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The Brussels Post, 1907-3-5, Page 7fm� has 411 at tut ems of to, n► Ina' LW 111 yo 10. 10 100 011 1u - .re ho tg- a es - :w lid 00 at, reat Ch inge How Wonderfully the Grave Binds the Living Together. "If a man die, sball,he live again? AU the days of my appointed (E010 will I wait till my change come."—John salve 14. \Vo often sigh for a present immor- tality, a life without end in this world, without thinking how weary and empty such a life would be, !tow barren ex- istence would nein if it hell no mys- tery, if it wore ull spread out before us and a lhoueee el y'eats hence known as well as to -day. • Supposing wo knew absolutely that existence Held nothing higher for us and that frm this life of our present limitations there was no escape, how dark would be our despair, how hope- less our lot. The world would be our [risen and freedom from death our galling bondage. When we curse death, when we cry out against the pain and parting we forget how that mysterious door beyond which none 'at us has looked has yet opened out to use another world. The fact that each lure has limits has set 111 our hearts the llitmttable efe; our mortality has endowed us with the Writ of glad immortality. This world would be as a room with- out doors or windows but for those mysterious exits. Through them pass our friends, not their forms or faces, but the real men and. women, that which we have seen behind form and face, the being, the person, the Friend. They are not visible with us and yet 'we know that somewhere they must be, that without our wails T[IERE IS LIFE AND LOVE. One does not have to dream of a hea- ven of sensuous bliss, ono dors not have to postpone the realization of ideal condition to some future city Ln order to creole the real values of the thought of a further, higher stage of being. The child mind may find pleasure in harps end robes and crowns; our need Le the sense at the matey of this extension of. life. There are none living in any full sense o; ilio and thought who have not pehi- dered on this life that Iles beyond the walls and windows of our world; 01 times we all have semcd to hear voices that Dame Brom ileal beyond, while in our hearts we cherish friendships and think of the friends as wailing some- where. How many a family breach, how many a broken friendship has boon healed by some hand that, JUST REMOVED TO THE BEYOND, seemed to reach out from it and bring severed eines together again. How wonderfully has death made us tender to the living. Ever that spirit world presses about uu peopled with dim, shadowy forms,' seen only by the spirit, yet wonderfu ly shaping our everyday lives, Ever that choir invisible sings to the souls of men. The good and great of long ago or of our own hearthsides, being dead, speak louder than could the lips of the living. Death has .set (hose voices free an i now they speak to us of the ).,.rout change that shall set the divine wilier: is free and shall shake off the imnrts- Se death. that seems to limit our lives onhng dust, And so men go on to the has but served to enlarge them. It has grave, not steer:01y determined lo bear broken up with Its sharp blows the sou et our hearts and caused imagination to sow her seeds and nurture her hopes untie all the fair heritage of our visions et paradise, our asplrauons after the Larger and higher life have blossomed within. • The pictures we have painted where- with to adorn our hearts Lett desolate by the passing of loved ones, the thoughts of ;their possible fellcitudes Have had real and practical effects. An. ideal life before us leads us to strain after its ideals now; the passibility of a spiritual existence emphasizes the tm- • parlance of the spiritual to -day, the blow at the gods, but highly re- solved to discover and live the larger life beyond the change. These are not the dreams .with which we soothe and delude ourselves when confronted with the blankness of death; these are tie convictions deep graven in humanity universally. This sense of the larger life in which the soul goes en to full fruition makes iho present seeding, budding, pruning its wintry hlnsts and summer's heat all worth while because they ate not ter a day and death but for the Life that is for• ever, HENRY F. COPE. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 8. ;Lesson X. .3esus the Bread of Lite. Golden Text, John 0. 35. THE LESSON WORD STUDIES. (Based on the text of the Revised Version.) On the Morrow.—These words with which our longer lesson passage begins Waist be linked directly with the open. Ing clause of varse 24, the remaining portion of versa 22, as well as all of verse 28, being pareaullletical. This parenthetical portion is somewhat em- biguous. The actual sequence of events will appear from n careful reading of the entire narrative to have been as follows: When Jesus, alter having fed the multitude, "withdrew 'again into the mountain himself alone," the multitude tarried near the seashore, hoping, ap- parently, that he would again appear, even the depariure et the disciples at nightfall not deterring them from their purpose to wait for his return from the enounbatn solitude. A. groat many of them, therefore, remained ha the im- medlaie vicinity all night, But when on 111e following morning there was still no trace ot Jesus, (hose who had. remained, allnight decided to avail themselves of the oppertunity to- areas the lake in some of the boats that hea put in near the shore for the night, ap- pparenty om account of the severity of the sterm (comp, Matt. 14. 24). Arriv- ing at Gapernnum, and knowing thet Jesus had not departed from the other side with tins disciples, and also that there had been no other boats there except those in whioh they themselves had retuned, though apparently not greatly surprised at iludtng lent a1s'c ly at Capor'naumn, they were curious to. know haw and. when he had returned. "In replying to their direct inquiry on 'this point Jesus sloes not :satisfy their curiosity, hut addresses himself be their conscfeztce, pointing out :to them that their ' real motive for sceldng ' him 'so poeslstentdy cuss net an interest in the higher spiritual aspect of his miracles, .but only n seeded craving for the ma- terial benefits which these miracles be - Mowed upon them. , Aileding to (he recent, mirneles through which, they had especially benefited, he exlwile them to soak not, inertly Most for the body, Mut for spiritual nourishment, which has in it n0 elements of decay end sustal.ne lite eternal. This food,he deserts, ho IS able and witting to be, stow aspen them, es 1.e has already tone with food for the body, it being lar this expu'ess purpose that he has loon. commissioned by the Father. Vane 26. Because yo saw signs -- Tho miracle of feeding Lho multitude was doubtless not the first of, the mlraoles ot Jesus which the,5e people had !vile- named. 27, Son of man-4'hee dile; which le used. only by Jesus in'speatcleg ot hbn- palt, denotes an aspect of this being which had 11.111.1 in oommon with the hallo at e. tat ofthe Jo 's n r ions t t \\ hough Ln perfect hanirnony with the llemeling• Ideleh he Was about td eve euohariel, Thls, however, 1s to bo ques- hionod•, and with Dr, Plummer we may consider nether that "The dlsoourse lal'- fees to all the various channels of grace by which Christ Imparts himself lo the bollovhtg soul." -----••.-, M8, BILLT'OPS'S COLD, 1t Was Pretty Bad tor About 4 Days, but Ile's Golfing Dolter Now. "Mrs. illlliops says" said M. 13„ "that 'when I'm sick I fall down and break up and collapse and go to pieces gen- erally, She doesn't say lbls unkindly, you know, or anything like that, but ?;he says that when ern sick I'm a baby, and 1 guess it's so. "Now for the last four days I've had n cold, a bad cold; lame and sore all over, and so weals that It's hard work for m,; le drag [round. And yet 1 haven't been so dreadfully uncomfor- table, In fact I find sitting around in easy chairs rather pleasant than other wise, "Anti Nes. B1lltops smiles and says site guesses I'm not so dreadfully sick; and when I tell her about all my pains and tell her how miserable I feel gen- erally she says, 'Why that's just a cold, Ezra; you've get a hard cold, that's all, and then she smiles soma more and goes on about her work—she never lets up on that—and I sit hack and make myself as near comfortable as I can, thinking That, well perhaps that's all that is the matter with me, but wishing that whatever it Is 1 migh'f, soon get over it. "I3ut the worst thing about it all is that I've still got some appetite, You wouldn't llitnk that anybody feeling iho way I've been Mooting the last four days could oat a thing, but 1 have eaten fairly well, and Mrs. 13. smiles Over Mat a little too and says that anybody that can eat can't be so very stoic, but elle doesn't say that to make fun of me —fat' from it—she says that Lo encour- age rhe and make me get well quicker. :And as a matter of fact I am begin- ning to mend some. Coming hone last night 1 found myself whistling as 1 came along the street, which is some- thing I never do unless I feel well. I had just spontaneously, without know - Ing it, started whistling. And that was a pleasant surprise to me, but I stop- ped it right away, knowing that 1 was trot as well as I might iso; 1 had got to nurse my Illness a little yet; but f hadal gond morn ten rods further be- fore I round myself humming a tuna; apparently my body was feeling so much better that 11 was bound to ex- press itself somehow even if I did try to choke it off; and when. f got into the house and Mrs. 13illem0 had taken a look at me: 'Ezra,' sho says, cheerfully, 'I tints boncerning himself as the bread of life. Sealed — Divinely authenticating his missket by miraculous signs and au tlnarilattve teaching. 23, 29. Work the works of God.-=a'ho /question as put 10 Jesus by tete Jews in this verse reflects the notion which they had concerning the merit of good works in attaining God's favor. Jesus seeks' to correct this false notion, and points out that ttxeir duly to God is to 1-,e "thought of nee as works, but as a. single, dominating life principle, namely, that of faith In himself as the Son of God, 'Hence the answer, Thls is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. 30. What then driest thou for a sign— T'ho people understand perfectly the high elalan which Jesus has just made In referring to .himself as God's am- bassador, but they decline to accept the miracle which 110 has so lately •per- fonmed as a sufficient proof of this Maim, and ask for a more convincing mtge. 31. They manna in -the wildelness— teempore Exod. 10. 21; Num. 11. 8. 85. 1 am the bread of life—This Mem theme of the entire discourse of Jesus k, which he has been gradually lead.- Mg ead-ting up, and which he repeals agate end again in slightly varying form (compare verses 48, 51, 58). 37. All that which the Father giveth mho shall come unto me—Jesus has the utmost confidence in the ultimate ful- fillment of the Father's purpose in send- ing him into the world, even though onany may reject him and refuse to believe. 89. I should lose nothing—Jesus again expresseshis eenildenco'in the ultimate triumph of the Father's pians for sav- ing the world. 41, The Jows—John's favorite expres- slon in referring to the Jewish authors ties, who almost without exceptiontvero hostile to Jesus, and who were coni ebantly seeking 10 discover in his words end deeds anise for accusation against item. 42, Jesus the son of Joseph—As such, of course, he was generally and limes, eerily regarded. The mystery of lets .divine Incarnation would not have been understood. orbelieved even 11 it had been unuigrstood or believed oven 11 it had been generallylcnown. In the light ret this fact it was but natural that the ,Tows should question the cla➢m Rode .virtity d dl - vivify which JesuLhus openly p y made , 'though the purity of lee life, the atu- ;iherlty with which he taught, and the !resales which he performed should' have convinced his hewers suMetently ' to gain. for him a h'cspec(ful Ormeidera- lion of his claims teed his teachings. 44. Except the Father draw him—The trowel' and inclhlatton to believe is al- eo a week of divine grace in l.ho heart 42. ht the prophets—Oompare tsa. 154, 13, where such divine instruction Is emedleted as a mark of the Messianic. aiommunity. Evcryorie that hale hemd from the Wether and bath learned --There es alt A STORY OF LEAP YEAR SLL SORTS 01? QUEER TIHINGS DONE TO FEBRUARY. t•'iret 11 Wats at had of Year—Some, limes an Extra Month Was Put in Middle of 11, The way In which the months which form our. year huve been seal= up end juggled around, pared down here and podded out theca makes a mighty interesting story, The Ilrst Eurepcan diivlston of the year that we Know anything about End only ten months and 301 days, This tools the, Invention. of ((0nnth15, who must have lend a lovely trine patching up things so 555 (0 come out even. They evidently 1 into a area by avian y dd get n pretty bad mess, for Nu1na Pompilius, the sec- ond King 'of Rome, had to add two whale months, January and February. January', named after Janus, the god wen presided over the beginning of the year, was made the first of the twelve 1110111113. February, from a Latin word mean- ing to expiate, was clapped onto the end, that being considered the appro- priate period for repentance. It stayed there for 200 years before it finally got Ilstlt promoted to second place. And it has somehow always been February which was tackled first if anybody wanted to do anything les the calendar. Even with Numa's twelve mouths the year had only 354 clavas. The trouble wee that the ancients had a very great regard for the moon and were trying to matte the months follow exnotly Lhe moon's revolutions. The result was that the year Was eleven days loo short and' the seasons were climbing over themiselves in TILE MOST CONFUSING FASHION. Something had to be done, and of course Fobruaay was chosen as the month. to be tinkered with, The ohange was so clumsy that one wonders how anybody could manage dales at all un- der such a system, Every alternate year a whale month was donated to the year, but for Lsome reason Instead of putting it between two months it was thrust squarely into F'ebruary, between the 24th and the 25th of that long suffering month. The length of this intercalary month, as it was called, was itself alternated every alternate year, and ]so the length of the year was made pretty nearly col sect, It was now one day too long, how- y'on aro feeling better to -night,' and i ever, instead of being ten days too said: short, so that still another clumsy ,le °'Y—es, I think f ant feeling a little vice bad to be arranged for correcting better,' and before the evening was oyer this. The year was of different lengths I found myself laughing at something; at different times, but once to twenty - and this morning. 1 am really feeling four years Jt came around to the teglht quite considerable better, and 1 think point and then [started all over agalan. that by a couple of days more I shall That is, it would have come around bo back to normal. alt right if it had been Jet alone. But "Which Is my usual condition. 1 She management of the calendar was din very rarely ailing at a11;, almost 10- in the hands of the priests, who could variably I enjoy excellent good health atter the length of the intercalary and keen good spirits, and I an always month—poor February again)—lo suit a Mlle inclined to wonder that people themselves. These shrewd gentlemen, slhould let themselves bo cast down as therefore, used to spit out the month they are just because they aro a little when they wanted to hang onto an of - off. What's the use of telling the flee for themselves or friends, or wound whole world you can't stand a little bit cut it short if they were in et hurry for of pain and suffering? 111e annual elecl,tons, "So it strikes me when I'm feeling, As may well bo believed, the common se I almost invariably do, fiL as a fid- people had no comprehension of (110 die and looktng at everything with the right way of running their compUoaled brightest possible vicee. But do you calendar. They didn't Jcnew whether know, I find it makes all the difference the priests were doing the thing 'pro• in the world about this whether it's the party 00 not; so 11 was confusion worse other fallow that's sielc or you. confounded as time went on, until in 'Yes, sir. When I'm well I wonder Julius Ctelsar a time the year was why the ailing man doesn't look cheer - tui, anyway; but when I'm sick I feel IIOPELPSSLY MUDDLED UP. right away the need of sympathy." The winter months were in the au - Orme, the autumn months 1n the sum - WOLF HUNT IN FRANCE. mer, and so on. Something had to be done again, and Villagers About Dijon Organizing for Caesar was equal to iho occasion, He Protection. planked In two extra months between A coat wolf hunt is !tieing oonductod November and December, in addition b groat people et the little vilingea to the intercalary month In February, round Dijon, situated on the outskirts sr, That the year contained, fifteen of the forest lands. months and 445 days. This was 46 !every night at sunset the inhabitants 13 C. and is known as the lour of Con - turn out with torches, lanterns, and Con- tusion, lcks for a battle. During the last few it really was the Last bear of confu- p g sign. It cancelled all past errors, and days the e'larvJng wolves have been leaving the forest and attacking the vii- the next thing was to make subsequent lages. Three days ago a man was at. years the pr per ie gth 11 philosopher Lacked at night on. the high road byA losopher what at first ho took to be a dog. He or Alexandria, named Soisigenes, who had no light, but shouted et the beast had the thing. all soiled out. Casser and kicked hhn with his heavy hob -n911- adopted his ,plan, and the result Is our ed boots, driving him off. Tho same modern year, even to our oecasfonal right the farmyards were raided, leap year. Recently a title gh'l very nearly Tell But poor old February stili had to a victim. She was attacked by a great (01110 in for some tinkering. eraser de - wolf within a hundred yards of her creed that the months of the year father's house, The father heard her should be of thirty and (dirty -ono days call. for help, and dashed•a maim, atterealcly, except February, which in mein ho carried, full In no taco of the ordinary years was to have twenty- brute, Which belled. eight days, welt an extra day every The authorities have sent criers mood four years. The only foolish thine the villages warning the inhabitants not about this arrangement was that the to go out without lights after dark, So extra day was not placed at the end of bold have the animals beoome; that even the month, ss at present, but between 10 Dijon itsoll—a town of 08,000 et- the twenty-fourth and twenty -(lull, hnbitrants, end some distance from the \\-hero the tnteroalary month had been. forest lands—there is a `Considerable It was Crewe therefore who, intro anxiety. dueed leap •year. ht order that the .r '_ name of Julius Geasar might forever be MAKING IIA[N, asseetaicd with tits new calendar, (lie nionta in which his birthday occurred fleeced Experiments Took Place in New was named aftor Mee Zeailand'! It is our July, formerly known as An interesting rainmaldng expert- Quintile% This was a very proper re - Mot .ta reported from North Otago, cognition of Julius Gaiser's.servfees, but New Zealand, where there had been a ie contained the seed of 1003drought. The places chosen were MORE TROUBLE FOR FEBRUARY, dl's Table 1050 feet above trio sett When Julius'dled and Augustus sec - level, and 'retard, 500' feet above the seeded Etta, the Latter was ratter. lea - en. The nest attack on the skies was toes because ot :that month which por- oede with three explosions, [1 the last petuated the fleet Cmsars naive. He and most powerful forty pounds of dy- daoided to have one named after film mimeo and twenty-five pounds of pow- too, ;So when lis army Won some via tensa in the month foi1owing July he picked that one out to be called Angus- sus, T'h'at was all aright me tar as 1t went, but there was nos eertous drawback. Upsets had Only thirty days, while Julius had thirtyp-one. Horrid thou 'tl Au tus was not &h 11 , the keen is put up with a sma , ex month t1t anybody else, so he calmly and r dayonto August, Melted g did t k The Wen to dud he Det iso ti der being used: Then as.well '0.5 11 divine element No immediate effects were observed, entering the life et fettle, The drawing leo, a singlet eltower tell at le place a of the Father le not atoehnnioal or cant' !misery, tint operates only upon mens roe wltt and regulates their cooperation to bo frutttul of testate. 51. The bread Which I will. gave Is my Mesh—lt lyes been much deepwted whe- ther he• f t Is m'ae and h tits r of 1 t ao Ile •nr n et 1lapooially in (tile verse, Jesus refers e'nit481, dirootly; or indtbsotl,, to the holy little detente away, Farther oxplo- slons with larger charges followed, the strongest being plaodueed by fifty poUndd of gun notion avid 100 pounds of dy' namIta, This was followed by wide. spread end heavy rains, which oozltfnu• ed for two days. A third series of ex- plosions involving char fes of pounds were else suco6,sa[Uf, ee two so as le benotmerely equal t.+ cin ahead of July. !le made trouble enouegh as it was. Tho length of each of the east four months had to Lo eltenged so that they would alternate hi their number of days, And as he had added a day to the year one had to lm lopped off wine. where. Needless to say, it cavae off February. The year was naw of the right length except for a fraction 01 an (tour, but this slight ewer, only I1 mitell.•.s end 10 seconde a year, WU. allowed to grow unlit In 1182 it amounted to leu daye„ In that year Gregory XIII. decreed that October 6 sinould be October 113, taus Welling up those, ten lost days. bunle Countries, ILowevcr, dt+fek le the old dales. Russia still 1)01:19 to the al style, and in 10rne pluese to trent Britain certain terms are regulated by it. although the now style wee weaned' In England in T1114. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, Tile British people thought they were being robbed of something when the change Was made, and Cretan of them paruded with the demand: "Give us back our eleven dayn3' For by tluat. Nue the difference had Increased miller day, ]laving corrected past errors Gregory decided Lc keep things straight ha (Su- ture, so he deuced that only those century years which are divisible by 400 should be leap years. For instance, 1000 and 2000 would be leap years, but 1,10)0, 1800 and 11100 would not be. That makes things acme out so ex- actly that now there will be, a difference of only one day in 3,000 years. It Is proposed, therefore, to make the year 4000, which would be a leap year, a common year, and then we will he all right again for another 4,000 years. Just why leap year received that name is not quite clear. That it dates back a long way Ls certain, for it is found to have been in vogue in the. Middle Ages, Some authorities say that 1t is be- cause -the days following February 29 leap a day beyond where they would have been had the year been, an ordin- ary one. For instance, if March 1 would have come on Tuesday leap year puts it on Wednesday instead, Another reason is that in England formerly the 20th and 28111 of Febru- ary wore one h1 the eye of the law. The 2811, us the regular day. was con- sidered that one; and the 29th, though civilly held as a day, was not one le- ga11y. Se that the legal year did really leap that day. One name for It is bissextile year, a name which. goes back to old Ileums timers for its origin. At that time the days were counted backward from the beginning of the next month. Febru- ary 25 was the sixth day before the [calends of March—sextus ad Kalendas Marllas. The additional day that Ce- sar put in between, the 241.1). and 25th was called bissexLum. and so the year came to be known as the bissextile year. ETQUETTE OF ANCIENTS. Invitations to Dinner Written Two Thou- sand Years Ago. Translations hest completed by 13.P. Grenfell, 01 Queen's College, Oxford, of wondertul papyri he and Dr. Hunt bt•ought beck from excavations .in Or- hy'chus, Emit, provide a rude shoat to those vette fondly ,pride theist=elves en Iree twentieth century's; advance along 11e petit of progress. Among other interesting information to these translations Is a revelation for students of the evolution of social form, that dllettanttsm in dining tees as much de rigucur among the beet people 2,000 years ago its to -day, and that the simple life was .advocated by Pinder In his odes even at a remoter period. Manuscript deciphered by Greenfetl shows the following term proper at n dinner invitation its the Nubian desert in this [list century:— TAKING SALT FROM SEA BETWEEN SAN 11EDR0 AND LONG BEACII, CALIFORNIA, Pacific Ocean Water Evaporates in Warm Soar -Description of Process. Transforming ocean water into salt 3.s t wonderful prowess, and nowhere is it carrlecl on la a greater advantage then ie a plant situated midway between Ian. Pedes and Long Bettell, California, where nature has supplied the neseesury Jew, level country, clean ocean wafer and warns smisllino in abundance, Sall has been gathered in this la,ation for more than nine 3com, and the best malted yet worked out is as fellows :- Pure water from the Petrillo 1s pumped into ponds. I1 lies in these pond„ gravi- tating from one to another, until in rifle or sixty days, according to the weather, 11 becomes a saturate sohdfon—brinc— and is pumped into crystallizing vats. There are twenly-six of these, each averaging 50,000 square feet. Here the salt waster Crystallizes to a depth of more than one foot, while all 'mem ites r'male in the water and are drawn off through small ditches. This water contains Epsom salts, magnesium chloride, oalcium chloride, potassium chloride and a small per cent, of sodium bromide, which until now has el' gone to waste. November 1, however, a contrivance was put in for saving the magnesium chloride. There are great. advantages in ocean water over the water of Salt Lake as a source of salt, for the former is purer and oontahns no alkali. DRYING IN SUN. When Iho water has been drawn off a force of men invades the crunching salt to shovel it up In long winnows, much ns Eastern white wings do snow. There it partly dries, is shovelled on small cars, dumped into a big one, and finally piled on a broad belt that carries it into the storage mill at the rate of twenty tons in twenty -Live minutes. From tee storage mill are sent annually many tons of salt for its first and crudest uses—for cattle and to freeze ice cream. About onedourth of the output is consumed in this way. The remainder is drawn up through piles into a loft and forced through a crusher; then it is ready for pickling and meat. packing. When not taken at this point it is blown through a drier, a tre- mendous iron cylinder which, revolving, tosses the salt about with hot -aft cur- rents and dries it thoroughly, when it becomes fit for making glazed file and sewer pipes and preparing tildes. The sacking machine is worth describ ing. 11 is fed through a chute from the left which distribute,: the salt into small metal tubes, from which it empties into one and three-fourths pound sacks, fill ing 4,000 per hour. These latter, when full, close automatically and drop off and are carried away on a revolving belt Only one operator is necessary', but she is Icopt busy flanging empty bags on the tubes. One final rotting and sifting machine tc 111 the salt for table use, when it le breed, a glean and absolutely chemically /ere product, of which more than 200.- 000 00,000 two -pound packages are sent out each month. SAFETY OF ANAESTHETICS. Lads Dan3e.'aus Than Crossing a Thoroughfare. "It is really safer for a patient to be placed under anaosthetio3 than it is for an °Nlinm•y person. to attempt to cross one of our crowded thoroughfares." This statement was made by a high official of the London (England) Iiospf- tal while discussing some observations made by the city Coroner h1 reference "Chaoljon invites you la dine with, to a death under anaesthetics at Guys him at the table of the Lord Seraphis FIospital. The Cot0rer said such cases were extremely heportane to the pub - lac. During the past six and a half years he held inquests en thirty-six per- sons, who had died to Guy's Hospital while under anaesthetics, "The public probably have no idea with what .safety anaesthetics are now adnbistered. 'Hera, on an average, fifty patients are placed under armee thetics every day, In 1904 there were 15,142 cases, and of that number, twenty - (Wo dted during the period et anaesthe- sia, but only four of the 15,1!12 died from the effects of the anaesthetc. "The Mon n 'death under anaesthetics' 11 susceptible of many meanings. Here wo adopt the strictest interpretation. For instance, a man may be brought to who has had both his legs cut off as a 'resul't of a railway acei:ient, He may be at the point of death when he en- ters our doers, and, in Net, die direct- ly he Is put on the operating table and the anaesthetic bag adjusted. We should regard that as a death tinder anacslhottes, although the adtaeslltetics had nothing whatever t1 do with his death. "Lust year 17,256 patents in this hh- stilttii.0n were placed under aneestee. fres and the result, were as revertible a, the figures 1 have given for 1001," ' LiTTLE AT TIME. in SeraPhem lo -morrow, which ds the fifteenth day of the month, at 9 o'clock." According to the difference len 1,10111- eJ of designating lame, says Grontalf, the hour mentioned probably meant 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and that the invitation showss little difference be- tween the dinner forms then and now, except that the hosts 2;000 years ago used no unnecessary words. The following translation shows that wedding breakfasts aro not vette. late social development as beiieved; "Herten invites you to dine with her at the marriage of her children at 11er hohno lo -morrow, which is the fifth day of Me month, at 9 o'clock,' k-- C110LEt3A AMONG PILGRIMS, Four i11121(red Deaths a Day at Jeddah, Arabin. The cholera hes increased at Jeddah, Arabia, and the average number of deaths dally Ls 400, Duddell, the Ped Sea port for pilgrims travelling to and from Mecca, is the world's danger cen- tre for cholera and plague, 301e than 100,000 Mehometen pil- grims from all parts of the world visit Mecca every year, and fully halt this number . pass. through Jeddah, More than one great epidetnio of Cholera hos been traceable to this enormous traffic in pilgrims at •Ilse Ped Sea port. Tho pilgrims en mule to Ilia holy city where Mehemet was born and preached his gospel aro packed litre herrings In small steamers, which ply between Bon- bay, Aden, and Suez, anti are dlsem- barked at Jeddah, where there aro no sanitary tterangements. Twenty thousand pilgrims from India along passed through Jeddah last year, and 18,000 more cane from Egypt, es- corting scorting the holy carpet which covers the Italaba, the shrine of elohentetans at Mecca, every year, - Sf1c years ago a serious oulhkreak of cholera cceare d at Jeddah, and the disease appeared seen ,atterwa~ds to lie—Did you tell your father, der. ling? She—I told' him 1 tees engaged, clear, but not to whom. lie is not well, and I thought I would break 11 to him gra- dually. It's apo er tool that can't be work, ed both ways. Any kind of advice is good as Tong as you don't attempt to follow it. A noted politician has a faollity for 'repartee that. ho oomotimes turns to good account, Fie was addressing a nlaeLitngoltono ecaaseen, when a portly indlvidtlal to the eadience, a large em- player of labor, interrupted .him, charg lag him with "fattening oh the sweat Egypt, having been carried by the re- et the people." The metier, stint and turning caravans, The mortality •0lt dapper, welled amine poefeet quiet re, Maces. itselt was very high. TT1Otlsalds deed In a single week, The simple lite is all right for those who Can afford it. placed the cenemet 0n welch tits re - Marls had made, Then he observed, dalmiy-"l leave those present to de - Clete which of tis is the more exposed to that charge," GAM$LING AT CAMBRIDGE TWO UNDERGRADUATES WERE "EASY" VICTIMS. A Sharper 't'1')ao Used Loaded Dtee and !Racked Cardp Fleeced Them. An nstoni.hing story of card playing with Cambridge undergraduates wee feel at the Cambridge Pollee Court, London, England, the other day,' A young man r,1 :hurting appearance, named Vernon (emit Ellinghain Mus, grae, otherwise (Merge Gcleer, other- woe Gordon, was charged with obtain- ing d)14 leen an undorg:'aduatc named Keith Farquhar 'Townley Caldwell, arra d (1 1,0(51 Allen Graham Agnew, of Dur, rants, lierls, a former undergraduate and with attempting to obtain X321 Mom an undergraduate named Tete, Al' three undergraduates were at Trin, icy Ilan. Musgrave became acquainted with Mr, Caldwell last year on a steamer returning from Gibraltar. They after- wards met occasionally 1n London, FRIENDLY GAME. In April this year, he motored to Cambridge its an 80 here ear for the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket and put up at the Butt Hotel, FIe hae already sent a letter and a reply -pall telegram to Mr. Caldwell, and the late ter went to the hotel and saw him. Another young man, namedi 'Harold C:oltnge, and his wife, were with Mus- grave, and Collings played cards, Mus- gt eve and Coliinge were afterwards anti rested on the undergraduates' cone. plaint, Musgrave left the country while on tail, and his £200 was ostreated. Col - tinge was indlcted at Cambridge as - elms for conspiracy and was acquitted. Musgrave was re -arrested in Switzer- land, and 011 Saturday last at Boulogiie was handed over to Detective Sergeant Marsh, of Cambridge. Ills luggage included: Three trunks, three kit -bags, largo box of hats, dress- ing case, bag of golf sticks, leather ease. The defective emptied the latter on the police court table. Its contents included four packs of cards, dice of various kinds, a roulette wheel, and a small steel file, His luggage when he was arrested al Cambridge in the first place included nine slice, of which the detective said that "two aro among, whtie et third teetotums, the spindle of one being movable. The system by which it is alleged Musgrave swindled the undergraduates et cards was explained by Mr, Raikes, who prosecuted. \LARKED CARDS. Among the packs of cards which Musgrave provided, Ale Raikes said, were a park with small figures of cyc- lists on the back, and another deco- rated with the arms of the va•lous col- leges. On the "cyclist" cards there were also figures of two birds, These were so treated as to lndicato Neth the suits and the court cards, as follows:— Clubs—Roth binds with tails. Spades—Both .beds tailless. Hearts Top bird tailless, Diamonds—Bottom bird tailless. Court !Ards—Bicycle wheel "shaded" with small lines, in four different ways. Mr. Caldwell, a tall, athletic looking young man, fold his story in a becom- ingly bashful manner. On the boat on which he inet Musgrave, he said, there was a card tournament, which he won. The magistrates remanded Musgrave in custody with a view bo commditmg him for trial at the assizes. SUICIDE IN JAPAN. Decanting More Frequent—Women and 4fne Young Give Large Percentage. A Russian statistician, 31. '1'arnowsky, is authority fur the statement that eel- ale unside has increased more than 50 per cent. in Japan in recent years. While the number of cases was ntout 144 to 200,C00 inhabitants In the early '90s, it is now in excess of 205 annually. The cid-fashioned method of harakiri plays no part In the increase. It is praeLseu, if at all, only by metnhers of the higher , ellusse.s�, Hanging and drowning aro , the usual methods of the people et large, Women furnish a very unusual pee portten of these tragodtos. Whereas the , proportion of the whole .number of set, cldes to the population is about the same as in France, the number of wo- men suicides is about Lwice as great, in France one-elflh of all castes approxl" mately are of women; In Japan Lhey are 'two -tiffs. Jealousy is the usuall to„five, F,,r 500 French women wife, kill [hetnselt'es for this reason there ate 1,800 Tapenese women, Another strange feature Ls the pre- cocity et t1•e tiwho are Dred 01 tiro, 1 lu Franco nl)lut• .eeventy--five children o ,,. —• under 16 years et age'.,nnmtit stecittr"”; every year; in Japan the nZrrr0t' Ls 225. 1 10 France about twenty-one nut of everys, hundred sui cides and in Japan about Ihirly-five are less than 10 years of age: The women are relatively a largo pro- i portion among tile young then the old:-, Women len Japan furnish only 8 pee , Gent, of lee fetal criminality of the ante pito, 'so Tarnowsky concludes that they; are mono virtuous yet more unheppei than tiuiopean woman, • DANGEROUS INFLATION. Fat Man (le dentist) --Are you goring to .give tn0 gas? a Dentist--Cortahtty, sir, Fat .Man—Then better anther MI down first, 'elle ;DIFFERENCE. 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