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THE PEOPLE'S BIRTHRIGHT.
Its testoration Urged as the Antidote
to Socialism,
wVBO PAYS THE LAND SPECULATOR ?
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Who Baa a Right on the Earth 2 -Bur-
dens for Weak Shoulders --Too Much
. Mim. "Ime•Mte- _
Bary -Is it Just 2-Besults. "
SIXTH PAPER.
Continuing our inquiry into the land
question we will be forced to the conclu-
sion that if the earth is, in any reasonable
sense, intended for the ohildren of men,
and not for the epeeulative purposes of a
few_ of them ; if the Creator is the "father
of the spirits o all` flesh " and t' ii -e world
• is the work of Hie hands, then multitudes
of men have . been cheated out of their
birthright and have not reoeived even the
have ligan
ret irit0' r WOtjlYte
Lord for the uses of all the children of men,
but into a world owned by the landlords
and in w ioh they find themselves tolerated
only o ndition of paying tribute .in the
shape of a' considerable proportion of their
earnings. Not only are they foroed
to pay to the landlord for the privi-
lege of . living and working on the
earth, but -they are further required
to pay taxes on almost everything they
consume, for support of Government
and whatever_sohemes, wise or otherwise,
It may undertake. It oven occurs that the
'owners of the soil are prieviloged'ttrielite
heavy taxes upon them while tney are
denied the franchise, and the money thus
taken from them is taken to make a gift
to some man or company about ' to engage
in some private enterprise which the land-
lords expect will ennanoe the speculative
value of their properties, and by so doing
increase rents and make narrower the
workers' margin of subsistence. They
cannot.ote ; -they roust pay:- A-new-fso•
tory lo4tes in a neighborhood, or a new
railway ,is built ; capital and labor are
expended ; but do capital and labor reap
the full reward of their investment and
expenditure of energy? No. Mr. Land-
lord , may not have expended a cent or a
day's work, bat he takes advantage of the
improvements and turns on the rent screw
and raises the speculative figure. The
result is that the landlord and e • ecnlator
locality,.. yet. who may own a miser's hoard.
etoepes with a email tax while he who
works productively and ereote a good house,
store or faotory a levied upon for a large
sum,; We carry thitidea of taxing indus•
try into the little things of life, and the
man who spends five dollars on hie lawn or
front fenoe can usually depend on finding
it etoted in his neat sesesseacnt, 'Then
Government, not satisfied with taxing pro-
duction, levies odious and burdeneome
taxes -on oommeroe, which have the effect
as well of enabling home dealers to charge
consumer high figures for poor goods as of
adding to the cost of those he imports. All
this time labor is not only subjeoted to the
competition consequent upon free immi-
g o b t art ofour Daxes is talon
:t
�A�0 l
� g
beat. the leleoa market. tend . .«.m
are found who from ignorance
and a superstition miscalled " loyalty,"
think there is nothing wrong in all this,
wonder they arepoor, that work is name
and remuneration small, that while there
is a ory of " overproduction " they have
scarcely the. neoessaries of 'life, yet support
and join in oombinatio'-neio limit the exer-
cise of productive energy and make scarcer
the very good things they eo much desire.
The remedy is not to be found in high
�axen_op_ rhal7SCCn��- ttien�eyey,rr� ynrtey�_ odnotii : combina-
i . a i' lsrpr Lly td
sine which bring swift and sure punish-
ment as their natural consequence. Com-
binations of labor are necessary only in an
unnatural condition consequent on a viola-
tion of fundamental economic laws, and
industrial or economic happiness and
prosperity will never be realized in a high
degree or on an enduring basis until we
restore to the ohildren of men the birth-
right of which they have been deprived
-until we found our society and
our prinoiplee of property on a
No correct basis. Nplan whioh rob-
bers can devise, except the giving
tip of the plunder to the last farthing, will
undo the wrong committed. The land of
the nation belongs to the people of the
nation as a natural right ; it also belongs
to them as a right in British law ; let us
give that law effect and assert that right.
But would yon dispossess men of their
berme and lots? Softly. No ; that would
be neither just nor necessary for our objeot.
We do not want to equalize wealth enwe do
not want to -equalize the possession of
land ; what we do'ask is to equalize the
absolute property in it and the opportuni-
ties such property gives. If it be con-
ceded that the community bas made any
part of the value of land apart from and
above that made by the expenditure of
labor and oapital upon it by the owner,
it cannot be an unreasonable proposi-
tion that such' value should belong
to the community. It is not a- 'very'
revolutionary proposal, yet that is all
there is in the theory of land tax-
ation known as Land Nationalization or
the Single Tax Theory. What it oontem-
platee is the absolute removal of all taxes
upon improvements, produce and
commerce, and the support of the
Government by taking in taxation the
value added to land by the natural increase
of the population. It aims to exempt the
prodnot -of industry and take instead
thereof that unearned increment whioh
now pee into the pockets of those who
spend not an . hour in producing it. It
aims at squeezing out the dog-in•the-
manger who improves not yet demands a
price for permitting others to improve.
Its result would be to encourage industry,
multiply openings for the exertion 'cf skill
and muscle, cheapen' goods and give to
those who earn it the product of their
labor untolled by society's blood -suckers.
e-webI3 B9 +f�nra b-�l[u-IA1�
the shackles from commerce ; it would
elevate the producer -the worker -to hie
proper plane, and thus bring us much
nearer that time when the brotherhood of
man is a conceivable condition and not a
mere rhetorioal ear-tiokler ; it would be a
recognition in fact and action of what we
now preach and profess but deny in prao•
tioe-the Divine Paternity.
But how is a simple ohange in the
mode and direction of taxation to do so
much 2" It is the assertion and adoption
of natural laws as our guide. Nature
never errs, and she remorselessly punishes
violators of her laws. If the earth is for
all and each bas a right here, we are now
doing a great wrong ; everybody cannot
well be given an equal area of it, and if
they could the advent of a new part -pro-
prietor would be a disturbing factor.
Moreover, all do not wish to possess land.
Now, by taking in taxation, to be used in
lien of all other taxes that aro, or might be,
levied on mankind, the sum of the value
added by the presence of the population
there is paid into the oommon treasury of
the nation the annual worth of the right of
each to the soil of the nation. There is no
levy upon the products .of labor, no penalty
upon improvement, and he who does not
use the land is not taxed (his share of the
land paying his proportion and the land
neer pays no tax on his improve-
ments or prodnoe but only for the
land value which he monopolizes to
the exclusion of all other men. No
one would be dispoesessed ; men would buy
and sell and bequeath as they now do, and
they could and would improve to a much
greater extent when they knew that no
matter how much they improved they
would not be fined therefor by the assessor.
" But how would yon get at men who
have already made money, some of it by
epeenlation in land, and who have it in
houses or improvements or produce, in
cash or mortgagee 2" Some of it might
escape. But it will bs discovered that if
the epeculative value of land were de-
stroyed, much money now planed in. mort-
gages -would be turned into active channels,
business would be given a healthy Stimu-
lant and the mere usurer would be discour-
aged. And were it even 'shown that the
past evils oon1dnotbenndone, that would be
no good reason ter continuing an evil
course. That we have had' the contents of
one room destroyed is no reason why the
hose should not play on the fire and save
the rest of the house.
obtain money without laboring. Where
did it come 'from ? • Who earned it ?
Naturerequires perfect compensation.
Somebody earned it, and the land shark
pooketed it somebody is out exactly the
amount of the increment thus appropri-
ated. - Figure it out at your leisure, and
justify it If yon oar.
Take the case of a new town, as one in
whioh a simple illustration can be briefly
outlined : Say one hundred eettlers locate
• a town Bite, survey it, pick ontetheir lots
and gci'to work. Ninety-five of them build
houses and tattiness places and live on
them: The other five may have•other em-
ployment or they may be unemployed, but
they do not build but leave their Iota in a
state- of nature. ,Bneinees attracts busi-
'nese, and our little town in a few years
growe to be a pity. The five lots held by
the non -improvers have grown immensely
valuable owing to the concentration of
population in their locality and the desire
Bi3 them, antF t pai'-d
only a vacant lot tax and expended' not a
dollar in improvements, their owners after
a few yeare are able to . unload them at
prices that make . them oomparatively
wealthy. Somebody earned that money ;
what dad these five men do that they should
be enabled to take it as the 'price of their,
permission to use them ?
They had done nothing, expended noth-
ing. The price they obtained represented
what is known to economists as " unearned
inorement "-unearned to thorn it certainly
was; it was the product of the labor of the
community, which was, to the extent that
they profited, crippled and impoverished.
They were purely and solely land specula-
-tors, and land epecnlation is rendered
possible only by our system of land owner-
,/ ship, which serves no other useful(?) pur-
pose.
And here let 'ne remark that land specu-
lation never added a dollar to the value of
. a lot or to the wealth of the world; it never
made props grow better ; it never improved
the roads or bridgesor sanitation o! the
world ; so far as land dealing is speculation
it is gambling in land values se much as
are the deals of the bucket shops. and stook
exgllas gambling in grain futures. Lend
cannot roperly bo said to represent capi-
tal, alth gh improvements (products of
labor) too. Nor does , a man, correctly
speaking, buy land, but rather the right of
possession, In the transfer no oapital ie
looked upas far asthe nation is concerned ;
but the taking of the earnings of a
community without the return of an
equivalent in productive energy or ite
representative kJ evil and only evil. Its
sum total is the abstraction of money from
those who produced the wealth it ropro-
eents without giving an equivalent. The
addition of $1,000 -speculative value to the
price of a piece of land makes it worth not
one oent more as a plane of residence or ae
a farm. The city lot that sells for $260
would under similar conditions bo jnet as
value. a for a reeidence or a bneinees place
as if it imet $2,600. If we destroy specu-
lative values the world 'will not be a dollar
poorer, but some who have amaseed, wealth
• will be prevented from charging ._ their
fellows toll on the bounties of nature.
Nor ie it alone in this way that we
'encourage 'speculation at the cost of pro-
duction. If we turn to our system of rais-
ing the large eums of money necessary to
eonduot our somewhat elaborate and
r meddlesome system of government, we will
,, find that the prodndora' candle is burned
M both ends. Instead of taking into con-
sideration the faot that the earth is owned
by the few, who are theta enabled to poesess
themselves of mnoh of . the product of
the mere sojourners upon it, and'
levying the tax on them, we adopt
the absurd principle of taxitig men in ao•
oordanoe with their diligence and capability
as represented by their pposaesaione and
expenditures. We fine industry and allow
be bled by rings and combines on every
hard. The improvements and income taxes
are equally reprehensible. A land tax is
an easy tax to levy ; & easy one to-ool-
leot. A. direct tax, while it wol4ld Gave
millions in collection, would eave'more mil-
lions in its expending over an indirect one.
If a man knows exactly how much be pays
and for what be pays his money the ^wil1.
take more interest in seeing that it is prop-
erly expended. We would have more
economical and honest government, and
honeande wbo now live by commercial
piracy, would join the land ''sharks in seek-
ing honest, productive employment instead
of remaining an incubus on sooial pro-
gress.
Here, then, is a ready remedy for the
ri `'w#ofri�e7c 74P1 „ .We `-Z 1° iirC Yc . iwii V
t'.:reetene to creole ont indivithtal lilyeto
and make of the nation one huge peniten-
tiary in whioh every man's .every act will
be governed by arbitrary legal enactments
and where all incentives to excel in any
direotion save that of shirking are de-
stroyed. The sooialistio theory of paternal
government is based on the monstrous as-
sumption that our governors will be
always wiser end better than the masses
by whom they are placed in power -a rash
assumption and one whioh carries with it
material for its own overthrow. Can the
not a democratic government usually re-
flect in great measure the excellencies and
frailties of those whom it represents 2 And
if the individuals composing it cannot
under free conditions direct their social
oonoerns with enooess how can it be pre-
sumed that' they will in the concrete, in
violation of natural laws, enoceed in so.
doing ?
It is not more restrictive laws to repress
individual effort and take away nature's
reward for intelligence, industry and skill
that are required. . We need not to have
our -natural rights further onrEailed ; "We
need no more mausolea or chains. We
want to gait talking about liberty and try'
to realize it ; we want to have more
freedom ; we want less of meddlesome law ;
we want the restoration. of our natural
rights in this planet. We must found
our system on the rock of Universal Right
and we oau barn the rotten props, the
maintenance of which now consumes much
our substance.
" But," says the traditioniet wit'ha-tone'
of stage horror, " to compensate these men
would be beyond the paying power of the
nation." Who talks of oompeneation ?
Who has any valid claim to such? Com•
pensatiou for something that never
existed, that British law affirms never ex-
isted ; and that in the nature of things
menet exist 1 " ging William I. gave
certain land to his followers, and as he
repreez3ntedc �clla i<m4irarther eeetiort
by his aot." Yes, I know Burke
fell into a similar absurd worship
of loyalty and denied the right
of posterity to revoke allegiance
sworn by former generations. But this age
is well over the nightmare of that so -
celled "loyalty " superstition which made
the' masses the slaves of their "superiore."
They are rapidly getting over looking upon
people of other .countries as natural
enemies. But even had William I. given
away all the land of Britain absolutely he
would have done what no man or body of
men can have any right to do. As a
matter of natural right he might just as
well have determined that the present
people of Britain should not dig coal out of
the earth. Bat even this terror is not
available to the opponentsof reform. The
right of the whole people as represented by
the Crown in the lands of the British
realm has never been abrogated by law, as
e it cannot be in faot, and the wa td enforce
that right is to oease ur ening a or,
production and exchange with taxes, and
use the public's part of the land value, as
repreeented by the unearned inorement, to
support government instead. It is easy, it
is honest, it is equitable ; only the idler and
speculator need fear the outcome.
MABQIIETTE.
TELEGRAPHIC) SUMMARY.
TheFienoh Government Labor Bill fixes
10 hours daily as the limit for men's labor.
Large quantities of gin and whiskey have
been seized by the Customs authorities at
Quebec.
The village of Mountain Grove, on the
0. P. R., was almost wiped out by fire last
evening.
The northern part of the city of Sofia,
Bulgaria, has been almost destroyed by a
hurricane.
The anniversary of • the engagement at
Ridgeway in '66 will be commemorated in
Toronto today. y r
,111 eTe'Y" retit�11Yb`Y'Y'C�' i'1 lY�K7 ' edtori`uieeinlia '''
thed in the oternent 0n tome deer one-
half the amount must be payable in gold.
O. 0. Brown, a millionaire banker of
Marionette, Wis., committed suicide Satur-
day by shooting himself. He had been ill,
and was temporarily insane.
An official inquiry is being made con-
cerning the frequent oases of etarvation in
London, England, the object being to
obtain information for the benefit of Par-
liament.
Owing to a leak in a gas -heating stove in
BABY'S GOT A BEAU.
It Seems -.Awful Queer, But There's No
(letting Around It.
She ain't nuthin' pet a baby.!
'Twarn't but yiatidday-I mow
It don't seem so -since them blue e.':e,
Jes' ea bine ez they be now,
Fust looked up in her old dad's her
From her mother's bosom ! Bbo
'Tisn't trew now-'tain't in ne tur'-
That our baby's got a beau !
Why, we've alluz called her " baby •• .
Me and mother. Teenty tot
Land alive ! She is the baby s,
Uv the big an' bloomin' lot 1'
T'others they'd growed up, an' mew
Lighted out, when one day, to t
Thar she wnz in 4heir ole cradle ;
An now baby's got a beau
:r_ its:
Lay a-playin' with her toes 1
u�•: �}� ,:r �; a iFs zr :r m..- au
Mine's like all the rest, I e'pose ;
Mighty queer tho', when I hear her--
Or still think I hear her -crow
From her cradle at my comin',
To think baby's got a bean
I kin see her gettin' bigger,
See her toddlin' at my side,
Jes' the cutest little critter,
Tessin' I' -lana -".for- " s. ride."
I kin see her gettin' bigger- • "
Can't help seein' baby grow ; -
But I can't see how it comes ter
Thle-that baby's got a bean 1
Flowese For Mother.
M. Colborn, proprietor of the Clifton house,
Niagara Falls, had a narrow escape from
death by aphyxiation.
An attempt was made on Saturday to
wreck the fast Irieh mail train at Caattebar•
The obetraotione, a couple of gates placed
across the track, were dieoovered in time to
avert a disaster.
Judge Dupe, Police Magistrate of Mon.
treal, has been ordered by the Attorney -
General of Quebec to commence an in-
vestigation into the oiroums£anoes attend -
ng the,.death-oL the._Englishmsn Kimber.
Another stage in the case of the Jesuits
vs. the Mail was reached on Saturday at
Montreal, when the counsel for the Jesnite
filed their answer to the defendant.' plea.
Tho arguments on the plea and answer will
be heard at an'early date.
The Drop prospects in Manitoba and the
Northwest Territories are reported to bo
better than they have ever been at this
season of the year. In Manitoba iteelf there
ere 1,000,000 sores under -'culti-vaiione of
which 800,000 are in wheat.
The body of Ida Doherty, who was one of
the victims of the boating accident on the
,river at London, last Monday, was found
about 9 o'clock Sunday morning nftar the
Byron dam. Adam Johnston'e neck was
broken, it is supposed by coming in contact
with the timbers in the dam.
Those who live in crowded communities
have no need to seek the pathetic in fiction.
Real life is ever ready to draw tears from
the eyes and help from the friendly hand.
The Detroit Free Press says that a lady re-
siding in that city one day answered a ring
at her door bell and found a little girl shiver-
ing on the step.
"Please ma'am," said the waif, lifting
her shy, beautiful eyes to. the • face above
her, " will you give me a flower ?"
The request was such an unusual . one
that the lady hesitated in surprise.
" Just one little flower!" pleaded 'the
child, looking as if she were about to ory.
"Why bf course you shall have a flower,
child 1 Come in. Yon shall have a pretty
red rose," and the good woman looked for
her scissors and stepped to the window
where the flowers grew. Before she had
out one a light touch fell on her arm.
" Not that one please ; not a red one ;
that white one. Oh, won't it be just
boofnl !" and the little girl pointed toe lily
just unfolding its petals.
"'That 1" The mistress of the house
shook her head. " I cannot out that one,
child. Why must you, have a white one ?
Why won't any flower do 2" -
" Oh, because--because-because it's for
poor mamma 1" and the child burst into a
violent fit ,of weeping. " Mamma is dead
and I 'rnnned away to get her some
flowers."
The next moment she was sobbing on.
the bosom -of a new friend ; and when she
went away she carried the preoions lily
with other flowers to the home where
death had been. ,
The vast reduction in taxation that
would follow the adoption of such a system
would in itself be a, boon to -the people of
any country. An indirect tax is always an
unequal tax, .paid•in large measure by those
who are least able to boar it. It in a wetly
tart to collect, and fraud is difficult to pre-
vent. It posts in our own country millions
annually to oolleot, besides the nrknown
SUM hypothecated in one way and another
idleness to escape. The man who lives in , between the foreign shipper and the ex -
a hovel, or whose house is an eyesore in a chequer ; and it pormite the oonanmer to
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tivatiVirfAII
Mother 'n me rev been too happy
Not to won't the same sweet Cup
Uv good married love to sweeten
Her life too ; but it's a blow -
An' there ain't no gettin' round it -
To think baby's got a beau t
-M. N. B., in Boston (1
The Farm at Dusk.
When milking time ie done, and over all
This quiet Canadian inland forest -horn,.
And wide rough pasture -lots the shadowy
• come,
And dews, with peace and twilight vuioes
tall,
Fron moss -cooled watering -trough to foc`ldered
stall
The tired plough -horses turn -the barnyard
loam
Soft to their feet -and in the sky ,3 pale .
dome /
Like resonant chord! the swooping night -jars
call.
Then, while the crickets pipe, and frogs are
shrill
About the slow brooks edge, the pasture bars
Down clatter, and the cattle wander through -
vague pallid shapes amid the thickets -till
Above the wet gray wilds emerge the stars,
_ And .through the dusk the farmstead Milos
The new ocean ' re • hound Normannia,
whioh arrive. at "ew 'or. on riaay, 'a'
a remarkably narrow escape from destruc-
tion. In the midst of a dense fog her cap-
tain suddenly sighted an immense ioeberg
right in her path. His presence of mind
and prompt action enabled him to turn the
steamer in such a manner that she only
grazed the iceberg.
Mrs. Parsons, Chicago, in a speech
Sunday at a meeting of the " Arbeiter
Bund," said dynamite was to be the
liberator of the human race. Not that
people should go round with bombs and
destroy human lite, but that as gunpowder
had abolished the power of the feudal
barons, so would dynamite in the hands of
the working classes redder the armies of
the oapitaliets useless in a street fight.
What will probably prove to be a mur-
der happened in the Brooker settlement
near Windsor on Wednesday night. Two
farmers, Jones and Speeohley, got into an
altercation about a cow: When done s started
o a e lie cow oil poen ey ss arm • e
was set upon by the latter's wife and eon,
who used pitchforks. Jones' . body and
head is frightfully out, and his physicians
have grave doubts of hie recovery.
The eteamer Exeter City, from Swansea,
last night brought to New York the captain
and 11 men of the drew of the Norwegian
barque Louis, which sprnnk a leak and
Bunk off the Irish coast May 19th. The
barque was bound for Quebec. The crew
passed three days and three eights at the
pumps before they were rescued. The work
of rescue was difficult, as a high Bea was
running. Captain Heffermehl of the Louis
was struck by a wave and injured.
Pionio Joys.
Colonel Yerger-Well, how did you like
the picnic ?
Giho'oly-I was •so glad to get home
again that I was glad I went. '
' Arabi Pasha a few years ago was a
handsome, blaok-haired man with a fine
military bearing; now he is quite gray, is
often ill and complains that he suffers
much from the hot and humid climate of
Ceylon. Nobody would think of calling
him Arabi the Blest.
faro. Waren mrlrer hen lntrodnoed a new
fad in Washington, and has a olase of
yonng women meet at her residence twice to
week, where a professor of physical grape
from -abroad teaches them how to walk, to
go np and downlateirs,to bow, to smile, to
dispose of the hands.
How "Pinafore" Was Written.
W. 8. Gilbert, the dramatist, writes in
the
small hours of the morning, beginning
work at midnight, and often keeping on
until after the sun had risen. Like many
literary men his vein of composition will
not flow by day, requiring candle light to
stirit into activity. In preparing a libretto
he goes slowly but surely. Hitting upon
one of hie oharaoteristio ideas, he turns it
over in his mind during many long walks^
and solitary :cogitations, adding cironm-
stances and incidents asthey coeur to him.
Then he makes a rough skeleton sketch
of the plot, which he pmts away.
A few weeks later this skeleton is
carefully written out in exteneo, • with
such additions' and improvements as
may have ocourred to him meanwhile.'
This, too, is shelved for a while, but ulti-
mately the perfect framework is made,
which only needs -if ouch expression is
allowed -the wedding to it of the dialogue
and songs. It ie at this stage that Sir
Arthur Sullivan comes upon the scene, for
the writer has to keep the musician's needs
in view, and the composer mnst bear the
writerin mind. The writing of one of
their famous operas entaile mnoh labor and
endless ,consultation upon the collabora-
tors. Playwright and composer often see
the morning come in at the windows while
they eit over oigara and cigarettes, disease.
ing with the most ankione care points
whioh to others might seem of little mo-
ment. But it is to -this untiring indnstry
and care that they owe mach of their ono-
oess.-Sheaield Telegraph.
from view. '
Youth's Comp.!,Lic•at
"My Bike."
Girls, wait a minute! What do you think
I have been doingSor the past year ? Why,
I have been riding a bioyole.
" Well, that's nothing,' I hear a hundred
voices say, " eo have we been riding
inyr'lnirn.n,ri fin; inn itis t. •'"
Now, if you would just give me' breath-
ing apace, my dear enthueiaate, I would
tell you that what I was going to say was
to those who don't ride and who ^' don't
quite know whether to try it or not."
Ah l thanks -now I will proceed.
t The idea of riding &bicycle never entered
my bead until early last summer; and this
was how it finally got possession of me. I
had several young men friends who rode'
and as they related to me the delightful
adventures and exoiting incidents of their
many little rune, I became soddenlyfired
with the idea athat I -too might enju; these
sports, " if I only had a bioyole."
I was wise enough to consultthe family
physician first, and trembling with -im-
patience, after boldly stating my-prvjeet:',
(that of learningto ride at once) I awaited
his answer. " Certainly -go ahead and
ride," he said. " It will do you good ;
only remember this, it is not in the use
but in the abuse that it will harm you."
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the wheel- in two lessons, and in the third
accomplished the most difficult part, that
of " mounting."
I next purchased "my bike," and then
came the fan.
I rode over all the good roads, of which
we have quite a number, and found that-
tbe sight of the shining spokes, the easy.
saddle and the thought of the delightful
motion (which comes nearest to flying of
anything I can imagine) world often tempt
me out in the fresh air when otherwise 1
would have spent my time indoors in lazily
reading or drawing.
Then came the bracing autumn weather,
when I would go spinning along amid the
falling leaves, and. as I whirled over the
hard ground, and breathed in the coal air,
it sent the blood to the very tips of my
fingers and toes, and I felt as though I
could scarcely refrain from singing, in
sheer exuberance of spirits : " The cares I
left,behind me."
And now comes spring, gentle,' balmy
,spring, when the air is filled -with the
odor of apple -blossoms, a dreaminess sterna
over our senses, and we long for the seg
air, and a lonely spot wherein to indulge in
the delightful dolce far niente-but no !
In the spring the brilliant sunshine
Lightens u15 the shining steel ;
In the spring the youthful fancy
Turtle unto the faithful wheel.
Yes -Girls, rouse yourselves 1 •-now ie the
time. Get a bicyole as I did, learn to.ride
and yon will fiever repent it. -L, A. W.
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Breathe Only Through Your Nose,
A Dutch physician has recently declared
that a close connection exists between
the exercise of oar mental faoalties mud
`disorders of the nose. The opinion in
expressed that if it were generally known
how many oases of, chronic headache, of
inability to . learn or to perform m utal
work, were due to ohronio disease eV the
nose, many of these oases wotild be easily
cured, and the number of child victim.e of
the do.called over preserve 'in education
would be notably reduced. According to
the above mentioned authority it would
seem that breathing through the nose ie
absolutely indispensable in order to secure
the full value of the mental capacity. -
Herald of Health.
The Duke of Connaught arrived yester-
day in Winnipeg, and was presented with
an address, to which he made an appro.
priate reply, in which he extolled the great.
noes of the country, 'and wished for its
future moms. -
To keep the bright, green oolor of sum-
mer cabbage and some other vegetables,
boil fast in plenty ,of, water in which Lae
been dissolved a piece of washing soda the
eine of two peas; oover until. the water
boils and then take off the lid. If the
steam is shut in the cabbage will bo yellow
and unsightly.
Society Note.
The lady wbo wore a low neck dreseetnd
forgot to take the porous plaster off her
back attracted mnoh attention.-]3urliveto7.
Free 'Press.
Doubtful.
"Do you think your father likes me ?,"
he inquired.
"'Oh', pm,"..she -aitawcmd..,."IIe.. iizi} .,
was going to wait up to -night to yeee you." '
It is reported that times are very
ball he
the coast towns and cities of Britls?i
nt�nbi't.
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