LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR 



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LIFE EXTENSION 



lavy a lieutenant-commander is next to a 

 ommander and ranks with a major; a senior 

 ieutenant, the next in grade, ranks with an 

 rmy captain; a junior lieutenant ranks with 

 n army lieutenant. . 



In Canadian and American armies a lieu- 

 enant-colonel is below a colonel and above a 

 aajor. The grade of lieutenant-general usually 

 xists in the United States only in war time. 



In the United States army the pay of a 

 ieutenant-colonel ranges from $3,500 to $4,500 

 , year, the maximum being reached after 

 wenty years of service; that of the first lieu- 

 enant ranges from $2,000 to $2,800, and of the 

 econd lieutenant, from $1,700 to $2,380. In 

 he navy lieutenant-commanders on shore duty . 

 eceive from $3,000 to $4,000 a year, and those 

 t sea from $3,300 to $4,400. Senior lieuten- 

 nts have corresponding salaries ranging from 

 2,400 to $3,360; and from $2,640 to $3,696. 

 unior lieutenants receive from $2,000 to $2,800 

 rfiile on shore duty, and from $2,200 to $3,080 

 ;hile at sea. See RANK IN ARMY ANET NAVY. 



LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, in Canada, the 

 xecutive head of a province, and the direct 

 epresentative of the Crown in provincial gov- 

 rnment. He is not elected by the voters, as 

 re the governors of states in the American 

 Jnion, but is appointed by the Governor-Gen- 

 ral in Council. He has, therefore, the double 

 haracter of an officer of the Dominion as well 

 ,s of the province, just as the Governor-Gen- 

 iral is an officer of the Crown and of the 

 )ominion. In his official acts the lieutenant- 

 ;overnor follows the rules and usages which 

 ;overn the relations of the Governor-General 

 ,nd his advisers. He appoints his executive 

 :ouncil, or Ministry, and is guided by their 

 .dvice so long as they retain the confidence of 

 he legislature. He summons, prorogues (that 

 s, adjourns) and dissolves the legislature, 

 nakes appointments to office, and generally 

 >erforms all executive acts necessary for the 

 ;overnment of the province. He usually serves 

 or five years, but he is subject to removal by 

 :he Governor-General for "cause assigned," 

 vhich means that the reason must be given to 

 he Dominion Parliament. In Ontario and 

 Quebec the lieutenant-governor receives a sal- 

 iry of $10,000 a year; in Prince Edward Island, 

 57,000; in each of the remaining provinces, 

 9,000. 



In the United States. The lieutenant-gov- 

 ernor of a state of the Union occupies a posi- 

 tion analogous to that of the Vice-President 

 3f the United States. He presides over the 

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state senate, and succeeds to the office of gov- 

 ernor in case of the death or permanent dis- 

 ability of the latter. During temporary disa- 

 bility or absence of the governor from the state 

 he becomes acting governor. 



LIFE EXTENSION. There lived in Venice 

 five hundred years ago a Count named Cor- 

 naro. Although during his life few people 

 realized that he was remarkable, now, five 

 centuries later, we know that he was in his 

 way a great man. His fame will probably live 

 forever. Cornaro was born a nobleman in 

 rank. But this does not mean that he was 

 what might be termed a nobleman in body. 

 As a child he was sickly. He suffered ill health 

 all during his early manhood, and before he 

 was forty the doctors gave him up to die. 



But Cornaro was really a nobleman in men- 

 tality and character, and when he found him- 

 self at so young an age facing the end of his 

 life, having in no degree attained his manly 

 ambitions, he began to meditate, sick as he 

 was, upon the nature of his condition. Out of 

 that meditation Cornaro evolved a new sense 

 of how to live, and we who are bora in the 

 twentieth century are still reaping the benefit 

 of Cornaro's discoveries. Instead of dying at 

 forty, Cornaro, as a result of his discoveries 

 regarding the rules of hygienic living, and 

 because of the force of his will and character 

 in putting them into effect, extended his life 

 to the century mark. He did not simply ex- 

 tend, for sixty years, his feeble life of forty. 

 He converted that life of a "despairing and 

 helpless invalid, unfit for either work or en- 

 enjoyment" into a healthy, happy and pros- 

 perous one. He attained mildness and sweet- 

 ness of disposition, gaining thereby respect and 

 affection, and he retained his rugged health and 

 vigor and the full possession of his mental 

 faculties until the end of his remarkable career. 



The principles of hygiene by which Cornaro 

 so extended his life often have been re-discov- 

 ered by modern science, and since Cornaro's 

 time there have been many famous examples 

 of life extension which does not mean adding 

 a few years to feeble old age, but adding to the 

 years of youth and strength and postponing 

 the years of senility if indeed the years of 

 comparative youth cannot be retained to the 

 end. This means, of course, that life length- 

 ened is broadened, in usefulness and enjoy- 

 ment. 



Since, however, "what is one man's meat is 

 another man's poison," it is always advisable 

 to have a periodic medical survey made of the 



