is so far ahead of the United States in labour legislation.  Miss Eastman was the principal speaker at the annual meeting in January, 1910, of the New York State Bar Association.  She is a trained economic investigator as well as a lawyer, and her masterly analysis of conditions under the present liability law held close attention, and carried conviction to many present that a radical change was necessary.  The recommendations for the statute were to make limited compensation for all accidents, except those wilfully caused by the victim, compulsory on all employers.  With regard to dangerous occupations the person who profits by them should bear the greatest share of the loss through accident.  As for the constitutionality of such legislation Miss Eastman said—­“If our State Constitution cannot be interpreted so as to recognise such an idea of justice then I think we should amend our Constitution.  I see no reason why we should stand in such awe of a document which expressly provides for its own revision every ten years.”  The evils against which this brave woman lawyer contends are real and grievous.  Working people in America who suffer from injury are unmercifully exploited by the ambulance-chasing lawyers.  Casualty insurance companies are said to be weary of being diverted from their regular business to become a mere fighting force in the Courts to prevent the injured or the dependents from getting any compensation.  The long-suffering public is becoming aware that the taxpayers are compelled to bear the burden of supporting the pitifully great multitude of incapacitated or rendered dependent because of industrial accident or occupational diseases.  Employers insure their liability, and the poor man has to fight an insurance company, and at present reform is blocked on the plea that it is unconstitutional.  There are difficulties even in Australia, and to enquire into such difficulties would be good work for women lawyers.

CHAPTER XIV.

SPECULATION, CHARITY, AND A BOOK.

In the meantime my family history went on.  My nephew was sent to the Northern Territory to take over the branch of the English and Scottish Bank at Palmerston, and he took his sister from school to go with him and stay three months in the tropics.  He was only 21 at the time.  Four years after he went to inspect the branch, and took his sister with him again.  I think she loved Port Darwin more than he did, and she always stood up for the climate.  South Australia did a great work in building, unaided by any other Australian State, the telegraph line from Port Darwin to Adelaide. and at one time it was believed that rich goldfields were to be opened in this great empty land, which the British Government had handed over to South Australia, because Stuart had been the first to cross the island continent, and the handful of South Australian colonists bad connected telegraphically the north and the south.  The