> NOTES AND COMMENTS In a little book by Woods Hutch- | inson on “Exercise and Health” there is the following passage: “The ‘business,’ so to speak, of ex- -ercise for the brain worker or in- door man or woman is to pump the bloed through the tired brain and little-used muscles, wash out their - fatigue poisons; burn up clean the * wastes of the food necessary to sup- ply working power, and get rid of all these through the lungs, the skin and the kidneys.”” The author goes on to say that the only place to get rid of the waste poisons is in the open air and that the ‘sweat: of thy brow’’ is literally the price |7€Ss 0 m of life as well as of bread. This is excellent doctrine, but much depends upon its application. For a brain worker may attempt far too much in the way of physical exercise whether he takes it in a gymnasium or in the open. In- spired by the preaching of exercise, which has become so popular, weak men often go beyond their strength and lose more than they gain. This | ® has been demonstrated over and over, and the reason for the failure to get the desired results is easily explained. Given a small reserve of strength, what is needed above all things is rest, the complete re- laxation of mind and body. office work is supplemented with a drain on the physical resources the change of occupation does not give rest but does increase the deple- mn. ough the exercise will serve as a beneficial substitute if the time can be found for it, rush- ing work to double the demand on one’s strength by what is in reality another kind of work is poor policy. It will lead to men’s running them- e selves. down when they imagine that | ; they are building themselves up. In all cases, however, fresh air is good medicine, while for a restorer nothing is equal to sound sleep pro- perly induced. It deserves all the eulogies it has received from the poets, and it is certain that it is not to be obtained by becoming too tired through exercisé, physical or mental, +__—_____ And if} y SOME OLD. SUPERSTITIONS EXPLODED IDEAS AS TO COLDS AND CHILLS. The Layman’s Idea Remains To- , Day What His Grandmother’s Idea Was. One the most remarkable ae Bs the science of medicine is the ease with which it is con- founded by what we consider tri ifl- ing ailments. A toothache is likely to defy anything but the forceps. Diseases that affect only about sixteenth of an Pe of the thick =) 8 the great medical scientists have wisely chosen to de- vote their time and talents to bat- have left the investigation of the lesser maladies to that day in ae future neumonia, spinal meningitis, and angina pectoris and cancer shall have been con- quered. This is as it should be. It has resulted, nevertheless, in some superstitions holding their place tae side hy side with scien- Jife foc medical cna acquiescing in their absurdities not ies unsus- pectingly than an auld Now and es some brilliant. rego ae lay off, and e: @ No a hae his Hit ree op Eee tees have elung to, and acted pon The Delusion About Drafts. In the past couple of years medi- cal ideas concerning colds ha’ been transformed. The most popu- lar of delusions, pete is t Md Is is admit ted ti that pee: of the very idea of ventilation assumes a draught, the draught itself is sup- sed to be busy filling the ceme- ry. In an article on the subject in the New York Sun, Dr. William one in the world ever caught through sitting in a aeae of fresh cold air, and that nobody in any circumstances could catch any- thing worse than wry neck through a draught, unless the draught happened to bear in its train some fic . For Id is caused by a §| germ as and colds are usually caused by the sam germ, ‘namely the pneumo- ‘A dispatch from London indicates | cocéus. that the centenary of the top-hat will be observed with fitting solem- nity this year in that centre of fashion. The high hat was invented about half a century before 1813, but it wasn’t native in London, and it made its way rather slowly for obvious reasons. The outstanding reason was the bag-wig, which served so excellently as a base for the cocked hat of romance but on which silk hat would have found a decidedly precarious resting place. However ceremonial and stiff the silk tile may look to us to-day, we oughtn’t to forget that it came in with democracy and remains its proper emblem, for the high hat is the lineal descendant of the round hat that dominated the French rey- olution. Moreover, the high hat marked the final step achievement of trie ada. for with it he assumed the tubular form from top to toe, a form he seems destined to keep for centuries to come. ; pam AES Re HORSES EXTRACT CUBE ROOT. Obtain Correct ‘Trainer A discussion of a peculiarly inter- esting character Answers When is Ab: sent. lone so. The horses can extract thie a are and cube roots of per raction The French society has endeavor- = ‘to solye the problem pri remarkable quan peda a invited M. Claparde, the dis- tinguished professor. of psycho! at the University ca ee to ad- dross them on the si € gant that since he tors to the ested the possibility” of t. rées * being trained to witl three and four years of age several months to | he means of pock +) Whoever thin] W | have a chill, The Arch Germ. _ But it is with the pneumococeus with the ody who has not spent his life outdoors. It is only when the general health has been im- paired that they are permitted to a isease. ler stated that they are norm: habitants of all mouths, but D Dr, Brady thinks the use 6 “normal”? here has led to Seances standing, unless we are to assume that the mouths with bad teeth os unhealthy tonsils are normal it is in these unhealthy mouths tal n’g|the pneume ig cold.”” merely -cold carriers, who do nae suffer themselves, but who give colds and diseases to other people, just as “Typhoid Mary” cette tsphona wherever she went, thou; he seem oe e in excellent foal ee ~ Disinfect the Handkerchiefs. the germ is distributed in two ways. commonest is by means of seal lic expectoration: The second is by rakerchief before tossing it into he asks, and ‘|the wicker bask goes cn to say an some of the mest hair-raising episodes of a doc- tor’s practice grow out of the tra- for ee an Erie aes losis but bills. for cupeiear” treat- ment of the middle ear, and for _ap- penton: The deadly pneumococ- | 1 are rheumatic What a chin. Menas: us is not cansed id. ose concerning draughts, One sit in a draught and presently The Resins ‘that the chill was produced b: draught is supposed to be Rie matier of fact a chill is net @ sign tling with the deadlier diseases, and | 8' e} come in by gain headway and result in serious |: 7 | ground. “He | sank back with a The New York authority, says that |i einai a alae inistinguinbable Ars feve aglee ebout a chill are as fallacious as} Apri As a} Tw! 37 the reverse from ‘on, «germs are causative factors of all colds, and ithout i) the chilling of the surface of the body and all the wetting of the pear apes not cause a.single hour’s il eS ge eee ANIGHT IN THE MARSH. A. Youth’s: Narrow Escape Death on tht Kootenai River. In the Northwest a good many Ther must Mare eae ages in b no |ing. Very likely a beaver dam that tules, ean oe ere tall ane not unlike eas If you are very ubeies you can cross these treacherous places, but you must be careful nét to step into a ‘well’ dug by one of the are that swarm over the marsh. Afte: the fall rains begin, these astates are feeding-places for scnutierable water-fowl on their southward mi- gration. Last se writes ES enn a ‘Where is the union asked John, the ae to arri’ ably waiting for evening fight. ” Treplied, “and a moonlight.’ Melk tell thetacqu mos and the boy did not come. At nine o'clock I lighted a lantern and set out to look for him. and fir m ~ severa! ho. There w: respon: ‘e@ chose the shoulder of a hill that loomed ge 25 other. The marsh is three miles across, and we had gone nearly half the distance when John called out, have struck a pond several rods across, and shall have to swing to a|the right to get round it.’ We heard him threshing through the rank tules that always border these ‘‘pot-holes,” and then we heard ie cry: “Here he is, fellows! Come quick !’” y. was lying on a bed of Tales GHES tho inwer talbser hse body sunk in the cold ooze was unable to move or speak. His ‘ace was covered with mud, his eee was torn, his gun had dis-| W appeared. It was no easy matter to get him free. We pulled armfuls work to extricate the dragged him to Scainaraively solid ved to stand, but you hurt’? T asked. | ut I cannot stan quaking morass, and i stages on he.marsh all night he would surely succumb, So we took off his web garments, laid him on a be 1 of i |tules, and chafed his body until the we began our difficult komewand journey. “How did it happen?’ I asked, when we had him safely in camp and wrapped in warm ding.” “About three o’clock,’’ he said. sai 43 aoineee a duck, and it fell some istance away. In my eagerness to et it, I neglected to wate! Suddenly I stepped adlong, and thrust 1d. led, but you did not hear me, I wasn’t much frightened un- Id, and I wondered T tried to eall to you, but I could not: speak, If that pot-hele I ey not een therg, you. would on, and missed me. That's all, only a afaly tired.” dhe turned over and fell oe ay When to Wed. COE brides as ee us te bies ae tes wae 7 an married lives. arch brides f EE tain many stran; will find Hie a ond jonemeoe | ly brides have bittersweet mem- From to our lost companion or to each |°r The | 2 night air had chilled him until he ] is salt time before you came. | visit to ‘une. prides | Fre: MRS. LANE. Wife of the Canadian who is N.Y., her tinguished uatond in Prince Ed- ward Islan FOOD TO PREVENT FLAT FOOT THE BODY MUST HAVE MIN- ERAL SALTS AND LIME. As Bedy Grows Older Bones of Foot Must Be Stronger to Give Support. ~ Waiters, store clerks, bookkeep- ers, who stand at their desks, bar- bers and the hundreds of others who are on their feet a great aoe ee terribly from flat feet. deed £ it Pest tiredness eary.”” But care- study is beginning to show that the principal: faults ao é due te e hardness of pave sis, Hebe shoes or faulty porii6a al the feet in walking, but rather that | q it is due to conditions in the bones Sieawalves. body grows older it be- comes Lae giving the arch of the foot a greater amount of weight support, and thus placing it un- der a constant strain. In order Lime Material. The e material of the body is largely lime, though other mineral alts are necessary. It follows, iherstote: that if the benes of the arch of the foot are. to be built up, there must be consumed in the food food is largely denuded r these mineral salts; rom bran-less he milk, which contains less of the bone-forming properties, Th¢ vege- tables eaten in the large cities a: usually raised on alluvial soil ane a ee exhausted of Rice Water Nutritious. When the native Indian troops on a hard campaign quid they could tardh better on the water in which + |the rice had been boiled than the English soldiers could on the ri itself, they pointed to the impor- oe. tant truth of the value of the min- erals in the water as we other nutritive qualities. Under these conditions it is easy to see that those who are on their eet. a great deal and desire to es- Beas flat foot should vey careful of i 4 ‘as to eaten; drinking a glass of lime wa- tl oe ces ti] night came, for I thought some 7 ee eer the : ry | of you woul ome past‘on your way | !t onve or twice a week ; and wear- on | Would eel ee vee ‘Sf |to camp; but when the sun went| ins strong-so fro oe last reat as and ly bills |down ard no jgh-| that fits the arch of the foo! PRINCE MAY PA SL BERLIN. His German Is 1 Less Servieeable Than His French. The Prince of Wales’s present vacation ay Bertin 9 man ig fairly | ererenile: but it is ee so than his French. : This is natural enough, for d Bs his ancestry the Queen has. ne German education a far, the reason probably be ing that her rman governess proved antipathetic, yale French lectrico, Mme. Bi be- came an intimate friend Be is still | ¢ the most frequent guest at the small private dinners at the palace, whe en the conversation is carried on in Tho King's French, as is well known, is not very |, nor is his ss remarkable, It is under- 5 en be trained in so that tens _ follow pean visa 3 aQeparenities eee rink with learn, He was ness orjes, August brides are lu es y y tad a ot es pred 2. r of ete hat 43 See a nding ast friend int their whic! pen, Ii is a symptom of some’ ang aes ‘Sortcanbr brin a ibook It was eyed: gree thet)that has happened, It means si = eéyene future to its ies Oc- some sis experiment should be| ply that the blood left the sur- Genie ealy gives a future of toll and made, but all the sayants agreed | face of the bedy and has eK to} has ndshin, November brides be at, sliatlige there 4g trickery or the internal sceze eae happy, those ing to not, the als’ are|tion that eet up. The fact| the orate marry ‘in December’s Poca ee eee from that even in the midst of a chill the| cheer,” will find that ‘Love's star) point of view-of equi’ bodily will be found to’ burns brighter from year to year,” “by its practice succeeds in withhold- .|figures to: describe the great num- Te ence INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 13. Lesson II.--Jacob at Bethel, 28. 10-22. Golden text, Gen, 28. 15. Gen. pence the wife 3 Isaac, after ig her aeob to make the journey in the guise of a suitor, rather than brother. To sceomplish her purpose to deception and ing from he Apparently also took that he had, Mahalath, the daugh- ter of Ishmae 1, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be erse 10. Beer-sheba—The na: means literally “‘well of the oath.’’ It was here that Abraham had en- tered into covenant with Aurmeleeh, |king of Gerar (Gen gen Thesstore he called au glee because there they of them.” A different Ps aoe bees is suggested in Gen. 26. > ‘We have found water. And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of he city is eer-! shebe ae this ¥2 Tis the fee of the place Beitin, the site in upright position, while a 1 the southeast a pee rises to its to in terraces of s| 12. Bel ald = ladder“ The physi-|® cal features of the place, reap the terraces of stone reterred to in the preceding note, eee in the dr Presence of t! out ee ought to be play. the and all play, They was adopt it the idea That we ought to make this 2 Beging in toil ought to d Tsar scsi sc SA WORK SHOULD BE PLAY Education, Labor And Any Sort Of Toil Should Be Consideréd As Such “Then they be! from the he council, rejoicin that they were accounted w. rthy neo iter shame for his name, ” —Acts | to. te ee it ae is its own payment. ‘‘Vir- i tue is its own reward.”” We have As is explained in the Serip- they named. him, Jose: she succeeds in keeping Esau from 2 hen suspeeting her purpose are Oe secon Mee mere Spamtie _foeeed sl forget my toll” “The apostle sah Jacob into Padanaram to secure a| {Count 3 all joy when ye fall into wife; for ‘Esau saw that the daugh-| “70? resent thie = ters of Canaan pleased not Isaac, | ,—° Dresent this subject in as con- his father; and Esau went unto Ish-|Gensed a form as T will say mast and besides the wives| tbat. at last Christianity, working into society and giv: ing its slow ut continual impulse to the mod- ern educational affairs of the world, has bro neht into being the gant , godlike idea concerning the educa. tion of the world, ler- en—-that is, the Christian, ae Education, labor, and any sort of There should e no such thing as hard work in All Labor Should “ fee. Y, in the opposite sense, should be Ee erse concerning Peter to suffer for his Even suffering peers and toil were pleasure ay “When & kindergarten system was adopted’ with vorld happier and that te en- lo it in a world, as we et the modern sense of that as ween what is Sere in college and Coes sity ae time is coming when Christ will hee builé up that ideal man whose life will be all joy and play. Not a thing will he be hélping and inspiring. Yet All the Time at Play. “What is ee Se for the Grecian ©0 severe, © purpose of running from Marathon to Athens. When months for the purpose ‘of isstting that crown. him? If it were to bring him a ability of mind o: shat joyable thing in his life. worked harder for it than anything he has ever undertaken and made sacrifices for it such as he applause ; yet he has enjoyed all the was a| toil oil. Now, if this very thought could be taken, as oS poms: Paul tried to inculeate it, ave the ideal man Christ had in view when he came to put his char- acter into men.—Dr. Ri iH. Coes 1. ber of descendants who are prom Thou shalt spread abroad—Heb., break forth. To the west, aa to-the east, and to the north, to the south—In the days: of ‘ts ae atest eiosueniy the ee kingdom act ual exten y of prophecy could pos- sibly be interpreted to indicate. “again” in old English is ey used where we theuld “back.” Dect Apparently Jacob b had been Reaee to think © especially with certain sacred places at which his forefathers had dwelt and worshipp cienes to find Jehovah’s pres- in this strange and lonely at _Pyeattl Aiteralyy, “to be aie eee at at The place of s|Jehovah’s own abode, and conse- yJauently the gato of hea 18. For pillas—Literally, standing stone,” thal es- tament times constituted the dis- tinguishing mark of a sacred place, often standing beside an altar. pillars by the altar of Jehov. oured oil ‘upon the top a ite Thereby consecrating it and setting it apart sacredly as marking a lace of w 19... Beth- -el—Meaning, “the house of God.” Beitin is a small village with ruins early Christian and crusaders’ buildings, about twelve miles north of Jerusalem and a little east of the literally, ie modern j | Apparently tl ethel’’ was Se ne later sanctuary, ie acer lace outside the ancient the fame of the |; to the i 20. among ancient Orie: this vow consisted of a solema prom- ise to render to God some service in the event of a Detiapnlee boon maied for: being gra: 21, 22,0 And Jehovah will be my God, then this st r, ‘then. =| shall Jehovah ‘be my: God and. this stone,’? ete. for the worship of I will surely give the tenth unte| the—the ‘distinct mand “ aside a tenth as Jehovah’s portion is given in Lev. 27, 30-32. en. 14, 20, however, Abraham is picts ‘as paying tithes (that is tenths) unto Melchizedek, king of Sale: nn ns An Awful Strain. “Remember, ‘Arthur, you are the son of a Ps eet ‘Try to behave ears for ee one day. mother, Tie a will) = the ‘hale day for mo.’ $e Tillie tne a white crow with’ tips to the wings and black bill and fe ter a short illness, of John Redlog, Belturbet, the 101 years. for a loan of $50,000 fo pose of building houses under the Messrs. Ha en fourteen additional acres for rial ghan, charged with having fired ab and wounded tw pert dispesed of to Bin ae = me of o bell, of Paks Street, ae zeal Shall be God’s house—Not in an|™ e time a per! nea sanctuary = trict council it was again not to put the neue ath, of Infec- into force in the} a dozen to ob Pe ty Voor - char} dd and the top of it reached to heaven, | different spirit. Consequently child- 13, Above it—Or, beside him, ag| 00d is taken throngh a series of the marginal reading of the Re-|Plays all the way upward into esd Ventas greater and greater wisdom, and its 14. As the dust of the earth — work is made sport. Goninsre the. similar promises (Al > Thal, 19 Metheny edueaton 1b which the countless stars of heave (Gen. 15. 5; 22. 17; 26. 4) and the sand (Gen. 22. 17; 32. 12) serve as “FROM ERIN'S GREW ISLE NEWS BY MAIL FROM’ LAND’S SHORES. IRE- Happenings in the Emerald Isle ot Interest to Irish- men. Nearly fifteen punsted Saeloves and rson’s colla: factory in Derry ae ‘on stril An unusually rare species of whale, measuring over 20 feet, went ashore at Tralong, 80a near oe r. John Glynn, Carlow, has cap- reddish et. John Carberry, a road laborer, was accidentally shot and killed by Bernar: merchan , & young Keady The feat took place recently, af-| + Reilly, at age o! Carlow Urban ‘Council applied r the pur- and in 2 Kings 10. 96, | Working Classes ‘Act. the Spitase? ‘of the Canaanites are| While fishing in the Blackwater ordered to. be destroyed, and in| at Dérvor, near Kells, Mr. Par- Dent. 16. 29 it is forbidden i — relly, a local pee aught a trout which weighed 18 It is announced in Bellact that rland and Wolff have she extension of their en villi arris, been returned for 4 Of the twenty ae nillion acres which ecmprise Ireland nearly one- main highway leading from Jerusa-| seventh are barren, being moun- Jem, northward echem. tain, turf, bog or , city was Luz at the first—| Miss Jane O'Dwyer of Arm: Pp ng two revolver shots at her sister. An elderly farmer; named Ardell yA aaahey from the Kaox, dropped fat lead in Lisnaskea- Fair, while as- sisting his son to sell somé cattle. The-Killavilla residence and pro- ty of Major. Sounders has beea : mbane 13 300 and Rae Felix Dominican Street, Newry, runeil idolatrous — sense, but, eaning 1 simply that in the place of oe Seer aoe erett- foes sthe: apne there shall be erected "| erection of 37 artizans’ dwellings x 80. At the meeting of Kells ee dis- ious Disease d bedy of a young soldier lia, been tna ioabine i in the sea at Rosses | |; Pot, Sligo. Bernard Doherty aman of seyen- ie death of ‘his wile at ‘thelr home eae cone recently. ‘dead, body of Patrick Kelly, a as protects’ a na-| Substance which it is asser' 5 be used as a substitute for leather. - | glue. Cor 4 Walsh, » local t ided itchell, who had roeently : has farmer of Knockfavon, was found ied from cold ex) re. The committee of the Richmond Asylum, Dublin, call nsation was caused firth, recently purchased by James Burke, Johnstown Bridge. pone damage was abe a fire which broke out on the aroma ae kea, i aged. ,_ Bally- yaughan, the residence of Michael Devetely rate collector, was attack- by an armed party and several leis were fired. The inmates es- caped injzury. it is stated thal ab Mr. Bruce Ismay ‘of the White jine, “who was one of the neat rs on the Titan- has given an order for the erec- ech of a shooting lodge at Costello, ;| Connemara. William Duggan “of Cahisdaly Macroom, County Cork, posed to ‘be 120 years old: THe? re; pate rs events that occurred in 1799. He walks to mass on Senses and oie sings a song in Iri: Learn _BELN G INVENTED. Substitute Is ‘owth on Gelatine. German” Fungus Gr One of the latest German patents method of preparing a rted ¢; This “all pee Shanes is fungi can}be gi and then keeping the surface wet. | Some of the growths are colorless, others have red, brown, gray or even ite tints, and all the lighter shades seem capable of sage ss The leather produ fee. been thin, very so Sot aed eee working to get a stronger materi by the Jahon. of white of egg or of which it is hoped thats aera: anes ace of the new product may tanned together and, that there will be. 8 limit to the thickness of the new material. yer Ste Find New Silk Worm. — * liquid which unseals the Weae then escapes without injuring labor involved is much less with the Asi er Seer True greatness” “never goes to. man’s head, — a - rown by planting — their spores on She rasa surface. The inventors are, however, now - any i Pe oe Thus the amount of coe 2 than Poe