Before the end of next June the Post-office Department hopes that it will have extended the system of mail delivery in the country districts so that it will accommodate a total of two million farm families.
FIFTY
years ago, August 28, the first submarine cable that the world had ever seen was laid between Dover and Cape Grisner, and the first message to be sent under the sea was despatched from the white cliffs of England to the promontory on the French coast.
Under the head of "The Secret of Happiness," the Christian Advocate quotes the answers of the Emperors of Germany, Austria, and Russia, and the Prince of Wales to the question as to whom each of them envies.
Christian Science
appeals to us, because of the buoyancy of its hope and the certainty of its tone, in such contrast to the dreary verdicts of physicians and our own fears.
During a Wednesday night meeting last winter my eyes rested for a moment on a man whose frame seemed to be wasted by great physical suffering, and on whose face was written a look of hunger and world-weariness.
