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Or Lady Garaven's Labor of
Love.
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OI1APTIi R I{I.
"Yoe," she answered, "X -must go
awayee
"That would be a commonplace
ending, aftoe all—running away frons
your trouble, Hildred, 1 can See
how you may make yourself a hero-
ine—how you may rise from this,
your girlish, dissatisfied life, to the
grandest heights of. heroism.. 1 see
it, and, unless :I am greatly mis-
taken inmy estimate of your char-
acter, you will do It; .it 'is better to
die on the heights of heroism, then
in the dsptim of despair:"
She looked up at him with a gleam
of interest In het• face. She had
been 00 long without hope that to
bo told she could be heroic awoke
within her e. feeling of wonder.
"There aro two ways before you—
that of fighting against your fate,
rebelling with all your heart against
it, and that of submitting to it and
making the best of it. You may,
for instance, leave Lord Caravan,'
Mott have money in abundance, you
could live either in England or
abroad, yon could have plenty of so-
ciety --but you would never Ss hap-
py. You might try to throw your
whole hoat't and soul into the gay
tiers aid .frivolities of the world —
they would tiro you: you aro to
noble for that, Then the than
are that whim you found all the
things pall upon you, you would
want to lead the woman's true life,
which is that of love. Of all the
fates that would bo the most dread-
ful which could overtako you."
"I con not afraid of it, she re-
plied slowly,
"Su you think now; but I am ono
of those who believe that no wo-
man can live without love. .11 you
should ever, when the world had tir-
ed you and your heart ached with
the weight of your loneliness, seek
comfort or consolation hi the love of
any creature, your fate would be
terrible. Picture yourself so situ-
ated a woman beautiful, gifted, and
brilliant, married, yet with no hus-
bend by her side; all duties of rank
and position ignored; mistress of a
home that Oho never saw; beautiful,
yet miserable with the never -failing
Consciousness that Oho had run away
from a life that might have been
improved. It is a sorry picture for
a noble woman, a sorry ending for
a life that might have been heroic."
"Fes," she -agreed, "a sorry end-
ing.,"
Now look on the other side—sub-
mission to your fate. Believe this --
whether he lcnows it or not, every
man is more or loss influenced by a
woman; every sensible man will own
it—wlil own fraukly that he owes
the better part of his character to
the influence of a noble woman. Be-
lieve me, Mildred, most great and
wise men owe the greater part of
their wisdom to the influ-
ence of good and noble wo-
men. It is the' grandest influence
in the world"—and the soldier rais-
ed his noble head proudly. "I need
not quote history to you—you are
better versed in it than. I am. I
need not quote biography or poetry,
nor point to the man who said he
owed all his success in life to his
mother,. nor to the man who owned
that he owed all his goodness to his
wife. It is the same story. I feel
inclined sometimes to think that the
grandest of God's gilts to this fair
earth is the influence of good and
noble women."
His eyes orightenea, his taco flush-
ed, ho spoke like a knight of old.
She looked up at him with •wonder-
ing awe.
"You may run away and leave
your home, Hildred; but that will be
a commonplace ending. Do that
which is nobler, higher, better —re-
sign yourself, submit to your fate
and make the beet of it. As n
handsome and noble woman, use
your influence with your husband to
rouse him from his slough of de-
pend into a higher life,"
Some of the light that shone on
his face was refected on hers.
"11 would be a noble task," she
.said, thoughtfully, "Could I accom-
, plish it, Raoul7"
"With perseverance and self-con-
trol that would amount to heroism
you might," he replier'. "You must
be the sculptor tt:,o /rent a mass of
qualities, good and bad intermixed,
must try to produce a perfect char -
eater."
"But," she said, half doubtfully,
"he does not love me,"
"That does not matter. I pro-
f
phcsy that he will love you in the
end—that when you have roused his
soul from •t 1 i•
its sleep twill turn to
you naturally.as the sunflower turns
to the sun. Do you not foresee it,
Rafted?" And an alonist saintly
elhthushtsm shone on his face,
"It is POSsiblo, 110001, but'-^-"
"Nay, . be bravo. "lh;ink „of the
difference In the ending, he said,
"Imagine the ear( on his 'death -bed;
tortured by the ghosts- of those
wheun the has neglected, by the
ghosts of duties left undone, ready
to curse the young wife wee; by sly-
ing from Jtim and leaving hie to his
own devices, had hastened his ruin,
body and soul—picture that. Thou
fancy' to yourself the earl on hie
death -bed, blessing the dear wife, the
Marie who saved ]him from
ruin, who woke his soul from its
long sleep, who taught ]him how to
live and how to the. Could you hes-
itate for one moment between these
two pictures?"'
"No, not for one moment, Raoul.
I do not hesitate—I will not hesi-
tate.. I will do my life's work."
She pondered in silence, broken
only by the western wind, as it bent
the heads of the roses, and shook
tho white acacia blossoms on to the
grass.
It was Flildred who with a little
e- cry broke the' silence as she rooked
into Sir Raoul's face.
o "We have forgotten one thing,"
nos she said; "we have decided that UI -
se ric's reformation must be attempt-
ed,�
that is a good thin;; 10 under-
take; but you have not told me how
it is to bo set about."
"Your own instincts will tell you
that. Will you let me speak quite
freely to you, Hildred, and promise
me that ,you will not bo offended
with ono single word that I shall
say? We start from this point—
that a great wrong has been done
you, but that you aro too noble to
seek revenge."
Her face cleared,
"I want no revenge," she replied,
"Good," said Sir Raoul; "a wrong
has been done ,yogi, but you will not
retaliate—you aro even willing to
return good for -evil. The first
thing, you have to do, Ifaldred, is to
lay aside that proud, injured, defiant
expression that you always assume
when your husband is near?"
"Do I?" she asked in wonder.
"Yes; you are perhaps bright, ani-
mated, charming when he enters the
room, but the next moment you are
like a woman turned to stone; a
proud chill seems to come over you,
to freeze you, your eyes grow cold,
all tlo slnilee die from your lips —
you are as different in his presence
as sunlight is from darkness."
"How can I help it :;hen I know
that he does not like me?" she ask-
ed,
sk 1
ed, piteously. 1
"It is difficult, I admit, but hero- t
ism wilt do much. Now, 1 know e
such a manner upsets flim; he docs b
not like it. You may say that as
he does not care for you your man-
ner can slake no difference,"
"1. should most certainly have b
thought. so, was her reply. .
"But you are wrong, Hildred. I
have watched him very keenly, and
I say that you are quite wrong. e
When you draw thar. eted mask oven,
your face, you harden his heart c
against you."
'Is it. not unwomanly to seek for 1
love which is not steered to you, s
Raoul.?"
"It might be in a girl, it is not s
in a wife. I think a. wife should ri
aspire to win her husband. to make +i
him love her with all his heart," �.
"Lord Caraven will never love me,"
she said. "I do not think that he
has any heart to give; it is all wast-
ed—ho has had a hundred loves."
"But not ono real one, 'Eldred.
If you win his heart, take my word
for it, you will be his first lova. We
will take our stund o11 something
higher. To win love is pleasant,
but you shall not"devote your life
to that. You shall devote youself
to tho rousing of a soul, naturally
noble, but long burled in self-indul-
gence and folly; you shall spend your
life •n making the Earl of elaraven
worthy of the name he beat's. You
have promised."
It was wonderful how the expres-
sion of the beautiful face had chang-
ed during that quiet interview. She
rose with the gayest, sweetest laugh
he had ever heard from her lips.
"1 x111 a Woman with a, Mission,"
she said, "and I shall alwnys think
of myself with capital letters, Raoul,
I cannot be grateful enough to you.
When you first entered the house I
felt as though heaven had sent me
a friend. If happiness conies to me
through following your counsel, how
�"
shall 1 thank you.
"I shall need no thanks, ITildred,"
he replied. "You are and have
been, oval' slime 1 first satig you, the
detlrest object on .earth to lie, You
aro 1ny dear sister, U11'la's wife, I
bay o a o
e l ve U1 is all 1 llfo•'-1 0005]1]
Ply
Rot help lotting youee
In another minute the boautifel
face had disappeared, wed Slt' Raoul
asps left 111 the ploasauuco alone,
"A titan might lay down ills life
fol 005011 a eveinien es that," he said,
with what }vas almost a sigh:.
* * k k * 0 y
Lord Cas•avon stood In the big tat'd
1oem at Ravonsmcron ho had been
playing with ono 01 his friends,
Who, having recoil/ad a telegram,.
had genie to aaswer it. Ile stood
alone,', leaning carelessly against the
open veranda, something ntoro titan
his usual indifference darkening his
face; he never liked interruption clue-
ing a gismo,
A most unpropitious moment,"
thought the countess, as she naught
sight of hint; but having given her
word to Sir iiaaul, she would have
manliest up ti) the mouth of a load -
cd cannon rather than have broken.
it.
Looking up, the earl could not but
confess that he had seldom seen a
lovelier picture Oar this young wife
at that moment presented, with a
flus]] on 111er face, and her hands 011 -
ed with sprays of fragrant mignon-
ette,
She would not reveal her hesitation
but went straight to Mut. mailing
so that he little guessed how her
heart beat. Ile raised his eyebrows
as she drew nearer to hili, What
was going' to happen? Before he
had time to speak his face was
buried iu a soft, dewy mass of frag-
rant mignonette.
"There!" said . a laughing .voice.
"You said this morning that this
was your favorite flower. I have
been looking for the. most fragrant
sprays of it that I could And."
He could not believe the evidence
of his senses; it was incredible that
the laughing voice belonged to his
cold, proud n1fe—tltc girl who had
swept imperiously from the room
when he saw her last. He looked at.
her in amazement. She would not
sco .the surprise on his face or snake
the least difference because of it,
"You have the very pick. of the
garden here," sho said; "every spray,
has its own special beauty."
Ho roused himself and tried to re-!
cover from tiro wondering stupor
that had overcome Nisi.
""I believe this is the first cling
you have ever given inc of your own
free will, is it not?"
"No," she replied, quietly; "it is
not."
"Ah, pardon me," he said, with a•
quick change of face and voice;
"you gave Inc your fortune!"
There was hot rebellion for one'
moment—hot, bitter rebellion. Then'
she remembered Sir Raoul's words.
It was for her husband's good. She;
triunpled down the' hot impulse of
angry pride—she stilled. the bitter
auger and contempt. Her victory!
over herself was so great that she
was even surprised at it. Site laid
her hand on his arm.
"Na Lord Caraven " she said,
'd
.Y, , ' at
gently, "you are quite wrong. 1
vas not thinking of money. t; old
s dross --I despise it—I could al-
most hate it for the mischief it
nakes. I was thinking of some-
Bing very different front momey—
oinething that money could not
uy."
IIs was looking at her with keen
curiosity.
"Something that money could not
uy, he repeated. "I declare that
ou puzzle me. I thought that gold
vas omnipotent,"
"I do not think so. I do not liko
t. Omnipotent? Why, Lord Cara-
-en, all the wealth of the world
ould not buy happiness or love."
"No," Ilio said, quietly, "it could
tot; yet, ITildied, money has done
omething for line."
"I do not intend to depreciate it,"
Le remarked; "but it Is not omni-
otent; and thege are many things
n this world of far higher value
ban money,"
"11 is true," the said, thoughtful-
lv.
She laughed again, and, if he had 1
known her better, he would have do- a
tected tears in the sound of that
laugh. A
"We are positively agreeing, Lord
Caravan," she said.
ITe. was looking tet her with in- 0
tense curiosity in his face,
'Mildred, what have you given ins
that money could not buy?"
The dark eyes gleamed softly. I
n the Thresh
neve of these, Then 'wlnst (meld it
bet,"
Meet go, I,ord Oqt"avert," 0114
said, feel lies e 1 wtl � her
, a ;�' a lg hot and le,.
heart boating quickly. "If Yon
weigh ovory wont dint I nay, X shell
have bR bo very cei'elet."
"Iiildred, tell filo w8at yen
1116411?" be requested. "What Have
yolt given Ino?"
"I will tell you," Olio replied;
laughingly, "when you leive,bounted
all those tiny leaves on ilio 11144o11 -
Otte,"
Site turned to go, but he put out
his hand to detain her, She eluded
hint, and, with e light laugh, dis-
appeared, leaving him by the ver
arida alone,
(To De Continued),,
FAMOUS FIGHT RECALLED.
ur on U. S,hi President S p 1caldent 'IWas
Takenand Docked,
Never .aga.ie. will there be a. war
between T!hhglalld incl America. This
is tho very confident prediction of
the statesmen " of tho two great
English-eroaking nations, Moro than
ordinary interest attaches, therefore,
to the once. famous Yankee frigate
President, whose guns were among
the last to be trained by Americans
on the flag of England, I?ow are
the Americans who know that ono
of the most renowned fighting ships
of the early days of the republic
ilea, unhonored and forgotten, In a
London dock,
Little sloes .the President look like
a fighting ship to -day as she lies in
the West India Docks, denuded Of
masts and spars and carrying a
house on her deck. But in the eorly
years of the past century, when
England was embroiled in the Na-
poleonic confiot, and had little de-
sire for a dispute with the States,
the fleetfooted Yankee frigate circled
the British Isles, challenging every,
craft that flow the British flag. Such
a scourge was she to British ship-
ping that the Admiralty issued a
special circular to the navy that the
President mast be captured at all
hazards ,
How America's first European
flagship came to Ay Britain's flag is
a story of Angio -Saxon courage and
daring. It was on the night of
An. 14, 1815, that tho President,
having just returned from "bearding
the lion 1. his den," was chased
into Long Island Sound
BY A BRITISH -i FLEET.
In command of her was the adven-
turous Decatur. At daybreak on
Jan. 15, tho President having
grounded and strained herself dur-
ing the night, was again under sail.
Decatur then discovered that four
of the enemy's ships were in pur-
suit, ono on each quarter and two
astern. At noon the breeze fell, The
Yankee frigate was almost water=
logged.
A favoring breeze brought on the
Endylnion, the most .powerful of the
pursuing fleet. She opened fire with
her bow -chasers, to which Decatur
replied with his stern. battery. This
running fight continued for two
hours, and the ICndymion was so
disabled that she avolded Decatur's
efforts to comp` to close quarters.
But toward midnight two fresh
English ships, the Pomone and the
Tenedos, crawled up and opened Aro
on the President at close range.
Decatur was compelled to strike his
colors. His loss was 24 killed -and
55 wounded.
The loss of bile President was in-
vestigated by a court-martial, but
Decatur was exonerated of blame.
The President was sent to Ber-
muda, and from there she was
brought to England by the Endy-
mion, whose captain was rewarded
by the Ring. For 85 years the
President lay at Portsmouth, where
she was the model for 'several Brit-
ish frigates. Later she was at Chat-
ham, and some time in the sixties
she became a drill ship at the West
India Docks,
There she has rested for 40 years,
and on ler ancient gundeck, where
once American sailors gave their
Ives for their flag, British blue-
acicets are now instructed in the
rt ofmodern naval warfare. One
mark_ only does she bear of her
merican origin—the figurehead of
John Adams, the second President
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WHY WE EAT' SALe.
t Is an Indispensable Element of
Food.
While many treatises on dietetics
deal with snit as if it wore merely
a condiment, it is universally re-
cognized to he something more. In-
deed, it is an indispensable element
of the food of man and animals.
A well ]mown authority asserts
that whenever the annual consulnp-
tlon of salt falls below twenty lbs.
per head of the population the pub-
ic health is likely to suffer. In re-
tells of the earth where salt is
scarce artiele it is regarded as a
ubstance of great value. Salt star -1
:tion is, in its way, as distressing
: thirst or hunger, although it
bows itself in a different way,
"Tete want of salt," says the Me-
dicai Press, "docs not produce n
definite disease, but reduces the vi-
tality my of the body as a whole, leo
that the persons deprived of it fall
more readily victims to prevailing
epidemics, as well as endemic mala-
dies."
We use salt because there -are salts
in our food in its unrefined state, as
nature prepares it, before it is skin-
ned and ]boned, peeled and cooked;
and we most replace these sults, or
our bodies will not be fully benefit-
ed by ivllat we oat.
We use salt also because our blood
contains it; likewise our muscles,
our nerves, and, indeed, our whole
bodies; and it gets used Up during
the life processes constantly being
carried on within us.
But the salt contained in natural
foods and that required for our liv-
ing bodies is not common salt, but
a foinbhnaiion of that substance with
phosphates and other tjiings, which
are 0'011 inure necessary and more;
natural 1,11an common salt: itseif,
1
"I will not tell you, Lord Cara- g
von," she answered. a
"Dat I must know, You have ex- s
cited my curiosity you must gratify n'
i You c•.
t o have enumerated three a
things that money cannot buy— s
happiness, virtue, love. It was
rihood
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ON THE FARM.
• D UTTERIWAEINCe
In spite 01 tl)o fact that modern
maolthheey 'for making Nutter 110/
largely taken the place of the old
dash churn and blotter worker, even
o11 the farm '11listakee are froqucntly.
made which omen rapid doterioratfon
in butter, aftot' it has boon menu -
lectured, ..says Live Stock, Indica-
tor. 1t is true, of course, that just
as good butter can bo made on the
MEM as in the creamery, the lower
prices which are 'paid .fer'home
rnade bettor being duo to the fact
that it is impossible for dealers to
obtain utiifot'in genlity from fa1311--'
ors,: On the other, Vaud memories
manufacture such quantity that sere
eral hundred pounds, and possibly
several thousand, pounds, may be
produced in onto day, all of which is
of unlform quality; Even from slay
to day conditions are such in a
largo creamery that there is vory
little:. variation in the 13rocluct if the
creamery plan 10 '0 skillful operator,
Ono of tee most common mistakes
is made by those who manufacture
their: butter largo as an egg, or oven
larger. When buttermilk is drawn
away from butter in this condition
the whole becomes a solid mass al-
most front the beginning. When it1
this condition it is almost impossi-
ble to salt it evenly, and tho eddea
vor to properly, mix salt with it
frequently brings about destruction
of its grain. Wo know of instances
where butter is allowed to Stand for
a role hours and is worked over two
or three and sometimes four Aimee in
order to remove the streaks and to
obtain a proper mixture of salt.
The difficulty of producing butter
of uniform character' in regard to
the salt content could be entirely re-
moved if the churning, process- is
stopped when the product is ingran-
ular condition. There will be prat-
Ideally no loss if churning ceases
when the particles are the size of
wheat grains. While in this condi-
tion tt0' buttermilk may be drawn
oil and a strainer placed over the
drainage hole, so that none of the
granules will be lost. While in this
condition tho salt should bo sprinkl-
ed over the butter, so that a small
amount of labor is required to cause
an v
1 even admixture of butter and
salt. At this Lima it should be
worked but very little and after-
wards allowed to stance a few hours,
during which time the particles of
salt will become dissolved.
If worked again the white streaks
that are frequently due to the pre-
sence . of salt' grains will become'
thoroughly mixed, so that the but-
ter will be of uniform color. Tho
second mixture will also tend to re-
move a, portion of the water that
would otherwise remain, and its re-
moval will invariably improve the
keeping quality of the product.
HORSE BREEDING.
Horse breeding is ono of the most
important branches of Canadian Ag-
riculture.The revival in the horse
trade and the high prices being paid
for the best types of horses of near
ly all the leading classes, including
heavy drafts, general purposes, car-
riage and saddle. horses make the
breeding of good horses a most
profitable business for the Canadian
farmer to engage in. Good horses
et all the classes we ;have named are
very scarce in the country and in.
some cases cannot bo had for love
or money. This condition prevails
in the United States also and to a
very large extent in the horse breed-
ing districts of Europe. A profita-
ble market 5s therefore assured the
horses of the right type for several
years to conte.
But rare and skill are necessary in
breeding horses of the right typo for
tho market of to -day. No beeline -
tied methods will suffice.Tho se-
lection of both mares uld stallions
should ho carefully made. So• far
as the latter aro concerned breeders
will have a, large number of import-
ations chiefly of heavy draft clas-
ses to choose from. And as far as
WO are able to learn these imports-
teens aro of a high standard as re-
gards quality and if taken advant-
age of as they should be by farmers,
will do much to improve tie quality
of Canadian horses. These import-
ations, ]however, mean the expendi-
ture of large sums of money by
i000100ne, anti farmers should not
look .for the services of imported an-
imals at a fee such as they would
pay for so1110 of the scrub, nonde-
script stallions that are all too
numerous in this eountry. It pays
to raise only the best types of horses
if you raise any at all and these
cannot be got but by breeding to
the very best sires and the extra
charge for such service will be very
much more than made up by the en-
hanced value of the offspring. Care-
ful breeding and careful feeding will
Ming success.
LIME AS A FERTILIZER.
Limo is not a commercial fertiliz-
es in the strict settee, but an indirect
fertilizer, which all farmers ought to
bo fanllllnr with' end NAO. 001 jj� TA
fa'r'mers 11se lime about 0nee in AIM ,.` ST LIA 1 S $L, ,B TIiIU
They pit O tV. 'e� O
a the n for t o f as xis
y
e
' irs. pall a 'h0 Want ' t C
C a s all o at
b t it
Upon tho insbtuble Plant fond and
hake ie available, and„i11 tee 650 -
owl place, it is good for 00051' land,
lend butt has been farmed a good
while and an 0.0151' him developed,
'1'on or 20 bushels li1ne her aero will
notiti'eIjze the .Reid. Sometimes chive
or does net. grow well and farmer's
say 11 probably 110Ods lime.
STAI3IJ) SANITATI?)N,
Whitewash Will kill and hold all
germs with i winch it collies 111 con-
tact, It llas,the efreot of making the
barn or iuelosure llght'oe and much
more wholesome for the animals
oontteined i11 it. Whitewash can be
put on with a good steely pump
made for that purpose, or with a
brush, On rough, walls, the mn-
toilet should be very thick, especial-
ly for the first coat. The interior
of any building sprayed several
times dining the seesonl will be
much less liable to spread germs in
the milk and otller_substamere.'
GRAIN .FEED FOR i CALVES.
An excellent grain feed for calves
IS Oats and corn, equal parts, well
ground: If oats are not . obtainable,
, br round wheat cn-
inguses',ran Slhoafooats fO also excsellentree,
If corn is not available or too high
priced, oats will do well.
•
FIFTEEN MILLIONAIRES.
England Has No More—Ire?and
Has One.
Thera are only fifteen millionaires
in areal Britain and one in Ireland
—at least this would appear to'be
ere from the official income tax r
turns just issued,' says the Londo,
Mail.
According to the returns these -six-
teen - persons make tho sum total of
the individuals in Great Britain who
enjoy incomes of over £50,000, and
this is about the "milliouairi"
level. 11 is true that there are 184
people with incomes of botwo?n
£10,000 and £50,000, and, O
course, a considerable number of
these aro just on the Bine across
which they would bo classed 'as Mil-
lionaires. Incomes of between 45,-
000 and £10,000 are enjoyed by
424 people..
To bo an assessor of income tax
one needs a heart of flint. To him'
tho world is a Dantesque Inferno,
filled with dolorous complainings.
it is always, • J•he worst „year I
remember, 011e" ur "Hard times,
very hard ,times," every . year 0005
the nation "on its last financial
legs,"
Unfortunately rho groat majority
of the smaller laconic people have no
opportunity of pleading poverty..
They are people with salaries; and
the income tax man has access to
the tell -talo wages list. But the
millionaire 'i3 not a salaried man.
For the most part he pays on an
assessment provided by himself, and
the above quoted egures "give one
to think."
Dowa rho scale the numbers gradu-
i lly increase until the incomes be-
tween £160 and £200 there are no
fewer than 138,406; while of smaller
incomes not exempt from taxation
there are 112,807.
But there is one singular excep-
tion to this steady gradation. There
are comparatively few incomes of be-
tween £800 and £900, the number
being 1,989 ill Great Britain, where-
as the figures immediately above and
below are 3,985 and •2,641,
There appears, indeed, to be a
strange fatality about this particu-
lar size of income, for we find that
it is rare, not only in the case of
private petsons, but also of firms,
public companies and municipal cor-
porations,
The return gives startling evidence!
of the large proportion of the burden'
which is borne by the comparatively?
poor malt. Of incomes between £160
and £200 the gross amount assessed
is £25,988,513; o1 the incomes be-
tween £200 and £300 the gross
amount assessed is £24,215,614, But
of incomes between £1,000 and £2,- i
000 the gross amount assessed was
only Z8,252,524.
It is interesting to note that there
are in Creat Britah00 86 firms with an
income of over £00,000, 101 not one
in Ireland; and 11101 in Great Brit-
ain there are 656 public companies,
and In Ireland 19, .which have I1i-
comcs of over £50,000,
comes of over £50,000.
WORKMEN'S BATHS,
C0UJ T1I AX4(40ST PLUNG1ED
4=0 MANIG1tUM'd'CX.
heavier Taacation Is Needed If In-
solvonoy Ie to Be
Averted,
Not slice the collapse of the land
boom, whiole wrecked s0 manly banks
and outer Peelle/al institutions, and
reduced s0 many People from opu-
lence to poverty, htnvo times been s0
hard as they 10W aro, Seven o1'
eight seasons of successive drought
in the arid 3'ogions of Australia have
led to an enormous loss. of stook,
wltioh will seriously affect this
year"s export of wopi and frozen
mutton. Locally, the immediate ef-
fect' has 'teen to increase the plica
of beef and mutton enormously, and
so many people aro out of work that
bods articles of consumption have .'
got beyond their i•caelh. The unem-
ployed
nem-
p oyocl can bo counted by hundreds
in. all the cities mid towns of the
continent, especially In Victoria,,
South Australia; New South Wales,
and Queensland. 1'11e cities of Ade -
/aide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Bris-
bane are full of able-bodied men who
can And no work to do, and the
whole outlook is most dislteal'tening.
Australia is literally groanipg under^
its enormous load of debt, and State
Governments stave a difficult mob -
lora to solve in tlto financial, position
which confronts them,
They have borrowed to such an ex-
tent that the flotation of further
loans in London is anything but an
edsy thing to do, and in most of tho
states largo deficits are shown on the
year's transactions. Rigid rotrenbh-
anent and economy, as well' as fur-
ther taxation, aro the only moans
e_ by which the states can extricate
1 themselves from the financial straits
1 they havo got themselves into by
piling up the public debt and reek -
'less expenditure upon unproductive
works. Iu Victoria a crisis has
taken place within the past few
i days, and Parliament has been dis-
solved. Tho Government proposed
to make percentage reductions in the
1 salarles and wages of public ser -
vents, starting with salaries of £125 ,
a year upward, The House declar-
{ed against beginning so sow down
the scale as £125, and thereupon the.
Government asked for a dissolution
ancI got it,
HEAVIER TAXATION,
If bankruptcy is to be avoided,
heavier taxation must bo imposed
upon those best able to bear it; but
the.Government showed no desire to
do this,and therefore the strong
probability is that they will get
badly 'beaten in this unexpected ftp-
peal to the constituencies. The
State of Vietdria has been drifting
back for years at the rate of half a
miliion pounds nnnually. The rail-
ways have 'bean starved, and the
managers now report that the ex-
penditure of £100;000 is, at once
needed to make the lines safe for
traffic. The seriousness of the fin-
ancial position it would be impossi-
ble to exaggerate; yet the Irvine
Government talks about a saving of
,E76,000 from the salaries and wages
of public servants, and the reduc-
tion of the number of members of
Parliament, with a small percentage
diminution of their pay, as efficient
to meet the situation.
All tho other statee nro impecuni-
ous and'ovorburdened with debt, the
interest on which is sapping the life
blood out of them; and New Zealand
is in even a worse condition than
any of them, as an examination of
;its accounts will demonstrate to any
competent financier who undertakes
to analyze them critically. en New
Zealand, as 111 Australia, fro trust
funds have been resorted to in order
to provide money which cannot be.
raised in London, and the loan sink-
ing funds have also been seized up-
on, so, that while the mass of debt
has been piling up the funds which
Were supposed to bo available 'to-
ward the gradual exthlction of these
loans are uo longer at command for
that purpose. The whole systems of
colonial finance is rotten to the core,
and the bubble will built uniese the
various Governmentsresolve not Or-
ly upon economy and retrenchment,
hut also taxation of a very drastic
kind.
Bathing facilities are provided for
the employes of a great paint fac-
tory in Cleveland, Ohio. All aro
encouraged to take daily: shower
baths, and the men of the "dry -col-
or department" are absolutely re-
quired to do so in the interests of
their Health. Before the rule was
made it was a, rare thing for any
man to work 01 more than a month in
the department mentioned, owing to
the injurious action of the lead used
in making dry colors, Nowadays,
nen are able to work years in this
d arthn t
f
e c1 t and
no
p not h
o than one
in twenty appears to be injuriously
affected by the lead.
Tho United Staten has 'I20 ,. _ Billy Tlf0USE,
I a es 1 2 doctors lies, I.e1.ch I declare, Mr. Porch, you're intoxicatoii again,
to. every 10,000 people.' ,England Mr, Perchr-All wrong, 0.1' efear ; (lea) got Caught in a whirlpool.
has but 66 per 100,0005 a'tlit dizzy ; thatsll
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FATAL TEMP'ERATURE.
At what point does life begin? So
far as regards space or time, the
question is unanswerable. Only a
few years ago it would have been
saidthatin regard to that seeming-
ly essential condition of life totnper-
attire we did not know pretty near-
ly a superior anti inferior 111011.
Little of life is there below the
freezing point or waive ,.he booing
point of water, and fit' above or be-
low these critical points life should
expect even germ life to be destroy-
ed, When our greatest physicist in
1871 suggested that seeds of plants
might have been borne to this world
in a far distant age, the hypothesis
seemed incredible, because the ;tem-
perature of space, being ttt least ns
1015 as minus 40 deglees centigrade,
would be fatal to life in any form.
This is notso, Recently 1
X at tee
Jenner Institute bacteria have been
frozen in liquid air and oven in.
liquid hydrogen, and on the applica-
tion of moat and pieced in proper
media have germinated. The pro,
cesses of life were areestod,.but the
nascent life energy was not destroy-
ed at 200 degrees centigrade, say.
860 degrees Fahrenhoit of frost, Ex-
periments are now being madly to
And whether long continuance fer
months or years in stip] cnlcl takes
away the vitalism of those 105es't
forms of life,
SHALL CHurtdnES,
SG: Mary's, Frinton -on Son, ung-
101151, bas only accommodation " for
thirty persons, and a church at'
Watsdalo Head has only eight pews.
Another church, at blaugh, Lincoln- •
shire, is very 811%11, but it sones the
wh.elo population, which only muni-
bers about thirty, ell told,
Wentworth House, few- miles from
Ilotherhein, is the hill est private
iiwelling liduse in I.e!glear,l,_