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l. ‘ system. What Will Happen Under Socialism. / At present we have free police pro- ’tection. We have free fire protection. ’When a house is on fire in a city the firemen do not wait until the the house owner comes round with the cost of the water and the pay of the firemen before they start for the fire. They .go at once. arrest a pickpocket until the man whose pocket has been picked pays «‘them the cost of the arrest. These ser- ‘vices are free. Under Socialism there ‘will be many free services. The food . ~of the people will be free. Their cloth- ing will be free. Their shelter will be -.free ‘Free food 1” you exclaim. “Why '-that will make the people lazy. They ‘won’t work. They will sitaround and ’do nothing.” If you think that. free food will make people lazy you have not read v'human nature right. We have free -air. But that does not make people lazy. We have free water. But that does not make people lazy. We have free streets. But that does not make people lazy. They breathe the free air .and are glad to get their lungs full. 'They drink the free water and walk the free streets. Give free food, free clothing and free shelter and men and women will be- come more energetic. They will be ‘freed from worry. They will be freed from the fear of starvation. They will know that their means of life are as- .sured and will therefore be able to work without worry and to give the ‘best that is in them for the services of “ctheir fellowmen. - ’ It is one of the foolish notions pro- pagated by the labor skinners that men must be forced to work by hunger' or ‘ézthe lazy beggars would not work. You ;see, the‘capitalists take all the workers ,produce but a bare living. They make ithe workers work hard and give them l-lin Wages just enough to buy the absol- iute food, clothing and shelter the workers need. Now if the idea once :got abroad that we could have food, clothing and shelter free then the cap- italists would no longer be able to drive men and women to slavery by “:the lash of hunger. So the capitalists «diligently maintain that the workers would not work unless forced to do so be want. When you re-echo this lie of *the capitalist extortioners you are aid- ing the enemies of your class to keep you in slavery. Do you grasp what a revolution free food, clothing and shelter would work in society? Do you comprehend the wast change this would involve? With free food, clothing and shelter no man would be forced to bend his free spirit and listen in submission to the browbeating of a boss. N o woman would have to sell her self for money whether within the marriage bond or outside of it. The power of the capit- alists would be absolutely broken. 'There would be no more want, no more jails, no more lawyers, no more get rich quick schems, no more tyranny, no more bread lines, no more “looped and gagged wretchedness,” no more misery. There would be orderly production. There would be statistical preparation «of schedules. The articles men and women use will be ascertained, and will be produced with the least possi- ble expenditure of energy, of produc- tion and distribution. Little labor 'would give great results. The whole «of humanity would enjoy the comforts of modern life, without worry and -without injuring each other in the «enjoyment thereof. All this will happen under Social- iism. Is it not worth striving for?â€" Cotton’s Weekly. 0.. The Joy offloarded Wealth. E. J. Halley died in a Memphis hospital a few months ago, after wast- ing a fortune that was left him by a relative eight weeks before his death. This relative was a miser woman, who had the money stored about her house 'in many places, and who lived as if in poverty. \Vhat a system we live un- der, which makes it possible for a fool to acquire wealth and live in misery, and to leave it to another fool, who kills himself in two months by drink and debauchery. Under a rational system the woman would have lived a normal life and the man would also have enjoyed his days, instead of liv- ing a stinted life so'loug that he did not know how to enjoy plenty when he had it. Yes, capitalism, with its struggle and fear and fools, is a great Under a Socialist regime the woman could have always had plenty without hoarding, the man could have had plenty without stinting, and each . useful joyous work, mental and physij The police do not wait to» would have done a normal amount of sical, and their lives would have glided along with a rythm that is natural. But under unnatural conditions we have had the picture told aboveâ€"and there are millions of such incidents, with various modifications. When will you get wise enough to see thata so- cial system is a man-made affair, and can be made to produce any results that are really desired by intelligent beings? Of course we Socialists, who desire to change the conditions that make for such hideous results, are all fools. Sure lâ€"Appeal to Reason. MEN wubfibdfb "lu'iHE ATTICS Muterplocu That Have Been Pro- duced in GarrctIâ€"Padercwakl Drummod His Finger,- There Even within human memory great men have dWelt and worked in attics, and have often enough hungercd and starved there. Yet, most curious of all, many of the world's most noble masterpieces have been produced in humble, slope-roofed garrets. Imagine writing an epoch-making nOVel at a table the position of which you have continually to shift to dodge the large drops of rain that come through a faulty roof, and on the other side of the door an irate landlady declaiming against you having not paid your rent. That is just what happened to Oli- ver Goldsmith when in Green Arbor Court, Old Bailey, he was preparing his immortal “Vicar of Wakefield." Besides a ramshackle bud and a table, the only other piece of furniture the room contained was a chair. Nor did Goldsmith reap any of the rewards of his genius; he was born poor, and liVLd and died in London garrets, with swal- lows his only companions. Coming nearer to our own times, Thomas Carlyle occupied a top-back room in Cheyne Row, Chelsea. It was lighted from above where no sight or noise penetrated. He could have lived there all his life without anyone ever knowing of his existence. if, the question as to who is the greatest living woman were given to ten people. nine of them would unhesi- tatingl answer, Mme. Curie. Now. Mme. urie and her husband lived for years in apartments in Paris which would not favorably compare with my a London attic. Except for half I dozen acquaintances, few knew of their existence: but in that tumble- down dwelling (it was not even rain- proof), these two, husband and wife, Vere doing a work that was eventually to revolutionize science. They dis- covered radium, and it was not until the news had been shouted from one and of the world to the other that the neighborozbegan to take a sort of inâ€" terest in the quaint couple who kept the light going all night long in their window. A Young Inventor Strange, too, is the story of the young inventor who one day walked .into the office of the famous Commo- dore Vanderbilt, the founder of the Vanderbilt millions. He had devised an air-brake, he said, and wanted to interest the mum-millionaire in itâ€"in short, he wanted money. “Do you mean to tell me," cried Mr. Vanderbilt, “that you claim you can stop a train by wind?" “That is exactly my intention, sir," replied the young fellow. "Go away," said the elder man; “go Iway. I’ve no time to waste on fools.” The inventor went back to his attic. where for weeks, nay, for months, he had existed on the most meagre of allowances. Among his friends he be- came known as “Crazy George.” One day a railroad manager good-naturedly allowed him to experiment. Capitalists who had snubbed him and who were present at the trial were staggered, dumbfounded, when “Crazy GeOrge" demonstrated by actual fact that a train could be brought to a dead Itandstill by air. That was forty years ago, and to" day that man, whose name is George Westinghouse, is himself responsible for over a hundred patents, and is the head of a corporation having a capi-, tal of $100,000,000. ‘ , ' For days and weeks and months, Paderewski drummed his fingers on a plain deal table in a Paris garret. He knew he could play the piano as few others could, but the information was. unfortunately native to himself. All. he wanted was the opportunity to con-' Vince people what he was capable of; but who would dream of, looking for a musician in a damp, out-ofâ€"the-way attic near the Seine? But one day somebody did go there and engage the young Pole to play some accompaniments at the house of a society lady. So overwhelmed was his employer with his performance that she offered on account of the rain, to send him home in her own carriage. "No, madam," said Paderewski, "are not my own carriage and coach- rnan waiting for me at the end of the street?" And overcoatless and umbrellaless, through therein and the slush and the mud, he walked home. That night the tide turned, and the young Pole soon found himself with no further use for such things as garrets. : 1 l 1 Victor Hugo The story of men of genius hunger- lng for food and pining for recognition ls a. long one. Take Victor Hugo, ac- cording to some critics the greatest genius of modern times, who executed some of his finest poetical master- pieces in a garret in Belgium, where the rain came through the tiled roof and which was so small that he could but take four steps as he walk- ed about thinking. His writing-table consisted of a hinged shelf, which he always put up against the wall so his four steps could not be curtailed. , Tom Hood the author of the cele-f brated "Song of the Shirt," rented 3-; top-back room in London at six shil-g lings a week, and it was dear at that! Charles Dickens's blocking-factory; days were spent in equally miserable: surroundings. Do Quincoy spent ho.le his life in a garret off Oxford Street; and Maximo Gorgy wrote some of his} most realistic stories in the over-heat-l ed and unhealthy atmosphere of at baker's oven-room. Chatterton. thol boy poet, died in a tiny apartment at! the very top end of a flight of. staira;l and Whistler, the famous impression-1 lat once had his pictures sold to payi off his attic landlord. 1 i EXCLUDE WASTE'R‘S‘ Practically Worthless Birds Should be Got Rld Of â€"â€"â€". It is extremely important to give birds that are destined to be the fu- ture breeding stock as much freedom as possible. in order to develop fully the qualities that are so essential a factor towards success. This can only be accomplished when the ground is not overcrowded nor the birds cramp- ed in their roosting quarters. It is quite impossible to say Just how much space is necessary to maintain fowls healthy and strong, since so much de- pends upon the variety, the nature of the soil, the time of year, and several other considerations. The health and productiveness of the birds are the on- ly satisfactory guide. Those who have plenty of space at their command need not perhaps trouble themselves about the matter although they. would be well advised to do so, but to those whose space is limited this question is one of great importance. 1 have often and often seen a small poultry yard greatly overstocked. with the in- evitable result that none of the birds were thriving ~well. Had half the number been kept in all probability the actual, not the proportional, sup ply of eggs would. have been greater. in very many cases quite half the stock consisted. of practically worth- less birds, which Were .consuming food, occupying' space, and involving labor, and thus reducing the profi- tableness of the remaining fowls. There are several ways of classify- ing fowls,-:but there is none no useful as by means of their economic quali- ties._ In this manner we have four great classes.‘ namely, the fancy breeds, the table breeds, the laying breeds, .and the: general purpose breeds. Fancy-fowl- are those which are bred and selected for their out- ward characteristirl. such as feather markings, comb, .wattles,‘ shape, etc. S_uch birds mayor may not possess good economic qualities; as a rule the internal characteristics have been sacrificed for the external. Table birds are those whi'chpossess a large breast development and flesh of an excellent flavor and texture, but gen- erally speaking they are compara- tively poor layers. The laying breeds, on the other hand, are very prolific, but possess poor edible qualities, while the general purpose fowls are those which combine both laying and table properties. They are better table fowls than the laying breeds, but pro- duce fewer eggs, while they lay more eggs than do the table varieties, but they possess inferior edible qualities. WAITED MANY YEARS A Frenchman Waited Long for Ro-I vonge and Get It ’ An extraordinary story of a tragic revenge comes from St. Enogat, near-1 Dinard, France. A tinman named, Gastebois met an old school comradel called Beslon by accident some days"; ago. Gastebois took his friend out to‘ dinner, and showed him over his shop, and generally made much of him; Recently the two men lunched toge- ther, but when after luncheon they went into the garden, Beslon sudden- ly drew a revolver. “You brute!” he said. “Do you remember what you did to me twenty-six years ago?” Be- fore Gastebois could answar Beslon fired, and as his old friend fell, smashed his scull with thte butt-end of the revolver. v Neighbors who had heard the shot took the man prisoner and handed him over to the gendarmes. Gaste- bois was taken to the hospital where he died. Beslon remained quite cool. "Twen- ty-six years ago,” he said, “that man struck me when I was dofenceless. I have been waiting my opportunity to revenge myself, and I am wind that I have done so." CAPTURED ALIVE I A raccoon was captured alive at} Lucknow: Ont., the other day. It en-._ tered a drug store and by means of' considerable stratng was captured; alive in a box. 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Her little. girl, about five years of age, and a boy of ten are with her, both being afflicted with this dread disease. The words of the mother are pathetic. She writes: “I went to a doctor and got him to examine my lungs to see whether there was anything wrong with them, and he said that the right lung was affected. A little rest, he hoped, would build me up. I have a little girl, about five years old, and the doctor says that if I could take her up with me it would do her over so much good, as she is not very strong. I have three more children, and one of these, n. boy often, seems also to be aiilictcd, and it is advisable that he should enter the hos- pital." These three are of the 104 patients who are residents in tliis'deserving institution and being cared for without money and without price. The sorry part of it is that the trustees are carrying a debt of sonic- thing like $40,000, incurred largely through the additions that' have been made with-n the past year, and that have more than. doubled the accommodation of ihe institu- tion, together with the hen vy cost of main. taining so large a number of free patients. Readers who desire to help this great; charity may send their contributions to M r. \V. J. Gage, Chuirumn Executive Com- mittee, 84 Spadina avenue, or to the Sec- retary-Treasurer, 347 King street West, Toronto. a The Muskokn Free Hospital has ed up to its claims of never having a single patient because of his poverty. __o ..... .. q, 0....“ â€"