it for us to remember we of the Westerm races, ourselves civil:zed, force orr civilization on the East, are regarued by some Eastern nations as barbarians. Mr. W. A. Pickerirg writes in his book, "Pioneerig in Formosa," an account of a visit to a Chinese gentle- man. Although Mr. Pickering tells of their conversation from his own point of view, one can also see the point of view of the Chinaman: What perplexed him most about Euro- peans, or "barbarians," as he quite inno- ig gee us, Was our amazing ener- gy: y should we trouble ourselves so much, and t ke so much pains about anything on earth? To the phlegmatic literary Chinaman this was incomprehen- sible. Was anything worth such fuss, and bother? We had at great risk a i ty made an expedition into the in- terior to see the aboriginal tribes. What was the good of geing to see savages? I unfolded the mysteries of steam as a eller. I told them of our machinery. ey seemed not to be'impressed. Some of them had seen and traveled on @ steamer, Yes, but that was not much; to invent these material things, was that worthy of a man's intellect? Such no- velties were merely mechanical. I told them somewhat of the stars, of our scientific conclusions. This appealed more to them. Then I quoted to them pesos s from their own sacred classics ey approved of me. Later, as I lay wakeful on my bed, | heard, through the thin paper partitions. my host and cronies considering thei: strange visitors. "Strange creatures, these barbarians!" "Aye, indeed they are." at Pi-ki-ling (Pickering), he's a strange barbarian. Where did he learn to speak the language of men (Chi- n "He's clever for a barbarian. He's al- most a man." "He has not the eyes of a man. They are round, like tie rest of the animals q@ot turned up at the corners, as we men ve them. "Well, he is a clever barbarian." And the discussion ended. Oliver--Pa, what does bon-mot meant Pa--Oh, don't bother me! Get your Latin dictionary and find out for your- self!--"Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday." Is Disease Beneficent? In a recent address at University College, Liverpool, Eng., Sir Frederick Treves insisted that we can no longer, after the manner of our forefathers, re- ard disease as an evil influence distinct rom all natural processes and having nothing beneficent in any of its manifes- tations. The "Hospital" comments on his remarks in these terms: "The old physicians regarded ev symptom of diesase as being of necessity wholly nexious and as needing to be stamped out. If the patient vomited, the vomiting must be stopped; if he eoughed, the cough must be made to cease; if he failed to take food, he must "be made to eat. To the modern physi- call and sometimes} ry end to do it, e man. "Because I hadn't the ence I have now," writes ano the conciseness of an excuse-- exaltation, is ecraugely absent. "n inexplicable sort of scowling resirr~ ion seems to be Evansville's nearest approach to happi- ness. contentment, ---- eee Roosevelt's Development, Fairfax H. Wheelan, who was a class mate of President Roosevelt at Harvard College, says: " evelt came to col- a inapiason uality expresse ndt lege a flat-chested, somewhat undersized, vid- fellow, with no indi about him whatever. He had, I remember, prominent eyes, minent teeth, and straggling, wats cahiow side-whiskers. e first dis ed imself as a boxer, at which art he ex- celled." He always strapped a pair of es across his nose when boxing, and so skilled was he that they were never broken. By hard, serious and faithful exercise he at last built himself into a broad-shouldered, robust athlete. en e first came to college, Roosevelt was @ very ordinary writer. He never held a high mark in his written exercises, but yet he diligently cultivated the art of writing, until now he has a creditable list of works after his name. Roosevelt was no speaker. At one of our freshmen class -- he endeavored to nomin- ate a man for president, and he could only sputter and stammer. ( seemed to come too fast for him. Now he is a fluent 'and forceful speaker. Roosevelt graduated twenty-second in his class, but within three years of leavi! Harvard he had written his 'War 'of 1812,' was leader of his party in the New York Legislature, and candidate for Speaker of the Lower House." The Critical Cook. Mistress--But' why do you want to leave, Mary? Servant--Why, mum, the young ladies don't dress with any style or taste; and wherever I've been I've always been used to copyin' the youn ladies; but your young ladies ain't wo copyin'.--Ex. se Why the Messenger Boy Ran. Jimmy--Dat new kid seems ter be in an orful burry. Jerry--Dat's all right. He ain't car- in' no message. He's goin' up to de news-stand ter git de new book about "Cross-eyed Chris, de Crafty Cracksman." THE CHILIAN WARSHIPS. --_--_---- ~~ Chili and Argentina by the terms of a recent treaty have agreed that their respective navies and armies shall not be above a certain strength. Chili is, therefore, trying to sell. two battleships, building in Britain and almost eomplet- ed. Press despatches say that both Germany and the United States have made -offers for the vessels, An Eng- lish exchange says of them :-- The two battleships launched recently for the Chilian Government show what can be done by naval architects work- ing unfettered by the restrictions im- posed when designing ships for the Brit- ish navy, tc combine on a smal] dis- placement great offensive and defensive power. Though only of 11,800 tons, or smaller than the Renown, the Constitu- tion and Libertad could meet even the British King Edwards of 15,350 tous, with every prospect of holding their own, and as three Libertads only cost as much as two King Edwards, the super- jority of the type from the economic point of view is marked. The Chilian ships carry a battery ef four 10-inch guns and fourteen 7.5-inch quick-firers, as against the King Edward's four 12 cian, however, things appeal in a ver. different manner. To them there is noth- ing preternatural about disease. Not! only is it the outeome of natural pro- cesses, but these processes are them-! selves, in many cases, marked by a pur- ose, and that purpose a beneficent one. he time has come when it would rather appear that many of the so-called symp- | toms of disease are but expressions of a natural effort toward cure; that they are not malign in intent, but have for their end the ridding of the body of the very troubles which they are supposed to re- present. Take, for example, tuberculesis. | Modern pathology teaches that the xo- | called symptoms of this disease do but| represent a valiant attempt on the nat | of the body to repair an accident, such! accident being the entrance of a parasite into the tissues. Take, again, an in- flammation following a septic wound of a er. The disease, so called, is dis- | tressing enough, but the manifestations , are no mere outcome of a malign pur pose. They are well intended, and have for their object the protection of the body from further parasitic invasions and the elimination of such septic matter | as may have been already introduced; ' and so on. Even the*much-dreaded peri- | tonitis which to surgeons of the past ap- | peared as the very hand of fate--an im- | pending horror spreading only oped | and death--is now recognized as the op- erating surgeon's best friend. Tithes have changed; our views have altered; and we must no longer 'fight' disease in the old manner, nor 'attack' it with the old weapons." . Why Men Marry. Journalism in Evansville, Indiana, is nothing if not domestic. Through the agency of the "Courier-Journal" it has been trying to find out why men marry. C) editor sent a circular letter to his | complicated--"a inch, four 9.2's, and ten 6-inch, but the King Edward's guns will be of less pow: ' er and initial velocity, white the battery of the British ship is obviously more collection - of -- speci- mens," Colonel Cuniberti has rather un- kindly called it. As Mr. Watts was, we believe, responsible for the important features of the Chilian ships, this sug- gests the lines which he will follow im his new designs for the British navy. Since these two Chilian warships are to be sold, it would almost seem worth while to acquire them for the navy. Loaded to Kill. Alfred Henry Judd, the driver of a hansom cab, appeared before Mr. Plow- den at Marylebone Police Court to an- swer a summons for carrying in his cab five persons in excess of the authorized >umber. The defendant pleaded guilty, defendant--Seven. sir. . Seven! Where did you put them all-- on the roof? (Laughter.) The defend- ant--aAll insfde, sir. 'They were very elose, I'll admit, but it was just a littis party, and 1 wanted to oblige. They only averaged seventeen to twenty years of age. Mr. Plowden--And you them juveniles! I thought meant perambulator juveniles. you The defendaht--The (Laughter.) agr' t was pull up at the other vehicle, but before we we met the inspector. Mr. Plowden--l never heard of such a thing in my life. Seven must be a record number, I should t . You seem to know no limit, d would Have taken fourteen, appar- uvenile enough: +-~- th 2a. costs. ; pe te . aii DR gs . The conditions now existing in Ugan- da, where the disease, "sle ping-sick- ness," is raging with special violence, have induced the British For- elgn Office to send out a roval eom- mission to investigate, under the direo tion of Dr. Low of the London School of 'Tropical Medicine. Says The Hospital (December 27) : #Dr. Low, who has just returned te Kngiand, leaving the bacteriologist ef the commission to pursue further in- quiries, brings back with him a narrey tive for which it would be hard to find parallels even among the histories of the demics of the Midd!c Ages. He esti- mates that the diseu-., wiich first muse ts appearance in the Protectorate @ 'few years' ago, has since that time de- stroyed the lives of between twenty and thirty thousand people; and he tells us that it has produced a depopulation un- der which great tracts of land have passed out of cultir:'ion, and which ulready seriously affec's the tinancial re pources of the country. . «+ « "The so-called 'sleeping-sickness' has been known for many years as an en- demic disense of the west coast of Af- rica, usually contined to the belt lying between Senegambia on the north the Between Uganda and the Congo there no trade route, and the recise i and manner o} the introduction into Uganda are un- known. The attendant phenomena have been seized upon by one-or two writers of fiction, but, until lately, have hard- ly been made the subjects of serious scientific inquiry. The results of such inquiry appear to show that the malady is essentially a chronic form of menin- gitis, that it is produced | the presence of a 'germ,' presumably bacterial, and that it is communicable from person to person through channels which have not as yet ben clearly demonstrated, the general fact of infectiveness not being doubtful. It seems to differ wi ely from the only form of endemic meningitis known in Europe, the so-called 'cerebro- spinal,' in its chronic chavacter, as well as in its almost invariably fatal issue, recovery or cure being practically un- known. The early symptoms are 60 slight that they would easily escape the notice of an unpracticed observer; but the natives of Uganda have become thoroughly acquainted with them, and have brought to the hospital of the com- mission many commencing cases in which their diagnosis has been only too surely justified by the event. The duration varies from one month to six, and the disease is described by Dr. Low as be ing capable of being classed with hy- drophobia as cne of the most fatal that is known to mankind. More or less slowly the early listlessness passes into coma, and the coma into death, with oo- casional deceptive periods of apparent improvement. No treatment appears to exert any definite influence upon either the march or the termination of the malady. A precise statement of the re- sulte obtained by the n we understand, be laid before the Royal Society as soon as possible, and prior to publication elsewhere; but in meantime the commissioner of the State, Colonel Sadler, is doing whatever is poe sible to,check the advancement of the disease By the enforcement of isolation; the great fear being that it may ulti- mately reach the railway, and may thus be carried out of the country by way of Mombasa. So far, the only cases ob- served have been in people of negro race. but there can be no confidence that Eu- ropeans would be exempt if they were continuously exposed to the presumed infection." It is noted by The Lancet that the disease has recently spread most rapid- ly eastward, on which it remarks : "The importance of this eastward spread could not be overestimated, be- cause, with railway communication now existing between the lake and the coast, the disease might readily at any time be carried there, and find a suitable field for its spread, and then the questiop of transmission to |! dia would have to be considered. Its extension north might be a menace to Egypt, as the com munication via the Nile is now becom ing @ more frequent one." et eae thou In palin, my en Second Philadeiphian--t!'ve just heard that ther fel the roof of his home, i oi G ih 2 7 ort? ya? TY j gsonaidWy 47g » » pete 224 hatbawid | > cre 'The New Fork Sun says that the story ef the sudden rise to © of squirrel akin in the world of dreas this season fs not generally known. It was brought about by the ingenuity of « Russian official. For years and years eertain Russian peasants in Siberia paid their taxes in squirrel skins. This being an old custom, the Czar's Government did not eare to cause hardship and breed discontent by changing it. But there 'was little demand for Russian squirrel skins. The whole American trade took only 20,000 skins per annum at the low price of 12 cents each. The skins ac- cumulated in the Russian Government's warehouses in Siberia. There were mil- lions upon millions of them piled up there. The ofiicial in question, knowing fhat the skins were light in weight, soft and warm, decided last year to test the eaprice of fashion in respect to them, 6 went over to Paris, called upon a famous dressmaker, and persuaded him to use some of the skins. The idea was a@ success. Paris set the pace, English society folk took up the fashion, and fashionable Americans brougnt the squir- rel skin craze across the water to this side. The result in this country has been that in 1902 the United States im- ported nearly 5,000,000 squirrel skins at about 37 cents each wholesale, as against 20,000 at 12 cents each in 1901. The rest of the world was equally liberal. The great .emand emptied the Siberian warehouses of squirrel skins at a consid- erable profit. How the License Act Works. The following clippings from a Lon- don paper show in what manner the new English licensing act is working: --Charlotte E. Druce, wife of a night porter, was summoned by her husband at Westminster Police Court, under the new act, for judicial separation. It ap- peared that the husband had had a a terrible experience for ten years. His wife had over and over again pawned his home for drink; everything had been done for her, and she had been forgiven for violent assaults committed while she was drunk. She had been detained in Lady Somerset's Home. A few days after she was 'discharged in October last she was found drunk in Piccadilly. Mr. Horace Smith decreed a separation or- der, the husband to pay 6s. a week and have the custody of the children. A separation order was made at Stratford against the wife of a commis- sionaire. She was alleged to be an habitual drunkard, and, as her husband was prepared to provide for her, the Magistrate granted the summons. Isabella Evans, a married woman, against whom three convictions for drunkenness were proved within twelve graphy of the land is largely to be com- sidered, and no plan or method apply for all. 'The effects of liming the land are also frequently discussed, but ~ the application of hme must be govern- ed by the amount of green material plowed under, the requirements of the -- soil regarding lime and its acidity. The farmers must endeavor to study these conditions, for too little lime may be of. no service, while too much may cause injury. The selection of live stock de- nds upon the fertility of the farm, one breeds can iorage 'ter than others, some can find subsitence on hilly land that cannot be plowed, some require less care than others ; but there are breeds which thrive only on luxuriant urage, and which attention during all seasons of the year. On certain farms only the active breeds are suitable, but on other farms the t is derived by the use of breeds that give a return for the labor bestowed. very farmer must be capable of selecting what he requires, and if he is unable to do so, then he has something to learn as a farmer. What each farmer should ¢>deavor to do is aa non are > advance his operations for the year. He may pro- bebly learn = muc ty observing his ne but there will be same condi tions on his farm which do not to their soils, and he must solve Much benefit is be- erived 'by e work of the experiment stations, but the farmer should also make his farm one can therefore not only educate them- i s, but also be of Have a Smile. There once was a man from Nantucket, Who kept all his cash in a bucket, But his daughter named Nan Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket. --Princeton Tiger. --__.--_. Jim--Say ! If you'll notice, you'll see that most of these big Wall street men started on a farm. Sam--Yes, and that is where they, learned to water stock.--Princeton Tiger. aa There once was a nice young Mr. Who loved some one else's sr. When he asked her to wed She just nodded her head, So he promptly got up and he kr, --Wesleyan Literary Monthly. -- "J have no doubt you have heard some stories to my discredit," he said. months, was before Mr. Horace Smith to be dealt with under the new licensing act. She refused to entertain the idea of going voluntarily to an inebriates' home, and excitedly declared that she would sooner go for trial. Mr. Horace Smith: "That is where you will go, so that you can be sent away for years." In sentencing an habitual drunkard, a German' woman named Marie Schmidt, to three years' detention in St. Joseph's Inebriates' Home, Mr. Denman said that the case was an example of what hap- pened with regard to some of the for- eigners who came to this country. She had been convicted for drunkenness 23 times in two years, and had been kept at the public expense. She would now be kept fox.another three years by the public. , At Greenwich Edwin Churchill, aged 35, no home, was proved to be an ha'bi- tual drunkard, and was ordered to be placed on the blacklist. At Neath Borough Police Court yes- terday an application by the Chief Con- stable to have a man who was charged with drunkenness placed on the black- list was granted. The Mayor explained the object of the application, and the defendant replied: "I am very glad." The,Mayor: "I am pleased that you desire to reform, and I hope you will be able to keep your good resolution." Live Stock and Manure. The manure on the farm represents capital, but a problem to many farmers is when to spread the manure. If done in the fall, upon plowed ground, the land may lose portions of the plant food by es "J don't like to put it in that way," she quietly replied. "How then 1" he hopefully asked. "J have never heard any stories to your credit," said she.--Cleveland Plain Dealer, ' ----_o---- legislator of Charlton County, Mo., makes the following unique explanation of his presence in the Legislature: "J was born under a tobacco leaf. I grew up between the corn rows, end I've got my share of hardtack and pork. Now, by ginger, I've a thousand acres of the best land in Charlton County, and I thought I would like to get out among the boys some. I guessed I could ba elected, and I was." ----_-o-- A farmer was one day selling wool to a carrier, and aiter weighing it in the yard he went into the house to make out an invoice. Coming back he missed a cheese, which had been stand- ing on a shelf behind the outer door, and, glancing at the bag of wool, he observed that it had suddenly increased in size. "Man," he said to the carrier, "E hae clean forgotten the weight o' that bag. Let's pit it on the scales again." "he carrier could not refuse. Being duly weighed the bag was found to be heavier by the weight of the cheese inside. A new invoice was made out, and the crestfallen carrier went away. The farmer's wife rushed out to her husband, saying that the cheese had deen stoten. ' Farmer--Na, na, Meg, I hae just selt the cseese for twa shillin's the pandi-- Enclish Paper. REMARKABLE h BRIGHTS D E IS Rego-tad Care From a Small Scartlin x Town in Nova Scotia (From Mail and Empire.) Halifax, N. S., Feb. 5.--(Special.)-- "News has reached here trom thelitt! town of Shubenacadie, on the Iinter- 'olonial Railway, in Hantz County of a cure that is just as important 'rom a medical point of view as the nerations of Dr. Lorenz are from 3a irgical standpoint. Tie disease that gas at last yielded to medical re- »Ssearch - is, the _-long unconquerable > <i> EDICAL CA EASE CONQUERED [ '| parations, and Si ep RENCE NCEE" ~ F Brizht's Disease, that has for so imany years Held physicians' skill at bay, and its victims at its mercy. The patient in this case is said te have been a young girl named Alice {Maud Parker, and two doctors who diagnosed her case gave it as their /unalterable opinion that Bright's Dis- ease had her in its clutches, and that only the grave awaited her. The par- ents, unwilling to give up the strug- gle while life remained, are said to have experimented with special pre- as a last resource ; pinned their faith on Dodd's Kidney | Pills. with the result that to-day the igirl is.in the best of health. | Details of the cure are not yet to hand, but it will be investigated, as 'both the: medical fraternity and the public are deeply interested in the matter. ; :