Mounts For New York's Police.
Some Diet Follies vd
Ly Woods Hutchinson, Jl. M.t M. D,
tOME diet delusions are of most modem date, like the fad
, which is now devastating our breakfast tables, while others
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CL ? that very ancient survival, the notion that particular foods
are "good" for particular things or effects. This is an al-
most direct descendent of the notion, held with greater or
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T-BHfr i that the flesh or viscera of birds and animals possessing par
ticular, qualities will be likely to produce the same qualities
la those who eat them. Thus Nero used to banquet on nightingale's tongues
In the hope of improving- his voice, and the Ojibwa cut out and devoured the
heart of a bear, the liver of a buffalo, etc., believing that the strength and
courage of these animals would thereby be transferred to himself. It is
probable that the most grewsoine of ancestral rites cannibalism was largely
due to the same belief, although, of course, in Neanderthal days primitive
man would have no more hesitancy about eating his enemy after he had killed
liim than he would in devouring a bear or a deer. In fact, the early converts
of the missionaries in the South Sea Islands referred to their favorite disk
as "long pig." Every known race has at some time been cannibal.
There certainly was a childlike logicality and naivete about the concep
tion of the Maori warrior who rounded and completed his conquest of his en
emy by eating him afterwards, and thus acquiring all the vigor and energy
which had been wont to oppose him. The story told of the old Maori chief
who, upon his death-bed, when urged by the missionary and his favorite wife
to a death-bed repentance, and told that in order to do so he must first for
give his enemies, proudly lifted his dying head and exclaimed, "I have no
enemies; ! have eaten them all," appeals to a slumbering chord in us even
yet While certain most intelligent people to-day would indignantly resent
the accusation of reverting to such days and ideas, they will vigorously de
jiounce the eating of pork as an unholy thing, on the ground that "he who
eats pork thinks pork," and the more orthodox of them will even declare that
while Scripture records that the devils entered into swine, we have no as
surance that they ever came out of them. From McClure's Magazine.
Effect Population
By Professor Jl. G. Keller.
HE 'history of American mining-towns presents many ex-
Sfr m C ampies or. tne determining enect or mineral aeposus. eiuie,
IJ T Montana is n pitv nf 9.R Ortf) inhabitants snnnnrted bv Conner
underlying about one square mile of land surface. The
metal forms the sole raison d'etre of this considerable set
tlement, for in other respects the region is unproductive and
unattractive; without the mines the locality would support
with difficulty a population of one hundred souls. The min
eral deposits of Nevada occur beneath strips of land a few
hundred feet in width and in the midst of a hopeless desert, but they have
formed plausible pretext for adding a State to the Union and two Senators
to Congress. The decline of the lodes has now reduced Virginia City to a
population of 2500, as against 11,000 in 1880, when it was one of the busiest
cities in America, in the midst cf a superlatively "booming" State. In 1900
Nevada was credited with a population of 42,335 a figure somewhat under
that for 1870; thus this State, with an area twice that of New England, has
less population than Waterbury, Connecticut. Through the existence of min
eral products in close proximity, Pittsburg has become the emporium for
coal, petroleum, and iron. Its case differs, however, from the above, for its
development was far less artificial, and its destiny could never be that of the
regions already mentioned. Three navigable rivers converge at this point;
valleys sunk in a plateau provide natural routes for approaching railways.
Natural and unnatural access, it may be added, are contrasted at Pittsburg by
the fact that one railroad has recently been forced to expend $35,000,000 to
effect an entrance to the city by overcoming a minor geographic obstacle.
Harper's Magazine.
h Something New
s Christian Psychology jy
tp Ey Right Rev. Samuel Fallows,
flf&w' of Chicago. vbvW'
1 I
WOULDN'T agree to cure a case of grip without the assist
ance of a physician. I want to make it plain that I expect
to work hand in hand with physicians. By giving you good
suggestions, however, I would do much toward curing the
disease and probably would banish it entirely.
Just how shall I go about putting my theories to practical
use? As is being done in Emmanuel Church, Boston, I shall
address myself to the subconscious minds of those who de
sire to be cured, and will give them such suggestions as
may be beneficial to them.
To cure a person who is suffering from nervous breakdown or a mental
ailment, I shall use two methods. The first method Is to seek for the root of
the evil the patient's cause for worry or despondency. If that is removable
it should immediately be removed, and the cure is effected.
The second method is to give such suggestions as will lodge themselves
In the subconscious mind and direct the actions and deeds of the patient upon
another and more beneficial plane. There are thousands of cases which
wjuld be wonderfully benefited in this manner.
Neurasthenia, an ailment of the mind, is the commonest and worst dis
ease of the present day. It is a disease that certainly can be cured by this
means. It is being done in Boston every day, and it may be done in Chicago
JJIhnf is tho nttxf. i
Fiction ?
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LKJ
Ey H. M. Jilden.
HE best fiction of to day has really mere of constructive art
than that which preceded it, though this art, following the
lines of life rather than an arranged scheme, is not mani
fest in obvious features. It has more varied traits, instead
of a few 'emphatically pronounced or merely typical fea
tures. It has a deeper dramatic interest, intellectually and
emotionally, though the drama itself is so changed to
follow the pattern which life itself makes, yet in itr, course
unfolding novel surprise?. Above all, it has more spontan
eous play of human activities and a finer and more vital humor not the spe
cific humor which excites to laughter or even suppressed merriment, bat
vhlch, like every other quality of the modern nrt of expression, is pervasive,
without losing articulate distinction, concurrent with the ever-varying course
cf the writer's thought and feeling. Humor, in this sense, is the most dis
tinctive quality of life the index of its flexibility, of its tenderness, mercy,
"and forgiveness. Harper's Magazine.
fr fViitt Mint Tin i . .-aa '
BREAKING A NEW POLICE HORSE TO THE USE OF SADDLE AND
HEAD-GEAR.
EURMESE BUDDHISTS.
Worship of the Image of Buddha
as practiced in Burma is vividly de
lineated in the photograph on this
page. It is the boast of the Burmese
that nowhere, unless possibly in Cey
lon are the teachings of the great
Gautama preserved and followed
with the purity that they are in
Burma. Yet taking the teachings as
they have come down to us, no one
can conceive of the teacher accepting
or in any sense approving the rite3
practiced by his followers of this gen
eration; they are so utterly alien to
his doctrine as we conceive it. The
Buddhists priests have their own way
of reconciling the formality, the rites
and ceremonies of the worship in
their temples with the Buddhism that
Gautama taught, but to us it seems
that it is removed from it as far as a
pontifical mass in St. Peter's is from
the simplicity of a Quaker meeting.
The extraordinary fact is that Gau
tama, born as is supposed in 540 B.
A Feat of Communication.
The story of what may be called
a remarkable feat of communication
is told in Harper's Weekly. Thirty
seven years ago, it is recalled by the
writer, it took Stanley nine months
of travel through the yast equatorial
forests of Africa to reach Ujiji and
find Livingstone. During almost his
entire journey he was lost to com
munication with the outside world.
At 12.30 p. m. on Wednesday,
March 29, a cable despatch was sent
through the Western Union Tele
graph Company from New York to
Nairobi, in British East Africa, a
station thirty days march from Liv
ingstone's headquarters; and a reply
was received through the Postal
Telegraph Cable Company shortly
after noon on the following Friday,
an interval of less than fifty hours.
The cable despatch was transmitted
first to the Azore Islands, and thence
to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, Alex
andria, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Zan
zibar and Mombasa, t on the East
BURMESE GIRLS WORSHIPING BUDDHA IN THE CAVES OF BIRGYI,
C. about the time that Ezra and
ts'ehemiah were gathering their peo
ple to return to the Holy Land by per
mission of Cyrus began to declare
his faith in opposition to the Brah
manisra which had dominated the
thought of India for more than a
thousand years, should have been
able to establish it single-handed, and
that in our time, twenty-five centuries
later, it survives and is the creed of
five hundred million human beings.
As far as we can gather from the
traditions that have come down to
us, Gautama revolted from Brahman
ism, and like Ecclesiastes, sought
spiritual peace by various means. He
first tried philosophy, and then bodily
austerites by which he nearly lost his
life. At last he made his great dis
covery, as he states in his sacred
writings, that "To cease from sin, to
get virtue, to cleanse one's own heart,
is the only way to peace. This," he
said, "is the doctrine of Buddha."
To die to desire, to make absolute
self-surrender to God, to be utterly
indifferent to the world, sustained
by the inward life, "to be nothing,"
until finally individuality was swal
lowed up in the Nirvana, that was
Buddha's Idea as it appears to the
modern student. It is difficult to un
derstand how such a doctrine could
have become corrupted Into the Bud
dhism that kissed the toe of an image.
if we had not seen men prostrating
themselves before a crucifix and pray
ing before a relic. Christian Herald
African coast. Thence it was sent
inland to Nairobi by telegraph, and
from that point was conveyed thirty
miles to the house of the recipient,
the total approximate distance being
slightly more than 10,000 miles. Ow
ing to the difference in time between
New York and Nairobi, the message
lost eight hours in transmission, and
consequently was not received till
Thursday otherwise the two days
occupied by its journey 'and the re
turn of the answer might haveljcen
shortened considerably.
Unique Bath Apparatus.
A novel bathing apparatus, the in
vention of an Oregon man, is shown
in the illustration below. This por
table apparatus was designed to be
utilized for encasing all of the hu
man body, applying a vacuum about
it and supplying oxygen to the body
from the lungs only. By this method
poison can be driven out of the sys
tem. It Is also designed for use as
a thermal or sweat bath and for im-
A Tree 1200 Years Old.
Whatever the age of the trees in
this country, the Prince of Wales can
assert that he has seen one in Japan
twelve hundred years old. A giant
pine, with its branches supported by
stout props, it is a permanent sacri
fice to Buddha. . Kobo Daishi built
a pagoda in honor of Buddha twelve
centuries ago, and in front of it he
set his pine as a perpetual offering,
In place of flowers, which should in
the ordinary course be offered.
Twelve hundred years Is a long per
iod in which to trace the ' history of
a tree, but it is only half the age
3f the present dynasty, and they were
lble to tell the prince as plain a tale
3f the pine tree's growth as of the
iescent of their present emperor.
London Globe.
Life of the Hailwayman.
Trainmen are the class of workers
nost subject to long, irregular hours
)f duty, and there is nothing so like
y to make a man unnerved and unfit
!or dangerous work as this. The
strain of long hours and the restless
ness of irregularity soon find out the
strongest and most robust of men.
Little wonder, then, that we find
;hem with prematurely gray heads,
Railway Review.
Glass Bathing Globe.
pregnating the body with medica
ments. The receptacle is in the form
of a huee elass hnwi
large to entirely encase the human
body when sitting and all of the body
except the head when standing. It
is made in two airtight sections.
Washington Star.
Women Workers.
It is desirable that women of all
classes of society should work, and
as in the poor households the waces
of the husband do not suffice to all
the common needs, we must resign
ourselves to see the women add to
their absorbing household cares in
dustrial occupations in order to eke
out the all too small earnings of the
head of the household. Jules Simon,
in L'O-vrlere.
New York City. Every style of
douse that gives the continuous line
ver the shoulders is in vogue and a
great many charming effects are tne
result. This lone, designed for young
girls, Is exceedingly attractive and be
soming, while the result, Is obtained
Meteor Silk.
Meteor silk makes some of th8
prettiest robes for evening wear.
The fabric is soft, clinging and the
coloring is wonderful.
Parasol in New Design.
One of the newest parasols to finish
a charming summer costume is of
white china silk embroidered all
around the edge with sprays of thistle
done in lightest mauve and ralest'
greens.
Dressing Jacket.
Such a pretty little dressing jacket
as this one cannot fail to find its wel
come. It is dainty and attractive, it
is absolutely simple and It is peculiar
ly well adapted to the incoming sea
son. In the illustration it is made of
white batiste trimmed with embroid
ery, but it would be charming If the
material chosen were flowered lawn,
cross-barred dimity or anything sim
ilar, and If something a little hand
somer is wanted, Japanese silks will
be found desirable.
The jacket is made with t fronts
the back and the centre-front. The
sleeves are cut in one with the front,
and back portions and are joined over
the shoulders. The centre-front is;
tucked and the back is laid in a box.
pleat at the centre. The closing i
made invisibly at the left of the front.
The quantity of material required
by very simple means, as the, trim
ming portion, which gives the contin
uous line, is cut all in one and ar
ranged over the blouse after it is
made. In this Instance sheer white
batiste is combined with embroidery.
The blouse Is made with the tucked
fronts and backs, which are joined to
the yoke portions, and is trimmed be
tween the groups of tucks. The
sleeves are inserted in the armholes,
after which the garniture is arranged
over the whole. The lower edge is
joined to a belt, and in this instance
the belt is of lace insertion.
The quantity of material required
for the sixteen-year size is three and
one-eighth yards twenty-four, two
yards thirty-two or one and one-half
yards forty-four inches wide, with one
and one-half yards eighteen inches
wide for the garniture, eight and one
half yards of banding.
for the medium size is three and
three-fourth yards twenty-one or
twenty-four, two and one-fourth yards
thirty-two or one and one-half yard3
The New Shoe.
The tip is more pointed.
The vamp is shorter.
The wing tip Is ubiquitous.
Th Cuban heel is seen most fre
quently.
Tan Is the most popular for young
people.
Gun metal is the selection of older
ones.
Ooze is the newest leather.
As its name suggests, it is porous
looking.
Dull gray suede hold3 its own.
The Slender Figure.
Some one has discovered that the
slender figure of fashion swathed
with clothes that outline it does not
harmoniza perfectly with the rosy
cheek; that the woman without hips
must have a pale face in order, to be
fashionable.
Coat Front Finishing.
The front of the coat is finished
with a rose-shaped chou of velvet of a
darker red than tLe costume.
forty-four inches wide, with ssven and
one-e.ghth yards of handimr. thraa
and one-eighth yards of edging.
Hatpin Trimmings Are New.
Hatpin trimmings figuro promi
nently among the modish eccentrici
ties of French women. Tho fad has
grown to such an extent that the hat-
pin outfit is a real necessity to the
wardrobe. This consists of cardboar I
boxes in which repose rows of hatpin
as stolid as dead soldiers.
Linen Hats.
Linen hats will bd "worn as much aa
eves: this summer. -