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Not only does it deal with the cause of this affliction, but tells of a most remarkable and successful cure which in hundreds of most complicated and difficult cases has brought permanent relief beyond possibility of relapse. We are pleased to say this book, entitled "The Stammerer's Guide," is to be sent free to all those whom it will interest. As a criterion of its value we need only say that its author is Mr. A. Appelt, of the Northern Speech Institute, "Kotree," Alexandra Park, Manchester. Mr. Appelt is the only specialist who gives a legal guarantee of a permanent cure. Application for the booklet should be sent to him at the address given. This immense tui bine line, which cost £1,500,000, made her first trip to New York in 5 days 54 minutes from land to land. SHALL BRITAIN RULE BOTH AIR AND SEA? Our Daily Bread. Oct. 1st, 1907. Are we within measurable distance of starvation? The rise in the price of bread has come as a reminder of one of those elementary facts of existence that overshadow in their significance even the most momentous of political revolutions. "Give us this day our daily bread" is the universal petition of the human race. If we are to credit the calculations of Sir William Crookes and Professor Silvanus Thompson, the day when our daily supply of bread will cease is not far distant. The wheat-growing area of the world, we are apt to forget, is strictly limited in extent, for wheat will only grow in temperate countries. The present production of the wheat-growing lands is sufficient to provide bread for 666,000,000 people. The mouths to be filled already number 585,000,000. We are, therefore, dangerously nearing the food limit. As bread-eaters have been increasing at double the rate of the area of wheat under cultivation, the day when we shall starve cannot be far removed. At present it is the white races, the wheat-eaters, who dominate the world. What will be their fate when wheat fails? Will their heritage pass to the eaters of rice, the food of the yellow peoples of the earth? acre. The Scientist to the Rescue. This is an alarming prospect which should stimulate the white wheateating races to energetic efforts to increase the yield of wheat per At present the average number of bushels raised per acre in New Zealand is 25; while in Russia and many other countries the acre only produces nine bushels. To fertilise wheat and increase its yield nitrogen is required, and the demand for nitrates has been so great in recent years that the natural available supply is approaching exhaustion. Unless we can discover some means of making two ears of wheat grow where one grew before, we shall surely starve. We need to call in the scientist to our aid. He in his turn is ready to summon the air to the rescue, and to obtain from it the nitrates necessary for the production of a supply of wheat equal to the demand for that prime staple of life. A process, so Professor Thompson tells us, has recently been perfected by which atmospheric nitrogen can be converted into a fertiliser equal in value to the product of the Chilian nitrate mines. Already three establishments are engaged in the manufacture of nitrate of lime by this process on a scale and at a price that make it a commercially marketable commodity. An unlimited supply of fertiliser means an immensely increased yield of wheat. Science has redressed the deficiency of Nature and enabled us to banish the spectre of wholesale starvation from our midst, at least for some time to come. The Achilles Heel of Civilisation. The threatened strike in the railway world has also served as a reminder of how easily the complex mechanism of modern life can be put out of gear. For railways are the Achilles heel of a civilised State. They are its most vulnerable point of attack. vulnerable point of attack. To paralyse them is like stopping the circulation of the blood in the human body. No one has any conception of what a general strike affecting all the railways of the kingdom would mean. The mere possibility of such a strike has been sufficient to bring about a drop of ten million sterling in the nominal value of railway stock. An actual stoppage would cause intolerable inconvenience to the general public, would demoralise trade in every branch, and result in a vast amount of suffering the extent and intensity of which it is impossible to estimate. As a people we live from hand to mouth and depend absolutely upon the railways to bring to us our daily bread. Even a temporary difficulty in the rapid handling of the goods traffic by the railways is sufficient at once to send up the price of |