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"In this war the rifle is a toy. The infantry soldier is used merely to ocâ€" eupy trenches that the artillery bas won," said a Russian officer a few days ago. â€" Now from Holland comes the report that the Germans gre 1eâ€" placing rifles by machine gans wherâ€" ever possible, and that one hundred thousand are alroady in use. If NOTES ANDCOMMENT S thousand are alroady in use. If these stories are true, the soldier of toâ€"morrow will not bear rifle and bayâ€" onet, but will carry under his arm a yard of jron pips and several yards of leather belting filled with ammuniâ€" tion. _ He will squirt death at his eneâ€" my as if he were spraying flowers The Germans regard a machine gun merely as an improved avtomatic rifle with a water {acket. They point out that the Guards at Waterloo carâ€" med a weapon neavier and more clumsy than the latest machine gun, and that in modern trenths warfare, with its charges against barbed wire entanglements, the soldior who can fire a hundred shots to his opponent‘s five has twenty tim»s the chance to live through the fight. The rifle seems doomed to follow the longâ€"bow as the principal arm of infantry. In providing themsalves with thouâ€" sands of machine guns,. the Germans have anticipated tne Allies, just as they did in the use of heavy field artilâ€" lery, torrents of high explosive shells and gas. They have ben the masters of making toâ€"day the weaâ€" pons of toâ€"morrow. In this war without precdent, imagination, not tradition, shows the way to victory. The German physicians, chemists and mechanical inventors may yet save their country from the destruction prepared for her by her diplomats and rulers. The Handâ€"Smocked Middy Blouse Is Here. The middy blouse, in sailor style, is fighting for existence, for the handâ€" smocked middy blouse is doing its best to supercede it. It must be acknowledged that the touches of smocking in brilliantâ€"colored threads, with front lacing to match, add a very smart note. That this style is more than successfully competing with the middy blouse is not odd when one considers that not only is it far prettier and dressier, but it is simple and easy to make. The smocking is also carried out on the reverse side of the blouse with strikingly pleasing effect. Ladies‘ Home Journal Patâ€" terns for this blouse are cut for I should say the French used beâ€" tween 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 sheils in their offensive against my army in about sgix weeks.â€"Prince Rupâ€" precht. Sevenâ€"eighths of the wounds in the Galician‘ fighting were caused by shells, half of which were fired from bigâ€"calibre _ guns.â€"Surgeon Major Lasghintseff. But the nations will not disband their riflemen. They will have a purâ€" pose, these myriads that a prophet named "cannon fodder." _ Obviously there must be something in the trenches for the shells to spend their priceless energy upon. The game of war can‘t be played without the infantry. _ They are the counters, the inert, bloody counters, by which the victory is reckoned. The cannons bellow, the machine guns stab the air, and when the dead on each side have been counted and the figures compared, then we know which flag to look for in the front trenches, _ Yes, men still have a use in war. The natural conclusion of many obâ€" servers has been voiced by the surâ€" geon major: "Bullets play no part now, and the infantryman‘s rifle is a toy. Infantry morely occupies the trenches the cannon have won." Patterns, 15 cents each, can be purâ€" chased at any Ladies‘ Home Journal Pattern Agency, or from the Home Pattern Company, 183 George Street, Foronto, Ontario. Ladies and Misses in sizes 32 to 42 inches bust measure under number 89538, as shown above. They can also be had for little girls under numâ€" ber 8970. In size 36 it requires 8% yards of 36â€"inch material. There are many skirts that go with this blouse very nicely, but the fourâ€"piece cireuâ€" lar skirt cut by Ladies‘ Home Journal Pattern number 8923, to be made with or without suspenders and belt, is particularly appropriate and smart. It is cut in sizes 22 to 36, waist meaâ€" sure, size 24 requiring 3% yards of No. 8953â€"8923. } "Because she called me. _ She says | ‘Pheobe! Phobe!‘" |_ Aunt Alice laughed, and said, "I | think that I know your little friend; I *will help you find her. You will | have to be quite still and look careâ€" 1fully, for it is not a girl, but a bird. Phoebe. Little Phoebe Grey had come to spend a week on Uncle Daniel‘s rarm. She had always lived in the city, and to her the farm seemed wonderful. One morning her Aunt Alice gave her two big cookies, and told her to play outdoors until dinner time. As the little girl walked down through the orchard she heard a clear voice call, "Phoebe! Phoebe!" * She stood quite still and listened. "I guess some little girl wants to play with me," she thought. _ So she ansâ€" wered, "Where are you?" Aunt Alice was writing a letter when Phoebe hurried into her room, and said, "O Aunt Alice, there‘s a little girl out in the orchard calling me! _ I can‘t find her. She just calls and calls, but she won‘t come to "Phoebe! Phoebe!" called the sweet voice. 3 "I guess she‘s playing hide and seek with me. I must try to find her." For a while the little girl looked about happily; but when she found no one, she grew tired, and called, "Come here I will give you a cooky!" But for all that it is unwise and even foolish to take risks that involve no appreciable reward in case of sucâ€" cess, and that are easily avoidable. Andre went out to seek the North Pole. â€" At the last minute some of his apparatus broke and the balloons had to go some hundred feet higher than had been interndedâ€"a serious matter in such a temperature. He would not pause for repairs. Conseâ€" quently he and his comrades were never seen again. That was brave inâ€" deed, but at the same time it was a utter foolâ€"hardiness. No little girl came, but the sweet voice still called, "Phoebe! Phoebe!" me. I told her I would give her a cooky if she‘d stop hiding and come and play with me. _ Please come out and help me find her." Burns and Scalds. In life we have to take risksâ€"that is part of the game. _ And no cne can play his part imanfully who is rct prepared to do this, when it is reaâ€" sonable and neediul so to do, when the chances of c»ward or benefit are sufficiâ€"atly in o1:e‘s favovs, or when it would be pusilianimous or cowardly not to face the music. _ The wealthy travellers on the unfortunate Lusiaâ€" tania doubtless viewed matters in this lightâ€"the chances semed greatâ€" ly in their favor. And, however bitâ€" terly we deplore the sad end of so many valuable lives, we cannot but profoundly admire their pluck, and ever regard with the deepest respect their brave constancy and determinaâ€" tion not to be frightened out of what they had resolved to do. "There is no little girl who lives near enough to come here all alone. What made you think there was a little girl if you could not see her?" This may seem a long way form the titular subject of our article. But so many burns and scalds are the result of sheer carelessness and neglect â€" particularly where young children are concerned. â€" People leave them playâ€" ing about the fire in cold weather without taking the most ordinary commonâ€"sense precautions that they shall not go near. Then comes inâ€" jury, possibly death. As a student in hospital I well remmber the numâ€" bers carried in on a frosty morning, and mostly burnt all over. _ Alâ€" though the parents were mostly poor and of the laboring classes, few proâ€" bably could not have afforded to set up some sort of fireâ€"guard, or to have otherwise kept their infants out of harm‘s way. â€" They need not have ‘tnken useless and uncalled for risks. â€"A Physician. have otherwise kept their infants outi There is a country church known of harm‘s way. They need not have as Littleton Church, in Middlesex, taken useless and uncalled for risks. which is profusely decorated with â€"A Physician. military flags, many of which were _â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" placed there half a century ago by Diphtheria. General Wood, of the Grenadiers, Diphtheria is caused by a bacillm,""l."o had lgeen in the Penms\fla,' War that is called the Klebsâ€"Loffler bac-g‘,"th ‘Wellmgto.n, and who in l‘::‘l' io in deerm e tp RatF ied td no prmnved mm 1 ho di ed it. e bacilâ€" ‘ f\lx:n:t\:ac‘;(s 1:§:ve:rmc:ms membrane, famous regimental fla_;.gs, and it was ]genelral]yflof thetv:hroat, B::d' sets u{)ha I :]e‘:t:;i":}f: g:::::;: ‘);;:r}llu:lfa ;;h?)fp::; r mmation. rin e ; c(::u.rse "Lfathe inflammation i mem.‘ Old colors as a recognition of his galâ€" branous deposit appears, in which the, lantry and fine work with the Grenaâ€" bacilli rapidly multiply, and _produce:d“’“- ; i s a poison that sometimes remains 1ocal| Sun'ey_ is proud of its bpllet-plerce,d and sometimes is absorbed into the:%;gs :VhlfChH ll‘““% .'_':: Uéh Ql;‘een: % Narke . o 3 tie ferm is necessary in order that a| Guildford, reminiscent: of â€" the deeds person shall have an attack of diph-iOf the fam_ous Surrey Rezignent. Sevâ€" theria; for it is often discovered in eral beautiful flags belonging to the :‘he tl:\roats of ;\e?)lt:\y ‘;:eofile who%L:n;alsli(lre regl;r}nientl:i ,adogx the ave been exposed, but who have an chapel known as the King‘s Own in i:herited o;‘ an ncqu{’red i;nmtunityâ€"!thetparis}l:.lch}lrc:;‘ of St. hf{agty, b%ia:- that may, however, be only temporâ€"| caster, while in the nave 0 + châ€" ary. en !olas Church, Newcastle, hang the banâ€" Although the diphtheria germ can attack any mucous membrane, it is when it affects the throat that it causes the disease commonly called "diphtheria." _ Cases of diphtheria are of all degrees of severityâ€"mild, severe, and malignant. _ Even in mild cases the patient is unmistakâ€" ably ill. There is a good deal of fever as the throat symptoms develop, the mucous membranes become red and swollen, patches form on the tonsils, pharynx, or uvula, the pulse is rapid, and there is a loss of appetite, with more or less prostration. After a day or two local symptoms) replid the doctor in astonishment. "I grow less, and except for a little anâ€" told you to give him a teaspoonful aemia and weakness, the sufferer will | pefore bedtime and one this morning." be virtually well. In more severe;"Yes, I know," replied th young moâ€" cases all the symptoms are more viruâ€"| ther, with flushed checks. "But then, lent, the swelling and congestion| you see mothor, John, oand nurse, and much greater, and the whole throat ‘sll had all to toks a teaspoonful each, covered with a thick, grayish, fals¢) goo, to oct hiri to tike his." BOYS$ GIBL 12 PA / (WDa 2 z> (.’M:%‘. fi' L\:gfihlfl‘m 0 »â€"’) lfi,)i AZ -’Q\A\‘ g !'Q”Jz' /g{n\‘l' CE (a m < oeme d . HEALTH Colors of Regiments Dating Back to unwise and Battles of Wellington. that involve s 34 h case of sueâ€"| , A Ppilgrimage to the principal p avoidable. Churches of Great Britain reveals the North some interesting military mementoes some of his| in the shape of flags of famous regiâ€" he balloons ments, many of them dating back to feet higher the battles of Wellington‘s day. _ In iâ€"a serious| St. Paul‘s Catherdal may be seen flags erature. He|Which, could they speak, might tell airs, Conse.| many a gallant story of the feats of irades were lthe "Dieâ€"Hards," the officers and men as brave inâ€"| of the Middlesex Regiment, in the ne it was a|battles of Seringapatam, Ciudad Roâ€" [drigo, Badajoz, Alma, Inkermann, and ay form the;Sebastopol. In St. Paul‘s, too, are cle. But so the colors which the Coldstream e the result Guards carried at Inkermann, the meâ€" | neglect â€";morial bearing the beautiful inscripâ€" children are)tion, "Brothers in Arms, Partners in them playâ€" Glory, and in Death they were buried old weather in one grave." 4 | the little girl. h \ __"I thought it might be there. The ‘ phoebe bird often builds her nest year after year in the same place. . See, on the next rafter are two old nests." She calls me ‘Phoebe‘ so much of the time that I think she has a nest near, for I hear her everyday." "A bird! Why, Aunt Alice, I didn‘t know birds could talk! She calls my name just as plain as could be! â€" It did not sound like a bird, at all." When they reachd the orchard no little bird could they see. _ They walked cautiously about and peeped under the leaves and shrubs. â€"_"We shall have to wait until anothâ€" er day," Aunt Alice sgid.A They started back towards the house. â€" As they came near the barn a bird flew out from the shed, perched in a tree near by, and sang, ‘"Phoebe! Phoebe! Phoebe!" The little girl laughed. "O Aunt Alice, we did find her, after all!l What do you suppose she wanted in the shed ?" "We will look and se if she has a nest there, but she may have been after flies. Phoebe would rathâ€" er have flies than cookies. _ There is the nest and she is back in it," Aunt Alice said, and pointed to a rafter. They saw the head of the mother bird loking down over the edge of the nest. She did not appear to be frightened. "Why, how did you find it ?" asked When Phoebe went back to the city her father said, "Well, little girl, what was the best thing on the farm?" Phoebe laughed, and said, "I liked best the little bird that knew my name."â€"Youth‘s Companion. membrane. _ In unfavorable cases, stupor or delirium appears, the false membrane spreads from the pharynx to the larynx and obstructs the breathing, or the heart fails. In the malignant cases the outcome is inevitably fatal. The most dangâ€" erous complications in all cases of diphtheria are pneumonia, which is to be greatly feared in the laryngeal type; heart failure, which is possible in all severe cases; and paralysis, which sometimes occurs as a result of the poisoning of the system by the toxins. _ In ordinary cases the paraâ€" lysis lasts only a few weeks, alâ€" though in more severe cases there may be great atrophy of the muscles, and recovery may be "delayed for months. The treatment of diphtheria is a matter entirely for the physician, for it consists first of all in the imâ€" mediate administration of antitoxin. â€"Youth‘s Companion. St. Patrick‘s Cathedral, Dublin, has a» great array of regimental flaks, particularly those of the Dublin Fusâ€" iliers, while in the renowned catheâ€" dral of St. Giles, at Edinburgh, are to be seen flags of most of the chief Scottish regiments, many of the torn and tattered emblems dating back to many years ago when they were preâ€" served as heirlooms by famous Scotâ€" tish families. | Baby was not well, and as he was | the first, his parents were anxious | about him, and the doctor was paying his second visit. _ As he was leaving the tiny pati nt mother said, "Oh, doe« tor, that medicine you sent for baby last night is done." "Impossible!" replid the doctor in astonishment. "I told you to give him a teaspoonful | before bedtime and one this morning." | "Yes, I know," replied th young moâ€" | ther, with flushed checks. "But then, | you see mothor, John, ard nurse, and Wood collected and preserved many famous regimental flags, and it was the Prince Consort himself who preâ€" sented the General with many of the old colors as a recognition of his galâ€" lantry and fine work with the Grenaâ€" diers. Surrey is proud of its bulletâ€"pierced flags which hang in tie Queen‘s Chapel of Holy Trinity Church at Guildford, reminiscent of the deeds of the famous Surrey Regiment. Sevâ€" eral beautiful flags belonging to the Lancashire _ regiments _ adorn the chapel known as the King‘s Own in the parish church of St. Mary, Lanâ€" caster, while in the nave of St. Nichâ€" olas Church, Newcastle, hang the banâ€" ners of the "Fighting Fifth"â€"as everybody in the Old Country calls the gallant Northumberland Fusiliers â€"that were carried in front of . the Fifth in the marches to Delhi and Lucknow. FLAGE IN BRITISH CHURCHES. Anxious About Him. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL Verse 5. In Gibeoniâ€"A city.of the Hivites. The "tabernacle of the conâ€" gregation" and the "brazen altar of burnt offerings" made by Moses were transferred to Gibeon from Nob (1 Sam. 21. 6; 1 Chron. 16. 39, 40; 2 Chron. 1. 3). (It was "the great high place," therefore, and Solomon offered "a thousand burnt offerings . . . upon that altar.". The city originally beâ€" longed to the tribe of Benjamin (Josh. 18. 21â€"25; see also Josh. 9). In a dreamâ€"The offerings of Soloâ€" mon were pleasing to God, as the dream.shows. (For a paralel account of the dream, see 2 Câ€"ron. 1. 7â€"18). God is frequently represented as havâ€" ing made known his will in a dream (Gen. 15. 1; 28. 12; 81. 11; 37. 5; 41. 25; 1 Sam. 28. 6. 15). 6. Great lovingkindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throneâ€"David regarded this as the crowning mercy of Jehovah (see 1 Kings 1. 48). 7. A little childâ€"Not in years, but in experience as a ruler. Uriagh was killed about twenty years before Daâ€" vid‘s death. This,would make Soloâ€" mon at least eightecen years old at the time of his coronation. Solomon might well have felt as a little child as he faced his duties. He was of a peaceful disposition (1 Chron. 22. 9). The ordinary difficulties of his kingâ€" ship were augmented by his warring and envious brothers and their folâ€" lowers. To go out or come in@â€"That is, how to live, what to do in‘ the ordinary happenings as well as the great emergencies of life. This phrase was proverbial among the Israelites (see Num. 27. 17; Deut. 28. 6; 81. 2; Josh. 14. 11. 8. That cannot be: numbered nor counted for multitudeâ€"A hyperboliâ€" cal expression common in all lanâ€" guagesâ€""As the sands of the gea," or "the stars of heaven." Perhaps Solomon was thinking of Jehovah‘s promise to Abram (Gen. 13. 16). 9. An understanding heartâ€"That is "wisdom and knowledge" (2 Chron. 1. 10). The Hebrew reads literally, "a hearing heart";wpatience "to hear" is a prerequisite to an "understanding" heart. To judgeâ€"This was one of the chief functions of the Oriental rulers. Herodotus (1. 98) tel‘s us that Deioâ€" ces was made king because of the justice of his decisions, and Xenophon shows that Cyrus was instructed by his tutorsâ€" how to render judgments. In some places in the Dominion toâ€" day the Mayor (or ruler of the town) is also a magistrate who must preside as judge over the court. In the Jewâ€" ish mind, the prince and judge were closely associated (see Exod. 2. 14; 18. 16, 22; 1 Sam. 8. 20; 2 Sam. 15. 2â€"6, etc.). 3 Great peopleâ€"In verse 8 the term "great people" means "great" or large in numbers; here, "great" means litâ€" erally "heavy," upon the king. The burden of ruling the people would be great, or "heavy," upon tne king. 10. The speech pleas e Lordâ€" Although a dream, it was the perâ€" sonal desire of Solomon. 11. Thine enemies â€" Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11. 14â€"22) and Reâ€" zon the son of Eliada (1 Kings 11. 23â€" 25). These were adversaries of Soloâ€" mon "all his days." I. Solomon‘s Dream (Verses 5â€"14.) 12. A wise and an understanding heartâ€"A wisdom bothâ€"moral and inâ€" tellectual (1 Kings 4. 29â€"34). It was moral wisdom alone for which he asked. Like thee â€" Only one "greater than Solomon" 42). esn 13. That which thou hast not asked â€"God gave Solomon all he asked for, and then, true to his nature, added something besides. This is the law of divine government (see Matt., 6. 33). > 14. If thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my comâ€" mandmentsâ€"All that Solomon was to receive was conditioned on an upright life. _ As thy father did walkâ€"In spite of David‘s sinfulness, his heart was right toward God and his repentance genuine. 15. Behold, it was a dreamâ€"As in the case of Pharach (Gen. 41. 7). "The dream was one of the recognized modes whereby men expected to reâ€" ceive knowledge of the divine will." God in his sacrifices and by /making the reality of the dream known to his servants at a feast in their honor. Came to Jerusalem, and s?d beâ€" fore the ark of the covenant of Jehoâ€" vahâ€"Solomon returned to Jerusalem after his vision. He would act upon the dream by showing gratitude to Brown had just returned from a short, but delightful, trip to the Conâ€" tinent. _ Barely had he sat foot again on the shore of Britain when, as is usual, he had to submit his baggage to the Customs officials for inspecâ€" tion. _ The latter, although Brown assured them that he Rad nothing to declare, seemed bent. on making a thorough inspection. _ "But there‘s nothing in that trunk except wearing apparel," insisted Brown. _ Unperâ€" tubed ‘and unconvinced the official proâ€" ceeded with his task, pulling out garâ€" ment after garment, until finally he disclosed a dozen bottles of wine. The official looked at Brown, then at the bottles, and then again at ~Brown. "And what kind of wearing apparel d‘you call this?" he asked. "Nightâ€" caps!" retorted Brown, and even the grim official had to smile. Soldiers have orders never to look up at an aeroplane which is fiying above them, as nothing is more conâ€" spicuous to airmen than men‘s faces. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 18. ut Fesicg § 28 II. Solomon Goes to Jerusalem (Verse 15). 3 1 Kings 3. Had to Smile. 15. 10. TORONTO was to be (Matt. 12. FIRST BRITISH NAVY WAS ROMAN ESTABLISHED BY CESAR AFTER HE HAD INVADED ENGLAND. Henry VMHI. Called Father of the Navy of More Modern Times. The first British navy was a Roâ€" man one, if the Hibernianism may be permitted, and it was due to the hosts whom great Czesar led to conquest. For the protection of their colony (Ernest Protheroe tells us, in a new book just published), the Romans esâ€" tablished a fleet known as the Classis Britannica, manned by Roman solâ€" diers, but with the oars of the galleys worked by Britons who were pressed into service. In 288 A.D., Carausius, with the aid of some pirates, got posâ€" session of the fleet and defied the Roâ€" man authority, calling himself Emâ€" peror of Britain. He was succeeded by Allectus, who was overthrown and slain by the Emperor Constantine. The revolted soldiers, who had been assisting Allectus, fled to London, where they were attacked and killed in the streets by the Roman forces. But after occupying Britain for more than three centuries and a half the Romans evacuated the country in 410 A.D.., in order to assist in deâ€" fending the very heart of Rome, which was being assailed by hordes of barâ€" barians from Central Europe. During the latter part of their occupation they had practically © abolished the Classis Britannica; and upon the deâ€" parture of the legions Britain was again without a fleet. This man, named Turner, came safely through three of the greatest stcamship disasters in the rolls of history. He was one of the surâ€" vivors of the Titanic wreck; two years later was saved when the Empress of Ireland â€" sank, and more recently was rescued when the Lusitania was sunk by a Gerâ€" man torpedo. Alfred the Great was the creator of the first really British navy. In 875 Alfred defeated seven Danish ships off Swanage, capturing one and putting the others to flight; in 894 he destroyed a Danish fleet off Appelâ€" dore and gained another great victory near the Isle of Wight three years later. The weakness of Ethelred II., who gave bribes to the Danes instead of a fight, opened the way to disastrous raids, and it was not until after the death of Canute and the restoration of the English line of Kings, that the semblance of a fleet was again estabâ€" lished. King Harold‘s Fleet. To King Harold, succeeding Edward in 1066, fell the task of averting, if possible, the impending invasion of Normans. Meanwhile, their period of annual service being at an end, food aboard being scarce, and the men being reâ€" quired ashore to work in the harvest, the English ships returned to their various ports. Three weeks later Duke William crossed over with about 900 ships and 15,000 men, and effectâ€" ed an easy landing at Pevensey, near Hastings. Henry II. had larger fighting ships specially constructed for the service of the Crown, in addition to the usual forced levies. During this regin it was enacted that no vessel should be sold to leave England. Portsmouth was rising into importance as a naval port and London and Bristol were doâ€" ing an increasing trace with the Conâ€" tinent. Richard I., "Coeur de Lion," sixth of the Norman Kings, gave the navy a great impetus, and in the third cruâ€" sade undertook a record trip to the Meditterranean with troops for the Holy Land. It was in the time of John that the naval rivalry between the English and the French first commenced. In 1213 Philip Augustus of France, attacked the Earl of Flanders, who was an old ally of John‘s. An Engâ€" lish fleet of 500 ships, under the Earl of Salisbury, was despatched against Philip, whose fleet was attacked in the harbor of Damma. As a great portion of the French crews was ashore at the time, the English easily captured 800 sail and destroyed 100 others. The remaining French vesâ€" sels were then so closely blockaded that their crews burnt them to preâ€" vent them from being captured. But Duke William delayed setting After this signal naval victory A marked the reign of Edward I.: There was a direct challenge and acceptance to settle all differences by a pitched battle in midchannel . on April 14, 1295.. There was no limit to the number of vessels on each side and consequently the rivals enlisted their friends or those who merely deâ€" sired a fight for the love of it. A numâ€" ber of Irish and Dutch vessels joined the hardy Cinque Ports men, while some Genoese came to the aid of the French. Although the English shipse<were outnumbered by about two to one, by their seamanship and desperate fighting their crews nobly atoned for their lack of sail. They captured no less than 240 of the hostile ships and sank a great number. 5 Meantime~the : French had been building new warships armed with cannon, and Edward III. had been dead only a few days when De Vienne, a noted French admiral, apâ€" peared off our southern coast to give us a taste of the quality of the new French fleet. De Vienne‘s drastic operations resulted in the sacking of Rye and Folkestone, and the destrucâ€" tion of Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Dartmouth, and then he sailed back to France with his ships filled with French ships in 1380 even sailed up the Thames and burnt Gravesend. For the time being England had not only ceased to be "Mistress of the Seas," she was no longer mistress of her own waters, and the weakness and unpreparedness of Richard II. to withstand these foreign ravages led to rebellion in some parts of England. It had required a calamity to prove to the English that it was suicidal policy to allow the navy to decline in strength, or to fail to seize upon new aids to warfare. Forthwith measures were taken to bring the fleet up to date. Father of Navy. Henry VIII. earned the title "Faâ€" ther of the English Navy," for from the commencement of his reign in 1509 he followed a definite naval policy, which consisted in steadily building ships until he possessed the largest navy in the world. "The most glorious period in the history of our wooden walls," writes Mr. Protheroe, "was that between 1702 and 1805, a stressful century of almost continual war with powerful enemies, that put out ships and men to most searching tests, from which both emerged triumphantly." And in those daysâ€" "‘Hearts of Oak,‘ indeed, were our wooden walls, for to build even a 74â€" gun ship, the third rate, of which our navy contained so many, from 1,500 to 2,000 oak trees were needed. "The French ships, as a rule, were bigger and faster than our own; they possessed larger batteries, and their lowest tier of guns was higher, in order to fight them in rough weather; whereas in most English ships the lower deck ports could not be opened in a rough sea without danger of swamping the ship. Fortunately for us, the French did not pay equal atâ€" tention to the effectiveness of their guns, or many of our battles with them would have ended far differentâ€" ]y.li In this brief review most attention has been paid to the carlier and less familiar history of Britain‘s navy. In his book, Mr. Protheroe brings his story down to the latest thing in subâ€" marines. Fair Play. Two young men in a crowded seaâ€" side resort had great difficulty in findâ€" ing sleeping accommodation, and were at length offered a bed which the landlady assured then» was a feather bed. _ They turned in, and one of the pair was soon fast asleep; the other was not. He could not manage to dodge the lumps, and heard hour after hour strike until 3 a.m., when he also struck. _ He did this by violently shaking his sleeping friend. "What‘s the matter?" growled the other. ‘It can‘t be time to get up yet?" "No, it isn‘t," retorted his friend, continuâ€" ing to shake him; "but it‘s my turn to sleep on the feathers!" FIRST WISDOM, THEN COURAGE Good Men and Tru2» Are Fighting Shadows With Brokzn Swords. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."â€"I, Thessalonians, v., 21. To do that which we believe to be right is one of the first and surely one of the most important precepts of morality. _ No man can be pardonâ€" ed for persisting in doing that which he knows to be wrong; nor again can he be pardoned for failing to do that which he knows to be right. Sins of omission and commission are alike culpable. _ Only he who declares, like Martin Luther, "This one thing I do, I cannot do other, God help me," is wholly virtuous. If this were all, our task of life would be comparatively simple. But it is not all. For behind the imperaâ€" tive command to perform the right there stalks the grave question, What is Right ? And many there are who meet this question only to evade it or to pass it by unrecognized. _ Hence the tragic spectacle of good men and true laying down their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor on the altars of false zg:! Captured by some arâ€" rant prejudice, deluded by some shameless superstition, caught up and "carried about" by some vain "wind of doctrine" they strive and strain for the realization of futile deâ€" sires with a devotion as blind as it is zealous, and never for an instant imâ€" agine that they are fighting shadows, with broken swords. _ Think of the energy that has been exnended on campaigns that shouid not have sucâ€" battle at cretion ? We have been accustomed to place our _ precious ruchings about . our necks and ‘tis very fine we feel, too, with such soft elegances framing our alabaster chins. But it is not enough, my hearties! A good thing is better when there is more of it. Hence we are now putting ruchings about the hems of our skirts. . A lo.vi:h _Ln.c: nems U UHI EMIIC! EECED surely and an extravagance of which any woman should be ashamed. But it "must be did." j o self a brand The sweater is giving away for the sports coat of knitted silk, which is both warm and light and a bit more elegant than the oldâ€"time convenient wool affairs. â€" Unlike sweaters, the silk coat is lined, and the coler of the lining appears in collar and cuffs. Sometimes there is a belt, while again there is a sash with the fringed ends. Semiâ€"norfolk jackets come in the same materials and are very fetching. Fashions come and fashions go, but nobody remembers a time when the norfolk wasn‘t good. In the gardem of styles it is a perennial. Pin tucks are used as decorations for blouses, and white handkerchief linen is very "voguey.‘ _A beautiâ€" ful blouse, recently viewed, was made with pin tucks in groups, with oneâ€" inch tucks between. It had long sleeves and deep tight cuffs, which were piped with blue and finished with French knots in blue silk. The collar also was piped with blue, and both blue and white crochet buttons were used as fastening. An underâ€" bodice of light organdy was worn with it. _ Very chic and "sassy." Highland Piper Plays His Last Tune. No musician is more devoted to the instrument on which he plays than the Highland piper. A touching story of a piper‘s last moments on the battlefield is told by Private L. L. Spalding, of the 90th Winnipeg Rifles (the "Little Black Devils"), who was one of the Canadian soldiers gassed at Ypres. _ While up in the firing line a piper of the 79th Highâ€" landers (Canadian Scottish) was morâ€" tally wounded in the chest, he says.â€" The man sat down on a bank, hugging his beloved pipes, and refused to be carried away. _ "I want to stay here andâ€"and play a last tune," he gasped. But a little pathetic wheezing noise was all the music he could get from his pipes. A few minutes later he fell back dead. ceeded even if they could! _ Think of the sufferings that have been bravely endured on behalf of "fool" ideas and unrighteous standards! Think of the blood that has been gladly shed for the sake of causes which were either unsound or immoral! Of all the swarming ironies of history, none is more bitter than that of the good man dying for Satan in the guise of God! The Seat of Revelation. In addition to setting our wills to the doing of right we must very parâ€" ticularly set our minds to the deterâ€" mination of what is right First, last and all the time, of course, must we consult the testimony of our ows souls. _ Here if anywhere is the seat of revelation. _ But by how many things must this revelation be tested before it is fully trusted? The experiâ€" ence of the past, the. wisdom of seers and sages, the opinion of contemporâ€" aries, the knowledge of the schools, the ecstatic vision of the prophets, the deep, inarticulate, persistent longings of the multitudesâ€"to all of these must appeal be made. Nothing that time has spawned must be neglected. And only when our idea of the right has stood the test, silenced every doubt, conquered every denial, wors every sanction, can we call it the right and, with full assurance, go ahead. "Prove all things"â€"this first we must do if we would be wise. Then, with our proving done, must we be not merely wise but brave in holding fast, over until death, that which we now knsw to be roud. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES. new outfit of underwear. about _ our ve feel, too, framing our not enough, ng is better . Hence we s mbout the _ â€" POSITIONS TBR Prisoners Tell of Fla and Desperat Positions term« A despatch from Mitylen The recent fighting on the Peninsula has resulted in the of m large number of p Many of them, though they â€" badly clothed and appear been fairly well fed, are all mind as to their good fortur ing "rescued," as one termed the inferno whi tions on the per a~considerable ti sential to disco AN EXPLOSION ON AN OCEAN LD Mishap to Stea A despatch i An explosion 0 tic transport s on Wednesday, Frank Holt, t Morgan, proph sink, "God will the Minnehab} st Wi Mr in P} FRENCH APPROPRIATI t TO PAY FOR pr Mi H tor ing B KAISE! Th the was diar Syd den w R very for m GERMANY THE RAJID} AI The Belgians ® the practice of ivy as an expr« Belgium and Bissing, the Go: or of Belgium, : wh order prohil mor not iff mal O( n Y ial to dis statement 1 Belgians Displa the Work () Wa l COl Sy n W II t mer M pr ArC H