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I TPb7 e Bondman By HALL CAINE. CHAPTER I. (Continued.) When he was gone Gieeba went down to the tents at the mouth of the mines, and asked for the Captain. A Danish gentleman who did not ; know her, and whom she did not know, answered to that title, and then she said that hearing that a hospital being built she had come out from Reykjavik to offer herself aa a nurse if a nurse wag wanted. "A nurse Is wanted," said the Cap tain, "and though we had no thought of a woman you have come in the nick of time." So Greeba, under some assumed name, unknown to the contingent of Danish officers fresh from Denmark, who had that day taken tiie places of the Icelandic warders, and recogniz able In her true character by two men only in Krisuvik Michael Sunlocks end Red Jason, If ever they should see ler, took up her employment as hos pital nurse to the sick prisoners of the Sulphur Mines. But having attained her end, or the first part of It, ber heart waB torn by many conflicting feelings. Would she meet with her husband? Would he come to be in her own charge? Oh, God forbid that it should ever come to pass. Yet God grant It, too, for that might help him to a swifter re lease than ber dear old father could compass. Would she see Red Jason? Would Michael Sunlocks ever see him? Oh! God forbid that alsi. And yet, and yet, God grant it, after all. Such were hopes and fears, when the hospital shed was finished, and she took her place within it. And now let us see how heaven fulfilled them. f CHAPTER H. THE SULPHUR MINES. Red Jason and Michael Sunlocks were together at last within tho nar row stockade of a penal settlement. These two, who had followed each other from land to land, the one on his errand of venegancc, the other on Ms mission of mercy, both now nour ishing hatred and lust of blood, were thrown as prisoners into the Sulphur Mines at Krisuvik. There they met, they spoke, they lived and worked sido by side, yet neither knew tho other for the man he had sought so long and never found, l'his is the ptranee and wondrous chance that has now to be recorded, and only to think of it whether an accident or God's ordinance, makes blood to tin gle in every vein. Poor and petty are the passions of man, and God's hand Is over all. The only work of Michael Sunlocks which Jorgen Jorgensen did not un do In the swift reprisals which fol lowed on the restoration of bis power was the use of tho Sulphur Mines as a convict settlement. All he did was to substitute Danish for Icelandic guards, but this change was the be ginning and end of tho great event that followed. Tho Icelandic guards knew Red Jason, and if Michael Sun locks had been sent out to them they would have known him also, and thus ihe two men must havo soon known each other. But the Danish warders knew nothing of Jason, and when they brought out Michael Sunlocks they sent the Icelundlc guards home. Thus Jason never heard that Michael Sunlocks was at Sulphur Mines, and though In a whirl of many vague Im pressions, the distant hum of a world far off, there floated Into his mind the news of the fall of the republic he could never suspect, and there was no one to tell him, that the man whom tie had pursued and never yet seen, the man he hated and sought to slay, was a convict like hlrasMf, working dally and hourly within sight and bound of him, Michael Sunlocks, on his part, knew well that Red Jason had been sent to the Sulphur Mines; but he also knew that he had signed Jason's pardon and ordered his release. More than this, he had learned that Jorgen Jor gensen had liberated all who had been condemned by the republic, and so he concluded that Jason had become a free man when he himself became n Trlsoner. But there had been a delay in the dispatch of Jason's pardon, nd when the republic had fallen and ih Danish officers bad taken the j lace of the Icelanders, the captain of the mines had released ine ponucm prisoners only, and Jason, as a felon, had been retained. The other prison ers at the mines, some fifty In all, knew neither Michael Sunlocks nor Red Jason. They wero old criminals mm remote districts, sentenced to the Jail at Reykjavik, during tho first rule of Jorgen Jorgcnsen, tnd sent out to KrUuvIk In the early days of the renuhllc. Thus it chanced from the first that ihoueh together within a narrow cpace of ground Jason and Sunlocks wero cut from all knowledge of each ether such as might have been gleaned from those about them. And tne ais flpllne of the settlement kept them liack from that knowledge by keeping them for many months apart. The two bouses used as workshops and sleeping places were at opposite fides of the stockade, one at tne norm ih other at the south; oi.e overlook in n hroad waste of sea, the other ut the martin of a dark lake of jrloomy shore, lied Jason was assign ed to the house near the sea, Michael Sunlocks to the house by tne lane These houses were built of squared Ion with earthen floors, anil wooden benches for beds. The prisoners en ured them at eight o'clock in the evening, and left them at five In the " morning, their hours of labor In the cummer being from five a. m. to eight ti. m. They brought two tin cans, one tin containing their food, their econd meal of tho day, a pound of kloek fish, and four ounces of bread; the other tin Intended for their refuse of slops and victuals and dirt of other kinds. Each house contained some twenti-flve men and boys, and so peo- 'jled and used, they bad quickly be come grimy and pestilential, the walls blu'ehed with verailn stains, the floorr CoitiMrt Story. encrusted with hard trodden filth that was wet and slippery to the feet, and the atmosphere damp and foul to the nostrils from the sickening odors of decayed food. It had been a regulation from the beginning . that the latest comer at each of these houses should serve three months as housekeeper, with the duty of cleansing the horrible place every morning after bis house mates had left It for thelrwork. Dur ing this time be wore the colar of iron and the bell over his forehead, for It was bis period of probation and of special degradation. Thus Red Jason served as housekeeper in the house by the sea, while Michael Sun locks did the same duty ia the house by the lake. Jason went through his work listlessly, slowly, hopelessly, but without a murmur. Michael Sunlocks rebelled against Its horrible necessi t!es, for every morning his gorge rose at the exhalations of five and twenty unwashed human bodies, and the In supportable odor that came' of their filthy habits. This state state of things went on for some two months, during which the two men had never m:t, and then an accident led to a change- in the condition of both. The sulphur dug up from the banks of the hot springs was packed in sacks and strapped upon ponies, one sack at each side of a pony and one on its back, to be taken to Hafnafiord, the nearest point for shipment to Den mark. Now the sulphur was heavy, the sacks were large, the ponies small, and the road down from the solfataras to the valley was rough with soft clay and great basaltic boulders. And one day as a line of the ponies so burdened came down the breast of the moun tain, driven on by a carrier who lash ed them at every step with his long whip of leather thonga.one little pie bald mare, hardly bigger than a don key, stumbled Into a deep lut and fell. At that the Inhuman fell behind it flogged it again, and showered curses on It at every blow. "Get up, get up, or I'll skin you alive," he cried, with many a hideous oath beside. And at every fresh blow the little piebald struggled to rise, but he could not, while its terrified eycbulls stood out from the sockets and its wide nos trtln quivered. "Get up, you little lazy devil, get up," cried the brute with mo wnip, and still his blows fell liko raindrops, first on the mare's flanks, then on Its upturned belly, then on 'ts head, Its mouth, and last ot all on its eyes. But the poor creatures load held it down, and, struggle as it would, it could not rise. The gang ot prisoners on the hillside who bad Just before burdened the ponies and sent them off, heard this lushing and swearing, and etopped their work to look down. But they thought more of the carrier than of the fallen pony, and laughed aloud at his vain efforts to bring It to Us feet. Send him a hand tip, Jonas, shout ed ono of tho fellows. "Pick him up in your arms, old boy," shouted another, and at every ullly sal ly they all roared together. The leering incensed the carrier, and ho brought down his whip tho fiercer and quicker at every fresh blow until the whizzing of tho lash sang In the air, and the hills echojd with the thuds on tho pony's body. Then the little creaturj made one final, fran tic effort, and plunging with its ut most strength It uad half risen to its forelegs when one of tho sacks slid from its place and got under Its hind Itgs, whereupon the canvas gave way, the sulphur fell out, and the poor lit tle brute slipped afresh and fell again, flat, full length, and with awful force and weight, dashing its neaa against a stone. At Bight of this mis adventure tho prisoners above laugh ed once more, and tho carrier leaped from his own saddle and kicked the fallen piebald In tho mouth. Now this had occurred within the spaco or a stones tnrow irom me house which Red Jason lived in ana e'eaned. and hearing tho commotion as he worked within ho had come out to learn the cause of It. Seeing ev erything In ono quick glance, ho push ed along as fast as he could for the leg-fettera that bound him, and came upon the carrier as he was stamping the life out of the pony with kicks on its palpitating sides. At the next moment he had laid tho fellow on his back, and then, stepping up to the piebald, he put his arms about It to lift it to Its feet. Meanwhile the prisoners above had stopped their laughing, and were looking on with eyes of wonder at ". Jason's mighty strength. "God! Is It possible he is trying to lift, a horse to Its feet?" cried one. "What? And three sacks of sul phur as well?" cried another. "Never," cried a third; and all held tbclr breath. Jason did not stop to remove the sacks. He wound his great arms first under the little beast's neck, and raised it to its forefeet, and then squaring his broad flanks above his legs that held the ground like the hoofs of an ox, he made one silent, slow, tremendous upward movement, and In an Instant the piebold was on Its feet, affrighted, trembling, with startled eyeballs and panting nostrils, but secure and safe, and with Its load squared and righted on Its back. "Lord bless us!" cried tho convicts, "the man has tho strength f Sam son." And at that moment ore of the warders came hurrying up to th place. "What's this;' said the warder, looking at the carrier on the ground, who was groaning In some little Mood that was flowing from the back of his head. At that qnentlon the carrier only moaned the louder, thinking to ex clto the more commiseration, and Ja son said not a word. But the prison ers on the hillside very eagerly shout ed an explanation; whereupon the carrier, a prisoner who bad been In dulged, straightway lost bis prlrOfms aa punishment for his lit use of the property of the government; and Ja snn, as a man whose great muscles were thrown away on the paltry work of prison cleaning, was bet to delv ing sulphur on the banks of the hot Fprlnjs. Now this change for the better to the condlton of Red Jason led to a change for the worse in that of Mi chael Sunlocks, for when Jason was relieved of his housekeeping and of the iron collar and bell that bad been the badge of it, Sunlocks, as a malcontent, was ordered to clean Jason's house a I well as his own. But so bad a change led to the great event in the lives of both, the meeting of these men face lo face, and the way of it was this: One day, the winter being then fully come, the mornings dark, and some new fallen snow lying deep over the warm ground of the stockade, Michael Sunlocks had been set to clearing away from the front of the log house on the south before Jajon and his housemates had come out of it. His bodily strength had failed him greatly by this time, his face was pale, his large eyes were swollen and blood shot, and under the heavy labor of that day his tall, slight figure stoop ed. But a warder stood over him leaning on a musket and urging him on with words that wero harder to him than his hard work. His bell rang as be stooped, and rang again as he rose, and at every thrust of the spade It rang, so that when Jason and his gang came out of the sicken ing house, be heard It. And hearing the bell, be remembered that he him self had worn it, and, wondering who had succeeded in the vile office where of he had been relieved, ho turned to look upon the man who sas clearing the snow. (To be continued.) GERMANY'S NEW OIL ENGINE. It Operate Without the Ce of Boiler Furnace or Chimney. Great things are expected of the Diesel engine, the latest thing in Ger man engineering, the first working of which in England a London Express representative was permitted to see at Guldebrldge, near Manchester, recent ly. Economy In fuel and space is the chief merit of the Diesel, commending it to makers of automobiles and small marine craft as an engine with a fu ture. Its claim to originality lies In the fact that It works with crude oil, without smell or dirt, perfectly con suming all the products of the combus tion. Unlike other oil engines, it re quires no Ignition point. Compressed air from cylinders starts the Diesel. Oil and air are then admitted to the cylinder, when the compression of the air by the return stroke so raises the temperature that the oil flashes and the forward stroke Is delivered. The ex haust Is perfectly clean and free from Diesel Is that no boilers, furnaces or chimneys are required. Great economy of space and fuel Is effected, as It can be used with any kind of liquid fuel or furnaca gas the waste product of blast furnaces. Hopes are entertained that ihe Diesel will be used on a very large scale, those who are Introducing it to England claiming for it the abil ity to run a vessel as large as the Oceanic. Already an order has been placed by the French government for an engine of this type, to be used In a submarine boat. If the Diesel frees the streets from the smell of the motor car and yacht decks and ladies' dresses from the cinders of a steamer funnel, the German inventor will have a claim on the gratitude of mankind. If, as goems likely, It will encourage the es tablishment of small plants in rural dtcstricts, where gas is not obtainable and coal Is dear. It may do much more than this for Industrial England. A MARRIED MEN'S LEAGUE. Aa Orgaaltatloa ot Benedict I Found ed la Colorado. The first exclusively married men's organization ever founded In Colorado filed articles of Incorporation with tho secretary of state today, says the Den ver Post. It Is known as the Supreme Order Married Men's league of Amer ica, and none but benedicts In good standing are allowed to Join. Widow era, both grass and sod, are bnrred, and a man who has never enjoyed con nublal bliss could not get in evsn If he had powerful Influences and aTl the money In the world back of him. Tho married men's leaguo originated m St Louis, and was Incorporated firs'; un der the laws of Missouri, where It is said to have a membership of many thousands. In Colorado it hopes to secure a large membership also. Tho objects of the order, as stated in tho papers, are to unite fraternally married white men under the age of 55 and ol good moral character and reprttablj occupation, to encourage their social and mental culture, and to render ma terlal aid to members and thoe de pending upon them for support. . By Its good work among the married men the order expects to encourage matri mony among their single brethren. The order has also an Insurance banch, which grants $4,000 to a wife upon the death of her husband. J. W. Boul ware. U. G. Osborne and Thomas G. Moore are the Incorporators of the or der. They are all Mlssourlans. Mineral In the I.nl of Orange. Florida Is rich In minerals. In ad dltlon to phosphate, of which the world already knows, she has Immense d posits of clays of every kind kaolin, ochres fire and aluminum clays, gyp sum nd Fuller's earth of great extent i and finest quality. Sho has stone ex ccllent for building purposes and a soft magueslan limestone that produces cement In every respect equal to the best Imported. Iron of high grade and value Is known to exist In several lo calltles; so also ore Indications of petroleum, nntur.il gas and soft roal and asphalt to he found In several por tlons of the state; and yet with one or two caption the fl-M. containing these ore. are undeveloped.-, 1 Shu, Dr. Y, Garnault has lately read a pa per before the acadeniie des Sciences dealing with the therapeutic action of light, and mentioning a number of cases in which he has used this treat ment with success. , In 1893 he observed that a workman afflicted with rheumatism was com pletely cured after, having remained for 48 hours in the vicinity of a very in tense arc light used for an electric fountain. Since (hen it has been observed that in works where electric soldering is carried on, this being accompanied by great luminous Intensity, the work men cease to be affected with gout or rheumatism. In the present experiments Dr. Gar nault uses apparatus which has been specially constructed for the purpose by M. Trouve. The experiments were confined to the effects of local action of light, and there seems to be no doubt that the results are due to the light radiations and not to other causes. A lamp of 50-candle power provided with a slivered parabolic reflector was applied In eight cases of muscular or articular rheumatism of average grav ity and several years' standing.and in all these cases a very marked improve ment was obtained at the end of three to twelve operations, and not fol lowed by a relapse. Chronic catarrh of the nose may be also treated with success by the ap plication of light accompanied by vi bratory massage. The treatment was also applied in cases of deafness, accompanied or not by humming noises in the ear; the ap paratus used consisted of two 10-volt lamps provided with reflectors and ap plied to each ear by a curved spring passing around the head; In some cases the action of heat was eliminated by placing alum screens in front of the lamps. In three such cases a marked dimin ution of the humming noises and an improvement of the hearing; other cases without the use of the alum screen were also successful. The most complete observation was made upon a person 30 years of age who. had undergone, the year before, an operation in which the tympanum and small bones of one ear had been removed; on the operated side the In tensity of the humming noises had been greatly reduced, but on the other they were very marked; these were made to disappear by a series ol appli cations of light. They reappeared after a severe coici contracted by the patient, but were again made to disappear by a second treatment. In twelve cases of deafness the ap plication of light brought about good results. Dr. Garnault has also used the treatment in other cases, and 13 convinced that the luminous rays may be used in certain affections as a local agent to great advantage, and that the results obtained are certainly due to Its specific action Scientific Ameri can. " ' COAL TAB FIIOUICT8. That a coal-tar product should find a demand among pharmacists, farmers, as well as in surgery and dyeing, is remarkable, but such is the case with naphthaline, one of the latest manu factures from coal tar. A German chemist has discovered that one of the most striking characteristics of naph thaline Is the fact that it is not Inju rious to man and the higher animals, whether breathed as gas or used in tubstance externally or internally, while It has a very different action on the lower organisms, both animal and vegetable, such as fungi, Insects, etc., for they are not able to endure the ac tion of the gua for any length of time. These, however, are the very proper ties that a good antiseptic ought to possess. It is now used ss a protec tion against moths by fur dealers and others, and Is also useful In ridding houses ot other Insect pests. For de stroying that minute insect known as phylloxera, so troublesome to grape vines, it has been found exceedingly useful. That a sweetening agent should come from coal tar will be a surprise to many, but such is really the case. By a novel treatment of one of the components of coal tar a com pound may be obtained possessing very similar sweetening properties to the best cane or beetroot sugar. This saccharine presents the appearance of a white powder and crystallizes from Its aqueous solution In thick short prisms soluble In warm water. Sac charine forms salts, all of which pos sess a very sweet taste, and physicians are looking to this product as a Biib stanco by means of which diabetic persons may enjoy food which has hitherto "hot been safe for them. Light from the gas In the making of coal tar Is a refuso and a species of sugar obtained f.-om that refuso are prob ably such a combination of "sweet ness and light" as never was dreamt of by tho sweet singer who has given us thnt term. M'RE FOR KAR DIHKANE . Medicated vapors have already been used In the treatment of diseases of the throat and nasal passages.and also fur lung troubles, but It has remained for Michael Pollch of California, to apply (his treatment of disease to the car. It would seem that no betlaor method U he '"""' twv11 mMnn h. Interior o the he. d as he ap- PJICHIIUII Ul ll"l'till iui '".in i'-Hwnu ENCC not at all pleasant to the patient, and salVes do not penetrate to the depth desired. In applying this form of treatment a sheet of fabric is rolled into conical shape, the fabric having been previously saturated with the de sired medicament and allowed to dry In order that when the small end of the cone Is inserted In the ear and the Urge end ignited the medicated gases produced by the combustion will pass upward through the tube into the ear to treat the disease. When the gases USE OF MEDICATED VAPORS. become too much heated to be comfort able It will Indicate the approach of the flames and the appliance can be withdrawn. The inventor claims that the device may be reversed and held with the small end down with equally good results, the smoke and gases passing through the small end in what ever position the tube is held. CTILIZATION OF SEWAGK. The utilization of Sewage is a most important question, but apart from the chemical and agricultural uses to which it Is now put, there is yet to be solved the problem of utilizing the waste with which every river to a less or greater degree is polluted. This Is one of the things that they seem to manage better in France, for In a most Interesting article which appeared a few months ago in the "Leisure Hour" It was pointed out how the floating de bris of the Seine has for years been a source. of profitable manufacture in obtaining from it greases and other products of commercial value. The utilization of animal waste pre sents an extensive field. In the large pig-killing establishments in this coun try, and in some in England and Ire land, there is literally nothing lost save the squeal. Whether horse flesh will ever become In this country an article of food it is difficult to say, but an organization In Paris known as the Society for Promoting the Use of Horse Flesh claims to have pro vided Paris, between 1866 and 1881, with 67,809,460 pounds of meat. With us the worn-out and dead horses come out from factory yards, tho flesh as oil for soapmakers and leather dress ers, and the bones as oil, fat, glue and manure, to say nothing of the 'large quantities sold for cat's meat. The manufactures of butterine and oleo margarine as substitutes for butter are now products from animal and vege table waste. ;i ' MUSICAL BAND. Perhaps the most interesting experi ence of musical sands Is that recorded by Klnglake in his Journey across the desert. He says: "As I dropped my head under the sun's fierce fire and closed my eyes against the glare that surrounded me I slowly fell asleep for how many minutes or moments I can not tell but after awhile I was gently awakened by a peal of church bells my native bells the Innocent bells of Marlen, that never before sent their music beyond the Blagdon hills. "My first idea naturally was that I still remained fast under the power of a dream. I roused myself and drew aside the silk that covered my eyes and plunged my bare face Into the light. Then, at least I was well enough awakened, but still those old Marlen bells rang on, not ringing for Joy, but properly, prosily, steadily, merrily ringing for church. After awhile the sound died away slowly." Klnglake thought he had been the victim of a hallucination, but It is probable that he heard actual musical sounds, either issuing from the rocks beneath the sand or caused by the friction of the particles of sand over which the travelers were walking, as in the case of a curious mountain which Darwin visited In Guiana. It Is called by the natives El Bramador, or the Bellower, because of the sound given forth when the sand covering Is put In motion. Chamber's Journal. CI'LMNtiS AND SCRAPINGS. In the great cotton plantations of the Southern states cottonseed was for generations thrown away, but It is now a recognized commercial com modity for the blending of lubricating and cooking oil in the mixing of feed cakes for cattle. Oil ropes, after they have been picked by prisoners, are served up again as material for caulk ing ships. The. refuse from candle works comes out aa glycerine, and that of soap works as manure. Some of the most delicately scented perfumery comes out of waste rubbish. Uso has been found for tbo refuse of tanneries and curriers' shops. Much of tho ma terial formerly wasted In these trades Is now used for making the soles of boots and shoes. The leather cuttings and scrapings are cleaned, dampened, compressed and dried, the refuse In this process being In. turn manufac tured Into what Is known as leather board. Waste paper is converted into a great variety of useful thJngs, Into palls, cups and even Into car wheels mid building. 4 ! 1 FASCINATED BY ELEPHANT. Hasten Welch t,000 of TteBt W fella Tbef Take a Drlab. Our tents were barely pitched when rre saw an enormous bull elephant emerge from the papyrus and come gliding across the open country to reach the welcome shade of the trees In a gorge to our right. Then two more big elephants appeared and followed majestically in bis wake. They had not gone far when the fall of papyrus behind them shuddered, staggered and collapsed, while a ceaseless stream of elephants, big and little, stately and skittish, burst upon our astonished gaze. On they came, a herd of fully 200, the bulls in front straggling along in twos and three, then a solid pha lanx of cows, out of which from time to time little fellows not more than three feet high ran bewildered, then, steadied by the shrill trumpet of their mammas, scurried back. The mass seemed to glide over the country like an avalanche, raising a great trailing cloud of red dust that dimmed the out lines and gave the impression of some hateful tide soaking up the land. Great clumps of bushes, acres of elephant grass, loomed up in front, swayed and were no more. On it swept, this won drous mass of life, nearer and nearer, till great ivories glinted white in the red-gray wave; and yet never a sound except the screech of a circling kite, and the occasional ludicrous trumpet ing of an anxious mamma. Our camp was too high, and the motion of the elephant Is peculiarly noiseless. As we watched, another herd of thirty emerged from the papyrus, then an other herd, and yet another 100 strong, till the whole valley seemed to be streaked with elephants. Ye gods! it was a wonderful sight, and, to us, re clining at ease in our chairs and puf fing at our pipes, it seemed somehow unreal. All my life I had longed to Bee the Africa of Gordon.Cummlng and Oswell, and there it was! I waa calm ly lounging on a chair and watching something between 2,000 and 1,500 ele phants strolling about at my feet. The whole herd passed to water at a small swamp; then, Just as they emerged from their stifling struggle with the vegetation, streamed out once more across the plain. Everybody's Magazine. THE LIMITATION OF WEALTH. Fallacies of the Popular Idea of Pre venting Lara Accumulation. Among the topics discussed now and then by superficial economists Is a law placing a limit upon the acquirements of wealth. No one man, it Is said, ought to be allowed to accumulate over $1,000,000. The only approach to a limitation law which we have in this country is the inheritance tax of New York state, and that is not very radi cal. It has remained for the French -- Chamber of Deputies to go to the ex treme and pass a bill which, should it become a law, would mean that the French government could appropriate to itself no less than 64 per cent of v. every inheritance and gift in case they exceeded 1,000,000 francs. It is not ex pected that the measure will pass the French senate, where the conservative element is stronger. The first effect of such a law as that proposed would be to cause the possessors of large for tunes In France to place their money bevond the reach of the French tax r - r- , iu-T ."uu gatnerer. ine oniy way mat wcanu can be limited is through the opera tion of the natural laws of trade and commeree, or through a change In the workings of an Industrial system. The co-operative or profit sharing plan Is one method which tends to prevent the accumulation of a disproportionate share of the earnings of great business enterprises. This plan has been intro duced, in a large number of manufac turing concerns in this country and its workings are said to be highly sat isfactory. LesliesWeekly America Through EnglUh Eyri. The real causes of America's success may be summed up in the words a tariff, securing the home market and enabling foreign countries to be used as a dumping ground for American surplus productions, and great alert ness ot mind. Americans have the insight to scrap their machinery when it goes out of date, and to use every labor Ef.ving contrivance. The trf.do unions do not limit output and frown on the machine tool. But with us methods, machinery and organization, which are so conservative that they are ten years behind the times, find favor. In this world of change and progress and nltHew cpmpetitjjn Jt Is not weTl to ue behind the times a' fact which England is slowly discov ering. London Daily Mail. , f' No Love In Hratlien Hornet. In all stories and sketches of life In heathen and non-Christian lands there is no feature more dark and des pressing than the testimony given to the lack of love and Joy In the homes of the people. Whether It be In the harems of the Turks, the rule huts of the African savages or the houses of the Hindus and the Chinese It Is much the same women are met with a curia at tbelr birth as Inferior and unwel come things and doomed to a life of slavery and desolation. Leslie's Weekly. Another I'naie for Wonder. A Connecticut Journal accepts with becoming gratitude what was meant to be a complimentary allusion to Itself by a State contemporary which spoke of one of Its "editorials" aa "wonder fully fair," but It somewhat plain tively adds: "We have no desire or ambition to be anything but fair, and would prefer to have our contemporary do Its pondering when it thinks this journal unfair." t;.t ff. Vj t.; f '''A