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Fitzgerald Leader.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
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K3XTA.PP SORT.
EDITORIAL AOTES.
A Government tobacco plantation i
the largest addition to the things owned
nil d operated hy Victoria, Australia.
r The cities are congested. “Back to
the soil” might well be the rallying cry
of the present economic revolution,
states a writer in Public Opinion.
r Great Britain is among the lowest oi
civilized countries in regard to the ten¬
der age at which it allows child labor
in factories, Seventy-six thousand
children of ten years of age are now at
work.
Within the last few years the distinc¬
tion once enjoyed by Philadelphia of
being the greatest manufacturing city
in the United States has passed from.,
the Quaker metropolis to the City of
New York.
A correspondent of the Chicago
Times-Herald wants to know how her
boy’s hair should be shingled. Don’t
shingle his hair at all, is the reply;
shingle his trousers occasionally, “like
your mother used to do.”
Sold $7,000,000 worth! This is
what Kansas did with poultry and eggs
last year, according to the very com¬
plete report of Secretary Coburn of the
State Board of Agriculture, recently
issued. The report shows these pro¬
ducts were sold to the value of $6,-
923,882.____
flu 1875, on the authority of one of
our leading publicatibns, there was
not an organized school system in any
Southern State, aud yet in 1896 the
South enrolled 4,000,000 public school
children, expending for the support of
her various school systems not less
than $28,000,000.
There is “food for thought” in the
announcement that in the new high
school building in Detroit, Mich., a
room has been set apart that will ac¬
commodate no less than 300 bicycles.
The idea is not a new 7 one, but this is
believed to be the first time that dis¬
tinct arrangements for the accommoda¬
tion of cyclists have been made in the
plans for a school building. Public
schools generally do not need to pro¬
vide bicycle rooms, as the pupils live
near them, but such rooms are a ne¬
cessity in the case of high schools that
draw 7 pupils from a large area.
Since the increase of the tax on
spirits from ninety cents to $1.10 a
gallon, illicit distilling has increased
to a point almost, if not quite, beyond
control, declares the Louisville Cou¬
rier-Journal. This is the case particu¬
larly in the mountainous districts in
the South. Recently evidence has been
obtained of its extension into the
North. A Bhort time ago a large quan¬
tity of illicit w'hisky was captured in
Montana, and an investigation dis¬
closed the fact that it was manufac¬
tured in Nebraska. That it is rapidly
increasing and extending in many di¬
rections internal revenue officers say
is beyond doubt, and with only the
$50,000 appropriated by Congress for
the detection and suppression of illicit
distilling the Internal Revenue Bu¬
reau is almost helpless to stem the
tide.
r The San Francisco Argonaut says:
• “It is impossible to find a member of
either House of Congress who will con¬
fess that his official salary enables him
to more than cover expenses, What
is it that they are all to enjoy after
they have w 7 on the goal? First of all,
the annual salary of $5000. For rep¬
resentatives add $1200, allowed yearly
for clerical services, but whose ex¬
penditure need not be accounted for
to any one. For members of both
Houses add $125 a year, allowed for
stationery, the balance to be drawn at
the end of each session if not all used.
It seldom happens that more than $50
of this allowance is expended. There
is no reason why a thrifty man should
not save $1000 or $2000 during each
term in the House. It is hardly pos¬
sible for a Senator to save, however,
since he has to spend a great deal of
money to keep up w 7 ith his greater
social duties. To the millionaire mem¬
ber of Congress the annual salary is
merely ornamental. It is the heavy
swell thing for the Legislator of this
brand to turn over bis $5000 a year to
his private secretary, who generally
has his employer’s private interests to
attend to in addition. It is said that
Hanna not only gives his secretary his
whole annual salary, but $1000 in ad¬
dition. Brice is said to have given his
whole Senatorial salary to his secretary,
while his social pilot probably receives
even more—some say $25,000. ... _
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‘Tretty soon.” ‘‘Pretty soon.” How the soft phrase slips,
With limpid, laughing cadence, through the languidfips, , •
Where the plumes of the palms by filagree the south wind swayed,
Fling on the dewy terraces their of shade.
When the almond and the myrtle have taken in their net,
The doves that tread the measure of the tender minuet,-
And the nestlings of the nightingale cuddle low and croon soon.”
To the laughter of the laurel, ‘‘Pretty soon,” “Pretty
“Pretty soon,” “Pretty soon,” cries Youth, I shall make
A home amid the happy hills for her dear sake.
There I will load my darling as Dawn doth lead the Day,
While God is making morning I will sit with her and say,
“Yon river to its ocean troth will never he more true,
The best of life is mine to-day because of love and you.” *
And heart shall rhyme to heart as unto the summer moon,
The swinging sea doth sing “Pretty soon,” “Pretty soon.”
“Pretty lily soon,” “Pretty soon,” sighs Age, I shall see
That we call Heaven in the stream Eternity,
And pluck the rosy tlie amaranths that make its meadows sweet,
Still swaying to paces of the silver sandaled feet,
When beneath the within healing for trees they refill the crystal urns,
O how the soul me their blessed J.nd welcome yearns,
But the band of shining spirits, with lips lutes iu tune,
Bid me wait and bide their coining, “Pretty soon,”, “Pretty soon.”
—Robert M’lntyre, in Chicago Times-Herald.
$ All’s Well That
& ;-»\ Ends Well.
BIG, white steamboat
backs away from the
? . 0 «» wharf, swings about,
and goes slowly down
£ % the river sounding her
whistle at intervals,
for the fog is coming
' in rapidly.
The few loafers on the piers eye
curiously the tall, elegant woman who
has come ashore.
She, casting a half scornful glance
about, aj)proaches old Jed Rawson,
and puts this query:
“Can I hire any one to take me
across the river?”
“I reckon not,” declares old Jed,
taking out his pipe to stare at her
with astonishment, “The steamer
goes into port jest below here ter wait
fer the fog ter lift. Thar’s no gittin’
across the river tor-night, marm!”
“Can. you manage a boat, my good
man?”
All the loafers smiled at this. Old
Jed breaks into a mellow laugh which
sends a perfect net-work of wrinkles
over his brown face.
“Why, leddy,” he says, “there ain’t
nary a boy of ten or up’ard alongshore
as don’t know how to handle a boat.”
The lady laughs, too. She is very
charming; even old Jed realizes that.
She takes a gold piece from her dainty
purse and says:
“If you will take me and my trunk
across the river, this shall be yours.”
The trunk is a huge affair and Jed
looks at it with one eye closed and
shakes his head.
“If it warn’t fer the fog, marm,
eny one on us ’ud take yer aerost fer
nothing. But we couldn’t see the
boat’s length to-night.”
The lady utters a sharp exclamation,
anger and disappointment clouding
her features. A brown-faced lad steps
from the corner of the little red bag¬
gage house where he has been stand¬
ing.
“If you dare to go, madam, I w 7 ill
take you,” he says.
She gives him a radiant smile at
which he . Hushes to the roots of his
fair, waving hair.
Jed and one or two of the other men
remonstrated with him to no purpose.
A small brown wherry is brought up
to the flight of weather beaten steps
leading down from one side of the
wharf.
The big trunk is lowered into it, and
the lady handed down by Andrew
Russell, who is thrilled by the touch of
her cool, satiny Augers. He pulls off
into the fog bnnk while the loungers
on the wharf make their comments.
“Mighty fine looking craft that.”
< . 1 ‘Carries too much sail.”
: “What -can she want over the river?”
“P’haps she’s bound for Barring¬
ton’s.”
“P’liaps. She looks like his kind.”
It is late in the evening -when
Andrew Russell returns, Old Jed
meets him hurrying up the village
street.
“Well, Andrew, you got across all
right?”
“Yes, I had a compass.”
f “Where’d she go?”
‘‘I can’t tell you,” is the curt reply,
as the boy passes on.
All subsequent inquires elicit no
further information than that Andrew
landed her at the road which leads up
by Barrington’s, and that she expected
some sort of conveyance to come for
her there.
Barrington is reported to be im¬
mensely wealthy. He never mingles
with the people there, and he lives in
a lordly fashion. He brings his own
company from distant parts, and there
are stories of gay aud wild doings at
the great house which fill the unso¬
phisticated natives with amazement.
He comes and goes as he likes, and
is altogether very mysterious.
Andrew Russell has a sweetheart on
that side of the river—pretty Jen
Hardy, the fisherman’s daughter.
It is only natural that frequently
lie should row across in his wherry.
But Jen Hardy does not see him
every time he goes during the next
fortnight., woodland , He tramps through a strip
of across lots until he
reaches a sheltered vale this side of
Barrington’s.
Here he meets the mysterious lady
again and again. Andrew is twenty
—tall, strong aud manly looking.
Cars Ferris, as she calls herself, uses
all her blandishments to complete his
enthralment. She tells him a pretty
story. How’ that her uncle is de¬
termined to make a nun of her. That
Barrington, being her cousin and
friend, she’ has come to him for pro¬
tection, until she can get out of the
country.
She wants to go to Europe, for as
soon as her uncle discovers her hid¬
ing place he will follow her. She is
apparently very confiding with An¬
drew, who is too innocent to see the
flaws in her story. “Would he think
she was twenty-five?” she asked co-
quettishly.
ay-'Andrew returns a decided negative,
never once dreaming that she is ten
years older. Jen Hardy is too proud
to own.ythat Andrew does not come to
motherf_ see hei£ any more. Andrew has no
and his father, who is not a
very clear-sighted man, sees no change
in his boy, who is moody or exalted
by fits.
In two weeks’ time Andrew im¬
agines himself madly in love with
this woman. He does not stop to
reason over the absurdity of so bril¬
liant a creature finding any attraction
in an ignorant boy like himself.
One night he goes home intoxi¬
cated by the memory of a round white
arm about his neck, and the pressure
of soft, warm lips to his own. A
week later, one hour before midnight,
he crosses the river in his little brown
wherry.
On the big rock which serves for a
pier, a man and a woman await him.
Barrington carries a valise in each
hand. They enter the wherry, and
Andrew pulls swiftly and silently down
the river. In about an liqur they come
to a small cove, -where a commodious
sailboat is tied to a ring in the rocky;
shelving bank.
They go aboard this, the little
wherry is fastened astern, the sails are
unfurled, aud on they go dancing light¬
ly out into the waters of the bay.
At nightfall of the next day they
come to a great city. Barrington and
the lady go ashore. Some purchases-
are to be made here, and Barrington is
to see a man who will buy the boat—
this is what they have ‘told Andrew.
In the meantime he is to wait here
with the boat until their return, when
they will all go aboard the great ocean
steamship whose black funnels rise
from a neighboring wharf.
that Andrew is not particularly pleased
Barrington is to accompany them,
belief but nothing can dampen the joy of his
that she loves him, and he can
never forget that her lips have touched
his own. The poor hoy is quite daft
for the time, and does not dream that
he is being duped.
.
The city clocks aie striking 10,when
ft ragged street gamin crosses the
wharf and hails Andrew.
“Hi, there. Bo your name Rus-
sell?”
Andrew nods, and the boy hands
him a note.
“A big swell uptown sent this to
yer.” and it
Andrew takes the note tears
open. He knows, of course, that the
“big swell” is Barrington. The note
reads as follows:
“When you read this we shall be
aboard an outward bound express.
Goodby, my dear boy, many thanks
for your gallantry. Mr. Barrington
makes you a present of the boat as a
reward for your services. 0. F.”
For a moment Andrew stares at the
note in dumb amazement. His brain
reels. The letters dance blood red be¬
fore his eyes. He staggers down into
the little cabin, and throws himself
prostrate upon the floor. He breaks
into great sobs which shake him front
head to foot. To be fooled, played
with, cast aside, when I10 had served
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their turn! , - • j
Oh, the bitterness, the grief, and
rage in the boy’s hot heart as he rolls
tp and fro uppn the cabin floor!
All night long he battles with this
first great trouble. In the morning he
rouses himself and goes up into the
city to finfl a purchaser for his boat,
for the sight of it is hateful to him, and
he must have money to get home with.
He sells it for $150, which is a pretty
sum for a poor lad. At noon he has a
sunstroke, and is conveyed to the city
hospital.
When he comes out of his stupor he
finds himself under arrest for being the
accomplice of an adventuress, He
learns, to his horror, that Cars Ferris
is Madge Delaphine. That she en-
gaged herself as companion to a little,
miserly old woman. That she and
Barrington, who is her lover, planned
the old woman’s murder, in order to
obtain possession of the money and
jewels which she hoarded about her.
That Madge Delaphine accomplished
the murder by means of a subtle poi¬
son, packed the body into a trunk, and
conveyed it to Barrington’s house,
where it was buried in the cellar.
The very trunk which Andrew fer¬
ried across the river! Andrew is
taken before a Magistrate, where he
tells his story, omitting the love pas¬
sages. But the Magistrate is an as¬
tute old man, and reads between the
lines and pities the lad.
“The -woman and her lover have
been arrested. I want you to identify
her.”
He opens the door to an inner room
and utters an exclamation of dismay.
There, prostrate upon the floor, with
her jewelled hairpin stuck through
her heart, lies Madge Delaphine quite
dead.
“Is this the woman?”
“Cars Ferris had dark hair,” re¬
turns Andrew, vtho is white to bis
litDS.
The Magistrate lifts a wig of dark
hair from a table nearby.
“A very simple disguise,” ho says,
and motions Andrew back to the outer
room, where, after a few more ques¬
tions and some fatherly advice, he
dismisses him. The misery of An¬
drew’s journey home is boundless.
When he reaches the familiar spot
he is taken ill and for weeks is de¬
lirious with brain fever. Jen Hardy
is hi3 patient and faithful nurse. To
Andrew it seems as if the memory of
his folly must torture him forever.
But as the months go by the shame
and agony die away little by little.
Jen, faithful soul, believes in him
and loves him. He is young, and the
world is fair, and life is pleasant af¬
ter all.
80 gradually he returns to his old
allegiance, and it all ends as it should
—with a -wedding.—Dublin World.
' Making: Vinegar From Honey.
The experiment of making vinegar
from honey has been tried in Europe,
and, as might be expected, was suc¬
cessful. Water was added to the
honey, which, when in the first stage,
made a palatable alcoholic drink,
which has long been known under the
name of metheglin. Of course, when
this fermentation progressed to its
final stage it became vinegar. But
some American experimenters with
honey vinegar have found that it pos¬
sessed peculiar properties. A -writer
in American Bee Gleanings says that
this honey vinegar is absolutely worth¬
less for making sour pickles, as of cu¬
cumbers or other vegetables often pre¬
served by being put in vinegar. This
hardens their exterior surface and pre¬
vents decomposition. When such
vegetables were put into honey vine- ■
gar, on the contrary they were made
soft, and soon when exposed -to air
spoiled. This seems to be a very sug¬
gestive fact. Ordinary cider or other
vinegar made from sweet fruits or
sugar is reckoned injurious to diges¬
tion. Why? It is evidently because
of this hardening process, which pre¬
vents the digestive fluids from pene¬
trating it. Honey is nectar of flowers
mixed with gastric juices of the bee
which digests its food. It is likely,
therefore, that vinegar from honey will
not be.injurious to digestion. If the
honey remains in condition to soften
vegetables immersed in i^ that is just
what is needed to be done for food in
the stomach to aid digestion.
A Famous Fat Boy. * ’
Currituck County, North Carolina,
has long been famed for the most stal¬
wart men in the State, and now it adds
a product of a fat boy thirteen years
and six months old who weighed on
April 6th 438 pounds. His name is
Lewis T. Lewark. He has ten brothers
and sisters, whose weight ranges from
180 to 250 pounds. His parents are
under medium size and weight; his
ancestors were some times fat people,
showing that qualities skip children
and reproduce remote ancestors.—AL
lanta Constitution,
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r . Covering the Manure File.
If manure has any value, it is prob¬
ably fermenting, even in the coldest
weather, if left in a pile. A slight cov¬
ering of dry earth will absorb ammonia,
and will, if left on while the manure
rots down, make it nearly or quite as
rich as the manure itself. Its work in
absorbing ammonia continues even
when the pile is turned.
The Children's Garden,,. •
! Wherever possible, a little plot of
g ro und should bo devoted to the rais-
j U g 0 f herbs, more especially where
there ai;e little children in the family,
Mint, sage, rue and horehound are all
valuable as remedial agents. Sage tea
j s to be recommended in cases where
; there is’excessive perspiration during
s i ee p. It is also good for those who
sp it blopd from the stomach. baby when Itue he has tea
j s excellent for the
co lio. It is also good in cases of ner-
yousness. Horehound is invaluable to
use f or colds, as teas, syrups, etc.
Thyme and tansy also have their uses,
alK \ should have a place in the garden.
York Ledger.
Raising Chickens. _
Those’who expect to raise poultry
without devoting constant care and at-
tention to them will generally make a
failure.
“Constant care is what they need,
A painstaking and sensible application
to the needs and requirements of the
incubating eggs and growing chicks
It is necessary that the hen be watched
!in, t attended to while setting and the
eggs looked after every few days.
The first two or three days of a
chick’s life are the most, critical and as
they are very young and feeble great
care should be exercised in attending
to their wants. The early care is of
utmost importance and should be most
carefully watched and guarded during
the first week or two.—Cloud’s Poul-
try News.
Try a Few Sunflowers.
In planning to diversify crops this
season, try a small patch of sunflowers.
The value of the seed for poultry and
farm stock has long been recognized,
and of late years dairymen have siloed
t b e entire plant and claim that -it gives
as g0D q results as corn treated in the
same manner. The culture of this crop
is very simple. Prepare the grountj ps;
for corn and plant in drills, dropping a
seed about every four or five inches in
May. While any corn land will answer,
the plants' are gross feeders and the
richer the soil, the more satisfactory
the crop. Cultivate as corn, keeping
the ground as free from weeds as pos¬
sible. In the fall the time and method
of harvesting will depend upon whether
the crop is wanted for the seed alone
or for the seed and the fodder.—New
England Homestead.
L. Ventilation Overdone.
Within the Limits of my experience,
the warning to ventilate the cow stable
is about on a par with the great anxiety
of some writers that dairymen should
not overfeed their cows. We might
as well warn men not to be too good,
too honest or too cleanly in their
habits, for fear that they might be¬
come fanatics on these subjects. To
be sure, some cow stables need venti¬
lating, but should the whole roof be
taken off such stables and the cow-s
exposed to the starry heavens, that
would not remove the filth from those
stables. We are told that, numbers of
airshafts two or three feet in the clear
should extend from the floor up over
the cows’ backs and out at the roof,
■with other ventilators coming from
outside at the floor and opening over
the cows’ backs for fresh air.
This, I presume, presupposes an air¬
tight, hermetically sealed cow stable,
the approximation to which I; have
never seen unless it was in a stone
basement under ground, where cows
should never be put. My notion is
that cows should Stand on a floor well
drained and dry,.-with plenty of good,
dry bedding, and the stable kept clean;
and there should be space enough
above the cows for ample breathing
room.
If I saw a man filling his stable
with ventilators I would suspect he in¬
tended leaving the droppings of the
cows to lie iu the stable for a -week at
a time. The hired man would cer¬
tainly think that way and act accord¬
ingly.—L. S. Hardin, in Jersey Bul¬
letin.
Making Poultry Profitable.
A Massachusetts writer says: There
is probably no more seductive busi¬
ness connected ’with farming than is
the growing of poultry and eggs for
market. Neither is there any in which
disappointment is not more certain to
overtake the beginner who has not
prepared for his work by some previous
experience. The greatest trouble with
the amateur is liis tendency to do too
much with small capital and on too
small grounds, However, poultry
may be fed with purchased food, they
need at least a quarter of an acre for
each fifty fowls, and this must be so
situated that it can be plowed, sown
with grain and scratched over for
worms and insects throughout the
growing season. Only a small part of
the feed will be grown on this quarter
of an acre. Its value will consist
rather in the insect and vegetable food
it will furnish, and in giving enough
surface to scratch over, so that the soil
will not become poisoned by the ex¬
crement of fowls, which is the fruitful
source of disease in small yards. Yet
by sowing oats or wheat on this limited
area, it will provide both grain and in-
sects for the nutriment of the fowls,
with enough of growing grain to make
them digest their food well. If to this
be added rations of fresh-ground bone,
it will not need more to secure profit¬
able returns, But in no case should
more than fifty fowls be kept on one-
quarter of an acre. ■i
Keep More Bees;
Horticulturists, farmers and dairy¬
men should all keep bees, for the suc¬
cess of one is dependent upon the
other. When the germ in the' bloom
of many varieties of fruit is ready to
receive the life-giving powder, its own
balls of pollen are not ripe and it
must obtain it from some other bloom,
or the fruit will not set. Also some
varieties of fruit cannot be fertilized
by their own pollen. Nature has dele¬
gated insects to bring this dust and
deposit it upon the germ. Early in
the season, when fruit is in bloom,
there are but few insects abroad ex¬
cept honey bees, and if they do not
do this work the fruit crop will bo a
failure.
As an inducement or a bait for the
bees, a drop of sweet nectar is
secreted in the blood, and this is the
bee’s wages. The pollen also is her
hire, for this is what she makes her
bread of, to feed her brood. As she
fills her honey sack with nectar and
loads her baskets with pollen, the fer¬
tilizing powder is conveyed from bloom
to bloom, thus insuring a crop of fruit.
The dairymen are dependent upon the
bees for the great families of clover
which could not exist without their
agency. has whether
Every one who a home,
it is a village lot, or a few acres or a
large farm, should keep bees. Mr.
Muth, of Cincinnati, has kept them
with success upon the flat roof of his
store in that city, and an apiary at one
time rvas a success located upon the
roof of a building near Broadway,
New York City.—American Agricul¬
turist.
Cows Starving: to Death.
Let us see how this same improper
way of feeding works on a cow 7 . You
have milked your cow all summer, and
during the fall, and perhaps well into
the winter. She is quite low in flesh,
that is, muscle and lean meat and
blood. You think while she is dry for
a few -weeks it is not necessary to give
her grain. She has hay. It is mostly,
timothy, perhaps. She gets very lit¬
tle to build up her muscular system
out of. The calf she is carrying is
drawing hdavily on straw'will her. Timothy
hay, corn stalks and fill the
cow up well. She can get heat and
force and some fat from this food, but
it is very one-sided. You feel obliged
to economize, and feed lightly while
the cow is dry. Well, she gets along
during tlie cold weather, and as long
as no unusual strain is put on her.
By-and-by she comes to calving time,
and there is an unusual daain on her
vitality. This may be the last straw
that she cannot stand up under. And
you find her down and unable to get
up, perhaps, and you have to lift her
up from .time to time. A crossroads
cow doctor will talk about hollow horn
and wolf in the tail. Quite likely she
may die. At any rate she will not do
nearly as well as she ought to do all
that season. What was the trouble?
A slow starvation, and usually nothing
else. She has not been fed material
to make blood and flesh and muscle
out of in sufficient quantities. I have
been right in this fix myself, friends.
Three cows died on our farm the first
spring we owned it in just this way,
and the rest were of little account dur¬
ing the season. This was under a
tenant’s management. The next year
when we took care of ^kem it was with
the greatest difficulty that wd got some then
through alive. IV e did not knov. -
just’exactly what the matter was. I
have had to get neighbors to come and
help lift up cows with bags put under
them. Yes, and the cow doctor put
stuff on their heads’ for the hollow
horn and bored into the horn and split
their tails and put in pepper and salt
for wolf in the tail, the first year we
owned a farm and a tenant managed it.
Thank God, such days of ignorance
and barbarism are forever over. We
know now that the cow should have a
little nitrogenous food with the timo¬
thy and common hay, along through
the winter; such food as wheat bran,
oilmeal or cottonseed meal or gluten
meal. Or she should be fed on clover
hay. Then she can gradually build
up her muscular system while dry and
be in good condition to start the sea¬
son in good shape. You will get back
twioe the extra food fed and the cow
will be humanely treated. Now, re¬
member, friends, you can’t balance
‘ timothy hay, stalks, straw,
up corn
etc., with cornmeal. No; you must
feed bran, oilmeal, etc., for best re¬
sults. Better sell your corn and buy
wheat bran. If your cows are thin;
you might feed a little cornmeal, too,i
or you can feed it with clover actually hay.i
adding part bran. You may
be, feeding a cow liberally and still al¬
most starving her to death if the ra¬
tion is not properly balanced.—T. B.
Terry, in Practical Farmer. ■i
.... Sick Royalties.
It is remarkable that not only in-
Russia, but in Austria, Italy and
Spain, the health of either the sover¬
eign or the heir presumptive is a cause
of anxiety to statesmen, aud even the
German Emperor tis afflioted with a
constitutional "malady which is said to
be not without its effect on interna¬
tional politics.