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NT rFfe + $6. $9. 20 out [1] .25 $7: Tt to If woman makes all the trouble in life it‘s woman who makes lifo worth all the trouble. succeed a much greater amount of power can be obtained in this way by using larger basins and in greater number, as the sea will give an unlimited amount of power. is now designing. Part of the work is already done by a 1!¢â€"mile jetty in the sea connecting with Nordâ€" strand island. The basins will have 2,500 and 1,000 acres surface and the hcight of the waterfall between them is four or five feot, so that with a great volume of water it is possible to run a set of 500â€"horseâ€" power turbines, ten in number, so as to have 5,000â€"horsepower. This is only a trial plant, and should it H NOTES ANDCOMMENTs il Tidal Plant at Schleswigâ€" used innin of horsepower are going which the sea could furâ€" _ only some practical way @ a tidal plant could be ys the Polytechnical Re e idea is in the air at preâ€" there arc several projects hich are likely to be taken _ long. One of these is ut by Engineer Pein, of _ and he proposes to lay arge basins on the sea Schleswigâ€"Holstein. Two is are used and the water wilt flow between the ba-l mewhat the same plan as it m [P 1Di@ hat icant words! What an adâ€" ight of responsibility they n the leader of the German on, who took badly equipâ€" i to their death in spite of wledge we now have of the ‘ arctic exploration. There 16 who question whether xploration, considering the sa of life, is really worth Men of science justify atâ€" to add to our knowledge of : on which we live, and s never been a lack of men to brave everyâ€" legitimate extend _ that knowledge.l ich men die they bccome, ; of science and adventure. m»ie to accommodate two ease. Some experts put im carrying power at while‘@wrs demand at Altogether the trip REAT HORSEPOWER "Experience in polar s almost entirely lacking, equipment was said to be D Holstein ieott and his brave fellows heir death in the antareâ€" the feeling of regret was . but mingled with that nd softenifig it was the it precautions had been :t these men had done all anly could and had failed ccause of accidents that be foreseen. Of the latâ€" er in the frozen regions tory is told. Most of the of Lisutenant Schroederâ€" * believed to have perishâ€" xposure or scurvy on the of the North. Even the ed account of the disasâ€" o wer to ac n m a modern scale as large a plant as wer one which he T & w aV D liveliest â€" interest erywhere, but alâ€" ‘ption the experts vman in thinking s been made too are certainly not ' temperament, ive vas & which is supposed in the North anâ€" t be passed. When foolhardiness, igâ€" is and recklessly vites censure. fte‘s offer of a the first aviator tlantic flight in utive hours has winds and m e of a flight next, but in D r weight to n plane that ime necé §1 lC tim« t type o he aero 1@1 airy util is quite 11 rossin great saVs and els 10 **Nuremberg Eggs," because they were eggâ€"shaped. But the inaccuracy of the early watches is strikingly shown by an anecdote of the Emperor Charles V. after his retirement to a monastery. He had a large number of watches of the best make, and he used to spend hours trying to make them : keep time together. It is said that he once exclaimed : ""See what a fool I have been to squander so much blood and treasurs trying to make men think alike when I cannot even make a few watches keep step toâ€" gether."‘ It has required all the science of the nineteenth and twentieth cenâ€" The invention of coiled springs to drive the clock movement also apâ€" pears to date back to the fourteenth ceontury, and it led to the contrivâ€" ance of pocket clocks, or watches. The old city of Nuremberg was thg earliest centre of this industry. The first watches were called The next step after the invention of gravity clocks was the use of a pendulum to regulate the motion. Galileo discovered the laws of penâ€" dulum motion, and determined by experiment the length of a penduâ€" lum that would tick seconds, but the first application to a clock was made by Huygens in 1656. With the gravity movement it beâ€" came possible to invent still more ingenious clocks than those made on the clepsydra plan. Everybody who has been at Strasburg knows that famous clock in the cathedral, which towers up to the height of a small house, and is populated with automata that march in procession, and perform many curious evoluâ€" tions connected with the passage of time, while the movements of the planets and of the sun and moon are also indicated. After the clepsydras came the gravity elocks, in which a weight is made to turn a system of wheels which move the hands over: the dial. It was only after this invenâ€" tion, the date of which is not known, that it became possible to measure accurately such small inâ€" tervals as seconds. It is known that such clocks began to bo used in Europe in the fourteegith cenâ€" tury, ##Ad &G‘thiuk't&y were in usaâ€"Several centuries earlior Harounâ€"alâ€"aschid sent to Cherleâ€" magne as a present a clepsydra in which the falling water opened a little door at the end of every hour and caused a number of balls, corâ€" responding to the number of the hour, to fall upon a brass drum. At Noon and at Midnight twelve miniature horsemen pranced forth and shut all the doors for a new round. c proportioned that they would burn down three inches per hour. Plato, the philosopher, invented a clepsydra which caused a flute to play at the end of every hour, so that the time could be told at night. But here a difficulty was encounâ€" tered immediately. The rapidity of the outflow varies with the depth of the water; consequently the water will descend farther in a given time at the beginning than at the end. To avoid this either the distance between the marks must be carefulâ€" ly varied, or else the vessel must be made in the shape of an inverted cone, smaller at the bottom than at the top, so that as the pressure diâ€" minishes the quantity of water that must flow out in order to lower the surface equally in equal intervals is proportionately diminished. } The ancients succeeded very well in overcoming this difficulty, and they made clepsydras of many inâ€" genious forms, which could even be employed for astronomical observaâ€" tions. The bhourâ€"glass isâ€"a kind of clepsydra in which the sand takos the place of water. Alfred the Great invented a canâ€" in its simplest form, consists of an upright vessel, with a small hole in the bottom to let the water graduâ€" ally escape and marks to show how far the water has descended in a given time. faculties, and contrive some kind of a clock. The earliest devices of this kind ‘were clepsyd ras, or water clocks. . In order, then, to get an unvaryâ€" ing measure for short periods _ of time they had to use their inventive o gac c 2 h KR NMEvenl / SCAE : CWGSL clock is the rotating earth, which makes the heavens appear to turn round us like a movable dial. If the earth stood still on its axis . we should have no clear idea of time, such as we now possess. _ But it takes an astronomer, with his inâ€" struments, to read this clock. The first measure of time that men employed was the length of the day, between sunrise and sunset. But whenr they tried to divide it into twelve shorter periods, or hours, they found out two thingsâ€"first, that if they would keep the same number of hours for the measure of a day they must make them longer in summer and shorter in winter, and, second, that if they wished to have the hours always of equal length they must count more of them to a day in summer than in winter. They might have decided (as they did eventually) the whole period of one day and one night into hours of equal length, whose number would never vary, but the first men were not astronomers, and had no means of accurate obâ€" servation of the stars. It was the daylight hours that were important to them. Should â€" Itsg Â¥ERY BEst ANXD ALL I8S Tuts THE MEASURER of timg A Water Clock, > Great invented a canâ€" Ho had his candles so Its Rotation Stop Would Not kKnow Time, AND OLDEsT or THIS EARTH. 3 We But in none of his charities was he ostentatiqus, but seems to have observed the motto. of the Great Master of _ Christianity, _ and straightway charged that tho reâ€" cipient of his benefaction "tell to no man.‘"‘ While, perh,ai{)a. no great philâ€" anthropy is stoheâ€"marked with the name of Morgan, it is well known that he was a very sympathetic man towards the misfortunes and frailâ€" ties of his fellowâ€"men, and that he never turned an honest plea for help empty away, _ _ _ Many will no doubt question the )mornlity of his purposes and achievements, preferring to regard him as a sort of buccaneer on the high seas of finance. But none will question his deep penetration as a business man, or fail to admire his wonderful powers of organization in providing against and strengthâ€" ening all the weak points in any business enterprise entrusted to him. At his best he was a groat lover of art, perhaps not entirely for art‘s sake, but as a healthy child covets the gewâ€"gaws and tawdry toys of the Christmas days. _ And yet reverential sentiment had no. concern with him, and the sanctity{ of tradition was only a menace when it interfered with his chase after the priceless treasures of the‘ European galleries. They dwindled into petty huckâ€" sters in the gigantic presence of this man who stood on the highest peak of his world, the generalissimo of an army of activities who has never known defect. ‘‘Morgan stocks"‘ closed weak on the day of his death. But there was a thrill that careened through the bourse when news of his death was heralded to the world, but this was not so much a tribute to Morgan, perhaps, as to an indefinable dread of the stupendous power he wieldâ€" ed as financier. He was universalâ€" ly credited as being the strongest pillar in the money temples of the earth. Dynasties even trembled on his word, which meant much for the Chancellories to whom kings and potentates had entrusted the administration of their finances. â€" ,uscribed more to his inherent and | primal qualities of mind. He was a manyâ€"sided expert business man, and could see the future of business in China or Central America, or any other quarter of the globe, as accurately as in his home city. He rpromoted and coalesced and reorâ€" ganized, only that he might make a foundation on which to build something enduring, and not as too many do, to "get out from under,"‘ and chuckle over quick profits at some other poor fellow‘s expense. How well he built is attested by the United States Steel Corporation, the greatest single enterprise ever promated. _ For a long time this enterprise was the target of adâ€" verse legislation, and the shining mark at which every "trust bustâ€" er‘‘ shot his barbs. Yet so cunâ€" ningly had Morgan wrought that the indestructible steel of Siegâ€" fried‘s sword was not more imâ€" previous than this amalgamation of the "smithies.‘"‘ Not even the death of the Master Builder himself could shake one of the Morgan enterprises, and the wires flashed that not one of the What shall be said of his memorâ€" is1 The time server, the sycoâ€" Morgan had a college education, and while this may have helped him in recognizing the good things among the bad, his success must be ser fry. But he was too big brained for such work ; his eyes were fixed far ahead, deep into the future, and the man with whom he dealt was only a stepping stone to assist him in getting to greater things beyond. Just how he was able to temper his optimism with cool judgment, and managed to bulwark his enterprisâ€" es against the unexpected, are things none of us will ever know, because they were the gifts of genius, and lie in a sphere beyond analysis, and are no more decipherâ€" able than the wit and genius of a.‘ Shakespeare that enabled him to indite a perfect sonnet, or a deathâ€" less play. Morgan had a college education. If the story of such colossal achievements were written in the age of romance one would at once say it was stolen from "Aladdin and h‘s Wonderful Lamp.‘‘ And yet, the muckraker would have starved to death long ago if he had depended on the Morgan promoâ€" tions to furnish him material for scandal. No doubt Morgan could have made countless more millions than he did if he had been consciâ€" enceless enough to practice the gentle art of ‘‘squeezing‘‘ the lesâ€" No doubt, mankind, for ages to come, will marvel at the life story of J. Pierpont Morgan, the greatâ€" est business genius and promoter the world has ever seen. It is simply wonderful that a man of such humble beginnings should achieve _ and control properties variously estimated at from thirty to forty billions of dollars in value. Greatest Money King and Finanâ€" cier, J. P. Morgan, Has Passed. He brought nothing into . the world and took nothing out, when he die(}, on March 31, 1913. nomers, who time the passage of the stars over the meridian to the fracâ€" tion of a second, and, by electricity, flash the news that sets the watches and clocks of the civilized world. Man has come back to the point where he began| in the measurement of time. The rotating earth is his only standard, and the entire time system of the globe is based upon the tireless watching of the astroâ€" turies to produce the perfected watches and chronometers of toâ€" day, but even they aro so variable that they would soon be of no use if they were not constautly corâ€" Pected by astronomical observaâ€" wWORLD‘S GREAT MEXN. Never send a friend errand. Go yourself. Mrs, Kallerâ€"Cooks are such igâ€" norant things nowâ€"aâ€"days, Mrs. Justwedâ€"Aren‘t they. The can‘t do the simplest things. { gskfi mine to make some sweetâ€" reads the other day and she said she couldn‘t. : _A French inventor has made a frightful addition to the efficacy of ‘the revolver. A small but powerful electric light is attached to the mechanism of a pistol of ordinary size. By use of lenses and mirrors the glare of the circle of light which the lamp throws is bright enough to be clearly seen in daylight against so dark an object as a lightâ€"colored suit of clothes. Now, the centre of the circle of light, marked by a black spot, by arrangement of the lenses, is exactly the spot where the bullet will strike. Thus, all one has to do is to place the black centre of the blazing circle of light over the heart of an adversary and pull the trigger. A weird slip of the tongue emâ€" barrassed Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux the other day, when he referred to the time "when I was Prime Minâ€" ister.‘" _ He meant ‘"Postmasterâ€" General,‘"‘ but the House shouted with delight. Almost equally funâ€" ny was Mr. Carvell‘s description of a certain large family, to which he attributed one baby of twelve and another of fifteen months. Unâ€" fortunately Hansard did not unâ€" dertake to embalm either his reâ€" marks or the uprogarious joy with which his colleagues + greeted the statement. Mr. Carrollâ€"‘"Some hon. memâ€" bers have never read the Bible, and never will read it." Mr. Carroll: From the time hon. gentlemen opposite were ten or twelve years of age, from the time they were reading the shorter cateâ€" chism and some of them eating oatâ€" meal, they must have been familiar with this quotation : ‘To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.‘ That is from the Bible." Some hon. membersâ€"‘"What part of the Bible?‘ Cape Breton. It was during the inâ€" terminable navy debate, and the inâ€" cident is reported in Hansard as follows : They serve as an introduction to the best joke of the session, which was the at‘vibuting of certain poâ€" etry to sacred writ by Carroll, of a truly alarming word to issue from the mouth of one who has barred liquors from his table. Wilcox, of Essex, spoke of a "grievyance," and the Hon. Dr. Reid pronounced lacquer ‘"lacure.‘‘ These are just a few of the howlers. Queer slips in â€" pronunciation and quotation are sometimes made by members â€" of Canada‘s Parliaâ€" ment. _ The French members, of course, can be easily forgiven their slips with regard to the English language. Sir Wilfrid Laurier says innerent for inherent; Jacqueos Bureau accents the second syllable of efficacy, and Postmasterâ€"General Pelletier performs the more difficult task of pronouncing mechanism with the accent on the "chan.‘" These mistakes were all noted withâ€" in a few days, and during the same period there were resrded a large number of equally peculiar proâ€" nunciations from the Englishâ€"speakâ€" ing members. _ Carvell, of Carleâ€" ton, called chaos "shaos.‘" The : Speaker perpetrated _"ryeâ€"gidity," l phant, the worshipper of the "Alâ€" mighty dollar," will chant their te deums for him for a brief period until a new pillar is installed in the Morgan space, and then, the end. Mayhap, this matchless financier has passed out of the world at the opportune hour, and while the full tide of his world power was upon him, with the music of the Tiber in his ears, close to the shuddering slopes of old Vesuvius, whose scatâ€" tered ashes, mingling with those of the world‘s greatest financier, John Pierpont Morgan, are lost in the blue waves of the Adriatic. _ But science teaches that nature never allows a single force to go out of ‘existence. If Morgan‘s mind is exâ€" tinguished on the dissolution of the body, it is the only force known to us being absolutely annihilated. Naâ€" tural laws never originated such a mind, or anything else, they are merely reésponsible for uniformityâ€" modes of operationâ€"processes, not powers, and hence they are powerâ€" less to take a@way the soul, or afâ€" fect it in any way. Canadian M. P.‘s and Their Slips. Deadly Pistol Cannot Miss. _ CHAS M. BICE. Denver, April 1, 1913. Mr. W. F. Carroll, M. P Ignorant, on a fool‘s thome thwingâ€"twé$ thowth and pigth. <I m:f ldi?ft then fii your pen till I can th a plaith for them.‘‘ ‘‘Two thousand pigs |‘‘ exâ€" %lgjm_ed the astonished neighbor. ‘Why, my pen wili nardly hold a dozen.‘"‘ ‘"You don‘t \;;\aorfhtlm; me, Mither Bent. I don‘t tbqfiv two thouthand pigth, but two thowth A man who lisped had bought some pigs, anti he asked a neighbor fof 3}10 use of a pen a few days. "I have juth been purchasthing The Solution. ‘"‘Ma has solved the servant girl problem."‘ ‘"‘That sol How?" ‘"‘She‘s decided to do the work herself." A prominent physician was reâ€" cently called to his telephone by a colored woman formerly in the serâ€" vice of his wife. In great agitaâ€" tion the woman told the physician that her youngest child was in a bad way. ‘"What seems to be the trouble ?" asked the doctor. ‘"‘Doc, she swallowed a bottle of ink!" "I‘ll be over there in a short while toâ€" see her,‘"‘ said the doctor. "Have you done anything for her ?"‘ "I gave her three pieces o‘ blotâ€" tin paper, Doc," said the colored woman doubtfully. i Captain of the guardâ€"Chief of the executioners. _ Another transâ€" lation is "chief of the butchers."‘ Compare "chief butler‘‘ and "chief baker‘‘ in the subsequwent narraâ€" tive. Potipharâ€"An _ Egyptian _ name common in later inscriptions from the tenth century B. C. forward. Bheolâ€"The Hebrew â€" underworld or abode of departed spirits withâ€" out distinction as to their moral qualities. The New â€"Testament equivalent is Hades. From the deâ€" scriptions of Sheol given in Isa. 14. 4â€"23 and Ezek. 32. 17â€"382 and elseâ€" where we learn that the dead in Sheol were thought of as "still conscious, but living a feeble, shadowy, ghostlike life." 34. Sackelothâ€"Coarse cloth worn as a sign of mourning. 35. His _ daughtersâ€"Only one dsughter, Dinah, has been menâ€" tioned in the narrative thus far. (Compare chapter 34.) 33. An evil beast hath devoured himâ€"Jacob draws the desired inâ€" ference at the sight of the bloodâ€" stained coat. followed shortly ; hence tht;:expre;- sion also they brought it to their father. 80. The childâ€"Better, the lad. The same Hoebrew word is used sometimes to designate a servant and sometimes a young child, as well as a youth, as here. 32. Sent the coatâ€"Perhaps by one of their number, whom they Into Egyptâ€"Whither they were bound to dispose of their products. 29. Rent his clothesâ€"A customâ€" ary sign of distress and mourning. e IP PA dataAidtitidiiith icallh is das ie nds The same biblical narrative, howâ€" ever, makes Joseph a cousin of the men to whom he was sold. Still anâ€" other explanation and the one fayâ€" ored by a majority of Old Testaâ€" ment scholars toâ€"day is that the ocâ€" currence of the two separate names is one of many indications pointing to the interweaving of two different accounts of the same event from which the Genesis narâ€" rator drew his information, one of these accounts mentioning the Ishâ€" maclites as the neonla : +A wham Joseph was sold, and the other mentioning the Midianites. Twenty pieces of silverâ€"Heb., twenty shekels, twoâ€"thirds the price of an adult slave. 27, 28. Ishmaelites . . . Midianâ€" itesâ€"Three solutions are offered for the difficulty raised by the mention here, of two different peoples. Some have thought the different names were intended to rather loosely designate the same people. Other commentators have suggested that probably it was a mixed company of traders to whom Joseph was sold, there being both Ishmaeclites and Midianites present. _ To this explanation the Bible narrative lends much plausibility, since, acâ€" conding to that narrative as we now have it in Genesis, Ishmael and Midian were both sons of Abraâ€" ham. _ Their descendants would therefore beâ€"closely related and, in | the earlier generations at least,l have many interests in common. on . _ intere _ 20. A caravan of Ishmaelitesâ€"All the inland commerce of the anciâ€" ent world was carried on by tradâ€" ers, who carried their merchandise on camels, and for purposes of muâ€" tual protection traveled in large companies from one place and from one land to another. Spicery and balm and myrrh â€" Products of the desert and highly prized in Egypt, where they were used in part medicinally, in part as incense, and in part in the proâ€" cess of embalming. Yerse 23. The coat of many colors â€"The marginal reading in the Reâ€" vised Version for this phrase in verse 3 above is ‘"a long garment with sleeves,‘‘ the exact meaning of the phrase being uncertain. Lesson _ IV. â€" Josenh sold inio Egypt, Gen., Chap. 27. Golden text, I. Cor. 18. 4. The portion of our lesson chapter preceding the printed passage reâ€" cords Joseph‘s dreams and Jacob‘s favoritism. The story is perhaps the most familiar one in the Old Tesâ€" tament. It should be read again in'its entirety, Bent. ‘Two thousand pigs! you must be crazy|‘‘ And the lisper gave it up, THE SUNDAY SCHOODL LESSON NTER.\'A_\TION‘\L LESSON APRIL 27. Effective Remedy. 19 ONTA 479. being a daily average ?f-fi_fi,&!a, Xt % Hpemng of the Leith Dock Commission, am% expcnditure of £3,000 was authorized for <;> â€"Dur}ngâ€" one -'w;ok E;WnLTnE;E' 'of visitors to the sixteen libraries and rendilng rooms in Glasgow was 137,â€" In Edinburgh and district the miners have been given another adâ€" vance of sixpence, bringing their daily wage up to 7s. 3d. The Royal Hotel, Stranracr, beâ€" longing to the late Sergeantâ€"Major Robertson, has been sold to Lir. John Lithgow of Stranraer, Lord Torphichen has f&rrived at Calder House, Ei)n})urgh. The Calder estaies have been in his famâ€" ily fto qxép.r]y seven centuries, )fl;{y orses in Irvine aro sufferâ€" â€" The death has occurred of Mr Robert Philp, headmaster of Hut cheson‘s Boys‘ Grammer School and an enthusiastic golfer. fopened on Main Street, Lanark |shire, by the Wishaw Picture Pal | ace. The Duke anrd Duchess of Teck have promised to attend the show of the Highland and Agricultural Bociety at Paisley. About £400 damage was done by fire at the works of Wm. Forrest & Sons, chemical manure manufacâ€" turers, Paisley. Mr. Robert Smellie, the world‘s oldest church treasurer, has died at Langholm in his ninetyâ€"fourth year. The Earl of Rosebery and Mid lothian has been appointed gover nor of the British Linen Bank, Lin lithgowshire. The donations in aid of the fund for the Scottish Zoological Garden at Edinburgh now â€" amount to £9,052. The Government will drop the Scottish Temperance Bill, being unâ€" able to accept the Lord‘s amendâ€" ments. Troon Town Council are at preâ€" sent considering an electric lighting scheme for the burgh. A new picture house> has been Mrs. Betsie Miller, a wellâ€"known resident of Greenlaw, has just died at the age of 86. gawufing of various parts of the Owing to the emigration moveâ€" Kintyre farmers are adopting the motor car instead of the pony and trap. Linlithgow Council has voted £2 2s. to the proposed memorial tablet to Dr. Waldie. What is Going on in the Hig and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. FROM â€" BORRIE â€" SCOTLAND TORONTO What, then, is a Christian church 1 Why, it is just a company of plain, ordinary men and women, who subsist like every body else un der the covert of God‘s patience, but who have caught Christ‘s vis. ion of humanity. They regard the motley world about them; they know it is not ideal ; they see that in the best of men, who have had a fortunate inheritance and a graciâ€" ous environment, there is only a little love, and conscience, and visâ€" ion. They see that most of our reâ€" ligion and our lack of it, too, is compounded of vague hearsay and blank prejudice and easy conforâ€" mity and dry and barren theory, They see that in most men seliâ€"inâ€" dulgence, and uncontrolled desires, and mental trivialities, and spiritâ€" ual inertia, and cruel and selfish NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. Then We Arc Already Damned. We are saved only when we become a company of saviors. We must reâ€" deem others if we are to perpetuâ€" ate ourselves. we may save ourselves and our church out of that work! Is our church an ark of salvation, the sanctuary of the consciously elect, to which we withdraw from a perâ€" ishing and somewhat contemptible world ? Then it will go down. The church which is to survive toâ€"morrow will be the lifeboat filled with the elect, in order that they may rescue the perishing. Are we merely a company of the saved } Are we saving our souls and conâ€" secrating our lives, not that we may make free and happy this great troublous world of artisans, and mechanics, and laborers, but that Bwiftly the control of national forces is passing from the men of the middle class into the hands of the common people. Does the comâ€" mon man frequent our churches! Is he at home with us and we with him? We never see him. Woe unâ€" to us if that be true. There is one passion which the coming church must have or die, and that is the passion for all hu_ manity. There is one spirit which the coming church must incarnate or be cast out, and that is the spirâ€" it of democracy. It isn‘t a Sunday morning club which is intended to minister exâ€" clusively to some one class in the community. It isn‘t a prosperous and complacent congregation which is satisfhed with itself and makes perpetuation of its own organizaâ€" tion its chief ambition. It isn‘t a group of men who are banded toâ€" gether, not to live for, but off the community, and who only like those who are already like them. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH What Is It and What Are Its Duties to the Comâ€" mon People of the World ? in the Highlands wedding ring on the left foot. Then, again, Mre. Pierce can write excellently with the left foot and can ‘p‘eirfonn needlework ué&.: wonder, . degree of excellence. | works with the lare > _ot and guides the material with tho right».. ___ 6 qther children did not die en#y‘, and u c?,o the fime of their deaths l[r'.uf’ieroe did not require any assistance in order to adequateâ€" ly attend them. ‘ Bhe has had seven children, but of these six have died. The seventh, however, is married,_ an? Mre. Pierce i As a housewife Mrs. Picrceo is truly wonderful. She cooks the dinâ€" ner, cleans the house; in fact, she fulfillsâ€"and very creditably, tooâ€" almost all of the duties of a houseâ€" wife. One had to look very closely to discern that Mrs. Pierco was acâ€" tually using her feet, and had any one been looking round and had not known of ber infir;xzig;._ th;; would have passed without noticing anything, so natural did she look. manipulated the knife and fork quite as well as any ordinary perâ€" son would with her hands, and alâ€" though she looked very uncomforâ€" table with her feet on the table, she was quite at ease, Bhe surprised everybody present by placing her feet upon the table, and picking up the knife and fork with marvellous dexterity, comâ€" menced to enjoy the feast. She At Eastbourne, says an English paper, resides a woman probably without an equal in the country. She was born minus arms, yet she can do alumost anything with her feet. Her name is Mrs. Pierce, of Tower Street, and recently she atâ€" tended a dinner given to the old people of the town by the local lodge of Buffaloes. But She Sews, Cooks and Writesâ€" With Feet. Wigtown town _ council â€" hav agreed to the erection o# a band stand, and will subscribe £15 to wards the cost of £75, the remaind er being raised by publig subscrip tion. The central part of the Burntisâ€" land Public School was «destroyed by fire. Fortunately the children were in the playground at the time an_d no one was injured, sents almost 87 per cent. of the em ployed population. The Glasgow and Southâ€"Western Railway Company have placed an order for 1,000 16â€"ton mireral waâ€" gons with three Motherwell comâ€" panies. The number of persons in Glasâ€" gow insured under the Nationa) Inâ€" surance Act is 352,951. This repreâ€" This unique woman wears her ment to Canada, farm servants are scarce at the spring hiring fairs, and farmers have had to pay higher wages What, then, is a Christi church? Why, it is a company lovers of the world. And wh makes them the lovers of the worl It is their vision of the divina J« er.â€"Dr. Albert Parker Fitch. | _ _*"O, brothers, look up and fight on, and don‘t be discouraged, and | we are with you, and we are come out to help. Through all the cenâ€" turies has been this ever failing Ibut never ending struggle of our race. _ But llow{v and surely we ‘have been getting on, while the ancient empires have risen and falâ€" len. Every step in the path of civâ€" ilization has been trodden out of rock, and brier, and wilderness, b score upon score of sore and bleeJy- ing feet. There has been a persistâ€" ent heroism, a gradual uplift ; and we are determined that you, every man of you, shall have his part and share in this mighty progression. ‘‘We know the road is hard toâ€" day, hard in these cities of the new world, as it was in ancient days among ancient and worn out lands. Our sins and your sins and the sins 'uf your forbears have made it so. 1 But We Are With You; and into your conflict we mean to plunge our lives ; for you our heart beats, for you our mind works, for you our will is strong. S Do you have many unlovely oddities, and unpleasant â€" habits, and severe limitations, and is your point of view different from ours, and do we not care for the same things at all!? Never mind. It doesn‘t make any difference. We are millions of miles away from beâ€" ing perfect ourselves. If you will put up with us we will be mighty glad to put up with you. ambitions have brought them down from their high estate. But, being Christians, this comâ€" pany of men and women pass from the open doors of their sanctuary into the crowded streets to say : woxax wIrnouUt aArMs. is pow & grandimot) 2 thics 44 do we not care for the same gs at all!? Never mind. It in‘t make any difference. We millions of miles away from beâ€" perfect ourselves,. If you will Tands s _ a Christian is a company of rld. _ And what d 1 0 far ta