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WWM these represent a further $15,000,000. The call on these funds has been reâ€" stricted by two conditions not antictâ€" pated in the Autumn of 1914; the treâ€" mendous demands for labor to meet the requirements of Great Britain and her allies consequent on the war; the wonderful generosity of people reâ€" maining in civilian employment in the interests of those who joined the colors. In every department of life, in banks, offices, factories, collieries, and so on, systematic arrangements were made by which shareholders, employers and wageâ€"earners made regular contributions to help the famâ€" lies and dependents of their own men who had taken up arms. It is reckâ€" oned that the total of such voluntary contributions represents at _ least "Yes, ma‘am, dat‘s what it is He hollers if anyone goes near him." "You mean inflammatory, Martha. Exclamatory is from exclaim, which means to cry out," "Ma busban‘s very po‘ly, ma‘am He got dat exclamatory rheumatism.‘ Contributions in Two Years of War Amount to $250,000,000. In the first two years of the war the people of England have voluntarâ€" ily contributed more than $250,000,000 to the work of the various British orâ€" ganizations which are concerned with measures of relief. This is a conserâ€" vative estimate and does not take into account the tremendous volume of gifts and services which can never appear in any account of what has been accomplished to meet the condiâ€" tions arising out of the war. "How interesting !" exclaimed Miss Cayenne, "Do you think of what you way before you say it or do you adâ€" mire the way it sounds and then think it 9" Has the Berlin government recogâ€" nized the existence of a deadiock, and, while still confident that Germany canâ€" not be "conquered," has it also begun to feel that neither can Germany "conâ€" quer," and so is making efforts to find out whether the German people are ready to choose between most material concessions and a struggle to anniinlaâ€" tion ? The Von Tirpitz program inâ€" volves the latter if need be. The reâ€" cent "honorable peace" movement foreshadowed the former. Is Berlin, in brief, seeking for a formula which will reconcile the German people to regard their enormous sacrifices as warranted with an end of the war that will merely leave the German lands under German rule, and enable the present dynasties to escape interâ€" nal revolution * Is it seeking a way out to peace ? The first national fund opened in England on the outbreak of the war was called the Prince of Wales‘ Reâ€" lief Fund. Its object was to relieve distress consequent on the war, and the receipts now total $30,000,000. In addition to this national fund, local funds for similar purpose have been raised in all parts of the country and Now comes, however, what may be termed a counterblastâ€"the demand from Admiral von Tirpitz that subâ€" marine ruthlessness be resumed and the United States be openly chalâ€" lenged to add itself to the number of Germany‘s foes. Very curiously the Berlin newspapers were permitted to publish this manifesto, but the foreign correspondents were not permitted to send it out, and we have learned of it only through privileged diplomatic channels. In view of the complete governmental control over the German press the permission of theso agitaâ€" tions and counter agitations, which inâ€" volve not only methods but objectives of the war, looks like an effort to test the real state of the public mind. Takâ€" ing them together they suggest the‘ familiar device of "trial balloons." How Many Can Answer This ? "I say exaotly what I think," ex claimed the vociferous man. $50,000,000, domination demanded by the radical militaristsâ€"something less than Panâ€" German dreams and an abatement of the spirit of "Deutschland* ueber Alles." Nothing has been heard of this movement since the Italian advance across the Isonzo. Then arose in Germany a curious movement for discussion of "honorâ€" able peace." Under visibly official auspices lectures were simultaneously delivered in forty cities deprecating any demand for "annexations." It seemed to be an effort to reconcile the public to the thought of a return to a Europe in which Germany‘s position would be much less than the complete Several months ago Chancellor von| Bothmannâ€"Hollweg expatiated to the | reichstag on the obtuseness of the alâ€"| lies in refusing to consider the real-, ties of the situation as shown by "the wa. map." He said in substance thal’ the allies were beaten, but didn‘t know' it. _ "Look at the war map!" The argument made no impression. The allies pointed to the seas and the German colonies. The German drive at Verdun followed. So did the allied drive in Picardy and the Russian adâ€" vance in Galicia. NOTES ANDCOMMENTS Is the Berlin government feeling about for some practicable way of endâ€". ing the war? Is it testing German| public opinion in an effort to ascerâ€" tain what it will accept less than the complete victory which their rulers promised the German people and | whether they are really so resolved to "fight to the last man" as has been| proclaimed ? These questions are not: suggested by the military position and disregard .its conflicting lnterpreuâ€"' tions. They are suggested by the ovl-t dence of movements and counter movements within the ring of etee!' that surrounds the Teutonic allles. This evidence is fragmentary owing to | censorship restraints and difficult‘ies| of communication. Its details as they | came along were explainable without! asserting an uncertainty of objective. But in their acumulation.they do sugâ€" gest such an uncertainty. l Can Anybody Blams Him ? BRITISH GENEROSITY Long Known in Europe in Form of | Sporadic Epidemics. |_ "Infantile paralysis, the appearance of which in France seems to be feared," says Professor Arnold Netâ€" ter, a member of the Academy of | Medicine, and an authority on the |disease, "is a malady as old as the | world and which has long been known in the form of Sporadic epidemics, affecting adults as well as children. "Beginning in 1910, we employed injections of a serum derived from subjects who had been previously afâ€" fected with the disease, and the re sults were excellent wherever the subject could be treated at the outset of the attack. The use of serum may be considered as capable of arresting the progress and even of causing a disappearance of paralysis already developed." * "It exists now in England and France. Thousands of persons were affected by the disease in Sweden in 1905, and France suffered in its turn in 1909 and 1910, and even as late as 1914." « As to the treatment of the disease, Professor Netter says ; purple. The material is velvet or satin or both combined. Another new color for hats is ruby red. Topping a block or navy blue costume one of these spots of color gives a most striking and smart effect. If one judges by popularity, the dress of the moment is of satin or figured silk. Gathers and pleats, long tunics and interesting collars are the features that attract most attention in the presâ€" But let us come back to the styles that are worn just at present. ent models. Gathered skirts are not new, it is true, but when all the gathâ€" ering is placed at the sides below the hip line and finished with a heading, beneath which are pockets, we have to admit that this is a novel way of handâ€" ling gathers. This treatment is shown here in an illustration. The dress reâ€" ferred to has the waist cleverly deâ€" signed to harmonize with the skirt for the lines on either side of the white vest would continue down to meet those on the skirt were it not for the soft girdle that comes between them. Showing New Arrangement of Gathers These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall Dealer, or from the McCall Company, 70 Bond Street, Toronto. Sleeves are long and some collars aro high, though the becoming sailor collar is still retained in many models. The skirts are full, the fullness being arranged in gathers, side pleats or unâ€" stitched boxâ€"pleats. There have been rumors also of the accordion pleated skirt coming in again. A number of the new hats are in that most rich and wonderful color, roval make it too good to give up, and no satisfactory substitute has ever been found for it. White serges there are also, and they are truly fascinating. A visit to the best shops in the cities shows many distinct styles on display. What is really most striking is the number of oneâ€"pilece frocks and the large variety of them. Some are of serge and light woolens, others are of satin orâ€"silk, according to the require ments of the woman who must have her wardrobe stocked with a dress for every occasion. In dark dresses, the navy blue serge is to be counted on again. Women never seem to tire of it, for it has so many qualities which AS OLD AS THE WORLD The Dress of the Moment. THE FASHIONS I The Modes of the Moment. 7145â€"72093 | 28. The name Lysias is Greek, and ince the tribune was probably a freedman be of the emperor Claudius, or the son of Netâ€" one. Roman emperors often sold the Of franchise, as a means of revenue. tge Ramsay explains Paul‘s inherited °/ franchise by going back to the settleâ€" own i rics, ment of Tarsus, when leading Jews . _| were enrolled in a special tribe. One and of these was Paul‘s ancestor. rere‘ 20. Boundâ€"With the "two chains" I "1: first, and then, far worse, with the ;“:E , "thongs" for scourging. 21. Send thee forth in the Greek is the last and emphatic word, as the I is the first, equally stressed. The climax is not unto the Gentiles, as in the English, though this was what the mob fastened on. _ What the Lord‘s word left burning in Pauwl‘s soul was the commission and its Giverâ€"that he, the persecutor, was charged with an apsotleship (so the Greek) by Jesus whom he persecuted. By comparison with this the rest was a detail. 22. Privilege always breeds a selâ€" fish lust of monopoly; in this respect the Jews were as bad as any Brahman of toâ€"day. _ The profound insight of the book of Jonah pilloried that unâ€" lovely characteristic in the prophet who stands for the people, back from Exile, but no better for their discipâ€" line. _ Jesus himself draws their porâ€" trait in the Elder Brother of his greatest parable. 23. Threw offâ€"Read tossed about. The loose outer robe, was pulled off and furiously waved about. This was in manifestation of excitement and rage. Travelers in Palestine in modern times occasionally see an exâ€" hibition of the sudden excitability of an Oriental crowd. _ Cast dustâ€"Like Shimei (2 Sam. 16. 13.) It is unwiso to go out walking in driving rain. 24. Examined by scourgingâ€"Legal in the case of slaves and men without political rights, but not as the first act of an inquiry,. Augustus had expresâ€" sly forbidden it, and Lysias‘s remorse for his illegal action centers upon this (verse 29), Diplomat. "Sir," said the angry woman, "I unâ€" derstand you said I had a face that would stop a street car in the middle of the block." "Yes, that‘s what I said," calmly answered the mere man. "It takes an unusually handsome face to induce a motorman to make a stop like that." 20. Was shedâ€"Imperfect tense; Saul‘s fanatical conviction nerved him lo look on throughout the horrid scene. The more it tortured his sensitbive feelings, and the louder a voice within told him of the face that was like an angel‘s, the greater was the "ritual service" he rendered to God (John 16. 2)â€"he would not offer what cost him nothing! The must (so read) of Acts 26. 9 is the key. Consentingâ€"Acts 8. 1. . The memory lends its sting to Rom. 1. 32, where Paul makes the coldâ€"blooded approval of an onlooker an even worse sin than the sinner‘s evil deed itself. Keeping the (outer) garmentsâ€"Sce Acts 7. 58. 25. Tied him upâ€"Literally, forâ€" ward: his hands were tied â€" with leather straps so as to bend his back over a stone scourgingâ€"pillar to reâ€" ceive the blows. _ Paul waits till they have committed themselves to the ilâ€" legality. A Roman, and uncondemnâ€" edâ€"As in 6. 37. Had he been no Roman, the second count of Paul‘s inâ€" dictment held. _ But Lysias ignores it in his interrogation fo Paul, in view of the greater matter. _ ‘It is a misâ€" demeanour to pub a Roman citizen in irons, a felony to scourge him," says Cicero. 26. Is a Romanâ€"It was death to claim citizenship falsely, and both the sergeant and his chief take Paul‘s word without seeking evidence. 27. Thouâ€"Emphatic, like Pilate‘s still ‘more contemptuous question, "Art thou a king?‘ 19. How vividly these words recall the man who could "pray to be cut off from Christ for his brothers‘â€"sake"! To leave Jerusalem with his tale unâ€" told was the heaviest trial. _ Surely they must hear a man who had provâ€" ed his Jewsih fanaticism so well! Thus Knowling: "Paul seems at it were to plead with his Lord that men cannot but receive testimony from one who had previously been an enâ€" emy of Jesus of Nazareth; the words too are directed to his hearers, so that they may impress them with the strength of the testimony thus given by one who had imprisoned the Chrisâ€" tians." Myers has caught the sob with which Paul recalls those perseâ€" cuting days:â€" Saints, did Isay? with your rememâ€" bered faces, Dear men and women whom 1 sought and slew! O when we mingle in the heavenly places How will I weep to Stephen and to you! Iâ€"In the emphatic form each time it occurs in this and the two following verses. _ Beat in every synagogueâ€" Thus fulfilling the Lord‘s prediction (Mark 13. 9). _ Offenses against the law of Moses were tried and punishâ€" ed in the synagogue, the fit place for a "holy inquisition"! 18. Saw himâ€"The pronoun g0€S back to the Righteous One in verse 14. Of theeâ€"Unemphatic: the stress lies on concerning me. h 14 01â€" ltA â€"\Andndedtrires.. Mhiccontâ€" ies vanished. â€" It was an experience such as Paul describes in 2 Cor. 12. 2â€"4. â€"Psa. 91. 2. Verse 17. Tranceâ€"Connected with prayer as in Acts 10. 10 in the case of Peter. â€" The Greek word (borrowed in our ecstasy) implies a complee loss of consciousness. Communion was so absorbing that the outer world Aneot V.T Lesson XII A Prisoner in The Castle. â€"Acts 22. Golden Text. THE SUNDAY LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON SEPTEMBER 17. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO If it is lack of exercise and ventiâ€" lation, take a walk in the open air, Walk slowly at first and increase your speed a little as the pain subsides, See that your rooms or office are proâ€" perly ventilated. Do not be satisfied with relieving a headache, Remove the cause. Love and reason are seldom on speaking terms. To cure a headache do not try the drug store. Beware of the get well quick schemes. They are dangerous, particularly for weak hearts, _ After you locate the cause, endeavor to apâ€" ply the remedy in the opposite direcâ€" tion. If it is indigestion, give your stomach a rest for a meal or two. A very useful form of appliance is the electrical apparatus in connection with its own battery. It is a bother, no doubt to carry it about and manipuâ€" late it, but not hearing at all is a greatâ€" er bother. That is undoubtedly the strongest crutch for the deaf ; and its makers assert that it helps to train the ear back to the recognition of human speech. For partial deafness there are smaller and simpler devices, and for those who have accepted deafâ€" ness as a fact‘beyond any curative measures, and who still have their own teeth for bone conduction of sound, the audiphone (sometimes called the dentiphone), a black guttaâ€" percha fan held between the front teeth, is often the greatest help. It also possesses the advantage of costâ€" ing only a few. dollars.â€"Youth‘s Comâ€" panion. In that way a great deal of time is lost and a great deal of suffering is caused. Chronic and incurable deafâ€" ness is a cross that must be embraced if we would not be crushed beneath it. The first thing to do is to accept the inevitable with all the cheerfulness we can command ; the next thing is to put away every bit of foolish selfâ€" consciousness and false shame about the affection, and the third thing is to get.as quickly as possible one of the many excellent contrivances that have been invented to help deaf people. In all our large cities at the shops of the best opticians, you can find cases filled with these contrivances. The rules about permitting people to take them out on trial are usually very fair. Ten days‘ use of any one of these will show you whether it will help you or not. If everyone would play fair with himself and refuse to treat his headâ€" ache until he has first made an honest effort to locate the real seat of the trouble, and then would remove that cause and resolve to sin no more, then there would be fewer drug flends. Practical Aids For the Deaf. Almost any pains are worth taking if by their means the senses of sight and hearing may be preserved ; but sometimes, in spite of all that can be done, deafness goes on to the chronic form. In that case no treatment has been discovered that will cure it, es pecially if it is the kind that is asâ€" sociated with atrophy of the internal parts of the ear. It is of course true that atrophy, or wasting, of any part of the body means loss of function. If you had an atrophied hand or foot, you could see for yourself that it was useless. But the internal ear is hidden from us, and so some of us go on hoping against hope that a miracle will be worked in our case and that some doctor somewhere will be able to raise the dead. Danger Signals. A headache is a common, although unpopular disorder. Nearly everybody now and then disgraces himself with one,. A headache is not a disease in itself. It is just a danger signal anâ€" nouncing shoals nearby. It is usually a sign of some functional disorder, something gone wrong. Most headaches are preventable. The cause will usually be found if we will sit down and analyze our acts for the last 24 or 36 hours. It will freâ€" quently be found to be due to someâ€" thing we have eaten or drunk, causing slight digestive disturbances. Workâ€" ing in close, poorly ventilated rooms, worry, anxiety, eyestrain, and too close mental application are also frequent causes of headache. HEALTH Ships That Pass in the Night Where Do Yer Want This Put, Sargint? By Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather in London Bystander | Never again in my life do I want to go through such unadulterated hell. We entered our _ assembly ‘trenches in a wood (nicknamed here | "Blighty" on account of its unhealthiâ€" (ness) on Friday at 11 p.m. The din of our own batteries forbade sleep, as |did also a few gas shells which Mr. |Fritz distributed around us at early ‘SCOTS ADVANCED IN SEA OF DEATH let. A corporal and I bandaged him up as best we could and then a big shrapnel beast burst right in front of us and we go the full blast. M Knight, the corporal, had his thigh smashed and arm broken and I got a clout behind the right ear with a splinter which knocked me silly. Fight Way Through Gas. I awoke to find myself alone in the shell crater with my head roughly bandaged. _ Mr. Knight must have bandaged me and then himself and, thinking me dead, crawled back to the wood. I tried to stand up, but everything seemed to reel about me, so I loosened my equipment, nd after a drink from my water bottle began At 6 a.m. our artillery commenced its hurricane bombardment, which lasted an hour and a half. I can‘t deâ€" scribe the infernal din, but the nearâ€" est I can get is the roar of 1,000 trains going through a tunnel and multiplied by 100! At about 7 a.m. our gunners hit a Boche land mine about two miles off, and the ground shook like an earthquake. We thought all our assembly trenches would colâ€" lapse on top of us. At 7.15 our guns found another land mine, which went up with a terrific roar, accompanied by the beforeâ€"mentioned earthquake. (We now learn that these mines were the largest ever explodd in this war so far.) At 7.30 a.m. our A Company left the trenches and marched through the wood to the corner where they were to debouch and went out into the open. D and B Companies followed suit, and then C Company, which conâ€" cerns myself. Our halfâ€"mile march through the wood was enough to break one‘s nerve right away, for machine guns were pouring lead all through the wood from every direcâ€" tion, and how we got through that bit without a single casualty is a mysâ€" tery. We arrived at our debouching point, which by this time was being shelled with high explosive _ and shrapnel, as well as being the target for 10 Boche machine guns, which made the open ground a sea of death. dawn. He then commenced searching the wood to try and knock out our batteries, which were evidently makâ€" ing him very uncomfortable and anâ€" gry. Fiftyâ€"nine _ "brumps" _ and lightning "whizâ€"bangs" burst right over us, felling two big trees, but strange to say, wounding only one man. 1 then gave the signal to advance, and to their everlasting credit not a man held back. Before we had gone another 100 yards I found few surviâ€" vors of A platoon. We got into anâ€" other shell crater just as a lad was hii in the arm by a machine gun bu!â€" It was a distasteful task leading my men out, but it had to be done, as the â€"â€" Regiment were waiting behind to follow up the Borders. We had gone about 30 yards when three of my brave lads were killed outright. I then halted the men and made them crawl on their stomachs another 20 yards, where we found cover in some shell craters. Men were falling everywhere. Then a shrapnel burst overhead, knocking out some of my brave fellows, killing three of them. One of them next to me had his skull telescoped by a huge shell splinter. I got a small fragment in a most unâ€" romantic spotâ€"it rendered sitting a painâ€"which, however, did not worry me much. 6 A wounded subaltern of the Scotâ€" tish Border Regiment has written home: Officer Describes Experience in Halfâ€" Mile March Under German HERE IS A PEN PICTURE OF A SCENE AT THE FRONT. Machine Guns Spray Death. ’ Jacob would not let go the peculiar , rights of his birth. He was destined | |and declared of God before his birth |\to be a superior to his elder brother.Â¥ Why we are not toid, but the fact was‘ foretold and history verified it afterâ€"| | ward. It was natural, therefore, that ; these parents should observe these | | facts in the training of their boys, but not right or wige to go abead of God in H ‘ manifesting their own preferences. | |\Just as it is our business toâ€"day as parents with our children to find out| as far as we can the way in which God| would have them go, the pursuit He‘ | would bid them follow, the calling of |life in which He can best use them for service to this great world. 1 | The Great Unit of Society. ‘ ! Jacob would not let go his home. , The home instinet was very strong and | sacred with him. Rache!, the wife of | his choice, he will not fail to obtain, | llhough it cost him seven years of hm! iservice to do so. The customs of lhe‘ times permitted polygamy, yet Rachel | he always loved the most. It is to her | |first born son, Joseph, that the double | portion of blessing descended. Jacob |had his own home troubles, but there ‘wsu no parting of the home‘s best ln-i |teresu thereby. _ God has made lhei home the great unit of society, If lhe; \family life fails to adhere the State | will soon go, too. Jacob would not let’ go his home. .Neither should we allow fours to slip away from us if we would! keep society pure at its fountain head ;and save the State and extend and ‘strengghen the kingdom of God. ‘Sir Francis Elliott Has Won Many ; Bloodless Victories. _ Although one hears little about {him, there is no doubt that Sir \Francis Elliot, who has been Minisâ€" \ter at Athens since 1903, has won \many bloodless victories for the alâ€" \lies during the troublous times in Greece. A quarter of a century‘s exâ€" }perience in the Balkansâ€"for Sir \Francis was at Sofia before he beâ€" |came Minister at Athensâ€"has enablâ€" ed this clever diplomatist to render ‘inestimable service to the country. He has had the advantage of being a great favorite with the Grecks, for |he lived among them during the last 1two Balkan wars, and helped them to \become a far more powerful nation than they were when he was first \appointed Minister at the Greek capiâ€" | tal. Sir Francis, who, by the way, was born in the old Legaton House at the Hague, entered the Diplomatic Serâ€" vice when he was twentyâ€"three, as atâ€" tache at Constantinople. _ At Eton and Oxford he earned a big reputaâ€" tion as an athlete and oarsman. He GREATEST ASSET IN LIFFE . On my way I met one of my sergeâ€" ants with half his face blown away. Do you know that this man wanted to carry me, and got quite angry when I told him that it was he who wanted carrying? Never shall I forget the grit of that splendid chap, and I hope I shall meet him one day again in ‘Blighty." A FAVORITE WITH THE GREEKS Jacob displayed in his whole life a wonderful tenacity of purpose in the hold which he took upon God and righteousness. Whatever else we may find in him to criticise and condemn, there were certain things to which he clung. And we are wise if we hold fast tosthe same. The accursed machine guns were sending up dirt all round me, and why ITam not riddled through _ and through is a perfectly marvelous thing. If God ever watched over any man He watched over me last Sat urday on that neverâ€"toâ€"beâ€"forgotten morning. _ J passed first one of my fine fellows, then another, some doublâ€" ed up, others lying stiff, but a‘ll "gone West" as bravely as any men in our finest Guards regiments. the "longest" journey J make, crawling on han back to the wood. When it became known that Edith Evans was going to give an "E" party of course everyone in the school beâ€" gan to talk about it, for all of them wanted to know what an E party was ; but Edith would not tell. a party at which the girls and the boys were to give Edith presents that began with the letter E, since that was the Initial of Rdith‘s two names. In the afternoon they told others about it, so before night all of them had !huu‘,m of presents beginning with E ; thought the $y such a thing as kind in an dnvit "And he said, 1 will not let thee go." â€"Genesis xxxii., 26. Going home together, May Denslow and Kitty Cowles guessed that it was but Edith‘s closest friends said that they «id not believe that t.ose who were invited would be expected to give any presents at all, in spite of the fact that the party was to be on Fdith‘s birthdry. â€" Holena® Simpson Bdith But the real meaning of the m y d terious E came out when each guout received a sheet of paper and a penell and was asked to write down as many words as he or she could think of that contained no vowel but K ; ecch was to have fifteen minutes. No word might be used more than once, and Determine Not to Let Go Our God Anywhere Nor in Anything. Jacob would not let go his ip;;aperty [BOYSeGIRLS the Evans family would do The "E" Party. to glve a hint of that ition . Finally and supremely, Jacob wou!ld !nOt let go bis God. For twonty years 'ho lived in Haran, where idolatry was prevalent. Rachel, his bost loved wife, ‘reverenced and, I suppose, worshipped her father‘s household gods, for she |took them secretly with her on <tho~‘r return to Canaan, But Jacob, so far | aswe know, never forsook the wors! ip !of Jehovah. misspelled words would not be allowed ‘in the count. I ‘The end of the fifteen minutes found | the pencils still scurrying over the |\ paper, and most of the children would have been glad of more time ; . beâ€" | cause the number of E words that they \had been able to think of were so few, Many a word had been begun, only \to be scratched out because there was ‘an A or a U in it that the writer had | not thought of at first. _ But there |wer~e many doubleE words, and of , course they made the E‘s count up fast |for the number of consonants ; some | of the children had even written long words, like December and Ebenezer. Jacob would not let go his G should we. He is the greates in life which we have, Laban changes his wages ton times Jacob, dissatisfied with such troai ment determines to quietly withdraw from his service and remove with h‘s family and possessions to another place. . He would not set go of h property nor sacrifice his skill as a shepherd, but simply go to other pasâ€" tures as God directs him. So toâ€"day, I believe that God means every man to hold fast to his possessions of money and braings and skill and use them to their great advantage for himsol{ and others, but never by the destruction of his employer‘s property. There can be, and there must be, a wiser and salor way than by force of arms to solve these difficulties between man and man in our labor problems and of =etâ€" tling all international disputes betwoeon the great forces of the world than by horrible warfare. He Is the Greatest Asset. Jacob would not let go his country He escaped to Haran because of the wrath of his brother Esav, but he never was at home in that land of jdolatry, He longed for the old land, promised to his fathers, and when op portunity offered he turned his face and footsteps thither. He know what opposition and bitternesa awaited him from Esau, but be faltered not in do sire to return., God bring us all to a fixed <= mination not to let go our God anyâ€" where nor in anything.â€"Rev. Androw Pageman. Independent of Germany. Hitherto Great Britain has been mainly dependent upon Germany and Austria for its supply of medical herbs, but E. M. Hoimes, curator of the Pharmaceutical Society‘s Musâ€" eum, states that two of the most valuâ€" able drugs, belladonna and foxâ€"glove, are grown in England, and that she can be independent of Germany in reâ€" spect of these. _ Belladonna occurs in twentyâ€"eight British countries, and in regard to digitalisâ€"foxgloveâ€"if its seed is scattered in fresh localities in the autumn there will be no need to import it from the continent. "That, sir," said the guide, "his the tomb of the greatest ‘ero Europe or the world ever knewâ€"Lord Nelson‘s. That marble sarcophagus weighs fortyâ€"two tons. _ Hinside that is a steel receptacle weighting twelve tons, an inside that is aleaden casket n‘ermentically sealed,‘ weighing two tons. _ Hinside that is a mahogany coffin ‘oldin‘ the hashes of the great naval ‘ero." "Wal," said the Yankee, after a few minutes‘ mediation, "I guess you‘ve got him. _ If he ever gets out of that, telegraph me at my expense." In Vienna, Cairo, Portugal, and Norway, Sir Francis has represented Great Britain, and, although Governâ€" ments have changed, his reputation as one of the most successfu! diplomats in the service of Britain has always remained. Cupid is a good shot, but he hbags some poor game. famous Foreign Secretary, althoug} he is not quite so reserved. _ Indeed Bir Francis, when he can put hi diplomatic duties behind him for th time being, is one of the most eanter taining of men, and he particularh likes to tell his favorite story of th guide who was showing an America gentleman round the tombs in St Paul‘s. Roy Dunscomb, who had thirtyâ€"one words, with eightytwo E‘s, won the first prize, a beautiful little picture, and Abby Jane Leonard, who had found only eighteen words, received a small silver elephant. * Altogether, the E party was gr fun, and Abby Jane Leonard was delighted at having won a prize, e« though it was only the "booby" pri that she told everyone she was so to give the same kind of a party her birthday ; but she would not : them whether it would be an "A" p ty, a "J" party or an "L" part; which shows that she was not "hbooby," _ after â€" all.â€"Youth‘s C« rowed in the Eton eight for yeurs, while at Oxford his boat came head of the river, A tall, cleanghaven man, h« minds people in many wars of Li 1 n grea par 26 in Ir h W AJ FRENCH oure $ low 0 FRENC BRITIS Thei we