" Oh, lam so grateful for thai sermon," aho said, clasping his hand and shaking it warmly. His heart glowed for a moment— only for a moment, though. " Yen," ahe went on fervently, " I never knew before what was the matter with my faehatas." Profeßßor McKendrick, of Glasgow, has made the marvellous discovery that deaf persons may be enabled to hear music. Hia invention has for its basis the phonograph. This is plaoed as near to the stage as possible. Connected with the phonograph are highly-charged electric wires. If the wires are placed between the teeth, protected by a picse of some harmless substance, the deaf person will hear. But this is conspic uous, and deprives him of the power of speech or of moving while the music is going on. So the wires are passed into a Baline solution, into which the deaf place their hands. The reault is that they hear the orchestra, and all that transpires upon the etage. Some time ago an eminent Btatesmen ad vised fruitgrowers in Kent to go in for making jam, by starting factories for its manufacture. The advice was followed by & few enthusiasts, but the industry has proved a lailnre. In the place, however, of writing " Ichabod" on the walls of the fac tories, the motto " Nunc Jam Satia" ("Done with Jam") appears to have been adopted. The Daily Telegraph says :— " The enter prise, we regret to learn, haß proved a failure. Three factories specially constrncted for the purpose have lately been closed, although situated in the centre of the cherry and other fruitgrowing districts. One jam manufacturer lost in the new industry a for tune which he had made in hop growing, and his factory, whiuh had coat £15,000 to build, was recently sold for £5000. These figures, which are given on good authority, are very disheartening." Speaking at Katoomba (N.S.W.), Post majter-General Cook said that the Reid Government had stepped somewhat ont of the beaten track of economics, but the resultß justified their action. The system of taxa tion now in force pressed more lightly on the people than any other that had been imposed. It must not be forgotten that the direct taxation enforced by Parliament would not be removed if -the Protectionists came into power. 