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QUEER THINGS ABOUT SLEEP.
Our Utter Inability to Resist It in Caael
Of Extreme Fatigue.

Oh GxtEoEho = Gat1kuos
One OF the most remarkable facts to
be found in the history of sleep con.
sists in the utter inability to resist its
onset in cases of extreme fatigue. Sew.
eral remarkable instances are given in
which persons have continued to walk
onwards while sleep has overcome
them, the automatic centres OF the
brain evidently controlling and stimu'
lating the muscles when consciousness
itself had been completely abrogated.
It is recorded that at the battle of the
Nile, amidst the roar Of cannon and
the fall of wreckage, some of the over
fatigued boys serving the guns with
powder fell asleep on the deck. DR..
Carpenter gives another instance OF
allied kind. In the course of the Bur
mese war. the captain of frigate
actively engaged in combat fell asleep
from sheer exhaustion, and slept
soundly for two hours within yard
of one of the biggest guns, which was
being actively worked during his
slumbers. It is matter of common
medical knowledge that extreme ex.
haustion in face of the severcst pain
will induce sleep. Here the impera.
tive demand OF the body-a demand
implanted, as we have seen, in the
constitution of f>our frames-asserts its
influence; and even pain, the ordin-
ary conqueror of repose, has in its
turn to succumb. One of the most
extraordinary cases in which the over.
ruling power of sleep was ever exem-
plifed was that of Damiens, con.
demned for treason in Paris in 1857.
He was barbarously tortured, but re.
marked that the deprivation of sleep
had been the greatest torture of all.
It was reported that he slept soundly
even in the short intervals which
elapsed between his periods of tor
ture. Among the Chinese a form of
punishment for crimes consists in
keeping the prisoner continually
awake; or in arousing him necessarily
after short intervals of repose. After
the eighth day of such sleeplessness,
one criminal besought his captors to
put him to death by any means they
could choose or invent, so great was
bis pain and torment due to the alb
sence of "nature's soft nurse" Per-
sons engaged in mechanical labor,
such as attending o machine in fac
tory, have often fallen asleep despite
the plain record of pains and penal.
ties attending such dereliction of duty,
to say nothing OF the sense of personal
danger which was plainly kept before
their eyes.-From "The Ape of
DEATH" by DR.. Andrew Wilson, F. r.
5. E., in Harper's Magazine.
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Congress, introduced scientific meth
ods of saving lives and ships, drilled
the men, built stations at points with
in few miles of one another from
Maine to Florida, and along the
shores of the Great Lakes, and effected
such improvements that he got the en-
tire country heartily at his back. The
amount of property and the number of
lives saved, from the outset, was most
impressive. In 1874 he prepared a
bill to extend the work, to bestow
medals upon deserving life-savers, to
collect and tabulate statistics Of ma
rine disasters, and to determine what
points on the coast were specially
liable to maritime calamitios. He
caused life-boats to be selected for
particular regions with view to their
fitness for meeting the conditions
there existing; lie investigated the
merits of various inventions in the
way of guns for shooting lines to
wrecked vessels, and of life-cars and
other devices for bringing persons
from wrecks to the shore. Finally,
the Bureau was separated from the
Treasury Department, and set up in
business for itself
Our Life-Saving Service is now
unique among nations. The greater
part OF our coast being practically
uninhabited and deserted, and in
many places very dangerous to naviga-
tors, there was need that it should be
sedulously watched. The entire
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Const,nt Communiou.

For the fever of misdirected ambition, foGe
the chill OF misanthropic discontent, Tor tn.
paralysis OF chronic indifference to roitgfo1B
things, and for all the spiritual diseases that
this poor humanity OF ours ia promo 4, ,thebos
Is no better remedy oEprevention than cl0ee.
and constant communion with God. Tkig
means that the presence OF Him who b ~
once our glorious Master and our boeoAs
Friend has become 80 profoued q fealitf
that it is distinctly recognized each houx
almost each moment, OF every da3. -
means that we take everything 20 Hin,
do everything fo- Him. enjoy everything
with Him, accomplish everything ~ Hfni
receive everything from Him, look eyef -
wards Him, lean at all times upon Hims sAnop
In sholt live, move, and have our beiA& h Hins Z
They mean that He Is the sum aRdAnbgtanes
the centre and circumference, Of our tAmqeA
existence of our truest life, and Tint utfata
out Him apart from His realized helr, HI
conscious approval, His impatte4 po1l
we will not even attempt to do aught;
we should not dare to, we could not bear to.
They. point to so confidential an intercourse
that we take hold OF nothing. however small,
on which we do not first ask His blessing,
and that We feel perfectly free to consult
Him in regard to all the minute events OF all
the days. From long companionship with
Him we know, by a sort OF instinct, what will
please Him, and we quickly shrink from
anything that would disturb or obstruct the
flow OF mutual sympathy. Prayer is turned
into kind OF conversation, and the CONVEX
sation often goes on without the passing Oh
words. Soperfect is the sacred fellowship,
so immediate the touch Of spirits, that silence
conveys even more than language, that
which no language can express. In no way
purpose. All things inconsistent with it muss
sbe summarily cut of. And this implies the
putting away Of much which by the ay-
erage Christian Is accounted innocent
1t mplies life separated from many things
which are usually esteemed unobiectiona-
BILE, life In some respects peculiar. He has
to bein downright dead earnest who would
grasp this prize, and there Is no short cut.
blessed indeed he who gives his days and
nights to its requirement and who finds It
becoming more and more at home in his
soul! ....
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Scientific Child-study in Chicago Schools


Scientific child study has commenced
, the public schools of Chicago, and
while as yet it has reached no definite
stage, beginning has been made at
least.
The most notable test now being
made is that through the medium OF
the ergQgraph, which is the invention
of Professor A. Mosso, of Italy, and is
for the purpose OF determining the
stored up energy Of the pupil.
Apart from the ergograph tests there
are others, all of which are deemed es-
sential. In the first place, the pupil
is weighed, then his heights carefully
taken, both standing and sitting.
Then comes the ergograph. It con-
sists of two posin PARTS, one of which
is cylinder, revolved by means of
clockwork, about which paper strip
is pasted. The working portion of the
second part is a small sliding carriage,
to which is attached a stylographic
pen, the point of which rests upon the
paper covered cylinder. To one
end of this carriage is attached a
weight, and to the other cord made
of twisted wire.
The arm of the pupil to be exam
ined is strapped into rest, the latter
having no connection with the ergo
graph, however, so that it is possible
to move only the fingers. The child'p
second finger is then hooked into q
loop in the wire cord, and the pupil is
required to work the finger back and
forth in time with u metronome, q
contrivance for marking time. This
moves the carriage and the pen at
tached back and forth; and on the
paper of the cylinder, which has been
set into a barely perceptible motion,
the pen records an unbroken line
something like the teeth of saw. As
the finger of the pupil weakens from
fatigue the distance he is able to pull
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birth of Christ, is stirring. up consid-
erable discussion in England and on
the continent. The coin bears por-
trait of the Savior, with the name. of
Jesus in Hebrew characters. On the
reverse, in Hebrew characters, is this
motto:
"The Messiah, the King, will come
in peace. He is the incarnate living
light of men,"
The claim that this coin was in cir
:ulation in the first century after
Christ is disputed in England, where
George Mackey, a noted coin collec-
tor, shows almost an exact duplicate
of the Partisan coin. This coin was
unearthed in 1912 by a peasants
daughter who was helping her father
dig potatoes in Ireland. On one side
is the head of the Savior, with o
Hebrew inscription as shown in the
illustration, and on the reverse a
Hebrew inscription reading:
"TheMessiah has reigned. He came
in peace, and being made the light OF
man He lives"
Walter Davis, member of the Lon
don Numismatical Society, has dis
covered that similar coin is de-
scribed in Rev. r. Walsh's ESSAY on
Ancient Coins, Medals and Gems, u
and according to this authority the
character at the back Of the head is
the Hebrew letter "Aleph," and the
characters in front of the face form
the Jswish name Jesus.
Still another holy coin, one of silver
and somewhat larger than those
mentioned, was submitted some time
ago to the authorities at the British
Museum. There is no suchtcoin there,
but the verdict passed on the coin
submitted was "Italian coin seven
teenth century. Son of Jesse, the
Messiah, was crucifed on the sixth
day and taken down on the sixth
day. He lived"
The owner of this coin disputes the
great age of any of these so.called
holy coins.
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A Cause of Round Shoulders,

Weakness of constitution or health
is said to be one of the first causes OF
round shoulders, and tho person thus
afflicted should take the hest and most
nourishing food. A tonic is needed.
Regular hours should be kept regard
ings meals and sleep, and plenty of
outdoor exercise should be induiged
in. A hard mattress is the best to
sloep on, and the pillows should never
DO high. While walking the head
should be held up and the body car
ricd erect. Sewing or reading should
never be done in a low chair, Dut one
that has straight back to lean
against.
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BEAcHcoMBEEs AT WORK ON THE SALVAGE.

foundering vessels that they met on
the high seas would take far more
space than is at my disposal. Wher-
ever human life was imperiled men
we're ready with daring hearts and
skillful hands to rescue their fellows
without hope or prospect of reward,
and while instances have been re.
ported of alleged plundering of
wrecked persons and property along
shore, the weight of evidence, on the
side of courage and faithful discharge
of duty, is largely in the lead. Heaven
grant that the interval may be long
before such another storm descends
from the Northern Ocean!
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stretch of coasts, about ten thousand
miles in extent, is now patrolled daily
during the stormy seasons, and no
wreck can occur without being prompt
1y reported, and all possible means
taken to minimize loss. The men are
perhaps the most thoroughly drilled,
Intelligent and efficient body in the
world, and constant inspection and
encouragement of the worthy maintain
them OF this high level. The station
buildings are commodious and we'll
kept, and stored with whatever can be
of use in the service, or productive of
benefit in educating the men. The
latter are paid regular salaries by the
Government, and in case of their dis
ablement or death, pensions are pro-
vided for them or their families. Poll
tics are kept vigorously out of the Bu
reau; and altogether, its history and
statistics are perhaps more gratifying
to the national pride and pleasure
than those of any other bureau apper-
tanning to our Government. Mr.. Kim
ball has been the right man in the
right place, and the life.savers them
selves have magnifcently supported
him by their achievements in the face
OF tremendous perils and difficulties.
Golfers Weekly has striking arti-
Gle on the Life::Saving Service from
which the following is taken:
The venturesome mariner may lay a
straight course past Iceland and Spitz-
bergen horthward till he brings up
against the eternal ice, by steering due
northeast from anywhere on the coast
of Eastern Massachusetts,, and keep
ing away enough to clear the project
ing headlands of Nova Scotia and New
fouadland. In other words, when the
northeast wind arises in its might and
goes forth from its lair in the Arctic
seeking whom it may devour, the first
land that it strikes squarely is Cape
Cod and the first large seaport that lies
In it's track is Boston.
The meteorologlsts tell rs that most
of the destructive cyclone storms orig
mate in the Gulf of Mexico or else
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NOT Work, ID IT Worry, Kills.

How many Christians miss the secret of
spiritual power! They are weak to resist
temptation, and lack power to draw others
to Christ. There is much friction to over
come in themselves. The oil can is as neces-
sary to the continuous motion OF the train as
is the piston rod, for without oiing the ma
chinery would soon be destroyed. Christian
10Y is to the believer both impulse and lubri-
cation. 1t is not work that kills. but
worry. There Is much less danger that
n joyful Christian minister will wear out oS
anointed, emo.ionltss preacher will be used
up by the friction OF his unoiled machinery.
The Joy OF the Holy Ghost neutralises ply
steal pain. cheers in sickness. comforts in
penury, lightens every burden and makes
Coristian labor fruitful The joy OF the
Holy Spirit lifts the soul above the most de-
pressing circumstances. - Daniel Steele,
ID. D.. in Jesus Exultant, and Other Ser
mons"
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The Tragedy OF Lese niesty.

1t is astonishing how many persons
are arrested every week in Germany
for insulting petty officials or persons
of title or money. A trivial remark,
if addressed TO a person of higher
station than the speaker, becomes the
basest sort of insult. Three months
ago day laborer named Andrew
Weber, drinking and talking in O
Frankfort saloon, declared that he
thought the Kaiser did wrong in visit.
inc the Sultan, "the Christian killer. I"
Then some one proposed cheers for
the Kaiser. Weber kept mis- seat, and
the next day he was prisoner. That
was in November. His case has only
Just come up and he has been ac-
quilted on his plea that seventy
classes of beer muddled his head and
bound him to his chair. But the &C.
ouittal does not restore his lost earn
ings for a quarter of year.-Chicago
Record.
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chain cables and sending them adrift
to work their way under sail to such
harbor as Providence might vouchsafe.
One of them, the Pollock Rip light
ship, was driven away down toward
the Delaware Capes, and was at last
picked up and towed to a place of
safety by the Belgian steamer Switzer-
land. AS this is written revenue
vessels are out looking fer the other
lightships that are adrift, and, as still
other storms have intervened between
then and now, the question of finding
them becomes more and more doubt
full.
To recount even few of the incl
dents and adventures and daring
deeds of rescue performed alike by
men ofthe Life-Saving Service and by
volunteers who manned lifeboats and
went to the rescue of crews on board
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approach of phenomenal storms such
as visited this coast at the end of
November. It could and did give
warning several hours before the storm
began to make itself felt at the Fir-
giuia capes and along up the Jersey
shore. Hurricane signals W ere promptly
set at every station away up the coast
as far as the Jurisdiction of the United
States extended, and if the coastwise
authorities of the British possession
had only been willing to accept the
warning of American weather
prophets they, too, might have shown
danger signals for the benefit of their
seafsring population.
1t is singular characteristic of a
great many masters of vessels, from
the flag officer of squadron down to
the skipper of a coasting sloop, to
cherish certain contempt for every
thing that savors of meteorological
science or official interference.
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Do a. Christ Did.

Cost is the law OF helping others. Jesus
healed the woman only by giving up part OF
His life to save her life. We try to escape
this law. We would add to the comfort
OF others without subtract!ng from the
comfort OF ourselves; We would heal
them without touching them or giving
them any part of our own life. Ths
cannot be done. Our power to help
others Is measured. not so much by what
Wa give them Us by what We give up our
selves. What it cost us will determine how
much 1t will bless them. We cannot help
the sick and troubled. teach the ignorant
and save the lost, without spending our time
and patience and sympathy and prayer.
There are few things we cannot do for
others. If We will only Iay on. lives at their
feet. rs Christ did. II wo would only let
the virtue go out OF our souls. many OF those
who touch us in this crowded world would
b. healed.-Presbyterian Banner.
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GODS MESSAGE TO- MAN.
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS

Sending OF the Twelve - Constant Com
1nunion - Religious But Not Piols-~
Not Work, But Worry, Kills - Do An
Christ Did-The safety-valve of Love-
(MArT. 10y.
Yes, still He sends them, those undaunted
Scornful OF comforts, innocent OF cares,
With singing lips, and round their toll
stained garments
The fragrance Of innumerable prayers.
Preaching along these GENTLE roads, and
gaining
Fresh power from heaven to heal, cleanse,
bless, and cheer;
In these late centuries shall not men receives
them, 49,
AS In that halcyon, immemorial year2
II you have lost the art OF being happy,
Which childhood, without learning, knows
80 we'll,
And 81. discouraged while the dust grows
Within the rooms where, once twas Joy to
Oh, hark it may ethat the unused thresh-l
old '
Some sandaled foot Is fain to cross again.,
Some voice may only wait to whisper calmly
peace on this house aud these sick soui2
amen. sesSse 80 st.ss ~
And II it be the loving John Of Pstmos,
Or earnest Peter with his lips Of 6re,
Or Matthew with the honest mind of services
Or Thomas, child of doubling snd desire
Receive them. They have neither bras, nor
silver, Z.
Nor scrip, nor coat, nor even 10y TO glyes
But peace and healing, pardon and peEsua%
sion,
And th. soft touch that causeth hearts ~
live. ~
Frederick Lawrence Knowles, ia .. sjious-
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The Gorreous Insurrent officer.

A Kansas boy in Manila thus writes
home: "My, you ought to see the
gorgeousness of the insurgent officers.
The little brown rascals strut around
in gold lace. They wear red trousers
with double white stripes like our nu-
sicians, white coats, green epaulets
with gold stars on them, and white
ceps with gold eagles and white shoes,
and how they do trut!'-New York
Tribune.
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The Passing OF the Tow-Path Mule.

The speediest solution of the canal
boat difficulty is offered by NJ. Salliot,
of Dioa, France, who has invented an
electric traction engine which will run
on any towpath without rails. The
motive power is furnished by an over
head trolley wire. The towing cable
is fastened to the back of the engine,
and in the cab sits man who does the
steering and controls the current. The
locomotive is perfectly stable, and
stands all sorts of shunting and cross
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whore in the South Atlantic, and in
truth the warnings of approaching
hurricanes at all seasons confirm the
truth of this theory. But be that as
it may, when the northeast wind gets
AN unobstructed sweep of some thou
sands of miles down the wide stretch
ST ocean that leads the Gulf Stream
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Lightships are anchored with an
eye to violent conditions of tempest,
their mooring chains are so huge and
heavy that to lift one of the links re-
quires something of an effort to an
ordinary man. In spite OF all, this
phenomenal gale tore theee lightships
from moorings, breaking the huge
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zEzSz}z&EzEs:
PERlIs OF THE LIFE-sAVERs
The Brave Coast Guards Who Patrol the Shore
s While the Storm Rages.

northward it has chance to develop q
degree of violence that it con hardly
attain where its course is interrupted
by outlying.islands and reefs.
During the comparatively calm and
peaceful voyage that most travellers by
sea achieve from New York or Boston
to London, Liverpool or Southampton
they are told that when the ship crosses
q tract known to sailormen as "the
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

Unexpected physiological effects
have been noted by Professor Angelo
Mosso, of Turin, from living at nm
altitude in the Alps OF 14,S00 feet.
He was able to do more work
than at sea-level, and found no in
crease in the rate of breathing even
after severe muscular exertion. H"
has been led to the conclusion t
mountain sickness is due to lack Vi
carDonic acid in the blood, rather
than to insuficiency of oxygen.
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Enioinel Acninsi MalSInr Inyn

In tho District Court. Dallas. Texas, n
few days ago, Will Il. Morris llled a suit
against J. u. Warlleld, alleging that War
lleld had aliennted tho affections OF Mrs.
Morris, and asking that ho be restrained
from furthor attentions 10 tho woman.
Morris also asked !lCD,O0O damages. Judge
Mo-gan granted the iNiuuction.
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the carriage forward grows shorter
and shorter until he cannot move it
at all, and consequently the mark OF
the pen on the paper over the cylin-
der becomes almost p perfectly straight.
Now, the principle upon which the
operation of the ergograph is based is
that any one set of muscles is an 1n-
dex to the general condition OF the
body.
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AMERICAS GROWING POWER:
sudden Desire of European Governments
to Make Reciprocity Treaties.

to Make Neclprocity 1rcaties'
The Russian Government, through Count
CassIni, tho Ambassador ut washington
has informed tho State Department,
that it is prepared to negotiate re-
ciprocity treaty with the unitod states.
A number Of other European Governments,
notably Great Britain, France, Germany,
AustriS and Italy. hayo recently shown 4
disposition to expedite negotiations toward
the same end Although some OF these
countries had mado ovcrtures to the state
Department in connection with reciprocity
agreements, they did not, until lately.
eylnce any great desire to press the ousi-
ness to conclusion. Now, however, for
somo reason, they arc all anxious to make
treaties US soon us possible, md 1t Is proba-
HE that the negotiations with some of them
will be concluded shortly. Tho expected
expansion Of Amer can trade in the Pacific
through tho requirement OF the Philip.
mines apd the Hawaiian Islands is helioved
TO bs the moving causs in this revival OF
interest.
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TOWING CANALBoATs BY ELECTRICITY

ing. Experiments made in Paris were
80 successful that the problem of tow
ing canalboats. seemed to be solved.
This photograph, taken near one of
the European capitals, shows how the
good, old, sure-footed, long-eared
friend of our fathers has been sup
nlantpd