Not at a quarter premium?" "Nor a half," Wingate replied, "nor, as a matter of fact, a hundred per cent.

You mean that we are to sell wheat at about sixty per cent, less than the present market valuein many cases sixty per cent.

You mean that we are to sell wheat at about sixty per cent, less than the present market valuein many cases sixty per cent.

The little boys met us with bow in hand and arrow on string, and cried, "Put up a cent."

Turning to the year 1887, there is every reason to believe that where 7 per cent, are unemployed in the picked, skilled industries of a country, where the normal supply of labour is actually limited by Union regulations, the proportion in unskilled or less organized industries is much larger.

It is probable that 12 per cent, is not an excessive figure to take as the representative of the average proportion of unemployed.

In the recent official returns of wages in textile industries, it is admitted that 10 per cent, should be taken off from the nominal wages for irregularity of employment.

Comparing these figures with the total number of deaths, we find that in the richest city of the world 32.5 per cent., or one in three of the inhabitants, dies dependent on public charity.

Whereas only 5 per cent of the population under 60 years are paupers, the proportion is 40 per cent in the case of those over 70.

In London 22½ per cent of the aged poor are indoor paupers.

While incomes of £100 to £300 have grown by a little more than 50 per cent., those from £300 to £1000 have nearly doubled, those between £1000 and £5000 have more than doubled, and incomes over £5000 have more than trebled.

The gain to the workers is chiefly confined to food prices, which have fallen some 40 per cent since 1880.

Taking the retail prices of foods consumed by London working-class families we find that since 1880 the price of flour has fallen about 60 per cent., bread falling a little more than half that amount; the prices of beef and mutton have fallen nearly to the same extent as flour, though bacon stands in 1903 just about where it stood in 1880.

So that when we are told that in seven large Scotch towns only 524 out of each 1000 are natives, and that in Middlesex only 35 per cent.

If we take the inhabitants of rural sanitary districts, and of urban districts below 10,000 as the rural population, we shall find that between 1891 and 1901 the growth in the rural districts is 5.3 per cent.

Whereas, in 1861, 37.7 per cent.

of the population were living in the country, in 1901 the proportion has sunk to 23 per cent.

It is enough to say that labourer's wages in London and other large cities are some 50 per cent, higher than the wages of agricultural labourers in most parts of England, and the wages of skilled labour show a similar relation.

He is not particular about the priceis willing the United States should make 25 per cent or 30 per cent profit.

He is not particular about the priceis willing the United States should make 25 per cent or 30 per cent profit.

The present rebellion only represents a half per cent, of the inhabitants, and it would not be right to oblige 6,000,000 inhabitants to submit to 30,000 rebels.

The Wakefields justified the transactions on the ground that population would rapidly make the ten per cent.

But New Zealand, which has lately borrowed many times that sum at about three per cent.

interest, could not then raise the money at fifteen per cent.

The ascent is a gradual one, the steepest grade being a trifle over seven per cent, while the train twists and turns around two hundred and sixty curves from the base to the summit.