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But it was clear to me that he was sleeping with one eye open, and generally in asuspic-ious and unchristian tv ameofmind, and that it was useless to proceed further on that stalk so we quietly withdrew to study the ground. The results were not satisfactory. There was absolutely no cover about except the ant heap, which was some three hundred yards from the rhinoceros upon his upwind side. I knew that if I tried to stalk him in front I should fail, and BO

I should if I attempted to do go from the further side he or the birds would see me. So I came to a conclusion: I would go to the antheap, which would give him my wind, «id instead of stalking him I wou let him stalk me. Tt was a bold strp, arid one which I would never advise a hunter to take, but somehow I ieit as though Rhiu) and I must play the hand out.

I explained my intentions to the mcu, who both held up their hand in horror. Their fears for my safety were a little mitigated, however, when I told them that I did not expect them to come with me.

Gobo breathed a prayer that I might not meet Fate walking about, and the other one sincerely trusted that ray spirit might look my way when the rhinoceros charged, and then they both departed to a place of safety.

Taking my eight-bore and half a dozen spare cartridges in my pocket, I made a detour, and reaching that ant-heap in safety, lay down. For a moment the wind had dropped, but j^fesently a gentle puff of air passed over me and blew oa toward the rhinoceros. By the way, I wonder what it. is that smell so strong about a man? Is it his body or his breath?

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"Down, you go!" I whispered to the boys, and as I did so the rhinoceros pot up and glared suspiciously around. But he could see nothing indeed, if we had been standing up, I doubt if he would have seen us at that distance. So he merely gave two or three sniffs, and then lay down, his head still down wind, the birds once more settling on his bacl:.

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is working the ducks hold a piece of burning turf before his mouth, and that if he does this they can not smell him, which looks as though it were the breath.. Well, whatever it was about me that attracted his atte^rth^oceros soon smelled tne and within half a minute after the puff of wind had passed he was tip and turning round to get his head up wind. There he stood for a few seconds, and sniffed, and then he began to move, first of all at a trot, then as the scent grew stronger, at a furious gallop. On he came,snorting like a runaway engine, with his tail Htuclc straight up in the air: if he had seen me lie down there, he could not have made a better line. It was rather nervous work, I can tell you, lying there waiting for his onslaught, for tie looked like a mountain of flesh. I determined, however, not to fire till I could plainly see his eye, for I think that rule always gives one the right distance for big game. So rested my rifle on the ant-heap and waited for him, kneeling. At last when he was about forty yards away. I saw that the time had come, and aiming straight for the middle of the ehesrt, I pulled.

Thud went the heavy bullet, and with a tremendous snort over rolled the rhinoceros beneath its shock, just ISre a shot rabbit. But if I thoughl he was done for I was mistaken, for In another second he was up and coming after me as hard as ever.onlj with his head held low. I waited tilt he was within ten yards, in the hope that he would expose his chest, but he would do nothing of the sort. St I just had to fire at his head witl. the left barrel, and take my chance Well, as luck would have it,of courst the animal put his horn in the wa\ of the bullet, which cut clean througl it about three inches above the root and then glanced off into space. Af ter that things got rather serious My gun was empty, and the rhinocer bs was rapidly arriving—so rapidh Judoo'l that I came to the conclusion that I had better make v. ay for him Accordingly I jumped to my feet ant ran to the right as hard as I could go. As 1 did so he arrived full tilt,knockec". my friendly ant-heep flat, and for th second time that day went a mos' magnificent cropper. This gave a few second's start, and ran down wind—my word, I did run. Unfor tunitely, however.my modest retreat was observed, and the rhinoceros, ashe got his legs again, set to work tr run after me. Now no man on eart! can run as fast as an irritated rhin jceros can gallop, and I knew that he* must soon catch me up. But having some slight experience of this sort of thing, I luckily for myself, kept my head, and as I fled I managed to open my rifle, get the old cartridges out. aiid put two fresh ones in. To do this I had to steady my space a little and by the time that had snapped the rifle to I heard him snorting and thundering away within a few spaces of my back. I stopped and as I did

rapidly cocked my rifle,and slewed round upon my heel. By this time the brute was within six or seven yards of me. but luckily his head was up. I lifted the rifle and fired at him. It was a snap shot, but the bullet struct him in feb« within three

inches of the first: and found its way into his luugs. It d^d not stop him, however, so all I could do was to bound to one side, which I did with surprising activity,and as he brushed past me fired the other barrel into his side. That did for him. The ball passed in behind the shoulder and right through his heart. He fell over to his side, gave one most awful squeal—a dozen pigs could not have made such a noise—and promptly died, keeping his wicked eyes wide open all the time.

As for me, I blew my nose, and going up to the rhinoceros, sat on his head, and reflected that I had had a capital morning's shooting.

CHAPTER III.

FIRST ROUND.

After this, as it was now midday, and I had killed enough meat, we marched back triumphantly to camp, where I proceeded to concoct a stew of buffalo beef and co npressed vegetables. When this was done we eat the stew, and then I had a nap. About four o'clock, however, Gobo woke me up. and told me that the head man of one of Wambe's kraals had arrived to see me. I ordered him to be brought up, and presently he came, a little, wizened, talkative old man with a waist-cloth round his middle, and a greasy, frayed kaross made of skins of rock,rabbits over his shoulders.

I to him to sit down, and and then abused him roundly. "What did he mean," I asked, "by disturbing mo in this rude way? How did he dare to cause a person of iny quality and evident importance to be awakened in order to interview his entirely contemptible self?"

I spoke thuse because I knew that it would produce an impression on him. Nobody except a really great man, he would argue, would dare to speak to him in that fashion. Most savages are desperate bullies at heart, and look on insolence as a sign of power.

The old man instantly collapsed. He was utterly overcome, he said his heart was split in two, and well realized the extent of his misbehavior. But the ocasion was very urgent. He heard that a mighty hunter was in the neighborhood, a beautiful white man—how beautiful he could not have imagined had he not seen—(this to me!)—and he came to beg his assistance. The truth was that three bull elephants such as no man ever saw had for years been the terror of their kraal, which was but a small place, a cattle kraal, of the great chief Wambe's, where they lived to keep cattle. And now of late these

I p' aits had done them muih damage, but last night they had destroyed a whole patch of mealie land, and he feared that if he came back they would all starve next season for want of food. Would the mighty white man then be pleased to come and kill the elephants? It would be easy for him to do—oh, most easy! It was only necessary that he should hide himself in a tree, for there was a full moon, and then when the eleohants appeared he would speak to them with the gun, and they would tall down dead, and there would be an end of their troubling.

Of course I hummed and hawed and made a great favor of consenting to this proposal, though really I was deLighted to have such a chance. One

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that a messenger should at once be lis at ?hed to Wambe, whose kraal was two days' journey from where I was, telling him that proposed to come and pay my respects to him in a few days, and to vsk his formal permission to shoot in lis country- Also I intimated that I vas prepared to present him with "hongo, that is, black-mail, and that I hoped to do a little trade with him in ivory, of .vhich I heard he had a great juantitv. This message the old gentleman promised to dispatch at once, though there was something about is manner which showed me that he .vas doubtful as to how it would be received. After that we struck our •amp, and moved on to the kraal, hich we reached about an hour beore sunset. This kraal was acollee,ion of huts surrounded by a slight horn fence perhaps there were ten )f them in all. It was situated in a kloof of the mountain, with a rivulet lowing down it. The kloof was lensely wooded, but for some distince above the kraal it was free from bush, and here on the rich deep ground brought down by the rivulet .vere the cultivated lands, in extent somewhere about twenty or twentyive acres. On the kraal side of these lands stood a single hut, which served for mealie stores, which at the moment was used as a dwelling-place by an old woman, the first wife of our friend the headman.

It appears that this old lady, having had some difference of opinion with her husband about the extent of authority allowed to a younger and more amiable wife, had refused to dwell in the kraal any more, and by way of marking her displeasure had taken up her abode among the mealies. As the issue will show, she was, as it happened, cutting off her nose to spite her face.

Close by this hut grew a large banyan tree. A glance at the mealie grounds showed me that the old headman had not exaggerated the mischief done by the elephants to his crops, which wert now getting ripe. Nearly

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half the entire patch was destroyed. The great brutes had eaten all ,they could, and the rest they had trampled down. I went up to their spoor and started back in amazement. Never had I seen such spoor before. It was simply enormous, more especially that of one old bull, that had, so said the natives, but a single tusk. One might have used any of the foot-prints for hip-bath.

Having taken stock of the position, my next step was to make arrangements for the fray. The three bulls, according to the bulls, had been spoored into the dense patch of bush above the kloof. Now it seemed to me very probable that they would return to-night to feed on the remainder of the ripening mealies. If so. there was a bright moon, and it stru: me that by the exercise of a little ingenuity I might bag one or more of hem without exposing myself to any risk, which, having the highest respect for the aggressive power of bull elephants, was a great consideration to me. This, then, was my plan: To the right of the huts as you look up the kloof, and commanding the mealie lands, stands the banyan tree that I have mentioned. Into that banyan tree I made up mind to go. Then, if the elephants appeared, I should get a shot at them. I announced my intentions to the head man of the kraal, who was delighted. "Now," he said," "his people might sleep in peace, for while the mighty white hunter sat aloft like a spirit watching over the welfare of his kraal, what was there to fear?".

I told him that he was an ungrateful brute to think of sleeping in peace while I, perched like a wounded vulture on a tree, watched for his welfare in wakeful sorrow, and once more he collapsed, and owned that my words were "sharp but just."

However, as I have said, confidence was completely restored, and that evening everybody in the kraal, including the superanuated victim of jealousy in the little hut where the mealie cobs were stored, went to bed with a sense of sweet security from elephants and all other animals that prowl by night.

For my part, I pitched my camp below the krall and then, having procured a beam of wood from the headman—rather a rotten one, by the way —I set it across two boughs that ran out laterally from the banyan tree at a height of about twenty-five feet from the ground, in such fashion that I and another man could sit upon it with our logs hanging down, and rest our backs against the bole of the tree. This done, went back to the camp and had my supper. About nine o'clock, half an hour before the moon rise, I summoned Gobo—who, thinking that he had had about enough of the delights of big game hunting for that day, did not altogether relish the job—and despite his remonstrances, gave him my eight--bore to carry, I having the .570 express, and set out for the tree. It was very dark, but we found it without difficulty, though climbing it was a more complicated matter. However, at last we got up, and sat down like two little boys on a form that is too higa for them, and waited. I did not dare to smoke, because I remembered the rhinoceros, and feared that the elephants might wind the tobacco if they should come my way, and this made the business more wearisome. So I fell to thinking, and wondering at the vastness of the silence. 1

At last the moon came up, and with it a moaning wind,at the breath of which the silence began to whisper mysteriously. Lovely enough,in the new-born light, looked the wide expanse of mountain, plain and forest, more like some twilight vision of a dream, some faint reflections from a fair world of peace beyond our ken, than the mere face of garish eartn made silvery soft with sleep. Indeed, had it not been for the fact that I was beginning to find the lo«* on which I sat very hard, I should nave grown quite sentimental over the beautiful sight. But I will defy anybody to become sentimental when seated in the pamp on a very rou»h beam of wood half-way up a tree. So I merely made a mental note that it was a particularly lovely night, and turned my attention to the prospect of elephants But no elephants came, and after waiting for another hour or so, 1 think that what with weariness and disgust I must have dropped into a gentle doze. Presently I awoke with a start. Gobo, who was perched close to me, but as far off as the beam would allow—for neither white man nor black lil:e3 the aroma which each vows is the peculiar and disagreeable property of the other—was faintly, very faintly, clicking his toretinger against his thumb. I knew by this signal—a very favorite one among native hunters and gun-bearers—that he must have seen or heard something. I looked at his face, and saw that he was

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edge of the bush beyond the deep green line of mealies. I stared too, and listened. Presently I heard a soft, large sound, as though a giant were gently stretching out his hands and pressing back the ears of standing corn. Then came a pause, and then out into the open majestically stalked the largest elephant I ever saw or evor shall see. Heavens! what a monster he was? and how the moonlight gleamed upon his, one splendid tusk—for the other was missing—as he stood among the mealies, gently moving his enormous ears to and fro, and testing the wind with his trunk! While I was still marveling at his girth, and speculating upon the weight of that huge tusk, which I swore should be my tusk before very long, out stepped a second bull and stood beside hiin. He was not quite so tall, but

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seemed to me tvo be almost thiekei set than the first, but even in thai light I could see that both bis tusks were perfect. Another pause, and the third emerged. He was shorter than either of the others, but higher in the shoulder than No. Two, and when I tell you that, as I afterward learned from actual measurement, the smallest of these three mighty bulls measured twelve feet one and a half inches at the shoulder, it will give you some idea of their size. The three formed into line, and stood still for a minute,the one-tusk bull gently caressing the elephant on the left with his trunk.

Then they began to feed, walking forward and slightly to the right as they gathered great bunches of the sweet mealies and thrust them into their mouths. All this time they were more than a hundred and twenty yards away from me (this I knew because I had paced the distances irom the tree to various points)—much too far to allow of my attempting a shot at them in that uncertain light. .They fed in a semicircle, gradually drawing round the hut, near my tree, in which the corn was stored and the old woman slept.

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The Ijaw of Conjugal Attraction. Review of Reviews. Herman Fol, one of the most eminent of living embryologists, while staying at Nice—the Mecca of honeymooning—had his attention attracted to the resemblances between young married couples. The popular notion that married people "end by resembling each other' was shared by Fol, but his trained vision detected among crowds of young married couples characteristics that led him to suppose contrary proposition to be nearer the truth—they begin by resembling each other. To put the matter to scientific test he engaged in a series of observations and researches on the photographs of young and old married couples, the results of which he publishes in the Revue Scientifique. The following table gives his statistical conclusions:

Resemblances, Non-resemblances.

Couples. Porcent.^ Percent, 'iota!. Young 132 about 66.6? 66 about S3.8S 1U8 Old 39 about 71.70 15 about 28.30 63

The vividly large percentage of physical similiarities between young married couples is emphasized by the calculation that in marriages male at random—by chan. e—the number of resemblances would not amount to more than two in a hundred. Among the non-resemblances were included some very curious cases, where man and wife, "though quite dissimilar in every other respect, yet exhibited in common "certain traits com tituting an ugliness more or less ridL ous. Fol infers from this an argument in favor of the idea that candidates do not fear the particular form of ugli ness to which their ugliness accustoms them.

After warning against hasty generalization from results so compara tively meager, Fol invites other scientists to follow up the subject and verify or modify the following tentative conclusions he draws. 1. In the immense majority of marriages of "inclination," the contracting parties are attracted by similarities and not by dissimilarities. 2. The resemblances between old married couples is not a fact acquired by conjugal life.

Uses of Hot W ater.

Hot water is one of the best amon" simple remedies, says The Ladies Home Journal. For instance, headache almost always yields to the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and back of the neck.

A towel folded several times, and dipoed in hot water, and quickly wrung out and applied over the toothache or neuralgia, will generally afford prompt relief.

A strip of flannel, or napkin folded lengthwise, and dipped in hot water and wrung out, and then applied round the neek of a child that has the croup, will sometimes bring relief in ten minutes.

Hot water taken freely half an hour before bed time, is helpful in the case of constipation and has a most soothing effect upon the stomach.

A goblet of hot water taken just after rising, before breakfast, has cured thousands of indigestion, and no simple remedy is more wi olv recommended by physicians to dyspeptics.

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Washington Post.

He didn't seem familiar with the place, and without taking into consideration the symptoms of spirits about him, he was evidently a stran ger to the District of Columbia. There were several young men in looking for what they called fun. They directed one remark after an other at the victim of conviviality, and finally one of them said. "111 bet a dollar he doesn't know what State he's in." "So will I," said another "here it is, I'll put it up," and he held a coin between his fingers. "I take the One) bet," was the response. "Gen'men, I'm (hie) in a state of in—intossication, an' I lcaow it. Gimme zher dollar." And it had to be given up to avoid trouble, for the winner of the bet stuck to his rights.

Beeuher and the Crow.

Henry Ward Bwecher on"e confessed that he had a warn si for the crow, because he so closely resembled man. "He is lazy. an that is human he is cunning, and at is human. He thinks his own o'or best and loves to hear his own ciee. which are eminent traits of 1» 1 anitv. He will never work whier eeun gt another to work for hiinV-u uine auuun trait.

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CURRENT COMMENT.

POINTS FOR PROTECTIONISTS.

foreign 3Karkets, and How They Are Affected by flie Melvinley Kill.

It was, however, after the passage of the McKinley bill that the real animus of the English free-traders was manifested, and in commenting upon the English criticisms President Harrison said:

"The criticisms of the bill that have come to us from foreign sources may well be rejected for repugnancy. If these critics really believe that the adoption by uj of a free-trade policy or of tariff rates having reference solely to revenue would diminish the participation of their own countries the commerce of the world, their advocacy and proniotiou by speech and other forms of organized effort of this movement among our people is a rare exhibition of unselfishness in trade. And on the other hand, if they sincerely believe that the adoption of a protective tariff policy by this country inures to their profit and our hurt, it is noticeably strange that they should lead the outcry against the authors of a policy so helpful to their countrymen, and crown with their favor those who would snatch from them a substantial share of a trade with other lands already inadequate to their necessities !''—Pres id ant's Mess age.

Now, as to foreign markets! The difficulties encountered in seeking admission to foreign markets is not entirely a question of the amount of protective tariff imposed in the countries where the products are manufactured, as it is the amount of protection imposed upon foreign-made goods by the country into which admiss on is sought for the sale of those goods. Every civilized country in the world, excepting England, has enacted protective tariffs for the protection of their own labor or producers. and the effects of those tariffs upon JSngland is set forth by the highest authority in England. Lord Salisbury, her Prime Minister, said at Manchester, the birthplace of English free trade, April 16, 1884: 'You know the industry of this town is being cramped and fettered and confused by the growing wall of hostle tariffs, which shuts you out from most of the civilized markets of the world. [Here, hear, and cheers.]

I fear that most of the advantages which we might have offered to the other nations of the world in return for more favorable tariffs have been thrown away by the want of foresight of former legislatures.

At all events, you must consider this: That if you are being shut out by tariffs from the civilized markets of the world the uncivilized markets are becoming more and more precious to you." Three months later the Prime Minister said to an immense gathering of laborers to whom he pictured the depressed condition of English industries and the inability of the working classes to gain a livelihood: ".Look around. Where will you find men who count upon a secure and certain future. [Cheers.] Everywhere you will hear of industry languishing, of commerce unable to find profitable employment of the hearts of men of business failing them for fear of banks refusing to take money on deposit because they do not know where to invest it—every sign of the presence over the community of a great apprehension of a disappearance of that security [cheers] which made property in England seem as solid as tne rocks upon which England herself is founded. [Cheers.] That time has passed away men are not employe I as they formerly were capitalsta do not gain profit the working ciasses are ceasing in many places to gain a livelihood." [A voice—"They are starving."]

Lord Salisbury told the working men in the Town Hall in Birmingham: "Free trade does not gain ground among the nations .of the world on the contrary, it is what a gentleman behind me calls no trade.

At all events, the matter is

one that requires grave and careful investigation to see whether no remedy, by diplomacy or otherwise, can be applied to a state of things which is acting with fatal effect upon the comerce of this country. "It i3 a matter which seriously concerns the life of trade. It seriously concerns, therefore,the emoloyment and wages of the working classes." On another occasion the Prime Minister of England said of free trade in England: "The. result has been great miseiy and ruin."

Mr. Med.ll, of the Tribune, knows these facts the advocacy of free trade by that paper can only be accounted for upon one hypothesis, that expressed by the Cobden Club member at the National Agricultural Associat.on: "Joseph can't help hissel': we've got him under our thumbs." The aim of the Chicago Tribune i? the destruction of the Republican party, Everv clipping that can be be made from free trade and mugwump papers for that purpose is published in the Chicago Tribune with zest and often eulogistic comments. As thelnterocean said somo time ago: The Chicago Tribune is ri. democratic spy in the Republican ca ir. linow of no more pertinent enquiry ever ma.^e in Congress than that of the Hon. Seth L. Mdliken, of Maine, in the House of Representatives, April 40, 1884. "Who is demanding a modification of the tariff iu the direction of free trade? Is it the mechanic, the manufacturer, the miner, the farmer? No. Where are the petitions asking this, legislation? Do they appear before this House from any great industry ir this country? No. Who ia pushing this measure? TheCob-

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den Club, the theorists in our col* 1 leges and those. Democrats who inherit the doctrines which were an-nounr-ed in the days when slavery, which despised American labor and free American workmgmeii. uesjrec through "free trade" to obtain chea£ food and clothing for the slaves.

Does any one know of any workingman who belongs to the Cobden Club? Does he know of any practical American farmer or mechanic oi manufacture: who has not a largei British than American interest that is a member of that club? How does it happen that that British institution is aking so much interest in oui affairs and is reaching its fingerj over here so eagerly and industrious ly to manipulate our politics? Whj is it distributing its 'free trade anc tariff reform' tracts all o*'er otu country? Why is every member Congress deluged with them? Is i' a disinterested spirit of beiieficenct which causes it to take so great paim and provide the great amount money which all this costs?"

T. P., Elmwood, 111.: Your request is best answered by quoting substantially what Sir Walter Scott puts in the "mouth of the fish-woman, who, knowing the dangers and hardships her husband and sons faced to procure the fish, when told it was not "cheap enough," said: "It's no FISH YOU'RE BUYING, IT'S MEN'S LIVES.' Cheapness resulting from cheap labor is an unmitigated curse cheapness of products through the healthy competition of well-paid labor, through tariff, as in this country, is a blessing: It was the cheapness of poorlypaid lab )r that the Mills bill and its author sought to inaugurate here, as expressed by Mr. Mills in his speech at East St. Louis: "If Grover Cleveland is re-elected President of the United States, as he will be if another Democratic House of Representatives is chosen, and it we can get our Republican friends out of the other end of the Capitol and get Democrats in the pluce oi them, we will pass a tariff bill that puts raw materials all on the free list, and then we will put our own intelligent and skilful and productive labor in this country upon a plane of equality with the laborers of all countries."

That the aim of Mr. Mills and his friend Cleveland was to reduce the pay of the American laborer, and to bring him down "upon a plane of equality with the laborers of all other countries," admits of no doubt. Both knew that our protective tariff ensured to our laboring classes gher wages than were paid in any other country. Mills blurted it out at East St. Louis. Cleveland was cunning enough to evade it. That Mr. Mills knew how well paid our laborers were is proved by his speech to his constituents at Coricana, Texas, May 21, 1887, when he said: "We produce and exchange among ourselves, and consume in the satisfaction of our wants, more of the products of our own labor than the 200,000,000 on the continent of Europe. We have invented, and have now in operation, more labor-saving machinery than all other people. We are turning out over six thousand millions of dollars' worth of products of manufactures every year, and producing them at lower cost of production, and at the same time paying higher wages to our workmen than any other people." "Buckeye," Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Hurd claimed to the farmers that a reduction of the tariff on wool would raise the price of wool and to the manufacturers of woolens that the reduction of the wool tariff would give them cheapsr raw material. He however never explained the contradiction.

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PRATHERS'S PLAN*

State Lecturer Prather, of the Kansas Alliance, has issued aa address setting forth a plan of organization and campaign in which he lavs great stress on the importance of" co operation. "We,'* he saya, "have been working upon the competitive plan until we are nearly a nation of wealth-producing paupers. Others have been working upon the co-operative plan and are wealthy. Show the difference to our people. We are the masters of the situation, not only politically, but from a business standpoint, both in buying and selling, if 'we only learn the great lesson of co-operation."

State Lecturer Prather evidently has very vague ideas in regard to cooperative labor, and knows just enough of the subject to lead him into error. His statement that "vve hav6 been working upon the competitive plan until we are nearly a uation of wealth-producing paupers" is a sururifting contrast to the repeated admissions t»t' intelligent foreigners thai we are the best housed, the best clothed, the best fed and the most generally educated people in the world. It is amazing how at^ selfrespecting American can talk about our being "a nation ef wealth producing paupers'" in view of the overwhelming evidence that wealth is more generally distributed in this country than any other, and that the American possess and enjoy the comforts of life in a larger decree and wider diffusion than any other people on the fuce of the earth. Who* ever says otherwise cither does not know what he is talking about oi willfully misrepresents the lacts.

The amphibious woman is looking tJii» way ugu'n. Miss Agues Hack Willi, tin female champion swuutner of i3ugluail, if Dtvpuring to make another visit to Aweric* tit ring I he sttriu?. Sho is determined this time to accomplish the feat of •wriraaiiug torn btiadv Hook to iiodMWMjr feMeb-

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