Must Retire From Politics,

and take complete rest, and possibly a long voyage of at least six months. This last decision was communicated to Mrs. Ballance, and by her communicated to her husband. The reply was characteristic. It was that he was a soldier in the service of his country, engaged in battling for its welfare, and it would be as much an act of cowardice for him to leave his post of duty as for a soldier to desert his comrades upon the battlefield. He would rather, as his duty lay,