Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — Page 3

FARM GARDEN

Have you salted the stock this week? The refuse pea vines make good hog I food and (better manure. Break the colts to the halter while reiy young and they will aet become haltgr pullers. Why Is It that so many farmers locate their feed lota in the lowest ground on the ram? '' ~— _ — Many families are broken up by the parents regarding the children as mere money-making capital. Have at least one hive of bees If trult Is a specialty. Bees are valuable assistants in fertilizing the blossoms. If yon keep tho cows In the barn at night see that they are well bedded and cleaned In the morning before milking, ' : r Watch open wounds on the stock hr hoik showery weather for maggots. A swab and some good dip properly diluted will make ’em crawl. Tankage is all right for hogs, provided It Is fed with} corn or other mraln. • It will not do to feed alone, because It contains too much protein. It’s a big mistake to plow when the ground shows up slick and oozy, as it leaves tho moldboard. Too wet, and that means clods and Impairs the texture of the soil. ■ 1 ,

The more men tamper with nature the no re they complicate matters often Instead of effecting a solution. It has been found out that In spraylng fruit trees, birds ns well as Insects are killed. Currant bushes should be hoed. Which not only cleans otit the weeds and grass, but renders the new growth more vigorous. A shovelful of wellrotted manure, worked Into the soli, will prove beneficial. The custom of loading farm wagons eo that the heaviest weight is upon the front wheels is all wrong, and adds iiia ten any to the draft, irin 1 trunul— t weight should be carried by the hind wheels. This has been proved by official and careful tests. In the mountain pastures of Scotland during heavy snowstorms flocks of •heep are frequently burled out of eight They are discovered by the sagacious collie dogs and the shepherd proceeds to dig a hole through which they can escape.

In selecting cantaloupes do not aim to secure a large size for family use. Tb* best flavored and sweetest varle*,taa are the small kinds, and they are also the earliest Watermelons, howfver, should be large, as the larger tike melon the less waste, while they art also fully equal In quality to the smaller kind.

The last year’s beet production in Kansas aggregated 70,000 tons. This Is an Increase of 715 per cent over the aotput of 1905, which wqs previously the greatest. This Is due to the erection at Garden City of one of the largest factories in the world, which contracted for and manufactured vlr- *" iuaJly the whole of the State crop.

Peach trees will not bear forcing with stimulating manures, even in sandy usoll, as such forcing will cause an overgrowth, and the fruit buds will drop off in the spring when the sap •tarts and the buds begin to swell. Do qpt plant on ground rich enough to grow onions, or the trees wilt make late growth and produce unripe wood that may be winter killed. Y An experiment by a professor In dairying at the New York experiment station with a herd of ordinary dairy oows, showed that they bad consumed Jn one year $28.50 each and produced $25 of milk. The fanner laid lost $8.50 on each cow In bis herd In addition to his labor. A capful weeding out according to tbe records kept made a difference tbe next year. Each *bw consumed S2B of feed and produced S3B of milk.

Murlnte of potash !» a product of the Sfnsnfurt mines In Germany, and Its sale Is controlled by a German ayndtr<e. Doth acid phosphate nod tankage are fine, dry meals, in perfect condition to bo used In a fertilizer drill, and mixing them uoes not alter their condition. Muriate of potash recommon salt In appearance, •xcept that It Is usually somewhat yellowish In color. In Its commercial condition It is about half actual potasb. u V ** Muskmelons produce their fruit at the axils of the first Infixes of the lateral runners and If the leading vines are allowed to run these laterals will not come out until the leaders hare grown several feet The leading yinee

should be pinched off At their tips as soon a 3 they have made three or four leaves. And when the bearing vines have made three or four leaves beyond the fruit pinch them off In the same way. In this simple way at least a week may be gained. Bees Faster Than Plceom. It is not generally known that bees are swifter In flight than pigeons—that ls, for short distances. Soane years ago a pigeon fancier at Hamme, Westphalia, laid a wager that a dozen bees liberated three miles from their hives would reach borne In less time than 8 dozen pigeons. The competitors were given wing at Efybern, a village nearly a league from Hamme, and the flnrf bee reached the hive a quarter of a minute in advance of the first pigeon. The bees were also slightly handicapped, haying been rolled In flour before starting Tor purpose of Identification. /Farm Wood Lot*. Throughout a very large portion of the United States nearly every farm has a certain part of its area under wood, either planted, as in regions otherwise treeless, or of natural growth. The value of this wooded portion, besides affording protection from the wind, is chiefly for fuel, fencing and railroad ties, with some building material and the wood needed for special tiles about the farm. Without the wood lot the farm very often would be an Unprofitable investment, because the farmer could not* afford to buy the wood which now costs him very little except the labor of cutting and moving lt, but In the majority of cases this part of the farm Is far less useful than It might easily be made. This is true because the farmer does not study Its productive capacity as he does that of his fields and pastures, and hence does not make It yield as fully as he might, with little or no additional labor, If he went about It In the right way.—Gifford Plnchot.

Composition of Wheat Bran. In a Massachusetts State report notes are given on the composition, digestibility and fertilizing ingredients of wheat bran, as compared with other concentrated feeding stuffs, and two feeding experiments with cows are reported in a Massachusetts State report by J. B. Lindsey. The roughage in the two rations compared consisted of hay and silage and the grain feed of cotton-seed meal and flour middlings. To this was added either bran or silage with corn meal or corn-aqd-coo meal, la one of tho experiments the results were slightly In favor of the bran ration, while In the other the so-called silage ration gave the best resultß. * The authpr concludes that for small herds the quantity of purchased grain may be reduced to three or four pounds in place of wheat bran. It Is suggested that the grain mixture may consist of one and one-half pounds of cottonseed meal, two pounds of flour middling and two and ope-half to three pounds corn meal or covn-and-cob meal.

Malt sprouts may be substituted for the wheat, oats or rye middlings. Where the feeding cannot be closely supervised and where It Is desired to feed more than five to seven pounds of grain dally, It is considered advisable that the grain mixtures should consist of one-third to one-half of wheat bran.

Feeding Ground Grain. The Wisconsin Experiment Station made an exhaustive test of feeding grain whole and ground. The following are the conclusions readied during the test:

When Corn Is There Is Saved Worth by Grinding 25 cents pr bushel 1.5 cents pr bushel 30 cents pr bushel 1.8 cents pr bushel 35 cents pr bushel 2.1 cents pr bushel 40 cents pr bushel 2.4 cents pr bushel 45 cents pr bushel 2.7 cents pr bushel 50 cents pr bushel 3.0 cents pr bushel 55 cents pr -bushel 3.8 cents pr bushel The above table based upon ten years’ experimenting shows that when corn Is worth 20 cents per bushel grinding effects a saving of 1.5 cents per bushel; that when It is worth 30 cents per bushel grludlng effects a saving of 1.8 cept per bushel and so on. In order to determine whether It will be profitable to grind or not to grind all our readers have to do Is to ascertain whether a bushel of corn can lie ground for the price mentioned In the second column showing the amount saved by grinding. If, for Instance, a bushel of corn can bo ground for 1.5 cent, and corn is worth 85 cents per bushel, a saving of .6 cent per bushel will be effected by grinding, while If corn la worth 40 cents per bushel a saving of 1.9 cent per bushel will be effected by

grinding. There are other conditions that may enter Into the question of grinding. Hogs will eat more ground corn than shelled corn and consequently can be finished for the market In shorter time when ground corn Is fed than when whole grain la used. There are times when It is very desirable to get hogs ready for the market as soon as possible on account of danger from disease, or because of desiring to get them out of thp way at a certain time. Due consideration should also be glveu to factors of that kind In determining the question of grinding.

KIDNAPED BY GYPSIES.

OklU Stave 'Escapes Front Ban# After Four Years' Captivity. The flames of the great South Chicago steel mills were the beaCbns which a few ; nights ago lighted a kidnaped boy to his home. After four years spent as a child slave of the wandering gypsies 10-year-old Walter" Cutler found a safe haven under their glare, 1 * ~ The boy was kidnaped four years ago from South Bend, Ind., where his mother and his stepfather, Frank Cullen, lived. Some time before hfs father, J. 11. Cutler, a South Chicago shipyard superintendent, died, leaving a widow and two children, Walter and Flora. A year later the mother married Cullen and weht with her husband and family to South Bend. The couple had just settled on the outskirts of the Indiana city when 6-year-old Walter was stolen by a band of gypsies. No attempt to secure a ransom was made, and for a year the captive was only a charge to his kidnapers. Then he was taught to care for the horses and children of the gypsies. The band subsisted by horse trading and fortune telling and was commanded Chief Joseph Casmlr. The captive j was abused by the gypsy children, who regarded him as a slave, and anjn attempt to resent their cruelty led to more severe beatings by the chief and his followers. He was compelled to sleep and eat with the dogs and was commanded to keep out of sight when visitors came to the camp. The child became tanned to a hue almost as dark as that of his captors, and because of enforced silence he had forgotten all but a words of his childhood tongue. During all of his wanderings the boy remembered the great sheets of __ flame wfiich rose from the scores of stacks in South Chicago at night and which lighted up the yard in which he and his sister played. A short time ago the gypsy band in their wanderings reached the vicinity of Chicago. One night the boy looked out from his place among the dogs and saw the great stacks belching forth sheets of flame and once more the memories of his home came back to him. He crept out from among the tented wagons and stumbled out toward the great lights. When dawn came he took refuge under a bush and slept. When he awoke he pressed on again to where he could see the great mills. When the boy reached the city he still was lost. He could not explain his wishes, and for a day he wandered the streets without food. Blind chance led him ts the place where his grandmother lived, and in an instant he recognized her.

Strikes Paralyze Butte.

The City of Butte, Mont., for six weeks has been without a telephone service on account of a sympathy strike of operators and linemen for some striking linemen in Utah. The courts have sustained mandamus writs against the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company to compel it to operate its lines, but so far as Butte is concerned the company has made no effort to resume service. The telegraphic strike almost completely isolated the city from the outside world. The strike of the mail clerks several ir-nths ago left the po«to(E<?e service r-ilffy cnpV lva condition, mail delivery being alfiKJSf'Jj.uncertain as the telegraph. In addition to these troubles the strike of the machinists, who went out about a month ago to enforce a demand for increased pay, is gradually closing down the mines.

Cuts in Ocean Rates.

The war between the trans-Atlantic steamship lines was continued, tipi international Mercantile Marine announcing that first cabin rates from New York to Liverpool on such ships as the Baltic, Cedric and Celtic would be $72.50, a reduction from $95, and that the eastward rates would be, from now on, $57.50, a reduction from SBO. The rate by the Atlantic Transport fleet wiH be SSO, instead of S7O, for first cabin to London, aud the big Adriatic of the White Star line will carry passengers for $77.50, instead of $95. ’ The Cunard followed suit with a first cabin rate of $72.50, including Mediterranean ports, nad $57.50 on the Umbria and Etruria. Corresponding cuts were expected from the North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American.

To Collect 50,000,000 Seeds.

, The forest service will collect 50,000,000 seeds of forest trees in Montana. Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and California from the Douglas fir, Englemann spruce, western larch, incense cedar and yellow pine. The seeds will be used for broadcast sowing and for planting in forest service nurseries. The broadcast sowing will be experimental, to test the extent to which this method of renewing the forest in denuded lauds of the West can be used. One method of gathering the seeds is to rob squirrels’ nests. It is to be hoped that Uncle Sab will not do this without replacing the hoards of these bright-eyed little rodents with a generous amount of something "just as good to cat.”

Western Union Stands Pat.

The expected conference between the lenders of the striking telegraphers and tbe Western Union officers did not materialize, and the eexcutive commute? of the company sustained the course of the officials in a formal resolution which referred to the "late ‘strike," as though it were a closed incident. President Sinnii of the union and President Goinpcr* of the American Federation were in New York, and both said that there would be no .surrender. Small said that ino-t of the telegraphers had got Jobs on tbe rallToath*. The Western Union declared its regular quarterly dividend, as usual, but did not publish the earnings for tbe quarter, as is customary.

Meat Wagon Strike Settled.

The strike of the meat wagon drivers of New York against the Employers* Association lias been settled upon tbe following terms: Wages are to be the same as before *he strike; there is to be no discrimination for or against union or non union men; »ixty-five boors is to constitute a week’s work, and all grievances and tbe question of overtime are to be left to arbitration. None of tbe competent strike breakers are to be discharged to make room for the strikers.

Indiana State News

STUDENTS BEATKX IX BATTLE. Purdue Boy* Are Attacked White Returning' from Dance. Six students of Purdue university were scnously injured and fifteen others badly nurt in a riot in Lafayette with city toughs in Lafayette. The students were returning to the school freqn a dance In the city when they were attache 1 by a score of city toughs. They were being badly beaten when one of the students ran to West Lafayette- and gave the dlarm. A large crowd of Students aul citizens responded and ran to the levee, where,. the six students were found unconscious. After a hot fight, during which students and toughs alike were badly beaten, five of the latter were arrested. -CUPID CATCHES TRAIN MOVER. Yornigent Dispatcher In the Country Elopes and Weds at South Bend. Oliver IT. Herron, train dispatcher at Michigan City, and Miss Violet K. Morgan, daughter of an officer in the United States army, who has been living at Buchanan, Mich., with her grandparents, eloped to South Bend and were married .by the Re wDr.H. W. .Toll ßsoil oUther First Presbyterian church. Mr. Herron i 3 the youngest train dispatcliprip the country, being only 21 years oKhi / MADSTONE CLINGS TO WOUND. Children Bitten by Mad Dow Belonging to One Victim’* Father. —Peter Shank and Harriet Gephardt, the 9-year-old daughter of Sherioh Gephardt of Louis Crossing, were bitten by a mad dog owned by one of the children’s father. A, madstono from Marietta was sent here and applied to Shank’s wounds, and it is said it has clung to the wound for over fifteen hours. The dog has disappeared. Ilf ■ Big Hotel Burns ; Town Saved. ” Heroic work by Rev. Dr. P. Ileil, pastor of the Evangelical church at North Webster, and his volunteer company of fire fighters, composed of men and women of the little village, saved the town from a fire which destroyed the big summer hotel owned by Abner Warner. The poople of the town have subscribed $2,000 to aid Warner in rebuilding the hotel. Divorced Seven Times. On the hearing of the divorce case of Anna McMahon against W. L. McMahon in the Superior Court in Kokomo, the startling fact was brought out that she was asking for the seventh divorce, having been married and divorced six times. Although she was given a separation as asked, the court ordered all court costs assessed against her.

Insane Girl Attack* Mother. Hattie Bell Teeter, recently adjudged and being cared for at her moth- - in La Porte, -pending her re mdvai to the asylum, attacked and almost kiHed her aged mother with a b'lg pitcher. The old woman’s cries brought help, and the insane daughter was overpowered. Casey Killed Himself. A note was found on the body of Homer Casey, near Bloomfield, showing that the man committed suicide. He said he feared the loss of his reason. He was to have married Miss Anna Stone the next night. Bolt Destroy* Cannon’s Barn. During an electrical storm lightning struck the barn on the farm in Spencer county owned jointly by United States Senator James Hemenway and Speaker Joseph G. Cannon. It was destroyed, the loss being $3,000. Colt Kicks Boy. Six-year-old son of John Gross, fanner, near Petersburg, while playing with a colt was kicked in the forehead and his skull caved in. He is in a critical condition.

Killed In a Freight Wreck. In a freight wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad near Richmond, Peter Muhl, Hagerstown, was killed and Conductor O. E. Thomas of Richmond injured. Mar Move Wabaah Shop to Indiana. It is reported at Topeka that the shops of the Wabash railroad now located at Montpelier, Ohio, will be moved there. • Killed In Quarrel Over Girl. In a quarrel over a girl in Evansville Thomas J. Harry, aged 30, shot and killed Gus Mechler, aged 21. Within Oar Borders. Dr. Edw. GiascO is dead and his young wife, though slightly wounded in the breast, following a mysterious shooting ona lonely road between Brazil and Terre Haste, was placed under arrest. Dr. Gialco had brought suit for divorce, andl his wife, with her attorney, drove to Terre Haute Thursday to see hmflind try. to reach an agreement as to alimony. After talking the matter over, Dr. Giasco started to drive his wife back to Brasil. They had gone bat a short distance when revolver shots were beard. Farmers found the woman wounded and the man dead. Mrs. Giasco declared her husband had attempted to shoot her and then killed himself. At the coroner’s investigation three bullet holes were found in Jhe dead man’s head, either one of which would have caused death. Mrs. Giasco is a beautiful woman and a member of a prominent family. The case threatens to divide the entire town. During a violent wind storm the wall of a new six-story building under conefhiction in Fort Wayne was blown down and Otto Schultz, an ironworker, was killed. The dead man leaves a widow and four children. Much damage was done in the city. *t ■». Zoiton Balanyi, a Hammond high school student, has organized a school of seventy-five pupils amopg the Hungarian workmen of the Standard Steel Car plant. The school meets twice a week in a store room near the plant. The youth, who speaks the language of his pupils, is instructing them in English.

AT PANAMA.

Work Progreulif on tho Blf Du* and Other Main Feature*. The work on the locks and dams at Panama lias taken such shape that It Is now possible to see something of their form. It is believed that the actual masonry work can be commenced at the Gatun locks within eighteen months. Four steam shovels are now digging out the sitegfor the locks, and construction can be begun after the excavation for the top lock of the flight Is completed. Two steam shovels are preparing the site for the erection of the spillway works of the Gatun dam. Railroad trestles are being erected across the line that will mark the lneide and outside boundaries of the big dam, and from one of these dirt trains ire now dumping dirt upon the site of the dam.

Preparatory to the Installation of pipeline dredges, by which more rapid work on the dam will be possible, the Charges River has been diverted from its main channel and dammed. The pipeline dredges should be installed by January 1, when the work at Gatun will be as actively in progress as that at Culebra. Suitable sand and rock for the big masonry locks have been located, and, what is equally interesting to the engineers, material for the manufacture of all the necessary cemetft has been located on the Isthmus. It is hoped, however, that cement can be secured for such a price In the United States as to make it more advisable to procure the needed supply there Instead of manufacturing It on the Isthmus , - —— The designs and details of the Gatun and other Jocks have been worked out, together with the general type and number of lock gates to be used. The survey of all the country to be converted into the great Gatuu lake has. been completed and finished reports show that the area will be 171 square miles.

Cost of Living in 1906.

A summary of the report just sent to the printer by the United States Bureau of .Labor, of which Charles P. Neill is the head, covering the year' 190 G, shows that the prices of food were generally higher during every month of that year than in the corresponding month of 1905. The price in December was 4 8-lOths per cent higher than the average for the year 1906, and the year as a whole showed a higher average than any since 1890, the period covered by the bureau’s investigation. The increase of last year applied unequally to twenty-five of the thirty articles showing the greatest advance were lard, evaporated apples, pork, bacon, ham, fish, mutton and butter. The retail prices of food were 29-10ths per cent higher than in the previous year. The report deals also with the question of wages for manual workers, and gives figures showing that the advance in wages per hour over the preceding year was greater than the advance in the retail prices of food. That is to say, the purchasing power of an hour's wages asmensured by;food was greater last year than the year before. The increase in this purchasing power was 14-10 tbs per cent. As compared with the ten years’ average from 1890 to 1809, the wages per hour were 24 2-10ths per cent higher, and the number of employes 42 9-10th.s per cent greater, and the average hours of labor a week 4 6-10ths per cent lower. In the principal manufacturing industries of the country the average wages were 4 5-10ths per cent higher than in 1905. The greatest increase was in the manufacture of cotton goods, where the wages were 112-10ths per cent higher, and in only one industry, that of paper and wood pulp, was there a decrease, namely 1 l-10th per cent

Farmers to Fight Grain Trust.

Open war kas broken out between the so-called grain trust and the farmers of the Middle West. The farmers say they have paid $1,000,000 a year tribute to the grain trust, and have been organizing, until now co-operative elevators are in operation all over lowa and arc b» : ng extended into Minnesota and Nebraska. Their organization possesses a $50,000,000 reserve fund, while back of the trust sands the wealth of flte Armours aul other millionaire capitalists. The co operative elevators will get ail of the grain of their own members, but, in order to win, must also get some of the groin from outsiders, thus crippling the trust. There are now 170 farmers’ co-operative societies in lowa alone, with a total membership of 28,000, operating 250 elevators. Also, the merchants of the Northwest are organizing a co-opcrativp association to combat the mail order bouses, the merchants so organized agreeing to advertise under one management, in order ro lessen the expense and secure an expert manager. This movement is of great economic importance.

Why American Marriages Fail.

Again a woman is finding fault with American wives and complaining of the failure of American marriages. This time it is Anna A. Rogers in the Atlantic Monthly; who says that "(he excessive education physical coddling of young women,” and their devotion to physical culture and sports, has evolved a hybrid feminine who is a cross between a magnified, rather unmannerly boy and a spoiled, exacting creature who sincerely loves herself alone. Thus, explains this sociologist, "a slipshod, nnchivalrous companionship” has grown up between the sexes which after marriage is found to be "a cause for tears or temper.” One contributory cause, she Bays, is the existence of 2,921 courts empowered to grant divorces.

From Far and Near.

A thousand dock laborers are on strike at! Galveston, Texas. Traffic on the Southern Pacific is tied up.

Miss Helen Williams of Allegheny, Pa., was killed and four other persons were injured in an automobile accident in Pittsburg.

William A. Culp, aged 24, trial for the death of his brother, Floyd O. Culp, last July at Turtle Creek, Pa, committed suicide in the county jail at Pittsburg by hanging himself, using his suspenders as a rope.

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1402—English defeated the Seots at Homeldon Hill. 1504—Columbus took final leave of th* New World and sailed for Spain. 1600—Henry Hudson discovered the riv~ er which bears his name. IG40 —Lord Stirling, to whom James L gave a large section of what is now the United States and Canada, died in London. , 1645 —Covenanters defeated Montrose at Philiphaugh. . 1742 —Faneuil Hall completed and presented to the town of Boston. 1759—Wolfe landed troops at Quebec. 1775—Gen. Washington began to comm ission war vessels. 1778^—Benjamin Franklin sent to France as minister plenipotentiary. 1781— Gen. Washington arrived at Williamsburg and assumed command. 1782 Congres* accented—the offer of Virginia’s western lanus. 1786—Connecticut deeded western land to Congress. 1788—Congress made New York the capital city of the United States. 1780—Alexander Hamilton became Secretary of the Treasury,.. .Henry Knox of Massachusetts became Secretary of War. 1803—Lord- William Downs appointed chief justice of Ireland. ~ ~ 1814 —Battle of Plattsburgh, N. Y British made an unsuccessful attack on Baltimore. ...British bombarded Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, .. . British abandoned their expedition against Baltimore. 1820- —Treaty of Adrianople, ending war between Russia and Turkey. 1841—Walter Forward of Pennsylvania became Secretary of the United States Treasury. 1846 First Mississippi riflemen, under command of Company I, Jefferson Davis, charged the Mexicans at Fort Teneria. 1847 — American army under Gen. Scott inarched into the Mexican capital... Many lives lost in liurriaane off Newfound land. 1850—Jenny Lind first appeared on an American stage at Castle Garden, If. ” Y... .Alexander H. 11. Stuart of Virginia became Secretary of the Interior. 1858 —Steamship Austria, Southampton to New York, burned at sea; 471 lives lost. ~ / 1861— President Lincoln revoked Gen. Fremont’s emancipation order. 1862 Governors of fourteen States met at Altoona, Pa., and approved of emancipation as a war measure.... Gen. McClellan appointed to command the defense of Washington. 1864 —Gen. Sherman entered Atlanta, ending the four weeks’ siege... .Gen. Sherman ordered all civilians to leave Atlanta. 1860 —National Prohibition party organized at a convention hi Chicago. 1871 — Henry Irving first appeared in “Fanchette” at the London Lyceum. .... Mont Cenis tunnel opened. 1872 Alabama claims against England decided in favor of the United Staten. 1886 —Canadian Pacific Kilway telegraph line opened for busuMoe. 1803— Gov. William McKinley of tihio opened his campaign for re-eleetion •with a speech at Akron. 1894 —Hinckley and other Minnesota towns swept by forest fives. 1898 —British forces defeated the Dervishes at Omdurman.... Admiral Cervera and other captured Spanish officers sailed for Spain. 1906 —Emperor of China issued an edict promising constitutional government.

New Life-Restoring Apparatus.

E. C. Halt, writing in the August Technical World Magazine, asserts that Prof. George Poe of South Norfolk, Va„ is able to restore life to apparently <j|ead animals, his treatment being based upon the wellknown method of forcing oxygen into the lungs. For this purpose be has devised an artificial respirator, modeled ia all respects after nature. It embraces two small cylinders, each having an inlet and an outlet, with which plungers work aim- ' nltanconsly, and from which tubes are conducted to the nostrils er mouth of the patient. One cylinder is supplied with oxygen, and the outlet of the ether discharges directly into the atmosphere. Tbs plungers are worked by hand and timed according to normal respiration. Thus in owe movement noxious gases from the lungs are drawn Into one cylinder, while the next movement forces oxygen from the other cylinder into the tongs. This device has been jiatented and will soon be opon the market.

Photographing Thoughts.

Dr. Hippolyte Barnduc, a noted French physician, has recently published a series of photographs purporting to represent different thoughts or prayers, thne offering some confirmation to the theories of the Theosophlste. I)r. Baradnc, on the assumption that the human being ia composed of fluid or gaseous bodies as well as that of flesh and blood, exposed various sensitised plates In the dark near to persons in varying states of mind and got differing results. lie sometimes uses % green electric light.