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The Brussels Post, 1907-11-7, Page 6NOTES AND COMMENTS • It is well enough known lbat frequent - IS Mum beings when bitten by clogs have died agonizing deaths. llydeo- plicibla or ,rabies is the name kr iha dis- ease under whicb they have suffered, but $o„ greet have beim the uncertainties as to the course of the disease and so poor the opportunities for experimeutation that Some medical authorities hese held there Was no emeb disease whatever, and that the victims have really succumbed to self,hypnelism or leysterie. Dr. A. D. Melvin, now announces that he hae eon - elusive proof ilia such a disease exists and that it is genn-generated and in, teetious, One of the instances which Dr, Melvin cites is that of a dog bitten by another don. The biter dial of rabies. The other dog was taken way and kept under ob- servatem Ler two months. It then de- veloped a well-defined case of the die - ease, ran amuck and bit a home and a cow. The cow Was attacked in sixty days, the horse in plena a hundred days and both died after showing all the lypi- csL eymptents. Dr, Melvin stales that there are two forms of the disetiee one of them dumb, the other furious. In the early stages of the dumb type a dog is dangerous, but in. later steps it is lee, as its jaws become paralyzed. A dog suffering with the furious type of rabies is very dangerous. The frothing at, the mouth is not It fiction but a real charac- teristic of this type. The experience) of England, which, through its strictly enforced querantine law, has got entirety rid of rabies and kept free from it for many years, has been stfficient lo satiety mostimpartial observers that e genuine disease was in question. The proof that le now brought forward by Dr. Melvin sbould put an end to all further quips and flings about the imaginary nature of the disease. Rubies is fortunately not (merlon, but it is terrible enough where it occurs te lestity full precautions against it. Electricity lakes the nitrogen out of the air and feetilizes the earth with it Thus the problem of renewing the soil has been solved. Ten years lige Str Crooks pointed out that the world soon wculd be starving unless some way could he found of restoring io the soli the nitettgen extracted by the growing cereals. All the nitrate supplies stored in the earth, so far as known to be mailable, will form only a temporary and limited renewal of fertility. But there is plenty of nitrogen in tee air. Several years ago a small plant was built at Nottoden, Nerway, where elec- tricity generated by water power was used in the preelection of nitrate of lime and nitrate of soda front the atmosphere. The process was found to be economi- me and there was a ready marketfor all the fertilizer thus produced. Now a new plant hes been built, using the Titt- les waterfall as power for the genera - teen of electricity, and French capitalists have obtalned a .concession for another plant at the Retkanfes. This es One of the greeted, of waterfalls, and the dam to be constructed will supply the plant with 250,000 hoeso power. The Inex- haustible supplies of nitrogen in the air will furnish latently to the soil as long • as the world lasts. The preemies, simply described, Is the electrical combustion of the air and the fixation of the nitrates. RIOTS CAUSED BY PERFUMES. Outbreaks Are Sometimes Caused by National Feeling, In Berlin, the other day, a riot wns unwittingly started by a lady who hail perfumed herself well musk to such an extent as to cause annoyance Icy the ottter occupants of LI car in selech .she was a passenger. Some ot the Lomlon newspapers, :e reporting the affair, alluded to 11 13 "a unique occurrence." 130 in 50 doing they were not correct. Otter similar outbreaks have Jaen sevetal ttnies sinti- • lerly caused, ' For instance, in Parte, as well as in many other Freneh cities, very seri- ous rioting was started tn 1571-2 ey people who persisted In scenting them- selves with eau -de -cologne: the reason being, of course, that this deservedly pouter perfume is of German origin, and anything and everything German was just at that period anathema in France. Indeed, so high did popular feeling run in the matter, that at Ly- ons, Noteleaux, Amiens, and elsewhere, anti -eau -de -cologne societles were form- ed, whoee members pledged themselves to forcibly prevent the use of the ob- noxious scent by their follow -citizens. During the Greek war ref Independ- . ince, again it was deemed unpatriotic 'to appear in the streets of Athens un- tainted with attar ot roses, the national • perfume; while, conversely, the heavy • Turkish perfumes were rigidly tabeeettle • • As these latter, however, have from time immemoriel been greatly favored by the Nee -sure -loving Athenian aristo. Orley, their disuse nes by no means ellher so. general or so immediate as the meh &Sired, The result was it series of savage per- sonat onslaughts on individual "often- ders," followed by reprisals in kind, tearing the course of whleh lives wet% lest and Meth property destroyed. 54 IMAAPPOINTF,D ELEPHANTS RAGE. Visitingthe Indian Exhibition, tit Oeiicva, it little girl gave an elephant a three piers of salt, Whin the animal thought Wns segos Finding its reletake 11 seized the ehild 1t ILI trunk, refsed her above Ile head, end flung her a dis- tance of 40 Mee She Was Welted up tite injured 4-feee+++ ++++ ++.1e4 -4-'t se.‘i Love on the Battlefield. ++++++++++++++++++++++ War, the SevereSt sweeten' of heartei Lis also the sweet touchstone of true love. A brutalizing agency, It elso leinge out all that is highest, eolslest ente most pellets in human nature, iL may sound paradoxWal, led we". though a terrible evil, is at the same thee llie only thing which 01111 keep Oa - lions from deteriorating, Loves ot auto. 11. and race is the printery •»lathe which semis armies into the lickl, but when once there, there Ls not a single Weise of manifestation of human love which is not evolest in the exercise of iht, netted of thoir foes, so curiously& our feelings blend. There is this des-41,in of the soldier which pNmpLe hint to risk his owe lite in saving that if is wounded cOniracte; Re love of the svife and the mother, who hurry to the seat of War, often • over thousands of miles of enzean, Leese their salt or svounded ones; the lave of the sweetheart who, diegutsing het sex, enlists in the smile regiment as her lover 10 order lo be near Ithe in weal or svoe-and sevoria cases of this romantic kind have stecureed in the army. but above all things the suelain- ing love .of the soldier for his absent wife, mother or sweetheart PAITIIFUL TO TIIE DEATH. illustrations of Nils kind of leve dur- ing the BritisIt war in South Africa and in other wars were innumerable, and vouched for by letters trout the front. genuine "human documents," whieh veculd have -even sultslext Zola. "Lots of these who were mortally wounded," wrote ,an eye witness at Spten Kop, "had lett wives and children at home. When they enew they had got, their death wound, DI, was pitiful to hear them crying to Cod to be merciful lo their wives -not a •murniur for them- selves." A hospital sister had a patient 'who opened his hand to show her a neg. "From my girl," ho said, "and Whea I was hit I made up my mind teat no enemy should gee it, so 1 keel. 1. in my hand, ready to swallow it 't necessary." A New Zealander received a letter from the girl he .had left be- hind him. Ile wrote a reply, but be- fore he could pest it, was summoned to the fight. 1110 sweetheart's letter and portrait, with his loving reply, be !testily stuffed inlet hi 'bretist pocket. He Night and fell, and the letters were found cisimsened with his blood, the fatal bullet having pierced them and then the heart. That MS a RAVI'S len, and this Was O Illishand'S to his wife: "My own, It steels my arms and quIckeite my blood as 1 think of you and your dear Mlle Jack. I can see you en my mind's eye, tenderly bending over him as he sleeps. and Imprinting a kiss on his little chubby face. May, our heavenly Father keep and guard him until I return!" But others of the army in South Africa, though equally amorous, were less articulate. "Wouldn't you like," asked a nurse of a dying soldier, "to send a meseage to anybody -anybody In par- ticular?" fin understood and muttered, "Yes, I would like to send a message te my girl." "What shall I say?" in- quired the nurse, putting the point ef her pencil to the paper. She mated gently on the dying, snan's emotion struggilog to express itself, "yes," he whispered rather shamefacedly. "give her 'my kind regards." LOVE AND THE ARMY NURSE. Many wounded <Otters end men live to outcry their nureee-their gratitude developing into love, but the suits of all arc not equally succe-ssful. "The nurse attending me," wrote one, a victim at onee of Boer bullets rend Cupid's darts, "Was a handsome girl 'with a Greek profile, reddish brown hair - the kind that seems full of golden tendrils in the sunlight, and eyes as liquid as a fawn's. The first time she put her finger on my wrist my pulse ran up to at least 175. and she took it foe granted that I had a high fever. I tried otten lo :allure her tato conversation, but she wouldn't be lured. She was strletly businee.e. "When I started lo itay her compli- ments she wotild ask me to put out nin tongue, which is an obstacle to conver- sation. I used to lie there with My longue hanging out, trying to put 013' whole soul into her eyes, but it was no go. No man can look romantic with bolt a foot of furry red tongue, An. other way she had of gagging me was by pulling the thermometer in my mouth. She was an excellent young woman. with lees of eommon sense, as was ev1deneeel by the fact that she gave rre 00 encouragement whatever." But among soldiers who have married their nurses was no less 8. person than the late Duke of Cambridge, who cem- Mended the splendid First Division (Guards and Highland Beigades) In the Crimea and laid about him stoutly both at the Alma and inkerman. Yet SI the letter battle his nervOus system got such a shaking that he bad to be Invalided home; and at Malta ho was met, by the woman of his heart, Miss Louisa Palebrothee, who nursed Tem hank to health and the oommander-Tit chlefshin of the Bettish army. Little wonder that, in defiance of the royal marriage act, and all other aots, the buely duke -'who had beet the neat to ahow his contempt for convention by wearing a beard in the Crimea-remaire al to Mt end the faithful husband of the humbly born woman who had been so true to him, MOTHEn AND WIFE AS an example ot mother's love Iti the floer War may be cited the case at eirs. James Atherry, Jensen orr the stage is Miss Mary Moore, who increased the Already huge number of her admiteers hunrying to the front to Miran her soldier son back to life, The whet nurs- ing or the p511 01 a devoted wife. SA distinguished front a weber meld halm Mislead elle eyesight at Major Tonle at the flosiott Iligelandere, which a User bullet bed eumpletely ahroyeil? Yet there was once a more drawee/1 ease of tiles kind than that of. Maier Wiese. Whit is new, la .spites of the loss of hie eyes, a member of the King's Ifonoreble teepee of Gentlewomen -Arms. During the Nes'oesenie ware, Count 1 lt5dt'l(tlt 15 Ithegavian nobleman, with tin certainty of the hand of a neautind girl, femstauee, ektugeter oe Count remedy, 'look the flied end distinguish- ed himself' In several melons, BM dur- ing his- absence his beioved was suellen with a meet viretent allaek of tee email: pox, wheel matte hideoue ravages el tier !beauty, She Was allowed lo 101k nt emelt only when on the Mph woad to reovery, and the sight ot her deformed 'teethe -es (Med her with denials Cen- viusel that Theodore mule no longer lesses her, she prayed tor dtsatle awl re- fused to be comforted, One day, wben »reeling in the arms, ot bee father, wlei ,ureed her to Live at -least ens him, the servant, mem had accompanied her lov- er to the warsitdileoly rushed in, an- nouncing the immediate coming of hle master, whose voice, a little later, Was "Constance, C.onstance, wheee art thou?" At the seend of that Vela?, the glee treeing slhe courage to fled could only (toyer her face ydth her heeds. "Do not COMO near iie, Theodore,' she cried. have lost my beauty. I have no longer anyththg 10 offer Alice but my heart." "What do I hear? But look at me, anstanec." "No, no, thou wouldst only recoil at seeing me." "What does 11 matter if thy love is the same? Consience-Constance, 1 can lir longer see thee." She legged her eyes and looked. Her lever was blind. A bullet had deprived him of the sight of both his eyes, "God be peuised," exclaimed (30n - stance, falling on her ewe, "Theodore we shalt be united for thou canst snit leve me. end I shall be thy guide," FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. But all stories at love sonneeted with the battlefield pale in interest and rea (alley of effect betore ilea of Florence Nightingale, whose heart went out in Icve and tender mercy -not only to one man, but to a whole army. Her affec- tion was not of the earthly, but of the higher and more enduring kind called heavenly, Foe if ever an angel crone down amongst us, it was in the beadle the fragile and saintly form ot that high -bred., lughly cultured and deli- cately nurtured women who, at the outbreak of the Ceiniean War, went out a; a woman superintendent of the specially selected corps of women itersee who volunteered to tend the eseunded in Ihe Leese hospital at Scu- ttle' on (he nosphorous, over against the many minareted Stamboul. But this, you will say, its love in a le:spited. and not on o battlefield. True, but the "Ledy with the Lamp" of love the not confine her angelic ministra- tions Lo Scutari. To the very front it- self she repaired to visit the lield hos- pitale there, and make the round of nanms, evoking such frantic cheer - :Mg from the lreops as startled the Rus - stens 10 their beleagured fortress, anti made them fancy that their besiegers were acclaiming the arrival of another nem'. She even took her eeat upon a siege gum under fine of the enemy, inid had a good view et the Maslen strong- hold. It look the Greeks ten long years to capture Tray, rind reeever their abduct- ed Helen. But if Florence Nightingale, on the occasion of her visit to the fent, had peradventure fallen into the !hands of the Russians, it is not too much lo say that the British termy-animated row with a fighting fury unparalleled fn all Its glorious annals -would have hastened to deliver such an assault ea - on Sebastopol, for the recovery of Its "ministering angel," as no fortification built by Todleben could possibly have withstoori for hall an hour. POWER OF AN IDEA. With an army in the tield, enetive itower ts everything, Animated by an Idea, an army can do anything; with - nut, it, nothing. The seedier'as a rule, cares nothing for politics; but a per- sonality, ahl that puts htm on his very best mettle, And what Ile would have dene In the way of furious fighting for Florence Ntglitingale could be Inferred. hem the womanly tenderness with which eight sttawart Tommie% carried their "ministering angel," now at last stricken with fever, aboard the .yeesel that was to convey her hack from Balaclava to. Scutari to eentinue her angelic. aels. . Love on the battlefield had never achieved s renter triumph than this - a return love which permeated 'he hearts of officers an.d men alike, No wonder that at is dinner given to the officals ot the army and navy who had weed in the war, when it was sug- gcsted that each geese should write on a slip of paper the 'name of the person whose eervices dulling the struggle would be longest remembered, an exam, tuition of the papers showed that each tore the name of Florence Nightingale -the noblest woman of t,he Viceorien or any other era, even the American poet, Longfellow, was moved to sing her praises: "On England's annals' the& the long Hereatter of her speech and song, A light its rays shall °Dee Prom portals of the past. "A lady vent a Boni shall eland, in the great history of the land, A noble type of Heneec womanhood," SPOKE FOR HER, lee -"Why are you wearing that ex- pettetVe dress at that dinner to -night? It isn't such a sWeli affair." 14lee-"1 know it, but I don't feel !Ike tallcieg reticle and with thle gosvn 011 won't be entirely loet'eight, orl" A imeinees woman stetted Meer p50. p050 ln iitsy) who can't Woe Or sew on PLEASURES] IN PALACES 501011 arm; KNOWN 110118155 OF CDOWNED HEADS, *loyalties nese Many Fads and Fancies Which Enliven a Monotonous Existence. Time develops all of us in one way o; iteether, end int these days everyone, from croweed beads donde/Ws, Is more ens less of a collector.. litiyallies have, of course, ' a special chance in this ditionfon, tang Edward's store of winking seeks Itt itt oft -told tale, but everyone may not know !hal he owns tueither collodium welcls will have a fatigue iniesea in the future, This eon:tests of leeks gathered to- gether from every war in svhich listUtilt seeders hare fought since the acties- skin of Queen Victoria, The King bee also a line collection of caricaturee. Queen Alexandra collects many things -lace, china, crystal; and even 'Sped - Merle of every sort of headgear woin by women 'eince her 'marriage in 1503, But her greatest treaeure is a NUN-, eon of books, ninny ut which nate ber by inbetelenee. Wben Menton of Wales elle receiver( the elitchell Be- quest.. that leak the form of a choice celleetion of hooks valued at ,C10,000. And afterwards tno late Sir William Fresee left to her Majesty a splendid ctillection of books, papers, and pic- tures Cleating with W3111041's drew; throughout the last century, The (teem has Mee a vast nuniter ot vol- umes at modern literature; and keeps, es her special treasure, King Edward's inverile books when he was an ender- geaduate at Cembridge. THE QUEEN LABELS 1lEti BOOKS. Queen Alexandre, like many of ber subjects, has a fancy for book -plates, inlet her own book -plate is most elabor- ate. IL typifies iter peeeonal tastes, anti represents the homes ot her girlhood ancl marriage. The plate is oblong (11 shape and In LWO dixiS1011S, and 10 framed in a border ot beech, oak. and reses. In the upper part appears Wind - stir Castle, and in Lite lower the cliffs of Elsinore In Denntark. Below ate some of her favorite hooks. These In- clude a volume of Shakespeare, \sem laid one of les greatest scenes in Elsi- nore, and Mee a 13yenn, a Shelley, and it "Jean Inglesante And there ace the works of several musicians -among tethers, those of Brahms. Schumann. and Wegner. Her Majesty's favorite dogs arc not. remotion. On one side lies a splendid leaszelt ana on the other are Inc smell sponiels. Bight across the top of the thsign runs the score of the opening bars of "Romeo and Juliet"; on the lett border Is twilled o motto: "Faithful un - et Death"; and on the label at the foot tippers the name "Alexandra." "I TAKE AFTER DAD." Nearly every membee of our Boyat Family hes his or her special hobby, and spends time and money on the ac- gelrentent of the coveted articles, Everyorte licts,hened or the Prince of Wales's collection of posters and post. age stamps; and 11 seems that Ms eld- est son, Prince Edward-keown as Davtd in the home eircle-hoe inherit - the paternai faney, and ie nosy a keen collector of postage stamps. The Princess of Wales collects photographs, and, owing to her travels, her store has now asumed vast proportions. She is, es ti happens, something of an utelst, and !mestere her pietures to china with marked success. Princess Chris- tian, who has an intense love for music, collects as many of the tams, songs. and operas that she hears as it is pos- sible. Princess Henry of Battenberg owns a collection of priceless lace, most of which was glven her nv Queen TVictoria and the Empress Eugenie, Princess Victoria collects PhelograPhs. Princess Patricia of Connaught owns an assortment of uncut gems and semi- precious stones, which Ls arranged with MUCH CARE AND PRECISION. These include some rare specimens, picked up in distant lands, which the Princese of Wales has contributed to her cousin's collection. It truly be men- tioned nun the late Duke of Sexe-Cre burg -as befitted a sailor -had a splen- did collection of model ships in gold, silver, and some of the Inferior metals. The E'rnperots of Russia collects ev- erything connected with India, and hes a vast store of Indian (issues and trea- sures In one of the finest of his sum- mer palaces. The Empeeor of Austria keeps the home of all the stags that have fallen to Ids efile during a long lifetime. The King of Italy collects Nies and medals, and bas 20,060 theee arranged in cupboards in a large mom, on an upper floor, at the Qiiir- Mal, in Rome, He °syn.% innny rare specimens, has written a treatise on (mine, and his private library is said to contain every book that has bean sventen on the Subject. His eonsort, the Queen of Italy, bas but one leably. which is to collect and keep the songs and tales of her native Montenegro, Queen Margherite of Ithly Is toed of pearls, and possesses a most Valuable. colleetio.n. FROM TUSKS TO TROMBONES. She else goes in strong for Ruyan° taco, which is made on a laege, scale en ari island not very far from Venice, 1 he Queen Of Norway -our Princess Maud -makes a collection of ivory tusks and has received some peeteet sped - mons from leing,s anti emperors. The Qlleen, of Seveden collectS novels, and OM Crown Princess of Sweden colleele pietttres-not photographs -of every place that she Visits, The Duchess of Softens esSeie a tellection of gerns and uncut stones efininnt to that of her MI- Merried Mater, Peineets PatrIca of Gelb naught. The Qtteen-Mather of Opaln has ler epeeist hobb,y in the collection of playieg-cards, She owns sortie peed - eels apeelmens, whloh inolude peeks of Spanish card!! 1101, belonged M former members of the Royal Mem 01 Spetn; end also the faMeue pack Of leery cattle lbtst thll‘gitit';ii, 11=1 10(;; Ili i',sttt'tsdi' etiMpalgnS, Tito Queen of lion- mente---lenown us "Caruieu See va" - collects 'misdeal Instruments, such tn old Miles, gutters, mal aphafl,4 end she pessesses the velurede lute that ono beltaiged (0 Mary Quote( ot Seals. The Croivii Princese of nottinatiin, a daugh- ter of the tete Duke of Saxe -Coburg, coli hole seenebottles. both new end 011. end also vinaigrettes, end she pt,ss sses sumo unique specimens. iler fans ars: Mao exquisite, especially one, an oi,•, French fan, said lo MIN been painted by Lancatek-Londen Answers, - INDIA'S smENT maxtoris. understand Government es a System of Hide From Above. These peoples MIN their own con- ceptions of goveentnette which are In- grained in them by traditions going buck beyond the dawn of Insetry, end those conceptions are incompatible \vett modern clemocratie ideals, 65135 the London Times. Government, outside the inimedlete concerns ci( Moir own vd. !ages, (titans to them emphatically a system of rule from acre. The no. lion that IL could be it privilege or ti eight to goverit themselves or to choose their rulers is outside the range of their thoughLs. The mind of the silent which the ullerences of the agile - toes trained In European learning do rad reflect, hes im belief at all In the existence of consilleilkmal restrictions on the power of governors and magis- trates. There is, without ritteStioil, i10 MOO' measure of truth in the compliment of many of the old-fashioned nal Iva, that cur schools helve sapped the old moral fonntletions of Luellen society, and the: we have not set up any other founda- tions in their steed. The more coo- servettee dresses fire (elect with conterepi at the sight of babes and schoolboys ranting °beet the righte of man, end proceeding to illustrate their sincerity by beating traders, seeking a mission - house, insulting women, bullying Iles children who frequent the mission sehools, and indulging in. lbe other rice; of petty tyranny of which Dr. MeKichan, ot the United Free Church, end the Ilev. Mr. Andersen), of the Bap- tist Missionary Society, have been cent - peening. Tliese lentelionorted claeses. however much the oposiles of (-sleight- einuent may deplore ti, do still posses!) in India great authority with the mas- ses; of the people. The conelehtlien society in the greater pert of the lend is still in its essence feudal, and the peasant Moles ttpon bis feudal etiperine awnituilloirietsvi.iect and obeys bie hereditary GIRL CROSSED THE SEA HER BROTHER WAS A SLAVE OF mu mum HABIT. Bit Sister Sails to the Malay Peninsula for Help -She Sass. Genuine Cures. Determinee to Sere her brother from the opium Italie, no matter what the ccst might be to her, Miss Agnes Have land, ot Philadelphia, has just returned from a trip to the West Malay Penin- sula, where she obtained a cure. Huy - Mg travelled thousands of miles, en - Mired privations of °Nies sort and char- acter, this heroine, with an ample sup- ply of the remedy obtained from fresh plants he that far off tante is putting into effect the published accounts of the efficacy of the aniklete, Miss Ifaviltind spent, about a month in and areurnl Selangor, capital of the West Malay Peninsula, and the hoe. ram dee lo the opium habit seem like O nightmare to her. Thls was convettl- 01 into a pleasant dream, bewereete when she noted the many cures made by the little, reeently discovered plant. APPEALED TO SISTER.' fler brother has been a victim of I10. Opium curse for severel veto's. Fleet taken as a soothing drug to relieve mental and physical distress. he had to increase the amount taken almost daily, as the deadening effects of the smeller doses were decreased. Slowlv but SUM - ;y he bonnie enmeshed in the clutches ef the distilled poppy, until his life wits a burden to him Thee isa eppealed to his .sislee. There was nothing she could do. lithe had engaged tbe best physiciane in Phila- delphia, but each had given up her bro- ther's case as hopeless, Ono day she read a story in a newspaper that an opium cure had been discovered From an article based on a report of Consul -General F, Wilber, she Bern. cd that the Malays had rattily discover- ed a cure for the habit. SAW WONDERFUL. MISES. Frail of physique, but dauntless in detertnination, Miss Haviland deteemin- ed to ,get this cure, if pessible. Pied, however, she would make a personal investigetion. In jute She left, her Isome end journeyed across the, continent for Seattle, where she embarked on her long ocean voyage. "I talked with C.onsel-Geneisal Wil- ber of the Mire," said Miss Haviletut "and his testimony established my faith 111 the vine, The scientifie nem) ot 111I8 plant Is eombretent sundatcuin, and net laznal bsl, as SOMe seemed to !ethic:" Thttt the remedy is efteceve is be- lieved by Mies Roseland, because of ire standee which earne ender her <theme yahoo, She my ono Chinaman, who had been user of the drug for 15 years, break bis pipes and with an axe de- eiroy the bunk on wheel he repoetid when under the opiate Winona. She sew three hundred mintt MIS eternal each with a bottle, or some veeeel, with which lo carry the melody, come daily to the depots where the Selangor Anti. Oprern Seel* gave free inedicite to those telicted. Government officiele ef the Maley Peninsele, told her Diet the importation Of the chug had alreatin been Twined:id fent 00 to an chefes ehoh Menthe and wail stull fallieg, fHIRTY KNOT s AN HOUR l'1:11111NE 11.11,1, DE DRIVEN BY E1,1CCI'111111TY. Ealelish ‘11,11,1•1sttetotofsEil?elxleiti.10.10cliesdi:1,11ake a y 'M All OXperltuvnt Marie it sueereeful, will mouth a new fenturo itt marine eir- !le% that will entire Iles limit tit (NIJOSing the °vette by the slimmer Lueilanin ale erar sl1W eilltiparett with bite I' ti of /Ito teens is being tested. The new Mee is the stppl)eat foe of electricity to turblnes. A well-known firm of linglieli engineers is vet:timing a veasel with the apparaille daShaltal, afld will shortly melee a peactleal lest. wooN AT iTs Besse -rho stiesus hiphino 11 moet cfficlen \viten emitting at high speed, while a ehiP's ProPellete ein the !relive hand, will sksi werk efficiently at the highest .speed. It the seised he increased beyosid ss cer- tain point, far below 1 lsa meet, efficient speed ot itie turbine, the blades.'tt the propeiter simply ellutot the water Instead of driving* the ship. it its itupoesible lo gene down from a turbine lo 11 proper shaft, for the horse-pr.wor of marine tsir. hives is ton great for any practical form of gra ring, Censeq ti tly the turbine heti to he (sun slowlyand an newittose in this dthectien is put THE KENN' PROC:ERS. The new process Lo 5101..111111. the tur- bine should be coupled iiireely 1, the propeller shafl. tie is, rens. done, but should drive higlespeett e trice I genets elms. end supply current be eieculete eteletrs IOL' driving leo propelletts, Some ;Meridiem in the esposal of (he tettehin- wouid Isa oeoesztitry, Ihe whole there would be a jratu of revue, und more important, then any con:lidera- lion 0T space, the eke:treat sysel ens A9- :411,4,30.; 1110 s1slvaisIuig IItsst Ihe motors Ceti he reversed almost. Immediately. T1 I 1 11TY KNOTS AN 1101)13. The Speed King ot the Atlantis: may be ;liege:power, Newell mold give a epeed driven by turbo -generators of 100,000 '1 ett knots en hour. Snell a vessel svelte' beets leasho-generalore ot 20, - tow horse-powee each, one of which sv uld lie in reserve. Mush of her four protegees and the shafts; would be pm- vided esith six nedots of 5.030 horse- power, five of which would do the wort:, Mille the other would le a slim -tile". run- ning light, but Nutty on thts pisessure of a button on the bridge to lake up Its shin.° °fFROM THE BRIDGE. Trensmiselon from the bridge by elec- tricity will mean a revolutien. The offi- cer on duty will 00 Meet- stemal his order; to the engine -mom. On the bridge elongeide Mtn will be e keyboard of puelibutlions by which 10 himself will control every movement -of the ship in- steact at ordering the engineersles go astern, for .exemple, ite will push a bet- tor which will reverse the motors, n tld 00 With .every veriation or speed and direction. The eye that sees the danger and the hand that prevents.: disastee svibl be cantholled by one erten, and the nevi - gating officer on the bridge, conscious of imminent peril, %sell net have to trensmit mechaeically las orders to the unseen engine -room below, where their Immediate pellet -mance depends upon a man who by mist/skins the melte% may cause disaster to the vessel and loss of many lives. ALL ANTS' FAULT. Shaking Ant-Infeeted Clothing • Out of Car Window, Man Loses 11. A lettonlan has had a weird experi- ence in England. [be spent an afternoon in a cornfield and became smothered with anis. When tini thno came for him lo take the tvain buck to hie native town the irrilatIon was unbearable, and as 50011115 Ito /01111d 1,14 seclusion of a railway earring() he divested !Mused of he; clothing and sheet: the garment. vigorously' out of the window, linforlenalelY, while he wee doing so Usti (ruin entered a funnel, and the wall caught MI Minor/ant garment and tore It troll its owner's hand. The luckless man, free of anis but void of necessary clothes, waited wearily until the Main stormed at the next sta- tion, end then plunged risen' the carriago in to the wattle geeenn. The officiate, hoermeetelekcn, flew in pursuit, but when they heard the man's story their indignation nierged inle sym- pathy,. and they provided hint welt gar- ments, in which he was uble lo continue his journey. -e....... ORDEI1S CABEFLITAN ENTLCUTED. leink Edward Itas 1 vi?tilyd' Itilhgrletwodelinnloiinn al 1\itisasinfiio esls, sS.rx3i r r'llsihnelftinnae "Lipton, end eta latter may altnost be regarded es one • of Niosit leetrii5j.elsolynigs aingtoinitahicey fli‘leolrled.n. eh.tottho and sinoking together in the grounds of 'Windsor Castle, when suddenly the ICIn''OrieSthliPyP"Ithe, Way, Lipton," lin Said, "don't be surprised if an Order conies youn ‘svvaily1;be peeniptly attended to," is- pllActin,aSltibleshottnilansg. roiirei with delight, fur the 'Dreier 10 13151 veterted to was not foe bacon, bet cute ct the coveted marks of distinction, LAMPS LIT AllteOlvfATICAI,LY. A Gertraill firill hes introdueed Into England an automalle appliance de- isigned simultaneously to extinguish en re -light gas halms over a wide area. Thie le not the nest erne that the lamp- lighter's occupation hes been threat - cried, Some IlVe or six years ago some et the gas companies experimented with auto/mitre "controllees"-a eleckwork arrangement, fixed lo the bunter ot street lamps, wince automatic/thy turned ihe light On or off at 611411 times as could be need by moving a hand on the diol They were, however', difficult to reguirtle, and censequently unteuetsverthy. Pour tier eerie of all partite fire c0lor-111nd, • LUNACY IS INCREASING FLAN To END ABItell OF 01133'ISII PRIVATE ASYLUM. Proprietors Said to Keep Patients Longer Than Needed end Treat Them Beaty, Accorcling to the Immo. 04-n11118state, ers' report, Imsanity 51 Oren) lIrtlain Is lamest/1g yeurly, or, 111 other weeds, the persons &steeled ln tisylums end ynvilintil.s11.otiees this year 0111111.er move Ilion more num they did the two procedieg they del last year end eensiderably There le • a growing feeling Ismael; pellanthrepisis aml till humene pigeons svho tithe an interest in the queetten thee notWalistandieg lliu thereat -es of insanity, the great, crying abase of pee vale asylums, namely, Ilte ecottinementi and detention of patieels who ought !sot bi be detained, lies not diminfehret under tbe operation el enisling law, and that it is not likely to diminish. PATIENTS TRISA'rED BAIM.Y. There nee two very large privele 0,53`• inins In South London, where pallents when cured sometimes Ask pmolseion to remain as paying guests, owing lo the great toniforts of the piece end the care which is [widowed on every case. Pertains thesis tire Ilte exceptente which prove the rule thet the showy tetylems are (he worst er that (less of houses fou»ded on the principle of profit Is the proprietors or the speettlater, who is Neer le oblein pal lord and tetwIlling to tlischatere them, and who has Ihe largii.st, motive to stint them in every Dcsstb1.0 way durIng the Ihne they are under his care. 11 is felt that where the propylene, is 5111 5illp1411011110(1 1111111, W1CVO Ile is de- teentined to exude conditions- of low, he will do twerylhing les ean in avoid what- ever the commissioners enjoin upon hen. NntwillislandIng the vigilance of the lunacy commissioners, It Is Imovn that very many pelvele asylums, rue so isstsiby managed that patients get very little, or no real benefit, the object, of the proprie- tor being to get assmany patients as he can end to keep them as long as he can, end stint, them la medicines, cloth- , ing, food and comfort. MAY NAME, COMMISSION. It is a long lime tenets the eneclal rem - mission sat on the subject, hut in the opinion of 0 eimther of members ot Parliament end aliens, le when) many sad tales of abuse of lite private asy- lum system have beee told, the time hes arrived for the appointment of a loyal commission, end the Prime Minister, in the early revs nf next .session, 15 reqUiSitIOTIOd. on the slimeel. l'he premier will Ise aseided that there are several private asyhltilS, 017 Incensed houses, In which it is said that au appalling number of helpless peo- ple are Imprisoned kw a prone Ind the sespielon end OiAlrusl. of pri- vate asylums is not now founded upon the belief that their inmates are treated with creel vielence, 11 10 founded eerie tee belief HIM patients are admitted into them who ought not to be admitted, and tied they are not treated with a view o pr0111010 thefts recovery. hitt are de- tained long atter they ought to be set al. litterty, or 11.1 least removed to places where they could enjoy greater freedom. SUE TAKES 11118 FAI'E COOLLY. Alurderciss, Confronlaul With Terrible Charges, is Intliffereet. Grele Beyer, the, daughter or the hale buegornaeleis of Brand, saxene, who killed her fiance in order to &settee ,rossion of 52,500 he hall willed her it marriage gift, is as eonehalent a gi sonar as Gentian jailers heve ar 'watched over. Although charged w: murder. 'forgery end embezzlement, cloc.sIttletti's,1°en D‘'‘.1:icst tnierejhillacnrt Nit' lees her matinee is 0116 of utter isssl ference, bordering on. lighteheartedneet She is a strtkingly good-looking et 23, a typical blonde, blue-eysed Sae - ori, 01 somewhat buxom figure, She wits noted In lined for her good frtendly disposition end testate( en:owl:17;es. esah eh: isaplpaoy::,deriampsa tiality for lighteeelored tine. She was, Bernard deg. Hier tether, once it coat miner, became bead of the town 505'- 15 110 hank, end eventually leurgoni so He loft rt coneiderable fortune. bul, fite• lesvIng Isis lriegulttellies wee, discovered svhich have entisea some zs"- snicking es te his Mistiest; Integells. The mother, who Is seriously involve.' in her deugeter's endeezeertent end Megeey accusations', comes faun n coie bier's family. Although (trete was engeged le lb. engineer PreSSIal., \Orlin she shot 16 elny after Wendt:Adele hen on the iesie tem° that he WEIS to hese, 11 ellseente surprise, she hart continued tenets, lite n kovnim, Intimacy of s,,my, .\•0111.,1.1.1111,7., Mg with eteker. A few weeks Ai' Iter InOther told Mentor 'el7C‘ rue rested 011 5,1 rill'gcl'V of 51 111 connection with lee ms PIO 01 leen' 'Merles 0111101 ir1,1,10!, 1 of the kcal pnos'hsts' 55 weelnly menthe's tie Ise Niters. (trete subeesqueellv roefe -t- ett that she hnil Med Preeslett nee.. haseng fewseil bts will, 0 rillon it hr. WI` IhritOttting tent he bet] token ek. even Ilte, ,and 141 n!NI be,ide 1,14 body in ft 'Dosill.in suggc:,,1 • tier mother rst.1 Meeker will Hose- cute,t as necomplices 111 the Hee ity. PIIOTO OF EYE Prefeeser internee of flee tz bit 5men I, perfeclesd on emperittus for pholec graphing the interior of the hymen eye which Is Auld In give better resting num any hitherto attained, lip means 44 0. systonl Of Tenses and mirrors ii flesh et higIsI Is sent info Ilse rye and Ihe Ilium - rented image of the reline Is protected . upo55 0 photogrephic plete. The (tepee. ere Is limited to it sixteenth of a (wen- lieth al it second in order lo evold 10 phySiologleal effects, The purpose Of the illeenteen is to oblnIn correct inter. hiatieri 'toneerning disease,d' states, et the retina aricelhe pletulTe are c'eer and full of detail.