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OUR EYES CAN'T
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Alarming Amount of Harm Done
to Them by Auto Speeding
and Moving Pictures
COMPLAINT IS CALLED PICTURITIS
Headache and Nervousness Attributed
to the Ocular Strain of Watching a
Succession of Quickly Changing
Scenes.
According to observer there Is a
new eye complaint developing In
New York City, says the Sun, which
for want of a better name is called
plcturltls. It la a result of the popu
larity of moving picture entertain
ments. Thousands of men, women and chil
dren now patronize the moving pic
ture shows which offer half nn hour's
entertainment for a nickel. Some
visit two or three different shows in
one evening and so spend practically
an hour or an hour and a half In a
darkened room looking Intently at
the Jumping, rapidly shifting pictures
on the screen.
The light on these pictures is un
even, and frequently sharp flashes of
light fall on the retina. The effect ou
the eye Is the same as watchhr;
steadily nearby scenery from the win
dow of a rapidly moving express train
or from a flying automobile, which is
known to be very trying on the eye
because of the rapid changes on muu
cular accommodation demanded.
To many watching these moving
pictures causes discomfort. A few
minutes of It gives them a sensation
of eye strain and nervous headache.
Others feel the effect of the strain
afterward and do not attribute their
sensations to the entertainment.
One physician In speaking of the
records of recent physical examina
tions of men who wished to do gym
nastic work said he had observed a
number of cases of eye strain and
of nervousness which seemed to be
due to some eye trouble.
"In a number of eases." said he,
"the condition could be traced direct
ly to the fact that the subject owned
an atuomobile and was fond of driving
at a high speed. In many other cases,
the majority in fact, th; men never
used automobiles and their only travel
was in the elevated or subway trains.
Some of them were fond of moving
pictures.
"On talking with them about it I
discovered that the trouble was direct
ly due to this cause. It is certainly
the only plausible explanation.
"I am not in a position tc state that
moving pictures are harmful in all
cases, as I have not collected in
dent data to form definite conclu
sions. I can say, however, that the
strain on the eye from speeding in nn
automobile does lead to nervous de
rangements und n lowered physical
tone.
"This is duo partly to the constant
strain and responsibility people driv
ing at a high speed are under, But
much of it is due to eye strain com
ing from watching fences and trees
and nearby objects Hitting by at a
rate of fifty or sixty miles an hour.
"The rapid rate at which moving
pictures jiggle before the eyes, cou
pled with the fact that the light must
necessarily bo less than that of day
light and the nearness of t';e pictures
to the spectator, produces n condition
even worse for the eye than speeding
at a seventy mile clip in a car.
"Certainly smii conditions are not
normal ones for the eye. Of course
when wo come to that the extensive
use of artificial illumination, reading
at night and using the eyes after
dark in intricate processes are not
natural. Primitive man did his work
by daylight, and slept at night. And
probably to the fact that at night he
had no electric lights and no linely
printed newspapers and books to
rend was due the other fact that he
could see much better In the dark
than the average city man of to-day.
Ab It is the countryman of to-day can
get around far better without light at
night than the city man.
"This moving picture habit, which
subjects the eyes to high power illumi
nation broken Into instants of alter
nating light and shade, certainly can
not be restful or beneficial to the
eyes. Personally I find any long view
of these pictures very uncomfortable,
and I know of many who complain
that they produce unpleasant ocular
sensations."
Paper Garments.
A manufacturing house makea light,
strong paper garments for hospital
use buttons and cloth edges. There
are paper bottles. Paper horseshoes
more durable and lighter than steel,
stuck on with cement, not nailed.
Thus It Is Invention, not pity and
prayer, that relieves the pain and
thraldom of man and beast. Paper
reinforced with wire mesh makes
bouses, boats, hospitals, etc.; Is fire
proof, water-proof, heat and cold
proof. As for the rest, the police, not
thick fortified house walls, should
" protect us. The living dead man
builds his house of rock like his an
cestor when hedged around and sur
rounded with enemies to assure forti
fication. Make the police do this
work. .
tils of Doctors.
A sanatorium for doctors Is In Ma
rlenbad. Gout, rheumatism, fatness
and heart disease are the main trou
bles treated.
Notes and
Comment
Of In
Sim
Interest to Worr.cn Readers
GERMANY'S TOMBOY PRINCtCS.
Grand Duchess Anastasta of MecMcn-burg-Schwerln
Doesn't Cvsrloo!
Opportunities for Fvn.
All England Is wondering wat
Anastasla. grand duchess of M !(
lcrborg.Schwerln, Is going to do n xt.
Probably there Isn't any other h.o.:i
b r of a royal family In the co:itl:u'Mt
who keeps the Herman court i:i such
a . tate of anxiety.
Nevertheless the people love her
and have christened her "The T m
boy Princess."
The grand duchess simply Cov. ..'I
care a big fig for conventionality, a .id
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Grand Duchess Anastasia.
everybody knows it. Plavir.g ni y.i
te Carlo and motoring tiomo In the
wee small hours with n meddly assort
ment of companions, freque'itir";
Parisian cafes chnntant.c entirely in
chr.peroned, entering local tcviis
tournaments under an assumed na ii".
taking motor boat fis with her
cousin unattended even by a mrtid. and
wearing trousers in public are oily
a few of thp many pranks In which
this royal princess has indulged at
different time.'. They serve, how
ever, to explain how she gained for
herself the nickname.
Despite these unusual phases of
temperament, the grand duchess lias
many redeeming qualities. She is In
tensely charitable, and generous
hearted to a fault. She is brilliant
and fascinating, and. though she loves
fun. and knows how to get it, It is
said that when all is said and done
her gravest faults have been breaches
of custom mid tradition rather than
of morality.
CLASSIFYING COEDS.
Each Sex Conspicuous in the Study cf
Certain Subjects.
What are called practical subjects
occupy the young men at the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, while the maidens
seem more and more to monopolies
the humanities. On the broad steps
of the Engineering Building, for ex
ample, you never see a mingling of
the sexes; always a crowd of youths
waiting for their classes to begin and
now and then relieving their feelings
by chanting college anthems.
Over against them, across the cam
pus on tl.e steps of the Law Building
is another crowd of boys who now and
then well defiance at the future engi
neers. On the other hand literature,
poetry, art, the culture languages, the
more humane and refining elements o."
learning, draw a great preponderance
of girls, so that they often outnumber
the boys in these classes by three or
four to one, and some of these classes
tend to become exclusively female.
Then there are debatable subjects,
such as European and American his
tory, where the numbers are more
nearly equal, and on this neutral ter
ritory a fierce and memorable storm
raged about a year ago. It was sug
gested that where the clnsses were so
largo as to be unwieldy and where
the numbers of the young men and
maidens were fairly equal It might be
at once practicable and desirable If
the classes were divided into two sec
tions according to sex. each sex hav
ing a class to itself. This. It was
thought, might make for more con
centration and better results might
be obtained.
"I believe," Bays a writer In Harp
er's Weekly, "that this seemingly
harmless and perhaps really useful
Idea aroused a storm of opposition, not
so much from the youths and maid
ens as from their parents, who de
nounced the practice as un-American
and undemocratic. All of which shows
that much depends on the point of
view. As the parents represent the
people of the State of Wisconsin and
as the university belongs to the peo
ple of the State this view naturally
prevailed and no further efforts at se
gregation were made."
Odd Experience of Deaf Woman.
Philadelphia physicians tell a re
markable story of a woman almost
deaf and living alone in a cottage on
the shore of Hampton Koads. A friend
called one afternoon, and a battleship
lying at anchor began to lire a sa
lute of ten guns. The windows rat
tled with each report and the house
fchook. The woman mistook the boom
ing. She waited until the firing ceased,
then brushed her hair back with old
fashioned care, smoothed her dress
In expectation of another visitor, uud
In a sweet voice said, "Come In."
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THE COLUMBIAN.
Luanda's Experiences
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"My new suit hadn't come home
yet," said Luclnda, "and here it was
Krlday afternoon and I was going
away Saturday and I wanted it.
"It was originally promised me for
Thursday, but It didn't come, and so
naturally I was disturbed over It,
and on Friday morning I telephoned
about it. They told me thnt It would
certainly bo delivered that Krlday,
you understand, afternoon.
"Hut Krlday afternoon went by and
Friday evening, and the suit hadn't
con e, and then really I began to got
anxious: and on Saturday morning I
telephoned again about It. And that
sure did surprise them. Why, they
said, they had delivered my suit yes
terday, und wait a minute they snid,
they would call up their delivery de
partment, which they did, and In a
minute they told me that their deliv
ery department said they certainly
had delivered my suit to me yester
day. Krldny afternoon.
"So then I said wait a minute and
I called tip our hallboy and asked him
If there was anything downstairs for
me and he said no, and when I got
the store again, to tell them that the
suit has certainly not been received,
the Ftore people were still more sur
prised and very seriously Interested.
Here was a question Involving a suit
of pome value that was now missing
and Involving also the business meth
ods of their delivery department. They
said that that suit wns delivered at
my house between 6 and 7 o'clock the
previous evening, and that the mana
ger of their delivery department was
coming right up to see me, bringing
with him the wagon boy who had
brought the box Into the house.
"Ily this time It had come to be
nbout 0 o'clock It was now Saturday
morning, you remember and ordi
narily our n'ght elevator boy would
have been gore, but fortunately he
had been detained, nnd now we got
Into communication with him and ex
plained the situation to him and got
hlai to wait.
"When the delivery manager came
ho didn't talk much, but he was calm
nnd straightforward nnd evidently de
sirous to set things right. Of course
he was deeply concerned, but lie wiw
there to get the facts. We stood
around in a little circle In our parlor,
mother and sifter and the delivery
manager and the wagon boy and I,
and talked it over, and when the
manager asked the wagon boy if It
was here ho delivered the package he
said it was; that the wagon got here
about twenty minutes past 6 nnd that
he brought the pr.ckage in nnd ret
It down in the hall downstairs by the
elevator boy.
"Then we called up our night ele
vator boy and lie joined the circle,
standing up very straight. And he
looked at the wagon boy nnd the
wagon boy looked at him nnd then
Fays tl.e manager to 'he wagon boy:
" is that the boy you left the pack
age with?" and the wagon boy looked
at our elevator boy and said:
" it is.1
" 'You never left It with me,' said
our boy; and then tho two boys stood
and looked at each other, and the rest
of us, everybody silent now, stood and
lokcd at them. It was just like a
scene from a play.
" 'Don't you suppose he could have
left it next door?' suggested some
body. The house next door has an en
trance somewhat similar to ours.
" 'do nnd see,' said the manager to
the wagon boy; and while he was
gone we all stood just the same with
nobody saying a word, and In about
two minutes the boy was back and
sister let him in nnd when we heard
the ring we all looked that way, and
when sister opened the door In came
the boy with the package!
"And what a blessed relief that was
to everybody! The wagon boy smiled
as be came along the hall and even
the delivery manager smiled a little
over the finding of the package; :n
fact we all smiled, and then the de
livery manager took the wagon boy
and went away. What the manager
did to tho boy we never knew."
Open-Air Church Services.
Tho experiment of holding services
In the open nir. Instead of inside the
church is being attempted by one of
tho Congregational ministers at Ben
dlgo. The parson In question, accord
ing to an Australian paper just to
band, having In mind the badly cent!
lated condition of many churches nnd
the fact that the congregations are
not always composed of those who
are in the best of health, has decided
that if his people are agreeable the
Sunday evening services shall be con
ducted for the remainder of the warm
weather In tho open air. There are.
no doubt, many peoplo In this coun
try who would like to see this experi
ment tried over here on hot Sunday
evenings Westminister Gazette.
Explorer's Tribute to Japan.
Writing in the London Times, Dr.
Sven Hedin, the celebrated Asiatic ex
plorer, says of Japan and the Japan
ese: "Wonderful country! Wide
awake, lovable, Joyful people. How
old, exhausted and gray life Is In oth
er countries of Asia compared to that
of tho Lund of tho Iti.sing Sun, where
every man goes to work silently and
dutifully, and the women smile even
when tho rain is coming down In
streams from the dull gray heavens
A people who bellovo In themselves,
their own greatness, their own future;
a people steeped to tho marrow In loy
alty, sense of duty, perserveranco and
patriotism, a progressive and Indus
trious people, awake, Intelligent and
well Informed in all the ways of life."
BLOOMSBUftS, k
POSSIBILITIES OF
PEAT SWAMPS.
The concealed wraith of the peat
swamps Is being brought to notice
through the cfTorts of the American
Peat Society. It appears thBt In the
great swamps of the northeastern
States, are concealed resources like
those of the coal mines of Pennsyl
vania. It claimed that the two mil
lion acres of peat swamp in northern
New York could develop an Industry
as large as that of anthracite coal
mining In the neighboring State. One
of the speakers cited thnt an acre of
peat bog would yield 204 tons of nir
dried fuel per foot of depth while one
hundred acres with a deposit of peat
ten feet deep would yield 204,000 tons.
At this rate the peat bogs of the north
east would yield an nlmost unlimited
product. Itesldes peat fuel the bogs
nre ninde to produce ammonia fuel
gas, coke, while the moss on the sur
face of the bog Is dried and sold as sta
ble litter, being claimed as far super
ior to straw for this purpose. So far,
the peat Industry has not made very
great progress In this country but dur
ing the past year or two greatly Im
proved mnchlnes have been made for
handling the material It may bo that
with the advancing prices of coal nnd
wood the peat Industry will develop
fast enough to make a place for Itself
and furnish n profitable market for
great areas of peat land.
AN ESCAPE OR A
MISFORTUNE?
Senator Depow, after telling his
Brooklyn friends how near he once
came to buying for $10,000 a sixth In
terest In the telephone, proceeded to
express satisfaction instead of regret
over his failure to Invest and to thank
the man whose advice had prevented
dim from doing It. The result would
have been n fortune of $100,000,000,
and said the Senator: "What a lucky
escape! I would have been dead
long ngo from high living and my fam
ily ruined by too much prosperity."
Now how much of that was sincere
and how much a Jest? To ask the
question may seem like a confession
of inability to see a Joke, but both
the Senator's statements may well be
true In gravest earnest, nnd many a
philosopher with no chance of get
ting even one million would say that
there was no doubt about the accuracy
.if either of them.
Nevertheless, the "lucky escnpe"
was one that most people would be
content to miss, nnd the well recog
nised and often demonstrated perils
of great wealth are usually confronted
with reckless audacity by everybody
who has even half an opportunity to
risk them.
WISDOM WITH
FAT.
Nature frequently makes fat men
wire, deliberate nnd prudent, like the
elephant nnd the whale. Doubtless
this Is to take the place of physlcul
quickness and lightness in emergency.
Some of the wisest, spur-of-the-moment
intellects have been of fat, foxy
men. Hisniarck waa the largest nnd
most profound and calculating man
of his age. William the Conqueror
was no slouch, and he was nbout all
that a horse could carry. Medallion
portraits of Philip of Macedon look
like a fat Buddha. Washington was
the deepest, most calculating, re
sourceful nt:d at the same time noblest
and most inductive of all minds, and
the indications nre that he would have
been fat if sickness and being worked
to death had not kept him down to the
2r0pound mark.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT
A FACTOR.
"How far public sentiment may
properly be taken into the nccount In
Judicial regulations necessarily ad
mits of no definite boundaries. Obvi
ously an clectlonal judge who would
wurp the law to favor a popular preju
dice, or even nn Intelligent popular
conviction, would be unworthy of his
ofllce. Hut It would be equally out of
gear with fact and morality to assume
that popular opinion is no rightful fac
tur at all In giving effect to societal
rules of conduct."
REINCARNA
TION. A Hindu theosophlst who is now lec
turing In Chicago says that "Instinc
tively some men and women repel us."
He explains It by saying: "We are at
a loss to understand this until we
realize that we have known them In
other lives and that this antipathy Is
the result of Indirect memory."
MISSING LINKS
EATEN.
Man has an Instinct to destroy all
Inferior races, even as we destroyed
Indians and Europeans destroyed that
ancient race, the ancestors of Bas
ques. It seems probable and not new
that as man Improved he destroyed,
often ate, all "missing links" between
himself and the apes, and thus "miss
ing links" were wiped out ages ago.
The day Is past when the college
president Is compelled to stand In the
outer courts waiting for a chance to
interview the millionaire and rescue
for the cause of education some of his
accumulated gains.
Some of the happiest and most use
fill peoplo we have ever known were
men or women unable to work or play,
sometimes even bedridden and help
less. Taking the average for the world
there Is one" newspaper for 82,000
souls. No wonder bo many know
nothing of wliat's going on.
The Bureau of Labor at Washing
tor, is able to figure out for 1908, as
against 1907, an average decrease of
5.11 per cent. In the cost of living. It
Is unfortunate that the statisticians
cannot pay the bills.
THE MURDEROUS
REVOLVER.
What Is to be done with this weapon
of cowards and thugs? It would be
very good If all tho pistols In the
world could, somehow, be destroyed
simultaneously. Wo talk much and
hopefully of International disarma
ment of society, thnt Is constantly
waning upon Itself; thnt Is, thnt por
tion of society thnt Is composed of
cowards and crooks who go armed?
Think of tho murders committed an
nnnlly in the United States alone by
means of the revolver! Then ndd to
that the accidental deaths by the re
volver. Many more lives are taken
each year In this country by tho re
volver than died of wounds In the
Spanish-American War.
There Is only one possible reason
for carrying a revolver. That purpose
Is to take life. It may be to take life
deliberately nnd murderously, or It
may be to take life in self-defence If
necessary. It Is never necessary.
To the citizen the revolver Is no
protection. To produce It In peril ex
poses ones life needlessly. To take
a human life. Is to the average man
or woman. Infinitely more terrible
than being robbed. However, the
greatest danger Is tho pistol In the
possession of tho coward and the
bully.
If there be one argument against
banishing this deadly pest from the
Christian world, we should like to
hear It. We do not know of It.
IS HUMOR UN
POPULAR? Is the world growing staid nnd
dull? The Atlantic Monthly publishes
seven little parodies, and Is solemnly
reproved for "getting gay," and as sol
emnly commended for tempering Its
general sobriety with a touch of hu
mor. Thirty-seven years ago The At
lantic published forty-two parodies,
distributing them among seven suc
cessive numbers, and accompanying
each group with one part of "The Poet
at the Breakfast Table," and nobody
even whispered "getting gny." Was
not The Atlantic the chosen vehicle
for the humor of Holmes and Aldrich
and Lowell? Did It not publish Mark
Twain's paper on the forgotten lay,
"Punch in the presence of the passeng
aire"? If there is a monthly magazine
in the United States which departs
less from its tradition when It pub
lishes anything amusing, what's Its
name, and Where's its name? Is fun
growing rare, that every small Indul
gence must bear its comment?
SCHOOL CHILDREN'S
ATTENTION.
Prof. W. liiillips read recently, be
fore tho Hoyal Sanitary Institute in
Kngland, a paper detailing his obser
vations on the limit of school chil
dren's capacity for attention. He
concludes that two intervals of rest
of ten minutes each during an ordi
nary school session are moro useful
than one of twenty minutes. The at
tention wanes more rapidly in the
afternoon, and consequently the stu
dies which most severely tax tho at
tention, like mathematics should be
confined to the morning hours. Pro
fessor Phillips concludes that gym
nastics is not of necessity a mentally
recuperative agent. If the teacher is
a strict disciplinarian in gymnastics,
tho fatigue exhibited by the children
may be of a pronounced character.
AMERICA THE
COMFORTABLE.
People with an average Income of
from $1,000 to $3,000 a year live in far
more convenient houses In America
than in Kngland. The matter of wa
ter, heat, lighting, suitable kitchens
and laundries is Insisted upon with
us, nnd is lacking to an appalling ex
tent in English country or even town
houses, and also In the more preten
tious country houses themselves. The
houses of the poorer classes, laborers,
clerks, servants and the like, are mere
boxes, with none of the conveniences
to which Americans even of the poor
er classes are accustomed.
THE PUNY
CHILD.
At the r'rescott School In Charles
town, Mass., a class was made up of
twenty puny children who were back
ward In their studies; the kind of un
der weight children who are no good
at baseball and are likely later to de
velop consumption. In one month
they gained an average of four pounds
In weight and Improved greatly in
their studies.
What seems so marvellous was no
miracle. They were simply taught
out of doors. In the middle of each
session each child had a cup of hot
malted milk.
In a recent sermon, described In
the Christian Life as a powerful and
eloquent plea for work nccordlng to
the precept. "Each for all, and all for
each," Dr. Estlln Carpenter suggest
ed as a motto for worship and work,
"Courage and Cheer."
If one looking outside of himself
sees what seems' to him to be a bad
world, let him say so and begin to
make It better. If he sees a good
world In tho making, let him rejoice
In tho oportunlty to fall In and help.
One big day's work with the boys
and the hired man to help will put the
yard und the ground about the house
In lino order. Tho wife will be pleased
too.
In tho last twelve yearB our agricul
tural credit balance of trade has In
creased from an average of $234,000
000 to $411,000,000.
The scientist who says men have
"bad days" once In twenty-three days
surely understates the case.
Mr. Harrlman says the panic of 1907
was due to fright.
WHY NOT USE OUR .
MAGICIANS?
The astounding fnct was divulge
at the dinner of the Society of Amerl'
can Mnglclnns, that there are 20,000
of those wonderfully gifted fellows In
this country, men who enn pick gold
coins out of tho thin nir, pull a ton or
two of dress goods, a gross of Amerl.
enn Mags, and a live pig out of a ens.
mil silk hut, palm live goldfish, nnd
hatch handkerchiefs out of hens' etrjrs
Twenty thousand experts In the art
of mystifying their fellow-men. whoso
dexterity, Invariably accompanied ,y
pleasing conversational gifts, is (.n.
ployed only for diversion. No feat nf
the Spiritualists, hypnotists, rhilrvnv.
ants, or so-called healers Is more re
markable than the tricks these f,..
lows can play on the vision nnd Ining
liiatlon of a roomful of normal hmnaa
beings.
The gravest troubles the Kniirh
Covernment encountered In Its early
'(Torts to pacify Algiers were rnucMl
by the Influence of the native magi,
cians. Tl.e experiment of sending
Itobert lloudln and his son, both .
pert conjurers, to s.iow tho Algerians
how much more astonishing the reper
tory of acknowledged trickery was
than the mysteries they had been ac
customed to, proved very successful.
It seems that our army of professional
mystlllers might be employed to tlie
same purpose among the utielight
ened dupes of the charlatans who In
fust this country.
Wherever ll pretentious Impostor,
claiming occult powers. Is gulling the
people, n free exhibition of the same
sort of tiling, confessedly produced by
acquired skill, would have a whole
some effect. This Is no Joke. Our
20.H0) magicians might well be em
ployed to educate the masses and lift
them out of tho rut of superstition.
IRRITABILITY THE
WASTER.
Those who -re easily irritated lose
nn enormous amount of precious time
and costly energy. In physiology, ir
ritability Is the property of responding
to n stimulus. In botany, plants en
dowed with Irritable organs, when
they touch any object, clasp it. Tills
Is all right in soulless plants or mus
cles or nerves; but It Is all wrong in
men and women who are supposed to
decide for themselves what to respond
to, or grapple with, and what to leave
alone. He Is tho most miserable of
nil men who must respond to every
thing that touches him. He Is tlm
hrtppiest of men who can quietly ig
nore much that invites him. How
often we have spoiled nn entire clay,
which seemed to be bright with prom
ise, simply by letting ourselves bo
come overwrought and upset, early in
the day, by an unpleasant word or an
noying action of another! How often,
again, have we been saved from the
loss of time nnd temper thnt seemed
imminent In this way, simply because
something else "hnpponed" to divert
our attention and cause us to forget
for a few minutes the Irritation to
which we were so valiantly respond
ing, and which was threatening our
peace and usefulness! Then we were
ashamed of ourselves for having to he
saved In that indirect way, when a lit
tle resolute will-power would have put
the irritation to rout. An Instant's Ir
ritation is often beyond the control of
any one; but to allow that irritation
to remain and dominate and destroy
is to get clown to the level of plants
and animals.
STIMULANTS USED
BY WRITERS.
Thomas Shadwell, a dramatic writer
of some note In the seventeenth cen
tury, died through an overdose of lau
danum, while Walter Savago Latnlor
was said to be addicted to the use of
cocaine. Lord Byron's extreme rest
lessness led him nt times to seek re
lief for shattered nerves in doses of
morphia, and Sheridan indulged In
the same habit.
NEW STEAMSHIP
RULE.
Hereafter the steamship companies
bringing immigrants to America must
provide about seven cubic yards of air
space for each person. The object of
tills rule, which was lately enacted
Into law by Congress, Is to prevent the
overcrowding of the steerage and the
consequent danger to the health of
those who have to travel la that part
of the ship.
The main reason why the tide of
middle west farmers is moving to the
Dakotas, Nebraska, Cunnda, and other
parts of the great northwest. Is be
cause good lands in those sections
cun be bought for about one-fourth
the price of lands in the older sec
tions. In Illinois and Indlnna good
land really brings from $100 to $200
per acre, and it takes a mighty good
farmer to make money on that kind
of land.
The California law requiring res
taurants to designate cold-storage
poultry and eggs as such marks a
further advance In pure-food legisla
tion for tho benefit of the consumer.
Labels indicating the length of the
term of storage may follow in time.
The discovery that scrap-Iron which
underwent the heat of the San Fran
cisco lire makes "a superior armor
plate for warships seems to have been
made on tho orde.' of the Chinese dis
covery of roast pig as recorded by
Charles Lamb.
While Colorado offers almost ideal
conditions for the raising of poultry,
that State had to ship in from eastern
States, last year, poultry and poultry
products valued at $3,000,000.
The latest wireless inventor says be
can blow up a battle-ship's magazine
from GOO miles away. Such a fellow
should find war as safe as huntlDg
Hons In African game preserves.