fod to a level with the demand of the ignorant and the illiterate; especially to the level of low business principles. Very often the object of it is not to educate, improve, train or perfect in any line of science or art, but means to make a little money to meet the liabilities of a society or a church, or for other reasons more personal and less worthy.

"Young Wales" should circulate largely among the Welsh. Its mission is

new. More of its kind would enlighten. It is critical of our national and social life. We have been used to wheedle one another, flatter and hypnotize ourselves to a state of self-satisfaction. "Young Wales" has love enough for us to tell us our fallings, and suggest remedies. It is a teacher. We need more leaders who will dare correct us. "Young Wales" has often articles valuable on this line. Such are "A Century's Progress," by J. Herbert Roberts, M. P., and "A Twentieth Century Message," by Robert Owen, Welshpool. "Welsh County School Notes" and "Welsh Literary Echoes and Impressions" have practical thoughts to ponder over. "Cartoon" from the "Western Mail" is suggestive. It is time for Wales to take interest in the outside world. The cartoon represents stout Wales, a picture of health and strength, busily engaged in equipping a hospital for South Africa. "Now, bachans," says she, "send along your shillings, an' let us make our Welsh Hospital worthy of old Gwalia." Wales should make her debut among the nations as a live people.

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"Yr Haul" for March opens with an article (illustrated) on Narberth church. It was built by Sir Andrew Perrott, the builder also of Narberth Castle, in 1246. It retained its old form for 600

years, until 1830, when great changes were made, and when it was altered from the old cross shape into an L. Then follows an interesting article, "Dr. John Davies, Fallwyd." Dr. Davies was born 1570, 330 years ago. When he was born, Dr. Morgan, the translator of the Welsh Bible, was a student at Cambridge, in his 30th year. After attending a grammar school at Rhuthyn, he entered Jesus College, Oxford, in his 19th year, where he remained fourTM years, when he took his B. A. When Bishop Parry published a new edition of the Welsh Bible (1620), Dr. Davies was credited with having rendered valuable service. He was considered a fine scholar in Welsh, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. In 1632, he published a Dictionary in Welsh and Latin, which cost him an immense amount of labor, and he translated several good books in his time. He spent a Christian life of benevolence and good works, and departed this world May 15, 1644, in his 74th year. He was buried in the chancel of Mallwyd Church, and over his remains was placed the quaint remark "In memory of his virtue rather than his name." "A Sermon," by the Rev. T. J. Jones, Gelligaer, delivered at the Cathedral Church of Llandaff, St. David's Day, 1900. "Justin Martyr," by the Rev. J. Edwin Davies, B. A., is an interesting and instructive paper. "Sir Charles Warren," now in South Africa, with General Buller, shows the General' in the service of Christian scholarship.. "The Rev. David Griffiths, Nefern, Pembroke;" "Protestantism," by the Rev. Ben Jones, Llandegai; "Amos," an English address by the Rev. Professor Wade, St. David's College, a worthy contribution to the literature of the "Haul." "A Sketch of the History of the Ages," by the Rev. T. M. Williams, Llanarth. It is with pleasure we com-mend the contents of the "Haul."

An English exchange states that a careful calculator estimating the space covered by a dancer finds that in a program of twenty waltzes, four polkas, and two quadrilles, a good dancer would cover close upon 12 miles.

Electric flatirons are used exclusively in many large laundries; their advantages are apparent. The heat can always be controlled so as to keep the iron at the right temperature thus obviating the danger of spoiling a finished dress by smut from an iron heated by gas.

Women physicians have established themselves all over Russia, and they have achieved a respected position. Some of them are employed by the government, and since last year are entitled to a pension. Many of them occupy positions as country physicians, school physicians, physicians for the poor, and as surgeons for the municipal ambulance system, etc.

The Emperor William, of Germany, who it is well known takes a keen interest in the latest inventions and improvements which are applicable to military operations, has been studying the question of applying the automobile in military service, and evidently considers that it will be of great value, as he has decided to award a prize of $20,000 for the vehicle best adapted to the purpose. A number of experiments have been recently made in this direction, and it is after considering the favorable results of these tests that the decision to award the prize was taken.

Regarding the present remarkable demand for copper, an American authority is quoted in "The Mining and Metal

lurgical Journal" as saying: "The consumption of copper in this country, as well as abroad, is phenomenal. As this is the electrical age, copper is being put to new uses every day, and the demand is naturally large. The product of the various mines throughout the country has been sold months ahead, but the demand appears to be as pronounced as ever it was. England is now in the market for a large amount of American copper, thousands of tons of it being required for war purposes. Germany and France are also buying liberally.

"The pathology which new conditions of life is ever creating," says "The Lancet," London, "tends more and more toward conditions where the absence of sleep may play a prominent causative part. We improve our sanitation and our general hygiene, and we abolish the plagues of our forefathers; but we work our nervous systems more in a day than they did in a week, and we fall victims to insomnia and the whole train of nervous disorders in which worry, overwork, and want of sleep occur as etiological factors. Sleep all men must have who use their brains much, and especially all men whose work is associated with extra worries."

Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey, rector of St. Andrew's Church, Rochester, has republished his article on church unity in pamphlet form. His plea for "absofreedom lute intellectual within the following

church" is laid on the grounds: (1) The subordination of the official organization of the church to the church itself; (2) the pastoral rather than the priestly conception of the ministry; (3) the statement of Christian doctrine so that it will be in accord with the facts of the visible

The sermon has declined relatively in importance. It had an exaggerated importance in the Protestant Church, especially in the non-liturgical churches. There is a world-wide tendency now, which is increasing in power, to improve and enlarge the worship of the church. Liturgies and ceremonies of worship are more discussed now in the Protestant world than are sermons and lectures, because it is becoming every day more evident that the church is organized for common prayer and for public worship, and not merely to furnish a pulpit for a minister. The pulpit is more and, more being merged in the worship, and is losing its domination over the worship. With this tendency goes increased attention to the Holy Sacraments, especially the Holy Communion, more frequent celebrations and more frequent participation, increased opportunity of worship during Sunday and during the week, and also therewith the greauy increased attention to the organization of the church for aggressive Christian work. Those who think that the pulpit is everything in the public service naturally suppose that with the decline of the pulpit Christianity declines, but those who think that public worship is the essential thing in the church rejoice at the changes that are taking place, and hold that Christianity is advancing.-P. Science Monthly.

SHARPSHOOTING.

There are few soldiers in any regular army, to say nothing of the militia, who, with the service rifle, can be relied upon to place most of their shots in a 12-inch circle at 200 yards, off-hand. A large majority of troops can not do nearly so well. But go to the range of some civilian rifle club, whose members practice rifle-shooting for pastime, and note the difference! None of these men consider that they shoot well unless they can "call their shots," which means that the shooter can announce almost exactly where his bullet has hit before the marker at the target has signalled the result.

At prize-shooting, where experts are gathered, you may see one of them call his shots repeatedly within two inches of where they actually struck, 200 yards away. In other words, he can detect a movement of a hundredth of an inch at the muzzle of his rifle at the instant of discharge. This, bear in mind, is with the unaided eye, the marksman standing erect and shooting off-hand. A run of fifty consecutive hits on a 12inch bull's-eye at 200 yards, off-hand, is not uncommon. Such nail-driving accuracy of fire counts for as much on the hunting-field or battle-field as on the range. Bullets are no respecters of targets. It is all the same to them, be it paper, deer, or man.-Cassier's Magazine.

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Over the wide world the great Preacher Saint was honored by the true sons of the leek. The London Cymru Fydd Society, celebrated at the Hotel Cecil, when a delightful speech was delivered by Sir Wm. Harcourt. The Church people and the Nonconformists also duly observed the great man's name.