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New-York tribune., 1902-02-16
4 CHEERFUL PROPHECY.

The animal that cannot he tra!ncu l" keep us
wits about il the approach of MOTOR car
must die1pUcar It's stupidity. tlth. SIuth, fear
Of everything and useless size prove to the
NEST conservative that il must 60. The horse
that viii not stand a motor car may he the a.
light Of its owner bat il IS a publC nuisance
ana public danger. and ought 10 be shot ike
4 mad dog. HurSemen have no right TO hiIhS
unuaua ;,eablc hTutcs INTO The public highways.
To the public danger and il Is time this clc-
InentarN justice should be recognized Ihc
motor - going 10 become the means of lCCoIn"-
tiun for all light transit. and by the ordinary
roads as they exist to-day. II Is the pedestrian
and the horse that have got To give way Ihe
horse in traffic, If he chooses 10 bolt Is un-
contToabie. The motor from the IehtcSt L-
cycle to the heaviest car. is perfectly control
liable. occupies nalf the suace. and travels now
through the c"ngesied streets al double and
treble the sDecd Of any horse drawn vehicle
The only thing the two have in common is that
times they hoth refuse to 90.
The uuobScrYant talk Uf the accidents that
would happen. The accidents will be a great
deal fewer in number. A conclusive proof Of
this, to any one with any sense. is the fact that
in the thousand miles tour one | believe.
hurt though the roads were lined with
spectators. In the race from Paris 10 Berlin.
three days. and the tour around Italy ten days
but TWO children were killed. the result entirely
Of their own careleSsneSs or that Of their par
ents. Suppose. for a moment. that in France a
hundred and ten teams or. rather droves Of
horses-there were a hundred and ten motors
ranging from fifty in bunch down 10 two
this was the horsepower of the machines
been let loose and driven at top speed for three
days on the public roads VIII any one tell
New-York tribune., 1902-02-16
FOOD POSSIBILITIES OF THE BANANA.

In the tropics il is the staple food Of millions.
put II might also, if properly treated, take SINH
lar rank with Us. 1t is scarcely ever realized
that, as form Of nOurishmeut. ii can claim first
place among vegetable products that food
for mankind. for il is twenty-five times uu-
tfltlNe as the ordinary white bread eaten in this
country, and forty four times as nutritve the
potato, thus far outweighing either the wheat
or the potato in food value. Hence on this
count its position a fundamental food or
breadstuf is amply justified.
Moreover. il satisfies that other essential con
dllon of a breadstuff-namely. the possibility Of
easy ana abundant production. 1t IS a true
child of the tropics, and grows in the greatest
!uXurlan2e, demanding little eXertion from those
WI" cultivate II for their daily food. And Of
fruit IL gives freely and without stint. Thus
it is perhaps the best food product that the
earth gives us and il is somewhat difficult to
account for its advantages being SO long over
looked but probably the difficulty Of transport
has been chiefly responsible for this
It Is Of course not suggested that the banana
fruit in its natural form should he used food
Like the wheat, il would require drying and
grinding down into flour. Mills might be erected
where ii is grown, within easy reach and
then at the suitable time the fruit could be
gathered, dried and transformed into flour The
flour would possess all the nutritive properties
Of the fruit in its natural state, and it would
further lend itself TO easy and cheap transport
and thus it would furnish a valuable addition
to the food of the world. Banana bread has
been voted excellent. and is now made IN Chi
caso. and might just well be made in London,
or, for the matter of that in any other place
could the -four be obtained reasonably. When
one remembers that there are large areas Of
the globe where famine is more or less periodic
such parts Of Russia and India. and that
pessmstc calculations Of the insufciency Of
the worlds supply Of wheat occasionally in
du !ged il. il is perhaps not altogether foolish
to take into consideration the possibility of
obtaining a cheap, hountiful and nutrtive bread
stuff from the banana. Indeed. il is not too
much to assert that banana flour as well as
banana fibre may be reckoncd among the
sources Of supply. at present untapped. which
ever increasing population. with necessarily
growing demands. may thankfully turn 10 in
the future 10 supply its needs.-u1ongman's $
Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-16

me that thousands of people would not have
been killed. that hundreds Of drivers would not
have lost their lives as well? But that would
nave been described sport. Now, because
TWO miserable brats escape and try to run
across the road in front of a motor car. and
therefore naturally are killed, the press and
politicians occupy themselves and prove their
cohtempt1bIe ignorance and utter unftneSs for
holding the positions they do, by condemning
the industry, deriding the sport, and ridiculing
the results. The only danger to be feared from
the motor car is to its driver. the only
drawback is its own imperfection. Read the
ports of automobile accidents: prOportonatcIy.
these are far fewer than from any other form
OF locomotIon, and in nine cases out of ten the
accident occurs to the driver the occupant
OF the car; IN the tenth case it is owing the
stupidity or the CaTelesSness OF the person who
gets in front The average pedestrian has sim
ply got 10 learn to keep out of the way, and
that Is the end Of it. The people who choose
10 drive horses that shy at motors any longer
upon the high road should be arrested for Grim
lnal negligence and prosecuted a public nuis-
ance- The pedestrian has learned not 10 argue
physically with a fast trOtIing horse. he must
learn to make his observations against motor
cars from the sidouath. True sdepaths will
have to be improved that will be a most excel
lent thing, though much less of d job than max
ing ne" roads; they may even have to be fenced
in The talk about danger, however. is promoted
by either the ignorant or the Interested
fJoSeph Penneil, in the Contemporary Review.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-16
STAGGERING THE IMAGINATION.

The distance of any star is calculated from
what is termed its pdrallaX, that is to say, fro
the slight shift in the direction in which il s
looked from two different positions Of the
earth. This shift is most noticeable If the two
observations made at suitable dates. six
months apart. Wh"u the two positions Of the
earth at opposite eXtTeHitieS Of diameter
of its orbit. and their distance apart great as
possiblc-yIZ. 10000 600 miles. But this shift
parallaX, in the of most Of the stars.
owing 10 their immense distance is found to he
small that il is impossible 10 measure it. II
has been il the case Of previous new stars.
We have only been able TO say Of them that we
cannot measure their distance, but that they
must bc located among the more distant stars.
OF the Nova PcrSei Professor Pcrrinc, writing
from the Lick Observatory last November, has
stated. in reference both to Photographic and
visual observations. that there does not appear
to be any abnormal paralIaX to the star" And
Profe ssor Bergstfand, Of Upsala, has endeaF-
ured TO determine the parallaX tand thereby the
distance Of the Nova 10y its positions on photo
graphs taken at dates six months apart. on the
LIST and lth Of March and the lst and nth of
September last. But he has found no indica-
tions Of a measurable amount of parallaX. We
are therefore. consider. justified in assuming
that this star Is in all probability also situated
among the more distant stars. At any rate. We
may feel almost certain that its large pafaIldN
and corresponding ncaTneSS would have surely
been discovered before now If the Nova had
beau ANYTHING like SIX times nearer 10 US lhdn
the well known star Aluha. in the Centaur,
whose distance Of - 1000 UtU .Oou miles is the
smallest as vct found for any aE.-tNlnettcIth
Century.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-16
NETWORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT-

be the sole congregation; all went on smoothly
till suddenly Dr. Stubbs began the Athanasian
Greed. He fixed his eyes upon me" said Mr.
Green, "and there was nothing for it. l was
forced to say The responses and he had me-"
It is impossible TO mention the friendship of
DR.. Stubbs and Mr. Green without including
the third of the trio. Mr.. Freeman. Seldom has
there been q stancher little band of friends
each admirins the others methods each learn
ing from the other, while each went his own
way To all three might, perhaps, be applied
IN some degree what has been well said of DR..
Stubbs "TO him the value of historical study
lies in its educational efficacy to teach the meth
Ods of political observation and political rea-
sonng, and to train the sobriety of temper and
largeness of view which are necessary for OBJ
servation and reasoning alike" Yet of all three
II is certainly true that though their historical
studies Influenced in no small degree their atli-
tUde TO life and its problems, yet they loved
history 0nately for her own sake. and
sought no reward but devotion to the mistress
they had chosen.-(Longman' Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-16
ALLUVIAL TIN MINING.

is calculated that nearly two-thirds Of the
worlds yearly output OF tin comes from the
Federated Malay States. although the system of
mining Is primitive. There is no lode mining. as
in Cornwall 1t is all alluVial. and the deposit
seems 10 b. th.Ckly scattered over the country.
no true lode having been found The finding of
TN ore at little depth leads the conclusion
that the deposit is the result of some upheavGl
or volcanic eruption, ia a remote age. When
we know how the dust from KTakatoa fell on
ships NOR than a hundred miles distant from
the seat Of disturbance, We have only to sup
pose that a similar disturbance may have oc-
Cured in the Malay Peninsula, the dust being
Tn ore, instead of rock pumice and then
the occurrence Of the deposit found through
out the peninsula is explained. The mines are
worked entirely with Chinese labor, and most Of
them are owned by Chinese merchants. a
Chnaman can adapt himself to any climate and
any work, and if he is properly treated. gives
very little trouble, and is one of the best abor
ers in the world Mining is always a specula-
uOl-often a mere gamble: but gambling is
the chief vice Of the Chinese, il is no wonder
that they practically hold the tin mines of the
peninsula in their hands. and that they the
only race carrying on the industry successfully
in these regions. The price Of tin f1uctuates
very much, ranging in twelve months from
s30 to $50 per picu!. Cornwall only com
pete with TIE native states when the price of
Tin is high; but as il does not pay 70 reopen
mines unless high prices are steadily main
tanned. the Cornish mines are closed down
Chambers Journal
New-York tribune., 1902-02-16
THE LUXURY OF DOING GOOD

NCst o. The help which is worth giving or get
tHG takes he shape Of assisting another person
70 hnd work And that help comes TO Us chiefly
We are taught to hclievel from our connections
bli D. my ON experience of life much more
often from our competitors is. from those
n our own profession. one hears a great deal
y PROT sSpual jealOusieS. and very little OF pro
Iessonai good fellowship. yet the batter Is IN
-falty "a much more potent factor. and for very
good reasons To begin with, of course. every
man knows the ropes more Jess in his own
fade, professional knowledge suggests means
~ helP hirh would be less evident 10 an out
r'-eF- bur this does not account cor the willing
i,ss tc Iut those means into operation-a vii
"ighes= which is. nevertheless. quite natural
! ne career Of ca On Of Is 10 himself her
Stil a r'..rter Of the most vivid interest. every
'.ot, every shade every turn in u life IL acutely
ol%eQ by the person who lives IT, Yet to the
- - OF the world. Mr.. Hardy has remarked
- - more Than one page OF melancholy comment.
o., est and dearest only a thought OF ire-
,7h' r.. urrenae. The points al which our for
49,, at" least lnaGeq uately realized 10y our
,bisIu'IS A. which they assume 10 others some
sli.e "i me Importance that they wear TO our
80 are the points Of community. The am
IONS the hopes ard fears of son who is a
fs,tlsef must be always somewhat vague to his
irtei' ne doctor. but every other barristcr is
~ an - by them almost as keenly as a mother
Tn. Gial relates 10 her daughters marriage.
feeInaS = we cause Of professional sympathy
REFS - Slrong that for ono who stops TO
co. hat the profession is already over
yon 90, and competition Increasing in severity
the r@aI ma twenty who gladly give a hand to
less -, :, oh a lower rung of the ladder. regard
thern ne TACT that he may one day be justline
Word "a "a IL They will remember to put in a
fr,ena "here word is useful, when another
3usi bslh milh equal opportunities would forget
their use Inc young mans fortunes resemble
az one woman's love affairs resemble
New-York tribune., 1902-02-16
A DEFENCE OF THE AMERICAN PRESS

First of all it must be pointed out that no
press OF any country attains 10 that supreme
potentIa.ity over popular opinion which has
been achieved by the press Of America. Were Il
guilty, as a whole, Of animus toward England
The present amicabIe relations Of the two coun-
idea intended TO be conveyed Will perhaps be
clearer 10 those who have visited or lived in
America. and have realized with what marvel
cus ceerity and strength the public pulse Of
that country responds to press suggestion and
agitation responds in a way that IS apparently
quite foreign to English character. THIS eN-
IRENE seusitiveness Of popular judgment IN the
United States has been to many an able. cult
lFed Am TIran source Of deep concern. IheN
nave seen grave issues upon which they beleNed
ihe future welfare Of the country TO depend
Tossed and banded 10y the hIppant influence o.
certain sections OF the press that neither pro
fessed nor UractiSed moral or political principle
Yet to-day the majority of those who once
~rung their hands at the lack Of all sense OF
moral responsibility exhibited by many Amerl-
'dn papers have come 10 the conclusion that an
evolution. greater than they dreamed or. has
been IN process. and that out OF eNl! good mas
come. for recent history III America shows that
IN the main. public feeling has been Influenced
n the right direction by the methods. however
Questioned they may be- Of the American press,
which IL its vast composition is 50 hetero-
Reneous as 10 defy all attempts at analytical
generdliSUs
There arr over two thousand daily papers pub
4-shed the United States but what | desire
Particularly 10 emphasize is. not so much their
numerical strength, as their unusual scope for
good or evil. once this phase Is clearly grasped.
i become obvious that ADglO-American friend
snip could not continue to exist if the bulk Of
NE news sent from England 10 America were
imITegHaled or even tainted with AnElophobe
Flft.-,W A. u. Goode in The Empire Review
New-York tribune., 1902-02-16
QrEEN ALENANnRl'S INITIAL LErrrR.
Ere m The London Chronicle.

Ere m The London Chronicle
From the point of view os the street decorator
and the designer Cf birthday ilIuminations
queen Alexandra Las been fortunate in her
INITIAL letter The nISt Of the alphabet is nearly
The easiest to d"Visr The Of Queen Victoria
was equally simple and in some of the decort-
uOnS of the last dav or two the late Oueen's s
INITIAL has been merely reversed and cross
hHc ADDED The same economy was practisrd
vice versa when Queen Victoria came after
queen Adelaide; bat that Queens unpopularity,
at the time she was supposed to influence the
King against the Reform hiI of IS:i2 kept in
check the supply of As. Indeed the Queens
Theatre had then L change its name, and the
Adelaide omnlbuseH to post sheets Of paper over
the hated letters
Queen AleXauCra's wish that only English
fabrics should Ire Worn by English women re
calls the similar .cSirc OF James l. which n
showed 10y pantiuG the MUll cry Garden. On the
sit" of the prcscu- BucknGf am Palace. for the
cultVatiOn of silk "orms Apparently. ne did
not succeed in pularZins English silk; foT
Mulberry Garden ended in being nothing but a
pleasure garden, alluded to by Evelyn in 1851
''ye only place If refreshment about ye tOWne
for persons Of ye best quality to be exceedingly
cheated at Pepys is even more scornful Of il,
and dismsSes il thus curtly: ITO the Mulberry
Garden, where l never was before, and find il
very silly place. worse than Spring Garden ana
but little company"
New-York tribune., 1902-02-16

ahothers. Professional benevolence is in short
very nearly allied to matchmaking, and like
nearly all the most loVable traits in human
nature has no claim to be regarded as a disin-
terested virtue. The healthy minded energetic
man man does not stop to consider whether the man
ne backS Is the ideal person for given
ployment-he simply desires to get the lob for
the man whom he is backing; and l have no
doubt that the trouble which he will take for
almost an absolute stranger is unCOnsCIouSlY
prompted by the desire 10 effectuate his own
personality to utilize some of his spare energy
IN accomplishing an end with which he has iden-
uned hlInsef--tStephen Gwynn, in The CornhilI
MagaZine.
The National tribune., 1902-07-03
SENT FREET0 MEN
A Most Remarkable Remedy That
Quickly Restores Lost Vigor
To Men.
A Free Trial Package Sent By Mail
To All Who Write.

Free trial packages OF a most remarkable
remedy are being mailed to all who will
write the State Medical Institute. They
cured so many men who had battIed for
years against the mental and physical suf-
fering OF falling manhood. that the iasti-
,ute has decided 10 distribute free trial pack
ages to all who write. IL is Il home treat
uleut and all men who suffer with any form
Of nervous weakness, resulting from youth
full folly, premature loss OF strength and
memory, weak back, yaricocelc, or emacia-
ton can now cure themselves ut home
The remedy has j peculiarly grateful ef-
feet of warmth aud seems 10 act direct TO to
the desired location giving strength and de-
yelopment just where il Is needed. A re-
quest to the State Medical Institute 1868
Elektron building, Fit Wayne. Ind. stating
that You desire OF their free trial
packages Will be complied with promptly
The Institute Is DESTROYS of reaching that
great Class Of men who are unable TO leave
home TO be treated and the free sample will
enable them to see how easy 1t is to be
cured of nervous weakness when the proper
remedies are employed. The Institute
makes no restrictions Any man who writes
will be sent Il free sample. carefully sealed
in 4 plain package so that its recipient need
have no fear OF embarrassment or publicity.
Readers are requested 10 write without de-
lay.
The National tribune., 1902-07-03

having succeeded in his mission, and the
next day the Shenandoah was thrown
open to the inspection of visitors.
As soon as this was known, and the
news seemed to spread like wildfire. steam
ers and sail-bOats came fiocking off to-
wards us, and all day long. and until far
into the evening. were plying between our
ship and the shore, bringing on board and
taking away thousands of persons, all
eager to say that they had visited the
famous rebel pirate
The multitude of absurd questions with
which we We're piled by the gaping crowd
would have made stole laugh. large
percentage of our visitors seemed to en-
terrain the notion that the human beings
were removed from the vessels we cap
!ured, or not, as convenience dictated,
prior to their destruction, and solemnly
queried of us as TO the manner i'll which
the Yankees bore themselves while watch
ing the approach of the devouring element
upon a burning ship. or waiting to be en-
gUlfed with 4 scuttlcd one. But. notwith-
standing this hard character they were
ready to ascrbe to us. they WED with
each other in showing us every courtesy In
their power, and the ladies in particular
were well pleased when they could secure
the attendance of 4 gray uniform to escort
them on their tour of inspection. Of
truth there are some curious phases III
human nature.
The National tribune., 1902-07-03
SUBSCRIBERS ADVERTISING

Thousands OF comrades will patroniz'
each other if they are shown the way.
The only way is to advertise.
This is a good time for developing the
plan. because 4 comradc may buy advertis-
ing and take guesses rs premiums. See
advertising coupons Oh first page.
The price OF this advertising has been
fixed at ) cents n word. which is & very
low rate. You reach a quarter-million
readers and will often set hundreds Of re
plies from q single ad.
All the world deals now through the
mails or by express or freight. Try it
yourself.
Write us the substance of what you
want to say, and we will arrange it in the
fewest possible words.
Regimental historians and Secretaries
of Survivors Associations will find thcs"
columns very useful.
Direct letter to Adv. Dept, Nationa'
Tribune. Washington. u. G.
The National tribune., 1902-07-03

young calves up to feeders" and fat
beeves. Mere than 1000 calves are born
on this farm every year. Those that are
good for beef cattle are fed with that in
view and they are augmented by others
shipped in from Mexico, so that the total
number fattened for market each year is
upwards of 5000, or more than $50 ear
loads.
Cattle which are fattened for the mar
ket are fed not only corn and rough fed.
but meal of different kinds. and bran and
Cotton-secd meal. A great deal of the
corn Is ground. cobs and all. before it is
fed to the cattle, and all the fodder is
shredded. \ force of II men and Iii
horsepower gasoline engine are kept busy
running the machinery which shreds the
fodder. Mr. Sherman believes that the
process adds 80 per cent. to the value of
rough feed.
In the Summer time the men work from
O'Clock iii the morning till I in the eve
ming, with two hours off at midday. Dur
ing the Winter the hours are shorter.
Every evening the foremcn telephone to
headquarters the details of the work ac
compiishcd during the day. By an in
senlOr!S system of blank reports which Mr..
Sherman has devised bookkeeper can
make record OF work done as fast as
reports come over the telephone.
The employees are paid $50 Il month
and board. Those who are at work on
Oct l of each year are paid bonus of
80 month for all the time they have
been continuously employed. This is to
prevent an exodus from the ranch into the
wheat fields during the harvesting and
threshing seasons, when wages rise for Il
short time. The farm hand who works
on Sherman Ranch the year around thus
receives SD Il month. which is consider
ably more than is paid the average farm
hand. If n man is married he is given n
house to live i'll, rent free, and is allowed
SO month extra for his own board, and
if his wife wishes to do so she has
chance to board some of the single farm
hands.
Sherman Ranch. though it is devoted
almost exclusively to raising and fattening
cattle for the beef market. is almost in the
center of the Kansas wheat belt. Rice
County, adjoining it on the south, pro-
duced in 1!Ul nearly 100000 bushels of
wheat. Mcpherson County. to the east,
raised 3.IOb.000 bushels. Ellsworth Coun-
ty, in which the big farm is located, raised
1850 900 bushels.
None of the counties produced less than
100000 bushels of wheat last year. and
some went nearly as high as 100000.
The National tribune., 1902-07-03
Deadly Illuminating Gas.

1t is asserted by a writer in an Ameri-
can medical weekly that cases of poison
ing by iiln!ninatiug-gas are on the in
crease, and he attributes this 10 the use
of the so-caiied water-:aS which contains
n high percentage of the deadly gas call
ed carbon n:0n0x;da. In Massachusetts
a law 50 limiting the proportion of this
substance as practically to exclude wa
ter-gas from use, was repealed about Is
years ago. Since that time, there have
been 419 deaths from Inhalation of gas,
while in a period of equal length preced-
ing the repeal of the law there were only
eight deaths from this cause Carbon mon.
oxide is not only fatal in large quantities,
but it produces a general condition of i'll
health in very slight proportions, and the
writer believes that many puzZling cases
of decline in physical vigOr are to be at
tributed to almost inappreciabIe gas-leaks.
Success