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Batesburg Advocate Published Weekly. BATESBURG. 0. C. tes ^ Europe in ?. unhappy as It it bad lust lost the baseball pennant. 8traw hats still linger, but chleflj to the guise of next year's hens' nests In some ways an oyster Is Uke^at PCS. You never can tell till you opei >tL As la well known, a handsome wo man can bo attractive In almost an] style. If hobble sklrta are made an: tighter, the wearers will not even b< able to hobble. man out west is trying to regali A fortune by newspaper work. N wonder he lost It. The cost of dying baa gone up 33 1per cent., and some fee) that the, cannot afford the expense. Elijah may have been the first avl ator, but there was no promoter then to collect the gate receipts. It Is hinted that the Mona Lisa wsi stolen by an artist He certainly wai an artist at getting away with It We have reason to believe that th< new Manklevlew" skirt will caus? merd men to sit up and take notice. The corset may go, as fashion die It.tors say, but we may rest assured that something worse will be substl tuted. Professor Brooks' comet Is thus fai obscured by clouds, but the presump tlon Is that It Is keeping Its adver tlsed date. Another unsuccessful attempt hat been made to swim the English chan nel. But why try to swim when It U so easy to fly across? There Is a form of butter In Indlt sailed "ghee.** We will hazard th< opinion that some of our own colt storage kind beats It Fruit pests are being killed by elec vricuy in spoaane valley. Ttie mod era agriculturist earns bis bread b: tbe bum of bis motor. Hay fever may be a sign of brains but a good many people are willing t< forego the brains If, by doing so, the: can get rid of the fever. An expert tells us that birds spreal disease. This probably will be seize< upon by the ladles as a pretext t< wear dead birds on tbelr bats. A New York policeman who res cued a girl from drawing was reward ed with a kiss and a bug. Here is i suggestion for Andrew Carnegie. Tbe trouble between Germany an< England reminds us of a quarrel be tween two prominent pugilists. A1 tbe fighting 1b done in the newspapers ?x The census gives Nevada only sev n-tenths of a man to the square mile There are In NevAda a good man) tquare miles that don't deserve ever hat much. Highwaymen, after robbing a Chi :ago man. took away all bis clothing ind left him shivering In tho street, t may become necessary to have empy barrels left around at convenient places. A Chicago man Is suing for divorce because his wife has been throwing things at him for nineteen years. Probably he Is tired of paying for having the dents taken out of the ceiling. These velours hats for men are lovely things. So are china eggs. A Boston girl, who proclaimed her right to choose a husband for herself, has received one hundred proposals of marriage. Declarations of indepenlence are now In order. We are told that the yelling of a carrot in New York saved twenty-five Ives in a burning building. It also ;aved the feathers of the parrot, which vas a question of far more concern 'o said parrot A man In Pennsylvania banged him sit ucuauw ins crop 01 luuhcco was >o large to store in his barn. Hounded *o death by too mucb prosperity, be ell a victim to the inconsistency of Oilman wishes. Isn't It about time to Invoke the r ause of the constitution prohibiting mel and unusual forms of punishent? A Nqjw York magistrate told ie wife of a man brought before m on a serious ,charge to take him line and tell him what she thought of h m. Thus for the air Is not darkened by viators making transcontluentaJ 1 mnts. A fireman has beaten Weston's alking record from coast to coast, Mit Weston still holds the record for '1-year-old pedestrians with gray must iches. We are told that the summer has een too hot for oysters. Wo also ave reason to believe that some secons of It were too hot for human boiga. Wo have not had the pleasure ot leing any of those "aeroplane" hatB. ut we presume that they come high. Simplified spelling is still struggling lontf, but whether it is merely gai anlzed energy or the reform is dylnf ard. Is difficult to determine. Th< lajorlty of the world is going on spoil ig in the same old way. and, perhaps . i emphasize the resistance to the crusade, Pittsburgh hus recently de antly stuck a superfluous "h" to Itf iar end and, like a danger signal aunted in the face of reform. S WORST OF JOKES HARD TO TAKE THE TARIFF BOARD SERIOUSLY. I Wo May Ultimately Come Under RuM Of Tariff Soard, but We Scarcely r Need It to Inveatlgate the 8hell Game. i We wish we could take that tarlfl I board seriously In all respects, hut it la impossible. For 40 years now the high taxers have been marking up tariffs Poor fellows; they never had f a tariff board. They simply consulted their inward sentiments. If the Bplrit moved them to buy a private yacht, to i build a $250,000 cottage by the sea or a to endow a library1 or university, they told thn nonnlo in Washincton that they wanted more tariff to assist Id a the enterprise and they got It 0 The process web the easiest Imaginable. It was like the first law of nature. which is to help yourself. No& body ever thought of calling it sclenjr tlflc. It was not even expert. With most practitioners the work wan coarse, If not clumsy. Would a duck swim? Would a hungry man eat? s Would a boy attend a circus? Those were great and primitive days. You saw what you wanted and 1 you took it In the course of time It i became necessary to apologize occa slonally for taking too much and to offer excuses for taking it from the i wrong man, but the domain of science i was not invaded and a tariff board was (inheard of. It now appears that all thlB use of . the power to tax everybody for the [ benefit of somebody was highly scion . title and that only scientists of the first order of merit can undo any part of it. Who should amputate a limb f but a surgeon? Shall the Intricacies . of a costly chronometer be intrusted to the clumsy hands of a wood chopper? Is the average' American well enough acquainted with the hlghei , mathematics to be able to throttle n . scientist who chances to be rifling his i pockets? These are profound and hnrrowtng questions, but we nevertheless bellevs , that what was done by one Instru > mentality may be undone by the samt [ agency. It may be that we shall ulti mutely come under the sovereign rule of the tariff board, but we hardly need K It to Investigate the shell game or tc . make a report upon the newest get j rich-quick scheme. Designing women whose object Is matrimony, learned metallurgists who know how to dis ,t pose of gold bricks, and skilled en 3 gravers having an oversupply of green P backs may find it profitable on occa sion to refer their clients to a tarlfl board, but It will be only for the pur ^ pose of gaining a little time. Th< ] sleuths will be upon their trail in s } minute. Thrusts at Trusts. - The department of Justice is said tc have a thousand complaints against I the trusts upon its books, investiga tJon of alleged violations of the Sher man anti-trust law leads the depart j ment to believe that it can earn - through several prosecutions with sue 1 cess before the end of the year. The decisions in the cases agalns' the Standard Oil company and th< American Tobacco company provec that the Sherman law could deal witl r the trusts so far as to halt their poll i cies of greed and tyranny. Ilut the) have not shown that the trust problem could be settled thereby. What art half a dozen suits, or half a hundred for that matter, as against the forma tion and the conduct of new combina tlons, new trado associations, new pools and new agreements? Thej amount to no more than the pin prick in the hide of a rhinoceros. Only a few politicians who still per ceive advertising material in the de nunciation of the trusts pretend that prosecution can ever effectively stay the course of economic evolution They but help to postpone the discovery of the solution. The real work oi dealing with the difficulty lies with those who ure confident that regulation, not foolish attempts at destruction, constitutes the answer. Mr. Taft's Form of "Recall." President Taft has manifested something akin to bitterness in his opposition to the recall fenture of "progressive" politics. All the same, he is on n trip or speechmaking, with the purpose of urging the recall of every congressman who does not agree with hts policies. For Mr. Taft. recnll by law is nil wrong; but recall at the behest of the president is nil right. Those eminent financiers who say that agitation is bad for business should have thought of that before they agitated for so much tariff and such n lax enforcement of the laws that especially concern their pnlpr prises. Protectionists and beneficiaries of government favoritism to the few at the expense of the many are rejoicing throughout the world over the blow to commercial freedom in Canada. To Remove Mildew From Linen. To remove mildew Btalns from Mr en, a simple and effectual method is to soak the injured portion of the linen in sour buttermilk. Ixit it soak thus all night and in the morning spread the material in the sun to bleach. If the marks are not entirely removed repeat the process and with a little patience the stains will entirely disappear. If tho stains are long set they may bo obstlnnte to remove and In that case you may be obliged to treat them with Javelle water. Dissolve a tablcspoonful of chloride of lime in one quart of hot water, pour off the clear liquid and Immerse the stained part of the linen In this for a short time, rlnrit g through two or , three waters as soon as ihe marks arc ??en to have disappeared. f ' 1 * " ? ? Mr. Tnft's tariff board is short on funds, can report only on the wool and cotton schedules with tho money now at hnnd, and fears a new appropriation cannot be had from a Demo crntlc house A little thing like that vnuld never have bothered Mr Koose elt. ; IS VERY BAD EITHER WAY Taft's Veto of the Wool BUI May Cause Him Many a Bad Quarter on an Hour. Wo in confident that President Taft, by his veto of the wool bill, has * prepared many a bad quarter of an hour for himself. It may appear that he has done an uncomfortable disservice to his tariff board by so , much insisting upon the necessity of basing revision of the schedules upon Its report and findings The Underwood revision of the wool schedule Mr. Taft found to be unacceptable. because It had been prepared without information us to cost differences nnd other factors which the tariff bourd Is engaged in studying. The general opinion of the country, we are sure, is thnt. In signing a bill which reduces the run of duties on woolen fabrics from U5 per cent, to 45 per cent, lie would have run no great risk of sanctioning duties too low to meet differences of production cost and the "reasonable prolit" to American manufacturers. However, ho was of a 1 illfTol- n? _ # ..... ? WMI I wpiinuu, tuiu vviucru uie uni. Now. suppose the report of the tariff [ board should be of such a nature as to Justify rates below those fixed In ! the Underwood bill. Thai would show | that Mr. Taft had entirely misjudged the result and had done Injustice to its authors In imputing haste and recklessness to them In preparing the new rates. On the other hand, suppose the board's report should Indl( cate the necessity of duties considerably higher than those fixed in the , Underwood bill. Does the president suppose, do the woolen manufacturers or the friends of protection generally Imagine for a moment, that the country would accept such a report | as a fair and impartial presentation ( of facts fit to serve as a basis for the , revision of that schedule? Would it not, on the contrary, be everywhere i said that the president's tariff board was but a part of the great protection 1st organization, co-operating with the | Republican party and with the presi dent himself to maintain the "indefensible" duties of schedule K? | It seems to us that embarrassments which might easily have been avoided by signing the wool bill have been de liberately invited by the veto. Just Like Him. Some exceedingly powerful business combinations being involved in the matter, the president's action in the case of Doctor Wiley is inconclusive. Mr. Taft exonerates Wiley from trilling charges trumped up against him. but he does not go to the root of the matter at all. The department of ngrlcultu*-e is presided over by an aged person of the name of Wilson. It actually is run by a young and active person of the nam? of McCabe. It is McCabe who has made most of the trouble for Wiley. Wiley wants to enforce the > pure food law. McCabe seems to have t other views. If the president were constitutional ly and temperamentally capable of tak . ing a position and holding it. his findr ing in favor of Doctor Wiley in the re i:cm iiueuiu nine tuiuiuvcio/ wuuivj hftve necessitated the prompt elimina t tion of McCabe from the public serv? ice. Instead of separating McCabe 1 from his usurped position In the dei partment. Lowcv?r. Mr. Taft bn-",v - mentions him. He is too stout, toe r merry, too keenly intent upon travel i to make a thorough Job of anything > in which private interests appear in I antagonism to thoBe of the people. To Him That Hath. Since the first of the year, sugar has advanced something more than 93 per : cent. According to the calculations of Wall street brokers, the sugar trust profits to the extent of $40,000,000 as a result. Under decisions of United States courts, the trust was obliged to pay the government several million dollars | because of wholesale dishonesty. Of course, that was unpleasant for the trust management. But. by the tariff schedules and the short sugar-beet crop, the robbers have been furnished conditions to offset the Incommoding requirements of the law. "To him that hath shall be given"? so long as tariff extortions shall be permitted. Great Combination. If Mr. Clark is elected president next year, a congress Democratic in both branches is likely to supplement that result, and the first business in hand in 1913?probably in the spring ?will be tariff revision. The Payne law will come in for a complete overhauling. What then shall we see? A man in the White House fnmiliar with the tariff from a Democratic point of view, a man in the speakership?Mr. .Underwood?familiar with the man in the White House, and some man chairman of ways and means familiar with both. A majority of the majorlX * X 1 1 ?.ill ?.1 1 ... | \y 01 liie iiuuise win in* uieu wm> ihi\u served with the president, in congress. The combination will he as closely I knitted as was that of McKinley, Ileed ' and Dingley. Land of the Tenderfoot. In the western countries where the j aridity of the land calls for irrigation the ranchers are clamoring for a shoe that will be a practically waterproof proposition and at the same time give comfort. It is a fact that the western country is hard ou feeL The old term "tenderfoot" seems to have foundation in fact. Rubber boots have had the call so far. but a smooth tannago of calf treated to make It pliable and light In weight and turn damp will be a bit. Doesn't It grind a little against the dray-horse brain-pan of the ultimate consumer that about $70,000,000 of the Increased yearly cost of sugar sold in I the United States goes into the pock: ets of the sugar trust? The heavy ! sugar tax that is gathered into the i federal treasury helps to keep the i wheels of government greased This j burden may be borno with some rie gree of unanimity; but why should Unpeople toil and moll to pile up in creased wealth for rascally unde t servers? POPE C TlIS photograph of His Holiness 1' Vatican In order to take the first iastlcs; to the right the footman. In Added interest attaches to this photo taken at the same time: "Give them recovery." SPELL HOL Woman's Heart is Breaking Because Friends Forsake Her. Mrs. Charlie Song Endures Gever Years of Torture, but Cannot Break Oriental's Charm?Was His Sunday School Teacher. New York.?A contrast of religion and hideous vice, of the utmost common place and the fantastic was the story told by Mrs Charlie Song, who had been seized In Newark. N. J., in a federal raid on Chinese opium smug i glers in her rooms in the Newark , Chinatown the other afternoon. Mrs. Song Is an American woman and graduated to her present position as wife of a Chinese from being his preceptor in a Sunday school. "Seven years of hell." is the way j she characterizes her sojourn among ' the yellow men. She says her life j there has been one long light against slavery for herself, yet site has been unable to leave because of some subtle spell that her association with them has cast over her. She is not an opium user nor a drinking woman, she says, and in spite of her troubles site has kept her religious enthusiasm At first she wa.> afraid to admit a reporter to her rcom, as she was afraid of the vengeance of the Chinese whose secrets she holds and who may be 1m plicated at the hearing. She probably . will be called its a witness. I was a country girl," she said. "1 , married and moved to Newark. My husband and my two children died, and for two .vesjrs I was very lonely. 1 , iiau always a rn religious and inter I 1 estod in missionary work, so to bury my troub.e I began to teach a class in the Chinese Sunday school of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church Charlie Song being among my pupils. "On New Year's in 1905, ho asked me to go to New York with him and j 6ee the time celebrated among ids ! own people. Other teachers went on such excursions with their pupils, so J saw nothing wrong in it. "1 refused to have any wine, because : MAKE CHEAP LUMBER PAPER; Manufacturers Can Turn Out F'ber Board. Larcely From Waste Materials. Conservationist Says. Kansas City. Mo.?So nearly perfect is artificial lumber made from paper there is no longer cause for gieat worry over forest conservation, said J B. White, chairman of the executive ! committee of the National Conserva I tion congress, hire the other night. He had Just returned from a trip | through the eastern states Much of ! Ms time there was rpont Investigating ' the manufacture of "lumber" from pa per. "A superior quality of artltlelal lumber can be manufactured cheaper than natural lumber can be grown." he ' said. "Taking 57 per cent, waste paper, I 22 per cent, straw. 5 per cent. Jute and | 16 per cent, wood fiber, a ton of fiber i board, one-fourth Inch thick, or 1,100 | feet of Inch lumber can be produced." Dog Swallows Hatpin. St. Louis.--Mrs. Pauline N'essleln has a dog with prize-winning digestive I organs. Her Hoston terrier Fudge survived carrying a ten-Inch hatpin In his j interior for ten days. A veterinary then removed the offending tastener from the dog s anatomy Fudge is 20 inches long. ELECTRIC HOT No Waiter;-, Only Dummies to Serve Meals?Electricity Used to Perform fiil Domestic Service. Paris.?An electric hotel Is to be erected in Paris very short ly. In i which the domestic service will be I puriui lllt'li L?? nc? i.i ? !?.? I lie ^Iirni : requiring breakfast or lila morning's | mail, for instance. Just cails for it front bet*, or chair?no telephone is rei qn' ' /-?-? being transmitted by e central office? an ked for is dollv er. ut the agency of wr s the waiters will be t titanic;.' devices wfc ires the Inventor, j wit nptness and skill :ha m attendant can be The air of the h"t In winter and In din . cd by electricity, lov it If required A ^in icd to the hote' "I year round witn , PIUS RECOVERS HIS HI W I ? . opo riux X arrived the other day from carriage ride of liis convalescence. Ti the uet of opening the carriage door i graph by reason of the fact that the as large a circulation ac possible, thus DING WIFE I had never drunk any, but he told ine the rice wine was harmless. 1 drank two tiny cups. I could scarcely see the table, the wine went to my head so. Then he Bald, '1 love you. 1 will never let you go away now. You marry me. We go to China, be missionaries together.' "We went to the home of Rev. George Dowkart at bO Mudison avenue, and he married us. Then we went right home, 1 to my home and Charli* to his. Next day, when 1 realized what I had done, it seemed to mo that 1 would die with shame. That has been my hell ever since?to be ashamed, to be out off from my people, to have everybody think I am an outcast. something unspeakable, the wife of a Chinaman. "Finally we went to living together. The first few months he was a wonderful lover. Then he changed. "1 have been praying and praying this last year that some way would open for me to get away. I have tried to leave, but there Is something, n sort of hypnotism that draws a woman back. A Chinaman never loses his in tluence over a woman when he has once had it. You have no idea how nuny white women are here in Newark living with Chinese. Some are girls in their early teens." ANOTHER LONDON RELIC LOST Apothecaries' Hall, Quaint Old Building, to Be Supplanted by a More Modern Structure. London.?Old London, which Is digappearing rapidly Ut-loi-e the march of Improvement. Is about to lost one of its most interesting buildings, the Apothecaries company having an nounced that It is about to let on building lease the greater part or Its land in Water Lane, just round the corner from Printing House square, where the London Times Is published. This land is the site of Apothecaries' hall, a quaint old building now almost hidden from sight by the tall business structures that surround It. BEAUTY BILLS London Specialist Says $1,425 Is ! Small Sum to Spend for Toilet Accesorics?Men Pay Well. Lo; do: . Foreign visitors to England are sometimes heard to remark upon the hit > :: of the Englishwoman's cheeln . and to inquire It it is derived so entire:> from tin open air lilo as It Is frequently - aid lo be The l auty specialists of London are able lo throw rotiio light on the subject They say the London woman may be as b< autitul as she may wish lor $500 a year, but that $2,500 to $5,000 may I spent for more luxurious treatment and more expensive accessories The revived Interest In this subject Is due to a Chicago woman, who Is quoted as having said that her hill or $1,875 a year for beauty culture Is a modest expenditure. "The average Englishwoman spends considerably less on making herself beautiful than the American, French or Viennese." said a Lord street beauty specialist, who has cll< nts from both sides of the Atlantic, "because she uses more h> ionic means and dispenses with artihcial helps, such as rouges, chin straps, face masks ami EL FOR PARIS giant flowers and plants nrtldolally j raised by electric i 111< nsive culture Hrilllnnt moonlight and sunlight effects will be produced w! .< n the sun ami moon are out of sight. In small arbors round the garden teas and supper will be served automatically. Intimate fete a tetes thus being able to proceed without any annoying Interruptions. One of the features of the hotel will bo an electric orchestra, In which till kinds of stringed Instruments will apparently play of their own accord. The inventor, a Frenchman named Georgia Knap, who has spent years experimenting with the various devices, asserts that they are now all absolutely perfect nr,<! lias formed n company under (lie name "Soclete des Hotels I'loetrifpies" for the purpose of building electric hotels In every big city throughout the world. After getting even with n man a : woman Isn't satisfied to remain tlia: way. . \ EALTH , : 1 _ . .. :r *; , Rome. It shows him leaving th# * the left Is a group of high cccles- , ?nd making an obeslence meanwhile. . Pope said of It and otherB that were i showing to the world my complete . Apothecaries' hall was tlm built in I 16:53 on the site of Lady Howard of < Effingham's town house. This build- i Ing was destroyed In the greut llro of : t London and the present hall was erect- < ed In 1670. It doesn't amount to much i architecturally, but It Is packed full or 1 Hue carvings, splendid old furniture i and Interesting relics of the develop- l inent of medicine. The Apothecaries company 1c one of 1 the great London companies whose ] ' members elect the alderman and the , < lord uiayor. It Is the only one that I 1 has retained control of the trade 1 whose name It bears. Originally tho t apothecaries belonged to the Drovers' i < company, but In 1617 they obtained a 1 separate charter from King James 1. I i on the ground that "the Ignorance and : I rashness of promiscuous empirics and 1 Inexpert men may he restrained, I whereby many discommodities, Incon- ; veniences and perils do arlso to the 1 rude ami credulous people.'' This char- j \ tcr gave the members of the company ? the sole right of "exercising the art < faculty or mystery of an apcUz?e,ary 1 within the city of London or a radius i of seven miles." Among other prlv- t Urges it granted tho company the 1 right to burn before the offender's 1 door all impure drugs. s Kven In those days the prescribing druggist was a problem, and in 1687 ' the College of Physicians denounced I the Apothecaries company lor selling I advice as well as medicine. The com- , ' pany retaliated by setting up a medl- I cal school, and In 1721 the house of ' lords conllrmed the right of Its mem- 1 bers to prescribe as well as to sell j i drugs Many a father of medicine In * the American colonies undoubtedly < learned his profession In this scbooL i !' < Diver Makes Record. Los Anpelos, Cal.?Ford Travllle, t? 1 , professional diver at Avalon, Catallna i island, has made what Is claimed to ] he a world's record lor diving. Clad j 1 In a common bottling cult. Travilie < dragged a hall-inch rope down (>5 feet i below the surface ana made It last to i an anchor lying on the bottom. Travilie was down two minutes. j < I ' Sometimes an officeholder has uiort 1 of a pull than a dentist. ! i ARE MODEST other devices to develop her figure by unnatural moans. 1 think the $450 which the Chicago woman says she pays tor face powders is an Impossible sum to spend on powder?over here, at any rate. The Englishwoman's greatest expenditure Is In obtaining water softeners. "Many of my clients spend 51.50 a day on water softeners, and I have men customers who spend as much as $2.60 a day in this way." A year's beauty bill of n rcnsonablo amount spent by wealthy women in London is about as follows: Water softeners S 600 Perfumes 125 Powders, creams ami face lotions.. 125 Mouth wasnoH nnd tooth powders... 25 Manicure and polish of the nails. chiropody and polish 250 Electrolysis 250 Pace cleaning, ono treatment weekly 150 Total {1,425 The above figures, however, do not Include operations; and, according to a fashionable west end hairdresser, wealthy Englishwomen often spend from $250 to $5<>0 a year on their hutr and hair dressing. i wu ^uccr ribn. Hoston.? A codllsh which chewed tobacco and an electric skate which smoked are among the fish landed at T wharf, called by Hostonlans tho world's greatest lish market. The schooner Oliver R Hutchlns captured the eccentric codllsh. When Its cook opened a ten-pound cod for dinner, he found a cigar and a quid of tobacco. Tho electric sknte was brought in by a power dory. The skipper related that when ho opened the skate ho found a bone-stemmed corncob pipe filled with half-burned tobacco that still smoked. Aeros Hunt Out Submarines. Cherbourg.?Interesting tests or aeroplanes against submarine boats have been carried out here. Tho problem of the air men was to locate submerged boats front a height of 2.POO feet over a radius of 3,280 feet, the submarines h 'ng plunged nil tect. Aviators Aubi-n and De Vetatn located the boats and reported witluu a half hour. " 'THE SIZE OF THE WORLD By Rev. William Spiegel , | of the Old Pirtt Church. II R Cincinnati. M ? + Just as the moon appears to differint people to be of various sizes, from hat of a dime to that of a washtub, >ven physical qualities and quantities >f this world and the other material vorlds of the universe vary In their ipparent dimensions with the varyup capacities of physical, mental and maginative eyesight. A given individual's world and all here therein is will always vary in ac ordance with that individual's subjecive proportions. In a very real and deep sense every ine builds his own world. Some build t exceedingly small nnd others, with t better grasp of the meaning of life, juild it big. And I would that we night nil have that broad conception which not only means a big world for ;is, but the doing of big things in it !>y ourselves. Wo all delight In the master minds that are doing the big things in the material world, and they ire truly great; but greater than these wonderful feats of engineering skill which can tunnel tho Hudson or dam ho Ohio are thoso other deeds by master minds whe ebv this world is made the better?the more nearly perfect It Is this aspect of Increasing the size of our world, the moral nnd spiritual, to which I would draw attention. Obviously, then, our world varies In size according to our knowledge. Anything that lies outside of our knowledge Is evidently no part of our coniclous world. We have widened the boundaries of the little world of the indents nnd have accurately measured and weighed It. We have found something of the magnitude of the ether worlds of the universe and compute distances In Interstellar space In years of light velocity. And this inconceivably big world of ours has a vast Influence upon our thoughts and life. The greater our knowledge the bigger our world; nnd the Christian especially should keep his mind alert and alive to this growing world and ever strive to build it on a larger scale and fill it with greater meaning. Then, too our world grows with our nterestB. This Is even a closer relation than knowledge. Implying care, concern, participation. There are necessarily large areas of knowledge which lie outside of our interest, but is Interest lays hold of us and conrols thought, motive nnd ecr.durt our world Is large or small according to the area of our Interest. In this respect people difTer tremendously. The interest of a great many people In the material things Is so great that it absorbs their whole thought, ambition nnd action; and a world whose ibsorblng Interests are In material things, however great Its business and tiowever Immense Its wealth, is essentially small nnd Insignificant. The man In tho big world Is the one who Is thoroughly Interested In his business ur profession, but whose Interests also reach out Into the worlds of science, literature, art. politics, social progress, education and religion. Then ngnln our world enlarges with r rttbUu *.? olnoor still than Interest, as It Involves our hearts. People who lark sympathy live In a small barren world, hut tnose who have wide and warm sympathies melt easily Into the lives of others and thus onlargo and enrich their own world. And In our sympathies we ought to he bigger thnn the n* re circle of our own friends, our church or nur country. Whoever cuts another human being out of his sympathy by so much natTows and Impoverishes his own world, and by as much as we make our sympathies broad and tender we enlarge our world and make It rich. Finally let us ever remember with the psalmist, "The earth is the Ixird's and the fullness thereof." That iifts It Into divine relations and worth. From this point of view we see the world falling fresh from the creative hand of God, developing under his providence, redeemed by his grace and being rebuilt even in our day, itKo a universal kingdom of brotherhood and love. Wo are co-workers with him and are now building this new and better world, however Insignificant or dark, In the light of his plan and presence, and this fills our world with divine purpose and grace. Our world thus widens out until It Is lost in the full splendor of God and Is great with his greatness. Thus our world Is little or big, according to our knowledge, interest, sympathy and faith, and by increasin? n?A onUrva nntl r?nrli?h nur nip, IUCDU tmwi ? world. A big soul will build a big world. One of large vision and wide Interests, or tender sympathies and a masterful faith cannot be shut up within the narrow confines of personal selfinterest and littleness of spirit, but will ever build a large and richer world. Then, too, a big world helps tremendously t make a big soul. Our environment calls us out, as it were, so that we stretch our powers to match its appeals. Soul and world thus work togi ther to widen each other out into larger relations. Wo should work at both ends of the problem, striving to build a bigger world and grow a larger soul. The Life Beautiful. "What Is your life? It la even a vapor," .lames lv: 14. If our life Is to be beautiful and blessed, we must place It on a right basis. Ix)ok at the vapor when It trails along the earth?cold, ashen, drawn up into heaven, see it glow ing with tho colored brightness of gold and beryl, topaz, chrysolite and sapphire, and you might think it the hoiy city that John saw, having the glory of God, and whose light was like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. Human life is nothing until you lift It Into the sky. Our groat fault Is that we live loo near the ground, and therefore Is our life full of perplexity and sadness. Let us mount nearer heaven, and the rich and strange shall become familiar; our souls shall he pure, our path luminous, our hope sublime, our Joy full.? W. L. Watklnson, D. 1>.