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}'icy as the year of widespread re-
ustment in our Canadian Presby-
;snsn Church anal also our local con-
regations. Dr. Larkin, then minister
of First Church,, was in favor of the
Union of the 1 . asbyte'rian, Methodist
and Congregational Churches, but (to
quote him) when he saw that the un -
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names. It is at this time we see the
second part a what Presbytery ex-
pected inkineg plaee. The church in
regniondv.11is decided to ,becomes a
part of the new denomination known
as the United Church of Canada, and
a minority of some size wishing to
remain true to the faith for which
REV. F. H. LARKIN, D.D.
Pastor 1900-1928
ion which was to be consummated
would fall short of the "entire con-
sent" that was solemnly affirmed as
a condition by the Joint Committee,
and was poles asunder from the
"praictical unanimity" that was the un-
derstood and unchallenged condition
for many years, had the courage to
restate his views in the mat'.2r, an•l
qtsal}�i. eaf inanhoed and lin* ,prone
b ohich
have Made
e
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did
record possible are •inea who oc-
cupy hgnored; and M41;91141410 poli-
tions eta the Board sof .11 tanagers and
the Selsdon, The Elders of• the ehureb
to..day. are: A. I). s'eott, 'William Wil-
son, M. 1lliol;4e'Ilar, R. It: --Ross, J. D.
Gemmell, William Hogg, J. G. Maul -
len, Charles Brodie, G. P. Eherhamt,
William Knechtei, M. Blanchard and
Thomas Dickson.
Sabbath School.
Under the Superintendendship of J.
G. 14Lullen, the Sabbath School is in a
thriving condition To the late Mr.
Robert Lumsden tbelongs the honor of
starting the Presbyterian. Sabbath
School in Seaferth, which he did dur-
ing the summer of 1867. While the
rhineh was being built the school was
held in the Episcopal Methodist
Church.
Ever seeking to develop those ch ar-
aeteris'tics that we most wish to see
in the young people of our oomunun
ity, First Church has for mid -week
meetings, organizations for all ages,
namely, the Mission 'Band, Trail
Rangers, Tiixis Square, Canadian
Girls in Training and, the Young Peo-
ple's Society.
Women of First Church are dis-
tinguished for their zeal for the wel-
fare of their ,beloved church. The
Ladies' Aid halve greatly assisted the
managers in various undertakings.
The Women's Missionary Society
since .its inception in 1877, has grown
until it is one of the largest in the
Presbyterian Church in Canada. Com-
posed of three branches, The Women's
Missionary Society, The Barbara
Kirkman Auxiliare, The McKillop
Branch, they contributed over nine
hundred dollars for missionary work
last year.
Inside the main entrance of . the
church is our War Memorial with its
simple inscription, Honor Roll. The
number of names thereon are sixty-
five. Of these, six paid the supreme
sacrifice, Scott Hays, Elwyn Rivers,
Frederick Weir, James Mulholland,
James Hutchinson and Arthu: Mc-
Lean.
The choir of First Church has been
famous for many years. Much good
musical talent has gone from Seaforth
but much remains. Many give their
services freely and willingly in a
most faithful manner. Visitors ac-
claim our choir, under the leadership
of Mr. M. R. Rennie, as one of the
finest.
Mr. George Cline was the first
Presenter and Professor Jones held
that position prior to the installation
of an organ. In 1895, at a congrega-
tional meeting, it was decided to place
an organ in the church, on trial, for
six months. At the end of that time
they decided to retain it permanently.
To the best of our knowledge, the
first organ has been kept and can be
seen at any time in the corner of the
church. In 1905, a new pipe organ
was installed. in the church. Dr.
Vogt, of Toronto, who had made the
plans and specifications for the or-
gan, gave a recital on the occasion of
the installation, which wens a musical
treat greatly enjoyed' by the people
of the tower
From the Town of Orangeville, in
response to a call from Seaforth, came
Rev. Irving B. Keine, minister of
First Church to -day. Born twelve
miles from Seaforth, in the County of
Huron, attended Clinton Collegiate
Institute, he came as a native of
Huron County back close to the
scenes of his childhood. Quoting from
local papers, "He is a keen student,
a kindly pastor, and an inspiring
preacher. He is forceful, earnest and
eloquent, and his messages are de-
livered in a language that all may
understand, which brings them home
with force to everyone of his hear-
ers."
First Church looks back today up-
on a fruitful heritage, and faces the
future hoping to continue building
faithfully upon the foundation so well
laid• by the fathers of the church.
On Sunday, December 7th, First
Church 'will celebrate its sixty-third
anniversary and the special preacher
fod the day will be Rev. A. T. Barr,
B.D., Ph.D., of Brantford, coming we
believe, from the same congregation
as Rev. Dr. Cochrane, who preached
at the opening of First Presbyterian
Church, Seaforth, in 1867, the year
of Confederation.
are
slit' tp come to a decision on
>rn*Mal Tellgian,, , which free,
till 'kerns 'fend rather cowardly. They
do not Adrift thaat they are more ig-
norant o ►p this subject than profess
ing !Christians. Indeed they profess
to point out errors in theological be-
liefs. Nor do they share the view
which 'we bear so frequently ex. press-
ed, that it is a cruelty to deprive a
believer of his faith when they have
nothing to put in its place but the
healthy and satisfying reflection that
he has got rid of a delusion. They
point out that believers have no del-
icacy in such a matter; they have no
hesitation in attempting to make con-
verts, and no consideration of good
taste, in the case of a great many of
them, prevents them from insisting
on their views whenever opportunity
offers. In 'brief, freethinkers argue
that after a man has removed a beam
from his brother's eye, he should not
be required to put some other foreign
matter there in place of it.
Personally, though we have listen-
ed to many and participated in not a
few debates upon supernatural relig-
ion we have never yet seen the slight-
est advance made to agreement; nor
have we seen one debater able to com-
municate a single ray of additional
light to the befogged intelligence of
his opponent after hours of effort.
We do not expect any different result
to accrue from the Darrow-Brickner
debate. They discussed whether men
are puppets of fate, Darrow contend-
ing that they are. Nobody, the•:efore,
need expect that when Mr. Darrow
sits down' finally, Rabbi Brickner will
spring to his feet, impulsively offer
his hand, and say, "Mr. Darrow, you
are altogether right and I am wrong.
I consider it the most fortunate inci-
dent 'of my life that I happened to
be here this evening to listen to your
masterly exposition. You have re=
moved the scales from my eyes. Where
is the nearest atheist conventicle?"
Nor will Mr. Darrow say, "Rabbi,
you ,halve converted me. What are
the most immediate and less painful
steps I mist take to 'become a mem-
ber of your congregation?"
Mr. Darrow will continue, after the
debate, as before, to be the happy
crusader. He is a good deal more
than an atheist. He is, in the widest
and best sense of the word, a liberal;
and even among liberals he belongs
to the most select class, the samurai.
He never hesitates to oppose popular
clamor; and we do not think his op-
position must necessarily be fortified
by the belief that he is right. He
will fight, anyway. No lawyer ever
faced greater odium than Darrow
when with the whole country raging
for the lives of Leopold and Loeb, he
undertook their defence and helped
them escape the electric chair. He
has frequently stood forth . as de-
fender of members of the I. W. W.,
the most generally despised class in
the United States and also in Canada,
Had the former Kaiser been put on
trial for his life in Toronto in 1916,
'Mr. Darrow would probably have been
glad to 'give him the very best legal
advice. The other day, he risked his
well earned popularity in Chicago to
rise as the legal champion of the gun-
men. He said that 'at least they
should not be convicted except by due
process of law.
He publicly and successfully oppos-
ed the late W. J. Bryan in the case
of !Scopes, the Tennessee school teach-
er. !lily has said that the reason that
so many people are now awaiting ex-
ecution in American prisons is that
they did not have good lawyers, and
when any ease of a friendless crimin-
al is brought to his attention he is
ready to stand by his side, seven if
the only place is in a tumbril. Mr.
Darrow said: "I will admit that there
is a difference between Lincoln and a
chimpanzee, but my experience of
the human race has reminded me of
the chimpanzee more often than it
has of Lincoln." So to be, a friend
of the human race, or of such speci-
mens of it as he encounters from
day to day, Mr. Darrow has not found
it necessary to idealize them. He re-
gard's them not as captains of their
souls but more like deckhands on a
drifting craft. Yet he likes them,
and will get out of his bed to help
even the more unpromising of them
who get into trouble.
It is worth while reflecting en the
fact that Mr. Clarence Darrow is not
only the best-known atheist on the
American continent to-day—with., the
possible exception of Mr. Henry L.
Menckenr-but is also the best known
criminal lawyer. His militantly heter-
odox religious opinions have not pre-
vented him from reaching the top of
his profession. (Much the same thing
could be said of Ingersoll, though it
has been said that Ingersoll's lack of
religious views were a fatal bar to his
ambition to 'become president. But
probably Ingersoll did not worry, and
Mr. Darrow has no desire to he presi-
dent. Thomas Paine had a pretty
hard row to hoe on this earth and he
did not believe in a life after death.
Nevertheless, for one who was not a
regular church -goer, he left behind
him a pretty respectable list of
achievements, to wit:
We was the first to suggest the
Federal Union of the 'States.
He was the first to suggest to write
the words "United States of America"
being the man who named the coun-
try
He was the first to advocate the
emancipation of the slaves and that
the traffic in slalvfes be stopped.
He was the first to 'advocate inter-
national arbitration.
He was the first to advocate wom•
en's rights.
He was the first to advocate na-
tional and international copyright.
He was the first to pld d against
cruelty to animals.
He was the first to advocate old -
age pensions.
He was the first to advocate the
education of children of the poor at
public expense.
their fathers had fought for centur-
ies, withdrew their certificates from
Egmondville United Church and along
with others from neighboring church-
es, became members of First Church,
so hat the first Communion after
Jure 10th, 1925, saw the membership
slightly larger than it had been be-
fore the ninety or more had with-
IMNIF
ROBERT LUMSDEN
Who started the Presbyterian Sabbath School in Seaforth in 1867.
remain with his church which decided
by a considerable majority, to hold
their former denominational status.
Some 'without that courage shown
by their pastor and unwilling to fol-
low his leadership after this. change
of attitude, others following their own
convictions, withdrew leaving th^
communion roll shorter by over ninety
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drawn. So to -day the membership of
First Church is composed of members
c f First Church, llarpumhey Church
and Egmondville Church, staunch in
their allegiance to the church and
form of worship of their Presbyter-
• ian fathers.
1 Pillars of the Kirk.
-.! _?ntati c,s of the sterling
LIBERAL AND FIGHTER IS MR.
CLARENCE DARROW
Mr. Clarence Darrow, who debat-
ed certain matters with Rabbi Brick-
er in Toronto recently, has been call-
ed the legitimate successor of Thos.
Fame and Colonel (Robert 'Ingersoll.
That is to say, he is an infidel, atheist
or freethinker. We have learned that
.mong freethinkers the word "agnos-
tic" is not more welcomed than the
abbreviation of Doc. is among medical
men. It was coined by Thomas Hux-
ley to express a mere ignorance or
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g the Oldest in fltbeir°'Yff .Fia!'et church.
on the 'Women's Institutes wpuid nes.
inc:tieasecf. Ile added that he hoped
some men, yy would be' spent on bea-
tifying farm. lands, emphasizing the
important place .ta•ken by flowers,
fruit trees and 'pllain ordinary paint
in making a farm into a home. He
also expressed the wishthat
every
rural home night enjoy the privilege
of hydro. He saw no limit to the
good work the Government might ac-
complish with the support of the Wo-
men's Institutes.
Tribute to Women's Institutes.
"No money expended by the Pro-
vince of Ontario is expended so wise-
ly or does so Which Work asthe money
expended on the 'Wlotcen'h Institutes,"
declared Hon. Themes L. Kennedy,
Minister of Agricnituire, who Was
guest -speaker at tie recent lath sill
anal can "assn Paying tti!btite to
the 'Work done by the Indtittttee, 1►e'
expressed the belief that the„ $80,400
expended by the Go+V'eritment this year
•
Weekly Crop Report.
Reports frotri various sec` ens of
Ontario indicate that field work is
only fairly well advanced. Owing to
the very dry weather in the east and
the rather heavy frosts in the west,
plowing has 'been retarded. Fall
wheat is entering the winter in good
condition, especially the fields that
received sufficient moisture to develop
good top. There is a continued de-
mand for good stocker cattle, small
pigs and sows, as. farmers prefer to
market their grain through live stock
rather than put it on the market at
preseettt prices.
a,c n ,reg+ n .tr de7►;ominaai4n;,
Some Iietopl would want a faariwllar
tunex fam�1 r-at1ea
le them,
set
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o
the well' known words, for the Mlusic.
has far Morel to de with the popular-
ity of !hymens than we altogether re-
alize. It is, in fact, teethe' music, fit-
ly set to tike text that the'•nniotionac'
element •should, be found' Teo many
hymns, orStings which is often- a bet-
ter word, are set to music of a cheap,
catchy sentimental order,' frequently
to waltz time, by which many people
who look upon waltzing as anathema
get the same emotional reaction that
dancers do from music.
But in the practical consideration
of hymns, the text is. of first import-
ance. No matter how fine the tune
may be, if serves but one object and
that the emotional amplifiiatir n and
illumination of the words. For ins
stance, try to sing the Doxology to
Iiursley, the very fine intimate and'
appealing tune ordinarily used for
Sun of M,y 'Soul, and it will be found
that Praise God from Whom All
Blessing Flow has lost its dignity and
impressiveness. Exchange the tunes
for 'Onward, 'Christian 'Soldiers with
Now the Day is Over, and the incon-
gruity is still more apparent. So,
may I 'add for consideration a num-
ber of hymns, 'practically all of them
of the objective type? It may be
that some of them will be unknown
to hundred's of people, as once they
were unknown to me, which means
that for the task of selection we all
need, and; this includes the writer, a
much wider acquaintance with the
hymnody of the world.
From the 'Greek: Let all Mortal
Flesh Keep Silence, set to a French
folk song; 0 Brightness of the Im-
mortal Father's 'Face, the oldest
known 'Christian hymn, of which theme
are several translations. From the
German: When Morning Gilds the
Skies; Wake, Wake, the Night is Fly-
ing; How Bright Appears the Morn-
ing Star; Ah, Holy Jesus, How Hast
Thou Offended'? Now Thank We All
Our God; Luther's, A Mighty Fortress
is Our God, which for four hundred
years has come thundering 'down the
ages, and the tune of which, Frederic
the Great characterized as. "God Al-
mighty's Grenadier March." Silent
Night, 'Holy Night, words and music
by the priest and the schoolmaster
of Hallein in Bavaria, whose graves
in the churchyard I visited last ,rum -
ear.
From the 'Latin.: To the Name of
our 'Salvation; Alleluia, Song of Glad-
ness; All Glory, Laud and Honor; 0
Saving Victim, Opening Wide the
Gate of Heaven to Men Below; Now,
My Tongue, the 'Mystery Telling ;
Hail, Festal Day,• Through. Every Age
Divine, a hymn to the Holy Spirit;
Welcome, Happy Morning and the Te
Deum, We Praise Thee 0 God, we
Acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.
In our own language: Whittier's,
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind;
Gladden's 0 'Master, Let Me Walk
With Thee; Mathieson's, 0 Love', That
Will Not Let Me Go; The God, of
Abraham 'Praise; 0 Little Town of
Bethlehem; And now 0 Father. Mind-
ful of the Love that Bought Us Once
for all on Calvary's Tree; Lowell's
magnificent, Once to Every Man and
Nation Comes the Moment to Decide,
set to a Welsh melody; the Chartist
battle hymn, When Wilt Thou Save
the People.
,For pure praise, Ye Watchers and
Ye Bloly Ones; for the Holy Spirit,
Breathe on Me, Breath of God; and
certainly the Latin classic, Come Holy
Ghost, Our Souls Inspire. And a lit-
tle known hymn, God of the Prophets,
Bless the Prophet's Sons, of Roman
Catholic origin, I believe, though I
may''be mistaken, and which I know in
its setting to the rolling majesty of
the genius of Louis Bourgeois, the
composer of Old Hundred. What heart
could fail to be thrilled by the aspira-
tion, set to fitting music, of the last
stanza?
Improving Sheep in Dufferin.
That Dufferin 'County farmers are
interested in sheep husbandry and
recognize the value of pure bred sires
is evidenced by the fact that many
have recently purchased pure 'bred
rams. On November 4th, 19 register-
ed ram lambs were distributed from
Orangeville by Ralph C. Banbury,
Dufferin agricultural representative.
The rams were bought by the Federal
and Provincial Live Stock Branches
and sold at scrub ram prices to breed-
ers in the mare important sheep pro-
ducing counties. The .difference be-
tween the cost and sale price is be-
ing made up by the Government. The
majority of the lambs were of Ox-
ford breed, but •Shropshires, Leices-
ters, Hampshires, Lincolns and Dor-
sets were represented. The buying of
good quality breeding stock when
prices are law is good. 'business as the
farmer will thus have a fine flock and
be in a position to take full advant-
age when prices improve.
MORGAN MADE SHARP ANSWER
TO "CHEEKIEST MAN'S” LETTER
An impecunious Wall Street man
once wrote to' J, Pierpo'nt 'Morgan,
the elder, requesting an invitation to
witness the yacht races from the deck
of the 'Corsair, says John K. Winkler
(in "Morgan the Magnificent"). The
financier replied •:
"My dear sir: Unfortunately, I
have loaned the Corsair to my friend,
Mr. Ledyard, for the yacht races.
However, if you think you would care
to go on the yacht of either Mr. Gould,
Mr. Goelet, Colonel Astor, or any of
the others that may 'be going down
the bay, I will try to get an invita-
tion for you; and will assure who-
ever may take you that they will have
the honor of entertaining the cheek-
iest man I ever heard from.
"J. P. Morgan."?
Mention of the yacht races reminds
me of a yarn • 'Sir Thomas Lipton tells
against himself. You know, Sir "Tom-
my" invariably wears a favorite old
yachting cap and a double-breasted
blue serge suit. Well, on one of his
crossings of the Atlantic, just as he
was about to sit down on a deck
chair, a clergyman approached him.
"Look here, steward," he said, "I
want a chair put in that corner over
there."
"I got a deck chair," chuckles Lip-
ton, "and placed it where he wanted
it. Then he said: "Here's a bob (a
shilling -24 cents) for you.'"
"Being Scotch," adds Sir Thomas,
"I took it!'1
CHOOSE ANOTHER LIST OF
MAGNIFICENT HYMNS
The subject of the hundred best
hymns, raised by Mr. Patterson, has
aroused very little comment. My re-
action is that it has by far too large
a proportion of hymns of the sub-
jective type, hymns dealing altogether
with the individual and his emot'ion's,
often beautiful enough in sentiment,
perfectly fitted for personal and home
use at special times, but too often
quite unsuitable for occasions of
formal public worship. And converse-
ly, the list has magi too small a pro-
portion of hymhis of the objective
type, stanzas that go outward and
upwards in definite praise and adora-
tion to the Tribune God. Perhaps it
might not be amiss for some etre to
define the word "hymn" and to in-
clude the word "song," that we might
be agreed about the thing of •' which
we 'write. For instance, neither Come
Ye Disconsolate, nor There is a Green
Hill Far Away can be classed as a
hymn of prayer, praise or adoration.
Mr. Patterson's list seem's to me to
have too few translations from for-
eign tongues, to be too Anglo-Saxon
in its make-up, as though ours was
the only language, or almost the only
language, in which the adoration of
God could possibly be expressed..
There is not included a single hymn
of praise to God the Holy Ghost. The
needs of children are altogether over-
looked, this being a perpetuation of
the indifference of a past age to the
religious needs of children.
Mr. Patterson' gives as the reason
for 'his list, that it seems that many
of those he names are about to be
dropped, which is but to say that
these have been found by experience
to (be net of the ageless number,
which endure, which voice the. emo-
tions of all generations, but as hay-
ing an appeal only to the day and
age in which they had their origiin'.
It is probable that no list of one hun-
dred titles would be received with uni-
vernal acclaim. There are nearly
500,006 hymns now listed, and more
than 20,000 tunes have been card
catalogued by Professor Lewis of
Tufts (lollege, so that ono hundred is
far too small a•boundary within which
to gather tihe 'test" hyenas. The con-.
gregation With a repertoire of only
one hundred .musk either repeat thein
ad nauseam, er .arid another hundred
of what they night consider •it'iferier
material, and idiot quite wurthy.,r}f a,
place in tptbiie Monektp And, 060
'to
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too 14n al 'a .nnmberr an `,bets .
ahpini, fin-
clude s for the `V'•atibt'is obi
Ring' 'wthich arise in the normal life', o
O mighty age of prophet kings, re-
turn!
O faith, 0 hope, enrich our urgent
time!
Lord Jesus Christ, again with us so-
journ!
A weary world awaits Thy reign sub-
lime.
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
"What can I get for Ann's birth-
day?" sighed Mary. "If I could only
think 'of"something different!" Then
she remembered having read about
Long Distance telephoning. "New,
that's an idea! I know Ann would
appreciate something personal—like
that. I'll call her right away! ' P.'S.
Mary enjoyed it, too!
FINGER PRINT PROCESS AND ITS
PIONEERS
At a time when the question of
finger printing taxi drivers: is excit-
ing public attention, it is interesting
to note that the Chinese as long ago
as 700 B.C. had already noted how
the design's on finger tip's differed,
and the same observation may have
been made many thousands or tens
of 'th'ousand's of years earlier. In fact,
as soon as anybody began carefully to
note the curious lines he would like-
ly be struck by the fact that they
were not precisely the same in any
two persons. It was in 1686 that an
Italian named'Mareello Malpighi made
a 'special study of the varying lines
and wrote about them. (tile has been
called the grandfather of dactyloscopy
which is the learned name of this
branch of science. Later on other an-
atomists described the curious pat-
terns• but so far as we are aware,
failed to draw any useful inferences
from them. It was not Until 182a
that Jean Eve'ngelist Purkinje, a Bo-
hemian professor 'of anatomy, *tote
what may be described as the first
scientific delscription of them and
made a rough classification• of the de-
signs: He is„ therefore, called the
grandfather of 'bus :Science,
But it is not either of these formid•
able names that the Man in the street
associate's With finger printing. Gil -
tan in, by ..popular cement, the man
wino made•paraetidai use of the diys'ee-
wYati,ans rot 'hintieelf and other) and de-
vflaped the science, as a weapon it1
the
Oat t wit crfiniinals, it 1l'app'enne
hetet. apse iii. the- p'�yi�ysyet.o��ry.�'yyyx of 4o fi714
*tlie.'r usetnl ll e. u f ' ant•. ads
'don't, that 'Ga teens eoMtit ,untion,
li
Ended b Krusehsf'
" I was a martyr to headaches, with
frequent attacks of dizziness affecting
my vision. My occupation is a very
sedentary one—a printer's reader,
gave Kruschen Salts a good trial, .alta
from then onwards I seemed quite
another person. The' headaches die.,
appeared and the dizziness, and the
most wonderful thing to me is that I
have gone back to weaker glasses, a
lens which I hat} discarded some easier
ago as not being strong enough.. I
also suffered from bad circulation
during the early mornings of wantee.
Now at 5$ I can enjoy cold bathe all
the year round, enjoy and am rages
for my food, and am what I consider
very fit—the sort of fitness that makes
living a joy."—(G. F.)
Headaches can nearly always be
traced to a disordered stomach
or to„ partial constipation—a com-
plaint many indoor workers std
from without ever suspecting it.
Kruschen Salts go right down te
the root of the trouble and remol
the cause by gently persuading em'
organs of elimination to Dumdum
exactly as Nature intended theg
should.
as a matter of fact, merely the,, one
that came prominently 'before the pub-
lic. In almost every department he
had been anticipated. Next in the
succession to Purkinje was undoubt-
edly Sir William Hershell, chief ad-
ministrator of the Hoogli district in
Bengal. In 1858 he began to use fin-
ger prints to authenticate contract
written in 'Bengali. He did not know
the language and probably one native
looked just the same to him as an-
other. At first it is doubtful if he
was struck with the importance of
the finger print as a mark distinguish-
ing -one Hindu from another. But he
may have been influenced by the old
Hindu and 'Chinese notion that a trace
left of bodily contact was more bind-
ing than a written signature. Per-
haps ,those who dipped their fingers
in the ink and then touched the con-
tract had the same superstition.
But after he had seen some thous-
ands of these contracts signed and
had occasion 'to settle quesions aris-
ing out of them after the documents
had been repudiated he discovered the
idea which none of his predecessors
in this science had taken note of. He
saw that the papillary ridges as
means of identification were unequal-
led. He 'saw that with the aid of a
magnifying glass he could detect dif-
ferences between any two signatures
even though the finger -printing pro-
cess then was rough compared with
what it has since become. After hav-
ing made this: discovery and not hav-
ing wholly conquered his original in-
ability to distinguish one Hindu from
another he used the finger print sys-
tem to identify natives who had earn-
ed a pension. He also semi -officially
requested the Government to give him
power to use the same method with
prisoners. Up to this time Hershell
had not written anything about his
discoveries and suggestions; so in the
matter of priority of publication he
left the field open to Dr. (Henry Faulds
—an English physician in a Tokio.
hospital, who in October, 1880, wrote
a historic letter to Nature, a London
publication..
In this he said that in studying'
prehistoric Japanese pottery he had
discovered many finger prints which
had suggested to him the interesting
notion 'of comparing them with those
of contemporary Japanese. He dis-
cussed the possibility of these peculiar
patterns being hereditary and sug-
gested that finger prints might .be
useful in identifying prisoners. He
had been dabbling with the fascinat-
ing subject for two years and cited
two instances of crimes which had
been solved by the presence of •tell-
tale finger prints. Thus, while Her -
'shell had 'anticipated him, Dr. Faulds
was the first •publicly to announce the
success in practice of the idea which
Hershell had suggested. As a mat-
ter of fact, Hershell had been using
finger prints as described for twenty
years. It was after the publication
of the Faulds letter than Sir Francis
Galton set himself the formidable
task of establishing a workable sys-
tem whereby finger prints could be
classified and the 'knowledge thus ob-
tained made available for swift identi-
fication.
'Still -another name is to be men-
tioned• here, that of Juan Vucetich,
of Buenos Aires. He was in charge
of an identification system based on
Bertillon measuremente and from
Galton received the idea that it might
be supplemented by dactyloscopy. He
had actually a workable though some-
what limited system in operation be-
fore Galton had completed' his labor-
ious work. It may be that a finger
print is not more individual than a
toe print, end that any square inch of
the surface of the human body if ob-
served closely enough would reveal
differences fro many •other square*
inch in the same body or any 'other
body. Finger printing is, however,
the handiest means of identification.
But to say that it cannot be mislead-
ing is to speak rashly. 'Finger prints
can be forged not less certainly than
signatures. 'to cheques. The opposi-
tion to the finger printing of the popu-
lation as an aid to police work is
founded on the fear that circum-
stances might arise when forged fin-
gerprints Would be used' against inno-
cent persons who had happened to in-
cur the dislike of the authorities, and
that the supposition that the proceus
was infallible might send them to the
scaffold.
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