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nine years old. That is to say, she has seen more things invented than any other monarch that ever lived, and more than the oldest oldtime English commoner that ever lived, including old Parr; and more than Methuselah himself five times over. Some of the details of the moral advancement which she has seen are also very striking and easily graspable. She has seen the English criminal laws prodigiously modified and 200 capital crimes swept from the statute books. She has seen English liberty greatly broadened��� the governing and lawmaking powers, formerly the possession of the few, extended to the body of the people and purchase in the army abolished. She has seen the public educator���the newspaper���created and its teachings placed within the reach of the leanest purse. There was nothing properly describable as a newspaper until long after she was born. She has seen the world���s literature set free through the institution of international copyright. She has seen America invent arbitration, the eventual substitute for that enslaver of nations���the standing army���and she has seen England pay the first bill under it and America shirk the second but only temporarily; of this we may be sure. She has seen a Hartford American (Dr. Wells) apply an anesthetic in surgery for the first time in history and for all time banish the terrors of the surgeon���s knife, and she has seen the rest of the world ignore the discoverer HYLAND 14