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In spite of th edetachment of his manner, which seems almost cold at times, no modern English writer has shown a more alert desire to belp the "lost dog‘‘ than Mr. Galsâ€" worthy. He â€" spurred Winston Churchill to work for penal reâ€" forms. His writings on industrial themes have probably _ enabled many impatient labor leaders and irate employers to take a more rational view of one another. NOTES AND COMMENTS He is now urging another reform, which is attracting wide attention in Great Britain. The slaughtering of animals in England, he says, is accomplished with much needless barbarity. In the case of sheep alone, Mr. Galsworthy shows that 23,000 hours of needless death agony are suffered by them because of bad methods. The case of the pigs is still more hideous. As the London Nation points out, only a writer of established repuâ€" tation could induce the public to take an interest in the fate of its dumb victims. . But Mr.. Galsâ€" worthy has caught the ear of the public ; he is practical in his idealâ€" ism, and his art is human. There is every reason to believe that he will accomplish something of what he desires. Protective vaccination against tyâ€" phoid has been steadily advancing in favor among medical men since its first trial on a large scale by the British Army in the Boer War. It has also been used with satisfactory results in the French, Russian and Japanese armies and is said to be completely harmless. _ The operaâ€" tion is similar to that against smallâ€" pox, but produces even less inconâ€" venience. Because of its results in the French Army, antiâ€"typhoid vacâ€" eination as a compulsory public measure is being advocated in France, where 6,000 deaths fromj the disease occur annually. Antiâ€"ty phoid vaceination seems to be prov img a great success. Japanese _ Women _ Make Better Divers Than Men. Whereas in Australia and India pearl fishing is conducted by men, in Japan it is the women who dive for the precious pearl oysters. In the Bay of Gokasho, in the province of Ise, as well as several other parts of the country where pearl fhshing is carried on, women are employed _ almostâ€" exclusively _ in gathering the oysters which contain the pearls from the ocean bottom. It seems that from time immemorâ€" ial there has been a belief that woâ€" men can work better and remain longer under water than men, and the women pearl divers of Ise are frequently mentioned in the classic literature of the country. Some of them can relate stories of stirring fights which they have had in the depths of the ocean with the octuâ€" pus and other monsters of the deep while gathering pearl oysters or attending to the beds, and many of the older divers at the farm on Totâ€" okujuma Island will show you scars on their arms and legs as a result of these encounters. _ Indeed, ‘the profession is one that calls for speâ€" cial specifications, and not every Japanese woman would make a sucâ€" cesaful pearl diver. They are recruited from the vilâ€" lages and towns upon the seashore, and before they adopt their strange vocation are well acquainted with the sea, and know something about the art of diving. They begin work at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and are in the water almost all the year round, except during the coldâ€" est sgason, from the end of Decemâ€" ber to the beginning of February. Even during this inclement weaâ€" ther, however, they sometimes dive for pearls. The women wear a speâ€" cial dress, consisting of white knickers, short skirt and vest, while the hair is twisted up on the head in a hard knot. The eves are protected by glasses to prevent the entrance of water. Tubs or pails resembling butter barrels, complete their diving outht. A boat, commanded by a man, is assigned to every five to ten women, and carries them to and from the fishing grounds. When the divers reach the scene of their labors they land upon the rocks or island, and at once plunge into the water and begin their search for the oysters. These are dropped into the tubs, which are fastened by a rope to the women‘s waists. When the tubs are about half filled the women pull them toward the boat, help to lift them in, and then return to the shore. Mrs. Newedâ€""And do you realiy and truly love me, George !‘ Newedâ€""Of course I do, my Cear Mrs. Newedâ€"â€"‘"But some people are sayingnghat you parried me just because y uncle Ie;t me . a Aforâ€" tune." » Newedâ€"‘Now, don‘t léet that worry you, dear, for there isn‘t a word of truth in it. Td have mar« ried yon just the same even if some other relative had left you â€"thé Some men never make mistakes simply because they never do anyâ€" thing. F e v PEARL FISHING. A SNure Nign. |\ of Christmas eve, the idea having originally been to show that if the \holy family had come to that house ;the_v would have found a welcome, | instead of the repulse of the houseâ€" | holders of Bethlehem. | _ To light in the birth of the Reâ€" | deemer of the world," so it was exâ€" plained by an old woman, who still | possessed one of the triple holders \for rushlights that in the old days ‘evrry one kept safely for use at (Christmas time. Now that manuâ€" !fucturod candles have taken the | place of tallow dips those who keep | up the custom are satisfied with setâ€" iting sometimes _ one, _ sometimes | three candlesticks in each window. The custom of keeping a goat with cows and a bantam with hens may be traced to an idea of luck, though it is also maintained that goats eagerly seek out a pasture and soon clear it of all herbs that would be injurious to cows if they were left for them to eat when the grass began to fail. SOME OLD IRISH CUSTOMS Pipes Smoked at Burials, Then Broken and Thrown on the New Grave. Of wedding customs the most peâ€" culiarly Irish is the coming of the ‘"‘straw boys.‘"" This, with the cusâ€" tom of killing a wren on 8t. Steâ€" phen‘s Day, is merely a pastime and as such is eagerly kept up by the young men and boys. Although a great number of peoâ€" ple can be happy dancing on a mud floor, says the Ave Maria, still space does not curtail the possible hospitality of a newly married pair and there are always some neighâ€" bors who cannot be included among the wedding guests. Any young men who have been omitted â€" dress themselves up in white garments, and on their heads they wear masks plaited elaborateâ€" ly in straw. Thus disguised they join the wedding party and each one in turn claims the bride for a dance. To take any refreshment would be quite incorrect; the "straw boys‘" merely dance and go away . The custom belonging to St. Steâ€" phen‘s day is still observed â€"in the eastern counties of Ireland, where ‘"straw boys"" are no longer known. It must be a very old custom, for the killing of a wren dates back to the times when Ireland was invaded by the Danes, and a wren by dropâ€" ping onto the Danish sentinel‘s drum is said to have given warning to the invaders that the Irish army was at hand. Now the wren is killed by boys who have never even heard the oriâ€" gin of the custom, and it is carried from house to house, tied to a furze bush. the bearers being disguised in any old rags they can lay hands upon, and at each door they sing the doggerel lines : And there are very few who do not give a copper toward keeping alive this old, old custom. Lighted Candles in Every Windgbw. Another â€" Christian _ customâ€"but this is a custom of religious sentiâ€" mentâ€"is that of placing a lighted candle in every window on the night |\ _ But neither from the "corpse‘s father‘‘ nor from any one else have !we\ been able to diseover any exâ€" |planation of a singular custom that | is not â€"confined~ to Connemara ;a]une, & ® ! Of tate vears wakes had been | made. such excuses for â€" drinkiag ‘That they. have been much discounâ€" !u‘nanr‘ed. and in certain dioceses | they have gone back‘ to being what | they originally were, the watching | of a dead person‘s family round the eoffn. In some plsces the rules against the indiscriminate distribuâ€" tion of drink at wakes have heen somewhat hard to enforce. "The wren, the wren, the king of The most interesting as well as the oldest and still most cherished customs are those that have gathâ€" ered round deaths and funerals. The caoine or "keen," so often mentioned by Irish writers, is now to be. met with only in the West, where the soft plaintive voices seem to lend themselves peculiarly to it. No one who has not heard a real keen can imagine the wild melanâ€" choly of the call that brings an unâ€" sought for lump to the throat of the passerby. As soon as a person dies the women raise their voices in a high minor key, letting them fall away and die in A Most Heartrending Wail. This keening is undoubtedly a relic from pagan days, and indeed the blind, unquestioning way in which so many customs are clung to make it easy to believe that they date back to remote times. The question is whether in these materâ€" ial days the fact of their having been clung to so tenaciously, withâ€" out any reason having been asâ€" signed for them, will not lead to their being abandoned altogether. For instance, lately going into a house where a childâ€" lay dead, we found the furniture al! turned upâ€" side down, chairs. and tables alike standing with their legs in the air. "Is that to make room for peoâ€" ple coming to the wake?"" we inâ€" quired of a woman standing near. "Sorra room. daughter!"‘ was the reply. **‘Tis just a fashion we have." "But why ?" we insisted. ‘‘What is the reason!‘ "Not a know do I know," she confegsed. _ ‘‘Maybe the corpso‘s father could be tellin‘." all birds, On St. Stephen‘s Day was caught in the furze, Though the body‘s small, his famâ€" ily‘s great, (Come out, Mrs. â€"â€", and give us a trate !‘ i5 "STRAW BOYS" A FEAâ€" TURE OF WEDBINGS. “hrt God, then, that my man Mick is dead and buried dacent!‘ was ‘the exclamation of a certain old widow on hearing ~___The Bishop‘s Regulations. W. a person is near death a bmrlu.bil:ethat has been previâ€" ously blessed with the blessing of the seapular of Mount Carmel is put upon him so that he may die wearing Our Lady‘s livery. No house is without a habit blessed and laid by in cas> of sudden need. Formerly two saucers were always placed on the dead man‘s chest or on his coffin, ope containing snuff, the other earth that had been blessed It is only within late years that advantage has been taken of the tacit revocation of the law which forbage any act of Catholie worâ€" ship to take place in a public graveâ€" yard. It is the exception now for the priest not to accompany the funeral and bless the grave, thereâ€" fore the blessed carth which used to be thrown into the open grave before the coffin was lowered is now seldom needed. The snuff, however, is still there, and in some parts each man is preâ€" sented with a pipeful of tobacco, which he smokes as he follows the funeral and then throws down the pipe on the newly filled grave. In one churchyard which is washed by the At‘antic we counted the bowls of several hundred such pipes lying around the newly made graves. The reason for the souff and probably for the pipes was hard to find.. Only one out 0f many persons questioned could offer any explanaâ€" tion. This one was a woman who said that the custom came from a belief that when the Lord‘s form was cut in the rock of the garden the tobacco plant was the one that grew over it. When Earl Grey was Governorâ€" (General of Canada he never spoke in public without first memorizing his remarks. _ Asmost platform speakers well know, the ‘"memoriâ€" tor‘‘ system has the disadvantages incident to a nervous breakdown, as well as distinct advantages. _ His Excellency, however, adhered _ to the one method and carefully comâ€" mitted every phrase of his speeches tqo memory. _ It is not generally known that upon his appearance at one of the Ottawa Canadian Club‘s luncheons a curious catastrophe vecurred. _ He had taken great pains with a speech dealing with a most important â€" subject, and an extra large audience was on hand. When his Excellency arose, a burst of handclapping made him hesitate in his spoken incroduction. â€" That instant spelled his doom, for, when the sound of applause died down, not a word coutd the speaker reâ€" call. For perhaps half a minute he faced his audience, trying desperâ€" ately to get the introductory senâ€" tences out of his memory, but they refused to obev. The silence of the room was painful. Finally, his Exâ€" cellency sat down without uttering more than a few indistinet pleasâ€" antries. and the chairman, an offâ€" cial of resource, glossed the incident over by calling upon another memâ€" ber io say something. Amongst the items of news conâ€" tained in the monthly reports on the primary schools of the German Empire is the following: In one distr‘ct the local authorities have decided to provide the children with felt shoes to be worn during school hours. This is at Pollwitz, near (Glogau. The medical officer had made several complaints as to the general incfficiency of the footâ€" wear of the children, and â€" had poisted out that it meaut that the children had oftea to sit through the day in winter with their feet thoroughly wet. _ With the equipâ€" ment of felt shoes the authorities have given orders that the other shoes shall be properly dried during the lesson time. The mistress came downstairs and tried the door of the sittingâ€" room, only to find it locked against her, while the key, which was usâ€" vally in the lock, wi‘s missing. "Briig . I can‘t ge tingâ€"room,‘‘ she cried ‘"Shure, it‘s mesilf knows that; an‘ ye won‘t, fur I hev the kay in me pocket." "Open the door immediately."‘ "Will yez go in if I do !" "Certainly, I will." "‘Then, yez won‘t get the kay.‘‘ "Open t‘me door, I say. What do you mean,"‘ ‘"Shure it‘s by your own. Just yesterday ye saidâ€"‘"Don‘t let the come downstairs in the morning an‘ see any dust on the sittingâ€"room {vrniture.‘ 86 I just put the kay in me pucket, an‘, I says, ‘then she 26 EARL GREY‘S MEMORY. t Shoes for GBrman Pupils. Obeying Orders. E larl vr ey. an‘t get into the sit Great Variety of Maiter Carried and Dropped by the Clouds. How often we watch the passing clouds and wonder at their beauty. We compare them with great massâ€" es of snow or ice, or imagine them to be great mountains floating across the wide expanse of deep blue sky. We try to guess how high they are, where they came from and bow far they will travei and wonder what it would be like if we could sit on the top of one of those beauâ€" tiful white peaks and look about us as we sailed away to distant parts of the world. Clouds are simply masses of vaâ€" por of more or less density, and their different colors are produced by the light of the sun shining on and through them. The dark usâ€" ually seen on the underside of the white or pinkâ€"edged clouds is the shadow of the body ‘of vapor, or the absence or light on the underâ€" side of the cloud. Clouds are supposed to carry nothing but moisture, but this is not always the case. A great varâ€" iety of matter has been carried in the clouds and dropped to the earth, causing alarm and wonder among the people in various lands. Toads are said to have fallen from dense clouds in various secâ€" tions of this and other countries, and in a number of instances small fish are declared to have been found scattered about in great numbers after heavy rains. Bcientists tell us these creatures, for whose size we are at the mercy of news reports, were gathered up by waterspouts or other curious phenomena in the form of storms and carried great distances before gravity brought them to earth in a shower. In some parts of the world earthâ€" worms, and especially those comâ€" monly called fishing worms, are scattered over the earth from clouds. * The writer once witnessed a heavy shower in which these worms came down in great numbers, and to satisfy his own and the curiosity of neighbors, a ladder was secured and different persons went to the roofs of several buildings, and the worms were scattered over the roofs the same as on the streets and lawns. How they were gathâ€" ered up and carried is not underâ€" Bome travellers in the far north say there is red snow _ at some points in that cold and dreary reâ€" gion. Others say it is a red moss that sometimes gro®#®s on the surâ€" face of the snow, and in a few inâ€" stances red insects are said to have fallen with the snow, giving it a tinted appearance. It is quite common for ashes and voleanic dust to fall in various parts of the globe, but these do not always come from the clouds, often falling fronw Jgar, sky Dust and ‘"ashes have‘ been so dense as to form what seemed a cloud, obscuring the light of the sun. They are thrown up from voleanoes and sometimes carried for hundreds of miles before being deposited on the surface. Sand has been gathered up from deserts and plains by severe windstorms and carried for long distances. Farmers declare snows carry ferâ€" tilizers from the atmosphere to the earth, and especially the _ snows that fall during March and April. Stones and pebbles have fallen from the sky in various parts of the world. Doubtless certain elements that are essential to the soil in its strugâ€" gle to produce vegetation are swept to the earth by the snow passing through the air or collected from the upper strata of the earth‘s atâ€" mosphere. The Longer Without It the Less You Long For It. Most people are in the habit of looking up the articles of our acâ€" customed diet, and especially upon salt, as necessities, We have not found them so, writes Mr. Stefansâ€" son, the Arctic explorer. The longâ€" er you go without grain foods and vegetables the less you long for them. Salt I have found to behave like a narcotic poisonâ€"in other words, it is hard to break off its use, as it is hard to stop the use of tobacco, but after you have been a month or so without salt you cease CAN WE to long for it, and after six months I have found the taste of meat boilâ€" ed in salt water distinctly disagreeâ€" able. In the case of such a necesâ€" sary element of food as fat, on the other hand, I have found that the longer you are without it the more you long for it, until the craving becomes more intense than is the hunger of a man who fasts. (The symptoms of starvation are those of a disease rather than of being hunâ€" gry.) Among the uncivilized Eskiâ€" mos the dislike of salt is so strong that a saltiness imperceptible to me would prevent them from eating at all. This cireumstance was often useful to me, for whenever our Esâ€" kimo visitors threatened to eat us out of house and home we could put in a little pinch of salt, and thus husbandâ€" our resources â€" without seeming inhospitable. A man who tasted anything salty at our table would quickly bethink him that he had plenty of more palatable fare in his own house. "Oh, she did the work all right, but she couldn‘t get along with the children." 5 ‘‘That so t‘ ‘"‘Yes. She‘d lose, her temper every ‘time one <f them kicked her on the shins." We had to let that servant go." ‘"What was the matter? Wouldâ€" n‘t she work t Wacn l2 Girls seldom go to the kitchen QUEER THINGS. LIVE WITHOUT SALT: Not Amiable. Tw w <IO ARCHIVES TORONTO Lesson Â¥.â€"The food, Gen. 6. 9â€"22; 7. 11+24. Gorden text, Rom. 6. 23. 6. 9â€"12. The story of the flood begins with Gen. 6. 5 and exrends through 9. 18. In the form of the narrative as it has come down to us there are a number of repetitions, together with several striking differences that seem to~ indicate two earlier narratives which have been preâ€" served to us in the account as it was finally incorporated in our canonical book of Genesis. _ The student interested in tracing the paralle! accounts, each of which is measurably complete in itself, can do so by reading in order first one and then the other of the following groups of passages : A. Gen. 6. 5â€"8; the SUNDAY SCRd). STVDY 7. 1â€"5, 10, 12, 17, 22, 28 ; 8. 6â€"12, 13 (beginning with the words, ‘"Noah removed the covering of the ark"), 20â€"22; 9. 18. B. 6. 9â€"22; 7. 6â€"9, 11, 13â€"16 (omitting the words, **And Jesus shut him in‘‘), 18â€"21, 24; 8. 1â€"5, 13 (first half), 14â€"19 ; 9. 1â€"17. Verse 9. Righteous . . . perfect . . walked with Godâ€"A threefold description of Noah‘s goodness. The word "righteous‘"‘ emphasizes his moral integrity ; the word "perâ€" fect‘‘ his blamelessness in conduct ; while the third characteristic sets forth his life of common with Jeâ€" hovah. 12. All fleshâ€"Here denoting manâ€" kind alone, though sometimes (as in 6. 17 ; 7. 21; and 9. 11), including both men and animals, or even aniâ€" mals alone, as in 6. 19; 7. 15, 16; 8. 17. 11. The second monthâ€"According to the Jewish calendar this would correspond to our month of May. Fountains of the great deep â€" Springs and other channels through which the floods from the great subterranean waters broke forth and covered the surface of the earth. Windows of heavenâ€"Openings in the firmament. Forty daysâ€"The parallel account mentions a hundred and fifty days (verse 24.) _ + 12. The _ rainâ€"Literally, â€" the heavy rain. 14. Every bird of every sort â€" Every winged creature, including insects. Birds are mentioned sepâ€" arately in the preceding phrase. 13. The selfsame dayâ€"The day specially mentioned in verse 11. 15. Two and twoâ€"According to the parallel account (verses 2 and 3) there were seven pair of each of those animals regarded as clean, and also seven pair of every kind of bird. 18. The arkâ€"For a description the ark, including the manner its construction, compare Gen. 14â€"16. 19. The waters prevailed exceedâ€" inglyâ€"This and the following verses (19â€"24) gives a inore detailed deâ€" seription of the great depth and universal prevalence of the flood. The face of the watersâ€"The per surface. k * 20. Fifteen cubits upwardâ€"That much above the tops of the highâ€" est mountains. _ The exact length of the cubit varied greatly at differâ€" ent periods. The cubit referred to here was probably a little less than two feet, being determined by the length of the forearm from the elâ€" finger. 21. Creeping thing that creepeth â€"Or, swarming thing that swarmâ€" eth 22. Of all that was on the dry landâ€"Not, _ therefore, _ including fishes and other aquatic animals, which were thus exempt from the general destruction caused by the flood. 4 23. Destroyedâ€"Heb., blotted out. 24. A hundred and fifty daysâ€"In verse 12, above, forty days are menâ€" tioned as the time duration of the flood. The divergence is best exâ€" plained on the theory of two separâ€" ate original accounts as suggested in the first paragraph. Exâ€"Sultan Gets $26,000 in Will 40 Build Peace Temple, Abdul Hamid, exâ€"Sultan of Turâ€" key, comes into possession of $2,â€" 000, given him by a German adâ€" mirer for the purpose of erecting a temple of peace in Constantinople,. Of all men in the world, Abdul would probably be the last to lay the cornerstone for such an edifice. ABDUL HAMID‘S QUEER PRIZE Two years ago at Leipsic a curiâ€" ous old man by the name of Zoeâ€" liner died, leaving his fortune, $26,000, to the exâ€"Sultan with the above stipulation. He evidently had forgotten that he had ‘a niece in very poor cireumstances, who was just able to make her living by her work. She brought suit to break the will, but the Supreme Court of Leipsic ruled against her. The exâ€"Sultan gets the money then, and one wonders when he will lay the first stone of his temple of uniâ€" versal peace. f The proprietress of a restaurant at Paulton Square, Chelsea, Engâ€" land, who found that many of her customers had their dogs at the same table, and in some cases alâ€" lowed them to eat from their plates on the fioor, has established a sepaâ€" rate diningâ€"room for dogs. While their mistresses are having lunchâ€" eon or dinner the pets are placed in a separate room, where they are fed with mutton bones, cooked beef, ete. A dog‘s dinner costs threeâ€" pence, and the animal is allowed to INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEBRUARY 2. Feeds Guests‘ Dogs. the point of the middle 7. 11â€"24 Fok B up of of The Fallacy that Success is Plays Havoc with A SUCCESSEUL CHRISTIAN How can we be successful Chrisâ€" tians, growing day by day in charâ€" acter and in 'mfluence_?’ The one 0 4 1 of BB â€" . . 1. IRB . .A < ho uioi thing we need to realize is that there is no royal road to it, no poâ€" tent method, no trick or knack to be acquired. You can never be a successful Christian just by prayâ€" ing to God eto make you one, and stopping with that prayer. God is too good to use to d fr us what we ught to do for ourselves. Out from the whole saying rings a clear note to this effect, that the only way to be a successful Chrisâ€" tian is through patient, unremitâ€" ting, selfâ€"denying attention to it ; that you simply cannot succeed in the Christian life without putting your soul into it. 3 What is the way! Jesus pointed it out, the one sure way to success in being a Christian, when he said : "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me." We need not spend time over the deâ€" tails, questioning just what it means to deny one‘s self and to take up the cross. Why should we epect to succeed in any cheaper fashion? Only beâ€" cause we are foolish and slow of heart to realize the great bottom fact that patient, selfâ€"denying labor is the only way to get anything worth having. Only those who hunger and thirst after rightcousness will be filled. Get Rich Quick Fallacy. There is no fallacy more harmful or more varied in its forms of evil working than the fallacy that the real goods of life can sometimes be had as bargains. The curse of busiâ€" ness is that so many want not to work well and win honest rewards but to get rich quick. A judge who had passed! sentence on many embezzlers said that he would like to set over the entrance to every penitentiary this motto : ‘"‘The worst day in a young man‘s life is the day he gets )}nis first dolâ€" lar without earning it.‘" A strong social worker added that the motto might better be placed over the enâ€" trance to the schoolhouse, the stock echange, the board of trade, and the bank. Nothing could be more wholesome in business than a genâ€" eral conviction of the great truth that money gained without equivaâ€" TORONTO CORRESPONDENGE INTERESTINC BITS OF COSSIP FROM THE QUEEN CITY. Licutenantâ€"Covernor‘s New Homeâ€"Cooke‘s Church Pastorâ€"The Roman Catholic Bishoâ€"Indecent Shows. The new Gov»rnment House in Chorley Park, North Rosedale, is now taking form, and passersby can get some idea of what will be the general effect of the completed official resicfemw- of Ontario‘s Lieutenantâ€" Governor. Fravkly, the impression «o far made is not of the beet. The residence is located amidst fine eurroundings, but the particular spot chosen for the site is a depression which does not seem designed to set it off in any striking way. From the nearby roadway one may look into the upper windows of the houee. As a result, the building «eems afflicted with the appearance of equatinees and insigâ€" niflcance, which its quality and value. do not deserve. In addition, the outlook from the residence looks down into the Don Valley, which, in its pristine state was beautiful, but just at this _ partiâ€" cular point has been decorated with a brickâ€"making plant, which, at most houre of the day, is belching forth great clouds of smoke. When the wind is in the east the future occupants of the Government House, whoever they may be, threaten to be enveloped in coal duet and grime. . These are the current objections of the man on the street. Possibly, ae the regiâ€" dence approaches completion, they will be removed, and whether they are valid or pot it looks as though they will form the basis of discussion for some time to come. Cooke‘s Church New Preacher. It is hard to eay whether Rev. John MeNeil, the new minister of Cooke‘s Church, who wa« brought from Liverpool to take the charge, is living up to his advance notices or not. In this cdrses pondence some time ago it was stated that what down town Toronto needed in a reâ€" ligious way was a great preacher, who would do what Moody or Spurgeon did in their respective #pheree,. Those who exâ€" pected a Moody or a Bpurgeon in Mr. McNeil are possibly doomed to disapâ€" pointment. . (Rmone es on w anniet « For all that, Mr. McNeil will probably have a successful ministry in good old Cooke‘s, which for hbalf a century has been a â€"beacon light of Christianity in down, town Toronto. Me is a commonâ€" sense Sceot (the first minister of Cooke‘s who has not been Irish), who promises | to preach the Gospel and avoid g«-nn:\"on-! alism or frills in any attempt to gain} popularity. Me has a keen serse of huâ€"| mor, which breaks into hie sermons nnd} illuminates them like eplashes of free gold | in the flinty quarts. But if he lacks thei qualities of a supreme preacher it is beâ€"| cause he has no:t as yet displayed those ; qualities of fervor and of imazinuionl which grip the hearts of bis hearers. _ | When is a Show indecent? The virtual Beotch verdict of "Not guilty, but don‘t do it again," rendered by the jury in the prosecution of F. W. Stair, who controls a burlesque theatre, on a charge of permitting an indecent rrtotmnnoe last winter, gives little satisâ€" action to the moral refogmere. The perâ€" formance under attack \vu\ the one which Rev. R. B. 8t. Clair attended and described in a pamphlet which he circulated among fellow workers, thereby incurring a proâ€" secution on a charge of circulating imâ€" moral literature. It that case, also, the result was anomaious, for Judge Denton found Mr. 8t. Clair guilty, but easpended gentence, and found that the performance itself was indecent, a declaration which had the inevitable effect * stirring up the prosecution of the thertre. which hse inst ended in the uneatisfactory .manver deâ€" seribed. It is di®mer‘ * ‘~~>* "ar The difference in view hbeiwees the jyry in the Success is Possible Without Work Havoc with Many People lent service is a curse to the mn who gains it and to society arou him. We neglect the daily, irksome precaution, . sleep with windows elosed, work along withouct recreâ€" ation, cat what we please instead of, what is good for us, carry our cares to bed and lie awake with them, break with perfect indifferâ€" ence the laws of God written in our bodies and minds, ‘and then impaâ€" tiently hunt for some medicine, or fad, or health resort that will give us quickly the health we would not conserve slowly and naturally. And the makers of patent medicines and the framers of patent religions reap fortunes out of the prevalent deluâ€" sion that one can get well quick . This fallacy that works so disasâ€" trously in wealth and health plays havoc no less in our réligion. We want not only to get rich quick and to get well quick; we want to get good quick and to find some cheap specific for Rightcouspess and Godlinese. Here lies the weakness and danâ€" ger of ordinary evangelistic efforts They stir the churches, they=chal lenge attention, they lead â€" some souls back to God. Yet is is a sad fact that in the crowd that attends such meetings are a good many who have gone there with the weak and futile aim of finding, in some easy way and in a moment, that touch with God, that strength of charao ter. that inward joy and peace which is the supreme good of lifs, For such people there is nothing in store but bitter disappointment, a flash in the pan and a pinch of ashes. It is a crowd of religious bargainâ€"hunters, _ wanting . some quicker and chetper way of getting a religious experience than the o‘d straight way of repentance, faith, obedience, and loyalty to the Bib!, prayer, the church, and the humble daily chances of service. P e t o But the bargainâ€"hunters . are found not only at special services, Many a man is at the church serâ€" vices hunting some easy way of he ing a Christian, some royal road to God. There is no way of success as a Christian save the way of patient, unremitting, selfâ€"denying effort. You must put your life into it to find your life at the end. ‘|n your patience ye shall win your lives.""â€"Dr. Wm. Pierson Merrill. that eleven of the twelve good men and true favored an abeolute acquittal, and it was due only to the pertinacity of the twelfth that the innocuous rider mildly censuring such performances was added. Bome of the jurymen said they had them «elves witnessed the performance, @md preâ€" sumably approved of it, or theyâ€"would not have been there. In any case it is evident they felt less responsibility than do men like Judge Denton and Judge Middleton, who did not hesitate to tell them that their action was a miscarriage of justice. The incident serves to ill.‘I- trate some of the difficulties the moral reformere have to overcome. In police circles there is naturally some suppreesed chuckling at the result of the rosecution. (‘en.orln{ theatrical â€" perâ€" rormancu is not a job the police care much for, because it is apt to make them enemies whatever they do. Now they are to be relieved of the duty. Wm. Banks, sen.. a newepaper reporter of many years standing, is the new censor. He has cauâ€" tion and firmnees, but there are not many who envy him the task. Council Off to CGood Start. With the Council chamber overfowing with the wivee and other relatives of alâ€" dermen and with fowers and palms, the City Council of 1913 started out in someâ€" thing like a blaze of glory. Good resoluâ€" tions were in the air. What the performâ€" ancee will be is another story. Mayor Hocken, in an undistinguished inaugural of 40 minutes‘ length, N‘rnrm-d the greatâ€" nees of Toronto and her undertakings. . More~â€" Being Made 10 Pres Those of Old London. t A society to preserve the of London has been formed, a under the chairmanship of the Lord Mayor a meeting is to be held at the Mansion House this month at which an appeal to London and to all who love London will be made. Already a eomewhat more critical attlâ€" tude toward his Worship than has been in evidence since he assumed office last autumn is being ass»med, and it would not be surprising if he were made the target of attack before lcm%.e Bome muniâ€" cipal sharps exprese the lief that he may not prove to be a «trong imayor or succeesful administrator, but as yet they have little to base their opinion on. The society, the president of which is the Earl of Plymouth, aims at drawing into one movement all who have an interest in ‘preserving the old charms of the capital or in shaping for good its future developâ€" ments. If those who live in London, or who often visit London and love to ramble around its nooks and alleys, its city streets and historic highâ€" ways, would show their pride in the greatest and most interesting city in all the world they should, says the society, help by collective efâ€" fort to secure the best in the way of public and private improvements. Among the notable personages who are taking an interest in the aims of the society are Bir E. J. Poynter, president of the Roval Academy ; Sir William Richmond, Bir George Alexander, Mr. Frank Brangwyn and Mr. John Burns. In Australia the Lord Mayor of Bydney, stung by the reproach that his city is the "dirtiest in the southâ€" ern hemisphere," has organized a "special patrol force‘"‘ of a hundred gigantic Australians to capture citiâ€" zens offending against the municipad byâ€"laws for the preservation of good order, neatness and cleanliâ€" ness. He mustered them the other day in the yard of the city hall. "Act," he said, ""without fear or favor. â€" Never mind whether the oftender is well dressed or shabbily dressed. Do your duty. Many of our Citizens have fallen into dirty habits, and we ‘have to teach them ta be mlean and ti#Â¥." â€"g OLDP NOookKs AxD ALLEYs®s. Teach Citizens to Be Clean. it ""T D t &a to wa th t in dow that e that 1 « Aween h BEALED L®ab raok At tap trying been saying & ory ing like very de hands the peach @ny & «i y «re «0 ® CIBR For des OM But it ¢ improssic it a trial. nate t Grace )e It‘s the wn in her Gay