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Parl. Is Hoo and unhealthr.

Shiraz, too, and the whole stretch Of
country around it, is fearfully hot and
unhealthy in summer and fall, so that
the regiments sent there from the mort
(and the shah does that constantly, be-
cause these soldiers are Sunnites and
Turks by descent, and do not assimilate
or fraternize with the natives), often lose
60 per cent. of their number within a
year. Take even the healthiest portions
of Persia; take Teheran, for instance,
which is now, since good water has been
obtained in abundance, one of the ex-
ceptionally salubrious points, and you
viii find death rate which in Europe
or America would be considered appall-
ing.
An able physician here, DR.. ALDER, tells
me that the death rate at Teheran is be-
tween 70 and 80 per 1000, and the deaths
constantly exceed the births, the fact
that the town is growing in spite of it
being explained by the circumstance
that continual influx of persons from
other parts of Persia takes place, and
that the deaths are seven-eighths among
children below years of age, who are
carried off when weaned cholera ablac-
tatorun). The deaths among the Euro
peans here show even larger percent
age; they usually succumb to the acclim-
itization process in the third year. Take
it all around, think the man with in
formation who would maintain that
Persia is a healthy country is either very
foolhardY or else worse.-Teheran Cor.
Chicago Times,
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Proper Food for Nervous People.

We so often have to care for nervous
persons that it is well to know the sort
of food best adapted to them. This,
with systematic exercise and recreation,
will often produce results beyond our
most sanguine hopes. In taking exercise
care must be taken not to fatigue the
patient, and there must be an object in
the exercise. 1t will not do to send
the sufferer lust cut for a walk" the
walk must be for purpose; to call on a
pleasant friend, for example, or to per-
form some slight office, such as carrying
flowers or books to the sick, or to pur-
chase some little article needed which re-
quires no great outlay of thought For
food there should be given meat in small
quantities, plenty of fish, especially shell
fish, as much bread and butter as may
be desired, creamed or mashed potatoes
and simple buildings.
Fruit should play an important part in
the dietary, and should be eaten before
breakfast. Baked apples, oranges, and
thoroughly ripe pears are always rel
ished at this time. Cocoa should be
used as beverage instead of tea or COT
fee, although a cup of tea at 4 o'clock
can be borne by persons to whom it
would be injurious at any other time. If
milk be liked and be digested easily, it
may be freely used. My physicians or
der. it cooked. Il will usually be found
that soups are not conducive, and beer
and spirits should be avoided.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
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ABsoLvED.

/, who have worshiped beauty long,
Beheld a woman's face tonight
That thrilled my being into song
And touched my soul with sudden light;
And yet, perchance, had you been there
You scarcely would have called it fair.
Gray eyes that held a subtle shade
OF sadness that was half-expressed,
Lips that for laughter were not made
Perhaps for pains white finger pressed
To patient silence. All of art
Sank down abashed within my heart.
All, life has one high lesson yet
That have learned of womanhood-
IT'S when we lose and we forget
The beautiful within the good
IT'S when the senses swoon to see
The SOULS surprising mystery.
Like moonlight comes a calm content
With larger hope and purer love,
A memory of the form that bent
Through nights of fevered pain above
The cot of childhood. Better so
For this brief version may go
Once more into the world like him
Who has been pardoned. Lol he kneels
And murIners in the cloister dim,
"My Father, have sInned" He feels
The craving of the spirit cease,
Soothed by the answer, "Go in peacel"
Boston Transcript
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The England of south America.

The Chilians call their country the
England of South America" If ma
tive makes a promise, and wishes it TO
appear unusually binding, he says, "On
the word of an Englishman." Should he
desire an appointment to be kept on the
minute, he says, "Be as punctual as AN
Englishman."
The traveller discovers that wherever
he goes in Chill the highest respect and
warmest friendship are entertained to-
wards England. The explanation of
these feelings is to be found in the fact
that when the young republic was strug
Cling to throw off the Spanish yoke.
many Englishmen served her with as
much ardor as they would have served
their native country.
The upper classes of Chill initiate tho
English aristocracy. Like them, thay
are reserved, fond of good joke, appIe.
ciate wit, cherish family pride, and
make society" strict and exclusive. The
women of this class initiate the better
sort of English women, and never dress
for church as if they expected to go
from it to reception" They dress in
plain black, with black mantilla over
the head, and their example is followed
by the women of all classes. Youths
Companion.
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THE GROWTH OF NEWSPAPERS.

Few Items of Interest Cleaned from
the Pages of the Directories.
The wonderful growth of American
newspapers is shown by a comparison
between the directories published in 1916
and in the present year. The one con-
tains in its sixteen small pages a list of
thirty-seven newspapers which We're pub
lished in this country 10 years ago. The
other is almost as large as an unabridged
dictionary, and in its 1000 pages con-
tains the names of IA, 100 newspapers
and periodicals of all classes OF this
large list, only seven were found in the
directory of 1916 The net gain of the
year has been 6G6. The daily newspa-
pers number l ,21G, a gain of 80. There
are about 1000 periodicals of all kinds
which presumably enjoy a circulation Of
more than 5000 copies.
The increase in the rural weekly press,
comprising about two-thirds Of the whole
list, has been most marked in states like
Kansas and Nebraska. Kansas is also
accredited with the greatest gain in
daily newspapers. In Massachusetts, the
weekly press is growing, but magazines
and monthly publications are losing
ground. The tendency of this latter
class seems TO be toward New York city,
as at least twenty-three monthly PERIOD
icals have been established here during
the year,
Among the many newspapers published
in this country, almost every social
movement and industrial interest finds
expression. A glance at the long list re-
veals many curious facts. There are
about 700 religious and denominational
newspapers, nearly one-third of which
are published in New York, Philadelphia,
Boston and Chicago. New York is far
ahead in this respect, while il will be
surprise to many 10 know that Boston is
behind Chicago.
Three newspapers are devoted 10 the
six to the honey bee; thirty
two to poultry; eighteen to dentistry;
and nine 10 photography. There are
three publications issued IN the exclusive
interest of postage stamp collectors, and
one of dancers. The prohibitionists have
100 papers, and the liquor dealers 8. The
organs Of women's suffrage number z,
of candy makers 3, OF astronomy o,
and gas ?. OF the foreign newspapers,
there are about 600 in German, and AZ in
French. New York, New Orleans, and
Worcester, Mass, each has four French
publications. Two dailies are in Bohe-
milan. Besides these, there are papers in
the Swedish, Finnish, Polish, and Welsh
languages. There is one publication in
Gaelic, one in Hebrew, one in Chinese,
and one in the Cherokee language
Scientific American
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The Rarest PLANT i'm Mexico.

In the botanical garden st the palace
they have the celebrated flower Tzapalil-
qui-Xochitl, of the Aztecs, The story
runs that there are. only three of the
kind in the world, one at the palace, an
other at different point in Mexico and
the mother plant ON the mountain. At
one time two tribes had a long and
bloody war for the possession of it, SO the
story goes, but with great deal more ex-
aggeration, The plant is commonly
called the slower hand" as they claim
that inside is perfect baby hand.
went to see it, and was much dis
appointed. The tree grows to a good
height. The leaves, heart-shape, are
thick and about the color of the under
part of silver maple leaf, except that
they are very rough, which prevents
them from glistening like the maple.
The thick, wax-like, hell-shaped red
blossom grows mouth upward, and in
side is the so-called hand, It has five
fingers and one thumb, but looks ex-
actly like a birds claw, and not like a
hand. The story ran that there are but
three in existence. Without doubt the
plant is rare and there may be no more
than dozen, if that many, in the world;
but have seen in the garden of two
different gentlemen the very same tree.
One of these gentlemen is in Europe,
and the other bought his plant from
him, so there was no way of learning
where the three came from,--Mexican
Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Taking a Train Up tho Riga.

Passengers can now take train up the
Riga, because it was one Of the most pop
ular of ascents, and its popularity was
largely due to the facility with which
the ascent was achieved. The great size
of the mountain, its bulk and extent,
made the necessary gradients less steep
and the line thus larger, the zigzags more
frequent, but the ascent less sheer. Pila-
tus will be a much more arduous piece of
engineering, but many difficulties have
now been mastered which seemed insur-
mountable few years ago.
On the whole the Riga railway was not
the success it was expected to be. On
the level railways have indeed supplanted
coaches, but on the mountain-side the
difficulty itself is one of the attractions
of the ascent. The Italian climate does
not favor psdestrianism, and the crater
of a volcano commands universal inter
est. To these double causes must DO
ascribed the construction Of the railway
up Vesuvius. But in Switzerland the
popular ascents still remain uncontam-
mated by the aid OF the locomotive.
Pilatus has been selected, no doubt, from
its proximity TO Lucerne, and the true
that" Of the great mountain will be
found IN a few years 10 be thriving
Swiss hotel. The railway viii take more
than two years in constructiOn.-Fore
I ,ff,r
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Several stories About somnambuli.ts


DIR. Haycock, the eminent Oxford
divine, would often rise from his bed at
night, give out his text, and, while sound
| asleep deliver an excellent sermon upon it.
He was frequently watched, but no
amount of Juggling. pulling or pinching
ever succeed in rousing him. DIR. Mac
nish, of Edinburgh, gives an account of
an Irish gentleman who swan more than
two miles down a river, got ashore, and
was subsequently discovered sleeping by
the roadside altogether unconscious OF
the extraordinary feat he had accom-
plished. DR.. Pritchard had patient who
was particularly fond of horse exercise,
and used to rise at night, find his way to
the stable, saddle his horse, enjoy gal
lop, and finally come back knocking ut
his own door in a somnambulist condi-
ton. He was cured in a manner sutfici-
emily funny to be worth recording-his
servants tickled the soles of his feet,
The memory of sleep-walkers is oc-
casionally prodigious, under the influence
of the dominating impulse that moves
them. BIoritz gives an instance of
poor and illiterate basket maker, who
was unable to read or write; yet in state
of sleepy vigil he would preach fluent
sermons, which were afterward recog-
nized as having formed portions of dis
courses he was accustomed to hearin the
parish church as a child more than forty
years ago.
Quite as strange a case of unconscious
memory is referred to by the eminent
DIR. Ambercrombie. A young girl given
to sleep-talking was in the habit of imi-
tating the violin with her lips, giving the
| preliminary tuning and scraping and
hourishing with the utmost fidelity. 1t
puzzled the physician good deal until
he ascertained that when an infant tine
| girl lived in room adjoining a fiddler,
who often played upon this instrument
in her hearing. On the other hand, it
must be admi tied that somnambuIsts oc-
casionally do very foolish things and
make odd mistakes. A young man--of
whom Petrus writes-used to get up in
his sleep, climb on his castle battlements,
seat himself astride them and then spur
the wall, under the impression that he
was mounted on his steed.-London
7 Post
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A New RevoIution An Panama.

DR.. Cornelius Logan, the generals
brother, who represented this country in
various capacities in South America,
and finally as minister 10 Chill, chatting
with me about the insurrection in Uru-
quay, told me an incident of his expert
ence in 1882 at Panama. He had been
to call on the representative Of the gov
eminent then in possession at Panama,
when the question Of the stability of the
government had come up. He was told
that there had been no instruction for a
long time, and there were no prospects
of another for years to come.
Stepping back across the public square
to reach the hotel, the doctor was sud-
denly surprised to see at the upper end
of the street leading into the plaza
large number of men with arms in their
hands rush out from the houses and
form into line, level their guns and fire
a volley point blank across the square.
Then they scuttled away like vermin in
a cellar from an approaching light. The
bullets whistled around his head, and
how he escaped he declares is miracle.
When he got to his hotel, being unable
to understand the affair of which he was
a witness, he made inquiries and found
out that this was the beginning of new
revolution. The doctor told me that this
is fair sample of the stability Of the
South American countries.
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Kaleidoscope are made to sell at from
cents to So each the latter made in
Providence r. IT, being used great
deal by carpet designers and for like pur-
poses. In factory in New York re-
porter found five girls at work before a
long desk, this being their system of OPP
erations: The first young woman wraps
black paper about the glass refectors
which produce the optical illusion. These
strips of glass, when thus arranged and
fastened together, form the body of the
kaleidoscope. The next girl simply in
serts the united re1ectors into the paste
board cover and then passes the octa-
gonal pasteboard tube to her neighbor.
Number three adjusts the brass ring
which secures the glass disks in the end
Between the disks or plates are placed
the scraps of colored glass, the beads
and various trinkets which tumble about
as the kaleidoscope is revolved, and when
reflected by the mirrors form themselves
into ever-shifting, fantastic forms. The
other young women are armed with
hammers to break the colored glass into
fragments. The colored glass is obtained
from the waste scraps, purchased very
cheap at stained glass manufactures
ChicaUO Herald
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QUESTIONlNGS.

wonder when the spirit
Leaves the flesh and bone that bound
To the passions of our planet
And the raptures of our race
If it sees its poor lost body
With the loving arms around it;
If it quivers with the kisses
On its poor and pallid facet
wonder if it listens
To the praises of the pastor
Hears him say the dead has risen
To the sunland of the soul
While it knows the secret sinnings
OF the things that was its master
Rise with flaming swords to drive it
From the glory and the goal!
1 wonder if it watches
Till it sees the dead forgotten
Sees new friends usurp the favor
OF the hearts that were its own;
If it looks below the daisies,
Where the grave worms are begotten-
Where the eyeless skull is grinning
At jest to us unknownl
wonder if the truth is
That the spirit can remember
All its pains and all its pleasures,
All its terrors and its tears,
Stealing swiftly on its vivid
Summer visions, as November
Crashes down in storm and darkness
On the splendor of the years?
No all, mol Far better for us
That we die, and die forever
That we slip into the shadows
And the silences eterne-
Than be hunted down and haunted
When the soul and sense discover,
With the memories that mock us
In the lower life inferno!
New York Mercury.
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a newspaper clipping which appeared
some time Stree stating that the boomer
ang, as it is popularity supposed to work,
was myth and had never really existed
attracted the attention of DR.. Eggers,
Who resides in Milwaukee. He offered
to demonstrate the reality of the boom
erang by throwing some. DR.. Eggers
was for several years IN Australia, and
while there became familiar with the
workings Of the boomerang. The doctor
was found the other afternoon ut his
residence. The room into which the re-
porter was shown contained a goodly as
sortnaent of boomerangs of different
sizes. and also q number of bows and ar
rows, IN which the doctor is also inter
ested. The boomerang is about thirty
four inches long with a curve at the CEN
ter at an angel of about 100 degrees. In
shape it resembles a large siphon tube,
and is fiat, with edges well rounded. 1t
is not heavy, and does not require
strength 50 much as knacll to throw it.
DR. Eggers and his two sons frequently
amuse themselves by practicing boomer
ang-throwing, and gave an exhibition
Saturday afternoon. The conditions
were net favorable on account of the
wind, but they made some successful
throws. The throwing is done with the
forearm, and requires quick jerk. 1t
is not difficult and can be acquired read
lily. though the more experienced throw
crs have the best success. The boomer
augs as thrown went for distance
of about 200 feet from the thrower.
and then, describing Il semicircle, re-
turned toward the thrower. This time
for The most part they were driven quite
a distance behind the Uhrower on account
of tie wind, but number fell within a
few feet of the spot from where they
were thrown. Their acton was certainly
all that has ever been claimed for tbs
boomerang, though as a weapon tbCy
probably have never served 20 any great
extent No accurate aim can be taken
with one, but general direction is all
that can be obtained, -Milwaukee Senti-
mel
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Rees on the VYar-Path,

A correspondent of The Bee Journal
writes that brood of chickens were in
the habit of frequenting the shed in
which he kept his bees. The bees stung
all the dark-colored ones to death, yet
did not modest the light-colored chicks
Why the preference2 The editor writes
that he has frequently spoken Of the ad-
vantage of wearing light clothes among
the bees. We wear black bee wells be-
cause we cannot see clearly through any
color, Woolly, fuzzy and dark materials
are objected to by bees, A man with a
plug hat on rarely gets stung. unless by
a bee that in trying to shoot the hat
aims too low and hits the face by mis-
take, while companion at a suitable
distances perfectly Safes
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poctoring for Every IAttle AiInenl


Many people fall i'll of disease simply
through fear of it. The Imagination has
a powerful influence ON the human body.
One can very easily imagine himself to
be catching cold at the sight of an open
window, when if he had not known the
window was open, or was not afraid Of
it's effects, he would escape the cold.
Doctors understand this secret, but they
do not irnpart it to their patients. Most
invalids, real or supposed, would be
angry if a physician would say to them,
Nothing ais you, you only think so. I"
They prefer to think themselves sick,
and in time they really become so. for
nature. though she struggles hard, can
not stand everything. Too many drugs
win finally destroy her healing power.
These people who love to have box Of
white pills in bottles. and little book,
all kept in some handy place. so that
when a friend who has eaten too much
dinner says, ooh, / am fearfully nerv-
ouztn thsX NAV run for the little book.
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Whr the Irish like Groom.

The early Celts worshipped the dawn
and the sunrise. 1t is more than proba-
able that the Irish preference of the
color green, for their flag and their
sashes, arose from a mistake among
those who had lost a thorough knowl-
edge of the old Irish language. The sun,
in Irish, is called by word pronounced
like our word %green, and it is likely
that the Irish fondness for that color
arose from the words exact likeness in
sound to their word for the sun. In the
same way, when we talk about green
houses we think they are called so be-
cause the plants are kept green in them
during the winter. Yet it is far more
probable that sgreen," here, is the Irish
word meaning, not the color, but the
sun; because greenhouses are built so as
to catch the suns rays and store them
up while hidden by clouds, as happens
more than half the time in shewery Ire
land.-The Century,
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FIrst Llght Over One capItol.

The first light ever hoisted over the
capitol at Washington, in 1S47, was a
lantern on a mast towering about $50
feet above the dome. The mast was
secured by heavy iron braces. The
lantern was surmounted by ball and
weather vane. With the glass in the
lantern it weighed about 800 pounds. 1t
contained large burners, and when
lighted it Illuminated not only the entire
capitol grounds, but all the higher por-
tons of the city. Chicago Herald.
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ton. Many interesting discoveries nave
been made which will still further eluci-
date that Egyptian life and history of
which already we have so full an ac-
count. A curious find is that of the
house of an amateur artist of the ancient
world, whose studio has been examined
and it is found that he was as choice of
his implements as modern dabblers in
the fine arts always are. He had a very
fine palette of limestone ground perfectly
smooth with twelve little depressiOns to
hold his colors. These he used only in
liquid state. His palette knife was made
of silver, highly decorated by engraving,
and the little Jars to hold his paints were
of the finest glazed ware.
Specimens of his own work were
found, but they were very poor, while
his collection of brio -a-brac, including
bronze figures, glazed pottery of various
makes, and delicate glass objects of diff
ferent sorts, was verr fine. He owned
plano-convex lens, and he had almost
the only specimen of ancient painted
glass yet discovered. In fact, an artists
studio of olden time seems to have re-
sembled an artists studio of the present
day in this at least, that the more show
was made the less work was DONE
PHILADELPHIA Times.
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YoN HlELAN' GLEN.

rhe king is proud, an he dimes of plate,
Amang his courtiers Draw.
lie sits on n throne in royal state
WI gowd an pearls an a.;
But haze throne ] wudna gle
For ony he may ken
A borny green knowl, that waits for me
Adoon yon hielan' glen.
There, crooned VII love, sit at cen, IL.
Wha sac happy as 1? 49,
WI Jeanne beside me for my queen, ~
Watching the burn rim by, .ag
wadna' niffer wi ony king,
Or envy mortal then,
The 1eeting hoors nae WEAKNESS bring
Adoon yon hielan' glen.
ask nae vintage o. aulden days
That freights gran foreign ships;
There's a richer wine-beyond praise
Brimmin' on Jeanie's hss.
dinna want pearls or diamonds fine,
want nae praise frae men;
WI Jeanie's true hart the warl Is MINI
AdOon you hielan' glen.