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ESTRADA SAYS NICARAGUA PLUNDERED
handsome, powerful and impressive man of forty-five, with large flashing eyes,
an olive complexion and blue-black hair. His clear-cut sentences, his rare but
forceful gestures, reveal the man of action. General Moncada, shorter in
stature, gray-haired, softer In speech, gives an iiiipresslon of polish, culture
and statesmanlike ability.
“Revolutions," General Estrada said, “can no longer help us. I person
ally thought for a long while that petty tyrants could be done away with
through popular revolt. I know better now.”
WHEN ITALY’S KING AND QUEEN PLAY
During their past summer vaca
tion, the king and queen of Italy were
more in the public eye than ever, ow
ing to the war. They are at present
at their estate of San Rossore, near
Pisa, whence they frequently go to
visit hospitals to see wounded sol
diers from Africa, to review troops,
and take part in other functions on
which the heart of the nation is now
concentrated.
The royal yacht Yela is in ronstant
demand, and the king and queen gen
erally take their small family of four
along, as they are all excellent sailors.
Princess Yolanda, who is quite a
photographer, has been devoting her
self principally to sea views. The
privacy with which the king always
moves gives rise to many piquant in
cidents. For a ruler who goes about
in his own kingdom as much as Vic
tor Einanual 111 does, he is not known
to many officials.
The Yela put in Spezia recently,
and was boarded by the harbor-master. Princess Yolanda was about to take
a snapshot of him, when he exclaimed: “It is against the rules; you cannot
take photographs; you had better give me the machine.” The princess, too
young to stand on her dignity, burst into tears and gave up the camera, when
the king appeared on deck. Even then the official did not know with whom
he had to do, and was about to speak, when one of the officers came forward
and said: “His majesty." The man, who was speechless with embarrass
ment, was relieved by a laugh from the queen, who proposed that he should
give Princess Yolanda back her camera and that he should stand up and
have his photograph taken. The princess later sent him a copy which did
credit to her skill.
DECLARES WARS SOON BE ABOLISHED
remarkable awakening of our people to the general subject of conservation.
We are unquestionably alive to the importance of conserving our material
and human resources, and this is a condition opposed to war.
RENOUNCES WORLD FOR MISSION WORK
William H. Borden, young Chicago
millionaire, was ordained a minister
of the gospel the other night at Moody
church. He has sacrificed all other
ambitions to his desire to become a
minister and devote his life to work
in the Chinese missionary field.
Mr. Bordon is a graduate of Yale
university and Princeton theological
seminary. Although still a young
man, he has devoted many years of
his life and a great deal of his wealth
to church work. He is a son of the
late W. B. Borden and a brother of
John Borden.
While Mr. Borden was attending
Yale university he founded the Hope
mission in New Haven, a rescue home
for “dpwn-and-outa," and denoated the
building and equipment, at a per
sonal cost of more than $20,000. Since
his departure from the university the
work In the mission is being carried
bn by other men in college.
Mr. Borden has long intended to
gratify his lifelong desire to serve as a missionary in China. At the solicita
tion of the Student Missionary Volunteer association he will spend the winter
visiting the colleges of the country and making addresses to the students
on the subject of Christianity.
His tour of the colleges will begin in New York and will exteni from
coast to coast
"Zelaya’s government plundered
Nicaragua so shamelessly that In
spite of Its inexhaustible natural re
sources our country Is bankrupt.
Neither the state nor private citizens
have at their command the capital
necessary tq develop Nicaragua.
When I overthrew by the force of
arms the Zelaya clique I hoped that
peace would finally reign tn my coun
try. General Mena has shattered my
hopes. I know now that we should no
longer jeopard our future by a silly
pride in our anarchistic independence.
Some larger nation must help us out,
and If the United States cannot do
it, who can?”
According to Gen. Juan Estrada,
former-' president of Nicaragua, such
is the present situation. The general
is now in this country and Is living
in Brooklyn at the Hotel St. George
with his political associate, General
Moncada.
The ex-president Is a strikingly
In an address on “The Natural
Forces in America Working Toward
International Peace” before the In
ternational Peace Congress at Geneva,
Switzerland, Mrs. Elmer Black, chair
man of the propaganda committee of
the American Peace and Arbitration
league, declared that war as a means
of settling differences between na
tions will soon be abolished. She
said that there were certain invincible
forces working toward this end, with
little noise, but with irresistible
power.
Using conditions in America as an
example, she said in part:
“There are certain great natural
forces working in America toward the
final consummation of world peace.
These natural forces are developing
the processes of social and economic
evolution through which we are work
ing out our part in the world's des
tiny.
“First among these I place the
HOW VIVID DREAM
CAN AFFECT MIND
Physicians and Psychologists Set
Themselves to Make Study
of Subconsciousness.
MEDICAL RECORD OF CASES
MURDER NOT INFREQUENTLY
COMMITTED IN DEEP
SLUMBER.
One of the Most Remarkable Instance*
of “Bad Dream*" I* Reported From
London, England—German Slew
Wife Whom He Imagined to Be
Specter—Dreams Have Been Known
to Produce Al! Sorts of Disease
Symptoms In Those Afflicted—One
Striking Case in Point.
New York. —At half past one of a
moonlit morning a policeman named
Humphreys was leisurely strolling his
beat when he was startled by a pierc
ing shriek of “Oh, my children! Save
my children!” followed by a sound of
breaking glass, writes Jaffrey Han
cock in the New York World. Next
instant something that he took to be
a bundle of clothing was thrown out
of a window directly above him, and
fell at his feet. Stooping, he discov
ered to his amazement that it was a
baby, unconscious, with blood stream
ing from its head. The shrieks of
'Save my children!” continued.
Constable Humphreys blew his
whistle, and, to the three officers who
Instantly responded from nearby
streets, explained:
“Quick! Murder is being done in
yonder house! This baby was
thrown out of the window. Get in
side as fast as you can, while I take
Fatally Shot Wife.
it to the infirmary. It’s still alive, and
perhaps can be saved.”
The three policemen beat an angry
tattoo on the door and were admitted
by a white-faced man, who explained
that it was a boarding-house, and that
he was the landlord. On the way up
stairs the sound of breaking glass was
again heard, and more shrieks. The
officers readily located the room
whence the noises came, but found it
locked. “Open up!” cried one of
them. “The police are here!” A
woman’s voice continued to cry, “Save
my children!” There was a sound as
of some one stumbling about, and the
door was unlocked.
The policemen sprang forward into
a room lighted only by the moon. One
struck a match to a lamp, and all
three looked eagerly around. They
saw, on a bed, a little girl, crying bit
terly; on the floor, a young boy,
bleeding from glass cuts and cling
ing in fright to the night gown of his
mother, who stood staring wildly at
the officers.
“She has gone insane," whispered
one.
“No,” said another, “she is asleep.”
He shook her violently by the shoul
ders, and shouted into her ear. She
gave a convulsive start, trembling all
over. Then the expression in her
eyes changed. She looked inquiringly
at the officers.
“Oh!” she shrieked. “I did it! I
must have done it! But it was in my
sleep. I dreamed that my little boy
told me the house was on fire, and
that I dropped the baby out to save
her. I must actually have done so.
Oh, sirs, ^id nobody catch her? Is
she badly hurt?”
“She has been taken to the in
firmary. We will wait outside while
you dress. Then you can accompany
us ’there, and find out how she is.”
At the infirmary scant ’hopes were
given the agonized mother. Besides
being badly cut, her baby was suffer
ing from concussion of the brain. Hap
pily, the excellent care it received and
the blessing of a strong constitution
enabled it to belie the physician’s dire
prediction, and win a slow recovery
to health.
Dreamed of Thieves, Shot His Wife.
Sensational as this occurrence must
be considered, it is but one of many
similar mishaps that have within re
cent years aroused physicians and
psychologists to a realization of the
importance of studying attentively the
condition of the mind during sleep.
Dreaming is no longer considered a
.mere fantastic, incidental and harm
less accompaniment of the sleeping
state.
Dangerous Dreams.
In a most literal sense, and to an
extent unsuspected by the general
public, there are "dreams that kill” by
impelling the dreamer to commit in
voluntary suicide, or to attempt “un
conscious murders” similar to that for
which, if it had succeeded, the unhap
py mother in the London boarding
house would always have experienced
the bitterest grief. And in many
cases murders committed as the re
sult of a terrifying dream are only
too successful.
Thus, to recall one or two that hare
found enduring record in the annals
of medical jurisprudence, Bernard
Schidmaizlg, a German, dreamed one
night that a fearsome specter, q
“woman in white,” was standing
mena’cingly over him. Panic-stricken,
he leaped out of bed while still asleep,
seized a hatchet, and attacked the
supposed phantom.
It fell at the first blow, and Schid
maizlg heard a loud cry, which tolly
awakened him. He now saw that the
"ghost” was none other than his wife,
who had got out of bed for some pur
pose, and that he had severely wound
ed her. She died the next day.
In Chicago, a patient of Dr. Henry
M. Lyman, dreaming of burglars, drew
a revolver from beneath his pillow
and fired wildly In every direction un
til it was completely discharged. He
then awoke, to discover that he had
fatally shot his wife, lying by his
side. And, under the Influence of a
similar dream, a young man of twenty
shot and killed his father, to whom
he was devotedly attached. At his
trial for murder he testified:
“I must have fired the gun in my
sleep. I recollect seeing nothing, nor
am I conscious of having spoken.
The night was so bright that every
thing could have been seen. I must
have been dreaming that thieves had
broken in."
But even more sinister, because of
far more widespread occurrence and
the greater difficulty in getting at the
true state of affairs, Is the role often
' played by dreams in affecting un
favorably the health of those having
them. Incredible though it may seem,
modern psychological investigation
has conclusively demonstrated that
there are dreams whose effects con
tinue Into the waking state, producing
all sorts of disease symptoms.
A striking case In point is afforded
’ by the experience of a young woman
who came under the observation of
that well-known Boston neurologist.
' Dr. George A. Waterman. She com
' plained of a persistent headache, a
sensation of nausea, and a peculiarly
bitter taste in her mouth, a taste which
she could not get rid of, in spite of
1 having diligently tried to do so by
■ gargling, cleaning her teeth, etc. She
1 explained that she had awakened early
in the morning with these symptoms
which had continued ever since.
Queer Result of Dream.
Dr. Waterman, failing to find any
physical cause for her trouble, sus
pected that, a morbid dream might be
at the bottom of it, and questioned her
closely. But she could not recall hav
ing dreamed at all for some time past.
He then requested permission to hyp
notize her, explaining that persons
when hypnotized often found it pos
sible to remember things that had
dropped entirely out of recollection
I in the normal state.
Sure enough, in hypnosis the young
’ woman informed him that the night
I before the symptoms developed she
I had had an exceptionally unpleasant
■ dream. She was climbing alone up a
■ steep and rocky path, feeling unut
-1 terably miserable. On a beautiful
1 lake far below she saw a number of
1 her friends amusing themselves. She
• felt strangely envious of them. Sud
' denly one friend, a woman who had
recently died, appeared before her on
> the path and offered her a glass filled
। with a dark liquid, saying to her,
1 “Drink, for once dead you shall never
return."
। Tasted the Draught.
1 “Then," the dreamer continued, “I
' sat down by the side of the path, and
thought, ‘Why should I not drink it?
■ There is nothing for me in life.’ So I
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Her Shrieks Summoned the Police
man.
took the glass and put it to my lips,
but it tasted, oh, so bitter. It puck
ered my mouth, and I said, 'I cannot
drink it. Life is bitter enough, but
this death is more bitter still.’ I
flung the glass from me, and it
changed into a bubble and floated off
in the air.
“I awoke after this with a headache
and feeling awfully ill. Then I no
ticed what an odd, bitter taste there
was in my mouth and I got up and
brushed my teeth. But 1 could not
get rid of it.”
Knowing the circumstances of her
private history, the neurologist did not
doubt that the dream, by touching on
certain sad passages in her life, had
affected her so keenly as to acquire
a firm lodgment in the "sub-conscious" ।
portion of her mind, whence it would
have to be expelled before a cure
could be wrought. That this view was
correct was shown by the total and
permanent disappearance of the trou-1
blesome symptoms upon the blotting
out of the dream from her “*ubcon
scious” memory by suggestions direct
ed to that end.
Paet Event Cause of Bad Dream.
Another patient of Dr. Waterman,
a girl of twenty-one, had been trou
bled for nearly a year by frequent at
tacks of severe pain in the right side.
As In the previous case no organic
cause for the pain could be found and
it was similarly traced to the baneful
effect of a peculiar dream —a dream of
moving a piano which rapidly grew
heavier while she raised it from the
floor, until it caused a severe pain
extending from her right arm through
her right side into the leg. All at
onee the piano fell with a crash, and
the dreamer awoke to experience a
distinct sensation ,of pain In her right
side.
Investigation brought to light the
fact that some time earlier a piano
had actually figured prominently in
an episode most disturbing to the pa
tient. This explained the symptom-
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“I Dreamed That She Offered Me a
Strange Drink."
producing power of that particular
dream, and cleared the way to a
speedy cure, the pain soon disappear
ing under treatment by suggestion.
Caused Marital Estrangement.
More often the disease symptoms
resulting from pathological dreams
are mental rather than physical in
character. A most peculiar case is on
record In which a husband developed
an unaccountable antipathy to his
wife. He himself could not explain it, I
but he treated her so badly that a di
vorce was talked of. Luckily, a mutual
friend induced him to consult a phys
ician who understood the methods of
modern medical psychology. He was
put into the hypnotic state, and while
in that state related a dream In which
his wife told their children that their
father was a very uncouth man, a de
claration which, in the dream, had re
sulted in a violent quarrel between the
parents.
Waking, he had forgotten all about
this dream, but “subconsciously” it
had remained to plague him, and even
tually to give rise to his strange dis
like of the wife he truly loved.
HAVE RABIES STAMPED OUT
Persistent Work in Great Britain Has
Had Results That Are Most
Gratifying.
At the present time rabies does not
exist in Great Britain. The last sus
pected cases of rabies occured there
in 1908, but diagnosis showed that the
suspicion was unfounded. This British
immunity has been obtained only by
the taking of great pains. Consul-
General Griffiths of London has con
tributed interesting information on
this subject to the Daily Consular and
Trade Reports. The principal way in
which rabies has been exterminated
has been by the issuance of muzzling
orders, which are very strictly en
forced. In London and other populous
cities, and throughout the large manu
facturing districts, the muzzling of all
dogs remains in force for twelve
months or longer; in other districts,
six months or longer, according to the
circumstances in each case. The own
er of every dog six months old is re- I
quired to obtain an annual license, i
which cos's $1.83. for each animal, and
the animal must wear a collar bearing
the name and address of the owner.
When a dog feels ill in the early
stages of rabies it is anxious to get
away from its home and to go "on
the march.” Cases are known where
dogs so affected have been found to
have continued "on the march” for
seventy miles. In consequences of
this fact, whenever an outbreak occurs
the area brought under the jurisdic
tion of a muzzling and confirming order
is very large. To prevent, if possible,
the spread of the disease the provi
sions of the act are applied at once to
the entire territory.
Whenever an actual or suspected
case of rabies is reported, an order is
issued requiring every dog within the I
district and the surrounding area j
where the outbreak occurred to be I
kept under control by confinement in :
a kennel or other inclosure from which
the dogs cannot escape; or securing
it by a collar or chain; or efficient
muzzling with an effective wire cage
muzzle. The dog must also be led by
a collar and chain or other attachment.
Every dog attacked by rabies must
be immediately slaughtered.
Monastic Racecourse.
Sandown, the scene of the great
race, is the part of Esher that all tra
velers see from the railway, with the
grandstand backed by a fine cluster
of dark pines. Among the smaller
racecourses none is prettier. The
estate purchased by a company for
the special purpose of horse racing
originally belonged to a priory. All
the brethren were swept away by the
Black Death about the middle of the
fourteenth century and every trace
of their monastic buildings has disap
peared. Only their memory now re
mains as a text of warning to thought
I less pleasure-seekers.
I SHARP PAINS
IN THE BACK
Picture
Point to Hidden
Kidney Trouble.
Have you a
lame back, ach
ing day and
night?
Do you feel a
sharp pain after 4
bending over ? *
When the kid
seem sore
and the action “
irregular, use
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A New Jersey
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thing from broken-down kidneys. My
back was stiff and pained terribly. I
was all run down and couldn’t rest or
enjoy myself. Doan’s Kidney Pills gave
my kidneys new life and a few boxes
made me well. I don’t know of another
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Most of our comforts grow up be
tween our crosses.—Young.
For SUMMER HEADACHES
Hicks' CAPUDINE is the best remedy
no matter what causes them—whether
from the heat, sitting in draughts, fever
ish condition, etc. 10c.. 25c and 50c per
bottle at medicine stores. Adv.
Many a man’s bad luck is due to
the fact that he has neither inherited
ability nor acquired industry.
Protected Both Ways.
Two conservative ladies of old
fashioned notions were traveling in
the west, and becoming interested in
a young girl on the train, finally asked
why she was making so long a jour
ney alone. They were greatly shocked
at her blithe explanation:
“Well, you see, my mother and step
father live at one end of the journey,
and my father and stepmother live at
the other. They send me to each
other twice a year, so there isn’t a
bit of danger with four parents all
on the lookout!”
A While for a Time.
A Cleveland school teacher writes
that she asked her class what was
the difference between the expres
-sions, “a while,” and "a time,” says
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Nobody
seemed to have any idea on the sub
ject. Finally the light of intelligence
was seen to shine in the eyes of one
little boy, and the teacher called upon
him to save the intellectual honor of
i the class.
"I know, teacher!” he cried eager
ly. "When papa says he's going out
for a whlie, mamma says she knows
he’s going out for a time!”
That’s one way of looking at it.
Eggs Clotworthy Ate.
Harry Clotworthy, who is an expert
on military affairs, entered the
diningroom of the National Press
club one morning and carried with
him a ravenous appetite. Having
eaten one breakfast, which consisted
largely of eggs, he ordered an-
I other breakfast, which consisted
even more largely of eggs. After his
repast he went to the writing-room
i to get off some letters. Half an hour
later the steward of the club found
the colored waiter loafing about the
entrance of the writing-room and
asked him what he meant by being
absent from his post
"I got a good excuse,” exclaimed
the water, exhibiting the check for
the egg breakfast. “Mr. Clotworthy
done eat $2 worth of eggs and I ain't
goin’ to let him git away from here
without payin' for them, high as eggs
is now.”
“GOOD STUFF."
A Confirmed Coffee Drinker Takes to
Postum.
A housewife was recently surprised
when cook served Postum instead of
coffee. She says:
“For the last five or six years I have
been troubled with nervousness, in
digestion and heart trouble. I couldn't
get any benefit from the doctor's med
icine so finally he ordered me to stop
drinking coffee, which I did.
“I drank hot water while taking the
doctor's medicine, with some improve
ment, then went back to coffee with
the same old trouble as before.
“A new servant girl told me about
Postum —said her folks used it and
liked it in place of coffee. We got a
package but I told her I did not be
, lieve my husband would like it, as he
was a great coffee drinker.
“To my surprise he called for a
third cup. said it was ‘good stuff’ and
wanted to know what it was. We
have used Postum ever since and both
feel better than we have in years.
“My husband used to have bad
spells with his stomach and would be
sick three or four days, during which
time he could not eat or drink any
thing. But since he gave up coffee
and took to Postum, he has had no
more trouble, and we now fully be
lieve it was all caused by coffee.
“I have not had any return of my
former troubles since drinking Pos
tum. and feel better and can do more
work than in the last ten years. We
tell everyone about it —some say they
tried it and did not like it. I tell them
it makes all the difference as to how
it’s made. It should be made accord
ing to directions —then it is delicious."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read the book, “The
Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s
a reason."
Ever read toe above lettert A new
one appear* from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and toll of human
Interest. Adv.