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j. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN.
(Mouth-piece and Successor of His Invalid Father as Leader of the British
Imperialists.)
Hammer Holds Nails,
Who has not pounded his thumb in
place of a nail ‘while trying to ham-
mer the latter into some place difficult
to reach or some corner where it was
hard to get both hand and hammer?
A North Dakota man has gotten
around this difficulty with an inge-
‘nious invention of an attachment for
the heads of hammers which holds
the nail just beneath the head and
drives it into place without difficulty.
‘The attachment consists of a loop
of metal and a slight groove and re-«
cess under the hammer head. The
nail fits in this, and all that need be
a done is to give one blow as if the nail
| were held in position with the fingers.
This blow will suffice to fix the nail
in place, and the hammer can then be
withdrawn, the loop in the head being
large enough to permit of the passage
Sandpaper Plane.
Another invention of interest to
carpenters, joiners and men of kin-
dred trades is the sandpaper plane
designed by a Louisiana man. This
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implement, as shown in the illustra-
tion, closely resembles an orthodox
plane, but instead of having a blade
underneath it has a smooth base cov-
ered with a layer of sandpaper, which
polishes off rough surfaces with great
rapidity and absolute uniformity. It
also has the advantage of doing the
work without polishing the skin off
the knuckles of the person using it.
‘The two knobs seen in the cut un-
screw and the baseboard, which fits in
grooves in the body of the plane and
slides backward and forward when
released, can be taken out and _cov-
ered with a fresh piece of sandpaper
when the old piece .is worn down.
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Thus recovered the base is put back,
the knobs screwed up tight again to
hold it firmly, and the carpenter
scrapes away with ease and rapidity.
—Boston Post.
of the~head of the nail, and the nail
can be pounded all the way in with
no trouble at all. In this way .the
thumb and fingers of the carpenter
are in no danger.—Boston Post.
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ARSENAL OF A PARIS APACHE.
Armed like the porcupine, but invisibly, their arms and shoulders
studded with sharp metal spikes beneath their coats, the young brigands
of Paris, known as Apaches, have recently defied the police and frightened
the public, which used to regard their pranks with some indulgence. The
other day two detectives went into a wine shop to arrest an Apache named
Liaboeuf. As soon as they had seized him their hands were frightfully torn
by the hidden spikes on the miscreant’s arms and they were forced to let
go. The Apache then stabbed one of the detectives eight times and shot the
- other dead. The police will be chary about laying hands on Apache prisQn-
ers hereafter for fear of the porcupine equipment.—Le Monde Illustre.
New York City.—Simple as this
frock is, it can be made in a number
of ways. In the illustration is shown
one of the new ginghams piped with
striped material, and the dress is
made unlined, worn with an open.
neck and short sleeves. There is a
body lining included, however, which
can be made in one with the gown or
quite separately, and used as a
guimpe, and when treated in this way
it can be worn or omitted as occasion
requires. When the dress is made
unlined as illustrated, it is especially
well adapted to, washable materials
and there are numberless charming
‘and attractive ones included in the
new output. When the lining is used
it becomes adapted to wool fabrics of
a simple sort. It can be made with
‘short or long or with double sleeves.
Just as illustrated, however, it is par-
ticularly desirable, for it can be worn
without the guimpe on a warm day,
with it on a cold one. f
The dress consists of waist and
skirt, which are joined by means of a
belt. ‘The waist is finished with an
oddly shaped revers-c¢ollar and in-
cludes simple plain sleeves that are
open for a portion of their length to
allow effective use of trimming. The
guimpe is a plain one with long, plain
sleeves. It is finished with a standing
collar. !
The quantity of material required
for the ten-year size is five and three-
eighth yards twenty-four or twenty-
seven, four and a quarter yards thir-
ty-two or three and a quarter yards
forty-four inches wide for the dress;
one yard thirty-six inches wide for
the guimpe.
Tinted Hair Fashionable.
There is a good deal of talk in for-
eign papers of the dyes employed in
Paris, but here natural tinted hair
is the vogue. Blond hair, especially
the dyed shades which foreigners so
often display in the street, is by no
means sought after, though, natural-
ly, genuine blond hair is always glor-
ious.
A ‘“‘smoke-blue” broadcloth suit
has a natty little.coat that is a clever
modification of the Russian tendency.
The skirt and waist are in one
piece. Stomach braid and self-cov-
ered buttons formthe trimming, while
the yoke is of ‘“‘smoke-blue’” dotted
net.
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The Sermon on the Mount.
By J. G. PYLE.
Three times at least, in ages many
centuries past, the policy laid down
in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount has
encountered life with great literal-
ness.
The Christians of the first century
after Christ, and in great measure
of the next two centuries, did accept
and act upon the Sermon on the
Mount as a rule of daily conduct.
They followed its precepts literally
and unto death. Were they over-
whelmed by demands which were
much more destructive of both the
individual and the association in that
age than they could possibly be in
this? On the contrary, their example
proved both so contagious and so
conquering that it beat down the
mightiest power on earth. The es-
tablished social order saved itself
from being swept away by the inno-
vation and lost in it, only by accept-
ing it nominally. It professed the
doctrine in order that it might not be
compelled to adopt the practice.
For the second time, in the Middle
2.zes, arose those who would restore,
the Sermon on the Mount to the
place where Jesus enthroned it. The
monastic system, in its purity, was
not a separation of the religious and
contemplative mind from the world’s
activities. It was a deliberate at-
tempt to reinstate in life the prac-
tices as well as the virtues to whieh
beatitudes had been attached. At
their best, the members of these or-
ders were not exoterically, with-
drawn from the world. They worked,
they taught, they healed, they re-
lieved distress by physical minstra-
tion as well as by spiritual consola-
tion. They also made such headway
that even supreme pontificial author-
ity, hostile as it was, dared not deny
recognition to Francis of Assisi. The
monastic system fell not because it
was unequal to contact with practical
life, but because the World again
conquered the Spirit. y ;
In our own times, under the com-
petitive and individualistic system,
the experiment was tried, No think-
er and no critic should be ignorant
of the history of the Society of
Friends, commonly called Quakers.
They lived in modern society, under
modern conditions, accepted persecu-
tion cheerfully and stood upon their
hazard that the words of Jesus meant
what they said. That they matured
noble types in personal character and
sustained an admirable conduct of
morals is indisputable, They have
| fared ill and lost ground precisely
in so far as they yielded to casuistry,
and moderated the stern. simplicity
of their doctrine to suit the desire for
wealth, for conformity, for the very
thing which, in their own language,
they call” “the World.” — Putnam’s
Magazine. ;
How to Read.
By H. M. ALDEN. i
Reading is not a lost art to the
same degree that conversation is, but
it has in most cases an arrested de-
velopment through so much reading
that makes no demand upon aesthetic
sensibility, so that one is apt to bring
to a fine story full of delicate shades
of thought and feeling the same mind
which he yields to a newspaper, put-
ting a blunt interrogation as to its
meaning as conveyed in the terms of
a rational proposition, and the
writer's charm is wholly lost upon
him. While the reader’s surrender
to the author must be complete, his
| attitude should not be passive, but
that of active responsiveness and
partnership.—Harper’s Magazine.
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What Was Needed.
Instead of being disturbed -by his
defeat, says: a Washington corre-
spondent, the Speaker became remin-
iscent and told a story which illus-
trates his opinion that whenever you
have the votes you can carry out your
ideas.
“Back in the greenback days,” he
said, “there was a man named Emory
Storrs, a brilliant man and an able
man, in spite of some of his views.
He called on Chauncey Blair, a big
Chicago banker, and talked the finan-
eial situation over with him. He told
Blair what the country needed was
more money.
“ ‘We have plenty of money,” said
‘Blair. ‘The banks are full of it. We
would welcome any borrower who
came to us for a loan.’ :
“ “Well, let me have a million,” an-
swered Storrs. :
“<All right,” said Mr. Blair. ‘1
wish there were three or four more
borrowers like you. But what collat-
eral can you offer?’
“ ‘Collateral?’ inquired torrs;
‘collateral? Then it isn’t more
money that we need; it’s more col-
lateral.” ”’ : :
And in the Speaker's mind it isn’t.
recognition that the insurgents need,,
but votes.—Indianapolis Star.
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In New York during the close times;
in 1907, seventy-two per cent. of the:
collateral used as the basis of clear-
ing house certificates was commercial
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