OWNS drouth” stion of undreds ents. carried bil tank e works lack of ve been and the lant is rs have hat sec- is blam- Refore- he only y rains t week, stablish- spend. Compa- on with ig. several a wed- na was Mora- out the ully ap- tail of nt was ) a COor= rubbish ped de- 'S were + J. A. Valters® nd B. Railway >S were cs blaze umbing sterious Cris- ers es- ransfer f Louis Lumber Wenner foundry the old- rack to t $200, orth of e three yression le com- ill. , gener- n Lum- rere de- ‘eet of burning chment t, rush- r and a The artially Degildo stantly riously ther of , to es- an in- ide by ations.’ 1én re- of the ympany rember. e has lant at e. York. 1ace of ympany several mploy- county, ngineer salary 5 com- > begin poultry irsday, nection ry As- ne of 0spital ¥ fatal Investi- stone ed and f West: * . Ralling i : The Queen’s Maids. The Queen demands of her maids 2hat they shall be. musical, neat in their attire and eschew picture hats! Otherwise, she is very easy-going with them, and in the kindest way minis- ters to their pleasure Whenever it is possible. A maid of honor no longer -receives the coveted “dot” of a thou- sand pounds on her marriage, as: of yore, but the rank of “honorable’ is still hers.—London Gentlewoman. . Love. There has been a good deal written “about dorman mother-love, but the fact that there is a sentiment as fa- ther-love, seems to have kept well in the background. Masculine America flies from sentiment or from the _avowal of sentiment as from a plague or the confession of a crime. Yet it. Would be a poor country that confined its sentiment to its women. The natural emotions are the inher- dtance of both sexes, even if it is but one which has the courage to confess them.—Delineator. Built Her Own.Summer Cottage. Miss Josephine Louise Reynolds, of Hull, a telephone girl, has demon- strated that one woman, at least, can drive a nail straight and saw a board vertically and to the line. She drew the plan of a small sum- mer cottage and with her own hands, fearless of callous and splinter, con- structed it, the workmanship being good in every detail from foundation to rooftree. With her own hands Miss Reynolds _ will paint, decorate and furnish the cottage, the accommodations being for living, cooking and sleeping. When it is completed some time dur- ing the latter part of “this week she and her sister Grace will occupy it for the summer —XRoston Globe, 2ailway Station Master. > Whippingham, on the Isle of Wight, has had a woman station mas- ter for twenty years. Mrs. Merwood is, in fact, a whole station staff, for she does everything but remove the baggage to and from trains. The sig- and recording of passing trains, ticket selling, lamp lighting and bill posting are all part of her duties, and besides she finds time to attend. to the station garden. The The Wrong Dope. An Atchison bride is worried to death. She has been reading up for several months in the women’s col- umns of the papers how to keep a husband’s love, and in all of them has found the same advice: “Be your husband’s constant companion. When he comes home saying he is go- ing on a trip, have a handsome tailor- made costume all ready, some fresh shirt waists and a little traveling bag packed ready to accompany him. Look at him with a winning smile and say sweetly: ‘Take me, dear.” He will, and soon wiil not kno#% how to go without you,” etc.,, ete. The bride’s husband is a traveling man, but every time her nusband has left for his territory she has carried out the plan offered by the women’s col- .umns in the papers. "He took . Her once or twice and she was nearly dead trying to keep up with him. Yesterday, when the “bridegroom started for his trip, the bride ap- peared with her tailorimade’ ‘suit, her little traveling bag’ and. her winning smile. Her husband looked at her and said: “Great heavens,“aré you crazy? If you are going to keep this Lup, I shall feel like putting you in an asylum,” and then he left the house, without kissing her goodby, slam- ming the door after him.—Atchison. Globe. Granny Caps Worn by Girls. Tiny “great-grandmother” caps have been adopted by the “river girl” in England. A beauty specialist who has been threatening the modern woman with baldness is responsible for this fashion. “There is no doubt,” for scanty and dull colored hair. The ‘river girl’ ‘puts on her hat directly the day begins and spends eight hours out of twelve in her boat. Ail this time her long-suffering hair is lacking the sunshine and fresh air it requires. It is a most criminal thing to keep the head covered up all day in the summer months, and the ‘river girl’ is undoubtedly the chief offender in this respect. The little caps exactly meet the difficulty. They are pretty trifies of lace, muslin or embroidery and can be threaded with baby ribbon. They are made in the design of a little ‘Dutch cap, and many of my clients who have houses on the river have place is no sinecure, either, for the station is between Ryde and Cowes, picked up designs made of antique needlework in Holland. The ‘river the two chief industrial centres of the island, while the proximity of Os- borne House, first as a royal residence and then—through King Edward's gererosity—as a training college for * maval cadets,” has added to its im- portance.—New York Times. ’ Dress For Business. Anna Steese Richardson talks to business girls in the Woman’s Home Companion on the importance of good taste in dress. Said a Frenchman to Mrs. Richard- son not long ago, as they sauntered through a model department store: “Your working girls—they are wonderful. Sce, they are ladies! Such well-kept hands, such beautiful- ly coifed heads, such smart shoes! They must spend much time to make themselves ready for work. Nowhere else in the world will you see such girls earning their living.” “The self-supporting women in America have won an enviable repu- tation for good taste in dress,” says the writer. “Not éven in Paris, where every woman is supposed to be chic and to have an ‘air,’ do the self-sup- porting girls bear the stamp of gen- tility in clothes that you can note in| any large city or factory town in the United States.” . Pretty Hands an Added Charm. The matter of keeping the hands young and pretty is one that every woman should consider seriously, and before the time that it is really neces- sary for her to do so, says the Delin- eafor. ' The-hands begin to age at thirty, and there is no greater telltale of a wgman’s age than hands not properly cared for. The woman whose hands are short and thick, whose nails look as if they had been chopped off with a coupon clipper, ‘has much to contend with. She arouses antagonism the moment any one looks at her hands. With- out well-groomed hands a woman is unclassed; she can not possibly im- press one as being refined. And, after all, well-groomed hands are merely a question of care. Women nowadays are beginning to realize that pretty hands are second only in charm to a pretty face; a pretty hand is not fat and pudgy, as so many people think, nor is it neces- sarily dimpled. Whether the skin be white or tanned to a deep brown by the rays of the sun, it must be smooth and firm and well cared for. Even a bony hand, under these conditions, is at- tractive to look at, and ten minutes devoted each day to the care of the hands and nails will reap a rich ward.—New Haven Register, re- When cold, scoop out the centres, and fruit downward, and set into a hot Remove with a broad-bladed knife once with sugar and cream or milk, SAAAAAAS 2 : ; Cereal With Banana Surprise.—Turn any left-over break- S s ¢ fast cereal, while still hot, into cups rinsed in cold water, == ¢ half filling the cups. em fill the open spaces with sliced bananas; turn from the cups - to into a buttered agate pan, = © ¢ oven to'become very hot. is 2 { tocereal dishes. Serve at = « girl’ puts on a hat when she is in the full glare of the sun, but she is ready to remove it when she reaches a cool, shady place. Her difficulty then is her carefully arranged curls will be disarranged. The ‘great-granny cap’ fits under the hat, and a girl in a white muslin dress makes a charming picture when she pulls out her hat- pins and discloses the bit of lace on the top of her orderly curls.”—New York Press. Black velvet is an effective trim- ming for cretonne. The scheme of contrast is used on black hats with chic effect. Sleeves on most of the new dresses are long, transparent and shirred. ° A rose pink scarf and spray of pink roses are used for trimming hats. Ostrich plumes are still in vogue, and white flowers are—as always— favored. The new hats are certainly charm- ing with their chie decorations of great pointed wings. Coral pink and Copenhagen blue are favorites in color and are extreme- ly charming and youthful. The cretonne touch at collar and cuffs of a tailored suit is so good that one feels sure it will hold. The guimpe of dotted net shows the newest Parisian sleeves, with the selvage ruffle of the material. The parasol of cretonne is an ac- cepted fact, and nowhere does ithe ma- terial appear at better advantage. Lace dresses have lost their popu- larity, and very few of them are seen. White linen seems to have taken their place. Very remarkable dresses at the races at Auteuil, France, were of natural tussor, with chasubles of the same material edged with black passementerie. All the designs show thal the Pa- risian elegantes are wearing ties and jabots with everything. The tie of black satin looks warm indeed, but it would be undoubtedly becoming. There are 300 paint factories in this country, making over 100,000,- 000 gallons of paint a year, and the business demand is increasing faster than the facilities. she says, “that the river is responsible. ~ THE PULPIT, | A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY = THE REV. S. H. COX. Subject: Church of the Future. Brooklyn, N. Y.—The Rev. Sydney Herbert Cox, in an address to the people of the Congregational Chureh of the Evangel, of which he is pastor, spoke of “The Church of the Future,” such a church as he would like to see built and sustained. Among other things he said: The Church of the Evangel—Con- gregational—is free in its offer of church membership to any persons who, without accepting its creed as a test, will make a single and simple confession, that they believe Jesus to be the supreme expression to men, in human form, of what God is like, and what He would have us become. This - is what we mean by modernism. That the life of a church depends not upon its creed, but upon its spirit. Therefore we do not insist that any one else shall accept our creed in the exact terms in which we interpret it. It is impossible for a thinking man not to have a creed of some sort. But as Congregationalists we agree to differ upon all matters that we deem unessential. We believe that the example of the life of ‘Jesus as we have it in the four ‘gospels is sufficient to make any man who will try it such a man as God would ac- cept as His eternal friend, and help toward perfection of character. Therefore “we ask of a man who wishes to join our church, not what does he think concerning the lead- ing religious doctrines of his day, but does he believe in following Jesus as the Master of men and is he honest- 17 ‘trying to do so? His creed only interests us as the intellectual ex- pressions of his moral and religiousd character. He depends for his au- thority in religion exactly as we do, upon direct communication with God’s spirit. So, in this intellectual attitude toward religion, we do not decry or unkindly criticise those other religious bodies whose adher- ents . differ very widely from our view. We-believe firmly and grate- fully that Greek and Roman Catholi- cism, all forms of Protestantism, Unitarian . and Trinitarian, as well as Judaism, have each contrib- uted much to the world’s religious life, and that even the faiths of the Orient, both ancient and modern, have been a part of God's grpwing revelation to the world. The social message of Christianity has long been misunderstood of ne- glected. Now it is being proclaimed everywhere, and no live church can escape its appeal. In the church we are_to build, and the work we seek to do, we must recognize. its place. I have spent ten years amid social problems, six years” in tHeé Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan Island. I believe that my experience has equipped me in some humble way ‘to preach the gospel of'Jesus, and build up a church that shall represent the life of God in the souls of men. I do not need to proclaim myself a Socialist of any brand, nor to join some new ism, in order to love ‘my: fellow men and serve them. To me the biggest opportunity in life is to be a Christian—a Christ’s man, to serve men. What kind of a church, then, do I hope to see built and for what work ? Christianity and Socialism alike seek the development of an efficient society, a social order of stable equilibrium. But Christianity in- sists that there can be no perfected society, except by the regeneration of each individual. It is not ‘enough to provide a‘ perfect environment of justice and live by the most beautl- ful socialistic legislation; there must be ‘a moral -power in each person, causing him to fit in to such a per- fect society! Such a moral power can never be produced by perfect economic and social legislation, but by the making of a new moral man in each individual by some Divine power outside himself. Such a power has not been found outside Jesus Christ, however Ho is to be interpreted. If the Christian religion is to make each individual an efficient member of society, it can only do so as it perfects each function of that individual man. The Christian re- ligion must improve his body as well as his mind and soul. It cannot achieve one and neglect either or both of the others. Our supreme work, however, is the culture of the soul. Few of us can define what we mean by the soul. But all of us’ understand what is meant by the culture of the soul. The phrase appeals to mé more and more powerfully as I grow older, The development and enrichment of the highest powers within us so that we feel our personality ennobled by the kindling of sacred fires and the consciousness of divine passions over which we know this transitory world has no ultimate dominion. The cul- ture of the soul involves for me three elements: worship, education and work. : What is worchip? It is devotion, Instruction, evangelism.- In devo- tion man’s soul expresses his grati- tude to God for life and its hopes, his contrition for conscious sin, and his prayer for strength to endure the discipline of his spiritual education, and to achieve his final spiritual vic- tory over the lower and sinful self. By instruetion-man seeks to acquire in erderly possession by sure knowl- edge those doctrines of faith which describe in his own language the ex- periences through which he has passed, or those which he hopes to possess and believes to be a part of his eternal inheritance from his Father, God. Next to the importance of the auditorium for worship, wkich is our most important room, we must build a church equipped for religious edu- cation. The preacher's sermons should do this in part, and do it systematically, else he is a pcorly trained preacher, though sometimes he may be a great preacher in spite of his poor training and not because of it. But the chureh is more than a pulpit for preaching. It is and always ought to be a great school for religious education. And this means chiefly a great { Bible study. Men who do not co | fess Jesus as Ch , or seek to f« iow Him as Lord, admit that school for | the "world has no other literature eom. | parable to .the Hebrew Scriptures of the Old Testament and the Chris. tian writings of the New Testament, These writings, a library of “sixty- siz books, : “commonly called. by us the Bible, ' constitute a marvelous book of life, with every variety of human experience, written in every type of literary presentation, and possessed. all through by a marvelous moral ‘Power. a spiritual illumina- tion/and a’'grip on man’s moral being whith, make this Bible something in man’s life which he cannot avoid without moral loss, and cannot read without spiritual reproof and re- morse or defiance or repentance. The Bible must be reckoned with. Man has a right to its constant perusal and self-interpretation which some churches deny to him. _ Millions of our fellow men go through life un- conscious 'of this priceless posses- sion} which, ~if they once realized its existence and value, they would give all else to be able to enjoy and pos- sess. Millions more in Protestant Christendom come to years of mat turity utterly ignorant of the real value and moral vitality of this great book of God,*and though nominally accepting 'its contents at’ their pre- sumed -face value, place no actual reliance upon it as a source of life. This is partly due to an unreal meth- od of interpretation, partly to an unreal theological authority, and partly due to its eseclusion from our public system of .education as- a literature for literary analysis and examination, and as a great treasure house ‘of . moral infomation capable of .being memorized without rer ‘copirse to. ‘sectirian- ‘explanation of ecclegiastical influence of sinister de- sign.= No Congregationalist believes in State aid to religious communi- ties or ecclesiastical objects.” Let every religious organization ‘stand or fall, live or die, according as it ex- fall, live or die, according as it gives it a right to live in a free at- mosphere which is guaranteed as a necessity of life. How then is Bible study to be pursued? By rquipping every church as a thorough Bible school with every ° modern facility known to pedagogy, philosophy, psychology and religious adminis- tration. . 2 The churches of the future cen- turies will - only live ‘as they are worthy to live with the advancing sciences of government, industry and education, We are to do the work of build- ing up men in Christian character. Not merely’ moral men, or educated men, or+civilized men, but men re- deemed: and reconstructed in charac- ter by the power of a Person whom we love and worship as the Christ of God, and apart from whom we do not believe this spiritual life of re- generation. is passible. This: Work ? “demands that each membér’ .of{i4he Christian church shall “do. his’ ‘share. It demands that hat’ live and. work for the com- ‘all the time. Not ‘for ‘our- e.! ‘community . and the commug#y Father will care: for us. Some’ soils need worship, some need social life, some need good books, some need ‘physical culture, as the starting point of ‘a new intellectual life or spiritual passion. The Chris- tian church can sanctify all these modes of renewing men’s life. “It must ‘be a working institution. Open at all reasonable hours, for all ra- tional purposes that aid in religious development. It must be the great spiritual centre from which radiates the religious strength of the homes that ‘stand around it and to which comes’the spiritual response that mul- tiplies and maintains its power and resources. Eeilco i "Reconciled. 2 A young husband and wife were walking, one .summer evening, through .a country churchyard, and they: were -attracted by two little graves, side by side, on which were laid wreaths and crosses of fresh flowers. The date of the little ones’ death was seen by the headstone, some years back. The names were those of two children, only two and three years old, and underneath were the words, “Thy will be done.” “How dreadfully sad!” said the young husband. “If our baby were to die I could never say that,” said the young wife, pointing to the text. “Let us hope you will not be tried,” said the young husband. But when they returned home that night they found the baby ailing, and before very long, a little grave—such a little grave! —had-to be dug for it, too. For a time the poor mother's heart rebelled terribly. She mourned as one who had: no hope, and on the tombstone ‘of. her little one she had inscribed ‘the words: “I am bereaved of my. children, I am bereaved.” 2 on,” through years of trial and: fering, God led her to a better mind; and, when, a woman old in sor- row and years, she visited the grave where*her child and husband were both lying, she resolved to have that mur- muring inscription altered, and in- stead &f it was written, “Where the treasure ‘is, the heart is also; ” and beneath again, the text which once she-thought she could not say, “Thy will be done.”—Home Herald. " Sincerity is Not Enough. Here is a man who is sowing what appears to be black ashes. A friend accosts him, saying: ‘“What have you got in your bag?’”> He learns that it is the hulls of buckwheat— the®chaff of old wheat; and he says: “What are you sowing chaft for?” “Wh ? the man replies, “I have the impres sion that if a man is only faithful and sincere; it makes no differedce what he sows.” Does “it not make a difference? Suppose a man should sow couch- grass, thinking he was going to get timothy hay; would he? Suppose a man should set out crab-apple-trees in his orchard, and think he was going to get fall pippins; would he? Suppose a man should sow that most detestable of all detestable seeds, the Canadian thistle, and say it was wheat; would any amount of botani- cal sincerity on the part of this fool secure to him a harvest of anything better than the seed sown? If he sowed chaff, he would not even reap chaff. If he sewed weeds, he would reap weeds. *For what a man sos in natur ral ? ‘tha Beech ie reap. Gemctt- My FETT Formal opening of the great lock at Moline, Il1., ments made on the upper 1 Mississirpi River. —Georse E. Brown, in Les lie’s Weekly. NEW ERK IN WESTERN NAVIGATION. one of many improve- FINE GIET TO A NOTED BUSINESS Ten "MAN. It was said of a mythical river in Lydia, the Pactolus, that one would find that the sands were gold, once the river were discovered. © The sculp- tor Picault has sought to illustrate, in a striking and attractive design in bronze, his conception of the real source of gold: .The figure, which is three feet high, represents Industry, the, real discoverer-of-.gold in the waters. This masterpjece. was pre- sented to. Mr. C.. W. Post, president of the, .Citizens’y Industrial, Associa- tion of America, at a ‘banquet in Bat- tle Creek, Mich. The presentation address was done by Tiffany by hand "Notable Work, Source du Pactole,” Recently Pre- . ‘sented to C. W. Post by Prom- inent Manufacturers. —From Leslie's W cekly. Sculptor Pleault’ s “La on parchment, mounted in a hand- some leather cover, decorated with a silver monogram and corners. The presentation speech was made by J. W. Van Cleave, president of the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers, representing the donors, a long list of prominent national associations and individuals. The following in- scription appears on this fine piece of sculpture: “Presented to C.:W. Post, president of the Citizens’ Industrial Association ‘of America, by his friends and associates, in appreciative recog- nition of a great and generous per- sonal service to the cause of indus- trial peace, patriotically conceived, courageously sustained, and success- fully exetuted. yo Needles, Pins, and Hooks and Eyes. According to the census of 1905, forty-six establishments made a spec- |. ialty of manufacturing one or more varieties of needles, pins, or hooks and eyes. These establishments re- ported a capital of $5,331,939, 3965 wage earners, wages amounting to $1,595,923, and products valued at $4,750,589. ‘Almost equal numbers of men and women were engaged in|" this industry, the numbers being 1,- 862 and 1860, respectively. In addition a number of factories produced quantities of these articles without specializing on them. The total output amounted to 1,766,073 gross of needles, valued at $1,518,- 411, and pins valued at $2,632,656, a total value of $4,151,067 for both classes of products: The leading variety of needles manufactured was sewing machine needles, with a production of 776,- 542 gross, valued at $600,046. Latch knitting machine needles were next in rank in importance, the 310,846 gross of such needles being valued at $422,655. More spring knitting machine needles (332,788 gross) were manufactured, but their value was considerably less ($118,223). Large quantities of each variety of pins were hroduced~-152,632,252 gross of common or toilet pins, 2,- 550,650 gross of safety pins, and 1,- 704,900 gross of hairpins. The yal- ues of these varieties were $1,129,- 006, $829,386, and $109,245, respec~ tively. All other products, including hooks and eyes, were valued at -$1,642,~ 028. Explaining the Affirmative. The late Senator Gorman, of Mary- land, for many years ‘the leader of the Democrats in the United States’ Senate, has a son, Arthur Pue Gor- man, Jr., who is in politics also. Young Gorman was a trusted lieu- tenant of his father. Once the elder Gorman told him: to go to a place in Maryland, look into a certain con- dition and, if he found things all right, to telegraph him the single word “Yes.” The boy did his er- rand, found things all right and wired his ‘“Yes” to his father at Washington. Senator Gorman was much engrossed in some important measure and, for the moment, forgot what he had told his son to do. He read that single word “Yes” a dozen times and could make nothing of it, 60 he sent a telegram to his son read- ing: Yes, what?’ Young Gorman, harking back to his early lessons of parental respect, promptly wired back: “Yes, sir.”’— Saturday Evening Post. Computing Tape Measuré, A computing tape measure, which provides a simple and convenient means for ascertaining weights and measures without employing calcula- tions of any kind, is shown in the il- lustration below. It is especially use- ful in determining the weight per foot of tubes, pipes, bars and rods. The computing measure is formed by two or more tapes, arranged side by side. The one shown here, to be used in ascertaining the weights of pipes, has two tapes, one containing figures to indicate the diameters of the pipe and the other the weights per foot of pipes of different diameters. The measure is used as follows: To ascertain the weight per foot of a pipe having an internal diameter’ 23 inches and an. external diameter 27% inches, the upper tape is drawn out until the figures 23; appear at the edge of the slct. Both tapes are then drawn out together until the figures 2 7%, representing the external iamutor of. the pipe or tube, appear on the upper tape. The weight per foot is indicated by the figure on the, lower tape directly below the figures 27%. To determine the weight of ra: solid or cylindrical rod, both tapes are Weight Indicated by Measure. drawn out together until the figures representing the diameter of the rod appear on the upper tape, when the weight per foot can be read on the lower tape. A third tape can be added having markings indicating the cubical con- tents. A measure of this character can be readily carried in the pocket and can be quickly referred to for as- certaining the desired data without employing formulae. — Philadelphia Record. 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