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NCLE SAM WILL HEhP RESCUE
FLOOD SUFFERERS.
VIES ARE RAPIDLY GIVING WIT.
plcUers Arc Placed On Guard—Situation
In Overflowed Districts Grows Hourly
More Desperate.
A special of Sunday from St. Louis
>ays: “Latest advices from the flooded
country situation south of here state that the
is hourly growing worse.
Walls of water have beaten down the
.svees at many points and dwellers are
U the mercy of the floods.
Out of thirty-eight telegrams re¬
ceived from the lower river, but one
records a cessation of the rise. This
was from Cairo, Ill., but the halt of
the flood in this instance is due to the
breaks in the levees adjacent in Ken¬
tucky and Missouri.
The most disheartening intelligence
comes from the Iowa and Dakota val¬
leys of the Missouri river. Warm
weather has turned the snow to water,
which is added to the already over-
flowed streams.
Work on levee barriers is practically
abandoned in Arkansas and Missis¬
sippi as useless. At Chicot, Ark., a
barge load of sandbags was dumped
into a levee break. They only served
to widen the breach.
This is the experience at other
points, and work oh the outer barriers
is abandoned and every hand turned
to save the inner levees. A dispatch
from Ripley, Tenn., -says there is a
strong and the current through Reel Foot lake
old river bayou.
Steamers Among Trees.
It is feared the river will seek its
old channel through the lake which
was shifted twenty miles west by the
earthquake in 1812. South of Helena,
Ark., the levee breaks are most nu¬
merous and the damage greatest.
The five steamers employed by the
Memphis relief committee were aided
Sunday by two government boats tow¬
ing barges. These steamers pick their
way through the tree tops.
The C. B. Bryan steamed due west
from Memphis thirty-eight miles and
returned with 130 people and a barge
load of live stock.
At Austen, Miss., forty miles below
Memphis, but two houses remain on
dry land. From these twenty-four
people were rescued.
Belief work is now occupying more at¬
tention than endeavors to fight the flood
with levees. A relief committee has been
organized in Little Rock, Ark. Mem¬
phis continues to save life and prop¬
erty, aided by the state government of
Arkansas.
Sunday night Major Ambury, in
oliarge of the river and harbor work at
St. Louis, received a telegram from
Secretary Alger directing that help and
rescue measures be at once undertaken
by the United States fleet. The Mer¬
chants’ exchange has also taken up the
rescue work.
Governor Jones, of Arkansas, has
sent a company of militia to guard the
levee of Desha county, as there were
fears that Mississippi men might try
to save their homes by cutting the
levee on the Arkansas side.
Unconfirmed rumors of great loss
of life are met at every hand, but the
death roll cannot even be approximated
until the flood subsides.
The situation is indeed gloomy with
small prospects of immediate better¬
ment.
CLEVELAND RAID OFF.
Secretury Ga?re Signs Warrant For Balance
of Ex-President’s Salary.
The treasury department closed up
its accounts with Mr. Grover Cleveland
Saturday. Secretary Gage signed a
warrant in favor of Mr. Cleveland for
$277.78, the balance due him on his
salary as president, and mailed it to
him at Princeton, N. J. This balance
completes the §200,000 to which Mr.
Cleveland was entitled for his four
years’ services.
ICE MOTES DOWN STREAM.
A special of Sunday from Omaha,
Neb., says: The general thaw of the
past week has started the ice in the
Logan and Elkliorn rivers, and towns
along their hanks have been threatened
with floods, but only two of any im¬
portance have been seriously damaged.
JACKSON AND WALLING HUNG.
Finale of tho Sensational Pearl Bryan
Murder Case.
At Newport, Ky., Saturday, Scott
Jackson and Alonzo Walling were
hanged for the murder of Pearl Bryan,
January 31, 1896.
Although the two men wero hanged
simultaneously from a double trap,
they fell on pulling the same lever.
There were no special incidents at the
gallows. The scones were those that
ordinarily take place on such occasions.
Both men wero cool and nervy to the
Inst, and they died protesting their
innocence and declared their confes¬
sions were false and made for effect on
the governor.
DUNLOP SENTENCED TO JAIL.
Chicago Journall.t Must Buffer For Vio¬
lation of Foetal Laws.
The mandate of the case of Joseph
R. Dunlop, the Chicago newspaper
publisher, has been issued by the
United States supreme court.
The decision will have the effect of
causing Mr. Dunlop to be takeu into
custody for the execution of the judg¬
ment of tho court, which imposes a
fine of $2,090 and imprisonment for
two years for violation of postal laws.
LOST SHIP IS FOUND.
Wandered On the Vn»ty Deep for Nearly a
Year.
The long overdue ship T. F. Oakes,
which left Ilong Ivong July 4th, 250
days ago, with a general cargo, and 1
which had been given up as lost, was
towed into port at New York Sunday
morning by the British tank steamer
Kasbek, Captain Muller, which picked
her up last Thursday in latitude 38:10,
longitude 68:44.
The Kasbek was bound from Phila¬
delphia for Flume, Austria, with a
cargo of oil and left the former port
on Saturday, March 13th.
Captain Reed, of the Oaks, when
interviewed at Quarantine on his arri¬
val told a story of fearful suffering and
privations.
The Oakes left Shanghai on the 17th
of last May, and after completing her
cargo at Hong Kong, sailed from that
port July 4th.
When six days in the China sea a
terrific typhoon was encountered, last¬
ing several days, during which the
fore and main topmasts were sprung.
The vessel was obliged to run before
the gale, which had no sooner blown
itself out than it was followed by a
second typhoon, which blew with
great fury for twenty-four days.
The vessel was now well out in the
north Pacific and so far off her course
that Captain Reed decided to shape
the course via Cape Horn, rather than
by the Cape of Good Hope, hoping
thereby to make better time.
The weather remained fine, nothing
but light airs and calms were expe¬
rienced until Cape Horn was rounded
167 days out.
In the meantime six of the crew
were takeu sick and died. One by
one the other sailors were obliged to
quit work until on March 1st nobody
was left except the second and third
mates.
NOTICE OF BLOCKADE RECEIVED.
Papers Sent to Secretary Sherman By
Foreign Representatives.
The representative in Washington
of the six powers signatory to the Ber¬
lin treaty—Great Britain, France,
Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Russia—have in concert notified this
government of the blockade of Crete,
the respective notes having been de¬
livered to Secretary Sherman Sunday.
They were almost identical, and con¬
sisted of a mere formal announcement
that a blockade of Cretan ports against
ships under the Greek flag, commenc¬
ed at 9 o’clock Sunday morning. Mer¬
chant vessels of neutral powers, in¬
cluding those of the United States and
of the treaty powers, while subject to
overhauling by the blokading warships
of the concerting fleets, are not to be
disturbed in their ordinary commercial
occupations if they carry no merchan¬
dise intended for use of the Greeks or
insurgents on the island.
It is a question whether this govern¬
ment will give its assent to this form
of blockade which involves a grave de¬
parture in international law, and
would establish a precedent abolishing
rights that the United Stases might
desire not to surrender.
UNCLE SAM TO THE RESCUE.
Vessels of War Department to Help Flood
Sufferers.
Secretary Alger acted promptly Sat¬
urday to relieve the flood sufferers of
the Mississippi valley by the use of
vessels belonging to the war depart¬
ment.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, presented
the secretary with an appeal from the
mayor of Cairo, Ill., for government
assistance to save life and property.
SecretaryAlger at once telegraphed Maj.
Handy, the eugiueer in charge of river
work at St. Louis, and Colonel Gilles¬
pie, the president of the Mississippi
river commission, directing them to
have all government boats sent to
Cairo.
RIOT IN MINING CAMP.
Negro Resisted Arrest and a Fueilade
Ensues.
Saturday night at Brookside, Ala., a
mining camp, the city marshal at¬
tempted to arrest Henry Johnson.
The latter refused to be arrested and
took tho marshal’s pistol away from
him. A police deputy, named Sellers,
went to the marshal’s assistance.
Negroes from all sides went to
Johnson’s aid. Shooting then began.
Jake McKenzie, colored, was killed
instantly; Sellers was shot through
the body and cannot recover; Johnson
was shot in the arm; other negroes
were wounded.
HUSBAND POISONERS.
Women on Trial For Making Way With
Their Helpmeet©.
Astonishing revelations are being
made at present in the criminal courts
of Hungary-Austria. A dozen women
are on trial in one town for poisoning
their husbands, and it is freely admit¬
ted that theirs are only typical cases
which illustrates what is almost a na¬
tional custom in the country districts
of that region.
Husband poisoning, it was coolly
announced in court, is a common call¬
ing, and the public prosecutor declared
that he only proceeded with these few
cases before the culprits had confessed
and desired to break up the practice.
FALLING TREE KILLS TWO GIRLS.
Farmer's Daughters Crushed to Death
During a Hurricane.
At Mountain Creek, Ala., a station a
few miles north of Montgomery, Sat¬
urday, two daughters of James H.
Norrell, aged 13 and 16 years, were in¬
stantly killed by a falling tree.
The older girl was at the spring
when the storm came upon her, and
her sister started to meet her with an
umbrella. Just ns they met the tree
blew down, crushing them to death.
STEAMSHIP FOUNDERS OFF CAPE
HATTERAS.
SEVENTY-EIGHT SOULS GO DOWN.
Heavy Seas Encountered and Water
Dashes Through Gratings Putting Out
Fires—The Vessel Abandoned.
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The French line steamer Yille Saint
Nesaire, which sailed from New York
on March 6th, bound for the West In¬
dies, foundered at sea.
Of her eighty-two passengers and
crew only four are known to have been
saved. These arrived in New York
Wednesday on the schooner Hilda after
a week’s drifting about the Atlantic in
an open boat, during which thirty-four
of the thirty-eight occupants went mad
or died of starvation. The saved are:
Generate Berry, inspector of the Compagnie
Trans-Atlantic; Marie, the
ship’s doctor; Stauts, third engineer;
Tagado, a San Domingan.
Among the lost are: Andrews, first
lieutenant; Herbert, second lieuten¬
ant; Le Juene, purser; Nocolay, sec¬
ond captain; Mariani, chief engineer;
Mrs. Tagado aud four children, starv¬
ed to death.
The steamer Yille De St. Nesaire
left on March 6th, bound for West
Indian ports. She was one of the
smaller vessels of the French line and
had been engaged in the West Indian
trade for years. She was one of the
first to come over when the line from
New York and the West Indies was
established.
The steamship encountered severe
weather on March 7th while off' Hat-
teras. Tremendous seas swept over
her. She rolled and pitched. Great
waves bore away the hatch coverings
and floods of water found their way
through the gratings to the engine
room and extinguished the fires. The
steamer was unable to make any head¬
way, being water-logged. Captain
Jacqueneau gave the order to man the
four boats. There were eighty-two
persons in all.
In the haste to leave the vessel it
was impossible to get provisions or
■water to last more than a day. Of the
four boats only one has been heard
from. It is believed that the other
three were lost.
The survivors of this tragedy are
hardly yet able to give a connected
story of the last twelve days. Captain
Berry, the inspector general of the
French line, tells a story of privation
and hardship such as is seldom heard
in the annals of the sea. The other
survivors are on board the Normandie
and the Yille De Brist, a sister ship of
the ill-fated vessel.
Some in the agony of thirst, drank
salt water to suffer fiercer pangs and
to become raving maniacs, whom the
saner ones had to struggle with to pre¬
vent them from doing harm.
The stouter ones managed the craft
and relieved each other at the task.
Some leaned over the gunwale, with
heads lolling and froth streaming from
their lips, and some others moved
their glassy eyes to the horizon,
searching vainly for that rescuer who
would not come.
ARKANSAS OVERFLOWED.
Over Eight Hundred Miles of the State
Now Inundated.
Wednesday the United States weath¬
er bureau gave out the startling infor¬
mation that 800 square miles of the
fState of Arkansas is under water, and
that the Mississippi river will continue
to rise.
In the district to the west of Marion,
Ark., hundreds of people were picked
up. The work of saving stock has
been abandoned and from now on all
efforts will he directed towards saving
human life.
ARMS FOR INSURGENTS.
Three Suspected Filibusters Sail From a
Florida Key.
A special from Key West says: A
fishing schooner just arrived reports
seeing three large steamers passing
Cape Florida Island going south.
They were well out and seemed to be
under full speed. One of the vessels
had an unusually large number of ipen
on deck, while one of the others seemed
to be heavily laden. No names could
be made out, they seemingly being
covered up.
DEFALCATION DISCOVERED.
What Examination Of The Accounts Of
Stegrti* Revealed.
The board of directors of the old
Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia
made public Wednesday afternoon a
defalcation of some §35,000 as the re¬
sult of the examination of the books
of the association by an expert book¬
keeper.
Mr. F. D. Stegar, tho assistant sec¬
retary, in whose accounts the defalca¬
tion occurs, was sent for to explain
the matter, but did not appear and is
said to have left the city.
All the securities of the corporation,
which is one of the oldest and strong¬
est in the state, are intact, the loss
being on collections
THREE KILLED IN WRECK.
Train Separated aud Came Together Again
With Fatal Result.
The through freight on the Georgia
Southern and Florida road, from
Palatka to Macon, Ga., separated
Wednesday morning just after it had
passed Cordele. When the separated
parts came together, three cars were
wrecked and three men killed, N. C.
Jordan, a white flagman, and two un¬
known tramps.
FITZSIMMONS IS CHAMPION.
The Australian Defeats Jim Corbett In
Fourteen Rounds.
The pugilistio oontest between Jomes
Corbett and fiobert Fitzsimmons for
the world’s championship, took place
at Carson, Nevada, Wednesday, and
resulted in a victory for Fitzsimmons in
the 14th round.
Up to the twelfth round Corbett
seemed to have things his own way
and pounded Fitsimmons all over the
ring.
In the fourteenth and last round
Fitz landed a terrible left hand jab on
Corbett’s stomach and Corbett went to
his knees with a frightful look of ag¬
ony on his face. The timekeeper called
the seconds. One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, but
Corbett cme to his feet. Ho rushed to
Fitz and endeavors to strike him.
There was a terrible uproar. George
Siler decided that Fitz was winner.
The blow that did the business
landed over Corbett’s heart and he
collapsed. The last round lasted just
one minute aud forty-five seconds.
The defeat nearly drove Corbett
wild. When he was able to feel his
feet, after his seconds had helped hint
to his corner, he broke away from them
and rushed at Fitz, who had not left
the ring. A scene of dreadful confu¬
sion ensued. The ring was crowded
with an excited mob, but Corbett
burst through them and struck at
Fitzsimmons.
It was with great difficulty that Billy
Brady and the seconds succeeded in
quieting Corbett down and getting him
back to the dressing room.
Corbett broke down and cried like a
child as he was made ready for the
street.
The battle, as predicted, was fought
on purely scientific and almost new
principles. Neither of the men took
any advantage of the privileges allowed
them under the London prize ring
rules, and there was very little hitting
iu clinches.
Fitz came from the ring battered
and bruised.
Immediately after the battle was
over, Warren Lewis, who sent Corbett
up against Sullivan, challenged Fitz
for another turn, backing Corbett for
$ 20 , 000 .
CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION.
A Seusatlon Sprung: In Iowa House of
Representatives.
A tremendous sensation was caused
in the Iowa legislature Wednesday
morning when Representative Lam¬
bert read portions of a letter said to
have been sent by a building and loan
association over the state making
wholesale charges of legislative oor-
ruption.
Speaker Byers demanded the letter
be read in its entirety. Lambert re¬
fused, saying the communication was
confidential. The speaker ordered
the sergeant-at-arms to procure it and
it was read in the house.
Speaker Byers then rosignod and
demanded a thorough investigation of
the charges made against him and
other members.
LOAN CONCERN COLLAPSES.
Application Fado For Receiver For pMiflo
Association.
Beriah A. Woods, one of the stock¬
holders in the Pacific Loan and
Homestead Association, has filed a
bill in the superior court at Chicago
asking for the appointment of a re¬
ceiver for the concern which he al¬
leges is in a hopeless state of insolv¬
ency.
The bill also charges D. C. Butts,
the former secretary, with deception
and fraud, by the employment of
which he has wrongfully converted to
his private use about $222,000 of
moneys belonging to the association.
The charges sweep in the board of
directors in general as having com¬
pounded Butt’s alleged felony.
Christian Ships Pillaged.
A dispatch received at Athens Wed¬
nesday from Caneasays that the Turks
have made a sortie from Retimo and
proceeded to Utopopoulos, which they
burned without opposition from the
forces of the powers. It is added that
the pillage of the Christian ships con¬
tinues and that tho governor of Retimo
and the Turkish gendarmes are co¬
operating in the looting.
Hesing Resigns as Post master.
Washington Hesing lias resigned
his postmastership of the city of Chi¬
cago. Three days ago he wrote and
forwarded his resignation to President
McKinley.
ST. LOUIS HEIRESS MISSING.
12-Ye«r-01cl Girl Has Probably Been
Kidnapped.
Ella Burden, 12 years old, heiress
to $100,000, has been inexplicably
missing from her home at St. Louis
since Monday. She lived with her
grandmother, at 5032 Minerva street,
and left home Monday for the Dozier
school, where she has been regarded
as one of the brightest and prettiest of
the se veral hundred pupils.
At 3:30 o’clock in the afternoon, the
usual hour, she left the school for her
home and went part of the way with
several other girls, to a point where
sho usually took the car for home.
Nothing hoe been heard of her since.
DISCUSSED BY CABINET.
The Expeditions to Cuba Are Being
Booked Into.
A Washington special says: The fili¬
bustering operations between this
country and Cuba have occupied the
attention of the cabinet.
Attorney General McKenna gave his
views on the subject of permitting al¬
leged filibustering steamers to clear
for Cuban ports with cargos of arms
aud munitions of war. A general dis-
enssion followed kisl'emarks.
ADDRESSES SENT OUT BY AMER¬
ICAN COTTON GROWERS.
APPEAL FOR CO-OPERATIVE ACTION
Reduction of Cotton Acreage Advised by
Committee of Prominent Men of
Th© Association.
The American Cotton Growers’ Pro¬
tective association, has issued an ad¬
dress to farmers urging them to plant
more of the food crops and less of cot¬
ton. The document was prepared by
a committee, which included Mr. Hec¬
tor C. Lane, of Alabama, and Hon. W.
A. Broughton, of Georgia. The ad¬
dress is as follows:
“To the Cotton Growers of Amerloa: The
Cotton Growers’ Protective Association of
America, in convention assembled at Augus¬
ta, Ga., on the 15th day of March, 1897, again
come to you with an urgent appeal for co¬
operative action in planting the crop for
1897. It is a matter of extreme congratula¬
tion that the appeal made to you in 1895 and
1896..was so generally responded to and that
the crop of 1895, made upon the diminished
acreage, did have the effect of greatly in¬
creasing the prices of cotton. The crop of
1895, though estimated to bo 3,400,000 bales
short of the crop of 1894, was in the market
of the world worth more by nearly £3,000,-
000. In the face of this result to abandon the
idea of diminishing acreage would be to sound
the retreat in the face of victory. It is the
consensus of opinion among the best think¬
ers that it bv any means the cotton crop of
America should be held within the limits of
8,000,000 to 9,000,000 bales per annum for
five years, the people of these southern
states would be the richest and most pros¬
perous agricultural people in the world.
How can this be brought about? The answer
is with you. AYe appeal to your self-interest
and patriotism to do all in your power to
keep down tho production of tho staple. Do
not abandon the ground you have won.
Fight on upon tho lines laid down, make
the cotton states self-supporting, put more
land in clover and grasses for your hogs to
run on, diversify your crops, and when you
have done all this the area devoted to cotton
will yield more profitable returns than if
you sought to increase the number of bales.
While the reduction of the acreage to be
plantod in cotton for the sole purpose of re¬
ducing the size of the crop may bo impracti¬
cable, the increase of the area planted in
food crops must inevitably bring prosperity
to cotton growers, irrespective of tho size of
the cotton crop. There has never been a
time in the history of our section of the
country that a movement looking to the in¬
creased production of corn, hay, oats, hog3
and other food crops was so important and
necessary. “It
is felt by the most thoughtful men
that we are entering upon a year of great
uncertainties, and that even a small sotton
crop may fail to give adequate returns for
its production. The prudent man will
trim his sails to meet it. With the commerce
of the country interrupted by war—and war
may come—cotton would be unsaleable ex¬
cept at nominal prices. Every considera¬
tion, then, of patriotism, of self-interest and
of prudence dictates that you adhere strictly
to the rule of diminished acreage. Earnest
men are earnestly working to lead you and
to guide you into prosperity. Do not let
them labor in vain, but cheerfully and hope'
fully respond to their appeal.
“In conclusion, we desire to say to every
cotton grower, whether his crop is ten bales
or ten thousand bales, see to it first that
your place is seif-snstaining—and wo mean
by this to be sure yon grow on the farm an
abundance or corn, meat, hay. oats, peas,
potatoes, place, both etc., white for all the people on the
and 'olored. If the ten¬
ant will not produce these articles, sell them
to him and keep the money in your own
pocket, in place of sending it out of the
country. When you hr,re done this, or pro¬
vided for it, grow what eotton you can.
“If every farmer or planter in the cotton
growing district will make this his rule of
action, and live up to it com cientiously, it
will accomplish the result we ao mueh desire
of making us all prosperous and happy,
whether your cotton, which will be a sur¬
plus would crop, sell for a high or low price. Wo
urge you again to make sure first of
a cheap, home-grown living for oil the peo¬
ple and ail the animals on the place, and
then make what cotton you can.
“We address our argument to each indi¬
vidual farmer. Every farmer may measur¬
ably control the cost of producing his
cotton.
“Let each individual farmer resolve in his
own mind and without regard to what oth¬
ers may do, to cut down the cost of produc¬
ing his cotton. By confining his area to the
best fields and to the best parts of his Held
by concentrating his skill, his industry and
fertilizers on a smaller area he will produce
his cotton cheaper. Every farmer knows
that tho better the land, the better prepara¬
tion and cultivation, the more liberal the
amount of well balanced fertilizers he ap¬
plies per acre, the less will be the cost per
pound of cotton.
“Put only the beet land in cotton and corn
the poorer lands in rye, peas, etc. This will
certainly reduce your cotton product in the
aggregate, but it will much more reduce the
cost.
“So that, in any event, whatever others
may do, you will be all right.”
Livingston Speaks in Boston.
Congressman Livingston, of Geor¬
gia, addressed a large audience at Bos¬
ton, Mass., Wednesday night on trade
relations of the United States with
South America.
PAYMASTER CORWINE NABBED.
He Was Caught In Chicago By Detect¬
ives of That City.
John Corwine, the absconding pay¬
master of the United States navy, who
was stationed at Newport, B. I.,
was arrested in Chicago Wednesday
afternoon.
He arrived from New York city dur¬
ing the morning. Shortly before 3
o’clock Inspector Fitzpatrick received
a message over the long distance tele¬
phone from the Newport chief of police
that Crowine was in Chicago, and that
he would register at the Palmer house
under the name of J. Beeves. Detect¬
ives were immediately sent to the hotel
and arrested Corwine as he was writ¬
ing his name on the register.
SENATE WOULD NOT AGREE.
Conference Committee Asks It to Recede
from Amendments.
The conference committee on the
constitutional convention bills in the
Tennessee legislature recommended
the senate recede from its amendments
providing that the convention not sit
more than seventy-five days and dele¬
gates not receive more than $2 per day.
The senate rejected the report, how¬
ever, and a new eommitteo was ap¬
pointed.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
The velocity of light is 186,830 miles
per second.
No bird oan fly backward without
turning. The dragon-fly, however, oan
accomplish this feat and outstrip any
swallow.
In New Zealand no less than five
hundred speoios of plants have been
introduced and aoolimatod since the
colonization of the islands.
A bill to promote aerial navigation
has been introduced by Representa¬
tive Baker, of New Hampshire. It is
proposed to give §30,000 to Professor
Langley, §20,000 to James Selden
Cowden, of Virginia, and §20,000 to
the War Deportment.
M. Levat has recently made a com¬
munication to the Paris Academy of
Sciences on the tempering of steel in
phenol. From comparative trials on
tho same steels tempered in water and
phenol respectively, it has been found
that the hardness and elasticity in the
latter oase was much greater than in
the former.
Swallow wort, or the greater celan¬
dine, which Dr. Denisenko asserts is a
oure for cancer, haB long been nsed by
country people to remove warts. The
doctor uses the juioe of the plant
diluted, both externally and internally,
in external eases injecting the fluid
hypodermically around the cancerous
growth. According to the Lancet,
however, experiments with his specific
by other observers have not confirmed
his results.
The College of Civil Engineering
of Cornell University shows how
thoroughly alive it is by the announce¬
ment of a new hydraulic laboratory of
immense size, having a rook-out canal
500 feet long, twenty feet wide, and
ten feet deep, and a steel standpipe—
in whioh the force exerted by great
masses of water is to bo studied—
whioh is six feet in diameter and
seventy feet high. No other hydraulic
laboratory of half the magnitude of
this one has ever been constructed.
The number of speoies of plants
whioh have become extinct is very
lurge, and yet generio groups rarely
die out. Comparative researches show
that much the greater proportion of
plants whose remains have been pre¬
served in a fossil condition from earlier
geologic periods belong to the genera
whioh are represented by plants now
living, although many of these exist¬
ing plants differ specifically from the
earlier ones. From this it seems that
new types are outgrowing the old
ones constantly and take their place
in the general scheme of life.
About Drinking Water,
According to Professor Allen, we
should drink from one-third to two-
fifths as many ounces as we weigh iu
pounds. Therefore, for a man weigh¬
ing 168 pounds there would ba re¬
quired fifty-six to sixty-four ounces
daily, or from one and one-half to four
pints. This the Journal of Hygiene
regards as a very indefinite answer.
The amount of water required depends
on the season of the year, the amount
of work dons and the kind of food
eaten. In hot weather ws require
more than in cold, because of the
greater loss through the skin, though
this Is in part made up by the lesser
amount passed away through the
kidneys. If ft man labors very hard
he requires more than if his labor is
light. A man working in a foundry,
where the temperature is high and the
perspiration profuse, not infrequently
drinks three or four gallons daily. If
the food is stimulating and salty, more
water is required than if it is bland.
Vegetarians and those who use mueh
fruit require less water than those who
eat salt fish and pork, and often get
along on none except what is iu their
food. In most cases our instinots fell
us how much water to drink far be tter
than any hard or fixed rule. Forages
they have been acquiring a knowledge
of how much to drink, and transmit¬
ting that knowledge to descendants,
and if we follow them we shall not Trd
far oat of the way. It is of more use
to know that pure water is essential
and that impure water is one of the
most dangerous of drinks, than to
know how much of it is required daily.
If one lives in a region where the
water is bad, it should be boiled and
put away in bottles well corked in an
ice chest, and, in addition, one should
eat all the fruit one can, if fruit agrees.
Fruit contains not needed only pure water,
but salts whioh are to sarry oa
healthfully the functions of life. —
Medioal Times.
Dangers of tlic Diet Fad.
There ie not much danger, ordinar¬
ily, of our children being starved. But
an idea has lately been borrowed from
England which we should be sorry to
have extend itself in. this country—
that of keeping childreu oa a spare
diet to prevent their becoming plump.
It is natural and right that young
creatures should be plump, and the
best medical authorities agree that
just before the change from child¬
hood to youth begins, at the age of
twelve, a store of fat ought to be laid
up as a safeguard agninst tho unusual
demands about to be made upon tbeir
strength. It ie eerteinly n mistake to
deprive young children of wholesome,
nutritions food to prevent the accu¬
mulation of flesh.—Woman’s Home
Journal.
His Final Statement,
Once a clergyman went to pay a
visit to an old Yorkshire yeoman, of
the old type, who was lying on his
deathbed, and after a few preliminary
words the worthy minister said that,
if the veteran had anything on his
mind, he hoped he would ease his
conscience and confide it to his pas¬
toral ear, so that ho might die in
peace. “Well, sir,” nnswored the old
sportsman, “if I only bad to live my
life over again, I’d fish more with taut
and less with flies.”—Tho Gentle-
watnau.
