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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



situation are prone to censure the British 

 Government for the awful distress which 

 occurs in India whenever the moonsoon 

 fails. Great Britain is, as a rule, none too 

 careful of her colonies so far as the needs 

 of the colonists are concerned. But in this 

 instance she is little to blame. We have 

 entered the field of Oriental colonization 

 ourselves. A little further experience in 

 the matter may lead us to appreciate the 

 difficulties which beset the white man in 

 his dealings with dusky barbarians, as well 

 as the climatic trials with which the 

 natives of the tropics have to contend. Ex. 



Honor to Tne 15tn of February will 

 Whom Honor mar k the retirement of Susan 

 Is Due. 



B. Anthony from the presi- 

 dency of the National Womans' Suffrage 

 Association, an office which she has filled 

 for the past thirty years; it will also be 

 her 80th birthday. Miss Anthony has 

 made the cause of women her life work; 

 in order that it might ever be first in her 

 life, she put aside all thought of marriage 

 and devoted her entire time and energy 

 to the one end of bettering the condition 

 of her sex. She has borne many things 

 for the cause; if she has not been perse- 

 cuted she has been ridiculed, which is 

 really much harder to bear with dignity. 

 She has been such a familiar figure in this 

 country and her name has been so long 

 identified with the womans' suffrage 

 movement that the two are almost 

 identical. In the newspaper comments, 

 so much stress has been laid on her pecul- 

 iarities and foibles that the great things 

 she has achieved have been almost over- 

 looked, until now, when nearing the end 

 of her active career the public reviews 

 her work and finds how much she has 

 accomplished. The woman who sneers at 

 woman's suffrage and says she has no 

 patience with Miss Anthony's work, for- 

 gets or never knew, that she could not 

 even draw a check, as she now does, had 

 it not been for the work done by this 

 gifted woman. She found women chattels 

 she has made them almost men's equals 

 in the eyes of the law. Mrs. Carrie Chap- 

 man Catt is said to be favorably regarded 

 as Miss Anthony's successor in office. 



, _ The New York Commercial 



No Cause 



For says that the complaint of 



some of the Western railroads 

 that the farmers are not shipping their 

 grain as promptly as they usually have 

 done is not exactly a discouraging symp- 

 tom. On the contrary, it is quite signifi- 

 cant as showing that the farmers have 

 money in bank and are not obliged to 

 hurry their crops off to market. There is 

 no better indication of general prosperity 

 than to see the Western farmers sitting 

 around the fireside waiting until the 

 markets for their products suit them. 

 As for the railroads, while they take due 

 notice that the farmers are not hurrying 

 their grain to market, they are likely to 

 view the matter calmly, for they seem to 

 have all the business they can attend to 

 without the grain shipments. Besides, 

 they will get the grain a little later. 



What the Among the "Men and Women 

 Post Says of o f the Hour" in the Saturday 

 Prof. Mead, ^vening Post, is the picture of 

 Prof. Elwood Mead, the State Engineer of 

 Wyoming, who will represent this country 

 at the Paris Exposition. Of him the Post 

 says: "To his exertions is largely due the 

 success of the many irrigation congresses 

 which have been held in his part of the 

 country, and the better knowledge of flu- 

 vial conditions and water rights now pos- 

 sessed by the reading public. He was 

 probably the first to make maps that were 

 truly hydrographic rather than carto- 

 grapic in character. By charting the 

 water supply, water flow and water shed 

 he proved that the problem of irrigation 

 upon a large scale was far simpler than 

 had been believed y preceding experts. 

 The people, as a rale, appreciate his ser- 

 vices, although on one occasion Professor 

 Mead found an exception. He was speak- 

 ing at a meeting upon a local water im- 

 provement, and after expatiating upon the 

 benefits which would be derived by the 

 farmer, miner, and even the manufac- 

 turer, he said, 'and this extra supply of 

 water is absolutely necessary to our dairy- 

 men.' Before he could begin the next 

 sentence a townsman called out: 'Scop 

 right there. They give us too much of it 

 already.' " 



