mm, . —.. GREAT CHURCH UNION IN CANADA NOW SURE Presbyterians, Methodists and Congregationalists to Merge Throughout Dominion. From the Religious Rambler. By a three to one vote the Canadian Presbyterian general assembly has fa vored organic union with the Metho dist and Congregational denomina tions. The other two bodies had already gone on record as favoring the amal gamation of the three diverse denom inations. The final act of consumma tion Is now Inevitable. What is prob ably the greatest merger In all church history is assured. Unless the Pres byterians of the states should get ahead of the denominations across the border. Canada will have the record for church union. One fact which causes this great merger to stand out above all the otb - er church unions, past, pending an! prospective, is that it Involves three distinct types of denominations. The Congregationalists stand for indepen dency; Methodism stands for a modi fied episcopacy (although the Cana dian church is without bishops) and the Presbyterian church stands for government by presbyters or elders. Yet a way has been found to weld these diverse bodies into one great whole. * This extraordinary project would have been impossible had not Canada already made great strides In church union by consolidating the divided de nominational families. Thus Instead of several forms of the Presbyterian church in Canada, as is the case in the United States, there Is now but one In the entire denomination. Likewise there is but one Methodist denomina tion and one Congregational denomi nation. The process which has already bpen accomplished in Canada Is now under way in the states, where Pres byterian bodies are drawing together and Methodist bodies likewise. Where the Case Now Stands. This great Canadian union has been "up” for several years. It has been debated in many church gatherings. Recently it was put to the vote of the local congregations. In the case of the Presbyterians a third of the member ship did not vote, which many took to be a sign that they were not ready for the issue. But the general assembly, which has lately been in session in Toronto, took decisive action by a vote of 178 to 64 in favor of proceeding as rapidly as possible to the union. The Congregationalists, in their na tional council, were absolutely unani mous in favor of going forward to the completion of the union. The Metho dist general conference has also put it self on record as overwhelmingly fa voring union. The Presbyterians were tfie laggards. Their acquiescence as sures the fact. It is rather remarkable that the Presbyterians voted to give up their denominational Identity at this time, for the great congress of Presbyterian representatives had given such an ex hibition of Presbyterian potency and had so deeply stirred the denomina tional enthusiasm that some observers felt that this newly quickened denom inational consciousness would balk the union project. It is proved not to be the case,, however, and the negotia tions have been put into the hands of a committee to proceed to the epochal Issue which has been the goal of the most advanced leaders in the denom ination. £5^ Anglicans Take Forward Step. One of the unexpected by-products of the union movement in Canada was the effect upon the Anglican church, which has organized a "Church Unity league” and which takes the ad vanced position of recognizing the non-Eplscopal churches. In England, Canada and the states, the Anglican and Protestant Episcopal churches, which hold the doctrine of the historic episcopacy, have not been willing to recognize the validity of other ordi nations than their own. Thus they have not looked upon the non-Eplscopal churches in the fullest sense of that term. The Canadians, however, have gone a step forward, although their action has called forth a protest from the bishops of eastern Canada. At the recent meeting of the Church Unity league, to which, by the way, Earl Grey cabled his congratulations, loud applause greeted the following utter ance from the venerable Archdeacon Cody •"Wouldn’t you like to meet John Bunyan, Francis of Assissi, Thomas A. Kempis, Father John of Cronstadt, David Livingstone, and Paton of the New Hebrides, as well as Keble, Phil lips, Brooks and Kingsley? How can we refuse to recognize on earth those who will be stars in the spiritual firm ament hereafter? Will there not arise some sense of shame to remember hereafter that, we refused to recognize these on earth?” The New West Makes New Problems. A factor in Canadian progressive ness in this matter of church union is Its newly opened northwest. Church leaders do not wan^ to duplicate the conditions which grew up in America by competitive congregations in almost every community. They are deter mined to man the whole field, but they do not want to over man it. Like all new regions, the west feels most lightly the claims of the historic di visions. It, in' the fashion of Kip ling’s American, "Turns a keen, untroubled face Home to the Instant need of things.". Therefore, the local congregations are uniting without waiting for the permission of the denominations. They are forestalling national unity by lo cal unity. The agitation has created all over the dominion a host of men ■who are determined that the church shall get together regardless of what leaders may say. The pressure of the new problems, which have come to Canada, the fron tier problem, the city problem, the im migration problem, and the temper ance problem, have been factors In drawing these denominations together. These new tasks are so large that they can be met only by a united church. The leaders in practical service are likewise leaders in church unity. The issue Up In Scotland. A factor in furthering union in Can ada is the astonishing progress that is being made in Scotian ’, toward the union of the established cjiurch of Scotland and the United Free church of Scotland. It ..has for generations been taken for granted that this line of cleavage was practically perma nent. But lasf month both denomina tions held their assemblies side by side In Edinburgh, and with absolute un animity voted to proceed with nego tiations looking to union. This in the land whose many brands of Presbyter ianism have been described as "The wee kirk, the free’ kirk, • The kirk wi’oot the steeple; The auld kirk, the cauld Kirk, The kirk wl-oot the people." • From Asia come equally stimulating messages of the movement for the abolition of denominatiorvaf lines in the native churches on the mission ; field. It Is clear beyond p.eradventurs that China means to have one Chinese church, which embraces everything, from EplsCopallan to Quaker. Japan Is discussing the same theme. Some of the native Christian denominations In India have got together and further unions are on the way. Some American Unions. „ In the states the southern Presbyter ians have decided to merge with the United Presbyterians, and this union will have been effected within two years. The northern Presbyterians and the German Reformed have decided to get together, and their committees are working on the matter. The United Brethren and the Methodist Protest ants think they should get together. The northern Baptists and the Free Will Baptists have already united. Meanwhile, the world conference on faith and order, which the Episcopal ians are promoting, grows more Im portant and reallzcable with each month. In this matter of church union, It seems as If the lrreconcllables are growing reconciled, and the Irreduci ble minimum of antl-unlonlsts Is being reduced toward the vanishing point. FOREIGNERS LARGE MACHINERY BUYERS 0 ' | Recent Summary of Trade -Shows Satisfactory In crease In Exports. The success of the American manu facturer and the American workman In competition In foreign markets Is sharply Illustrated In the pamphlet Just Issued by the department of commerce on "American Manufactures In Foreign Markets,” by the table which shows the exportation of machinery from the United States In 1902 and 1912. The ■value of this class of exports In 1912 was $176,703,431, against $64,826,802, a decade earlier, an increase of approx imately $112,000,000, or about 173 per cent, while tatal domestic exports meantime were increasing about 60 per cent. This large increase in the exporta tion of machinery Is apparent In the trade with all parts of the world. Tak ing the figures of tne full fiscal year 1912 for which details of articles by grand divisions and countries are avail able, exports of machinery from the United States to Europe show a gain from $30,000,000 In 1902 to $65,000,000 In 1912; to Nortft America, from $21,000,000 to $61,000,000; to South America, from $5,000,000 to $27,000,000: to Asia, from $2,250,000 to nearly $7,000,000; to Oce ania, from $5,000,000 to $12,750,000: and to Africa, from $1,760,000 to $4,333,033.33. These figures Include agricultur al implements and automobiles in addition to the various classes of ar ticles grouped under the head of Iron and steel machinery. t All glasses of machinery show large gains in exports in the period 1902-12, for which detailed statistics are avail able. Sewing machines, of which the exports In 1902 were $4,000,000, were ap proximately $10,000,000 in 1912; metal working machinery, $3,000,000 In 1902, $12,000,000 In 1912; typewriters, $3,000, 000 In 1902, $11,000,000 In 1912; engines of all descriptions, a little less than $6,000,000 in 1902, $19,000,000 In 1912; cash registers. $1,000,000 fn 1902, $3,600,000 In 1912; electrical machinery, $5,000,7)00 m 1902, $8,000,000 In 1912; agricultural Im plements, $16,000,000 In 1902, $36,000,000 In 1912; and automobiles, $1,000,000 In 1902, $25,500,000 in 1912. One striking feature of this growth Is the fact that large gains have been made In exports of machinery to Eur ope, the other great manufacturing sec tion of the world. Of metal working machinery, the exports to Europe amounted to $2,750,000 In 1902, and $}, 333,033.33 in JL912;. of automobiles. $780. 000 In 1902, and $7,500,000 in 1910; agri cultural implements, $9,000,000 In 1902, $16,000,000 In 1912; sewing machines, $2, 250.000 In 1902, nearly $4,500,000 lp 1912; and typewriters, $2,500,000 in 1902, com pared with practically $8,000,000 In 1912. ■The largest percentage of gain In ex ports of machinery has been In the movement to South America, the total to that grand division In 1902 having been $4,973,878, and In 1912, $27,268,939. Typewriters exported from the United States to South America in, 1902 amounted to but $74,537 In value, while In 1912 they exceeded $1,000,000; sewing machines, $350,000 In 1902, against $2, 333,033.33 In 1912; engines, $1,000,000 In 1902, and $3,500,000 In 1912; agricultural Implements, $2,000,000inl902; $8,750,000 In 1912; automobiles, but $15,363 In 1902, over $2,000,000 In 1912; and electri cal machinery, $127,697 In 1902, and $1, 500.000 In 1912. The share which ma chinery formed of our total exports of finished manufactures other than food products was 20 per cent In 1902 and 26 per cent in 1912. FRANK JAMES LIVES ON OLD FAMILY FARM Denver, Colo,—Within the last few months there have come many stories regarding Frank James, the one-time bandit. Frank James has died in Ore gon, California and a few other states, he has “gotten” religion In the east, and he has been active generally. And the queer part about it Is that he Is alive and In good health, and is spend ing his last days on the old James farm a few miles from Kearney, Mo., where Jesse James Is buried. This is the information that Is brought to Denver by L. Wright, a mo tion picture proprietor, who recently made a visit to the farm in Missouri. When he returned he brought a state ment with him, signed by various citi zens of Kearney, and which reads as follows: To Whom It May Concern: This is to certify that we, the fol lowing citizens of Kearney, Clay County, Missouri, hereby affirm that we are personally acquainted with the original Frank James, brother of Jesse James and that he is now enjoying good health and is living on the old James homestead about three miles northeast of this city, and we further more state that he is an honored and respected citizen of this community. "I went back to get Mr. James's opinion regarding law and order,” Mr. Wright said. “I am the proprietor of a set of Jesse James pictures and I had received the criticism that they were hot moral. X contended exactly the opposite—that they showed the bad effects of a life of crime. So I went back to get some expression from Frank James on it. He told me this: “ ‘If any one thinks they can violate the law and make a success of it, I consider them insane and their fin ish will be the gallows or the peni tentiary.’ ” Frank James contends that he was innocent of all the charges of /Out lawry placed against him. He points to his acquittal as evidence. Astrologers find this a day In which to follow the usual routine of life and to avoid new ventures of every sort, whether social or commercial. The sun. Saturn and Mors are all in ad verse aspect. They rule powerfully to •>y:ir<1 the upsetting of the plans of men ; and women, the t iers declare. TRANSCONTINENTAL ROAD TO BE COMPLETED Plans Perfected and Money Being Raised for Great Lincoln Highway. Lincoln highway projects of the past pale into insignificance beside the Lin coln transcontinental enterprise re cently Incorporated in Detroit to suc ceed Manufacurers’ Ocean-to-Ocean Highway association of Indianapo lis. The great prestige of this ven ture lies In the fact that $4,200,000 ac crued to It from its predecessor. With this sum as a nest egg, the fulfill ment of its mission, namely, the link ing of a through road between New York and San PranolsCo by 1915, Is thought to be practically assured. The original plan of the manufac turers who launched the enterprise has not been changed one lota, save for the dedication of the venture to Abra ham Lincoln. This feature was added as a happy after thought. The baglc Idea is still to furnish the American people an object lesson In good roads so that they will become a necessity and not a luxury. It Is thought that the building of one uniformly excel lent, Indestructible trunk line, through the parallel and link highways it will Inspire, will do thore to hasten the era of good roads than any other agent. The ultimate sum to be raised is $10,000,000. With the tour booming things in the west, and several large subscriptions ripening in the east, but few months more are expected to elapse until the amount has been rea lied and building operations begun. Her Majesty of Spain. "Sir, the Queen of Spain has no legs!” —Old Spanish Chronicle. The Rue de la Palx, In its whimsical way. Ordains that the delicate mold Of your ankle, Fleurette, shall be barred tflth a net Of silk, shot with filigree gold; And hose of this spidery weave Are costly, you well may believe, But before yon begin to complain ■ Just think of the poor Queen of Spain! When the gusty rains beat on the glitter ing street A perilous thing't Is to fare With Immaculate frills over eddying rills While Impertinent wayfarers stare, A dropstltch awry In the lisle May provoke an embarrassing smile, But e'en In the wind and the rain Who would envy the poor Queen of Spain? When the Graces commute on the shuttle train route, And sprint to be prompt at the play, The Bklrts which Impede their suburbanite speed Must rise—to the need of the day; With tie-back and hobble, their feet You barely expect to be fleet. But better the loss of a train That that of the poor Queen of Spain. When, In fine, from the art to which sculptors Impart The charms of a marble ideal, We would turn toward the mold which In dreams they behold We And It too rare In the real; But better the limbs that are thin, Be they bowed either outward or In; One would rather walk humbly than reign Like the femlplne^soverelgn of Spain! "Stop, look both ways, listen, and don’t walk along the tracks.’ 'are Injunctions that would, In the light of recent pub lished statistics, materially reduce the number of fatalities on the railways, If oarefully observed. The majority of the people killed by accident are classed as "tresspassers." Of 10,396 killed on the railways in 1911, 6,284 were trespassers. In ten years the total number of deaths by accident was 61,083, of which only 4,340 were of passengers. *'■*•*. -u, ' Nice Family, This. --J>" Wife (reminiscently)—I remtfmber when you asked me to say the worij that was to make you happy for life, how I hesitated. Hub (grumpily)—Hesitated? Huh! You never did say It. ■ ' Resilient. Mrs. Naybor—Well, did you have some of the spongq cake I sent to the picnic? ' , Willie Nexdore—Yes’iin; we played ball with my piece. SHE’S A LEADER OF SOCIETY IN LONDON MRS. DUBOSC-TAYLOR. Mrs. Dubosc-Taylor Is one of the most popular figures In London society this season. She is a French woman, being the daughter of the late M. Du bose, of the Chateau de Frefosso, Nor mandy. Her husband Is the son of the late W. H. Taylor, a rich South Ameri can, who founded the Buenos Alrea Jockey club. The Way of the Transgrhteor. From the Chicago Tribune. Charles A. White came to The Trib une office the other night to ask for 76 cents. He had to pay room rent or take to the street. White is remembered distinctly by a number of gentlemen who will curse and laugh when they read that he was necessitous and in such plight that his ambitions, goaded by need, could not spur him beyond a "six bit touch." There would be something fairly grandiose about a man Who still had the spirit for a $10 request White had been beaten down until 76 cents represented affluence. The gentlemen referred to will curse and laugh; will lose something of their desire to kill him, and wish merely that they might meet him on, the street, kick him. and throw a dime after him. White will be remembered by other men as the legislator who sold the story of the Lorlmer election. He con fessed. H. J. C. Beckemeyer confessed. D. W. Holstlaw confessed. Michael Link confessed. Link Is dead. Holst law lost his bank. Beckemeyer has disappeared from view. White Is satis fied when he finds he has money in his pocket for a room and coffee and rolls. White said he was paid money by Lee O'Neil Browne and Robert E. Wil son Beckemeyer said he was paid money by B#owne and Wilson. Link said he was given money by Browne. Holstlaw said he was paid money by John Broderick. Browne and Wilson are members of the house of representatives now, as they were then. Broderick Is a mem ber of the senate now. as he was then. There probably are not a half-dozen men In the assembly who have as much Influence on legislation as Browne. Wilson never had any Influence, but al ways a great deal of good nature, and he has that undisturbed. Both Browne and Wilson suffered from apprehension at one tlm^—Wilson nearly collapsed In a panic, and Browne spent consid erable money getting out of his diffi culties. His nerve steadied and Wilson was pulled through before he went to 8leces. Broderick had even an easier me. He has the sensitive nature of a clam. He took the affair as a matter of course, and It may be doubted If he eve>- thought harshly of Holstlaw. Certainly he never lost an hour’s sleep or took an extra drink—except, pos sible, in celebration. The way of some transgressors is hard—and of otheus hard to explain. 8ome Tripping Rhyme. I’ve never done the turkey trot, I never hope to do It; And yet It's such Infernal rot I’d rather do than view It. —Philadelphia Record. I’ve never done the grlzsly bear. I think the law should Jug It; When I have got a hug to share I do not dance, I hug It. —Houston Post. I’ve never done the tango dance. It ought to be amended; I do not like to run the chance Of being apprehended. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. . I never do the Boston dip, I shun the TexaB Tommy, Because to it I am not hep Or have the breath knocked from me. —Chicago Record-Herald, I never do the single step— Of pathos Is my case full— Because to It 1 amnot hep And I am so ungraceful. —Chicago Post I’ve never done the bunny hug, I think It would be funny. But such an awful libel 'tls Upon the modest bunny. SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS t A man’s reputation Is what his fellow men think of him; his character Is what God knows of him.—Anon. I how before the noble mind That freely some great wrong forgives, Tet nobler Is the one forgiven Who bears the burden well and Uvea. —A. A. Procter. My spark may grow greater by kind ling my brother's taper—Jeremy Taylor. Spend no strength In worry; you need it all for duty.—Anon. There Is nothing In this world a human soul need ever fear except Its own cow ardice or want of faith.—Seelye. t Is not growing like a tree n bulk doth make men better be; n small proportions we just beauties see, Vnd In short measures life may perfect be. —Ben Jonson. Oh. the littleness of the lives that we ire living, denying to ourselves the big ness of that thing which It Is to be a man, to be a child of God.—Phillips Brooks. The United States Is the world's largest' producer of motion picture films, and the quantity exported dur ing the year aggregates more than 60,000,000 feet, approximately 11,000 miles, or enough to stretch from New Yew York to Manila. YANKEE TENNISER BEATS FOREIGNERS MAURICE McLOUGHLIN. Maurice E. McLaughlin, the Ameri can tennis champion who is now in Europe, la beating all the tennis champs In England. He is hailed us the world's best tennis player. McLaughlin heads the American team which will go to Germany soon to meet the tennis champs of that nation. RAGE FOR GAMBLING SWEEPING ENGLAND Passion For Laying Wagers Seizes Women as Well as Men. • London. Special.—The spread of gambling among the English people, both men and women. Is causing se rious and growing concern. No meas ures yet have been devised to stop the habit, which' rapidly Is becoming more and more of a menace. On all big races practically everybody, from the newsboy on the street to the peer In his motor, has something on his fa vorite horse, and even on the everyday race an Immense amount In the ag gregate Is wagered. Latterly, It has been disclosed that women working in offices and restaurants In the city have become as Inveterate gamblers as the men and boys. Nowadays both men and women, during the afternoon hours, are distracted from their work by their anxiety over the results of the races, and employers complain in vain. The house of commons, with a view of curbing this Increase in the bet ting habit, passed a law prohibiting commission agents from accepting money on a bet, but this was easily evaded by the agents carrying wagers on a credit system, settling once a week. As the system works today any boy with a shilling to bet on a horse can go to almost any newspaper seller and get his money down. Another measure to overcome this condition was met by opposition from the work ingman, who claimed for himself the same privileges and opportunities ac corded his wealthy neighbor, who can wager as freely as he likes by either going to the track or telephoning his commission agent. The complaint Is made also that gambling Is spoiling golf. At most of the big clubs today members will not play unless assured of a good side bet on the result. It started with half a dollar a round, but at some clubs a game Is seldom played for less than 125, 250 or even 2100 a round. The professional, too, who gets his fee for taking a novice around, now wants a wager on the result. Even if he gives the novice all he deserves, the pro fessional generally can win. The Heartbreak of Graduation Day. By Avis Gordon Vestal In The Mother's Magazine tor June. "Girls, you ought to see the set of silk underwear momma Is making me to wear with fny graduating dress! Yards and yards of lace, and—” Helen Marvin was confiding her description to an envious group of senior girls In the cloakroom of the Colfax high school. Mabel Emerson, tucking In a stray curl before the mirror, flushed as she heard her. classmate’s bragging words. Mabe^ could not have silk, even for her outer garb, and was to wear a 15-cent dimity because that was all her mother could afford. Suppose you were Mabel! For every Helen, whose parriperlng relatives can spend much money upon a display of elaborate white for the great day, a delicate silk gown for class day, a dainty colored dress for the junior par ty, with extravagant undergarments, gloves, fan, presents and an armful of American Beauties thrown In, there are at least four Mabels whose girlish hearts are breaking because they can not have these vanities like their so cial leaders. The parents of the Ma bels are not less lovlpg, but they have ‘often strained their resources and worked day and night to give their children the educational opportunities they themselves lacked. How do the mothers of the Mabels feel as they burn the midnight oil. laboring* with work-drawn Angers to make {he dimity dresses for their dear daughters ? Do not forget lank John and freckled James either. They are to graduate In the same June—if they can—and they, too, are “up against it.” A high school Srlnclpal, telling me who were to form Is next graduating class, said, ‘‘Jamies Converse dropped out at the middle of the year. ‘It will cost me at least $45 to get the clothes and fixings the other fellows are ordering,' he told me. 'Fa ther can’t afford It and I'd be a cad to let him borrow the money as he of fered to. Sp I'm going to work In the ! carpenter shop with him, and I’ll come back at the second semester next year, and graduate with the Juniors. These arc true stories I have heard, with many similar ones, when I was a student, and later, when I was a high School teacher. In the Colfax high school a solution of this vexing situation Is now being worked out. The result will be the donning of a modification of the academic gown and ' "mortar board” cap worn at college commencement. The cut