"HOME! SWEET HOME!" (ALAS!)


THE LAST (SIGNAL) MAN.

Verity in a Vision.

(With Apologies to the Shade of Campbell.)

"The effect of material progress, and of the growth of mechanical invention, is to place the lives and interests of an increasing number of people in the keeping of a single man. Responsibility becomes concentrated to a dangerous and a truly alarming degree."—Times.

Of all dark shapes of human doom,

The lot of darkest dye

Is his whose soul must sole assume