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Con- jation- Falls, r last S. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY A STRONG DISCOURSE ENTITLED, “WHAT CHURCH CWES CHILDREN.” The Rev. Howard Melish Talks ¥Whole- somely on the Promise of Zechariah to His Discouraged Countrymen — Man’s Thirst For Righteousness. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—“What the Church Owes the Children” was the subject of a strong sermon preached by the Rev. How- ard Melish, rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity. A number of requests for its publication have been received and it is herewith given. The text was from Zecha- riah viii:5: “The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.” Mr. Melish said: Zechariah gave this promise as a word of encouragement to his discouraged country- men when on their return from their exile they were trying in the face of enemies and great obstacies to rebuild Jerusalem. The time will surely come, he bade them believe, when the city shall stand once more on Mount Zion :n all its former strength and splendor, blessed with that greatest of all life’s benedictions—children at play. “he streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.” One of the wonderful stories which our last census told was the phenomenal growth of the American city. Briefly, the story is this: While the population of the country in the nineteenth century was multiplying itself fifteen times the popu- lation of the cities and towns was multi- lying itself 150 times. Whereas the popu- lation of the farming community has been multiplied by two in fifty years, that of cities has been multiplied by ten; in 1800 one man in every twenty-five lived in a city. To-day it is one man in every three. The tremendous concentration’ of men, women and children in our cities is one of the most significant and startling facts of our times. : The city is built! The prophet’s promise has been fulfilled—the streets are full of boys and girls. But what a fulfillment! They are playing in our streets because we have built our “cities in such a way that there is no cther place for them to play. In .our. tenement districts especially the houses stand so closely together that there is .scarcely space for light and air to enter rooms, not to mention courts, back yards, play grounds and small parks. Within a short walk of where we are to-day’ are hundreds of families living in one or two small rooms to a family, rooms often loomy" at mid-day. Of course, the chil- ns are in the streets. - And what places the streets are for‘these fittle ones! Look over the pages of our papers day b day with the children in mind and you read the sad story of this little child crushed by a car, of that one maimed for life by some wagon. Go into the Children’s Court and see boys of twelve and fourteen arrested for crimes which would send men to the penitentiary for a long period of years. Between the crcwded tenements and these injuries, deaths and crimes, there is the relation of cause and effect. - The tenements drive the boys into the streets, and there they are forbidden by the police and prevented by traffic to play games which kept me and my boy friends from going to the devil. No! I don’t mean that insinuation. The ood God won’t let the devil have those oys. They may become impertinent criminals, and die like the hardened thief on the cross, but conditicns shaped them, and God will give them, in my heart of hearts, I believe, a new chance to become like Him in tha; new city, Jerusalem, which is not built by men’s hands. And yet true it is that in our cities Boys who are denied tne healthy amusements of boy life drift into the crap games and form street gangs which territy neighborhoods and brutalize toys and turn the spirit of ischief into the demon of crime. . Jacob Ris has told us that between the tenement and the penitentiary Le has found a beaten path, traveled by the feet of hundreds of our boys every year. ; It is about this somewhat new and very serious situation of the. children of our ptreets that I want you to think with me thie morning. o * It is often said, as an argument against the church assuming this responsibility. that the church’s one mission is to preach the gospel, and I want to say at the start that the purpose of the church has never been more correctly defined. The gospel is the message of the good tidings that God cares for rien, that God is love. Once let_ a man accept”that message and let it sink into his soul that it becomes the prin- ciple of his life, and even though he lives in a badly ven ilated house in a crowded district, surrounded by evil influences, yet he will be a good citizen, son, father, hus- band and friend. Yes, and once let a land- lord receive the gospel in his heart and he will transform his tenement into decent abiding places if it c..ts him half his in- come. For the gospel of the Son of God is, the regenerating power in the world which makes all things new. To preach it clear- ly, with consecration and power, is the su- preme, all important, never-to-be-forgotten mission of the church of Christ. : But how :s the gospel to be preached in our crowded cities to-day? It is as im- portant to know the way as the destina- tion when one is trying to reach a definite point in the world. Some men fancy that the city needs nothing more than a coun- try village—a preacher and a building—to have the gospel preached with power. There was a famous test case of that preaching on the East Side in Manhattan. A man of ability determined to preach the ospel every Sunday and do nothing else, iia that peop:e would come as they did before the city became what it is to- day. After several years he gave up the work as a proved failure. Ie was a John the Baptist crying in the city wilderness, but unlike John’s experience the people did not come out to listen to the voice. And I believe it is because they were wait- ing for the Christ. Not the voice in the i but the man to go about doing ood, healing, strengthening, encouraging, Inspiring. Sermons, services and prayer meetings are preaching the gospel and do good. Many of us could not live without them. But they do not monopolize preach- ing the gospel. Did Jesus do nothing but preath and teach? The church needs to learn anew the message of the incarnation, the truth thatlife isimparted only through a life. We are Christ's body. May we rove it by going, as He went, into the ighways and back alleys, doing good, bringing hope to the discouraged, lifting up the fallen, taking little children into our arms, and so assuring them as Christ assured the world that love reigns en- throned above this worid of pain, sorrow and hardship. When the church is a man- ifestation of Christ among men. as Jesus was of God, not merely. by speaking and singing and communion, but by living, working, helping in the world the gospei of Christ will be truly preached. . Let me specify. One man may stand in a pulpit by telling of God’s love, give hope to some poor mother who is almost in de- spair over her boy. Another man, ani- mated by God’s love, may furnish a club room where young men may spend their evenings apart from the dangers of the sa- loon, and by so doing give hope to the mother whose boy goes there. Both preach the gospel of hope, one in words and the other in deeds. A preacher gives a strong sermon against the saloon and his hearers say he is preaching the gospel. A man starts a cooking class where women learn to make food so wholesome that their hus- bands and sons do not longer have the de- sire for drink. Are not both preaching the gospel of the more abundant life? You see what this means. The church is preaching the good tidings of love through every agency which gives hope to men, and makes thei: feel their brotherhood aniong men and the Fatherhood in God. You know the way the churches have shirked responsibility for this kind of pteaching. the ind that is effective in our crowded districts. It is one of the saddest chapters in the history of Christianity. Churches among our tenements, with few splendid exceptions, have sold out and moved up town, with their wealthier mem- bers leaving their poorer members as sheep without a shepherd in the “city wilder: ness.” One will hunt far before finding a more un-Christian spectacle than the exo- dus of the Christian churches from the ten- ement districts where the harvest is ready. e reason usually given is the removal of the rich to the suburbs and the failure of the poor to contribute liberally. So the oor are blamed for the church’s infidelity. The church ought to be on the firing line where the need is greatest. Instead it is too often found in the rear, caring for the wounded, no dcibt, and occasionally urg- ing back the frightened or forward the stragglers. The crowded districts where the streets are full of bo; : and girls are the church’s responsibility. To betake it- self to the suburbs and leave these children in the streets, saloons and tenements is to offend God’s little ones. And the Master said about such a one that it i= bette - that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he was drowned in the deptn of the sea. The second hing I want Zo think about this morning with you is the church’s op- portunity to help the children of ofir streets. This opportunity is orly limited by the number of men and women who are will ing to take a real interest in the children, and by the space you have to use. Give these children a chance to get out of the streets and away from the bad influences into a wholesome environment of real warm-blooded people and good books and amusements and fun giving recreations and they will come to the church in a stampede. Their hunger for ennobling friendships is one of the most pathetic things I have found in my ministry, and also one of the most inspiring. Oh! the splendid opportunity for you all to fulfill your responsibility for these boys and girls of our streets is here. In the oys’ clubs is the chance for you young men to preach the gospel to our lads, not by speaking sermons, but by manifesting to them, through your manly sympathy and interest, your courage and your truth- fulness, your honor and your uprightness the Christ you love and follow. Christ may be preached to these boys with the oxing gloves, and the fencing foils, the carpenter’s tools and the féotball teams with more power than .by sermons from a pulpit. In the sewing school is the chance for you young women to preach Christ, not by words of religion, but by your beautiful friendship for the little girls who come in eager to receive that which their homes are unable to give them. In the Sunday- school is the chance for you young men and young women, and older ones, too, to gather once a week a little group about vou and lead them through the wonderful story of Him who came to.earth to be our servant and yet was King Eternal, and then through the alchemy of the influence of your life move them to love honesty, purity, goodness, man, Christ and God. Nor will I admit the older people’s chanee to preach the living Christ. here comes before me the picture of a scene in a men’s club in a certain parish house where a professor of political economy met in a perfectly natural way a brakeman on the Pennsylvania road, and both men came to see that great labor problem more clearly, and had more of the Christ tolerance than ever before. And I know of women who have found through the Girls’ Friendly So- ciety the chance to preach the living Christ so_effectively that girls have risen up and called them “blessed among women.” .The few hours given to such work in a single year seem very powerless beside the powers of darkness which walk our streets both day and night, week in and week out, in vacations as in working or school days. But, thank God, a man’s life is not an equilibrium of forces, a resultant of houses and environments. In every soul is the thirst for righteousness which can be aroused by bringing it face to face with a righteous hfe. There is a contagion in goodness as there is in badness. Arouse those dormant faculties in every soul, and they, with Christ's help, will “eourtteract the influences of house ‘and street. This is the opportunity of the church to- day in our crowded cities. By meeting. it the church will find, what every individual who has so met opportunity finds, that it gets by giving and has a firmer hold than ever on the realities of truth and life. Call such service what you will—though I personally hate the trite phrase institu- tional, for I am pleading for a work alto- gether personal, the touch of life on life— ut you must believe that the church which assumes this responsibility and meets this opportunity is following the ex- ample of the Master. When Christ came to earth to lift men up to God He took the form of a common man. He might, we say, have gathered the Jewish nation into some great plain and revealed His mission in the sight of all with such glory that all must bow the knee before Him. He might have come with angels straight from heav- en and swept men irresistibly into His train. What He did resembled neither of these, but poirts the way for us to follow. He was among men as a servant. By His life of service, now with sermons, now with deeds, but always with a life spread- ing a contagion of love, courage, hope, manliness, sincerity, Je, the servant, so profoundly touched the hearts of men that men have risen up and crowned Him King of Kings and Lord of Lords. o — The Power of a Godly Life. In a recent article. the Rev. Dr. Schauffler incidentally said: I had a teacher in our school who used to be a sailor—a godly man. He knew little of history, and nothing of science; but he knew Jesus. He so taught his class that everyone found the Savior, and made public confession. By and by he came to me and said: ‘Take my class away, 1 am uneducated. I can’t lead them any higher; but I have led them to Christ. Give me,” he said, ‘a new class that does not know Christ, and I will try to lead them to the Shepherd.” I gave him a new class, and before he died everyone had found the Savior. What was the po- tency in that uneducated man? Was it not his humble trust in Him who can sanctify whatever word is spoken?’ TE Our Responsibility. “Others sin cgainst us and with us and in spite of us, but none can sin for us. Whenever that is done ve have to do it ourselves.” It were well for the weak ones of earth, yea, and some who count themselves strong, to ponder on this truth. Men are prone to blame others for their misdeeds. This one ‘empted or the other led astray. And so the conscience is soothed, the still, small voice quieted. The consequence 1s that the experience, in all probability, is repeated in kind when a little wholesome remorse for sin, a putting of the real blame where it be- lon would save much. No one can sin for us. Whenever that is done we have to do it ourselves. — Philadelphia Young People. His Father’s Watchword. The Rev. John McNeill, the popular evangelist, says: “I owe more than I can tell to my fath- er. He had a habit of which he never spoke to us, nor we to him. He was a quarryman, and I often heard him go! downstairs on dark mornings. Standing | on the threshold before passing out hel would say aloud, ‘I go to-day im» God’s| name.” I can never forget the impression | this made upon me, and thankfully say | to-day, ‘My father’s God 1s 1 ne.” | with jaspe effects are likely to be pop- WOMAN'S DEBT TO THE BICYCLE. Modern woman now has the authori- ty of Molly, Countess Russell, for the fact that the bicycle has been her emancipator, Her ladyship made this pronounce- ment in a lecture to the Vegetarian Cycling Club. The cult of the wheel had, she affirmed, done more for wo- men than anything else she knew, by allowing her to be free and to go out unattended. In this spirit of independ- ence woman no longer, as she did so recently as 1848, looked upon the male arm as a necessary piece of furniture; she could use a walking stick.—Lon- don Chronicle. HEIRESS AN EVANGELIST. Rejecting wealth and its attendant luxuries to enter her chosen field of. evangelistic work, Miss Mary R. Rob- inson, caughter of a millionaire Pitts- burg railroad magnate, has gone to Chicago to speak of salvation from the. pulpit of Bethlehem Chapel. Miss’ Robinson, who is worth $500,000 in her own right, was director of a Pitts- burg church chorus at a large salary. The Bostonians made her an offer of $10,000 a year to join their opera com- pany, but she refused. Soon aftérward she left home to enter evangelistic work. Her uncle, John G, Robinson, Secretary of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railway, and friends tried in. vain | to dissuade her.—Scranton (Pa.) Truth. JAPANESE MAIDS: It is high time we tool thought of the Japanese woman,. as a’ possibility of ‘ule in the Orient—in the same: sense in which the American woman is the potential ruler of the Occident—and as an influence upon universdl civiliza- tion. Such men as Lafcadio Hearn. and Edwin Arnold have long held up the Japanese woman to the world's. imagination, and, except our own, there is none more picturesquely and more prominently in .universal atten- tion. Here is a piquant and colorful attractiveness which has made itself felt upon mankind, and the mention of her carries with it an atmosphere and suggestion of the tender, the beautiful, the lovable, essentially the “artistic.” Yet, except for what Arnold and Hearn and our romances and operas and ‘tea- cups and Japanese fans have told us, we know not much about her: know her superficially at best. Despite the wide adaptiveness of Ja- pan and the extensive adoption of Eu- ropean ideas which have chs: racterized its progress during the last generation, the position of its women have changed little. The men of the little island kingdom have at least shown themselves consepvafive in their atti- tude toward her. A proposal te “eman- cipate” her is as yet wiewed—or would be; nobody has forcibly urged it—szs not only unnecessary, but-in tiie na- ture of things absurd. : The difference between her life as. .Girl, wife and “ s mother and that of the-Americdn. girl | is so great as to be almbst inconinre: hensible to us. To regard her serious- Iy has not occurred ‘to the Japanese, though by no means is she denied af- fection, a disposition suggesting revs erence, a care involving respect. To all purpose, by custom, by tradition, she is the charming, irresponsible and, as a recent writer puts it, “automatic” doll.—St. Louis Republic, NEXT FALL'S VELVETS. While a large business was done in telvets for the season just terminated, manufacturers have been making pre- barations*for next season, with a view to a diversity of articles which, by en- larging the scope of consumption. would render the position of the trade more secure. The first orders secursi from leading English and Parisian houses are regarded as encouraging and have served to increase the atten- tion paid by makers to new styles. Velours chiffon and velours gauffre are likely to be in the lead and to main- tain the position they occupied last sea son. This will be facilitated by many changes and improvements which have gradually taken placa in their manufacture. . Gauffres will be to a large extent shown in spall and me- dium sized designs and chiefly on piain velvet grounds. The globular and block effects of last season are not like- ly to be in renewed favor. One of the leading novelties is a combination of the chiffon and gauffre effects, which have individually been so successful during the season just past. Plain velours chiffon is again being shown in eighteen, twenty, twenty- two and forty-four inches. As might be expected, it has been also produced | in lower grades mixed with cotton, these qualities having been taken up by wholesale buyers in place of all- silk makes. Cheap grades in narrow striped and small checked effects are no longer receiving attention, but both these styles are being produced in good qualities. Velours crystal in light colors with wide stripes is a novelty | of the latter kind. Large dots are embossed upon good qualities of velvet, with very fine stripes. For waistings, velours raye | ular. In the collections of plaid velvets quiet designs with small embossed ef- fects are preferred 1e Paris houses having been ma 1p models of this material, | In jacquered effects on high pile grades interwoven large and small globes are being shown. Other varie- ties of jacquard styles are composed of wide satin stripes with small ef- fects. Daily - additions are being made to the collections, which seem likely to illustrate in the highest degre. the pro- gress recently made in the velvet in- dustry.—Toilettes. Bovdoir’ ( HAT: ADout one-tenth of the buyers in New York whelesale stores are women. There is only one woman admiral in the world. The Queen of Greece is an-admiral in the Russian Navy.’ It is said that an American dress- maker will do three times as much work ‘in a day as a dressmaker in | France. ; . Ce wl Miss Mary E. Jenkins has just been elected President of the Syracuse (N. Y.) Herald Publishing’ Company, She is a thorough business woman and well acquainted with all tlie details of the newspaper business, Si ) Mrs. H. A: Jaffray, who believes that- cradles are out of fashion and that the rocking of infants addles. their Drains, was recently. ebosen -President of the Woestlaywa. (Ell) Woman's lub and is now servmg-her second term dn that Dosilion.! Su. “2 "ot i . Miss FY. Cory, ‘who madde- the six- “ty; wonderfully amusing illustrations for Josephime Daskam’s “Memoirs of a Jaby;”? was mrrried recently -to Fred- erick W. €ooney, a ranchman in Mon- tang, where Miss Cory has been spend- ing several years in outdoor life. The Wisconsin Society of Mayflower Descendants has re-elected Mrs. James Sidney Peck, of Milwaukee, to the of- fice of its Governor, and she is said to be the only woman holding the office of Governor of a Staté Mayflower De- scendants’ society in this country. Few women have explored with such distinguished success the devious by- ways of Greek archeology and mythol. ogy .4s. Miss . Jane Harrison, whose “Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion” is accepted Dy experts as a valuable contribution to a very gif- ficult subject. rte “Nine-tenths. of the women of the country are home women,’ said Mrs. McCulloch... recently, “apd .have .no property righis avhatever. : The wos: man who has property rights is. pro- tected by laws, but the .home woman is at the meroy of her hysband's gen- erosity.. The husband can dictate just bow much she'shall spend”. . . The red hat is popular with milady. Wide sashes of sof of the smart samme; lace 1s Much’ cream down coloring. Colored linings for transparent gowns are slowly but sur-ly returning to fashion. Medallions of English embroidery are the height o¥ vogue for decorating “tub” gowns. Loose coats of black lace, unlined, or lined with thin black liberty silk, are the styie for elderly women, Ruches of chiffon almost universal- ly appear on the edges of lace or ems- broidery when the latter are used in band effect. Berth surplice uscd to tone Gite GQ weight stuffs, A floating lace veil attached to the hat. but seldom worn over the face se it is unbecoming, is a recent 1ion revival. The days of Dolly Varden are re- called by the fancy fronts of lace, em- i rocade seen upon some very stylish gowns. sometimes of wuni- nar- 3ayadere tu ; form width, sometimes growing rower toward the waist, constitutes one of the scason’s most favored skirt trimmings. Short skirts are only correct for 3 for informal wear; the round with its fuliness sweeping to nie floor, is much smarter for those in- tended for dress. Linon de soie, which seems to com- bine many charins of both linen and silk, although of a somewhat coarse texture, is one of the latest among de- sirable summer fabrics. The two very defirite skirt styles la mode this summer will be the revived tlounce style of fifty years ago for soft stuffs, and the close-fitting habit cut of skirt with full length tucks or pleats for firm fabrics and tailored effects. Parasols for morniag are of linen, pongee or the new shaded taffeta to match the gowns. Embroidered and Dresden silk sunshades, with ndles enameled to match the covers, ied with afternoon gowns of r voile, gowns of ‘otherwise too vivid 2 i ends. {Sw DRESSING. At a charming luncheon the other day, the salad was particularly attrac tive. On each plate was a lettuce leat and on this a hollow form of lemon jelly filled with secded Malaga grapes. The grapes were also arranged about the jelly. On the top of eac’ cup was a generous spoonful of very stiff may- onnaisc thinned with whipped cream. EASY CARPET CLEANING. To clean a carpet without removing ft from the floor, sprinkle it generously with slightly dampened sawdust. After it has lain on the floor for a few min- utes go over the carpet with a stiff broom moistened with hot water and kept clean by being frequently rinsed with hot water as the sweeping pro- gresses. After the sawdust has been removed, sweep the carpet with a softer broom. To go over it a third time with a broom bound with a soft cloth dampened with ammonia water (one teaspoon ammonia to one quart of water) brightens the colors and re- mqves the last particle of dust. The cloth must be kept clean by constant rinsing, and the ammonia water must be kept clean by rinsing the cloth in a separate bucket. : CARE OF BROOMS. Brooms are expensive articles, and we wish them to last as long as pos- sible. When you are buying a broom select one that has a tinge of green about it, for it shows that the corn was cut when it was young and pliant, Make it a rule that whoever uses the broom shall hang. it up as soon as the sweeping is done, and. it will keep its shape much longer than if it is thrown behind the door until it is. wanted again. The springs sold for that pur- poSe are good and can be fastened to the door frame or any other conven- ient place; or a screw eye may be screwed into the top of the handle and the broom hung up on a nail or hook when not in use. A new broom should never be used to scrub with. This advice has been given so often that it seems useless to repeat it, yet we see it done every day, and housewives wonder why their brooms wear out 50 soon. TABLE DECORATIONS." In decorating a table where a few flowers are obliged to do duty the serviettes can be folded in form of a cornucopia either in one large opening or two smaller ones, as preferred. For a pretty floral decoration to this white linen two or three blossoms with some. green leaves can be so groupad in each opening as to form a dainty little bou- quet, the flowers and leaves standing up’as in a vase. - As a more simple, and yet artistic adornment, a double carnation, with a spray. of mignonette, makes.an effec- tive showing when combined with two or three light-colored geranium leaves, As an extra ornamentation for the board, violets or pansies, when in sea- son, or any spring blossom of net too large proportion, is exceedingly de- corative when placed at regular inter. vals apart over this. snowy white da- mask. The table linen in this case is better without figure, with. only one broad stripe in the border. As a table border the smilax is a lovely green, and is sure to be. an effective plan, with the four corners decorated with cream-colored satin ribbon in a gar. niture of big rows and long flowing If desired, a dslicate pink is showy, and makes an acceptable fin. ish; also a light blue or a pale lemon. ANSE Hor : 2 to 3 ¥, RECIPES i Effort eta toner Buttered Parsnips—Boil tender and scrape; slice lengthwise Put three tablespoonsful butter in a saucepan, with pepper, salt and a little chopped parsley. When heated put in the pars. ley. Shake and turn until mixture boils, then lay the parsnips in order upon a dish, and pour the butter over them and serve, Cottage Pie—A cottage pie makes a good supper dish. Mince a pound of cold meat and mix with a sliced onion that has been freshly fried in a little butter. Season with salt and pepper and place in a pie dish with a little water. Cover evenly with a deep layer of mashed potatoes beaten light and topped by a few pieces of butter. Bake about half an hour, ' Creamed Potatoes—Chop the pota- toes or cut in small cubes; make a good white sauce, using two table- spoonfuls of butter, one and a half of flour, and a cup and a half of milk; season well with salt and pepper, stir in the potatoes, tossing lightly so that they will not be “mussy;”’ just before turning out the flame sprinkle a little minced parsley ‘over the top. Pickled Quinces—Quarter the quinces and steam until tender, then drop them into the following mixture: One quart vinegar, one cup sugar, one tea- spoon ground cinnamon and one-half teaspoon ground cloves tied in a thin cloth. Have this hot and cook the steamed quinces in it for five minutes. These should stand a few days before being used. Quinces are so tart that they require more sugar than other sweet pickles. The vinegar should just cover the quintces Peru has but four peo to every square mile of territory, and the popu- lation is not increasin : The reach of the searchlight for prac- tical use is 700 yards, but torpedoes can be used effectively from 1200 to 4000 yards. nih The hottest place on earth 1s said to be the Uval Islands, which lie off the southwest coast of Persia. The mean temperature there is ninety- nine. In July, August and September the midnight temperature is often 100, and at 3 p. m. it is 140 in the shade. The “chromophone” was exhibited recently to an invited audience in a London theatre. It combjnes the cine- matograph and gramophone. Conver- sations and vocal or instrumental music, synchronized with the move- ments of the figures, accompany the pictures. In his report of the Palestine explora- tion Mr. Ackroyd says the saltness of the Dead Sea cannot be fully explained by the accumulation of salt from Pales- tine rocks or by its originally being an arm of the Red Sea. He claims that evidence shows that it is largely from the atmospheric transportation of salt from the Mediterranean. The highest temperature observed at any place in the British Empire during 19202 was 177 degrees, at Trin- idad. The higliest shade temperature was 111.04 degrees, at Adelaide, in February. The wettest spot was Col- ombo, where 117 inches of rain fell. The cloudiest place was London; and the highest average temperature re- corded was at Madras, The recent visit of British cotton spinners to the United States has al- ready resulted in the adoption of the American automatic loom in several of the largest English mills. Other American inventions for facilitating weaving operations are being tried. Some of them encounter opposition from the workmen, who dre relieved by the new machinery from duties which they formerly performed by hand. A prominent naturalist asserts that, of all the feathered tribe, the frigate bird can fly the longest without resting. He has known one to fly for a whole week, night and day, without repose. The frigate bird can feed, collect ma- terials for its nest and even sleep on the wing. The spread of the frigate bird’s wings is very great, and it can fly at the rate of ninety-six miles an hour without seeming to flap its wings very much. : i . en A new Arctic expedition is proposed by the St. Petersburg Pliysico-Chem~ ical Society to make observations of solar variation and atmospheric refract tion, of cloud movements ind of at: mospheric electricity in connection with the extinction of u as light; to determine the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism rand of electrie currents in the ocean, .and to make chemical analysis’ of the composition of the air apd water and the polar ice. The Russian naval authorities are now, the Petroleum World says, grave- ly occupied with the question of fuel supplies. It is acknowledged by au- thorities that coal cannot be stocked for more than a year at the outside; if it is kept longer it deteriorates and crumbles into dust, when it ceases fo be suitable as a fuel for steamers. The Russian Government pays enormous sums in time of peace for the renewal of stocks. There is no serious deterior- ation in the case of oil when it is prop- erly stored; it can be kept in iron tanks for an indefinite period. Mr. H. W. Conn, the bacteriologist of Storrs, Conn., says that while milk at seventy degrees Ifahrenheit may not keep longer than forty-eight hours, at fifty degrees Fahrenheit it may not curdle for two weeks. At fifty de- grees the ordinary milk organisms in- crease very slowly; but on the other hand, the putrefactive bacteria con- tinue to develop rapidly, and while they may not sour the milk, neverthe- less they make it unwholesome. For this reason Mr. Conn says that milk which has been kept sweet by a low temperature should be viewed with suspicion. Payment For Pri In return for street privileges grant- ed a street car company in Liege, Bel- gium, the company must undertake to fulfill a number of obligations. In the first place, one-third of the gross re- ceipts on existing lines are turned over to the municipality, five per cent. of the receipts on any new lines built and one-third of the profits. In addition an annual payment is demanded equiva- lent to four per cent. on $115,800, which principal must also be paid in during the life of the concession, which is thirty years. But this is not all. The fares are limited to three cents for first class and two cents for second class. Why Co-operative Colonies Fail. “Co-operative colonies fail because they get out of touch with the great world around them,” said a lecturer recently who had been a member of the famous colony of Zoar. “All the property and all the earnings of the Zoar colonists were divided equally,” said he. “As a result there was less energy and thrift. Petty 3 ousies interfered with the colony work and when its leader died it gradually went to pieces.” ee a To Fight For His Country. ipal of Doshisha Hac Coiiego, r of the Japanese army m 1s been he
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