"je
st t
NEWS OF THE WEEK
lii a Condensed Form tor Our
Busy Readers,
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Roiumo or tlio Lou Important but
Not Lois Interesting Evonls
of tlio Pnit Week.
T(t has started (or Panama,
Southern congreessmoii nit united
or n rain bill.
A split In Mnrylnml Democracy may
enjl Gorman's rulit.
1'lrn linn destroyed onu of tlio Prlnco
ton college buildings.
King Oscar Imn declined tlio Norwe
gian tlinmo (or it member o( his family,
Tlin rr.itr tnnv irritnl n rnimtlttiLlnii In
Russia slmllsnr to tlml o( Great llrlt-
nln.
A prnlrln tiro near Mluot, N. I),, Imn
dselroyod thousands o( tonn o( Imy,
tiomo buildings, n large ninoiiut o( grain
nml some slock,
Tlio steamer convoying President
Roosevelt from New Orleans to tlio
warship at tlio mouth o( tlio rlvrr col
liiltd with a fruit steamer. No ono
was injured, nml nftor n short delay tlio
president proceeded.
Acting I'uhllo Printer Kfckuttn Imn
la-oil In conference with tlio senate mill
homo commlttenn on printing. Ac
cording to him thousands of dollarn
inlKht ho saved every your hy refusing
to print worthless reports .
A Louisville Southern passenger
train traveling fit) ml tti hii hour plung
mI through n lirldK" eight miles wont of
Islington, Ky. A largo nuiiihor of
passengers woro Injured, many ot whom
will die. Tlio death lint In expected to
reach tit least 1(1.
Tlio only train running in Russia
nro manned hy soldier.
Senator Oormnn defends negro dls
fraiiclileinrnt In Maryland
Togo continue to receive tunny lion
on from Japanese huin men,
A now counterfeit silver ilolhtr has
iimiln its ap-arancu In I'ortlmnl.
11 ro which InirniHl a Hot Spring,
Arkansas, hotel caused the death of six
gileata
Knltrr Wlllielm ha lull mucin a
wptocli waruliitf Ilia army to m ready
It Is rumored that (lomiti la buying
rim for Liberal and will Urt a rero
lutlon In Cuha.
All the lormatlltlcnof tho dissolution
of tlio union between Norway and Bwe
den have Iron concluded.
ForelKn bankert havo refused to
make another loan to Runla until
peace la restored in tlio empire.
It la believed tlio senate will ratify
tlio treaty wtlh Haqto Domingo for
financing tlio affair of that country.
Leading banker of Kuropo Imvo
formed n big organization to do unit
lies in various Central America coon
tries.
It li reported from 8ohstool that
tlio Russian battleship I'litelelmou,
formerly tlio Knlns Potomkin, on
which tlio mutiny recently occurred,
ban boon destroyed by revolutionists.
Cniml engineers say tlio work can bo
done In ten year.
Japan saya alio Imn no doairo to ac
quire tlio I'lilllpplno Inlandn.
Senator Foroker will leml tlio fight
(or tlio railroads against tlio rato hill.
Tlio American minister la acting aa
mediator between Franco mid Vcno
iiioIh,
Itolibors wrecked tlio snfo in tlio
ItldKuvillo, Indiana, bank, and eacapod
with (),000.
Tlio cxar has adopted Witto'a recoin
iiiuudatlnu of enlarged auffraKoand will
inako him promlor.
Hpanlah Itopublleans have started iui
KKltnlon lookliiK to tlio oatabllBhiuent
of a ropubllo in Spain.
Tlio flrat damiiKo unit against tlio Iro
pioln thoator owners haa ntartod in
tlio United Htatoa Circuit court in Chi
cao.
Booretnry Hitchcock favors abolish
ins tho olllco of land receivers mid let
ting tlio registers do all tho work. At
prenunt thoro aro 110 receivers, draw
lug n total fo 250,000 a year.
Huron von Sternberg, Gorman am
bassador to tho United States, says tho
Anglo-Japancso Hllianco moans tho en
tabllshment of a Monroe doctrino in
tho Far Kast by those countries.
Tho hoof trust haa mado a new attack
on tho Indictments against it.
A largo area in .Clackamas county,
Oregon, has boon added to tho Cascado
forest roservo.
American customs officers liavo cap
tured a largo amount of robol arms in
Bantu Domingo.
"Tho Niuarluo" Is tho tltlo of a now
Illbllcnl and historical play just pro
ducod in Chicago.
Tho Northern Paoiflo Is to reduce tho
running tiuio between 1'ortUnd and
Seattle ono-lmlf hour.
Tho monoy in circulation in tho
United States shows a largo por capita
increase for tho fiscal year of 1005.
anANniEB ahe haiie.
ForelK.li Agonls Aro EaKarly Picking
Up Ooreals Whero They Can.
Chicago, Oct. 24. Tlio American
grain trado Is Junt beginning to reallxo
that Kuropo Is practically Imrrmi of all
roarno grain nupilos and In willing to
pay whatovor prleo in nocensary to buji
dy tho want. Unprecedented nnlcH of
now corn, which this year is of excep
tionally good quality and almost equal
to old corn for all purposes, Is ono of
tho algun on tho commercial barometer.
Sales within two days of nioio than
2,000,000 bushels of harloy malt, at
th . point alone, to aay nothing of sales
at other centers, In another significant
pointer. Agents of foreign houses are
scouring the markets everywhere, pick
lug up nil available durum wheat,
which Is being greedily snapped up by
Kuropo, more especially Itunnln, which
Is woefully short of wheat. Thin is
shown by the fact that Odessa, hereto
fore the foremost whrat center of Itus
sla, Is practically an empty port this
year.
Tho public has wondered why the
wheat market has been quiescent while
the export demand (or every other grain
has been booming by leaps and hounds.
Tho explanation Is easy. Canadian ex
porters liavo been reaching into tho
millions of wheal In Manitoba mid
sending just enough to European mar
kots to keep the price down until they
can get possession of the entire North
wot crop at their price.
Farmers of the Northwest, in iimlr
volepod country, have no atorago facll'
Itles, and must send their wheat to
market. It In going Into elevators at
Montreal mid other jxdnls Kant and on
the I'aclflo coast, and when It Is all
cleaned up prices will undoubtedly
lake n sftiisatloiiAl Jump, lor Kuropo
has no wl eat and must pay our price.
MOVINQ TROOPS HOMEWARD
Trains From Harbin Aro Crowded
With Men and Equipment.
Harbin, Oct. 24. Now that tho rati
lliatlon of (ho peace tiraty has I Ken
announced to the asncmbl, jtortnls
slou haa Ix-en given hy headquarters to
telgrnph the fact that tho troops are
being rapidly demobilized. All north
ImiiiikI trains from the osltlon are
loaded with troops and their equip
ment. Half of all tho natlvo buildings In
the northern part of Kuanchengtsu and
vicinity have been requisitioned for use
preparatory to this movement homo
waul and many hula and building
there and elsewhere will bo ubmI by
those troops which the authorities will
bo unable to inovo before winter.
Lieutenant Onneral I.lnievltch, who
haa lern barn since OeloW '2, con
tempUtrn a visit to Vladivostok. A
prominent general baa Iwjii apttolnUd
t conduct tlia inuvrmriit ot KumUii
prlaonara from Nagasaki.
Tli HiiMO-GIilniNM bank t Jirrjmrlnc
to rsojmn it former 'branched along tba
Una of tho Mouth Manchnrfan railroad
and la arranging to establish agencle
at Dalny, Port Arthur, Yfnkow, Muk
den and Tie Pat.
Tho Amur railroad will bo Immedi
ately extended to Illagoveatchensk and
Kabarovsk J-ocal authorities are be
ing re-Industries established.
QOLD STANDARD IN MEXICO.
Imports HaVe Risen and Activity la
Marked In Many Lines.
Mexico City, Oct. 24. The currency
and exchange commission which has
lieen In charge of matters connected
with tho putting into operation 'of tho
money reform, met yesterday under tho
chairmanship of Finance Minister Li
ma n ton. It was announced that the
mint had begun coining new $5 gold
pieces. Tiio monetary change to a gold
basis has been opetativo now (or nearly
alx months and lias brought about the
stability In rates of exchange on foreign
markets, regardless of tho variations in
tlio price ot silver.
Imports liave risen, owing to tho
greater purchasing power of tho people.
There haa been an increase of activity
in manuracluring, mining, land trans
actions, etc., -und Mexican exchange on
a gold basis lias been effected without
peitubatlou of any kind and resulting
in Increase of general prosperity.
Reform of the Service.
Washington, Oct 24. Secretary Hoot
lias completed a plan (or tho reorgan
isation of tho diplomatic nnd consular
service. Ho has recently worked
out a schoino whereby he hopes to so
euro the hearty co-oporutlon of con
gress. Among other things ho will
recommend increase of tho salary (or
ambassadors, ministers and consuls;
ownership by tho United States of its
foreign legations; the merit system in
the Ailing of vacancies in all jiosltlons
under tho grades of ambassador and
consul general.
Mexican Crop Is Short.
Mexico City, Oct. 24. Tho shortness
of tho wheat crop is greater than was
estimated a few weeks ago, and millers
aro looking for the entire removal of
tho.duty on American and Canadian
wheat by the first of next year. Tho
city bakers havo reduced tho bIeo of
their loaves, assorting that it is Impos
sible to glvo tho eaino weight aB (or
inerly. Thcro nro Homo stocks ot wheat
ln'tho hands of largo farmers hero, but
not Bufllolent to bring down tho prlco.
Protests to tho Porte.
Constantinople, Oct. 24. Mr. Irish
man, tho American minister, has ad
drossod a note to tho Porto, protesting
against tlio violation involved In tho ro
trial of Gliirkls Vartanlan, of tho
Porto's assurances that judicial proceed
ings would bo Bimponded pending tho
settlement o( (lie questions ot principle
arising from Yortanian's claim to
American citixonahlji,.
DIG BYJONTRACT
Government's Probable Action on
Panama Canal.
EXCEPTING GREAT CULEBRA CUT
Doubt Whother Any Concern Would
Undertako Thla Work on Ac
count of Magnitude.
'Washington, Oct. 24. Tho govern
ment of tho United States ia willing to
enter Into contracts with corporations
or individuals for tho construction of
any portion or nil of tho Panama canal.
This statement was mado hy Secretary
Taft today, while discussing tho condi
tions upon tho Isthmus and the policy
of the government.
There is some doubt in his mind
whether any concern would bo willing
to undertake the excavation of tho Cu
lobra cut on account of tho magnitude
of that work. It Is not the excavation
that will bo so dllllcult as much as tho
disposition of tho earth taken out of
the cut. Hut aa to the other work the
government will bo ready to enter into
contracts for itn completion an soon as
It is determined what type of canal
shall bo constructed. It Is stated that
contracts would not bo mado during
the preliminary stages because tho gov
ernment had to prosecuto tho work un
til its olhcora know what was to be
done and had a sufficient knowledge of
the conditions to pass upon bids and
mako Judicious contracts.
STRUGGLE IS ENDED.
Jerry Simpson Die After Illness of
Several Years.
Wichita, Kan., Oct. 24. Ex-Con
grcsamau Jerry Simpson died at 0:00
o'clock yesterday morning at St. Fran
els hospital, from aneurism of the
aorta. He had been hovering bewtcen
life and death for ten days. At the
bedside t,otu Mrs. Simpson and their
only child, locator Simpson, of Itoswoll,
N. M.
Mr. Simpson was conscious up to five
minutes Iwfore death. The end came
without a struggle.
The ex-congressman's last tllncia be
gan at the time of his final campaign
for congress. In spite ot falling bealtti
he continued his business activity,
worktiic aa an aeent (or the Uefroeat-
Dransr I .and comnanv. of Chicago, andlUunday next.
operating an extensive ranch near llos -
well. Hlx months ago his oonuuion
to conault spUJiat, who proaouncd Lea uoumm to clow daring theprMcnco"""1"."' "t "!TVU n!l:
1.1. mal-dr hop.... From that tlm.lot tte dl.lljra..fcl r..lto, li m!.r "d"n 5!?-J.t.JFIZ
ho continued to grow worse until final
Ir compelled to abandon butinoM. 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 strlko situation shows no sigm of
amelioration. Traffic across the cen
tral belt is paralysed, while a genera
strike, which broke out today at Khar
koff, has cut off communication in an
other great section of tho empire.
Kharkoff is tho most Important rail
road center in Southern Russia. The
strlko affects, among others, tho lino to
the Donetx coal region, on which litis
sla largely depends for fuel during the
crisis In tho oil regions, and tho lino to
Odessa and Sobastopol.
Moscow is isolated except tlio lino to
St. Petersburg, while tlio capital has
an international line, by Fydtkuhnen,
open to llerlln. Tho strike is part of a
geneial scheme hy Social Democrats to
compel the emperor to grant universal
suffrage and compel political freedom,
but tho plan of tho leaders is to avoid
a collision with the authorities. Their
piesent purpose Is to make tests of tlio
strength ot the various organisations
preparatory to the inauguration ot a
general strike of ail classes in support
of the radicals at about tho time tho
national assembly meets.
Will Send Machinery to Panama.
Seattle, Oct. 24. In competition
with tho leading machinery houses ot
tlio Hast, tho Hallldie Machinery com
pany, formerly tho Hallidlo-Hcnshaw
Hulkiey company, of this city, was
awarded 73 contracts for machinery
and supplies for the Isthmian canal.
The class ot machinery which will be
shipped from Seattle to Panama con
sists principally ot engines, drilling
mills, rasps and miscellaneous sup
plleo, showing tiiat tho Seattle house
is well equipped tn handle such busi
ness in tho face ot such competition.
America Great Gas 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 1004
tho United States produced 08 per cent
of tho world's knwon output ot gas,
tho value being 130,40(1,700. Four
states Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Indiana nnd Ohio produced 03.5 por
cent ot tho output in tho United States
Pennsylvania leading with 47 per cent.
Wltto Appointed Premier.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 24. It was per
sistently reported in tho clubs and in
government circles late at night that
tho emperor yesterday had appointed
Count Witto premier, witli tho port
folio ot ininlstor ot finance. All tne
papers this morning givo prominence
to tho report.
TRtlNQ TO HEAL 8PLIT.
Negotiations On for Merger of Rival
Livestock Associations.
I'rnver, Oct. 2.1. Tho proposition to
amalgamate tho National Livestock asso
ciation and the American Stookgrowors
association on a basis that would also
dlsj)os of the much mooted question of
ieprcntstlon o( the packing, railroad
and commission houso Interests, was
taken up at the Joint conference of the
executive committees of the two organi
sation it the Urown Palace hotel yes
trilay. A plan outlined by a subcom
nil.tte was voted down after a sorno
what extended discussion and the sub
committee Instructed to mako another
effort to formulate a plan that would
he acceptable to all Interests. The
subcommittee will report again today
The rctiort, which was defeated yes
terday, recommended that the National
Livestock association be changed to Na
tional Livestock committee, consisting
of representatives of tho producers of
livestock. This committee would In
turn apoint committees on railroads,
packing houses, commission houses,
etc, which would give those Interests a
representation and a right to be heard
whenever they felt the need of expres
sion. The report recommended that
the American Btockgrowera become
known as tho American Oattlegrowers'
association, with a membership con
slstlug of cattle, horses and swine
growers. Tho sheep men, the report
suggested, should affiliate with the
American Woolgrowera' association.
FIGHT WITH FEVER ENDED.
New Orleans Now Prepares to Wel
come President.
New Orleans, Oct. 23. Yellow (ever
report to 0 p. m.:
New cases, 7; total, 3,350; deaths,
none; total, 435; new foci, 2; under
treatment, 02: discharged, 2,832.
Though Dr. Whl to would not confirm
the statement, it was generally re
ported today that practically the
w'jolo forco employed by tho Marine
Hospital service hero would bo honor
ably discharged within the next week
or ten days, in view of the practical
extinction of yellow fever In New Or
leans. There seems to be a general
desire to havo all of tho men remain
hero until the president's arrival, in
order that they may participate in a
formal presentation of the Federal fe
ver fighters to the president, an event
which it has been arranged will take
place at the city hall. Tho enut-gency
hospital was finally closed today.
A thanksgiving service marking the
clot of the fever fight, Is being arraog-
a to takn place at Trinity clturcti on
1 Mayor IJchrman today Issued a pro-
iciamatlon In connection with Uio visit
J11 ...iT-).f T.ifir. i. .-
the opportunity of manlfeatfDK IU am.
tliar fA hnU nnmninnltta' mlarhr IS AST a
prcciation oi Uie service rendered or
the president In the fever flght.
CHOLERA UNDER CONTROL.
Attacks Europeans and Americans
Rather Than Filipinos.
Washington. Oct. 23. The cholera
plague in the Philippines is belag got
ten under control by the Marino Hos
pital service. A peculiarity of the dis
easo is that it haa not shown any ten
dency toward location and the persons
attacked have been generally of tho
better classes. In proportion to the
population there have been more cases
among tho Kuropeana and Americana
than among natives.
Tho origin ot tho cholera has not
been discovered. The body ot a person
who died of tho disease was exhumed
at Pateroa shortly betoro tho outbreak.
The belief is growing, however, that
cholera may llvo indefinitely in tho
wells of Pateroa and at times become
virulent. Many medical men aro in
clined to believe that the disease ia in
digenlous to the islands,
A land quarantine haa not been in
stituted and a cordon around Manila
wouid require 100,000 men. This free
dom from restraint has enabled the
board of health to secure co-operation
from tho natives in efforts to stamp out
tho disease.
Food Supply Running Short.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 23. Tho strike
in Moscow has resulted in practically
a general suspension of railway t raffle,
and tho effects of this are making
themselves felt in a general advance in
prices ot foodstuffs. It is almost im
possible to get food and supplies
through to Moscow, owing to tho tie
up, and.there ia much suffering in the
city, especially among the poorer class.
Somo heavy consignments ot food have
been stopped in transit, and it in im
possible to inovo the cars into the
city.
Cruiser Lena to Leavo.
Vallejo, Gal., Oct. 23. It is expected
that the Russian cruiser Lena, which
haa boon interned at the Mare Island
navy yard for more than a year, will
depart from here about November 1 .
bbo will take on coal at San Francisco
after she has received her breechlocks
and other portions of her equipment
now stored iu tho oidnanoe department
at Mare Island. The olllclal orders ot
release from tho State department and
from St. Petersburg havo not arrived.
Death List Growing.
Chicago, Oct. 23. Later returns
from tho storm which swept tho Great
lakes for 30 hours, subatding yesterday
morning, increased the known death
Hat to 21 and tho number ot vessels
either lost or dajnaged to 42. Several
email craft aro missing, and it is (eared
ttiat tlio death Hat will grow.
Conquest -OEi Great
American Desert
Montana
Is coming In
for n big
slinro of the general prosperity of tho
country, and It will only bo n few
short years when alio will rank with
any of the Northwestern Htaten in
agricultural greatness. The recent act
of tho Interior Department of tho
United States In setting asldo $1,000,
000 toward reclaiming three or four
hundred thousand acrea in the Milk
Itlver Valley Is but a beginning of n
much vaster development of thla sec
tion an tho needs grow apace. Al
ready the agricultural worth of this
to be famous valley has been ade
quately demonstrated In tho resulta
which havo followed tho Irrigation
worka nlrcady established. It linn
been successfully proven that all kinds
of agricultural products grow in great
abundance wherever Irrigation Is used.
The sol In naturally rich nnd needs
only moisture to make It yield prolific
ally. The Orent Northern Hallway's
main line practically cuts the valley
In two. The fact that the government
haa decided to begin Immediate oper
ations will prove a great Incentive to
tho people of that section who have
always believed In the future of their
country rind will open to settlement a
vast area of rich land to the home
seeker and Investor.
Professor Klwood Mead, the Irriga
tion expert of tlio United States De
partment ot Agriculture, has home en
thusiastic testimony to the great capa
bilities of the Sacramento Valley when
supplied with water, in canals and
ditches, for Irrigation. IIo says, in an
olllclal report, that Its available water
supply should make It "the Kgypt of
tho Western hemisphere."
The irrlgnblo area of the valley is
estimated to be more titan 8,000,000
acres, and calculations show that the
nverago annual discharge of the Sac
ramento Itlver at its mouth Is sum-
dent to Irrigate every acre of tills
great area. Professor Mead, after re
marking that it Is a sinful waste to
allow so much water to flow unused
to the sea, aavo for purposes of navi
gation, thus illustrates the astonish
ing variety of the products of tho
soil:
"Within a radius of five miles In
tho Sacramento Valley I saw every
product of the temperato and semi-
tropical zones which I could call to
mind. Apples and oranges grew atde
by side, as did oak and almond trees.
There wero oUtcs from the Houth and
cherrim from tba North. A. date palm
I - -" ww
went as the Betiti ot wheat or barlej
I ,. , . ...an mrn
or too row or Indian corn, aorae or
the stalks of which measured fifteen
feet In height. All of tlieae could
have been grown on a single acre, and
doubtless have been."
In another rejiort 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
wns from Chlco to Willows, two towns
about thirty miles aprfrt, hut tho road
thirty-five miles shrdlu cmfwyp shrd
traveled mnde tho distance about
thlrty-flvo miles. We crossed what is
Iotentlally one of the most fertile and
promising agricultural districts on this
continent. For scores of miles the
land rises by a gentle nnd uniform
slope from the Sacramento Itlver to
ward life foothills on either side. Wa
ter would flow over every licre of tho
country traversed without requiring
much labor In Its direction or skill in
the location of lateral ditches. The
plains of Lombard) arc not better suit
ed to Irrigation, nor tho soil of the
Nllo Delta more fertile than wero
these lands originally. For n half
century they havo been devoted to tho
unremitting production of cereal
crops. Each season tho crop has been
harvested, the grain shipped away,
nnd the straw burned, nnd nothing
done to replace the plant food with
drawn. A more exhaustive form of
agriculture cannot bo imagined. Al
though this surprising drain has gone
on for fifty years, it cannot continue
forever.
Tho absence of rainfall during tho
harvest period Is ono of the great ad
vantages of California, where the
needed moisture can bo supplied hy
Irrigation. It is likewise ono of the
greatest obstacles to diversified agri
culture where dependence Is had on
rainfall alone. The natural opportu
nities of tho district traversed are
equal to, If not greater than those of
the country surrounding. Illverslde,
Col., 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.
Tho bonanza wheat farm and tho
bonanza orchard were In accord with
tho spirit which from tho first has
dominated tho 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 largo scalo. Whent can
bo grown in this way. Tho man with
capacity for organization can look
after tho growing of 10,000 acres of
whoat, as easily as ten acres. It is an
Industry freed from detail. There Is
a period of seed time and harvest, and
long intervals of completo freedom.
It has nono of tho petty incidents
which go with tho management of a
farm whero thero nro chickens and
pigs, whero cows are to bo milked, aud
butter and eggs marketed, where each
month has Its duties, nnd whero there
In no time when something docs not
need attention. This nqrt of farming
comes with hlgh-prlccd land and a
dense population, hut it docs not ap
peal to tho Imagination Itko tho plow
ing of field so largo that turning n
slnglo furrow requires n day's Journey,
or tho cultivation of the ground with
steam plows nnd harrows. Tho cut
ting, threshing nnd sacking of grain
at a single operation Is spectacular an
well as effective. In thin respect It
resembles the rnngo cattle business in
Its best days.
Acuta Inilluestlon.
Acute indigestion may result from
many causes, but when it follows Im
mediately uptfn n holiday fennt, It ia
usually attributable to overdlstentlon
of tho ntomach, aggravated, perhaps,
by the presence of such Indigestible
things an pastry and plum pudding.
It occurs a little oftener in children,
but In them It Is rarely so serious in
Its consequences as it in In adults,
for nausea In more readily induced
nnd mora promptly yielded to, and aa
soon as tho stomach has got rid of
Its burden, the trouble in at an end.
An adult, on the other hand, strug
gles against the feeling of oppression,
and often Intensifies it while seeking
to relievo It by taking stimulating po
tions. In many cases tho first Indication ot
the disturbance In loss of conscious
ness or a violent convulsion resem
bling an epileptic seizure. Sometime,
Indeed, it Is dllllcult to distinguish the
attack from one of heart falluro or an
apoplexy, for both theso conditions
nre favored by overindulgence. A dis
tinction Is Important, however, for
neglect of appropriate treatment in
either condition may favor a fatal ter
mination. The old ndvlco to quit a meal before
a feeling of satiety has been obtained
Is still good; one should cense at least
before a sense of discomfort has been
produced, and room should always b
allovred for the accretion ot the gastrla
Juice, -which in an adult often amounts
to nearly a quart. When thu -walla ot
thw Ktoinacln lu Town .aiata-utwl to
their utmost cu pacify by food, ths
Mfitoa of mo taactt IbM mM teem
ot ttaetf raoivd so it-dace , taw, a tan car r
or if toe distention prorema tbo se
cretion of the fluid, aa It docm nor
mal muscular movements, the process
of digestion Is delayed, the food is re
tained too Ion? In the stomach, it un
dergoes abnormal decomposition, in
flammation is Induced, and this ex
tending to the small lntestlno 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 bo checked until tho atom
uch 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 bo
called without delay, for it may bo
necessary to administer an emetic
subcutaneously.
Following this, a laxatlvo Is gen
erally given, nnd. tho diet for a few
days Is limited to easily digestible,
uulrrltatlng food. Milk, of course, is
tho safest form of nourishment, ex
cept for those with wbohi It does not
agree, and the addition to it of n little
lime-water or Vichy will often remove
nil objection. Youth's Companion.
Troublesome Children.
Everything Is relative, after all,
even age'; yet one might suspect that
tho "children" of one of Mr. Muzzey's
Men of the Revolution" might have ar
rived at years of somo discretion and
proper regard for behavior.
When I saw the old soldier, anya Mr.
Muzzey, ho was the sole survivor ot
those who witnessed tho Hattlo of
Hunker Hill. At the ago of OS yeara
bo was attending a Whig celebration
held at Roston In 1830, and there I met
him. He was a good-looking old man
with a large, well-shaped head, blue
eyes and mild expression. Ills whole,
countenance beamed with benevolence.
I asked him If he had any children.
"Oh, yes, I havo two sons," ho re
plied. "Why did you not bring them with
you 7"
Tho old man's smooth brow wrin
kled Into a semblauco of a frown as ho
said:
"I didn't want to be plagued with
those boys on an occasion of this sort."
"Why, how old are they?" I asked,
wondering It ho could mean his grand
children. "Oh, one Is 70 and tlio other Is 72.
nut I couldn't be bothered with
them."
One or Their Own Hot.
A party of New York brokers)
caught a five-foot shark tho other day
while out yachting, As soon as It
gavo them tho sign ot recognition they
turned It looso. Denver News.
It Is aald that a man never regrets
back to work properly until after his
honeymoon, and ho has bad hid sec
ond quarrel with his wife.