftfit) ham many with the grew/tHaiti/treadies, there the whole wosi'tr:ileitseitirtitrtyr, altar and every momegbmgag qirgptr ship. _ t ' T 'f, The true man gives to this great and all embracing life not because he hopes to win some child's re- ward, and still less to blind omnis, cient eyes to his shortcomings, but because there is in him something thar, answers to that greater life with love, with desire to come into fellowship, to taste the friendship that, finds itself in sfdjifice. the source of life and the fountain of all love, goes out to that life and love with longing, with desire to give itself to the most high. The passion for the divine has been something nobler and more real than anything presented in neuro- tic sentimentality; it is the eternal in us seeking the eternal. A LIVING SACRIFICE HENRY F. COPE. While inoeuluting " rabbit. uith Virus from a dog's head at the Do, minion laboratory at, Ottawa. Dr. A. B. Wickware scratched his fin, ger with the needle, and has gum: to New York fur Pasteur tveafonent, Mis. George Snider of Trenton was imprisoned in her burning house, and alarmed the neighbors by shooting a, .rcvolver. She was' rescued from the roof of the verar1- daL in her night (clothes. The spring rush of ipmigratioy to Canada has begun. Some 12,000 people are now on their way to Ha-. lifax and St. John from British ports, and the rush at, North Por- tai is greater than any yet expori- enced. At St. George, Quebec. on Sun- day, during a wake over the body of a sun of Juan du Lac. the house caught, fire and the body was burn- ail up. One hundred dollars in bills were also buauwd. V "Oh--diiinerC'I they cried. "Why didn't we think of that before?"- y,, uth's Courpanicm. ', 30. Their eyes were opened - ‘Blindness is common in the East. It 1is traceable partly to the intense lglare of the sun, partly to lack of Irreanl.v habits. [“33]. Spread abroad his fame-One 38F the old commentators praises [s,"t'iil') disobedience, calling them 1(gr/reachers and evangelists." ',mrfitrjctiy charged them---The exngt Alice. The ankle of a bell in the hall- way told them it was dinner-tirne. l "Let's grand get it."' shouted NC rton. 34. By the prince of the demons casteth he out demons-This is at least an unconscious testimony to the reality of the miracle. Beelze- bub (Uuke) was the name given the chief of the evil spirits. It was a contemptuous phrase, meaning in the old days of Israel, "Lord of flies." The accusation of the Pharisees was equivalent to a charge that he was in league with the devil. 'Wm afraid I am thought out," Aunt Ruth said, laughing. "Though I believe something did pop into my head the other night. "It isn't much'of a game," she said, presently, "but it may help «my some of these rainy hours." The four drew their -chairs nearv er, alert to hear what Aunt Ruth had to tell. '"lveff," said-Alice, "my liytter ends something I like in puddings and cakes.". AGW?k “Haven’t you something new for us, Aunt Ruth ?” asked Bertha. "We will begin with the first five letters of the alphabet. Alice, Ber- tha, and Carl may as well use their initials, and Norton and I will take D and E. Alice, you may give us the definition of a word "whose first or last letter is A. Then we win try to guess it." . "Mine begins something we can noe live without," said Bertha. "Bread?" ventdred Alice. "No. Besides, we can live with out that." “Breakfast?” asked Norton. "No, indeed! Plenty of people dcn't eat breakfast.' "Breath," guessed Aunt Ruth, and then it was her turn. “It ends a precious stone,” said Aunt Ruth. "Sapphire!" cried Norton. "Right. Now give us a D word." "Something I like to eat," said Norton. "Dates," guessed Carl. “Dumplings Z" asked Aunt Ruth Qwek here is very emphatic: “He shtjcl them sternly, knitting his 'ity/,% and shaking his head, say- ing See! Let no one know about it." The crowd had already be- come unmanageable with excite- ment. 32. A dumb man-Either deaf or dumb, or both. If the last, then, as the man was also a lunatic, the miracle was a threefold one. 33. The demon was cast out-See notes on lesson for March 13. "Sugar!" shouted Norton, and then joined in the laugh at Ins blunder. q 29. Touched . . . their eyes-The ma-Pest sympathy and kindliness of such an act would give them assur- ance that it was not for lack of pity that he brushed them aside in his haste to get back. Their faith would be correspondingly strength- ened. "Vanilla," guessed Carl, which was right. _ 28. He was come into the house--. His anxiety to reach home had been so great that even the forlorn con- dition of these wretches had not de.. layed him. Still, they had kept right, on till they were at his very door. Be hardly needed to ask his question, nor they to answer. Their persistency was proof of their sin, cerit.y. ing out, Have mercy on us, thou son of David, does not necessarily imply that. they believed he was the Messiah. The fame of his wonder, working had stirred in them a hope that he might relieve them of their misery, and anybody who would and could do that would be Messiah to them. Compare Matt. 11 2-5. 1oumpiinii, Z" asked Aunt Ruth No," laughed Norton. What can it be?" wondered WORD-GUESS1NG. The tariff ne:stotiatiorrc at Wash- ittgrots have been cvnchuled,tutd Canada. in mun-n fur certain mi- nor concessions. is to receive 1116 United States minimum tariff. Old Lady---"} want. you to take back that parrot you sold me. T find that he sweara very badly." Bird Dealer-- “W a very young; bird wear better whim our property was restored to us. "I followed up my victory by pl'0- posing to fight everybody and ev- erything with my elephant, and threatened to set tire to the, rivers. To illustrate our powers' we burned some whiskey, and this quite con- vinced tho natives that the white men were able to destroy any- thing.” "Bilton Simpson, my companion, insisted that he should have an- other look, but this was too much fur the chief, for shouting: 'I am going to fetch those chickens which have been stolen,' he ran back into the village, and in a. few minutes our property was restored to us. "He expressed doubts as to the existence of an elephant. Fortw. nately, we had with us a clockwork elephant, which waved it's trunk and walked. I wound up the ele, phant, and made it walk on some boxes and then the tent door was thrown open; the chief,.seeing the uncanny beast, wanted to run away. The expedition entered the terri- tory of the Bakongo, never before crossed by white men. The coinage of the tribe took the form of bars of iron weighing two pounds, valu- ed in English money at exactly set- en pence. As soon as the people heard that the travellers' stock of iron was nearly finished they began to show hostility. “lhe chief,” said Mr. Torday, "brought about the climax by OS"- tentatiously stealing our chickens, and this was of course a deelara- tion of war. A less important chief came to me and explained that the great chief had decided to, kill us. I replied if he wanted war he could have it, and I would slay all his pecple with my elephant. Shallow yokes of net, lace, or fiae embroideries are a feature of many of the new dresses. Sleeves on the latest models are short. Narrow silk fringe is used to edge many of the new straw hats, the effect being to soften the face. Nets are again much liked for transparent undersleeves and guimpe purposes in the summer frocks. . Billows of fluffy materials and cobwebby laces enhance nearly ev- errlirygerie frock now being shown. Chief Brought Back Stolen Chick- ens When Be Saw It. A spot where things happen in the true tales of adventure fashion was described to the Royal Geographi- cal Society by E. Torday, who has been making an expedition in the Congo. All odd fancy of the moment is the use on dressy toilets of belts of varnished leather. The" soft serges and cashmere are used to build travelling costumes for the warm spring days. T Fine grasses and big vivid color- ed wheat groups are used on the new hats. Wash laces, used in combination with embroidery, are strong for summer wear. Hand emljroidery and pretty laces are the dominant notes in many of the new blouses. A new lace grenadine, more often called net than grenadipe, is shown amgng the new materials. Tiny white linen buttons are used on the new linen suits and house gowns. Maillots or tights are modish, made of Jersey or of silk or woolen woven goods. All 'mart dresses, waists, and sults art trimmed in the new Rus- s1an side effects. Marquettes, linen, homespuns, all now appear in checks, both gun club and shepherd. Foulard is coming in for some- thing of its old time popularity. Linings must be as soft as they can be made andps clinging. Black and black and white both promise to be fashionable veiling colors, The popularity of the embroidery robe is more marked than everle- fore. Colored embroideries are fashion- able. ft"rrrrrrs-ei,ireo.rrt.a,.rrt,.'it' SEEN IN PARIS SHOPS. In new hats many round crowns are seen. (H"FFFFt.++++trr+++er++onya Mrs. (‘mssmau of Hamilton Hing in Gore Pack. when a "ay MOI-w juinprd the fence ighied on her. She WM Hus; 25'} injured: L PItACTrs'li MAKES PEEP” n) A TO Y ELEPHANT. Fashion Hints. I] ll, madam, it's lt'll learn to ir's; a hit old- 1'il9t- , mm W " q