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THE MAGAZINES

The. Toll Of The, citiex-The, toll,
Of the cities is strife, 1t Is no more
toil-it is strife, man, with man. No
joyous songs accompany it,: Man Wrests
from man the, fruit of the toll of other
men; which is a mad perversion of the
strength of body and brain. The treas
ures pass from the one to the other The
victors have them, and the vanquished
lack them. - Neither fish nor
wool, nor hewn wood, nor welded iron
Is here added to the. sum Of treasure.
which yet marvelously increases. Whence
does it come? OF what vast value is: It,
that men should murder love, in strife for.
It? That is past Understanding; for. from
season to, season, the earth and the sea
bounteously provide for all the needs of
men. = Even so! The victors make
the night hideous with glitter and laugh
ter, sleeplessly continuing, as If some
great thing had been achieved. True
night is silent and dark. They daub it
with flaring inventions; they fill its silence
with frivolity. = - The vanquished?
They envy. They. are harnessed every
dawn they are whipped, they are driven.
In envy they die.--1Norrnan Duncan in
The New, Broadway MAGAZINE for July, !
The july number. . 81 The. Popular Sci
ence Monthly contains the following ar
ticles: 'sThe.. Relations Of Embryology
to Medical 7 :iProggreessss..,o by Professor
Charles sedig,wick M iihraof @',rhe Largest
American Collectton4 ofs Meteorites,'' by
L. P. Gratacap; '"The Plane of Ether"
by President David Starr. Jordan; Are
the Elements Transrhutable, the, Atoms
Of Motion?' by Professor s. Lawre4. ce
Bigelow;, pure Food Legislation by
Robert. Med. Allen: Wooden Flowers"
by DR.. Orville Paul Phillips; 1.-THE. Geo.
logical Prelude to the San Francisco
Earthquake" by George II. Ashley; "Our
Greatest Earthquakes" by Myron Leslie
Fuller; 1.-THE Typhoid Fever Epidemic at
Palo Alto by Edith. v, Matzke;, '."r'he
American Association for the Advance
Of the American Medical Association;
1.-THE New Harvard. Medical :, SCHOOL, !;
"Mr. Adams on the American College;
1.-The Causes Of Death '' j.
France suppIants England as the
Worlds Banker.-France is now playing
the rolo Of the worlds banker; England
lost her claim to the title when she went
to war in South Africa. A generation ago,
one had to so to London to feel the pulse
OF the International money market. To-
day., one makes better diagnosis in
Paris. ~ So: - '}...:
.Th. strides toward financial supremacy
which France Is making have been most
rapid in the past five years. In that time
French investors have taken up = many
mi1liard francs Of foreign obligations.
They furnished Great Britain with much
of the capital that went to finance the
Boer war; they loaned enormous amounts
to Russia, practically supplying the
money needed IN the struggle against
Japan; they provided I'd Germany with
81, 900, O0e;0 e0 marks In 1so4-5 to. carry on
her tremendous industrial enterprises;
they took a. liberal amount lof the last
Japanese loan, over half of the Russian
loan of last April, and finally, they sup;
piled borrowers in the United States: with
fully $3.50 200, 900 during the tight-money
period of last winter, and, are now
financing the bond and note issues; OF
some, Of our greatest corporations: From
France as an Investor" by! Charles r
Speare, in the American Monthly Review
Of Reviews for July. sy.'ss. -, -.