MUST HAVE LIBERTY
Wllte Will Take the Helm
Seek to Rule Storm.
CZAR MAY LEAVE THE EMPIRE
Social Revolt Shakes Russia From
End to End -St. Petersburg
Girt Off by Striker.
St. Petersburg, Oct. !!. Ninf toiiIim
by it situation morn serious than any
hiiiih tlm liegiiiniii) nt the iiitir;i hihI
uncial upheaval of UtiNMiii, which nt tlm
Hum thin 1 iHit t i ll Im filed, shows ihi
nirin of iiiiiiliiirntiiin, the cmpcmi'n
minister, UlllIlT till' leadership III
Count Witte, spent almost nil of yes
terday in conferences in tlm hope of
I ml i nn some way nut of tlm r in in into
which tint n-v i il n t inn i m( n have cast tlm
country. Tlm ikthI strike on tin
ru i ) r ( mi I m in complete except in h few
border provinces, unit Hi. Petersburg,
Moscow hihI other large i t i n Bn al
most as closely beleaguered dh i( they
were invested liy besieging armies. At
I ht same time tlm i ii1 iihI r ih I strike has
assumed large dimensions and tin tnr
Imli'iit clement in several localities
are forming in'ii resistance to tlm
troops. 'I ln in i ci i m tern who IihiI been
in fta-MMimi .luring tlm day resumed their
meeting after a short interval fur din
iid nml continued deliberations until
long lifter midnight. 'I'lm reHiill of
these, tleliln ration In not known.
After h 1 1 i vc t t of inexpressible terror,
Russia tocUy in I ti 1 1 k 1 into tlm deep
est gloom. Following tint declaration
ly tlm workiiigmcn yesterday Hfternoon
of u general strike to reinforce the rail
way strike which ha paralysed tlm in
diiHtry of the country, rioting and
street fighting kept the city III a state
of terrihle unrest nil hint night. What
makes t he fit lint ion seem hopeless i
that the crisis, it h r u 1 1 y , in not ye
reached .
Ho serious ure tlm conditions t hat it
in mi hi the i v.nr will noon leave Russia
paying a two iiioiiIIim' visit to Pen
mark. The rrar's visit will he osten
fililv to recuperate from the strain of
the last two years. In reality, it in
.laid, those hehiml the government tie
sire him out of the way ami in a place
of safety should an uprising evolve
itself out of the present labor ilillicul
tics, ("omit Witte, according to in
formation f'oin 1 cterhof, wilt liolil an
olllce equivalent to that of recent dur
ing the absence of the emperor, an
will liolil full powers as head of the
government.
REFORM PUBLIC LAND LAWS.
Time la Opportune for Congress to
Act at Coming Session.
WaRhiiigton, Oct. "(. There ia aome
doubt in tlm inindH of memhera of the
1'uhlic. IjindH commiflhion aa to their
ahiltiy to make a final retxirt to the
preHident hefore coinrreMa convenes on
Iecemher 4, hut there ia little doubt
that the preHident, in hia annual incH
aae, will forcibly remind congreHR that
it hiiH a duty to perform in redraftiriK
Home of the public laud lawa which are
now ho draw n an to fouler and cneour
UK"' fiaud. If the I'ublic I.itnda com
minion imikeH its IhnI report during
the coming Hi-HHion, the preHident will
aend that report to congrcHH with
apecial mcHHitge, and w ill renew ami re
inforce what he Iiiih to nay on that Hiih-
ject nt the opening of the hchhioii.
The prenident in more determined
than ever before to have the land luws
leviHcd, eHpecially the lawa that permit
the dinpoHiil of timber lundH at n noiu
inal price, mid which, furthermore,
offer ho many opportunitifH to npecula
torn and thieve. In light of the con
victioiiH at Portland and of other con
victloiiM Hoon likely to follow, both in
Washington and in Portland, it would
peem that the coming HeHHion ia the
proper time for hind law reform. With
eevtral notable exumpleH of land thievcH
clearly fixed in the public mind, there
will be more incentive to remodel the
Iuwh now than a year or two hence.
Will Approve Separation Bill.
Paria, Oct. I'll. The Henute commit
tee on the reparation of church and
state has coiiHidered the program for
the diacuHHiou of the hill at the opening
of the aenatu on October .TO. The
chairman haa Hiibmit.ted u draft of the
report, setting forth the iieceHBity for
the abolition of the concordat and the
remunption of the Btate'a complete po
lice powers over all civil and religious
organ iaations. The report approves
the bill, which has already passed the
chamber of deputies, as ensuring liber
ty of cotiHcience.
Shonts III From Overwork,
Washington, Oct. 2(1. Chairman
Shonts, of the Isthmian Canal com
mission, has been confined to his resi
dence in this city for several days, al
though yesterday he had been transact
ing the more important business con
cerning the cunul. Secretary Tuft
called on Mr. Shouts this morning, but
did not undertake to diHCMHS canal
affairs. Mr. Shouts has been working
hard and his indisposition is due to
the close attention to business.
Not Seeking Presidency.
Washington, Oct. 2. TheJPost to
morrow will say: Secretary Taft has
announced: "I have no intention of
resigning from the cabinet to inuke a
campaign for the presidency, and, fur
thermore, I have no intention whatever
of making a campaign for the otlke of
the nation's chief executive."
COMING CHAN0E8 IN CABIN& T
Meyer to 8uccend Bonaparte When
Latter Succeeds Moody.
Chicago, Oct, 25. A dispatch to the
Trillium from Washington, I). C, says
Hihiii after tlm return of President
Roosevelt to Washington from hid
Southern tour there will hit a renewal
of tlm minora regarding impending
change in the cahinel, ami within aix
month after tlm reopening of congress
it In moie than likely that tlm com
plcxion of tlm caliinet will ho com
pletely changed.
Thin docs not mean that every (inn of
the present ci.hiuct members will go
out, hut there will he two or three new
members and probably three radical
change in position heforit the close cl
the current II ma I year.
Secretary Shaw la to go out of tlm
cuhinet of hia own motion aa a promt
inary to hia formal entry into the pre
hlential race. Tlm vacancy will ho
filled, according to tlm present outlook
hy the InuiHfef of Postmaster (ienerul
Cortclyou.
Attorney (icnernl Moody haa heen
expecting to resign for Home time, ile
remaina at the head of tlm department
of Jim! ire largely, if not entirely, that
he may carry on the proHecution ot the
heef triiHt caxi-H. ' 1 1 in place probably
will he filled hy Charles J. Bonaparte
the present secretary of tlm navy. Thia
in turn, will create another vacancy
and the new head of the navy, accord
ing to the present elate, will be George
von I,. Meyer, the preaent amhaHaador
to St. reteraliurg.
MAY ISOLATE CAPITAL.
Strikers Threaten to Tie Up St. Pe
tersburg Unless Given Suffrage.
Ht. Petersburg. Oct. 2fi. The gov
eminent resumed railroad service on i
few roads today, but under great difli
tulty. The decision of the railroad
men nt a meeting here tonight to de
claie a general strike has immensely
complicated the problem. Traina I
for Moscow today over the Nieholai
road, but t he pusi-sny a were notiflei
that communication wts guarantee)
oily hh fHr ai Tver.
Several attempts were made today to
interrupt communicatioii by telegraph
and telephone out of Moscow, and the
olliceH had to be guarded hy CossHcka
Persona wishing to send messagea hu
to fight their way through crowds of
strikers, and in many cases were se
verely handled.
The strike haa taken a violent turn
in a number of cities, irom which re
ports come of encounters lietween mobs
and the poyce and troops.
Agrarian disorders have broken out
in the province of Samara. The troops
sent to Kharhoff include a detachment
of artillery, indicating that the situa
tion there ia (piite set ions.
The executive committee of the
league of leagues haa adopted reaolu
tiona aaying that the present moment
was favorable for a genera strike of all
the professions, and recommending doc
tora, lawyers, engineer J and all other
members of constituent organizations to
cease all professional activity.
TO ISOLATE GERMANY.
British Ambassador Opens Negotia
tions with Russia.
St. Petersburg. Oct. 25. Sir Charles
Hardinge, the British ambassador, in
tends to leave for Ixmdon tomorrow on
a mission in connection with the pro
posed Anglo-Itussian entente. (Jreat
Britain apparently is extremely desir
oils of taking advantage of the present
opportunity to effect a complete under
standing w ith Ktissia covering ones
tions relating to Tibet, the Indian fron
tier and Persia, and to thus prevent a
rapprochement of (iermany and Russia
Should the proposed entente bo reach
ed, (iermany will be isolated.
(ireat itritain is understood to be
willing to take the initiative, and Am
hassudor Hardinge today had an audi
ence witn ine emperor on the subject,
which was described at the British
embassy as "satisfactory."
Russian sentiment as to the advisa
bility of an Anglo-Russian understand
ing at this time is divided. It is
warmly supported in some quarters,
and bitterly opposed in others.
Seek Concessions in Russia.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 25. Anticipat
ing a big industrial revival in Russia
as tne result oi ine close ot the war,
there is an influx of foreigners seeking
commercial opportunities and conces
sions, including a liberal sprinkling of
Americans, who believe the time la es
pecially propitious for them. A repre
sentative of an American syndicate lias
submitted elaborate plans for the pro
jected raiiroad connecting trans-Caucasia,
Central Asia and Tashkend with
the trans-Siberian and Tomsk line. The
road would cost $ 16,000,000.
More Lands Are Reserved.
Washington, Oct. 25. A further ad
dition to the Cascade forest reserve was
mude today by the withdrawal from
entry of 8,320 acres in township 4,
range tl, a few miles southeast of Port
land. These lauds, like those with
drawn from entry yesterday, are chiefly
valuable for timber, and include all
the vaiuint public lands in sections 2,
4, (I, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 22, 23, 24, 25
and 2(i. These lands are still subject
to mineral entry.
Holds tha Emperor Guilty.
London, Oct. 25. The correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph at Shanghai says
a report is circulated at Pekin, accord
ing to which the dowager empress has
imprisoned the emperor for alleged
connection with the recent bomb out
rage at a railroad station there.
DIG BY CONTRACT
Government's Probable Action on
Panama Canal.
EXCEPTING GREAT CULEBRA CUT
Doubt Whether Any Concern Would
Undertake This Work on Ac
count of Magnitude.
Washington, Oct. 21. The govern
ment of the United States ia willing to
enter into contracts with corporations
or individuals for the construction of
any portion or all of the Panama canal.
Thia statement waa made by Secretary
Taft today, while discuvsing the condi
tions upon the isthmus and the policy
of the government .
There ia aome doubt in his mind
whether any concern would be willing
to undertake flm excavation of the Cu
lehra cut on account of the magnitude
of that work. It is not the excavation
that will he so dillicult hh much as the
disposition of the earth taken out of
the cut. Hut as to the other work the
government will bo ready V) enter into
contracts for its completion as soon as
it is determined what type of canul
shall be constructed. It ia stated that
contracts would not be made duiing
the preliminary stages because the gov
ernment had to prosecute the work un
til its ofheers knew what was to be
done and hail a auflicient knowledge of
the conditions to pass upon bids arid
make judicious contracts.
STRUGGLE IS ENDED.
Jerry Simpson Dies After Illness of
Several Years.
Wichita, Kan., Oct. 21. .Kx-Con-
gressmaii Jerry Simpson died at 0:05
o'clock yesterday morning at St. Fran
cis hospital, from aneurism of the
aorta. He hail been hovering bewteen
life and death for ten days. At the
bedside were Mrs Simpson and their
only child, Lester Simpson, of Rosweil.
N. M.
Mr. Simpson was conscious up to five
minutes before death. The end came
without a struggle.
The ex-congresman's last illness be
gan at the time of his final campaign
for congress. In spite of failing health
lie continued his business activity,
working as an agent (or the Defreest-
lira per Land company, of Chicago, and
operating an extensive ranch near Ros
weil. Six months ago his condition
became such that he went to Chicago
to consult a specialist, who pronounced
his malady hopeless. From that time
he continued to grow worse until final
ly compelled to abandon business. lie
was brought to the hospital here Sep
tember 21.
ONLY ONE LINE STILL OPEN.
Strike is Preliminary to General Sus
pension of All Labor.
St. Peterbsurg, Oct. 24. The rail
road strike situation shows no signn of
amelioration. Traffic across the cen
tral belt is paralyzed, while a genera'
strike, which broke out today at Khar
koff, has cut off communication in an
other great section of the empire.
khaikoft is the most important rail
road center in Southern Russia. The
strike affects, among others, the line to
the Douetz coal region, on which Rus
sia largely depends for fuel during the
risis in the oil regions, and the line to
Odessa and Sebastopol.
Moscow is isolated except the line to
St. Petersburg, while the capital has
an international line, by Fydtkuhnen,
open to lterlin. The strike is part of a
geneial scheme by Social Democrats to
ompel the emperor to grant universal
suffrage and compel political freedom,
but the plan of the leaders is to avoid
collision w ith the authorities. Their
present purpose is to make tests of the
strength of the various organizations
preparatory to the inauguration of a
general strike of all classes in support
of the radicals at about the time the
national assembly meets.
Will Send Machinery to Panama.
Seattle, Oct. 24. In competition
with the leading machinery houses of
the East, the Hallidie Machinery com
pany, formerly the llallidie-llenshaw-
'Julkley company, of this city, was
awarded 73 contracts for machinery
and supplies for. the Isthmian canal.
The class of machinery w hich will be
shipped from Seattle to Panama con
sists principally of engines, drilling
mills, rasps and miscellaneous sup
plise, showing that the Seattle house
is well equipped to handle such busi
ness in the face of such competition.
America Great Gat Producer.
Washington, Oct. 24. An important
report shortly will be issued by the
United States geological survey on nat
ural gas and its production and con
sumption. It will show that in lf04
the United States produced 1)8 per cent
of the world's knwon output of gas,
the value being $39,40(1,700. Four
states Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Indiana and Ohio produced 03.6 per
cent of the output in the United States
Pennsylvania leading with 47 per cent.
Witte Appointed Premier.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 24. It was per
sistently reported in the clubs and in
government circles late at night that
the emperor yesterday had appointed
Count Witte premier, with the port
folio of minister of finance. All tne
papers this morning give prominence
to the report.
GRANARIES ARE BARE.
Forelgh Agents Are Eagerly Picking
Up Cereals Where They Can.
Chicago, Oct. 21. The American
grain trade ia just beginning to realize
that Knrope is practically barren of all
coarse grain supplies and is willing to
pay whatever price in necessary to sup
ply the want. Unprecedented sales of
new corn, which thin year is of excep
tionally good quality and almost equal
to old corn for all purposes, is one of
the aigns on the commercial barometer.
Sales within two days of more than
2,000,1)00 bushels of barley malt, at
th n point alone, to say nothing of sales
at other centers, is another significant
pointer. Agents of foreign houses are
scouring the markets everywhere, pick
ing up all available durum wheat,
which is being greedily snapped up by
Europe, more especially Russia, which
is woefully short of wheat. This is
shown by the fact that Odessa, hereto
fore the foremost whrat center of Rus
sia, is practically an empty jiort this
year.
The public has wondered why the
wheat market lias been quiescent while
the export demand for every other grain
has been booming by leaps arid liounds.
The explanation is easy. Canadian ex
porters have been reaching into the
millions of wheat in Manitoba and
sending just enough to European mar
kets to keep the price down until they
can get possession of the entire North
west crop at their price.
Farmers of the Northwest, in unde
voleped country, have no storage facil
ities, and must send their wheat to
market. It is going into elevators at
Montreal and other points EaBt and on
the Pacific coast, and w hen it is all
cleaned up prices will undoubtedly
take a sensational jump, for Europe
has no wleat and must pay our price.
MOVING TROOPS HOMEWARD
Trains From Harbin Are Crowded
With Men and Equipment.
Harbin, Oct. 24. Now that the rati
fication of the peace treaty has been
announced to the assembl, permis
sion has leen given by headquarters to
telegraph the fact that the troops are
being rapidly demobilized. All north
bound trains from the position are
loaded with troops and their equip
ment. Half of all the native buildings in
the northern part of Kuanchengteu and
vicinity have been requisitioned for use
preparatory to this movement home
ward and many huts and buildings
there and elsewhere will be used by
those troops which the authorities will
be unable to move before winter.
Lieutenant General Linievitch, who
has been here since October 12, con
templates a visit to Vladivostok. A
prominent general has been appointed
to conduct the movement of Russian
prisoners from Nagasaki.
The Russo-Chinese bank is preparing
to reopen its former branches along the
line of the South Manchurian railroad
and is arranging to establish agencies
at Dalny, Port Arthur, linkow, Muk
den and Tie Pass.
The Amur railroad will be immedi
ately extended to Blagovestcbensk and
Kabarovrk Local authorities are be
ing re-industries established.
GOLD STANDARD IN MEXICO.
Imports Have
Marked
Risen and Activity Is
in Many Lines.
Mexico City, Oct. 24. The currency
and exchange commission which has
been in charge of matters connected
?,'ith the putting into operation of the
money reform, met yesterday under the
chairmanship of Finance Minister Li-
man ton. It was announced that the
mint had begun coining new f 5 gold
piece9. The monetary change to a gold
basis has been operative now for nearly
six months and has brought about the
stability in rates of exchange on foreign
markets, regardless of the variations in
the price of silver.
Imports have risen, owing to the
greater purchasing power of the people
There has been an increase of activity
in manufacturing, mining, land trans
actions, etc., and Mexican exchange on
a gold basis has been effected without
peitubation of any kind and resulting
in increase of general prosperity.
Reform of the Service.
Washington), Oct 24. Secretary Root
has completed a plan for the reorgan
ization of the diplomatic and consular
service. He has recently worked
out a scheme whereby he hopes to se
cure the hearty co-oporation of con
gress. Among other things he will
recommend increase of the salary for
ambassadors, ministers and consuls;
ownership by the United States of its
foreign legations: the merit system in
the filling of vacancies in all positions
under the grades of ambassador and
consul general.
Mexican Crop is Short.
Mexico City, Oct. 24. The shortness
of the wheat crop is greater than was
estimated, a few weeks ago, and millers
are looking for the entire removal of
the duty on American and Canadian
wheat by the first of next year. The
city bakers have reduced the size of
their loaves, asserting that it is impos
sible to give the same weight as for
merly. There are some stocks of wheat
in the hands of large farmers here, but
not sufficient to bring down the price.
Protests to the Porte.
Constantinople, Oct. 24. Mr. Irish
man, the American minister, has ad
dressed a note to the Porte, protesting
against the violation involved in the re
trial of Ghirkis VartanUn, of the
Porte's assurances that judicial proceed
ings would be suspended pending the
settlement of the questions of principle
arising from Vartanian'a claim to
American citizenship.
Conquest -ns Great
American Desert
Montana la coming In for a big
film re of the genernl prosperity of the
country, and It will only he a few
short yeiira when she will rank with
nny of tlm North western Stntea In
ngrlrultural greatness. Tlm recent net
of the Interior 1 epartment of the
United Ktntea In setting Aside 11, ),
toward reclaiming three or four
hundred thousand nerea In the Milk
River Valley la but a beginning of a
much vaster development of thia sec
tion as the t-f4 grow apnee. Al
ready the agricultural worth of this
to he famous valley hna been ade
quately demonstrated In the results
which have followed the Irrigation
works already established. It bus
been HuoccHHfully proven that all kinds
of agricultural products grow In great
abundance wherever Irrigation Is used.
The soil In naturally rich and needs
only moisture to mnke It yield proliflc
n!ly. The (ireat Northern Railway's
run In line practically cuts the valley
In two. The fact that the government
has decided to begin Immediate oper
ations will prove a great Incentive to
the people of that section who have
always believed In the future of their
country and will open to settlement a
vast area of rich land to the home
seeker and Investor.
Professor Ehvood Mead, the Irriga
tion expert of the United States De
partment of Agriculture, has borne en
thusiastic testimony to the great capa
bilities of the Sacramento Valley when
supplied with water, In canals and
ditches, for Irrigation. He says, In an
official report, that Its available water
supply should make It "the Egypt of
the Western hemisphere."
The Irrigable area of the valley Is
estimated to be more than S.bOO.OOO
acres, and calculations show that the
average annual discharge of the Sac
ramento River at Its mouth Is suffi
cient to Irrigate every acre of this
great area. Professor Mead, after re
marking that It Is a sinful waste to
allow so much water to flow unused
to the sea, save for purposes of navi
gation, thus illustrates the astonish
ing variety of the products of the
soil:
"Within a radius of five miles in
the Sacramento Valley I saw every
product of the temperate and semi
tropical zones which I could call to
mind. Apples and oranges grew aide
by side, as did oak and almond trees.
There were olives from the South and
cherries from the North. A date palm
seemed equally at home with an alfal
fa meadow; figs and Tokay grapes
were apparently as much In their ele
ment as the fields of wheat or barley
or the rows of Indian corn, some of
the stalks of which measured fifteen
feet In height. All of these could
have been grown on a single acre, and
doubtless have been."
Id another report the same authori
ty expresses a like view, as follows:
In September last I saw a part of
the Sacramento Valley in Its most un
lovely aspect. One of the trips taken
was from Chlco to Willows, two towns
about thirty miles apart, but the road
thirty-five miles shrdlu cmfwyp shrd
traveled made the distance about
thirty-live miles. We crossed what is
potentially one of the most fertile and
promising .agricultural districts on this
continent. For scores of miles the
land rises by a gentle and uniform
slope from the Sacramento River to
ward the foothills on either side. Wa
ter would flow over every acre of tha
country traversed without requiring
much labor in its direction or skill in
the location of lateral ditches. The
plains of Lombardy are not better suit
ed to irrigation, nor the soil of the
Nile Delta more fertile than were
these lands originally. For a half
century they have been devoted to the
unremitting production of cereal
crops. Each season the crop has been
harvested, the grain shipped away,
and the straw burned, and nothing
done to replace the plant food with
drawn. A more exhaustive form of
agriculture cannot be Imagined. Al
though this surprising drain has gone
on for fifty years, It cannot continue
forever.
The absence of rainfall during the
harvest period is one of the great ad
vantages of Callfornla where the
needed moisture can be supplied hy
irrigation. It Is likewise one of the
greatest obstacles to diversified agri
culture where dependence Is had on
rainfall alone. The natural opportu
nities of the district traversed are
equal to, If not greater than those of
the country surrounding Riverside,
Cal., which has been appropriately
designated as the "Garden Spot of
America," but a difference In agricul
tural ideas has produced a correspond
ing difference In conditions.
The bonanza wheat farm and the
bonanza orchard were in accord with
the spirit which from the first has
dominated the Industries of Califor
nia. It is a State of vast enterprises.
Men pride themselves on great under
takings and doing whatever they un
dertake on a large scale. W heut can
be grown in this way. The man with
capacity for organization can look
after the growing of 10,000 acres of
wheat, us easily as ten acres. It Is an
industry freed from detail. There is
a period of seed time and harvest, and
long intervals of complete freedom.
It has none of the petty Incidents
which go with the management of a
farm where there are chickens and
pigs, where cows are to be milked, and
butter and eggs marketed, where Moti
month hna Its duties, and where there
Is no time when something does not
need attention. This sort of fnrmlng
come with high priced land and a
dense population, but It doe not ap
peal to the Imagination like the plow
ing of field so large that turning a
single furrow require a dny'a Journey,
or the cultivation of the ground with
steam plow and harrow. The cut
ting, threshing and sacking of grain
at a single operation 1 spcctnculnr as
well a effective. In this respect it
resemble the range cattle business In
Its best days.
T Hi li
Acute Indigestion.
Acute indigestion may result from
many causes, but when It follows Im
mediately upon a holiday feast, it is1
usually attributable to overdlstentlon
of the stomach, aggravated, perhaps,
by the presence of such indigestible
things as pastry and plum pudding.
It occur a little oftener in children,
but in them It is rarely so serious in
its consequences as it Is in adults,
for nausea Is more readily Induced
and more promptly yielded to, and as
soon as the stomach has got rid of
its burden, the trouble is at an end.
An adult, on the other hand, strug
gle against the feeling of oppression,
and often intensifies It while seeking
to relieve It by taking stimulating po
tions. In many cases the first indication of
the disturbance Is loss of conscious
ness or a violent convulsion resem
bling an epileptic seizure. Sometimes,
indeed, it is difficult to distinguish the
attack from one of heart failure or an
apoplexy, for both these conditions
are favored by overindulgence. A dis
tinction la Important, however, for
neglect of appropriate treatment in
either condition may favor a fatal ter
mination. The old advice to quit a meal before
a feeling of satiety has been obtained
Is still good; one should cease at least
before a sense of discomfort has been
produced, and room should always be
allowed for the secretion of the gastric
juice, which in an adult often amounts
to nearly a quart. When the walls of
the stomach have been distended to
their utmost capacity by food, the
addition of so much fluid would seem
of itself enough to Induce the altacki
or If the distention prevents the se
cretion of the fluid, as It does nor
mal muscular movements, the process
of digestion is delayed, the food Is re
tained too long in the stomach, it un
dergoes abnormal decomposition, in
flammation is Induced, and this ex
tending to the small Intestine may lead
to more protracted illness.
In the treatment of acute indiges
tion, the production of nausea should
be favored. When vomiting occurs, it
should not be checked until the stom
ach has been relieved of its burden.
If it does not occur spontaneously, It
should generally be induced.
If unconsciousness or a convulsion,
has supervened, a physician must be
called without delay, for It may be
necessary to administer an emetic
subcutaneously.
Following this, a laxative Is gen
erally given, and the diet for a few
days Is limited to easily digestible,
unirrltatlng food. Mlik, of course, is
the safest form of nourishment, ex
cept for those with whom it does not
agree, and the addition to It of a little
lime-water or Vichy will often remove
all objection. Youth's Companion.
Troublesome Children.
Everything is relative, after all,
even age; yet one might suspect that
the "children" of one of Mr. Muzzey's
Men of the Revolution" might have ar
rived at years of some discretion and
proper regard for behavior.
When I saw the old soldier, says Mr.
Muzzey, he was the sole survivor of
those who witnessed the Rattle of
Bunker Hill. At the age of 05 years
he was attending a Whig celebration
held at Boston in 1850, and there I met
him. He was a good-looking old man
with a large, well-shaped head, blue
eyes and mild expression. His whole
countenance beamed with benevolence.
I asked him if he had any children.
"Oh, yes, I have two sons," he re
plied.
"Why did you not bring them with
you?"
The old man's smooth brow wrin
kled Into a semblance of a frown as he
said;
"I didn't want to be plagued with
those boys on an occasion of this sort."
"Why, how old are theyT" I asked.
wondering If he could mean his grand
children. "Oh, one Is 70 and the other la 72.
Rut I couldn't be bothered with
them."
One of Their Own net.
A party of New York brokers
caught a five-foot shark the other day-
while out yachting. As soon as It
gave them the sign of recognition they
turned It loose. Denver News.
It Is said that a man never regrets
back to work properly until after his
honeymoon, and he has had his seo
onil quarrel with his wife.