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ELIGION L\EANS
Morality, Because "It Pays" Is Immorality
It Is Refined, Civilized Selfishness,
"By their £ruit•s yo shall know
them. "—Matt, vii„ 16.
Fruit bearing is a vital process.
We are learning to -day to express
religion in terms of life, to measure
it not by its power to repress but
itsr
powe to develop and express
the best in man.
The test of any creed is not the
ambiguity of its authorities, but the
vitality of its ideals, its power over
,the hearts and lives of men to
make a now heaven and a new earth
wherein dwells rightness.
This' is the reason the old creeds
pass away, because each new day
tees a higher vision, oatchesklarger
glimpses of what man must be. Re-
ligion becomes democratic, it is the
voroe of the people crying out for
the. highest good, The spiritual in
this world is the soul of humanity
seelcing after truth and fullness of
lift.
In our day religion passes from
philosophy to practice. Once when
religion was regarded as a package
of truth contained in a special cas-
ket, the all important thing was
t' preserve that package unbroken.
When we see religion as the soul of
humanity seeking the eternally good
that aearoh forces us beyond old
truths, beyond tracks made on yes-
terday's road, forces us to drop the
garments of the past, the packages
of ancient philosophies and press in-
to to -day's truth.
Every true search for truth de-
mands self-expression. If our via
'ion is that of a new heaven and a
new earth, we,
IF WE ARE SINCERE,
seek to have that new heaven and
new earth at once, right here. No
man possesses any ideal he does
not seek to express and realize,
No man has any religion he does
not use.
Putting religion into practice be-
comes at once a much broader mat-
ter than doing things at a church,
passing the plate or serving in the
choir ; it means bringing to prevail
in human relations, in society,
every principle, ideal, and hope
that wo cherish religiously; it
means helping men to the perfect
tions we may dream of their deity
possessing, causing our dull earth
fit bloom with the glory of a long
ago Eden and making the streets
of our city to ring with the songs
of children and shine with the glory
of the new Jerusalem.
Religion is becoming intensely
practical. it means brooms, bricks,
votes, primaries; it means honesty,
square dealing; it means plain,
clear, simple justice instead of
maudlin charity; it means a fair
wage instead of robbery condoned
er palliated by the sop to Gerber -
us, the library or the hospital; it
means that a man cannot express
hisreligion in singing psalms on
Sunday, then pack it away in cot-
ton in the pious pigeonhole late on
Sunday evening embalming it for
a week so that ho may, conscience
free, go on his selfish way.
Modern religion will not lift up
its voice in pious phrases while it
grinds down the face of the poor,
pays to shopgirls a wage that throwsthem to vine and to men such a pit-
tance as prohibits their rising even
in ambition above dull content
with being parts of
THE MONEY MACHINE.
in simplest terms possible, it means
that a man will express his relig-
ion through his thorough going
morality.
We greatly need to moralize our
religion, to make it stand for the
working. -out of right and right re-
lations in every detail of life, for
teaching us to live together, for
bringing us all to social service and
socialefficiency.
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Not less do wo need to spiritua-
lize our morality. We need that
men shall be good not because they
have been told it pays, not because
fashion prescribes certain forms of
conduct, not because ancient laws
mark out the paths of mortal recti-
tude, but because high ideals point
out these paths with their clear
shining, because one seeks goodness
for the good of all.
Morality with the spiritual ideal,
the morality that somehow compels
a man to lose in the great battle,
if but the cause he loves may win,
the passion that makes us give up
our individual rights and likes for
the right, the eternal right of all;
this is what morality means when
it is lightened with religion, with
devotion to an ideal.
Then morality becomes simply the
expression of . religion. religion
simply the inspiration of morality;
both are seeking truth in life, the
true lift for all mankind.
HENRY F.' COPE.
THE S. S. LESSON
INTEENA7!IONAL LESSON,
AUG. 16.
Lesson PTI. Saul Tries to 'Bill
David. Golden Text
Psa.
Verse 0, When David returned—
Saul is actually in command, .but
the interest of the writer centers,
rather, in David. All the remairn •
ing history of San1'a reign is writ-
ten from the standpoint of sympa-
thy and familiarity with David.
The women . came out—All the
able men being in the returning
army. This has been a customary
sort of homecoming for victorious
troops in all countries, and in all
times; it had an added religious
signffioauoo in the case of the
Israelites.
Singing and dancing—There later
came to be a professional class. of
women among the Jews who were
employed on various occasions to
give vent ,to the appropriate emo-
tions—sorrow or joy, as the case
might be, This, however, was a
spontaneous outburst of genuine
gladness and expressed itself in the
common forms of singing commem-
orative verses and dancing. The
loader in the dance was followed in
procession by the others who imi-
tated her movements and respond-
ed in the choruses which were sung.
Compere the ease of Miriam (Exod.
10, 20) and Deborah (Judges 5. 1).
David himself danced with joy be-
fore the ark of Jehovah as he res•.
cued it and brought it up to Sete
salmi (2 Sam, 6. 14), but this was
unusual, such demonstrations be -
big generally confined to .women.
To meet king Saul--Oatensibly,
but really to praise David.
Timbrels—A kind „of hand drum
or tambourine used for aeompani-
Ment to the voice. -
Joy— Demonatafations of joy,
auCh as shouts and songe.
Instruments of mime— Margin
rade; "three atringect instrtt-
enents.'
7. Sang one to another—The bal-
anced form of Irebrew poetry with
its repetitions, contrasts, and re-
frains lent itself vary readily to
antiphonal nae, et whieh this is en.
instance, It was further develop-
ed by the great double (Moire in
the temple service of a later data. run of Tercel puny -1c the carrying I
Thousands.... ton tlrnussnde--- lrnn:. i -t' fele Calm of Tatar eontli-
Hnder the Ortotital,poetia fern ta1t{,;• - •, h 1 r„ lave formol rival
was t, elect comparison of flael el ; ,,,r le remelt lees t
David to the disadvantage of Saul.
8, Wroth—Full of wrath.
9. Saul eyed David—An expres-
sive term, and a literal transla-
tion of -the Hebrew word. It con-
veys the thought of suspicion and
envy.
10. An evil spirit—Even up to the
time of Christ any mental obses-
sion and certain physical maladies
were attributed to the activities of
evil spirits. The. whole world lay
beyond practical investigation was
supposed to be peopled by spirits,
all of them subject to God, for he
controlled everything supernatural.
The moral distinctions which aro
taken for granted in our day were
bat imperfectly thought of at thia
time. Compare Job 2, 1ff., where
even Satan takes his orders from
God and reports to him.
He prophesied—Margin "raved."
"An ecstatic condition due to su-
pernatural influence good or evil"
(Cambridge Bible); in the one case
religious zeal would result, in the
other raving madness, as here,
David played—Seo 1 Sant. 16. 14-
23.
11. Saul cast his spear—In view
of verse 17 it bas been thought that
tbis means brandished his spear
and that it is one of two instances
of Saul's threatening to do what
he is recorded as aetually doing in
1 Sam. 19. 10, 11.
Avoided—The older sense of this
word is "(aeaited." David left the
court till the fit of madness should.
be passed.
13, Removed Mm from him —
David's post involvedconstant ac-
cess' to Saul's person 'whose' fear
(verae 12) led him, even though it
was a promotion, to appoint hila a
eaptain over•a thousand, that ho
might be kept at a remote distance
from the king.
Went out and catno in before the
people.. —A phrase indicating public
service, especially leadership • in
arms, It seems to suggest frank.
near in the discharge of public
duties.
14, Behaved himself wisely—Thin
phrase often means "prospered,"
bit there is no reason for not tak-
ing it literally hero, David already
showed the same prudence and wis-
dom which was to mark his years
of power.
15, Stood in awe of—A semireli-
gious fear, Ile know that David
had Jehovah's blessing, oven
though he may nothave been
aware or his anointilie by Samuel;
16. All Irenel mild Judah --- The
eop .r'rtto naming of Jeclah in speak -
prominence whioh was due David's
own tribe,
Loved David—Thia is the firs
suggestion: of en affection and ley-
alty. accorded David by his, people,
which was altogether unique in
Israel's history,
UNWELCOME NEIGHBORS.
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There are some creatures
which it is not pioasant to co
to close contact, although theybe
harmless in thomselvec, Thi was
the experience of Mr. Fred Ob s
he describes it in his "Camp e
Caribeoa," One night the tet t
his party were pitched in a d
near the coast, and a bed of h
leaves was made up for him, e
goes on to say;
Later I was awakened by a
ling among the loaves as of objects
crawling over them. I put o
hand and drew it back in terror.
It had come in contact with th -
gest bug in the world. Its
seemed as hard as iron and its
diblos were as long as my finger
I could hear it burrowing
the leaves and feel it crawling r
tae, and unable to endure
sprang up, and with a cry
to the open air. The perapir
rolled off me and my hands t
cd nervously,
My native boys lighted a
and examined the leaves•
they drew out three beetles almost
as large as myhand, and I re -
g
ed them with terror, they burst -
to fits of laughter.
"Ah, monsieur very fear ; he
'frail of razor -grinder." •
"What's that you call ib?"
"Persons say `razor -grinder.' ' "
"Does he grind razors?"
"Ah, no! but he make noise like
he make tog rind. Hnoise!"
zat noso 1"
Through the forest sounded a
sharp whizzing, the like of which
is made by the perambulating razor
and knife -grinder.
The beetle is provided with two
long mandibles above his mouth,
With these, as with a thumb and
finger, he seizes hold of a small
branch of a tree, and with his wings
he whirls himself around, slowly at
first, but increasing so rapidly that
it produces a continuous whir. Ho
keeps this up until the limb is sev-
ered,
My largest specimen of this beet-
le measures six and a quarter inch-
es. Such beetles are named Her-
cules, and they boar their title mod-
estly, for they do not presume upon
their size and strength to annoy
man nor their insect neighbors.
They are strict vegetarians, and
lend a happy and innocent life on
the treetops or on the ground.
STRANGE INDIA PALM.
Snperst.iious Natives Think There
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Is a God Beneath the Tree.
Is it that a plant is possessed of
some infernal spirit.? Baraset sub-
division, three miles distant from
D ttapuker, on the central district
of he E. B. S. Railways, is now bo -
in transformed into a weird, and at
th same time a touching scone, says
th India Daily News.
Since a fortnight a date palm„
measuring about twenty-five feet, is
found to stand erect in the day
time, but with the decline of the
sc h orehing rays of the sun prevalent
nowadays, the same- palm almost
to the ground,;so much so
that its huge mass of leaves touches
ground imperceptibly.
This news spread like wildfire
throughout tlio locality, and the
superstitious people are flocking
every day to witness the scene.
Wi at is most astonishing is that the
earth on which it grew is neither
lose, nor is it cracked, by the daily
nightly coming down and rais-
ing the palm.
Most of the eyewitnesses, of which
th writer is excluded, are offering
pu es to the palm, thinking that
there is a god underneath the tree.
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KING
Leopold II., King of the Belgians,
one ofthe oldest European Roy-
alties. Abstemiousness in eating
and drinking, and exorcist, are the
principal factors in his Biajesty'
good health. He lives more simply
an do the' majority of his richer
subjects, The King, otiose hobbits
motoring and gardening, is not
lacking in pluck, as the following
incident shows. He was out in his
for -car one•day, going at arato
some forty miles at hour, when
suddenly; on rounding a corner, the
Royal motorist perceived a woman,
wheeling a perambulator, and lead-
ings child by the hand, standing
the middle of the road, dazed
d unable to move from fright.
The car could neither be stopped
time nor turned asidet owing to
high banks on both sides of the
rale road. "Reverse, and. run
a the ditch 1" came the Royal
command; and the chauffeur did so,
result was that the car turned
complete somersault and land -
in the ditch, Then the aged
larch picked. himself painfully
and cotu•toously reassured the
htened woman,
"I think," said the meretent,
I'll kava tofireyour friend Polk.
never saw any one quite so lazy,"
"Slow in everything, is hog"
"No, not everything. He gets
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ONE EXCEPTION.
FORT GIiURG11ILL HARBOR
THE PLACE THAT WILL BE' TUE
RAILWAY TERMINAL.
Remains of historic Structure —
Harbor Paoli ities—Agrfoultnral
Prospects.
There is no little interest jest now
in the port of Fort Churchill, on
Hudson Bay, which is to be the
terminus of the Hudson Bay Rail-
way. A recent blue book, contain-
ing the report of Mr, W. Thibau-
Beau, 0,E., who surveyed the port
for the Dominion Government, gives
some interesting facts.
THE HARBOR,
Dram this report, it appears that
the harbor isa magnilcient one.
Mr. Thiboaudeau makes the import-
ant statement that there would bo
uo difficulty in keeping it open the
year rdund with the aid of ice-
breakers, The entrance to the har-
bor is about 2,000 feet wide, with a
minimum depth of water of ten fa-
thoms. Vessels drawing thirty-six
feet of water could enter the harbor
and amber within 200 yards of the
west shore to a point 250 feet south
of Fort Prince of Wales. The bay
outside the harbor also affords good
anchorage; there is ample detpth
of water.
Mr. Thibaudeau goes on to say
that a vessel drawing twenty-four
feet of water can come within 150
yards south of Battery Beacon.
There is also good anchorage south
of the point alluded to 150 yards
south of Battery Beacon) for 2,000
feet in length by 200 feet in width
for vessels drawing twe`nt -four feet
of water. Opposite Battery Beacon
for a distance of 2,500 feet across
the harbor there is a minimum depth
of twenty-four feet of water.
AN ANCIENT FORT.
Fort Churchill is probably the old-
est place west of the Great Lakes.
It was in 1688 the then newly -organ-
ized Hudson's Bay Company found-
ed a post at this magnificient har-
bor. In 1721 the post was rebuilt.
On the west side of the entrance to
the harbor is Fort Prince of Wales,
a substantial old fortress, which was
commenced in 1733 and not complet-
ed until thirteen years later. It
is no toy fortress, either. Tho
length of each side is 319 feet, three
of the sides being of dressed and
dimension stone inside and out. The
walls aro 34 feet thick, and 16 feet
high. In the stormy days of the
eighteenth century it was mounted
with a battery of forty cannon. Dur-
ing the. exalting days of the -final
conflict between the French and the
English the fort was captured and
partially destroyed by, the French
Admiral La Perouse in 1782.
Churchill consists of two peninsu-
las, one on the west being about ten
miles by three miles wide at the
southern end, and an the east side,
about five miles by two miles wide
at the southern end. The western
peninsula on its western side has
two ridges, each from 90 to 125 feet
in height; the northern ono extend-
ing 3% miles southerly from Fort
Prince of Wales, and the southerly
one commencing at anoints, 4% miles
south of Fort Prince of Wales, and
extending southerly a distance of
11 miles.
These ridges consist of (felspathic -
quartzite) sandstone of a green grey
color, well adapted for building pur-
poses. Fort Prince of Wales is
built of this stone, and its durability
may bo gauged by the fact that it
has not 'aufforod, although built in
1733.
• "On the southerly end of the
northerly ridge there is a deposit of
white quartzite, similar in forma-
tion to Marble Island; this stone
takes a fine finish, and is well adapt-
ed for ornamental building pur-
poses; an area of about ten acres is
exposed.
WATER SUPPLY,
"About throe miles southerly of
Batery Beacon, and two-thirds of a
mile from the river, are blithe or.
four fresh water lakes' at an eleva-
tion of fifteen foot above the water.
The bottoms of these lakes consist
of limestone; they over an area of
about one square mild, and would
furnish a good water supply,
"Between the lakes and the river
a good site exists for large railway
shops and yards. The flats aro
formed of clay and rocky till.
"Although there is 00 merchant-
able timber in the vicinity of.
Churchill, there is abundance' of
fine building stone and limestone to
be .foundeverywhere, and there is
also ample supply of timber for fuel
purposes for many years along both
banks of the Churchill River and
around Button Bay.
FISHING AND AGRICULTURE,
"In September, October and part
of November largo shoals of white
whales (I counted thirty-ilve in one
shoal) could he seen going up river
at every tide, Salmon trout and
whitefish are taken in the river and
harbor al the year! but are more
abundant in the spring.
"At" Churchill potatoes, turnips
and other vegetables have bean sue-
cessfully raised et the Hudson Bay
fort; For many years cattle and
Intros have bene auceossfully kept.
and bred at the Hudson Bay posh.
Excellent pasture. and hay meadows
aro found on both sides of the river
above the harbor for a known diss
tanto of thirty-five miles,
"At the head of Button Bay there
is an area of 2,000 acres upon .which
good liay may be cut, which has
been pronounced by Professor Ma
town as affording excellent forage.
Wild black and red currants and.
gooseberries are found in great
quantities, and are the equal, if not
the superior, in flavor, of garden.
produce. Barrels of black currants
can be picked around Fort Prince
of Wales; cranberries exist in groat
abundance everywhere. Other bar-
rios which are indigenous to the
climate abound,"
About one-third of the country
from Fort Churchill to the Pas, the
present terminus of the Canadian
Northern Railway, is marsh. The
higher lands are covered with
spruce and tamarac, suitable only
for fuel and pulpwood. No minerals
were seen by Thibaudeau, but Mc-
Laggan, in the district he explored,
reports gold, silver, iron and lime-
stone, Water power is to he found
in abundance on all the rivers, and
there is unlimited power in the
Churchill, only about seventy miles
from the fort.
COST OP ELEPHANT'S BATH..
Takes Week to Carry out in Detail
—Costs $300.
The elephant's bath takes a week
to carry out in every detail, it re-
quires the services of three men,
and it costs $300. This treatment is
necessary for a circus elephant, and
if the animal is a valuable one, the
proprietor of the circus does not
consider the money wasted.
The first process consists in going
over the great body with the best.
soap procurable; 150 pounds of soap
are used, and the elephant's ears
aro especially carefully attended to.
When the soaping and drying are
completed the elephant is well sand-
papered, and after that rubbed all
over with the purest Indian oil until
the mouse gray skin is supple and
glistening. This last finishing touch
is the most expensive part of the
whole bath, as $150 has to be spent
on the oil alone in the process of
each bath.
ARE' YOU A SLEEP WORKER?
"Well, I'll sleep on it 1" How
often we use this phrase in connec-
tion with some matter which re-
quires much consideration. • But it
is more than a mere phrase. Often
enough sleep has solved a problem
after hours of work have failed. A
student in a Dutch college worked
out, in his sleep, a difficult piece of
mathematical work, over which the
professor himself had stumbled.
What is more, while still asleep, he
wrote down the process and the au-
swer. Another mathematician — a
Frenchman—during sleep settled a
point which had puzzled him for
days. When he awoke he remem-
bared the solution, which proved
correct. Dante, the Italian poet,
is said to have dreamed of the plot
and characters of his great work,
"Tho Divine Comedy," The story
goes on to say that this phenome-
non occurred when Dante was only
nine years old.
WEDDING 10,101 COUPLES.
Costly and magnificent as are the
modern marriages of the wealthy
and noble, for greatness they fall
far short loll one which occurred
over 2,00 years ago. At this' gigan-
tic ceremony 20,202 people were
united, When Alexander the
Great conquered King Darius, he
decided to espouse the defeated
monarch's daughter. At the same
time, he doereed that one hundred
of bis chief officers should wed one
hundred' women from noble Persian
families, and ten thousand of his
Greek soldiers must take es many
Asiatic wv omen as their wives. Tho
u took l
oeromo y, which c o k p ace in a
huge pavilion, was very simple.
Alexander gave his hand to the
princess and kissed her, and all
theouter bridegrooms did the same
totheirselected mates.. After the
actual wedding followed a five -days'
festival, which has never since been
excelled in grandeur and raagnifi-
cenee.
REMEMBER THAT---.
A good plodder is better than a
cheap genius.
So many people speak twice bet
-
foto they thik.
The 01ro1 of a moment may be the
sorrow of a lifetime.
We cannot all have good fortune,
but we can all deserve it.
Courtesy is a minor virtue, l.ut
the lade of it is a inaper vice.
We live and learn until we aro
forty; then we live and unlearn.
One way tostop a man speaking
to you is to lend him something;
Any sort of advice is good, as long
as you don't attempt to follow it.
When a painter is wedded to his
art, he niust,be trate to his colors.
It is sometimes wise to submit to
a lesser evil, to avoid a greater one,
It falces very little pushing to got
some men on the downward path.
One laah to a good Horse, and ono
svord to a wise tali, arra etttaeienb.
RING EDWARD'S ORDERS
ABOUT 'T11E ROYAL JEWELS
VALUABLE AND RARE.
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Which
111011 Important of All, Nu.
bar Nearly One Itilddr d,
is That of the Garter.
When King Edward .is in State
attire, as for a drawl g -room or a
levee, his breast glitters under its
burden of "orders," any of which
are simply masses of precious
stones. The total vale of all the
decorations belonging o his Majes-
ty is not known, tit it must
amount to hundreds of thouaands of
pounds.
The badges of the various orders
of chivalry were originally of gold,
with the designs executed in enam-
el In the case of a monarch who
was the head of an order, his. badge
or star was jewelled. Later, this
fashion spread to' les important
members. Now there are many
peers and others who own valuable
Jewelled orders.
The most important of all Xing
Edward's orders, whichnumber in
all nearly one hundred, is, of
course, that of the Garter. The
badges of this order aro
A STAR AND A ARTIER,.
The latter, whioh is worn on the
left leg just below th knee, was
fcrmerly made of pale -blue silk,
but now velvet of a d Aker bus is
used. On this is inscribed the mot-
to, "Hopi Boit qui maly pause"—
Evil be to him who evil thinks. The
star has eight points, that worn by
the Xing being magnificently jewel-
led. •
The Orderof h
the Thistle also sup-
plies his Majesty with a beautiful
ornament. The points of the
"glory" or pendant, which hangs
from the collar, are close -set with
jewels, while the figureof St. An-
drew, which appears i the centre,
is finely done in enamel.
The Star of the Orderof St. Pat-
rick belonging to the Xing is set
with diamonds, in the entre being
a arose of rubies, on which is im-
posed a trefoil of emeralds.
Other British orders are those of
the Bath, the Star o India, St.
Michael and St. George, and the
Indian Empire. The badge of the
second of these is an onyx cameo
of Queen Victoria, set in an orna-
mental oval, containing the mot-
to of the Order—"Heaven's Light
our Guide"—surmounted by a star
COMPOSED OF DIAMONDS,
MONDS.
IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
,' mays BY MAIL ABOUT JQIIS
BULL AilD 1IIS 1Th20PL17.
m� 0e3urreeees in the Land That
Reigns Supreme In. the Om.
mcrcial Worhl.
Parasols for men are becoming
fashionable in Loudon.
The year 1872 was the wettest year
ever received in the British Isles,
The average cost of a criminal
prosecution in Britain is at present
$155.
In keeping the accounts at the
Batik of England over 60 ledgers are
filled daily,
During last year 34,954 were add-
ed to England's already largo alien,
population.,
The new Liverpool docks are to be
of such a size that they willacaom-
modate the largest craft with ease.
Clerical tailors in London have
never known such a rush of business
as they are now experiencing.
British returns show that from,
January to May, 17,420 persons from
Canada -landed at United Kingdom
ports.
To save it from the builders, Liv-
erpool, has opened as a public parte
a new municipal open apace of 18%
acres.
1 i 10 -
Capital to the amount of $131,710,-
000
3 ,7 ,
000 has been .embarked in 'the tube
systems of London in the last few
years.
Byr planting 5,000 cabbages in
three hours and. ten minutes, Mr.
W. Cole, of Groombridge, claims to
have created a record. •
There is in the Waterhead district
of Oldham an old lady'sixty-eight
0 h
years of age, who acts as a tele-
gram messenger.
Quite a quantity of honey ons
made in Fleet street, London, the
bees getting their sweet material
from clover in Regent's Park.
The Duke of Westminister was fin-
ed $15 and costs at Kensington re-
cently, for exceeding the motor -car
speed limit of ten -miles an hour.
The London Gazette announces
that General Sir Charles Henry
Brownlow, G. 0. B., Indian Army,,
has been promoted to be Field -Mar-
shal.
Ohelsea Old Church has been en-
tered by burglars, and valuable
communion plate, including two
cups and two flagons, has been
stolen.
An average of three British sea
men lose their lives every day by,
drowning, and 300 British steamers
and sailing vessels are lost yearly at
sea.
The lion which was injured in a
recent fight with a rival lion in the
"jungle" at Earl's Court Exhibi-
tion, London, is to be provided with
a glass eye.
In Chatfield road, Croydon, a
young man named Thomas Mauser,,
shot his mother and sister, killing
them instantly, then took his own
life by the same means.
It is stated that at a Lambeth' in-
quest on a boy who fell 50 feet from
the window of a house, that he was
the second child the parents had
lost, within twelve months, through
a habit of climbing.
A serious outbreak of ptomaine
poisoning has occurred at" St.
Anne's -on -Sea, Lancashire, as the
result, it is believed, of the eating of
potted meats and pork pigs. Toa
fatal cases have resulted,
The following is a` copy of a bill
posted on the wall of a country vil-
lage :—''A lecture on total abstin-
ence will be.delivered in the open
air, a. coleotion will be made at the
door to defray expenses."
The largest and heaviest building
stone over quarried in Britain was
taken some time ago from the Plank-
ington bed, near Norwich. It was
in one piece, without crack or flaw,,
and weighed over 35 tons.
As the result of steps taken by the
Leeds Butchers' Associations, the
Sunday hawkingof meat has been
effectually checed and negotiations '
are now, in progress for the early;
closing of Jewish butchers' shops on
Sunday morning.
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Service is the simple
always appears Ortho
our neighbors hard..
is always generous.
his purse at home,
Taking the church as a
eke the lift of faith,
is bowed heart t
nes rather than the
Friendships never are tl
ing punctured and the
s always easier, and
preach on old saints
sinners,
may dodge the cot
dodge the law
es.
People who fear troubles
to be troubled with
is the fear of what
lienor the fon
carte,
may net determine
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The Star of the Order of St.
Michael and St. George — the
"George," as it is called—is seven -
rayed, and, in the case of his Ma-
jesty's, is a solid mass of diamonds.
This "George" was formerly the
property of the Duke of Cambridge.
It is, therefore, of great family in-
terest, as well as exceedingly valu-
able.
Amid all these glittering stars
and crosses that of the Order of St.
John of Jerusalem appears insigni-
ficant. It takes the form of a small
Maltese cross in white enamel,
hung from a black ribbon.
Among foreign orders the anci-
ent Order of the Golden Fleece
takes a prominent place, but its
jewel pales before that of the Rus-
sian Order of St. Andrew. The
King's badge of the latter order is
exquisitely enamelled, in the cent
tre being the figure of St. Andrew.
The rest of the badge, which is of
a fair size, is set with large dia-
monds, worth thousands of pounds,
while a double -headed eagle sur-
mounts all.
THE CHIEF PORTUGUESE
ORDER,
that of Christ, has for its badge a
long cross enamelled in red, sur-
charged with a white arose, and
surrounded by fine pearls, making
a very graceful ornament. The
Black Eagle of Prussia, a moat ex-
clusiyg order, is, eo far as tilt first
class is concerned, reserved almost
entirely for those of Royal birth.
The badge owned by the King of
the leading order of Austria-Hun-
gary is a very valuable jewel, but
to point of age, it gives place to the
Merianen Cross, which is one of
the oldest religious orders.
One very Interesting order is
that of the Ohrysanthenmm, of
Japan. The badge of this is exe-
cuted in enamel, and represents
ono large yellow flower, set among
green leaves, and surrounded by
four smaller blooms.
Among 'other countries which
have contributed to the Ring's
store of orders aro France (which
has conferred on his Majesty the
Legion of Honor), Denmark Siam,
Turkey, Belgium, Baden,'Norway,
Sweden, Italy, Greece, and Brazil.
—London Answers.
WORD TO CA12•ELECS GIRL.
The girl who doesn't take care of
her 'clothes is no wife for the poor
nian ; s110 needs shute one who can
give her an unlimited dross allow-
ance and a maid to look after her,
says a writer. There is another
point.' If it is too much trouble to
take care of her clothes before it
will be too much trouble to tape
rare of her housekeeping stores af-
ter' marriage, with the result that
a large part of than are wasted..
DIS.
Ser path to
saintliness,
He dox who
hits
He who has
left h
fad does
not m
It i that hea-
von a bent knee.
Fri the bettor
for benpatolt-
ed ep
It i often sol-
er
a2-
er to than ou
modern
You mirth, but
you cannotof conse-
quone
Pec are net.
going too inucli
force.
Pride folios
will think;r of out
own hearts,
our Cir-
cumst etorinino
our vital
and th
pangs is nob
much