tary life will not permit that without revenge. But it should be daily-hourly, if necessary. Everybody ought to be in a sanitarium, all the time and that sanitarium ought to be just where he is. There are facilities enough within and immediately around him, to keep him well, if he will only learn them, adopt them, and use them. FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY. ON N an average man's body there are 340,000 hairs. Plucking one every second it would take him twelve eighthour working days to pull them all out. In his blood there are 25,000,000,000,000 red corpuscles. Laid out side by side they would cover a surface of 3,130 square yards. The whole of the blood passes through a man's heart nearly twice in every minute. It weighs one-thirteenth of the entire body weight, and it moves in different parts of the body at speeds varying from ten feet to 1,666 yards (nearly one mile) an hour. The fat of the body is fluid. It becomes solid only when the body cools. after death. It is one of the body's most useful constituents, forming a nonconducting sheath to protect from cold, acting as pads to preserve from shock, on the tips of the fingers, the toes and the heels and lying always ready as a reserve food supply when one can get nothing to eat. A little artery passes from the brain through the skull into the scalp, which acts as a safety valve when the brain is congested with blood. The skin cannot grow again once it is destroyed; hence the unsightly scars left by burns and severe wounds. Only the surface layer can renew itself. When the whole thickness is destroyed, it never reforms. This is the more curious as muscles, nerves, blood vessels and bones, all less liable to injury than the skin, can grow again. THE DEADLY FOIL. IT has become very common to invest chewing-tobacco in lead-foil. A distinguished chemist examined a portion of a quantity of snuff which had been used by a patient who was laboring under a severe attack of lead-poisoning, and found that it contained two and a half per cent. of metallic lead. The tobacco near the corners of the package, being more perfectly enclosed by the foil, contained the most metal. This had been decomposed by dampness, and remained in the tobacco or snuff in the form of carbonate of lead, which is the white lead paint of commerce that inflicts such horrible sufferings on many of those whose business compels them to work in it. The users of the "weed" would do well to make a note of this, and to avoid using any that is enveloped in lead-foil. ARE WE LAND-WHALES? THE marvelous efficacy of salt water injections in the case of intestinal disease, or loss of blood from wounds, has induced much speculation on the part of physicians. It recalls the fact that man was, originally a sea mammal, not very different from whales and seals. Vestiges of the gills are still to be found in many infants, in the shape of small fissures in the neck. Four-fifths of the body is, in fact, sea water, in which millions of separate cells combine to form the human frame. EVERY WHERE EDITED BY WILL CARLETON. OCTOBER, 1907. DETAILS OF PUBLICATION. This Magazine was entered at the Post Office in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 13, 1904, as second-class mail matter under the act of March 3, 1870. The Brooklyn Office is at 1079 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn Borough, New York: the Manhattan Office, at 150 Nassau Street. For terms of subscription, methods of remitting, receipts, renewals, changing of addresses, dealings with manuscript, etc., etc.. see page 90. VELOCITY AND SAFETY. PROGRESS and speed have always bivouacked very near each other, and are for the most part very chummy in the popular heart. As soon as anything or anybody began getting on, the question arose, How fast? It is no wonder, when we contemplate the shortness of life, that people naturally want to make every minute count-although if in doing so they endanger their whole future earthly existence. A day saved may be considered as a day added to one's life: and really thrifty and discerning people are even more careful of their minutes, than of their dollars. So it is no wonder that the biggest steamship companies of the world are at strife on the question of which can get from land to land across the Atlantic Ocean, some few minutes or hours sooner than the others. The fact of any one of them "breaking the record" or even "nicking" it by a few minutes, would be telegraphed all over our globe, and probably put into the advertising circulars. This fact it was, that made the "Lusitania", a new steamer of the Cunard Line, use every effort to run from Liverpool to New York while the sun travelled four times round the admiring earth. "Out from the haze of the early morning, shoots a huge bulk of steel, gleaming with brass and polished wood", rhapsodizes a reporter: "the big ship arrives. "From four great funnels pour dense clouds of smoke, while steam hisses from a hundred exhausts. Before her she lifts a great double curl of foam, while behind her there is a bubbling, seething cauldron of water." All this because the great ship has made her way from Queenstown to a point opposite Sandy Hook, in five days and fiftyfour minutes-six hours and twentynine minutes quicker than this ever has been done before. The 3,000 passengers aboard have saved, in the aggregate, 19,450 hours, or two and a fifth years, over the shortest record thus far made. It is not to be supposed that the time thus gained, was all of it beneficial to the world: some people are of more advan tage to themselves and their fellowbeings when at sea, than when on land: for they have not so much opportunity to do mischief. But to many people a few hours and certainly a few days often mean thousands of dollars, and maybe the saving of life. It can, however, be questioned whether such speed is anywhere near as safe as an ocean excursion of 3,000 people ought to be. A steamer running at from twenty to thirty miles per hour, would find itself in an awkward position the minute after she struck a large cheerful iceberg recently from somewhere near the North Pole. A company of people large enough to populate many a country town, would be at a terrible disadvantage wrecked in a high-running sea, and thrown in a bunch at the not very tender mercy of the waves. The present mania for competitive speed will no doubt be responsible for a few accidents-some of them, perhaps, appalling. But these will make very little difference: the racing will go on, and velocity will rank safety in the estimation of most people. It is to be hoped they will enjoy it in the long run. JUST AS WE SAIL. UST before departing from Liverpool to his home in this country, the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst confided to a reporter the results of his study of conditions in America. The noted pastor had been sojourning among the mountain of Switzerland, all summer, and other countries, as is well known, are splendid places in which to study this country. There were several things going on here while he was away, as viewed from Mount Blanc and the Matterhorn, that did not just meet with Mr. Parkhurst's approval: and one in particular was the fact that our nation was going to dare to send a fleet into the Pacific Ocean. "It is all right to be a fighter when fighting is necessary", the pugnacious theologian remarked, "but to go around with a chip on your shoulder is a policy that is sure to lead to trouble, for it is a natural human desire to knock the chip off." Dr. Parkhurst ought to know the effects of going around with a chip on one's shoulder, for he has been doing so a good deal of the time for several years: but why it should be provocative of strife for a country to send its war-ships along its own coasts and among its own islands, may be considered a question. Nobody in this country would make any objection if Japan would race all her fightingboats up and down her coasts—including some large new ones she is getting ready: there would not be any objection made in this country. "It is all right to be a fighter when necessary", is a good line: but the ships are not "going west" for the purpose of fighting-unless something should turn up to make it indispensable. They may serve as an object-lesson-and in view of some of the attitudes Japan and a portion of her people have taken, the object-lesson seems pertinent. Japan has already learned a great many things from this country, and there is no reason why she should not learn more. Let's sail our ships about where we wish-independently of cowardly homeopposition. COLERIDGE WAS BORN IN OCTOBER. WE give our place of honor on first page of cover this month to Samuel Taylor Coleridge-"one of the most remarkable of English poets and thinkers", as he has been called by competent critics. All readers of poetic literature will remember him lovingly as author of "The Ancient Mariner", "Christabel", and many other exquisite poems. His prose writings were numerous, and many of them great additions to theological and philosophical literature. He was considered the most brilliant conversationalist of his time. His unfortunate habit of indulging in the use of opiates, wrecked his body, and caused him intense suffering during the latter part of his life. In this respect, he was an object-lesson to teach authors what not to do. IT FAREWELL, MOSQUITOES? EDITORIAL. T would seem that Switzerland, with all her natural advantages of geographical elevation and depression, which enable her to lure money from all parts of the civilized world, has in one respect the same disadvantage as New Jersey: the disagreeable and some say unhealthy mosquito is disposed to make of the locality, one of his favorite homes. Italy is also sorely afflicted in that regard, although travelers there will join us in asserting that the mosquito is not the worst insect known there, by any means. Both those countries have made up their minds that they would do much better without the humming pest, and their scientists seem to have been busily at work trying to extirpate the objectional insect. They have at last discovered a sort of fish, that they say is a glutton in the matter of eating mosquitoes' eggs: and are encouraging this denizen of the waves to breakfast, dine, and sup, among the larva-beds. Of course America, always fast to learn as well as willing to teach, is interested in this question-as well as New Jersey: and of course the newly-discovered member of the finny tribe will be introduced here almost before the famous cognomen "Jack Robinson" could be vociferated by a telephone-central. Two questions rise, as ballast to this promising scheme. 81 claimed by people nowadays-or are they "a necessary nuisance?" May it be that they have some mission of which we do not know-involving the hygiene of the world? The insect is to be found in every part of the globe where life exists: and was it not made for a beneficient purpose? As the proposed fish eats mosquito-larvae, how do we know but the condemned mosquito eats something a good deal worse than himself? (This of course does not refer to our noble human race: but to some other possible insect). Second, who knows but the fish may prove worse than the insect? It is said that that interesting little bird, the English sparrow, was first introduced into this country, because it was such an agile devourer of worms: but the lively and irrepressible little scamp proved himself able to eat a whole lot of other things, not mentioned in the prospectus, and also to drive away "the pretty birds that sing (or sung) about our door", with his undoubted military prowess. The Switzer-Italian fish is not, so far as we are informed, confined in his habits entirely to a mosquito diet: and he may eat a lot of other things, that we would not like to spare. He may even break the game-warden laws, by catching other fish out of season as well as in. Foreign immigration, even in the matter of inferior animals, should be sub First, are mosquitoes unhealthful, as is jected to strict surveillance. We are never really alone: but are al- pressive enough. lowed sometimes to think we are. Pride not only goes before a fall, but sometimes lingers after the horizontal position is reached. You never know when one tone will let others into the very depths of your most secret nature. A penitent is generally hunting after undeserved forgiveness, rather than for deserved punishment. An "all round man" may be good on circumferences, but he seldom goes to the center of anything. It is very hard to do anything admir able, and be content with only God and yourself as spectators. If you know how to use your deficiencies to good advantage, you can ride a long way upon them. There are women who prepare statesprison stripes for their children, before those children are born. Small matters will overwhelm you and keep you from greater things, if you |