OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
How ktaoy Meal a
AVK ran rtr (.aken tl?ui
LJ I illcity of lle tiiernn njwa.lays with rvga.'d to
I I I lie uuu.Ut of meals tl-at
lay s rare auu me uouis at kimu mey siiouiu
j eateu? If you have done this the probability
that you emerged fro:n the study in arith
metic convinced that It mates precious Lttle
difference what a oiaa 18 doing as long ax he is pjswssed
f a sufficient amount of-faith Iu the line be is following.
For you taa en.!y call to niiud linlf a dozen of jvur
acquaintance who say that their health ha improved one
hundred per cent since they cancelled their breakfasts ami
took to eating a rather hearty lua.-hiou. And wilhiu sound
el your voice are as many other i,tous who declare they
ever knew what perfect heal.h meant till they cut ou.
the mid-day weal altogether, allowing a satisfying break
taut and a not too late dinner to cover the amount of food
Consumed through the day. Then come to your mind the
lusty exponents of the theory that five meals a day are
one too many to keep the body in fuel, and another set
who gloat over the robust condition tbey have wooed and
won through clinging to a regimen that allows but one
equare meal a day.
And If you feel to take a firm stand for or against auy
ene article of food or drink and are looking for examples
to help you to a decision, you can get quite as much con
fused In any attempt to decide who has the rights of the
esse with him. One will toll you be cannot drink coffee le
cause It affects him in such and such a way. while an
other will tell you that he never could get through his
day's work without its gently stimulating Influence, and
that he knows It benefits him because he always sleeps
like a baby after drinking It late at night. (Joins through
the list of things that men eat and drink you will iliid the
ame pros and cons apply, and It becomes fearfully bewil
dering before you get half through the list. .So, If you
are to search the records of food cans-- that nielic.il
Journals have championed. Fay, for the last century, y u
will find that what was blest in one decade was decried
In the next. And then you know you aren't the only one
who his been almost swamped by coiu: adie ory evidence n
the case of the people vs. food. When, however, you get
where you are convinced that some great occult mora'
principle underlie th-se dl.Tcreno s which are after all
nly 8iiperfjci.il, and tlcn undertake to study this princi
ple, and its ramifications, you are bound t? have your tirst
real satisfaction from the problem, though you probably i
u"i ie auie to gei 0:1 uie lence in
this aspect of it Boston Transcript
Better Rural Schools.
IIOT'LlJ not the coiintrv schools of sn o-icnl.
jtural community aim to give
Ian education as will be most
(aim me 1 13 ciicie iiujf ouu iramju w uy mey
should as far as possible try to copy town
schools? On the contrary, should they not
aim to do a different work from the school
whose pupils will spend their lives in the cities In business
r professional pursuits?
The rural school problem Is the most Important which
oil fronts educators to-day. The people of the farms are
the bone and sinew of the republic, yet they are not af
forded educational advantages which beg Id to compare
with those of the town and city. While the cities hare
their up-to-date education methods, their manual training
schools, and other things to fit the young for the vsrioas
pursuits of city life, all of which have been evolved In re
cent years, the rural school of to-day Is little In advance
f those of a generation or two ago.
Agriculture itself has advanced more In the last half
century than It did before In ten centuries, and tho new
rural school ought to teach the new things of agriculture,
as far as possible. The plan which has been evolved for
the consolidation of rural schoola is excellent as far as It
goes, but It Is only one step In the proper direction. It
will afford an opportunity to disseminate to the farmers
In a practical manner some of the developments which
lerictiltiiral sciences have brought oirt In recent yesrs, and
DO FISH LIVE IN DEAD SEA?
There I an Apparent Dliairtemrai
Am on j Thnie Who Unght to Know.
It lias long been understood by tbe
public generally that fish do not live
In the iJead Seu, but It would seem
that tiiera Ls a difference of opinion
itintuM; men of science as to the fact
j'niiira Mitimut writes iu Cnstnon an ar
ticle on the subject wlilch ls condensed
as follows: . ' . .
Tiic prevalent error. . according., to
v ;.!. i. the watir uf this Interior sea
I.- ctiiiet and incapable of agitation,
; f.-nw to have a risen from the name
; !:: re'ai"aeil for centuries. This er
ror sf'.ou'.d no longer exist, now that
t-v-nvcr'hy travelers have told us of
tic huge waves that break on Its
si.; res during stcrms.
'ilic retention, of the primitive name
(lo .id Sea) Is due to the fact, which is
j.erlVcily certain and well knownthat
iii:i(i creature neither fish, crus
i..,vaii nor inollusk can live lo ls
v.:.;is, with the exception of certain
inferior organisms. This fact la at
t;',:.:d by the dWb o'f the fish carried
iu by the 'Jordan, wliose'twdie serve
as food for the birds that'ftjr orer the
'.:.k. in violation' of ttudtttia: ; - v
Accordingly I was surprised " the
oilier day to read In a well-known
Joumnl of natural science the follow
ii'g"iote'Unrfer the heading, "The
SiM'Vmg of the American Salt Lakes
with Fixh":
' l:p to the present the Dead 8ea has
been, rtira riled as wanting In fish; the
iM'tCiM'sH of Ita waters has seemed to
preclude the development of animal
life. 1'ait fish have now been discov
ered In other salt lakes In the neigh
I'orhood of the streams that flow into
it. So the United States flsn commis
sion has taken the necessary measures
to Introduce more than a million of
sWa.l fry Into the Great Salt Lake of
1 all. As the affluents reduce th den
sity of the water to a great distance
1 mm their mouths. It la hoped tfaat the
li h will become easily accllmatad and
tout they will go op Um trlbutariaf to
JiHWII."
.Vow, sine the flab carried down by
Jordan arc aaphyxlated whan tbey
: ov senrcely reached the Dead Baa,
t'o .V eaa the flab af tke other tributary
t-n aint b aecUautad la tbia fvaaaaT
inidDMALS
Day ?
ii reckon th niulrt
should till out l
mm
motoring Is full of the possibilities of mishaps that It has
become so enormously popular, especially with women,
who are ever more ready to face death In pursuit of pleas
ure, despite the fact that they are always described as
bundles of nerves. Alpine guides declare that women are
quite as Intrepid as men when dangerous peaks are to
le climbed; and when every one 'cycled It was invariably
the girls of the party who rode the fastest, risked the
worst hills, and braved the thl ket traffic. While the pluck
of Kuglish women Is to be admired on flood and field. It Is
always Just as well to keep bcfjre them the fact that the
lives of others are sometimes placed In jeopardy by this
very intrepidity. Foolhardy expeditions, reckless driving
and rill:!:", carelessness on the river and a general disre
gard of danger signals and the advice of those who know,
t o often mean not only personal risk and accident, but
danger, and maybe death, to others. London World.
your cog. '.at "ns on
their pupils such
useful to t!;e;n In
1
them. There Is not a young man In the country who would
imitate I!eu I'raul.lin. and march through the streets
munching a loaf of bread while looking for employment,
lie dares not. Indeed, because society lias become also fin
hy, and he would be arrested as a tramp. The young
man of to-dny wants capital. Trusts and combines and
corrofstlons distress him. He cannot be president of a
bank or Judge of a court the first we k lie Is from school,
and he feels like the famous Ell I'ustJey. that he has "no
chance." Philadelphia Inquirer.
rod and while man. If the Indian can learn the way to
Iwodle he can learn the way to honest Independence. H
is a creature with sound brains and sound members. Let
him be given the fair chance to exploit his brains for him
self and be removed from the relation of Isolated and
grown-up infancy to which he Is now assigned. There
would be no talk of scandals In our Indian department
then. Minneapolis rimes.
The water bolls at 105 degrees C. (221
degrees F.), and the magnesium chlo
ride jglves It a detestable taste. Add
the chloride of sodium and calcium
and then bromld to taste, and perhaps
we "way realize that even salt water
fish cannot live In such an element
though it Is perfectly limpid.
1 A buth in Dead Sea water enables
one to realize the difference Iu den
sity between this water and that of
seas In general or that of fresh water
lakes. Efrgs float Iu It. The human
body being lighter than the water of
the Dead Sea, swimming In It, is. diffi
cult, the head alone tending; to sink Iu
the water.
At any rate. If the Mormons, or rath
er the American, who have under
taken. to Ktuck the Utah lake have been
Inspired by the example of the Dead
Sea, what a strange deltixlon truly,
Someone, doulitUs standing. ou the
bunks of the Jordan, lias naively
thought that the fishes caught In this
ryer,. though the shad is uuV'wu
there, were fishes that, had ascended
the stream from the Dead Sea. It was
but a alihpla April-fool Csh (polsson
d'Avrll) at which a scientist has bit
Oil. ' -
THE SCAT TERATION 1ST.
Hew films Settlement Becam Model
of Decentralization.
Sims settlement was beginning to
feel Itself a place of importance. The
chief road bad a fence on both sides
of it for over a mile, and a blaze on a
large tree was already ordered with
the official Inscription "Main street."
There had been talk of the possibility
of a store, and local pride broke forth
In noble eruption when a meeting was
called to petition for a postofflcc. The
wisdom, worth and wealth of the place
were represented by old Sims. Me was
a man of advanced ideas, the natural
leader of the community, and after ail
the questions had been duly discussed,
the store and pos'jortiee resolved upon
the question of who was to run them
came up. There were several aspirants,
but old 81ms led the meeting, express
ing the majority and crushing Uw
minority in a brief bat aatlafaatory
seech: -j ' - ' '
"ruat of all, bora, Tm opposed to
this jrer centerln' of ererjrtblng la oae
place. Now toaf s Jt what has bMO
which are now only obtainable iu the agricultural colleges
The rural school teacher to-day gets the same training
that Is given the city school teacher, and it Is all designed
f ir the city school teacher. The average country school
teacher knows nothing pi aetical about plant life, the cbem
!:ry of soils, and other things which the farmers of the
future ought to know. The country teacher should be
trained to teach these things and to Instill in the hearts of
the pupils a love for the things of the farm Instead of
those of the city. When this is done there will be less
anxiety on the part of the country boy and girl to rush oft
to the town or city.
It will probably take years to evolve a rural school
system along these lines, but It certainly should re done,
and how to do it is the chief problem before educator to
day. Topeka ,tate Journal
Darwjer Gives Amusement
r a vu -u oi-t-iu as 11 uo auiuseiiirui w Herein
T I ome element of danger does not enter are ever
tuuruuuiy eiijoyeu. Me t-tigusu roik may take
ur pleasures sadly In the bulk, but w hen they
are of an out door nature there Is 110 donbt
whatever that they cannot be too exciting or
too dangerous to please us. It is Just because
The louno. Men of To-Day.
UK young tin n of today are t"o finicky too
milch l-icell to set f :i Ii'l Ivs's Too fie! f-1 ti Miner.
II iiig. Their shoes und neekti'w ?-t them wore
mi li .ii .ii lojii urn me rniiie wntun'it? OI
sheir grandfathers. Hi y feci a sense of degra
dation In small beginnings anC (iloddlng, and
they watt for success ready made to come to
Make the Indian a Citieo.
nMEEICALLY the Indian is not decreasing
N and politically he grows more and more of a
I burdensome question. He threatens to be a
I ...nl:....n.,t ... t t. n . . ...... I
iimiiKiiiiui Ktunvu Ju tuvr n uuiiiuj vi wui iu
ternal development, absorbing good material
that ought lo go to our healthier advance and
turning them into abnormal relations for both
the rooln of England; that Is why Lon
don ain't never amounted to nothln'
everything at Ixindon. Ixmdon ls En
gland; England Is London. If Ixmdon
's took. England 's took, says I, an'
that hez bet-n her rooln.
"The ldie of House o' Lords an'
House o' Comlnons In (he Fame town!
It ain't fair, I tell ye; It's s hoi; trick.
Why didn't they give some little p'ace
a chance Instead o' buiidln' up a blast
In' monopoly like thai? Paine, thing
llez roiiml New York, an' I don't
propose to hev our town rooincil at the
start. -
"Xow, I say no man hex any right
to- live on the public. 'Live an' let
live,' says I; an' If we let one man run
this yer store. It's tantamount to niak
iu' the others the slaves of a monop
oly. Every niau hez ns much right as
another to sell goods, an' fhcre Is only
one fair way to do It, an' that Is give
all cbajioe; au' sence It falls to nie
to make. a suggestion. I says, let Bill
Jones thar Fell the tea; let Ike Yates
hev the sugar; Smltbers kin handle
the salt; Deacon Might seems natural
ly adapted for the vinegar; an' the oth
er claims kin be considered later. I'll
take the postofllce myself down to my
own farm. Now that's fair to all."
There was uo flaw In the logic; It
was most convincing. Those who
would fight found themselves without
a weapon, aud Scatteratlon Flat be
came a model of dcceutrallzatioS.
Work? Oh, yes, rt works. Things
get badly mixed at times, and it tastes
a man all day to buy his week's gro
ceries; but old Sims says It works.
Moral: The hen goes chick less that
scatters Its eggs. Century.
The Time fur Economy.
"See here, Edgar," said the groom's
mother, "don't you think you two had
better economize a little?"
"No, mother," replied the groom;
"It isn't time yet"
"It Isn't time yet?"
"No; we've still got mm of our
savings. In about th.e months we'll
be broke and have to economise."
Philadelphia Tress.
, A bonpet with a, Presidential bee in
It to apt to be an ex pensive piece of
millinery.
Heroic Mtnm an often misfits.
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL SOME INTERESV1NQ
ANECDOTES OF THE WAB.
How th Hoja at Both Arm lea Wailed
A it ay Life la Caaap-Forasiag El
perieacra, Tlreaotne Marcaea Tarll
Hac Scum aa the Battlctcld.
The boys were lauding their colo
uels, each man claiming that the ('ulo-w-1
of the rvgimelil In which be rcmd
was the b-t IV.lucel in the service.
Finally, a tail, lank, jrrl.leJ veteran
with a clear, keen eye aid: 'I mtvcJ
a tLe Eih'y lif.h rcnii.-ylvania luar
four years. iScueral TIruiius l
ts-rne of the Thirty iiluth ll.innis was
.1. our brigade and l.aj ln-en a line
'gli:i-u!al comma t.d-r. Itut onr wu
.1 .i.iebciirili-d Coloiiel liowcil was the
'est oiliccr that ever coiir.iiauibil a
te-'iac lit.
'I'ulnicl I'oel) was known by the
r everywhere ly Ills long while
M-iird aud by his lUstoin of rl.ling in
fr uit, im horse: ai k or on foot his
call was 'I'oiiie 011. Ikijs.' and I 1-1111
p.y 110 higher tribute to him thau to
ay that under Ids cool headed S'lper
vision we never lwt a knapsack iu
any battle. This means that the regi
ment never was 111 a panic, that the
Colonel always planned well. Colonel
llovvtll fell mortally wounded iu ttie
charge on the relicl works at Deep
Bottom, on the James ltlver. In lSiii,
where we drove Ixingstrecl's corps
back. Some of the rebel prisoners
aked after 'old white beard.' "
'That's all right," said Sergeant
Crlnishaw. 'but there were times when
the lrt .Colonel that ever lived could
not prevent nervousness o;i the part
of I. is men. For example, in Febru
ary, lsi'l. company B, Fifty second
il.lo. was on picket duty south of
Nashville, covering the ground be
tween the (Jraniiy hlte pike and th
Fratikliu pike. There had been con-
tii.ii .11s r.iiti for wveral hours, and the
1 a villi's uere full of water.
"Late l;i tic aftetnoiti some rebel
cavalry In citlei.s' ilress had tried to
get throng!) th" lines on the (iraiiny
'l.l:e pike, and failing there had
cro-s il to the Franklin pike, and fail
lag there had disapp'ared t reappear
,il ila.k en (lie ;ranny While pike.
My til k caiiif at midnight, and I was
stationed miJ'.tay between the two
d ies. About the time I went on duty
danger rockets were thrown lip iu the
1 My. As the rockets went np again
and again we associated the display
with the men supposed to Ik? rein 1 cav
alry in front and all were very alert.
"Lieutenant Judkius. In charge of
the guard, became very nervous and
went over to the reserve on the Frank
lin pike to urge greater precautions.
He started back with the relief for my
post, but lost his bearings, fell into a
creek, and. against his own orders as
Ui quietness, had to call at the top of
his voice to find where I was located.
We were all more wrought up that
rainy night with prowling enemies all
nbmit us than we ever were In battle."
"(.if course," said Dun IL Anderson,
"the umst trying duty for a soldier
was standing picket on a stormy night
with a skulking enemy in front For
aging required nerve of another sort,
but It required also readlnese and re
sourcefulness. While we were at Mo
Mluuvllle, Tenn., Joe Cahtll (I have
heard he lives in Chicago) and myself
were out foraging and came upon a
field of sweet potatoes and melons
ou a hillside some distance from the
rond. I suggested that we go over and
dig some of the potatoes on shares,
and we were soon at work.
"We luid dug about half a bushel
as line sweet iitatoes as you ever saw,
when ii rille bullet struck the ground
b-:'.ceu us. We saw where the
smoke came from, and we saw also a
L'tiiie not far away. Believing -.the
i H-invhacUer would run to the house
v, derided to get there before him. As
v, turned the corner- of the house at
.1 full run we came face to face with
iiio bus'iiwliiieker. gun In baud. Caught
ia the act. he was greatly disturbed,
u iiiie we were In great good humor.
As he had had the privilege of shoot
ing nt ns, we took the privilege of
: oiihsi ating certain things fouud In
and about liLs house, .
' e look half a bushel of onions,
itv.i o.iuLs, some butter In a crock (It
would have beru better for us to have
bad it In a bottle), half a dozen young
chickens, and, loading up the old man
with his own goods, started for camp.
About half way to camp the bush
whacker threw his white man's bur
den on the ground and bolted. As Joe
was carrying the gun, with half a
dozen chickens, strung on It, over bis
shoulder, I dropped my load and gave
CllllM".
"I caught biti), brought blm back to
the burden, persuaded hlra to take It
up, and we reached camp without any
further trouble. There we turned the
bushwhacker over to General Nelson,
who, well pleased at the capture, ask
ed 110 questions as to why we were
outside the lines.
"But spesklng of alertness on picket,
there wss a case of non-alertness In
that McMInnville campaign tbat took
the cake. General Nelson , was In
command, and, as Bragg was making
feints all along the line preparatory
to Ids graud flanking movement, the
orders for outposts were very strict
A detachment from the Thirty-fifth In
diana was on outpost duty on one of
the main roads leading south from Mc
MInnville. Scouting along this road.
1 came upon a soldier sitting upon
some rails cleaning his musket
had taken his gun apart bud tlat
pieces west scattered about hlo
"lie was very much In eaiuoat and
was doing a thorough job. I thought
It was a queer place to eteaft ft gun
and asked blm how far it wee to tbe
picket Uie. He said: 'It ls here. I
am an outpost' Just aa a ejaculated
the devil you are.' wbo should come
dashing up but General Nelson aud
staff aud the field officer of the day.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank P. Cablll of
the First Kentucky. I was asked some
leading questions by CabiU, and was
asked also bow far It was to the out
pot. I pointed to the man sitting on
the rails, who, proud of distinguished
company, was working ostentatiously
put:i:.g bis gun together.
"General Nelson urged his horse
neiirvr to the outpost and asked, 'Do
you know who 1 sui'f The absorbed
::m cleaner -aid he did not. and Nel
ls m thundered, 'l am General Nelson,
sir." The soldier said. 'I didn't know
that. General, and If you will wait un
til 1 put iny gun together I will come
to a sort of a salute.' Then came the
storm. Nelson raged and swore and,
ordering one of his Ixidyguard to tie
the cureless guard with his own gun
strap. s:iid: "Von will cause the death
f more good uieu by your cursed stu
pidity than jour mi k Is worth,' aud
the General rode away In his wrath,
the very personification of the war
spirit." Chicago Inter Ocean.
I in nr. intcrmtins Letter.
An oil letter written In New York
by a little girl of twelve on April 30,
IMil, to her fallnr, who was a high
olllclal in Washington, malls a atlr
ring Incident of the civil war.
"We went to Brooklyn to bear Hen
ry Ward Beeeher preach to the volun
teeia," the wrote. "It was dreadfully
exciting! We first all sang a byma.
Kveryone shouted as loud as ths-y
c .uld soldiers and h'L So you way
think we made a pretty big uolne. I
will write the first verse:
We ore living, we are dwelling,
lu a grand and useful time,
In au nge, of ages telling
To be livflig Is sublime!
Hark, the wnking of nations,
Gog and Magog t the fray,
Hark, wliut sonielelh, is 1 rralioa
Groaning for its latter day?
"There were wine more versus Just
as wild. I sang Just as loud as I
conl 1. und did 11 il m.nd. bee ui!o e(Ty
onc was doing the same thing. It was
giund. Afterward Mr. Beeeher prayed
for the country, and then we all sang
'My Country. "lis of Thee.' Then
came the t-cTiiton. It was sphudldly
eioipient. He spoke of Virginia first
1 wish I could describe it well.
'And Virginia.' he said, 'our proudest
Slat? of Uie I'nlou. the first plantisl In
the wilderness, out of which more
great men have come than any other.
Is now letting hewlf be dragged
along at South Carolina's tail South
Caroliua. the only State who gave up
to the Britith In the war of the rero
lution, aud announced hctailf a subject
of the King.'
"Then he went ou about our flag
and what It symbolizes. How whatever
pot It waves over is America the
world over, and under It an American
was always safe, and how we ought to
love, honor and fight for It 'And now,'
be said, 'fellow countrymen and sol
diers, this Aug of ours must go to
Washington not by the mean aud cir
cuitous route that has been adopted for
the lust week, but boldly and openly
straight through Baltimore that Is the
only straight way to Washington and
you must take It'
"I'eople did not cheer, because they
were In a church, but there was a sort
of rmr of asNcnt that meant Jjj aa
much. I wish I could give you a good
Idea of It all, but I can't After the
sermon was over Mr. Beeeher came for
ward. 'I took up a collection this
morning,' he said, 'for the soldiers of
Brooklyn It was $'J,00i. I want to
make it $3,000 to-night' When the
plates were brought back to blm the
cldirs counted the money while we
sang a hymn.
" 'There is $2.1 short of $.1,000,' sn
rouncwl Mr. Beeeher. 'I will give It'
mid a rich-looking geutleiiiau up In
f 1 out. Then Mr. Beeeher pronounced
tho bctuslietlon, and the congregation
was Just moving out when the organ
began playing 'The Star Spangled
Banner,' and then everyone stood still
and etftig it all through. I never heard
bo many people sing together before,
und It wss grand. There is a park op
IHis!e Uk hotel, and the noldiirs are
drilling there from morning until
night. I wonder how we can get
home? I wish we could march through
Baltimore!"
Th Government Pauper.
It's glory and fame that follow
A lighting soldier's name, -But
you can't fill up on glory,
Aud you ciiu't exist on fame.
And 1 may he peculiar,
But I've said it oft before,
That the man who risks his life for us
Should have a darn sight mots
Than thirteen dollars a month.
t
And maybe you don't remember,
Or memory fulls fo suit,
How, when the draft was on, you went
And furnished a substitute.
You home s-muking money,
And safe from bullets or swords,
He at the front with an offer
Of thirteen dollars a month.
Yon call him a government pauper,
With grunts, srid grumbles and frets;
And kick awsy like uu old bsy str,
At life pension that he gets.
Right here 1 wsiit to fell you,
And keep It under your lint,
You ought to get six months iu jail
And twice a yosr at that
Without thirteen dollars a month.
And you ought to live ou hard tack,
tz.t also get on elegant fill
Of that wster the poor old fellow got
V,"M;i down la Andcrsonvillo.
Then maybe when your yenr was Dp,
The lesson you ere taught
Ifsy show why we pensiou those'
Old vetersin who fought
For thirteen dollars s month.
Heaaepla (III ) Record,
PANAMA AMU MOtQUITOE&
Orsal laaaorlaac of Bae AcUaa
laasnl Kaaitaliaav
Now that It la practically decided
that a canal, to divided the continents
of North and South America, will m
built. It way not be out of place ts
consider the piobabi effects of tbia
undertaking from a sanitary point of
view. Iu the first Instance, it would
seem certain that the building of as
Isthmian canal will be attended by
great kiss of life, unless measures are
eiiforird to render the conditions la
the regions through which the water
way must pass less inimical to health
limn la ll.ii cuse ut nrcselit The dis
trict bordering on the proposed Fa
iiuiu route is, perhaps, one of the
most notoriously unhealthy In the
world. This fact wus conclusively
proved by the mortality and slckneaa
among the lulsmrs on the portion of
he l'atuma Canal built by tho Lta
rp company. White men were un
able to lHe for any leugth of time 1st
the locality, and the mortality smoug
he Chinese, and to a lesser extent
imoiig the negroes, was frightful.
Sir I'litrick Manson, In a paper read
liefore the Epidemiological Society of
Jreat Britain, foreshadowed the poa--iblc
danger of Invasion by yellow fe
ccr of Asia as the consequence of th
Urging of tin I '11 mi 111a Canal. Urn
ointed out that shiploads of laborer
iiouid mkiii Is- plying between I'anauia
and the seaports of Aslu, and that Un
css extraordinary precautions wore
taken the Inevitable result must be
hut fhe malady would lie conveyed
Mid spread uuioug the seething mtllti
. Lilies of the far east Iu the Journal
if Tropical Medicine, Dr. St George
;ray. Sierra Leone, returns to tbia
. lbjii't mid discusses the sanitary
1 asm-en necessary to prevent the In
'loilu.lion of yellow fever Into Asia
from 1'anaiua. He is of tho opinion
tii.'t these may be divided into (a
, ensures to be adopted at the point
f departure, I. c, at the Central
.0111 ii an port. ;.inl do measures lo
!e 1 lopteij ut the pmt of arrival
he Asiatic port.
Tiie w liter takes it as absolutely
i.nf.i that mos.Mioes are the mm
1 (,f j. -liow fever, and Supgrs.'s
:.'it an iiU'-i iia'con i sanitary board
le-iial be aipoiriNil by the govern
vuls having Inlents in the far fast,
; ml that th'-.v shouid In- especially
1 ,..: Ii I'm-iI for the v, .,tk. They should
I Mi' powers to frame such qiiarantiin
r other regulations as may be d-ein-'
!! ; ry aud to enforce t)it reg-
laliotis ly 11. cans of penalties, whUh
I 0.1UI be siii'iicieiitly heavy lo insure
I civ I cing carried out by the most
nielcss and Indifferent of cuptalus.
he sanitary board should make sure
h"t 110 vessels wlilch have not bna
lioroughiy cleared of tnosqultoe leave
he Isthmus for any Asiatic port. Tbs
('mil clearing of mosquitoes should
fike place at an anchorage to Jbt se
I'-t-fed for the purpose, at least 30
yards away from the nearest shore,
nnd once the fumigation is completed
re vessel should not upproucb the
shore iigiiln, but passengers, mulls use1
nrgo from open lighters could be re
vlvcd nlMiiird Medical Hecord.
BELL AND DRAGON ' "
ml III rh llrll Im Sn llffon AAmmA
am a Hun iti i'Oiiffon.
The Lnglish are a music-loving aa
'.'0 , aud they love to heur music evea
.vhen going about their duily occupe
lotis, and so It Is that the spires and
owers of her mighty cathedrals are
mug full of glorious Isdls. So fond of
.le.l-rlnglng Is "Merrle Kngland" that
Haiu'el once said the bell Is her na-"
iot al Instrument. ' It Is not strange.
III. Core, that we find this lustra
:u. nl frequently adopted ns a publle
uu. From early lu the seveutcenf t
,'iriiry Bell Inns were numerous is
, iii'on. In KiilghtrldiT street there
cm :mi old inn the walls of which
iv re reiaccii wnh n giant bell carvtl
.!i Isi'd relief; Ihe keystone had Mil
(Atials -M. T. A.." ami the date Witi.
I his t ii" speci.iicii is now In Guud
1 .al' But a liiiiV tcp away, In CH.'ler
Leu-, there was another Bell Ins,
(inch bus the pioud ilistimUoii of be-
11. uie nosicu.v 1 nun which iticlinre
,'cyii y w rote,' iti 1 .,!, to bis "ioviiirf"
e:ni u.eiin anil countryman, Mr.
V.'iilm Mnii,ispi.,-,re." the only li!ltui
jiidi esM il to h. Bard-of Avon now
ctiown to exist The letter Is pre-
f i veil in Strmford, the home of tli
orlil s grent,t poet. Not fur away,
.(.tilii, there Is a modern Bell Tuveru,
l place where It Is said that Dickens"
loved to o when milking notes foi
"Dim Id Coppei field."
One of ihe most nnelelit jtmt mnnti '
Me wholewile druggists In the city,
w hile rebuilding on bis old site, dug
out of the foundations of the anci'ni
muse an old sign of "The Bell and
Drr.gon." It hud lain there for uiqre
than two hundred years, having beea,.
used ou a prior building before the
jisiisiers or me tirent inre, and bad
fallen through Into the general 'ruins.'1
"Im peculiarity of the situation Is that f
'tie firm had adopted "The Bell and
' Vagon" as their trade' mark bef or
III,, ,Hm11W.. 1,M ,1M' ,n....t Jk 11.
wi mi 111 tr-iuiieuru relic
1 bis splendid old stone lnlitf is
s!ously preserved, snd occupies .
-o ninciit place In the entrance of I be
i.o born branch of tho firm. L Nick-
oil's. '... v , . . '
I 'rim Mtsa From ihn Hack Day.
M'ss Wabash Ijist Katafday wa
our birthday, wasn't It r
Miss Boston i'repostarooa! nW
can -ou be so silly?
Miss Wabash What's the auittsj
with that?
Miss Boston taut Saturday waatlM
anniversary of my .';lrth. I'm Bat a
Infant Fhlhidelphls 1'ress,
A small boy's Idea af a r
tor
ymUlu wlUk tba oork aoi,
a