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THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE , FRIDAY , AUGUST 18 , 1905. RECLAIMING OLD TOPERS. Curing Drunkenness Without the Po- tient's Knowledge Has Been Proven a Success. Can Inebriety be cured by sug gestion ? uske Public Opinion. This is si question which has been asked many times and satisfac torily answered in the affirmative. But the question of. practicing suggestion while the patient sleeps is a different proposition , and , therefore , a recent article in the Journal des Debats of Paris is of interest. The experiments in question were conducted by the well-known psychologist , Dr. Paul Farez. "The man under observa tion refused all offers of treat ment , but notwithstanding his re fusal , against his will and un known to him , the man was cured and has remained so for four years. The patient was 2fi years of age , married , of sound consti tution and average health. H < commenced drinking when he was 17 years of age , and his wife had married him in order to reform him. After his marriage , how ever , he drank as before. His daily ration was two quarts of wine with his meals , and during the day several glasses of brandy , rum , vermouth , absinthe , etc. Ordi narily the man was quiet , but when he had taken more absinthe than usual he became violent , abused his wife , broke everything within reach , tand surrendered completely to his frenzy. The day following this delirium the man remembered nothing , but when told of what he had done he wept , promised to become sober , etc. The scenes , however , were soon re- l > eatcd. "Dr. Farez decided to try , with the approval of the family of the patient , suggestion during nat ural sleep. The treatment took place four or five times per week , and , although the patient did not know what was going on , there was slow and steady improve ment. The treatment commenced in January. Up to April the man had been intoxicated only three times. In April and May there were no acts of violence ; in June * and July slight intoxications on two occasions ; in August and Sep tember a trip to the country , but no wine during this time , only beer. Returning to Paris , the man did not go to a cafe , but drank a little absinthe and less than : i quart of absinthe for all of his meals. After a year the only V. thing taken was a little absinthe on Sunday and Saturday , and * from this time the patient has not touched wine and has only taken a little absinthe once or twice o month and at home. He is no longer irritable , but happy and a regular worker. The treatment had to be continued for 18 months , but the1 result is complete and the patent entirely transformed. He has gained control of his will and is gentle and affectionate. " ST. PETERSBURG IS GAY. With or Without War Enjoyment Goes on in the Russian Cap ital's Society. War or no war , the aristocratic Russian pursues his pleasures with an abandonment that speaks of unlimited resources or unlimit ed recklessness. The pleasures ol the table are protracted to an in ordinate degree. A lunch , in which the courses are plentifully watered with champagne , wil Kjireatl itself through the after noon. You may barely escape al five o'clock , though you began tc cat at one. The host never sitf down , plying his guest with a sue cession of good things , liquid am solid. Even the afternoon tea ii middlc-clasc circles is a very for midablc undertaking. It include ! dishes of various sorts , in whicl meat will certainly figure , am Russian tea , served in a glass witl lemon , is but the pale comparisoi to sparkling champagne. The ap pearance of the streets tells o wealth , too. No liner equipage : exist anywhere- than those whicli horsed with coal-black steeds dash at full speed , in lofty disre gard for the mere foot passengei down the central strip of wooi pavement in the principal "pro * pects , " as the wider streets artde nominated. Holding the reins i bis'two hands , with arms oui saretched , the driver , medieval i dress , has the summary method of a Roman charioteer. Indeei there is something of imperil ! Rome in the second capital of th czar. ODD RECORDS TO THE FORE When One Cannot Be Famous Through Natural Sources , There Are Many Other Channels. Those who fail to gain distinc tion through other means seem to seek oddity of performance , and every little while there apiHMirs a challenge from some "champion egg eater" or other freak. The 40-quail-in-40-dayH perform ance has been outdone by a man who recently ate a whole goose each day for 80 days , the fowls weighing from six to eleven pounds. Other records in this line are ( ! 0 soft boiled eggs daily for six days , six quarts of beans in 40 minutes , smoking GO cigars in 11 hours without once taking a drink. A Paris couple recently waltzed without cessation for six and three-quarter hour8v/while an English hctor danced all the way from London to Norwich. The best club swinging record has been standing for 17 years , when 3S ( ! different combinations were shown in sixteen minutes and a quarter , 2,311 revolutions being required. ' , A score of (5,434 ( points was the result of a 24-hour endurance billiard match in Paris , the con testants covering 30 miles in walk ing around the table , and a violin ist has played a combination of 4.800 notes in four and a quarter minutes , averaging 10 notes a 1 second. Reciting Dante's "Divine Com edy" from memory in 20 hours is another queer record , while oth ers have gained fame through making 2,000 ham sandwiched in 111 hours and 40 minutes , dressing ten sheep in 83 minutes , 200 chick ens in 44 minutes and killing and drj- picking 103 geese in ten hours. DURING AN OCEAN CALM. Ship Rolls and Tosses , But Sails Can not Get Enough Wind to Carry the Vessel. All the afternoon the brig rolled on the long swells , which hourly grew heavier , says Century. They leaped against the horizon , swung onward beneath the keel , and swept past with the unrelenting persistency that seemed the em bodiment of persistent hate. A gale can be combated , but , in the grasp of a calm , man is helpless. Every part pf the vessel cried our in protest. The canvas slatted and flapped like the wings of a huge bird vainly trying to rise from the waves ; every block rat tled and croaked ; the main boom , ! hauled chock aft , snatched at its sheets with a viciousness that threatened to 'part them at every , roll and made their huge blocks . crash ; from the pantry below came the constant rattle of crock cry ; and the blue sea , dipped up through the scuppers , swashed I back and forth against the main deck. By eight bells everj stitch of canvas had been furlet or clued up to save it , and the brij lay rolling in the dark hollows like a drunken sailor reeling home. SLAV'S RULER A BUSY MAN Even in Time of Peace Czar Has Mori to Do Than Any Other Man in the World. ll There is nowadays not a greai deal of gayety at the Russiai court , says Century. The emper or is a very busy man ; he probabl ; has more to do , even in time o peace , than any other man in thi world. Combine the rcfiponsibil ity of the president , the cabinet : congress , the governors of states ; state legislatures , and mayors o the principal cities in this country and you will begin to form an idei of the load on the shoulders o Nicholas II. There is no finalit , below him , except us he permit it ; and the mass of details tha actually reaches him is astonisl ing. If President Roosevelt ha * to grant permits to operate mill in Texas , erect buildings in Ne\ York , or form mining companie in California , before any such oj . erations could be begun , even hi giant energy would be taxed. Ye incredible as it may seem , the en peror of Russia examines int myriads of similar minutiae , hi [ sides attending to the great a fairs of state. Simply Crazy. "Happy , though married tw days , " was one of the many label attached by practical jokers t the luggage of a newly marrie couple who left an English rai way station the other day on the way to Canada. HE SOWED THE HOLY SEED Bible Used BE Wrapping Paper Proves Interesting and Many Calls Are Made for Itt In Armenia the distribution of the Bible by missionaries is espe cially dinicult. Yet the book is eagerly read by the natives when it. falls into their hands , as may gathered from this story , told by one of the Bible men , says Everybody's Magazine. A copy of the Bible was given to a patient in the American hospital , and by him carried to his home in a vil lage. Here an Armenian priest took it from the man , and , having torn it to pieces , threw it into the street. A grocer picked it up anil took it to his shop , wheie he began to use it as wrapping paper. So for a time olives , cheese , candles and other things sent for.th from that store were wrapped in pagei > upon which were printed the "Words of Life. " In this way the Bible was scat tered about through the village , and was read by many whose in terest was HO far aroused that they began asking for more of the same book. The result was that when the colporteur came round over 100 Bibles or portions of the Bible were sold in that village. North and south , east and west , the Bible society HOWS ; and that no ground is too barren for its need surely the following incident proves : A Cree Indian and lire son , fishing in the northwest some years ago during , the winter sea son , traveled on snow tdiocH across the plains , thinking that they carried what they called the "Book of Heaven" in their pack When they reached a hunting ground. 140 miles distant from tin fishery , they found that the book had been left behind. One of them went back on his tracks and walked 280 miles through the wild country to regain the Bible HELD TO CLASSICAL MUSIC Thomas , Famous Leader , Began at the Top in Hie Education and Always Stayed There. The accepted way of teaching people to understand music is to begin at the bottom , says Charles E. Russell , in Reader Magazine. Play simple airs to-day , and per haps to-morrow , or next year , or some other time , you can play something a little better.ou must lead the people by slow de grees and as if by the hand from fathomless depths of ignorance. The first thing Mr. Thomas did was to trample upon this senile' sophistication. He would have none of it. He was a musical democrat - . ocrat ; I think he had a feeling . that the theory of beginning at , the bottom was the rotten fruit age of the idea that some men are , specially gifted to feel and to un . derstand , and the rest , pooi I things , are inferior , and the gifted , truly must be very patient with [ them and show them the way to the simplest apprehension. Few men have had a better under- I standing of their fellows , and he probably knew well enough that the difference between mind and I mind is usually infinitesimal. He tolerated none of this "beginninp t at the bottom. " He began at the i top. With the highest and mosl complicated forms of music he f started upon his career , and f through years on years of good ? and evil fortune , through trial and failure , bound IOKB trouble and , incessant toil , through intelligent , praise and fierce storms of denun f ciation , he never for an instan , lowered his standard nor aban it doned his faith. Industrial Accidents in France. There were killed or injured ii industrial accident H in France ii the four and one-half years , fron ' ' July 1 , 1890 , to December 81 , 1908 Males under 1(5 ( years of age , 1,282 st males over 1C years of age , 41,094 A' females under ' 1C years of age , 288 s females ove'r 1(5 ( years of age ' 's 1.BIO ; total , 44,1(58. The death l .fc included in the foregoing nun > bered (5,002. ( i- . io o Colombian Gold. According to a Spanish ej f- change the republic of Colomhu in South America , since the time of the conquerors has produce $1 80,000,000 worth of gold. Is Good Fellow , Poor Fellow. o There is no way of estimatin id how much of life's trouble come il- through the desire to be thougli ir generous. Philadelphia Bulli tin. BLACK DEATH , RATS , FLEAS It Is Believed That Germs on Rodcnta Are Accountable for Ter rible Plague. The origin and nature of the black death , which devastated Eu rope during the middle ages , has never been clear , na\s Collier's. It seems certain that the infection was brought by the ships of cer tain tradersescaping from the Cri mea , where they had been at tacked by the Tartars at a town on the River Don. During the at tack the Tartars were stricken with violent plague , which caused great IOHH of life among them. In the hope of giving tile curse to the people of the besieged town , they thivw bodies of their dead into the town. Their hopes were ful filled , and the defenders were also attacked by the plague. These traders took to their ships and oailed to various European ports , Constantinople , Venice and Genoa , leaving the black death everywhere behind them. Thin black death had certain striking features in common with the Horn- bay plague of India. A careful search of the records of Indian history has shown that there had been an outbreak of plague in In dia just previous to the time of the Tartar siege and the introduc tion of the black death into Eu rope. These Tartars might very easily have taken the disease from the people of India. If that IK the true Htory of ( he train of events , then the black death of the middle ages was the modern plague , u dis ease which we know to be caused by a certain specific bacillus. Efforts have been made to learn the means by which this dis ease is carried , and what causes lead to an outbreak. Certain facts bearing on these points have lately come to light and may lead to a correct knowledge of the means of plague tnuiNiiiinHion. Rats have the disease and rat tleas have been examined and fouiid to contain quantities of the plague bacilli. Ordinarily the rat fieas are not found on man. During ep idemics of plague , however , these rat fieas are found in notable quantities on human beings , and there is no evident reason why they may not inoculate man by thcHr bites. Doubtless these things have something to do with the spread of the plague , although enough is not yet known to allow the whole chain of events to be made out. HISTORY IS A NEW STUDY. Recognition by Universities of Im portance of America's Story of Recent Date. It seems incredible to stu dents of the present day that within the last three decades only has American history been con sidered of enough importance to be given a place in the study courses of our large universities. Henhy Cabot Lodge , in the Reader Magazine , Hays : "A little more than 30 years ago u boy could enter Harvard college and after four years graduate with the highest honors without knowing af the existence of the Declaration of Independence or when the conntitution of the Unit ed States was framed. What was true of Harvard was true of other universities and colleges. Amer ican history was not included in the scheme of the higher educa tion. B.O.VH entering college were required to know something of the history of Greece and Rome , but not of their own country. Dur ing the four years of the college course they had an opportunity tti study the history of England and Europe , but never to learn aughj of the United States. Thin con dition of education was merely an indication of an attitude of mini ! then passing away , but which had once been predominant. The usu al opinion seems to have been dur ing the first httlf of the nineteenth century that there wamioAnicri can history worth telling , aparl from the adventures of the earli est settlements and the events ol the revolution , which were botl connected so closely with the his tory of Europe that they mighi be deemed of importance. " The Bicycle in Germany. The bicycle still holds its owi abroad , as is shown by the fac that the exports of bicycles a IK parts of bicycles from German ; during the years 1902 , 1908 ani 1901 were valued at ? 8,427,20 ( ] § 4,410,000 , and § 4,795,700 respec lively. QUEER WAYS OF AN ESKIMO Northerner Lacks Imagination , Hut Ills Powers of Observation Are Exceedingly Acute. Prof. Myllus ICriknen , writ Ing of the heathen Eskimo In northern Greenland , says : "He lacks im agination , but hiH powers of ob' nervation are very acute. In spite of the fact that hit * life is an unin terrupted struggle for existence , the Grecnlunder IH always In a good humor , and IIH ! boisterous laugh can be heard Hounding far over ice and snow fields. His way of telling stories in short and ab rupt , but comical features are strongly emphasized. His storicn consist generally of his own ad ventureH , old legends about fights with neighbors and wild animals , about severe winters and great famine * * , about the creation of the world and about Hiiitcrnatural be ings. It IH considered highly cred itable to be able to tell stories HO long that' ' the audience IB lulled to sleep. An orator who achieves this feat ! H solemnly welcomed on the next morning , and every one thanks him profusely for the pleasure which lie accorded the night before. "Ideas of beauty are peculiarly developed in the heathen Es kiino. He regards beauty sole ly from the standpoint of utility. For instance , a rock projecting out of water only appears beau tiful to him when it is visited in summer by water birds which breed there. A foaming torrent is only beautiful if it contain ? many mihiion. Clothes are not put together with any idea of reg ularity of color , only their prat1 tical utility being considered Hutu are made of snow and stones , with domed tops , but with out any architectural design. "Only the spirit conjurers ( an gakoks ) occupy an exalted poni tion , being regarded as priest * and doctors. Their tank is to e tablish a connection between tin visible world and the hidden spir its , and in this way they obtain n certain influence over their neigh borH. The angakok asks his spirit for advice , and then informs the invalid that his illness has been sent by the spirits an punishment for certain deeds. " HUMAN POWER VITAL. Physique Za a Matter of Great Impor tance in the Russo-Japan- ese Conflict. The physical endurance of tlu Japanese soldier in the present wonderful campaign InManchurin impresses "American Medicine' as the one great revelation that has come out of the orient. There have been no authentic reports upon which we can base CH ( ! mates as to his immunity froir disease or the protection from in feet ion , HO that it is entirely toe noon to form any opinion as to th < organization and work of t honied icnl department of the army. Wr do not know definitely , indeed whether it is true that the .Tap unese have escaped iliseawcK it markedly greater proportion than the Russians or than othei soldiers in similar campaigns and if they have HO cscajM'd whether it is due to racial im inanity or watchful care of then officers. Of thiH much we are cer tain the man carrying the gui on his Hhoulder has accomplishce feats of physical endurance whicl were not thought possible hi physiologists. The RiiBHiaiiH could not efifi mate where the Japanese woul < be , and were , therefore , conmant ly surprised by tremendou forces at places 20 to fiO milen be yond the point where good strut egy should have placed them When Napoleon began to defea the well tried generalH of Europ they complained that he was a ! wayH far in advance of where h should have been by the rules , liu it wan all due to bin better knowl edge of how to get work from hi soldiers. In the orient there is i new art of war depending upon : new style of physique of a rat : which has never before been pu to this work. Repeatedly the Riu Hiaiis have reported the Japanes to be so exhausted that the , could not pursue , yet the pursui kept up with no change of vigor. Very Clever. ' Ye can't tell O'Grady me th toime whin the O'Gradys was nc gintleiiien. O'Flynn Sure , me bhoy , Oi ki do thot ; some o' thini was ludiei Tit-Hits. TIPS BEING RECOGNIZED. \ The Government Allows Certain Amounts for the Purpose in Itn Schedule. The government pf the United States IIUH jtwt recognized offi cially the hopeleHHiiesH of the struggle agalitHl the tip. The secretary - ( rotary of the navy has promulgated - gated recently ! IH ! order for reg ulating the expenses of naval of- ficei-H , for the purpose of curbing extravagance. The order placcn certain limits on the cost of traiiHportation , Pullman earn und the like , and continues ! "Hotel bills of cominiHsioned of ficers not to exceed f 5 a day. "Single mealH , fl each ; tip , 10 ccntH. "TipH tin trainC 0 cents a day. "Tips will not be allowed on parlor cars except on journey of five hours or longer. "TipH ait hoteln KO cents a day , but not to exceed ? 2 a week at one hotel. " An elaborate and particular ized Hcale of tips IB framed for ocean travel and travel in foreign lands. Recognizing the greater rapacity of the ftn'cign ' hotel para site and the perfection to which the Hystem ban been reduced , the commissioned naval officer is per mitted to expend $3.50 a week on tipH in foreign hotcln , $1.50 a day on an ocean nteamer during six days or less , and $1 a day for a 15- day trip or longer. We fear that the tip has come to stay. In old and thickly settled countries the tip abounds if there are rich people in the land. Where chickens inhabit the open fields in numbers , look for the chicken hawk ; where the deer abound , there do the wolves congregate ; where the people have money to upend on luxuricn and want to be waited on before other people and to gel better service , some money will stick to the waiter's palm. DECISIVE VICTORY FOR JAY Farmer Beats Lord Who Considered Himself the Boat Wrestler in the Community. i There was a certain lord who considered himself the best" wrestler in England. He wrestled everyone of any reputation , and in these boutH he always won , for he was , truly , nn admirable wrestler. Well , one day , after he hail con sidered himself miprerne for three years , he heard of a fanner at Hacklebrow who could best him. Everyone said that this farmer could best him that he would stand no chance at all with th" huge muscular fellow that it would be wise for him to leave the farmer alone. But the young lord , jealous of bin wrcHtling reputation , threw himself on IUH horse , and in an hour was knocking and hallooing at the farmer's gate. The farmer waH plowing in a field. The lord rode up to him , dis mounted and Heized him in a good grip. "I'll show you how to wrestle , " he Haiti , But the farmer , with the great est ease , took the young man up in his arniH and threw him over the high fence. T'lieifYh'iH wonderful agriculturist rOHiuned his work. After plowing in silence a little while , he called mildly to the young man , who Hat , not yet quite himself , on the gratm by the road- vide. "Well , sir , in there anything I can do for you ? " "Nothing , " Haiti the young man. "unless you'll be good enough to throw me my hoi-He. " Largest Newspaper Office. "Which iH the largest newspa per office in the world ? " asks the Printer's Engineer. America naturally claims that the New York Times building , with its 31 stories and an area of 116,349 square feet , holds the record. This , however , J8 no longer the case. The magnificent edifice re cently built for the production of the Scotsman ( Edinburgh ) puts the former building completely in the shade , for although it can only boast 13 stories , yet it pos sesses an area of 201,787 square feet. This building is more than twice the HI'ZC of that of the New York Times. Counterfeits of Truth. Truth is precious ; too precious for rash distribution. There are a number of things that look just 8 | like it and are much less expen sive. N. Y. Times.