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f <€t NOTES ANDCOMMENT S Among the centenaries which should be celebrated this year is that of the locomotive. It is true that the automobile and the flying machine have of late years rather "put it over‘‘ on our old friend, the chooâ€"choo engine, but the latâ€" ter still remains for the average man the chief means of rapid tranâ€" sit for long distances. Although some dowbt is cast upâ€" on the genuineness of the "Puffing Billy,"" which is still proudly exâ€" hibited at South Kensington as the original locomotive and the founder of the great race of giants which we now know, it is certainly older than the Wylam Dilly in the Edinâ€" burgh museum of science, and it dleserves the credit of demonstratâ€" ing that it could outdo horses in speed and pulling power. From the heavy beam engine of Boulton and Watt, the improved one, beamless and direct acting of the Cornishman Trevithick and the improvement on this of Hedley, which introduced the horizontal cylinder and the fly wheel, came the work of Stephenson, which finished the first stage of rail locomotion. William â€" Hedley, the _ colliery superintendent, in October, 191%, began at the instance of his emâ€" ployer, Christopher â€" Blackett, a weries of experiments to overcome the difficulties which had been too much for Trevithick. The chiefl of these difficulties was thought to be that of getting a smooth wheel to hold on a smooth rail. Hedley beâ€" lieved that the adhesion would be sufficient and experiments proved he was right. His completed enâ€" gine, a crude and ponderous thing though it was, proved in 1813 that it could pull eight loaded wagons at five miles an hour. It was sixteen years after this that Stephenson‘s Rocket appearâ€" ed, and in that period he and others underwent heart breaking experiments before they arrived at anything like a solution of the difâ€" freulties presented by the engine and the rails. The first use to which the locomotive was put was the carrying of coals and other freight, but the transportation of passengers naturally followed, and soon railroads were in operation in the principal countries of the Even in our present day vast changes have taken place in the evolution of the rail engine and speed and endurance undreamed of by Hedley and Stephenson have been achieved, but, with Treviâ€" thick. the honor of the invention is A woman who cannot find a serâ€" vant willing to accept the wages which people in moderate circumâ€" stances are able to pay and to realâ€" ize that the advantages of companâ€" ionship with a considerate mistress, <f a home, and of instruction in the science of housekeeping, urges that young women if they consult their own best interests would seo that such service would fit them for homes of their own, which homes, when made, would be invaluable to the community. It is true, undoubtedly, that serâ€" vice of this sort might be an apâ€" prenticeship to happiness and useâ€" fulness, but the inquiring woman and all others for whom she may speak confront the fact that the only recompense which â€" satisfies workers in any work is wage. Doâ€" mestic servants can be no excepâ€" tion. They want to make or squanâ€" der their own advantages and they want ‘their remuneration in the medium for which the hodcarrier and the banker work. The following story is told by Mr. Pett Ridgo concerning a man who always wrangled with his wife about the money he brought home on pay night. (Vhen his wife was especially troublesome about the smallness of the sum he handed over for her housekeeping he alâ€" ways threatened he would go and hang himself{. His wife grew tired of the mere threat, so one day when he arrived home with an unusually small sum and there was the usual row she told him to go and hang himse!f{. She even offerâ€" ed him a rope to do it with, and looking very determined he took the rope and departed. Some time later she found him in an outâ€" house. He had tied one end of the rope to & rafter, and with the other tied round his waist he was revolyâ€" ing gently in midâ€"air. ‘"What are you do'm? t‘ ghe asked }‘ ‘"Hangâ€" ing myselt," he told her sternly. "Oh,""* she commented as though only mild)y interested, "but you He Woent Out and Hanged Himself. ought to tie it round your neck and not round your waist.‘" With as much dignity as possible under the cireumstances, he replied, "Well, I tried that way, but I couldn‘t \"“h." She‘d even nervous ?" ‘"Nervous! jump at a proposal |‘ Whenever uric acid is retained in the body instead of being re@guâ€" larly carried away by means of the action of the he:f;hy liver and kidâ€" neys some form of gouty suffering follows. It is not always the same ; one man may have periodical atâ€" tacks of acute gout in the great toe point, which becomes much inflamâ€" ed and the seat of sharp pain. There is gouty rheumatism, or lumâ€" bago, with stiffness and pain that is brought on by every movement. Even worse are sciatica and neuriâ€" tis, in both of which sharp needleâ€" pointed erystals of uric acid peneâ€" trate the protecting sheaths of the nerves; in sciatica it is the nerves of the thighs and legs that are atâ€" tacked, in neuritis those of the }arms. Other troubles to which gouty people are very liable are certain skin diseases, chief among which is gouty eczema. The finger joints and even the tips of the ears frequently show small white lumps under the skin, and these are noâ€" thing but solid deposits of uric &C: Ee emne ie s C e on e ie L of 40 men and women a&re much more likely to suffer, perhaps, for some time without knowing it, from one or other of the forms of gout already outlined. It may be that they take less exercise and go on eating just as much food ; it may be that the liver and kidneys â€"ar8 less well prepared to carry out their proper functions. As a preâ€" ventive measure people should eat rather less and should not neglect exercise in whatever form may be mast agrecable or most eadily takâ€" During youth and early adult life the elimination of uric acid goes on properly, as a. rule, but by the ag: exercise In WDNa&LCv@r IUIIM FURY (~ most agreeable or most easily takâ€" en. More water should also be drunk daily, a quart taken, half a pint at a time, between meals, will be found to be a relief to the body, as it will wash away the uric acid and prevent such accumulation as woul! only vield to the action of would only drugs. p< Method of Avoiding Possibility of Premature Burial. A remarkable new method of testâ€" ing absolutely whether an apparent dead person is really â€" dead, and thus avoiding the possibility of a premature burial, just announced by Dr. Icard of Marseilles, France, has been received with great interâ€" est by his colleagues in Pari;. Emt en on es n Dr. Icard‘s system depends on the question of whether the blood is still in cireulation or not, and conâ€" sists of a subâ€"cutancous injection of a small quantity of fluorescine, which is quite harmless, but one of the most violent coloring matters known. If there is the slightest acâ€" tion of the blood, the fluid carried around the body stains it & vivid golden yellow, while the eyes beâ€" come a deep emerald green. If, on the other hand, there is no moveâ€" ment of the blood, the coloring mztter is not dispersed, and proâ€" duces no effect. Half an hour is stated to be enough to make this test The laity, while duly impressed by this new method, are asking whether persons who are alive and undergo the dyeing process, and who later recover, will lose the golden yellow tint and the green eyes of which Dr. ILeard says, ‘‘‘They are transformed into superb emerâ€" alds, set like jewels in their sockâ€" eta."" o may be added, however, that fluorescine is one of the most tranâ€" sitory dyes known. Literally So. "Vesterday I received ‘ an unâ€" speakable insult.‘"‘ "What was it!" "A deat and dumb man spelled on his fingers to me that I was a Har.‘" TESTS FOR LIFE OR DEATH. "What is your name?‘ ‘"Minnie, mum.‘‘ ‘"All right, but we expect a maximam of work, mind." The Gouty Age. Go Slowly. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL STUDY Lesson IVÂ¥.â€"The Sin of Moses nnd\ Aaron. Num. 20. 113. Golden ‘ Text, Psa. 19. 14. Almost forty years have f)sued since the ovents of our last lesson. Discouraged by the unfavorasle reâ€" port of a majority of the spios, the children of Israol did not attempt immediately to enter Canaan, near tho southern border of which they were encamped at Kadosh, Their lack of courage and faith in Jehoâ€" vah and their murmuring against Jehovah bring upon them a proâ€" longation of the dasert hardships and privations until a whole generâ€" ation falls by the wayside and is buried in the wilderness. Now, however, the days and years of reâ€" tribution and _ punishment _ are drawing to a close and the time is at hand when Israel shall again move forward to the conquest of the land of promise. Verse 1. The wilderness of Zinâ€" In the immediate vicinity of Kaâ€" desh and rorth of the wilderness of Paran. The first monthâ€"The month of Nisan or Abid, corresponding to our Apnil. _ I C 8. Assembled themselves together against Mosesâ€"Started a mutiny against their loadors. 3 . o 8. Strove with Mosesâ€"A strife of words and argument, abounding in complal When our brethren diedâ€"Under the burden of Egyptian slavery or subsequently in the wilderness. 4. The assembly â€"of + Jehovahâ€" His chosen people and congregaâ€" tion. The implication of the quesâ€" tion is that it is a disgrace for the chosen people of Jehovah to be subjected to such wilderness hardâ€" ships. 5. This evil placeâ€"The place of hardship and extreme physical disâ€" comfort. No place of seed . . . vines . . . pomegranates â€"â€" The promise _ to them had been that they should be brought into a land overflowing with milk and honey, symbols of prodigal abundance. is Neither is thero any waterâ€"Not only is there about them no sign of an abundance of seeds and fruits for food ; there is not even the inâ€" dispensable element of sustenance, water to drink. 6. Fell on their face discouraged and helpless The glory of Jehovahâ€"The cloud, representing tho presence of Jehoâ€" vah. 8. Take the rodâ€"The rod of Aaron which had budded (Num. 17) and which was later kept "beâ€" fore Jehovah,"‘ that is, in the sancâ€" tuary, as & testimony or evidence of his power. Our narrative at this point leaves the purpose of the rod unexplained, though its subsequent use is indicated in verse L. 10. Gathered the assembly toâ€" getherâ€"From this point on, the narrative as it stands is slightly confusing. According to a plau-. sible rearrangement of the story suggested by several eminent comâ€" mentators, Moses and Aaron were at first bidden by Jehovah to speak to the rock, which, being skeptical, they hesitated about doing, asking Jehovah, "Can we bring forth then water out of this rock t‘ To these words Jehovah replies, addressing himself to Moses and Aaron with the words, Hear now, ye rebels, at the same time bidding them strike the rock and afterward pronouncâ€" ing upon them the doom of excluâ€" sion for their lack of confidence. 12. Because ye believed not in meâ€"Without some â€" reconstruction of the narrative as suggested above there is in the story no clear eviâ€" dence either of unbelief or of disâ€" obedience on the part of Moses and Aaron. The reconstruction sugâ€" ‘gested may not be the best nor in ;harmony with the original wordâ€" ing. It does, however, pBint out a possible _ rearrangement _ which helps materially in clearing up the |very evident ambiguity of the narâ€" rative as it stands. Â¥Ye shall not bring this assembly into the landâ€"A severe _ penalty for a wrong not fully explained in our narrative (compare comments on verse 10 above). 13. Waters of Meribahâ€"Literalâ€" ly, of strife or contention. That the place was in the immediate vicinity of, if not identical with, Kadesh is clear from the fact that the double name Meribah of Kaâ€" desh is frequently met with, as in Num. 27. 14; Deut. 32. 51, and elsewhere. 4 _ Was sanctified in themâ€"In the sense of revealing himself as holy. John Archibald Ruddick Was Born in Oxford County. A despatch the other day anâ€" nounced that we were in danger of losing our primacy in the British cheese market to the New Zealandâ€" INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCcTOBER 26. er. That primacy was probably due to a large extent to the immense advertisement we gave ourselves by making the biggest cheese in the world. That cheese was manufacâ€" tured in the fall of 1892 in the Canaâ€" dian Pacific Railway station shed at Perth, Ontario, and went sent to the World‘s Fair in Chicago the next year. It weighed 22,000 lbs., and required for its making the equivalent of the September milkâ€" ing of 10,000 cows. After the fair was over the cheese was shipped to England where it was widely exhiâ€" bited and called attention in a startling manner to the cheeseâ€" makers of Canada. Their cheese had already made a prominent place for itself in the English marâ€" ket ; but tha*+ p‘ace was enormously CHIEF CANUCK DAIRYMAN. woute facesâ€"Utterly enlarged as a result of the unique advertisement, which was fully supâ€" ported by the quality of the Canaâ€" dian article. The man who had charge of the making of that cheese was Mr. John Archibald Ruddick, then a member of the staff of the Dairy Department for the Dominâ€" ion, since 1905 the Dairy and Cold Storage Commissioner and official chief of the dairy interests for Canâ€" An Oxford County Man. At tho time he superintended the making of this glant chcese, Mr. Ruddiok had for a decado been a figure in tha chooroâ€"making world of Canada, He was at the Jmo just thirty years of age, having been born of Bootchâ€"Irish and United Empire Loyalist stock in the rich county of Oxflord. It was natural enough that ho should turn his attontion to dairying and make a success of it, for Oxford has long been one of the premier counties of the Dominion in cheese and butter making. It was not Oxford, however, that gave him his chance, though it did lay a broad and a strong foundation of knowledge for him. It was under the "cheese king,‘‘ Mr. D. M. Macâ€" pherson, of Lancaster, in the eastâ€" ern end of the province, that Mr. Ruddick got his most valuable exâ€" perience and made his name. When twenty years of ago he entered the service of Mr. Macpherson as manâ€" ager of one of his factories and for five years before 1888 he was superâ€" intendent of a combination of sixty factories, which Mr. Macpherson then controlled in Glengarry and in Huntingdon, P.Q. Soon after this it was that Mr. Ruddick entered the service of the (Government as a member of the staff of the Dominion Dairy Comâ€" missioner. For three years he was a travelling instructor of the Eastâ€" ern Dairymen‘s Association, and at this time did much to spread imâ€" proved methods of cheese and butâ€" terâ€"making among the farmers of Eastern Ontario. _ When Queen‘s University established its dairy school in 1894, he was made superâ€" intendent and remained in charge of the fortunes of this institution until four years later, the school in the meantime having been taken over by the Ontario Department of Agriculture. It looks very much as if he would. have to lay some of the blame for the competition which our cheese is now meeting from New Zealand on the shoulders of Mr. Ruddick. When he severed his connection with the Kingston Dairy School in 1898, it was for the purpose of enâ€" tering the service of New Zealand, where he remained for three years and did much to lay the foundaâ€" tions of the cheese industry in that colony. Mr. Ruddick, by the way, is only one of a number of Canaâ€" dian experts to build up the dairyâ€" ing interests of other countries. New Zealand has taken for a time no less than three other Canadians for this purpose, while even Great Britain and the United States have drawn upon our cheese and butterâ€" makers to assist them in improving their methods. Mr. Ruddick‘s life has in a_reâ€" markable manner paralleled the period of growth of dairying in Canada. This is particularly true of cheeseâ€"making, with which he has been most closely associated. When he was born, about fifty milâ€" lion pounds of butter was being made in Canada, but the cheese product amounted to omly about four million pounds. _ This, of course, was chiefly for home conâ€" sumption, the export of dairy . proâ€" duce on a considerable scale not arising till five or six years later. The total amount of butter made in Canada at the time of the last cenâ€" sus has not been figured out; but ten years earlier it was one hunâ€" dred and fifty million pounds. This is a threeâ€"fold increase, and probâ€" ably in 1910 it was nearly fourfold. The growth of the cheese producâ€" tion has been much greater, it beâ€" ing over two â€" hundred million pounds in 1907, an increase of fiftyâ€" fold.â€"Francis A. Carman in the 1 Star Weekly. The engagement was pretty stiff ; in fact it looked hopeless to the captain. However, he said cheerâ€" ily to his men: ‘"‘My brave fellows.. fight like heroes tifi your ammuntâ€" tion‘s gone, then run for your lives. I‘ve got a sore foot, so I‘ll start now. Au revoir, my hearties.‘‘ The family were emigrating to Australia, and little Willie did not feel altogether at home in his new quarters aboard ship. ‘"Mummie, I‘se ever so sleepy. I want to go to bed," he exclaimed, piteously, sitting up in his bunk. ‘‘But you are in bed, dear,‘‘ protested mumâ€" mie. ‘I‘se not in hed,""‘ was tha re. ply. "I‘se in s chest o‘ drawers.‘" m w af yOA F 4 "l’:’, i 29 * Wont to New Zealand, Mr. J. A. Ruddick. TORONTO Little Mary‘s Rabbit. Little Mary on her birthday was so eager to see all her gifts that the minute she was dreesed she went to the table where her gifts were laid. Bhe liked them a.l?'.l but the one she liked best was a cotton rabâ€" bit in the centre of the table. It had brown eyes, a white body, and a white tail tinted with brown. . When she was seated at the breakfast table her father asked hor how she liked her gifts. Bhe did not answer, so she was asked again. This time she answered saying, ‘"‘Why, papa, you know i like them all; but isn‘t the cotton rabbit pretty in the centre of the table 1 "Why do you like it?" asked her father. "Oh, I don‘t know, but it‘s so soft and fuzzy, I just do love it." As soon as break{fast was over they all went out into the kitchen and made some chocolate e@gs. As soon as that was done they went and dressed for tea, for they were going to have a party and wanted to look their best. hfnry ut on & little silk dress her mutfier had made for her. At the dinner table each one got a chocolate egg, which Mary said was her birthday gift to them. e L s That night Mary took her rabbit and put it into a wheelbarrow, which she called its bed. Every night she would put it in its wheelâ€" bayrow. She did this until she was a grown woman, and thought it was foolish for a lady to be doing such a silly thing. "I wish that Aunt Eva lived in our town," said Timmie. ‘"‘Then we could visit her every day, inâ€" stead of only once a year.‘"‘ * ‘‘Yes," said Doris, ‘"and I beâ€" lieve Aunt Eva wouldn‘t mind comâ€" ing to our town to live if she could bring her house with her‘.” "‘The bagworm takes his house along when he decides to move from one place to another," said grandâ€" father. s Immediately Timmie and Dorls drew their chairs close to the porch swing where grandfather was takâ€" ing an afternoon rest, and asked to be told all about the bagworm and its moveâ€"about house. ‘‘The litâ€" tle creature is called bagworm,‘" grandfather went on, "because the house that he makes for himself is shaped like a bag. Out of silk, bits of leaves, and the tiniest twigs, he builds a cozy, strong home. g RVeRmTy O MMHVC e o0 "‘When movingâ€"day comes, the bagworm crawls about halfâ€"way out of his house, and catches hold of it,firmly with his hind feet. Then, on his front feet, he walks away, and drags his house behind him. So. you see, when he gets to a new neighborhood he does not have to go houseâ€"hunting. 1 1UnUE. _ a e d kn wil "I have often seen them on our evergreen _ trees,"‘ grandfather answered. ‘"Some day when I find a fine specimen, you and Doris and I will look at it under a microâ€" scope.‘‘â€"Youth‘s Companion. South Africans Successfully Elude the Watchful Police. As an instance of the widespread ramifications and cunning methods of the Rand liquor sellers, who are widely known as ‘"liquor kings,‘"‘ and who try to dodge the police by every conceivable manoeuyre, the following may be mentioned as the very latest trick which has been deâ€" tected. No less than eight dozen bottles of doctored "dop‘"‘ brandy were found in the possession of two natives, who appeared to be drivâ€" ing a laundry van in the vicinity of the Simmer Deep Mine. The botâ€" tles were hidden beneath what looked like bundles of soâ€"called laundry. The white bosses of this nefarious traffic cannot be reached, as they invariably work everything from behind the scents. They are said to have their residences in swell places of the suburbs, travelling to and from the city in their motors. They are on a level with the illegal gold buyers. One may rub shoulâ€" ders with them in most unlikely placesâ€"the best clubs, political meetings, social gatherings and tramâ€"carsâ€"and not even know it. The leaders of both gangs are retty well known to the Criminal fnvcstigation Department, but they are too wary to be caught within the meshes of the law. gfio Prime Minister‘s promise to adopt drastic )measures for the suppression of the traffic is welcomed. Gentleman (entering)â€"‘"Do you work here, boy?‘‘ Officeâ€"boyâ€" ‘"Only when the governor is lookâ€" Slow forgiveness is litile betier than no forgiveness. ing." "LIQUOR KINGS®"* WARY. The Bagworm‘s House. and Doris But Unnumbered Thousands Pure Women Have Wa ""The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."â€" Psalm xiv., 1. Just why the Pealmist concluded in his day that the man who denied categorically the existence of God was a ‘"fool‘‘ we cannot say, but it is pretty evident in this much later day that there are very good reasâ€" ons indeed why this sweeping asâ€" sertion is correct. We know someâ€" thing toâ€"day mbout the conditions of knowledge and the possibilities of ultimate experience. And when, therefore, we encounter a man who says in so many words that ‘there is no God," we feel, with the Psalmist, that we can classify him with a good deal of accuracy. Bome very Eertiuent questions must at least be put to this philosopher of atheism. When was this revelation of the nonâ€"existence of God gkivfn to you and by whom was it spoken ! When did you mount to the sources of being and discover that the fountain was dry? When did you penetrate to the Holy of Holies and find, like another Pompey, that the shrine was empty? When, in short, did you yourself discover as a fact of real experience that ‘‘there is no God‘" and thus gain reason for your proclamation of denial 1 "I HAVE NEVER SEEN GOD" For any positive assertion of this kind, after all, must have its basis in mctual experience, else must it be accounted of no avail. Nay, in the case of negative assertions, we can go farther than this and say that the absence of actual experiâ€" ence cannot in itself be regarded as adequate ground for the denial of anything. It may be true that this man can say "I have never seen God,‘‘ but this may be for the same reason that the blind man has never seen the sun. He may be able to declare with perfect truth that he has never heard God‘s voice, but this may be for the same reason that the deaf man has never heard the skylark or the waters at Loâ€" dore. He may be obliged to conâ€" OLD LoONDoN Famous Hostelries Disappearing in Face of Progress. London, England, is being transâ€" formed in no sphere of its busy life more markedly than in its hotels. Within the last few months a numâ€" ber of well known hostelries have disappeared, and several ambitious schemes have been proposed to reâ€" place them. Among hotels that have recently closed their doors are the Gaiety Hotel and Restaurant, the Inns of Court Hotel, the Capitol, in Lower Regent Street (formerly called the Chatham, and further back still the Continental), while the Old Bhip at Greenwich, the Star and Garter at Richmond, the Tollard in Eagle Street, the Albion in Alâ€" dersgate Street, and the Bediord Hotel, Covent Garden, have also been closed within the past year or two. The Salisbury Hotel, off Fleet Street, is to be changed into an International Roman Catholic Club, but it will still give hotel acâ€" commodation to its members, toâ€" gether with an oratory as part of its equipment. But the closing of old hotels is interesting no less for the sequelâ€" the opening of new. Architectural splendors and modern luxuries are nowadays aimed at everywhere. The development of the hotel has gone hand in hand with the deve!â€" opment of travelling facilities. Durâ€" ing the past ten years, it has been computed, a sum of no less than #50,000,000 has been expended on hotel building in London. $ The biggest hotel in the world will be erected at a cost of $8,000,â€" 000 on the site of 8t. George‘s Hosâ€" pital, Hyde Park Corner, which has been purchased for the purpose by Mallaby Deeley, M.P. Formula May Prove Valuable in Tuberculosis Fight. A specific which may become a valuable ally to the medical profesâ€" sion in the campaign against tuberâ€" eulosis and other diseases has been introduced by a London publisher. David Doig, head of the firm of William Doig and (Co., publishers to the King, has interested himself for several years in the potentialiâ€" ties of a formula which, he says, has remarkable effects in improvâ€" ing the quality of the blood and the consequent resistance of the body to disease. 5 At his instance tests have been carried out in one of the London hospitals which have demonstrated the value of the formula in a very remarkable way, and Mr. Doig is now anxious to secure further and more extended tests with the asâ€" sistance of school clinics and pubâ€" lic health authorities. Bome thirty years ago the forâ€" mula, made out by an eminent scientific chemist, came into the possession of Mr. Doig‘s family and was frequently resorted to when occasion arose with beneficial reâ€" sults. It is a combination of natural salts, certain of which are in a conâ€" centrated form, which produce a powerful stimulating action on the white corpzrscles of the blood and so enable the system to rid itself of lurking disease germs. It is stated to be harmless to take and Billichap : "‘"‘We all admire a man who says just what he thinks.‘" COynicchap: ‘‘Yes, wbout â€" othor people." quite inexpensive. SPECIFIC FOR THE BLOOD. No Adequate Ground. HOTELS GOING housands of Brave Men and Have Walked With Him fess that he has never felt the preâ€" sence of the Divine, but this may be for the same reason that the Palestinian sheep behold unmoved the lily of the field, or the dull peasant gazes with heart untouchâ€" ed upon the vale which Wordsworth saw above Tintern Abbey. Again the failure of our atheist to mes God and cummune with Him and work with Him must at least be set the living testimony of unnumâ€" bered thousands of brave men and pure women who have walked with God as with a friend and toiled from day to day as fellow workers with His spirit. What is the value of the failure of any number of souls to see, and hear, and know when matched against one soul which has succeeded? What care we for the vote of the Athenian A#â€" sembly as compared with the word of Bocrates} And how shall we dare to summon the resolutions of a whole congress of atheists against one life like that of Christ! "I de not Know." After all, the most that we can éver say in the way of doubt or deâ€" nial about things ultimate is simâ€" ply this, "I do not know!"‘ The farthest limit of possible negation in this age is no longer that of atheâ€" ism, but that of agnosticism !| Someâ€" thing may perhaps be said for the man who, making confession of his own experience of God, declares "I do not know.‘"‘ But nothing can be said for the man who, with an arrogant presumption never ma toka® ed by any victim of superstition, declares "there is no God," save the verdict long since pronounced by the ancient Psalmist. To assert that the problem constitutes an open question, I say, is the utmost limit of denial that we can reach. And when this is said, the believer in the reality of the Divine is well content. For the experiences of yesterday and to«day are sure, and in the face of these experiences the question can remain an open one, only like many another question, for the sake of argument!â€"Rev. John Haynes Holmes. Â¥ shaped necks are finished with shadow laces. The simple semiâ€"neglige gown is much in demand. Gowns of white cotton voile are trimmed with colored linen. Striped and spotted flowers are gradually winning popularity. Long veils of black or white chanâ€" tilly lace are much worn, Hats are turning up their brims at the back in piquant fashion. . Fashion now boasts a skirt narâ€" rowest at the hem. In the new millinery, chin straps 4# are gaining in favor. The combination of lemon yellow and white is much used. Gloves either match the gowns or form a striking contrast. e The black and white combination is still good for young girls‘ topâ€" coats. Bilver buttons, the size shape of a penny, trim some of new suits. Many zibelines and velours be used in the making of fall tumes. Belts are worn in a variety of ways. They hang about the waist rather than encircle it. Petticoats are still narrower, trimmed with deep flounces of lace or embroidery, _ _ _ _ Attractive for the fall costumese l.lii.the foulards and dark plaid silks. _ Ball trimmings are seen on the new serge skirtsâ€"usually edging drapery. f . O _ Extensive is the use of tartan plaids with other materials. § Elephant gray is one of the favorâ€" ed shades for fall. Another is deep plum. io ced cacs 5 e s hn + 0 Zibeline, especially in two tonse effects, ‘will be often chosen for dressy winter coats. Fig oi This year‘s wedding gown should be fashioned of plain or brocaded satin, crepe de chine, or char meuse. » Hexagon mesh veils, with chenâ€" ille, silk, or velvet dots, are freâ€" quently seepn. â€" _ _ _ Never have more expensive silks and satins and brocades been seen Bleeveless tunics of brocade apâ€" pear on some of the new charmeuse gowns. hane . c m U'So!i, crushable velour hats for wee girlies are now to be seen in On the finer undergarments, laces of cobwebby texture and the finest Valenciennes are used. . _â€"li-e'.vjâ€";l:i;‘ _t:xi;o;i. elaborately embroidered, is a popular material for evening and afternoon wraps. _ Dark messaline petticoats are trimmed with bands of Bulgarian embroidery six inches deep. _ _ y« -;t-;;;x’ing_vo‘:tâ€":aâ€"n be made of striped satin or bengaline, with the cords clearly defined. _ Me _ _Tapir hide is one of the new 10&~ thers for handbags and purses. 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