The Green Herald from Green, Kansas • 3

SEEDING IN PROGRESS WEST TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDREN Appalling Mortality Among the Little Ones Due trvi ST rw i a i boil some water for fifteen minutes, and then let it stand undisturbed until it cools. Then, keeping It perfectly still, heat It again, and you will find that the temperature will go a few degrees higher than 212, without causing the water to boil. If you now drop some pieces of metal Into the water it will at once begin to boil. The explanation of this is that ERN CANADA. Mild Weather Is Bringing Thousands of Settlers.

The splendid yields of wheat, oats and barley produced by the farmers of Western Canada and the excellent prices received for the same, have been the means of giving an increased Interest throughout the United States. As a result the inquiries made of the Aeents of the Canadian Government have nearly doubled over those of the same period last year. Railroad com-t-anies are Duttine on increased car rying capacity to meet the demand made upon them for carrying passengers and freight. Everything points to a most prosperous year. There is room for hundreds of thousands additional settlers, much new land having been opened up for settlement this year.

It is auite interesting to look through the letters received from the Americans who have settled in West ern Canada during the pasyew years, and considerine the lartre number it (s surprising how few there are who have not succeeded. An extract from a letter written bv Mr. Geo. M. Gris- wold of Red Deer, formerly of Grever, Montana, written on the 2nd of January is as follows: I am located IV2 miles from a beautiful lake 10 miles long, where there is church, school, 3 stores, creamery and two postoffices.

The fine stock, both cattle (cows and steers) horses, hogs and sheep are rolling: fat. g'-azinc in pasture to-dav. just a little snow, hardly enough for good sleighing, as we just had a Chinook which has melted the roads and laid bare the fields and pasture. There are fine wheat, oats, barley and flax raised here, also winter wheat- and timothy hay for export to British Co lumbia. This is a mixed farming and dairy country.

This is the right time to get a foothold in the Canadian West, as it was some years ago in the United States, we are free from wind sumbo and alkali here and hava fine, clear soft well and spring water at a depth of from 5 to 25 feet, and lots of ouen everflowine snrinfrs Telegraphic advices from Medicine Hat say that seeding has commenced at Medicine Hat, Lethbridge and other points. At the tormer place the temperature moderated gradually until on the 19th the maximum was 45 and the minimum 26. Thermometer readings since then have been as follows? 20th, 47 and 38; 21st, 54 and 34; 22nd, 6G and 39; 23rd, 48 and 40; 24th, 48 and zu. During the last few days in February considerable ploughing was done near Lethbridge. P.

A. Pulley, a recent arrival from Montana, ploughed and harrowed fifteen acres, and E. I.alibortv about the sama amount. Rev. Coulter White has also been harrowing his farm.

All report the eround frost free and in pvpniicnt condition. Bricklaying has also begun A A 1 TT i in lown. al riarmey iunner east on the 25th February the sun wn: and bright, wheeled carriages were in use ana tne piowea neias look as il they are ready for the press drills There is every appearance that spring mis aiiivuu, uui imiiiers cjo not wist to oe aeceivea cy appearances ani consequently have not commenced tc use tneir oiuesione anu seed wheat. How He Could Tell. Stonewall Jackson's negro body ser vant knew before anybody else when a battle was imminent.

"The gener al tells you. I suppose," said one of the soldiers. "Lawd, no sir! De gin r'al nuvver tell me nuthin'! I obser vates the 'tentlon of tie gin'ral when he Drays, jest like we all, mornin an night: but when he gets up two, threo times In a night to pray, den I rubs my eyes an' gits up, too, an' packs de haversack ca'se I I done Ine out dere's gwine to be old boy to pay right away." He Was Wondering. A Scotch doctor, who was attending a laird, had instructed the butler of the house in the art of taking and recording his master's temperature with a thermometer. On repairing to the house one morning, he was met by the butler, to whom he said: "Well, John, I hope the laird's temperature Is not any higher today." The man looked puzzled for a mo ment, and then replied: "Well, I was just wonderin that mysel'.

Ye see. he died at twal o'clock." Exchange. Why He Is Puzzled. A young man in Piatt county is In a quandary. He lives on a farm, but has been courting a girl In town.

Finally he asked her to marry him. She seemed willing, but said she could never live on a farm. He then proposed moving to town and engaging in some other business, but he said if he was fool enough to do that she wouldn't have him. He Is Mill figuring. Smithville, Herald.

Friend (on ice) What are you studying over? Mr. rglimugg I can teach any girl to pkate in a day, but with that fool, Mr. Handsome, they don't learn to stand alone In a month. New York Weekly. Did Not Catch Happiness, "I thought we were guaranteed a right to thepursuit of happiness?" "Well?" "Well, I pursued happiness Into a saloon last nisht" "Did you catch it? "I did when I got home." Houston Press.

A Remarkable Tomb. of SL UYuIa and the sisters of her order. The tomb dates tack to the sixth century after Christ. The bones are of various chapes and sizes. Is we a to is is Attention to neaim 01 ftfamr I I dress negligently trailed over a smooth lawn jeweled with daisies, the sight of a woman dragging her gowa in the street, sweeping up the filtla and collecting millions of microbes, is a revolting spectacle; and yet witn.

a long skirt the only alternative I to hold it up, a practice which induces cramp in the arm, as well as cold fingers in winter, and gives a decidedly ungraceful walk and attitude. A Cure for Cold Feet. An excellent and simple remedy for cold feet is the application of cold water. Step into the bathtub, let the cold water run in a little faster than it runs out. Standing in the water, rub one foot with the other, rapidly, ten or twelve times.

Then change and! treat the other foot in the same manner. Keep up this alternate rubbing for about three minutes. The feet will have become very red, and as step out of the water, you will fin them burning and glowing with the; warm blood brought into them by this means. Some Chinese Baths. A traveler in Mongslia "There are some hot springs on the road about twenty miles north oC Chingpeng.

The place is named' Tangshan. The arrangements fori those anxious to benefit by their healing properties are very primitive. A row of twenty to thirty wooden boxes' the size of an ordinary packing casei is ranged beside the road. In these' sit bathers of every age and both? sexes, with their heads protruding. Attendants with buckets continually refill the boxo3 from the springs.

Fori less luxurious bathers there is accommodation in a pool which has been, dug out close by. In this they scooping up the water and pouring it; over their heads with brass basin3. It is curious to reflect that establishments like Homburg and Aix-les-Bains have had their origin in such beginnings." Training the Skin. The usual effect of a draft of cold air upon the back of the neck is a cold, and a sore throat. Many years agoi Dr.

Brown Sequard, an eminent! French physician, devised a means by, which sore throat from this causa, might be prevented. By blowing upon.1 the back of the neck with a pair of bel-i lows, increasing the time each day, he. trained his patients until they couldi endure this treatment for half an hour( without Injury. It is not necessary to be exposed to a draft of air on the back of the neck, in order to obtain this result. By, means of the cold bath, the wet-sheet! rub, the shower bath, towel friction, the skin may be educated to contract on the slightest increase of coldJ Daily exposure to the contact of cold air of the utmost Importance.

It Isl because of the constant exposure tol cold that the Indian's body is "all the skin of his whole body has learned to take care of itself. Dr. Lorenz Strict Teetotaler. At a banquet given to Dr. wine was served.

Ho pushed the wineglass aside. Someone enquired it he was a total abstainer. He swered i "I am a surgeon. My success u-i nnnrta unon having a clear brain, steady nerve, and firm muscles. No! nn nan take anv form of alcohol with out blunting these physical must not 118a' tnereiore, as bui any form of spirits." Journal of In ebriety.

In Harmony with Nature. Modern science as well as experience has shown that contact with natural surroundings, especially fresh air, sunshine and the czoning emanations, from growing plants, has marvelous! health-imparting virtues. In thes natural agencies is active the power which created and maintains all things and which is constantly communicated; to all living things as the essential condition ot continued life. The more closely man comes to Nature, the more deeply he may drink from the fountain of life and healing. To live In harmony with Nature in the fullest and truest sense Is to live in harmony with God; and to livo in divine harmony is to be happy.

How to Resist Old Age. A chain i.t as weak as its weakest link. The body is as weak as its weakest organ. To combat the onward march of old age all organs must-be marshaled to harmonious resistance. This resistance can be developed best by cultivating "reaction." This means that the body forces act.

against rorae external stimulation and overcome it- The hoFt developer cf reaction cither cold air or cold This must he done gradually, eFpe clally if one 13 already weak. Cultivate the power of resistance by daily, exposure to cold air. Live out of, doors as much as possible. The abil-1 ity to resist cold will also enable one to resist pneumonia, dyspepsia, apoplexy, diabetes, obesity, old age. The cold morning bath Is a wonderful youth preterver.

Try It Eejria. carefully. At first rub face, arms and chest with the hands dipped in cold' water. Then the rest of the truck anl the legs. Dry quickly and exercise for ten or fifteen minutes.

In a mcnta. yon will hardly know yourself. Try to This Cause Proper urnt) The number of deaths due to tuber culosis is tremendous. When the word spoken one instinctively thinks of pulmonary consumption. This is the form which attacks adults and which see daily gathering in its victims.

There are other forms, however, more common in children, that levy tribute upon them without calling attention to the relationship between these diseases and consumption of the lungs. Dr. Jacob! is authority for the state ment that "Tuberculosis kills as many people, old and young, as diphtheria, croup, whooping cough, scarlatina, measles and typhoid fever taken to gether." In all of our cities active steps have been taken to protect the ieople from the above named diseases. Until ouite recently, however, few years at most, nothing was done reduce the mortality from tuberculosis. Now, however, the attention of the world, the common people and the health authorities, has been called to its curability and preventabihty.

The causes, the modes of scatter ing, and the prevention are all being studied, and an educational campaign on to wipe out this "white terror. The children suffer from tubercu losis of the bones, the bowels and lymph glands. Tubercular meningitis frequently found in early life and is uniformly fatal. Only by careful at tention to the food and daily habits can the rising generation be made "im mune from these varied terms ot tu berculosis. The fact that over one half of all babies born die before they reach the age of five years, proves that the 'con stitutional capital" bequeathed them is small.

Is the proper attention paid to the diet, exercise and out-of-door life of the mother? If this were done, the child would undoubtedly have greater vitality and could by proper care and education live above the tuberculosis of childhood and of adult life. Cause and Cure of Gastric Catarrh. Chronic congestion of the stomach, known as gastric catarrh, is usually caused by one of the following errors, or by all of them put together: Eating too much or too fast; swallowing food insufficiently masticated; the use of such coarse foods as cabbage, greens, mustard, peppersauce, ginger and other condiments and spices; pastry containing animal fats; free fats, which lodge in the stomach and remain there a long time; pork, griddle cake3 and burned fats these are the things that produce gastric catarrh. The first and most necessary step in the treatment of this disease Is to remove the cause of the trouble. We may induce activity of the skin by hot applications followed by cold or hot bath followed by a short application of cold; fomentations followed by a short cold application to the stomach.

These treatments are useful, but the most important factor is the regulation of the diet. A fruit diet is best, for the reason that In gastric catarrh there is a great accumulation of germs, which are destroyed by fiuit Juice. A well-prepared diet of toasted bread, zwieback, granose biscuit, is also useful in these cases. Bedroom Climate. the age of sixty years has spent about twenty year3 of his life in his bedroom.

Have you inves tigated the average sleeping room cu-if von wpre sent as a mission ary to f-ome distant pestilential spot the climate of which was as unneauu- that rf the average bedroom, would you not feel that you were risk ing a great deal for tne sae 01 me heathen? On the tombstone of tens of thousands of those who have died from tuberculosis might appropriately be ii.scribed. "Disease and death were invited and encouraged by a aeatn-dealing bedroom climate." To show that this is no exaggeration it is only necessary to call attention to the fact that fully half of ti.Viorrular tiatients placed In out door consumptive hospitals make a satisfactory recovery. II iresn air will cure the disease, it is certainly a wonderful preventive of it. It Is not more reasonable to deliberately breathe impure air than it is to drink Impure water or to eat unhealthful food or wear infected clothing. Tender-Hearted Savages.

One of the most anomalous features of our Christian civilization is the slaughter houce, especially the abattoirs of our great cities, where veritable torren's of blood perpetually flow, the ebbing life of millions cf innocents which die that man may feast. Indians ars not noted for being over-sensitive: and particularly despise any exhibit icn of weakness. The Interior of a slaughter-house, however. Is said to have proved too much for their powers of eelf-control. The Chicago Record states that "a party of Efteen Blackfoot Indians recently visited the killing room of Armour plant.

One fainted, three more were III, the rest covered up their eyes They were hurried out of the place Into the fre3h air." A Good Reform. The abominable practice of wearing long skirts for the street is dying put Pretty as it Is to See a summer Languages. I have a little neighbor whom I very often meet. He wears a coat of Reddish fur at home and on the street. We often stop to have a chat on sunny winter days.

His manner's very pleasant but I can tell what he says. I think he talks about the woods, and how the beechnuts taste, And how he loves the bread-crusts that I'm rather apt to waste, And how he wishes Bprlng would come-there! I must confess I cannot understand a word, and so I have to guess. My sister studies German and my brother studies Greek, But those are not the languages that should care to speak, For none of all their lexicons can make It clear to me Just what the little squirrel means by "Chk!" and "Chlr-r-r!" and "Chee! Hannah G. In Youth's Companion. Eye Errors and Ghosts.

A few experiments with the eyes will bo found very interesting, and, to the uninitiated, very queer. If you The Ghost. will hold up your forefinger about a foot from your face, and look at a tree beyond it or at any tail object, you will see your finger double. Then look directly at your finger and you will see the tree double. The explanation is that each eye sees separately, and when both are looking at the finger the right eye sees the tree on the right side of the finger and the left eye Eces it on the left.

When, however, you look at the tree directly with both eyes, each eye sees the finger apparently in a different place. If you will cover one eye and look with the other you cannot see either the tree or the finger double, which is the proof of the experiment. Place two bits of white paper about a foot apart on a table. Cover the right eye and look steadily at the right-hand piece of paper with the left eye. By stepping backward you will reach a spot where the left-hand piece of paper will disappear.

You can make the right-hand piece of paper disappear by looking at the left- hand piece of paper with the right eye. When you have made one disappear in this way, move your head ever so slightly backward or forward, and the paper will instantly reappear. The reason of this is that every person's eye has a blind spot on the retina, and when an image of the piece of pa per fails on the spot it cannot be seen. Physicians use this principle in the correction of vision. Place on a gray background a piece of colored paper In any design, and look steadily at it for a minute or so Snatch the colored piece away, and a design exactly like it will be seen In the same spot, but in a different col or.

If the design was green the replica will be red; if yellow, the replica will bo violet. Instead of snatching the paper away after looking at it steadily, look up at the ceiling, and the image will be seen there. These "ghosts," as they are sometimes called, are caused by the action of light on the retina of the eye. liook at the accompanying illustration steadily for a little while, and then look up at the ceiling; you will The First Experiment. Bee the Image in black.

Instead of white, on a white background. The "ghost" will always appear in the opposite complimentary color of the original. What Can a Boy Do? This is what a boy can do. because beys have done it: He ran write a prat pnpm. AW-enckr Pope wrote his famous "Ode to Solitude" when he was inly teirs He can write a great book.

Ma-caulay wrote his first volume, the "Primitiae," which took the "literary world by storm, before he was In his teens. He can write a successful play, John O'Keefe, the famous Irish actor and playwright, wrote a play that is considered good to-day, when he was only 15. Ho can become famous. Charles Dickens did his "Sketches by Boz" so well that, before he was 22, his name was known to all the world. He can "make his so well that It will open his career.

Paimer-ston, England's great statesman, was admired ill school for his brilliant work, and wrote letters home in English, French and Italian that are models of composition to-day. He can enter a great university be fore he is 13. William Pitt did it. "Grunt, Piggie, Grunt." Have the players seated in a circle and have one in the center blindfold ed, with a cane or long stick; when all is ready she points at someone and says: "Grunt, piggie, grunt," and the person pointed at grunts in her most disguised manner and the one who is "it" tries to guess who it is, and when she succeeds the person whom she pointed at last takes her place. Water Experiments.

Of course you know that water boils when heated to a temperature of 212 degrees. No matter how much heat you may apply to it then, the temper ature will not be raised, but the water will only be the more rapidly turned into steam, for that is what boiling dees. There i3 a way, however, in which you may raise the temperature of water above 212 degrees, though most persons would tell you that it is impossible. To make the test and prove it you will need a small chemical thermometer; that is, one without a tin case. These are sold at a moderate price in the stores, cr, if you prefer, you can convert an ordinary thermometer into a chemical one by carefully scratching the divisions of the scale on the glass tube with a file and then removing It from the tin case, so that it will float in the water without touching the bottom or side of the vessel it will be complete, like those that are used for taking the temperature of baths.

When you have your thermometer, HOW TO MAKE The Paper Tubes We say that a cork "pop3" when it is suddenly jnilled out of a bottle, but really what pops is not the cork, but the bottle; or, still more correctly, the air inside of the bottle. It is just like blowing on a key or sounding a flute or an organ pipe. The air in the bottle is set into vibration and makes a sound, a note, not a very musical one, but still a note, and bottles of different sizes give different notes. There is a curious thing about note3 that are not very musical. One such note is simply an unpleasant noise, but if you produce several notes in succession and select them, so that they represent the notes of a well known tune or even a musical scale or chord, the effect is very agreeable.

The sound of two pieces of wood struck together is dull, and the clang of metal is positively unpleasant, yet a xylophone made of wooden or metal bars may be played so as to give a very pleasing effect. Now the popping of a cork gives a much clearer note, end the "popo-phone" would probably be a favorite musical instrument but for two things. It is rather difficult to play and the notes are very short lived, nut It is an amusing toy, all the same. You can make It. of course, of bottles, and the average house contains such a variety of empty bottles that you can make a popophone of many notes veil tum'd.

for you can tune it by pouring more or water into the liostl'-s. Hut a popophone that is more inter-cstinc in fome ways may be made of paste-board tubes vr the cylindrical cartons Is the trad" name for them In which medicines, crackers an! many other tb'nzs are fold. If you luddtnlT pull off the cover of an the air is excelled from the water when it boils, and the water with air In it boils more quickly than water without air in it, so that, at the second boiling, a higher temperature is reached before boiling begins. When you drop the scraps of metal into the water, they carry air witn them, besides, they reduce the temperature of the water to the boiling point. Another exneriment may be made bv nutting some salt or sugar into wa ter.

and then boiling it; you will find that it will take a higher temperature than mire water, for the reason uiat some heat is required to separate the salt or suaar from the water before Boiling Water with Cold Water the latter can be converted Into steam. You then, while it is boiling, cork it tiehtlv. and remove it from the name When it stops boiling in the flask pour some cold water over the outside and it will begin to boil again. Or plunge the flask into cold water and, in this way, prove for yourself the degree of heat for boiling various substances Still another interesting experiment consists in boiling some water in a glass flask; and the same thing will happen. You may be able to do this several times with the same flask The explanation is that in a corked flask of boiling water there Is some steam above the surface of the water, and the application of cold water pmises this steam to condense, which at once removes some of the pressure from the surface, causing it to boil, as the bubbles of steam can then escape.

These experiments are all interest Ing and instructive. A POPOPHONE. of the Popophone. empty box of this sort supposing it to have a cover like a cap, as is gen erally the case you hear a pop. If you experiment with a number ol boxes of different lencths vou will find that the Ions ones five decoct or lower notes than the short ones Four boxes, whoee lengths are eight six, five and four inches, will give what musicians call the common chord, like and on the pi ano.

If the lengths, and therefore the notes, are not just right, you can make them right by cutting off a little of one box or another. But a paper tube of any desired length Is easily made, either by wrap ping a t-heet of paper several times around a cylindrical ruler, shade roller, broomstick or curtain pole and parting each layer to the next as you go, or by bending flexible cardboard around once and gluing tae edges together. The cups are made in the same way, but a little larger, and closed at the top by pasting paper acrof.8. Instead of making bottoms for the tubes you may nimply glue them upright on a board. In this way it is not difficult tc make a popophone of nine notes or a hole octave on which you can play tunes to the surprise of your friends If the shortest tube Is Fix inched lone, the longest should measure twelve inches, and the lengths of the nine tubes will be six.

six and three quarters, revtn and a half, eight, nine ten. eleven and a half and twelve If the tub-- are all of the same diameter you tan use one cove or cap for all of the-m unless yon want tc make twej notes at once, and if the tube are small you can "pop" tbem with corks instead of caps.