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The M of Human Life
By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
: T seems to me that there are, when all is eaid, but two ways of
h regarding the mystery of human life. Either give it up, the
A whole thing, as a tragedy too black for respect, and give up
- with it all the beautiful bellefs which have (3me into it from
some source of unutterakle patience, or herole faith, give up,
frankly, God and goodness, Heaven and happiness, faith and pur
ity and prace—give up all that makes life tolerable, death f.“l_eei‘-
ful, pain reasonable, and hope possibic—or else aocg-;:t the system of (hings
at its worst, candidly admit its mongtroug perplexities, and boldly swing the
ulmfi(\ array of them over, into the gaze of a sweet reasonableness which sees
in the bleckest of them the shadow cf the eternal sun. If we make angels of
our spectres, we rneed not be afraid. In a werd, if we can see in the wo_r;-r,t
facts of thig life an argument for their justification or even their explanation
in another, we have gained a point of view of which the most brilliant sceptic
in this scoffing world cannot denrive us,
How ¢ 's Tai
ow a Comet’s Tail Grows
By Waldemar IKaempffert,
O bridal veil was ever so filmy as a comet's tail. Hundreds of
cubic miles of that wonderful appendage are out-weighed by a
‘ g Jjarful of zir. By means of the speciroscope we have magically
e transported this fairy plume to otr laboratories, and have dis
f:;’:@.",q@ covered that it is akin to the biue flame of our gas-stoves; for
GREY the gas by which we cook and the delicate tresses of a comet
both consist of combinations of hydrogen and carbon, appro
priately called by chemists “hydrocarbons.” When it first appears in the
heavens, far removed from the sun, a comet is a tailless blotch of light. As
a comet swims on toward the sun, the hydrocarbons of the tail split up under
the increasing heat into hydrogen gas and hydrocarbons of a higher boiling
point. With a still cloger approach to the sun, these more resistant hydro
carbong eventually yield t{o the increasing hecat and are decomposed in the
form of scot. Interplanetary space is airless, Hence the soot cannot burn.
It must pursue the comet in the form of a dust train. The particles constitut
ing that train are gllall enough to be toyed with by the pressure of sunlight.
No matter where the comet may be in itg orbit, whether it hag just entered
the solar system or ig speeding away, that plume is inevitably tossed away
from the sun, just as if a mighty wind were blowing it from the central
luminary. The appendage of shining dust is the symbol of the triumph of
light over solar gravitation.—Harper's Magazine,
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My Vision.
Mankind's Emancipation From Fvil Was Presented
By Julia Ward Howe,
NE night recently I experienced a sudden awakening. I had a
vision of a new era which is to dawn for mankind and in which
R men and women are battling equally, unitedly, for the uplift-
A A ing and emancipation of the race from evil.
f:"!",’,’ 1 saw men and women of every clime working like bees
.i.'.f;’ut to unwrap the evils of society and to discover the whole eb
of vice and misery, and to apply the remedies, and also to find
the inidluence that ghould best counteract evil and its attending suffering.
There geemed to be a new, a wondrous, ever permeating light, the glory
of which I cannot attempt to put in human words—the light of the new born
hope and sympathy blazing. The source of this light was born of human
endeavor, immortal purpose of countless thousands of men and women who
were equally doing their part In the world-wide battle with evil and whose
energy was bended to tear the mask from error, crime, superstition, greed
and to discover and apply the remedy.
I saw the men and the women standing side by side, shoulder to should
er, a common, lofty, and indomitable purpose lighting every face with a glory
not of this earth. All were advancing with one end in view, one foe to
trample, one everlasting good to geain, ;
And then I saw the victory. All of evil was gone from the earth. Mis
ery was blotted out. Mankind was emancipated and ready to march forward in
a new era of human understanding, ail encompassing sympathy and everpres
ent help. The' era of perfect love, of peace passing understanding.
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Clipper-Ships
By Captain Arthur H. Clark.
HE American clipper-ship era began in 1843, as a result of the
growing demand for a more rapid delivery of tea from China,
continuing under the stimulating influence of the discovery of
gold in California, and ending with the outbreak of the Civil
th 4@)] War, These memorable years form one of the most important
A and interesting periods of maritime history. They stand be
tween the long, weary centuries during which man mnavigated
the sea with oar and sail—a slave to unknown winds and currents, alike help
less in calm and storm-——separating and at the same time connecting those
ages of comparative darkness with the successful introduction of steam navi
giukm. by which man has obtained mastery upon the ocean.
After countless generations of evolution, this ear witnessed the highest
development of the wooden sailing-ship in construction, gpeed and beauty.
Many of the clipper-ships—indeed, nearly all of them—made speed records
whlc‘h were not equalled by the steamships of their day, and more than a
quarter of a century elapsed, devoted to discovery and invention in perfecting
the marine engine and boiler, before the best speed records of the clipper
ships were broken. And even today there are not more than thirty ocean
mail steamers afloat whose speed exceis the best twenty-four hours’ run of
the American clippers of fifty years ago, while their records under canvas,
over courses encircling the globe, for the superb stake of commercial
supremacy and championship of the seas, stuind unbroken and unsurpassed.
—Harper's Magazine.
Where the English
| City Is Supreme
Ey Frederick C. Howe.
HE English city, too, is free from the spoils system. Jobs are
filled for efficiency and not for pull, and the employee is retained
during good behavior, This is a real democracy of merit. An
rassecinses alderman would think of demanding a city contract for himself
;‘,’iv,”dafi\)' as soon as he would the creation of an unnecessary job for a
S S friend or relative. Public opinion, too, would tolerate the one
sbout as cuickly as it would the other. Not that the English
city has any civil service laws, It doesn't need them. Public opinion regu
lates the service just as it does official conduct in other regards. This is
the only kind of a merit system that protects the public from a bureaucratic
administration,
1t is along these lines that the English city is supreme. It has a fine
gense of itself. It has an intolerant conscience. It commands the service of
a high grade of citizenship. It has never known the ward-heeler, and is exact
ing in its demands on its councilmen. And the people delight in the city's
successesa Thev ave proud of a fine tramway balance sheet. They applaud
an efficient manager. They are glad when the city makes a profit. Not for
the sake of the profit alone, but because of the success of it all. The people
care for the city and talk city in a way that we do not and cannot compre
hend.
This is one of the things we lack, this sense of a city. Wea have not yet
eroused an organized public opinion that is jealous of the city's well-being.
We expect ineficiency as a malter of course, and shrug our shoulders when
an official goes wrong. And we do not expect the police and health depart
ments, the civil service laws or the purely personal side of our political lite
to be abbve reproach. It is in its thrifty, commercial side that the English
city excels, This is largely due to the fact that only tax or ratepayers vote.
The council represents property, rot persons. This gives a rather sordid,
ungenerous tone to all discussion. For the taxes are assessed against the
rental value rather than upon the capitailzed value of the praperty itselt
And the taxes are paid by the tenant and not by the owner. In consequence,-
the English councilman is always in terror of the taxpayer. And the people
get the taxpayer's administration and an administration thst is very timorous
of anything which increases the rates—~From “The American and British
City,” in Scribner. )
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“Speaking of mysteries, Super na
tural happenings, and that sort |
thing,” said the Major, pulling a very
long face, and not observing that h’f‘
cigar had gore out, *'l Lad an etperi
ence last night which convinces 24’
that we stand very close to the un
known, and that the vaunted motf’erq
gcience has no more conmipleted its la
bors than had Hercules when he went
out and sized up the Numean liody
and -asked a bystanding farmer if he
thought the critter would bite.”
“You had been sampling thét
Louisville man’s peach-blow cobbler,
eh?” returned the Colonel, suspicious
-Iy.
“I had not,” replied the Major,
stiMly. ‘That it was after dinner I
do not deny—make the most of it!
I had had wine with the meat, as
becomes a gentleman in my position
—do your worst with this faet also!
I had accomplished my dinner in com
pany with two or three old college
friends, and we had revived past
memories, and given Good Cheer a
chance to spread her wings—gloat
over this also it you willl I am pre
pared to defend the statement that
I was not intoxicated. What I am
about to relate is plain fact, and to
morrow I shall lay it before the So
ciety for Psychological Research.”
“Oh, dear me,” said the Doctor,
soothingly; *“we didn’t know the
thing was so serious. Of course ¥ou
were sober. Take your facts out of
cold storage and blaze away with
'em!"”’ "
“Thank you,” returned the Major,
completely mollified. “You will think
it a serious matter when you hear
about it. As I said, 1 had dined with
some old college chums. The door
was opened to Conviviality, bus rigid
1y barred on Excess. I left the table
without assistance. True, an officious
waiter hovered near, but when I obof‘
served the. superfluous scoundrel, I
spoke to him in a rolling voice, and‘
bid him begone about his business,
if Ee had any. Judge Dot} and" I
)8 ~on the sidewalk. Two
l%‘m ; 1&# W wer oM st
puzzled which to take, but at my
suggestion we took the one that we
could feel. Something aiready told
me that it was a night of plienome
non, but I knew that the sense of
touch is never to be deceived—as you
shall again see later on in my narra
tive. We accordingly rode away in
the tangible cab. I blush to say it
of a friend of mine, but the plain
fact is that the Judge was not master
of himself. He sang, and sang exe
crably. He looped his feet up in the
arm-rests. He also called for some
unnamed lost love of his youth in a
tearful tone, : .
“But we arrived safely at the
Judge’s house, and set him down. I
was both shocked and relieved to see
that his butler had deemed it neces
sary to await his master in the vesti
bule. As you know, I live at the
Empress of India, the.large uptown
family hotel. There are several en
trances; the cabman drove me to one
at the side. As I alighted I noticed
that the street was deserted; the
hour, 1 confess, was late. It was
a cold, clear, frosty night. I dis
missed the cab and turned to enter
the hostelry. Now, gentlemen, the
matter for the attention of the So-‘
ciety for Pyschological Research be-‘
gins here. As [ went up the steps,
I saw distinctly through. the glass
door, and down the long corridor
within which leads to the office off
at the left. The corridor was also
deserted. I placed my hand upon the
brass rod across the middle of the
door, and started to push my way
in. - The door yielded in a perfect
natural manner, and I saw nothing
out of the ordinary. I pushed on,
but to my utter surprise I did not
gain the corridor. The door con
tinued to swing back hefore me as
1 pressed against the rod, but though
1 was constantly advancing, 1 re
mained continuaily on the outside—
a very peri at the gate of Paradise.
1 scon observed that the corridor was
appearing and disappearing in a
most extraordinary manner, bus when
in sight its aspect was perfectly nor
mal, and it seemed but a step before
me. It was as if 1 were pushing
door and corvidor ahead of me, or as
it 1 were on a treadmill instead of
the firm tiles, which 1 distinctly felt
bencath my feet. Gentlemen, I am
not without perseverance—call it
stubbornaess, if you will. 1 deter
mined to push on into that hotel or
die at my pest. 1] set my jaws firmly
and struck a regular gait of what 1
suspect was about {wo and a half
miles an hour. Refusing utterly to
recognize that I was, so to sar, up
against a power beyond the ken of
man, 1 continued to forge ahead, the
door, the corridor and | know not
what else before me. Gentlemen, for
how many weary hours 1 thus stood
up and battled with the unknown ana
the unknowable | have no idea. This
much I do know, however, the dark
ness of night had given place to the
rly gray of morning, and a porter
had come to extinguish the lights in
e corridor, before 1 escaped the
clutches of the awful mystery and
ound myself within, the porter ap
arently grasping my arm. He was
real, for I heard his ghastly, insolent
laugh, and rebuked him for it. I
?ghen went to bed. Now, gentlemen,
1 am no student of the occult; before
thz hidden I stand a bowed figure.
@ut €0 much I know—that this all
gmppened as I have related it. Proof,
too, is not wanting; I found my shoes
in the morning with the soles quite
ij;‘worn through, though I had bought
them new before going to the din
ner. 1 hope the Society for Psycho
’loglcal Research can do something
with my experience.”
. “Come, come,” said the Doctor,
woftly; ‘‘throw away that cold cigar
and have a fresh one. Don't go and
take up the valuable time of the Psy
chological Society with your story;
you simply got caught in one of these
revolving storm-doors, and circulated
all night like a merry-go-round. At
the dinner you may have barred the
door on Excess, but I'm afraid she
got in at the window.”—Harper's
Magazine.
[ COMMERCE AND PEACE.
%@be Victories of Peace OQutlast the
| Victories of War.
International peace is best pre
served by satisfactory trade relation
ghips. War means disaster even with
!vlctory. Large fleets of battleships
‘and great standing armies may have
their value in preserving harmony
among nations. But the increase of
commercial relationships with a for
eign country and the weaving of an
‘intricate net of international inter
‘ests is a much better way to keep the
‘peace.
- These are the sentiments expressed
to his American countrymen by the
Italian Ambassador at the close of a
busy week in Chicago. They are
words of truth and soberness. They
are supported by many illustrations
in the history of the United States.
‘They are splendid sug_estions in con
nection with the work of the newly
formed Italian Chamber of Com
merce. The clash of arms plays havoc
with commercial interesis. The men
who will lose most usually are slow
est in their advocacy of resort to
war. That this feeling can be made
a powerful factor in international
peace was declared in striking sen
tences by the Ambassador from Italy.
Where solidarity of interests exists
between representatives of the com
merce of different nations the chances
for arbitration cos disturbing ques
tions are far greater than those for
war. The conclusion follows that
the more general and involved the
lines of trade become, the less danger
there will be of armed conflict.
From this point of view the con
'"&llgj; agents of the Unlte%States are
‘dding a splenatd Work in vhe intorests
of pedace. The great manufacturing
concerns of America which are reach
ing out to all parts of the world may
prove more effective forces than the
steadily developing fleet. Such agen
cies are friendly. They leave no bit
terness for years to overcome. They
work quietly, and every contract or
new business connection is just one
more element against war.—Chicago
Tribune:
Note on the Black Snake,
I have never seen a black snake
over seven feet long, and much doubt
if they grow to a greater length.
They are not hard to catch, though
in an open field they can run about as
fast as a man can. When caught they
struggle desperately until they find
there is no opportunity to escape,
when they will give up fighting and
may be hardled with impunity.
Last spring, when I was walking
over the Brandywine hills, a hlack
snake stuck his head out of a hole in
an old apple tree about six feet from
the ground. He dodged back out of
sight when he saw me. Then 1
lighted a piece of newspaper and
dropped it into the hole. In just
about a second the snake started out
again, and just as he poked his head
through the hole my companion
grabbed him around the neck.
I took hold of the tail as it ap
peared and we stretched him out to
full length and. measured him—five
and a half feet. He did not fight
much, but this may have been caused
by his just having shed his skin. He
was turned loose, and went wriggling
off into the swamp. Farmers in that
part of the country do not like to
have the black snakes killed.
One day a few weeks later I was
walking through a laurel thicket and
heard a great commotion in the
leaves. A black snake had been dis
turbed by the noise I made.
He rushed toward me until he saw
me fix my feet to stop him, when he
turned and ran off in the other direc
tion into a clump of chestnut sprouts.
- Up these he climbed for about
twenty feet, gliding from one branch
to another, but not at any time en
‘cireling the trunk or a limb.
As I went toward him he would go
off from the top of one tree to anoth
er, stopping now and then to look
‘back at me. I brought his skin home
‘and it measured just six foct.
i 1 have never found these snakes to
lbe vicious; they can be handled eas
ilr, and their bite is harmiless. They
can squeeze pretty hard if they get a
turn around your wrist, but not hard
enough to break a bone.—Forest and
Stream.
R Y
One firm of four men having their
headquarters near the Illincis River
gather sioo,ooo worth of pelts every
Yyear, which are sent to Europe.
What Diseases Are Incurable?
Of All Maladies the Most Hopeless Are Pro- - _
duced by the Death of the Nerve Cells : s :: ~ -
By AMON JENKINS, M. D. } ;
1z there a diseaze which was never
cured? The incurable and necessarily
fatal diseases of man are rare, and
strange as rare. Also there are many
incurable diseases having little or no
relation to fatality.
The three quickest, surest deadly
diseases which present no hope of re
covery whatsoever are virulent germ
diseases. No case of rabies has ever
recovered after the first symptoms
have developed. The same can be
said of the acute form of anthrax
and glanders. Rabies have been with
us too recently and tragically to re
quire description. Glanders, a germ
disease of the horse's nose, has been
caught by men drinking from "horse
buckets, from a horse snorting in the
face of its groom, and in one case of
unpoetic justice a maker of bologna
sausages died. The germ of glanders
was discovered in 1882. This disease
comes on with hard chills and fever.
In three days head, neck and joints
blotch and swell to bursting. Re
lief comes in a week or ten days.
Anthrax (wool sorter’s disease—
malignant boil) has the largest,
toughest, strongest, wickedest germ
known, and why it does not possess
the universe itself is a mystery, for
they are practically immortal. No
degree of cold nips, and it takes boil
ing water a matter of ten minutes to
kill the veriest youngsters, is a sheep
and cattle disease, and the ordinary
two months’ process of tanning leath
er affects them not in the least. Con
sequently they may persist and live
in shoe and glove leather. Several
vary surprising deaths have come
from anthrax germs being in sur
geons’ catgut thread. Anthrax lives
for years in the carcass of buried
animals, Animals grazing over the
graves of such, though buried six
feet deep, have caught the discase,
here brought up to grass by fishing
worms.
Anthrax usually shows in man by
a small blush boil on the back of
the forearm. A few hours, or days
at most, tell the terrible tale.
The criminal possibilities of tkese
three diseases had not or should not
be written to make the Bergias and
Brinvilliers of history seem but ty
ros in the Satanic art.
Leprosy Cures Questioned.
Leprosy is anotnsr incurable—
has been cured (?) three times by
Calmett’s medical preparation of
snake virus (cobra venum). Yearsi
ago Dr. Duque, of Havana's Lepsr‘
Hospital, found live leprosy germs
in the stomach of a yellow fever mos—‘
quito. Doubtless this little deadly
‘wongetracs earries it to men. All over
South America and the West Indies
clothes and house vermin are be
lieved to be the criminals. :
Red mangrove wine was discovered
by leprous West Indian negroes and
first tried out by Dr. Duque, he claim
ing several cures. One thing certain,
in a survey of hundreds of lepers, it
was easy to pick out those using the
wine by their better locks and color.
It the Bible all kinds of skin dis
cases were called leprosy. In the
tenth century Britain had it bad.‘
In the twelfth it was spread all over
Europe by the Crusaders, but in the |
last few centuries it has about played
out in the Old Country, showingz that
however incurable a disease may be
in the individual, there is no such
thing as an incurable disease in the
race. Leprosy is ugiy enough, but
not a patching in looks with confluent
smallpox, where the head is as hig
as a bucket, and no features to be
discerned through the spongy mask
of swelling. Literally leprosy, like
in Ben Hur, is a pardonable form of
exaggeration. Indesd, leprosy is only
dramatic in literature.
When Dr. Crandon, of Boston, re
cently said that sickness is going out
of fashion, ‘“‘well organized, civilized
society will not stand for it, and it
must go,” the doctor did not reckon
with the nerve cell, the neuron and
its cureless troubles. He was bhut
speaking of crass germ and filth dis
eases. For locomotor ataxia (Tabes
dorsalis) the zons of men may have
forever,
The only absclutely out and out in
curably diseases are nerve cell, neu
ronic ‘diseases, and it will presently
be shown why this must be so. Nenu
rons are the central nerves and brain
cells, the cardinal units of life it
self. Some are seemirgly simple
cells with starlike points, while
others may look like a tadpole with
a tail three feet long, and reaching
from the middie of the back to the
tip of the toes. Th 2 neuron is the
centre and origin of thought, sensa
tion and motion, but these cells are
so complicated, so highly and in
finitely delicate and perfeet in con
struction that if injured or destroyed,
it leaves no reproductive cells to re
produce or regenerate itself. Cnce
gone, gone entirely, which is only
true of itself, for all other cells can
reproduce and regenerate themselves
to some extent at least. Th€n, too,
this long tail-like conductor is the
part that most often, and incurably,
goes out of business. |
Some of the strongest minds in
modern medicine are trying to make
the neuron the standard around
which most medical thought of the
future must rally. However, anl
anyhow, when a neuron or its fine
filmy electric tail once dies the jig
in up for that man. Of course most
il not all maladies of the mind are
neuronic and incurabge, and are quite
too deep to handle here. There must
be incurable neuronic diseases until
some wizard, some future doctor who
can do with men as Luther Burbank
does with plants, and so develops a
self-producing, self-generating neu
ron in man. With such a neuron at
the head of human affairs barring
disaster, man might live almost as
long as he desires. Right here there
seems something wrong in the neu
ron thecry. How else could some of
our old war horses like Mark Twain
and Watterson stay in the ring so
long? Such men must have used up
or worn out a bushel of neurons. It
seems both absurd and impossible
that these cells could last for a whole
busy lifetime withcut regeneration.
Speaking of locomotor ataxia as
chief of neuron diseaseg, half a cen
tuiry ago Romberg said: “For ncne
of these is there hope of recovery;
all are condemned to death.” Never
theless, modern treatment has great
1y mildened and lengthened this dis
ease. Locomotor ataxia is not itself
deadly, but it shortens life through
the many complications which it
awakens. Some cases are protracted
out to thirty years.
Thomsen’'s disease lis strange
enough. Its most conspicuous fea
ture is overdevelopment of the mus
cles. These stand out in great wads,
tiers and layers for all the world like
the statue of the Farnese Hercules.
Severe or mild epilepsy is practi
cally incurable.
The well-known shaking palsy,
though protracted through years,
maybe, of success and affluence, is
cureless. It begins in the fingers,
with a slight tremor, to extend into
legs, face and hody.
Arthritis deformans is a myster
ious skulky disease, often starts and
stays in the hip joints, but may ex
tend into and deform every joint of
the body. " Even after death the body
may remain as rigid as stone. In the
early stages the jeint juice is in
creased too nmuch, and swells the
joints. Later it dries up into a tough
gristle, which glues the joints solid.
This disease (as all other incurables)
should be treated as curable. Much
better results are thus secured thaun
if treated in a half-hearted, foregone
way.
Syringomyela (flute-like spinal
cord)—this disease burrows a flute
like hole through the whole length of
the spinal cord as big as a lead pen
cil. Pains and wasting of the limbs
are its main signs, and may last for
vears, and can be greatly helped.
Shriveling of the optic nerves will
recall Mr. Broadway Rouse’s case, his
CADETI et substitate, and Wm‘i{f
lion-dollar cffer as a reward for cure.
Spot hardening is a common affec
tion of the brain and cord, and usu
ally follows some cother severe dis
ease. The brain and spinal cord are
full of hard, shotty spots, which
range in size from a pinhead to a fil
bert. Paralysis of the legs is the
chief resu.t. £
As for DBright's disease, organic
heart disease, cirriosis of the liver,
cancer, consumption—this group of
diseases has fallen from the list of
incurable. Many physicians now be
lieve that the lungs, liver, kidney and
heart possess marvelous recuperative
and regenerative powers. Ortel,
through exercise and diet, has cured
many cases of organic heart disease.
Insurance companies no longer take
snap judgment from the first exami
nation in examining for Bright's dis
case, but wait a whilc and examine
!gain and again.
Internal and external cancer treat
ed by the knife, has yielded as high
as thirty per cent. of cures that have
no return after five years. Consump
tion is becoming more and more
amenable every vyear. :
Unused, useless cells or organs are
a common and most dangerous cause
of diseasgp. Man is not only the high
est, but the quickest, evolved of all
animals. Consequ-ntly he is full of
old, shrunken, wuseless, discarded
cells and organs, relics of a past
which the system has not yet got en
tiely rid of. This old rubbish is a
veritable sleeping volcano, perfect
seeds of sickness and death, and if
science can ever knock these old,
cranky cells out of man's life, there
is no telling what sort of an arch
angel career he could take up now
that we have flying machines.
These diseases are somewhat along
the line of modern medicine’s high
est ideals. Already’ certai. elective
and selective serums reach to and
retard some cf these old revolution
ary relics. Evefy tyro now knows
that Professor Metchnikoff regards
old age somewhat as a disease, which
science in future times may greatly
protract and delay. Burbank proved
in plants that their forms and quali
ties were tremendously exchangeable
from species to species, Now the
whale is supposed to live to an ideal
old age of seven or eight centuries.
Doubtless infant whales develop a
serum which rids them of their dan
gerous relics, similarly as the tad
poles lose their tails.-
In the face of past performance
guaranteeing the world's future
hopes and expectations, can money
be more blessedly employed than in
medical research? Hence the names
of Rockefcller and Carnegie may live
forever.—New York Times.
The actual cost of the Suez Canal
was $120,750,000.
