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King Edwards Fateful Tuesday.

FROM the London Lancet.
The principal events In the life OF his
majesty King Edward have happened on a
Tuesday-viz: On Tuesday. November o,
1s41. his majesty was born: on Tuesday.
January %. 1912. he was baptized: on Tues
day, March 10, 1863. he was married: on
Tuesday. December 8. 1868. he was ap-
poited member of the privy council: on
Tuesday. November 81. 1871 1t was def
nitely ascertained that he had contracted
typhoid fever: on Tuesday. February ~,
1S'2. he attended the public Thanksgiving
service for his recovery: on Tuesday. JAM
uary y. 1901, he succeeded to the throne;
on Tuesday. January %. 1901. the royai
standard was hoisted at Marlborough
House for the first time and on Tuesday.
June "A. iV2 his majesty underwent an OPP
Grafton for perityphltis. AS an execution
TO the aforementioned cases 1t may be
stated that 1t was on Monday. July 18,
1888. that the king sustained a fra cture of
the left patella through missing his footing
while descending the spiral staircase at
Weddesdon Manor during a visit to the late
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild
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T Oh
A Pure Food-Propaganda.
From the Omaha Bee. sfi.=sH

rom the Omaha Bee. sti.asH
mere was ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS an asso-
citation of the manufacturers and distribut-
ers OF food products, the. object Of which is
TO seek national legislation In the passage
OF pure food law bys Congress. There
is to be conventions under the auspices Of
the association the later part Of the pres
ent month, which will be, attended by dele
gates from all the laEge cities Of the coun-
try and at which national legislation for
purity In food products will be discussed.
ms subject has frequently been before
congress, bill having been introduced at
IN, inc last session, but failed Of passage
~ ms MEASURE. which may be considered at
the next session, permits the President of
tne United States to appoint a certain num-
yer OF army and navy officers, with whom
the chieI OF the chemical division In the
Asricuitural Department may consult on
techMcai sanitary problems. It also pro-
Woes that the chief chemist Of that de-
partment may appoint cOnsHltants OF this
character ana gives him the power to dx
STANDARDS OF purity for the manufacture of
uruss ana foods In this country. 1t was
opJecteo TO this measure that 1t gives too
mocn power to the chief chemist of the De-
partment or Agriculture. and It was also
urged that that is not the proper depart
Meht 70 nave charge Of such q matter. but
TINS objection Is not particularly important
II nationad legislation for pure food Is de-
sirdDie II would undoubtedly be a. well en-
forced by the Agricultural as by the Treas
ury Department
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dads
The Literary "Stylist."

From the New York Tribune
The protested 'stylst"-if we must use
hateful words capable of going TO absurd
lengths in the manipulation of language
He Is bad enough when he confines himself
to this amusement: but when he takes to
playing as only a ''stylist" can. with ideas
he is II anything, worse. Witness the
bllthe fooiishness of a certain ANONYMOUS
contributor to the London Saturday Re
view, writing rapturously of Flaubert That
noted author was. ne assures u.s. "a mag
-nlhcent artist; before everything he was a
cOnsuu1mate craftsman 1t Is an old
story. Nobody denies it. But this devotee
must straight way make a comparison
ABOUT as futile a one could wei be i'm
agIned-between Balzac and Faubert,
hnally rising to this sublime pronounce
ment: Think of the Coincide Humane
and then think of Flaubert's Door half
dozen novels Yet in the eyes and the ears
of the Intelligent reader Flaubert remains
the supreme novelist" AT the risk of hav-
ing our eyes and our ears put in the cat
egory of unintelligent things, we venture
mildly to remark that Flaubert does not
remain the supreme novelist. In fact to
call him that, and especially with Balzac
in ones mind is to come very near to the
unintelligence for which the ANONYMOUS
contributor has 50 lofty a contempt. We
Will not protest that the laurel in this case
should go to Balzac We simply point out
that to place Flaubert upon the topmost
pinnacle is to make him q figure of fun.
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IMPROVING ON NATURE.
Horticulturists Would Grow Universal
Fruit Trees.

From the st. James Gazette
For years the scientific gardener has been
gathering apples from pear trees and pick
ing cherries and damsons off the same
branches. and. though the quest of the black
tullp mas so Tar been in vain the blue rose
we are told. has at last arrived at Kew Gar
dens Years ago horicuIturists were inter-
ested IN the announcement that a nursery
man at Essy. in Slavonia, had secured a
give blooms of deep violet blue and that
after two years of cultivation, the rose re-
tanned Its color But there is still an I'M
certainty whether the blue tint was natu-
raj or produced by chemical means in the
same way as another horiculturist is
known to have produced a black rose Most
people Will be content, no doubt, with the
red, red rose that sweetly blooms in
June. and nobody will very much depiore
the failure of the efforts to produce roses
OF black. or blue, or green or any other I'M
natural collar.
More pardonable, perhaps, is the hobby
OF the man wfo would grow a universal
iruit tree Even this, Of course, is contrary
TO all the laws of nature. and ought by
natural law to be abolished. But there il
farmer in Herefordshire who insists ii is
SAID. on gathering-not grapes from thistles
out pears and plums and apples from
cherry trees. Many years ago the enter
prlsing farmer grated these alien fruits on
to his cherry tree, and by careful cultiya-
ton the four branches have been brought
to full fruition. Many of the visitors to
Naples have seen a famous tree there on
which oranges and lemons grow side bv
side. ~
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FACE THE ENEMY.
Cure OF Consumption Depends Mainly
on Early Diagnosis.

From the New York Tribune.
ITEMS of thousands of people die because
their physicians have not the moral cour-
age to say to them, This is tuberculosis
and now is the time to take precautions"
said DIR. Herman NJ. Biggs, medical officer
OF the health department, in an address
yesterday before the Summer School of
Philanthropy, in the Charities building.
People so dread to be told that they have
tuberculosis that physicians are fearful of
alarming them
when any one talks 10 Won about chronic
bronchitis and continued colds be sure that
in majority of cases there is back of th.
trouble tuberculosis focus When a cough
continues for more than six or eight weeks.
IN large majority Of cases a tuberculosis
focus is at the root of the matter Then is
the time to establish the fact for then il is
easily durable. and later it NAV not be :,
Dr. BlSgS declared that tuberculosis is not
only preyentable but durable and that If
is simply question of how early a dag
nosis is made. OF all diseases it is the most
insidiouS
He thought it a misfortune that tubercu-
ioslS IS so OFTEN classed in the popular mind
as a contagious disease. 1t is infections
ana communicable, he said, but with proper
precautions a tuberculosis patient may live
IN the same room for days and even wears
with a healthy person without danger to
the latter. The source of danger is from
the vacilli thrown ont from the resnjra tory
tract In advanced cases as many as 3 900
UH,ooo bacilli are thrown out in single
day. These germs are inhaled as dust and
lodge IN different tracts in the system If
conditions are favorable to growth they
multiply there.
But the general insusceptibility to tuber-
cuiosls Is very great. 1t is only at certain
times and under certain conditions that
large proportion of people are susceptible
1t Is quite as true that vast majority of
the human race are susceptible at certain
times, when. for instance. resistance is de-
creased through grip. overwork or run
down conditions. Susceptibility is much
greater when, as in large city, the air
contains enormous numbers of other micro
organisms. tuberculosis is absolutely pre-
ventable. and its preventability is simply
putting into effect simple rules of conduct
1t is question solely of scrupulous clean,i-
ness In regard to expectoration and the dis
infection of surroundings which have once
housed the disease"
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Vacant Lot Cultivat On.


froil the Philadelphia Press.
NO more rational or helpfL aharity was
ever conceived than that &C ucted under
the auspices of the Vacant Los Cultiva ton
Association The city is surrov nded by va
cant land, fertile and potentially produc-
tive, which the owners are holding for fu-
ture sale. They do not care to farm the
lands, yet the latter are able to return a
rich reward In corn and vegetables to those
VINO Will work them, without impairing
thelr market value in the least degree
MOST owners, being reasonable and humane
men, do not object in the least to having
their grounds utilized as truck patches,
provided some oversight is exercised over
those using them. and any claim to the
fahd by right Of occupancy Is guarded
against The association sees to this, and
the result Is that many OF these vacant lots
ana helds are converted into attractive.
thriving and well-kept gardens. that give
occupation and interest to many poor peo-
PIE IN their spare hours and reward them
with harvest of vegetables that is con-
vert1ble into cash or will furnish the home
iarder with an abundance and variety of
1000 which, without this charity, would be
impossible.
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LENGTH OF HUMAN LIFE.
Increasing Longevity Due to Knowl-
edge Of Hygiene.
From the New York Herald.

rom the New York Herald.
discussion of Lord Salisbury's ago &C oo,
trasted with that of veterans like 1-i,,r
christian TX Of Denmark and Pope Leo
suggests the Increased length of human lif.
III TINS country, for instance we have s+;,I
living hiram Cronk, a pensioner of the war
Oh Iol2, now In his 10th year; Rear Al
mlral Thomas o. Selfridge. ST.. who is
hinety-seven, and Cassius M. CLAY, who has
passed MS ninety-second milestone In
England Thomas Sidney Cooper. the paint
er' the other day passed away. aged ninetv
eight, and in France Ernest Legouve tho
playwright and academician. is living in
his ninety fifth year
The Earl of Devon yestardar ca1ahr,+,,
iiis nllety -lrst anniversary. and there are
a dozen distinguished men in England older
than he. among them Sir Henry Kennel
commander of the fleet: Sir Edward Blolint
flnancier and railway director. and General
oir IL. Daubeney; Sir Henry Alfred Pit
man. the eminent physician, and MANY
others. including the Earl of Perth and
Melfort. whose inherited Scotch sturdiness
enabled him to celebrate his ninety-fifth
anniversary last May
among women one recalls-the Baroness
burdett-CouttS, who twenty one years ago
d. tie age OF slXty-seven, welded Sir W. L.
AShlhead-Bartlett. and who is now a young
marion OF etghty-eight or thereabouts
WIN the advance in medical science and
the increased knowledge of hygiene men
ana women now preserve the vigor of youth
10 an age at which their ancestors would
have been moribund
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Where Prayer Never Ceases.

From the Methodist Magazine.
There Is one spot In the United States
where the voice of prayer is never still
For more than twenty months the "turret
Of prayer that surrounds the Temple of
Truth, near Lisbon Falls. Me. has never
for an instant been without the sound of a
human voice in suppication 1t is the in
tcntion Of the people who attend to this re-
markabie form of worship that prayer in
the turret shall never cease so long as the
building shall stand. Those who take part
in the service compose the Holy Ghost and
Us Society. The society affiliates with no
denomination and tries to conform strictly
10 the teachings of the Bible Starting
without q penny. it has in few years
achieved such success that 1t has built four
buildings. the Temple Of Truth among them
which form rectangle capable Of seating
20 go people.
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HISTORIC CATALPA.
Tree In London Brought by Raleigh
From Virginia.
From the Providence Journal.

From the Providence Journal
Probably not one in fifty Of the folk from,
the United States who visit London every
year and go on their way. rejoicing in the
thought that they have done the metropnIis
thoroughly, sees relic that to Americans
ought to be one Of the most interesting here
an old catalpa tree that Sir Walter Ra-
leigh brought from Virginia and that Sir
Francis Bacon planted in Ciray's Inn Gar
dens
That American travellers miss th, his
toric tree is no reflection on their sight
seeing industry. Even Baedeker seems to
have overlooked il. and probably few peo-
pie in London, outside the officials OF C:ray's
Inn, know its history That history is W.
usually interesting. however. When Sir
Walter Raleigh brought the tree to Eng
land, his idea was to have his good friend
and patron, Queen Elizabeth, plant IN i'm
Grays Inn Gardens. then favorite stroll
ing place with the fashionable folk Ii
was fully understood that the queen would
do so, but just before the time came her
majesty was taken Ill, and she deputed Ra-
con-who. according to Mr.. Gallup's cy-
pher. was Elizabeths son-to take her
place.
Gray's Inn. for centuries devoted to law
and lawyers. got it's name from having he
longed to the Lords Gray as far back as
the l3Oos. 1t first got to be a law school
III 1911. Wnen the EllzaDethan Hall. which
contains some OF the finest oak carvings I'm
England, was built. Here Queen Elizabeth
came often. and here Shakespeare's Com
edy OF Errors was first given I'm 1894 and
doubtless seen by Bacon. who began to
study law at Gray's Inn in 1876. Other Ia
nous figures Of the old Gray's Inn were
Ihomas Cromwell and Lord Bur1eigh
The gardens, where once the gallants and
erandes DANES Of the town used to fore
gather. and where Ralelgh's tree was plant
ed. stlil remain. almost they We're; bur
now there is high iron fence around Them
the public Is not admitted and the iad-j
folk who pass through shabby Gray's Inn
road look longingiy in at the grass and the
old trees.
Oldest of all these. oldest. some say. or
all the trees in England. is the veteran
catalpa that came from ''Nirginy." la
tact, 1t is so old now that Il has rotted a
good deal, and has to be kept i'm its place
Dy means OF braces. The consequential
rocks, which still live i'm the gardens. es-
TEEN the tree greatly as a perching place
IN TACT, they have made IL such a perfna-
nent Headquarters that a barrel filled with
drinking water for them has been set lust
beside the catalpa. This barrel stands lust
on the spot where Sir Francis Bacon had a
bench placed for his own enjoyment The
seat remained there for years after the
Philosophers death. until one night when
II disappeared, and thereafter could never
be traced. Perhaps the ghost of Shakes
peare stole It,
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Doctors on Autos.



The medical side Of automobiIinR is be-
ginning to rouse discussion, and therefore
of course. disagreement among doctors
The issue is quite simple, and the argu-
ments for and against are. as usual 1.-THE
result Of personal experience" and most
emphatically expressed. One school holds
that deafness. bronchial troubles and ca
tarrh are the all but inevitable conse-
quences OF the new mode Of locomotion, and
that the quicker you travel the more GER
tain are you to fall victim to at least one
and possibly all three. of these complaints.
The other school insists that all this is pure
nonsense, and that travelling In a motor car
especially when 1t is going at full speed. is
a splendid renovator. 1t sends swift
s&ssss OF pure air through the nostrils into
the lungs: while the enternal beating
against the pure air in question "hardens
the muscles Of the face and quickens the
circulation. SO that, in spite Of a certain
tense look which the sport brings into the
face. it also freshens 1t up. and renews its
youthful appearance" Who shall decide
when doctors disagree?
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Fighting Mosquitoes.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
The government has often been upbraided
by medical men for its apathy with regard
to the study and prevention of tropical dis
eases. Seeing that I'VE hold a greater en-
pire than hath BEEN it might have been
expected that We should do everything pos
sible to make our colonies as healthy as
possible. Germany, France and the United
States all give large sums for the study Of
those diseases that prove so fatal IN trop-
zeal chimes, but our government has nither-
to preferred to leave the provision Of the
necessary funds to private individuals The
Schools Of Tropical Medicine In London and
in Liverpool depend entirely on the liber-
ahty Of generous individuals, whose pa
triotic action does not always receive the
recognition 1t deserves. AS every one knows
a great anti-mosquito campaign Is now be-
ing carried on in many portions of the
globe. The mosquito is known to be the
transmitter Of nlalarial infection. and eff
forts are being made to exterminate ano-
pheles so far as possible. 1t Is satisfactory
to read that Mr.. Chamberlain has approved
of the vote Of f460 by the legislative council
OF Sierra Leone for the immediate surface
drainage of a swampy portion Of the Grass
fields district. in which DR.. Logan Taylcr
of the Liverpool school has already oper-
ated to considerable extent
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knew how to touch their hearers who, on
their part. were alive TO the necessities OF
the hour.
One of the speakers. a Miss REDDISH. told
now IN the textile trade in Lancashire.
Yorkshire and Cheshire there are 31lo0
women and 216.O0o men. and she said: I'VE
want shorter hours more leisure more op-
portunities for recreation. more rational
means OF living. and the other speakers
urged the same needs. Franchise TO these
factory workers means an equal chance
with men, recognized claim to a hearing
ana the opportunity to vote for and advo-
cate just laws for workers. 1t is, as one
OF the speakers said. bread and butter
politics with the working women" The
outcome of this struggle for rights will be
watched with interest Here oppressed work
ers either have not the courage to speak for
themselves or are not as desperate as the
english women. and look to such women
as Mrs. Frederick Nathan or Miss Jane
Adams TO secure their rights for them
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Decline In Value of Knighthood.

FROM the London Spectator.
The list of new baronets and knights is
a thing Imagination boggles at There are
good men who deserve honor but hardly
the juXtapoSition. The doctors and sur
geons are most severely treated. Sir Fran
els Laking and Sir Frederick Treves are
separated on the list of baronets by Sir
Thomas Upton: and among the knights
who as only of the one generation matter
less, the president of the Royal College of
Surgeons is followed by Mr. Dewar whose
name is familiar. Literature" is recoe-
nized by the comforting of knighthood on
Mr.. Conan Doyle, the historian, for his
generosity in accepting advertisement in
iieu OF direct payment. and on Mr.. Gilbert
Parker, whose reputation as a novelist
among English people who have not read
him is greater than among Canadians who
have. One is glad to see Mr.. Burnand and
Mr.. Wyndham among the knights, but
with regard to all the honors lower than a
peerage the honor grows less yearly You
cannot lump together mind and money In
a common estimate.
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FIRST AUTOMOBILE
Devised in Ancient Alexandria for O
Moving Shrine of Bacchus.

AoNllAS 0uIluc VI BdCchuS.
From the Chicago Chronicle
only a small percentage of those who
nowadays see automobiles speeding a1onp
the streets and boUlevards are aware that
the hrst automobile considered in tho serse
OF vehicle containing within itself nouars
OF iocomotion of when there is any anthem
tic account was a self-moving shrine Of
bacchus. This was the invention of Heron
OF Alexandria, who describes If IN b;s
work on automatic mechanism The shrine
III question was mounted upon two sun
porting and two driving wheels. On the
axle OF the driving wheels was drum
ABOUT which was wound a rome which
passed upward through the space on ono
sioe or the shrine over pulleys and vas
fastened to the ring Of ponderous lead
Mesue, "hlch rested upon quantity of
fine dry sand +'s W
Inc escape of this sand through a small
hoie IN the middle of the floor of the com
paitHheht containing 1t allowed the lead
weight gradually to descend and nv mil
ing upon the cord caused the shr,e -
move slowly forward in a straight live
Heron describes the method of arra,ei,1
ana proportlonlng the wheels in case n
was desired that the shrine move in a cir
cular path. ia Il OK
oacials of the pa tent Office overlooked tho
ueVlce OF Heron when they granted nat
etits on machines, Notwithstanding that
leeNiousIy lhomas Euba nix, commissioner
OF patents in 1870, illustrated and DESCRIBED
Heron's invention. The pechanism of the
latter is almost idcntes with that in
the h.oaern device and Gmply serves as
another proof of file saving "Thara -
nothing new under the sun" -
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cussIon very carefully We are entertained
to learn through the courtesfes OF the die
tionary Of the DanfA Pathological Society
Cvidens-kabernes Selskabs Ordobog) that Il
Is "a pressure Of the mouth against body"
The author however. thinks this definition
rather unsatisfactoryfsen4s SO do We The
mouth must come into 1t, Of course, but
how? Manifestly by a,klxind OF sucking
companied by a weaker OLA louder sound"
1t must be IAN inspiratory bilabial sound.
which the English phpnettcians call the liz
click But this is still Indefinite. Coach
men go through this movement when they
wish to start their horses 1T becomes a
kiss only when 1t is used as an expression
of certain feeling and when the lips are
pressed against or simply come in contact
with a living creature or object" Thase
conditions are obviously quite essential
Now the thing becomes clear and W, begin
to understand what kiss really is.
is quoted approvingS sby-Dr. Nyrop that
there are three kinds Of kisses the freund
schaftlich heilklatschender herzenkuss, the
afectionate clear-ringing kiss coming from
the heart, weaker kiss from an acoustic
point Of view, which occupies a middle nI.cs
in the scale, and finally the third var,st-S
the ekelhafter Schniatz, or the loathsnne
smack This catalogue, however, seems 10
be far from complete, for in the Csr,n.n
dictionaries the author has discovered twan-
ty separate kinds Of kisses
1t Is indispensable In the first place that
the kiss should be classified 'in it's susta-
tive aspect" There is the kiss in a sean
dinavian literary masterpiece of which the
man remarked as he wiped his mouth after
he got well outside the door that it tasted
like meat that has been kept too long
1t Is the flavor of the kiss which inc};nes
women in the north of Europe to nrefer
men who are blessed with boards Far in.
stance, there are German and Scandinavian
proverbs in which We are told that "a kiss
without beard is like an egg without
salt" Less elegantly, kissing a feIlow
without a quid of tobacco and a beard is
Ike kissing a clay wall" But If seems tho
mouth must not always provide a saura
Tor girls have scornful saying in some
languages: He is nice to kiss when ono 10
thirsty" 'i'e !"