The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-28

| keep JOnn Bull from becoming TOO
greatly frightened. Thus Mr.. McKenna,
the first lord of the admiralty, has just
| issued the following comparison of the
displacement tonnage of effective fight
| ing ships in the navies of Britain, Ger
many and the United States:
Britain Germany U. s.
Tons Tons Tons
| 1900 ............1,S .614 293, 401 200, 800
1906 .............1,Ss1,3 O7 41,625 476, 276
1897 ............. /, 1856, 1865 447.s20 547, 222
1908 ............ ,934.36S 5SS,u4 62S, 7F
1909 .2,046,126 544,079 706, 107
From 1906 EDWARDS only first-class ships
are counted.
These figures would seem to indicate
that the German peril Is not very imme-
date.
Lord Kitchener has at last found en-
| ployment. He Is learning to play golf
and next visit he pays the United States
| may have acquired sufficient skill to war
| rant a challenge to President Taft for
| * OF X" He Is going at the game
with the same logged determination
which marked his campaigns against the
Mahdi and Cronje.
| 1t is now quite understood that Lord
| Kitchener will remain unemployed for a
| little while until he succeeds either Gen
eral French as inspector general or Sir
| X. G.. Nicholson as the head of the war
| office. 1t is his wish that he should be
| allowed to have few months rest before
| he takes up work again.
One of the biggest army contracts for
meat on record has been placed with a
Chicago packing house. 1t is for a mil
lion pounds of corned meat for military
Use. at what is said to be record price,
owing to the recent scarcity of meat
| supplies The order for the tins has
been given to a Welsh firm. and the
cans will be sent from Wales to Chicago
where the meat will be packed.
There is renewed hope for the confirmed
drunkard and drug fiend according to De
Crichton Miller. noted Scotch physician,
| Miller's method was expounded in a paper
read before the British Medical asso-
citation and entitled, 1.-THE Combined
Method of Treating Alcoholism and Drug
Manias." The important feature of this
method is that 1t attacks the disease both
| on its physical and psychical sides, both
medicine and moral treatment being en-
ployed.
After this when the effects of the bro
mide have worn off four or five weeks
course of hypnotic treatment follows.
| The whole course takes about nine weeks.
| The treatment Is painless; while the
patient is asleep the craving is of course,
|
essary break is made In the chain of habit
| by which the sufferer is bound. Finally,
| the will is re-educated by hypnotic sug
gestion. Hypnotic suggestion. when en-
ployed without the aid of drugs, has
failed time after time In the past owing
to the persistence, not of the psychical
craving, but of the physical desire Again,
drug after drug has been tried, and in
most cases all have been found useless,
on account of the persistence of mental
craving which can only be eradicated
by suggestion. The isolation or detention
methods of the sanatorium have for the
same reason been followed by relapses.
Any form of treatment which is purely
moral or physical and free from drugs
must in the nature Of things, make an
overwhelming demand on the strength
of the patient who is asked to give up
the habit while the craving is present,
hence the value of the bromide, which
causes sleep of forgetfulness. Later,
however, although the physical craving
has been eliminated for the time being,
the obsessing the psychical activities re-
main, and so hypnotism is essentiol at
this stage. 1t is on this combination of
treatments that the success of the new
method depends.
King George played the gunner aboard
one OF his mightiest warships during his
recent visit 10 the fleet.
Accompanied by his sailor son, the
Prince of Wales, His Majesty went on
board the Dreadnought. Prior to leaving
her anchorage the monster battleship
had been cleared for action, and she pre-
scented a workmanlike appearance. Picked
gunlayers of the fleet had been selected
and the king took the keenest possible
interest in the preparations.
When the signal was given to fire he
rQi mad nlQr On ha fn
see at once the result of each shot. His
Majesty expressed his appreciation of
the shooting, and went into the turrets
to shake hands with the gunners.
His Majesty's interest in the gunnery
took a practical turn. for he signaled
his desire to fire one of the mammoth
guns himself The gun was closely ex-
ted to approach it, and never was great
death-dealer loaded with greater care.
The gun having been sighted. the king
himself fired her at the target, which
was being towed by the Isis five miles
| away
So pleased was His Majesty with the
success Of his first effort that he fired
several further rounds before the days
practice ended.
| In the village of Static, on the banks
| of the river Parrett. resides William
Broome, who has lived the whole of his
| life-ninety-four years-in the same cot
| tage, and has never tasted medicine. He
| is a great-grandfather. grandfather and
father. but only six OF his descendants
are living.
| In the debate on the civil list Mr.. Barnes
proposed that the large and increasing
revenues of the Duchess OF Cornwall and
Lancaster should be commuted for
fixed annual payment. This would have
represented very substantial economy,
for the revenues of the two duchies now
amount to about s7So,0O0 When Queen
Victoria assembled the throne the income
of the Duchy of Cornwall was about
$50 600. During King Edwards occupancy
of the duchy the income averaged about
$4,000 1t is now nearer s400. 600 All this
! Is in the nature of unearned increment
and represents a substantial addition to
the nominal civil list. Queen Victoria
effected large private economies during
her long reign. Large sums were In
vested from time to time on behalf of
Her Majesty's grandchildren and others,
under the able advice of Lord Gloss, and
at the time of the queens death 1t was
stated, unofficially, that she Kft per-
sonal estate of $500. 900, Of which $1,000
LOCO was understood to be accommodations