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CANADA'S PR GRESS
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Great Development in
the Past Thirty Years.
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Exhibition time is a period of 1874 the hanks were lending to 11
ttoe k -t. k I nu. We think, 'then, of people for the purpoice of trade tl
our progress 111 the pest, and we re- Num Of 8131,000,000. Thirty yeu.1
fleet 1111011 the outloek for the fu- later the discounts ELMO:lilted 1
WM, Can It be thet we have made 3509,000,000. "Ede pointe to a vas
great strides'? is 11 probable that inereahe In the hush -toss of the cow
We shall go forwerd la the years try, and to the development of
to come as rapidly LIS WO have hith-
erto edvanced? 'rho question as to
tho past is answered. by the statis-
tics relating to the business of the
country. Tim we find that in thir-
ty years—that le, feorn 1871 to .1901
—we have inereasell the area. of land
under eultival1011 from 17,000,000
acres to 80,03)0,000 acres. This
means that 11113,000 hundred -acre
fro.ins have been made produetive,
and that room has been founcl for
650,000 more dependents upon agri-
culture,
THE MONEY TI.IEY MAKE,
It Is not possible to estimate how
much money. the -farieleg industry
makes compared With what it earned
thirty years ago, Du t the export)
figures show that it Rent oet of the
- country 398,000,000 worth of pre-
cincts in 11:04, whereas in 1874—thir-
ty years earlier—its sales were but
. 819,1341,000s- A jump of $80,000,-
000, in round figures, is an enorm-
Ous increase ill the businese. But
of course, the agrieul tui'cil interests
do not derive all theit- incom0. from
foreign sales. There is a great and
growing home demand, which is
lanuery 7 to June 26 there have
heen eleVell cures.
The aitalyele of this mixed vege-
table juice, which was condueted un-
der the eupervieion of I/1.. Russell,
showed the following. remelts:—
Per cent.
Water 02.53
Stereli 1,02
Disaccharldes (cane Segal',
(.11..) .... 0.81
Monosaccharldee (glueoier,
to
2,01
Pentosee and pentosans Traces
74 Pat 0.40
Eseeetial 011:4 (Mat I le) .,„ 0.11
Esseetial oils Wm -volatile) ,0.04
111- Coloring 11111311'0 22
Trace
Tertneie acid 0.715
13 Colleloye „ , .,„,„ 0.21
Malice su cc Ole and wen lic
Trace
Volatile acids (cuticula( ed
ac('tic)
Tannic, 'rruce
Proteid (nitrogen multiplied
by (1.2il) 0.987
Ash . .... 0.47
.10 a written explanation of his
valuable discovery, Dr. Russell says:
"It has been demonstrated over
and over again that food and fresh
air, which must be regarded as a
Rom of food, are the main factors
in -the cure of pulmonary tuberculos-
is.
"There have been fewer exacerba-
tions since its use, and the measure
of the efficacy of any method of
treatment must be the occurrence or
absence of exacerbations, or periods
of violence in the disease,
'I ion convinced that vegetable
juice is a velutible addition to diet,
but feel that six months' observa-
tion is not sufficient to enable me
to speak positively of its full value.
'For the treatment of exaeerlia-
tions, or period:3 of increased vio-
lence of the disease requiring rest,
the diet of milk and bread and but,
ter is strongly recommended. 'Both
wheat 01131 corn bread, the latter
made Ivith eggs, are used, and the
largest gains in weight are made
by patients who eat, uorn or corn
muffins at. one of the three meals.
The daily amount of milk is fixed
at either four, five or six pints,
which ever in the judgment of the
physician seems best.
U1101131) TO EAT HEAVILY,
large windier of now undertaking
1.101110 the hankm have thus immense
thole aveommociation to the public,
the people have added to the 111113 h1
of 11111 1i 111(0, for the deposits
110.01. grown wonderfully. In 1874
the public had confided 877,000,000
10 the Nov of the banks, but to
1904 there was no less than $470,-
000,000 on depoeit. Here is an ad-
dition of $400,000,000 to the Linen -
Oat resources of the people in thir-
ty years. But this figuect scarcely
does justice to this side of the
question, because there are deposite
In the Post -office banks and In the
loan companies, and these have
grown proportionately.
WHAT INSURANCE COSTS.
An idea of the rate at, which the
property, values are growing. can be
gathered from the fact that the in-
surance against fire has greatly aug-
mented In 1874 the value of pro-
perty covered, . or the amount at
risk, was $306.000,000. At the )11'0
sent, time the figures is 31,218,000,-
0001 The amount of property in -
stood has multiplied bV four. Ili!
1874tho public paid $3,522,000 for
11)053. vahlable to the far•mer. Pha this ineurance against lire. In 1906
details of the exports show some the amount said for such insuranc-e
marvelousw
facts. Take, for example, as $13,000,000. But life insur
the case of cheese. In 1874 we ex- Linea e301b118 greater strides than
ported 83,528,000 worth; but ill does lire insitieince—pt•obably because
1904 the exportations were. $24:- it is a later -clay necessity, Th
184,000 worth. Take, again, 1,0.001, amount for -which Canadians wore
and hams. In 1874 the quctiltit.V 111001'ed In 1974 was $85,000,000. In
sold abroad Was 20,2137,000 pounds; 1904 Canadians were insured for
in 1.904 the quantity was 127,913,- $587,000,000! 1Ve paid $2,844,000
000 rol'Ilds• Once Tara a'a haw for life insurance in 1874, and 319,-
a remarkable revelation in the cat- 809,000 for the same service, ex -
311) Bales. We sold 263 steers te tended, in 1904. POW people can
Great Britain, valued at $14.200, In
187,1. But lasy yecte—thirty years
141.1er—our sales were 148,301,, and
the value was S10,046,000. Here
is a business that bets been created
during the period mentioned.
MINERAL, AND OTHER PRODUCTS
Outside of Title-111ns We 11(We znade
great peogress. Our gold produc-
tion has jumped from $2,000,000 in
1874, to 316,400,001) 111 1904, of
this latter sum the. comparatively
newly discovered Vulcan contributes
$10,000,000. Our coal production
has jumped from 1,000,000 tons in
1874, to 7,3040,000 in 1001. Our
fisheries have doubled le value. They
yielded $11,000,000 worth of fish
in 1874 and $28,000,000 worth last
year. 'rho foreste have also brought
us greater retares, The exported
output netted 327,808,000 in 1874,
whert.ae the figure for 1904 is 386,-
725,000. One of the circumstances
contributing to this increase is the
utilization of ?mimeo for paper mak-
ing. Tho pulpwood development has
been very great and very important.
'Passing from the producing' depart-
ments to other branches, some curi-
ous find interesting facts ma to be
rimed. One Is in the postal ser-
vice. Thirty years ago 89,158,000
lettere and postearde passed through
the post -office. in 1 901 the eumber
of letters and postcards handled 15138
2136,868,000, This indicates Ire-
meetloue augmentation of genoral
busbies/1. Pmerybody is writing
ftbout something now -a -days.
BANKING DEVELOPME.NT,
Ver' marked has been the develop-
ment of the banking inteeest,
reallen the fact that for all sorts of
insurenee—flee, life, Inarine, and So
forth, we paid $87,500,000 in 1004.
Tho irdereets that call for 11110 pro-
tection are by no means insignifi-
cant.
RAILWAY PROGRESS,
Very remarkable is the railway
progress of the country, as exhibit-
ed by the official figures, In 1.874
we had 4,8511 miles of railwey. By
1904 the mileage was 19,431, exclu-
sive of electric roads, which were
already eumerous. The railways
earucel 810,470,000 in 1874, and 02:-
aetly $100,219,000 in 1904. Here
is an increase of $80,000,000 in the
revenues. There Were 5,190,000 pas-
sengers carried in 18174, and 23,6,10.-
000 in 1904. Of freight, the rail-
ways carried 5,670,000 tons in 1874
and 48,000,000 tons in 1904. The
growth of businese indicates that
the trade of Canada has extended,
and that the movement of pepula-
tion is more marked. Of course,
much is to he attributed to the de-
velopment of the \emit. That cook -
try has called for facilities for it-
self, and it has increased the de-
mand for travel in the East.
. CANADA IN THE FUTURE,
We have made great progress. But
we have merely commenced. Canada
lei really but at the beginning of a
history that tells of agaietiletwal, in-
dustrial and commercial WIVE:1100-
ment, The Canada that is to be
will he a country of great wealth,
and of vast opportueities for all.
With our Aug. developing West aid-
ing us, thn achievements of the past
are as nothing compared to those
that are yet to ho experienced.
DETAILS OF JUICE MET Castor oil is administered at Mid-
. night
Treatment With No Animal Flesh
DR. JOHN F. RUSSELL'S CON- or Eggs, -7 /1.111,-2 glaseee
suivrpTIoN aiRE. cereal, bread or butter, any vege-
table, fruit, calcium chloride. 8.80
--
Explanation and Table of Vega- a.m.—Emulsion, glycerine. 10 a.m.
tables Used. in His
—2 glasses milk, 12 am. -2 glamses
Teeatment. 1)11111, Mead and hotter, cheerio vege-
tables, nuts, vegetable Mice, 8.80
The medical Profession is attcsting pm. -2 glasses milk, calcium elder -
the keenest tuterest in the pubnon- icle, p.m. -2 glasses 1111113, bread
ary cora by vegetable 041co, dieeov- and butter, vegetables, vegetable
cry of Or. John Itoseell, of the
New ;York Post Graduate Hospital,
The julee 311010 fIrSt 0(111:2070d by a
ltand machine.
HAD TO GMT MACHINERY,
The results of the administration
of the juice to tuberculosis patients
111 the hospital was so satisfactory
not to Say astonishing, that the
hand machine 04110 discarded and a
power machine installed fur grinding
the vegetables, and a cider press was
used for extracting the juice ft.om
the pole. A largo quantity ef juice
was prepared every day and kept on
ice.
VEGETABLE CURE 14011 CON-
SUMPTION.
Juice. b p.m .—IfitnulRi011, glycerine.
10 p.m.—Cathartic,
Including 311ggs and Animal :Flesh.
—7 a.11l.-111.0altfast: Cereal and
bread and butter, meet (if desire(1),
vegetebles, raw eggs, vegetable
(uice, 8.130 a. tn.—(1 lycerine, emul-
sion. 12 a.m.—Dinner: Soup, meat,
bread and butter, vegetables, raw
eggs, calcium chloride. 8 pen.—
Calei um chloride. 6 p•n1,--SIMPS11
Meat, vegetables, bren.d and hotter,
raw eggs, vegetable juice. 8 pan.—
Eminleion, glyeerine. 10 p.m.—
Cathartice.
VI111ET ABLE MUSD THE A:RBIVEll
"There is no longer difnetilty in
supplying the proper gliantIty of
protaid, earbo-hydrato and .fat; but
71'lle following shows the daily is there acit sorneLlting' add iti 0 nail
1114111.1(4, in detail, for ihree prescribed needed to lift ilte blood and tiescies
eoueses eg diet in Dr, Ressell'm vege- to that high eetate, perfect, health,
table fluid eure .for consumption:— for which physiologists have riot
Hest Treatment.—leour pints of yet. found a name?
1111114 daily. 7 a011.--0110 glees 1111116 "Plxperieere. in the treetmeet of a
bread, butter, calcium chloride, laege iminher of 110.5115 of pulinontiry
a,111.—E11112 1211011, g1Y(0111110. 11 am. tuberculosis hail led to the conelus-
--One glass milk. 1 2 0. nt.--One lon that in Eases or the apparel -toy
gloss milk, better, beead, vegetable curable type who ultvrly fail lo get
juice. 1 p.01.—One glass milk, 2 e ell, the catteo of fatInee 18 lack or
1), 111,-010, glaee milk. 8 p, in.— fin intknown 801110 hing 311 the diet;
(Mr 0085 01310, calcium ehloride. 5 and in e118014 of simile,' typo who got
p 01.-01co glass 101110, bread butter. well only after a long and t,eclimie
13 p. 111.--Vegotah1e juice. 7 9, 31,— well, the tibeteesary something is
Ono glass milk, 9 supplied Matey in insuilicient
31111311-
9170011 111', '31) p, rile, 3. 11,V oe et too long intervals,
It is host to begin treatment In "loor 13 innetber of yettre 7have
011 elves Willi four pints of milk been searchhig for ' this indult-evil
deity. After two cleye, if it is something, or ite mouree of supply,
thought. hod to increase the amelint and vegettffilo Ildect is the onte
1.0 five pints, olle glass is added at e01110,
31) min. and p.10, 11 siX phite "IL Imo been 111 use et the Annan
daily, two glatisca instead of ono NII1CO •Tanunry 7, mid et the 'els-
1100 triVett at 7 Mut 10 a.M, porteary since March 7, 1.800. li'kons
"Patients are urged to eat as
much as 1.31e3, possibly can, and bY
referring to the table of weights and
daily average of bread and butter
physicians may determine about how
much their patients should eat.
"T have always advocated what
to most physicians seems the extra-
vagant use of cathartics, because
believe that systematic use increases
digestive capacity, hastens absorp-
tion, aids the removal of circulating
poisons and reduces fevers.
"Patients are allowed to leave the
bed and sit up or recline in chairs
after the first week of treatment.
weeks, at the end of which cheese,
vegetable, cereals, nuts and fruit axe
added to the diet and patients begin
to take regulated exercise.
''The rest treatment is always fol-
lowed, when possible, by the diet
which excludes animal flesh and
eggs, though all these diets are em-
ployed al the dispensary. Alcohol,
torecco, tea, coffee, chocolate, cocoa,
beef -tea, meat extracts, meat juice,
vinegar, are forbidden."
conununicating his discovery to
his Tallow doctors Dr. Russell ex-
pressed his belief that the cure of
coasureption should be taken out of
the hands of the specialist and plac-
ed ender the supervision of the gen-
eral practitioner.
"'rile details of its sziecessful man-
agement," he said. "are as easily
within his coninmed as the details
of the management of any other
emmeon disease. such as typhoid
fever, for example."
INDORSED 131' PHYSICIANS,
Dr, J. Is. Soulhinayd, of No, 154
East Sixty-third street, New York,
said regarding Dr, Russell's new
eu rot
"Dr, Russell flthilitS that he has
not yet1 tried the vegetable -juice cure
for a sefficient length of thne to
demonstrate it to his perfect. Netts-
factiom I myself think that in
such eases the value of such a, dis-
eovery should be thoroughly tested
before a fined expression of opinion,
"The cure hos ShOW11 a remarkable
success fer the lemeth of time it has
been in operatiou, But barer() p1185-
1119 an opinion on it I would rather
wait, say for a year, for relapees.
They are very likely to occur in eas-
es of tuberculosis,
"The most I can say Is that the
cure certaenly looks promising, and
every physidan 3111(11 the welfare of
humanity at heart will pray for its
success,
'".ro what elemebt in the fluid do
you attribute the success of the
experiments?" Bouthmayd. Was
asked.
'S'hat is hard to say. It seems to
possene all sorts of organisms. I
haVe looked over the analysis and
the best 7 can say is that, the fluid
seems to he a sort of 'general nour-
isher.' "
A SIIVWLE. MAN,
It takes e. neighboe to disentangle
a man from a handsome setting,
A good funny years ago, when
Wordsworth woe poet laureate of
Filigland, worthy Omnberlend yeo-
man wallted Many miles, in response
to widely scattered notices, to hear
the "poet laureate" address a Meet-.
1119.
he discoveeed who helci the
high-sounding title, he kit 1110 hall
in indigelation.
'"Twam nohbut old Warlsworth '0
itydal, eller 1(e,1" he said, seornfelly,
on his retorit to Ids family.
Trail 'SMALL 1107.
lee known not who slew Goliath
Or who by the rayons Wan fed,
For fAttiffiny school pienics ttia over
And Christmas trees ala ahead,
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HEALTH
et
FUR Tile) CONSIMS1111. V 13.
Onnetimption is /curable, but noe
11) itte Mine MIN en acute rhouret-
then or diphtheria At least
yenr of eonstaut wittchfulness
neeessuey after a patient hats
the sanitarium appriveutly in rob
health. "it curable why 1
cured?" Is often /Asked by people
see their felecele relapsing after
parent riireS, (n. by thcou who
disappointed to Mat themselves fi
ferIng ugain frotn seenptotris tl
had imagined to be gone for go
D, is ailb • somewhat. disheartet
feelings 110y return to the 11a0511
the sanatorium which. they (mit
SUMO time before, looking so plu
and rosy, and rating so extraorl
ary fit.
The real truth was summed
years ago by Tetennac, who sa
'The cure of tubercular plethisis
possible to nature.'it is tad yet
to medleine.'' What sanatorl
treatment dans is to put the c
samptive in the position Which
lows nature to do her best
hill,, a, remedy which sounds 5101
etiough, but has wanted a great (1/
of finding out. The sanatorium p
sician lights the disease indirect.
he 110199 the consumptise to e
himself by improving his gene
health and inereashig his powers of
resistance. 11110 contacent of a 14111'
111(08)17 oarsman, one of the hes1
rowing coaches of the present flay,
Who. happened to see it good deal of
sana toeiere life, iv, s 11 at 3(131 treat-
ment appeared to he much the Kline
es the training for a 'vareity boat
race, And so it is the aim in both
cases being the same, namely; that
of attaining the highest possible de.
gree of physical efficieney.
The Eeriest -don remains, then, hard-
ly en 111110.11 how far (an 1110 8231113-
torium physiciaa cure tubereillosis as
to what extent, under favoeable eon-
ditions, is the disease curable by na-
ture,Natre undertakes the repel). of
the injured lung. in many different
wa:Vs, end much of the welfare of
the patient deponde on the exact
process by which tho arrest of tbo
disease is brought about. Some-
times a. ease, Or enveflope, to use a
homely expression, will gather round
the infected spot, or patch, upon the
lung end thoroughly enclose it so
that the destruetive microbe is ef-
fectually imprisoned, the wound
heals, the sears hard, i, mut fever
and other distressing, symptoms dis-
appear. The disease is, in fact, ar-
rested, and Ett one time the patient
would have cousidered himself to be
perfectly cured.
So he is, for the thno, hut for a
considerable period (how long te 1101
alai cannot 00 ascertaine(l) the /M-
ei °Se that 18 imprisoned is still cap-
able of fresh mischief, should tho
W11115 that keep 11110 in break down,
When reinfection would almost cer-
tainly take place. If the Patient
is careful lo maintain his general
health and goad condition, even in
serious eases the dieease may re-
main quiescent almost indefinitely,
but should he retorn tO a manner of
life that lowers his general Strength
atul vitality, or 111(111130 in violen1
muscular exertion, stuffi as lifting
heavy weights or taking a full gulf -
swing, there is It risk of the meare
breaking down. The writer has
10103011 0210 "arrested" soon after
returning home to join a :knot of
ttthletes at a "tug-of-war," and /m-
other to go in for a swimining
match. The dangerous part of it is
they het well e10e1911 to do it. In
both cases results were disastrous.
Slight eases or consumption, that
is, those in 1010011 18e0.5e 15 arrested
at a very early stage, are certainly
curable. We ,..ce examples of it 0011'
14113113.17, hut even in these eases the
truest wisdom 10 to act as earcial.y
as 11 they wore the Nora Ili the
core of yonng eveirling the
late hours of a social senson and the
clue' ing dust, of bazaare acid boll -
rooms, and fOr 111011 all overfatigure
unwholesome food, and wear and
tear, Elvery successive year of Im-
munity from relapse strengthens the
claim of the eoneumptive to consider
himself absolutely cured,
it is here the ideal health condi-
tions of the manatorium come 01 so
111301(1117, 'There is no irksereeness in
doing an eVary one else ie doing, and
no one to grumble at open windows
in cold weather, which the hardy
and well-trained coneutuptive patient
really enjoys.
a 1
is
UREMIA,
The process of nutrition of the
animal body has often been compar-
ed to the consumption of coal in a
furnace, Tiering the memess force is
developed to run the engine, but as
the fuel is consumed, "clinkers" end
ashes are produced. If the ashes
:Ire ?Mt removed they 50011 ghat 011
the all' and arrest combustion.
'1ide analogy is incomplete, for the
processes of digestion, assimilation
and elimination in the animal body
aro very iffiritate, and even yet are
only partially utuirretood by physio-
logists. We know, however, Hutt
rapid elimination of the evaete pro-
ducts 18 abeolutely neceesary lo the
Colliinuellee of healtb—nol. 0711y be-
cause, after the analogy of the rm.-
neer, 111eee waste prodintes wig ehut,
off the decift alert put out the fire ir
allowed to accumulate, but also mul
especielev because many of them are
tivo Poisons, Which, if re-ebsorbed
into the blond, ellen in minute mien -
titles, will quickly derange health or
destroy 1104.
Mom(' of the most powerful and tle.
tire of these poisons are eliminated
by the kidneye 0411011 a pereon he in
good health, end their retentien in
the blood (in crises of Bright's dis-
ease, for example) Will occasion a
fOrtn Or blood-poimoffing which is
called manila.
I he poison ia uremia acts ehiefly
Upon the nertenls eystem, and finds
expression in headaehe, drowninese,
awl, finally, in convelsions and on-
eonseforistiefer.
1Vhen a person known to have kid-
ney di/tease eomplailef of severe and
euntinuouff headmen, and beeonies
Very Sleepy It is lime to ael, if eon-
vilisione aro lo be 1411,3') '11. The
treatilient 13011511(3,0 113 /nuking up for
the flefleieney of the kidneys by in-
ert:n:41/1g elimination by other ellen-
tif 1,—by the skin and the bowels,
Thin Is, of course, the provinee ci
the physielant but sonecheme In his
tebseime a 131(113)1151(1)1 11(117 be It\ ,','I,,by Inc:tiring free perepirat ion by
Wrapping 010 patient in rt wet M1(,'1)111 111 then coVering him with 4r.tera
blankets In the bell and surrounding
111)11131311 hot 3)1100,, or battles ''1hot Wafer well wrapped in ',coeval
Myers of flannel to avoid denger of
burns. Thee may tivert noire eeeinue
symptoine mei prevent a convulsion
until the doctor fan arrive nod ap-
ply more power: ul 1'0111,'(1i,43.
terlous presence in the room. Even-
tually be diecovered, as he thought,
a big, black, ferocious -looking dog
under the table. The Legate shrieked
for tteelstartee 115 the fearsome animal
advanced open -jawed upon him, but
thome who eame to the reecue were
unable to find 11 traee of elle, living
presence In 31,' room besides that of
the rightful ocacipier. however, the
Legate was 440 e0110111(20(1 that he had
really been confrunted and threaten-
ed by thin awful dog -fiend that 110
toot, to his bed mid expired the stone
I evening' through sheer 1'X(''534 of ter -
rim
It Is comforting, however, to reflect
1 that our ilieleinalione earl he 433 1111117
I put 4,1,1 for good 05 fUr evil. At the
enema meeting cif the Britleh
eel At-et/elation a year or two ago
rvn:Ivere (11114 IllatiO 1111 SCIVOrta 0111'09
en eel e11 Sol, ly by the power of the
; inittgieat ion. The pat ients Were 1S'�-
1114111 133141 were aPParently stiff:Ting
lout tutermil tumors, for the remov-
al of 5'!) ("11 an operation was neces-
sary in each ease. The subjects were
put 111011? the Influence of an 111111(8-
3 11,11,' and carried into the operating*
I theatre, An inehtion in the flesh—
only thEtt anti nothing mere—eousti-
tiftert the entire operation, Faith
imagination, Or fancy dui the rest.
A complete cure resulted in every
Cane:
1._
OPIUM FROM THE POPPY,
THE POWER OF THE MIND
41 RUSSIAN FROZEN TO DEATH
I3Y FANCY.
Young Lady Imagined Sbe Had
Drank Carbolic Acid and
Died.
"Frozen to death," not upon the
lotely srunmit of a lofty Alp, but
in a railway refrigerating Van, WI(11-
111 a few 1111111104 of the warm world
outside—what a poignant death to
diel"
In November last 19.ichael Ratites-
cy, of Krasnotarsk, an employee on
the Siberian Railway, was accidental-
ly locked in a re.frieerating van.
When the van was unlocked at its
destination his dead body was found
011 the floor, surrounded by a pathe-
tic record of the victim's sufferings
written 111 chalk upon the flooring -
boards.
The curious part 0.00111. it was
that the refrigerating apparatus hap-
pened to be out of order, and conse-
quently the temperature of the van
had -never fallen lietow 50 deg. Fah-
renheit ehroughout the joureey!
Starlizky was the victim of his own
bong( eat 1 0)1.
110.1f-a-clozen young lieutenants 111
the United States army once con-
cocted a plan to test the power of
the mind 01.10 the body. They ar-
ranged that One by one they should
encounter, as if by accident a cer-
tain individual, and remeek with
deep concerti upon his dreadfully ill
appearance. They carried out the 00-
perilllent, With the result that their
victim, a sound and healthy youeg
man, immediately
SICKENED AND DIEM.
Little Mare than a. year ago a
yoting aetillery recruit al Douai,
perfect physical health, was posse
ed of a strange conviction that
he took a bath it would prove fat
How the Drug is Extracted and
Made Into Balls.
The prepat.ation of "raw" opium
in North India is aCt'Ordillg to th
Tropical Agrleuleurist, carried out as
folio s:
In February, as a rule, the juice is
, gathered, the poppy plant being then
1 in full flower and of a height of three
or four feet, earth stem having from
two to five capsules of the size of a
duck's egg. Before the capsules are
pierced, the fallen petals of the
flowers are carefully gathered and
sorted ticeordiug to condition, in
three grades, and the are heated
over a slow fire and formed into thin
cakes, to be used for the covering of
the drug when collected.
The piercing of the pods requires
great skill, and upon it largely de-
pends the yield. The opium farmer
and his assistants each carry a small.
laneelike tool, which has three or
four short, sharp prougs and with
this a half dozon perpendicular cuts
aro made in each capsule or seed pod
of the poppy. The juice begins to
flow at once, but quickly congeals.
The flay after, the thickened job e is
carefully gathered, being scraped olT
with a small iron trowel, an(1 the
mass thus gathered is Put into an
earthern vessel and kept carefully
stirred for a month or more, great
care being taken to heve it well
aired, but not exposed to the sun
rho materia1 is mew examined by
in expert testers, who determine its
grade or quality, and then the whole
if
is put 11,l0 a large 1100, where it is
al
to him. Rot mina t virally, his com-
rades subjected him to much ridicule
and to convince him of the fallacy
Of his belief they undressed him by
mant force and plunged him into the
bath, It Was his corpse they lifted
out, however, and a poet-inertem ex-
amination disclosed not the slightest,
trace of any organic drtmease.
A. well-auth en halt 08 ease of the
poWar of the mind over the body is
that of 0, man alio dreamed that la,
saw a. momprient 111 Westrnineter Ab-
bey falling, and thal he placed his
shoulder benea.th it and maintained
its entire weight until asSislanee or -
On awaking he found his
shoulder and arm so still that, he
35/1.5 enable to dress himself without
assistEtnce, and foe weeks afterwards
ho was under the cheque's care.
Only a few months ago a young
lady in Cinciunati became neelitheholy
and low-epirited owing to continued
illnems, and in a tlt of depreesion
drank from a bottle containing as
sho thought, carbolic ad d She 1111111
aeked to he taken to FL doctor, but
in spite of medical cliff elle etude and
died almost imutediettely.
The inevitable post-mortem reveal-
ed 410 traee Of poison, and it. Was
discovered that the the 1111 -
happy girl 111111 drunk was absolutely
ineocuous; the bottle 1'011t13111 (11(7 car-
bolic acid
11311) NOT IIKEN TOLIMIED.
More recently still a similar in-
stance occurred in Ismgiancl. A 040"
11)33(1 ewallowed a perfectly harmless
draught 1111der 1 he Minn:081On that it
04e8 7r08810 (Lehi. It \yea crlite Log
effective, however; her imagination
killed her.
Two criminals under sentence of
death furnished the subjects for net
interesting experiment. One was al-
lotLed a sleeping apartment in whieh
only the 71 1911 1 before, a wonlan had
died of Asiatic cholera.. Bliestnlly
Unconscious of the fact, however, he
passed the night, in the infected
chamber and took no harm what-
ever,
Tho other man was put into
room which had been for months
withent a tomtit, but, he 3111.18 men -
chteiously informed that the corpse
of a cholera victim had only just
been removed from it.
Ilis abject term/. on hearing this s
• nelra WaS rro intense that it abeoluto- si
ly ereated the chews° he so much s
dreaded, and, developing eymptoms it
of cholera within a few houre, he 11
died 001,3ee the morning dawned, c,
lly way of art experiment, the to
house eurgeon of hospital gave a
close of /dimple, barmiest: efficirocl woe
ter to 100 different pet lents. When
the last clesr had been nwellowtel
look or consternation overspread the
thleior'S Mee. "nomi lionVellat" he Of
(Mainlined, "I hare Made a 111191a00.
1 have given you all a %neva eine- Wk
tie!" The PONITV of imaginetion of
over the physical organization was el
Onee inore )10mm-sainted, tor eighty
Mit of the 1(10 patients wore seized
with violent 1410101013s
1)7)1') 3133' A loieW MINUTES.
The strain of protraeted labor and
its &feet upon the brain was doubt-
less the prime rector in caueing the 801
death of the legate Crescentic). T11- .11
ing rephlty and intensely over bis lee
despatches for long steel ehes togeth1111
-
er al, the Council ef Trent, his river- 1 fiv
taxed mind ronjured up all imagin-. of
ary, .intantrihie, and altogether mys-
worked very much 111 fhe seene fash-
ion as baker's dough, to give it the
required coneletency, The opium is
new made into balls for export. Tho
leitcVeS wade about in the large
vets contaieleg the paste 111e drug
and hand it out to hundreds of hall -
makers sitting nround the room.
EA (ny man has a spherical Mass cup,
lined with the poppy flower petals,
hafore him, into this is pressed the
regulation quantity of opiem. From
this brass cup, when propeely
ed, the opium ball is transferred to
another Mail, 14110 :213'eS it a coating
of clay. tr1115 gives the drug, when
ready for shipment, the appearance
of a fair sized enneen ball.
When woll prepared in this manner,
opium will Iccep Its properties fo
be used, the opium balls have to b
fifteen years or 111011', Before it can
bo
up and further trelded.
NEW BREASTPLATE
The Russian Clovernment bas
bought a 110117 breastplate, which is
impenetrable to rifle -bullets and
swords, and a number of the officers
gone to tho front in the Far East
have been equipped with this now
protection against Japanese bullets.
The breastpinte, which is the 11)1101) -
tion of an Italian, Giorgiano, is
made of soft, elastic materiel, about
one-fourth of an inch 11103, and
weigets 4 1104, Eeperiments made at
St. Petershmeg show that Millets
fired at 1110 breastplate remained in
it, and' were flattened, without pene-
trating the Muer surface, though a
severe shoelc was distinctly felt bY
the wearer when shots were fired at
a short. distance.
TIES SKIN OP Tire) TEETH.
Speaking of the somewhat populae
lack of familiarity with the Bible,
eciency is not confined to unlettered
it deserves to be said that this de -
people. In /3 recent article ort the
political crisis in England Justin
McCarthy quotes the expression, "by
the skin of his teeth," and parenthi-
ally apalogezes for using what he
idle vtilgar plimee. The espres
lou is quite commonly rated as
lang by very Intelligent people, A
ynieal tommentator on this expres-
on eallr3 it nn Dzism, for the rea-
on that Job originally made nee of
in hie :miffing's. Saith doh in his
Met ee(1th chapter, twentieth verse.
(1111 014e(3)1011 with the skin of rny
0111."—Iloston
RAILWAY WITIINIT A CURVE.
Thy longest perfectly straight remit
railwity is claimed by travellers to
that of the 31190111 11)4) Pacific 1101-
(('111)1 &tenon Ayres to the foot
the Andes. For 211 miles 11 15
lliont a, rum's, and has no cutting
or ‘inbanktnent Eleelan, than two or
three feet.
01(14101.38 COLLECTION,
After the mutual Sitricia,y-echeol
'mon had born peettelled at St.
111.0, Nottiieharn, Et 001-
31011 was made in aid of the sick
d poor. The gifts included thirty -
o orangen, 218 eggs, fortv-eix 9014
jene, 102 hattenite, fifty-six tome.,
es, sweets, tell, (10110, and 0310,,
TIGERS LIKE KITTENS
417Exico BREAKS THE •PIENIC
ItELOB,D.
People and. Animals in the Painire
Are Very Diminutive
in Stature,
The piefrales at present in Nrige
land are giants compared with scene
of the tribes of natives who Inhabit
the wild, desolate, and a1111010; un-
known Pamir plateau to the north-
west 01 3.110 lli11doo Koosh range of
mountains in Central Asia, 80.78
, I -careen s Weekly.
1 Su great is the altitude of this
!great tableland that pographers re -
for to et as "the roof of the world,"
Few, Indeed, are tho travellers or
explorers who have ever 'ventured o1],
to its southern fringe, lying just bo -
1. 10 north-west frontier of
India.
But the scientific wooed is being
Startled by the news which is leaking
oet of the results of the explora-
tions by the two Danish officers,
Messrs. Oloufsen and Philipsen, who
have recently penetrated into some
strange corners of this hitherto
mysterious region, They have an
astounding tale to tell. But they
have brought back with them over
800 photographs incontestably,
proving what they say,
In parts of the Pamirs, it appears,
the people are not only all dwarfs,
but the very animals of the' district,
both wild and domestic, are corre-
spondingly diminutive In stature.
SHEEP THE SIZE OP POODLES,
Tbe full-grown men and u,onten are
rarely a yard high. Their donkeys
and their horses, which in appear-
ance resemble our smallest ponies,
are about the size of large dogs. The
)111 011(3 cows—fieree little creatures
—are 110 larger than a new-born
European calf., and the steep about
the size of small poodles. Tigers
no larger than kittens are said to
infest the bills.
Smaller and lower even in the
human ecale, however, than these
Asiatic pigmies are some creatures
which the natives of the great Con-
go basin in Africa call Kaleke, and
will insist are men and not beasts.
The Kaieke are said to have very
long hair, mnall, keen eyes, to be
very wild—never coming into towns
—and only to be seen in the bush,
where they sometimes try to hold
converse with the natives.
Mr. H. F. MeGarvle, too, an 'Am-
erican showman, recently returned
from a trip to Mexico with photo-
graphs of some extraordinary tribes
of pigmies he discovered in the vi-
cinity of Tuxpan, One man named
Pedro and his two diminutive daugh-
ters ran out of their hut and along
a creek, where the tall grass com-
pletely hid them from view. The
grass was hardly knce-high to the
showman. 'Yet it was like a forest
to the little people, anti lir. McGee -
vie could only locate them by the
commotion they caused in the vege-
tation by their shrill cries.
LITTLE AND UGLY.
Ito found 3.0e111 to be a race of
midget Indians, speaking a. patois or
Spanish. so that he had little diffi-
culty in understanding therm None
of the little people aro more thaii
two feet high, and Mr. Metlarvie ex-
pects to have a group of them on
view shortly in New York,
Another race of dwarfs, discovered
by a Mr. J. D. Sullivan on one of
the tributaries of the Amazon, are a
peopie remarkable chiefly for their
-ugliness. Their stomach, which is
distended in the back as well as in
frotit, is out of all proportion
thetr tiny spindling arnts and legs.
This is because of their habit of
gli°131,18"1:ttmaAlst,teranad hiretn tlireYliwstlillesetralyt
in the hot tropical SI01 for days till
hunger again impels them to get
more 911/210,
hi the seam way among 11111 wand -
crime African pigmies a slain ele-
phant becomes the site of a now
camp until all its flesh Is consumed,
when the little men reeve off in
search of a fresh quarry, which they
blind before spear -leg to death by
shooting poisoned arrows into :ts
eyes.
Individual pigmies, however, it is
said, mey also be encomitered in
the villages of the big nogroes,
where they are petted as curiosities.
WHAT THE AIME POTJXD,
At all thnes, Within the inernory of
Man as he is at present constituted,
theta appecte to have been pigmy
races inhabiting the more Meows- ,
/Able portions of countries in almost,
every part of the globe.
So far baele as 1768, for inetance,
the 'F1'01100 Abbe Ruction, when
traveling, in Madagascar, haft
brought to him a member or ft
dwarf Mee 01 the interior of the is-
land called the Nimon, who, the
Abbe pays, was only tWO feet 0e3/011
inches in height, fold very thin.
All these living miniature meet
are supposed to be the reillilanta of
a race of pigmies or rhvarfs, the
"little people" who once 030110(1 the
ea1141,:
'1qe little people in limes gone
by Were. unquestionably the original
"brownies" mid "goblins" or our
fairy tales, Their mischevioeseesa
and their prankish good nalore seem.
to suggeet that it was Seine Mee
like this which inspired most of the
stories of Teuton atoll Colt 'regard-
ing a dwarfieli people of quesi-super*
natural attributes.
Within the laet thousand yeore
there were pigmies even 111 Europe.
Professor Thilemius, or , nregiell
TiniversIty, haS recently examined
the remains of mediaeval dwarfs
found in' the Rhine Valley, and
found that healthy nnd well -propene,
Coned culotte among them Were SP-
pareetly eta more than a yard high.
Domaine of n midget rare have al-.
so boon found 111 tho Pyreneea snit
04 SWiterrientl, The .sleelettine Which
have been nnetirrhed are no ;snail
-Nil they tritt bo ptared in an or.
Itropeoot drawer,