RLeO CEIXS.
IN HEALTH.
IN DISEASE.
Man is a millionaire many times over in
the possession of blood cells. Woman is
sot quite so rich, for f dentists have proven
that the normal number of red blood cells
hi adult men is five million; in women four
a.nd a half million, to the square millimeter.
The normal cell is not absolutely round
in lvVilh. but, in disease, becomes ex
tremely irn ular in shape. Every one can
be in pirfict health and possess the mil
lions of rich red blood corpuscles if they
onlv l.non- how to po about it. Dr. R. V.
Pierce, consulting phvsician to the Inva
lids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buf
falo, K. Y., advises every man and woman
loprtTiare for a long life by observing: na
ture's" laws. In the first place, if your
digestion is faulty, and the food yon
t U is n it taken up by the blood and assim
ilated properly, you need a tonic and diges
tive corrector, something that will increase
;he red blood corpuscles; he believes iu
(foinfx about this in nature s own way.
Ye.'.is afro, in his active practice, he found
tint an alterative extract of certain herbs
ami roots, put up without the use of aleo
fiol. would put til- liver, lungs ind heart
into fuller and more complete action. This
nieHne hi" called Dr. Tierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. By assimilating- the
food tat en, it nourishes the blood, and, in
stead of the ill-shaped corpuscles, the per
son's bio i takes on a rich red color and
the corpuscles are more nearly round.
Nervousness is only the cry of the starved
nerves for food, and when the nerves are
red tn rich red blood the person loses
ifcose irritable feelings, sleeps well at night
iud feels refreshed in the morning.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
If you want to know about your body,
read Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, which can be had for the-cost of
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cloth-bound book, or 21 stamps for the
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bowels and stimulate the sluggish liver.
AGED BATTLESHIPS.
TOEIB FATE WHEN TOO FAR
GONE TO BE OF SERVICE.
Small Sums Realized Upon Great
Vessels That Have Cost
Fortunes to Build
Their Lifetime.
What is done with those warships
which, becoming obsolete, have to be
"disposed of at slarmirg sacrifices," is
cne of those questions few ordinary per
sons could answer, says London Tit-EIts.
01 course, tne most profitable way would
be to sell them to foreign countries, such
as the South American republics, and
Turkey, Sprin ar.d China might even
be occasional customers.
But for obvious political reasons such
& thing is never dene; indeed, eo stern
js the govcrnmentt's determination not
to run the risk of our navy's "ineffective"
ahipa falling into foreign hands that in
every case it is stipulated that they
fhii be broken up in British waters.
Thus it occurs that obsolete war vessels,
which, perhaps, cost the nation. 500,
WO, or even 750,000, have, from time
to time, to be sold for 15,000 or 20,000,
when as war vessels they would probably
rtalize twice or thrice aa much If sold
to a foreign country which did not mind
having a navy somewhat out of date.
But sold as in nearly every caae they
arefor breaking up, they simply fetch
the price of old metal, from which is
to be deducted the cost of shipwreckers'
labor, this being an important factor,
since it stands to reason a man of war
cannot be disintegrated with a can
opener.
.Taken out of commission, the con
demned warship lies moored until the
admiralty sells her either by auction or
private treaty. She is stripped of guns
and stores, and generally of certain por
tions of her fittings, which are often up
to date and serviceable. Then she passes
into the hands of her purchasers, gen
erally a British firm who have a special
plant for dealing with ironclads. She is
towed to the most convenient place and
Err obstruction begins. She is ripped
to- r'.eces, from quarter-deck to keel.
Her ipelnee, decks, steering gear.wood
ork everything is taken from her
until t'.:' iierfc steel shell remains, and
the final blows are generally dealt with
rynami'e to brea'K up her plates. As oft
en &3 t-. or 12 months are occupied in
breaking up a battleship.
Then what becomes of her? You may
be sitting in a chair the wood of which
as once part of a battleship; before a
&ra'.e made out of a cruiser's plate, for
&er plates are sold for reemelting, and
they turn up unsuspected in a thousand
homes, are made into stoves, railway
lines, park railings, fire irons, traction
jErin&, etc. If only steel could eptak,
here's many a humble-looking fire grate
Thlch couki uli of stirring dtds.
There is not much wood abont the
warships which fall into the ship break
fere' hands nowadays, but what there is
commands a ready market for a variety
-f pui p-.-' , as it is understood to be the
3et, te,r,'-,-r and moet seasoned of its
Kind ordinarily obtainable. At the same
time large portions of a ship's timber
are good only as fuel and as such it is
?oid; but it is aways reckoned to be the
anest foe! wood money can buy. Th
better stuff is bought for barge build
in.?, fioorirjjr, Kc, to be worked up by
carpenters and cabinet makers. Ships'
::mbr is cnrsMerM particularly good
for employment ia damp places.
S3 fT f I
t:tr. ;. . e of :.tc- wrecked vessel is
d'.r'.ni.-ed of to Ko:no purpose, yet even
then, owing to the expensive trouble of
brefKi:" her up, her purchasers some-tl.'iie.-'
IL.d she hns cr.ly just repaid the
cost to wh: '1 ihey have bren put, and
that albeit sh'- cost thm only a fiftieth
or sixtieth part of what she cost the na
tion no rroi-c perhap3 than 20 years be
fore. Twenty years is about the time which
changes a r.ew war vessel into an obso
lete fhi; such as it would be foolish to
serd irto action. Dut ocoasior.aily ships
become obsolete and meet their inglori
ous doom v. ry much sooner. In one
case, indeed, a battleship became ob
solete whae she lay in the baildir.g
stocks, and she was usually broken up
without boirg rh.ift.ed from the place
where her keel w;.s laid. Another ves
sel, the Hood, was broken up without
ever "ruling salt wat r," havii.g been
buiit iu t;e Med way and only being
launched to go farther above for the
purpose of beingV.isintegrated. A third
war vessel, of a smaller type, became
obsolete while waiting for her boilers to
be put in, and she never lived to breathe
steam.
Not every obsolete war vessel meets
; the melancholy fate of being broken
! up, however. On rare occasions con
! tieirtned ships on being taken out of the
I efi'ecti -v list are used for the t,tors.g;e
j of powder, etc., or as training &niys,
though ironchius are not very well
adaptt-ei to each uses. Vessels of small
! types are somc-tinits. too, ringed up for
j special purpc.-:ed wht revtr a go-, envr.ent
ollce would otherwise have to purchase
a new ship at a much greater ou.iay.
But tat ultlniat? ci: ! of every ship o;' -tier
rot sunk at sea Is to be h:iru ree. fe r al
most a fiftieth part of her coot, broken
up, and scattered freer the land to be
converted to a thousand different uses.
' ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION.
The Orthographic Chaos in Which the
English Laii-ujiKe Is Involved
Some Notable Illustrations. .
We are weltering in an orthographic
chaos in which a multitude of signs are
represented by the same sound and a
multitude of sounds by the same sign,
says Harper's Magazine. Our race as
a race has in consequence lost the
phonetic sense. What can we hope for
the orthoepy of a tongue in which, for
ilustration, the short sound of e, found
in let, is re-presented by ea in head, by
eo in leopard, by ay in says, by ai in said,
by ei in heifer, and by a in many? Or of
the correspondingly long sound given by
us to the same vowel, which is repre
sented by e in mete (to measure), by ea
in meat (an article of food), or by ee in
the verb to meet; and furthermore by I
In machine, by le In believe, by el in re
ceive, by eo in people, and by ae in aegis?
Or take the sound denoted by the digraph
sh, seen In ship. It is represented by
ce in ocean, by ci in RiirpiHon, by tl In
nation, by xi in anxious, by sci in con
science, and by s followed by u in sure.
There ks no object in heapic up further
harrowing details, which, Indeed, could
be multiplied indefinitely. They have
bn introduced merely to show how
hopelesa is the prospect of attaining
under sah conditions a uniform stand
ard of pronunciation wnlch all will rec
ognise at once, and to which all will un
qu&stionlngly bow.
WHAT A COOL SUMMER DOES.
IU Bflcta to tt Batlr BoiinMi Coma
DnaMri Fumtn Inln1V-Kps
onr Srom Ctrolttn0.
A well known business man says that
the ordinary observer Hd not stop to
consider what a cool summer meant to
the entire business community, accord
ing to the Philadelphia Record. Said he:
"It affects everything that depends upon
trade for life. I have no doubt that the
present slump in stocks is due in part
to the cool summer, which has made the
crops so uncertain. Let us start with the
farmer. He has had poor luck with his
corn, melons and all kinds of truck. The
merchants who sell summer elothing
and all kinds of seasonable wear hare
hardly paid expenses; every seashore re
sort has been running light. This means
so much money lost from circulation,
and all the mechanical trades and in
dustries must suffer. Of course, no one
Is to blame, and the only thing to do is
to lire and let live until a real hot sum
mer comes to push things along again."
CHARITY FOR CRIPPLES.
Cnf ovtanatea Aided by Society Corl
OMlr Named "The Guild of the
Drave Poor Thins."
"The Guild of the Brave Poor Things"
Is the curious name adopted by a com
pany of English charity workers, whose
womanly efforts are being directed to
ward the amelioration of the condition
of cripples, young and old.
The guild has recently acquired a
country holiday home at North Com
mon, Chailey, Sussex. It is called the
Heritage, and was formally opened in
June by the ducheRS of Bedford. Th"
home is picturesquely situated and will
accommodate guild members men,
women and children some cf whom
will become permanent residents and
others will be taken from the various
branches of the guild for short vacation
periods. As soon as may be it is in
tended to start a school of arts and
crafts for the crippled and deformed in
mates, and the work will be sold for
their benefit
ANIMALS UNCAUUIIT.
Some Kind3 of Baasts That Have
Never Been Caged.
7. ) Iiitennttly Ehkct to Secure Speei
monat of Curtain Xetvl yIIcov
ered Creuturca of I'or?lu
Clliues.
"Oh, there are a good many ani
mals that are still to be caught and
exhibited ia the monagerits," aaid tie
o.'d animal man, according to the CI11-
irnmti Enquirer, reaching into the
ci'j.e and scratching the head of a
jiJu:'r. "ican run oil quite a list
without sleeping te think.
"All the .-zoos are crazy now for an
okapi. That's the strange prehis
toric beasi that Sir Hurry Johnston
found aiivo in Eastern Africa. It's
a. cross between a jdraffe nnd a horse,
apparently, and a mighty big anhmi.
There'll bs b?s money for the circus
thr.t wc'.'i t:e first example, and there
are some plucky and smart men in
Uganda at this very moment looking
for the brute.
"Nrh :('y has been lucky enough or
smart en;n': .h 10 catch a Kadiak
War alive ar.d carry him to civiliza
lion. There's something lllce a beast
lor you big as a calf, so that he'd
Kiake a roaring Rocky mountain
grizzly look like a little brown bear
alongside of him.
'Tchvn i: Som Ii America, joms
v hero 1 m : t'i.:- northeastern siuo of
hz An u, a lit'.le north of the
equat.T. is a b-T.4t that is the b?.a
gest r oi-vat in ir.e. voriil. Travelers
hava cccn pk-ee3 of its hide and its
bones, and a fe.' nave cii'nod it as
it sped through the dark primeval for
est's. It is a true rodent like the rat,
but it is as bin as a Newfoundland
c.ug. That would be a good catch for
a zoological garden.
"Another fine prize is down there
in South America. It is a new species
of jaguar, quite different from any
that haa ever been exhibited in the
shows in any part of the world. It's
a big black fellow, and tremendously
fierce. Nobody has ever taken one
alive.
"Then in the forest of the Amazon
are two birds that would make their
captor a famous man among zoolo
gists. They are the bell bird, which
has a voice exactly like a clear, ring
iiiC bell, and the 'Lost Soul,' which
has a cry that makes the shivers creep
along a man's backbone when he hears
it in those dark, mysterious, silent,
forbidding woods.
"in Burmsl somewhere is a rhi
noceros that Tias a black hide and big
tufted ears. The hide has been seen
by white men lots of times, but they
haven't evor seen a living animal.
"Up in the Himalayas a man has
been looking for years for what do
you suppose? A unicorn. He may
be crazy he may be right He says
that he has heard so many tales from
the native hunters up there of the ex
istence of a one-horned antelope
horse that he is bound to try and get
one. I don't think there is any such
thing myself, but then I didn't take
much stock in the discovery of a
primitiTe wild horse in Central -Asia,
either, and now the soological gardens
of Hamburg and New York both hav
living specimens of these horses
funny, big-headed Mttle brutes that
are representatives of some type ol
horse that must be hand reds of thou
sands of years old.
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