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It is here that the specialist meets his patients and gives them an appointment.
If the case is' urgent, the patient is assigned to a room and an examination is made and the patient is
given treatment at once. When patients are examined which is free to every, one Dr. Milen reviews
the case and that no delay shall occur, he diiects the treatment and from that time the sick person is
under his care.
Dr. Milen has given 30 years of his
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The British Crisis The Landlords
Half of aU th land In England U owned ;
by lOOO peraons and mora than half of all
lh 66,000.000 aor of Bnrland. Wales,
Scotland and Ireland ! wn4 by 6,000 per
aona. Two-thJrd of all the land In the
entire kingdom le owned by fewer than
10,000 pereone. Of the population of 46.000.
000 people only ,000 farmer cultivate land
which they own. . Twenty-eeven dukea own
more than ,000,000 aoree, the duke of
gutberland alone poeeeeaing 1,150,000 acres.
The dukes own approximately one-tenth
f all the land In Great Britain. The farm
ers wtoo own their own land are few, in
deed, and of that 11,000 fewer than U,v00
own more titan fifty ag-ee. the great ma
jority posaesfflng holdings of lnss than five
acres In extent. And, according to British
government statistics, one-third of tho
people of Great Britain are constantly on
the verge of starvation. '
The landlord own the country, and un
, til now they have ruled tbe country, witu
no one to' dispute taetr will. They have
never paid any taxes on their land. The
land laws - and the revenue laws have
been framed always by the landlords In
tbe interest of the landlords. Every polit
ical and social agency for centuries has
been operating to. Increase the slxe of In
dividual holdings of land and to make it
more .and . more difficult for land to be
old or for aatatea to be divided.
1 The lioyd-Oeorge budget was the first
political attempt to Interfere seriously with
the privileges of the landlords, and Its
provisions would be regarded In any other
country as being mild almost to the point
of futility. But the astonished landlords
rose tnmun and declared that Uoyd-
George was a socialist; that his budget
was confiscatory and that Its operations
would destroy the British empire and setul
Its old nobility to the demiUtion bow-wows.
That the owner of land should be forced
to pay a tax upon It was a notion so novel,
a proposition so preposterous, a crime so
consciencelees, that It seemed to be alto
gether impossible. But the budget passed
the Commons, was rejected by the lord a,
wss made the chief issue in a general
election, was approved at the polls and
now Is the law of England.
In the United States, where a direct tax
on the value of land Is a generally ac
cepted and approved method ot rslslnn
ttves by and for the several states, It is
dlffucult to understand the British quarrel
between landlords and people, lu the first
place. England never has taxed land values.
The revenue derived from real estate,
known as "the rates," is calculated at so
much per cent on the annual rent produced
by the land. Practically all land Is occu
pied by tensnts. but In the few Instances
where the proprietor occupies his own land,
he pays rates upon a fictitious annual rent,
generally representing an infinitesimal
fraction of the true rem value. In the
rase of tee Cardiff tailor shop, made
famous in the recent campaign. It wss
shown that a tailor, occupying (00 square
tarde of Itrxl, paid rates on a rental alua
tlon of H- he the laru,uU of Bute,
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mediate neighborhood, paid for 600,000 j
square yards on a rental valuation of $4,006.
Because LJoyd-George called attention to
this enormous discrepancy, he was accused
by the conservative press -of "calumny"
and of slandering the noble Marquis ot
Bute. His effrontery In referring to this
tailor shop was denounced all over the
country, as proving his utter unfitness for
his high position as chancellor . of tbe ex
chequer. ' -
In every Instance where land Is rented
the tenant or lessee must pay the rales.
The owner of the laad never pays taxes on
his own property. This system was ar
ranged by the peers, who are the principal
land owners, over 200 years ago, when they
exchanged to King William this money
revenue, to be paid by their tenants In
lieu of all services, tenures and levies of
soldiers due to the crown from the peers
under the remaining rules of the feudal
system.
So much has been said about the terri
ble socialistic ' feature of this ' land tax.
it has been so often denounced and so
seldom explained, that it is worth while
to examine Into lu provisions In order to
find out exactly what the 'British land
lords are crying about. The new scheme of
taxation is a complicated 'affair which at
first can produce little revenue, but It is
regarded as an entering wedge. The princi
pal proposals are threefold, the increment
duty, the reversion duty and the unde
veloped land duty.
The first provides that. In the future', the
Increase In the value of land due to the
efforts of society as a whole, and In nowise
to the Industry or Ingenuity of the owner,
shall be regarded as unearned Increment
and that 20 per cent, or one-fifth, of such
Increase shall be paid to the treasury. This
tax Is to be paid only when the land la
sold, or wheri It changes hands by reason
of the death of the owner. In case It Is
owned by a corporation not liable to death
duties, then the tax Is to be paid In 1914
and each seventh year thereafter. The
phrase "unearned Increment" may startle
some conservative Americans who are
sensitive to the influence of bugaboos, but
It must be remembered that In American
states every annual or biennial assessmeaf
takes Into account for purposes of annual
taxation not only the unearned Increment,
but also the original value of the land.
If a farm in Missouri Is assessed at a
value of I&.000, and its value Is. enhanced
14.000 by Improvements placed upon It by
the owner and Is still further Increased by
7,000 because of the building of a new rail
road, the state of Missouri would collect
taxes on the total value. Including improve
ments made st the expense of the owner,
as well as the unearned Increment resulting
from the adveit of the railroad. In Eng
land under the Lloyd -George budget taxa
tion, no tax would be levied upon the Vi.ow
original value, nor upon the improvements,
the only thing would be thet wren the land
wss sold, five years or fifty years hence.
the government would take per cent of
the li.OuO unearned Increment, after allow
1 log an extrjitlou of the first 10 per ceut
life to curing special diseases,
has been wonderfully successful in. all
forms of catarrh, rheumatism, dyspep- ,
sia, gall stones, all forms of kidney and '
liver troubles. : -
He is a thorough diagnostican. ' He
believes in knowing what the disease is
before treatment begins. If the case is
of too malignant a type and a cure is
impossible he believes that the honest
course is to inform the patient of their
true condition and decline to treat them.
Hie frank method employed in the con-
duct of his business has given sufferers
throughout his territory in Nebraska
and Iowa confidence in his ability to
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Cure and requires no "pay of patients !
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and the People
increase to the owner tax free. In a coun
try where land rarely is sold. It Is difficult
to see how this tax would work a hard-
hip.
As, a matter of fact, the Missouri farm
would entirely escape taxation under the
Lloyd-George system, for all purely agri
cultural iRnd, all land wtrth less than $250
an acre, all property occupied by the owner
as a home, is excepted from taxation absol
utely, In other words, the tax would be
levied only upoi the landlord owners of
rented property of high value used for
other than, agricultural purposes to which
the community has contributed generously
by Increasing Its value, and from which,
under the eld system, no taxes could be
collected. So much for the .socialistic In
crement duty,
. The second feature, the revision duty, is a
tax of 10 per cent upon the value of the
benefit accruing to land owners, from Im
provements made by the lessees, at the
expiration of leases of longer than twenty
one years duration. ' In England where
nearly all Improvements are- made upon
leased land,, to become possessed of build
ings and other Improvements worth thous
ands and hundreds of thousands and even
millions of dollars, for which he was In no
way responsible. The government wants 10
per cent of the increase In value of his
property thus created. '
' The third feature Is the tax on undevel
oped land, a direct tax of a half-penny in
the pound, a trifle over 2 per cent, payable
annually; the land to be reassessed every
five years. This is the only one of the land
taxes which Is analagous to the general
practice of state taxation In the United
States. Btreuga to say It was the most
objectionable feature of the entire Lloyd
George scheme. The landlords could
stomach an increment duty and reversion
duty. In which they were forced to give to
the state a portion of the money earned
for them by the community, but they re
garded as a monstrous imposition the tax
ation of theii idle land. It wss a blow
aimed directly at the heart of the British
aristocracy, for It meant a tax on the game
preserves. The horrible suggestion was
made that It might force some of the game
preserves to be turned back to the vulgar
uses of agriculture. In order that the land
might come under the exceptions granted
to farm lands.
Of course, the government designed these
taxfs as much to make large land holding
unprofitable and therefore to force a divi
sion of estatea as it did to raise revenues.
In this respect it may be said that the taxes
were not bona fide revenue measures, but
were aimed to break up, as far as possible,
the present land system. The torles made
the most of the argument against this
abuse of the taxing power, but In the seme
breath they clamored for a protective tariff
to protect their wheat fields against the
"pauper" wheat of America and Aigentlna.
As a matter of fsct the new land taxes
are not revolutionary, except In England.
They are the same taxes as are Imposed In
Prance, In Liermany, in the I'nltnd States,
la Australia, and 1 practically every civ-
& Milcn Medical Co.
in the Hanson building
is one of the best ap
pointed in the United
States and the prettiest
in the west.
The reception r'oom,
where patients make ap
pointments to b; treated
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airy, and is in every way
inviting to a sick per
son. It is provided with
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books and magazines
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Diced nation in the world. The' hue and cry
against the Lloyd budget came from ' a
comparatively few of the people who live
by the labor of the many, and who had
come to regard their inequitable and un
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Tomorrow The B.ltlsh Crisis.
Ths Burdensome land System.
WOMAN'S BRILLIANT RECORD
lervlce la Boer 3Wmr Wins Rank of
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An English woman, Mrs. Melina Rorke,
who holds a brllUant record of army field
service In the South' African war, entitled
to rank as major, personally decorated by
King Edward with the Royal Red Cross,
and the only commoner from whom the
queen mother has ever accepted a gift, is
now visiting In Washington. She Is, be
sides, an (actress of ability, an exceptionally
fine horsewoman and one who can speak
the language of many African trilies.
Mrs. Rorke is visiting her son, who is
with Senator Hughes of Colorado. In Eng
lish military circles she Is called the "Flor
ence Nightingale of the Boer War."
Her life has been picturesque. While she
was born In England, she went to South
Africa at the age of 10, and as she naively
puts it:
"I was educated there in a convent and
climbed over a stone wall to get married
when barely 15. I grew three and a half
Inches taller after my marriage, and my
boy and I were cutting teeth at the same
time, for my last double ones did not come
until after his birth. I am Just fifteen
years and tan months older than my son,
and 'we are sometimes taken for sweet
hearts, which isn't so. very far from the
truth, after all.' "
Mrs.. Rorke graduated from the British
hospital, London, and obtained certificates
for the "Nauholm" treatment. 8he also
received a diploma from the London Ob
stetrical society, which Is the highest given
In Eurwpe for obstetrics, and entitles her
to attach L. O. 8. to her signature.
When the South African war broke out
she had a private Institution of her own at
Bulawayo, but left rt to follow the fortunes
of the British forces.
The decoration of the Royal Red Cross is
especially Interesting from the fact that U
exacts of a holder that she shall always live
up to a high standard. When It Is pre
sented a printed edict goes with it, specify
ing that it shall be "worn on . the left
shoulder" and setting forth, among other
things, the following:
"In order to make such additional pro
vision as shall effectually preserve pure
this honorable distinction It is ordained
that If any person in whom such distinc
tion shall be conferred shall by her con
duct become unworthy of it her name shall
be erased from the retrlster of those upon
whom the said decoration shall have been
conferred." Washington htar.
A tooling, Urla It.
Barley water makes a cooling and re
freshing drink for the little ones during
the hot 'weather.
It should be prepared like this: Well
wash two tableopoonfuls if pearl barley
and simmer gently in a pint and a half of
water for two hours. Then strain, add a
little lemon Juice and sweeten very slightly.
In hot weather it sholld be made fresh
every day, as it "turns" quickly, says
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FALL STYLES IN MILLINERY
Advance Tips . on What the Season
Promises.
NO GREAT CHANGE IN SIGHT
Decorative Ideas as Naweroas the
Makers Oaestlon of the Hat''
Off or Oa la Haas of
' Worship.
The millinery market Is on the qui viva
for Information as to what the other fellow
Is doing. Advance models of domestic man
ufacture are plentiful enough, at the time
of going to press,' but the Paris output
has not yet arrived, although there are
hats on the high seas as these lines are
written, ' and on reoeipt of these, many
doubtful points may be determined, but as
past experience has taught us, first ' Im
portations are far from infallible.
Among the hand-made and ready-to-wear
people there is much Interest manifested
In the Hindoo turban, and this might argue
that for early wear at least the draped
oriental effects will be popular favorites.
Another term frequently on the lips of deal
ers in millinery. Is the chapeau cloche or
bell shaped hat, which is 'not unlike the
erstwhile peach basket, and Is keeping the
mushroom green in our memory. Indeed,
the consensus of opinion Is that the mush
room reign Is beginning again,' if Indeed,
It has ceased, for .several seasons.
' Of course the question of the large versus
the small hat Is again being agitated.
Some say one, some say the other, and
the safe answer and the roost correct Is
that both will be worn. It awmi likely
that what the brim may lose to width the
crown will gain In height, for the cloche
is very high. Many shapes show the much
room tendency and not a few are cut away
or Indented directly In the front. Tam
crowns appear to be greatly In favor, and
not a few hats show a tendency to softened
brim lines, ruffles, puffings and other de
vices being employed to soften the edge.
Shapes having a deep side and black flare
are also good. Turbans with a deep cor
onet curving in half way up' its depth
and then spreading out, forming a flange,
are also seen.
Two-'loae aau TwsI'Icm frets.
In beavers, two-tons and two-pice effects
are strong. Beaver, both the fur and hat
ters' plush variety, are among the good
things that the trade feel positive about.
Colored beavers faced with black are very
numerous, as arc those of satin and novelty
silks' faced with velvet or beaver. Among
the materials combined with velvet are
satln plain ' and brocaded, boucle, silk
cashmere silks, two-tone twill silks and
changeant taffetas. Velvet hats are among
the sure things in both large and small
effects. There Is a "short crop" of velvet
Piece goods.
Among the fabric novelties is boucle silk,
a ; heavy corded weave often In two-tone
effect and having a glace effect In spite of
the roughness of its surface. Persian and
cashmere silks, whllo exported to be very
scaice on account of their popularity, can
hardly ,e regarded as novelties, urtloss one
excepts the hand-loom Persians, wh ch have
an over dedgn of flowers or figures over
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the body design, which produces a very
attractive and unusual effect.
s Two-tone peau do sole Is another silk
which lends itself to drapery. Taffetas, par
ticularly in changeant and - glace effects,
promise well; indeed, silks of all kinds must
not be overlooked in laying In one's stock
of materials and the ribbons that are em
ployed follow the weaves of the piece goods.
Twill and corded effects are expected to
be good. While cashmere and Persian silks
are good now, and, while the trade are
showing entire hats made of these silks,
It Is to be expected that they will be strong
only as a facing or accessory to a hat of
plain material.
The fancy feather houses are stocked
with wonderfully attractive plumage, a
great deal of which Is In the "nature fakir"
class. The demand for aigrettes, that was
a feature of high-class trade both ' last
season and the season before, shows no
tendency to decrease. Ostrich in black, as
well as colors, and in exquisitely blended
colorings figures conspicuously on the
handsomest designs. One exquisite black
velvet and beige felt model, had Blx fea
thers tumbling over Its crown, each shaded
and each a different color; dull green,
French blue, vieux rose, cafe, hello and
gray were the colors. The tout ensemble
was most artistic and not at all garish, as
low tones were chosen. It Is predicted that
there will be a demand for brilliant red and
cerse plumes, .as well as those of bright
blue, and that this will be used on black
shapes. A bright facing, matching the fea
thers . is featured on some black velvet
hats, and,' while on the subject of facings,
perhaps It is not amiss to record the fact
that the majority of faced hats seen to date
have shown a rather ornate arrangement
of the ' facing shlrrings, knife pleatlngs
and other methods being employed. Velvet
pressed hat are frequently faced with
light or bright satin, and In the case of the
deep bell and mushrom shapes this is
rather more apt to be becoming than whon
tho dark facing la used.
A group of fancy feather novelties Is
shown elsewhere, which Includes the fu.l
bush effects as well as the smart birds,
that are rather tailored looking, and are
so smart on a pressed turban. Very small
birds promise to be quite as much In favor
as the enormous ones.
The craze for cashmere design and color
ing has Invaded the fancy feather field
and wo now have wings and birds In mul
ticolored varieties that are described as
cashmere effects. Pompons, which have
been strong sellers to date, are to be had
In this effect and these, as well as the
solid color pompons are regarded with
favor. The mention of C'hantecler Is ta
booed in miiiinery circles, but nevertheless,
coque and pheasant effects are being
shown In many novel and attractive de
signs. Owls and owl plumage are favored
In natural and dyed effects. If the cloche
variety of hat becomes the fad, It will pop
ularise all hlffh-standlug trimmings 'and this
la a state of affairs that Is quite liable
to occur. Another feature sometimes used
with this style hat is the lace ruffle or
curtain, arranged on the lower brim. The
cloche must be worn back on the bead
and at a rather rakish angle; otherwise
It sts down entirely too far for comfort
or charm, and makes the addition of the
curtain quite Impossible.
Another way of trimming the cloche is
by applying a flat applique to the crown.
Velvet foliage and small cabbage roses
made of ribbon are suitable for this. The
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are small, tightly made affairs and are
moat effective if each rose Is made a dif
ferent color, using dull, harmonising tones,
recalling the rococo method of decoratton
In vogue a season or so ago. Fur hats
are good trimmed In this way; one Is shown
with a handsome passementerie motif In
which dull gold appears with shades of dull
rose and wood browns. Puffings of satin
and velvet are used around the crown of
tho cloche, and when a high-standing
trimming is used It Is arranged at the back
or well toward the back at the side.
Flowers and Feathers Mixed.
Roses are also mixed with feathers, which
has not been done for some time. I was
shown a large sailor shape of a nattier blue,
which has two white amazoua lying flat
on the brim, their two quills crossing in
front, and on these Is fastened a large
silk rose of the same color as the straw.
(Hats having two feathers fastened in the!
front of the brim almost In an ereot posi
tion, will sometimes have a simple rose or
a cluster at their foot.) A cloche of white
chip la trimmed In this way by two pale
yellow shower feathers flecked with white
and a large saffron-yellow rose.
The latest fancy In wings a pair, as
nearly square as possible, mounted so as to
give the appearance ot a butterfly I have
seen selected as the trimming of a large
shape in Italian straw dyed a pale cham
pagne hue; the wings, of a slightly lighter
shade, placod In front of the crown a little
toward tho right.
Rome of the leading firms Indulge a
fancy for condor feathers, but they are
not particularly pretty and very costly.
Ostrich conteaux are much more effective
at a lower price. Borne half dozen, short and
long, striped golden brown on white com
pose a pretty trimming for a manlla hat
clustered on the front of the brim with a
little dip in It and two shooting back over
the low crown.
Another manlla hat (I have seen a good
many lately) has the crown entirely covered
with Ivy leaves and a group of four double
popples at the side two brown and two
green.
Marvellously pretty turban toques are
made of draped Yedda satin straws, leg
horn, tafrel, hair, so thin, soft and supple
that they may be manipulated almost as
easily as any material. These are given for
trlmmim? aigrettes, ostrich balls, poufs of
tulle, little bunches of cherries, green ap
nles. strawberries, und sometimes, though
more rarely, flowers.
A sort of Charlotte with a soft, full straw
crown edReil by a double pleating of Inco
or embruidored muniln promises to tal:c.
One built up of sund-colored Yedda and
Valenciennes eclliiK. hss pale bluo satin
ribbon twisted round the base of the crown
and tied In an aigrette bow at the side with
a poey of moss rose buss at Die foot. New
York Millinery Trade Review.
l avendrr Watir,
To make lavender water get the dried
flowers and also a few drops of the essen
tial oil. Kteep them In alcohol, keeping the
bottle closely corked. In a few weeks pour
off the lUjutd and add more alcohol. The
same flowe-s will make double the quantity
A little esKential oil should always be
added. It Is not expensive and makes the
water much more fragrant Bathing the
temples and neck with the lavender water
is soothing to nerves tired from battling
with the heat. Do not remove the water
with a towel. Allow it to evspoiaus.
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