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I NOTES AND COMMENTS A significant point of view is that of the aead of a great English firm, Mr. Seebohm Rowntree, who has written to the London Daily Mail criticising the churches for not arousing the classes to a keener sense of the inequalities of fortune which are "so utterly opposed to the great principle of brotherhood. Had they played their part in mak- ing ui vitally conscious," writes Mr. Rowntree, "that all our oppor- tunitiee and talents and possessions should be regarded as a trust, to be utilized not for our own enda but for the benefit of the community, we should never have heard of la- bor unrest. It is because we have forgotten our trust that labor rises and says to us : 'If neither love nor Justice can induce you to share the good things of the world with your co-workers on fair terms, we who have suffered for generations must demand our share by force.' "We must recognize that if jus- tice is to be done to the workers it will mean sacrifice on the part of the rich. No doubt, as the de- mand for higher wages and better conditions of work becomes more in- sistent, the employing classes will improve their methods of organiz- ation, and in many industries great improvements can be made in the lot of the worker* without material- ly lessening the earnings of capital. 'Jut this will not solve the prob- lem. The poverty at one end of the social scale will not be removed except by encroaching heavily upon the great riches at the other end. I think during the next few years we hall see labor organized more ef- fectively than ever before, success- fully demanding a much larger share of the wealth annually pro- duced." This great English business man tees very much farther than most men of his world. But the hurry- ing events of recent years in Great Britain must be illuminating to many of the propertied classes. The organization of labor is becoming more inclusive, more militant, and more effective each year, while the pressure of economic necessity sup- plies an ever increasing propulsion upon the English masses. The in- crease of th* cost of living relative to wage increase is substantially greater, and is felt even by the classes above the wage earner acutely. Meanwhile political and social philosophy is modifying the thought of the educated classes. The movement toward large social read- justments based on the economic re- volution of the last century ia grow- ing in depth and power, and per- haps the most important question in the world of European civiliza- tion is whether these readjustments can be brought about without revo- lution. If this be possible any- where, it should be in England. MORE ABOUT CLOVER. How to Deal With Weeds Which Contaminate Clover Seed Crops. In the production of alfalfa seed the weeds to be especially watched are ragweed, ribgrass, bladder cam- pion, trefoil and sweet clover. Usu- ally it is only the perennial weeds which contaminate the seed if the killixi out and thin places of field are taken care of with a scythe. In aleike, the docks are some- times common. They should be pulled when in blossom after the ground has been softened with a rain, or they may be picked out when cutting the seed and burned. The campions, especially night flow- ering catchfly or sticky cockle, when in blossom shoot up above the alsike and if not too thick may be either pulled or the tops cut off with a sickle. It would be neces- sary to hand-pull wild mustard from aleike and spud out any ox-eye daisy. Trefoil is hard to deal with in alsike. In red clover most of the wild mustard disappears with the first eutting. The rest must be hand- pulled. Docks should be cut or pulled if they appear after the crop is removed for hay and any other perennials must be dealt with in a similar way. Ribgrass and campion seeds are altogether too common in red clover seed, as are also those of ragweed and foxtail. Sweet clover is becoming quite prevalent nd is most easily removed from the first crop by pulling or spudding after a rain. ^ Petonvill* Gaol, London, on a eily average contains a thousand prisoners. fifl (JTflBY Ur uLUnl A High and Mighty Thing, Significant of the Presence of a Kingly Being Then Sew one of the seraphim un- to me, having a live coal in hia hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. Isaiah vi. 6. These words are taken from the description of a thrilling experi- ence that Isaiah, the seer of Israel, had in the House of God. He had gone there seeking God, in response to an impulse that, some time or other, stirs every mind. He had a never-to-be-forgotten experience inspiring, uplifting. In a vision of the Eternal One received there the evident concern of the Lord of Glory for the seer himself filled tha life of Isaiah with power and strength lor the rest of his days, though they were often fraught with hardship and despair. The picture is inspiring and ap- propriate for us, because it is pro- phetic of the genius of the House of God to-day it foreshadows what the worship of the Church of Christ was to mean to men, when God should establish it in the earth. Note the experience of the seer in that place of worship. God was there and the place was filled with the perfection of glory. Reverence was there revereace of THE UNCHANGING TRUTH. Authority was there the unques- tioned authority of perfect Good- ness. Holiness was there the di- vine Purity and Righteousness. Love and compassion were there perfect and supreme, beautifying and transforming all. More For- giveness was there, divinest of all virtues. Isaiah felt most keenly his own wretchedness, and that of the ein of the world. "Woe is me," he cries, "for I am of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a peo- ple of unclean lips." Then in re- pentance was made opportunity for forgiveness. There flew one of the seraphim unto him with the live coal from off the altar, saying, "Tx>, this hath touched thy lips and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin is purged." And he was a new man, forgiven and purged. These are the blessings held forth to men most fully in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are as- sured that God may be found, un- questionably, in Hia Word, the Bible. This Word, ministered to meet the greatest, the first need of men, is held forth to every seeking life. And more that He can be found is assured by the fact, in ad- dition to man seeking God, He has come into the world SEEKING MEN. He sent His Son that the Son, be- ing lifted up, might draw all men unto Him. This is the strongest, greatest message ever told to men. It promises oneness with God in His eternal perfections and perfect life. Many can testify to having this experience in the House of God, actual and real, as did the seer Isaiah of old. Again, see the benefits this ex- perience gives. In finding God, the Truth. "Ye shall know the Truth," says Christ, "and the Truth will set you free." We find goodness, with its precious blessings, purity and righteousness with their resplen- dent beauty, love as broad and deep as the sea, and forgiveness, sweet- est of all blessings, purifying and ennobling life. These are the fun- damental blessings the ones that transform manhood and woman- hood, that create character and send us out into life and its tasks fitted to do and to triumph. We then gain more than meat and drink we gain God's kingdom. Isaiah's experience in the House of God may be the common experience of mankind. It is possible for us all to realize the blessings of the life and kingdom of the Eternal One. Rev. F. J. Baum. Fashion Hints Soft shades of blue, rose, ecru, green, red, lavender as well as black are mostly seen, in some cas- es the crushed girdle ends in a crossover finish at the left side ; other styles show a narrower gir- dle with military sash ends, that is one short end coming under the girdle and falling over the top. The military girdle is quite the newest thing, the ends finished with em- broidery, fringe or fancy ornaments are smart, while the latest modes show the use of printed chiffon in East Indian colorings. WHITE PIQUE IN VOGUE. White pique is being revived. It is seen in coats, suits and dresses. A rouleau effect of a very simple nature on the skirt is the latest note in these plain frocks. It is shown on one made of white pique which has a waistband of pevenche- blue silk, a piece let in on the neck of the same ; also pipings on the sleeve. A broad band of black velvet rib- bon on which blue buttons are mounted, appears on the blouse, and is brought down to front the waistband. The fulness necessary for walking is secured by the arrangement of the slight draping of the side panels of the skirt into the back panel. The front panel is, of course, absolute- ly plain. The effect is of a double skirt at the side, and the arrange- ment, while it requires to be man- aged by a master hand, has an as- sured popularity before it in the plain summer frocks. COIFFURE MODES. A word on the subject of fashions in hairdressing cannot come amiss when the season's fashions are con- sidered. And certainly the vista opening before us is a pleasing one, for there is a charming simplicity characterizing the new modes which cannot fail to appeal to artistic and cultured taste. Indeed, this simplicity is the key- note of the new modes in hairdress- ing, elaboration being avoided in every way, and it is "more matter with less art," or rather, the art which disguises art, that is con- spicuous, that has been the case of recent years. In Paris this feeling is carried almost to an extreme, and some coiffures are seen in which the hair is plainly tucked up on the neck in a manner almost unpleas- antly reminiscent of the early Vic- torian net. Leaving such exaggerations on one side, however, there can be no- thing but praise for the gracious swathing of the head with plain un- twisted coils. LARGE HATS. Hats are immense, and there dues not seem any prospect for the pre- sent of their growing smaller. They are veritable cart wheels, and ac- tually much larger than the wheel of a perambulator. Much of their effect depends upon the angle at which they are pinned upon the hair. It is not always easy to succeed with this angle, and a hat bought in a shop is, consequently, occasion- ally a very bad disappointment. There ought to be laws of latitude and longitude whereby the purchas- er might learn exactly the angle which the brim should bear to the line of the eyes. Those who dislike large hats have the alternative, and a very agree- able one, of the rather large tur- ban, with the trimming massed on the top, or one straight feather standing up at the left side. An- other alternative equally agreeable is that of the "plateau," which can be arranged before the looking glass in as many curves as may suit the wearer. RETURN OF THE GIRDLE. The colored sash and girdle is coming back, this pretty fashion which has been lost for the past few years in the vogue for Empire and one-piece effects, will be wel- comed by many. There is, no doubt, that a touch of color at the waist- line adds greatly to the becoming- ness of the white frock, while the smart effect on a gown of chiffon or lingerie ia not to be questioned. mv right arm and cannot thrash you for about a month. Pins were first manufactured by machinery in England in 1824. Australia is the largest island in the world ; its area is nearly three- fourths that of Europe. GEORGE BRYAN BR1MEL ENGLISH LEADER OF FASHION IN 18TH CENTURY. Was Nicknamed "Bran Brnmmel" on Account of His Loud Dress- ing and Foppishness. Beau Brummel was the nickname given to George Bryan Brummel, a man who was famous in his day as the arbiter of fashion and for re- presenting the perfection of taste in the matter of dress. No anecdotes of his very early years are known except that he cried because his juvenile stomach wae not infinitely distended so that he could eat more of his aunt's delicious tarts. Brummel first came to notice at Eton, as a student, twelve years old, where he was called Buck Brummel. There he distinguished himself, not at cricket playing, or fighting, but as the introducer of a gold buckle for the white stock, by never being flogged*, and by his ability at tasting cheese. Then 'Brummel went to Oriel College, where he made his mark by a stud- ied indifference to discipline, a dis- like of study, and an aversion to eteel forks, long before silver ones were common at the tables of the middle classes to which his parents belonged. He became one of the competitors for a prize to be given for the best poem. He failed, and in disgust he left college at the age of seven- teen, having been there less than a year. However, if he had little learning, he had learned two things, how to gain celebrated friends, and how to cut any of his acquaintances who ceased to be of any benefit to him. JOINED THE ARMY. By the death of his father Beau Brummel received 25,000, which he spent in living, and when that was gone he subsisted on what he ob- tained by gambling, borrowing and begging. He obtained a Coventry in the Tenth Hussars, of which George, Prince Regent, afterwards George IV., was colonel a regi- ment of fops, the most expensive, best-dressed and worst-moraled in the British army. . A walk Brummel chanced to take on the terrace of Windsor was a lucky circumstance for him. The prince-colonel observed him, asked who that exceedingly well-dressed person was, and the Beau was in traduced. An acquaintance was followed by an intimacy which later the coxcomb developed into un- bounded impudence. By this step his reputation was made, which he kept up for some years. He had an immense fund ol good, but not witty sayings. His friends pronounced him a charming companion, he entered the highest circles of England and his rise in his regiment was rapid. In three years he was at the head of the troop, to the disgust of the older officers. In 1798 Brumme.1 sold hi* com- mission. His reason for it was ne- ver thoroughly explained, but the unsettled state of Europe at that time rendered it highly probable that his regiment might be sent in- to active service and he preferred a drawing-room to a battlefield. PRINCE OF BEAUX. He then commenced the profes- sion of a beau, and became known as the Prince of Beaux, while his patron was called the beau of princes. At this time he was per- fect in point of figure, with an in- telligent but not a handsome face. He had light brown hair, a nose somewhat Roman, and a beautifully shaped hand. Dress at that time became very untidy. Many of the leading men of the day affected supreme contempt for all outward adornments and the mode of a gen- tleman's dress had come to be as slovenly as possible. Brummel, who had been conspic- uous from boyhood for the neatness of his attire, now determined to be the best-dressed man in London. He took care to display to the beet advantage his fine figure in a per- fectly-fitting frock coat. But his chief forte lay in his cravat, which WOULD HATE TO BE GOOD. Father Children, you'll have to be very good now, for I've broken before his time was a piece of limp cambric loosely fastened around the throat. He took care to have it slightly starched. Standing before his glass with shirt collar erect and of a prodigious height, he generally applied the cravat to the throat. At first it measured a foot in width. Then bending down artistically the collar, followed by his chin, with alow and regular movements and twelve inches were reduced to four and the tying of the knot fol- lowed. He never tried the same cloth but once, and if he failed, off it came, was thrown aside and an- other tried. FLATTERED BY KINGS. He may be excused for being vain, for he was flattered by kings or their representatives, the prince even spending hours in the morning in the Beau's room watching the progress of his toilet. A duchess thought it necessary to warn her daughter to be careful of her be- havior when the celebrated Beau Brummel was present, and a credi- tor was satisfied with a bow from a clubhouse windrw, and a word from him would ruin a tailor. He sacri- ficed his manners to his appearance, for he would not remove his hat in the street, after it had been placed in a correct position, to bow to a lady. Beau Brummel had a famous col- lection of snuff boxes and was cele- brated for the care he took in open- ing the lid of the box with the thumb of the hand that carried it and delicately taking a pinch with the fingers of the other. He was, in short, a well-dressed snob, but h was flattered and invited every- where to such a degree that he thought himself a great man. He boasted that he had but to beckon to the Dukes of Argyle and Jersey and they would come, and he held all but the peerage in dis- dain. It seems strange that a man ' of his disposition should be toler- j ated at a club, if any of the many! anecdotes told shout him are true. The houses of the British nobility he regarded as inns to be visited by him with valet and portmanteau, with or without invitation, and to be spoken of afterwards as "a house to spend one night in." He boasted of the prince : "I made him what he is and can un- make him." just the sort of saying to irritate A BRAINLESS PRINCE. Brummel dined with the prince, and, carrying his impudence a little too far, he requested the regent to ring the bell. He did so. and when the servant came he ordered "Mr. Brummel' 8 carriage." It may have been the remark made some time before about the Beau having made the regent, or it may have been the sarcasm on the prince's corpulency, ' but, at any rate, the bell was rung, , and it sounded the knell of Brum- mel, who, however, had a little re- venge. The prince prided himself on hia figure, and as he grew broad with years and good living, resorted to stays to preserve it. The Beau, meeting him in company with an- other gentleman, inquired very coolly, but loud enough for the prince to hear: "Who is your fat friend?" The coolness, presump- tion and impertinence of the ques- tion, perhaps the very best thing the Beau ever said, cut the prince, but gave him the nickname of Dan- dy Killer. For a while Brummel patronized the regent's brother, the Duke of York, put he soon got deeper and deeper in debt. He struggled along, and often, with some success, to keep his place among the dandies and wits. Creditors became trouble- ! some, he received the nickname of; George the Less in contradistinction j of the prince, who was called George the Great, and he came to the conclusion that it would be bet- ter to cross the channel. For the remainder of his life the Beau lived in France, part of the time in a government consulship position, and the remainder of the tim supported by his former friends. He finally sustained a paralytic shock, from which he ne- ver recovered. His creditors closed around him and he was cast into prison. He showed signs of imbe- cility : all care of his person went, and from carelessness and disease his habits became so loathsome that an attendant could hardly be found for him.. Admission was at last ob- tained for him into the asylum of the Bon Sauveur, Caen, where he died on March 30, 1340. France's fastest train is the one running from Paris to Businnv. a] distance of 118 miles in 112 minutes Ascents of passenger-carrying balloons were first made in Eng- land in 1784. f Many a woman let* her neighbors' affairs worry her more than her own. Yes, Cordelia, a romantic man nay be all to the good as a love- maker, but he isn't in it with the matter-of-fact man as a family sup- porter. By partaking of cocoa, an extract from a South American plant of that name, men can endure ha"d labor without food for a period of six or seven days. THE SUIDAr SCHOOL LESS! INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 21. Lesson III. The growth <rf th* kingdom. Matt. 4. 26-32, Matt. 13. 33. Golden text, Matt. 8. 10. MARE. 4. 26-32. V.TIO 26. Aud iie said Not ne essarily on the same occasion oo which the words recorded in the verses preceding wero spoken. Mark has gathered together, rather, several of the utterances of Jesus bearing on the same general theme, even as has Matthew in the thir- teenth chapter of his Gospel. So is the kingdom The parable which these words introduce is re- corded only by Mark. In teaching it supplements the parable of the wheat and the tares, which we shall study in our next lesson. As if a man should cast seed up- on the earth Deliberately sow his seed with the full expectation that the growth and harvest would fol- low in due season. 27. Sleep and rise night and day Go about his daily affairs with ao concern regarding the outcome of his sowing venture live normally, observing the natural routine of toil and recreation. Spring up and grow Of its own accord, without the assistance of man, who does not so much aa know the secret processes of its gennina- tion and development. 28. Beareth Or, yieldeth. Of herself The soil itself furnish- es the mosture and nourishment needed for the growth of the seed. The teaching of the parable hingei on the thought of this verse. . . . Blade . . . ear . . . full grain . . . The stages of growth are specific, as the processes of nature are or- derly. The normal method by which the kingdom of heaven is to be established among men is that of gradual development, both ia the individual life and in society at large. 29. When the fruit is ripe Liter- ally, when the fruit alloweth. Putteth forth the sickle Literal- ly, sendeth forth makes all the ar- rangements for gathering in the harvest. 30. How shall we liken the king- dom ? There are still other aspect* of the Kingdom which Jesua sets forth in this and subsequent par- ables. 31. A grain of mustard seed IB all probability the seed of the com- mon mustard plant is meant, which in warmer climates grown to a height of twelve or more feet. Less than all the seeds That is, smaller than any other seed famil- iar to those to whom Jesus wae speaking, not literally the smallest, seed upon the earth. 32. Greater than all the herb Those known to the Jews and com- mon in their fields and gardens. Birds . . . lodge under the sha- dow thereof Finding rest and shel- ter, as well as food, among the branches. MATTHEW 13. 33. Another parable Added here because of its similarity in thought to the parable of the mustard seed. Like unto leaven Or, yeast. Three measures The word in .1 Greek denotes the Hebrew seah, %*; measure containing nearly a peck and a half. Till it was all leavened Made light by fermentation. HEALTH HINTS. People, often suffer from weak, undeveloped lungs without suspect- ing it. True, small, feeble lung*-' are usually associated with a email, i\ narrow, or sunken chest, but not invariably. By means of the misi of physical culture it is possible develop large chest muscles, thi acquiring a big chest measurement^ while the lungs remain small aofl ill-nourished. Again, hmg mischief is often ao\ slow and insidious in its approach that the trouble is not discoveredl until it is firmly established. however, ia a simple test which/will tell you whether your lungs ar< healthy or not. Take as deep a breath as yoiTi and then, in a slow but distil voice, count from one onwards far a you can without taking more breath. The number .if se onds you can continue counting iq a pretty reliable index to the stal} of your lungs, so you should ha someone to time you. If your lungs are sound and mally developed your range wjl between twenty and linrtv'five . >n<K there is no need to be alarn ed , probably your lungs are merely in need of exercise, to be readiljJ obtained by regular deep breathing] in pure air. A range of lens th.-j ten seconds, however, points t<J more or less mischief, ana should not delay in having lungs examined by a medical innn. jj He who hesitates is lost-- eape^ ally when he is found <*ut>