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a5 = = too easily to indulge ely im the assumption that| the most wasteful war the ver knew and that the cost will 'be enough to keep nations at peace forever more. This is: to | last war because. it is the destructive war. Considering struction of capital and the f life without relation to any r facts it is-tle most wasteful ar, (but the world is better able and it, better organized for and against it, and, consequently, is likely to emerge from it less dis- turbed than would seem possible. ~ With comparisons and propor- tions kepit. in mind, the hope that this war will be prevenitive becomes illusory. The Thirty Years war Was more wasteful. It was almost one of extermination. It went over Germany like fire. It devastated like a pestilence. Armies of Swedes and Saxons, Spanish and a BESTS | Fads and Frneies. Worth is not the only great cou- turier who has started making many flounces. It has become the t} us our fill of it. Callot made frocks that we raffled from hem to 'waist as far back as last February, but' the dressmakers here, and the wo- men, would have nothing ito do with them. They liked tunics which were a greater novelty and insisted upon the. straight line, an which they keep up and which may continue. .There is a great gulf fix- ed between the first fashions shown for a season and the gowns the wo- men wear a month or two later. However, at the present moment we must consider the outlook for new fashions, not the acceptance or rejection of them Iby women. The designers have set their feet upon the patch of flounces and flowers, of round decolletage and puffed sleeves, of evening frocks made of fashion and the spring will give | insistence | THE SUNDAY SCHOOLLESSO MARCH 14. Lesson. XI. Saul Gains His King- dom.--t Sam. 11. Golden Text, n> "Prov. tose, 5 ¥ "Nahash" means "snake." He was in 1'Sam. 12. 12; 2 Sam.:10. 1, 2; 17. 27. In 2 Sam. 17 25 we read that hash, the sister of Zeruwiah. -In 1 Chron. 2. 15, 16 Zeruiah is mention- 'ed as one of the sisters of David. In 2 Sam. 10, 2 we leatn that Na- hash had been kind to David, and in 2 Sam. 17. 27 that Shobi, the son of Nahash, was friendly to David in his exile. oe Jabesh-gilead--See Judg. 21. 8. The Ammonites were envious of Is- rael because the latter possessed Gilead. See Judg. 10. 6-18. 11. 2. That all your right eyes be put out--To put out the right eye wouid not only be a disastrous physical handicap, but would bring exceed- INTERNATIONAL LESSON, | Verse 1. Nahash the Ammonite-- king of the Ammonites, as we read | Abigail was the daughter of Na-| Lady Francis Scett, Eldest daughter of the late Lord Minto, former Lieutenant-Gover- nor. Before her marriage this of the late Duke of Buccleach, she was known as Lady Eileen Elliott. plaints anybody can well have. month to Lord Francis Scott, son = HEALTH About Rheumatism. --_ _- You may call rheumatism in mod- Feration one of the healthiest com- It | keeps people generally out of mis- | chief; makes them: careful about their physical health. And if you. want to accomplish any good work in 'this world you must, above all things, as Huxley remarked, take care tobe a "good animal first." But, of course, everybody who suf- fers from rheumatism wants to get rid of it, aad letters reach me* by every post inquiring-how this can be done. The best physic is salicy- late of soda; ask the chemist 'to make you up.a mixture contiaiming 10 grains of this m each dose--to be taken three times a day., The pest localapplication is turpentine, in some form or other. Ask the chemist to make you up a liniment of one ounce of turpentine to two ounces of olive oil. Rub (this in night. and morning very thor- for they }of God."'--Matthew v., 9... 9 Only 2S OF Hum are 'Blessed are the peacemakers: y shall be called the children ; When Jesus declffred that "the peacemakers," in distinotion from | others, should be entitled to bear | 'the high title of "the children of God" did He have some particular idea in mind or was He simply mak- ing a graceful 'but. more or less empty generalization In most of the Beatitudes the appositeness of the rewards. which are promised 's obvious. Hiow appropriate, for ex- ample, the promise that those that mourn "'shall be comforted,'" that the merciful "shall obtain mercy" and that the pure in heart-"shall see God!' In certain others, how- ever, the connection seems more remote as where we are told that fe) ¥ Pe ple who speak a' different language, salute a different flag or worship a different god from his own, His sympathies are limited to the mem- bers of his own family, clan, coun- |" try, race or religion; his loyalty to what is native is confused with an- | _ tagonism to what is atien. He' misses altogether that instinct of -all-embracing human relationship which can lift him out of and above 'the narrow citizenship olf a local -- group and give him the universal _ viewpgint so wonderfully express- ed by Terence, '"Humani nihil a me alienum puto." Hence "he 'hates -- and. fears, and sooner or later -- bends the bow and draws the sword + f confliet! He is a war-makert -- He is a Peacemaker. The peacemaker, gn the other ing great reproach upon the chil- dren of Israel who were thus in- flicted. See Num. 16. 14; Judg. 16. 21; Prov. 30. 17: : 3. The elders of Jabesh said unto : : * heat of the day--The battle evident- ly lasted many hours. | It came to pass that they that re- mained were scattered, so that not the poor in spirit shall receive the pages vee ores ae bin eg ee kingdom o' ve hei te} tan ies ee Ge as ey ae kingdom of heaven as their pos provincialism have fallen from his session and that the meek ~ shall | FP" eee inherit the earth; and-it is to this| °Y°* He sees the world as" the latter class, rather than to the for- single abode of a single family , oe Dutch and Bohemians, of many na- silvered fabrics that are not assist- _ tionalities and great brutality, had = 7 =e 'by tulle and chif- Ke : es oe on trom the waist up. k - traversed __the country, subsisting barge hate-cith sides heiue off it, getting their pay by toritur- oughly. : Nearly always the cause of rheu- hatism is damp, affecting some part of your skin, and so stopping its functions. If you want to cure any- touched up with groups of pink ing folk to reveal hidden gold, by aed sacking cities and levying indemn- ities, by loot, highway robbery, and extortion. They pillaged until there was hardly an article of value remaining in the land. The suffer- ing peasantry had no safety except eigp flight, and yet returned as the pressure was lifted to rined farms and tried to find a living in the ruins only to bbe swepit over by a fresh horde of savages. Soldiers lost all restraints which govern humanity. With their wo- men, children, and with camp fol- lowers and brigands, they went across the liand like a scourge and £ nothing living or growing remain- ed. Armies were tattered rabbles suffering only a little less than the victims of their brutality. So im- poverished did the country become that even the military was barred 2 from entering certain regions be- cause life could not be supported. Humanity was sunk in a pit of bar- barism, Bohemia had g population of 2,- 000,000. It was reduced to 700,000 vand half the houses were vacant and falling in decay. Hialf the soil was untilled. In central Germany conditions were better. The county of Henneburg had lost 75 -, per cent. of its population, 65 per eent. of its dwellings, and 80 per @@mt. of its live stock. Germany : *, whole lost half of its popula tion and two-thirds of its movable property. The waste and destruc- tion were such that a day's ride might not find a human being or means of subsistence for one. For half a century after 1648 Germany struggled towards strength and - repose. : Compared with the destruction _ done by that war, the waste of this -wiar is nothing. We are not justi- fied in thinking that this war will be the end of wars. More wisely, we shall read what Admiral Ma- han, just before his death, wrote to a friend: '"'I have no quarrel with any method that will minimize the occurence of war, but I have much quarrel! with the charlaittanism that ignores flacts and bases statements as confident as they are absurd upon misrepresentation. Ait present and probably for several vears -- perhaps a generation--ithe suffer- ing and social disturbance attend- ing this war will disincline people to a renewal. But the grass will grow over the graves, the troubles be partly forgotten, and new causes of offense will cause new wars until the spirits of men undergo a nge. The human heart, acting upon sentiments and interests, is the cause of war; no methods can avoid it except as they deal with the inner man. I agree with you that g council of defense is an im- minent necessity, corrective of the extremists on either side." vie QUIET THOUGHTS. no A little with peace is better than much with war. - Nome are so wicked that there is - not some good in them. . The keynote of a genuine life vis always sursum corda, hearts !" Let us beware of treating others' 'passing moods as if they were per- manent characteristics, ~ : Do not envy the rich. Those with great wealth mostly have great cares, and few to truly love them. This is a splendid world of splen- did people, Be kind and cheery to every one you meet, and then see if 'on do not prove it so. ~Tihe trouble you are dreading will + be nearly so bad as.you be jeve. 'ry to keep a brave heart and face it with calmness, and you will see "Lift up your the silver light shining behind the' heaviest clouds. >) ee ' P RRR _ The Essential Thing, roses are also shown to go with the gowns thiat should smell of laven- der. Slim, yellow gloves are brought out by the smart glove makers of Paris. Accessories like black velvet belts caught with smoked pearl buckles, and prim velvet bows with ends, fastening below turnover white collars of stiff organdie, and lace berthas around the decolletage caught with full blown roses or camellias, are Victorian trifles that are being glimpsed. : Several skirts for dancing have old-fashioned lace flounces, two or three of them, festooned under roses, and individuals are elongat- ing their lace sleeves until they form mitts with thumbs to cover the top of ithe hands. So far there is no glimmer of the leg-o'-mutiton sleeve; the long, tight one prevails, although there is little doubt that 'the small elbow sleeve is coming back for evening wear. Nothing is more graceful, espe- cially for the dance, than the long, swinging, veil effect that *s attach- ed to the back of each jewelled shoulder strap. And another graceful invention is the square, high back formed of colored chiffon finished with a picot edge extend- ing to the tips of the fingers when the arms are extended: This is sometimes caught to the wrists with bracelets of crystals or left to swing back to the figure when the arms are in repose. It is the first aid to the woman who has not a well-filled or a well-formed back. There is no explanation for the apparent truth that the fashions of the First Empire are to be gener- ously sprinkled in with those of the mid-Victorian era. Queer mixture, isn't it Josephine and Victoria! But, as designers leap from epoch to epoch without fear, they are, also, no respecters of persons, and they have neither shame nor resist- ancy in coupling pagan with Puri- tan. Thais with a Jane Austea heroine, monk and Cossack, Cru- sader and The Hun. What is history to them but a chance to glean dress inspiration? They are bees in that they care not for ithe name or pedigree of the flower so long as it gives honey. The tunic topping a moderately narrow skirt has nothing to do-with any of revived fashions. It is a modern eréation in which women are far more interested than in an Alexandrian sleeve or a Victorian basque, for they have tunics, they like tunics and they are ardently desirous of knowing whether or not there are still to be tunics. The answer to that all-important question is yes. Whether fashion changes abruptly after all the first Paris models are shown is not easy to tell. But the first spring show- ings have tunics in various forms. They serve ito give fulness to the skirt. Some are' pleated at the sides and back, others are gather- ed and just escape the hem of the underskirt, a trick that Jenny em- ployed very smartly last October. There are also pleated skirts with 'the pleats stitched down to the knees. There are evening skirts that not only have ruffles like Cher- uit made fashionable two springs ago, There is not always a digspo- sition shown to keep the fulness flat at the rather high waist line, but there is danger when one does not observe this law of grace. -- Yo. A Case of Necessity. Old Lady (stopping on road)-- Dear! dear! Why are you two men using such frightful language ?. Tattered Thomas--Well, yer see, lady, me an' me pard 'has ter ex- change heated words to keep warm, not havifg no overcoats. Out of Warm's Way. . "Tf you had to go to war, what position would you choose ?"' "The drummer's, I ithink." '"Wihy so?' "When a charge was ordered, I'd pick up my drum and beat it." Widows Are Dangerous. "How did! you catch your cold, old man?' ! | "Teod id by siddig dear @ wid: dow." ; : ss "She must have been very icy." How Could She. Mrs. Exe--If Td been®in your place I think I'd have pocketed my pride. . & Mrs. Wye--But I had no pocket. a him--The civil government of Israel was in the hands of the elders. See Judg. 8. 14-16; 11. 5ff; also Deut. 19. 12. : 4. Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul.--This does not mean that they came to Gibeah be- cause Saul was there. They simply happened to come to the place of Saul's residence. They did not know that he was to be the future king. Saul, it will be remembered, had said nothing about his anoint- ing. In fact, he refrained from an- swering a direct question of his un- cle. See 1 Sam: 10, 14-16. All the people lifted up their voice and wept--Great grief among the Orientals. is expressed in léud wailing. See Gen. 27. 38; Judg. 2. 4; 21. 2. The crying of grown men in Palestine to-day strikes the visi- tor as singular. It is not at all un- usual to come upon men and boys weeping as a consequence of failure to-get what they want. 5. Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field--He had been plowing and was just return- ing. He happened to come upon the messengers. Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep?--He had heard nothing about the occurrence at Jabesh-gilead. As the people were weeping, he naturally wauld ask the reason why. 6. The Spirit of God came might- ily upon Saul when he. heard those words, and his anger was kindled greatly--The Spirit of God evi- |denced itself in great energy and power. He who was possessed of this Spirit was ready for great things. See Judg. 3. 10; 6. 34; 11. 29°; -19.- 25: 7. He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces--Oxen were yvalu- able to the agricultural people, even as asses were. Saul's quick under- standing of the situation showed him how best he could bring the people to rally about him. The warning could not fail to have its effect, as they could not afford to lose their oxen. Sent them throughout all the bor- ders of Israel.--This was a usual way of apprising the children of Israel of any calamity or stirring event. Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel-- Samuel still was mighty in the land. His influence would go far in showing the children of Israel not only what the emergency was, but what the chances of success were. Saul was unknown as a leader. Samuel was a chosen prophet. Samuel's name, therefore, gave weight to the sum- mons which Saul sent forth. The dread of Jehovah fell on the people, and they came out as one man--The fear of Jehovah did not cause weakness; it rather inspired strength. When Jehovah called, the children must obey. They fear- ed him because if they were diso- bedient, and he exercised hig an- ger, the result would be worse than any evil which could come to them in battle. 8. He numbered them--It would seem as though they were numbered in order to be sure that no man was lacking. See Judg. 21. 9, where the people were numbered seemingly to discover whether any of the inhabi- tants of Jabesh-gilead were pré- sent. H Bezek was perhaps a district ra- ther than a town or city. See Judg. 1. 4, 5. 9. To-morrow, by the time the sun is hot, ye.shall have deliverance --This would be toward noon. From Bezek to Jabesh-gilead was about a night's march. See 1. Sam. 31. 12. '"To-morrow," doubtless, was the last of the seven days. 10. Therefore the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, To-morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you--They did not intimate at what time of the day they: would come. As they had the whole of the day, it was not necessary to designate the hour. They let the messengers of Nahash believe that they were g0- ing to accede to the terms of Na- ash. 11. It was soon the morrow, that Saul put the people in three com- panies--They started to march the night before, so evidently the army was not divided until they had come eae to the proposed scene of bat- tle. ; 2 ; They came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch--The camp means, of course, the camp of the enemy. The morning watch was hours each, into which the night was divided. The time, therefore, was between two o'clock and six o'clock in the morning. Notice, again, that the Israelites struck the blow at an exceeding early hour in the morn- the last of the three watches of four| hi | two of them were left together--Not only were most of the Ammonites killed, but those who escaped es- caped singly. Saul's delivery of the men of Ja- besh-gilead was held in grateful memory.. When later he met de- feat in battle, the Philistines fas- tened his headless body to the wall at Beth-Shan. When the inhabi- tants of Jabesh-gilead heard this, "the valiant men arose and went all night. and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-Shan," and buried their bones "under the tamarisk- tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days." See 1 Sam. 31. 7-13. 12. The people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death--This has reference to 1 Sam. 10. 27. 13. There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day Jeho- vah hath wrought deliverance in Israel--Saul, first of all, gives the credit of the victory to Jehovah and, secondly, shows keen judg- ment in not allowing any man to be sought out and anmoyed.° Had he permitted this, even those who would have been leaders in the search and killing would afterward have turned against Saul for hay- ing permitted it. See 2 Sam. 19. 22 for a similar instance of good sense on the part of David. 14. Renew the kingdom -- The kingdom had been established when Samuel anointed Saul, but there had been no public proclamation. Samuel did not want to discredit the first act in the establishment of the kingdom, although that act was a private one. Now when the fact of the kingship is to be publicly pro- claimed, he simply says, we will "renew," or make public, what has already been done. 15. There they offered sacrifices of peace-offerings before Jehovah-- In 1 Sam. 10. 8, Samuel tells Saul that he will come down to him later to offer burnt-offerings and to sac- rifice sacrifices of peace-offerings. As this was a part of the ceremony of making Saul king, Samuel is now keeping his promise. peenietn ta Netdewe She S SHE AND I. She and I in younger days, Saw in each other, the kinder ways; She a lassie and I a lad, And nothing, from nothing, was all we had. But we called the bluff, on poverty's ban-- And we hitched ourselves and made a span-- : Health and youth, and never gay die, Were the bridal gifts to She and I, Love and labor, went hand in hand, And we gathered a home, but it wasn't grand, Nor filled with riches and costly ware, That wealth could gather from every- where. Homely fittings, and meager worth Cast a halo of love about the hearth, And a babe to us, with his welcome ery; Was heavenly music to She and I, So we toiled and struggled from day to day, Rich in love of his childish play; God to the parents was over kind, Perfect in body and health and mind. Though often we passed beneath the rod, We knelt in our prayer, and thanked our God: For the staff on which we could rely When age had settled on She and I, Years came on and he grew to be Tall and strong, and fair to see: True to the blood of parent's youth, Labor and love had borne the truth-- And cur hearts grew rich with parent- al pride ' When we looked at his manly walk and stride, And often our thanks to God on high Were tendered anew by She and I. And the woe and wart of feebler days Seemed banished from us, in_ his thoughtful ways, : And the twilight hour, with rosy gleam |Po'She and I was a pleasant dream. - Till the god of war across the sea Claimed royalty's wish, was a thing ~ato be-- Ah--and the years of toil, the hope-- and then -- ras We saw in the papers a call fcr men. * Will Leonhard. Sombra, Ont. Bax Wife--Please hurry up. Haven' you ever buttoned ia dress behind | before, Hublby--No ; you never 'had a nd ; With reference to the use of abundant negatives, a correspond- ent of the London Chronicle quotes the inquiry of the navvy looking for work: "T say, mate, I s'pose you don't know nobody what don't dress\that buttoned before lbe-| 8 a ren {inquired the kindergariner of 'her thing whatever the first thing ito 'be done is to search out the cause. The Romans had a wise proverb-- "When the cause is taken -away, the effect ceases." That sounds trite and banal, but it is common sense. Get your skin ito act proper- ly. Perspiration is the natural cure for rheumatism. Take a Turk- ish bath if you can; if not, a hot one--as hot as you can hear it--at home. -And don't get into damp sheets, or put on damp clothing, or sit on a damp cushion at church. Gout is the twin brother of rheu- matism, and often the two are so much alike that it would puzzle 'the cleverest doctor alive to distinguish "other from-which." And, again, the two ailments are often inextric- ably mixed up together in the same patient. But for gout, pure and simple, it is well to remember that acids are always poison. Not a drop of vinegar even can ibe permit- ted. The first rule of diet is to ex- elude anything and everything sour. The human race naturally divides itself into two great groups --the people to whom acids are highly beneficial, are excellent ton- ics, in short--and ithose ito whom they are poisonous and 'banefiul. The doctor aforesaid can generally distinguish at sight to which group the man or woman 'before him hbe- longs--by inspection of the tongue. The one to whom acids are lbene- ficial has a 'tongue slightly furred-- coated, especially at ithe back. The ;g@outy individual--or at any tate lithe person to whom an acid tonic must not on any account be pre- seribed--iwill show: a raw, beefy tongue, devoid of fur-coating. This distinction is a highly important practical point; which I have never seen noted in any medical book whatever. The practical doctor hias to find out these points for him- self, as a rule. For gout alkaline medicines are always required--piotash, soda, lithia, etc. Salicylate of soda again is useful in acute cases. For the chronic, the official liquor potassae with a few drops of colchicum tinc- ture is ithe best remedy. Tt is al- ways safest to ask the chemist to dispense these drugs in accurately marked medicinal doses. Total aib- stinence from aleohol in every shiape is imperative. Half meas- ures for the gouty are useless 'and worse. You don't thing much of teetotallers who drink "only port wine."--A Physician. ----___k__.. THE SEED LAW. With the opening of the 1915 seed trade, seedsmen, farmers and gar- deners may wish to review the con- ditions under which sales may be made, vides that timothy, alsike, red clo- ver and alfalfa seed must not be put on sale for the purpose of seed- ing without being plainly marked with the 'grade, namely: Extra No. 1, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3. Farmers may sell seed below No. 3 in quality only to dealers to be cleaned and brought. up to grade. All other grass, clover and forage plant seeds and those of cereals and flax must be marked in a plain and indelible manner with the common name or names of any noxious weed seeds present. Seed of cereals, flax, grasses, clo- vers, forage plants, field roots and garden vegetables must have a:ger- hmination of two-thirds of the per- centage standard of vitality for good seed of the kind or be marked swith the percentage that are capa- ble of germinating. "Papered seeds'? must be marked with the year in which the packet was filled. . Representative samples of seeds for purity and germination tests may be sent to the Seed Branch, Ottawa. Two ounces of grass seed, white or alsike clover; four ounces of red clover, alfalfa or seed of like size and one pound of cereals are desired. Samples under 8 ozs. may be sent without postage and are tested free of charge up to 25 in number for each person or firm, ------------t_______. A merry sinner is\at least more Fentertaining 'than a melancholy Saint. a : "What is your name, lititle boy?" new pupil. "I don't know," said ithe little boy 'hashfully. 'Well, what does your er wall you?" "T don't know," stil more bash- fully, "How does your motherséall you when the griddle cakes are done?" 'She don't call me," mer,- that the great Beatitude The Children of God. A more careful examination of this et caer sh however, will indi-. cate with clearness, I believe, that Jesus had in mind a perfectly dis- tinct afd inevitable tween the virtue blessed and the no looseness of phrase when He conferred this title. Not "the poor in spirit,' or 'the meek,' or "the mereiful,"? or even' "the persecut- ed for righteousness' sake," ""the peacemakers"--these alone could be righitly called "the © chil- dren of God." The reason for this will become apparent when we remember that, | fundamentally speaking, all the hatred, discord, warfare of the world, have had their origin sectional emotion and parochial viewpoint. The man who takes up arms and thus makes war against his fellows is the man who: can see little good outside the borders of his own tribe or nation and feels nothing but hostility toward peo- which' we have taken for our text r would seem at first sight to belong. relation be- reward assigned. He vas guilty of but. in' which all men are members and God is the common fathier. Instead of English, German, Japanese or Kaffirs, he recognizes only men, In- stead of countrymen or foreigners, -- Occidenitals or Orientals, blacks or -- whites, he knows only the 'one blood" of which God 'hath made mankind, any being in human form is as im- possible to him as to-feel hatred to- ward one of his own kind and to ~~ wage war against any portion of humanity as impossible to fight against his '"brother and sister and molther."' He prays, with Baha- 'o'llah, ""Let not aman glory in this that he loves his country; let-- him rather glory in this, that he - loves his kind." Hence he seeks to abolish strife and bloodshed and make all men to be one. He is a peacemaker ! : ; Just here, now, is the explana- tion of the blessing*pronounced by the Master in our text, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called"--not the children of Rome, Egypt, Israefnot the chil- dren of Germany, England, Ameri- ca--but "the children of God !"-- Rev. John Haynes Holmes. _ A GREAT INDUSTRIAL CENTRE, Warsaw Produces Three - fifths Poland Manufactures. of The Government of Warsaw occu- pying a narrow strip of land in the heart of Russian Poland, where vast ress for weeks, is one of the richest manufacturing districts of the whole Russian Empire. The importation of industries by the Muscovites has taken its way over this flat plain northward, have halted not far from the borders, nearer to the skilled labor markets and the markets for machinery and deeper in the hinterland. Thus, the textile indusiry crossed into Russian territory, and, for the great part, remained in the Warsaw Government. Iron and steel working followed the textile mills, and the manufacture of boots and shoes, hosiery, sugar, tobacco, machinery, and lace-making have grown up around the working of the two most important modern staples, iron and fibers. Warsaw, the capital of the Govern- ment of Warsaw, as it is the capital of the general government of Russian Poland, is the industrial centre, value of the annual output of manufac- tures of the government is estimated at between 60 million and 65 million dollars, and of this the city of Warsaw produces nearly three-fifths Cotton and woolen goods and products of iron and steel make up the bulk of this value. Footwear, leather goods, and beat sugar are, however, items of con- siderable importance in the prosperity of the district. The Seed Control Act pro- | j)manufacturing ventures. The Germans and Jews have played the leading parts in developing its Russian rule, wholesale deportations of artisans after the Polish uprisings of 1794, 1831 and 1863, and a German customs bar- rier on one side, with a Russian cus- toms barrier on the other, have operat- ed to greatly retard the growth of the Government's industrial importance. There is a well developed agricul- ture in the Government, despite the fact that its soils are very poor and that in some sections there are peri-| odical drownings out of the country by the Bug and Vistula. The lowlying grounds are boggy. The Government embraces an area of 5,605 miles, and houses a population of about 2,300,000. The land is mostly low and flat, broken only here and there by low hills in the south and by the high terraced banks on the left of the Vistula in the north-west. The: Vistula forms the northern boundary of the Government and is its principal artery of trade. On the west it is bounded by the Prussian frontier, The herd grazing of Wast- ers Prussia is carried on into the Government of Warsaw,*and, com- bined, its herds of horses, cattle, sheep and swine number about half a. milion head. In the 18th century, when the city of Warsaw, next to Paris, was the most brilliant city in Europe, this: flat plain was usually rich in herds and in geese flocks, though almost bare of "manufactures. ' ae The youth had been asked to write examples of the indicative, subjunctive and potential moods, and an exclamatory sentence, This iis what he produced: "I am trying to pass an English examination, If I answer twenty questions I shall pass. Iif I answer ttwellve questions I may pass. Heaven help me."' -- "Did you see the pleased ex- pression on Mrs. Blank's face-when T told her she didn't look any older ion. "No," gones after the rec : was looking said Mrs, Jones, ' military operations have been in prog: | and a great many of these industries | raw materials than would be the case! The | he will lead a double life, marry him I']] have ito lead than. her daughter?' tasked Mr. | al x Young Folks. An Indoor Garden." "T should like to start my garden right ~ away," said Paul. 'See, here are some wonderful péctures in the seed catalogue." "Why not start a garden now?" his mother asked. "It would be fine fun ibo see it grow." ; -Paul looked out of the window upon a snow-covered world. "What kind of a garden could I possibly plant now?' he said. 'Jack Frost has been sowing seeds." "But you can have a green gar- furniture | @¢2 10 a few days,'"' his mother re- plied. "I will show you how. First, the seeds must be soaked in warm water," Paul ran to get thé seeds. When he came lback this motheriwas cover- ing'a wide tray witha layer of cot- ton. 'After ithe seeds are soft," she said, "we will place them between two layers of cotton amd wet them well. 'Then we will carry 'the tray to 'the sunniest window, and in a few days your garden will be groww- ing." s Paul could hardly believe thai seeds would grow unless they were planted in moist brown earth, but he watched his cotton garden gaith- fully, After some days green shoots appeared. Paul was puzzled and - delighted. His mother explained that each seed hiolds a store of food for 'the little growing plant, so'thiat at first it does not need earth to nourish il. : Paul's plants did not grow to be big and tall, but they gave him much pleasure. He soon started | other small gardens in sawdustand fibre. He found that by placing peas or corn against the inside of a glass bottle and filling the bolle with moist cotton he goon had a To feel hatred toward -- garden where he might watch the growth of the roots ag well as of the leaves. : : These are only a few of the many things that Paul learned about: in- door gardens. His mother has told him that 'there are many more won- derful things about seeds that she will discover in - time,--Youth's 'Companion. "i te No Sympathy. "Sir, your daughter has promis- ed to become my wife." . "Well, don't come to me for sym- pathy; you might know something would happen to you, hanging around here five nights a week," ¢ . \ Choice of Evils. Miss Young--I warn you against manrying that man, dear, Im' sure Miss Older -- Well, if I don't a single | one and that's worse, : Not Quite Right, Boy (in book store)--"Sister aske , * ' \ ¥ ed me to get her Mr. Darn's novel, | <i "Great Expectations.' cas Darn? You mean Olerk--'Mr. Dickens ?"' : _ Boy--"That's it. I knew it was some kind of w swear word," : * el ad What must I do, doctor, to at- , ing, and compare Gideon's attack "tain a ripe old age ¥ C Women learn to run an automobile Ub kye, more quickly than men in Judg. 7.19. pS ee t nobody to do nothin', do| beamed tthe new pupil; "I'm there] at the exprasgion on' Smote the Ammonites until the yer?" <a fe already,"" "6 ee ' Sag pos Uni 'daughter's | | There arg over 800 woman anciatacte , fee A | sata teasaba oe Ex fom 3 2 : Xd Peas