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from the depression in alow. In this country, as has been noted in those columns, average prices, according to Bradstreet's, have reached point even nearer the high record of the pro- panic period.

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14th, sud 3rd (Bavarian Azay Corpe, with a cavalry division, while the Blue Arry will be made up of the 13th (Würtemberg) and the 1st (Bavaria) Army Corps, with a cavalry corps and the airship.

The truth of the matter seems to be that the Be completely hus General von Moltke, the world is now undergoing to a degras and an Chief of the General Staff, roiled his intentions experience-as-on-upon-it-utter the discovery that it is not yet really known over wint country of Amorice and the flooding of Europe with these tremendous foreca will be ongaged, but it the great silver supplies of the Incas aud is thought likely that the scane of the operations the mines of Potosi As a resalt, at will be a triangle lying between Mergentheim, chief money metal of the time was enormously Crailsheim, and Heilbron, hat is the corner of depreciated From 1570 to 1640 prices rose. Würtemberg contiguous to Baden, and Bararia 200 and more per cent and the consequences to The healguasters of the Emperor and of the the classes living or fixed incomes were most General Staff will be at Mergentheim, which serious, leading to large pauperization, spooful- Le bright with Bags and greenery to-day, inty of the wage earning classes, who held a low anticipation of his Majesty's arrival to-morrow. place in the social sale and could not band The Emperor. with his guests, who include together to force ap their wagas proportionately the Archduke Francis Ferdinani, the Kings It is a curiona fact that the English orown of Wirtenborg and Saxony, the Grand Duke itself was n chief sufferer next to the wage of Baden, Shefket Pasha, the urkish: General classes, since the mown revenues were largely issimo, Mr. Winston Churchill, and Liezt derived from lands in such a manner as to General Sir Brace Hamilton, will take up his preclude any advantage from the rising prices cosidence at the Kurhaus.

of foodstuffs. History further tells us that the landed proprietors prosted greatly from the money depreciation or increasing prices-es our

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The problem set the two commouders of manipulating such extensive forces ever hilly and wooded country, affor" g excellent cover,

moriesa farmers have been prospering under is not the only feature the lends this year's the present similar experience; while the nort maneuvres their special interest. The intro class to profit was the middle or trading class, duction of several now technical features, fore-

whose business was then highly individualized, most among them the employment of the mili- and not, as now concentmted into great employ tary dirigible airship Gross II., which will be ing concerns, with comparatively few owners to attached to the army weakest in cavalry, there share the increasing profits from rising prices, fore, presumably, to General von Bock's, will sud a vast army of clerical employes, who are in also come in for much attention. This will be much the same positions of the age-carnera of the first thorough trial of an airship for war-the sixteenth and seventeenth centurida. Цко риграет

and the conditions imposed on As for the average citizen in the crush of the, Greas are calculated to test its quali-rising costs of living there is to be discernet tice for active service to the utmost. The air for fim little hope of relief this side of the ship will work together with the cavalry in beginnings of exhaustion in gold production, or advance of the army, its wireless apparatus commanicnting to the general in command in the rear the positions of the enemy, and the affect of its own side's artillery fire. The umpires have decided, however, that if the sirship descends lower than 4,000ft it must hoist a red flag, signifying that it is ont of action. It will then be unable to transmiting or mercantile classes who bay on a rising further raporta.

Besides this important innovation, wireless telegraphy is to be used more extensively than

change in the monetary stauflard, which le not likely and not presently advisable. Against this vising cost of living great lumbers of the in

dustrial classes find more than ample protection in rising prices for what they produce or sell, and the consequent appreciation of rental values

the farmors, the manufacturers and the tmd- market, bat sell later on with the market stil rising The creditor class who benefit from a condition of monetary appreciation, will-con-

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a higher average rate of interest. The or

as regels ug stations for messages transmitted ganized wago classes will also suffer, but to a

by a portable apparatas carmed by the cavalry.growingly loss degree as they are able to force

The provision winde for the daily rations for the two armies include 1,550ent. of bread, 550evt. of ment, 450cwt, of vegetables, 225crt of Fica, 27cwt of cellee, and over 4,000wt. of fodder for horses. The number of portable Co., kitobens, which were introduced with so much success last year, has been increases, and orders have been issued for the troops, as far as possible, to do their own foraging, purchasing, killing preparing, and cooking their own ment.

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Few people realise, says the Madras Mail, how widespread is the effect of the rise of prices iu Lodia, and how closely it touches the lives of everyone of us, European and Indian alike. They

regand it, for the most part, as an ecÙN-

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Calcutter but has been going on for

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