224 Four-in-Hand in Britain. 



working its own acres in small farms, untrammelled by 

 vicious laws, will she know what miracles can be wrought 

 by those who call each little spot their own — their 

 home. Englishmen are slow to change, but the day 

 is not far distant when ownership of land will depend 

 upon residence on it and its proper cultivation. Den- 

 mark's example will be followed. Cumulative taxes will 

 be levied upon each number of acres beyond a minimum 

 number, and large proprietors taxed out of existence as 

 they have been in Denmark, to the country's good and 

 nobody's injury. We tax a man who keeps racing-horses 

 or who sports armorial bearings. It is the same princi- 

 ple : we can tax a man who keeps a larger amount of 

 land than he can work to the State's advantage. The 

 rights of property are all very well in their place, but 

 the rights of man and the good of the commonwealth 

 are far beyond them. I wish England would just let 

 me arrange that little land matter for her. It would 

 save her a generation of agitation. 



Lancaster was an ancient Roman station, as is shown 

 by its name — Lune or Lone Castrum, the castle or 

 camp on the Lune or Lone, the little river which 

 washes its plain. For what saith Spencer in the Faery 

 Queen : 



" After came the strong shallow Lone 



That to old Lancaster its name doth lend." 



The memory of man goeth not back to the time 



