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2w 9““ The following call for profwsional services was sent to a. local doctor rbcently: “Dear Doctor.â€"My wife’s mother is at death’s door; please policy was popular, he roundly de- clared that the Irish question was the most important controverSy in which he had ever been engaged. A listener ventured mildly to suggest that perhaps the struggle for the re- peal of the corn laws was almost as important as home rule. but Mr. Gladstone would have none of it. “I do not deny," he thundered, “that if the repeal 6? the corn laws had been defeated there would have been a. re- volution, but the Irish controversy is on a. far higher plane." -â€" Cor Manchester (England) Guardian. A Gla'dstono Sto'l‘y. Just now, when gossip about the repeal of the corn laws is current, Space may perhaps be found for a characteristic stary of Mr. Glad- stone. 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You seem to have had that one for years and years? William (Sadly renfiniseent)â€"Yes. sirâ€"I wool-~- laact I bought it on. the occasion of my lastiriso 015313.17. sinâ€"Sydne} Town and Country Journal. ed. so that only twenty-three cute;- ed the running as lieutenants, and of these more than one in four reach- ed flag rankâ€"Liverpool Post. not died, and one been murdered, be- fore donning the second stripe. Six of them left the service also in these junior stages an‘d one was discharg- Particulars have recently been pub- lished throwing light upon the ser- vice careers of certain youths who entered the “Britannia” in the same term many years ago. Thirty-five of them joined, and of these six reach- ed flag rank, and are now admirals. The proportion of one in five may\be regarded as very high. and it would be intersting to have a. comparison with the entries and promotion re- sults in other years at intervals. These particular cadets might have done still better. it four of them had ,,__..., v unuu \VULACI’S. It will thus be seen that, While re- cent legislation has tended to deprive women of rights in the capacity of a public representative, her sphere of employment has increased to a re- markable extent. There are female cellarmen, female boatmen, female watchmen, and fe- male warehousemen, not to mention female pointsmen and female railway porters, female bell-hangers, blackâ€" smiths, boilermakers, bricklayers. masons, miners, carpenters, paper- hangers, whiteWashers, gasfitters. dock laborers, saddlers, sawyers, shepherds, tailors, tanncrs, and un- dertakers. In conjunction with these circum- stances it; is intcxesting to notice the incursion of women into occupations usually connected with men, as re- vealed by a new blue book dealing with the census of 1901. It is pointed out. as if women ought to be elated thereby, that the Education Act makes it compulsorv that each scheme shall provide for the inclusion of women as Well as men among the members of the edu- cation committee. Why Willlsn Didn't ll". OI.- The work of the School Board is to be transferred to the County Council, and on that body women cannot sit. And only a. little While ago Mr. Long hinted that the ad- ministration of the Poor Law will also be transferred to the municipal authorities, from which women are barred. For the last fiVe years women have lost, and lost heavily, in their cause. Not long ago they could serve as guardians, as members of the School Board, as parish and district councillors, and as members of the London vestries. There are no London vestries now, and women cannot sit on the bor- ough Councils which have superseded them. It will, indeed, be in the memory of all Londoners that three ladiesâ€" two elected by the ratepayers and one selected as an alderman by the Councilâ€"did actually serve on the first L. C. 0., until the judges deterâ€" mined that they had no right to be there. If it depended on the County Coun- cil, the battle of the women would be won. Every Council since the body came into existence has peti- tioned Parliament in the interest of .Women members, and Parliament has steadfastly ignored the appeal. Although a. committee has recom- mended the London County Council to petition Parliament to take steps for enabling women to sit on County Councils, and although the Council .will probably adopt the recommenda- tion, it is very unlikely that Parlia- ment will take any notice of the appeal. These are unhappy times for the women’s rights movement _in Landon. STRANGE PATHS THEY CHOOSE IN EFFORT TO GET SUBSISTENCE. WORK OF THE WOMEN From y to Put. Thom-101m u Huck Isn'- Bqnnl In Label-ions to [Vol] 3: mental Workâ€"London County Council'- Fault Ellen-t to Interact Puugmontâ€"Iomo Truthful Figural Concerning Ironi- nont Workers. Truthful Figures. Cadet to Admiral. Wcman’l Choice. w "‘ 'bw‘ Q but mapectlul. stands: watching with curious than a 8810 man, for in his strength 1 lies the weakness that renders him ,less safe than sure. He is an auto- crat. His best lovers must allow that. He is amenable to argument, but not in essentials. He is an architect of Empire, who will, on ad- vice, after the front elevation of his edifice, but Whom the very cods would not persuade to deviate from the ground plan he has decided up- on. Personally a. man of charming manners, suggesting the aristocratic public servant or the dilettante lit- terateur rather than the statesman, the High Commissioner, while accos- sible to anybody who has reasonable excuse for interviewing him, is at the same time unapproachable to those with whom his convictions? clash. Public opinion is a "fickle boas- tie," and such is Lord Milner's posiâ€" ,tion that I can see no way by which he can regain the confidence of erst- 1 while supporters without forfeiting the trust reposed in him by an influ- ential minorityâ€"and unfortunatelv in the country it is the moneyed minor- ity that counts. If in the years to come, when I am a dithering;r old man, I am asked by my great-grand- children who was the most honorable public man I have ever met I shall, I am sure, answer without hesitation, “Lord Milner, some time High Com- missioner of South Africa." Tho Strong Man. I do not think I haVe ever met a man whose absolute integrity, whose fine logical mind and noble principles have appealed to me as do Lord Mil- ‘ ner’a. He is a. strong man rather ‘ The fact that a. great man's prev- ious good Works must go for noth- ing; that the wearing labors which rescued South Africa. for the Empire should be lost sight of in a bitter controversy which has its origin in the question of Asiatic immigration; that popularity gained bv firmness in advocating “pro" should be ex- tinguished by an equally firm advo- cacy of “con," all this is Very piti- ableâ€"and very natural. Now Lord Milner is regarded by a section of the Colonistsâ€"and a sec- sion largely composed of your Rule- Britannia-Uitlander-Colonists .0! pre- war daysâ€"in very much the same manner as Mr. Chamberlain is re- garded by the ultra-Tory set at St. Stephen's. They were with himâ€"up to a certain point. Up to that point their interests coincided. They had one cause and a common shibboleth -â€"if anything 'they shouted loudest. But that point has been reached and passed. Lord Milner’s gallant com-1 pany of encouraging loyalists recover- ing from their delirium recognizedâ€" as they might have done beforeâ€" that their officers, the men who had shouted loudest with them, who had led the cheering, and who had told them through recognized media. what r they thought and how, thinking as they did, they should act-these men were men of money. So a large section repudiated their offiCers and stepped aside, confident that the Governor would follow suit. Lord Milner probably finds the same difficulty-confronting him as his sup- porters of other days find. You can- not repudiate the capitalists of to- day who were the reformers of yes- terday any more than you can brand as “autocratic" the qualities you were once pleased to applaud as “unswerving firmness." The malcon- tents note the change of condition and fail to appreciate the absence oi change in men and qualitiesâ€"and of their failure is born a grievance which promises to make Lord Milne:- a most unpopular Governor and in- cidentally a casus belli in the throat- ened revolt of the democracy against the power of the omnipotent capi- talist. I 1 a l 5 1 That Lord Milner has accomplished much; that he has shovm himself in the best sense a keen opportunist; that he has displayed to a. remark- able degree the power to assimilate immediately the conditions which to former Ministers Were merely vague and shadowy, and to grasp at once popular feelingâ€"particularly when that feeling was one of aggression to- ward an ancient enemyâ€"there can be no question. Lord Milner’s position is one which does not seem to bear analytical contemplation. It has become a‘hab- it almost of the loyalists of other days to shrink from any attempt at analysis of Lord Milner's policy. The men who a few years ago shouted themelves hoarse in their praises of the great Pro-ConSul, the men whose support it was that strengthened the High Commissioner’s hand in the troublous times when it needed sup- port mostâ€"these men. representing the great political and financial forces of South Africa, show a natn ural hesitation in bringing forward either argument or influence against the retention of His Excellency any longer in the sphere in which he has worked so much good for the Empire. A Keen Opportunllt. In a few weeks Lord Milner Itarts from Johannesburg on his holiday trip to Europe. The people do not know upon what date, and, strangelv enough, the people do not seem to Lord lunor’o Bond y Trip to Impeâ€" 819 Position Does Not Boar Ag:- alyticsl Contemplttign. SOUTH AF RICA’S AUTOCRAT. lull' J oiianneeburg; Unstirred thankful I _\' in hand Wild Strawberry. Cholera Mmmm. Seasicknou. md :11 kinds of Summer Com- plaint no quickly cured by When Admiral Hawko was a. boy about to go to sea for the first time his father gave him much good ad- vice, ending up with the words. “I hope to live to see you a captain." “A captain!" answered the boy. “If I did not think I should one day be an admiral I would not mote let at all!"â€"-Chatterbox. “There is no standard 0! purity (or these spirits," said the speaker. "I! the adulteration by noxious constitu- ents be important factors in mean- sation of insanity, should not the Legislature onlorce both the maturitv and the purity of all alcoholic drinks?" The survival 0! the weakllngs who would formerly have died in infancy, the fact that we are rapidly becom- ing a nation of tOWn dwellers, un- natural excitemcnt. over-education. late hours, badly selected and badly cooked food, and overcrowding were all responsible causes for the terrible increase in the lunaev returns. The frequent marriages o! neurotic- wlth those inhe1 Lung the taint of insanity was another cause, and the increased tendencv to marrv late in life Was anything but desirable. no abuse of alcohol was another great cause of lunacy. We were now I. spirit drinking race which we were not half a century back. One cause was the fact that fewer eligible aliens setth in the country and intermrried with our people. There was therciore less infusion of fresh blood into the race than was formerly the case. The foreigners who did land on our shores tended to weaken the stock, {or they were mostly town dwellers of poor phyâ€" sique, with constitutions undermined by disease. ”What is the reason at this?" ask- ed Professor H. W. White. in deliv- ering his presidenLial address to the members of the Emma-Psychological Association, at London, England- In 1859 there was one insane per- son to every 536 sane individuals. The average has since risen until now one person in every 299 is mentally amicted. Much o! Latter Canned by Adulunth- of the Former. "There occur in an irregular man- ner,” said Dr. Wallis, “groups of years with frequent thunderstorms and groups with a marked absence of them. As far as I know, this can- not be ascribed to any specific cause. Storms are less frequent ov- er towns than in the country, as the chimneys and steeplw tend to pre- vent electrical explosions." But as to whether there are more or fewer storms than there were a few years ago Dr. Wallis pointed out that the uestion arises: What is u thunderst m? Are one clap of thunder and one flash of lightningu storm? ‘The meteorological method is to measure the rain, as heavy rain is a notable feature of thunder- storms. number of storm says an mush change. The tendency is just the ‘ According to the simple explana- ‘ tion which Dr. Sowerby Wallis, the rainlall eXpert of Cambden Square, gave the reason is this:â€"-The disrup- tive explosion in a thunderstorm is an effort on the part of nature to adjust the distribution of electricity ‘ between earth and sky. But just as a lightning conductor provides an easy passage for the electricity from sky to earth, so every bare wire acts as a conductor and helps dissipate the aerial electricity which would otherwise cause thunder. The influence of the wires in Lon- don Dr. Wallis said, is very percept- ible, so that with the ever extending system of telegraphs, telephones, and other electric works thunderstorms should show a tendency to decrease. TEND TO DIMIN§H STORMS. A Boy'- Ambition. DRINK AND LUNACY. Overland Wing Dual)“. 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