The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-05

bodies of the civilized world than any thing else. We want to show to them what millions of people all over the world want in the way of suppression of the rum traffic. It is to get the tone of the worlds wishes. With such res olution staring them in the. face they cannot enact any flagrant legislation in regard to the sale of rum. Before we are done with it, that petition will have reached every principality that we can get to, and no one can tell what an enor- nous number Of names will have been added to it by that time.'
 CHOOSE YE, THIS DAY" Gods spirit falls on me, as dewdrops on
 a rose,
 If I, but like rose, my heart to him
 unclose.
 Could but thy soul, o man, become
 silent night.
 God would be born in thee, and set all
 things alright.
 Though Christ thousand times in
 Bethlehem be born,
 If He's not born in thee, thy soul is all
 forlorn.
 The cross on Golgotha will never save
 thy soul
 The cross in thine own heart alone can
 make thee whole.
 Hold there! Where runnest thou?
 Know heaven is in thee, Seekest thou for God elsewhere. His face
 thoult never see.
 In all eternity no tone can be so sweet As where mans heart with Gods in
 unison doth beat.
 Whate'er thou lowest, man, that, too,
 become thou must
 God, if thou lowest God; dust, if thou
 lowest dust.
 Johannes Scheffer. THE MENTAL ENERGY STORAGE
 That remarkable French scientist, Dr. Luys, head of the Charity hospital of Paris, has, partly by accident, in ex- perimenting with magnetism for the benefit of a patient, discovered that a big horseshoe magnet, worn about the head, possesses the power of collecting the wearer's mental energy, and storing it up to bestow upon the next person who happens to wear it..
 His patient was a woman afflicted with that form of melancholia which in clnes the sufferers to dislike these for whom, in health, they have the most affection, He placed the magnet upon her cad and after half an hour found her alarmingly weak and almost devoid of mental energy. Placing the magnet upon his own head he wore it for the same lengt hof time, and then went home to find, by his unhappiness and his aversion to his nearest and dearest ones, that he had temporarily trans ferred her mental disease 10 his own brain. Since then he has tried many experiments, and has used the magnet for the temporary relief of several cases of acute and chronic meianchalia, So far he has found no way of making the relief permanent, but believes that con- tinued treatment would have good ef- feet.
 Dr. Luys believes that this queer storage tank" of emotions will be able to transfer happiness to the wretched, content to the disaffected, or black pes simism to the rose-spectacled optimist, according to the variety of mental en- ergy it had stored up from the last wearer. Even to have suggested such a thing as remote possibility would once have consigned the scientist to the dungeon, the rack, or the stake, but in this age of marvels, when one start ling discovery follows fast upon the heels of another, we are disposed to ac- cept everything that comes. Nothing is too good, or too bad, to be true. The time may come when the physi- clan will find an emotion magnet or storage tank, or number of them, as essential to his equipment for practice | as drugs are now. Possibly, every family medicine closet will contain one adjustable, so as to fit any size of head They will come into common Use; as common as bicycles, and less expensive The careworn, struggling business mar | may put on the iron crown that last encircled the brow of the snrewd, ener. | getic, prosperous man of affairs, an6 1 for time he will revel in the posses | sion of unbounded wealth. The hungry man will share the pleasures of ths ] feast lately enjoyed by the bon viyant 1 the unappreciated artist o- poet, little | and unknown, may taste the delight: of fame. The politician will get Lii l office, at least, he will feel as 7nucl | elated, temporarily, as does his oppo nent, who really secured 1t. And of fees are only temporary, anyway. Tn woman with jacket of two years wearing, and sleeves not of the lates
 mandolin" cut, will know for tim
 the satisfaction to be dorived flom l; properly appointed wardrobe--a satis l faction mot to be derived from thu l firmest religious principles" And tht tired woman to whom mending bas ket looks as big as a mountain, ma, fell coursing through her veins al the aboundant energy of the athletic 1 girl who can whack ball over miles | of golf links. The prosperous and sel i fish will realize some of the cares anl griefs of their suffering neighbors; tn vigorous will learn how to sympathiZt with pain; the poor will learn that tht gilded misery of the rich car be yer! distressing in spite of the gliding. | judiciouS circulation of the magneti