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being taken to haul the sledges laden
with provisions over the ice.
To Fortify St. Helena.

WITH provisions over the ice.
To Fortify st. Helena.
5, AS the result of a scare among
British military and naval anthori,
ties, due to the proposed establish
ment by Germany of a naval base
on the kamerun coast, st. Helena is
to be strongly fortified The place
where the Man of. Destiny" died is
to be rendered impregnable, if plans
now being made are put into effect.
In discussing the proposal, Secre-
tary Wise of the St Helena fortinca-
ton committee, said:
For many generations st. Helena
has been known as the citadel of the
South Atlantic, and yet, despite its
strategical Importance, the liberal
government withdrew Its garrison in
the interests of economy This has
been well described as a suicidal
policy by no less an authority than
Admiral Sir Edward Fremantle. The
armament at st. Helena at present
consists of modern guns so mounted
as to defend the harbor and roadstead,
| as we'll as to resist landing parties
or attacks by torpedo boats. All the
ammunition has been removed, how
ever, and there is nobody to man the
guns except five native police, who
act as the bodyguard of the governor.
| All OF this is to be changed in view
of the announcement of Germany,
and st. Helena is to be strongly forti-
| fed"
Pity Poor America!
! Pity poor America. 1t is rapidly
going to destruction, if the eonclu-
sions derived by an editorial writer
for Reynolds Newspaper from a pc
rusal of Upton Sinclair's new book,
The Industrial Republic" are cor
rect.
Our own social and industrial sys-
tenn gives little cause for boasting,
modestly admits the sapient British
Journalist, but it is undeniably far
superior to that which the United
States has evolved. The inequalities
of wealth are not so glaring; there
is still a trace CT humanity left in
many Of our employers; and our po-
/ itical life is generally admitted to be
free from the worst faint of all,
graft Moreover. while commerciel
greed is rampant enough in England,
the nation is not wholly given over
to it, and we miss here that note OF
stony callousness which is the doml-
nant characteristic of American In
dustrialism.
AS to trusts. it is refreshing to
his head about them. He perceives
that they we're an inevitable product
! of the rough-and-tumDl Of unregula
ted commercial life. And they have
done lie United States some service
, having disciplined the laborets
taught the leaders foresight, enter
terprise and administrative capacity
aud made possible government owner
ship. The trusts are coming to the
end of their usefulness. They are dy
| ing of ananition. They will eventual
, ly be killed by the revolt of an aWak
! ened nation.
Mr.. Sinclairs book is, in all truth
lurid. repeIlant picture of modern
t American social and industrial con
ditions. We are shown capital clamor
ing for its dividends: Gpulent Peck
shifts declaring that God, in His In
finite wisdom. has intrUsted to them
' the property interests of the country
[ colossal trusts prcying on production
: and regarding the common people as
/ of less account than the machinery
which they manipulate; young chill
2 dren working in mines and factories
B. girls so shamelessly sweated thai
they are driven to prostitution, anc
Y municipal and political corruption
T everywhere And this is that Ameri
n ca towards yhich English radicals
c were wont TO turn admiring eyes as I
: they saw there the dreamed-of demo
Il cratic paradise; the new world which
= in the eloquent words of BishoI
l. Ber1lely, was called in to redress the
balance of the old"
J. Pecress Opens Shop. -
e Lady Auckland is the latest peer
# ess 10 become a shOp-keeper. OWN;
z ito the loss of fortune in stock specu
Y lation by Lord Auckland, the pluck!
d woman has opened place in Bake
i street where she sells artistic furni
l. ture and advises on home decoration
n The front Of the premises gives n<
7 hint of the distinguished merchant
e for it pears the firm name, Morton
T & Edwards" 1t is a dainty LITTLE
d place full of the most charming ant
G artistic articles. and a veritab'e temp
a tation to anyone entering it with
g well-ined purse and a taste for TIL
! beautiful and decorative in house fur
+ niture.
Lady Auckland is great grand
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