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last year, and began an era Of material
development and progress which attract
ed the admiration of the world. she was
then the only American republic. Since
then her constitution has become the
model of the organic laws of eighteen
others, one in North America, five in
central America, ten in South America.
and two (and soon to be three in the
West Indies.
one hundred years ago railways teIe-
graphs, steamships telephones. electric
ASnts, reapers and mowers, and other
great factors in material development.
We're unknown. But during the century
there have been constructed in the
various republics. 10000 miles OF railway
at cost of more than $4,000 %, 600, and
$4,000 miles of telegraph lines
The value of the annual products If
the leading republic-the United States-
in 1900, is estimated to exceed xiea.. -
OOV, enc years output exceeding by one
fourth the total cost Of all of her railway
lines built during the past century. In
wealth, agriculture and manufactures the
United States already ranks first among
the nations of the earth.
But in this grand race for material
development, progress, and wealth the
other American republics are developing
remarkable speed. Mexico, under the
progressive craftsmanship of President
l)laZ, inaugurated few years ago a svs-
tenn of public improvements more COM
preheEsive than any American nation
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The Strange
Things People
5na Believe.
:. SQIpersfj1i0ng.~

devils. The doctor soon found that a
paper packet had been securely tied to
the Womans body and rested directly
over her heart The doctor quickly took
it off and put it into his pocket TIE
patient was greatly surprised to see the
magic packet handled so carelessly While
she had ali along been afraid to touch it.
The witch doctor had told her that it
must remain securely fastened over her
heart for thirty three days.
The doctor took the packet home with
him. 1t consisted of about TWENTY-FIVE
notepaper leaves. 2X4 inches. the leaves
being securely bound together with Il
metal clasp. On the cover was a pen
drawing of a cross with the letters. az
H. S. On the first page was a lot OF
writing in German, aiming to be a pas
s1onate appeal to the Almighty to cast
OUT the devils in the patient. Then fot,
lowed on the next page lot of Scrip
trral quotations, also in German The
first page cover was written from left to
rlsht, the second from right to left, the
third d1agonally from the upper left to
the lower right, the next from the upper
right to the lower left and upside down,
the next Zig-zag and so on Until the
thirteen pages were well taken up with
prayers, Scriptural passages, strange quo
tatlons and sayings and German express
sions pertaining to witches, spells and
devils. The packet was 4eyidently pre-
pared by the witch doctor and it looked
as If 1t had done duty on the breasts Of
other patients. g. ri
Witch wreaths have been steadily los
ing prestige since old chienfal days when
witches were burned and old ladies of
taciturn nature We're Supposed to take
| midnight rides upon long. rallish look
Ing broomstieks. It is q common celief
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WITCHCRAFT.

WITCHCRAFT
No mania was ever more widespread
than that OF belief in Witches During
the middle ages in Europe and England
fires for the execution of witches were
ever blazing, Dr. Sprenger. in his Life Of
Mehammed,'' computes the entire number
of persons burned as witches during the
Christian epoch at 9,0O0090. In England
during the seventeenth century a profess
SIGNAL class known as witch finders.
sprung up, with Matthew Hopkins at
their head. Ite and his assistants moved
from town to town and rid each of witch
es at a cost of 20 shillings a piece He
subjected all suspects to the most hor-
ricie tests, from solne of which they
could not escape and he condemned them
to die. He murdered thousands and
finally public opinion turned against him.
The worst outbreak in America was the
hanging of nineteen persons at Salem,
Mass in 1892 Numerous books have
been written upon the subject, but civil
cation has not entirely restroyed the de-
fusion still existing among the backs Of
the Southern states.
1t exists in the North, as shown by
instance reported from Reading, Pa, in
july, 1885, wherein DR. J. M Bertolet
was called to visit patient in q suburb
of the city who was said to be afflicted
with strange mania. The patient
proved to be 4 single woman, twenty
two years of age and fairly intelligent
DR. Bertolet diagnosed the case as ore
Of acute mania. An examination dis
! closed hard substance under the cloth
ing of the woman on her left breast The
doctor asked what it was. The patient
replied that it was something the witch
Doctor had placed there to cast out the
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among ignorant residents of parts Of
PENNSYLVANIA. New Jersey and other
states OF the Atlantic coast. that the
Witch wreath is an Instrument of evil
The legend is that he wreaths form In
pillows subjected to evil influences. and
that person sleeping on such pillow
VIII surely die. The superstitious pu,
Bibles under their pillows to prevent the
evll circle from forming. The University
OF PENNSYLVANIA recently received a witch
wreath of feathers The curiosity con-
slsts OF matted ring Of chicken feathers
and is about three inches in diameter. 1t
mad been used by a resident of Pitts
burg, who died, it is said by the family,
through it's influence.
In the early ages of society women
were the doctors, the men fought and
hunted; the women gathered herbs and
made saIves and remedies for wounds
and sickness. The wise women with
kettle, cooking mysterious broth, adding
one thing after another, We're looked upon
with awe and respect Roman matrons
were often accused and convicted Of
using poisons and in times of epidemics
much of the virulence of the disease was
attributed to bad women and they were
reL=ntlessly prosecuted as enchantresses.
sorceresses and witches.
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SjniZanfies in CboQgM, A 7a:i ;iss:=s,.

Truth Som times Danger
Truth is often attended with danger.
There is French proverb of the thir-
teenth century which expresses this idea:
Every truth is not good to be said"
Mark vi, IS: For John had said unto
Hercd 1t is not lawful for thee E5 have
thy brothers wife. Therefore Herodias
lad a quarrel against him, and would
have killed him; but she could not"
Truth Is Simple.
Shakespeare c'Measure for Measure"
act W says:
Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning"
Matthew vi, %: eff thine eye be sim
gle thy Whole b1dy shall be ull of liz hit. -
T h e Mind of Man in SIee p.
The mind freed from the shackles Of
the body, never resting, being under tie
impressions which cares and anXieties
have made upon it, brings before us those
night visions which we call fantasies.
Longfellow GA Psalm of Life') ex-
presses himself otherwise:
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty ~dreamn
For the soul is dead that slumbers
And things are not what they SEEM"
But Byron (",fhe Dreamy says:
Dreams in their development have
And tears and tortures and the touch of
joy;
They have weight upon our waking
They take a weight from off our waking
tolls,
They do divide our being"
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MARCELLINUs.

Ammianus Marcellinus, native of An
tioch, in Syria, was the last subject of
Rome who composed prefane history
in the Latin language. OF his personal
history little is known; he flourished from
about A. d. $50 to $50; he was an officer
in the army, accompanying Ursicinus, an
able general of the Emperor Constantius,
to the East in $50. We next find him ac-
companying Julian in his expedition
against the Persians, having narrow
escape in the retreat of the Romans.
His history extended from the acce son
of Nerva, A. D. Sc, to the death of
Valens, A. d. 97S comprising period
of 2S2 years. 1t was divided into thirty
one books, of which the first thirteen
are lost What remains includes the
reign of Constantius from A. D. $50, d
those of Gallus, Julianus, Jovianus, Va
entinianus and Valens. The following
are extracts from his works:
E &c tions to Every Ru1e.
But in the midst of thorns roses spring
up, and amidst savage beasts some are
tame.
Psalm XXX, 5: Weeping may endure
for night, but joy cometh in the morn
ing"
Man Propose God Dis
poses.
Yet the success of plans and the adj
vantage to be derived from them do not
at all times agree seeing the gods claim
to themselves the right to decide as to
the final result
Proverbs xiv, 9: "a mans heart de-
viseth his way; but the Lord directeth
his steps,.
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CHE Nlmeriean
Continent.
TRAVELLING IN Europe.

George T. Angel, founder of the
American Humane Society," and the
Band of Mercy" society, believes in
humane humanity, and also in his native
land. We quote the following letter writ
ten by him from England to Our Dumb
society in Boston:
This is my last letter before starting
for home; and 1 propose in it to answer
in advance question that will be often
asked:
w a D Y u T hin O f Travel
in Europe?
Il think that as an educational process
to those who have health and leisure,
it is desirable. Those who suppose our
system in all respects perfect may find
we have much to learn; and those WHO
suppose we can conquer the world may
coaclude that we had better try first TO
conquer ourselves, and build up at horne
a united, honest and humane nation
"Te those, on the other hand, who
forgetting the greatness of their own
age and country, reverence too much
things distant and things OF the past, it
may be useful to dissipate their romantic
fancies.
81 remember how once Mr.. Choate had
been arguing a good share of 4 day to
convince a jury that two car wheels,
standing before them in court, and look
ing precisely similar, were in fact differ
emit; when Mr. Webster, in reply, de-
molished the whole by saying, Gentle
men OF the jury, there they are! Look
at them.
And so with travel here We have
been reading, all our lives, European his
tory, romance and poetry-Shakespea
Ivanhoe, and the Lady Of the Lake; Of
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Cheap Ejpimg
LIVING AT LITTLE COST.
n-An Interesting Question

a. l..
There has been much newspaper and
magazine talk of late about the posi-
bility of properly sustaining life at an
exceedingly small cost. The discus
sion, we believe, started from state
ment that a man and wife proposed TO
live on Is cents day each for food
While studying at the Chicago uniyers-
lty 1t is generally conceded that they
would be able to live at that rate and
possibly cheaper
correspondent of an Eastern paper
lately furnished some facts about
the cost of living in parts of Germany
Inc German government is trying to
German1ze large tract in the Eastern
part OF the empire now populated
chiefly by Poles. Great government
farms have ben established on which
only Germans are employed. They are
allowed ration which costs 91a cents
a day. 1t consists of half a pound of
mcat each week, potatoes, rye flour,
little rice and cheap coffee. Protests
against this cheap food led to the dis
coNery that many Germans live at
cheaper rate. The actual expense of
family of six for the food upon which
they had lived for six years averag ed
only l-3 cents a day for each. This
ration consisted of 6 pounds of meat a
week and 81 pounds of potatoes for the
six persons. Such a diet. as this may
sustain life, but it can hardly be con-
sidered a nourishing fare. 1t may sat
isfy the pangs of hunger and fill the
stomach, but it is not sufficient to fur
nish that nourishment which the hui
man body requires.
Doubtless people generally live more
extensively in the matter of food than
is either necessary or conducive to the
best physical results, though on the
whole it is better to be overfed than
underfed. At all events it is a good
deal more satisfying. The exploitation
of the matter, however, is not altogether
friutless, since its avowed purpose
is to ascertain what foods, taken in
what proportion, keep the body at its
highest efficiency. But most of us will
prefer that the experiments with cheap
foods be tried on the other fellow.
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In addition the Netherlands owned 424
square miles, and Denmark 22s, islands
in both cases.
This made a grand total of Is. $50
square miles, of which a trihe less than
54 per cent was free, or republican ter
ritory.
Spain owned more than all other Euro
pean powers combined, with Great Brit
ain second, and Portugal third. The
republic of the United States was d short
fourth. During the century just passed
spain has lost her entire possessions.
and so did. Portugal Great B.itain has
practlcally the same territory 1t is a
singular fact that she has twenty-nine
times more. territory in America than in
Europe Contrasted with the United
states the respective areas are as fol-
lows, in square miles:
british possessions in America s. GIG. $50
United States including Alaska. 3. 500, $3.50
stated in detail, the British possessions
are as follows:
The Dominion of Canada. and
Newfoundland. in North Amer
lca ................!.31 l3 200
British. Honduras, in Central -''-'V
Alileflca -: ....................... 1862
Jamaica. the Bahamas. and other
49, Islands in the West Indies II SO
Inc befmudas Observation-Disclosures. 20
Total a. 66, 352
IN 1901
In brief, the present ownership of the
three Americas is as follows:
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order to correct those attitudes which
tend to injury of the sight as well as the
health. Children in writing rarely fail
TO give the head an inclination by which
the eyes are placed at unequal distances
from the paper. They are also apt tn
incline their head too far and acquire
the habit of bringing 1t too near as when
they try to accommodate themselves to 4
feeble light. Not sufficient attention is
given to these matters, especially when
we consider the consequences Of suci,
habits in mature age. ,
A large proportion of our defects orig
mate in want of proper care during child
hood. We do wrong to. such wonderful
tools as our senses when VIC do not give
them the education they need 1t is not
surprising that parents who are SO par
ticular abut the way their children hold
their spoon or fork pay so little attention
to the way they use their eyes
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Century Oars.

END OF THE CENTURY CONFLICTS.
Why the international bitterness should
come to head al the close Of q CEN
fury rather than at any other time is
one OF those oddities which have not
been explained and perhaps cannot be
with our present light and information.
There have been other wars; the fact
shat general conflicts came at the cen
tury's end does not mean that these were
all. for some Of the severest struggles be-
tween nations came al Irregular intervals
and in sorae periods the irritation appears
10 have been chronic and manifested it.
self in almost continual strife. But ey en-
in these instances, toward the close Of
the century the bitterness became mere
ncute, the borders of the conflict en-
Iarged, other nations were drawn into
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Gge@ii gbG,
One Eye Usually Better
Than It's Mate.

IRREGULARITIES OF EYESIGHT
A famous oculist who has made a close
study of the visual organs of his patients
has come to the conclusion that most p1o-
pie are right or left sighted as tkey are
right or left handed. He now regards
it as an established fact-in preference
when looking through a glass or taking
aim with a gun. If we do not perceive
this ourselves oculists and opticians re-
mark it, The ignorance of most people
on this subject lis illustrated by their
buying glasses at the opticians without
taking account of any difference between
the eyes. Thus only one Of zthe eyes Is
helped, while the other one, being less
called into exercise, becomes less ard
less useful and loses its power, as a tool
rusts when not in use.
: Yet both our eyes are needed to see we'll
1t becomes, therefore, highly important
to observe how the child uses It's eyes in
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MEDICINES.


: A marked change wfff5ake place ingthe
practice of medicine Bsss4ae0a 7doct tors
will prescribe no more than a third of
the drugs they now think necessary
The true relation of t1le} muscular sys-
tenn to the organic SYSTEM and. their COM
bined influence on the nervous system
will become more fully and generally lIn-
derstood. The combined action of tie
patients mind and muscle will be largely
depended on instead of drugs to prevent,
allay and cure disease Cancer, diph-
iberia and consumption by that time
may be as easily cured as a run
around" The average OF human life will
have been heightened with more things
to enjoy and 9 greater capacity to enjoy
them. The eradication Of unfavora BILE
inherited tendencies, the building up IF
strong constitutions in weak children,
the stoppage of serious and fatal or
ganic diseases, and the quick arrest Of
acute pains and inflamma TONS will have
reached high stage of success Tie
law of germs will be We'll understood,
and by injections of specific serum all of
the germ diseases will be handled with
large advantage as compared with dos
. ing through the stomach.
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The Periodicity of
Great Wars.

the struggle, Which thus assumed phase
far broader than before.
THE WORLD IN UNIVERSAL WAR.
The cause Of the conflicts which termi-
mated the centuries always lay far back
of the wars, sometimes having their ORR
gin in previous disputes, sometimes in
conditions which had prevailed for cen
turtles and We're the inheritance OF for
mer generations. The beginning of the
18th century, for instance, found the
world in universal war, arising from the
French revolution. Looked at without
reference TO its antecelents and sur
roundings, the revolution of 1889 was one
of the most tremendous cataclysms the
world ever knew, bat when considered
with regard 20 it's antecedents it was
a perfectly natural occurrence, that
might have been anticipated and, indeed,
was expected by more than one far
sighted statesman who saw in the power
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ever before attempted at any given time.
Under the magic touch of the railway
builders she has been transformed into
one of the most prosperous of nati.ns
Brazn and the Argentine Republic.
with their immense areas and b3undless
natural wealth. have also entered the
race for agricultural industrial. ana
commercial development, and are making,
a record Of progress worthy of the nine
tecnth century. Similar tIibutes might,
be paid to Chilli and the other republics
OF South America now all imbued with
the progressive spirit Of this active age.
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MARRIAGE.

The laws will draw~a tighter line than
today in regulating marriages. Persons
applying for a license ztci marry will be
examined by commission as to their
health and physical condition. Those
suffering from disease certain 10 be
transmitted to children, who in turn
must suffer, will be denied the right to
marry. This selection (Hill result III a
better and longer lived race Moral
sentiment will so condemn the bringing
into the world of weak3 or crfminal.y
predisposed children, ssand motherhood
will be SO dignihed and IGNORED that the
best people will have lafge families, and
those who could hope to have only weak
children will be conteateA with few or
none,
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IN 18a1.

The nineteenth century may be called
the first century of American republics,
Tor nineteen. except one, were born dur
ing that period In this we include what
IS to be republic-Cuha Seventeen
others are in Central South America.
established between 1910 and 1925.
At the beginning of the nineteenth cen
fury, 1871 there was but one republic
existing in the new world, and that was
the United States, possessing only 5
per cent OF the total territory in Amer
lea. All the rest were controlled by Eu-
ropean nations.
The areas of the European possessions
and the single republic were as follows:
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ROADS.

The badness of the roads made travel
frksome, if not dangerous and pious
people wrote Thank Cod in their al
manac diaries when they got back with
whole bones from twenty-five miles ride
into the country. Pie munipicaI control
did not extend to territory outside of town
limits; indeed the town streets were
often impossible, and so no attempt was
maze to improve the paths and roads
marked out by chance travellers between
towns In 1885, when the state of govern
nlent was removed to the banks of the
Potomac, there was little to indicate that
beautiful and stately city was to occu-
Ply the site chosen by Washington. Mrs.
Adams, the presidents wife, on her Jour
ney from Baltimore to her new home.
was actually lost in the woods, and. with
her escort. wandered two hours without
nndlnS guide or path She adds. ''but
woods are all you see from Baltimore IN
III you reach this city, which is so only
in name"
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SUFFRAGE.

The right to vote in most of the colo
MES was restricted to property holders,
and this was true in some of the STATES
after the organization of the Union. Rep
resentation in, congress was based upon
population; in the slave states the ne
gro standing for two-thirds of vote,
and did until the Civil war. 1t was in the
eighteenth century, however, the politi-
cal dogma, that suffrage is a rational
right, led to a demand for its extension
to women. Condorcet, a French political
writer, in 1890 published the first general
plea for the citizenship of women The
constitution of New Jersey, framed in
1716, permitted all Inhabitants of certain
qualifications TO vote, irrespective of sex.
This was the first state to grant the right,
but it was repealed in 1907
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A RETROSPECTIVE view

The political, material and social
progress of the republic during their first
century has been as gratifying as their
territorial growth In 1900. when the
young republic. the United States, re-
moved its temporary seat of government
to a permanent home at Washington
(the 10oth anniversary being celebrated
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ty and misery of the people, in the recll-.
Iessness and extravaganza of the nobil-
ity the elements of catastrophe which
would probably be without parallel in the
annals of man.
RISE AND FALL OF NAPOLEON
The closing year of the 18th century
found Napoleon, then first consul, rival
ing the famous march of Hannibal and
following the track of the great Cartha-
Eenian across ST. Bernard to the field and
victory of Marengo, where he completely
crushed the Austrian power in the south
and laid the foundations of an empire
which in extent and influence rivaled that
of Charlemagne. OF all the wars of all
the centuries those of the French revolu-
ton We're, perhaps, the most disastrous
to the nations engaged. The enormous
debt which necessitates the taxation of
every Englishman from birth to burial.
which has increased the cost of the
cradle in which he is laid and the grave
which is his last resting place, originated
in the war with Napoleon; it has been
estimated that not less than 1000 coo of
human beings persisted on the battlefield
between 1892 and 1915, and so serious was
the effect upon the population of France,
so much of the best blood of the country
had been drained away to enrich the sod
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,Nmerieam Republics.
The Growth of
a Century.

are included as belonging to the United
States but the last named. with 1858
square miles, can only be properly inciua-
cd as congress is pledged 10 give Cuba
her freedom