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Robert MacDonald, pastor of the Washington Ave- nue Baptist Church. It was the first of a series of five sermons. The text was from John x: 16: “Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.” Mr. MacDonald said: So important and. many sided a subject as this must be looked at from more than one view point. Numberless are the ques- tions’ to be considered. Numberless the opinions favorable and unfavorable, true and false, to be confirmed in these ser- mons or repudiated. Numberless the peo- ple interested in so practical and personal a question, some of whom love the church better than life; others of whom hate the churen more than any other institution in existence; some who trace their loftiest aspirations, their deepest motives, their holiest desires back to her as a fond moth- er who lives to nourish her children with her own rich life; others who have never received the least benefit therefrom, of which they are conscious and boldly as- sert that little benefit to humanity ever emerged from her portals. Some go so far as to make the church synonymous with Christ’s kingdom, and maintain that to be a member of the one is to be a member of the other, and consequently yield to her a fanatical reverence. Others swing clear to the other extreme and consider the <hurch nothing better than the product of a jealous rivalry for pre-eminence over other institutions of earth, else the ex- pression in wood and stone of overwrought sensibilities. Therefore, the monument of a most irrational superstition. While an innumerable many identify themselves with the church because they believe it to be a beneficent institution ordained of God, without which the world would be morally and spiritually impoverished, and through which the spirit is working for the redemption of humanity, in which di- yide strength canbe had for the ills of ife. I desire that our starting point in these Aiscussions should be in favor of religious Soleration. As love is the centre of the Christian system, so must it be the motive in every church claiming to be a Christian chruch. As Christ our Master was toler- ant of and charitable toward those who were not numbered among the twelve disciples and forty apostles, so must we as His followers L tolerant in thought, word, act, to those not of our number, and outside our communion. There is greater need of toleration to-day than at any pre- vious period of the world’s history. he church of to-day is more advanced than the church of yesterday. Its intelligence is greater; its light clearer; its affinity with the Holy Spirit more personal; its hold upon the cross of Christ, that power of redemptive love, sacrificing itself even unto death, stronger. The church of the twentieth century ought to be, and shame upon us if it is not, more gpiritual than the church of the thirteenth century, or even than the church of the nineteenth century. iw But not only in view of our superior spiritual enlightenment, also in view o our peculiarly complex state of living should we be tolerant. It is the age of differentiation and of classification. Every significant fact of life has been forced to submit to division and ‘subdivision to an amazing extent. Look, for instance, at education. Trace it through the modern university curriculum. Contrast it with the most comprehensive collegiate institu- tion of a century ago. You are over- whelmed with the multitudinous depart- ments, and subdepartments and branches of instruction, and professional chairs. All these necessary, you say, to educate the youth. To adequately impart knowledge, to meet the ever increasing intellectual de- mand? Yes: The renaissance that called Europe from its dark ages of intellectual slumber has pot J spent its force. Meas- ure the term medicine, or surgery with the imposing stature of the general practi- tioner of twenty years ago. The stature is no longer imposing. The specialist of a single bodily function is more imposing now. And for the humad body the work 9 the one has been divided into the skill © the hundreds and each unit in the vast aggregate is more authoritative than the one. The term philosophy no longer rec- ognizes the old vague divisions of moral and intellectual. Each division has. been differentiated, and each differentiation sug- gests to the mind content and comprehen- siveness, richer and more compact than the original’ classification from which it sprang. Metaphysics, theism, idealism, empricism, economics, sociology, psychol- ogy, biology, and many more are the terms now familiar to our thought. - And how vast the field of consciousness covered by any one of these significant terms. Eco- nomics, a very modern term for instance postulates for us; the land question; the tenement house problem, the theory of wealth, industrial organization, all- social- istic and communistic relation. he same in jurisprudence, in commerce and trade, in everything of worth. The difference between the big department store and the little trader illustrates the idea. Yet how surprised w& are that we should have wandered religiously far afield from the primitive apostolic church, with our highly differentiated credal and ritual expressions, our numerous ecclesias- tical orders, our multiplicity of organi- zation. Bless you, it only shows we are alive and growing and anxious to apply the gospel of Jesus to all sorts and condi- tions of men. The worldly minded claim that denominationalism is distracting and sigh for a Christian unity that will swal- low up all religious divisions. But, believe me, denominationalism makes more for the glory of Christianity than for its thame. The only shame about it all is that denominationalism at times nurtures a spirit of Phariseeism that sees no God in any other division of the Christian fold than its own. It has been.only a few Years since the medical students of Har- vard fellowshipped the aspirant for veter- inary honors. The term “horse doctor” was the term of salutation. The veterin- ary student, as the student of dentistry, was occupied with such inferior subject matter. Yes, but necessary subject mat- ter. So of the Angelican churches and the non-conformists of England. The one is poor stuff to the other, tolerated only at’ the point of taxation to support their schools. Similar intolerance was felt to- word the great Booth movement in Amer- ica by all the churches, because that move- manent ignored their cut and dried eccles- stical methods and brought into requi- tion the public square and the secular 1¢ 51 hall if by any means they might save some the churches could not reach. The same intolerance is now characterizing us to- rd that growing, so called, Christian ience movement. When will we see the “powers for good” that are ordained of God? When will we believe that any move- ment, however erroneous in nineteen points of test, if adapted in its twentieth point unto the blessing of men, is worthy of our tolerance, even our sympathetic re- poin gard. Even religious bodies quarrel among themselves in defining orthodo and de- nominational respectability, tead of praying together for the salvation of the world. No wonder Christians outside the bv on the other side of the ians inside church of their existenca. The forget the purg | which are not of this fold thumbscrew, rack, fagot and stake are losked back upon as relics Jof ‘a:barbari age, but their spirit still lives. a leading denominations have within ten years either persecuted, else made it very unpleasant for some intrepid thinker who saw more clearly and spoke more fearlessly than the rank and file.. The Methodist Church in our leading New Eng- land city is to-day exalting the spirit of the Pharisees instead of the spirit of the Wesleys in trying to excommunidate its leading scholar, just as Presbyterianism a few years ago in persecuting its chief scholar went back dangerously near the standard of 350 years ago, raised by its illustrious ancestor, John Calvin; whe in 1553 burned Servetus at the stake in Gen- eva for doubting the equality of the per- sons of “the Trinity” and the validity of infant baptism. Christ dealt more loving- ly with heretics. To Thomas He unveiled His side and loved him into the necessar belief. Phariseeism, on the other hand, crucified Christ and stoned Stephen to eath. Loving as brethren those within the church; tolerant as Christians toward those without is the ideal that should rule. ow refreshing to reflect upon such a passage of Scripture as that which stands at the head of this sermon. It is a plea for religious toleration and sets before us a standard of religious liberty it would be well to live up to. Je are so inclined to become narrowed in our views of truth; we are so prone to live under the shelter of some creed that the vistas of truth stretching ahead of us everywhere become narrowed and hidden, and before we are aware of it the peculiar dogma we cherish or the certain fact we advocate is magni- fied into identification with the truth it- self. There is at least danger here. Thus, how needful te be often carried out into the the Gospel opens up. Look at the scene revealed here. Jesus is hav- ing another of His oft-recurring talks with the Pharisees; but, as of old, they do not understand Him. e is a fanatic, or at best, a stubborn partisan, who, while pro- fessing to lead them into larger freedom, seems only to break up their honored in- stitutions. So this peculiar saying falls from His lips. As He speaks how precious the outlook. I'here He leads His follow- ers through the old loved fields, out under the blue sky, their life and His identified bound together by a common fidelity of truth. But even this freedom seems nar- row in view of what is yet to come. These are My sheep, He says, and for them I lay down My life; but also other sheep I have , and as we con- template the words, the range of our vis- ion is extended, the fields through which they pass widen, the visible horizon that hemmed us in lifts, the blue dome of the heavens | expands until we see all truth loving souls everywhere, known by many a different name, coming in as the sheep fold opens to receive them. And we turn our steps homeward, resolving in future to be more tolerant for the Master's sake. A few weeks ago an attendant upon our church, a lover of truth, a believer in Christ, but who had never made an open profession of religion, asked me what I thought constituted a Christian, and if I did not think it meant to be a church member, and a Baptist Church member. It was that earnest question that called forth these sermons. What censtitutes a Chris- tian? No progress can be made in our dis- cussion until we settle that question. Is it to be a communicant of any church? Is it to subseribe to any creed? A hundred times no! All trustworthy sources make it to be a believer in Christ. What do you mean by bglief in Christ? Well, what do you mean when you tell a person you believe in him, that you believe he is a 00d citizen, a faithful husband, a loving ather? You may believe in him as all that, yet not be willing to trust him with a dollar out of your sight. or open your home to him as a friend. You honor him not most unless willing to trust him with very secrets of your heart. A belief that does not express itself in confidence does not count for much. All else is éold; im- personal opinion. You must not offer Christ less than you would your friend. A belief in the historié¢ Christ only never saved a soul, any: more than a belief in Caesar or Luther or Washington, even though you believe Him as more than a teacher sent from God, more than a pro- het, even the very Saviour of the"world. Just as friendship is more than an intellec- tual opinion, even a possession of the life. Just as love, the divine essential in all true living, without much society, is a self-centred, self-circumferenced conglom- eration, and the home a den. denying its own existence, is virtue of the heart in- stead of a secretion of the brain; so relig- nowhere in the life at all. i ; To be. a believer in Christ then is no different than to be a believer in man. Tell him whom you. profess to call your friend you believe in him. When you will not confide in him, when in perplexity you seek another’s counsel, and in sorrow an- other’s sympathy, and you have insulted faith, ‘and friendship has become in your thand an empty name. If you believe in a man trust hin as all men demand you should. You say you love? Show it by loving and manifesting the self-denial love demands, else your profession is a sound- ing brass, an empty name, a dastardly af- fair, 4 : Do you believe in Christ? Show it by a loving trust. Otherwise, you believe only intellectually, and that means you do not want to have much to do with Him. It means self first and alwavs. And if perchance you start to follow Him from so superficial a motive be not surprised if the first time His demands conflict with your plans you turn traitor and swear you never knew the man. The test is, My sheep hear My voice and I know them and they follow Me. That is the test—to hear His voice and follow Him. Now, what is the purpose of a church, and in how far does church membership constitute a Christian? Church member- ship constitutes a Christian just sc far as a_Christian constitutes a church member. No church, whatever its name and influ- ence, has of itself power to make a man a Christian, unless the Roman Church, and that is only in its own estimation. We fall into one or the other of two errors: Either of thinking of Christianity as an ab- straction, or as a fact identical with an or- ganization of earth, when it is grander than both. There is no Christianity apart from the life of its founder. It is not to be born in a Christian community. It is not to be swayed by religious excitement. It is not, under the uplift of fine music, nor the tender sentiment of a keen sorrow to catch some celestial glimpse of truth. and conclude you are henceforth a ralig- ious man. To be a Christian is nothing other than Christ within you the hope of glory. Then there is the other mistake of mak- ing the evisible church identical with the reality. Indeed, symbols are important. We can never tell how much satisfaction the religious devotee receives from the pic- ture of the Virgin or the image of the Christ. The line between the symbol and the spirit may be less attenuated than we think. More symbols may lead to more realities than we dream of. An object of sense may, however, oftener hinder ac- cess to the spirit than be a viaduet there- to. Many a person joins a church for the sake of being a church member rather than to be a better Christian. Many a person worships their church and minister rather than the Christ the church represents and the minister preaches. Being a good de- nominationalist is not necessarily being a good Christian, although if we are good Christians we ought to be denomination- alists, and better denominationalists than we are. Denominations give form and con- tent to Christianity which some souls would never otherwise perceive. But on the other hand, denomina alism should have no content to boast of except what the Gospel imparts. Don’t think that to money uncounted, your good name, the. ion has its abiding place in the heart, else 5 be a Mihai Press erian St, Daptist is equal. fo being a Christian. It“may be rr may i so. Tt depends whether your denomination intensifies or material izes Christianity. You may have the form of :godliness, but your ¥efy devétion to the form is a denial of the power thereof. 1 have -in mind a member of a former chugch. . who would sooner give up Christ than his immersion and com- munion. His unspiritual life shows he "has done that very thing. He has per- mitted these two sacréd rites to steal atvay his Lord, and he knows not where they have laid him. Seriptural warrant for ec clesiastical forms is good. But no eccles- iastical form should take the place of the pure heart, the Christ spirit. Christianity is a Christ imparted divine state of life. All within the charmed circle, whether of my church or yours, or of neither mine nor are my brothers because also of “Other sheep I have not of this Don’t forget that. Christ said it. Therefore, it must be true. There shall be one flock and one shepherd. Not one fold, as it is translated. There may be many flocks in one fold. By and by boundary lines will fade away. We think then they will all be Baptists. The Congregationalist thinks they will all be Congregationalists. And the Methodist is sure they will all be Methodists. Ah, brother, better still, they will all be Christians. And as some saint in glory ten thousand years asks, Who are these? as they all come trooping home like tired children after the toils,of the day are over, so some John will answer: “These are they who believed in the Lamb of God which taketh away the ‘sins of the world.” Who knows, Jesus Himself may say, “These are they for whom I died.” These? These? These are they who came up through great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb! Gems of Thooght. To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.—Johnson. Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. —Channing. We can hardly learn humility and ten- derness enough except by suffering. — George Eliot. Skeptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is only sufficiently improbable; it is at matters of fact that such people stumble.—Von Knebel. The best time to give up a had habit is before you begin it, and the next best time is when you have discovered that it is a bad habit.—United Presbyterian. No man can pass into eternity for he is already in it. The dull brute globe moves through its ether and, knows it not; even so our souls are bathed in eternity, and we’ ar€ never consciou$ of it.—F. W. Far- rar. The humblest man or woman can live splendidly! That is the royal truth that we need to believe, you and I who have no mission,” no great sphere to move in. The universe is not quite complete without my work well done.—W. C. Gannett. “What does it signify whether I go to the bottom or not, so long as I didn’t skulk ?—or, rather,” and here the old man took off his hat and looked up, “so long as the Great Captain has His way, and things is done to His mind ?’—George Macdonald. i you wish to know whether you are a Christian inquire of yourself whether, in and for the love of God, you seek to make happy those about you by smiles and pleas- ant sayings. Are you a comfortable per- son to live with? Are you pleasant to have about ?—Gail Hamilton. : Seeds That Will Grow. The soul of man is the great masterpiece of the great Master DE Rirchio Smith. He is building on the sand who makes the opinion of others the ground of his conduct.—United Presbyterian. : It is a noble sight to see an honest man cleave his own heart in twain and fling away the baser part of it.—Charles Reade. The capacity of our sorrows belongs to our grandeur, @andzthe loftiest of our race are those .who have had the profoundest sympathies, ‘because they have had the profoundest sorrows.—Henry Giles. - Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and lye, history, poetry, music, flowers, but dead.~Malthie D. Babcock. None but the fully occupied can appre- ciate the delight of suspended, or, rather, of varied labor. It is toil that creates holi- days; there is no royal road—yes, that is the royal road—to ‘them. Life cannot be made up of recreations; they ‘must be gar- den spots in well farmed lands.—Mrs. Gil- bert Ann Taylor. ei If. thou canst not continually recollect self, '¥& do it Sometimes, at least once a day, namely; in the morning or at night, examine thyself what thou hast done—how thou hast behaved thyself in word; deed and thought, for in these perhaps thou has oftentimes offended against God and thy neighbor.—Thomas a Kempis. mien ACEI .. Development of Character. Ve are left in this world, not so much for what we may do here, for the things we may make, as that we ourselves mav grow into the beauty of God’s thought for us. In. the midst of all our occupations and struggles, all our doing of tasks, all our longings and desires, all our expe- riences of every kind, there is a work going on in us which is quite as important as anything we are doing with our mind or with our hands. In the school the boy has his tasks and lessons. - According as he is diligent or in- dolent is his progress in his studies. In ten years, if he is failtful, he masters many things and stands high in his class iif he is indifferent and careless, he gets only a smattering of knowledge, with so many links missing that his education is of little practical use to him. But meanwhile there has been going on in him .another educa- tion—a growth or development of charac- ter. The mind grows by exercise, just as the body does. Then there is also a subjective moral im- pression, produced by the way the task is performed. If one is faithful and con- scientious, truly doing his best, the en- deavor leaves a mark of beauty in the life. But if one is unfaithful,. indolent, false to one’s self, there is left a wound, a trace of marring and blemish, a weakening of the life.—C. P. Miller. A Happy Home. Six things are requisite to create a happy home: Integrity must be the architect and tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warmed by affection, lighted up with cheerfulness, and industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and bring in fresh salubrity day by day; while over all as a protecting canopy and glory nothing will suffice except the blessing of God.—Hamilton. Progre ss. Many people who show a good deal of Christian zest at the start so soon get tired of being Christians. To have earnest views of Christ and to be intensely interested in them and controlled by them cannot, un- fortunately, be taken as a certain sign of the continuance of that interest. The fall ing off, the cooling down of Christi thusiasm is common experience.—Re H. Parkhurst, Presbyterian, New City. Nothing to Fear. The Bible has nothing to #ear from i ligent, painstaking and reverent cr Its integrity as the ir has stood every test whicl ism, d of God mate criti- | H. has applied to it a f those who wot stars, God and eternal hopes, is t6 be all’ THOUGHTLESS WORDS. In the course of our lives there must be many times when thoughtless words are spoken by us whith wound the hearts of others, and there are so many little occasions when the word of cheer is needed from us and we are silent. There are lives of wearisome monotony which a word of kindness can relieve. There is suffering which words of sympahty can make more en- durable, and often even in the midst of wealth and luxury there are those who listen and long in vain for some ex- pression of disinterested kindness. Speak to those while they can hear and be helped by you, for the day may come when all our expressions of love and appreciation may be un- heard. Imagine yourself standing be- side their last resting place. Think of things you could have said to them while they were yet living. Then go and tell them now. } PRETTY LIPS, To be really pretty the lips should be rather full, but without the least sus- picion of thickness. The color, too, should be of bright red, not: only for appearance sake, but also as denot- ing a, healthy body. Thin, colorless lips betray poverty of the blood, while very thin lips, however bright their color, show an irritable, fretty dispo- sition, says the Brooklyne*Times. Many girls when reading pull and pinch their lips.- This bad habit causes the flesh to swell, and in a very short time a pair of ugly, thick lips is the result. Unfortunately this unbe- coming. blemish is not easy to cure. The practice of touching the lips must first be abandoned and the lips gently rubbed with cold cream two or three times a day. The girl who uncon- sciously plays with her lips will do well to wear a pair of woolly gloves when reading or studying. She should also get those around her to correct her directly they notice her hand raised to her face, Biting the lips is another habit which also thickens them, besides de- noting a bad temper. The best cure for this is to keep a white bone pen- holder in the mouth in moments of leisure, and this will prevent the teeth closing on the lips. DUTIES OF A GUEST. When being entertained always re- member that your first duty is to your hostess. A guest should not expect to be provided with continual amuse- ment or seem to depend wholly upon the guidance of others; neither must she seek to iniroduce innovations of any kind, as they may. be displeasing simply because they: run counter tol plans already under. way. A guest| must not make appointmens or ask friends to call upon her util she has first consulted her hostess and gained her approval; this: courtesy should never be neglected, for a hostess has a perfect right to know who is coming into her home and interpose a polite objection without any one feeling of- fended, if she sees fit to do so. Her objectiofi” does not necessarily reflect against your friends, but may be based entirely - upon - personal convenience, whicli she is not expected to explain. If your friends call. be very particular to introduce them to your hostess and members of her family. An incon- siderate guest, who takes advantage of his or her position as guest to im pose nameless little selfish .. and: thoughtless acts, is, the greatest trial with which a host has to contend, hence it is not strange that some peo- ple find the doors of their erstwhile friends closed against them. Tact and close observation will teach one the happy medium and how to be a pleas- ant instead of burdensome guest.—Ma- rion Olcott Prentice, in Mirror and Farmer. a “iN FRECKLES OF TWO KINDS. Of all the facial blemishes freckles are the most obstinate to cope with and are the bete noir of the profession- al beauty specialist as well as the home practitioner. Usually they are the remaining kinks of childhood and will vanish with increasing. years. During their existence eternal vig lance in the matter of diet, proteec- tion from wind and sun, with fre- quent applications of a mild aeid lotion will materially assist in keeping them in subjection. The tiny brown specks are caused by minute particles of iron in the blood, which have worked their way through the glands of the skin and formed a deposit under the surface; they may be divided into two classes, constitutional or sun freckles. The former are usually quite dark and cannot be eradicated except by heroic measures in the hands of a skilled der- matologist; even then success does not always result. The usual method of removing these blemishes is to have the delicate tissues of the epidermis re- moved in layers, by the application of a caustic lotion until the offending spot is reached. This requires time and patience and during the peeling the skin is made very rough. s disappear almost entirely "0CesS An excellent harmless lotion ay be applied and which is cious in and sun. which very composed o water, 1 Juice and 1alf pint ablespoonful ounce of vs in the shade, but are |” | hii 1t out by exposure to wind | ordinary cases is|® alum. Powerful bleaches are not ad- visable in the hands of amateurs. NERVOUSNESS OFTEN A HABIT. Few things will more certainly ine sure a future disastrous result upon the character than a habit of yielding to or cultivating to excess the expres- sion of all the emotions. Tears for rifling pains, or loud complaints about small annoyances—physical, social, what not—may give at first momen- tary relief to the weeper or complainer, but soon become a habit which weak- ens the power of self-control and les- sens the power of endurance in all forms, says the Doston Herald. It is not within the ability of every woman to absolutely suppress all man- ifestations of suffering, but it is surely within the power of every one to make up her mind—and to teach her chil- dren—to endure the smaller necessary woes of existence without an outcry, and thus aid in the acquisition of con- trol over more serious forms of trouble. To yield and yield again to extrava- gant emotion is weak-mindedness— and weakens bodily endurance too. Every one in this trouble-full world will some day have need of all pos- sible native and acquired courage wherewith to face an enemy, whether that enemy comes from within or with- out. And such courage ought to be cultivated early and always. There can be no disaster, moral, physical or financial, so great but that courage, reason andthe power to use one’s head coolly~svill help encounter it, perhaps to. conquer, and at worst to endure bravely. No matter whether the suffering is of mind or body, the one who can stand.it without wasting her strength in making a noise has the possibility; almost the certainty, of being ablesto lessen it by distract- ing her mind, by diverting ber atten- tion, using all the means in her own power to aid her in the struggle. One most important smeans is phy- sical quiet, perfect relaxation; not the tense setting of every muscle which is commonly and most mistakenly held to be the true way.to fight against a hurt. Bodily relaxation is one step, and often the most l'elpful one, toward se- curing mental—that is, nervous—ease. The reverse is also true, that bodily tension increases mental strain. If, for example, one finds herself tremu- lous, or with shaking hands from ex- citement or apprehension, the tremor will be much more effectively over- come by relaxing the affected muscles or the whole body. than by stiffening up and “bracing herself” against it, and the correspending relief to the nerves is far greater. . This is the attitude to be sought for; and the philosophy of it is plain enough to any thinking person. If there is one to whom it is not per- fectly - clear, let ‘jer’ try: the. experi- ment forsherself a few times, and she will begin to realize the meaning. The trick of it is not to be acquainted im a day or a week, possibly not in a month; but it can be learned and it should 'be striven for at all times un- til it is attained and fixed as a habit. This is the habit to cultivate and not the other—the habit of resisting and defeating nervousness, not the habit of being nervous. : ; : oo ,povdoir v/ HAT: ¥ img A new fad is to have the furniture of your den or boudoir upholstered with portions of your and your friends’ old gowns. . aienteplaithis iE A girl can get all kinds of exercise at a gymnasium, but so she.can at home. Running upstairs in a hurry is nowadays called first-class exercise, and running downstairs is almost as good. In order to in sirength, vigor, e, celerity ad accuracy of move- ment, a girl should take the greatest possible variety of exercise. This is the only way to develop the body sym- metrically. The highest salaried woman at the Per Miss Annie Shirley, whom Commissioner Ware has pro- to a position which pays $1860 Only one other woman has re- sion Bureau moted a year. ge a salary. ceived 8 I.ace yokes en applique usually run down the sleeves. Cream linen neckwear is gay with embroidery a la Bulgare. An emerald green paradise plume decks a scoop hat of sable. A Parma violet toque is ideal with a costume of violet or purple. Many of the simpler hats for e trimmed with wreaths of puc on, are in eome ense, and of lace, mu ndersleeves <= — At Baku, on the north side of the Caspian Sea, an electric power sta- tion has been erected for supplying power to 2000 oil wells in that locality. “Color photography,” said one of America’s foremonst chemists recent- ly. “is impossible until we find some other sensitive salt than that of silver or platinum.” How to blend the colors in one is the secret, and “there's mil- lions in it.” To determine if acute insanity ,is caused by a toxin in the blood a Ger- man physician ras been experiment- ing upon himself. He injected at in- tervals serum, blood, and cerebros- pinal fluid from a patient suffering from acute dementia with hallucina- tions, without the least effect, A new surface-contact system of electric traction as applied to railways was put on trial recently in America on a mile of experimental line on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Report states that a speed of eighty-five miles an hour was attained, and that in other respects the results were successful. WAR RECORD OF A DOG Belonged to General Botha and Followed Irish Troops Through Boer War. Unusual interest centred in a case heard in the Dublin police court re- cently, in which the leading figure was a bulldog that formerly belonged to General Philip Botha, and went through a good portion of the South African war. Ernest Warmingham, canteen manager for the contractors, was summoned for cruelty to the ani- mal, which has been stationed for some time past with the Royal Irish Rifles at Richmond Barracks. The bulldog, which now belongs to Color Sergeant Edwards, Royal Irish Rifles, was accommodated with a seat in the witness box, from which point he seemed to take a languid interest in the proceedings. He was dressed in a coat with green facings, and wore sev- eral South African medals with clasps. The animal's record is an eventful one, During the Boer War le was cap tured by the Second Royal Irish Rifles, Mounted Infantry, from Commandant Philip Botha’s farm in the Doornberg, in September, 1900. From that time until the end of the war he trekked with the Rifles’ mounted force from Griqualand in the west to Basutoland in the east, and he: still bears the scar of a wound received in action. Later he was with General French's column in Cape Colony. For his service the bulldog now wears the Queen's South African medal with three clasps, and the King’s South African medal with two clasps. Mr. Drury remarked. when the case was called, that this was the most distinguished dog in the coun- try, as he had medals.—London Daily Telegraph. . : : Donald’s Retort to Lord Burton. It-is said that Eerd.Burton’s. good- natured heiress, Mrs. Baillie, of Doch- four, likes sometimes to assume the role -of the.eénfant terrible. of adolés- cence. But it is not generally known ' that the great beer baron’s tenants at Glenquoich also cultivate a .frankness that respects not persons. Wherever he may be Lord Burton has an irresist- ible impulse to improve the face of na- ture, and at Glenquoich, though it is only a shooting box, a number of alter ations have been carried out. In the course of the work he found it neces- sary to remove a little cottage and re- build it with better sleeping accommo- davon. The tenant was a very old man, so in deference to his years Lord Burton went to him personally to ex- plain. In his kindiy-asvay he began, “Well, Donald, I'm very sorry to have to turn out such an old man as you—-" when the old fellow cut him short in the middle of the sentence and snapped out: “Hech! sorra, did ye say? Sorra2 Na, you're na soira or ye wadna hae dune it!"—London Onlooker. n or. Told of the Duke of Devonshire. * In illustration of the lavishness with which Chatsworth House is endowed with art treasures, and of the distrait element which is supposed to be a feat- ure of the Duke of Devonshire’s mind, an amusing story went the round of the French press at the time of the last Paris exhibition. The duke, it was said, was strolling through the loan section of the English exhibits with a friend, and stopped to look with ad- miration at a porphyry table ¢f match- less beauty. He examined it long with the eye of a connoisseur, and at exclaimed: “I wonder who is the owner f such a beautiful specimen of work- manship. I almost feel inclined to envy him.” His companion, who had con- sulted the catalogue, handed it to him with a smile. It contained the infor= mation that the table came from Chats. worth House, and was lent by the Duke of Devonshire.—London Chroni- cle. last Wolseley and the Correspondent. Lord Wolseley has always exhibited a keen dislike of war corresonden:s. On one occasion a well-known press- in an and a personal friend of the gen- eral joined the headquarters and re- ported himself at the chief's tent to have his papers vis commander-in- ed and get permission to go forward to the fightin Greeting him with a hearty the hand, Wolseley looked the documents, these sig t; but if 1 you to 1 And witl shed his frie ’
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