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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1912-06-27, Page 3WOMAN'S VITAL CAPACITY HUI HOLD ON LIFE FAR GREATER THAN MAN'S. Unquestioned Tenatity of Lilo and Power of Resisting Disease in Women. From the earliest recorded times women have been spoken of aa the weaker sex, as frail delicate erea- tures. Ernment svritera heve as- serted that aside from their natural conetitutionel frailty women were invalites one-fifth of the time. Yet the dawn of the twentieth oentury finds us With abundant Proof, says the Medical Record, of ewoman's physical superiority over an when toted by length of years, the power to endure suffering -end resist &s- eam. Physical strength and vital capa- city, as teeted by lifting weights and breathing air int b a spirerae- ter, are at all ages greathein males .than in females. If either height or weight, physical vigor or vital capacity therefore, be taken as an indieatairAi of superiority, we had _little evieience for the unquestioned tenacity of lies and power of resist- • ing disease in women. Nevertheless, when we turn to natality and mortality statistics we find the etrange condition of an ex - C6811 of males in the youngest popu- lation, especially at birth, and an excess of females in the older popu- lation, especially in extreme old age, , The tenacity of life in female is seen in ell the emetic diseases, especiaily in those diseases which chiefly effete ohildren. Whooping tough and diphtheria only appear to be more fatal in females than in males. Whether correctly or not, this has been attributed to the, einaller size of the throat in fe- males. s' During obildhood there appears • to be a little difference in the sus- ceptibility to or fatalityof either cholera, smallpox or influmiza in • the sexes. .yet, while adult females appear to be more susceptible to all, especially the first two,all are i believed to be more fatal n adult males. Except biliary calculi, cancer is the only 'disease common to both sexes from which adult females suf- fer more than do adult males, but the rate of increase of canoe is now much greater in men than in women. SUFFER WITH EMOTIONS. • Women appear to suffer more from emotional and maniacal in- sanity, and recover oftener than men* while men suffer more from serious brain lesions and from para- lysis of the brain, and as a conse- quence offer less hope of recovery. The epecial susceptibility of wo- man that readers her more liable to attacks of hysteria, neurasthenia, emotional dates and tee milder !ones of intanity, appears to serve as a distinct advantage. This af- fectability appea,re to net somewhat as a barrier against attacks of the more fatal forms of mental affec- tions. So, too, woman's well-known • tendency to early physical exhaus- tion serves to protect her from the fatal crash that often eismes to man from over-exertion. Women hear the hardships and privations of prison life better than men do. Wonien seldom, if ever, die of nostalgia. In man, as in nearly all animals, the pulee rate is slightly slower in • males than in females, in the pro- portion of 2 per minute for men and 80 for wosnen. But, as slowness of pulse, like slowness of respiration, nearly always goes with increased weight, the difference is probably no greater than would naturally be expected. In old age woman's pulse nate is inclined to increase more than man's. CAN STAND GREATER HEAT. Woman excretes less carbonic acid and therefore is in less need of oxygen and needs it lees vitally than man. This is thought to be a factor in woman's greater capacity to endure heat, especially the heat of rooms of high temperature, aa is seen in bakeries and in the manu• - facture of charcoal, where it is mid that women are little inconveni- enced by a temperature of 300 de- grees Fahrenheit. elhi s is thought, also, to be one of the reasons why women experience less discomfort than men in breath- ing the rarefied air of high tides, and why, too, that women suffer less from chloroform anes- thetics, and for want of a better ex- planation. it has been ;riven as the .reason why women criminals more often survive hanging than men. Degenerate changes in the blood vessels and rigidity of the thorax, both charaderistics of senility, are found rnuch earlier in roan than in woman, Men suffer from baldness ea • nnleh more frequenter than women. t e This is not confined to civilized raises, but is found among savages and semi -civilized tribes as in many • of the tribes of the North American • Indians, even where it is the cus- tom for the women, instead of the men, to wear their hair short. MAN KEEPS ON HEEDLESSLY. If 1,000 able-bodied men and 1,000 able-bodied women be uni- formed, armed and equipped for battle and ordered on a long and weary march to the front, mere men would probably retch their destina- tion while more women would be found exhatuited, but more men would be esencl dead on the road- side. ()wins to their Peculiar. Penh° physioal organization, women heed the warnings of fatigue and avoid the fetal crash, while man, with his fron will, after complete exhaus- tion, resolveo to take another step if he dies in the attempt. • So after making all clue allow - ' amiss for the greeter mortality of imam in war and firom aceidenta • from dangerous occupations and from the masculine excesses, there are good reasons for believing that nothing shod of a conatitutionie difference can aecount for the greater tenacity a life in women. Woman is a physiological miser, she accumulates energy without ex- pending it, while man is a physio- logieel prodigal, he expends more energy than he acounedetes. TSCHINGEL OF THE ALPS. •Mot Remarkable Mountain -Climb- ing Dog. Dogs have acisompanied their mestere to the very top of difficult Alpine summits. One—a British bulldog named Bobby—went up the Jungfran only last year. But the most reinaemable canine aepinist, says the London Poet,—a veritable pioneer of the snow poke—woe Rev. William A. B. Coolidge's clog, Techingal. Like all good alpinists, Teohingel began her climbing oareer when etill young. She was a mountain - bon dog, and an undouhted mon- grel. She was of moderate size only, but had strong lege and feet. She was reddish -brown in color, with white breast, gloves and cuffs. Hee one great beauty lay in her large, soft, very intelligent brown eyes- - Her firet important eeploit was the crossing of the elsolungel Pass to Lauterbrunnen, and from this peas she took her name. She 'soon became inured to the dangers and difficulties of mountaineering. She often became footeore, but when little boots were procured for her, she promptly pulled them off. course of time Inchingel ac- quired a mervelous instinct for guessing where a Bilden crevasse lay, and also for finding the best way across an open one. She grew so experienced in mow conditions that he e,ould tell by merely look- ing at a snow bridge whether it was safe to cross or not, and when she drew back, the guides knew at once that it was mere waste of time to consider that way. Once she actually showed a guide the way down a difficult place. Her master • and mistress, with the guide, had taken a new route down the Diablerets, and found them- selves on a badly crevassed glacier. The guide did not know what to do, but when he saw Teohingel going steadily on, he exclaimed, 'The dog seems to know the way! Let's fol- low her." They did so, and Techin- gel led them down without a slip or false seep. Tsehingel actually accompanied Mr. Coolidge on the first moods ever made of several difficult freaks, and made her ascent of the Pennine peak ef Mont Blanc in 1875. She had already tried this mountain once, six years earlier, when the snow woe so deep that the poor dog sank in hopelessly, and could not struggle much beyond the Grands- Muletis. After all this lapse of time Tschingel reeciembered the locality perfeetly, and lying down, refused to set out. Finally, however, she was induced to start by being reproached and mele to feel ashamed of herself. She accomplished the eseent with- out any special difficulty. On her return from Mont Blanc to Chamounix she excited the greet- ed poteible interest,and a cannon was firedi specially n her honor. She trotted into the village, head ereet and tail wagging, immensely proud of herself, and the next day, lying luxuriously an a sofa in the hotel drawing -room, she held a kind of reception, which was attended by several hundred persons, among whom were all the guides. • Tschingel was called an "honor- ary member of the Alpine Club," few of whose members, indeed, have made so many ascents as she did -- fifty-three long aseents, eleven of them virgin sunnnite, and some hutdreds of less important peaks or partial ascents. She never suf- feredfrom mountain sickness or snow -blindness, although she often had tee black skin of her muzzle burned by the heat of the sun on the snow. Like most good moun- taineers, she was very fond of hot tea. What is curious is that, al- though she could acquire a know- ledge of snow and ice of which any mountaineer would bo proud, she could not learn tricks. Perhaps she thought it beneath her dignity to do so, FEW TO MAN TIIII LIFEBOATS Able Seamen A.re Litekieg in Crows of Ocean. Liners. "After the lifeboats, *hate' de- mands James H. Williams in the Independent. Mr. Williams is an able seaman with an unconcealed scorn for the crews of most ocean liners, "In all this clamor for more boats," he says "I hear very little of who is able th handle them when provided. "In case of future disasters is the fety of hundreds of human lives o be left to the host of untrained and , incapable cooks, stewards, svaitcre, stokers and Liverpool shoe - blacks who constitute about 90 per cent. of every liner's crew? !The Titanic WaS no departure from the usual rule; leas than 10 per cent. of the crews of those ec- tually rated as A. B.'s (able bodied) on the fillip's areieles less than one- third are, as a rule, able seamen in foe "No steamer ever made a sailor. As a matter of, fact, the crews of ocean liners are usually enlisted on the supposition that nothing is go- ing to happen • therefore, any man who ca,n swab' paint and holyetone decks will do. "Naval Reserve men are usually given the first preference in select - I n g Britiret orowa foe owlet /leers; but this does ed distingenth them as being fled -oleo iseamen. Some of thole are so, but they ere sadly in the mIioeLty X lawn nailed with maw of thans and know whereof I speak. As seamen they nee penned- ly useless while AA boatmen they are peeiti4ly &mac:roue, "Every *imam liner ehou/id he re- quired by law to carry, in addition to the regularcrew of roustabouts and paint swabbers, a specially se- lected lifeenwing crew composed of practical /sailors and boatmen of known (not ortieed), ability and experiettoe, These men should be appointed at least two to each boat, and given full charge of the boat deck and all_life-saving appliances of whestseciver kind. 'They should be under the gen- eral supervision of a practical deep water boatswain, whose duty it should be to 6ee that every beet and raft is at all times ready for imme- diate service; that the davit tick- les are alwees clear for running and that every item of equipment be- longing to each boat is in perfect condition and in its proper place. The' life-saving crew should be di- vided into two watches and kept on duty day and night, ready for any emergency that may arise. "Patent boat (manes shoule be in- stalled in all passenger boats in- stead of the oboolete davits in pre- sent use. These cranes do not have to be turned in order to get the boat swung over and in lowering they can be "etc.oped" to such an angle as to give the boat a, fair off - nig from the ship's side when it it,rikes the water, thus minimizing the danger of being stove. "All davit teeklee ahould be pro- -vided with patent self -releasing hook's, which will disengage them- selves automatically when the boat touches the water. In leaving a ship's aide in heavy weather one ifkilful swop of a20 -foot oar will do wonders when e rudder would be useless: Hence the need of provi- sion for a steering oar, at the stern." HINTS ON WATERING PLANTS.. When Best Results Can Be Got— Things to Be Avoided. On firet consideration it does not seem possible that there can be much to learn in the simple meteor of garden watering; but such gime and disastroue rnietak.es can be made in this direction that a few hints Should prove ueeful to aezia- teur horticulturists, mays the Lon- don Daily Mail. It ehould be said at once that the watering of whole beds and borders should be delayen for as long as possible, moisture only being given artifieially to such subjects as must have a fairly damp soil in which to prosperemod, of mune, to small seedling plants. Overvratering is frequently a cauee of boas. By keeping the surface well loos- ened with the hoe,. so that every drop of ram sinks into the soil, the time whee the hose or water can be- comes absolutely necessary may be put off for several days. But when the day arrives on which watering is essential, Id it be a thorough soaking you give the plants. A mere sprinkling of moisture then does much more harm than good Witter applied direct from the main through a 'hose or can is not beneficial to plants. On the con- trary, it frequently does them in- jury. If there is no storage of ram wa- ter available, do not let cold tap water touch the steins and leaves of plaints. Direct the stream onto the surface round the -stems or place some old, decayed manure mend the plants and pour the ma- ter onto it. In hat weather watering should be done in the evening, unless there are young plants which are liable to be attacked by slugs. Such plants it is advisable to moisten in the morning. 11 12 always better if planting can be done in damp weather. A point to remember during this time of bedding out is that the ground must be well moistened. When the bed- ding has to proceed in dry weather the soil should be watered the even- ing before the plants are put in. Pot reeds need less moisture in dull than in tanny weather. A good test of the condition of the soil is to tap the side of the pot and give the plant water if the pot rings hol- low. There should always be a space to hold water between the 13011 arid the rim of a pot, and when the plant is watered this space should be filled to overflowing. Stir the surface soil of a pot plant frequently, teus doing the plant the same service of keeping its soil porous as is done with the hoe in the open beds. Regarding the sort of water to use, failine a supply of rain water, it is well to fill a butt from the moan and let it stand in •the open air as a storage from which to take the moisture required for pot plants. When watering is done in dry weather, let it be done generously. Roses, dahlias and big strong clumps of herbaceous things need something like a gallon of water to eaeh plant. Sweet peas :should have the same quantity, for it is absolutely fatal to let them become dry at the roots. It is a good plan also to sprinkle sweet peas overhead after a hot day. If your sweet peas are mak- ing no progress, give them a good soaking one evening with plain wa- ter, and the next eveniug mix half an ounce of nitrate of potash with each gallon of water, giving two gallons of the mixture to the yard rpn of plaiits. • In the coal -mines of Scotland 2,- 400 aliens, mosey Poles, are engag- ed. Enlisted men in the Navy of the Tenited States exceed 41,000.in num- ber. (lows in the United Kingdom num- ber at least three and a half mil- lionr. • "Were you much upset by the bank failure?" "Yes; I lost my balance." Old Gentleman—Is that the oldest inhabitant of this village 1 Small Boy—Yes, idr. He's an—an, octa- v gernanium ANIMALS' DREADS. Elephente Hate Wee, isnd Tigers • Dislike Doge. It is well known that many peo- ple have an inexplicable aversion to °attain animals. Lord Roberts, it is Aid, etrongly dislikes eats, and can 'eay at once if there is one in the mom or not. Most people have a -horror of snakes and other things which orawl and oreep. Animala, like human beings, have their likes and dislikes. Put cer- tain animals together, and you may well expect a fight; while another two will become the friendliest of coraredes. Women are proverbial for their horror of mice, but one would hard- iy expect an elephant to show fear at ouch a tiny foe. This fear was shown some years ago during some experiments te find out the likes of animals in a menagerie. The huge animal spotted the mouse as soon as it was placed in its enclo- sure. The reephant gave evideneee of fear immediately! With one of its big feet it could have smashed the tiny intruder out of existence. Instead, it stood for a feer min- utes motionless, and apparently helpless with fright. Not until the mouse had been removed was the elephant to be pacified, and it was seine 'hours before it regained its normal courage.• - Mice, indeed, inspire fear, or something akin to it, in a good many animals. A Bengal 'tiger trembied and uttered long, mourn- ful howls the whole time that e mouse was in its cage.. Tem rata were introduced into a lions' cage, and the same fear was 9h9wn by the larger animal forth. smaller 'ono. There have been many suggee- tions put forward for this extraor-' dinary dislike of these large ani - nods for mice. One very probable one is that mice and rets have a peculiar smell- which is highly re- pulsive to their enemies. A puma, however, has no sueh fear. When a rat was introduced into its ca eat m the huge ade one spring and the rat was no morel All cane from the tiger to the purring bundle of fur on the hearth - rug, hate dogs. No animal is fiercer than the tiger when she has cubs. Most animals then ated clear of her and her offspring. But the wild dogs in India haven't the slightest tear of the king 'of the jungle. These wild clogs will kill and eat the cube while the mother is away, and then calmly wait for her re- turn. In the fight that ensues be- tween the enraged tiger asid her enemies the wild doge invariably win. A tiger in captivity *hove; the greatest anger if a dog approaches its cage, and will make every en- deavor to reaeh its enemy through the bees of its cage, Almost all animals in captivity • have a strong dislike to children and cripples. Mort children have a habit of toeing animals, so Zoo captives have a very good reason for their dislike. Cripples inspire animals with fear, because almost all animals have a hatred of any- thing unueual or abnormal. There is one animal that praote sally all other animals fear, and that is the great bull -ant found in the tropical forests of Africa, Every animal flees before a column of these terrible insects, A snake attacked by bull -ants stands no chance whatever of escaping. They attack everything and anything, and the universal hatred of them is well justified. CANTANKEROIJS UNCLE JAKE. "Uncle Jake" was one of the characters f Bunbury. Be was as deaf as a post,—when he wanted to be,—and aa contrary as a bundle of stions. One of his neighbors came into his yard one clay and field, "Uncle Jake, I'd like to borrow your wagon this morning; mine is having a spring mended." • "'You'll have to speak louder," rejoined Uncle Jake. "I don't hear very well, and I don't like- to lend my wagon, anyhowl" • The old men was an expert maker of asebelves,—an occupation in which there IS more art than the uninstructed would suppose,—and these handles he left et the villitge store to be sold ii on commsson. One snowy day, as •Uncle Jake came stamping up the stems of the sthre, another old fellow who was known es Uncle Horace remarked to the 'men lounging about the • "I'll treat the crowd if I don't ina,ke Uncle jake agree to the first thing I say to him when. he conies in." "Don't be rade Uncle Horace!" called out the storekeeper. "That never happened yet, and it isn't. I±kelyte." But Uncle Horace merely grinned and picked up one of Uncle Jake's am -helves. The door opened and in came Uncle Jake. "Jake," said Uncle Horace, run- ning les fingers up and down the ax -handle." smooth wood, "this is a mighty good Lord Tredegar, "No, it ain't," replied Uncle, e WHAT MEU N WEAR AT CORT. An Official Tailor ae Censor—Cor rooting Blunders. Naw rules for guidance in the in- trioate matter of wearing orders, medalarid miniature decorations on state occasions will appear in a •new edition shortly to be publiehed me of the book "DiWorn at Court," by Herbert Trendell, M. V.O.,.ehief clerk of the Lord Chem- berlanea department. There will be a detailed description too of the new uniform prescribed for Do- minion Governors, says -the London Daily Mail. The regulations of the Lord Chamberlain's department for the dress of those who attend courts or levees are so strict that an expert court tailor is posted as the agent of the department at the entre/lee of the rooms in which the functions are" held. It is his duty to scruti- nize the clothes of each man attend- ing the coed and th draw attention to smy irregularity. ''The most frequent mistakes arise," /mid this expert recently, "from, the fat that there are two styles of court dress at present per - ranted to the ordinary civilian—an old and a new. Both are of black velvet, but the older dress is more elaborately ornamented with steel buttons and there are lime frills and ruffles at the neck and wrists. The mistakes Arise in the form of attempts to introduce some of these ornamld ents of the ocourt dress into,the simpler form of the new. • "Sometimes people in uniform come to court Wearing the trousers pre-ger/bed for a levee indeed of the breeches necessary for Court deem. If there is time -the. Lord Chamber- lain's officials occasionally insist on their going home to rectify such mistakes, but as there is no need at courts for many of the men to enter the presence at all they are often allowed 10 pass with the warn- ing to keep in the background as much as possible. "Once I had. th point out to a well-known General as he was going in that his fiword was fastened on the wrongside. It ie fairly core mon for civilians to make the mis- take of putting the sword on the right hand side. "The court dress of a private gen- tleman costs from $150 th $250, ass - cording to the elaboration of the steel work in the buttoes and sword hilt. The details of the expellee are am follows: "Members of the royal household need about $1,500 worth of, uni- form s. They must have: "Full dress for courts, dote balls and concerts and other great cere- monies. • "Levee dress, which is a kind of undress,foe leas formal occasions. "Special evening dross of blue (sloth with black velvet *oiler, and for certain officers of the household Windsor uniform, which is an even- ing dress worn only at Windsor. "The gold laced robes of the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Mayor and the chancellors of universities are the most coetly dress worn at court. Three hundred pounds to 2350 is the price paid for the making a therm" • ONE OF THE "600." '- The recent anniversary of the charge of the Light Brigade recalls the fact that there is still one man in England who took part in that glorious ride. Lord Tredegar, though an octogenarian, is still hale and hearty, and takes a ,ye.ry keen interest in military matters. Captain Morgan, as he the was, wrote a vivid account of the greet charge just after that glorious event took place, and the following is a fragment: "The 8th, 41h and llth followed us in, and suffered nearly as much as ourselves. We saw the enemy between us and home, and at them we went. I cut down one fellow as he ran one of my fellows through with a lance, and digging my spurs in my horse's sides he went at it as he has often gone at the big fences Jake at onee. I ean make good handles, but that one you've got is •the kind people want. They• don't know no better I" And Uncle Romeo treated the company to sardines, crackers and cheeee. .t. There are more than six thousand known languages and dialects. Every Man has his price, but some hold bargain sales. Everyone in Persia sleeps on a mat, whieh, during the summer months, is laid on the roof of the house. • "- Live bees are allowed to pass by letter or parcels post within the United Kingdom, provided they are packed in suitable reeeptacles. Out of a total adult white. male, p opuhstion of 138,000 in the Trans- aal, nearly 50,000 are unmarried men. in Monmouthshire. I got through them with only a few lance 'pokes, which I managed th parry, but the number of men had diminished. We, had to retire through a shower of Minie bullets, and we reformed in rear of the Heavy Brieede, I num- bered off 32 men. We went into action 145 in' the morning," When the charge was over the gallant soldier found that he was the senior °Sneer, all the others who were superior in rank having been killed. Throughout the whole cam- paign he displayed the greatest gal- lantry, a,nd nearly lost his life on several oecasioes. • Lord Tredegar is the possessor of au estate in Newport, and owns what is known in ,Wales ae the • "golden mile." A railway tunnel gees througe a reek situated on the estate, and his lordship exacts tri- bute on every passenger end every ton, of' material borne through the tunnel. From this 'source alone his income is several thousands a year. FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS BY MAIL FROM LAND'S SHORES. Happenings In the Emerald Me of Intermit to Irish- men. The Woman's National Health Association of Ireland met money in Dublin. A farm containing about four Irish acres of land was audioned off at Ballymote for $1,000. The value of Ireland's exports of fruit has during the last five years risen from $135,000 to 8650,000. The Comity Clare Sanitarium for consumptives wits recently opened at Banyalla, with a large seen - The population of County Louth hes decreased to the extent of 2,155 since 1901, the population now be- ing '83,885. A studeet named Michael C,os- tell* was killesi by lightning 'while sitting beside a window in his home in the Swinford district • The vast bog at Carraghniore, nearly. 200 &dee in extent, seven miles from Galway, took fire mac Sunday recently and blazed for some hours. Recently there left Londonderry en route for the United States of America a woman from the Fanad district of Donegal, who is 72 years of age. On the recommendation of the Gas Committee the Drogheda Cor- poration has decided to reduce: the price of gee by six cents per 1,000 cubic feet. A young farmer is in custody at Dromare, County Down, on a oharge of shooting a four-year-old girl named Lavery, who is in a tical condition, A big caftle drive was carried out in the Tirreragh district recently when 500 cattle were driven off the Ballygrehanfern ]and, the proper- ty of Sir Gilbert King. According to the figures in the latest census iseue,d by the British Government, the population of Longford has &creased, and stands at 43,820, of whom 92 per omit. are catholies. A feeble and aged County Carlow lady, Miss Kane, has just died as a result of injuries from a fall a short time ago, oaused by her dog, who in his joyous frisking, threw her down. - The dwelling house a Mr. John Doheny, distriot Councillor, in Ard- eraney, Tipperary, was nearly wrecked by a bomb- explosion. Two bombethad been placed ley enernies outside a window. One man was inetantle killed and four others serionsly injured at Messrs. Workman es Clark's ship- yard, Antrim, es a result of the breaking of a bolt supporting an iron plate weighing 4'48 pounds. During a severe thunderstorm in the Ballyehaimen dietrict, a farmer named James McNeely, in the town - land of Lisahully, was deeding in- side his own barn door when he was struck and severer injured by lightning. From the weekly report furnished by the committee of the St. Vincent de Pees Free Night Shelter, Dub- lin, it appears that 5,400 beds have been occupied since the opening of the shelter on the 41h of January last. noyv A THROg.---NE WAS WON. A Young Hindu Lad Gave e Bold Reply to a Question. The Orient is still the land of the strange and ronientic. Straight from every -day modern life in India comes a story that might have non invented by Scheherazade hereelf for the entertainment .af the sul- tan. It is an account, in T. P.'s Magazine, of how the present Gaek- war of Baroda won his throne. In 18'75, after the Maharaja Mal - her Rao was deposed, the council sought a worthier member of the family as bis successor. Four sons of the house lived in the city, but the council felt bhat they were all tem obi and incompetent to become efficient rulers. In a distant village, in a nitui hut, the council found a poverty-stricken family of the royal race. In this family were three sons, each of whom was young enough te be moulded into a capable ruler. Af- ter seine deliberation, the council decided that one of these boys should have the throne, but left the selection to the dowager naahara- nee. • Accordingly, the three brothers— Gopal, Dada and Sa,mpat—were summoned to the city of l3aroda. Shortly after their arrival, they were tedmitted to the presence of the maharanee. Her highness ask- ed each in turn why he had come th Berocla. • The youngest was se awed and bewilctivecl by the magnificence of the court that after smiling foolish- ly for a moment, he burst into a storm of tears and • The next in age, who was more stolid, did not behave so hysteri- cally. He anewered the query Eta any well-behaved Hindu lad of his age would -have done, He had come 10 Barocla, he declared, because his reletives had brought hire there. But when Copal was a,sked the same question, he airily responded : "I have come to be the Maharaja of Barcelte" The maharanee and her council- ors with one accord deeided that the youth who gave this bold reply ithowed the most promne of beoem- ng an able ruler of his people. Ile am chosen, and there has been no need to regret the cheese. • USED TJP. "The hour of 12 has strnek I" hiseed 'the ghost. "I don't blame it," replied the materialist. "It was worked to death long ago," SUPERSTITION OF CHINESE WESTERN METHODS DOING AWAY WITH IT. How They Treat a Threatened In. vestal] of Cholera, Plague or Smallpox. Chinese medicine may be regard- ecl to some extent as a eurvival of the Dark Ages, much of it being based upon a belief thet all diseases are due to supernatural oases epe are mainly occasioned by offended evil spirits which the native practe tioner seeks to propitiate or drive off by charm, incantations or other devices. e Even at the present day is.n some localities the natives may !still be found burning large quantities of gold and silver paper along with in- eense in the hope of avertieg, for example, a threatened invasion of their homes by cholera, plague, or smallpox; or Aries guns and beat- ing gongs or cymbals in order to frighten away the malignant spines likely to give rise to mischief. When the native practitioner at- tempts to treat disease with mediae nal remedies these are often deriyed from strange sources and sometimea they aim even of a disgusting de- scrlption.. Hitherto, says the Lan- cet, GREAT DIFFICULTIES have beep encountered by Euro- peans when trying to obtain trust- worthy information regarding the incidence of disease and mortality irt different parte a China, there being no arrangements for the cer- tification sad registration of the causes of death. The only wary, we uneteristand, in which any undue mortality,in a lociality men be esti- mated le by ascertaining from the local undertaker(' how many coffins they have sold within a given period and eompering thee vrith the num- • bar vended in normal tenets. But this method may be found fa,r from accurate, since it Is known that the jealous coffinmaker upon occasion, fearing thee his craft is in danger, purposely falsifies his fig - urea in order to mialeed the for- eigner. Epidemies of clangercais in- fectious disease have not in the past been without injury to countries hevine close oommercial relations with China, to which country also the origin of aome pandemics bas been traced. As instaneee of this we may cite the two great pandemics of influ- enza and plague which have so re- cently swept over the whole world, starting in central China and tra- velling from east to west: It need hardly be tickled that notification of communicable diseases and public provision for their isolation are en- tirely lacking in China; proper SANITARY ADMINISTRATION by local or central authorities has yet to be established. Sometimes the first intimation that the foreign- er in China receives of the presence of epidemic smallpox in hia locality is by meeting convalescents in the streets with the marks of their re- cent illness still visible upon their faces. But there are indications at the present moment that sweeping changes are about to take place, and the reat awakening of the Che nese nation now in process is likely to be followed by marked improve- ments in the medical treatment of the sick as well as in the prevention of disease generally. The educated Chinese are fully aware of the great superiority of Western medical and eurgmal methods, and during the recent revolutionary riots some of tho lower classes had alth occasion to view very favorably the surgical assistance given to them by the for- eign medical men. The number of qua1ifie4 medical men in China with European or American training is on the in - creme. Several medical schools with foreign professors have been set up in various places for the pur- pose of educating euitable natives in the science and practice of mod- ern medicine and surgery. DONE BY HIRED MAN. City Man's Experience of Life on a Farm. "At 4.30 every morning I roll out and feed four heads of horses; then comes the currying and the cleaning out of the stables, After that light exereien I feed about eighty head of hogs in four different pens. 11 12 breakfast time when I get the hoes fed, and I am always ready for it, too. lireterfast over, I milk three cows, pump water for the hogs, feed two calves axed do a few other chores; then I am ready to begin my day's work. When the clay's work is done, I take some more light exercise Similar to that of the morning. Do you know that a mom gets awfully tired putting in the time from 4.30 in the morning until long after sunset in the evening? But in spite of the hard work I like te live and Work an .the farm bet- ter than in the city. I wouldn't ex- change places to -day with any city toiler of my sequaintemee who worke only from 8 to 5. "After the first two months here, we began to climb upward.toward our 100, At the end of the third month we 'found that we had $11 over and above our expenses. Out of my pay for the fourth month we saved $10. Think of that, and I couldn't save a cent in the city out of a monthly salary of $105. We live better out here than we did in the city, too; but there are the cows a,ncl chickens that go right on helpieg out with their good work whether I work or not."—Farm and Fireside. • Expenditure upon the navies of the world last year totalled $725,- 000,000. At birth the pulae of a normal individual beats 136 timet per niin- ute; at the age of thirty, 70 times.