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7‘???" . v «ma .. HEALTH. HEADACHE. Bead pain is common in all disoer conditions of the system. It may occur inthe progress of almost all acute chro- nic diseases. at some time in their course. or it may precede them. The pain may be external or internal. and 5 due to a variety of influences that iffect either the scalp or the contents )1 the cranium. The determination of the particular tissues involved is extremely difficult; especially because the sufferer is unable to locate definitely the pain. _ Headache is rarely regarded as a dis- tinct disorder, but is considered rather as a symptom or accompaniment of some other disturbance in the system. Variations in the circulation. with the resultant modifications of the blood- pressure, the presence the blood of poisonous matters. irritations trans- mitteg to tie brag: {gain more or less remo par 0 t y, or abnormal or diseased conditions of the digestive argansâ€"all these enter into the pro- luction of this most common form of imtress. _'I‘hese causes. acting singly or collec- tively. associated With an oversensitive condition of the neryes of the brain. and the membranes which envelop it, cause the pain. By far the most common form of headache b that due to a. disordered condition of the organs of digestion. Such headaches are the results of indiâ€" gestion and constipation, as well as of overtindulgence in eating or drinkin . A disordered stomach or a sluggis condition of the bowels, combined with overwork and too little exercise in the apen airpare frequent causes of head- icheun persons who pursue sedentary ind indoor occupations. . Ihe remedy for this kind of headache is the exercise of regularity and moderâ€" ation in eating; with an avoidance of loodwhich is innutritious and difficult of digestion. and attention to the regu- larity of the bowels. The last point is of especial importance. 0_ne variety of headache, the cause of which is sometimes overlooked, results irom eye-strain. The provision of pro- per_ glasses, and treatment calculated to improve the tone of the muscles of the eyes, have been followed by prompt relief in numberle instances. POVERTY AND ILL ~HEALTH. Ill health and sickness are more comâ€" mon among the very poor than am- ong the well-to-do. This is partly the effect of inheritance, and partly a re- sult of the unsanitary surroundings in which the poor are compelled- to exist. It is an unpleasant fact to contem- plate that some of the poor whom we call "lazy good-forâ€"nothings" are real- ly persons of weak vitality, with con- stitutions predisposed before their birth to feebleness and disease. Such persons are poorly fitted to compete in the "struggle for existence." whether for themselves or for their families. Shiftlessness is often the result of a weak will, begotten of a weak bodily constitution. A young man. physical- ly weak. walks many miles, perhaps in search of employment. A situation is obtained and arrangements are made for work to begin the following morn- ing. 0n arriving home a degree of ex- haustion supervenes, which leads the young man to believe that he is physi- cally unable to undertake the work; and the following day he a pears before the doctor, instead of beore his em- ployvr- - Such a youth never keeps a position for more than a. few consecutive weeks. Conststency of purpose never, by inheri- once. or acquisition. becomes a part of his character. Physical weakness thus has lts share in begetting moral ’WeakIJESB. ’l‘hat ill health is not an insuperablo bar to success has been demonstrated by the lives of some of the greatest: men. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. as he himself testified, was never rugged; yet he rose to eminence. both in his sci- ence and in his art. One of the stud- ies in which he attained distinguished lich was that of temperate and regu- lar care of himself. Unhealthful surroundings, poor food, had air. and lack of cleanliness harbor disease. and are themselves the cause of disease. Infancy and childhood suffer most from such unsanitary conditions. According to the common saying pov- erty "breeds disease " That it always does so. or that it must do so. does not of necessity follow. Cleanliness. good air and wholesome food are p0551b18. even iunid poverty. As a mittcr of fact. however. they are rarely found there. _ The important thing is to instruct the oung In the miporlauce of personal ygiene. and .to enforce the laws re- lating to public. health. HO\V T0 DRINK MILK. It is well known that milk curdlcs im- mediately on reaching the stomach. The most common reason why milk (1063 not agree with people is that they swal- low it too quickly. If a glam of it is drunk hastily. it forms one solid curdled mass very difficult of digestion. If the same uantitf is slowly sipped. and well chew . it wi l be so thorou 'hly divided. that. when it is coagulate . instead of being in one hard imiss. upon the out- side of which alone the digestive juices can act. it is more in the form of a sponge. and exposes a much larger eur- 1390 to the action of the gastric 'uice. hlilk may also be rendered more igesâ€" tible. an to many persons more pals- table. if is first curdled by 'slowly addings few drops of dilute hvdroch- olric gold to it. drop by drop. while stir- ring it well at the same time. Water should also be always sipped slowly and thoroughly “chewed up” before swal» lowing. may AS A MEDICINE. lmn Is a food element alsolutely es- sential to the proper constitution of the body. It is as rigidly demanded by the plant. as by the animal, and it he from plants that we should chiefly ro- celve our trim supply. Spinach contains morefrmthantheyolkofew.and the yolks have more than beef. Then succeed apples. lentils, strawberries, white beans. pew. potatoes and wheat, these substances being given in the or- der in which they stand as regards the plentifulnem of their iron constitu- ents. Cow's milk is poor in iron. but the blood of the youthful quarduped contains much more iron than the ad- ult. Thus. in a young rabbit or guin- ea pig one hour old. four times _es much iron was found than occurs in these. animals two and a half months old. HAVE Tcâ€"HANGE. With the advent of warm weather many people feel that a “spring medi- cine" is an absolute necemity. As a mile. it Is not always the medicine that the system requires but a. change in the diet. The heavy. solid winter foods should be given up for something more easily digested, such as salads. eggs. fish (if it can be procured) and fresh vegetables in season. Any and all of these are fully as nourishing as meals. )1 they are properly cooked. The sys- tem is in need of minerals and acids in the spring. which fresh vegetables and fruits contain, and if used in abun- dance will no douht prove as valuable and even more so than patent medicines. \VHITE \VOMEN IN UGANDA. Oct. 4 last was a great day at Mango. the capital of Uganda, for on that day the first white women to enter the country set foot. in the capital. They were two English missionaries, who had made the long journey from the Indian Ocean to the northern shore of Victoria. Nyimza under the escort of Bishop Tucker of the Church Mission- ary Society. The natives had never seen a white woman before. and the com- ing of the ladies was heralded for days before they arrived within view of the crowds that greeted them at the capâ€" ital. King Mwnnga was if anything more excited than any of his people. Five days before the Bishop and the ladies arrived at Mengo the King sent a messenger with a letter {for Bishop Tucker, in which he said: . . Many greetings to you. I rejmce very, very much to hear that you are coming and that you have now arrivâ€" ed in my country with ladies, because. even from my childhood. I have never seen European ladies. My greetings to the ladies and all the Europeans who are with you. This letter was from the royal young person who. some years a. o; murdered Bishop Hannington, an slaughtered hundreds of the native Christians at his capital. Times have changed in Ug- anda. On the day the ladies entered the capital crowds covered every hill and lined the road along which the caravan entered the town; Bishop Tucker writes that he saw great crowds in Mengo on the day that Sir Gerald Por- tal entered the capital, but they were nothing to the enormous concourse of people that welcomed the first women misswnaries in Uganda. The mass of people was so great that it was difficult to make a. way along the road. Everyâ€" body was out to see the remarkable spectacle. It is , resumed that the ladies had a roya welcome from the King when Bishop Tucker introduced them. but the report of that event has not yet come to hand. A wonderful change has been wrought in Uganda within the past few years. Fifty thousand of the people can now read and write and the largest church in Mango will hold more than 2,000 people. The teachers of the Christian aith never saw darker days than in Uganda a decade ago; but. their pro- gress work in the past few years .13 among the greatest. triumphs of mu:- sionary enterprise. THE MUSTACHE. flow It Became a Symbol of Liberty and Fraternity. The _ mustache. that questionable adornment of man's upper lip, is trem- bling in the balance. The fashionable man of the hour who eschews this time- honored ornament will tell you that it is a crying and unnecessary evil. and is bound to" go. And where can one find a better criterion of such momentous subjects than the fashionable man of the hour? In years to come the grand- children of a beardless race. may have to turn to their encyclopedias to. find out whalt a mustache was. Anticipa- ti this, a sort of advance sheet_may be ound in the following: . _ ‘ ' The home of the mustache is in Spain. After the Moors first invaded the coun- try the Christian and Moslem po u- tion became so mixed that it was di.f1- cult to say which were Moors and which were. S aniards. . The §panish then hit upon_a.mea.ns by which they could at once distinguish their brethren. They did not shave their li any longer. and they allowed a tuft 0 hair to grow below the mouth, so that their beards formed the rude out- line of a cross. Thus the mustache became a symbol of liberty and fraternity. u... soinssinACHE cuss. London Physician Its-commends (tntllng the "air as a Remedy. The latest "cure" suggested for the relief of headache is a hair cut. A certain physician in London has met with great success lately in his treatment of perâ€" sistent cases of "nervous" headaches. and he has finally disclosed the secret. In each case. he says. after.the pa- tient had laid bare a long tale of woeâ€" of sleepless ‘ hts and miserable daysâ€" he prescribed. )rigfly. a simple hair cut. it is not necessary that the hair should be cropped off short. after the fashion of convicts. ' The curative property of the treat- ment is based on the fact that the tube which is contained in each single hair is severed in the provess. and the brain "bleeds," as the barbers say. thereby opening a safeti valve for the congest- ed cranium. commentator in the London society press. in this cure. says: "Try the cure when next attacked by headache, and. if the result be not sat- isfactory. rest assured that it is not the fault .of the prescription. but that the head is so wooden that it vvouldn' act." ‘ referring to ' are besiegmg‘ Buluwayo. THE PASSION OF A SAVAGE. THE HORRIBLE DEVILTRY 0F VIC- TORIOUS BARBARIANS. Cecil Rhodes' Remark on lami- Warfare- Memorable Massacre; in Wars of Re- Sav- ages Gram Their Hatred of (‘lvllia- venxeâ€"Furles [nchainedâ€"How atlon. . In the first campaign against the same tribe of Kaffir desperadoes who Sir Cecil Rhodes. the President of the South Af- rican Company. appealed to the aid of the Transvaal Republic. some 200 miles from the seat of war.- "I am afraid they will disregard our request." said the commander of the Cape militia, lecausce it is not any con- cern of their own." "Yes. it is." replied the President. "It concerns all civilized mankind to pre- vent. the triumph of savages, because one knows'how they abuse their op- portunities for revenge." ’ The history of international war has strikingly illustrated the significance of that remark. Bigotry deadens the feel- ing of pity, and it may be true that in momentary emotions. ‘ Ehrth has no rage like love to hatred turned. And hell no fury like a woman spurned. but the frenzy of jealousy. and fan- aticism is a mere trifle compared with the passion of a savage when the gor- illa in his nature awakens to revenge himself upon his more civilized brethâ€" ren in Darwin. “\Vhy did you not use your influence to prevent those at- rocities?" the Wetherland Commimionâ€" ers asked Pulo Niang, the leader of the Malay rebels who had massacred ALL THE WHITE COLOh’lSTS of a. large district. “Oh, did you ex- pect I would get myself killed to make things easy for you?" sneered the chiefâ€" tain; "thére is not a man in my tribe who has not a thousand times longed for a. chance to get a whack at those fellows who ride in palanquins and grudge us the crumbs of their feast." The hatred of superior culture is, inâ€" deed. a trait of nature that makes all savages kin. When Simon de Montfort enlisted volunteers for a crusade against the heretical Albigenscs. his recruiting agents met with a success that astonished their own employer, and the investigation of the subsequent massacres proved that the perpetrators of some of the most. atrocious were semi-savages from the French Pyr- enees, Moorish refugees many of them. and who‘ could have had no possible sympathy with the religious motives of the invaders, but welcomed the oppor- tunity to demolish the fine dwellings of the accomplished and well-dressed gentlemen in the garden lands of LanJ gucdoc. v But the brutal passions of savages become altogether devilish when their vindictiveness has been stimulated by the overbearing conduct of the su- perior race, as in the case of the super- cilious Roman colonists of ' \Vestern’ Asia. In the presence of the invinc- ible legions. the resentment of the oppressed populace manifests itself .on- ly in sullen looks,. ‘but at the‘ first fair chance. of success the pent-up rage exploded with destructive fury. and the partisans of King Mithridates stood aghast at the violence of the storm they had evoked by their promise of assistance. Eighty-five thousand â€"ac- cording to other accounts more. than 100,000 â€" of the obnoxious foreigners were butchered in a single week;_t_he flames of revolt spread like a prairie- fire, and barbarous aborigines rushed down from the highlands of Mount Taurus and from the wild interior of Ca padocia to enjoy a share of'the fun. ome of the anecdotes of that mas- sacre pass all belief; but there seems no doubt that one of the lieutenants of Nenna Sahib rigged up a sort of CIRCULAR SAW’, worked by horse-power. and made his men rip up the British prisoners head forward, or truncate them, to vary the sport. and it is equally certain that Chieftain Joubert, of the San Domingo insurgents, excoriated some of his captives; i.e.. flayed them, or half-flayed them. alive, and then tied them to trees to die at their leisure. When Percy Sandoval led a detach- ment of sixty troopers against the sav- age. Arancanos of Southern Chili. he rode into an ambush, and after a des- perate resistance the survivors of his command were captured by the savages. They were marched off towards the Sierra, and at the first halting place the young braves of the victors amus- ed themselves with shooting arrows at the hearts of their prisoners. and thus killed about ‘a dozen. -’till a superior Chieftain appeared on the scene and in- terfered with a vehemence of disappro- bation that misled the Spaniards to flatter themselves with the hope that their lives would be spared. '10 their dismay. however, they soon realized the fact that the savage Cabo merely objected to the presumption of the sharpehooters who had acted without. orders and allowed a number of the pale~faces to die so easily. Under his personal supervision the prisoners were seized one by one and divested of their calcones, or leather moccasins. An as- sistant then chopped their toes off. and thus mutilated. the unfortunates were forced to dance. while the barbarians capered around with shouts of excita- tion. Takin advantage of the general uproar. San oval and three of his com- Enions maria to freeiheir fettered min and. an denly leaping upon their horses. galloped away at breakneck s d, followed by a shower of arrows. 'Iwo of the fugitives reached the Span- ish fort a few miles ahead of their pur- suers and were safe for the time being. but had no doubt that their less for- tunate comrades were killed by inches . â€"perha with their own swords. as the chief o the Araucanos wasmprobably unacquainted with the meth of our Xorth American redskins, who pro- tives and than me them for living tar- gets from a distance sufficient to guar- antee the protracticn of the sport. THE SAVAGE ROHILLAS who captured one of Gen Havelock’s Adjutant: with several follmvers were ltectthehendsandheartsoftheirccp so leased at the defiant conduct of an rish trooper that they set him free; a non-commissioned officer also gained their sympathy by a storm of blas- phemies and was treated to a dram of their whey-bottles. but the reserved bearing 01 the Adjutant proved his ruin. I‘hey tied him down, spread-eag- le shape and filled him full of foul fluids till he choked to death. and then sliced him up fora division of trophies. But lurbarians of that kind are‘not the exclusive product of the far hast. After the battle of Kunersdorf the Cosâ€" sacks caught the poet-warrior Isleist. and by a sort of instinct singled_hun out amonga multitude of other risenâ€" are. He had already been rob. d of his coat. sword and purse. but his cepâ€" Iors were not content with plunder. They took off his few remaining shreds {of clothing. merely to destroy them. and then maltreated him in every con- ceivable way, kicked him about. struck him in the face. and left him for dead â€"â€"as good as killed. in fact, for he died 8 lbw hours after his removal _to a hos- pital. As a rule. the Moscovne hours are a rather kindhearted sort of half- barbarians, and in several wars with their Western neighbors refrained from the plunder of non-combatants. but. in in! the campaigns against the Great Frederick they behaved worse than Turks. 0f the political quarrels of the two countries they understood next to nothing. but they had found out that the leader of their adversaries was a. philosopher. skeptic. poet and could not resist the temptation to make him ascertain the occasional superior- ity of brute force to genius.‘ . The reputation of intellectual superâ€" iority also proved the ruin of an oldâ€" time philosopher, the island King Poly- crates. He was a "tyrant," in the an- cient sense of absolutism. but; also a protector of learning, and. like King Frederic, an habitual scoffer at the religious superstitions of his contem- poraries. Many worse despots than he had been permitted to die of old age and enjoy the postâ€"mortem honors of demigods; but the neighbors of the ruler of Samos combined again and again for his ruin, and one of them. the Governor of a. Persian colony, at last accomplished his purpose by an act of the - BASEST INHOSPITALITY and abuse of confidence. He contrived to let one of his relatives fall into the hands of the island Prince, who had established a reputation for his clem- ency to prisoners of war. and thenwent into ecstasies at the success 0'. his ap- peal for mercy. He sent a special envoy to Samos to thank his generous foe- man, and not only proposed a defenswe and offensive treaty of alliance. but also invited the benefactor of his nephew to visit him at the capital of his provmcc. and thus enable him to requite his kindness. Polycrates had learned by sad experience to be on his guard ag- ainst treachery. but he went into that peculiar trap. On his arrival at the Government seat of his alleged new friend he was at; once seized and cruci- fied. though he offered a. ransom of a ton of gold, and protested with rare eloquence â€" perhaps in the pathetic words of the Moorish Emir. whom Peter the Cruel had trapped in a similar man- ner, "0 Pedro, Pedro, que hecha por un cabellerol"â€"-"Oh. Peter. Peter. what“a deed for a cavalier!” Polycrates was the wealthiest Prince of his age. but gold could not ransom a man who had been guilty of making his contemporaries re- alize their intellectual poverty. Perhaps the savage prosecution of wizards may have been due to similar character traits lurking in disguise on the dark side of human nature. There .was a time when all secular science. all true science. in fact. was stigmatized as black art. and kept under the ban of the millions who had surrendered their,right of free inquiry. The dread of the unknownâ€""the invisible world of Satan"-â€"-ma.y have had something to do with rousing the fury of the witch- hunters. but the jeering mobs that gathered about the flames of the stake often included hundreds whom the ex- perience of many years must. have tau hi to regard the victims as prac- tica 1y harmless gnrsons. whose real of- fense. with or Without. the assistance of evi. spirits, consisted in knowing a good deal more than their neighbors. in that sense of the. word every ilized man is a wizardâ€"literally a wise- ard.or knower. who can not expe be forgiven if he should fall into the hands of savages. BYLES "0N BILLS. . Among the humorous memoriec con; nected with English judges is one of Justice Byles and his horse. This em inent jurist was well known in his pro- fession for his work on " Bills. and as this gave a fine opportunity for alliterâ€" ation. his associates were accustomed to .bestow the name on the horse, which iwas but a sorry steed. . “There goes Byles on Bills," they took pleasure in saying. and as the_ judge lrode out every afternoon. they indulg- 'cd daily in their little joke. But the .truth was that the horse. had another name known only to the master and i his man; and when a too~curious client , inquired as to the judge's where/aunts, jhe was told by the servant. With a :clear conscience. that " master was out. on Business." SY BIPATIIY. ! Mrs. Highupâ€"Such shpcking storicsus the papers do tell. I read iii-day of a fmother around the corner who tried to Bid". her chfidren because she could not :get them anything to eat." ; Mrs. Higherupâ€""Cruel creature! .W’ell. I don't know. though. I really -believe I would rather etherize poor 'little Fido than to see him hungry. v‘Mnrie. go see if you can't coax Fido 10 'est a little more of that tenderloin." A LITTLE TOO LATE. Lawyerâ€""Noble woman! All the world will ring With your praises. \Vho is the manf" “James Jameson. a poor carpenter. He. livedâ€"" "Ah. yes. I remember him. lie starred to death forty years ago Salmon River dist riot. civâ€"' ct lo,- NEILLY’S GOLDEN BOWLDEB. , m A {one look of Twenty Themd'denl‘" Proves Rich in Gold and Copper. Last Monday Martin Neilly was reâ€" turning to Rossland. B. C.. after an unsuccessful proapecting trip into the He reached the Columbia River at a point about six miles north of Trail Landing. B. Cu at noon on that day. and selecting a spot on the tank of the stream at. the foot of Lookout Mountain he sat down to eat his dinner. As he did so he noâ€"_ liced ahuge bowldcr half buried in the sand in a dry portion of the river not far from where he. sat. \l'hen he. “as through with his re- past he shouldered his pick and saunt- tered over tou'ard the huge bowlder. He examined it at first in a casual way and then his experienced eye told him that it was promising looking quartz rock. He struck his pick into it several times and dislodged a piece of the de- compOsed rez-k. Crest was his surprise when upon picking up the fragment he saw traces of gold and copper. . He walked around the bowlder and- knocked off piece after piece, and as he! did so his excitement increased with each succeeding disclosure. In speaking of the circumstances he said: "It “as some time before I fully realized what. a fortune I had discov- ered. but when it dawned u )Oll me that at last I was a rich man ' am afriad I made such demonstrations as would justify any one who might have seen me in believing that I had lost my senses. For several years I have been ‘grubslaked' in prospecting thme moun- tains without. success and many is the time I have gone hungry for the want of the price to get something to eat. and can you blame me for going nearly crazy, when I realized that l was no longer poor?" . \\ hen Neilly had demonstrated to his satisfaction that the huge mountain of rock before. him was full of rich metal. he proceeded to locate his discovery by postin' the usual not ices taking in the ground upon which the bowlder rested. He then selected a number of the spe- cimens of rack that he had chipped off. and. putting them in his pocket. he started for Rossland, arriving there late in the afternoon. He went. to several ussuyers and left some of the rock to be assayed. The next morning one assayer's re- port showed that the ore contained $53 in gold to the Ion, besides being rich in copper. The, other two assays showed $4 and $58 in gold and also copper. From the position of the bowlder, ly- ing as it does on the dry bed of the river all by itself and at the foot of Lookout Mountain. which rears its crest several thousand feet up in the air. it is evi- dent that al some period this huge body rock has become dislodged from the mountain and rolled down with fear- ful momentum to the point where it now rests. _ The bowldcr, as near as can be esti- mated. contains in the neighborhood of 20,000 tons of rack. As yet Neilly is undecided what. he will do with his. liowlder. He says he may conclude to have it mined and shipped to the Trail smelter for reduction, or he may dc~ cide to dispose of it to some syndicate or capitalist for a good round figure. He has set. no price on it. and says he will not until he has had time to think the matter over. SOME SHOE “'ISDOM. A down~East shoe dealer has collect- ed a. lot of sayings concerning wear- ing shoes. They are soulful. if not true. The dealer quoted from his little notcâ€" book a few of these: "\Vorn On the heel. spends a-good deal ;" "\Vorn on the ball. spends it all ;" “ “’orn on the vamp. lookout for a scamp ;" “ W'orn on the toes. spends as he goes ;"‘" Worn on the side, will be a rich man's bride ;" all of which may be taken up for just what they are worth. WVhen you buy a pair of new shoes, never put. them on a shelf higher than your head, unâ€" less you want to bring bad luck; and if you blackcn them before you have had both shoes on you may meet with an accident or even have a. sudden death. This is an old Irish superstition. The Scottish girls believe that if they drop their shoes before they are worn trou- ble. will ensue. while a French lady los- ing her heel is sure of some disappoint- ment in love, and a German mother in the same predicament feels that she will soon lose mm of her children. An old sign says that if a young man is careless of his shoe lacing he will ne- glcct his wife; but. on the contrary. if he laces them tight he will be very stingy in his dealings with her. lly the way, if a young man is going to see his sweetheart and stubs his right toe. he. may know that. he is going to be welcome, but if he stubs his left one he mm as well turn around and go home, because she. does not want to sec him. Again. if his innings keep coming untied, his lady love is talking or thinking about him. The. younp man cannot kick at that. THE MAUNH’l‘ IN SURGERY. “'hile the X rays are undoubtedly able accurately to locate a foreign body. such as a needle, Embedded in llic fie..le of the hand. yet they are lnwerlcss to remove it. but electricity is (equal totin- o.-i-asiun, and offers means in the clear lro-magncl of acvonulisliing this. A curious instant-c of rim rmnovnl of a needle by a magnet is i'i-mirtcd from (.‘lierrvfield, Me. A wonmn pierced her hand by a noodle, the 0er going in first and the point breaking off, ll-avinga piece about three-quarters of an inch long iinlcddcd in the flesh near the thumb. A slight cut was made in the skin over the place. wlwrce Ilw fragment was lo med, and a powerful «electro rnaunet devised at the local electric light station a )pii‘f‘l. The attraction of the magnet or the steel needle drew it out at uni-e. (taming it to cut. its way through the. flesh. broken and first The “mum-L used was temporarily dsvig. ed for the Hueryew-y. and consisted in an inch [d‘Cl' of «if! iron ab'uil. l font long “mind with ordinary magnm. wire and attached to a liO-volt circuit. .» f”