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'An •Eifectiee Cure for Sleepiest nese
Reatutt,izts, to be Dia,
covered.
The Gerinan Society for Internal.
;Medicine has been discussing, at
11xzs yea"i's ingress ill, Wiesbaden,
tl1e,, charact� ',, and treatment of
leepl-e'Ssnes ' Before the question,
"IVhat is sleep ?'' the vtari ti ex
, perts who presented •papers all con s
feesedtheir ignorance Ingenious
suggestions have been mall wthbh-
outenumber, but not one chis been
sable to stand out against close ex-
amination, sand the medical world is
in the end.' as ign+ormai,t as ever.
,Little more can be staid than that
-sleep is a phenomenon of vital ne-
ceeaty; experiment has ~shownthat
dogs die roomer when deprived of
sleep than when deprived of food.
Another unrecognized 'fact is the
varying thnteizsity of •sleep.
The First Hours of Sleep.
NOT
There is not only the difference
between a light .and heavy sleeper;
it has ,been proved conclusively that
the first hours of sleep are deeper
than the rest, and that with the
length the tendency to wake at any
noise increases. From this follows
the recuperative value' of the first
few hours of deep sleep and the ex-
planation why men of great energy
like Napoleon, Frederick the Great,
and Virchow were completely satis-
fi eel with a sleep of from three to
four hours.
Reference was made to the well -
marked division between the moan-
ing and evening worker. The once
after a short, deep sleep rises up
fresh and ready for work. The other
is tired and weak in the morning,
grows more active in the course of
the day, stays up late. and goes to
sleep with difficulty. This, too, is
the type,of the nervous man, who:is
generally most capable for work at
night, and of the "mehencholiker,"
who is gloomy and bad-teunpered in
the martuieg and 'happy only as the
day draws on.
Itentedies for Sleeplessness.
The 'main conclusion, of the eon-
l;ress is not very consoling for those.
" in' search of "a ready-made pure for
sled plesstnes,e7 The causes' of sleep-
leSen•ess, it was decided, are almost•,
innuan:erable, and an effectual rem-
ts e wan only be found when eaeh
eaase is4reaated individually. In the
majority of , areas, it was reeog
nixed, the cause is a nervous one;
at is:tient met by bygienie measures
-, by a sensible regulation of the
ily•life•, by„, the removal of all pots-
' ixbilities of irritation, and by hyp-
notic treatment.
Sleep during the day, it was said,
has often a very harmful effect on
rstleep at night; in any case it should
. be short. Mountain or sea air is
often deleterious, owing to the un-
accustomed strain placed upon the
• heart. Mild warmth and often a
long, hot bath are• of assistance.
Sleeplessness. it was said, if of' --
ten. the result of "bad habits," such
as the el
abtirate toilet practised by
many women before going to bed.
Reading in bed, it was admitted,
may occasionally be of assistance,
but in general it was condemned.
Patients, who go to sleep easily .but
(wake up aulmiost at once are suffer -
frig, it was aaaid, from digestive
troubles, and can generally be
.eared through a change in diet.
"Airbaths" Urged as Cures.
Very often a sleepy patient is
startled into complete wakefulness
by the very idea that he may not
sleep, and the nervous are general-
ly kept awake through exoessive
fear of sleeplessness. In such
eases it is important that the will
should be trained or that it should
•at .least be assisted by suggestion.
One doctor strongly advised "air
baths" shortly before going to bed,
and ' said that much could be done
by uncovering part of the body
while in` bed.
The use of drugs, it was agreed,
ethouid be limited as much ata possi-
ble. In any cause they should be
taken in extremely small doses,
order that their effect should last
only during the . aaaual proeeos of
going to eleep. Nareoituae, such as
chloroform' and ether, were cat.
demned as being too short in their
arctiana k sides having various in-
-brume
et eefa.
'.rltreey•OrotiliS of Dings
were disttngutis1hed. The first ie
ohar:icterized by the ,preeea1ei of
ehltbrin, cite main example ie• the
woll-known
` •hydroehlota
te, U fir-
�unate1 this drug has, a lied' effect
on the heart and b r. eaathiatg, and
Irl be dangerous to oiymsttmtives
Weekly Distribution. of Bread' and Meat to ,Poor Widows.
Every Saturday morning there congregates at Westminster Abbey, London, a number ofpoor widows
who are handed a loaf of bread and a piece of meat, and' this hasbeen going on since. the reign of
Henry VII.—four hundred years ago. Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, the mother
of Henry' VII., a great and noble woman, foundreas of Christy and St. John's Colleges, left the money,
and to this day her great good is appreciated ,and her name is carried down through the ages as a great
and noble woman and that everything she said or did beean%e her..
and those suffering from a, weak
heart. Fin -fiber are "paraldehyd"
and Ceaanylenhydrate;" which are
very effectual, but taste and smell
unpleasant, besides having unde-
sirable effects of other kinds.
Preferable to these are the sec-
ond group, marked particularly by
the quantity of nitrogen they con
-
tab. Their .bestrepresentatives
are veronal and luminal. In large
quantities they, too, are injurious,
since they are difficult to digest.
Finally, there is the group con-
taini'ng .uipthur, such as suffonal,
trional, and ethers. These, in their
turn, easily produce kidney troubles
and require careful medical math-
ing. One doctor spoke of the results
obtained through the inoculation
with "strop•hantin" in the ease of
patients with weak hearts. An-
other advised the use of small doses
of alacohol.
But it is clear, from the Co•ngress
of Medicine, that the golden road to
sleep has yet- to be discovered.
• 3
Exists by a Freak. .
Only by a freak does Kerman ex;
ist, says Captain, D. L. R. Lorimer,
British Consul at that city,- the cap-
ital of the Persian province of that
name. It has a population of be-
tween 50,000 and 80,000. The city
of Kerman itself "owes its continued
existence, ,its tendency to increase
everts, to its unexplained industry of
carpet weaving, which occupies di-
rectly or indirectly almost its en-
tire population, and daises the con-
tinuance inflow of foreign money.
But for this, he says, situated in
the midst of an almost desert tract,
it would at once die a natural
death. Even for its everyday
needs it depends chiefly on water
brought frown, twenty miles away by
artificial underground channels. All
trade there, however, even'the car-
pet industry, is at present in a sad
state as .a result of the -disturbed
condition of the country. A num-
ber of serious failures have occur-
red. -
Many Improved Claims.
"Taking Canada as a whole, the
mining syndicate' looking for wise
purehases of properties, is able to
encounter an abundance of un-
proved claims, but exceedingly few
offers that will stand investigation
and warrant actual .operation. The
only way for us to know whether
Canada contains any more Gob.alts
and Porcupines is for prospectors.
to turn out and demonstrate it one
way or the other. Prospectors hold
the key to the future of mining in
this country. If they cannon be
stimulated to ;perforin the duty, no
one else' can be expected to. Ccr-
wwill not waste their money hiring
tainly the large mining syndicates
prospectors and sending them out,
for it has been proved an unre-
znunerative business.
Discovered.
A college student was hauled be -
be --
lare the dean for exceeding his
eave.'
"Well?" said the profeesoe.
"I'm awfully sorry," said the
undergeadtuate. '`T really couldn't
ge'tbeak- before, I • was detained
byimportaant business.
The dean; looked .at him sternly.
''Soiyeu wanted two more days of
grace,• •did you?" he asked.
"No, sir " .answered the young
man, off hie guard for a moment,
'ref Marjorie.'
[Xi ANS E MINING AREAS
RESOURCES OF THE DOMINI -ON
011 CANADA.
Interesting Survey of the Possi-
bilities That Confront the
Prospector.
Mining operations in Canada to-
day have reached an important and
interesting stage. The .lack of
spectacular incidents during the
past year or two,may have shifted
public attention, but dev.elopmcnts
have nevertheless been :sub.etantial
and significant. No new Eldorados
have beetle uncovered in spite of
widespread . prosp,ecthng. From
coast to coast there hasnot been
more than a glimmer, of promise
that Cobalt and Porcupine will ever
be duplieated. Yet ruining 'eon-
tinues, and must eon4inue, • toe be
one of the livelteest of the Domini -
ion's industries.
In 1913, Canada's total mineral
output, including coal, iron, asbes-
tos, gold, silver, and every other
mineral, amounted to $144,031,047,
or $18.50 per head of population.
In 1886, the total was a little ever
ten million dollars. Silver 'mines
last year yielded 31,750,618 ounces
of bullion, or a value of $18,984.012.
Gold mines produced a value of ap-
proximately $16,500,000, of which
$5,835,000, came 'from the Yukon
placers, $6,136,000 from British
Columbia, $4,380,000 from Porcu-
pine, and a small amount from Que-
bec and. Nova. Scotia; the latter
two :provinces showed a decrease.
the present time. Such ore seems
confined to the coast. Back in the
country are granites and green -
stones, and one gets away from
eepper-bearing rock. Any chances
in the interior are for gold and
silver.
"South of Hudson's Bay, the
granite and greenstones are the
same as extend from south of Por-
cupine to around Sudbury, and
form a ,mighty horseshoe., curving
upward toward the mouth of the
Mackenzie River, and passing east
to the Peace River country. There
may be areas rich in minerals, but
they are not packed close together.
Here and there we saw rocks fav-
orable to the occurrence of pre-
cious metals, but between them
were long stretches of rocky coun-
try, which, up to the present, have
not been shown to produce any-
thing- of value. Some places, I met
convinced, would be well worth
prospecting.
Peace: River Country;.
"In the Peace .River Country,:
it is generally known, is another
set of nocks of Iater geological age,
bearing immensely rich deposits of
goal—coal of all kinds, the very
poor as well as the richest. It
might be worth while, too, to look
for other metals. British Colum-
bia has drawn attention recently,
because of the uncovering of a rich
body of copper at Hidden Creek,
near Prince Rupert, which the
Granby Smelter people of Phoenix,
B.C., are developing. Rossland
has shown up a new body of ore and
aotivities have been stimulated to
a fair degree. Gold :mining pro-
eeds here and there through Bri-
tish Columbia in a small way, and
an enormous amount of prospecting
s going on ins the vicinity of the
Grand Trunk Pacific line. Sense -
lona,' nastrikes,. P1
e
k s have been reported
again and again, but. later facts do
at appear to bear out the hope of
c
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ti
Cobalt Dividends $51,833,180.
Cobalt and Porcupine, of course, t
Occupy the centre of the picture in
.
the minds of speculators, although 11
they jointly produced only slightly
more than a seventh of the total
mineral output of the country in
the twelvemonth. It is, however, a
remarkable. fact that up to Jana
ary, 1914, Cobalt has paid dividends
of3 51 8
$ ,8 3,.180, covering the course'
of its history, an amount that is
equal to fifty per 'cent. of the total
value of all the shipping mines, in-
cluding all dividend and non-taivi-
lend payers. This-- establishers Co-
balt (covering seven square miles),
asthe third largest silver produc-
ing area in the world, being ex-
ceeded only by the whole of Mexiee
and the whole of the United States.
Since Cobalt has pleased into the
management of big 'syndicates with,
a diminishing of high-grade o re
bodies, the attention of mining
capitalists and •engineers has cen-
tred on other sections of the coun-
try. Parties of prospectors have
been placed by easterners in the
wake of the Grand Trunk Pacific's
construction gangs working through;
northern British Columbia. Cost-
ly expeditions have patrolled the
shores 'of Lab -radar and Hudson '
Bay. , How far the search for new,
mineralized areas is .likely bo sue-.:
need ie thus set forthi by Mr. J. 13.
Tyrell; 'a Canadian miming eng+i=
neer. He said
Prospeets in Labrador.
"Labrador Offers a We preened
of mineral production. Along that
section beederixthe eaaet shore of.
Htidson'a Bay, �i se
e iron ore-hese-
ing reeks have been found, running
ten to 1't'fteet per dent lower in
grade than f u r.nacem eare to take ea
gold in large quantities.
"Newfoundland so far is an iron
country. Very little prospecting
has been carried on and the mining
of precious metas is still one of the
problematical industries. So with
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Quebec's big item has thus far been
the asbestos mines. Sotrne ,oapper
has been uncovered, and prospeet-
ing
kr gold is in and
swing
along the new routeof the Grand
Trunk Pacific.
BLACK HA.NDI ERCHIEFS NOW
Some London Women Have Por-
traits of Pet Dogs in Corners:
Black handkerchiefs are now the
craze of the fashionable set in Lan-
don, England. They are made in
rthe very finest muslin or lawn and
often
spotted with a color; or else
brilliant hued initials adorn one
•oornar.
Most of the new handkerchiefs
appear to be obviously more orna-
mental than useful and are com-
posed of the most filmy materials,
even ninon not being considered too
filansv.
Very exquisite to go with the
painted ninon gowns that are pre-
sently; to be the rage are the tiny
flowered morsels, in white, or the
most deliesete colors sprigged all
+nvasr. with. violets or rosebuds.
°Ethers have borders of clogs' or.
*ate' heads ai roundthe amide of
the hems.
Some women are having partraifs.
of their peas embroidered in the
corners of their ]xfandkereyhiefs.
11.5ld"„Il.,?EI'';D;tSi'1.' C t'O.
1,4
t'1'ill llr> Driviaag' 'Newer er forlac wit
cry ''4 itt% Coal ;ts yD'oitt�,
f�
Mankind will some day be without
coal. The whole of the world's sup=
lily will ba exhausted, Europe's
tore is idcely itsr l . depleted first
and America's last, not only be-
cause of the. difference in quewitity;
to begin with, but awing to the'
longer period during which Euro-
pea,nus have'use,d the .fuel without a
thonglrt:,o£ its, coming tie an end.
Naw the thought of, this haas be-
gun to arrest attention, and several
matheznatician5 have employed their
skill and imagination in estimating
how hong ,ou.rr coal' will Myst. None
of them makes the time so short as
to cause the present generation any
anxiety. But the time of coal ex-
haustion will come, .,and therefore
the more important- question is,
What then tan. take the place of
coal, especially for driving power f
We may take water, oil and natural
gas into account., but water power
is not to he had everywhere, and
the oil and gas are no more inex-
hauthen Istibie than the coal. What
It is proposed to harness the sun's
power. If by means of .a •emnall glass
we case focus a portion of the sun's
heat so as to set fire to anything
combustible `why should we not ob-
tain by means of greater instru-
ments 'whatever power we need?
Experiments have been made and
have proved highly eneouragung.'
They justify the remarkable predic-
tions of Eriossdn in regard to Lu -
rope and Egypt.
Asserting that the time will 004110
When Europe must atop her mills
kr want of coal unless she finds a
subatitute, he added that "Upper
Egypt then, with her never -ceasing
sun power, will invite the European
manufacturer to remove his machin-
ery and erect his mills on the firm
ground along the sides of the allu-
vial plain of the Nile, where an
amount of motive power may be ob-
tained many times greater than that
now employed by all the manufac-
tories of Europe.” Fairly satisfac-
tory results are being obtained from
the machinery working -6 Egypt to
generate steam power - through the,
focussing of the sun's rays by means
of mirrors, But this is not much
mora than a preliminary experi-
ment. There are larger things on
the way,
Now comes a. high authority',.
speaking _ frcim four" years' exp:eri-
enos in both 'America, and Egypt,
testing the possibilities of the im-
proved apparatus .that is being
brought into use. He is Mr. Acker.
mann,' the secretary of the British
Society of Engineers, and he has
just been telling that body some
facts 'that may excite wonder. The
temperature of the sun its estimated
at 6,000 degrees eentigrade, and of
the total amount of radiation ar-
riving at our outer atmosphere sev-
enty per cent is transmitted to the
eartl1'is surface.
As Mr. Ackermannsays, it is with
this .eventy per cent. that engineers
are concerned, because it repre-
sents the quantity of heat available
for transformation into mechanical
energy, and his calculations and
experiments show that the maxi-
mum energy available from the sun
is equivalent to 4,440 horsepower
per acre, or that 250 square feet of
sunshine are required per brake
horsepower. But what does this
mean to our own country or any
other i
Here is his answer :—"Inter -
prated in terms of a strip of land a
single mile in width along the west-
ern coast of America, the south
coast . of the Mediterranean, the
sides of the Nile in Upper Egypt,
the sides of the Euphrates and Ti-
gris for 500 miles from the Persian
Gulf, and on the rainless portions
of the shores of the Red Sea, this
allows for 10,000,000 engines each of
100 brake horsepower." It is an
amazing statement, but it comes so
much 'closer to as than an astro•ni-
mic,al calculation and seems se mmueh
more substantial than a fairy tale
that we shall have to think about
including it in the realm of acknow-
ledged facts. The own does dare
the earth, but the thannessing of the
sun to drive our m,aoehinery will be
another wonder of the worlds -and
of the minds of man.
Concerning Three Nations.
Question: If a eoapany sat down
at a table with a turkey on it, and
some one upset' the table, what na-
tional calamity, eonoerning three
nations, would it represent 1 •
Answer: The breaking )1p of
China, the overthrow of Greece and
the downfall of Turkey.
Building Operations.
"What are you doing' Building
a castle z Yt Spain i' o
"No; juetputting' up a be»exp."
NEWS . By FRO;41
LAND'S SHORES. 's
happenings fa. the Emerald
Interest to •Irisb-
nfi u
The patent altah whiiskey disti
of Messrs. D. Watt & Co., en].)
' ing mean, Iva s now In.'"
t;l
dwwn204 indefinfteily.
A prison warden ina7nect
'Cullen, employed in. 'J'ullamor
ifins+lltadonntly wn killea stod.ne stairway an,
It isstated that the politee
about to institute proceed
against the promoters of the 1
metion.eting held in Dublin a�a,st `Tee
Much regret was caused
at the news of the rather Stu
death of Mr.:. Thomas Porde, .1
motive foreman at Bray railway.
A serious outbreak of typhus
ver has occurred in the Ard
district of the Derry No. 1 r
district. One death has oeeurz
• William Maguire, servant to
Arthur Paget, was found. dead
his bedroom at the Royal Haspi
Dublin, with a razor by his cid
It is officially a•nriuunce,d• that
Icing's yacht, Britannia. will r
at the Royal Ulster regatta. wh
is to be theld in Belfast Laugh
June.
A fifteen -year-old boy nae
Croke, of Coleman, received fear
injuries through the horse he t.
driving running away near Fethai
For orue:lly thrashing his fi
year -,old son with a razor strop,
man named Kirkpatrick was se
tended to four months' impriso
meat at Belfast.
At the last meeting of the Ard
Town Commissioners it was mov
that a. town hall be erected for t
town. and that a loan be raised 1
the purpose.
Dr. 1VIcDerrn,ott, medical office
has reported to Athlone Rur
Council that owing to overero*
ing the graveyard at Clonrg
should be closed down.
The Kilkenny Hunt races are
be abandoned for this yeas- by r
quest of the Departnie,nt o€ Agr'
telture owing to the outbreak
foot and mouth disease.
The postmaster. of-.4gaa2vil
County I'ea-iilaaitagh, .sir: ;ire�t
I,Veod, has -just died. The. post
has been under the care of menthe
of the family for the past 175 years;
under the same roof.
A oonemititee composed of .repre,
sentative near and leading resident
has been ferniest at Ball,jamesduff,
County Cavan, to have tests and
borings made in the district with a
view to the' .devekopment of coed
mining.
During athunder storm in South
Derry about a. week ago. a heavy,
rain of an inky (odor fell for some
time. Two trees in the towniand
of Ballydermots were struck by
lightning,
The County Clare Point -to -Point
races have been abandoned for an,
indefinite period on account of the
outbreak of foot and mouth disease
in the district where the races were
to be run.
The employes in the Dror.•nalane
Spring Mill, Newry, owned by
Messrs. F. W, Harris & Co., reeem,t-
ly struck work owing,t,o the mama -
ger having- discharged two mechan
ccs.
For the first time in the histo
of the Great Manatee Fair, the.
was no fair held this Season, owim
to ;the scheduling of the distri t foi.
the prevention. of the apneas' of foot-
and-mouth threose.
An old woman :named Williams, of
Carri•ok, . near Rdenderry, was at-
tacked and terribly gored by: a
young heifer. Her daughter tried
to .save her by clinging to the ani-
mal's •hoaxis, but wast thrown and
gored herself three times, Little
hope is entertained of either the
women's .recovery,
Is
Light Visible 30 :Mie::.
The new light recently installed
in thi3 famous lighthotiee ,on the
island of Heligoland, in the North
Sea, can Claint the distinction of
being the most powerful flash light
in European waters,if mart in the
world. It is equal to 40,000.000
candle power, and in normal wea-
ther is clearly v ible. a adi,stanoe orf
30 miles out to east The ,flashes
thein elven. whicb -last but az tenth.
of a .second, have • been observed by
people etanddng'oa the Mole at Du -
sum, ovetr 40 miles away. The coot
of maintenance for the giant
amounts to about $8,000 a year.
Laughter is the worst &rowwe
trouble gets.