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parade, North Circular road, Dublin, are
vharged with conspiring to obtain money
Doings and Sayings in
England.
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because. they co .14 not carry out the
eentence of the law."
MAN WHO COULD NOT BE
HANGED.
It is repotted that John Lee, who was
condemned. to death for the murder of
Miss Keyes at Bibbicombe, has been. re-
leased from Portland, Prison.
Lee, who protested. innocence, was
sentenced to death at Devon .Assizes in
1885, and after three abortive attempts
were made to Irang him, en February 23
the sentence was commuted to one of
penal servitude for life.
The crime for witioh Lee was sentenc-
ed to death may be told in a few words.
One the morning of November 15th, .
1884,.a Mies Keyes, a well -to -de maiden
lady, was found murdered in the dining -
room of her house at Babbicombe. As
the result et investigation, her butler,
John Lee, Wag arrested. and eventually
put upon his trial for murder, Miss
Keyes had befriended Lee as a lad, and
after he had served imprisonment, for
six months for theft, she took him into
her service.
Ott the morning of Novenabor 15 the.
servants at "The Glen" Miss Keyes'
house, were roused by the amell of fire.
Ellen Neck, one of the old and valued
servants of Miss Keyes, made her way
elownatairs and met Lee in the hall.
Jane Neck, her sister, visited her mis-
tress' room, but Miss Keyes was not
there. She also went downstairs -and was
:conducted by John Lee through the
;smoke On her nightdress, where John
:Lee had touebed her were found marks
set blood. A pool of blood was seen in
the hall, where the murder had evident-
ly been committed. The body had then
!been dragged into the dinine-room. A
lot of old papers bad been praced around
the body, and saturated with oil, for the
;purpose of destroying by fire all traces
,of the murder.
The evidence agoinst Lee was entirely
eiirournstantial, but was such strong cu-
mulative evidence that little doubt was
left in the minds of these wbo heard
the trial as to the prisoner's guilt.
The execution was fixed for Monday,
l'ebruary 23, 1885, at eight o'olock in the
morning. The ohief warder led the way,
Hollowed by the chaplain and the achool-
master. Lee, pinioned, and walking be-
tween two warders, followed behind.
IBerry, the executioner, followed the con-
vict.
Then ensued a scene whioh has never
perhaps been paralleled, The chaplain,in
deep, impressive tones, recited the con-
cluding portion of the burial service used
at executions. The condemned man was
placed on the drop, the white cap being
.drawn over his face. The governor, under
:sheriff, doctor, and warders stood facing
:the scaffold. The chapel bell was tolling.
eAs soon as the chaplain had said the
!grace, Berry pulled the lever and tried
ito release the bolts for the drop to fall.
There was no response. A shiver pass -
rid through the circle of onlookers. Berry
sand the warders stamped upon the drop.
lit would not work. All this while, when
:minutes seemed like years, John Leo
:stood erect and. apparently unmoved,
gave when his body was shaken by the
;:jerlcs made by the stamping of feet on
ithe trap-door.
Six minutes elapsea; the thin boards
;gave way a little to the violent stanip-
hug and the prisoner's weight, and Lee
Iliad the sensation of being slowly stran-
bled, but the bolts were still immovable,
and the drop clung persistently to tho
surface. tee made no sound. He was
taken off the ;scaffold, while the engin-
oera and warders chopped away at the
.woodwork. The drop was tried again,
;and this time seemed to woric satisfac-
itorily.
Lee was placed upon the scaffold onee
anon. The ohaplain repeated the words
oaf the burial servicie the second time, and
the mewl time the bolts refused to act..
Itierans pulled the lever backwards and
forwaxds with all the force at his com-
mand. It was all to no purpose.
Lee was taken to the basement of the
prison, attended by the chaplain and two
;warders. He seemed to be in a cataleptie
'condition, he spoke to no one and looked
;upon the scene with a vaeant gaze. In a
sfew more minutei the wretched man was
summoned for the third time to the sca-
ffold. For the third tline the terrible
sedeal was gone through with the con-
vict, and for the third time the chaplain
recited tho burial service.
What followed is best told in the
words of the chaplain, the Rev. Jahn
Pitkin: •
"The lover was pulled again and again.
. A groat noise was heard which sounded
;like the falling of the drop. But to my
!horror, when I turned my eyes upon the
;scaffold, I saw the poor convict atanding
Nupon the drop as 1 had seen him twice
lbefore. Three times they had tried to
%take away his life. This seemed to me
awes; and that I ought to interfere.
The 'surgeon advised me to stop the exe-
cution,:and I refused to stay any longer.
The unteir-sherif f thereupon ordered Lee
to be teken back. to the prison."
During a subsequent interview with
tbe chaplain, Leo told the latter of a
.dream he had had on the night previous
.to his attempted execution. lie had re -
anted this dream to the two warders who
.had charge of him, adding: "So I shall
not be hanged to-daY." in this dreem
lee saw himself being pinioned, taken
out of his oell, and led down through the
reception hell to the scaffold. He sew
- himself placed on the drop, which would
not work, and then taken back' to his cell
HOTEL AT ANCHOR.
Captain N. Grose is the originator
of a scheme for the establishment of a
floating school in Falmouth harbor. In
an interview he said:
"We shall buy an old liner, take the
engines out, remodel the interior, and
anchor the vessel in Falmouth harbor,
There will be accommodation for about
100 guests of both isezes, and the tariff
would be somewhat less than that of a
first-elass hotel on glare. We shal1
able to have berths a-ud other aparts
ments somewhat larger than on a liner.
but domestic and social routine would
be much the same, even to a captain pre-
siding over the ship and all persons being
dressed in nautical attire.
"There are hundreds of people who
travel to and fro on liners simply be-
cause they like to live on the sea. Many
of these, I am convinced, will- patronize
our floating hotel."
MAN WHO HID A KING.
Saadi is being made by a firm of
London solicitors for the heir to an
annuity granted by Charles II, to a
farmer named Pendrell, who slieltered the
King after the disastrous battle of Wor-
cester.
"Honest Richard Pendrell" earned fame
as the Staffordshire farmer who, with
the assistance of his four brothers, risked
death at the hands of the pursuing
Roundheads by. dressing the King as a
peasant and secreting him among the
foliage of an oak tree -famous as "the
Boscobel oak" -while the soldiers search-
ed vainly for him at its foot.
The gratitude of the King took a prase
tical form. Upon his return to power he
rewarded his preservers, and, incidental-
ly, wreaked a subtle vengeance upon his
enemies, by taxing certain Roundhead
lands to produce an annuity of £100 fol.
Richard Pendrell and his descendants.
From those distant times the King's
annuity has come.. down through seven
generations; and a recent motion before
the court pronounced it to be perpetual.
In the year 1850 two persons were sharing
it But, desiring a substantial sum to
take them abroad, they sold their lif e -
interests in the Xing's grant. One of the
two, Robert Maclaren, is still living -an
old man of eighty years of age. The
other, James Withington, who left Eng-
land in 1800, completely disappeared. As,
at the present time, he would be over
ninety years of age, it is assured that,
he is dead, and the solicitors' search is
for his son -if ha had- one. •
MORE BRITISH SAILORS.
One of the interesting facts brought out
in a return relating to the seamen em-
ployed in the Britielx mereautile marine,
published by the Reeistrar-Genetal of
Shipping, shows that Wales supplies more
sailors in proportion to population than
England or Ireland. The proportions are:
Scotland, 56 per 10,000 of population,
Wales 44, England and Ireland 30 each.
Taking trading vessels alone, the cenius
gives a total of 201,408, of whom 128,077
were British, 34,900 foreigners, and 38e
426. lascars. During the fifteen years,
1801 to 1006, the niunber lesears in,
creased by 17,103, and of foreigners by
11,022, the British increase being only
610. The actual decrease of British sea-
men which marked part of the fifteen -
year period was, however, arrested due-
ing the laet five years, and against a
decrease of 4,597 between 1896 and 1901
1900 against 20.0 in 1901, .
COMPULSORY ENGLISH.
A decision that should entail a great
falling Of in the number of young Ger-
man clerks who flock to London and
other British centres to learn the Eng-
lish language has just been taken by
the Berlin municipal authorities. They
have ordered that the study of English
be compulsory in the higher public+
schools.
Hithert•o young men who have had a
"gymnasium ' (public school' education,
the class from which most young men
who enter commercial life come, have
had French as a compulsory and English
as an optional subject. English will now
be made compulsory for the last three
years of the gymnasium course, and
Freneh optional.
NEW BISHOP APPOINTED.
The King has been pleased to approve
the appointment of the Very Rev. Chas.
John 'Ridgeway, M. A., Dean of Carlisle,
to be Bishop of Chichester, in succession
to the Right Rev. Ernest Roland Wilber,
force, D. D., who died in September last.
The new bishop is a Moderate Churelt.
man, and before his appointment two
years ago to be Dean of Carliele he was
vicar of Christ Church, Lancester-gate,
W. This living was presented to him
by Mr, Gladstone in 1884, in succession
to the Bishop of Ripon, owing, it is said,
to e sermon that statesman accidentally
heard from bim at Edinburgh when he
took the place of the late Archbishop
Magee. He has published several deyo-
tional works.
DOM B
UNDER
CHUROH.
-A further stage in the investigation
of the remarkable story of an alleged
plot to murder Lord Ashdown was reach.
ed on Friday at the Dublin Police Court.
Minnie Walsh and her so; Percy Walsh,
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Rapid changes of temperature are hard
oh the toughest constitution.
The conductor passing from the heated
inside of a trolley car to the icy temperature
of the platform -the 'canvasser spending an
hour or so in a heated building and then
walking against a biting wind -know the
difficulty of avoiding cold.
Scott'a Emal.rion strengthens the
body so that it can better withstand the
danger of dold from changes of temperature.
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ALL inNooistist '800. AND 341.60.
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selves, ifiround flute' is what ths
by false preterites from Lord Aohtown
PINK PILLS
and Ida agent, Mr. Philip. Clienevix
Trench. It is also charged against them CURt ANAEMIA.
that certain letters Melting Men named
Ward, Kelly and Cahill to blow up a
church at Woodlawn, Lord Aehtown'e,
seat in County Galway. were in the
hendwriting of Porey Walsh,
Thornae 'Mahout farmer, Cloonesha,
said ho had received a letter heeded
-United Irish League, which stated:
The eowardly, cruelevictor that is the
enrse of our rountry will be going in ft
few days to foreign parts. Now or never
le the time to nail him. :We won't fail
this time like we did in Waterford, We
have a man that is well used to the. work
to blow him up while he is praying to
his friend the devil in .0:lurch next Sun-
day, and send him home te -- sure
and certain.
As you knew none of the rotten supers
round Woodlawn can be trusted. We
want you to Muni him Ihe'right place
to bury the pot. We are told that his
pew is undee the stained window that
faces the gate close to the headstone.
That is the spot to put the bomb.
Mr. , Gurrin, handwriting expert, wee
retailed, and stated that to the best of
biz belief the Writing on -the envelope
of ti;mi Cahill letter was the same as
Peres- Walsh's handwriting. He gave
sheing evidence as regarded the other
lettr rs.
The accused were committed for trial,
the boy being allowed out- Without beil,
and his mother being required to give
450 herself and find two snreties of
X50 each.
BARGES' 4,250 MILES VOYAGE.
A feat, unequalled, it is believed, in
ocean navigation has heen suecesefully
performed by. Captain H. E. Morris, of
Gravesend, in sailing an ordinary
Thames barge, without assistance front
any other form of craft, from London
to South America, a distanee of 4,250
knota. Captain Beckwith, in charge of
a sister barge from the Thames to the
same destination, was only less success-
ful in respect to the time in which the
voyage was accomplished.
The two barges were tbe Doric and
the Norvie (119 and 120 tons respective-
ly), and they were wamted Para
which is situated aome 130 miles up the
Amazon, for general heavy work by con-
tractors engaged on that river.
Captain Morris rigged the berges
ketches. Each master had a crew of four'
men and provisions for 100 days.
Despite bad weather, the Doric oross-.
eds the dawn and reached Para in fifty-
six days. The Norio bad -a very rough
speculative Chinamen and fortunes to a were washed out,
time, but all Was seal in the end. She
Pale Faces, Dizzy Spells, Palpitating
Heart, Headaches and Shortness
of Breath Are Symptoms of
Anaemia.
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Watery blood is an open invitation
to disease to take possession of your
system. Watery blood is responeible
for Dearly -all the headaches. nisi
beelcachea and sideachee that affnet
womankiral, Watery blood in re-
spopsible for the dull eyes; sallow
cheeks and the listless, dragged out
feeling that is found in so many
growing girle. tlood blood ineane
good health, and good blood actually
comes through the Use of Dr. Wil,
Hems' Ph* Pas. Weak, ailinge des-
pondent women who use this medi-
cine are made active and strong;
diseless, pale -faced girls are given new
health, rosy cheeks, bright eyes and
a new sense of happinees and secur-
ity. Mrs. E. S. Nightingale, Ches.
ley, Ont., says: "My daughter was
ill for a lqng time with anaemia and
would often be confined to bed fot
three or four cleys at a time, and we
feared she was going into a decline.,
A. lady friead advised the use of :Dr,
Plek Pills and. I got a half
dozen boxes. By the time these were
used there was a marked improve-
thent, and I got a further for
her. The change these pills. have
wrought in her condition is so great
that you would not think that elle
was the same girl. I will always have
a kindly feeling for Dr. Williams' Pink
Pins,"
You can get these pills from any mecli-
.Zine dealer or by mail at 50e. a, box or
six boxes for $2.60 from Dr, Wil-
liams Medivine Co., Brockville, Ont.
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SHANGHAI GOLD • FLURRY.
Disaster Caused to Many Speculative
Chinamen -A few Made Money.
Reeent Mina coast papers 'cell of a
slump in the money market at Shanghai
that was in a wey.a small reflex of the
trouble of laet month here. In, the Shang-
hai instance it was the wavering price
of gold that brought confueion to many
natives call peanuts. They dig Illi1
goobers out of the soil, wipe Away
-the dirt. break the vaells and eat till
kernels without roasting them or pre-
paring them in arty way.
"These natives raise great quan-
tities of the nuts, which they shell
and make up into packages weigh-
ing about severity pounds each.
men tains these bundles on their
backs and travel about fifteen mike,.
a day through the bush for as loi-4
as seven or eight days until the)
reach a market on the coast. Thera
they trade the peanuts for almost
anything they can get and carry their
purchases back over the mune route.
-Vrom the Washington Ilerald.
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TELEGRAPH LINES.
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Over 7,000 Miles Controlled by
Canada.
The Canadian Department of Public
Works line under its control at present
over 7,000 miles of telegraph linos, accord-
ing- tio the last annual report, There are
0,820 1-4 miles of land lines and 3801-2
knots of en.bles, a total of r,175 miles.
On this there are 382 offices, that is,
an office about every nineteen miles on
the average. During the year 104,187
inceorages were eent, an average of about
273 messages per office, or much less
then one per day. The total expenditure
during the year was $306,227.20, and the
revenue $91,061.70. A big deficit surely,
bat no argument whatever againse
Government ownership of telegraph
lines, since these lines have been con-
structed in most eases far remote from
the centre of business, and where pri-
vet° companies declined to venture.
' The 'only Government-owned line in
Ontario is the Pelee Island system,
comprising 25 1-2 miles of land line
and. 17 miles of cable, On this there are
ten offices, whieli during the year sent
1,217 messeges at a total met of $760.90,
the revenue being $190.85. •
Reporting on July 30, 1907, regarding
the Pelee ealand syetem, John Mat. Sel-
kirk, the district sueerintendent, seys:
"The land lino on Pelee Island is in
good shape and good working order,
except a. piece aping 400 yards in
length near the north ppint lighthouse,
where the beach has been Washed out
considerably, and some poles were also
washed:out during the spring storms
which struck the island. from westerly
directione, causing the lake to break
over beach into the marsh east thereof.
In April last, when the worst damage
(1..
was one, we • repaired as well as we
could or rough weather, but did not at•
thet time recapture all the poles that
and were obliged to
was on the open ocea.n ninety-six daps
• very ew.
Shanghea has a curious money system.
A WORD TO. MOTHERS.
Rather it is the lack of all system that
'makes the neutral port the eentre of
small finincial whirlwinds almost eveey
tined that a steamier sails away.
Being a neutral town, what Chinese
money there is circulates 'only in the
form of small change: Big Mexlean dol-
lars form the basis of all traneactions
in small sums and a somewhat mythical
tael represents the conversion of bank
notes into the money nemenclature of all
China. Each bank issues its own uotes;
there are Russian ruble notes, English
pounds and German. marks.
So closely does the price of geld .gove
ern the exchange that people wanting to
send an order by mail wait almost until
the hour of a steamers' sailing to draw a
cheque on their bank, knowing not what
minute their accounts there may shrink
temporarilje
It was under these conditions that
some of the Chine,se mondy changers in
Shanghiti began recently to gamble on
the price of gold. Their only stock in
trade was a notebook and a penal
During the days of the money trouble
here and its reflex effect en the banks
of England and France Geese Chinese
money gamblers went into the street in
the coast port, baying and selling hypo-
thetical gold- bars, depending upon the
scanty newe telegrams of the financial
situation that sifted around by way of
India and the ocees.t ports to make their
deals.
Many of the Chinamen had never seen'
gold bullion; not a few had yet to look
uponstheir first gold coin of a.ny denom-
ination or may nation; but the madness
spread and most of the money changers
of Shanghai were in.volved in this eon-
vension of fairy gold into real taels or
Mexican, dollars.
The crash came when some of the
saner Chinamen banded together and
agreed that pending accounts between
them and other speculetors should be
settled at once and in real money. As a
majority of the debtors affected were
penniless when they began buying gold
ma only a few had played. their cards
strongly enough to win out, the seam
call for money pulled down the whole
flimsy .structure of chance.
The characteristic piece of Chinese
legerdemain known among foreigners
there as the vanishing act began to be
practised. Many of the more honorable
committed suicide. Others sold their
children into slavery or went on the
streets to beg. Thus came to a pitiful
end Shanghai's little financial panic.
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PEANUTS IN CONGO LAND.
Baby's Own Tablets is the only medi-
cine fox...children that gives the mother
the guarantee of a Government analyst
that it is absolutely free from opiates
and poisonous soothing stuff. The Ta.b-
lets eure all stomach and bowel troubles,
destroy worms, break up colds and itim-
ple fevers, and bring teeth through pain-
lessly. They give baby sound natural
sleep because they remove the cause of
crossness and sleeplessness. Mrs. Ralph
Judd, judd Ha,ven, Ont., says: "Baby's
Own Tablets have given me great satis-
faction both for teething troubles ancl
constipation." Sold by 114.1 medicine deal-
ers or by mail at 25 cents a box' from
The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co„ Brock-
ville, Ottt.
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CENTRAL AFRICA'S FIRST ROAD.
A. Scotchman's Gift, It Iles Done Much
to Develop the Region.
James Stevenson, a wealthy Scotch-.
man, gavd S25,000 to build a road between
the north 'end of Lake Nyasert. and the
South end of Lake Tanganynka, in Oen-
tral Africa about twenty-five years ago.
He was convinced that nothing would
help more to. develop Mika. than good
highways. •
. It took two years to build, the road
arid it was wells:built. Its length is 211
miles. Apart from its great usefulness
the white men there have always said
that it has been a powerful ciyilizing
agency.
It has helped to accustom the natives
of that densely peopled region to work
for the whites and to use calico and oth:
er European articles. The work of con-
struction was the first instanoe on a
large scale of the utilization of native
labor •in Central Africa. Many trained
laborers new live along the road and are
engaged in transport service between the
two great lakes.
The highway is known aa the Steven-
son road. Mr. Olia,plcov,ski, an official in
the German service, who recently travel-
ed over the road. has written an inter,
esting ieccount of it.
He says that though nothing has been
done to maintain the road built twenty-
five years ago, it is still, with the single
exception of tire road between Victoria
Nyanza, and Tange,ngike, the best high-
way in Central Africa. • Ae nothing has
been done to maintain the road it is now
covered, with grass, but travellers say
this is really an advantage as the vege-
tation has helped to keep the rand from
washing. and it is also better for the
feet of the carriers, svho te walk
on those stretches where there is ne
grass, for it is its hard. as atone end
hurts thei
The usefulness of the road is proved
by the fact that porters tarrying sixty
poends on their backs make en average
of twenty miles a day. while the aVerage
jonrney is only ten milee, The road pass-
es entirely thropgh Ilritish territory, and
the Govetnment has ereeted a station
every twenty miles where caravans mity
spend the night.
There is provision at midi station to
pnt all the freight under cover, comfort-
able brick and concrete houses Afford
excellent conditions for a good night'a
rest, and. there ere cook houses where
the motle of the caravans are prepared.
Ono of the neighborieg chiefs is held. re-
eponsible for the eleanlinets -and goal
order of each station. He receives a
monthly salary of a few shillings from
the Government anti. a few yards of cali-
co from tech earttven passing over the
route.
The road was intended and is weli
adapted for the we of wagons, but un-
fottunately the South African Oxen that
were brought into the country did not
thrive there and the experiment a iteitig
them was given tip. As long tic °ken
were used large wagons loitded With 0,-
000 pound's of freight and dtawn by six.'
teen oxen made an average of fourteen
miles a day from -one lake to the other.
N'tTlieri the` oxen proved ii, email
carts 'hauled by the natives and (nary-
ing about 1,000 pounds of freight Were
iutroduee.d,. but it was finally dethled
that transport on the basks of men .who
receive only from five to seven shillings
• motitli was elmaper, end uow vehieles
are seldom seen on the road.
Prtmeis Peekitt, of ()uteri's (late.
London, hat Oven 7C10.000 to the Oreat
Vorthern Irollowav Lon-
don, foe the purpose or building a eenval-
went horne in connection with the htef-
Staple Article of Food -First Peanui
Butter Made in Central Africa.
The natives not only use the pea
nut as a staple food." said the Rev.
William A. McCausland, a mission.
ary Mee Congo land, who recently
returned front a stay of several
months in the heart of Africa, "but
it is some one of the first articles of
trade among many of the tribes,
Many tribes eat little else than pea-
nuts, but unlike the American lovers
of the nut they eat the food raw,
Pennut butter was first made by the
Central African natives. I met with
a great surprise when I learned how
universal the peanut is as food in
the Ba-Konge While there is some
game shot or trapped, the natives
prefer vegetable diet, and eat great
quantities of peanuts and a root
known as (monioc.'
"The women of the Congo look
after the cultivation of the plants and
do the work crudely. None of them
cares particularly to expend mu&
energy on anything, and in cultivat-
ing the peanut they simply cut away
the weeds about the plants arid al-
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temperarily plaee insulators and wires
on tree limbs until repairs could be Made
later. Since then we have recaptured
all the poles, but have been unable,
owing to inability to get men, to put
them end shift a few others out of the
flooded marsh, close by whore they
axe leaning rather heavily, and may
make trouble soon.
",On the mainland the line is in good
working order, but a number of the
old poles need to be replaced by new
ones, as they are badly rotted and un-
safe to climb when making necessary re.
pairs.
".As there are additional telephones
being asked for both on the island. and
mainland, I consider it will be in the
interest of better service to split the
line from Leamington office and putting
the island line to the island and main-
land to Point Pelee on separate wires,
end avoid overloading, at same time.
making it easier to detect weather trou-
bles, when they occur, are on the istand
or mainland lines. In splitting the line
from Leamington towards the lake
about 50 4 -pia cross mins will be re-
quired, together with braces, bolts, pins,
insulators and wire necesSary for tho
work.
"Cable communication was interrupted
on Sept. 29, and restored on Oet. 15, 1906,
and again interrupted on June 3, and
restored on June 20, 1907. In both in-
stances the damage was slight, and for-
tunately no additional cable beyond that
in use was required for repairs."
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"Beitannia Rules the Waves."
At any rate that is the assurance of
the populne song; though, as a matter of
• fact, the tossing, inconstant waves alto-
gether repudiate any allegiance whatever
to her,rule. ' And yet the mighty Brit-
ish fleet, which-un.der Providence -is
the defender of our homes againat the
jealoue foreigner, who would fly at our
throat if he dare, is a spectacle of state=
ly and imposing masterdom; especially
when, as at the great review recently
held; a largo number of battleships;
oruisers and other craft are assembled
together.
Embarking upon the barge of one of
tbe battleships, a large open boat towed
by a small steam picket boat, the visit-
- ore invited to witneis the review soon
have an opportunity of experiencing how
futile is the claim of Britannia to rule
the waves. For in a very short time
the heavy barge is pitching and tossing
in a manner which, to those not accus-
tomed to the vagaries of the deep, is
distinctly disquieting; especially as, from
time to time, a great Nvave brealca over
. the bows of the boat, drenching every-
one, from stem to stern.
And so it goes on for neatly half an
hour, some few of the guests gradually
hemming paler awl. greener, until at
length the battleship is reached, and,
with difficulty, the visitors board her.
And what a spectacle of massive, stu-
pendouse poNver; and what an amazing
and altegether beWildering niultiplicity
of means of defiance does she present.
Gigantic cannon, one well-ahned shot
sufficient to disable an enemy's vessel
miles aWay; deadly, lethal torpedoes,
which, stealthily end rapidly pursuing
their Unseen course beneath the surface,
strike the toe, and in a 1110men a fine
battleship is shattered, and plungec
headlong into the deep; innumerable
smaller guns, and other weapons of of-
fence; together with most marvellous
and eomplex electrical and other appli-
ances of all kinds for directing and firing
the guns and torpedoes; from distant
parts of the ship.
Whaf is Leve?
What is love -the thing we all make
stich a fuss about and so rarely feel,
arid what does it matter after all?
Is it lust this -being lifted up into
another world and breathinz purer air
and thinking better thouguts? Or is
it a strange, eweet sort of pain, that
is only still when some . one -only
one-person is near? Or is it to see
everythiog in a fresh light, a ,sort Of
fairy glamour that turns COMMOn
things and hard things to magic splen-
dor and beanty? Or is it to be happier
than you ean beat, or to feel there is
nothing you cannot bear for one1
sake? Is it a great, vague, sweet ter-
ror, wild and yet delighted untestP
iks it to feel your heart beat thick
and quick at the sound Of a voice
or step, name almost, to feel
safe., quite safe and sheltered, near
one, and happy at the acry thought
of Elm? Or is it to hate one's own
potty and frivolous self rind want to
be better (Or sake7 Is that What
yna loveP-Nfaxwell Gray.
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Eldu't yell get Jest a wee eit tired of
"hivaugellne" In your aehool days? You re-
member that you bad to commit the plagney
thlnq to memory and seen it until tho sing-
St+lig of t1.10 YOPee 1:0t. All yoUr nerves? t
yelf bear yOU1'691g now, apreieca ou two
rattier phony legs, mutating uumusioully:
This 1.i the forest primeval.
Tne atUrniuring maw me the hemleeles
li"rtnucteittiv'n'ulttatrire tlid41511411,Prnmts 518".
ataxia nee Iguiee of elu-
But WhY 50 on? The whole 'horrid sone
09111es back. 4.0 roe. how you did hate taut
fewest primeval: 50 it wili be god news to
YOu win/ were callareu to. learn that the
forest primeval Isn't there any more ou "toe
aboreb, of the Basin or Minas." But anotner
tercet Oa arisen, a totes; 9f fruit 1roos•
Mostly .aeple trees,
There aro these who will tell yeti tlett
apple Ie au apple no matter from whence it
comets That lan't ao, A Nova Scotia apple
is something quite Oieferent. At bast that's
Wbat they mit you up in the land of the
blItztern°14ues't have been a Nova Scotia aPPIO,
they tell you, committing an anacbrenism
teMertully, which kros threw at the marriage
feast of Yeleus and Tnetis, thereuy messing
th,at diegraceful aces:mole by Juno, Minerva
ellel Venus. net they say that it was no
fault of the alePle that the decleion of that
ImPreseionable' umpire Paris, awarding the
game te Venus, caused the Trojan war and
Pi :go% rallaetre legneo dGaceae.k that had to be read
The history of the apple is atilt to be writ-
ten, The reference books tall tio that the
tree IS indigenous to Anatolia, the southern
Caveat:us and northern Russia. It certainly
got a start la Nova. Scotia Just AS soon as
that primeval forest began to disappear, It
has spread mightily throughout the province,
but is teund more abundantly in the Amiap-
elle valley.
The Annapolis Valley has been called the
"Gerden Sect of the Earth." When you
have driven miles upon miles through rorests
ot apple and pear and other trees, in the
seri:m.41m when a sea of red and pink and
wbite bloeeoms .meets the eye and a riot of
Perfume malls ths nostrils, or In the autumn
when the trees are weighted down with their
burtien of fruit, you will think it well
ul aaRnme::g1.11 I 3'
it a Valley la eastern Canada and let 11, go
at that -is 100 miles long and thirty miles
wide, The ;toil Is fertile and well watered.
sea are given over to hay fields and pasture
tudinally into a aeries of ridges, The river
bottoms and the flats reclaimed from tho
Riven; and tidal estuaries divide it longi -
speaking the Valley -they just call
The ridges are devoted largely to fruit -
growing, If you stand somewhere in tho
bottom lands you will See rising gently from
the meadows en either side orohard _after
orchard. If • it is blossom time the picture
will bo brilliant. Here and there you will
see houses and farm buildings rising amid
the trees, There are oecasional patches of
tilled land, but it Is mostly all trees.
The yield of the Annapolie Valley this year
is the greatest in its history. The crop has
all been gathered and marketed. It is esti-
mated that more than 700,000 barrels, of apples
wore ehipped, not to mention the pears and
Dimas and quinces.
Most of the apeles have gone to England,
as usual, but this year more shipments have
been made to the American maqrket than ever
before. The priees have ranged from $2.60
to $3 a barrel and the Nova Scotia orchidists
have received about $2,000,000 for their bar-
TvheLlitas.sytear's harvest is seventeen times great -
year the crop was about half as big.
er than that of flfteeu years ago. For a
farmer to clear from $6,000 to 510,000 a year
on his apples is not unusual.
Twenty years aeo the farmer who shipped
1,000 barrels a year wets a rarity; now there
are many 6,000 barrel men. The• greatest
orchard in the valley is Ilillereet, near
Kentville. It contains more than 26,000 trees.
The apples of Nova Scotia have a flavor
all tbeie oven. Though the fruit grows large,
it does not become gross, as is the case with
a good deal of the fruit that comes from tho
WTeghtre are any number of varieties. In the
late summer come the Harvest apples, the
Bow Sweets, the Red Astraohans and others.
Later on come the Graveneteins-the king of
all the fall apples -the Strawberry apples
and the Bishop Pippins.
The list of winter apples would be inter-
minable, The two varieties which command
the highest prices are the Blenheim Pippins
and the Ripston Pipping. They're both pip-
ping in tbe colloquial sense of that word.
Kings they are in the apple family -far,
far above the ruck of Baldwins and King of
Tompkias and Spitzenbergs and Greenness
and even Russet Sweetie The Nortbern Spy,
considered very highly in some parts, is an
also ran in Nova Scotia.
The apple tree is long liv.ed and grows to
great size. You will notice in one vice* that
considerable space Is left between the trees.
in the fulness of time these trees will shoot
up and reach out until- the sunlight can
SCgTrherilo11311eorfeethethoerthil°rdnis. is cultivated care-
fully. Some years It Is planted In grain or
petatoes; in others sown to grass. Occasion-
ally a crop of•grain. Is raised and allowed to
rot.
The young tree which had Its picture taken
in a sort of family group did a fine job this
Year. In fact It rather overdid it and had
to be propped up. Tbe fruit of this tree will
fill three barrels at the least. An old nipple
tree will produce ten barrels or more of
exreheleleanpt9fireaulta.
re picked fa the orchards and
usu.ally carted away -at once to steamer or
train for alinement. In packing apples one
opens the bottom of tbe barrel. The very
finest epecimens of the fruit aro arranged
In nice layers at what will be the top of
tho barrel when it ls opened by the con-
eumer That's why the -apples always look
so nice when you open a fresh barrel.
But the Nova Scotia fruit grower is an
honest, individual. He grades the .apples
carefully and marks the barrels "No. 1,"
"No. 2' and "No. 3.". Even the three •are
good. All below that grade go to the elder
niTulte valley is a city of big gardens. The
znalu roads, running generally east and west,
ono on each side of each ridge, are called
streets. The hotline are large and prosper-
ous looking; many of them have pretentious
flower gardens. .Fences have been geterally
abolished. Almost every house has its tele-
Dhone. Every farmer keeps a good stable
and ahead rigs for pleasure driving.
Altogeteer it is an unesual farming com-
Munity. The rounds of social life gd on as
In a city, The sons go to college and return
itnogthhei flaitrom centent to make that their call -
Here and tbere the houses get close enough
together to terra a' settlement which gets a
name of its own. But there are ne large
towee. Annapolis, Bridgetown, Kentville
' and WolfvIlle are all under 2,000 population.
It is Just one big city, prosperons and con-
teTntheeal:e Is one great lack. a.pplejack le
scarcely known. N___.ew ScotItted might well
take a lesson from New Jereby,
PREPARING BEE' nort WINTER.
Bo not pet off preparations for wieder any
longer than can possibly he avOlded. The
sooner after the White honey 'harvest is over
thet the beta are prepared far their win-
ter snooze the better tor ell concerned, un -
lege, Of COUPS°, 01E20 la a tall YIONV halleY
from buekwheat, golden rod, or sonie Other
sotIroe. But as a rule the beginner had. bet-
ter not figure on his bees etoring heaey in
thing tO be done after the elm-
Selplitoomtbirekrt,
ere aro removed is to see that each colony
egg a using queen and A good number of
betas -enough to cover all tite coMbg in an
eighteframe lave MI a day Inclined to the
cool will generally make a eatiefactery Must-
er for wintering. To be sure (says 11. G.
liatul, in the "Canadian Bee Journal") that
there Is a queen, each hive meat be opened
and brood loOked for. Look about the coa-
ti% of the hive, mid if Mee patch of seal-
ed brood Is seen on two Or three trainee, or
even On one, the colony may be passed as
all right..in that Tappet, If a hive is found
with no tread, when ether hives have a ma.
turnable amount, a seareh ehould be made
for the queen. If she eannot be A:tend, glut
is probably not there, latt if she Is, and Is
good for anything, her preeence call be de-
tected by giving a little feed to the colony
in a feeder each evening tor a week. This
Will =Ake the queen eommence to lay, and the
este nifty be cagily reeert. Metes a queen Is
valued. however, or it Is desired to
svinter ag Many as possible, doer not pay
to spend too Much time hunting a queen this
time of year. an aplarel of any alas, even
A 411%11 0110, thete ate ntarly always a dol.
oily et LW° toe light le beee to put bite
Winter, theegh they Meet laaee good queens.
Whee teplilonis colony Is fauna eueoalees,
unite with one of thess emelt colotliee hays
ing geed tateeli, Ind overyttuna will be
all right. When A colony Is found that lies
nueenitse for a long time, so that •'lay -
44 twicera" have inacte their appearance.
4114, a eoneequence, the lave is Pulallat.
ed Oddly by little drones, 41 Is uo else la
(mummer wirb tarut. The appearance> of 4
coml.. containing brood from the egga MOO
woreere I4 so entirely ditferent frone
tbat of cemb containing Om brood, al A
g(l04 queeti that even a novice will tunic°
It at Met slams. Wheretus "proper" brood
Is eaPted evenly, and aimost level with. the
top of tLo cells, this freak brood of the
leYine workere is very uneven fine petchy,
with the cappInge bulge4 away up ia some
places, ena having the general appearaaoe os
rouri ground, or a field covered with Poulin
era, Laying workers lay Any ;winger of ogge
In a cell-tm many as there is room for,
sometime's. So ileee a "drone laying" queen.
But there ls this difference which will en-
able the beginner or anyone else to Main -
guise between the work et the two; that
the eggs of the laying workere are nearly
alwaye etuck to Ihe eides of the cell about
tao-thirds of the way to the bottom, while
the ens ot drotie-layIng queen wile be
placed la their proper place in the bottom
of the cell, A drone,laying queen is no use,
and must be ecstroyee and her eillony united
With one having a good keying queen,
After seeing thee colenies have good
queene and enough bees, eaoh hive must be
weighed to find whether there le sufficient
honey in it to winter the bees. An eight -
frame Lengetroth hlve, with cover, bettcart-
board and everything complete, should Weigh
in the fate at least sixty pounds if it Is pro -
Posed to winter the bees on their 'summer
etande. If to be wintered in a cellar any-
thing over fifty pounde will generally be all
right, but a few pounds more is safer. he
ten -frame Wye sbould weigh about tea lbs,
More than all eight, for equal results, When
weighing, if hives are not .bulet all alike, al-
lowance meet be made for variations in
weight of lumber or. other material in their
make-up, The weights given above are for
ordinary hives of well -seasoned one -inch pipe
lumber, with single board covers and rever-
sible bottoms, Mark tho weight on eaoh
Wye at the time .of weighing, and atter the
weighing is done, get the light ones up to
proper weight. If oue has some •heayy combs
of bonny saved from the extracting supers,
it doen not take much time to do the feed-
ing, Simply open the light hive, Mae out
an empty, er nearly empty, comb, or more
than.ono if necessary, and replace them with
full ones, Arrauge the combs se that all
theme containing much honey may be near
together, any which are nearly empty being
placed by themselves at ole side of the bive.
By arranging tie oombs this way, the bees
do net find it necemary to move acmes
empty combs to get at the tull ones during
the winter, as would happen if half the honey
is at One side of the hive, and half at the
other. with empty combs between. If no
full combs are to be had the bees may be
fed 1111 te Weight on granulated sugar, mix-
ing equal parts by weight of sugar and wa-
ter and melting it upon the stove, and feed-
ing in a feeder or some kind ot dish inside
tho hive or in an empty super body est on
top of the bive. A shallow pan pissed on
top of the frames, and with a piece of thin
wood Just a trifle smaller than the inside
of the pan placed in to float on the feed, so
that bees may not fall in and be drowned,
works all right. Place warm feed in the
pan each evening, as much as the bees will
take down in the night, and get them up
to weight as fast as possible. Better feed
to five pounds or so over weight, as they
will go back that much atter feeding steps.
Get the feeding done soon as possible, and
look out for robbers while doing if.
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Christians Are the Real Millional7es.
Everywhere people axe talking of
money, gold, silver, investments trusts,
how to get rich, etc. Peter who wrote
this letter to the persecuted Christians,
was a goor man-"SilVer and gold have
I none, he said. But he had the heal-
ing power of Christ. When he was gall-
ed to pay his teinple-tax he did not
draw oheque on a multi -millionaire
bank. Peter had supreme love to Christ
continually. "Thou. knowest that I love
thee," was his watchword and counter-
sign. Peter was eminent as an apostle,
an orator, and a letter writer. The two
letters he wrote prove, this.
"Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ " ' who
hat& begotten us again unto a lively
hope by the resurreotion of Jesus Christ
from the dead, to an inheritance incor-
ruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for you, who
are kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation ready to be re-
vealed in tire last time." L Pet. 1., 3-5.
Oh, what a splendid inheritance'belongs
to the Christianl Note the inheritance
-a gift. It is a palace -a royal real-
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dente.
"We have a buikling of God, a house
not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens." II. Cor, v. 1. Its foundation
is the Rock, its walls are Salvation, its
gates Praise. "In my Father's house
are many mansions." John xiv. 2. Bun-
- yan, in "Pilgrim's Progress," gives an
- animated deecription. of the House Beau-
, tiful, and of Christian's entertainment
there.
The title to this palace is fneorru.pt-
ible. This mansion is undefiled. Those
. who live there. are robed in pure robas,
washed white in the blood of the
Lag; inheritance is in the midst of the
paradise of God. The palaoe has beautiful
gardens and fine scenery surrounding it.
The trees are ever green, and the flowers
are unfading.
Notice, moreover that this palaoe is
laid up in heaven fer the saints.. It is
waiting for us; 'God is keeping it for
us: John x. 28; Heb. i. 14. .and we
i are gunrded until we enter our inherit-
ance. Rejoice in the prospect. "All
! things are yours. Whether Paul, or
• Applies, or Cephas, or the world, or
. life or death, or things present or
t igs to come, all are yours; and ye
are Christ's; and Christ is God's." r.
Cor. 21 -23. -By Rev. A. J. Reynolds.
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Warning to Trolley Car Drivers.
Every time eve went into Detnasees,
whether from our tents on tlui terraeo
above an ancient and dilapidated plea-
sure garden or from out red tiled rooms
in the good Hotel &Orient, to which we
mha.dei I:en drivee by a plegue of sand flies
in the camp, we stepped at once into a
ehapter of the Arabian Nights Entertain,
It is true there were electric lighte
and there was a trolley ear crawling
around the city, but they no more made
it Western and modern than a bead
necklace would change the character of
the Venue of Milo. The driver of the
trolley car looked like ono of "The Three.
eitlendate," and a. geyly dressed little
boy beside him blew loudly 011 all instru-
ment of discord as the machine tran-
quilly advanced through the crowd. .A
mail was run over a few months ago;
his friends waited for the car to come
around the next day, pulled the driver
from his nereli and. stuck a number of
long knives through him in a truly Ori -
can." meneen-Iienry van Dyke in Mr -
per's Meg:Wife.-
Recovered Freer, the Depths,
In a German mine recently a bore was
being sunk, and at a depth of almost a
thousand feet the hardened end of the
steel bit broke off. To get the broken
piece of steel out a .ivitf bet, five feet
long and about three' riches in diameter,
Was inirrounded by a single winding of
rtibber-eovered wire. tI was thee
tufigeetized by meats of it small dynamo
and let Ehnen the hole, and raised the
. :11J
steel to the surface without furtlut
trouble.
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C&AVi\l,
Down to your books, boys and girlal
there will be a diploma list to pUblIsh
when the June roses bloom.
Dr. Simard, of 'reroute, declare -s that
no man knows what weight im is g
when he buys a loaf. Some 1-:rulto
ers are makiag 20 -ounce loam, eome, 14 -
ounce, aud °thine aa low ne sMeeil, Yet,
6aya dtietor, the price le just the
Sallie De it was years ago, when
got ft four -pound loaf for their Mine,
There is no need to go back te the fear.
pound loaf., Let the baker"; sell their
bread by the pound, and there c LP no
room for complahit once the pia .n per
pound is set.
According to the report of the Penn.
1.0
sylvauia Health Department the death
rate in that State for 1000 was 3.0.5 per
1,000 a population, The urban rate was
18.1, the rural rate 10.1. Nearly 25 per
.cent. of the total number ot deaths were
of infants less than one year old. The
dea,th rate among- the eagro population
was 27,5 per 1,000, as against 10.2 per
1,000 among the whites. There Were
10,180 deaths its a result of violence. The
deaths among the children end the negro
population, no doubt, show the need of
better sanitary' arrangements and more
enlightened care in fearing the iMinits.
Lord Kelvin, who died recently, Win
the most famous scientist of the time.
A few of th•e inventions that mule him
so famous were:
Thomson mariner's compass. Thii
a great improvement on all eelettng
meritime compasses,
Many electro -meters, volten-eters, am-
meters, and watt -meters. These are in,
struments used for measuring the force
of the electric current.
The mirror galvanometer and syphon
recorder. These are two delicate Metre -
meets used im submarine telegraphy for
reeeivine signals.
Graderil galvanometers. "these are for
detectine an eleetric current and measur-
ing its arength.
Machines for predicting the -level of
tides: A depth reeordet. A tide gauge.
An air condenser. An• astronomical
clock. A water tap.
Some intereeting Nile bearing, on the
copulation, debt and expenditure of the
...erioue nations have recently been given
so the public in a British Blue Book.
According to the figures. given in this
docuMent there SCCI11.4 to be no great
justirivation for the jereminda of the
Arth-rate cranks who profeas to see the
coining depopulation ef the world. The
tables show that in the bet ten years
there has been e, total increase in the
population of the principal countries af
over 00,000,000 persous. We find• that
the total population has grown from
500.000,000 in 1895 to 570,000,000 lest
year. The figeres are as follows: _
1895. 1905.
Ruseie -125,000,000 142,e00,000
United States ... 08,034,000 83,143,003
Germany ... 52,270,000 60,005,000
Japan ... 42,271,003 47,975,0,10
J. Kingdom.. .. 30,22.1,00J 43,221,000
serance 38,459,000 30,300,000
Italy 31,200,000 33,64000
Austria ... 24.971,000 27,241,000
Hungary ... 18,257,000 20,114,000
•ipain ... 18,157,000 • 18,900,000
Smaller nations. 47,732,000 54,14000
Belgium as a wrathy is the most
erowded of the civilized nations ineludea
in' the computation, as will be seea by
this tabulation of population per settee -
mile and arce:
Area Perm:,
M square per see....
United States ... 3,507,371 21 3
.
miles.
Aussie, (Europe) •.. 3,0;52,400 oi ••
Spain ... 194,744 :tee
Hungary . le5,30.1
France 204,3e1
Austria ... . 115,Site
Germany 206'.ie" •
Japan . . . . . . . 117.s.
Jnited Kingdom . 121,3i ...
Holland. 12059
Belgium .., . 11,370 0
When it eomes to districts, II
:Luise Towns in Germany shuive
lation of 3,327, while the most ds
...eopled square mile in the world is. ,o
in New York.
In birth-rate Russia leads, the flex
being 49 per 1,000 of the p-opitiation.
against this it has also the hiene. ei
death -rate, • which stands at 31 pe:
1,000 of the population. The lowest
birth-rate Ls posseseed 15y France, the
births only averaging 21 per 1,000 of tit:
population, and when the fact that ite
death -rate is as high as 19.6 per 1,000 iS
considered, the small increase in the
total population shown above is explain-
ed. Russia's slaughter of the innocents
is a disgrace to civilization, while Prance
offers a problem to political and soeial
economists. Spain, Italy, Austria, Hun,
gary .and Japan all have birth-rates of
over 32 pere1,000, bat their death -rates
are equally high, the lowest of the
group being Japan with a rate of 20 per
1,000, and the highest Spain, Nvith a -
tate of 25.8 per 1,000. The lowest death -
rate is that of Denmark, where it stends e
at 13.0 per 1,000, and as the Danes liege
a, birth-rate of 28.5 per 1,000, their posi-
tion is an enviable one. The United
Kingdom is among the most favorable
so far as death -rate is concern.ed-10.5
per 1,000 -but its death -rate hes steadily
fallen to 27.0. .
Population.
London .64 6.14 6 6. 116 4 060 64.872,710
New York .. 3,437,000
Peris• 2,714,000
Berlin ... ... 2,040,000.
rokio L810.000
Chicago ... 1,600,000
Vienna ... 1,676,000
Philadelphia . . 1,204;000
St. Petersburg ... , 1,205,000
Moscow ... 1;030,000
Buenos .,kyres „ . 1,020:000
Th return gives the total of the debt
of the nine most impoetant nations lei
44,0e0,000,000, staggering figure. Here
are the etatietice of expenditute; tte4
Itcleub:..;" .... :C2S3,075,090 .12 747,518,000
Expenditure. Debt.
stetes . 150,022,000 296,221,001
r. Kegs. .. 146,001,030
Fine ..,. 143,589,000 1.701130013:::7733106.1.,,z001:0):::i
; many 110,444,000
At4Ytrier" : 727,448821,0040g
lItingary 50,040.004 VOX 13,000
Belgium 25,110,023 126,183,000
Russia appellee to be the only country
which succeeds in carrying on its no.-
tional dittiee et it cost loss than ,e2 per
head, 'While the United Kingdent, Vrallee,
and Attetria-Ifunginey Are the most eost-
ly nations, 'their, expenditure teaching
over X3 per heact of the population,
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