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. --y--,,fw.-vv.,,---‘.--_c. . tubercle bacillus, not only Trainings Ill onus. Koch’s Efforts to Discover a Remedy for the Disease- ]nvcsiigaiions by British Authoritiesâ€"â€" A Tubercuiin Test and its Result. The insidious disease known as tubercu- losis, says the London Times, is probably causing the stockowners of this country greater loss than any other animal disorder. As is well known a departmental committee has been engaged for the last three years in making a series of experimental enquiries into tuberculosis,and the report of this body may shortly be expected. The possibility of the transmission of disease to the human subject who may consume the flesh or milk of tuberculous animals invests the question with an interest which is well nigh univer- sal. For a long time the great obstacle in the path of the specialist was the lack of any trustworthy means of determining whether a. suspected animal was suffering from tuberculosis, or, what is the same thing, consumption. Evidence from various sources, would seem to indicate, however, that this difficulty has been removed. Ten years have elapsed since Koch first isolated the micro-organism which he believed to be the germ of the disease, and to which he gave the name of bacillus tuberculosis. Three years ago the same investigator an- nounced that he had discovered a material which would prevent the growth of the in experimental cultivations made in the laboratory, but also in the bodies of animals. It consisted of a glycerine extract of pure cultivations of the bacilli of tubercle, and the name of “ tuberculin ” was given to it. Whether or not it may possess the qualities which Koch claims for it, this is the material which has been employed as an aid to the diagnosis of tuberculosis, a rise in the temperature of an ' animal following upon the injection of tub- ' erculin being regarded as indicative of the existence of the disease. A CASE OFGREAT INTEREST referring to Earl Spencer's herd of Jersey cattle» at Althorp park, Northamp- tonshire, was recently reported to the Royal Agricultural society. Within the last few years several cows in the herd have pined away and died, and early in the autumn of the present year two cows which appeared likely to die were killed at different dates, and both were found to be afiiictedwith tuberculosis. Lord Spencer thereupon took steps which resulted in a visit being made to the herd by Prof. McFadyean, of the Royal Veterinary college, who applied the tuberculin test to the entire herd, in- cluding calves. Every animal thereupon showed a considerable rise of temperature, which, if the test were trustworthy, meant tuberculosis in each case. It was decided to slaughter the herd, consisting of more than a score of animals, and to make care- ful post mortem examinations. The result proved that all the animals, with one doubtful exception, had tuberculosis, and some of them very badly. When a new herd is commenced, it is proposed to have each animal tested as it is brought in, with the object of discarding it if it should give the temperature reaction. A. U.S. TEST. Abulletin of the Agricultural Experi- ment station of Virginia, United States of America,which has justreached this country, contains further evidence of the value of tuberculin : “ I‘Vhen we stop to consider that one out of every seven persons dies of tuberculosis, and that perhaps the greatest source of infection is the flesh and milk of tuberculous cattle, the importance of an early diagnosis impresses itself upon us. It is stated by various authorities that the majority of the ‘deaths of infants in the cities is caused by tuberculosis, as a result of being fed on tuberculous milk.” The tuberculin test was applied to the entire herd of cattle, numbering 54 head, on the Station farm. Only one animal, 'a cow, gave the characteristic reaction, her tem- perature having risen from 102 dog. at 6 pm, the time of injection, to 104 deg. at 3 a.m. She was apparently healthy and showed no physical symptoms of the dis- ease, buta post mortem examination re- vealed the presence in the lungs, liver and intestines of numbers of tubercles varying in size from that of a pea to that of a wal- nut. On another farm a herd numbering 38 head of cattle was similarly tested, and again one animal, a cow, gave the condem- natory sign, her temperature rising from 102.8 deg. at 7 p.m., the time of injection, to 106.2 dog. at 7 a.m. But for the use of tuberculin the disease in this case could not have been pomtively diagnosed. A post mortem examination, however, confirmed the existence of tuberculosis. The bulletin adds : “\thn animals do'not react after the injection of tuberculin, it can be said4keepers is that, they with almost absolute certainty that they} are free from tuberculosis,since not a single ' case has been unquestionably established l in which animals affected with tuberculosis did not react. On the other hand, if a reaction takes place, it may be said with absolute certainty that the animal has tuberculosis.” OTHER. EVIDENCE similar to the foregoing has been furnished both in the United States and in Canada. At the December council meeting of the ’Highland and Agricultural society of Scot- land Professor \Villiams, the consulting veterinarian, had no hesitation in stating from his own experience that tuberculin was a certain test when an animal had tuberculosis, and he did not recommend the society to institute fresh experiments upon what was an established fact. He had carried out the test satisfactorily both with cows and with pigs, and incidentally he stated that tuberculosis was rare among pigs in Scotland, but common in England. Tuberculosis is not at present scheduled as a disease under the provisions of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) acts, the want of a means of effecting a correct diagnosis being, no doubt, one of the rea- sons for this state of things. But, if in the forthcoming report of the Departmental committee, the tuberculin test should be recommended as safe and reliable, a strong argument would be placed at the disposal of the very considerable number of people who already advocate the scheduling of the disease. The difficulty then to be faced would be a financial one, for compulsory slaughter would involve a very large out- lay the form of compensation. France is the only country which has included tuberculosis in cattle among the contagious diseasesmnder regulations, the low having been passed six years ago. But it only providcs for isolation and supervision of tuberculous cattle, meâ€" THE EHELISHâ€"HEIH swmutâ€" \VHAT IS TO BE DONE IN BRITAIN will probably be decided by the recom- mendations in the report, which is now anxiously awaited. may be taken for granted, that a. country which has successfully freed itself from the dreadful scourge of the cattle plague, which has more than once suppressed the raVages of foot-and-mouth disease, and which has now brought pleura-pneumonia down to a vanishing point, will not hesitate when the time comes to grapple in the same whole- sale fashion with even so universal a disease ‘ as tuberculosis. BRITAIN AND TEE UNITED STATES. The Two Nations in Accord on the Ad- vantages of Peaceful Arbitration in the Settlement of Disputes. A cable despatch from London says that further correspondence relating to United States proposals of international disputes was laid before the House of Commons, in- cluding a letter from Secretary Gresham. Following is the text of the letter referred to :â€" His Excellency Sir Julian l’auncefote :â€" \Vith regard to your note of Aug. 9. 1893, of which the acknowledgment has been hitherto unavoidably deferred, I have now the pleasure to inform you that the Presi- dent will feel great satisfaction in bring- ing to the knowledge of Congress in his forthcoming annual message the resolution of the House of Commons of July 16 last, whereby that high body expressed its cor- dial sympathy with the action. taken by the Senate and House of Representatives, in the concurrent resolutions of Feb. 14. April 3. 1880, requesting the President “ To invite from time to time, as fit occa- sion may arise, negotiations with any Gov- ernment with which the United States has or may have diplomatic relations, to the end that any differences or disputes arising between the two governments, which can- not be adjusted by diplomatic agency, may be referred to arbitration and be peaceably adjusted by such means.” In manifesting the hope that Her Majesty’s Government will lend their cordial co-operation to the Government of the United States upon the basis of this concurrent resolution of Con- gress, the House of Commons has afforded a most gratifying proof of the sentiment of the nations in favor of the settlement of international disagreements of which the United States and Great Britain have by mutual accord given to the world conspic- uous illustrations on several recent occa- sions. I have the honor to be, Mr. Ambassador, with the highest consideration, your obedi- ent servant. W. 0. Gussuau. Take (Jars of Your Watch- Therc is no other personal belonging to which good care is more necessary than a watch, and hardly any other that is more recklessly ill used. The baby plays with it, the housewife lays sticky fingers upon it; it is left open at night for convenience, or subjectedto alternations of heatand cold by being hung against the chimney line. There is the highest authority for saying that the best place for a watch is its owner’s pocket. The pocket should be a clean one, and the watch be further protected by a chamois bag. t It should be wound up with even, steady motion, not too fast or too slow, and as near as possible at the same hour of the day. Morning is the best time for it, and if it is done while the watch has still an hour or two to run, there will be much less wear and tear of the mainspring. In fact, paradoxical as it sounds, a watch will wear out twice as soon by running one day in ten as it would if kept going all the time. Let it lie fiatas little as possible. When notin the pocket keepithanging by its ring in a case of some soft thick stutf,preferably of wool or silk. Net‘er leave the case open the night through. If you need to do it for even an hour, be careful to wipe the dust from the crystal before closing it. No case over yet made is dust-proof. If such were possible, the watch-mender’s occu- pation would be wellnigh gone, since it is the dust sifting in that not merely clogs the wheels and turns the oil on the pivots to gum, but acts as emery would, and wears away the works until they utterly fail to keep time. Avoid jarring your watch, under pain of having it stop, until it grows worthless as a timepiece. Do not pin your faith too closely on its accuracy, either. \Vith the very best of movements, variations will sometimes occur. ‘ Heat, cold, motion, vibration, location, any or all may make your watch fast or slow. One reason that ladies’ watches are usually such bad time- are so irregularly wornâ€"hence they have, about three days out of seven, a widely different environ- ment. ' Never use chalk, whiting, or any sort of powder to brighten a case. Never rub hard, and use only a clean Chamois or a bit of soft silk. Beware of even a suspic- ion of moisture. A watch had nearly as well fell upon a rock as into watc r. If by chance such a. thing happens, put the watch at once into alcoholâ€"Whiskey will not do â€"and leave it until you can hand it over to the watchmaker. â€"__â€"oâ€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€" Liberty Bell on a. four- It has been announced that the famous Columbian Liberty Bell, which figured prominently at the \Vorld’s Fair, is to be taken on a tour around the world. After a visit to the Mid-winter Exposition at San Francisco, it will be taken to England to be rung on the historic meadow of Runnymede on June 15, at a celebration of the anniversary of the signing of Migna Charta. After that it will be taken to France to participate in anniversaries connected with ' political freedom, and to Germany for the same purpose, its next destination being St. Petersburg, where it will be rung on the anniversary of the cmmcipation of the serfs. From there its progress will be continued to Italy, Constantinople, J crusa-. lem, Carlo, Australia, India, China, Japan, and back to the Pacific coast. It is sincere- ly to be hoped that it will prove itself equal to the task of tunefully ringing out its message to civilization and barbarism. “ Liberty enlightening the world ” is a familiar phrase ; the enlightenment is to be continued with a musical accompaniment. Mas Love is the central, deepest, highest thing in life. Muscle and brain are only its servants. William Lord. Moore Caught at Last- This much, however, ms International Swiudliu: open-anon; Net Him $60,000â€"ch “all Hundreds of Victims and in “any Instances Enacted a Double Feeâ€"One of the Most Accom- plished Rogues Known. A New York special says:-â€"Two Scotland Yard detectives, Inspectors Frank Cassel Froest and William Tarrell, are at the Gilsey House. They came from England to testify against one of the most accom- plished swindlers who ever made New Yolk his field of operations. The rogue has worked under so many names that it is hard to identify him, but he became notor- ious in London as William Lord Moore after having fled from New York under the name of E. Ross. His real name is Freder- ick Attryde Howlett. He was born in Gibraltar Court, Borroughroad, London his father, who was an officer on the Lon-’ don police force, being now alive in A Eng- land. \VORKED 0N BOTII SIDES TlIE ATLANTIC. Howlett, under the name of G. Frederick Burgoyne Howard, has been on trial for some weeks at Jackson, Tenn. His game was the old one known to the police as the English heir swindle, and he has worked it on both Sides of the Atlantic. By means of advertisements Widely published, as well as by mailed circulars, he would come into communication with the simple-minded in- dividuals in the small towns and hamlets of this country. He persuaded these per- sons, to the number of thousands, that they were heirs to estates lying unclaimed in the British Court of Chancery, or to vast sums, never less than a million dollars, awaiting their call in the Bank of England. For sums ranging from $25 to $50 he agreed to act as their counsel in recovering the estates, the money, he said, to pay the costs and his foe not to be paid until the claimants were placed in possession of their alleged property. A MOST PROFITABLE SWINDLE. rAbsurd as such a proposition seems to anyone acquainted with the rudiments of the English judicial system it is neverthe- less a fact that this is one of the most profitable swindles ever devised, standing next in rank to the green goods game. The only Weak point in the English hair swindle is that occasionally one of the vic: tims has intelligence enough to report to the authorities, and the swindler has to clear out. AN EXTRAORDINARY MAN. Hewlett, who was frightened out of Eng- land by thc two Scotland Yard men now at tho Gilsey House,is of no ordinary capacity. He was ordained a minister and the degree of D. D. was confirmed upon him by the University of Alabama. He was also ad- mitted to the bar and has acted as his own leading counsel in the trial, being assisted by two able lawyers, who, it is agreed, are not in it as regards eloquence and legal acumen with their client. Howlett has been brought to the bar by the United States Government, which subpoenaed the two Scotland Yard officers as Witnesses. The trial has taken place before Judge E. S. Hammond in the United States Court at Jackson, Tenn. “EUROPEAN CLAIM AGENCY.” Howlctt’ who was posing as the Presi- dent of the Gulf and Tennessee Railway Company at the time of his arrest. was formerly pastor of a Baptist church in Jackson, and married Miss Lizzie Hhugcs there, daughter of a well-known citizen. It was June, 1890, that he turned up in New York city, and at No. 227 Grand- street opened “The European Claim Agen- cy.” This, it is believed, was his first attempt to work the English-heir swindle upon a. large scale. Business seemed to prosper, and in August, 1890, he moved into larger quarters in the Morgan building at No.24 Stone street, representing himself as E. floss. He was burned out there the following January and moved to the Mer- chants’ Building, at Nos. 2 and dStonc street, and from there moved to Nos. 68 and 70 University-place, where he did a flourishing business until exposure drove him to cover DUPED IIIS VICTIMS TWICE. In the following September he pretended to die, in reality going to England, where he turned up under the name of William Lord Moore. The postmaster in this city, who had long been suspicions that the agency was a swindle, was requested to return all letters to the writers. At the same time Howlett wrote to these people from England, pretending to be another person and saying t but he would conduct their cases. In this way he got a double fee out of his victims. At the time of his arrest he was endeavor- ing to extract a third fee from the same people, having notified them that if they would communicate with G.F.B. Howard, President of the Gulf and Tennessee Rail- road, who had just returned from England, they would hear of something to their ad- vantage. Lettcr-carrier Joseph F. Buchanan of Station P. in the Produce Exchange, this city, identified Hewlett as the man Boss to whom he had delievered mail here. He was likewise identified as Frederick Hulett. Frederick Howard, Felix Howard. A. Good- fellow and Joseph Ledger, having passed under all these names. He is described as a fine-looking man, weighing more than 200 pounds, with easy manners and a plausible tongue. He looks like an English- man, but speaks with an American accent, Since 1390, when he engaged in the English- heir swindle, hepis believed to have received ovce $60,000 from his victims. Thirty- seven S‘ates were represented by victims of the swindle who testified at the trial. ,,.W_MW And After Thought- “ Bill !” called the old farmer to the hired man, “go an’ feed them pigs.” “ I’ve done fed ’cm.” “ Go an’ feed the cows.” “I’ve done fed ’em.” “ Go an’ feed the horses.” “ I’ve done fed ’em.” “ Go an’ feed the chickens.” “ I’ve done fed ’em.” ~“ Well, go an’ feed yourself then; seems to me somethin’ ought to be hungry ’round here,” and the way Bill got in to where the eating was, was a marvellous specimen of speed. Hate idleness and curb all passions. Be true in all words and actions. TEACHING CHILDREN T0 GAMBLE! Their Pennies Dropper] Into ‘Racinz Slot Machines. “ Mister, will yer give me a penny ‘2" " that do you want to do with it '3” “Come and see.” I A reporter was walking leisurely along Van Burcn street, waiting for a street car to overtake him, when he was, accosted by a boy about 8 years of age with the above request. Out of curiosity the penny was given and the little fellow told him to fol- low and see the race. The boy entered a cigar store, the reporter following and won-' dering what he meant by “the race.” Near the door of the store was a round glasscovered case in which were several small tin horses. The boy dropped the penny in a slot in the machine, pulled a lever and the little tin horses sped round and round, first one being ahead and then another. Before doing so, however, he said to the storekeeper : “ I’ll take the white horse.” For half a minute, perhaps, the horses sped silently around the track, and when they stopped the boy clapped his hands with glee and exclaimed : “Thatls the first time I struck it. Give me a package of cigarettes.” The white horse had stopped at the wire and the penny had won_ 5c in trade. The reporter thought it strange that children should be allowed to play games of chance, and he so remarked to the storekeeper, “Oh, that’s nothing,” said be. “They understand the game well enough. Men do not play the ‘raccs’ very much, and to make it pay we must let the children take a chance at it. The school children are very fond of watching the horses win, and sometimes as high as a dozen will be wait- ing for a chance to play." Believing that an investigation would prove of value, the reporter dropped into many places where machines are kept. He found that the number increased in the neighborhood of school houses, and that children Were the principal customers. The machines were popular several years ago in the downâ€"town saloons, but after is short time the men of a sporting turn found them suits; winners of their nickels, and they gradually grew into disfavor and then | disappeared. They have again come to the , front, but this time as an inveigler of the , young and innocent, and instead of a nickel it only takes a penny to play. Winnersâ€"â€" and it is hardly necessary to say they are fewâ€"receive 5c worth of candy or any other article they may select. Many young boys take cigarettes. Children beg pennies from their parents and lose them against this machine. Many a penny given the little ones on Sunday afternoon to place in the contribution box for the heathen goes into the heathenish penny-in-thc-slot machine. One little boy on the West Side was given 25c to give his teacher in the Skinner School toward the fund to provide clothing for poor children so that they could attend school. He changed it for pennies and lost them all on - the “ white horse.” ‘ School teachers all over the city are doing their utmost to stop the evil, but find it uphill work. It is believed that the only remedy is for the City Council to pass an " ordinance making it a misdemeanor to allow children of school age to play any game of chance. Some of the men who have had the machines in their stores and thrown them out rather than accept the patronage of children condemn those who still retain them. One of these had a cigar store at 313 Van Buren street. . He said: “ My conscience does not worry me when I see a man put money in the slot. He knows what he is doing. But with children it is different. I always disliked to let them play, and would frequently, when they would tearfully look at me after losing their pennies, give them the amount back in com dies. Men don’t patronize the machine. Rather than rely upon the trade of infants I fired the thing out.” In the years to come how many young men will charge their fondness for betting at the real race track to the days when they put a penny in the slot, and while securing an education in the school house also in its very shadow learned to gamble, and of course lost lâ€"[Chicago Despatch. Chance Saved his Life- Revenge seems to be sweet even to ani- mals. It is certain that they remember for long spaces of time injuries they have re- ceived. An instance of this is cited by a New York paper. . A few years ago it chanced that a valu- able camel, working in an old mill in Africa, was severely beaten by its driver, who, per- ceiving that the camel had treasured up the injury and was only waiting a favorable opportunity for revenge, kept a strict watch upon the animal. Time passed away. The camel, perceiving that it was watched, was quiet and obedient, and the driVer be- gan to think that the beating was forgotten One night, after a lapse of several months, the man, who slept on araised platform in the mill, while, as is customary the camel was stalled in a corner, happen- ing to remain awake, observed by the bright moonlight that when all was quiet the animal looked cautiously around, rose softly and stealing over toward a spot where a bundle of clothes and a bernous thrown care- lessly on the ground resembled a sleeping figure, cast itself with violence upon them, rolling with all its weight, and tearing them most Viciously with its teeth. Satisfied that its revenge was complete the camel returned to his corner, when the, driver sat up and spoke. At the sound of his voice, and perceiving the mistake it had made, the animal was so mortified at the failure and discovery of the scheme that it dashed its head against the wall, and died on the spot. .__..â€"â€"â€"aâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"- She Bought a Door-bell- Agentâ€"“ Beg pardon, ma’am, but I have been requested by a number of persons to call’ here and show you our new patent Electric ‘Wakethedead Door-bell. It’s very hard on hands to have to knock, ma’am, and everybody says the only reason why you haven’t a bell is because you never thought of it.” Housekeeperâ€"“That’s very true. I really had forgotten that there was no bell. Put one in.” Agent (half an hour 1ater)â€"“It’s all done, ina’am. Here’s the bill. Thank you. I’ll receipt it.” Housekeeperâ€"“\Vould you object to telling me who the persons were who com- plained that I had no bell?" Agentâ€"“They were peddlers, ma’am. Good-day ma’am.” A COBllzl’S NESTOF EGGS. Discovery of :1 Batch of Thirty-two in British India. Rather more than a year ago the fact was mentioned in a Bombay paper that a gentle- man connected with the Goa Railway had shot a hamadryad (Ophiophagus claps) on its nest. This awkward mouthful of a word is coming to be familiarly known as the name of the giant cobra, more Common in Burmah than in India, which grows to a length of 14 feet, is as fierce as it is strong, and has the reputation of feeding principal- ly on other snakes. Little, indeed,is known about the incubationâ€"we might almost have said the alleged incubationâ€"~of snakes, and rarely, if ever, has a competent observ- er had the good chance to come upon a. ser. pent in the very act of sitting, hen-like, on its eggs. Only the bare fact was published at the time, and a fuller account can not fail to be interesting. The gentleman was Mr. Wasey, known in his district as an ardent and successful shi- karl ; and he was told by a coolie, in the matter-of-course sort of way usual with these fatalist philosophers,tbat a certain path was impassable,as a cobra had erected a gadi,or throne,for itself there and warned off intruders. Here was a golden opportun- ity to settle the vexed question of the ag- gressiveness of venomous snakes. Will a cobra rush to the attack if it can get easily away ? Europeans commonly say “no” but natives universally cite instances to the contrary, some of them plainly fabulous,but others just wanting corroboration to be de- lievcd. Now here in British India,or at least in Portuguese India, was a giant of the tribe known to all the villagers to have taken up its station by the roadside and to be ready to glide down and dash like lightening at man or beast who approached. Mr. Wasey followed the cooiie to the spot and was shown the monster coiled up on the top of a huge pile of dry leaves. Without more ado he shot it,and turning over the leaves found at the bottom thirty- two eggs rather smaller than a hen’s and covered each with a. tough skin in place of a shell. These were sent to the secretary of the Bombay Natural History; but want- ing the heat generated by the close mass of decaying leaves, they did not hatch. Some: times more than one young one escapes from a snake’s egg; but at the lowest computation Mr. Wasey is to be congratulated on rid- ding his district of thirty-three deadly snakes. ~ ' Poisaniue' by Misadventure- The deplorable accident which caused the death of Prof. Tyndall in England has again brought to the front the serious ques- tion of “ poisoning by misadventure" and the insufficiency of the present means of its prevention. The last annual report of the 3tegistrar-General for England and Wales showed a. total (if 876 deaths certified as being caused by poison in 1891, 544 being due to misadventure. Deducting from these 132, in which the poisonous agent is said to have been “ lead,” we have 412 deaths, of which 114, or more than one-fourth, were due to the accidental administration of narcotic poisonsâ€"“ opium, laudanum morphine, chlorodyne, soothing syrup cordial or paregoric.” Next to these come. chloroform with a record of 62 deaths; carbolic acid caused 31 ; the poisonous alkaloidsâ€"aconite, belladonna, cocaine, strychhineâ€"-are credited with 19, mineral. acids with 17, arsenic with 8, chloral with 7, and oxalic acid with 2. In addition to these, 128 deaths were caused by “ mis- cellaneous poisons,” and in 24 the precise agent was not ascertained. Setting aside the deaths attributed to chloroform, the great majority of the fatalities included in the dismal list were doubtless due to the fact that the poison was given or taken out of the wrong bottle. This shows conclu- sively that although the Legislature has hedged about the sale of poisons to the public with salutary rules, which are in- tended to act as a protection from the effects of either carelessness or villainy, the chief danger to the patient arises when the sale has taken place, and when the poison is actually in the Sick chamber. Everybody acquainted with the. details of sick-nursing knows the wear and tear to nerves and brain which that most trying of all employments produces. There are times when the nurse, be she a professional or an amateur, is forced by more physical weari- ness to relax her vigilance, and when she performs her ministrations in a mechanical, unthinking fashion. It is at such times that “the wrong bottle” becomes a source of tremendous peril; and the conclusion is inevitably reached that precautions far stronger than those ordinarily in use at present are required, if dire catastrophes are to be avoided. It is now suggested that all poisons shall be put in fluted bottles, preferably of blue glass, and, asasubsidiary detail, that on every bottle of poison the best andsimplest antidote shall be inscribed. At present, if a mistake happens, in nine cases out of ten the attendant is devoid of knowledge as to what ought to be done to prevent fatal results. Yet how easy it would be on every label that accompanies mineral acids to notify that chalk and water, followed by milk, is the most efli- cacious antidote, and where an emetic is instantly desirable to describe one or two of the simplest that can be readily con- concocted. In all probability these pre-, cautionary measures will-shortly be made compulsory in England by the Legislature. W Mysteries of the Sea- There are in the profound abysms of the sea, strange forms of life that never see the upper light, save when brought up by the trawl. The work recently accomplished by the United States Fish Commission vessel, the Albatross, has established the fact that forms of sea life inhabiting the upper waters may descend to about twelve hun- dred feet from the surface, but below this, to a depth of three hundred or three hun- dred and sixty fathoms, a barren water zone intervenes where marine life seems absent. But, strange to say, still deeper have been discovered abundant and varied fauna new to science, living under con- ditions of tremendous pressure and re- markable paucity of the life-sustaining element of oxygen. Th‘us science is ever bringing new facts to light and putting ignorance to flight. Unbelief does nothing but dark-m and de- stroy. It makes the world a desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no liv- ing hand adorns the fields, feeds the birds 'of heaven, or regulates event. « * l l . .. x1:'â€"-_. . 5'“: ’7 via. "1;. .