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the most eminent pljy.sicians it was essen
tial that the competent parts of Syrup
of Figs and Elixir ot Senna Bhould bo
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by all leading druggists.
arosic S00THE3 tniE sick.
lToupKal ratlenta (rratlr Bencllled
bjr n K Incl-llrarleil Player.
The gifts thnt some of us possess for
doing good to others was Btrlklngly
shown a few days ago In an uptown
hospital. A Rtudent who was nn ex
pert mandolin player hnd called on a
friend who was a patient In the Insti
tution, and at the sick mau's request
lie bad brought bin Instrument. The
patient's room was one of many thnt
pentd off a reception room. Among the
patients on the same floor was a suf
ferer from the morphine habit, who at
frequent Intervals had to be given n
potion to quiet his nerves. As the time
approached for hlra to receive this he
would become bo nervous that he
would almost rave. Not far away was
young woman suffering from a ner
Toun breakdown. She was rarely at
rest.
Suddenly the first notes of Mendels
sohn's "Spring Song" broke the quiet
of tho hospital. Mellowed by distance,
the music of the mandolin, played by
a master hand. Rounded like that of a
Tlolln.. The effect on the patients was
noticeable at once. Tho morphine user,
who had been begging for his potion,
paused to listen and forgot the craving
for the drug. It was the same with the
young woman. Instead of picking at
the counterpane she lay perfectly still,
fearful of missing a note from the
tweet melody thnt floated in through
her open door.
Then came "Home, Sweet Home,"
nd as Rome of the patients lay with
closed eyes from uader many a lid
there stole a tear as the sufferers
thought of the homes to which some of
-them might never return. Again and
;gnln did the musician favor his enger
.aiw'lcnce with selections, classical or
popular. Kven the nurses and physi-
clans felt soothed and benefited as the
result of the efforts of the obliging stu-
dent The thanks of his score of heur
rs shone from their eyes as the young
nmn left tho room of his friend and
took the elevator for the first floor.
"That did our patients more good
than lots of the medicine they, take,"
remarked one of the physicians.' "It Is
n pity that some rich man does not
provide enough money so that the sick
-and Injured In our hospitals could be
soothed at frequent Intervals by as
giod music as thnt which we have Just
Jheard." Philadelphia Tress.
Entirclr TnalwoNbr
"Maria, I'm lolnf; to have lr. Bqull
I ps treat ins for my heart troublo."
"What do you kr.ow about Dr. Squll
. J), John?"
"All I kuow about him Is that Mr.
l3otsum recomuicnds him to me."
. "Who U Mr. Ootium?"
"Mr. Gotsum is on of the stockhold
trs of the life insurance company thnt It
fnrrying a $20,000 risk on my life."
Chicago Tribune.
Standing I'p (or Him,
"Miriam, Isn't, thnt young Fergus com
ing to our house pretty of ton nowV"
"I suppose he is, mamma."
"Do you know anything about him?
What la he worth, for Instance?"
"Well, he's worth any dozen of the or
linary young men of uiy acquaintance"
"Yes, but "
"And he's worth $100 a week to the
firm he works for-r-even If he does get
nly $25 now." Chicago Tribune.
MAKING SUNSHINE. .-
It la Oflan round In Para Foact.
The Improper selection of food
drives many a healthy person Into toa
depths of despairing illness. Indeed,
most sickness comes from wrong food
and Just so surely as that Is the case
right food will make the sun shine
once more.
An old veteran of Newburyport,
Mass., say;: "In October, I was taken
alck and went to bed, losing 47 pounds
in sooit 60 days. I had doctor after
kccicr, food hurt me and I had to live
iYinica entirely on magnesia and soda.
All aol! food distressed me so that
water wouiu run out of my mouth In
little M reams.
"I had terrible night sweats and my,
doctor finally said I had consumption
and must die. My good wife gave up
all hope. We were at Old Orchard,
Me., at that time and my wife saw
Grape-Nuts In a grocery there. She
bought some and persuaded me to try
K.
"1 had no faith In It but took It to
please her. To my surprise It did not
distress me as all other food had dono
and before I had taken tho firth pack
age I was well on the mend. The puhm
left my head, my mind became clearer
and I gained weight rapidly.
"I went back to my work again and
now after elx weeks' use of tho food I
am better and stronger than ever bo
fore In my life. Grape-Nuts surely
tidved my life and made me a strong
hearty man, j pound heavier t.uuu
before I "was taken sick.
"IliKh my gvod wlfu and I are will
ing to mukc allidivlt to the truth of
this."
Head "The Koad to Wcllvllic," lu
jikgs. "There's a Reason."
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CHAPTER XI!. (Continued.
Motionlws, we listened, and caught the
regular breath! 112 of n sleeping mnn, then
distirgilishcd that of another, ami finally
hear. some one turn nml grunt. In some
Inexplicable way, these men had happened
to camp jiit above the siot chosen by
Duponccau lo hide bis rli.'st.
I searcc dared turn nnd crawl away
from fear of waking the sleepers, nnd so
lay still, wondering if by any chance they
could have nlrendy found the treasure, or
If there mk'ht yet be an opportunity for
ns to remove It. Suddenly I felt Bodncy
grip my arm. "I.iMten," ho breathed.
Off in the distance, clear and long, rose
the ocprey call. I hi ponceau was in some
danser.
We wriseled nwny from the hemloHc,
crawled bark t lironth the woods, snd
stood erect only when we rc.-iched the
eil-e. Th-ru wc swept the beach and
what we could see of l ho Ship for signs
of men, but the shore was still empty
as the desert. ,
"Shall we run for it?" I asked.,
"No." said Itoduey; "If there are any
men there, they're between us and the
boat, or on the boat; we'd best keep close
to the Cliff until we get our bearings."
The advice was good ; like Indians we
made the fringe of the woods, keeping In
shadow. When we were forced to leave
this shelter we skirted the cliff, ready to
crouch hack at a call or to ruth forward.
As we neared the shadow of the head
Innd we saw figures climb over the rocks
of the little Inland sea nnd head up the
bench four men, sjjboutted black against
the white sand, and not one of them as
tail ns Piiponccnn.
"They haven't got birr," I whispered:
"at lenst, he is not with them."
"Thnt's queer," said Kodney. "I haven't
heard a shot fired. They must have
boarded the Whip."
Wo crossed tho causeway, running light
ly, and climbed on board. The deck was
as empty as the bc.ich had been when
we first crossed it, I rushed below nnd
poked In all the bunks, but not a trace of
Puponceau was to be found. Kodney and
I stood in the bow and peered across the
rocks. We could see nothing save the
woods nnd the' sky.
"Well," said Islip at Inst, "that takes
the cake. lie's vamosed, vsninhed, cleared
out. snd I dare say we'll never see hide
or hair of him ngain. This thing's get
ting positively spooky, Seidell, Are you
sure thnt the rnan was flesh and blood?"
I certainly thought so," I answered.
"Imt he enmo in the middle of the night,
and he's gone nt the same time. Strange t
Where on earth could he go
"Search ine," said Itodney. "I thought
the adventure wns almost too real to be
true. Such things don't hnppen, you
know thnt is, not consecutively within
a day's ride of New York." lie consider
ed the matter gravely. "But what will
Hnrhnrn sa, if she finds we haven't kept
by him?"
"1 wns thinking of that myself." I an-
v ,1 nbin. Mn..l-1 htm.
Islip broke into a laugh-such an In-
feetious laugh that I couldn't help Joining
him. "I dare snv we're different in most
ways. Selden," he said, "but we've alike
In one. Well, here's how '." aud he held
out l,is hand to me.
We shook hands, half seriously, halt In
Jest, nnd I took back all tho unkind
things I had ever thought about him.
We turned and went down the deck on
tho outer side of tho mast. I heard Hod-
ney exclaim and saw him stop and look
at the rail where his hand rested. A
small gold chain was fastened to tho edge,
Ho peered over the side, and then, to my
utter amazement, began to throw off his
lotl,p,
"What on earth " I begnn, but Bod-
ney only chuckled, and Dnished undress-
lug. Then from somewhere out in the sea
n.,m nnr-v's crv clear, nnaverine to
a minor cadence. Islip slipped over the!
Side, crossed the rocks, aud dived int.d
the waves. 1
i ,.n',i n il.. eh,.tn nn.1 nn e u.e .
bnndlo of clothes wratrned In Punonoemfs
clonk. Then I understood, and followed
if...!.,..vV .nmnli.
Never have I known such a swim as
CW In the mvsterv .if starlight, throiiph
a sea that seemed made of silver. We
rn.iml Dnuoii.-eiiii bv his crv and followed
him, resting now and then to II oat on the
silver surface, and again raeing linnd over
hand out throiuh the mystery. We were
no longer men, but free sea creiitures, in
our own eleineut, undismayed.
Wa HMinn In a great circle, nnd nt last
Puponeenu led us back to the Skip. Pay
hrenkln far out. bevond tlie Shiftlnff
Shoal. "I saw them coming," he sajd, "Then." I said stubbornly, "I will wait,
"and so I hung my clothes from the side ud prove my meaning lo you.'
and took to the waves. They found nolJi- She raised her eyes frankly to mine. "I
ing; perchance now they think luo a like that," she said.
ghost" After a time we walked bnck to her
We told him our c,inerleuco in search- Ik and snid good-by. The beach was
Ing for the chest, and he showed a groat impty. Islip was sitting on the Ship's
deal of perturbation, but filially came to deck, and Barbara waved to him nnd he
the wise conclusion that we could do uoth- waved back. I felt sorry for him, some
lug in regard to it then. how, for now I knew what he must feel.
It was my turn below, and I fell asfeep, No wonder he couldn't go back to his be
in a glorious glow from the twini, Just as loved Wall Street
the sky was shading piuk.
CHAPTFIt XIII
When 1 awoke I found Kodney aeated
en the cabin table,
"Morning, Selden !" he exclaimed. "By
the way, who it Monsieur Puponceau?"
I shook my head. "I gave that ques
tion us some time Hgo. How about break
fast?" "I was thinking of thnt myself," aaid
Rodney. "I don't mind being a hero, but
I prefer to play the part on a full stom
ach." "I'll signal Charl."," 1 went up on
deck, and found that the sun was high
up, and sliiniiitf on a glorious summer
world. I fastened a nankin to the broken
stomp of the mast. I
Fifteen minutes later we saw my oanoe
taul cautiously about the s.int of the
cliff beyond mv house and poke it n.we
U the direction of the Ship. Obturlua
U-eaight the tiny craft alongside of us.
"They're watching tJie house closely,
Mr. Felix," be wild. "It aa all I could
& to get dowa to the river without Uiuir
fcllovini."
Iae canoe had brought us bet oeffee,
eegs and rolls. We breakfasted in state "Wbl the deuce do you kuppose thost
at Ue cabin, with Ckarlva to watt u
0. He bad little new, beyoad tho
rjut fee pinna were naLrelM txr a
kavr of meu.
Aft breakfast we eased the time
bat we could, but the morning went I been studying him clely all day, and
lowly, and we were clad when lunnk waatsome uxprlmiee with Wall Street has put
readi. Tuia was a ineutir meal,
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Company. All rights reserves.
up of the sernps of the provisions Bar
bara had brought us. I told Charles tluit
I preferred to have him stay with us, ns
there was no telling when we should
need every able-bodied man we could find,
and so he brought the canoe on lioard,
stowed her on tlie nfierJe.-k, and devoted
himself lo the .mall duties on his new
housekeeping.
Puponceau nnd Islip had slept little tho
night before, nnd shortly after lunch they
too- up their bunks to nnp. I was on
guard on the forward deck vhen I heard
a voice call, "Ship nhop!" nnd looked up
to see V.arbara on tho clifT.
I called to Charles to take my plnee
for a few moments and sallied forth to
sliore. Barbara joined me at the foot
of Hie headland.
"Well?" she asked eagerly.
I told her the adventures of the pre
vious night, and when I came to the ear
ly morning swim her eyes danced as she
clnpp"d her hands with delight. "Oh, I
wish 1 had been oil t there with you I" she
cried. "I've always wauted to try a swim
in the dark."
"It's Just as well you weren't," I an
swered sngely,
She looked somewhat longingly out to
sen. "What a beautiful afternoon! And
are the rest of the crew working?"
"The rest of the crew are sleeping.
They had too much colToc for dinner last
night, nnd it kept them awake."
"And what is Charles doing?"
I pointed to the deck. "lie's on guard.
Thnt's the reason I'm .here."
"Oh, that's it, is it? I thought you
came to see me."
"And so I did. Suppose we sit here nt
the fooi of the cliff, where we can look
out to sea nnd can't be seen. There's a
little nook I know of."
' I found the place that I sought s se
cret crevice in the rocks nnd there we
sat and watehi'd the tide do its best to
reach us as it bounded landward. The
afternoon drifted past, and we, Ixirne oa
its tranquillity, were now talkative, now
silent. Barbara rolled her sleeves above
nor ri,ows, and played with the water in
jittln , 0O bc'sido our pyjge of rocks,
tjer dresminir eves brooded over the
ccean. I watched her, tried to jturn my
py seaward, felt the irresistiblo call, and
came hack to watching her. Tie time
hnci come when I could think only the
ene thought.
The sun was low, I'nrhara was hnrc
ming a little French sung. The whole
world wus adorable.
"Itarbara, I love yon!"
The words were out, spoken without
volition, all of themselves.
She looked up ; her singing stopped.
nnd the deep blush-rose crept into her
face, while her eyes shrank
"llnrkura, I love you. I have lov.nl yon
since I first found you on the Ship, and
' " ' 1 f n Iv,ng you until I die. I
va p ' conscious, it s
tnrtj unconscious: it's just you calling
' me. raruurn u.n., ,,., n.e uu ,ujr
! the rld. Too are the world
" """y ......
I llaninK J11; thlnklns; only
wpot- tlint l"'tely sweet face
opposite.
She smiled, her eyes turning to watch
wav"'' Rnd 1 wn,,eu rwHbound for
h,"r nswer.
"I haven t known you very long. ' she
added, her voice low ; and what do you
know of me?
"Kverythlng. All I could ever know
that you are the one woman in the
world.
"But Its summer, nnd its easy to say
sneh things in summer. It s all part of
the setting. I told you once you were a
dreamer. Ireamers are apt to remnnce,
nnd thnt Is probably why you are now in
love with the wave and the sunshine and
with me." The last words were Just a
whisper. She raised her eyes to mine for
" "eeiing sec-onn. men uroppcu uer iu..eB.
"Believe me. Bnrhnra, it's not thnt : it's
the truth the truest thing In the world."
''o plnyed with tha water In the pool
nt hBT "ide-
"I like you -hut, then. I like many
There's Itodney I like nlso. Perhaps I
'k you belter because I have uver seen
" hi town, nor anywhere but In yur
chosen country. But I can't forget that
there are other treasnres in ihe sea
bow can you be sure you won't come up-
" another and a finer? '1 hen, too, I
like mnn who do tilings, men who fight
and win out nnd so you see," she fin
isbrd, with a slight smile, "It's u f Hint
U bke any one in particular less, but the
inliiiile possibilities more."
"t.ooii-Dy again, sne ami, ana men,
t tint tne parting nugiu nor do ioo anrupi,
I HOC BU.'U, 4 lUIUft UlU fciv"." Miuwcfc
,,und " ?,ou ' oZt i'io kingdom.
ltule It well
"I shall. I have a great deal to prove
now."
She smiled. "Felix of Alastair;" then
kh turned up the path.
I went back to the Sh'p mighty with
resolves; I thirst wl for ?re.it deeds o do.
When I came on bourd I found plans for
such deeds brewing. .
CHAPTER XIV.
Puponceau had boen brooding all 'lay
ovor iae possioiury oi losing me ie'"""
of his precious chest, and n, aftor som
I argument, Itodney and be had deviled to
make tho effort to move it to the Ship
that nlffht. I pointed out tie tact tnal
m all probability the enemy knew nothing
whatever of the chest's petition, and haJ
1 simply happened to enmp ia th neighbor
hood ot tliat particular hemlock ; but Pu
poaresu'a foar were arouxej, and it wai
evident thtt he would be mtistied with
nothing- short of havlag to atroeg-hox
aarfer bis eyes.
I papers are, that be shonij le so fearful
fact aemit them?" 1 asked Uodaey when we
- were alone.
He shrugged Ids shouUlnrs. "Heaven
a knows 1 Tha man Isn't rraiy, for I've
aaade 1 me wtae oa crauks. No. there's real.
lira mystery fmwhcr, ad Mn4
Pierre is a somelxidy. thoriuh -herher the
Wnndering Jew or the l"t Napoleon I
can't sny. Sufliee it, he's got a treasure
client, nnd it's up to us to sit on it so
tight that no'ie of Its pieces of-eigbt can
filter through."
Fortunately the night was cloudy, nnd
nbout eleven we were rendy to start. I
hnd never felt so completely the despera
do befor. We were nil three armed with
revolvers, I carried a coil of rope wound
about my want, nnd Itodney a dnrk lan
tern which Charles had found In the
cotlnge. Pupnnccau was the lenst excit
ed, lie took command of our expedition
with the assurance of a l)orn leader, and,
in fact, It wns only his overweening cen
fnlenee that gave the scheme the least
prospect of success.
Just before we left the Ship Charles
joined us with two spades, nnd so, a pnrty
of four, we stole over Ihe bench and lnte
the dunes, puponeenu led ns to the pine,
thence we crawled inward, lying silent
nfter each cracking twig, straining our
eyes and ears for news. When we caait
to the hemlock we lay four abreast and
so peered over at the tent that loomed
vaguely white ahead. The only sound
was a loud nnd resonant snore.
PuioTiceau crawled forward on one side
of the tent, and then beckoned to me to
do the same on the opposite side. When
I hnd wriggled forward some ten feet I
could look in at the tent, the sides of
which were open to the summer breews.
One man lay within, sleeping. It was
clear that the eaemy hnd not epectod(
us, . - --- -.-tjYr -iji 1-nr"
Puponceau stele to his feet, I did like
wise. He entered the tent from one side,
ngd I from the other. With a swift
movement he was over the sleeping msn,
and hnd pinned him to the bed, while he
thrust a handkerchief into his mouth.
The sleeper sarted. struggled, moaned,
nnd lay still ; I had held my revolver in
his face. In a twinkling we had him
hound and gagged, rolled from his bed of
boughs, and laid at n little distnnce.
While we did this Islip and Charles cut
the guWe-ropes, nnd the house of our
enemies fell, collapsing like a great white
balloon when the gas escapes. We clear
ed it away, nnd the place where the chest
was hidden lay before us.
Then followed a strange scene for those
unhistoric pines of Alastair. With ears
keen for the slightest alarm. Puponceau
and I dug. Itodney holding his black lan
tern so as to aid us. Charles keeping
Watch. A foot down and my spnde struck
wood. In five minutes the chest wns
uncovered. Carefully we raised it and
plnced it on the ground. As his hand
touched the unbroken lock I thought that
Puponceau gave a littolo sigh of relief.
(lo te continued.)
THE ESCAPE.
Slater's Disparaging; Comment Was
Sidetracked Jant In Time.
Little Mrs. Walter Burnett, coming
down stairs In her new winter suit,
jfiuiiced with shy delight from her hus
bnnd to her sister-in-law. The Bur
netts were young, mul would have been
poor hnd tlny not been so rich In
other things than money. Mrs. Walter
had not bud n winter unit since her
marriage two years before, nnd the
sensation of feeling herself nrain In
the style niaile her pretty face under
the brown lint ns vivid as a rose. Her
husband looked nt her adoringly, and
remnrked that she wns "a stunner."
Her ulster-in-law's approval wus more
classically expressed, but no less warm.
"Even your sister Sue can't lnd any
fault with that," kIic said.
A bit of the brightness faded from
Mrs. Burnett's face.
"Oh, Sue I" she said, with a laugh
thnt she tried to make light "It would
1 too much to expect Sue to like it.
She always thinks the other thing
would have lx'en better."
The sister-in-law eyed her shrinking
young relative sternly.
"Now, Elsie," she said with decision,
"It Is time to stop this."
"Stop what?" Elsie parried, feebly.
"This allowing fue to spoil every
thing for you. Sue Is a fine woman.
I uppreclate her thoroughly, but Bhe
has fallen Into the habit of skimming
the cream of cverylxxly's pleasure by
belated advice. Your only chance of
comfort In that suit Is to stop her be-
fore she says anything. Here she Is,
by the way, coming up the path this
minute. Now rememher this Is your
chimoo to strike for freedom."
"Oh, I couldn't!" Mrs. Burnett fal
tered, as a cVr woioe smuxlcid in the
ball.
" "Strike for yemr altars and your
llres,' " her sister-in-law whispered, and
then some one else was fn tho room.
'TIow do yon do, everybody?" Sue
culled, cheerfully. "Isn't this glorious
nuthnr1 Wnlt Fltlo ro vorrr milt hn I
come home. I wonder " She eyed
the new suit consideringly, a frown
creeping between her brows.
F.lsle caught her irrenth, and ghuicwd
desperately nt the two allies.
"Sue, please don't !" she faltered.
"Don't what?" Sue asked. In surprise.
"Don't say it what you always do.
you know about thinking the green
would have been better, nfter all. You
8,m and there wns a quiver In her
voice, "It seems so nloo to have n whole
new suit, nnd I Just love it, and I want
to think I look nice in It, and
Her sister looked at her sharply.
For a moment there was silence then
she laughed.
"What nonsense, child I I was Just
going to say that brown was your
color," the declared. Youtha Com
panion.
Sounded Komantle.
"There was one time in my life."
said the fussy old bachelor, "when I
really wanted a better hulf. -
"Tell me about it," cooed the eeutl-
mental widow.
"Oh, there isn't much to tell," an
swered the f. o. b, "some chap stuck
ma with a bad 50-cent piece."
avian- the F
"I'.very little fragment of time should
be saved," said U home-grown phil
osopher.
"Sure it should, rejeined the cynical
person. "The uiouieut the day bivkka
lt up to us to begin earing the
piece, H
A Hot Oae.
Clara (after she has refused him)
I never gave you any eucourageroaat
Charles Yes, you did. Ton lattaafc
ed that your father had money.
Ilia Choice ot Brlla.
Shall I forever from her art.
Or wed her for butter or worse?
The former' euro to break her heart-
The latter to break her puif
A&rrtNATTOM
I'll . a-'W
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V.OF this time on it is
merely a question wheth"- )
er one wishes to be proof
J AKalnst attack by typhoid
fever or not. Certainly
there can be no reason
for contracting the mai-
ady unless one chooses. People now-
adays do not "catch" smallpox If they
have been properly vaccinated. In
case they negrect that customary pro-
caution. It is considered that they have
deliberately exposed themselves to the
risk of contagion. The same proposl-
tlon will in future apply to typhoid,
Inasmuch as means have been round
whereby. throuKh inoculation with a
suitable "vaccine," anylwdy may pe
rendered permanently immune that is
to say, Incapable of acquiring tne ais-
ease. I
Tvphold in old time was known as
"putrid fever." It was one of the most
deadly of human maladies, largely be-
cause the proper methods to adopt in
dealing with it were not yet known.
But even to day, when it kills less than
10 per cent of the victims It assails,
it is exceedingly destructive. It
caused 80 per cent of the total deaths
on the American side during tne war
with Spain tho disease, which raged
in the military camps, being distrib
uted chiefly by flies. And it was re
cently estimated by Dr. George M. Ko-
ber of Washington, D. C a recognized
authority on the subject that, reck
oning Ioks of wage-earning capacity,
I o n 1 nttoncinnep. etc.. I
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lypnom .ever ... -,o n00
costs annually not less than $0,000 .
000. Accepting these figures, it appears
that the disease costs the people of
the United States more than a billion
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aonars every umbo jri-u.o, ... .
Bach in Technical w oria b'".
The immunising Vaccine.
There is Just one advantage in hav-
ine tvphold. An attack of it renders
one immune to the complaint there-
after at all events practically so, in-
asmuch as a recurrence of the malady
In a person who has once recovered
from it is uncommon. But it would
surely be very advantageous if such
Immunity could be attained without
going through the sicsness and sut-
fering, with incidental risk ot dying.
Fortunately, this very thing na3 ai
last been accomplished. That Is to say,
a means has been discovered whereby
anybody may bo rendered Immune to
typhoid the rsult being obtained by
a simple process of vaccination. The
principle of vaccination for smallpox
Is that of utilizing the germ of a near
ly-related disease of the cow, much
milder in character, 10 prouuee im-
munlty against the more serious mal-
ady. This idea nowadays Is begin-
nlnfl to be applied, with much success,
to other maladies, notably rabies by
Pasteur's discovery and cholera and
oubonlc plague, the two latter at the
Instance of Haffkine, an Englishman,
Vaccination for typhoid first worked
out bv Sir A. E. Wright of London
is based upon the same theory.
For some time past the United
States War Department has been busi-
ly engaged with the problem of typhoid
vaccination, and at the Army Medical
MiiRBum in Washington large nuanti-
ties of the Immunizing fluid have been
manufactured and put up in sealed
glass tubes, ready for use each tube
containing the few drop3 requisite for
a QOae For military purposes it is of
utmost importance to find a means
whereby the "putrid fever," which has
always been the most deadly enemy
of troops-conimonly killing more men
than were Blum uy uie curaiy Biiuii
be robbed of its power to destroy.
How Ihe Vaccine I Prepared.
There is no reason, Indeed, why sol
diers in the field in iuture wars
should suffer any lows whatever by ty-
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pnoia. ii win uuuuwcsB ue n-nuirou oi
every recruit, as a matter of course,
that before being finally accepted he
shall be Immunized against the mala-
dy. As for the regular army, several
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hundred men, volunteering lor tne The giraffe looks as If it had start
purpose, have already been inoculated; e,i out to be a zebra, but, having reach
and, the Investigation having now ed tne ghoulders, had kept on going.
passed neyona me experimental stage,
every officer and enlisted man will bo
subjected to the treatment.
The "vaccine for typhoid is pre-
pared by an extremely simple process.
A. quantity oiueei urovu umUO, am,,
when U has had time to cool, a few
typhoid bacilli are put Into it. Find-
Ing it an acceptable food, they multi
ply with great rapidity, until, after a
few hours, the vessel ot soup contains
countless billions of them. They are
then killed by putting the broth into a
tort ot oven and heating it to a point
In the neighborhood of boiling.
This is the "vaccine" a soup con-
talnlng the dead bodies of billions of
typhoid bacilli. It is now ready for
use. But first, to make perfectly sure
that all the bacilli are dead, a small
quantity of the soup Is put Into a fresh
batch of broth, previously sterilized
by heat. If, on microscopic exaiulna
tlon, some hours later, no living bacilli
re found ln the new broth. It is
taken for granted that the stuff Is
ill rlKht, and the soup holding the do
fund germs Is put up in little glass
tubes. Kach tube, after being sterll
Ized, receives a certain number of
drops of the immunizing fluid from a
machine mado fur the purpose., and la
then horiiiethnlly sealed with a glass
blower's blowpipe. It tbus becomes
nothing more than an elongated bulb
of plugs, with no opening through
which any mlcrobo cau fain admit
tanre. When a dose Is to be adminis
tered, the physician simply breaks off
one end of the tube, draw Its contents
tnto his nypojormie syringe previous
: ly sterilized and thrusts me point ot
tha tnntrunient beneath the skin of the
! person to be Inoculated. A brief squirt,
and it is all over. Put to make assur
ance doubly sure to make certain,
that Is to say, of "taking" a scoud
dose is usually administered. The first
one Is of eight drops, representing
nbout 500,000.000 bacllla; tho spcond is
fifteen drops, containing 1,000,000,000
bacilli, or thereabouts.
Ilovr Trphold rinellll Operate,
But, as already explained, the bacilli
are all dead. Why, then, should they
possess any usefulness? The answer is
that, though defunct, they still contain
the peculiar and characteristic poUon
belonging to this species of microbes.
They are powerless to engender ty
phold fever in the human body, but
tho poison In question has the effect
of inducing the cells of the body to
manufacture a particular antidote th
antidote to typhoid.
Wbm a person is attacked by ty-
pho'd fever, the cerms. feeding: on the
tissues, incidentally set free a consld-
erable quantity of their specific poi
son. This poison is injurious to tha
body cells, which absorb more or less
of it. But the cells, to protect them-
pelves ajalnst trje enemy, proceed to
manufacture on their own account an
anu-poison tnat is to say, a substance
which in nine cases out of ten if the
patient be properly cared for kills off
the hostile microbes, and eventually
drives them out of the system. This
Is what happens every time when a
sufferer from typhoid recovers.
Unhoused and often unsheltered.
wild animals suffer more than Is gen
erally understood. No one can esti
mate the deaths of a year from severe
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Mia' neavy 6tonus- winds and i
Ude9' In "The of the Land"
Dbm Lore
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hazardous traveling of the squirrels in
the treetops. What other animals take
such risks, leaping at dizzy heights
from bending limbs to catch the tips
or nmDs still smaller, Ravine them
selves again and again by the merest
chance?
uut luck sometimes fails. My broth-
er, a careful watcher In the woods,
was hunting on one occasion, when he
saw a gray squirrel miss its footing
in a tree, tall, and break its neck upon
a tog ceneath
I have frequently known thena to
fall short distances, and once I saw
a red squirrel come to grief like the
gray squirrel mentioned above. He
was scurrying through the tops of
some lofty pitch pines, a little hurried
and flustered at sight of me, and near
ing the end of a high branch was in
iu ucv ui Bpriiiging, wnen ine dead
tip cracked under him and he came
tumbling headlong.
The height must have been forty
feet, so that before he reached the
ground he had righted himself, his
tail out and legs spread; but the fall
was too great. He hit the earth heav-
By, and before I could reach him lay
dead upon the pine needles.
Hasty, careless, miscalculated move-
ments are not as frequent among the
careful wild flock aa among human
beings, perhaps; but there 13 abundant
evidence oi ineir occasional occurrence
and ot their sometimes fatal results.
THE GIRAFFE.
Africa's Second Story Worker with
the l.cini Distance Neck.
The giraffe is the second story work
er of the animal kingdom. It is a
merger of the zebra and the camel and
is also a distant relative of the palm
tree The glraffe cons,3t8 of p,ght feet
of neck equipped with a body at one
end and a head at the other. In the
matter of neck it has all the rest of
the animal kingdom beaten by a
length. The giraffe's mouth is located
so far from Its stomach that it has tc
eat to-day to appease to-morrow s ap-
petite. Many a giraffe has starved to
death while the first meal it had eaten
for two weeks was slowly traveling Its
transcontinental esophagus.
n u very dark ln color marked by
yeiiowlsh brown stripes In a handsome
linoleum pattern. It lives on tree tons.
Mw , nnA rBnhowH twin th.
Boer war the Br,t,8h army had 80m(J
dlfflcuUy wlth RlraffeBi whlch ioTmei
, t kl fop war baloona an(J
rMUent,y nlbbled them durln. theIr
flight in order to Inhale the gas.
Why does the giraffe have a long
distance neck? Persons given to the
use of common sense will valize that
Africa is rich ln Insect life as well as
animal life and that all African anl
mala carry Innumerable parasites on
their hides. The giraffe's head is so
ar from h,9 body that a ,ons neck ,
absolutely necessary ln order that ha
may reach down and grab off a tick
from his fetlock when necessary. Even
a child could see this. Collier's Week.
ly.
Had 'I lii-ill Tented.
The loss and recovery of a $6. .".00
pen id necklace recall tho tstory of a
similar experience which a New York
woman had after the last Old Guard
ball. She also missed her necklace
when she arrived at her home, and
the next day it as brought to her by
a woman who had shared her car
rlage on her way home. Handing the
necklace to her friend, tlie finder said;
"So glad I found it. We always
thought they were real." New York
Tribune.
She," the Young Things are al
ways saying of some Older Thing,
..hu3 ,oney to buy good clothe
- anJ doe5Il-t look good in them."
I The women always say their hua-
bauds coax thtm to go away tor tha
- 1 summer, but no one believes 1L
Th F.mbnrriiMlng Troth.
Tho vindication of Pr. Harvey W.
Wiley Is n great triumph," said
Washington diplomat, "for pure food.
I)r. Wiley tells the tryUi, and the truth
Is painful to certain tyici of food pro
ducers." The diplomat touched.
"Pr. Wiley wir talking the other day
about the p; lufuhiess of the truth," h
resumed. le said it reminded hlra
of a morning -a 1 1 that he once made
on a young lndy In his youth. In an
swer to bis ring a tiny tot of a girl
opened the door, and Pr. Wiley said to
her, ns lie walked Intothe hull:
"Where is your auntie, Mabel?"
"'Upstairs in her nightie,' chirped
the tot, 'ii-loiikip over the balustrade."
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BURDET73 LIFTED
FBOM BENT BACKS.
A bad back Is a heavy handicap to
those of us wlro work every day. Nine
times out of ten, It
Is due to sick kid
neys. The only wny
to find relief is to
cure the kidneys.
Dunn's Kidney fills
have given sound,
strong backs to
thousands of men
IXs. l and women.
Mrs. I Splcer,
If 1 304 S. Seventh St.,
I Pe Kalb, 111., says'
.'Tiicr. kqi n se
vere dull pain In the right side and
back that troubled me a great deal
and I had frequent headaches nnd
dizzy spells. Doan's Kidney Pills re
lieved me nt once, however, nnd hav
made me better In every way."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
No Srrloun t'onaequences.
"Yes," said Mrs. Lapsling, "Johnny'l
all right now. When he was bitten by
that strange dog I took him to a doctor'!
and had the wound ostracized right
away.'"
WESTON, OCEAN-TO-OCEAN WALKER,
Said recently: "When .you feel dowe
and out, feel there Is no use living, Just
take your bad thoughts . with you and
walk them off. Beforo you have walked
a mile tilings will look rosier. Just try
It." Have you noticed the Increase li
walking of late In every community'.
Many attribute It to the comfort which
Allen's l'oot-Kaae, the antiseptic powder
to be shaken Into the shoes, gives to the
million now using It. As Weston has
eald, "It has real merit." It curea tired,
aehlne feet while you walk. 30,000 testi
monials. Order a -5c. package to-day ot
any Druggist and be redely to forget you
Have reet. A trial paeKuge oi Aiitrn
Foot-Kme ent FIlEli. Address Allen
S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
At tha Mftht School.
Tpnph(r ftive mn nn fYflmnlp cf wtlltt
Is meant by "masterly inactivity !"
Bov with the nroBiiathous faee A base
Ball pitcher delayin' a game so it'll have
be called on account o darkness.
FASHION HINTS
A pretty design for a .soft mull or sum
mer silk. Has a bolero, and a banded
overskirt. The sleeves are laced with rib
bon same shade as tiie sash.- The hat
shown here is a "poke," with full blown
pink roses round the crown. r ringed
black velvet ribbon strings hau over on
the right side.
IVdlitree of. the Shirt.
Why docs the being we call a gen
tleman wear around bis neck a bund
of spotless whiteness and unbearable
Stiffness, at his wrists similar Instru
ments of torture, nnd before bis chest
a rigidly starched linen plate? oska
the Atlantic Monthly, No one outside
of a madhouse would cull these arti
cles of apparel agreeable. There is
for the custom no reason nt all known
from comfort, hygiene, or usefulness.
There Is, however, the gluiHt of a dead
reason. Once upon a time a "gentle
man" was presumed to do no work,
and be dressed to show this, by put
ting on these visible signs that he
never soiled his bauds, sweated mV
neck, or bent his noble back. It mat
ters not that we no lunger believe In
this definition of a gentleman; we did
believe It once; its ghost rules on. No
man Is bold enough to appear in so
ciety without this impossible harness.
Only a professional humorist, lika
Mark Twain, or some one who wishes
to pose ns a mild lunatic, dares rebel.
Addison said that the man who would
clothe himself according to common
sense would tlud himself in Jail witu
ln a week.
A statue of King Henry VI Is belnf
placed outside of Salisbury cathedral,
Kcgland, as a memorial to the late I Van
Webb.
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