true one, for, though the Department actually loses on the operations, the State gains through the increased employment of labor, and in railway revenues, to say nothing of the gain brought about by doing away with what was once thought to be a scourge, in the killing and marketing at a profit of enormous quantities of rabbits. "Individual enterprise," says Mr. Lloyd, "could not look beyond the immediate loss, but Democracy, acting in this way, for the common good, is a larger sort of 'individual enterprise.' The Agricultural Department of South Australia makes freight contracts for the shippers, and sorts and puts the State stamp upon the various grades of produce, thus adding to their value and securing uniformity of quality under the various marks. Woman suffrage prevails in New Zealand, and a larger percentage of women than of men vote. Its influence has been helpful in legislation. work changes from an effort to bring criminals to justice to a self-denying labor to encourage them to reform their ship-wrecked lives and try again. The lawyer stands between her clients and the brutalizing influences of the jail, and rescues many to begin a new life. The minister pursues his work faithfully, but less aggressively. But ere long he catches the consecrated enthusiasm of Delia Marcheson. He comes to love her; then there comes to him, through the example of her zeal, the realization that he is not living unreservedly for mankind, whom he has consecrated himself to serve. The young people marry and go farther west to a mining town in the edge of the Rockies. Here they give themselves to the work of reclaiming wrecked lives. The place grows and becomes prosperous. But, just as the country people were preparing to harvest the ripening crops, hot winds came on, blighting the harvest and ruining the hopes of the whole community. Many leave the country, and the place becomes, after a time, almost deserted. The Rev. Mr. Fenlow goes east to seek relief for the suffering people that are left. While on his journey his train is wrecked and he is severely injured. His wife goes to him, and after a long period of nursing, the injured man is brought home, an invalid still. Then the faithful wife takes up the husband's work. She preaches for him each Sunday, ministers to the sick and does all the other pastoral duties. Though prejudice hampers her at first, the earnest woman wins everyone to her side within a short time, and her husband, who was himself a disbeliever in woman's work in the "higher sphere," yields his full approval. When, finally, the husband is able to work once more, he is given a ters ones of remarkable strong-minded- charge in a neighboring town, while the There is a comprehensive system of old-age pensions in the various colonies of Australasia. In New Zealand, the ideal of the law is that worn-out veterans of work shall, with the help of the State, have an income of fifty-two pounds a year. If a deserving man or woman has an annual income of less than that s im, the State makes it up to fifty-two pounds. A satisfactory examination as to the applicant's record for morals is required. Women receive the same pensions as men, and on the same conditions * A Daughter of the Prophets. The Abbey Press, New York, 264 pp., 12 mo. ness and its plot one of strong situations. The scene of the first part of the story is a town in the Northwest, where Robert Fenlow is rector of a church, and Delia Marcheson, the daughter of a county judge, just deceased, is engaged in the practice of law. Both are young people with a high sense of duty. Each finds problems of a difficult nature, but deals with them in a masterful manner. The young woman is imbued with an increasing pity for the sinful and erring, and her wife retains the original parish. The story is pleasantly and cleverly written, and the argument seems conclusive in favor of woman's larger work. An interesting fact is related in connection with the authorship of this book. The author is a nephew of Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of New York. The latter once entered into with Miss an argument Frances Willard on the subject of woman's place in the world, taking the conservative side of the question The Pioneer's Daughter and Kansas Ben. The following verses, taken from the Lebanon He was a crafty widower; They called him Kansas Ben. Two wives lay 'neath the prairie sod, Of gold he had a goodly store; He bought a thousand acre farm Was this: To get and keep. A brave and sturdy farmer His daughter Nell, a sprightly maid, And in and out the cottage door Her father's cook and housemaid, too, And one warm day, down by the spring- He mopped his brow and thought how nice "Twould be to have a wife. To do his chores and cook his meals, While resting there, he thought aloud- A chipmunk on the fence near by Her father's old, and that air farm I think I'll go to church tonight, And so it was: The people stared But when the last hymn died away, When Nellie Gray stepped out the door, A stir among the crowd behind, And then this native daughter Was borne away by a native sonA younger man had got her, While Kansas Ben looked on in rage, Because the girl had snubbed him, And Biddy answering from the grass- got-her!" ALEX. SWEEK Second Vice President Oregon Native Sons. The teacher thought she had made an impression. "Yes," she repeated, "I must send for your father." "You better not," said the boy. "Why not?" inquired the teacher. "Cause he charges $3 a visit." A Maiden on Time. Men claim that women are tardy-in fact that they're never on time, That among their thousand sweet virtues promptness you never will find. But I know of a dear little woman, quite worthy of praise in rhyme, Who is pretty and gracious and charming, and always, yes, always, on time. She never is fretful and flurried, nor given to dumps nor to tears; She's a beautiful Grecian maiden who has posed on my clock for years! -Emma C. Dowd, in The Ladies' Home Journal. Books. Student life in a Western university is vividly portrayed by Mr. Joy Lichtenstein in a book with the title "For the Blue and Gold." The plot is laid at the University of California. The story describes undergraduate life with its c'ass-room incidents, its athletics, and, incidentally, its love affairs. The advantages of the co-educational college are made ma ifest. The rivalry with neighboring colleges is described with loyal spi it. The story is one of the best ever written on college life. A Queer Frontier Experience. In narrating the frontier experiences of "The First White Baby Born in the Northwest," in The Ladies' Home Journal for August, W. S. Harwood tells of a queer experience that befel the family in the first year after settling on a farm far removed from the settlements. "The winter had been unusually long and severe, and their store of provisions ran low. It was a long distance to the nearest base of supplies, and communication with the outside world had been cut off. Indians in the neighborhood one night broke into the granary where the wheat was stored and stole a quantity. In doing this a large amount of broken glass became mixed with the wheat which the Indians left, so for many days, amidst much merry story-telling and many a joke and laugh, in spite of the serious situation, the family gathered about a large table in their living room and spent the short winter days picking over the wheat, kernal by kernal, in order to free it from the pieces of glass. For this wheat stood between them and starvation, and none of its precious kernals must be lost. Their stock of flour had long since wasted away, as had most of their food supplies, so they boiled and ate the wheat without grinding. Relief reached them just in time to prevent a sad ending to the experience.' There are two days in the week about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yesterday and tomor ow. Live for today. That is the limit of human life, mercifully measured by God, for our endurance. Most of the tragedy in the world comes from the regret for yesterday or the fear of tomorrow.-Robert J. Burdette. * Last year I came home from abroad. As we crossed the Atlantic and were in a fog the fog-horn would blow, and it was very disagreeable, and yet the disagreeable ncise was for our safety, and I wondered if we should not find out some time that the disagreeable things in our lives were really the means of our safety. -Mrs. Margaret Bottome. *** Lean meats, eggs, milk and cheese are, in the proper proportions and when taken with succulent vegetables and fruits, desirable foods for summer. But the fats of meats, and fat meat such as pork, large quantities of cream and butter, as well as olive oil, should be avoided. The latter, however, is preferable, as it does rot contribute so rapidly to the bodily heat as do the animal fats. Avoid hot and heavy deserts. Use fruits in season in abundance.-Mrs. S. T. Rorer, in The Ladies' Home Journal. * * * After we have done our best for the children we may be surprised to discover that "unmapped country" within them, of whose existence we had not known, or whose boundaries we can never know. Be assured it is there for a purpose, and, like pain, may have a sublime mission. Let us be charitable. To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. It is reported that a young man, being examined preparatory to joining the church, was asked, "Under whose preaching were you converted?" one der nobody's preaching" was the prompt reply: "I was converted under my moth er's" practicing. Did any preacher ever utter so powerful a sermon as the young man embodied in those few words. In 1800 the first patent ever issued to a woman was granted-for straw weaving. " In Politics American civil authority was first set up in the Philippines on July 4, when Judge William H. Taft was inaugurated as the first American governor. In his inaugural address, Judge Taft reported good progress toward the complete pacification of the islands. He said that twenty-seven provinces had already been organized, that sixteen were ready for organization and that only five are now under military rule by reason of their still being in a state of revolt. There is a universal desire for education among the Filipinos, and several hundred American teachers are now on their way thither, to organize schools. English and Spanish will both be used in the courts. The government of Manila has been reorganized and the city has been given a charter similar to that of the District of Columbia. The natives of the archipelago are coming to realize that the American government will be a salutary one. General Belarmino, with 250 men, in the Albay province, surrendered early in July, following the action of General Cailles, who, on June 24, surrendered with 600 men. The outlook toward the peaceful reconstruction of the islands is very promising. pudiated and renewed confidence in Bryan refused. Last year these propositions were the chief rallying points. The new platform ignores the silver question. The influence of Tom L. Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland and a rising political aspirant, was a marked feature of the proceedings. Mayor Johnson's pet schemes of municipal and national control of public-service corporations were endorsed in the platform. This document further demands "the suppression of all trusts and a return to industrial freedom." Colonel James Kilbourne, a Columbus manufacturer, was nominated for Governor by acclamation. The Liberal Party in England is in an almost demoralized condition. Its attitude toward the Boer war is one of uncertainty and equivocation. Its leader, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, has placed himself in rather a neutral position toward the war policy of the Conservative Ministry. The Liberal leader called the party chiefs together on July 9. when he asked them to either repudiate or endorse his leadership. They did the latter, but there is division within the Liberal ranks, in that the Irish members are, without exception, frankly pro-Boer, while the majority of the party are at heart supporters of the South African policy. In Science * M. Santos Dumont, a young Brazilian by birth, but who has lived in Paris for some time, has invented the most successful airship yet designed. The invention was made in response to an offer of 100,000 francs to the first inventor who should successfully launch an airship in the vicinity of St. Cloud, sail to the Eiffel Tower, encircle it three times and return to the starting point. M. Dumont successfully circled the tower on July 13, but on his return part of the machinery gave out. The airship consists of a balloon shaped like a long cylinder, below which is suspended a car containing a |