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THE MANCHESTER GTTABDIAN, SATXTRDATi APRIL 14, 1906. perhaps be urged that "Love it" is the MISCELLANY. this is the -season wfcea.insny youmr- men was least easy to obey, It might be conceded that Truth, both in its sense of accurate narration and in its sense of just judgment had been fairly observed and yet it might be argued that Love was essentially incompatible with a satirical handling of personal or typical peculiarities. But this would be, I think, a quite unfounded doctrine. I will not turn for a refutation to the leave the city and take summer quarters in THE AUTHOR OF COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS." 3 Parfc friends; "never forget- (as Thackeray said in closing his most ent satiro) that, if Pun is good, Truth better, and Love best of all." Fun? Derbyshire.

Some of tbsm osxry with them the townsman's idea- oHhe fiouas beaatUul, and do MEDICAL, SURGICAL, MATERNITY, MENTAL AND FEVER NURSES Mrs. HACKING, 24, York Place. Oxford Road. MANCHESTER. Mlt.

Tel. 45 Rushobae. XteL AMnm "Mnrsiag-, Manchester. their best to corrupt the old-fashioned aim plioity of the decorations of a country parlour. Sometimes they awaken a new enthusiasm in Love xnese are enree or une oesn tilings world and now, since the conclusion tho humblest work invites to retro- perhaps it is permissible to enquire the cottager's wife which leads to unexpected results.

A correspondent has suffered already in this way. He success fully banished the antimacassars from an old oak chest end got some plaster oasts on the wall where the family portraits had been suspended. He thought he was getting on finely, when his landlady, cstohing this series or papers nas made any treat masters of humour and satire. I con-ne myself to personal experience. It is by no means necessary to hate the person of whom you make fun or to be hated by him.

"Muoh," as the Duke of Wellington said to Miss J. when she asked him if sue ought to rebuke her swearing fellow-traveller "much must depend on circumstances." Just as it has been said that no man believes in his religion till he dares to joke about it, 60 it might be said that when affection or friendship is secure one can (venture to "chaff" without fear of consequences. Then, again, it is not the cleverest or the wisest or the to the cause of Fun, of Truth, Love. j-un. I disregard the Metaphysics of hia infection, appeared one morning with a oven as Sydney Smith, in reviewing a N.B Tlie Homos hsve samttted sines isoi from tbe County of Lancaster Children.

Your Cponty, therefore, owes a debt (estimated at io per annua per head, average residence 3 years) of 85.830. MAY THEY GO natural history, "disregarded the whitewash bucket, and, looking at the smoked ceiling, promised to do some ''beautifying" before evening. When he returned ha found that her energies had effected more than he -hvsics of the Toucan." I do not, with 1 mosc learnea toiKs on eartn who are also thA had bargained for. Not only had the ceiling a new brightness, but all hia plaster casts, that in the morning had looked so mellow with their 1 1 11 imp creamy film, had been carefully touched up to WHO 1,200 Children Trained in the Home WHERE To CANADA. WHEN Within the next few months.

A party match it. ii Tsff 1 1 a mmtzxM 1 iz oil of 110 will sail next week. The suggestion that truffle-hunting should WHY To give them a start in life. be revived and regarded as a sport, which is made by a writer in the County Gentleman," 17.697 have already been sent, and 98 per cent have done well. WHAT IS THE COST 10 per head for Outfit and Travelling.

ANY OIPT. however small, gratefully received. -yrlos, n.u i most lovable and one may see the ouaint in the Creator. I do not enquire limitations of the Undergraduate or the vcther the sense of humour in- man is a sur- Curate or the Subaltern and yet love him as 1 ci something primeval, or an anticipa- sincerely as George Warrington loved Arthur Something still to come. I do not gfeniiis- or Austin Elliot loved Charles rJarty.

A hypersensitive author wrote latelv puehysome things strike us as funny tQ nevN make others do not, or why the same thing you are chaffing or in earnest about my very funny to A. and not the least so books." The critic replied, "I am always Wild horses should not drag me into both. My seriousness naturally expresses "N-rtation on the theory of Wit and itself in chaff and that is an atti- T-iiir for I know that I should immedi- tude which real intimacy never nesents. find mvself as completely befogged as 18 a defect almost inherent in a series of rlvIoophers in "Happy Thoughts." Social Types that the less admirable illustra- essence of surprise is I remind tlonf tend to be the mor numerous. Cer- Rb wonder if this is an tainly a Picture-Gallery exclusively composed of mine.

On thinking it over, of tn good and great would be a rather un- niPan tho essence of wit is interesting collection. We must find room soever it doesn't matter, as Englefield on ou" walIs for villains and the adven- Warned by that high ex- turers who have made so large a part of '-Vp cf anaivrical perplexity, I confine my- history and it need not be inferred that to actualities. I neither know nor care tn numerical proportion between good and constitutes the faculty of Fun the bad in our gallery corresponds to the pro- of humour, but I recognize it as one portion in actual life, the determining elements of human char- is to be hoped that throughout the -'-or. Between those who have and those papers which are now coming to a close no hav not somo sense of a joke there it has been possible to read, between rjV-i an uhvss which no science can bridge the lines of ridicule and sometimes of fv never can look at life from the eame invective, some hint or suggestion of the 7 view and they seem naturally in- character which the writer holds to be ideal. PLEASB FILL UP THIS WEEK glodtu tend sou invmrfi Emigration fSaid.

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DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES, 18 to 28, STEPNEY CAUSEWAY, LONDON. E. has muoh to oommend it. Truffle-hunting has many of the essential characteristics of a sport; the spoils are valuable (about 4a.

a pound), and the pursuit involves fresh air and exercise, and trained dogs or pigs, but no true sportsman would care to train a pig. Acoording to the writer in the County Gentleman," the method of training is perfectly simple. Gipsies in Dorset were formerly renowned for their knowledge of it. "In my old Dorset home," he adds, I have many a time returned home with our small dogs, heavy laden and I have seen a basketful of truffles found by gipsies on the chalk district that stretches away 'twixt the Dorset Downs and Old Ssrum." Truffles seem to prefer a light chalk soil but the fungus is probably to be found in many districts where its presence is not suspected, owing to its underground growth, often a foot or more below the surface. No doubt a master of truffle hounds would make it his study to find the likeliest places.

Truffle-hunting, by the way, would be a capital sport for vegetarians. Easter in Russia is a day of rejoicing to an extent unknown in our less devout land. The Lenten fast is strictly observed by the Orthodox Greek Church, especially during the first and Usnehestsr Gusrdlui," 14408. AN OLD ALEHOUSE. BY JACK B.

YEATS. Baxendale Cos There are alehouses tucked awav in enrnon lord, as a landlord should, had no particular and presently in came a doleful man who of the city that have about them all the easy comfort of a village inn. Indeed they are leaning either way but a little old man in a cheesecutter can convinced ihi that. he -Cf 1 regard one anotner witn a suspicion part or vaav c-naracter id cultivate in "1 rn iw.rder on ill-will. The prosaic, literal, our minds and to rear to the most perfect BATH CHAIRS INVALID man looks upon the lover vigour and maturity every sort of generous Vks as intellectually trivolous or morally ana nonest teeungxnat Belongs to our nature; --ind A man who manifests a sense of to bring tho dispositions that are lovely in looKea liKe a paper-hanger.

The painter talked to him. The painter had a tip, direct from the trainer, for the three o'clock Tace next day; he also knew the name of the jockey who was to ride the horse. At first he gave the tip to the paper-hanger then he asked him if he ever speculated, and the paper-hanger replied, Onct in a way, but I alius loses." "Oh," cried the painter, "if v'reur is commonly regarded in anti- private life into the service and conduct of FURNITURE REQUIREMENTS. workhouse was the best. He had been in both, he said.

After that a man who looked like a painter told how he had sat for two hours in a fishing competition and "never got a stir, but Jim caught one five ounces it was, and the landlord of the Fishing-house offered two pounds to anyone that'd catch anything bigger." loeu in mucn tne same way as a village inn by the regular patrons, to whom the alehouse is a kind of club, only more cheerful than many clubs, for here everybody talks. I turned into one of these houses just in time to help in deciding whether the treatment was better in the workhouse or the gaol. A carter (we were close to the markets) who was eating a smoking baked potato said they feed the people best in the gaols. The porous circles as reft of all capacity for the commonwealth; so to be patriots as inking or feeling. It is true that he can not to forget we are gentlemen to cultivate wither think despairingly nor feel ferociously, friendships, and to incur enmities to have icf in the darkest hours the good Angel of both strong, but both selected; in the Humour comes with glad tidings of a happi- one to be placable, in the other im-which is independent of circumstances, movable." So far, Burke drew with a you're what they calls a perisher don't you touch it." I hope he did not, for it did not Skowkoovs Miller Street, Manchester last weeks, when not only meat and fish but milk, eggs, and butter are forbidden.

As the great festival approaches both body and mind await the reaction with feelings of an exalted Then the old man and the carter went out, win "T-p still, small voice, as Air. Sampson rsrass masier-nanu, dut; anotner toucn is kind. Mrs. Brodsky, in her admirable Recol BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. CORRESPONDENCE.

lections of a Russian Home," thus describes the final preparations: "On the night before no one dreamt of going to bed. A very long table the Easter table was prepared and chivalrous Colonel Newcome was going to make a fool of himself in the matter of the Bundel-eund Bank, and explained that the matter was entirely outside of his own control. It was in him to do it. He must." The same writer deliberately declared that the whole Newcome history was revealed to him in a little wood near Berne, where he had strayed from his tad, "is ringing comic songs within me, and wanted to complete the portrait. The iJU happiness and joy." Pathos and Humour Ideal Character is not necessarily gifted or jte indeed inextricably intertwined, striking or popular, or even widely attrac- tive.

The man who bears it may be very Fllow insignificant; as the world Are wrung from life's deep; judges, very uninteresting. But the ill 1 character bears the sign-manual of Heaven, kt a sense of humour makes dulness im-1 writ la -n Purit and CjUrage) and pcwhle, and he who is delivered from dulneGentleil and tJnselfishne and the man, addnwriMl from despair. i by a secret power which he never realizes, A curious symptom observable those i who sanctifies and graoea tlie society in which' KthiT hate -jokes or, like the fccotch editor, inf oaf THE PROMISED TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. decorated with flowers and candles in the draw We ere rather fond of reading letters out oi the past nowadays, as the suacess of the recent edition of Horace Walpolo and the popularity of FitzGerald may be taken to prove.

But the younger Pliny is a somewhat neglected author, ing-room, and covered with a variety of cold dishes, special Easter cakes also Easter Sir, In view of the definite promise of the Prime Minister to introduce a comprehensive eggs dyed in different colours. An Easter and no able editor thinks it worth while to take- children with mind running on the need for a lamb and an Easter pig were roasted whole, and new plot. There is no question that his char acters were all alive to him. temperance measure in the next session of Parliament, it behoves temperance reformers of all shades of opinion to come to an understanding dressed with coloured paper and ribbons. Everyone had a new dress for the occasion; i F.wUu God indues hv a Hht an Humorous experiences.

1011 wnicn baffles mortal sight, "As write the last line with a rather sad heart," he said, Pendennis and Laura, and Ethel and Clive, fade away into Fableland. I these dresses were mostly very simple, but it was essential that they should never have been that lively Roman by the hand and introduce him tb modern readers. The epistle in which Pliny told Tacitus of the death of his illustrious uncle is still our leading authority for the facts of the great eruption which first revealed the potentialities of Vesuvius within historic times, and incidentally buried Pompeii for modern scholars to use as a text-book of Roman seaside manners and oustoms. There are few more in mucli more easily persuade them that; And the uselese-seeming 'man the crown hath Ton had discovered Pharaoh's chariot-wheels! won. Rod Sra or had identified tho Man in! In His vast world above, as to the form they would desire the bill to take.

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Mask thsin that, ran had witnessed utuau" God hath some grand employment for His son. They were alive, and I heard their voices but worn before, and we young people usually had white." After an impressive service, the priest, with a golden cross in his hand, advances, and says to all, Voskress Christos Christ is risen socno which you described or had heard vniir ow ears a thine one would rather into law would be practically certain. If, how. five minutes Bince was touched by their grief. ever, they wait until the bill is introduced some And have we parted with them here on a sudden aw spresficd differently." My own firm! THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.

conviction is that in this respect For- 1 ii j. and without so much as a shake of the hand 1 Is section is sure to be dissatisfied and the measure endangered. to which they reply He is risen indeed," sfter I therefore venture to suggest the holding of yonder line which I drew with my own pen a barrier between me and Hades as it were, across whioh I can see those figures retreating and which young and old, rioh and poor, of either sex', kiss one another indiscriminately. Mr. teresting letters extant.

One is struck, above all, by the modern, note of it. Pliny was in command of the Roman fleet at Misenum an admiral who had given many evidences of scientific tastes when the famous cloud, "more like a pine than any other tree," was seen rising from the peak of Vesuvius. This was obviously a phenomenon which a learned a National Temperance Parliament or Con aiuiu imp. iruai, ami ln the year that ended on April 1904, there t. a I are allowed, during our walk according to a Teturn prepared by the sn iah hfo to encounter the same Tre 19 ns -n Great Britain with an of ludicrous persons, situations, and firing.

Tho differLc, nfc in nur rir. lnCOme OVeT 50'000 a year' Th aggregate vention in October or November next for only dimly glimmering Henry Norman relates that on one occasion he complimented a Russian friend on having the purpose of ascertaining the lines of legisla but in ouikoIvcs. Tlio crt- incomo of thesa persons was 1,958,442, or an tion which would be in harmony with the de EFFECT OF HEAT ON RAILS. thincs that which it broiicrt wiVl, average of just over 100,000 each. At the r.

'h p.Her to too and many are the i otner nd of tno 80316 there were 131,956 per-wayfjrcH who plod year after jear from son9 whose incomes did not exceed 160 a year Pan even to I5enrslieba and swear that all but were nt exempt from the payment of an excellent servant. "Yes," was the reply, "and he was Once kissed by the Tsar!" (Alexander Some years before, it was explained, the man had been on sentry duty in the garden of the Imperial Palace, and on Easter morning the Tsar crossed his path. "Voskress Christos," said the sentry, as in duty bound, whereupon the Tsar, remembering his obligation, returned the usual formula and salute. income tax. Their aggregate incomes amounted to 11,930,867, or an average of about 90 each.

Then 140,154 persons returned themselves as receiving over 160 a year, but less than 200, Other Hotels of the renowned Frederick group comprise while 219 persons possessed incomes of over HOTEL METROPOLE. "WHITBY mands of temperance reformers of every kind. I would have prohibitionists (of whom I am one), municipalisers, advocates of disinterested management, the Lord Peel section, and every phase of temperance thought represented. I cannot but believe that some common grouad upon which all might stand and co-operate could be discovered. In any case it could be ascertained as to what points there was agreement, and that would be a gain.

And surely, if a spirit of give and take prevailed, conflicting views might be harmonised and a united front presented regarding the other matters upon whioh differences of opinion now prevail. If my suggestion can be carried out successfully we may be able to lift the whole question out of the arena of political Btrifa and commence to fight the trade in real earnest instead of combating each other. As one who to some degree represents the extreme section of temperance reformers, I make an earnest appeal for a favourable consideration of my nroDOSal. to realise which I bnrrt'n. it I liavo contrived to supply any nf my readers with a livelier notion of tw road on which we all are travelling, I am wU content.

a II. T.vth. Here conies tho Literal Man porinu, pottering fellow" whom Dr. disliked so much, and says, y' It's all very well to try and' amuse it reader-. There is no harm in that; mi: are the stories-which you tell them Heawns, what a question! And r-i: what a tout'! Even so the savage Hurwer at I ho Old Kailey thunders at r.ivid witm-s-.

Now, sir, on your oath The street artist whose art gallery is pre 10,000, and less than 50,000 a year. The incomes of 113 firms exceeded 50,000 a year, as also did those of 794 publio companies and 45 municipal corporations and other local authori BURLINGTON. DOVER BAT SACK.VJLLLE, BEXB3LL pared for him by a more skilful hand and hired for the day is no new phenomenon (writes a correspondent). In a little-read pas ties. number of persons assessed for GREAT CENTRAL.

sage of Dickens we are told of a young man in LONDON RUSSELL. the Art line (chalks) whose life was blighted MISHAP ON THE METROPOLITAN LINE. Thursday's heat rather seriously affected the metala of the Metropolitan District Railway. In the course of the afternoon it was discovered that the negative or middle rail of the up-line between Walham Green and West Brompton had been warped and expanded by the heat, with the result that the shoe of the motor could not secure the grip necessary for completing the circuit. At one point the tail had been twisted over on its side, and for a few hundred yards the trsck presented a fantastic appearance with seven spick-and-span lines and one crooked and curious.

The current was switched off the small section affected, and a gang of workmen were quickly setting things right. For some time City-bound trains ran over the down metals between Parson's Green and Earl's Court, but when the damage at West Brompton station had been repaired the ordinary service was resumed on both lines. By the process known to cyclists 5a "coasting," the electric trains made the pace from Walham Green, and glided over the affected part into West Brompton station by the force of their own momentum. A stoppage during this proceeding would have been final, as the train could not have been restarted, and a signal had to be got clear ahead to West Brompton. Of course, all the lightB went out when a train was pasBiug over the invalid rail, and this was the only indication to travellers on the line at night that any by the bitter consciousness that all the credit AH famous for the Highest Comfort at most Moderate Rates.

for his works was for ever diverted to otherB. income tax was 451,323, and the gross amount of income assessed was 123,592,622. The 56,865 fhrms who made returns admitted a gross income of 87,225,616, while the gross income of 29,12 public companies amounted to 238,984,107. In Ireland not a single income of over 50,000 a year was returned, but 28 public companies were assessed, on incomes exceeding that sum. f-ucK to your statement? Aye or Well mi tin; whole.

Ave: wit.h duo I am not," the artist explains. "I am not up man ought to see at closer range. So Pliny headed a landing party, partly to study this interesting partly to see if he could assist the fugitives exactly as a modem admiral would argue, with his "handy men" to back him. Young Pliny could not go, because he had some work to do, and perhaps he was not quite so anxious as his uncle to approach this awe-inspiring cloud. Pliny the Elder landed in a shower of pumice and volcanic bombs, which for a moment made bim hesitate.

But then he thought better of it, made the famous remark that Fortune favours tlie brave," and ran ashore. Unfortunately he was, like Hamlet, "fat and scant of breath," and he pushed his researches so far that he was overcome by the noxious exhalations and sank down to die; nor oould his men, deprived of leadership, carry him off. The whole letter is too long to quote here, but it is one of the best that young Pliny ever wrote. The success of the Cambridge Modern History has encouraged the Syndics of the University Press to supplement this great undertaking by a mediaeval history on the eame enoyclo-psdic plan, whioh will be contained in eight volumes. The scheme has been drawn up by Professor J.

B. Bury, than whom, perhaps, no higher authority could have been ohosen for the work. Students will hope that the contributors to this new work will be relieved from the strict rule against foot-notes whioh forms the chief drawback from the usefulness of the Cambridge Modern History. Such a work is professedly intended rather for consultation than for general reading, and those who Beek an account of some particular incident are usually anxious to find references to the original authori to the shivering, I am not up to the liveliness, am ready to help. Can we not, for the sake of I am not up to the wantmg-employment-in-an tne orunKards wno perisn and tne children office move; I am only up to originating and who innocently Buffer, forest our differences executing the work.

In consequence of ami rocrves. A life which, if i xj.ivss myself, began early and has "-V'i for several years, an observant habit, Ktoinivc memory have enabled me to i.Tth in things seen and heard by me a -'m nsimy incidents which if they were in-" would ho absurd and overdone. I such phrases as "I saw and unite to master the trade? Yours, FRIENDS AND SOCIAL PROBLE5IS. which you never see me. You think you JOHN M.

JKOBERTS. Roseneath, Kimberley Road, Leicester, April 12, 1906. see me when you see somebody else, and that somebody else is a mere Commeroial charaoter." Perhaps it may be interesting to compare the subjects treated by this i "oani the other I am to be Ladiea and Gentlemen visiting the dry are invited to visit Rd. JOHNSON, CLAPHAM MORRIS, Ltd. 24.

Lever Street, Piccadilly. MANCHESTER, Where they will find a large assortment of Season Goods newly arrived from various markets Of the world, suitable for Presents, ROYAL BONN POTTERY, DRESDEN OTHER WARE, QENUINE TERRA COTTA FIGURES. So not fail to call. i- narratm 111 flWll OTnnPinnnnC ft genius with those of a modern street artist. MIDDLE-CLASS CO-OPERATION.

To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, An attempt is being made to constitute They included "a fresh salmon's head and rywi Jmre I have used a license generally to the social annalist. If a lndi-- occurred at York, thero can be placinS it at Canterbury. If the 'P Hunrray is a coose. his dinens run snouiaers; a mooniignt nigm at sea (in a thing had ooourred.

Very little inconvenience was caused by the mishap, and the time-table, which is not par a middle-class political party. With that I have nothing to do. There are doubtless many reasons why the middle classes of this country should become politically more class-conscious but it will be found, I think, on closer examina Bahbacombe. If a Scotch circle); a cherubim, his flesh creased as in infancy, going on a horizontal errand against the wind; Mount Vesuvius going it (in a circle) a knife and fork after nature a bunch of grapes." And there was the writing in fine round characters: "An honest man is the ticularly heavy on this route, was not seriously interfered with. The incident, however, adds a new source of interest to travellers on the Di trict and a new terror to the summer.

If Thurs lns tenants, ho can be trans- 1 a Smiir If Lord tion, that the menace to the middle classes is day soring heat can affect the rails, what will -ncre, unduly at an election I'll Ml 1 we elude economical rather than political. The average happen when the thermometer registers 90 in him the noblest work of God. 123456789 0. tne snauei salaried middle-class person is economically A number of members of the Society of Friends met at a conference at Selly Oak, Birmingham, yesterday, arranged by the Friends Social Union, a body which, under Mr. Seebohm Bowntree's leadership, has devoted a large amount of study, both in England and abroad, to social and economic questions.

The goal at which they aim is the practical application of their religious principles to the problems of the day. Mr. Frederick Impey, in a paper on Bmall holdings, said that what was required in England was an alteration of the system of land tenure. We had never had anything like a revolution in the laws governing tho land as other countries had, and the shadow of feudalism was still over us. Mr.

C. R. Buxton pleaded for a small Government grant to encourage the formation of cooperative societies for the spread of small holdings and the strengthening of such societies where thev already exist. Mr. R.

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The rent of middle-class houses is excessive, whilst there is a constant tendency to depress salaries owing to the ever-growing difficulty of maintaining profits. If we cannot increase our incomes it is to me abundantly clear that we can spend them to infinitely better advantage. A glance at the trading profits of the large retail distributing houses shows clearly enough that under a system of middle-class co-operation, these profits could be secured by the buyers. In this The final catastrophe of the story comes when the young man, by an outburst of artistic jealousy, loses the affections of the young lady who had consented to "walk with him as a Il cne took place I impiv nL1" Xht "It is said." ties on both sides of a disputed question. By omitting all such references the editors of the Cambridge Modern History deliberately deprived their work of a very useful feature, the absence of which is hardly compensated by the provision of full bibliographies to each chapter.

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By Edwin H. Lemare. Barcarole. Br Helnrlcb. Anthony was indicted for unlawfully voting for reliance Dexier uuuaiug iu me villages as wen as in the towns; inducements for the rising oi ureat Britain nas reacnea tne stupendous figure of 1,452,776.536.

On the 31st of Decem called the evolutionary method, in which a story grows of itself under the writer's hand, and he comes to feel himself as little more than the amanuensis who translates its vicissi generation in tne villages to remain on tlie land less labour for women and children the custodial care of the feeble-minded so as to ber, 1903, there were 2,215,873 members of these co-operative societies, witn a snare capital of John Bright onco asked Sir prevent, as far as possible, a continuance of ana a loan capital oi tudes into words. Many great writers have year tne turnover oi tne co-operative busi ness in Great Britain exceeded 100,000.000. said, in varying ways, that they are but the spectators at a private theatre the theatre, as Do not five rise to Acidity, INDIGESTION. a representative in Congress. The trial was an extraordinary affair, according to the account of the Post Express," of Boohester, where the incident occurred.

After the evidence for the prosecution and the argument of Miss Anthony's counsel had been heard, the Judge declared that there was no question for the consideration of the jury; he refused to allow Miss Anthony's counsel to address the jury, end he directed the jury to return a verdict of guilty I Miss Anthony's counsel insisted that this direction was one which no court had a right to give in a criminal case but the clerk, under Carlyle called it, under a man's own hat. the growth of the unfit; the removal of the unemployables from the labour market where they are a drug to labour colonies where they should be made to do what their physical capacity allowed towards the cost of their maintenance the establishment on a practical basis of means whereby men thrown out of employment might be aided and guided in their searoh for work and not left to wander Now the purchasing capacity of the salaried middle classes of Great Britain is as great or greater than that of the working and yet the profits which the workmen have Itei wise enough to retain for tnerrnlwes g-j into the pockets of the individual crTitalit wheie PLASMON Oats Stevenson has given the fullest account of the process. An interesting case in point is afforded by one of our minor novelists, a very readable story-teller, who has just written a middle-class trade is transacted. amnion, is. net.

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The VUIaga Organist. Edited by F. C. Woods. With thousands of others, I take a keen 7, pre-Adannte i r'iu "iy.ersit7 Oxfordvhether 'wily beheved what he had said 6Pch- Robert, m- puninp 11S lntcrr0gator's noSo, laid on his own heart and replied It nee I do.

Similarly, I reply to my ir-questionincs that fm- i-i i v- as tar as a man i OTr" hork, I do not Tur. fV oacld asainst Justice. -ny. cruelty, greed, politfcal and social unscrupu OUs self-seeltiug, sub- to base uleals-these and others like re elements in character and in life winch we ounht to and SooaosBlceJ dub." Lmnctt. aimlessly about tne counxry.

At. an Avenins sitting of the Conference. Mr. FTainaium. By A.

Herbert Brewer, is. net. Old Encllah letter in which he describes the pangs with Organ Music. Edited by Joan E. West.

Two Pieces by Henry Pareeil. 2s. net. Old English Violls Music Edited which he has taken leave of the characters in Alderman Thompson dealt with various aspects of the housing question. He complained that the direction of the judge, said: "Gentlemen his latest novel.

Chaster 4 oy Aixrea ssonai. sonata in Major. By James Lates. Sonata In Minor. By Henry Eccles.

Sonata, in Flat Major. By William Babel 1. as. net each. A Method of municipalities had spent far too much money in hiivini? ui slum property and putting ud interest in the formation of a great middle-class co-operative club or society, and propose in the near future to call a conference of those interested in middle-class co-operation, when definite proposals oan be discussed.

In the meantime I am anxious to get into touch with sym- Sathisers in all parts of Great Britain. Yours, The Editoe of The Mint." Hastings House, Norfolk-street, London, W.C., April 12. Ringing. By Julius Stoekbauser. Translated by Sophie blocks of buildings on the same sites.

The mo rwou uinir zor ruuy communion. of the jury, harken to your verdict as the court hath recorded it. You say you find the defendant guilty of the offence charged; so say you all." No answer was made by any of them; neither by word nor sign did a single jurrman monev would have been better spent in erectine "During the past three months," he says, they have scrambled morning after morning with me amongst the vineyards and olive gardens the best companions in the world, ever ready to fall in with my humour and ohuckle over the story of their ine nuoerneaa (Aniaemj. ay Samuel s. Wesley.

6d. Part Songs Hard by a Fountain. By H. Waslrant. dwellings on the outskirts of towns where 2ne wnistxirlns: wares.

Br Charlae Wood, proper air space could be assured. and I Call. By Charles Wood. If to My Lady Fair and True. Bendemeer's Stream.

Both by John Pointer. All 3d. lime has come," wrote Keble in 1833, scoundrels must be called scoundrels indicate his concurrence. Miss Anthony's counsel asked that the jury be polled. That cannot be allowed," said the Court, end added: Tranusrs siiai ooBg.

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By Blchard Nloolson. fld. The Fauna and Satrrs Tripping. By Thomas Tbmklns. 6d.

Sweet Lots, If Thou WUt Gain, Love Me Mr. Wilson, the secretary of higher education for the county, has had an interview with some JOINT MATRICULATION BOARD. Gentlemen of the jury, you axe discharged," of the members of the Droylsden Higher Educa time seems to have come again. repudiating Monckten Milnos's humanitarianism, said, I know men men whom I wmilrl whereupon the jurymen left the box. Miss tion Committee, and from a suggestion he made DECISION OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The Board of Edncation have expressed their willingness to accept the matriculation examina the Committee has decided, as one means of onprairwrine young people, to allow free men whom, under some iiile circumstances, I would kill or lives; now they are gone, and this fleasant country seems desolate without them, wonder if the ordinary reader quite realises how real an author's characters are to him. how real hia affection is for them, and how sad it is if his heart is in his work and his work is worth anything at allto write those two worda, 'The which close his living friendship with them. He finds them again in print, but they are no longer to him what they were. They will have nothing now to tell him, no fresh combinations to suggest; they have played their part and said their say, and oan share his sympathies and hopes and fears no more." Scott has told us how he used to start out to write a story about some great character in nw ror vomeiy uraoe, ib inac ao L.ive in Pleasures Plenty. All by John Wllbye.

3d. each. Come, Gentle Swain. By Michael. Cavendish.

3d. Arise, Awake. By Thomas Morley. 4d. With Wreaths of Boss and Laurel.

By William Cob-bold. 3d. Lo! Country Snorta, By Thomas Weelkes. 2d. Fly not Love; Sister, Awake! Those Sweet Delightful LQlies.

All by Thomas Bateson. 3d. each. Glen sad Part Songs for Kale Voices: As the Moments Boll. By Samuel Webbe.

3d. Give a Man a Horse he eaa Bidet, By C. H. Lloyd. 3d.

Shoot, False Love. By A. Herbert Brewer. 4L Vos Omnes. By T.

L. de la Vltorla. 3d. All ye that Pan By. By T.

L. de la Vitorla. 3d. Th Office of the Holy Communion. By Donald Baxter.

6d. admission to the evening schools for the first Anthony then made a speech, which the Court endeavoured to interrupt and prevent, and then sentenced her to pay a fine of $200 and costs of the prosecution." Then Miss Anthony replied: "I shall never pay a dollar of your un tion of the Joint Board of the' Northern Univer The new way of washing clothes It was first worked with success when Fels-Naptha spap was introduced. It's the no-boiling way "the Fels-Naptha way!" They're both the same. You, can't wash clothes without boiling except with Fels-Naptha you can't wash clothes properly with Fels-Naptha if you dp boil them. If you really like the' steam and sweat and smell of clothes boiling please don't use Fels-Naptha.

If you use Fels-Naptha soap use jfc the easy, way the way the-wrappjtV' teUs you the Fels-Naptna wajr. 39 Wifeon street London IB session to pupus who nave juss iwi uie aay Kin me." piead for a clear iudK- these plain issues of Right andWr. sities (Manchester, Liverpool. Leeds, and Shef schools. Tins new arrangement win come into force at the next session.

fun. or humour, or satin i field) as a qualifying examination for students entering- trainincr colleges in 1907 with the inten just penalty." The Judge amiably remarked: iio elucidate the truth, the facultv. whnt I As the calls are 1,000 less than was esti- tion of proceeding to University degree coarse. Madam, the Court will not order you com you call it, is well employed. mated and there being no debit balance of xne aoara, nowever, wiu require ujas such students should have presented English litera tiore.

lhere are soma urnwio The members of the Gorton Kdncation Com mitted until your fine is paid." He knew, of course, that if he committed Mis Anthony for 111 ture and geography at the matriculation exami mittee have decided to ask Alderman W. H. Wainwright, a member of the IfoncKSster and Gorton Councils, who ha held tbe nnsitinri of failure to pay hex fine her counsel would pro nation. history, and then in flashed an altogether new person, like Dugald Dalgetty or Bailie Nicol iaguoscro" wmcn nave oon-anuv been running in my mind since these Types in hand: "Such is world. Understand it, despise it, love cheerfully hold on thy way through it, 900 to meet (as was the case a year ago) the overseers of Droylsden have been able to reduce the poor rate from 4s.

3d. to 3s. in the pound. In this new rate is included lid. asked for by the county authorities for higher education purposes.

The present rate of 8s. 3d. will (not allowing fox possible district rate reduction) be reduced to 8s. in the pound. obalrman of the Gorton Edncation Committe cure a writ of suean corpus and bring before another court the lawfulness of a conviction The Lord Mayor of Manchester will open the Jarvie, and the writer was thenceforward under a spell to follow the fortunes of this fresh since 1902.

again to accent this noeiiion for a country school for town children at Knolls without a jury. Miaa Anthony never paid either farther term. The Alderman i also the chairmen nf the. ltsiTUtheiaaaie YVrsruvraMnM Twai-mam arrival. Thackersy was remonstrated with by Green, Knutaford, on Saturday, April 28.

The the fine or the coats of the prosecution, and no a friend who oonld not bear to know that the Committa. work of the school last year was very luooesefal. appeal waa ever taken..