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Onc iglit Cure for ked, Rough iHalds, Itching Palms ijrici raînfi -f inger Ends VO TES AND COMMLTI'N7TS. It is a business-liko atiernpt t') salve Great Britaia's military pro- bleim that is made by Sir Robert (iilfcn, the wll-kno,,wn statistician, in the current numiber af the Nine- tceenth lCetury. 1,3 t reees Mr. 1,11odriksahmaswl ssm a pa of hiis owni, the coatsi of -which, berts opnio, ahprevpusdiscus- son ai te ubee hve been in the air, becau;s, e emhiayauthorities wijlliflot fcethe dilemima in whicli thiey arlacd teac abcýg titi painýîïg the army properlyso as ta insuý!re a sulliy of mal, PamI creature anid toal of capitalists ani net the ch,'amiwon af the calonist population, The miners naturally arc, salidly arrayed against the pro- ject and in several cases have re- sorted ta violence ta exclude their yehclow campetitors. They threateýn ta nvh il filrt,.ler l ae0 mr cast o notrealize hlw îintenlse iL, s th edrlcommi!Iisýoierta n irej' into thelestin ai Oent ai iimi- gtinonthe PacifeCoast, lasre- turne ta ornanto altera lenigthy inv,ýestigation ini the West. Hec States thait the'question is a vital ana for theo West, for the Chinese and Japan- esce laborer is eeyhr.They an- gaga in allasse failabor, fromn triennial period,888, the nun-~ ber of legitimate cichl born ta onc hunïdrcd iarrin-ges liats dcilinied frm141 ta 2"511 During the per- icd( of flfteen years, 1878 ta 1898, there wais a dlecinie in the fertility af ma,,rri.agce equal ta neariy fifty childrcniper an hunldred mrigs XVonwebeïr in immd tatlimanr- nages 1in Engu1landnd10 LcsIre now takin;]g p:lace ta0 theetnta ovra quartei2 a mLIlillion ealy ,it is obvious )tatsc a de'clinef in the ert)it a araeas thlat just mcnio e msa1,1 n immlense dec(reasue in the otlnuînber af cildren born 0of recent marriages, as comnpared With the rmarriages of fif- teen ycars ago. Prom 189ila189 England and Wa'es; tlho num-, Tt ,s pretty tough ta have saine one ycu like very much start out for the South toa et relief, frorn, consu-rrntion. Tbc'v sosedo plm zt ', a ce