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THE NATIONAL GAMBi
The Boston Inflold to now tho strongest In
the League.
Baltimore has one of the best throwing
outfields in tho League.
The Bostons bavo made fewer sn' fico
hits than any other team In the League.
Sexatoh Goshas has joined the “rooters"
of O’Bourke's band of Washington slug¬
gers.
It would be hard fo find nn Infield thal
works more earnestly than tho St. Loult
quartet.
The young St. Lonis eatoher, Pelts, li
rloing as good work as nny catcher In thi
League.
The ex-kins pitcher, Guy Heel er, is now
operating a little independent elub at Oil
City, Penn.
Just bear in mind that tho third baseman
nnd short stop have to bear the brunt of the
infield work this year.
It Is the height of nil New England bred
players' ambition to some day bo a member
of the Boston League team.
Wako. Connor nnd Davis, of the New
Yorks. I»nt right-handed every time they face
n left-handed pitcher and do quite well.
“Jack" Nei.sok, of old Atlantio nnd
Metropolitan fame, to playing n very good
gnme of ball, though he to forty-four years
of age.
Laso, Chicago’s big second Imseman, to
too awkward on the field to ever become ns
proficient as tils predecessor in tho position
—Fred. 1‘foffer.
The Philadelphia loam now contains moro
ieft-hsnJed batsmen than any other in tbs
League —five, n" told, when Clements and
Beilly nro playing.
Lowr. is playing second base better than
any man has ployed It for the Boston Club
since the days tlint princo of second base¬
men, John Burdock.
Neveh before In tho history of baseball
WAS the general public more deeply in for¬
ested In the affairs of the green diamond
field than it Is to-day.
The demand for pitchers is very great In
iho League, nnd there will he every effort to
recruit from Ibe college ranks ns soon as the
college season to over.
Lei.t-haxpeo pitchers are no longer in
demand in the big League. Never have
‘here been fewer “southpaws" employed in
i than now.
Boston, Now York—in fact every club in
the League, except Ht, Louis, Cleveland nnd
Brooklyn—aro wildly scouring tho country
for “winning” pitchers, and thus far their
sbaae has been in vain.
Stein’s pitching is the sensation of the
mason. Tho Brooklyn pitcher’s record has
never boon excelled In the same number of
ynnn-s. It is more remarkable on account of
the increased pitching distance.
Attobnet-Genehal Cleveland's Oi.ney is tho only
member of Cabinet who has
<hown himself to be » “baseball crank.” Ho
is sometimes seen at tho Washington hum-hall
park taking in tho game irom an obscure
jornor of the grand stand.
Captain Quinn, of St. Louis, says that ns
* result of the increased pitching distance tho
batsmen who have l>eeii putting their hits to
right field now make it lively for the third
baseman. Tho batsman undertho now rules
offers at tho twill a moment later, and the
force of tho swing turns him around, thus
resulting iu tho ball being driven down to
third tiaso.
The dearth of pitchers Is not caused by tho
Increased pitching distance, tint by un
natural strains, Ho is compelled by tho
rules of the game to pitch with might and
main tlmo ranging from 1‘AS Irom to 17 a bulls hour during nnd nhnltto a period ot
ono two
hours, overstraining tho cor ls and muscles
ot his shoulder which soon results iu bis
being lauded “on the bench.”
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< THE 4 ,AB 0 B m
Boston is ngltntfRg early dosing of stores.
Connecticut peddlers must now bo
licensed.
New York Is to havo n co-operative homo
association.
Socialists are organizing In tho Pennsyl¬
vania coko region.
The Cincinnati's rahimet makers’ strike
threw out 7500 hands.
Chicago marble workers refuse to work on
stone imported from Europe.
Kansas Citt unions run nn industrial bu¬
reau nnd library association.
At Denver, Col., $200,000 will bo spout on
n co-operntivo homo scheme.
L'nion shoemakers stnrtod a co-opcrativo
fm-tory ol in $10,000. Syracuse, N. Y., witb a capitalized
stock
SriiAccsr. (N. Y.l striking slioemnki rs
fulled in their attempt to raise money fora
co-operative shop.
Federation men favor a labor convention
to take action on the proposed Conztitu
tlonnl amendments in Now York.
•Tapank.se and Chinese aro crowding out the
white fishermen In British Columbia and the
latter petition tho Government for relic'.
Salt Lake (Utah) plumbers refused to
work for a non-union boss who offered union
men a dollar a day more tlinu tho union
scale demands.
Tn its manufacture a knife is handled by
seventy different art Isms from the moment
tho blade is forged until the instrument is
finished nnd smoothly wrapped up for mar¬
ket.
The Criminal Court at Pittsburg. Penn.,
has noli pressed all the cases against the
officials of the Carnegie Company for com¬
plicity In the Homestead trouble last sum¬
mer.
• ompi.ainth come from California of lack ot
Chinese help in the have buy field and vineyard, ns ninny
moved to the cities nnd towns,
and others refuse to work while they fem
deportation.
The differences between the Italian Mosaic
Workers’ Union, or New York City, nnd the
Helpers’ Union have been adjusted, Tin
former organization would not permit help
cr« to become mechanics, but have com pro¬
mised by granting tho privilege when u
scarcity of mechanics shall exist.
The lowest average weekly earnings by
female labor in any city in (he Union is at
Atlanta, Hn., where it is $-1. New York shows
$5.85, while Nan Francisco is iho highest
with $6,91. Comparing the price ot living
nnd clothing on tne Pacific coast with the
East, tho advantage is ou the side of New
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During tfce past fir# years the sui¬
cides in the Austrian army were equal
to a fifth of the total mortality of the
army during thia period, and more
deaths were due to this than to typhoid
fever, pneumonia or consumption.
Tbo business of colonizing Africa
with white people goes on apace. An
expedition left England some weeks
ago for Mozambique as advanoe party
of settlers who are to colonize some 300
square miles of territory between the
rivers Zambesi and Sabi.
Says the Springfield Union: “Now
that the Canadians are refusing United
States paper money except at a dis¬
count, Americans visiting Canada
should provide themselves with Cana¬
dian money, which can bo purchased
hero at a discount. The discount busi¬
ness can bo made to work both ways.”
Acoording to Charles D. Kellogg,
the General Secretary of the Charity
Organization Society, the enormous
sum of $0,000,000 is annually spent in
New York City in charity. Two and
one-quarter million dollars, he esti¬
mates, goes to public institutions, four
millions to private ones, and the bal¬
ance is distributed by various religious
organizations.
The correspondent of tho Cologne
(Germany) Gazette, now in this coun¬
try, tells his readers that every Amer¬
ican wears a diamond pin costing
$ 1200 . This suggests to tho New
York Tribune that it might be very in¬
teresting and perhaps amusing, to read
the letters from this country that will
bo written by foreign newspaper men
during tho World’s Fair.
During the football season of 1892-3
in Great Britain there were twenty-six
deaths on the field or resulting from
football accidents, thirty-nine broken
legs, twelve broken arms, twenty-five
broken collar bonos, and seventy-fivo
other injuries. Football, adds the New
Orleans Picayune, is much more gen¬
erally played in England than here,
and every villago and hamlet has . its
team or teams and Becmingly its killed
or injured.
Every now and then, according to
tho Argonaut, somo thoughtless writer
descants upon our coming landlessness.
But, in fact, all tho people of tho
United States could bo lodged in tho
three States of California, Kansas and
Nebraska without overcrowding, and
without producing a greater density of
population than we find in England, or
in Italy, or in Japan, or in many of
tho provinces of China. The two prov-»
iueni-of KiaagHi* Ngan-Htfr^ in v
support between them a population
rather larger than that of the United
States on a territory less than two
thirds of the area of California.
It is a onrious fact, notes the Boston
Herald, that, while tho westward move¬
ment of the population has coverod
no less than 9J degrees of longitude
(9 degrees 21 minutes, 7 seconds), this
movement has run almost on a straight
line, the extreme northern and south¬
ern variation embracing less than ono
third of a degree of latitude (18 min¬
utes, 56 seconds). To put tho contrast
moro distinctly, we may say that, whilo
tho western movement for the century
aggregates 606 miles, the extreme
northern and southern variation is a
little under twenty-two miles, und the
finishing point of the line is only somo
six miles south of the starting point.
Tho Boston Herald states that poor
Jjaby Ruth Cleveland has been bo pes¬
tered by kodak fiends and curious
sight-seers, when taking her walks iu
the rear of the Whittf House on fair
days, that tho President lias had to or¬
der tho gates of the White House
grounds to bo closed between the hours
of 2 and 4, in order that »ho may take
the air undisturbed. It seems that tho
sightseers, who aro mostly women, not
content with staring at the baby, in¬
sisted upon kissing her, whilo some of
them, taking advantage of the tempo¬
rary distraction of the nurse, gave tho
baby candy or opened her mouth to
look at her teeth, or danced her up
and down in their arms. One audacious
woman actually tried to surreptitiously
snip off a lock of her hair with a tiny
pair of scissors.
Tho great Columbian World’s Fair
has already cost about $20,000,000,
calculates the New York World. For
twenty-one months its creation has em¬
ployed a wholo army of laborers, ma¬
sons, plumbers, carpenters, black¬
smiths, builders, engineers, architects,
artists, decorators—enough to build a
city and to people it. There are nearly
seven hundred acres in the grounds
and there are 400 buildings there,
some of them vast palaces sueh ns no
Emperor every dreamed of building,
and ono which covers more than thirty
acres of land. More than sixty thou¬
sand exhibitors have taken place, nnd
every Nation under the sun which has
aught of interest in human progress to
show is rejiresentod there. The citi¬
zens nnd corporation of Chicago have
contributed $11,000,000 outright and
have lout $5,000,000 more to make the
enterprise a success worthy of tho
g.'ei hi ess nnd glory of our time and
com Iry. It is estimated that the total
outlay, including that of the exhibitors,
will exceed $100,000,000, /
.SO LITTLB.
Hereafter, when I sleep beneath the grass In
yonder churchyard plot,
And what I was, or might have been, Is then
that whioh is not,
If you should come in kindliness to stand
there by the spot,
And sometimes think of me t
As if I were not better than you thought, but
that I were leas bad,
I know In that dark, dismal grave of mine I
should be glad
Through all eternity.
—W. J. bampton, In New York Sun.
II SUMAJH."
*•
BY STANLEY GIBSON.
ENDEBSGN,
“what’s the
meaning ‘Sumajh,’ of
ft eh?
Early this
morning I was
wandering,
about a mile
out on the
1 Kistapore
< road, just on
/ | the edge of the
jungle, v O U
; mm, 1 know, and ran
across some ten
s or a dozen
natives i n 1 a
ring around a poor wretch of a leper.
Ugh I he’s the first I’ve seen and he
mado me feel bad, I can tell you; I
don’t want to see any more. ”
“Hah!” broke in Henderson; “and
how do yon know the man was a leper,
if you had never seen one before, eh?”
“Oh, he was a leper right enough—
there was a horrible grayish scaley
look npon him, and he was bloated
anil his arms were only stumps
and—”
“That’s enough—I pass,” said
Henderson with a shudder.
“Well, this leper seemed to be ask¬
ing a great favor of the other fellows
—imploring them to do something, you
know—and they didn’t want to; and
the poor chappie turned from ono to
the other and moaned and cried; and
well, upon my word, Henderson, what
with his pitiful appearance, I felt—
well—I couldn’t see quite straight for
a little while. And look here; I
thought lepers weren’t allowed to come
HQAr anybody ?”
“Hm,” Henderson’s face assumed a
puzzling expression, half-pitying, half
stem, as he rose from the camp chair
Sn which he was lolling. Placing his
hands on my shoulders and looking
into my eyes, he went on: “So you
want to know the meaning of that
word, do you? Let’s see; how long
have you been grilling in this devil’s
kitchen, eh?”
“Nearly five weeks,” replied I, sur¬
prised at the peculiar hardness of his
voice; for for myself, Henderson, big I brother had already all
seen was to
the children of the cantonment.
“So; five weeks.” His voice as¬
sumed a satirical tona “Five weeks
—and you don’t know the language yet!
You’re very slow for a competition wal¬
lah. And what did you understand of
the conversation between your leper
and his friends, -eh?"
lihat, “Why,” “I learned said I, good bridling bit of up the seme- lan¬
a
guage before I came out, and I know
as much of it now, I’ll, guarantee,
tho averago man doca after he’s been
here a couple of years.”
“Modest,” dryly ejaculated Hender¬
son, waiting for an answer to his ques¬
tion.
“Oh, I understood it all right enough
except that blessed word ‘sumajh.’ It
was wrapped up in very figurative lan¬
guage-calling and the earth his mother
the sun his father, and all that sort
of stuff, you know. He wanted them
to do ’sumajh’ for him; but it seemed
as if they were half afraid to do what¬
ever it means. In the end, though,
they gave way, and the poor chap was
wonderfully pleased, for he held his
wasted arms to the sky and invoked
blessings on them, and then crouched
down and kissed the earth; and finally
burst out into a sort of song that didn’t
go very far before it faded away into a
dismal croak that was painful to listen
to. I couldn’t stand it any longer, and
came away.”
“So; that’s all you know about it, is
it? Well, youngster, take my advice
and it’s good, too—don’t poke your
nose into the natives’ business. Let
them alone as much as you can. Culti¬
vate a convenient memory when you’re
reading the regulations about them.
Bomember, that the men who make
most of those rules don’t have to keep
them; and between you and me, their
knowledge of tho theory of govern¬
ment is only excelled by their ignor¬
ance of tho praotice of it. As for that
word you’re so curious about, forget
it, and don’t hear it again—under¬
stand?”
With that he went out abruptly.
I was greatly perplexed. Half the
night I pondered over Henderson’s
strange conduct, and wondered why on
earth ho should refuse to tell me the
meaning of a simple word. I did not
care to ask any one elec, for fear Of its
getting to Henderson’s ears. Although
I was on pretty familiar terms with
him, he was my chief, and in addition
I had already bocomo much attached
to him.
Tho next morning, I tackled him
again. He “Henderson—that word?”
turned and gazed at me with half
olosod eyes and said deliberately and
coldly: "Tho keenness of your curi¬
osity would do infinite credit to a
corporal's wife." Ho cleared hiB throat
and said testily; “Picnic, picnie;
that’s what tho word moans; he wanted
them to treat him to a picnio in the
jungle; and you say they consented.
And’’—he turned on me quite fiercely
—“why shouldn’t they? And look
here, my boy, if you say ono word
about it to any one else in the canton¬
ment, I’ll make it warm for you. ”
I was hurt and angry and gave Hen¬
derson a wide berth for the rest of the
day.
In the evening I strolled down the
Kistapore road. It was against the
regulations, for the jungle ran right
up to tho road and at night there was
a certain amount of danger to be feared
from the wild beasts that occasionally
explored the road, almost up to tho
cantonment. But in my brief experi¬
ence I had seen the spirit, if not the
letter of one or two of the regulations,
ignored and I wanted to be alone, to
think out the meaning of Henderson’s
strange words and manner.
It was almost the last of the few
briej iuwcute i4 UyiJig&t, ivJieiU'ewg
still some eouptattf my^tce. miles from home? 1,
quickened -The night was
falling as only those can understand
who have witnessed a nightfall on the
edge of the j toggle, No need to tell
them how the Ttiar] kneas drops like a
heavy blanket nor of the startling
transformation of the tangled under¬
wood and the gigantic grasses, which
suddenly become strange monsters en¬
dowed with lifJJ moving to and fro,
now with smoothly, strange fing<9tss; now jerkily, pointing uttering
now
husky cries of hate, now jibbering
idiot-like. And~the wild animals in
the thickness of the interior, how they
howl and shriek and cry' and moan—
roars of defiance, screams of pain,
trumpetings of victory l All made
more intense by being subdued, as if
the vegetation were unwilling to let the
outside world know of the scenes en¬
acted in that fearsome place.
I confess I started to run, holding
my revolver at tke full cook. But my
steps were suddenly arrested by the
magical appearance, directly in my
path, of several lights. I pulled up
sharply, and stood stock-still. The
lights advanced, keeping time with the
thnmping of my heart. At last I could
dimly descry a body of twenty or thir¬
ty natives, several of whom carried
torches, which they must hove just
lighted. I awaited their coming not
without trepidation, for I could not
imagine what tAy were abont. Just
before reaching me, however, they
turned quickly pfcoes into the jungle. They
were not five distant from me
when they left - the road, and I felt
some surprise at their not having seen
mo. By a sudden overpowering im¬
pulse of curiosity I started to follow
them, in Ttrder to learn the meaning of
their With as little
noise as possible I swung round, step¬
ping almost in their footsteps I had
little difficulty jn doing sq, for they
followed what seemed to be a beaten
track. For somo hundreds of yards
the strange procession went slowly on.
(Suddenly I heard a, strange noise that
thrilled me through and through.
There was something about it, too,
that seemed familiar; but my brain
was excited and refused to recall the
sound. It wSs a kind of moan, half
human, half animal. As the natives
1 and I drew nearer it took the character
of a chant; and,then it flashed on me
that I had heard the sound before; it
was the lepeite voice 1 The poor
wretch was crooning a dismal hymn or
invocation, jus$ as he had done when
soliciting his relatives to do what I was
to my great satisfaction, about to find
out. His low, weak voice rang out
stangely clear.. . i -*. •- >
“Ohei, Ohei.” Mother, my mother.
Thou only art merciful. Thou only.
Ohei, Ohei, Brethren, my brethren,
lead me to my mother; she only will
welcome, she^only will give peace.
Ohei, Ohei
The voice died away in a moan that
mingled with and seemed to rise again
in the soft wliist-ling of the long
grasses, as they quivered with the
breath of the wvind that presaged the
coming rains. . I shivered.
The party having now arrived at a
space tangle-wood Tyhich and had been abruptly cleared stopped of the
ii$L> grass,
ward nn dimmed I a dared. ring. I Then pressed I for¬
as near an saw,
in the centre ok the ring, a large cav¬
ity, perhaps four feet deep, with the
earth banked ujk rafcged on either side. The
torch-bearers themselves at the
head and foot (<t the hole, which, now
that it was in the light, I saw to be of
oblong shape, shelving somewhat at
the end nearer to me. The other na¬
tives stood at the sides, four with tom¬
toms and two with little pots of burn¬
ing incense. The the leper limped out,
from the jungle seemingly, nml crouched
at tho shelving end of the hole. I had
expected him to appear on the scene,
yet when he did bo, I could not help
giving a bit of a start. Not one of the
natives looked at the leper, noT did he
seem to see them. As soon, however,
as he approached, the whole of the na¬
tives set up a cry—subdued and dismal
beyond description. The burden of it
was something like this: “To Thee who
art all knowledge, all power, all love,
all hate. To Thee, known only of Thy¬
self. To Thee who art Life and Death.
To Thee we bring our brother. He
seeks Thee where Thou art. He comes
to Thee. He comes to Thee. ” Their
voices and the noise of the tom-toms
died down; and as they faded away the
leper, who had been beating time by
nodding his head, crawled down the
slope and squatted down at the deep
end of the hole. In a shrill, quavering
voice that sounded strangely piercing
on the electrically charged air he took
up the refrain.
“Ohei, Ohei. Fire of the Light¬
nings, I come. - Cloudless brightness of
the sky, I come. Winged Messenger
of the Mountains, I come. Ohei I
oome!”
Then, amid more chanting and tom¬
tom beating, two of the natives handed
the leper some liquid in a small bowl
and some food. After drinking a little
of the liquid and citing a little of the
food, he cast the remainder into the
hole in front of him, accompanying the
action with subdued but intense cries.
But now several of the natives re¬
tired for a moment, returning with
largo flat pieces of wood. With these
they started throwing earth into the
hole. Tho leper did not move. They
wore alive going to bury 'he poor wretoh
I The though^ic all its hideous¬
ness flashed through my brain. For the
instant I went as cold as ice and was
unable to raise a finger. Only for a
the moment though; and then, acting for
second time that night on the im¬
pulse of the moment, I dashed forward,
my revolver still in my hand, to do—
what, I could not tell. But before I
had gone two steps I found myself
seized, disarmed, gagged and pinioned.
I struggled, or, rathor, attempted to
struggle, for I could neither move nor
utter the slightest sound. I gave my¬
self up for lost. I expected nothing
but death, and I remember doing what
I had not done for years: I offered up
a prayer-incoherent and vague; but
never was prayer more fervent. Con¬
trary to my expectation I was only
dragged back several paoes and tied
hand and foot to what I suppose was a
small tree. My captors had bound me
with my back towards the leper, appa¬
rently determined that I should see
nothing more of what was going on.
However, by screwing my neok round
I could just catch sight of the wretched
creature in the pit that I now felt cer¬
tain was to be his grave.
The horrible sight, fascinated me. I
jaad no thought ioi anything elfifi.
my own perilous situation caused
me no more fear or anxiety. The
natives, still singing that sad, monoto¬
nous refrain, were now quiokly throw¬
ing the earth round the leper. Quicker
and quicker they shovelled, louder and
louder they sang: “Obei, Ohei, thy
wish is thine—is thine.” The four
beating the tom-toms threw them down
and joined in. The earth mounted
higher and higher round the
doomed man. It reached his breast; he
waved his poor stumps of arms towards
the sky; he patted the earth with
them, as if he were fondling a loved
one. It reached his shoulders—he
bent and kissed it passionately.
Oh, that scene!—the natives casting
in the earth with frenzied energy; the
torch-bearers standing like bronze
statues, their torches throwing a red
glare on the leper’s head, now fast dis¬
appearing as if sinking in a pool of
blood. Then the earth crept up to his
month, his nostrils. * * * With a
convulsive effort I shut my eyeB.
In another moment the noise of the
shoveling and singing ceased. My
eyes involuntarily opened, just in time
to see the torch-bearers thrusting their
torohes in the earth heaped up over
the grave; they gave an angry splutter
and then went out. For an instant
there was utter darkness and silence.
Then came the crowning horror. A
vivid flash of lightning lit up the soene.
It seemed to hang over the spot. And
while the natives were thus en¬
veloped with the ghastly hue of death,
I heard—I vow I heard—muffled and
faint as the shriek of a gagged man,
the cry of the leper—the echo of a
Voice—the Echo of a Life I Louder
and louder that terrible it
roared like a cataract, like a thousand
peals of thunder; it became a thing—
tangible, palpable—filling tho uni¬
verse, pressing on my brain—crushing
it —till at last something snapped and
I knew no more.
Three weeks afterward i woke up.
I was lying on a bed in my quarters.
Henderson was bending ovef me; he
raised his hand to prevent my speak¬
ing, “Yes, saying, with a queer little touch smile:
yes—keep quiet ; a of
jungle fever, my boy, that’s all— n
triflo heady; you’ll bo all right again
in a jiffy.”
That “jiffy” was nearly three months.
—ChambeTs’s Journal.
Monpy May be Too Sale.
“I have no doubt that many a fam¬
ily now struggling along under the
belief that the father died and left
nothing would be well off could they
go to the safe deposit vault where the
head of the house kept his valuables,
open the door of his particular eom
partment and carry away its con¬
tents."
TJte speaker was a man who is con¬
nected with an establishment of the
kind mentioned. He evidently knew
what he was talking about.
The safe deposit vaults are a mod¬
ern institution. Iu them a man, by
the payment of $6 or upward annu¬
ally, can keep his money, jewelry and
papers safe from fire and burglary.
Armed guards further protect his prop¬
erty, but even without their presence
no gang’of burglars could work quick¬
ly enough to despoil the vaults, built,
as they are, of steel and granite into
the very backbones of immense build¬
ings.
“But the very care of the tenant ie
the doom of his nearest kin,” said the
interested gentleman; “he doesn’t ex¬
pect to the die suddenly, hut that mode
seems should most general nowadays. No
man have his affairs sq secret
that his loved ones suffer the rest of
their lives by what he considered his
forethought.
“A recent case occurs to me. A
young man with apparently many
years before him, suddenly went in¬
sane. He was fond of jewelry, but one
night a would-be thief Bnatehed a very
valuable scarf-pin the young man wore.
After that, though he foiled the high¬
way robber, he would not wear his dia¬
monds, but put them in his safe, under
the care of the deposit vaults.
‘ ‘Had he not told me of the incident
nobodly would ever have known what
became of tho diamonds. No man puts
his name and address in his safe, and
the company only knows him person¬
ally and not his relatives.”
Even savings banks have been able
to build handsome edifices with the
uncalled-for money deposited by men
or women who have disappeared. Take
many thousand accounts, and a cer¬
tain percentage of them will never bo
oallcd for. They are advertised, but
very little results from the advertise¬
ments, and the bank is the winner.
The amounts thus lost to sight ag¬
gregate many hundreds of thousands
of dollars. There is a grim fatality
about the “safety” of a vault,—Non
York Journal.
Processes Against Disease, U!
urday Acoording Review, to a summary in the,Sat¬
ical attempts by bacteriolog¬
processes toremovefrom the human
system the germs of infectious disease
have been made by six different meth¬
ods. The first is by Pasteur's preven¬
tive inoculation, in which a minute
quantity virus of attenuated culture of tk«
is administered to produce a
light attack of the disease. The BOC
oad is M. Pasteur’s method in rabies,
in whioh a mitigated virus is injected
into a person already attacked with the
disease, to overtake it. The third is
the employment of the virus of a com¬
paratively against mild disease to protect
a more severe one, r.s
in vaccination for smallpox. Next in
order is the destruction of the disease
producing tion bacteria by the administra¬
of antisepttics or bactericides. A
fifth method is the re-enforcement of
natural means possessed by our sys¬
tems for oombating disease germs; by
re-enforoing blood the leucocytes or white
corpuscles, whioh destroy bac¬
teria, by means of the injection of the
blood of animals insusceptible to the
disease; by raising or lowering the
temperature of the body of the patient;
by alterations of diet, climate, or sur¬
roundings ;or by injection of phagocyte
invigorators. The sixth method is by
the injection of the “tox-albumens”
formed by the bacteria growing in at
tificial cultures, as is done in Koch’s
method for tuberculosis. That these
methods have not proved entirely sat¬
isfactory, and bacteriological treat¬
ment is now apparently at a standstill,
is not due, it is thought, to any innate
defect in the system, but to some tech-
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National Mutual
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WORLD BUILDING,
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Offers Life Insurance on the most lib¬
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FIRST CLASS RISKS AT LOWER
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than auy eqnally sound Institution
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urn equltably proportioned to tho
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Plan avoids also the
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General Agents.
401 Equitable Building, Atlanta, Ga.
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